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THE TRANSPORTATION PROB-
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RAILROAD ACCIDENTS in
the United States are fre
quent, and the annual death
" list from the'nf " '"appalling; yet so
: greatly has the traffic,- both freight
and passenger, increased over the fa
. cilities provided for handling it, that
the wonder is that more rather than
lest accidents do not occur. In 1899
the total number of passengers car
ried on American railroads was 523,
376,508, and ' this 1 increased steadily
until last year, when the number was
728,834,667, and the estimated num
ber this year -is 800,000,000, an in
crease of over 50 per cent. The
freight tonnage increased from 959,-
763.583 to 1,610,000,000 (estimated),
aa increase ofverjierenffan;
""while tha facilities for handling this
tremendous growth of business have
been Increased "but, comparatively
little.; :'ir-- f.. l'-iC'f'----:
Railroad men plead that they were
unprepared for such unprecedented
and prolonged prosperity, such a vast
increase of products for transport
f tion. They - say that never before
have factories ' been turning out so
much material,' wholesale houses
shipping at much goodsTf affairs prcP
- ducing 10 much, or people buying s6
lavishly. It is the great crops of the
vest that more than any other one
cause have swamped the western
, , railroads,'.' and overcrowded ' those
back east. The freight agent of the
New York Central railroad saysr
,- In the west business has expanded to
. aa unprecedented degree. Everyone In
the west has money to iend. and la
spending It y Those persona arebflyTna
thing they have denied themselves
heretofore, and the are spending with
i a. free hand. This means business for
- New Tork and a rush of mercantile pro-
- ducts to the -west.' In all the small vll-
: lagea the people have money, and on top
of It come the biggest corn crop in the
country's history.
The eastern agent of the Illinois
Central liaysi -
, The remarkable prosperity of the
country is responsible for the flood of
business. Every section reached by our
lines la In a most flourishing condition.
'People are -reaping a harvest from the
rich crops in the west and south, and
the whole country ts feeling the effect
Just what the rMljofldn will in. If the
rncreasor trafflo continues is not plain
, at this time.
' And. the freight agent of another
- road aya: . 1 .. ' ' . ": " '
, From one end of our system to the
ther comes the cry "More cars!" We
have every car available pressed into
aervlce, and are lust about able to
handle our business. We have been
crippled by lack of locomotives also, but
recently obtained a big supply, with the
result that we are moving freight with
remarkable speed, considering the
- amount of it. ."
From these and other similar state
ments it seems that , while eastern
roads are crowded to the limit of
- their capacity they are coming a great
deal nearer taking care of the busi
ness than is the case on this coast
The boasted prosperity is' very" well
and gratifying, providing products
can be promptly moved, when pro
ducers need to tell and consumers
need to buy.- But prosperity turns, to.
"BesnMSfa apples ' if products are left
on the producers hands and produc
tion is largely suppressed6fpre
Vented, as is the case in Oregon.
It is natural, perhaps inevitable,
f hat additional cars and locomotives
, should first be used on eastern roads,
to relieve the congestion alorvg them,
rather than sent across a' long stretch
t)l comparatively ( non-productive
country to this coast; there is then
all the more reason for people oJLtbe
Pacific states to demand enough, cars
and locomotives to takr care Of their
rapidly growing business, independ
ently of the needs of eastern roads.
' But out of this tremendous rush
. and turmoil appears the urgent need
of more roads, more tracks, more
rolling stock, all over'the country. As
one railroad man expressed it, this
road was doing a two trackb.u&in
on a one-track line. " Passenger trains
sir drlsyfd on account of the- freiKht
rnh, knd people travel at greater risk
of lifj andlimb than ever. , The
transportation problem is by far the
biggest one before the American peo-
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PEOPLE AND SPEAKER.
PE-AKER CANNOJf -warned
4 the members f the rivers and
'", harbors congress -thathey
should not ask or expect "too much."
They don't and won't ask 'Itoo much,'
though the speaker's warning "indi
cates in advance that he thinks they
will that .i,toomuch1 in his es
timation. ' 1 V , "' r -'V-'-'.
Speaker Cannon has been, in con
gress a long time, and has gotten into
a groove!. He thinks he kflew.it all
long ago and nothing new or differ
ent, is needed. A shrewd politician
rather than- a Jbroad -statesman, the
party'' interests are his first consid
eration. " He want$o kep expendi
tures down as much as possible, so as
to make a showing of economy to the
people for his party.' This was ef
fective many years ago, when voters
did not discriminate as they do now,
and he thinks it is equally so yet.
He does not perceive that the people
now care less about how much money
in the aggregate is expended than how
it is expended. ' ; ' . ,"--
We have grown to be a billion-dol
lar country and $50,000,000 a year for
rivers and harbors is only one4'
twentieth part of a . billion dollars.
The people are willing to pay for a
big navy, but they object, or will do
so, to spending four or five dollars,
or even three or two, for a great navy
(for which there is but about , one
chance in a hundred that we will have
any use) to one dollar for the im
provement of rivers and harbors, an
investment that would return many
fold its amount inx few years.
The time has about come, we, think.
when the bugbear of big expend
itures, with' a river and harbor appro
priation as its most scary feature,
cannot be successfully used by .par
tisan campaigners - or newspapers;
wben.-iather, even men like-Speaker-Cannon
will perceive that the people
not only do not object to large and
regular appropriations for rivers and
harbors, but - emphatically demand
such appropriations. - ' ' '
And it is for them, and not or Mr.
Cannon or other members of con
gress to say what is or is not "too
much." It is the people, not the con
gressmen, who must pay the bill, and
they, arttryjng to.showlihatjtjheyite.
ready and "willing and anxious to pay
a $50,000,000 bill of this kind. , .
It is for them to dictate to Mr.
Cannon, not for him to dictate to
them. It does not lie in his mouth
to say any sum that the people de
mand is "too much,"
THE TRAIL OP THE SYSTEM.
REVELATIONS incident to the
Standard Oil prosecutions
are almost incredible. It
seems impossible that such practices
as Rockefeller and his associates are
guilty of could have occurred in a
civilized land, under-a free flag, and
beneath the very eye of an avenging
law. Here is George Rice, an inde
pendent oil operator; He undertook
to do business in Ohio against Stand
ard. It - was - the- attempt -of a tiny
child to throttle a Florida alligator.
In ifs unchallenged powert Standard
controlled the Cleveland and!Kfar
jetta railroad, then in a receivership.
It controlled scores of railroads. By
mere might, jt forced them to do its
bidding. It compelled the Cleveland
and Marietta to carry Standard's oil
at 10 cents a barrel. It compelled
the same road to charge George Rice
35 cents a barrel. It compelled the
road 4o pay .. over , to , Standard 25
cents of the 35 cents a barrel exacted
from George Rice.
. Of course Rice went to the wall.
He became a hopeless bankrupt. The
trail of Standard ts strewn with the
skeletons of wrecked businesses and
ruined competitors. , The ghosts of
hundreds of destroyed enterprises
shrink through the shadows of its
moving caravan. Children of thou
sands of employes of competitive
concerns go shoeless and hungry.
And wretched, because with infinite
cruelty . Standard magnates crushed
and ground the heart and life out of
men and establishments that stood in
their path or ran counter to their in
satiable greed. , The oil lords heard
no cry for pity, heeded no appeal to
be merciful. They turned a deaf ear
to the entreaties of children, saw no
tears of those whose destruction they
set out to encompass. They de
manded and compelled their.own con
trol of the oil .business. Opposition
to it meant a tragedy, persistence in
it, annihilation. Their business
career has been a reign of terror in
finance as cruel and merciless as was
Robespierre's in blood.
,. The outcome of this- regime of
cruelty is a billion dollars of profits
amassed in the oil' business by' a
hniivTtiridfrr T welrity-sli
years agoA Standard's capital, stated
by itself, was $69,030,798. In but 14
years thereafter, the profits from this
capital aggregated the stupendous
sum of $51 2,940,084, a sum nearly
eight times the originst investment
Ten year later, or today, the cam-
Policy of Harriman and .Hill
over Sunshine.
When the river steamers flrat began
to make Inroads on O. R. at N. freight
the railway officials" bgan buying the
steantara and building new ones to kep
out further competition, but new boats
kept appearing until the railway com
pany decided lo buy no more, To meet
the' lower - river rates, the rail rates
were slashed. Besides this. It leased
competing . steamers. .And all" this re
suited in special good to the rtver porta,
and this special good- will continue as
long aa the Columbia river runs,' ',.
Take it in the wheat business from
Hover - this season as an illustration.
The. grain In sacks was loaded on the
steamers at the local docks, hauled to,
Celllo, loaded on to the portage railroad
and hauled past the falls to the lower
river's upper port above The Dalles,
there loaded On to steamers and hauled
to Portland docks the rate for hauling
and handling being less .than the rate
by rail on the O. K. 4 H. from Wallula
to Portland.
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An .effort was made last week to
have the portage road cease business,
and report is in circulation that O. R.
& N. agenta were at the bottom of the
move. The commercial cluba of Port
land. Walla Walla and other points in
terested fought the move and saved the
day for the portAge road. "...
Every new move on the map of this
part of the country shows the river in
terests to be. forcing the O. R. at N.
into the corner. Every inch . of - the
way ' la being stubbornly fought , for,
but the river people are winning.
While it ia not expected that the new
North Bank line through Hover valley
will make much of a cut In rates, it Is
a foregone conclusion that Another
Check will be placed on the grasping,
selfish Harriman line. ' .
Districts, which are dependent' anon
Harriman lines for transportation ar
in a bad fix They are seriously handi-
ings have piled up to the uncount
able total of $1,000,000,000.; Such, by
strangulation and murder of com
petitive concerns, such by hypocrisy
and guileful evasion of law and cruel,
heartless destruction of the rights of
others, is the. mighty ,, sum wrung
from countless victims by this little
group-of conspiring-oit lords; Ajilmarger nf the Uninn Pacific anrl
this they profited in oil, 2nd they are
potential factors in the railroad busi
ness, in.: the traction business, in the
banking business and various other
lines of industry." What profits the
records in the inner sanctuary-of this
little . group would disclose is a prob
lem that the country would doubtless
shudder to have revealed. It is in
finitely fortuitous" for the future that
there is a Shermanlawhat therejs
an awakened: public conscience, and
Roosevelts, La Folletes, Bryans, Joe
Folks and others.
BOTH v PROJECTS MU5T'iG07r
THE POSITION taken by the
, Oregon delegates to : the
River and Harbor Congress,
that appropriations should be made
for the CeTITb canal as well as the
jetty at the mouth of the Columbia,
is manifestly, asjde fom the com
parative intrinsic merits of the two
projects, and the relative emergency
existing with regard to them, the only
practical and politic attitude to taked
These appropriations must depend to
a considerable extent on Representa
tive Jones of Washington, a mem
ber of the rivers and harbors com
mittee, and he has emphaticallydei
dared that the .canal must go for
ward simultaneously with the jetty.
Senator Ankeny; will very likely take
the same-position. The great upper
country" must be taken into consid
eration and its demands acceded to;
and though it is true that the jetty at
the mouth of the river is really the
immediately and pressingly import
ant project, even for the region east
of the Cascades, the people and rep
resentatives of that section must
have a voicejn recommending the use
of appropriations to be made.
Chairman Burton ,and Speaker
Cannon utter warnings against trying
to get too much, and the latter sug
gests that appropriations should be
confined chiefly to the more import
ant projects, which'iS7well enough;
but the necessity and economy of car
rying on these large projects -contin-uously,
and with ample funds to push
them to completion, so as to prevent
thf " l"e nf piecemeal a nit
intermittent construction, should be
recognized. , To say, "We can afford
or spare only about so .much"; or
"because we appropriated so-much
last year we can afford little or noth
ing this year," is sheer folly, from
a business point ol view. The only
reasonable, right thing to do, the im
provement of the Columbia river at
its mouth and between The Dalles
and Celilo having both been decided
upon, is to appropriate money enough
to carry' on those improvements con
tinuously and simultaneously. Any
other policy involves a needless and
inexcusable waste of money, besides
delaying important improvements
that it is conceded on all hands
should be made,
The president's vehement attack
onprK-atriftiretrin his annual mes
sage for everybody knows he was
belaboring W. R. Hearst-MS some
thing new in ihis kind of a state p
per, and not calculated to enhance
the president's not invulnerable repu
iation for the exercise of good judg
ment and. well-balanced consideration
pped. -jnUaawjCorf ed y the oppo-
the Harriman. comnajvwttt-eip,,
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try or encourage new industries, but it
usea all legitimate and some illegiti
mate means to get; the last drop of blood
money from the unfortunate , people
along its lines. This ia the report one
heara at every railway station on the
Harriman system except where there
Is competition!
Oregon would be a far better state
today if any other railroad builder had
control of the lines In the clutches of
Harriman. Oregon' growth, la, ser
iously retarded by the policy of inaction
of Harriman railroads, lta commercial
growth la dwarfed, its agricultural de
velopment stunted, and lta people die
cou raged. This is the principal reason
that . Oregon shows less activity than
other northwestern states., Harriman
Is holding It back. The brakes are set.
and they are aet good and tight.'
In. marked contrast to the Harriman
policy la the Hill. joiicy. Hill la a
builder, a developer, a- doer of things
worth while. No Hill territory remains
undeveloped Jf the "old man" can help
It. He has a motive, of course a busi
ness motive, but he opens the country
and does his best to make it prosper
ous. In the-andhe is well repaid for
his efforts, and so is the public,' If
there ia inactivity at any point on the
entire Hill system it la not because
of lack of encouragement on the part
of the railway . company. Where Harri
man. holds -back. Hill pushes ahead;
where Harriman ia Inactive, Hill la In
tensely active. The difference in these
two rival railway men Is illustrated in
the development of Washington and
Oregon. Hill Is working to build up
Washington; Harriman ls'inaolently in
different to the Interests of Oregon.
And between the railways flows the
mighty Columbia river, nature's own
highway of commerce. -
of men and measures. ' In thus berat
ing Mr. Hearst, Roosevelt attacks
nearly half the voters of the great
state of New York, who have as good
a right to their1 opinion as he has to
his. . . .
There is little doubt that the
Southern Pacific systems and their
control by Mr. Harriman are quite as
unlawful as the attempted merger of
the Northern j Pacific and Great
Northern. The courts held the
merger of the northern roads' to be
illegal, and 'dissolved it', as a matter
of judicial record, but what did the
decision and dissolution- amount to in
a practical way? Nothing, so far as
the people have ever discovered. And;
finding the Harriman merger unlaw
ful would have the same results.
The Reptblican party refuses to
revise the tariff shortly after t gen
eral election in which that party has
won, saying that this result shows
that tariff revision is not demanded
by the people. Later the Repub
licans refuse to revise the tariff be-
cause another general election is too
near at hand, and well, the trusts
object - So there is to be no tariff
revision as long as they are in power.
Under these circumstances the peo
ple are likely to elect a majority of
Democrat before 4ongr.and try. them
once more. '
There being no state election for
over -three years, and Governor
Chamberlain not being in the attitude
of a probable candidate in an ensu
ing election,- it - may - be reasonably
hoped that the legislature will Spend
less-time and effort than its prede
cessor did in trying to. "put the gov
ernor in a hole," but rather will co
operate with the governor, whose ad
ministration the people so emphat
ically approved last June, to do what
is best for the people, regardless of
politics.
It is a little strange that since the
president thought of so many things
to mention in his message he had not
a word to say in favor of improving
the rivers of, the country. He is
strong on a great navy and coast de
fense, .as if he expected the country
to be attacked by o-ome foreigV power
any day, but doesn't regard the open
ing of waterways as worthy of notice.
But perhaps he forgot it.
-If'thcre- isJ to be a raila
mission, keep it out of . politics as
much as possible or politics out of
it. And on this ground the commis
sioners should not be elected along
with county and other state officers.
Certainly Americans will have no
objection to a treaty prohibiting the
emigrit'oriof laborers f o "Japan if
theirs won't come to this country.
We have never heard of any great in
flux of American laborers in Japan..
It may be well enough, to prepare
expensively against any and every
possibility of war, but while doing so
the nation should . make at least
eqifayy large investments in winning
Victories bf peace. '
The Portland council J evidently
determined to force the people to get
the initiative into action next spring
on several propositions.
I If the jailroads can be forced to
sell their large . land-holdings in
Oregon, this should ' be done,
but since this is probably imprac
Letters Fiom tke
' ' : : People
nt)i 7. . T(l 1h. y-flnrtr nf
The Journal Regarding the Whitney
Murray caaa, .1 have aeon considerable
including the expressions of some of our
ministers, and the Ideas . they have of
the enforcement . of the unwritten law.
I have been hoping to ae some one take
up the other side and much to my grati
fication and delight I learned that Port
land has t leaat one real man, when
my eye fell upon the communication
of W. J. Peddlcord II) last Sunday's
journal. , Every moral loving cltlsen
should shout this man's name -at the top
or hla voice.
There ia little left to say on this sub
ject aftr devouring an article like his.
but. I am a member of the medical pro
fession and a woman too, and I- wish
to atate that my sympathy is with Mur
ray flraW last And, all the time
The medical fraternity, I am sorry to
say, perhaps' more than any 'other, has
the unpleasant distinction of being
many time the flrat listener to the
sad,-sorrowful - atory -of . the . betrayed
girl. To us she comes when she feels
too ashamed to face mother, brother or
sister, and tella the atory of how some
sweetheart.- and oftlmes her employer,
has wronged her. There may be a few
exceptions to the rule, but it la gener
ally conceded that men are the aggres
sors, and - the . unguarded . and many
times childish. Innocent girl falls , a
victim to vice through continued -persuasions.
Then the poor girl must re
ceive the acorn of all this kind world
of ours. Even some of the, ministers
who "never" do wrong would condemn
to death the avenger of the perpetrator
of so horrible a crime. A woman's
virtue is the aweetest and dearest Ood
glven treasure ahe possessea and when
ever she le robbed of It, the robber
should meet the same fate' as did young
Whitney,
Were there a few more brothers like
Murray, there would be fewer betrayals
of girls -in, the city of Portland. There
would be fewer Inmates ' of refuge
homos and fewer 'broken hearta among
our women today.
1 confine my remarks strictly 'to this
clacs of crime, and maintain that if the
unwritten law would become the su
preme law in such cases society would
be Improved rather than otherwise. Pos
sibly these ministers have no slaters or
daughters, consequently are not capa
ble of entering into the spirit of such a
oonditlon which does not confront them
personally! The ishoe does not- pinch
our "foot while It is on that of our
neighbor..; "Possibly these good men
would appreciate a alater'e or daughter's
disgrace and allow her betrayer to aneer
aa Whitney sneered. ' Possibly they
would not. If they; truly loved the ono
so treated. - They could scarcely - re
frain from following out the example
of Murray, -first by trying for legal
measures and assistance, and when
thuae failed, resort to more radical
means. Let more Murrays rise -up in our
midst and there will be fewer Whltneya.
DOCTOR.
ticable," assessors should : sea to it
that the lands are assessed at their
full value, and made assessable if they
are not Since the railroads ; have
to pay for constructing the roads
twice over county authorities need
not hesitate to place a full actual
valuation on the lands. Tax 'em all
the law will admit.
Can't the legislature : force the
land-grant railroads to survey .their
lands for purposes of taxation, if not
to sell them? Can taxes be dodged
perpetually in this way? If so, what
are legislatures and courts good for?
Judge Grosscup hit off the presi
dent about right in saying: "He
thinks everything tinder the sun that
interests him is important enough to
be put in his message to congress."
- According to Dun's estimates, the
cost of living is going up faster than
ever. Hurrah for prosperity, pro
tection, and political pyrotechnics.
So far as California is concerned,
the president will not be very urgent
ly entreated to reconsider his deter
mination not to run again. '
" Arabl Pashm Is Friendless.
From the Pall Mall Gazette.
In a little house up a bystreet of
the Mohammedan - quarter, old, - friend
leas, broken, live the man who might
have ruled Egypt.
If you ask so people in Cairo today
"Where ia Arabl Pasha r It will tell
you he I dead while th other five do not
know. In fact, after the bombardment
of -Alexandria he was sent to exile for
llf in Ceylon, btflw allowed-som
four years ago, to return to hla native
city.
It waa only after a week' hard fer
reting that I discovered through a na
tive Journalist the whereabouta of the
great man., a - , . .
Even now, in hi 70th year, he Is a
big man; In his prime he must have
been Immense. White hair and beard;
a broad, thoughtful forehead, sur
mounted by the Turkish tarboosh; kind
ly eyes, dulled a little by age, but light
ing up wonderfully when ha talks about
things which Interest him; straight,
powerful nose; a large mouth, "Which
must once have been hard and cruel,
now softened by adversity.
Why tha -Scalpg.
From New Tork Times.'
Our genial - weekly contemporary
Judge la disseminating political opin
ions, that from a Republican point of
view, must be set down as f lagaantly
heretical. It most recent Issue has a
cartoon representing President Roose
velt in hla familiar garb of a mighty
hunter. At his feet lies the carcass of
a dead wolf It I probably a -wolf-labeled
"Bryanlsm." Held aloft In hla
left hand Is the limp and lifeless form
of a coyote jit Is unquestionable a coy
otelabeled "Hearstlsm." - Doea the
political engineer who drafted, thl com
position Intend the public to understand
tain a ha killed Bryan I am T Mr. Bryan
and hla friends ruefully complain that
Mr. Roosevelt has stolen pretty much
the whole cargo of Bryan thunder. That
waa what killed the' wolf. Are. we to
assume that the coyote HearstlnVn lias
been slain, or is to be slain, by a sim
ilar process of conveying to the White
House for. presidential use and applica
tion the radical doctrines) at the Hearst
political faith t '
A Sermon
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INDIVIDUALITY
Work ouf your own ealvatlon.-Pb.lL
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By Henry F. Cope.
-f . EUOION ia Intensely Indlvtdus
l llstlc. It is a tree that never
1 sv." twice assumes the same form.
nor doea it even bear, precisely
me same rruit It la aa varied as hu
manity, for It depends on eacti Separate
human faotor -for lta peculiar exprea-
iun. ine eearon ror unirormlty In re
ligion is a aearch for that which does
not exist, and the wish sometimes ex
pressed by individuals, to have an-,
other person's faith is it wish that can
never be gratified. '
There never yat wore two facea'pr
claely alike, for facea are not made
by the .many In a single mold; tbey
grow out of llfo; they are shaped and
aeared and Illumined by aenetbtlities,
by emotions, by aspirations, and expe
Hence, The fac ia the atory .of the
life,, peculiar to Itself, having no exact
duplicate. Yet, with all the variations,
there ere types of faces, some that you
would trust, some that repel, the face
of the upward life and the face of the
downward trend.
8o it ia with religion. It ia not ma
chine made. It Is not a mask laid upon
the man; It Is not applied from- without ;
It grows from within. . True religion
springs up In the heart! it ia shaped
and determined by the experiences, the
aaplratlona,-the sonrcea of the ltfe'a In
spiration. Ideally, It ts the summing
up of all the good that the life has
known; practically. It Is the expression
In deed and word of that good.
Growing out of the ever varying in
herited qualities, experience and
achievmenta of each Ufa. it I not only
never the same in two individuals, it
ean- nevai b prclaJy-ive me on suc-f
ressive days in tne same person. It
work out Into larger being, grow, and
develops, it will not be the same in
the rrAn a In the boy, nor the same In
the boy aa in the girl. Borne days see
mighty changes, but, in the living soul,
every dsy sees some change.
This fact lias distressed some intro
spective souls; they lament lost re
ligious convictions, as a man might la
ment the boy's outlook, the boy's en
Hymns j to Know.
The Soul'a Warfare.
By George Heath.' '.
(This hymn attained a remarkable
popularity long before lta author was
known. George Heath was , Unitarian
minister, born and educated In England,
who was deprived of his charge on the
ground of unfitness His hymn still is
one of the most popular In the meetings
of the churches today. In the smaller
meetltrRs, such as th prayer meeting. It
Is seldom that the session paases with
out the singing of this hymn.
My aoul. be on thy guard.
Ten thousand foea arise;
The hosts of sin are pressing hard
To draw thee front the skies,-
O, watch, and fight and prayf
The battle ne'er give b or;
Renew It boldly Very day.
, And help divine Implore. '
Ne'er think the victory won.
Nor lay thine armor down;
The work of faith will not be don
Till thou obtain thy crown.
FlghlTdn, my soul, till death rr
Shall bring the to thy God!
. . He'll take thee at thy parting breath.
Up to his blest abode. . . ,
.-Correcting a Misapprehension.
"I do not control one mil of rati,
road." E. H. Harriman.
Oh, --:.' '.,' : -
' Is that so?
WelV now, do-you know
Some people think that you
Have corraled a few . - f -
And laid them away
1 For a rainy day?
Not many, of courae, but enough
, For a bluff
When the game
-Calls for the same, '
If it ever doea
My bus!
Ain't It funny - ;
How a chap with money
Acquires a reputation
.Among the common herd sl1
Of really end truly being
A Julius Qjeflar bird,.
When h ain't anything but a dov .
Chuck-full of brotherly lov
For everything that has a worm .
Ha needs In his business? , .
Oh, say,
Ain't it rotten to think that wayf '
It' a sham dam
To queer th fair fame '
Of a saint - ,.'..-:.....:.. .
Who is what he is and ain't what he
a Int. ,
Don't it? '
What do you suppose Inspires .
People 10 be such HarsT . '
Huh.'
' W. J, Lampton.
l. December 9 in History.
.1(0 John Milton, English poet,
born. Died November t, 1S74. -
1S6S Samuel Vetch, first governor of
Nova Scotia, born. Died April SO, 1731.
17S7 Congress of Rahstadt opened.
- 1S4S Joel Chandler Harris, southern
writer, born. ;:.--,,.'
1861 The Confederate " eongress
passed a bill admitting Kentucky Into
the Confederacy. .'.-
... 1S6S Oladstone ministry assumed of
fice. - -
1889 Chicago- Auditorium - opened.
President Harrison and Mm. Pattl as
alstlng. '..!
1 181)3 An anarchist exploded a bomb
in the French rhamber'of deputlea.
1894 New treaty between United
fltatea snd Japan proclaimed. ;
Joel Chandler Harris.
Joel Chandler Harrla, the southern
writer, known a "Unci Remni," was
born at Katonton. Georgia, December
S, IMS. At It he became the "devil"
In a Georgia newspaper office and spent
his leisure moments devouring the vol
umes In his employer' library- At 1
he moved to Pavonnnh and plunged into
Journalism. In 187 he settled In At
lanta, where he became editorially con
nected with the Constitution, in which
the "Uncle Rumus" collection appeared.
In appearance the, humorist ie a red
haired man of. compact build, with
laughing blue eyes and a contagious
laugh. In addition to hi other writing
Mr. Harris is the author of history
of his native stata of Georgia.
, Age of Oak Trees.
In Oermany oak trees only live to be
about 100 year old. while in Norway
and flweden th pints will survive for
119 years. ' . - -
for Today
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IN RELIGION.
thusiasms end star-vaulting ambitions;
Or they make fruitless efforts te eon
form themselves spiritually to the pat
tern of aome other saint . Ideals are
inspirations, not patterns; It is folly
to grieve if you do not reproduce their
precise lines and angles.
To test man's religion by some
rigid mechanical standard is aa foolish
aa to test hi vitality by hla height.
Btlll greater 1 the folly of measuring
religion by opinions, as though one's
health could be determined by hla views
on the so-called canals on Mars. Re
ligion ia simply the life of the aoul,
the inner being that determine char'
aeter; It must b measured by Its vl
tallty, its strength and purity, and the
value) to th world. . '...
The mechanlo will probably con Untie
with Impudent ignorance to Invade the' '
realm of the aoul; he will aet up his
rule of thumb creed or single doctrine
or virtue or emotion and measure sll
souls by thaL. -Terhaps he is still 4a-
so primitive a condition of soul growth
that be Imagines, his crude standard '
enoompaaaea all possible good. Let. the "
man whose heart ia growing Ignore the
attempt to - measure the life by the
standard of things or to make all live
in one atyle. ''.
Let every heart reach affer the best;
let every eoul-4lve out -the good - it ,
finds within; let every man work cut
his- own salvation, -aa he must work
out his own character, his own self In
the world, through the toll and strug
gle, through the Joy and blessing.
Through life' multiform experience
w learn to live; through all the
strange ways of the aoul each one finds ,
salvation, each,, in his own wsy, finds
the path to the full life.
The eternal spirit Is working in alt
and where that spirit I. there ts llh
erty ; the infinite breathes through the
Individual. Relglon first gave to man
this great thought of his value end his
right as a soul; It has worked through
the whole leaven of society until we
find the law of liberty everywhere pre
vailing; men working out their Uvea
from within and finding full salvation
not in subjection to aome code of per
fect action but in development of the
things within, under the impulse of
eternal aplrttual laws.- -j - '
Sentence Sermon..
By Henry F. Cope. '
Many man means his desire when
he talks of his duty.
.
The worst of all faults is never to e
any of your own. -
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- No man find salvation until he finds
htmself.
a
Tou do not obtain aanotuy--by aul-
tractlng sense from spirituality. -
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A little ancient faith may be worth
lot of modern, fog.
It' no us fussing about keeping the
faith if you cannot keep your friends.
e e . v ,
' The man who figures on everything
never makes much of a figure at an) -thing.
Tou can tell a good deal about a man
by the things that appeal to his sense
of humor. .'.'.'
v "'.'" .
Th man with a headlight growing on
hi face ia pretty sure to.be on the
wrong track.
....... ', ; ' e ''
The gate of -heaven come - a llttt -nearer
every time a man stoops to sym
pathise with a child.
' , ''
Winds of pssslon do not blow to har
bors of high purpose. ,
"
A aanotlfled look doea. not make up
for- ar-raclt- otHsamfc
e
The world doea not want to hear of a .
golden heaven; it waits for the golden
heart. ,
. , ' e. . ...'
Do your duty and your delights will
take care of themselves,
e e
It ts worth wklle to sow kindness
even- though the only fruit should be
theTssmoryof thsiowtng; zi
Breaking your mirror does not remove
th spots on your face.
"' v,' e- e " "" r,
' Piety often seems like pretense - to
those who have not felt the Impulse of
principle. - . -
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A great many who think they are
building forte for the faith will find
they are but barricading the pathway of
progress. -
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Bet this day's work first and you shall
not be ashamed If It should prove to be
your last.
, "r v
Religion is a seed Which planted in
dally living makea life glorious with it
beauty, but hoarded It becomes a stench
in the nostrils of men.
Ths Baby.
' (As seen by his brother.)
By James J. Montague. . '
Just guess what that ther doctor did
When" I was gone one day. 1
He went and brought a raggy kid, ' .
An' left it here to atay. A.
An' now my muwer' got t 'tend
- To him all day, an' she
Don't never have no time to spend
, A-doln' things for me.
8he thinks he's Just a regular aalnt,
An' never aeemed to -care
When I aay, scornful: "Humph f H
ain't i '.
Got any teeth nor hair!" -
An' when I showed her how he'd ery
At Just a little slap, ,
She eaya: "It's bad of you to try
T6 hUrtTh "IIUlchapr. "
I have to go to bed atone.
An'- Jay awake an' hear r.-r-Th
awful ghosts and goblins groan
They're thick thl time o year. )
An' no one tells me stories now, 7 .
But every one says: "Keep ; "
A still as any boy know how
Dear baby la aaleepl
I, knew that doctor waa bemnd
- To play us some mean trick.
For every time' he's come arouhd . t
Somebody ha been elok.
An' whan It' me, he' mad m tak ,,
A lot of awful truok . ,
That' gay, roe such a stomach ache) .
JJ always b rung bad luokl .,
Ym goln' to' get the kid some day,
An' when the dootor'a her ,
I'll give htm to him. an' I'll aay;
"Just take th 'little dear.'
Tou brought him, now you- Just go on
Back horns with him!" An wha
The raggy little thing Is gone . , " ,
Mjr mail lov m again, . , ,, - -
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