The Oregon daily journal., December 30, 1906, Image 8

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peace on earth. Edward '
' Young. ' . '. '
THE DRIFT TOWARD
TRALIZATION.
CEN-
fTTHE CENTRALIZATION pol-
I icy as, outlined or rather indi-
s rat4 nw fsrrtirv X rst im
Ins recent speech, and by the presi
dent himself- at .. Harrisburg ..some
come a party issue. ' And if it be
comes so, nominally and apparently,
each party will divide on it in senti
ment, just as they would at the ballot-box
if the issue became supremely
paramount, and just as they did on
f he, silver question in 1896. The ut
terances of the president and his sec
retary of state, and the opposing
views which they have brought out,
. will at least lead to much debate on a
Subject that has long occupied but lit
tle attention, and in the opinion of
some will precipitate an issue more
fundamental and far-reaching than
tention since the civil war. ,
Some of the wisest and most con
servative men in America foresaw
. with apprehension the effect.upon our
national life' of the necessary results
of 'the Spanish-American war, and
predicted that a crucial era in the his
tory of the republic was thereby in
augurated. Eg-President Harrison, a
great lawyer and ranking - high in
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nmMiuinsnip, ucciarca inn me in-
sular decisions" reached byafive-to-
four vote which definitely embarked
the United States on a colonial ca
reer, were "a grave' departure from
right . principles." V.' And many able
men who could not be classed as hys
terical anti-imperialists manifested a
weii-iounaea distrust oi, tne .ten
dencies which .must; or,', naturally
would follow the , innovation of col
onialism. ' . . .
, :J When this country raised its flag
and .planted its cannon in the utter
most parts of the earth, to rule alien
ana dissimilar people, without their
consent and aeainst their nrotest. it
placed itself on .a level in an import
ant respect with European powers
because in a new sense one with
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won ana sacrmceu in large degree
il'. i ' i .u:-t. i i
viouslv been its Greatest elorv and its
surest source of power. It lost its
peculiar and proud position as a dif
ferent nation from the rest, and one
.with a hisrher mission trt hnmanitv
than , that of conquest and ' com-
' few, however, foresaw that this
new departure would reach internally,
nd that within a decade domestic
conditions of dominant importance
would seize upon this -abandoned or
vitiated . segment of our national
character as a vantage point whereon
to press centralization at home. If
the federal government can lay aside
its own. constitution to maintain, a
government over alien subjects, 8,000
mile sway, 'why may it not do the
same to subordinate state constitu
tions, statutes and reserved powers to
tne all-powerful, unrestrained and-un-4
. accountable federal arm? It may yet
" , iluci ai Hi lit la
obedient to the. supreme court. But
the fact is rather that' the court is
. ouroicnt io ine congfcssiOT.il! and cx-
t . . .
have sufficient occasion for believing,
,galnst the court's better and truer
Judgment.
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SUIKVIIIIIL3, TV C
1 -"7 ji seen xo minim
ize the fact that tWr tim n
much to recommend this tendency to
ward centralization. Better a gov-
f rnment rather too strong than one
od weak. . And as Secretary Root
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general government is called upon to
rk and must do and will.be obliged
t4 do more and more, (hinat for th-
benefit of the states that they can-'
V'K Will IIVV IUI IIVIIiat)TCl.
- Times and conditions are very dif
ferent from what they were when the
'fathers-framed th.e constitution, even
from what they were when, the shat
tered and blood-deluged but not dis
severed nation emera-ed from the
great civil; war,- Oregon Is' now'" as
rear, the seat of government, and as
closely connected with it, for all prac
tical purposes, as Pennsylvania was in
.. . ' ' ..... a
the early days of the republic.
thousand mighty influences, chiefly
industrial and commercial,' tend to
draw the states together. There has
been a tremendous natural increase
in the centripetal as against the cen
t.rifupfal force of government These
facts roust be realized.
: YetT Tfwould be an inexcusable and
dangerous if not fatal error xo as
sume that ' the principles and tra
ditions on which the complicated bal
ance of delegated and reserved pow
ers was created between the nation
and the states have become obsolete
or inapplicable. These principles,
practically in their entirety and pur
ity, must be recognjzed and main
tained,' or else the very cha'racter and
nature of the republic must suffer a
radical and transforming - change.
Would w; not better pause and see if
we hare not gone far enough in the
direction of centralization, rather
than rush recklessly forward on this
path to empire?" Instead of -discard
ing the old doctrines and obliterating
the old landmarks, would we not do
better to retain and maintain them.
lest we are rapidly swept into a con
dition in which we shall be a republic
in little- more than name, and our
states will 6e of relatively less con
sequence and political individuality
than counties in England or provinces
in Russia?
POOR STREETCAR SERVICE.
HE OFFICERS of 'tVe street
railway company have only to
. go but on the street and loiter
around the corners occasionally to
learn what areat many people think
of the streetcar service in this town.
And many other people who don't
talk Out loud on the streets are do
Ing a great deal of internal if not ex
ternal kicking. The cars, nearly
everybody will assert, arc too irreg
ular; on some lines at .least too in
frequent; and hundreds if not thou
sands of passengers are daily delayed
and discomforted. ,
The people generally, while not de
siring to interfere at all, if they could,
as between the company and its em
ployes, are very certain that the car
men are not sufficiently paid, and
that the service is not kept up to the
tandard it ought to be in a city of
Portland's size and importance. -L
The people have a right to think
and talk about these t Kings, for it is
they who own the streets, and not
the company.' Franchises have been
granted, but along with their aefcept
ance went a moral if not a legal ob
ligation to give the people a first-
class, sufficient, agreeable transporta
tion ' Service. .- .This they are not get
ting. Hence all these complaints.
What is the company going to do
about it? Nothing?
MAKE FREETHRIVERS!
I
F, AS reported, Eugene is about
to insist upon free locks at Ore
gon City and a navigable Wil
lamette to Eugene,' the movement is
timely.. The conditions sought are
already , long overdue. For 30 years
every pound of freight shipped in or
out of the region has cost 50 cents a
ton more than it ought to have cost
Though, in that time the railroads of
the country from one cause or an
other, have , reduced freight , rates
more than 37 per cent, reductions
have not been made in the Willam
ette valley. Notwithstanding that
population has. multiplied and traffic
so increased that the railroads con
fess that they are unable to handle
it, there are towns in the region
where the third-class rate by .rail is
now higher than' it was 25 years ago.
It costs nearly twice as much to
ship an article' from" Portland to Eu
gene as from Portland to Seattle, and
nearly twice as much From "Portland
to Eugene as from Portland to San
Francisco, for the reason that water
competition forces down the rail rates
to water terminals." The freight rates
to Eugene are so heavy that a Tew
years ago when wages for men and
teams were lower, Eugene shippers
actually- had freight hauled by team
40 miles from Corvallis, the head of
navigation on the Willamette. ,
A railroad manager is only human,
about as selfish as the average run
of men, aud Eugene is without com
petition. Under monopoly it is the
usual rule in medicine, law, politics,
barter' and business to take about-all
the traffic will bear, and that is what
the railroad is doing at Eugene. It
costs Eugene huge sums of money an
nually, and will continue until the mo
nopoly is banished, a first step in
which will come when the locks at
Oregon City are made free. Jn spite
of everything the railroad may do,
that will mean a reduction in freight
rates of 50 cents per ton, not only at
Eugene'but everywhere in ..the Wil
lamette region --Water'
transportation costs but a
fraction of what it costs to move
freight by rail.. It is where there are
waterways and where those water
ways sre open nd free thst the rail
roads in the past 28 years have been
Luck and How to Cultivate It
a . -
V Py EU Whealer WUeox; '',
. Thousands of young man and women
ara applying lor positions In our groat
eitlea today. Many - ar answering ad-
vertlaemenla and ara turnad away with
no azplanauon.
They go to their lonely rooms or to
their poor homea and wonder why they
ar Dorn to m-iuca. -
Many of them alt down and writ, ma
letters, telling me that my views of
life ar all wrong; that-w do not make
our own .fatea, and that w are the vic
tims. of a .mischievous destiny, who
gives success to aom and to others
Just as deserving repeated failure.
One youngJ woman who ' had grown
very bltterto.rthe; world because, It had
treated her badly cam to a ma a few
months ago. , '
I had knownhr when she was not
dependent upon her own exertions for a
living. I discussed the field befor her,
and offered many suggestions. Almost
very on ah met with an objection. .
a .
Iter chief objection was that her
health would not permit her going out
to any regular work. Bhe wanted some
thing to do at horn.
Through the aasltance of a friend I
was able aner a good deal of effort on
my part to obtain an opening for her to
do in very wprk at bom which ah bad
desired.
Imagine Yny feelings when ah replied
to my letter of announcement by saying
that aha could not attempt the work, as
it wouid not, ah feared, be permanent
ana that an must wast no time oa
anything temporary.
Now. her waa a full explanation of
this woman a failure to secure a posi
tion: Her mind was wavering and un
focused, and ah lacked wilt power and
determination. .'.
Had ah possessed these Qualities sh
would hare seised upon the opportunity
opened to her and mad a success of It
while sh was wasting time In writing
her excuses to me.
If sh had put all the enthusiasm of
an earnest nature into it ah could have
made it a permanent necessity to th
employer.
A young man who had assured m by
letter he was the victim of a malevolent
fat, and that no mortal could do mora
than h bad don in his effort to obtain
work, cam to call upon me.
He entered th room with a drooping
and weary air, which I tried to think
waa du to lack of proper nutrition. Tat
in my heart I knew that It waa an ex
pression of his disposition. He removed
his hat lastly and aat with his chin sunk
compelled to so reduce rates that the
average for the country is only 63
per cent of the former figures. A
carload of paper will go by rail from
Portland to San ' Francisco for 20
cents a -hundred, but the rate from
Portland to Ashland is 82 cents! It
costs 3 cents a hundred more, from
EcrUaJk;iAr Ashland than from
New; York to, Portland. That tells the
story and tells it wtth-rrrtense sigm.fi
cance, T of what " water competition
meanaT A, Tree n open Willamette
from Portland to Eugene would mean
a princely . heritage of millions in
freight money saved to Willamette
people. Why have . they waited sc
long?
GREAT FEDERATION SCHEME
HE COOPERATIVE Christian
Federation that is preparing
to carry cmVthe cooperative
idea on a very extensive scale in
Oregon, is so far as we remember
the most ambitious and highly-capitalized
scheme of the kind that has
ever- been launched upon the selfish
sea of industrialfsm and commercial
ism. The foundation idea is very old,
and has prompted similar enterprises,
on a greater or less scale, whose name,
is legion, and which, one after an
other, after variable but none of them
veryprolonged periods, have become
split into contending factions, divided
into conflicting interests, and so have
disagreed, quarreled, disintegrated,
dwindled away and disappeared. The
founder of each has sought an indus
trial, economic, and perhaps a moral
Utopia, only to learn by expensive, if
not bitter, experience that with the
great majority of mankind individual
ism' is in these realms'the controlling
force in human nature, and that con
fraternal cooperation as a permanent
industrial working basis is an irides
cent dream, whose realization may be
witnessed when the lion of the jungle
and the lamb of the meadow shall
disport themselves and lie down to
gether, the one not . having swallowed
the other. - , t
Yet, we do not say that these ef
forts have been total and hopeless
failures. Some of them have for a
time scored some considerable meas
ure of success, at least while one
maister, ruling mind was at the helm
of the cooperative craft, and especi
ally if some radical religious cult was
the central magnet of the enterprise.
And because one after another of
these experiments have failed, it does
not necessarily follow that the same
dea may not be adopted to some ex
tent with a greater degree of success.
The world moves, and it will not do
to say that what never has been done
never can be done.
The Cooperative Christian Federa
tion of Oregon may move upon more
practical if larger lines than any of
its cooperative predecessors and may
io carefully guard its operations "at
all points that most of the members
will be profited and satisfied." They
will- be individually almost a inde
pendent is other people; ther will not
be titd np to any especial religious
cult r creed, and rf the scheme works
i Into his throat. Hla vole lacked fore
and his gestures lacked direction.
Afterward I saw him at work In i
temporary position, and h worked ex
actly aa lie walked and sat and talked.
He had no ponlttveness, no certainty in
anything h did. He was his own "ma
levolent, fat,'' as w all ar if w find
Now, to all man and woman seeking
for position of any kind let m any
this:- Bit and walk'ereok. with- your
shoulders and hips and hfad In' line
and your chin away from' your throat.
Liook squarely at. Ufa -
Walk with a firm, quick step. I da
not mean that you annuld hurry, -but do
not let -your feet drag or remain long
on th ground. '- .
Whan you sit down sit In an expectant
and hopeful attitude. When you listen
llaten with ys and eara ' Look Inter
ested. When you start to go, act as
though you. h4 a.goa.1 before you. When
you begin Shy tufck, no matter how
trivial or temporary, go about it as if it
were the most important thing on eartn.
Get It dona When you talk try to put
aom life and fore into your vole.
Speak from th chest.
All these efforts will help you to sue-
case. All these habits will help your
mind. ." 1
It Is a curious thing how the body and
mind react on on th other. If you alt
befor a mirror and frown for IS min
ute you will begin "to feel cross. If
you alt and smile you. will soon feel
your heart growing merry.
Train your body and your face to be
alert, hopeful and energetic, and luck
will com to you 10 times where - it
would com one to th despondent and
drooplng-vlsaged mortal.
I heard of a young girl who cam to
New Tork to find work and had th
most remarkable run of good fortun be
fall her,
Her first effort was successful.M
and .sh left that position to fill another
that offered twlc th salary.
"Born to luck," a friend aald to nje. -Afterward
I met th girl. Sh cam
on an errand. It was a day of rain-and
wind, but ah blew Into the room Ilk a
sunbeam and a summer breex In ona
Sh walked as If there war springs un
der her soles. Sh radiated light and
cheer. Sh went directly to th object of
her visit, mad her errand known In a
few concise, clearly spoken words and
Went away, leaving m with th feeling
that aom vital part of th world's
mechanism had passed befor m. No
wonder sh Is lucky. But her luck Has
In
If w ar not born with it, let ua cul
tivate it. ..w can.
well they will perceive that there is a
distinct benefit in the cooperative
scheme. At least, such we suppose
to be the intent of the founders. They
seek to organize a gigantic industrial,
commercial and productive combina
tion of individuals, who are- to reap
the principal part or practically1 all the
profits, according to investment, in
dustry and individual " suecywjfer."
: If well, one mighr fcmaoa"eral
large ifs btirrrteyptfrported de
signs of the founders' and backers of
the federation yean-be carried out
and only human nature need prevent
we may see here in Oregon a greater
and more practical realization of the
cooperative, confraternal idea than
has ever before been witnessed,. "and
that would become a great factor Tn
the advancement and development ol
ihe state. The men who are carry
ing the project forward are certainly
notUtopian dreamers7butfor the
most part are solid, hard-headed men
of affairs, and yet men who would
not misrepresent their intents and
purposes, even if they did not disclost
them all. IHhe federation can really
be put in motion on any such fValeas
has been outlined; it will be one of
the country's most interesting things
to wstch.
WHAT A YOUNG GIRL DID.
THIS. IS the little girl's story
of it, as told to the New York
- rif ui iu i .
First off, Mrs. Byrnes, they puts the
dispossess on her. hut he stnlli them
off to that day week. That day week
they comes back, three of 'em. and it
was all off. They trows Mr. Byrnes
Boynes. Maga-t calls It out onto th
sidewalk, and the four Boynes kids
seta up a howl what you eould 'a heard
a block. Mr. Boynes he's only got on
lung left, and he couldn't gat no work.
So I says t Daisy Roger Elisabeth
Rogers her nam la by rights, but w
call her Daisy . for ' short "Com on,
Daisy," and w goes out and raises th
coin. , ; , .v.--
Maggie Lang is 11 years old and
Daisy Rogers 13. They are chil-dren-of
poor tenement-house people,
like their neighbors, the Byrneies.
Maggie's father is a horseshoer and
she is on: of five children. Byrnes,
as Maggie disclosed, is dying of con
sumption, and so could not work;4spect. The. state in general and Port-
therefore, rent could not be paid;
hence, the visit of the "dispossess"
men. Maggie thoroughly understood
the situation, and was actively alive
to it. Though ignorant in book knowl
edge, probably untidy, perhaps rude,
she saw something to do and never
doubted that She . could do it. So
she secured "an ally, started out and
"raised the coin." The first man she
tackled was a- young officer. "Give
up," she said. "What?1" he exclaimed.
"Drag yer duds," said Maggie;
"these folks is down an' out an' needs
the money He gave up'.aj "two
spot" Then the4w'o girls Worked"
a factory, a ferry; a brewery and nu
merous families. Jand the first day
collected $11. Then Maggie went f)
a woman she knew and engaged two.
rooms at $2.50 a week, and there she
lent a stock of groceries and a sup
ply of coal. 'Then she "conned" an
expressman to move the Byrnes fam
ily, whom ahe told to chase them
selves over to ths rooms; then she
went home "tov get supper and take
care of younger kids., Next dsy she
snd Daisy went out again,' and it
being payday jo many -place, they se
cured $22, and persons who had heard
of their efforts carqe around with
$13 more, making a total in thei two
days of $46, which, she said, "would
hold the Boynses for awhoile.
We don't know as Maggie Lang
will be an altogether lovable woman
we suppose her "sphere will be on
rather a low plane; -but if she lives
she will do something not only for
herself but for others. - She is evi
dently one of the sort with a natural
faculty for doing thirigs, and that she
attended - to the. Byrnes' case so
promptly and thoroughly shows that
her impulses move in the right direc
tion. We- wonder if an education
would spoil her.
WHY NOT. FREE MAILS?
HE JOURNALconsiders that
supplying the people of a city
with water and distributing it
s 6F mticli the same character of
"public, utility" as the -postoff ice de
partment, and ought to be conducted
on much the same basis, as to the tax
ation of the people served, regardless
of whether they are property-owners
and therefore taxpayers otherwise or
not. n ' :'" : ' "
The government serves everybody
who pays, in the matter of collecting
- and distributing the mails,' charging
in proportion to the weight of mat
tcr carried. It does not throw the
cost of this service upon the taxpay
ers as Such, but aims to make oper
ating expenses, or somewhere near
expenses, off the people who obtain
the service and get the benefit. As
a matter of fact the postage tax never
has sufficed to meet the cost of run
ning the department, but it does so
approximately, and everybody is sat
isfied. While scarcely anybody on
the one hand proposes to increase
the postage in order to cover the de
ficiency, nobody on the-other hand
proposes "free" postal privileges. Will
our free water friends next clamor
for free mails? And if not, why not?
If the public should furnish water;
obtained at much cost, free, -jVn
should; not the taxpaying public also
furnish letter carriage free?
The reasons are .obvious. One is
that it is manifestly' just,-equitable
and right that the people who use
the mails, for their-wn-benefit,
should pay something for that val
uable privilege, regardless of whether
they pay taxes or not. Another rea
son is that free mails would bs loaded
down aftd swamped with stuff, that
people would send not because it was
necessary tpl 'seiid it, but because
they could do so without cost. And
so, unless there were rigid restrictive
rules, difficult, if not impossible, to
maintain, it would be with free ucaier,
Thousands of; people would use bar
rels wheT ihey need to use only
gallons. " 1. , .jk'-
A DETRIMENTAL CENSUS.
HE SECRETARY of. state in
his annual report, just iued-
alluding to the so-called atate
census taken last year, says; "The
results obtained, compared with the
cost of securing it are, through its
inaccuracy, a detriment to the state,
as it furnishes a false report of its
population - and resources." He
further remarks that "a large portion
of the returns is manifestly incom
plete and inaccurate, a number of
counties showing a smaller popula
tion than that shown by the federal
census of 1900, which were known
to have an increased population.
This is official confirmation of a fact
known to everybody who has consid
ered the matter. The state census is
largely a farce, a waste of money,"
and the law requiring it niight as well
be repealed. The. census of 190$ was,
as the secretary says, a detrimenf to
the state as a whole, and TT was so
especially to Portland, as it credited
this city with only 70 per cent or
less of its actual population, and was
of no benefit to it in any other re-
land in particular may congratulate
themselves that another state census
is not due till 1915, before- which time,
perhaps, the law will be repealed or
amended so that future censuses will
show the facts and have some value.
The adoption of the meter system
is an inevitable result of any proper
and business-like adjustment of the
water problem, is those handling the
matter wiH discover.
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This is the last Sunday, the last day
but one of the , year , 1906V May the
year'a closing days be its best" tmes'j
its last Sunday a record one for the
good done.
The billboard nuisance will be at
tended to in the not far distant fu
ture. People generally are getting
pretty , tired of it.
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Only one day mora to writ the
year with a "6."
crmon
.CONQUERING
x By Hnry F. Cone.
They shall b afraid of that which la
high and terror shall be In th way.
ccci. an :,
THERE 1
th or
1 1
ar two ways of viewing
oncoming yars, as burdens
opportunities, with fear or
with expectation, Th days of
th new year may loom up as a seriea
of unwelcom taaks to be unWUlmgly
don or aa so many invitations to at
tempt and. achieve great things. Th
difference between these two point of
view mark the different betwn en
during life snd finding th 1" that so-
dura. . " '.'' jr-s
Th wise preacher of long ago caught
sight or on of the distinctions f hat
cut clear tnrough to th roots of things.
He " says- that ths sign of old age . Is
that a man Is afraid of that which is
high. When courage and ambition have
gone bid eg and decrepit ud have en
tered, in, no matter whether a man b
II or 10. :
Tie alone bat youth, he alon has life
before him, who can still 'catch th vis
ion of th Ideal, of that which is high.
who can lift up his eyes beyond the!
horlson of practlcabllltea and prece
dents and ae th things not yet real
ised. Thar Is a time when men must
dream dreams and a' visions, whan
they must feast on noble purposes or
die so far as th inner spirit and all
that makes real living is concerned.
If you find th will becoming dull and
listless, with no quickening of ,lh
nUaea, but only apathy or a neer.forJ
th high purpos or th great protMet,7)
it Is but a sigh of th approach of
nlltty. It th fatlur ef The powers.
When th ambition can be satisfied with
the Jess while th greater Is before It,
when things low and base ar preferred
to thing high, afar off, and difficult to
attain, th heart Is 'dying already.
Cherish as th spark of llf th as
piration to have and do and b th beat.
Yet who is there does not know th
paralysing chill that the sneer of th
phlllstln or. even th memory of our
own many failure can give when great
possibilities offer tham salves to usT
Mow easily enter In th cold considera
tion that deaden our aspirations; how
subtle th temptation to be oontent with
H
toK
ymns
now.
Daily Merciea.
By Joseph Addison.
Joseph Addison (Milston. Wiltshire,
England. May 1. H7J London, June 17,
1719), one of th greatest of all writers
of English prose, was th author of
five hymns, all of which hav . been
considered worthy of a- plac . In the
ftermanent songs of - worship of the
church . This hymn was composed In
the-year 1711 and waa published in th
Spectator as a part of an essay on th
subject of gratitude to th supreme
being. u
When all they mrcies. O my Ood!
My rising soul surveys.
Transported with the view, t'm lost
in ' wonaer, iov ana praise
Unnumbtrfrd comforts tomi
m ss w its v a va wcvawnvH
Befor mf Infant hwt eorjfvd
tamita) Aa . haitAasM
From Whom those eomrovgiow. ;
j
Whan, In th slippery psthT youth.
With heedless step I ran,
Thin arm, unseen, conveyed m safe
And led me up to man.
a-
Ten thousand thousand precious gifts
My dally thanks employ;
Nor is th least a cheerful heart N
That tastes those gifts witl joy.
Through every 'period of my llf
Thy goodness I II pursue;
And "after death, in distant "worlds,
Th glorious them renew.
Through all eternity to The
A Joyful song 1 11 rale:
Tor, O. eternity' too ahort "
To ut,r all thy praise!
Making a City's Streets Safe.
The railroad of th county ar spend
ing 11,000.090.. to make th streets of
Chicago safe, says th Technical World
magaslna On an average, too people
year ar run over by paaatng trains.
or ar Injured In collisions with steam
locomotive while ualng - -. Chicago a
streets. Ten years ago Chicago decided
that the elevation of all steam railway
tracks was the only means of protect-
ng her citliens from the deadly grade-
crossings. And th railroad ar foot
ing th bill. Last year over 10.000 man
were employed In th work of elevat
ing th track, and It cost th railroads
about tt.100.000. ,
Chicago is not th only city which Is
having ber steam railway tracks ele
vated. But Chicago I th only city
which Is making th railroads pay for
th Job. Chicago ha already accom
plished the elevation of 100 mile of
steam railway tracka within her bor
ders and lias made the railroads pay
very cent of th 150.000,000 which it
has coat.
Th work I only half completed; but
rfh railroads which at first opposed
track elevation ara now convinced of Its
advantages, and they ar beginning to
regard It as well worth th millions
of dollars It Is costing. Bom roads ar
tar-alghtd enough to go greatly be
yond the city's requirements, and ar
building most efficient roadbeds to add
to their terminal and switching facili
ties. '.
: '--December 30 in. History.
1147 John V. Altgeld, governor of
Illinois, born. Died March 11, 1904,
1141 Sleg or aiouitan. city sur
rendered to th British January 12. 1141.
lll New Tork banks suspended
cash raymenta
1114 socialist league rounded In Eng
land. -
III William' W. I.orlng, American
general who became .a pasha In Egyp
tian army, died. Born In Wilmington,
North Carolina, December, 4, 111..
1 13 New York presbytery dismissed
charge of heresy sgalnst Professor
Brlggs. ' .
194 Delavsn house, Albany, New
York, destroyed by fir. Sixteen lives
lost. i - '
101 Fir snd panic In Iroquois the
atre, Chicago. Nearly 100 lives lost.
Tw famous Horseav,1-" -;-
From th-Albany Democrat. ,
Th Sundav Journal rontnlna nlcturea
Of th famous long, prana4 horses, Ore
gon Beauty and Oregon wonder 11. wun
gooo-wrlteup of their history, by T.
Stllmacher it this city. Thea
horses were Linn eounty producta Th
latter was finally purchased for 15.800
and taken to England, where he ha
been a wonderfully drawing card for a
showman.' An 'effort to continue th
breed of long-maned horses haa bn a
failure, though, ther ar horses her
now with trace of th eharacterlsllca
IS
, for Today
THE YEARS.
th condition that Involves neither toll -nor
pain. How hard to realise that this J
la an invitation to death. -
To air men comes th' thrill of th
passion to do some great thing, to gv '
to our world some worthy servloe. .. To
yield to thla I to keep th heart young,
la to defy time, to conquer th year a.
Whether the coming days shall bend -th
back with thela burderta or shall
nerve and strengthen th llf does not
depend on whether they hav cares or
Joys In them, but on whether they find
ua responsive to ths call of noble things. !
No -man can n fiord to let a pur and
lofty impulse dla, nor, for fear or fall- ,
ur or of ridicule, to become afraid or
ashamed of. hla ideals. ' Living is mora . '
than a dull feeding at tables or troughs,,
more than shelter and sleep; It is grow
Ing, climbing, becomfnsC finding higher -'
levels and seeing yet higher befor.
Nor la this all; th spirit of greatness .
finds ample play in dally dutlea Th
success of th year does not depend on
whether you can do things that shall -amass
man today or male your nam,'
known forever, but upon whether Into ,
all th things you do. lowly, humdrum, . "
common-place as tbey may seem to be, ,
the daily duties of horn or ahop or -
store, car or the bnby, or th run
ning of a typewriter, ther shall enter A
the great and high motlv.
4 nfm is wimi wa au-.nveu. in'-nign ;
vision of th lowly things, th sight of '
the. fact that th least nice pf work I . -
an essential part of th servlo, of th .
whole universe, that a man serves th
Ptvlpe not by wearing a black coat, hut
aikii; as In Ood's nam, with " hlsh
mouves in loaac amies mat may r
hla. It Is not place nor authority nor
wag that makes the work high or low:
U 1L th, spirit of th servlc and th
part it play in the world's great busi
ness of jiaetectlng humanity.
Would you ward off old ag. cherish
vitality and give value to your day a, '
sek th things that ar above, th llfn
that serves some worthy end. On is
young ss long as his heart leaps respon
sive to Tnobl calL But he who lives
to pleasure, to th aatlsfsctton of self,
who haa shut his eyas to the high
thing that call for self-denial, for toll'
and loss, la dead already. ' - ; '.
Sentence Sermons.
" By Henry F. Cop.' ' "i '
Forced piety Is hypocrisy-.
.- ';-. ...
Th time server . never , serves his
times. .. ... ,
Human evolution may be but dlvln
revelation.
- - . . . .
When th heart dries up religion soon
leaks out. i .-
..
It is always better to lead a man than
tocarry him.
passions Into harnesa . . ., "I; r fl
: 'X i -
- Th fore of great deeds -rests on a. .
small personal fidelities.
Th glory of th cross. does not de- '
petid on your being cross. . j ; "
-' 'tf' a . a n -'-', V- ','? -,-."
(Many a man Ms -missing a spiritual ?
meal by choking on th Utter. ' 1
, ', . ; , ' a
Capacity for heaven depend on th ,
creation of happiness here. ,
There I no sarvlc of the real with
out recognition of th ideal.
He who never has worked at religion
Is always sur it is worn out.
Bom men would not recornlte their
own religion If they met it alon. .
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Th water that gets into th milk of
human kindness Is not th water of Ufa
No words of prayer vr aros from
those whose prayers were always words
alone. : -' 1 . "
a a . .
There's S world of difference) betwe
buying gold bricks and having faith In '
men. , -
The more discontented a man Is with
others th better satisfied h will be
with himself.
a
A tot of folks who think of faith only .
sa a ferry to heavtn ar going to get
meir reet wet. , .
v ' "
W becom slaves to habits by count
ing an occasional indulgence as a dam- r
onstratlon of liberty.
e H '
Tou cannot tun up your llf to'th'
dlvln unless you will at some time shut .
out the din of daily business.
Harriman a Menace. .
From th Oregon Mining Journal,
Th Chicago News has llttls love for
Mr. Harrlman.Un- whom it sees another
Rockefeller or Tferkes. "In his" slnu.
says th News, Mr. Harriman Is selfish ,
in th estreraa In his methods he Is .
ruthless and conscienceless. Already a
power of th first rank In the railroad .
world, he is seeking to be th country's
transportation king. - ;
In his ambitions snd method Mr,
Harriman Is no lass a manses to th .
country than Mr, Tarkes was a menae
to Chicago when that financial brigand
waa engaged In bis axploitaUon ofKh ''
city. The outcom la likely to b th V
am In th one.caae as in th other. , i
Railroad securities ar now good in i
vestment. They cannot continue to b ',
so under th manipulating of man Ilk '
Harriman. publlo sentiment will not 1
long endure th business and political :
domination of persona of Ma typ. Th
outcom of Harriman' rul is HkJy.liv
d an agitation ror govsrnmsm owner- r
sblp of railroads. , '
Rudyard Kipling's Birthday. ' i
Rudyard Kipling waa born at Bom- i
bay, Xecmber 10, list. Was sent t s
England at th ag of i, and received
hla education at the United Services i
college at Westward Ho, In Devonshire, ;
of which h I understood to glv rmln-
iscenoas tn ."Bulky and Co In 1112 ;
h became assistant editor on an Indian ' -Journal,
and sine then has been Identl- -fled
with literature. In 11 he pub- ?
Halted his first volume, "Departmental '
Dlttl," and the following year th first .
of hi sets of short stories, which war '
to mak him famous all th world oven".'
"Plain Tale From th Hllla." - Many-r-other
popular books hav com from hi -i
pen sine thst tlm. '.Mr, Kipling lived
tot seme tlm In America, but divides '
hi tlm between his homes In Knsland 1
and In Houth Africa. Ills EnRllsh home j
Is at Burwash, In a beautiful hilly and -wooded
corner of Busses.
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