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If you will Always remem
ber that whatever you are
' doing. God stands by as i
witness, you willnvex
in your acts Epictetus.
THE RAILROADS' FlllE WORK.
THE OUTLOOK with reference to
' the Chaplh commlsison bill at
Salem now is that, while tba
; senate may agree on a bill
with the appointive feature- partially
or temporarily retained, a large ele
ment In the bouse, led or supported
by Speaker Davey,- and including
Jones, Holt and King of the railroad
- committee, will stubbornly bold out
; against the appointive provision ot
; the bill, for purely partisan reasons
. at least, and some will believe using
' partisanship as an excuse and means
to defeat any legislation of this kind.
The Journal has often. presented
Trfefutable argflments, based not on
-theory alone but enTtndlaputable
facts and the experience of , other
states as well, In favor of giving the
"I governor ; the power of appointment
and removal ot the commissioners.
One reason Is that to make the com-1
mission elective would be an invita
tion to the railroads to go Into poll
tics, one that they would accept. , It
would be placing Oregon in the po
sition In which California has been
for many-years, where the Southern
; Pacific railroad absolutely runs' the
politics ot the state Insofar as It
chooses to do so, controls the legisla
ture, and. nominates certain state of
ficers and judges. ; It does this by
'Bribery of various kinds, much of It
. notorious and scarcely disguised, a.nd
thus California politics ; IB - a syn
; onym for corruption and civic ahame
and spoils. This is the condition of
affairs that the elective scheme In-
vltes in Oregon. ' . :'V.'::.ZT.'
' A second reason that ought to ap
peal with irresistible force to every
real friend of railroad regnlation Is
that . with an elective commission
there is nowhere lodged the power jot
. removal. Once elected, a commis
sioner is in for four years, do what
ever be pleases. He can sell out the
people as often and Jn as many ways
as be pleases, and retire with a com
petency, and congratulate himself
that the legislature gave "him so tine
, an opportunity. But with the power
ot removal In the governor's bands,
the commissioners he 'selects would
Tdn.&aIgntnTdo AheTrffuty, ise
would be removed. .... -',
There Js not a single, man among
the 89 active members of the legisla
ture who does not. believe that Oov
enor Chamberlain would appoint the
right klnd ofcommlssioners,-and
""would tolerate no others on the com
mission. And the chances are that'
subsequent governors would do the
same. . At least the people would
have a lodging place for responst
JblJitTiJs '
This attempt to defeat this bill or
to make it the victim of partisanship
, in bi to defeat In a large measure
the objects aimed at is one that
should be abandoned, and that it
perslsteinjwIUjEaiLilowa-the wrath
"vriaot fended people upon the heads
of those who are thus trifling with
the people's vital business Interests.
Only for very strong and solid rea
sons should these representatives,
pledged to enact the people's will,
thus obstruct and mutilate this bill,
one demanded, as Is clearly appar
ent, by the lumbermen, the manufac
turers, the grangers, the commercial
bodies,' the farmers and business
men, producers rand shippers, al
most unanimously. It is both injury
and Insult to tet lip before them a
partisan Idol In such a crisis, and
call upon members to worship It,
when the people are so clearly de
manding this law, and have not In
timated a wish . to have the bill
changed ' or expressed a partisan
thought about it. This is no time or
o ration for peanut politics.
Mont actively hostile to this law
appear Speaker iDjavey and three
of the members of the house com
mittee whom he appointed,, fore
Knowing, It must be presumed, their
action. From this the people gen
r-rally aupposexhat the railroads got
In their work early.' They want to
beat ths bill, but the next best thing
for' them Is to beat the appointive
feature of It, and these members,
whether consciously and purposely
or not. are playing . the railroads
came. If there must be a commis
sion law they want it fixed so that
they can get Into politics In connec
tion with It. as they have done In
California and New Tork. and
though , this will cost them consid
erable they will, get It back, with
usury, through the very machinery
the neoDle or rather , these repre
sentatives have created. ... -
Mr. Davey and bis supporters are
doing exactly what Mr. Harrlmah de
sires done, and he Is laughing In his
sleeve at the ease with which he Is
making ' partylsin' accomplish his
ends.'. 1 . ;:.. " , "
SINNERS AND MOTHERS.,
MIIS JUROK3 in tne maw case
L I -"are mortal men, "wm rvvnt
I fail to sympathize charitably
with young Mrs. - Thaw, and
overlook her waywardness, folly and
sin when she was yet more child than
woman. But she Is not on trial, and
how much of their sympathy will ex
tend to ber unadmlrahle husband is
not determinable, though if It be
shown that White pursued her and
sought to lead her astray after ber
marriage, and that Thaw knew this,
It will bep.ut a common exhibition of
human nature If the Jury, bursting
outside statutory lines, exercises le
niency to him, even though he Is
anything but a lovable character; ; '
If one were Inclined to moralize
upon, this case, be could not reflect
long without looking condemning!?
upon the mother oMhesetwo.Mrs,
Thaw the elder might not have been
able to turn, tier son's life into a re
spectable, useful channel If she had
tried, but there Is no evidence that
she made the effort. , His father.
sizing him upt left him practically
nothing to squander, but the mother
supplied him lavishly, and thus en
couraged him In a career ot Idle dis
sipation and Vulgar escapades. 1 ,
And the mother of pretty, silly,
Utile Evelyn, what was she thinking
of when she allowed her butterfly
chlldtp so and encouraged her to go
Into places scarlet. with the tints of
flames from bellT How could this
mother allow the child to accept
costly presents from a notorious lib
ertine,' and leave her In. his keeping
wniie sne nerseii accepted-nis money
to take a trip away? , In than face of
this record let the scourge ot blame
lightly touch "airy, fairy" - Evelyn;
but should It spare the mother?
- True, pure" love Is mighty in a
court, as elsewhere, and that Evelyn
has bravely told . the ' story ot ber
shame out of love for her husband,
and that If It should so appear
an honorable love, prompted him to
kill White, will outweigh even the
silver-tongued pleading of Delmas in
Thaw. .behalf. r ;V ":
LEGAL STATUS OP RAI ROADS.
N AN ADDRESS delivered not long
1 ago Judge Caynor ot New York
proposed as a remedy for -violations
of the interstate commerce
law-the-appoiatment by- the 'govern
ment of the general freight agents of
all the roads, such agents being In
structed to see that no man got his
freight carried more 'cheaply, than
his competitor or neighbor.' ' This,
he said, might: require- an amend
ment to the constitution, which was
framed before there were any rail
roads, but It necessary, It' should be
so -revised. (. Judge' Gaynor went on
to show the right and reasonableness
ot public control or even ownership
of railways, In epitome as follows: ,
' Excepting' a few canals and turn
pike roads public highways have
been built by the government from
the earliest history. It could have
built oufMron hlghwayswblche
gan to be needed about 80 years ago,
and did so in most countries, the
same as toll-roads were built. Gov
ernment may take land from any pri
vate owner against his will, and gov
ernment gives certain corporations
this right ot eminent 'domain, but
never for private, always for a pub
lic use. Railroads, had to be built
as public highways, for. the govern
ment itself had no right to give cor
porations the right of eminent do
main otherwise. The railroads are,
therefore, not private but public
property. The ostensible owners
cannot do as they please with them.
They are mere trustes or agents of
the government or of the people ot
the nation or a state to run them as
public highways for'the benefit of all
and on the same terms to all. Every
free pass or favor In frelgbt rates Is
In defiance of 7 law,, without any
special prohibitory statutes. ; What
statutes are being enacted to prohibit
was unlawful from the beginning.
The fact that .railroads are public
highways had become so far forgot
ten by some .that they thought it was
meddlesome' to Interfere with their
management. ",. .V , '
. That these public highways, open
to all on equal terns by the very law
of their being, should be used by a
tew to Injure others and destroy
business rivals and beggar families
by favoritism in freight rates'"lsthe
basest, most dastardly crime of our
day and generation."
Transportation ratea enter con
trolling Into thev price of com
modities to the consumer. By fa
voritism in freight-rates and by re
bates a few people, conspiring with
those who controlled the railroads,
have been able to build up immense
monopolies, crush all small eoropeti
tors, and later-make the consumer
pay' whatever price they choose to
exact. V' ;-. . .;- '
"'Some have come to the conclu
sion that the government . should
take the railroads and run them to
end the abuses. It Is very certain
that If the abuses can be ended In no
other , way the people will compel
tne government to take the roads;
The country and' government are
great enough to do anything. ; There
ia .. nothing radical , and startling
about the government owning and
running railroads, when one-half or
more ot the railroads are owned and
operated by the government. I would
rather not see the government do It.
Private enterprise Is too valuable to
be eliminated from railroad building
and management if It can be avoided.
My, own opinion is that it Is only
necessary for government to appoint
the general freight agent of every
railroad, for he could stop all favor
itism at once." ' Judge Gaynor's
scheme does not t contemplate the
fixing of schedules of rates by the
government agent, ' but ' that might
follow as a further step In necessary
regulation and jeontrol. l .
What has been needed a good
while in this country is Judges who
would take Judge Gaynor's view of
the legal status of railroads, and he
Is clearly and absolutely right. - The
right ot eminent domain Involves a
public use of tbeproperty acquired
under It. Statutes are necessary be
cause the fundamental, principle ot
the law 'bas been obscured and ren
dered obsolete by court-made law.
Courts as well as legislators are
coming, however, to recognise the
important, basic truth that railroads
are public, rather than private,
concerns and property, though rail
road officers and" stock manipulators
continue to talk and act as if they
were private concerns that the pub
lie has no right to meddle wfth. In
vestors have rights in the property
ot course, but those rights are clear
ly, and completely subordinate to the
public right of control end use-on
equal terms. , ''
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' OPEN THE RIVERS. , ::
IN PROPORTION as Oregon people
arrive at full appreciation ot the
- value- of water transportation
will there come a solution ot
some problems that now vex them.
There is sound reason behind the ex
penditure ot the - $101,000,000
which the state, of New Tokk has
voted for the betterment of Us ca-
nal from Buffalo to the Atlantic sea
board, otherwise that enormous ex-
pendltnra would notbemad9...It
means a per capita tax ot about $14
on every man, woman and child in
that state. It is a sum more than
five times as great as the govern
ment' has been spending on all. the
waterways In the United StateaTlt
Was voted after ripe experience With
water transportation as gained In
the operation ot the Erie canal upon
which thi money is now to be spent.
It Is the culmination of both experi
ence and thoughrof the first order,
and in a state prodigious In engi
neering skill and business acumen.
It Is applied on a waterway in which
there is the enormous engineering
difficulty of 200-foot lift of craft
in a- stretchof-flve-Biileat - It- la- a
work to strikingly challenge atten
tion of those capable of thinking, it
for nothing else, merely as directing
thdught to the Subject of water
transportation and what If means. .
New York's act 'means something
to Oregon. . -It Is something- for
Oregon people to think about.. - It Is
not an Idle dream, a .fancy or a fad,
but .the hard, mercenary, matter of
fact and deliberate act of sound busi
nee Interests. . It Is done In spite of
the engineering difficulties Incident
to Erie, Immensely greater difficul
ties than Oregon people baveo face
in improving tneir wuiameiie ana
their Columbia. It Is to be consum
mated la spite of the fact that the
canal is paralleled by bait a dozen
modern railroads. It Is done because
by the doing, frolght Can be trans
ported a great deal cheaper than
these railroads can do It.
Because water hauls are far
cheaper they are to build an Im
mense canal from Pittsburg to the
lakes. For the same reason they are
to deepen the Mississippi to 14 feet
fonv"St.T Louts. ' For the same rea-
son,, canals and navigable rivers
carry one-third of the traffic of
France and almost the same la Ger-
many." Seven-eighths ot the traffic
ot Ruasla is carried by water, and
prodigious sums are being expended
by the Russian government for ex
tending the water system. Blrmlng
bam, England, has spent f 76,000,-
000 on a S(-mile canal, and has
made herself one of the busiest ports
In the world.- James. .J; Hill, the
greatest railroad economist of the
age, says water routes must -be de
pended on to carry the heavy freight
because the railroads cannot afford
to do It The movement for water
hauls Is world-wide, because It Is
economically and scientifically the
natural haul. ' , - ..''
" We have been' railroad-frenzied.
We have unconsciously drifted Into
the untrue and undefendlble notion
that railroads are the only means ot
moving freight.' . We have "been
wrong, fantastically, grotesquely. In
dlcrously wrong. We have believed
this palpable error, and permitted
our water routes, by railroad design
and otherwise, to tall Into disuse.
We have permitted an "obstruction
to stand at Willamette falls for 83
years. We have allowed the magnificent-
Columbia, one of the finest
water-highways In the world, to lie
practically unttsed since the white
man first set foot In the Oregon land
Shall we continue In an error whose
tendency Is blight, and perpetuation
of which will sap so much of our
substance? Shall we not on the con
trary, open these rivers and come
Into our own? '4 . ;
AN ASSAULT ON THE PEO-
'.''! '..". PLE'S LAW. :
M Pnnprirnivpa . e.uM ...
1 week the first blow was dealt
at the -Oregon primary law. If
the senate pursues its designs to
consummation, aa Initial etep In the
destruction of the law. will have been
taken. The country Is ringing with
praise "of what the people ot Oregon
have accomplished by this law. The
people of the state, with the legisla
ture delivered from the demoralisa
tion of a senatorial election, are yet
congratulating themselves upon the
efficacy ot the measure which their
planning and their jrotes have fash
ioned. Other , states are preparing
to model primary election laws for
themselves after the Oregon meas
ure, but that distinction falls to im
press the ' Oregon-' senate. ' 1 State
ment Number One stands' apparently
In the way of politicians, and It has
been attacked. ' ,. ",- .
Though a candidate for the legis
lature need not take Statement One
if he does not desire so to do, though
he may subscribe to Statement Num
ber Two or even to no statement at
all, and though a majority ot the
members elected to the present ses
sion gained their entrance thereto
after taking Statement Number One,
the people are confronted with the
spectacle of the senate,, at its first
opportunity, ' actually , voting to
change that statement and to substi
tute a feature that the people harp
not asked for, that the people do not
want, and that, by the referi
the people will almost surely reject.
It is a regretable proceeding, be
cause without warrant. It Is unfor
tunate, because by the beginning thus
inauguated other changes that pol
iticians may want will be made,
other bricks will, be removed -from
the finished edifice. . Such may not
be the design, but that will be the ef
fect of the present assault on the
measure. It Is action that the legisla
ture ought not to undertake, for'the
Very excellent reason, -If for,' no
other, that, the primary law Is the
measure Its people themselves
framed . and passed. 'If It needs
change, it is not the province ot the
legislature to change it, except for
radical and palpable fault. There Is
no such fault, and the Interference
by the legislature is without license
and without excuse. It Is the In
terference by the eervant with the
work of the sovereign, for under the
new. order the people are supreme
The primary; law Is their law and It
is theirs alone to change in Its vital
and essential features.
' Mr. Harriman has no politics, and
all he cares about politics is to use
it as an instrument to carry out his
purposes. Any man who, while en
gaging in a contest in the people's
behalf with Mr. Harriman, Is guided
or controlled by politics, thereby
gives Mr. Harriman Just the advant
age in the game that he desires and
that be constantly'plays for. -
The size of Rockefeller's latest of
fer of restitution t such- that It is
robbed of all,; suspicion ot. being
tainted money. . The only question
that It suggests is: . How was be
able to "earn $32,004,000?
Tammany Hall and ' Mayor Me-
Ciellan are rerrted to be inthe
throes of "a struggle that means the
political death of one or th other,"
which reminds us that another elec
tion la . approaching In New Tork.
Tammany Hall's death struggles al
ways come Just before elections; the
rest ot the time Is spent eating the
canary. ( .
Oregon should make a very good
showing at the A. Y. P. exposition at
Seattle in 1909. It will probably
pay to do so and then. Oregon owes
that much to the state of Washing
ton and to Seattle on account of their
fraternal liberality In the matter of
the Lewis and Clark fair.', v
......
' There should be a co-defendant In
the Thaw case the mother who per:
mltted her 16-year-old glrkto go to
luncheons and midnight . suppers
with Stanford White or any other
man..- .' .' ' '.:
The people have not asked for the
proposed changes la the Chapln law.
There has been no sign among them
TCaTTraey-waTifBd to elect eommla-
stoners.
TK
Origm of ttie
Kiss
By Professor Chrlktoffer Uyrop of the
, University or copknaagkn.
Ia moat elvilUo and many u acini
Iscd nations the klas Is thk natural kx
preaalcm of love and klndrod Xkkllnca
How la it then to be explained that
a kiss ha come .to nave sucn a okcp
and alanlf leant imponanokT . How can
a touch ot the lips thus eloquently x
preks our inmost fkeltngs, that no Ian-
auaae pokaeasee words strong enoutn
to equal it la power?
Is he klae something primitive, or
ie It conventional! la It as natural to
klsk, when we are ia love, aa -to tautb
when we are happy or weep when we
are aadt In - other words, Is Steele
rtxht when be kjra ' that nature has
taught ua to kUa,. and that the -klas
came Into the world with the mat
lover "Nature wae tta kuthor 4nd It
becaa with the flret courtahlp.'
I ahall endeavor to answar this ques
tion, but f tret I mukt emphaaike that
we here touch. kotmethlna; of which we
know but -111110, and nothing at ell
poalttvely. One may only put forward
more or leas likely theories.
it la nrat or importance to state tne
fact that there . are many natlona that
do not know the klsa ia Its usuVl form.
Thua Jt la unknown In a sreat pert of
Polynekla, In . Madasascar, and among
many neg-ro trlbea In Africa, 'prlaolpelly
thoae who mutilate . the Hps. Neither
Is It known to tl)e Eskimos and cer
tain Finnish tribes. '
In his "Northern Travel" Bayard
Taylor writes of these that, "whllk
both sexea bathe together abeolutely
naked, a kika la conaldered Indeoent."
Fwintah woman, whom he told that
In England hueband and wife ktaaed
each other, exclaimed' Indignantly, ,"lf
my huaband tried to klae me 1 ehould
box hla eara so that they would tingle
tor a weesv
If one, then, aak what takes the plaoe
ef the kiss - among- .tbaae people, - the
answer Is that there are many waya
of greeting among unclvlllaed people
eome slap each othera arms or atom
acha. others scratch their right ear
or put out- their , tongue, but 1 ahall
here only mention the greetings which
Many trlbea exchange greetings with
their noeea. The klaa of the Malays
eonslkt In rubbing or p reeking the noses
together. Tbla noee greeting ia found
among the Malaya, the Folynealana, the
EaKiraos and many negro trlbea. Many
tribe greet by elmply smelling each
other and have only on Word for, smell
and greet. ,
When now the noae-greetlng ' pertly
arlkea from the aenae of smelling. Is It
then not poaklble that the Hp-greeting
the klas originates from the aenae of
tasting, er even more likely from both
taste and kroelllng, which axe , closely
reiatea to eacn otner.
A flng ahows lta joy at Its tBker'k
preaence by licking-bis hand. WbyT
I do not hesitate to say that It lit
erally tastes him. It loves it maatar.
ana tnereror lores tb smell and taat
UMBr
The cow licks Its eslf - becauee
through tongu and noa ft enjoys 1U
peculiar odor and taate. - Is It then not
likely that-our kiss In Ita original form
may be explained as something atmllarT
The aenkea of the primitive peoyle ark
much ktronger than tboae ef -the civil
ised who have retained the klas.' I do
not think' there la any other explana
tion poaklble, though tbla la a rather
prosaic on.. .
A Pertinent Question. ".
Richard Harding Davis was talking
In New -Jork. about-tbe llf f . , re
porter. ...-'. '....,.
"A hard life It la." said ha 'It Is a
life that taxea all the energies. . I
don't care how great a genlua a man
might be, how reeourcaful, how perse
vering, how alert all thoae qualities
would be brought Into play if the man
turned reporter, and on many a good
atory he would atlll fall down at that
' ."Reporters are often snubbed. 'There
Is a stupid type of man that likes to
snub them. Such a man, a bank presi
dent, onoe tried to anub my friend, Jim
my Patterson. ' :
The bank had gone up through a
defalcation, and Jimmy went to inter
view Ita head. But Ita head waa eruaty.
He refused to be Interviewed. He took
Jimmy by the arm and led Mm toward
the door.
"Soung man." he aald.'-"! alwaya
make it a rule to mind my own bual
nekk.' , - - i
M 'Were you doing that, salid Jimmy,
'when the cashier made hla haulr "
v The Earnest Recruit (
- ' ' Frrim Lustlg Blaetter.'
A lieutenant was examining a rserult
a to tila mankuvera in ease of war.
"What wottld yon dn f ytn met an
enemy on the field of battler aaked the
examiner.
Shoot him dead,' sir." -
"Right. And what If you met a whole
battalion of the enemy f i
"Shoot them dead, air."
"Nonaenne! Tou couldn't do It You
should fall , back and give warning.
What would you do If you met a cow
belonging to the enemy?" t .
"Shoot It dead, air." . .
Wrong." . '..' : : ;,-
"Fall bark and give warning, air."
' "Wrong again., Tou ahould catch hold
of It by the horns and lead It Into
camp. What would you do If yoa met
me on the field r
"Shoot you dead. air.". ' . .
. f Bubblahl .I'm not an enemy. . t wear
the earn uniform .you do." . . N v,
('Fall back and give warning, air."
"Wrong, atuptdt I'm not a battalion
ef the enemy." ' .
"Then air, I would tak you by tb
hern and lea o late camp.
' ...
(!. - ' " '
toK
ymns
now.
i t Sailor's Prsyer.
By William Whiting. v
tWllllam WhlUng .(London. 1125
Winchester, 1IT8), for many yeare Mi
ter at Wmeheatkr college chorlater's
school, when h wrote this hymn la
1M1. did not know that It would become
a familiar Institution of ocean travel.
On Sunday, when the pasaengera gather
in the main aaloon for dlvln service,
thla hymn alwaya la included In the
order of worahln. Ita neoullar appro-
prlatonesa inaeparably baa aaaoclateo)
It with that oocaalon In the minda of
all traveler. It alwaya la aung to "Me
11 ta." by . Dyke. L : ; I V
Eternal father. t to eave.4 -
Whoke arm doth bind the reetleek Wave.
Who bldd'kt the mighty ocean deep
Ita own appointed Umlta keep:.
. O hear us when w cry to the . .
For thoa In pert on the sea. ; '
O Bavlor. whose almighty word
The - wlnde . and . wavaa aubmlaalve
heard.
Who walkedat on the foaming' deep.
And ealra amid Its rag dldat aleept '
OTieaT U when we ory to the':
For thoae Id peril on tn aea. - . -
O Sacred Spirit, who dldkt brood " ' V
Upon the chaos dsrk and rude,
Who bad'at Ha angry tumult ceaae.
And caveat light and life and peace:
- O hear ua when we cry to thee '
' For thoae in peril on the sea.
O Trinity ef lov and' power.
Our brethren nhleld tn danger's hoar;
Prom rock and tempest, fire and foe.
Protect them whereao'er they go;
And aver let there rlaa to thee "
rQlad hymna of prala from land and
Sentence.: Sermons.
..: By Henry T. Cop. 1
Raatlng is not reatlng. .
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' lfw hearts tnak the new age.- '
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Tb lflan never ar aeren.. T
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The aaddaat morality Is that which Is
sattafled -wrtb ttaelf. -
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Tli r nevr fs much good In "good
nougn, , .. , . -
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No on ever regretted burring a slan
dr. .
The fool always greaaaa his track on
tn up grad. '' . .--' - -
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Thy mak but little mark on time
who ar only marking time. - :
Tb Ignorant may be foolhardy, but
only tn wis ar brave.
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A man does not pick up sand by lick
ing th dust' :'' - .
Th only stand som men will take
on any queatloa is a band stand.
Ton eannot eufw a donkey by deareea
oy cauing aim "uoctor. .....
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If this world Is lion th better for
your living th next will hav none of
your lire. .. .
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Ton eannot hurl Sataa from th
thron by throwing adjective at him.
Teds of golden hearts ar better than
dreams or golden harps.
It la faith mixed with facta and not
with fancle that holds th conviction
in a sermon.
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IJttle deeds tell more than th lare-
V paiaeat - ournp. or character. - -
Bom folk think they are aeneroua
becaua thjey ar willing to give up their
good Intention. - - ,
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Plenty of peopl who talk ef honeatv
aa a good polloy fail te pay th ore-
jauimsk , j
Th maa who Is drowning In drink
usually hope to aav hlmaelf by catch
ing at a straw. - . .
Many a youth who would acorn te
wear second-hand clothes la living oa a
Baca-me-aown-eepuuuion. -
- Month of February. ,
Th month of Vebruary in our oil-
mat. March not excepted, la the most
dlaagreeable one In th year, and It haa
good reason to be so. It ha been the
moat Ill-UMd of all th month. At
first It had no existence In th Roman
calendar, and then it waa introduced by
Numa aa the cloalng month of -the year.
In 461 B. C the decemvir changed
February from Its coaltlon and niarad
It after January aa th aecond month.'
At this early period the month had
IS and JO daya alternately.- while the
day thua lout were regained by Insert
ing an additional day in certain year
between the . twenty-third and twenty-
rourtn of February.
When Julius Caeadr rcorganlaed th
calendar h ordered that each alternate
month from' January-orr ahould have tl
daya. and the intermediate months 10.
wita tne exception of February, which
waa given 10 daya in leap year and II
in th other yeara. ,
Thla orderly and senalbl arrange
ment wa destroyed by the vanity of
Auguatua, who, not willing that the
month named - after - him ahould be
shorter than that named after hla ore-
deceaaor. took a day from February and
added it to August, and in order that
three month of to daya ahould not
com together, he reversed th lengths
ef th four succeeding months.
It waa thua that February came to
have It present length, and the auc
ceaalon of lengtha In the other montha
to be ao annoylngly Irregular. Alt
Christendom suffers atlll from th
vanity of a Roman mperor.
February derived Ita name from the
word februare, to ''expiate" or .."purify."
In consequence of the Roman festival of
expiation and-purification celebrated on
th fifteenth of thla month. Th an
cient Saxona called It sprout-kale, from
th aproutlng of the cabbage at thla
aeaeon. Afterward It waa known aa
Sol-monat (aun month), the sun having
now returned from th low latitude to
Ita higher courae. . ... -
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No Infraction ef . Rules. .
From Tlt-Blta " .
As an express train waa going
through a station one of the passengers
leaned too far out of the window, over
balanced, and fell out . He fortunately
landed on a sand heap, ao that he did
himself no great injury, but with torn
rlothea and nof a few bruises, said to
a porter who was standing by;
-"What ahall I dor
,Tou'r -all right mltr," Bald th
porter. "Tour ticket allows you to
break your Journey," . ,
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A Sermon forTo Jay
I have learned. Phil lv, 11.
By Heury F. Cop.
,; HAVH
441 word I
I Not a
X things,
HAVH learrtW." What fitting
for the close of1 any llfol ,
a beast of knowing all
.but a self-accounting In
- - which' he sees that th lesson
set have been masterer. - Ia not thla that
for which life haa been given us. that It
might all be but a larger school, lit
which the yeara are the grades and
the end le a glad commencement?
' Any-true education Is the training
and development of the powera of lira
to meet Ita problema and realise ita '
(.possibilities, ' In thla larger school ex
perience auuy is arawing out ana de
veloping the latent good, enlarging the .
wealth of character and mind,- adapW
Ing the aelf to the aurroundlnga of men -and
thing. Labor, pain, ana, pleasure,
all have their leasona and play their
parta in making a man. . , ,
t But many spend long yeara ia this
achooYta whom it mean no mora than -the
recltaUona and dlaclpllna mean te
the deeka In the .schoolroom. Seelnoj
ana .tearing, tney atlll ar blind
deaf. ' Yet they ar not th almpletonT?
they count themssliAea Wise, sharp and I
discerning. True, they have keen vl-
alona for the concrete and the auper-flc-lal,
but they fall to ee,the eaaen-
tlal and the algnif leant Ufa has la
bora but no leaaona for them. .
No mkttey .what you make of your
llfe. or may make in your lifetime, It I
worth little unleaa It makea something '
of you. To aee all the change of for
tune, - th varieties of experience, th '
whol gamut of our nature upon whlelt '
experience play, aa claaaea. drills,
taska, and atudles, aa part of a procaea -of
learning la to give to all a new alg- '
nlflcance and to find a principle which
hi a aolutlon of many problema. ' . . .
. The value of a achool dependa not
on t,h text booka one can carry from
It nor on the opportunities its. course
may afford for fame or wealth, it is
to be measured by th kind of people It
Jjurn out and thla depend oa the corn
petency oj in courae or atuay to de
velop and dlacfpUn In the things that -make
worthy and atrong character.' Th
atudent'k gain la In what he may carry
away within hlmaelf. ;
Our tendency 1 to measure life as a
manufactory rather thaa aa a achool
and to eatimat lu - returns by nego
t table an-ylstbl eaaeta Th rich man
Is tb one who gain, by living, tu.
greatest number of thing to rid him-.-aelf
of when he"-dies. But la truth, j
do we not all know that this la Bot th I
measure of life's aucceaat In our hon
est aaner eatimat of any life. It Ik of
th maa and not of th money w think.
. In th long test of tlm th -real bm--
duct and abiding wealth of a life is
seen to consist lp ' all that w Include
under character. ' Thla la th object ef ,
life' kchooL Do not allow anything
to turn you from thla simple, axlotnatlo--r-propoaltlon;
our buklneas I to learn '
to live and serve, and- thl we may do
by the aid of every experience that
cornea to ua. H takeaVthe sting from -
even Borrow who -makes ltvaerve tb
end.
But let aon think that life's lessons
ar to be learned by philoeophlxtng on .
ita experiences.- Wisdom cornea not out .
of booka; it consists not in catalogs
of thlnga remembered; it la dynamic;
It la the . power to do and . be. Char
acter la more than the ability te repeat
th ten commandments: It la th -taste
and appetite for things pure and noble.
th will that choosea th batter rather
than the be, goodness abov gain, th . I
approval of conscience abov th as- .
plau of man, '-., -.?:. - .
Hot does taking life as a school mean .
that w ar td be beggar philosopher.
It Is a sin to die a rich fool; but the,
point la that it la a great aln te die a
poor fool. The vital question la as to'
what a maa shall set befor him aa the
aupreme and of hi being. Tou might
as well attempt to halt the star aa to
take trom man his dealr for gain; but
ahall It be gain In toy and toola and
dust ' or gala in .eternal manhood, i
cbaracterT .
a"he vole of religion cries. "Oaln
llfar"- What ehall all profit you If you
lose thlaf Tike every tura and change
of time and eircamatanc aa part it
the great courae bf training la th art
pfllvlng. Come to th end " T"
'maylook the great Master In the face
witheut aham or fear, that yoa may. '
aay, ."I have learned. Whatever els
I may. have loat I hav gaintlJlfaA
, . February 10 In History. ;
1114 Richard Ruah of Pennavlvanla
became attorney-general ef th United
State. ..... ' -
140 Queen .Victoria married Prince
Albert
1I4 British defeated Blkhs at battl -
of Bobraon. J . "
18(12 Sir Charles Wyndham mad his
flrat London appearance.
U87 Mrs. Henry .Wood, author of
"East Lynn," died.
llll The prealdent algned th pete
treaty with Spain. . ' ..
1100 Roland B, Mollneut eonvioted "
of th murder of Mr. Adam a tn New,
Tork.
1104 The csar of Ruaala proclaimed .
war with Japan.
10 British battleahln Dreadnought -
launched at Portsmouth, . ..
Lord Charles Beresford's Birthday.
Admiral Lord Charles Bereaford. who
ra in America -to ett)e uyth estate -ot
his brother who was killed In a railroad
wreck in Dakota -laat December, . was
born. In Ireland, February 10, 1840,
aecond aon of the fourth Marquis
Waterrord. lie entered the British navy
aa a cadet rn 18S. -one of hla notable
exploits waa tn 1881 when he command'
ed the little Warship Condor In the bom
bardment ot Alexandria. In 1184 he
aerved on Lord Wolaaley ataff In the
Nile expedition and kubeequently he waa
In command of the naval brigade at the ,
battle in upper Egypt - For the-gsl--
lantry . he displayed in several of the
engagements In the Soudan h received
a vote of thanks from the British par-,
lament Lord Beresford haa had the
command of the channel aquadron and
of th Mediterranean fleet in faot he
has held the highest command In th .
Brltlah navy. On three occasions h haa
been awarded medals for aavlng life.
. Two Normals Enough. ;
4 t From the Hitlsboro Ara-u. ' " " .
The Argus hkk talked with a great
many Washington county taxpayera, and
it rind them practically unanlmoua ror
the bill tntrodueed . by Senator Smith -
of Umatilla aaklng that the normal
schoola be rut down by the legislature
from four tcjMwo. the two to be aelected '
by the commission for that purpose. '
Two schools are enough, and four are '
too manfy. Two good schoola wtll be
much better than four,' lily supported,
and the two to remain would be much
more, nearly keif-supportive. . Thik
would mean lea taxation, and be better
all around. " One school at MonmouthJ1
and one at Weston Would be gengraphl-
rally aane. It Is te be hoped that th'.
entire Washington county delegation .
will ktand for the bill and give it their
unanimous support It Is time that to
taxpayers war given thai ewa, .
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