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rlrtue. Sir Walter Scott.
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BOUT THE most Important
thing amau ran do, while vet
young or In his working prime,
li to get a home of his own.
This Is next in Importance to marry
. Ing a good woman, a real "help
meet." Having done this, his main
Object In life, if he has not already
secured a home of his own. Is to get
one, for himself and his family. In
deed, It Is better for a young man
to get the home first, at leaBt the
ground, and If he can build a house
on it before marriage, so much the
better. Out If this has not been
done the young couple should at
once plan to secure a lot or two or
a piece of ground In the country, the
site of a home. No matter if it takes
eight or ten years to pay for It;
make a start at the very first op
portunity, and resolre that whatever
else happens a home shall be ob
tained. We are speaking of course
of thev average young workingman,
who baa no capital except what he
can save from his earnings. And
high as living expenses are, every
young man, if single, can save some
thing every month to apply on a
home; and so can a young married
man, too, If he has the right kind
of a wife to help him.
Why pay rent all your lives, or
even for years, to other men? Why
not pay rent to yourself? With
what a man pays for rent he can
pay Installments on a home, and so
in a few years own It. And In the
meantime he Is constantly Improv
ing It during leisure hours, without
noticeable cost, and with much
pleasure, and so making It more val
. uable. And It naturally increases In
. value besides, so that by the time
he has It paid for it is worth per
haps twice what he has paid out for
It.
- Besides, all this time he has had
the satisfaction of living In his own
home, and that is worth a good deal.
He Is under his own rooftree, his
own "vine and fig tree." The rose
bushes and everything he has
planted and watered are his, and
hers, and the children's. He and
they can take a pride In all this, a
satisfaction in it, that no person can
possibly take in a rented place. In
' his veritably own home a man is
,, more Independent, he Is a more im
portant citizen, he feels more re
sponsibility, be is a happier and bet
ter man, and his wife and children
are happier and better, too.
On all sides of the central part of
Portland are lots to be bought at
reasonable prices and on reasonable
terms, so that any thrifty and deter
mined man, or even a resolute work
ing woman, can get one, if no more,
for a future home. In almost every
case these lots will increase in value;
one cannot lose even if he never
builds and lives on a lot purchased,
though that should be the object.
There Is a great variety of sites to
choose from, and prices to suit al
most any Income. Don't think that
because your income is small you
cannot get a lot or, farther out, an
acre or two. A little healthy econ
omy and self-denial will enable even
the man who earns but a small sal
ary to make the necessary payments.
A long spell of sickness might pre
vent, but you have to take some llt-
a dwelling place. He careful, of
course, to buy according to your
means, but don't be afraid of econ
omizing and even pinching a little
ir order to get a home. It will do
you good. A home of his own is the
second most Important thing In the!
average mans life. And we live
but once here, and only a little while
at that.
MAKE WAR OX WJTCEDS.
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VERY YEAR there is a great
loss in Oregon on account of
weeds. They decrease the
yield of grain and other valu
ble products by a considerable per
centage, and they are a nuisance
along public highways and city
streets. They are damaging, ugly
and a reproach. More, they are un-
awful. The law requires their de
struction. Yet the law Is not en
forced. It ought to be. There Is
need of officers of greater courage,
who will dare to incur the displeas-
re of land owners whose premises
urc overgrown with weeds. There
should be a crusade In all parts of
Oregon agalnBt the weed nuisance.
nnd If the owners of weedy prem
isps win not destroy them, men
should bo hired to do so and the
costs taxed ud aratnst the land.
This would be unpleasant and some
what expensive to many, but it Is
the only way to get rid of the weed
nuisance, and it would pay richly in
the long run.
As it is, what is everybody's busi
ness Is nobody's business, and each
land owner thinks, not without rea
son, that there Is no use In his de
stroying weeds unless all his neigh
bors do the same. Here is an op
portunity for local development
leagues and civic Improvement so
cieties to do some good work. Once
an earnest anti-weed crusade gets
fairly started, the Job will become
comparatively easy, and one com
munity will vie with another in the
good work of weed destruction.
In this connection, what may
prove to be a valuable dUcoverey Is
reported, one by which weeds can
be destroyed cheaply on a great
Rcale. A German announces that
weeds in growing grain may be de
stroyed by spraying with Iron sul
phate. In Wisconsin experiments
have been made most successfully,
following upon tkt experiments
which originated in Germany. The
Iron sulphate destroys wild mustard,
which alone does many millions of
damage annually; It destroys also
other weeds yellow dock, cockle
burr, smart weed, ragweed, etc., and
does so, he asserts, without destroy
ing or injuring the grain. Informa
tion concerning this alleged import
ant discovery can be obtained from
the agricultural department at
Washington, the agricultural depart
ment of the University of Wiscon
sin or Hearst's American Home
Magazine. No. 238 Williams street,
New York city.
It is estimated that throughout
the country weeds cut down the
grain crops by one fifth, and they
are a nuisance, an eyesore, and an
evil In other ways; hence there are
not many ways In which the pros
perity of the agricultural districts
can be advanced so much as by an
effective warfare on weeds. Possi
bly this reported discovery will help
much to win a victory over this en-
labor, the well could be dug without
money, and something to carry on
larger enterprises can also be done
In this way; but not much can be
accomplished unions peoplo with
money will spend it for new enter
prises and to better conditions. It
Is seldqm necessary to give anything
outright; worthy enterprises will be
paying ones; the money needed is an
Investment, and the returns, If not
Immediate, will be sure and suffi
cient. But for everybody with sur
plus capital to Bit back and wait for
men from the east to come and do
everything needed to be done will
make Oregon's growth nggravatlngly
slow In the future, as It has been In
the past.
Farms ought to be divided up and
homeseekers invited to buy them at
reasonable prices; good highways
ought to be built, and electric lines
also rrom every good sized town;
cities ought to pave their streets and
otherwise Improve themselves, In
P'plte of wealthy mossbarks; care)
should be taken that every orchard
Is clean and its fruit properly mar
keted, and dairy and other stock
should be constantly Improved; and
finally, instead of submitting indefi
nitely to the Harrlman tyranny, the
people of Oregon should resolutely
prepare to build one or more
strategic lines of railroad that would
at once and forever break down this
Intolerable monopoly.
Talk won't do these things any
more than it would dig the Rabblt
vllle well, but Just as the citizens of
that celebrated settlement can get a
well by quitting talk and going to
work, so can the people of Oregon
get all these needed things by the
same simple process, and thus they
can double the wealth, population
and products of this state within
five or six years.
fields should come In for a share of
misconduct Is only human nature
That the percentage should be un
happily largo is possible. The na
ture of the employment, In which
the usual social bars are let down,
naturally draws some undesirable
people to the fields. The environ
ments are such that restrictions are
not as feasible as in the home. It
is probably true that too much over
sight cannot be exercised by parents
whose children go to the yards. It
Is doubtless Important, by reason of
conditions, that the work begun by
the Christian associations In the
fields should be extended and con
tinued.
nut with all this admitted, a real
ly strong Indictment as to the vice
there Is not made ugalnsl the hop
yards, and It remains true that vast
numbers of excellent people go to
the fields; that they conduct them
selves properly; that they are as de-
rent and respectable as the best; that
the work Is honorable, nnd that they
derive health and good remuneration
from the employment.
ochre and Vermillion; she, too, Is
having a fair.
Glorious have been these October
days In this yellow, mellow season,
the season of gold. We pass, but
nature remains, ever beautiful and
refreshing In her succession of sea
sons; true and faithful to all, young
and old, rich and poor, eloquently if
silently admonishing all of the swift
passage of time and the brevity of
l!fe, deceiving none, Just to all, and
annually bringing round its season
of gold, that while it enriches also
preaches, In glowing or falling loaf
and in the death and decay of ephem
eral products, of mortality and Im
mortality; of life's ephemerallty and
of life to be renewed.
A REAL
REPl HMCAN
PAPER.
NEWS-
WILLAMETTE'S fiOOl) FORTI'NE.
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DETECTIVES WHO DO NOT DE
TECT.
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emy.
NO WELL AT RABBIT VILLE.
T
HILE THE assassins of Har
vey Brown make good their
escape, the professional de
tectives In the case dispute
over the fitness of each other to de
tect. There la a charge that the head
sleuth Is not anxious to secure the
assassins and that he is responsible
for the escape of Slmpklns In Idaho.
He rejoins that he Is all straight, and
that It was Governor Gooding's In
terference that permitted the escape
of Slmpklns. With this row on
among the assassin-takers, the vital
ly Interested and bitterly outraged
public Is left to chew the cud of uncertainty.
The clues were bo slight and thai
crime so Important at Baker that all
of the powers of the detective talent
were required for detecting, and it is
unfortunate that so much vital force
must be dissipated In promoting a
personal feud. At the moment when
the echoes of the exploding bomb
have not yet died away what Ore
gon hoped to hear was not the
growls and criminations of detec
tives, but their announcement that
tne assassins were In jail. The
state Is not accustomed to assassina
tions of this brand and had hoped
that the swift and summary ven
geance of the law would so unpopu
larlze as to end It here. It Is an
infamy that Oregon has not bred and
that Oregonians especially loathe,
which is a striking reason why the
Brown assassins should be captured
and be made to square their terri
ble account.
But while Rome burned Nero
fiddled, they say, and enough chin
RIENDS OF that historic Insti
tution will be much gratified by
nother stroke of good fortune
that has fallen to Willamette
university. The gift of $50,000 by
Mr. Eaton of Union, coming at the
moment when a larger endowment
is sought, will add vast Impetus to
the latter movement. A better
financial foundation has long been
overdue at old Willamette. The in
stitution has left her mark on the
life and destiny of Oregon. Few
states can boast of a political life
as pure or a citizenship with loftier
Ideals or better models. Few states
have exhibited equal intelligence In
framing a governmental , policy, and
cone is more free of graft and graft
ers. No state in the Union has man
ifested such confidence in the intelli
gence of its citizenship by giving to
the latter so free and powerful a
hand In modeling and molding public
affairs.
Behind all this there was a cause, I hypocrite and
and in that cause a large factor
must, have been the educative sys
tem of the commonwealth. Long
before other educational institutions
were organized, Willamette univer
sity was sending educated men and
women Into every part of the body
politic. Roses do not spring from
cactus, nor Ideas from stones, and
these early graduates of the old uni
versity must have left their Impress
deep and wide. The Influence so
exerted must have been a large fac
tor in the development of that eml
nently respectable citizenship, which,
if It has not been overprogresslve in
material things, has but few rivals
in the nobler conceptions of life.
Willamette university is a part of the
history of Oregon, and sound finan
cial stability should come to her 60
that her usefulness In citizen build
ing may be lengthened and widened.
HE LOS ANGELES Times makes
quite a logical criticism of the
Portland morning paper on ac
count of Its persistent incon
sistency in opposing except during
campaigns a protective tariff, which
It acknowledges or asserts la about
the "paramount issue" in national
politics, nd yet In posing as a Re
publican paper and In fact generally
supporting the Republican party.
The Los Angeles paper cannot see
why a really Republican paper
should not support the Dlngley tariff
law, which It argues Is a distinctly
Republican measure, while all op
position to It Is In fact if not con-
fessedly Democratic. The present
tariff law, says the Times, "Is the
very cornerstone of Republicanism.
When we feel compelled to attack
that law we will feel compelled also
to cease all pretension of being Re
publican at all. We might possibly
have the courage to be independent
to that degree IX convinced that our
party was radically wrong, but we
could not hope to display equal
adroitness with the Oregonlan and
to persuade the people that the
Times was still Republican."
That Is to say, the Times, what
ever faults It may have or whether
It Is mistaken or not, refuses to be
a false pretender.
and br example and precept mold
their children Into peaceful and well
balanced beings,, Is a pillar of ap
enduring republic. The children
from such a home are the future
steady citizens, the leaven of so
ciety, and the material for other
peaceful and elevating homes. A
home torn by strife sends out Into
the world children educated for
strife In coming homes, and units
for a questionable citizenship. The
subject is one of profound moment
because freighted with immonse
consoquences to the country and the
race. If men and women come to
know, as the Rock River conference
believes, that persons once divorced
should never marry again, perhaps
more prudence would be Invoked
before marriage and more pains be
taken to make the home happy after
it. In any event, what we know is
that marriage now is often half Jest,
and many a home so unsettled as to
be a travesty on the name.
A Sermon for Today
And now comes the revolutionary
suggestion that William C. Bristol
should be the next district attorney
for Multnomah county! Aside from
the fact that be Is an honest man
and a good citizen, Mr. Bristol's only
conspicuous qualifications for the
office are a thorough legal training,
a stubborn notion that it Is the duty
of a prosecuting attorney to enforce
the law and a gluttonous avidity for
hard work. Is there real danger
that John Manning may be succeeded
by such a man aa this? Perish the
thought!
Congress will hear loudly from
Oregon, and from the Pacific north
west, next winter. We want some
thing out here at the hands of con
gress, and "knowing that our de
mands are right and reasonable, we
are going to have them granted If
effort will accomplish It. It Is
quite time to open up the Oregon
rivers.
The Great Inspiration.
By Henry F. Cops.
"Leaving us an example that we
should follow his steps." I Peter, 11:21.
HRISTIANITY Is distinguished and
dominated by the ideal of the life
and character of Jesus of Naza
reth; It Is a philosophy and a sys
tem of Individual and social
ethics under the Inspiration of a flow
ing Ideal. No matter how greatly Its
people may differ on other points, all
are agreed In recognising In Jesus the
fairest of the sons of men.
There never u a time whan the
though of this life was more potent than
It Is today. Men think of him a a fellow
being, one who went about doing good,
who looked out on life with the windows
of his soul unsullied and who lived out
ever the holiest and highest that cam
to him.
The thought of such a one has become
so roal to men that they do not stop
to argue about his existence, as once
they did. If It was possible indlsput
ubly to disprove the historic Christ men
still would cherish, aa highly as ever,
the Ideal, ihe vision of such a life, and
In their hearts would knonr tint mrh
a picture could only have been born of
sm-h a person.
Tills KOOdlv. fflnrlmia man n.i lnnor
IS OtlO Who nOW vita (in Iha Ihr.ina In
heaven. Men are not nat-tlmlm-lv con
cerned as to whether he Is artistically
glorirtod and perpetuated by some di
vine decree. He has crowned himself
in the glorv of a nilTA nnrl hAn n on r
character; he has perpetuated himself
in numan loves and admiration.
Because he once showed himself aa
the friend of all, the pure, hlgh-souled
friend of the downtrodden and the out
cast, the strong. Invigorating friend of
the rich and successful, he today walks
by many a man as his unseen friend,
and In busy mart or office men feel the
presence of a heavenly guest.
Once men made that life the center of
dispute, they sought to prove his di
vinity by his unllkeness to ordinary hu
manity. But the facta defeated them.
This man Whom mn mn la. p..-.) t a In...
that they became willing to die for him
was in all respects a man. Ills life is
worth so much to us because he was
so much like us.
It has come as a new revelation to
the world that the lunrnmn rolldmn
THE SEASON OF GOLD.
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HE VERACIOUS and faithful
reporter of the news of Rnhhit.
vllle, as recorded weekly in Thej "8,C hHS Cme V(r H,e wlres fr"m
Dalles Optimist, furnished last j , ""er rw,-"ll- to indi
cate mat me naciiers are at It again.
May we not yet be driven to abolish
human sleuths and rely altogether on
the dogs which do not stop to quar
rel and have no more sense than to
catch a criminal when put early
enough on the trail.
week the following item:
"There is more talk about a town
well, but the trubble with us is that
talk wont dig a well. Care has been
known to kill a cat, so Mister Shalks
peer says in his book, btit we make
a announcement of grater import,
anu mat is mat taiK wont nig a
well. We know for we have talked
about digging a town well now for
more'n a year, but we aint got
through the sod yet."
This is really quite an Important
discovery, providing the citizens of
Rabbitville, realizing fully the ne
cessity of a well and that talk won't
VICE AM) THE HOPFIELDS.
w
tie chances, and even in that case j dig It, shall make a supreme effort,
you are no worse off than you would
have been if you had otherwise spent
i the amount of the installments paid.
' And don't refrain from making this
more because lots are much higher
than they were a few years ago. it
would bar been better to buy then,
for those who were here to buy, hut
exactly what has happened in the
past will happen during the years
to conge. Lots that you could have
bought awhile back for J200 are
.now worth 1500, and In a few years
they will bevworth 11,000 and so
all along the range of Values. Port-
land la going to be a big city, and
lot! rw going to keep right on go-
obtain picks and shovels, and actual
ly go to work and dig the needed
wen.
The Rabbitville case has a large
and wide application in Oregon;
there is too much talk in proportion
vu uie amount of action. Just as the
only way to get a well is to dig or
bore it, talk about it not oven lift
ing a single sod or stone, so the way
to get rid of weeds, to get better
highways, to get needed electric
lines, to improve conditions, locally
and generally throughout the state
is to change the talk of doing theee
things into action.
And in all these
matters It Is
Ing op. The sooner one-buy, thej money that must do the effective
ftfftftlJtt jK-Ul Ejery month 1 talking. Possibly If the people of
E ALL have individual opin
ions of Rev. Mr. Ferguson's
notions as to vice in the hop-
fields. The members of the
Young Women's Christian Associa
tion, who conducted association work
in the Krebs yards, have theirs, and
it is not in entire accord with Mr.
Ferguson's.
It is possible that the clergyman
looks at the subject with an over
exacting standard. What would
seem to be vice to him Is not cata
logued as vice by another. By that
token, statements that seem to him
to be true, appear to others as ex
aggerated and to still others as false.
Probably Rev. Mr. Ferguson
thinks there is more vice in the
hopflelds than is actually there. The
world is full of vice, and It would
be strange if some of it did not creep
into the hopflelds. Vice indeed in
vades every walk of lire, even the
church; while the pulpit itself has
not wholly escaped the shame.,of un
worthy occupants. That the hop-(
ACH SEASON Is the best, while
it lasts. Even winter has its
charms. In spring we are fain
to wish it were always spring.
Summer In Oregon is always too
brief a season of nature's dellght
somoness. Autumn is here, and how
is it possible for us to have consid
ered any other season its superior
or even equal is now a mystery. It
Is the season of the flood of gold.
The harvest has ended; Its rich re
wards are in hand, in pocket, in
bank; beginning to outflow in all
the channels of trade and commerce,
supporting and encouraging all
classes of people, making all the
wheels go round.
To be sure, harvest time In Ore
gon Is not contracted to a single
reason; the wool harvest, the fish
harvest, the livestock harvest and
the lumber harvest, come at other
seasons as well as this; yet this is
here, as elsewhere in these latitudes,
Especially the harvest season, the
harvesting of the yellow gold that
represents production, value, wealth,
prosperity, progress.
Oregon has, as usual, her share
this fall. She 'has many laree and
dependable mines in her farms, her
forests, her orchards, her varied and
inexhaustible natural resources.
Nature Is always harmonious. Her
very silences are full of harmony.
Her leaves announce the season of
;o!d, of ripeness, of fruitage, of
fruition, of reward for the toll of
holding Itself out to be a Republican
pnper and supporting Republican
candidates, and yet attacking at all
off-seasons the very "cornerstone of
Republicanism."
But when It comes to defending
the Dingley tariff the Times is amus
ing. It says: "Oregon, like Iowa,
is an agricultural state, and Port
land, like New York, is a great
emporium of export and import busi
ness. Communities of these types
are always Inclined to Calhounlsm
and BryanlBm" meaning freer
trade. "But the Portland
paper is loyal to Oregon and Port
land Interests rather than to its
party doctrines." Here is a plain.
astonishingly frank confession that
the Republican party doctrines, par
ticularly the high protective tariff,
are in fact In opposition to the in
terests of Oregon and Portland, as o
jowa ana jsew york tnat is, op
posed to both agricultural and com
mercial Interests; yet the high
tariff being the chief party doctrine
It must on that account be supported
and sustained by all papers pro
fesslng Republicanism.
But as If to supply a slight an
tldote to this confession that the Re
publican tariff 1b opposed to the
people's interests, the Times, we
cannot but believe In sarcasm, says
In conclusion that the tariff is not
a tax and that by It foreign manu
facturers are made to pay part of
the expenses of our government
We haven't seen these old sophistries
put In print before for years; even
the chief standpat politicians of the
country long ago abandoned them as
too ridiculous toifelude anybody; so
we suppose the Times was indulging
In a llttlo sardonic gloating over Its
"nerve" In standing up for the rob
ber tariff even though that tariff is a
swindler and an oppressor of the
people. Yet its main point seems to
be well taken; what right has a
newspaper to profess to be one
thing, while three quarters of the
time being the opposite?
More railroads and open rivers
are the keys that will open the
vast treasure bouse of Oregon, and
bring hundreds of thousands of peo
ple to help develop the state and
share In its limitless resources. The
people of Oregon must make and use
those keys or help very largely to
do so.
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.
A
FAIR OMEN of the hour Is the
agitation with reference to di
vorce and marriage. The
Rock River conference of the
Methodist church is about to deter
mine that its clergy shall not per
form the marriage ceremony for di
vorced persons. The hope is to
spring and summer. No need now mae marriage vows more binding,
for the warmth of spring or theland tha home stronger and safer.
Hymns to Know
The Heavenly Love.
By William Cowper.
William Cowper (1731-1800), th
English poet, often waa subject to
periods of deep melancholy from which
he came to write such words of faith
and confidence as these. The scripture
allusion Is to the question asked o
Peter toward the end of the Gospel of
John. The hymn was written In 1768.
Hark, my soul. It Is the Lord:
lis thy Savior, hear his word:
Jesus speaks, and speaks to thee:
"Say, poor sinner, lovest thou me?
"I delivered thee, when bound.
And, when wounded, healed thy wound
Sought thee wandering, set thee right,
Turned thy darkness Into light.
"Can a woman's tender oare
Cease toward the child she barat
Yes, she may forgetful be,
Yet will I remember thee.
"Mine Is an unchanging love.
Higher than the heights above,
Deeper than the qpth beneath
Free and faithful, strong as death.
"Thou shalt see my glory soon.
When the work of grace is done:
Partner of my throne shalt be:
Say, poor sinner, lovest thou me?'
Lord. It Is my chief complaint.
That my love la weak and faint;
Yet I love thee, and adore;
O for grace to love thee more.
Sentence Sermons
By Henry F. Cope.
No life Is fruitful without frost.
is born of sym-
All helpful service
pa thy.
Folks who expect failure seldom are
disappointed.
Patience with lesser lives Is born of
the larger life.
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Talking about the road to heaven Is
not the same as walking in It.
You are free from any divinity so
ong as you desire any numanlty.
It's hard to stay blue when you are
brightening the lot or another.
Many think they repent the sowing
when they only rear tne reaping.
soul of the ages should be so tenderly,
naturally human. We cry "Father."'
with a new sense of relationship and
fellowship when we sea the 1iwn nf
the father In the face of such a son.
We are coming to believe that just
what the great friend of mankind was
no is the great father of us all to ua all;
that Just as the Bon of the most high
moved among men seeking to help,
cheering, comforting, loving, so Is the
eternal spirit moving in our world, go
ing about doing good.
Once every efTort of the theologian
was bent to setting this majestic figure
apart from mankind, to secure him
sovereignty over us by separation from
ub. How different Is that from the sim
ple pictures drawn of him, from the nat
uralness of his life, from the love which
he had for homes and human fr1ti.l-
uhlps, from the life which earned the
Illuminating rebuke of being called a
friend of sinners.
It Is a good thing for us all often tn
remember that there has been such a
life: that one born In Dovert nrt un
known, far removed from omtara nf
culture and wealth, living the hard life
of a peasant, knowing all our tempta
tions and weaknesses, yet should open
i"" m luny ana completely to spir
itual Influences as to become to all the
ages the greatest of all spiritual lead
ers What one has done another may do.
What ha pas been we may be. He hud
no advantage over us; we know no dis
advantage against which he did not have
to strive. The divine heights have been
scaled by human feet; his footprints
beckon us on.
It was Just such a life aa wa all have
to live, not separated from men, not
that of the monk or cloistered philoso
pher, but Just r-at of the plnln man
among his friends and hts toll. The
lowliest places give opportunity for the
expression of the highest graces and fr
the development of the most glorious
traits of character. Let but a man live
wholly for the right, be wholly true to
th best, seek to be friend to his Ood and
his brother, and he shall know the power
of the life from above.
This Date In History.
1719 Port Royal taken by Nicholson.
and thereafter called Annapolis by the
victors.
1744 Mollle Pitoher, heroine of the
battle of Monmouth, born.
1775 United States navy originated
by an act of congress providing for the
construction of two cruisers.
1784 Ferdinand VII, king of Spain.
born.
1 R 1 2 Sir Isaac Brock, who captured
Detroit In the war of 1812, killed at
the battle of Queenstown. Canada. Born
October , 1769.
1815 Murat. king of Naelea. oon-
demned by court-martial and shot In a
hall of the castle at Pizza
1846 Admiral Charles H. Stockton.
United States navy. born.
1X61 ttlr w. cubltt. inventor of tie
treadmill, died.
1863 Battle of Wyattea, Mississippi.
1 890 Boers invaded Natal and fine
Colony.
There's a lot of difference between
saving money and hoping to be saved
by it.
heat of summer. The air cools as
this part of the earth's surface
turns away from the sun; the day
light period decreases; signs of a
period of comparative rest. Great
rewards has faithful mother earth
bestowed upon diligent and intelli
gent toilers; she has outpoured "to
them a literal harvest of gold; and
so in token of her time of ease ,she
Another plan by other people is to
have trial marriages, concerning
which May Irwin, the actress, re
marks it to be her observation that
marriages are already nothing more
than trial affairs.
It is a good omen that there is
widespread agitation for safer, surer
marriage. The home is the foundation
of society, and the sanctity, society's
sheds her leaves and burnishes her safety. A home where a mother
bushes In scarlet and crimson and and father dwell together in unity
You never will have the privilege of
sympathy without the, price of suffer
ing.
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The lives of some of its friends hurt
religion more than the logic of Its foes.
Perfection is a good deal more than
the power of picking faults In other
people.
You may know by Its warmth and
cheer whether a man's light comes
from heaven.
Some people never display their re
tiring dispositions except In the face of
an enemy.
Lots of men can outline a brilliant
national policy who make a failure of
ordinary parentage.
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If you go to the church for the sake
or your coat you are likely to leave
your heart at home.
No wonder the hypocrite deceives
himself when he Is foolinh enough to
think he Is deceiving the Almighty.
It Is a good deal easier to say "broth
er" in a smooth way than to spend
time smoothing your brother's way.
Folks who are seesawlnar hetwn
right and wrong alwavs think thnt
Providence gives them a good many ups
and downs In life. i
Sir Hugh Montagu Allan's Birthday.
Sir Hugh Montague Allan, head of
the Allan Steamship company, was
born In Montreal, October 18, i860. He
Is the second son of the late Sir Ruth
Ilan of Kavenscrag, Montreal. Ia
1 893 he married a daughter of the late
ttector Mackenzie or Montreal. His
education was obtained at Bishop's
College school, Quebec, and In Paris.
Sir Montague Is a prominent clubman,
being a member of some of the leading
clubs in Montreal, Iondon and New
York Thfl ttAnmRhln HnA nf whlnk v. -
Is the head is a distinctly Canadian In-'
stitutton ana or sucn proportions and
progressiveness that, almost every resi
dent of the Domlnldn takes a personal
pride In the big transatlantic liners
that comprise the fleet.
Those Dalle fair managers oouldn't
have ordered finer weather.
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Side People."
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Checking Accounts
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