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WISDOM AM) MONEY.
ISDOM In a defense, and
money Is a defense, but the
excellency of knowledge Is
that wisdom gtvetb life to
:. them that hare It Ecclestantes t11,
, ; ,' A sermon en this text might take
; different directions and Inspire var
Ions comments; bnt It scarcely neoja
, a polemical casuist or a theologian
to sec these meanings In It, to-wlt:
that wisdom without money Is bet
ter than money without wisdom; and
that while money Is good, It needs
wisdom to use It properly. Money
alone may be of slight value; under
aome circumstances, as when one can
buy nothing with it, It Is of no value; 1
and under other circumstances, as
when It causes a person to drown or
freeze, or when he spends It to be
aot himself, It Is worse than of no
value. ; But wisdom Is a far more
precious thing. With It onNs not
only sure to get what money be may
really need, but "It gtveth life to
them that hare It" Here the theo
logians may diverge, as to the mean
lng of the word "life"; but without
' attempting to describe much less
to settle, any possible dispute, we
may assume the meaning to be that
. a person with wisdom will make the
most and best of life here, and will
go hence prepared, for any future ex
perlences that may await him. "Wla
dom" then. Is the principal word, to
define, remember and live up to or
strive after; it Is as far above money
as the mansion Is superior to a tool
used In. Its construction- ayei ' and
: l- In a far higher sense.; The reputedly
; . wisest inan. was ery rich, but he
did not advise people to get money,
but said: "Wisdom is the principal
thing; therefore get 'wisdom. . and
with all thy getting get understand
log." - Vv!
Money Is not to be despised; it is
- a necessity to be honestly and with
due moderation striven for, not for
Its own sake but for what it will
, procure; but the man who wears
C himself out striving for it, who seeks
, to obtain it wrongfully, who becomes
' despairing at the loss of it, who al
lows it to fill up the best of himself
' and the most of his life. Is not wise
" He has forgotten that "wisdom is
the principal thing' that "wisdom
, glveth life." But what Is wisdom?
..That deserves another sermon.
A WRONG THAT NEEDS A REM
EDY. AN OLD saying, that law stu
dents were taught to believe,
v r was that "there Is no wrong
without a legal remedy."
needed but a Httle Investigation on
the part of a student to perceive that
the saying, like many other popular
aphorisms, was untrue, and observa
tlon later ; In life taught him that
even if it could be regarded as stat
Lag a rule there were a multitude of
exceptions to It
Here Is the case of Harriman and
Oregon. Some $29,000,000 surplus
has been piled up by the O. R. & N,
Co., wholly an Oregon road, since
Harriman acquired it, and none of
JiVhas been invested for the benefit
of the people of Oregon who tolled
and strlved to make the business for
this road that slelded such profits.'
What became of the major part of
this money only Mr. Harriman and
his confidential employes know, and
' they won't tell. Perhaps they are
' tot legally obliged to tell. If they
were, not one of them could re
member anything about It. They
, would say so under oath. And for
such people the law against perjury
is a dead letter.
f. 1 We think any impartial person
would say that this diversion of bo
large a sum of money thus gained
In Oregon waa a wrong to the people
of this state Either rates should
have been reduced, or, better, the
. surplus, after a fair dividend to
' stockholders had been paid, should
have-leen used tq build more and
badly needed roads in Oregon. This
view, is all the'more Burely reason
: able because' beyond any doubt such
roads would have become almost at
once profitable. But nothing of this
kind was done.-f It was Mr. Harrl
man's road, f; He taxed the traffic al
It would bear,; bad the proceeds sent
to New York, and used them as he
pleased, ' entirely, regardless of the
interests of the people of, Oregon,
and in fact In some cases 'directly
and distinctly against their Inter
ests. and Is dolus: so yet. Here is a
.-reat wrong, for which, as yet, mere
Is no legal remedy. This very case
presents a problem worthy the pro
found consideration of statesmen.
legislators, Jurists and publicists.
Should there not be a, legal remedy
for such a great wrong Inflicted upon
hundreds of thousands of people!
Are the people of a great state to
remain thus helpless In the arbi
trary and despotic power of one
man?
It may be said that the country 1"
open for others to build roads, but
It Is not. for this man uses some of
tills money to thwart every attempt
tc do this. It may be said that the
people can build roads themselves,
but they cannot without radically
changing their state constitution and
entering upon a business entirely
foreign to its contemplated func
tions. So the great wrong goes on.
Three quarters of a million people
ore suffering It, are helpless under
the thumb of one man. Who will
devise the remedy? What shall it
be? .
EARTHQUAKES.
I
N THE divinity of natural laws.
established""- by the supreme
power that organised the uni
verse, we ' have been able to
leorn the routes of the myriad orbs,
rushing through its, Infinite spaces
and can at a moment of time de
clare the position of any of the
worlds. Yet how powerless we are
to control the smallest danger ele
ment In the conduct of what we
are pleased to call "our" world. The
cataclysms that have lately visited
the planet reduce man to the miser
able Insignificance of the little ant
traveling the pie crjist on which he
Is cast by his fate and nourishes his
life.
Nevertheless there Is hope that In
a future, not so very distant, man
will have learned to prepare vent
boles in the earth's crust that shall
release the striving gases and so;
save the catastrophe of an Impend
ing earthquake. Already we have
learned, by the seismograph, to tell
of an earthquake which we have not
felt and to measure its distance from
I he seat of observation. And now
the tele-seismograph of Rlvero gives
forewarning of a coming disturb
ance.
We are wont to boast of exemp
tion from earthquakes in this re
gion. Out look about -you and ob
serve that what you boast of as the
grand beauties in your geographical
position, the mountains and ridges
of the Cascade range," are the fruit
of the most fearful catastrophes the
earth has ever known; that these
beautiful snow peaks are bnt extinct
volcanoes whose choked flues may
seek free vent at any moment And
observing this, be duly modest in
your booming.
But the southern hemisphere has
suffered more In modern ages than
our favored quarter of the globe.
And so the Spanish language has
given names to the different classes
of earthquakes, which have been
adopted by other idioms. Thus we
have the temblor (trembling), the
terra-moto (earth movement) and
last, most terrible of all, the choque-
de-trepldaclon (the frightful shock)
Generally tne temblor is not a ca
tastrophe. If, however, a terra-moto
Is followed by a second movement It
Is prudent to seek safety from fall
ing walls, which are likely to result
It Id distinguished from the temblor
which is only a trembling, by a wave
of the earth's surface, which throws
elevated structures out of line. The
choque-de-trepldaclon is distin
guished bya blow apparently direct
ly under the earth; a tremendous
blow as If with an enormous hammer.
Then Assures In the surface are to
be expected and dreadful destruc
tlon, accompanied by explosions and
escaping gases; even the elevation
of vblcanoes.
While Humboldt rested in declar
ing the causes of these phenomena
to be lost In eternal obscurity
Young declared that mathematical
calculations could do much toward
clearing up their character. In the
middle of the last century Werte-
hein demonstrated that in all plastic
bodies submitted in any point to a
shock or any mechanical, molecular
modification whatever, there would
result waves of dilation and com
pression, Young, with his mathe
matical theories, demonstrated that
these waves were propagated at the
late of 4.6 miles per second. And
these estimates have been further
demonstrated by the recent obser
vations of the seismograph, of which
anjinterestlng example was given In
the earthquake of Valdivla, when
Abe seismograph in the observatory
at Lima, Peru, gave a duration of
5 minutes, or 300 seconds, which at
a rate of 4.6 miles per second
showed the correct distance from tne
observatory. Similar results have
been - obtained . by observatories in
Europe, North America and lo
Japan: Observations of the British
association have given valuable data
on which, rests a theory touching the
substance of the earth's interior
They have shown that vertical waves
of penetration have traversed the
diameter of the earth in SO minutes
between antipodal points; whence
the fact; Is drawn that the interior
of the earth is not an incandescent
mass, because for such transmission
Is required a mass possessing twice
the density and rlgtdlty of steel
Thus the seismograph has taken the
place In terrestrial analysis of the
spectrum In celestial examinations
THE NEW MOSES.
A'
ND WHAT Is to be the next
shift in this kaleidoscope of
public sentiment? At Boston,
not President Roosevelt, but
J. Plerpont Morgan, has been hailed
as the Moses who has delivered the
country from the perils of the panic.
At New York, an Important news
paper, after crowning Mr. Morgan
as the saviour of the country, calls
not upon the president, or congress,
or the courts, or all, but upon the
mighty banker as the one man tn
whom the power Is lodged, to de
liver this nation Into a land of
Canaan where there Is no piratical
finance, frenzied railroading or buc
caneering, bankers.
But It is Brooklyn that has taken
the persimmons. There, an orator
denounced President Roosevelt as
the maker of the panic, and as
cribed to Mr. Morgan and to John
D. Rockefeller unrestricted praise
for arresting It. The big audience
arose to Its feet, and applauded to
the echo, not Theodore Roosevelt,
but the premier of Standard Oil.
Yesterday Mr. Rockefeller seemed
to live mainly to be the object of
vituperation, but today, along with
the gallant Morgan, he threatens, if
the Brooklyn audience reflects the
true spirit of the future, to become
the born idol of a fickle and fan
tastic public. And If It shall all
come to pass, and if In bis popular
ity Mr. Rockefeller shall keep his
modest and affectionate eye out for
the main chance with the same
thrifty enterprise as in the days of
bis unpopularity, what will the har
vest be, and how futile will have
been the many speeches of our pres
ident? If, too, Mr. Morgan Is, as
stated, the real and only Moses who
can give the country surcease from
the vices of Wall street. If he is the
one and only man who can redeem
this land for Its people, to what
ends have the handiwork of Wash
ington and the other fathers come?
PROGRESS OP THE NEGRO.
P'
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT spoke
Friday, on the fortieth annf-
versary of the founding of How
ard university, in a congrata
latory, encouraging tone of the prog
ress and accomplishments, since
their liberation, of the American ne
groes. His remarhawlll doubtless
prompt a derisive response by Gov
ernor Vardaman, and will receive
scant approbation from a consider
able portion of the southern whites,
who are Inclined to magnify racial
distinctions, but his view of the ne
gro race In this country will be ap
proved by conservative and lmpar
tlal people generally.
When everything is .taken into
consideration, the progress of the ne
groes since their release from slav
ery has been not only air that could
have been expected, but has been
surprisingly rapid and satisfactory.
For remember their Beveral genera
tlons of slavery in this land, during
which, whatever their treatment
otherwise, they were denied all edu
cation, and kept in complete depend
ence and without personal respon
sibility. Remember, back of that,
the unnumbered centuries of semi-
savagery In their original country
Consider what an Inheritance all this
was to overcome, in order to become
responsible, orderly, even tolerable
citizens of one of the foremost civil
ized nations of the world. Admit
and understand, too, the racial dif
ference, that Negrophoblst Tillman
makes so much of; that they are,
not only through heredity but by
original creation. If you please, the
white men's mental Inferiors. Keep
all these heavy handicaps in mind,
and then ask if the behaviour and
achievements of the negroes during
the last 45 years have not been ou
the whole creditable and encourag
ing. Put the 'same number of the
Anglo-Saxon race Into the same cir
cumstances, place them 'under the
same conditions, except as to original
racial characteristics giVe them the
benefit and advantage of that and
we doubt whether in the same time
they would have done much better,
If as well. How many generations,
how many centuries, did it take to
make the Englishman or American
of today? .
And yet there are people who seem
to Imagine that the negro race -In
this country, mere chattels. like cat
tie, up lo 44 years ago, should be
model citizens In all respects. Lin
c61n aet them free, but what a plight
was theirs. The eduth, where nearly
all of them lived, waa In rulna. Their
old masters could not employ them
and pay them wages If they would
The north did not want them, nor
did most of them want to come north,
They had always been provided with
the necessaries of life, without care
or thought on their own part, and at
once were turne out, tn a desolated,
pauperized country, to take care of
themselves, as helpless in many cases
as so many children.
Yet a large proportion of them
have accumulated property. Many
have comfortable homes of their own
They have schools of all; grades, and
are gradually becoming' educated, no(
only In a literal but In an Industrial
sense. And while there Is a tend
ency among many of them toward
crime, and while a considerable pro
portion are lazy and "shiftless," they
as a whole, and considering their
antecedents, are well-behaved and
commendable people.
People they are, human beings, not
of the lower order of animals. Citi
zens they are, by law and by right
Americans they are, having no other
country but this. Here they must
remain, and have a right to remain,
and the duty, as it should be the
privilege, of the white race is to
help them to progress and prosper,
to become better educated In prac
tical, especially Industrial ways, to
make less of racial d'fferences and
more of the kinship of all human
kind.
THE MAN AXD THE JOB.
A
YOUNG man was picked up
wandering about the streets
late at night, with a bottle of
poison In his pocket, with
which he says he intended to kill
himself In two days If In that time
he did not find work, for which he
says he had been bunting in vain
for several days. This Is rather an
unusual story these days that of a
young man willing to work but who
cannot find a Job. It Is true that
ust now there Is a much larger
supply of lab'or than there has been
for two or three years past, but therj
Is doubtless enough work for all
who are willing to do good, honest
work:. Some men cannot find a Job
when others who are no better and
perhaps not as good workers can,
because they haven't the faculty for
finding work that the others have.
Their only recourse Is an , employ
ment agency, and It Is possible that
even a worthy young man has not
the necessary fee to be "put next" to
a Job. v
This' case, and doubtless many
others if they were made known.
show the need of a public employ
ment bureau, and It Is unfortunate
that circumstances hare prevented
the establishment of such an insti
tution before this. It Is especially
needed Just now, as winter Is coming
on and a good many men have been
thrown out of employment by the
railroads. Some employment agents
operate on the square, but others
do not, and It would be a benefit to
many Individuals, both people need
ing work done and those seeking
work, to have a public employment
office charging only such fees as
would make It self-sustaining, and
finding Jobs for such young men as
this whether he had the fee or not.
The affidavit filed by defendant
Caleb Powers, asserting that he did
not heretofore hare a fair trial, may
be legally "Immaterial and irrele
vant" in the present case, but that
It states the fact there Is no doubt
Three times the highest court In
Kentucky, having enough respect
for Itself to put partisanship aside,
has reversed the conviction of Pow
ers, on the ground that he did not
have a fair trial, and all impartial
outside observers know that he did
not, even if the appellate court had
not so held. He has been tried by
machine Democrats, and convicted
because be was an aspiring, influen
tial, resourceful, fighting Republi
can. That ne conspired to kill Goe-
bel has never been proved, and from
all the facts and circumstances at
tending that tragedy is very Improb
able. The disturbance in the financial
waters has enabled the big fish to
swallow a lot of little ones, so that
Standard Oil, the steel trust, and
other such concerns will be more
monopolies than ever.
Although more than two months
have elapsed since the publication of
The Journal's fifth anniversary edi
tion, the flood of commendatory
comments continues almost un
abated. These comments come from
all quarters and they afford most
gratifying evidence that Tbe Jour
nal's effort to advertise to the world
the wonderful resources nd oppor
tunities of. the Oregon country , has
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not been In vain. ..In this effort the
whole state should be Interested and
we therefore call the attention of all
our readers to the comments on the
anniversary edition', published else
where In this issue.
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THE NEW FOOTBALL RULES.
A
FLAYER of Rugtry football .as
exemplified In the Stanford-
California game, lies danger
ously Injured In a San Fran
cisco hospital He has two ribs
broken, his kidneys are badly In
jured, and he has other ailments.
The two big California universities
adopted the English game in the be
lief that It was more tree from
casualties. Meantime, with most of
the big games throughout the coun
try already reduced to history, the
total fatalities In the game for the!
season Is three against 20 odd last!
year, with 'the list of injuries enor
mously abbreviated. The fatalities
are as usual not among the expo
nents of college and university sfoot-
balL but In the untrained and high
school class. The more open play of I
the revised rules Is apparently mak
ing a record to go a long way to I
quiet the fears of those who see
danger in the game, and has at the
same time given more spectacular
movement! for the edification and
Interest of the spectator. Along
with this, the news from the Califor
nia gridiron, together with that from
England where an Insurance com
pany has been organized and Rugby
players are Insured at $5 per head
for the season, points the suggestion
that the football as young America
almost universally plays it, is after
all. the aame the public will flock
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to see, no matter wnai me price.
Let Confidence Return
From the Philadelphia Preaa.
Let oonfldence return I Nothing else
la needed to reatore ordinary normal
condltlona In the Jwln worlds of bual-
neaa 'and of banking. Stability and
aolvency have returned to both. Notb-
ng la left to remind anyone or the
financial convulsion In New T.rk but
the widespread lack of confidence which
haa apread over the land In widening
wavea from Ita financial center.
For any fear aa to the general sol
vency and aecurlty of banka and oredlt
there la 90 longer any baala whatever.
The banka are aecure. The clearing
houaes In each city are protecting all
of them alike. Every depositor In our
city banka practically haa every bank
behind every dollar of hie bank depoalt
The sudden failure of any bank haa
ceaaed to be possible. For the flrat
time In our htatory the email, laolated
rural banka are protected. They are
acting together. They ; are protecting
each other by common action. No dan
ger longer exists of that general col
lapse In banking which In 1173 and 1S9S
swept terror over the land.
Leave your money where It Is. It la
a&fe. Uae your check bpok. Let check
pay check In the payment of bills and
obligations. The clearing houaeea. by
their common and Joint action, have
made a check on one bank aa good as
on another, and placed all the banka
On a common basis of mutual aolvency.
Currency exlats for all the day'a needa
In exchange, In retail saleer'and In wages,
if a return of confidence permits Ita
free circulation and enda hoarding and
needleaa demahda for it Where checks
have been uaed in the paat it la a crime
now to ask currency.
Danger la over. The New Tork banka.
the financial center of the country,
have successfully atopped panic, pro
tected threatened points and stand ae
cure. Nowhere else in no other city
have the' banks felt any strain. Be
fore danger came they protected them
eelvea by the action of their clearing
houaes. Truat companies and ail other
like institutions enjoy
a common pro
tection, mere nave been no aavlna-a
bank runs. In this city mora la being PJ? .ffKyf'Lt: 3 Tnai
paid Into saving, bank, than 1. M9l" hS ISdSrS
taaen out.
The bank, are safe on one side. The
great maaaea are quiet on the other.
Business, men as a body need to show
the same oonfldence. It is time to
build up and not to tear down, to de
posit and not to withdraw, to ameli
orate existing condltlona and not to
make them worse, to improve credit
and gain credit by giving credit and
not to push at the coat of all credits
ror currency transactions.
The monetary atringency la avf and
gone.
,ni Th. rata for lOaTna w T w.;
in Philadelphia yesterday than In Lon-
.-t.THIo a-a.. ..." . "T"r
don. Headlong panic haa been checked.
Runs on banks and truat oompanlea
have ceaaed In New Tork. There have
been none elsewhere. The N"ew York truat
companies in difficulty have been sup
ported ana piacea on a aecure basis.
Nowhere elae were truat companies
even mreaienea.
Let confidence return. If business
men will give and show confidence all
will resume and business will be as
before this .hock. The country as a
whole can pick itseir up and go for
ward like a man after a bad fall, shak
en and somewhat adust but with noth
ing broken, sprained or strained and
all safe for an enlarging future and a
prosperous aavance.
This Date In History.
1568 Queen Mary, daughter of Henry I
VIII by Kathertne of Aragon, died.
1732 Oglethorpe sailed from England
to plant a colony In Georgia.
1794 John B. Montgomery, American
commander, who permanently estab
lished the United States, flag In Cali
fornia, born-in New Jersey. Died March
26, 1873.
1804--Lord Lake defeated the Mah
ratta chief Holkar at battle of Furrack-
abad.
1846 Rt Rev. Matthew Harklns, Ro
man Catholic bishop of Providence,
born.
1868 Robert Owen, founder of So
cialism, died.
1869 Suez canal opened.
1891 Alaska asked for a territorial
form or government. (
Herbert Knox Smith's Birthday.
Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner
of corporations, who submitted the re
port on the Standard Oil company to
President Roosevelt, was born at Ches
ter, Massachusetts, November 17, 1869.
He was educated at Tale, taking his
bachelor's .degree there, and he then
entered the Tale law school. After
graduating In law he entered upon the
practice of his profession at Hartford,
Connecticut shortly afterward becoming
active in politics. He bocame a mem
ber of the Hartford city council and of
the Connecticut legislature. Ha was
also prominent tn church work and tn
the work of the Hartford T. M. C. A,
Prior to succeeding Mr. Garfield aa com
missioner of corporations last year Mr.
Smith served for soma time as deputy
commissioner of the same department
' Hymns to Know,-
,,. I - . Forward, '. ,.;
, '. Br Henry Aiford.
- tTna Rsv. Inry Aiford, D. D, dn
or Canterbury cathMraL England UU0.
1171). wall known as an authority en
Nw Testament a reek, wrote this hymn
to be suns at a choir festival In the
last year of his life. .
Forward) be our watchword,
Blepe and voices Joined;'
Seek the thlncs liefora u, -
Not a look behind:
Burns the tlery pUlar
At our army's neud;
who shall dream of ahrlnklng.
By our Captain led?
Forward through the deaert,
Throuth the toll and flht;
Jordan flowa before' tie,
Zlon beame with light!
Forward, flock of Jeaus,
Salt of all the earth;
Till each yearnlnif pur none
Hpring to slorloua birth!
Sick, they auk for hnaltnir,
Fillnd. they grope for day;
Tour upon the nutlona
Wisdom's loving ray.
Forward, out of error,
I.rav behind the night;
Forward through the darkness
Forward Into Light!
Qlorles upon glorlea
Hath our God prepared,
By the aoula that love Mm
One day to be ehared:
Eye hath not beheld them.
Ear hath never heard; t
Nor of theae hath uttered
Thoucht or speech a word;
Forward, marching eastward
Where the heaven Is bright.
Till the veil be lifted. t
Till our faith be sight!
Far o'er yon horlaon
nie the city towera,
Where our God abldeth;
That fair home Is ours;
Flh the atreetn with Jarer,
Shine the ratea with gold;
Flowa the glaildenln river,
ffhddln leva untold;
Thither, onward thither,
In the UptrU'a might:
Pllrrtme to renr country.
Forward Into Ught!
Ambition
By I.andon Carter.
(Copyright. 1SOT. by W. R. Brant)
Ambition. If accompanied by Rood
I Judgment, la perhaps the moat valuable
Ih..m.n inh.Ht.nr hut ilka all nowera.
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proportionately dangerous. Am,bltlon
prompted by eourageoua and high moral
aspiration la a component part of ao
many thlnga that It may perhapa be
wlaer to particularise. For Inatance, no
man. If slothful, can be genuinely a
gentleman, for the fortune of good
birth, although great la equally a re
sponsibility. Human nature, at beat. Is
too frail and faulty not to need con
stant Improvement Breed may be
.tronfe, than pasture, and still without
proper nourmnraeni anu cuhhh
hothlne- can thrive. Bo also is It with
refinement .
a. a- . u,am .ma aaAill4 k enata -
Rial but for &mbltlon. th result of
whlrh rivftsi them a corrDonSln sphere
mental moraTy soCTy an pW
&$r
2S &r Amli fon emphaV the
oh tiiMTi'a itanti nr in arnooi ana aei e
cnnaren a aianaina in acnuui auu uo;r
nates for them
the moat suitable
ture vocations
mrovem
is
of Doraonal Importance. Aa greatly to
A a great l
be feared, however. Is too great a lack
vi " - -- " I
aoie tnai too greiti a ran.cigu.nw.oi
heroism which battles against the
'"1k7"s "k.;.' ".".T. Vi:
wpona-
Tuuth Is not In Itself particularly
hopeful. Childish griera seem more ee
"d "P.0.
overcome disappointments
to help and
encourage future struggles. bo by
nroDeriv encouraclng children's hopes
and auccessea one cultivates and stimu
lates ambitions for the future.
Ambition In one's daily duties is aa
needful aa worship; for Uod. alter hav
lng given ua great possibilities, helpa ua
with our minds, as well as with our
hearts and souls. Surely excellence
encourages one about life grene tally; It
shows the spiritual wealth or the world.
Ambition also creates great Pi
work, which la In Itself a higher form
of recompenae than material compensa
tion, for the man who merely draws
a aalary for rendering stipulated aerv
lce to his employer and then avoids and
ahlrks every other responsibility Is
hardly to be envied, for even the mill
whel will go on turning a bit after the
water Is cut orr.
The truly, honestly ambitious man
considers a problem from every possl-
ble standpoint, and knowledge thus ob
tained through careful anal ' and In
vestigation can be rendered valuable In
almoat every phase of life and la about
the only capital that can not be lost
That word ambition . Is frequently
abused by attributing to it merely sel
fish motives for personal prominence.
whereas to all broad-minded men, such
as the heroes of the past and present.
the welfare of their country and its
n.nnl a mnaf ftflv. h..n thAlr annnrlatlva
ambition, otherwise their , successes I
could not have been ao general. I
T ( m tm. that "nnthlna annnaala 11lra I
." r, -Twv I
"c5."' .? "AVi""u" Jiu.''.. ""Y
mOBI JUHH.It WIB11 ..u
praise. Had hia aspirations and ef-
forts beon of a less meritorious nature
he would have been proportionately cen-
eured. Like the dlamtond, true merit I
will shine, no matter how adversely
criticised.
It may nave oeen wise to cnarge
Cromwell to "fling away ambition," but
when aocentina this advice in a wnoie-1
sale manner to be applied to life gen-
erally one necessarily malms the great
eat motive power known to man.
Ambition, like all characteristics, may
become distorted: but when this 1. the
case it Is humanity and not ambition
that should be corrected.
Italian Protestants and Win. Marconi
T-.AM r iPaa At ftalta . V.w Vf
The Rev. Testa of ths Evangelical
miaainn rommunicatea tnai tne Italian
Evangellcan ministers or ureater new
York nave sent uie iuuuwuih icn-r 10
their confrere In the Evangelical faith,
William Marconi:
"Today, that all the civilised world Is
turned towards you with admiration and
profound gratitude, the Italian Minis
terial union of Greater New Tork, In
tha name of all the Evangelical Italians
of America, sen as you us nveiy con-
gra tula tlons for the extraordinary suo-
cess obtained by you. our countryman
and brother In the Evangelical faiths
of America, sends you Its lively con-
"REV. STEPHEN I. TESTA, '
"President" I
To which the private secretary of ths
great electrician replies as follows 1
"I am charged by Signer Marconi to
thank you sincerely for your gracious
letter, and he prays you to communl-1
cate io the Italian Ministerial union of
Greater New Tork his appreciation of i
your gratification on the occasion of
Opening ina tnnPAUHiuu mrw. Ui
the radio-telegraph."
Lazy Fisher.
From Punch. - '
A rustlo was sitting on the bank of aH
stream wnen tne parson s aaugnier
came that way. , . ...
"Welt miss. I be fair 'mased wr the
way o' that 'ere fisherman, that I be!"
said th. loafer. 7 . , ,
"Why is that rCarver?" asked the
young lady; "
"The cwd fool has been slttln there
fur ths last tlx hours and hasn't Caught
nothlnV - - , .'
v"How do you know thatr . ;'
T been avwatchin' e' he the whole
timer . . ' j ;
A varv doairable rorm ol Knowledge
la a Just appreciation of one'a abilities, wenwa' to 1
uui ui. 1. 1-"1"..A iSA of the fairest
IIIIUIUfCIIIQIIl III aj VMaaaa B I
A Sermon for Toclay , ;
Malting the Most of Ourselves.
By Henry F. Cope. ' ' ,' :
' "He that hath received two ftalenta
also sained other two."; Matt if.
. HERB Is something mlaatng la
1
iha am a ntuj4 I taw K a 4naa
not deslrt to make the most of
hlmeelf. It Is eaay to mistake
emptiness for meekneas and -to
iniauaa nm Dieasou naiua ui Humility oj
applying It to sloth and stupidity, When
a man Is sighing to be nothing His
prayer Is likely to be answered before
1 1. i ...-.
Life la Intrusted to us for Its enlarg
ing. Our bualnesa today la with the
life that mw la for this alone we are,
anawerable. At the end of the day the
Or eat Waaler will not ask for our views '
on the life thaf Is to be. but for
the fruits of the life we have had.
TK . . I 1 ,
perlty and progreas of bumanltjr de
pend oa the fidelity with which I, as an
Individual dlachargo this reapon- '
alblllty of making the moat of life.
JtOW ahall 1 male lh mnat nf trnv
..wV.r...wVV, a . . w v.wv-
II to 7 It la a aura sign of decay and
advancing decrepitude when one ceaaea
to aak that queatlon, when he no long- '
ft looka for poMRlbllltiee of larger liv
ing. , Measured bv thla fnanv wars hnrn
dta.1, for no vlalon of full Ufa seems
ever to have dawned on them.
juannooq grows aa money grows, by
Inveatlna It. bv nuttinv it tn
have become rich without aavlng, but
none ever bocame rich by aavlng alone. It
la not the life that la IllurHaiT nmtmnl.
l. coddled that developa moat aucceaa-
uuy, ii 1a tne lire that la well spent
that Is beat aaved.
Manr lIDMt rhinit.r a .ma In a
hotbed. They water It with tcara. they
Protect It from the rou eh worlri! tha
aaalduoualy gather and feed to It the
cnoloeat mental and aplrltual moraela;
they meaaure Ita irrowth ever dir
and record their observations In a,
diary, and they take particular pains
often to pull up the roota to aee that
It Is aJlve. . .
From euch a courae sf treatment the
strong life never cornea. On the con
trary, hablta Of introanaatlon. ahanrntlnn
In aelf-culture, produce only anaemic,
milk and water saints, flabby, uaeleaa,
neurmathenlc curaberera of the ground,
and breedera of weakneee and discour
agement. Habitual Introspection finds
notning worth Inspecting.
The right method of culture la -
ceedlngljr alihple uae to the full the
I life rou have and larger life comes of
?. muecle of the athlete cornea
not oy tne study or phyaioiogy but by
the uae of the musclea he has. Men
need not ao many aerroona on the aoul
aa more aervlce aet for them to do.
Cease to worry about roar crowth
and development, about whether you
have a large aeul or a little one. Take
the tape line off your aoul and off
four head. too. Oet out; get buay; do
he next good thing that needa to be
done. Keen vour mind anan fnr tha
larger thlnga that will come.
rind a taaK for tha beet that la In
you. Learn to do aome thlnga without
conaiaeration or ineir prom, without
thought of their utilitarian worth. En
large your life by taking other Uvea
KgltS mdlue; Uk. In "th.netd.1 and
orn 01 o.nera. un meaaure or a man
the circumference of the circle of
m
I
I or 10 Ulent man.
11 19 oettr to D tna one talent man
5 l,tehnt 1 ? f h1P.ve','dthtbf1'lh
i""-J3whii K5..trndgUwPha'?
J"" VJSl
1 .. -j. - ; . 7. "T. .1 .iT
r."i -v " . .nu ..v.u ...
1 i. ' 7 ,J ,,J I
be In kln1 they will be Been In the
your lire in the thlnga
earn the simple lesson
life thla world has ever
aeen, the life that found Ita undying
power and unfading glory by sincerely
following the good and the true, by
giving hlmeelf cway In deeds of kind-
rtvlnr hlmaalf atosi
,,,-, avmnathv
athy, in. helpfulness. Glv
l away la tha onnoalta
ln one a Ife away la the opposite
from throwing It away; Investing It Is
finding and Increasing It Using all
the powers In the best aervlce we can
finding and Increasing It Using all
the powers In the best aervlce we can
find to do l,s not wearing the life away
y of saving and In'-
Sentence Sermon
By Henry F. Cops.
Power Is tha gift of nain and diffi
culty.
V a
A holy tone does not make the hea.
enly tune.
Straining after annlausa la noor train.
lng for It
a a
Cowardice often walka under tha
name of conscience.
a .
A nation dies as soon aa it ceaaaa
to get new Ideals.
a a
There Is no. salvation ao long aa thara
1. self-satisfaction.
e e '
It', an empty life that thinks nnt. a
the full pay envelope.
a a
There never can be anv nnUv wfthnn
sympathy and charity.
a
It'. poof WSV to brtnr man tn haav-
en by shaking them over hell.
a
No man 1. ao great that he can af- '
ford to oppress even the least man,
e
fpk. k.H.. , -. .... ,
V1 peooms me
worBl wnon lnoy nu best,
, ,
0f adversities but in nti nf fhm "
. aav6r8lue" but In spite of them.
Y. . . . . " "
l . u1" " ever any one was
2 1? as not m0Bt anxious to
" .
. . " "
. " "?e""King or now mucn you
10.vt oa lr folks cannot stand to live
w,tn you-
,
No man-can escape the collection by
calculating how much the other man is
Putting In.
-4 , . . '
at vea,nQ uk'iq vii mi n, Diuuft Ul DlOUll
haFt from atarvationr" . ep l"
' a
Ha only Is
true libera who' Is
more anxious that others. should be free
man tnai ne
Duuum 00 wunout ro
straint.
Restoring Old Orchards.
From the Sclo News.
George T. Frost's orchard la one that
la tn nrftoaaa nt rAntnrattnn. 1 irAU .
Is a pioneer of 1862. His orchard was
pu out in
it product
grown In
He, like
put out In 1867. For a number of years
11 proaucea as lino irun as can ne
eitner uooa or Kogue river,
everyone; else, because of tti
lack of market for apples, allowed hla
orchard to deteriorate, so that whnt
few apples were grown were, fit only.
for hog feed. Three year, ago Mr,
Frost commenced putting his fruit trees
in condition. Now they are growing
rruit equal to tne Deat tnat we have
seen that came from Hood River. Hi.
Bellflowers - and Baldwin, are .Imply
frariDUb, v wv lU'uw ur ua atsni us a
sample. What he ha. accomplished
with his old orchard, can be acoom- .
pllshed with nearly all of our old
orchard..''"
r Getting His Rights.
' From the Washington Star. '
"Th. meanest man I ever knew," .aid
Mark Twain, "lived in Hannibal He
sold, his Bon-ln-law the half of a very
fine cow and then refused to share the
milk with the young fellow on the
ground that h. had sold htm the front
half. Tha -son-in-law was-- alao com
pelled to provide all the oows fodder
and to carry water to her twice a day.
Finally tha cow butted the old man
through a barbed wire ' fence and he
sued his .on-ln-law for ISO-damages.
I AMflitrltMattit exfl
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