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IV
It la a melancholy fact that
nations looking back hare
usually to confess that their
wars have been blunders,,
which means they hart been
crimes. A. Carnegie. - - ,
" VJaajaaBaJ
CHANGES IX THE CHARTER.
T'
IHH PROPOSED amendments to
the charter, which seem to be
most essential and changes In
the methods of strost Improve
ments, so that entire diBtr lets can
be Improved under one contract. In
crease In the salary of the city, en
glneer and a provision go that con
tractors can be ' assured ' of, their
money,; are: up for consideration.
Every one of these propose 1 changes
have been before the people la the
last three years, and they were all
, opposed.; by the great Iconoclast of
Oregon ; Journalism, that ,now again
appears to be In an eruptive state
concerning them. '
In 1905 an amendment was sub
mitted providing for a penalty for
non-payment of assessments . for
street work. I It received 4,061 af
firmative votes and 4,970 negative
Totea. , : Probably, now that the
property owner Is learning . that he
Is paying In Increased cost for his
' street ir Improvements to benefit
those who don't want to pay at all,
the popular vote may be different.
At the election In 1907 an amend
ment was adopted providing for Im
provements ! by" districts by ma
jority of 2,250. ' . : V'' ' . ' ":' i
Why Is It not put in effect? "r
At the same election the amend
ment,. Increasing the salary of the
city engineer, was loot by 2,166
,votes..r'i:K:.iM2u,:ib;:N':''''v:i;V ' vV'."-v
Suggestions are also made as to
the difficulty In the way of obtain
lng Interest on city funds. In con
section with this subject ft must be
remembered that safety of the prin
cipal, not facility to loan " It, Is
requisite, and In 1905 the people by
a vote of nearly two to one so de
clared.' . ..,.
. All of this is not to say that these
amendments and changes In the
charter are not needed, but that
some may be In effect now, and any
changes suggested should be care
fully considered before submission
to the people and taxpayers of Port
land. .; ".vr ;;;
In any event, every barrier in the
way of better conditions, every ob
struction in .the pathway of , prog
ress and every obstacle to making
Portland a better city to live In
should be swept away, and every
cltlsen that has the best Interests
of the city at heart should Join en
thustlcally in the movement. There
should not be a "deadhead" la the
enterprise to be found In the city.
pet cent whether the re5!dlnjr of
ficers are elected by united Repub
licans as against. Damocrats, or by
a combination : of Republicans and
Domocrats as agai ost other Repub
licans. uney ao care that capable,
Fauare, straight men be chosen for
president and speaker, for these of
ficers ' can much , Influence , leeisla-
tlon; but the partisan feature of the
business Is of no concern except to
a few politicians and crumb-pickers.
The people, In r fact, are becoming
pretty urea of members of the leg
islature neglecting their business to
play peanut politics.
AN $8,000,000,000 CROP COUNTRY
JTO PXACB FOR PARTY POLITICS
THERE IS Just one reason, or
rather one small excuse, for a
partisan organization of the
, two houses, or of either house
of the legislature next winter. That
Is that each house has in Its hands,
and generally acting through such
an organization, the disposal of a
number $ legislative positions for
chief clerks, reading clerks, eer
geants at arms, etc., and, less di
rectly, a lot of committee clerkships.
The Republicans being in the ma
jority unless all Statement No. 1
men have been effectually read out
of the party by the Oregonlan and
Pendleton Tribune these pi urns
should properly or according to custom-go
to Republicans, to hench
men, supporters and adherents of the
Republican members. On this ac
count it may be argued with srreat
force end with vehement xeal that it
they still consider themselves Re
publicans the Statement No. 1 mem
bers of that 'party should not, must
not, and If they, have any "fealty"
left In the iwula of them will not, so
conspire and combine with the 14
wicked and unpatriotic Democrats as
to give any of these places to Dem
ocrats. v - "V'.e--.'i ' iV:-
This la tie only reason worth con
sidering In support of a strict party
alignment r. on organization. Aside
from this the legislature has prop
erly nothing . whatever to do ' With
partisan politics. The selection by
the legislature of a United States
senator, . having been j practically
taken from that body, its duty being
only to carry out the instruction of
the people, there Is nothing else of
a partisan character with which it
should concern Itself. In no meas
ure that the' people are Interested
and on which they . want f : action
should partisan politics enter at all.
The people want their choice elected
fat senator, and beyond that not one
ia' a thousand of them cares a cop-
f OVERNMENT CROP estimators
I feel assured of another large
VI crop the ninth In succession
: The chief sUtistlcIan of theJ
agricultural V department estimates
the value of this year's crop at a
rouna , 18.000,000.000. This, fig
ures the New York World, "would
pay the net Interest-bearing national
debt nine times over. Or it would
pay the net national debt and leave
enough to buy at par the etock of all
the railroads in the country. It
would nearly pay off the entire
bonded debt of every American rail
road. At assessed valuations it
would buy every acre of land in
New York city and replace every
building in It, with a little remnant
over equaling the combined assessed
valuations of Chicago, New Orleans,
St. Louis, Portland and San Francisco."
Panic makers will have a hard
time in making hard times last very
long in a country that produces an
elght-billlon-dollar crop every year
and this, we suppose, does not In
clude dressed meats, poultry prod
ucts and maiy other things more or
less depending on the soil, and of
course has no reference to manu
factures.
Corn will as usual be the king of
crops, but fortunately most of the
estimated crop of 2,700,000,000
bushels Is fed up near home. It;
would take to move it, says the
World arithmetician, "2,520,000 80
ton cars, 640,000 more freight cars
than there are In the country of
every sort The freight cars of all
the world would not carry our wheat
and corn. If there were . cars
enough and If the wheat and corn
were loaded Into S 0-ton cars, 40 to
a train, and trains were run at two
mile Intervals at a speed including
Btops of SO miles an hour night and
day. It would take nearly six months
for the procession to pass a review
ing stand. A bin built the size of a
city block, 600 by 200 feet, would
need to bo more than six miles high
to hold, this wheat and corn alone."
V Such comparisons may help a lit
tle to five one an Idea of the im
mensity of the volume of these crops.
Behold what the Republican party
hath wroughtl
business Interests. He is a banker
himself. That he will be especially
acceptable to the big railroads is In
ferred from the fact that he opposed
with . unusual energy for . him " the
Panama canal. He Is a resident of
Utica, N. Y.. and though It may be
true that "no pent-up Utica oan
contract his powers," It Is doubtful
It he ever saw anything In his mlnd'i
eye west of the Allegany mountains
that he considered of importance ex
cept Indians.
If voters were influenced to any
appreciable extent by the vice-presi
dential nomination, (hat of Sherman
would lose many votes for the ticket
In the west that would have been
won for It by the nomination of
Dolllver, or Long of Kansas, or Shel
don of Nebraska; but it Is rarely the
case that a voter considers the vice
president in voting. If there are to
be doubtful states if Bryan is to
have any chance the battle ground
will be the middle west, from Ohio
to Wisconsin Inclusive. In that ter
ritory any one of the men named or
any good western man and cam
paigner, could have helped the
ticket, while Sherman, If not weak
ening It directly, cannot strengthen
it In that region.
THE QUESTION OF GOOD ROADS
0
CAN YOU SWIM?
r
HE SEASON approaches when a
good many people are drowned
through carelessness or reck
lessness. Occasionally a good
swimmer is seized . with a cramp
which he had no good reason to ap
prehend, or one meets with an ac
cident that removes the fatality from
the "carelessness" category, but as
rule deaths from this cause are
avoidable by the exercise of Just an
ordinary amount of prudence and
common sense.
It is probably useless to enlarge
upon tnis tact; persons wno are
born to be drowned through their
own foolhardlness will do whatever
is necessary to meet that fate in
spite of all the newspapers can say;
but possibly a few words in advo
cacy of a universal knowledge of the
art of swimming might be heeded
by some, hence this brief article.
A considerable portlo of the ac
cidental drownings reported are
due to Inability on the part of the
victims to swim. Every year we
read of many drownings of this
kind. Both children and adults
who cannot swim go out on deep Wa
ter, and if thrown Into it are likely
to drown, when if able to swim they
might easily have saved themselves.
And frequently, too, they drag down
to death swimmers who try to -save
them. -, '
The moral of these facts should
need no elaboration or emphasis;
every boy and girl should learn to
swim. , Swimming "comes by na
ture" to some, or at least is learned
very easily; for others It is more
difficult; but for the latter as well
as the former this should be one of
the essentials of a practical educa
tion. Inability to swim has cost
many a precious life.,
the nominee,' for1 vice-presi.
dent.
YMES S. SHERMAN, Republican
I candidate for vice-president, is
not a widely known man. He
y 4 'has been In congress a good
while, where he has never made any
special mark, his most conspicuous
service being ' as chairman of the
house committee .'on Indian affairs,
and he largely- controls legislation
relating to the Indians. . Whether
he ever saw one" Is not known, 1 He
is supposed to be of . the machine
politician type, : a - standpatter; for
whatever the leaders decide on, and
a mild opponent of ; any. change In
anything, since he is doing very well
as things are. ? Being from i New
York he gives a sort of sentimental
balance to the ticket, Ohio absurdly
claiming to be "out west" nis nom
ination will offend npne of the large
NE DECLARATION that found
Its way into the Chicago plat
form is encouraging. It says.
"We recognize the social and
economical advantage of good coun
try roads, maintained more ami
more' largely at public expense, les
and less at the expense of the abut
ting owners." Unfortunately It
makes no suggestion that at least a
portion of the funds of the general
government now spent with prodigal
hand on armaments shall be ex
pended for the betterment of the
"country roadB." Yet the declara
tion, "We recognize the social and
economical value of good country
reads," is of value. It will proba
bly be echoed from the Denver con
vention, perhaps with a pledge of
federal aid. The outcome ml;?ht be
the Inauguration by all the states of
a policy of road building in keeping
with an enlightened age. It is es
timated that Oregon loses a million
dollars a "year because its "country
roads" are not better. The average
road is perhaps as good as In the
average state, but the profit would
be in having it a great deal better.
The effective policy .is that which
yields effective results, and a cost of
25 cents per ton a mile for trans
porting products to market, when it
should be but 10 cents, la an inef
fective method. Portions of Ore
gon have been Inhabited long enough
and time and money enough have
been spent on them to have made
excellent highways In many commit
nitles. Failure to understand what
the loss is in dragging loads over
imperfect roads has caused the sub
ject to be neglected. If all these
years "we had recognized the social
and economical advantage of good
country roads" most of our 'high
ways would long ago have become
turnpikes.
If our farmers, our business men
and even our laborers could sud
denly become convinced of what this
social and economical advantage"
would be to each, highways would
Instantly become a burning issue in
the state, with all arrayed on the
same Bide of the question. No ef
fort could be applied that would
tend more to make the state both a
place of delight and profit. We are
throwing aside the long-horned cow,
the long-legged steer and the razor
backed hog, and In this process of
intelligent evolution the road of pio
neer days should give place to a
modernized highway. We need bet
ter roads and we should provide
ourselves with them.
dairy products, more millions for
packing-house , products ' and . still
more millions for eastern manufac
tures. Only! a i state of ' extraordi
nary wealth and resources could en
dure this drain. These are spend
thrift methods, and if they are not
abandoned we shall have to pay a I
hard penalty. The world is taking
THE BELATED BREWERS
From th Philadelphia North American.
"Th "declaration of principle" of the
United State Brewer' aaeoclatlon la
convention at Mllwaukle is an admirably
drawn document, v-.1; c
the cream of our. mineral wealth, "lmDrovement in the drinkin, habit, of
our forest resources and the' fertility I the people." "extermination ox dlsor-
of our matchless soil. . We are In I deriy drinking- places, "passage and en.
an era of rlotoui waste of our mar-1 forcement of laws for keeping- the tref
velous natural resources' r iiT1
state, too, la sending away millions Uom ir.?"" . X,3S0, 2E
annually for products that It ought I Dm.V?a orewera: ... t
to raise at home.. Of dairy . and plication 751 ai6in. beyond thT require-
mnt nrfi,4nrra nnnltr mnA trn at I tnentS Of th market Involve rrmtA ax.
least, this state should produce' all bTMionSl Sfth?
it consumes ana nave a surplus for U1? irr . j aioon ln rewaent
export. Oregon will never use "her iireV by themidwu l neither orof in
own wings" sufficiently until she or,?r ',s th atponim cre-
does this. In these ways the out- loea than the ealea in such saloons
flow of Oregon money that never C0SAd..ma.k aoo-" , . .
. . . . Theaa are words of aenalble buslneas
comes back can be gradually de- and good citizenship, a word, they
creased, and millions now annually above critiolem. Unfortunately, we
. , . . .... , . have had some recent examplee of the
sent away can be utilized ,in the de- difference between wordiS deed,
velopment of our resources and the h wortf . m those
t...nii- whlc.h North American . baa been
building up of Oregon Industries.
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING.
For by me thy days shall be multi
plied, and the years of thy life shall be
increased Prov. lx:ll., ,
Deakina- to the llauor Intereat for
many a day. Long before the granting
of the lateet batch of lioenaea that waa
our warninar to 'the brawara inl thnlr
allies ln this elty. It waa th strong-eat
argument mad by th people who re-
monatrated. ,
But there wa no thought of any such
AS
crmon for Today
"Bleased
"declaration of principles" her when
eourta controlled br politician granted
llceaaea In dlatrlota where the people did
not want them, not becauae of any ne
oeaalty or demand, but at th dictates
of politlclana. v
Nor have w heard of any lack of
brewery backing for the ealoona foisted
upon rasiaentai - neighoorhooda ana
thrust under the eavee of achools ami
churches depreciating property - and
forcing families to sell their homes and
move alaewher for their ' - children's
aak. , .,..,-. - ,. 'V
Excellent In all - reaneeta. an far aa
mere words go, la the proclamation of I In a bad one,
in orawera. xiaa aucn
Habit and Life.
By Henrv F. Cone.
19
1
w
S th man that wollrv am
"f . ""ei or me ungodly, nor atand
ux in in way of einnera, nor elttet
ja oe seat or tn acornful." Paalm.
B SPEND a good deal of tima
denouncing bad ? babltav and
warning; the . youth1, against
them while aomebow, we have
rT lort eight of ' th fact that
there Is Juat'as much halo In a a-nnd
habit a there Is hindrance and harm
in . a bad On. T-Tnhlta K. .mi..
he brewers. Had such a platform been 1 1,,. aa tr,,i rL i .
out forth and honeatlv adhered to be-l' " . uiera xo oe
fore the abuses and Crimea of brewery-1 enemies. ...
backed saloon men had piled ao high I - There ara tWa ).. ... v.i.i....iI-
that finally they toppled over Upon welkin..-. ,h .h" , ,1 "7 u J
heads of thoe really reaponalble. the I vl5,ou why ghould ther not ba thoae
preaeni r naiionat proteat . againai me I w uiuaiiy virtuous T It 1 as
trafflo would not have come Into bein. I easy to learn to do rtrht mA v .
Lrfnr ago, when the North American I fh. ,. , . . " "
w that the Dlaln orovlslona of the I w 01n right becom second na-
statut were beina- perverted and ' the I ture as it Is to learn to do t
a COlirta. 1 ta liiBt- v... . .. . . .
w openly urged the brewers to make 1 icatti, -W vXJirJFM71
a-
a declaration 5t thla kind nd,,for their upright aaTwtffi of
own Interest, to see that their nduot with a ainnih 3 r 'aa,t or weJklns:
taJHd with euoh a pledge.- , , I Onea .r. '
Wa called uoon decent Iaw-abldina. n .t..n V,T.rj," "7
self-respecting "brewer dlatlllera. deaT: ti waj bornTa tb.i woriSTK0:
era and aaloonkeeDera to oleanae their 2,wa.J.0.nlJ? ihi?w.d with, a bant
. n . -. . . .... - i w .iial ui., niaan lira mfl th.
u-aae. we argea mem, lor uair own I wrrl tandlnv Ufa ... . Ivr " "T
aakas. to make oontributlona to the Iaw rf. 'm.n?Juf?aJ.1y were. abnormal. ,
.. i- - i I iubi uiventea tnat - dontHna
W-neTair.n orivinTout Sfi&W- J"!ttS&Z
the aoeakeaaiea. . the dlvea and ail the
lew-breakinc llauor-aelilna- dena - of
Vice. -. -
Now they sneak fairly. But thev
speak too late. They -have sinned away
their day of grace. Their repentance
cornea aiier in eiocjc.naa struck: is.
"M
year only 42,000 arrived and T5,000
departed. In May" 1907. we gained
165,000; In May, 1908, we lost SS
000. Since last October, when the
THE MONEY DRAIN FROM OREGON.
i:
T IS not only Oregon, but all
other states, ln a greater or less
degree, that are being drained
4yl the eastern life insurance
companies. According to a state
ment made V before .the "150,000
club of Spokane recently,, the peo
ple of Washington are annually
sending away flO, 000000 for Insur
ance, more than S10 for every person
in the state, or two fifths of the
value of Its great wheat' crop last
year' v " ' :rr' ? , .
. rno people or. Aiaoama, estimates
the Birmingham Age-Herald, Bent
out last year a like amount for in
surance, . 110,000,000," and received
in paid losses and matured policies
$3,781,496. a premlumvi to.?; Wall
street of over $6,000,000 in one year.
In other of the southern and west
ern states the record is much the
same. But, the Age-Herald -says,
the homo life insurance 'companies
are gaining ground. There is no
better way to keep southern savings
at home than by promoting in every
possible , way the business of . the
home companies. . The scandals of
three years ago in the big New York
companies boosted the home com
panies, and the hope ' is that they
will be honestly, and Intelligently
managed until theyare able to serve
the entire south, This consummation
would cut off one ; great drain of
southern money." ' : . 4
This applies to Oregon, and to all
states remote from New York. Why
not stop this drain of money to that
city? In this connection, though
there Is really.no direct relation be
tween the two cases, the : 8pokane
Spokesman-Review deprecates the
tact that "on top of that we are
sending away addltldbal millions for
K" IS Wisdom. The con
texts tell ln part what wis
dom is. "The fear of the
Lord is the beginning of nanie began. . EES. 000 an-na tinva
wisdom." Meaning, let us say. the left this country and 198,000 have
icar 10 ao violence to .conscience, arrived, a net Arraa of thla Vln1
Wisdom says: "Counsel is mine; I of population of 857,000. This
am understanding; I have strength." should help the labor market a good
viuu is bo vmjr u; mo possession ot I deal.
mrinite wisdom. The more wisdom
not gnowieage a person gains, This time It was up In Benton
tne more mi it appear that he is county; two little boys, sons of
created in toe image or uoa"; the widow, and a a-un with which thv
higher Is the degree of or quality of were shooting at birds; one boy very
life he will enjoy. Dadly wounded. . Being sorry for
uesiaes, witn wiBdom one can live the widow. The Journal will not be
not only better, but longer. Indeed, harsh, but Dont let . boys have
ne win nve longer because he lives guns.
Detter. The exercise of wisdom mul
tlplles days, increases years. We Poetic license Is nothing to that
do not only have the statement of of a convention orator making
the poetic wise man of his -time, but I nomination speech. For Instance,
it accords with our own reason and I Representative Boutell said Cannon
experience. And since life Is deemed had been "Roosevelt's strongest and
by most people so desirable, so bravest ally." Wasn't "that enough
precious, is it not the most Important to make an elephant bray?
thing ln life to "get wisdom, and
with all thy getting get understand- "Fairbanks Is a real Republican,1
lng"T . I angrily shouted Mayor Bookwalter
There can be but little wisdom of Indianapolis in the convention,
without considerable knowledge, but Meaning, evidently, that Roosevelt
there may be much knowledge with Is not a real Republican. But what
but little wisdom. Would it be is real Republican?
beneficial to the world for soma
multi-millionaire philanthropist to BpeaMng or Roosevelt as a "good
found a great college of wisdom, dobs," the Oregonlan says: "All
rather than of mere knowledge, one Republicans follow him. His dictum
of its obiects beinsr the multlnlvtn 'goes.' " The record of the last
of days, the increasing of years.? congress does not support this state-
Perhana not Wlerfnm a ,n an meni,
easily Imparted by one to another as
knowledge.
as a wnoie, numamty is race
suicidal, from lack of wisdom. But
what is wisdom, and how get it?
Solomon seemed to think It. easy-
but then he probably wrote when he
was old and had learned through
experience for he says:
Roosevelt's prediction was exact
ly verified. This was one occasion
on which the results of the big
stick's use were up to expectations
Coming Into Our Own.
From th Pendleton East Oregonlan.
Th official Dhotogracher for Sunset
DOtn not Maaraalne. who haa been taklna- clotures
wisdom cry, and understanding put in the east end of the county for the
forth her voice? She standeth in past week, has discovered some fin 11
the top of high places, by the war I lustrations of the productiveness of
in the place of the paths.' She Umatilla county sou and has laid bare
crieth ajt the gates, at the entry of om cellent opportunities for poor
the city, at the coming in at the r 777 ,,ulD",n
rlrtnra TTr,t f -T ..II. Om QUlCkly. "
and mv voice is to the snna nf man . mvvl" Y v",u f luw 7" Taa "
You young men and women Who to any one outside of a few nelahbora
are going out now into the world f1,? of which but , little oare ha been
with such knowledge as the schools rer acre in fln winter applea.
can impart, take an indefinite post- , vineyard of which perhaps no one
.j.(. n.i ,,.,. in Pendleton over heard yields $500 per
graduate course Of listening to this acre every year. The vlnea are aa
voice of wisdom, this attribute of strong; and thrifty as those of any of
Aaitv thot "waa mat nr. .nn, line wuiioroia vineyara ana proauco
deity, that was set up from ever- Uimost as weU, although thla Country
luHLiug, i rum me oeginmng, or ever I is not aavenisea ae a grape aiatricc
the earth was"- that waa 'nnnanBrt Anoiaer tnmg; reveaiea oy me camera
wie earin was , tnat was pOBsessea Jn the (ut ra3 of the county was an
Dy tne Juora in tne Deglnnlng of his I orchard of peach trees averaging about
war": and that In all thA nrr fl5 rears old, with H0 trees to the acre,
way ana mat in an tne work or whlch i8t year netted th owner IS ner
v. VWV.VM n ua tjj , uiuif ana VU0 I H Bf SJF IOV LfSS KUAV.
brought up with him," and .was - Another unknown resource found by
daily his delight." Not only SO, I acres of young atrawberry plants which
Dut wisdom s "delights were with lat yar nettea xne proua owner sue
. . . ..r,, , .. . 1 per acre. Ania year it win ao Deiter.
u Buna ui men. so near men nnro i a a .k.. .t,. ..
1 ..1M WD . V. . 11 . BlU, J
me, yj ye cnnaren, lor Diessea are lnat nunareoa 01 acres or in same
thev that Uoon mv wave nv. ),.... k'nd of land which is producing these
J P my y F T wh0B0 apple, grapes, peachea and etrawber-
flndeth me findeth life." f ries can yet b purchased at prices
ranging rrom sioe to soo per acre, ac
cording to location.
Any poor man oan secure a small
tract of ' It H can find work to sup
The majority of the FiliDino as.
semblv reaniv v- w... . 1 tract or it. H can nnd wora to sup
eemDiy resolved that the Fllininos 1 Mn hu hmiit hii hta harri Kr
nauLcu muepenaence, and wanted It Pcn trees ar coming to maturity ana
now. Some mmhpra before he knows It, so to apeak, he eaa
" ' om8 memDers, however, ar- have a fine Income and a good home
gued that the people were not fit established. i -
for indenendenpn vt ),. i.t... Ther are thousands of auch oppor
i7 a ! Z ? ' lh8 latter. tunitlea in thia rich aeotion of the state.
" uvp".eu, Deing unflen. th in- No ned for homeseekera to paas Uma-
fluence of the government manv of i,u eo"1'?- Th.e omethlna; here
thm hnlH!n 6,Yernenl many OI for tvt)TT ciMi ot hotneseeker. All that
tnem nolding lucrative Doaltions. la needed la to make, th homeaeeker
xney are probably right, neverthe- now xt
1BS: thA Fllnr,na . - -1 ...,J " '
".r!1 ' : - The People's Interewts.
i.V V"r:i . DUl From the Boston Transcript. .
IZ. t,,:ollueDl commercially,! it i an appealing point that the bu-
nuivu .uiH country nas never u. liimiMMi muimIi f nm Tnrt
corded them yet. make, ln recalling that It ia during
tha aummar .months, when the nublla la
If, as reported, the prohlbltlonfsta weary of the city, and especially of city
contemplate the submission or a verv politics, that th city officials are mak-
rfrastlc fitatft law ...iUJ1 lng up their tables of demands-to be
arastic state law, forbidding, not m"d upon th-appropriations for the
only saloons anywhere, hut- anr. following: year. It is then especially
bodr from drinklna- n, k.-i. -, that the advocates of reform and re
' urinKln8 or having ln his trenchment need to redoubl. and not
yuBocBDiuu uuuer any circumstances I relax, their studies or tne situation.
any , alcoholic liquor, thev ar nn-1 M .OI pudi" iboi mhii jui
Wise. BUCn a law, if passed, Would city's legiUmat services. Exorbitant
relax prohibition and encourage 11- lTftt'
retainers, curtail me sums - avauaoie
for health. - education and clean and
comfortable streets. It la estimated
that those who suffer from preventable
waste of publlo funds exceed many
time over those- who ar aided by pri
vate philanthropy.- . . ' . Hold up the
hands of those officials who are study
ing the Interest of the whole people. ,
A P,
f rr 1 '
ocm tor X oday
Every man chance of holiness la at
least aa aoad aa hi. .han.. . v.-i.ir
Make vn,,. r ""
. . r. - - -- - v ,. juu wen
porn xo o aickly. the victim of preda
tory dlseaan. mnk .... T.
iiivuuuiuimi: V (HI Wl 1 1 n O D aall raa
ache, and palna that th most am
pitlous drug store almanac could covet
to catalog. , j !..:' ......
Make up your mind that providence
naa oast you Into the universe douiued
to depravltv. branded aa & foil..
v loat. undone, miserable ainner, and
After Xeath.
Edwin Arnold, th celebrated toll-h It&7St
... . n k . i a I . I . -L . r : ' . . . - in any
mA jvuiuauai. i hw nuiauiuww aiaiiipt 10 - aereai providence and to
for his long poem, "The Light of Asia." bIlet1tr th,n you' wer desUned to be.
publiahd In 17. Th extract below hahit Bt JJ-JL1? -n? tter of
i. from M. .'Pa-rt- of th. IPalth- and HSth. &J?.. .lr? lght
- - - - -....v,fco uuiDoa nr9 uiiava in mail tva.
Is a paraphrase of Arabia verses Quoted slb)lity, unless we have faith In man
els In Africa." 'The i?.". JSP J?.wnom.5J??nM-J n 18S
word "Aaan" in the third line Is UImnTur'-ii
woaivm name xor am nour ox axternooni may ua.
. I There are two van of Aninm t,i.
" ' Ith Intermittent and tha iaki?.,.i n.1
ua mwn iiiw muui urn uun is oui a.uu ina wwy, ii you were to
Btead
Give more; prals
jhu nmi
Re who died at Asan sends
This' to comfort faithful friends:
speak only once a year the act would
th restorer, Al Involve aa much difficulty as some peo-
i,i iibts, pr example, in tninKlng. The
rarity of tha axerolaa dat.mi... i..
- - ww.w. ....HV. 1,.
uix&ivuiijr.
If the life of goodneas and truth
means to you th doing, with special,
separate effort of a lnna- a.pi.a tit
arsis nuie. men ii certainly is a path
Of Creat toll thai nnana h.,,.
May It not' rather mean tha atoad An.
lng of the right ln all thlna-a until tha
determination and the dnina- th.
-ui vv rwjuiro no special con
aidnratlon and volition ln r.h -..?
Habits ar life tracks: thav taad aitv...
nil or ti ri vrn i-mrnr ia
S?'.. 'rlnl;l .What the women Uve tion working- without conaoioua reflec-
Is but a hut which I am quitting, good as well as to the evil, to the
Is a garment no mpr fitting, higher life as well as to the lower. If
. in is poasioie naDituaiiy 10 breathe cor-
Llka a. hawk my soul haa passed. rectlv. eat aenslbiv and ar..v .J.W..i.
lxve th Inmate, not tha room: 1 1 ,h .hnnu 11 .i.X tr --IL;, .
X5,.KWe5Lr,'r' no the aarb; the plume habitually to choose the right and do V.
u."7"'V "5 ineoestT s I
n uiwi uyi uiu irvn lua spienaia aiara
Faithful friends I It Ilea I know.
Pal and whit and cold aa snow:
And ye say, "Abdullah's deadl"
Weeping at my feet and bead.
can see your falling tears,
oan hear vour erlaa and nravara.
Tot, I smile and whisper this:
"I am not that thing you kiss;
Cease your tears and let It lie;
ii wa mine, 11 is- not l.
living friends! B wise, and dry
cunn.j every weeping eye:
What you lift upon the bier
Is not worth a aina-la tur
'Tts an empty seaahell, on
uui oz wntcn the pearl la gone.
The ohell is broken. It lies ther;
The caarL tha all tha annl I-
Tl an earthen Jar whose lid
Allah sealed, the while it hid
That treasure of hla Inumrr
A mind which loved him; let it lie!
j-ai me anara do eartn s one more.
Since th gold shines ln hla store!
If - we had to aton and miM avaw
breath, count every vowel, reason over
every stftp,. one day's living would be
enough to blight the life. Bo in the
higher SDhere of morals. Ilvina- la .
weary business if you still have to
individualize ana argue out all your
actions. .
Daily living Is th gymnasium of the
soul where moral muscles are trained
to habita f Implicit, apparently me
chanical obedience to the Impulse of
high ideals, right motives, and noble
standards. Here cower la annulrad .
meet all temptation, to overcome dif
ficulties, to be master of life itself.
He has a cood ediumtlnn whn ...
aoqulred the best habits of doing and
of thinking. He 1 learning life's
great lessons, finding the fuUnes of
Sentence Sermons
Oreat gains are not always a gala la
A Race Worth the Winning.
From the Chicago Svenlng Post
ror an its novelty and daring and the I an education, to whnm each h. .
difficulties which lie In tlte path of I with Its opportunities of training the
the contenders, the New York to Paris I f?K Jk" and troubles, to the
automobile race lack. th. romantic In- ?.ry. and to ef fin enav in 2am?:
auuuiw conieai in wnicn inree I our xeuows.
magnificent sailing ships strove for vic
tory In a 18,000 mile daah from Port
land. Or., to Queenstown, Ireland.
TULdad wl tK ml. tK. T .I tl.U
- . . ...w .HIV 1 w -
rn..b.......t.i .u. . . . I ot jnenry J . uopa.
lu" XJnusn osra I Patflhlnr lie nn! Y makaa 4 .
Gladys and the French hark Martha 5?"""" om maaes a largw
Roux cleared from the Pacific elty last I a a
B.uua.ry ivr a voyage rouna tne Horn VTho fear to a alana ...
to Ireland. Dav after dav fnund th. I - V . I"mI" w o suon Bvr eaa e
three rivals, striving like 'jockeyi foi "
VII B INO. INimL taJTICF nisTFilt slrillt tlAwfl I : A
with the ships clos together, and one eWatoessV
can Imagine with what eagerness mas- I ereauiesa
dawn scanned the ocean to see whether .lnSl?fonr Ihead S t,fMlrt
they had outstripped or fallen behind ,,mpl Ior" ahead of 1U ,
their competitors In the hours of dark- . ... .
ness. For weeks th craft kept cloae to- 7 describing the danger f
geiaer. tsquaua Durst upon them, drlv-1 .ueiore you nave any.
Ing them like sea horses through thai
!?iume;'jaira e'Jrea them, fickle lecturing on the piscatorial art will
- . . - ' . , , r. - - - . .v .....V.w w ,1DU .
. ,BW mumenmry aovan- a
tare till the Horn , waa fur tiahlnd and I . . :
their deatlnatlon lay straight before. In i. SftaZ inS LST.Ji
the final dash northward from the trop- ur" " "B lon on """".
les the Clackmannanshire dlatanxad it. I
companiona'and sailed into Queenstown . wherever there Is a heart open to
winner ox a race mat was worth while. mere is a nouse or neaven.
Th event brief Iv mantlnnad In th. a a
i, .It... .. i i . ' 7. ' mo iin-imai oeiigaxs lo giv Itseir away,
est, fleetest sailing craft ver built a y
HonVkon. "rhaV wVra n?.?' h" Tou will not go to heaven on ur
American crews and flew the i marten 'cora ror uncovering the faults of ths
flag, th symbol then of supremacy: on aB"-n-ooun.
was no American .h p" but onirics 1 ??.e.r mftn,T ra'n, w wouM call
and England to struggle for the vie- .?5 3TA Hn57 wh.at woula VT
tory. How much better would it be If If" " " un rua
there were shins of thla Mimtn . "I1
carry the iCountrva nroduoa, and di. 1 Many a man who la stronv en d-
Unce all rivals in the race to the mar- scribing the mind of the Almighty is
keta of the world. Imla-htv waali on mlndlne- him. "
Charles E. Littlefield's Birthday.
jickv iniemperance. Even " ; the at-
tempt to pass it would do harm, .for
It would , displease many friends" of
the local option law.
: The platform speaks np for the
rights of the negro of course. The
negro is remembered and decfared
about ty the politicians regularly
once every four years. -
,l-i :
, In the month ot ' May last ' year
198,000 immigrants arrived in this
country and only S 3,0 00 aliens de
parted. In the month of May this
wni setae it. y:",:--y
Prinoe Ernest August, of Cumberland,
the youngest son of the duke of Cum
berland, ft is reported, 1. about to be
come an offloer ln the German army.
If thla step is carried out It ia believed
that it will greatly v clear the way for
a settlement of a conflict over the aucf'
cession to the kingdom of Hanover be,
tween the Cumberland, and the German
empire, . . .
mighty weak on minding him.
.- ... a
If your religion does not lead vrm to
Ranraaentatlv. r-h.-ia. w t mina more ox peome t never will lead
r . . .Miiviciioiu i vnti rca arnnw mnr n atrwiiir
Of ths Second Main district, who re-1 a .
eently announced his lnteauon to retire You can argue the divine out of the
from congress and begin the practice havens but you cannot take the divine
of law in New Vnrit MtC imperative out of your own, heart.
----- - -weT- veaeaT as IS a aj aJUUTJ
si m mm , a.
ai, ioox, m MDUion, Maine. HIS father Wnan von r1va lnf.lln.tlnn. and
was a Baptist minister. Tha aon laftlnetit votes In the heart's tribunal
school at It and hea-an tn mt. hi. . worth while waiting for the verdict
living as a carneritar'a halnar :. Tr.i I ; - ,' a a 1
lnillfe h made up his mind to study! The devil worries little over the man
law. ; H had natural traits of oharac-1 who ever thinks of the salvation of
jor m especially xitiea nim for the J the woria until ae is cauea on to pray
i..u ii u.v.oiuu i B1&41 . .wflnn. m , an. , , 1 r, tt, tt 1,11
a.a xreai aeiermmauon. ti first
cmereu puiiuca aa a memoer or thai -- Thla r-knt. I. hWa
Maine legislature ln 188S. Latar ha k! Tnls History.
came speaker of the house. His next I : 169 Increase Mather 'born. Died
public office was that of attorney-gen-1 August S3, 1723.
eral of Maine, In which position hoi 1675 First .tone laid for St Paul's
successfully handled many , Important cathedral in London. .
eaaes In 1881 ha waa a ti.i...,. I 173 S Enoch Poor, who led' the Amur.
the Republican national inv.nti .t I lean attack at the battle of Karat nan.
unnaipuiu ana in io at hi. Iouls hel ourn in aimovor, jua.se. uiea in xnow
seconded the nomination of T nomas B. I Jersey, September-8,. 1780.
Reed. In -18S9 Mr. Llttlefleld was elect-1 1759 Alexander J. Dallas, secretary
aa id congress
caused bv tha fl
and he was four
Hra" S
jar. ajiiueneia was elect-1 ' i' -Aiexanaer j. jLrauas, secretary
is to fill th vacancy I f tne treasury in Madison's cabinet,
death of Nelson pingley I brn in Jamaica. . Died in Trenton,
)ur times reelected. JN. J., January 16, 1817. , -
v o Has No Coal Nor Iron.
Swltierland produces no coal and no
iron ore. r or me manuiacture of ma
chinery raw material la bronrhi In
-the most part from Germany; the latter
country bubo supplies tne greater part
of the coal which is used. Some of the
Swls. firm, are paying less for this coal
than Is charged in Germany, according
to statement, mad. by responsible offi
cials. ... . , . ia ... :- ' .... ,
J'X't-.; Shuttle '.Kissing. '
; Lancashire, Eng., medical officers are
calling attention to th danger of weav
er, in th cotton mills contracting Infec
tious diseases from the practice known
as ' "shuttle-klsai.g" sucking the wft
through the eye of the shuttle. Dlph-'
therla, consumption and many othor
diseases are spread by this custom.
1831 Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coborg,
aae nis pudiio entry into Brussels r.a
first king of the Belgians. -
en sound bounded.
1887 Golden Jubilee) celebration ' of
Ouen victoria s relen.
1893 Leland Stanford, United State. -senator
from California, ' died. ' Born
March 9, 1824.
1900 McKinley and Roosevelt nom
inated at Philadelphia.
;" "" ' T
Father, Son, and Grandson.
- A remarkable oase. unique ln the his
tory of all consular corps of the world, "
is that of the American - consul, at
Gibraltar. Mr. Spraguo is the third sue- '
cesslve generation of hi. family to hold -the
poet of consul, hi. grandfather and .
his father having held It before him. '
For over to years hs. the United State,
been represented by a member of on.v
family. ... ; . ,.,.,,. , :