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A statesman, we are told,
should follow public opinion. '
Doubtless; as. a coachman,
follows his horses, having
firm hold . on the reins and -guiding
them. Hare.- v
, COLLEGE COMMENCEMENTS
I HE WORLD whirls on in its
circuit of the sun. The years
change and. the seasons pass.
The June bride draws her "Prize
in : the lottery, for better or for
worse; College commencements re
cur and this week is the time when
most Oregon institutions will be
busy with such functions. The hac-
calaureate speaker will usher in the
program with advice of golden value
to- the young graduates. He will
tell them that no education is well
rounded, that does not embody the
t Intellectual, the physical and the
moral.v with : the emphasis on the
moral, and his words will be true.
Each following day will have its
round of festivities and. ceremonials
Including the annual Alumni re-
.. union. At last, as the climax of all,
will come commencement day with
its comely youngs women, its robust
young men, its music, Its flowers', Its
faculty, in, long robes on the plat
form, its benediction, and . then Its
congratulations and' farewells. A'
; In the opening lines ot x his "De
serted Village,' Goldsmith painted a
scene of happy life. The hawthorn
bush, where "all the village train
from labor free, led up their sports
.;- beneath the spreading tree," was a
phrasing of life in its most sweetened
form. . Yet, on the ; vruins of thfe
picture Goldsmith painted! there has
grown lip the college commencement
with Its traditions, its buoyant hopes,
Its bounding youth -a finality In the
years journey through Innocent col
lege , life. .The day dreams of the
time ; are the . delightful theme of
many a musing in the sear and yel
low leaf. The ties of the hour are
a bond that tlofe nor distance never
obliterate. TJne dash and spirit of
youth give tint and coloring to every
scene that In after life' is a picture
Ineffacable. Time in its own . way
will later prove to each that college
life with ' Its annual commencement
was the hawthorn bash of the vil
lage, the rest place In the valley, the
placid spot on life's river, a joy
period In a career. Its dayB of study
are full of hope, its hours of task a
budding growth and all the world a
rainbow of promise. There is
safety for, men, solace for souls eind
peace for the world In what the col
leges and their commencements typi
fy, and it is well that they should
multiply and endure.
A TOLERANT TDiE
THE LATE Edward Everett Hale
was reared a CongregatJoualiBt,
and began his active career as
a minister of that denomina
tion, but early in his ministry aban
doned orthodoxy and became a Uni
tarian, thus rejecting the literal
story of Jesus as interpreted and
taught by orthodox churches, but
preaching Jesus 'as a great teacher,
exemplar, and "elder brother."
President Taft is also a man of this
relfeimia faith, nnrl an tiavn Kaon
many other eminent and purfBut' ,n a Seneral w7.'the drift of
minded men, especially New Eng
enders, in all walks of life.
A Jew days ago Feveral ministers
of an orthodox church gathered in
: national assembly, bitterly de
nounced Unitarians as infidels,
atheists and men void of religion.
This, from the; orthodox point of
view, Is true; an "infidel" is one
who doesn't believe, religiously, as
you do; who, in particular, declines
to accept certain writings as the
literal. word of God and the total of
all religious truth, but who seeks to
know and live truth. Tears ago the
word "infidel", was the acme of ter
rible accusation, but these are more
tolerant times, and this word now
carries with it no accusing mean
ing outside of certain circles,
Dr. Hale was a pure, reverent,
useful, noble man; he was hogW
with ljlmself as with ' all mankind;
he did, the best, he could, and he did
much;' Ae world is better that he
lived. It should "be inconceivable
to a mind, that assumes to be a
teacher that this soul has gone to an
eternal bell. . .. ' ' :' v
President Taft has within a com
paratively brief time stood and
rpuken In ho orthodox protestant
tiiurrh, Catholic cathedral and a
JrwMi s nagogue--not, it is true, as
a rc ' , 'cms teacher, but. as n, broad-
minded, tolerant statesman' who re
spects all ; religious opinion and
teaching that respect the religion
opinions and the mental . attitudes
toward religion of all honest and
moral men. . ;N:--y .-
CRITICS OF MODERN EDUCATION
IDE ATTENTION has been
; attracted ? throughout ; the
country by a recent utter
ance xf Dr. Woodrow Wll
eon, president of Princeton nniverr
sity He said::l"A ; danger sur
rounding' our modern education is
the danger, of wealth, i 1 am -sorry
for the lad who is going to inherit
money. I fear that the kind of men
who are to share in shaping the fu
ture are not largely exemplified In
schools and colleges. So far as the
colleges go, the side ; shows have
swallowed ,np the circus and we In
the main tent do hot know what is
going on: And I do not know that
I want to continue nnder those con
ditions as ringmaster. ' There are
more honest occupations than teach
ing If you cannot teach." The ad
dress was delivered before a grad
uating class at Exeter, N. H.. and
In further comment, President Wil
son said: "Schools Jike T this one,
and nnlversltles like Prlncetdn must
pass ont of existence unless they
adapt themselves to modern life."
President Lowell of Harvard re
cently delivered a stinging Indict
ment, against the militant position
attained byiathletics in modern in
stitutions, and arraigned the elective
system in university curricula as
destructive to the best ideals in
scholarship. He declared that the
prizes sought are no longer those
that come for best mentaV attain
ment, but in other and grosser
forms of college life.
A conviction very similar to that
of President Wilson was recently ex
pressed some years ago by Professor
Peck of Columbia university, who
urged that the social and athletic
had become the chief features of
college life to the neglect of the in
tellectual phase. A writer com
menting on the address of Dr. Wil
son declares that some of the larger
institutions are becoming places of
"class and clique rather than Insti
tutions for the upbuilding of faith
and character."
It is well that there should be
critics of our modern education, and
peculiarly fitting that the criticism
should emanate from beads'of edu
cational institutions. It serves to
keep the abuses complained of with
in bounds, and. at the same time to
assist modern education into closer
consonance with modern life.. Yet,
to the layman who looks back to the
education of a quarter of a century
ago, the progress of the institutions
seems closely adjusted to the prog
ress of civilization. Then, a text
book and a bench to sit on was
equipment for the student. Today,
for chemistry there is a laboratory,
test tubes and other appliances with
which the student works out prac
tically the intricacies of the Bubject.
With anvil and forge, the student In
agriculture, mining, mechanical and
electrical engineering lays practical
foundation for pursuit of his subject.
The analysis of soils for determina
tion of their value for crops, the con
struction of engines, dynamos, the
actual surveying of lands, practical
work in cookery,, dressmaking and
care of the home all these and many
more practlcalized methods are
amongst the features of modern edu
cation that seem most . 'closely ad
Justed to modern life. Along with
these there is thorough drill in the
fundamentals of good citizenship
and an all around preparation for
adjustment of training of the adoles
cent to the needs of modern life. In
some of the more notable eastern In
stitutions it is probably true that
"class and clique" are the tendency.
It is true that a chief danger is to
get all the institutions too far away
from the people by drawing the en
trance exactions up to a plane where
they are maintained for the few and
not for the many, an abuse worse in
its effects than thw social and ath
letic phase because it lengthens the
education process beyond the bounds
of reason and condemns youth to old
age before a degree can be obtained
and the work of life really begin.
education seems to grow saner and
its methods more and more In tune
with the requirements of modern
life. Ifnot 60, it should be more'
and more made so, as urged by Pres
ident Wilson. ;
IS FRANCE DECADENT?
I
T WAS not . a happy conception
for Dr. David Starr Jordan,
president of Stanford 'university,
to say in his recent address to
the students of Bryn Mawr college
that France is a decadent nation. It
was especially inappropriate just at
the time when Ambassador Jusse
rand, a highly educated and very
broad-minded statesman, was start
ing for the Pacific coast, to visit not
only the Seattle exposition, but San
Francisco and possibly the very in
stitution over which Dr. Jordan pre
sides. But this is a slight objec
tion to the statement in comparison
to the fact that it la not more than
fractionally true; - .
There are two evidences of ap
parent French decadence; the de
creasing birth rate, and alleged
looseness of morals.. As to the
first, there seems some ground for
the accusation of decadence though
.there may be. two -opinions about
that." with respect to a territorially
limited country like France, already
W
densely populated.! But ' there t vis
evidence that "race suicide"- In
France has. passed its high mark and
is one ! the decline. In 1907 ' the
deaths in France exceeded the births
by about 20,000, but in 1908 the
births exceeded the deaths by nearly
60,000; and the French government
department of vital statistics recent
ly issued other figures to' show that
"race suicide" la vanishing . from
that country. - ,
Regarding " French morals, the
outside' world gets its impressions
mostly from Paris, the "gay" capi
tal of the world. Not only are the
French lovers of amusement, of
recreation, of a large degree of so
cial liberty, but in -Paris are gath
ered from every country In the
world people who love personal lib
erty and large social license. But
In France as a whole the people are
far truer to their marital, religious
and even business; obligations than
the people of our own country.
But however these things may be,
nation cannot be called decadent
or moribund that . possesses such an
enormous fund of intellectual en
ergy, of aspiring idealism, of senti
ment amounting to a passion for
political freedom.. In science, ' In
art, in literature, in industries of all
kinds, in iively, active interest In all
progressive accomplishments and ef
forts, France stands first, or well to
ward the first, among the nations.
France has sometimes, through
wars, exhausted herself, but only for
brief time. Under Napoleon she
conquered continental Europe, and
rose rapidly from the awful exhaus
tion which his Insatiate demands
caused; and, prostrate after Sedan,
she recuperated and paid the Prus
sians a milliard of money long be
fore" due. A writer recently said:
'French genius is sympathetic and
contagious. -It haa at times seemed
to exhaust Itself, because it took
upon itself the burden of civiliza
tion at large. It spent itself for
the salvation of Europe. It sounded
the democratic reveille to the mon
archies of the world."
We cannot with Dr. Jordan be
lieve that France is as yet seriously
decadent.
CALAMITY'S OTHER PHASE
A'
MEDAL- struck by the French
government, has been pre
sented by Ambassador Jusse
rand to the San Franciscans
for their heroism in rebuilding their
city after it wjls almost destroyed
by quake and fire three years ago.
The incident is creditable to the
French and deserved by the San
Franciscans. It was recognition by
the one of the fine courage of the
other. It is at the same time re
minder of Emerson's epigram, "Good
is a good doctor, but Bad Is some
times a better." A financial cata
clysm is universally acknowledged
to be deliverance of peoples from
speculative jnadness and to reanchor
them to sane business methods.
Domestic, social, business and po
litical earthquakes are a usual
means of regeneration. It was the
threatened invasion of the Persians
that united Greece and made the
glory of Athens possible. The busl
ness or personal calamities that be
fall men only fit them for a stronger
and better balanced life. It la the
weaklings who run hp the white
flag when their plans miscarry and
disaster overtakes them. If the
biblical version be true. It was be
cause he was nailed to the cross
that the thief was able to enter
Paradise." A distinguished writer
has said that "it is the unusual that
gives, opportunity. Genius consists
in snatching success from the jaws
ef defeat."
The new San Francisco lsto be a
model In sanitation, strength, archi
tecture and beauty. The fire de
stroyed that, whlchjwa8-anclentin
architecture and rude, in construc
tion and made room for lhodern
structures. It stirred the courage
of the fit and sent them to clearing
away the debris and to the work of
reconstruction. The tremor Jarred
loose the unfit ' "weaklings and sent
them scampering to other and safer
scenes. The fire relieved the city
of junk and JosshouBes, Chinese and
Caucasian. It burned the dust and
offal accumulated from a dim and
distant past. Th outworn things
men and women could not throw
away fate freed thero from in a
twinkling. Destiny ordered a new
deal, and the sequel is a San Fran
cisco that is the pride of her people,
the admiration of the country and
the subject of accentuation by the
French nation.
CONSERVATION OF HEALTH .
D'
URING AUGUST, September and
October last year Professor
Irving Fisher, - appointed by
President Roosevelt a member
of the conservation commission
whose expenses, not Including any
salaries, this trust serving congress
refuses to pay studied especially
the waste of human life from pre
ventable diseases, and .his report was
sent to congress last January." c
From this report, we quote but a
few of many Interesting facts and
conclusions: "The average of hu
man life varies" in different countries
from less than 25 to more than 60
years. It is Increasing wherever
sanitation and preventive .measures
are applied. . It may.be greatly ex
tended. About 8,000,000 people
are constantly 111 - in the United
States, of whom 500,000 are con
sumptives. More thau-balf this Ill
ness is preventable' )lt ils ,estl-
mated that the economic gain j from
mitigation of preventable, diseases
Id this country would exceed $1,600,'
000,000 a year. . This gain ia abso
lutely; practicable, not all at once,
but in a generation or; so, through
education and the use -ot simple
means. Professor' FIsher'B report
closes with this statement; : "Since
the greatest of our national assess
.14 the health and vigor of the Amer
icatf- people, our efficiency must de
pend on national vitality even more
than on the resources of minerals,
lands, forests and waters." v
The American- Health Magazine
says: "National efficiency depends
partly , on natural resources, partly
on the integrity of social institutions.
partly on, human vitality, and is. a
reaction against the; old fatalistic
creed that deaths inevitably occur at
1a constant rate. The new motto- is
Pasteur's, 'It is within the power of
man to rid himself of every parasitic
disease " Roosevelt realized this,
and he' never, did - a nobler work
than to appoint- this commission,
for whose expenses this congress will
not appropriate a dollar. ,
The average length of life in Den
mark and Sweden exceeds 50 years.
In India it is less - than 25. In
Europe as a wholeIt has Increased
in 850 years from less than 20 to
over 40 years. In.' Massachusetts it
haa increased five years In less than
50. As longevity y increases, mor
tality decreases. The death rate in
the United States is 16.5 per thou
sand (in Portland only nine) while
in India it Is 42 per thousand. The
death rate has been decreasing for
centuries. Two or three centuries
ago It was 40 to 50, now it is about
15,- per1 thousand. Enlightenment
and simple efforts will result in a
far greater decrease , in the "future.
"WHAT OF THE MORROW?
T
HE COST of living in the United
States has increased 37 per
cent since the Dingley tariff
was enacted 12 years ago. A
wage earner with a salary of $100 a
month, who could' buy ,$100 Worth
of fuel, food and clothing for his
family then can only buy $65 worth
from his monthly salary now; Con
fronted with the fact that In tbe
period salaries and wages have
scarcely advanced at all, the average
man is forced to maintain his fam
ily on two thirds, of what he was
able to provide 12 years ago. . The
condition would not be startling
were It not for its known cause, and
the very grave question of when,
where and how the movement is to
end.
The chief cause for the increase
in prices is the elimination of com
petition by the growth of combina
tions in the Industries protected by
tariff , duties. "Those who look
back upon the commercial and in
dustrial record of the past 12 years,"
says the New York Independent,
"must realize that the combination
movement has been continuous, and
by Its effect upon prices has in
creased the cost of living." The
original purpose of protective duties
was to . stimulate competiton In the
protected home market, and by that
competition to reduce prices to the
consumer. But those who combine
do not, as s rule, reduce prices, but
intend to maintain prices or increase
them, thus defeating the real pur
pose of the tariff. Being human,
when they once acquire the power
of Increasing prices, they do not re
sist the temptation to do so. As is
well known, the prices maybe con
trolled, even If the combination does
not include all the producers' in an
industry. It is the inevitable ten
dency of the combination to not only
maintain the price of its product, but
having the opportunity to do so, to
make it higher. This is the under
lying principle in the movement to
ward -higher7prlceB7 and theeason
why the wage earner who could
from "his salary buy $100 worth of
necessaries for his family yesterday
can. buy only $65 worth today.
Less concern might be felt over
the condition were It not for the
events now transpiring in congress.
Senator Aldrlch. is the real revision
ist, which -means that the tariff will
not be revised for the wage earner,
but to more strongly entrench the
combinations In their power for fur
ther increasing prices. Concerning
the man who could buy $100 worth
from his salary yesterday, but can
buy only $65 worth today, it raises
the question of how much he will be
able to buy tomorrow And, in a
notable address at Cincinnati, dur
ing the campaign Mr. Taft said, "the
rates f the Dingley tariff have be
come generally excessive, Decause
conditjons hayo changed since they
were made 12 years ago. , ,
As shown by the testimony In the
pending divorce suit, as Mrs. How
ard Gould, she kept one bank ac
rmint and as Katherine! Gould she
kept another. Having, as Mrs. How
ard Gould,' paid jyit . for current ex
penses $775,000 in eignt years, it
is perfectly clear that she is right In
her contention that she cannot pos
sibly skimp along onthe beggarly
pittance of $25,000 a year. ;
The average number of votes
cast for candidates tn last Monday's
election! was a littler above 16,000
and on the various ballot measures
from 13,000 to 1 5,000. In the
earlier use of the initiative and ref
erendum a much smaller percentage
of the electorate , voted on ballot!
measures. The percentage ln the
Portland election was larger than in
any termer contest,- notwithstanding
the great number of measures. , It
resulted, as all know, in a prudent
decision in all cases. It shows that
study of the ballot measures is edu
cative and interesting to the people
and that a more intelligent citizen
ship and wise legislation will be the
fruit. Those who fear to trust the
people are shallow and superficial,
or have ulterior designs.
While praise for the success of
the Rose Festival is on every tongue,
the work of those who created it
should not be overlooked. ' Among
them is Ralph Hoyt, president of the
association. A less energetic presi
dent could by neglect have marred
the occasion, i But Mr. : Hoyt, serv
ing without compensation and heed
less of his own business, gave free
ly of his time and talents. . His en
thusiasm was the basis of a leader
ship that added much to'the effect
iveness of the other devoted work
ers and magnified the success of the
Festival, ;
The startling discovery that it is
the wicked retailer that makes the
prices high is one of the triumphal
achievements of... this triumphant
congress,- - There are 800,000 re
tailers in this country and each is
doing all he can to get trade from
the other making the most strenuous
competition known to American life.
They could no more combine to raise
prices than a band of goata could
sing the "Star Spangled Banner'
but Aldrlch and his brotherhood of
philanthropists say the retailers are
guilty, and that the tariff fed trusts
are as innocent as babes in the
woods, and from that decision there
seems to be.no appeal. But we
shall not, on that testimony, pro
ceed to hang the retailers. "
The MUton-Freewater district is
attaining widespread fame on ac
count of the great quantities and
fin quality of its strawberries.' At
the recent Strawberry , day there
6000 people were in attendance, and
all visitors were given all the berries
they could eat, without seriously
diminishing the supply. When the
Chicago visitors passed through they
were presented with several crates.
As a Spokane paper remarks: "The
Milton strawberry is a thing of
beauty and a joy forever. It is eaten
with delight all over the inland em
pire." And other kinds of fruit, of
fine quality and in great abundance,
are also produced in that highly fa
vored district.
Judge Galloway has judicially de
termined that there was an emer
gency requiring an additional Judge
in the Fourth district, and that the
emergency clause In the. act creating
the judgeship was ample. All there
Jias been from the first In this mat
ter was a legal quibble, and tbe
country Is tired of quibbles. It is
the quibbling by some of the law
yers and toleration of them by a part
of the bench that has contributed
more than all other causes to loss of
respect for the courts. Judge Gal
loway and all other Jurists who sum
marily dispose of legal trifles serve
their country andLoxait the bench.
Senator Gore stated that the duty
levied on blankets used by the poor
Is as high as 1 60 per cent, while the
duty on fine blankets bought vf the
rich is only 71. per cent. He of
fered an amendment to equalize this
discrimination, but it was rejected,
of course. What's a high tarjff bljl
for but to mulct the poor?
. The best, fairest, most admirable
feature of all the parades, of the
whole festival, was the parade of the
children on the east side Friday.
All adult Portland and air visitors
were proud ot them, and of those
who are training them. These are
the men and j?omenof tomorrow,
an4 will be wiser and better than we.
Because the woman in the case
talked too much the fourth of the
Omaha train robbers was . appre
hended and the evidence against the
others strengthened. It ; seems a
libel . on the gentler sex that their
weakness for chat is "so marked
that the detectives watch the woman
in the case to catch criminals, but
the plan yields results. .
Pendleton Is to' be the convention
city? of a great meeting of the In
land Empire Teacherjj' association
combined with other large organiza
tions of the same kind next year. An!
executive committee of which tate
FAMOUS GEMS OF PROSE
Women Right By
(From an address at a meeting of
tha American Woman's Buf frag aaao-
clatlon in Steinway hall. New York, May
12, 1870.) '
Th: woman's right movement Is th
simple claim that the same opportunity
and liberty that a man haa In civilised
society shall be extended to'the wo
man who stands at his aide aqual or
unequal in special powers, but an equal
member of society. 6h must prove her
power aa he proves his. When Rosa
Bonheur - paints a vigorous and admirable-
Bicture- of .- Normany-- horse. - she
provea that aha has a hundredfold more
right to do lt-tnan socres or botchers
and bunglers in color who can wear
coats and .trousers, and whose right.
therefore, nobody questions. . Whan 'the
Miaae- Blackwell, or Miss. Hunt, or
Mis Preston, or Miss Avery, accom
plishing themselves in- medicine. ; with
a firm hand and a clear brain carry th
balm of Ufa to suffering men. - women
and children, It ia as much their' right
to do it aa much' their sphere aa it
la that of any long haired, sallow, dis
sipated boy in spectacles, who hisse
them a they go upon their holy this
alon. ,c
And o when Joan of Arc Tlowa
Superintendent Ackermau of, Oregon
is a member has Just concluded a
meeting at 1 Walla Walla, at which
the convention place was selected.
Many educators from the east '.will
be in 'attendance and the occasion
will be a great educational gather
ing. . Brier, simple and appropriate was
President Taft's speech to the
Wright brothers on the occasion ot
the presentation of the Aero club's
medal. There was nothing ; suited
or fulsome about it: it was seasoned
with a little humor: and the com
pliment paid was fully, deserved.
If Mrs. O. II. P. Belmont , has, as
reported. . become a suffragette ot
the English brand, and if this leader
of fashion makes it as fashionable
to be an. English suffragette as it
to wear: bucket hats, what is there
for, mere man to do but, like Abdul
Hamid, to abdicate.
An Ohio woman who died, recent
ry at the age of 115, attributed her
long life to the fact, that she-jata
onions twice a day. . The ais
falls to note how many she killed off
with her breath during the period.
iringthe period,
se not to " captu r
A great Japanesejjibt to capture
Hawaii Is again reported. But let
us not get excited and yell for the
navy to hurry around Just yet. Such'
a report circulates every few montns.
If Howard Gould were compelled
to give all his money to Mrs. Gould
and she were to spend It all within
a year, and both' had to go to work
for a living, the world would be
quite satisfied.
Sentence Sermons
Sentence. Sermons.
By Henry F. Cope.
Salntllneas Is measured by service.
a
The crooked life is always well oiled.
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Prayer without labor means paralysis,
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Rome neonle hone to at Into heaven
by looking lor new.-
You cannot wee" vanity without being
divorced from sincerity.
a a
a avin faith Is a faith that makes
the world eeem worm uving.
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The mark of free man ! that he
binda himself to .some nign amy.
a a
nrafHnar la nlmnlv the difference be'
tween the get life and the give life.
a a
.Thai man who desDlses his brother us
ually haa some boa before whom he
grovela. v
rvtvarlnr vour neighbors with lamp
black will not react with whitewash on
yourself., , ' ...
Vnii never know how much rood there
la In men until some darn aay tans on
us all. .
Von mv know what man really
thinks of hl Father by what his chll-
ren think of him. ,.
Where the colleltion la the life of the
church, the church makes a poor collec
tion of lives. ! N s
. a a
No man knows Anything about the di
vine friendship who does not exhibit hu
man friendliness.
a . . a
The devils you entertain In the, dark
take good care to start up an Illumina
tion on their own account .
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It takes more than aWllty to Identi
fy the devil to prove that you ara of
the family of the moat high.
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tWtha man who thinks he Js con
ductor of the heavenly train who flnda
he has forgotten to get a ticket.
. This Date In History.
177S General Gage Issued a procla
mation declaring Massachusetts under,
martial law. -v
1788 New Hampshire ratified tha
constitution of the United States.
183S Congress passed an act creating
tha new territory of Iowa.
18S1 Sir Oliver Lodge, noted Brit
ish selentlat, borm
1864 Grant began to move his forces
across tha James river In order to at
tack Richmond from tha south.
l$TU&rt - atormin; GalvestBB,
Texas.
1878 William Cull en Bryant, famoua
poet died in New York, Born in Cum
mlngton, Mass., November' S, 1704.
190S Sweden protested against Am
erican recognition of Nor way 'a inde
pendence. . ; ,
t Sets People Thinking. .
- S"rom th La Grande Observer. l
Joa Simon's election haa aet tha pol
iticians to thinking all over tha state,
soma read, bet ween tba line that his
next move will bo to run for governor.
Others would Ilka to know whether or
not ho andJBenator Bourne will work in
harmony. There ia no question but with
th machinery of th great city of Port
land behind him. Mayor Simon will once
more become a prominent factor In tba
political gam.
Wild strawberries plentiful on Yam.
bill bills.
George WiUlam Curtis
I God and leada the army! when th maid
" oaraTWB ioaas ana rires the can
non; when Mrs. Stows makes her pen
th heaven appealing tongue of an out
raged race; when Grace Darling and
Id Lewis, pulling their boat through
the pltUeaa wares, aava fellow creatures
from drowning; do you ask me whether
the are not exceptional women? , lnor
ence Nightingale, demanding- suppllea
for the alck oIdlra in the Grimes, and,
when they are delayed by red tape, or
dering a file of soldiers to break down
th. doors and bring them which they
dov for the brave love bravery seems
to me quit aa womanly aa the loveliest
girl In the land dancing at th gayeat
ball in a dreaa of which th embroidery
la tha pinched lines of starvation in an
theriri'e face, and whoa, pearls are
th tear of despair in her ye. Jenny
Lind enchanting th heart of a nation i
Anna Dickinson pleading for tha equal
liberty of her sex; Lucretla Mott pub
lldj, bearing her testimony against the
eln of slavery, are doing, what. God. by
hi great 'gifts of eloquenc and aongy
appointed them to do And whatever
generous and nobl duty, either In a
private or public sphere, God gives any!
womarr- tne wiirnna tna power tty do,
that and that only, for her, la feminine.
A S
ermon lor lodav
The Evidences of Religion,
' v By Henry P. Cope. '
"Ye shall know tnem by their fruits.''
Matthew, vl., 10.
B
ACK o tha now generally accept
ea statement that you may know
each' man'a faith by the fruits of
hla dally living lies another truth
of not less Importance, that the
only safe test for any faith," tor any
religion,, is In Its fruitage In, th lives
of people and hr the conditions which it
produces. . '
Any -system of religious principle and
ideas holds authority for us. not because
of the wonder elements in its historical
or legendary beginnings, but because .f
the power It haa to win our admiration,
to arouaa our better passions and to stir
ua to noble endeavor, and to better liv
ing. A faltU has to be Judged by its
present fruits and not by ta roots ur
led in the dark past. ...
i. Wo do not need to worry over the his
tory of a faith in Its., beginnings; wo
need not allow the legends that have
grown up, to account for tha wonderful
characters of some of its ldeala-td stand
In the way of our appreciation fits
present values. .
Many persons aro nerlouuly concerned
aa to religion. They know that it meant
much to their notq.era and lathers; they
feel It ought to mean something: definite
and vital to them,, but they cannot force
themselves to - believe tha. legendary
wonders and the philosophical absurdi
ties that seem to ba Inseparably bound
up with religion. . - ,
la there not a plain path for ua all
here, to take religion on the- evidence of
ita real, present values? If it Is true
that you cannot afford to stultify your
mind with superstition, it ia equally trua
that you cannot afford to allow preju
dice to rob your Ufa of the tremendous
contribution which religion has to mak
to it '..; ; .'. : -
We may test every faith wholly by ita
fruits. "What Is It doing for the world?
What effect doea it have on the char
acters, dispositions, deeds of those who
follow KT Ia any community tha better
for those who hold a certain faith T Doea
It raise ideals, supply motives for high,
helpful conduct, and ameliorate the con
ditlona of living? Does It make Ufa
richer and 'more reasonable?.
Tha apple tree in your old orchard
may have had many a misshapen root.
many a feeder under the soil that twist
ed and turned around bowlder or stump,
but the twisted roots never interfered
with your enjoyment of the flno. rich
fruit You Judged the tree- by Ita effi
ciency in doing Ha particular business.
You could enjoy ita products even
though much on pomology remained- a
mystery to you.
The fruits of religion are in the
world. They are "to be seen in noble
lives and'klndly deeds. Men Buffer and
sacrifice because they have seen the
vision of that which ia higher and bet
ter than ease or profit. Many are giv
ing their full, efficient livea in service
of their fellows - because they have
learned to Interpret life In the terms of
religion., of self-giving love and sacri
fice.
That sense, of the htrter value of Ufa.
that consciousness of the ends of living
which makes ua more than, clay, that
faith In the eternal Tightness of the uni
verse that makes It evidently better be
ing good than bad, being right than
wrong, under all conditions this U ro
llglon. and every man may know, its
fruitage in humanity and Judge it there
by-
You must not judge any tree by ita
orchard, by Ita owner, nor by the cratea
that Ita fruit la packed in. You hava
no right to Ignore religion because of
Its legendary accretions of its present
day incidents; vou must know It by ita ,.
essential effects on the lives of men.
Thla la no academic, philosophical In
quiry. It la a matter for us air wheth
er we will live by th direction - of
such motives aa these; whether, we will
take life in the terms of Its higher val
ues; whether we really have faith to
follow thla high Vision that shows tha
path of living for the sake of the full,
fine, ideal life, and find the full fruit
age of Ufa in following our own beat
faith.
for Tod ay
A Sunn Sabbath Day.
By Charle Mackay.
Charles Mackay, born in Scotland in
1814. an Enallsh newspaper man wno
spent some time In America, belongs to
th ranks or the poets or optimism. Ma .
haa written a number of cneerlng. ani
mated sonsg, though Hot that rise to
first rank.)
The morning of our reat haa come.
The sun Is shining clear;
I sea it on the steepla top;
Put on your shawl, my (fear.
And let us leav the smoky town,
The dense and stagnant lane.
And take our children by tha hand
To see tha field again.
I've pined fo-ir tba-Hvelong weekr';
For the smell of the new mown hay;
For a pleasant, quiet country walk, .
On a aunny. Sabbath day.
I'm weary of the" stifling room
Wher all tha week we're pent:
Of the alleys filled with wretched life,:
And odors pestilent;
And long once more to see the fields,
And the gracing sheep and, beeves;'
To hear the lark amid the clouds.
And the wind among the leaves;
And all the sounds that glad the air
On green hills far away
Th sounds that breath of peace and
1 love, ,,..' . ;
On a sunny Sabbath day. ' .
For omhow though they call it wrong.
In church I cannot kneel (
With half the natural thankfulness
And Dietv I feel. .
When out on such a day as thla,
J He upon the' sod.
And think that every leaf and flower
la grateful to its Goa:
That J, who feel tha blessing more,
Should thank him more than they,
That I can elevate my soul
On a aunny Sabbath day.
Put on your shawl, and let us go
For one day let us think?
Of something else than dally care,
Xf toll and meat and drink; -.
For ona day let our children, sport i
And feel their limbs their own; ,
For one day let ua quite forget
-in gner tnat we have Known
Let u forget that we are poor
And hn skins: in tke ray.
Thank God that wa can still enjoy
A aunny , Sabbath day. v f
paw Wood,
Contributed to Th Journal br Walt Maann -
tba famoua Kanaaa poat. Hla proaa-poama will -be
a rerttlur . L?itura of this column -in Tha
Dally Journal.) - ,
Sometimes the saw . Is dull and
squeaks like thunder, the wood Is
crooked-grained and full of knots; some
times th aawbuck creaks and falls
from'under, and trouble seems to come
in wholesal lots. , And t'other man,
th gent across the alley, ia sawing pine '
that cuta aa allck a lard; he Jollies
you with merry quip and sally, which
makes your stunt seem doublyt trebly'
hard. But keep at work don't waste'
your time in Jawing! Saw wood, saw
wood, and never raise a white! The
other chap tomorrow 'may be aawlng
elm knota while iyou r carving Norii.
wy--plnai t : ;; rr YT 'TT
MiopTrteht. 10O8. bj f V ' ft
Ceorca Matthew Adama.) iaVw,