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THE OREGON' DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, THURSDAY EVENING,; JULY ' 13; lftll V'
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heim in the uniform of a United
State, soldier, and you have a pic
ture of the processes used In this ex
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DAILY AND SINDAT.
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HAT SUICIDE Is a private af
fair and tlie facts about It
ought not to he publlfihe.d, is
the glBt of a report by a com
mittee recently appointed by the
Academy of Medicine to Investigate
the subject. That no crime news
should be published was the tenor
youthful mind there k likely to be
engendered a dangerous seed f con
tempt for the' race for which Shy-
lock, stands. To countenance in our
public schools any influence that
tends to foster race prejudice is det
rimental to the end of American ed
ucation, and In that light, the pro
test against "The Merchant of
Venice" seems entirely lust.
A SOCIAL TRAGEDY
Ona rar JT.BO I One month f .8
of a bill recently passed by the 1111
nols legislature and vetoed by the
r
Every man - hath a good and
bad angel attending en ,him In
particular all his lifelong. Burton.
THE COKE RECALL
1- N REALITY it is not Judge Coke
that the good people of Rose
burg are after. Their real fury
is against McClallen, but for the
moment It is Judge Coke that is in
Bights ...
;The public sympathizes with them
In their -indignation. McClallen shot
down a Lighly esteemed cltlsen. He
escaped punishment The Indigna
tion of the Roseburg people is a nat
nral sequence.
But it was not Judge Coke that
pulled the trigger of the murderous
revolver. McClallen did that. It
was not Judge Coke that fixed the
requirements of the Jury instructions
at the trial. It was the law of the
, land that did that Parts of the very
Instructions used were the dictum of
the, Oregon supreme court In the
Morey case.
' On sober , second thought, the
RoseBurg people must realize that
fury If being visited on the wrong
man. It was McClallen that killed
a citizen. In a Portland case where
the Instructions on vital points weVe
the same as Judge Coke't, the Jury
convicted. Had the two cases been
tried contemporaneously, would the
friends in one instance have used the
feeall because one court convicted
and used It in the other because
there was an acquittal?
' The Journal has no personal in
terest In Judge Coka. This pro
posed recall is a bigger thing than
any judge.
; The Journal Is prompted only by
"eTdesire to prevent one of the great
features' in the Oregon system from
being brought, through passion and
wrong use, into disrepute. The way
to pVotect the Oregon system from
the vengeance of those who hate it.
Is to always and everywhere use -it
: wisely.. , -i .
bXE HUNDRED STORIES HIGH
ONE HUNDRED story build
ing. 1200 feet high, is planned
for New York City.
It recalls that the new mu
nicipal building, 680 feet high, is
rapidly approaching completion In
that city; It has 40 stories of which
25 are the main building and 15 In
thr huge cylindrical tower. It is
the third highest building in
Gotham.
The building contains 600,000 feet
cf office space, which means that its
floor area is that of half a dozen
city blocks. The first seven stories
are of massive red steel, the next ten
, faced with white stone, and the next
eight of the main structure red, giv
ing, the appearance of a broad white
band around the huge "red giant."
Its cost, completed, will be $11,
000,000. It is to house the munici
pal departments, and at the present
sums these departments are paying
for rentals, the entire cost will be
i governor.
It is not the publication of the
farts. that causes suicide. Self de
struction comes from a far weightier
cause. Those wlio took their lives
because driven Insane toy the intense
heat In the east recently had their
reasons. , It was an issue between
them and a relentless sun.
The man who committed suicide
after shooting his wife in Portland
the other day had his reasons. A
lesions Insanity led him on, and he
would have plunged into the folly
just the same if no newspaper had
ever been published.
It is. Indeed, a brilliant statesman
ship that would cure crime by sup
pression of crime news. It was a
plan to play straight into the hands
of the crooks. Then the grafter
could graft, the thief could steal,
the burglar could "burgle," the pfun
derer plunder and the merry war by
the vicious on society go on undis
turbed. Then, the police could go on a
perpetual picnic. With the crime
news all suppressed, the public
would have no means of knowing
what the sleuths were doing.
It is said that the Illinois law
would have prevented even the pub
lication of the facts about the assas
sination of a president. What Elys
ian fields of happiness for the crooks
the country would be under the op
eration of such a law.
A terse, clean, straightforward
and strictly truthful publication of
the assaults vicious men make on
life and property is essentia! to the
protection of society. It is not the
innocent, hut the guilty that most
want suppression of publicity .as to
crooks and crookodnoss, crimes and
criminality.
T 73 STATED in the news dls-
' patches that Consuelo, Duchess
of Marlborough, is to return to
the plain ways of a plain people,
That when she arrives next month
to visit her mother, Mrs. O. H. P.
Belmont, the "American Duchess,'
will have said farewell to the Brit
ish land that she adopted as her
own, forever. It Is further rumored
that the beautiful American girl will
endeavor to forget her bitter humili
ation at the courts of the late King
Edward and King George by enlist
ing with the suffragettes In their
fight for woman's rights.
It has been sixteen years since the
brilliant sale, that exchanged youth,
beauty and millions for a foreign
title, was , consummated In St.
Thomas' church, New York. . Since
that time, the Duchess of Marlbor
ough has endured unspeakable treat
ment from her royal husband. For
years she suffered in silence.
wnen ner womannood could no
longer stand the wrongs that were
so galling, the duchess rebelled. And
it was rebellion against injury that
brought upon her the snub of King
Edward, who resented the besmirch
ing of an Anglo-American marriage.
That snub marked Consuelo Vander
bilt for royal disfavor for all time
to come. Marlborough house be
came a social mausoleum. Practi
cally ostracized by English society,
she Is returning to her native land
with the best years of her life, her
happiness and her faith blighted.
Consuelo Vanderbilt gratified her
ambition to wear a coronet. She
bears the title of the Duchess of
Maryborough. How sweet a balm to
her tortured womanhood is that
empty token of royalty is mere con
jecture. Looming large In this so
cial tragedy, however, is the unmjti
gaterj rush of similarly ambitious
American maids and matrons to the
title-blooming fields of Europe.
he will be np against whence geta
among the tip-taking European wait
era. ' . 1 ' " '.';.'" " "
A boy of 1 has wedded a girl of
the same age, Who will keep the
goblins and '. things from getting
them when :t's dark? v
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How lonely the American colony
in London must have felt while dear
King George and Queen Mary were
absent in Ireland.
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
Letters From the People
(Oommanlcatlgsa sent to Tha fiaafnal .for pub
lication la tbla department abonld not axond
t00 morda la lenjrth and moat ha accompanied
br tba name and addreaa of the tender.)
TNMEXICANIZING MEXICO
- THE CRAZIES
A
PRESSING PROBLEM is one
of how to ourb the speed of
the maddest of the autolsts.
They harm the roads. They
harm automoblling. They harm the
reputation of automobillsts, good
and bad together.
. They helped harm. the road legis
lation at Salem last winter. It was
the speed mania of the craziest of
the autolsts that made the farmers
distrustful of the Portland road pro
gram. It gave many farmers an Im
pression that all autolsts are speed
fiends and that It was the Portland
desire to convert , the -roads Into a
vast system of boulevards for the
autos to run mad on.
It was an erroneous surmise, butj
what else was to have been expected j
when reckless drivers make every
road a speedway and every Journey
to the country an auto race?
The many sane auto men are vig
orous protestants against, the speed
lunatics. They regret that a journey
by a number of autos to Tillamook
or elsewhere usually degenerates
into a crazy issue of which can first
reach the destination. They know
it harms the highways. They know
it angers the farmers. Tbev know i
it is a constant influence in menace
of the good roads movement.
But, with a madman at the wheel
F
RANCISCO MADERO announces
it as -his conviction that the
Yaquls should be repatriated
aud restored to their lands In
C!Qnara,.mai me system or slavery
imposed through trumped-up charges
shouldvbe abolished, and that the
cause of most of the ills of Mexico Is
lack of public education. He pub
licly" pledges his powers and endea
vors to the accomplishment of these
reforms.
These are policies that all Intelli
gent 'observers will applaud. They
are a hopeful sign' of the mental
stature of Madero. They are appli
cation of the very principles the mg
lect of which wds the undoing of
Diaz.
The vital blunder of Diaz was his
failure to promote public education.
No man ever Lad a better opportuni
ty to serve a people with great prof
it to themsels. Himself highly ed
ucated, he ti?it the reins of govern
ment at a time when Mexico was
almost the headquarters of Ignor
ance.
After 30 years in office the aver
age Mexican was still untutored
The peons were Btill peons because
untaught. They were still slaves in
eriect, necause tneir mmas were
blanks.
Ignorance, whether In the dark
ages or in 1911, has been the hand
i mainen oi slavery, u was me renais
sance that was forerunner, of the
overthrow of feudalism.
If Madero can establish wide-
BSVfiH r r nltv In OA ' J 1 . r, I . 1 1 .. ,
Tnl." i""' ! ' ? ' lnP. anK' " 13 read public education in Mexico.
i ne Keenest or i ne pleasures in an I tirm Th utn -
ALn V a t a . - , , , . , "- I'l-UW I OU DlfUWlUVUDO lO
"' Vliau uiBut oi iwo Bii-uc- auio jaunt into me country 13 tne i th wt niiur i t
new municipal exhilaration of a 15 mil pace and 'because he did not hAild m.tl. i
unthinkable. It would be 40 feet I
more than the helg
' tures such as the
building, one placed above the other,
! It would be a perspective almost lost
in me ssy, and lowering to heights I ered. It is so splendid a plensure
where its dizzy summit would almost i that it raises the hope that perhaps
A. I tI 1 a. . . I
1,10 view u nature in ner , schoolliouses that 30 years of Diaz
uiuuoouu i-anuc bo uihictucM i cov- i in Mexico spfclln failure
pierce the clouds.
But If New York determines to
build such a giant. New York will '
do It. New York la the climax In the
achievements of militant man.
something can yet be done to slow ,'
down the crazies. 1
HIS REBUKE
A PROTEST
IX THE NAME OF THK SOLDIER i
I
T WAS WITH soldier's scrip that
K. b. Ryan, one of (ho "Dicks"
In the now famous Dlck-to-Dick
letter, made his miners on the
Controller bay lands. Tlie lands
comprise 160 rods of wau-r front,
and consist of two bodies of lfin
T
in
B
Y ACT OF the Wisconsin legls
lature. Senator Stephouscn is
$2o,000 richer. He bought a
park site for that sum, and
deeded it to tbo state on considera-
lnjtlnn that It should be named Steph-
I10RE "WHO are interested
providing such education
our schools as shall operate In prison Park.
uming o,u Americans and. After disclosures as to money
Americans only will applaud the nc- methods used In Stephenson's elec
tion of the Jewish rabbis protesting Urin to iho HPDntB th legislature
"M,lra 1,1 J"" Meronsni or j balked. It passed a resolution cen
enice as reading for children. jsurlng Stephenson for his vot.
Maintaining that children should
be guarded against, all evil foars, su-
acres each with a quarter si ct Ion i perstitions and prejudices, it seems
between, as provided by law. j only fair that some other work of
' , It is the irony of fate that, scrip ; the great dramatist should be sub
- Issued by ap appreciative country toistituted for tlio one in which Shv
oldiers for their services in defense lock is the central figure. A child's
of state and nation, should be em-mind should be -protected from er
' ployed, by the Morgan-Guggenheim roneous Impressions In the matter of
yimicaie as a means or securing con-1 race distinctions.
g htephenRon for his vote
against the unseating of Lorlmer. It
passed another resolution . declaring
Stephenson had bought his way Into
off.ee, and calling upon tho federal
senate to investigate him.
Then, it concluded that the ducats
paid for the park were tainted
money, and proceeded to name the
i snot, not Stenhenson Park, hut Pun.
. trol of the only outlet to the great the Hebrew race as tvnld n th " J .Y" VT
As our soldiers followed ! the cruel-hearted money-lender, once Z :I" 7 I '
fiOf In mnl Inn In ft s,Vi11,f 1 n .1 ,... ' . .
... . vu,....oi, i,u is tno senator, and the governor has
u. conunuo maenniieiy. j ney I signed the measure.
can neuner nisuuguisn nor weigh, A wnoleanmn 1Ecn t,.,l i
I such a character in the balance. frorn th nrflnn f tho hn. . r-.....
J;J vonice- wisconslnites large wealth who
coal fields.
eijt , j. - . . i
vim nn in oatue, so tne mojiey-
changers followed the soldiers, gathr j
erlng up the scrip used at Controller !
bay to seize strategic lands.
' The satellites of the syndicate say j
tne lands are useless for all pur-
Corporal Punishment for Children.
Portland, July li. To U Editor of
Ths Jburnal -1 read with a feeling of
mingled pity and dtsruat tha "speech1
of Dr. Van- Dyke, before the Medical as
sociation, and the comment In the Ore
gonlan'e editorial column, commending
that portion of the doctors speech Which
prescribed "the; rod" for the punish
ment of children. I believe I would be
derelict in my duty to allow this to
pass unnoticed.
The Oregonlan speaks of "weak mind
ed" parents. I wish to 'emphasise the
importance of deep study of this phrase.
Tho "weak minded" parents are those
who lay the cruel rod on the tender
flesh of their children, and In turn reap
a haryeat of weak minded manhood and
womanhood In their children. If cor
poral punishment is necessary for child
ren It Is doubly necessary for adults.
I hare seen parents punish children for
doing things that they saw their par-
Hants do. "Weak minded" Is too weak
a phrase to describe such people. They
should be sterilized. '
I have seen parents who seemed to
take a delight in whipping children. I
have seen the .lash laid on bare flesh
In a most cruel and Inhuman manner.
I' have challenged more than one cow
ardly tyrannical parent to stop beat
ing their children or I would whip
them in the same manner that they
were whipping these helpless tots. Not
great while ago while I was living
in one of the large hotels of Portland I
went to a woman's room and told her
if she did not stop beating her baby
I would report her to the human so-
-clety. She glared at me like a mad
bear, while her baby looked up through
tears of pain, unable to understand
what my mission was. I learned later
that tho baby had struck its mother In
the face with a newspaper which she
had given It to play with. Tho baby
did this In a spirit of play, as any baby '
would do, yet this cruel woman who
has been permitted to become a mother I
had beaten Its tender flesh until it
was scarlet.
We have an example at Chico, Cali
fornia, where a stepmother tortured a
13 year old girl to death, and Is now
held on a charge of murder. This wo
man Is In tho class of "weak minded"
parents. The trouble is, these weak
minded people don't know, they ar weak
minded, and they always punish their
children while In a passion. Parents
who hold it a pleasure and a privilege
to whip their' children, and there are
many., who do. should be .'compellad
to answer to the law. Tho law should
ibe strict and inexorable. Why was a 13
year old girl tortured to death before
the - authorities intervened? Because
of so many "weak minded" parents,
weak minded physicians and weak mind
ed newspapers.
I have heard men toll great yarns
about how their old fathers used to
"tan their Jackets" and seemed to think
It funny. Many people think it funny
to see some ono whipped now. All these
people belong to the weak minded class
and should ba sterilised. Their child
ren will only be duplicates of themselvea
and will go on whipping from generation
to generation, and
Idiots and imbeciles.
I know a man whose name I shall
not mention whose father was severe
and frequently whipped him. At 8
years of age this boy was rjlanninir on
running away from home, and at 12
years did run away. This boy did soirie
retaliatory act for every licking" that
was administered to him. One day
this boy went into a neiehbor'a watAr.
melon patch at the first of tho sea
son when . the boy could not control
his appetite, and took a small melon.
The neighbor told the boy's father, and
the boy was unmercifully whipped on
suspicion. He took tho first opportun
ity to enter the watermelon patch and
cut every vino "from Its roots. This
same boy was whipped by his teacher
for some frlvllous matter, and the fath
er commended the teacher and told him
to "lay it on" every time he wanted
to. This boy ran away from school
one afternoon, went to tho village store,
stola a revolver and cam back to the
school house after school was out and
shot the olrf school house full of holes.
He was sure this time that he would
not be caught. The treatment ho re
ceived from his father started him on a
career of petty crime. However, his
father died when he was still a lad. rd
when this rule of petty tyranny and
corporal punisnnvent was ended he be
came a different boy and grew up to
be a useful citizen.
Parents make a great mistake In
thinking children can be conquered by
beatingr or whipping. They onlv be
come morose, self conscious, vindictive.
A few years ago I knew one of these
advocates of "spare the rOd and spoil
the child" policy. He was in the habit
of punishing his littl boy for frivolous
things. One day the little boy died.
A few years afterwards I naaanrl h
. ..' '7'; SMALL CHANGE ;:
WelL' the vaara nuira !
how"s the good roads record?
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Yes reciprocity has been a Republi
can doctrine, but In profession and pre
tense only. .-' I j; ,
' . m m ,r , , .1
Mrs. BridreS aa'vs 8m lrlaaai tiat nnl
when he had occasion to do so, 8am
With anv man. hut if ihlk wnman lm.
able the occasion may be Acer y frequent
About 100 times a year wa read of
gold being foun.l In fowls' craws, but
nobody ever yet found any more gold in
consequence. The biddies and duckies
are great creatures to keep a secret.
' a - -
The steal triiat. tn h
1B?..lnJ'c.9 .to c n h principle
of the Golden Rule, Mr. Gary says. But
What is the Rule. In th Irnil'a 4r or.
probation? To secure as much of the
wuria s goia as possible, perhaps. .
. a
Pennsylvania man kept a rattlesnake
tied to a foot bridge eoothat his wife
oould not 'leave the premises, and was
iiiiiiaeii Dinan ana Kilted Dy the reptile.
The lady is excusable in regarding this
f oiuo.iuie instance 01 poetic jus
tic. -
a .
Governor Aldrlrh nt MahrVa Attain.
ing to issue a proclamation calling for
ji ior rain, saia n oeiievea tnat
the Almighty would not be influenced
by any interference on his part. Very
likely; j but if Nebraska only had our
vuioner luoier ior governor now.
j a
Former Becretarv of tha Tntarlnr Tta.1.
linger is worried and alarmed, and be
comes verbally pessimistic about' the
political prospects or the oountry. be
cause of the widespread and growing
movement among; the masses to take
more power directly Into their own
hands, and so minimise the vll of mis
representation. Grandma Todd of Lane ' county, 181
years old. and still active and in good
health, says she ban always been able
to cure herself. "When I get siok I
give a party or go visiting friends. I
cherish only love, and I fight against
blues and worry in all forms. It is In
jurious to get grouchy." Here is summed
up much of the philosophy and religion
of life. Grandma Todd should go a
preaching. a a
A thousand times he dreamed of
things that he would do. a thousand
times resolved some things he did to
cease; but never did he act to make
the dream come true; with every new
resolve he felt his power decrease.
ach new year speeded past at an in
creasing pace: nightmares, not pleasant
dreams, are his company at night; now
through resolves he sees the devil's
mocking face: alone, and gray, nd sad,
he totters out of sight. 1
" . OREGON SIDELIGHTS
.Sinclair Is Denounced :
From th Chicago RecordVH er14
A -' sanitary ' public drinking; fountain
has been Installed at Vsl. ,
Births and deaths balance In Baker
county in th month, of, June II of
ithr.. v
-: Upton Sinclair has brought upon his
head the heavy maledictions of the med
ical fraternity. ' He has been guilty in a :
peouliar degree of the orlme of les
majesty' He has assumed to speak with
some authority unon matters auite r
Since Wt October the govmmnt has I mot from nhi ken; upon matters, that is '
annnt laO.nnA in Rakar luninlv In tha I to Say. of health and disease. - On tha
eampalgn acalnst the pin btl. ' I strength of having metamorphosed his yl
own anaemia shell into a carcass bdrd-A
Th paving company la maklnr treat I erlng on arossnesa. th4 vounar novellaf I
viuftiTva lit me worn ui myiriK uilU'
sets himself up as an apostle, to th I
ailing. - Follow my method, he says, and.
be quit for good of your bodily.' Ills.
His method Is the prolonged fast.
Cautious magazine editors have print :
ed some of Mr. Sinclair's articles -on
health. They have, however,- insisted .'
that M. Sinclair refrain from areneriL "
A mllilui, k. .4 I.... .,..1.1 . , .... .. ... .
.. nl.v.i.uiu, hu 1 '"s ww Druamjr irnm nis meager aaiai
iJl?!ia,5?iSf.L ! ihVv,,cl 2 they havs Insisted that ha content him.
self with recording his own experiences
in fasting "for health." Less cautious
magazine editors have accepted his ap
tides without this necessary qualifies- '
tlon. - So published, . they have had a
more authoritative ring, particularly
whan flAnnmnanlA hv .A-.nllA n f
Confident that the naonlo of Kunna I mnniiia" .4
will vote bonds on Jufv n for thVVro- iZl.:Z. , I.' ""u'""B.,t
nosed lia-htlna- avatom tho nlt " I M 111 " " iuy wun wnicn wus
Sd haV dede tovertlsVfoFWbK g"0?-" hvo ben received, Mr,
is;
lithlo pavement on th streets of Klam-
atn, Fans,
.
A ,10 ton steam 'roller has been pur
chased by the commissioners of Coos
county. It is now at work between Co-
quuie ana. Aiyrtie foint. , ,
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among th improvements scheduled' for
me isiepnone service) at Klamath Fans.
; The First State bank of Eagle Point
nas neen opened. George u Davis of
Medford is president. Prank Brown, vice
president, and J. V. Mclntyre, cashier.
".'
for poles.
v a
Boyd Arnot of Cooston and Rot Ful
ton of North Bend are victims of a
Fourth that was less than sane. Ar
not's face was filled with powder. Ful
ton lost a thumb and forefinger of th
left hand.
Sinolalr tias pow put forth a book ex
plaining his system in detail. ,.v-
It is this book which domes in for
th severest possible condemnation b
Dr. Anthony Bassler In a paper con-
tributed to the. Monthly CvclODeadiM
and Medical Bulletin. Dr. 'Bassler is a'
specialist in diseases f the stomach. As
SEVEN AMERICAN FORTUNES
The Vanderbilt Fortune,
Railroads have made th fortune of
many an American. One of the first
of the great fortunes to develop in
this country through the ownership and
the .manipulation of railroads was that
of Cornelius Vanderbilt When the head
of the great Vanderbilt hpuse died in
1877 his wealth, was estimated at con
siderably over 1 00,000,000, and th pub
lic stood aghast in contemplation. And
the remarkable part of it all was that
it was massed together in the last IS
years of the railroad magnate's life.
Within 15 brief years he had piled tip
more than $90,000,000. His wealth came
rushing upon him at the rate of $6,000,
000 a year. This saema very Insignifi
cant In comparison with the way money
has come rolling into the pockets of
Rockefeller, Morgan snd other great
capitalists of th present day.
There are a great many American
millionaires today who are possessed of
as large a fortune a Cornelius vander-
and breeding lunatics, I bilt at the time of his death, who hardly
go in th reckoning of great multi-mil
lionaires, but there has been very rapid
accumulation between 1877 and 1910, the
period when America has shown Its
greatest development The Vanderbilt
fortune of $105,000,000 at the death of
Us founder, has grown so rapidly until
now It has reached fully $700,000,000. In
fact, there is no approximate estimate.
The mileage of railroads in the Unit
ed States today Is not far from 250.000
miles. Under the Vanderbilts' direct
domination are 21,000 miles, th own
ership of which is embodied In, $600,-
000.000 in stocks and $700,000,000 In
bonds.
Vanderbilt was born on Staten Island,
New York, in 1794. He was a rugged.
headstrong, illiterate youth, w are told,
and at 12 years of age was scarcely
able to write his name. But. he knew
the ways of the water, snd when h
was 16 he commenced ferrying passen
gers and freight between Staten Island
and New York city. ... Th refinements of
life he Is said to have scorned, - and
cared nothing for books. His whole
passion seemed to be centered on mak
ing money. He gradually made and
saved money, and finally secured suffi
cient to build his own schooners, and
thereupon he went In for th coasting
trade,
When th invention of th steamboat
was made certain, he felt convinced that
the day of the schooner was over, and
he sold his interests in the vessels, and
engaged as captain of a steamboat ply
ing between New York and points on
the New Jersey coast During the same
time .his wife was helping along with
piling up their little fortune by running
Lake view Examiner! The hrlek work I'suoh he Is attached to tha staff of the
on both, th Odd Fellows' building and People's hospital in New Tork city. He
th Cathollo church is progressing in has writtea a book on "Diseases of th
a 1 r. oinciair personally with some In
Medford Mall Tribune: Supervisor I dulgenoe, preferring to think of him as
Erickson of the Crater national forest a harmless enthusiast, the doctor does
has completed arrangements for send- not pick his phrases when, it comes to
ing a number of telephone const rue tlo the book. His chare is deetdediv Brave.
a 'Upton Sinclair," he says, "would do
Astorian: Believing thy can Ilv 17 " r ununng o tne consiruo-
cheaper and better and that all will be "oa QI "ucn dooks as The Jungle" and I
better satisfied, the men employed In he Moneychangers,' and others, forn I
the mill at Hammond have started a his last theme he has become more thaiv I
movement to establish a cooperative a public nulsance--he Is a destroyer of I
boarding: house. human life In ad It Inn ' V
SB I
Mike Hornbeck. who lives three miles Pi0'"'" utlon does not
nortnnBt nr iTafn-a in T3air upon supposition or inference alone.
has bought 26 dairy cattle from the He clte cases which hav been brought
Willamette valley. The stock 1b pure- to his personal attention. One of his
bred Jersey, and the Haines correspond- patients, who had follnwad th Airo.
ent. of the Baker Herald says it I an tions of Mr. Sinclair in the attempt to
mportant addition to the dairy industry relieve suffering, died as s result of
mere. 1 v.. -rs r . . .
fasting. Several other patients, treated
by him, were reduced to the extreme of
physical weakness. and were restored
only after hTrolo measures had been
resorted to. Thus does the physician
emphasize the peril of resorting to
"fads" in the attempt to recover lost
New Brunswick, health.
wayside tavern at
J.
The case which resulted fatally was
i 18 a BPlondld aehlevpmpnt nf lttarnrv 1 .... ... .. .. .
Poses except aa right nf wnv fw ! X r ,1 . l 'i"",,F" 1,1 "uc"1' me notion tnat
.. . f nf-ay-for at and dramatic excellence and Shvlorif1i.A-.,t,i i v-
one of the JJard of -Avon'B rarest UhiA win h imna u v
,rallroad,and,'' pertinent to this state
merit Is the announcement In a news
;.i dispatch that several railroad sur
veys 'hate be "ri made to the coal
,' fields and bonds for a proposed line
are" now feeing offered for sale in
Europe."" '. ' v. ! .
't The order removing the Controll
' r bay land,s from, the forest reserve
waa signed by President Taft Octo
ber 18, 110. The soldier's scrip
a tsd for flUns; purposes October
character creations, in' striking thiB;joct le8Bon and heflitate before solng
drama from school literature, It is out In the market to bur o,tJ.
. v ....v. . j i.w iic-fcit., a. &t:a. ar
tist. There still rerc-faa. for suhstt.
tution, "Twelfth Night," ' "Julius
Caesar," "As You Like tt," "Mac
beth " and any numbef of other mas
terpieces of Shakcgpoarlan mold.
. Analyzatlon by adults may erase
the sordid attributes from this con
spicuous typo of Hebrew. In the
ships and other trifles. It :s a na
tional warning of the disgrace to
come from bargain counter citizen
ship and the corrupt use of money.
A Chicago waiter, who has saved
1 5 0.0 00 from tips, is oing to spend
the summer In Europe.' There is
grim satisfaction In, knowing what
enmetery ana saw this man weeping
over a little mound nf rkv nli t
knew th cause of the bltterneaa In hi.
heart GEORGE) W. DIXON.
Delivered and Paid For.
From the Popular Magazine.
The book agent approached resnent.
fully the desk of James S. Sherman, the
vice president of th United States, say
ing: -
"This set of books is for you. froo f
charge. There are a few celebrated
men to whom w wish to give a set,
thus affording you pleasure and giving
the bookn vn 1 1 1 n hl ttwLttaAM...
- - i,atulMU"lll,
Please sign thl receipt."
Mr. Sherman signed and smiled Tha
books were handsome. s
Three months later another asrent
appeared, asking payment for the books.
"But they were presented to me,"
objected the vice president.
in return for this receipt and nrnm.
lse to pay," explained the agent
moothly, producing the paper Sher
man had signed.
The vice president signed, made out
his check for the required amount, said
something about being stung, and was
about to hand the check over. On sec
ond thought he drew it back and wrote
on- u imt indorsement
Finally, when Cornelius was 35 years that of a woman living some 20 miles
of age, together they had saved $30,- from New Tork. Dr. Bassler was sum-
000 and he quit his old employer and moned on the telephone and assured
began tuildlng ' his 'own steamboats, that the case was on of life and death.
Then he began his strateglo methods of He went immediately to th patient
trying to drlv all competitors out of She was . suffering from pernicious
the business. He showed a singular anemia. The history of the case re-
ability In undermining them. vealed the fact that the patient had
'His policy at the time Was to bank- been a vegetarian, had eaten nuts only.
rupt competitors, and then, having ob- had tried meat and water and finally
talned a monopoly, to charge exorbitant had resorted to the fasting cur. 8h
prices. The public, which welcomed blm had touched nothing for ten days. All
as a benefactor, in declaring cheaper efforts to restore her proved unavailing;
rates, bad later to pay dearly for their h sank into complete coma and pres
premature and short-sighted Joy.- For antly died. -
the first five years his profits, accord- Dr. Bassler's attention was directed to
ing to Croff ut, reached $30,000 a year, Mr. Sinclair's infallible specific by a
doubling. In successive years. By the ony a little less grave. One morn-
time he Was 40 years old, five years ,n a woman was brought to his offie
after he started in for himself, he had ln a wheel chair. She was unconscious,
amassed a fortune of half a million shockingly emaciated, with a scarcely
dollars. perceptible pulse. Restoratives were
Vanderbilt eventually become on of administered. The woman regained con
the largest ship and steamboat build- sciousness, but was unable to stand or
ers in the United States and one of the vn raise her hands. In consultation
most formidable employers of labor. At tnat afternoon, th doctor heard that the .
one time h" had a. hundred vessels Patient had iust passed through nine
afloat Vanderbilt's success no doubt da-y" of fasting, two days of fruit Juices
arose from his destructive tactics to- nd then the fifth day Of a
ward his competitors. He was regarded relnen comprising five quarts of milk
universally as the buccaneer of the ship
ping world.
The Civil war, with it commerce
preying privateers, was an unpropi
tlous time for American mercantile ves
sels, Vanderbilt thereupon began bis
career as a railroad owner. He was. at
this time, 69 years ago, a tall, robust,
vigorous man. In 1861 he Is credited
with being worth $20,000,000. He knew
nothing of railroads, but he was shrewd
enough to believe ln the brute fore of
money. His first Important railroad
venture was In 1863 when he purchased
a large part of the stock of the New
Tork & Hartford railroad, and obtained
a charter for a connecting street rail
road through New York city. He began
the same .year to purchase large
amounts of New York Central railroad
stook. By purchasing a controlling in
terest In the Lake Shore, the Canadian
Southern and the Michigan Central rail
roads, . he extended his system to Chi
cago. Of the capital stock now compos
ing the trunk line, Vanderbilt owned
one-half. Upon his death he bequeathed
a day. It required six weeks of care
ful nursing to readjust tha physical
equilibrium.
Tanglefoot
By Miles
Overbolt
WHEN ANANIAS WASN'T.
I went to church one Sunday night and
occupied a pew
Where I could see the preacher with
nn nnnhBtmnli1 vl.w
his entire fortune to his son. William And "uA'IfS'. i,SloMd mr
K. Vanderbilt. excepting $11,000,000 be
queathed to the lafter's four sons, and
$1,000,000 to his own daughters.
Thus was rounded th great Vender.
bilt fortune which today Is recognised
as second largest among the great Amer
ican fortunes.
Tomorrow The Gould Fortune.
"This check is in full payment for a
set of books which are not worth a
darn, but the money is cheerfully paid
In acknowledgment of the smooth way
in which a gentlemanly book agent
came it over your Uncle Jim." -
A Post-Graduato Song.
I want to be an author,
My hand up to my face;
A thought upon my forehead,
. An air of studied grace I
J want to be an author,
With genius on my browj
I want to be an author,
And I want to be it nowl
Hymn That Got Votes.
From World's Work.j
This is how Governor Harmon made
more votes ln a single day than he had
ever won before ln his life. H had
just finished a long impromptu speech
to his friends, ths farmers, and when he
finished they gave him a hearty vote of
thanks.
"Then I was expected to reply." the
governor says, "and I got up again and
began
" T don't know what to say. This Is
too much '
"Then someone way back In the crowd
called out: "Don't say anything, lead us
In a hymn.. Let's sing "Blest Be the Tie
That Uln. " '
"Well, I tell you I was rather stunned
at that, but only for ,a moment. I did
happen to know that hymn, and so
Just screwed up my courage for it
takes a lot more courage to rais
hymn than it does even . to make
speech and hummed around it to get
the key and started her off. Luckily I
didn't have to carry it very .far, for 6000
throats took It up and a tremendous
burst of melody went up from that
grove that day that -must have been like
an- old fashioned camp meeting at its
loudest and best:
"'Blest be the tie that binds
. Our hearta luXLhrlatlan Jovej-
. The fellowship of kindred minds
- . Is like to that above." 7
At the eleotlon" which followed ths
vote given Harmon ' was astonishing.
Men who had sung "Blest Be th Tl
That Binds" with a man are not going
to vot against blm. .. .. ,
-Satisfied. V' v. , '" v -f
Ambitious Autbor--Hurrayt Five dol
lars for my latest stery. "Th Call of
the Lure!" - ,::" S. , ,:'".s.
Fast Friand Whom fromT U
Ambitious Author The express com
pany. . Theyulost 1 1 Woman's . Home
Companion.
as othpr neonle did.
But I never missed the sermon, though
I kept my vision hid.
For somehow, somewhere near my side.
I heard a fellow say:
"I'd give more If I hnd It, but I'm
nearly broke today:
I sold a pair of yearling calves and
And th
t
"By heck,
to 1
"For Ananias talked like that about
Vila -ar aA , naif" Wfc
got a dime or two, A
here It is In gold and bills. It's all I
that I can do." jf I
eok, that's Ananias," I whlsperjC I
to myself, ' I
A " r I waa or peir."
nother Reformer And "drh w'lh J???i
(Oontrlbuted to Tha Journal by Walt Maaon
tha famona Kanaaa poet, nil puwrngu are a
rpsular feature of thli column in Th. r.n.
Journal.) . " '
1 said,
"Somebody lied," I said, said l. "about
old Ana's death. '
I'll keep my lookers shut,"
"or he mlarht dl
"Perhaps I'm only dreaming." Then I
v ' tuna1 mv nk& " ,
H sat. In comfort In the shade, and And then I heard a woman's voir' a,-
exercised his nimble Jaws. This world ..,.vmur.mu.i:ed.: . ."That's the truth.
much better might be made If he were ,ftViotfi "who'
asked to frame the laws. It Jarred him I heard tho chink of silver as it foil
when he looked around, to see injustice 1,1,0 the hat,
everywhere; and to his ears there came And 1 J!,',t,ned for the voices, but th
the sound of people wailing In .despair Th.a 1 fh 0iPj!Hl ' that
He had a gentle, tender heart thit Then i.iVlS
f0r4h.se whose lives wer dour, the mar- There Js" nearly fifty Solllrj that is
tyrs of the busy mart, the victims of the owing on it yet" . n 1 "
money power. For all who suffered, he Then I,i00.k n cnance and rubbered at
ima signs; ne stood up for the poor 1.4 t h.-n.H - i"y r'.n8
? JSr.i..!Sf f . '..-Tf" i V .b?oron1?nPgP,,br?deWh0
h. 1.-,. TZi r:'u" w maKB. Anen i.fraDD6 mr bat and beat Ifcla
was
mnmr larn.ar .
Idle boast, he. talked the hours down, Fop f,0"nit W Ananias was that 'rich
An s.maam1 i. I B ... . I ( tlf1 Tina ii.k T waa
one by one; and, tied up to a hitching
post, his horse was Standlnar In th. .
his nors was swearlns- at th rn. n . Minister Defends Ttnm -t-
wuBua. urn vno ponies us. '.and rub- ' From the Baltimore Rim
;m?. , H1'cted and stamping Ther ' was Intense surprise In th
till It lost it Shoes. His animAI I Tnhernarlii mnatlncr r. .
schemes I don't indorse; that sort of when. th Rev. Dr. A. Bl Ballard' nr'es
man I most despise who mniltha Kl. dnnt at Uia Ocnn rirnv. r-.. ..L'
theories while his horse la
lth th. iin.Mn. ... . - . r.---:-iiever surer
ji.-.-jti ' -iuxj 1. . . -1 uunaa vunsoienuous Scrunl - ..
- . 11.. m . .
. .. : . . r. ' li . : I lue UBO "l "iuoror iodscco. Many mln-
Copyrlght, 1911, by - r A . f ' Istera and nthere In th. ...ji"
oaorta Matthew Adama. LiS, hi..;; rl"..
. t i r,H,(l - v, . to his assertion that ther is no Wron
1 Legal DeflniUpn. , n the moderate use of either. Hsaid
This story describes very neatly the however, that because of th. .1
xperiencs a good many clients hav might set for others he' ma ...
with the sort of lawyers who, like Dod- liquor or tobacco. - ..
on and Fogg, take eases on "speo." , . fWell. how about -elga'retWr- one In-
, An Injured miner told a friend that dlgnant hearer .rv.. Z
a certain lawyer was bringing a suit not countenance the usa of thamr'
sIHt nsen M- ... . I ( tT J a . Z ' -
whw,.,, , ruuni nee wny .not' TBr!l-il
for him on
"What- is a. contingent fee-Mlo von clerarvman. wh 1. :":v,.w "p"" .:
know, Jlmmler' asked, his. friend. . S old "nrovirin th. . J JL'Jt," V. y"?5? '.'
"Sure, ' I know,'t renTied Jlmml nf tobacco Th.t.;.-
mi in no,.,... .1.. i... ...l I- ... 1. . i greet .
' " " ,v,.iV. in mwjrni iiui.il- matny -cneap ClBarettea contain 1-
ins? If you wla it youv s;et nothinr." - I sua drus." tala
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