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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 81, 1911.
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were not apparently over . extended. : charges beyond those provided b! owned the parent holding comnanles. I equate to, its growing needs.
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C. 8 JACKSON..
' . rnMlaned trtrj Tnbi( (except Sunday) and
. ry Bundar moral ir at Th Journal Band-
lot, fifth mid Yamhill atraeta, Portland, Or.
Bntertd at tha noJtofftr at Portland. Or..
. r"f tranamlaalon through tha Bialla aa aeeond
! matter.
SKI.KI'HONRS Main TITS; Home, A-flOi. 1 .
s AU dVpartmrnta reached by the numbers.
Tell tea operator Tint department you want.
r REIGN AIlVERTISINf) RKPRERKNTATTVE,
Benjamin A Kentnor Co.. Brnnawlrk Bulldlnn,
1- Fifth aTmir. New York; Uiis reopie a
V Oaa Building, Chlrniro.
Pnbiiaiiar ' aa reflected in an extended, review
of the year printed In yesterday's
Journal.
THERE IS OXE MISSING
0
fcntwcrlptlnn Torrna tj idhII or t any addroaa
In tha United 8tte or Mexico.
DAILY.
-Out yarr (0.00 I One month $ .60
; SUNDAY.
.One year $2.60 I One month I .29
DAILY AND SUNDAY.
; Ona year IT. SO I One month f .83
8-
Thieves at home must hang-, but
he that puts
Into his overgorged and bloated
purse
The wealth of Indian provinces,
escapes.
Cowper.
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IV 1912
ff
REOON will pass Into the new
year with a splendid confi
dence. By the test of the
past, the future Is assured.
. The business and Industrial life of
the state was never so full of pros
pect. The status In the principal city is
a fair reflection of the general at-
Biosphere. Practically all the Ore
gon towns are In the same forward
jmovement manifest In Portland.
ine metropolis is Dy necessity a
general index to conditions through
out the state.
, In Portland the same sustained
growth characteristic of several re
cent years is fully manifest. Port
land Is one metropolis on the Pacific
coast that has moved steadily ahead
oblivious of the unrest and inactivity
apparent in the rest of the country.
1 Portland's bank clearings for 1911
were $557,464,848. Their sustained
Increase is revealed in the fact that
in 1910 they were $517. 171.867; in
1909, $391,028,890; in 1908, $310,
66,512; and In 1907. $350,932,422.
:j Portland's postofflce receipts for
"1911 were $1,000,200. In other
years they were: In 1910, $925,163;
In 1909, $778,853; in 1908, $680,
SIS; in 1907, $628,475.
Portland's building construction
for 1911 was $19,147,340. In 1910
it was $20,886,202; in 1909. $13.-
. 481,380; in 1908, $10,405,131; in
1907 $9,445,982. The figures for
1911 appear to show a smaller
building activity than for 1910, but
; It is due to a change in the building
code, under which the 1911 aggre-
' gate is decreased by about $2,500,
OQO. .... r This steady progress, as reflected
by the foregoing barometers of bus
iness, has been accompanied by an
era of statewide railroad construc
tion, In which, Including 1910, more
track has been built than in the past
dozen years. The completion of the
Oregon Trunk, the opening of the
Tillamook line, the construction
work on the Mount Hood line,
the opening of the road to Klamath
Falls and the invasion of southwes
tern Oregon by the Reno road, are
examples of new mileage brought in
to use.
The extension of the Oregon Elec
tric, the assembling of forces for the
line to Harney, and the extension of
the Harriman system from Eugene
v to Coos Bay, are among the authen
ticated programs of railroad build
ing, to which may be added lines
' told of in current rumors.
It affords a retrospect and an out
look that seem to augur unprece
dented activity for 1912.
NE day while a little girl was
herding her goats, she fell
asleep. And while she slept
she dreamed. And. as she lay
there dreaming, a Hottentot came up
and looked at her lying in the hot
sun. Then, he walked off and
caught one of the fattest little
goats, and held Its mouth fast, as he
stuck it under his arm.
He looked back to see that she was
still sleeping, and Jumped down into
one of the "sluits." He walked down
'the bed of the "sluit" a little way
and came to an overhanging bank,
under which, sitting on the red sand,
were two men. They cut the kid's
throat with a long knife, and cov
ered up the blood with the sand.
When the little girj awoke it was
almost sunset. She sat up very
frightened, but her goats were all
about her. She began to drive them
home. "I do not think there are any
lost," she said. When she brought
her flock home, a fat old Boer put
his stick across the door, and let
the little girl's goats jump over, one
by one. He counted them. "Have
you been asleep today?" he said.
"there Is one missing." Such is the
story that a great writer has told us.
Every few days a Ilttlo girl Is miss
ing at sunset. She is usually "one
of the fattest little goats" in the
herd, untaught in all that tends to
Insure a young girl's safey. '
One after another victim is added
to the staggering list of the lost. One
after another has "Its mouth held
fast," and is "stuck under an arm."
And, as the facts are gathered, the
clues traced down. It usually hap
pens that mother "has been asleep
that day.
But, when the child disappears,
mother awakes from her dreams and
looks about. For days and days she
grieves and mourns and beats her
breast. Her little girl is gone.
Maybe she went via "the overhang
ing bank, under which, sitting or. the
red sand, were two men;" maybe she
has 'been lured into that black nieht-
life that often ends by the carbolic
acid route. fc
Small cbmfort for the agonized
mother, then, are those dreams and
those hours of rosy sleep! Small
comfort, then, Is her blind faith in
the Innocence and ignorance of her
little girl! Small comfort, then, that
testimony of a stranger "she often
told me of an old man, as she called
him, who gave her presents or took
her to theatres," or the words of
the man to whom her lost daughter's
last sentence was, "111 write to you
Just as soon as I know where I am
going." Such are the stories that
the great newspapers tell us day by
day.
further In the limitation of the fees
and have still been on the side of
Justice.
The fact that the heirs live in a
distant country and have no means
of defending their rights in an
American court is a weighty reason
for the probate Judge to protect
their interests. It is to render such '
Justice that probate and other courts
are established.
During the year the Atlantic
Steamship company, the National
Electric Lamp company, the powder
trust, the steel wire trust, the soft
coal combine, the United States Shoe
Machinery company, the lumber
PET POODLE PLAGUE
F
THE RECORD OP 1911
T
HE greatest event of the year.
touching four hundred million
people, is the re-birth of China.
The last 100 days of the dying
year have seen the fire of revolution
catch province after province, until
in the assembly that proclaimed tho
republic and chose the prospective
president, 18 provinces, and those
the most populous and most ad
vanced in the whole empire, respond
ed to the call.
The great cities of the south have
raised the flag of the republic. Nan
king Is chosen as the new capital
It is a world power whose birth Is
wEnessed, breaking the bonds of su
perstitlon, corruption, oppression
and ignorance.
On the African continent Italy has
seized the last country on the bor
ders of the Mediterranean unowned
or uncontrolled by a European pow
er. But the army of 40,000 men
with which she attempted the con
quest of Tripoli Is needing heavy re
inforcement. The king of Italy has
announced the addition of Tripoli to
the Italian kingdom, so the die is
cast and she must go on to the bit
ter end.
Russia in Persia has stretched the
agreement with Britain to cover in
vasion and ruthless war in Persian
territory which the two great powers
had bound themselves to protect.
Persia lies helpless at her feet.
In the summer of 1911 France.
Germany and England reached
the very edge of war. , Armies
numbered by the million, and
navies armed with the most
modern engines of destruction, would
have met In deadly conflict, and a
hundred millions of civilized and
Christian people would have given
their best to slaughter.
The slate of disputes may have
been cleaned, by the settlement be
tween France and Germany. But
Jealousy and ill will between Ger
many and England remain.
f'J
GEORGE PEABODY
T
THE OLD YEAR
ACCORDING to Bradstreet's re
view, 1911 as a business year
should be divided in two parts.
The first eight months were
generally a period of disturbance,
short credits In Industry, withdraw
als from savings banks, tariff revi
sion, crop scares, closely, considered
band-to-mouth buying and slow col
lections. The last four months were
a period of some relaxation, caution,
, growth, more cheerful feeling and
a disposition to look on the brighter
tide of things. The civil Buits under
, the Sherman law are set down as
contributing to the uncertainty, but
the adjustments under supreme
. -u "t"iamaB8ed lr, , London, where
oi uie taw uy iiuenor courts in tne
reorganization of some of the large
corporations are assigned as a con
tributing cause of the more cheerful
aspect.
i It is recited in the review that
though cotton was a larger crop
than In other years, the lower
prices brought the net returns down
to a lower aggregate than in 1910.
With trust prosecutions hanging fire
the tendency was apparently to fear
the worst, while the actual Judicial
decisions seemed to bring an almost
undue feeling of cheerful relief. The
gloomy viewB of Wall street while
the forebodings were on, gradually
extended to other lines and sections
of the country, but not affecting the
south until low cotton prices made
their appearance.
f, Speculation, whether in stocks or
commodities, was closely restricted
throughout the year, but in spite of
this, new stock flotations were of
Urge volume. Bonds 'sold better
than in 1910. Short time obliga
tions were actively bought, and the
close of the year finds most stocks
higher than at the opening.
Domestic trade was large, but not
Mexico has passed in 1911 from
the autocratic presidency of Diaz to
the constitutional and progressive
presidency of Madero, who waB duly
elected on October 1. The abortive
insurrection of General Reyes hav-i
lng ended in December with his sur
render, Madero and his government
are now free to restore internal
order and to encourage commerce
and industry throughout the Mexican
republic.
In Great Britain the long con
tinued attempt of her house of lords
to dominate legislation, and to make
ineffective the endeavors of the Lib
erals for more popular government,
has ended by the surrender of the
lords. The restricted powers of the
upper house henceforth enable them
only to obstruct the passage of lib
eral measures during the life of a
single parliament. The coronation
of King George in Westminster Ab
bey on June 22 marked the con
tinued loyalty of the British empire.
The Indian Durbar in December was
the proclamation to the world of the
resolve of Britain to maintain her
overlordshlp in the Indian peninsula.
HE man who really blazed the
trail on which wholesale phil
anthropists In America have
followed was George Peabody,
born In Danvers, Mass., in 1795, and
dying in London in 1869.
More will be heard of him from
now on. The trustees of the Pea-
'body fund established by him with
an amount of $3,500,000 for the
promotion of education In the south
ern states, are appealing to the pub
lic and to friends of southern edu
cation In particular, for $1,000,000
to complete the perpetual endow
ment of the Peabody college for
white teachers at Nashville, Tenn.
Since 1875 this college has been
the central and leading normal
school in the south. There is no
state institution, say the trustees In
a published statement, which can do
the work of the Peabody college for
teachers. By the terms of the trust
the time for winding up Its affairs
has come. These trustees have al
ready given a sum of $1,000,000
from the fund. In the dissolution
of the Peabody fund
have made available $500,000 more,
provided the remaining $1,000,000
to complete the proposed endow
ment Is raised from other sources.
George Peabody showed In his
benevolences the same wisdom and
foresight that governed him In the
world of business. His fortune was
he was
the founder of the firm of George
Peabody & Co., bankers and mer
chants. To help relieve the distress of the
respectable poor In that metropolis
Mr. Peabody built Immense rooming
or apartment houses. In them the
families of the working class found
homes of several rooms, with baths
and other fittings contributing to
comfort and health. The rents
r.hareed were nn more than wptp
then paid for dirty and unwholesome i The ris,ng C0Bt of food in. France
cottages and hovels In the districts j and ln Ausria led to rioting In the
where the Peabody homes were , ptreetB wnicn was "PPressea with
built. But such rents sufficed to I difficulty.
maintain the buildings, provide for
ROM Paris comes food for
thought for those lost souls
who lavish their affections up
on canines. A disfiguring hu-
trnst, the anthracite coal carriers, man ailment, known as "dogmouth,"
the wall paper trust, the bath tub has broken among those females
! trust, the1 Southern Wholesale Gro- ? 'cn ",wn? ,nay? IO
eery association, and the United .-;?, ... 7T? In
states Steel corporation, have all ln the doir lg - i(mlrm ta rnh thelr
been brought mjo the light of day. muzzles against things and sneezing
Against some or inem oia suits, drag- or coughing nndulv. But. when con
ging for many years, have been ad- tracted by the human, the svmntoms
vancoa to nearing ana decree or ais- are virulent. The mouth beoonies
solution, in other cases the defend- inflamed and swells terrifically. In
ants have pleaded guilty and have extreme cases the Inflammation
been punished only by small fines, spreads over the face to such an
Some of the suits are new. Other alarming extent that the eyes are
trusts, like the International Har- closed. The afflicted one suffers
vester company, have submitted intense pain, is feverish, and often
themselves to either dissolution or delirious. Unsightly festers and sores
readjustment of their corporate ex- come-about the mouth and nose and
lstence. In December the accused snread all over th mnennn mm.
meat packers of the great Chicago brane.
corporations were at last-brought to A few cases of the disease have
the bar of Justice, and their trial appeared in London, but, as yet,
is proceeding as the year closes, there have been no signs of its
President Taft announces that dur- spread to the United States. Amer-
mg nfs term 37 anti-trust suits have lean doctors, however, are every-
Deen Drougnt. where admonishing neonle not to
fondle their pets, and above all to
The reciprocity treaty with Can- refrain from kissing them. People
ada was born, grew up, and died in are urged to keep pets from llck-
1911. Duly signed by the president ing the handB or faces of children
and passed by both houses in July and to discard that bad habit in so
last, it was killed by the Canadian many American families, of allowing
elections on September 21. the dog to lap up the remaining
morsels on a plate or dish. Even,
The general arbitration treaties when the dish Is carefully washed
between the United States, Great afterward, the germ is liable to re-
Britain and France having been ne- main ana be conveyed to the human
gotlated by the president with the who follows in the wake of the
ambassadors of England and France, canine.
were submitted for approval to the in Paris one woman has been
senate in due course, and referred greatly disfigured about the mouth
to the committee on foreign rela- as aftermath of the pernicious
tions. The committee divided, and plague. Ugly scans have been left
the majority reported against accep- and her physician has declared that
tance in the form proposed. The they will Increase rather than dls-
senate adjourned on August 2 with- appear with time. In another case
out action. Protests have been the throat of the victim was so
raised in the press generally, and swollen that strangulation was nar
ln the churches universally, against rowly averted. Other distressing In-
the senate's action. stances of depleted health and hid
eous eruptive flagellations have been
Aviation entered a new phase in made public.
1911. The day of spectacular glides The misfortunes of dog-loving
and spirals is passing. A class of women are never of absorbing in
scientific men engineers and sail- terest to right thinking people, and
ors is developing long distance fly- yet any enlightenment that may
ing along safe and sane lines. Post- serve to lessen the drift toward such
master General Hitchcock sees pos- imbecllic tendencies is to be wel-
siblllties of mall delivery by aero- corned, always keeping ln mind the
plane ln the not distant future. fact that light is antiseptic.
, The Canal Zone
Journal of American Medical
" ' ' f--" Auoctation .- i- ;;
Letters From tne People
Postal savings banks have become
a national reality in 1911. The
timnllAr HMna and town a navlnr been
9 I r . ft . -r , m w.
uupyiicu, yuaiai uauivs ncio "iucu untloii In tola department abouia not exceed
on Auartist 1 in New York. Chicacro worta in lengtfcand moat be areompanled
- ' i rv th nam inri airfts r the mmnnmr.
and Boston.
Believes in Drastic Methods.
Portland. Or Deo. 17, 1911 To the
Editor of The Journal I have read a
great many opinions regarding Gov.
' ' " " ,4.. , i" iicw ana ciome mem wiin jiean
The answer "Is Is and b00d ,n ordw. t0 reaUw thelr mean-
want to. I own a lot g. The report of the department of
nd on which "v sanitation for October, 1911, ahowa that
oould nof rent the earn aurlna- that month h. r. 7 A9
suited. I ,. ay hang- them, they should
be fed to a lot tot hungry wolves. I
could do it and consider I was doing
the world a kind act Tie them down
and drag a harrow over them a few
time, if they plead Insanity hang them
firi mnpral nHntn1a fftvai them no time
to repent, they need suoh people ln the Again the report of the department of
Infernal reglona and the quicker they sanitation of the Isthmian canal corn-
get there the better for all concerned. I mission leads one to marvel at the ftl-
W. M, CLEMENTS. rnvrouioio result or iraineu, buioh-
ut.w .nun iu coniroi disease, sus won
Why Weeds Overrun Vacant Lota. who. wi th JTJS. H2Z
Portland. Deo. 29. To ths Editor of hm win n.ei k i. !.. ...... t,.i
The Journal-Under heading of "Clean 7 X A, r ",:Z. 7
uo your vacant lots now." Mr. Hoock f -hur.r. rA ,,.,.. ei.,
aka the question "Why cannot the olty porU are naaeJuaUl- Dna mUBt vlauai
ma ino "wnona in uV ise tne facts and clothe them with flesh
grown ioibt in
They do not want
in . Westmoreland
Dungaiow dui couia noc reni tne same during that month there were 87,49
on account of the weeds which atood col0PeI and n gl whlt8 empl0yes at
five feet tall and prevented two per- work on the canal and railroad. Thirty-
sons from walking abreast on the side- thrM coi0red employee died of disease
walk. I went to the mayor's office last .na .i trnrn . n
August to see what could be done and deatha or an averaga annUal rate per
his secretary told me he would lay tlij thousand of 12.48. This is the death
matter before the proper authorities. I rate for October for nearly 88 000 negro
alao mads my complaints to Captain iaborer8i working in what was, a few
Moore of the police force telling him year8 ag.0i tne pe,t nole of the tr0pica.
that as I understood the law, the own- Thi. .i0,1Pnai fh. iwiai
ers could be compelled to cut the weeds Association says that the death rate for
on their property or the city would do tna Unlted Btates for mo (or all
ii, ano tnar. me nnu 10 pruper.y, i classes and climates, was 16.1. nearly 4
oe paid as una. wqpiain jaoore in- deaths per thousand higher than the
lormea mo inai mere was no amen iw. death rate for the pdore8t ola8 of la.
If there Is no such law. why does Cap- hm-Ar. in h a th.
tain Moore instruct his officers to no- wnlr .mniv. nmvw,,w,, h.h iv.
wta aieMaill ivtna Am aaaa Va alaan nn I . '
ll r. . t'Ti ' v riled from disease and two from vlo-
toeur , ui iti ie fi Mmi a total annual death rate of 6.83
muniy on aiuna i r-ant oavtnieenin Dfr thr.Mn.nrt -,,,.,, mm
.i.wi in i.u .u am.Jirl .1 federal census show that the American
cleaned up to this day. "Why can't olty navtn(r tne ,0WeBt death raU ,n
tU, Z J ... i V il 1 1910 wa West Orange. N. J., where
e-ki;.. fci t tne aeBtn rate WBB 8 B. whlle the highest
vj. A. I (loaf h ym t ,V,a, i-hnMl.., C
1 1 Tl' OA 7 a frt.L lv.a
Cordial Words far The Journal. the rate anions: white mDioves
Roseburg, Or., Deo 17. 1911. To on the isthmus. It is true that
the Editor of the The Journal The In any city infants and the aared. not
journal is highly appreciated ana I to speak of the chronically diseased.
win oa on nana wiin subscriptions rorineip 10 swell tne death rate, whereas
the ensuing; year in due time. I greatly the employes on the Isthmus are men
admire your firm and noble stand for In the working period of life; yet this
truth, and the betterment for all human- comparison only shows the progress
lty and your outspoken denunciation of thai has been made since the Isthmus
graft, and the exploiters of labor, who, came under control of American sanl-
through political positions use their iary orncers. A survey of the death
offices for destructive crinclDles In- rate among the white American noon-
stead of constructive and progressive latlon, Including women and children,
principles. Strike from the shoulder gives even more conclusive proof of
and strike hard along these lines. this achievement. Of the seven white
JERRY BUCKLEY. employes who died ln October, only one
was an American, a man aged 44, who
AnniJiM. XCilv tn Flo-h. Hff.la. died of chronic nenhrltls. Tha onlv
Th. n.ii n, t h vHitn, ,l omer death among white American men.
The Journal Plant a few Castor beans Z?I?n ,t"d hlWren in the canal son,
over your lawn, let them grow and go ourlng; the month of October was that
to seed. Moles, vermin, etc.. will leave J. a c,h"d' ?geAJ months, who died
for parts unknown. For further ln- ot Peritonitis. Think of what this
matlon address means! Nearly 12,000 white men, wo-
MR8. C. O. E. HILL, na cmliren rrom the United
Ths Dalles, Oregon. T. - ? eXacU UleBe tig'
luuiuuiiig; aooui uuu or tne white
employes nrevimiRlv mAnHAn.H r-
Pointed Pararfranka !lvln happllr. "mfortabiy and safely
JTUmiCU J-axagrapilS I ln What was, a few years ago. a hot
bed of disease and the annual death
What about that ship of yours that Is raie among them, as indicated by the
to come in has it started yet? deaths for October, was 2.03 per thou-
sand. And yet the Leaa-ue for Mri-
The love of money Is truly the root 'cal Freedom, headed by Senator Works.
of much evil if you marry for gold.
No man can serve two masters, and
demands that the president revoke his
order limiting the right to treat disease
on the Isthmus to properly educated
persons, and that the wonderful results
no woman can serve both style and I k-V . . , I onaIu 1 "sum
secured by the toil and sacrifice of rfe.
votea, clear headed scientific men b
a boy all the liberty he want. ZW .ene" 01 ae,uae(1
11 be lucky If h. doesn't land ln unl"f or!1 . w"lous enthu.la.ts.
uia j," jBiemiiB wno nave mace
possible such result, ln the canal .one
would have a far better right to call
and gets It, he wishes he had hoped for K"" ,k ""au scientists- than
k.a. I nave the persons who masauerade b-
Glve
and he
Jail.
And when a man hopes for the best
something better.
The year closes on the denuncia
tion by the United States of the
treaty with Russia of 1832 in pro- West's attitude in handling those who
test against the unvarying, nnjusti- ar condemned to die. I never would
fiable and insulting exclusion from
that country of American Jews. The but f anyone wa. to take the life of oSe
hsinn. rtf that n a t Inn AmnnAA that mv lnvd nn,R mm th.v AA th. 14tt1
her citizens of whatever birth or Hoiat h
race be protected in the exercise of T , a
treaty given rignia.
THE BIBLE
T
Bauer, of the Reading railroad said
during a strike which took place on his
road a few years ago, "The public be
damned." Why are there so many lynch
ing. In the south? It Is because the
law. are not severe enough or not swift
enough. I suppose if the murderers of
power and influence the Hills' and the Holzman child are
It issued last year, oonv,oiea 1 V M. , De rorlven Dv
ovuav vua siw uiti,vij vviiiCincu. x b id
HE! American Bible society is in
its 95th year. But with its
age Its
In the labor world the past year
has been full of Industrial unrest.
In June the British strikes began.
Seamen ln British ports to-the num
ber of 20,000, struck for higher
a a. i i
the trustees f"! ou" l" '"8""" lfleir
union, in eariy August me aockers
and laborers' strike in London saw
70,000 involved. It spread to Liver
pool, and the railroad and streetcar
men took part. On August 17 a gen
eral strike of railroad fmen was
called and 200,000 responded. Un
der promise of a royal commission
to investigate and relieve their griev
ances, the men returned to work in
four days, but not untir the entire
nation was ln distress and famine
was in sight At the height of the
strikes 400,000 men were out. The
commission acted as conciliators.
Substantial increases in wages were
given, and the federation of the
railroad unions was recognized. Con
siderable advances or wages were
given the unskilled strikers. "
grows.
from the Bible house, ln New' York. tha oj,,, wh0 should be aireoUy con
ana irom us iweive rareign ana nine
home agencies, 8,231,722 volumes of
the scriptures. It circulates the Bi
ble ln more than 100 languages. Of I
the 1,623,394 copies Issued from the
agencies of the society abroad the
majority was in the great Asiatic lan
guages.
The Lure of the Author.
From the New Tork World.
One wonder, why so many novel, are
written. Yet consider the statement Just
riade by the manager, of the play
adapted from "Ben Hur." They have
laid 250,000 In royalties to the estate
of It. author and expect to pay as much
The
000,
rore tne public under this name. inr
the life-saving work of Colonel Gore-as
and his assistants is, ln the highest
sense, both Christian and scientific
News Forecast of tne
Week
Washington. Dec. SO New Tor-n
day ln the national capital will be made
tim."
SEVEN SACRED BOOKS
The Scriptures of tho Christians.
their oversight and perpetuate their
usefulness
was no taint.
On Mr. Peabody's fortune therrithe Missouri. Kansas & Texas rail
road, on the Illinois Central, and
on the Harriman system. In all of i
these recognition of federated un
ions has been a burning question.
EXORBITANT FEES
C
OUNTY JUDGE CLEETON Is
fully warranted in resisting the
payment of exorbitant fees to
attorneys and others in pro
bate matters. Twenty-five hundred
dollars each was allowed by the
coniDanv to the heirs for tha danth
of a record volume. Repression was of four Greek laborers killed on the
la evidence la buying, stocks of
goods were kept down, and small
and frequent rather than large or
ders were the ryle. ' .
.But basic conditions were sound.
United Railways. An attorney asked
for a fee of f 500 each and added
stenographer's and administrator's
charges. ':"
Judge Cleeton cat the fees to $400
In this country the year n,ag been
marked with strikes of shopmen on
The revolt of the people against
the , exactions and control of the
trusts found determined expression
In 1911. Long pending suits against
Standard Oil and the tobacco trust
came before the supreme court,
which decreed the dissolution of
those giant oppressors. Both of
them submitted In form to the court
orders, and prbceeded to spilt them
selves up into their component parts.
But the control of the parts remains
The word "Bible" or Holy Scrip
tures" 1. the customary term in church
mnA th.nlnffv tnr thm anMfa1n attri,11 v
The estimated expenditure of the acknowudged collection of the end and
Bociety for the coming year is over tne New Testament writings. It is a
$700,000. Of this $250,000 must fact of history that ln the time of
come from the free will offerings of Chriat the Jew. possessed a collection
the peODle of "acred books which differed widely
.1 x. ... from one another in subject, style,
With Its still older sister, the origin and scope, and it i. also a fact
British and Foreign Bible Society of that they regarded all such writings
London, the American Bible society Invested with a character which dis-
i .. , , , , ' tlnguished them from all other books.
is ever Increasing the flood of copies Tnla WM tne dlvlna authority of every
of the one book that never grows on9 of the books and of every part of
old, and is the source of faith of all each book,
nVirlaHun nennlA torlav This belief of the Jew. Wa. con-
Christian people toaay. flrmed fey ouf and nU ap08tls(I.
It Is impossible to Imagine the ror they supposed its truth in their
modern world without the Bible. It teaching., used It as a foundation of
has entered, insensibly, perhaps, Into "e,r doctrine, and Intimately connected
... 4 v . , with It the religious system of which
our literature, our homes, our ln- y were the founders. The book, thus
stltu tions and our individual beliefs, approved were handed down to the
But it is no less a vital force with Christian church as the written record
millions now than in the old davs ot divine revelation before the coming
minions now tnan m tne oia aays of The trnths of ChrlBtlan rev
when its few printers and publishers eia0n were made known to the apos
were hunted from city to city, and ties either by Christ himself or by the
paid for their work with their liberty Holy Ohoet They constitute what is
' H rri., Tfia called the "Deposit of Faith." to which
ana tneir lives. nothing has been added since the apo-
If it be objected that the effect of tollc age. Some of the truth, were
Ribln issues in enrolling convnrta tn committed to writing under the lnspir-
Christianity is not comparable r
tne uumutii oi miiiiuu. vi copies put New Testament.
into the hands 'Of the people there is I Written originally to Individual
nna mnd annwAr. Tha tmaaa nf churches or person., to meet particular
oi.,o h,, necessities, and accommodated, as they
,.,, Uvv an were, to particular and existing clr
Piled. cumstancee, these books were gradual-
We do not forget the story that v received by ,the universal church as
r.lnn Smith tnlrl nf hi. inspired, and with the sacred books of
., tw., tl)e Jwg oongtituted the Bible.
He was one of a class of twenty who The Bible, therefore, may be said to
answered an evangelist's appeal, be made up of two distinct collections,
What of the nineteen others? , He whJoh correspond with two successive
m.m x . . .. and unequal period, of time in the
oia noi Know, uui wno snail Bay history of man. The older of -these
that the preacher failed since Gipsy collections, mostly written in Hebrew,
Smith Btood fast by his profession corresponds with the many centuries
nrl haa rnrrlnd tha rniwl m.... during which the Jewish people enjoyed
and has carried tne gospel, message a natlonai existence, and form, the
round the world. So of the Bible. Hebrew, or Old Testament, literature;
The book may lie unopened and dust the more recent collection, begun not
covered in the homes of too many of l0B' aftetvur .Lord's ascension, and
. . , . . " made up oi Greek writings. Is the early
us in these days Yet what would christian, or New Testament, lltera
he do without it whose resolve is ture.
The Bible, as the inspired record of
revelation, contains ths word of God;
that Is, It contains those revealed
truths which ths Holy Ghost wishes to
be . transmitted in writing. Much ot
ths Scripture cams to its writers
through the channels of ordinary knowl
edge, but Its sacred character and di
vine authority are not limited to those
parts which contain revelation strict
ly so termed. Th. primary author 1.
the Holy Ghost, or, a. it Is commonly
expressed, the uman authors wrote
000 copies never in cheap form, and brilliant a. usual with Tht T president's
ha. probably earned another $260,000 for reception at the Wt. Housed the cu8!
.... w. . mm a rv hrse irfo m a,i.4. w
"Mrs. Wigs, of the Cabbage Patch." . f .,. ,Z. V "IV
nan who wrote It Aside from the glory ,h i??.8.1" rat?"diate fa'
or satisfaction, every novelist, whither iBnJrSm1!f"J th !.r,ff' ,M far
man or woman, is expecting to create " th? n0"M of representative, la con-
some day a "Ben-Hur" or David Har- rnla- Meases are expected from
mo yicomcm nt mi rany ogre aeanng
with Alaska, the cotton schedule and
the report of the tariff board on that
subject, the postal commission's re
port and probably one on financial and
monetary reforms.
The senate interstate commerce cohn-
mlUee, which Is investigating trust
problems, will resume Its hearings Fri
day, but the Lorlmer Investigating
committee, the Stanley committee that
is investigating the steel trust and sev
eral other' committees of similar natn r a
will not resulme their activities until
the following week.
During the week the state legisla
tures of Kentucky, Maryland. Rhon
Island, Massachusetts, Mississippi ond
one or two other states will convene
ror their regular sessions. Special lr
set on a better life? What of those
who have loved and lost and who
look to the Bible only for a revela
tion and a hope for the life beyond?
Men may differ in religious be
liefs. One may strive, to serve his
master and Ms fellowmen in one
way, and one in another. But all
may, and they do, agree In both be
lief and actlott-that tha Bible society
U'nder the Influence of divine Inspira
tion.
Concerning the oldest history of the
text or tne uia Testament writings
inero exist. aimo.t no positive evi
dence. The books were written prob
ably upon skins, perhaps also on linen
As paper was also used from very
early times ln Egypt, it 1. possible
that It wa. employed and parchment
anneara tn hn v h..n l n m.
',: ueixui meir rujuiar sessions, special In
roll seems to have. hn th. ,,oi I ...... .....- . .7
reiroi Bixtiira m me meeting or tne
the pen was a pointed reed, the charac- New York legislature, as the annual
r"tW'r A HeDrew- Specimens message of Governor Dlx Is expected to
of this writing are also preserved; the deal with matter, of unusual import-
,KVIUla, Boma, un cuins, ance.
and in somewhat different form, in Other events of tne week of more or
Samaritan writings. No details are at less public interest will include the lo-
hand concerning the way in which the cal option .elections ln Ontario the
i.V w2" mu't'PIed and preserved. general elections ln Prince Edward
The fifth chapter and the eighteenth Island, the annual New Tear's day
' uvea mat tne Ara- rose tournament at Pasadena, Cal., the
" M oecume popular uy opening or tne annual exhibition of the
the time that the gospel was written. National Association of Automobile
uu ,i. urn? u miumra wiin certainty Manufacturers ln New York city, and
that the use of the new alphabet in the resumption of the federal rrand 1ni-v
Bible manuscripts of the last pre- investigation at Indianapolis into ths
"""""" KBiiiurioa wa. general, a re anegea Mcwamara dynamiting con.plr-
ww.fc tt ii .v. ii I, ,i,u wntirmea oy a I acy,
careiui examination or the Beptuagint
wnn reierence to tne manuscript used
by the translators. After the Aramalo
writing wa. once In use among the
Jews It soon took the form in which we
now nave it
The art of printing opened the way
q escape rrom copyists'
Tanglefoot
By Miles
Overholt
:
t
THE SALEM LAIR v ;
Once I became lost down en the :
errors, and desert," said the Salem Liar, as he bor-
lt was adopted very early. Between tha rowed a pips' of tobacco, a match and a
eighth and tenth centuries portions of P,De cleaner from a man in the plaaa.
the Bible were translated into Anglo- "l waB starving, starving do you know
Saxon by Aldhelm, Alfred Bede and 'wnat that means?"
others. In 1290 an English version of ' Two hundred and forty-nine of them
the Psalm, was made. Wycliffe's ver- "al1 they
slon of the New Testament wa. finished 'T was a," nearly famished. Flnal-
ln .1380, and a little later he completed ,y' ,n my delirium, I wandered away.
the Old. The seven penitential - Psalms awa- wnen i recoverea consciousness
were apparently printed ln 1505. Before 1 discovered myself In a huge cava. 1
1B26 William Tyndale had completed an coll,dl near tho welco,ne trickle of water
iffngiisn translation or the NSw Testa- lana mHa my way to it. Triers
ment. The excellence of hla tranaia- round a large pond from which
tton Is evidenced by the fact that in quenched my thirst It was dark, but
our present version a very large por- 1 coma near nsn in the water. I had a
tlon of the New Testament 1. taken noolt ana, Ilne DUl 1 cu'd not catch
verbatim from Tyndale's translation. ln?m: ,
In 163S the first English version of the Thea a bright idea came to me, so I
whole Bible nnrvHnh h mm, went and got a blind man who causht
Coverdale, and was dedicated to Henry tne Dllnd ,l8h wlth Teat ease. Then we
viii. -rne uenevs rsi Die, or, as best " c oiuugni
known, the Breeche. Bible, sppeared in 'em t0 Salem and planted them ln a
1657. The Bishop' Bible was published f,8.lLJ,0n(1- . , T ' '
ln London, in 1588. In 1582 appeared Tn next wek 1 went out to ef lf
at Rhelms. in Francel, an English ver- nan8" W tne open had affected the
ion of the New Testament prepared by bUn2 tiHh t everjr orolt and. turn
several woman uatnono exiles, and in z. '?u UB-
1809-10 a similar version of the Old 'n f00d fro,EJh f,sh that could see.-
Testament at Douay. They form the - ' ' "T T7T .
An?... 'x,m?K It y known u rained So much. Indeed It did. -
as the Douay Bible, The King James The whole blamed sky is rusted.
Bible was printed in 1610, and there ., y - ,
have been several revisions sines that Count Bonl has discovered that there'
date. t ' - , . i. an exception to ths rule that what Is
-. " sauce for the gooso is sauce for the.
Tomorrow Three Vedas of the Hlndooa. gander.
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