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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL PORTLAND SUNDAY V.MPRNING, JULY . 12, ; 1914. THE JOURNAL t"!4aj tyfK?BlltWT WEWPPI JACK".' ...PuMtabe- uuiJ.nt - a-enlng (except Soadar) so f ' ornlni at Taa Journal Bolld- Ua. Rr-jflwy U-iDltuo uirooga . tj BMUa aa aacoa ' claw uttar. iu.u'HOli-Mala TITS; Hov v A-006l.AU rkToMTitor what 4parto-at awl waat. T TH E S PI R IT OF $1 500 EXEM PT10N ;: .Wia Kaatnof Co. Bronawie BW, Ml.i Hfth lit. . ui Hide- C'Bleaco. New Yarki . 121 Fawpia ilcrlpi arme b- mailer as .a7a UM Baited State or Mexlcos. -DAILX -. ' - ': S.bO Cm moatk. M SCNDAT . 92AO I (In aaoct. ......I .23 DAILT AMD StJNDAX Co, r...-fW- O oot....... .6 Ob fr. una When You Go Away H ave The Journal sent to V your Summer address. Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, be cause they be so common, men forget to pay their praise. BUt let not us, because It 1s a, sacrifice so pleasing to him who still protects us. and gives us flowers, and' showers, anjd meat, and content. Isaak .Walton. V-:;.y ; -a TODAV IN ULSTER nary strife land rUfcY 12 is observed by Protest J ants of the - North of Ireland as ! the anniversary of the bat tle! of the Boyne. Under ordl- conaitions bitterness ana are manifest, but, with Ire divided Into rival armed camps, if an outbreak is not pre cipitated the fact may be taken as evidence that civil war la not Imminent. - ' , The battle "of the Boyne was fought on July 11 under the new calendar, but the following day has been kept because it is also the anniversary of the battle of Aughrim.. It was in County Kil dare .hat the soldiers of William of Oringe defeated those of James II in '1690, establishing a new re gime jn Ireland. . Thej Irish situation is difficult to fathom. The Nationalist army has grown to Imposing numbers. Both sides of the home rule controversy have arms and ammunition in plenty1. The Ulster volunteers have been illowed to openly carry arms, and they have been encouraged by the substantial property interests of Great Britain, i Seeing a possible disadvantage in being unarmed, the Nationalists have secured " rifles and Cartridges with the avowed In tention of using them at the first indication of hostilities. Premier Asqulth has shown great ability in handling a' difficult situ ation.l but even his great skill may not atert civil war. Today's record Btaould go far in determining whether Ireland is again to be 1 torn by strife. For a number of j ears L there have been Jew broken heads! in Ireland, but perhaps it is too much to expect discretidn by the Irish character under present disturbed conditions. SB fltteen-hundred-dollar exemption " amendment - deserves . to . pass. The Oregonian says it Is vicious.' But. it Is not. .ine. timber baron says It is vicious. But It Is not. The alien owner of biz tracts of idle land ears It is vicious. But It Is not. The owners of speculative town lots say It is vicious. But it is not. ' Here is , the vital part of the- measure; , ' " Every person Is exempt from : tail on $1600 on. the $otal assessed value of his op har dwelling house, household furniture, livestock, machinery, or chard trees, vines, pushes, shrubs, nursery' stock, merchandise, buildings, and other improvements on, in and under his or per, lands made by clear-i ing, ditching and draining. - - ' ; ---. It is especially intended to include' within this fifteen-hundred-dollar, exemption all - kinds of personal property and all said land improvements made for the greater convenience and attractiveness of the home or the gaining of, a livelihood. This is . practically all there is of the amendment. The rest has. reference to administration of the meaBure, and In providing for its, resubmission hereafter. Its purpose is to aid average men and small men.l ? All their belongings are usually : In full sight, and they- have long had the chief burden of taxes to iay, while personal and 'other property of big owners has largely escaped payment of a proper share of taxation. That is why ! the cry that , the measure is' "vicious" lings In clarion tones from certain quarters. "..". ; Another purpose is to add to the effectiveness of the worker. Many a small home owner is struggling along in. an effort to pay for his home on the installment plan. He has a salary," but It is only by dint of great self-denial that he can meet monthly bills. . The pro posed exemption will, lower his taxes, i and to that extent make, hisr burden lighter, and his labor more effective in the struggle for sur vival, ' , ' - ' There is 'already an .exemption of household furniture. .The owner of a ! mansion may have $10,000 pr $20,000, worth of furniture, and it is'all exempt from taxation. The wage-earner may have but $200 worth of household furniture, and that $200 Is all the exemption he gets,! It is a law that favors the rich at the expense of the poor The If if teen-hundred-dollar exemption . amendment proposes to change,' th mlan ka as tn bIva the rich man and the nioor man alike an ex- einpcion oi axouv. r .:.-i;.v;.':v:sv.' It is a perfectly simple plan, so plain that there is no trouble about understanding it. The farmer who has dwelling,-barn farm machinery, ditches, drainage, orchard, hones, cows, sheep, household m a . m . XAVJ Sr A A A A M lurniture ana improvements vuuuiug uuu in assessea. vaiuauon will have $1500 deducted and his property, be taxed on a total valua tion of $1500, or a city dweller who has a. house, furniture, and improve ments assessed at $1800 will be entitled to the same exemption that - a millionaire gets, and be taxed on only $300. The 'loss of revenue through the exempted valpation will, of course, leave a smaller totaj valuation of taxable property, and 'will either result In -a higher levy or less extravagance in government. In any event, the plan 'will throw a slightly heavier burden of taxes on those best able to pay, and lighten the burden of those for whom payment Is difficult. dreamers. ; . It is av living reality. The more ; men realize this, the less they strive for outward : show and the pleasures of the hour. The ' more willingly do they: enter the tread mill of social service in the humility 'of Christ, the meekness (Copyright, 1S14, by Frank Crane.) Often the ; old priest aftd I would . . ,.7 - V tT. i walk through the woods,, paav tne Of Moses, the simplicity of Jef f er-1 waterfall, alone the vociferous brook. son, and the gentleness of Lincoln. as far as the clear spring that welled In. their minds there Is no sug gestion of aeroplanes and fireworks that a fool and his money may he soon parted, y problems must be solved according to established rules. In time the schools will get in step with thi forward movement. " ' ' GOING TO CHURCH- T 1 SCHOOLS AND LAWLESSNESS j v ; DDRESSINCK the National a A' Council of Education at St. Paul, Dr Robert J. Aley, president of that body and also ftf the .University of Maine said the people of America are lawless and gullible. They ' are " lawless because they . have been taught the principles of ' democracy . too " carelessly.. . They are gullible, and believe . practical v ly everything " they hear; ' there- fore they are Imposed upon. The secondary schools, said Dr. Aley, are neglecting their opportunities to correct these evils.' He laid at the door of the schools the blame for practically all the woes the nation! has suffered, is Buffering,' or may suffer. ' j . It is the style to arraign the schools for practically everything ' : which j is found 'to be wrong, but Dn Aiey'B indictment contained " "charges which are worthy of tio- ' tlce. He said the country'is care- leBS: iik searching for fundamental .lawg fhich ought tc guide In gov crnmebt, behavior, social relations and , civilization. It- is even more r ' careless in obeying them. These laws "can- and sh&uld be taught in .the schools; There V should! be 'a "from Missouri" spirit ; inculcited in pupils. Children nor 'men should believe without the proper evidence. The school, from the nature and age of those coai , ing under its Influence, is in a po . sitlon to destroy credulity and to - replacn it by faith based upon real evidenbe. Knowledge is needed as ' a precedent to judgment.- "nut tha -great majority of people believe ' and act before, they have any ade- auate basis for doing either. There is much truth in what Dr. l, Aley i laid about - American people ; ; as .a class, and he is probably right in his statement that . the Echdol Is not performing its full . duty-iln teaching the principles of ' : democracy. But . the .. trouble ' lies '" not so; much with the school as cn institution as it does with the peo ple who .support it. ; a . ' . As a matter of " fact; many - patrons of the schools do not wait ; the entire truth taught. . It wold interfere with;, their - business or - social I relations. , They are ' apos tles of credulity, for Jt has been - because' of this trait that they , have prospered. ' But the nation ' is improving. - We are approaching the principles of democracy. We are being taught by a teacher-presideTnt .that national HE non-churchgolng problem is, receiving attention every where. Many American citfes have i.ndertaken its solution with churchgoing Sundays. There iBia general movement to get1 the people into houses oi worship at least once in the hope that a con siderable number will return .on subsequent Sundays. The movement has reached Eng land and Wales, where the Free Churches are entering upon one of! the greatest religious campaigns fever' undertaken in Britain. The purpose is to secure the attend ance at church of every man, ..wo man and child on a Sunday in Jan uary next year. Representatives of the churches will visit every home in England and Wales and leave a personal invitation for each mem ber of the families. The National Free Church Coun cil has appointed a special com mittee to have charge of trie cam paign. The country is to be di vided into separate parishes, each to be in charge of a church, the members of which will be asked to distribute the invitations, The campaign is not to be re stricted to one; denomination, nor is it to be in any sense, a proselyt ing agency. The National Counch states that "it is not being pro moted in any denominational or sectarian sense, but with the wide scope and "urgency of the gospel" appeal." , s Thus, after centuries of con troversy over sectarian issues, Great Britain is coming to recog nize that Christianity is simple, that Christians can make general appeal . to the world without in-. Jecting into their faith the narrow prejudices Or mere opinions of sec tarianism. That is the 'Virtue of "go-to-church" campaigns. That accounts largely for their success in the United States. Going to church Bhould not be a doctrinal rite nor a social duty, Attendance at houses of worship will become more general when non-essentials in belief are elimi bated from pulpit and pew, when the spirit of brotherhood become more firmly established both within and .without the edifices. was made and the tribe sided wih tne British army in the Revolution The Indians were pushed out of much of their best territory, but after the war missionaries and traders went among them and. the Indians took "on a considerable de gree of civilization. In the meantime many of the Cherokees had migrated across the Mississippi,' out of reach , of the whites. Gold was discovered on their land in Georgia, and at once the whites made desperate efforts to break up the tribal system and bring the Cherokees under the state government. The fight was car ried to the United States Supreme Court, where the Indians were con ceded the right to maintain tribal autonomy, but In 1S36 General Winfield Scott, under direction of President Jackton, ; advanced an army on the Cherokees and forced them to emigrate to what is now northeastern Oklahoma. IN ITALY By Dr. Frank Crane. : WOODROW-'ITLL "BE FINE AFTER YOU GET IN" ALBANY COLLEGE A' It was up at the foot of a hugs rock. in Italy and far from a city. -There-,. w would sit and hold htri converse, T discussing subjects over which other men quarrel, hut which we turned "over with cool hands of philos ophy and dissected with surgical calm ness. -' ' ' v" - ' We nt-cniiwi atwint CiaA. . Hoar mtnv NNOUNCEMENT was made at persons do you know who can do that the Presbyterian Synod at without heatT It la a test or a clean Eugene yesterday of the com-! nd. And we talked of the universe, - . . l of the caprices of fate, of the ant mn pieuon or. me conmuons uu-. the abbePWOc), .nd ot thinks and aer wnien, James rim s contnDu- strings. tion of $50,000 for Albany College ' A sweefter thinker with a gentler fa i .manner x never anew, a was iranm The college's part under the ar-.v.a utterly honest. Intellectually, and rangement was the securing of clung-lovingly to all the traditions of 1200.GA0. and. In a amnafen of lne onurcn, not necause u was poncy. a,- year, this was accomplished. The " Synod indorsed a campaign for raising a second fund pi $165,- 000 to be used in the erection of three . additional buildings for the new campus. , The achievements of the collate authorities and , the people of Al bany in ' the "late campaign , are splendid; They establish Albany College On a basis for greatly en larged usefulness, and place it1 in position to wonderfully- Increase its service to mankind. The denominational' education has its secure place in , the social establishment. Its greater cAre fof the moral side of education -Is at tractive to many parental Its more spiritual : atmosphere is re garded, by them as an extremely desirable Influence to throw around young people. It is: hoped that the campaign for the new buildings may be at tended with the same success en countered in meeting the terms Im posed by- the Hill gilt. The insti tution is worth all the effort It will cost In the influence it will exert on the life -of Albany,- and in the high standard of citizen's It gives the state. , . - ; THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA and not because he was blindly credu lous, but because to him they were a part of the world -he was borti to, and he loved them so much, and understood them as little, as the rest. "Look!" he said one day. . "There are grease and dye in the stream. They come from the factory up yonder. And see! They have cut down all' the ancient trees, on that hill to make ma chines. That is-civilization, modernism. "Once there was a water sprite the heathen worshiped. It lived in this brook, and fairies danced under the trees where now is a bald hillside. When I was a boy I lived near her. And my grandmother, who is with Christ, now, told me of them. "Do you know, what you are doing with your progress and democracy and scienc-e and all that? Ton are de nuding the soul of man of its sacred woods, soiling it pure springs to man ufacture clothes and generate elec tricity. "Let me confess, my friend, that I have at times breathed a half prayer to the passed and ancient gods ot Greece, and v to the little people of paganism, to come and help . us. I in tend no Irreverence to our blessed Lord, nor mean to put him on a plane with fays, of fountains and spirits of olrches. Christ has driven them all away, I know, to unite mankind into one spiritual communion. But some times I would sound the fairy born, or ring the flower bells of spring with zephyr hands, to call back the hosts of spirit emigres to help us fight the devastation of 'materialism. "Waste and lnely our roads seem The mma or man nas Become an arc light, and kll the personalities that thronged the world have been scared away. In this world of garish day my soul perishes. Fed upon exact infor mation my spirit dies of anemia. "I am crepuscular, I suppose. I love stained glass in the church Window, the half lights, shadows in the forest, and shy faiths in the hearts that i . mmtm , . . I . .. Ta I . --PPi. . al . . - -1 I I - i ii , , r i i ; I i . i . , . - haw -tup rpiiDru pam anh nnPQ ufi p i HE expression "when the sea gives up its dead" will soon have a new significance. At the bottom ' ot Nassau harbor In the Bahamas the camera shrink from cold logic. man for f one of the big film pro- ''L shfd troop, elves, gnomes . - 1 . , " " j and dryads, driven away by iron and dUCing companies IS photographing . steel intelligence, come back,' and un scenes that only the diver has ' der the banner of him who still rules ever seen, but which will, in a ftne world 8P,rJt unlte to rf"!8t V . ... . - , . . ,, grossness of our day. our carbortc civi short time, be familiar to movie iiEation. our Zeitgeist that multiplies Spectators all over the world. The luxuries for the body and destroys the wonderful coral reefs and luxuriant ! riches of the soul! ' ?, vegetation of the semitropical sea Letters From the People A' A VANISHED NATION NOTHER step in the gradual making over of Indians into ordinary American v citizens was taken June SO, when the Cherokee nation was dissolved as a tribal entity. Thus passes the largest of the five civilized tribes and the most advanced native American race . since the Spaniards wiped out the empires o.f the Incas and the Astecs. ,-T , ine process' oi dissolution was begun nearly twelve years 1 ago, when the Cherokees signed a treaty with the government agreeing to the distribution of their land. They were the last of the civilized tribes to agree to thi3," but oow the' dis tribution : is completed -.and the Cherokees are citizens .of Okla homa. . ,iS. ' ..The Cherokees have an interest ing history. It includes a- period of greatness an age' of decline, "a revival, and lately an era T of - re markable materlaland intellectual Improvement, a They first -came into contact with -white f men in 1 540, at the time of DeSoto's expedition. Much later, the first English, set tlers found i .ttiem the strongest tribe in the present "South Atlantic states. r -. - r - - In 1759-60;' the Cherokees ; were at war with ltd English, but peace strife caused the nation to divide between the North and theVSouth and its territory was devastated in turn by Federal and Confederate armies. After the war. however. gardens"; will furnish-a background for submarine melodramas' beside wnicn inax OI me orainary COWDOy i Communlction aent to The Journal for anrl Inrtian will Ko tsTnti an A iitiIti. pnblicatiou io tola daoartnieot aboold be writ exceed MOO worda in length and mut be c cninpaoieU bjr toe name and address of tbe eeoder. If tba writar doea uot daatra to hire tbe name published, be abould so atata.) "Discuasloo la tbe greateat of all reform. era: It rationalises everything It tottcbea. It roba DrindDlea of VtU falsa aanetltr and throw them back on their reaaonableoeaa. If they nave no rehttonablenesa. it rutbleaal eruxhea them out ot eiUtnce and acta uy Ita own concluaiona in their tad. MouUro Wttaon. , From a sermon by the Rev. Minot J. Savage. So I believe that this is a training school this world. We are here get ting ready for life; and it makes all the difference in the world, when the time comes, when the door is opened and we step put into that other room in tbe great fathers house, as to whether wo are ready for it or not. And 'the .way to get ready not the old way, not placating God's wrath- the way to get ready is not something magical, something disconnected from the kind of life we are leading here; It is Just living this life as we ought, in the noblest and highest and finest things that are in us. In that way we are helping on the development through which this hntsan race is passing, from brute to angel, and getting ready' for angelic fellow ship and an angella career the simp lest thing In the world, and at the same time one of the most important. terestingi The mind of man is .Thl-m" cr,osa..the 3VUssI!siP?1 effects that can be obtained. Even in the fie'ld of reality these bottom of the" eea films will be intensely interesting. The curious was accomplished after many hard ships, and several thousands died on "the journey. But the survivors nroRnprod until tho r'lwit I - - V '111 TTUl . XAXV I,. . ! 1 1 ,. ... . then came a setback. IntP.mal 8.QBPea "snes . ana Pecunar lire oi the waters ,the black boys diving for pennies and the sunken wrecks will be-. faithfully outlined. The harbor of Nassau was se lected largely because of the re- the tribe entered upon a period of markable clarity of the water. The remarkable prosperity, tfhich "has uul-to" ot uurai. nana is never mua continued until the present time. lne DelawareB were incornor dy but instead reflects the bright sunlight, producing Biblical Spirit and Prohibition. Portland, July ll.To the Editor of The Journal ijr. Carter is entirely right. There is. nothing of value to be gained by discussing the social cus toms and usages of semlclvilized peo ples two or three thousand years ago. Vn,! a precedents to guide us in the solu ated into the tribe in 1 8 6 7 ' and under whIch Photographs can be ; conditions are so radically changed. the Shawnees in 1870. In recent years most of . the Cherokees have ; maae witn exposures almost as brief as in the open" air, a highly been peaceful and industrious, and important rfequirement for the for a long time they nave ranked as the highest of the native tribes of the United States. Thv g movies, i Photographs, . made at thirty-five feet depth, of divers plunging swiftly through Ihe water evidence that the Indian may be requ'red eXD0Sure of. only. one civilized, that he, may be made valuable American citizen. WEALTH'S USES A NEW YORK newspaper re cently held a contest and awarded prizes to those who wrote the most interesting es says, outlining a novel plan for spending $5000 in .a single day: Among the . plans suhmitted one-hundredth of a second on a bright !day. . Hereafter the camera "will be a necessary adjunct to every treas ure trove .expedition. , RAISE THE 'SINK REASONABLE explanation of why . kitchen sink's are so low! has been made at last. It is so simple that the won were : such" features as. launch dor ,,s "lat no ilne ever, thoSht parties, costing hundreds of dollars. fireworks, aeroplane rides and sim- of it. before. The original sink was made when ; the washing of liar expenditures that soon made 1 dishes , and other sink work was the sum designated resemble - the proverbial thirty cents. The chief value of the schemes submitted lay in the implied em phasis given to the need of moral and economic education concern ing the duties which wealth Im poses. - . rm . . jdb accurauiauons or a man represent pot nly his own labor but the fruits of the world's en deavor. To the extent that be does not give back to the world is he a social thief. Every dollar exchanged for .the products of the . fields of Oregon. the mines of Siberia or the rubber plantations of , South ' America i nl.n . 4 ' XI 1 . iUi iu inurw or pov- - At st. Louis, Edward Ellbreck, mf di8trM' for th Pro- after estrangement from his wife. Llnstitutlon or vocation. Intention ally or unintentionally each man's done in ! wooden tubs with high sides. Such a tub when used in a highink canie up too far, so the sink was made low. - " As there was no running water or faucets, the tub - had to be lifted out of the sink and th lower the sink the lighter the' lift. So strong Is : precedent ana so prone are people to do what their fath ers did that when faucets, dishpans and other; accessories of the kitchen sink came into vogue no one ever thought : of raising k the r sink. Through the lack of a little orig inality women have and are- com pelled to I endure discomfort when doing household ".work. For myself, I have never found any thing in the Bible, or . in any other classic, that I could honestly construe as a commendation of the habitual use of intoxicating liquors. If others can do so they are welcome to the conso lation. Mr. Ruth's suggested explana tion of the proverb' concerning "wine when it is red" is quite- original, and almost as ingenious as Mr. Llnscott'a statement of -the reason for closing the saloon on election' days, and in times of riot; but it seems to ignore the symptoms of the bite and sting of the wine, as described in the latter portion or the proverb. . The Christian life as taught and ex emplified by the Master, was one of helpfulness, of self denial and of self- sacrifice, for the benefit of others with a oruau nu generous sywu&uiy lor tne weaknesses and frailties of humanity. But he scourged from the temple those who were making merchandise of the necessities. of the unfortunate ones. In commending the same spirit of helpfulness and self denial, Paul warned his followers to abstain from those things which though not regarded as, harmful to themselves, might, tnrougn me power or example, cause others to - stumble and fall. Romans, 14-25:15-5. 1st Corinthians, 8-13. J. V. GARRETSON Parents Not All) to - Blaine. Portland, July 11. To the Kditor o The Journal I read in The Journal of July 5 an article which referred to boys of 17 to 21 years and girls from 16 to 19, loitering and spooning in the public parks after hours. Of course blame was laid upon parents for lack of rtiscioline. But critics seem to for j get that the laws of the state place I a girl oeyona tne control or ner pa rents when she reaches the age of 1 years. The girls don't forget ft them selves, however, and they are not slow in telling their parents that they will leave home if ' they can't do as they please. The result is that parents are obliged to witness a good deal that they object- to In the conduct of the! daughters, for the sole reason that they don't want to see the home broi en up, Tney want o Keep mem under went to her father's home, ; and found the family sitting on ihe porcbi . He shot and " killed hist the home roof as long as they possibly use; of his money helps or hinders motner.'in.iaw, 8hot his father-in-Uan.. I think a law ought to be passed n ' v , , law , his - wife, a family guest, ,fre8 S,e lnraI efect hissed his sister-in-law "and failed ?a2!'2ir: .JJTt in the-attempt to shoot Jiis broth- merely for self gratification, v No accQunt is taken. of. the responsi bility attaching to the distribution of wealth. The world of men is er-in-law ; because he ran, out" of bullets. The pistol regularly" Illls Its great 'place In ' our wonderful j scneme 01 civilization, -it is for deferring the, coming of. age of girl nntll . thev are It years, the same a boys, f Then fewer of them would go wrong. There would ala be fewer runaway marriages followed by di vorces. MOTHER OF THREE. The' church is the only institution on the face of the earth that is spe cially and entirely devoted to this one thing. The churches are no f perfect; they are made" out of the kind of peo ple who live in the places where they are organised; they have to be. But the idea, the aim, the purpose, "the end of the church is the finest and highest of which we can conceive. For there is nothing better, can be nothing bet ter, than ii help people think and feel and love and worship and live; and that is what the church is for. One other thing Tet me hint Just in passing. A ' Side issue, if you choose. and' yet one so intensely important that 1 feel it to be a part of my theme. First or last, alt of us have to meat great sorrows. Young people, some of them, have not yet tasted these - sor rows; and the words I speak have no special meaning to them. But those who are older know that it is untvers? al; that thre is no escape. We lose father, mother, brother, sister, friend, husband, wife or child. "We lose those dearer to us .than life. ; before it reaches any visible harbor. Is not that a strange arrangement T What does it mean? Does It mean pessimism; the loss of all heart and faith, that there is no meaning or pur pose in life, that either God is a devil or does not exist or does not care? Does it mean these things? I do not believe it. I believe that every ship that sinks sinks to another sea and sails on to some port as yet invisible to us, but finer than anything of which we can dreams I believe the apostle's words, that "it has not yet entered In to the heart of man to conceive the things that God hath prepared for them that love him." IN EARLIER DAYS By Fred Lockley. This is ' an experience from which no one escapes. It is a strange voyage we have started out on. No matter what the nature of the ship a great merchant ship, a man-of-war, a pleas ure; boat,' a little pinnace, a canoe no matter what avery craft afloat on this sea of life is doomed to go down When these experiences) come end, as I have said, they come to all of us what shall we do? Shall we lose heart, "curse God and die," mourn our hearts put, wrap ourselves up selfishly in our personal griefs and leave the world to Its sorrows? What shall we do?. ,1 believe that the hopes and thoughts and aspirations and inspira tions which' the church stands for have the only sane and divine answer. Th fhurch stands as a witness to the fatherhood of God, nis eternal love and care; and. if I may believe that and I do believe It then let my ship sink. Let the ships of my friends go down. That is not the end. The end is Just over there, beyond the shadow, in a light that shines from a sun that shall nevermore go down. The human heart, then, in its great exigencies of sorrow and despair needs, if it may rationally have it, this hope and help for which the church stands and of which it is an eternal witness. BanjaBBasasaaBF As we look over this world we find all sorts of things out of Joint in the business world, the social world, the political world; Injustice, seirisnnesa, cruelty, wrong, suffering, such as does not need to exist, because it is the suffering- which men inflict on eacn other. And let me suggest to you. right here, In passing, that if we could eliminate from the problem of human suffering all that for which we our selves are responsible, whs t -would b left would be so slight and so appar ently necessary and of the nature of things that it would constitute no problem which would trouble) us as to our faith in the good government Of the world. IN THE WHEAT BELT badtSl6? fr mriiu madman tLVlTl nt "d tnugs to kill with and it dally w...u..ev ....., V'veuur Sl"harvesta 1U Victims. separate uuut iuai 01 nia neignoor; or ium.: ue may ue independently V .A Cma f Crmsttfoi-atinn ncn, or may rignnuuy seek to Her Caller Here. Bobbv. is a dim-. gratify his personal desires at any now tell me whet your sister -says cost. 'The brotherhood of a man I abut m 1 v ' ' 1 rr.r,r than a visinn f Vrw.ro ,, I oDbiex-MaKe " a ' quarter and I . I on t tf.11 what ahe savn ahont vau- - - - - . Estacada' Elucidated. "Portland. July U. To the Editor of The Journal Tbe word "Estacada" is not ' Spanish, nor from "Eatacado Lianas," as Frederick V. Holman says. INEsSacadar is a proper Portuguese word, with foundation In : -estaca," meaning, stake or palisade. , Estacada" or stacado means "palisaded. For the right pronuncia tion, give to "a" .and "da" tha same sound as given to 'ta. - . SANTANNA, (Hoxie (Kan.') Despatch to New Tork World.) The ultimate consumer, Who in fancy, fact and rumor Has for yearn received his package About miaway in tne nee. - Ua la at l.t fnrth hAlIoW. And his wheat fields, golden yellow, ' Are now woraea py uioe wnw wwca Which is going some, By Heck I There Is no one home In IIoxl. Every male in the village more than 10 years old or less than a hundred has been caught In the net of a wheat har vesting draft, and the fields are dotted with the brilliant collection of physi cians, lawyers, architects, barbers and merchants. They cannot harvest wheat, but they have got to, and that's -why the villaae is deserted. The wives and sweethearts of the amateur .toilers are out in the fields tanning, feeding and encouraging their favorites, all of whom were exhausted at the very men tion of the work before them.. , The trouble" came originally through the importation of an idle left wing of the army of the unemployed. - These ambitious work dodgers were brought from the east to be given a golden op portunity to atart J1 over, add from -what can 'be learned of them they en joyed the ride out. ; Aa soon as they were shown th harvesting tools and sent out into th hot sun they began walking in circles and wringing their hands. They harvested about enough wheat to stuff a pillow and then rolled down their sleeves and declared the battle over. V- Inasmuch as the loss or the harvest would paralyse the town's business the farmers hitched up sundry, old mares and Jogged to town with an ultimatum, or several f thetsM .They called the men of tha. village to tba town pump and made ii clear that without the har vest thera would b no money to spend for any purpose) whatever: that hair cuts would become an absurd luxury, that food would be. taken only in mod eration; that clothes would fee bought only after a subpoenal bad been Issued; that physicians would be called only as a last resort . to spite the undertak- The Ragtime Miise In Praise of the Dollar. : Oh, do not scorn the dollar,- The cold, insensate buck; But. grab it by th rollar. And lift it from the muck. Its wavs have bn indecent, . It led a Ufa of sham, Until a time quite recent But may redeemn its namat .: . Perhaps' It has been tainted, Its record has been vile, But make it how acquainted - With doings more worth while. Its past association With-plute and octopus, Antique calumtnationa, 'Should be Ignored by us. We would not see It perish, 7 Throuerh being led astray. 60 it we'll set- and cherish. And keep from barm away. Its wav has ben distressing. Beneath oldtima mand. But lucr is a blessing. Placed in tha proper hands. ers, and that law actions would hence forth be settled with fists.' . Then tha physicians, merchants, law yers, butchers and tailors went home and said good-bye to their, families. Since then all sorts 'of peculiar fash ions in farming- have fceen exhibited in the fields. Some f tha rop has been slaughtered; some cut after th lata Pari modes;' soma operated upon and removed; some shaven close to the ground and other fields gnashed off by the frantic merchants. "When 1 had gotten my honorable discharge from the Cayuse war." sail Charles Boids, an Oregon pioneer of 1845, "I came hack to my ranch hear Oregon City along in June and went to brushing and clearing It up. Along m the early fall of "4 a hunch ofj us loaded our pack horses with ha4in coffee, supar and flour and (.truck tut for California. We did not have'tt' take much grub along, as in thoBe dvs we depended almost entlrelv oh' tlix game we killed. That fall I workod on the American river. 1 wintered I;. Hangtown during the wlntpr of 'ii. Along in the early part of the wlntur -the pr-ople In Hansrtonn kept mlasUiir things. .Finally the cHlxens formU committee and derl-lnd that thr Frenchmen wfre doing the Stalin-?. We caught them, and making them strip we made them hug a good uljst-d tree apiece, and then fastened their wrists together with rope no tiny could not get away. 'We then heh! a short trial and decided to give thm - lashes apiece on the bar back, V.' laid It on good and plenty o aa t cure them of atealina. After that job was flnUhed and we were cutting th'm loose, a Frenchman stepped up and opening his shirt showed, an usy un healed anlfe wound. He said. French Carli there stuck me with his knif a few nights ago when I would nn give him my gold dust.' We held an other short trial and decided to k ahead and Hean up our Job and bant. all three of them. We naked '.hem If there was any good reason why w Bhould not hang them. French Charily said: '1 have been a bad lot all right, and all I ask is that you will let inn see a priet before you awing me pft.' The bOys told him they did not hav any time- to be looking up priests for him: they wantwl to git the job oven They put all three of the Frenchmen in a wagon. There werw ome Spaniards on horseback who had been watching the men' being flogged. o we took the ropes from their saddle horns and fas tening a rope around the neck cf each Frenchman we fastened the other end to a tree and the driver drove bis team away easy so as not to give the men too hard a fall. They hung Uwre twitching and Jerking for qulie a fpcil before they choked to dath. Whwi th Frenchmen had quit o.ulvering the committee in charga took, them out to the hillside, about 100 yards away, and burled them. "In the spring of '49 I came hack tr Oregon on board the 'Anita.' That fall I went back -overland to Trinity river. Grub was so h4gh -at Redding and Shasta City that a person couldn't save much. I had to pay I Pr pound for flour, aujrar and almost all other sup plies, and 1 was not averaging to wash out more than two to three oun:es of gold dust a day. "I came back: toOregon In th spring Of 1850. On June 80, 1S. I w" r' fled to Margaret . Coleman, and Ihe next April we had a pair of twin daughters. In 185 we had another girl, and another one in 1S58. About the time my fourth girl was born there were very lively times politically in Oregon. The constitutional conven tion was held in '00. and there was lota of discussion as to whether Ore gon should be- slave territory or a free state, I voted to make Oregon a fra state. I did not want any nlggars In Oregon. I voted for woman's suffrage, for I have got a wife and four daugh ters and It seemed to me that they ought to have as much ay about h'w they should be governed as a nissr has. It has always semed a mystery to me why we should let a colored man vote and not let a widow, whose prop erty is paying taxes, have a vote too. I have alwavs. voted for prohibition, and t m always going to. Liquor makes too much of a tax on tha man who doesn't drink, for the men that do drink gt their wage Saturday night, are broke by Monday, their children go K.fnot. and if anything happens to : The work ha progressed very slow-j the head or tne irnw walls, each have to teae care . ... ly but the best of feeling preva of the -operatives apparently content that he stands a fair show of event ually getting eom of the proceed in his own industrial way. Tha farmers are grateful enough and have generally admitted that, compared with, the east ern workvaders, the present help is at least tolerable. ; - , - ; - :rir '-f Forest"' Note. - - : j , Receipts tor the us f national for st resource were greatest in ArUona last year.- - V Dr. C. D. Marsh of th federal bureau hr plant Industry i delivering a aerie f illustrated, lecture to stockmen In th west on th subject of plant pois onous to ktock. -v The WomarVsJPajgg The Journal each evening pre- sents a number of striking features. Many. of them are of excl isive interest to wom en; -other are or general appeal. '"' ; They all are worth while. CuU tivate this dally feature page; you will find It profit. s,ble. ' - ,