THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 28, 1016.
11
"GOOD MQRyfTO
(Copyright. fOlS. by Jaekllt.)
THE baby sneezed at just ten min
utes past midnight. That wokp
Mr. Grover" Ferris frfn sound and
unsuspecting slumber. She nestled
the quilt about baby's neck. Baby
wanted a drink. Mrs. Ferrla went to
the cooler and brought back two fin
gers of water. In half a minute baby
was aaleep and by that time mother
'Was wlJe awake.
Mrs. Ferris felt with creeping hand
across the bed. Nothing stopped her.
By that ahe knew that her husband
had not come home. Hhe covered up
and turned her check to the pillow.
But sleep, freed from Its all night
job for the minute, had danced away.
She foiled about, and presently arose
muffled up In a dressing robe, and
went downstairs to the living room.
Now, hers Is a new situation. One
of the most commonplace episodes In
ex literature, triangle construction
and single standard misunderstand
ings, but It is nevertheless an un
written chapter.
Hklm over the novels you have read,
the plays you have heart and the
movies you have seen and try to re
call where, If somewhere, you met it.
you have been driven from the six
best yallers by its aftermath; you
liave quit the six bent theatres be
cause of its consequences; you may
have forbidden your housemaid the
neighborhood movie palace because of
too many scenes showing why husband
Is not home and what happens when
he returns. But what transpires be
tween' the awakening and the reckon
ing Is elided by space between chap
ters, an lntermlsion during which the
un risen and the scene sets or the
slide that made Indigent greengoods
commoners indecent screen-goods
barons "Next Morning."
No Bara has yet developed and no
Barrymore yet converted who can reg
ister doubt. They may, more or lews
ahrewdlv or cruelly, convey fear, grief.
petulance, disappointment, temper,
temperature. Indignation or Indiges
tion. But doubt is speechless, expres
sionless and useless.
An X-ray might reveal it, but a pro
jection machine cannot.
It must be a woman: The agony
born after the hours of tearing un
certainty is almost a relief: It lives
it grows it palpitates. A woman!
What woman? What matter? fche
wo-ild like to. know, though: Young?
Younger than she? Most likely; oppo
site complexion, too, probably; he has
jested about it too often. Yes, now
that she brings it back, there was a
sinister realism In the jests; why
hadn't she noticed It then? It is all so
clear now a woman a
The door opens; he comes In; there
in an absurd exuberance in his smile
that covers a handmade, hand-m?-down
alibi hastily fitted and perfected
against ordinary cross examination;
she Jumps to her feet; he says "M onl
ine, honev": he is nainfully debon
air and slmperlngly blithe; he shoots
a look to see how she looks; his smil
dies where it sits, and ho tries tc
throw on the reverse with a puzzled
look to put her on the defensive so
that
That Is detail enongh.
Hera the curtain rises and whatever
happens now is an old, familiar song
the recrimination, the denunciation.
the reconciliation or the separation -
hatever the story man's version may
be to sandwich 'twlxt (he denouement
aIiKap "Hflticr. I liAm doner together"
. . - i i .. i . r. j , ... th.i r
ha can. marry the rejected lover Who
ruly worshipped her all the time as
la Christian girl should be worshipped
rThat final hug or that final shrug that
Hollows what follows that long dark
t light has made playwrights rich and
tbrarles popular.
But that situation the grim wait
n the wings, offstage, through a thou
and hour, before the cue for the
heroic dialogue where have you en-
ountered that? No, nor shall you
tiere.
Milllcent Ferris has Just played it
put, so let the story begin. Where
were we?
He (Orover Ferris, her husband)
as trying to certify an N. S. F. look
f puzsled Interrogation to throw her
n the defensive so that, "instead of
etttng her draw the Indictment and
ry him then and there, lie could enter
nap plea of not guilty, and. before
ssue could be joined, turn upon her.
elie and handcuff her on a -charge
f doubting him, storm over the ln-
ustiCe of it and have her explaining
nstead of him, and her apologizing
nstead of him; he would forgive her
last of course he would then he
would submit a brief, thin skeleton of
is own defense, an airy outline of his
lib, slap on a platitudinous assurance
hat he had done nothing he was
Shamed of (true), and then yawn and
ay he was beastly tired, Kiss her cn
he wing (ambiguous but ambldex
rous) and tear for bed.
By the time he would get up it
kould have cooled considerably. He
ould add a few more Items on his
ersion, grab a look at his watch, say
that he had to hurry "to the office.
lss her and call her his little girl:
ring' home a bottle of ripe olives and
ay he was hungry Enough to eat a
l-olf. By that time the statute of lim-
atlong would have run and he would
firow the case put of court by say-
: "Now, dear, let's not bring that
again; let's not refer to It any more.
ease,' and the action of Ferris vs.
rrls would be stricken from the
locket, outlawed for want of proaecu-
on.
That was his scenario, subject to
tcfrpolated "ad lib business" as ques-
ons and sub climaxes might ' re-
Mire,. But she switched plots before
had come downstage to center.
The flash expression he had formed
register honest heartiness photo
graphed sheepish shame; the boldly
nocent front -was of glass and
hrough it glared the crimson on his
posclence; the faint color of Hubl-
nt, foreign to the Ferris boudoir,
fid the flesh-tint powder mark on the
ft .shoulder of his -overcoat the
stscript kiss seemed like the ag-
avatlngly palpable "plants" of a cub
aysmlth.
Good morning, honey," cackled
prris, donning a transparent grin.
Vhat made you wait up so long?
r did you get up early, hon? What
hn is It, anyway?"
She stood where she had stood when
e door had opened. She looked at
at- and through him. He had never
en her so before. He had stayed
way before, and once or twice she
ad questioned him and believed him.
ha was all different this morning.
bmethlng had come over the woman
he long wait through the night
Another woman." said she. not hys.
rloally, not explosively, but as though
e words tasted not gocd.
'Why, Edith! What are you say-
kr he blustered, blowing scarlet of
e.face, then fading ash-pale about
je Jaws.
i saia mat you nave spent me
tatI said 'AnotheT-woman.' "
"But. Edith my dear dear girl
ling, what you are saying.-;
ri am ininiting. saia sue. "i was
inking how to say it. But you know
hat I mean.
Of course I do. That is, from the
ly you say It I can draw only one
v.
The ajjony born after the hours of tearing uncertainty is almost a re
lief; it lives it grows .or it palpitates. A woman! What woman?
What matter?
inference. And, that Is very rash and
very -very entirely unjustified, child,
and I don't understand "
"Orover," said she as calmly as she
could, "I am not going to ask you
who or what she is; I hope she Is a
chorus girl or a a woman I do not
know and shall never see. But who
ever she was you and she might have
spared me the length of this suspense.
A gentleman might be delayed by
chance or even by a premeditated
amour, I suppose. But no gentleman
should keep a lady waiting for hours
when he knows she Is expecting him.
You knew I was expecting you, didn't
you? Your rudeness Is quite unfor
givable, even taking Into consideration
the famous fallibility of your sex and
your constitutional rights to a ..'good
time.' "
"Why, Edith I'm flabbergasted at
your "
"No, your're not, dear," she inter
posed, and he knew it had not been
a stab in the dark. He felt that shs
knew. He knew that she knew. "You're
flabbergasted, and quite naturally so.
But you must not try to 'Why, Edith
me out of a fact that is shockingly
clear the clearest and the hardest
I have ever seen. Go to bed you look
tired. I shall leave word with the
maid to serve your breakfast."
"Leave word?"'
"Yes," sha said. "I shall not be
here."
He Jumped for her. gripped her arms
in his hands, turned her about against
her will, and they stood nose to nose.
"You're not thinking of "
"I did my thinking before you came,"
she answered. "It Is very simple. I
have been patient and Indulgent. But
you cannot ask me to tolerate Buch an
extended offense. It could not by any
stretch be palliated as an Impulsive in
fatuation or a sudden slip. One cannot
slip until daylight. You have had time
to reflect. That makes it quite impos
sible for me to e here any longer. I
could never trust you again. It was
too deliberate."
Ferris released her unresistingly. He
backed to a chair and fell Into it. He
massaged his forehead with the palm
of his hand and swayed and rocked in
spasms. She started for the stairs.
"Edle," he called hoarsely. She
stopped but she did not turn. She
tapped her moccasin on the floor as
though she would listen, knowing It
was to no purpose.
"Honey," he exclaimed. "I don't
know what crazy devils made me do it.
I started drinking with my dinner.
That must have got me off. I don't
remember half that happened after
that. Don't be hasty, dearie don't
go away. I need you. 1 11 promise
She spun around.
"I heard you promise at a sacredly
solemn and memorable time, duly fixed
for such promises," she shot back.
"You don't need me now any more than
you did then. It is possible that you
want me. But I deeply regret it If you
truly need me, because you can no
longer have me."
"I do need you," cried Ferris, bound
ing toward her. "I want you, too
more than ever I wanted anything in
all my wretched. Idiot life. Forgot this
rotten thing I've done. Here I am,
back to you. If I loved any other
woman if I preferred any other worn
an I'd be with her now, wouldn't I?
If 'l didn't love you "
"Please don't make it worse, Oro
ver. I have no pride in my compara
tive standing and scarcely more in the
superlative. I had fancied that I was
the only one."
"You are. That's all there ever
was," howled Ferris. "This other
thing is all over. It never 'began. It
has nothing to do with you. Can't you
see? A man may adore his wife
idolize her and yet at the same time
sometimes "
"Yet at the same time sometimes
what?"
"I tell you the one thing has nothing
to do with the other. It isn't that I
loved you any less. Good heavens
there was nothing like that. I can't
exactly "explain it. No man can. If
99 out of 100 women knew the whole
truth about their husbands "
"But each woman thinks she is the
hundredth."
"The hundredth Is the one who finds
out the truth like you did. Heaven
knows where or how. But you got it.
I won't deny it. I can't. I would
have told you. anyhow. I'm sure 1
would have. Now, forget thLs thing.
Forget it and I'll promise it will never,
never happen again and I'll be home
every night and I'll never drink an
other cocktail as long as I live, and it
will never, never happen again, and
I'll let you know where, I am every
minute of every day, and I'll be here
with yo uevery minute of every night,
and I tell you that woman means
nothing to me. No other woman
means anything to me And it will
never, never happen again."
Edith Ferris took a hesitating step
toward him.
"Forgive me. honey. Won't you
Can't you?' he begged, and a sob came
with-r.
Sha took the other step. It brought
(Q5" BY JACK LAIT
her to him. She raised her hands slow
ly and brought them to his cheeks. She
started to kiss him on the lips, shut
her eyes and gulped then kissed him
on the forehead.
"I'll forgive you," she said, straining
a whisper.
Ferris flung his arms about her and
carried her to the chair. He sat her
on his knee, fought her for her head
and as she lowered her face In resist
ance, rhs kiased the back of her neck.
She lay a moment on his breast- He
crooned and stroked her sleeve Then
she sat up.
"Yes, I foiKive you," she said. "Who
am I that I should judge you?'"
"Baby!" was all he could gasp.
"Never speak of this again." she said,
putting her hand over his mouth,
whereupon he kissed it. "And let us
never again discuss, either, what I am
about to tell you."
He looked up, puzzled, querying.
"I forgave you because J understood.
Now you will forgive me, I feel, be
cause you understand. Perhaps you
are right when you say the one thing
has nothing to do with the other. Mar
riage does bring us so close that no
other can really destroy It that is,
when a man and a woman have really
loved, like you and I. It Is too Dig. too
strong, too wonderful to tie torn by a
single transgression. So I think I
can tell you everything and you will
understand."
"What's this?" asked Ferris emphat
ically "I have suffered, too more than you
have, because I am a woman and these
things are more terrible to a woman. I
I have made a mistake, too."
m" m
Ferris flew to his -feet, setting her
down on hers, and he spun her 90 de
grees.
"What are you trying to tell me?"
he demanded.
"Don't," she pleaded. "Don't make
It any harder than It is for both of
us. I have there has been another
man in my life."
Ferris seized her wrists.
"It's a lie!" he shouted into her
face. "It's a contemptible, preposter
ous He."
"No it's true." she moaned. "Don't
hurt me, Grover you're hurting my
wrists so. No it's the truth. I was
young. He was so handsome, so gifted
and so sweet to me, and oh, he could
make wrong seem right."
"You're lying. You're Just trying
me. It's a game. You can't mean it."
She nodded Solemnly three times
and turned away her eyes. He brought
them back with a wrench of her wrists.
"You you don't mean that you
that you crossed the line that no
woman may cross and
"And no man, either. Don't you're
breaking my wrists."
"A man Is all different a moment's
insanity but you couldn't you didn't
come you haven't told me you "
"Yes. You're crushing my wrist!
Yes I did I did."
With a mighty snarl of rage he re
leased her and pitched her aside. He
made the stairs in two strides, disap
peared and was back. In hia hand
there was a revolver. She shrank. He
nozzled it downward to indicate that
she need fear no violence.
'Tell me his name," said Ferris.
"I asked you no names." said she.
"Tell me his name," he cried sav
sgely. "I'm not going to have any
guesswork about this. I want It from
you. Tell me his name, I say."
"If If I do," said she, brokenly,
"will you forgive me?"
"No. I'll forgive nobody."
"There were circumstances. I'm
sorry, Grover. I never realized till
this morning how awful it was. Don't
be hasty you may be wronging me."
"I'd rather wrong you and lose you
than let you wrong me and lose that
man. I don t care about anything now.
I want that man. Out with it his
name!"
"I'm afraid. I don't want a murder
you "
"I suppose you tftink If you don't tell
me you can go back to him, eh? I'll
kill you both before I stand for that.
I'm not going to be the Joke In the club
and the pet pity of the' street. I won't
touch you or harm you if you tell me
now. This house belongs to me. And
when you've told me the name of the
man I've got to kill you leave it. His
name?"
"Very well." said she. "Put down
that pistol. I shall tell you and then
I'll go. But I'm going to tell you in
my own way so that you may under
stand the circumstances, not like a
bullied witness in a courtroom where
every answer must be 'Yes,' 'Na,' or a
name, date or place. Sit down."
He glowered at her. He toswd the
revolver on the table. He danced with
erupting impatience.
'Please sit down,'' 8he said.
With a look of protest ove- the delay
and the detail, and with forced resig
nation he threw himself into the chair.
"I met him this other, man,'' she
began, "when I was too young to com
prehend. He was bright and alluring
and he had a plausible way ot proving
anything he wished And . he ha
robbed ma of my resistance, it waa
too late to undo it when I realized
that hia honor waa a fraud and that I
had given myself to a stranger to a
narrow, weak, small, mean, cruel, self
ish, treacherous " !
"The woman's story, always. Never i
mind the remorse. Go on. Who , , . , ..
was he?" 'TI WAS a man of but one idea,
.. ' ... , . ! Hand that idea was wrong," said
"Wait. I never could have married, II
that man. What I dreamed of In a j Disraeli, m speaking of a man
husband waa a man broad, kindly. ; wn distinguished for his ignor-
good good enough to sympathise; bigiance. Prior to 1872 Oregon's legisla
enough to forgive." i tbrs seemed to have but one idea about
"That's wasted, whether flattery or i
sarcasm. Who was the first oner
"Not the first one, Grover. It wasn't
until after marriage that I met this
other. I "
"What?" screamed Ferris. "After
we were married? Merciful saints.
This gets richer as it goes along. Why,
you 'Just said what , did you Bay? I
don't know what you did say. I don't
care now. I don't want any more of
this confounded story book talk, either.
I want yoii to tell me the name of that
man, or I'll choke it out of you," and
he pressed his two hands on her two
shoulders.
"Sit down." said she. "You can't
force me to do anything. I shall tell
you nothing until you listen to me
without molesting me."
In disgust Ferris sat again. He
snapped his fingers frantically, then
biffed his fist upon the arm of the
chair. ...
"All right," said he. "Spill your
pretty story in your own pretty way.
Only get it out and over with, because 1 tnat section of the state paid a consld
I've got a very Important little piece erable portion of the state taxes. It
of unwritten lawing to do this morn- wouid hold up all appropriations Oil
ing," and he glanced at the revolver j es tney were given their share of the
on the reading table. public buildings. J. C Avery, who
"Some time after our marriage, while j represented Benson county, consented
we were still the best of companions j to having the state university taken
in fact, before the honeymoon had ! from Corvallls. provided they were
really worn away I met this this I given the state capital. This trade
other man. I met him this may in- was made, and the seat of government
trtct T met him the first nieht 'transferred from ShIpiti to Pnrvallis
you siaia oui litie mai uigni jvn .
came home past midnight and said
you had taken a customer to a train.' j
"Where?"
"Here."
"I'nder my own roof in my own
houte? Oood Lord this is worth
hearing. I never dreamed of anything
like that. Go on. (Jet out his name."
"Almost before I knew it he had me
in his arms."
"Stop. You're not going to drag me
through the story inch by inch, kiss
by kiss, in every miserable particular.
My wife, in my own home, when I'm
away one evening, for the first time.
and on busineFs why, it's it's "
and he covered his eyes with his handa
. !...
?d,dnreal1Ze how criminal it was
of me to let him. He took me in his !
arms and swore in that silky voice of i
his that he loved me and he forced j
me to tell him that I loved him and !
i
"The first night? The first hour
he knew you? He works fast, that
snake. But he'll never play the game
again in another man's home. Life
isn't short enough and the world Isn't
big enough for that man to get away
from me, I tell you. And now cut the
child's play. I want that name!"
"In Just a minute now. I'm coming
to it directly. I want to tell you every
thing, and I know you won't stay to c A8fecur!ng h'n ch,0? or 'ene'
listen after I tell you the only thing ! Professor Arnold asked Judge rhomp
yo.i seem to care about. And when:"1"1 f he thought the county would
I tell you I'll not try to hold you, ! donate a block of land as a site for the
and I won't ask you again to forgive ! hiS school, and if their representa-
me. I suppose it's within your power
and right to kill him. Yes "
"You bet it is. And I'll kill him
this morning if I can find him."
"You can find him. He is home now.
He lives on this afreet."
"Carter!" he shouted.
"No." said Edith; "not Carter."
"Hillis! Charlie Hillis and I
thought he was my friend. What a
blind boob I've been Charlie, the last
man on earth "
"I have never even shaken hands
with Hillis," said she.
"Then who? For mercy's sake end
the abominable torture this ghastly
horseplay."
"In Just a moment, now. As a
started to tell you. and as I would have
finished long ago if you had let me tell
my confession my own way, this out
sider came into my life on a lonesome
night when 1 w&s alone and weak and J
susceptible. When I realized what I
had done what had been done to me
it was too late. I tried to reconcile
yself to a wrong, unnatural life. I j
couldn't shake this intruder off. He
had a wihp over me. He could break
my home and take away from me the
other man the man I really loved.
Grover, dear the only man I ever
loved." And she held out her hands
to him; then, remembering, she dropped
them again as though they were lead.
- "ffs no use," said he. "Go on."
"This stranger this interloper this
man who blackmailed me out of my
honor because I wanted my iiome and
my baby and my husband was "
"Who?"
"Y'ou."
"Me?" bellowed Ferris in a cyclone
of passion. "Me? What are you raving
about? Y'ou said never mind
now. Who was the other one? I don't
want any explanation. There were
two. I was one. Who was the other?"
The other." said Edith, "was the
man I thought you were. Now, go to
bed. I'll be here when you wake up.
Marriage is a mighty solemn thing,
Grover. I'll trust your promises. My
' there's the baby crying. I've got to
run! Come on.'1
A Memorial Day
Entertainment
By Dame Curtsey.
May's last special day comes on the
30th Memorial day. It is worthy of
recognition by every loyal American
citizen and should be a day honored
reverently by old and young.
It is, with all its sadness, a day of
great thankfulness, inasmuch as the
"gray and blue" are united as one
man under the glorious Stars and
Stripes.
An occasion of unusual interest is
being planned for next Tuesday night
by a devoted daughter of an old sol
dier. It is to be a "camp fire" to
which six men of the Loyal Legion
are bidden as honored guests. Each
man is requested to relate a war
story of ten minutes duration from
his actual experience, and each is to
wear something (if he has anything)
that he wor- during the war. The
host is to receive in his uniform (cap
tain's) that was made for h'im in a
southern city nearly half "a century
ago.
The rooms are to be decorated with
flags and pictures of war heroes, and
there is to be a big wood blaze in the
fireplace. The refreshments are to be
hard-tack, coffee, grilled bacon sand
wiches, pie, doughnuts, pickles and
cheese. War songs are to be rung,
and the wives of the six soldier guests
re to come dressed as the girls of '41
and serve the refreshments, but this
is a surprise, ao let us hope none of
the men will read "Dame Curtsey" to
day. Would that every old soldier through
out the length and breadth of our fair
land could receive a personal hand
clasp and a smile of recognition . on
this coming Memorial day.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON by fred wcklby
the location of the state university.
ana mat was to use its location as
trading stock to secure votes for oth
er measures.
On September 27, 1830, congress
passed an act granting two townships
of land in Oregon toward the estab
lishment and maintenance of a state
university in Oregon. The territorial
legislature of 1851 appointed a board
of three commissioners. Harrison
Llnnville, Sidney Ford and Jesse Ap
plegate, to select the land under this
grant. 1
Later the university commissioners
accepted five acres from Joseph Fried
ley, at Corvallls, as a site "for the state
university. They let the contract for
the building and spent about $3000.
The commissioners who had selected
the university lands had sold approx
imately 4000 acres of fertile land in
the Willamette valley for 19000.
The legislature which met on the
first Monday in December of 1854 im
mediately began wrangling about the
location of the public buildings. South-
rn Oregon claimed that, inasmuch as
nunc me biuih uiu ei va mueu
to .Tacksonv llle.
When told that the location was too
j far from the (enter of the state, the
I member from Jackson county aid: "I
! don't expect the university to stay In
I Jacksonville, but before it can te
changed, we will have the spending of
the fund, $12,000. with which we will
put up a university building. We can
j use it as a courthouse when yon move
jthe state university to some other sec
j tion of the Ftate."
I Corvallis remained the capital until
the legislature met the following De
I eember, when the legislature passed
Ian act removing the canital 1o Salem.
T(h "V u"' T
state until 1R12. when it took up its
Kug.ne
try $100,000 was realized from
f1 'tne 4'000)tacre" Vf an
granted to the university. -This fund
set. asld(e " an Irreducible school
fund whose interest was to be used in
the maintenance of the university.
In the summer of 1872 there was
some talk of Eugene having a high
school. Ben F. Dorris and W. .1. Scott
were school directors. These two di
rectors met one evening in August.
1S72. at the sHoolhouse with John O.
Arnold, one of the school teachers;
County Judge J. M. Thompson and S.
j H. Spencer to discuss ways and means
tives in the legislature could get any
help In a financial way from the legis
lature. Judge Thompson doubted if
the legislature would help toward es
tablishing a high school, and spoke of
the fact that Professor T. F. Campbell
(whose son, P. L. Campbell, Is now the
president of the state university) was
after the state university for Mon
mouth. Judge Thompson finally said:
"Why not get the state university for
Eugene, In place of trying for a high
school?" They decided to call a meet
ing for the next evening at the court
house. The same group ry t next evening
with a few others, among whom were
J. J. Walton and T. G. Hendricks. It
was decided at this meeting to ask the
legislature to locate the state univer
sity at Eugene, and to offer a free site
for the university building. At this
meeting it was also decided to prepare
articles of incorporation, and a corn-
mittee of three, consisting of County
Judge J. M. Thompson, Ben F. Dorris
and J. J. Walton were appointed to pre
pare the necessary articles and take
such other action as should be neces
sary. The committee decided to name
the corporation the "Union University
Association," and to Issue 150.000 worth
of stock. The following were the in
corporators: Judge J. M. Thompson, J.
J. Walton. W. J. J. Scott, B. F. Dorris,
J. G. Gray, J. B. Underwood, J. J. Corn
stock, A. S. Patterson, S. H. Spencer, E.
L. Brlstow, E. L. Applegate and A. W.
Patterson. The articles of incorpora
tion were signed and acknowledged on
August 30, 1872.
Judge M. P. Deady was 6een and
agreed to prepare a bill o be submit
ted to the legislature. The bill, among
other things, provided that, In return
for the location of the university at
Eugene, the Union University associa
tion would select a site and erect there
on a building at a. cost of not less than
$50,000 on or before January 1. 1874,
and turn it over to the state. It fur
ther provided that the university
should be managed by nine doctors,
three of whom should be selected by
the University association and six of
whom should be appointed by the gov
ernor. On October 23, 1872, the incorpora
tors of the Union University associa
tion organized and elected J. M. Thomp
son chairman and Joshua J. Walton
secretary. A committee to solicit sub
scriptions to the amount of $20,000 was
appointed, consisting of the following:
J. M. Thompson, J. J. Walton, w. J. J
Scott and B. F. Dorris. After strenu
ous efforts, a $20,000 fund was raised.
The bill to locate the state university
at Eugene passed both houses of the
legislature and was signed by the gov
rnnr A bill waa fllan nassArl author
izing the county court to levy a special;
tax on all assessable property in Lane
county sufficient to raise $30,000.
This action assured the state univer
sity to Eugene, but It was the begin
ning, not the end, of their troubles, for
immediately the residents of the west
end of Eugene and those of the east
end were at swords' points over the
location of the university. So strenu
ous was the contest that, when the Uni
versity association met on November 8,
1 872, .to decide the question, they side
stepped the decision by appointing a
committee with power to act as to the
selection of a site. The committee con
sisted of Dr. A. W. Patterson, B. F.
Dorris, E. L. Bristow, W. J. J. Scott
and J. G. Gray. The committee decid
ed to compromise the matter by the
selection of a site midway betweep the
two contending factions. They-sflected
a 10 acre tract on the D. R. Christian
place. Just south of Eleventh street, be
tween High and Oak streets. In place
of pleasing the rival factions, both
sides fell foul of the committee over
their decision.
The board of state land commission
ers was to approve the choice of a site;
so, to settle all local controversy, the
selection of a site was referred to
them. All factions agreed to abide by
the choice made by Governor Graver,
Secretary of State Chadwick and State
Treasurer Fleishner, Governor Grover
was unable to come, ao the two other
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June, 1915. Below, left to right Library, Deady and Villard
r. lu Campbell.
members of the board visited all sites
ui.der discussion, heard the arguments
of those who urged their selection, and
selected the 18 acre tract offered by J.
H. D. Henderson. This tract was pur
chased for $2500, and is the present lo
cation of the state university buildings.
The first board of trustees consisted
of the following nine members: B. F.
Dorris, J. J. Walton and George Hum
phrey, of Eugene, selected by the Uni
versity association, and six appointed
by Governor Grpver, as follows: Judge
Matthew P. Deady, of Portland; Lewis
L. Mc Arthur, of The Dalles; Reuben S.
Strahan, of Albany; Dr. S. Hamilton, of
Roseburg, and Judge J. M. Thompson
and T. G. Hendricks, of Eugene.
John W. Johnson was appointed pres-'tal
ldent and Professor Thomas Condon
and Professor Mark Bailey were select
ed as his assistants. These three
teachers composed the first faculty,
with the addition of Mrs. Mary P. Splll
er and Miss Eljzabeth Boise, who had
charge of the preparatory department.
The university opened its doors on Sep
tember 16, 1878, with 89 pupils in the
collegiate and 123 in the preparatory
departments.
From this humble beginning the state
university has grown till its influence
is state wide and its graduates are fill-
ing positions of trust, honor and re
sponsibility all over the west. From
the 89 students in the collegiate course
in 1878 the attendance has grown to
nearly 2000. From the five instructors,
of the early day the faculty has grown
to more than 80, with 79 additional em
ployes. From the high school course of
the early day the university has in
creased its usefulness till it now has
the following organization: Graduate
school, college of literature, science and
the arts, school of architecture, school
of commerce, school of education,
school of medicine, school of music,
school of law, school of correspondence
and a summer school. Students can
take work In art. architecture, botany,
chemistry, commence, economics, edu
cation, English, geology, German.
Greek, History, Journalism, Latin,
mathematics, physics, psychology, po
litical science, public speaking, Ro
mance languages, law, medicine, music,
including piano, voice, violin and har
mony; zoology and various other spe
cial courses.
Deady Hall, named for Judge Mat
thew P. Deady, the first president of
the board of regents, was tne first
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building erected on the campus
lard hall was built in 1885, and was
named for Henry Villard, one of the
most generous contributors to the uni
versity's endowment. In it Ls the won
derful collection of fossils and geolog
ical specimens gathered by the well
loved Professor Condon, who for so
long was an instructor in the univer
sity. MeClure iiall was built In 1900. It
houses the department of chemistry
and mining. The west wing of the
architectural hall was built in 1901, and
the east wing was fcullt in 1914. The
library building was put up in 1907.
The men's dormitory was built In 1893.
and additions were made to it 10 years
later, and also In 1814. The Mary
Bpiller hall for girls was built in 1907.
The Engineering hall was put up in
1909. There ls also a men's gymnasium
and one for the girls. The most recent
addition to the buildings is Johnson
hall or Administration hall, erected
last year.
In speaking of the relation of the
university, to tha public. President
Campbell said: "I am extremely anx
ious to have our citizens generally re
alise that the state university la wholly
theirs. They must make it what they
want it to be. Nobody is giving them
anything. They are "" providing the
whole thing themselves.. If they fully
realize this important fact, I believe
they will be aroused to a keener Inter
est in the development of higher edu
cation In Oregon and actively take a
hand In directing the course which the
University, the Agricultural college and
the State Normal are pursuing.
"The great trouble Is the mass of our
fellow citizens do not realize that a
higher education Is for everybody. The
old theory was to educate a few lead
ers. A broader democracy of intellect
Is a much safer foundation for the
state.
"We are launching this spring a cam
paign for very simple living, which will
enable students to spend a year very
comfortably at the university on a to-
expense of $250, Including the cost
of clothing. We believe that the hoy's
family can provide him with at least
$75, which would be spent if he were ot
home for clothes, and that he enn earn
and save at least $75 during the sum
mer, and that we can arrange to pro
vide a loan of $100 a year for him from
the student loan fund. We should
want to select the boys and girls with
the assistance of the principals of the
high schools, and the substantial as
sistance of the towns in which they
I live. Our loan fund experiment has
proven very successful during the last
eight of ten years. We are loaning
about $5000, and no far have Buffered
no losses.
"In connection with the 'high think
ing which is. of course, the primary
object of the university, we are trying
to bring out clearly in the minds of the
students the great motives which un
derlie the movement for thrift. It is
simply a question of giving them right
standards in life
The educational system of a elate
Astonishing Power of Iron
to Give Strength to Broken
rhyslclaa Says Ordinary Xfoxated Iron
Will Increase Strength of Delicate
rolk BOO Fe Cast. In Two
Weeks' Time ia
Instances.
New York, N. T. In a recent dis
course Dr. E. Sauer. a well known
' specialist who has studied widely
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said: "It you were to make an ac
tual blood test on all people who are
111 you would probably be greatly as
tonished at the exceedingly large num
ber who Uck. iron and who are ill for no
other reason than the lack of lion The
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tude of dangerous symptoms disappear.
Without iron the blood at once loses
the power to change food into living
tissue, and therefore nothing you eat
does you any good; you don t get the
strength out of it. Your food merely
passes through your system like corn
through a mill with the rollers so wide
apart that the mill can't grind. As a
result of this continuous blood and
nerve starvation, people become gener
ally weakened, nervous and all run
down, and) frequently develop all sorts
of conditions. One Is too thin; an
other la Jburdened with unhealthy fat;
some are so weak they can hardly walk;
soma think they have dyspepsia, kid
ney or liver trouble; some can't sleep
at night; others are aleepy and tired
all day; some fussy and irritable:
soma skinny and bloodless, but all
lack phyalcal power and endurance. In
such caaea it Is worse than foolishness
to take stimulating medlcinea or nar
cotic drugs, which only whip up your
fagging vital powers for thss moment,
maybe at tha expensa of your life
later on. No matter what any one
tells you. if you are not strong and
wall you owe it to yourself to make
the following testi Sea how long you
can work or how far you can walk
without . becoming , tired. v.Next . take
class room building completed la .
halls, University of Oregon; President'
ns a whole, from the primary grade!
through the graduate school of the uni
versity, is the organised means by
which the people of the state provide
for their children and for themselves
the fullest opportunity for the devel
opment of all the faculties with Which
nature has endowed them. It Is sup
ported by all the people, and is for tha
benefit of all the people. The only lim-
It to the system Is the limit of the de
sire of the people for opportunities of.;
enlightenment and training, and tha f i '
nanclal limit of their available re
sources. It must always be borne in
mind that the educational system. Ilka
good government, is of the people, by
the people, and for the people and for
all of them."
Just as an individual Is more than his
body or his clothes, so the university
is more than a group of buildings and.
a faculty. The spirit of the university
is one of service and fair play, In life,
ns well as In athletics, the students are
urged to be good losers, as well as good
winners. In the code Issued to stu
dents Is this pregnant paragraph: "Tha
good sportsman is a good loser and a
generous winner; he should be quick to
resent Injustice; he should fight tha
battle of fair play; he should apply to
athletic and other contests the prin
cipals of fair play and gallant conduct
which have become established in tha
course of centuries, and which consti
tute the lasting glory of the English-
speaking race. '
An electric lamp to be mountid on
the handle of a safety razor an.l take
current from a light socket has been
patented by an Englishman lo aid
fchavers.
Down Nervous People
two five-grain tablets of ordinary nux
ated iron three times per day after
meals for two weeks. Then test your
strength again, and see for yourself
how much you have gained. 1 have
seeu doxens of nervous, run-down peo
ple wno were suing ail- tne time, dou
ble and even triple their strength and
endurance and entirely get rid of
their symptoms of dyspepsia, liver and
other troubles in from ten to fourteen
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proper form, and this, after they had
In some cases been doctoring for
Uoonths without obtaining any benefit,
ryou can n aa you pieaM about, ail
the wonders wrought by new remedias,
but when you come down to hard facta ,
there is nothing like good old iron to
put color in your cheeks and good,
sound, healthy flesh on your bones, it
is also a great nerve and stomach
strengthener and the best blood builder
in the world. The only trouble waa
that the old forms of inorganic iron. '
often ruined people's teeth, upset their
stomachs and were not assimilated.
and for these reasons they frequently'
di1 more harm than good. But with
the discovery of the newer forma of -'
organic iron all this has been over- '
coma. Nuxated Iron, for example, is
nl.a .anl tn ta U . A rtti m nil wmImva h .
teeth and la almost immediately beaa-
ficiaL ?
NOTE The mnaficturr of Naxited Iras
bsv seek tisbounded confidence In its potency -tbat
tkey satborltw th aooouDceBMnt Ut -ihrj
will forfeit $100.00 to eny CharluMe la
Utntioa It tbejr cannot take any mas or -womaa
under sixty wbo Ucka lrea sad in- '
eraas tbelr strength X per cent or over U '
four waeka time, provided tbejr bar m
sarioos orgsoie trouble. Also tney will 'ra
dio year none? la any esae la wbksa Kutat,j ,
Iron doss not at least doable jrou strength '
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