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PAGE FOUR Xfcs OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon. Friday Blornin?, NoYtrabcr2VlgS3 "Xo Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Axcc" : From First Statesman. March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Chakles A. SPtAcuc. Sheldon P. Sackett, Publishers Charles A. SnuctT ..... Editor -Manager Sheldon F. Sackett ..... Managing Editor " - ' , Member of the Associated Press " The Associated Preaa la exclusively entitled to the ue for publica tion of all newt dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited io this paper. ' Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W Stjrp-8. I nr.. Portland. Security Ride San Franrtwo. Shnron Bide; I-"" Antcelea. w Pae. Bid. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Purson-Sther.lne., New York. tTl Mad: son Ave.; Chlcaso. 30 K.-Michigan Are. Entered at the Potto ff ice at.Satem. Oregon, a Second-Class Hotter. Published every morning except Monday. Business office, tlS S. Commercial Street. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: j Mall Subscription Rates, in Advance. Within Oregon : Dally and 8unday, 1 Ma (0 cents: 3 Mo. $1.25 C Mo. M$: 1 rear tl.00. Elao where SO centa per Uor or 15.00 for 1 year ta. advance, By City Carrier; 8 centa a month; $5.50 a year in advance. Per Copy S centa. On train and Newa Stand I cent. Ruminations on Success PERFECTLY simple, said the business doctors the Ad club called in for ttie merchants' forum. All you need with your, merchandise is ideas. That's it ideas. You can't order them by the gross; they have to come out of your head. The specialists didn't say how to fire up the old brain so as toboil off the needed ideas. So most of us are still as far off from success as we were before, we nave to una tne idea before we can set it worKing. Everv success comes from an idea. But so does every failure. The difference js that one is a good idea and the other a poor idea. The difficulty yes in this, tnat a man may not be able to tell his Idea is a poor one tiu ne goes busted. The fellow who follows wrong ideas is called a fool; the fellow whi hits on a bricrht idea that "goes over big" makes a million and gets an honorary degree from a small but needy college. Wit is a valuable asset in a business man; but a poor substitute for work. The man who lives by his wits' is usually behind with his house rent. Some brains are fecund in ideas; others sterile. There 1 ! Lli: f 4.1 1.-4. . 1 A. J 1 of thought often increases the yield. Letting the brain lie fallow in a vacation period may bring profitable results later. . Ideas are competitive; yours may be stale compared with the other fellow's. Most ideas in business in small towns are imitations from some place else; few are orig inal. Bright thoughts will nof take the place of good goods; shoppers aren't looking for poetry. Old men in business have too few ideas; young men too few good ones. A "novelty" is not necessarily an idea; most of your fresh ideas have been tried, and discarded long ago. You'll know when, you get a real idea; something "clicks" in your mind; you know you've got it; and your enthusiasm helps make it succeed. ' Ideas, ideas we all need them; but sometimes we think the public has to have periods like the present to re cover from too great an eruption of bright merchandising ideas in days preceding. HEALTH Today's Talk By R. 8. Copeland, M. D. H2CDDELAND Rates Follow Schedules RAILWAY time cards are not the only things to be cut. The roads serving the coast are out with cjit rates be tween 'Chicago and coast cities. It is frankly experimental and introduces a new idea in American railway passenger service. It is virtu&llv thi ndnntiort tit the Euronean nlan of first, second and third class fares, though those terms are not applied. The day coach rate is cut to $50 for one way from Chicago to coast cities. The second class will be the tourist sleeping cars where the rate is $65. First class will be the standard Pullmans at $79.84, which is the present rate. The success of the Southern Pacific in its one-way and round-trip rates to California for coach tickets indicates that the new classification and rates will prove popular when extended to other roads and routes. The Santa Fe was first to announce the plan on its California tickets. The Milwaukee followed on fares from Chicago to Seattle and Portland. Other northwestern lines have indicated that they will meet the new rates. 1 The roads are waking up, but they seem tardy in doing it. They said they couldn't afford to cut the passenger rates; but neither could they afford to haul empty coaches . mmm a A 1 A V, 11 V A back and forth, to meet bus competition tney wiu nave to get in and scrap; and with the advantages which the roads have to offer in comfort and convenience and speed all they need is lower fares to regain a lot of business. Flash in the Pan THE charges against the state prison administration proved a wretched flop. Irvin Goodman, who seems to have a zeal for 'fault-finding, was discredited by his own witnesses, one of whom admitted he lied so much about his age he didn't know how old he was. Those who supported Goodman's claims of harsh cruelty at the penitentiary were convicts or ex-convicts; and most of them had very little to complain of. f The prison is no pleasure resort. The men are there because they are criminals, and some of them are the tough est eggs in the state. It takes force, discipline and some times punishment to keep them in line. The present admin istration at the prison has run things without resort to cruelty or inhuman treatment; and deserves high praise in stead of abuse. Perhaps it is a good thing to have the in vestigation to show the people of the state how well the pen is being run. : : Mr. Dancy Retires SALEM citizens will note with genuine regret the retire ment at his own request of W. H. Dancy, who for 35 years has been connected with the telephone business in Salem. Besides his long and faithful work for his employ ers. Mr. Dancy has found time for public work, serving now as a member of the city council and as president of the Rotary club. , . Mr. Dancy is not an old man ; has many years of useful service ahead of him. The hope will be general that he con tinue to reside in Salem where he is well and favorably known. Salem Is going to sea an exhibition of real college pep when the football same Is staged Batnrday between Whitman and Wil lamette. .Were ire not overawed by the big state schools so close at band the town would be beside Itself with enthusiasm .over this ?ame Takft iwo hour off Satday afternoon and see the game, it; win be a fine game and you will not have to mortgage your house to buy two tickets. - , "This Is a trip everyone should take," writes Sid Elliott about the boat trip fronuNew, Orleans to New York. We lead It on a foggy, chilly morning and feel like waiting for Sid with a stuffed club when he gets back home. Girls at the University of Oregon are having a contest to de- 1 ..wra In. IiIaK t . . til. MB ..A. t. . . J.. L - . - uivsfc uvauuiu dku ana tne most periect legs. Paris, where art thou T It was. Just such a, tast of beauty that brought on the Trojan war. C. Coolidge sayj that the wisdom of lowering the national dtbt la now evident. We aren't worrying about the national debt It's .a . t. . . i. . u .a An Oregon City babr was born with two perfect teeth. The faoiaer must have been listening to Amos 'a Andy, n Many factors go to regulate the color sense. It takes a train ed eye to distinguish between the various graduations of the prlmirr colors. The artist possesses a viv id color sense, oecause t h e eye Is trained to fine dls- t 1 n ctlons. Workers In dyes and those who engage in such profes sions as Inter ior .decoration and other forms of art, must have a highly aeveiopea sense or color. : One who eannot distinguish be tween different eolprs Is said to be. "color-blind." -Perhaps most of us are more ox less - color blind, certainly when It eomes -to distinguishing betweea the many shades of many colors. Most per sons can distinguish only a tew of the .many hues found In 'the universe. . Men particularly "are more or less afflicted with color. blindness. Something which will be of general Interest la the recent re port from the Technical College of Berlin. It states that Profes sor Frans Weidert has invented a glass to be used in spectacles for the eolor blind. The glass contains certain chemical ele ments which aid In detecting col ors by , those who suffer from lack of the normal color senses. Certain colors of the spectrum aretaken from the light rays passing ' through this glass. The colors wbich are absorbed are chiefly those which range in tones from orange to yellow ly ing between .the reds and the greens. The spectacles make it possible to distinguish, between colors by increasing materially the contrast between them To the color-blind red and green are the two most trouble some colors. Thus a glass such as this would seem to be a valuable contribution to many afflicted persons. With such an aid to mo torists - afflicted with poor color sense there will be little excuse for them to disobey the red and green signal lights and the flash es of the traffie cop. Persons who are In posts of re sponsibility anywhere on land or sea should hare frequent tests of the eyea, both for failure of vi s i o n and for color-blindness. Many an accident can be averted by this precaution. Answers to Health Queries C. F. E. Q. What do you ad vise for -epilepsy? A. Send self-a ddressed, stamped . envelope for full par ticulars and repeat your question. , Betsy. Q. What should a girl of 21, 5, ft. in. tall, weigh? A. 8he should 133 pounds. weigh about Yesterdays ... Of Old Oregon Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read Nov. 21, 1905 The Loewenberg-Ooing started Its foundry at the penitentiary yesterday, with almost a full force of hands, and with build ings and equipment in first class condition following Improve ments. A new contract has been signed between the company and state for employment of at least 150 men at three and a half cents per hour, the contract to continue" for two years. Rev. Davis Errette, pastor of the Christian church, declared In an address that the pulpit should teach politics. He claimed the preacher has as much right as the civilian and should exercise it, especially in condemning wrong. Don Moore, small son of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Moore, escaped serious injuries when he sustain ed a severe fall. He and 'Clyde Boyce, mounted on the same bi cycle, coasted down the High street hill and ran into planks laid across the Hughes bridge, which has been closed. Both boys were thrown from the wheel.' Spautding lumber mills are waiting for a high stage" of water to enable towing steamers to bring logs down from- their camps. Th e Safety Valve - - Letters from Statesman Readers I 'HEY, WHEN DO WE EAT?" Retail srl 1S r J .Wfl; fl, U R- v rar mj urn, j u I - . 1. 1 Taj jj . "GIRL U1MAFRAID" 6hnston Salem Statesman: Since I. M. Petersen of Grand Ronde, Yamhill county. Ore., laid the xoundauon of the Salmon Riv er cuttoff road which Simeon Blu son, then chairman of the Oregon state highway commission ; will certify to, since said road has be come a state highway, I herewith In the name of the state of Ore gon, baptize the said road Mc- Mlnnville-Ne wport highway. The reason ts sound as Oregon and the state of Washington have sev eral salmon rivers and roads by that name. Respectfully, M. Petersen, who helped to 71ft Oregon out of the mud. - , , . . CXVB TO BE REORGANIZED MT. ANGEL, Not. 20 The Mt, Angel Community club, which bas been defunct for- several years, will be re-organlsed next! rTuasday evening at a mass meet- ins to-be held la the maooi building. - s 1 Chapter JF7 Ardeth sat before the -dying fire in .the living room, listening to the whisper of the pine trees outside, and to Ken's deep weary breathing in the bedroom. . It seemed a strange dream . . . Ken's breakdown was more se vere than any of them had re alized en that first day. Had he stayed in the city had he been held in a sanitarium against his wishes, he would have rebelled and the results would have been disastrous. But In this soothing quiet and with Ardeth's continu ous presence, he was submissive and content. Nature supplied her own remedy In the form of deep. exhaustive sleep. To Ardeth, time went on in an undisturbed dream. Two days of peace, filled with sunshine and the smell of the pines. Reality could not reach her. Despite the abrupt change, it seemed strange ly natural to be here. There- were times when she found -her heart leaping as she thought of the shop, but they were Infrequent. Hard to imag ine the teeming rfty, the rush of Intent humans up here in the quiet mountains. Two flays filled with the trees; with the small tasks of the household. Ken did not gather the true meaning of the situa tion. Most of the time he slept. When he did rouse his words were dreamy and after eating he drowsed off again. His weary mind and body were drinking up rest as a spopge drinks water. Mid-afternoon of the third day the silence was broken by the sound of a motor. Tom drove up before the cabin and beside him was Mary Eastwood. Black eyes smouldering . with excitement, Mary stood beside Ardeth on the porch. Tom had gone in to see Ken, and Mary fired the opening shot. "Afdeth, my darling, what craziness is this? To stay here like this?" 'I know its not conventional. but sometimes conventions must be thrust aside, Mary dear." Ar deth's tranquil gaze met Mary's steadily. 'Conventions oh, rubbish ! " Mary wrung her .hands in her earnestness. "It isn't that I care! Nor Fred. Nor even dear old Tom, though I think he's really heartbroken. But you can't slap the world in the face, Ardeth. What about when you go back?" Ardeth shrugged. She had lean ed baok against the rough sap ling which formed the rail of the porch and her eyes went up io a tall pine which seemed fringed with silver in the clear light. "Time enough to take that up when I have to, Mary. It was a case of deciding quickly. I could not let Ceeue get Ken even If she wanted him. He needed me. listened to the world's opinion. Mary, and look what it - did nearly killed Ken. Now he's mine. He Is weak and sick and I'm go ing to see- that he gets well. Ill never leave him again. I don't care what happens." "But, darling. It will only end in a scandal! Cecils is furious. And she's beastly self-righteous. She'll hang on to Ken' legally now just for spite. Don't you see, you are playing right Into her hands." The girl continued to regard the pine with a faint smile. "Ce cile doesn't matter any more, Mary." "Not herO, maybe. But later. You can't spend all your days In a mountain cabin. And you're not the sort of woman who can get away with this sort of thing, Ar deth. Not the flaunting, adventu rous type- You're too sensitive, life can hurt you." "Life has hurt me." Ardeth's eyes had come back to regard Lher steadily. "And Ken needs me." i "What does ' Ken say? What does he. think?" - Her face was lovely with tend erness, "He doesn't think, Mary. He's like a man drugged. It Just seems so blessedly right to him to have me around here that he accepts it as natural. Honestly, Mary, I think that another day of the strain would have been too much. He'll be all tight 'but he's as weak as a baby." Mary stared at her helplessly, suddenly finding that she had no arguments to advance. There was as well, a serenity, aft aura of quiet' happiness which Mary had never before seen. Fine and true, she seemed, standing here in the sunlight. A sweet gravity, a thoughtfulness about he'r which was new and more of the woman than the girl. The older woman's . eyes filled and she put her arms' about Ar deth. "Oh, my dear, if I could only make things come right for the two of you. Damn Cecile and her selfishness! I'll have to tell you I went to her as soon as Tom told me. I pleaded with her I begged her to do the decent thing and set Ken free. You see he hasn't a chance now she'd bring counter suit to. any complaint. The woman's a dog-in-the-manger! She sneered at me. Talked a lot of noble stuff which was as false as her own smile. X could have killed her." Again Mary was struck by the complete Indifference of the girl's attitude. "Cecile can't make it right or wrong, my being here," she said earnestly. "Ken needs me. That's all that counts with me. Cecile is responsible for for him lying in there like that " She pointed back to the house. "This sick ness of his goes back - to that night after the baby's death, when he came to me Cecile hurt something fine and good in Ken's prery soul that time. Mary. It s as if as if she'd stabbed his soul cabyh Colds pot BBitra wii row dosing Just rub on OVEP1? MILLION JARS USED YEARLY LOW FARES - -c for Thanksgiving Holiday For only a third more than the regular one way fare you can buy a Southern Pacific round. txip to your Thanksgiv ing Holiday destination. These tickets are good leaving Nov. 25, 26, 27. Return limit Dec. 1. Your Southern Pacific agent will gladly give you the fare to theplace you want to visit. Phone him today. aty Ticket Office 184 N. -Liberty TelcpboM 80 Passenger Depot; . 13th sad Oak Telephone 4J and it had been slowly bleeding to death all this time. I suppose that sounds melodramatic, but it shows what I mean. And she'll never get a chance to hurt him again. He's mine." "Beautiful but crazy!" Mary raged to Tom when they had left and were driving down the grade in the quiet evening- light. "But what can I do? She's of age and in her right mind, though she doesn't act itl" After a mo ment of silence she burst out vigorously. "And moreover, she's dead right! I'd do the same thing if it were Fred lying there in Ken Gleason's place." But Mary's generous opinion, or the world's spiteful one, made little difference after all to Ar deth. Tranquil days and deep star filled nights, each one bringing returning strength to Ken. Little by little reality pushed in upon him once more. He watched the girl moving about the room and his mind groped back over the past days. Something like terror came into his eyes. "It's all wrong, dear," he said slowly. "Oh, yes shouldn't have done this! What will people what will everyone say? And " his thin hands moved nervously, BITS for.BREAKFAST Uy B. J, IIBNDBICKS Narclesa Whitman' visit: t... t. nr a rather full Kccount of his trip to The palles. after he left what became ou, January 21, 1843. -Rot he wrote nothing of his .return' voyage, when Mrs. Whitman may hare been with him. - He started from his home,, at what la now J0 Broadway, la a small wagon, with camping out fit i of blankets, tent and provi sions for the- Journey, expecting to reach La Butte (Butteville) that erenlng and start from there in a canoe with four Indians. But it was the afternoon of the third day before everything was ready. It was snowing and raining, and the river was high. He left Fort Vancouver for The Dalles at noon of Friday, the 27th. They took on four bushels of seed wheat at the flouring mill of the Hudson's Bay company up the river on the other side, and camped for tho night on the bank of the Colum bia, having made only about 10 miles, In the raging .storm and roaring river. On Saturday, had high winds, snow and a flooded river, and could not more camp. They remained ovr 8unday. a Monday, the 20 th, got as far as the Cascades, and made an un comfortable camp in the deep now with difficulty finding wood to make a fire. Tuesday they made the portage through the deep snow, and that night the In dlan erew slept In an Indian bouse, and Mr. Lee had his' tent and camp tire to himself. S. V Wednesday, through the flood ed Columbia filled with Lee and snow, the whole crew had several narrow escapes. Jason Lee wrote of one of them: "The man at the stern of the canoe (when a' big wave went over them) said It he had not looked well to the canoe, it would have been upset and all plunged Into the river. Perhaps the Indians would have gained the shore, but that I was too heavily clothed and would soon have gone down. This was a very reasonable conclusion . . . But I see He (God) has more work, or more suffer ings, for me. Well, all I ask is to be able to fulfill my day." S , On Thursday, February I, the party reached Wascopani (The Dalles) before night. Jason Lee wrote: "Found the members of the mission all well. Mrs. Dr. Whitman was with them. I was very glad to meet her again, as I j had not seen her since I caned upon them onlny Journey to the States, in 1838, but was sorry to find her In poor health." Jason Lee was at The Dalles about two weeks. He had sent a message to Peupeumoxmoz or Yellow Serpent, the chief of the Walla Walla Indians, asking that wily old savage to meet him and talk over the matters that were agitating the whole country, In dians and whites alike. The son of Yellow Serpent had been brought to the mission school, at the old mission below what be came Salem, to be taught English and Christianity. He had there I can't make it right for you." Ardeth had been sitting by the window shelling peas for dinner. She rose and came over to his side. She held his head against her breast, kissed his cfesed eyes. "it's all . right now." she said softly, "it's only wrong when we are apart. Ken." (To be continued) hoAR elven the name of Elijah. after Elijah Hedding, a leading Methodist bishop of that day. Elijah had gone to Fort Sutter, California, and had been killed there the missionaries said he was murdered, while at prayer. Siskadee, his Indian lover, mourn ed for him. and his father car ried vengeance in his heart for all "Bostons," as the Americans were known. . - W-V: - ! r But Yellow Serpent had high regard for Lee. and if any one could convince nlm that his plot ting, or lending encouragement to savage plotters, was a thing he should not do, Lee could. Hence the errand. In the dead; of winter, at the peril of his own life. The Walla Walla chief came to The Dalles to talk with Lee. He want ed to know two things: Did the Bostons want war or peace? What was meant by so many immigrants passing through hit country, with more and more coming? ; V : Lee was frank. As he wrote them In his diary, some of his answers were, in brief: "That will depend largely upon your selves." As to the coming of so many Americans: "If you imitate our Industry and adopt our hab its your poverty will soon disap pear, and your people will hare many things as well as wo. Our bands are our wealth, and you and your people have hands as well as we, nd you only need to use them properly in order to gain property. . . . Americans passing through your country entirely des titute will by their industry upon the Willamette in a few years have horses and cattle and houses and other property, the fruits of their own labors." a Lee sympathised with the chief over the loss of hia son. but re minded him that there were bad white men as well as bad Indians, as he knew and Elijah was kilU ed by a bad white man, who him self deserved death. Yellow Ser pent, who had eome with a party, of his warriors more than 100 miles to talk with Lee. departed with bis retinue to counsel peace Instead of war. All the people then in Oregon believed Lee's talk with Peupeumoxmox averted an Indian raid, that might have meant uisasier io ine scauereu and feeble settlements. - a As before stated, Jason Lee found bis work at The Dalles done and was ready for the return journey February 14, 1843. The snow was two feet deep, bat the raging Columbia was open, and. after three days of danger and toil he was again at Fort Vancouver, with his canoe and Indian boat men. Did Narcissa Whitman come to the Willamette on that canoe? She may have been one of the party. There ts one. clew against that theory. She wrote a letter to her father that was dated at Wascopam March 4, 1843. The Hudson's Bay company, peo ple were constantly going and coming that way, and she knew them all, and she may have eome (Continued on page J) TODAY'S PROBLEM A man once said, when asked his age: "If to my age. there added be, Its half, its third, and three times three, tlx score and ten. the sum will be. what Is mr age? Pray show It me." Today's answer tomorrow. Yesterday's answer 3S3.44 sq. ft. - i r mm : ' m mm it tb.. . J - -t i BMnss-3Hf Salem . . . boyhood home President Hoover Salem shares with one other eity in Oregon the distinction of having been for several years the boyhood home of the nation's President, s Th house In which Herbert Hoover lived with his uncle, Dr. Minthorne, in Salem was In the Highland addition. Dr. Minthorne and his next-door neighbor, Ben Cook, operated the Oregon Land Company and this firm was one of thJ early employers of America's present chief executive. The United States National takes pleasure In bringing to the attention of the people of this community the fact that Amerca's President and one of the -world's greatest or ganizers In humanitary ac tivities lired, was educated and worked in Salem. The United States National Bank Salem, Oregon - -.., j ... t MEMBER : UNTIED STATES NATIONAL GKOUP