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Xfcs OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon. Friday Blornin?, NoYtrabcr2VlgS3
"Xo Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Axcc"
: From First Statesman. March 28, 1851
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Letters from
Statesman Readers
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'HEY, WHEN DO WE EAT?"
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"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
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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
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dosing Just rub on
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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. .
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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?
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: 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. -
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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.
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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 -
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MEMBER : UNTIED STATES NATIONAL GKOUP