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About Wallowa chieftain. (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1902)
THE THIRD DEGREE. kf the Master caret to judge me by the thing's that I hare done. There will be no place in heaven for hi foolish, erring on; If the Muster's seen the things that I have wanted most to do. There'll be no salvation for me, for the devil knows 'eiu, o! Bui I've wanted true to want to do the things I knew were right Say, can it be the likes of me'll have virtue in his sight? I have soiled my hands with mischief, and I've wanted to do more. And 't was but because I didn't dare, it wasn't done before; But behind the dirty deed I did, behind the wish I had. There's been a longing to be straight, a feeling I was bad; Though he alone has seen and known beyond that double sin He knows my soul is somehow whole say, will be let me in? If there's any place beside the gate to live a life or so. I'd like to try it all again, before I'm sent below; I'd like to try to want to do what's right, and then, maybe, I'd get to try to do it, and at last I might be free! For a full-grown saint I know I ain't. and there'a plenty more as bad, But give us time and I know we'll climb and make his heaven glad! Gelett Burgess in "A Gage of Youth." HWAS lying lazily In the hammock, meditating uiou the falseness of womankind in general and the falseness of Dorothy Shepard in whom I bad trusted so fully iu par ticular. We had been sweethearts ever since early childhood and were now only waiting for the time when 1 would be able to provide a home. But the newspaper which had come In that morning's mail contained an account of the marriage of Miss Dorothy Shep ard to her cousin, Reginald Pierce. I had been jealous of this cousin, the year before, when he was visiting at Iiorotby's home. He was handsome and wealthy, while 1 was only an ordinary lookiug fellow aud a struggling young lawyer. But my reverie Is broken by a slgl) from Mrs. Farley, my portly and moth erly landlady, who for six summers has boarded me In her comfortable home iu the picturesque little village of Hopetowu. She is In her rocking chair on the piazza opposite me, en gaged in the construction of a fearful aud wonderful thing which she calls a "tidy." Again the heartrending sigh. "What Is the trouble. Mother Far ley?" 1 asked. "Well, Mr. Harry, I suppose you'll think I'm a foolish old woman, but I'm feelin' that bad this moruln' you wouldn't believe and all because I can't have my picture took." "Well, Mother Farley, I didn't think vanity was your besetting sin. Why are you so anxious to be photograph ed ?" Then the good old soul told me that her son, who was out west, and whom she had not seen for ten years, had sent her some money, and had begged her to have her picture taken for him. The photographer who had been settled iu Hopetown had "skipped" one night about a month before, leaving all his apparatus in his studio, which be had rented from Mother Farley's husband. The nearest town was ten miles away, and, owing to a weakness in her back. Mother Farley was unable to drive so far; but she was Inconsolable at the thought of disappointing her sou Rich ard. Iu my college days I had used a cam era a good deal iu an amateur way, and presently I left the piazza and strolled over to the potato field to In terview Mr. Farley relative to a plan which I had In mind. "Law!" he ejaculated, "you don't say you kin take pictures, too! My! But won't ma be tickled !" I got the key aud went over to the forsaken studio; found camera, plates, paper and chemicals all in good order, and early that afternoon Mother Far ley, beaming with smiles and attired in her "Sunday best," came over to pose. How delighted she was when I showed her the proof the next morn ing, and that evening she carried It to the weekly prayer meeting and exhib ited It to all ber friends at the close of the service. I finally yielded to their urgent re quest to keep the studio open for a week, and to make photographs of ll who cared to have them. On the afternoon of the last day which I was to spend In the studio I was mounting some photographs of an old maid with a booked nose and cork screw curls wheu I heard a gentle tap at the door. I called "Come In," and a very pity girl, dressed iu a neat bi cycle s'.--i entered. "Good afternoon," she began, with a bright smile. "My friend and I are on a wheeling tour, aud would like a tin type taken with our wheels, If you are not too busy." "I shall be glad to oblige you, and am at liberty to do so Immediately," I said. "Well, then," she said, "would you please bring In our wheels for us? My friend Is at the door with them, but I am afraid we cannot manage to get them up the stairs." We went down together, and there on the doorsteps stood Dottle! Before either of us could speak the other young lady exclaimed: "He will carry I Clouds Cleared Away. o TRICKS OF COINTRY FAIR FAKERS. CROOKED GAMBLING TOOLS THE country fair is the harvest time for the genial faker. The faker is not a husbandman and he sows not, and neither does he gather up and bind into bundles, and yet, when the harvest season is over the faker has more money than the honest farmer who has tilled many golden acres. For the faker gets up eariy in the morning and goes to bed late at niht, and he makes money all the livelong day. The temptation to get something for nothing, or at least much for little, to flirt with coquettish fortune, is irresisti ble. Though a man knows full well that the faker is not at the fair merely for the sake of his health or for a pleasant out ing, and that his tricks put to shame those of the heathen Chiuee, still the vic tim will take the one chance out of a million of beating the game. He doesn't beat it, for the game wasn't rigged up so that he could beat it. Still he is will ing to take the chance, nnd he suffers no disappointment when he fails. Chief among the catch-penny attrac tious of the faker is the cane rack. The cane rack outht does not cost the faker much. A net rark may be bought for from 05 cents to $1.25 and a canvas one for from 50 cents to $1.30. Canes cost from 50 cents a dozen to $1.50 per dozen. Rings cost 05 cents per hundred. With this outfit and a permit the faker sets up his rack on four stakes, which are purposely loose, so as to allow the rack to sway slightly. Then he plants his canes. The cheaper ones predominate, hut canes with swelled heads are occasionally seen and here and there are crooks, some reproducing a miniature, a lower member missing, the torso of Venus. The rings vary from one and oue-qquarter to one and three-qurters inches inside diameter. The heads of some of the canes are al most as great in diumeter, and those with crooks are turned in such a way that it is almost impossible to ring them unless the ring is dropped immediately upon them. It is difficult even to ring the smaller canes, for they stand loosely in the rack, and a side blow tips them so that the ring slides off. Next in favor is the knife board. A board costs from $1.50 to $3.50, and a complete outfit board, 100 rings and eighty-four knives may be had tor $14.50 and upward. Knives may be had from 30 cents a dozen to $3.0S a dozen. These knives, the cheaper predominat ing and costing about two and a half cents apiece, are conspicuously display- our wheels up, Dot, and will take our tintypes right away." Dottle paid no attention to her, but came forward, all smiles and blushes, with outstretched hand. "Why, Hal!" she said, "I never dreamed that you had gone in the photo business! I kuew you were In Hopetown, of course, aud when Nell suggested that we should wheel down here and see her auntie, who lived iu this neighborhood, I consented, and didn't write to you last week for fear I should let out the secret, for I wanted to surprise you. This is my future husband. Mr. Oak ley. Miss Curtis, aud now come on, let's get those tintypes." Dorothy has been my wife for two happy years, and I have only one se cret from her. That Is, that I thought, even for a moment, that she had been false to me my own loyal darling! Reginald Pierce has taken the bouse opposite ours. "The twin Dorothys," as we call our wives, are inseparable friends. TRAPS TO CATCH TIGERS. Powerful Steel Snare that Hold the Brutes Securely. Capturing tigers by a novel method Is now being adopted In Sumatra aud Is proving almost invariably successful. As soon as a tiger's lair has been found natives are employed to construct a wooden fence nine feet long and four feet wide a short distance away from it and In this inclosure is then placed as a bait a dog, which Is tied to one of the fence posts. A narrow entrance leads into the inclosure and there, deftly con cealed under earth, leaves aud boughs of trees, is placed a strong steel trap, which is so designed that any animal that places Its foot on it is certain to be held captive. This trap Is. of recent Invention and consists of strong steel plates and equally strong springs. When It Is set the plates form a sort of platform and as soon as the tiger which has been lured thither by the dog sets his foot thereon the springs are released and the cruel steel grips the leg and holds It fast SOLD TO FLEECE FARMERS. ed with all the blades open, and therein lies the secret of the knife board. The cunning faker arranges his knife board so that the rings slide over them as water does a duck's back. The wheel of fortune seems as fair as any game can be, yet the arrow has a "sneak" and the faker can stop it at any number or article he desires. A wheel may be bought as low as $10, in cluding 250 pieces of jewelry, but this is of the cheapest kind, rings, for exam ple, Wing quoted as low as one cent apiece. With this cheap wheel the first profit at 10 cents a whirl, without any sneaking, amounts to $15. and the busi ness "requires no previous experience." A full outfit of 250 pieces of jewelry costs but $5, thus making a gain of $20, and some fakers make as much as $50 a day. The higher the cost of the wheel the more easily and quickly the money Is made, as they are fitted with large pins to separate numbers or colors, and the arrow point has a screw feather, making a certain winner of any desired number or color and avoiding all possibility of dispute. Nothing is more tempting than the striking machine, and nothing looks fair er. But these striking machines are in genious arrangements, and, in the words of an advertisement of a new kind now on the market, "can be manipulated I without a helper. One of these may be had for $50, while prize cigars are offer ed to the fakers for $10 a thousand. Red, white and blue is a dealing game. There is a "layout" with three shields on it, cne red, one white, one blue. A box and sixteen balls, five of each color and one "dealer's percentage" goes with the outfit. Players place their money on a given shield, a slide opens in the box, and out pops a ball. It the ball is of the same color the player puts his money on he wins. If not he loses. If this was a fair game the player, by the law of chance, would stand some show of win ning, but as the box is "fixed" the dealer can produce a ball of any color he de sires, yet any one not iu the secret can examine the box at any time and find it apparently square, yet it is a tricky box. There are half a hundred tricks work ed with cards, and all of such a aature that they can be worked without the slightest fear of detection. But the visitor to the fair Is looking for fun. The faker and his outfit enter tains him and he doesn't begrudge the money. Powerful as the tiger Is, he cannot free himself from such bondage and as those who have set the trap are never far away he is in a short time either killed or securely caged. At the same time the dog Is released aud. Indeed, he could not be removed from the lnclo sure as long as the trap was set, since this Instrument, strong as It Is, never theless Is so delicate that the pressure even of a dog's foot would release the springs and cause the animal's leg to be crushed in a twinkling. London Telegraph. Desirable Qualities in an Opal. In Judging an opal, color Is of the greatest importance. Red fire, or red In combination with yellow, blue and green, are the best. Blue by itself is quite valuless. and the green opal Is not of great value unless the color Is very vlvld and the pattern very good. The color must be true; that Is to say, it must not run in streaks or patches, al ternating with a colorless or inferior quality. Pattern Is described as being an important factor, the several vari eties being known as "plnfire," when the grain is very small; "harlequin," when the color Is all in small squares, the more regulnr the better, and the "flashfire," or "tlashopal," when the color shows as a single flash, or In very large pattern. Harlequin Is the most common, and Is also popularly consid ered the most beautiful. When the squares of color are regular and show as distinct, minute checks of red, yel low blue and green, it Is considered magnificent. Some stones show better on edge than on top. Sunday School Work. Eighteen hundred and seventy-four Sunday schools were organized in desti tute places by the American Sunday School Union last year. Besides these, 504 were reorganized and 0,123 old schools were visited or otherwise aid ed. About $140,101 was received for mislsonary work, and 222 men were employed. The proofreader points out the typo graphical error of the compositor's-ways. AMONG THE BIG ONES. CHICAGO BRANCH POSTOFFICES RANK WITH BIQ CITIE& Anoint of Baslnesa Done at Board of Trade Station, Which la the Largest) Snrpas.es That of Kaffalo, Detroit, Kansas City and Minneapolis. In the 100 square miles covered by Chicago's letter carriers there are forty-six postotllecs known as stations, the building on the lake front known is the postottice being the mother Insti tution. The fact that they are only stations does not clothe some of them with the dignity they should have, for when the business of the Board of Trade station alone Is considered It ranks with many of the great clt.es of the country. The ten largest postofflees of the I'uited States, not counting Chicago as a whole, are, In their order. New York, Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis, Brook lyn, Ciucinnntl, Baltimore, San Fran cisco, Pittsburg and Cleveland. Then comes Chicago's Board of Trade sta tion, the business of which in 11N.H) was $S70,000. This figure exceeds the post office business of the city of Buffalo by $ii;,X0, Detroit by $114,000, Kausns City by $ 1ST ,000, and Minneapolis by $213,000. Next in volume of business transact ed is the Monndnock Building station, with a business of $050,000, followed by Milwaukee with $0;iS,0tR). Inciden tally the Chicago and Milwaukee post masters receive the same salary. Chi cago's Stock F.xchnnge station Is the next postotlice in size, and ranks with New Orleans, Indianapolis, Rochester, Denver and Newark. The "Crilly" sta tion, tit 107 Dearborn street, with n busiuoss lust year of $40S.OOO, and the Masonic Temple station, w ith $103.0(:0, rank with Omaha, Providence, Colum bus and Toledo. South Water street station leads Hartford, New Haven, Richmond, Jersey City, Dayton, Los Angeles and Memphis. The station at the Union depot Is In the same class with Albany and Syracuse. The next largest postotlice In the United States Is substation No. 10, away out on West Polk street, which has the honor of being presided over by Clerk June Addains of Hull House. Although there are few people in that neighborhood who carry on extensive correspondence, Miss Addums' station did a business last year of $223,(hh, putting it In the same class with Nash ville. Tenn. The Stockyards station does the snme volume of business as Seattle and Scmuton. The station at 42S West Madison street travels with Troy, Utl ca and Salt Lake City. The one nt Lincoln Park ranks with Trenton, Du luth, Houston, Harrlsburg, Mobile, Gal veston and Spokane. At this point offices doing a business above SNW.otK) practically end, the 22d street station coming next with about ?So,ooo of business, and ranking with Springfield, 111.; Elmlra, N. V., and Little Rock Ark. Chicago Post. SOME DIVORCE FIGURES. Percentage of r'eparatian in Europe an I Aa.tralia. Happy marriages are commoner In England and Wales tlmn in any other country, If the statistics of divorce are any criterion. These statistics at least show that comparatively few mar riages are so unhappy as to occasion an appeal to the divorce courts. John Mae donell, the editor of the civil Judicial statistics, has added to that publica tion the results of a foreign statisti cian's Inquiry, showing the proportions of divorces to every thousand mar riages In vurious countries. In Switzer land they were 40, in France they were 21, in Roumniiia 20, In Prussia 18, In the whole German empire 17, In Den murk 13, lu Holland 12. In Belgium 11, iu Sweden less than 11 (10.(5) and In Austria under 5 (4.8), but In England and Wales they were well under 2 per 1.000 that is 1.0. The figures for Rus sia are given iu a form unavailable for comparison, as the country Is divided up Into religions. Catholic divorces are naturally as low as 0.2, divorces of or thodox church people 1.7 and Protes tant divorces 0.7. Mr. Macdonell has supplied the number of divorce peti tion iu the Australian colonies for ev ery 100,00") population. According to this there Is a remarkable preponder ance of divorce lu New South Wales. For 20.5 petitions granted In that col ony there were only 7.5 granted in Vic toria, 4 in Western Australia, 8.7 In New eZaland, 2.7 In Tasmania. 1.0 in South Australia and one in Queensland. There has also been a great Increase In recent years in the number of di vorces and separations in the Austra lian colonies grouped us a whole. Lon don News. A CONGRESSMAN TAKtS RANK OF KING COWARD. Congressman James I). Richardson, of Tennessee, Democrat ie leader of the House of Representatives, has received the highest office in the gift of Scottish Rite Masons and he, therefore, ruuks as a Mason with King Kdward VII. and President Dluz. of Mexico. The Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the Southern Jurisdic tion of the United States met In Wash ington to celebrate its centennial. Upou the death of Sovereign Grand Com mander Thos. II. Caswell, of San Fran cisco, a few months ago, Mr. Richard son, as Deputy Grand Commander, as sumed the active duties of the exalted position. Ceremonies befitting, almost, the cor onation of a king, attend the Installa tion of a Sovereign Grand Master. Only active members of the Supreme Council participate In these solemnities, urn! of such there are but twenty-three, the Supreme Council being limited by the ritual to thirty-three, one for each State In the Jurisdiction. There are a number of honorary members who are permit ted to take part In the dc'IN-ratlons of the council, but have not the power to ' vote. The office of Sovereign Grand Com mander carries with It a salary of f.V 000 per annum. In addition the (J rand Commander Is given a residence for life In the holy house of the temple. Here Is proKtbly the most Interesting building In the Capital city. It Is lo cated In the heart of what was one Washington's most fashionable resi dence district. To-day the building-a spacious three-story brick with white stone trim tilings -and Its contents are valued at f 150,ti00. It belongs to the J. P. nifllAKPSON. IIOI.Y TKVPI.E. Scottish Rite Masons of the Southern Jurisdiction Grand Commander Richardson has already completed arrangements for moving Into the building. The offices of the Supreme Council are located here, and Frederick Weber, Secretary General, Is always In charge. The sec retaryship, like the office of Comman der, is a life position. Waste of Pomntto. The lawyers were discussing the merits and demerits of a well-known member of the New Orleans bur who had been gathered to his fathers, nnd one of the party, says the Times-Democrat, recalled the time wheu he studied Iu the old man's office. We had a copying clerk whose Ineffi ciency continually worked the judge up to a point of explosion, one day a wire basket fell olf the top of his desk and scratched his cheek. Not having any court-plaster, he slapped on three post age stamps and went on with his work. A little later he had some papers to take to the United States Court, and forgetting ull about the stamps, he put on his hat and went out. As he entered the office the Judge raised his head and fixed him with an astonished stare. The clerk stopped and looked frightened, and finally asked: "Anything er wrong, sir?" "Yes, sir!" thundered the old gentle man. "You are carrying too much post age for second-class matter." Forestalled. A retired sea captain and a lawyer, who were always at loggerheads, lived next door to each other. One very windy night the lawyer was reading a book In his study when a terrible crash upstairs startled him. Upon Investigation ho found that a chimney, had hurled Itself through his roof, doing considerable damage, and soon discovered that It was the sea cap tain's chimney. Hastening down to his library lie pulled out his law books and hunted up similar cases, devising and scheming how be could secure satisfac tion from the detestable captain. While thus engaged a note arrived from his enemy that read as follows: "If you don't return those bricks at once I will put the matter In the bunds of the law." London TU lilts. Three Times anil Out. Mrs. Fosdlck was sure she heard the crash of breaking clilnn In the kitchen, but she felt she must be mistaken when she entered and saw the Joyous f'ice of her cook. "I'm so glad Ol've broke It, mum," Bridget said, brimming with delight. "Why, It's one of my best cups," said Mrs. Fosdlck, surveying the remains. "Yes'ni," added Bridget, cheerfully, "but Oi'm so glad it's done. Ye see, I hud broke two of 'em before, un' I kuew Oi'd have to break another be fore Ol quit, an' It's a great comfort to have it all done." "Well, see that you don't begin on another three," said Mrs. Fosdlck, sternly. Detroit Free Press. Serving a Double Purpose. The proprietors of a Hartford res taurant utilize their garbage In a profit able way. Three years ago they bought an outlying farm. It was In a run down condition, uiiHlghtly, and over grown with weeds and bushes. A drove of hogs wus pluced upon the farm, anil the table refuse carted out dally In cans and fed to them In a yard of Sev ern! acres lu the edge of a dense wood, half a mile from the roml. Since then the farm has been brought into good condition, mowing lots cutting nearly live tons to the acre, the old "bush pas ture" burdened wiih a heavy growth of millet, fourteen acres showing corn seven feet high, and ten thousand cab bage plants making a line growth. Strom Mm. Miss Tourlste You have some strong ami rugged types of manhood out lu this Western country? Stage Driver Yaas, miss, we hev men out here thet don't think It's nuth iu' t' hold up a railroad train. Ohio State Journal. A Definition. First Boarder What Is the exact meaning of "viands V" Second Boarder Oh! Things you get to eat wheu you don't board. Puck. Many a man's shlftlessness is due to the fact that bis father bore down too bard on the grindstone when be was boy. BIRTH OF A FAMOUS HYMN. Mr. Hanker's Hiorr of How lis Cow po.eJ ".ha N.nety an J Nine." In the Ladies' Home Journal Cleve land Mon'ctt tells how the greatest of all singing evangelists, Ira D. S.inkey, cnnie to give the world a hymn that will live long after his voice Is stilled. It was during Moody and Saiikey's first visit to Great Britain. As they were euterlng the traiu In Glasgow, Mr. Saukcy bought a copy of a penny religious paper called "The Christ iau Age." Looking over It, his eyes fell on some verses, the first two lines of which read thus: There were uiuety and uiue lh.it safely lay Iu the shelter of the fold. "Mr. Moody," exclaimed Mr. San key, "I have fouud the hyinii that I'vo been lookiug for for yours." "What Is It?" asked Mr. Moody. "it's about a lost sheep." Two days later, iu Edinburgh, they held a great meeting lu the Free As sembly Hall. As Doctor Ronar fin ished, Mr. Moody leaned over the pul pit and asked the singer If he bad not a solo for the occasion. The thought of the verses he bad read In the penny paper came to Mr. Sankey's mind, anil opening bis scrap book, lu which he bad pasted the clipping, be placed It be fore him on the organ, and after a mo ment of silent supplication, struck a full chord mid began to slug. Aud nolo by note came the now famous song. He composed It as lie went along. What he sang was the Joy that swelled In bis owu soul, hope that was born, the love for those who needed help. Thus he finished the first stau.a. Then, as he paused and played a few chords walling to begin Again, the thought came to him: "Can I sing the second stanza as I did the first? Can I remember the notes?" And concen trating his mind once more for the effort he began to sing. So lie went on through for live stanzas and after the services he put the melody lu music. Saturn's largest moon Is 2,002 miles lu diameter, slightly smaller than our own. As President, Washington llust lived) In the house at 1 Cherry street, the sito of which Is covered by one of the piers of the Brooklyn bridge. Later he moved to the Macomb house at 'M Broadway. There are nine members of the Su preme Court of the United States onu Chief Justice and eight associate Jus tices. They are appointed for life by the President, with the concurrence of the Senate. A pigeon in harvest time eats Its own weight In grain a day, and n blackbird or thrush will eat Its owu weight dally of ripe fruit. Many kinds of birds exist lu summer largely upon plants raised by man for his food. Iu order to obviate the frequent dis putes as to the ages of children, the steamboat authorities In Switzerland have decided that lu every case where doubt arises the child must ho meas ured. All children under two feet are to have free passage, while those be tween two feet and four feet are to pay half fares. The dressing of the hair Is the most liiiHirtant part of a Chinese woman's toilet. The district she comes from may always be known from the manner In which she does her hair. It also In dicates her station In life. Young girls, whether married or single, wear cues, colling up their hair, as their Western sisters do, on attaining a certain agu. There are three nut cracking plants lu St. Louis, giving employment to con siderable number of people. The nut crackers are driven by electricity, each nut being fed Individually Into the crusher. After the shells are cracked the nuts are winnowed by an u!r blast, andthe meat Is picked from the crushed shells by hand, women and girls being employed for this part of the work. A Warning Againal ( heap Furniture. It is one of the saddest sights iu our modern life to see a young couple, wheu starling to furnish a home, go out with good money aud buy bad furniture. It is positively iinililu short of criminal for cheap department and furniture stores to be allowed to sell the furniture which Is being offer ed to-day lu our great titles. Youug people are attracted to this rubbish be cause of cheap prices. Every stick of the furniture offered at these stores Is cheaply put together, and by glue and thick coals of veneer Is made only to sell. It barely gets Into the new house before it falls apart, and what was thought to be a cheap purchase turns out to boa very expensive Invest ment. It Is slrangu that folks cannot get It through their heads that a bed, a table and two chairs, honestly made, are cheaper at sixty dollars thau one of those fearful concoctions known as "bedroom suits" which are sold at forty dollars and eighty-three cents. Kdward Bok, lu the Ladies' Homo Journal. Contrary to Klhlcs. "We bad to send hliu out o' town," said Bronco Bob. "He wus always talking about his record as a desperado," remarked the visitor. "Yes. That's what got Crimson Gulch down on him. He wasn't satis fied to brag decently. In ma kin' up the list of people he'd shot he wanted to count Innoceut bystanders." Washing ton Star. People who have soft snaps are usu ally the ones who don't enjoy them.