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WALLOWA CHIEFTAIN. KOI SK ICUE, Publisher. ENTERPRISE OREGON. Only a fool m;in believes that a worn an believes everything he tells her. Posterity isn't likely to Judge any Ionian by the style cf her visiting cards. Contentment should be measured by the number of things you are willing to do without. Toadstools are often mistaken for mushrooms and gall is sometimes mis taken for genius. Mr. Carnegie Is right. Wealth does not bring happiness. Hut Solomon and others found it out before he did. Killing a man. no matter what the provocation, is unpleasant and danger ous business. It ought to be discouraged. Many a distracted man will be wont to congratulate himself on the thought that there will be no house cleaning in heaven. A Western man fill dead while look iug at his wile's new hat. Most men stave uff the fatal attack until the bill is present d. The difference between a good de tective and a good newspaper is that the newspaper will tell all it knows aud the detective won't. New York Is to have an eighteen story hotel without a piece of wood In Its construction. Yet they will hardly go so far as to call It fireproof. In case King Leopold Buds It neces sary to go about disguised It will only be necessary for him to let the barber operate on them for a few minutes. The persons who smoke the objee tionable little things may as well un derstand that Miss Lucy Page (iaston will not give up the tight so long as life shall last. A London paper scoffs at Secretary Shaw, referring to his as a "shirt sleeved diplomat." It Isn't likely, how ever, that the Secretary will let this cause him to go back to Iowa aud sit down. If the number of red corpuscles In the blood can be doubled In two hours tu a balloon ascension, as Dr. Uaule, of Switzerland, has proved, the appar ent suggestion for sufferers from ane mia Is to hurry to an aeronaut "Labby" philosophically asks why Cecil Rhodes should not have used his wealth to send English boys to study abroad, their university education be ing, he says, "obsolete." It was only recently, moreover, that the king wished "the old country ' would wake up." All the English universities have to teach can be better learned on the continent or in the United States. The modern age has not yet penetrated into the medieval dusk of Oxford and Cambridge. The fascinations of the setting sun are depleting Greece of her strong young men. Rebelling against the lax ity of some laws and rigidity of others, the dishonesty of officials and never ceasing depredations and exactions of outlaws, Young Greece, with the glo rious memories of the past ages not yet obliterated, yearns for new life in the Wes. ln tlle last of March, UK) stalwart young men from Mesisenia and Laconica sillied for New York, and it Is estimated that this emigration Is at the rate of l.ooo a month. They are in a great part agriculturists, sick of the poverty aud hardships that are their lot. Most of them ought to make good American citizens; but what of Greece? This movement. If long continued, means the irreparable loss of brain aud sinew for the land of Homer. It em phasizes the decay of the old-time mis tress of the world. The cancer of Tur key Is Infectious. There will be no re pair In southeastern Europe till the Sul tan Is swept from power. A while back the lion of the Hellenes shook his mane at the turbaned monster, and the na tions wondered If the spirit of Leouidas had returned. But the lion's feet were clay, and his short-lived struggle was pitiful. Young Greece, buoyant for a moment in the thought of a new regime. went back sick-hearted to his fur rows. And now, bad fast becoming worse, he seems inclined to take one last glance at Athens and try Ills for tune In a new world, leaving the Acrop olis to rust away without him. Peter Peterson, of Winsted, Ct., as serts that old age Is a matter of opin ion, and not years. He says that a man's heart should contain as much sunshine at 70 as at 40. He has no patience with the men who seek slip pers aud comforts of an armchair just when experience and world knowledge have fitted them for activity and pleas ure. Oh, yes! bones ache and joints creak at 70. Hut that Is largely a mat ter of living and self-care. It seems as If every day Increased the number of young old men. You may find them in "rooters' row" at the ball game, or hunting, fishing, traveling, on the golf links, willing to wear out when time gives the word, but setting all their energies against rusting out. The world admires these fine old fellows, and warms to them and their philos ophy. Peter Peterson celebrated bis 70th birthday by purchasing an auto mobile. He has wanted one for years, and never had the time to operate ACRO A CONTINENT. before. Now be takes a daily spin and J rinds as keen enjoyment In the iort as a boy of 2i. He has an ambition to ride in a Hying machine some day. Automobiles do not fall to the common lot, ami there are many pleasures that are nm for those who have to struggle for a living, day by day. But It Is possible for all uieu to cultivate a spir it of contentment, a desire to make the best of life; to draw much of the good from It: to refuse to worry about mat ters that rau not be helped; and these things add years to lives. Increase hu man happiness, and keep alive the fire of youth even when wrinkles have placed the stamp of age on grand old faces. LINE OF RAILS TO SPAN AUSTRALIA. Continuous Road to He Built Acroa the South I'urt of the Country, Con necting All the More Important Center of Population. In a recent interesting discourse on the question. "Is the Pulpit Free?" Uev. Frederick C. Priest got at the root of the matter when he said that the preacher should be a specialist and should attend to his specialty. Within the limits of that specialty and the creed that he professes his freedom Is as perfect as human freedom can be. He Is always secure in the approval of j his parishioners when he preaches a thoroughly Christian sermon, founded i on the moralities aud the promises of the gospel, and more than that. It Is by such sermons alone that he can best j help, comfort and inspire his hearers. ! But the peculiar respect which be com mands as a specialist vanishes Imme diately when he goes out of his .sphere to talk dogmatically upon questions of secular controversy about which he may know much less than some of his auditors. There are preachers who seem to have a persistent Itching dur ing political campaigns to bring the pulpit into politics and who deceive themselves by imagining that their partnership comes of God, when It is Just the ordinary kind. They may con tent themselves with veiled allusions or they may go so far as to express eulogy or denunciation, but ln either case they are using the church as a campaign wigwam when they should hire n hall. It is a wonder that such aberrations are tolerated as much as they are, and cer tainly there could be no blaming a pew holder for protesting when he believes that there is more of the devil than of God in the preacher's party. It Is his right to protest and to demand that his temper shall not be ruffled by the dis ingenuous or over-zealous pulpiteer, who is taking him at a mean disad vantage and depending on him for financial support at the same time. Aside from the question of authority, men are sated with such stuff anyway during the week, and if they go to church Sunday It Is to be recalled to the spiritual side of life, which is too much neglected. There is still enough in It and In pure religion for centuries upon centuries of sermons, as there has been in the past. The specialty Is still rightly considered the greatest of spe cialties, and when It is properly ful filled It ministers more to the higher aspirations of humanity than any other and commands a veneration that is a very bulwark against those who would curtail Its Just freedom. Where the Gluepot Came In. There was the usual collection of commercial travelers In the smoking room of the hotel, aud the Inevitable quiet man was one of them. They had been asking conundrums, many of which hail been received with roars of laughter, as being particularly clever. Then the quiet man lit a fresh cigar and spoke: "It is easy," he said, "to think of such riddles as 'Why is your hat like a baby? which contain one simile, but those with two are far more difficult. For instance: "What are the differences between the son of a millionaire, an organ and a gluepot?" "I give it up," said the mustard trav eler presently. "The son of a millionaire Is an heir to millions, while an organ has a mill ion airs! D'ye see?" "But what about the gluepot?" In quired the hosiery representative. "Oh, that's where you stick!" return ed the quiet man. And the waiter smothered a guffaw behind a tray ho was dusting, while the hosiery repre sentative howled for soda water. Lon don Answers. A great railroad enterprise is getting under way iu Australia. The surveys have been made for a railroad from Port Augusta. In the State of South Australia, clear across the southern edge of the continent to the mining town of Coolgardle, In western Aus tralia. As Coolgardle is already Joined by rail to Perth, on the west coast, the transcontinental road will be complet ed when It reaches that point The road will run quite near the sea, where a telegraph has for years con nected the eastern and western coasts of the continent. Nine-tenths of the mileage will be through one of the most barren deserts in the world, but the building of railroads through desert lands no longer offers difficult problems to engineers. The problems have been solved, and no one doubts that the stretching of a railroad across this part of Australia will be successfully carried out. The engineers say that the limestone plateau to the north of the Great Aus tralian Bight, along whose shores tiie track will be laid, Is the only part of the continent where there are no na tive tribes. A considerable number of natives, however, live in the western part of the region to be traversed. I'litil the engineers recently went over this desolate country the region had been crossed only by Eyre, who, while vainly hunting for new pasture lands, made the journey in 1S40-41 that cost him so much suffering and the loss of his white comrades. This railroad will complete the con nection by rail of all the important cen ters of population iu Australia, except ing some isolated settlements on the north and northeast coa.;ts. Heretofore it has always been necessary to travel by sea between Perth, Fremantle and Albany, the most important towns in the state of western Australia, and the well-developed region of Victoria and New South Wales. But with the building of this railroad the journey may be made from the southwest corner of Australia through all the southern states of the common wealth, and north along the east coast as far as Itockhampton, on the middle coast of Queensland. Thus nearly all the great mining regions and agricultu ral districts will be connected by rail, either by the line along the coast or by branches from it already In operation in Eastern Australia, which penetrate Into the mining and wool-producing districts of the interior. Eyre was saved from death when he crossed the continent by the discovery that he could obtain water by digging. It will be remembered with what In finite difficulty the famous overland telegraph line from South to North Australia was carried across the water less Interior to meet the submarine cable on the north coast. But a great deal has been learned about practical methods for carrying on enterprises ln the deserts since the overland telegraph was stretched across the sandy wastes of Australia. and there is no reason to doubt that the desert railroad now to be built will be completed without very great diffi cutl. New York Sun. Miss Kiggs' Choice. "Cranford" spinsters, the most per fest examples, in fiction at least, of elderly maidenhood, avoided danger by meeting it plump, after the formula of Sir Boyle Hoche. Said they: "A man is so in the way in a house!" Miss Phoebe Uiggs. an Amazon of the present day. of whom the New York Tribune tells, was a little less effective in defense, possibly because she did not get in the first blow. For more than eighty years Miss RIggs has lived ln the little New En gland town in which she was born. A recent comer to that village, meeting Miss Biggs for the first time, said apol ogetically after a while: "You must excuse me, but I am not sure whether you are Miss or Mrs. Biggs; I didn't quite understand when we were Introduced." The bent little spinster drew herself up as straight as possible. "Miss Kiggs; from choice!" she re plied, in a freezing voice. Time Knough. Miss Kostlque She says you have a habit of telling all you know. Cholly The Idea! Why, she nevah met me till lawst evening, and then only for five minutes. Miss Kostique Well? Catholic Standard and Times. When a woman has company, she apologizes for every thing she puts on the table, and when no one Is there but her family, she defends It. THE LATE POTTER PALMER. Pioneer Merchant and One of the liuililera of Chicago. Potter Palmer, one of the men who made Chicago the metropolis of the West, and for years a conspicuous fig ure in its financial and social circles, died at his fine residence on the elegant Lake Shore Drive iu that city recently. For some weeks he had suffered from a stomach ailment, out of which grew a nervous disorder and ultimately heart failure, the latter being the immediate cause of death. I'otter Palmer was born In Potter's Hollow, Albany County, N. Y., ln 1820, of Quaker farmer parentage. At 18 he became clerk In a country store in Greene, N. Y. Soon thereafter he start ed a store of his own in Oneida and later at Loekport. While visiting Chi cago in 1851, when that city had 40,000 Inhabitants, he saw in it a place of promise. He sold bis Loekport stock and with $0,000 capital opened a store ln Chicago. He introduced novel ideas in the dry goods trade, such as the ex change of unsuitable goods, personal talks with his customers, etc., aud the result was instant success for the new merchant. His first year's sales amount ed to $73,000. Then came the Civil War, and Palmer foreseeing what a shortage there would be In cotton, and what a consequent rise in its value, as well as ln that of woolen goods, spent every dollar he had on those products and filled several warehouses. In less than four years he had made over $2,500,000. Marshall Field aud Levi Letter became his partners during this time and laid the foundations of their great walth. When the war was pro gressing Palmer loaned large sums, as high as $750,000 at one time, to the gov ernment. In 1807 Palmer retired from the dry goods trade and took up real estate transactions. He determined to make State street, then a little more than a wide alley, the principal thoroughfare of Chicago. Within six months he bad bought three-quarters of a mile of frontage on that street. He succeeded In having It widened. When the great fire came In 1871 Mr. Palmer had ninety-five fine buildings In the city, Includ ing the Palmer House. All were de stroyed in that conflagration. This was LONDON'S FINEST BUSINESS BUILDING. 'rpf 1 Just now Loudon is pointing with pride to what the Britisher regards as the most gorgeous business palace iu the world. "Lloyd's Register," as the new building is known, is located at 71 Feucliurch street. It has just been com pleted at a cost of half a million dollars. The now building Is not large, hence its comparatively small cost. It is constructed of the finest Portland stone and is a thing of great architectural beauty from the outside. Valuable marbles, in laid woods, mother of pearl, and even jewels, huve been utilized in the decoration of the 'interior. Even the clerks' oflice Is more suggestive of a palace than a business house, for it is lined with marble, and the electric light fittings are of beateu copper. Valuable old Persian carpets cover the iloors. The story of how the new luxurious building came into existence is rather interesting. For classifying ships Lloyd's Register charges certain fees. The income more thnn covered the expenses, and a large reserve fund accumulated. For the disposal Of this sum, outside the defraying of expenses, there was ap parently no provision, so finally it was decided to expend it upon a building that should do credit to London and take a high place among the commercial palaces of the world. There arc scores of more costly buildings in New Y'ork or Chicago, but it is possible that in elegance of appointment Lloyd's Register surpasses anything in this country. a severe blow, and for a time Palmer determined to abandon all business en terprises. But his old spirit speedily returned. Then he had to combat the people who sought to remove the busi ness center from its old locality to an other part of the city, and these specu lative spirits he downed. He set an army of workmen upon the ruins of the old buildings, and soon there arose new structures, grander and more perfect than those which had been destroyed. The Palmer House was built at a cost of $2,000,000, and in its new form was the finest and most substantial hotel in the country at that time. His real es tate Investments all proved profitable Xmwtor ViH mm POTTEK PALMER. and he accumulated a fortune of $25, 000,000. His pride In Chicago was mani fested by his activities In its behalf. He was largely Instrumental In bringing the World's Fair to that city and con tributed $200,000 to the Woman's Building, doubtless because his wife had been made president of the Board of Lady Managers. Mrs. Palmer was Miss Bertha Hon ore, daughter of Henry H. Houore, of Chicago, one of two sisters whose beau ty and talent made them famous. A woman of superior Intellectuality, ver satile talents and generous culture, filled with ambition and energy, she was the constant counselor of her hus band, and her encouragement from the time of their marriage in 1870 spurred him on to new endeavors. It was she who urged him to rebuild after the fire, and, perhaps, but for her, Chicago would have lost the enthusiasm and generous expenditures of money on his part which did so much for Its resur rection after the disaster of 1871. HONESTY WOULD HAVE PAID. For the Lack of It a Tooth Goes to Jail. Chief Justice Bingham of the district supreme court Is one of the kindest disposed and most lenient members of this or any other court, and it Is prob able that he invariably suffers more pain when sentencing a prisoner than even the culprit. Whenever possible he exercises the greatest mercy in dealing with the unfortunate offenders. Some time ago a young colored man, not yet out of his teens, was arraigned before him in the criminal court, charged with the larceny of a bicycle. There was not the slightest doubt as to the guilt of the prisoner, and his attorney, explaining privately to the district at torney that the boy had previously borne on excellent character, persuad ed that official to consent to n plea of petit larceny, the penalty for which of fense Is confinement In the jail for from a day to six months, the penalty for grand larceny, for which the de fendant was indicted, being not less than one nor more than three years in the penitentiary. Tlie young man thereupon withdrew his plea of not guilty of grand larcenv and pleaded guilty of petit larceny. But, to the astonishment of every one and to utter disgust of his counsel, he asserted that he never stole the wheel when the venerable chief justice asked him what he had to say why he should not be sent to jail for a short time. "Well, young man." kindly remarked the court, "If you did not steal the bi cycle 1 cannot nllow you to plead guilty, even of petit larceny. We do not wish to punish an Innocent person. Mr. Clerk, withdraw the plea of guilty of petit larceny, and now, gentlemen," said the chief justice, addressing the astonished district attorney and dis gusted counsel for the defense, "let the trial proceed on the Indictment." The trial proceeded, and the jury, after an absence of two or three mln uttes, promptly returned a verdict of guilty of grand larceny, just as the counsel 'for the government and the defendant knew they would. There upon the court imposed a sentence of Imprisonment at hard labor in the pen itentiary, Instead of one of a month or so in jail, which he would have imposed had the youthful culprit followed his counsel's advice, remarking that truthfulness, even In a thief. Is at times good policy. Washington Star. Horned Horses. Professor Woodward, of the Natural History Museum, of South Kensington, London, who has been engaged for some time past in excavating at Piker mi, near Marathon, has recently com pleted his work. One of the most val uable discoveries Is a collection of heads of horned horses. They were un earthed at Euborea, where tho. r fea sor tarried on some experimental ex cavations for palaeontologlcal remains In addition to the hends of the horned horses, the heads and shin bones of rhlnocerl and other prehistoric animals were discovered. It is curious that out of the six places In the world where the remains of the horned horse have been found three are ln Greece and a fourth In Samos, ln the Greek Archipelago. Most Costly Coronation. The Czar of Russia's coronation v.. the most costly on record. Over ft nm 000 was spent by ,he Gove nS alone, and fully 1,000,000' more bv th public authorities of various Russian A woman's Idea of a good man is one whoends hlB stepchUdren awato Every girl has at least one picture taken ln a dress cut low la the nee? RECENT JUDICIAL DECISlf Neither the general police power chorter authority to provide fw health and cleanliness of the held in re Wygant vs. JieLaueL' (Ore.), 54 J. R. A. C30, to buJ6 municipal ordinance prohibiting ajfu ferments within the city llmU such prohibition is reasonable. A railroad company which fan, provide suitable rules and reguiata" for the control and operation of JuJI cars used by bridge gangs n NJ to and from a station to placet h. they are engaged In the repair m construction of bridges Is held In jjf llu vs. Eastern R. Company (Minn) ri - w ik gouty of aej; gence. , One who hires a gang of workm,, and furnishes them to a third pen logemer witu n tiuiCKecper, who h impart 10 mem me latter s orderi u to the time and plajt-e to work, I( in rwut-hiiuuier vs. jonnson (Ore.) l L. R. A. C25, not to be liable for tr passes committed by them in em,. timber upon a stranger's land ondr direction of such third person, althonj; he Is to pay the wages and has pow to tiscnnrge tiie men, where he It norant of the trespass and has no rofc, in (iiroenng me lauorers when orti. to work. The modification of the rule that ou guilty of contributory negligence ca& not recover for injuries negligently h flirted, which permits a recoverj in case defendant might, after disown lug plnlntllT'B peril, have avoided u injury, Is held In Baltimore Consol Bi Co. vs. Armstrong (Md.), 54 L. R i 42-1, to be Inapplicable where plahtil In attempting to put n parcel on tbt front platform of u street car nejli gently stood on the side toward tfe other track and upon perceiving i c approaching became confused and p caught between the cars and was Jurecl. Where the owner of shade trees dil ated between the sidewalk aud Rrwt In front of his lot refuses permlssios to a telephone company to cut ottt portion of the top which Interferes with Its telephone wires, but the co& pany cuts out such top in his absence, he may recover punitive damapn therefor, though the city council uJ marshal authorize tho company tod) so, but nn allowance of over $500 actual mid exemplary damages, la u action of trespass, for cutting out m to exceed eight feet from the top i ornamental shade trees, which resoltrl In small nctunl damage. Is excessht 20 So. Rop. (Miss.) 702. In nn action for the infringement i elevator patents a private defendii was not entitled to urge as a defent that plaintiff wns n corporation orjii- Ized merely for the purpose of holdfc; the legal title to various elevator p: ents alleged to have been Infringed for the purpose of controlling sales stud enhancing prices of elevators and ip- paratus, without Itself engaging in Ite manufacture and sale of such appii ances, in violation of the Sherman inf- trust law (2(1 Stnt. 200), since until ttf united States has acted and sought prosecute the plaintiff for violation A such act nn Infringer of the plaintiff patent will not be permitted to tit such Issue as a defense thereto. Mi Fed. Rep. 131. HONORS THICK UPON HIM. Office- Holder Whose Lines HiiveFlln "in I'leusutit l'lucen." Mr. Gilbert's "Pooh-Bah" wasclew at accumulating otlices mid titles. K' a Maine man whose biography is P ed in a local paper seems to have U advantage of him, in some reaper This gentleman, who had prevkntf served n long apprenticeship elsewbW' was, In 1883, engaged by a nam" irnuire railroad as conductor. In 1 SMS he wns nrinnillted Pe teudent, which position he holds at present dnv: but he Is more thansm1" Intendent now. He is a director, g eral freight and passenger agent F ebllslnf niront utntlnn llL'cllt. COndUdC. brakemnn, baggage master, mall express agent and telegraph operant When he was elected Town Tn urer. four veiirs nco. somebody comp' mented him with the remark that, far as the town and the rnlWoad c concerned, he seemed to have nonw1 worlds to conquer. But then, wlti twinkle in his eye, the man of o oflices told a story of a farmer v. ..!..,-., -minted"; visiting xne city, was coni,"" his nnnnintment ns nost master. "You must be quite a man I" town now, Silas." remarked the f "Well, yes." answered Silas. ' see, besides being postmaster, I the town clerk, a member of the committee, tax collector, solectn correspondent for the Bee, a W printed up our way, express age"" road commissioner." Is that so, Silas. You most be pretty near all the important ofB your town." "n" an 1ft fillim llotectedly. know Rube Slmpklns? Well l'9j stable." PMMlnn tfV... Ihl Future "That was a very liberal allow"' you made your titled son-in-la- "Yes," answered the America" " lloualre. ' "Don't you think you will enconw him ln habits of idleness." . "Not n llf nt it I nm eoIngtOlf" him' him to play poker and keep tling to hold on to lt."-W Star. Tlje little Earl of Airlle, wliose Wj ,-i- . . - r. . 1 .;fl will Wi was KJiieu in souiu -aih- ..ts youngest peer that will take ParV J coronation, ue is u yearn . . . . iiMwaro is a playmate or rnnce w waies, wuo some uay Edward V1IL