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About Wallowa chieftain. (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1902)
Y WALLOWA CHIEFTAIN. I'ublUhril Vtrj Wrrk. ENTERPRISE OREGON. Cuba is tindtnc out that It Is mighty ipousive to kwi house. Has not tli young king of Spain as good a right to be wren trie ami original as Kaiser Wilhelni has? Tastes Differ Of Ceorgc Eliot. Car lylo Mid: "She is tint amusing, ami not instructive, only dull." Then, again, when a reckless auto moliolist kills himself, he isn't killing some entirely iniineent person. would be his great graft. You could spit on him. and he would smile back. You can ktc him. and he would draw more closely within himself and say nothing. All he wants is to live. Hut the suivessful man wants to worry and he does. Worry is the best expression of mental activity. It is the reflect leu of dissatisfaction of one's shortcom ings or conditions. It Is the lirst In- 1 centive to Improvement. It Is the first , step toward resolve and effort. Wor rying over trifles Is foolish. Worrying other people wirti your worries is per nicious. You can make life miserable, for yourself with the one. and for ev erybody who knows you with the other. The man who never worries Is noth ing but an existence, unsatisfactory to himself and disgusting to others. Kon't worry over worry. You need It. The heiress who hasn't driven some man to suicide or jilted a prince Is find ing it difficult to bo accepted as the real thing. The instinct for accumulation we share with the ant and the bee and the Jdg. It Is the lowest quality of the human mind. OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS were German. Sl'.r.-M wore English. 7(5.432 were Irish M.COi were Swedes. JJI.HH Norwegians. H.tJlS Danes and Vi'Mt Scotch This gives a total of r.:i;!.711 out of the 7H.X.0!)::. or The leader of the new independent political party in Hawaii is Prince Cu pid. Hut the course of true love never did run smooth. Explorer Haldwin is going on an other north iole expedition. It seems to be like the opium habit, once It fas tens Itself upon a person. A French physician says education breeds insanity. This may account for the talk of some of the professors at the University of Chicago. The witch hazel trust Is the latest. When you rub the witch hazel on you will doubtless be reminded thut some body Is engaged in rubbing It In. It Is said that Schwab's trouble is In somnia caused by worrying. Why should anyone sympathize with a man who Is worth SoO.OOO.OtXi and still worries? Napoleon said: "Ability Is of little ac count without opportunity.'.' But Na poleon had never met Morgan. The latter has the ability to make his op portunity. A negro awaiting execution In the Baltimore Jail has earnestly petitioned to be allowed to marry the lady of his choice in the interval. He doesn't wish to go into eternity with E. Ben An drews pointing the finger of scorn at blm as a bachelor. We can well understand the alarm of Uncle Husscll Sage at the encroach ments of the trusts. With only a scant $ HXi.lXX i.uoo saved up as a provision for his declining years the prospect of becoming a public charge must be agon izing In the extreme. It Is Interesting to note that the close of the war in South Africa and the ces sation of organized hostilities in the Philippines leave the whole world as nearly at peace as It ever is. To be sure, there are the revolutions In Haiti and Central and South America, but most people class such affairs with recreations, not with wars. Nothing gives a better conception of the size of the United States than the weather reports. While New England was suffering from a drought, people In the Southwest were sitting on the roofs of their houses, waiting to be rescued from the floods; and while the East was mopping the perspiration from its brow, Leadville was playing baseball In a snowstorm. Modern philanthropy Is teaching us many lessons, and none more inip.rtant than a greater facility in putting our selves in the place of another. The likeness of on" man to another is even more remarkable than his uulikeii '.-s although that is one of the must ex traordinary facts in this wonderful world. In fact, many an apparent dif ference be. nines a similarity when viewed more closely. For example, we have long been accustomed to think that the poor and ignorant love a crowd, and hate that solitude which is the choicest pleasure and imloed the necessity of the cultivated man. The clever boy of the slum cannot be iti duced to enjoy the modern bathroom, with Its big, white tub full of clean water, because "it's awful lonesome." Shut the shrewd child up to a quiet hour with a book and his own thoughts, a;ul he becomes a wretched, homesick prisoner. But Is he so different from his more fortunate neighbor, who loves "Just thinking?" "What do you Had to talk about all day?" said au Amer ican lady to her Indian servant In Bom bay. "I simply can't bear such a chat ter outside my door from morning till night." "I am sorry to disturb the mem-sahlb," replied the handsome, in telligent fellow, "but If I did not talk, I should never know anything. The mem-sahib reads books and writes let ters and looks at pictures. I can only talk, and it is needful not to be Igno rant." So with the uneducated man the world over; books, letters, pictures, reflection That Inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude all these are comprised for him In hu man companionship. It would be exile for a cultivated man to be cut off from them. No wonder that to the Ignorant a terror worse than that of cold or hun ger Is the dread of "being lonesome." A poet once wrote, although not in verse, "I wonder if It is on the surface that we all differ, and whether if we get in among the intricacies of the mind we are all the same. As if we all lived around a mountain, and we take each other in through labyrinthine passages, dim vaults, hollow spaces of shadow; and suddenly the open heart of the mountain, lighted up and full of music: 'This Is my heart:' 'Why, this, too. Is mine!' for the center was com mon to all." "Who would you rather be, if you were not yourself?" has long been a fascinating question. There have been many clever answers to it, the hap piest, perhaps, being Mr. Choute's "Mrs. Choato's second husband:" It remained for a wise and brilliant Frenchman to select and adjust as his : choice a varied career. "Who wou:d I rather be, If 1 were not myself? Till thirty, a woman; till sixty, a soldier; ! till eighty, a cardinal:" The most slrik- I lug characteristive of that choice is its ' Intuition in regard to the happiness j of young womanhood. In every .sta- I uwi or lire the young maiden has Joys far beyond those of the men, or "of the older women of her class. Let her be as unsellish as she may be, she yet retains a certain romantic hold upon the fealty of the race. Her personal charms may enhance the homage, but tbey do not create it. Lack of beauty or brains may lessen the tribute, but they can not prevent it. Like the wo men of all times, our modern young woman finds keen satisfaction in her power. Is it not also true that she realizes more clearly than her sex has ever before realized that privilege al ways involves responsibility that no blesse oblige? Who Goes to Law? Peep is the confidence of the Briton in the law. It settles his quarrels and he settles Its charges or as much as he can defray. A parliamentary return Issued the other day and dealing with the Judicial work of HHX) allows that during the year mentioned there was, compared with the preceding year, a slight de crease in appeals entered and au in crease in proceedings begun. Compared with the average of th-a preceding four years, the total of cases begun nnd heard shows au Increase, says the London Mail. It appears that of all the cases begun considerably less than half come to trial. The totar of cases entered in nil courts was l,.'J10,USu, and the number heard and determined 4110,418.. This means that one case was begun for ev ery twenty-five members of the popu lation, while one for every seventy-live was heard. Seeing that there are a plaintiff and defendant In each case, it follows that one person out of every twelve and a half began a legal action, and one in every thirty-seven and a hall brought an action to trial. The judicial committee heard fifty ap peals from India, thirty-three from the colonies and sixteen from Australia. The turtle never worries. He lives, It Is said. In some parts of the eartli for a thousand years, or very nearly that long, and maybe longer. That May be a good thing for the turtle. His only discovered purpose is to con- i thane to exist. But animals that wor ry live more In a minute than the tur tle does in his thousand years. "Worry kills," they say. If It does, it is sim ply because it stimulates the qualities which are life, and In the degree that there is stimulation there is wearing at which Is death. But what man wonld want to live the life of a tur tle? If there be any, he has nothing In him that anybody can resiect There Is nothing In him that he can respect himself. He might tolerate himself, lie eeuld tolerate anything. Toleration Portrait of a Queen. Here Is a portrait of Queen Alexandre by an American girl In London. "Wc don't go to the theater to witness a play, but to see the audience. I thought we were going to be disappointed and not see her at all, but Just before the curtain went up she and the king came In with some other people. She is rather tall and very sweet-looking, but, oh, most; awfully thin. She has lovely blu eyes, with a shine In them, like a baby's, but I was disappointed a bit, for I thought she had golden hair. To be quite candid, her hair is of quite a mahogany tint, but it was charmingly colffured. and showed off her diamonds beautifully. She looked very young and girlish, but I think she has t lie saddest face I've ever seen. She listened very attentively, and when she spilled you felt as though you wanted tj) have a good rousing cry. I don't wonder one bit that people in England love her, for they simply can't help It." ' For years we have heard that blue and green worn together afforded the best example possible of bad taste. Still, Paris has decreed that blue and green shall be worn together in future, and this fall the women will tamely submit, (ireen bordering Into a blue shade is the very latest from Paris When Should a Man Marry? WHEN" should a man marry? The ambitious young person with au income of $8 a week has been pro IKMimling this inquiry to the puzzle editors of mir leading dailies for years. He i enjoined not to be deceived with that fatuous mental arithmetic which tenches that what is enough for one is siitl'u ient for two. He receives the impression from newspaper advisers that he should have more than .510 u week, ami not quite so much as $1.". He writes that the young woman of his choice thinks- $10 is too conservative, and he is advised tliat she cannot lie worthy of such unsellish devotion as his. ami if she were truly wom anly she would make the amount buy as many automobile coals as possible. In view of t!ie perplexed state of the public mind on this all-important tlienie. the recent edict of the (lermaii Kaiser comes with authoritative force. It sets marks and boundaries, establishes income., social station, ami even limits previous conditions of alimony. The Emperor has promulgated an order to the effect that no officer may marry unless he receives a sainryof $1.1" a year and is in the enjoyment of an income of JfoTo more. That is to siiy, if he and his future wife between them can muster $1..MH1. the wcddbig march may be sounded. The hopes of the SI.", young man are cruelly dashed, for officers who get no more than SToO a year are forbidden to even con sider the matrimonial contract. , Carping critics may say that the whole matter might be simplified by giving every otlieer in his majesty's service at least $1,500. This would give the business of marrying off the tierman army to that Irresponsible little deity who goes about with gauze wings and shoots amorous shafts with reckless profusion. Cupid is not trusted in Germany, and there is a growing lack of couhdence in him here. The Tinted States has an un written code with regard to the finance of matriiuonv. A young lieutenant in her army or navv spends his salary for uniforms and extra allowances- for the mess. When he marries he must of necessity have a private income, or he must find the daughter of a magnate or something or other who is willing to share his lot and his glory until a kind government increases his rank. Sometimes the larger pay does not come until he u beyoud the pale of fortv. Harper's Weekly The Dangers of Ambition. THERE is a tendency of modern life to give too much rein to ambition. The quality, if it may be called such, is un duly exalted: and some grave faults, even, are held to be palliated b.v the fact that ambition has prompted them, ihe child is schooled to covet things far above its present sphere, and while this is done there is absolute omission of teachings as to the sweet, old-fashioned virtue of content .,f ,'t",i"tT,i re".?OUi,olu 0,1,1 Properly regulated, should be entertained by all; but to be reasonable it must bear a mod erate proportion to the existing condition, of the individual hie Ihe intense purpose to do well what lies before one is noble It is not so commendable to reach out to accomplish other tasks that do not distinctly ami naturallv lie before ne Many good th mil's nr.. ill-,!,.,,., i,... . ... ' , .. ..' K - " ""."'si: ui me not wuolly justi- hab le ambition which has moved certain persons to the doing consistent with the true philosophy of lie that we should be ever straining for results. Let duty be done ""ho results! hM- th " HI be no need of worry as We hear much of intense will-power compassing extraor dinary successes. There is a great deal of intense Volition without the corresponding force that can alone give it effect It is absurd to will anything intensely which we are incapable of accomplish,,,,,. Yet that is what many thousands o p" so, s are doing and they commit the further follv of xtriv Ins to accomplish it against all probability of suceess. There are prthe "me" '" ' 'S ftriVi"B maJ' ai"R'ar hw,,B' Excessive ambition is the ruin of too many lives i every grade of society Ihe advice ascribed to Cardinal Wolsey Ur Shakspeare. ! hng away ambition." is too sweeping; vet ti e faculty of moderating ambition to lit the talent or capacity that nearly 70 per cent, and there was a large jtrmsii from 'Camilla besides. At the present time 70 per cent of the immigration is from Italy. Austria-Hungary and Kussia. Tlie probable effect of such a change in character of popu lation opens up a wide field for sociological specula lion, espe cially in reference to the larger cities of the country. The in jection of a comparatively large and new element into the uiiuiicip.it allaiiN ut sucn cities as .ew htk, i.iur.iK", iimi ami Philadelphia, which receive the greater share of immigra tion, is a thing the results of which can only be surmised. In the meantime, the country will have a new problem in the task of assimilating the new elements which are thus being injected into the national life.-I leaver Post. New Problems of Immigration. STATISTICS of immigration, taken in conjunction with information furnished by agents in Europe, indicate that the present year is to be a record-breaker in the recent history of this country. Last year the total m . ,,. her of immigrants arriving in America was 487 PI", This year it is estimated the number will not be Jess tban't;oo'M)i The mo-it remarkable and interesting feature of the immi pration movement, however, is the fact that there is a decided change in the character and nationality of the people coming to our shores. In 1WC as many as LCo.Uio of the inimi.-rmts Conviction of Woman Criminals. S the world changing its attitude toward the woman crim inal? It would appear so from the sentences recently passed on two convicts. In Minnesota. Mrs. Tanke, pronounced guilty of murder, is sentenced to life imprisonment and to hard labor. In Kansas Miss Morrison, guilty of like 'Time, is sentenced to twenty-five years' imprisonment, practically a lifetime. The Minnesota case was settled ill one trial. The Kansas crime rather followed the historic- custom of leniency and only after three trials was the case finally settled. These two sentences may lie taken as evidence that woman is begin ning to be judged as criminal and not as woman. .lust what effect this will have on the human race is debata ble. No attempt has ever been made to deny that women have similar criminal instincts with men, but the position in which she has been held has kept man from visiting upon her the penalty that he pronounced upon himself. There have been woman criminaU from the beginning, since the nail of Sisera, since the poison of the Borgia. But, partly because of ideal izing and partly because woman did not share in the world's lawmaking, and therefore she was not held to he of equal guilt in the law-breaking, woman has not so often beeu found guilty in any appreciable degree. The asexualizing of crime will be a benefit to the human race. Men and women are not so different after all, ami to divide them into sexes in the punishment of crime is to fail in the control of crime. It is not pleasant to contemplate a future where the prisons are tilled with women. But these very cases in illustration are the best preventive. St. Paul Dispatch. Money Made in Gambling. YES, there is money made in stock speculation, in buying and selling grains and in playing the races. Yes. mill ions of dollars are made and thousands of persons are becoming the richer thereby. But the persons who are making the fortunes are not those who invest their capital; the winners are the brokers and the bookmakers. Every time a man deals in a stock or a bushel of wheat he pays a certain per cent to the person who executes his orders, and whenever he bits on a horse race he pays even a greater per cent to the man who gives him odds. These individuals are bound to be winners; they have a "dead sure thing" ar.d in the end they will get the cash. Of course some men have the luck to win heavily at both stock gambling and playing the races. The names of those are always emblazoned forth. Nothing is said of the multitude who fail. If persons who contemplate risking their money on either of these forms of gambling would take pencil anil paper and figure the percentage against a possible winning nine-tenths would start a bank account and he satisfied with the small but sure return on their investment. Cincinnati Post The Business of Executing. HENRY B. PLANT died in June, leaving an estate valued at $li,000,000. Among the executors was Judge Lynde Harrison, who recently resigned. 1 8,ibmit ing to the New Haven, Com.., court his statement as trustee Judge Lynde said that he had received as uav ment for his services the sum of $llit,025-,ore than Jot) (MX) a year. Each of the other executors had received a 'like amount. B What a pity it is that more of the American people cannot be made executors by millionaires who are get ing re-i to die. It is a line business, this executing Where U Yu .Puf ln't. willi,,.s t,b" " ?liil,bi;.) for three years' work at it? 1,11 The widow and some of the sons of Plant have now sue ceeded lie original executors, ami will hereafter manal In estate themselves. It is not surprising, since the figures l,, e been made public, that they should want the ox 'c, .i , in the family.-Chicago Iti-cord-Herald luting jobs KNOWN IN LAND LEAGUE DAYS. t.;.;i,:v;':V;: i: . .. AliCimi.-illUl' LKOK. Name of Archbishop Crokc Was Once Familiar to Million. One of the most prominent anil pow erful prelates of the Catholic church in Ireland passed away recently In the death of IU. Uev. Tlionias W. Croke, archbishop of ('ash el. For many years his name was a household word In Ireland, nnd to most American newspa per readers of Land League days it was familiar, for he was a leading actor in that powerful organization. Archbishop Croke was born in Coun ty Cork, Ireland, in May, In 1S70 he sprung Into international prom inence. In that year Michael Davitt launched the Laud League. Ireland was then In a famine crisis and the country was easily aroused. Pnrnell joined the movement, but before lie took mat decisive step lie sought Arch bishop Croke and asked lilni to join in the cause. The archbishop at first re fused, and then the cold. Impressive Paruell actually went on his knees and Implored the prelate to give his coun tenance to the cause of the Land League. The urchbishop, who had al ways been an intense patriot, even to the extent of being a revolutionary sympathizer In lfH8, yielded and threw himself heart and soul into the fight. Fired b.v his example, the other bishops and priests of Ireland Joined in the movement until almost the entire pop ulation became a unit in its demand for remedial land legislation. The he roic figure in that light was the arch bishop of Cashel. and Thurles, the arch bishop's seat, became the citadel of the popular struggle. When, however, the government sup pressed the league and the Irish lead ers, some of them in Jail. Issued a manifesto urging the tenants to pay no rent, - Archbishop Croke Immediately broke with the Laud League and de nounced the "no rent manifesto" as Immoral and unjustifiable. Later he headed a movement for a public testl- OLDEST WORKING LOCOMOTIVE IN THE VV0RLd7 The first I he was employed at the 'UZ Sry 'trUmmi"? 'T' ' '? owner, of the Helton Colliery. Durban dee'idi.l Tt r a"J- , Iu l8,n into a locomotive railroad, and recog, ' f HV wagonway eng.ne-wnght." they invited Stephens,,, to act IJ f the "Killing-worth The railway, which ran from Hetto Co 1 ery """T f U'e "'""taking, ham, , the Wear at Sunderland, was eued w' JZ" dt' 0f Uu' there were five of Stephenson's engines a work (!' J n wUch dat above illustration. After nearly eighty yaw" continT, T " show" in " seen hauling the coal trains a t t he ilet ton Collier v an! U ia sti" to be oldest working locomotive in the world UU'e aad " 18 '"w claimed as the monlal fund to Parnell and defended the Land League, or at least some of .io i-Mjucies. oeiore Leo XIII. After the breaking up of the Irish Parliamentary party, subsequent to Paruell's death, the archbishop took little Interest In politics. The present movement, however, had his Indorse ment and blessing. Abnormal development. Recently a Paris psychologist an nounced -that he had conclusively proved that malformation of the brain produces Intellectual brilliancy. The theory is that deformity, disease or ac cident causes the abnormal develop ment of some part of the brain, and the result Is genius. In support of this several cases are mentioned. It a pointed out that Milton wrote his "Par adise Lost" while he was blind, and It is said that the blindness confined his mind to a certain scope iu a manner that made it possible for him to evolve the great epic. Cases of a somewhat different natur "re shown in the elegant wri .! f Lis horrible ZeZTZtZT taj-i In the form of hut ,Cm ThU tated from a sick bed. ior , Wagner both had deformed . ?d r.d to have been dtdTseasu bumps while they were chlldreT-A,? American Flour 1 Kar E., ... i U1Pr 0"m'9 to tow on clr cus day ami the parade doesn't .uE '' be hitches up and g0eS homl la '...J In Harper's, Mr. AldTn" u 7 Ing the evolution of ... ., maintains that In this field on! ture American writers are tnls'1 "Until recently the Prea by English writers were able length." says Mr. AldeiL-A how tlrnily establish was the habit proper , fn best examples of the .e.tu i!lirv hva l..., .. ' urlltlCr Kzr ur t? American readily adopts thecharJ: Istic national habit of teiii... ..... : ries-a habit firmly established h ? mure. Uhe simple conditions of ' American life gave the racy a' and the narrative of adventure ti' primitive eminence. our pioneer" not only cherished the .n... trait, but furnished material for a ' stories, often somber, If not tra-ie k' more frequently humorous t.'u' L to see from what matrix gprans u! Vl ,.,er nana, or Havttbtra, and of William lillniore Siui-aU0 ti. piom.cuoi.s oi our long line of hum,, ists, down to Mark Twain. Stocktoi in... urei narie. foe and Irving tun in a class not so sharply severed fn,a Europeuu traditions; and we can rettf ly understand why Dickens n.i ,,,.. English writers to such a degree ii nilringly fellowslilpped the latter, au why iu France the former received git gular appreciation, being there the onl. American writer familiarly knowa. "The art of short-storv writin. .. represented by such authors aa Mi passant and (Jnutler and Merlin reached a higher point of excellence than that attained in the wrk their American coiitemporariea, tsA there have been very few of our writ era who In this field have approacW Turgeuiff and Slenklewlcz. Bat for English-speaking readers the field bit been most satisfactorily occupied tai almost monopolized by Americans, li boldness of conception (though avoid ing moral risk), in sincerity of feeling, and in humor tbey have surpassed ill others." LATEST ON EQUINE MILLINERY. It was very early In the morning an! all the horses Iu the boarding atablt were getting ready to go to business. "How do you like uiy new hatf asked Kitty (Jniy-horse, as she placet a straw hat on her shapely bead tti cleverly drew her ears through the eat-holes. "Very stylish and becoming," tafcl Itosie Hed-liurse. "Pull It a little dor over your forehead. There! Ilowterj becoming that scarlet trimming Is t you. Now, I can't wear scarlet at ill. I look like a fright in it." "You look like a fright in anything," mumbled Bessie Bay-horse, Ill-natured-ly, half under her breath. "What's that?" asked Uosle, sharply. "Some people haven't any more man ners than to munch their words." "Did yciu happen to meet the dark complex loned horse that draws th candy wagonV" asked Kitty, pleas antly. "No; what kind of a hat is she wear ing this summer';" asked Uosle. ' "The same one she wore last year A great big hat with black velvet twwi and a bunch of violets on it." "That old thingV" exclaimed Eosle. "She looked perfectly ridiculous In It last year. I don't think It at all suit able for business, do you';". "No, indeed." said Kitty. "I wlsb. though, that we horses didn't have to go to business. We'd be much hap pier If we could all be one of a pair, and Just draw a enrriage for pleM lire." "Carriages and pairs are all goi out," grumbled Bessie May-horse, sour ly. "It's those old automobiles. Tliej shove us out of ull the pleasant places In life, but I notice, when it couies to the pinch, we have to help them out And there's not one of them stronS enough to drag a load of railroad sleep ers, or any other load that's anywaj heavy. They can supplant us if thtf want to; the time will come when horses will strike, nnd only take tie easy positions, and then seel how tn " manage!" Promlaing Candidates. Civil service examinations are son times the source of no little an uient The New York Sun tells of test of condldutes for the position of park grass-cutter. The first paper tM examiner picked up contained w question and answer: .. "Wlut ara tl.o .Ml hied 1 COnteDtS a room fifteen feet long, ten feet, wi and eight feet high?" "One bedstead, a bureau nnd W4S"' stand. If such a room was a UK or a parlor, it would be larger contain more articles." Here Is another question and answer "What Is the difference letwee three feet square anil three W feet?" "It could not be." At this moment the examiner i interrupted In his work by a big " who opened the office door and M: "Do you know anything about cin service?" "A little," replied the examiner. "Well." contluued the vWt0'l! want to know where Pat McC11" stands on the old mowing list' "Third," said the examiner. "And how many are there anew him?" The lazier u man Is the wore he tends to do to-morrow. " KM Wise is the prophet who uoesu - 'on his prediction.