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About Wallowa chieftain. (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1902)
WALLOWA CHIEFTAIN. Publinhr.l r.vrrj Wk. ENTERPRISE . . . . OREGON. Happy are they who don't 'want the things they can't get. world-weary condition which ooce per vaded the society of Prance when whole dinner parties would rise from the table to go and drown theinselves In company? No, Cordelia, we can't all be bero Worshlpeni; some of us must be heroes. Many a woman who makes a man a mighty poor wife makes him a rich bus band. Do a man a favor and he will con sider you under everlasting obligation to him. Many a man who couldn't train a dog decently imagines that he Is an Ideal Child trainer. After working steadily for twenty- five years for a certain company, a fore man took his first vacation. It Is doubt ful if he enjoyed It. Men are a good deal like animals. Turn an old street car horse Into a rich posture and he will roll a few times, kick up his heels and then search for his harness, bell and the long stretch. Harness any man to a Job for twenty-five years, and It becomes his life, his ambition and his pleasure. He mokes his body take a vacation and his mind remains at the office, or bench, or wherever destiny has placed him. It is a feeling that can be worn out, because man has more brains than a street car horse, but It takes time, sometimes years; some times all the years that are left. When tiBvli-' mmm m now would It do for Explorer Bald Vi to find something besides his voice? It Is becoming a trifle tire-Some. Emperor William says he Is afraid lie will never be able to see America. What, then. Is the use of being on emperor? Minister Wu says Chinese laborers are better off than our workmen. Then why does he object to our exclusion laws? Though the pen may be mightier than the sword. It can't come up to the scratch wlien pitted against the Ink-eraser. A hundred years ago men married younger than they do now but women didn't object to doing their own house work then. and faithfully, had done bis full duty so patiently, that the Concern had re tired him on full pay for the rest of his life, be It a year or forty years. Not a beggarly pension, mind you; not pensioned poverty, which Is Just as one, but lull pay, ana the nrm wrote to him: "Go where you please, and If you ever get stranded away from home. Just telegraph the company.' It was a fine thing to do. It was a bit of un- OPPORTUNITIES IN RAILWAY BUSK.ISS By J. M. Barrett. Cemnl Supt. CHIcago S Altom Railroad Added to the stability of demand for young hands, and the con.q.ueut value of the supply, a railway company, with its many departments, each subdivided Into special brauches. offers a wide field for congenial employment. In this respect the government of the L'nlted States alone surpasses a railway. The young man who enters the service mum not only have ability and character sufficient to satisfy the chief of the em ployment bureau, but he must also prove acceptable to the head of the department in which he has chosen to enlist, to the official examiner of the company, who examines the applicant for vision and hearing, and to the com pany's surjrfou, who makes an exceedingly thorough physical r,s-r .jatlou. H. bAUMX.lt. the foreman ended his vacation and started for the shop he discovered that his Job had vanished, lie also learned, flint romorntlnns ore not soulless, for he was told that he had worked so wellTXP -ie care ln-theeelection of rallwny men does not ena witn employment. There is no better plan devised for the actu.il and intimate knowledge of an employe's merit than the con tinuous records which this railway company systematically keeps. The public at large has no conception of the perfection of the methods by which the officials of railways determine upon the advancement of their men. The order of promotion of employes, who are at all times protected by civil service hard for an old man to bear as a young j rules, i9 practically the same as applied in the army and navy. 1 A h lir anil ma, a M rf rm i.n t,., istnclilrt,atmna Mil, ..lilt llivilt U 1 1- . V.I 1 ' u 1 1" 1- . 111,1 v ' ' 1 . - . 1 - - l.ll.llw, ..... seniority is always considered, all other things being equal. After a young man enters railway service there Is no posi tion, no matter how high, whk-h he cannot hope to attain. The presidents, general managers, and other executive officers of the principal railroads in the United States to-day have asked appreciation that must have its i arisen from the humblest in the service. In fact, the whole effect on the other tollers in the eon- system of railway appointment and promotion gives the widest cern. It Is gotug to be Interesting to I latitude for Individual merit, which, if conspicuously shown. see what hnDneus to the foreman. If I receives conspicuous rewaru. l ne old aay or personal relation HERMIT OF BOO MOUNTAIN. I Cats Ten Tons of Hay Yaarly mm& Get 41 ah on a n nociwrrow, At the base of Bog Mountain 1 a farm under cultivation, owned and carried on by Silas Prescott There la do highway leading Into this place. About seventy-five years ago there J was a large family of boys, sons of Samuel Prescott, settled on nr n. death was certain. Common humanity pleads for this. Tinman prescott mil. One of these. Joslah. life may appear to come to a stop in m"j " about sixty years ago cleared up a can say that If time Is allowed for this It will not go on again. acre8 ot tillage and built a house, This, even the most learned In medicine, cannot explain away of Mounuta m denr- of the lumber he carried nn hi. .u um j Y. . Iilntini.!. jll. . . PUBLIC ORIGINATES MANY SCHOOL TADS. 1 .h? " Br r. t, Soldsn. Sapt. Moots. St. lomls. f ..f . oh!l,1is. Pm-h-na th nwwt danscrous fads are not of th h- fhlu farm teachef . creation, bnt originate In the '"" One of them. Silas B.. now 54 year, veralct ifwiseon I- J" K however, no matter how loudly or emphatically ex- " ' Bna nw pressed, are at times unwise. The history or past moiuer in iwi. jir. i rescott Uvea decades has seen the rise of many, and the decline alone, the town giving him his taxes rf some, of the fads of this origin. ' There Is, for on condition that he ask for nVhJgh- instauce. tne ratnnun 111 ea uui a mwra uraia , way. " H . educatiou. that workfen are spoiiea oy ino . inortor 1. unon hlm .,, . "I certalued that he lived alone, had ten Schooling; there U the three "II" fad; there is the "education manes criuwuuiH imi. . i - . . The "quick promotion" fad has done lmmeamirable -harm. acres of Ullage, cut About ten tons PhiiiiMn .,,,,,. Hah .n.i iin nt th.lr twieher. have. In of hay, and gets ltsm on a Wheelbar- places, been forced into higher grades than the one for which row. His great bobby Is keeplug bee they were fit, and their educational progress has lieen impaired and he has Uie.birgJneBB down fine. and ruined thereby. 1 he teaciier and principal wno id sucu gome yoars receiving large .. returns. cases qiueuv auu piensauuj, dik m ie bkuw iiniTT 0...- Tnjg year the beetf"rB Jt fdlTttre nis grouna w a messing to ine cauu no to honey. They are so tame with hlm AUIUIIK lilt WUITl 1KU9 Ul VUl U) Ml U1C c. I - , , , , . . gence" fad. The practice U bad which lets the child ha-e hi. ""t he can spread honey on his face. wav when he is unreasonable, and lets him regulate his rela- He down on tne grass ana the bees will tions to school and home In accordance with bis pleasure In stead of in accordance with clear duties. "I wish you 'vould make him come to time," said a kind mother to a teacher who had sent for her on account of the frequent tardiness nt the child, "but the fact is, I cannot make him get np In the morn ing, and he will not go to bed when It is time." If the parent abdicates the educational control of his child, he makes n it- ni cioua error and Indulges in a common, but objectionable, fad. The charge that David B. Hill never kissed a girl in his life should not be accepted as true merely because David doesn't deny It Perhaps he always promised not to tell. Truly the prominent woman's hus band Is to be pitied, but fortunately for most married men who play second fid dle the orchestras to which they belong give but few public performances. The dull boy in school seldom ap pears to a disadvantage during recess. The census bureau is right about peo ple living longer than they formerly did. We know quite a number of per sons who never lived so long before in their lives. he, In the possession of health and strength, can drop the load he has been carrying steadily for a quarter of a century without a shock to his whole system, he Is a big man a real philos opher. If he loves flowers and children and books, his garden, the quiet place of his home, he may be happy, but the chances aro that some day he will be found at the door of the shop saylug. 'Put me to work." It Is In the blood. Americans are built that way, and the fact that ambition doesn't cease when the limbs grow weary and the thatch gray, In no manner lessens the kindly tribute that the company paid to the old foreman. ship and politics has passed: the railway Held lies invitingly open to the young man with ambition and energy. Speaking generally, if a yonng man is physically strong, morally clean, has average capability to work and think, and, shove all, firmly believes that railway work will prove con genial, my advice to him is to enter the employ of a rallvaj company. If, upon the other hand, a yonng man realizes tha he does not possess the foregoing essentials, he had better keel out. WORLD'S "MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN." Preparations are already under way for the great Olympian games to be held In the United States in 1904. For eign countries are extending assur ances that they will be fully repre sented, and the governors of the vari ous States are cordial in their expres sions of interest. Have acts of weakness and sin never -any salutary effect on a man's charac ter? Can any man say, viewing his life honestly, that no good has come out of the evil that be has charged him self with and repented of? Is not sin sometimes character-building? Does It not perhaps develop a man Into a stronger force spiritually and make him a more practical, helpful Christian gentleman? Are not sins in some lives as the boles In a piece of linen which transform the plain, uninteresting cloth into beautiful embroidery? We seem to be in the way of making ourselves ridiculous. Germany Just now Is overrun by Mormon missiona ries and we are assuming the role of their protectors. Not long ago the Ger man authorities served notice of ex pulsion on twenty-two of these Utah evangelists, whose activities In the em pire had aroused the resentment of the clergy, but at the earnest request of our diplomatic representatives those notices were temporarily withdrawn. Mormon emissaries In Illinois, Missou ri, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee any where you please, in fact are tarred and feathered, ridden on rails, driven out, sometimes shot, eve banged, and a paternal government looks on in si lent If not cordial approval. mm BURYING ALIVE A FREQUENT PERIL. By Alexander Wilder. H. D. It is said thnt at the public mortuary of Paris about one ki every 3IK) persons supposed to be dead actually comes to life again. At any Tate, some hundreds must be buried alive In the larger cities of America, for few of the precautious are taken that are required in several European countries. The fact is that medical certificates are often per functory, and given simply to meet the requirements of the law. As many are consigned to the mad house without judge or jury almost, so others are placed in the grave upon the word of a physician, who has not made a critical examination of the case. If the undertakers were to tell the facts that have come under their eye the blood would run cold with horror. Few months pass without some article in a newspaper to lull apprehension in regard to the danger of being buried alive. If alarm is raised some medical hypnotizer is ready to tell the pnblic that there is no occasion for alarm: that medical science is so advanced, and knowledge of this matter so thorough, that such a thing is well nigh impossible. ' Physicians are often not philosophers, and it is by no means wonderful that sometimes they are not skillful In relation to the phenomena Incident to the waning of life. The medical art is not so much the accumulated wisdom and experience of aes and centuries as the exploiting of the most recent notions. We do well to obtain our conclusions from a wider field and a higher inspiration. The matter now under discission is of too much importance to every one to be dismissed without absolute assurance. e do not wish our anxiety to be soothed unless the causes are removed. I have often been told that the modern practice of embalming made death certain. I admit it; but those who are too p.or to pay for this funeri". luxury must yet take the chances in the old-fashioned way. There is no doubt, however, thut the num. ber annually put to death by the embalmers is sufficiently larre to aemana attention. An investigator of this subject in New York has openly declared his belief that a considerable num. ber of human beings are annually killed in America bv the emoaiming process. Before burial there should be detention in a mortuary till This Is the young woman whom Har ry Lehr, the authority of the "400" on feminine beauty, declares is the most beautiful society woman In the world. Miss Schenck is the granddaughter of the Rev. Dr. Noah Schenck, a noted Episcopal clergyman of Brooklyn. Four years ago, when she was 17, she start ed a letter chain of 10-cent contribu tions to furnish Ice for wounded sol diers, which brought her 250,000 let ters and $'..000. Her home Is at Baby lon, L. I. Until now there has been no revela tion of the secret arrangements made between Great Britain and Germany relative to African affairs prior to the Boer war. It now appears that PortU' gal is to hand over the Delagoa Bay districf. and' that the northern part of the Portuguese possessions will go to Germany. This is said to be the "compensation" to Germany for keep ing quiet during the late war. It will make the German people, who have been so fiercely antagonistic to the British nation during the past three years, feel rather sheepish when they discover that they have actually been partners with Great Britain In the ex tension of British control In South Af rica. The Modern Child. The modern child Is the most dis couraging thing I know about Just the other day I undertook to entertain a small neighbor of mine while her mother passed the afternoon In bed with a sick headache. Naturally, I as sumed that the little girl would enjoy looking at a prettily Illustrated book of fairy tales which had just come Into my possession. She took the book po litely, and sat down to look at the pic tures. When I looked up she was star ing at me with a question In her eyes. Seeing me disengaged, she put it into words: "Here's a very pretty picture." said she, pointing out, or rather Indicating, for she's too well trained to point, to a wash drawing of Tltanla and ber at tendant fays. "They're very pretty, but will you please tell me whether they're angels or Just insects?" Washington Post Serious thought is suggested by tha Tact that suicide has been unusually prevalent of late. Each morning'; newspaper contains a list of peopla who have made away with themselves. What can be the cause at work? Soma of the suicides, it is true, kill them selves because they can find no work an anomalous situation in an era of prosperity but most of them seem to be actuated by feelings of anger or re sentment or spite. Some of them kill other people and then kill themselves. There Is an implication In this situa tion thut the American people are de teriorating In a moral fiber that they are becoming morbid and unstable ot character. But granting this, we ara still at sea as to the primary cause oi the trouble. What Is making tha American people morbid and reckless ly impulsive? Are we coming to that Hard on the Baby. The Philadelphia Times Is responsible for the following: A Canadian firm recently placed with the Montreal and Toronto newspapers an advertisement of a new nursing hot tie It had patented, and was about to place on the market. After giving dl rectons for use, the "ad." ended in this manner: "When the baby Is done drinking, it must be unscrewed and laid In a cool place, under a tap. If the baby does not thrive on fresh milk, It should be Dolled." Objected to Noise. Because they objected to noise some residents of Fatderson, N. J., burled a church bell recently after It had been taken down pending repairs in the church. The congregation later dug it un. IMPOSSIBILITY Of LONG RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS. Br Pro. W. I. Moon, Caof of foe V. S. Wtataer Zjreaa. At the present time I know of no -clen- come and take the honey away and do not sting him. He handles them with out any fear. Mr. Prescott says be never gets lonely. He spends a great deal of time In bunting and fishing, and In the season for them gets very many skunks. He says he has caught as four of these odoriferous animals In a night without a dog. He takes a lan tern on his arm and sets out for a nlght'B hunt A bridle path leads from tlfic man who essays to make long range thA fourth Now HnniTuMw. tnmnit. weather predictions and I would eiped- & stormiest ally caution the public agaiust the i npos- , . , ture of charlatans and astrologers, who nlKht "" no terror for hlm- atuinly crev unon the credulity of the Mr- PPett once won a bag of meal people. I believe it to be Impossible for on a wager that he could carry It home, any one to-day to make a forecast basrd upon any principle of physics or upon any empiric rule in meteorology for a greater period than two or three days In winter or for more than three or four d.iys in summer, and there are time ,0 winter when the movements of air conditions mor. koore. are so rapid that It Is extremely diScult to forecast even for the space of o dny. The weather bureau takes the public into its confidence in tills matter and doe- not claim to be able to do more than It is pos sible to accomplisn. No CTedence whatever should be placed in the forecasts contained in almanacs ot otherwise published months in ad vance. The scientific staff of the government weather service contains men learned as astronomers and as ohvsiolocists. a distance of two miles, lotting down and putting up two pairs of bars him self, without setting the meal down. For diet he uses crackers, canned goods, fish, game, and berries In their season. The reporter asked hlm how he would like a woman to keep house for him. He had a good many "If s" In his answer. He seemed to enjoy his mode of living as well as any he could have. In winter he cuts some wood and lumber, but summer or winter, work is not allowed to Interfere wltb Does not the reader suppose if there were any information to his interest in sport or recreation. be derived from the p-witions of the planets or the phnses of the moon which would enable them to make weather fore casts months in advance that these scientific men would make use of It 7 NOW MEN ARE YOUNG AT FORTY. By C. S. Street. Cnglls essayist By young men I mean, of course, men who are to his company, taking great Interest In It and its affairs. WUmot (N. E. For several years he was a mem ber of Messer Rifles. Company A, 3d Regiment, N. H. N. G. He was obliged to walk eight miles, and was one of the most regular attendants at the company meetings. He was count ed as one of the best and gave credit visibly and characteristically young, who by the mere rate or years may be anything up to 00. Now, in the early part of the last century a man was a man at 20 or so, a middle-aged man at 80, and old at 50. At the present tira he Is a boy up to about 35, a young man up to 50. and is hardly regarded as old until he has exceeded David's maximum of lire Dy six or seven years. ine nien'iy young in years, those who had the exclusive title of youth a few generations ago, no longer, so to speak, have the place to themselves. The young man of 20 no longer mumpns in nis young manhood over his seniors. Dispatch In Boston Advertiser. A Hygienic Terror. A germproof house Is the latest addi tion to the hygienic terrors of life. It is not yet actually in existence, but medical congresses are busily and even hopefully paving the way for its ad vent When It arrives and we are all thoroughly scientific and uncomfort- wrmTsIde.Tn TjsZl . , , " - - 1 i-n 01 youia nave oeen joyously or pathetically sounded. But It na oeen reserveo tm- our practical age to learn the lesson in its fullness and to draw the proper conclusion. ONCE DUG IN A SEWER. To-day Thomas F. Walsh Is One of the World's Mining; Ktnza. Thomas F. Walsh, the Colorado min ing king. Is a partner of King Leopold of Belgium. The old Belgian monarch. whose habits have not gnlned for him any great amount of respect In Eu rope or on this side of the water, ex pressed a desire when he entertain ed Walsh at din ner, some time ago, to study American progress for the benefit of bis peo- 1110s. . walsu. pie, and was in formed by his guest that he could see the concentrated progress of the Amer ican people at the St. Louis exposition. He then declared his purpose of mak ing us a visit The Colorado Croesus, as Thomas F. Walsh has been(called, met Leopold at Paris tjWo years ago and the latter was sa-.TnVnnT tf l.,it Jfc's fifMM f Tv j KI.XO LEOPOLD. at once Impressed by the personality, skill and courage of the American. The.r talked minerals and mining and the King Interested Walsh In a project looking to the development of his mines In the Congo Free State and they have since worked in harmony, Walsh is an Interesting figure. He was born in Ireland fifty-one years ago and A SAM0AN SKYSCRAPER. without stairs, built on gravel soil, des titute of cellars, with concrete aud blocks of earthenware "pierced for ventilation" placed under the floor, and the ordinary bricks "will be supersed ed by glazed and tightly fitting hy gienic bricks." The roof will be tiled, not slated, and the windows will reach from top to bottom of the walls. The dining table will be of polished mahog any, the chairs cushlonless or stuffed with medicated wool, says the Loudon Chronicle. The walls ought to be made of a cement that takes a high polish, can be stained to any color, and washed frequently. Curtains ana draperies of all kinds will be abolish ed ; pictures will be permitted only when let Into the cement wall; for ar" tistlc touches we shall be depending on "plants of India rubber and encalyp tus type." In no room will there be corners to harbor dust and bacteria, and the skirting will always curve Into the hardwood parquet floors, Instead 01 striking them at right angles. Samoa claims the original skyscrauer. although somewhat higher. The government buildings of Samoa are of the tme shown the nirtllre rvnr the .............! . . . . ""Own. ii. f i,L- u u iraiiieworu and the fibrous roof i l T. 'Lhurrica.n"' which are ""PP'd to pass through, leaving th -structure" Intact. This particular structure is in Tutuila, domain under control of the United States, our first colonial venture. came to the United States In youth. He took what work he could find, digging at one time In a sewer at Worcester. Mass. During the famous Leadvllle boom he went to Colorado and estab lished a hotel He then turned his at tention to mining and made a $100,000 strike In the Black Hills. This was the foundation of his wealth. He long cherished the idea that gold and silver could be found In the Ouray district of Colorado and when he attempted to demonstrate the correctness of his the ory, the Camp Bird mine was discov ered, which has yielded a million dol lars a year since 1807. Walsh ranks to-dny nm""'! the richest mining kings of the World. The Piano Typewriter. After six years of continuous, patient and Industrious labor, Paul J. Clenanth, of Buffalo, has Invented what he calls the piano typewriter, and It Is said to be one of the inventions of the age. The piano typewriter Is an invention which will prove decidedly useful to any person who plays the piano, and es pecially to composers or bandmasters, Rata Shield, tj In some form or 'xhet the umbrella was in use many cMturtaet'T6 Christian era. We see It trtea the palnja&gs and sculptures of Egypt- In Chlaa'amd Japan the" umbrella w been lrr existence as farbaci 4 torv can trace, and the fflSiVar attire of a JaDanese soldier included not oniy ir n composer has a desire to writ. . a fan, but a very large parasol. At u new .piece of music nil thnt 1 becinninor of tho seventeenth century .a utV-COOHI V I " for.,3lm to do Is to attach the new in. umbrellas were introduced Into In vention to his or her nlann on ! land as a fashionable fad. In those what he thinks will make iroort mui dars thev were made of feathers to When he finishes, the notes that he has Imitation of the plumage of water j-.ajeu iU oe printed on a sheet of pa- b'8- Later, oiled silk became m iJe!lLaid, W,U be ready for Publication, binary materlaL In the reign of Queen If he hold the note for a aimrtw Anne. a nrntnntinn in wet weather, the machine will print a quarter note- ey became of general use amongst ir a half note is wanted be will hold the women. That the stronger sex dis cord for two bents and a half note will dained them, although men's dress was be printed. Proof of Her Beauty. Barnes Is the girl prettyr Shpdd RaAi,tir.,if n-L.. . . . -mat is to say, my wife doesn't like her a bit I haven't noon liA m . " ..c u.,8e,i, y0U know.-BoBton Fines for Striking M ..k- Fines are now being Imposed at Dun dee. Scotland .. -" " ' muicnes on uc maun ui puunc DUlldlngs. If we were a woman, we would be careful of what we said to the woman who goes around with a handkerchief w weep witn you. Just as gay and rich as that of laHf?i is proved beyond a doubt by many write re of the period. Let Paris dames the umbrella's ribs dis- nlav To guard their beauties from the sunny ray; . Or sweating slaves support the sbaoy load, j When Eastern monnrchs show tneir ' state abroad; . . . Britain in winter only knows Its aid. To guard from chilly showers the wan ing maid. Men abuse a woman who come downtown and roars, but whenever tn butcher or baker offends, every roan- sands his wife to complain about It