Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Wallowa County chieftain. (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1909)
WALLOWA CHIEFTAIN buee Owe a Week ENTERPRISE. OREGON J. Pterpont Morgan's $10X30 Bible contains no more religion tban the plain (1X5 edition. London Is to bare a theater In mem cry of Shakespeare. All the ten are memorials of Shakespeure. It Is significant that no coal dealers or Ice men hare JolneJ the Cleveland movement to live as Christ would. There are now 250,000 words In the English language, hence It U strange It takes the ladle so long to say good bye to one another? A California woman has been given divorce because her husband would not speak to her. Probably be never had a fair chance. Ten years for counterfeiting a $3 bill Is two years for each dollar. It Is lucky for the crook that be did not dabble In bad twenties. A man Is charged with stealing an otter cap on a train, which will, of course. Induce every bright wit to point out that he otter reform. A college professor thinks Americans of the future will have black eyes. If the habit of calling one another liars Isn't stopped he may be right. A New York woman demands $30, ono for the loss of her husband's affec tion. It seems to us that this is bulling the New York love market If man really Is descended from the hog we expect some fiendish misan thrope to take up the stockyards cry that Therms nothing lost but the squeal." Prof. Percival Lowell has discovered water vapor on liars. Many Ameri can!, whose wells were dry last sum mer and are staying dry under the now will envy the Martians. Forty magazines of general Interest describe themselves as "total abstain ers" as far as their advertising pages go. The dryness, fortunately, does not extend to the rest of the contents. The United States Is taking on a few governors these days who try to make themselves believe they are presiden tial size. They will know more about It when they have governed a while. The naval board of construction has. prepared plans for three 26,000-ton bat tle ships. Ten years ago 12,000-ton bat tle ships were considered enormous. What nation will be the first to launch the 60,000-ton floating fort? It is explained that grand opera can not be made to pay because the grand opera singers Insist on having salaries that are too high. A sad feature of the case lies In the fact that the pau per grand opera singers of Europe de mand even higher salaries than our native singers are able to draw. On December 21 the exact moment when the sun turned north in its course was flashed over the wires from the United States Naval Observatorv In Washington to all telegraph points In Alaska. Summer Is so short In the far north that It doubtless comforts the people there to know that it Is "a-comin' In" the moment the solar tide sets In their favor. Perhaps there would be aassinations if there were a stronger prooaoiury mat a murderer would be hanged. It might even be sufficient to make a long term In the penitenti ary sure. Whatever may be said about the death penalty, the certainty of se vere punishment would probably dis courage the taking of human life At any rate, it would be worth while to make a thorough test of this. Professor Ferrero. the Tt.niinn hi. torian, who has been giving lectures on Rome In Boston, says that Ameri ca is a truer heir of the Roman Re public than any European nation ; that xvome laugnt we world the principles of commonwealth on a large scale, which only the United States Is vast enough to realize. Dr. Ferrero 1 not pessimistic enough to press the parallel to uncomfortable conclusions, but he Bees In our imperialism, our wealth and our power some resemblance to a rrandeur that declined, although It ever died. For a number of years an effort has been made from time to time to In crease the President's salary from $50 -00 to $100,000. The salary has stood at Its present figure since the '70s, and the generation that has passed has, as every one knows, witnessed such a change In the requirements for living that old incomes will no longer suf fice. In official station, where there Is -no escaping to a simple life, the pressure is more serious than else where. Of course the President's house hold is far from being confined to what $50,000 a year will procure, even as the case now stands. In lieu of Increasing his pay many Items of ex penditure which might have been charged to him have been specially provided for by Congress. In part the Government pays for the presi dential stables and part for the up keep. of the White House. The $50, 00 a year Is merely what passes through the President's own private parse. The Senate finance committee has reported favorably a bill for In creasing the salary to $100,000, and It seems probable that the Increase will be made In one of the regular appro priation bills at the present session of Congress, to that Presldent-to-be Taft can get the benefit of It. There should be no opposition to legislation so mani festly just and desirable. III jgam2 ft I I The editor of the Popular Sctencf Monthly asserts that women teachen are the bane of the country's schools Bnya, he says, get but little good from the teaching of women and turn away from It when they can. The girls, al though they "need men teachers ever more than the boys," naturally remalr longer under feminine tuition. "The ul timate result of letting the celibate fe male be the usual teacher," be contin ues, "has been such as to make It a question whether It would not be an advantage to the country If the whole school plant could be scraped." And he ungallantly refers to the womar teacher as "a spinster, devitalized and unsexed." The characterization of tht teacher as "a spinster, devitalized and unsexed" Is as far from accurate por traiture as anything can be. It Is a gross caricature of a body of Intelli gent, patient conscientious womanly women who are discharging a function for which they are eminently fitted. Tc be a spinster, It should hardly be nec essary to say, does not Imply that a woman Is devitalized or unsexed. We do not have to go to any magazine edi tor for light upon that point The woman teacher Is here and she will stay here. Her right to a place In the schools Is based on the" possession ol special talent for the work. The prop er education of children up to 14 or 15 years of age Is a task requiring more than mere scholarship and theory. It requires a tact, a patience and a ca pacity to adapt oneself to the individ ual bent of the child that are as rare In men as common In women. These qualities make women pre-eminently fitted for the Instruction of the young er grades. They will certainly not be found superfluous In the higher ones. Woman's place Is further assured by the fact that men In sufficient num bers cannot be got to do the work particularly with young children. They lack the maternal Instinct which makes the task agreeable to women. The fact that men avoid that particular work tc so great an extent Is as much a result of an Instinctive recognition of their unfitness for it as of an objection to the smallness of the compensation. The country has nothing to fear from this recent bugaboo of the "feminization ol the schools." "naif of life Is con duct" and on the "conduct" side of education the woman's influence Is in vulnerable. On the strictly Intellectual side her efforts and Influence are Judi cious and effective. Too many great men have proclaimed their lasting debt to the training of their mothers to per mit us to believe that woman loses her characteristic mental aptitudes on merely crossing the threshold of a school. PRETTY WIDOW ACQUITTED. Iter Diplomatic Anawer Won the Jury at Once. Mrs. Grace West, a pretty little wid ow, was acquitted in Mercer Court, In Trenton, the other dav after she had told an amusing love story In whldi tue cnier hero was Albert Wetzel, a crusty old widower, savs the New York World. Mr. Wetzel told the Jury, which for the most Part was comnosed of widowers and bachelors, that the widow had been entertaining the Dutcner. the grocer, the Iceman and the coal man In her home, and that the entertainments resulted frequently in uisoruer. When Mrs. West had her innlnz hp told the Jurors in a sweet plaintive voice that Wetzel had tried to play Ro meo to her Juliet He would nUv n violin under her window late at night and then In a loud voice would shout his proposal to her to come down ami flee with him. On several occaslo: s Mrs. West told him she had on exnerl ence in matrimonv and that tnough. Wetzel Insisted, and when the widow locked the front doors to k-rep him out he bored a hole In the feno in the rear, being too old to climb over It "Oh. dear, won't you wed me? My life Is a hell without you," was Wet te'.'s lat proposal to her, Mrs. Weit tnia. Purlng the trial she vis asked Just how handsome she thought Wetzel was. Pie replied that she d!d not think him half as handsome as any of the men in the Jury box. He.' acquit tal followed a few moments laer. All Equipped. "No, my daughter. I will not consent to your engagement to a book peddler who doesn't know what he Is going to do for a success In life." "Oh, father, you are mistaken. Ills career Is all mapped out" "How do you know that?" "Why, doesn't he sell school atlases?" Baltimore American. Disappointed. "What's the matter with Brown? He looks disappointed." "He Is. After working for three years to land a 'political Job be finally succeeded. The disappointment Is due to the fact that connected with the position is work he will be expected to do." Detroit Free Press. A Plodder. "Did your daughter marry the genius to whom she was engaged 7' "Nope, I made her shake him marry a man that could earn a living i or ner." Houston Post Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. KIGHT-KEDIira MUST EE SUPPRESSED. EXNESSEE talis are at present are popn- I lous with men arrested on charges of whlte I I capping and kukluxtng. I T -r .1 u t .... k n1ht.1ri0ra few onmcB uic uiuiuci vj n - e " - . - - weeks ago of a lawyer who had bought a lake and proposed to enforce fishing priv ileges which were his by reason of the pur chase, there have been numerous minor outrages. One of these was the whipping of a farmer who sold his crop of peanut at what other peanut growers considered too low a price. It is well that the civil authorities In Tennessee are making what looks like a strenuous effort In good faith to visit punishment upon bullying violators of the law. If the attempt of the civil authorities fails, the State militia should be- freely used to "prevent riotous outrages hereafter. Should the arm of the State be not strong enough, the situation would call for help from the federal gov ernment Night-riding, whltecapplng, kukluxiug nil ter rorism and attempts at terrorism must be put down li It takes the whole power of the standing army to do It. The United States must be a country of law and order. Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin. TtXB&XPH ON 8 A WEEK. OCORDING to Justice Foster, women who I marry men earning only $0 a week should 3 " I do so with a clear understanding that they n I . - tr. i- 1 W. I . . announces that, whatever other Judges may do, he will never compel a husband with such an income to contribute any part of It for the separate support of a wife who chooses to leave him because of discontent with the home bis earn ings make possible. This rather startling announcement is sure to revive the old controversy as to the amount of money that makes possible a happy, or even an endur able, wedded life, and doubtless many will criticise Jus tice Foster for laying dowu a principle that takes so little account of sentiment and the accepted platitudes about love as the sufficient foundation of matrimonial bliss. And yet his decision has Its merits, and many of them. All efforts to fix a definite sum, whether of capital or of income, which will Justify a young man and woman In getting married are waste of time. The outcome of the venture depends almost entirely upon their own peculiar ities of character and capacity, and, while some would get along If they began on nothing at all, no amount would bo large enough for others. The one case, like the other, however, is highly exceptional, and for the com mon run of humanity there is an income point below which matrimony is folly little, If any, less than crim inal. And $6 a week, In this city at least Is not for two people a HvlDg wage in any true sense of the term. Probably they could escape starvation on It but they would constantly be on the vary verge of that uncom- fortable condition; they would fall stead lj n . wcl.l and economic Mile, and any trivial accident that d min ished or cut off the wage would Inevitably drive them Into pauperism or crime. . If ruin came from no other source, the first child prob ably, and the second certainly, would bring It The no tion that two people. If only they be married, live as cheapy as either alone is an absurd delusion. Two can live as cheaply as many a one does, but only when the one has been spending a large part of his or her In come for other thlugs than necessities, and is willing, under the new arrangement, to go without them. Twenty dollars is much nearer than six to. the permissible mini mum, and. at that people who have never had to main tain a family on ss little as the larger sura wonder how It can possibly be done. It simply can't be accomplished on $0, if llf Is to be worthy of the name, and Its ordi nary decencies are requisite for happiness, as they ought to be. New Tork Times. N ECONOMIC WASTE 1 EXLIGIOS. iOT alone is religion in the commission o the economic crime of waste, but it every where furnishes one of the most conspicu ous examples of the tendency. It would be bootless to philosophize over the causes which have produced the infinite subdivi sions anioiur theolscians or over the present- day movement which Is leading men to consider more than in the past their points of agreement rather than their antagonism of belief and practice, yet the building or altar against altar goes on apace, and the endeavor which might be concentrated toward the betterment of mankind Is frittered away and lost. Not one intelligent man doubts the stupendous force creative, corrective and remedial which could be exerted by the church people of the laud if they could once be united and their efforts concentrated upon the execution of good works and th prevention of evil, and there are few who do not appreciate the difficulties and the obstacles which have to be overcome before such unity and concentration can be made possible. Philadelphia Public Ledger LIBERTY BELL NO HOBO. HE bell is a heritage of the nation, but PhlladelDhla is its responsible keeper. Here. i' I In Independence Hall, is the one resting I nlanA thnt ft almulri Aver know Tuba It away from Its surroundings and it loses much of the sentiment that attaches to It To send It on Junketing expeditions la to cheapen It If the policy of exhibiting it as a traveling showman would exhibit a wild anlmnl from Africa Is continued, the time will certainly come when, in some railroad crash, It will be scattered in fragments. It baa had one or two pretty narrow escapes already. If any thing should happen to It Philadelphia would never be forgiven. Philadelphia Inquirer. "Is It cold enough for you?" asked the shed shoesblner, as the policeman entered, rubbing his stockinet-covered ears. "Cold enough !" echoed the policeman, "I sh'd say not. What do you take me for mutton gravy? You must think I'm easy chilled. Cold enough- Why, It ain't niore'n eight or ten below an' I've been exerclsln' hard, blowln' my whistle, all niornln'! Cold enough? Don't you see the sweat runnin' off me? What's the matter with you? You don't, feel cool, do you 7 "Seems to me I can stand It with the door shut" said the shed shoesblner, closing the door and pressing down the latch. "Stand to one side an' I'll put some more coal In." "Don't on my account," said the po liceman. I didn't come In here on ac count of the stove. I came because I'm fond of the society. You ask such mart questions." "You look frostbit, but I didn't know," said the shed shoeshiner. "How should your' said the police man. "You'd naturally think a man would want ice Inside his hat on a balmy day like this Is. It's the kind of day a feller wants to cuddle up alongside of an electric fan, ain't It? You don't mind If I take off my coat an' rest, do you?" "Go ahead," said the shed shoesblner, hospitably. "Make yourself at home." "If we could only have a thunder storm an' a good heavy shower tt might get a little cooler," said the policeman. "A breath of air would help some. The wind ain't blowln' mor'n forty mile an hour at the outside. It's a pity we can't hnve one o' those good, old-fashioned winters they tell about when It would freeze water If you let It stand out all night I'm Just rubbln' my nose to get the bloom o' youth on It not be cause It's froze stiff. Hot weather al ways makes my nose pale. Is It-cold enough for me? Was you ever at Medi cine Hat?" "Where's that?" asked the shoe Shiner. "It's where the cold weather start from, 'cordin' to the papers," replied the policeman. "It get so cold there It freezes the mercury solid. Thafs where I'd like to be. I'd like to get a Job on the Medicine Hat force an' stand on a crossln' all dny with my vest un buttoned makln' motions at the traffic. If I can't get relief no other way I'm goln out for a boat ride on the lake to-night in a pair o' duck pants. I'd probably get good an' wet If the water's rough, as it's apt to be, an that would be something. If it wasn't I could hang my feet over In the slush Ice an' get the burning out o them. Say, It's a mighty good thing for you that I hadn't the use of my arms when I come In here; I'd certainly have soaked you one. Is It cold enough ! Say, you didn't notice the Icicles on my mustache, did you?" "Of course I seen you was cold," said the shed shoeshiner. "I was Jest Joshln' when I asked you If It was cold enough for you." "It's a great Josh," said the police man. "I wish you'd get it patented an' I had the Job of arrestin' every guy who infringed on It I'd start In by clubbln' 'em to death. I tell you those. Say, there's some Jokes that's Jokes, an' there's some that ain't. That one ain't Not to me. If I was runnin' a furnace In an apartment bulldln' a feller might make that crack an' get away with It but I ain't doln' the right kind of stunt to enjoy it It's too frequent any way." "I won't do It again," promised the shed shoeshiner. "See that you don't," said the police man. "When a guy asks me if It's cold enough for me he always makes me hot" Chicago Dally News. PLEA FOB THE COMPARATIVE. Overdoing; the Superlative in Our National Habit of Exnurgrratlon. Prof. Thomas R. Lounsbury, of Yale, who has as one of his chief de lights in life the shocking of the gram marians, writes in a recent Issue of Harper's Magazine In defense of the use of the superlative degree in' com paring two objects. In this attitude Prof. Lounsbury will have the hearty concurrence of at least two classes school girls of the caramel ages and political stump speakers whose ambi tion Is to Ore the heart of the people. Neither of these have any comprehen sion of any other degree of speech but the superlative degree. The positive r too tame, the comparative Is an un known country; the superlative, and the superlative only, fits their excited and exalted moods. Prof. Lounsbury alleges that the habit of using the superlative when two objects are com pared Is one which the best writers are unanimous In following. He allows that such writers employ both degrees In such cases; but he as serts that where with them the com parative is found once, the superla tive Is found at least twice. Of course the fact Is one of mathematics, and probably no grammarian or critic of the grammarians has ever wasted his time In taking a census of the posi tive and superlative as used by the best writers. Whether Prof. Louns bury is or Is not accurate In his pres entation of this mutter as respects the best writers, we are quite certain that people who rank below them, or have no rajik 'at aU as writers, use the mm ' SAM'S HOBS BLASTS. lac Hot Call!. ks Wu.fc . Repentant. " Nobody U kept awake DT preach I n n ul man who U a!l4. self asleep. t la a wM(t time to pray fof the conversion $ sinuers B street while preaching la lone to the sinners In the church. Without great faith in somethir.. great character Is impossible. The man who makes children's hnr. is the real leader of the nation. " When the heart sings the mailt k always good, no matter who makes It The Lord loves a cheerful wort. about as much as He does a cheerful giver. Without the good mother there wouU never have been a good man la tto world. The Bible declares that nabob in not made out of any better clay thii other folks. The Lord hns made every sparrow i pledge that ne will take care of Hli own children. There are some preachers who new try to do anything for the Lord midl the church bell rings. The greatest trust ever formed fa this world Is the one that is formed at the mother's knee. When you know what the derll most against you know pretty wd what God wants done. If there Is a heaven for fools, tt mun who expects to be saved on hit wife's church meniliershlp will be tier on a front seat superlative with altogether too much freedom and abandon. Everything, compared or not, is superlative. Tho best, the greatest, the subllmest, the dearest, the darllngest, the worst, are sure to be the adjectives every time. Whatever the Issue on the orator's mind. It is the most important before the country, without reference to the fact that another Issue was the most Important last night and still another will be the most Important to-morrow night And nt the other extreme your effusively enthusiastic miss has al ways Just had the "dandiest" time, or has recently eseated from the hor rldest people; while all the way be tween all sorts and conditions of men and women scatter superlutlves about things of Importance and things of no importance with lavish and undlserlm lnatlng lips. Whatever Prof. Louns bury may have learned from the best writers, the comparative degree Is a device of the language that ought to have more consideration in a land which has yielded Itself to the habit of exaggeration. Simplicity. Flushed and smiling, the girl grad uate seated herself beside her father In the automobile and patted the pale, blue bow of ribbon on her essay. "Did you like my essay, father?" "Your commencement essay upot. Life's Higher Calls." he said, "seemed to me to be too too. But listen, here is an autograph letter of John Ruskln's that 1 bought this morning for $17. Maybe, if you had read this letter before writing your essay It would have been better." Then the father read the letter aloud, while the young girl listened with a scornful and sour air. "I was obliged to write too young, when I knew only half truths, and was eager to set them forth by what I thought fine words. People used to call me a good writer then ; now they say I can't write at all. because, for instance, if I think anybody's house is on fire I only say, '.ir, yoUr house Is on fire,' where I formerly used to say. 'sir, the abode In which you probably passed the delightful days of youth is in a state of lnflani. matlon," and everybody used to like the effect of the two p's In "probably PBssed.' and the two d. In 'delightful Nothing- to Pew. Motorist's Frlend-O, I say I Good ness gracious, we'll be smashed ud In a minute! ' ; Motorist All right, my dear fellow don't excite yourself. The firm i bought this motor from have agreed to keep It In repair for a year. When a man tells his side of the story, you can't believe all he saya. He at least exaggerates In his own favor. CUBS FOB CHINESE EDITOBi All-Bering- Yamen in Pekla Xaka Bllaatatementa and Goaslp Perllm, Not long ago some Chinese gentlemen with horse tails depending from tbelr official bonnets saw to It that in of fending editor was right propertj flogged with bamboo rods 100 lasbn were the editor's portion, the New Yort Sun says. These gentlemen had no pri vate grievance ; they were simply p. ting the new press laws of China liU operation. Last year, when everything in CUm hummed with the news of a chtnsii; order, when the old empress dowtjt: announced from her dragon throne thai she would have a constitution In CWn within ten years or know the reasra why, and when the boycott against anese manufactures was arranging tfc features of a national movement, sorer of the native papers played fart ui loose with ancient decorum. They emi criticised the government That cEd for action from high sources. Some yamen in Pekln whose prOTlw it is to look after things as they onsk! to be in the Internal affairs of the en plre sent a tnotal all the way to En gland and Germany to study hov tie governments there handled obstreper ous newspapers and called in for li vice a former minister to P.erlln. Wto all the data were at hand this yama formulated something unique In 1 way of press laws. It was put W operation Inst Mny and the tone of i great many nntive papers has dropr! about two octaves as a result. The publlHhers, printers and edltnn of newspapers for general circiilatla must be over 20 years of age accordlt; to the existing press laws; they ss& bo generally nccepted as of sound nlr'. and none of them mny continue blsca:!- Ing If he hns ever served a prto sentence for nny crime. Each proprietor must deposit secor'r ty of his rectitude to the amount o! $75 before Issuing his first she.'t onW he can prove that his publication h purely artistic, educational or statist col. A copy of each issue must be sen! to the yamen that formulated tlx laws. "Corrections or protests against m statements must be published in next Issue." says this mandate. iJ case the number of words used In tt! letter of correction forwarded to $ editor Is more thau twice the numbf of words used In the ordlnury stit'- ment a fee of half the ordinary it tisement rates may be charged." Secret intelligence of state, crltidsi of the throne or matter tending to flame the public peace of mlndoroi otnum uion long-accepted popumr " torn if printed will render the editor publishers and printers of the PI containing such inhibited matter subject to fine or Imprisonment for less than six months nor more u two years. Papers may be suspend upon a repetition W any of the often stipulated or confiscated altogether. Hon Ther Get It. An interesting though uot entir convincing example of. municipal fc omy comes from New York, where piece of property stated to be w13 about SSO.000 was wanted by the m nicipnl powers. The owners skf $331,000, nnd the condemnation ceedlngs awarded -them $202,000, wb0! upon it is claimed the city $70,000. At that rate If the o had osked $1,000,000,000 the city a have saved enough to pay off it debt . . : . . Yeast Statistics show that, rule, married men live seven longer than bachelors, and wlve years longer than unmarried wo" CrlmannluMilr 11'nnHoP If It- is 0W' or If It only seems longer? X00 Statesman,