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About Wallowa County chieftain. (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1909)
Wallowa County Chieftain PaMMhea (w Thai-tor. ay llw ENTERPRISE. OREGON Venezuela h said to have had the nlddt rate In the world, but tt may Be different now. Wales !s demanding several things f the British government, but ahe is pot demanding spelling reform. "We do not feel for a moment the pressure of a foreign army,- say fie (Cubans. But they knew It was tLer. Castro paid S10.OO to be operated ton In Berlin. Being operated on In Berlin la as costly as stopping at some tote la. Oh. well. If being Vice President Is ne form of oblivion. It Isn't half bad to get $15, WO a year for being obliterated. The man who makes the most noise Is not always the greatest man In the world. Think of the bollermaker, for Instance. A prophet of fashion predicts that Jn ten years women will cease to wear hats. There Is something for men to live for yet f-wltierland certainly seems abort the worst place to hold a balloon race. The Alps not only pet in the way. but are nwfuly hard spots to fall on. It Is reported that the Czar of Rus sia can't understand why the Sultan of Turkey has jienuitted his people to cling to their constitution so long. A Boston paper refers to William the Cononerct as an early filibuster. It nilsrtit feel hurt If the Mayflower wire o iled a little tub of the sevan teeuta century. A New England gardener promises nest se-.ison a cross of the orange with the cu umtier. However, we pin our faith to the farmer who crosses the pike with a watermelon. The man who started all this "affinity- talk, and who dragged that beautiful word Into the mire of slang. Is In a sanitarium and his "affinity Is getting a divorce. Next ! The Baltimore Sun wants to tnow: "Can a man marry on six dollars a week?" Sure, if he does it oo pay Any. The license and the Justice of the peace cost less than six dollars. Pewter Is coming Into fashion again for jewel boxes and other toilet arti cle, as being "less effeminate than eil ter or gold." It has the excellent minJincation. also, of being less extensive. A Chinese general has been dismissed from the service because he has rheu matism In one of his legs. It may be role in the Chinese army that any soldier who contracts rheumatism hall have it In both legs. Ore of the critics solemnly an nounces that Edgar Allan Poe could not bop to get any of the magazine editor to accept his poems If he were writing them now. Some j-eople will refuse to accept this as proof that Pie eouldn'i write great poetry. Going barefoot seems to be growing less popular In the West Indies than It led to be. During the last year the United Slates exported more than two and a half million pairs of noes to the islands, one-third as many as the exports of the whole world. The children of the late Charles E. Perkins of Boston have given to the city of Colorado Springs "The Garden of the Gods," one of the scenic wonders of America. The park has long been open to the public, and the formal transfer is In accordance with Sir. Per kins' wish. This gift Is similar In spirit to Mr. Kent's gift of Muir Park, California, to the nation, and to a be r.uest recently received by the city of Boston of a large snm of money to maintain the city parks. The Judge in a most Important crim inal trial In New Tork a case Involv ing the life or death of two men per mitted the Jury to separate and go to their homes, unguarded, everr night during the trial. He said be saw no reason why a Juryman should be more likely to be Improperly influenced than a Judge. If bis point of view can be established It may serve to raise the standard of Intelligence of Juries, The ablest men fight hard against a duty which makes them close prisoners for eeks. naturally prlr4 and try to obtain, tt ta nn of the things that very, very rich people find It particularly hard. If not iui'vosstble, to command Id this land. Affably, but pertinaciously, the reporter says to them, "Tour places, ladies and gentlemen, and children also, are not In those nice seats where you can see the passing show at ease, but np there. please, on the stage, and near the foot lights, where our large and apprecia' tlve .American audiences can find their pleasure in observing you. For you wii: renieiuoer. please, that the audi ence ha paid to come in. and that you. Talr sirs and dames, draw exceedingly llieral maintenance out of the fund gathered in at the box office." The movement against child laboi Is not merely a movement to take chil dren under a certain age out of mill and factories, stores and street trade. It is broader and more thoughtful It Is a movement to reform the condi tions of child life as well as of child labor. It aims at Insuring healthy, sound development of the mind as well as of the body of the children. From the larger viewpoint the speeches of Commissioner Draper and Dr. Hutch inson or a recent conference in Chi cago, acquire a significance that ren ders them appropriate and valuable in a discussion of child labor. Dr. Hutchinson did not intend to Indict farm life wholesale or to deny the physical and moral benefits of "t'.e country." His object was to direct at tention to the seamy side of country and farm life, to substitute certain prosaic facts for certain sentimental fiction, to point out that In studving chile1 needs and onnortuniti the whole truth as to farm routine should be taken Into consideration. Too much generalization Is dangerous, for many farms are better for children than any factory, and some factories than many farms: hut recognition of evil without exaggeration is essentia! to right thinking and right action. Dr. Draper, one of the vigorous advocates of educational readjustment, with the view of bringing life and Industry Into close relations with the schools, em phasized the fact that to force the children into educational mills is not to solve the problem of their devel opment. Schools, too., may be niate ful and useless;" children may find them dull and become truants and de linquents where, under a more enlight- ened system, they would gladly un- i dergo the discipline and training that fitted them for business, commerce or manufacturing Industry. In short, to restrict child labor In factories and shops is necessary, but not sufficient. The negative tasks of the friends of childhood must be supplemented by positive ones, by educational reform, by rational organization of play, by provision for moral culture and Indus trial training, by attention to hygiene In the home as well as In the school. By a gradual and natural process the campaign against certain forms of child labor has become a campaign for child saving and for harmonious de velopment of child mind and child character. Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. THE VALUE OP THE CHEAT I.ATTES, AST year the passenger traffic on the Great Lakes totaled 10.10.000 persons. The freight rate by water from Duluth to Buf falo is one-seventh of the rate by rail. Statisticians estimate that if the total lake . traffic had used the railroads It would have cost S500.000.0CO more than it did. These figures but roughly Indicate the tremendous value of In land waterways and faintly foreshadow the possible de velopment of our lakes and rivers. Every twelve minutes, night and day, during IOCS, a steamer passed through the Detroit river, and the busiest month showed an average of forty a day arriv ing and clearing at Duluth. With such a traffic already on the lakes, what will It be when the rivers of the Northwest are opened up, when Canada builds a deep sea waterway from Georgian bay to the Ottawa, and steamships from Chicago can reach any foreign port by way of the Mississippi valley? How many know that the Canadian government is pre paring to connect Lake Winnipeg with Lake Superior by the Ealny river route, and thus render five hundred miles of the Asslnlbolne, a thousand miles of the Sas katchewan and much of the Bed river eventually navi gable, bringing the great wheat belt into touch with tide water and steamship connection with every port of the even seas? The Great Lakes freight to-day Is seven times the total tonnage of the Puea canal. When the Improve ments even now In prospect are completed the natural center of distribution for the United States will be the southern end of Lake Michigan, and Chicago will be the greatest seaport of the world. Chicago Journal. T THE JAPANESE. HE desire of the Asiatics to make a home in the United States Is a matter of fifty years' knowledge The Chinese were the earliest to seek us out, and. until the gates were put up, cou trjved to come by the thousands year after year. The closed door, however, put a check on this. Since prohibition was enforced their num bers have declined. In the decade from 1S90 to 1900 they decreased from 12G.TTS to 110,050, and the census of 1910 undoubtedly will show another loss. The Japanese, on the other hand, have been increasing. They have multiplied six times over In the ten years terminating in r.XX, going from H.Sttt to 63.986. They are freo to come in. There are loo.imo under the flag, more than half being in Hawaii. Their presence Is es pecially objected to by California, where they become farmers, servants, laborers and merchants of varying degrees of importance. They are charged with resorting to dishonesty and sharp practices in bargaining and to be destitute of the morals which Americans deem essen tial for the civilization they have created. They can underbid labor and undersell the white farmer, and thev do. They Bre a bone of contention, and our government officials i1 re put to their wi:s' end to keep California from aditiug laws against them which would offend, perhaps auger, the Japanese nation. The singular thing about it is that the Asiatics bsre turned lot glng eyes upon us. while, if they gaze south ward, they will find countries quhe as rich as ours la which they car find homes and perhaps a welcome something denied them here. Why not take to BraxU or the other South American States which are striving to attract immigrants? In the cl;les there are no la'jor unions to antagonize and In the country the farmer would not object to them, for the natives are not over Industrious or ambitious. , This Is the solution of the Eastern Asiatic immigra tion problem: Overrun South America, where labor la cheap and morals are of the easy sort. The Chinese and Jatmnese would fit in with these people and havs easy sailing. The soil Is rich aud the industry of the newcomers would be well rewarded. Here they are ob jectionable from several points of view; there they would harmonize with the dwellers, mnde up of Ca casino, Indian and negro strains, and be content Ctlca Globe. w THE TRIALS OF WIRELESS. IKELESS has proved a boon to mankind. But wireless hn Its own troubles. There Is not enough air In the congested districts to carry all the messages. Complaint l made that the wireless ojerator8 in and about New York harbor are too fond of gi-rslp. They load the atmosphere with eoufldeutlal social gayety, which is meant to be passed on to some "pal" on the other side of the harbor, but which "j ims" with a real message carrying Information of luiponance, and the two become a blur of words with out sense. Happily the appeals of Jack Bluns feH upon an atmosphere not too much occupied with the trivial, aud heu'T got early attention. But even in this case there was trouble with amateurs, and Capt Sealby, ad verting tc the fact, has declared that there should be governmental regulation of wireless activity until the process is so perfected as to remove this difficulty. The situation indicates that there is a real demand for rules and regulations for the use of the ether. By wireless the operator with the most powerful battery has the most powerful voice. The great batteries are in the gigantic shore towers which waft messages from shore to shore, even across the Atlantic. They easily drown out the teeble efforts of the ship instrument to be heard. When these message senders get down to trivialities, they become the same nuisance that the talkative "cen tral" used to be. "Central" has long since had a quietus put upon her conversational yearnings. The wireless op erator Is due for a dose of regulative treatment Wire less has been proved to be too vital a factor In the serv ice of the public to be made the plaything of anyone. Minneapolis Journal. ALIVE AFTEB DEATH. The most novel detail of all novel advertising processes has been the ele vation by advertisement of the richest American families Into a sort of puo'.ic life. People in genera! l?c!s very much Interested in money, and especially In large collections of It, are Interested in iiersons WDO have the use of such collections, and like, apparently, to be kept Informed of the manner of life of such persons, and where they go and what they do. Becognizing" and stimulating this interest, the American newspapers have fed It abundantly, yes. superabundantly, and so It has roroe about that whereas a reasonable measure of occasional obscurity is one cf the things that persons who can af ford to satisfy their Inclinations, might SISTER, JOH2TS0S-S DEFE3TEEB.. The Earlr Home Life at the w World's Champion. The mother of Champion Jack John son has been a resident of Galveston for forty years and is the mother of nine children, three of whom are boys. Her husband, who was an honest and respected negro, died a year ap. Mrs. Johnson beard the news of her sons victory the other night about midnight and she said It was not a surprise, for Jack had cabled her the dav before that within another day he would be the world's champion and she knew that he wa9 certain of victory, accord ing to a New York dispatch from Gal veston. The old lady Is a very Intelligent darky and is highly resiected. She says she Is responsible for Jack being a ngnter. although she had intended that he use bis power only to defend his rights. She said Jack wa a tall. glim boy until he was about 10 years old. when he began to tike on flesh and develop his muscles. L'p to the time he was 14 years . of age be was a coward and wouldn't fight. "He was eternally getting Into trou ble with his playmates," bis mother said, "and he always got the worst of it. His sister was his chum and she had to defend him and do all his fight ing. I had no time to be bothering settling the children's fights and I told Jack if he got licked again I would give him another whipping, because he was getting old enough to defend him self. Sure enough be,got whipped by a smaller boy and I gave him a licking when he came home. "But I never had reason to whip hfm again. He developed confidence and muscle and he was soon the champion of the east end and there were some tough boys in that neighborhood. He always said he would reach the top or tne boxers prize list "I am not so proud of his being a prizefighter, but I am proud that he stands at the head of his profession. He was no better nor worse than the average boy, but he is a good eon audj ue provide wen tor me and for his sisters and brothers. Johnson bought property In Galves ton and California since entering upon his 'career and sends money home reg ularly. Eleven years ago a local sporting club brought him out and the first pro fessional he defeated was Tom Scan Ion, who came from Hot Springs to fight him In 1S9S. Though Johnson was a Galvestonlan the spectators were with the white man. Parts of the Bndy Retain Vaefulneaa After Life Mas Fled. In McClurt's Burton J. Heudrick de scribes the experiments In transplant lug animal organs conducted at the Kockefeller Institute by Dr. Alexis Car rel. Dr. Carre! preserves niiiin.ii tis sues in cold storage for many weeks. "To the uns-.-ieutific citizen it Is s- uie thiLg of a surprise to learn that larse parts of the body are alive and useful after the phenomenon popularly known as death has taken place. Few of us suspect, for example, that our kidneys aud hearts, after we have died our selves, can in m..st cases be resuscitat ed, and that if by some surgKul mira cle they could be transplanted into an other UmIv tliey would quickly resuaie their functions. This, however, is a well-demonstrated medical fact. The bua:au heart has been removed from the b..ly more than shirty hours after desith and made to beat again. Dr. Carrel himself has taken the heart from one dug aud inserted it in the neck of another, coimectiiig the aorta with the carotid artery of the new heart, and tlie vena cava with its jugu lar vein. In a few moments the live dog had two hearts rhythmically be-.it-li.g. one recording a pulse of SS and the other 10. "Science hits yet framed no precise: definition of death. The human body ; teems and quivers with life, onlv a : small part of which becomes a part i of individual consciousness. The i healthy man hardly realizes the num-1 eixms and complex activities of bis in- j ternal organs. The alimentarv canal ! ur ao.uing p;ace or millions of micro-organisms, the activities of which only occasionally influence our dally life. Bodily tissue everywhere is con stantly breaking down aud constantly building up; and yet It Is onlv in the last few years that even science has begun to understand the beautiful chemical reactions Involved In the pro- TEE HEROINE OF A GEEAT CATASTROPHE. r-4 - i r .ITS . U - . ' .4 -. ' V-... -..-Rr5i v i'!.rfS.s ' -t .'' " c - y ' . , - - , ' If . J F i . r N'- " - ' . r - ' . r t. . A Chaane for the Better. The life-ioug domicile of an old lady was situated several feet south of the dividing line of Virginia and North Carolina, and when that section of the country was resarvcI it was discov ered that the line ran a few feet south of the property In question. They broke the news to the old lady that 11... a ... . , .... ut uwu OI naa eUbUsued hermit in the hearus of the Italian people as she has never done before by her uiaghleent work at Messina where she displayed In a striking manner the physical endurance which marks her people. The third of the four daughters of Pr.nce Nicholas of Montenegro she was born U. Cettinje in 1S72 aud was married to the King of Italy S Prince of Naples, in ISM. She has three daughters-Volanda. Mafafd. and Giovanna-aud there was great rejoicing when a son. Humbert. Prluc-e of P?id mout was bt-rn in 1004. For a time the Queen did not sik ltZu fluently, but she has now unite mastered her adopted LnSge. . rious coincidence her paternal bouse is more to the public eve trh. ment than It has been for years, owing ,0 the antagonKc amtude the Mon" tenegrms have taken up with regard to the annexation of Bosnia and govina by Austria. Queea Helena vtol.ed London year Vlwo aga 160,000 Worth of Coaatt-rfrtla. Ton think our AmerScuD luiliiuo alres buy a good many fake pictures?" SI. Rocbefort laughed. "It's pitiful! It's shameful I But what can they ex- from then on she was to be a reint i P ? Uelr own fault for buying oi wrgmia. -mats good." she ex claimed ; "I've always heard that North Carolina was an unhealthy 6tat to live in." Success Magazine. Eeaaoaay. "When Wtthersby'B first child was born he distributed cigars." "1 remember." "When his last child was born he bad to quit smoking." Birmingham Age-Herald. pictures as they buy lumber or steel rails- according to specifications. I'll never forget the last pictures I was asked to look at by a rich American. He was so proud of them! So con vinced that they were masterpieces! There were forty in all, and they had cost him 8D0,0u0 francs.. It was a bar gain all right if tbey had been gen uine, for there were great names in the lot; several old masters, a Dias, a Theodore Rousseau, a Daoblgnj, and "'S'hre.!WW-,,Sl8,ulledm. niltbS " ,them I. "'Ah!' Jie purred. ' " 'But they're not genuine.' "WW? v e- urcau yon-Te founfl a What counterfeit? "'My dear sir. they're all Magazine. I'm Sorrv. Knf counterfeits.' "-Success No matter how hard a mother tries to find the Uplift iu every denS domestic duty, she can't flna .ny of It In the task of wiping drens noses. TEtmPET CALL. t. Ih TCar,a " . ! The profane man is ever.--i. j dwUgoea. un, No tears are ever shed for th u that dies in the shelL The man w ho Is wlllin tnh. might as well have no legs. If every mnn lived in the nt - ! no boy would live In the wrong ,'' The devil can't pick the i J' 1 guards the treasures of the rkhr' i The man who is waiting to d0 , fe lot of good all at ouce will never 4 The sinner on the tTe.nK U m much a sinner as t!-e tinner in slums. Some people spend so mnrh . . uuff; n counting the mllepoeu they tula m the scenery. When the snail makes a mile it j, a mile Jun the same as when mtiih the automobile. There is blessing In being rich, mj strong aud gifted, but there is in being none of these aud yet dolt better than they. The man who pays his debt tt lets booze alone is helping to bring the world to the place where the lkm and the lamb will lie down together. The man who looks to the Lord for his daliy bread will not be found u. tog off the end of bis yardstick to make It easier for the dollars to flaj his pocket Travelers In Africa And the standard of living somewhat different from whit they are accustomed to at home. Oo of the latest to report upon this mat ter is Mary Hall in her book, "A Wom an's Trek from the Cape to Cairo. The following paragraphs reflect 1 strong light upon the condition of mar ket and kitchen to BrltUb Centra Africa: When the native butcher propose to kill an ox, notice to that effect la teat round to the white people on the prev ious day. Once they were apprised of the fact by the following startling an nouncement: "A bule will be murdered tomorrow morning at 6 a. m." This cold-blooded crime, so carefully premeditated even to the exact hour was, however, not committed, at tho following morning a second notice wi issued, as follows : "The bule ran twit this morning, so was not murdered But this was an exceptional cats. I heard one story which is so char acteristic of the native that I repeit it The man who related it told u that the incident occurred when b was on a journey, and was sufferiot from a bad attack fit fever. One even ing he fancied he would like some eggs, and told his boy to get two and boil them lightly. After a time they were brought to him as bard as bullets. He told tho boy be must get some more and boil them less; but alas! these were brought to him to the same condition, and the poor fellow wished he had never or dered them at alL Being unwilling to give in, be made another attempt and told his boj, "Come to me when the water boili The boy did so. "Now," said his master, "put the eggs In, and when you have counted flit, take them out" The native method of reckoninz is to count up to ten. and then begin again, arriving at the total by the number of tens counted. The sick man heard the boy start fair and get as far as four tens, when a second boy interfered, aud questioned whether it were the third or fourth ten. This started a discussion; and as they could not agree. It was decided u begin all over again. Meanwhile the eggs were still boiling, and getting harder and harder. This was about the last straw, and III as the man felt he was compelled to get out of bed and put a summary end to the cooking operations. A Corlana Vane. One of the most curious vanes to bs seen on any church In Great Britain to at Great Gonerby, a parish adjoining Grantham. It Is in the form of a fiddle and a bow and Is unusually large. Its his tory is curious. Manv rears ago a peasant resided to Great Gonerby who eked out a modest livelihood bv per forming on an old violin which was almost a part of his life. At last be decided to emigrate, and out In the far west prospered and became a Hell man. One day he sent to the clergyman at Great Gonerbr a anm sufficient to build a church, and attached to the gift the curious condition that a metal replica of his .old fiddle snd bow should be on the summit of the edifice. The gift was accepted and the Tane may be seeo on the church. A Caa of 1" rare at Ktti, It was In rha hntal nf - n'oataiD min ing town that the New England guett registering ta the office, heard a succes sion of loud yells. "What in the world uai a muraer going on upstairs r be demanded. "No" Mid rha K .1. -wo- -i-a v( m UC piniui"-- the book and lounged toward the stair. "It's the spring bed up to Number Fire. That tenderfoot up there dont get the hana of It anil onn torn- l . ha sets ' J ujot . tt one o' the spiral springs screwed Into him like a shirt stud. I guess 111 hv to go up. If there ain't anything mors I can do for you for few minutes."