Wallowa County chieftain., April 29, 1909, Image 8

Wallowa County Chieftain
ENTERPRISE-
CMTERMBSf. PRESS
OREGON
It toot i man to writ th prlxs
winrlcg vomto suffrage poem.
. Id tb nbtn of time February wD
V wholly devoted to relet rating the
ilrthdays of great men.
Prof. ZneMlng MTt woman tn a lire
problem. There Is no doubt sb keep
nacy busy bunting far the answer.
& H. Harrlman is looking for young
pa to fill 130.000 positions. How
ever, be la looklcg for $50,000 men.
The Lo Angeles Express tells of
ptomaines In hash In that town. There
la everything In haab from ptonaUs
When a Tennessee man is called to
do Jury duty he runs the risk of being
found gulty of being able to read and
Trite,
A St. tools philologist wants the
Simplified Spelling Board to tackle the
word "coioD:." Why pass "lieuten
ant" by?
The atrt who expects to earn her own
living only for a few years lsnt study
ing ont economic problems as tbey
may relate to her earning capacity at
thirty. B'ess her heart, no. The idea
that she soay be still earning her own
lining at that age never esters her
head until that age is at hand. She
finds that, rightly or wrongly, there
In an Indefinable but nonetheless dis
tinct social line between the stenog
rapher and the wearer; between the
girl who sells a hat to a customer and
the girl who made the hat in the
workroom. Quite unconsciously she
caters to the social ends of life. She
probably would not explain It Just
that way, but she prefers to be the
stenographer or the saleswoman. The
possibilities of her marrying well are
greater. Her married estate and the
social position of herself and her chil
dren are more Important than the pay
envelope. She will be a wage-earner
only a few year. She expects to be
a wife for many. What are the few
against the many? The social reform
ers are all wrong. Pride does not
csuee this point of rlew In the work
ing gtrL It is Instinct, primal, prop
er, pure Instinct, as broad as creation.
And If the dear reformers imagine
they can eradicate or change It they
are very badly mistaken. For which
the whole world should be Tery, very
thankful.
"The per csplta circulation
money Is steedlly rising." says
Richmond Times-Dispatch. But
tt really circulate per capita?
.of
the
does
One of ths curious things about some
sf the men who think they look like
Lincoln Is that they act as If they con
sidered It creditable to Lincoln.
King Edward and Kaiser WUhelm
hare had such an erjoyabie time to
gether that Great Britain has Just de
cided to build six more big battle
ships.
Andrew Carnegie admits that Bob-
art Burns was one of the most extra
ordinary men ever bom. although it la
weH known that the poet nerer sared
ti.ooo.ooa
Ths Rosebud settlers are calling for
girls who are willing to become wires.
Before going the girls should be given
to understand that Rosebnd lant
lower garden.
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Because his wife would not permit
him to remain away from home at
night for the purpose of playing pe
Buchl a Sew Jersey man hanged
himself. She must hare been right
in feeling that she ought to watch
him.
A PennsylTanla carpenter recently
burned a barn in order that he might
get a Job as a builder. He can at
least set up the claim that there would
be no Justice in fining him for try
ing to operate a combination In re
straint of trad.
Panics In burning halls are becoming
less frequent, thanks not to fewer
fires, but to excellent co-operation on
aQ hands. Twelve hundred people
walked Quietly out of a blazing the
ater la New Tork recently. No one
was hurt, and but one girl fainted.
The orchestra aided the exit by play
lug until the place was emptied.
The commission on country life has
not had time to complete Its investiga
tion, but it has had time to demon
strate its usefulness and the wisdom
of Its methods. It has silenced the
cheap and silly critics who thought it
wildly absurd eren to suggest that as
they flippantly put It. "the farmer
needed uplifting." The problems of
rural life, known to the thoughtful, are
now more generally understood and the
farmers themselves hare displayed an
actire interest in their proper solution.
It Is true that prosperity chiefly comes
from the soil, it Is true that the rural
areas of the great west hare been the
hope and the enry of many dry toilers
in counting rooms and offices. It is
true that Iowa and Nebraska have not
known the worries which the panic
brought to Wall street But no intelli
gent student of rural life imagines that
It is a life of unalloyed Joy. There is
misery on farms; there Is excessive
toll, there Is solitude leading in many
instances to insanity; there Is lack of
sanitary and other modern facilities;
there is backwardness in agricultural
and business organization. The farmer.
like the city dweller, needs co-operation
and increased efficiency la organization.
Be needs better schools for his chil
dren, more social and aesthetic life.
Improved rural libraries and a score of
other things. He has advanced in late
years, thanks to Institutes, congresses.
postal progress, road construction, gov
ernmental aid and Interest in him ; but
we are at the beginning rather than
at the end of the process of the read
justment of rural conditions to the
standards of modem civilization in In
dustry, in education. In recreation. !n
religious and social life. The commis
sion can be of help to the farmer in
various ways, chiefly of course by
means of discussion, definite expression
of his own feelings and practical sug
gestions. It Is to be hoped that Con
gress win recognize the value of the
commission's work and vote the small
appropriation necessary to its continuance.
RACE FEEDS DLTE0TDT5. !
By Prof. Charles ZoebUa.
We are not witnessing any marked Improve
ment in the human race as compared with
four or ten thousand years ago. With our
scientific knowledge of to-day we ought to see
ar Improvement which is beyond what we
see among favored people. Increased stature.
In vigor, in mental endowments, because of
tfcelr peculiarly favored circumstances. We do
not know enough to perfect the human race.
but we know enough to begin. Our chief obligation In
this life is the care of. children. It should be our chief
occupation ; It conies ahead of any spiritual satisfactions.
There is no other equal to the enjoyment of the care of
children. We must give our little children a fine con
ception of the least of our human relationships If we are
to expect them to fulfill their obligations the greatest
Therefore they must be trained in citizenship, the girls
as well as the boys.
We have often had presented to us the contract be
tween the beautiful free life of the country and the rich,
many-sided life of the city. Most city people would
dread the isolation of the country, and the country people
are afraid of the overcrowding of the city. There ought
not to be either the one or the other. The more we con
sider the beautiful positive contributions of rural life
the more we bevonie convinced that they ought to be the
possession of the city people, and the more we use the
schools, libraries, churches, newspapers, music halls ami
all the other opiortunities of city life, the more we be
come convinced that they ought to b the possession of
the country neople-
VOELD CONSTANTLY GBOWING BlXTEK.
By Ada May Krecker.
6o soon as we look at our own times with
the historical pers;iective tbey seem differtnt
And they seem better. They are contrasted
with the past, and the favorable changes that
have taken place In the meantime are clearly
exposed. Tbey receive from the past the light
that is needed in order to set into relief the
present Without this light from the past the
present Is easily misunderstood. Modem peo
ple insist upon Warning something about their own times.
And then they verify the old saw that a little learning
Is a dangerous thing. For they have discovered the ills
of our own time without relating them to the greater ills
of the other times.
For all the pessimism abroad regarding the degen-
, the Ideals of business and political lift
TZ " ?b'ey?nv,te prison with
. , nr-dcessors and ancestors. Our political
other of their predecessor. i ,t tb
hettes of to-day are not Talieyram . "
firs, nunlification of a successful statesman is the ability
to UZ And the merchants of tcMlay have
doned the method, of more primitive f'm'
moving scale of price, and kindred Idea that they find
difficult to trade with me ui
adopted their own. the modem system.
THE MENACE OF A WOOD TAXETE.
By Ko!anm raiuip-To-dav.
to supply public needs and to fill
their own pockets. Individual exploiters are
sweeping away the forests three time, as fast
as they grow. This means that many of the
bard woods are already gone: that the total
supply of hard wood, which used to furnish
the better-grade furniture, fittings, and so on.
will be exhausted, for commercial purposes,
within fifteen years; and that the entire wood
supply of the country will not last n-ur -v
five or thirty years.
It Is as though some foreign Invader, or some deadly
pest should suddenly appear on our shores and ravage
the entire forest are of the country, at the rate of two
States a year, until every tree were gone. Do you Im
agine for one Instant that as the years go by your In
terest In this great question will become less vital, or
less personal, than It Is to-day? Success.
TEE NATION OF MONET TO BTTEN.
By Samuel n. Adam.
iow long shall we. as a nation continue to
make good the vulgar boast that we have
money to burn? Surely we have, with our
billion dollars given to flame and smoke In the
past ten years, sufficiently established our pri
macy in wastefulness. The idea has taken too
firm a hold upon us that fire is a "necessary
evil." A lothsouie allocution that! A responsibility-shifting
lie. paralleling the "dlsinsa-
tion-of-Providence" dodge. But America, in this age or
grow lag thoughtlessness and analysis, is beginning to ex
hibit symptoms of nausea over Its "necessary evils," and
hanlv In the progress of time, this overwhelming de
structive and costly one of fire wastage may go over the
lee rail into the ocean of oblivion, together with such
others of Its kinds as industrial murder, tuberculosis and
typhoid, and rotten politics. Everybody's Magazine.
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Cmim tv ASaleta PasOU.
An Interesting addition to the coots
of instruction in the public schools of
Vienna Is to be made in a short time
by providing class in four districts,
to overcome the defects in speech of
children who stutter. United States
Consul General Ruble at Vienna. wim.
reports this matter to the Bute IV
partment. says that the length of he
course is nve weets ana instruction
is to be given during two hours or
each weekday. The children are to
withdraw from other school attendance,
a it is essential that they devote then,
selves exclusively to the course for tb
cure of stuttering.
The co-operation of the parents la es
pecially important to the success of
the cure. During the period of the spe
cial instruction It is necessary that
the children have a separate room at
home where they can practice the exer
cises given them without any disturb
ance whatsoever. The parents must un
dertake to have the children practice
their exercises at home for at least four
hours dally, and during the first two-
weeks not to allow them to speak at
all except to practice the exercises pre
scribed by the course of Instruction.
Keeping silent is of such importance
that the success of the course depends
upon this requirement being strictly ob
served. Parents are particularly ad
vised never to cast any doubt upon tb
effectiveness of the course or of the
teachers. It is well known that stut
terers lack self-confidence, and this
must be taken in account in the treat
ment The children should be encour
aged by calling attention to progress
that h&J been made, for stutterers are
extremely susceptible to praise. Par
ents, however, should be careful h
make no experiments and to mak so
tests.
At the end of the five weeks' course
the instructor brings each pupil back
to his regular school and indicates h
his teacher what has been accom
plished, besides giving advice concern
ing his further Instruction. The teach
er Is requested to try to encourage and
make permanent the new habits ac
quired. Children who have taken the
special course In stuttering are exam
ined afterward each month in order t
determine what permanent results hav
been obtained.
What boy bora during the current
fear wCl b tb Abraham Lincoln or
the Charles Darwin of the century
Both Darwin and Lincoln were born
an February IX. law. The same
year saw the birth of Oliver Wes
tell Holmes. Edgar Allan Poe. Alfred
Tennyson. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. to
say nothing of scores of men famous
hi other branches of learning.
It only remains for us to hope that
chicken farmers generally throughout
the land will get busy now with the
brush and the green paint If there Is
on thing we need in the markets above
all things, it Is more eggs snd cheaper,
If the hens win double their efforts.
the price must tumble as inevitably as
that the sunshine must follow the rain.
The hens will double their efforts if
green paint Is offered as an inducement
The bargain is so much to the advan
tage of the owners of tlx paint and
the remainder of mankind In general
that It would seem compounding a mon
umental folly to hesitate in the emer
gency upon us.
Borne day not Tery far distant tt
Is hoped, exporters and importers In
th United (States will awaken to the
realization that South America offers
tnem exceptional Dos mess opportun
ities, and then probably a systematic
and determined effort will be made to
wrest from Europe the trade which,
geographically speaking, belongs to
u. Why this rich field has not been
cultivated is one or the mysteries
which for a decade has puzzled citi
sens who rlsited the continent to the
south. Perhaps the explanation Is
that we hare been too busy extending
our trade to Europe and Asia, but
whatever the cause, the time ha
passed when American merchants can
any longer afford to Ignore the possi
bilities apparent to the well Informed.
WHAT WILL IT HATTER f
What will It matter In a little while
That for a day
We met and gave a word, a tonch, a
mile.
Upon the way?
i
What will it matter whether hearts were
brave.
And lives were true:
That you cave me the sympathy I crave.
As I gave yon?
These trifles can It be they make or
mar
A h ii man life?
Are souls as lightly swayed as rushes are.
By love, or strife?
Tea, yea. a look the fainting heart may
break.
Or make It whole:
And Just one word, it saiu tor lOTes
sweet sake.
Mar save a soul !
May Riley Smith.
Wfclt Hssm Ressvatsd.
When William Howard Tart stepped
into the White House at noon on the
4th of March as the new president of
the United 8tates of America, be found
a model home equipped with every
modem convenience ; that is what
other presidents have never enjoyed.
Before the election of President Roose-
velt few changes bad been made in
the White House since the days of John
Qulncy Adams, when It was rebuilt
after being fired by the marauding
British troops, only the walls being left
standing.
The executive mansion, as It was
called before the advent of Mr. Roose
velt he dubbed It officially The White
Bouse" was the first public building
erected at the seat of government The
architect was James Hoban. who drew
his plans closely after those of the seat
of the Duke of Lelnster. near Dublin.
Ireland. George Washington himself
selected the site, laid the coner stone
on Oct 13. 17TC and lived to see the
building completed. John Adams, bow
ever, was the first president to occupy
it which be did in 1S00. Technical
World Magazine.
Game for Two
With what scorn do certain of our
economic reformers scoff at the girl
who prefers working for five dollars a
week in store or office rather than in
a factory or mill for twice or three
times that amount as a skilled oper
ative Yet how little are they Justi
fied. The ideal destiny of every prop-
erly-brought-trp young woman is mar
riage, There are no old maids of la.
Wsma SaeeevAs at ranlig.
T see no reason why a woman can
not earn as good a living on a small
farm as in any other field."
Such Is the assertion, made with the
cheerful certainty of one who has tried
It and succeeded by a Connecticut
woman, Mrs. Jane C Barrow, who has
for th past eight years supported her
self and sent two children to school, on
the earning of a four-acre farm, only
one acre of which is available for
planting and buildings.
"If a woman Is as fond of the coun
try as I am." said Mrs. Barrow, "she
will not find it a hardship, but rather
a pleasure. I had everything to learn
and I hare succeeded, so I think other
women could do as wen. I began with
a small hoy as assistant; now I haTe
a woman and a man and we are all
three kept pretty busy."
When this energetic and courageous
woman took her land she was forced to
go into debt for money to pay for
groceries enough to keep ber and the
two children until the farm began to
make returns. Technical World Magazine.
Now. as be entered the parlor he
gave the impression of a young bentle
man whose hands were empty, and no
matter how he was viewed the gaze
flew back to the emptiness of his
hands. Oh, unmistakably empty were
his hands, and absolutely innocent of
either candy or flowers. Most con
sciously empty, too. they were, blush
ing a dull red as they hung by their
thumbs from his waistcoat pockets in
a sheepish sort of way. banging in
shame, as it were, and yet with a sort
of sullen bravado, as though saying:
"Well, what of It?"
yes, even thus our hero entered the
parlor and said:
"Hello!"
And as his salutation Is subdued
Into silence let us look at the lady in
the case and see whether the eye of
circumspection can come to rest on a
matter so mobile: Plump, cozy and
divinely short was the lady in ques
tion, with a pert, quick manner of
movement and eyes that were alter
nately bright with speculation or
brighter yet with conviction. Items:
She could sit back in a chair and
swing one foot over the other with
an Insouciance that boded harm for
happiness of creation's lords, and no
one could gaze upon her twice without
knowing that ber bands bad the girt
of expression, each separate finger be
ing a digit of delight and ringed
with a dimple of Joy. Tea, even such
as this maid of distraction who cast
a bright glance of speculation at the
emptiness' of our hero's hands and
said to him:
"How late you are!"
Tes," said he, "I made up my mind
that, beginning with the new year, I
was going to work hard, and that's
what kept me."
"Gracious!" said she, and again she
looked at the emptiness and the sbeep
ishness of his hands.
"I I didn't bring any flowers to
night" he said. "I'd been thinking ft
over, and tt seemed such a such a
such a such a that anyway, I
swore off."
"Myl" said she, and swinging her
foot she asked, in a careless manner:
"Did you swear anything else off,
John?"
"Well." he said, evading her eye,
"candy."
And brighter grew his glance.
"And concerts." he continued, his
voice dropping a note and 'hanging
over the edge of the tragic.
And even brighter grew her glance.
"And all sorts of shows." be conclud
ed, far. far down the keyboard.
"My l said she. "Tou were busy!"
"Yes." he said, trying to look at her
in a significant manner. "And now
111 be able to save a little money and
then"
"Flowers." she added, raising one
finger.
He nodded.
"Candy?" she said, raising another.
Be nodded again.
"Concerts."
Again he nodded.
"And all sorts of shows." she con
cluded. And nodding again, be drew a long
breath and made room for her on the
sofa, saying:
"Grace!"
"No." she mournfully made answer.
"I've sworn off."
"Sworn off what?"
"Sitting on the sofa like you meant
I made np my mind that beginning
i vz swobs orr."
with the new year I was keeping you
away from your work too much. So
I Just swore off." And. shaking ber
bead, she sighed: "No more. John."
Whereupon, be went over to ber
with considerable velocity of locomo
tion, holding out his band and crying
with emotion:
"Grace!"
"No," she mourned, putting ber
hands behind ber, and shaking ber
head. "I've sworn that off, too,
John!"
"Sworn what off?" demanded John.
"Holding hands," she mourned
again. "
"Tou have, have you?"
"Oh, dear, yes!" And still keeping
her bands behind her she looked up
at him and pleasantly emarked:
"What a beautiful day it has been,
John!"
But as for John, he marched out
into the hall. Jammed his hat as bja
bead, snd laid violent bands upon
his overcoat She followed him.
"Good-bye!" he muttered.
"Good-bye, John." she pleasantly an
swered him.
"Good-bye forever!" he said, punish
tag bis coat
"Oh, that's such a long time 1" she
said.
"So It's all over between us" he
scowled, turning up his coat collar
and looking ferocious.
"What Is?" she asked.
"To won't sit on the sofa with me?"
"I've sworn off sirtlug on sofas.
John." she gently reminded him.
And you won t let me hold your
hand?"
"Why, John. Bow can I when I've
sworn off holding hands?"
Plump, cozy and divinely short was
she, and when John tried to envelop
these contents of charm her manner
of movement was never so graceful
nor her eyes so bright as when she
eluded his grasp.
"Sworn off that, too. have you?"
bitterly cried John, embracing the air.
"Sworn that off. too, John," she
smiled from a distance.
And as for John. John slammed ths
door open, passed out into the vesti
bule and banged the door behind him.
From the hall inside she pleasantly
waved her band at blm and turning
to annihilate ber with an awful look
his eyes fell upon the solitaire that
gleamed from one of her fingers.
"Here! I want my ring back!" be
pantomimed to her through the glass
of the door.
To which she pleasantly panto
mimed back:
"I've sworn off giving rings back.
John.
And pleasantly drew down the
blind.
And as for John. John sat down on
the top step buried in thought, from
which he emerged at last saying to
himself:
"I wonder if I'd better get some
flowers and candy and come right
back or telephone ber In the morning
that IH call for her to-morrow night
and take ber to a show."
And as a certain picture arose be
fore him of two persons sitting on a
sofa, discussing cabbages and kings
and eating candy together, he hur
riedly turned his steps to the candy
shop and hurriedly muttered :
"I guess I'd better come right
back!" New Tork Sun.
J Wit of the Youngsters 5
Tip tmw Travelers.
"What is the difference Mmi
valor and discretion?"
"Well, to go through Europe with
out tipping would be valor."
"I see."
"And to came back by a different
route would be discretion." Loais
vlll Courier-JournaL
"I know why women laugh in their
sleeves." said little Elmer. "Why.
dear?" asked his mother. "Becaois
that's where their funny bone Is."
Teacher Harry, can you explain the
difference between "ayes" and "noes!"
Harry Tea. ma'am. Tou see with
your eyes and smell with your nose.
Small Mabel was very restless the
other night and was unable to go to
sleep. Finally she said: "Papa, pleas
sing to me; that always makes me
tired."
Teacher How many zones are there?
Small Boy Six. Teacher No, there
are but five. However, you may name
six If you can. Small Bay Torrid,
north temperate, south temperate, north
frigid, south frigid and ozone.
Mamma (In pantry) -Who has beeo
drinking the milk. Johnny? Tell the
truth now! Johnny It was me, mam
ma; I wanted to see If It was soar.
Mamma Well, suppose it had been?
Johnny Why, I wouldn't bare drank
it
Little Nell What does your pap
do? Little Bess He's a horse doctor.
Little Nell Then I guess I'd better
not play with you; I'm afraid yon
don't belong to our set Little Bess 1
don't see why. What does your paps
do? Little Nell He's a veterinary sur
geon! Ere Exercise
"Have you a high roof?" was the ap
parent irrelevant question put bf
the dlstnigulsbed oculist to the woman
who bad complained of having bid
eyes. "Higher than the roofs or w
surrounding houses?"
"Oh, yes." said the woman, "a gd
deal higher."
"Then what I want you to do," sH
be, "is to go up there every day snd
look around for half an hour. Tb
win do you more good than glass
One trouble with your eyes, and with
many pairs of eyes in New Tork,
that you exercise them so little at long
range. They are used to looking
short distances only. Long distance
looklnr Is rood for von. Persons W&0
habitually have a wide expanse of
sea or plain to gaze upon very seldom
have weak eyes. Of course you
not move out to the plains, neltwr
can you spend your life on the o
wave, but yon can let your sight trav
el across the Hudson river every w.
and I advise you to do it" New I
Press.
Vie Versa.
"He proposed to both girls and they
accepted him."
"How did be get out of it?"
"They compared notes and then
turned him down."
"Ah! A case hi which two affirma
tives make a negative !" New Tork
Herald.
The arguments of most
J sound and that's alL
men are
"Sea here." said the tailor, ss h
headed the young man off, "do
cross the street every time you see s
to keen from rwivinr the bin you
me?" "I should say not," replied th
young man. "Then why do you do B
asked the knight of the tape. rTos?
you from asking for it" answered th
other- Chicago Daily News.
Another thin which makes
"kicker" disagreeable. Is that h tt '
ally proud Of It
Borne people would rather sttend
trial st th Mnrt hmta than S dKD'