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About The news=record. (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1907-1910 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1907)
T CURE FOB ANXIETY. By Rev. Edward Judson. mat ye muy study to be quiet. I Tuc-HHfllonluns 4 Anxiety Involves extreme pain. It -comes from the snme root as aninilah The pnln, however, Is not physical, hut mental, and for that reason all the Harder to bear. How prevalent In society Is this form Of mental pain. How Infrequent is a tranquil face. Anxiety seenir to be kind of hysteria to which Americans tre susceptible. In suicide, at least, we seem to be In a fair way of outstripping the rest of the world. Some Hindus that Prof. James was showing about Cambridge remarked uimhi the strained faces of Americans and their distorted aimbs, In contrast to OiientuI placidity and grace, ne said that It was the custom of Hindus to retire at certain times every day to' relax their muscles anil meditate on eternal things. Has Christianity a cure for anxletv? The Christian Is tranquil as regards provision Mr the future. He provides for the future, but without anxiety. Over and over Christ bids His disciples : He not anxious. This does not mean that we are not to work hard and lay up against a rainy day. The Scriptures teach that righteous ness is the parent of comfort. "Seek first the kingdom of God, , and Ills righteousness; and all these things hall be added unto you." The unl Terse Is on the side of the man who locs right. Exceptions to this are only apparent. The life of the Individual Is too short for the principle to work Itself out completely, so that It stands out more dearly In the history of a family or of a nation. It Is not only provision for the future that Is apt to make us anxious. We worry over our past. Now, the Chris tian revelation provides a drug for these painful memories. We learn, like St. Paul, to forget the things which are behind. We cannot change the past, but we believe that all our sins are for given. Our very sins then become step-)lng-stones. They prevent resumption. They fill us with sympathy for the err ing. We love God, because He first loved us. Our work, too, often makes us anx ious. We thirst for recognition or else we grlevo over the meager and Ineon aplcnnus results of all our efforts. But the value of our work Is determined not y the bulk of the result achieved, but y the spirit In which the work Is done. It Is only as we go deep Into the work Itself, without thought of the conse quences, thnt we vitally affect the lives of others. Besides the chief value of our work Is that It promotes ample -and symmetrical self-development. God thinks more of n man than of his work. The work may bo wood, hay or stubble. In tho end) burned up, but the man to saved. We are enqvloyed by our Great Mas ter to work by the day, not by the )lece. Every day should have Its ritual and It Is more Important to live by rule than to accomplish some great rvult. This la the secret of "Toll unsevered rum Tranquillity." Tho supreme crises of life are an even more fruitful source of forebod ing than our past or provision for the future. This mind is Infested with the thoughts of bereavement and with pov erty, sickness and death and old age. Here, again, the Christian's eye Is calmed by faith In the love of God. rrovldonee Is only another name for the love of God which anticipates there crises, so that wheu we arrive at them we see the traces of the Father's hand that has arranged them for us before hand, cither lightening the burden or strengthening our shoulders to bear It. Some of these things we may never have to experience at all, and why hould we allow ourselves to suffer them In ImnglimtlouT We have no right to occupy the mind with unpleas ant things. The Imagination has power to mass untoward events so as to pro duee tho effect of tholr occurring simul taneously. Heal evils como to us one by one and grace U promised for each day's need. BRIDGE OF GOD'S tOVE. By Rev. Frederick lynch. And there was no more sea. Rev xxl., 1. We can hardly appreciate what the e was to the ancients. It stood for paratlon, almost Impossible barriers, long, Interminable stretohes of fearful waters. Ulysses' return from the Tro jan wars to Ithaca Is a llfo journey of cruel buffeting of winds and seas. It Is a two days' trip now, and the ocean to us Is a symbol of nearness rather than dtstauce. It brings the nations together Instead of separating them. But John, when he wrote these words on his lonely Island, Fauuoa, where he no c.uwu, iliiiiks ui it as nn impass able barrier between himself and all whom he loves. . It separates him from home. So when In his vision he sees the beautiful city of God which Is some time to be built in the hearts of men, when God shall make his home among men and dwell with them, and there shall be no more pain and sorrow, only gladness and Joy nil things made new he needs must add these words to the vision : "And there was no more sea." That Is, there was no separation. One thing Christianity has done. It has broken down distances. It has re moved barriers. It has brought things together that belong to each other. It has swept away the vast, Impassable stretches In the world of the spirit. Thus, first of all, when John said "There Is no more sea," he meant there would be no separation between God and man. The gods of the old day were far off man had to go long Jour neys to find God. He dwelt on nioun tain heights. Christianity has made Him a near God. He Is the ever pres ent spirit, Inhabiting Ills world. He Is nearer to man than nearest friend. There Is no great space for man to trav erse to find Him. Nothing separates Him from man but man's own sea He Is the dear Father of us all, and we take His hand as the little child takes his mother's hand. This Is the teaching of Jesus. It Is the meaning of His life. To those who walked with Him In Galilee God was by their side. Never again could they worship a far-off God. This was also the meaning of Cal vary. In the death of Christ men saw God and man meeting In the one' great sacrifice of love. In Christ the divine and human meet and evermore are one. This vital sense of the nearness of God Is the only thing that can keep re ligion alive to-day. This is what we mean by faith. This Is the fulfillment of the vision John saw God with us no separation no more sea. Again John saw In bis rislon the es trangement of the people, and he says : "In that day, when the kingdom comes, there will be no more soa." That Is, there will be no separation of races and of nations. All these foolish and un Christian race prejudices and Interna tional hatreds and caste distinctions will be swept away. As a matter of fact, speaking liter ally, how true It Is that there Is no more sea between Europe and America, Our great ships have made the sea as nothing and the nations mingle. Al ready much of the old separation is breaking down and we are realizing that man to man the world over is brother. But some day there shall be no sep aration whatever, but we shall see that all men suffer the same defeats and losses and are striving after the same common happiness and good. Then the brotherhood of man will have come and there" will be no more sea." Finally, John was thinking of how the sea separated him from those he loved, so when he throws the picture over Into that other world, which we call heaven, he says, "There will be no more sea there." Here life Is full of losses. Love's golden cord are broken. Dear ones are taken from us and seem- ngly a great ocean of space Is between us and them. But there the golden cords shall bo again united. Love can never lose its own. And there shall be no more partings. There shall be no separation there. This Is the Immortal hope of our Christian faith and noth ing can take It from us. No partings yonder, no separations, "no more sea." Short Meter Sermons. Nursing sorrow Is raising sin. You cannot fatten folks on phrases. There are no friendships without faith. The poverty of life Is due to the things we miss. The lore of truth goes before like ness to truth. Ornamental piety usually adorns an empty 'heart Every life may be known by the way It leads. God Is not In the closet If He Is not on the street. The beautiful life wastes no time looking for a mirror. When faith gets to dreaming there soon Is something doing. A good deal of piety Is only a game of trying to dodge the Almighty. If you have faith you will see some thing glorious In every face. The poorest way to make an Impres sion Is to give up to depression. You may know the greatness of any man by the way he treats a child. You cannot keep life sweet itnd wholesome by taking all your salt on Sunday. Some think they are full of faith be cause they turn their backs on the facts. . . Some . think they are wonderfully brave because they screw up enough courage to give poor old Jonah a lam basting. hESTOCKING THE KANUfcS. Serious Problem as Viewed by State Veterinarian of Washington. During the past few weeks Dr. S. B. Nelson, state veUrinarian of Washing ion nas spent considerable time in Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties, examining many bands of sheep that are kept in these counties, as to (heir general health, with particular refeience to "scab." Recently, in discussing things of in terest he had observed in going from one sheep camp to another, Dr. Nelson came to the problem of "restocking the ranges," which is now so absoib ing to stockmen. "One of the serious problems now confronting the stockmen of this state is the question of restocking the ranges with the original bunch grass," he Bald. "Old settlers tell us that when they came here forty years ago, the bunch grass whs from two to three feet tall, and very heavy. The promiscu ous grazing of the stock over the ranges has put them in their present bare, tr seml-baie, condition The reclaiming of these vast tracts of grazing land is a problem to which the agricultural de partments of various institutions have given a great deal of attention. "Some seven or eight years ago I rode over these same ranges and found the bumh grass practically all gone in many places. This condition could be observed for miles and miles as the ranges were ridden over. Recently I was very much astonished is passing through these same regions to find that thousands of acres had been fenced. wmie equally large tracts were not fenced, but were held as summer range by sheepmen who practically controlled them. I observed that these ranees. baie several years ago, were, at the time of my visit, covered with a luxur iant growth-of bunch grass, standing from eighteen to thirty inches high. In places the grass was so heavy that it could not be mowed for hay. I was also much surprised to see that, in places that had been protected for a less number of years, the heavy bHr.ch.es of grass were scattered, and between the big bunches, bunches from two to three years old were well started. It was very easy to pick out a bunch of two-year-old grass from among a num ber of the older bunches. In looking into cneig queetion I discovered how it was that these ranges had been re stocked. "The sheep are kept on these winter ranges from the time they come out of the mountains in the fall, during Sep tember and early October, until after lambing, and a short time the follow ing spring. Early in the spring the sheep eat the young, tender bunch grass, but the sheep are well scattered (a good herder nearly always keeps bis sheep scattered) the bunoh grass as it gets older becomes tougher, and the sheep do not like it go well. By the latter part of April and early in May, the eheep prefer the many weeds, espe cially eunflowera,' never touching bunch grass at all. Many, many times dur ing my trips through these counties, I saw bands of from fifteen to twenty five hundred sheep grazing in bunch grass from one foot to eighteen ' inches high and never touching it. They were picking out the little weeds in between the bunches of grass, and wherever there were areas of eunflowera, they would eat the flowers perfectly clean wherever they went. "From the first to the fifteenth of June the eheep are taken into the mountains and kept until the latter part of September. Now when the sheep are brought back in September, the bunch grass has seeded, the seed being scattered over the ground. The fall rains seem to soften the bunch grass, making it tender so that the sheep eat it greedily. In this way, by eating the early shoots before the grass goes to seed, and then eating this ma ture, semi-cured grass after it has gone to seed,, the seed is saved on the ground and resown, and the stand of bunch grass la continually increased. "Ihls has demonstrated to me very strongly, that if men owning large areas of grazing land expect to keep their ranges up to the present stand ard, or even increase the stand of bunch grass, that they must of neces sity protect the bunch grass at least every other year, during its seeding time; that is, from the time the seed begins to form until the mature seeds rre shattered on the ground. I am convinced that the problem of restock ing the ranges may to a very large ex tent be solved by fencing the grazing lands, and, at intervals, resting them." WRITES OF OREGON. Sidelights on Beaver Stat by Pro fessor of Cornell. In his recent book on "How to Choose a Farm, With a Discussion of American Lands," Professor Ihomas F. Hunt, ol Cornell university, devotee several complimentary paragraphs to farming conditions of the Pacifio North west and to the resonerce of Oregon in particular. Frofeesor Hunt accompa nies his descriptions with tables of sta tistics which throw several Interesting sidelights on the conditions existing in the Beaver State. "This region is characterized by its immense forest resources, its fishing Industries, and the high production of wheat by dry farming In the eastern part of Washington and along the Co lumbia rivor in Oregon," writes rto. feeeor Hunt of Oregon, Washington and Idaho. "One-third of the area Is covered by forests of immense commer cial value, while at least one-fifth mora Is covered by trees of less importance In Westerp Oregon and Washington are to be found millions of acres of the densest forests, with coniferous trees of great height, and large diameters, of whick-the Douglas fir and the red cedar are perhaps the most Important. It is not uncommon for five acres of land to cut a million feet of lumber. "Wheat and hay constitute about one-third the value of all crops. While general farming is somewhat more de veloped than in the Rocky Mountain states, Hie. grazing of livestock Is still one of the principal industries. Cer tain areas in Oregon, Washington and California furnish Ideal conditions of Boil and climate for the production of hops. These three Btates produce two thirds of the product of the United States. The Cascade mountains divide this region, climatically and agriculturally, into two parts. Between the Cascade mountains and the Coast range are fer tile, well-watered valleys, already thickly populated. Upon the western cos fit, owing to the Japan current, the temperature is the most equable in -North America. The climate is more like England than that of any other part of the United States. The soils are mostly of a volcanlo origin and are unusually fertile and en during. The prairies consist of an ex panse of rolling hills. .The layout of the farms and general aspect of the improvements are similar to those in the newer portions of the North Cen tral states. The people are mostly native-born Americans from the older settled states. There is a general air of hopefulness and prosperity among them. "There are still 30,000,000 acres of unappropriated and unreserved publio lands ready for entry In this region. While some of this Is forest land and eome is arid, this regjpn probably con tains the best large body of public yet open for settlement in the United States.'" Oregon, Washington and Idaho are credited with about 90,000 farms. The area in farms is about 25,000,000 acres, the improved area being about 9,000,000 acres for the three states. The average size of the farms is a trifle over 250 acres, and the average size of improved farms is nearly 100 acres. The state of Oregon alone has about 11,000,000 acres of land In farms and ranches, which is estimated to be worth about 113 per acre. EXPERIMENTS WITH HYBRIDS, Pullman Station Develops New Vari eties of Wheat. The Washington State college exper iment station at Pullman has brought a line of experiments with Little Club and White Track wheat to a point where definite statements concerning results can be given. These hybridiza tion experiments were begun In 1899 by Professor E. E. Elliott. One long headed variety which is now growing in the eighth generation produces more straw than any ether hybrid heretofore grown on the station farm. Because of this and that it will withstand cold nearly as well as Jones Fife, the sta tion staff believes it will be well adapt ed to the dry section included in the greater portion of the Big Bend country. A length of six inches and 100 grains to the head 1b not unusual in this variety. Another hybrid is remarkable for the stiffness of the straw. On the farm a plot of Red Russian and Arcadian were cut to the ground by squirrels, while the hybrid variety was left uninjured. The stem grows too short to be suitable for dry land, but it is the most stable variety yet produced and in several in stances produced 60 bushels per acre. A long stem hybrid has the pecull arity of growing with surprising uni formity of height, and the staff aay this wheat should be well adapted to thresh ing with a combined harvester. The evenness In length, and the fact that It shatters but little, makes it one of the most desirable hybrids brought out on the college farm. EXCELLENT COAL PROSPECTS. Much Interest Aroused In Around Ashland. Deposits The recent work in developing the various coal prospects found in the vU cinlty of Ashland, Oregon, has met with so much success and has attracted such widespread attention that It prom ises to insure sufficient perseverance in work along this line to determine the real extent of the coal deposits which, beyond doubt, exist in this section. There is no question about the coal be ing found and the quality of it; but there are skeptics a to the extent of the deposit. The scarcity and high price of wood for fuel baa prompted and encouraged the coal prospecting to a large extent, and the opening np of coal beds of ample extent would be a welcome solution of the fuel problem, which is a serious one and promises to be more serious before anothar winter 1 over. The inability to secure wood cboppera during the past year or two haa greatly curtailed the wood output and haa resulted in soaring prices. j.d nriiua aoioier la now te tare shirts Instead of twe. SEA RAILWAY A MIRACLE. Croaaea 160 Mile of Ocean, and Will Coat S32,000,OOO. The railroad which Henry M. Flag ler and his millionaire associates In the Standard Oil Company are build ing over the Atlantic ocean from the mainland to Key West, Flo., has made such progress that It Is announced that the line will be completed by the sum mer of 1000. This railway ls the world's most ex traordlnary engineering project to-dny, and englneers-ot least say that when completed It will be a wonder of the world. The railway will be 100 miles long. All the way from mainland to Key West are small Islands or keys, as they are called, some an acre or less In extent The builders of the road are connecting these keys with Immense viaaucts, supported by huge abutments of solid concrete. At one point, two keys are three miles apart, but the en gineers did not hesitate. Thev found the ocean only forty feet deep, and they proceeded at ouce to construct a great connecting brldcre. Cofferdn sunk and the 4ed of the ocean was dredged out In olaces to sollil rrwt Then the soli concrete foundations were laid. The engineers are confident that the worst ocean storms will not disturb their bridges. The railroad will be the most expen sive In the world. It Is costing $200, 000 a mile to build, which means a total expenditure, exclusive of termin als, of $32,000,000. Why Hair Tnrna Gray. Although usually regarded as a sign of age, gray hair, or canities, as It Is called In the language of medicine, Is not always so. It may appear early in life, even In the teens. In that case It usually affects young women rather than young men. A peculiarity about the gray hair of the young Is that It Is almost always entirely white, and becomes so sudden ly. All the hairs are equally affected, and one seldom sees the mixed color, or Iron gray, so common In those of middle or advanced age. Sometimes In the young, even In chil dren, there Is one gray lock like an Is land In the sea of normally colored hair about It This Is usually a family pe culiarity, occurring In one generation after the other. The cause of hair turning gray Is something that puzzles the doctors. The color of the hair is due to the deposit of pigment In the Interior of each hair, and graynesg follows the loss of this pigment That Is self-evident, but the puzzle Is what causes the pig ment to disappear. Some have believed that It Is due to the drying of the hair, which causes a shrinkage of its .fibers, and so allows the entrance of air bub bles, the refraction of light from which then gives the white appearance. The proof which Is adduced In sup port of this belief Is that if a gray hair Is put Into the receiver of p air pump and the air Is then exhausted the color of the hair may return more or less completely. 1 Metchnlkoff, the famous bacteriolog ist, says the cause of grayness is the penetration Into the hair of wandering cells, resembling the white blood cor puscles. These cells, assisted by other cells, the aggregation of which makes the hair, seize upon the granules of pigment and destroy them. Nearly everyone has read of in stances of the sudden bleaching of the balr even In a single night under the Influence of fear, grief or some other intense mental emotion. That such cases have occurred Is undoubted, but the explanation by either of the theories above mentioned Is difficult There Is no cure for gray hair so far as Is known. The use of curling Irona Is sld to retard Its formation ; perhaps, If Metchnlkoff Is right, by destroying the activity of the cells which consume the pigment Youth's Companion. Had a Feeling- of Cariosity. "I was asked to find out when "you would pay this little account," aald the collector, pleasantly. "Really," answered the 'debtor, "I am unable to enlighten you. However, there Is a soothsayer In the next block who throws a fit and reveals the future at 50 cents a throw." "I've no money to waste," growled the collector. "Just add the 60 cents to my ac count," continued the other, "for I have a curiosity on the point myself." Washington Herald Waat Hakaa Lambakla Coatlr. The favoring of kid gloves by fash ion has resulted In advancing the prices of kid and lamb. skins 00 per cent.