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About The news=record. (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1907-1910 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1908)
THE NEWS-RECORD Issued Cadi Thursday ENTERPRISE.. OREGON Fair Idm. ) saw ye not fair lues? She's gone Into the west, To dazzle when the sun Is down, and rob the world of nut ; She took our daylight with her, the smiles that we love best, With morning blushing on her checks, and ix-arls upon her breast. O turn again, (air Ines, before the fall of night, For fear the moon should shine alone, and stars unrivaled bright; And blessed will the love be that walks beneath their light, And breathes the love against thy cheek I dare not even write I Would I had been, fair Ines, that gallant cavalier Who rode so gayly by thy Hide and whis pered thee so near 1 Were there no bonny dames at home, or no true lovers here, That he should cross the seas and win the dearest of the dear? I saw thee, lovely Ines, descend along the shore, With bands of noble gentlemen, and ban ners waved before; And gentle youth and maidens gay, and snowy plumes they wore; It would have been a beauteous dream if it had been no more ! Alas! alas! fair Ines! she went away with song, With music waiting on her steps, and shoutings of the throng; Hut some were sad, and felt no mirth, but only Music's wrong, In sounds that sang Farewell, Farewell to her you've loved so long. Farewell, farewell, fair Ines! that vessel never bore So fair a lady on Its deck nor danced so light before Alas for pleasure on the sea, and sorrow on the shore ! The smile that blest one lover's heart has broken many more. Thomas Hood. Fate. Two shall be born the whole wide world apart ; And speak in different tongues, and have no thought Each of the other's being, and no heed ; And these o'er unknown seas to unknown lands Shall cross, escaping wreck, defying death. And all unconsciously shape every act And bend each wandering step to this one end That, one day, out of darkness, they shall meet And read life's meaning In each other's eyes. And two shall walk some narrow way of life So nearly side by side, that should one turn Ever so little space to left or right They needs must stand acknowledged face to face. And yet, with wistful eyes that never meet, With groping hands that never clasp, and lips Calling In vain to ears that never hear, They seek each other all their weary days And dio unsatisfied and this is Fatof Susan Marr Spalding. A Lost Contract. A pen onco lost me an order. I had Just worked up the executive of a largo concern into a desire to buy. I had my contract form lying on Ills desk with my finger on the dotted line. Ho reached over toward Ills pen ruck, took off a pen and plunged It Into the Ink well. He turned to me with a frown on his face the well was empty. I was ready with a fountain ien. Tho pen was uncapped. I handed It to him. He started to write. Tho Ink would not flow. I took It and shook It. Again ho made the attempt, with no re sult. "I will get one," lie said. So he stepped Into the other room. Evidently some one stopped him with a question, for he did not come back for three minutes. Then he stood at his desk. Ho looked down at the contract. "I believe I had better think this matter over again," he snld. And all the talk I put up could not budge him. I had lost a sale because my fountain pen was empty. Now, ono of my regu lar morning duties, week In and week out, Just as regular as my shave and my checking over of calls to be made and the making out of my expense ac count, la filling my fountain pen. James N. Bowen, In System. A Striking; Monument. Nowhere In the world can be found a more striking monument than that erected on the shores of Lake Isay. Kill, In central Asln, In honor of the Russian General Trjevalskl, a famous explorer of that region. The tomb is hollowed out In the summit of a Jut ting cliff on the eastern margin of the lake, and the monument consists of an enormous rough hewn block of gray granite, twenty-five feet high, over which Is thrown a chart of central -Asia. Foedlun; the llanarrr, "Afb! Miss Stout Vera" tiegan Mr. ILovett, "con you not see the hunger In any eyes? Can you not " "Oh, of course," exclaimed Miss Vera Stout, nelf-reproafully, "how awfully thoughtless of me. Just wait and I'll get you lib dish of kraut and pork." Philadelphia Press. Some men hate bull dogs so they would censure oue for chewing an gent. WANT HALT PAT. ; Volunteer Army and Navy Officers ito Urge Their Claims in Congress. Backed by precedents established after the Revolutionary War, surviv ing volunteer officers of the army and I navy of the Civil Wur are to deuinni of Congress the ennctnieut of a law providing for their benefit a volunt;ei ! retired list with half pay for life. Ir the lust Congress a bill was Introduce providing for such a list, but restrict ing it to volunteer nnny oMeers. Ii did not puss, largely because of tin cry of discrimination tliut was rnlsec by navul volunteers and tlielr friends It Is now promised by a committee of volunteer iiuvnl ofllcers to bnve pre pared a measure that shall be satis-1 fuctory to the navy and marine corps Circulars have been sent out to al. surviving volunteer naval ofllcers .'r the United States calling upon their to take an active part in the Interest of the measure. These circulars re- view tne History o legislation ror tn , benefit of volunteer veteran oflleeii from the close of the Itevolutlonarj Wur to the mllourrmient of the Fiftv- ninth Congress, and it is charged thin there has always been a systematic At tempt to eliminate the iiiival volun teers from the benefits of such laws i SKYSCRAPER MENACE. vThat a Conflagration Among These! mtfl T 11 TTT 1 1 -mm- I wm """ vvoum mean. A catastrophe that will eclinse the destru'-tion of San Fruncisco is the cheer- ing prospect offered for the con tem ulation or .New lork by the nresident of the. i 1 . . . ...... . uuuru in ui-u underwriters, says (Jollier i weekly. And it is not New York alonj t is threatened, but every great city mat permits the construction of skyscrap ers. The underwriters think that there is not only a possibility but a very strong yruuuimuy oi a oiaze starting in the ton muriea ui a nest oi tnese aerial nives and leaping across the canyons that separate them, raging aloft like a fire In the upper thelr Petitions on some definite promise branches of a forest, and sweeping un- of Ood'8 Word, and plead Ills gracious checked out of reach of the helpless fire- obligation to bear. This woman did so. men in the street. When office buildings She- brought her desires to the Lord, go higher than the Washington monument making mention of some particular pas all the ordinary methods of protection be- lage of Scripture which warranted her come obsolete. No hose can carry a , making the request. ' She poured out on miu iioji wajr tu uivir ruuis. ito mrevi mains can furnish pressure enough to send water up in standplpes. Of course there are satisfactory methods of Bupply- ing the upper floors in ordinary times, but they would count for nothing in a She was putting that promise to a be conflagration. The experience of San lievlng test. rrancisco has shown, in the opiuion of President Babb, that "so-called 'fireproof buildings cannot withstand the attack of the financial ,iitrief f N vrt K would cause a loss of from one to two billion dollars; the Insurance companies would be hard pressed to nay 20 to 25 cents on the dollar, title guaranty com- panies, mortgage concerns, savings banks, and all other financial Institutions would snffer, and the city would feel at once the loss of revenue from the destruction of axuble values Another menace that hangs over the skyscraper districts of great cities is the danger of panic. It Is said that If a sud- Truly, God revenleth Himself unto ev den shock should send the swarming cliff cry geueratlon. dwellers all surging to the streets at once the highways would not hold the human flood. The streets of our cities were de- signed to match buildings three or four words of those dear to us ! How mem stories high. When ten such buildings ory lingers over them, and our hearts are piled one on top of another, and the rejoice as we recall the words of affec same thoroughfares are expected to ac- tton and holp ! Bitter Indeed are the commodate the people from all of them, regret8 If words were left unsaid which 4.0 re...... are ..Keiy ,o oe .taming. The London (Canada) Labor party has pronounced In favor of old-ago pen- ,lonHm A majority of the musicians of Santa Cius, Cal., met recently and organized a onion, Organised labor In Rentlle. Wash., him ' carried out Us proposed plan of obtaining a coal mine, Springfield (Canada) miners ask for another board of conciliation to Investi gate the system of weighing boxes. The building trades of San Franelsec are discussing a proposition to settle on . , . The Central Labor Union of 8crantot, ra.. ha. decided to build a f.W.OOO ten,: pie for the use of the trade. Union, of th. The union men of Wllkes-Barre, Pa,!?"- IU 0 wreeK a'" have .tarted a movement to boycott thi lotter containing the money was near beef packers a. long as prices remain at . destroyed by flre. But there was the present high rate. enough of the letter to take It to its The Federation of Labor at Springfield destination with the money, and Dr. Mo., has decided to enter politics next(B!onn, In acknowledging the receipt of year, and will put forward It. president the money, said that It was the first as a candidate for the General Assembly. J money contributed toward the estab- The Carpenters' Union of Winnipeg. Ilshment of a theological seminary In Manitoba, ha. three members who havi' Mexico. been continuous member, of the organisa-1 8imiy God nad intervened to ave tlon for more than thlrty-slx yea Thei, offer, for the t year, of member.h p total about 110 . . j rn i ci, Am uihuu uciivi ca into nw a. ai-v ord. ...... -1 A ha u I hi. A M.A . At a meeting of Engineer.' local No. of Denver, Colo., Hie finance cotnmittet t and what that pnrt shall be Providence reported that increased wage, to the mem- sometimes decides, not we. We cannot tiers of the union during the last yeai'ahvnys select the tasks we would per annmnted In the aggregate to Jil.lWO. It forra the service we would render The was reported that conditions in thi. tra j .orlL lndow,t WRnt9 of nK)gt of sr. very prtuperou.. sjclal work. Possibly, poor sufferer. The tola number of , killed whll, ,t , need of your patient enduring m nmg coal In the United State, durlni .,,,, 4, , . " UHiu, according to statistic gathered b j possibly the example of your waiting the geological survey, was 2.001. Th trusting Is the very service your numlH-r of workmen receiving Injuries ii , fellows need most to have rendered ll.is Industry more or less serious, but not them. It takes all parts In music to fatal, was 4.TIW during the same period. I make perfect harmony; and your Miss Marot, secretary of the Woman'i strain, low and pathetic minor though Trade I'uion League of New York, It lie, cannot be spared from It. There short time sines delivered an address li Is the light behind your cloud, and which she urged women to organise in you niny ,pe t jf you wlrl look ery branch of Industry and cooperate li wrf IL Your paU t emlllm t V'i ut In tht trade J"ou. In the coming good, depend upon Clipping" Amf. They are slipping away these sweet, swift years, Like a leaf on the current cast ; With never a break in their rapid flow, We watch them as one by one they go Into the beautiful past. As silent and swift as the weaver's thread, Or an arrow s flying gleam, As soft as the langorous breezes bid, That lift the willow's golden lid, And ripple the glassy stream. As light as the breath of the thistle down, As fond as lover's dream As pure as the flush of the sea shell's throat, As sweet as the wood bird's wooing note, 'So tender and sweet they seem, One after another we see them pass Down the dim-lighted stair; We hcnr tlle 80un1 of. their steady tread In the steps of centuries long since dead, As beautiful and as fair. There are only a few years left to live. Shall we waste them in idle strife? Sha" we trample under our ruthless feet Those teautiful blossoms, fair and sweet, By the dusty ways o ,ife? Tb(,re Bre ony , fow RwUt yearBLah let No envious taunts be heard ; Mnko life's fair pattern of rare design. And fill up the measure with love's sweet wine. But never an angry word. "T" and "P.", These are the letters used by one of God's handmaidens to record her experience with His promises, "T" and ti All Intelligent Christians should base her heart In humble and believing' pe- tltlon' and left " wltn IIlm' n,akl,lg ln the margin alongside the promise the letter "T." By this she meant "tried." When God answered the desire of her heart she added to the marginal recor(, p By tf,8 ghe meant nnl Proved." This simple and beautl- ful treatment of God's Word Is full of suggestion to us. It will awaken a desire to know more of the promises; and when a Christian jjas not only prayed in the right spirit, out na8 watehed for and found the an- . and thu the effl of , . ' . . ,.., . hla Prflyer he w111 experience a grow- ln deslre to have more and more of the Joy and power of "T" and "P." The Parting; Word. How tenderly we cherish the parting ni,ght hnye ,.llwred flnJ oomforted the loved one, and we fuln would live over Just one day that each moment might be laden with tenderness and sympathy and love. We lay flowers on the grave, und every word of unklndiiess that pare pain to the one sleeping there rises ln Judgment against us ; while every word of love, of help, of cheer. t comes back laden with sweetness and inspiration, vying In beauty with the " "" ' covered mound. Precious heritage Is the memory of kindly words and deeds 88 we "ar llle uoruenanu or ure. xne ("inasmuch as ye did it" will gild the evening of life with the beauty of the wttlng sun and the glory of the resur- rectlon morn. Saved for Service. Dr. W. S. Sweet, missionary at Hang show, China, lends a class of young moll fnntlvpsl In mission Rtudv Uium ,lls , studying the subject of missions In Mexico, they took up nn ',, tll ., ,,. .. , , , ; Jfer,n' Jf ?1,can work' Wl,lel , n,l,0""t t0 ' J" 9 n,1M? was swlt iu jr. sioan m oiexico, ana en route Do Your Part. No life Is wasted that bears Its part; It, you shall have your place; for, as much as the bravest and the strongest, you will have done your part to bring It. Kev. A. W. Jackson. And 1 Away. One winter day a gentleman, riding on horseback along a Kentucky road, met an old colored slave plodding on through the deep snow toward the house of God, which was four miles from his home. "Why, under cried the gentleman, "you ought not to venture out such a distance on such a day. Why in the world don't you stay at home?" "Ah, massa," was the answer, "I dnrn't do dat ; 'cause you see, I dunno when de blessing gwlne to come; an' spose It 'ud come tbis snowy mornln, and I away! Oh, no, da 'ud nebber do." Would God's service ever be dishon ored by empty houses of worship were all Christians possessed of such faith? "A l.Ktte Child Shall Lead Them." Attracted by the children's singing, a man came Into a mission Sunday school room and remained till the close of the session. He came again to the evening prayer meeting nnd found Christ. He said to one of the work ers, "I feel that I am a saved man, and I owe It to your children's sing ing this afternoon: "Jesus loves me; this I know, For the Bible tells me so." MUD TAKES UP THE OXYGEU. Air In Cold Storaice Plant Too Poor to Support Comlinstlon. It was recently noticed In a cold stor age plant that candles or lumps began to burn with a feeble flame as soon as they were brought Into the room and that ln many parts of It they were ex tinguished. A match could be lit, but the wax would not Ignite. In the corner of the storeroom was a disused well from which gas Issued and It was at first supposed that car bon dioxide was being distributed into the air from this well. But this was not borne out by analy sis of the air In the room and from the well, for the amount of carbon dioxide was only slightly more than is present ln normal air and was quite Insufficient to have affected the com bustion of a candle. Samples of the air taken from differ ent parts of the room contained only 17.5 to 17.7 per cent of oxygen, or from 3.2 to 3.4 per cent less than is present In normal air. The oxygen in the air In the shaft of the well amounted to no more than 8.6 and 8.9 per cent and other experiments confirmed the con clusion that the air In the storeroom was ordinary air containing less than Its proper proportion of oxygen, owing to admixture of air deprived of Its' oxygen which Issued from the well. The source of the impoverished air from the well was finally traced to tunneling operations close by In which compressed air was being used. The air must have found Its way through the soil wherever It was sufficiently por ous and so Into the shaft of the well and on Its passage through the soil must have been deprived of part of Its oxygen by contact with some substance such as pyrites. Evidence In support of the correctness of tills conclusion was furnished by the analysis of the mud from another well shaft near the first. This mud was found to contain pyrites and air left In contact with It for some weeks was deprived of almost the whole of Its oxygon. TO SEE THE MAN AT THE TOP. Hake Sure Yonr Calling; Card Will Iniprran Ills Secretary. "Did you see that man who Just went out " asked the secretary of one of the large corporations ln New York of a visitor. He has a wise head on his shoulders. "You know one of the hardest thing? a man is up against is to get ln to see the man at the top. The ability to talk well Is all right In Its place, but you must get Inside the office before tt Is of any use. "Nowadays when man wants to see the president of a large business house he seldom sees even the secretary. "Ills card Is sent In by an office boy. Now, the seeertury does not know what the man looks like; all he has to Judge from Is the card. "Usually the card tells the whole story. Most of them are cheap affairs. 'Mr. Smith, with Brown-Green Paint Company,' or something like that The chances are the secretary does not feel In the mood to see a paint man and passes out word to call again later. "But that chap who Just went out Is different He sent In a plain calling card of the projier size, engraved In old English script It was the best that money could buy. "When I got the card I had never heard the name before, but I did not dare turn him down. I sent for him and then It was all his. "He started a flow of flue English and ln a short time I had him In the president's room. He Is pretty sure of landing a big order, I believe. It Is an Investment of a few dollars, but I tell you It pay high Interest" New York Sun. No Rearalar Par. une tells me he's a professional ac tor now. "Not exactly. He's merely a semi- professional." "What do you mean by that?" "Well, a professional Is one who Is paid for hla services; he's only half paid." Philadelphia Tress. Lovers In the story books alwaya have strong arms, although their ac tions frequently Indicate a weakueM ln the bead. CHURCH AMONG '"' ' J.'-' -M.,-'.N,I. I,j .U..JMH..I . . . ,J i ,, TllINITY C1IUHCII IN WALL STREET, NEW YOUK. Trinity Church ln Wall street, New York, once an Imposing building, has been entirely dwarfed by the huge skyscrapers that hem it ln on every side. The Wall street brokers have recently had the honor of a visit from the Bishop of London, who has been preaching special sermons to New York busluess men. WESTON'S GREAT WALK. Aged Pedestrian Who Tramped from Portland, Me,, to Chicago. Remarkable Indeed was the endur ance shown by Edward Pnyson Wes ton, the aged uthlete who at 09 repeat ed his feat of forty years ago In walk ing from Portland, Me., to Chicago. He tramped tho 1,234 miles in 24 days, 19 hours and 15 minutes, breaking his for mer record by 24 hours. His longest day's walk on the recent trip was 95 3-10 miles, while on the t.UWARD P. WESTON. former journey the best day wns only eighty-two miles. Weston's stride Is almost a shuffle. He takes two or three steps of ordi nary length and then falls into a dog trot. But It Is not a dog trot. It is a little trick to relieve the strain upon the leg muscles. And It gets him over the ground amazingly fast He walks with as little effort as possible, leaning slightly forward and frequently ilg zagglng. At times he Is apparently forced ouward by his weight, falling from one foot to the other without visi ble effort. Weston gives this advice to young men: "Don't smoke cigarettes; smoke cigars or a piie if you must Eat prunes dally ; take a cold sponge bath each morning; walk to and from work ; dou't keep late hours. If you would be old and feel a youth. When I left Portland to begin my walk the future oppressed me. I had a task to perform. I felt like a man of 90. When It was concluded I felt like a man of 21. Walking is the best thing for man or woman, done In the open air. ' The finest thing In tne world Is a comfortable home. Why not devote more attention to a comfortable home and less to billiards, and beer, and dabs) ft. .TV hi, xmj w?h SKYSCRAPERS. HE WAS A JUDGE OF -TEA. Thoosrht He Had Got the Best . Ill Wife. A certain suburban resident who Is somewhat of a gourmet discovered one day that Ills wife was giving hlra tea at Is 4d to drink. Although he had never made any complaints about tho quality of the tea, no sooner did he dis cover the price than he detected all sorts of shortcomings ln the article sup plied and when he went down to busi ness that morning he dropped Into a tea store and bought a pound of orange pekoe at 3s 6d, snys Answers. This he carried home In the night, and, taking the opportunity of the kitchen beln? empty, he hunted around till he found the tea caddy, which was nearly full. The contents of this he threw away and replaced out of his own package. It had not been his intention to say any thing about the substitution, but next morning be could not help referring to. the Improved qunlity of the beverage. "This is something like tea this morn ing," he said. "Don't you notice the difference?" "No, I don't," said his wife. "It tastes to me exactly like the tea we have been drinking for the last months and so It should, for it Is the same tea.'" The husband laughed. "That's Just like a woman," he said. "You never know what Is good and what Isn't unless we tell you. Now, I could have told you with my eyes shut I hat this tea Is better thnn what wo have been drink' ag." '.'It is h k! haven't been drink ing ft un oui- eyes shut nil along," re torted the lady. "Anyway, It Is the snme tea." "Now, I'll just prove to you," said her husband, "how defective a woman's sense of taste Is. Yesterday I bought a pound of 3s Cd tea, threw out whnt wns lu the caddy, and put mine In It place. And to think that you never no ticed the difference!" "Which caddy did you empty?" "One on the upper shelf of the pan try," wos the reply. "I thought so," said the lady, quietly. "That was some special tea I keep for special occasions. The caddy with the cheap tea Is In the cupboard ln the kltchen, and this," she added, with an exasperating smile, as she lifted the teapot, "wns made out of the selfsam caddy as It has been every morning Whnt a blessing it must be to you to. possess such a cultivated taste ! I have heard that tea tasters get very high sal arles. Now, don't you " But he cut her remnrks short by leaw Ing the room. , Vindicated at Last. An up-State correspondent has found In an old scrap book a bit of verse that bears out the theory advanced by Con gressman Roberts of Utah, that Adam, was the most chivalrous of all men., nnd only ate the forbidden fruit be-' cause he would not be separated from Eve. .Seeing this mentioned In last Tuesday's Nosegay column he sent on a copy of the verse. It reads : Daughters of Eve, your mother did not ' well. She placed the apple in your father' hand. Adam was not deceived, nor yet could, stand; For love of ber he gave bis throne. With ber could die, but could not llv alone. Philadelphia Record. When a man Is called to the tele phone by a woman the conversation from his end of the line Indicates that he Is trying to bring It to a good-bye-and break-away. A crank Is a person who think yo axa a crank.