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A Case of Elastic Conscience. tOrislnal. When Truesdale Scott prominent banker and promoter, was convicted of misappropriation of funds every one said that the eloquence of the prose cuting attorney, Rowland Ruddock, had done the trick. Scott had been caught In a big commercial panic with too great a load, on his hands and bad to go under. Indeed, to nave himself he hud placed himself under the ax of the law. Uuddock had a political scheme marked out for himself, and S.-otf con viction was a great card for hiui with thousands of voters who hated "the plutocrats." Uuddock was to be gov ernor of the state, then senator. Scott was convicted Just as the gubernatorial contest was coming on. Hut Scott had succeeded In getting a new trial, which came on Just before the election. It was expected that Ruddock would make the effort of his life In this sec ond trial, for whichever way the anti monopoly vote was cast so went the election. What was the astonishment of every one when ho made so weak an effort as to lie accused of pandering to the plutocratic Interest. Scott was acquitted, and Uuddock was defeated In the election. About the time that Ruddock left the law school he met Margaret Cushman, a girl of very strong character. She had a conscience of cast iron. Noth ing could swerve her from what she considered the right. She was much pleased with Ruddock, as he was with hor, but she feared that his sense of principle was uot ns strong in him as It should be. He strove to convince her that she had mistaken a certain elas ticity for something worse, citing the Puritan as an example of a too rigid conscience. They were engaged, and the engage ment lasted until Ruddock defended a notorious rogue and by his brilliant legal tactics acquitted him. Margaret knew all about this case and could not see how her lover could make his ac tion accord with his conscience. In vain he attempted to show her that there can be but one duty of a lawyer toward his client. lie must do his best. "This." said Margaret, "makes a courtroom a mere legal arena. It is not Justice that decides questions. Victory, irrespective of guilt or Innocence, perches upon the banner of the most brilliant legal knight." "I regret." re plied Ruddock, "that this la too large ly tho condition of our courts, but It doesn't absolve me from doing my best for my client, and I do not see how it can be different." Margaret called this duvll reasoning, nnd, not being willing to tie herself to a man who would clear a client who was a rogue, she broke tho engagement. Twenty years passed. Ituldock was in his prime ami was elected prosecut ing attorney In n large city. Ills elec tion went with one of those waves of reform peculiar to our people. It was said that convictions could not be pro cured on account of political pulls of prisoners. Ruddock was put In by the best men of both parties to see that rascals were sent to prison or the gal lows. After his entry upon the duties of his olllce there was a perceptible difference In the amount of crime per petrated till nt last It reached a mini mum. The night before Truesilale Scott's second trial was to come up Ruddock was sitting In bis rooms he was a bachelor forming plans to crush the banker. Suddenly the door opened and a woman entt red. Ruddock looked up at her In surprise. "The district attorney, I believe?" she said in a choked voice. "I am." "Tomorrow you are to try Truesdale Scott?" "Yes." "I come to nsk your forbearance. Mr. Scott Is lu no way a guilty man. Caught In a maelstrom as he was swept along, he grasited methods some of which were not within the law. I'pon you rests his conviction or ac qulttul. Is It your duty to make one of your brilliant efforts agitlnst him?" "A lawyer's duty is to do the best he can for his client. A prosecutor's duty Is to send tho accused If possible to state prison." "Inexorable ns ever." "I Inexorable?" "Yes. You nnd I talked over these matters when we were but half our present ago. I am Margaret Cushman, Truesdale Scott's wife." "Margaret:" "Then you Bpoke of an elasticity that you said I mistook for something worse." "I still aui subject to such elasticity. I do not consider it my bounden duty to convict your husband, though the masses of the community think that it Is, I was elected by them to carry out a certain programme. To fall to do my best to convict your husband would be to bring down upon me the anathemas of these constituents. Nev ertheless that elasticity you have spoken of tells me that the better part for me will be to make a weak fight that your husband may go free," She stood like a statue, lost In a dream of the past Now that elastic ity she had considered another name. for evil stood between her husband and a 'prison. He advanced toward her. took her band and pressed his lips to it. Then, turning her gently toward the door, he said: "Go! This Is a dangerous place for you to be seen. If it were known that you had been here it would take away my power to grant your request." She passed out silently, muffling her face as she had come in. The next day after the triSl Ruddock was ruined politically, and Truesdale Scott went to his family a free and vindicated man. IRENE C. ADAMS. A New Enterpr;s3 The Oregon Wood Distilling Company is a corporation formed to utilize the waste from saw mills and timber ca?rps. By dis tilling this waste wood this com pany is making tar, tar oil, tur pentine, pitch, fir wood creosote, gas, fruit spray, alcohol, char coal, shingle stem oil, N. C. P. C. Each of the above products are used in large quantities all over the Western country, and hundreds of thousands of dollars are sent away each year to buy them, and the material to make them is destroyed here. The company has two large re torts of four-cord capacity each, ! a pitch still of 800-gallou capacity one primary still of 2000-gallon ' capacity and four double stills of ; GOO and 400-gallon capacity. They I can handle 4000 gallons of fluid j per dr y. Two 8C-horsepover boi I lers furnish the power required : to put the wood into shape, pump the water for the condensers, of which there are six, and also fur nish steam for the retorts and stills. All the distilling is done with steam heat. The buildings are 72x112 and four stones; the dock 110x500 extending to deep water; a 400-foot siding on the N. P. R. R. gives 'dea1 shipping facilities. Their products have been sold all over the coast country and as far east as Idaho, which speaks well for less than a year's operat ing. Their plant is situated at Linnton, Oregon, With the building of these plants throughout the country it means the saving of an immense amount of waste material and literally adds thousands of dollars annually to the wealth of the Coast states. Oregon Agricul turist. HOG CHOLERA As the matter of hog cholera has recentry had some promin ence in the Coast papers, we wrote to a man in the East whom we know has made a fortune in the hog business, and we also know that he has had consider able experience with cholera, as it is in Indiana. ' Following is his reply: Editor Agriculturist: I am in receipt of your recent inquiry and also sample of your paper. Am very much impressed with it and wish you great success. In regard to the hog cholera, will say that it usually attacks the pigs first, and it does the work for them more rapidly than with the older hogs. It shows in their hair first; it becomes coarse and seems to stand up and looks dead. (This is also true of almost any other disease that the hog is afflicted with. - Ed. ) The pigs begin to snuff and bunch up and act like they were chilly. Some of them get lame and some scour, while others are costive; do not all act alike in this re spect The older hogs do not die as rapidly as the younger ones. The symptoms are so varied they are hard to describe. You will see one that the hair don't seem right The chances are it won't eat much. Then look out In about nine or ten days there will will be more sick, some will be hme, some can't walk at all and will just lay down and chill, some bleed at the nose a light colored blood about the color of the hogs' lungs, some are very costive, while others have a diarrhoea. J, have had them eat hearty at n'ght and go to them in the morning and find two or three dead. Seldom does one get well. As toon as I find one ailing I im mediatly separate it from the balance of the herd. I have had it three times on my farm and always was able to raise a fie herd next year with the best of success Oregon1 Agriculturist A Gallows Needed Isn't it getting time to hang somebody in Origin, and some body right here in Portland some one of the numerous mur deiers? It is, it is, indeed. Yesterday's murder was one of peculiar malignity and atro city. Is human life worth any thing, when it encounters such a condition as that which Jed up to this most abhorrent mur der? There must be punishment for acts of this kind. Leniency lias gone beyond the just limit It steadily encourages deeds of this description. There is no sufficient fear of the jHmalty of the law. Without delay, this very week in the criminal court this mur derer should be put on his trial, and after the trial the shrift should be reasonably short. Of courwj, there will be the defense of irresponsibility probably through alcoholism. But alcoholism is no excuse. It is itself an offence. It is high time juries should teach that men can't use liquor for stim ulation to murder, and escape the penalty. Offensive a spectacle as the gallows is, this commun ity needs it still, and sodo many another. Sunday Oregonian How about those wild crab ap pie trees that are around the fence corners in your orchard? A good mattock and a long rope is an excellent way to cultivate them and incidentally get rid of considerable scale. This is a good time to work on them. Oregon Agriculturist. Report of Sunnyslope School Report of Sunnyslope School District No. 49, for month end ing Nov. 27, 1908, Mae Duignan. teacher, as follows: Number of days taught during month, 16; whole number of days attend ance, 173; whole number of days absence, 3; whole number times late, 3; number pupils neither ab sent nor late, 7; per cent of at tendance, 98 13-44; number visits by parents, 1; number visits by school board, 1. Pupils neither absent nor late were, Ammon Pitzer, Lunda Pitzer, Minnie Wunder, Tennie Fishback, Geo. Herron, Charley Shipley and Robert Shipley. The recent cold weather was a good producer of bad colds and other complaints. Western Ore gon is no place for cold weather for when it does come nearlv everybody is ailing. The cold snap that passed with the fore part of the week was just cold enough to mellow the parsnips that were left in the ground. This is one of the few countries where vegetables can be left all winter where thev crew without ininm from the cold. 50 horse cards 14x21 fnr $9 250 letterheads or envelopes, $1. Other printing in proportion at the Herald office. Polk County Realty Company Transacts a general Real Estate business and attends to collecting rent for out of town owners. We have buyers If you have any land'f or sale list it with us. Monmouth - - - Oregon TYS3 DOLLARS' WORTH ' of up-to-date Kitchen Furnishings will gtvt you much more real comfort and satisfaction loan twenty dollars spent in your parlor. TEE SAVORY SEAMLESS Ihe raised Oval B.Mam MaiMit BesMRtfp seH-bratiBg. Results a4wap satisJastsq Easiest ta (teas. Fawtiyswe, $1. SHAKER SIFTER. Tire Gbe-fland Slftfcn Casta 25c. and dives mora satisfaction th-aa half m dozen cheap ten-cent sifters JVmjfl Jm of M'on-ey Spent Jflsc Witi Gloa You an Vp-to-Oato tiitchO Equipment. Polk County Bank Established ' 1889 Monmouth, Oregon. Paid Capital Surplus and Undivided Profits Transacts a General Banking Business OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS J. II. Hawley, President J. B. V. Butler, Vice President, Ira C. Powell, Cashier F. S. Powell, J. B. V. Butler, J. B. Stump, I. M. Simpson. Oregon is fast becoming a land of small farms. This is as it should be. Better bring 1000 families to Oregon to locate in the counnry and make small farms profitable than 2000 to lo cate in the cities and hope to eke out an existence in the mills. Recently a large farm was pur chased near Albany that is to be divided up into small tracts and resold, and the farm of Dr Pickle, near Medford, has passed into the hands of a syndicate who will subdivide and resell. This work is going rapidly forward and much will be accomplished for Oregon in this manner. Church Directory. Evangelical Church L. C. Hoover, Pastor Morning service at 11:00 o'clock Evening service at 7:00 o'clock Sunday School at 10:00 a. m. Y. P. A. Meeting at 6.30 p. m. Prayer Meeting Wednesday evening. CHRISTIAN CHURCH. W. A. Wood. Pastor. Morning Service at 11. a. m. Evening Service at 7:00 p. m. Sunday School 9:45 a. m. Y. P. S. C. E. 6:30 d. m. Prayer Meeting Wednesday 7:30 p. m. Baptist Church. Sunday School 10 a. m. Preaching 2:30 p. m. Get your Roasters for . fit Wade & Co. W. E. Craven, Mgr. $30,000 $7,000 Monmouth Laundry We want to make our good reputation better still by giving universal satisfaction to our pa trons. If dissatisfied, tell us why. Bring in your Suits and have them Cleaned and Pressed, at the Monmouth Electric Laundry Acorn Store Wm. Evans, Prop. Books, Periodicals, Ice Cream, Soda and Soft Drinks. J. W. HOWELL Contractor and Builder Carpenter shop and General Repair Work. Moulding and Finishing Material Cor. Knox and Jackson Sts.