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.
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Soda and Soft
Drinks.
J. W. HOWELL
Contractor and Builder
Carpenter shop and General
Repair Work.
Moulding and Finishing
Material
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