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D. E. STITT, Editor.
Entwed a sfcond-cuuw matter SntmVT 8. liS.
lit th pout otfie at onmoulli, Orn. under tha
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FRIDAY, FEB. 21. 1913.
SOME ROGUES STILL LIVE.
The fact developed, the latter
part of last week, that a scheme
had been pulled off in this sec
tion during the past year and a
half which, from inquiry, we
find to have been done about as
follows:
An agent came through inter
viewing old settlers, giving out
that it was for the purpose of
getting up a history of the pio
neer times of Oregon. The
manner of procedure was to in
terview early settlers and have
them give descriptions of early
life in Oregon and incidents in
crossing the plains, etc., which
the agent wrote down, or of
which he took notes. When the
narrative concluded, the narrator
was asked to sign the statement,
and in some cases, perhaps all,
were asked if he or she would
take a set of the books when
published. It seems to have
made little difference whether
the parties refused to subscribe
or not, in due time a second
agent appeared with a set, four
volumes, of the history, which
was left whether the pioneer
wanted it or not, the agent being
prepared to show a contract for
the same with the signature of
the party subscribed thereto.
Last of all came the collector.
He was here last week and had
contracts signed bv several of
Monmouth's citizens and as they
did not subscribe their names to
any such agreements, they are
wondering how the agent man
aged the deception. We are told
that a few paid for the history,
but there are a number who
would not be bluffed into paying
$25 for what they had not order
ed. The agent threatened to
sue for the amount, but failed
to scare them, and there the
matter rests. We are told that
in one instance the narrator re
fused to sign the narrative, but
that his name shows up at the
end of the contract.
This is an old game and has
been played in many places.
The same agent never appears
the second time to face those
whom he is trying to defraud,
and each one is chosen because
of his adaptability to the role
he has to play, the collector be
ing of a gruff character calcu
lated to scare their victims into
payment.
There should be some way to
reach this class but we have
never learned of their being
punished for their scheming.
However, it is a wise precaution
to make it a rule not to sign
papers for strangers, and where
it becomes necessary to do so,
see that you have a copy of the
contract.
CONFERENCE FOR PEACE.
The fourth American peace
conference is scheduled to take
place at St. Louis, Missouri,
next May, and every person who
can aid in the cause of universal
peace is solicited to be there.
It is a turbulent person who
(does not like to see and contem
plate and enjoy peaceful condi
tions, but how much the dawn
of the milenniuin will bo fur
thered by this meeting is hard
to say.
Since the first general peace
congress met, nations have been
talking peace, while preparing
for strife, and actual war has
been waged almost continuously
since that time, some where or
other, until at present two great
wars are raging with the pros
pect imminent of much greater
areas being drawn into like
turbulent conditions.
Peace is what the world needs,
but nations are striving wrongly
to attain it. Clermany believes
that an overpowering prepara
tion for war is the best means
to peaceful conditions, that is,
her armed strength must be
sutlicientlv great to awe other
nations and keep them subdued
because of fear, but such prep
aration will not maintain nor
bring about peaceful conditions,
neither will any thing else ex
cept a return to righteous
principals conditions wherein
each person will understand ami
respect the rights of other per
sons. When men and women are
inclined to do right, because it
is right, and their hearts are
bound ami knit together by
divine fellowship, then universal
peace will have a chance to
triumph, but just as long as the
human family is striving to see
whuh faction can gather in and
hold the greatest lot of the
bounties, which God created
for the whole human family,
just for their own aggrandize
ment and selfish purposes, to
the detriment and inconvenience
of other persons, there can and
will be no universal peace.
Electing Postmasters.
If Congress authorizes the
election of fourth-class post
masters we will have heard
about the last word in the pop
ular selection of public servants.
Such a law will unquestionably
meet with public approval.
While it is true that the ad
ministration of the postoflice is
a Federal function, pure and
simple, yet the service in the
small postottice comes as near to
the people and affects their in
terests and their likings as di
rectly as does the service of any
town, county or state official
whom they choose by ballot. It
is really a most logical extension
of the democratic system that
the people should have the priv
ilege of indicating the person
whom they would prefer to have
serve them as postmaster.
As matter of political moment
the proposed change would be
altogether meritorious. Fourth
class postmaster patronage has
helped very materially to wreck
the party that is now about to
go out of power. The use of it
as part of the party machinery
has been pernicious, and the
effect of it on the political for
tunes of the country outside of
party considerations has not been
good. To get rid of it, and at
the same time permit the people
to say who shall serve them in
this immediate and important
capacity is the sort of legislative
wisdom which kills two birds
with one stone. Portland Telegram.
In The Avalanche Of Gold.
F.arly in life, Mr. John 1).
Rockefeller set himself to tight
against the poverty which had
skimped the bread upon his
father's table, which liad caused
him to shiver when other chil
dren had been warm, which had
put restrictions upon an educa
tion he greatly desired and for
which he had an unusual
gift at absorbing. He fought to
such purpose that for the curse
of poverty he overcame he
acquired the curse of great
wealth, for every adversity he
mastered he became so much
more the slave of vast possession.
Heboid him now deluged with
money, caught in an avalanche
of gold. The other day a lump
sum of ten millions of dollars
was placed to his account a
windfall which but merely added
to the weight upon his neck,
which but chained him the
more to his money bags, which
could but cause the persons who
guard him now as a prisoner
is guarded to draw their lines in
closer. He has untold wealth
and untold fear. He has prop,
erty beyond his own power to
reckon and he is not free to go
and come as he likes. He has
fought with poverty and all
the doors of treasure vaults are
open to rain their holdings up
on him and around him until
he seems like an insect caught
in a pit of loose-running sand.
One may wonder if Mr. Rocke
feller honestly thinks that the
tight has been worth while.
And we may wonder, too, if the
persons who envy him have any
conception at all of what they
are envving. Toledo Made.
"Big Sister" Movement Adopted
At O. A. C.
CORVALLIS, Or., Feb. 18.
Henceforward the upper class
young women at the Oregon
Agricultural College will make it
their particular business to look
after the interests and welfare
of the freshmen in the girls'
dormitory, Waldo Hall. As the
seniors in Eastern colleges each
choose a freshman to whom the
part of temporary guardian is
played, so each junior girl at 0.
A. C. has adopted a freshman.
The "Rockerine will be guarded
from unhappy mistakes, her class
standings will be watched that
she may not fall behind and be
"conditioned" or "failed" at the
end of the semester, and the girl
"in loco parentis" will see that
her protege is not neglected
socially.
NEWS FROM COUNTY SEAT
Court House Notes.
John Shetterly et ux to Matilda
Oleson, two acres in tp 6 s, r 7
w, $10.
Jacob Hanson et ux to Bery M
Pierce, 8 acres of land in tp 7 s,
r 5 w.
John W Nendel et al to M M
Diel, 120 acres in tp 10 s, r 4 w.
Roy W Lantz et ux to Frank
A Logan, lots in McCoy, $160.
Phillip Hess et al to John
Schreiber, 40 acres in sec 23, tp
6 s, r 8 w.
Mittie M Stewart et hd to Falls
City Lumber Co, 12-100 acres in
tp 8 s, r 6 w.
Ella E Graff to Merchants Sav
ings & Trust Co., 16.53 acres in
Broadmead, $1.
John Shetterley et ux to May
C..G. GRIFFA,
Plumber and Steam Fitter.
ChitIbm In Stook
Hath Tubs, Toilet Fixtures, and all kinds of Plumb
ers' Supplies, nickel-plated or otherwise.
All onion attornled to promptly Hiul work guiirniiliitid.
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Harrington, lot 4, block 3, Polk's
add to Willamina, $150.
Empire Investment Co. to John
Spady, lot 9, block 3, Sheridan
View acres, $1,000.
Empire Investment Co. to
Henry Krieger, lot 8. blbck 3,
Sheridan View acres, $1,000.
Empire Investment Co. to Gott
fried Schreiber, lot 3, block 3,
Sheridan View acres, $IKM).
Empire Investment Co. to Peter
Schreiber, lot 11. block 3. Sheri
dan View acres, $1,000.
Alfred Simkin et ux to Win.
Branchtlower. 3i.40 acres in tp
6 s, r 4 w, $2 100.
Mary Harrington et hd to E IJ
Harris, lot 4. block 3, Polk's add
to Willamina, $200.
William Ellis et ux to Leo Per
rin, 81.100 acres in tp 8 s, r 6 w,
$75.
Josie H Hayes et hd to A L Do
Coster, lot 0, block 14. Hill's
town of Independence, $100.
CURIOUS LrGmrWTrVG.""
Ramarkabla Silent Diachargat That
Play About tha Andea.
Keinarkalile displays of so called
"heat lightning" are often observed
along the crest of the Amies and
are sometimes virdlilu far out ut
sea. Thunderstorms ure rare in
Chile, and this fact may posiilly be
explained by the assumption that
the Amies net us a gigantic light
ning rod between winch ami tho
clouds silent discharges take place
on a vast scale.
The visible discharges occur dur
ing the warm season, from late
spring to autumn, and appear to
come especially from certain fixed
points. They are confined almost
exclusively to the Andes proper or
cordillera real as distinguished
from the coast cordillera. Viewed
from a favorable point near their
origin there is M'en to be at times a
constant glow around the summits
of the mountains, with occasional
outbursts, which often simulate tho
beams of a great searchlight and
tuny he directed westward so as to
extend out over the ocean. The
color of the light is pale yellow or
rarely reddish.
One striking feature of these dis
charges is that they are especially
magnilicent during earthquakes.
At the time of the great earthquake
of August, 190(1, throughout cen
tral Chile tho whole sky seemed to
be on fire.
The natives regard these lights ns
the reflection in the sky of the glow
ing lava in the craters of volcanoes,
but their seems to be no doubt that
they are electrical discharges.
It is planned to make spectro
scopic observations of lliia singular
phenomenon and also, if possible,
measurements of the electrical stato
of the atmosphere in the high
Andes, where it appears to have its
origin. Possibly the result may bo
to connect up "Andes lightning"
with a peculiar form of aurora
which has been observed by Lern
strom over mountain summits.
Took It Literally.
A party of tourists were visiting
the ancient landmarks of England,
and their guide was supplying them
with valuable historical facts.
"This tf'Wer." he ex ponded,-"goes
back to William the Conqueror."
"Why. what's the matter?" asked
one of (be party. "Isn t it satis
factory '(" Exchange.
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