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THEEUGENE weekly guard acknowledgment of inferiority on 15 DEPENDENT PAPER. part of the woman, uo specie, promise that she shall obey. He Mid in part: GUARD PRINTING co ., inc . Publisher» “With the spread ot divorce and the consequent loosening of family ties, has come a widespread moral publish^* every Friday, Eugene, Ore. pestilence, against which grave warn ings have beeu uttered On these "subscription price, jH.&i per year moral delinquents native will be paid in advance. $2.00 at end ot avcngeo by the propagation of a race of weaklings, and God wi'l be avenged Entered at the Eugene, Oregon, in the world to come. Eight^hun- posWtUce as second-class matter. dred years ago, as today, the Catholic ■ church stigmatized as murder the \UENTS FOR THE GUARD unborn innocents. jhs following are authorized otake I slaughter of ot receipt for subscriptions or trans lhat the end of the sacrament of mat- act other business for the Daily and I rimony should be frequently* fru**tra- Weekly Guard. | ted by such cold-blooded and unnat W C. Conner, Cottage Grove. ural murder, evinces a quality of con J L. Clark, Creswell. science in our modem pagans that is Geo. A, Drury, Coburg calculated to appall the mind. In re ÎHIKSD a V - — NOVEMBER 1 Our Premium Offers gard to physicians or others who will- invly assist in such a practice, the teaching of the Catholic church has Sotwitbst.iudiug that the Guard has always been equally plain. They are beeu eulaiged and the cost of publi guilty before Gid of being accom cation materially increased, tbe plices in willful murder.” Gnsrd Printing Co. makes a special offer to every new or old subscriber. All who will pay one year in ad vaoce for the Weekly Guard at Sir John Loug, member of the only $1.50 “ year> wil1 lie K*ven his British parliament, in a speech befoie choice of the Twice a-Week St. Louis Republic,or the“Oregon Agricultu " the Scottish societies at Portland the other day said in part: ralist, al solutely free for one year. The Republic is one of the larges* “There is no such thing in the old and best family newspapers in Amer country as trust funds foi political loaaud the “Oregon Agriculturalist“ purposes. There is uo held for Is one of the best and most practical lobbying in parliament. No mau ever farm, fruit aud stock papers in the approached me in the 14 years I West. Subscribers, old or new, may take served there with a view of obtaining their choice of either paper as a anything that was meant to serve prera urn. his own ends. As a political body it Thu»« who failed to get the prom tied premium magazines will be given is perfectly pure, and every man is their choice of either of these papers looking for the advancement ot his in place of the magazines without country. Self comes last. farther cost, by sending their names | “The tariff in England is a dead tad a 1 dresses to this office. So horse. It was downed in Britain by 1 far we have beeu unable to compel the Eastern publishers to keep their the thought that its adoption would agreement in regard to the magazines, result in the same great evils that «nd feci the disappointment as keenly have followed its practice in Amer is our subscribers. ica. The movement fot a tariff ovei The Weekly Guard is still clubbed there will cease entirely with the with the Semi-Weekly Oregon Journal death of Joe Chamberlain, who has at 82.25 a year for both paperB. Mail all remittances and communi been its champion.” cations to GUARD PRINTING CO., Eugene. Oregon The Unprogiessive Britisher 17-4 Controversy The statement made in last even ing's Guard that nearly all the timber The Hen Is Off W.th its customary slowness, the corning paper today printed the tews of the big sale of the Harris tim ber tract in 17-4, nearly three days after the Guard acquainted the pub lic with this important deal. The Regiater gives as its excuse that it was requested to “withhold the pub land owners in 17-1 were standing'in on the Edmunson suit was an error in fact, up to last evening only three out of the entire crowd of timber owners in the tract bad “stood in.” Messis. Bean and Harris have the confidence of most of the timber land owners, who are satisfied that the price is a good one and that they are lication of the proceedings until such receiving a square deal. The Guard a time as the deal was closed.” The was showu the contract» and they deal was finally closed Saturday seem to dispell any doubts as to the mornitig and the information given tiansaction being square. It is true the Guard by one of the promoters. the lauds known as the Bridges lands, In fact it was ready for publication owned by Bean and Harris personally, Friday night tut the sleepy morning which were uever iu the pool, »beet knew nothing about it. The brought $25 an acre, but for these deeds were filad for record Saturday lands it would have lieen impossilde •fternoon. The Guard in giving pub to have pulled the deal through. lication to the deal has not invaded the privacy of any man’s business effairs. as stated by the Register. On the other hand it was given full Always First The Guard is always first as a news permission to give fo the public the papei 111 its territory. Here are some f*cts concerning the largest deal of the first things done by the Guard . first typesetting machine. made in Lane county timber for a long time. It is simply a case of sour First carload lot of papei. V»Pes with the Morning Mummy. Inasmuch as the morning paper claims it has been complimented en it» course and the Guard cenauied for First dally paper in Eugene. First two-revolution press. First in circulation. First folding machine. First telegraphic news service in we call on the Mummy Eugene. i° give names of those whom it First in news at all times. claim» have censured us and compli- The above are good reasons why ®*bte«l their inexcusable, sleepy the Guard is Eugene's leading news fo<yism. If the morning paper re- paper. *®*es to do this it is simply a confes sion that the statement they made is While contracting of bops 1» an in false. jury the industry under ordinary it* act'on, conditions, we cannot see where Catholic Stand on Marriage glowers who are holding in antieija- Father O’Hara, of the Catholic tion of the letter price that the aburch at Portland, the other day shortage ami demand seem to war °k strong grounds against divotce, rant, can suffer through not s lling asserting that his church maintained at the prices offered by dealers. The same position today as eighteen dealers say they have half the bops Modred years ago—recognized uo under contracts. Of course they do not understate their side of the case, *** in to remarry, innocent though but what iftn-T have? Tbe other half of the parties might ba. He as is ju„t a. badly beetled, «ill »• **rt" 1 that the ease with which mod- quired to fill the world’s demand be divorce is secured encourage» fore new bops ot the next MMOD can Growrrs with unsold bops ^•**y marriage and incites commie begot *°a« tor divorce in the sense of per of the very offenses which furn frb legal pretext for annulment there *f*th«t the Catholic formula of mar r***“ has always recognized the *lu»lity of tbe sexes,that it is identi- f‘>r busband and wife—there is no Mem to have tbe opportunity to com- ==© >71 No Catastrophe Is Inevitable Er&> of the Frenzied Financier ; A Delayed Wedding Mr. Mek.ncthon Peter—bls nitric should have Is-en Peter Melniicth >n. By MAURICE MAETERLINCK. Sociologi»!. < but It wasn't- had called on the morn Philosopher and Dramatist Ing of his wedding for a dual word ECENT events In with his tianeee Iu order to make sui« r li Iladelphi» that nothing had lieen forgotten. The.- ERHAPS it is not suq>rising that INSTINCT saves us and C h I «• u g « were to be married at high noon, an- It mis now 11 o'clock. But the groo. have shown that th j from great dangers, habitual and immemorial; from the wrecking ’ bank* was In costume, even to the lioutou water, the fire, falls, shocks, animals. It evidently has and the n >blng o' uiere, and the bride needed only to put had habitation with them—an ATA VIC EXPERIENCE safe dep-si vaults a tew Uulsliiug touches to her toilet. After giving and receiving a feu by men who go therewith which explains its agility. But what is marvel around with burglars final reminders Mr. Peter. iieeom|uiuie « ous is the ease, the promptness with which it acquaints itself with the tools. masks --d re by Miss Blo.-som. his bride to be. wei. JOHN C. HE1.1 . volvers are no' — >*n- Into the hall and through the frout most complex and the most unwonted inventions of our intelligence. tuucli to la* feared as the rulóla-, ot I door, bucking himself out iu order t • 1 It suffices to show at once the mechanism, the usage and the end of financial Institutions by men lo» .J keep up Ins Instructions and liis eye« tbe most unlooked for machine, however strange and useleaa it may upon as pillara of society. It was • -e on his tianeee till the last moment. IK descended the steps 111 this reverse or Idea which proved be to our real and primitive needs, and it understands. Henceforth get-rich-quick der, then turned, and the door close Nemesis of Banker Paul O. Stem at the same moment. in time of need it will know the last secrets and the BEST MANIPU- of Chicago, of Banker Frank K. 11«. Now. iu anticipation of n coal strfki aud "Frenxled Financier" Adolph Se.al LAI ION that intelligence can devise. ot Philadelphia and of Hanker Frank Miss Blossom's fathet was getting I Ihis is why, however novel, however recent or however formidable Bigclow of Milwaukee. The Mllw-.u his annual supply of fuel. A coal wa had Just driven away, and tu< be the instrument, it may be affirmed that IN PRINCIPLE THERE kee financier erred through the faults on of his Hon. who plunged Into specula heaver hud forgotten to replace the 11« IS NO INEVITABLE CATASTROPHE. Tim mbeooMkNM five sclieines and dragged 111* fatliet ou the coal hole. The consequence wu always, in point of fact, is at tho top of all imaginable situations from ¡he path of safe and conservative that us Mr. l’eter turn,al mid took a finance to that of crime, ruin and a step forward he felt himself sink, ami Between the chops of the sea or on the mountain top, one can, one felon's cell. Hippie and Stensland tx»t I In another moment he was knee dee. should await the decisive movement of instinct which has resources as started right and up to certain stage In a coal heap. The only Injury he suffered wa.« of their respective careers s<«eui to have inexhaustible as the universe or as nature. pursued lives of honesty and Integrity acraplng the skin off his left arm. 11« Inequalities of instinct, which pertain rather to the promptness of Then the temptation to embark In looked up anil saw that he could al reach the round opening above the appeal than to the quality of the aid, manifest themselves at all projects promising big returns came most and they took the unjustifiable risk- him. but to do so would require . | accidents. Place two automobilists in two parallel dangers exactly Involved, leaning on the reputation- Jump. To jump on a heap of coal is identical, ONE WILL ESCAPE, THE OTHER BE BRUISED. they had built up ns honest and rella like Jumping on a quicksand. When he was thinking what to d ble men to obtain tin« support of other Iu a carriage accident, of six persons three will act too intelligently, for hazardous enterprises In Hippie - suddenly the ll«l was clai«|>ed on th« the other three will save themselves by actions that utterly are inde case religion and philanthropy wer< coal hole. Some on» passing bad aeeb the opening In the sidewalk aud. sui fensible on the grounds of reason. Can the instinct be educated ? used as a clonk to hide doings which posing he was doing a kindly act, pu however much softer terms might b« on the lid. Mr. Peter cried out. but to This would require special study. In the interim it may be remarked used, were nothing less than swlndlfn late. The lienefactor-to some one »1- Stensland. who tied to Mororrn t that it seems probable that as we accustom ourselves to the habitual than Mr. Peter passed on. escape the consequences of his folly From an anticipated wedding cere and systematic use of the material forces of nature, of all those enor hut even there was sought out anil re In u fasbiouable church. In th« mous things which we term nature, WE INCREASE THE DIS manded to the authorities of his coun mony try. la the son of a [ssir Norwegini I presence of u fashionable assemb!,- TANCE that instinct has to cover in coming to our aid. This dis farmer A few years ago It woul to a coal bob“ even with tbe lid off mu' tance, inappreciable among the savages, the simple, the humble, aug have lieen said that he deserved gre.-. sunlight is uot a pleasant transltio. but with u closure mid darkness Mr credit for working himself up to a posi ments with every step taken by our education, our civilization. tlon of honor aud responsibility Iu the Peter found It harrowing, eapeclall.« I AM PERSUADED THAT WERE WE TO SURPRISE A PEASANT, community. He was a sailor ns a ns he might not get out In time fot the wedding. It Is singular wbai A LABORER, IN THE SAME CATASTROPHE WITH HIS PROPRIETOR, thoughts will pass through the bran HE WOULD HAVE TWO OR THREE CHANCES MORE OF EXTRI- at such a time. Many n person upon cating himself therefrom than the more educated man . learning of some calamity has bad at absurdity thrust itself Into bls brain Mr. Peter was a college bred mat and, being impressed with the read! ♦ liess with which he had reiu-hed hl ■ present position, remembered an ndng * * ♦ ♦ of the ancients, "Easy Is the descent to hell.” This he kept repeating <>: ♦ I rather It kept repeating Itself wlthon> * asking his permission till lie was re i ♦ minded that he had better be devlslni CHORD LOST A ♦ some method of escape. * ♦ But there was no escape. The onl? By Adelaide Anne Procter egress was n shute for the coal, but : It seemed the harmonious echo EATED one day at the organ, this was not practicable for Mr. P< From our discordant life. » I was weary and ill at ease, ter, because it must b<« opened fro« ♦ » And my fingers wandered idly « » the outside. In fifty minutes his wed I It linked all perplexed meaning« Over the noisy keys. « » Into one perfect peace ding would be due. He saw the pe ♦ And trembled away into silence « » I do not know what I was playing pie assembling, the bride mid her at As if it were loath to cease. ♦ Or what I was dreaming then, tendants going to the church, tlien * I have sought, but I seek it vainly, But I struck one chord of music waiting for him in the vestibule; tisb That one lost chord divine Like the sound ot a great amen. ers going to the doors and looking u Which came from the soul of the or- ♦ tlie street for him, anxious faces; the It flooded the crimson twilight And entered into mine. Like the close of an angel's psalm. bride troubled mid finally In tears. And it lay on my fevered spirit This is what Mr. Peter saw In th< It may be that Death's bright angel * With a touch of infinite calm. coni hole, anil It was whnt occttrre I Will speak in that chord again; It may that only in heaven He took no note of time till a clock n It quieted pain and sorrow. I shall hear that grand amen. Like love overcoming strife; a chur<-h tower near by struck lb ADOLPH SKOAL. hour of 12. Then tie knew that th. wedding party was waiting that pe young man and startl'd In business In I rlod of suspense which must lead t- t'hlcago In n »mall way. rising through tuouBuna years ru ihp r^mTfrr he knew not what hail liegun. North America.” The very names of energy and thrift. But he could not At the last stroke of the clock h. stand prosperity, and his fondness fot I Some of our greatest presidents will heard n step in th% adjoining apart big schemes that could not be under - have been forgotten. Isn’t it sad? ment—doubtless the cellar. Only i taken without aasuming big risks was board partition separated him from It By DUNCAN M. SMITH his undoing. He cried out. There was an interval Hippie's ease waa similar, but hi . was the strangest of all. Ilfs was the ■ of silence, then a voice: “What Is It? Who la ItF THE DRAWBACK. case of a good man gone wrong anil Mr. Peter, dreading lest the person led wrong by a man with whom. It i would take to flight, cried lustily fo; To mount the dizzy auto might have lieen suppoaetl, a conserva And chase It down the lino tlve financier, a man with a reputation | help. After some daisy the coal shut« And over dogs and apple carts which fortunately waa atove the par to maintain, would have bad nothin j Is doubtless very fine. tlally filled bln. was opened by a ser But I opine to do. District Attorney John <’. Bell ant. and Mr. Peter stepped ont It isn't quite so pleasant who Is prosecuting the surviving To lie upon your back The first thing he did was to look a wreckers of tbe Real Estate Company And gaze aloft and wonder whero his watch. It wan five minutes past 12 of Philadelphia, declared Iu court that The work/are out of whack. Dashing up the stairs, h» gained the lie could prove that Hippie. Segal an i To amble up the boulevard bathroom, and a glance In a mlrrt>. They are coming from the seashore. those cognizant of tbelr doings wen- A minute to the mile showed him a dusky face. Plunging II From the mountain and the lake. engaged in a conspiracy and that ns n And make the neighbors Jealous And they now without a murmur and his hands Into a basin of water. h< Is swell and lovely style. result of their acta more than $ft,(M»i Just what mother offers take. buttoned his coat as high as possible i m ¡»t rite UUO was abstracted from the Institution A t-rnper though by nature sweet. over hla smudged collar and. <les<«er« for the use of one man This was Se To be obliged to stop Those Fool Questions. Ing with lightning speed to the street Before a large and laughing crowd "What are you doing?” asked the css gal. who. as n dlre<0,r of the eompaii ran toward the church, tin the wa- That heard the puncture pop. tl.-il questioner of the Industrious subur put It. seemed to have hypnotlxed th- | be passed an empty cab. which b< To throw the speed gauge open banite who was obviously harvesting president. SegaJ’s career was meteorli . hailed, and a few minutes later daahe. Twenty years ago he was a recent In And cut the startled air bls last green tomato. op to the church. Is very lovely business. migrant from Austria, speaking broke "Giving an Imitation of congress Three ushers were straining tbe A banlshcr of care. English and working over a boilln ; passing a bill,” sweetly replied the I. s But It’s to swear eyes up and down for him. Mr. I’« soap caldron In a cellar In a tenemen' When Just around the corner ter waa hustled Inside, where be w district. The Invention of a new proc A few rods down the line greeted by the bride to be with a ml At First Hand. The village : table appears ess for waxing paper yielded him And calls you for a fine. "But how do you know that this deal nOO. This gave him a start In Jiuslnes- gling of anger, tears and sighs of re lief. There waa no time for explan.« er Is honest'.*'' asked the new husband. and his persuasive manner enable To Jog along to business ■•Why. he told me so himself,” »corn him to liorrow money to any extent de tlona, since the guests bail siren At slow and steady gait lieen kept too long waiting. Mr. Pen: fully said the new wife. Is fine » -n you are certain sired for all kinds of visionary pro; You will not g-d down late. took hla proper position, with his sup ecta. He built a sugar refinery for th« But. oh. hard fate ports, on the opposite aide of the ve*t Slight Resemblance. To have the wheels quit buzzing purpose of selling It out to the sugn "They »ay she Is a consummate liar.” trust an«l succeeded In doing so, mnk bule, there waa a creaking of tbe orga - An«i aft* r some delay To get a team of horses “Just a writer of historical ro Ing about $1,(100.000 on the deal. Late: bellows, ami the divided wedding pa To haul the thing away! ty. uniting In the center aisle, ad mances.” he trie<l tbe same game again, but tb vanced to the strain» of a weddm time could not sell and got left with Length of History. Unlucky Tomin. tbe refinery on ills hands. It Is said he march. A professor of the I Diversity of Chi Mr. Peter’s coat being black and h. "Why don't you marry. Minerva?” once overdrew hla account at Hippie * cago who ba» been digging into tbe "Can’t afford the kind of husband I bank $140.000, but Hippie, being Inex trousers dark gray, his shirt collar be ruma of Egypt With bis useful spade want.” Ing largely covered an«I hla sleeve tricably Involved In Hegal's sebeme ha- uncov. -.1 1.000 more year» of ha«l to honor tbe check. After Hippie's pull«! down over his ruffs, showed n ancient history than we used to have suicide hla family found a hastily marks of bls resilience in a coal bln Hard Work. to struggle with in onr text book» when «crlbbled note, which rsad "No one to But Mr. Peter was badly rattled. Il< “Robinson looks exhausted" we went to school. blame but myself. Hegal got all tb<- made the resismsee wrong, fnmbled It "Yea; I think be has been telling the However, as »11 be discovered can be money. I was foole<l Into lending ft t > hla ¡locket for tbe ring and when b __ _______________ nut into a dish much »mailer than a truth." him. thinking his business good.” Th- found It dropped it Coming out an ex root hbow. Dint measure it win not add much to dead bank president waa a ploddin.- treme nervousness Induced him t “ That fellow Is trying to work you ” . foal ‘f ’be w<* ot ,be Pa”*nt throw open hla coat. As he passe "That’» why I’m having such a good lawysr for years, and hla reputaUo , . . 1 bo Is earnestly striving to down the aisle the assembly tlttere for Integrity and safe method» led hi.i time. I always did enjoy seeing a fel Hla entire front—collar, neck, start get a useful education. to tie made the custodian of man When we stop to think that 1.000 low labor when it doesn’t cost me any trust funds. Including those of chur< b light buff waistcoat—were smudge years In ar-cient history Is often d’« thing." es and charitable Institutions. Out from top to bottom with coal duet. tui»»ed with a paragraph, we eom« "What In thunder «iocs thia meant wardly he was so highly moral that times wonder what tbe book» will hard Not Otherwise. nobody suspected him capable of do asked hla best man when they reache t0 My about tbe United Btstes ten or "If a msn asks you for your cloak 'ng a wrong thing and when his fall tbe vestibule do you give him your coat also?” twelve thousand year» from now “Fell tn a coal bole." waa tbe lacon came It carried misfortune to many In Imubtlesa something like this: A "Tea. If be 1» the man who keeps m-ly TURNER C. HOTI.E nocent persons with It republic rose and flourished Jor a few them in “rder ” <:• P R Wall Street War How One b Hajed by Captains of In dustry—Vw York Stock tuhanyf’s Oldest Member Van Home Versus Hill. WAR tn Wall street, such as has recently beeu raging, mean* wounds and death for a good many of the privates, how ever it may be for the generals. The big captains and gen erals ot Industry like J. J. Uli L. Morgan. Hill. Harri man, the Goulds aud the llockefdlera, from their posts of vantage Iu the con flict view Its progress without fear ns to their personal safety. It is the men In the ranks mid the subordinate otti- cers who. tigurntlvely speaking, lose lives or limbs In the fray. On the floor of the Stock Exchange. No«- York, the privates ami corporals and sergeants and lieutenants battle for existence, while the commanding officers In the struggle give their orders over tele graph mid telep'ioqe from the security of private offices, where they are In trenched behind millions of dollars’ worth of stocks ami tiomls. In the tight which has been in prog ress Iu Wall Htreet the immediate ob ject has been th«« possession of the ('hl cago. Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad, with Its $25,(XX).(MX) of extra cash to !>• added to Its treasury from the proceeds of Its new stock Issue. In this war twice as many millions lire g.dd to bs Involved as were represented In the famous tight of u few years ago for tho possession of the Chicago. Burlington mid Quincy, a fight which resulted In the Northern Pacific corner. The generals who lead the opposing forces In this battle of giants are James J Hill. J. Pierpont Morgan and their friends, the foreign capitalists, on the one side, anu E. II. Harriman of the Union Pacific and its allies, with Sir William Van Horne of the Cana dlan Pacific, on the other. The real object of the tight Is not so much the money In the treasury of the A H F)ymn for Coday s I : *— --- ---------------- f Humor and Philosophy I----- ------------------- WILLIAM ALrXANDBn KMITH. St. Paul as tbe control of the I’aclfio coast trade. On the outcome of tho contest depouila the question of wheth er the St. Paul Is to be extend«! to the coast In a northerly direction to tbe In jury of the Great Northern anil North ern Pacific systems or southerly to tho ImpalrtiK'iit of the profits of the Union an«l Southern Pacific roads. Another line, the Pacific Coast railway, Is In volved In the struggle President Hill has threaten«! to break Into Canadian Pacific territory, and Sir William Van Horne, chairman of the i>oard of direct ors of the big Canadian road aud for many years Its preaident, has said that for every mile IIIII builds In Canadian Pacific territory the latter road will build two In that of the Great Northern. A contest between railroad kings for control of railway propertl«*» causes great fluctuations In the value ot atiH-ks. In explanation of bow au<_«h things work the Nestor of tbe New York Htock Exchange, William Alex ander Smith, said not long ago: V k I ups nr* Inflated now On» of tho causes ot this la the fact that the urea! financial leaders sometimes pay big prices for stocks In order to control certain in terests This raises the price above tbs Intrinsic value of the properties which the stocks repr«sent. If It should happen that these manipulators were forced to sell, there would be trouble A man 1» not safe In buying stocks now unless ha Is on the Inside, where he can gat an honest report on the earnings of tho con cern and Its real condition. Mr. Smith la eighty six years of age ami Joiu«l tbe exchange In 1M4. When he celelirsw-«i the dlamoud an niversary of hla connection with the Institution two years ago the exchange passed resolutions In hla honor. A visitor to the gallery of the Stock Ex« hmige on«-e asked the friend who was acting as hla guide to point ont to him John D. Rockefeller, lie was In form«! that so far ns known Mr. Rockefeller had uever visited It but anew and that was when he waa tntro duced to tbe president on Joining It many, many year» ago. Most of the financiers like Morgan. Harriman, George Gould and Belmont rarely li •ver exer<lae the membership privi leges by visiting tbe floor and m ngllnfi in the scrimmagao around the flnanitefi storm center».
