Eugene weekly guard., September 02, 1909, Page 4, Image 4

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THE EUGENE WEEKLY GUARD
AN INDEPENDENT PAPER
CHARLES H. FISHER. Editor and Publisher
n prtee, Sl.Su pur year. If paid in advaucu, IX.uv ai auu
Of year.
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Entered at Eugene, Oregon, poctufficc an aecoml-claMi matter
Published every Thursday at Eugene. Oregon.
Agent* tor
THE EUGENE WEEKLY GUARD, THURSDAY. SEPT 2, 1909
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both cases most generously and elaborately. The Scandinavian
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have four or five time»—voted direct contributions to the sup­
port of the work of the Interparliamentary Union and the Inter
national Peace Bureau at Berne, and Denmark, through its fi­
nance minister, in contemplating the immediate creation of a
hospitality fund, like that of Great Britain.
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Aids Nature
Th« groat Micco«« ot Dr. Pierce’« Gohlen Median! DI«-
covery m ouriuff weak atuuiacli«, wn«lod bodlaw, weak
lung«, and obstinate and lingering cougli«, 1« baaed on
the «»cognition ol the fundamental truth that ’’Gulden
Medical Discovery" suppliM Nature with body-build­
ing, ti««ue-re|>airing, niu«cle-making malarial*, in win.
drnaed and coni’entreted form,
With tbi* help Nature
•uppliea «be neceaaary «trenglh to the oloaiauli to digest
food, build up the body sod thereby throw off lingering
obdiiisto coughs.
The "Diooovory” ro-eotsMIebss the
digestive sud nutritive orgsns in sound hoellh, puriflss
and enriches ths blood, sod aouri«he« the nsrvss — la
short establishes «ouad vigorous health.
K con.ow-
Mexico City, Aug 3»>
The Pacific & Eastern railroad, reaching out of Medford to­ votive
I»« I mat»- oi the diminuì' at
If year doa/or afFora sorwotaing "lut at »wad,««
ward the big timber belt, has finally been purchased by Mr. Al­ Motit«»)*y by Saturday'* flood |lla<'«««
It It tnltllt bottar t'OH fflM-"lt o«ri botttr.
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the death Hot at M ixi and the proper­
len, a New York financier, and paid for in cash. This road was ty b»H* at twelve nillllnti dollar«. The
But rau art tblatlab ot tbo curt aot r*e arotlt, tt
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 1909
tbort'a aatblat •’loot Ba taoif tor too.
Bar to.
started by the Medford people and has had many vicissitudes, river ha» n-^vdi-d and the danger 1«
over.
Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medicsl Adviser, In Plain llngliah;
« but the original stockholders have received every dollar they
I'p to the preiw-nt time 650 bodies
lemo Simplitied, 100N psgea. over ’00 illualrstiona, newly revised up-to.^
♦
♦ invested in it, and it is now being extended to its first proposed have I hh - u re»overed. Fifteen thous­
SUNSET OF LIFE
Edition. |«aper.hound, aenl lor 21 one-eent stomps, to cover ■ma.i. .
and an- hoineh'M, lhe water mains
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ea/y. Cloth-bound, -H etsrnpa.
Addreae Dr. It. A . Pierce, Buffalo, N.
It places a large belt of timber directly tributary to are useh'sa and the cltv 1« without
Old age is coming on apace, and bringing w rinkles to my face, ♦ terminus.
♦
♦ and thinning out my hair: the years have undermined my strength ♦ Medford, and develops a rich country to the benefit of that hust­ drinking water, nor Is there light or
stri-et car servli-e. the |s»».-r plant
♦ and bent my stalwart back at length, but. really, I don’t care, i ♦
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The rail­
♦ found life's morning calm and sweet; I labored in the noontime’s ♦ ling town, thereby rewarding the enterprise of the people who living seriously damaged
♦ heat—now come the rest and shade; the suu is sinking in the ♦ had faith enough in the project to put their money into it. The road situation Is Jeplorubl«-, brlda«**
in every dtxitlon ts-lng washed out
♦ West, but I have always done my best; dusk finds me unafraid, ♦
♦ Why should a pilgrim grieve, when he has reached life's quiet ♦ people of Eugene and Lane county will also win out in the end I Phe railroad I ss will probobly ex­
« eve. with all its clamor past? Why should the wav-worn pilgrim ♦ if they will begin work on the railroad from this city, down the ceed several million dollars.
Elgliten blocks of residences and
♦ wall. who. buffeted by storm or gale, a refuge finds at last? If ♦
There is every reason to believe that no | busl
lions. < w . ■ e i■ 1» r: r.•; v wash« I
■st. while 1 have been
a transient ♦ Siuslaw to the sea.
be
♦ von can say, '’I’ve done my best,
♦ guest in this old tavern here.” ’ then may you go with buoyant « trouble will be experienced in financing the road after it is once away In M. ntor- « Tin- more w- althy
pomple of the i-ltv. together with the
spirit to your bed. for there is naught to fear. ♦
♦ tread and daunt
♦ You’ve made, no doub some wierd mistakes; you’ve leit a trail of ♦ actually begun, but at the worst it is a safe prophecy that if we \m«'rl» an residents ar»- » ontt ili itln-.-
’! you have tried to travel ♦ begin it somebody will in the fullness of time complete it if our
♦ foolish breaks, but blunders are no sin; if
;ate will bid you enter tn. ♦
♦ straight. the guardian of the shining get
own resources fail. On the other hand, if we simply content our­
♦ And so the twilight hour is sweet to pilgrims ot ttye weary fe t.
♦ who westward tread in throngs; they are not children in the dark, ♦ selves with talking about it and refuse to show our faith in it by
♦
♦ appalled by phantoms satrn and dark, but lulled by angel songs.
♦ j investing money in grading and rails and equipment, it will
—WALT MASON.
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« probably never be built and its prospecitve benefits will never
♦ Copyright, 1909, by George Matthews Adams.
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Seventy-five thousand dollars will complete this
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! road to Elmira and as much more wiH extend it to the Lake
WHY MANY EVILS EXIST
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Creek country—a sum that should easily be raised in Eugene
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and
along
the
line
of
the
road.
With
this
section
built
there
are
Portland newspapers are roasting the play entitled “The
Girl From Rector’s” as vile and indecent. Newspapers elsewhere already ample assurances in the hands of the local promoters
have rendered the same verdict—yet a good many persons go to that funds to complete it to the coast will be forthcoming.
A short haul to the coast means the emancipation of Lane
niiirntng that
see it, many of them apparently prepared to be disgusted—still
Y
uould, tlc|th(V
¡county
from
the
grip
of
railroad
monopoly,
and
the
transporta
they go. The Journal truly says:
In the yard.
i!:n xplcudhl
‘ Possibly, the criticisms may have the effect to fill the seats tion facilities thus afforded will make a great manufacturing and
• proylag *ar-
and swell the box office receipts. But, for the good name of jobbing city of Eugene.
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This is a great prize to gain, and we may well bend all our
Portland and for the sake of the stage, they should not. At
to t
raid
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energies
in
the
direction
of
its
accomplishment.
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Trenton, N. J., the police authorities interfered and stopped the
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of th«'
Infoi
performance. The play was taken into New York later, and was
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loudly heralded as one that Trenton would not tolerate, and. of
o hi to the
THE MOST BANEFUL DRUG
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a- th
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course, it had a successful run until the summer vacation. The
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Inroads of the cocoaine habit, which the Courier commission
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fact that it was so advertised explains why such plays have life.
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has found to be the American curse as opium is the curse of
It is the fault of the crowd that sits in front of the footlights.”
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There is a lesson in this incident that applies equally as well to China and hemp of India, have suddenly developed into a new and
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PRINCE LOVIS BONAPARTE
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matters not appertaining to the stage. People complain of the ominous phase of the race problem in the United States, particu­
t In
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Prime I.».ill.* l.*Ula|Htrte Is I tie l.rotll
In t
very abuses their support is responsible for keeping up. They rail larly in the South.
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mid
•r nf Prince N h | x >I« h > u . priwent h.'iul of
U Id
to
tile
holl'C
of
Itoli
Ip.irli-
Prlll.'e
l.o|||»
“Cocoaine now ranks with whiskey as the chief provocative
over the corruption of politics, and yet in this country the gov­
»Hern- Hill
late
d» tin- run.. i-f lieutemint general In
ernment and the people are one, and the power to remedy evils of assaults and consequent lynching bees in the South,” declared ho
rhe Itusslitn army
II»' is deweti»le<l
< d ht>
of government rests with the ballots which the people control. Charles W. Collins and John Day. of the commission, in a prelim­ from J, roitie llotiaiairte, yuungvi
<i>ntlnu»4
brother
of
Nuf-h-oti
1.
il lull II *• to
They are bitter in their denunciation of an unreliable, yellow inary report just published in full by the Chicago magazine, “Ev­
It
'Silo f
Wi- will h«r-
2 H bori
press, and yet the papers of this class receive the lion s share eryday Life.” They add, ’’Already among the “fiends' and the I to the Mayor’.* fund, which Io befog
«« did lut
of the public’s patronage. They want the stage elevated, yet policemen who have to heal with them there is talk of the new | -xpen ied for feed, and ten thousand
I are iM'ing fed bread, coffee ami soup M*«*****««***«*O«***«***«
pack the theatre from pit to dome to witness a lewd or frivo­ field.’ The phrase, with its commercial suggestion, comes from by the municipal authorities, while
died
: THAW APPOINTED
the dealers in the drugs, retailers and perhaps wholesalers also. the American consulate Is giving :
lous performance.
food to all who apply. Thousand« of
Politicians and office-holders would be honest if the people Every fiend, it should be added, is more than likely to be a ped­ persons have taken refuge In the *♦♦♦«*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦**«♦*>♦♦*♦♦*
ASYLUM LIBRARIAN
August 2S. 190», william Piti«,
were insistent upon that quality and put the seal of their disap­ dler of the ’stuff,’ taking his commission in the same misery that cath<*dral and «•■'lurches.
Mattewan. Aug. 30 In
The flood reached its crest In the the thrw.-wevks-olil aon of Mr and ♦
proval upon the grafters and machine politicians. Newspapers be distributes. This ‘new field' is among the brutalized negroes early part of the day and many fam­ Mrs Robert liolxgang. who live at ♦ their search for u regular oc­ *
for Harrv K Thaw, ♦
want to be decent, but they must live, and are for ed to print i of the South, who, denied easy access to liquor by the prohibition ilies were swept to death with hardly 559 West Eighth street. The funeral ♦ cupation
a chance to fight for their II v « hi . With was held at 3 p. tn. Sunday from the ♦ recently riwomniltted to lhe ♦
what their readers demand. Theatrical managers place high- movement, are turning to drugs as a substitute.”
the rush of the waters they were reslden.-e.wlth Interment In the Cath­ ♦ state hospital for the criminal «
from their home« and from the olic cemetery.
♦ Insane here, the authorlti»«
class dramas on the stage and too often they play to empty seats
The commission quotes from Hampton’s Magazine an article swept
to|m of homes where many had
♦ have appointed him to the «
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—while the crowds storm the box office of the house where the by Judge Harris Dickson, of Vicksburg, Miss., who told of a con­ nought refug«'. Appeals for nsslstanco
At the hoin«, of his parent«, Mr. ♦ post of librarian
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦♦I
were bear«! even above the roar of and Mrs. Elmer Morrison, SJ3 East
chorus girls screech and kick in abbreviated skirts.
tractor who ordered a pound of cocoaine, to the astonishment of the
water.
Eleventh ntreet. Eugene, AngiHt 29.
At first It was believed there was 1909, at •’■ p m., Kenneth Morrlaon,
The trouble with the country is that there is a pax’city of in­ the salesman to whom the order was given, who expostulated,
loss of Ilf«' bnt the water reacned aged on«» year, one month and ten
dividual stamina and responsibility. The people stampede like saying: “No man on earth can possibly want that much cocoa­ a no height
, I.IIlth
never before attained and days, from snmmer c miplnlnt
The
Herat«*
swept buildings by the wore from funeral will l,n lie'll Tu- ■ la. at i »
wild Texas steers and join with the crowd in crazes that in their ine.” The contractor reiterated the order.
Merl«
their foundations. Complete dark­ a m., with Interment in the I. (>. <)
sobdr judgment they would abhor and condemn. They go to see
“A man who deliberately puts cocoaine into a negro is more ness added to th«- terror.
E. cvnu lory.
Th«- cries of the drowning could be
a vile play because the mob is headed that way, and lack the dangerous than he who would inoculate a dog with hydrophobia,”
heard but onlookers were powerless
moral courage to stand alone for right and decency.
commented Judge Dickinson. “The deadly drug arouses every t<$ render aid. When daylight came
The time has come for an awakening of the public con­ evil passion, gives the negro superhuman strength ,and destroys the scene was Ind* wribable.
All through t <• iiorxh’il IhtrlctH
science, when American manhood and womanhood should assert his sense of fear. Yet the steamboat negro and the levee negro groups could bo seen on the
itself not only in respect to the stage, but in regard to many will not work without it. So the levee contractor makes his tops of two-»tcry btilldln.’s surround­
ed by a teething mass of water. One
other things that are far more important.
camp look like a cross-section of hell, but he gets his dirt by one these
•-.< diaap|>«*arvd with
their human freight. Nothing could
moved.”
live In the wild < urrent which was
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WORLD POLITICAL UNION
TIMES LOOK GOOD EVERYWHERE
running at Vie rate of 20 miles an
hour.
Appeal tor Aid.
Washington, Aug. 30. — Consol
(Jenera! Hanna, at Monterey, Mexico,
has made an appeal to the American
people to assist the dent It lute at Mont­
erey'.
Monterey, with a population of
one hundred thousand does 85 per
rent of Its 1'orelgn trade with the
I’nltwd States. Many of the poorer
classes have lost everything.
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GRAIN III S( ’AN ill UH Nil HimillW l*<»l*- IIN6TO
1 hd ’*1 uopi As rntatA8<e; n>v niHPiHXWkvii > si » nggj
Those who cry “Peace, peace,” and demand that swords be
turned into plowshares, and that the spilling of man’s blood in
The big railway companies are awake to lhe important fact
wars shall cease, have gathered in force in the Swedish capital, that the harvest in the West is on. They are sending out bulle­
and have been given a glad welcome by officials of both city and tins containing announcements that they are fully equipped to
Enrollment of tludonta past year 46».
All graduate« placed In good poeltlon*.
kingdom. All civilized nations will have representatives in the handle the output. The president of the New York Central has
Filled but SO per cent application« tor ollie« h«*P-
eighteenth International Peace Congress, which has convened received advices from railroad men in the West and Northwest
R«putatlon for thorough and peraonal Instruction.
for a session of eight days.
which, he asserts, lead him to believe that the yield of the prin­
Safa and refining Influence*.
Political organization of the world as a pertinent and practi­ cipal crops will be better than the government estimates. “Per- POWELL. FAMOUS
cal topic for present times will be the principal subject of dis­ sonally,” he writes, “I believe that the corn crop will reach 3,- ■
Send lor now Folder and Succo*« Storio*,
RUNNER, IS DEAD
cussion.
250,000,000 bushels, but I don't
don’t dare say that, because some ¡
This determination was reached at a session of the Berne folks already cali me a crazy optimist.” Regarding the wheat
Cambridge, Mass. Aug. 31.—The
death Is announced of Charles Powell
MKITIílINK^’n PH) H)R XnJDfNTSWHFJI
Bureau, the official body having in charge the arrangements for and oat crops, he speaks just as encouragingly.
Only recently a once famous runner who created
11011 II H <) (IWMTOT WITHOUT ( MAWtiF
the congress. The vote of the bureau was, upon this point: word was sent from Northern Pacific headquarters that farmers many world’s records In America
“Further, it is concluded that at future congresses only one | cf the Northwest were calling lustily for help in the fields. The
great question shall be placed in the foreground; for this year sombre-hued cry of two years ago of idle empty cars is not heard
it is the question of international organization.”
! in the land.
This will be the first time that a body of representatives of
many nations, even though unofficial, has ever discussed such a
Nobody knows just what the monetary commission will re­
subject. Some writers have seen a semblance between this port to congress, or when, but all the same it is safe to say that
discussion and that at the great peace congresses of 1848, Fowler, of New Jersey, deposed chairman of the house commit­
Yes, wc want you to send or bring us your watches that won’t keep time, watches
1849, and 1850 at Brussells. Paris and Frankfort, respectively, tee on banking and currency, will oppose it. He’s the ony liv­
the average wafchmaket cannot fix. No work too difficult for us to do. We cm-
where Elihu Burritt urged his plan for a congress of nations and ing financier—in his opinion.
ploy no tinkers, but we arc expert watchmakers and supervise all work ourselves
establishment of a high court of justice.
and cheerfully guarantee every job.
The Stockholm discussion, however, must be regarded as the
Don’t lose sight of the fact that the way to make Eugene a
first formal public discussion in a large way of political unity of city of real importance is to get an independent line of railroad
all nations as a single organism. But this discussion has noth­ to the coast. Of course, if Jim Hill should take a notion to fin­
ing of a world federation idea in it. Rather, there is believed to ish it after our people get it started—well, stranger things have
542 Willamette Street,
EUGENE, ORE.
be in progress a natural, inevitable development of the unity of happened.
the human race, existing in the very fact of the races being upon
the earth, into a formal political union.
If it be fair to judge from some of the “investment” securi­
In no other countries is the cause of peace farther advanced ties advertised, the gold brick industry is also figuring on a
than in the Scandinavian. Several peace congresses of the boom.
Scandinavians have been held within a few years. Christiana
has entertained the Interparliamentary Union at one of its con­
Somehow nobody but the hobos find anything to “cuss”
ferences, and likewise the International Law Association__ in about in the steadily increasing scarcity of labor.
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