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Monday Evening : Pago Four THE EUGENE GUARD THE EUGENE GUARD An Independent afternoon newspaper published daily except Sunday. PAUL R. KELTV, Editor EUGENE S. KELTY, Business Manager Offices 103MO4 Willamette Street Telephone 1200 The Eueene Guard la a member of tha Associated Fresa. Tba Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the uaa for publlca lion of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise cred ited to this naner and also tha local news nubllshed herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. SIONDAV, MAItCH 23. For Reconstruction of Sewers. OUT in the university district of Eugeuo there are some new homes whose owners are said to have been literally driven out of them for short periods lust winter because the inadequate sewers in the district, instead of carrying drainage from them, hacke'd it into them during heavy rains. The basements flooded. There was no way to drain them until the. waters subsided fur enough so that the 'sewers could carry their load ; again. One of the projects for which a bond proposal will I be found on the ballot at the special election or April '13 is an item of $50,000 for reconstruction of sewers. It is a project that seems very essential. It ought by all 'means to be carried, because adequate sewerage is. some thing more than a matter of convenience or service. It jis vitally necessary to the public health. It is not easy to imagine a more menacing condition from this stand- i point than to have sewer water backing into the basc- ' incuts of homes. The sewer problem is not one that is confined to one district of the city. The sewer facilities are over taxed in several districts. f there be general under standing of the true situation as to the necessity for this authorization, there can be little doubt that it will carry. In Lighter Vein . v. The Bearing Tree Near Westfir. THAT was an interesting story which was publishod in The Guard the othcr.day about the bearing tree near Westfir, and which had been given to Forest Supervisor .Kelson V. Macduff by if,. E. Haefncr. Jlr. Haefncr, who knows the woods and the lore of timber surveys, divined from his knowledge on such matters that a certain tree on the lino of re-survey must bo a witness tree. Ho know that the original survey there for the government had been made some 60 to 70 years ago. lie. know that each year of the tree's life was represented by ono of its growth rings, end so he calculated that somewhere be tween the GOth and 70th rings beneath the tree's surface tlio witness marks would bo found. Ho had the tree cut into curofullv, and found at the G9th ring tile legend: "SXJ, T20S, Jtt'lO, HT," which being interpreted by his further knowledge, mount that the tree was at the corner of Section ;.!, Township 20 south, Kajigo east of Wil himetto meridian, and that it was a bearing tree that is, a tree selected and marked to give beurings or loca tion. When that bluzo was made on' that tree by a pioneer surveyor in the trackless forest, Oregon was 1u its in fancy as an organized territory of the United States. It Lad emorged in 1848 from the era of its provisional government, comprising all tho vast territory from the California line on the south to the British America line on tho north, ami including what arc now the states of Oregon, aslnngton, Idaho and parts ot .Montana and Wyoming. In 1853 the territory of Washington had been organized, but at the date of, the Westfir blaze Ore i gon still included all of the country otherwise named in the foregoing. Its whole white population at thut time, American and foreign, was scarcely ahovo 10,000 Bouls. Georgp L. Curry was its territorial governor, nerving his second term. A bitter and complicated fight for locution of tho state capital was settled in thut year in favor of Salem, notwithstanding- that Eugene had received a favorable plurality of tho votes in two sep arate elections held to detennino the question. Corvallis and Portland also competed and were declared defeated. Oregon City, 'Eugene, Corvallis and Salem bad each previously enjoyed brief distinction as capital of tho territory. Corvallis college, which later grew and de veloped into Oregon Agricultural college, was established in that year. Oregon's ndniission as a state came three years later, in 3850. Eugene, although ambitious for slate capital honors, was but a village in tho year when tho AVestfir bearing tree was marked. Eugene Skinner hud taken his claim ten years previously at the foot of the butto which to this day bears his name, but which had been known to the Indians as Yu-im-uh. . On the town ho had bestowed lias given name, and tho butto became known by its en during title through neighborhood reference. It is al together likely that if Eugeno Skinner were, alive today bo could tell the name of tho man who marked tho beur ing tree of Westfir, but bo died in 18G4, aged 55 years. His daughter was tho first white child born in Lane county. There were no roads through tho Westfir forest lands in the days when the blaze was made which has now been brought to light again, and there were few trails. Tho surveyor who made that blaze fought his way through tho forest and carried his food supplies with him. Ho must have been a sturdy soul. IVacc to Jiim in his long sleep! Lambloiigues are well abloom now. One who cares enough about tho mutter to look will find them all about in the oak-grub groves. Oregon grnpo is in flower. Its beautiful yellow clusters -crown and set off its glossy foliage in cxiictly the right proportion. Spring beauties are waning, but one can still find them. There are trilliums, too, in profusion now in the deeper woods, Flowering currant is in its full glory. Take an hour or so off and drive out along the roud any road and jooic at mo wild lowers. 1 here is nothing more beau tiful in nature, nor anything that preaches a more elo quent sermon. ... . " ' Tho prune , rowers of I.sne owuntjr J he dictators ot fashion in Paris persist in the tWlar- "ro i'l!,nnini bi meeting- to be ntion that tho bnirbob is passing. Thev are eveeedinc-lv h-M ,MT1' 30- ?" ?bJ"! i . l ,..::.,.. ......... .... l . i" . . . l iel!ng Is to nmsider Ibe aiitHibilnjr busy devising ways and means to mako teumiino heads U unity with other prune ,n of look right during the re-growing period. Thus it an ami vahiugion in the forma, pears that man is to be restored to his rightful heritage ,""'" " """V.",',, or"'"",",n ,0 1 - . ., i , , , nN lu 1 ""'M- handle Mini tunrket the prunes. of place in -the barber's chair. . .1. X. Jones f (.'ullage (irove is a I - visitor iu the city todsy. to confuse opposition to religious in struction in the schools with opposi tion to religioua instruction alto. (ether. That is, people who oppose such instruction in the schools are put on the defensive as being opposed to any kiod of religious instruction. The commission keeps the distinction in uiiud. It iudprsea the movement for more week.dsy religious instruc tion. But it opposes doing this in the schools. Let the schools' curtail their schedules, it Bars, and put the time thus saved at the disposal of parents, who can, arrange instruction as they see fit. Whether schools should cut down their schedules is a matter which the layman cannot profitably discuss. But keeping religious instruction opt of the school curriculum seems sound. Iteligiou, ss an abstract thiug, does not exist. It is always 'a particular kind of religiou, and what is religion to one man is heresy to the next man. For this reason, if no other, religion' m a matter for parents to keep n charge. Any effort to provide de norainationsl instruction, or to clsssi fy pupils by denominations, is a bad precedent, as the commission points out. The knowledge which is parted in the schools should be ot such a character that it can be im parted to all. Knowledge which i: valid in one class-room and not valid in the next is knowledge which public Institution had better steer dear of. Spring Table ' (Kenton County Courier) Hove you had your iron tod; Sassafras tea will do. loctors get ?2 a crack for a myriad of prescript tions for spring tonics. It's these spring mornings that some folks de cide to take exercises regularly from now on. The windows need washing on the outside. It won't be long until we con give the flivver its annual balh. Shall we trade in ' the . car this spring? 1 can't put off sowing that bluegrnss much longei- should have done it Inst fall. George can sort and sprout those potatoes when he conies home for spring vacation. Hope Old Jenny don't get sick Ihjs spriug need her on the plow. I'm going to sheer those sheep earlier this spring. Golly, 1 sure got a fine crop of lambs. Look at 'em -playing, out there. Health? Slother Nature's own. How am I going to get out of help ng with the houscclrnning? Hate that job. Wish George wasn't in school but, no, got to send him to school, even if 1 havo to beat the rugs myself. ' Grain didu't freeze, out much coming fine. Wish I had that crop to sell now. Well, guess I'll see what the neighbors are' about. "Ma, whore's the Independent?" A Playthings far Innooents I Bond Bulletin) Tho year 11IU0 has now been set by several 1'ortland men it's v the time for tho world's fair to bo held there. That is good, for it means that there will be no more talk of a fnir before then. In the meantime these inno cents ran play wilb their idea and when IP.'tO comes set it forward for another five yesrs. Yeh, the World is Growing Better and More Difficult y The Incurable. (San Francisco Chronicle) There U now a cure for almost everything except the medicine habit. Consistent. ' OVaHuingtou Htnr) . "What do you think uf the argu ment about prohibition V ''There isn't any argument," an swered .Senator Sorghum, "livery voter in my district in fur it all the time, drunk or sober." j A Sifrperwoman, , (From the Minneapolis Journnl) Mrs. Congressmen Kuhn uf Cali fornia announces her platform as one of "just common liorse-seusc." Bho will be lonesome iu Washington, x . Delicate Situation. ( Christian ltegisler) Mary Anne gave notico -she was go ing to be married. Her mistress, per turbed, said: "Of course, 1 don't want to put any obstacle in tho way of your getting married, but I wish it were possible for you to postpone it until 1 can get anotber maul. "Well, mum," Mary Anno replied, "I 'ardly think I know 'im well enough to nrslu im to put it off. V Honest Milliner. (News lfen Union City, Tenn. News) The millinery department will be o the second floor and tlio proprietor states tliat their aim will be to always have the latest and last word in wom en's bate at appalling prices. 23 Years Ago J r ! . " ' Fellowship of Prayer Dally Lenten Bible reading 'and meditation prepared for Commission on Evangelism-of Federal Council of Churches of CUnlt in America, MONDAY PolM Read Luke 10:38-42. Text: 10:41. To cm art anxioua and troubled about many things. Meditation Life aver tends to be conio complex. We undertake to do too many' things and are too hurried in our preparation. Jesus commended Mary for sitting at his feet and learn ing the lessons of life and at the same time cautioning Martha about her an xieties. That we might take time to think and to plan our lives with care! Then we should not so frequently lack poise and self-control. "Thine own Belf-will and anxiety, thy Uiurry and thy labor, disturb thy peace and prevent me from working in thy life. Look at tnc flowers, they quietly open their petals and the sun shines into tlicin with gentle influ ences. So will I do for thee, if thou wilt yield thyself (to me." l'rayer O Lord, thou art as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. Support us all the day long, aud as 'bo shadows lengthen and the fe verish work ofvthe day is dune, grant us time to think of thee and of thy mercy and love. Help us to choose the best part and to yield our lives to thy life-giving power.- Amen. (Copyright, 11)25, 1 L. Fagley) Fossilized Bones Found in Streets TILSON CALLED TENNESSEE YANKEE Longworth'e Successor aa Floor Leader In - Southern Mountain District House Born In 23. A By IIAKRY B. HUNT (NEA. Service Writer) WASHINGTON, March ' Tennessee Yankee, John Oiiillrn Tilsou by name, will succeed Nichulas .Longworth as uinjoru-y floor leader iu the house when the sixty-ninth con gress convenes next full. A Xcnnussee mountaineer by birth. but Yaukea by adoption and a product of Old1 Eli Yale iu education, Tilson presents a sort of composite national ism that should enable him to "unite tho republicans of north and south, highbrow and lowbrow, behind party measures in fhc next congress. Tilsou was born and reared in a log mansion on a farm near Clearbrook, Tcun. The phrase ''log mansion" may seem paradoxical, aa does that of "Tennessee Yankee" but no other terms seem to fit. He's a sort of paradoxical fellow.. While Tilson's boyhood home was made of logs, it wasn't a log cabin. It was a big, spacious, roomy residence the biggest place for miles 11 round- where Squire I imon, the future con gressman's father, lived und enter' tnincd in simple hut feudal style. Getting an education was not an easy thing for Tennessee mountain boys in the days following the Civil war. There were few elementary schoola iu the country districts, ami secondary schools were practically unknown. Sending children away to private schools or colleges was an uubeardof tiling. (, John walked three miles to and from school each day to get his "Threo It's." And at tho ago of 20 he struck out from tho farm to get "more l arnin'." He paused for a while at a little Tenuessee school, now known as Oar- son and Newman college. There, he worked while he studied saving money to pay his way ''north," for he had determined to try hs talents at one of the big eastern universities. Then Yale, and six years of "dig ging," during which time he divided his energies between bis studies and his work in the circulation depart ment of a local newspaper. graduation found him happy but broke. Train fare back to tTenuessce was lacking, so he tbung out his shingle in the same college town where ho got his degree, aud buckled down to building up a practice. As a side line, to insure his "three 'squares a day," he took on, along with his budding law practice, the manage ment of the Yale dining hall, where 5UO students boarded. There, st least, he could always find food. (From The Guard of March 2. 1000) The sheriff collected about $oOO in taxes today. Miller ltroihers this afternoon sold to the Pacific Hop company l-Vi bales of hops fur 5 cr nt per pound. Ttie Uiul notices which have been run in different rounly papers, r murkn the Albany Democrat, indicate (hut quite a number of Albany men reside in the mountains. The refills of the l' Diversity "f Oregon hnve nulhurizt d the grading and fillina uf the grounds between the four ImildittM in tha northeast pirt of the campus, Vnily items There it talk uf a big vndioiite Nnwmilt to be erected this luininrr 'ih the promise of a rail road to it. mm H. V. Porris has announced hit candidacy for re-eleeliou to city recorder. I In New York ! . ' ' By JAMES W. DEAN VEW XOKK, March 23. Well, well, the world moves along. Men are now buying ets of various sorts of underwear for different purposes, such as riding, dancing and "golfing. An underwear manufacturer nainej Mendenbatl from Wisconsin tolls mc this. "it's a far cry from the day when some people actually sewed their un derwear on in the fall nnd tut it off with scissors in the spring," he says, "Would you believe it V Men now carry an extra suit of underwear to dancsa io that they may change before go ing out into the cold night nnd thus prevent catching cold." Marcel Garaud has surrendered his detective badge. A judge has dis missed him on charge of 1 hooting Nick Maruckis in the arm with a small revolver, which was a aradua tion present from ttie correspondence detective school in which Marcel en rolled. Marcel is just 13. Ivan Znikin, a huge Russian wrest ler, is disconsolate because Feodor t.'halispin. the great opera siner. not in town. They are almost insep arable companions, t'haliapin going to the wrestling matches to see .Kin mil. the wrestler going t the opera to hear Chaliapin. When Znikin came frnio ltiitsia. a few months ngo he 1 cried with joy upon seeing t'haliapin As n Tennessee Yankee, Tilson lias been looked on as an outsider by the professional Connecticut Yankees, who havo sought to run rsutmeg state pott tics. i Always bucking the-. regular organ isation, headed by J. Henry Jtora.c2, Connecticut m- " dops. . Wilson nevertheless managed to break into state politics. In 1008 he won the fight for con-grctfsman-at-lnrgo against 1 lord back aud the organization, and repeated tfie trick in lOlO. In 1012, however, be went down in the parly wreckage of (ho Tuft-Koosevelt split, but came bnek in, 1014 as representative from the third Connecticut district. ' , . He has held that acat solidly, over since. Horn beck, however, blocked his (Unbition last December to succeed to the senate scat vacated by Braodegec. Vigorous, resorceful, regular." Til son tnny be counted on to fill the 'leadership" with Tennessee tact and Connecticut courage. beds of epawn occupying dank spaces where the vats once were. A brewery Gilliam, who w.as killed in the Cayuse Indian war. Mrs. Harriet 'Elisabeth Henderson, born at Harrisburg in 1850, the dnughtcr oE Alfre.l end Tolly Hum phrey, died a few days ago at Olym piad Wash. Iu addition to her own family of, seven she had raised and educated six adopted children. Tom Sims Says JtO WONDER Philadelphia is known as a sleepy town. People staying up late at night look slccpy next day. Trice of haircuts is up iu Chicago. Just when it's spring and nil the folks needing them. Once, when a man was in love his barber got rich. Now, when a man's in love, his filling station gets rich, Dancing masters met in New York and decided upon an international dance. The old one is tho war dance. Opium parley failed. Nolhimr much done. A drug on (ho ruarkot will not uc a drug on tun'mnrkct. Los Angeles man wants lights on baby carriages. Hardest thing will be keeping the mufflers on. w Bored a California oil wetl thou sands of feet. Next hieircHt bore in some of tho movies they make. Jn New Y'ork. a woman kicked in a shop window. May liavo seen a hat there just like hers. "Women are good looking but pe culiar. They want their clothes all just alike only different.. Los Angeles doctor finds we all are half lazy. We find he hasn't told the half of it. And, there's the doctor who says we look like what we eat. Wo say he must live on pumpkins. 4 bedspring factory. Every year for the past 20 years John V. Rockefeller, Sr., and John IX, jr., have sent a $10 gold piece to Harry Fnirchiid, baggage master at the Tarry town station. Fairchild bss just died. He had held the job for 30 jears, inheriting it from his father who held it 40 years. '' The revenue cutter Seneca recently captured a rum runner after pursuing it for many miles, directing a steady stream of bullets ou it with machine guns. The revenue men found that the cabin was nrocted with bullet proof glass two inches thick. "The oulv reason 1 surrendered was oe cause your bullets were going through in v thin armor plate into the engine room and 1 didn't want my engineer to be killed," the smuggler told his captors. "I knew you ciuldn't get me behind thatbullet-prooi glass. Oregon Briefs It Is proposed t. dissolve the old I'olk County lair uaauuiiiii'-n at Dal Its and turn back nil fair buildinss and properly to l'olk coi.i.ty to be administered by a juu.y fair board appointed by the enmity court. After being out ot commission f"r ninny weeks, the lower sands light, one ot 111, most important aids to What became ot the hreweries when avi5,iiiin near tho emrance of the prohibition went into effect ; wme of them continue in their old line, makint: beer with the kick tnkeo out. . bis; brewing plant in the Uronx "s now a mushroom plantation, ireat COMMENT OF THE PRESS It. Kincsid hss gone to Seattle bostneas trip. , Teachlnj Religion In School, (New York World) .li;, in.lnmlK.n in liie public ,r'g''1 " 11 PPe the plan. no u'ntild do well to cnoiidrr ! '''he lliilie ahich hss unuallr hue. tme so cluirnioil. that it look III men whether the Commission ou Jewish' Umussiou has bees the leudemy J lu lift one ot them when uncovered , Education, made up ot a number of jlc-din, rabbi, i t,c country, h not' .', . Br,hiorl, , d I im in Tnn&anvikn Territory, A(ri. BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY 1 HAVE KOl'OHT A OOOD VIOHT, I have finished my routs. 1 have kept the faith. Henceforth there laid up fr me a crown of righteousness. 2 Timothy 4:7. Bills Question (Look up the auwer) Is it ioitle l aervi? two litnsiers -Luke l:t:t. 'JNULEWOOD. Cal., March 23. Huge fossilized bones which blocked the operations of a gang of workmen cutting through a new street here recently were examined by Chester Stock, University of California, pale ontologist, yesterday and pronounced portions of a pleistocene mammoth which roamed the hilts of southern California some 50,000 years ago. Tho fossils were found only three fect beneath the surface of . the ground. ONE SURE i WAY ; The" 1 ens sur, ' ? to save-JJl t 1, to putVeeJ tarn amount aside each week and it the Bank . Commerce tk yo are ,1,0 ,ure of safety for your funds. Open an ,,. count with us now. 3 lntere,t Paid Saving, Accounts Bank Commerce EUGEN E.OREGON A British breeder recently sent SO0 ennnncs to rcw lork in one shipment. -Al'PINESS and health go together In youth and age. And the samo causo ot 111 health exists throughout tha years a spine that is not In per fect condition. A Chiro practic adjustment is painless and will relieve you. Howell's Comment By CHESTER II. HOWELL TT SHE.MS only a little while ago when the first young men who had not served in the Civil War began to come to congress. They were invsders of the rule that all offices, elective and appointive, must go to the vetersns, and were tho harbingeTs of a new generation. Now the Inst of the veteruns, CJen eral Jsaae Sherwood, says his vale dictory, aud the Civil War disappears from the public life of the nation. It is the end of an age, which be gan in heroism, exaltation and graft, descended into 1 sordidness, intoler ance and barrenness of soul, expand ed into great material progress, and culminated, morally aud politically, in the Roosevelt era. Then came let-down, partial recov ery, the exaltation of the great war sud the spiritual collapse that fol-' lowed and the last of the veterans survived only to see. the first and most discourugiug stages ot the long cycle through which his own genera tion had also gone. 1'erhaps, having lived through it once.' he is equipped to look with more charily than the rest of us on its cy clic repetition. sMsBiliiniase M R HAPP Y" 2?r?""VY J : -, 1 KNOW A PLACE IF IAVU)CKISBAD-V WHERE THE FINEST S SH ARE TO BE HAD I "TIIK next lime you net fish huncry come fish, in here. Without a hook or line you'll get the best of a fresh, wholosnms catch at a price Hint wouldn't pay your fare to the fishing pond. Watch for Mr. Happy l'arly iEUGENEi .PACKING E 7 Valley Printing Co. Over U. S. Nat'l. Bank. WEDDING AND BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENTS COMMERCIAL AND SOCIAL PRINTING ' FOR QUICK SERVICE CALL 470 3 53 53 0"Atjerdoen," Utah's Best," "Peacock," H Rock Springs Coal, Z Gasco Briquets. Rainier Coal Co. 15 E. 7th Phon, 412 c&3! Smoking will be ppcmitted on the nrw airships, designed to be nsed for nas.'iMigcr service between (ireat Britain and India. t'ttlunib'.a river, nn been replaced b.v tlic tiilpin Construction company ot Portland. T. S. lto9 disappeared from lii home five mill a a!..ve Krer Febru ary J- and has mr been found. It is thought he wai downed in the South ianriam l-ivOT llPIil hl llOllie It tl)f ' I riu'itinv a host. The Tnion experiment farm, under the uperviion of Hobert Withy combe, ahlpped a carload of fat lambs to Tortland lan wee. Cattle have shown a arenter iinie.e in weight during winter aeann ledhi ihan Sn any other previous rtton. Mn. Martha K. C'tltin. a pioreer of IMI. died lan er at her home in Italia. "fip,l ' Mm. t'Hin a daughter of luloucl lorutiiu? PRINTING--Phone Springfield 2 Westerfield & Maxey THE WILLAMETTE PRESS THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS Is Yours A Young Business? f you must answer "Yes, oura Is one of tho ountc,J!J street," you can well slop to i-unsiu.i - What will my bank he when we are douD'cu question aire: The "old timers" on -the street know that doinr; biiineM today is a different problem than when 8th and VI!laine fl mud puddle. And they will tell you that in "fen .m well as now. the U. S. Notional Bank was d",l1r'-hem,. to help Eugene business men with their financial p That Is but a sample of the operation of our liberal. ''"''''Jj banking policy. It enables our organisation to t change with evolving business conditions. As juonil grows and changes you will find that the '."', ne Bank has grown and developed with It. That u businesses can vell afford to bank here. UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK The Bank for Service EUGENE LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK The Bank for Savings Old Time Dance W. O. W. Hall 8th and Lincoln TUESDAY MGI1T March 24 ml every Tuosdny ,d out! SOMETHING WRONG Don't neglect yourself. Neglect may lead t 5 ous illness. ' F CHIROPRACTIC ' - Keinoves the cause Health returns GEO. A.SIMON Examination Free l Willamette St. phen,