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About The Estacada news. (Estacada, Or.) 1904-1908 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1905)
Ayers PLEA FOR THE SIMPLE L IF L By Her. R. A. White, D. D.. Chicago. Cultivate simplicity, live within your mean«, follow your own tastes, and act like sane human beings In stead o f the crazy, Jaded, overworked, overplayed, overdressed set we are The modern tendency Is to become enmeshed In a complication of wants, necessities and confusions, like a fly In a web. The mere struggle for ex Is truce has become woefully com plicated. Business has taken on such complexities as to rob It o f pleasure and threaten It with constant uncer B I T . B. A . W H IT B . tainty. Our pelasures are complex. Simple entertainment no longer satisfies. The stage, the press, art, fiction, and music are all In a mad rush to cre ate or find new sensations for restless, dissatisfied patron age, burdened with many cares and oppressed by an in describable ennui. Simple, tasteful dress scarcely exists; we are an over dressed people, ruled by the latest convention o f clothes makers. W e are mad over superfluous wants. The people worry most over nonessentlal things. No one is any hap pier under these conditions. Everyone has a look o f care. Our women are not rosy and contented looking. Our young men breed wrinkles early. Men and women who dress to suit themselves and be comfortable are freaks. To keep up appearances, people wear clothes which they have not paid for and cannot afford. To march with the procession, people eat food for which they have not paid the grocer, live In houses with rent In arrears, affect a style o f life they have no visible means o f supporting. Living at our present pace Is responsible for most of our modem crime. From the snare o f small debts, brought on by ex pensive living, many a man seeks to escape by certain spec ulations and finally by certain peculations. POWER OF CIRCUMSTANCE IN LOVE AFFAIRS. B y H e le n O ld rietd . i There la nothing in the conduct o f life to which the trite old saying that “ circumstances t l alter cases” applies more forcibly than to love f j affairs. No one Is altogether sure o f one's self, K still less of another, and none can gauge cor W rectly the depths o f another's heart. They who A ask advice concerning the course to be pursued In the dilemmas of love are usually 111 advised. S 5 = L -J s u c h problems are o f those with which no one should Intermeddle. The man who wishes to be told wheth er he will be sufe in marrying a woman who he is reasonably sure loves him, but with whom he Is not In love; a woman whom he likes thoroughly and of whom he cordially ap proves; must in all kindness and Justice to himself and to her decide the question for them both. He only can Judge whether his temperament is such that cordial liking for. C A N A D A 'S E X P AN S IO N . H a s E x p e r ie n c e d a W o - id c r fu l D e v e lo p m en t in R e c e n t Y e a r s . Within tbe past five years, Canada's total trade has increased by 05 per cent; that of the United States, 33 per cent.; that o f Britain, 10 per cent. Canada's foreign trade is $83 per capi ta; that of the United States only $33. H er revenue is $12.40 per capita, and her expenditure $0.56; the United States’ revenue being $7.70 and ex penditure $7.04. The public debt of Canada is but $00 per capita, while that of her sister commonwealth— Australia— is $230. Canada's over sea trade last year was $451.000,000— more than double that of Japan, almost equal to Russia's. Her merchant ship ping tonnage exceeds Japan's; her railway mileage is half that o f Rus sia. It Is now thirty-seven years sines the federation of Canada was sccom- pltshed. and about half that space of time sigee what was then thought the visionary prospect o f spanning the continent with the Canadian Pacific Railway was conceived. The North west was considered a wilderness of snow and ice—a vast lone land, ten- antlcss save by the bison and the yed man. Phenomenal has been the change since then. Along the lnter- nstionsl boundary, twenty years ago, was sn acreage o f 250,000 under crop, yielding 1,200.000 buahela o f wheat Now the acreage is over 4.000.000, and tbs annual yield 110,000,000 bushels, w h ile population, acreage, and output and a firm faith In, his w ife can fill the place of genuine, permanent love. In case love declines to follow in their wake. He must take into consideration that sweetness is cloying when not desired, and question himself closely as to whether the demonstrations o f a love which he docs not share may not prove wearisome beyond his power to con ceal that weariness. There are not many women to whose hearts true and earnest love cannot find Its way sooner or later; few who are proof against a loyal and loving lover. Which fact. In view of the insurmountable law that a woman cay not choose, except from among those who choose her, Is un doubtedly a merciful dispensation o f providence. The love which last* must be founded upon the rock of mutual re spect, else, when the storms of adversity come and the floods beat upon that love, It will fall and fall like the house In the parable which was bullded upon Band. WOMEN CRIMINALS WORSE THAN MEN. By Seorge C la retle. Losing your hair? Coming out by the combful? And doing nothing? N o sense in that! Why don’t you use A y e r ’ s H a i r V i g o r and Hair Vigor promptly stop the falling? Your hair will begin to grow, too, and all dandruff will dis appear. Could you reason ably expect anything better? “ A y e r ’ s f la ir V is o r Is a (treat s u c c e ss w ith m e. M y lia lr w as f a llin g o u t v e ry b a d ly , b u t th e H a ir V ig o r stopped It an d no w m y h a ir Is a l l r ig h t .’* — W . C . L o g b d o n . L in d s a y , C al. #100 a b o ttle . A. C. A n i t c o ., £ q |» m BB T h in H a ir Crime and criminal women have always been O f the thirty-eight Sultana who have o< the greatest Interest to the vulgar herd. Last ruled the Ottoman empire since the con year It was the Humbert affair; this year It is quest o f Constantinople by the Turks, Italy which, In the person o f the Countess Bon- thirty-four have died violent deaths. rnartln, runs In close rivalry to France. Certain crimes, which had grown rare of late years, have ~ Tha brusquely reappeared. Poison has become fash most careful farmers ionable once more. For crime has Its fashion; nd gardenersevery where^1 now It is the revolver, now vitriol, now poison. The dag place confidence in Ferry's ger has been cast aside for a weapon as unerring, but more Seeds—the kind that never fall. dangerous and even more dastardly—poison. And now rumors of poisoning cases are becoming more and more frequent. A few months ago Mrne. Galtle, at Lectoure, and Mine. Massot, at Marseilles, were accused of poison ing their husbands, and at Rouen Mine. Bonroy is being have been the standard for 49 years. , tried for having killed her husband In the same way. k They are not an experim ent, i A poisoner has the maddened thirst o f a drunknrd, with , Hold by all dealers. l«0 .r> Herd ( A n n u a l free for the asking. ^ tills difference, however, that she pours out her beverage D. M. FERRY A CO., for others. She has visibly her hysteria. Tills refinement Detroit, Mich. of cruelty, this sort of pernicious daintiness In crime, is a' malady like any others. In certain women this hysteria will turn Into a need of lying, of Inventing extraordinary tales. In others it becomes a passion for writing unsigned letters, often addressed to themselves; In othes still, it Is the madness o f crime, the Impulsive, irresistible need of killing Just for the pletasure o f killing, to see the features drawn In the agony of pain, the throes of the dying. For the Study of Now we are having a little epidemic o f poisoning. But a noticeable feature Is this— all these crime« take place In BOOKKEEPING OR the provinces. It would seem as If a Parisian woman, In SHORTHAND her feverish existence, in her whirlwind of a life, has neither the time nor the quiet mind necessary to set upon ! is important. W e a victim with the aame cold slowness.the same dally feroci can show results, ty. When a Parlslenne does revenge herself upon some for every one of body, she uses her revolver, in between two calls, or two our graduates are outings In her automobile. Everything goes quickly in employed. Paris, even murder. are augmenting at a rate no other country can approach. To-day, so amazing has been the development of the Northwest the Canadian Pacific Railway Is unable to serve its commercial needs. The grain production of the territory Is too enor mous for Its road, practically double- tracked though It Is with sidings and sentineled with elevators. Every fall there Is an absolute congestion, with grain coming out and lumber, coal and other commodities going In. Conse quently, much of this traffic has to be handled by American transportation agencies. The United States has 2,000 cargo boats on the Great Lakes, while Cnnada had only thirty; and all the principal American railways have working alliances with those o f Can ada. Therefore, two other transconti nental railway systems are now being projected for Canada, that the wheat belt may be properly served. These are the Grand Trunk Pacific and the Canndlan Northern lines, bisecting the prairies at distances apart which will enable the as yet untllled areas to be brought Into speedy cultivation, and affording facilities for peopling tbe tenantless wilds at a rats undreamed o f ten years ago. homesteads, while In 1902 the number had grown to 21,6s2 and ln*t year this total more than doubled, rising to 47,- 780, which figure Is expected to dupli cate Itself during the present season. Write for our Catalogue HOLMES BUSINESS COLLEGE T .E C .A . Bldg. D i d n ' t M in d Reanlts. The Insurance men were exchanging vacation reminiscences In Dearborn street. "The pleasantest sight I saw up In Wisconsin while I was there,” said the red faced man, “ was an old fisherman we passed one day In the canoes, smok ing his pipe, and with rod out anxious ly awaiting reeulta. " 'W h a t d'ye fish with?” asked onr guide as we passed. “ ‘ Frogs, o f course,' said the lone fisherman, calmly. “ The guide broke out In a loud guf faw. And Just then I couldn't see why. Then he pointed to a big log that lay In the stream a little distance away from the fisherman. He bad neglected to weight bis line sufficient ly to keep the bait down, and the frog had come to the surface on the other side of one o f the logs, leaped on It and sat there comfortably blinking In tbe sunlight “ Tw o hours lster we returned. The frog was still there, and tbe old fisher Nothing so eloquently attests ths man smoked on In blissful Ignorance altered attitude o f the world to Cana o f the situation. da as her Increased Immigration and “ I wish we could take poor results especially that from across the Ameri as cheerfully as that old chap up In can border. In 1803 only 10.000 Im Wisconsin."— Chicago Inter Ocean. migrant* entered Canada, whereas In 1008 the total had grown to 124,658. B a w lin g Is oos o f tbs noisiest words In 1808 only 44 Americans applied for In tbe language. ECONOM ICAL PORTLAND. ORE. IRRIGATOR Phillips Hydraulic i NO COST o r OPERATION Writs today for fres m tut rated booklet. COLUMBIA ENGINEERING WORKS loth sad Johnson attests, Portland, Ora.