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EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS, THURSDAY, FEB. 22,1923 tinction,” The answer is not far to seek, for what is known of Entered at the postoffice in Estacada, the ancient history of Egypt, Oregon, as second-class mail. shows that it was due to moral decadence. The scriptures hint Published every Thursday at of the “diseases of the Egyp- Estacada, Oregon tiana” which were the wages of sin. Their civilization, outward UPTON H. GIBBS ly prosperous and powerful, was Editor and Manager. is still across from the rotten at the core, and so it fell. Postoffice where we are S ubscription R ates The same was true of Babylon, always pleased to meet One year * • - $1.50 of Nineveh and Tyre. ‘‘Mene, our customers and all who Six months - * - .75 Mene, Tekel, Upharsin.” In chance to stop under our each case they were weighed in roof. Come and let us fix Thursday. F e b r u a r y 22, 1928, the balances and found wanting, you up for your spring so the kingdom was taken away B IB L E QUESTIONS work. A full line of from them, l’o the 'hmghtful .- T - - ri 1 j student of history the lesson is - QUESTIONS — Leeds, Grain obvious, that “ Doubtless there is and Bible Answers a God that judgeth the earth.” I I f P a r e n ts will e n c o n r a a e c h ild re n t o look op But another important ques and a n d m e m o ria e t h e B ib le A n e w e r e .lt w ill p ro v e a pricclone h e r it a g e t o t h e m in a f t e r y ea r» . tion arises, “ What is the reason for all the elaborate funerary BARTHOLOMEW About what we Bhould think?—Phil. 4:8 equipment?” The care fer the and LAV/RENCE How can we be sure of success? body by embalming and its se —Phil.-4:13 cure interment in a tomb of solid How can we know the truth?—Jn. 16:13 stone, is readily understood, but why so much paraphernalia, such Kid may yet come to light. But WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN as chariots, vases, robes, statua the latter would seem to be a ry etc. We are told it was owing piker compared to the former. The contrast externally be to the primitive belief of the tween Washington and Lincoln Egyptians that physical life was is marked and striking, as in ap not entirely extinct at death but pearance and manner they were continued to exist within the very different. The former was sepulcher. Hence the departed cast in an aristocratic mold while would want to be surrounded the latter was rough hewn. The with what he had been accus title of “General” seems appfo tomed to during his previous life. (Continued from flirst page) priate to Washington, conjuring This belief survived even when him up to the imagination in the stylish uniform of that rank it was afterwards displaced by pagate the unfit. The senate by a vote of 24 to 5 but Lincoln can never be pictur another, that the dead man passed Representative Hurd’s hill au went to live in the sky, where ed in any other dress than tl at thorlztng an appropriation of $250,000 of somber hued garments, not he became a star, or crossed the for the financial relief of the city ol particularly well fitting. Court heavens daily with the sun-god, Astoria. Under the provisions of the bill liness we associate with Wash or lived with Osiris in the west. But another reason ¡4 alleged, bonds would be Issued by the stricken ington and homely courteousness namely, that after a period of city and these purchased by the state with Lincoln. at par. The securities would draw 4 But these differences were only roaming, the soul would return per cent Interest and mature In 20 to seek its former body with superficial, for beneath the exte years. Although the city o f Astoria rlors both men were very simi which it would be reunited. would pay no Interest during the first lar, both being patriots anc Hence the great care to preserve six years of the life of the bonds, this statesmen of the highest order the body, otherwise the soul exaction by the state would be In and both without fear and with would never find rest. This is cluded In the deferred principal pay All of the money to be derived out reproach. Of recent years most interesting as indicating, ments. from the sale of the bonds would be though obscurely, the truth that Lincoln has been accorded expended In rebuilding the streets, place in the estimation of the the Christian religion emphati sewer system and water mains. people as high as that of Wash cally teaches, namely, that the Representative Gordon’s concurrent ington, and it is likely that some body is an essential part of man’s resolution authorizing a corporation to rank him before the latter. But nature, and that his ultimate be formed to put on a world's fair at Portland In 1927 was adopted In both this is merely individual judg perfect development includes his houses. The resolution would make body as well as his mind and ment, posterity as a whole will the governor, the secretary of state not put one of them before the spirit. The article of the Chris and the state trenrurer members of other, as it is impossible to de tian faith which declares belief the corporation. Changes In Sonus Approved. termine which of the two was in the resurrection of the body A h o u se joint resolution which testifies to this. It does not phi the greater. Nor is it necessary would refer to the people tha question losophize on this point but mere to judge between them, as the of amending the constitution so the debt which the nation owes to ly states the fact without expla benefits of the bonus and loan act How this is to be would be opened to Spanish-Amerlcan each is immense. Both were nation. men of the hour, and both were accomplished, and how the con war veterans and to Oregon soldiers just the men for their particu tinuity of the raised body with who, anticipating the war, went Into the army prior to those now benefited lar hours. Washington was the the body which has been dis by the act, «nd also opening It to sig carded and disintegrated, is man for the revolutionary as nal service women, who heretofore Lincoln was for the civil war pe maintained, it knows not. These have been held to have been civilian riod. We cannot think of any ire matters for devout specula employes, was adopted by the senate who could have excelled either tion, but will never be solved A bill Introduced In the house by in their respective positions, for us until we stand complete Representative Bailey t« prevent aliens not eligible to citizenship In the Uni Comparisons which would exalt n our resurrection bodies. Un tod States from holding any Interest one above the other are entire til then we walk by faith, “ Be In real property In Oregon passed the lieving where we cannot prove.” senate without a dissenting vote. The ly^odious. bill is said to be Identical with the Last week the birthday of Lin coln was gratefully commemora The N ews acknowledges the laws already in effect in Washington California nnd will forbid Orien ted and this week Washington’s. receipt of a copy of Or.n O regon , and tals from owning or leasing land In monthly magazine published There is an appropriateness that Oregon. both days should come in the by the Alumni Association of the The sheriffs' compensation bill, spon same month and fall so near to University of Oregon, T h i s sored by Senator Klepper, was killed gether. Washington and Lin number contains a review of the in the senate. The bill would have coin, the two great twin stars ir s a l a r i e s paid the presieents, provided compensation for sheriffs or deputy sheriffs Injured in the perform the national firmament, ranking cans, professors and instruc- ance of their duties or to their de ors of the state colleges through together for all time, and it pendents |n the event these officials Washington is named first, it is out the Unnited States. Accord were killed In the performance of their solely because in order of time, ing to the figures Oregon pn\ s duties. less than the average salary in Paid Highway Board Is Defeated. he came first. each class. The bouse of representatives for the Eastern Clackamas News TH E NEW FEED STORE Seeds TB SESSION AÏ SALEM RUNS OVER 4fl DAYS B U R IE D TREASURES quire a fifty-fifty apportionment of See Mrs. J. E. Cates for piano coats of overhead or underground rail instruction. Prices reasonable. road crossings on state highways, be 5-4tf tween the railroad companies and the I. O. O. F. building. highway commission and county. Mrs. Simmons’ bill to require physi N O T I C E o r F I L I N G r i N A L ACCOUNT. cal examination of persons, both men No. 2837. and women, seeking marriage licenses, In the matter of the estate of Christian passed the house. The bill has been amended by tack ing on the referendum clause to refer It to the people at the next general election. Also the provision prevent ing marriage of persons whose men tality is not over that of 12 years had been stricken from It Senate Passes W. C. T. U. Bill, Representative Gordon's bill author izing an appropriation of $25,000, with which to assist In establishing a home for dependent children was approved by the senate. The home will be lo cated In Benton county and will be conducted by the W. C. T- U, The senate by a vote of 22 to 3 passed Senator Brown's bill preventing the use of milk in the manufacture of substitutes for butter and other dairy products. The measure was di rected especially at oleomargarine, the manufacture and sale of which has Increased rapidly In Oregon during the past few years. Determined efforts were made to muster strength enough in the house to reconsider the vote by which Sena tor Eddy’s bill to revise the high school courses of study was defeated- The bill passed the senate after a prolonged debate, was reported out of the house committee on education with a divided report, and after the minority report In favor of the bill had been substi tuted for the majority report against It, the bill was voted down by twenty- eight votes against twenty-six with six :: absent. 9:30 a. m, of said day and the Court room of aaid Court has been appointed as the time and place for the hearing of objections to said final account ami settlement thereof. J. GANTENBEIN. Administrator of the estate of Christian Gantenbein. McGUIRK a SCHNEIDER YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IS the means by which you establish your financial credit; and credit is fre quently worth more to you than cash. Legislative Brevities. Representative Carkln on behalf of the house members presented to Speak er and Mrs, Kubll a beautiful engraved sterling silver service of five pieces. With only 20 dissenting votes, the house passed house bill No. 313, In creasing the state tax on gasoljne from 2 to 3 cents a gallon, The senate by a vote of 23 to 7 passed a bill Introduced by the com mittee on military affairs authorizing an appropriation of $15,000 annually for the maintenance of the battleship Oregon In the Portland harbor. Under a bill passed In the senate In corporated towns and cities of the state are prohibited from Issuing a license to aliens to conduct pool halls, dance halls, card rooms, soft drink establishments or engage In the pawn brokers’ business. The senate adopted house concur- fept resolution No. 5, which provides that a commission be named to confer with a like commission from thP state i of Washington to investigate Into the feasibility of building an Interstatr brldno on tha lower Columbia river. ^ Start an account with your HOME BANK. ESTACADA STATE BANK “ Safety and Service.” J Announcem ent W e have been appointed the Exide Service Station for this locality. In addition to selling second time this season has voted down Now that the buried treas r • a bill to provide a paid highway com of King ’T u t” has been unearth- missioned It defeated a bill intro- The discovery in Egypt of the d after being hidden le.urely deced by Representatives Hesse and Adams to appoint a highway commis buried treasures in the tomb of r some five thousand years or sioner to be paid $10.000 per year. King Tutankhamen has aroused more, that of the late Captain The house also defeated a bill to re- the greatest interest. Independ ent of their monetary value, which is estimated at several millions, their historical and archaeological wo r t h is even greater. What light they throw- on th.> civilization of lie Orient before the days of Moses! The H. C. GOHRING Prop. splendor of Egypt was most brilliant, for the treasures in the tomb indicate an era of immense wealth and power, of flourishing arts, commerce and manufac tures. The late Professor Hux Beef, Mjtton, Veal and Hogs fought ley once said, that the Orient was the graveyard of departed greatness, and this latest find in Ope i from 7 a. m. to 6 p. m,--Saturday», op« i to 8 p. m. the sands of Africa confirms his statement Estacada : : Oregon The moralist will ask, “ what was the reason for this total ex — ^ THE ESTACADA MEAT CO. BATTER IE5 the right battery for your car, our service includes skilful repair work on every make of battery. You can rely on responsible advice and rea sonable prices here. 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