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About Washington County news. (Forest Grove, Washington County, Or.) 1903-1911 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1905)
■ mm WMMMBMM I danger o f an entire fallare o f crop» la overcome. Intensified fanning has come to stay. The things that are carried highest on gusts of popularity often weigh the least. Vaccination experts say that many people can escape smallpox by a s c r a t c h . ___________ ____ Wben you meet a man and are at a loss for a subject of conversation ask him to tell you about his troubles. In order to comply with the fltneee • f things Boston should remove the sacred codfish from the capital and hang up a sole. Marriage and hanging go by deetlny; matches are made In heaven, saya Montaigne. Montaigne must have been a divorce lawyer. Andrew Carnegie has a large ellce of hie fortune yet remaining. H e la atlll In good health, but If anything should happen to him----- It la not dent going monies of have been a bit surprising that a stu through the Initiation cere a college fraternity should considered Insane. The argument that the Russian sol dier* use cigarettes sounds like a clincher until you hear that the Japs are. If anything, more ardent In their devotion to the measly little things. I f Emperor W illiam '* throat had not been a good strong one In the begin ning It could hardly have been expect ed to keep on being neeful after all the things that the correspondents have done to It. An archeologist declare# that Noah was the first millionaire, end that the ark wn* built at a coet o f <800.000 or more. There la room for the belief, however, that Noah paid the contrac tors In watered stock. The servant girl who found <2,000 In the street requested a deadhead ad vertisement In a newspaper, saying she had no money with which to pay. Ingrowing honesty would seem to he that woman’s complaint. A California profeseor of philosophy announces that there are too many womep In the colleges. They inter fere with the attainment o f high scholarly Ideals, he says. He must be an elderly person who has no daugh ters. Another Pittsburg heiress baa found a titled foreigner who la willing to marry for a cash consideration. Pitts burg heiresses appear to be having little difficulty o f late In making It possible for the world to see their smoke. John Philip Zelgler, of New York, hanged himself a few evenings ago because dinner wasn't ready when he <°t home. So there wae an egg wast ed and one oup of coffee might as well have been saved. Some men are so thoughtless when they get angry. It develops that years ago Conan Doyle wrote a letter from the United States declaring that America would reach the chief place among the Bng- 11 all speaking nations Sherlock Holmes had not been created then, but Dr. Doyle did not need hla detective to make this discovery. An Alaskan missionary mekss a re quest which shows bow diversified are the needs of hla onlltng. He ask* for "a peck of spectacles and eye-glasses.” A few years ago he made a similar re quest. and In response received a large quantity. The supply la running short and there are frequent applications for glasses from people to whom they would be a great boon. 1%* glasses would not only minister to comfort, but aid some persons In gaining a livelihood. The public school has been the cor ner stone o f our civil and social struc ture. Whatever o f strength we have attained, whatever advance we have made, have had their origin and their hvsi dratlon there. The suggestion that we are aiming too high and spending too much on oar schools sounds ominous and reactionary. We may be spending too much if our sys tem le to be the sport of local politic* and the spoil o f their manipulators, because that way lies graft and gen- tral demoralisation, hut If the funds are honestly employed to make our educational Influencée the most en lightening and far-reaching possible we oan make no 1-etter investment than to keep on spending and annually Increasing the amount. Constantly Increasing density of population and stewdily advancing value of laud are doing much to ehange the eyttem of farming In the United States. While large “ bonan sa" farms are atlH to be found In th* prairie region# and will continue to exist for many years to come, their number la decreasing and the email farm become* every year more com mon. Acreage le giving wey to culti vation. and what th* Individual farm er leeks In tree of land h* makes up In fertility. I f be has lees capital In vested In hls farm he Invests more capital In th* form o f labor and pro- ttucee practically th* tame results In th* way of profits. Though th* profit* are perhaps not so large In extremely favorable year*, tbs better cultivation make* th* yield more certain and the §GM JlfeRNS Chicago is revolving some criticism because of her rigorous treatment of robbers. The statute making highway robbery punishable by life Imprison ment has been resurrected and In one week nine hold-up men were sent over the road for life. All right! It 1* hu mane and Juet to talk about reform GET AIN ACRE AND LIVE ON IT. B Y 6 eo rge M. Maxwell. ing criminal*. Every man who err* Get an acre and lire on It. I wish I could burn and is sorry, and want* to do better that thought Into the heart o f every working- should be given as much opportunity man In America. In the West I would say, get for reformation as the welfare of so an Irrigated acre. I f every man who now works ciety can stand. But the man who eight hours a day in a factory could work four makes an assault for the purpose of hours a day in a factory and four hours a day on gain Is at heart a detestable murderer. hls own acre o f land be would double hls In He Isn’t an ordinary thug. He Is pre come and he would lusure himself, hls wife, and pared to slay. Human life Is sacred. hls children against want when the day’s wage It Is a fact pretty well ground Into w o u k i stop. But we must have a different system of na the brain of every human being. The tional education from the present one, which trains our man who waits In the dark armed with I children away from the land. This idea Is gaining ground. a bludgeon and a revolver, keyed to | We have manual training and domestic science taught In the point where he w ill kill In order some of our schools. That is getting back to the true sys to gain your personal property, 1* a tem of education, where, instead of the old folks remain premeditated murderer. He know* ing at home to die alone while the boys go to the cities what he Is doing, and what be pro with the Idea of becoming millionaires, but to end as coun poses to do. He also knows that in ter-jumpers and clerks, the making and keeping o f a home most cities If he can employ a smart la taught Every child should be made a gardener and a attorney, one with a political pull pre horticulturist. The winter term should be devoted half to ferred, and has enough money, or books and half to work on the benches, and a summer term friends who have money, he can either should be devoted to agriculture. The boys would learn to escape entirely or get off with a short build a home and the girls to care for them as wives and sentence. That kind of a man la an mothers. W e are gradually getting away from the heresy enemy o f society. Decency forbids that money Is all in this life and that man must raise electrocuting him unless he has taken something, sell It, and buy something back again before he life, and so wisdom demands that he gets what he wants. disappear, not for a few month* or a The evil of our life Is not that the rich are getting few years, but until he shaH emerge richer or the poor are getting poorer, but It Is the lack of from behind the dark walls of a prison cultivation o f the soil. No man can oppress a sturdy race In hls coffin. Reform him In hit cell of farmers that own and till the land. The land Is the If you will. Treat him humanely and greatest resource of a nation. Our public lands should be kindly. But keep him where he will securely held for the real homemakers. There are men never again be tempted to raise hls who have acquired, as was never Intended by Congress murderous hands against his kind. great tracts o f thousands of acres o f land without settle A look at the criminal statistics of ment and without the building o f a single home. These this country and perusal of the thou laws are still upon the statute books. Moreover the great sands of criminal tragedies reported In live stock Interests and the speculators are Intent upon the newspuper* prove that the terror keeping them there and even upon attempting to secure of the law does not appeal to those new land speculative legislation. who do wrong with the force It should. Certainly Chicago has done well. FIRST LEARN YOUR CUSTOMERS’ WANTS. B y J o h n A. H o w la n d . In the Stonewall mine, San Diego County, Cal., an earthquake so twist ed the shaft that the timbers were pulled around to the opposite sides of the shaft from their original position. A man was arrested at Baltimore method— Just when the failure to make a sale was not yout own fault and Just when It resulted from your own care election day because he Insisted on lessness. Your confidence and consequently your effective- telling people that It would take only ness constantly Increase as you reduce your work to a fifteen million horses, twelve thousand systematic procedure. Y’ou always "know where you are derricks and eight hundred mile» of at,” you can note your own progress, and there la with ropes and chains to move the world, such a method far less cause for possible discouragement Venezuela Is In search o f alligator There 1» nothing so helpful as knowing the cause of each hunters The Venezuelan waters are failure you make; for If you know your weak point you fu „ of theM reptlles, and good money can guard against It next time. This cautious method of ^ be ma(Je by kllllng them, aH th„ always finding out what a prospective customer wants be- aklng ar0 valuable aud tbe oll> whlch fore taking your goods to him Is tbe only way to become cfin be abatracted> alao brlugg go0d a really high-class salesman, prices. THE MYSTERIOUS W AYS 0T FASHION. By Gabriel da la Rochefoucauld. In literature and In politics Fashion has few ideas, but she dictates opinions. Often It Is wise to listen to her lavish advice In order not to be come the object of ridicule. Ridicule Is Fash ion’s weapon, which she piles without mercy when she chooses to take revenge. Sometimes artless persons, noticing that Fash ion rarely sdmlres the same thing two days In succession, are led into trying to anticipate her. But, alas, what an error! They will soon learn that what she chooses to like at any particular time they also must like. Fashion has numerous whima, to which she attaches a canonlike Importance. She takes tea while playing bridge and drinks beer when engaging In a game of manllle. She does not tolerate all diseases. It Is all right to suffer from appendicitis, though she Is particularly partial to neuras thenia. To cure her three or four doctors, her friends, are necessary. Of course, we must pardon this weakness, for she has confidence only In them. Fashion has her likes and dislikes. She has no use for the poor. She affects to pity them, but defends herself against their cries. All her sympathies are with the rich, although she counsels them not to speak of money. When the poor man dines at the table of tbe rich, Fashion teaches him to pay good breeding graceful compliments, lie must not bewail his condition then. At the end of the repast, however, after having shown that he Is free from Jealousy, It is quite proper If he leans over to hls neighbor and whispers: “ Do you believe all this luxury produces happiness?” W e might ask with some concern how she will manage to pass the time when the automobile w ill have seen its day. What form of excitement will take its place? Maybe she w ill turn to some o f her old tricks. When races and bookmakers shall have lost their charm perhaps she will revive some o f the diversions of ancient times. So marked la the falling off In the The highest class salesman never appears to number o f college men seeking to en work hard to make a sale. Usually he Is not a ter the ministry that a conference has great talker. It Is the clerks In cheap stores whi been held In Boston to consider the talk hard and fast; they hustle and sweat and matter and take tome action In re appear to try to corner their customers and to gard to It. The conference constated browbeat them Into buying. The first class sales o f prominent educators, editors and man is cool and easy In manner because he has clergymen and was the first of a se studied hls art. The great talker may be a good ries to be held in different cities with salesman, but he chooses the hardest road. The a view o f encouraging young men to salesman who wants to pass everybody must have, either MANY WOMEN TALK TOO MICH. enter the ministry. It is the purpose consciously or unconsciously, a definite method o f pro By Nikola G re e le y - S m lt h . also to find out the cause* why so few Some women are born gabblers, but more are cedure. are disposed to follow the calling. One made so by the mistaken Idea that men have to Before trying to sell anything find out what the person serious difficulty that stands In the can buy. When a man has told you Just what he wants he be “ entertained” and that the way to entertain way of the young man who thinks of has committed himself and he has given you a distinct ad them Is by a constant volley o f rapid-fire conver entering the pulpit Is hls uncertainty vantage. In business It Is the effort of each man to make sation. It Is safe to say that In ninety-nine out as to the doctrines he shall preach. the other man “ come to him,” and as soon as your pros of 100 couples one meets casually the girl Is do He may enter the divinity school and pective customer has told you what he wants— material, ing the talking; possibly she Is succeeding In after three years of eloae atudy find style, price, etc.— he has “ come to you;” all you have to do being “ entertaining,” but that Is by no means so that the particular theology to which Is to fill the order. I f you can do that there Is a strong certain as if the man were doing the talking. he has given special attention Is no presumption in favor of a sale without much further effort Men like to talk. There Is hardly any man who cannot longer tenable, at least by him. He on your part. talk well on some one subject. And there are some women can not preach what he does not him It is of course absolutely Impossible to make a sale for who possess a genius for discovering what that one subject self believe and he can not afford the every inquiry, but what an Immense satisfaction It Is to Is. The silent woman w ill always be preferred by man to time to go over the ground la another know accurately— as you can know If you follow this the gabbling woman Institution. Theology 1* In a peculiar state of transition to-day. Archaelogl- C U T T IN G U P TH E RANGES. cnl researches and the higher criticism have disturbed the old foundation* aQd Vast Tracts o f Land in the Southwest B ein g Given Up to F a rm in g . it Is a wise man who know* what to Conditions in the great ranch coun accept and what to reject. Wiser atlll does he have to be who would guide try of the Southwest were never iu other* In this respect. The congrega better shape for the homeseeker and tions to-day are far more critical and Investor, says S. A. Hughes, general exacting than they were fifty or even Immigration agent of the ’ Frisco Sys twenty years ago. Books are plenty tem, who has Just returned from an and the dally newspapers keep even extensive trip through Texas. The the masses well Informed on public cuttle rauches are being generally cut matters. People tre not as dependent up and Bold out In small tracts to on the pulpit for Information, religious furmers front the East and the North. and otherwise, as they were a genera-'1 One railroad system has been carry tlon or two age. T h * mlnlatsr does ing about 2,500 homeseekers Into the not stand out to-day aa the one well- cheap laud districts along Its line each informed man In th* community. The month for the last two years, and the clergyman o f to-day la also likely to other southwestern roads have been doing nearly as large a business. Con face empty pews. Formerly all so- sequently It Is safe to say that Okla called respectable persons went to homa, Texas, Indian Territory and A r church, either from a sense o f duty kansas have Increased at the rate of or from motives of policy. To-day 10,000 settlors a month. Tbe invasion there Is not that feeling o f obligation of the ranch lands has come from and the clergy are often at tbelr wits' Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Nebraska, Illi ends to know how to build up the nois, Indiana and Kentucky. church and aecure an audience. These In recent years the cattlemen have are some o f the facta which the con been feeding tbelr cattle In pens and ference* will have to consider when fattening them on crops grown by they think of urging young men to en farmers. Hence It Is no longer neces ter the ministry. These conditions do sary to devote the grass products of not menu that religion Is on the wane. twenty acres of land to fattening one That la Impossible, for the religious steer. Cattlemen have no further use nature Is an essential part of the hu for the lnrul. and are selling It ut man race. It simply means that forms prices o f from »3 to <15 an acre. are changing and the new times call The northern and eastern farmers for new methods who have bought this ranch land and The spirited sketch above Is reproduced from the London Graphic, which begun to cultivate the soil have all Keatly for the O rdeal. made money. One man near Corpus has an artist at Port Arthur. The Incident depleted Is an assault on one of Christl bought a tract o f ranch land the central forts o f Port Arthur. The slopes In front o f the Russian forts at $15 an acre and put It out in Ber were thickly strewn with the bodies o f the Japanese, who pressed for muda onions. Tw o years later he sold ward In the face o f almost certain death. The signature of the Japanese <11.000 worth of onions from eighteen censor, who passed upon the drawing. Is on the lower left-hand corner. acres. In Greer County, Oklahoma, land handicapped In their trade with China strangely Intermingled with English sold at <5 an acre two years ago. but on account o f the many dialects that constructions. Pidgin English Is easi prices have Jumped to $15 and <25 an are spoken In that country. But these ly picked up by the Chinese and En acre. Farmer* are raising a bale o f difficulties have been removed long glish-speaking merchants, and Is rap cotton or thirty-five bushels o f wheat ago, for a flourishing trade has been idly extending to the Interior o f India, to the acre in that region. One of the carried on with the flowery kingdom so that In part It answers the same richest parts o f Oklahoma. Juet now by the English for many year*. In purpose# that were Intended for vola- being made a central point for home- order to make themselves understood puk, the universal language that wa* seeker», la Woods County, In the Eagle tbe English merchants have adopted proposed eotne years ago. Chief Vnlley. Only a few years «go a Jargon known as pidgin English, B ritish Sum m er Dress. this valley was a vast cattle range, which Is readily understood by all Yesterday I saw a man with a cum but It Is now a thickly settled and Chinamen who have occasion to do prosperous farm community.— New business with the Britisher# or Ameri merbund wearing a long mackintosh, and another with a Panama hat car York Sun. cans. rying an umbrella, both surely allow Ptdgln English means "bnslness" A M E R I C A N P ID G I N E N G L I S H . ing an indecent lack o f confidence In English, and It Is used In all o f the How We W ill Talk When Conunarce seaport towns o f Chins. It la a queefi the weather. Tbe most extraordinary get-up. however, was that o f a man In Extends to China. sort of a Jargon, with no attempt at She O f course you say that you a yellow straw hat a black frock coat Since the Japanese have begun to grammar, inflection or conjunction, would go through fire and water and a tartan tie. blue cummerbund, whtto endure hardship* for my take, but you take such an active part In tbe affairs but la Uterally a word-for-word trans duck trousers aud yellow ihoes.— Tail of nations the attention o f Americans lation. All that la necessary for a can not prove It or and Cutter. ___ lie — But I can, dearest. I am will has been drawn closer than ever be Chinaman to do In order to converse Grocers aay their business developi fore to the Orient, says the Brooklyn by means o f It la to acquire a few ing to go through a full drese fashion Eagle In th* event that Japan suc hundred words, with the grammar the greatest number o f mean people able wedding ae soon aa yen like, ceeds In keeping Knasta out o f Man modified to suit hla own language. In Tbe rest o f ns would like to dispute Taetee are about evenly divided churia the long-talked-of “open door” a good many respects It correspond* that point H alf th* people want tlielr plofclee In China will become a reality. At with the “ posh an' posh” o f the Ro Ever remark now tar town th« eour. and th* other half want them first glance It would seem that tbe En many dialect used by English gypsies. farm » are that real estate agent. *aj sw eet glish speaking merchants would be In which Hindu-Persian word* are are within a mil* o f to w n f WAR WITHOUT THE GLORY. Swiss watchmakers have now added a phonograph to some of their wonder ful watches. A small rubber disc is put In the watch and arranged in such a way tha. the record Is repeated ev ery hour. Anything can be put on the record that the owner wishes. In captivity elephants always stand up when they sleep, but when In the Jungle, In their own land and home, they lie down. The reason given for the difference between the elephant in captivity and in freedom Is that the animal never acquires complete confi dence In hls keepers and always longs for liberty. The crew o f the whaler Lara Han sen saw, according to the Indianapolis News, frozen In a monster Iceberg a female polar bear and two cubs, the cubs nestling against the mother. The berg stood out of the water fully 100 feet and the Ice wherein the bears were entombed was clear as a crystal. H ow long the animals had been locked In their winter palace is a matter o f conjecture, but they were at least 23 feet above the water. A trial was recently made In Austria to decide In how short a time living trees could be converted tnto news papers. A t Elsenthal, at 7:35 In the morning, three trees were sawn down; aj P:3 q the wood, having been stripped 0f bark, cut up, and converted Into pulp, became paper, and passed from the factory to the press, whence the first printed and folded copy was Is sued at 10 o’clock. So that In 145 min utes the trees had become newspapers. A well-known artist was once en gaged upon a sacred picture, according to “ Mainly About People.” A very handsome old model named Smith sat for the head o f St. Mark. Artist and model became great friends, but when the picture was finished they lost sight of one another. One day, how ever, the artist, wandering about the Zoological Gardens, came upon his old model, with a broom In hls hand, look ing very disconsolate. “ Hullo, Smith,” said he; “you don’t look very cheery. What are you doing now?” “ Well, I ain’t doin’ much, sir, and that's a fa c t I ’m engaged in these 'ere gardens a-cleanin’ hout the helephants’ stablesj a.nice occpyatlon for one o’ the twelve apostles, ain’t It, sir?” N - R A Y S S H O U L D BE P I N K . They Ind ic ate u Good L if e , Bara Dr. Hooker. The Lancet publishes a letter from Dr. Hooker on the results o f three years’ experiments with the Blondlota N-rays emitted by the human body. Dr. Hooker says he has established the fact that these rays differ In color according to the character and tem perament of a person, and also that the rays are not merely heat vibra tions, as he proved by passing ray» from hls own hand through the fore arm of a corpse to a prepared screen which Immediately showed Increased luminosity. In reference to the d if fering colors of the rays, Dr. Hooker says: “ Rays emanating from a very pas sionate man have a deep red hue. One whose keynote In life is to be good and to do good, throws off pink rays; an ambitious man emits orange rays; a deep thlnaer throws off deep blue; a lover of art and refined sur roundings, yellow; an anxious, de pressed person, gray; one who leads a low, debased life, muddy brown rays; a devotional, good meaning per son, light blue; progressive minded, light green, and physically or mentally 111 person, dark green rays." Dr. Hooker admits that hls state ment may be received at first with a smile o f Incredulity, but he is con fident It will sooner or later be accept ed as a fact. He further says he has proved that N-rays are not only given off by the human body, but by object* which have been In contact there with. H e obtained this impression from a letter thirty years old, which proved that the rays are radioactive and retain their power on the paper on which writing Is made.— London Ow- bis to the New York Sun. _______________________ Perfum es ae Disinfectants. It Is a well-known fact that workers among lavender beds seldom take In fectious ailments and those engaged In the perfumery trade are singularly free from them. A good perfume in the old daya was considered an excellent disinfectant Tbe doctors then used to carry walking sticks with sliver or gold knobs. These opened with a lid. » HnyK V ,™ !* ? " boS’ wh'ch the physician held to hla nose when entering rooms containing patients U1 with any Infectious disease. _______________________ There are two ways o f paralyzing your neighbors: one is to get a dl- vorce and the other la to go abroad. m Do you always keep an appoint or Ju, t cUlm ^ 3