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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931 | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1903)
" " J i V 'WQTd) Ciiuitcu op thk kutuhi;, Or bcorfe u lorlwtr Ezeklel 13: 10. When the ship Is In n leaky condition, 'or when tin nrmy Is In n precarious state, or when there Is u senna, of IiiAtvitrlty hi. business, tho lint tlilnjMo do Is to lliul out tn ox tent of tho damage. Know your prob lotn atul then you may do poinothlng for Its notation. Don't wulk up ami down the dock culling out th:U tho ves sel's nil right when you can toll by tho water line she's slowly slukhig. Wc have tried to state the tmc con dition of things religiously In cities, and we hare pointed out the disturbing and disquieting features a they are. Itut we are no alarmists. I have not the least Idea that the ship will sink or that the lord's anuy will be defeat ed. I have contldeuce lu fiod mid the future. Hut he woiks by mean nnd not without them, and If wo let things drift we shall surely go on the rocks. What we need to do Is with all cour- aire and confidence undertake to rem edy the evils that exlttt and nrrest the tendencies which every serious thinker recognizes. What shall we attempt? Tho pro phet In our text exhorts us not to build with untctupcrcd mortar, but to do thoroughly what we set out to per form. Superficial remedies will not meet the needs of the hour. More robw for the clergy, vestments for choirs, stereoptloon for preachers, or chestras for worship and similar ap pliances will not change the tdtuatlou. There are churches where these things exist and where preaching has been minimized to the vanishing point, born hi length nnd In strength, nnd where the congregations notwithstanding are meager nnd the spiritual gains Imper ceptible. Such details are purely a matter of tnsto or of ecclesiastical tradition. It was not the surplice that made Phillips Urookn n spiritual fUrce, nnd the lack of a (Jenevlan gown did not Impair the pulpit power of Spurgeon. Audstho people are too Intelligent to be drawn to church by the rustle of silk or the gleaming of lawn, nnd they nre not likely to stay nwny because the minis, ter prefers to wear nn ordinary frock coat. No; the ouTclency of clergy nnd churches, believe me. Is not an affair of dress or of special rites nnd cere monies. Wc know that In the physical world n great deal depends on atmowphcro. If the air Is close. Impure, overheated, we suffer. So also, the dominant spirit of a church goes far toward her real Influence for good, Let doubt, cheer lessncss nnd general depression pre vail, nnd let the mejiiber be cold, stiff and exclusive, nud naturally the out side public will bo repelled. Why car ry our perplexities, sorrows nnd trials Into nn atmosphere surcharged with superciliousness, apathy and gloom? Hut let tho representatives of religion be bright, joyous nnd by their manner mako tho stranger feel that be Is web come und that religion Is really worth having, and the sanctuaries will be thronged. Hi-member the world progresses not by the extraordinary but the ordinary; not by n coup de theater, but by the natural and commonplace. The resus citation of evangelical religion In Amer ica does not really call for scenic dis plays, frenetic extravagances, fantas tic, erratic or erotic beliefs, but sim ply for the realization of tho generous warm-hearted, sympathetic and broth erly spirit which it professes to in culcate. It's power will llkdwlse revive If its real purpose Is kept clearly before the community. Many persons are asking, for what real work does the churcli ex ist? They have been told that thn church declines, but religion grows. Naturally they are perplexed. They read ot Increase In divorce, increase lu crime, increase '" boodllng, nnd when they have read tho confessions of u Lieutenant Govocnor and the reiterat ed charges of misrepresentation and misappropriations on the part of de cent combinations they naturally won der. If these things co-exist with tho advance of religion with a declining church. The best thing for the com munity would be for the church to re ive and give us a purer social and public life. ' The churcb has a real mission. She ought to bring Uod and man closer to gether, and nmu with man into fellow ship, so that Justice nnd righteousness may prevail. Never has me taken her self cerlously and brought things to pass without crowding her pews and blessing the whole community. Hut she can never" meet the new ago with small churches open about six or even hours Jn the week. Fifty years mm ?WJPW from now tho drawing room nnd Sun day houses of worship will belong to I the past. There will comu In their stead n uew order of things. Tho pre dominant typo Hill bo something llko this; A massive building, largo enough to bo hospitable und where pew rent will ho so reasonable tlmt ponton ot modest menus can enjoy tho best, and social discriminations cense, nuu wuere also, many pews can bo free and open to nil. Tin church room Itself will bo dlgnlllcd, simple, cheery, and will bo I man understanding by not always car open every il.ty lutho week for rent ling to do what a human being asks nud prayer, nud with centpelent per- of thorn, tnit make a donkey love you sons In attendance to giro counsel or show sympathy for those who may need help. Sunday services will com mand the bent In tho wny of music nud scholarship, nud yet tho music will not degenerate Into concerts or the scholar ship Into pedantry nud dullness. Tho afternoon will bo given up to children for social Instruction, aided by tho stereoptlcon and singing, nnd where the lectures shall deal with natural as well as revealed religion. There will bo n church house In con- uoctlon with tho church Itself., and not, ns now It generally Is, away In some siiualld and dark neighborhood. nnd In It there will bo guild rooms for young women, with every comfort, and similar rooms -for young men, nud ev ery evening In the social hall somo.ncss watch It for yourself. Tho com form ot entertainment or means of In- mon barnyard geese need not lx structton. This kind of cnthcdral limned to bo studied with the duck church, not off In Uie slums, but In nd tho chickens ot the poultry house; the best neighborhoods, would go far they bear tho comparison very well townrd removing the Impression that Indeed. Tho wild goose, however, religion Is aloof from our common life, which never associate with human bo und would deepen tho Interest of nil Ings In or about a barnyard are ro classes In Its progress. .marknbty Intelligent birds. No one Is While In this wny religion builds up railed "as silly as a wild goose," while Itself, ns a social factor, It must cop- lo lead one "a wild-goose chase" I to corn Itself with chic matters. She lead blm ono knows not where, so must stand fpr municipal purity and sunning Is tho bird lu Its strong, un elllcleucy, and not withhold her out- trapped tight. spoken support from those who are leg- "As wise ns an owl." If over tho n (slating to protect women nud children penrnnce of wisdom Was mistaken for from tho rnvngn of commercial greed, tho quality It Is In tho extraordinary Never should she forget that sho Is Intelligence attributed to the owl. Why dealing with human nature and not with angelic nature. Hero she stnnds on her own ground nnd demonstrates her vnlne to society, nnd when the church Is thus primarily the guardian ot humanity, humanity will se to It that her Influence shall never decline. k4 I SERMONETTES .Weakness aud Strength.-It becomes ICcorapllsbment. Looking wUo and us to know our weakness as well as being generally silent Is ono way to our strength. Tho man who fe,cls that 'mak yourself respected. It may make ho can do more than ho has the ron rather tiresome In general corn strength to do often falls. So wo sco pBny, but think how much more tlre the necessity of preparing ourselves iome you are If too nolsyl The quiet In our speeinl weaknesses. In ordsr to 9f the owl Is an example somo bolster accomplish anything In life wo must mis young people might do well to lml exert our strength, but we must not tate. It has s wisdom quite Its own. overestlmato It. We must lie true to We have not a word to say against it. ourselves, to accomplish all the tasks Our Animal Friends. before us. ltcv. (I. F. Miller, Kpkco pallun, nrooklyn, N. Y. Spiritual LlvJng.-Splrltual living, in-. ,. ,, WorkwI , ,,, hj Bmooth volvesa Careful nnd pnlustaklnng olA-d. ' KUctrlcal Faker, lence to all that Is right lu dealings A nMT u ,, retried '" with men. but goes further aud recog- ,D(f workc(j 0D tne rurM popU,on ot nlzes he existence of the living Christ, SortUem Ohio. A man bearing tho and the reality of another and super- CBnl of an eIfCtrlc noting company, lor life, Into which nil believers -shall HUpV0Kei t0 be located In Now York pass at death. As this spiritual life city, calls on tho farmer. Ho has n Is obtained through Christ. It Is logI.',iuU box bearing on tho top a closed cal that all that tho Christian repre-jiamp with a frosted globo of the ex sents Jn-tho wny of station, talents, or Ret appearance of a largo slzo Incan property should corao under the con-1 descent electric light. The turning of trol of tho law of Chrlst-Itov. A. 8. ' ft button serves to light tho lamp, Gregg, Methodist, Worcester, Mass. , which bums brilliantly. The solicitor Tho End of Life There are those I goes on to tell the fanner that his who confine their ambitions to tho life company is the proprietor of n paUnt of tho world and think the grave "be j electric light plant occupying a very nil and end all" ot life. Hut we can-iniall space and which they will iu not think thus. It It were, why all !"tall at tho small cost of $2 per light, our suffering, striving upward nnd .The lighting of the nverngo sized farm battling for tho right? If wo are con- jhouso will cost but little at this rating vinced tlmt the grave Is not the ultl-' ,tul tho farmer Is only too willing to mate goal of life, but that we have mako tbo purchase. A contract Is pro been created by tho Kternal Father to duced and signed. This Is sealed up In return to him In the end with lovo and n envelope and left with tho fanner loyal service, and tllroiigh them to bo iun"1 nnothcr representative shall como happy In the next world, then our Bml Install the plant. A fow days struggles hnvo reason. Uov. Father lattr ,nl" raan appears. Tho contract Hnyes, Komnii Catholic, New York '" produced and read. To the farmer's City. 'surprlso and consternation it calls for Sunday Lnws.-Thp Sabbath law. of f" " Vh- t, !0"? Lm mnny of our older States, enacted ,wvo ,l! plant '"", a,lcd ?,,ow ttl when Ideas of Sabbath observance "Be?5 "n!. " n"d ' on,cr to were more strict than now, remain uu changed, and, therefore, for tho most part, unenforced. There would seem to be a prevalent feeling among tho friends of Sunday laws that It Is al most sacrilegious to modify them; and as tho laws of earlier generations are not sustained by tho public sentiment of to-day they, In many fuses, nro become deud letters. Hut as Sunday laws rest on a basis wholly secular and find their origin and authority in the will of the people, they nre, of course, as open to amendments, which ,shall keep them In harmony with the Intel ligent iwpulnr will, as nny other laws which tho peoplo enact. Itov. Joseph Story, CongregntlonnllBt, Hrooklyn, N. Y. INJUSTICE TO ANIMALS. Undeserved Criticism Involved In I'otiulur Adnuek. "As stupid as a donkey." When olio hoy tolls another not to make "an iish" f himself, or sny that tho other Is us itupld1 ns "u donkey" or ns obstinate is "a mule," ho does not menu tho re mark fur n compliment, nud tho other boy never accepts It for one. Hut Is tho donkey ronlly n stupid nltlnml, U the ass anything llko so great n fool is tho human being who Is supposed to hclmvo llko nn nn. nud Is tho mulo snly obstlunto or hns ho u "llrm char acter?" Ask nny one who associates with the donkey beast. Ho will toll t'ou nt onco that tho little nnlmnl Is as Intelligent n creature ot Its class as rou cnu find. There nro donkeys that loom to show a contempt for tho hu- mil you will Und him doclln enough. There are stupid donkeys and Inteltl. tout donkeys, ns there nre stupid and intelligent- horses, dogs, nnd persons. An ass lias uorer been known to do tnythtng so absolutely silly as to mskn It oxcusablo to give the poor creature tho bnd uanto ho has borne for nges, He Is patient. Ho is long-suffering. Milch nbuso makes him appear indlffer- ,ftit to the treatment ho receive.- It .Is, however, a little too unjust to sup- poo that ho Is originally stupid be- rouso his Inhuman master la cruel "As silly as a gooso." What Is there particularly silly about a gooso? Does It follow Its animal Instincts In caring for Itself and Its young? lloforc you tccept tho adage about a gooses still- ' It, do jrou suppose, that tho owl looks so much wiser than other birds. not to particularly somo Itther anl oinls? Science can toll you the reason. In tho frontal bones over the brain jf tho owl Is an. Immensn number of ilr colls. They give the forehead that imposing appearance which has com manded tho respect of human beings from the days of the worship of Miner ra down to tho mora prosaic present. IY look wise when one makes as little fins and nnl as tha otrl la nn tnran LIQHTINQ SWINDLE. mlsed by the farmer giving his note for $200, which the agent takes to the nearest town and sells, Tho light ex hibited Is an acotyleno one, and a cjevcr substitution of contract com pletea tho deception, nt which so many are biting, It l said. Electrical World. -zkflwuofUljm vbgk vbgkq vbgkq vbg Keeping Iter Oood Kar on Waloti. "You should sleep on your right sldo, madam." "I really can't do it, doctor; my hus band talks In his sleep, and I can't hear a thing with my loft car." Town Topics. Every front talker thinks other peo ple talk too muck - HAPPENINGS HERE IN OREGON CLACKAMAS I'll'TV YI1AMS A(l(. Old Hcconls (live Interesting 1'lgures on Wages nnd Assessments, In rummaging about his ofllco n few days ngu County Clork Hlolght tin earthed soino ulllclnl records that con tutu sumo Interesting statistics with reference to Clackamas county In tho early '60s. Thoy consist of sumo stalls. ties compiled by Joseph T. Moolc. who wan thou territorial marshal fur Cluck nmns county In Juno, 1850. In tlmt year tho iihsohhMiIo vnliio of property in tutu county wan $1,020,344, classi fied an fallows: Hen I estate. $830.- WO; personal, S183.CM. Tho schodulo of wagon paid nt thnt tlmu was ro marktiblo. Tho nvornxo monthly Iwnge to farm hands. Including hoard. was 80; tho nvorago wngo paid day laborers with board was it, with out board fli; nvorngo dally wages for enrpontom, $12; board per week for laboring men cost $8. Thoro worn published In thn county nt that tlmo two wookly papers, name ly. Oregon Spectator, Territorial ; nnil Western 8tnr, Miiltnomnli. An Idon of thn vnlun nnd profit In tho lumber business nt that early dnto tnny bo gnthered from tho statistics which ehow that llcnjnmtn Simpson from 400 logs, for which ho pnld $3 each, manufactured 100.000 foot of tumbor. which had a salnblo vnluo of $7S por thousand. COLUMBIA COUNTY PILLINd UI'T ttrccat County 5et Election Shows Large locreast ot Voters) Tho rcturui from tho Into speclnl election Indlcntoa that tho voting pop ulation of Columbia county has In creased sovernl hundred since tho gen eral state election hold n llttlo over n year ngo. While It Is truo that much of this Increased voto Is dun to the employment of nn Incransod number of hands In sawmills nud logging en in pa. mnny of them single raon, It also ;s evident tlint there Is ix consld ernbln Incre'nso In tho nuinbor of f.im Dies which hnvo be como nctual res idents. County School Superintendent Cope land has received complete returns from nlmost every school district In tho county, and now estimates that there nro SCO more children of school ngo than woro shown by tho census of Inst yenr. Reports from every sec tion of tho county Indicate thnt new comers from tho warn nro nrriving. nnd tho mr.Jorlty "bf thorn expect to become permanent roaldonta. Mtesvy Sales ot Live Stock. Tho safe of sheen, cattlo and horses from thn Oregon ranges this fall will bo tho henvlest In years. This Is tho onlnjon of C. J Millls, who hns chargo of tho stock department ot tho O. K. & N Ho hns boon over n largo por tion of tho ranges nnd report that food will bo scarce this fall Largo shipments of cattlo woro mndo from this district last spring and Mr Millls oxnents that stilt largor- shipments will bo mado this all. Ho says n largo amount of stork will hnvo to bo sont out of tho country In order to ovon up for tho shortngo ot tho Teed crop. Tho shortago of feed In somo parts Is probably duo to a lack of rain. Wool Prices are Climbing Owing to tho shortngu of wool In Montana nnd Utnh tho prices ot wool In Enstorn Oregon will bo higher than had boon anticipated. At tho largo salo hold at Ontario n short tlmo ngo wool sold at from 13 to 14 conts, Many did not soil nnd slnco that tlmo somo hnvo sold nt 1C conts. Tho prices are still going up. Somo of tho loading sheep nnd wool men nny tho rango Is exceptionally short this sea son, ns thoro hns boon scarcely any rain slnco spring. Everything Is drlefl up. There Is lots of stock In tho district, nnd It Is feared by tho owners thoro will ho largo losses this year If n wot season doos not start soon. To Build Big FUh' Hatchery, Within a fow days FUh Wafdon Van Dusen will call for bids for tha construction at Ontario on thn Snako river of ono of tho largest fish hatch orlos In tho world. Dans hnvo boon drafted In Portland for tho building, which will he 217xC0. It will bo equip pod with alt tho latest conveniences. Thorc will bo .120 troughs. At first thoy will bo conducted so us to enro for 20,000,000 fish, hut In ensa a largo number Is required 40.000,000 oggs can bo' hatched without ovorcrowdlng. F. (;. Hrown win bo In charge of tho In stitution. (lrcst Boon to Ontario. Tho contract for building thn now stool brldgp across tho Mainour rlvor, near whero It omntlos Into Bnnkn riv er, about two milos bolow Ontario, has bcon lot. Tho prlco Is $4100. This bridge will supply n long-falt need. It gives nn opportunity for tho peoplo living on Dead Ox Flat of com ing to Ontario to do their trndlnz without going about ton mllos abovo Ontario to tho Halllday brldgo. Surveying Soil of Bsker County, Charles A. Jonson, o? the depart ment of agriculture, bureau of soils, hns boon sont out to mako n survey of tho soils oC Hakor county. Ho hns es tablished his houdquurtars at Hnlnos, nnd Is now nctloly ongngod In tha work. It Is thought this Is ono of tho preliminary stops to govornmont-ald-od Irrigation, LOU DOOM ON MOUTH UAII'dUA. I'rnnchUe Clranted fur llntenslve Im provements by County Court. Ono of tho most Important stops inndtT lu tho development of tho linn, boring Industry lu Douglas county wns tnken when tho county court voted t6 grant n franchise to tho Ore rou Doom ft Timber Co in puny for donning out tho obstructions In tho North Uinpqun river nud preparing thnt stream, for tho floating of logs nud timber. This frnnchlso gives tho company tho right to uso tlmt stream In Uin miuinor mentioned from tho west boundnry lino of thn Cnionilo for est rosorvo to tho Jtnntii lino of tho Southern I'aclflc railroad nt Winches ter, ft vo miles north of ItoscburK. After the improvements nro nmdo tho com pany In given tho right to collect a mnxlmum toll of 60 cents per thousand foot for floating logs for other persons In compensation for tho outlay In Im proving tho stream. Tho estimated cost of tho Improvements Is $200,000. Hosldcs Improving tho stream, thn company expects to erect n sawmill of 100.000 feet dally capacity nt Win chester, to ho ready for uso nn soon ai logs rnn bo floated, nnd other par lies nlsg expect to erect sawmills nnd woodworking plants nt tho snmo place. Now York capitalists nro hack ing tha enterprise, thlr rosrosontn tlvo, F. J. Illnkoly. having been hero most of tbo tlmo for tho past two yenra. PUI1LIC LAND STILL OI'llN. Nearly 600,000 Acres Remain In Oregon City District. Tho annual report of the United Stntoi land office nt Oregon City hns boon completed. Fourteen counties nre embraced In tho Oregon City dis trict nnd tho report gives tho follow Ing statistics ns to nron In noraa nn. appropriated nnd unreserved : Miirvoyed, 466.048; unsurvrod. 141. l.; totnl, C90.73S ns ngnlnst 6J7.27U surveyed; 1CI.180 unstirvoyrd: fiS8.46! totnl. as shown In tho report n yenr ngo Tho 14 counties constituting tho Oregon City Innd district nro Hen ton. Clncknmna. , Clatsop. Columbia. Crook. Lincoln. IJnn. Marlon. Mult nomah. Folk. Tillamook, WaVco. Yam hill nnd Washington. Tho totnl nrea of the laud snrfaco of these countle Is 7.4C8.2r.0 ncros. Tho nron In ncros appropriated last year was C.C7G.1IG. whllo tho ncrengo under tho sarno classification this yonr Is C.C29.S1S. Map of Stsle Institutions. ' Becretnry of State Dunbar Is hnv Ing n map nwido showing tho location of tho state Institutions at Salem, niuo prlritn of tho mnp will h kept nt each of thn Institutions and ho original will bo kept In the Secre tary a office Although located "at Salem." tho Institutions nm inn. distance npnrt Visitors rnn got but n vaguo Iden of tholr location by such directions ns nro usually given, but br referring to tho map. which shows nil tho roods and distances, n stranger -mm iinincdiniciy understand tho di rection to tnko In going to any one of tho Institutions, Union County Cherry Crop. Tho cherry cron la dm rmnin- n In Union county. Thoro woro reports early In tho acason thnt this crop would bo very short. Im win. n. othor products of this, county, tho prospects get brighter ns harvest tlmo nppronchos. Tho Indications now are that the yield will not bo far IIOlOW tho nVOrocn. Tlinrn will n.nK. nbly bo about 15.000 boxes of tho fnilt handled thoro this season. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Walla Walla, 7O074cj val ley, 77c. fiarloy Food, $20.00 per ton: brew log, $31. Flour Host grades, $3.05 q 4,Z0t graham .1.45Q3.B6. MlllitufTs Ilran, $23 por tonj mid. dllngs, $27j shorts, $23j cJiop, $18. Oats No, 1 whlto, $1.10 Q 1.16; gray, $1 05 por rental. Hay-Timothy, $2021j olovor, pomlnalj cheat, $16(310 per ton. Potatoes Iloit Iltirpanks, BOQfloe por sack; ordinary, 364Ko por cental, growers' prices; Morcod awoots, $3 3.60 por rental. Poultry Chickens, mlied, 10llo; yonng, IS Ho; horn, 12c; turkeys, llvo, lfl17c; dressed, 20(3220 ducks, 7.007,60 per dozen jfeoso, $0,000 6,60, Cheese Full cream, twins, 16X 10c; Young America, 1616c fact ory prices, 1 61 tf class. Butter Fancy creamery. 2022tA. per pound; extras, o; dairy, 20 82Kc store, IflcOlB, Eggs 17820o por dozen. Hops Oholre, 1820o per pound. Wool Valley,12il7osEast8rn Or egon, 814cj mohair, 860870, Beef Gross, cows, 3fa4o, por pound; steers, fi5tfoi dressed, BHe. Veal 7KBc. Mutton Gross, $3.60 per d recced, 000 c. Lambs Gross, 4c por dresend, 7c. pound; pound; ponnd Hogs Gross, 6O6J4V dressed, 78e, por w