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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931 | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1910)
1 '1 1 M 1 TOPICS OP THE TIMES 4 ,F i E TIMES I JWJMSSS Riding on n monorail must bo soniv thins Ilka sliding down tho bantttor. Leopold has whiskers llho Santa Claui, but that was tho only resemblance Loon Dclagrange, ot Franc, has the distinction ot being tho Arat acconaut killed In 1910. Wo hnvo wireless telegraphy and wireless telephones; now let us have 'kldlcM automobiles,' Any man who knows mora than hts boss should have too much senso to ct the boss And it out. financiers tell us that alter a man has saved his first million dollars get ting rich Is not n difficult task. Tho gooso that laid tho golden egg tnado her reputation when hen egga were soiling at 12 cents a dozen. Ono historian says mo writing ot history Is not profitable. That mar bo tho reason Dr. Cook wroto Action. Now York's heaviest taxpayer Is a woman. Sho can't vote, but perhaps Bbe Is sblo to control the vote ot her chauffeur. Everybody should lovo Thomas A. Edison for his beautiful optimism. Ho predicts an era ot cheaper clothing and less work. Scientists have discovered that the earth is only 60,000,000 years ot ago. Quito old enough, however, to bo re ferred to as Mother Earth. - Senator Gore, in a speech a few days ago, referred to tho president as being "slnnous." Senator Gore his tho mlsfortuno ot being blind. The Immigration record was broken lost year, and yet nobody scorns to have been crowded off the map. Thero la no doubt about this bolng a big country. One ot the Berlin papers says Tatt and -Knox are trying to moke Nica ragua a vassal of tho United States. Oh. pshawl It this country wanted vassals, it could find many better ones than Nicaragua might ever be. The fiftieth anniversary of Madame Paul's appearance as an operatic sing er brings out the calculation that dur ing her remarkable career sho has earned fully four million dollaos with ber voice probably a larger sum than any other woman has ever corned wholly by her own efforts. dividend declared by Wells, Fargo ft Co. shows what may be done by the Judicious management and high rates of nn express combination. Mnuy other trusts and combinations might bo cited with nioro or less ot tho samo effect, In looking over tho published rec ords of a family ot some historic lm portance, which dates back to pro revolutionary times, a gentleman found that the year of tho date of his birth, as well as tho blrth-dntcs ot all his brothers and sisters, had been erased by an elder sister whose sensitiveness upon that point had loug been a subject ot family jest. Ono's age Is something for which ono ts not responsible, and it is tho last thing that ono should bo ashamed of. In the lives ot the best thoro Is enough for regret, for chagrin and mortifi cation; but shamo should bo felt only tor mistakes and offenses which could havo been avoided. Naturo Is a stern llternllst. Tho procession of tho sea sons cannot be chocked. It Is futllo to turn back the hands ot tho clock. Wo may look with charity upon a per son in search ot employment In thli day when to havo passed tho half con tury mark seems to bo on Insuporablo oar 10 entrance into any useful occu pation, for attempting to put up a more youtnrui front, but .concealment of ono's age from motives of mere vanity Is Intolerable to any Just senso of propriety. It a lady can bo beauti ful and charming In spite of her years. that Is to her honor. If a man can defy Time to abate his vigor, It Is vastly to his credit. The fact BDcaki ot a temperate and virtuous and well- spent life. Macbeth, when his way of ute naa fallen into the sere and val low leaf, reflected despairingly that ho must not look to have that which should accompany old ago, "as honor, lovo, obedience troops of friends." For such miscreants old ago cannot fall to bo a horror; but for one who can face tho end of his earthly pllgrlmsgo as ono who is about to Ho down to pleas ant dreams, tho years are luminous and golden. Each added one Is a crown of glory upon tho sliver brow. Experience, wisdom, spiritual under standing, lurk beneath tho lines of caro and tho bruises of conflict. Such an old ago is at once a Joy and benefi cence. Old Favorites 1 Think ( Thee, I think of thco when Morning springs From sleep, with plumage bathed In dew, And, Ilko a young bird, lifts her wing Ot gladness on tho welkin blue. And when, at noon, tho breath ot love t) er (lower nnd stream U wandering free. And sent in musto from the grove, I think ot theeI think ot theot I UJnk ot thco when, soft nnd wide Tho Evening spreads her robes or light, And, like n young and timid bride, 8lts Mushing In the arms ot Night And when tho moon's sweet crcscem springs In llRht o'er Heaven's deep, wave lss sea. And stars are forth, like bloised things I think of thco t think ot theot I think of thee that eye of flame, Thoso trviscs, falling brlitht nnd free, That brow, where "Ucauty writes hoi name." I think of thee I think of thco! Qeoreo IX Trentlcc. Qgl Editorials Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. m One of the scientists thinks be has discovered the cause of the aurora borcalU, but nobody has as yet found out why certain people continue to believe that a winter which brings epidemics of disease, coal famines and railway wrecks and causes travelers to perish miserably In snowdrifts Is healthful. Closer relations between the church m and the worklngmen are tho ob ject of a resolution presented to the American Federation of Labor at its recent convention in Toronto. The resolution calls attention to the grow ing interest taken by the church and Its ministers In labor problems, and asks that the first Sundsy in Sep tember be set apart as Labor Sunday. The ministers are to be requested to present some phase of the labor prob lem, and the unions urged to cooper ed, would make an excellent Intro ato by attendance. Tho plan, it adopt Suction to Labor Day. The construction ot the geeat mu slcipal budding which New York is to erect at a cost of seven million dol lars has begun, and In two years it ought to bo ready for occupancy. This extraordinary structure Is to be twenty-three stories In height, with a pillared tower rising still farther in the air. Chambers street passes di rectly beneath it, as footways from Droad and Market streets pass under the Philadelphia City Hall, and as Mount Vernon street passes under the state house in Doston. Tho lower Doors are to serve as a subway ter minal, but there Is room enough In the floors above to accommodate for many years to come all the city de partments not elsewhere housed. The old city hall, in City Hall Park, built over a century ago, is not to be torn down. Its architectural beauty and , historic associations have saved It from that fate, and the mayor and board of aldermen will still have their quarters there. nSST WATCH AND CLOCK. Working of Uarll.it Alarm Clock " Sccoud Manila Wert Added. Since celebrations are the order ot tho day why did we not observe the sixth centenary ot tho Introduction ot clocks? It was, we ore told, In 130 that the first clock known to the world was placed In tho tower ot Son Eus torglo, In Milan, tho London Globe says. The greatest astonishment and ad miration were manifested by crowds who come to see the tlmeolece. In 1341 a clock was Installed In the pal ace or tne nobles at Padua. This was a wonder of mechanism, indeed, for Desmes indicating the hours It showed the course of the sun, the revolutions of the planets, the various phases of tne moon, the months and the fetes ot the year. Tho period of the evolution from tho clock to the watch was seventy one years, not so very long, all thlncs considered, and the record of the first watch Is 1380. A half century later an alarm clock made its appearance. This, we ore told, was looked upon by the people ot that age as "un In strument prodlgleux." The fortunate possessor of this clock was Andrea Alclato, a councilor of Milan. Tho chroniclers have placed on record that this clock sounded n bell at a slated hour, and at the same time a little wax candlo was lighted automatically. How this was done we are not told, but It must not bo over looked that until about seventy years ngo wo bad no means of obtaining a light other than the tlnderbox, so that the Milanese must have been centuries ahead of us In this respect. Not much progress was made with the wntch until 1710, when the second hand was added. Winter. Itut winter has yet brighter seenca boatta Splendors beyond what gorgeous sum mer knows. Or autumn with his many fruits and woods All flushed with many hues. Come when tho rains Have glased the snow, and clothed the trees with Ice, While tho slant sun of February pours Into tho bowers a flood of light. Ap proach! The encrusted surface shall upbear thy stps And tho broad arching portals of tho KTOVO Welcomo thy entering. Lookl tho mos- ay trunks Are cased In ths pure crystal, each llKht spray' Nodding and tinkling In tho breath ot Heaven Is studded with Its trembling wator drops That stream with rainbow radiance nr they move. -William Cullen Itryant wva within your means. V WI3 are earning only chuck steak salar ies we should not try tu put un porterhouse stylo. With this aud similar sayings Ed ward 1C, Watt, In n lecture to tho pupils of tho Grnhnm school wont to tho center of the cost-ot-hlgli-llvtng proulom and Us solution. Through tho Influence ot n variety ot causes of nn-tton-wldo and even world-wide operation the man finds that his money does not go so tar as It used to. Whllo volumes might be, havo been and will bo written un thoso various causes and their Importance Tor tho nverago man the Important question is not ot tho causes. It Is haw to ameliorate tholr Immediate effects, Ami tho way to do that Is to apply to tho spending of his In coino sotno ot thu brains which tho typical American has been applying almost exclusively to gutting the Incuuio. For years Americans havo been notorious to other conn trice for tho extravagance at their persounl and domestic expenditures. This Is not an Impeachment at the American house wife. In the overwhelming majority ot households sho has dono the brat she could, It sho had not, the situa tion would bo far worse than It Is, lint she has not from her husband the help sho deserve. Millions of Americans buy intelligently and thriftily In business, and not only permit but even encourage unintelligent and unthrifty buying at homo. Many a man who dili gently holds down business operating expense permits loose extravagance In domestic operation and commits It In his persoual expenditures. It Is not only the high cost of living, but also the cost ot high or even brainless living that Is our problem, And It Is for each of us to apply his brains to the task of living within bis means. F6r most of us this does not mean arslmony or hardship. It means only taking thought against uxtrnvngnnco at the home as against waste at tho office. Chicago Inter Ocean. will bo demanded ns much as splrltunl and the ones ties tltuts of tho former will have few nnd faultfinding occu pants of tho pow' whllo tho new nml better and mors Christian will havo largo and enthusiastic congrcga tlons. The liisUtullonnl church Is tho one o bring brotlierlj love In Its highest and best souse. The old way has failed In this. Preacher nnd people have been too far npart tor Us accomplishment. The worshiper of the mlddlo-oMhcntury will bo surrounded by hopeful and helpful Influences In tho rhureh which caters lo friend ship, to helping tho poor to miuler some form of Indus try, tu wholesome amusements, to Intellectual pursuit, to phllaulhrophy. Utlca (Hobo. Never Deapalr, The most perilous hour of a person lite Is when he Is tempted to despond. The man that loses his courage loses all. There Is no oioro hope for blm than, a dead man. But It matters not how poor he may be, how much pushed by circumstances, how much desert ed by friends, how much lost to the world, If he only keeps his courage, holds up his head and with uncon querable will determines to bo and to do what becomes a man ail will be well. It is nothing outside of him that kills. It is what Is within thai makes or not makes. llralorcd tu Couaclnuaneae. Often the person who Is most fright ened at the awfulncss ot a weddlmr Is not tho brldo or the groom, but tho Wit man. On him there rests tho re sponsibility ot a stage amnagor who Is anxious for his star actor to make his exits and his entrances Just right What may happen In the way of nerve trying experiences Is Indicated by he Louisville Couriar-Journal In the fol lowing story: The best man was getting more flustered every minute. Dually they arrived at the altar, and the minister began saying tho all-Important words. He looked at tho best man. awaiting tne production of tho ring. The bridegroom fixed him with stony gaze, and the brldo turned her plead ing eyes upon him, too. Tho band of tho best man stuck In tho depths of his trousers pocket, "regular" host men carry the rings in their right hand waistcoat pockets, you know, and when ho brought It forth It was empty. Tho bridegroom Increased tho stonl ncss of his stare, and the high collar of the best man became slightly aioro suffocating and a little more wilted. Once moro be thrust a hand Into the recesses of his trousers pocket, and once mora there was nothing there. Tho delay was getting notlccablo. and people In tho back seats- leaned forward to see If tho bride had not fainted. Desperate, the bridegroom determined to wait no longer, but in a tone that was distinctly heard by nearly everybody thero ho said fierce ly: "You, Jorry, glvo mo that rlngl" That sounded so natural that the un happy best man Just simply found It right away and gavo It up; and then they wero married and lived happy ever after. I ' iiiiiwa T A"' jp ajuii SVmTJiim CtjkJZ3 TUB INSTITUTIONAL CUURCIL UK success of tho Institutional church In our country Is marked. Tho congregation of the future without tho handmaids of manual training, the club-house, etc., will be handicapped In the work of salvation. The social and Industrial features era certain to attract many who otherwise would not attend If the Invitation were con fined to occupying a pew. The church must be helpful as well as spiritual. Modern sentiment demands this Neither the Imposing ritual nor the dry ssrmon In sim ple and solemn surroundings will appeal to those who cotno after us Ilko It has and Is doing, The discerning of the coming years are not to be satisfied with melody from the organ loft and the commonplace ssrmon. They will demand usefulness as much as prayer. The church without the helping hand for those who need It will be passed by for the one which extends It, The pompous and unsympathetic clergyman who stands for religion and nothing else will have a bard time ot It In the awak ening minds of the next generation. Temporal benefits m. UU1IAN MOVEMENT OF POPULATION. AHHACIIlBirrTH has a commission whirl) has ben undertaking tn And nut why pro pie move from thu country to town nnd how they ran bo induced to retrace (hell steps, Its concfuslon In brief Is that the) go lo town bemuse they like It, and then Is little tho State ran do' In the matter. Four ot the Ave members do not think the Slate should buy land, build houses and then Invito city dwellers to buy on easy terms. Hut they do think something can bo dona to Increase suburban life by borrowing the gar den city Idea which has achieved substantial results In Germany and which has been adopted with Success by several Kugllsh towns. There Is another renon why people move from the country to the town, To be n farmer Is to be a capitalist In a smalt way. Three thousand dollars Is a low esti mate ot the value ot a farm, house, stock and Imple ments. Of course, a man cu get a (arm on n mortgage. Hut even a thousand dollars Is considerable (or a malt to get together as a (arm laborer, so that be ran trans form himself Into a (arm owner lie may hire, and mors and more ot that Is going on all the time, but the rent la a good deal more certain than the proceeds. The (arm laborer finds It difficult tn get employment during the winter and he goes to town nnd seeks n Job that goes oa nt all seasons, Philadelphia Hecord. RWOMaMH T m THE INLAND WATCH ROUTE. HE providing of an Inner navigation route along Die Atlantic roast (rem Mai.aclm setts May lo the Florida Keys Is easier ol rcnllullon than would be a U costly un doruklng than would bo the construction ot a deep-draft ship channel (rout Lakt Michigan to the tlulf of Uaxlco. To pro vide and maintain n deep-cbanuel route In tho Missis sippi river would not only Involve a great Initial cost, but a continuous annual expenditure of Incalculable pro portions, The connecting of Lake Michigan with the Mississippi by n barge canal and the utilisation ot the navigation facilities of the great rlvtr (or craft ot nine feel draft or less will be a much less costly proposition and oue more readily to be realised. llaltlmore American-Star, PRAISE FOR Tnn DOO. After tho experience of recent years, which everybody has noted and has personally felt in Increased expense, one does not readily agree with this Statement ot the New York Journal of Commerce: "Suppression of compe tition to put up prices generally will tend to restrict consumption and In jure tho very trade which it Is in tended to benefit." A notable caso of the contrary result is evidenced by the meat trust, which bos restricted trade, has advanced prices and Is according to the showing made by the Armours to the New York Stock Ex change making about 35 per cent on Its capital. The Standard Oil Com pany with its 40 per cent dividends ! a - s h rscent 300 per cent Vp to Data. "Well, well,' remarked old Mr. Past- angon, "the young women of to-day aro not what they were in my time." "NoT" replied Miss Huskle. "No, Indeed. Why, all you youn& women nowaaays are muscular ath letes." "Thnt's so. In the proud lexicon ot femlnlno youth there Is no such word as 'frail.'" Catholic Standard and Times. jutir Hop in-, "Father," sold little Hollo, "what i a happy medium?" "I suppose, my son, that It is one who can earn several hundred dollars a day by making tables and chairs move around the room." Washington Star. A clever woman always tells a fat man that bo looks much thinner than be iV riektnir a llgrie, A Drltlsh cavalry officer, speaking of horses, said: "Olve me a froe hand and I should pick a roan that Is, for good temper and quick learning. Dark grays nnd blacks aro mostly strong and hnrdy, and so are dark chestnuts. As a Ren- oral rule, light chestnuts and light bays are nervous nnd delicate. A rusty black's a sulky pig nine times out of ttn. Then, again, there nro 'white stockings, as they call them. You know tho old saying, 'One whlto leg's a bad un, two whlto legs you may sell lo a friend, threo whlto legs you may trust for a time, four whlto legs you may lay your llfo on."' This does not ngrco with an old Vankce saying: Ono while foot, buy him; Two whlto feet, try hlra; . Threo whlto feet, look well about him; Four whlto feet, go on without him. Now, howover, tho American Idea is similar to that of tho sergeant, and thoy say: "Four whlto feet you can stake your life on him." London Spec tator. A married man has the samo dread of a drygoods store that a farmer has ot a lightning rod agent. Nature knows what it Is about; it is the little girls, and not the little beva who want to bold the baby Camilla Klanimarlun Thliika the Aul nml la lloertltm of m ffotal. Lord llyron, having tried tho world and found It Ailed with lying, vanity and deception, entertained a low Idea ot human naturo nnd exalted the char acter of tho dog. Durns saw In tbo dog not only a professor of human morality, but even a professor of re ligious morality, preaching by exam ple. "Man," said be, "Is tho dog's god. The animal knows no other and can conceive no other. See how he wor ships, how ho crouches nt bis feet, how lovingly be ca lessee him, how humbly he regards him. how Joyfully he obeys. Ills whole soul centers about his god: all his powers, all the facul ties of his nature are employed In his service." No matter how we look at tho Intel lectual faculties of tho dog. says Ca milla Flammarlon In the New York World, wo are compelled to admit that they approach very nearly tho powers of man, and thnt In certain cases, whero affection, courago nnd fidelity nro required, theso characteristics are moro marked In tho dog than in somo men. ' What shall be said of a dog that bad bis leg set by a surgeon, and that brought to tho samo physician any other dog that he found suffering? Yet thero nro many well authenticated Instances of such action. Tho most striking Illustrations of tho spiritual attachment ot dogs lie in the numerous Instances ot their dying for sorrow. One of the most interesting ot theso ts reported by M. Henri Qlraud, president of tho civil court at Nlort. Ho reports tho case of a dog that died ot grief for his dead master, ns be knew by personal knowledge. Another authentic case Is that of the dog named Flnot, which belonged to a young artist named Charles Droncard, The artist was poor, and tho dog sought his food In the neighborhood, but awaited his master's return homo each evening nt 7 o'clock. Ono night his master was seized with pleurisy and taken to tho hospi tal, whero ho died two days later. Flnot had followed his niastor" to tho door of tho hospital, but stopped thoro. Ho waited In the street all night. Ho waited for five days nnd nights in front ot tho hospital, eating nothing and drinking In the gutter. On tho sixth day Flnot was found stretched out dead on tho pavement, perished from cold and hunger. Has there ovor bean roportcd a caso of greater devotion on tho part of a hu man being? Dut dogs havo oven gono so far as to commit suicide, plainly from a. sense of disgrace, sometimes unmerit ed. We have the case of a dog that threw Itself Into tho Canal St. Martin at Paris, and did not try to swim, bo cause Its master had punished It. In 1009, not far from the observatory In Paris, a dog was seen deliberately to run In front of an omnibus and throw Itself beneath the wheels Its mistress had died. Here was evidently not only despair, but deliberate promedltatlon and determination to and nil. I wish, however, to call tho atten tion of my readers especially to tho dog's power of smell. This seems to be Its dominating sense. In man vi sion Is the leading sense, for moat of our sciences are based upon optical observation. Even our passions are largely controlled by this sense, lovo especially. If the dog had tho power ot classifi cation It would glvo tho first place to tho senso of smell. The dog does not know Its master, Its friend or Its ene my by sight, but by smell. Tho dog possesses faculties ot which wo havo little notion. A dog brought from Paris to London returned home, wo know not how. Dut that the dog Is possessed of a high order of Intelligence; that It laves and hates, that It Is dqvotcd In a highly affectionate degree, Is past dis pute. Wo must reject as altogether Inadequate tho statement ot Descartes, mat it is an automatic. It Is cortaln that In this world ot ours there are many human beings far moro brutal, coarse, moro wicked and less Intelli gent than many dogs. g A LITEBAHY BIIBJME. Tho car was delayed by a hot box, and somo of tho passengers descended nnd strolled up and down to stretch their legs. A bright young drummer, looking appreciatively down the long green tunnel of tho elm-shaded street, and up at tho quaint oldfashlond houses, cotmncnted jmtthe beauty of the place. IVjF'i'tfc "(lot a kind otSUijowctt-Mary-B,-Wllklns-AJlflFownj3ok to It, somohow. "Say, )1'ii7irQmobody must havo wrJMMy)HttMe' up; It looks as nnturnll Tjfctffao oldest Inhabitant over IhevTTjV Two aged vlltpg4Ve jb wrb wore arguing tne "'"PetUYfJrttsJpf dash Ing on water ffeta h out tho Aro froisf a fcl thorn genially: . 1 "Say, this IIUM Wfl belongs In tbo gulshcd-poopla a class, doesn't Itf so's romanco (llwtri special article,, with kind of thing? New ties? Daughter & Literature? WkVijpi 7tilaht citizen?" II. r beating smu nailed ot yours if-dlstln. onuthors tu'ei So-nnd- wVtomont BtyXraphers Notablll- 'JPurltans in WMt dlatln-1 The agetl natives looked at him re flectively, and then nt each other. "Jonas llardwell, be owns the big gest place," ventured one of them, rau tlously, "but Kno Hodman, he's about as smart as anybody." "I didn't say richest, did 1? Nor I didn't say smartest." imrslsted the In quiring drummer. "Most distinguish ed, I said; literature and art, you know; that sort of thing." "Oh," echoed the second venerable native, brightening, -that sort o thlngl Now I know who ye mean; ye mean Cate Henderson. Cale, he's with Slocum's circus, and he writes the language for ary billboard that show sets up, and tells the artist feller what critters to paint, doing what Into the bargain. "lie's certainly the master hand (or squeezing out the biggest words In tho dictionary, an' sprinkling 'em round effective. He's art an' literature, all right. Must be hi in yo was a think ing of, "Cale, yo see, he's some showy In his doings, an' 'mint but natural out siders taking him for something ex try. Wo ain't never reckoned him n 'distinguished citizen,' but mebUi If you hain't known him, bqy or man. s wo havo, yo might nover notice ho wis Jest a fool, alter nil. "Cale, ha was born In that houie right opposite. There nln't n tablet on It yet, but ef yo want to consider It n llternry shrine, I don't know any body'll bender yo." Thero was n burst of laughter, and tho drummer, running a hasly ejo over the contents of the show window of tho general storo and postofllce, mur mured meekly; "Gentlemen, If anybody would like somo gutmlrops warranted genuine tlqucs, or striped poppomilnt slicks such ns grandmother used to suck, I guess It's up to mo to buy 'em." Tha Limit, Thero Is a blacksmith who has a hop downtown nnd who has n reputa tion for good work, especially In the making of Ico tongs. Hut ho claims to bo an expert on any kind of Iron work. nocontly a man dropped In on him while ho was worklnir on i nu nt i . hooks. . "I soo you aro nn export' on M hooks," said tho cnllor. "Oh. ycsl I mnko Ico hooks ptittr good," remarked tbo mechanic, "unt I alio shoo your horses or do othor Iron work yust so good." "Well," said tho caller, "I'vo flrt olovo on which the hinges need re pairing. Can you flx thorn?" The blacksmith drow hlmsolf up to his full height mid scornfully asked, "Do you think I am h,i -..to,! Jewcler?"-St. Joseph Qazetto. In trying to bo "lmiitnAn.t.n mini ocoplo are Impolite. I zssasKZU -tr