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ATHENA, ORE.. JAN. 8
I2.U0
. 1909
The editor of an exchange writes
of the new times and manners:" When
we were yonng people had colds, soak
ed their feet in hot water and got
well. Now they have grippe, take
qninine and feel sick all summer.
Then they bad sore throat, wrapped
a piece of fat pork in an old sock , tied
it aroand the neok at night and. went
to work the next morning. Now they
have tonsilitis, a surgical operation
and two weeks in the house. Then
they bad stomach aohe and took 1
castor oil and recovered. Now they
have appendicitis, a week in the
hospital, six feet Hue east and west and
four feet perpendicular. Then they
worked; they labor now. In those
days they wore underclothes; now
they wear lingerie. Then they went
to a restaurant; now they go to u cafe. you for
Then they broke a leg; now they frac
ture a limb. People went oiazy thou;
they have brain btorms now. Poli
ticians paid hard cash tor support; now
they send Government gardeusoeds.
Within a month after theproclama
tion of the new constitution, two bond
ied and sixty-five newspapers were
established in Tnrt$ey. Now the experi
ment in free-government will not lack
editors ready to tell huw it should be
carried on.
Somebody has made the interesting
discovery that the blonde criminals
ontuumber the brunettes who go
wrong. It may te, however, that the
brunettes who bleach are counted as
blondes.
That Pittsburg millionaire who is
giving his wonoy to the people whom
be desites to bavQ it, without making
them wait till be dies, can hardly ex
pect to be loudly applauded by the lawyers.
"The touch cf a friend," remarks a
Missouri contemporary," may hurt
more than the cut of an enemy." No
doubt about it. Especially it tho
friend forgets the amount be touoned
They must have hud a hilariously
good time of it over in (iraut conuty.
The Canyon City Blue Mountain Eagle
says: It was provon Christmas eve in
various portions of the county beyond
a peradventuro ot a doubt tout booz
ing and waltzing mix just about as
harmoniously as oats and dogs. No
body has any objection to boozing and
nobody has any objection to waltzing,
but not until tho spider and the Uy
become chums and the lion chooses tho
lamb for his sido-kickor ran Uiesu two
inoompatable elements make a peace
ful union. Waltzing is all right in
its place, boozing is nil right iu its
place, a torch is all right iu its place,
and giant powdor is all right in its
place; but when you come to put the
torch and tho powder together you
get about the sanio result tlmt yo i got
when boozing and waltzing are mixed.
Two-slopping and boo.ing aro not so
bad. as they go niooly tugitlmr like
water and oil, but tho waltz is insol
uble in booze and thoy always mix like
his Hatanio Nots and tho Deenlogno.
Urouson Howard, tho dramatist left
au estate valued at more than $10,000.
Mr. Howard must havo received somo
of the immense royalties referred to in
the advance agent's notioes.
A Chicago man is said to bo afraid
to inherit 1,000,000. He should
overoomo his fears, for evon when one
has a million the ownership of an au
tomobile is not compulsory.
"In proportion to its size", says the
Pittsburg Dispatch, "a beetle is strong
er than 100 horses." Still, there's no
consolation in that for the man who is
yearning for an automoble.
Edward Minus, .'president of the
Virginia & Rainy Imlio Lumber com
piriy, which a Chicago dispatch pio
nouuuos "tho largest combine in the
world ot its kind," is pic'dicting cheap
lumber, which, he nsscits, will be
obtained through cheapening the cost
ot manufacture by other methods than
"at tho expense of tho country by reck
less or wasteful lumbering methods. "
Mr. Hities gives a number of details uf
tho now plans which his linn will
bring about this romarkably pleasing
condition. Among olli'ir iinpiovo
mon ts in methods ho says, "wo will
utili.o all tho timber on the ground
we cut over. We will not simply pick
out the choice trees, leaving deadwood
and brush to feed forest tiles. Wo will
clear the laud so that, instead of heinu
a worthless wilderness utter it. is cut
over, it will bo available for farming
1 n rposos. "
OUR WATER HIGHWAYS
.
Tho National Rivers and Harbors
congress has adopted resolutions favor
ing: 1. A bond issue of jjtfOO.OOO.OOO for
the improvement of our water high
ways; 2. Immediate prosecution of work
already begun and the beginning of
important new work;
II. Liberal appropriations for cur
rent contracts.
Speaker Cannon, the bead of tho
group of men who control legislation
in tho house tolls tho congress that ho
does not iavor the present issue of
bonds. Ho objeots on the score of
economy. Hu wishes to do nothing
hasty.
A well matured plan might well
precede the voting of bonds. Vet Mr.
Cannon cannot have failed to notice
that Canada is spending upon new
waterways a sum fur gieater iu pro
portion to her resources than that
proposed, and p-irtlv by so doing is
inverting our Atlantic grnin export
trade to Montreal; that Prussia is
spending on canals and rivers sums
proportionally greater; tliut New York
unaided is spending $101 ,000,000 and
probably much uioie on canals with
popular approval.
(iernian administration, the most
scientific in tho world, uses connecting
wuteiways as tho hauduiaids of rail
ways, helping with their heavier work.
Our ablest railtoad mon, like Mr. Hill,
recognize tho relation. It is im
possible lor our railroads to furnish
within the next few years, the increas
ed facilities the country needs.
The sum named is largo, but tho
rnnual iuteiest is little nioro than the
cost of one of the gieat modern battle
ship. The increase in the cost, of army.
navy and pensions between Mr. .orwe
velts's first year as an elective presi
dent and the 1909 estimates is $102,
000,000. The mere growth of war
costs in four wasteful years would pay
the interest upou Snoo.OOO.OOO of
water highway bonds, and leave :rl,
000,000 for redemption.
Can there be any comparison in ,
publio usefulness between au extra
hundred millions a year squandered ;
on wtr and the same sum put auuually
into the development of water high
ways? New York World.
THE JURY SYSTEM.
Hung juries, compromise verdicts,
verdiots adverso to publio clamor and
verdicts apparently inconsistent with
the facts upon which they are based
excite critioism against a system,
wbioh like all human institutions is
hampered by imperfections. To con
demn the system from the verdict of
a particular jury is like condemning
a righteous life from some careless or
inadvertent aot or remark. Verdicts
rendered by juries throughout the
country, in the great aggregate, are in
accordance with justice and right.
Human couduot is incapable of being
measured by a moral yard stick. Acts
under a given state of circumstances
may not be a crime in the code of
morals or the statutes of law. In law
as it applies to conduct, in ethics and
in the affairs of man a mathematical
precision is not obtainable. Iu this
life, there are other things than pure
reason, and they are the most poteut
of all. Love among families, senti
ment among friends and patriotio im
pulses which impel men to heroic
deeds are not explained iu pure reason.
Logio and law part company with sen
timent. The law may point to a ver
dict of guilty, but sentiment, without
law, without logio and without reason,
returns a verdict in accordance with
intuitive justice. The unwritten law
is an inherent perception that springs
from a sontinient which oau not be
oiroumsoribed in words or incorporated
iu a statute. And so it is with verdicts
of juries. The Inexplicable, without
consciousness of jurors, leads them to
a verdict not contemplated in law.
And yet, this is justioe, founded on the
in expressible and based on the inher
ent perception of things. In the inter
pretation of law, human impulse ie not
considered, while in the deliberation
of a juiy it fashions their verdict
The tie which binds families, and to a
less extent binds man to man is a po
tent faotor, not only in the jury room,
but where ever men may meet Ex
change.
"THE FAITHFUL DOG.'
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that will help you in your early spring sewing. Rema
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woolen.
There is not a department in this big store that has
not something of exceptional merit to offer you.
The earliest visitors will get the best choice.
THE PEOPLES WAREHOUSE
Where it pays to trade.
(From an argument made by George
Graham Vest, date and place unknown,
before a Missouri jury in a dog case.)
Gentlemen of the jury: The best
.r i ... .
irienci a man cas in tms world may
turn against him and become bis
enemy. His sou or daughter that he
has reared with loving care may prove
ungrateful. Those who are nearest
and dearest to us, those whom we trust
with our happiuess and our good
name, may become traitors, to their
faith. Thejmouey that a man has he
may lose. It flies away from him,
perhaps when he needs it most. A
man's reputation may be sacrificed iu
a moment of iJl considered action.
The people who are prone to fall on
theic knees to do us honor wheusuoce.ss
is with us may bo tho first to throw
the stone of malice when fuilure set
tles its cloud upon our heads. The
one absolute, unselfish friend that man
can have in this selfish world, the one
that never deseits him, the ouo that
uover proves ungrateful or treaoherous,
is his clog.
Gentlemen of the jury, a man's dog
stands by him in prosperity and iu
poverty, iu health and in sickness.
Ho will sleep oil tho cold ground,
whoro tho wintry winds blow and the
snow chives fiercely, if only he oau be
near his master's side. He will kiss
tho hand that has no food to offer,
he willick tho wounds and sores that
come in encounter with the roughness
of tho world. He guards the sleep of j
his pauper master as if he wero u
prince. When all other friends desert
ho remains. When riches take wings
and reputation falls to pieces lie is as
constant iu his love as the sun in its
journey through the heavens. If for
tune drives tho master forth au outcast
in tho world, trieudless and homeless,
the faithful dog asks no higher privi
lege than tbr.t of accompanying him
to guard against danger, to light
against his enemies; and when the
last scene of all comes, and death
takes the master iu its embraeo and i. w
body is laid away in tho cold grown:,
no matter if all other tnends pur--; .
their way, there by his j-rav.-KuV w ..
the uoblo dog be found, hi !.v..!
twoeu his paws, his eyes sad i ;
in alert watehtniiie.-s, !'..::.
true even unto death.
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