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About Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1905)
Topics of the Times It la dtftlcult to convince a confirmed KnoholT that abuse of Mm Is not in spired ly envy. Women's shoos nro to be larger thl year than formerly. Feet will remain the saute elite, however. The hand that rocks the cradle may ml the world, hut the foot that walk the floor with a colicky baby is also entitled to some credit Japanese oilleials say that It Is -not to be expected that Russia will sue for peace yet with a good deal of em phasis ou the word "yet." David Wark, though KX years of age, is serving as a member of Wio Canadian senate. Mr. Wark thinks Dr. sler may know more wheu he gets older. "There are many persons In Jail wh should not be there." says the lUsto;i iilobe. Isihly, but tliere are more outside who should be iu jail; so hon ors are easy. The United State Senate is com posed of tluee classes of members- 'those who have been Indicted, those who have not and those who may be Indicted later on. Surgeons have succeeded in sarins a human eye by grafting upon It a piece of a rabbit's eyeball. The owner of the eye will be lucky if he Isn't troubled with wild harts In It There is a lady In Ohio who has be come a grandmother at the age of Sti. But that's nothing. Grandmothers who are not over 22 or 23 can be fouud In almost every chorus on the road. Miss Jehnle Crocker of San Francis co has reached the as of IS and come Into possession of $,".000,000. Titled foreigners will please Hie photographs of themselves with their applications. Professor Loeb Is able now to hatch eea urchins from unfertilized eggs, but If he wants to cause read excitement let him drop the sea urchins and find out how to get gold without a gold mine. Misguided philanthropists are trying to secure a pardon for Jesse Pomeroy, the "boy fiend," who Is serving a life sentence for murder. Some people are never satisfied with letting well enough alone. la view of the decision by the Inter national commission In the North sea case, the least the czar can do will ba to give England an order on Japan for a few of those sunken warships to make good the damage done to that fleet of trawlers. In a case at Pittsburg the other day in which a young lady claimed dam ages from a young man for kissing ber, the Judge, after carefully scrutin izing the fair plaintiff, dismissed the uit on tbe ground that the defendant was Justifiable. This would appear a clear Instance of a gay old bird come to Judgment There are so many men past 40 who are at work and doing tilings that Dr. William Osier has met an extremely rough house. Some men beyond CO, at which age the doctor drew the limit, have proven themselves so good In a rough and tumble that the university man has come out of his bouts with them in rumpled and disfigured form. Popular actors and actresses take warning! Sir Henry Irving's recent close call was the inevitable conse quence of crowding social affairs into a profession which taxes the nervous forces more, pirhaps, than any other in our complex modern life. It Is suf ficient to undergo the strain of the theater without adding to it that wear and tear which is inseparable from dining out and speech-making, the highly exciting arid, it will be con f wised, also, fatiguing pastime for brilliant men of mark. The world de mands too much and the favorite gives too much. The seriousness of fire losses in the United States ltecomes conspicuous as one gets down to details. Here Is an interesting comparison: The revenue of the State of Maine In 1003 was, In round numbers, two million five hun dred and fifty thousand dollars; the damage done by fires in the State dur ing that year is estimated at five thou sand dollars more than that sum, with out taking into account the destruc tion by forest fires, which would have added more than a million dollars on the wrong side. Doubtless almost any other State would make quite as bad a ehowlng; but such figures, whereso ever found, are full of suggestion. Dishonesty in politics is so generally the rule that men who are honeat in j their private business do not hesitate to falsify, cheat ami steal In the mat- tor of political nominations and elec tions If they can do ao with any pros pect of escaping punishment, Thre can be no honest politic expressing the choice and voice of the people uu j loss. In tun first place, the people are i enabled to take personal part by mem ot primaries In nominating candidates, and. In the second place, unless they perform their public duty of qualify lug themselves to rote iu all elections. primary and final, and then go to the h11s and cast their votes, F.ternal vigilance Is the price of liberty. A Pittsburg 'steel magnate" now re siding in ,ev York has recently cre ated a fund of a million dollar for the puriKso of erecting mod 1 tenement in New York. Apparently he desires to duplicate snlstnnt!ally the splendid building devised and eonmdbd by the City and Suburban Home Company) clean, light, airy atructures, fitted with many modern conveniences, where de cent people en live In comfort a cheaply as In an equal number of un wholesome rooms In a slum. In prac tice the nt'Hlel tenement heretofore. constructed are a philanthropic enter prise. The tenants pay for what they get, but they get a great deal more than other landlord glva for tin money. The tenements are a business enterprise also, and yield a profit of 4 per cent ou the money Investe I. Ltou ba les the new one will pay as well, and. forty thousand dollar will become available every year to build more ten ements. Evidently this is the feature of the good housing Question that ap peals most forcibly to the man who gives the million dollars. He does not tietxi or want the 4 per cent but h.t doe Intend that bis benefaction shall endure and benefit an ever Increasing number. As a business man and as a philanthropist he might Justifiably an ticipate a day when, by tbe natural law of growth, model tenements shall displace the other kind. We speak of business and philanthropy In the same breath. That the association no longer seems absurd marks a distinct gain for both. It la entirely proper that char ity, even, should be administered on business principles, and it la right that a man who Is helped to a more com fortable way of living should aid to ex tend the benefit to his neighbor. The strength of the model-tenement plan is that it recognizes these principle. Thereby It appeals to many who, like the Pittsburg man, are able and will ing to do generous deeds when Judg ment apprve what generosity sug gests. No nvn reaches the age of triumph but by the steps of trial. He make no particular progress by patting himself on the back. Virtue may be It own reward, but It la not its own advertising agent The most success ful men are not the ones noisily de manding public attention. The best and most useful women In the world are not the bright butter flea of the stage, whose press agents Incessant ly flaunt their pictures and their lit tle nothings before the public. The nnlauded men and women who are quietly attending to their own little tasks, every day contributing some thing substantial to industry and pros perity, rearing children in habits of honest labor and right living and sup plying example that elevates the mor al and Intellectual level of their little communities these are the men and women of real influence and pow er. Success is theirs In the fullest measure. The power of the locomo tive lies not in the tremendously puff ing smokestack or In the shrill scream of the waste steam of the safety valve, but in the unheard, tin wen, but silently working steam In the cylin der. The swift flying piston seems to be doing wonders, but It Is only be- Ing forced back and forth by a force' it knows nothing alsmt, but must i obey. Just so the men we call great, because tliey seem to perform mar vels, are but the expression of the thought and Impulse of the united mass of unknown common people. No great man ever yet sprang up ex cept from a great people. It Is not given us all to have success as gor geous as the rainbow. But it need not matter. Success consists In doing your best at whatever Is at hand or In at leant trying your best. In deed the real success is more in the trying than in the achievement. We, wax unwilling to burn even though niay achieve by chance help of others set In a golden stand. There Is no or of force that are not ours. But brilliance without burning; no cnllght otir efforts are all our own. It Is ening without much loss, and the the efforts that are a part of our , very stives. Tbe Chance He Lost. "Why are you so sad.Allce?" her mother asked. "I've decided not to keep company with Mr. Jonesby any more." "Dear me! Have you heard any thing about him?" "No. But last night when I said I wished that I was a man he merely asked me why, instead of getting ex- vvnicn or tne iweive aposues was con cited and saying that life would be verted by the preaching of Jemis? hateful to him if I had not been born And which of Jesus' sermons was tn a girl." Chicago Itecord-IIerald. I tended for the specific purpose of con- I version? Of his recorded discourse, Many a man has accidentally lot the sermon on the mount was for in hia best umbrella by an unexpected etruetion; tbe discourse in the upper meeting with the owner. room waa tor comfort; the discourse LAMPS AMI LIUtllH. "Ye are the light of the world." Matt, v., 14. The utterance of the beatitude I ended; their application must begin. The danger Is that they shall be no more than beautiful attitudes. These ibiquent words are to issue In actual deed, they are the outline of the characteristics that produce light giv ing lives. Jesus did not speak these words so that preacher might have so many suitable text on which to hang their thought, but that people might have plain paths for the prac tice of virtue. One of the mtt com mou mistakes is that of supposing that all required of man I that T ahall Indorse these doctrine. Jesus little cures whether we Indorse them r not, so long as we I -ani to do them Then were already plenty who could analyze his teaching; he wanted men ami women to demonstrate them Therefore, lie called, not for lamp t carry the light of his truth, but for lights, lives burning with and living that truth. He leoauie the light of the world by giving a life to the world; so must all they w!k follow him. Light is i!f, and every life Is a lightgiver. The life, of the world depends not upon the number or the beauty of its lamps; it depends on the clear shining of it lights. The salvation of the world tie peuds not en our orthodox thinking, nor upon our effective organizing, but npon our enlightening living. Men are anxious and distressed because the fashion in candlesticks change; some have sjwtit their whole live trying to show how much U tter is a bras can dlestick than a glass one; they would redeem humanity by the shape of the lamp or the logic of the Inscription thereon. The hope of the world 1 In larger things. It is neither In pulpit nor l.i press; it I In tbe people; it Is not in the church, but In character. There is no preaching that begins to be as powerful as personality, no logic like that of a life. There was a life Out led men with It clear light before ever a creed was formally stated, and it will still In? a life that shall lead them whether they remember their creed or forget them. The many little, apparently Insig nificant, lights consisting of all these Christllke lives, shining together have turned their darkness Into day. We speak of the dark ages" and we be lieve Unit these are now the ages of light The enlightening of the world, the end of those days of the darkne of sin, superstition, slavery, and sor row, has come about because men have learned to lift up their heads to the great light of all lives; they then have learned of him the duty of giving light. Under the Inspiration of his life they could not Ik content to enjoy selfishly the light of learning for them selves; he gave them the light of love as well as that of learning, nnd love taught men U give out their light, not for their own adorning or glory but for the leading and enlightening of all. Whether great or small, hero Is something no man' can cweape; if he ha a life he Is some kind of light. And they who profess to follow the Hf-'ht of nil lives must, be his kind of a light. He semis them into the world even as he came himself, to live a life. That Is every mini's work. He cannot pay another to do his living, his shin ing for him. There Is nothing that can be accepted ns a substitute for this. It Is simple, so simple that men ever seek 'more Involved ways; the way to do the sublime work of saving the world is the simple way of living out always the best you know. Better Is It to be a glowing tallow dip In a tin candlestick than a ciwtly world Is lifted bv those lives that, liko his, have never stopped to count their 1ossih. PJIKACHLNG DOES NOT CON V RUT. By Dr. W. t. Barton. " Preaching Is of minor importance in converting men. I am tired of that vapid old thrust at the modern pulpit that in the .apostles' day one sermon converted 3,000 people, and that now lf 181108 3-000 sermons to convert one. on last things wa for thu establish ment of rlghteonnnea. other agtvielos mostly wore fruitful in conversions. The very first man we know who fob lowed Jesus was converted through the MronaJ testlmouy of John the Baptist 1 m:ki ok a NAVioit, . K ft, WHf, What men want and what meu need are not always one and the same thing. A Savior 1 the tremendous need of the world. It want philan thropists, but It needs a Savior to make it alms and dole unnecessary; It want reformers to abolish It slums, but it meds a Savior to abolish the alum from It' featerlug place, th human heart. Time out of number the alum I iu the man before the man Is In the alum. The world want hospitals and asy lums (and may their number Increas uum no nurortunatw cries In vain), but It need first of all a Savior t) rid It of the sin and vice that till hos pital and asylum with the victim of pain, Insanity and want It want ami it must bare Its prophet of the l!ter social order, but it needs, its It t'.eods nothing else, a Savior to create the new man, with out which no higher scheme of things i workable. The church may have often carica tured It Leader In it live and wronged him In its dogmas and phil osophies, but Its heart has been true, as through all age It has worshiped "Jesus llomluum Salvator," Jeans, th Savior of the world. REVIVALS (MINING 1'AVOlt By Bmhop frltow. "O Ixrd, revive thy work." wa the prayer of an old testament prophet. The word rwlval la, therefore, good scriptural word. It mean recovery from spiritual deaduess ami an ag gresslve movement upou sin and nu righteoumifM In every form. It la In harmony with the teaching of nature and with the nocomdtie of business. social and political life. The sign of a great spiritual awak ening throughout the country are of an encouraging nature. Chicago sent to the old world .Moody and San key, who stints! profoundly both Kngland and Scotland. She has recently sent across the water Torrey and Alexan der, who are achieving signal religious success, WahM has enjoyed a revival unprecedented In modern time. Kev. W. J. Dawson, of Kngland, and or. mill, of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, are soon to begin pvlaj meetings In Chicago and the West under the auspice of the Congrega tional Church. The season of Lent Is titling time for a union of effort of all the churches to arouse the people to the lmMirtance of a deep religious life. May the year lOofi be a memor able one for the spiritual progre of the nation. SOME NAGGING PHOBLKMS. Bf Hey. Pear ftneft, We have a thousand nagging prob ems. How shall we feed the poor? low shall we reform the world? I low shall we manage with our struggling hurches? The problem of the poor,' while n problem of food, Is more a problem of hnracter. Regeneration Is the only mastery of It. The only way to reform the world Is to have more people wiio lire rltrlit at heart. Wo shall lift the truggllng churches when the life and tower of Christ, fhall find n place In hem, for they will be no loner struggling, but victorious. From the nagging problems nil neel o turn to that divine love nnd mastery that goes In compassion upon the real needs of men nnd feeds the great soul uinger which is the basis of all dis order. Short Meter Sermons. VIrtuo Is victory. Hot heads make eofd hearts. There Is no lift In a long face. Faith cannot feed on fireworks. Big clocks do not kei) the tiest time. Aspiration proves Itself by perspira tion. Faith In God will at least show fair- liens to men. Some sermons gllslen because they are frozen. Consideration and kill-Joy are not even on speaking terms. One of the first fruit of the clean heart will be clean bands. Where the Bible does not get worn the heart soon get weary. A man does not grow himself by grunting at every one else. It takes sunshine In tbe soul to ripon the fruits of tho spirit Tbe Christian life is more than curi osity about the next life. No amount of proficiency in the quotation of scripture can atone foi deficiency In tbe practice of it WHEN THE SMOKER FAILED, M Ch n not Httinkv Cigar Wltliont Kviuovltitf II froiu tU Llia. "Men are proud of their ability to consume a number of strong tigur," said a. cigar di aler tho other day. Ac cording to the Newark (N. J.) News, '"Ibey glory In It, even while they are wishing they could break off the prac tice. And that remind me of a story. Did you ever stop to think what a hard thing It would be to smoke a cigar continuously, without rumovlng It from the mouth, until It waa all gone, or so short that It could not be smoked conveniently?" Tbe reporter said ho never had. "Well, there was a iiihii Iu here one who was making all sort of crack about w hat a smoker he was, Klghteen cigar a day wa his limit. There waa a quiet chap In here at the same tlmo one of tho who will smoke three cigars a day, no more, no less, ono after each meal, and enjoy every inch of the weed. Well, be sort of sl.ed the boatful one up and made the re. mark that be had a ten smt that wa ready for the talkative one If ha could smoke a cigar down to within one Inch of the end without taking it from hi Hi. "That waa easy for the Issister. He said so, at any rate, and be prodticvd bis money, 1 held the stakes, and the contest was on. The great smoker llghtisl bis weed, sat down ami began pulling, a smile of confidence ou bU face. He did very well, too, rolling out great clouds of stiioke, mid soon there was half an Inch of ash on tho tip of his perfecto. But from then on the smoker was a tittle uneasy. Ho hort of rolled Ids cigar a round between his Hps and bis putting came slower. When he hud burned nu hxii of It ho began to walk up and down the room. Some one gave him the laugh, and be started In putting again, but It was such an effort that I felt sorry for him. He begun to have trouble with bis loin thing. "The sweat come out on bis fore bead, and when the cigar wa half gone he wa Iu positive agony. I don't know whether It was from ner vonsncM, In not following the usual custom of removing the cigar from tho Hps at stated Intervals, or because he was sickened by the constant volume of smoke be hnd to puff in and blow out At any rate be wa getting In a bad way, and a few minutes later, a white as a sheet, he gave it up. He tossed the clgnr away, iioddisl that I might pny the stakes over to the quiet man, and went out. That was the last boasting he ever did. "it's an oild fact, but It's true, and be proved it, that a man can't smoke a clgnr and not take It from hi Hp until It'a all gone. No smoker doc it. He can't He's simply got hi take It from his mouth occasionally, I, of course, have heard of men who lighted cigars and never let them go out and never took them from between their lips until the weisls were smoked rlht down to the end. but I never saw a chap who could do the stunt In fact I don't think liny one can do It If you think It can be done well, try It some time, ami see bow you ge along." WEEDS USED AS MEDICINE. Far Better than Chcnilrnl Componitd for Common Kan of llrman Ilia. Tho United States Department ef Agriculture is publishing a great many valuable bulletin for the Information of the farmers, says Medical Talk for the Home. Bulletin No. 1S8 Is entitled: "Weed L'sed in Medicine." It goes on to enu merate the weeds, which grow, to tho great annoyance of the fanner, that have been fouud by experience io bo useful as medicine. We will give tlioiu as a matter of information. They are: Burdock, dandelion, yel low dock, couch grass, poke wcisl, lox glove, miil elii, lobelia, tansy, gum plant, scaly grlndcliu boneset catnip, hoaiiiound, thistle, yarrow, Henbane, jlinsoii weed, mIsoii hemlock, worm seed and mustard. These are very f i mlllar to the average fanner, who dally uproots them, and makes it hi biiHlneti to exterminate them. We believe that when the medical fraternity get over their microbe cm so. and are willing to leave their chemical In lxra tones long enough to get out Into the woods and fields, thev will discover remedies a great ileal less harmful nnd a great ileal more potent among the weed than they will ever find in it chemical lalsirn-tory. Wo have fiillh in nature, We believe Hint na ture has provided what remedies aro necessary for disease. Should the doc tors tiike to the woods and fields fo? thelr remedies, not only . would their patients be benefited, but tho doctors themselves. The air nnd sun to wblh they would expose themsolve, leaving for a while tho stench and poisonous odors of the laboratories behind, wonl.i do them lots of good. We will undertake the easv task of showing that the weeds which the farmers throw away have done more good in the world as medicines than all the compounds devised by tho chemists witn unpronounceable Latin names. We are always willing to delight a mother by holding her baby, but we don't want to dollght hor too long. t
