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About Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919 | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1905)
Topics of the Times The President Is doing all he can to make .'bully" a classic. It la bettor to be everything to some body than something to everybody. Excessive modesty has kept many a deserving mau't noso to the grind stone. Contentment may be better than rlchea, but a little of both Is more satisfactory. One of England's women novelists Is abusing the hoopsktrt Probably a fat woman. The Appellate Court has decided that hat trimming Is no art Family men have always considered It high art A Kansas man who has returned from Tana ma aays It will take 200 years to finish the canal He did well not to wait If the experts want to learn the real speed limit of an automobile they should time It after it has run over and Injured a man. King Edward Is reported to bo los ing his teeth. Still, they might be going even If he were a poor, over worked, underpaid laborer, so Where's the moral? 'Pr. Morrill says "the devil's dollar Is worth more than the stingy saint's nickel." No, Dr. Gladden, and Mr. Rockefeller, of course, he didn't mean anything personal. A fashion authority says that women should buy hats to match their hair. Rut it Is not every wom an who can afford more than four or five hats in a year. As to the use of corncobs In the manufacture of maple sugar, it should be explained that the cobs are mere ly used to furnish the unmistakable and genuine maple flavor. That New York physician Who Is trying to start a crusade against long dresses may as well give It up. He will have no better success than the late Mrs. Bloomer had. A woman has been granted a di vorce and $4.00 a mouth alimony, with permission to remarry without losing the alimony. It will be her own fault If she long remains a widow. E. Benjamin Andrews Is afraid the yellow peril will overtake us If the Japanese win. It must be remem bered, however, that E. Benjamin 1ms always had a sharp eye for buga boos. The woman who is to have $400 a month alimony, even If she marries again, will probably not have to ad vertise in any of the matrimonial Journals for the purpose of finding a new affinity. A Delaware man has been crippled for life by kneeling often and for long periods at prayer. Let not the skeptics forget that many, other peo ple have been crippled for life while engaging In impious practices. A New York club woman said a few days ago: "The worst fate that could befall a woman, it seems to me, would be to marry a man of Inferior intel lect" Does the club woman desire to shut np all of the female colleges? Where, for Instance, would one be able to find a man of other than Inferior intellect as compared with that of a graduate of Vassar, Wellealey, Bryn Mawr or Lucy Cobb? The dear girl graduates will have to go right along marrying men of Inferior Intellect or do without husbands. While we are Inclined to criticise English railroads with much freedom, jhey have a record In one respect which our own railroad managers must look upon with respect. The gross earnings of the English roads never showed an unfavorable fluctuation, as compared with a previous year, of over y per cent With all the talk of poor rail way management, of decadent Indus tries and of the economic evils of war, It is confusing to find that the commer cial development of Great Britain, measured by her gross railroad traffic. preseuts an almost unbroken record of advance. Net earnings, however, have been badly cut into by the riae in wages and by the higher cost of fuel. One result of the Russo-Japanese war is to restore the bayonet to its old prominence as a weapon in all armies. When the Krag model of rifle' was adopted for the United States army about fifteen years ago the bayonet was shortened and so changed In shape that it might be used as an Intrench Ing tool if desired. But the night flght- Ing In Manchuria has repeatedly brought the Russian and Japanese forces Into close quarters, where bayo nets have been used on both sides with tremendous effect. Consequently the army general staff at Washington has determined that the United States bay onet for the new rltle adopted In UHUJ shall be four Inches longer than the Krag bayonet and preparations are si ready under way at the national armo ries to make the change. The average destruction by forost fires In this country Is estimated at (25,000,000 or more annually. It Is impossible to prevent all this wast In some respects the worst that fire can cause, because It takes years to replace It Just as It la Impossible to establish conditions whereby all other forma of property shall be protected against this agent of destruction, but It undoubtedly Is possible to enforce a policy or policies to very appreciably reduce the danger and the loss If ones the public la brought to' realise the gravity of the situation. In Germany and Frauee these experiences are guarded, against In large measure, be cause the governments have strict for cetry laws, and the forests are well policed and vigilantly cared for. Hen the general government can do little except on Its own preserves ami the work of protection must be left to the States, which as yet do not seem to have rlseu to a sense of their respon sibilities. American liberality to education of all grades Is the admiration and the envy of educational and social observ ers of all other nations. Yet the com plaint Is often made by discontented Americans that higher education after all remains here, as elsewhere, a privi lege of wealth and something at which the wage-worker's son has little or no chance. A recent bulletin of the Mas sachusetts Labor Bureau throws inter esting light UHn this complaint It shows that In Harvard, often called "a rich man's college," nearly 10 per cent of the young men and nearly 11 per cent of the young women are the chil dren of people classed by statisticians as wage-workers. In Boston Univers ity, the largest Methodist Institution of New England, over 33 per cent of the students are the sons and daughters of wage-workers. The record of Clark University Is even more remarkable. This is devoted entirely to post-gradu ate and resenrch work that Is, to the kind of study which must wait longest for monetary returns. Yet nearly 27 per cent of its students are from wage- working families. Of course. It may be said that the number of students from wage-earning families Is by no means proportionate to the number of such families for higher education pro- portlonate to their number. Before the gratification can be sought or had the desire must exist. Of course, all nor mal parents wish for their children easier or more fortunate lives than their own. But the Ideals of parents differ according to what their own lives have been. The father who has gone from the common school to work with out repining, and who has won what he deems success, Is apt to think that higher education Is a useless If not a pernicious luxury. There are always exceptions, but that Is the rule. Charles M. Schwab's objection to higher edu cation for a business career, based on his own success without It Illustrates the point. Only those parents who have had themselves some touch of higher education who have obtained some Inkling of the Joys of knowledge for Its own sake are apt to Inspire their children with real desire for It. That Is the rule whose workings cut down enormously the proportion of wage-working families which feel any deprivation If their children do not get it. If in Massachusetts, where social distinctions originally produced by wealth, whatever their present basis. are more real and binding than In any other American state, so many children of w'age-workers are getting higher ed ucation, what must be the conditions elsewhere in States where society has not become anywhere near so firmly stratified? The answer to the charge that the poor boy has no chance of higher education Is the simple fact that wherever he and bis really desire it be is getting it Breaking a Rale. One day recently at Washington a number of naval officers were discuss ing the traditional rivalry and ill feel ing that Is often 'remarked between the "Jackies" and marines. As every one knows, on shipboard the marines are soldier-policemen, and, as such, make the "Jackies stand round," to the great disgust of the sailors. "I remember of once hearing of one old tar," said Captain Brownson, "who was forever having difficulty with th marines. Finally, contriving to get on fairly good terms with one of the hated policemen of the deck, he said: "I wish you'd tell me how to keep out of trouble with you fellers." "That's the easiest question In tho world to answer," said the marine, with a grin. "Just you Jackies remem ber this, that whenever you get to feel ing nice and easy and fine, stop it for it's a dead sure thing you're busting a rule! GREAT APPIAN WAY. A ROMAN ROAD WHICH ABOUNDS IN ROMANCE. Botdicra and Staves Mourners and 1'leaaure-Seekcrs, Idlers. Has Trad ra and I.ovura, All Thaaa Uava Traveled lie Tared gnrUee, Some things remain unchanged throughout the ages while others are merely transitory despite an appear ance of the greatest durability, Love and hate, Joy and sorrow, are the same to-day ,aa they were wheu man first discovered he was a creature with powerful emotions. Lte the brook lu the poem, they go on forever, regard less of man's coming and going. The things man has built with his bauds, ou the contrary, uo matter how great, hate almost Invariably crumbled to dust with the passing of time, leaving scarcely a trace of their existence. On the plains of Asia Minor, 'along the valley of the Nile In Egypt and In other of the older Inhabited parts of .the earth, there have at different periods In the remote past sprung Into existence through one cause or an other great cities, each filled with Its bustling throngs of people Intent on doing the many things that go to make up urlyu life. To-day, there scarce re mains of these one stone upon another to mark the place of their being. All have perished. Wood and stouo, brick and mortar, have fallen Into decay; aud of the many homes that once shel tered happy families, of the Imposing piles that housed the multifarious branches of trade, and of the magnifi cent structures erected to gratify man's desire for suitable places In which to worship, nothing remains In most Instances except a few half- burled fragments. In place of these ALL THAT IS LEFT OF SCORES dead cities of the past there are other and fairer ones thickly dotting the sur face of the earth, but they -are all the result of those never-dying emotions constantly spurring man to activity. This constancy of the human emo tions Is a key that unlocks the treas ure house of all romances of the past. Because of It the lover of to-day can fully appreciate the hopes und fears that troubled the hearts of oth er lovers In the far distant past. He knows that despite a difference In dress and language and environment they were moved by feelings similar to those that send him a -wooing, and he understands. Tho soldier, too, when he goes to war to-day, is actu ated by the same motives that domi nated the minds of those who fought so fiercely of old. I'atrlollsm, hero Ism, hatred of an enemy to the father land all these 'sentiments are un changed. It is only the outward and mnterliil pxnresslon of things that proves unstable as time advances. It Is because of this ability to fully comprehend the motives prompting hu man activities in the long ago that people of the present age are o strongly Impressed when contemplat ing the ruins of those ancient places, There is the Annlun way, for in stance. Who can travel along this an clent Roman thoroughfare without a sense of strong heart Interest? One really cares little about who built It so long as the story of what has taken place on Its surface remains untold, and yet any reference to the subject would be incomplete without a brief mention, nt least, of the facta regard lng the road ItHelf. The Ancient Thoroughfare. This celebrated road, which with its branches connected Rome with all parts of southern Italy, was begun at the Capena gate In the old Romnn wall by Applus Claudius Cnecus, in 312, B. C, and was completed as far as Capua, a distance of 125 miles, In 307, B. C. It was subsequently con tinued to Brunduslum, in the south eastern part of Italy, und was the main channel of communication be tween the Eternal City and the prlncl pal port whence sailed the vessels for Greece an the east It la remark' able for the substantial manner f It construction and the paved surface, which was made of large and well fitting blocks of black basaltic lava. (Jnlte naturally, luc It was the mnst picturesque of all the approach es to Rome, It soon Itccame a favorite place for those of leisure to walk or drive. This resulted lu such a groat liking for It thnt many of the wealthy Romans, at death, made provision for their remains to be placed near this favored spot, aud lu time numerous magnificent sepulchres were reared along the road near the city, the most noted of which are those of Calatlnus, the Sctplos, and Caerllla Metella. After the fall of the Roman empire the Applan way was allowed to care for Itself for centuries, and It became unfit for use In many places. Until atvout fifty years ago, the greater part of the road bryotul the tomb of Cae cilia Metella, or between the .Id and 11th milestones, was hardly distin guishable from the surrounding conn try, excepting by the ruins of the sep ulchres; but excavations In 1830-'M, extending over the Applan way from Its beginning as far as the ancient alt of Bovlllae, reopened to travel its most Interesting part. This work was car rled out under the auspices of the pa pal government. The part of the an cient road that was restored Is called the Via Appla Nova, or in plain En glish, the new Applan road. Oddly enough, too, the modern railway from Rome to Naples crosses this old road near the place where the workmen ceased their operations. The meeting of St. I'eter and the Master on the Applan way, not far from the city. Is the most Important Incident of the ninny which legend says took place along this road. The story Is that St. I'eter. becoming dls eouraged by the martyrdom of hun dreds of Christians lu Rome, started but to leave the country. He bad gone but a little way lu his flight when iV y i . - -- OF SPLENDID MAUSOLEUMS. he met our Savior, who rebuked hint. The little church of Douilne Juo Va ils the words used by St. Peter In addressing tho Savior on that memor able occasion Is supposed to stand on the spot where the meet ing took place. In the center of the church Is a mar ble slab showing a facsimile of the foot-prints of Jestm, the original of which, a block of black basaltic lava said to be the one on which He stood when talking with St. Peter. Is highly treasured In tho Basilica of St. Sebas tian. What a trystlng place for lovers this favorite Roman road must have been In the days of Its greatest glory! What sweet nothings or burning words of passion were here murmured Into will ing ears! What clandestine meetings may have taken place In the shadow of these magnificent housings of the dead by those whose love was op posed! The marble-walled mausoleums along Its way must have echoed the shouts of those having a friendly trial of speed between the gayly trapped steeds drawing their chariots: words of flattery, too, from those camp-fel lows of the great In society, In poll tics, or In war. Jealousies, heart '"aw, .t.-:..:.::y-'- : -y-M -:"W,i ;.,-..; PART OF OLD ROMAN ROAD linrntngs, hatreds, trivial wort-lea: nT sorrows of gloomiest depths all nave swayed their victim here as In every other walk of lite. Along this way tramped the Roman, legion setting forth to battle, and by It they returned, with trumpet peal of victory drowning the groans of tuir prisoners. Throngs of merry people have passed back and forth In Joyous pastime along this favorite re sort of a pleasant .afternoon lu that time so long ago, mid their merriment has beeu suddeuly hushed aa they drew aside to let pass some grief- stricken group slowly bearing a loved one to the last resting place of th ' dead. It la because of our unchanging emotional nature that such thought as these fill the minds of most per sona who travel over the old road, put ting them strangely lu touch with, the life of the past. Rut the rule does not alwaya bold good. Even tho Applan way some' times falls to attract, as the recent ex perience of si Roman guide with party from Chicago will show. The Chicago squad consisting of the parents and two grown-up chil dren was under the leadership of ft 214 pound mamma, who fancied she knew lot about her rights and privi leges as a lady of leisure and lucre, Papa, who had piled up the boodle lu ways known only to the pork Inter ests, was merely a eoiiveneluee. Mam ma did all the bargaining. Papa set tled the bills without a murmur, and never had a good time unless be could Induce the others to go on while he remained at a hotel for a few daya on the plea of being "extremely bil lons, my dear, stomach way off must bo doctored up at once." Poor man! When mamma engaged Plctro to show them the sights of liome he sug gested a trip over the Via Appla, launching forth In a ve!ble descrip tion of the many fine ruins of superb tombs to be seen along Its course. "But are there no persons living along this this Wceah Ahpeeah?" queried jnatnma, visions of a fine ttoule- vard and crowds of admiring people gaxlng at herself aud Jewels filling her mind as she complacently viewed what she conM see of the lavish display of resplendent gems bedecking her am ple figure. "No. no!" hastily exi-lnlmert Pletro, with a deprecatory wave of too hand and a shrug of the shoulders that would have expressed volumes t any- otn else. "No, these people been dead one two t'ousand years, madam; but the tombs ruins niagnlflque nh h h!" his eyes were rolling In an eeslaey of delight. "Humph! Dead ones are unappre- clatlve," cut In the practical mamma, with another glance at her Jewels, "Never mind this this old graveyard take tts around In tho city." At I.KHI. The mother of the sinull boy hail been trying to Instill wlihln him an Idea of conscience. She described It a a little voice which whlspentl In side one wheu be was doing wrong. "1 never heard It." said the small boy, cynically, ami In tho tune of ouo who shrugs his shoulders. A little later tho small lmy did some thing he bad beeu told Hot to do, ami was sent to sit on a chair, and order ed uoCto get off until the powers that be gave him leave. Ten minutes later he came Into the room where bis mother was sitting, jubilant "I've beard It, mother," he exclaim ed. "Heard what?" naked his perplexed parent. "Heard the little voice. It said, 'Sam Smith, you get off thnt chair. Don't you care what your mother says!' " Strange Fellow. "Markley's a queer fellow. He bought a couple of tickets from mo for an amateur theatrical perform ance." "And he actually used them?" "Not only thnt, but ho says bo en Joyed himself." New York Times. A bard boiled egg tastes so good at a picnic thnt every one decides that the hard boiled egg Is never rated at Its proper merit at home. r it- l V X PL THAT HAS BEEN RESTORED.
