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About Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1906)
Topics of the Times After nil, the wonder nerai to be that there ts anything left for the policy-holders to expect. Mr. Rockefeller's mall continue to apply proof that his money U la the tnlnj of many people. Russia Is finding that the ud of the Russo-Japanese war meant only the beginning of the end. A sea level canal possibly intght ts completed tn time to be called the Theodora Roosevelt Jr. canaL As between a battleship and I Dew bonnet there Is some doubt as to which more quickly becomes obsolete. Emperor Nicholas' manifestoes, like the platforms of some American politi cal parties, are not meant to stand Upon. The fight la not against the principle of life Insurance, but against the life Insurance grafters who have no prin ciple. Kaloer William says he wants "only pious and gallant soldiers." The Kai ser never had a regiment of Rough Riders. That writer who describes Ssrah Bernhardt as the "greatest living dra matic artist" had better keep out of Richard Mansfield's way. John L. Sullivan announces that he la about to retire from the stage. Com ing so soon after the death of Xlenry Irving, this leaves the drama rather groggy. The Japanese, the Chinese, and even the Turks, may be pardoned if, after reading our football returns for the season, they contemplate sending us a few missionaries. Colleges that have failed to win dis tinction on the bloody football field will have to be content with merely fur nishing opportunities for the acquire ment of a good education. One advantage of studying the "Origin of Life," as Professor Loeb Is doing this. Is that the job will last for ever, passing along as good as new to an endless succession of professors. Judging by the cable reports. If the Russians had been as active in fight ing the Japanese as they are In slaughtering the Jews, the war In the Far East might have had a different termination. Mrs. Astor Invited only seventy-nine guests to the dinner which she gave In honor of Prince Louis. New York's .'00" must during the past few years have been making rapid headway In the race suicide business. Mr. Hyde admits that he does not know any other company that would pay him a salary of $75,000 a year. He probably does not know of any other company in which he ever held 17,000,000 worth of stock and securi ties. Edna Wallace Hopper has during the past few weeks been sued for breach of promise, figured as the heir ess of an $8,000,000 estate and been operated on for appendicitis. Edna has evidently decided to make a stir or bust Privilege is the root of all evils in politics and business. It is one of the oldest sources of wrong In the world and has wrought more ruin than all the piked mobs of the unprivileged, who blinded by poverty, Ignorance and in justice, have stormed the citadels of privilege and power. All experience shows that human nature is too frail to bear the strain of privilege. The sense of might overwhelms the sense of right One of the tests, of a philosophical aoul la the reasonableness with which it sloughs off old beliefs, and sees treasured doctrines die without losing faith In the whole scheme of things. A lady recently complained against at tacks on her favorite patent medicines, her favorite financiers and her favor ite character in history all in the same magazine. She humorously protested that she had been thrown into a state of universal skepticism. The wise per son will not lose sleep or stop going to circuses simply because the "real mer maid" turns out to be made of shoe leather. The person who makes up his mind too resolutely never to be fooled again will m(Iss a great deal of intel lectual serenity. 4 The friends of vigorous outdoor sport have long been pleading for the rescue of football from the blight of unfair play which causes nine-tenths of . all the physical Injuries and all the de tnorauzauon oi uie piayers. - iug gtng" Is contrary to the rules, the hir ing of outsiders to play In college and academy teams Is forbidden, and va rious other things are condemned. Yet In spite of the rules, the conduct of many players and their trainer sug gests that they deem It more Important to win a game than to play fairly. The demoralisation has progressed so far that college presidents have be gun to protest against the practice of teaching the players how to violate the rules of the game without being found out When matters have reached such a pass It Is time to call a halt Col lege and academy sports should be con ducted lu a sportsmanlike manner. A victory won by fraud or trickery should be made so unpopular that the man or team winning It should be forced In very shame to refuse o accept the award. The only way to bring this about la for those who believe tn fair play to Insist upon It at all times. If every high-minded youth who finds his associates playing unfairly should re fuse to take part until the unfairness la eliminated, the reform would soon be secured. There are already encour aging signs thst the high-minded stu dents are asserting themselves. Those In a large academy In New York hare set an example by deciding to play no more gnmee with other schools. They wish other schools to discontinue the game, and thus cut off the supply of material for the colleges, and thereby force them to amend the roles radical ly. The Idea la a good one, and Is to be heartily commended. It is Impera tive that the young men who are to lead the nation In the future should not have their moral standards broken down while In college by the practice of the theory that anything Is fair to win. One's self-respect is alwsys too high a price to pay for victory. You know the moral-hunting man. He likes to preach and be preached at. How often do you bear htm say, with conscious pride, "1 never read a book unless It ts Instructive end elevating. I can't waste my time on high-flown fanclea." He msy be a worthy cltlxen, a model neighbor, a good husband, li'it he la not the kind of man you'd like to go fishing with. And Just here W where thst Hall of Fame Jury made the mistake which' has caused a pro test on both skies of the Atlantic, in the rejection of Poe and the selection of Whlttler for honors In this lofty Institution It would seem that moral character rather than literary genius Is the essential qualification for un dying fame. Granted that a man Is as bad as his worst feelings. Isn't he also as great as his greatest work? What is highest literature or truest art but the clearest expression of man st his best? The beauty which man creates must first dwell In his own soul. And true goodness and great ness will sometimes thrive all the bet ter In soli that Is not too sterile of the human element When Raphael painted his master altarplece It was not moral enthusiasm It was not de sire to teach purity snd sanctity that Inspired him to the work. He did not try to give a faithful portrait of Mary, a daughter of the house of David. He saw the flower girl on the street; the radiance of her counten ance so filled his soul that be could not rest until he had perpetuated h'. loveliness; and as we drink In the purity of expression, the wlstfulnejs of the far-seeing eyes, the tenderness of the whole character of the KlstHe Madonna, do we not perceive the be nign soul of the artist In his perfect conception of womanhood and mother hood? The great artist reveals two people in one the person he paints and himself. Another of the worlds great masters, Robert Bums, failed In many things, but his songs go straight to the heart. They will live as long hs men live and love. And the best of him lives in them. It was much the same with Poe. His life may have been a curse to himself, bis family and his friends. Yet those rare flights of genius which make him the "tall pine" lu American literature reveal his higher seif In lightning flashes. K man's work is the thing. Obliging Father. "What's til that bunch of stuff?" "Our little girl made herself sick yes terday, eating too much pudding, and I'm taking home a few of the remedies suggested by the child's two grand mothers." When a girl uses the word "kid," In referring to a girl of her own age or a young man, she ought to be taken home and locked up. . MBS fifiifSMffflLaia 1 HI Hflf .1 ESSENCE OF REAL RELIGION. By Rev. Henry T. Cope. What doth the Lord require of thee but to do Justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Mlcah vl;8. There must be some good reason for the fact that many men feel chagrined If they are charged with being re Itglous. Often these meu posse the keenettt sense of right and make the strongest Insistence on reality. The truth la that they object to the unreal ity of that which they have learned to call religion; often their protests agalust spurious types of religion are but declarations of the true kind. Every honest hearted man turns with loathing from the cant, meanness, and selfishness that wear the guise of piety. It has led the world to think that a religious man la the one who goes to church, uses certain phrase, and generally cuts the cloth of his life to the pattern prescribed by the clergy. Thus easily the gotd Is made to serve the bad. It Is a blesalng that there always have been men who repudiated that kind of piety. Rut to the true man re ligion ts simply the effort to find the right life. He Is most religious who lives lest Faiths must be Judged by their fruits; a man's religion and his religiousness by his living. That Is the best religion which best teaches men to live. If any book beside the bible can do more for us, If any faith beside Christianity can give the world a nobler life, let us find and follow it. To the question, what Is religion? the bible gives a surprisingly simple an swer. Instead of minute rules It give broad principles; it lifts aloft noble Ideals and denounces baseness. It breathes of righteousness, that Is, right thoughts, words, deeds, relations. It Is the text bo.k on the fine art of living. All other thoughts ami teachings but serve this and have value only on ac count of their service. Every man Is religious In proportion as he seeks the right. Every act la holy, an act of worship, as It serves the good snd the true. You can no more confine religion to a church than you can Imprison knowledge In a schoolroom. It belongs on the street. In the home, the office, the shop, wher ever men are seeking to do-right and make life right. Many a man Is re ligious who would resent the Imputa tion of piety. Right seeking and right doing tn Jus tice and mercy these make the life of righteousness. There never has been and there never will be any real dif ference of oplulon as to these virtues. He who Is SNhamed of them has no pjace amongst men: he who neither seeks them nor endeavors to realize them Is not religious, no matter what his professions and protestations may be. And the man who seeks them with all his heart Is religious whatever be or others may think. The time wilt come when we shall brand as heretical and impious every mockery In forms and words and pro scriptions that lias so long paraded as the true and only expression of god liness. Then the test of a man's re ligion will be the measure In which his life makes for justice, mercy, and humility. Then, Instead of asking, What does ecclesiastical etiquette re quire me to do? we shall Inquire, What Is right, noblest, best for a man in a world of men? This makes the religious man, then, that he seeks the life that deals Justly, that walks uprightly, that loves mercy, that does good and serves and blesses men, that seeks not high things for re ward but seeks them In character. This makes the religious man whether he be in sympathy with existing religious In stitutions or not; these virtues have no substitutes, neither names, ceremonies, nor creeds can take their place. But when once the life has entered on the passionate search for rlghtness, when once the love of justice, mercy, and humility has laid hold on us, there will be little time or energy to give to foolish problems of angels or his tory, there will be no care whether men think we are religious or not We shall come to see that our desire in living Is the desire of the Lord of all life, that our goal Is a divine and glo rious one, and nothing will turn us from It Above all will be a sense of harmony with the Infinite, too deep for words, too sacred for expression. By Rev. Dr. C. Ellis Stevens. So run that ye may obtain. I. Corin thians lx:24. We have been passing through the football season. Whatever some may think of this particular game, thous ands of the older and younger gener ation keenly cure for fair athletics be tween colleges. While what we call athletics have primarily to do with brawn and mus cle, they are more than Intercollegiate. They touch the questlou of success or failure In the world's arena, because their principles directly concern the struggle of life Itself. It Is not Idle moralising to say that athletics can meet us In more ways than manly sport No athlete Is worthy a' great football team who does not lu self abnegation sued flea time, energy and the habit of easy living to the rigid discipline uecessary for effective de velopment No athlete ran hope to win who does not strive at utmost for practical skill. Nor can he win at least, he cannot In football without fearlessness, endur ance, perse vers nee, no matter what msy come. All the Intensity he can muster must be aimed at one end the earning of a victory which he knows la to be herd fought But Is not the mercantile world, with Its difficulties and competitions, an Ideal field for the application of these great principles of strenuous athletics the principles of skill, pluck and per sistence? Much young men as treat tii duties of their clerkships or other positions easily ami lightly while read ing enthusiastically the news of ath letic vigor by others, seem not always to comprehend the opportunity that confronts them for demonstrating their own manhood. Too often they deceive themselves, while admiring "go" In others, Into feeling a certain share in It very much as Ikmi yulxore felt In the ex ploits of ancient knights, oblivious to the acute contrast In their own chsr acters. Older men at times condemu false or rough plsy at football and then forthwith make false play In business because no umpire stands by to dis qualify, as he should, their further relation to the game of life. An ele ment of true athletics Is needed In the average world, and when recognised It will ever be a stimulant to honest en deavor and honorable achievement What Is thus pointed to as undenia bly true of the mercantile world Is Just as true of the conflict every man has within himself which constitutes his game of existence. The Internal struggle Is usually In secret, so that even nearest friends know little of It. Perhaps mercifully they can never com prehend It to the full. Yet the man himself knows keenly enough bow real Is bis own contest. He gets "tackled" at times and finds after a while that he Is bruised snd sore spent But he will win. If he wins at all, exactly In accord with the laws of athletics. He must "down" the foe or get the worst of It He must face and defeat temp tation, bad habits, the evil of ques tionable surroundings and of doubtful or sinful tendency, else the game of his soul Is against him, driving him yard-lines backward. SHORT METER SERMONS. God la not lauded by libeling men. Rad news never spoils by keeping. True blue seldom sees things blue. The greatest art of life Is that of living. Nothing worries worry worse than work. Sow a small Joy and reap a great happiness. It takes more than diplomacy to de feat the devil. He needs to wear wading boots who takes short cuts to success. The value of a strong man's power depends on his patience with the weak'. Better is It to drive the gloom from one heart than to dower It with gold. It Is easy to waste enough strength dodging your duties to do them twice over. Bearing the cross does not exempt one from bearing a share of the world's cares. If some hearts should go to heaven there would be a hard frost there right off. Some people never feel good unless they are making others feel the other way. It is the man who fears to soil his hands who will worry least about his heart. The man whose voice drowns the choir In church sings small on the street. . In a sad world the only saints who have a right to sleep are the ones In the graveyard. God's workers never have to wait for a raise In salary before they will do their best The trouble with much preaching is that It is advertising truffles when the people need potatoes. ' 999999 99 ttt$gl THE OLD MONK-CURE St Jacobs Oil has trsvslad round the world, and evsrywhsre humsa Aches and Pains htve vsicomed It snd bleat i it (or a cure. Irlct 95o sssd 50 FrofMaleaat jMUnr, "Mr. Dustla Stsi saya he isnt g olng to endow any more libraries," "Hut I thought he was ds voted to literature. lie bss written hooka him- self." "That's the trouble. The people let the dust lie on his hooka and stand la line to get 'Mssle'a Wooing and 'When True Iov Wss to Hloora' and works of that character," Washing ton Star. Controlling Nature. Everybody knows that of. late years natural forces have been wonderfully subjected to man's need. We are daisied by the spectacular achieve menu in steam and electricity, bat are likely to forget the leaa noisy but do less marvelous conquest of animal and plant life. Horses sre swifter, cattle heavier, rows give more milk and sheep have finer fleeces than tn days gone by. In plants the transformation is evea more marked. People now living can remember when the number of edible fruits and vegetable waa far less than at present and even those that could be grown were vastly Inferior to what w now have. For example, oar parent knew nothing of the tomato, except carious ornament in the garden. Sweet corn was hardly better than the commonest field sorts. All orange had seeds. Celery was little known and poor in quality. In the flower bed th magnificent pansy baa replaced the In significant heart' ease from which It was developed, and the sweet pea In all lu dainty splendor trace it origin to the common garden vegetable. This progress ha been made in spit of the great tendency manifested in all plant and animal to go back to the original type. It is indeed battle to keep atrain pur and np to th stand ard they have already attained, left alone any improvement. Th practical result ar accomplished by men operat ing largely for love of the work, like Luther Burhank, in California, and Eckford in England, a well as by the great seed merchants, D. M. Ferry & Co., of Detroit, Mich., who are not only eternally vigilant to hold what ground has been gained, bnt have a, corp of trained specialists, backed by ample means, to conduct new experi ments. The result of their experi ence can be found in their 1006 Seed Annual, which they will send tree to all applicant, tf-aartlaa Fwk. Following the example of many European cities, Los Angele. Cal, will turn Griffith Park, with an area of 3.000 acre of brush land. Into a commercial forest Four experts, with a view to converting this practically waste piece of land Into a productive forest made a comprehensive planting; place for the tress, which will not only pay for Its cultivation, snd car through the ssle of mature timber, but will prove constant source of pleas ure and recreation for the cltlstens of Los Angeles. Ixs Angeles Is the first American city to adopt this plan, but It Is predicted thst other municipali ties in this country will soon follow ia its footsteps. ' - Value of Klpaaat. An African slepliant Is of value only for Its Ivory, cf which s full-grown snl roal yields from $ 250 to $300 worth. Oa. the other hand, a working Indian ele phant cannot b bought for less thaa $2,600 to $3,500. Joat th Maw n Wanted. "I sent for you, sir," said Mr. Phsm ley, "to fix a key in my daughter' plsno." "But," protested the srtlasn, "I'm no a piano tuner, I'm a Ipcksmlth." "Exactly; I want you to fir the bloom ing thing so I csn lock it up when I feel liks it." Phlladslphla Treas. If a man could bavs half his wish be would doubls his trouble. Poor Rich ard. One-half the worldd oesn't cars how the other half dies. symx wHisiAii ua rail. Ootiuh brup, Tuu Uood. U In tlmft. Sold by artivalMta. a w -S3:
