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About The Columbia register. (Houlton, Columbia County, Or.) 1904-1906 | View Entire Issue (July 29, 1904)
1 Topics of I the Times I If fish could talk anglers would have to revise their yarn. Many a rich tnau has netting but sympathy for the poor. sumracrglrl's Idea of economy la to make one hammock do for two. Competition oxks both ways. It la either the life or dtxath of trade. Some men would rather tell agree able Ilea than the disagreeable truth. Some men are unable to stand up for their rights because their wives sit on them. When a baehekir has more money than he can spend he should annex a wife. Don't be too modest Because of Its modesty the lowly violet is frequently trampled under foot The judge who lined a girl $10 for wearing a "peekaboo" waist evidently la not In "society" much. Possibly you may have observed that lots of girls marry during leap year who never married before. A Pennsylvania woman who died the other day left $500 for her pet dog. It ought to be easy enough for tome sharp lawyer to get that house which waa left twept and fur nished, but empty, waa soon taken possession of by seven devils more wicked than the first It may seem a long step from theee generalisations to the remark that women may win men from undomestlc hablta by other meth ods more easily than by antl-lodg and anti-club societies. The man uo spends an evening at home because his wife has helped pasa a resolution con demning his habit of going out will hardly be a pleasant companion at the fireside. The ife may well seek some new and fascinating way of saying. "Do stayT rather than aorae new and strenuous way of saying. "You shall uot go!" If it seems at first thought to be beneath the woman's dignity to contrive effective persuasions, she may reflect that nature itself sets ber the example. Sun and rain are none the less powerful that they are silent and conservative forces. IMldDlIIALS OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS It Is almost superfluous to mention the fact that. Uncle Russell Sage's money never takes a . vacation. It works for him every day In the year. A London firm has decided to make war on the Standard Oil Company. One needn't be much of a prophet to pre dict what will happen to the London firm. Two thousand Mormon missionaries are in the field. The Inevitable conflict Is approachlug. This nation cannot long remain half bigamy and half mon ogamy. A French physician claims that au tomoblllng will cure consumption. It will also cure any other disease that a man who gets in front of the machine happens to have. . Another bank teller has confessed that a large shortage in his accounts la due to speculation. And it is en couraging to note that the newspapers refer to falm as a thief Instead of an embezzler. Persons who are not smokers prob ably will be surprised to hear that some striking cigarmakers down In New York claim that for years the manufacturers have been using cab bage and celery leaves as a substitute for Havana tobacco. A radium clock has been made that Is estimated as good for 30,000 years before It runs down. Before retiring for the night nearly every man has to put out the cat, besides winding the clock. Now that the clock problem has been settled, can somebody invent a way of putting out the cat so she will stay out for 30,000 years? A Heidelberg professor has aroused Interest In Germany by propounding the theory that the German Federal Council has a right to end the em pire, eliminate the Kaiser and con struct a new federation. It is feared that the Kaiser, who seems to be rath er finicky about matters pertaining to the empire, might offer some objection to this program. Perhaps If the enemies of the divorce evil could take away the matrimonial Incentive that Impels separation in so many instances, the hardest blow would be struck at the practice. Pre vent divorced people from marrying again, or make them wait a certain length of time before marrying, and the divorce courts would find their la bors materially lightened. But we need a uniform marriage law to start the reform. As Russell Sage la regarded all over this couutry s a parsimonious mau from whom nobody ever expected a generous, sympathetic or humane sen timent to proceed, his article In the Independent on "The Injustice of Va cations" will probably excite no feel ing but resentment and contempt still it contalus just euough truth to keep it from being absurd. Mr. Sage's Indictment against "the vacation hab it" when aualyzed contains three counts. In the first place, he thinks a vacation is an outrage ou the legal rights of tlie employer, lu'the second place, he contends that a v'aeatlou In stead of being a recuperative process depletes a man's vitality, wastes his money and returns hlxu to his work a less valuable employe than he was be fore. In the third place, he charges that It betrays a waut of business am bition. In regard to the first objection It may be freely admitted, as Mr. Sage says, that there is no more Justice In u employe being paid for two weeks without working than there would be In his workltig two weeks without pay, but that is not a fair statement of the case. The presumpUon Is that the employe's pay Is adjusted to the vaca tion habit' That this Is so Is proved by the fact that vacations are not granted until employes have been a year in their positions. The second objection that vacations do people more harm than good has just a grain of truth in it There is no doubt that a number of people return from their vacations not only worn out but dis gusted and deeply Impressed toat they will never take another. Strange to say, however, there are people In good circumstances who have money enough to pass the summer anywhere they please. With poor people the effect or the vacation is just the opposite. The hard-worked clerk and the physical toller returns from his outing boasting aloud of bis diversions and his im proved health. That he is worth less to his employer than he was before his vacation cannot be true. Certainly employers do not seem to think so. In the third place, Mr. Sage thinks that if a young man has the proper ambition to be a good workman and to rise In his business he will be too much in love with the workshop or the store to leave it for a vacation. He backs It up with his own example and says he has never taken a day's vacation in eighty-three years. This is the same as to say that If a man has a proper devotion to his business he will put every rule of health at defiance and do the best he can to work himself to death. Nobody thinks this except Mr. Sage. As a general thing the Ameri can people work too hard and take too little rest and recreation. To Euro peans they appear to be business mad and our own physicians are all agreed that this Incessant activity has made nervous prostration a distinctively American disease. They say we need shorter hours and more holidays, and probably they are right about it Still, everyone will agree with Mr. Sage that there is a good deal of humbug about vacations, especially amoDg well-to-do people. ' ' How much more our bill of fare is to be trimmed to suit the newer notions of the day is somewhat difficult to imagine. Aside from the pure theory . of the matter, we may in the end be forced to believe that man was never made for a mixed diet, that his stem ach and complicated intestinal appar atus are merely an accidental survival of useless organs, of which the lnslg nlflcant and troublesome appendix is the type. Experience, however, against which there Is never much of an argu ment, must prove its value against the mere logic of arbitrary rules. The hungry man with a Juicy steak before him will continue his hurtful habit of loading his stomach with unnecessary fodder in spite of all theories to the contrary. His instinctive need for just such nourishment as he takes will an swer all other questions. In politics it may be desirable to have an opposlton party. The happy mean in legislation is often reached by the consideration and compromise which criticism from opponents com pels. But in the world of social and moral relations one vigorous "This do!" is worth a chorus of "Dont's!" Slander Is best checked by hearty and charitable speech. Evil thoughts must . be crowded out by noble ones not by resolve to think B9 more evil. Xhe Why Do Inventors Neglect the Kitchen? N luveutor aud a housewife were discussing the practical side of kltcheu work the other day, wheu the luventor expressed his surprise tluit no easier plans had been found for doing the huudred' aud one odd things which are still done In the kitchen lu the same laborious manner that m-evalled wheu he was a boy. He said that If he had to do "housekeeping" he would get easier ways of accomplishing a lot of things which are now done by main force; and expressed his aurprlso tnai women, who are supposed to be too weak to attempt any heavy labor, regularly do things which would bo a severe test upon the muscles of the strorgest man. "Well, there are certain things which have to bo done," said the housewife. "Aud most people have only maids In their kitchen." "Why. I would put in a little motor." began the In ventor; when a pair of surprised eyes told htm that this had never before occurred to the housewife. It Is certainly a curious fact that invention, which has done so much for man's work all along the line, has done so little for that of womeu. Of course, It has done some thing. The housewife was able to mention several labor saving devices which could now be bought at tho depart mental stores; but they made up a pitiful total when com pared with the myriads of Inventions that have come to the assistance of man. It Is safe to say that the average type writer carries almost as many patents as a kitchen shelf. Of course, men are very wilting to buy any llttlo work savers for the kitchen which are Invented; but It Is a senti mental demand upon which these devices must depend for their profits not the Imperative demand of Increased pro duction. When a kitchen produces a meal, It produces alt that can be required of It To lessen the labor of producing this meal, Is not to produce two meals; It Is only to produce one meal more easily. Yet a priceless economic product would be the result of this luveutlon. Woman would be given more time. It Is doubtful if the human race cau buy any more valuable thing than a higher average of leisure for the women who work. In many cases, they are the mothers of the next generation; and they cannot be given too much time to pre pare themselves for the bringing up of that generation In the best way. An invention or set of Inventions which should give the women of Canada two extra hours a day for mental Improvement, would tell Immensely on the more material productiveness of this country when the children of the present shall have become the producers of the future. Montreal Star. flames. Mauy of the fires occurred upon private game pre serves. These are attributed to Incendiarism due to the strung feeling against private ownership of these lands and the exclusion of hunters. Stat reservations were fired t cause the law forbids the cutting or removal of wood from them. Baltimore Sun. If Ft Destructive Forest Fires Last Year. HE Bureau of Forestry of the United States Department of Agriculture has published a re port upon the "Forest Fires In the Adirondack In 1903." This report, which Is most Instruct ive, estimates the direct loss from the destruc tlon of timber, building, etc., in thoso tires at $3,500,000. In addition to this $175,000 was ex peuded In futile efforts to extinguish the fires. The indirect loss caused by the destruction of undergrowth, Injury to the soil, destruction of fish and other game was enormous, but no estimate of it could be attempted. The fires occurred between April 20 and June 8 of last year, at the time when the breeding and nesting season was at Its height, and in the conflagrations a great number of young animals and birds and some that were full grown perished. Trout in the streams and lakes perished In great nuinliers, some from tho heated waters and some from the lye leached from the ashes left by the fire. Over 600.000 acres of woodland were swept by the fires, much of which Is the property of the State. The fires originated variously. It was a time of protracted drought and the whole region was filled with dry and highly combustible material. Many of the- fires began along the railways from sparks and cinders from the locomotives. These were due largely to carelessness, as they could have been prevented. Other fires started from camp fires and smokers. Many were of an Incendiary orl gin, and the. reasons assigned for the incendiarism are peculiar. It seems that the law provides a fund for paying laborers for fighting fires, and that the rate of wages allowed being greater than for other labor, men set the woods afire in order to get employment In fighting the Shorn of His Power. In the closing days of the last ses sion of Congress, one of the Repre sentatives from a Northern State was complaining to a colleague of the polit leal non-activity of a number of his constituents whom he had been lnflu entlal in placing in public offices. "There is no use talking," he said, "this civil service business is a hum bug. I named four or five fellows for good Jobs, and as soon as they got warm in their seats they snapped their fingers at me. They felt that they were p.rotected. by the civil service, and made up their minds to lay down and not do any work." "That's nothing to a fellow that I had appointed," said, the other man, who hailed from one of the Western States; "he was worse than any of your fellows." "Why, what did he do?" inquired the Northerner. "Do?" was the indignant reply. "Why, as soon as he got his place he Joined the church, and now he Is use less as far as our political organization is concerned." New Kind of Mother-Jn-Law. "You're one of the few men I have met who don't object to his mother-in- law paying a long visit" "Me object to my mother-in-law! should say. not!" "You get along well, then." "You bet we do. And you ought to see her boss my wife around." St Paul News. There Is plenty going on,- but in so many cases reporters do not dare ny anything. Dead men pay no doctor bills. m mi Work of Yellow Journalism. T la not service, nor even alleged service, to the public that constitutes yellowness; It Is bolstcrousncM, vaunting, morbidness, extrava gance, the magnifying of slight accidents Into tragedies and bonfires Into holocausts, White papers are sometimes taken In by dlspntchea from Europe, because ycllowlsm ex JUDICIAL DECISIONS. The advisability of documentary avU deuce tending to establish the guilt of in accused of the offense charged la held, la Adsms vs. New York, advance sheets U. 8. l'3, p. 372, to be affected by the fact that It was la violation of tha constitutional prohibition against unreasonable searches and seliures. The constitutional guaranty of rcllg lous freedom Is held. In People vs. Hereon (N Y.), 03 I It A. 1N7, not to be violated by a statute requiring tha furnishing of medical attendance to minors, where the constitution pro vides that liberty of conscience shall not Justify practices Inconsistent with the safety of the state, ; The right tu Interrogate a witness as to his belief lu a Supreme Being who, would punish him for false swearing, for the purpose of affecting his cred Utility. Is dented lu Brink vs. Ktrnttou IN. Y.), 03 I K. A. 1NJ. where the constitution provide that no person shall be Incompetent to be a witness ou account of his religious belief, and ah rogutc all disqualification from civil rights because of such in-ller. A stipulation lu a railway pnss that the company shall not be liable to thw user "under any circumstances, wheth- Ists there as well as here; but they do not originate those dispatches; they do not "dress up" news in the home office; they print only what they believe to be true, aud print It without trying to make the readers believe that it is the mint tromeiiiltiua thtmr Unit ivpi Immwiiml Sensationalism is like other agencies for excitement in or negligence oi ngem. or that it creates a constant and Increasing demand for more; Tor any injury 10 urn perm,,.. ... hence the tendency of tho yellow paper Is to grow yellower i Northern Pacific It.ilhvay t-omimny v. and yellower, been use hny lapse into sobriety sod calm Is j Adams, Advance Hiovt V. H. llkM. p. resented by Its almost Illiterate patron. He must bo kept,". vioiow " ruw Vl I""1' ' going by mental stimulants which are Just as harmful to and to relieve the company from llabll- blm as cocktails. He wants his news strong rather thnu Ity for personal injuries n-mmmx inm true, and If he ever reads au editorial does uot want It to the ordinary negligence of its employes preach or Inform, but only to rouse. And If Its editor to one ruling ou mo u uu ,,oi. thrusts himself Into his vision ns the greatest of men, the. edge or Its condition. reader's mind has been brought by his' reading to a state A promise by a conductor to asntnt a that makes littsff almost ready to admit It Brooklyn Eagle j female passenger who I partially blind. In alighting from the train at her des tination. Is held, In Southern ltallwuy Company vs. Ilobtta (Sa.), 03 L. H. A. CM, not to amount to mi undertaking on the part of the conductor to enter tho car in which the passenger Is rid ing, assume charge of her bundles and escort her from her seat down tho aisle and out upon the platform, unless the passenger Is so helpless ns to require Jip Officers and Their Pay. II.ITAUY elllolency being so much bound up with tho national existence of Japan, the army olllcers naturally take their profession very se riously. Their pay Is small, and few have much private means, so that they live In a very modest way compared to the olllcers of mauy other at mles. A major general only gets the equivalent of alnuit f l."8 M a year ordinary pay, a captain 30. and a. econd lieutenant extraordinary attention and the 14 Most appointments mean additional pay, but foreign fonductor has notice that such 1 the service does uot Messes have been established lu some 111 regiments, but as a rule, the officer only have the midday! Tho right to cross examine hand, meal together. Japanese -food I cheap, consisting as It j writing experts lit order to prove their does cbletly of rice aud Uh; while rich and poor alike drink 'ability Is sustained In Hong vs. Wright the Inexpensive liquor of the country, "sake." For this 'IN. .. "J U A. nu. aim u i nom reason entertaining expenses come to very little, and the; to be error to strike out an admlsslou officer is enabled to maintain hi position with but small ! Itf ' " expert that he had been, outlny. ! mistaken a to signatures wiiicu lie uaa As In the Continental armies of Europe, Japanese ollt-; pronounced genuine, although the trial cers practically live lu uniform, and the latter Is serviceable j Judge might, In hi discretion, have ex. and inexpensive. Little attention Is paid to smartness and ciutleu on cuori to secure sucn uiub- appearance generally, though all are Invariably neatly dressed. Promotion is chiefly by selection; especially In the higher ranks. New York Evening Post M mm The Spirit of Recklessness. ANY prolaibly most accidents on American railways of all kind are due to recklessness. The same Is true of accidents from other vehi cles. Manifestations of this disposition are to be seen on every side. Coachmen exhibit It by driving heavy carriages nt full speed around the most busy and crowded comers of large cities. Messenger boys show it by propelling their bicycles like mad whenever they get whero there seems a good chanco to run anybody down. The automobile chuuffeur acts as If it was no part of his business to look out for people ahead of him, and apparently thinks that the man or woman whom he runs down receives only his or her deserts for getting In tho way. Everybody who Operates any sort of Vehicle, from the locomotive engineer to tho laborer or clerk hurrying to his work on a motorcycle, spems to have become possessed with the Idea that It Is his business to go as fast as he can, but no part of his business to take care that he doesn't kill anybody. This combination of speed mndness with recklessness Is causing more casual ties in the United States than all other causes together.-)' Kansas City Journal. slon In tho first Instance. The other authorities on examination of witness, es to handwriting by comparison aro collated aud reviewed In a note to tb li eu so. A combination prohibited by the act of Congress of July 2. 181)0, Is held, la W. V. Montague & Co. vs. Ixiwry (C. tt A., Oth C), 03, I It. A. 58, affirmed advance sheets U. 8., 11)03, p. 307, to ho constituted by an association to unlto all "acceptable dealers" engaged In certain business In a certain city and within 200 miles therefrom and all American manufacturers of their sup plies, the rules of which exclude un acceptable persons from membership and prohibit their purchasing supplies at less than list prices, which are more than doublo what members of the asso ciation pay. HISTORY OF AN OLD CLAIM. Creek Indians Boon to Come Into Poa- eaaion of Thousand. The loyal Creeks will soon receive the cash on their old war claims, says the Kansas City Journal. The entire amount of the original claim was $1, 200,000, but after long years of wait ing and many conferences between the Indians and congressional committees it was finally scaled to half that amount The Indian most Instru mental In securing the award was I). M. Hodge of Tulsa. For his services he was allowed to retain 5 per cent of the amount collected. This circum stance alone shows that the Indian had but llttlo hopes of ever getting anything out of the government. The claim was pending more than thirty years. The lurgest claim Is that of Cella Scott, a resident of Coweta. The claim is $23,000. The other claims range down to a few dollars or even cents. A large number of persons residing In the vicinity of Tulsa will get large amounts. The principal of these Is Lincoln Postoak, whose check will ag gregate about $9,000. Ex-Gov. L. C. Ferryman will get a nice little slice; so likewise will several others. Sev eral boys who nover saw $100 in their lives will get various suras ranging from that amount up to $1,200 or $1, 500. What they will do with this money no one knows. But all huve agreed upon one thing viz., get rid of it as soon as possible. All sorts of schemes are hatched calculated to part them from the money. Cella Scott is the daughter of the organizer and leader of tho loyal Creeks, who left their homes along the Arkansas river in 1801 for the north. He was noither chief nor soldier, but a medicine man, in whom the Indians had implicit confidence. Seeing the exposed condition of his tribesmen, he went to the chief of his faction and ob tained permission to lead them out of the Egyptian darkness overhanging the country. They located at Leltoy, Kan. The refugees started from their homes on Christmas day. They were away from home nearly five years. Many men who have since been famous lu this history of the tribe were in' this retreat Among them were Pleasant Porter, present chief of .the tribe; also Legus C. Ferryman, twice elected to that exalted office; likewise David M. Hodge, who has signed every troaty of his tribe since the civil war. He has also personally known every President and many congressmen and senators of the United States. The refugees were followed by the southerners, led by the rebel (Jen. Cooper. They" traveled in a north and west direction toward Coffeyvllle. On Bird creek, north of Tulsa, near Skla took, the pnwent home of W. C. Rog ers, present chief of the Cherokees, a fight took place. Gen. Porter com manded In this fight in which he was wounded. A number of other skir mishes took place along the route, but none worthy 'of special mention. The Indians left fine farms, or chards, good houses aud thousands of dollars' worth of live stock, all of which was carried away or destroyed. From this arose the loyal Creek claims, so soon to be paid. EASIER TO BE STORE MODEL Requirements Not a Severe a They Were in Former Time. There has been a great change in the last few yenrs In the requirements of the "more model," said the mana ger of the suit department in a fash lonable shop the other day. "Formerly certain correct proportions were re quired which if not after the Venus standard were at least after that of Paquin. But now the main thing nec essary In the model is that she shall have 'styl6' and 'carriage,' and of course average size and roundness of contour without strict regard to pro portions. "The elaborateness and looseness of costumes has brought about this re suit. The trimming and hiding of the figure in the present day tailor-made suit is so complete that a particularly good 'line' is no longer required. The fact that a larger model is selected than formerly is the best indication of tho change In woman's measurements, due to tho straight front corset and partly to the change of sentiment which demands broad shoulders, and selects clothes accordingly. "The model now in demand has usually a 25-inch waist, where It wns formerly absolutely necessary that It should be under 24. A 87-Inch bunt Is preferred, where 80 used to bo consid ered the ideal. Thirteen Inches across the shoulders Is now considered none to broad, though the hip measure ac complished by the model who adjusts herself strictly to the new overage Is a couple cf inches smaller than former ly, being about 41 Yj. "These measurements are the aver age ones of the gowns that are sold even more than of the wearers them selves. The plan of buying a large size to be fitted down so as to obtain the broad shouldered effect Is almost universal, and while tho greatest mis take a saleswoman could make former ly was to suggest that a customer take a size larger than she thought neces sary, now it is often received as a com pliment." Chicago Tribune. WOMAN CLERKS IN GERMANY. Betting on a Sure Thing. The magistrate was German, but the prisoner at the bar wasn't. "You been here before, already," said the magistrate. "Sure I has," said the prisoner. "How many times arrested?" asked the Judge; "Aw! I been pinched more times than I got fingers an' toes," said Mr. piugugly, "an' I was always dis charged." The magistrate took a long look at tlie prisoner. Then, leaning toward Mm in a confidential way, he said: "I'll bet you $20 you're not dis charged now." "Put ten on "that for me. It's a cinch," sold the court policeman who stood near by. New York Sun. A Prolific Bird. In the United States the sparrow has six broods a year; In Britain seldom more than three. Steady Prog-reaa of the Bex In Bplte of ConaervatUnt. Women have become an Indlspcns ablo factor In the German postal tele graph and telephone service, It seems. In spite of tho conservatism which pre vented the utilization of feminine ac tivities In public work in Germany until nearly half a century later than In France and England. United, State Consul Monnghan, of Chemnitz, In bis recent communication to the United States department of commerce and labor, reviews briefly the condition and requirements which are of Interest as showing the progress of women, la the fatherland. It is not every woman who can ob tain a position in the German postal service, so strict are the government regulations respecting age, character, education and health. A government medical examiner pronounces upon the health, which must be perfect; the ago must not exceed 80 or be under 18. and a good common school education Is a primary requisite. Possessing all these qualifications, the woman candidate-Is eligible only to a positions a assistant in the postolllce, and the highest salary she can hope for 1 $110 a year. In the telegraph and telephone service, however, all grade of positions are open to women. though the rules of admission are equally strict, and no women with children aro employed. Four thousand women are now engaged in the tele, phone service of the German empire, it is stated, 1,000 of them being in Berlin. The hours are light, ranging from six to eight a day. Tho highest pay which a woman can draw in German telephone olllces is $307, which is said to afford a com fortable living in Germany, but is a, low wage compared to that to be ob tained in England, whero experienced telephone clerks get $G00 and chief supervisors are paid as high as $2,550. In Germany, however, it must be not ed that women on their withdrawal from active labor after the prescribed number of years of faithful work are awarded a government pension on the same plane with the men. ' vvneu a young man ciimDS into a barber's chair to get shaved tho first time he feels like a barefaced fraud. A Dividend. Conductor I got your fare before, sir. Passenger I know; this nickel is for the company. Judge.