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About The Columbia register. (Houlton, Columbia County, Or.) 1904-1906 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1904)
Topics of I the Times I A little msn tmsrlnes hit contrari ness U w ill power. A womant Mea of a rkh man U one who baa everything she want a. No man enjoys kissing a girt who Las her tut It done up in curl papers. Every year of a woman's age con tains from eighteen to twenty months. It turns out as might bar been expected, that Mr. Fairbanks was boru la Ohio. The man w ho Is always telling what lot of good be would do If be bad money never Las any. A song of peace to the accompani ment of booming caunon is funny enough to make the whole wona chor tie. Necessity knows no law, which Is rather remarkable considering the great number of lawyers It la Intimate -with. It la characteristic tuat what Tokyo calls a "sweeping defeat" St Peters burg speaks of as a "masterly retreat- After a man has tried to talk busi ness to a woman for five minutes he la prepared to sympathize with dry goods clerks. A Japanese magazine has been started. This will give the Jap gen erals and admirals something to do af ter the war is over. The World's Fair famous Empire State Express speed record-smashing engine, "No. 090," has been canned. It now hauls a milk train. In Japan the two political parties have united in support of the govern ment To hit a Russian head wherever seen If the only politics now in the Island empire. When a Japanese leader makes a blander he commits suicide. In this country they lay the blame on the oth er fellow and run for office la order to be vindicated. No-Vacation Russell Sage should write a letter of appreciation of Judge Miller of Mississippi, who says that high wages ttause idleness, because men do not have to work all the time for a living. Some southern discussion Is heard over the advisability of writing more appropriate words to "Dixie. So long as the tune makes the average audi ence want to get up and wave Its hat and cheer, who cares what the words are? Thoir unn English, who died re cently, Is to be described on his tomb atone: "Author, Editor, Lawyer, Sol dier, Physician and Statesman. Fu ture generations will be left to wonder, naturally, why he never studied music and china painting. Heroes do not always wear uniforms and brass buttons. The driver of an ash-cart In New York saw an automo bile come rapidly down the street The chauffeur was paying no heed to what was ahead. Just then a 7-year-old boy rushed across the street The ashman turned his cart directly in front of the automobile and brought it to a stand still just in time to save the child's life. He doubtless had a little boy of his own. Once there were two little grapes. One was a good little grape and mind ed his mother. The other was a bad little grape. One day the bad little grape disobeyed his mother and rolled off the fruit stand. A ragged little ne gro boy came along and ate it but all the little grape could do was give the little boy . a stomach ache. The good little grape was eaten by a rich man, and it gave him a nice case of appendi citis. Moral: Mind your mothers, lit tle folks. Russia's weakness is at St Peters burg. Her soldiers are as brave as those of other nations. They will do their utmost to uphold the cause of their country. But they can accom plish little unless they are supported at home. And they are not being supported. It is good to know that the people of Russia are feeling a sense of outrage at the Inefficiency and cor ruption of those in high office. It may be that Japan, by defeating the Russians, will be the means of work ing a great and much-needed reform in the borne administration. Surely the wicked, corrupt and tyrannous despotism cannot last forever. There is a growing feeling of hos tility toward users of all sorts of motor vehicles and their disregard of the safety of pedestrians. In Philadelphia recently a motor cycler ran down a pe destrian. Injuring him so that he was confined twenty-one days in a hospital The Philadelphia court sentenced the rider to the same number of days In jalL The rider Indignantly contended that the punishment was excessive. The court sternly denied his applica tion for a reduction, declaring that "the pedestrian is still entitled to free dom of the streets and highways with reasonable assurance of safety, despite the advent of the motor vehicle, and that right must be respected. No doubt this states t plain and binding legal principle, The pedestrian has a right In any part of the street or high way, conditioned only upon reasonable1 carefulness In the exerclv of his right . The driver or rider of any borse-drawu or otherwise propelled vehicle baa right only In that part of the streot , provided specially for common use. He j has no right on the footways or 'd- j walks, which are provided for the ex- ' elusive use of pedestrians. In the ne of those parts of the street where all ' baTe rlshta. the roadw ays and street , crossings, all alike are held to the ex 1 erclee of reasonable care. No driver i of a horse or motor vehicle In a street i has a right to pres the vehicle e ' greater speed than Is consistent with the safety of pedestrians, whoe rl?hta are at least equal If horse or motor drivers wih to "speed" those vehicles they should be coupelled to provl.le j ways specially for that purpose, wher pedestrians would not be endangered. ! In his address to the 527 graduates of Cornell Uuiverslty President Schur man departed from the beaten track of commencement day advice long enough to register an earnest protest against (bachelorhood. "He who deliberately leads a single life, whose social circle U the club, and whose religion Is a refined and fastidious epicureanism. Is not a man," declared Dr. Sehurman. In elaborating his idea as to the du ties and obligations of manhood Presi dent Schurman explained that while it was the primary duty of every young man to earn a living this could not fulfill the world's reasonable expects-, tion of him. lie has a higher duty to' humanity and the State, which re quires that he found a home and pro vide for a wife and family. Ir Dr. Schurman had pronounced a sweeping and unqualified condemnation of bach elorhood be doubtless would have laid himself open to much criticism. But It Is to be noted that his protest was aimed at the college graduate who "de-' liberately electa bachelorhood." His purpose manifestly was to rebuke the young man who carefully and design edly avoids the responsibilities of our civilization, chief among which is the founding of a home and the rearing of a family. In these times of rapidly changing Industrial and social condi tions, when so many thousands of young women are rushing into all lines of wage-earning employments and making themselves independent of the young man who has a matrimonial proposition to present it would be a venturesome man Indeed who would utter a sweeping and unqualified con-! demnation of bachelorhood. Investi gation beneath the surface would re veal the fact that It Is a condition that confronts the bachelor, not a theory. Founding Cripple Creek. About a dozen years ago, a weary. plodding man with hammer In hand left Colorado Springs to look for gold, j He was a poor man, and on this trip j he had been grub-staked that Is, some one had lent him enough money to : pay his expenses, with the understand ing that If gold was found the man who lent the money should receive a certain proportion. This weary plod der had trod those mountains for years. He knew every canyon, every peak, every crag, and after all those years he was poor In pocket, but rich In experience. It was on the morning of a bright July Fourth Independence day that he looked into a wild basin lying be tween the mountain peaks. Far away to the west he saw Pike's Peak pier cing the clouds, but the grandeur and wildness of the scene were nothing to him. He was thinking of the day In dependence day and wondering when his day of independence would come. Within twelve hours It came to him, and Wlnfield Scott Stratton found ths great bonanza that Fourth of July, and he called It "Stratton's Independ ence." Thus he founded Cripple Creek, and from that time he has taken the wealth of a Midas and Croesus three times over. From the mining camp of Crippla Creek millions in gold have been taken. Four-Track News. High Times These, References to Hamlin Garland's Mexican gold mine and to Irving Bacheller'8 prospecting trip in Mexi co started a discussion the other day concerning the pecuniary success of the modern author. "All the boys ars buying estates or swapping mines or traveling in Eu rope," said an Irreverent publisher. "There's Dicky Davis keeping up his own golf links and kennels and sta bles at a fine place up the Hudson, and Garland and Bacheller playing craps for gold mines, and Winston Churchill with manorial halls that out English the English up in the Green Mountains, and Tarklngton wandering around Italy with a retinue. "Thomas Dixon owns a Virginia plantation and a yacht, and Lew Wal lace draws about $50,000 a, year in royalties. "Even the women are having trou ble keeping their bank accounts down. The publishers are the only literary folk who eat cheap table d'hote din ners nowadays." Snlcide Strews Bed with Flowers. A stranger who had taken lodgings for the night at a hotel off the Rue Traverslere, In Paris, committed sui cide by taking poison. He had covered himself with a large quantity of roses, and in a note left on the table begged to be buried with the flowers, adding: "I am a mystery, come from mys tery, and return to mystery. I have come to Paris to die there, unbeknown to my family. It is love that kills me." Sometimes the proof of the puddhwt U the undertaker's bllL y Opinions of The Ministry, F the 20.000 men and women who graduated LQJ from our universities and colleges last tiontb only 1.500 aspire to proa eh the gospel. Aa there are some 74.0OO engaged In preaching In the United Statea Uis contribution Is Insuffi cient to keep up the supply. Here and there are men and women who have never had a col lege or theological traiuiug who are discharging the duties of the pulpit but they are few compared to those who have bad those advautave. so that virtually the uuinber of as pirauts Is a correct measure of the exteut of the minis terial ambition. The principal reasons why the number of candidates for the clergy is growing less relatively year by year are that congregations are getting more exacting, that the pay Is small a ixl the occupation the least attractive of the pro fessions. This Is the selfish point of view. Then, the con scientious student who may be religiously Inclined and who sees great opportunities for doing good in the calling, some times is deterred because he cannot satisfy his conscience of the truth of some of the doctrines of Christianity. Soon er than preach somethlug which he cannot believe In he turns his talents to another calling. Another hindrance la that the religious unrest so palpa ble in the world, la much more pronouueed In the higher halls of learning. Here agnosticism, materialism, Indiffer entism, are at work sapping the early religious training and turning the mind In its formative stage against the pulpit Much harm is wrought here by the scoffer and the unbeliever who are never so happy as when reviling Christianity and everything pertaining to Its missions! advancement The world waa never so generous In Its support of Christian churches and charities aa It Is to-day and no where else Is this extended with the generosity of that of the United States. Yet the disposition to preach Is not keeping abreast of this sentiment If it were, the candi dates for the priesthood this year would number 4,000 or 5.000 Instead of 1.500. Utica Globe. Tie Profit of Good Roads. OW that the country la measurably well sup plied with railroads which haul the farmer's, products to market at an average rate of a half a cent a ton per mile. It beglna to be of prime importance that the average cost of hauling from the farm to the railway station, which is about twenty-five cents per ton per mile. should be reduced. The Department of Agriculture claims that this cost could be reduced two-thirds by the simple substitution of good macadamized roads for the ordinary dirt highways now In use. Pennsylvania's new road law, which divides the cost of making permanent roads between the State, county and township, was Inspired by a desire to begin the solution of atbls problem In a way that would prove least burden some to the farmers themselves. So far, however. Its pro visions have not been taken advantage of as widely as was anticipated. It seems worth while to call attention to the fact that practically similar laws are already In opera tion, with excellent results. In New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, California and elsewhere. In the State like New Jersey, where the law has been In operation longest; the benefits are marked. It is the first step that costs, however, in road-making as in everything else. When a few experimental sections of really good highways have been provided as object les sons, it is to be hoped that Pennsylvania farmers will fall in line with those of other States, where permanent road laws have been longer In force. Philadelphia Bulletin. Our Illiterate Citizens. HERE Is food for thoueht In H I United States census report I I cation. Thus we learn that I 1 iW - t, uu,wv uivu ui uic age were unable to read or army of illiterates constituted 11 per cent of the voting strength of the In itself sufficiently strong, If suitably termine national principles and policies. Of the total 977.000 were negroes and 1.254,000 whites, a percentage which when compared with that of thirty WOODS INDIANS. The Woods Indians, as Stewart Ed ward White calls the OJibways and Woods Crees north of Lake Superior, are distinctly nomadic. They search out new trapping grounds and new fisheries, they pay visits, and seem even to enjoy travel for the sake of exploration. This life, says the author of "The Forest" Inevitably develops and fosters an expertness of woodcraft almost beyond belief. Another phase of this almost perfect correspondence to environment is the readiness with which an Indian will meet an emergency. We are accus tomed to rely first of all on the skilled labor of some one we can hire; second, if we undertake the job ourselves, on the tools made for us by skilled labor; and third, on the shops to supply us with the materials we need. Hardly once in a lifetime are we thrown en tirely on our own resources. Then we bunglingly Improvise a makeshift The Woods Indian possesses his knife and his light ax. He never Im provises makeshifts. No matter what the exigency or bow complicated the demand, his experience answers with accuracy. Utensils and tools he knows exactly where to find. His job is neat and workmanlike, whether It Is the construction of a bark receptacle, water-tight or not; the making of a pair of snow shoes, the repairing of a badly smashed canoe, the building of a shel ter, or the fashioning of a paddle. About noon one day Tawablniaay broke bis ax-helve square off. This to us' would have been a serious affair. Probably If left to ourselves, we should have stuck In some sort of a rough bandit made ef a straight sapling, which would hare answered well enough until wt could have bought an I WOODS trUNL V other. By the time wt had cooked Great Papers on Important Subjects, years before shows up to the manifest disadvantage of tie dominant race. Thus la 1S70 the excess of Illiterate negroes over Illiterate whites was 00.000, whlio now, thirty years later, the latter outnumber the former by .'77.000. Nor can we Justly retort that the illiterate whites are aliens dumped upon our shores through the agency of Im migration. Of the total umuher of white Illiterates only 5415.000 are foreign born, while the native born number ilSS.004), or an excess of 113.000. Nor Is this the worst of It The report shows that the percentage of Illiterates among the native born sous of American parents la nearly three times as great as among the native boru sons of foreign parents. Evidently our forelgu born citizens hsve a higher appreciation of the advantages of education than many of the native stock. At no time In our history haa the percentage of Illit erates been as great as to-day. Durtng the past sixty years the percentage from 8.15 to 4100, despite our free school system and the earnest efforts to popularise education. The State having the largest number of Illiterates Is Georgia, as might be expected, with Its great negro population and Its large number of struggling while. Pennsylvania Is next having 130.082 illiterates, ss compared with 158.247 for Georgia. The percentage of illiterates among the native born voters of New Mexico la 25. Utica Globe. N I teachers I parts of 1 I . . . of men. There la a certain Inspiration of manly leader ship which a boy greatly needs, and which be can only get from a manly man. The Influence of a thoroughly robust school teacher upon his class of boys cannot be calculated. He puts before them constantly a model of manliness, and high honor, and attractive Industry, and clean courage, which leaves Its stamp upon their forming minds through all the rest of their lives. The generation of boys which must always go to school to women, and to no one else, will lose something very' valuable out of their school-day training. They may get as much arithmetic and grammar and history and the rest of it from the women as from the men, but they can no more get the quality of manliness from women than they can get the quality of refinement from men. Our schools should be "manned" with men as well as women, and If we have permitted the financial attractions of the profession to fall so far behind the Increasing sttrsctions of competitive callings ss to allow all the young men to be drawn away from this profession, we have been guilty of a serious betrayal of trust to the generation which la now growing op. Our fathers did not so misuse us. Montreal Star. I phy In th flmri of th dealing with edu- In 1900 there were A, . vi i. -ur over wno write. This great nation an electorate distributed, to de dinner that Indian had fashioned an other helve. We compared it with a manufactured helve. It was as well shaped, as smooth, as nicely balanced. In fact as we laid the new and the old side by side, we could not have selected, from any evidence of the workmanship, which had been made by machine and which by hand. Tawablnlsay then burned out tly? wood from the ax, retempered the steel, set the new helve, and wedged It neatly with ironwood wedges. The whole affair, Including the cutting of the timber, consumed perhaps half an hour. To travel with a Woods Indian Is a constant source of delight on this ac count The Indian rarely needs to hunt for the materials be requires. He knows exactly where they grow, and be turns as directly to them as a clerk would turn to his shelves. No prob lem of the living of physical life Is too obscure to have escaped his vsrled ex perience. You may travel with Indians for years, and learn every summer something new snd delightful about bow to take care of yourself. C0S8ACKS ARE A BUGABOO. Facts the Japanese Learned Before Opening Hostilities. The care taken by the Japanese to make sure that they were right before going ahead Is shown by the fact that previous to the war with Russia, they took the greatest pains to ascertain the actual value as a fighting force of the much vaunted Cossack cavalry, says the army and navy register. The conclusion was, to tut the language ef the Japanese official from whom wt obtain this Information, that they were "a mere bugaboo, It was found that tht custom of the Russian gov ernment was to furnish each Cossack la Manchuria with a fixed sum for the purchase of a bore. One-half ef this tun he put Into his pocket and pur chased the beat horse he eould with 2 of this class of citizens has Increased The Disappearance of the Male Teacher. """"aO one will denv that manr of tha heit school In the country are women. There ars the delicate and highly Important I I . 1 . - LI.L . . . mat ui uaimug uie young wuicu can IXH ua done by tactful and gentle women. Ilui It Is also the serious opinion of experts that grow ing boys should very largely be under the cars Wireless Telegraphy l War. HE Question of the value of wireless telerra. war has already been considered. New ii is supplemented oy mat or its legality. The Russian Government haa practically served no tice that It regards It as Illegal At any rate, the use of such a device at the seat of war will be treated as a breach ef neutrality. Corre spondents telegraphing without wires will be shot as spies, and vessels equipped with wireless telegraphic appsrstus venturing near the scene of wsr will. If caught be con fiscated as contraband of war. So far as correspondents accompanying the Russian army are concerned, we may unhesitatingly concede the Russlsn the right of censorship. That is a matter of course. A belligerent power has the undoubted right to decide whether it will permit corre spondents to sccompany Its army at all and if It does let them do so it can, of course, prescribe what matter they may send through the lines, and bow. Similarly, it may exercise a censorship over news vessels entering Its terri torial waters, or the waters implicated in the sphere of belligerent action. But a general outlawing of wireless telegraphy in that part of the world would be a much more extreme matter New York Tribune. the remainder. The money given for the purchase of fodder was treated in the same way and the horse left to pick up a living as best he could. The result was shown In a serious deterioration In the efficiency of the Cossacks. Similar dishonesty was prevalent In the other departments of Russian army administration, an illus tration of which Is found in the story of the Russian officers found guilty of se;)lng powder to the Chinese and putting sand In Its place. The Japanese even assert that the number of troops under the command of Kouropatkln was misrepresented, so that money might be made by draw. Ing supplies for fictitious warriors. To make full allowance for contingencies the Japanese estimated the number of Russians they would encounter on the Yalu as 40,000 In all and sent 00,000 troops against them. It was found In the end that the Russians had only 20,000 men to oppose the crossing of the river. Brooklyn Eagle. Some Amwsement Sobemes. The railway companies of the coun try are engaged In all kinds of amuse ment schemes, with the Idea of attract ing patronage, and the latest innova tion of this character has taken place In Cleveland, where the manager of a street railway company has organized a baseball league. Each of the towns along the line has a nine, and a reg ular schedule has been arranged. The railway company has supplied the unl forms and offered other substantial as sistance besides undertaking to carry the players free to snd from the games. The company, however, does not par tldpate In the profits of tht team, but la repaid merely by the increased busi ness resulting from the games. If you go around exploiting a fool belief, people will notice it and talk about It People who hart fool beliefs art not accorded as much charity as formerly. TRUMPET CALLS. ataa IJ. Haanda a Waralag Nat to the Caredaaaiad. TUKNilTII Is al ways simple Praise sra rea rs out pride. IIojlDSSS U soul wholeness. Truth raunot be lu a trukt The godly can not but be glad. There Is ne f o r g I Veiieaa of guilt unlets there Is forsaking of guHe. Every living mind mut grow. Manna Is better than mammon. His the fruit, onra but the fulth. Importunity lead to opportunity. Merry Is looking for merit In alt You will need faith to light fakes. Wealth does not exeutf froui work. The gonts do not know they sre lowL Society la often s synonym for Satan. Ills beuuty des not depeud en the oascness of all others. None of the currents that belong ta this world (low toward heaven. There never yet waa an audience so small as to dencrv,a atuall serinou. The man who makes his boast In God will never have to back down. You will never have to love your t no tnlcs very long, the process will kill them. When the Ulble has been the guide for the day It makes a good pillow for the night Is It fair to expect to get gold out of a sermon when you only put copper Into the service? Some men sre praying for a heav enly blessing who need to pray for some earthly brains. Some men clve their wives ten rent for the church for the same reason that they buy a lightning rod. Men will snend years learning a trade and then expect to pick up th art of living In a momeut The average boy would a good denl rather carry In all the coal next door than pick up a little kindling at home. THEIR FAVORITE DISHES. Gingerbread for Lincoln and lluck wheat Cake for Jackaon. Queen Victoria la said to have given mutton the preference In the line of meats, and was nowise offended If of fered "the cold shoulder." Queen Elizabeth wus very fond of roast goose. She was dining on this when the good news was brought her on Michaelmas Day that the Spanish. fleet had been driven back. And ever since that fowl has been to the English feast of St Michael what the turkey Is to our Thanksgiving Day. Henry VIII. wss extremely fond of beans, and Imported a Dutch gardener to raise them, as In his day they were only used by the upper classes "a dish to set before the King." Napoleon's favorite dish was bean salad, much cheaper lu his time, but equally good. Louis XV. was "extravagantly" fond of a dish made of the eggs of various birds, which cost 1100. George Eliot while at Brookbank, used frequently to walk over to the farm, where she purchased her vegeta bles, and chat with the. farmer's wifo on gardening and butter making. who was somewhat surprised at tho great novelist's conversation on such homely topics, and afterward remarked: "It were wonderful, just wonderful, tht sight o' green pens Hint I send down, to that gentleman and lady every week." This whs the summer "Mld dlemarch" was written. George Sand not only liked sauces, but excelled In making them. Lincoln, In tho days when he did his own marketing, often stopped at a certain shop for his favorite ginger bread. He used to say: "It swell up and makes me feel as if I had hud something." Stonewall Jackson delighted In buck wheat cakes in season and out of season, Ralph Waldo Emerson wns fond of pie, especially that matin of plums, which he called the fruit of paradise. Dr. nolmes, on the contrary, suld of the peach: "When Nature has deliv ered it to us, in its perfection, we for get all the lesser fruits, and If not found by the River of Life, an earth born spirit might be forgiven for miss ing it" Charles Sumner's private secretary tells of the statesman's sweet tooth for chocolate creams. Andrew Jackson surrendered to let cream, at first taste, when Mrs. Alex ander Hamilton Introduced It into Washington; and swore his usual oath "By the Eternal" he would have It at the White House, and he did at the next reception. Washington was noted for his fond ness for hickory nuta, and the amount he could consume. What to Eat Colorado Fish as Emigrants. Tht streams of the Argentine Re public, South America, are to be stocked with rainbow trout from the hatcheries of Colorado. The deal Is be ing arranged through the Unlfed States Fish Bureau at Leadvllle, which bas obtained 60,000 eyed eggs from the Colorado Fish and Game Commis sioner. It is still a question whether things are wicked because they are nice or nice because they are wicked. If you lend some men money they will be under everlasting obligations to you. fir