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About The Columbia register. (Houlton, Columbia County, Or.) 1904-1906 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1905)
2 Topics of 3 the Times Ther will b few American bab.e named Usona. Plokn overlooked a point wha t failed to call that book f hla Uon Ud Note," On of th dtsagrteabl thing anit fcving long U that It Involv m many sacrifice. XI rv Chadwtck could eontrlbut an Interesting rnaratln artlds on fra tied financier. A rich niln la ald to hav boo dis covered la County Galway, Ireland. Now watch England got It Ton notice that your onrl RoaaoU Bar 1 Dot In tho list of thoa who hart mony coming from lira. Chai nlet Financ may be, aa Mr. Lawaoo ay, tranaltd.' but almost vryen want to put th cola la hla wi atrait Jackat Thar art kind tepmthr la to world, but th neighbor don't talk about tham, hnc they ar vr heard of. The poop! f Kentucky ar suffer ing bcaua of a lack of water. Many of th dlaffllarle haT had to eloa wing to th failur of th power. contemporary apeaka of the vot ing machine aa "the coining thing." We take xcptlon. Th voting ma chln baa arrived and la bow wait ing. Aa lnaan woman In Minnesota haa won a prixe offered by a magasln In a literary contest But thta doean't seem ao arrange when some of th magaxlne "liters turV la conaidered. Th letter of Queen Victoria ar to be published, after being edited by friends of the royal family. We bare no doubt that It will be quite safe to plac the book In the bauds of young girls. Wouldn't It be better for Dr. Wiley not to tell us any more about the scandaloua way In which our food la adulterated until he can offer some suggestion a a to a convenient way for bettering the situation? Philip Armour once aald to a young man who wanted to marry. Tick out a good woman and marry one of her daughter, no matter which." W would go a little further and advls looking up the pedigree of the old man. Glrla Uke after their dads. A box of candy mailed by a young friend to a retired clergyman In hla Wd year, whose eyesight some years ago failed him, brought out this touching response: "When I waa a boy we bad la our home a book entitled, 'Solitude Sweetened.' I think It remarkable that after SO years I should receive a sec end edition.'' Think of the message of that title through the years! It takes a hard blow at the pocket book, such as a crop failure, to show some people the advantage of diversi fied farming. Every poor wheat year baa been followed by greatest atten tion to othr crop In the localities where the failure was most felt These experiences have taught the fanners that wheat land will do splendidly for other things besides wheat and that some of the other crops bring more re liable returns. The opening of the subway In New lork, with its admirable convenience and Ita attractive decorative character istics, has roused enough civic pride In the citizens to lead them to protest against the glaring advertisements which appeared on the Interior walls of the station the very day of the open ing. One prominent citizen went so far as to urge the patrons to tear down the signs and kick boles In them. This waa poor advice, in that It sug gested mob violence Instead of legal methods; but the Indignation la a hope ful sign, and other cities may take the bint Barrels have been scarce In the ap ple districts of the East, and enter prising orchard-owners In a few In stances have followed the California custom of packing their apples In boxes. They have learned that there Is a demand for boxes of apples. The officers of the State Agricultural Col lege in Massachusetts discovered thla two years ago, when they had a large crop of Gravesteln apples. They pack ed one-half of the crop in barrels, and the other half in one-bushel boxes, and received $2 a box and $2 a barrel, thus netting nearly three times as much for tbe boxed apples as for those packed In the old-fashioned way. - In it present commercial aspect at w universities football ha evolved a c1m of player who may b termed tempottry professionals, selected aa they at tor their ability to atand bat tering aaa bruielng and their quick ness to siz tBy cnanc0 to malm their opponent. Th coarse tone which a nnlversity is st to mitigate In youth, If not ra4ict4t j., tncouraged by the stimuli t brutality, and younger peopl of hot HXM ar M to admire the very traits a eoiieg edu cation hould suppress. Tn degener acy of football ha reach! low t - Uvel that parents ar already ttBuiat. leg with their son that they shall not go to the anlvrity at all unleaa they prvmiee not to play tooH-ail Tula u. t weakness oa thlr part In th eye of their offerrlng deplorabl weak nea; but from th parental aid per haps w may be magnanimous euouih to allow th argntnent that since the starting of their offspring ou their career with a little handicap la the way of broken bone and absent no and ar aa poaaibl la not only tholr natural deslr. but la some i:aj thir duty, why, objection to football ea their part la not exactly a crime! Secretary rTilaea convey to th American people the mere than wel come Information that th deoertloa t th farm for city Uf which haa been going ea at aa alarming rat for the last twenty yara Mm to bat com to aa end and that something Uke a re actloa haa set la. It this la true noth ing could be a more hoptfal aign tor th futur prosperity and happlneea of this country. Until a few yean age American title prided thmalv greatly oa their rapid growth la popu lation and never wearied of presenting statistical table showing an annual In crease of 10 or 30 per cent After a while It waa observed that all th eltle not only et tola untry bat f all ceuntrte war growing la the same way. Finally It dawned ea ear un derstanding that th farm wer be ing proportionally detected and that what we had been priding oureelve oa waa nothing more nor lea than a de plorable national dlaeae. What w had hailed aa aolld municipal ntnacl and fat waa seen to b dropsical wind and water. Thla wild flight f th country peep! to th cltiea la aome thlng of a mystery, because It haa ta ken place almultaneoualy with an Im mense amelioration of the lonellne and hardship of farm life. In our day th trolley car darts by th farmer's gate, the letter carrier bands him hla mall and a bus calla to take hi chil dren to school. Farm work la now beginning to b don by atorag bat teries. Th farmer la no longer com pelled to manufacture everything be needs, but can buy It for a trifle at the nearest town. On hla table are the finest periodicala and books In th world, he reads them by an electric light he telephone his orders around th farm or hla goaalp to hla neigh bors and ride to th depot In an au tomobile. How It la that men ao pleas antly situated, with the sweet privi lege of looking nature la the face, breathing unpolluted air, drinking pure water and eating pure food, can give It up for the grime and filth, the amoke and stench, the close quarter and adul terated food, the starvation wage and incessant strike, lockout and mobs of the city will always be regarded a an lnaolubl problem. Not only do the farmer wrong themselves when they flock to the dty but they Inflict a ter rible Injury en society. Agriculture la paralyzed and the cities ar glutted. Impoverished and corrupted. "Back to the farm' ahould be the watchword of Americana. It la to be feared that Secretary Wilson la far too sanguine but If hla prognostication la correct It 1 the best new this country ha heard la many year. VAST COMMERCE OF EARTH. International Trade for Magi Tear AaaoanUte $11,000,000,000. Th world' commerce, a noted In the annual report of the chief of th bureau of statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor, stows the to tal exports of all nations of th world to be, In the latest year available, 110, 515,000,000, and the value of the total Imports of all natloD $11,809,000,000. Thla would give the total value of tbe world's Import and export combined aa 122.324,000,000, but since all arti cle which were counted aa exports be came in turn Imports when they enter ed the country of destination It would appear that th actual value of articles entering Into International com merce la. In round terms, 811,000,- 000.000. Tbe value of these articles forming the internal commerce of the United States is estimated at 122,000,000,000 in a single year. Thua, while It has been customary to apeak of the Internal commerce of the United States as equal to the en tire International commerce of tbe world. It appear from this statement that the actual value of tbe merchan dise entering into the internal com merce of the United States Is practic ally twice aa great aa that entering the International commerce of the world. Europe, of course, supplies a large proportion of the world' International commerce, both a to export and Im port. Tbe export of Europe amount to 80,408,000,000, out of a total of $10, 615,000,000 exports of all the countries of the world, and her Imports are $8,301,000,000, out of a total of $11, 809,000.000 of the total Imports of all the countries of the world. Thus Eu rope's total International commerce, combining Imports and exports, amounts to practically $15,000,000,000, out of a total of $22,000,000,000 of com bined imports and export. Of the $8,301,000,000 of imports Into Europe, $1,202,500,000, or 14.43 per cent are from tbe United States, and of the $0,498,000,000 of exports, $407, 868,000, or 6.27 per cent wer tent to the United States. When a preacher's wife expect her husband to Hght fires and carry In wood, th women of th church won der that lightning doesn't strike her for being so Impious. In a very small town, tber Is th same demand that a widow remem ber her dignity, as tbert la la all towns about a preacher, OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS i am wtaircstiag. A MAST peopl wl Nineteenth Cent f gift-making barter. Tha Distressing AUm at Christina till Bjoipathli Century, who complain haa degenerated Hew tni thla la w an mast realli f Christmas and th chopping It entails. shall alt down em morning, look over eur memoranda, lid out who sent us presents last Christmas, remember what waa the approximate coat of each, and then atart en a tear ef the shop to purchase gifts vain. AM these we shall send to our creditor friends with a written message of Christian cbarlty and holiday good cheer, but hearing over each parcel a heavy sigh f relief that this la off our mluds and we are even. Nor la that th worst of It for very often w rleusly embarra our flnancee by paying our eUllgatleru of thla sort and many a bill collector has mad a man's life miser able for mouths because of such meaningless tokens ef leve and affection that generally do not exlat As a matter ef fact the Chrlatmaa present like the wed ding preeoat ass become a nuisance. a sweet MaQment but that acntlmeut ef famllie that are eloaely knit In geuulne fondness (and bow many are they?) haa long since beeu destroyed by the ever-Increasing costliness of girts. Th gsaerou sim plicity ef th past la gen and ostentation has takes Ita place. If you doubt thla. Just try sending no Christmas gifts next Chrlatmaa and the Christ was following, and what happen. Teu will find that the man who gives ne pre ents get none. Even the glowing and philanthropic hu manity of the Chrlatmaa season takes account of the dollars and centa and Inalsta upon value received. It la time for a reform of the abuaea that have sur rounded and spoiled the beautiful cuatntn of celebrating Christ's birthday with evidences of peace on earth and good will toward men. As It la practiced now It is com mercial, sordid and destructive of ever)-thing but hypoo rtty. Chicago Journal. A Land (or lelons of All Nation. HAT la th logic of keeping criminals at tbe public expense? Why should tbe community give a man free board and lodging for his life because be has broken the law? If a man w la unnt to be at large In society, p reservation Is the first law of nature, society has the right to eliminate hlin. This It does, fool ishly, at present by locking him up for a term of year er for life. In a few cases society kills the criminal, and thus gets rid of him Irrevocably and cheaply; but this Is hard on tbe criminal who may not be Incorrigible. Hence capital punishment would be too severe for crimes leas than the most heinous. The maintenance of prisons, how ever, la a heavy drain upon the taxpayers. Moreover, prisons are not reformatories, but rather cation In th criminal arts and for the professional criminal character. Therefore, they are men aces aa well as burdens to society. Some natlona have made a compromise with logic by establishing colonies, where felons are permitted. In a measure to, shift for themselves. Put these colonies are only half-way measure. Th logical, human and most effectual solution of the problem would be the setting apart ef m greet territory say tbe heart of Africa or some large Island, not too fertile aa a general dumping ground for the criminal of all natlona. There the outlaw could set ap a society of their own. Necessity would compel them to dig baA for themselves. They would have to work or starve. The frontlera or coast of the felons' land could be policed by a patrol composed of detachments from the armies and navies of all the nations In order to prevent escape. Summary death should be. of course, the penalty for breaking bounds. The power, however, could refuse to take any part In tbe Internal administration TRAVEL BY AIR. Urine Collapsible Air-Bag- Inside Bal loon Proper Meets with Success. To regulate the height to which a balloon aball rise or fall la one of the intereatlng problem of aeronautic, and It uaually baa been solved by throwing ballast overboard or allow ing the gas to escape. In ballonet balloons, which have recently been tried In successful experiments, this U arcnmnllahed bv hflvlnff rollflD!tile t ir.bass iD.ide Uie balloon proper. lnt which air can be forced or withdrawn. While the Idea la old, going back o the time of the first hydrogen balloon in 1783, It has only recently been put Into successful application, though In 18S4 air-reservoirs were employed to regulate tbe shape of balloons. During the first year Henry de la Vaulx and Henri Havre have made Improvement whereby successful ascents and voy ages have been made, and the altltud of the balloon nicely regulated. The ballonet Is an annular compartment of lens-abaped section placed around the lower part of the balloon proper and provided with suitable valves. By forcing air In or out of tbe ballonet tbe displacement, and consequently the buoyancy, Is altered. Thus In the first scent made by M. de la Vaulx a crow ing of the English Channel was mado at a height of about 1,000 feet with the ballonet filled. On rising above tbe clonds the sun's rays would have expanded tbe gas within the balloon proper and carried the aeronauts to a strata where they would have been driven toward the Arctic Bea by the prevailing southerly wlnda bad they not been able to descend to a lower level by using the ballonet. Thus they were able to proceed In tbe deHlred di rection on thla particular voyage, land ing In Yorkshire after a trip of sixteen hour. By regulating the position of the balloon with' the ballonet it la pos sible to save ballast o that much longer trip can be taken with favor able winds. Further trip In this bal loon wer equally successful, and dem onstrated tbe success of tbe ballonet. and thla arrangement ahould be ad vantageous In dirigible balloons or on air ships, aa they would supply a aim' pie meana of regulating the buoyancy of the envelope containing tbe gas. Webster's Lost Opportunity. The campaign of .1840 had a dra matic and unexpected sequel Thar 1LMWS1AL Present. with a writer la th that the custom lot a system f with th approach Tretty ooa we A TABLE of t about th save It had Its origin In except In the cases then. If srlf- colleges for edu formation of the POWERFUL SEARCHLIGHTS AT PORT ARTHUR. - VV'T'' ''' ; V'ivV.. W'tSS- !;; . . i V-f ... x ' J ' Jitt t-- uue ol Uie big seurtuiiguu ueil by Hie Hushiuiim ut I'ort Arthur I shown In the illiiHtratlon. From the forts these projector were worked Incessantly at night, and their Intense white rays disclosed whatever move ments the Japanese made. Tbe light when thrown on an advancing enemy, bIho tends to dazzlo and confuse them. In conjunction with the electric projectors tbe ItUHslanH aluo used star sheila, which lu exploding brilliantly lighted up the Immediate territory. low Weed, before tho meeting of the whig convention, sought out Webster and urged hlin to take second place on the L'tket with Harrison, but the BiiggcHtion was rejected with scorn. An acceptance of Weed's advice would have made Webster President In little more than a year. Fish's Tenacity of Digestion. A singular Instance of tenacity in the digestion of fish la reported from a fishing village on the Atlantic coast. The fish, which la a ling, four feet long, bad what appeared to be an ab normally hard liver. But the cutting up process revealed something .far stranger. Tbe supposed bard liver turned out to be a piece of stout net ting, over two yard long and fourteen Inches wide, which bad been pressed Into the form of a football. How this great mass of indigestible material came to be swallowed by tbe creature is a mystery, and tbe suggestion that of th territory set up. TV criminals culd do what they pleased, hav anarchy or a comiuunlstn, a republic or aa autocracy, whichever suited them. Saa Francisco Bulletin. At What Me Work. th division ef labor In different conn tries, published la the "Industrie Zeltung," of Her tin, present kum Interesting tacts and offer aom proflubl suggestions. Occupations ar divided Into lore clasae namely, agriculture, horticulture and forest ry; manufacture and mining, and commerce and trans portation, it Is "Interesting to observe that la the last named class America leads all th world save only Holland. With that on iception a larger proportion of our people ar engaged In commerce and transportation than of auy other In the world. That la doubtless because of the enor mous dvlopmut of railroads In America. Our percentage of men thua engaged I 10.3, while Holland's Is 17.2, Ea gland' I only 13, Germany's is 10.0 and Francs' 0 4. In manufacture and mining America has a compar atively low rank, her percentage being only 24.1. Scotland lead all, with 00.4, followed rloeely by England and Walee with Ml Germany has 87.4 and Franc U S. Bel glum, Holland and 8wltarland also, f course, rank high, each ef them having mor than ene-thlrd ef the working population thua engaged. In the first class, ef agriculture and allied occupation. America ha a percentage of 55 0, while Germany ha 87.5, Franc 44 3. Austria and Hun gary, respectively, 53.2 and 5.8.8, and Italy 50.4. Th only nations having smaller proportlona Id this class than Amer ica are Holland, with SOT; Belgium, with 21.1; Scotland, with 12, and England and Wales, with only 8. It may be seriously questioned whether It Is well for a nation to show se great a disproportion among Its occu pations aa England does, with only A per cent agricultur ist against 58.3 In manufactures and 13 In commerce; or as Hungry does In tbe opposite direction, with MO per cent engaged upon the land and only 12.0 In manufacture and 3.3 In commerce. A more even balancing among the clnes would seem to be preferable, such as that of the I'nlted States, In which the balance I moat even of all, with the possible exception of Holland. There la an old warning against carrying all the eggs In one banket, and farmers have long since learned the disadvantage of de pending upon a alngle crop. 8o It Is not well for any na tion to devote Itself too much to a single department of Industry. The more varied and well balanced Ita ocuna tlons are, the more self-contained and Independent It will be. New York Tribune. May Tc t BritotnV Strength. T l evident that in some Continental capital the Idea la cherished that the opportunity for a blow again! British ea power la to be exacted before the end of tbe conflict between Japan and Iluftla. Any Power that la to be drawn Into the attempt will be expected to use not only It nary, but aa much of Ita army aa can be made available. We think that bold and far sighted statesman ship mtgbt prevent any such ccrablnstloti being brought Into existence. But If the possibility exists. It ought to be the bssls of all Great Britain's naval and military arrange ments. It Is such a combination as this which ought to be tbe hypothesis In every scheme of Imperial defense. The people ef thla country onght to be well aware that a com bination against them 1 possible. They ought to know that tbl la the one danger against which their prepara tions ahould aim at rendering them reasonably secure, and that security against the most dangerous attack would Involve greater security against leas formidable forma of conflict. Recent mlnlsterlsl accounts of the Ideaa of the Committee of Defense hardly carry tbe conviction that the hypothesis hss been worked ent. Tet there never wss a time when both the political and the atrategirsi vigilance of a British Government were more urgently necessary than at tbe present moment. Ixndon Morning Font. the Mi caught In tho tolls of a fish erman's net solved the problem of bow to escape by devouring hla prison walls Is not considered scientifically practicable. Not a Favorite Breed Lovers of good, plain dogs which bnve been allowed to grow naturally will appreciate the story of tho Eng lish peddler who went to a dealer In dogs and thus described what he wanted: "HI want a kind of dog about so 'lgh an' so long. Hit's a kind of gry 'ound, an' ylt It ain't a gry'ound, be cause 'la tyle la shorter nor any o' these 'ere gry'ounds an' 'is nose is shorter an' 'e ain't so slim round, the body. But still 'e's a kind o' gry'ound. Do you keep such dogs?" "No," replied th dog man. "W drown 'em." When an attorney offer to lottla, listen. MEN'S HAIR FASHIONS, Net ft YaHea bat lab jevt So (( "W hoar a gnat deal about th va rious stylM la wkka mn dru last - hair," said ta bar bar, "but w doat ar Mack tall aut th tyt la. which saa wear tholr hair. Tt ansa d hav-tyl la thla re gard which lay fllw cllyt though lhy 4 Mt chang talr stylo so fr ousutly a wcata 4 their, nor art thatr style m varieua. They are, In. dd, cnfla4 amtly to changes In th part Tw r tars yar it, aa you will rtaabr, It waa U fssktoo for mea t part their hair la iU naiddl. and thla waa a faahUa vary wnsmonly fol lw4, and by assay ldrty a well at y yuog mea. Tasr war many old saa at avr to fallowing tk fahln f th yeoflier ma to auk thailv mor lis th yungsr roaa. la appMraac. and tha many an ohlat man fund that by parting hi bslr la th imtddi h wss anabled to corei up th bar spots that Urn had brought to his tompl, aad b took kindly to th fasaUn oa that aecuat "to partiag th hair la th mlddl was rally th prevailing fashion, and man, ld and yung, wsarlng their hair la that mauur.wr to b net on v ry hand. But now a nan with his hair s parted I but rarely aeea; prt ty muek vry nun nw part hla hair a th aid, and a man, Id or young. with his hair parted la th mlddl wld b cousplcuus aa to attract attnUa. "MM hav Individual way In th wMrtng of their hair, a fr aiampl m men who think long hair la be coming to thara may war tbelr bnlr long, and in men with naturally enrly balr may not try very hard t comb It out straight Thar ar men wb follow their fsntlt a to bw they shsll war their hair, Just as titer ar kuii wiua wb disregard th sty) and wear thslr hair In th tuau nr they belter t t th aiost becom. Ing t them; but as t th part, th prralllug ityl for ma now I to hav that a th aid. "Women say that ma look better with their hair parted o th tide than tn th mlddl. but I don't think thla has anything to 4 with making sty I, for moat mn coaslder thmelvM at- tractive anyway, and 1 took In du Urn to so th mlddl part bccoin lashlonabl again. "As a matter ef fact th aid part which 1 th natural part far men, doe prvall In th long run, taking long series of years; but men like a change, and th mlddl part pleas their vsn Ity, r la sm cases servss a purpose, and It will n doubt rtn In again, to last at Isast for a whll. XI en chang their way f wtartag their hair Just aa they chang th styl f th shoo they wear." New York luu. LattMl twlodllna Omm; Her I on of th latest chm for making monsy, which ha flurihed la town for som weeks past says th Philadelphia Frees. A sua a atop yon on th street and la th mt confiden tial of tones ask yon to direct hlin to a good pawnshop wber they don't tsk auy question. Then, without undu ceremony, he whisper la your ear that he haa been working aa valet foe a rich old man, who ha used him very meauly, and because of thla be ha stolen a lot of Jowelry and only wants to sell It for enough t psy hi railroad far to Baltluior. He then pull from his pocket a col lection of watches, rings and stickpins and offers any one of tbera for what you hav In your pocket, providing you hav at least thre or four dollar. Whether you buy any of th "stolen Jewels" or not the man prays you In a voice full of emotion not to tell th police, at lenst not until b baa tlm to get out of town. Of course, the Jewels are nothing but cheap Imitations and the watebca not worth a dollar at retail, but neverthe less, the scheme has been worked suc cessfully, and a number of people hav bought these "stolen goods," and found out later, much to their regret that they had been swindled with eas. Antique Furniture. An electrical Journal supplies a de scription of th trentnicut of worm eotcu furniture. Everybody has heard of furniture which la given an appoar once of antiquity by worm-eatlug ar tificially produced. Tbe old crude way waa to bore holes with a gimlet A more subtlo way la now In use. The bacteria which bore hole In wood are cultivated ou potatoes, and are thenco rubbed Into modern Imitations. They eat their way In; but, a everybody knows, If wood Is too much worm eaten It rota and collapses into duat Therefore, when the procea of decay ha gone far enough to glv to th "modern antique" a venerable appear ance, but not far enough to make It unsafe to alt down on or to lean against It becomes desirable to kill oft tbe bacteria. This can now b done, It ha been found, by submitting thorn In their new quarters to th action of th X-rays. ' Georgia Wanted Mor Fie, "Gran'ma," says Georgle, "you gav me a awful little piece of pie!" "Why, Georgia!" cries the dear old lady, "I gar you an extra large piece. I remember cutting as enormous plec for you." "Gran'ma" tbe small boy ruminate a few minute before speaking again "Gran'ma, your glasses magnify a good deal, don't they?" Cleveland Leader. Football Prollfl. "How did your collag conaln hav bis nw photograph takn full front T "No; half back. H la on th foot ball toain." Judg.
