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MAGAZINE SECTION.
1IOULTON, OREGON, HIIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1905.
WGES 1 TO 4.
REGISTER
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CONSUELO ENCOURAGES SEX.
DAUGHTER OF VAXDERBILTS
SEES IMPROVED COXD1TIOXS
IS FIELD OF LAHOR.
Comparison of Past Restrictions
With Present Freedom Revests
Crowth of Woman's Sphere.
An ex Pre "ldout of the United Btatei
thtuki It nut bonrath hl dignity to
talk to the women of the country
through the pac of a popular wom
an's macailna. warning them of the
dangerous ami undermining effects
upon their character of active partic
ipation In public affairs. Tho feminine
club Ufa of to-day ho ecpvclally con
drmnt.
Following this romes tho announce
ment of an Interview with a reprnmm
tatlve of the new and chnrtnlng wom
anhood of America In the person of
Consuelo, Purlieus of Marlborough. A
daughter of the Vanderbllts, married
Into one of the oldest and proudest
families of England, surrounded by
every luxury and crowned with beauty,
youth and grace, yet Is she democratic
enough to be Interested in her sisters
of the working worlJ.
Women's Work Commended.
Concerning woman's work the
PucheM says:
"It li gratifying to see the improve-
tempted to speak at a temperance con
veutlon recalls to mind the old story
of Lucy Htone, of Massachusetts, a
pioneer suffragist, who, after her grad
nation at Obcrlln. Ohio tine only col
lege admitting women at that time),
denlred to speak In one of the Mass
achusetts churches. The announcement
of the smirch was made by the mln
Inter of the church In the following
words:
A hen wlnhef to rrow Ilk a rooster In
thla rlitirrh on TliurnUy evening. Any
body liking i hut kinU of muuo Is in-
vilvd to siunU."
It seems almost Incredible In these
days that time was, and only half a
century ago, too, when woman j activ
Ity was limited to so small a circle
COAL STRIKE PROBABLE.
A GR EE HE XT MA DE THREE YEARS
AGO BETWEEX MIXERS AXD OPE-
RA TORS EXPIRES XEXT APRIL.
Miner Will Then Demand Eight
Hour Day and Recognition of union
Owners Will Vigorously Oppose.
Chnrles 11 Kern.
With tho coming of winter many a
hninulinltler has calculated UI'n me
probability of a strike In the anthra
As a means of livelihood she had but Itlto coal regions and wondered wlieta
three vocations from which to choose: Lr he should take tho precaution to lay
housework, sewing and teaching: and I In full unnlv of fuel. The day
all poorly paid, at that. Marriage was when the provl.lcnt man mm up great
supposed to be tho chief end and aim stores for the frozen period' of the
of her existence. This state she sought, year, filled bis larder with good things
somotlmes as a rcruce rrom greater i to eat and his bins wiui iuei, ognumi
tils. A girl single at 22 or 23 was con-1 the Inclement weather, lias departed
aldcred an "old maid." No woman. I no far as the cities of this country Ae
except among the Society of Friends. I concerned. Now rich and poor alike,
could be ordained to nrcach the kosdcI. I the nrovldcnt and tho improvident
The woman physician or lawyer was 1 look to the merchant to keep their lar-
In bringing the two sides to the con
troversy together.
Wields Creat Power.
Few people understand what an im
mense power is wielded by the Presi
dent of tlte United States when that
office is filled by a man of good Judg
ment The President toy iHsuing an
invitation to the men on both sides of
the coal controversy under the circum
tanre that existed three years ago,
practically forced them to agree to an
arbitration of their differences, be
came, bad either party to that contro
versy declined to enter the agreement.
It would have so fully lost public sym
pathy os to have been eventually driv
en to surrender wholly to its opponent
In that case the power behind the
President was the power of public
opinion. Not only is public opinion.
when focused by so skillful a hand
as that of President Roosevelt, capa
TEE HUMAN FLY.
REMARKABLE EXPLOIT OF AWX-
JXG IJASGER IVUO CLIMBS
TALL BUILDIXGS,
Witnessed by Gaping Multitude. He
Ascended and Descended the Tow
crlng FItlron.M-Wlfe and Child
ren Among Nervous Spectators,
an unknown quantity.
The Women Held Aside Their Skirts.
When Antoinette Drown Dlackwell,
the first woman to graduate In medi
cine In this country, appeared on the
streets the women she met held aside
their aklrts for fear of contamination
.tent filled. Their only providence is
In laying up the money with wuicn w
purchase supplies wuen nccuea.
It Is this chance In the method of
providing for tho home, that has made
the strike In recent years so lerriuw
to the bumblo consumer, who may
live a thousand miles from the scene
There is a man who climbs the outer
walls of the highest buildings and
who uses neither rope, tackle cor seal
ing ladder. This man does not tell of
his daring feats, nor has he a press
asent to exploit his dizzy achieve
ments, lie performs this work in view
of gaping multitudes who cheer and
eYtnAAav nm ihia man ITrtW tin fthper
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ue or forcing arbitration, out it is a waI, ilgsing tough and nimble
sauHiaciory guarantee wai uie agree- to ntA ,he lnter8tices of the stone.
from so unwomanly a creature. The0f the Industrial dixconteut and know
bars of prejudice were high and strong.
llvv. j v-' - t.WCL: V "Ik l
nothing of Its causes except that
which he reads In his dally paper, and
yet lx tho principal sufferer from the
shortage of supplies that follows.
The effectiveness of the strike is its
power to create such a shortage In
supplies and to bring the country up
on the verge of a famine as bad as
a food famine, frranwormtlon, by
aulcklr distributing products over the
world, lias routed uie ruinine or om
that sprung from the failure or crops,
Now the cessation of labor produces
tho same shortage of supply that was
formerly produced by the uncontroll
able elements.
The chief protection against the re
currence of strikes bus been found in
agreements made between employers
and employes, the present agreement
in the anthracite coal fields being
effective until April 1st next Until
after that date, according to tho state
ments of leading labor organization
oMclal. there will be do strike, as
they propone1 to stand for the inviola
bility of contracts made by any or
their affiliated associations.
The good offices of the 'Pretddont of
the United States were used with
great advantage in bringing about an
agreement between the cool opera
tors and the miners three years ago,
so as to make possible the production
of coal. The fact is the President
used only that indefinite power that
may be regarded as the influence of
ws great office skillfully employed
mMit when made will be kept faith
fully by both sides to the controversy
More Drastic Measures In Reserve.
Put while the office of the Presi
dent with all its effective although
Indefinite power to force compliance
was used In that case, it Is a well
known fact tuat the President was
considering other means for forcing
an arbitration, had the mine opera'
tors declined to agree to lay their
differences before a board of arbitra
tion. The President not only has well
defined powers that are constantly ex
erclsed. and with which the people are
fully acquainted, but he has other still
more Important powers which be can
exercise at his discretion In cases of
great emergency, and which it was un
derstood at the time of the great an
thraclto coal strike he considered
using in order to bring relief to the
shivering multitudes of the land. He
mny do many things for the "public
good." That is an indefinite term
allowing a wide Interpretation, but
there ore many people who believe
that hnd the coal strike of 1903 contin
ued a little longer the President would
have declared martial law in the
anthracite regions, and not only would
have thrown troops Into that section,
but would have ordered the mining of
tho coal and its distribution to relieve
the distress of the country.
Put according to assurances that
have been given to the public, the
country Is Bafe from a coal famine, at
least until April 1st 1900. Then there
will be another' meeting between the
miners and the coal operators and the
miners will demand both an eight
L'cur .day and the. recognition of their
union. Tee recognition of their union
will be resisted by the mine owners
to tne last and while it seems but a
sentimental issue it will be Insisted
upon by the miners, and it may event
ually be made the cause of another
strike. One thing which may be
borne in mind Is that in case of a
strike, the public, In the last analysis,
j uii tue costs,
catching a cornice or a window sill
and "chinning" himself up anl doing
other most venturesome acrobatic
CONSUELO, DUCHESS OF MA RLHOROUG 1L
ments which have been niado in tho
conditions under which women work In
this country since I was last here. You
know that I am deeply interested In
this question of the betterment of the
conditions of life for women. England
Is doing much In this direction, but it
is to America that wo all look for
leadership In movements of this kind,
and I am happy to say that our hopes
have not been disappointed."
The particular Bociety in which the
Duchess is Interested is the Young
Woman's Christian Association. Sho
Is to that organization in England
what Helen Gould Is to the Y. M. C. A.
in this country a patroness, generous
of time, money and sympathy.
It Is evident however, that the
DucheHs' sympathies go out to the
workers and the work, along all the
lines of betterment for women. She
calls attention to the various associa
tions and their enormous growth in
membership, and to the change that
has taken place In the position of wom
an in the world's work during the past
sixty years.
Speaking of womon's efforts at eman
cipation and particularly of the famous
meeting In beneca Falls, N. Y., she
says:
"Tho first woman's rights convention
wus hold in this country in 1850. Three
years later a woman attempted to
speak In a worlds temporanco conven
tion In New York and it took her throe
hours to make a ten-minute speech be
cause of the Joors and interruptions of
the men delegates. Florence Night
Ingalo, JiiRt about fifty years Ago laid
the foundation for the glorious work
of the Red Cross in the hospitals in the
Crimea.
When Efforts Began.
"These, were the beginnings of the
activity of women In public movements,
involving social reform, which now are
having their full development In all
lines of endeavor. When one reflects
that tho hardships faced by women
speakers In those days ranged from hos-
tile and rude interruptions to measures
of even more active discomfort and un
pleasantness, remlnllng one of an un
populnr political erMnnnlen. and yt
that thev hnve persevered in their ef
forts, one ennnot help nelng proud of
their pluck una perseverance wuicn
hns hnd such splendid reBults."
Hefcrence to the woman who at
Only the hardiest dared face the dis
approval of the public of that day.
Put now the army of stenographers,
clerks, physicians, preachers, social
workers and business women attest the
wonderful change in her status. To
day, given capacity, training and perse
verance, there aro few, if any, avenues
or legitimate endeavor closed to woman.
If now and then a few overstep the
bounds of discretion and good taste,
and thereby call down the censure of
the better element who knows but that
It is the pendulum swinging a little far
a rebound from the extremes of
former days. The real balance will
be maintained when woman is permit
ted to express her individuality and
to live her own life.
A Lullaby,
Hush, baby, hush!
In the west there's a glory
with changes of amethyst crimson
and gold.
The Sun goes to bed like the King In
a story,
Told by a poet of old.
Hush, baby, huBh!
There's a wind on the river
A sleepy old wind with a voice like a
sigh.
And he sings to the rushes that dream
ily quiver,
Down where the ripples run by.
Hush, baby, hush!
Lambs nre drowsily bloating
Down in cool meadows where daisy
buds crow:
And the echo, aweary with all day ro
peatlng
Has fallen asleep long ago. '
Hush, baby, hush!
There are katydids calling -"Good-night"
to each othor on every
breeze.
And the sweet baby moon has been
falling and falling,
Till, now she is caught in the trees.
Hush, baby, hush!
It ia time you were winging
Your way to the land that lies no one
knows where;
It is late, baby, late; Mother's tired
with singing,
Soon she will follow you there.
Hush, baby, hush!
E. 0. COOKE.
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A NEW SEA GIANT.
The new twin screw. Amerlka, whloh
came sweeping Into New York harbor
the other day, after her maiden voyage,
Is one of those new leviathans of the
deep, the dimensions and appointments
of which would have petrified even the
owner of Aladdin's lamp, had he been
able to produce such a result The
Amerlka Is said to be the largest ship
ever built for passenger service and is
a Bister to the'Kaiserln Auguste Vic
toria, now In progress of construction.
The Amerlka is some 700 i'eet in length,
75 feet wide and over 50 feet deep. Her
capacity is 23.000 tons, which is some
thing over twice the tonnage of the
famous Oregon, Captain Clarke's great
battle ship which made the long Jour
ney around the Horn in time to con
tribute to Ccrvera's defeat.
Although she is a passenger ship and
has accommodation for 3,400 passen
gers and 600 crew, she has also a capac
ity or 16,000 - tons of cargo. She can
carry 2,300 steerage passengers, but
she has also provision for passengers
who have a little money to Bpend. One
of her "Imperial" suites for a voyage,
affording accommodation for six peo
ple, can be secured for $2,500, or an
average of about ?G0 a day for each
person.
One of the novelties of the Amerlka
Is the electric .passenger elevator which
whisks the passengers up and down be
tween the five decks of the ship. A
Marconi wireless telegraph apparatus
found on the Amerlka has now become
an established feature of all large mod
ern vessels.
The Amerlka, while not designed, it
is siatea, to oe a record-breaker In
speed, Is driven by quadruple expan
sion engines of over 15,000 horse power
and is scheduled to make tho trip
across in Beven days.
f ' ill
mm ill
i nr . . in
urn
made his climbing skill pay. Though
married five years his wife has never
seen him at his work of scaling the
outside of tall buildings until he un
dertook the removal of awnings from
the windows of the towering Flatiroa
building. "Until that time," said the
lady to a reporter, "I never saw hint
at the work. I knew he was removing
awnings from the Flatlron building,
so 1 went over to Manhattan to meet
him yesterday afternoon, and I took
our two children, Lawrence, two and a
half years old. and Hazel, four years
old, and waited for John In front of
the Bartholdl Hotel. Of course I
never thought John would climb that
frightfully tall building. I was stand
ing there when one of the workmen,
who knows me, came over and said:
Your husband will be wltn you soon.
he's Just coming from the ninth story
now I thought be meant John wouia
be coming by the elevator, so I didn't
look up to the windows.
"The workman told me to look up. I
did, and I nearly fainted, for there
was my husband with his hands on the
sill of a window on the ninth story
and his toes In the groves between the
stones. I grew dizzy and wanted t
turn away.
"Something held ma fascinate,
though, and I watched him coming
down in a sort of criss-cross fashion
as quickly as a man would run down
a ladder. I said to Lawrence, There's
your papa,' and the baby laughed and
clapped his hands with joy. He didnt
understand the danger, but Hazel did,
and she began to cry. I couldn't look
any longer and I turned my heal
away, but I could hear the noise of
the great crowd that was watching
him. I looked again, thinking as
must be on the sidewalk by this time.
Imagine my horror when I saw he had
started climbing upward after I had
turned away, and was then just up to
the cornice. He looked like a little
black fly against the white stone. He
waved one hand and then began to
move down. I watched him, but some
times closed my eyes when It seemel
that he had made a misstep. The
crowd was so great that when he
swung down to one of the store awn
ings I could only see him drop off and
disappear Into the maze or men gath
ered about-"
mS WEATHER I OE CASTS.
TEE FLATIEON BUILDING,
feats. The name of this man ia John
Garrlck. and he is called "The Hu
man Fly." His occupation is hanging
and removing awnings. To do his work
he simply walks up and down the out
side of buildings while ofher workmen
go from story to story by means of the
stairway or the elevator.
John Garrlck before he took up the
trade of awning hanging was a sailor.
He followed the sea from boyhood to
manhood, and during his service on
deep-sea sailing ships he learned to
climb and cultivated his nerve.
A few days ago he was engaged In
removing awnings from the Flatlron
building, in New York. Broadway was
choked with people watching the Hu
man Fly at work. Incredible as it
may seem, he climbed the sheer wall
of that building from pavement to cor
nice, two hundred and eighty-six feet
and down again.
Five years ago Garrick married
Naturally his wife wished him to quit
sea-faring. He got employment as an
awning hanger and in that capacity he
In Spite of Ratlerles the Covemme't
Prophesies Remarkably Accurate.
Fiteen per cent of error, said Chief
Willis L. Moore, In an Interview, is
the record of the Weather Bureau. Net
only Is this proportion lower thaa la
any foreign bureaus, but in ten years
not a criticism of Its work, he adds,
has come from any commercial, n art
time or scientific orgaalzatioa. Cer
tainly, If It does what It sets out to
do, eighty-five times out of a hundred,
the weather service ought to enjoy aa
enviable degree of popular esteea.
What praise would he showered oa a
Congress that acted unwisely only IS
per cent of the time!
In spite of the constant gibes di
rected at the Weather Bureau, there Is
undoubtedly among farmers and ship
pers an underlying sentiment of friend
liness and confidence. It has grows,
into a national Joke that the forecasts
are always wrong, just as Bostonians
live invariably on beans and Philadel
phians are always lethargic But these
whimsical articles of faith do not ia
the least affect anyone's practical at
titude toward a forecast, a Bostonlan,
or a Philadelphian.
A contributing cause to the railing
at the weather bureau Is the activity
of the long-range prophets. The su
perior usefulness of a forecast for next
month over one for to-morrow being
manifest, even sheer guesswork for
the former period Is preferred by thou
sands to a scientiC determination for
the latter. Recently a moneyed Indi
vidual offered a substantial prize for
the best weather prophecy six months
ahead. It the Government bureaa
should try for that and win it and it
ought to be able to guess as well as
anybody it would become the most
popular Institution in the country.
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