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The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-01-30
SKYSCRAPER MENACE.
What Confagration Among These
Cliff Dwellers Would Mean,

| A catastrophe that will eclipse the
destruction of San Francisco is the cheer.
ing prospect offered for the contemplation
of New York by the president of the
board Of fire underwriters, says Golfers
| Weekly And it is not New York alone
vat is threatened, but every great city
| that permits the construction of skyscrap-
ers. The underwriters think that there
Is not only possibility but a very strong
probability of a blaze starting in the top
stories of nest of these aerial hives and
leaping across the canyons that separate
them, raging aloft like a fire in the upper
branches of forest, and sweeping un-
checked out of reach of the helpless fire.
men in the street. When Office buildings
go higher than the Washington monument
all the ordinary methods of protection be-
come obsolete. No hose can carry a
stream half way to their roofs. No street
mains can furnish pressure enough to
send water up in standpipes. OF course
there are satisfactory methods of supply
Ing the upper floors In ordinary times,
but they would count for nothing In q
conflagration. The experience of San
Francisco has shown, in the opinion OF
President Babb, that "so-called 'fireproof'
buildings cannot withstand the attack OF
q wave of fame" If fire should sweep
the financial district of New York 1t
would cause a loss of from one to two
billion dollars; the insurance companies
would be hard pressed to pay 20 to %
cents on the dollar, title guaranty COM
panies mortgage concerns, savings banks.
and all other financial institutions would
suffer, and the city would feel at once the
loss of revenue from the destruction of
taxable values.
Another menace that hangs over the
skyscraper districts of great cities Is The
danger of panic. 1t is said that If sud
den shock should send the swarming cliff
dwellers all surging to the streets at once
the highways would not hold the human
food. The streets of our cities were de-
signed to match buildings three or four
stories high. When ten such buildings
are piled one on top of another, and the
same thoroughfares are expected to ac-
commodate the people from all of them,
the results are likely to be startling.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-01-30
WANT HALF PAY.
Volunteer Army and Navy Officers
to Urge Their Claims in Congress.

Volunteer Army and Navy Officers
to Urge Their Claims in Congress.
Backed by precedents established
after the Revolutionary War, surviy,
ing volunteer officers of the army anG
navy of the Civil War are to demand
of Congress the enactment of a law
providing for their benefit a volunteer
retired list with half pay for life. Ir
the last Congress bill was introduced
providing for such q list, but restrict
ing 1t to volunteer army oAicers. II
did not pass, largely because of the
cry Of discrimination that was raised
by naval volunteers and their friends
1t is now proposed by a committee
of volunteer naval officers to have pre-
pared a measure that shall be salts
factory to the navy and marine corps
Circulars have been sent out to al
surviving volunteer naval officers II
the United States calling upon then
to take an active part in the interest
of the measure These circulars re-
view the history O legislation for the
benefit of volunteer veteran officers
from the close of the Revolutionary
War to the adjournment of the Fifty
ninth Congress, and it Is charged thai
there has always been n systematic at
tempt to eliminate the naval volun
teers from the benefits of such laws
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-01-30
HE WAS A JUDGE OF TEA.
Thought He Had Got the Best
His Wife.

Thought He Had Got the Best
His Wife.
A certain suburban resident who is
somewhat Of gourmet discovered one
day that his wife was giving him tea
HI Is 4d to drink. Although he had
never made any complaints about the
quality of the tea, no sooner did he dis
cover the price than he detected all
sorts Of shortcomings In the article sup-
piled and when he went down to busI-
ness that morning he dropped into n
tea store and bought pound of orange
pekoe at 3s Cd, says Answers. This he
carried home In the night, and, taking
the opportunity of the kitchen being
empty, he hunted around till he found
the tea caddy, which was nearly full
Inc contents Of this he threw away and
replaced out Of his own package. 1t
had not been his intention to say any
thihg about the substitution, but next
morning he could not help referring to
Tie improved quality of the beverage.
This is something like tea this MORN
ing he said. Don't you notice the
difference?"
mo, l don't" said his wife. "It
tastes to me exactly like the tea ws.
have been drinking for the last month
and so 1t should, for it is the same tea >,
The husband laughed.
Ihats just like woman" he said
You never know what Is good and
what isn't unless we tell you. Now. |
could have told you with my eyes shut
that this tea is better than what wa.
have been drink lg"
III is ~ haven't been drink
Ing "l'n your eyes shut all along" re-
torted the lady. Anyway, it is the
same tea"
NOW, I'll just prove to you," said
her husband, how defective woman,s
sense of taste is Yesterday I bought
pound of 3s Cd tea, threw out what
was in the caddy, and put mine in its
place And to think that you never no
ticed the difference"
which caddy did you empty?"
One on the upper shelf of the pam
try was the reply.
thought So" said the lady, quietly.
Ihat was some special tea l keep for
special occasions. The caddy with the
cheap tea Is in the cupboard in the
kitchen, and this" she added. with an
eXasperating smile, as she lifted the
teapot, was made out of the selfsame
caddy as 1t has been every morning.
What a blessing it must be to Won to
possess such cultivated taste! have.
heard that tea tasters get very high sal.
aries. Now, don't you"
But he cut her remarks short by leav.
ing the room.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-01-30
Fate.

Two shall be born the whole wide world
apart;
And speak In different tongues, and have
no thought
Each Of the others being, and no heed;
And these DER unknown seas to unknown
lands
Shall cross, escaping wreck, defying
death,
And all unconsciously shape every act
And bend each wandering step to this one
end
That. one day, out of darkness, they shall
meet
And read life's meaning in each others
eyes.
And two shall walk some narrow way Of
life
So nearly side by side, that should one
Ever so little space to left or right
They needs must stand acknowledged
face to face.
And yet, with wistful eyes that never
meet,
With cropping hands that never clasp, and
lips
Calling in vain to ears that never hear,
They seek each other all their weary
days
And die unsatisfed-a this is Fate
Susan Marr Spalding.
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They are slipping away-these sweet,
swift years,
Like a leaf on the current cast;
With never break in their rapid flow,
We watch them as one by one they go
Into the beautiful past.
As silent and swift as the weaver's thread,
Or an arrows flying gleam,
AS soft as the dangerous breeZes hid,
That lift the willows golden lid,
And ripple the CLASSY stream.
AS light as the breath of the thistle
down,
As fond as lovers dream,
As pure as the flush of the sea shells
throat,
As sweet as the wood birds wooing note,
So tender and sweet they seem.
One after another we see them pass
Down the dim-lighted stair;
We hear the sound of their steady tread
In the steps Of centuries long since dead,
AS beautiful and as fair.
There are only few years left to live,
Shall we waste them in idle strife?
Shall we trample under our ruthless feet
Those beautiful blossoms. fair and sweet,
BY the dusty ways of life?
There are only few swift years-ah let
No envious taunts be heard;
Make life's fair pattern of rare design,
And fill up the measure with loves sweet
wine,
But never an angry word.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-01-30
MUD TAKES UP THE OXYGEN.

Air In Cold Storage Plant Too Poor
to Support Combustion.
1t was recently noticed in a cold stOr-
age plant that candles or lamps began
to burn with a feeble flame as soon as
they were brought into the room and
that in many parts Of it they were ex-
tingushed. A match could be lit, but
the wax would not ignite.
In the corner of the storeroOm was a
disused well from which gas issued
and 1t was at first supposed that car
bon dioxide was being distributed into
the air from this well.
But this was not borne out by analy-
sis Of the air in the room and from
the well, for the amount Of carbon
dioxide was only slightly more than is
present in normal air and was quite
insufficient to have affected the COM
bustion of a candle.
Samples of the air taken from differ
ent parts of the room contained only
17.5 to 17.7 per cent Of oxygen, or from
80 to 3.4 per cent less than Is present
In normal air. The oxygen in the air
in the shaft of the well amounted to
no more than S.6 and SO per cent and
other experiments confirmed the con-
cluslon that the air in the storeroom
was ordinary air containing less than
Its proper proportion Of oxygen, owing
to admixture Of air deprived of its
oxygen which issued from the we'll.
The source of the impoverished air
from the well was finally traced to
tunnellng operations close by in which
compressed air was being used. The
air must have found its way through
the soil wherever 1t was sufficiently por-
Gus and so into the shaft Of the well
and on its passage through the soil
must have been deprived of part of its
oxygen by contact with some substance
such as pyrltes.
Evidence in support Of the correctness
Of this conclusion was furnished by the
analysis Of the mud from another well
shaft near the first This mud was
found to contain pyrites and air left
in contact with it for some weeks was
deprived of almost the whole of its
oxygen.
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Vindicated mt Last.

An upstate correspondent has found
in an old scrap book a bit of verse that
bears out the theory advanced by Con-
gresham Roberts of Utah, that Adam
was the most chivalrous Of all men
and only ate the forbidden fruit he
cause he would not be separated from
Eve. Seeing this mentioned In LAST
Tuesdays Nosegay column he sent on
copy Of the verse. 1t reads:
Daughters of Eve, your mother did not
well.
She placed the apple in your fathers
hand
Adam was not deceived, nor yet could
stand;
For love of her he gave his throne.
With her could die, but could not live
alone.
Philadelphia Record.
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The London (Canada) Labor party
sions.
A majority of the musicians of Santa
Cruz, Cal, met recently and organized q
union.
Organized labor in Seattle, WASH, has
carried out its proposed plan of obtaining
a coal mine.
Springfield (Canada) miners ask for
another board of conciliation to investi,
gate the system of weighing boxes.
The building trades of San Francisco
are discussing a proposition to settle on o
scale Of wages for three years.
The Central Labor Union of Scranton,
Pa. has decided to build a $4,000 TEN.
pie for the use of tho trades unions of the
city.
The union men Of Wilkes Barre, Pa,
have started movement to boycott the
beef packers as long as prices remain al
the present high rate.
The Federation Of Labor at Springfield
NO., has decided to enter politics next
year, and will put forward its president
as candidate for the General Assembly,
The Carpenters Union of Winnipeg,
Manitoba, has three members who have
been continuous members Of the organiza.
tion for more than thlrty-slx years. Their
years Of membership total about 11C
years. The union believes this sets rec
ord
At meeting Of Engineers local No. ]
of Denver. Colo. the finance committe,
reported that increased wages to the mem,
bers of the unlon during the last year
amounted in the aggregate to $1,000. II
was reported that conditions in this trad,
ar, very prosperous.
| The total number Of men killed while
mining coal In the United States durins
1906, according to statistics gathered by
the geological survey, was 2,061. The
number of workmen receiving injuries Ia
this industry more or less serious. but not
fatal, was 4,IoS during the same period.
Miss Marot, secretary Of the Woman,
Trade Union League of New York, q
short time since delivered sn address II
which she urged women to organise In er
cry branch OF industry and cooperate In
union agitation, holding that in that war
only can women compete on equal tern
viii men In the trades
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-01-30
TO SEE THE MAN AT THE TOP.
Make Sure Your Calling Card VIII
Impress His Secretary.

Make Sure Your Calling Card VIII
Impress His Secretary.
"Did you see that man who Just
went out asked the secretary of one
Of the large corporations in New York
of visitor. He has wise head on his
shoulders.
"You know one of the hardest things
a man Is up against is to get in to see
the man at the top. The ability to talk
we'll Is all right In It's place, but you
must get inside the Office before 1t Is
of any use.
Nowadays when a man wants to see
the president of large business house
he seldom sees even the secretary.
"IIs card is sent in by an office boy
Now, the SECRETARY does not know what
from Is the card.
Usually the card tells the whole
story. Most of them are cheap affairs.
Mr.. Smith, with Browne Green Paint
Company or something like that. The
chances are the secretary does not feel
In the mood to see a paint man and
passes out word to call again later
"But that chap who just went out Is
different He sent in plain calling
card Of the proper size, engraved In
old English script. 1t was the best
that money could buy.
when 1 got the card I had never
heard the name before, but l did not
dare turn him down. sent for him
and then 1t was all his.
"He started flow of fine English
and In a short time l had him in the
presidents room. He Is pretty sure Of
landing a big order, l believe. 1t Is
an investment of few dollars, but 1
tell you 1t pays high interest. New
York Sun.
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But never an angry word.
"T" and "P."

These are the letters used by one
of Gods handmaidens to record her
experience with His promises, ''1" and
"P."
All intelligent Christians should base
their petitions on some definite promise
of Gods Word, and plead His gracious
obligation to hear. This woman did 80.
She brought her desires to the Lord,
making mention Of some particular pas
sage of Scripture which warranted her
In making the request She poured out
her heart in humble and believing pc
tition, and left 1t with Him, making in
the margin alongside the promise the
letter "T" BY this she meant tried"
She was putting that promise to be-
lieving test.
When God answered the desire of
her heart, she added to the marginal
record "and p" BY this she meant
land proved" This simple and beautl-
full treatment of Gods Word Is full of
suggestion to us.
1t will awaken desire to know more
of the promises; and when a Christian
has not only prayed in the right spirit,
but has watched for and found the an
swer, and thus proved the efficacy of
his prayer, he will experience grow
ing desire to have more and more of
the Joy and power of "T' and "P."
Truly, God revealeth Himself unto ev-
cry generation.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-01-30

DR.. w. s. Sweet, missionary at Hang
show, China, leads class of young
men (natives) in mission study. When
his class was studying the subject of
missions In Mexico, they took up an
Offering for the Mexican work, which
amounted to $40. This money was sent
to DR.. Sloan In Mexico, and en- route
was In wreck somewhere, and the
letter containing the money was near
ly destroyed by fire. But there was
enough Of the letter to take 1t to its
destination with the money, and DIR.
Sloan, in acknowledging the receipt Of
the money, said that 1t was the first
money contributed toward the estab-
lishment OF a theological seminary In
Mexico.
Surely God had intervened to save
this Offering for the great purpose for
which 1t was made
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-01-30
A striking Monument,

Nowhere In the world can be found
more striking monument than that
erected ON the shores of Lake Issy.
kul. In central Asia, In honor of the
Russian General Prjevalski. a famous
explorer OF that region. The tomb is
followed out In the summit OF tut:
ting cliff ON the eastern margin OF the
lake, and the monument consists of an
enormous rough hewn block of gray
granite, twenty-five feet high. over
which Is thrown a chart OF central
Asia.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-01-30

No life is wasted that bears Its part !:
and what that part shall be Providence
sometimes decides, not we. We cannot
always select the tasks we would per-
form, the service we would render. The
world. indeed, wants of most of us our
special work. Possibly. poor sufferer.
1t has need OF your patient enduring.
Possibly the example of your waiting
and trusting is the very service your
fellows need most to have rendered
them. 1t takes all parts In music to
make perfect harmony; and your
strain. low and pathetic minor though
It be, cannot be spared from it. There
is the light behind your cloud, and
You may see 1t II you will look to-
ward It Your patient enduring, the
world has need OF and God asks 1t OF
you. In the coming good. depend upon
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-01-30

o saw ye not fair Ines? She's gone into
the west,
To dazzle when the sun is down, and rob
the world of rest
She took our daylight with her, the smiles
that we love best,
With morning blushing on her cheeks,
and pearls upon her breast.
o turn again, fair Ines, before the fall OF
night,
For fear the moon should shine alone,
and stars unrivaled bright;
And blessed will the love be that walks
beneath their light,
And breathes the love against thy cheek
l dare not even write
Would / had been, fair Ines, that gallant
cavalier
Who rode SO gayly by thy side and whis-
pered thee so near!
Were there no bonny danes at home, or
no true lovers here,
That he should cross the seas and win
the dearest of the dear?
saw thee, lovely Ines, descend along the
shore,
With bands Of noble gentlemen, and ban
ners waved before;
And gentle youth and maidens gay, and
snowy plumes they wore;
1t would have been a beauteous dream IL
1t had been no more
Alas alas! fair Ines she went away
with song,
With music waiting on her steps, and
shoutings of the throng;
But some were sad, and felt no mirth,
but only Music's wrong,
In sounds that sang Farewell Farewell
to her you've loved so long.
Farewell, farewell, fair Ines that vessel
never bore
So fair lady on its deck nor danced so
light before
Alas for pleasure on the sea, and sorrow
on the shore
The smile that blest one lovers heart
has broken many more.
Thomas Hood.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-01-30
No Regular Pay

"He tells me he's professional ac-
tor now."
mot exactly. He's merely a semi
professional
"what do you mean by that"
"well. professional is one who Is
paid for his services; he's only half
paid."-Phlladelphia Press
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Fecding the Hungry.

AN! Miss Stout-vera"- Mr..
Lovett, ''can You not see the hunger In
any eyes2 Can you not"
"Oh, of c,urse," exclaimed Miss Vera
Stout. self-reproachfully, show awfully
thoughtless OF me. Just walt and III
get you nice dish of kraut and pork"
Philadelphia Press
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WESToN'S GREAT WALK.

HKeU FtuebtrIhn Who Tramped from
Portland, Me-, to Chicago.
Remarkable indeed was the endur-
ance shown by Edward Payson Wes-
ton, the aged athlete who at SO repeat
ed his feat of forty years ago in walk
Ing from Portland, Me-, to Chicago. He
tramped the 1924 miles in "a days, 10
hours and 10 minutes, breaking his for
mer record by "a hours.
His longest days walk on the recent
trip was 95 $40 miles, while on the
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-01-30
Record.

When man is called to the tele.
phone by a woman the conversation
from his end of the line indicates that
he is trying to bring 1t to a goodbye
and break-away.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-01-30

The finest thing In the world is a
comfortable home. Why not devote
more attention to comfortable home
and less to billiards. and beer. and
ciubsf
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-01-30

One winter day a gentleman, riding
on horseback along a Kentucky road,
met an old colored slave plodding on
through the deep snow toward the
house Of God, which was four miles
from his home.
"Why, uncle" cried the gentleman,
you ought not to venture out such a
distance on such a day. Why in the
world don't you stay at homer"
"Ah, massa," was the answer, 81
darn't do dat; cause you see, dunno
when de blessing gwine to come; an
spose it 'ud come this snowy mornin,
and l away! Oh, no, da 'ud nebber
do"
Would Gods service ever be dishon-
ored by empty houses Of worship were
all Christians possessed Of such faith?
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II, you shall have your place; for, as
much as the bravest and the strongest,
you will have done your part to bring
it.-Rev. A. w. Jackson.
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Lovers In the story books always
have strong arms, although their ac-
tions frequently indicate weakness
In the head.
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Some men hate bull dogs so they
would censure one for chewing an
agent
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"a Little Child Shall Lead Them.

Attracted by the children's singing,
a man came into a mission Sunday
school room and remained till the close
Of the session. He came again to the
evening prayer meeting and found
Christ. He said to one of the work
ers, Il feel that l am a saved man,
and l owe 1t to your children's sing
ing this afternoon:
Jesus loves me- this / know,
For the Bible tells me So
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