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St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1910-07-08
DON'T TURN BACK.


How many poor youths on farms,
In stores. In workshops or factories
have held their minds peFsistently
toward the object OF their ambition
when there did not seem 10 be the
slightest possibility OF ever realizing
their dreams; and yet the way has
opened 10 the young art dreamer, the
music dreamer. 10 study with the
great masters abroad. when such a
thing seemed 10 be out OF all keeping
with their poverty and impossible 10
their condition, says Orlson Swett
MaFden In Success Magazine,
There is a great difference between
the chances OF the young man who
starts out with a thorough understand
ing with himself that he is going 10
make a success OF his life. with grim
resolution 10 win al all hazards, and
the youth who sets out with no par
tieular aim or ambition. backed by
no firm determination that he will
make good, no matter how long u
takes OF how hard the fight. IL is pitt
full 10 see so many young drifters in
our stores and Offices and factories;
young people who would like 10 get
on, but who have never set their faces
like flint toward a single unwayering
aim and burnt all their bridges be-
hind them so that they should not be
tempted TO lurn back.
There is all the difference In the
world between the prospects OF the
man who has committed himself 10
his life purpose without reservation,
who has burned all bridges behind
him and has taken a sacred oath 10
do the thing he has undertaken, 10
see his proposition through to the end
no matter what sacrifices he must
make or how long II may take. and
the man who has only half resolved
who has not quite committed himself
who is afraid to cut on all possible
retreat In case Of defeat
There is a tremendous force In the
very act of com,litting ones self un-
reseryedly 10 his great life aim; a
propelling power in the very act OF
flinging ones being with all his might
into what he is doing. determined
never to turn back. that is well-nigh
irresistible.
Irresoluuon or unwilllngness TO
commit the whole of himself 10 his
aim is one of the great weaknesses
Of the American youth Of to-day.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1910-07-08
THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN.
what Has Been Accom- piished In
Norway and Germany.

NOrWhN anu UeEuthhgs
Women now have full suffrage in
Australia, Finland, Norway, New zea
land, Tasmania, Isle Of Man and, az
we all know, in the four American
States, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and
Idaho, writes leader In "the cause
Eighteen women. or thereabout, have
sat as members In two successive Fin
nish dlets.
They have municipal suffrage In III,
British Isles, Canada, Natal, s. A,
Kansas, Sweden, Iceland, and school OF
bond suffrage and other fragments OF
suffrage in about 30 other States and
countries.
Norway led all the rest in her splen
did conception of the value OF listen
ing to woman's voice In government
as we'll as mans. This was not uneo
pectsd. in the Land that produced Ibsen
and Bjornson.
At first glance Germany seems "a
lag behind in the woman movement
But this IL not so. Women have beer
making tremendous strides In Ger
many. We must always remember
that they have phlegmatic Germans "a
move.
In the last ten years one German
university after another has opened iti
doors 10 women, compelled by the Wig
orous activity OF German leaders OF
women. On August 10. 1908. the last
great university opened It's doors. The
names OF Henrietta Goldschmldt, Jean
ette Schwerin. Alice Solomon, Helen,
Lange. Anita Augsburg, Minna Causi
and Lily Braun are written In gold
among leaders OF German women
They and women like them cleared
the way to the learned professions
German women to-day freely practics
medicine. law and other vocations. In
Russia women have always been IN
tho fore OF revolutionary movements
and az soon as the government had
to face. In i9Ol.5. the possibility oi
popular representation, the question Of
political rights for women made itseli
urgent. The FIRST duma was on the
verge OF granting suffrage without
dlstlnction OF sex" when dissolved. A
monster petition for womAn's right "a
vote was sent 20 the second duma, but
Mat parliament was short lived. In
the third duma a law was introduced
giving women tho right 10 vote foi
the Ecmstvos. but chaotic conditions
prevented its passage.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1910-07-08
UNFAMILIAR FACTS.

The salary paid TO professors at the
University OF Cambridge averages only
S2.750
American manufacturer OF we'll
drilling machinery have a practical
monopoly OF the business throughout
the world,
A small James I. silver goblet. ca
inches high. and only 8 ounces 4 pen
nyweights In weight. realized filO In
London.
A good gameoock has no white In
It's plumage. and hence the synonym
for cowardice-''to show the white
feather"
Holland collects its famous herring
fishery with a fleet Of about 750 ships
perhaps fOFty,five OF them steam.
boats-and only 10000 men.
The etymology OF yeggman is uneer
tain. Some persons assert that the
term owes It's origin TO one John Yegg.
leader of a gang OF thieves
Germany has n universities: France
has l6. Austrla.Hungary n. Great Brit
ain. 10. Italy "a. Russia ., Spain 3,
Switzerland 7, Belgium 4. Sweden g.
Consul John e. Jones OF Winnipeg
says that fully 30 per cent OF all the
great business enterprises OF that see.
tlon OF Canada have American eapi
talists Interested In them.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1910-07-08
STARTED AT ZERO POINT.
Primary schoot Education Denied
women 100 Years Ago.

Primary school Education Denied
women 100 Years Ago.
Every step OF woman'a emergency
trom intellectual swaddling clothes has
been contested. In the time OF Mary
wolls,oneeraft Goodwin Il was In bad
taste 10 suggest that n primary school
education was suitable for woman. To
teach her anything at all was held by
he massos-and the women themselves
shared In the common bellef-io make
her bold. immodest. unfeninine. Al
aho needed 10 know was 10 keep nc.
counts and possess n few ladylike ie'
eompilshmenta. Grammar and spelling
were coaraening 10 a properly reared
female
Ono hundred years ago woman
started nj zero point In this country"
nm one writer expresses Il. She began
10 emerge from purely domestic sur
roundingn. impelled by the call TO par.
ticipate IN social movements. though
custom and her own sentiments were
agninat her" What did she firat At
tempt 10 doi Merely 10 got n primary
education.
Consider the antagoniam OF outraged
convention when women began 10 no
public figures. though small, The en'
,ering wedge was common school cd.
ueAtlon. Gradually the wedge waA
pushed IN further until higher eduea-
tion IN her own schools was permitted,
Then. In this country. participation IN
the State University work was allow
ed; then entrance into the professions.
Contrast what now prevails throughout
the world. az least that part OF tho
world which shares ideas In common
with us.
In the England that denied woman a
common school education 100 years
ago. full municipal suffrage prevails
Women vote for everything except
members OF Parliament. and that right
Is logically conceded by the fact OF the
possession OF full suffrage In every otn'
sr respect.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1910-07-08
1T WAS DIFFERENT LONG AGO.
Then boys Had All Outdoors md n
Great Mig Barn TO Play In.

Great Mig Barn to Piny In.
When we remember childhood's
nappy hour we think of all outdoors
to play in; or, If not exactly all out
doors, the next thing to TIA big back
yard with currant bushes in 1t and
flower beds and a regular garden with
rows OF sweet corn (alasl these had 10
be hoed at the most inopportune
times) and apple trees and Towering
currants and Japan ounce, and lots
Of grass, with dandelions, so that you
could make curls of the stems by split
ting them with your tongue, or dron'
ing noises by blowing on them, or you
could pun on the old gray.headed ones
to see II your mother wanted you. and
Carmichael's rooster growing "ooa-oo-a-
oo-ool" and Johnny Barker footing his
horn for his meat wagon, and your
mother with her head under the back
lid Of II, and the cat rubbing up
against her dress with that II do-love.
youi" way he had at such a time.
There we're mallows that you could
"p'tend" we're cheeses, and pieces OF
broken dishes to keep house with, and
the tops Of baking.powder cans for pie
tins for mudples, and the brass tops
OF old lamp burners, and discarded
caster, and glass knobs from old dress
ers up in the garret, and corncobs, and
oh, | don't know what all-lots OF
things to play with and lots Of room to
play in, says Eugene Wood in the De
lineator And great big-oh, a
whooplng big barn. the next size small
er than Madison Square Garden, with
old John in his stall "chomping" oats
(be careful not to pull his TALL he
doesn't like thaD, and old Molly chew.
ing her cud and rolling her eyes at you
| (she doesn't mean any harm when she
puts her head down that way. she
isn't "hooky" COW: she just wants
you TO scratch her forehead and under
her chin: she likes that. and up In
the haymow blllowy mountains OF hay
to Jump around on and make caves In.
and feed boxes, and barrels OF bran
and chop. and mice. and all kinds OF
hooks and corners. and harness rooms,
and n hamlet OF sheds about. toolsheds,
and buggy sheds, and corncribs, and
smokehouEes-just the place for sheep.
in.the.pen. think It's sheep.in.the-
pen Isn't that the game where you
say on;
one-ery. o-ery. ick-ery an
/ Fillissy. foliissy. Nicholas Jan.
! Queevy- -guavy. English Navy,
| Tinktum. atanktum, Johnny CO buck
one. two, three, out goes HEl
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1910-07-08
UNITED STATES SUPERIOR
standard OF LivinH Higher thaa is
European Countries.

standard OF LivinH Higher thaa In
European Countries.
Comparing statistics compiled In
European countries with those gather
I'd In our country Il IL evident that the
standard OF living In tho United States
Ia higher than in those lands aeroas
the soa.
Half the families OF this country
live In their own homes. No great
European nation approaches this pro
portion except France. A small part Of
northern Italy has peasant proprie
tors; ireland may have them under
tho land act. The tenementa Of New
York compare fayorably with Liver
POOLS or Berlin'a. with thair large per
centago OF one and two room homes.
Our savings bank deposits per In
hahitAnt are surpassed by those OF
Norway, Denmark and Switzerland,
but this tcat IL almost yalueleaa. says
the New York World. We have perhaps
one.tenth A. many pauporu In propor
ton ms Great Britain. In New York
public charity is a small item. In the
budget OF Berlin II is a big one. Where
paupera are plenty. living standards
are low.
Americans In the cities are better
dressed 10 the eye than people abroad.
though the tarif on woolena deprlyea
many of warm underolothing. Yet
Robert Blair. education ofreor for Ion
ion. says. "of the 100000 children In
london schools. approximately 10000
appear to be neoessitous IN the winter
season" There IL no such proportion
here. For education We spend much
more than other nations ns-whether with
better results than Germany or switz'
erland IL disputed,
Coming down 10 the most vital con
liberation dlet-we md that, because
Of the high price OF food, especially
meat. the diet OF the people has un'
ioubtodly been lowered Of late In dis
ease resisting and energy'produeins
value. However. We are better fed still
than European people.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1910-07-08
WHAT IS SPEED L|M|T2
Question Prompted by the May
New Methods Of Rapid Trans
portation
AIRSHIP AND OCEAN FLYER
May Cross Atlantic In Three Days
Monorail the Successor to the
esent Railroad.

Two questions seem to be the most
important problems of the age. They
are where is the speed limit2" and
'How fast is It possible to travel a
given dlstance?" !
When the first automobiles reached
such perfection that speed OF twen.
ty-five miles an hour was made with.
out injury to machines or drivers the
public gasped, the Baltimore Sun says
Yet little by little this record has been
changed, until recently Barney Old
field dashed around a mile course In
27 secords, the equivalent OF 131
miles an hour. And this remarkable
rate Of speed Barney coolly promises
60 exceed the next time he enters a
contest.
Already Il is possible to leave New
York on Monday morning and take
dinner on Friday In Liverpool. Naval
men experimenting with oil fuel pre-
diet that within six months or a year
the trip will be reduced from i've
days TO three. Small craft burning oil
fuel have plowed through the sea on
test runs at the rate OF nifty miles an
hour Aeroplanes are showing aston
ishlng rates OF speed Deriot's tri.
umph IN crossing the English Channel,
leaving far behind steamers which
left France at almost the same mo
ment, has shown the scientinc world
what Is possible and his record may
be broken at any time. The bird.liko
flights OF flying machines at recent ox'
hlbltions show clearly that these de-
vices will one day rival the highest
rate OF speed motion attained by We.
hicles on the earths surface. Il may
be that they will exceed them.
Tremendous speed means the saving
OF time. and this IL n timeaavlng era.
Time IL money. and every second
saved means dollars TO the hustling
business men OF this generation. This
probably Ia the real reason for the
eternal striving for faster methods OF
transportation.
In England there Ia In operation n
queer looking vehicle which. u Ia
claimed by the inventor, can be run
over n single rail with absolute aafcts
az tho Incredible speed OF 40 miles
an hour. Already the monorail ays'
tenn Ia talked Of as the most likely
successor 10 our present railroad meth
oda. and plans TO try out the English
inventors time-aaylng train here In
America are already under way. with
the monorail n success the trip from
New York 20 Philadelphia could be
accomplished In about twenty minutes
The Twentieth Century limited when
run from New York 10 Chicago In six
teen hours. would then be about as
modern as conestoga prairie
schooner" In the heart OF Broadway.
The one desire OF the civilized
world seems. In this generation. 10 be
20 ''ger there fFst" New inventions,
be they ever so hazardous. are snap
ped up with syidity by excitement
loving men who are ever willing 10
brave death In making the idea prae'
ticable.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1910-07-08
BIRD CHAT.

Why do Wild ducks fiy in n triangiei
The last great aux was killed in
1874
sparrows hate blue. why7 Who
proved ~
Beescan ny for short distances fast.
or than pigeons.
The French Congo has pigeon
postal service.
Ia the brown egg superior to the
white egg OF the hen?
Why does the hen eaekle after lay.
ing7
The average weight OF hens egg
is 2Is ounces.
A hen attains her best laying capae.
ity In her third year.
In an average lifetime n hen lays
from 300 TO 500 eggs
A healthy swallow Ia believed 10 dc.
YOUR 5000 iiea every day.
How high do birds ny9 This 10 au
unsettled problem In ornlthology.
Parrots are now being trained 10
talk by the aid OF the phonograph,
The Car OF Russia IL an oologiat,
and Is said to have a nne collection OF
birds eggs
The falcon has been known TO live
over i62 years. according 20 a Euro
pean naturalist.
over 100000 robins are annually
slaughtered every winter down In Lou
isiana. ShAmel
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1910-07-08
CAUSES OF SMOKE.
Case. Distilled from the coAi Not
Harmed in the Furnace.

Case. Distilled from the Coai Not
Harmed in the Furnace.
The direct cause OF smoke is the fact
that the gases distilled from the coal
are not completely burned In the fur
mace before coming in contact with the
surface OF the shell OF tubes, which
chills them below the ignition temper
atuTe. Now, says the Engineering
Magazine. these gases are the volatile
hydrocarbons which all bituminOus
Goals contain 10 a greater or less ex-
tent. and which are driven on when
che coal Is heated, The percentage OF
this volatile matter varies all the way
from per cent for the Eastern an
thraeite 20 as high as SO per cent for
the Western lignites, The larger per
centage OF volatile matter the greater
the liability 10 smoke production. other
things being equal. and the more diffi'
cult is smoke prevention. The behav'
ior OF these volatile gases during com
bustion is complex. There are good
reasons for supposing that hydToear'
bon at a sufficiently high temperature
is deeomposed into its elements. The
carbon particles are seemingly ayerse
10 combining with oxygen except under
favorable conditions. IL the temper
ature is too low or the air supply In
sufficient the carbon refuses to COM
bine and appears later as SCOT or
smoke. We must have suileient air at
a high temperature. The question re-
wolves about the point OF perfect com
bustlon.
We have successfully solved these
problems for oil. We started with
smoky torches. as the air could not gst
at the body OF the oil In the center
lhe wick We then used a fiat wick
that is, we gave the oil more surface
for the air 70 act on. We then used a
hollow cylindrical wick. air acting on
both sides The fnal step was the
center core OF argand lamp which first
heated the air for the wick supply,
But when we try TO force the lamp by
turning up the wick and thereby In
crease the oil consumption We get into
trouble Immediately, producing smoke.
We have exactly the same conditions
10 meet in the combustion of solid fuel.
In other words, If coal is to be burned
with maximum economy and without
smoke IL must be supplied with the
correct amount OF air at the proper
temperature.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1910-07-08
(lUffRSDoE1rS

on and coal are successfully burned
together under boilers In England.
About one.fourth OF the men In tho
navy at the present time have re.en'
listed.
A new electric desk lamp has the
filament stretched out In long line
TO distribute the light over greater
area.
Russia produces more hemp for ex'
port than all other countries; but
Italy. Austr,A'Hungary. Germany.
France. Belgium. Turkey. China and
Japan grow Il commercially for fibre,
A sort OF combination sun dial and
compass. the invention OF an English
man for ayiators. consists OF a celia
loid dial 20 be inserted In an overhead
plane. the shadow from the pin In the
center OF II indicating the course the
machine IL taking
Under the headline sold but Sweet"
a German agricultural paper publishes
description OF what he eaI-s the old
est fruit bearing grapevine In the new
world. The vine Is on farm In Roa'
noke island. North Carolina. "where Il
has fiouFished more than three hun
dred years, II was planted by one OF
the followers OF Sir Walter Raleigh In
1854. and the history OF the old vine
shows that II has borne fruit every
year"
THE child actress Is born, not
drilled From the time she sits up and
babbles baby phrases she lives in
mimic world. From the time she leaIns
10 walk. she dances. pirouettes and
minces her way along. Her make be-
lieye' world Is full OF thrilling happen
ings. and so when her talent finds an
outlet on the stage. acting Is no ef
fort. and she learns lines as the aver
age baby girl absorbs and memories
Mother Goose jingles. Francis vii
son In Golfers.
The Journal recently printed a dis
patch from Tim, o., In which II was
stated that a man eighty-four years OF
age reeited Paul Reyere's Ride"
which he had committed 10 memory
seyenty-siX years ago. Hon, ii. X.
Morell OF Gardiner suggests that pos
sibly the gentleman learned the poem
some years before Il was written. No
doubt OF IL, II he learned IL seventy.
six years ago, as L9ngfellow's first
book OF poems was published In 1899
-Kennebee Journal.
The blue grass region in Kentucky.
In the center Of which lies Lexington.
raises about twenty thousand acres
Of Cannabis satiya, from which hemp
Is procured. The acreage devoted TO
hemp in other parts OF the United
States is very small-perhaps six hun,
dred acres around Lincoln, Neb. and
an equal number In the lower Sacra-
mento valley in California. with small
experimental paintings in Indiana,
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. Michigan,
Minnesota. Iowa and Arkansas.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1910-07-08
oan.s. ana nlsas.. Synonymous.

Canada Is synonymous with bigness.
Il Is three times larger than the unite(
States. including Alaska; II would
make thirty Great Britains; Il Is equal
to one-thlrd the entire British empire
and almost the size Of an Europe,
writes Frederick I.ownhaupt, Out OF
an area OF nearly 100000 square miles
close TO 100000 are yet unexplored.
Il Is often said Of the United States
that with S5.OO0.000 population they
are still young, What shall be said OF
A country greater In extent with fewer
han 5000 900 inhabitants? Someone
has said that Canada begins with tho
twentieth century In the position the
United States were In at the beginning
Of the nineteenth" BY which Il Is
meant, OF course. In respect TO its mar
velous resources which have as yet
nardly been touched, Canada's adyan'
tage, however. IN the situation de-
scribed, lies In the fact that II stands
On the threshold OF a wonderful future
with all the experience OF the United
States to guide II.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1910-07-08
THE DAY OF THE POOR.
Never Before Have They Been Able
90 Procure so Much for so Little.

Never Before Have They Been Able
90 Procure SO Much for so Little.
Disciples of unrest would have the
sorld believe that this is the day Of
the rich; whereas. on the contrary,
never In the history of the United
States have the poor and those persons
OF restricted means been enabled to
procure so much for so little, writes
Edwin l.. Sabln In Lippincott's.
The rich may speed In their automo-
biles. but for fve cents the poor may
ride royalty from one side Of city
like Chicago to the other. or be car
ried miles into the country What au
Improvement over the days OF our
forefathers, when It was either own
your own private conveyance. or else
journey by foot or in the expensive
stage. The rich may seclude them
selves In spacious villas and country
places, but the country place Of the
poor is provided. absolutely free Of ex.
pense to them, in extensive parks
where grass, trees, fountains and mu-
sic. flowers and statuary, arc theirs to
enjoy M II created by their pocket
books.
For two cents letter may be sent
a distance which once would have de-
manded 25 cents. To the address OF
the poor az to the hall OF the rich the
carrier delivers the mall, and for the
farmer whose labor will not permit
him to go to town there ls the rural
service. For Ave cents the poor man
may talk over the telephone as far as
the rich man; and into the cottage as
into the mansion has been extended
the electric light. at a reasonable rate.
Grand opera comes high, to be sure;
but what does that matter when many,
many amusement gardens, as we'll as
the public parks, charge no admlttance
fee 10 their concerts7 The rich may
have their private libraries; but much
larger libraries, Of literature as choice
nd eholcer. are open In cities and even
in villages to the knock OF the com
mon people.
IL Ia not the day OF the rich; II is
the day OF the poor. wherein especial
attention Is being paid 70 the persons
not with much, but with little.