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St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1910-04-15

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St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1910-04-15

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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-03-31
LEARNING A BUSINESS.

How Both Clerk and Merchant Can
Learn Every Day to Advance Trade.
The clerk who is entering store
has an opportunity to learn the bust
ness before he assumes the RESPONSE
bilities II is a chance that many
merchant may well envy him Many
merchants had no opportunity to
learn save in the hard and GRIPPING
classes of experience
And yet the case is not hopeless for
the merchant himself He has a
chance TO learn a great deal every
day. In spite Of the fact that his time
is pretty well absorbed in the details
of his work day ,by day. he can gather
knowledge each twenty four hours.
acquire information and become a bet
ter merchant all the time.
good many do not do it. however
They look upon business much aS the
high school graduate does. The sea
son of study is over. aud now the har
vest is to be reaped II may be a
good harvest or il may be a pretty
poor one, but the time for learning is
past.
The graduate may learn that the
time of learning never passes away,
and so may the merchant. That time
is always present. There are mer-
chants today who plug along. doing
pretty well. who are woefully ig-
nOrant of some of the rudiments OF
store economy. II is not too late for
them TO acquire these. and shame
should never hold them back 1t is
not a matter OF shame to be ignorant,
but 1t is TO remain ignorant. and the
critical moment will arrive some time
when ii will be uncovered. Oregon
Tradesman.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-03-31
BYRON AND THE BALLOON.
How the Poet In 1922 Predicted the
Airship Of Today.

Those who have read the fiction of
Edgar Allan Poe will recall his won
derful story of the balloon with pro-
polling rudder. which. crossing the At
lantic from Europe in three days. land
ed on the coast of South Carolina.
This story was published in 1888 pre-
ceding the flight of Bleriot from Calais
to Dover more than seventy years.
And now it is remarked that as early
as 1922, sixteen years before Poe, By
ron foretoId the motor.
1t was in 1922 that Byron lived at
Pisa. Italy, where he had rented for
year the Lanfranchie palace. and it
was there that he entertained a Cap
tain Medwin. who on his return TO
London published his Conversations
With Lord Byron" One of these con
versations is to this effect:
who can but regret" said Byron.
that he has been born two or three
hundred years too soon. Here is let
ter from savant of Bologna who
claims to have discovered the secret
of guiding balloons by means of
rudder and who assures me that he is
ready to disclose this secret to the gov
ernment. | imagine that We are soon
to make journeys through the air in
stead of sea voyages. at last to find
way to 30 to the moon despite the lack
of atmosphere that FOntauelle has dis
covered there There is not as much
madness in this idea as one may sup
pose The sciences are now in their
infancy"
Medwin left Pisa in March. 1922
| 1t was near the close of that year that
Byron published the latter parts Of
his Don Juan" in which the poet
shows that he had been inspired by
the discovery Of the Bologna Savant
See the second stanza of the tenth
cante:
Man fell with apples and with apples rose.
! If this be true. for we must deem the
mode
In which Sir Isaac Newton could disclose
| Through the then unpaved stars the
turnpike road.
A thing to counterbalance human woes.
For ever since immortal man hath
! glowed
| With all kinds of mechanics, and full soon
/ Steam engines will conduct him 10 the
moon.
Byron's Don Juan" was translated
| into French by Amedee PichOt in $50:
! but, daring as was that translator. he
| did not venture to put Don Juan"
into rhyme. and today the foregoing
stanZa done in French prose is sup
! posed to be a prediction of aviation by
motor. though Byron's suggestion goes
no further than steam.-London Globe
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-03-31
MODEL VILLAGE FOR OHIO.
Millionaire Coal Operator Plans to
Make Hudson the Town Beautiful"

Millionaire Coal Operator Plans to
Make Hudson the Town Beautiful"
James W. Ellsworth. the New York
multimilliOnaire coal operator. is en-
deavOring to make his native town.
hudson. in the northern part of Ohio.
the ideal town of the United States
in other words. the town beautiful,
Mr. Ellsworth has 300 acres of fine
land on the fringe of the town and on
these acres Il home that might be
termed a castle. But perhaps the care
he has had taken of his own estate
does not reach the height of concern
he has displayed for the village itself.
for he is TO expend thousands of dol
lars on improvements there
The first move TO have an Ideal
town" that Mr. Ellsworth made was
at a village he established in Penn
sylvania and which was chriStened
Ellsworth Things did not 20 smooth
ly there. however. and his hope of es
tabishing home town" was frus-
trated by circumstances. II was then
lie turned HIS dlieullOD 10 the lItlie
spot in which he was born His first
move there was to put up to the au-
thOrities proposition TO have all sa-
looms eliminated and to have the tele
phone wires placed underground. The
scheme TO have the saloons closed
passed. and Mr. Ellsworth promised
that he would spend his own money
on impr0vementS-to perfect the wa
ter supply. the transportation system
etc
Mr. Ellsworth has already given
Hudson 100000 for improvements
He has spent $4,000 for a mems and
women's clubhouse, where every com
fort practically that may be obtained
in club in a large city may he had
These amounts may seem small ac-
cording TO the donations recorded to-
day. but they look large when ii is
known that Hudson has little more
than 1000 Inhabitants
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-03-31
AN UNFINISHED STORY
A Queer Dream melted by
Thoughts of Mans Inhumanity.
BY o. HEN RY.

copyright. 1906. by Mcclure. Phillips &
Co
We no longer grOan and heap ashes
upon our heads when the flames of
Tophet are mentioned, for even the
preachers have begun to tell us that
God is radium or ether or some scien-
tific compound and that the worst we
wicked ones may expect is a chemical
reaction. This is a pleasing hypoth-
esis. but there fingers yet some of the
old, goodly terror of orthodoxy.
There are but two subjects upon
which one may discourse with free
imagination and without the POSSIBLE
ity of being cOntroverted. You may
talk of your dreams. and you. may tell
what you heard parrot say. Both
Morpheus and the bird are incOm
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-03-31

bed. It's an awful thing to go to bed
with a good night look at General
Kitchener, William Mudoou. the
Duchess of Marlborough and Benve-
nuto Cellini.
This story doesn't really get any
where at all. The rest of it comes
later some time when Piggy asks Dull
Gle again to dine with him. and she is
feeling lOnelier than usual. and Gen
eral Kitchener happens to be looking
the other way, and then
AS | said before | dreamed that
was standing near a crowd OF pros
porous looking angels and Il policeman
took me bv the wing and asked If 1
belonged with them.
who are they?" | asked
why" said he, they are the men
who hired working girls and paid 'em
five or six dollars a week to live on.
Are you one of the bunch?"
Not on your Immortality" said 1.
"Tm only the fellow that set fire to
an orphan asylum and murdered
blind man for his pennies"
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petent witnesses. and your listener
dare not attack your recital. The
baseleSs fabric Of "A vision. then, shall
furnish my theme, chosen with apollo
gies and regrets instead of the more
limited field Of pretty Polly's small
talk.
| had a dream that was so far re-
moved from the higher criticism that
it had to do with the ancient. respect
able and lamented bar of Judgment
theory.
Gabriel had played his trump, and
those Of us who could not follow suit
were arraiguod for examination.
noticed at one side a gathering Of pro-
fessional bondsmen in solemn black
and collars that buttoned behind, but
it seemed there was some trouble
about their real estate titles. and they
did not appear to be getting any Of us
out
y fly cop-an angel policeman-few
over to me and took me by the left
wing Near at hand was a group Of
very prosperous looking spirits ar
raigned for judgment.
DO you belong with that bunch
the policeman asked.
"Who are they" was my answer.
why" said he, they are
But this irrelevant stuff is taking
up space that the story should occupy.
Dulcie worked in department store.
She sold Hamburg edging, or stuffed
peppers or automobiles, or other little
trinkets such as they keep in depart
ment stores OF what she earned
Dulcie received So per week The re
mainder was credited to her and deb
tied to somebody else's account in the
ledger kept by G.
oh, primal energy, you say, rever-
end doctor Well, then, in the ledger
Of primal energy.
During her first year in the store
Dulcie was paid s. per week. 1t would
be instructive to know how she lived
on that amount. Don't care? Very
we'll Probably you are interested in
larger amounts. Six dollars is a larger
amount will tell you how she lived
on Sc per week.
One afternoon at 6. when Dulcie was
sticking her hatpin within an eighth
of an inch of her medulla oblongata.
she said to her chum, Sadie - the
girl that waits on you with her left
side:
Say, Sadie, | made a date for din
ner this evening with Piggy"
you never didr' exclaimed Sadie
admiringly. well, amt you the lucky
one? Piggy's an awful swell and he
always takes a girl to swell places.
He took Blanche up to the Hoffman
House one evening, where they have
swell music and you see Il lot of
swells. You'll have a swell time,
Dulce."
Dulcie hurried homeward. Her eyes
were shining, and her cheeks showed
the delicate pink of life's-real life's-
approaching dawn. 1t was Friday.
and she had 80 cents left Of her last
weeks wages.
The streets were filed with the rush
hour floods of people. The electric
lights of Broadway were glowing, call
ing moths from miles, from leagues
from hundreds of leagues out of dark
ness around to come in and attend the
smuggling school. Men in accurate
clothes, with faces like those carved
on cherry stones by the Old salts in
sailors homes. turned and stared at
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-03-31

Somebody knocked at the door. Dull
Gle opened it. The landlady stood
there with a spurious smile. shifting
for cooking by stolen gas.
"A gentleman's downstairs to see
you" she said. Name is Mr.. Wig
gins
By such epithet was Piggy known
to unfortunate ones who had to take
him seriously.
Dulcie turned to the dresser to get
her handkerchief, and then she stop
ped still and bit her underip hard.
While looking in her mirror she had
seen fairyland and herself a princess
just awakening from a long slumber.
She had forgotten one that was watch
ing her with sad. beautiful, stern eyes
the only one there was to approve or
condemn what she did.
Straight and slender and tall, with
a look of sorrOwful reproach on his
handsome, melancholy face, General
Kitchener fixed his wonderful eyes on
her out of his gilt photograph frame
on the dresser
Dulcie turned like an automatic doll
to the landlady.
Tell him | can't CO. she said duly.
Tell him I'm sick or something. Tell
him I'm not going out"
After the door was closed and locked
Dulcie fell upon her bed crushing her
black tip, and cried for ten minutes.
He was Dulcie's ideal of a gallant
knight. He looked as if he might have
a secret sorrow. and his wonderful
mustache was a dream, and she was
a lit.le afraid of that stern yet tender
look in his eyes. She used to have
little fancies that he would call at the
house some time and ask for her with
his sword clanking against his high
boots.
Once when Il boy was rafting piece
Of chain against lamppost she had
opened the window and looked out.
But there was no use. She knew that
General Kitchener was away over in
Japan leading his army against the
savage Turks and he would never
step out Of his gilt frame for her.
Yet one look from him had van
quished Piggy that uight-yes, for that
night
When her cry was over Dulcie got
up and took off her best dress and
put on her old blue kimono She want
ed no dinner She sang two verses of
Sammy" Then she became intense
ly interested in little red speck on
the side of her nose. And after that
was attended to she drew up a chair
to the rickety table and told her for
tune with an old deck Of cards.
The horrid, impudent thing!" she
said aloud. And never gave him Il
word or look TO make him think
it,
At o'clock Dulcie took a tin box
of crackers and little pot % rasp-
berry jam out of her trunk and had
feast.
She offered General Kitchener some
jam on cracker. but he looked at her
only as the sphinx would have looked
at a buttertiy-if there are butterflies
in the desert.
Don't eat it if you don't want to-"
said Dulcie. And don't put on 50
many airs and scold SO with your
eyes. wonder if you'd be so superior
and SIMPLY if you had to live on So
week.
1t was not good sign for Dulcie
TO be rude to General Kitchener. And
then she turned Benvenuto Celini face
downward with a severe gesture. But
that was not ineXcusable. for she had
always thought he was Henry Will.
and she did not approve of him.
At half past Q Dulcie took a last
look at the pictures on the dresser.
turned out the light and skipped to
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-03-31

In the hustle
And the hustle
or this age OF push and grit
He whose yearnlng
Is for earning
The proud title known as 1T"
Should get wise that
It's prize that
Must be sought by night and day,
For its habit,
Like the rabbit.
Is to cut and scud away.
II you want it
You must hunt II,
Hit the trail and keep the pace.
II YOU win 1t
Not a minute
Must be wasted from the race
Keep 1t busy;
Make II dizzy
With the swiftness OF the hike
II Is very
Necessary
That your footprints burn the pike
In the movement
OF Improvement,
With the many as the one,
By pursuing
And by doing
To success the race is run.
Man or nation
To progression
Finds in work the royal road
And the lever
OF endeaVor
Is the one That moves the load.
Work the source is
OF the forces
That upbuild and elevate,
The improving
Springs now moving
In the city and the state.
Civic duty.
Civic beauty.
Write in history their page.
And the story
Is the glory
OF the nation and the age.
JAMES A.. EDGERTON.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-03-31

Nicaragua. wedged in between Hon
duras and Costa Rica, is triangular in
shape, its base of some $50 miles rest
ing on the Caribbean sea. Its area is
about $4,000 square miles and its pop
ulation somewhat less than a million
mostly Indians. mestiZos negroes and
mulattoes. The whites of pure blood
constitute but small part Of the peo
pie. The main products of the country
are rice, cocoa, coffee. Indian corn and
hides. Like most of the South Ameri-
can countries. Nicaragua is noted for
its military "pronunciamentos." popu-
lar revolts, revolutions, etc. by which
the land is almost constantly troubled
to the verge Of ruin.-New York Amer
lean.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-03-31
JeWeled Monsters.

In the upper cretaceous deposits at
White cliffs. New South Wales, two
skeletons of plesiosaurian reptiles
have been found, both of which were
completely opalized, like the tree
trunks found in Arizona and other
western localities. In the first exam
pie of these jeweled monsters that
and striking. The second was less
brilliant of hue, and precious opal oc-
CURED only here and there on the
specimen, especially in the transverse
process of the neck. The plesiosaurs
are an extinct race Of very long neck
ed creatures which swan in ancient
seas.-Harper's Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-03-31
The ALLEY Beautiful"

After carrying out all the usual
beautiful" movements. even TO the
back yards. some OF the citizens of
Oak Park. a suburb OF Chicago, have
evidently made the last necessary step
in inaugurating an ALLEY beautitul'
crusade The first alley chosen for
improvement was named Cottonwood
lane. and it was quickly transformed
into beautiful lane and as clean and
orderly as any street With such pro-
gressive citizens as those of Oak Park
even a desert would soon become a
desirable place for intelligent home
seekers
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-03-31
What Eskimos Think of White Men.

What Eskimos Think of White Men.
The EskimOs opinion of white men
is sometimes as uncomplimentary as
the white mems opinion of them.
Vilhjalmr Stefansson, who was the
ethnologist in company with the re
cent Anglo-American polar expedition.
writes in Harper's Magazine of his
experiences in the arctic while living
with Eskimo families. and he reports
with Eskimo as saying that white men
are as bad to travel with as babies.
Indeed, they go further and say that
white men are worse than babies, be
cause though babies cry they don't
argue. and white men are always "giv-
ing directions about things they don't
understand"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-03-31

DulCle SlOppeu III Il sure where
goods were cheap and bought an imi-
tation lace collar with her 80 cents
That money was to have been spent
otherwiSe-15 cents for supper, 10
cents for breakfast, 10 cents for lunch.
Another dime was to be added to her
small store of savings. and cents
was to be squandered for licorice drops
the kind that made your cheek look
like the toothache and last as long.
The licorice was an eXtravagance-in
most a carouse-but what is life with
out pleasures?
Dulcie lived in a furnished room.
There is this difference between a fur
nished room and a boarding house
in a furnished room other people do
not know it when you 90 hungry.
Dulcie went up to her room-the
third floor back in a west side brown
stone front. She lit the gas. Scien-
fists tell us that the diamond is the
hardest substance known. Their mis-
take. Landadies know of a compound
beside which the diamond is as putty.
They pack it in the tips of gas burn
ers, and one may stand on Il chair and
dig at it in vain until ones fingers are
pink and bruised a hairpin will not
remove it; therefore let us call it i'm
movable.
So Dulcie lit the gas In its one
fourth candle power glow we will OBJ
serve the room.
Couch bed. dresser. table. waShStanQ.
CHARIOT this much the laulIady was
guilty Tie rest was Dllcie'S
On the dresser were her treasures
a gilt china vase presented 10 her by
Sadie. calendar ISSUED by pickle
works. u book on the liviuation of
dreams. some rice powder in a glass
dish and a cluster of artificial cherries
tied with pink ribbon.
Against the wrinkly mirror stood
pictures Of General Kitch .ner William
! MulGoou. the Duchess Of Marlborough
and Benyeuuto Ceilini. Against one
wall was "A plaster of paris plaque of
an O'Callnhan in Roman helmet.
Near it was violent oleograph of a
lemon coored child assauiting an in
ldlllIIldIGiN bulItIUN. Inns was ItUl-
cie's final Judgment in art. but it had
never been upset. Her rest had never
| been disturbed bv WHISPERS of stolen
copes: no critic had elevated his eye
| brows at her fnfalitile entomulocist.
Piggy was to call for her ut :. While
| she swiftly makes ready let US dis
| creetly face the other way and Cos
/ SIP.
For the room Dulcie paid So per
week. On week days her breakfast
4 costs 10 cents She made coffee and
cooked an egg over the gaslight while
/ she was dressing. ON Sunday morn
/ ings she Toasted royally on veal chops
and pineapple fritterS mt "Rilly's" res
tauraut nj a cost of - cents and tip
! ped the waitress 10 cents. New York
presents 50 many temptations for one
to run into extravaganza.
/ She had her lunches i'm the dap1rt-
meut store restaurant ar cost of gu
/ cents for tha week Dinners wore
81 IA The evening u,rars-Show mo
Neyy YorJ.ar goiro without his daily
uaner,-came to Il cents ana two SIM
dav noners oue for tho r.rsouaI col
umn and the other to read wore IN
cents The total amounts to 81 7G
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-18

The chief would tell how he came to
be policeman, and again, feeling that
he had sufficiently ingratiated himself
in the prisoners confidence, he would
continue until the mans very soul was
unwrapped from his body and lay ex-
posed as plainly as II he had pleaded
guilty on the witness stand.
Hours would pass before the skilIful
and plodding chief would approach the
day and hour of the mans life he was
most anxious to fathom. Not an epi
sode from the mans earliest recollec
ton escaped the chiefs memory. On
and on, until the friendliness of the
surgeon and the patient became infec-
tious. and the story was wormed out
of the prisoner, in all of its grewsome,
unhealthy sordidness.
When the prisoner eventually an
preached that part of the story which
was most essential. the chief would
sit upright, his glasses tilted as usual
half way on his nose. He would egg
the man on. gently If cruelty, keeping
the prisoner and his mind concentrated
on some particular epoch In his life
that the chief would probe to its quick
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-18

never brutality. never threat in any
third degree performance wherein I
played the shadow" role to the great
chief.
Lees characteristic in his handling Of
a prisoner was first to make him feel
he was an equal in every way. He
never browbeat man or swore at him.
He did browbeat me innumerable times
and at first I resented it, but when I
got to know him better and to admire
and love him. 1 enjoyed 1t.
Friendliness and confidence of the
man at bay were the first requisites to
be arrived at. The chiefs system. so
strictly original, rarely failed of the
desired effect.
Courteous. yes. even polite to fault.
a man from whom he wanted some
thing tangible to work on, and when
the feeling of absolute confidence be-
tween the chief and the prisoner had
been reached, when they were on posi-
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tive terms OF social intimacy. II was
then the old detective would smilingly
change his tactics and carefully, dex-
terously solicit such information as
would eventually bring forth the par
ticular clew or veritable evidence he
was most desirous of procuring. The
guilty prisoner as a rule would be-
come so confidential and so friendly as
to make statements and confessions
from which there was no possibility OF
escape
When it was all over and the chief
had shaken hands with the poor wretch
and had him returned to his cell he
would look at me through his half
closed eyes. his big eye glasses tilted
half way on his nose, no matter how
late at night or how early In the morn
ing. sometimes after a hard twenty
four hours OF constant grinding. and
would say: Come on downtown, Billy,
we'll have to get our Welsh rarebit."