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VOL. I. UKIAH, CAL , AUGUST, 1904. NO. 4
THE DICE OF FATE.
A Bit of Vain Specuiation.
BY W T. FITCH.
l'K( ' I' 1. A T 1 ( ) -\ , lioth iiiu riiiltfr>.kiinll\ fiiriii-.lir<l tui' ji coii-
v^^^, ," . iiit'iital and fiiiaiRMal, sideration l)V the coal trust, and liglit-
^''^^Ty, t is a vt'i'v linnian trait, ed bv the inateli trust, ditto, srein to
Mental speculation, i.iviie our mental contidenfi's as thcv
the liuildinu of air did llio^c of Lizzie Hexani and her
W. eastles, isl>otli pleas- lirolhcr. who >a\\ -ui-h wondroii.^ foi--
^11^ ant and (dieap; provi- turn- '"in the hollow down 1)_\ the tiare."
(led yon use only w,. ii,,.,vl(.iv lornially iuvit.- you l«.
.vo'ii- spare time for t\.||()w oui' train of Ihoiiuht, foiirivinii
such feats of architecture: that the coal ^vhatcxci' you cannot overlook. It is a
and urocery hills arc i)aid: for the mind ,,,.,( tcr for <crious consideration, w hich
must he free from sordid cares, or. like w, ),, Id involve many. amL-haniie maler-
Micawher, hapj.ily sanunine of .^ome- jmIIn t he proent co>mo> should we see,
thinii "turning up" w hen needed, in j,, ,,i.„.,. ,,,- ^.,v, \Vm. Shakespeare, a
order to enjoy a restful moment. man of an oj. posit,- turn of ndn<i. Just
As to tinaiicial speculation, that is «'ari.v thi> matter «)iu to its lejritimate hetween you and your broker. We do conclusion, and see where it doesn't stop: not wish to intrude whereour welcome, .Just coiit» mplate for a moment tin- in any other role than that of a "hunh" possil)ilit ic- i hat won hi haveaone hence would, to say the least, be uncertain. had this sanu- William Shakespeare, or
It is behind the intreiu'hments of ,„ir '''"•• '^•"•"" ' ^•''^^ >'"" ••hoiee! i died in
fireside, therefore, that weare mifetter- •'•'•""'.^
ed in thou.a'ht. To humor the random Think t»f the nullioiis (»f dollar> in-
thouyht that has been I'udely thiiist ve^teii in costunu's ;nid couiili drops.
aside during- our l)usiness day, istliepro- Of the salaries paid to the retired puiril-
per use of the fireside hour. The i>low- is! w ln> play l(\adim: parts, runi— Hark
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ye! is'ta riot? Nay, 'tis the sound of Shakespearean drama in the land; the bellowing of the villain; the shriek of beauty beset; and the bold rescue by the hero with the wooden sword and papier-mache coat of mail. And as a ' purely suppositious matter, suppose i poor Romeo had fallen a victim to the too ready sword of one of his many ill- i wishers! The ])ros])ect appalls, for it I would have deprived the modern grandmas of the theatrical {profession of the opportunity of exhibiting their
ness and most of them aiv ret^koned as insanity, the rest as genius. But in the main we are glad that things are as we lind thein,"^ else might all our cakes have been dough. Neither do we yearn to "make over" the vestments of poetic thought as already expressed, for it would most certainly end in a sorry business. For instance: Had the ])ort- cullis which Sir Walter Scott poised before the vision of the doughty Lord Marmion fallen in time to ^ top his flight after he had, however unwisely.
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The French ''pleasure duel." The other principal was too far ort'to Ije included in the picture. The .grand-stand was also unavoidably left out.
kalsomine blushes as fourteen-year-old Juliet. And where would have been all the rant and thunder, curses and tears, of the long list of characters that William's fertile brain has set before us?
Not that we do not a])[)reciate them, no indeed. On the contrary we are glad, for we can go back to them after a performance of "Vawgner's" ''Das Kizcizikckkuldanckerwald, with Herr Einhuntereidmilesfruranowhereatall and Madam Grinnywaldorfftercatteril- de, in the leading roles.
There are a great many forms of jnad-
expressed his full and free opinion of his late friend J^ord Angus, the Ameri- can small b;)y could never have whisj)- ered in a gasping voice, the celebrated defiance from the "platform" of the "scliool house," to his admiring j)arents and neighbors.
History, as wi'll as fiction, is a vast storehouse of the doings of fate. In history we lind recorded the good deeds of the bad, and the bad deeds of the good, approximately. Especially in the land of the lily, wdiere the pleasure-duel, ! a form nf amusement from which the
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spice of danger, ^<() elear to the ancient, and that this caused errors of judge- has been ehinlnated, is a frequent nient which cost him the battle, and — occurrence. an empire. Here, then, is the moral:
Here we find those spontaneous hap- Eat (Quaker's Pre-digested Scrap-iron, j)enings that tell of long building and ^ for bn^akfastl Here was the First Con- (piick pulling down. And there are I sul's lack, he knew not the wonders of many turns in the long and crooked the modern breakfast foods, lane of French histf)ry that, had the > Discussion leads to accusation, and o])posite turning been taken, the result j accusation leads to blows, therefore is had been sometimes better, sometimes the .small man for peace— so we will worse for the citizens of the land of ■ now take up another incident connect- Absinthe and frogs legs. ed with our subject.
There are many salient characters The sun rises on the 9th of Julv, 1397, that stand o;it in her histo.y,as having i and gazes warmly upoii the little wall- changed the current of national life, ed town of Sempach, on the border be-
In ancient times we see (Tcnevieve of Gaul, a holy maiden, the idol of her generation, standing upon the bridge by which Attila the Hun, the scourge of Europe, exp.^cted to enter Paris. But the brave words of the lovely peasant girl, backed up by a life of devotion to the good of her ])eoi)le and tlie weal of the church, so wroughr ui)<)n the minds of the terror stricken people, that a successful resistance was ottered to the terrilile Hun and the countrv saved.
tween Austria and Switzerland. It has before looked upon the same land- scaj)e of gnarled pines and ragged rocks. Ajid is, therefore, not a little surprised toseean im|)ortantad:lition to the land- scape. It is the glittering lances and polished armor of a body of Austrian troojjson a gentle mission of benevolent as-imilation. (America is not the in- ventor of this method of empire.)
Duke rieoi)old of Austria, a hauty gentleman wearing a dress suit of boiler
But it will be admitted that he set a ' iron, and with an eye to Swiss territory.
bad example, for just contemplate the aml)itious Mrs. Nation— not that her will is to do good, but that we would rather, in these days of peace eongresses, like that now in session in jNIanchuria, that the hatchet be buried, rather than wielded.
In modern (Jaul, whose cai)itol is one of the world's centers of ])rogress, and the gayest cities in the world, w c
has deployed his knights and yeomen so as to prevent the inhabitants from driving the cows to pasture. He rides gaily 'round the village and tlings coarse jests at the ai)i)rehensive burgers on the walls. He is about to add the land of Swiss cheese to the Austrian crown; therefore he is exceeding jolly, aiul in no S[)6cial hurry.
P>ut now tmother factor enters the Hud another turn in the lane. Why ganu\ Emerging from a neighboring did those upon whom Napohnin de- wood may be seen a body of Swiss niin- pended, fail him? A little hurrying just ute men, armed with whatever may then would have made a "nu:)rt'" of dif- serve to attack or to fend. A biave ference. Victory on the held of Water- band, and it is well; for this is to be loo would have made the greatest ^••^'i'' ''^•-'.v 'l^*.^'-
general of all tinu3, the master of Euroi>e. 'u'' Austrian force confronts them, And why was not the exi>;tance of f-H' superior, both in numbers ami the su!ikeu road, upon which the fate e(iuipment.
of the day hinged (in the absence of! '"Where'er the impatient Switzers reinforcements) taken into considera- tion? Historians tell us that Napoleon's
digestion was such that he was not hims(»lf, so great wei-e bis sufreriuiis,
gazed. An unbroken line of lances blazed. That line t'were suicide to meet. And jjarish at their tyrant's feet.''
Des|)aii is in their hearts. But the
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opportuiiil.v again brings forth the man, behold hini! Arnold Von Win- kelried, of Untervvalden. His eye roaming o'er the field in seareli of some- thing that might bid him hope, sees the only desperate means by whieh the enemj" niRy be worsted, and flinging his body into the breach, "ten spears he swept vvntiiin his grasp, "this act breach- es theenemy'slineand nltimatelv yields the victory to the Swiss. The victory is won The conn try saved. Had not this worthy knight had the wit to see, and the conrage to meet tlie emergency, Switzerland wonld now be the same color on the maj) as is Anstria. Tlie dinkey little watch-factory of a nation would have been oidy a province of a great empire, and rnled by a prince "Who knew not Joseph," with a lot of foreign soldiers to collect his revenues and protect him while he enjoyed him- self. It was a lucky thing that Mr. Winkelried was where he was that day (for the Swiss nation ). The time wait- ed ujKMi him to do a stunt for liberty. Has his work been since undone?
It is not patriotic though, to allow ourselves to devote too much time to foreigners. They are at best only un- fortunate foreigners, }K>or things, with their myriad eyes turned longingly to- ward our shores where liberty to do (your neighbor) as you please, is grant- ed to us for so long as we do not exer- cise it, when we do, the Governor calls out the militia. But between yon and r, it might be our heiresses or our pork that these foreign<M's are aftei'. Let it pass, however.
At any rate, we feel quite sccui'e in their esteem. And why not? We feel that we (?an rest on the laurels of the great men of our past history as rei)re- senting what we can do if we want to. We certainly are a nation to be reckon- ed with. Please not to forget it.
There was George Washington. He stands alone in many respects, not as some of our modern statesmen do, but as not requiring any helj) to do so. And nowdiere on the pages of history
do we lind so nnicpie a man, for w bo, outside of his family ever had so many nurses? Von foreigners may wonder, but don't you presume to doubt us, for in the states of Marvland an<l Virginia alone we can find enough g(»od colored Mamniys who will swear to liaving been (Tcorge Washington's mu"se, to clasp hands and play liiiu-around-a- rosy nroiiiid the cily wliicli bears his name.
Now w bci'e, let me a>k. woiihl this important addition to the folk-lore of the Afro-American have l)een, had not George Washington become fai»ions? The proud declaration "Wy, Lor' bress
Thf Villain is "F'oiled Again.'
yo' honey — I was .Jawge Wash'n'ton's miss." could never have caused al>ont a million colored great-grandmas to hold their heads a little liigher, and to pre- vail upon their d^-cendants to try tolixe up to the tradition of their ancestors, had It not l)een foi' the man,\- stci'ling (|nalities of the ureat man. .\nd this is not all abonl the fatluM' of his conn- tr\', I'ither. Hi<caieer finnishes anot h- er turning [loinl.
•Inst think w hat an awfnl fate would most certainly have overtaken us had not N'onng (ieorge done honoi to his religions training and told the truth when he kni'w Ihcic was a walloping on the other side of it. We might have been a nation of liais if young Wash- ington had not -^e! us so good an exam-
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pie. As it is — well — yes, of course, it is alright, certainly.
It was a time of trial to the youth, and a crucial nionient for the nation, when young George faced his stern parent in the orchard that nieiuorable day. We shudder to think with what awful freight the moment was weighted.
We can imngine the thought of the youth as he gazes into the eyes of the wrathy old gentleman: Ife I onlie knewe whether or noe ye olde gente dyd see me doe it? I will riske ye truthe. "F'ather, I dvd it withe ve lyttle hatchet." The danger point was safely passed. We were saved. But we will have to admit the fruit of George's hesitation is with us still — we can lie a little.
There is an event that we have passed
over, b- t which we must not forget: — the landing of the pilgrim fathers at Plymouth. 'I'he negotiation of ye stern and rock-bound coast, was an event of the tirst magnitude in religious history — now forgotten. And we smile to think how the good jjuritan's eyes would protrude, and the rueful express- ion that his face would w ear, could he sit in a front pew of one of our large and georgeous American churches and wit- ness some of the ])omp and ceremony which his soul al)horred and which he and his fellow suflerers tied to the shores of the new world to escape. But change is the order of natuie, as is also the "change" tinancial, both small and large, and the more of it the better. Or worse, whir-h?
TRUE LOVE.
BY BEN FRANKLIN BONNELL
Two wee little birdies sat on a limb.
He chatted to her, and she chatted to him. I know he made love to his sweet little ujate, For she listened and chatted, by turn, till 'twas late. He told her his love as the twilight grew dim, And she answered bv ciuldlincr closer to him, Then darkness came on, and the shadows of night Hid the two little lovers ont of my sight, But the s:entle ni^ht zephvrs and star-eves above Beheld 'tween two birdies a case of true love.
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0 MY COUSIN ANOELINE.
Prom the French of Harry Murger
We two have loft Wehiiul us the early years of life,
When the beautiful and i;<)0<l shone forth as diamonds shine,
I often stop to count them amid the world's strife —
Do you ever dream our child hoo(i o'er, () my cousin .Vngelinc?
Those days are very distant, and already many times,
The passing years have toucln-d us with fingers light and tine;
And all our glorious gaiety -our laugli-p:'ovol<cing rhyme, Alas! have tied forever, () my cousin Angeline.
Wild and reckless scholars, free from the masters' power, We sang and danced together— care never left a sign;
We'll never more go gii)sying they've cut the roses down, We'll never more go gipsy ing, O my cousin Angeline.
Ah! hajjpier far than I can be, for you have never left
A loving mother's tender care — the sweet dojiiestic shrine;
Oh! let not holy ])iety from your pm'e heart be reft As it has been from mine, O my cousin Angeline.
With work for your companion throughout each joyous day, Ai night the guardian sj^irit conies to bring you dreams divine;
And many a blessed thought from its home above will stray From heaven to your i)illow — O my cousin Angeline.
Your voice sounds sweet and pleasantly, as sweetly sounds yoiu' name.
The spirit of all goodness from out yoin* eyes doth shine, With the tlowers of your sixteen years an odor to us came,
'Twas the perfmne of your youth, O my cousin Angeline.
All! long ago, when New Year came, how pleasant was theday, 'Twas then I emptied my scant i»urse to get some trifle tine;
And joyous of my present your acceptance I would pray, Though it never was a rich one, () my cousin Angeline.
But since that time the devil — at least they tell Jiie so, Has taken up his dwelling in this emjity j)urse of inine;
1 call vaiidy on blind IMutus — I fear lie's deaf also —
He never seems to hear me cry, O my cousin Angeline.
Then you can have nothing from me, no present, dear, today-- No rich and handsome keepsake where all the arts combine,
No glittering, si)arkling trifies deflecting every ray, Not even sugar bon-bons, () my cousin Angeline.
You will have nothing from me , I sorry Jini to say.
Except a brother's kiss on that forehead sweeJ of thine;
And then these wretched verses that to-morrow or next day You'll doubtless have forgotten, O my cousin Angeline.
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THE TREND OF CIVILIZATION
BY WILLIAM AYRES
I Hi pel It'll by the \ve??t\vard trend of civili/ution Vvik Nokthkein Ckow n has aiielioied in tlie beautiful Ui^iali valley, on the extreme western shore of the Arneriean eontinent, and tuned its lyre to sing of the wonders and rich jj^ifts tliat nature has bestowed a!ong the I'aci- lic waters; to waken the echoes in this si)lendid wilderness of redwoods; chant- ini? in heroic measure the future j^reat- ness to which the advantages it pos- sesses must inevitably carry it as the western trampling of the pressing mil- lions halts u])on the shore of our fair Pacilic ocean to gather accinnulated strength before crossing the water to (he regenerative work beyond.
To paint a picture, there must be a subject, foreground, background and t-anopy; to state a factgra))hically there must l)e comparison; to portray a con- dition, there must ai)pear a cause. We are here because of an irrisistil)le force which is constantly impelling the world of commerce and of letters west- ward; it mav be an interminable round as the "centuries Hit l>y like shadows into the i)ast," but never the less the movement is continnoulsy on, and on, each civdization as it passes leaving moiunnents of its handiwork in the re- mains and ruins of its achievements in art, literature and architecture.
We, here on the western shore, are deemed l)y the more esthethic and less vigorous peo])le of the eastern shore to be uncouth pioneers, unversed in the
polite ameinlies of advanced civiliza- tion; a(U'oss the Atlantic the self-sutTlci- ent sons of Albion look with jdtying patronage upon theassinned greatness, the scientilic and social advancement of the American world; still farther back, the Spaniard, the Turk, the Mon- gol, each in turn, looking westward to- ward the newer civilization, tlie more vigorous and |)rosperous ]>hysical and intellectual energy, the unstayed, irre- sistMble force of the newer thought, looks with mingled contempt and pity upon what they deem the ignorant and arrogant assumi)tion of the untaught, i immature civilization of the millions who are pushing their way toward tlie setting sun.
l?ut howevei' much the inspired bards of the infant days of extant historv mav have i)ainted their age and achievement in colors that areglowing, in all that is enchanting, beautiful and miraculous, we have a record of noble maidiood, exalted ambition and heioic achievement, hereon our own continent, and at our own doors; a history and a theme, that might well inspire to sul)limest song the bards of old, or the poets of the present, and thus sung, eclipse the hectic glamor of the olden fables.
It is true there is a charm as of infat- uation tluit still lingers around the story of rilysses and the Trojan settle- ment under the blue skies of Italy, and thrilling are the recollections recurring
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to the heroic period when Tlion resisted the shock of Agamemnon's arms, and distant Colcliis became tlie destination of the freig^lited Argos. Bnt in tlie eternal press westward, tlie fabled Argos, with their tiny bnrdens became caravals, the earavals, in turn, l)ecame a ship-of-the-line, carrying thousands of tons, and which could put a dozen Arg- os in its hold; and the ship-of-the-line has become an ocean steamer, atloating palace carrying thousands of peojjle, or a transport carrying a small army.
The wierd, eventful and spectacular career of Fernando deSoto, the marvel- lous and ambitious project of Jaun Ponce de Leon, the fascinating story of Pochahontas, the singular vicissitudes in the fortunes of Raleigh and of liurr would, if sung to the same measure and inspired by the same genius, surround the name and historical event in our own land with as brilliant a coloring as the ancient bards have thrown around the fables and accomplishments of classic history.
And around these, as around the allurements of Calypso, and the en- chantment of Armida, would gather the charm of fable, the fascination of half- authenticated history. The amazing exploits of Hobson at Santiago and the miraculous achievement of Dewey at Manila, would outsplendor the fal)les of antiquity.
The scenes of the achievements sung by the earlier bards were circumscribed; the territory was small; their seas were lakes and their national domains were ranches when compared with the ex- tent of sea and land over which have been accomplished the achievements of modern civilization. The crossing of the Atlantic and the subjugation of the American continent has no parallel with the much sung ancients.
And thus the inexorable march of the human family, im})elle(l by a force mysterious as it is irresistible, has reached the western shore of the American continent, passing over mountains, crossing rivers, traversing
the plains, and girdling the globe with electric currents to convey intelligence to any ])oint at will, we have a recent past to gaze upon, one that is i)rouder, more brilliant than the felicitous visions of the Greeks, moremagnitlcent than the conceptions af the Konians, more- glorious than the rose-color(d dreams of the bards of Castile, and more thrilling than the history of the early settlement of the Atlantic coast — it lies in the accjulsition, the marvellous growth and development of the golden El Dorado of the Pacific— California.
Today the westward bound millions are gathering and halting on this western shore, as in past centuries they gathered on the shoresof the Black sea, the North sea, the Mediterranean, and on the chalky cliffs of Albion, building great commercial cities till they gather- ed strength for passing beyond the water. The circunmavigation of the globe is nearly conii)lete in extant history. The advance guard of the newer civilization of the Occident is looking westward across the Pacific to the decaying, cruml)ling Orient.
The advancing civilization of the new world in treading hard on the heels of the effete, dying civilization of the old. The human current in its course west- ward is halting on tlie.se shores, and its millions will mass and aggregate here in the preparation to push across the Pacific to absorb the new-old fields to- ward the setting sun. But we are only at the threshohl of this process of up- building on the western shore of the American continent The possibilities here are such as to require centuries to fully appropriate.
The race across the continent has been made with such haste that there is much intervening territory that will easily assimilate a far greater popula- tion, and the halting line along the Pacific shore in varied i)o,ssi bill ties of climate and .soil give promise of a future whose greatness is beyond the human ken to divine, or the power of language to portray.
Along the northern shore are gigan- Eden has been falsely located by the tie trees that were growing when the chronicles of history, gentle Savior walked upon the earth,! In reviewing these possibilities of the teaching his lessons of Universal Love : future, the cpiery naturally conies to to all mankind, and they form an al- | the mind: Where will the gathering most incalculable store of crude wealth, I hosts l)uild their great cities, both in- and they will continue to grow for j ].^„(i .i,,,] (.onnuercial ports of entry? the use and enrichment of the children where will northern California tigurt- of man, if the vandalism of the present i ^nd how will she fare in the settlement and coming generations do not distroy j ^f the great incoming population? This them totally from the face of the earth, jy ^ question for the logician, thestates-
Our mountains contain exhaustless ' man, the i)roi)het. Nature has endow- stores of precious and base metals, j ed northern California with a lavish Our vallevs and i)lains and countless I hand, and her industrial centers and hills bountifully watered everywhere, I commercial marts will grow in exact stand unparalled in their productivity, 1 keeping with the energy and spirit of and our climate, mild and balmy, the i progress and liberality of her i)eople. atmosphere filled with ozone from the I But of this view of the future and its ocean and balsam from the forests, | practical possibilities we must paint seems a special dispensation, and cause | another scene, for the whole would be many to think that the Garden of I too large a picture for one painting.
A THING of beauty is a joy forever: Its lovliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health and (juiet
breathing; Therefore, on every morrow, arc we w reathing A tlowery band to bind us to the earth, Spite of despondence, oftlie inhuman dearth Of noble natures, of the gloomy days, Of all the unhealthy and o'er darkened ways^ Made for our searching: Yes, in si)iteof all Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. —Keats
"The starry bloom of the orange tree
Is shedding its fragrance over me."
On my Ucranda.
CHE starry bloom of the orange tree Is shecldhig its fragrance over me, Side by side with tlie ripe, rich fruit That's always found in the aroves of Butte.
Look where 1 will, I'm sure to see The blooming rose and the orange tree; Roses of red, yellow, pink and white; Roses orown to a wond'rous heiirht,
Dropping their petals so bright and sweet, To make a carpet for dainty feet, Briuhter and finer than Orient loom Has ever woven for queen's own room.
The lilies, too, add a tender grace
With their broad, green leaves and pure white
face; But a clinging vine on the grav. old wall. For nie has the greatest charm of all.
Here a i)air of birds have built a home. . And here their nestlings will some day come; 111 rest "neath the shade of my orange tree And the birds will sing sweet songs to me.
i.h'ruiu uia School Days" by Makv Camkkon Benjamin.]
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JUST TEN MINUTES BEHIND.
An Incident of Travel.
It was 10:45 P. M. Mother and I were waiting in the Suisiin depot for the belated Southern Pacitic, Shasta route.- -We had telegraphed ahead for sleepers but none were to be obtained as the trains were all crowded to over- tiowing with G. A. R. delegates return- ing from tlie convention, held in San Francisco, to their homes. As tlie train stopped, everybody >crambled aboard and (H'cu])ied the first .seat they came to. Motlier and I were fortunate ent)ugh to secure one al- though we had plenty of hand luggage.
We were en route to Portland, Or., to visit my uncle, Judge Johnson, for two months. After becoming as com- fortable as possible, under the cir- cumstances, we attempted to go to sleep, but that being out of thetjuestioi», 1 suggested we have some lunch. Of course during this time we were quietly "sizing up" our fellow passengers, and presently mother remarked: "See tliat gentleman, sitting three seats back of us, on the right. He will be over here talking to us by morning." 1 laugh- ingly answered: "He looks at m3' "drum- stick" rather longingly; 1 believe he is hungry."
Being of a jolly disposition, I kept my neighbors laughing at my foolishness. Next morning while 1 was standing on the platform enjoying the brisk, fresh air, with an impromi»tu acquaintance of the night l)efore, this gentleman came (as mother had prophesied), and spoke to her. She was getting our breakfast readv. When 1 came in
mother said: "This is my daughter, Mr. Francis." After a few co'.nmon-place remarks were exchanged, mother ask- ed: "Would you join us in our morning repast, Mr. Francis? It is cold, but you are welcome to share it with us."
He did, and ate very heartily, for he was hungry. My tiist impression of him was not very flattering and at my earliest opportunity I teased mother about her "mash." Mother is a good character reader, seldom making a mistake, l)ut 1 thought the story he told her was a little far fetched. He said he had taken advantage of the ex- cursion rates of the G. A. K. to go to San Francisco from his home in Grant's Pass, and that lie had taken, as he thought, enough extra money to see liim through, but that he had met some Eastern friends and spent what he had, besides borrowing from a broth- er lodge-member, enough as he suppos- ed, to see him home safely; but when he madeouracquaintancehehad five cents, and a bag of gingersnaps, which he generously shared with us. He claimed that he was a property owner in his home city, with a bank account, and said, if we would onl^' honor him by stopping over a day in Grant's Pass lie would repay our hospitality rwo fold, or if on our return trip we would only let him know, and would stop, he would take us to all points of inter- est in and about his city.
He had i)assed over the road so many times, I soon saw he was a very inter- esting companion, for through his kind
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attention mother and I siiw many things of interest we otherwise would have missed, and as I talked to him I found him a relined, cultured gentle- man. My first impression of suspicion soon gave way to whole-hearted admir- ation and pity for his sad jjlight, hungry and penniless. He said he was first attracted to us by my hearty, girlish laughter and buoyant spirit.
I soon saw he was a man with a past; a sorrow that is buried, only after years of struggle in trying to forget. I could feel a deeper spmpathy for him, as hidden away from all human eyes is a great sorrow of my own, that none ever suspects, as my face is always smiling, and I have ready wit to answer any mood.
His destination was reached at o:25 P. M. of the second day of our journey and as he was about to leave us he said: "Now if you ladies change your minds and come back by train, (for we had said we were going to return by steamer) let me know and I will meet you at the depot, if you won't stop over — we jokingly said we would. We reached Portland at 7 A. M , next morning, and during our two months' visit we had a delightful time and scarcely gave our travelling companion a thought until mother came across his card and guide book, which he had kindly left us on leaving the train.
There had been a number of storms at sea and mother being timid about the ocean we decided finally after nmch argument to return the way we came. I thought it would be (juiie a joke to drop Mr. P'rancis a note telling him if he would beat the station on the given date, that as we were passing
through I'd laugh for him once more, for you see we had inquired into the matter and found him to be just what he rep- resented himself. We were fortunate enough to get a Pullman coming back, but staved in the day coach until after we passed through Albany, Ore., as there were some friends at the depot to tell us good-by.
Adieusexchanged, we returned to our seats to get our baggage; lo and behold they were occupied. My aunt had given me a beautiful picture and in packing for the return trip I found it to be too large to tit into our trunk, so I had to make a separate package of it, I wrote on it in a s})irit of fun: "H this package should be left on the train, please foward by express, C. O. D., to Miss Nina Daily, Suisan, Calif.
This of course was in the seat with the other things anJ thj stra.ige occu- pants sat facing it. Im nagine the pleasant surprise to find it to be none other than Mr. Francis, who with a friend had been to Salem on business, from there thev took the local to Albany and waited for the Overland.
The surprise was mutual for he had not received my note, and thought we had gone back by steamer. Our tete-a- tete was cut short by the porter who came to escort us to the Pullman. After promising to have breakfast with Mr. P^rancis next morning, we went to bed. In the morning we were up early and wondered what could be keeping Mr. Francis, when presently the porter (a pleasant faced darky) came by and said: "Yo' might as well eat yo' break- fast honey, for de train was divided into two sections at Hoseburg and yo' friend is just ten minutes behind."
Amateur.
"80 shall it be with all those who fall asleep in Jesus. They shall rise again, as if they had passed the night in sleep, without suttering. and without dreams."
m tbe Pliiza,
By Jflicc Kingsbury Cooky,
My brother, who sits dozing there, Upon the plaza's benches rude, With ^'failure'' writ upon thy brow, And speaking: in thy attitude; Cast up by life's gfreat ocean's tide. A bit of flotsam, ownerless; Thy feelingfs all benumbed and seared, Expecting: never happiness. Look up, the sky is brigfht above. And birds are circling: in the air. The carpet at thy feet is g:reen; The flowers too, are everywhere The richest man in all the land. Can see the sky no more than you. The myriad beauties of the stars. For rich and poor alike are true. The breath of heaven is Just as sweet, *^i To thy dumb lips as to a king:.
The ioys of nature all are thine — Free g:ifts of God, wealth cannot bring:.
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LETTERS.
Santa Ana, July :n, li»()4.
My Dear Mrs. Uecd: I Ikivc read with (leliglit the two nunibers of Trin: XoKTHKii.v Chown that came to lue. Thev briny;' the vvvv odor of tlie forests and make me loiiu to some day see auain the many beauties of Mendoeiuo.
I remember vou always, as a mucli admired friend of my father's, and wlien r read, with so much pleasui'e, "One Easter Day" and "Humboldt," I knew that I, witli him, held you. one of (iod's true poets. Oli, tlie joy of the human soul that lovesall l>eauty. 1 should love to contribute sometliing- to your maga- zine, but liave never written anytiiing worthy of publication. I wish you all success in your undertakiuii. Yours verv trulv,
G EH T HUD E ( '(> N N K I , L F\ N 1, H: V .
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.Santa Kosa, Cai.., July Jl», 1904.
.My Dear Mrs. Reed: TheJune num- ber of 'I'liE NoRTHKKN (Vhown has just reached me and I find it, as usual, full of bright, breezy pro.se and refined and interesting poetry. I very much desire, however, to see more good, paying ad- vertisements in the future mnnliers; the people of your county, in fact, of the wholeof northern (California, should help you, as well as themselves. I)y permitting you i for a consideration) to tell in your dainty magazini' just what they have, or ai'e willing to do, for the dear pul)lic.
I am glad that you keep your original suggestion, concerning an endowment fund for children, before the reading and thoughtful ]>eople. May yom* in-
lelligent etl'orts result in securing legis- lation to carry youreminently ])ractical and sensible i)lan into effect. Your facts and figures are simply irrefutable. Enclosed you will find ;in editorial by a Winona, Minnesota eclitor. which I think tine; use it if you can; plea.se re- turn the clijjping to me.
Wishing you a full and overflowing measure of success, I am
Sincerely vours,
Francis McG. Martin.
Oakland, Cae., July -2), liM»4.
My Dear Mrs. Ueed: I've just finish- ed reading The Xokthekn ("kown for June, and I feel as rested and refreshed as if r had been visiting dear old .Men- docino. The roses of "Jtmi-" and the "Kiss of Summer" I '\'e shared in your poem: "The Mendocino Angelu^" needs l»ut color to make it a veritalilr, Thad Welsh gem, our California .Millet.
Fitch's article on "Poor Lo," should be read in every California school as history. The e.\(juisit poem, "The Wea- vers" has a personal interest to me and to every membei of the Pacific C. W. Press Association. Do you know that you voice the thouuht of all of us in your tribute to .Mrs. E.J. Foster?
It is fourteet'n yi'ars auo, dear, since you and I tii'st njet. We came together with other women .at the call of Emily T. Y. Parkhurst to form this very association. And what a gather- ing of rei)resenlative women it was; women of national as well asstaterejni- tation — T close niY eves and recall the scene: Deal' ^^rs. Cooper, who made
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San Francisco distinctive for its kinder- garten system; think of tlie hundreds, nay thousands,of good citizens that she made so, because she saved tliem from the shuns.
Mrs. Edholni— to this day devoting her life, to save fallen girls, through her mission work— I often think of her at night, as I turn out my light, know- ing that she is travelling the streets, res- cuing, and toiling for the unfortunate. Mrs. Eyster, who was one of the women to start the Mt. Vernon fund, and whose life work in the cause of temperance, is national. Do you re- member she won the prize for the best southern colonial story in her Colonial Boy? Jesse Benton Fremont, Ina Coolbrith — when I was in London, all I had to say was, that I knew Ina Coolbrith and I had friends among the literary people.
r cannot name them all, but the sweet face of Alice Kingsbury Cooley, as I saw her then, was to me that of the great, "Fanchon the Cricket;" but after, we all came to love her, and know her, as the woman whose great mother love surpasses all else. You and I, dear, why we met as two women who had "lived in the inines." we had known all about each other since we were girls, and when we met, then what miners' stories were "swapped!"
The fourteen years of our Association forms a good part of the life of a state only fifty years old, and :unong our members are niany who have helped form the state and who still devote their lives to its interest. I shall not give it to you in detail. You know where to find them: In the "Land Mark league," in the "Miners' associa- tion," in the "Sequoia club," in the "Native Daughters," they hold promi- nent places, but they all still hold together as members of the dear old Press association.
When r began to write, I intended only to tell you that T look upon this
new venture of yours as the culmina- tion of all the years that have gone before. As I read it, it rings true. It is your outlet of expression for all the hope, and love, and interest, you have in your fellow-beings. That poetry, and sentiment, and enthusiasm should throw a rosy halo over it all, is fitting, for that has been the saving grace, that has redeemed, for you always, even the vulgarity of theconnnonplace.
One "red letter day" in the long ago, I too, took "the drive" and saw the Cypresses so interestingly written of in Mr. Richards' letter. My companion was a scientist and a botanist who ex- plained to me the facts, well known, that these trees were the genuine Oriental cypresses, and the only ones in America. He talked learnedly and scientifically of the possible ways of their having been saved in some glacial deposit and washed in through theGulf of Mexico. I listened attentively and when he finished [ exclaimed: "O! no, it was not that way at all; away back Centuries ago, a ship ladened with stores and riches from the Orient sailed to these shores, many of them came and landed their people in Mexico, but this one, this ship, was wrecked; and as the sea washed up her wreckage along the coast, the seeds of the Cedars of Leb- anon were deposited in the crevasses of these rocks and they took root and grew to be these trees. And so 1 know, that the "wise men from the east" brought them here, and to them, I pour my libation, and in reverence I ac- knowledge their pre-possession."
I poured my glass of wine on the ground, and from that day to this, 1 have always believed in my own in- spiration imtil I read, with little thrills of pleasure, Mr. J. E. Richards' letter, ]Hiblished under title of, "Another Psychological Problem," in the June number of your magazine. Yours,
Saka E. Reamek.
<^-»»ift?^ Iss^!'^
Eost In (be Rills of ^'never-Comc-Bome.''
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By JInna lllorrison Reed.
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A little buy thai i iiseii to know.
Who CcUiie froij) lli^uveii quite lung ago. And staved with me for a little while.
With innocent eves and an aneeFs smile, Ris soft little body, tiii\ and warm.
1 held so closely away from harm. But out of my arms, he grew and grew.
rill ] looked in vain for the hoy I knew.
For this dear little boy went out to roam.
And was lost in the hills of "Never-Come- Home." And across the valley of "Used-To-Be
1 know he will not come back to me. And now, Oh! now the davs are lono,
And I think of him and wi'ite this song That other Mothers may sing to sleep.
The little bovs that thev still mav keep.
1 should not care — for he is noi dead.
The light brown curls that crowned his head. Are short and dark, and that's not all
For now he's a man almost six feet tall. And another thing that seems disgrace —
Whiskers are growing all over his face — But still I grieve when all alone
For the boy in the hills of "Never-Come- Home.'*
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From the World's Best Literature.
Ecclesiastes — Chapter Two.
I said in mine heart, (Jo to now, 1 will prove thee with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure: And behold, this also is vanit3\ I said of laughter, it is mad: and of mirth, whatdoeth it. 1 sought in mine heart to giv^e myself unto wine, yet acquainting niuie heart with wisdom, and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, whieh they should do un- der the heaven all the days of their life.
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted jne vineyards; 1 made me gardens and orchards, and I plant- ed trees in them of all kind of fruits.
I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees.
I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also 1 had great possessions of greacand sniad cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me.
I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces; 1 gat me men singers and women singers and the delight* of the sons of men, as musical instru- ments and that of all sorts.
So J was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusa- lem: also my wisdom remained with me.
And whatsoever mine eyes desired 1 kept not from ihem; I witheld not my heart from any joy: for my heart rejoiced in all my labor; and this was my portion of all my labor.
Then 1 looked on all the works that my liands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of
spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
And 1 turned myself to l)ehold wis- dom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the King? Even that which hath lieen already done.
Then I saw that wisdom excelled folly, as far as light excelljth darkness.
The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself pereeiveil also that one event happeneth to them all.
Then said I in my heart, as it ha))- peneth to tlie fool, so it ha|)i)eneth, even to me: and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, tliat this also is vanity.
For there is Jio remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; see- ing that which now is, in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? As the fool.
Therefore 1 hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Yea, I hated all my labor which I had taken under the sun; l)ecause I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
And who knows whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? Yet shall he have rule overall my lal)or, where- in I have labored, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun.
This is also vanity.
Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labor which I took under the sun.
For there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in e(|uity; yet to a man that harh not
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,bored therein, shall he lenve it for his | his labor. This also I saw, that it was
ortion.
This also is vanity, and a jz;reat evil.
For what hath man of all his labor, id of the vexation of his heart, where: I he hath labored under the sun?
For all his days are sorrows, and his avail ^rief; yea, his heart taketh not 'St in the ni^ht. This is also vanity- There is nothingbetter for a man, than lat he should eat and drink, and that e should make his soul eujoy good in
from the hand of God.
For who can eat, or who else ean hasten liereunto, more than I?
For God given to a man that is good in his sight, wi>dom and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather, and to heap up, that lie may give to him that is good before God.
'This also is vanity, and vexation of spirit.
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It befel me on a day — Long ago, ah, long ago! When my life was in its May, In the May-month of the year. All the orchards were like snow, With pink flushes there and here; And a bird sang, building near, And a bird sang far away. Where the early twilight lay.
Long ago! ah, long ago!
Youth's sweet May passed quite away-
May that nevermore is May!
Yet I hear the nightengale.
Singing far adown the vale.
Where the early twilight lies;
Singing sad, and sweet, and strong —
And I wonder if the song
May be heard in Paradise.
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REPRESENTATIVE MEN
W. D. L. HELD
Courtesy of R('pii*»li*'Hn-Press
\V/ D. L. HELD, oiif of .)iir proni- "^ • ineiit yong attonie.s. bus re- ceived the iioniiiiatloi) for the nssem- hly, at the hands of the flepul)lieaii convention of Mendocino county. He was born in San Francisco, in 1 874, graduating from the PolytechJiit^ high school, in that city, in 1.S89, and came to Ukiali in 1891, to enter as a law student' the office of the Hon. T. L. Carothers. While he was serving in that capacity, the interest of tiiat off- ice, the writer observed his faithful, studious Tnethods, and was im})ressed by his tireless energy and application and the many commendable traits that marked him for success.
He was appointed court reporter by the Hon. Robert McGarvey in 1893, and re-appointed by J. M. Mannon in 1896, and held that appointment until he left the office of Hon. T. L. Caroth- ers to form a partnership with T. J. \\'<--'d-^n, in tlj" viiT"^' nt Iti^A- tl'MM of
Wei. Ion & Held.
Although amj>!y abli- to give toluisi- nessinterests,thecareand attention that admit of no failure, yet in his dealings, money has not been the first and onlv consideration He has been loyal to his friends when that loyalty ineant linan- cial loss, and upon the current of uncer taintv often fast the bread of kindness that has not returned His fidelity to the local Fire department, of which he is now an exempt, after eight years ot active service, as member and secretary, has shown bis unsellish interest in out connnunily, w bile his willingness and aptitude, for duty in fraternal circles, has placed him high in the estimation of the orders to which he belongs. And as a Woodman of the World, a mejuber of the Workmen, and a Knight Temp- lar, be has realized ami discharged justly bis duty t(» bis fellow men
He is another who comes l)efore the
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political record, Imt in all that means hard work, and faithful service, he is not lacking. In 1900 he was secretary of the Mendocino Rei)uhlican conven- tion, and for four years he has been ticting secretary of the Ilepublican Central committee and also secretary of the McKinley and Uobart cluh. He is a yonng man whose example ean beemnlated with pride and honor, and his nommation as n candidate to
represent this district, is only a just action by the political i)arty that he has served, in the capacities mentioned, with jjatience and ability. He is a model citizen, and has identified him- self with all our best interests, and has added to the beauty and attractiveness of Ukiah by builditigone of its loveliest, modern homes. We wish him good luck and fair treatment by liLs politicaJ| friends.
■Self-assertion a Divine La^x^.
By Ben Franklin Bonnell.
We ha\i' sojiK' jK'Mi" trtH's.-it "'riK' Nesl," ithe najne by w hit-h our simple home i.*^ known — lo ourseUx's. The variety of fruit they bore did not suit us, so we sawed the liml)sort, last spring, and grafted in the kind <of fruit we wanted. K very graft yrew. They ha\e grown so rapidly, that w hcji the win(J blows, we have a fear for their lives. J?uJ vigorously as they have grown, they lia\e not been able to gi\'e expression to the life of the tree, and all summer long, we have l)een busy breaking oil' the small, dark green .-sprouts that have grown out. hei'ctind there, ■on the bodies of the trees.
We fort-ed the trees to supjiort an artitieial growth to i)lea.se us. They have quietly an(i jnodestly carried out our plan, but tliey defi- antly refuse to suppress their own inner life that cannot tiiid expression through oui' arti- Jicial methods Here, 1 trow, is a symbol ot human life. Ci'eeds. i-eligious and political, aire engrafte<i into or upon our natmal life. Xeet'ssary perhaps, l)Ui theennu'st, Ihought- ful human soul, like the i)ttii' tree, hiis life that finds no adecpiale (^\pression in the iineient and time-worn symbols of our faith.
I, wickedly, hinder the pear tree from its God-given course — shall the orthodox-tester, religiously, hinder me from mine? I nuist ■not forget that we all believe- at least we •say we do — that fruit and tlowers ami iunnanity itself, has been l)enititted by thi' -engrafting, biiddinu, and proselyting of the })ast, and it may be so; but I'd gi\'e any- thing I have to give for one "sli))" from the old rose bush that grew in my moHier's garden fifty years ago. It wouhi not lie as beautiful as s(Mne we now have, l)ut uucultin'- iid as it would be, its fragiance would put the Toses of ^^anta Rosa all to shame Is it true then, that grafting, budding and proselytiny; •spoils the frairrance of truth? Who can sav?
^'The Nest," -"^anta Rosa.
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EDITORIAL
Anna Mohkison Heed.
"W'liat I have b<'t'n, 1 ani, lii principU- and ••haiacter; and what 1 am I hope to contiuue u> be. Circumstances or opponents may triumph over my fortunes, but they will not triumph over my temper or my self-respect." -Daniel Webster.
Fraternity.
MOiiE Llian iiinetcMMi hundred years ago. our Lord, the gentle Nazarine. taught the l)rotlierhood of man, as tlie essential doctrine, of [xniee on eai'th to men of goodwill. The chureh. His sueeessor, in the instiiietion of mankind
in infiilliblc truth, lias repeat(3(lly proclaimed it as tiie foil lulat ion ol" all saving grace, here, and hereafter — yet men liavc made it mockery, by selfish blindness, through
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I0112: centuries of wrong and iniustice to their kind.
God docs not compel His creatures, and in the exercise of free will, man has burdened the human race with com- plications through which we struggle on, toward the ulti- lUMte good. To this end. in organization, haye intelligent men ever combined tlieir will and pur])Ose, for the welfare of humanity, and the preservation of truth. Divinely be- ginning with Christ andllis Apostles, later the church, and then Older after order, as through succeeding centuries men iiave realized, more and more, the power of uniting, to meet the necessities and obligation of human existence, and the justice of sharing its benitits and burdens.
So in the quick review of thought we remember, that the Kree Masons were tlte first to form a Labor union. The mediaeval iiuilding corporations, being the first cause to that ell'ect.
As throuuh all histor\, like a thread of gold, in a mesh of bas(M- things, we find the spiritual, the sentimental, the romance, and thi^ chivalr\ of man. So, in reverence for hol\ thiniis, came into existance the order of Knights Templars — military from its origin, its purpose to protect the pilgi'ims who Hocked to .lerusalem and other sacred sites in the Holy Land, after the first Crusade. Strife, then as now. seeminii: to make it necessary to i^uard with arms, the shrines of j)uace.
Blessed is any agency that causes man to call, in word and deed, his fellow being: -Tjrother." WTiy are men so blind? Why, in the light of this new century, can they not read the truth, and know that Fraternity solves all the vexed questions that perplex us? Why can they not see that FRATERNITY is SOCIALISM, already in eifect and hastening the time when the only "sign" required will
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be our brother's need— and PAIN and WANT are "Pass- words" to the heart.
Election Day is coming — the season is timely for resolu- tions and promises as to good roads.
Had we many votes, they should all be cast tor the can- didates who pledged themselves to radical improvement, swift and sure, along our public highways. A good point for beginning, on the coast, is the Navarro hill. For al- most half a century, has this perpendicular pull, been the source of cruelty to man and beast. Years ago, when its steep way led up to the hospitable hotel of genial Haskett Severance and his admirable wife — and rest, and refresh- ment, and o'ood fare, were at the end — there was much in- ducement for continuing the road. But now, when he, and his wife, and the old familiar stand, and all its sur- roundincrs of tree and flower, and familiar landmarks under the remorseless touch of time and change are but dust and ashes for evermore, there is nothing to hold the trav- eller along this wretched grade, if grade it can be called.
An easy route around the hill, at no great expense, will give comfort and satisfaction to a long suffering people, who clamor for the change.
Hon. A J. Bledsoe announces himself as independent candidate for tlie assembly. The people of the district will see through the public press that Mr. Bledsoe thinks that he has been unfairly treated by some of the self-ap- pointed leaders of the Mendocino County Republicans, and common rumor says that this is true.
To descend to the methods of jobbery, and political trick- ery, of which these men are accused, is unneccesary, and beneath the dignity of self-respecting citizens. Such acts can lead a party only to defeat. The time is passing when bosses can select a candidate and announce hiiu to the people. The people will select their own, sujiport him.
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tiiid carrv him to victory. Persoiiallv our only iiit-erejsl in this, is the desire for fair-[)hiy. We believe that the world is broad enoiitrji, its opportunities so many, and the reward of honest efibrt so sure, that we need not stoop to vileness, to secure anythini^ that is best in life. A position is not worth liavini<, politic^al or otherwise, that must be secured throutrji treacher\ (o another.
In this laud, where free speech is one of the safeguards of our liberty, all moottnl (juestions should be aired. The peoph? should hear Mj-. Bledsoe. He will address them at:
Willits, Au<iust -21.
Potter Valley, September 1.
Calpella, Sept(*nil»(»r ;>.
Hopland, SeptemluM- 7.
Boonville, September 8.
Fhilo, Septemb(M- \l
Covelo, Se|)tenjber ±2.
Laytonville, Septen)l>er 2 A.
Comptche. October 1.
Kort Bi'agg, Octobei* {'>. Other meetings to be iiiujouni'ed. Give him a hearing.
It is our good fortune to be able to present to the readers of The Nokthekn Crown, the latest poem o,f Alice Kingsf)ury . Cooley, fcKirth vice president of the Pacitic Coast Women's "Press association: "In The Plaza." It was given to us from her own hand, at her dainty little news de(^>ot, <)04 Turk .street, San Francisco. It is full of the wholesome coniforl that belongs to the cricket's song, as is her little book, ^'Poerns of Joy," that we have lately read with much interest.
Alice Kingsbury, in the earlier days, was a briglit soubret
and as *'Fanchon the Cricket," became the darPuiof of the
public. A tiny woman, but full of tireless energy. When
(she retired from the stage, to domestic life among her
babies, she modeled dainty shapes in clay, which were put
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into plaster and greately admired. Among them were "Cupid at Play," and the "Sleeping Bacchns."
In such work and her books, she found expression for a wonderfully gifted and restless soul. Her, books were all brio^ht and clever. Of "Ho! for Elfland," two thousand copies were sold in San Francisco. Her "Secrets Told," was a dainty sarcasm on social questions, but where others had poured gall, she sprinkled rose water. Her life has been full of thought, of effort, of work and service for others.
iShe had bright and beautiful cliildren, more than half a score. Her son, Frank Cooley, lias inherited much of her talent. Whenever we see this wee, winsome woman, we pray that time may touch her kindly, and leave - her with us many years. A living proof that woman may be intel- lectual, gifted, admired, and yet be gentle, loving, modest, and wear above the laurel and all else, the crown of motherhood.
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The Republicans of Mendocino county have selected good men for their nominees for tlie o !ice of supervisor. The name of Robert H. Rawles of the hrst district, is a synonym for upright manhood, and neighborly kindness, in the community where he lives. Outside of polities he has not an enemy. A native of Missouri, it is a wonder he is not a Democrat. But residing in California since 1858, we can surely claim him as a typical Californian, for such he is — fair of liiind, srenerous of heart, and genial as the sun- shine. His election would not only be a satisfaction to his political supporters, but could only mean the safety of the interest of the people at large.
In the second district, C. H. Bush is named by thfe Republicans. He is a native son of California, born in Amador County, and moved to the Gualala in 1859. Then to iJkiah in 1861, and in 1864 to Potter valley. He is a
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good man, who earns his way by honest toil, worthy of the respect of the people, and the loyal support of his party. Between him and his opponent, Marcus L. Gibson, itwill be for manV d. difficult things to choose — but whichever is elected, the interest of the public will be safe.
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It will also be difficult to choose in tlie third district, where Supervisor A. J. Fairbanks is pitted against one of the best of men. But he has greatly strengthened his claim to the people's support, by pledging himself to con- tinued road improvement. Work on the Eel river bridge will soon commence. They say he is the first supervisor of the third district, who ever succeeded in o-etting anv- thiuii" for his constituents. As a man he is known and liked, as one who for years has been identified with the interests of Humboldt and Mendocino counties. x\ native of Iowa, still Sonoma, Humboldt and ^leiuiocino have been his home rany^e since bovhood. And he will ])ass for a Californian anywhere.
It will be a fair fight between him and H. D. Rowe, and ail of us in luck, whichever is elected.
Leonard Barnard is nominated for re-election in the
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fourth district. Those who have travelled much, think of long journeys over devious ways, throughout the county, made easier bv quick, wiilino-. stagje service under his most competent control. He certainly has knowledge of the difficulties of transportation, in many directions, and should be a radical road reformer, to secure better bridges, easier grades and all that belongs to the safe conveyance of people and property. We hope to see ^ir. Barnard soon, and learn liis intentions, and write fullv of his claims to re-election, to an office that he has so far filled admifablv.
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j For Humanity j
IHK NOKIHKUN CK(nVN U9
Politic^il Announcements
An Endowment Fund tor Children •
liV ANNA .MdKHISoN liKED
FOR ASSEMBLYMAN
W. D. L. HELD
Hereby announces himself as the Regular Hepublican nominee for the oflice of Assem- hlvnian from Mendocino county.
FOR SUPERVISOR
A. J. FA ;
Iliiinimity is piviiie to hiiUL'nt its con- dition rather than to siit^gcst relief. FortMh()iiij:ht and c.oinMion si-nsi' can
j.revent nnich miserv Mn<l all onlinarv {r'''''Vv '''''"""''^'■^^''l'''^!f '^^.: ,. .r .,,, ' • - lit'puhiic.n nonimci" for Sii|if'rvi.>.;r ijl .'.ieii-
haidshjp. In nnlhin*: else ai'e j)eoi»le docino county from tiif Tiiird District.
Hi) lax. as in |/i(»\idinu' tor Ihe future of
tile >-onnu'. \'et e\cr.\chil(l has a riuht F()i{ sl,'IM^RVlS()U
to simple jiistitH," from those who are |), II. IjAWSON
responsihle for its l)einu-, and is en-it ltd Hereby aimonnces liimsflf as tl;e Reguljir
to a fair start in the race of existence.
Even the uood hook tell- u> that he who pi()\M(les not for hi-; housi'hold is worse than an intidel. Often eliildreii born to affluence, hy the illfortnne, l»ad management and lack of jiidu-meiit of their parents, lind then-elves at the thiH'shold of man and wonianhooii, with little education, no trade or pro- fession and no ca|>:tal to face the i)roh- lem of livinu'.
Democratic nominee for Supcrvisorof Mendo- cino county from tlic Fiist Districi.
FOR SFFERVISOR
C. H. BUSH
Hereby announces liimself as the Rei?ular Re])uijlican nominee tor Supervisor of Men- docino count V from tlie Second District.
FOR STII'KH VISOR
R. H. UAWLES
Hereby announces himself as the l{cfrul;tr Republican nominee for Supervisor of .Meu- For their protection that <-hildren docino county from tlie Fiist District.
may he better and more s(>c(irely horn, ~~ —
I here submit a plan for the thoughtful FOR SUPERVISOR consideration of peoi)li' of uood will, H. D. RO^A'K
COmbinillii- all the virtues of both tax Hereby announces himself ns the Resuliir and insurance without any of iticir objectionable featmvs.
Deniocratic nominee for Supervisor of Men- docino county from tlu' Third District.
'I'ax is certainly necessary to pro\ide poR .SUPERVISOR
fluids for the expoiiseof the uovei-n- nient, but it is n t a eh*'erful thinufor the masses to know that there i- little or no actual return lor money often wiiniii from their neee-^sit ie>. and i hat much of such r-x'emie noes to the "boodler" and the jiolitical "pap- sucker."
M. L. G1P>S()N
Hereby announces himself as the Regular Democratic nomint>e for Supervisor of Men- docino county from Hie Second District.
FOR SUPERVISOR
JOnX FL.VW^-AN
Hereby announce-; himse!f as Hie ietri';i: Democratic nominee f ir Supervisor of Men- docino ('ounty from the Fourtix Districi.
P^OR ASSEMBLYMAN
A. J. BLEDSOE
Instu'ance jiuts a premium on acci- dent and death — not always a wi.se thinu' to do — but a piemiimi on life is the most hmnane measure possible and
WOldd do much to lav the si>ecter of Hereby announces himself a.s and independ- . •. ^ ent candidate for the office of Assemblyirpn
race-suicide now hauntmyf the feast of fnuu tliis, tl-.e cth A.^sembly clistr'c
national altairs.
A child at the moment of birth is the Excelsior Press ('o.. For Your Printin*:-.
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For Humanity.
most helpU'ss of all known oruaiiisins — type ot Mltsolute (lepeiulciu'c Miui inno- cence. Its a«lven{ should l>e welcome, and its future provided for, that it mav enter fully e(piipped, tiie second hattle for hfe, in this woild.
First. (Miildren should he i)etter born— their physical, moral and mental organizations un warped l>y the hard- shi|) and sorrowing dread of anxious poverty-stricken, overworked mothers; and at'a more matme aye, the heyin- ninu- of practical, e\ery<lay life, they should not he h.ampered hy entire lack of means.
Money has he<M)me the necessary foundation for success in all human undertakiuiis. And until conditions improve finance is the most vital (pies- tion of eai'thly existence.
1 suy-iicst that a fund l>e created, of which the state shall he the custodian, hy the payment to the state at the hirth of everv child, of the -um of io or
more, as expediency an<i
legislation
young num ^n^ woman, at majority, upon the<lignilie<l planeof imlependent citizenship with «'apital to take up any cliosen vocation or profession than to allow them to sutler the humiliation of lK)\erly and its attendant evils — and extreme ))overty is degiading and re- sponsible for all misery and much crime.
The measuie proposed heic and per- fected by thouglit, suggestion and legis- lation would give to young ( 'alifornians the dignity and safety of moderate means, keep them fi'om hopeless toil and (|Uell the gambling spirit, which has cuised too many yoimg lives.
rn<ler the benign influence of this perfected plan, the lives of children would have a value, and so an added protection, even under the sordi<l con- ditions of the present selfishness and greed, of one class, and the sorrow and penury of another .Ml children would be more woUmhuc and their futuri' more assured. Kor the perfection of this measure I invite an inlellig* nt criti- cism and an homsl agitation, aiui in- voke the help of oui" legislators.
Tersonally advocating it through lliis publication until something is accom- idished.
Airnil'R J. THATCHER
ATl'ollNKV AN It ("Ol^NSEl.lJ )K AT l.AW.
Office ill J. Q. Wlilte huihtiiij^-, northwest of ( 'ourtliouse.
Tel<'|>tioiie, .Main 144.
ITKIAH, ("Al..
HENRY L. FORD
ATTOKNKY AT LAW
Ford buililint?, up stairs, corner Tliird and streets Land, Mininj^ and Probate Law a specialty.
sliall lix
The birth of each child being i-egis- tere<l, an<l a certiticate being issued lo be kept as |>roof of identity and a legal claim U])on a pro rata of the fund.
rpon tiie ariivtd of the lioy or girl at legal age, and upon the presentation of such certiticate at the jtroper depart- ment of slate, such smn to l>e paid to him or to her as can bee(|ually app<»r- tione<l im<ler the follow ing conditions:
It is a well known fact that the mor- tality of children from birth to the age of 7 vears is great.
Of lot), 000 children born in the first month they are reduced to iH),;^tm, or nearly one-tenth. In the second to S7,9HH; in the third to SH.lTo; in the fourth to S4,7liO; in the fifth to SH,o71; in the sixtii to Sii,r)2(), and by the en<I of the first year to 77,oliS. The di'aths being L' to tV The next four years re- duc«'s th«' 77,o-_'S to «)'J,44S, indicating H7,")oL' «ieaths before the completion of the fifth year.
Kach death wotild add a i)ortion to the sum due tlie suivivors, the state being the guardian of the fim<l and cojitrolling all money paid in for at least eighteen years, could so manipu- late it by legitimate methods that it would be a consttuitly growing and in- creasing (uii)ital. And no doubt often
endowed l>y the fortimes of peojtle of tillllillii" pllimbillg cUul repair- the true American spirit who realize . '"" ,^__ i ... „
that it is much better to
DonoKoe
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UkidLK's Most Competent Plumbers
Are located on Scliool street, opposite Masonic liall. All tiiiniim' pliimbiiig a
no realize . ,i i "
place the ll^ii" pr01H])tly (loilO.
i gibsott^s Drufl Store |
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tti I'lirt' Diiitis ( 'lit'Miirals Toilet Ait'u-lrs IV-rftiiufs -v-
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I\# I^« V^i€VCld.l\Cl Cancer Specialist
Curiiiu' (^aneei's is no now scientitic invention as Dr. Cleveland lias been siicee^st"ull\ enrin^r this terrible disease I'oi" over iM) years at Ukiah
BOARD AND TRAINED NURSE FURNISHED There is danger in delay ChaLfges, From $100 UP
JACK^S OYSTER
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CHOP HOUSE
A REALLY GOOD PLACE TO EAT AND DRINK
EVERYBODY KNOWS JACK
JONH DAY'S
Eel River Resort
•2.') Miles North ol' rki;ili None B\jt White Cooks Errvployed
$f Per^week John L. Doty, Prop.
Potter Valley. Mendocino Co.
SUITES WITH BATHS
HOT AND COLD WATER
All Stages Start First From ...THE....
HOTEL CECILLE
Only Modern Hotel in URiah
Malpas (& Cosgrove, Prcprietors
NEWLY FURNISHED THROUGHOUT
UKIAH. CALIFORNIA
**Get That Habit"
Of getting Your infoi'iiiatioii as to Kisliing, Hunting. Camping, or an V til in g a bo u t Me n d o ei n o County at
H. P. SIEMS, Prop.
Phone, 20
Ukiah, Cal.
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ING AND KNGKAVING.
Official match Inspector €aK n. m. R. K. €o.
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Jeweler
STOKE ON STANDLEY srHi:E'i\ WEST OF STATE STkEKT
UKIAH, CAL.
On the tirst day of Sept. of last year, we made known to the Public, our intention to giveaway an elegant prize to some one of our friends. Those who were among our customers will remember, how well we complied with every particular of our pro- mise. This fall we will offer another premium whieli will surpass the former one in every respect. To those who may not remember the cir- cumstances and conditions of the former drawing, we will say, that with every one dol- lar invested with us in goods at the regular retail price, our customer will get a ticket
which will entitle him to one 4*4*4*4*4^4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4* chance in this elaborate ~~ — ~~~ — ~~"
premium. The drawing will ^^ AJI^ ¥4[5\lo take place on Saturday, Dec. ^^* ^^ • m.K€XI%S 24, and will be conducted in a manner that is entirelv im- partial, thus giving the small purchaser who may be an entire stranger to us, an equal chance with any other, in so far as respect to persons is concerned. Remember this offer and if vou are in need of any article in the house- hold, look up the line of goods that we carry and see if we can't supply you. One dollar invested may bring you one hundred dollars in value. LOOK OUT for further news.
DEALER IN
Fresh veg:erables of all kinds. Also all F>uits in season.
Telephone orders promptly attended to Beat Brands Teas and Coffees
Drs* Case & Thomas
DENTISTS
UKIAH, CAL.
Ukiah. Mercantile Co.
Office: Corner Oak and Standley
Streets, one block west of
Sheriffs office.
Dealer in Jill Kinds of tvmbtr • • « •
james Stitt
Also (lealei- in Shinf^les, Shakes, Pickets Hoppoles, Windows, Doors, Etc., Etc.
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Building l)drdwdrc main St., Ukiab, Cal.
The Fashion Stables
)♦ H. Smith; Proprietor
THE FASHION STABLES arc the most up-to-date in Mendocino County. Best of care and attention given to transient stock* j^j^j^j^j^j^
State Street; Opp* Hotel Cecille
Renry IHeyer
Ukiab's « Ceading « tailor
Is now located on State Street, Opposite Ea^rle Block, and is showing tlie swellest line of Fall and Winter Styles ever brought to this city His reputation as an up-to-date tailor is never questioned.
The Excelsior Press, For Your Printing t^ d^ ^ Redemeyer Bldg.
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A ROSE OF MENDOCINO
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By Anna. Morrison Reed
The streets are bright with gay parade. With blazoned banners flung, Within a land in shine and shade, The fairest ever sung. The roll of drums, the bugle's ^^ ^™ call,
-"^ x^# The tread of marching feet,
Where hosts of white-plumed chivalry. In comradeship shall meet.
A score of years and one, ago,
Knights met to greet and part. And baldrics crossed, as here today,
OVr many an honest heart, That silent lies; as one I knew,
In days forever gone. For time and sorrow vanquished him—
My knight has journeyed on.
The spear has fallen from his hand.
His banner trails the dust, A stricken heart his baldric crossed.
So hurt by things unjust. But stainless as his plume, his life.
And safe from strife and wrong. To the holy city of our Lord,
My knight has journeyed on.
•Ji»tl) 'rrieiuiinl ('onclav^e
San F^raiicisco, Sei)t. 6th, 1904
The Northern Crown
"Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."
VOL. I.
UKIAH, CAL.. SEPTP:MBP:R, 1904.
NO. 5
AN UNIQUE CHARACTER.
BY ANNA MORRISON REED.
EUPHRASIA CHEVALIEK. "French Woman." (.Photograph taken in Paris 'J(l yo.-irs airo. i
W N Conuiuuie De Azy, Departnieiit * Dii Cher, near the city of Bourges, Central France, was born forty-six years ago a Httle girl whose subseqnent life and adventures have been stranger than fiction.
Of peasant origin, for twenty-one
years she worlvcd in iiouse and Held, with no idle day for vain repining. To plant the tlax, to harvest, cure, then spin and weave and bleach the fabric was the special work of her deft young hands. At twenty-one she was a lithe, active, graceful girl. Bright auburn
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hair crowned a head uiiiisually intel- lectual and framed a face of .sinsj^ular refinement, from which looked out the dark eyes of a soiil brave to a fault, the spirit of the most fearless, self-contained woman the writer has ever known.
She had heard of other lands where freedom was no dream, where even a woman if honest and industrious could live an independent life, respected and unmolested.
record of his achievements.
Full of hope and ambition, she jour- neyed to Paris, where for three years she worked for an honest living and studied the place and the people from the standpoint of the natural philo-^o- pher — for philoso|)her she was and is - the greatest in California. She was im- pressed by the selfishness and corrup- tion of the great city. She saw that the brightest are not always the best; that
KXERCISIN(t with a 55 POUND DtTMB-BELI..
And this was her "vision" — such a life,where the restrictions and unremit- ting toil of her earlier years should merge into a more equitable phase of existance. She was born, like many of her race, with the most marked characteristic of tlie French people, the courage of conviction, the courage that led Joan d' Arc to the rescue of her country and her king and inspired Napoleon in all that was best in the
great wealth was a power for evil as well as good; that vice overshadowed virtue everywhere.
The enviroments were not what she longed for, and she sailed for another city, in a tro])ic land, that shall be nameless in her history because it is her wish that it sliould l)e so. Here she found crime more rampant, vice more shameless, sin more flagrant, making a nightmare of horror to the
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giii who, tliougii i)i'ave, was yet inno- cent, with high ideals of excellence and honor.
Here by some experience, some re- velation of hyprocrisy, some awful cataclysm of sorrow, the sensitive girl was changed to the earnest woman with the desire for emanci])ation from the wrongs that had been hers since childhood changed to tiie iron resolv^e of a dauntless heart.
fornia, securing IHO acres of land some 12 miles from Oroville, near Hurleton, on the Forbestown road. She has fenced all of her land by her own labor, made garden, chop})ed wood, sold and hauled it herself, and at this writing has taken a contract for 100 cords to be delivered at and near Oroville, the cut- ting, loading and hauling all to be done by her own hands.
81ie has horses and cattle. She is
WITH HER TEAM.
That the world could no longer hurt her, as a woman, and to make perfect independence possible, she donned male attire, braded her thick hair close under her hat, assuming the manners of men, read and studied to develop brain and practiced jihysical exercise to develop muscle, trying to lose com- pletely her feminine identity in all that was masculine, excei)ting vice.
Nineteen years ago she came to Cali-
especially attached to her horses and her dogs, but has absolutely no human companionship except the casual meet- ing with neighl)ors from day to day as her work brings her in contact with them.
Her ordinary day's work with her ax is one tier of wood, though she could easily cut more. For years she avoided any notoriety, as she would not allow her i^icture to be taken or a word writ-
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ten of lier or her history. But the writer has had the good fortune to meet her, to gain lier confidence, and to have been her guest at her mountain home, thus securing an insight into lier strange, unique life and history.
As a peasant girl she was uneducated, but by ceasless study she has become a profound scholar, learned ujwn topics seldom touched b^^ woman and never by the ordinary woman. 8he writes and speaks French like a Parisian and is an adept in English with the pen, although speaking it with broken ac- cent. She is 46 years old, weighs 155 pounds and is about 5 feet 5 inches in height.
She handles with ease a 55-pound iron dumb bell with one hand that the
writer could not lift from the floor, and yet she is a comparatively small woman. She is industrious and frugal, her only extravagance, if such it may be called, is an indulgence in the best of books, having in her possession a library of rare value.
She loves her adopted country with its justice to all, its freedom, its high moral standard, the land that has given her liberty, security and peace, and is as fit as anyone to help make its laws, to aid in its development, or if need be, to fight or die in its defense.
Mentally and physically sound, cap- able and loyal, citizen and patriot, is Euphrasia Chevalier. In the name of indei)endent womanhood we salute her. — S. F. Bulletin.
THE ONE TRUE PATH.
By Ben Franklin Bonnell.
The stiff and sturdy standards of our faith. As beacon lights, shine dimly from afar. To guide our life-boats, but the one true path, Is not what we believe, but what we are.
When Jesus a true standard gave to men, To draw them from the rough and trackless
wild, Of seething passion and corroding sin, 'Twas not a creed, 'twas just a little child.
If, at the last, m^^ faith be counted wrong, Will it, to me, sweet heaven's portals bar? Or shall I hear the welcome, loud and long, 'Tis not what you believe, but what you are?
My intellect may fail me, but my soul Is linked to Him, across the eternal span, And down the sunlight the sweet message
rolls: "Believe the best you know, but be a man."
"The Nest," Santa Rosa.
(f\ Cwo Beauties. ||-
vl: Beautiful women were Maud and Clare; w
"* CMare wilh her great blue wondering e^'es, \|/
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iJc And lips made only for kisses and sighs — w
"' Ah, never was woman more passing fair \|/
/i\ Thau Claribel with the red-gold hair. cv.
/|l Maud was stately and tall and dark; %i/
'ifKk Her eyes were lustrous and large and bright, -T-
•J- And shone with a light like the firefly's spark; Vl/
/|l And her hair was blacker than blackest night; ^i/
I'A And delicate pearls twixt her red lips gleamed, -k-
;J« That whiter than i)earls of the Orient seemed. w
m . . .
ili Her laugh was like music trickling down T^
"' The ivory keys of an instrument fine; Vw
/i\ Oh, Maud was fashioned to wear a crown, ^A^
i|^ An<l in a kingly ])alace to shine— 'J:
." And if Maud a (pieen on a throne had been, \|/
/|\ Why, I might have reigned a laureat*^ then. vl^
'ft Ah, happiest hours of my life, were those ^U
M\ In the (juaint old cottage beside the sea, -k-
/li And memory, now, like a wind that blows, W
^f5 r^aden with spice, brings back to me \[^y
/M Floating waifs from old songs and glees, -v
yjL Sung in the shade of the tall nine trees. W
/f\ " iJi
||% iSometimes we walked by the rocky shore, -T.
.'. And sometimes at home on rainy da3's, \|/
/f\ We had noisy games of battledoor, -yjkt
'U\ ^^ read old legends and books of i»lays. ...
.<• And watched from the window ihcchangingsk^', \f/
/|\ And the fishermen's boats as they drifted by. ^t
'f* First it was Maud and then it was Clare — y^
|i\ Caught by a smile on Maud's ripe lips; J|^
iJi Tangled in skeins of Claribel's hair, Tr.
'?' Or thrilled by the touch of her finger tijts; \|/
/i\ 80 hour after hour and day after day viV
#Ii i gambled my heart to each away. 'f:
||i Maud is married and over the seas, k-
itSk. ^^' over the seas in a foreign land, W
'ft Whence fair ships, laden with fragrant teas, ^jf
Mk Nursed by the sun and the si>ice winds bland, •^•
rj* Come sailing across the i)uri)le main, w
n^ Past southern isles and the shores of Spain. ii^
.fr A bachelor lonely 1 sit in my room, \|/
^\ W^hile fades the sunset gleam on the wall, iiv
ill And round me gathers the twilight's gloom .?.
." As the shadows of night begin to fall; Vl/
/•\ And Clare in the churchyard is lying low, vii
W\ Where the clover blooms and tlie daisies grow. 'fj'
Scenes From the Sportsman's Para- dise^ Mendocino County,
California^
ONLY ACCESSIBLE FROM THE CALIFORNIA NORTH- WESTERN RAILWAY J^ THE PICTURESQUE ROUTE OF CALIFORNIA.
Pliotoby ftitton.]
AFTER THK HUNT.
"THE HUNTER IS HOME FROM THE HILL."
[Photo by Walker.]
All Afternoon's Bag of Doves From Along the Bottom l^ands of Anderson Valley Creek.
[Photo l)y Wnlker
A Day's Catch From Rancheria Creek, Anderson Valley
rriioto l)y Walker.]
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THE NORTHERN CROWN.
WOMEN AS TEACHERS
(From Re})ul)lican and Henild, ^Yi^Olla, Minn.)
MAX O'RELL'S pertinent question, "Are Men Fair to Women?" has nev^er been satisfactorily answered; in- deed it has never been answered at all. This keen sighted iniiuisitorsays: "Let a woman make a reputation in art or literature, and men begin to smile and shrug tlieir shoulders. They dis[)ute her talent. Hence, a woman in order to succeed in a profession must have ten times more talent than a man, in- asmuch as a man will have friends and comrades to help him and a woman only (liHlculties put in her way by men to surmount. Man receives encourage- ment from all sides. Wliy should not women get all this? Why? Simply because man being "verdict" and "execution" has kei)t everything for himself."
In line with this charge of injustice to women, made by Max O'Rell, comes the r<-port of the Moxley Educational Coinmission of England to the effect that only men should be employed as teachers of boys above ten years of age, for the i)itiful reason that as woman has been "the slave of man" through all ages, there is still no escape for her from the mental disabilities that this condition of slavery has entailed on her.
Therefore, not being man's equal mentally, she may be conipetent to teach girls, but boys are beyond her grasp and there is danger of their be- coming "effeminate" in her hands. Jt took these Englishmen many months to discover this j'awning chasm be-
I
tween the mental cajtacity of the sexes, but one cannot help wondering how such inferior mothers can produce such wonderful sons, at least when we take into consideration the fact that sons as a rule inherit the personal and intellec- tual traits of the mother and the daugh- ter those of the fattier.
The suggestion of the connnission ^ that women in the seat of the pedagogue was the fruitful cause of etteminacv in the bad little bovs of the school has been taken iij) all over the land by the pedagogue of the mas- culine liemlerand hailed with hilarious delight. At the recent meeting of the Chicago High School association Prof. Hall laid blame for the "eft'eminatized boy" at the very door of the pedagogu- esses, and proclaimed a coming epoch of masculine degeneracy unless the women pedagogues were bounced forth- with ajid incontinently.
The true reason for this agitation against women teachers is the fear of the men that they are being supplant- ed in the profession by their "weaker" sisters. The "lords of creatlion," when- ever they desire to crowd women out of their way, are always solicitous for their welfare. Besides efteminatizing the boys and making "mollys" out of them, they are afraid that women, by clinging to the profession of teaching are enlarging the crop of "old maids" to such an extent as to become a men- ace to society and a disturbing factor in the matrimonial market, almost to the verge of a i)anic.
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The same old charge that has came thundering down the ages, of women's inferiority, is again revamped by a commission of Englishmen— tliank the Lord, it is not the work of Americans
selves of the women teachers is to put all their force into the securing the passage of a law recpiiring e(|ual pay for equal work in the public schools irrespective of sex, and then if the peo-
— who see in the women teachers grave pie prefer to have men teachers over danger to the future manliness of the their boys, there would not be this
boys. Nine-tenths of the successful men of the United Htates today owe not only the gnMnid-work of their education but the very best qualities, fitted to lill the position, rather than
barrier of wages, and justice would be
done both the men and women teach-
It would then be the one best
ers.
manliness, honesty and patriotism, which they possess, to the women who molded their youthful minds.
If the masculine pedagogue are afraid of the competition of woman on the gro- unds that they work for inferior wages, there is a remedy for this ine(piality. El- nora Monroe Babcock writing on the Re- publican and Herald, ])uts the remedy in the hands of the men themselves. She writes: "I wonder it has never occured to these men that the easiest and most efiectual waj'^ of ridding theni-
the one who could be obtained for the least money that would secure the position. I really wonder if these men dare stand upon their own merit with a fair field and no favor. The wom- en, 1 know would only be too glad to take their chances on these l)asis."
Here is the remedy. Put the teach- ers of both sexes on equal footing- equal i)ay for equal work— and let it be a "survival of the fittest." The women, evidently, are not afraid of the test.
A Symphony.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages with open heart; to study hard, to think quiety, act frank- ly, talk gently, await occasions, hnrry never; in a word to let the sjnritual, unbidden and unconcious, grow up through the common— this is my sym- phony. — W. H. Channing.
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THE NORTHERN CROWN
A Dream of Life*
By O. A. Ward.
1 dreamed, and lo! A palace grand
Before me stood. Above About, — on every liand,
White walls in beanteoiis magnificence Towered npward. Beside me
Snddenly appeared a spirit guide, Who, in cheerful mood and
Sweet smile born of happiness. Spake low:
"This mansion is thine. Dost wonder?
See! It is thy spiritual storehouse; Enter, and I will show to tiiee
Far more than thon, a mortal, know. Thy earth life, — speak not, take earn- est heed.
Finds resource here. Wisdom, hap- piness. Contentment. All tliat thou dost need,
You but express sincere desire, 'Tis here and thine.
Oue truth, before we farther tread;
This know: No thing created is lost. Every atom of life's existence is returned.
Advance and note His wonderfnl beneficence."
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I <^"aze(l ill wonder. Past
Countless eliambers sealed With diamond hars. O'er ench door, III silvery hri^htiK^ss, were Si,i{ns to me rcnealed.
"(Jolden Moments Gone," 'iloiirs of Pcnii'l that are Past."
(Were tliese, indeed, mine own?) *'Oi)[)ortunities Lost." Tliis ehambei-
Seemed comi)]ete. With tear-stained Eye and faltering step, I would have
Soiigjit retreat, bnt for my guide, Who. witii hands tiglit clasped,
Spake uj), again:
^^What! Sad art thou? That
Is earthly, snre. Look! This storehouse of 'Love,'
Gathered from TTis 'Circle of Light,' Is still for thee. A bountifid sni)})ly
For Time and Kternity.
Thy gaze I read. Thou lookest
Anxiouslv, for misery And sin. 'Tis on earth
Only, such things abound. You gather your harvest
Of trouble there, but irot not the seed From this palace fair.
A favored mortal thou hast been,
To view what thou hast seen. Eeturn; and searching 'Life*
With mortal ken, gaze not too far. For, shiniiii!' at thv very feet,
The richest treasures lie, complete."
San Jose, Cal., June 2. 1904.
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THE NORTHERN CROWN
THE SPIRIT OF NATURE.
A MEDITATION.
By Albert J. Atkins.
THE divine spirit of Nature i)erm- eates all inaiiifestatioiis of life. The true student of Nature makes no computation of time, with him, it is the eternal now. Time is for the conven- ience of separating passing events; or it arises from the perception of alter- nate darkne.ss and light, which are ettects of the sun upon the earth as it revolves in the tields of iiifiiiate day.
When we understand that the divis- ions of time relate to evanescent condi- tions, we shall not be controlled by the idea of limited years, months and days, we shall advance to a knowledge of glorious eternity which is without be- ginning and without end.
Xature has her periods of activity and her times of repose;her action is both visible and invisible; her basic unitv is indestructible, calm and serene.
O Nature, thou art the great mother whose brooding tenderness awakes within the mind of man a desire for knowledge. In thy great presence the soul unfolds to the i)ossil)ilities of its own achievements; to the realization of its own divinity.
O Man, with all thy pomp of ])o\ver, with all thy boasted learning, thou art still but a child playing with i)el)bles
on the shore of the great ocean of life, yet art thou infinite, though thy div- inity is still veiled in thy mortality.
Rend the veil which blinds thee and holds thee to thy ])ersonality O Man, come back to a study of Xature and learn of her; she alone can unfold to thee the laws of her intlnite life, she alone can lead thee to the chamber of wisdom wherin th^u may- est find the rarest treasures of earth and of heaven.
O Nature, Omnipotent Spirit of the universe, would that all individujil life could feel the power of thy great har- mony. From everlasting to everlasting, thou art full of joy, full of contentment, full of peace.
O Spirit of all matter. Spirit of all force, Spirit of all nature, let our indi- viduality retiect thy divine selfhood; let us sink to repose upon thy bosom, like a child cradeled in the arms of love, to awaken again, in the light of thy gracious smile, to know thee as our tender mother. Here, in this atmos- phere of peace and harmony, we shall tind all that for which we have been longing, all that for which we have been struggling, in the great warfare of life.
THE XOJirHKKN r\{()\\S.
]o
From the World's Best Literature.
ECCLESIASTES ..* CHAPTER III.
To everytliiiig there is a season, and a time to every |)iir[)ose under tlie hea\'en.
A time to be I)oimi, and a time to die, a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.
A time to kill, and a time to lieal, a time to break down, and a time to build up.
A time to wee]), and a time to laugh, a time to mourn, and a time to dance.
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing.
A time to get, and a time to lose, a time to keep, and a time to cast away.
A time to remi and a time to sew, a time to kee[) silence, and a time to speak.
A time to k)ve and a time to liate, a time of war, and a time of ])eace.
What profit hath he that worketii in tliat wherein he laboreth.
I have seen the travail which God hatli given to the sons of men to be exentised in it. He liath made everv- tiling beautiful in iiis time, also he liath set the world in their heart; so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
I l^now that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
And alx) that everv man should eat
and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of (iod.
1 know that what soever fiod doeth, it shall be for ever, nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it, and God doeth it that men should fear be- fore him.
That what hath been is now: and that which is to be hath already been, and (iod re4uireth that which is past.
And, moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wicked- ness was there, and the i)lace of right- eousness, that ini<|uity was there.
I said in mine heart, concerning the estate of the sons of men, that (iod might manifest them, and that they might see that the\' them.selves are beasts.
Vov that which befalleth the sons of men l)efalleth l)easts, even one thing befalleth them, as the one dietli, so dieth the other, yea, they have all one breath, so that a man hath no pre-em- inence above a beast, for all is vanity.
All go unto one place, all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the bea><t that goeth downward to the earth?
Wherefore T perceive that there is
I nothing better, than that a man should
rejoice in his own works, for that is his
portion, for who shall bring him to see
what sliall be after him.
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r H K N o ur H K li^: ciio w n
SELECTION FROM "SARTOR
RESARTUS."
"Acji, MKi\ IjIkkkh!" said he oiu'c, at iiii(iiii^lit, when we haci returned from the cottee-house in rather earnest talk, "it is a true .sublimity to dwell here. 'I'liese fringes of lami)li,uht, slruggling up through smoke and thou- sandfold exhalation, some fathoms into the ancient reign, of Night, what thinks Bootes of them, as he leads his Hunt- ing-Dogs over the Zenith in their leasli of sidereal lire? That stifled hum of iNIiduight, when Trattie has lain down to rest; and the ehariot-wheels of Van- ity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to Halls roofed-in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only Vice and Misery, to prowl or to moan like nightbirds, are abroad: tliat hum; I say, like the ste- rtorous, uiKpiiet slumber of sick Life, is "heard in Heaven! (^)h, under that hid- eous coverlet of vapors, and j»utrefact- ions, and unimaginable gases, what a Fermenting-vat lies simmering and hidi The joyful and the sorrowful are there; men are dying there, men are being born; men are praying, — on the other side of a brick partition, men are cursing; and around them all is the vast, void Night. 'I'he [>roud (Jrandee still lingers in his perfumed saloons or rej)oses within damask curtains; Wretchedness cowers into truckle-beds, or shivers hunger strick- en into its lair of straw; in obscure cellars, kottje-et-notr languidly emits its voice of destiny to haggard hungry Villains; while Councilors of state sit plotting, and playing their high chess-
game, whereof tlie ))awns are Men. The Lover whispers his mistress that the coach is ready; and she, full of hoi)e and ftar glides down, to fly with him over the borders: tlie Thief, still more silently, sets-to his |)icklock and crowbars, or lurks in wait till the watch- men first snore in their boxes. Gay mansions, with supper-rooms, are full of light and music and high-swelling heaits; but, in the Condemned Cells, the pulse of life beats tremulous and faint, and bloodshot eyes look out through the darkness, which is around and within, for tlie light of a stern last moining; Six men are to be hanged on the morrow, comes no hammering from the RabenstineV —their gallows nuist even now be a-building. Upwards of five-hundred-thousand two-legged animals without feathers lie round us, in horizontal ])ositions; their heads all in night-caps, and full of the foolishest dreams. Riot cries aloud, and staggers and swaggers in his rank dens of shame; and the Mothei', with stream- ing hair kneels over her j)alli<l dying infant, whose cracked lips only her tears now moisten. — All these lieai)ed and huddled together, with nothing but a little carpentry between them; — crammed in, like salted fish in theii' barrel;— or weltering, shall I say, like an Egyptian pitcher of tamed vii)ers, each struggling to get its head above the others: such work goes on under that smoke-counterpane! — but 1, mein WERTHER, sit abovc it all; I am alone with the Stars "
HON. F. M. WEGER.
Assemblyman From the 6th District and Candidate for Re-election.
p M. WE(tKR was born in IlliMoise
* • but it makes little (litleiviice
vliereau boiiest luan is \hm'i\ — be is a
'itizeii of tbe workl, and a friend to all
lis kind. Mr. Weirer eaine to Meiido-
•ino eounty in 1S(;J), and lias lived bere
nid bt'en identified witb our interests
'ver sinee. He was postmaster at Orr's
"^|jrinjj:s under President Harrison's i ^''.yj'."'"
idniinistration and tben for a
iine manai>er of tbe Palace Hotel
ditticult situations. }U' was ait|)ointed on tbe eommittee for bospitals and asylums, and secured a rai.«^e of lil.l per cent on tbe washes of all employees at sucb institution. He was also on tbe commit tee foi' dairy. <, and dairy products, and roads and bii;bwjiys. He also intro(iuced the protective bill for liv-
long
His policy sbowed a clear insitrlit in- to tbe needs of tbe i>eople, and be bas
, , ^ , , , I made a record, even approved bv polit-
In wiiatever capacity be bas been j^al opponents. Tbev not being able
■ngaged, be bas l)een genial and obbg- to attack bis record 'or bis cbaracter
iig and bis friends bave learned to assail bim as to bis lesi^lt-nce an i)u-i-
le})end ui)on bun. Suddenly making „ess. This bas on! v made bim votes, as
lis advent into i)(>litics before tbe last ^ve all know that lie heloiiirs to Mendo-
lection, he was sent to the assembly ^-i,,,, ,.ountv, and bisbusiness, leiritima-
'V the confidence of the i)ublic, and tized by the laws of our government
yitbout a record, was intrusted with can but'illv be criticised bv nien who
lie responsible ortice of rei.reseiitative vote and iiiake those laws. So these
•r tbe htb district. are but a shabby pretense against a
|fi While at Sacramento, serving in that deserving man, who has proved him-
'apacity, he .surprised his constituents self tbe friend of the i)eople, and
'V bis tact and ability, in handling worthy of their support.
HON. CHARLES 0. DUNBAR
Of Santa Rosa Assemblyman From the I4th Assembly District and Candidate for Re-election.
CHAS. O. DUNBAR, tlie present representative from the Fourteenth District, is a tyi)iea,l Native Bon Born at (Hen Elleii, in sunny Sonoma, he has grown to manhood inspired by her promise and beauty, identified with, and loval to her interests, and alert and progressive, is serving her today, with the ability tliat has marked him for success, and endeared liim to the people. At the late session of the legislature he secured an api)ro[)riation of $50,000.00, for the improvement of the Home for the Feeble jNIinded, at (Hen Fllen, and in recognition of his excellent judgment, was a])i)ointed one, of a special connnittee of three, on state prisons, by the si)ealver of the house, to review and reform the ])rison systems of the state.
In this capacity, he will visit the prisons of the east, to compare, and con- trast existing conditions. 'J'he report of the committee will be awaited with interest, and it is to be hoped that they will carry out the reform so ably sug- gested by the late Hon. VVm. (J. Hen- dricks, former secretary of state, who presented to the people of California, a Penological report of great value, and
completeness, and touching on all lines of needed reform.
Mr. Dunbar, while at kSacramento, secured the passage of the Free JNIarket Law, and has lost no oi)portunity to advance, not alone the good of his con- stituents, but the welfare of the whole state. He is a member of the Order of Elks, Knights of Pythias, Native Sons, Eagles, Modern Woodmen of the World, Druids and Kedmen. He is eminently human and comi)anionable, in bonds that bind him to his fellow- men. He is a jn'actical news ])aper man and realizes fully the ])ower of that great lever of public oi)inion, the press
He has faith in northern California — the most wonderfully dowered territory of the United States. He inis faith in TiiK Northern (Jrowx as the expon- ent of its interests, as the periodical that will bn^ng to the world the pre- sentation of our posibilities— and we have faith in him, and predict for him a return to the capitol, as the represent- ative of the people he has served so well— and a future, tit to crown the work of the honest, able, energetic American citizen.
EDITORIAL
Anna Morrison Reed.
"What 1 have been, 1 am, in principle and ehaiacler; and wlial I aiu 1 hope lo continue to be. Circumstances or opponents niaj' triunipb over my fortnnes, but lUey will not triumph over my temper or my self-respect."— I>aniel Webster.
Advertisement.
We live in an age of advertisement. Tlie time will come when everything about everyone and every place will be known.
But today one of the great mediums of general education is advertisment. More knowledge of persons and places
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is disseminated in this way than by any other method of instruction.
And the world will indeed "make a beaten pathway to the door" of those who best and most truthfully tell it what they have of value or of beauty to induce it to come. The world is a curious old thing, and has spent long years since creation in finding out other things, and the task of seekio": and solving- will not be finished until all is known; and in knowledge made [lei'feet, the restless ages have at last found peace.
People and places that advertise lead the van in progress, their names are on every tongue, they reach the front wuth what they have to offer, to wealth and enterprise, while the mean s])irited, lag along beiiind, unwritten and unsung, and unheard of in the chronicles of active exist-
ence.
On the 6th of tliis present montli thousands of white plumed, handsome, intelligent men, marched through the streets of our great metro])olis. Men from all over the world, men from every state in the union, men wiio had marked the progress of their own |)arts of the eai'tii, and were eager to see that of ours, to comi)are and contrast existing conditions.
The headquarters of many of the California Command- aries were in the Mechanics Pavilion. Those from the southern part of the state had most attractive l)ootlis, with exhibits of fruit and grain and other products, most taste- fully arranged, with elaborate maps and literature of the most expensive kind, embossed and litiiographed, with no expense spared to present the best possibilities of their home sections to the eyes of visiting strangers. The Eureka commandry had a beautiful booth composed entirley of native woods, Init comparatively little literature — Ukiah had none. Our booth could scarcely be distinguished as there were several together in a grove of small redwood saplings. Literature we looked for in vain. A two page leaflet, issued some time ago by our Board of Trade, and to
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b(^ t'omid al tlie liea liiUiU'ti^'s of tlie proinnt ion committee on New Montiromerv sti'eet,aiui r)00 copies ol The Nokjhekn Ckown tlistrihut(Hl at our own expense, was all lliat we saw pertaining to Mendocino.
if we are mistaken we are eager for correction, i)ut we believe that the thousands of intcdliiz'ent and distiniruishcil visitors have rc^tujiicd to their liomes l)earinu- with thrm the elaborate advei'tisements of southern California and scarcelv realizinu' that there is a part of Califoi'nia Ivini: north of San Fi'ancisco, and entirely ignorant that it is a |)aradise when comj)ared with thc^ sonthej-n part of the state.
But southern California alone will represent us to the thought of the woi'ld just so long as she continties to ad- vertise lavishly, and she deserves her widl earned fanie and [)rosperity, the natural result of a public s}»irited gen- erositv ah)n!^' the lines of advertis(Mneut.
On lh(^ tiain. between 8;nita Kosa and (ic\ serville, we met and had an interesting half houi* with Duncan E. Mc- Kiiday, Theodore Bell's energetic congressional opponent. Able and popular as is Theodore B(dl, ho will have to look- to his laurels, in a conflict with Duncan Mcdvinlay. Talk- ing with this bright, selfmadi* man. and rcvii^wing his ap- pointments and the long miles between, that must be tra- versed, with hardly time to eat or sleep properly, before election day, it l>ecame evident to us that a military cam- paign is nothing compared to a i>olitical Held of action, where men mtist wear themselves out. s(mj1 and body, be- fore securinir coveted ottice.
It is a wonder that at the end. they have enough brain and spirit loft to undertake the duties of the position, or enough conhdence in their fellowmen. to wish to repres- ent them, or believe that they can do so. lionestl\'. Life is indeed a battle, and women shottld ])e thankful that cir-
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cumstaiiees usually relegates them to the limited strife of the commissary department of the service.
^: :•:
A notable function of tlie fall season, will be the annual breakfast of the Pacific Coast Womens' Press association, at the California hotel, San Francisco, Tuesday, October the 11th, 1904, at 1 o'clock p. m. These bright, busy women manage to get together for refreshment of mind and body, and a social reunion, at least once a year. This coming event is under the control, and ethcient management of Mrs. Josephine H. Foster and Sara Reamer, which insures the taste, harmony and entire success of the whole aflair.
KEEP A-GOIN^
If yoii strlUt' M tlioiMi or rose,
Keep a-u'oin'. If it hails or if it snows,
Keej) a-ii'oin'. 'Tniiit iio list* to sit aiitl whine When tlie tish ain't on Nonr linr, Bait your hook and keej) a tryin' -
Keep a-goin'.
Wlien the weather kills your crops
Keej) a-g'(»in'. When you tumble from the to|>,
Keep a-goiiT. S'j)ose you're out of every dime, • (JettiiT l»roke ain't any erijue, Tell the world 3'our feelin' tine- Keep a-goin'.
When it looks like all is uj),
Keep a-goin'. Di'ain the sweetness from tlu'cnp,
Keej) a-goiu'. See the wild birds on the wing, Hear the bells that sweetly ring, When you feel like singin', sing- Keep a-gohr.
iHi<: NoirrHKKN crown
•2:i
j For Humanity j
■ I
• An Endowment Fund for (children |
• •
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Hiiiiiaiiity i^ prone to lanicnt its con- dition rather than to sii direst relief.
Fort'ihoii.u^ht and eoinnion sense can l)revent nnieh misery :ni<l :\il or<linarv hardsliip. In nothin«!, else are people so lax, as in providing' for tlie future of the youni>-. \'et every child has a riojit to simple justice from those who are respon-ihie for its hcinw-, and is entitled to a fair start in the race of existence.
p]ven the uood liook tells us that he who pro\i(les not for hi>; household is worse than an inti<iel. Often children horn toattluence, l>y the illfortune, ha<l niana^'emenl and hick ()f judu'meiit of their parents, lind themselves at the tiireshold of man and woniaidiood, with little education, no trade oi- pro- fession and no capital to face the |ti-olt- lem of livinii'.
For their protection — that children may he hetter and moi'c securely l)orn I here suhmit a plan foi' the thouuhtful consideration of people of uood will, <'omhinin^- all the virtues of both tax and insurance without any of their, ohjectionahie features.
Tax is certainly neci'ssary to provide funds for the exi)ense of the yrovei'ii- ment, hut it is u' t a (dieerful thing for tiie masses to know that there is little or no actual I'eturn lor money often wrung from their necessities, and that much of such re\-('nue goes to the "hoodler" and the political "pap- sucker."
Insurance puts a premium on acci- dent and death — not always a wise thing to <lo — but a premium on life is the most humane measure )>()ssible and would do nmch to lay the specter of race-suicide now haunting thi^ feast of national attairs. A child at the moment of birth is the
Political Aivnouixcements
W. D. L. HKLD
Hereby annouiu'cs liiinself a^ Hie Kexular Kcpublicaii iioiiiiiicf f(n- till' otl'K-e <»f Assem- blyman from .Miiiilociiio comitv.
I<^OR SIT I'EK VISOR
A. ,\. FAIRBANKS
Hereby ainiounoes iiimself as Hie HeKiUar Republican nominee foi- Supervisor of Meii- doeino county from the riiir'i Iiistriet.
FOltSr PER VISOR
D. IT. l.AWSON
Hereby announces himself as the llcKUlar Denioeratie nominee for Siip<'rvisorof Meinlo- cino county from t lu' I-'ii'^t l»i<trict.
FOR STTERVISOR
C. A. BUSH
Hereby announces Iiimself as the lle^ular Repuliliean noininet- tor Supervisor of Men- docino countv from the Second HisUict.
FOR srrERVisoR
l{. H. IIAWLKS
Hereby announces himself as the Res<uliir Republican innninee for Supervisor of Men- docino county from the l-'irst IMstrict.
FOR SIT PER VISOR
H. D. KOWK
Hereby announces Iiimself as tlie Ke^^ular Democratic nominee for Supervistu- of .Men- docino county from theTliird IMsirict.
FOR SUPERVISOR
M. L. GIBSON
Hereby announces himself as the Regular Democratic nominee for Supervisor of Men- ilocino county from the Second District.
FOR SUPERVISOR
JOHN FLANAGAN
Hereby announces himself as the Regular Democratic nominee for Supervisor of .Men- docino county from the Fourth District.
FOR ASSEMBLYMAN
A. J. BLEDSOE
Hereby announces himself as and independ- ent candidate for the office of Assemblyman from this, the Hth .\ssembly tlistrict.
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most helpless of all known or,i>:anisins — type of absolnte dependence and inno- cence. Its advent slionld be welcome, and its fnture provided for, tiiat it may enter fnlly equipped, the second lottle for life, in this \vorld.
First. Children shouhl be better born — their ])hysical, moral and mental oryanizations imwarj)e(i by tbe hai'd- ship and sorrowing dread of anxious poverty-sti'icken, overworked mothers; and at a more matuu' a.ii'e, the be,^in- nini>- of ])ractical, everyday life, they should not be ii;nn|)ei'e(l by entire lack of means.
Money has beconii' the necessai'y foundation for success in all hmnan undertakiuiis. And until conditions improve finance is the most \ii:il (pies- tioii of eartidy existence.
I sujjgest that a fund be ci'eated, of which the state shall be the custodian, l»y the i)aynient lo tbe state at the birth of every child, of the -lun of -v") or more, as expedienc\- :».nd legislation shall fix.
The birth of each child beiiiu reyis- tered, and a certificate bein.u i-^sued lo be kept as j)roof of identity and a leyal claim upon a pro rata of the fund.
Upon the ;»rri\al of the lio\- or ii'irl at lei>al ati'e, and upon the presentation of such certilictite at tbe jiroper depart- ment of state, such sum lo be paid to him or to her as can beecjually appor- tioned under the follow ini^' conditions:
It is a well known fact that the mor- tality of children from birth to the a^v of 7 years is ^reat.
Of 100, 00(1 children born in the Hrst month they are reduced to 00,81)0, or nearly one-tenth. In tbe second to S7,0(iH; in the third to S«;,17o; in the fourth toS4,7iM); in the lifth to SH,o71 ; in the sixth to SL>,r)2(), and 1)V the end of the first year to 77,oliS. The deatbs beinsi- 2 to «>. 'I'lic next four years re- duces the 77/y2S to (ii',44s, indicatin.i' li7,5o2 deaths before the com|>let ion of the fifth year.
Kach death would n(h\ a portion to the sum due the siii \ivors, the state being' the guardian of the fund and controlling all money paid in for at least eighteen years, coidd so manii)U- late it by legitimate methods I bat it would be a constantly glowing and in- creasing capital. And no doubt oft.en endowe<l l)y the fortunes of p<'ople of tbe true American spirit who realize that it is much better to jtlace the
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young man or woman, at majority, uj>on thedignilied |)lane()f independent citizenship with capital to take up any chosen vocation or profession than to allow them to sutler the humiliation of poverty and its attendant evils — and extreme poverty is degrading and re- sponsible for all misery- and much crime.
'i'he nu'asure |»roposed here and per- fected b\- thought, suggestion and legis- lation would give to young ( 'alifornians the dignity and safety of moderate means, kee|) them fiom hopeless toil and (|Uell the gambling spirit, which has cursed too many young lives.
ruder the benign intluence of this j>erfected [)lan, the lives of children would have a value, and so an a<lded protection, e\'en under the sordid con- ditions of the jM'esent selfishness and greed, of one class, and the sorrow and penury of another, .All children would l)e more welcome and their future more assured. For the i)erfection of this measure I invite an intelligent criti- cism and an honest agitation, and in- voke the helj* of our legislators.
Personally ad\ocaling it tiirough this publication until something is accom- plished.
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UKIAH, CAL., OCTOBER, 1904.
NO. 6
THE TREND OF
CIVILIZATION.
BY WILLIAM AYRES.
ARTICLE IL
IN closiiiii; the initiiil article of this series, the woi'ds were used: "In re- x'iewinii' the posubihties of t lie future, for t he Paeifie coast, the (juery natur- ally comes to juiiul: Where will the ii:atherinii: hosts Ituild t h(Mr ureat cities, l>oth inlaiid and t-oniniercial ports? W'hei'e will iiorLhei'ii California liy;ure and how will she fare in the settlement of the jj;reat incoinim;' pojiulation?
This is a <inestion for the lotiican, (lie statesman, the pn)i)het. Nature hasin- dowed northern California with a la\ish hand, and her industrial centers and connneicial marts will i>row in exact keepinu," with the ener»!,\v and spirit of i)ro;i,'ress and lihcralitv evinced 'oy her people."
There ai'e s')me pau'c-; of nat nrc's hook, howexer, w liich c\i'ii the layman may understand, without the aid of prophet or statesman. And it will he r»^adily s-cn by the thoniihtful observer, that in t he|)roee.ssof peopling- and upl>nildingof t his w'estern shore, Huml»oldt jtresents unusual i)hysical feat m'cs as a distinet section of the cont ineiil, hot h in rela- tion to sea and la iid, that mark her as
ha\inu' no supciMor< and but few p.-iial- lels on the shore lines of the several continents.
Nature seems to have <lrawn her lines for the concentration of I'ticitic's connneiceat and through ilumlioldt'-; entrance-wa\'. liimiboldl istlic wc-t- ern-most, and mo.-t prominent head- land of the United States, pushing far bexiind its general coast line, causing it to be the liiv-t land sighted liy the in- coming craft from the <)rient. but un- like most otiiei' bold and prominent headlands, it is pro\ ided w ith a capa- ciou-^and <afe, land-locked harboi'. caj)- ablc of acconnnodating tlie commei'ce of a hemisphere.
Natuie does not hing by lialves. Not only i- lhnnl)o!dl the nio<l wcstein heailland of the Inile*! .-^lalt-, but lu'r harbor of lluml»oldt bay is the most western iiarbor between the Mex- ican anti British Columbia boundary lines, and it holds a position exactly half way between thost' two foreign l)oun(iaries. As a point of vantage com- mercially, fi'om seawanl, its niei"it< will al once strike the student and
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business man. In time of war, Table Blurt" and Trinidad Hf ads otter strong- points for fortitications agatnst an in- vading foe, and the harbor can be reached aiui entered by craft crossing tiie Pacific in shorter time than otlier points because of its bold position, and because of the Japan current wiiich serv^es Humboldt as well as does the more northern coast, and for this reason most of the craft hailing from trans-PacitIc ])orts bound for San Fran- cisco and lower coast ports, sight Hum- boldt tirst, and then the coast south- ward.
But the track foi' direct intercourse which natuie dcsigiud does not end here. The good old Dame has marked the way for direct railroad lo the east, across the Sacramento valley, through the l*it River canyon, or Beck- with's Pass, and thus straight on to the great inland distributing point of (yhicago. This would form the most direct line across the continent, and there being no steep grades oi' great altitudes to climb, could makeexce[)tion- ally quick dispatch. Dispatch in tran.s- ])ortation is the key-note to success and domination, and thus a direct line of transportation from Humboldt bay to Chicago, having (piickest dispatch, and straightest, safest line, would gath- er and control through traffic from the Orient.
Us Course would be the center of a zone which, reaching round the globe carries two-thirds of the world's com- merce. As if contemi)lating such de- velopment in transportation, a territory covering a hundred miles radius around Humboldt J^)ay has been en- dowed with exhaustless resources in varied form, and which are now await- ing the advent of home-seekers and capital to oc(Hi])y and develo]).
San FrMiicisco has undoubtedly the position, bay and harbor foi" the (pieen city of the Pacific coast, but Kureka will prove her Liverpool in commerce, because of the advantages in transpor- tation here enumerated. Trans])orta-
tion and power are the twin keys which oi)en the door to oi)portunity and industrial develoi)ment. Impel- led by the pros])ect of unmeasured exi>ansion, with their aid, both are hastening to unlock the long silent occlusion of millions of yet untouclud values in Humboldt. The tide of home-seekers which has so long been pouring its current into southern Cali- fornia is changing its drift towards northern California. The southern en<l of the state has been exploited to the core. And the home-seekers are turn- ing to the newer, fresher fields of the north, and these fields form a most striking contrast. We know nothing exce}>t by comparison, and when the home-seekei" has ti'axersed the dead bi'own country of the south for a few weeks looking for some inviting home, seeing nothing whatever but what is wr()Ui!:ht by the hand of man, except the bare earth, and then ex- pend the same length of time around the green hills and forests of the north, and it will seem like passing from death to life. The vigor and green life of the north is acc()m})anied with available crude values in multitudes of forms. On every Viand is evidence that the country is occupied with pro- lit to its possessors and iidiabitants — that the country is yielding something to those who work or operate for gain.
In the southern country theevidence is mostly of capital being expended, very little of proht coming out. When the same amount of cai)ital is applied and energy expended in the northern section of the state that there has been in the southern, no spot on the earth can e(pial it in wealth, in its elaborate developement in, the pre- sent possibilities that then would be reali/e'l in lumbering, in horticulture, in darying, in mining operations and reduction works.
It is seldom that a section so richly endowed is also [)r<)vided with a safe deep water harbor, and in this respect Humboldt bay and the surrounding
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country is specially fortilied. Here again the j^auge of comparison must l)e aj)plie(l. California embraces tli« same latitude on its coast lines that covers eleven coast states on the Atlantic shore, from the northern hound ly of Massachusetts to the southern line of South Carolina. Within that coast line and latitude on the Atlantic coast are thirty-tlve sea port cities having a po|)ulation of o(),()()0 inhahitants and upwards, and conse(piently the com- merce and industrial forces of the At- lantic coast are divided between thirty- live ditferent points; a considerable })ortion of which coast has been and always will be ham})ered in its devel- oi)ement hy an extended and rigid winter season, and a not ovei' produc- tive soil, Foi- the same latitude which is embraced by the California coast line nature has jjrovided but for three safesea])ort harbors between which its connnerceand industrial development nnist be divided. The whole distance from north to south has been given climate and soil that are wonderful in their productivity, but it is the north- ern portion of the state, and especially surrounding and bearing ui)()n IFum- boldt bay, the second best harbor of the state, that Cornicopia seems to have cut loose froni all restraint and scatter- e«l its gifts of every nature with lavish profusion.
When the mind takes in and weighs all the.se things which makes for the l)rominence of the harbor of Humboldt bay anil j)ort of Eureka, it will be, it cunnot fail of l)eing accepted, by ever^' nnpartial reader that Kureka and Humboldt Hay are destined, without rivalry, as the secoml jdace on the coast of California.
Casting the eye along the trans- Pacific i)orts with which the I'nited Slates holds ct»mmercial relations, from New Zealan<l in the South Seas, to Beh- ring Straits in the north, and seeking an eligible i)ort on the l*acitic coast of the United States at which to concen- trate conunerce, and fromwhich to dis-
patch trattic across the North American continent, no point stands out so bold and prominent to arrest the attention as the central headland of Humboldt, ami the currents of wincl and walei- join in t he selection.
ll is superior to San h'rancj^eo from an engineering standpoint an<l is sec- ond to San Francisco onl.\ in size an<l depth of its harbor-bay. The vast Pacific ocean is tilled with thousands of isl.ands, large and small, princi|ial!y of wonderful prodiu-tixily, and pfo- pled with races in \;irious stages of civilization and of savagcr_\ , nearly all of which ha\(' some commeicc. Tlu* larger mainlands l)eyon(i are a promis- ing held for a developing trade. From New Zealand, A u.'-tralia, the Fhillipines, China, Japan, and the Russian port of Vladavostock, the terminus of the five-thousand-mile Trans-Siberian rail- way, and hundreds of minor i)orls oiKMi u|»on the Pacilic ocean, the free highway, to reach this ftixored i»oint on the west coast of the Fnited States.
Taking in the poswibilities of climate and soil, of undeveloped mineral re- sources which are posses.sed by the islands and mainlands that thus give upon the I'acilic ocean as a free public highway of the world, the futme holds a great wealth of commei'ce for the up- building of the ports and cities of this west shore of the Fnited States. The hfly years of developement and growth of the I'acilic coast of America, as com- pared with se\eral hundreci years de- velojiement aiitl growth of the .Atlantic seaboard, seems like a taU' of enchant- ment, it has no parallel.
And great as are the acheivctnents that htive l)een wrought, we are but ar- rived at the threshold of the possiiililies of the future. Phe forces are awaken- ing imder the imjtulse of the newer civilization, as the westward moving millions gather on the Pacitic sliore.
For advantages of position as a com- mercial port and city, Plumboldt bay and Eureka arc but little less than first on the California coast, and the con-
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foniKitioii of the shore line makes pos- sible only three prominent commercial seai)ort cities on the coast within the state, as against thirty-live cities for the same latitnde of coast line on the Atlantic shore. With such a imy and harbor, the most easily accessible to the great commercial highway of all nations, the Pacific ocean, surrounded by crude wealth of every form, the conclusion must come to every think- ing mind that the future of F.ureka is destined to be that of a great conuner- cial city, having direct trade and com- munication with all the countries to- wards the setting sun. The condition and advantages thus i)rietly enumer- ated are sutti.'ient to insure and com- pel the coiu'lusion.
Hut Nature did not stop at these fav- oring conditions from the ocean side. A great railroad engineei' lias said that men do not make railroads, but that Nature makes them, while men simply select and smooth them ott. And it would appear that tlie worthy old Dame had made special arrangement for Eureka's advantage by marking a direct way fro.u this jxirt eastward through the l);irrier of mountains, leav- ing us to take our choice between the Heckwith J'ass and Pit River cniiyon.
The survey has i) 'en ni;i(K" niDi'e tlian once bi'tweeu Huuiboliit bay and the Sacramento \all('V, and pronounced feasible. For the \)i\<t tive years tlie territory east ward from the Sacramen- to \'alley has been a held for exiicri- mciital siu'N'ey l)y x'arious iJowcrTul I'ail-
road companies in the search for a less circuitous route to the Pacific coast than those now occupied by existing roads, the result of which is that by degrees a line of trans-continental rail- road, emphasized by Nature, is being evolved which will have the effect of correcting the blunders of pioneer ef- forts to effectually wed the seas and weld the union. And then the quick- est disi)atch from points aci'oss the Pacific to the great inland distribulory depot of the Fnited States— Chicago, will be by way of bknvka. The early tea croj) from Japan and China will be rushed through to the Windy City via Eureka. The "globe trotters" who are circling the earth, will select the route with the (piickest dispat(di via Eureka, and thos > who take their easy time to make tin' circuit in order to see all there is to be seen, w ill seek the route through Jhuuljoldt in order to view the crowinng gloi'y ot forest won- ders— the matchless redwoods.
The direct route is via Humboldt. The (piickest trip is via Humboldt. The attractions and absorbing interest in objects along the route is via Hum- boldt. Its (dimate, its scenery, the la- vish opi)ortunity for industrial enter- prise and investing ca])ital, will draw a majority lu'opo/tion of seekers for new h.) n.M, an i of t'u' b.'st en.'rgy of homi'- seekers.
Eureka and Huinltoldt will not be behind in the raci^ for prominence with the coming years, in the pio.'css of peojtliiig thi' western shore.
Li\'e for soinelbing; have a purpose,
And Ibal purpose keep in \iew", Drifliug like a bclmless ncssi'I
Thou canst ne'er lo life be true; Half the wrecks that >ti'ew life's ocean,
I f some stai' lia<l been tin ir guide Might ha\(' now lieen riding safely,
Rut, ihey drifte(l with (be tide.
— Robei-t Whilaker.
The Flown Bird.
From the Japanese.
By Richard Henry Stoddard.
Tlie ]N[aple leuves are whirltMl :i\v:iy, Tlie depths of the great pines arc stirred: Niii:lit settles on the sullen (hiy, As in iis nest the nioinitain l)ir(l. My wanderinu' feet go uj) an<l down, .And l)ack and forth from town to tow n, 'I'hrongh the lone woods, and l»y the sea. To find the l)ird that tied from me; I followed, and 1 follow yet — J have forgotten to forget.
My heart goes liaek, hut 1 go on,
Through summer heat, and winter snow ;
Poor hearti we are no longer one!
We are divided hy our woel
(Jo to the nest 1 huilt, and call —
She mav he hiding after all —
The empty nest, if that remains.
And leave me in the long, long rains;
jNIv sleeves with tears are always wet—
I have forgot I en to forget!
Men know my >=-lory, luit not nic — For such tidelity. they say, Kxists not— such a man as he Exists not in the world lodny! If his light hird has tlown llu^ nesi, ♦She is no worse than all the rest; Constant they are not— only good To bill and coo, and hatch the brood; He has but one thing to regret- He has forgotten to forget.
All day I see the ravens tly. r hear the sea-birds seream at night: The moon goe*i up and down the sky, And the sun comes in with ghostly light; Leaves whirl, white Hakes about me blow- Are they spring blossoms, or the sn(»w ? Onlv mv hairl (ioodbv n»v liearl. The time has eome for us to jnnt; lie still! yon will l)e happy yet — For death remembers to forget!
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THEFT OF THE GOLDEN CANDLE-STICKS.
BY WILLIAM WALTER MOR ELAND.
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OX UKTl'KXLXc; from an ill-starr- ed voyage to Nome in JS9<S our ves- sel stopped and tarried a few horns at Sitka, the capital of Alaska. The pas- sengers spent the time in looking about the city. A few went into the business portion, others discussed the social and religious significance of the totem j)ole at the Kscjuimo villiage, while the writ- er and another gentleman visited the imposing Russian church. In the palmy days of Russian rule, l)efore Alaska came into the possession of the United States, it is said the church at Sitka, with one exception, had richer interior adormnents than any east of Moscow; and e\"*Mi now, in that re- spect, it is of no small consecjuence.
'I'he ic()ns, crosses, altars and altar cloths are rich and costly and well worth inspection. That which most at- tracted our attention, howevei', were two golden candle-slicks, one on t'ach side of the altar.
They were about three feet in height; massive, highly ornamented, of nearly pure gold; and each had three l)ranches on each side of the main stem, thereby constituting what is known as seven- pronged candelabra. We were inform- ed that long bcfoi'e they had come into the possession of the church at Sitka they had Ix'en the sultjects of an uni(pie
experience of which our inroi'mant gave us an interesting account, which is substantially as follows:
II.
In the year ISIH Admiral KoskottOf the Russian navy, with foui' \essels, appearand ott Fort Ross, a colony estab- lished by the Russian government a few years before on the northwest coast of the i)resent state of California. He brought recruits for the army; also (piite a number of colonists with which to I'eplenish and enlarge the settle- ment. In addition to these there were two priests of the orthodox faith who had been intrusted l)y their superiors with api>ropriate decorations or the church already established at that place. The most atti'active and costly of the decor.'itions were two golden candle-sticks of the usual pattern but larger and more valualile than those lienerailv used in small churches.
They were pla(^ed in that }>art of the church where they belonged and were objects of great interest and veneration
I to the neophytes and communicants.
i In a large city or thickly settled country where the form of I he material might
j have been changed and utilized by
I melting, they would ha\ e ])roven tempting prizes to those in whom the reverent feeling is weak ami the crimi- nal instinct >trong, but it was thought
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they would l)e safe in u small, isolated colony such as this. FudecMi it ini^ht he said the ^ood fatliers had taken no thought of their safety, lelyinj^ on the veneration which all ( Jod fearin«^ ])eo- ple shouhl have for the utensils used in the service of the chufcii.
The little community \vere,tiieref()re, <^reatly suri)rise(l and shocked one tine morning- in the sprmg of 1SI7 to dis- cover the candelahra were not in their accustomed places; and upon callinii' the roll i( was ascertained that two of the colonists, [van PetroH' and Ali'xis ( Jorski, who had heen hrought from the penal settlement of Saghalien, were mis-^ino. There was, then, no doul)t in the minds of those in autiior- ity as to what had heconie of the sacie(i ol)jects, and the neighboring hills and canyons were soon filled witli men and dogs in search of tlie fugitives, l)ut no trace of either tiie thieves or property lieing foimd, it was finally al)an(lone<i.
Nothing definite was ever iieaid of the men, unless a rumor which origin- ated al)out tlie time the Russians were leaving the country at the connnand of the S[)aniards, was true. It wa- to the etl'ect that two white men, suppos- ed to be Russians, were living at an Indian rancheria over the mountains in the vicinity of where Ukiah now stands; l)ut whether the report was true, or w hether they were the ones who stole the candelalua, was never verified.
III.
The winter of iSSiMJO will long l>e re- meml)ered in ('alifornia as iln' rainiest ever experienced, with one exci'ption. While there were no disastrous th)ods nor extreme high waters, the rain fell steadily and ke\)l the streams bank full and at the danger point the entire season. Bridges were swept away; the earth l)ecame thorougiily saturated; in many places in the mountains the roads and trails w crt' almost obliterated liy slides and washouts; in the valleys
they were soft and miry, and travel about tlu" country was impossibU' ex- cept to those who were expert enough to pick their way on foot over and around the impediments caused by the continued rains.
I On one of these rainy monnngs in
I tl)e month of Keburary 18JK) Manuel
I (lOrski, a liaif-ltree<l, who wa» staying
on and looking after a -mall stock
rancli belonging to one James Conroy
<)n the liuckeve folk of the (lualala
I river, awoke wit li a -lari. Now it i-
j |)r()i)er to say in this place, that he had
ne\'er before emerge<| fi-om a >tatc of
shunber so sud<lenly. With him it
was a deliberate and reluctant proceed-
1 ing. In fact he was so constituted it
might be y'dU\ that both his bodilv
movements and his mental processes
were adjusted to conservative lines.
"Old Man" Hrumbaker, of Coyote I)i\ide. w litii asked his opinion of Manuel, foi'fibly expresse(| thr idea in less eh^gant language. "What, that Injun, Manwell? Why he'sth' I:i/,ie>t an' ignoi'antisl ci'ittci' ( lod evcrmaile. I shori'ly b'leve he w ii/. mad*- outiM' mud, an' mighty common iimd, too. ef ve hear nic." Thus the < )ld Man .Mrs. Hrumbaker who on the other hand, was an unconscious optimist, took issue with the head of the family on the subject, and rejdied: "Now Paw. I think yew air a Icetlc hard on Maiiwcl. He's got hi- good points same e/ ot her peo|)le ef yew kin on'y tin' "em. He's not a reglar Injun, nohow. He sc/ his gran'pa was :i lUishin an' Mi'. ('(Mnoy se/. Rushins is white. ^'cw air al'lez pitchin" inter people. It w u/. only la-' week yew w u/. rnnnin' down vi-r own gran'son, ,]o(\ an' his dogs, Hull an' Tige, an' a sayin' as how th' 'hole caltoodle wa'nt wulh shucks, yet they l)rought in -um mighty good <leei' meat yes'tday.' an 1 notice yew tuck yer sheer when it cum toeatin'." '"Well" responded the Old Man, as a parting >hot "1 don't go nuich on them half-breed^, nohow."
But there is no mistake in -aying
tlmt on the iDorning' in (juestion, Man- uel awoke witli a start. The wind was shaking' the ricketty old cabin to its foundation and if was raining "eats and dogs." According to the account which was afterwards dragged out of him at intervals and by i)iece-ineal the tirsr distinct thing he renieinbereci he was sitting on the bed rail, his feet on the floor and his knuckles in his e^^es. Wlien, by tlie lapse of time and his own efforts, he became less oblivious to the surroundings, he re- moved the knuckles and looked out of the one window the cal)in contained, which was at the back or rear end.
After gazing, absent-mindedly, out of the window for some time, he l)egan to be impressed with the thought that the
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or board, or piece of ^^'ood coidd be seen.
It had been erected on the brow of the hill on cojuparatively level ground but immedtately at the rear the earth pitched abruptly toward the bottom of the canyon, a mile away and at least one thousand feet lower than the site of the cabin and barn. Mamiel, being- superstitious it was a long time before he could connnand sufticient courage to go out and investigate. When he did he found the ground had broken just back of the cabin and a large section, including that ui)on which the barn had stood, had slipped and slid away from the brink to the bottom, leaving debris scattered along the route.
About the first thing which attract-
objects in that direction did not look ed his attention was an object partly
naturail. He could see the misty out- lines of the rain-soaked hills on the other side of the canyon, the l)ranches of the trees thereon swaying and dip- })ing to the gale, som^'thing he had never before observed from that jjoint of view. The longer he looked the more convinced he became that some- thing was wrong. The environment was new and strange. Had the cal)in been moved or blown from its founda- tions? Had the noise which awakened him been instrumental, in some way, in transferring him, house and all, to some other place? With this idea in his dull mind he got up, went to the front door, and looked out. No; the ax and the few old logs and broken fence pickets, constituting the wood [)ile, and the live-oak tree with the battered and un-
ex])osed above the l)i()ken surface, ap- parentlv of metal, verv crooked, and yellowish in color. He tried to lift it but being heavier than he expected to lind it he made the second attempt be- fore succeeding. His account of the discovery is sutticiently laconic and interesting to be inserted. "Find um brass thing. Heap heav', hea]) crook'." "What you call um? Vas, yaller. No good. Throw um down." Of course the "slide" on the ('onroy ranch excit- ed great interest in the vicinity, and as soon as the weather had moderale<l the neighbors came to .see it in order to satisfy their curiosity. Among them were Mr. and ^[rs. Hi'umbaker and •Joe and his dogs. Bull and Tige.
As the crowd wei'c looking over the ground and digging and ])oking about
used meat safe de[)ending therefrom, they unearthed another candle-stick.
were in their usual places and occupying their proper relative positions. (Jreat- ly mystified he return(Hl to the window
the mate to the one found by Manuel. Mrs. Jirumbaker who, among her other characteristics was "a snapi)er up of
and while making the second insi)ec- unconsidered trifles," asked Mamiel to
tion the solution of the mystery came
to him. The l)arn was gone! An ()ld,
irregular structure, l)uilt of shakes,
l)oles and hewn timbers, about forty
feet wide and sixty f^-et long, situated
within one hundred feet of the cabin
bad entirely disappeared. Not a stick,
give them to her. "1 don't jes' .sense what the'r good fer, but I'll be boun' tbe'rgoodfer suni'n ef yer can on'y tin' out what it is." Mamiel, who from the tirst had conceived a dislike for the things was only too glad to get I'id of them, I'eadily consented; so, with
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imich difficulty, but against the pro- j inountaiu districts and started out. test of tlie "Old Man" they were trans- In due time he arrived at Coyote ported to CJoyote Divide. Now it hap- Divide. Mrs. iirundiaker wanted ])ened that about this time Joe was i caliker, an' thread, an' bluiii, an' iiaving considerable trouble in keeping matches, an' sich like" but did not his dogs at home. They had ac(|uired have money or articles of barter. Ike the habit of clandestinely leaving the | was about to leave when he espied the ranch and roaming the hills, some- 1 emblejns of servitude to wliich J^ull times for three or four da^'s and and Tige were attached and mentally nights, a sure sign, according to fron- calculated their value as junk, projioscd tier lore of becoming worthless and to exchange something for them, relapsing into the wild state. Mrs. B. was wary, and Joe was loth to
The only way they could be ke])t at i»art with his "ankers," l)ut after much home was by chaining them to a post, haggling a basis of exchange was ar- but this was hardly feasible for the rea- rived at and agreed upon, Joe being son that they fretted a great deal and : molified by the i)ossession of twenty- bakredsocontinuouslythattheOld Man | five cartridges, his portion of the trans- threatened "ef he got to th' pint, an'he | action. The candelal)ra were then wuz purty near thar, thej^'ed be two I loaded on the wagon and the peddler dogs less, an' nia^-be one boy." For- 1 went his wa}', tunately the day they returned from | ^^
the Con roy ranch Joe found he could ^^^- Johnson the foreman of the keep them at ho!ne as well by attach- Hercules P^oundry, of Sjin Francisco, ingeach of them to a candle-stick as | came into the main office of the com- by chaining to a post. It proved ' P^'^y ^>»ti day in the sunnner of lsf)0 to be a grand scheme, By dragging and announced his desire to see Mr. thf- weights after them they could freely i'-iHot, the manager. That gentleman, circulate about the yard and cleared observing something unusual in the ground but when they attempted inde- 'iM>Pt^a»-ance of the foreman, a>ked: pendent hunting the projecting prongs "What is the matter, Johnson"? of the candelabra would catch in the "Well, sir," replied the latter, -I have fence or brush and detain them. Mrs. ""^"^^l the men at work this morning B. was especially delighted in being breaking up matter for a l.la>t and, able to substantiate lier theory that »" looking over the heap, I found "ever'thing is good fer sump'n ef yew : ^^"i*^tl»'"^" ' ^^^^"'^ ilnwk belongs there, kin only tin' out what it is." "Now i There are two articles which have jes' look thare. Paw," said she. "The'r | ^<^^» «^1^ to us for brass which, on jes' like ankers tershij)s, ef Joe ainta examination, I do not believe to be
genus I never seed one."
IV.
brass. They are softer and heavier than brass and ditlerent '" -—'"•• "
m eoior.
MO
Isaac Marks was called a peddler, "What do you think they are, then but that word hardly defined the ex- 1 "In my opinion they are gold." said tent of his business. By means of a Johnson. "Oh, nonsence" replied the team and small wagon he was ostensi- ^ manager. "Vou are mistaken. No bly engaged in exchanging "store j one would be so foolish as to sell u.s goods" for ox-hides and calf, deer and gold for brass. Break them up andj>ut coon skins, but he would not liesitate j them in the furnace." "Now, Mr. to trade for old iron, brass and similar Elliot," presisted the foreman "lam
articles if he saw a profit tberein. In the si)ring of 1890, the roads having become i)assable, he loaded his wagon with such things as were needed in the
so tirmlv convinced I am ritrht 1 will ask you to examine them first." The manager was a well informed man, had made a special study of all kinds
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of metal ornaments, and at first glance concurred in tlie judgment of the foreman.
They were undoubtedly gold. Upon a critical examination he discovered something which had escaped the eyes of all throngh whose hands they had passed. He found engravings, which were very dim and nearly obliterated on each, which he decided were Rus- sian letters or characters. He was greatly puzzled, however, as to how they had gotten into a junk pile. "Where did tliey come from"? he inquired. "'J'hey came with a lot con- signed to us from the country by a man named Marks,"answered Johnson. 'J'o a man like Elliot to think was to act.
Putting them aside he sent for the resident priest of the Russian church, the most learned individual of that people in the city. That fimctionary was not long in determining what they were and for what use intended. As a priest he was fully acquainted with the circumstances attending the theft of the candelabra from the church at Fort Ross, and by comparison with the de- tails of the storv decided they could be
no other than the long lost ornaments. Their history from the time they were found was traced through the hands of Manuel, Mrs. Brumbaker and Marks, and being satisfied they had each come by them honestly they were liberally rewarded for being instrumental in re- storing them to the church. Mrs. B. wasnot only gratified at thesizeof there- ward but highly elated over the further confirmation of her belief that "ever'- thing is good fer sump'n ef yew on'y fin' out what it is." The church at Fort Ross having, long since, gone out of existence they were sent to that in Sitka as being best entitled to them.
'J'he thieves in their flight through the uninhabited country had buried them in the spot near the crest of the ridge over which the Conroy barn had been erected many j^ears afterwards and where they remained until provi- dentially unearthed by the avalanche which gave Manuel so much alarm. Another co-incidence developed by the investigation was that Manuel Gorski was a grandsou, through Indian female ancestors, of one of the men who disaj)- ]>eared with the candelabra.
WASTED.
By Nil2. E. White.
As some traveler in a desert way, Thrills at the sight of palms -so green and fair. So 1, wlien deep into your eyes I looked 'i'hrilled at the lovelight theie.
'Twas the retlecton of my own heart's fire Deceived me. I found the light all false— untrue- Ah, dear, tears had not <|uenched their tiame. Had it been shared l>v vou.
MY FATE.
By Geor^ie K. Reed.
My Fiite lives ludf of the world away,
Half of the world awav from me,
Jiiit he is haiid-onie and tall and fair
As any a Saxon Iving should be —
My Kate has eyes of violet l)lue,
And hair as yellow as beaten gold;
His lii)s are hs red as a scarlet tlower
And he grew from a faniily proud and old;
His heart is a heart that's all a heart
Of staimch and sterling worth,
iiut the distance dividing us, 1 judge,
Is half of the peopled earth;
Still lie is nnne and I am his
As far as our fate will tell,
And tho' we may never meet, I know
He loves me, and loves me well;
He understands and so do 1
The depth of our hopeless love —
He otiers a prayer and so do 1
To our guiding star above —
Tlie world is wide and hard and cold.
And fate is a thing unsure,
So all we can do, my love and I,
Is to hope and thus endure —
We have all but clasped each others liands,
We have all but touched our lips,
J^ut it seems our love is the fated rose
That the bee in his journey skips.
He is waiting, and so am I, But who is to know how long — It is like a singer we hear in the dark, We only have the song — Perhaps we have passed a thousand times Over the selfsame sen, J^ut there was never a signal shown To beckon my love to me; Oh, think of the wasted hours of us The waiting— the weary hope. But such is the life of him and n»e In our written lioroseoju'. He may marry, and so may I, But there will always be That blind and staggering search in life For all eternity — But day is day and night is night And fate is as sure as both, So we must live— my love and 1, We willing— and Fate the loath With hands outstretched and stumbling feet And eyes that do not see— J am seeking this love of mine And he is seeking me; F^ate is cruel as Fate is kind As in the darkness our way we grope — J^ut in spite of a thousand doubts and ifs We nurse in our hearts a stubborn ho]ie, Sometime— someday— somehow -somewhere- Deep in the midst of coming years \Ve yet mav lind the love we seek And wee]) "togetlier our sacred tears.
HON. DUNCAN E. M^KINLAY.
REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR CONGRESS FROM THE
SECOND DISTRICT.
DUNCAN E. McKINLAY was born at Orilla, Ontario, Canada, Octo- ber 6th, 1862; educated in the common schools of that place initil twelve years of age, when he was comi)elled to go to work at various employments; when sixteen years old he removed to the city of Flint, Michigan, where he learn- ed the trade of caniage painting. At [ twenty-one he came to San Francisco,
and worked at his tr^de imtil 18H4, when he removed to Santa Rosa and engaged in the painting business.
In his spare time he studied law, and was admitted to practice before the supreme court of the state of Cali- fornia in ]S1)2; was nominated elector- at-large on the Republican ticket in WHliam McKinley's first presidential campaign, and was elected by the largest nuijority of that year; was made
president of the Electoral connnission to cast the vote forMcKinley; was ap- pointed assistant United States attor- ney at San Francisco, by President McKinley in 1901, succeeding to the post of tirst assistant attorney, upon the death of Edward J. Banning, in Jamiary, 1904.
With this record, that tells of the tireless energy of tiiis self-made man, as well as of the matchless opportunities attbrded every bright, determined cap- able citizen, by the principle and poli- cy of a peerless government, Duncan E. McKinlay comes before the voters of the se(M)nd Congressional district, and asks them for their suttVage. His own experience has made him the loyal friend of every working jnan, who carves out life's problem from the hard rock of circumstances.
His sym})athy should go out --and we believe that it does — to the struggling and oppressed upon every hand, who strive to overcome adverse fortune. He must realize the needs of tiie people, an d would be more tit to serve them, since his own experience of their con- dition, has been most practical, and long thought has led to successful action.
He has i)olitical ability of the first order, is an eUxjuent and logical speak- er and would handle with tact and skill, theissues before our national assem- bly. We believe that the ])eople could only be benefitted by his selection. Let the honest majority rule, and after election day, all party strife be forgot- ten. The choice of the people should be welcome to all. as in an honest con- test there is no aftermath of bitterness. And time will tell the wisdom of all choosing. Let each jMiblic servant stand or fall bv his own recoi'd.
IMIK NOirrUKKN ( kown
13
THE CALL OF THE SEAS.
By E. B. C.
Now our summer is hot with a smoky Like thill vajH)!-, driiwii up to return
red sky, We so lou^ to your hahuy sen hreezes
to tlv!
soon as ram, We wash l)aek to cold sileuc*'. from whieli we all came.
We recall the ertect of tiuMr magical j^^^^^. f.^.^iij.^, i„.chau-.-.l, the N.vv kiss —
The fresh Wreath of salt I )reezes— exhal- ing? cooi hiissi
In weird fancy to-<lay, I am strolling the strand.
landscape I set', Tlie green hills and Hig liiver appr»»-
aching the sea, The old mill, and the chute, the road
climhing to town,
Where your rolling white foaui, lai)s /1^'»^' '''^ »'«''<'gt^. and the t1at, with ol<l
the ocean-worn sand, I hehold, through gray mists, your
great hillows arise,
logs strewn around.
Far away -where the sun tints with yellow the west—
And still phantom-like vessels, dissolve ^,.^ hewildering waters' peri^-tual
m your skies.
unrest.
See, advancing, recedi!)g, those break- ^> J^" limitless mystery! Visible
ers' wild sprav, •^'>^'''
Submerging great rocks, on their deaf- J^^''<>'»' ^^i'^^^' ^^-^^"^ <>f time, how eternal
vour roll!
ening way!
And a gentle, surge-si)lash, compels Deeji beneath all your waters' tumul-
my retreat, I tuous strife.
From some briny old log, I have fouud'of your myriad sea creatures volu|>-
tous life, What dark weights of <'old stilln»'» to
maukiud untold! What pathetic l)iographies could alom> unfold!
for a seat.
I take home your wet treasures, in tiny
l)ools found. On the rocks, and in sands, by the
waves washed around — Though the beautiful, dripping: things
glistening bright, Dry, and lusterless dioop, if i)ut moved
from your sight.
Flocks of seagulls, do hover your
waters and Jight, To float peaceful and calm, after
wearying flight. They aie not the same seagulls, 1
watche<l years ago— JNlany have vanished, with limes ebl»
and flow.
And o'er all are electrical waves of close<l light,
And too, spiritual waves far more hicKlen from sight.
When 1 think of these wonders stu- pendous sublime.
My soul kneels, and accepts a creator divine!
Hush! I hear m the disiaiicc— a mur- muring roar —
The low slushing of \vaves from an unbroken sliore! —
Thev are rolling a sunnnons— not only
At the homes, that still nestle .so clo.se ^^'" '^^*^ —
on vour shore A lullaby sunnnons from waves of a
Time's mask o'er known faces intrudes | *^a.
at the door. j Tkiah, Sept., 9th, 1904.
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HON. THEODORE A. BELL.
Democratic Congressman from the Seccnd Ccngressicnal District nnd
Candidate fcr Re-election.
Til KODOUr: A. r.I-lLL is u iintivc ( 'Mlifoi'ni.Mii, l)()rii :il N'Mllt-jo. where he attt'iKJcd the piihjic schools, and ^Tadiintt'd Mt thcauc of sixteen years.
on t he t weiifN-liisi anni\'er-ary of his birlli was admitled lo the practice of law, ix'fore the coui'ts of California. He was elerted <listrict attornev of
He woi'ked foi a time on a farm, l)nt | Napa connty in is!t4, h inn' jtrohahly later (inalilied hiniseir foi- tcachinu, t lie vonnucst District attoi'iiev in Cal- and lanu'ht sciiool Uv s )ine eiuiiteen ifornia at that lime. J le st-r\'ed in that niontlis. w iiilc si nd\ inu law and pass- | caj>.ieit\ foi' eiuht years. The peojile of inu' t lu' exam inal ion < snccessruiJN-, and tlie second congressional district t'lected
Til !<: N()i;'imii:k.\ ckow n
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liini as their last represeiilatlve in the United States cons^ress. When at Fort Bragg, we had the delight of meeting, and hearing him (vn the issues of the campaign. And it is a delight and n refreshment t(» see, and hear thisl»right young Caiifornian, in his unspoiled youth — his faith in high ideals; in his fellow men; and in his own al)ility, and intentions to serve them.
His broad views of usefulness, and justice lift him far, and away from the politieal methods and intrigues, that helong to the eareers of smaller men. Theodore .\. liefl has all tlu' (pialities that make uj* the statesman, rather tlian the ))olitieian. For beyond all
I narrow partisanship, he is eminently
! an Ameriean.
I Hi.s youth, ma<l«* a re|troa<'h by his l)olitieal opponents — and the oidy as- sertion founded on altsolute truth, made by them — is a fault that time will cure, while as yet it saves him, from the bitterness, and disillusion, that mars the faith of older m«Mi in humanity, and in the i>ossibilities of serving to some purpose, the interests <»f the people. '
lie loves ( 'alifornia — He work> for her advancement — }1e has served her well — 'i'he people can make no mistake in returnmg him to the \>itional .\<s('ml»lv.
Life's Crue Purpose.
By Ben Traiiklln Bonncll.
Jesus the just and holy < )ne
Who laughl:" Lo\e ot herssiime t»^ <elf, "
< 'oulil sutl'er shame and stand alon*-.
His righlt'(»usness His only wealth —
I'd give up every earthly gain
To stand uj)on that l(»fty plain.
His eniuiies destroyed His life He Idessed them with His dying breath, Jiiit now His friends with endless «it rife J'roelaim (iod's pleasure in His death — 'JMiat "(Jod couUl not the world fi»rgive. And let the Holy Jesus live."
Why shouhi "His death (io(l'> wrath
appease"? Why should "His blood for sin atone"? IV'lievt* such d(»etrine all who pl«'a>^, Hut I'll withdraw an<l stand alone, "rill nu'ii will l<«ve and honor ( Jod "J'hrough truth and right and n<it
through blo(«d.
0\\ would mankind but this perceive, ■"Twould lift the veil from every eye; His life taught mortal^ how to live. His death taught mortals how to the — ''Ti«< true — "He died that wemight live,'* That men — not (Jod — might meii forgive.
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HON. THEODORE A. BELL.
Democratic Congressman from the Seccnd Ccngressicnol District and
Candidate for Re-election.
THKODOIiK A. IW'AA. is ri n.-itivc ('alil'oi'iiJMh, horn at N'mIIcjo, where h<' attended the pnhhe schools, and ^•radiiated at the ng'e of sixteen years. He \vorke(l Coi' a time on a farm, l)ul later ((ualille<l himself for teachini;', and lanuht school f( r s >nie eiiihteen months, while study inii' law and pas.s- inu' the examinat ions snccessfnlly, and
on the t wcnty-lirst anniver^ai'v of his l)irtii was admit le(l (o the practice of law, hefore the courts of Califoniia.
He was elected district attorney of Napa county in ISJM, hing' prohal»ly the youngest District attorney in ( 'al- ifornia at that time. He served in that cap.icity for eight years. The j)e()ple of the second congrt'ssioiud district elected
vwi: Noit i"iii:k.\ ckown
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liiiH as llu'ir last ropreseiit alive in the Ignited States congress. Wlien at Fort Bragg, we had the dehght of nieeting, and hearing liini ou the issues of the campaign. And it is a delight and a refreslnneiit to see, an<l hear this hright voung ( 'aiiforniaii, in his unsj)oiled yontii— his faith in high ideals; in his fellow men; and in his own al)iiity, and intentions to serve them.
His l)road views of usefuhiess, and justice lift him far, and away from the political methods and intrigues, that belong to the careers of smaller men. Theodore .\. HeFl has all the (jualiiies that make up the statesman, rather than the politieian. For beyond all
narrow i»artisanship, lie is eminently an American.
I His youth, ma<le a reproa<'h by his l)olitical opponents — and the only as- sertion founded on absohite truth, made bv them — is a fault that time will cure, while as yet it saves him, from the
i bitterness, and disillusion, that mars the faith of older men in himianity, an<l in the possibilities t»f serving to some purpose, the interests of the people.
He loves California— He work> foi' her advancement— He has served her well — 'I'he ))eople can make lio mistake in returning him to the X^tional Assembly.
Elfe's Crue Purpose.
By Ben Traitklin Bonncll.
.lesus the just and holy One
Who taught:" I iO\e others same ;<s s^If, "
< 'ouitl sutl'ei' shame and stand alouf,
His righteousness His only wealth —
I'd gi\e up evt'i'v earthl.N' gain
To staml np(»n that lofty plain.
His eniuiies destroyed His life He Idessed them with His dying lu'ealh, JJiit now His friends with endless si rife J'loelaim (Jod's pleasure in His death — 'J'hat ''(Jod could not the world fctryive. And let the H(»ly Jesus live,"
Why slKMild "His death (imV^ wrath
appease"? Why should "His Idood for sin alone"".' H.'lieve such d(»ctrinc all who please, Jiut I'll withdraw and stand alone, "Till nuMi will l(«ve and lunior ( ;<»<l 'J'hrough truth and right and n(*l
through blo<»d.
iiU would mankind but this perceive, ^'i' would lift the veil from every eye; His life taught mortal^ how to live. His death taught mortals how to die — ■'TIS true— "He died that wemight live," 'J'hat men —not (Jod- might meu foruivc.
EDITORIAL
Anna Morrison Reed.
, "What 1 have been, I am, in principle and character; and wiiat I am I iiope to continue to l)e. C'lrcuuistances or opponents may triumph over my fortunes, but tliey will not triumph «)ver my teniper or my self-respect." — Daniel Webster.
Capital PvinisKment.
And tlie Lord said unto Cain: Wliere is Abol, thy bro- ther? And lie said, 1 know not: Am I niv l)rother's keep- er? And he said, What hast thou done? The voice of thy bj'other's blood erieth unto ine from the jxround. And now art thou curscMl from the eartli, which hath opened
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her mouth to receive thy brotliers bkjod from thy hand; When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and 1 shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth and it shall come to pass, that everyone that lindeth me shall slav me. And the Lord said unto him: THEREFORE WHOSOEVER SLAYETH CAIN, VENGEANCE SHALL BE TAKEN ON HTM SEVENFOLD. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. — Genesis IV, 1-1(3.
A man — or rather a beast in human foi-m — has been sentenced to death, at Ukiah, Mendocino County. Accord- ing to })resent custom, the law, and tiie evidence, there was nothing else to do. But it does not change the opinion of the writer, that the death penalty is a heritage from the darker ages — a relic of barbarism, inconsistent with Christ- ian government, and should be abolished from the face of the earth.
So strong are we in this conviction, that when in 1880, John Johnson was sentenced here, to hang, we used our time, our money, and all the influence we had, to save him from the gallows — not resting until we succeeded, giving all this outlay, not for the creature that was less than notlniu) to us personally, but for the [)iinciple that will animate us, while life shall last.
There was a similaritv in the two cases inasmuch that a vile woman was tlie [)rimal cause of crime in each. And the law falls short of justice that deprives one criminal of life, and allows the equally guilty, before God, to escape. A law also falls short of justice that imposes upon the innocent, mental suftering and anguish to which in compar- ison physical pain is nothing. This would not have been a result in the Johnson case, and probably not in the one under discussion, but in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the execution of the death penalty, causes most intense agony to the living; innocent hearts are broken, lives
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wrecked and embittered by a sorrow and disgrace, that not one man or woman in a thonsand can live to overcome. Justice is equity to all — wliat right has one man, or any numl)er of men, to violate the direct command of the xVlmighty, and deal out by law, unmeasured suffering to those for whom there is no relief provided? We believe in punishment — in penological reform, that would mete out a just penalty to every transgressor, witliont resort to brut- ality of any sort. For such as the one under discussion, we would call to the cause ol' justice the aid of science, and surgery, and make the repetition of liis most heinous crime, an impossibility, while leaving to the sure ven- geance of God, the reckoning for the murder (h)ne.
For all murderers, convicted by actual evidence, we be- lieve in a life sentence, without hope or jiossibility of pardon. By the enfoi'ced labor of all able-bodied criminals, we would make all penal institutions self-sup[)orting, and so relieve the people of the burden of taxation. Our prisons shonld be great manufactories, where skilled labor was taught and exercised. Not for competition with, but for relief of, the honest citizen. This is a part of tiie solution of the criminal question. We believe absolutely, in the commands of God — and the promises of the Son. Life has enough of pain and horror, without deliberately adding to it by law and custom. As [)enalty for our first transgres- sion, we are all condemned to death, which will come in good time, without the violent interference of fallible man, with a divine decree. kSo — could we save this wretch, to live out his allotted days, we would foi' we do not believe in the human right, to take the life that God has given. And a life sentence, we believe, would satisfy all the demands of justice, and mercy.
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In the writeups of the candidates and re[)resentative men, presented in The Northern Crown, we wish our readers to remember, that we speak of thein,?^o/as Repul)-
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licaiis, Democrats, or other partisans, but as individuals, as citizens, and above all as Americans, witli the right to think and be themselves. We do not h)ok upon a man ns an unprineiphMl villain, because he difi'ers with us.
We will say the best thing possible for him consistant with truth. For evervone is entitled to his recoi'd, and his deserts, ii'res|)ective of creed or part}'.
On a recent visit to Fort Bragg, we callrd, as is on'" custom, on our old friend Clias. J. C'nvanagh, of the Foirr Bragg Advocate:. We fotind him busy as ever, heart, hand and bi-ain in active service. Proirress is the word in old Mendocino, and tokeej) u|) with the times, .Mi'. Cava- nagli is putting in a six horse power engine, and a new power press, and various othei* things to meet the added requirements of an old and well establisheil printing and publishing business. The Advocate was started in 1S(S9 and has well justified the hoj^es and plans, of its coui'age- ous founder, lie has not swerved from the tenor of his way, and has ever advancnni the best interests of the peo- ple. We remember, though others nniy forget, that he was one of the first to urire shorter hours, ami better terms for the working-nnin — his life and energies, have been one long investment foi* those dej)endent upon him. and the bettering of his kind, and at this late day, we fear no change of sentiment or policy in the Fort Bragg Adno- CATi:, or its owner.
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A visit to another otlice that of Thk l-'oirr IbiAiic. Mail, the best equip})ed printing [)lant in .MiMulocino county, brought tis the convictiim that every other paper shotdd rejoice, that we have among us the best facilities possible for turning out work on a moments notice, makinu* us all practically independent of aid from San Francisco. You people of the press of Mendocino county, would do well to patronize The Fort Brag(^, M\ti. and its giant plant.
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when work piles up, on more limited capacities. F. Y. Owen, its editor is an affable, able gentleman, and an accession in printing circles and we are glad that be is here.
^ t|? tl? A projKjs of some of our political methods, we think they are treating Len Barnard unfairly. The Pudding Creek bridge is a comfortable reality, where once there was only a crying need.. Let us "praise the bridge that carries us over." Pine would be better than nothing, but reliable people say it is redwood. As a convenience, it is "a thing of beauty," and will be "a joy forever," to the travelling public.
CONSOLATION.
By O, A. WARD. (Dedicated to Anna Morri^^on Reed)
"My Knight," how much the words contain;
They speak of bright and brillant scenes Too sacred for refrain,
Of pageant grand in line and inarch And step so firm and trne,
Tho' I l^new him not, a conn'ade still, He, who was "My Kniglit" to you.
r know not what the future realm
Of light, will bring to me; But I feel that when the countless throng,
With banners high unfurled. Move down with mighty tread and shout.
The streets of the spirit world; A Knight of the Temple you will see
On charger swift and strong, For as ritual's teachings tell us here,
"Your Knight" is riding on,— and on,
"Your Knight" is riding on.
PHK NOJITHERN CROWN
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COMMENTS.
From SauFs Sunday Letter,
We have before us a l^oiujiiet of clioice periodical literatiiro in tlie form of a little, artistically i)riiite(], monthly ma,u:azine yclept Tm-: Xouthkiin C'kown, and issued by the Kelhr Pul)- lishirigT^o:,-of- IJkiah, - while the "rare and radiant" literary Mowers, full of that essence of refreshment and brain- elixir whicli so charms, the mind of those who ap[)reciate good reading, are fromthe mental garden -a fertle spot, — of Anna ^^orris()n Keed. There are numbers one, two, three, four an<i live ui)()n our table. All have been care- fully road, and but now laid down . . . Like lotus leaves, their perusal has, for the moment, carried us in imagination ov:er the California Xfirthwestern Hail- way (which in itself is a treat, even in imagination), into the picturesque ter- ritory of this pretty magazine's home — sui>erb -iNlendocino county. There, we wander along silvery streams, in quiet solitudes — "away fi'om the mad- dening crowd," amid brilliant, blush- ing (lowers and nodding ferns, as the soft winds play aljout their stems, or watch the circling movements of yon great bii'd in the azure sky as he, per- haps, watches the stei)s of some lost sheej) in the brush of yondi'r canyon.
Anon, to loiter through tiie grand groves of stately redwood or aromatic pine, or stop, with breath suppressed, to watch a startled deer bound thiough the sly ven glade and disappear among the red trunked manzanita that grows on the purple-veiled mountain side . . I5ut we awake, to wonder "how in the world" a Journal of The Xorthekn Crown's high literary tone and me- chanical j)erfection expects to live so far away from the center of apprecia- tion of sui.'h things? However, we wish it a long life.
From The Fort Bragf§: Mail.
'I'he iSei)tend>er nuinlier of The Nor- th eh.\ Crown, is just at hand, lie- sides the usual good literary matter, there are a number of line engravings notal)ly those illustrating limiting and fishing scenes in Mendocino county. A i)oem entitle<l "My Knight," and a sketcli, "An l'ni<|ue Character," l)olh bv the editor, Anna Morrison Reed, and both illustrated, are fine literary [)roductions. If you are not a sub- scriber, you ought to be. Mrs. Reed merits success.
From The Fort Brag:§: Advocate.
Mrs. Anna ^lorrison Reed arrived in town Saturday evening in the interests of her bright newsy magazine, The NohtjiernCrown, published at Tkiah. rt should find its way to every house- hold in the count v.
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j For Humanity !
1 An Endowment Fund for Children ;
BY ANNA MORRISON REED
Huniaiiity is prone to lament its con- dition rather than to suggest relief.
Forethought and connnon sense can prevent much misery and all ordinary iiardship. In nothing else are people so lax, as in providing for the future of the young. Vet every child has a right to simple justice from those who are responsil)le for its being, and is entitled to a fair start in the race of existence.
Even the good hook tells us that he who provides not for his household is worse than an infidel. Often children born to affluence, by the illfortune, bad management and lack of judgment of their parents, find themselves at the threshold of man and womaidiood, with little education, no trade or jtro- fession and no capital to face the prob- lem of living.
For their protection— that children may be better and more securely born, I here submit a plan for the thoughtful consideration of people of good will, combining all the virtues of both tax and insurance without an^' of their objectionable features.
Tax is certainly necessary to i)rovide funds for the ex|)enseof the govern- ment, but it is n t a cheerful thing for the masses to know that there is little or no actual return lor money often wrung from their necessities, and that much of such n^venue go(\s to the "boodler" and the political "i)ai)- sucker."
Insurance puts a premium on .Occi- dent and death — not always a wise thing to do — but a jnemium on life is the most humane measure |)ossible and would do much to lay the specter of race-suicide now haunting the feast of national affairs.
A child at the moment of birth is the most heli>less of all known organisms — type of absolute dejx'ndence and iimo- cence. Its advent should be welcome, and its future provided for, that it may enter fully e(|uipi)ed, the second battle for life, in this world.
First. Children should be better born — their physical, moral and mental orgaui/ations un warped l)y the hard- ship and sorrowing dread of anxious poverty-stricken, overworked mothers; and at a more mature age, the begin-
Politic&l Ai\noui\ceii\ents
FOR ASSEMBLYMAN
W. D. L. HELD
Hereby announces himself as the Regular Republican nominee for the office of Assem- blyman from Mendocino county.
FOR SUPERVISOR
A. J. FAIRBANKS
Hereby announces himself as the Regular Republican nominee for Supervisor of Men- docino county from the Third District.
FOR SUPERVISOR
D. H. LAWSON
Hereby announces himself as the Regular Democratic nominee for Supervisor of Mendo- cino county from the First District.
FOR SUPERVISOR
C. A. BUSH
Hereby announces himself as the Regular Republican nominee for Supervisor of Men- docino county from the Second District.
FOR SITPERVISOR
R. H. RAWLES
Hereby announces himself as the Regular Republican nominee for Supervisor of Men- docino county from the First District.
FOR SUPERVIS(m
H. D. ROWE
Hereby announces himself as the Regular Democratic nominee for Supervisor of Men- docino countj' from the Third District.
FOR SUPERVISOR
M. L. GIBSON
Hereby announces himself as the Regular Democratic nominee for Supervisor of Men- docino county from the Second District.
FOR SUPERVISOR
JOHN FLANAGAN
Hereby announces himself as the Regular Democratic nominee for Supervisor of Men- docino county from the Fourth District.
FOR ASSEMBLYMAN
A. J. BLEDSOE
Hereby announces himself as and independ- ent candidate for the office of Assembl.vman from this, the tith Assembly district.
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For Humanity.
ning of ])ractical, everyday life, they should not he haini)er«'(l hy entire lack of means.
Money has heconie the necessary foundation for success in ail lunnan undertal^ini^s. And until conditions improve finance is the most vital <]ues- tion of earthly existence.
I suggest that a fund l>e created, of which the state shall be the custodian, by the payment to the state at the hirth of every child, of the sum of sfo or more, as expediency and legislation shall fix.
The hirth of each child being regis- tered, and a certitlcate being issue<l to be kei)t as proof of identity and a legal claim upon a pro rata of the fund.
Upon the arrival of the boy or girl at legal age, and upon the presentation of such certificate at the pr()i)er depart- ment of state, such sutu to l)e pai<i to him or to her as can he e(|ually appor- tioned under the following conditions:
It is a well known fact that the moi- tality of children from birth to the age of 7 vears is great.
Of 1(H),(K)(> children born in the tirst month they are reduced to 9tJ,89(), or nearlv one-tenth. In the second to
87,968; in the third to 8H,175; in the fourth toH4,720; in the fifth to S8,o71; in the sixth to S2,o2H, and by the end of the first year to 77,528. 'I'he deaths being 2 to 9. The next four years re- duces the 77,528 to t)2,448, indicating 37,552 deaths before the completion of the fifth vear.
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p]ach death would add a portion to the sum due the suivivors, the state being the guai<lian of the fund and controlling all money i)aid in for at least eighteen years, could so manii)U- late it by legitimate methods that it would be a constantly growing and in- creasing ca})ital. And no doubt often endowed by the fortunes oT peoj)le of the true American spirit who realize that it is much better to place the young man or woman, at majority, upon thedigniticd |)laneof indepen<lent citizenshij) with capital to take up any chosen vocation or profession than to allow them to suffer the humiliation of poverty and its attendant evils — and extreme |)overty is degrading and re- sponsible for all misery and much crime.
The measure propose<l here and per- fected by thought, suggestion and legis- lation would give to young Californians
the dignity and safety of UKxlerate means, keep them from hopeless toil and fpiell the gambling spirit, which has cursed too manv \oung lives.
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Under the benign influence of this perfected plan, the lives of children would have a value, and so an a<lded piotection, even under the sordirl con- ditions of the present selfishness and gr(HMl, of one class, and the sorrow and jjcnury of another. All children would l)e more welcome and their future more assured. For the i)erfection of this measure I invite an intelliK^ent criti- cism and an honest agitation, an<l in- voke the help of our legislators.
Personally a<lvocating it through this publication until something is accom- plished.
For Supervisor
Leonard Barnard
Hereby announces liimself as the Regular Republican Nominee for Supervisor from the 4th district.
FOR ASSKMHIA'M.\X
F. M. WEGER
Hereby annomu'es himself a«< the RegiUar DoiiKHTiitic noniiiiee for the otttce of Assem- hlvman from this. tl>e <)tli Asseinhly Distriet.
Fdll CCNGRESS
DUNCAN E. McKIXLAY
Hei"eby announces iiiniself as tlie Heguhir RepuJjlifan nominee for tlie ottice of Congress- man from tlie '_M ('<)ngressional District-
FOR ASSEMBLYM.\N
CHAS. 0. DUNBAR
Hereby announces liimsel' as the Regular Democratic nominee for tlie office of Asseni- l»lvman fnim tiie 1-tth Assen\bly District.
F(^R CONGRESS
THEO. A. BELL
Hereby aiinounces himself as the Regular Democratic nominee for the office of Congress- man from the 2(1 Congressional District.
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For the Grand Opening of
Mrs. A. Cranz's MILLINERY STORE
R, B. CLEVELAND, PROR
(Suece.ssor to J. A. Jeniigaii)
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Fancy Groceries, Teas, Coffees, Spices, Cigars, Tobacco, Fruits and Produce of All Kinds.
C. W. HAYTON
DEALER IN
CIGAHS AND TOBACCO
HOME MADE TAMALES
In the new building two doors north of A SPECIALTY
the Palace Hotel, early in Novennber. MAIN STREET - FOKT BRAGG, CAL.
AllTHUR J. THATCHER
ATTOIINEY AND rOLTNSELLOR AT \j.\\\\
Oftic/ein ,1. Q. White buihiiiiK, noi-thwest of Coui'Miouse.
Telrplume, Main 1 H.
UKIAH, CAL.
Telephone 243
DR. FRANCIS E. REA
DENTIST
Hours: 9 to H a. m., 1 to 5 j). m. Secoiul hlociv west of P. O. l^kiah, Cal.
Cloths dyed and cleaned by the latest and best methods. Cloths called lor and delivered. Satisfaction uuaranteed. Opposite County Jail. 'Phone, Main 582.
Che electric Cleaning § Dyeing lUork$, 3. m. mcHesson, Prop,
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Drs* Case & Thomas
DENTISTS
UKIAH, CAL.
Office: Corner Oak and Standley
Streets, one block west of
Sheriff^s office.
The Home Restaurant
Mrs. D. E. Sartain. Prop.
Home Cookiiijj; served ill Hojue Style. Meals at all hours
Maii\ Street - - UkiaLh, Cal.
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Ukiah Meat Market
EDWARDS BROR.. PROPS.
DEALERS IN
Fresh aii«l trailed meats of all kinds Buyatul sell live hogs the year 'round
Short orders of all kinds
Baltimore Oyster Cocktails
**=a56S Market Phone. 44
Near R. R. Depot Ukiah, Cal. Slaughler House Phone, 491
Dealer In All Kinds of Eumber « « «
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Also dealer in Sli ingles, Sliakes, Pickets Hoppoles, Windows, Doors, Etc., Etc.
Building Iiardv^are
main $u Uklab, Cal
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$ ti Ceadlnfl ^ tailor
Is now located on State Street, 0p[)0site Eagle Block, and is showing the swellest line of Fall and Winter Styles ever bronght to this city. His repntation as an np-to-date tailor is never qnestioned.
JACK^S OYSTER
AND
CHOP HOUSE
A REALLY GOOD PLACE TO EAT AND DRINK
EVERYBODY KNOWS JACK
Re
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Isberwooa $ Brown, Prop$,
Directly west of court house.
Short orders of all kinds
a specialty.
Confectionery, Ice Cream.
am tbem a trial
Gaivter
Ukia^K's Most Competent Plumbers
Are located on School street, opposite Masonic hall. All tinning plumbing and repair- ing promptly done.
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