“ Although dead a half-century, it is only within the last few years that his work has come to be duly appreciated, monuments erected in his honor, and memorials of learning raised to his memory. The political strife and religious bigotry which cast a cloud over his latter days have passed away, and he stands out today in bold relief, as the first man in the history of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. He was truly one of the noblest men who ever gave a life of labor in the spread of American civilization. ”

“ As editor and proprietor of the Corvallis Gazette, with all the varied and petty details incident to the duties of a country editor, and with his temperament averse to detail, diametrically opposed to plodding business, he courted failure and met the inevitable. Had he gone to the centres of population and sold the product of his brain he would have reaped the wealth and fame others less gifted than himself have garnered.
The move was a success in that it gave to us much of the best literature, both poetry and prose ever produced in this state, and Oregon is the richer for his effort. ”

“ Peacock spit is the terror of the fisherman, and woe to him who finds him- self in its immediate vicinity in time of storm! It is then, or when, on account of recent bad weather far off at sea, white- crested combers springing up suddenly from unknown depths unexpectedly rush in, perpendicular walls of water rise and burst in a thousand cataracts, and the roar of the angry surf is deafening. The "wild white horses" madly charge and trample to nothingness the unlucky mortal who is caught upon their middle ground. ”

“ When asked one day by the writer why he did not publish his poetry in a volume, and strive for the fame and incident financial reward, he answered: "I have not even a copy of my poems. I have never written anything that satisfied me. There are so many half-way poets deluging the world with so-called poetry that I am disgusted, and do not wish to add to the burdens of the long-suffering public. I believe my sister has the most of my writings, but they shall never be published while I am alive." ”

“ It still remains true that the chief work of the college is general in its character, rather than special; it aims to ground the student in the principles of many subjects rather than to guide him to an exhaustive knowledge of one or two. The distinctively college idea is to introduce the student as widely as possible to the principles and processes of the circle of human knowledge, and through that to put him into vital relation to the world in which he lives, in its history and present condition. ”

“ You give me my voice. You give me my Otto. You give me everything. Ah, I cannot repay you, I can only love you, and love you, and love you."
As if the love of an angel of light were not riches untold!
At last I spoke to Uncle Max of my feeling toward Heinrich. I could scarcely find words to say what I meant, it was all so vague, and Uncle Max only laughed. "There's no ground for your fears, Eugenia, Heinrich is all right. I have made inquiry and know how he stands. He has money and friends, and will make Adele a good husband. ”

“ In this newer land, where the village of today may be the aspiring city of another decade, and where a single year may change lonely prairie regions and primeval solitudes into populous communities, the need of constant study of changing conditions is imperative.
In this complicated field the Spokesman-Review has grown apace with the fine country around it. Year by year its daily message has been borne afar by railroad trains and steamboats, by stage coach and pack train, by canoe and cayuse, and by resolute mountain carriers on snowshoes. ”

“ It stands impeached as about the strangest exhibition on a large scale of the lack of common sense that the fertile mind of man can conjure up. Not one sound, sensible, practical word can be said in defense of it. It is a reproach that cries up from the very ground itself to our higher intelligence, a revolt against our common sense, and an insult to woman herself. ”

“ Woman's work is liftedinto infinite. Upon her in the greater degree depends the progress of humanity and the welfare of posterity. She is the maker or the breaker of man. In her work in the home she so far transcends the littleness, the narrowness, the pecuniosity of man's sphere that everything man is or has or might be is summed in that one sweet, enduring and holy word, "Mother." ”

“ A gentle swing and the big gaff hook slipped beneath the white belly of the fish and a few seconds later he slides into the boat, nearly six feet of gleaming blue and silver; eyes big and staring; head powerful, beating the bottom with blows that fairly threaten the boat.
Imagine a mackerel weighing 150 pounds, colored as described, with rows of small yellow fins or finarettes reaching back from the dorsal and neutral fins and some idea of the tuna may be had—the fish that towed our boat at least five miles and performed prodigies of valor. ”

“ In addition to the confidence which The Province enjoys in its capacity as a publisher of the news of the day, it possesses to a very great extent the trust and consideration of the people as a counsellor in matters affecting the welfare of the country at large, and especially of the Pacific Provinces. It has no selfish interests to serve and is, therefore, at all times and under all circumstances, able to discuss frankly and freely all questions of public importance. ”

“ Throw your pen away, and forget that you have worked for men and women, in the arms of one simple girl. But be content with the life you have chosen. Come no more to me for sympathy, for help in your work or interest in your career. The latter is finished. Gerald Stanley the author is dead from this time to the end of all things, and the woman who helped to make him what he was resigns him to the woman who has crushed his energies, and will live to know his name forgotten. ”

“ The novels may have merely shown talent, not genius, the ideas may have been second-hand, the ambition simply vanity, but she could not know these things.
He had naturally frivoled during the Paris honeymoon, and she had been glad to feel that they were, for the time, equals; that they could play at being children, and laugh and be lazy, and let the serious side of life go by unrealized or forgotten. But the real secret of her love for him lay in her admiration of a superior intellect, her gladness at being
able to lean on a nature stronger than her own. ”

“ Just then the Colonel, absorbed in the working of the lawn mower as he rolled it along, turned the corner. Two little shreds of i white dry goods, two bobbing baby heads, and four soggy little feet beating the air amid screams of delight, sent him roaring with laughter into the house for their mother.
The Colonel's wife was a brave little woman, but a wise one. If you're a mother, and curl and bathe and twice daily change two baby outfits throughout, and take pride in the whiteness of their dimities and laces and starched petticoats, you'll understand. ”

“ This desire to win frequently led managers and captains to induce players of established reputations to enter college for the sole purpose of playing football, and with the understanding that their expenses would be paid, that the rough road to knowledge would be smoothed for them, and that their sudden disappearance after the close of the season would call forth no comment. Thus the crying evil of professionalism made its way into a sport which should be kept totally untainted by its curse. ”

“ In a long experience as a newspaper owner and editor he had realized the fact that the success of a daily paper depends upon its excellence and reliability, and that in the long run these qualities must win. To make The Province, then, the most complete from the standpoint of its news service, the most reliable and the most readable, was the aim with which he set out, and which he has ever since kept steadily in view. ”

“ I wish now to say a few words about the one athletic club of these states that supports a football team. The Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club, of Portland, stands for all that is best in club athletics. This year it turned out a team which, by defeating the universities of Washington and Oregon, won the championship of the Northwest. That, however, is not what I wish to commend—it has done that before, many times. What is worthy of special commendation is the personnel of the team, and the spirit which has been behind it. ”

“ For years, out of sight of the English press, did he work like a grub of genius in a remote corner, spinning in long, hot and dusty days and hotter nights a golden web out of which only stray strands floated into the world's ken. There is a camaraderie, a sort of free-masonry in work ; had he not himself been a worker it would not have been given to him to meet at first hand all manners of men. ”

“ There is a more or less blind feeling among the people that there is something wrong in the economic institutions which make it possible for the wealth of the whole people to be in the hands of a very few — far beyond the just reward for the greatest possible human ability. ”

“ They have not begun to realize here yet that the long period in which Great Britain held the monopoly of trade is over. They do not know the value of a scrap-heap, or the minimum cost of production, or of the volume of trade. The coming century will be one of business. By trying to achieve a community of business interests and methods between America and England I believe I shall be doing much towards its being a century of peace. You put your brightest men into business. ”

“ To the young Scotch girl, her education seemed to begin when she met her future husband. While they waited till their house in London was ready for them (they had been hurriedly sum- moned from abroad by the news of her mother's illness) , she realized a dull sense of her husband's lazy, indolent life and vapid conversation. She admitted to herself at last that he was a different man. She thought that, if she did not inspire him to work, she could at least encourage him. ”

“ PORTLAND ACADEMY FOOTBALL TEAM A word of advice to football players may not be out of place here. Football games are played and championships are won, not in the columns of the newspapers, but on the gridiron. The players and managers of the Northwest teams may learn this as well now as any time; and the sooner they learn it the better. It is a pitiful, not to say disgraceful, spectacle, to see managers and captains of teams appearing in print and laying claim to what they have not won. ”

“ We find an increasing number who, while not actually starved in any one day, yet live shortened lives because of the wretched economic environment into which they, are born. And we also find a stupendously in creasing wealth in the hands of a very low: a wealth which is so great it convinces us it cannot be the just reward of brains or effort, because no brains or no effort could in a few years amass such wealth were there not some special privileges which directed the labor or the gains of the many into the channels leading to the few. ”