H 4 GOODWIN'S WEEKLY
H declared they "didn't know anything
H about the oase." It was a typical con-
B fesslon of unproparodness. In Kansas
H a defeated attorney has attacked a
H verdict rendered by women, on tho
H ground that their names were not on
H the jury lists. And the fact that they
H ought to have been thoro seems never
H to have occurred to the 1 vyor who
H long ago read that no one should be
H permitted to take advantage of his own
H wrong.
H But tho most encouraging note is
H" that from Oregon A woman accused
H of following what has been called
H "the oldest profession," was arrested
H and arraigned in Mourt. Her lawyer
H demanded a jury. lie said he wanted
H a full jury of six men.
H "What's tho matter with six wo-
H men?" demanded a brother attorney
H who stood at hand. The question was
H proposed more in banter than earnest,
H for Oregon had just declared by affir-
H mative vote in favor of woman suf-
H frage in Oregon. And the defendant's
H lawyer promptly accepted tho chal-
H lenge.
H Then the oflcers went scurrying
H through the blue book and the city
H directory and the lists of names re-
H membered, hunting for eligible wo-
H men. The Oregonian prints the re-
H plies of the women to the inquiries
Km of the officer summoning them. He
Bfl did not make it obligatory on them to
H accept jury service; but he did make
H it clear that tho privilege was theirs
H if they cared to accept it.
H In every case but one the invitation
H was received with a conscious accept-
H anco of the obligation involved in
H citizenship. One woman hung up the
H phono -with the exclamation that sne
H "didn't care to have anything to do
H with anything of that kind " Either
H she shirked that much of her duties
H as a citizen of the state, or she was
H simply one of the thoughtless and
H shallow souls who avoid all unpleas-
Hf antness by the simple device of doing
H nothing worth while.
H In every case excepting that women
WM met the invitation in all seriousness,
IH when they were assured that the prop-
H osition was serious. Even the woman
H who had for years opposed woman suf-
H frage accepted the result of tho elec-
H tlon, and the obligations the result
H of that election imposed. She willing-
H ly gave her assent. In some cases
H the women so informally summoned
H asked about the nature of the case,
H and when they found that a sister wo-
H man, however erring, was tho defend-
H ant, they seemed additionally intent
H1 on the work their new relation had
H, provided them.
Ht Not one was flippant with the ex-
B ception noted. Not one was unready.
W They didn't invite tho ordeal ans
B more than do men. Some of them
Ht pleaded the stronger obligation ot
1 duty to their children, and some ox-
pressed a desiro to talk with their
B ' husbands about the matter before
M making their promises sure. But the
H point is: They were ready for clti-
1 zenship whe-.i citizenship was ready
1 for them.
Bl It is a credit to women everywnere
Kf that illustrative incident in Port-
H land.
Vll THE WILLOW-WREN. Nkf
5fl I By J. S. PHILLIMORE. I Ifl
vLaM 1 'Twas in the well-beloved shire, be- I gJj
Hh1 Beside a brown-eyed, shyly-glancing 1 Bfol
raffia One afternoon, a-dreaming, when I IfoJ
Brli (Dryad or Naiad who can tell these I&?tl
BLal Stole forth and dipt an urn and poured. B llft Ji
HhI Of light on her and on her lucent 1 &J&1
f 11 Nine times she stooped and dipt, and I fcjS
!lfc?ll ne 1q cascatelle of crystal, ere I j
lll And saw no nymph nor urn; only IBI
ftll That little grey-brown bird they call I life, Ji
Bfflfi Emptying his whole heart's peace ftfjl
jSffli m one quintessenced phrase, I fcJI
BhS Which, oft ingeminating, he as oft al- I l&Jfj
ijS I The expectant ear to gather appetite 1 Iro 1
Pil Pure anc mie nc orm,, each ly- 1 PfI
IRRIGATION BY ELECTRICITY.
MAYBE the promoter of the consol
idation of the mounta'n compan
ies providing electric power,
was talking in hyperbole; and may
bo he was a prophet too wise to
demand an instant consideration of
tho revolution he suggested. But when
he said that a result of the consoli
dation would be to provide power so
cheap that land owners could pump
water for irrigation purposes, ho put
into words one of tho biggest things
that have been uttered in a thousand
years.
And if that seem an unduly strong
statement, please to consider the
case.
Whether in words or in works the
Lord did say: "Multiply and replenish
the earth." Tho earth cannot be re
plenished by humanity alone. Pen
pi demand food The earth was so
mad as to provide food. The fertile
valleys and the grassy plains bring
forth material for the sustenance of
life, and do it readily. Tho processes
of securing it seem instinctive in the
human mind.
But these arid plains have been re
garded as difficult. And yet there
is water enough in the rivers and the
Jakes oven of Utah for tho Irrigation
of all the lands of Utah. The only
problem is tc jr'ng the water to the
desert.
Yet there is the Colorado, flinging
a billion gallons a day down a mighty
canyon, foaming and splashing and
tumbling a milo below rlm-rock, and
there are millions of acres of arid
land to the left and to the right of
its course. With cheap enough power
the water of the Colorado river couid
be lifted to the level of the land, and
distributed over the acres that have
been idle all those centuries, and the
region now inhospitable can be made
rich as Holland.
The Lord didn't make a square mil
of desort in Utah that cannot have
enough of tho blessed baptism of water
to guarantee fertility. That union of
the moisture with the latent elements
in the waiting soil is the one miracle
ready for working by the hund of
man. And when that miracle is
wrought, tho desort will have van
ished. The lakes and tho streams, we
have been believing, are too far from
the land Yet this man who has as
sembled the units of potency all
through tho mountains declares the
new agency will make power so cheap
that the pumping can bo done.
And it is by no means from tho
lakes and the rivers of tho state that
tho water may be pumped. If anything
has been made clear by the state's
investigations in these recent years It
is that water in abundant quantities
may be found below the surface of
the desert, and that without exception
as to location. There probably is,
within reach of driven wells, subter
ranean streams that are capable of
producing sufficient moisture to ferti- ,
lizo the surrounding areas.
The sources of power are every
where Each mountain stream offers
itself for harnessing, and proffers
help. There is water on the land, and
under the land, in quantities ample
for tho redemption of the now Idle
acres every one of them. And the
possibility of securing power for the
bringing of water and land together
is one of the most hopeful facts that
the century has recorded.
"PROUD OF OUR TRADE."
ONE of the street car signs tells .
of the men who are "German
Shoemakers, and Proud of their
Trade."
There is significance and inspiration
in the cold business invitation. For
the men who work at a trade, who
have mastered that trade, and who
are proud of it, no matter what may
be their mother land, need have no
fear of fate. They are safe. They
can and they will win.
The man who is proud of his work
is worth more to his employer and to
himself and to humanity than tho man
who hates his work. He does it bet
ter, and the man who does the best
work gets the best pay, and tho best
chanco at promotion, and is the ono
who is not laid off in a time of slack
business. Employers cannot get along
without tho help of tho men "who are
proud of their work.
Furthermore, men who are proud o
their work, when they decide to go
into business for themselves, have a
vastly better chance for success than
do those who regard their work as
drudgery, and follow it with one -sye
on the clock and the other on payday.
Big or little, do your work so well
that you will be proud of it.
"BE NOT DECEIVED"
SOMEWHERE in the Bible you are
warned not to bo deceived. So (
that if you run across the poem
that some silly person wrote, lauding
the glories of the fast life he protends
to have lived, you may clip out tho
verses and burn them. That is ail
they are good for.
And along that same lino Is the fol
lowing paragraph from ono of people
who are paid to make tho newspaper
columns scintillate:
There are a lot of Prosperous
Portly Old Boys lolling; about in clubs
Today who wouldn't in tho Least
Milnd being Broke down to the last
Button If they could live It All Over
Again!
Not much. The people who drink
cold carbolic acid are tho people
who lolled about in clubs till they
are "broke" down to tho last button,
and who wou' n't live it all over again
under any possible consideration.