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144 What mean you by the name Baker? It means a Nation never to be scattered again, ten times more glorious, and a million times firmer than it was before.

What mean you by the name Baker? Look about you. Behold the vast domain known as Baker County. Gaze over our fair city. Let us lift our eyes up to the hills beholding the beautiful, rugged, enduring mountains, covered today with white and green, overhung with blue, from whence comes the cleansing, healing, life-giving water. Shall we say these mountains will be a memorial to Colonel Baker forever? No! but may they be a constant reminder of what he lived for, what he fought for, and what he died for.

History is teaching by example. Names and models constantly before the mind become character builders.

"Mr. President: The adventurous traveller, who wanders on the slope of the Pacific and on the verge of civilization, stands awestruck and astonished in the great chasm formed by the torrent of the Columbia, as, rushing between Mount Hood and Mount St. Helens, it breaks through the ridges of the Cascade Mountains to find the sea. Nor is this wonder lessened when he hears his slightest tones repeated and reechoed with a larger utterance in the reverberations which lose themselves at last amid the surrounding and distant hills...."