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30 how eagerly it was sought by thousands of readers throughout the nation. Among the greater journalists whom many of us have read since we were children are H. W. Scott, the critic and editor of the Oregonian; L. Samuels, of the West Shore; Mrs. A. S. Duniway, champion of women's rights; the trenchant Thomas B. Merry; and then there were James O'Meara, A. Bush, W. L. Adams, S. Pennoyer, S. A. Clarke, W. H. Odell, D. W. Craig, A. Noltner, and others, whose number has increased with the tide of immigration and the progress of our country.

But unrest develops character; quiet, talent; and talent, literature. As grand as was the time, and hence the deeds, and memorable the lives, the pioneer days are over. Our homes have been built, farms have been made, the Indian has been tamed, churches have been erected, schools are culturing the young; we have passed through the home-building period and entered into the home and social development era, an era when men—thinking men—will have an opportunity to sit down in the quiet of their homes and reflect. There is already hardly a town or a hamlet in our state that is not the seat of a publishing establishment, preaching the gospel of modern culture and literary progress. And in this connection may be mentioned the Sabbath school