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PAGE root DAILY KAtet ORIGOMAN, PENDLETON. OREGON. .MONDAY. DECEMBER 28. 1010. DGHT PAGES 4M INDEPENDENT NEWSPArEB. rollhrd IIIt, Wekly and tml-Wclr t l'rndleton. Orrxoo, by lb OUST OHKiUlXUS lTHLItfUINd CO. BIHSCKUTION KATES. (lly. omt year, by mall JilMi I ally, all months, by mall 2 l l-ally, thr montba, by mall 1.23 Iily. on moo Lb. by mail 60 ally. no year, by carrier T 50 Illy. ail montna. by carrier a.73 tl!y. three months, by carrier 1.W5 i-allV, oo month. r carrier 63 Waekly, one year, fly mall 1.50 aekly, all montha, by mall 75 WartlT. four montha. by mall M aaml weekly, one year, by mall 1.50 itml Veekly, aix months, by mall T3 ml Metkty, four montha. by mall... .SO the LHilly Kant Oreponlan It kept on aal t the Orecon Neva Co., 329 Uorrlaon ttreet. Portland. Oretoo. Northwest Neva i o., Portland, Orefroa. Cblcafro Bareaa. JH9 Security Building. Wanblnfton. L). C, Bureau. 501 Four CrtatD ttreet. N. W. Member Tnlted Preaa Aatoclatloo. Entered at the poatofflce at Pendleton. JreoD, at teeond claaa mall matter. falephoue Main 1 Official City and Comity Paper. THE tiOOR OLD TIMES. Good times? What times? These are ours. Borne with through days and nights, sun and gloom and showers; Old times have left to us all they had to give; Those times we dream about; these times we live! Here is the struggle now, close beside the door; Strike out for truth and right what can you do more! Here is the man who strives, spent with many a blow; Dream not of heroes dead; this man we know. Old times, good times, passed into the night; This is the day to me, working in the light. Pear as was yesterday, though its memories shine. That was another day this day is mine! Good times? All times! Each in its degree, r But these are the wonder-day?, the times made for me! Shaping the days to come by their toil and strife. Those time for dream and hop? these times for life. Marion Couthouy Smith, in St. Louis Times. OX THE UPGRADE. Pendleton enjoyed a merry Christ has Indeed this time. "Christmas business was good this year, better than last year and in many respects better than ever before." This is the way the merchants talk and the mer chandise business is the best index to the prosperity of any city. Nor is it surprising that the holi day business has been good. If Uma tilla county ever enjoyed prosperity it it enjoying it now. Last years crop was a good one and the splendid rain fall so far this year and the fine growing weather indicates a bumper crop next summer. Then strictly local conditions, too, are satisfactory. Pendleton is upon a sound basis and the trend is upward. The liquor question which has been a source of bitter strife in the past has at last been settled upon a safe and sane basis. We will have a licens ed saloon system, yet the business will be conducted under restrictions that should insure peace and promote tem perance rather than drunkeness and disorder. There will be an end to the "mail order" liquor business Jan uary' 1. and from the business that will be transacted here the city will derive a revenue that will materially aid in providing needed civic improve ments and will incidentally keep down the tax levy. During the past six months Pendle ton hag derived much-benefit from the improvement work carried on by the O. R. & N. company. Upon the line changes between Yoakum and this city the railroad company has ex pfnded almost a million dollars. From that work the people here have deriv ed much business for this place has been the headquarters and the trad ing center. Other factors too have contributed to the present satisfactory state of af fairs. The people voted down the county division bill and thereby put a decisive end to trouble from that score. At the same time they endorsed the appropriation for the eastern Ore gon asylum and prospects are bright that Pendleton will land that insti tution. Surely Pendleton had good reason to rejoice this year. May Santa Claus find the city larger and still more prosperous when he comes again. WE ARE THERE TOO. Yakima people are boasting of an Irrigation project "made In Taklma." I: is a pumping project and the pump that is used was invented by a Yakima man and it was made In North Ya kima. So was the cement pipe used to convey the water to the land. . But then Yakima Is not ahead of old Umatilla. Down on the Umatilla project cement pipe, made at Hermls ttn is in use. No pumping plant la nypded but water is secured from a i't-.-vrvoir, made In Umatilla county, and that reservoir does away with he expense of pumping. Who is ahead? MOKE lxmiTXATE HERE. That the railroad service In the scuth is not up to the standard that prevails in the progressive west is in dictated by the following paragraph from the Atlanta Constitution: '"Because he could not reach a de pot agent in time to exchange his mile age for a ticket, a commercial travel er was the other day ejected from a train near Macon. 'The interesting feature is that this instance parallels identically the case ir North Carolina upon which a com mercial traveler sued the carrier and secured a verdict confirming damag es from the supreme court, "The railroads in this part of the country require that owners of mile age books exchange mileage for tick eta before boarding trains. Other railroads in other parts of the country see no necessity for a fool regulation of this kind but that's another ques tion. "In the case cited from Macon, the drummer sought to comply with the tuie, but so great was the crowd at the window that the agent did not, according to witnesses, succeed In get ting to the drummer before the arriv al of the train. "When the train auditor demanded a ticket, the drummer explained the circumstances and proffered his mile age book. The tender was refused, and over his protest he was ejected from the train." Out in the west people have com plaints regarding the railroad service too at times. But It Is to the credit of the western roads that they have no such rules as this in vogue. Mile age books are always good on western roads. Our main complaint is that trains are late but then of course that is the fault of people farther east. THIS IS THE PLACE. While easterners shivered with the cold of midwinter yesterday Pendle ton people were able to enjoy a Christmas out of doors. The warm. bright sunshine during the day gav the holiday more the appearance of easter than of Christmas. No need to hover over fires or growl because furnace fires burned low. Autoing and driving were in order instead arhl overcoats would have been a needless incumbrance. If Santa Claus is a man of any dis cernment he knows where God's country Is. The three R's will receive very close attention henceforth say the county school superintendents. That Is al right, but it is a poor time to mention such a subject. Why not let the small boy enjoy the holidays in peace? By having the crosswalks cleaned" the city officials have conferred a blessing indeed upon the walking pub. lie. Here's to the good work. Keep it going. . Possibly those big apples that were raised on the Oliver place made a hit with the governor and his party. Now Hons. for the New Year's resolu- A DEADLY PARALLEL. Business is government. The man agement of a private business corres ponds exactly to the administration of the public business of a city, state or nation. The parallel is perfect even as to forms. Small businesses are lit tle monarchies; as all primitive states were and as some states are today. The head of a little shop or of a small, competing factory is the absolute rul er of his private business. And pub lic business used to be called the king's business; andit was his. Even the people were his, his subjects. They had nothing to say about the public business; they had no more repre sentation in the government than the depositors of a bank have in their bank. And that seemed natural and right to kings and people once. But so many kings abused their power that the management of public business passed gradually out of the monarch ical stage into the republican form and we see the beginnings of demo cracy in poltlcs. And that's where business management seems to be go ing. Lincoln Steffens in Everybody's for December. HE WON'. Ex Governor Bob Taylor of Ten nessee, was once entertaining a north ern guest, who was rather skeptical about the prevailing dialect In stories of southern negroes. He thought It overdrawn. To disprove the conten tion, Mr. Taylor laughingly made a wager with his guest that the north erner would be unable to Interpret the langungn of the first ncfji (Tiey met. Accordingly, they set out and presently came upon a black man basking Indolently In the sun. Telling h h frl-nl to pay close heed, Mr. Tay lor stepped up to the negro and de manded suddenly: "Weh he?" The negro blinked his eyes stolidly and then answered in a guttural voice: "Wah who " Everybody's for December. I? iiJW CDfe 0$9 We have no competition as being the cheapest place in Pendleton for men to trade 1 08 new suits on counter, all new patterns, sizes 34 to 44. Our regular price $ 1 4, $ 1 7, $ 1 8.50 and $20 and you couldn't get the same suits elsewhere without paying more. Foe YHbep Says only Commencing Tuesday, December 27 Ending Thursday Night, December 29 YOUR. CHOICE FOR ONLY A) I Workingmen's Clothing Co. A TERRIW.E SILEXCE. Joe Struthers made a stern resolve that he was goln' to bo Forbearin' an' good-natured ever more. He said that after this no one was ever goln' to see His angry passions risin' at the store. He kep' his word punctilious. 'When the argument grew hot And everybody shouted with a will. He sat in utter silence. He was runt ed to the epot. A-lookin' like a statue with a chill. It was somethin' truly fearful to be hold his blazin' eye. An' see ol' Joe a-holdln' of his breath. We longed to hear him speak We were afraid that by an' by He'd simply sit an" choke himself to death. We wished he would say somethin', even if it was profane. An' if he'll listen to our solemn choice. He'll go right back to talkin' an' to cuss In' once again. Fir his silence Is more awful than his voice! THE LIMIT. Jesting about railways of the south Is rather an overworked profession. Before mason-Jarring the crop, how ever, let Senator Burton of Ohio, have the floor. ".Speaking of railroads," he says, "the ultimate word, in my experience, was a 'limited' on which I traveled In Georgia last summer. At a point where we were making our greatest speed a man stood at the side of the track with a moving picture machine I leaned out of the window and called to him, 'How are you getting on?' "He, stopped turning the crank and spoke with an expression of deep dis gust. " 'It don't seem to be no use,' he said. 'Hold your head still, please. I want to get a time exposure.' " Everybody's for December. NEWSPAPERS. That few merchants and corpora tions realize the full value of ade quate and systematic use of newspa pers In advertising their business was asserted by Ben S. Jacobs, advertis ing manager for Conrad & Co., who addressed the Pilgrim Publicity asso 0.fPIVAtlif P d jrCsUnilllC HOME OFFICE, CORBETT RLDG., FIFTH AND MORRISON, PORTLAND. A. U MILLS, President. N. BERKELEY, WE CAN FIT YOU Less expense makes our prices lower. ciation on "Advertising" at the Bos ton City club. "Advertising." said Mr. Jacobs, "is salesmanship, but it goes further and reaches out more broadly. Appear ance of stores Is advertising treat ment accorded customers, store ser vice, etc. Adrertising is not an ex pense, but an Investment and the up to date merchant sets aside a fixed per cent for advertising of various sorts. "A local paper ought to be encour aged. It is the most powerful agent of public opinion In the community and the broad'-st carrier of your own talk about your store. Papers should cater to the advertisers, and the mer chants should co-operate with the pa per to the mutual advantage of both. The newspaper Is usually willing to do what It can. A city ought to have civic pride In a clean newspaper with modern type, neatly printed, and Ifj this is so the advertisements generally pay much better. Get In touch with the newspaper man. He Is generally, a mighty decent sort of fellow, and he and you should be In business to gether for mutual profit." Selected. NATIONAL SHORTSIGHTEDNESS. "In this country," said the socio logist, "everything possible Is done to discourage people from marrying." "How so?" Inquired one of the lis teners. "You have to buy the marriage li cense, fee the preacher, the boys give you what they call a 'shivarce,' your ; rriends throw old shoes at you. tne newspapers print caricatures of you, life Insurance agents hound you, you Ing, and If you find you've made a I mistake you have to go to no end of trouble to get a divorce." Chicago j Tribune. Tlio Easiest Way. Down in Bermuda Mark Twain made a sDeech about snakes to a group of little girls. The speech was great, j The only trouble was that the little! girls could not appreciate It. It flew over their heads. This was the hu morist's conclusion: "Never warm a serpent In your bos om. It Is far easier to warm it by placing It under the pillow of an In timate friend." The riddle of the sphinx may be unfathomable, but anybody can un derstand the coal riddle at a glance. receives Preference from Discriminating Buyers of Life Insurance. CT CAD AD "iT A" !t 01 imw L. SAMUEL. Gen. Manager. DISTRICT MANAGER, PENDLETON. TROPICAL INVESTMENTS. "All successful men are cauti'iis." Weeks declared. "But if he knew the wonderful opportunities this country ! presents " The speaker leaned for ward, while his chair creaked dan gerously, and said with lmpresslvc ness: "My dear sir, do you realize that a coco-palm after it Is seven years old drops a nut worth five cents every day In the year and requires no care whatever except to gather the fruit. "Xo." "Fact. And we grow the best ones In the world right here. But the de mand is Increasing so rapidly that In ten years there will be a famine. Think of It n famine of coconuts!" Mr. Weeks paused to lend 'dramatic effect. "That's fierce," Kirk acknowledged. "What are they good for?" "Eating! People make cakes out of them, and oil and candy. Good cocoanut land can be bought for fifty cents an acre, selected seeds for five cents each; labor Is sixty cents a day. Xo frosts, no worms, no bur. Ton sit still and they drop In your lap." "The bugs?". "X! Xo! The coconuts." "Fine!" "But that's nothing. Do you real ize that this soli will raise sugar-cane the size of your of my thigh, and once you plant It you can't keep it cut out?" "You enn buy sugar cane land for a dollar an acre; it costs " "I'm no good at figures, Mr. Weeks." "And rubber! There's the chance for a man with capita!. Rubber!" "I will I mean, is that so?" "Ever see any rubber trees?" "Only In Brooklyn." From "The Xe'er-Do-Well," by Rex Beach, .n Everybody's for December. AT ANY COST, Jane I've something on me mind, 'Array, that I hardly knows 'ow to tell yer. 'Arry Aht wiv It. Jane I'm afraid yet won't marry me if I tells yer. 'Arry Aht wiv It, Jane? L'm a somnambulist, 'Arry. 'Arry after a prolonged pause) Never mind, Jane; it'll bo all right. If there ain't no chapel for It we will bo married at a registry. Punch. He hurts the good who spares the bad. French. CLARENCE 8. SAMUEL, Assistant Manager. ,W6? Headquarters For Toilet Goods Wc are Sole Manufacturer tsl Distributor of tbm Oetebmted TOILET CREAM COLD CREAM TOOTH POWDER and JIT. HOOD CREAM Tallman & Co. Leading Drufrtita of Saatera or. JLD LLV: 1 LITE STOCK Dl 6 CHANCE. Indiana & Ohio Live Stock Insur ance Company Of CrawfordsTtlle, ladUaa. Has now entered Oregon. Policies bow goo In every state In the Union. Organ led over 16 years age. Paid up Capital IJOO.OOO.M. As set over 1460,000.01. REM EM HER, Uils Is NOT Mutual Live Mrfc laswr siice eompaay. Mark Moorhouse Company AgMtit, pMMlletoa, IV THE PENDLETON DRUG CO. WE DEAL II DRUGS I0T PROMISES You Make a Bad Mistake WIkii yon puc off buyliiK jour Cod! until Fall purchase It NOW nil secure the bewt Rock Springs coal Uie mine produce t prices considerably lowrr than theme prevailing In Fall and Winter. By stocking op now fom avoid ALL danger of being -able to secure it when sold weather arrives. Henry Kopittke Phone Main ITS. !! Fresh Fish Meats and Banaagea EVERT DAY. W. handle only the purest f lard, hams and baeoa. Empire Meat Go. Phone Main IS. FRESH MEATS SAUSAGES, FISH AND LARD. Always pure and delivered promptly, If jrou phone the Central Meat Market 108 E. Alta St, Phone Mala St. 60 YEARS' V EXPERIENCE Toinr MftnKtt .;fcaStfO Design rF rf 1" Copyright Ac Anvonftiflnrltnc ft oketrh inrt rinncrlntlnn mi) intrkly sucnriniri our opinion five wln-tlinr ad Invention In pruhnhlf pntontiihln. 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