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EIGnT PAGES PAGE FOUTL DAILY EAST OREGONIAm. PENDLETON. OREGON. THURSDAY. MAY 2. 1912. ''.xl& AN IM'ErENDENT NEWSPAPER. rakllibed Dully and Sml Weekli at Fen dlctco, untua. by th A8T OBKUOMAN PfBLISBlNQ CO. Entered at the pntofflc at rendletoa, Dragon, a focood cl mill matter. siT.scHUTins kites. Pally, one year, by malt fS 00 Daliy, all months, by mall 2.50 Dally, three month, by mall 1.25 Dally, one munth. by mall .50 Il!y, one year, by carrier . 7 50 Ially, all month, by carrier B.T5 Dally, "tree month, by carrier 193 Dally, one month, by carrier 65 em I -Weekly, one year, by mall 1.50 leml Weekly, aix months, by mail T5 aml-Ueetly. four month, by mall... AO Tbe Dall Eat ronlan la ept on aale t the Oregon Neara Co., 329 Slorrlaoa .treet. Portiajid. Orecoo. Northwest New On.. Portland, Ore zoo. Cbti-aso Korean, SH- Security Building. Washington. D. C, Bureau, SOI Four taentb street. N. W. Member United ITess Assorlatloa. telephone Halo 1 Offlela: City and Conntj faoer. BH'.lE SI1F. SMII.K1. Because she smiled, a rainy day Was made for him serene ly fair; Because he chanced to pass her way. He ceased awhile to have a care. . l I Because she smiled to fret About a loss he he ceased had sus- tained; Because she sweetly sighed he let Himself be glad and unre strained. Because she smiled at him he caught A little glimpse of heaven that night. And others sitting near them thought His reason must have taken flight. S. E. Kiser. . MONOPOLY AND MANNERS. "Xote the difference in gracious ness between the candidate who gets his nomination from a political boss and one who must go before a pri mary. Observe the improvement In manners of a street railway company with an expiring franchise. They may be waste in competition but it Is usually of the sort that graciously fills the peoples baskets with tht fragments." This is from Collier's weekly an J expresses a sentiment that is shared by a large number of people despite the fact this is an age of concentra tion. The facts regarding the in creased graclousness of candidates seeking office under the direct pri mary are well known. It is also very easy to detect a difference in demea nor between men who conduct a mo nopolized business and those who meet real competition. Monopoly works a saving it is true but the monopolizer rather than the con sumer gets the saving. There is but one condition under which monopoly may be pardoned. It is when mon opoly appears hand In hand with regulation that sees to it the public gets the benefits of consolidation. Monopoly brought about on a basis of inflated capitalization and with out governmental supervision is just as valuable to the public as la a bunch of carrots to a mule when the carrots are held by the mule's rider a safe distance in front of the mule's nose. It arouses hope but involves DC danger of overfeeding. l-'.MtM MORTGAGER. Edward Sherwood Meade, ,-a. finan cial writer, and who has a monthly article in an eastern magazine, is evidently anxious to show affluent people of the effete east the advan tages of farm mortgages over bonds as an investment. He sets forth the following as some of his reasons for favoring farm loans. "First, high yield. The entire cen tral West, the part of the country in which mortgage loans are preferably made by conservative Investors, is row making loans on a 6 per cent basis to the investor. The western ?tates, as a rule, do not tax at home investments in foreign loans and this gives the investor the opportunity to realize the full Interest return. "The second advantage of the farm loan is the early maturity. The pur chaser of a bond of a railway com pany cannot get his money back from the company for, perhaps, thirty or maybe fifty years. HIg only way of recovering his irinclpal U to sell his bond to some other investor. This al ways Involves the risk of depreciation l.i the principal. The Investor may have purchased his bond for 105 and when he comes to sell it It may have declined to 99 1-2, owlng'to a falling off In the demand for securities of that character. The bond Is still per fectly good; his Interest will be paid regularly, but he has sustained a los on the capital value of his investment. The investor In a farm mortgage, however, can get his money back from the borrower at the end of three or five years. 'The third point favor f the farm mortgage Is closely connected with that Just mentioned, and U tht greater control which the investor has over his investment. Provision is usually made in the mortgage for an Indefinite extension from year to year, at the expiration of the first term named in the instrument. When this provision is included, if the in vestor wishes the return of his prin cipal at the end of the term he can have it. and if he wishes a longer term Investment he usually allows the time to run from year to year, since a good farmer can make more than 6 let cent. In- investing money in buildings and improvements anj in land. At the end of any year, however, the mortgage can be called up and the investor can get his money." it mxrs ovt. J - Pendleton needs a good band and i should have one. There are many lo Jcal occasions on which a band Is J necessary and there are many othet occasions on which a good band I comes as a very acceptable organiza- j tion. Fourth of July celebrations, Ithe Round-up and .political gatherings require a band as a necessity. Sum mer concetts by the band come in the nature of a luxury' J"t a luxury Pen dleton should be able to afford be cause of the satisfaction they afford the people. Summer band concerts l-.eip keep people satlsfio 1 with life in Pendleton and it should be worth something from a strictly business standpoint to keep the people satis fled. lood luck to the band. The news from Massachusetts is very confusing. Taft carried the pre ferential vote over Roosevelt yet the Roosevelt delegates at large were chosen. In the democratic camp Champ Clark seems to have been en dorsed by the democrats for the pres idency yet Clark's manager, George Fred Wilson, was overwhelmingly defeated for delegate at large. Gov ernor Foss seems to have the dele gates regardless of the primary vote. The suit against the harvester trust nay accomplish some 6od if the government will squeeze the water cut of the trust's capitalization. With a bumper crop outlook for L'matilla county the fair board should plan for a bumper district fair this fall. There should be no end to the exhibits this year. THE REALM FEMININE In baking a cake It is well to re member that a sponge cake requires a lower temperature than a cake made with butter. Do not destroy any net from old curtains. Cut into squares of desired and stick together, and they will make excellent wash cloths. . Don't handle the dough any more than necessary when making biscuits, doughnuts or cookies. The more you handle it the tougher it will become. Odd pieces of fruit, such as one banana, an apple or an orange, are mixed with lemon gelatin to advan tage. Tough steak should be chopped and mixed with diced potatoes and then baked. Grated cheese over this dish improves the flavor. A saucer of baked beans can be l heated with catsup in a pan and a j ; ;joonful on toasted crackers serve nicely for the noonday luncheon. To wash water bottles or any vase having a long neck fill with clear hot water and tiny bits of torn paper. Shake well and rinse in clear water. Varnished furniture should be rub bed with silk occasionally, when a little sweet oil may be used. If rub bed on and wiped carefully it will re move all spots and preserve the brightness of the veneer. A wire basket, known as a salad shaker or drainer, should be used to dry greent after they have been thoroughly washed. Leaves of lettuce often hold hot water after they have been thoroughly shaken. If they are not fully dry they will not hold dress ing well. The process of dusting may be ren dered practically dustless if the dust cloths are occasionally washed in hot su Isi, dipped in kerosene and then dried in the open air. The duster or dry mop treated in this manner great ly improves the appearance of hard wood floors To keep out weevils or any little pest from the small breakfast foods whic h come In pasteboard boxes, cut off a small portion of one corner on the box and force a cork Into the opening made. Another decided ad vantage about this is that by taking out the cork the food can bo poured In a small stream directly from the box to the boiling water without the us of further utensils. Old bread Just now takes a new form In bread crumb cakes. Soak the bread in buttermilk and use flour to thicken the batter. H careful never to use too much butter in cake. Use a scant amount rather than what the rule calls for. und it will save many a poor cake. Cold water, a teaspoonful of ammo nia and soap will remove machine grease when other means would not answer on account of colors running. A little vinegar put Into water in which eggs are poached will keep them white and prevent them from spreading. VOTES FOR WOMEN The returns from elections show that an increasing number of voters exercise their right of suffrage, only it presidential elections, and upon is sues of great Importance, often ignor ing the minor officers and measures which some times touch so closeiy our daily life. Can improvement be expected in our municipal affairs, and public ser vice, while a large percentage of our present voters remain indifferent? We women are inclined to feel a litte skeptical. If the state business was to raise and discipline armies, build jails, and establish police courts, as was once its chief occupation, we women would net be asking for the privilege of exercising the franchise, but the state is coming to use its forces more and more to deminish these evils and fur ther the cause of education. Justice, and science, and the promotion of commerce and manufacture; the healing of disease, the promoting everywhere of increased reverence for the individual soul. Is not every right thinking woman deeply interested in at least some of these activities, if not all? We believe so. and we also believe that it is indispensable that she should have in their management her full and equal share. It may be a mere coincidence (but an interesting one) that illiterary and all its attendant evils loom largest where woman have least power and grows less where they vote. Judge Ben Lindsey says, that the sane.st, the most humane, the most progressive, most scientific laws re lating to the child, to be found on any statute books in the world, are to be found in Colorado, one of our "equal suffrage states." The returns from the polls, show an increasing tendency in the present voters toward neglecting the lesser issues In our civic and municipal management. They no doubt seem too much like womans work, and they are right, our municipal management, is but house keeping on a large and co operative scale. We women as a class, do not as yet know, our political A B Cs. Very littel perhaps, do we know about sub sidy acts, bills and tariff but it must be readily conceded that the majority of us are expert at house-keeping, and we need the ballot to regulate the sanitary conditions, and moral at mosphere in which we and our fam ilies must live. We know some things about the canned goods we use on our tables but not as much as we would like to know. We would like to know for an absolute certainty, that they are pure and wholesome. Ptomaine poisoning is becoming such a common occur ence. We know some sanitary meas ures that would not be out of place i adopted bysome meat shops., gro cery stores and bakeries. We know what kind of milk our babies should have. We know what kind of en vironment we would like our children to have when out from the shelter of our homes. Oh, in some ways we know a lot, but being instinctively progressive will not be content till we know a lot more. One of womans chief peculiarities, Is that she refuses to stay put. She was put In the Garden of Eden once, with all the good things at her com mand, but enui Is enul not matter vrhere found, and her inherent spirit of progress rebelled, the consequences were, she didn't stay put. Once upon a time, she was thought fit for nothing but to be the servant of her lord and master, obeying un questloningly in fear and trembling, his bidding. She has evolved to something bet ter, except in a few nations of the world, which are as yet, uncivilized, and even there they say she Is be ginning to awake. Up until the middle of the last cen tury, she was relegated to the babies and children's classes In all matters educational, and only fifty years ago It was seriously believed, that know ing the classics, would ruin her mor als, philosophy her religion, and mathematics her digestive apparatus. And with a deep shame .for our sex, we conferss that the great majority of women voiced these same senti ments. Looking with distrust, and downright disfavor on so wild an In novation. These objections, and the objections to the political women to day present some striking and Instruc tive analogies; but thanks to a few brave and courageous souls, they didn't stay put. and consequently we are today enjoying he same educa tional privileges as our brothers. Today, the women of Oregon, po litically speaking, are Just where they were put when Oregon became a state. In the disenfranchised class along with the children, unnaturalized foreigners, idiots and criminals. And the question today, In the minds of the progressive men and women Is, will she stay put? It b the type of woman asking for the franchise that is making the men sit up and take notice, it Is the think ing women, the best educated, most refined and most capable wives and mothers, and their cry Is, give us the ballot that we may become better wives and mothers. It Is meeting with Hueoess wherever tried, and any In fluence for good should not only be cherished, but encouraged. It is a movement that appeals only to the progressive, thinking woman. The fickle and frivolous, have no time or Inclination for thin cause which has for Its sole aim and pur pone the betterment of our social con ditions. It Is no compliment to the sex, that, so many of its members are Indiffer ent, far from it, their indifference Is due wholly to a lack of mental exer tion. If there was Just one good capable public spirited woman in the state who wanted to cast a ballot for or against a measure affecting her home or her city, she should have the priv ilege of so doing, s,nd that without an;- humiliation of begging It. Woman has gone into nearly every profession of the Idustrlal world, and made a success of that going. And although her work equals or even ex cels that of her co-working brother, he is her political superior and for no reason except the accident of birth. Should she not have a voice in the laws regulating the industry in which she is Interested or in which se may be te head? Woman is a part of the world's work as much as man, and should work in each and every part of it as man should. Each doing that which is particularly adapted to each, and the thought of equality lends a heal thy, happy, harmony to their co-oper ation. They are entering side by side, the! great work shops of the world, life's activities. Is it fait to accord one- half of these people privileges which are not granted to the other half? Laws made by one-half the people to govern all the people smacks more of injustice and tyranny than of that most precious word of all words, "lib erty," and is contrary to the spirit of Americanism. 'Twas our beloved Lincoln who said, "I go for all sharing the privileges of government who assist In bearing its burdens, by no means excluding wo men." B. S. A. Pendleton. Oregon, April 30. THE CONQIERER. "Build me a ship so big and safe And strong." the master said, "It will not feel the flood below Nor tempest overhead." And forth the giant liner swept Upon her westward way, A moving city of the foam. With lights and music gay. But from the north a ghostly fleet. Mist-bannered, ages old. Came gliding down by cliff and cape. I he navy of the cold. A mighty squadron wrought and launched By elemental force, With nothing but the shifting tides To steer Its silent course. Beneath the sliver stars that watch The dramas of the deep From po'e to pole forevermore, With eyes that never sleep. It met the proud Titanic, made To conquer wind and wave. And sunk her fathoms in the sea And sailed above her grave. Minna Irving. ,1N MEXICO. Every day is a real delight In the sunny land of Mexico. Morning begins with a running fight By noon the battle is going right. When darkness falls It is at its height, Then, just like a moving picture snow, Through the same performance next day they go! Mexicans fight at the drop of the hat 1 in the land that's ruled by Madero, They fight anyway, if it comes tothat; fc.ach new revolution that goes to bat Has generals lean and generals fat. Generals high and generals low. And a rank and file of a man or so. The generals thunder their fierce commands And then to fighting the man must go. He attacks In brigades or in scatter ing bands With a bargain store rifle in his hands He kneels and fires, then, cheering, stands While the generals march in the sunset's glow To dinner. That's war in Mexico. Chicago News. I'LSTER. The home rule struggle, which is expected to arouse bitter animosities, will open this week in England with the presentation of the Home Rule bill in "parliament Thursday. Rud yard Kipling has fired the first gun. He is out with a slashing denuncia tory poem entitled "Ulster." It fol lows: The dark eleventh hour Draws on and sees us sold To every evil power Oppression, wrong and greed We fought against of old Rebellion, rapine, hate, Are loosened to rule our fate. By England's act and deed. The faith In which we stand, z The laws we make and guard, Our honor, lives and land Are given for reward To murder clone by night; To treason taught by day; To folly, gloth and spite; And we are thrust away. The next two stanzas of ".IXster" declare the home rulers to be Eng land's foes. The poem concludes: We know war Is prepared On every peaceful borne; We know hell is declared For such as serve no Rome; The terror, threats and dread In market, hearth and field, We know when all Is said We perish If we yield. SULPHUR MINED BY PUMPING. Seven or eight yers ago the Im ports of Sicilian su'phur amounted to more than 100,000 long tons. With the growth of the sulphur industry in Louisiana, according to the United States Geological Survey, the importa of Sicilian sulphur in the United States have become almost a negligible quan tity, the entlde imports from Italy for 1910 being but 10,704 tons. The pro duction of sulphur In the United States for 1910 was 255,534 tons, valued at $4,605,112, the great bulk of which came from Louisiana. The mining of sudphur in Louisiana Is an interesting process. The sul phur deposit, situated near Lake Charles, lies about 440 feet beneath the surface and is about 100 feet thick. Beds of quicksand overlying the sul phur render the sinking of shafts im possible, and the sulphur is therefore pumped to the surface. A well is driven through the numerous strata tc the sulphur-impregnated beds, in 0 for our Always Something New New Ratine Bandings New Curtain scrims New White Waists We save you money on every purchase LEKAHEE3' We give, S. & K. green stamps. w-hich the same manner as is usual in sinking wells for oil and gas. In each well there are placed concen trically four lines of pipe, having di ameters ranging from 10 inches to 1 Inch. Superheated water and hot air are forced down the pipes and the spaces between them to melt the sul phur and to bring it to the surface. The hot water flows down between tha two outer pipes, which are respective ly 10 inches and 6 Inches in diameter, and passes into the sulphur-bearing mass, melting the sulphur. The quan tity of sulphur melted and the range of action of the water depend on the temperature of the water and3n the pressure at which it is supplied. The heavy melted sulphur runs back into the sump around the bottom of the w-ell pipe, which enters through holes provided for this purpose. Hot com pressed air Is forced down through the smallest or 1-inch pipe and at the bottom of the well mixes with the melted sulphur and orms an aerated mas sufficiently low In specific grav ity to allow the water pressure to ele vate the melted sulphur to the sur face where it is discharged into large rectangular vats, constructed of rough planking. The dimensions ot the vats vary somewhat, but they are made as large as 350 by 250 by 40 feet, and some of them are so arrang ed that railroad trains can pass be tween them. After the sulphur has cooled and solidified, it is regularly mined the same as if It were in a nat ural deposit. EXCHANGE OF COURTESIES. When J. W. Mitchell was the Rus sian correspondent of the Associated Press, head of the German branch of the house of Rothschild visited St. Petersburg, and it became Mitchell's business to find out what had brought the great financier to that city. Mitch ell, who Is famous for his brilliant brain and his dull-looking clothes, found and interviewed Rothschild. At the close of the talk, the money The Valuo of Groceries and Us (jVlK'ii.ls upon how good they am 'if yon buy a poor grade that you ennnot use, it isn't satisfactory, even if you get them at a low price. But when you buy your groceries and moats here, you have a standing assuranco that they are STRICTLY PURE AND FRESH and at the lowest iHwsible price consistent with good poods. Pendleton Gash Market COR. COURT AND JOHNSON STREETS PHONE MAIN 101 r?nn7 tilli 0 lii king, thinking that Mitchell was a poor icllow on the vergo of starvation fished out of his vest pocket a sov ereign and, with a patronizing air, handed It to him. Whereupon, the newspaper writer, producing a J5 gold piece, extended it to Rothschild, and said. In a bored manner: "Havo one of mine " Pop ular Magazine." GIRL TAKES 68-FOOT DIVE, Venice, Cal. Taking a dare, Miss Gertrude Johnson, 18 years old, of Santa Monica, dtvod from the roof of the Venice Auditorium into the ocean a distance of 68 feet, turning a com plete somersault before striking the water and then did not go more than fix feet below the surface. We are ready for you with our CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM served with fresh Strawberries Its the kind that make you come again. Koeppen's The drug store that tervtt you best.