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' t vr.r rnrn. IWTt.Y FAST OTJFCONTAN. rKNPT.F.TOX. OTJFfiOY. SATrilPAY. JANUATCV X 19H. Fionx PAGES an imem-:xi-i:nt newspaper. t?i.- na-tN r or a boy of ets'.-.t years ha3 Mi.l that t.icro "wasn't any Santa I'l.i'iii for poor children," Mr. Heap' It ft the sk'kroom, stocked his aut Mobile with a sled, a train of toy cars. i:i-. candy and other gifts for the rial and the expenses are very i Indians of Mexico Include a few wild heavy; hut even so. the Vnlted States tribes which have not yet bowed the rublthd luily ami Semi Weeklj at I'm-! c EAST OKKi.oNlAN JTIiUSHlXQ CO. di-thute fumilv and started out to 1 deliver them. official otv nd County l"pr. Member I'niiwl l'rrss Association. Entered it the rtoffi-e at IVndleton, Orcfrna, aa second r Ian nail matter. OS SAI.K IX OTHER CITIES. The Kantern N Co.. 1 Mr t land. Oregon. 821 Vi Wahtiiein St.. at th. Imperial Hotel News Stand, Portland, Orepm. Itoa maa Xe Co.. Tortland. Oregon. OX KILE AT Chlraeo P. ill-ran. Security Rulldlng. W aitbtoFton. 1. C, Hurean, 0l, Four teenth atreet. X. W. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dally, one year, by mall Imlly, lx montbe. by mail italiy, three months.' by mail la.Uy, one month, by mall Pally, one year, by carrier Kail j, tlx menths. by carrier Dally, three months, by carrier.... Dally, one month, by carrier Semi Wee It. one year by mail..,. Betnl-Weekly. lx months, by mall.. eml-Weekly, four months, by mail.. .$5 '. I. Telephone , 1 WHEX IUTY IS A JOY." Joy Is a duty so with golden lore The Hebrew rabbis taught In days of yore . . . But one bright peak still rises far above And there the Master stands, whose name Is Love. Saying to those whom weary tasks employ: "Life Is divine, when duty Is a ioy." , Henry Van Dyke. The trouble at Copperfield arose from the fact the saloonmen there seem to have thought At CoppeTfietf. they were immune from all the laws ot decency. Through some legerdemain they captured the city government bodily. The mayor was a saloonkee. er and likewise four of the council men. They had control and they ap pear to have used it not for the pro tection of peace but for the protec tion of vice. This situation became Intolerable to others who have to live at Copper field. They were not merely forced to ' endure an "open" town but com plained their lives and property were in danger. That there was' some ground for their complaint is Indi cated, by the fact some of the com plainants had Buffered from incendi ary fires. At first efforts were made to cor rect the situation through the ordi narv legal channels but the effort ..proved Ineffective. Even when called upon by the governor to take action against the saloonkeeper officials the district attorney declined to do so. It vu then the rovernor decided to handle the matter himself. Through Miss Hobbs, his private secretary, he asked the officials to resign. Upon their- refusal, to do so the town was placed under martial law, the saloon men were placed under arrest and their saloons under lock and key That was the situation as it stood this morning. Presumably the governor in taking this action is entirely within the law It is the same line of action he pur sued against the disorderly toad houses in Multnomah county and he brought those establishments into line If Governor West can succeed in cleaning up Copperfield the effect will be wholesome for it will show that when local or county officials ac : quieece too openly at lawlessness and vice the governor, who is sworn to see that the laws are faithfully en forced, may take charge himself and has an arm that reaches far and with which he may strike quickly and ef ftctlvely. The fate of the I Grande Mes enger shows the difficulty of estab lishing a second news' A IMfflrult paper in a town where BtvatM-ft. the field Is already cov ered. La Grande Is very thriving town and is growing. It has a closely settled tributary country' and is the best payroll town in eastern Oregon. If any eastern Oregon town offers a field for two newspapers La Grande does. Tet the Messenger was unable to succeed and this despite the fact It was a splendid little paper ami was conducted by practical newspapermen. The prof its of a legitimate newspaper are not large and they are well earned while uch capers as obtain money from questionable sources often find it long time between meals. This 1 a buB.v. selfish world, ye there are frequent flashes showing this tendency is not all yor Ue Sake prevalent and that f Others. ' desire to serve others ' . still exists regardless of materialistic standards. An incl ; Sent that happened Jn Denver Christ mas flortfl",th name of one young ' n-n mho strove to bleu others. He Young Mr. Heap was a former re Ideot of Paterson, N. X. who had be- one a health exile in the West be rauae of tuberculosis. Learning that His car became stallec. in the snow he staKPered along wltli his burden, was overcome by exhaus tion, and died. When men will die for the cause of generosity nnd self sacrifice no one can say the old world is wholly sordid or that fine sentiment has been driwn from the land. There are now loud denials that there has been any scheme to tie up the Thorn Hollow project. There was good evidence of such a scheme but If has been dropped since the East Ore;or.!an exposed the thing- very well. However, the "antis" will have to prove their claim by deeds as well as words. If they don't want to ob struct the project then let them cease their obstructive tactics. I Those Copperfield saloonmen may be sorry they did not resign when the young lady asked them to do so. The West Umatilla "project shows the faith of the government In the project at Hermlston. If the coast towns cannot agree on that regional bank let Pendleton have it. Pendleton the best home town in eastern Oregon. is now furnishing three ttmes ns much radium annually as all the rest of the world together. The carnotlte is found in . a deeply burled sandstone formation, and is scattered In "pock ets." so that its discovery is largel n matter of chance. It occurs as lemon-y?llov speck scattered thick ly, through the rock for an Irregular space," or encrusting cracks and hol lows, or it may be more or less mas sive, and associated with darker van adium ores. The bureau of mines has instructed prospectors that the best way to test these ores is to wrap, in the dark, a photographic plate in two thicknesses of black paper. On the paper lay a key. and then, just above the key, suspend two or three ounces of the ore and place the whole in a light-tight box. Pressure of the ore on the key nnd plate should be avoided. After three or four days develop the plate in the ordinary way and If the ore is appreciably radio active, an image of the key will be found on the plate. For several years after carnotlte was discovered it was utilized solely for the uranium and vanadium it con tr.ined, and it was not until 1910 that the extraction of radium began. Mr. Parsons can see no reason why Am erican carnotlte snouia not ne treat ed at home, where Its precious In gredient is much needed, and says that several companies are preparing to do so. The market price of radium has been holding steadily for some time at about $120 a milligram ($54 000,000 a pound). Knee to the Spaniard, such ns the Huichols, the Tnrascas. the pigmy Otomies. nnd the Mixes in their ridge climbing log villages with such Aztec nanu-s ns lxcumtepec nnd Huixquil lucan. Modern Inestisators like Starr and Lumholu think they are superi or to the mixed race, and to many whites. The World's Work.- BY THE SCISSORS A DIFFICULT BUSINESS. (La Grande Observer.) Messrs. Palmer, Lindbeck and Wood who came here from Oklahoma about three months ago and launched a morning newspaper have, after care fully and earnestly trying out the newspaper field- announced they will discontinue publication of the paper, and devote their entire attention to an exclusive job printing plant. These are practical men and rendered good service, but it is a plain business proposition that two dally papers, each carrying the enormous expense necessary to publish a paper, cannot get along in this field. The rate for advertising is too low for two to ex ist. These gentlemen have given every energy to their business and Worked hard. They deserve credit for their effort and for having tried out the morning field, which has been looked upon by many as a great opening for a newspaper. The only way that the Observer can exist and give the service it does is by the large volume of business transacted. Cut that volume down and w-e naturally would have to re duce in the different departments to meet the deficiency. A newspaper nowadays, with its heavy expense, is very much like a public utility, and people generally are growing to believe that two dally newspapers In the smaller cities is but a double tax on both advertisers and subscribers. The Observer tries very hard to please and give full value for every dollar received whether there is one paper in the field or two. No one can truthfully say the Observer ha held them up when it was the only paper printed In La Grande, and no one can truthfully say they were ever mistreated by this paper. We have but one motto and that is "Be fair." This motto is handed down through every department of this business. Whether you are friend or foe you are always sure of fair treatment. -At times, even with one paper there are heavy deficiencies for the labor pay roll must be met every Saturday night and the paper house must be paid. But the bright seasons of the year overcome the dull ones The newspaper business has changed greatly in the last 10 years. It is now a. business that requires large money to install and heavy expense to operate. While Mr. Palmer. Mr. Lindbeck and Mr. Wood are practical men ana fully understood the great expense necessary they had hoped, no doubt of the demand heard for another caper of carrying with it Increaseo expenditures for newspaper work in La Grande. That it Is onlv in elemental society that people "wear their claims to' con sideration," ts a saying ot Clara E. Laughlin's. This desire to carry one's property or the signs of It about on one's back is left over from nomad days, w hen no one had any .home or background of established repute Later people began to stay ' in one place, to make homes and to gather the evidence of wealth In houses and other possessions. . The higher the sense of what Is worth possessing the further does one get from desiring to exhibit one's possessions in dress and the less obtrusive all tokens of wealth become. . The most beautiful homes show regard for comfort and beauty: but they do not speak of wealth. Their first impression is al ways beauty, and the uninitiated might never suspect the wealth that many a simple and perfect home setting really represents. ' AMERICA'S RADIUM TIES. FOSSIBILI The public has been Interested In the announcement that the pitch blende deposits in Colorado, whence radium is derived, have been purchas ed by Alfred I. du Pont to Insure home suddIv of that metal. A far more Important source of radium however, says the Independent, Is the mineral carnotlte (named in 1889 after the late president of France) which occurs scantily In Turkestan and In Australia, but far more abund antlv in the United States. It is now obtained in southwestern Colo rado and In eastern Utah, most pro fusely in the canyon walls of Para dox valley. The American mining congreM at its recent meeting In Phil adelphla ws told by Charles Parsons, chemist of the United States bureau of mines, that this was the richest radium producing region in the world and that at least four times as much radium was produced from American carnotlte in 1812 alone as from all the Colorado pitchblende yet treated Virtually all of it, however, waa sent to Europe, and very Inadequately paid for; but the miners have learned better now. and are also saving much waste In the reducing process, so that better returns are being receiv ed. The mines are far from a rail VXOBTKI'SIVE WEALTH. MEXICO'S MIXTURE OF RACES. About a fifth of the people of Mex Ico call themselves Spanish and per haps a twentieth are really without Indian mixture. A third of the pop ulation is of native American stock; and fully half of the peope have both Spanish and Indian blood. The pure IN A MIRTHFUL VEIN MAKKKKD 1MPKOVEMKXT. Rev. Caller Well, Mrs. Mangles anil is the good man any better? Mrs. Mangles oh. yes. sir. 'E's nearly all right again, sir. 'E don't say "is prayers no more of n night now, sir. Sydney Bulletin. BAD JOB FOR MAX BELOW. While In Boston a while ago I went over to East Boston on the ferry. There was a steam shovel at work out in the harbor, and I was stand ing watching It. Suddenly I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned around to find a son of Erin standing there. "Say." said he. "isn't this a wonderful country? By gorry, now, Just look at that thing going down there now. Look at It Isn't that wonderful. But, say, ould man. I wouldn't want to be the guy at the bottom filling- that thing up, would ye?" My Word! To his family an old Dlpolodocus Said, 'Cut out all this loud hocus po- cus. You must act like good boys. And stop all this noise. Or the Ichthyopagous will crocus.' Cincinnati Enquirer. Call a Surgeon! Gabe That fellow Tufluck has evl dently gone to pieces, hasn't he? Steve Yes. They tell me he Is broke. Cincinnati Enuirer. Cheaper. "Going to make many Christmas presents this year?" "You bet! It's cheaper than 'buying 'em." WHERE HE SHIXES. "He Is in Who's Who, I telieve." "Yes; but he Is much more promi nent . in "Here's . How" " Houston Post. HE ADMITS IT. "Do you see that homely woman over there?" "Yes." "Do you know who she is?',' "No." "She's Green's wife. And what's more, he Just admitted it to me a minute ago." Detroit Free Press. Nature Never Intended As a matter of fact it is ber right and her Amtf to enjoy perfect health and Woman to be Sicldy ilTU, perhaps more so in view of the fact that it is she who brings into the world the offspring. Every woman can be strong and healthy. Don t resign yourself to a delicate life. ... 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' i THE NEW YEAR IS NOT YET SUF FICIENTLY ADVERTISED. In a day or so after you havp won the date in your favorite newspaper, on calendars, on letters, everywhere the fact will be ham mered home to you that this really is 1014. Advertising will do it. Did you ever fitop to think that everything in this life that suggests a desire or the ability to satisfy a desire i advertising that the in fant's first cry is advertising, and very likely to command immediate response. Newspapers did not create advertising. They merely opened the easiest channel for this essential part of life to express itaelf. Newspaper advertising is efficient for bu iness men just as the Panama Canal will be efficient Each i the most direct and the easiest way for its user's purpose. TuiiinimiiiiiHiiiiiiitiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiir. Never before have the people of Pendleton and Um atilla county had an opportunity, of securing the world s best pianos, at the prices. we are quoting. .... i The Hulett stock, of pianos from La Grande also all of the Eilers pianos now stored with Penland Bro's. of this city, are to go regardless of former selling prices. Price is no object they must be closed out. This is not a mere matter of price, in fact prices and' profits have been forgotten In order 4o dispose of this stock in the next few dayB. There are savings here for everyone. Care ful buyers will at once appreciate the significance of this sale, coming ns it does from a house of estab lished integrity and reliability. You are absolutely assured of satisfaction. Its the Eilers way. If you have your heatr set on a Checkering, Eilers, Kimball, Smith & Barnes, Marshall & Wendell or some other well known make, you can now realize your wish ef and at a tremendous saving. While it don't seem possible that a saving of from $150.00 to $250 00 could be made on a single piano. It is true and pos sible right here' In Pendleton at this time. Do not overlook the import ance of this sale to you. Tell your friends. You can make a small pay ment each month like rent, if you wish. Should you have an old organ or piano we will take it as part pay ment at a liberal valuation. When you start for this sale, start with the determination to secure a bargain and you won't be disappoint ed. Here is a beautiful Richmond1 player, the case of which was rubbed a little in shipping, a $700 00 player piano, take it now' for $365.(0 and on easy terms, besides we will Include a lot of free music. There is a Chick erlng Grand also, the best piano In fact that we represent and all marked to sell quickly. Eilers have grown great In the West by their proven ability to produce re sults superior to their competitors, by the giving of liberal values and rep resentations of only pianos of high quality.- All of the Instruments in this stock are amongst the higher priced and well known makes. See the piano value we offer for $195.00 now and which ordinarily would sell for $350. Notice the beautiful Chickering, Sohmer and Knabe Grand Pianos in our big window all reduced. Store Open Evenings The Warren Music House Agents in Eastern Oregon for Eilers Music House iinn n uei In,: i n t ; A, i i mm i mm i' ifli 1 i ' ' Yes, another song hit free for our readers by arrangement with Maurice Shapiro, New York City owner of the copyright You'll laugh when you get next Saturday's issue or the East Oregonian and sing Seymour Brown and Silvio Hein's feature song from 66