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UN fro I 14 if i fill S HK , , 1 Iff. HAv-- m j"! 4, . THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1902. This Date In History Fob, 27, 3591 Honr of Navarre crowned ITenry IV. nt Chnrtres. 1703-Johii Kvolyn, famous for tils "Diary," died; born 1G20. 171T-ohn David Mlchaells. German ori ental scholar and Ulbllcal commenta tor, born; died 1791. 1733 Dr. John Arbuthnot died. 178-teneral Francis Marlon, Revolution ary hero of South Carolina, died; born "1722. 1807 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet, born in Portland. Me.: died 18S2. 18 Joaeph Krnest Henitn, dclstical writ er and orientnl scholar, born in Brit tany, France; died lt2. 1S39 Sarah Jewett, once noted on the Americyin stage, died at Cambridge. "Mass. 1S00 General Cronje surrendered his army to I,ord Itoberls at Paardebors after u stubborn resistance of eight days' iluratlon; about 0.000 Doers surrender ed. The prisoners, witli their leaders. ' wore sent to the island of St. Helena, where they still remain under British guard. WALLA WALLA AND PENDLETON There is public spirit In plenty in Pendleton;, there is a disposition to lift, not a hankering to lean. But, from all accounts, public spirit is .lacking in Walla Walla, so much so that, when a subscription paper for some local enterprise is circulated around the town the prominent citi zens and business men hie away to the woods or lock themselves up in their steel treasure vaults to escape burden, which It is their duty to carry. Several weeks sinse the business men of the Garden City were asked to contribute $1000 to assist in main talning a base ball nine this season, and a subscription paper was passed around. The result at this time is so discouraging to the baseball promot ers that they are contemplating aban donment of their efforts, so that Walla Walla may have a better chance to die of dry rot and blow nwny. It was different in Pendleton. The people here, rather the '.'prominent citizens" and the business men never turn a worthy project down. When a baseball scheme was proposed they took hold of it like a salt-water mul let does a baited hook, with-the resull that as a starter thirty individuals and firms contributed ?50 each, or $1,500, toward maintaing a good game of bail, and others contributed at least $500 more for the same purpose And so Pendleton is going to have ball, even if Walla Walla does not. Athena, a town of S00 people, rais ed a liberal fund and was the first in tins field with a good nine of ball players, which reflects all the more on the public spirit of the big town of many waters. A city or town, like a man, is kuown by its good works. It cannot be accurately judged in any other way. their efforts until every member who voted for the grab was retired to private life. There is no dearth of candidates for congressional honors, oven nt tho present figures. Tho constitution of, the United States provides that members of con gress shall receive compensation to be fixed by law. The first congress voted that its members should be paid $G.per day and $6 for each twen ty miles of travel going and coming. The scale stood until 1815, when the pay was fixed at $1FOO per annum and remained at this figure until 1817, when the per diem method was re stored and until 1S55, or nearly forty years, the nav of concressmen and senators was reckoned at $8 per day changing in the latter year to $3, 000 a year, and in 1865 to $5000. The famous "salary grab," which brought defeat to so many members of con gress, passed in 1S73, raised the sal ary of the president to $50,000 a year and of senators and congressmen to $7,000 a year, as well as raising other salaries. The people made such a protest that tho bill was repealed as soon as the next congress met and the pay of congressmen and senators went back- to $5000 a year, at which it has since remained, and there it should remain. KAISER'S FAREWELL TO HENRY. CONGRESSIONAL SALARIES. The salary grabbers in congress nre always Itching to put their paws deeper into the public purse. Just now they are Interested in an effort to increase tlte salaries of the mem hers of congress, and, to help the movement, they propose to include members of the cabinet, the supreme court judges and others. The move ment, of course, is popular with the law makers. They care not about the burden on those who contribute these salaries. If there were any way by which tho general taxpayer could vote to In crease his salary, there would be more equity and fairness to the con- cresslonal proposition for an increase of salaries. If tho people were better paid than their servants, their ser vants could consistently ask for more money for their arduous labors. If the salaries wero raised to $50,- 000 a year for each congressman, does anyone suppose for a minute that the ability of congress or tho re milt of their labors would increase one whit? On the 'ohter hand, tho higher the salary is tho less tho peo ple may expect from tlie work of con gress, as high salaries would have no other advantage than to attract the greedy and corrupt. Those who feel it a duty on the part of every man to servo his coun try to the best of his ability, would not bo attracted to a congressional of fice because of tho high salary attach ed to it, The presont salary Js amplo for good men, and no others need np ply for tho Job. If congress Increas es the salaries of its members the American people should not cease Aufweidersehen, brother mine! Farewells will soon be kissed; And, ere you leave to breast the brine, Give me once more your fist! That mailed fist clenched high in air On many a foreign shore, Enforcing coaling stations where No stations were before. That fist, which weaker nations view As if 'twere Michael's own, And which appals the heathen who 13ow down to wood and stone. But this trip no brass knuckles. Glove That heavy mailed hand; Your mission now is one of love And peace you understand. All that's American you'll praise; The Yank can do no wrong, To use his own expressive phrase, Just "jolly him along.' ' Express surprise the more Of Roosevelt you see, How much I am like Theodore And Theodore like me. I am, in fact (this might not be A bad thing to suggest), The Theodore of the East, and he The Wilhelm of the West. And, should you get a chance find out If anybody knows Exactly what it's all about, That Doctrine of Monroe's. That's entre nous. My present plan You know as well as I; Be just as Yankee as you can If needs be eat some pie. Gut out the kraut, cut out the Rhine Cut out the Schuetzenfest, The Saengerbund, the. Tumvereln, The Kommers and the rest. And if some fool society "Die Wacht am Rhein" should sing YOU sing "My Country 'TIs of Thee" The tune's "God Save the King." To our own kindred In that land There's not much you need tell, Jusf-tell them that you saw me, and That I was lopking well. Chicago Tribune. THE WINNER. He eats potatoes with his knife, Ho speaks of the "old woman" when He makes a referenco to his wife, But he receives salutes from men Who have no time to notice mo; His speech Is rough and hard, he's cut From coarse material, and ho Has done the world no services but He's making money. Art to him Is an empty word, To him the bard is but a Jest; No graceful sonnet ever stirred Responsive chords within his breast; With elbows squared he crowds along, All ignorant of culture's laws, And gentle people In the throng Stand back and bow to him be cause He's making money. S. E. Kiser. THE STUDY OF A MAN. With all tho scientific research now going on in tho world, tho complaint Is made that tho study of Hvincr man as ho is today is sadly neglected. This would certainly seem to bo a practical and even necessary lino of inquiry, especially as regards tho period or childhood and youth; but wo are told by Mr. Arthur McDonald, in tho American Journal of Sociol- ogy, that child stuuy receives as yet but scant support, and that the first case in all history of a thorough Bclentillc study of a human being is that made on the French novelist, Zola, in 1S79, by a group of French specialists. To illustrate some of. tho -results from incomplete studies of modern man undertaken by investigators of various parts of the world. Mr. Mac D6nald gives a number of their con clusions. These statements are to be taken in a general si'iisr onlj i. as true In most of the cases Invest I gated. Following are some of the more important conclusions of these investigators, as stated by Mr. Mac Donald: Maximum growth in height and weight occurs in boys two years later than in girls (Bowditch.) First-born children excel later-born children in stature and weight I Boas. J Healthy men ought to weigh an ad ditioiml 5 pounds for every inch in height beyond Gl inches, at which height they ought to weigh 120 pounds (1 ancaster.) Chest girth increases constantly with height and generally half the length of the body (Landsberger.) Chest girth and circumference of head increase in parallel lines (Daffner.) The relatively large size of head as compared with body in children, may be litt tc ihe !.it that .urn birth on the child needs its brain and senses as much as when grown (Wei senbn'v Boys grow more regular than girls, but the growtii of girls during school years Is greater than that of boys (Schmidt) Children born in summer are Wall er than those born in winter (Combe) Boys of small frames often have large heads and are deficient in re pose of character, and when the chest is contracted and mental action slow, this mental condition is due, probab ly, to lack of supply of purified blood (Liharzik.) Delicate, slender people are much subject to typhoid fever than con sumption (Hilderbrand.) Some defective children are over normal that is, they are taller and heavier than other children Hasse.) Growth degenerates as we go low er in the social scale (British Asso ciation for tho Advancement of Sci ence) Dull children are lighter and pre cocious children heavier than the av erage child (Porter.) As circumfrence of head increases, mental ability increases; It being un derstood that race and sex are the same (MacDonald.) City children are more vivacious, but have less power of endurance, than country children (Liharzik.) Worth Remembering A child swallowed a round whistl about the size of a quarter dollar. A neighbor who dropped in advised tho mother to give him the unbeaten white of an egg, telling her that it would form around the object, which would be carried off through the bowels. This proved true. The mother afterward had a bristle from her tooth brush lodge in her throat, causing annoyance and Irritation. After trying various Avays to dis lodge It she thought of the egg and In a little while the offending bris tle had disappeared. Good Housekeeping. Mr. Schwab called on three kings while in Europe. Large sums of mon ey have been won on smaller hands than that. A Mai Eclipse. Any man can produce a total eclipse of the sun, so far as he himself is con cerned, by holding a dollar close to his eye. 1 he total eclipse of health is often pro duced in much the same way, by letting the dollar shut out from view all other things and interests. A great many people pay for wealth with health and admit at last that they have made a poor bargain. In the chase of the dollar people are too eager to take time to eat regularly or choose proper food, the stomach becomes disordered or diseased, the food eat en ceases to nourish, and physical break down conies. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures diseases of the stomach and other or gans of digestion and nutrition and so enables the strengthening of the body, in the only way by which strength can be ob tained, by food properly digested and perfectly as similated. "I snfferefl for fouryears with nam in my stomach eo that at timet; I couldn't work nor eat " writes Mr Frank Smith, of Granite, Chaffee Co., Colo. i wrote to you abcut my ickness aud was told to use your medi ewe, which I did with good results. I only used four bot. ties of Golden Medical Discov ery.' and must iay that I am entirely oiirefl wl ri tit.. new man, and I can hihly recommend your medicine to any sufferer." The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser, ico8 pages, free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Send 21 one-cent stamps for the paper covered edition, or 31 stamps for the clotli-bound volume, to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y, A Strong Woman Iowa City, Iowa, Aug. IS, 1900 My wife was sick for tnreo years. Wo tried overythlnpr without rollof and spent lnuoh money. My wife tried WIno of Oardul and four bottles cured her. She took two inoro bottlci, knowing sho would have to work hard during tho hay harvest. Sho attended to all her house hold dutios and loaded and unloaded all the hay. This modiclno Ravo hor strength. For merly she was weak and' tired and could hardly net aoout, but sincf) sho has been taking Wine of Cnrdui sho feels bettor and stronger than when 20 years of age. JOB. A. EISKKIIAPKR. Mrs. Elsenhafer had tried everything during her three years sickness and had spent consid erable money. She was weak and could hardly get about for three years before she took WINECARDUI Now, after taking the Wine of Cardul, she can work with her husband In the hay field. That Is hard work, but It Is not as Injurious to a woman's health as labor in stores, factories and offices where thousands of girls are closely con fined vear after vear. With the aid of Wine of Cardul a woman can do any reasonable work and enoy good health. The health that Wine of Cardul brings makes a woman vigorous In body and mind. Freed Irom those terrible devastating pains a woman grows well and strong naturally. Wine of Cardul regulates the disordered menstruation and cures leucorrhoea, falling of the womb and periodical pains In the head and back caused by standing or sitting a long time In the same position. Thedford'i Black-Draught puts the bowels, stomach, liver, kidneys and blood In proper shane Greatly increased strength and endurance Is the natural result Most cases are cured quickly. All druggists sell $1.00 bottles of Wine of Cardul and 25 cent packages of Thedfortrs Black-DraughL For tdTloe nd lltertur. iddran, tltiui ajinptomi, "TJhj Idlei' Adrttory Depirtmint." The OutUnoog Uedloln Company, Ctntunoog. Turn. LUMBER and other building material including Line, Cement, Piaster, Brick, and Sand. Wo have a large stock of WOOD GUTTERS for barns and dwell luge Oregon Lumber Yard KEEP YOUR HI Not on Pasco, BUT ON BYERS' GROVE ADDITION TO PENDLETON. I still have Farms for Sale N.Berkeley Alta St., opp. Cottrt House. KENTUCKY C WHISKEY Bold by JOHN UUHMIDT The Louvre Saloon PKNDLETON OREGOS TRANSFER, STORAGE. CROWNER THLBPHOHK MAIN 4. You get Good Beer.. When you drink PILSNER BEER THE REAL ESTATE MAN. Savings Bniik Ruilriiug, PendJeton, Or. Pendleton' WW and... 'Mr. Buy their stock rmtt, carload lots LT'' R?t the benefit of discounts, which ,CI. ..,... ' ..,v,,lcn ena Ki. "cm 10 sen at.n J set IF YOU NEED . . . Lne, Cement, aand, Terra Cffa iv or anytfongin thfe fii cpr mir J- Pendleton Planing Lumber Yard, "1 would Thlsli tho sutcment r .l , merchants on tfce&'Sg nuverusmg is the most kirr Jrl"w Ja -ed to prion than HDySl?1?1- SEEFORYOURSPTP Four Inch Ad in the Daily East Oregonian, One Week, 6 Tunes M Four Inch Ad in the Weekly East 0regonian,0neWed, J l ime, and Semi-Weekly Time Or a Four Inch Ad t'n Rnlli Daily and Weekly and Semi-Weekly, 6 Times in Daily, 1 Time in Weekly ! and 1 Time in Semi-Weekly Only WHO CAN GIVE YOU A LOWER PRICE FOR ADVERTISINGS Foi-a loiiRer time, or fur rcowfpact the nilus aio In tlic siae propsrtlon Ails uuder contract, tme mes.bet liavlun c'ro co of position ft pipe', IU climi'ic of ropy without extrtcitrgt,u often ab once a week. Doing lmslnC93 wlttaA tlTiitlilDtli llko winking at a pretty in lha dark. You may knowvrhsiyGU neb lug, but no ouo else doei. 'COfVRIOMT Popular Decision is tbnt the .Domestic Laundry is noted for the Huperinrity of its service. All linen luuudered there is done by the best, luteal and most perfect methods, and is in every way tho most satis factory. This is a question of fact that good dressers Svill appreciate. THE DOMESTIC J. F. Robinson, Prop, LAUNDRY Pendleton. For Sale! Guaranteed not to cause hoadache or dizziness Ask for it. Schultz Brewing Co. The East Orcgonlan Is Eastern Ore- ;hrepre8,ntatlve paPer' leads, and the people appreciate It and show adveyrtt.hB?,r "If Patro"fle t la Ihl advertising medium of this section. Eight lots with dwelling and barn, $3,000 House has seven rooms, bath, cellar and wood house, city water, hard finished on stone foundation. The East Oregoman'sTtlephen'l Is Main 1 (111 WRITE TO THE - EAST OREGOMAN, Pendleton, Oregon Where are You Going? ' Jo The i f. New Lumber Yari to buy nice, new clean, bright-lumber. Also four lots and new cottage, $1,250 Two lots and house, $i,ooo, part cash, reasonable time on balance, or will sell on installments. See B. CLOPTON, 817 Main Street. Farmers Custom Mill Fred Walters, Proprietor. Capacity, 160 barrela day. Flour exonanged tor wheat. Ifloar, Mill Fowl .UtioppedFoed. elo- ! on hand. Gray's Harbor opposite theW.ftCt&P PENDLETON, OREGON. W. J. SEWELL, Ma II -I boii need fl,jt?K-.. S .M" f.'Ji lth tome accident' on .itngW- ton for delay- nTMBH9 NEAUi-c portal." Water at., n ar. m 7