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I IT IS TRUE & I m j 1 niAT- Atwood's Cascata Compound fa the surest ami ?afe-U nurtlehio for regulating the action of the livr, kidneys, stomach and bowels. A never failing remedy for constipation, bllioti ness, lmida 'he and all i iseass caused by a torpid liver or irrmiulir action ot the bowels. It is very use ful to relieve folds and fevers and to purify the blood. For Bale Wholesale and .Retail by Brock & HcComas Company DRUflQISTS - PENDLETON I TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1902. UNEARNED INCREMENT. Thirty-four years ago Cornell uni versity investd 250,000 in Wiscon Bi nlands, purchased chiefly at 50 cents an acre. As land lias risen in value and the university needed moil ed, portions of the tract were sold. A few days ago the last of the land was sold in a body, 50,000 acres for the same monoy which was paid for 500,0u0 acres in the first place. Cor nell university mado a profit of near ly $j.2,000 000 on the entiro invest ment. Prom this it can be seen that spec ulation in land is a way of "getting something for nothing," through "ownership" of the land, (or monopo ly is a better understood word) there is placed a permanent burden upon the shoulders of labor, which is com pelled to pay a return upon this cap ital before it is allowed to have any thing for itself. It is, here that capi tal has advantage over labor and it is in this unjust advantage that the trust and combine evils are given privilege and power to further op press and enslave labor. But we do not want to live as long as it will take labor or labor organ! zations to discover the cause of their Inability to cope ,with capital in its work of destroying equality of oppor tunity and placing one man over and above another one to rule and the other to slave thus creating the in stitution of aristocracy. If capitalization of land were de nfed to the( individual, monoy would not have the self-acccumulative pow er and all uen would have "equal rights." But with a few ruen "own ing" the land mind you owning it the landless many will have about as much chance of remaining "free" and "equal" as a bull dog has of be ing a cherub. This, doubtless,' is only jargon to some people, but it is the truth, which will grow more and more relt evident as free institutions assert their rights and are defended from the assaults of those of tho houses of monopoly, privilege nnd capitali zation. A CONGRESSMAN'S EULOGY. A free press is one of the essen tials in maintaining a government of, by and for the people. Without a free press government by the many could not be continued, for it would soon pass into the hands and under tho control of the few and fall from Its. own rotten weight. Charles E. Llttlefleld, tho succes sor In congress of Nelson Dlngley of Maine, is reported to have recently said: "If it were not for the news papers the Jobs which would go through congress aro terrible to con tcnplato. If there were no newspa pers at all, I don't believe I would be willing to trust myself alone in the house of representatives for fif teen minutes." This is not ail exaggerated state ment Tho newspapers certainly keep bad men in check and .they are a spur to good men. Tho newspa pers, with all their faults, stand for good government, and by preaching virtue so much, learn to really appro elate and respect it. Tho newspapers are tho Implements of publicity. It is their business to turn on the light and whenever this is done, In the na ture of things, purification follows. There Is always danger from the stagnant pool at least tho danger of drying up, or dry rot. By agitating the water you make it healthier and preserve its volume. Newspaper pub licity and agitation has this effect upon tho currents of public life. They do a vast amount of good for which they get little credit. It was Thomas Jefferson who de clared, if he had to accept govern ment without newspapers or gov ernment by newspapers ho would choose the latter, and it would be preferable, because government without newspapers would be gov ernment by a clique, while govern ment by newspapers, would be almost government by the people, because .the universal voice would have free expression in their columns, and wherever there is the freest expres sion, there is the greatest safety to life and property and the best gov eiomient. . In even a babble of weak voices there is strength. Were it not for free speech and a free press we would bo changed from a democracy resting on the genius of individual ism, on the theory that the best gov ernment is that which governs least; into a bureaucratic government by fraternalism and socialism run mad in which imaginative, weak, para sitic and corrupt men would have full play, until the chaos they creat ed would swallow them. "Fear, craft and avarice Cannot "ear a state." THE TEST OF CULTURE. (Synopsis of tho address deliver ed at tho exercises of the Alumni As sociation of tho Eastern Oregon State .normal School at Weston Thursday, June 12, 1902, by Andreas Bard, rector of St. Paul's church Walla Walla:) As the test of the puddin' is in tho eating of it, so the test of education is application. Not everyone who holds degrees from Harvard or Ox ford is wise. Some are otherwise. The school is but tho means, lifo and end; and only v inasmuch as history philosophy, literature and science deepen and heighten tho significance of human existance and add lustre to the moving phantasmagoria that dance across the grave and cradle circle-scene only so much they have a right to be. This education ought to do and I believe it does. Tho argument that wo have too much education seems unfair. What the critics really mean is that we have too much of tho wrong, kind of education.. Who can help but smllo, when hearing the great Hegel exclaim on his death bed: "Only one has understood mo," and then add in a whining tone "and oven ho didn't understand me." That kind of education ' seems a useless appendix. Or when Emerson tells us of tho young student who for about an hour watches a wheel-barrow and being asked why, replies, that ho wonders whether tho thing ought to be pushed or pulled then wo feel that wo wouldn't give a rap for that kind of education. We may go even farther and observe so great a think er as Darwin, losing his love for poetry, music and all the beautiful arts. What Is tho cause that a man so highly educated should arrive at such a state of degeneration? The reply must bo that his education, too, was not of the right kind, because it was so one-sidedly scientific that it allowed no room for anything else. Tho modern idea of training will ad vocate an all round culture; it will give a duo share to tho hand, tho head and the heart and when these three aro harmoniously developed, ho tnat tho same man can plow a field. enjoy tho love songs of Mooro and write an intelligent article for tho dally paper-then I boliovo wo havo the modern ideal of education. He has a dextorious hand, a logical mind and a sympathetic heart and tho three produce tho kind of beauty which we admire In a quartet when soprano, alto, tenor and bass coming- 10 tneir voices in harmony. William Morris could make good furniture and wrlto fine poetry, Michael Ango. io was a sculptor, -a poet and a paint' er. John Burroughs nlants aanara. gus and creates literature. Xono phon was a general and a historian. "Let there be many, windows in your soul, Till all tho glories of the Universe, Will beautify It!" r It will bo tho task of tho Twenti eth century to solve the labor ques tion and I beliove that the school ought to add Its share to the solu tion. Tho demand of tho working man that a larger profit should bo given to tho hand than hertofore, 's perfectly just Look at your now school building, for instance. First wo need the architect to design the structure; wo need the brain of tho contractor; wo need the board of ed ucation to arrange Intelligently the different apartments but who will mix the mortal', who carry the stones, who drive tho nails? The ar gument between labor and capital re minds me of Emerson's poem on "The Mountain and the Squirrel." When the mountain brags that he alone can carry a forest on his back tho squirrel challenges him to crack a nut. We need to recognize that all forces operate for tho common good, that each is dependent on the other and that for that reason the man who works with his hands is as much entitled to our respect as the one who works with his head. Hur rah for the girl who, graduating, can cook a good meal as well as translate tho Metamorphoses of Ovid! Hur rah for the boy who can deliver an oration as well as brea ka horse! Hurrah for the man with the hoe! Let us uncover in reverence before the tiller of the soil, tho pioneer who makes tho wilderness blossom as tho rose, who breaks the path of civili zation thru the aged forests! Let us do homago to the muscled king of creation, the companion of the sky the woods and tho field 1 wrink les of enervated society upon his forehead, no moods, no dyspepsia. He can eat his bread in the sweat of his brow, but he is sure to digest it! Three cheers vfor the hand that wnrlf a ! V But the hand without the head is fully as incompetent as tho head without tho hand. The employer of today does not need workmen; he needs intelligent workmen. Machin ery has long since taken the place of moro labor. Brain and brawn are no longer divorced. They are close cousins. They are one. But do you know, that the first" thing to know is to lenow that wo don't know? Tho Arabians have put tho facts of tho case in the" following rule: "He who knows not and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows that ho knows not, is simple, teach him; Ho who knows and knows not that he knows, Is asleep; wake him. He who knows and knows that lie knows, is wise; lollow him." You will And that the real masters of knowledge were humble; the boasters are pretenders. A modern scientist has asserted that tho uni verse now-a-days has no more myster ies, but tho king of nineteenth centu ry thinkers admitted "that the orig in of all things will remain a mys tery to us." There lies tho differ ence between sham and genius. Hu mility and Truth aro sisters. But there are some things we do know and life becomes moro beauti ful because we know them. Is not tho whole world populated with birds and flowers and trees, which give us their song, their fragrance and their shade and does it not speak In divine language to the eye trained for color, to tho ear, trained for sound, to tho mind familiar with the architecture of tho robin's nest and the pedigree of tho rose and the in dustry of the beo hivo? And does not Literature furnish an Open-Sesame to thousands of fascl nations an around us? Tnere are millions to whom Shakespeare Is a sealed book, who never heard of Em erson, who cannot derive any mean ing from a printed page. Only when we realize tho intellectual blindness of these, wo shall appreciate how tho school opens our oyes for tho thought of others that wo can make compan ions or Longteuow and Bryant and walk with Wordsworth over the fields or read tho beautiful thoughts tnat rise from the soli of Tenuyson, Jje is more tnan meat. Llfo thought. Man llvoth not of bread only. And to possess a library, oveiy page of which ha3 a meaning for you, raising you into a hlcher sphere of thinking and securing for you tne friendship of the masters of all time how Inestlmablo the nri vilege. Gold and silver cannot buy mo mercnanaise of culture. It mav secure Stelnway pianos, but it cannot maito souls that apprecJato music. It may purchaso gilt-edged editions of great books, but It cannot give a power to comprehend. Tho mindjles oeyonu tno monopoly of capital. All true teaching is practical teaching. Geography makes us a broth" or to all nations and extnds tho boundaries of our homo unto tho cor ners of tho earth. History shows, how all ages are working out the in finite plan of God and that wo are to shoulder the musket while it is day and fight out little battle for the great cause of progress. Astronomy unveils the grandeur of the Eternal anU science lays bare the secrets of his work-shop. Let the mind of man .... f .nittni.cn In r.nmnas rise tin nu uiu-u"" - sed by its thought and tho orbs of tho stars ho cradled in its embrace There cannot ho too much education for truth is Infinite Finally the heart Bowaro, young friends, of being Intellectual ma chines. There aro sonic things which logic cannot reach and these things aro worth while. La Plnce beheld the heavens thru his telescope and failed to find a placo for God. Uuochener dissected tho human body and was surprised not to dlscovo: the soul. There are more things be tween heaven and earth than aro dreamed of m our philosophy. Who can explain the rise of love? Who has seen virtue's abode? Who can say of God: he is here or there? But Tennyson had more than logic when he said: "Speak to Him thoug for he hears And spirit with spirit can meet; Closer Ib he than breathing Nearer than hands and feet." I admire a fine intellect, but I love a great heart; and surely if a fine in tellect goes hand in hand with n great heart, we have the most won derful combination on earth. But, if I had to choose between tho two, I should say without hesitation: give me tho heart and keep tho Intellect. A heart which can throb echoes to all the voices of human woe and weal; a heart which can weep with tho sor rowful and rejoice with tho jubilant; a heart which has vibrated a thous and times the grand, old song of love oxirt which oven upon tho tombstone writes with unerring pencil the death less gospel of hope. WOOD! COAL! WOOD! COAL! WOOD! COAL! W. C. MINNIS SELLS BOTH. Semercr Coal. First Class Wood Orders Promptly Pilled. Telephone, Red 401, or call on W. C. MINNIB, Office Main Street, Just opposite Hans ford & Thompson's hardware Htore. BUY YOUR LUMBER AT THE JDy&pep&ia m Medical jj CURED BY 0K. PIECE'S Golden Discovery. "I was weak, nervous and dizzy, with a fainting sensation when walking," writes Jesse Childress, Esq., of Samuel, Sullivan Co., Tenu "Could not walk any distance; always felt bad after eating; felt as though something- was sticking in my throat, al ways uneasiness in stomach. Doctored with three physicians but they did not relieve me. I grew worse and used everything I could think of; was nearly ready to give up and then some one told me that Dr. I'ierce's medicine was good, so I began taking his 'Golden Medical Discovery. I have taken seven bottles of that now nnd am as stout as ever, and en joying health as much as ever before. I worked all summer and this winter aa much as any one. My case was liver dis ease and nervous dyspepsia of which your medicine has ciiml me. In September iSoS my weight was about 95 pounds, now it is 195, Please accept my biucere thanks." Oregon Lumber Yard Alta St., opp. Court House. 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HILL Principal Hill Milltarv Academy, ilurjhnll nnd 21th St., Portland, Oregon. HAH1MTT XfTOTAT. tlXfOm 1VT mTTEl world, In barn, l'rlce SI per bar, at the r,nL irrfirnninii OITK'O It Pays to Trade at the Peoples Warehouse Shirt Waists ANn BELTS 4 BUT ONF 6 t yrU 1 ackledge that there is Pondle? w f these summer desirables .in r 7 PRICES are beyond the shadow of a doubt less than the same goods can be bought for elsewhere. SHIRT WAISTS 35c, 58c, 75c, 98c and $t.25 BELTS, 25c, 35c, 50c, 75c and $1.00 ' And all the time our JUNE SELLING goes on at prices like this : K Scotch lawns, per yard 3C Spool cotton, 2 for ... . Lonsdale Muslin.. c Good calico, ner varrl Women's and Chlld'B lioee AC " " VUIIU'D UWO equal beat 250 hoseou earth aac AgenU Patterns uu 10 I) i PENDLETON, OREGON nil Mali OnUra Promptly rilM. Bend for Sample. The Columbia Lodging House IN CENTER OF BLOCK BET. 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