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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1903)
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1903, CuIIb(l Tf afternoon t extent Sondsr) ' methods which 11 fenaieion, vrriuu. uj me nuuldlos or politics than the austere fathers have, the Inventive Renins of lrc nulllnc and boodllnc will have to soar to new flights In huntlnc the wily mothers I must pursue. Jlcn have tried all EAST OREGONIAN PUBLISHING , known combinations of corruption. COMPANY. Ybou. uln n ! Tlic mosl Important municipal icnscnn-riON ItATES event In the history of Pendleton. aiit on jnr bj mall JS.oo t from the standpoint of public im- SS: SSb?lTiV I"::::: improvement., was celebrated last night tfelj. one year by mall 1.50 i the new sewer system. This sewer K'!;:!LT.hV"'::::: iSo1 system Is adequate to accommodate ml-Vfcr. one year by mall . ... 00 t... nt nnnnn .umnln mmnrtonc ml-Weekly. U months by mall . . 1.00 " , "m-Weekly, three months by mall .. . .50 about eight miles of first class sewer Hotel Uemtwr Scrtnpa McIEae tlcn The Cast Oresoulan Is on sale at It. It lines, ramifying all the principal por-. .."Tta'iOr'."-" the clt-- ' first clBSSi News Assocla- , , .... put together In a workmanlike man- j San rr.ml.oo Iture.u. 40S Fourth St. i er- ann- wn,le " " , onlcngo Bureau. to Security Building, j penditure of about $50,000 to the city. Washington. D. C. Bureau. 501 nth St.. j3 of incalculable value from a sani- j " - j tary and economic standpoint. The l.ntereo- at I'enUlMontoace as seccond-! cU,2cns shouItl now show their appre- j r , . J elation of Its worth by making con-' ', sections with the sewer as rnpldly as nn;l rlililll-il the bottom of It With the point of an awl. , "This served, or would have nerv- ; 4. etl, the purpose admirably but for a serlo-traglc accident. Our whole supply of liquor was reduced to about a Kill of wine. By common consent ! this was sot apart as the poefs. who, ' as the oldest member of the party and the most renowned, was to have first consideration. j "Mr Mlllnr ntinrnrfntnfl the hnnnr but determined that so precious .... nV.t c.t.ni.1.1 hnl 1... nnnfVn.l Itntll UlUUftUl .1.' '.- .j.......... .....a. 1 , a flttlnc occasion warranted It. One ( f evening. It chanced to be the same j day that I had, unknown to my com-1 J, rades. Improvised the coffee strainer. there rode up to our door a young and strikingly handsome woman j. mounted on a good horse. j "The poet was visibly impressed. , The background of ice and buow. the: 1 a j. ST. JOE STOR The Center of Attraction For the Holiday Buyer of Useful Articles UNIOtltilLBCl lr is easy enough to be pru- dent. When nothing tempts you to stray When without or within, no voice of sin. Is luring your soul away; But ifs only a negative virtue. Until It is tried by fire. And the life that is worth the honor of earth. Is the one that resists de sire. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. nosslble. nmi by filling tin the filthy ' cesspools In the back yards. It is the greatest stride made by Pendle ton, from the stage of a frontier town to the plane of a metropolitan settlement. Other great advances have been made in the past, but this outstrips them all. It Is permanent and conducive to' better improve ments and more investment and is something to lie proud of. The next step is a paving for Main street, which is almost as much needed as a sewer system. The people are will ing to pay for such useful and neces sary Improvements. I 1 1 Dr. George C. i.orimer. of New The voters of Oregon, who adopted t york one of tlu most prominent til the Initiative and re!ercndum amend- vlnes jn the L'tiited States, in ar ment, by a majority of five to one, re-' raignng the people for the decline joice In the decision of the suprome of the reiit-i0us sentiment, and the court, upholding the amendment, mcrease of the skeptical nnd athels-' Thus the politicians are once more tic tBtl(t.ncv in American life, says: defeated in their efforts to muzzle ,. uol(1 ,uat i( protestant churches the people, in whom should rest all were as interested In the education; final power of determining the Jub- of tner cnii,iren as the Homnn'Cath tice of legislation. Their judgment olic church. is, there would be- no re can be trusted. The iolltIcians need j iiEjous problem in our country. I not fear mat the common people, in Aq not see wnv a)( gectK cannot come -whom the Initiative and referendum ( ,ogcther and iCach reverence to God lodge, uncommon authority, are go- am, tnat there ,s one great jUllf.e ing to ruin the state by any unwise , and one reiiKion, The church legislation, proposed tnrough the m- lK the naturai guardian of the home, illative, or by nipping any legisla- and , (g tUe hope of the home ln live mistake in the bud, through the .higner. lfe the family is lax. You setting sun, the lone and radiant horsewoman, flushed by her ride, all stimulated his chivalry and his love of the beautiful and unique. "This is the time. If ever, for the drinking of that last drop of wine.' snld he. 'Here, ln the ends of the earth, with the sun leaving us to the darkness of an Illimitable desolation, a woman appears to remind us that there is hope, life and beauty In the world. ' 'Madam.' continued the poet, with vast dignity, holding In one hand the' luckless tin cup thnt I had punct ured, and In the other the bottle with its final contents, '1 pour a libation, and I drink to your health and happi ness.' So saying, he upturned the bottle, looking away from the horse woman just long enough to make cer tain that there was 110 slip between the bottle and the cup. "Then, as the wine began to How. he turned his eyes again to the young lady, and, while the precious bever age trickled through the punctured tin cup. the poet of the Sierras, all unconscious of his loss, gave utter ance to an eloquent apostrophe which included in its picturesque rhetorics the charms of woman, the glories of nature and the potency of wine. 1 "At the 1 Mmsx he raised the cup 10 nis lips and tipped back his nead. The itraiuer was, of course, absolute ly empty. The ioet gazed at the per forated bottom, and then, as the truth of the catastrophe Hashed uikhi him, he forgot all about the feminine charms and natural scenery, and broke forth into a volume of objurga tion startling even to men accustom ed to the strenuous vocabulary of the frontier It was not profanity, but rather a poem of passion. As it was not recorded, a masterpiece of invec tive was lost to the world. At the first volley of the poet's rlcochet tlng adjectives the young woman fled." Ladies' Fur Department Electric Seal Collars from . . -$2.50 to $6.75 Canadian Otter Collars, from . .$3.50 to $7.50 Al's!.an Saber Collars, from . . . .$3.25 to $9.00 lienuine Fr. nth Marten Collars for .. .$15.00 French K Collars for $6.50 South American Goat Collars for. ... . . $5.00 Ladies' Coat, Suit and Skirt Department Ladies' I.ouis XIV. Suits, worth $112.50, selling for S"-00 1 lot ladles' Suits, worth up to $13.50, filing for $5.00 Ijidies' three-quarter Coats in black and castor Kersey cloth, worth $20, selling for ladles' llox Coats and Jackets, worth up to $7.5. selling for $2.83 Udles" Craviaotted Walking Skirts, in Oxford grny. brown and blue, worth $5. selling for $2-75 1 lot Ladies' Dress Skirts, in etamlnes. fcerges and cicillnns, worth $T. selling for . $4.43 A line of Misses" and ChlkW. n nnd Jnckets. un from n' Ideas from our Dress Goods' L ''4 Cheviot Ktamlnes, EtamC vsJ Serges. Cecillnns, Scotch Snltlnt, undlsputnbly the ol,"Ss, vlicj , T5 -r-4- (mm. T st Aur A-east money 10 ue louau oy mo Holiday Buyer ment of Christmas Novelties In liv-i?1?1 Gloves. Bolts. Pi.low Covm. Umbi Pretty Dressing Sacoues a and at prices 33 1-3 per cent where. Hats wur nut siock is large uk Mnitd. l U.!- II.... r ...... ... " iu una lur ijie ana low prices Clothing We are selling Clothing. qua'Jt. 0IlsiiaiJ ""i"'' luuu "u.v nrm on tte PaaacO iu lesuty to nils who hare tx$J Many them. Remember, we GIVE AWAY, on Dec. 24 $100 in Gold" AT 5:30 P. M. referendum. The United States can imagine find men and women who come to- 1 gether, are married, have a few days something of the extreme hatred J honeymoon and then there Is a di- j ... r-oinmht. Wr toward this voree. Perhaps the divorce is hardly government, because of our ready ac In the safe when one or. knowledgement of the right of Pan- bb narr.v S Tnis belnous Wolj ama to secede, by recalling the bitter " ur age and country is being re hosUlitv exhibited by the Northern 1 l,eated ever' day In our so-called states toward Spain, when she recog-1 higher circles, and is contributing nized the belligerency of the South-1 weatly toward destroying home life ere confederacy, at the opening of 'n America." the civil war. It is a parallel case,' " , . . , . . , I Beginnir.s immediately after the and no amount of explanation or de 3 ' .. I holidays, tne East Oregonian will uial can soften or smooth over the ! ..... . . . . , . .... . .1. . . r puuusn in tne aaiuruay issue, uur- lacts. Although the treatment of ' " ' Panama by Colombia offers vastly more Justification for secession than any Southern state had. yet the same great principles underly the acts of .South Carolina and Panama. ' Because one dissatisfied and pv-r-haps disappointed woman in Colorado says that woman's suffrage is a fail ure in that state, the opposition pa pers have discovered that the entire system is an evil to be shunned by every other state. Women are only humans, and nobody expected them to revolutionize politics in Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado or Utah, at least within a decade. If their votes serve as a check on the unspeakable cor ruption or politics in Western states, the system is a success. If they op pose their husbands and exercise a will and a ballot independent of the present political factions, it will be worth trying. Female suffrage Is not a panacea for all political ing the winter months, a brief his torical sketch of the dltlerent Pen-1 dleton churches from the cate uf the organization of each, written by the pastors of the different churches. Tnere are nearly 1,200 church com municants in this city included in the seven church denominations rep resented here and these articles will be mado special features of the Saturday issue of the Dally East Oregonian, appearing also in the Weekly and Semi-Weekly editions. Pendleton is particularly blessed with having a list of able, progressive and original ministers and thes naners will be of special interest, because! of this "He whose footsteps never str ay iieyond the v.aage of his birth Is but a lodger for a day In this old wayside inn of earth. Tomorrow he will take his flight And set out ou the ways beyond, From world to world From star to star. An alien and a vagabond." There was a wedding in an Eastern city recently and a mob of peop'e rilled the church of the decorations, blockaded the street and climbed on the carriages In an attempt to see the bride, all of which leads an ob serving newspaper man to remark: "There are certain traits of human nature too firmly rooted to be affect ed by the philosophy of the Declara tion of Independence." Another observing and somewhat pungent newspaper man moralizes thus on a different subject. "The course of recent events on the Isth mus of Panama has a tendency to make the Jameson raid look respec table. The new republic swims Into the ken of an astonished and also an amused world, without a battle, and. encouraged by the instant receipt of ten millions of dollars." Tutullla, Dec. 20. First Present, $60.00 in gold. Second Present, $25.00 in gold. Third Present. $15.00 In gold A ticket and 133 1-3 cents worth of txkl lor every one dollar you Bpcnd with u-lii this week Wishing one and all 1 glcxt I xraas Yuors for business, Lyons Mercantile 0 j. i 1 1 iii 1 1 . . A bill appropriating $130,000 for Italy's exhibit at St. Louis has Just passed the chamber of deputies. DRIFTWOOD. Wllshire's Magazine gives the fol lowing story of Joquin Miller, who, at the time, was making one of his many sojourns somewhere on the outposts of civilization: "All the rongs. members of our party were fond of Some of the practices of the male ' coffee, and when one day the strain voter are beyond tho reach of any ,,r waa missing, instead or making a such terrestia, influence. But if Sl mothers of the land make any worse could be bought, I took a now tin cup A SEVERE GOLD Is nearly always followed by serious complications. Protect the system from sudden Colds, Chills or attacks of Malaria, Fever and Ague by taking Uostetter's Stomach Bitters. It is the best safe guard in existence and at this, season of the year no home should be without it. It will also cure Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Nervousness, Insomnia and Kidney Troubles. Be sure to try It, Ask your druggist lor our 1904 Almanac. HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS. LILLIAN D. NEWMAN French Beaiitifier Has located temporarily in Pendleton, in the parlors J. at the AKLirsu I (., formed) the Strahon, Main street, where she will be pleased to meet the ladies of this city , and talk to them of the new culture of Beautification. I" German Hair Tonics and Face Cream for sale. h Special Attention given to Developments J. and Physical Culture. Feet treated and Corns, Bunions and ingrown Nai.s removed. . MISS NEWMAN comes here highly recommended by : lady citizens of Baker City and La Grande ! Office Hours, 3 30 tc 9 p. m. - ---4--- --. a t! ti Its THE UEST THE MOST WHOLESOME PROPERLY MILLED WITHOUT A SUPERIOR BYERS' BEST FLOUR The Standard of Excellency. PENDLETON ROLLER MILLS W. S. Byers, Proprietor. Dally East Oreoonian, by carrier, only 16 cents per week. The ahoe is the I of a house purchased kj fn . Onerative UH" Real-y Co, of BAH for which Kiiisroai- are agents. All kinds of real sale. RIH0RN & SWA Walter's Hrt1 .. . M Cecity. WW-- Flour eicnanjw ,1 etc, iwjj v Money Baclgj fall to cure KffTi A. C. Koeppea ; Wrist Bags and Purses A complete at-Bortrneut of all the fashionable ideas. We buy direct from the manu facturers, and can sell at o. a price -that will suit the public. MiBsaiiiiBSllMllHMSSHMSsaMMsMSMssssilsilliissssiBsssiisMassassM Preseimtfs tttoaitt are DsejfnnB a Wei a BeaoMiiM Cot Glass Is also one of the pretty things we have for Xniaa. Everything from Bon bons to Punch Bowls. Cut Glass is always ac ceptable. It iB rich in appearance and prices will be a pleasure to purchasers. CASH GIFTS We will giveaway New Year's Eve THKEK CASH PKIZES- ist GIFT 2nd GIFT 3rd GIFT $30 IN GOLD $15 IN GOLD $5 IN GOLD Every dollar purchase entitles you to a ticket on the $30 gift. Fvery 50c purchase entitles you to a ticket on the $15 Eft. Every 25c purchase e ntitles you to a ticket on the $5 gf'- Perfumes We have an elegant line of Alfred Wright's, Paul Rei ger's, L. T. Piver's, Rogers & GablefB and Colgate's. We alBo have their lines of Toilet Water and Sachet Powders. Fine collection of Fancy BottleB. Toilet Casea. Triplicate Mirro Hand-paintellu' Bteins. Manicure Set. Statuary. r..... Pictures- I HIII I .. Gold-plated PW1 Fancy Lainp rEJis: DL-ETON OR EGOiX TA ILMAN & COM PAN Y