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TEN PAQE8. DA'LY EAST OREQONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1904. PAGE 8IX. It Business Chances : ONE DRUG STORE lor sale J at whatever Btock invoices. Approximately $2,000.00. Dual, t ness last year amounted to , over $5,000.00. This Is a splon- J did opportunity to buy a pood. profitable business. n Also WELL ESTABLISHED I BUSINESS centrally locoted S at whatever stock Invoices, J and a small additional sum for the good will of the busl- ness. Business of last year J amounted to $15,560. HaB n J lease of four years on the building now In. Merchants Protective Agency Despaln Building, Itoom 43, Telephone Black 1161. THE GREATEST RAILWAY IN THE WORLD Not an ordinary article, but something extraordinary is Hill's Pare California Olive Oil For medicinal use as well as J for salads and table use. This is the highest quality and purest oil made. Sold exclusively in Pendleton by : Despain & Clark The strength of the Russian rail way Is a very important factor in the struggle In the Far East. Ex ports who have travoled on the line declare that It will not stand the strain of a continued struggle. Undoubtedly in certain aspects the railway appears very faulty, but the enormous mileage probably nccouuts for some of tho laxity in construc tion. The track, a single one, is such that only 17.7 miles an hour can be covered by the light express train in Siberia, and In Manchuria 11.1 miles an hour is tho highest rate of speed commensurate with safety. The line has numerous sidings, but these are not sufficient to pre vent congestion when great pressure Is put on the system. The most In teresting aud vital portion of the great 4,000-mlle railway is the pass age of Lake Baikal. This lake has an extent of over 1, 300 square miles and in places is as deep as 4,500 feet. Parts of the area have never boon plumbed. It is sur rounded by some of the hardest mountains which a railroad engineer could encounter. The official plan Includes a railway around tho south ern end of Baikal, but this Is not fin ished. At present connection is made by means of a steam ferry which was built in England, taken to the shore of the lake In parts, and put together on the scene of operation. The steam ferry has three lines of rail upon the main deck to carry one pas senger and two freight trains across the lake. With this load the ferry win crush 113 way through three feet of ice at a speed of 13 knots an hour. A screw at the bow wltn a separate engine sucks away the water from underneath the ice, which thuB breaks by its own weight. Tho pro- pellors at the stern force the vessel through the broken sheetR. Tho ac tual trnck covered by the ferry meas ures 39 miles. There Ib a harbor and lighthouse at the western end of the lake, but thore Is no dock where the forry could be repaired in case 'if need. After passing the lake, the rail road winds through the Yablonol hlllB, renchlng an altitude of 3,311 feet, with one tunnel 270 ynrds In length through tho hills. After passing the Manchurlan frontier the line crosses the Khlngan range by a zlfwiif, railway pending the comple tion of a tunnel 1.900 yards In length r.r.w in course of construction. At tee descending from the hills to a his;h plateau, the line runs through the northern part of Manchuria to Hnrrln. The line bifurcates at this point, the southern branch running 479 miles by way of Mukden to Port Arthur, with a branch to Niu Chwnng. Connection with Pekln will be made In n short time by a blanch line now in course of con struction. The other brauch, with its terminus at Vladivostok, after lenvlng Harbin, continues 4S0 miles, in u course a little north of east, to the terminus at the port. The following table contains facts of Interest about the great Russian railway: Railway employes 14,738 Stations completed 3!i0 Locomotives 751 Passenger coaches 54S Freight cars 7,743 Mail cars ., 33 Siberian mileage 3,559 Manchurlan mileage 1,444 Moscow to Irkutsk (days) ... 8 Irkutsk to Manchuria (hours) . 74 Across Manchuria to Port Ar thur (hours) 77 Vladivostok to London. 7.092 miles (days) 17.5 KOREANS ARE BUSY DODGING DEMONS el CANTY'S PARLORS j OF AMUSEMENT Open day and 'night. Billiards, Pool, Shooting Gallery, Bowl ing Alleys, Throwing Racks. Good music every evening. BASEMENT, CORNER MAIN AND WEBB STREETS. Under W. &. C. R. Depot. NO CANADIAN ANNEXATION. Insure in Reliable Companies That pay their losses promptly. Our companies stand at the head of the list. Assets. Hartford Fire Insurance Co $12,259,07 Alliance Assurance Co .. 29,039,903 London & Lancashire Fire Insurance Co 2,544,083 North British & Mercantile Co 19,095,974 Royal Insurance Co 22,897,153 FRANK B. CL0PT0N AGENT. 112 EAST COURT STREET. NOTICE OF PRIMARY ELECTION Notice is hereby given that a pri mary election for the purpose of electing delegates to the democratic county convention of Umatilla Coun ty, to be held at the County Court House of said county on the 12th day of April, 1904, and that such pri mary election shall be held in the various election precincts of this county on Thursday, April 7, at ihe various polling places, and at 'Jho hour of 2 o'clock p. m., in all pre cincts except the precincts of Pen' dleton, East Pendleton, North Pen dleton and South Pendleton and thnt in each of the said Pendleton pro cincts the polls shall be opened at 1 p. m. and remain open until 6 p m., the several polling pieces in and for such primary election In Pendie ton, as follows: North Pendleton Precinct, corner of Water and Main streets. South Pendleton Precinct, corner Garden and Railroad streets. East Pendleton Precinct, at .he court house. In Pendleton Precinct, corner Ga den and Webb streets. In said several precincts and at such election there shall be elected In Pendloton Precinct 13 delegates; in East Pendloton Precinct, 17 dol elates; in North Pendleton Precinct 18 delegates; and in South Pendle ton 13 delegates to said convention, and at such election the following persons, who are legal voters and householders in each of said pre' cincts hereinafter named, have be:n selected as judges of said primary election: For Pendleton Precinct, Honry Bhockey, Lee Teutsch, T. J. Means. For East Pendleton, H. S. Garfield, Mike Keating, William Hilton. For North Pendloton, J. Barnhart, Will Moore, A, W, Nye. For South Pendleton, Theodore Howard, John Hays, W. M. Blake- ley Dated this 31st day of Marsh, 1604. A. D. STILLMAN, Chairman Democratic Central Coun ty Committee. Attest: A. C. HALEY. Secretary Democratic Central Coun- ity Committee. Sentiment That Would Unite Canada With the United States Said to Be Dead. It Ib a physical and moral impos sibility for the United States and Canada to avoid the most intimate social, political and commercial in tercourse. The two countries occu py territory contiguous for 3,000 miles. They were people from a common parentage, and, for almost two cen turies, during the formative period of their history, were under a com mon government; and their language, laws, social institutions, literature and dominant religion are practical ly identical. Their diplomatic deal ings have been an unending source of mutual interest, and too often of irrltationi and more than once they have engaged in fratricidal wars. Today there are nearly a million and a quarter of Canadians domi' ciled beneath the stars and stripes. The tide has turned, however, nt last, and American immigration into Canada has grown from 44 in 1866 to 47,000 in 1903, a movement ac companied and led as it Is by able and far-sighted capitalists, which bids fair within a decade to add a million Americans to the permnnent population of the Dominion. The relations between the United States and Canada throughout their entire history have been marked by chronic misunderstanding. This un-1 fortunate and fundamental condition seems to have had a two-fold cause. The first, based on ignorance whl:h wholly underestimated the political imnortance of Canadian trade; the second a result of prejudice, which persists to this day in believing that Canadians really desire annexation, nnd thnt by a properly adjusted com mercial pressure political annexation can be brought about. There have been momentary (link ers of annexation sentiment in Cana da, but today the Idea Is dead and burled beyond resurrection. And it has suffered death at the hands of the American government. It wns burled on the day when the dominion under the inspiration of the new im perialism, ceased forever to be a do pendency and took Its place as the second greatest Independency In the British empire now so swiftly reor ganizing itself upon the federal area. Toronto Globe, Wants More Trio. L. F. Foster, San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 2nd, 1903, writes: "Please find enclosed draft for $150.00. Send me one dozen treatments of 'Trlb.' The druggists here say tney nave orders in they can't get filled. Why is this? I took Trlb myself last June and never felt better in my life than 1 do now. I have gone down in weight to 195 pounds and never think of liquor or tobacco any more. I know of 25 cures you could got reference from. If you care to write for them. Be euro to send me twelve Tribs at once; J want to send them to Hono lulu." I Talfman & Co., local agents. s .1. Hnvdon. a discouraged stock broker, suicided in New York City by deliberately jumping from the roof of a 21-story building at 55 New street. He fell 325 feet and struck on asphalt pavement. Every bone in his body was broken. Qtteorncss is porhaps the most salient characteristic of the Korean, nnd especially when we view him from tho point of our Western civili zation. To the modern Occidental observer, the Korean Is the acme of queerness In costume, customs, ns pect and modes ot thought. Tho dress of the Korean gentle man Is unspeakably fantastical. It Is utterly unllko tho dress or tho Chinese or Japanese. It hns neither the RonBlble simplicity of tho one, nor tho dignity of the other. It Is costly, complicated, inconvenient nnd supremely perishable. A Korean swell caught In a heavy rainstorm would he the most pitiable spectacle imaginable, for his umbrella, a con trivance made of yellow oiled paper covers only his hat, which Is the costliest and the most complex or his elaborate make-up. His summer coat, a long, high waisted alTalr made of some tulle like fabric, is dainty as tho frock, of a debutante his overcoat, made of a black or a dark green gnuze, weighs scarce two ounces, and is perfectly transparent. His hat, made of split bamboo fi ber and Bilk, Is as open nnd ns airy as a fly-trap (one can see through it and see his braided top knot stand ing stiffly on his crown), but it is worth more than all tho rest of his toggery combined, for a "number one" style hat costs $40. His socks and shoes arc the only things about his outfit that are not supremely etherial, and they are of a bulk and solidity that are In amazing contrast to the fairy-like delicacy of his hend gear and habiliments. Tho shoes are made of paper, as tough as the paper used In making car wheels in our country, adaman tin,, in thnlr infiorihilltv. Tho hard est of feet would soon succumb to this brutally cruel shoe were it not for the Korean sock, which is lined with cotton padding three-quarters of an inch in thickness. This bulky, wadded sock saves tho foot from laceration and gives a decidedly dropsical dignity to the pedal ex tremities of the well-dressed citizen ot Seoul. It has never occurred to the Korean to Invent a comfortable nnd pliable shoe, and dispense with his comforter-like hosiery. In fact, nothing has occurred lo the Korean he Is ns he wns hun dreds of years ago; he will continue to be what he Is until Japan or Rus sia takes charge of him, sends him to school, whips his superstitions nnd traditions out of htm. and spoils his queer, quaint civilization, which is today a delight to the traveler who loves the curious and the picturesque. Korean customs nre as queer as ITrtroon nnatlimoc It in rnnfiidpri'd particularly rude for a gentleman to taKe on nis nat. unui recem years Japanese Woman's Revenge. A Japanese woman, when aban doned by her lover takes a peculiar and picturesque revenge. When she no longer has any doubt as to his faithlessness she gets up In the mid dle of the night and puts on a pleas ing dress and wooden sandnls. At tached to her head dress sue carries three lighted candles and suspended to her neck hangs a small mirror. She takes in her left hand a small effigy of the faithless one, and in her right hand a hammer and nails. Walking gravely to the sanctuary she selects one of the sacred trees nnd nails the effigy securely to the trunk. She then prays for the death of the traitor, vowing that if her wish is granted she will take out the nails which trouble her god. since they are fastened to a sacred women never appeared on the street until after dark, and men "wnB went home at dusk, leaving tho streets for the exclusive use of he women, who had remained within doors nil day long. The only male folk permitted out of doors nt night, wore blind men and anx mis rela tives of sick people provided with prescriptions which had to bo filled at the drug shop nenrest to their homes. , . , In modes of thought and hollers the Koreans nre our antlitodcs. Tho have no religion, properly so-called. In their cities there are nbsolutolj no religious buildings (except tho churches of rorolgn missionaries), no temples, no altars nnd no Idols or anv kind. On the outskirts of tho cities mnv he found a few small Bud dhist shrines, and In the remote mountain districts a few old Buddhist monasteries, but Inside the walled cities not a single religious edifice, not even n priest or n monk. All "holy men" of the BuddhlRt faith are "tnhoo" In town. Why. Because In the Invasion of 1502 : the Japanese generals disguised their soldiers as monks and holy men and tlm succeeded In taking many towns bv strategy. Hence tho casting out of all ecclesiastics hence the utter absence or places or worship. The Korean government rearing n repeti tion or the trick, drove all the holy men to the hills, permitting no priest or Buddha to enter the gates or nny walled city. Confucianism has lost Its hold upon the people since tho old exami nation in the classics conducted on the Chinese plan were abolished alKiut 10 years ago. But in the place or religion, the people- or Korea cherish the basest rorms or demon ologv and superstition. They spend half' of their time nnd a good share of their money in dodging demons and In propitiating evil spirits. There is a large and Influential class of quacks and sorcerers who thrive upon this popular credulity. The emperor himsoU Is as much the vic tim or superstition as the humbled or his subjects. He employs a num erous staff or geomancers or "earth doctors." whom he consults, on all subjects, never making a move with out asking their advice. Doubtless the imperial diviners nnd sorcerers are now In session invoking the spirits or Earth and Air. beseeching them to swallow up the Russians and to blow away the Japanese. U Korea rails a prey to either the czar or the mikado It will not be the rault of the Korean emperor it will be because his geomancers have made some error In their Incanta tions or some mistake in their mys tic formulas. This may be an un propitious year for geomancers. Those who make grave mistakes usually lose their heads. E. Burton Holmes. I tree. 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