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PAGE FOUR. DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1904. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. 1'ublUhpd eTcry Bfternoon lexcept Sunday) it Pendleton, Orcgou. by the EAST OREGONIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. SUIISCitUTlOX KATES. Dally, one year by mall ...J3.00 Daily, six months by mall 2.00 Dally, three mouths by mall 1.5!.i Dally, one month by mall 0 Dally, per month by carrlar ...... mo Weekly, one year by mall 1.B0 Weekly, all months by mall Weeklr. four months by mall 50 Semi-Weekly, one year by mall .... 2.00 Semi-Weekly, six months by mall . . 1.00 Semi-Weekly, three months by mall .CO Member Scrlpps-Mcltae News Associa tion. The Kast Oresonlan Is on sale at 11. It. Kleh's News Stands, at Hotel Portland, and Ilotel Perkins, Portland. Oregon, San Tranclsco Ilureau. 40S fourth St. Chicago lturean, POO Security llulldlnc. Washington, H r . Ilureau. 301 Hth St.. N. W. Teleplmue. Main 11. Entered at Pendleton pontnmce as second class matter. UWIONlM-)LBEL teem of the state by Ills fearless prosecution of the , St. Louis bood lers, In spite of the political ma chines. Republicans will vote for lilm for governor by the thousands, according to the state papers of Missouri. In appreciation of this stand for Folk, who Is a democrat, the democrats, It Is declared, will return the compliment by sending Roosevelt electors from Missouri to Washington, In November. Missouri Is determined to be rid of the bood- lers, no matter what the cost, and the tension of public sentiment may be Imagined, In a state with Missou ri's pronounced views, by the emerg ency tuat would drive republicans to vote for a democratic governor, or that would Induce democrats to vote for republican electors, In order to have co-operation In cleansing out their filthy cesspools or corruption. To keep my health! To do my work! To live! To see to It I grow and gain and give! Never to look behind me for an hour; To wait In weakness and to walk In power, But always fronting forward to the light. Always and always facing to ward the right. Robbed, starved, defeated, fallen, wide astray On, with what strength I have! Back to the way! Charlotte Perkins Oilman. The average cost of maintaining the office of county assessor in Uma tilla county from 1895 to 1902 was 55,063.75 per year. In 1903, the first year of Mr. Strain's term, the cost of maintaining the office is $4,142, or a saving of $1,843.50 for the two years of his term to the taxpayers. "No matter whore you have been nor where you are going, you are now In the best country you may ever expect to visit." These are the words of G. W. Rlgby to an old friend from Kansas, as the O. R. & N. train stopped at Athena, yester day morning. Taking a brief sur vey of Athena, It is easy to agree with the statement, and If anything, make it even stronger. This little city of 1,000 people In the heart of the wheat belt of Umatilla county, has made more substantial progress during the past two years than any other district in the West, and sta tistics bear out the statement. In that time Athena has spent $4,000 on crushed rock streets and is now making further expenditure of $3,000 for the same purpose. In the past year she has dedicated two of the most magnificent church buildings In the entire Northwest, at a com bined cost of $25,000, every cent paid or pledged, ready for payment when due. This means a total ex penditure In the past two years, or since the first street improvement was made, for public and religious benefits, of over $35 per capita for each man, woman and child In the town. There Is no record to com pare to It In the Northwest. of the children die In Infancy, owing to the ignorance of their mothers and the lack of medical care. I have seen babies a few months old given raw plantain to eat when they cried. I have known Dames, too, to be killed by government soi-i dlors, before the eyes of their moth ers, because their fathers were fight-1 Ing In the ranks of the revolutionists. Fifteen women and children were slain In cold blood In the town ofi San Pedro de Maeorls, an Importnnt seaport. In 1900. with the deliberate purpose oi ueiorriug oinur mvn , joining the revolutionists. wg How to Judge Beer POINTS OF EXCELLENCE TO SAVE RIVER BANKS. The people of the east end of Uma tilla county are entitled to the coun ty commissioner this year. That portion of the county pays a large proportion of the taxes. Improve ments are badly needed in many places and they should have repre sentation In the county court. Wil liam Lloyd of Milton, who is candi date for county commissioner, was the unanimous choice of his locality for that position and in justice to that section of the county which is not represented on the county board, he should receive a handsome majority- According to the .Morning Tribune, tx gas plant Is a sweet, odoriferous, aromatic. delicious, fascinating thing to have in a residence district.! Its inviting fragrance should cause prices of the homes In the vicinity to increase. The residents of the electric light plant district do not know that they are talking about, when they object to the installation of a gas plant under the very eaves of their homes. The Morning Tri bune Is "inspired" to speak on these things. The residents of this city who have money invested in homes In the vicinity of the proposed gas plant will look with distrust on the Tribune and the city council who disregarded their plea, for reasona Tile protection, when another city election takes place. Situated as she Is In the heart of the arid district of Oregon, Umatilla county must send some practical Ir rigators to the next legislature. This Is an age of utility and not of orna mentation. The government stands back, because the laws of Oregon will not admit of the advance meth ods of Irrigation being Instituted by the national government. Thb laws of this state are a barrier, in their present Incompleteness, to the recla mation of the state. Umatilla coun ty, being the principal center of ac tivity in the surveys of arid land for reclamation purposes, must take the Initiative In promoting Irrigation leg Jslotion, and the first step Is to send practical Irrigators to the legislature to advise with the stale Irrigation commission on the formation of a progressive inviting law. that will meet the neods of the state and make national Irrigation possible. "Lot us fill this valley with ditches" Is the slogan on a campaign card, which meets with hearty response from every interested citizen. The political situation In Missouri tblB year Is one of the most unique In the United Btatea. All classes of moral citizens are united on Joseph W. Folk, the energetic district attor ney of St. Louis, for governor. He Jias earned the admiration and es- C. E. S. Wood, the brilliant and erudite lawyer of Portland, hits the nail on the head In the Pacific Monthly of May, on the Smoot case, when he says: "The attack on Smoot was for polygamy, when he himself Is not a polygamlst; he Is simply a Mormon. But suppose he Is a polygamlst, instead of secreting his wives, mistresses or concubines, and branding them with Infamy, Smoot treats them as his wives and gives them his name, instead of branding his children with Illegiti macy, he gives them his name and his property. Instead of driving a woman to crime, perhaps, he makes her feel unashamed. Now, which Is the better. Smoot with his honesty that supports and loves his several wives or the senator. with the secret mistress and the skulking Illegiti mate children dodging In the dark corners of society, with the brand of hell upon them? It Smoot is to be ejected by outraged society, why not eject the others? Is It only because Smoot Is open and the others osten sibly hidden, as the ostrich buries Its head In the sand? Is secrecy, then, better than openness? There is a deal of honest and sincere effort on the part of good people to make others good by force, according to the views of the good ones, and also there Is a good deal of downright hypocrisy In the world, against which I must raise my voice." THE ISLE OF UNRE8T. "San Domingo, theoretically a re public," writes William Thorp In the May World's Work, "covers two thirds of the largest and richest island In the West Indies, except Cuba. Its population can only be guessed at, for the official figures ore untrustworthy. Ther are, probably, 500,000 negroes and mulattoes scattered over the 18 000 square miles. They are often half-starved and always living from band to mouth, for there Is little In centive to honest industry when a .- nt unlillnrfi mav come along at any moment and eat up the fruit of a man's labor. The country could easily support 5,000,000 people in prosper mm comfort. But It has been at war, with hardly any considerable Inter mission, for about a hundred years. rr.1 . Ic nn nthflf PfltintrV 111 til 0 world, not even Venezuela, with such a record. The disparity in numbers betweon creator in the coun- ,.ninfia Hmn In the cities, for the men are apt to flock to the towns . mnrrhod Off to fight by One of tho numerous guerilla bands. Po lygamy results in tno country wtnta A peasant usually has four or five wives, who live in common and i. him nnii the children. Yet nn,...ifitinn iWh Ti ot increase. That 1b the most striking testimony to the condition oi mo country. ,m, nrn ntcadlly thinned dowu by the wars, and three-fourths The department of agriculture has issued the following suggestions to farmers who live on river courses that destroy valuable land by wasn-j Ing and caving In each year. The bulletin says In part: j "At ninny places along the streams the flood has left perpendicular banks of soft soil that are being con-; stantly undermined by the current, j causing the land to cave Into the river from time to time. It Is very important that such places be pro tected, for every such caving bank is a menace to all the land lying bnck ot It In the valley. ! "In such a valley, where the bea of the stream does not come within I scores of feet of bed rock, :he use, of stone structures for protecting the river banks Is very expensive.) and at the same time Ineffective, j The most successful method of pro-j tecting a soft alluvial river bank is. to make It sloping Instead oi per nendlcular. and to keep It covered with vegetation. - "Tho wlllmv Is admirably adapted to holding alluvial soil In place. It, Is far more serviceable lor mis pur-' pose than walls w masonry, and the facility with which is reproduces It self by seed, suckers, sprouts and cuttings, both natural aim artiuciai, makes Its use very simple and inex- pcssKe. I "The great difficulty with planting any sort of tree ou perpendicular imtiliH Is that the cavlnc of the soil Is so rapid that the planted tree has no opportunity to get a stan uuiuic it It undermined and precipitated, Into the river. An excellent scheme has been proposed by Mr. E. Bayles of Llnwood, Kan. I - TliB nlnn Is as follows: Green I wliino.- imlps 1R to 20 feet long .are! Becured In the spring, just after the ice goes out of the stream, tnese laid on the cround near the bank two feet apart, with their butts all pointing toward tne river. mcu fence wire In then stretched along over the poles and stapled fast to each one. Sections of wire nbout 100 feet long can be handled to best ad vantage. "After the wire has been securely fastened to the poles, they are all pushed over the bank together, so ,hnt thp lmttK of the noles will fall and sink Into the soft mud at the wa ter's edge. As the hank caves on onmo nf thn falllncr soil will lodge on the wire, partially burying and weighting down the poles, which will consequently striKe root ami gruw. SOCIALISM THAT HURTS. "BRILLIANCV-Clsrlty sod relish. provinff perirci urewiuj .uw . mentation. "CLEAN" TASTE The absence of a disaijrecsble foreim or after taste, proritxr scrupulous cleanli ness during the brewing process. "SOLID. CREAMY FOAM" An In fallible indention ol body, ageond excellence of brewing material. "PURITY" lrapoo'lble to find In most bottled beers, become their nrescrvatlon Is gained through chemical adulteration, "FLAVOR" The distinctive Indi vidual characteristic ol any bever are as peculiar to it alone ns is it; odor to the rose A delicious and pronounced hop aroma Is tne highest standard A. B. C. Is the ONLY beer that possesses all ol tae essential auolifications. It. purity Is absolutely """vn'"d. by Its makers, It Is the ONLY beer that can be so guaranteed, because It Is the ONLl beer bottled exclu- alelr at tne Brewery THE AMERICAN BREWING CO. ST. LOOTS, V. S. A. GEO. DARVEAU. WHOLESALE DEALER. ini 1 sl.fi.TL nin ! iBUlldi J i Mated u ; : of all 9 V IV I II 1M ""'""Hi maae i orde ; ouu. wooa mitt... . I ......... 4. - -ftulTl i. Oregon t T. 11 m linn V. . a a T Alt.-i Str.f n v., upp, ll I I t ll ill I 1 1 1 1 1 I , MM, GEORGE DARVEAU, WHOLESALE DEALER. McAdams will save you money. You get nothing but first-class dry woou and clean screened, heat giving, McAdams Phone Main 1121. Savings Bank Building. some Gnnn pdadcdym.. Sh.OfUl 1 fin.n nr a..t, . - wC .ttutii near 5U acres in vhpaf L ou uearing fruit trttt smni fruit rinnA um:. duils. 1'ii'iiiv nr Trn .l -.juu iwv iuis WHO g00Q corner; uozen young fr fine brick cellar k v -M ,4 nr Mn n at root anA vine location. Ternn. Three quarter sections t wucat. mini, near renaietot Good six-room house, tot, ffl.nilB t.1nr.l,f,ttt. ,U. 1. ...n,nn nt ntl lln... I.II ..I about the price. . DIULh IUUU1 UAllOj city lots on which we money to build, Successors to E. D. Insurance, Real Estate, 111 Court Street Thp kind of socialism that does nnt nlnrm either the renubllcan lead ers or bogus democrats Is the social ism for private pront wnicn tne trusts have developed the socialism that, with the help of the tariff and railroad discrimination and the con- nivntine of the executive branch ol the government, defies the laws and robs the people. There Is no long hair or beer drink ing about that sort of socialism, but it nu.nK th national works and will continue to own them until the peo ple get a square chance at it wttn tne ballot. San Francisco Examiner SIT DOWN Why put up with so few chairs, or with those rickety ones you should have thrown away some time ago'? We have a host ot new chairs and our prices are not high. Our chairs are built for service as well as to make a good appear ance. Carpets, largest and best stock shown In Pendleton. BAKER & FOLSOM Furniture and Carpets Mrs. Clara Cooley, of Louisville,' Ky.. drowned her baby, declaring that the Lord compelled her to do It, even as Abraham offered his son as a sacrifice. $500 Reword Women Wfe Be Caret. AFTER A REFRESHING BATH On a sultry day, the prospect of putting on such exquisitely launder ed linen, white and faultless in fin ish, Is a pleasure to the man that has his shirts, collars and cuffs "donJ up" at our laundry. Our aim Is to please our patronB, and we spare no pains to do it, as we vant the patron age of every mnn In Pendleton, THE DOMESTIC STEAM LAUNDRY Backed up by over a third of a centnry of remarkable and uniform cures, a record uch as no other remedy for the disease and weaknesses peculiar to women ever attained, the proprietor of Dr. Pierce Favorite Prescription now feel fully war ranted in offertne to pay $ in legal money of the United States, for any caJo of Leuconhea, Female Weakness, I'rolap ausTor Falling of Womb wh ch they can not cure. AU they ask is a fair and reason able trial of their means of cute. I ued four bottles of your raTOtlte Pre acriptlon' and one of Golden Medical Discor iw. writes Mrs. Elmer D, Bhearer. of Mount hooe Lancaster Co., Ps. "and can say that I am of that dt.fed aisease. uterine trouble. AnV In better health than ever before, livery. one who knows me Is surprised to see me look m well. Jn June I was so poor In health that Slimes I could uot walk. Toay 1 am wtd. I teU everybody that Dr. l'ierce'a medicines cured me." . j k - w.i,i' nlsnensanr Wee Asso ciation, Proprietor, iluffalo, N. Y. 1 1 1 1 1 n i n n 1 1 1 1 1 6 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ! iinifiiiiHi HOLT BROS. Side Hill Combined Harvester The latest improved two-wheel, alde-hlll combined harvester haa proven a boon to wheat raisers. It Is the most successful, most economical and easiest machine to operate ever bullL These harvesters have been given abundant trials right here at home and all users are highly pleased. None have been dissatisfied and all aro high In their praise. Tho Holt alde-hlll harvester on a aide hill Is ablo to stick to the aide of the hill, while the heador will slip down the bill. The main wheels aro vertical, which braces the machine to the sldo t hills. It works equally adapted to level land. The Holt harvesters are sold exclusively In this section by E. L. SMITH 28 Court Street, Pendleton, Oregon All extras lor Holt machines on hand. I h ri ONE DRUG ST0R at whatever stock AnnroxImfttelV J2.0M.M. nnr T. HOR M T0i M I did opportunity to bur I profitable business. niiciwrcc rpntrallT and a small addlttosi! for the good will ol til T. i fln rvf lact neSS. uusiueao v , amounted to $16,560. lease of four years Lulldlng - in- rriArnii'jniv i iiir Agency uespaiu duiiu.-o, Telephone Black w ii 1 1 1 hi I PAPER PAINTING AMD We do only good " at right prices. i Our facilities - T w rtp exoerienceu u - Jlness, ana a" "" nur nersonal attention. Neatness uu Kn matter what T I in nainting v T we ll 00 me u'6 -- ? work. Inuoor an X painting. - s. i arn oi... nn COtt0n0OU uufj i near NeaBie 1 Black 1043. miss vai"- Z f : Art Pario5 at- Alexander Pep"- I than ever. : 8tucUea ; oiiio OSt uenis . .i.. burnt wood, f ' rine w ui - . . itt I stamping for tTee i" a Z mirchasinf " i rth of eooto- ' ... Anil m6 l you wi - Rtort. I der Department 8w MISS C 4-r