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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1904)
PAGE FOUR. AN INDEPENDENT NBWSPAPEn. I'nbllsbFd every afternoon (except Sunday) at 1'enJleton, Oresou, by the EAST OREGONIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. Sl'ItSCItUTION KATKS. Daliy one year oy mall Dally, fix month by mall Dally three months by mall IMIIt one month by mall Dally, per month by carrier ttevKly, one year by mall WeKlv. six mouth by mall Weeklv, four niontha by mall . . . Semi-Weekly, one year by mall . . Seml-Veel;lv. six months by mall Mml Weekly, threa months by mall i.00 2.BU . 1 J5 no (!,- so '. 1 . i Member Scrip! Moltue News Associa tion. The Kast Oregonlau l on sale at 11. 11. Itldfs News HtnuUs at Hotel Portlauil ami Hotel l'erklus. Portland, Oresron. San Kraiulco llureau. -108 t'onrth St. ('hlcaco ilurenii, uuu Security llulldlnK. Washington. D. C llurwu. 301 Htli St. N W Telephone. Main 11. Knterert at t'emlleton postofllce as second class matter. UNION(CLAUEI. To know "uolden Rule Jones" was to feel the noble ness of his alms and the In tensity of his democratic na ture. H.e once told mo that he ate with the men at the shop as often as possible because he wished to avoid being waited upon by the servants In his home. He would not interfere with the ways of his family, but the highouse and the servants were luxuries which he could not endure. The miseries of the poor were always on his conscience. More and more his Hie became a vicarious atone ment for the social sins of the world. Humanity's yoke he felt with crushing w.elght. He nl wnys seemed to me like a man whose heart was breaking with the sorrows of the race. It was broken at last and the weary, heavy-laden haw cause to mourn. Herbert S Hlgelow. There Is a woman at the beginning of all great things. Lamnrtlne. Only two points In Oregon Port land and Hood Itlver exceeded Pen- dleton In attendance nt the Oregon Development League meeting. Metaphorically speaking. Oregon has turned over a new leaf, has taken the first degree, Is in the honeymoon, as It were, of a riotous period of ad vancement The good resolutions In dorsed nt the Portland meeting should serve as prods to keep alive the genius of growth both physical and mental. In England lives Lord Scully, who collects from the farmers of Illinois .an amount reputedly In excess of .JlitO.UUU annually as unimproved ground rent for the privilege of a chance to earn a livelihood, says the San Francisco Star. What do Astor and Scully give their tenants In return for bare, unimproved ground rent? Thoy do not give the ground, the Cre ator did that: they do not give them government, the stnte does that; they glvo them absolutely nothing. "Nothing Indicates general prosper ity and thrift more than the construc tion of country school houses. When people wlllngly tax themselves to build new school hoiih, they are In good financial condition, especially in the sparsely settled districts where a tax always falls on a few men. The an nouncement that about five elegant new school houses will be built In Umatilla county, Including a $2000 structure at Pilot Rock, Indicates a happy condition. Since the advent of the Russian Vladivostok squadron in the Pacific ocean on preying purpose bent, tho big liners that sail from this coast to the Orient are carrying neither bul lion nor money. This Is u wise pre caution If the shipping companies In tend to carry contraband and appar ently useless If thoy Intend to oboy the neutrality declaration of this gov eminent. Commercial greed must rec ognlze, however, that the czar has a very clear idea of what constitutes contraband. What few people are left In Pen dleton ar.e now going to tho Knights Templar conclave In San Francisco, It Is hoped that the places where cooling drliios nre dispensed do not close. Tho police court and the post office have both announced that thoy will bo open for business, desplto the climbing mercury, and with these two engines of civilization in operation, the American peopl.o can get along with the bakery and the pawn shop. Tho city council has already melted away to the mountains or the const, tho mayor is rapidly molting and it now remains for the preachers and (he newspapers to stay at homo nml save the pieces. The cosmopolitan population of tho West la moro and more thrllllngly Il lustrated every day Perhaps no quar tor of tin' Klobu, not even tlio grout health nml gambling r.osorts of Eur ope enn boast ns ninny different na- I tionnlltlcs permanently located, as can I'nmtlll.i county. Tho Inviting oppor tunities of the Northwest have at tracted the adventurers and virile, vig orous, land hungry men from every 1 land on earth. The soldier who serv- i ed In the English nrmy, during the lloor war, and who arrived from South Africa this week. Is hut one of n ! thousand Instances of equal import ance. Ills brother was already In Oregon and before the war closed this man set his goal as Umatilla county. The Oregonlnn attempts to Justify the extravagance of .Mr. Roosevelt's administration by pricking local pride on the measly half million wrung from congress for the Lewis and Clark fair. The startling appropriations for the army, navy and pensions, are inex cusable on any ground and the little sum reluctantly granted for an edu cational exposition in this great sec tion of tho Union which has never re ceived proper notice from the govern ment. Is not a pittance compared to the appalling sum squandered on tho war and navy departments In order to gratify an Inordinate military am bition. The attempt to hide the fla grant extravagance behind locnl sen timent and pride falls flat with the man who keeps In touch with tho cur rent history of the country. , The proud boast has been made through tho papers o. tho Willamette valley that tho government would build a model piece of country road near Eugene. This public spirited work on the part of the government has been the cause of many compli mentary remarks throughout Oregon and has really made people feel proud of the government. Hut here Is how the government is building that road: The people are donating free, the la bor and material, the railroads are hauling the material free, the people are borrowing the road rollers from the Implement houses and congress utterly failed to appropriate for the road. This is how Eugene is getting her "government" rond. A small slice from the army appropriation would have greatly aided this prosaic peaceful art. If th.e Oregon Development League does nothing more than to hurry up the portage road and the completion of Columbia bar Improvements, Its life will not have been In vain. So far the railroads who carried tho dele gates to and from Portland have been the only beneficiaries of the meeting, and it now remains for them to be as active in directing the work or tho league as thoy wero in collecting Its numbers In the metropolis. There Is real development work to do In Ore gon, real tasks to be performed, not by word of mouth and hot air of nows papors, but by labor of the hand and brain and the expenditure of hard coin. If tho work is carried on in fu ture as zealously-as It has been start ed, It will gather force among the peoplo who will gradually Join In the movement for tho betterment of con ditions, but If tlio work stops h.ere, and nothing tangible is accomplished, the people will say the gathering of tile crowd In. Portland was the culmi nation of a scheme and will go on about tuelr selfish business, until an other half fare rate Is offered for a week's outing. There Is more geographical Ignor auco exhibited by supposedly educat ed people, concerning Oregon nnd Its towns and counties, than about any other state. In speaking of the death or Chohalls, the San Francisco Chron icle says Chohalls was foaled at Van couver, Wash., and later purchased by "Frank Frnzlor, of Pondleton, Uma tilla county, Washington, the famoiiB wheat and sheep district of Washing ton territory." Even Harper's, one of the standard magazines of tho world, a criterion of literary excellence and avowed leader among the "upper ten" of American savants, says that the "Lewis and Clark exposition, which will bo hold in Portland, Washington, Is attracting wido attention to tho ex ploits of those discoverers," If there Is anything that Oregon needs, and needs badly, It is a world of Judicious advertising. Because tho peoplo of the Northwest know all about tho his tory nnd geography of tho country is no sign that the provincial Eastern ers know about It. RU88IA'S AREA. Agriculture has been tho main sup port of tho nusslan peoplo from tho earliest times. Four-fifths of Its In habitants till tho soil. There uro great areas atlll uncultivated, evon In European Russia, tho forests covoring nbout two-fifths of tho nrablo land On.o-flfth of Russia, Including tho tun dras in tho north and tho salt stoppes in tho south, Is too barren to grow crops, and swamps cover about 15.0UO. 000 ncres In west RtiBsln. According ly, only ono-flfth of European Russia Is under cultivation, Including about 215.000.000 acres. With tho forests razed nnd the swamps drained, Rus sia would havo nearly J, 000,000.000 cultlvnblo acres, DAILY EAST OREQONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON,, FRIDAY, AUGUST S, A LITTLE FABLE. The Little Peoples wore growing restless and uneasy, and they were prone to nsk questions. "Why do you persist In ruling is ngalnst our wishes'?" they Inquired. "Ah," replied the Ilenevolent Assltu llntor. "I am only preparing you for Bulftgovornniont." "Hut how are we lo lenm self-government If wo arc not allowed to prac tice It?" "You should watch mo." "And when will we be ready for self-govornniont ?" "You will be ready for It Just ns soon as you uro willing to have tne govern you forevor." Scratching tholr heads womlerlngly the Little Peoples wandered back to their liom.os to think It out. Moral Tomorrow will nevor come If tho graft holds out. Will M. Man illa. In the Commoner. COTTON FAMINE COMING. Hec.eni events have drawn nttenllon to the danger of n cotton fnmlnu; and the danger is constantly growing. Every year the world's demand for raw cotton gets steadily greater. Hut America, tho principal source of sup ply, seems to have nearly reached the limit of production, and. beyond that, Is not unlikely to retain more and more of the raw material for her own cotton mills. Even now a really bad harvest In America would be n great disaster. It Ib no wonder that all over tho world men are eagerly searching for new sources of supply. Experi ments uro being made In the West Indies, In Nigeria and on tho Zambe si, and all are being closely ami keenly watched by Lancashire. It is not surprising that the Soudan Gov ernment is also fully alive lo the ad vantages which would be derlveil from a large cotton production. Now York World. JAPAN'S ISLAND KINGDOM. ! Nenrly imm islands comprise tlio ; empire oi Japan, with a total area of, 102.153 square miles. Only 500 Islands i however, are Inhabited, the remaining j Isles being mere heaps of rocks. The chief islands are live in number, the. Hondo, or "Alain Land." with an area , of S7.771 square miles; Shikokit. south of and separated from Hondo by a shallow channel, with un area of "IKIU square miles: ICiushiu. west of Shlko ku, with the Huugo channel between, area lfi.fiS" square miles: Yezo. north of Hondo, with an area of lirt.H" square miles, and Formosa, off the coast of China, area LI.-118 square miles. RECOMPENSE. Wo get back our tueto us wo measuri Wo cannot do wrong and fool right Nor can wo give pain nnd gain plens uro For justice avenges each slight The- nlr for the wing of tho sparrow Tho bush for the robin and wren Hut always the path that Is narrow And straight for the children of men Wo cannot make bargains for blisses, Nor catch them like fishes, in nets: And sometimes the thing our life misses, Helps more than tho things which It gets. For good may not Ho In pursuing. Nor gaining of great nor of small. Hut just In the doing nml doing As wo would be done by is all. Alice Carey Road Up Mount Blanc. An electric nrad Is to bo built up .Mount Blanc, on the plnn of M Ilaliot. an engineer of great ability The cog-wheel system tis,ed on the .lung frau will be employed, and the rail road, which will start from a point 32CO loot ulxive the sea level, will terminate only 810 fuel above tho summit or the mountain. Tho tourist will bo 14,970 reet ubove. the sea when ho steps out uf the cars. In making Jio ascent or the 11, nil feet from tho starting point the mail will traverse nenrly 11 luHes, to lower tho grades us much us possible, und obtain the most favorable condition for con struction. You can gamble on the stock ex change And you're a financier, Hut put n dollar on the red And peoplo think you're queer. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. I iHJI if!wiimrii!ff if if iftir Economy I Brand I Evaporated I Cream I H bears the above cap label. H H Contains fully as much H food substance per can as H H the watery imitations in H H larger cans, It Is smooth and perfect fl because skillfully pre- H pared Its purity 13 guaranteed. IN THE FISHING CAMP. When a fellow rehearses tho sport of the day With rod and tho Hue In u clear, truthful wny, (Details the great battle he had with n prize, True game to the core and enormous in size; When he tells of tho skill ho displayed In tho fight. How he handled tho captive expertly and right Till the dum lender broke, It annoys him. by jlng! I'nr his llat'nors to lift up tholr volcos and sing: "It sounds lllce It sounds like It sounds llke'n gol-darned lie! Pretty story, nicely told. Hut It's old. It's very old, And It sounds like a gol-ilnrned lie!" Every claim that ho mukes may be truo to a dot, As he tells of tho desperate battle he fought, Of the bend in the rod, of tho song of tho reel, Of (he thrill that convulsed him from noggin to heel; lie may bo a truo Christian with honor at stake, Willi would shrink from n llo as ho would from n snake. And hence his pure soul feels a sharp, painful sting, To hear those gay ghouls or the fish lug camp slug: "It sounds like It sounds like It sounds like a gol-darned lie! Pretty story, nleoly told, Hut it's old. It's very old, And It Hounds like a gol-darned lie!" James I ta r l o n Adams in Denver Post. "Hut, mamma, he called mo a pie- I'lll'O." "That didn't hurt you, did it?" "It didn't, mummn. until he began to mash tho crust with his knuckles." Cleveland Plain Dealer. First .Mosquito What, are you try ing n black baby'.' Second Mosquito- Yes. I'm In mournltif. Life i FIBROID TUMORS CURED. 1 Mrs. Hu.ves'First Letter Appeal ing to lUrs. IMuklmui lor Help: " Dear Miu-Pi.nkiiam : Ihave been under Boston doctors' treatment for a long tinio without any relief. Thoy tell mo 1 have a liliroid tumor. I can not sit down without great pain, and tho soreness extends up my spine. I have bearing-down pains both back anil front. My abdomen is swollen, and I have hail flowing spells forthree years. My apatite is not good. I can not walk or be- on my feet for any length of time. " The symptoms of Fibroid Tumor given in your little book accurately describe my ease, so I writo to you for advice." (Signed) Mns. E. V. IUtes, 232 Dudley SL (Uoxbury), Boston, Mai8. Mrs. Hayes Second .Letters " Dkaii Mus Pi.NKiiAJi :. Sometime ago I wroto to-yuu debcrlliing my symp toms nnd asked your- advice. You re plied, and 1 followed nil your direc tions carefully, and to-day 1 am u. well womaui "The um oCLyiUu K.IinkIiani Vegetable- Compound, entirely ex pelled tho tumor und btrengtlimed my wholo-svstem. I can wullc miles now. "Lydia 13. JtMnkbumV VeRO table Compound is worth lite dol lars, a- drop. I iidvlso all numnn who are allllctuU with tumors or female troublti-ot any ltiiul to gire It a faithful trial." (Signed) Mn. E. F. Hatm, 3S2 Dudley St. (Ruxbnrr). Iroston, Mass. tSOOO fortit If original ctoM ittttr fndtig ftmintnu cannot 6 SAgfeicttf The Leading Tailors Of the city, SIEBERT & Schultx, have removed to 222 Court street, opposite the Hotel Bickers. When you want a well made suit at reasonable prices, call on them. Columbia University Collogintc, Preparatory, Commerc ial and Grammar Grndo Courses. Ap ply for catalogue. Boarding school for young men and boys. Box 344, University Park 8tatlon. Portland, Orerjon. Shoe Repairing l have moved my shop to the second door east of tho Sa lngs Bank. Re pairing of all kinds done in a work manlike niannor at roasonabl ratos. As I have boon In business here 17 yours, I need not speak of the qual ity of my work for it speaks for Itself. My stock of shoes was somewhat damaged by water and tho insurance company told me to sell thorn for whnt I could got, so I will soil them for loss than wholesale price. CUIUS UANLBY, '" 1904. NEW GOODS THIS WEEK Largo lino now style folding go-carts. Tho famous "Frobcl" brand, $3.35 to $12.00. Come and boo them. Now crepe pnpor, plain, rain bow nnd floral effects, 10c, lBc, l!0c and 2tic. HAMMOCKS. Hotter Into than never. Wo secured n Bamplo lino of ham mocks and mnrked them espec ially low 85c to $3.25. Frederick Nolf & Co. Refreshing and Healthful The City Brewery Bottled Beer. Tho greatest summer drink. It goes right to the spot. Always have this superior boor In your homo. It glvoB youth and vigor to your tired system. Physicians recommend beor that Is pure. City Urowery Bottled Beer Is always good and nlways tho same. It Is made In Pondloton and not subject to changes of temperature In being shipped. Put up in quarts, pints and half pints, nnd dellvored In nny quantity desired. Hottllug works telephone 1771. Residence telephone 1831. TANK We make a Specialty of Dulldluf Hound or Square WATER TANKS Also Header lleds all sizes and kinds. 'Ve mnko them right and tnej always give satisfaction. Our work Is never slighted or botched. Pendleton Planing Mill and Lumber Yard ROBERT FORSTER, Proprietor. Corner Webb and College. College Place Health Food Wafers, fruit crackers, cream sticks, nut butter and salted peanuts. Despain & Clark "The Kodak" season Is now on and we have the largest and most complete line profession al and amateur photographic goods ever shown in the city. Don't forget to take a camera or kodak with you on your "ft cation. I Brock & McComas I Company 4 t : 4 4 DRUGGI8T8. Cor. Main and Court SU. Pendleton, Oregon.' J. L. VAUGHN : Electrician Prompt attention Klvon and all work exoeulod properly. Klootrloal Suppllej of all klndi OFFICK-121 WBST GOUHT ST. -121 WBST COI (TrlbiiQO Building) WATE EIQHT PAQEJ, Let iib -uri-LY YOU WITH Building Material Dimension lumber ol ,n , Bcriptlons. Sash,1; Moulding, nuliding Papor. m Tf BRING YOUR BILL TO u. AND GET OUR Grays Hatbor Commercial Co. Opposite W. & c. R. Depot Hill Military Academj Mm PORTI lun ' unvsn A private boa, and ilav srhnni ir training, nfl discipline, college wi I'arauon. Boys of u, age admitted at ui time. Fall term uuiiiciuuer 14. imi CUT THIS out And mall to Dr. J. w Hill, Hill wnv tary Academy, Portland, Or. I have .... boys, whom I wMtu loud to a nillltnrv sehnnl ti,i. .. are , Please tead me lirlcPR nml tnrmo. nl. m.. . : aw.i.n.u u.nuiuKue oi your chooL (Name (Address) Oregon Portland Ste Helen's Hall A GIUI.9 SfTHnni. C)V THE mnn. EST CLASS corps of teachers, loc tlon, building, equipment the best Send for catalogue. Opens September 15, 1801. COAL LET US FILL YOUR BIN WITH Rock Spring Coal Recognized as the best and most economical fuel. We are prepared to contract with you for your winter's supply. Wo deliver coal or wood to any part of the city Laatz Bros. MAIN STREET. NEAR DEPOT P Positively the best beer made. Any quantity you de sire. Delivered to your borne. Always call for Olynf pla, A. N0LTE Phone Mln M The French Restaurant Best 25 Ctnt Meal In Jj. Private Dining P'" Elenant Furnl.hed W lfl Connection. GUS LaFONTAlNE, PW 033 Main Street. . . i .... bv can"'' et orenonin i only 15 cents f " - " "