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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1904)
rACg EE- PAILT BA3T OMOOXIAK. PR-VOLETON. OREGON. WEDNESDAY. PFXT.MBFR S, lS wraVK PAGnB,- ..".....i....!..iiii..i...8iiiii p ; -i I Mfcfass Eifcufetes 1 8 L ' 1 tt For Your. Christmas Dinner THE MEAT MARKET SHOULD COSTRTBrTE ITS PORTION TOWARD MAKING THE CHRISTMAS H&TH MIES ENJOYABLE, AND WE ARB PREPARED TO SUPPLY TOU WITH CHOICE GOODS IX OUR LIVE. FOR THE HOLJDAT FEASTS WE HATE CHOICEST MEATS OF AIL KINDS REEF, PORK, MUTTON AND VEAL. Poultry TtRKETS, CHICKENS, DUCKS AND GEBSK, LITE AND DRESSED. ALL LARGE, FAT AND GOOD FOR THAT MAGNIFICENT SPREAD. FLUXF, AND ESPECIALLY Oysters ' . ' " AND EXTRA GOOD. BOTH EASTERN AND OLYMPIA. , r .. Salt Water Foods IN FISH WE HATE HALIBUT, SALMON, ROCK COD AND SMELTS. ALSO FINE rr.aws, CRAWFISH, SHRIMPS, ETC AT OUR MARKET TOC WILL FIND AT ALL TIMES CHOICE MEATS, BOLOGNAS, SAUSAGES AND WTRSTS. WE WANT TO BE TOUR BUTCHERS AND SUPPLY IOC WITH MEATS. WE AIM TO AND DO SATISFY OCR CUSTOMERS. IF TOO HATE NEVER GITEN rs A TRIAL ORDER WE WANT TOC TO DO SO. . ; i; Mwm , .;. - . - , v , , , IPLATZOMIL MEAT MARJSET V itniiiii. MminiiiniiHiiiiniiiiti EVtRXTHING FRESH AND GOOD HIIIIM llllllll l'MH niiiiimiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHitl MHIIMimiUMMIHIIII MHIMI INVESTING MONEY. Sare mt Taar SrkiM Befare Tm tlak Xmur iiav-las. Don't tie yourself or your money np. Don't risk ali jour savings in any scheme, do matter bow mnch tt may promise. Ion't Invest your" Lard earn ed money In anything without first making a thorough and searching In vestigation. lH Dot be misled by those who tell you that It la "now or never" and that if you wait you are liable to low the ben thing that ever came to yon. Make up your mind that If you lose your money you will not lose your bead and that yon will not Invest in anything until you thoroughly under stand ail about it There are plenty rf good things waiting. If yon mis oe there are hundred of others. Peo ple will tell you that the opportunity will go by and you will ke a great chance to make money If you de not net promptly. But take your time and investigate. Make tt a cast Iron rule ever to invest In any enterjtae until you have gone to the very bottom or 1L and If it la not so sound that level Beaded men will pot money In It do not touch It The habit of Investigating kef ore you embark hi any business will be a happlDess protector and an ambi tion protector a well. Orison Swett Maiden in Success. BITING THE THUMB. Bt Car to Br Cwdiinl a Fleas at la "Borneo and JnBet" the servants at Capulet and Montague begla a uar rei by on biting his thumb at the oth ers. Commentators hare regarded this act as an insult, quoting the f oUowlag passage from Decker's "Dead Term:' "What swearing is there, what shoul- tering. what Jostling, what leering, vast biting of thumbs to beget quar- lsr Sir Walter Scott bowever, is a Bote to the "Lay of tbe Last MlnstreL" says. -To bite tbe thumb or the glove seems act to have been considered upon the border as a gesture of contempt thongs so need by Shakespeare, but as a pledge of mortal revenge." It was thus accounted to be a solemn assur ance that at the proper time the sword . should settle the dispute or purge tbe offense. ' Something of tbe sort may hare pre - Tailed among tbe Romans, for It is thought that tbe Latin poUicerL to promise, is derived from poller, tbe thumb. PRISONS OF SILENCE. done. The corridors, piled tier on tier five stories high, extend from a com mon center like the spokes of a huge wheel. The cells are narrow, tomb like, and within each stands s coffin. The prison garb Is a shroud. The at tendant! creep about in felt slippers. Xo one is allowed to utter a word. The doors are unlocked, and the half a tDousapn wrmeuea marrn out. ciow-; ed In shrouds and with faces covered by masks, for it is a part of this hideous punishment that none may look upon the countenances of his fel low prisoners. Few of them endure this torture for more than ten years. A Five Oars Love Starr. At the present time we are always talking about tbe rush and hurry of the twentieth century. Are we really so rapid as we think we are? Cer tainly few girls of fourteen bare any thing like the amount of experience and emotion in many weeks of life that Juliet, Shakespeare's heroine, had crammed into five days and a half. Tbe time la thus apportioned: On Sunday the ball took place, and on Monday Borneo and Juliet were mar ried. On Tuesday Juliet took the draft, and on Wednesday she was placed In the tomb. On Thursday Ro meo returned, and on Friday tbe nap leas pair committed suicide. The Jisimm Babr Tbe Japanese baby's bead is shaved in a curious fashion, and never, under any circumstances, does the mother or baby wear a hat or bonnet Nor does be wear abort, even in the coldest weather, bat bis shaves bead and his pink toss peep out from the mother"! garments, and be rides pickapack, strapped oa tightly, happy, chubby, urtitng always and flrtssnl, when ne Is allowed to get out of tbe binding garments, in tbe most dainty of kimo nos, all embroidered and painted and decorated with tbe designs which an supposed to typify tbe final trade or occupation of tbe infant twTfcrrc CmvImi Ever Wear llmu u Slerv Beafa Caaaaa. Entombed in a grim castle on the evutkioru of Lisbon are some of the aaost miserable men on earth. These sue tbe inmr.tes of Portugal's deadly prisons of alienee. In this building ev erything that human Ingenuity can suggest ta render the Urea of Us prbv obi borrlblSL mad denim torture Is Mrs. Beauster Mr. Johnson, won't you please amuse the baby for about five minutes? Mr. Johnson (not of Bos ton) I'm afraid I don't know bow. Mrs. Beanster. Mrs.- Beanster- Just talk a little. She always finds your western grammatical peculiarities so amusing. New Orleans Tlmes-Demo- CTSt ' , BU IWakn. I pity the man who can't learn any thing from his own mistakes. Now. that's one thing I can do." said Bragg. "Ah! Tou're always learning some thing then, areaf youT replied Knox. Exchange. One radical difference between a boy and a girl is that tbe girl can get enthusiastic about a treeful of cherry blossoms without thinking of the cher ries. Sotnervilie Journal. iMBlrsieatB af WarfM. j There is a story of a privateer's crew of forty to fifty men capturing a Turkish galley with 5U0 seamen and soldiers on board by means of s swarm of bees judiciously thrown among the unspeakable ones. However this may be. there are enough authentic in stances of strange methods of stuck to provide amply sufficient material for tbe casuist in deciding what is fair snd what unfair in war. Burning naphtha, boiling lead, birds, carcase of men and bones. Chinese stinkpots, besides the Implements already men tioned, have all been used for offensive or defensive purposes In actual war fare. Prask-STTSF Urttw, In 1M4 s fishing smack off one of the Sbetiand isles was struck by light ning during s fierce storm. The bolt first struek the mast which it splin tered completely. It then passed to a watcb in the pocket of a man sitting close to tbe mast and completely melt ed It Tbe man not only was unin Jured. but be did not know what had taken place till be took his wstcb from his pocket and found it fused into a mass. , . "I never knew till now why this wss such s windy country." said the bright little girl traveling through Illinois. "and have you discovered why!' ssked her father. "Of course. See all the windmills on these farms we're passing." Philsdel. puis Ledger. BU Bets. Mrs. Xewpop Why don't you stop whipping tbe child? Ton make It boi ler. Mr. Newpop I'm licking it to nuke tt stop hollering. Chicago Jour nal. - CTs ass Far 1 arrow. Brown Croker's down with brain fe rrt. Tbe doctor says If be recovers his mind win be a blank. Green I'm sor ry to bear that He owes me $10. 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