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Hr Saturday.
Be
man; be yourself,
be
nothing at all;
Don't whisper your soul it
must be like the rest.
For happily the average soul is
but small:
Be not just the same, or as
good, but your best.
Be yourself: be the gold that
you may. sans alloy.
He strengthened and bright
ened by buffets and
welts
It is better to be just yourself,
my dear boy,
Than a cheap imitation of
somebody else.
Selected.
OREGON NOT SELFISH.
The East oregonian cannot agree
with the Portland Board of Trade In
its effort to have congress so change
the reclamation law that the money
derived from each state for the re
clamation fund be expended In that
state.
While Oregon would be iinuiea.-ui-ably
benefited by such a change In
the law, yet Oregon cannot afford to
take such a selfish stand. She can
not afford to go on record before the
world in saying that because she has
been favored by large sales of public
lands, that she must have all the per
petual benefit accruing from those
sales.
Such a selfish policy would hold
back Nevada, Wyoming. Utah and
other states which have more feasible
reclamation projects than Oregon. It
would deny other sections of the
country a legitimate advancement due
them from the government through
the reclamation law.
Because Oregon Is the largest con
tributor to the fund she should not
show a selfish spirit. Such action
will arouse public sentiment in the
east against the state and might work
a damaging modification of the re
clamation law by congress. If the
money Is expended In the west, that is
sufficient.
HARRY LANE AND TOM WORD.
Gambling and grafting are being
crushed out In Portland by Mayor
Lane and Sheriff Word, and it Is be
ing done without any flourish of
trumpets or grandstand music.
Visitors to Portland say that open
gambling In the big resorts of Port
land is absolutely removed and sup
pressed. Gambling behind locked
doors is the only kind to be found and
that is so much afraid of a raid from
the Irresistible sheriff that It Is no
satisfaction for the old sports to play
under such stress and strain.
Grafting city officials are being run
out of the public service by the mayor,
Just as rapidly as the tinhorn Is be
ing ruii out of the Joint by the sheriff.
If a man 1b unfit for a public ser
vant, no matter what his lineage, ped
igree, history or character, he must
get out. If he will not resign without
a rumpus, he Is summarily discharg
ed. There is no place for the grafter
In the regime of Harry Lane.
And prominent and pious business
men of Portland said It could never
be done. They said gambling and
grafting had always been the rule In
Portland and that they always would
be.
But It Is being done. In the face
of the old and powerful corrupt com
binations and organizations opposing
both sheriff and mayor. It Is being
done without raising taxes or demor
alizing business. It is being done
without hurting a solitary legitimate
business interest of the city, and the
news that It la being done had added
20 per cent to the standing of Port-
lumt among the great cities of the
country. The ousting of gambling and
grafting from Portland Is a national
event, a the eyes of the world are
uhmi the city this year.
All It require to run vice and cor
ruption out Is just the nerve to get
after them. They are both cowardly.
Thi-y have no legal or moral ground
to stand upon, and any bold, fearless
man can iut them beneath his heel
despite the false 'cry of "husliusa."
PEXRl.ETOX NOT IN PERU,.
Walla Walla and Lewiston con
tinually talk of the building of the
main line of the O. R. & N. railway
down the Snake river from Hun'lng
ton to Lewiston, and on to Portland
via Walla Walla and a water grade,
thus leaving Pendleton a deserted
country village on a brancn lino from
Huntington to Umatilla.
It is kind In Pendleton's em rgetlc
rivals to leave the brunch line across
the Uluc mountains In onerati n to
handle the traffic of Grand Ronde
and Umatilla county. Otherwise we
should lie compelled to go to '.na
tilla or Colli Springs to reach a riil-
road
In the first place It is l'SO mi'es
farther from Huntington to Portland
by way of Ijewiston down the Snake,
I than it Is by way of La Grande and
Pendleton. In the second place over
half of that ISO miles would be ab
solutely non-producing, as it Is a
rocky mountain gorge through which
a railroad could not be built without
burrowing through solid rock walls
most of the way.
A brunch line of the o. II. & N.
now projected through Wallowa to
Lewiston would reach uli the traffic
that would be readied by the road
down the river, excepting a little, per
haps, in the vicinity of the Seven Dev
ils, which can be readied by a branch
line from either Raker City or Hunt
ington, through Eagle and Pine val
leys, sudi a branch now being in con
templation. And the last and most convincing
argument against the Intention of the
O. R. & N. to change Its main line
from the Blue mountain route to the
Snake river line, Is the fact that
enormous oxpenili'.iirci ., have been
made n : . - ' :ii.i'iii;;iin grades,
P-.v tu::. !:.-. Iiridses and building
I permanent and modern,
j iVcic u main line down the Snake
in contemplation, 10Q.Ono.OMO would
not be appropriated for Improve
ments in the Mountain division. In
cluding the laying of 90-pound steel
rails, the replacing of ail wooden
bridges with modern steel ;ivi:cture.i.
the widening and renewing if al! the
tunnels along the line .m 1 ire ballast
ing of the track with two feet of
gravel hauled great ills' ic.ees at r-f&vy
expense.
Pendleton, La Grande and Baker
City will remain main line points for
all time to come. They are In no
peril from Portland newspaper rail
road builders.
AliSTEMIOl'S MINERS.
The country will have a higher
opinion of the anthracite miners of
Pennsylvania, now that 10,000 or 15,
000 of them. men. women and chil
dren, have shown themselves as mem
bers of a great total abstinence socle'
ty, says the Memphis News-Sclmltar.
Men who possess the drinking tem
perament and who refrain from in
dulging that temperament exercise an
admirable self-control, and men who
can control themselves can control
their destinies.
President Roosevelt's address be
fore the meeting was characteristical
ly blunt and candid and full of good,
hard sense.
He pointed out In strangely vivid
colors the excessive drinking and at
what a disadvantage It places a man
In the race of life.
The man who drinks to excess acts
as Imprudently as does the man who
voluntarily tics one hand behind his
back when he is engaging In a fight.
The complaint made by the clergy
man whose letter was read by the
president that the shorter working
day and the higher scale of wages the
more time and money was spent In
the saloons by some of the miners,
may be well founded; but it Is only an
incident to the emancipation of labor.
It was held In the bondage of drudg
ery so long that it Is not yet fully
conscious of Its liberty and cannot
properly use It It will soon learn.
Rubber Collars.
Tho rubber collar, now so much
worn by school boys, Is a dangerous
article. Being impervious, It causes
the neck to perspire, and if Its use Is
persisted In the part of the body be
tween the head and trunk becomes
thin and scrawny. The ,bjeot In
wearing rubber collars Is to save the
expense of laundering. They cost 85
cents apiece, and break on the slight
est provocation. The dealers Insist
upon selling two queerly shaped but
tons for the front and back of the
neck price 60 cents. , Nothing Is
guaranteed. A sort of soap, full of
grit, is used for washing each morn
ing. New Tork Press.
RUTS ABOUT THE SEA LEVEL
CANAL SCHEME.
Objections to the sea-level plan of
constructing the Panama canal are
shown to he very serious ones In a
paper on tho subject written by Cus
slus E. Gillette, major of engineers,
U. S. A. The major writes a long and
studious article from his hendnuar-
ters, Pacific division, engineer office.
San Francisco, to tin' Engineering
News of New York, which lias the pe
culiar value of expressing a reversed
opinion arrived at after making a
close personal siudv of the conditions
of the Isthmus, where he served on
the commission In li04.
The fact that he went to Panama
with preconceived judgments In favor
of a' sea-level' canal anil then changed
them after an actual study of the
grounds gives the paper a special
claim to attention, for men seldom
alter their prejudices without stronger
reasons for doing so than those which
Induced the first favored ideas. He
litis had large experience In river con
trol and lock and dam construction.
It is from the standpoint of nn ex
pert in river control that to sees one
of the most grave objections to a sea
level canal. The river surface of the
Chagres Is about .15 feet above the
sea and the silt of that and other
streams which would pass Into the
canal would require constant dredg
ing and necessitate n very wide canal
In order to let the big vessels pass the
dredging fleet. The other alternative
of diverting the sllty waters would lie
enormously expensive.
The watershed is 2"0 sipitire miles
and this whole area of flood must be
kept nut the canals by dams and by
diversion channels. The canal must
occupy the bottom of a narrow valley
and the sediment of even the smaller
streams Is a serious matter. Some of
tiie rivers are subject to torrential
floods. Similar objections would hold :
against a 30-foot level, and Indeed for
any lesser height than 100 feet, which i
is the plan favored by Major Gillette.
A part of the plan of the 100-foot J
level canal Is to be a great dnm at
Gatun. the range of hills there being!
the farthest one north that crosses
and has sufficient height. Such a dam
would form a lake of 10 square
miles, with abundant storagt waters,
and capable of settling for ages all
the mud that the streams would bring
down into It. This dam could be built
out of the dirt from the Culebra cut j
with a haul of but 25 miles. By this;
plan (34.000,000 could be saved and,
a channel five feet deeper and much
wider than the proposed sea-level one
would connect the oceans. j
Such a canal would ho readily en-1
UiiKcii no no ri.'hii- i ,.,
diitecture and growth of eommerce-
a thing w hich would be almost an 1m-.
possibility with the deep cut to sea
level. The Suez canal is already too i
small for modern tonnage, and the
history of canals and commerce shows
that repeated enlargements of chan
nel must be provided for and counted
upon In all plans.
Another plan proposed by Major
Gillette is in regard to the prevention
of seepage in the construction of the
Gatun dam. He proposes to sink pipe,
and force, under great pressure, ce
ment grout through It to close such
openings as may be in the sand or
gravel strata. This method of pre
venting percolation he advises as
much superior to driving dovn sheet
piling. Not by any means the least of
his arguments Is that the canal he
proposes could be built In five years,
as compared with the estimates for
the others of 12 years spent In con
struction. San Francisco Call.
BLAMED C'ARXEGIE.
"Un an accommodation train which
had Just left Pittsburg." related a
traveling man. "there were gathered
In the front of one of the cars a num
ber of high school girls who were re
hearsing the lines of a play. One
young lady acted as prompter and
held the manuscript. The others
timidly responded with their lines,
not wishing to appear conspicuous be
fore the other passengers.
"As the train rolled on. however,
the girls gained confidence, and the
reading of the lines grew more force
ful and emphatic. Their sentences
became audible and the passengers
covertly listened, ignoring the evening
papers.
" 'Then.' hissed a tall, slim girl, en
tirely oblivious of her surroundings,
and whose eyes glowered upon the
prompter, 'the question Is, who stole
the record hook?'
" 'Carnegie!' yelled a brakemnn as
he threw open the door for the Pitts
burg suburb.
"That ended the rehearsal. But
the mirth which rolled through the
car as the train came to a stop was
most refreshing."
MOVEMENT OF GRAIN.
According to reports received by
the department of commerce nnd la
bor through the bureau of statistics,
total grain arrivals during the month
of June at nine domestic seaports on
the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts,
amounted to 13,787.130 bushels, and
were slightly In excess of correspond
ing movements In 1904. For the first
six months of the current calendar
year 129,116,207 bushels of grain
were received at these cities, In com
parison with 107,036.242 bushels In
1904.
The total receipts of grain and flour
and corn meal reduced to bushels, at
New York during the first half of the
current year, aggregated 49,510.933
bushels, representing a rail movement
of 47,666,823 bushels, a canal move
ment of 1.496,300 bushels, and a river
nnd coast movement of 347,810 bush
els. In 1904 the movement amounted
to 39.286,610 bushels.
PROTECTS ITALIAN MOTHERS.
Every friend of the human race
will be Interested in a government
bill, prepared for the Italian parlia
ment, guaranteeing female factory
workers three-quarters of their wage
a month before the birth of children.
The bill says that four week before
a bahy is born the expectant mother
must be excused from factory work
of any kind, while the factory owner
must pay her three-iiunrters of her
average wage during the period
mimed, whether she agrees to return
to wink after she is well aiitiln or
not.
Every female worker between Hi
nges of 15 and 50 has to contribute
two days' wages per year in small
weekly payments. The factory own
er has to contiiliute as much for
every female employed by iilm. He
also has to devote to this charity all
lines collected from the men and
women lie employs, and the treasur
ies of these charities are rccnmun-uil-ed
to all charitably Inclined for con
lilliutious, occasion:! I or permanent.
Tile money for expectant mothers
is collectable like state taxes and
cannot be confiscated 'or levied on
under any circumstances. The gener
al administration Is under Hie su
pervision of the Old Age Insurance
ami Hie working women have a voice
in Hie administration, forming three
fourths of the factory committee.
Statistics show small numbers of
children among factory workers.
Iienyer Post.
AX EFFECTIVE SAMPLE.
A clergyman wus very fond of n
particularly hot brand of pickles, mid.
finding great difficulty in procuring!
tlie same sort at hotels when trav
ellng. always carried a bottle with
him. One day when dining at a res
taurant with his pickles in front of
him. a stranger sat down ot the same
table and with an American accent,
presently asked the minister to pass
tlie pickles. The minister, who en
joyed tlie Joke, politely passed the
bottle, and In a few minutes had the
satisfaction of seeing the Yanked
watering nt the eyes and gasping for
breath.
"I guess." said the latter, "that you
are a parson?"
"Yes, my friend, I am.' 'replied the
minister.
"I suppose you preach?" asked tin
Yankee. "Yes. sir: I preach twice a week
usually." said the minister.
"Dou you ever prench about belli
fire?" inquired the Yankee.
"Yes: I sometimes consider It my
duty to remind my congregation of
eternal punishment," returned the
minister.
"I thought so," rejoined the Yan
kee, "but you are the first of your
class I ever met who carried sam
ples." Tatler.
I'LAG FACTS.
The red In our flag stands for valor.
Hie white for purity, the blue for Jus
tice. Our first revolutionary f lag j
generally used, was called the Grand i
Union flag. In this the colonists, wha. j
we must remember, were still Eng-1
lishmen, kept the red ground of the1
old English flag, but striped It with I
white bars, ro that there should be 13
lists, or stripes, as an emblem of thej
13 colonies. Also, they kept the blue
field of the English Union Jack, but I
ELECTRIC I
POWER
IS THE MOST SATISFACTORY
FORM OF POWER IN USE TODAY.
YOU PRESS THE BUTTON, WE DO
THE REST. TAKES AWAY ALL
THE DRUDGERY. HEAT, DIRT
AND DISCOMFORT OF STEAM
POWER. TT IS NOT ONLY MORE ,
CONVENIENT BUT IS CHEAPER.
FIGURE UP YOUR BILL FOR
WOOD, WATER, LABOR AND RE
PAIRS ON YOUR BOILER AND EN
GINE AND THEN COME AROUND
AND GET OUR RATES FOR A SIM
ILAR AMOUNT OF POWER. IF
YOU ARE BUILDING DON'T FAIL
TO HAVE YOUR HOUSE WIRED.
QUIT CLEANING SMOKY OLD OIL
LAMPS, AND PUT IN LIGHT THAT
ONLY REQUIRES TURNING A
BUTTON.
IRONING DAY THIS WEATHER
IS LOOKED FORWARD TO WITH
DREAD. NO NEED OF IT. WHAT
13 THE USE OF HEATING YOUR
WHOLE HOUSE UP AND MAKING
A HARD DAY'S WORK OF YOUR
IRONING WHEN WE CAN FUR
NISH YOU AN ELI-CTRIC IRON
AND YOU CAN OPERATE IT ON A
METER AT AN EXPENSE OF ONLY
FIVE CENTS AN HOUR. WE CAN
FURNISH YOU A SEWING MA
CHINE MOTOR AND IT WILL ONLY
COST YOU TWO CENTS AN HOUR
TO OPERATE IT. ISN'T IT WORTH
TWO CENTS AN HOUR TO YOU
TO HAVE A MOTOR ATTACHED
TO YOUR MACHINE. YOU CAN
DO MORE WORK WITH LESS FA
TIGUE THAN IN THE OLD WAY.
WE WILL MAKE YOU A FLAT
RATE IF YOU ARE A DRESSMAK
ER OR SEAMSTREES. IT WILL
PAY YOU TO LOOK IT UP. COMB
AROUND AND SEE US.
Northwestern
Gas Electric
P. W. VINCENT, MANAGER.
took out the crosses of St. George and
St. Andrew, and put Instead 13 stars
in a circle. This flag was Inaugur
ated by Washington at his cump In
Cu mhritlKe, Mass., In January, 1776,
though It was not adopted by con
gress until the 14th of June, 1777.
Some of our flags of about tills
time show tlie stars arranged In the
blue In tile shape of one big star,
and some show them arranged In a
circle. The permanent present fash
ion was adopted after IMS, when
congress passed a resolution that n
new star should he added to the blue
field for every new state admitted to
tlie Union. Woman's Home Companion.
ROW TO EM IT.
If nil Hie men who vote for war.
And those who urge II oh, sir.
Must fight In battles all alone
And pay its price so wan. sir;
If they must fight who wish the strife,
And nil the rest know peace, sir,
I'd think it safe to bet my life
Earth's battles soon would cease,
sir.
If sous of Emperors nnd Kings
Were those who bled and die, sir,
And peasants were not sodden things.
The red stream to supply, sir;
In short, If Ihey who choose must pay
That price which souls must fret,
sir,
I think that Peace would have her
'lay,
With no one to regret, sir.
A. J. Wnterhouse In San Francis
co Cull.
S. n. Huston, a lllllsbi.ro attorney.
Is an avowed candidate for the re-1
publican nomination for congress, to 1
succeed Ringer Hermann. He Is a j
staunch Roosevelt partisan. I
HOLD TO VOI R MONEY
Until ou have see us and had u
figure on your ' II of lumber.
Wo carry building material of every
description and have the best quality
of lumber on the market.
Agents for WOOD FIBER PLAS
TER. Cray's Harbor Commercial
Company
W. J. SEW ELL, Manager.
Phone Main 92.
Company
TIME AND TIDE WAIT FOR NO
HAN.
K you re behind-hand In meeting
your engagement It Isn't your fault. If
you wear one of our watches It tells
the precise time of day.
CORRECT TIMEPIECES
save anxiety, because they can be re
lied on. Our guaranteed watrhen aie
as cheap as many that are unreliable.
Price them and see.
Wmslow Bros.
Jewelers nnd Optloluiw.
Postofflce Block.
444
Good j
Dry Wood!
ALL KINDS
1 have good, sound -vood which
Is delivered at reasonable
prices
FOR CASH.
: W. C. MINNIS
X
Leave Orders at Bennlng Ci
gar sUire, opp. People
Warehouse.
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St.JosephsAcademy
PENDLETON, OREGON.
Under the direction of the
Sisters of St. Francis, of Phila
delphia. Resident and day pu
pils. Special attention clven to
music and elocution, students
prepared for teachers' examin
ations for county and state cer
tificates. For particulars ad
dress SISTF.rt SUPERIOR.
TEETH
EXTRACTED BY THE MOD
ERN METHOD, BOO.
We are thoroughly equipped
with all modern met' ode and
appliances, and guarantee our
work to be of the highest stand
ard, and our prices the lowest
consistent with first-clan work
T. H. White
DENTIST
ASSOCIATION IUiOCK
Telephone Mitln MM.
T
X THE POPULAR PLACF TO
EAT IS THE
The French
Restaurant
Everything serrod first-cUuw.
Rest regular meals In Pendle
ton for 28 cent.
SHORT ORDERS
A SPECIALTY.
Polydore Moens, Prop.
4X
CHICKENS
NEED
SHELL
ROVE
GRIT
AND MANY OTHER THINGS
WHICH
C. F. Coleswor thy
CAN SUPPLY TOT WITH.
127-129 EAST ALTA STREET.
W. T. PARKER
Dealer In Dry Goods, Croccrlca and
Notions -Hato, Cape, Boot, gooes
and Farm Produce.
I have Just purchased the D. B.
Richardson store at Helix. Oregon,
and I am going to thorouvhiv nn,j.i
It and greatly Increase the stock. I
solicit your patronage, and If good
good! and fair treatment v.i
your trade, then I know you will trade
with me. Bring In your farm pro
duce. Highest market price paid.
1UUU1& OREGON