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BIX. DAILY KAST OREOONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1808. EIGHT PAGES. L RAINS IN NORTHWEST PORTION OP THE STATE. Full Wheal and Rarlcy Yielded Much Better Than the Spring Grains Pnm urate Falling and Stock Losing FlCHh All Laut Summer and Full Crops Need Rain Rnrily Apple Crop wiu n Deficient. The past week was cooler than the previous one In the western section, while In the eastern section the nights were cool, with moderately warm days. A few small showers occurred In the northwest Sunday and Monday, but they were Insufficient to wet the ground to any groat depth, and rain la still needed everywhere for late crops and for pastures. The grain harvest is drawing to a lose and threshing is well along. Fall wheat and barley continue to yield well, but the berry of spring wheat and oats shriveled during the late hot weather and the yields are disappoint tng. Pasturage Is getting very short and stock Is losing flesh. Corn and hops are making satisfactory advance ment Late potatoes are at a stand still and need rain badly. Apples are generally smaller In size than usual and the crop promises to be below tho average in quantity. Prunes are beginning to ripen. Columbia River Valley. The Dalles, Wasco county, A. Ur quhart Weather cool, with high winds; pastures getting very dry; late gardens need rain. Pendleton, Umatilla county. H. J. Taylor Harvest nearly completed; a few more days will finish It In this lo cality; most everyone busy hauling wheat to warehouses; fine harvest weather yet; wheat and barley yields very good; gardens mostly dried up; potatoes light crop. Wseton; . Umatilla county, Maud M. Baker Harvest work beginning on "the mountains; threshing nearly done here, and crews moving on to further grain districts; yields all good so far as reported; Just beginning to cart to the warehouse; weather cooler and cloudy; pasturage fair, but water Is scarce. Plateau Region. Baker City, Baker county, W. C. Mc Gulness Dry weather continues; wa ter is so scarce that farmers are dig ging wells to get sufficient water for stock; hay, oat and wheat corps are large; weather Ideal for haying. Haines, Baker county, J. K. Fisher Weather favorable for threshing; hot and dry; water scarce; rain needed for the Improvement of ranges; the hot weather damaged the spring wheat to some extent, still the yields were very good; second crop of alfalfa and clover being stacked; half crop. Summervllle, Union county, V. E. Long Weather dry and dusty, but some cooler; range getting dry; stock toeing flesh; threshing In progress; grain yield fair. Deschutes. Crook county, John At kinson Weather cooler and some very heavy frost, with ice; haying under full headway; stock doing well and grass In pastures plentiful and keeping green; river very low. American Anthropology. San Francisco, Aug. 29. For the first time In the annals of the Ameri can Anthropological association Its annual meeting is held west of the Missouri river. It opened here today with a large attendance of prominent scientists, among them Prof. F. W. Pntnam, the president of the associa tion; Dr. R. B. Dixon, of Harvard uni versity. Dr. A. Hcrdllcka, of the Na tional Museum In Washington; George Grant MacCurdy of Yale university; Dr. G. B. Gordon, of the Philadelphia Museum; He wart Culin of the Brook lyn Institute museum; C. P. Mackle of Bnglewood. N. J.; Dr. Clark Wisslcr of the American Museum of Natural History In New York; C. Hill-Tout, of the Ethnological Survey of Canada and many others. Racing for the Lipton Cups. San Diego, Cat., Aug. 29. The ser los of yacht races to contest for the Lipton cups which was arranged un dcr the auspices of the San Diego Yacht club opened, here this morning under Ideal conditions. The races are sailed off Coronado and among the contestants entered for the event are several of the fastcat yachts of Califor nia. The races will occupy three days. Rooms for Pendleton and Umatilla County People at the Portland Fair. Write now to Mrs. William B. Bol ton, 674 tt Fifth street. Portland, Ore. Convenient to the grounds. Rate $1.00. $1.25 and $1.60, Including breakfast. Lehman Springs Stage. The Lehman Springs stage will start Saturday, June SO, and will run till October 1, and carry passenger and the malt. It starts from Lindsay's table, on Cottonwood street. Wanted. Ladles clothes Ironers at Robin sen's Domestic laundry. 0 but very my DUST lN OUR EYES. 7a at Times Collect Cmrloaa Talas Wltkoat Looking For Them. Few people are aware, says Fred W. Saxby in the Strand Magazine, that we are all constantly "collecting" curl ons things without looking for them: In the very act of looking up at the fleeting spectacle of fiery orb the reader with the big, wide open eyes may easily receive In one of bis own orbs n tiny sphere from afar that was produced In u glowing streak of light like the one he Is admiring. Meteoric dust Is ever falling and up on all parts of our planet. The little spheres have been found upon the decks of ships far out at tea, In all the deserts of the earth and on the tops of snow clad mountains. Predg lngs brought uf from the silent depths of the ocean give testimony of their universal presence. The particles all contain Iron and are easily collected by the magnet from the roof of any outhonse or other place exposed di rectly to the sky. Seafarers are sometimes pelted with dust of quite a different kind, compos ed of the microscopic flinty skeletons of beautiful plants called "diatoms." These tiny plants live In both salt and fresh water and occur In enor mous numbers In some localities. Oc casionally water courses aud Inundat ed areas dry up. and the flinty shells of the diatoms which grew there are blown about as dust. There are sev eral instance on record of dtatoma ceous dust falls at sea. During the thickest part of the fall the sailors bare experienced much pain Id their eyes, the Inflammation being caused by the little flinty shells. SECRETARY SEWARD. Rli laaaeaee I'poa the Forelara Tal ler of This Coaatrr. The Importance of Secretary Sew ard's influence In the domestic affairs of the United States during Johnson's administration has probably been ex aggerated, bnt It would be bard to ex aggerate the Importance of what he achieved and of what be Initiated In bis own proper field of diplomacy. His chief, occupied as he was with fierce controversies over other subjects, found, we may well suppose, bnt little time for foreign relations. He does not appear to have Interfered with policies which were already adopted or to have Initiated any new policies of his own. Seward must therefore be held respon sible to a degree somewhat unusual for the conduct of the delicate negotia tions. Involving very far reaching con sequences, which the war gave rise to. It was he who first presented America to Europe In that attitude of conscious strength which the thorough establish ment of our nationality at last enabled us to take. It was be who reasserted effectively, yet without any arrogance, our traditional stand In. reference to the Latin republics to the south of us. It was be who, facing westward, ac complished an expansion of our sys tem Into a region never contemplated until bis day by those who guided oar destinies and turned our thoughts up on the shores of the Pacific as a field for American trade and American in fluence. William Garrott Brown In Atlantic, The Pale Star. ' We will try to give you some Idea of the distance that separates us from the pole star. As you know, light travels at the rate of about 186,000 miles a second more than seven times round the earth while yon are saying 'John Robinson" slowly. Well, sup pose that a ray of light, traveling at this terrific speed of a million miles In less than five and a half seconds, bad started from the polar star on Its journey to the earth at the moment of your birth that particular ray will not reach yon until you are more than halfway between your thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh birthdays. When you look on the pole star you see It not as It Is today, but as It was about fifty years ago. An Australian Treat. A treat In an Australian wilderness ramp Is thus described by an explorer: "On our way down, of course, it was necessary to stop at Mcl.cod's camp to get something to clear the bronchial tabes. There was one great Scotch man among the party, who said, when I asked bun what his poison was, 'Weel, I'll Just take a tin of fruit' lie bad a tin of pineapple. Now, the price of preserved fruit at that time and In such a place was something to make you alt up, ao that Scotchman scored." The Brass Bant. "George!" Yes, dearr "Before we were married yon once asked me If I enjoyed a brass band." "Y-yes, perhaps I did." "Yon did. And I said yes. But It seems I misunderstood yon, George. My wedding ring Is making a black mark on my finger." "1 I "-Cleveland Leader. Jo7. Joy is one of the greatest germ kill ers In existence. It Is a positive ra diant form. Irresistible and compelling, before which all discouragements and Ills go down In utter defeat A good dose of Joy will do more for yon than any tonic or medicine you can name. Where la-aoranco Is Bliss. A well known physician has observed that the best thing that can happen to a man with diabetes Is not to find It out and the same might be said with some Justice of a number of diseases. Hospital. There seems to te no art of know! edge In fewer hands than that of dl earning when te have done. Swift. Oar complete stok of fall hats are hers. Boston 8 to re. The Deaf of the Sea. An Inquisitive Frenchman bas thought it worth while to ask what be comes of the bodies after death of the numberless fish and other living crea tures that fill the sea. Of course they alMIe, sooner or later, and yet It Is an occurrence so rare as to be practically unknown for anybody who lives beside or on the ocean to come across the "re mains" of even a Blngle victim of the fute that awaits all things mortal. In the profounder depths putrefaction can not take place, so If the (lead fish once reaches those calm, chill abysses he would be preserved until the end of time, rrobably, however, no such peaceful repose awaits more than nu tutinlteslmally small proportion of the fiuny folk, and no great accumulation of lifeless bodies exists ut the bottom of the sea. The living eat the dead be fore they ran make the long, slow Journey downward. As a matter of fact, extremely few fish, and perhaps none, ever meet what Is known as n "natural death." Almost always tbey are slain and devoured and so put definitely out of the way. First Heconled Yacht Race. A race across tho Atlantic ocean would have seemed a wild romance to King Charles II. wheu be took a lead ing part In the first recorded yacht race. "I si' I led this morning," says Evelyn on Oct. 1, HiCl, "with his maj esty In one of his yachts, or pleasure boats, vessels not known among us till the Dutch East India company pre sented that curious piece to the king, being very excellent sailing vessels. It was on a wager between bia other new pleasure bout, built frlgate-Hke, and one of the Duke of York's; the wager, 100; the race from Greenwich to Gravesend and back. The king lost It going, the wind being contrary, but saved stakes In returning. There were divers noble persons and lords on board, bis majesty sometimes steering himself." "Yacht," a word new to Eng land In 1600, Is Dutch, from "Jagten," to hunt, to speed, connected with our "go." Ixindon Chronicle. Rratln the Heart. "Rest your heart now and then dur ing the day," said an Instructor In gymnastics. t "But the heart can't be rested," a pu pil objected. "It works incessantly from birth to death." "It rests the heart to lie down," said tlin Inati-ilrttnr "Wow? lnlt,'a aloft. nf nine nonrs saves tue heart the lifting of 32.000 ounces of blood. Considerable rest there, eh ? "When wo He down, you see, the heart's action becomes slower slower by ten strokes a minute. Thus In an hour 600 strokes are saved and In nine hours 5,400 strokes. Each stroke pumps six ounces of blood, and therefore In nine hours the heart Is saved the labor of pumping 32,100 ounces. "The heart often requires a rest" Philadelphia Bulletin, Ran the Hole Oat of Tom. A lecturer recently told of a Russian he saw some years ago In Manchuria whose methods of achieving results were not according to the usual code. The Russian bad a well In bis front yard which be concluded to fill up. He began digging a bole by the side of the well, throwing the dirt from the new excavation Into the well. "In the course of time," said the speaker, "the old well was filled, but there was a bole alongside as big as the first. The Russian went farther away and dug another hole to fill the second. Ho continued this process of digging one bole to fill the other until be literally ran the bole out of town." Health and Meier. There Is this difference between those two temporal blessings, health and money: Money la tho most envied, but the least enjoyed; health Is the most enjoyed, but the least envied, and this superiority of the latter Is still more obvious wheu we reflect that the poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest mnn would gladly part with all his money for health. Soaraeatlve. "Gee whiz!" said George for the twentieth time. "It makes me mad every time I think of the $10 I lost to day. I net -Lilly feel as If I'd like to have somebody kick me." "By the wny. George," suid the dur girl dreamily, "don't yon think you'd better speak to father this evening?" Philadelphia Press. The Lot's Advantages. Advertising Expert I've written the praises of all these lots but one. I'm afraid you can't sell that one. Heal Estate Agent What's the matter with It? Expert Why, It's on an almost perpendicular hillside. Agent Call at tention to its wonderful drainage facil ities. Cleveland Leader. Ho More Work. Hicks I suppose Dremer Is still pot tering alone at his Inventions. Wicks Well, be bas actually perfected a great labor saving scheme at last. Hicks You don't say. Wicks Yes; be's going to marry Miss Roxlay. Catholic Stand ard and Times. The Leaser Evil. "I don't see why you asked Mr. Bohr to sing," said the popnlar girl's sister. "I bated to do It," was the reply, "but It was the only way to make him stop talking." To the Maaaer Bora. Grubber What a well breS man Mixer Is! Dumley (who doesn't like him) He ought to be. His father Is a baker. Do all tbe good you can to all the people you can as long as sver rod can In every place yoo csn. Onr new shoes for fall are hers. Roosrvslt's Boston Store, A STRENUOUS REMEDY. Bow a Bervaat Tried to Sober V Blbaloos Diplomat. The story had reference to a former senator of the United States who was sent to Russia as minister. There were various evidences In the archives of the legation that sobriety was not this gentleman's especial virtue aud among them very many copies of notes In which the minister, through the secre tary of legation, excused himself from keeping engagements at the foreign of fice on the ground of "sudden Indispo sition." Mr. Prince told me that one day this minister's valet who was an Irish man, came to the consulate and said: "Ol'll not stay with bis Igslllincy anny longer. Oi've done wld him." "What's the trouble now?" said Mr. Prince. "Well," said the man. "this morning Ol thought It was tolme to get his Igsilllncy out of bed, for he had been drunk about a week and In bed most of the tolme, and so Ot went to hi in and says gentle-lolke, 'Would your Ig Hllllney have a cup of coffee T" wheu he rose up and shtruck me In the face. On that Ol took him by tho collar, lift ed 111 in out of bed, took him across the room, showed him bis ugly face In the glass, aud Ol said to him, says Ol, 'la thlm the eyes of an Invoy extraor-r-r-r-Ulnary and mlnlsther pllnlpotentlor ry T "From the Autobiography of An drew D. White. HUMMING BIRDS. Peed Ins- the Baatllaav Looks I.lhe a Danarroas Operatloa. When I first crawled In among the bushes close to the nest the little mother darted at me and poised a foot from my nose, as If to stare me out of countenance. She looked me all over from head to foot twice. Then she seemed convinced that I was harm less. She whirled and sat on the nest edge. The bantlings opened wide their hun gry mouths. She spread her tall like a flicker and braced herself against the nest side. She craned her neck and drew her dagger-like hill straight up above the nest. She plunged it down the baby's throat to the hilt and start ed n series of gestures that seemed fashioned to puueture him to the toes. Then she stabbed the other baby until It made me shudder. It looked like the murder of the Infants. But they were not mangled and bloody. Tbey were getting a square meal after the usual humming bird method of regurgitation. Tbey ran out their slender tongues to lick the honey from their bills. How they liked It! Then she nettled down and ruffled up her breast feathers to let her babies cuddle close to her na ked bosom. Occasionally she reached under to caress them with whisperings of mother love. Country Calendar. SURE HER TOOTH WAS OUT. Force of Imafflaatloa mm Exempllfled la a Deatlat's Chair. Dentists have a splendid opportunity of studying the power of Imagination. A New York practitioner by way of Il lustration told a reporter about one of his women patients. She entered, ac companied by her husband, and, point ing to her swollen face, asked the dentist to extract tbe offending tooth. He placed her In tbe chair and, taking the small hand glass which dentists use, put It Into her mouth for the pur pose of examining the molar which was to be extracted. The glass had no sooner touched the tooth than Bhe uttered a frightful scream and, bouncing out of the chair, rushed out into the waiting room, cry ing that her Jaw was broken. The united efforts of her husband and the dentist were for some time unable to persuade her that the tooth was not extracted and that she could uot pos sibly have been hurt. After examining her mouth with the aid of n glass she finally became convinced that the tooth was still hi Its place. Taking her seat In the chair again, she submitted to the operatlou of extracting the tooth with out a murmur and expressed her sur prise that the pain was so slight. grldlltx Pandfn In Slam. Sole of scldlitz powders Is prohibited In Klnm. Some fifty years ago Phra Mongkut. the then ruling emperor, bought a box of seldlltz powders from a trader missionary, and, misinterpret ing the instructions on the lid, mixed the six bluo papered powders Into one tumbler of water and the six white papered ones Into another. Then he proceeded to swallow the resultant de coctions, one after the other. The re sult to the monarch may be Imagined. In consequence of this the further sale of the remedy In question was prohibit ed a prohibition which still remains In force. IToof of Originality. "Yes," remarked Mrs. Upstartia, "that picture Is an original Raphael. Husband bad heard so much nbout counterfeit Raphaels that be not only ordered this from an artist upon whorp be could depend, but be went so far as to go to the studio every day while It was being painted, so you ran take my word for It that this Is a real original Raphael." Boston Transcript. Comlnar Aroaad. Mrs. Caffrey And how Is that pret ty young widow? Is she reconciled to ber loss yet? Mrs. Malaprop No, she ain't exactly reconciled yet, but they do say she's got the man picked out. And War Coatlnae. Miss Goodle.v-Bess says she's ready to make up If you are. Miss Cutting Tell her I'd be ready to make up too If I bad a complexion as muddy as bank Philadelphia Ledger. Call for Ross Nichols' transfer to do yosr hauling. 'Phone Main I. HANKOW CHINESE GOVERNMENT OFFRHS TO PURCHASE IT. The Road is Owned Mainly by Ameri can Capitalists Who Do Not Seoul Disposed to IJve Up to Their Agree ment With the Chinese Government The Latter Is Suspected of Har boring Designs Upon American Projects, Jersey' City, N, J., Aug. 29. Con siderable Interest Is manifested In the meeting of the board of directors of the American-China Development company which Is held here today. The principal question under consider ation of the board of directors Is that whether the offor of the Chinese gov ernment to purchase the concession previously granted to the American- China Development company for 17,- 000.000 shall be accepted or not. I'nder ordinary conditions the ques tion would havo been comparatively simple and tho problom would have resolved Itself into a simple mathe matical calculation of the money value yt the concession as compare .1 with tho offer of tho Chinese government. I'n der tho existing conditions, ..owevcr, ttie problem Is far more complicated. as a great deal more than a mere fi nancial consideration depends upon the decision of the board. Some years ago the American-Chi nese Development company obtained valuable concessions for the building of a railroad between Hankow through the central and oastern part of China. The company built a railroad between Hankow and Canton, a distance of about SO miles. Since then practical ly nothing has been done. The Chi nese government has repeatedly urged the company to extend Its line and avail itself ot the rights and privileges vouchsafed by tho concessions, but nothing came of it. The Chinese gov ernment Is evidently anxious that the railroad should be built or, that the American-China Development com pany should live up to Its contract with the Chinese government It made an offer of l,000,000 for the abandon ment of tho concessions. It was strongly suspected that the offer of the Chinese government was made not so much to stir the company Into activity, as to cause the conces sions granted to an American corpor ation to revert to tho government, which since the beginning of tho anti exclusion agitation which led to a boycott, has shown a rather vlndlctlvo spirit against Americans In general. J, Plerpont Morgun and tho other American capitalists, standing behind the American-China - Development company fully recognized that an abandonment of the concessions at tho present time would cause serious In Jury to the American interests in Chi na. Although tho American stock holders of tho company, who hold the majority of the stock wore inclined to favor the acceptance of China's offer, Mr. Morgan and some of his friends sided with tho foreign stockholders who strongly opposed the salo. It seems thnt President Roosevelt, with whom Mr. Morgan had a long Inter view on the subject, also opposed the sale and the board of directors was called together to consider the ques tion from every point of view. It has beon asserted that the Chinese govern ment is determined to take the con cessions from tho Americans and that It will probably revoke them upon the ground that the company made no ef fort within a reasonable time to carry out tho project for which tho conces sions were granted. ' Inwu Rural Carriers Meet. I)es Moines, Iowa, Aug. 29. The an nual state convention of the Iowa State Rural Letter Carriers' associa tion opened here today. An Interest ing program has been prepared and tho members will be given an oppor tunity to visit the annual county fair. Among those who will address the convention oro Bort Childs, of Nevada, Iowa, who will speak on "The Needs of tho Carriers," and A. J. Woods, of Farley, Iowa, who will talk on "Four Years' Exporlonco as a Rural Car rier." Among thoso attending the convention Is Frank H. Cunningham of South Omaha, national president of the organization. Tetinessoo Epworth League Convention Whlto Bluffs, Tenn., Aug. 29. The annual Epworth League convention of the Tennessee M. E. conforonco was called to order at tho Mothodlst church this morning. The attendance Is largo and an cxccllont program has been prepared to make the convention cspeclully Interesting. Montana Spanish War Veterans Meet Bozcman, Mont, Aug. 29. The Spanish-American war veteransi of this state oponod their annual reunion here today. Large delegations from Butte and other cities are here and an interesting meeting is promised. Tho visitors will be the guests of the local veterans and will be royally entertained. OREGON Sfl ONLINE ahd Union Pacific TWO TRAINS TO THE EAST DAILY Through Pullman itinHarJ Tourist Bleenera dailv to Omaha m A Chicago; tourist sleeper dally to Kan- uwi uirougn runman tourist sleeping cars (personally conducted) weekly to Chlmm cinin k.i. oars (seats free to the East dally. TIME SCHEDULE FROM PENDLE TON. EAHTBOUND. No. i. Chicago Special, arrive (.19 p. m.; depart, 6:40 p. m. No. 6, Mall & Express, arrives 4.19 p. m.; departs, 5 a. m. WESTBOUND. No. 1. Portland Rniwlal i i a, m.; doparts, 8:60 a. m! o. o, man at fe-xpress, arrives U p. m.; departs, 11 p. m. SPOKANE DIVISION. NO. 7. Pendleton rm uu.,r, 6:35 p. m. No. 8, Spokane passenger, departs, 9 a. m. WALLA WALLA BRANCH. Special passenger arrives 8:40 a. m.; departs 6:46 p. m. Morning train connects with No. 1 Kvening train connects with No. I. No. 7 connects with No. i. OCEAN AND RIVER SCHEDULE. r 1JM fUKTLAND. All sailing dates subjocts to change. For San Francisco every five days. SNAKE RIVER. RiDaria to Lewlatnn t m dall," except Saturday, 4:06 a. m. Loavs Lewlston dally, except Frl day. 7:00 a. m. B. C. SMITH. Agent, Pendleton Washington & Columbia River Railroad TAKE THIS ROUTE FOR Chicago, St Paul, St Louis, Kanaa. vnj, st Joseph, Omaha and ALL POINTS EAST AND SOUTH Portland and Points on the Sound. TIME CARD. Arrive Monday, Wednesday and Frl day, 12:11 p, m. On Tuesday, Thurs day and Saturday. 10:16 a. m. at 6 p. m. dally. Leave Walla Walla 1:16 p. m for east Arrive Walla Walla at t a. m. lrom west For Information retarding rat saS accommodations, call on or address W. ADAMS, Arm. B. B. CALDKRBBAD. O. P. A.,' Walla Walls, Washington. RUNS PULLMAN SLEEPING CAR ELEGANT DINING CARS ' TOURIST SLEEPING CARS 8T. PAUL MINNEAPOLIS DULUTH FARGO TO GRAND FORK? CROOKSTON WINNIPEG HELENA and BUTTE THROUGH TICKETS TO CHICAGO WA8HINOTON PHILADELPHIA NEW YORK BOSTON And all points East and South To rough tickets to Japan sad Cblna, vie Tscems and Northern Pacific f-ttamehlt Co. snd American lln. TIME SCHEDULE. Trains leave Pendleton dally except Sunday at I p. m. For farther Information, time earoa maps and tickets, rail on or write W A dans, Pendleton, Oregon, or A. D. CHARLTON, Third and Vorrlaon Bta.. Portland, Or. YOU WILL BE SATISFIED WITH TOUR JOURNEY If your tickets read over the Den ver and1 Rio Grande railroad, tht "Boenlo Line ot the World." BECAUSE There are so many acenle attractions and points of Interest along the line between Ogden and Denver that tba trip never becomes tiresome. If you are going east, write for In formation and get a pretty booh that will tell jrou all about it W. O. MBRIDB, General Agent, 1M Third Street, Portland. - Oregon