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We say this day Is hard to bear,
And full of weary, Irksome care;
But lo! tomorrow may be fair.
So full of strange unrest are we;
Our eyes are blind we cannot
see
What blessings in the present
be.
Heaven, help us to behold
The sweet content and love un-
told,
Which e'en the present hour
may hold.
Anon.
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AN AWAKENED CONSCIENCE.
The Dalles Chronicle voices a sen
tlmcnt which has been sounded in the
columns of the East Oresonian re
peatedly in the past year and which
Is now tho universal theme in the pa
pers of the Northwest.
The Chronicle's peculiarly fitting
expression of the subject Is as follows:
There seems to be a moral wave
spreading over the Northwest, and
laws are being enforced against gam
bling and keeping open saloons on
Sundays, which have been considered
"dead letters" on our statute bonks.
These laws are being enforced, not
because any new Interpretation has
been given them, but because there is
a public opinion aroused which de
mands their enforcement.
The voice of the peopie Is almost
omnipotent, and when politicians feel
the public pulse, and find It throbbing
In a certain direction, they are quick
to follow Its behest.
A little over a year ago when P. A
Scufert was elected mayor of our city,
everyone thought he was undertaking
a herculean task when he said he
would stop gambling; but he appealed
to popular opinion, and that staunch
ly supported him. Gambling stopped
without any official act, and has not
been carried on openly In The Dalles
since.
Pendleton has followed In the foot
steps of The Dalles, and so has Baker
City, and other cities In the North
west. . The last to drop Into line Is
Colfax, and the wave Is still spreading.
Public opinion has been educated up
to this point, and gambling must go
and the Sabbath respected as a day of
worship. This may be Puritanical; but
If we don't like It the world Is very
wide and there Is room elsewhere.
There Is no question that Oregon
has been conquered, captured or
whatever It may be termed by the an-tl-saloon
element, and It Is useless to
attempt to breast the tide which has
set In In that direction. One might
as well attempt to whistle down the
wind or dam the current of the Co
lumbia. The effort is only sacrificing
one's self with no prospect of accom
plishing anything by the act
If public opinion stops where It Is,
all may feel satisfied; but there la
danger of It going forward without
proper limits until it breaks out In
some wild fanaticism, which will
cause a retrogade movement
INTANGIBLE PROPERTY.
The San Francisco Star, one of the
most thorough and sound economic
papers on the Pacific coast In dis
cussing the inequalities of taxation
says:
An honest citizen of Los Angeles
makes an Inquiry for himself and In
behalf of numerous friends, as to:
"How can Intangible property, such
as notes, stocks, bonds, franchises and
money, be caught In the dragnet of
taxation T"
The answer la: that such property la
not, as a general thing, caught In the
assessor's dragnet There are various
ways of evading tho taxing of such
property, the most common, doubtless,
being that of secretion. It Is a no
torious fact that the miser, with thous
ands or millions of property in the
form mentioned, almost Invariably es
capes the assessor, to the tune of
many hundreds or thousands loss
than what the law requires of him.
There Is, however, a natural source
from which all needful public revenue
can be obtained without robbing any
body, oppressing anybody, or encour
aging deceit, falsehood or perjury.
The proper source of public rcvenuo Is
so very tangible that not only assess
ors but everybody else except the few
who are so unfortunate to be blind,
can see It with their naked eyes. It
lies out of doors, Is Impossible of con
cealment. Is always In the same place,
and Its value Is a matter of general
knowledge. Furthermore, Its value In
every Instance Is community made,
and that Is why the community should
take for public purposes such value.
This source of public revenue Is
land.
Not Mlssnurians alone, will be In
terested In the visit of Governor Folk
to Oregon, but all good citizens who
admire a man of superb moral cour
age, backbone and fearlessness. Rare,
Indeed, are men of the Folk type In
public office. Finding his state steeped
In Immoral practices and running riot
In law-breaking, he Immediately put
his shoulder to the wheel and began
a crusade against vice and crime that
has become world-wide. Defiant law
breakers, safeguarded behind .the fa
voritism and the patronage of legis
lators. Judges and other officials,
boldly declared that this "upstart"
should not Interfere with their carni
val of crime In St. Louis. Spurred to
his task by such defiance, the young
attorney waded into the Job, sent pub
lic officials to the penitentiary, fined
them, run them out of the United
States, drove Doodling corruptlonlsts
from cover and upturned the entire
moral structure of Missouri in his
search for law-breakers. Such a man
in Joe Folk, and for the qualities that
make him such a man, all Oregon will
welcome him on "Missouri Day," on
September 14. It la worth a trip to
Portland to sec Joe Folk.
While there is perhaps nothing in
the story of "Count" Rossi's great In
heritance from Italy as reported re
peatedly In Lewlston and Spokane pa
pers, yet the subject has been a
blessed boon to reporters during the
dull season. It has served to fill as
many columns with live news stories
as though the "count" were actually
worth a million.
Assessor C. P. Strain of this county,
has been the cause of a raise In rail
way assessments In two of the best
counties in the Inland Empire, at
least Baker county. Oregon, and
Walla Walla county, Washington. Re
forms are slow to come, but they will
surely come If persistently agitated.
UNCLE SAM'S CONFESSIONAL.
"To Account Conscience." This ac
count was opened by the United
States government In 1811. It would
rot be fair to infr from this fact that
the American conscience had Its
awakening at so late a date in the
country's history, but that year wit
nessed the first return to the govern
ment, as the result of the "wt'll small
voice," of money of which It had been
defrauded some time before. Presi
dent Madison found on his desk one
morning an unsigned letter la which
the writer confessed to defracdlng the
government of 12, for which his con
science had made him suffer sorely.
This amount was Inclosed with the
request that it be turned into the na
tional treasury, the writer expressing
the hope that this full restitution and
repentance would restore a clear and
easy conscience.
Up to date the amount returned by
those who have defrauded the govern
ment and become conscience stricken
Is 1400,000. American Il'ustrated
Magazine.
Oddities of Tailoring.
"A music pocket?" said the tailor.
"Oh, yes, for professional singers I
often make music pockets. They run
across the back of the coat, as a rule
above the waist, and they hold, with
out crushing, a half dozen songs.
"I have three or four detectives
among my patrons, and in their busi
ness suits I always put handcuff pock
ets. These pockets are in the sleeves.
Their advantage is that the handcuffs
can be drawn forth without the prls
oner's seeing the action. When a
rambunctious prisoner sees a detect
Ive's hand go towards an ordinary
pocket he knows what Is coming, and
prepares accordingly; but with my
special pocket the hitnucurf Is on him
before he knows where he Is at.
"One of my patrons hm his trous
ers lined from (he knee down with
leather. Do you know why? Be
cause a dog once bit a large chunk
out of the calf of his leg and he does
not want to Incur such a loss again.
Minneapolis Journal.
QUEER BURIAL CUSTOMS IN
ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.
lluenos Ayres being a semi-tropical
city, the law requires thut burial shall
take place within twenty-four hours
after death and If the body is to be
buried In one of the cemeteries with
in the city limits, or placed In a vault,
it must be put not only 1n the regulur
coffin, but, in addition, In a hermeti
cally sealed lead coffin, which fits
closely Inside the other, a glass in
sert permitting the race only to be
seen.
As soon as a person tiles the room
in which the body is to be laid out Is
transformed by the undertaker Into
a "capllla ardiente," or lighted chapel
thut In. the room Is darkened, the
walls ure all hung In black, un altar
Is erected at one end, In front of
which the body Is laid, und the whole-
is lighted up by from six to a dozen
large candles in heavy silver candle
sticks three feet hlnh.
As the time between the actual
death and tho burial Is so short, there
Is usually not time to send Individ
ual notices to friends, so the Invita
tion to take part In the funeral ser
vices, as it Is called. Is printed In the
papers.
The cemetery Itself is a veritable
city of the dead, for, instead of hav
ing a mound with a headstone or
monument, regular little mortuary
chapels, called "pantoones," are built
by every lot owner, completely cov
ering the plot of ground he holds.
These are of stone or marble, about
twelvo feet suuro, and they are built
in rows like city houses, und laid out
In squares like city streets, with
broad sidewalks and roadways be
tween. Kach of these "panteones" contains
an altar of marble on which ure can
dles, flowers, sacred pictures and
other religious emblems and symbols
of the Catholic church.
In front of this altar Is a large slab
which, when lifted, discloses a ladder,
or stairway lending down to a vault,
which Is a whitewashed chamber
with spaces one above the other In
the walls, of sufficient size to receive
a coffin. After each space Is filled,
it is sealed up with a marble slab,
giving the name, age and date of
death.
Private vaults will usually hold
from a dozen to fifteen bodies, but as
these are expensive the various bene
ficial societies have erected mortuary
chapels In which their members can
be hurled, the expenses for the indi
vidual member thus being made
much less.
Some of these chupels ure as big
as a church, with a vault two stories
deep and entered from the Interior
of the chapel by a wide flight of mar
ble steps, the whole being well venti
lated and lighted.
For the poorer classes, who can
neither afford to erect a "panteone"
of their own or belong to one of these
societies, there Is a long peristyle on
each side of the entrance gateway,
and here niches can be rented or
bought, these niches being about two
feet square at their outer end. with
sufficient depth to take the coffin,
and arranged in groups of 500, the
niche when filled being walled up
with the usual slab.
In th'- front of the slab there Is
often a photograph of the dead, cov
ered with glass, and under each one
is a small shelf on which flowers, vot
ive offerings or little oil lamps, kept
constantly burning, are placed.
When a near relative d!es. like a
parent or child, the men wear erepe
on the left arm, half way to the el
how, and tin women u crepe veil,
falling over the face and reaching to
the ground, and usually a Inrge black
shawl hiding the figure, indicating
that they have entirely withdrawn
from the world and Its fashions.
New York Tribune.
ALASKA'S RICH FARM LANDS.
That the coast Alaska furnishes
many adlmrable sites for dairy colo
nies Ib tho opinion expressed by. Sec
retary of Agriculture James Wilson in
the annual year book of the depart
ment for 1904, copies of which have
been received. The department has
already begun to experiment with cat
tle raising and dairying In the district,
having started a herd of cattle at Its
Kcnai experiment station, and the re
sults thus far achieved have proven
very satisfactory.
Speaking of this feature of Alaska's
future development, the secretary In
his report says:
"There are on the southern coast
of Alaska, from Cook Inlet to Unalos
ka about 10,000 square miles of grass
lands, over one-half of which are
capable of cultivation. On much of
thin land there Is a luxuriant growth
of grasses, often six feet high. On
the remainder, lying at a higher ele
vation and In more exposed situations,
the grasses are too short for hay cut
ting, but furnish splendid pasturage.
That these grasses are nutritious, the
fat, sleek condition of the cattle fur
nishes ocular demonstration. '
"At the present time this great re
source Is practically untouched,
though thore are small herds of milch
cows at most of the towns and vil
lages. Recently a livestock company
has begun operations with cattle and
sheep on Kadlak Island, and another
company Is making preparations to
utilize Akutan Island.
"It Is possible for both sheep and
cattle to live throughout the winter
without care, as has often been dem
onstrated. Indeed, where, cows belong
to the natives they are forced to live
through tho winter with little care,
ekln gout un existence by feeding
browse and seaweed. Milch cows,
kept by whites, are as a rule fed from
five to six months, and this may fair
ly be considered the length of time
when animals require feed and shel
ter. "For three reasons I am Impelled to
believe that the Alaska grass lands as
a wholo can be most profitably util
ized at present through dairying.
First, because the small population of
Alaska coast limits the market for
beef to a small fraction of the possi
ble yield. Second, because tho neces
sarily long feeding period, five to six
months, during which only dairy cat
tle will yield compensating returns.
Third, because tho freight to distant
markets on concentrated products
like butter and cheese Is not u seri
ous factor.
"The Alaska coast furnishes many
admirable sites for dairy colonies or
settlements, both on the Islands and
on the mainland. With such a great
wealth of grass as southwestern Alas
ka possesses It Is difficult to believe
that It will not become a great dairy
country.
"It la doubtful If equally good op
portunities for colonies of dairymen
can be found In the United States to
day. Certainly there Is no other place
left where 320-acre homesteads of
magnificent grass lands can be had
for the taking. In view of the enor
mous areas of these lands, it seems
most advisable that this undeveloped
resource be converted Into wealth.
Perhups nothing will stimulate this as
much as practical experiments and
demonstrations by the department of
agriculture."
llciulcil Off Its Surcessor '.'
The Connecticut legislature, which
recently adjourned, bought 97s foun
tain pens and 2.6H.! knives for its 2 'JO
members at a cost estimated at more
than $15,000. This legislature passed
a stringent law against "corrupt prac
tices." Louisville Courier-Journal.
Change is called loose because it
gets away so easily.
LLECTRIC
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. IT 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 LIOHT THAT
ONLY REQUIRES TURNING A
BUTTON.
IRONING DAY THIS WEATHER
IS LOOKED FORWARD TO WITH
DREAD. NO NEED OF IT. WHAT
IS 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 KLLCTRIC IRON
AND YOU CAN OPERATE IT ON A
METER AT AN EXPENSE OF ONLY
FIVE CENTS AN HOUR. WB 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 SEAMSTRESS. IT WILL
PAY YOU TO LOOK IT UP. COMH
AROUND AND SEE US.
Northwestern
Gas Electric
Company
J1
The Cause of Many
Sudden Deaths.
There is a disease prevailing lu this
Country most dangerous because so decep
tive. Many sudden
deutlis are caused
by it heart dis
ease, pneumonia,
heart failure or
t apoplexy are often
the result of kid
ney disease. If
kidney trouble is
it.....,t
the kidney-poisoned
blood will at
tack the vital oriruns. cuusinir cutarrli of
ahe bludder, or the kidneys themselves
break down and wuste away cell by cell.
jnuuiicr iron Dies almost always result
from a derangement of the kidneys and
tu cure is oiiumied quickest by a proper
(treatment of the kidneys. If vou are feel-
iiiK badly you can make no mistake by
taking Ir. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the
great Kidney, liver and bladder remedy.
It corrects inability to bold urine and
scalding pain in passing it, and over
comes that unpleasant necessity of being
t'oniK:llcd to go often through the day,
iiiiii to get up ninny times miring the
night. The mild and the extraordinary
effect "f Swamp-Runt is soon realized.
It stands the highest for its wonderful
cures of the most distressing rases.
Swanip-Koot is pleasant to take and is
sold bv all druggists in fifty-cent and
one-dollar si.e bottles. You imiy have a
sample bottle of this wonderful new dis
covery and a book that tells all about it,
both sent free by mail. Address, Dr. Kil
mer & Co., Iliiighamton, N. Y. When
writing mention reading this generous
offer in this paper. Dou't make suy
mistake, but rcmemliertlic name, Swamp
Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the
address, Bin"huuiton. N. Y.. on everv
bottle.
I RIVERSIDE AVENUE
DAIRY
ED MORGAN, PROP.
Phone Black 181.
PURE MILK,
Fresh, Pvae and Clean.
TRY IT.
4 All orders promptly attended to.
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PORTLAND
St. Helen's Hall
A GIRL'S SCHOOL OF TUB
HIGHEST CLASS corps of
teachers, location, building,
equipment the best. Send for
catalogue.
Term Opens September 18, 1905.
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TIME AND TIDE WAIT FOR W
MAN.
If you re behlnd-ham In mm sling
your engagement It Isn't your fault. H
you wear one of our watches it tells
the precise time of day.
CORRECT TIMEPIECES
save anxiety, because they caa as as-
1 1 aA n n flu,. mnmnlAMil watfllua - .
as cheap as many that are unreliable.
Price them and see.
Winslow Bros.
Jewelers and Opticians.
Postofflce Block.
Good
Dry Wood
ALL KINDS
I hava good, sound wood which
la delivered at reasonable
prices
FOR CASH.
I W. C. MINNIS
X Leave Orders at Hen ninths Cl
ear store, opp. Peoples
Waretweae.
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St.JosephsAcademy
PENDLETON, OUEOON.
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 SISTER SUPERIOR.
THE POPULAR PLACB TO i
EAT IS THE
The French jj
Restaurant !!
Everything; served flmt-cUsa.
liest regular meal In I'erulle
Ion for 25 cents.
SHORT ORDERS
A SPECIALTY.
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Polydore Moens. Pron.
,
"''ill.,..!
TEETH
EXTRACTED UY THE MOD
ERN METHOD, 50O.
We are thoroughly equipped)
with all modern met' od and
appliances, and guarantee our
work to be of the highest stand
ard, and our prices the lowest
consistent with flrst-claa work.
T. H. White
DENTIST
ASSOCIATION BLOCK
Telephone Main 1881.
CHICKENS
NEED
SHELL
HONE
GRIT
AND MANY OTHER THINGS
WHICH
C. F. Colesworthy
CAN SUPPLY YOC WITH.
12T-12V EAST ALTA STREET.
W. T. PARKER
Denier In Dry Goods, Groceries, and
Notions HnU, Caps, Hoots, Shoes
and Farm Produce.
! have Just purchased the D. B
Richardson store at Hellr. Oregon,
and I am going to thoroughly remodel
It and greatly Increase the stock. I
solicit your patronage, and If good
gooda and fair treatment can hold
your trade, then I know you wlH trade
with me. Bring In your farm pro
duce. Highest market price paid.
ILEUX OREGON