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The noblest of all forms of
government la self-government;
but It Is also the most difficult.
We who possess this priceless
boon, and who desire to hand
it on to our children and our
children's children, should ever
bear in mind the thought so
finely expressed by Burke:
"lien are qualified for civil lib-
rty tn exact proportion to their
disposition to put moral chains
apon their own appetites: In
proportion as they are disposed
to listen to the counsels of the
wise and good in preference
to the flattery of the knas.
Society cannot exist unless a
controlling .power upon will
and appetite be placed some-
where, and the less of it there
be, within the more there must
be without. It Is ordained In
the eternal constitution of
things, that men of intemperate
nlnds cannot be free. Their
passions forge their fetters."
President's Message.
TILE BLOODLESS SENATE.
Rn gaged in Its selfish and secret
options, the bloodless United
senate will not take time to
the memory of Senator John
B. Mitchell, although he served with
oat body for almost a quarter of a
ajeartury and was one of the most ac
tive and aggressive members during
at of his long career.
lut because misfortune came to
Ike old1 man at the last, and a cloud
shadowed his official life, this aristo
cratic. Pharisaical coterie of blood
less politicians and plutocrats, refuses
ta honor his memory, and will take
aotice of his death, which is a nation
al sorrow, In only a coldly perfunctory
snuner.
Mitchell was a saint compared to
aleaens of rascals now serving In the
Bmited States senate. He died a poor
soon, although he had opportunities
for making money In all kinds of
legitimate ways which were thrust
son him. Others who now scorn to
take official notice of his death are
Bach beyond computation, through the
omst flagrant, bloodless and corrupt
xethods of legal robbery, which they,
as officials and servants of the peo
ple have planned with skillful dls
honesty and duplicity.
Living Mitchell was the peer of any
of them. He was a power which they
respected and an eyual to whom they
oaid their fawning courtesies; but
atoad. he Is officially snubbed by the
acotlsts, many of whom are un
worthy to tie his shoe lace.
There is nothing human in the
Pnt'ed States senate. It is drifting
farther and farther away from the
common people and the practices of
common life. Before the masses
now It they will be supporting one
or the most reserved and autocratic
oody of millionaire favorites ever to
congregate In the councils of any na-
Money and social forms are' Its rul
saar deities. It refuses to bend from
IH coldly selfish demeanor to observe
even one of tho commonest decencies
la life. Mitchell does not require
the official recognition of the senate
o complete his life. But It Is a
saisfortune that some of those who
sanction this discourtesy to a dead
statesman are not stripped naked be
fore the people and made to know
t their own lives are not Bpotless,
a measured by the eternal standards
at human behavior.
FORTY-ACRE FARMS.
Perhaps the best feature of the
Umatilla government Irrigation
project Is the 40-acre limit to be
placed upon homesteads by the gov
ernment It Is the province and privilege of
the optimist to Imagine things and the
Cast Oregonlan being an optimist can
aee In the future one of most magnlf-
and Inspiring country set-
tlements In Oregon located on
what Is now the forbidding sage
brush and sand desert of the hills
northwest of Pendleton.
With sufficient water to reclaim
'tut svetion of I'matilla county, It
will produce everything grown In the
temperate timl soml-troplc climate.
Small farms, highly cultivated, well
Improved, interlaced with excellent
i.mntry roads, with one broad high
way leading from tho county seat Into
.he heart of the settlement, will go
to make up tho future paradise of
Umatilla county.
There is inspiration and fascina
tion in this subject of reclamation.
Just a wave o flho hand of the magi
cians of irrigation, and lo! the verd
ant field springs up In the heart of
the desert. Idle wastes take on the
living colors of life and. promise, and
homes are founded where once the
wilderness was forbidding and awe
inspiring. Think of tho poultry, hogs, dairy
cows, bees, blooded horses and sheep
that can and will be supported upon
the 8mnll farms in that new settle
ment. Think of the school houses
that will be necessary, the elegant
homes that will bo built, the boule
vards, level highways, shaded lanes
and incomparable gardens and or
chards that will surely follow the
reclamation of the western portion of
Umatilla county. It is an inspiring
picture and It is a picture that will
be witnessed by tho present genera
tion now living hero, because water
works a swift evolution In the desert.
And after having dreamed this
dream and outlined these beauteous
etchings upon the. canvas of the fu
ture, 1b not the resident of Umatilla
county and of Pendleton inspirited
with greater hope and stimulated
with quickened pulse beats?
MORALS IN PANAMA.
The Pan ' Francisco Argonaut min
gles a world of truth In the following,
bitter sarcasm on American morals.
Speaking of morals In Panama, the
Argonaut says:
"Morals In Panama" start not,
gentle reader; the foregoing phrase
Is not a Jake. It Is, on the contrary,
an episcopal phrase, uttered In all
serious by a Methodist bishop talking
to a serious assemblage of Methodist
preachers.
Bishop Nealy. In his address, re
ferred to the newspaper report that
"women are being Imported Into the
Panama canal sone for immoral pur
poses." Concerning this, the bishop
said: "I doubt this report It seems
hardly likely, and until President
Roosevelt Investigates, as I feel sure
he ought to do, and as I feel quite
sure he will do, let us assume the re
port is false."
We would like to Join the good
bishop In his belief that this report is
false, but we very much doubt Its
falsity. That this matter should be
passed up to the president is not pe
culiar, as everything nowaday is
passed up to him, from race suicide
to football.
But strenuous as our president is,
earnest as he is for work, fond as he
is of fighting, we do not believe that
he will enter on a fight which in
volves crushing out the oldest calling
In the world.
If the bishop will bethink himself
fie will-remember what happened to
Jacob when he saw a strange woman
seated ' by the roadside. This hap
pened 4000 years ago. It has been
happening ever since. It happens
now in the moral United States. It
will happen In the canal sone. Our
forthright president may Introduce
law and order there, but even for him
It will be an impossible task to sup
press the Scarlet Woman and to In
troduce "morals Into Panama."
The annual report of the military
secretary of the army gives the ac
tual number of desertions during the
year as 6533, or moro than one in
every 10 of the 63,022 men. Of these
63,000 soldiers, 22,254 were discharg
ed on expiration of their enlistment,
and 9,460 by reason of disability or
because of a courtmartlal sentence,
while 189 were retired, and 377 died
or were killed. In all, 38,813 men, or
more than 61 per cent of the entire
enrollment, left the army In a year.
In other words, If their places have
been filled, more than 61 per cent of
the men In the army aro raw recruits.
Of those In the service one In every
six Is reported by the surgeon general
to be 111 with disease due to Immoral
Ity.
Drunkenness is increasing among
the Umatilla Indians at an alarming
rate since the validity of the law pro
hlbitlng the sale of liquor to the In
dians has been questioned. Seven ar
rests for drunkenness were made In
this city yesterday evening and last
night, evety one of the victims being
an Indian. This Is an example of
whnt the unregulated saloon will
force upon the community. No limit
can now be fixed srpon the Immorali
ty and debauchery of the Indian since
white men, who have had the ad
vantage of civilized homes and train
ing, arc given full sway to corrupt
them.
DRIFTWOOD.
Ixive and HlMUH-y.
Roses shed their petals
Countless Junes ago.
And those dead Decembers.
Drought their snow.
Weary eyes were covered
With their patient lids
Hy the yet unbuilded
Pyramids.
Life nnd Death like sweethearts.
Wandering hand In hand.
Then, as now, stole over
Sea and land.
Lovers kissed and parted.
Eyes were moist and blue.
In the Mlctlun meadows
Moses knew.
Cheeks were wet with weeping,
Brows were hot with fire,
Ere the hand of Homer
Swept the lyre.
And this masque of midnight
And the moon's white face,
Look on Nile nnd Jordan,
Thebes nnd Thrace.
In a London drawing-room the
conversation once turned on ances
try. None of the speakers could trace
their lineage further than the Nor
man Invasion. Theso people amuse
me. said the Earl of Beaconsfleld,
turning to a friend. My ancestors
were among the accepted lovers of
the Queen of Sheba.
The Stork is a little wooden bark
belonging to the Hudson's Bay com
pany, which sailed from James bay
with a cargo of furs more than a year
ago. She soon met pack-ice and was
almost Immediately 'Iced-up." In
which state she remained for 10
months. The Stork had long been
given ap for lost when to the amaze
ment and delight of the directors of
the great company the gallant little
ship sailed Into port and laid up at
the West India docks at London, laden
with a more than ordinarily profita
ble cargo of furs. , In fact, the sud
den addition of so large a supply of
furs that had been supposed at the
bottom of the sea Is expected to have
a perceptible effect on the .prices of
the coming season. ...
The Independent is printing some
unpublished letters of Horace Gree
ley's, among them being the follow
ing Judicious appreciation of a news
paper man: Tour friend- Rufus has
gone to Philadelphia to live to edit
the Dally Standard for 125 a week
a tall price but he Is worth It for
he is the most expert and Judicious
thief" that ever handle a pair of scis
sors." In the same Journal John B.
Tabb pays his respects to the guard
ians of the Hall of Fame as follows:
"Unto, the charnel Han of Fame,
The dead alone should aro
Then write not there the living name
Of Edgar Allan Poo."
Tutuilla, December S.
LET US FORGET.
Let us forget: what matters it that we
Once reigned o'er happy realms of
long ago.
And talked of love, and let our voices
low.
And ruld for some brief sessions
royally"
What If we sung, or laughed, or wept,
maybe?
It has availed not anything and so
Let It go by that we may better
know
How poor a thing is lost to you and
me.
But yesterday I kissed your Hps and
yet
Did thrill you not enough to shake
the dew
From your drenched lids and missed
with no regret '
Your kiss shot hack with sharp
breaths falling you. c
And so. to-liy. while your worn ey-is
are wet
With all Ms waste of tears, lot "is
forget , , 1
James Whltcomb Riley.
"IF THAT HIGH WORLD."
If that h'gh world, which lies beyond
Our own, surviving Love endears;
If thre the cherished heart be found
The eye t"-e same, except in tears-
How welcome those untrodden
spheres!
How sweet this very hour to die!
To soar from Earth, and find all fears
Lost In thy light Eternity!
It must be so: 'tis not for self
That we so tremble on the brlnkf
And. striving to o'erleap the gulf,
Tet cllnc to Delng's sovereign link
Out In that future let us think
To hold each heart the heart that
shares;
With them the Immortal waters drink.
And '"ill In soul grow deathless
theirs!
Lord Byron,
COLORADO'S HEART OF COLD.
A pleaslns; incident In the strenu
ous life of the cnpltol at Washington
was the nrentatlon. yesterday, of
Colorado's peace mednl to President
Roosevelt. This mednl was given by
the men. women and children of Col
orado ns nn expreslnn of their love
nnd ndmlrttnn for the man whose
work brought about peace between
Russia nnd .Tpnn. The contributions
were In smni! Amounts and, therefore,
represented, to an unusual degree, the
feeling of the plain people for the
chief executive of the United States.
President Ronspvp't exnressed him
self ns be'nr n-nrm'y apnreclatlve of
the beautiful gift from the people of
Colorado. There are some bright
spots In the existence of our hard
worked president Denver Post
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Will convince
showing for Christmas ' many ' new
creations in artistic furniture never
before shown In any Pendleton store.
A Carload of Select. Pieces of F&rnititre
reached us direct from Chicago. This
collection Is the largest and most
beautiful ever exhibited in Pendleton,
Just come in and admire what we
ure showing.
Baker
HOME OF ARTISTIC FURNITURE:
LADIES
Take Notice
We have a flno assortment of fine silk embroidered Waist
Patterns just arrived.
The material Is PopUn, Solsctte and one or two other Just
as popular weaves, and the patterns are simply beautiful. We
have a fine assortment and will put tlicm on Special Sale at a
Special Price on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
They are worth 93.00 a pattern, but for the four days just
named we make a special price of only $2.48
Come Early Wednesday morning and got first choice of
the patterns.
They won't last long, so be sure to come soon and yon win
get a beautiful waist pattern for only ..$2.4I
THE FAIR. '
Department Store
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you that we are
b Folsom
If Lumber and Dollars
have any connection In your mind.
you should find out what we can do
for you. We can furnish you with the
finest grained, kiln dried Lumber for
Interior work; with sound heavy tint
bers for all building purposes, etc. An
amazingly fine stock of Pine, Fir, ate.
Also mill work ' f every description
Oregon Lumber Yard
Near Court. House
I'imhIIi'Iim Oreifnn.
'Phono Main 8.
Steinway
Pianos
Standard of the WorW.
A. B. CHASE,
KMERNOX,
ESTEY.
ST A UK
riANOR.
RrpmwntliiK tho highest vafcse
pvtTy dollar paid for Uiom.
AngeliM llano Player, the sssa
of Its kind.
PIANOS FOR CHRISTMAS.
ClicoiH than you can buy
the Kurt, Portland or Knn
as we are going out of businesa
must close out our entire stock
month. Mnko your wife or 1
friend a iircmvit of a
SEWING MACHINE.
Standard, Domwtlc, Wheeler
Wilson at cost. Must be Sold at
The Queen, Uie bent omrias;
chine ever sold for I20.0O.
Jesse
Failing
NEAR BRIDGE.
Way aot eliminate every eternal ( "
csaoaoe or uncertainty, by aJBsaaf oo
lis when you need aaySkSa; fa
Cray's Harbor Commercial
Company
W. i. f EWELL, Manager.
Phoae Main M.
THE POPULAR PLACF TO
EAT IS TUB
The French
Restaurant
Everything served ftrst-c
lie! regular meals In Pendle
ton for 36 cent
6IIOKT ORDERS
A SPETlAl.TT.
Polydore Moens, Prop.
Give ear onto wise counsel.
Coal that Is one-third dirt, weighs
a great deal more to the scattlo asat
lasts much shorter time than the sjooal,
clean Coal w. sell.
If you want the beat, our Ooal Is
the kind for you.
Henry Kopittke
DUTCH II EN It Y.
Office, Pendleton Ire & Cold Ptnrooy
Company. 'Phone riuhl ITS,
Egg Maker
COLESWORTHY.
BONE SHELL GRIT
7 end 129 EAST ALT A.
Poultry and Stock Supplies. Bar,
Grain and Feed.
LOST
Lost A bay mare weighing 10OO
pounds, branded 17 on left stifle anal
OS on left shoulder; and a strawberry
roan gelding weighing about 1000
pounds, branded U upside down oo
left shoulder and a light angle scaur
on left hip.. A suitable reward win.
be paid for the return or Information
leading to their return to A. H. Soav
derman, Pendleton, Oregon.