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What though on namely fare we
dine.
Wear hoddln' grey an' a'
that?
Gle fools their silks and knaves
their wine,
A man's a man for a' that!
For a' that an' a' that.
Their tinsel show an' a" that
The honest man, though e'er so
poor.
Is king o' men for a' that!
Then let us pray that come It
may,
(And come It will for a'
that),
That Sense and Worth o'er all
the earth
Shall bear the gree an' a'
that;
For a' that an' a' that.
It's comin' yet for a' that
That man to man the warld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that!
Robert Burns.
ROBERT BURNS.
This Is the birthday anniversary of
Robert Burns.
Half of the civilized world will
pause for a moment today at his
shrine and repeat some homely, yet
sublime sentiment which he clothed
In the eloquence of wit and common
sense.
Je was born on January 25, 1759,
aid died too soon, on July 21, 1796,
aHhe age of 37.
He crowded Into those brief years
a deluge of song and poetry and wild
revelry, and sounded a clarion call of
rugged democracy, whlcn reverber
ates through the world today, wher
ever men love independence and jus
tice and chivalry.
Wherever Is found a Scotchman or
the son of a Scotchman or the far
therest descendant of a Scotchman,
today, there will be found a softened
heart and moistened" eye, as the fas
cinating story of his kinsman and pa
tron saint steals tenderly across his
life.
As long as the heart of the world Is
susceptible to sentiment and folklore
and tender passion and pleading jus
tice, so long will the memory and
poetry of Robert Burns live.
REPEAL OF LAND LAWS.
Perhaps one good thing will come
of the land frauds on the Pacific
coast congress will very likely be
driven to repeal the laws by which
the frauds were committed.
If such comes about, the frauds
will have answered a good purpose.
The land laws which were Intended
for the use of settlers and for the
upbuilding of the western wilderness
have been converted by rascals Into
vehicles of bold and far-reaching
criminal practices.
The sentiment of congress has been
In the past that as long as one actual
settler could be benefitted by lenient
land laws, that this justified their
existence. If one sinless mall could
be found in Sodom the city would be
spared.
But the day of commiseration Is
passed.
The Iron hand of congress should
be laid upon these laws.
The temptation to steal should be
removed from avaricious speculators.
The settler may suffer, but the coun
try will submit to a curtailment of
privileges In order to cut off the thief
and the rascal and stop the raps uf
the public domain.
THE PEOPLE'S PROPERTY.
How the common people have been
filched of their possessions Is graph
ically expressed by Norman Hapgood,
editor of Collier's Weekly, In an edi
torial on the value of franchises
given to private corporations.
In this editorial Hapgood says that
If the owners of the great franchises
held In New York city "were reason
ably taxed" the Income would meet
all municipal expenses and taxes on
private property could be abolished.
Think of the enormous value of
these franchises, which have been
ruthlessly thrown away by the peo
ple's representatives! Think of the
untold taxation now heaped upon the
common people, while corporations
are reaping golden rewards from
these free gifts from legislatures,
city councils and congress, in the way
of franchises which escape nearly all
forms of taxation, yet which are the
most valuable assets in the world!
The editorial from Collier's is as fol
lows: What rich men give back to the
community. Increasing as It does,
bears no comparison to what the
public gives away to corporations.
Comptroller Myers said In 1890 that
It would pay any man to run the New
York city government without levying
taxes, provided he could get posses
sion of all the franchises which the
city had in former times given away,
together with those franchises which
It still controlled.
"THOSE FRANCHISES ARE NOW
SO VALUABLE," HE SAID, "THAT
IF THEIR PRESENT INCUMBENTS
WERE REASONABLY TAXED, A
SUFFICIENT REVENUE WOULD
BE OBTAINED TO MEET THE EX
PENSES OF CITY GOVERNMENT,
THUS PERMITTING OF THE
ABOLITION OF TAXES ON PROP
ERTY." The rights which public service
corporations get for nothing from the
cities they would be compelled to pay
millions for. If they had to buy such
rights In the property owned by Indi
viduals. "No people," said Mr. Louis
Brandeis, about a year ago, "would
have submitted to such robbery If
the facts had been kept before them."
Watering the stock Is the device
by which the public mind is blinded.
Mr. Belmont and Mr. Ryan have re
cently given the subject a day or two
of life by combining to end what
trifling competition still existed, so
that the historic game of soak the
people will proceed without a Jolt.
According to Mr. Brandeis' estimate
the Metropolitan system had, on Its
470 miles of surface track, been nom
inally earning four and four-tenths
per cent, but actually considerably
more than 15 per cent, the difference
concealed by water.
The gift to the needy corporation
by the city was over 17,500,000, or
the Income of $170,000,000. One-third
of every fare we pay goes to make
profit on the needless gift on the
fictitious valuation.
The Manhattan Elevated system
story Is the same, and when the In
terborough system was formed, to
take over the construction company
which built the subway, the lease
made provisions which meant taking
about $1,650,000 extra from the pub
lic to pay higher dividends about 16
per cent on money actually used In
constructing and equipping the road,
so far as represented by stock. The
system Is generous, but for the com
mon man Is it not a little bit expens
ive?
The attention of the readers of the
East Oregonlan is called to the box
ordinance passed by the city council
last night. This Is one of the most
radical and emphatic steps ever taken
for the regulation of this pernicious
evil In Pendleton and if the ordinance
Is now rigidly enforced by the city
marshal and police committee, a
commendable advance step will have
been made by this city toward elimin
ating one of the most detrimental and
dangerous features of the liquor traf
fic. Mayor Fee Is to be congratulated
upon the passage of this ordinance,
for to his determination to regulate
the evil Is due the accomplishment of
this task. The matter was laid upon
the table by the former council.
LESSONS IN ADVERSITY.
The rise of Napoleon Bonaparte In
European history seems so meteoric
that one seldom stops to remember
the hardships that Inevitably beset
his way. From an untitled Corslcan
to the emperor of half of Europe Is
the most dazzling climb ever accom
pliHhed In history. But there were
setbacks In the career of Bonaparte
that at times seemed almost insur
mountable. At the time of the overthrow of
Robespierre, Bonaparte was an offl
cer ofartlllery, already of some note.
He had been In a position . for ad
vancement because of his close
friendship with the younger brother
of the Terrorist chief.
But the turn of events cast a sus
picion on him In the general scrutiny
that followed the upheaval. Bona
parte was cast lnt prison. All that
saved his life was the pressing need
of artillery officers. He was ordered
to take an Infantry command In the
war of the Vendee.
On the plea of 111 health he deluyed
taking this for two months. During
this time he endured grinding pover
ty and the most harassing doubt con
cernlng the future. But at the same
time he studied hard and gained that
knowedge of the art of war and of
history that aided him so well.
At Inst he stnclod himself to over
come his distrust and despair and
sprang Into action, beginning the
course that was to startle the world.
San Francisco Call.
DESCENT OK MAN.
A creature of the simian
race was
dying In Algiers
There really was no Algiers then, but
do not mind, my dears
And another creature Plelocene was
kneeling by his side
To hear what he might murmur ere
he launched upon the tide.
The dying simian faltered us he took
his wife's pow.
And he said: "This denied progression
Is the slowest thing I've saw.
And you bet it makes me weary of
this dratted enrthly scrape
When think It took a million years
to make of me an ape.
"I remember, I remember," the dying
simian said,
"When I was Just a polpy on the sea's
tumultuous bed,
An oozy, woozy polpy, made of oozy
woozy slime.
And you, my love, were swashing In
the breakers at the time.
There we lived and loved each other
In our oozy-woosry way,
And I was then a polpy king and you
my consort gay.
We died and lived and died and lived a
thousand times or so;
And then we were starfishes In the
world of long ago.
"Ah, those were happy times, my pet,
as you perchances recall.
When we two floated where we pleas
ed, with none to heed at all.
But still we died, and still we lived,
and died and lived, I mind,
Until we were two lobsters of a most
ferocious kind;
But yet our love was e'er the same, al
though it oft was spoiled
When mnn, the prehistoric man.
would eat our partner boiled;
And yet we evoluted on from shape
grotesque to shape, ,
Until I loved you best of all as a
primordial ape.
"Now hear, my love His accents
broke. A gulp and he resumed'
"Now hear, my love, and contemplate
the fate to which we're doomed,
A million years evolved a tall" the
simian paused to cough
"Another million years or so will ev-
olute It off.
You see, we made a sad mistake that
ought to make us groan;
We did not need a tall at ail, If only
we had known,
For we are going to be, my love oh,
shudder If you can.
And shed great tears we're going; to
be a woman and a mnnT
A. J. Waterhouse In San Francis
co Call.
CAN'T BUNCO CHINA.
The day has passed when unscru
pulous agents can sell the Chinese
government defective rifles and can
non of one caliber and ammunition of
another caliber for them; when worn
out machinery can be unl-Hided upon
the Chinese as the latest and best.
and when dwarf locomotives discard
ed by the New York elevated railroad
can be used to equip a Chinese trunk
line. This Is all finished.
The China of today has no more
use for such things than has the
i. nueu states. The European or
American with a buncso game on a
big scale might as well stay at home.
His chance of working It will be fully
as good there as It Is In China: per
haps a little better. But to the young
westerner who knows how to do
some thing useful and Is willing to do
It. to the business concern which has
something valuable to offer upon
reasonable terms, this wonderful
country beckons and will reward.
From "The New China," by Thomas
F. Millard, In the February Scrib
ner's.
USEFULNESS OF THE MOOSE.
What the buffalo was to the plains,
the white-tall deer to the southern
woods, and the caribou to the barrens
the moose Is to this great northern
belt of swamp and tlmbcrland.
It Is the creature that enables the
natives to live at all. Assisted In warm
weather by various fish, it bears prac
tically the burden of their support.
Its delicious steaks are their staple
food, but Its nose or muzzlo Is a deli
cacy. Its hide furnishes the best
clothing and moccasin leather, or pro
vides snowshoes that enable the hunt
er to kill more moose.
Its back sinew Is the sewing thread
of the country, Its horns and bones
make tools. Its hoof can be converted
into rattles, and its r-oirse, bristly
mane, six inches long, and white ex
cept the tips, furnishes raw material
for embroidery. When dyed with na
tive dyes and skilfully worked into
leather and birch bark these bristles
are as effective as porcupine quills,
and are, Indeed, often mistt-.ken for
them by the unskilled. From "The
Moose and His Antlers," by Ernest
Thompson Seton, in the February
Scrlbner's.
PEANUT INDUSTRY GROWS.
At the word we smell not only that
good food of man and child and beast,
but the snwdust of the circus. The
lions roar. The cloun pours out his
pleasantries. The tender crackling
of shells Is heard all around. Peanuts!
Peanuts In the south, the west, the
north. In the United States a nut
contemporary tells us, are 350,000
acres of peanut land and 170,000 pea
nutters. Three hundred million
pounds of peanuts, worth $11,000,000,
are produced here every year: and
yet people talk of "peanut" politicians
contemptuously. There are whole
epic poems In the peanut. It Is ac
complished, the Admirable Crlchton
of nuts. Every part of It Is useful. It
heats peas and corn as a fattener of
stock and poultry. ' It enriches the
soil as well as the farmer. Praise,
honor and eat the peanut!
"With the Procession," In Every
body's Magazine for February.
When a widower Is having a love
affair, he must wonder what Idiot
wrote, "The whole world loves a
lover."
CHNGING CONDITIONS OF LIFE
IN NEW YORK CITY.
Changes of revolutionary signifi
cance are being made in the condi
tions of life In New York. Skyscrap
ers are filling the narrow confines of
Manhattan Island sky-scraper of
fices, skyscraper apartment houses,
skyscraper colleges, skyscraper
churches soon the city will be a
vnst workshop with an overwhelming
demand for numberless trains to take
the human workers to their homes In
the suburbs In lightning-quick time.
To handle the local traffic from
points near the city,' transportation
lines are constantly multiplying their
facilities by additional trackage, new
stations, and under-rlver tunnels.
The New York Central's huge new
station Is rendered necessary mainly
by the crowding thousands who must
be brought to and carried away from
the city morning and evening. The
Pennsylvania's station, the foundation
for which now looks like the swath
of a whirl-wind through the densely
built up section of the west side, will
provide for only a tithe of the army
that Invades the New York shore
from Jersey every morning only to
swarm back again at night.
When transportation plans now un
der way are carried out, a map of
Manhattan fslnnd will look like a cen
tipede, from every side of which will
stream the lines indicating tunnels,
ferries and bridges, to Jersey, to
Brooklyn, to Long Island City, and
additional lines of rails to the north
ward, spreading fan-like from the
Hudson to the Connecticut line and
beyond.
The steam railways, rapidly as they
Increase their facilities, cannot keep
up with the suburban traffic. This
has shown the opportunity for the
high speed electric railway. From
the termlnuea of the subway at 177th
street, a new road, the- New York.
Westchester & Boston, Is being built
to consist of four tracks over private
right of way, and with no grade
crossings.
This line will mark an epoch In
suburban transportation. It will be
of as perfect construction as modern
engineering can make It. Penetrat
ing the heart of beautiful Westches-
er county, the road will run to Port-
chester on the New York-Connecticut
boundary line, and to White Plains,
on the foothMs of the . BerksWres.
The line Is built for electric express
traffic, at a mile a minute; locals will
run as fast as 45 miles an hour. The
whole line and branches cover only
36 miles, bat Its roadbed and equip
ment are the same or better than the
steam railroads maintain. With such
roads as this the city ca nbe emptied
of Its out-of-town workers comforta
bly and quickly. The old-style, one
car trolley In suburban traffic fs giv
ing way to the high-speed electric
train. If the city of the nrtuTe- is to
be only a workshop, the new West
chester road shows how the workers
will get to and from their labors.
This Is the type of railway that will
solve the problem of over-population
In cities.
SOLOMON'S GREAT WEALTH.
Solomon was not only the wisest but
the richest man the world has ever
seen, savs the Totter, thongh like the
czar, who alone can be compared to
him In wealth today, he had to keep
all his relatives. He Is said to have
owned a fortune of 800,000,000. and
David, his father, left half as much
for the building of the temple. Croe
sus, whose name Is even now a syno
nym for vast wealth, possessed 400,
000,000, and Lucullus, famous for his
dinners and his manuscripts, 120,
000,000. Alexander the Great made
his wars nay. for he brought back
160,000,000 from Persia. As a gen
eral rule It was unsafe to be very rich
In classical times.
ContractliiK IflOfl Hop.
The first hop contract for this year
was filed Monday with County Audi
tor Newcomb. It Is dated December
14, 1905, and calls for 20,000 pounds
of the 1906 hops at 10 cents per
pound. The contracting parties are
E. B. McCracken to Louis Lachmund
& Co. Yakima Daily Republic.
Treating Wrong Disease.
Many times women call on their family
physicians, suffering, as they Imagine,
one from dysiepsla, another from heart
disease, another from liver or kidney
disease, another from nervous exhaustion
or prostration, unotlier with pain hero and
there, und in this way they all present
alike to themselves and their easy-going
and Indifferent, or over-busy doctor, sep
arate and distinct diseases, for which ho,
assuming them to lie such, prescribes big
pills and potions. In reality, they are all
only tyinvltimii caused by gome uterine
disease. The physician. Ignorant M the
c(iue of suffering, encourages this prac
tice until large hills are made. The suf
fering patlentgets no better, but probably
worse, by reason of the delay, wrong
treatment and consequent complications.
A proper medicine like Dr. Pierce's Fa
vorite Prescription, directed to Uic amne
would have entirely removed the disease,
thereby dispelling all those distressing
symptoms, nnd instituting comfort in
stead of prolonged misery. It has been
well said, that "a disease known Is ball
cured."
Dr. I'lorce's Favorlt Prescription Is a
scion 1 1 lie medicine, carefully devised by
an experienced and skillful physician,
and adapted to woman's delicate system.
It is made of native medicinal roots and
Is perfectly harmless in Its effects in any
condition uf Hit: Kyxtein.
As a powerful Invigorating tonic "Fa
vorite Prescription " imparts strength to
the whole system and to the organs dis
tinctly feminine In particular. For over
worked, "worn-out." "run-down," debili
tated teachers, milliners, dressmakers,
seamstresses, "shop girls," house-keepers,
nursing mothers, and feeble women gen
erally, l)r. l'lerco's Favorite Prescription
Is the greatest earthly boon, being un
equaled as an appetizing cordial and re
storative tonic.
As a soothing and strengthening nerv
ine "Favorite Prescription " is lineoualed
and is Invaluable In allaying and sub
duing nervous excitability, Irritability,
nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration,
neuralgia, hysteria, spasms, chorea, St,
Vitus's dance, and other distressing, nerv
ous symptoms commonly attendant upon
functional and organic disease of the
uterus. It induces refreshing sleep and
relieves mental anxiety and despondency.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets Invigorate
the stomach, liver and ImiwhIs. One to
three a dose. Easy to take as candy.
Frazier's
Byers' Best Flour
Is made from the choicest wheat that grows. Good bread Is as
sured when BYERS' BEST FLOUR Is used. Bran, Shorts, Steam
Rolled1 Barley always on hand.
I PENDLETON ROLLER MILLS
W. & BYERS,
BENEFIT BY OUIt EXJERIENCE.
In the repairing of vehicles of all
kinds by getting us to examine, es
timate on and thoroughly overhaul.
repair, repaint, re-upholster your
carriage or business wagon. We are
masters of the art of carriage repair
ing for It Is an art when rightly
done and we want a good share of
your patronage.
We have Winona Wugons, Hacks
and Rex Buggies. We guarantee all
goods sold. See us before purchasing.
Neagle Bros.
The Blacksmiths and Machinists.
Egg Make.
COLESWORTIIY.
BONE SHELL GRI1
1S7 -nd 129 EAST ALTA.
Poultry and Stock Supplies. Hay.
Grain and Feed.
W.D.FLETCHER
THE PltrEER WATCHMAKER
AND JEWELER. 805 Court Street
Jewelry n..de to order. Wedding
rings a spoc'-ltj. All work guaran
teed. THE PORTLAND
or
PORTLAND, ORBOOH.
American plan, Is per day and npwars
Bsadqnartflrs for tourists and commercla
travelers. Special rates made to famllla
nd alngls gentlemen. Tbe msnsgesjanl
rill be pleased at all tines to show roomi
nJ (Its prices. A modern Turkish batt
establlsbmut Is the hotel.
H. C. BOWItRB. Winter
Walters' Flouring Mills
Capacity, 150 barrels a day.
Flour exchanged for wheat
Flour, Mill Feed, Chopped Feed
to., always on band.
Wedding Stationery
This Is Cupid's headquarters for
many things before and after the
nuptials have been celebrated
engagement announcements, wed
ding Invitations, "At Home" cards,
etc., etc. You may got these here
on fine, latest style paper, en
graved or printed. Also engraved
cards, or embossed monograms.
"GOOD FORM" controls our
purchasing, honest profit pricing
oar selling. Let's have your order
as much In advance as possible to
Insure "on time" delivery.
Book Store j
Proprietor.
Electric Lights
They are the best.
They require no oil.
They are the cheapest.
They give plenty of right.
They require no cleaning.
They are always ready for ase.
Northwestern Gas &
Electric Co.
CORNER COURT AND GARDEN ST
Your Best Girl
can. tell you when your laundry Is
right. She will notice It If It la not
done up well ulckor than yon are
likely to. If you want to make jrour
best appearance always before your
best girl you should have your work
done at the Domestic laundry, be
cause here everything Is done careful
ly, and your shirts, collars and cuffs
are always right. Send your address
on a postal; the wagon will call.
ROBINSON'S DOMESTIC
LAUNDRY
Give ear unto wise counsel.
Coal that is one-Uurd dirt, weigh)
a great deal more to the scuttle and
lasts much shorter time titan the good,
clean Coal w sell.
If yon want the best, our Coal Is
the kind for you.
Henry Kopittke
DUTCH HENRY.
Off fee, Pendleton Ice & Cold Storage
company, i-none L-aLn 178.
Wh ynot eliminate . ry element et
chance or uncertainty by getting- our
figures when you need anything In
lumber T
Cray's Harbor Commercla1
Company
W. J. EEWELL, Manage.
Phone Main 93.
THE POPULAR PLACE TO
EAT IS THE
The French
Restaurant
Everything served first-clua.
Beat regular meals In Pendle
ton for 85 cents.
SHORT ORDERS
A SPECIALTY.
Polydore Moens, Prop.