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PAGE FOUR. DAILY EAST OREGOXIAX, PEXDLETOX. OREGON, FRIDAY, FEnHCARY 0. 1906. EIGHT PAGES. AN lNDKl-KNUKST NKWSI'AIH'K. Published every afternoon (except Sunday) at rendletoD. Oregon, by the EAST OUKUOMAX IT BLISHlSlJ CO. svnscnimos rates. Dally, one year, by mill f.Y Lwur. six oinntn. ny mall Pally, three months, by mall 1 Dally, one month, by mall Weekly, one year, by mall 1. vieeaiy. six monins. or mall Weekly, four mouths, by mall Beml-Weekly. one year, by mall 1 BemI weekly, six months uy mall... Beml-Weekly. four montlia, by mall. Vember Scrlpps-Mcllae Newa Association. The Kat Oret-onlan Is on sale at B. IV fUrh'a News Mamls, at Hotel Portland and Hotel reiklns. 1'ortland, Oregon. Baa Francisco Bureau. 4i Fourth street t'bJoaso Bureau, Poit Security building. Washington, l. C, Bureau, 501 Four teenth street. X. w. telephone Hala 1. Entered at Pendleton l'oetofflce as second- class matter. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Copy for advertising matter to appear In m- t.ifKoiiinu must oe in Dy p. hi " me iireeeuintc uay ; copy tor Monday I paper must be in by 4 :X p. m. the preced Ing aturilav. "Fight, though the bulwarks of your faith may fall. Life become gray and full of weariness. Love prove a lie. and wisdom bitterness Fight, for the strife alone avails for nil. "Fight and fight on. exulting In the light. Standing alert and upright gleefully. Seizing life's Joys and woes courageously. Man to the end and master laugh and fight!" John Hay. TAXES ARE UNCOLLECTED. The failure of the taxation laws of Oregon to provide for the payment of the costs In levying on personal property for collection of taxes has cost Oregon, and Is costing Oregon today, many thousands of dollars. Under the present law the sheriff must pay the cost of levying on per sonal property, out of his own salary. If he levies upon this class of proper ty, while under the same law the owner of real estate must pay the cost of levying upon this property for taxes. Should the sheriff be required to collect from all the tax-dodgers who take advantage of this condition of the law, his entire salary would be used In paying the cost of such levies. Dozens of seemingly reputable tax payers absolutely fail to pay their personal tax because they know that the sheriff cannot afford to levy upon them and so In this way they escape taxation altogether. As one Illustration of the Injustice of this law. It may be cited that the Pendleton Tribune of this city, al though posing as a friend and lover of the taxpayer, now owes Umatilla county $1j6 back taxes for the past five years. Should the sheriff collect this personal tax he would be com pelled to pay the cost of the levy out of his own pocket and should be col lect from one this way he would be bound to collect from all, bo It Is an Impossibility to collect this tax, unless those who owe It have personal hon esty and Integrity enough to walk up to the counter and pay their tax as any other taxpayer. This Is an Iniquitous condition and one which works a hardship on the honest and conscientious taxpayer. By this method many rascals are per mltted to conduct large enterprises, enjoy the rights, privileges and pro tection of the community and the laws and at the same time contribute absolutely nothing toward the support of th" government. The next legislature should remedy this defect without fall. The delin quent taxes now lost to Umatilla .county from this source would pay the salaries of several county offlclels. UNJUST CEXSCRE. The Baker City Herald, for reasons Iji ot known to Itself, severely censures the O. R. & X. company for the un avoidable wreck at Bridal Veil last Tuesday morning. While the Herald will not be able to create any great amount of preju Valentines ARTISTIC VALENTINES EEAUTIFUL VALENTINES NOVELTY VALENTINES COMIC VALENTINES Complete collection of the choicest and brightest creations of the season. FRAZIER'S BOOK STORE Mainst. dice against the road by this attack, yet there will be some who see the editorial reprinted and who may read it In the Herald who will be misled. The Herald blames the company for the bursting of a steam pipe In the cab of the engine, thus causing a runaway. It says If engines were properly repaired and properly In spected on the O. R. & X. that pipes would not burst on the road. The truth of the matter Is that O. II. & S. engines are repaired and In spected properly everywhere and at all times. If the Herald could follow one of the O. H. & X. passenger en gines through its daily life on the road and In the roundhouse and see tho painstaking and skillful care that Is devoted to it, and see the readiness and alacrity with which every slight est defect reported from the road is remedied 111 the shops, it would with hold all censure. No other road 111 the country takes as good care of Its passenger engines as the O. U. & X. Engineers are em phatically requested to report the slightest defect on the work book at the shops and as soon as an engine comes In from her run, the entire available force of the repulr shops is set to work upon her and she Is thor oughly repaired and made ready for the trip before she Is perndtted to leave the rounhouse. The working force Is often doubled In order to give proper attention to the engines on these passenger runs and traffic Is delayed and ofte.t blocked while engines are kept In the roundhouse for days, while repairs are being properly and substantially made. f The censure of the company on this score Is highly unjust and Improper. WORK IS REWARDED. Splendid Is that fruition which has come to the work of the pioneer Irri gators, who banded themselves to gether less than 20 years ago, to form a national irrigation association. whose object should be to people and reclaim the arid west. The meeting of the Xational asso ciation at Boise City next September will be a love-feast of Irrigators. In truth. Those old pioneers who foretold the hidden wealth of the west and who laid deej) and lasting foundations to bring it to view through Irrigation of the waste places, will behold such a realization of their dream In Idaho, at this coming meeting, as comes to hut few men in a lifetime. When the Xational Irrigation asso ciation was founded, Idaho was a des ert, excepting along a few streams. Today it Is a smiling garden spot. Her deserts are reclaimed or are be ing reclaimed. Millions of govern ment funds are being distributed through her arid districts. Happy and contented homes have replaced the sagebrush waste. There Is no more fitting place for holding this convention than In Idaho where the fullest fruition has come to the Irrigator's dream. Cuba is going to give Alice Roose velt a $25,00(1 wedding present, says the Washington Post. Of course there will be objectors and the ac ceptance of such a gift by the presi dent's daughter will be made the oc casion for some carping and envious criticism. Nevertheless it Is a very graceful thing for the Cubans to do. They not only owe a great deal to the United States, but a great deal to the president personally for his fidelity to promises made by this country to Cuba. The president stood for Cu ban reciprocity against bitter opposi tion and largely to his Influence Is due the fact that our pledges made or Implied to the commercial Interests of Cuba have been kept. So serious has been the effect of a dearth of labor on the farming inter ests of Virginia that the state board of agriculture proposes to ask the legis lature for an appropriation of HO, 000 wherewith to advertise for help. If Judiciously used this fund will Berve the double purpose of attracting workers to Virginia's fields and at the same time exploiting her products In quarters where they are not now dis tinguished from those of other states. The old dominion could find no bet ter Investment, provided always that graft Is eliminated. Publicity will till her farms and dispose of the output. Valentines ! GIVE HIM A LIFT. Give him a lift! Don't kneel In prayer. Nor moralize with his despair. The man is down, and his great need Is ready help, not prayer and creed. 'Tis time when wounds are washed and healed. That the Inward motive be revealed; Hut now, whnte'er the spirit be. Mere words are but a mockery. One grain of aid just now Is more To him that tomes of saintly lore. Pray. If you must, pray In your heart. Hut give him a lift, give him a start. The world Is full of good advice. Of prayer and praise nnd preaching nice; Tut tho general souls who aid man kind Are scarce as gold and hard to find. Rive like n Christian speak In deeds! A noble life's the best of creeds; And he shall wear a royal crown Who gives them a lift when they arc down. Anon. THE TRUTH ABOUT KANSAS. Of the 105 counties In Kansas. 85 are without a pauper, 25 have no poorhotises. nnd 37 have not had a criminal ci.se on the docket. In Kan sas, women have had full municipal suffrage since 1SS7. If during these 18 years women had neglected their homes for politics ns the opponents of equal rights proph esy that they will, half the men In Kansas would have been brought to the poorhouses by lack of thrift and domestic Industry on the part of their w ives, and the rising generation would have gone astray and filled the pris ons to overflowing, for want of motherly care. Just the opposite has happened. This Is another illustration of the fact that "It Is idle to argue from proph esy when we can argue from his tory." When a bill was Introduced a year or two ago to lake municipal suffrage away from the women of Kansas, no wonder It was voted down unanimous ly, nnd "nmld a ripple of amusement." Exchange. SEW All l CITY SOCIETY ITEM. A single turn of a roulette wheel last night gave Frank Watson a fox skin robe composed cf 10 fox skins, and valupd nt $200, It Is the only time Mr. Watson has ever been known U take a chance on the wheel, hut he agreed to take several chances In a raffle for the robe, and whi n It was decided to pottle the disposition of the prize on a single turn of the wheel. Wilson took 10 chance. The lucky number was 5. Thirty-eight chances nt $4.50 each netted $171 to the owner of the rohe, H. H. Hicks, who acquired It In his fur business nt Iliamna. There nre 36 numbers! on the wheel besides the sin gle and double 0. An Interesting feat ure of the result Is that a well known man whose lucky number Is 5. offerc.l to take a chance until he found the 5 was sold. If that number had not al ready gone to Watson, the man who always plays 5 would have won the $200 robe on a single chance nt $4.50. Seward City Gateway. THE WHITE HOUSE WEDDING. A heartless country exchange says: City papers have begun to treat the suffering public to pictures of all those who nre to take any part what ever In the obsequies (or rather the ceremony) which will settle the fate of the president's daughter and Con gressman Longworth. None of the Roosevelt family nre hurt with good looks, but In America we don't travel on looks and so have no objection to that part of It. The first of the series is a likeness of Alice's younger sister, who will bo maid of honor, nnd the series will probably remind us of the story of the wild man of Borneo, the last of which will he the flea on the hair of (he tall of the dog which fought with the cat for the bone which was a remnant of the wedding feast. UNFAIR DIVISION. "If n house contains six bureaus, 11 armolres,. seven chiffoniers and 53 miscellaneous drawers, how many of 'em Is the husband entitled to, and how many Is the wife?" asked the young clubman. The second clubman Inughed harsh ly. "You nre young and have much to learn," he said. "You may ns well understand first as last that If there were In your house a mile of bureaun, three ncres of armolres and 17,000 drawers, all these would still be stuff ed full of veils, ruchlng. hatpins, rib bons, silk stockings, petticoats, pow der puffs and safety pins, and the best course for you to pursue would he to wrap your own thing your shirts, underclothes, and so on In a newspa per and keep them under the bed." New York Press. THE DEATH. What Is the Denth we cannot see, The thing that stills us, you and me? We go, with sanctity Imbued, Into the deep, black quietude And Is It weal or Is It woe? We do not feel we ennnot know; Only, with our expiring breath, We sense the dreaded monster, Death. And, oh, we wonder, wonder why We ever lived, If but to die! Yet we have had this recompense: The time of reason and of sense, The time, the time In which wo knew The love sublime, the friendship, true, And patience learned, and grace to smile Ere we lay down for this long while, Walter Juan Davis In Denver Post, Tlio Argonaut for February 10. In the Argonaut for February 10 1906, the Washington correspondent "Setsun," explains the astonishing de cline of Mr. Roosevelt's popularity. He DR 41 A pure, cream of tartar powder, free from alum and phosphates. No acid but that of grapes which is pure, pleasant and healthful enters into Dr. Price's Baking Powder. Fruit acids are accounted by hygi enists the most important of the elements of the food of man. and of these the acid of the grape is most prominent. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder is not only the most efficient and per fect of leavening agents, but owing to its constituents is likewise promotive of health'. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. CHICAGO says that the ejection of Mrs. Morris from the White House was the cause of a coolness springing un between him and the newspaper men, and, as a result, many important journals have suddenly become hostile to the president. The correspondent also casts light on the Santo Domingo and the Panama canal Investigations, and the fifcht over the statehood bill. SAFELY THROUGH MOTHERHOOD WITHOUT PAIN. What t wtfrrierful mcMage of hope ud cape from aniferiof these words carry to that woman who ia dreading the hour that hall proclaim tier Motherhood. 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THE POPULAR PLACE" TO EAT IS THE The French Restaurant Everything served first-cuts. Rest regular nieavla In Pendle ton for as tents. SHORT ORDERS A SPBXJIALTT. Polydore Moens, Prop, i W.D.FLETCHER nre pk;i.i:r watchmaker AND JEWELER, 80S Court Street Jewelry t. do U. i.rder. Wedding rings a sitec'-ltj. All work guaran. tanrt. Plymouth Rock Eggs Barred Plymouth Rock eggs for sale. 50c per dozen. Address Rev. J. M. Cornollson, Pendleton, Or., Box 874. 'Phone. Farmers' 8J. ... Walters' Flouring Mills Capacity, o barrels a day. Flour exchanged for wheat Flour. Mill Feed, Chopped TX to., always on band. . ",aY'.-'
