PAGE FOUR. DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON. OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH IB, 19O0. EIGHT PAGES. 1 fea&t (fefrwvxa AN INHKI'KNPHNT NKWSl'Af Kit. Published every afternoon t except Sunday) t l'foitletou, Oregon, by the EAST OHMION1AN Pl'HUSUlNU CO. SrilSCKIlTlON BATES. lHllly, one year. ly matl , IHilly, six otoliths, by mail lhtlly, three months, by mail Dntly. one month, by mail Wwkly, one vi'ar, by mail WeeklT. six months, by uiall Vklr. four months, by mall Neinl Weekly, one year, by mall Semi AVocklv. six mouths by mail Semi Weekly, four monliis. by mall.. $.1.00 2.50 1.2S .50 1T0 .T5 .SO 1..VI .75 .50 Member J'crlpps Mi-Hae News AasiH'latlon. The l"at Oresonlan Is on ale nt n. H. Itlons News Stands, at Hotel Portland and Hotel Perkins, Portland. Oregon. San Kranrisoo llureau. 40S Fourth street. Chicago llureau, !Xll) Security building. Washington. 1. C, Bureau, 501 Four teenth street. X. W. flslepboM. , .Mill 1. Kntered at Pendleton Postoftice as second class matter. NOTICK TO AUVKKT1SK1SS. Copy for advertising matter to appeaf In the Kast Oregonian moat he In by 4 :45 p. m. of the prwedlng day ; copy for Monday's paper must be iu by 4 :45 p- m. the preced ing Saturday. THE CALL OP THE EARTH. From counting-room and sweat shop drear. From factory and toll, I call you out to life most dear Out to the perfumed soil! I call you out from slavery To where the song birds fly I call you out Come! go with me To Freedom's earth and sky! Will Hendrickson in Overland Monthly. :i i Umatilla county woolgrowers will faithfully observe the wool sales days fixed by the Woolgrowers' association this year, as usual. The higher prices resulting from these sales days are a perpetual argument in favor" of the continuation of the sales. The buy ers must bid for what he gets and every man having wool for sale stands an equal chance of securing its ac tual market price. Within the past three years these salesdays have saved to Umatilla county woolgrowers In ad vanced prices for their product, fully- enough money to pay the taxes on all the sheep In the county. It Is In rather bad taste for the little measly republican papers which were bought up like cattle four years ago. to be opposing a life-long repub lican who would represent their sec tion of the state In the United States senate. These little sheets now have an opportunity to show that they are truly republican in principle and not for revenue enly, by supporting for the United States senate an eastern Oregon man who has spent his life not three or four years but a life time, in defending and advancing re publican principles of government. I The contest between Portland and Seattle is healthy and interesting. The two great cities are both making splendid advancement and are adding population, commercial advantages and wealth at an alarming rate. Be cause of Its location, near the mouth of the Columbia river, the great high way of the west, Portland has a per petual advantage over Seattle. It Is down hill all the way to Portland from all her tributary territory, and freight follows the down-hill route, always. With the establishment of packing houses, woolen mills, dry docks and shipyards at Portland, she leaps into the rank of an American commercial metropolis and no possible turn of fortune can wrest from her the title of Queen City of the Pacific coast. Building has been completely sus pended In several places in the north west by the extremely high prices of lumber, fixed by the lumber trust of the Pacllfc coast. The big mill com panies under the protection of the tariff law, which prohibits the im portation of Canadian lumber, have advanced the price of lumber and building material to such a degree that people cannot afford to build. It Is cheaper to pay rent This work of the monopoly will do Incalculable barm to the country by retarding im provements. The tariff of U per 1000 should be removed from Canadian lumber In order to permit the Intro duction of building material at rea sonable prices. This is one direct and emphatic lesson of the tariff curse of the United States. Monopolies are V--. ' enriched and consumers are oppress ed by Its Iniquitous workings. Washington has one United States senator from each side of the great state. In order to balance the repre sentation. Oregon should pattern af ter her thrifty sister on the north. Senator Fulton represents western Oregon and is peculiarly fitted to de fend and advance the interests of that part of the state. Judge Lowell -..f Pendleton would represent the great eastern and central Oregon districts, as Senator Ankeny of Walla Walla, represents the great eastern Wash ington section. The election of Judge Lowell would balance the representa tion of Oregon as the division of the offices balances the state of Wash ington, Portland has claimed these high offices until it has become a fixed habit, a second nature for her to expect them. The year 1906 should mark the beginning of the period in Oregon politics when eastern Oregon came into her rights by electing a United States senator and henceforth this portion of the state should ever be represented In that bodft. Judge Lowell would be to eastern Oregon what Senator Ankeny is to eastern Washington a truly representative citizen, awake to the needs and pecu liar conditions of his state. A PLEA FOR THE PAGAN. If Gadskl. the famous soprano who Is coming to Walla Walla on March 22. will sing "Old Black Joe," "Ben Bolt," "Suwannee River," "Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still," "Sliver Threads Among the Gold" and other barbarian ballads within the reach of the common man, the entire East Ore gonian force and two or three hun dred other Pendleton pagans will at tend the performance. But "II Trovatore." "Mlgnon." "Carmen" and other of the grand op eras have no attraction for the medi um man or woman, and precious lit tle real attraction for any portion of the people who rave oer them. Many people demand this sort of music because It is said to be "high class." There is little melody, little sentiment, little fascination In the operas. There is so-called art in them. It is true, but it Is a sort of art that Is not sympatnetlc or in fatuating. It is coldly mechanical and appeals only to those who appre ciate Its difficulties and intricacies. The later musical productions, the later novels, the later dramas are ex treme In their Interpretations. They are unnatural, unreal and have all their tones pitched In a shrill, high key that Is beyond the appreciation of the common, virile, rugged mass of mankind. The great singers have sublime Voices. Nature has given them gifts beyond all value, but the great throb bing, hungering world enjoys these great gifts but slightly, owing to the Inartistic and unsympathetic tenden cy of art. The voices that will be remembered in the world are those which sing the cradle songs, the homely ballads of the common masses. The tendency of art should be toward the heart of the world, instead of toward its cold, cal culating mind. COMING EVENTS. April 6, 6 Inland Empire Teach ers' convention, Spokane. April 20 Primary nominating elec tion, state of Oregon. May 31, June 2 Umatilla Pioneers' reunion, Weston. May 24-27 The Dalles and Colum bia river Epworth League conven tion, Walla Walla. June 20-24 Northwest Sportsmen's tournament. Walla Walla. Dates of Wool Sales. The following wool sale dates for Oregon have been fixed by the Oregon Woolgrowers' association: Pendleton May 22, 2J, 29 and 30 Heppner May 24, 25; June 7, 8, 21 and 22. Condon May 31 and June 1, 27 and 28. Shanlko June 5, 6, 19 and 20, and July 10 and 11. Baker City June 25, 26; July 12 and 13. Elgin July 13. Stoker In First Locomotive. Letchworth Cox. who was a stoker on the first locomotive that ever got up steam In America, celebrated his 91st birthday at his home In James burg. N. J., on Christmas day. Mr, Cox was the son of Joseph and Han nah Cox and was born in Chester county, Pa., In 1814. He is still in possession of all his faculties, On March 16 there were 12 babies born In Reardon, Wash. all singles. IT'S RIGHT HERE that the superiority of our blank books, stationery and office essentials makes Itself manifest, as they will to every practical bookkeeper. The quality of our goods Is of the highest, and as they cost no more than In ferior kinds, you certainly can see why It will pay you to patronize us. Frazier's Book Store TYlfMiRAPHICAL ERRORS COSE LARGE SIMS. ' Enormous sums of money are fre quently expended by various govern ments to rectify errors, often appar ently trivial, in government printing. The United States some years ago, destroyed 4,000.000 telegraph forms owing to the misspelling of a single word. In 1SSS several hundred thous and greenbacks were cancelled before Issue owing to the same cause. An employe was convicted for attempting to steal some of these worthless note, with the Intention of selling them to collectors, : The Austrian government is so In tolerant of mistakes that It cancels documents, not only on the ground of serious mistake or misspelling, but even as the result of a misshapen letter. The use of a small. Instead of a capital "B" In the word "Brief" led a short lime ago to the destruc tion of 25.000 forms Issued to the various post offices. In 1850 an Austrian designer of bank notes signed his name In tiny letters at the foot of a drawing. The engraver copied the name, and, before the mistake was discovered. 10,000 notes' were printed, all of which had to be burned. A symbolical figure on an.0th.er. Austrian note was maliciously given a beard which could be seen if the note was held at a certain angle In the light. Before the union of Italy, more that one attempt was secretly made to turn official papers and notes to propagandist uses. A customs house regulation form was so spaced by the compositor that the Initial words In every line. If rend consecutively, were a declaration against tho papal claim to govern Rome. In another case the spacing of words In certain bank notes were so arranged that by drawing a pencil line In a particular way. a rude out line of the arms of Savoy resulted. These notes, of course, never saw the light, the device being too obvious to escape detection. In 1901 a Spanish engraver was heard boasting that he had "signed his name" on every one of 10,000 bank notes Just about to be issued. When called up and asked for an ex planation he declared that he had ben joking. But an examination of the notes showed that certain letters In one line were raised a microscop ical distance above those next to them. These raised letters spelled the employe's name. One hundred and fifty pounds was the price paid by the authorities for their engraver Joke. The Kaiser's persistent Interference In all matters of art has cost the Fatherland heavy losses In concclled printed matter. One of his first acts as sovereign was to show his subor dinates how the Imperial arms should be printed. After many thousand forms and documents had been Im pressed with these arms an antiquar ian of high authority proved to his majesty that the new design was not only wrong, but also humiliating to himself. Fifteen hundred pounds worth of paper were promptly reduc ed to ashes. In another case the Kaiser "sub edited" the German money order form In such a way that the public could not make head or tall of this. Finally the new form had to be called In and thousands of unissued copies destroyed. Fifteen thousand pounds worth of the eleven shilling postal orders had to be destroyed by the general post office some time ago owing to the poundage stamped on the face hav ing been Id. Instead of 1 1-2J-, as it should have been. The estimated loss to the country was 100: England seldom has to put up with such losses, but foreign governments re less lucky. Both on the Continent and In America carelessness or wan tonness In misprinting money orders. telegraph forms and bank notes have led to serious loss and curious compli cations. France has been a bad sufferer. In 189S more than twenty thousand hun dred francs credit notes were printed with a word badly mlsprtled, the er ror not being noticed until some of the notes had been Issued to banks. A couple of years later an engraver under notice of dismissal, contrived- to number a series Inaccurately, with the result that the notes had to be can celled. During the Crimean war, a foreign firm of engravers, settled In Russia. printed half a million credit notes with the Imperial arms reversed. The government, of course, refused to ac cept the notes and the engravers had to put up with a loss of 5000. ' EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS YOUNG. It Isn't much of a trick to live to be 85 years old. But to be vigorous and virile and a United States senator at 85 Is an accomplishment. Few men have done that. Edmund Wins ton Pettus of Alabama, is one. More, at 85 he has notified his constituents that he Is a candidate for reelection and expects to begin his third term, debonairly, in his 89th year. Numerous people attain distinction by great age. It Is an easy way. All that Is necessary Is not to die. A cen tenarian, however humble, always gets a paragraph In the newspapers when he lets go his tenacious hold on life. Still, the list of men over 80 In active and great affairs Is not so long that It burdens one's mind, and that Is why the deep-chested, dome headed Pettus Is notable. If he were merely an old man It would be one thing, but he Is more than that. He Is a wise old man, an alert old man. a good counselor, a valuable senator, and a delightful companion for any man of age. There Is an ever-living story about every man worth while. Sometimes there are several, but there Is always one. The Pettus story is this; When ex Senator Pugh was a candidate for re election to the senate In 1896 he went to Alabama and held court as the boss. He thought he was In control. Pettus, then, as for many years, prac- Really Good Things to Eat Are made with Royal Baking Powder bread, biscuit, cake, rolls, muffins, crusts, and all the various pastries re quiring a leavening or raising agent. Risen with Royal Baking Powder, all these foods are superlatively light, sweet, tender, delicious and wholesome. Royal Baking Powder is the greatest of time and labor savers to the pastry cook. Besides, it economizes flour, butter and eggs, and, best of all, makes the food more digestible and healthful. ROYAL BAKINQ POWDER CO.. NEW YORK. ticlng law in Selma, approached Pugh and asked for his indorsement for a judgeship. "Pshaw!" said Pugh arrogantly, you are entirely too old to be a Judge." Pettus looked at Pugh for a min ute. "Well, by gum," he said, "I'm not too old to be a senator." He wasn't. He went Into the can vass and whipped Pugh. and he has been a senator ever since. -Saturday Evening Post. IT PAYS to buy MEXNEN'S EORATED TAL CUM becauseot its pertection aad puritv. But it does not pay to sell MEN MEN'S POWDER nearly as well, as it pays to sell an imperfect and impure substitute which, costingabout half the costof MEN NEN'S, yields the dealer double prolit. The "just as good " with which some dealers try to palm oil a substitute is true any way. If it's only "just as pood " for the dealer why push the sale. If it's only "just as good" for the buver whv risk an unknown preparation for MENN'EN'S. There's nothing just as good as MEN SEN'S BORATED POWDER, and the dealer who says there is, risks his customer's skin and safety to make an extra profit on a sale. Have you tried MENN'EN'S VIOLET BORATED TALCUM TOILET POWDER? Ladies partial to violet perfume will find Menoen's Violet Powdet fragrant with the odor of fresh plucked Parma Violets. For tale ewrwhw tor i? centi. or mailed postpaid on receipt of -snce . by GER.HAR.D MENNEN CO.. Newark. H. J. Fic-iiffltlc of Roi Frazer Theatre, Wed., March 21 ONE NIGHT ONLY SWEELY, SHIPM.W & CO., PRESENT ALBERTA GALLATIN America's Most Gifted Actrew IN The Ulust London and New York Swlity Comedy Kuccrs 'COUSIN KATE" BY- HUBERT HEMtY DAVIES 281 Nights Gaiety Theater, London. 278 Nights New Hudson Theater New York. ELABORATELY STAGED BEAUTIFULLY COSTUMED. PItlCES: $1.50, $1.00, 75c, 50c. Keats on sale Tuesday. Free List Entirely Suspended. Empire Meat Market Phone, Main 18 Wholesale and retail dealers In Beef, Pork, Mutton, Veal and Fresh Fish. Try our "8-G" Hams, Bacon and Lard. Schwarz & Greulich 607 Main St. So long as we love, we serve. So long as we are loved by others I would almost say we are Indispensa ble; and no man Is useless while he has a friend. Robert Louis Stevenson. At Tangent, five miles south of Al bany. William Covington, a brakeman, fell under a switching train. Both arms were crushed off and his left leg crushed at the thigh. He died In hospital at Albany. jr. Fae-dnlle of Bo WELL, HOW L - YOU LIKE THIS? asked by the young man, popular with his sister's and other fellows' sister, regarding his wash waistcoat and linen will beget the answer: "Why, they're all new, aren't they?" Noth ing of the sort we Just got through laundering them so well that they might be thought brand new. It's a way we have, and the day doesn't cost too much toll. We give green trading stamps If you call at the laundry and pay your bill on or before the 30th of the month. ROBINSON'S DOMESTIC LAUNDRY Lap Robes and Horse Blankets at Cost In order to dispose of our stock of Horse Blankets and Lap Robes at once, we are offering same at cost. Call at once as stock won't last long at these prices. CRAWFORD the Harness man Next to Savings Bonk, it" :n St. Anthony's Hospital V it: Bfea.v'.-iir-'.'" 4W4-H-H- Private rooms, elegantly furnished Finely equip- ped op rating room. Also Mater Ity Department Every convenience noessary for the care of the sick. Telcphc Main 1651. r 2NW.ETOJ. OREGON. New Industry We manufacture fancy party gowns, klmonas. silk, fancy and medium un derwear, house gowns and ladles' light underwear and gentlemen's dress and negligee shirts to ord r. Importers f silk. Prices reasonable. Give us a call. ; Low Sam S09 Court street. Next to Clarke's Hardware Store. I'X RESTRAINED PLEASURE. can be enjoyed when driving In one of Neagle's new style fancy traps. spider phaetons, runabout wagons, surreys, buckooatds or pony carts for children's use. They have all the leading handsome designs for city or country use at moderate prices. We are proud of their elegant stock this seuson and are pleased to bIiow them to you. We are headquarters lor the Wi nona Wagons, that have Iron-clad hubs. No checking or breaking loose of boxes. Our stock of Hacks and Wagons Is the largest In eastern Ore gon. We sell Fairbanks-Morse Gaso line Engines and Pumps, and Irrigat ing Plants. All goods warranted. See Neagle Bros. the B'-acksmltlisi Get Prices Before Baying. Give ear unto wise counsel. Coal that la nnn-thlrfl flirt. ft great deal more) to tlin antittu .mi lasts much shorter time than the good. cicsm coal w sell. If you want the best, our Coal Is the kind for you. Henry Kopittke DUTCH HENRY. Office, Pendleton Ice ft Cold Storage vompany. 'ltione -aln 178. REST ASSURED that you could not get good Electrical Supplies anywhere at prices below our present quotations. We take contracts for wiring, carry an extens ive stock of all ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES, and can guarantee fine work and first-class goods at rock bottom prices. J. L. VAUGHAN ELECTRICIAN, 13S W. Court St. 'Phone Mala 189. r