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DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON. OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH IB, 19O0.
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lhtlly, three months, by mail
Dntly. one month, by mail
Wwkly, one vi'ar, by mail
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Vklr. four months, by mall
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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