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DAILY KAST OREGOXUX, PENDLETON, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1009.
EIGHT PAGES.
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i'.!thed everr fternoon iexcpi Sun
davi, at Pendleton. Oregon, by the
EAST OltKGOXIAX rlllLISHi.NU CO.
SrnsCRll'TloX RATES.
PiIIt, one year, by mail $5.00
IiallV, all months, by mail it 50
lially, three months, by mall 1.25
Daily, oue month, by mall 50
Weeklv, one year, by mail 1.50
Weekly, six mon.-a, by mall "5
Weeklr. four montha, by mall 50
8eml Weekly, one year, by mall 1.50
Reirl.Week'.r. alx months by malt 75
Demi-Weekly, (our months, by mall... .50
Member Scrlppa Mcltae Xeira Association.
Thlraffo Bureau. 809 Security building.
Washington. D. C. Kureau, 501 Four
teenth street, X. .
tlmhoiw Mali 1.
Entered at Pendleton IVstofflce as second-
clasa matter.
HELP TO POWER.
A few remarks by Swaml
Vlvekananda. a "heathen" of
India:
"The only way to rise Is by
doing the duty that Is In our
hands now, and thus making
ourselves stronger and going
higher, until we reach the high-
est state. Duty is not to be
slighted. The man who does
the lower work is not, therefore,
a lowe rran than he who does
the higher work: a man should
not be Judged by the nature of
his duties, but by the manner In
which he does them. His man-
iter of doing them and power to
do them are the test of a man.
A shoemaker who can turn out
a strong, nice pair of shoes In
the shortest time, Is a better
man according to his works,
than a professor who talks non-
3ense every day of his life."
SOME NEW ZEALAND FACTS.
Florence Finch Kelly, a special
correspondent of Collier's Weekly,
writes from New Zealand as follows:
The New Zealanders did not enter
upon this unique policy with a ready
made theory. Doubtless that is why
It has been so successful. They have
worked It out slowly and carefully,
with one experiment after another,
and they seem to have stumbled upon
It In the first place by accident,
i The two longest standing features
are the public trust office and state
life Insurance. These have both been
In successful operation about 35 years
and were Instituted nearly a score of
years before New Zealand started out
upon her radical departure of at
tempting to control the distribution
of wealth. But they have both been
Important fuctors in achieving that
result. State- life insurance had its
origin in the f illure- cf some British
companies In which New Zealanders
were Insured, and was established be
cause only the state. In that early day.
could furnish the necessary capital,
and because there was a general con
Tiction that to make the business sta
ble It must be In the hands of the
late. Today It does nearly half the
life Insurance business of the colony
end conantly gains on Its 10 com
petitors In the volume of new busi
ness. Its beneficial effect In keeping
down rates and compelling by force
of open competition, just and honest
administration of the business of the
prlavte companies was so generally
recognized that the people demanded
government competition In fire Insur
ance also. This was established a
year and n half ago. The office
opened its doors with an all-around
reduction of 10 per cent.
The private companies which had
brought this retribution upon them
selves by combining, raising rates,
discriminating In policies, and other
wise misbehaving after the manner of
the unbridled trust, at once declared
vr on the government office and re
duced the rates In the dwelling house
class by 33 per cent. They also forced
the underwriters to boycott the new'
Tenture, But the fire Insurance com-!
mlssloner gladly met the reduction
with an equal one, made arrange
ments for reinsurance with the Lloyds
of London, and when I was In New
Zealand a few months ago he felt
himself to be master of the situation.
The public trust office Is one of
the most Important Institutions of the
government. Through It the govern
ment becomes a competitor In the
business of managing estates, deced
ent or other, and serves as executor,
administrator, trustee, agent, or at
torney In the management of proper
ty, the Investment of money, and the
making of deeds, mortgages, wills,
and other Instruments.
The next step In this policy was
when the government entered Into
competition with the' money-lenders
by establishing a government loan
office from which any one can borrow
money In amounts not to exceed $150,
000 on real estate security. This was
done 12 years ago, four years after
the present liberal regime canie Into
power. The loan office has done and
Is still doing a large business, and has
suffered no losses whatever. It
brought down rates of Interest at
once from eight, ten and even twelve
per cent to the government rate of
five per cent, which Is reducible to
four and half by prompt payment.
And ever since interest In the colony
has hovered close to the government
figure. It Is estimated that this one
factor alone In the scheme of govern
ment competition saves to the produc
ing classes an average of $6,000,000
per year.
As the population of New Zealand
numbers only about 1,000,000 It can
I be seen that a similar policy In a
. country as large and populous as the
United States would mean a tremend
ous difference to the smaller farming
and business classes. The govern
ment has entered Into competition
also in the banking business. It con
trols the bank of New Zealand,
which has been much more prosper
ous since the government took over
its management that It was before.
A few years ago there was loud
grumbling aobut the exorbitant price
of coal, and the government, on In
vestigation, found that the coal trade
was In the hands of a combination
very similar to that which controls
the coal business In Pennsylvania.
The principal coal mines were own
ed by a shipping ring, and prices were
what It chose to make them. The
government bought coal lands and be
gan the mining of coal, and the mine
owners soon learned what competition
can do to prices. A few months ago
the government established state
agencies for the retailing of Its coal.
Its mines are operated at a profit.
nnen sir Joseph ward, the new-
premier of New Zealand, was in New-
York recently he was asked what
they would do in the colon' If they
were to find themselves In the clutches
of an Ice trust. He replied promptly
that the government would build Ice
plants and bring down prices by sell
ing Ice at a fair profit. His answer
put the New Zealand Idea Into a nut
shell. There is no principle of the New-
Zealand system of government more
deeply grounded in the convictions of
the people than this of the control of
commercial combinations by means
of government competition. But the
government does not step In until
conditions make it necessary.
Curtis tells It, Is briefly as follows:
A Russian company was organized
to exploit the resources of Manchuria
and Korea. The czar had previously
been dazzled bv talVs of vast riches
awaiting those who would develop
the grout natural resources lying un
touched in those regions. The com
pany was capitalized ut $20,000,000.
The czar subscribing for $3,000,000 of
the stock, his mother for $6,000,000,
and the numerous grand dukes and
others of the royal blood for large
amounts, so that much more than
halfthe stock was held by the Im
ix Vial family. No concession to cut
timber on the Manchurlan side of
the Yalu could be secured from Chi
na, as it had always been the policy
of that country to allow the Inhabit
ants to take free anywhere from the
forests Buch wood as they required
for their own needs.
In spite of the opposition of the
Chinese officials and protests of the
Pekln government, the Russians built
sawmills nnd made other preparations
for lumbering on n Inrge scale. On
the Korean side of the Yalu a conces
sion held by a Russian was bought
for a small sum. In spite of the fact
that It had- expired and had been can
celed by the Korean government.
Preparations similar to those In Man
churia were made then for cutting
down the forests of Korea. Towns
were built and every modern facility
for getting out and marketing the
timber were Installed on both sides
of the Yalu. Elsewhere in Korea and
Manchuria preparations for mining
on a grand scale were Inaugurated by
the company.
In the meantime Japanese had se
cured a contract for erecting a new
palace for the Korean emperor, and
lumbering parties were sent to the
Yalu to cut timber. After killing sev
eral of the Japanese, the Russians
succeeded In driving the rest away.
This action brought to light the high
handed outrage Russia had comm'N
ted against two countries helpless to
resist her brutal force. Thencefor
ward she had to deal with Japan
What the outcome was Is too recent
history to need repetition.
It would seem from this that the
Russo-Japanese war was fought not
because anything really vital to the
Russian people was at stake, but to
save the money the czar and his fam
ily had invested in the exploitation of
stolen property. It Is a flattering
view of the czar, the dowager czarina
and the whole herd of grand dukes.
ANTIQUITY OF KTOXEHEXGE.
A BALLAD OF VEGETABLES.
the
A potato went out on a mash
And sought an onion bed;
"Tha'"s ple for me," observed
squash.
And nil the beetr; turned red.
'Go 'way!" the onion, weeping cried
"Your love I cannot be;
The pumpkin Is your lawful bride
Ycu cantaloupe with me."
Hut upward still the tuber came,
And lay down at her feet;
"You cauliflower by any name
And it will smell as wheat;
And I, too. am an early rose;
So lon't turnip your lovely nose,
lint splimchat with me."
"I do not carrot all to wed,
So go, sir, If you please."
The modest onion meekly said.
"And lettuce, pray, have peas.
Oo, think that you have never seen
Myself, or smelled my sigh;
Too long n, maiden I have been
For favors In your rye."
"Ah, spare a cuss," the tuber prayed;
"My cherrylshed bride you'll be;
You are the only weeping maid
That's currant now with me."
And us the wily tuber spoke
He caught her by surprise,
And, giving her an artichoke,
Devoured her with his eyes.
. Philadelphia Record.
I 2 weeks
I Fair and
I Races.
KATYDID.
In the night there Is no place mute,
No leuf without fiddle or flute:
Like trumpet and cymbal crash
Is the rhythmic katydid clash.
I grieve as the low fog grieves
Hear Its drip of tears on the leaves;
But out of the sorrowful mist
The bravo tree-people Insist:
' i
"Be alive, alive, and rejoice'
Attend to the night, her voice;
The mis tis not tears, and hark!
The laugh of the wide, safe dark!"
t
Thus, under the creeping mist
The wise tree-people Insist;
With trumpet and cymbal crash,
The Joyful katydid clash.
Georgia Wood Pangborn.
ESTIMATE HASED OX FACTS.
WHAT IT W AS ALL ABOUT.
William E. Curtis of the Chicago
Record-Herald, who has a sort of
roving commission from his paper, is
at present In St. Petersburg and Is
sending to his Journal a series of in
teresting letters on conditions In Rus
sia. One of his recent contributions
dealt with the causes leading to the
Russo-Japanese war, and Bhowed the
great financial stake In that struggle
which the royal family of Russia had.
The personal stake of the czar, his
mother, his cousins, his uncles and
his aunts In the war made It very de
sirable that no International tribunal
should ever be entrusted with the
hearing and Investigation of the
causes of the dispute between Rus
sia and Japan In the far east. It
would surely have been revealed that
primarily nothing touching or en
dangering Russia's honor was Involv
ed In Japan's demands. Satisfaction
of those demands, or a compromise
of ihem, would have meant the Iobb
of a considerable part of the personal
fortune of the czar and his near rela
lives. In the effort to save that the
czar deliberately chose a war which
ended In Ignominious defeat for the
Russian arms, added vastly to the
debt under which the empire was
staggering and has placed in jeopar
dy the whole crowd of Romanoffs.
! The story of the royal family'! fl
nanclal Interest In the far east as Mr.
The Busy
Business Man
will find our line of office essentia!
particularly adaptable and efficient In
lightening his work, and at the same
time keeping everything In perfect or
der. We have everything needful for
light or heavy bookkeeping. Every
conceivable supply for typewriter
Inks, pens, paper and envelopes for
commercial or personal correspond'
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FRAZIER'S BOOK STOER
Astronomy, that science of lllimlt
able marvels, seems, even In its most
famMiar phases, fur remote from
man's everyday life. Yet the English
astronomer. Sir Norman Lookyt'r. has
recently estublished a fundamental
date In human history by a simple
ml fascinating application of thin
ranoh of science. Stonehenge's won-
rful rock architecture, he has de
t mined, was built as a sort of prim
itive s.icied observatory. Therein the
nests of the sun worshiped, publitm-
iiB to their wild congregations the
liurgen of the seasons. More than
mere priests and builders were they,
for their edifices were so designed
hat on the longest day of the year
the midsummer sun flashed the first
iy of its rising direct upon the cen-
ral altar.
But In the slow procession of the
ges the celestial pole sweeps around
great circle, and the midsummer.
ay r sun veers bv a minute traction
f a degree at each year's rising. So,
he beam that Illumined the solemrj
amy of the astronomer-priests In
that dim twilight of history, now falls
early a degree uslant of the ancient
Itar. To estimate the time repre
sented In the variation is simple. It
stabilities the building of Stonehenge
t approxlmitely 1680 B. C. Some
thing of the wonder of the eternal
ages Is In this determination; some
thing, too, of pride In the might of
the human atom, since the very orb
of day stands to the mind not so
changeless as the massive and mystic
handiwork of the first Britons.
THIRTEENTH ANNUAL
SPOKANE
INTERSTATE FAIR
$35,000
in Prizes
Purses.
Open Day and Night. Admission after 6 p. m. only 10c
Larger Exhibits in
Every Department
Big Poultry Show.
Home Industry Exposi
tion, occupying New
$5,000 Building, filled
with working exhibits.
$5,000 for County and
District Fruit exhibits.
Free Vaudeville and
Band Concert
every night
Sensational Free Acts
every afternoon.
For Program, Prize Lists and any other information address
ROBT. H. COSGROVE, Secretary and Manager,
519 First Ave., Spokane, Wash.
REST EASY
You have been told that you can do better other places In the way
of mattresses. Now I wish to show you that I am selling the same
grades and makes, for less, and back up my assertion by giving you
figures Instead of wind.
Where I can make money for you:
Curled white hair mattress, heavy ticking 125.00
Curley gray hair mattress, heavy ticking . .118.00
Curley black hair mattress, heavy ticking 115.00
Silk floss mattress, heavy ticking, eastern make $12.00
Silk floss mattress, heavy ticking, Portland make .110.00
Cotton felt mattress, pure white, built $11.00
Cotton felt mattress, mixed, built $7.50
All wool mattresses $2.50 to $5.00
Large pillows, finest down and ticking $4.00
Down stuffed pillows, finest fancy ticking $3.00
Down stuffe dplllows, heavy ticking I $2.5u
Goose feather pillows, heavy ticking ; $1.75
Mixed feather pillows, plain ticking; $1.0(1
Mixed feather pillows, light ticking $ .75
LEWIS HUNTER,
HOUSE FURNISHER. PHONE MAIN 97
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL AT MONMOUTH
Among all the estimates of the late
Russell fJnge that of the New York
Evening Post seems to be, all things
considered, the most satisfactory. The
Post snys: "Russel Page has been, for
more than a, generation, a target of
popular ridicule. If he had any as
pirations beyond money-making he
did ont show them to the world; any
virtue beyond thrift, he did not prac
tice It before men. He even failed
to enlist sympathy by falling Into re
deeming vices. To most people hi
name meant nothing but a hand to
grasp and n purse to hold. Possibly
he did not deserve so much oppro
biluni; perhaps In some corner of his
heart he kept n place for generous
dreams and hopes. Ho may have had
visions of splendid charities schools,
museums, libraries and hospitals.
founded by his millions nnd perpetu-
tlng his name for grateful posterity.
But though he had It In his power to
make the visions realities, he never
for nn instant loosened his clutch on
his dollars. We must form our opin
ions on the facts as they appear.
Every country village has Its keen
money lender, ready to screw the
last cent from his neighbors, on mort
gage or note. Russell Sage was hl
village skin-flint wilt large."
Beglns Its ?5th year September 2.
1904. Three foil courses of study.
Higher course recognized in Washing
ton and other slates. The best and
shortest way to a state and life paper.
Additional work in both general and
special Methods; also, school manage
ment for graded and ungraded schools)
will be given this coming year.
Longer terms, higher wages and
better opportunities are open to Nor-
EFFECT OF HIGH LICENSE.
Hince saloon licenses have been In
creased In Ohio from $350 to $1000,
over 2550 naloons have quit business.
There are still, however, nearly 10,'
000 saloons In the state, but It Is ex
pected that when the second $500 Is
riim tnanv more will be forced to
close. The decrease so far has been
about 20 per cent The revenue un.
der the first six months of the new
law Is much greater than was expect
ed. It will reach nearly $6,000,000
as against about $2,190,000 In the
same period under the old law. Three
tenths of this goes to the state general
fund and the rest is divided between
the county poor farm and the munlc
Ipal police and the general revenue
fund. Under the first six months tho
gain In state revenue on the $1000
tax will be about $840,000, or over
120 per cent. Nashville American
If you see H In the last Oregonlsji
Iti true.
mni graduates. School directors ap-preclate the superior ability of Mon
mouth graduates, and the demand far exceeds the supply. Catalogues con
taining full Information will be sent on application. Correspondence invited.
Address J. II, V. BUTLER, Registrar.
Put Wings to Your Work
An electric motor will do more and
better work than any other power
that you con use. The economy of
its use Is a demonstrated fact. If you
want good, quick work at a minimum
of cost, you want on electric motor.
We will he pleased to give you our
prices and to furnish complete esti
mate to suit your needs.
Northwestern Gas and
Electric Co.
COIEXI R OOl'RT AXI GARDEN ST.
We have in stock
Prominent business men of Wash
ington vislt-vl the Bend. Ore., country
this week with a view to starting a
big beet factory there.
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?
from HEADACHE
LOSS OF SLEEP
' INDIGESTION
. TORPID LIVER
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BEEGIIAM'S
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system oi Impurities, improve the
digestion, banish headache and
Give Positive Relief
In all cases of Billoucneu, Const 1-
tation. Indigestion and Disordered
4ver.
The excellent results obtained
by the use of Beecham's Pills have
proved them worthy of the confi
dence they enjoy. They have
helped thouiands and recommend
themselves.
Sold Kmrywhm. Is boxw loo. tot SM.
a lame amount of
Rock Spring
Coal ready for
Prompt Delivery
If you are wise
you will get your
winter supply now, while it is to be had later on you
won't be able to get coal.
OREGON LUMBER YAR.D
512 ALTA ST. . PHONE, MAIN 8
Insure with companies that p i y dollar for dollar.
All our companies aro doing It.
Frank B. Clopton & Co.
Represent the following companies'
London & Lancashire Fire Insurance Co.
North British & Mercantile Insurance Co.
Royal Insurance Co.
New York Underwriters' Agency.
Alliance Assurance Co.
Mrs.Sawtelle's Turkish Bath Parlors
BOTH LADIES AN!) GENTLEMEN TREATED..
TURKISH BATHS. II FOMENTATION.
ELECTRIC BATHS,
MASSAGE COMPLETE, Scientific ClfrlopodM In attend-
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GENTS' HOURS 8:30 p. m. to 7 a. m., with gentleman attendant
OVER DOMESTIC LAUNDRY.
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