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He is not old because his hair
Is gray,
Ik cause his eyes have grown
little dim;
With boyish hopes he greets
earn newborn day:
He Is not old hecnuse his hair Is
gray:
Though he has corne a long and
toilsome way.
The spirit of glad youth be
longs to him:
He is not old because his hair
Is gray.
Because his eyes have grown a
little dim.
IT.
I: Is not lack of years
that
keeps us young.
It 1? not age that frosted hair
reveals:
Youth's hopeful challenge to the
- world is flung
It is not lack of years that keeps
us young.
Fir they are old who choose to
stand among
The ones to whom romance
no more appeals.
I: is not lack of years that keeps
us young.
It is not age that frosted hair
reveals.
S. E. Kiser.
Till! (iHEATEST EVEXT.
The East Oregonian Is familiar with
the history of the fairs of eastern Or
egon, and it says unhesitatingly that j
the greatest fair In point of attend-1
ance, Interest and genuine amusement!
and instruction ever held In eastern
Oregon will close its doors in Pendle
' ton tonight.
The Umatilla-Morrow county fair
sets a nace In eastern Oregon. It Is
now an cstablisht institution, a per
manent and fixt event in the district
and the OBJECT OF THE PEOPLE
OF BOTH COUNTIFS SHOULD BE
TO ADD TO IT ANNUALLY UNTIL
IT REALLY BECOMES THE ONE
CHIEF ATTRACTION IN THE EN
TIRE EASTERN OREGON SECTION
EVERY YEAR. .
The state fair at Salem Is a state
event. It draws people from every
county and creates an Interest thru
out the entire northwest. It would
be extremely egotistical for Umatilla
and Morrow counties to attempt to
rival the state fair, but In a sense, the
fair at Pendleton should be to eastern
Oregon what the state fair Is to the
state a rally of the Industrial and
commercial forces of this entire sec
tion In a grand display of resources
and In a friendly rivalry 'or super
iority In the homely arts and Indus
tries of the great inland empire.
THE COUNTY COURTS OF UMA
TILLA AND MORROW COUNTIES
SHOULD NOW FURNISH A PART
OF THE FUNDS NECESSARY TO
ERECT A PERMANENT PAVILION,
THE LEGISLATURE SHOULD AP
PROPRIATE SUFFICIENTLY TO
AID IN THIS AND THEN THE PEO
PLE OF THE TWO COUNTIES
SHOULD GO DOWN IN THEIR
POCKETS AND FINISH THE JOB.
What Is absolutely necessary la a
flxt place in which to hold the fair.
When a permanent pavilion Is secur
ed, then everything accumulated can
be plact there. There will be a home
for the fair. Permanent exhibits may
be plact In the pavilion, gTalns,
grasses, manufactured articles and
other Imperishable stuff may be stor
ed there and It would be the head
quarters and permanent home for the
association.
All efforts should be bent toward
securing a permanent and substantial
pavilion. Pendleton will do her share'
as she has dune even more than her
Just fchare In bearing the expense of
the fair Just clOKlug.
POl.l.AliS AUK NOT DKKAMS.
In the estimation of the plutocrats
and their willing followers, it may he
a "dream" for the common people to
advocate government ownership of
railroads', but the millions of dollars
paid out by the inland empire In the
past quarter of a century In excessive
freight rates. In discriminations, in
lack of railroad facilities and in dou
ble rales from the east to Portland
and then back to Interior points, are
not "dreams" by any means.
Sufficient money has been extract
ed frcm the people of 20 counties in
the inland empire In eastern Oregon,
Washington and Idaho, In excessive
and unjust rates, to bild a line of
railroad from Portland to Boise City.
The eternal fight of the railroads
thru paid lobbyists In state and na
tional legislatures to secure favorite
legislation, ,by which they may be
authorized by law to fix their own
rules, rates and regulations are not
"dreams." Three and four cent pas
senger fares are not "dreams" when
Australia and New Zealand charge
on government systems but 1 and 2
cents.
Millions of dollars paid out to state
and national railroad commissions to
wutch the roads and force them to
deal justly with the public are not
"dreams." Securing rights of way In
dreams." Securing rights of way Into
for years without bilding into those
sections are not "dreams." Holding
back the development of rich states
thru mutual agreements on part of
.the combined systems not to grant
reductions in rates and not to bild
branch lines nor grant any recognition
to the public until forct to do so by
state or national legislation are not
"dreams."
In fact, there are a number of feat
ures of public ownership which are
not dreams, but which Impress very
forcibly the fellow who has paid the
bills and contributed to t-. 000, 000 an
nual profits on short railroad systems
which have but a few hundred miles
of road In operation.
THE DE CAPKIO CONCEHT.
The rendition of good music is a
high form of worship. Nature gave
to man the Innumerable harmonies
that he might sing his praise to the
Creator. Next to sincere prayer,
good music Is the , most sacred expres
sion of the soul of man.
That the mercenary world of today
should pause to listen to- fascinating
music is the surest evidence of its
high and all-pervading influence.
From the counting rooms, the stores,
the blacksmith shops, the fields, the
mills and the street corners, the rug
ged and hardened man mingles with
the artist from the studio and the
dreamer from his books, and pauses
enraptured under the spell of good
music.
Pendleton Is fortunate to have a
feast of good music In the city this
week. This is not disparaging to
home musicians nor to home Instltu
tions, for there are as good as any
of equal experience and practise, but
the music furnlsht at the fair has
been a feast.
Its climax will be reacht on Sunday
evening when the sacred concert is
given by the De Caprio band at the
fair pavilion.
All confusion will be absent The
band will be at Its best and there will
be nothing to distract nor irritate and
the people who really love music will
be given an opportunity to hear what
will perhaps be the best band and
concert mnsic ever rendered In the
city. -3
IS IT LACK OF PATRIOTISM.?
An old soldier complains to the
East Oregonlan that the people at
tending the county fair this week
have utterly failed to arise to their
feet, In the perfunctory fashion, when
the "Star Spangled Banner" and other
patriotic selections have been played
by the De Caprio band.
However, the old soldier may find
consolation In the fact that the audi
ence went wild one evening when the
strains of "Dixie" caused even the
posts and pillars of the pavilion to
tremble.
Roosevelt makes no secret of his
pleasure at the nomination of Hughes
for governor of New York.
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CJOVKKNMKXT OWNERSHIP
WOULD STOP PLUNDERING.
The Saturday Evening Post, tin or
gan of the plutocracy, unconsclouslj
makes an excellent urgumcul in favoi
of government ownership of railroads
in an article in the last Issue, on the
Union Pacific stock manipulations of
the oast month.
If the government owned the road
the manipulations of the stork mar
ket to inflate values for speculntivi
purposes, resulting In ruined fortunes,
ruined characters, bankruptcy, dl
grice and suicide for some and afflu
euce nnd opulence for others thru thi
legalized plundering of the stock ex
change, would all be avoided.
The Post says:
The Union Pacific was bllt In goot'
purt b the public. The direct debt
to the national treasury for aid ex
tended to the enterprise amounted
with accrued Interest, to upward ol
$,r.0, 000.000 at the time of the reor
ganlatlon. The road was also given
an empire in public lands. It has
been selling these. lands for 30 years
but still has about 4.000.000 acres
with land assets valued nt nearly $10,
000,000. Keep this In mind.
The directors met on a Wednesday
and authorized the declaration of n
dividend for the half year (the pre
vious dividend having been at the rate
of 6 per Vent a year). The next duj
the executive committee declared the
dividend, but kept Its action secret.
At the opening of the Stork Ex
change Friday it was announct thai
the dividend had been lncreast to 1C
pe rcent a year. Union Pacific stool
advanct $17 per share. Over 600.001
shares were sold.
Next day there was some furthei
advance, with enormous sales. News
pipers blot-sinned with headline!
about the immense winnings of tin
Harrimnn pool In the stock. In two
wild dns about half the total out
standini; stock of the road was handl
ed on the exchange at an average prlci
of about Sl'O ., shire. A month be
fore the saick hud sold under $140 a
share. Estimating the profits of thi
pool, with a numeral and seven ciph
ers, was, naturally, a pleasant exercls
for repot torial imaginations.
M-rely operating a railroad is much
toe slow aiid tHill a game for a really
up-to-date captain of Industry. Ma
nipulating its stork on the exchange
is far livelier nnd more profitable. Wt
often wonder why these gentlemct
h ither about government regulation
maximum freight bills and the like
T'u-y ran rig the stock market jus'
the same.
The constant tendency of high fi
nance is to divorce the Interest of thi
men In control of great propertiei
from the interests of the properties
themselves.
The profit that a Union Pacific di
rector cou'd have made by lucreaslmi
the tonnage or lowering the operatinj
cost of the railroad would be a mere
bagatelle compared with the gain ht
could have made bv buying P. propel
block of stock when he knew thai
the dividend was going to be lncreast
and selling it out after the other stock
holders and the pubjic knew. Whi
should a Hepburn bill trouble them'
PLANTATIONS TV SAMOA.
Consul General George Himrod. of
Apia, responds to Amerlca-n Inquiries
as to tropical agriculture fn Samoa,
as follows:
Land suitable for planting can be
leased from natives from 25 to 75
cents per annum. The area rf freehold
land is Pmlted and the cost varies
from $10 to $20 per acre, clearing
expenses running up to $14'. The cost
of planting cocoanut and" bringing
them up to the eighth year, when a
return can be expected, Is $135 per
acre. The cost for cocoa plantations
until the sixth year runs from $150 to
$175 per acre, and rubber $150 to
$165. Vanilla does not pay to fertil
ize.
In Samoa most of the land near the
water front Is owned by the natives
and Is studded thickly with cocoanut
p:lros, planted without ordier or sys
tem. They extend back from the
coast for miles to an elevation not
exceeding 600 feet, and In such prox
Imlty to the coast that the palms get
the benefit of the moisture carried by
the trade winds from the sea.
In plantation systems th trees are
plAced 20 to 30 feet apart. The aver
age yield per acre Is from 700 to 1000
pounds, thou 1200 to 1109 pounds Is
not an uncommon vleld. The large
planters use the hot-air system for
drvlr.g copra, and copra thus treated
can be used for confectionery pur
poses. The average price of copra In
Apia during 1905 was $7.50 per ton,
delivered f. o. b. ship.
COST OF GROWING GRAIN.
How mnny farmers are there In the
country who know how much It costs
to produce a bushet of wheat, corn or
other staple product!
The claim Is made by experts of the
department oi agriculture that efforts
along the ne of saving In cost of pro
ductlon are almost unknown to the
average American farmer, and that In
this failure rests the explanation for
so much dissatisfaction among far
mers even In times of comparative
high prices for farm staples. The de
partment Is about to publish the re
sults of an Investigation Into cost of
production on farms.
The Importance of this Inquiry Is
brot home to the students of agricul
tural conditions In this country on ac
count of the fact that It Is generally
admitted that the day of cheap farm
staples has gone, not to return. Farm
values are tending upward.
Practically all the land now avalla
ble Is In the arid belt, and Is to be
brot under cultivation only by Irrl
gallon, which makes the first cost of
the farm lands almost as high per
acre as Is land In the older agricul
tural districts. It Is asserted by ths
experts of the department that the
waste upon American farms Is prodigious.
Special attention must be paid to
the economics of production If the In
dustry of agriculture Is to be accom
panied by profitable returns, without
such rapidly Increasing cost of farm
staples ns to become a serious burden
upon the consuming public.
Much attention Is paid to plans for
saving in the cost of distributing sta
ple commodities, by efforts at holding
down transportation rates, nnd it Is
the opinion of the government experts
that some material rezulul may bo ob
tained by more careful attention on
the part of the American farmer to
economy In production.
WE MUX ESS.
O little feet! that such long years
Must wrfnoVr on thru hopes nnd fears.
Must ache nnd bleed beneath your
load;
I, nearer to the wayside Inn
Where toll shall cease and rest begin,
Am weary, thinking of your road!
n, little hands! that weak or strong.
Have still to serve or rule so long,
Have still so much to give or ask;
I, who so much with book and pen
Have tolled among my fellow-men.
Am weary, thinking of your task!
O little hearts! that throb and beat
With such Impatient, feverish heat,
Such limitless nnd strong desires;
Mine, that so long has glowed and
burned, '
With passions Into ashes turned
Now covers and conceals Its fires.
O little souls! as pure nnd white
And chrysialllne ns rays of light..
Direct from heaven, their source
divine;
Refracted through the mist 'of years.
How red my setting sun appears.
How lurid looks this soul of mine!
H. W. Longfellow.
Idaho Sheep King Sells Out.
1 It has Just come to light that Chris
Theissen has disposed of all his sheep
holdings to British Columbia and
North Yakima parties.
It seems that some time tigo Mr.
Theissen sold to J. DeHnven, rep
rezenting the Pat Burns company of
British Columbia. 6000 head, that he
has been making deliveries on the
same at different times and that the
Inst delivery, amounting to 2000 head,
was made a few days ago.
About the 17th of this month Mr.
Thomson sold to M. Berg of North
Yakima the bulk of his holdings,
about 12.000 head. Out of nil his vast
flocks Mr. Theissen has only one buck
left to remind him of his former days
as one of Idaho's sheep kings. Lewis
ton Tribune.
"Money may pay the pressing obli
gations of temporal Judgments: but
at best money Is merely a counter In
the game, and he who cheats to get
the co-flnters has not won the game."
William Allen White in The Ameri
can Magazine for October.
A ferryboat carrying 200 Hindus
across the Indus river, capsized nnd
170 of the passengers were drowned.
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A Man of Prominence in School Circle
and Overseer of the Poor Bayt
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Efficacious Remedy.
Herman Roeae, 18 New Butternut St.,
Syracuse, N. Y., is President of the
Board of Trustees of Webster graded
schools, DlsU 8, In the town of Salina,
Ha la also Overseer of the Poor,
which position has afforded him ample
opportunity for noting the causes of
disease, as well as tho best meaus of
preventing and curing the same.
Ho expresses his approval of tho use
of Poruua bj a very effoctlvo moans of
solving a problem of such vital Interest
to the community, as follows :
"Exposure seems lo affect the lungs
and kidneys of the poor and I have
seen hundreds of these who were
brokendown In health from this cause,
I am pleased to tell you that
Peruna has proven a most efficacious
remedy In a number of cases where
no other medicine nas used.
I consider It a specific for any dl
Qt den ol the respiratory organa. "
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