DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1908,
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CS.OS.SVAAB
He serves his country best
Who J"lng the tide that lifts hor
gently on;
For speech has myriad tongues
for every day,
4 And song but one; and law
within the breast
Is stronger than the graven law
on stone;
There Is a better way.
He serves his country best
Who lives pure life and doth
righteous deed,
And walks straight paths, how-
ever others stray.
And leaves his sons, an utter-
most bequest,
A stainless record, which all men
may read:
There Is a better way.
Susan Coolldge.
PUBLICITY IS KING.
Publicity Is the crow ned king of the
business world and the East Oregonl
an Is delighted to see that Pendleton
has at last engaged In the service of
this king. In a practical way.
The adoption of the advertising
plan of the Sunset magazine and the
Harriman railroad system Is perhaps
the best possible means of advertising
this city and county. The Harriman
people have built up a vast publicity
bureau ramifying every part of the
world and, can distribute literature
and reach actual homeseekers perhaps
easier and more thoroughly than any
other agency on earth today. It Is a
part of the vigorous policy of that
system.
It has been contended that the ad
vertising fund should be spent for
home-printed matter, but results are
what Is wanted and the publicity
committee believes that better results
can be secured by investing in litera
ture and advertising matter furnish
ed by the Harriman people and every
body should co-operate with the com
mittee in Its plans.
The East Oregonian believes in ad
vertising of all kinds and the wider
the field covered by the advertising
medium, the better results from It,
and since the Harriman people are
In the advertising and publicity busi
ness, their field Is limitless and the
possibilities of their advertising ines
timable. .So Pendleton Is in line to
secure the best there Is to be had.
She has engaged the greatest adver
tising agent known,' to scatter the
fame and name of Pendleton through
out the world.
The home papers will continue, a3
of old, to boost the city and county.
Th-y will continue to give away their
srace. free and without price, for the
welfare of the city and county and the
business interests of the county.
Their publicity campaign never ends.
V. never stops working. Every day
papers are sent to inquiring frieDds in
the east and nobody knows the re
sults which follow newspaper boost
ing. Pendleton and Umatilla county
should now receive returns. Money
has been subscribed to buy the best
form of advertising known and with
the free advertising which the "city
and county receives daily, weekly and
ccntinuously, something should fol
low. LET I S PROVE THE THEORIES.
Farmers of Umatilla county who
have 'acquired large holdings and
nade fortunes In wheat land through
persistent labor and economy, are
naturally opposed to "new fangled
theories" of farming. They have been
eminently successful In their meth
od and what more than success can
any reasonable man desire?
So It will be absolutely necessary to
do something more than preach to
these farmers to Induce them to
change their methods. The East Or
egonian has preached on diversified
farming methods until It 1 black In
the fare, and there Is no appreciable
.change in the methods. But It does
rmt blame the farmer for sticking to
his old method if he is satisfied and
contented.
Hut here Is the fact that must be
considered. Present methods of
fi.rmlng are successful for today, for
this decade, but every thoughtful man
admits that these methods will sooner
or later ruin the land; that the wheat
district will be absolutely impoverish
ed In years to come; that the future
sen. rations, the sons and daughters
i.f the present farmers will be forced
to adopt some other method in order
to secure a yield of marketable wheat
fiom the land. If continuous wheat
Plowing Is practiced without inter
ruption or change.
California is now learning the les
son. Her wheat land has been crop
ped until she Is forced to Import
wheat from Dakota, Oregon and else
where to mix with her native wheat
i: order to make eatable and market
able flour. That Is the result of con
tinuous wheat growing on the same
land for half a century.
. It seems that the future welfare of
the wheat land and Its owners is a
problem worth considering. No hitel
ligent man builds for todaj- alone. No
industry Is founded upon today's
needs. Every- permanent rtnd promi
nent Industry Is rooted In the future
needs of the country, 'he future needs
of mankind and this, it seems, should
Induce wheat farmers and every other
class of people to guard well their In
dustrial substance and resources.
Let the O. R. & X. company secure
a half section of wheat land near
Pendleton and prove Its diversified
farming theories. That will do more
to change farming methods than all
the preaching that could be done In a
decade. A first-class experimental
furm, showing that the theories of the
O. R. & N. officials and' agricultural
experts are correct and practicable.
In eastern Oregon and multiply the
pgrieultural products of every county.
Ixt us prove the theory. It Is
rooted deep in science and common
sense. It has a foundation in fact.
Let the railroad company back Its
theory with its cash and buy a wheat
farm and make a practical demonstra
tion. Such a farm, successfully con
ducted, would double the railroad
traffic In the county Inside of five
years. That would be reward enough
Buy a farm.
SHALL NEWS BE SUPPRESSED?
The newspaper Is frequently spoken
of as a degrading Influence, because
of the publicity It gives to crime, Im
morality, sensations and the like.
Some theorists claim that many per
sons who might otherwise be law
abiding citizens are prompted to crime
through the suggestive Influence of
the press.
One should never read of crime or
tragedy, say some, because of the al
leged vitiating effect upon the mind.
But what Is the real truth about the
effect of such reading?
Do human beings have a spark of
reason or are they merely nervous,
sensitive animals ready to have brain
storms whenever they think of other
train-storms?
Is the newspaper reader the slave
of hysteria or a creature prompted
by motive? Is he Insane or sane?
Whether the Influence of newspapers
Is for good or evil depends upon how
th.ese questions are answered.
If people have not mental balance
enough to read of crime without be
coming criminals, they miuld be bet
ter off without newspapers better
off In sanitariums and a-sylums per
haps. But most of us have faith that
we are comparatively sane, and are
not 'afraid to read about crime when
described in a realistic style for the
press.
Newspapers do not make crime at
tractive, hence there Is no temptation
for the sane reader to Imitate, it.
When we read of murder in the
press, we read of police and detec
tives and bloodhounds and clues, and
in the end usually, of a prison sen
tence or an execution; in short, we
read of plenty of trouble for the mur
derer, for such is life.
. When we read about an "affinity"
case In the newspapers we read of
dishonor and tears, of the contempt
of threats of neighbors, of flight, of
assumed names, of Jealousy of re
venge, perhaps, and sometimes even
of murder; for such is life. We ven
ture that an "affinity" Is a less at
tractive proposition to an Inveterate
newspaper reader than to any other
type of person.
Whaf some might call unsavory
news Is always on tap, for human
folly never lets up.
NEWSPAPER CONTESTS.
Inside facts concerning a big news
paper contest which has Just been
conducted in a western Washington
city disclose some Interesting things.
The most Important fact disclosed Is
that the money and votes received do
not represent names added to the
subscription list, and therefore the al-
Kged Increased circulation Is mislead
ing to business men.
In this Washington contest several
hundred dollars in cash for which no
subscriptions were secured, were
turned in the last night by chivalrous
admirers of the contestants.
The large number of votes announc
ed, therefore, did not represent nn
increased circulation, but simply
meant that the man with the most
money at his disposal bought the pre
miums and the public was slightly
deceived, as It was lead to believe
that every cent- of money turned In
represented Increasing circulation.
Thus business men, will look with
many misgivings on the enormous
sum of votes announced in these con
tests. It Is simply a rivalry between
the backers of the contestants and the
long purse wins. Circulation is lost
sight of In the vote-selling program.
Mark this down to the credit of
Umatilla county: The first straw
It rry to ripen in the northwest this
year, ripened In Umatilla county; the
first box of home-grovn berries mar
keted In Oregon this year, was mar
keted In Umatilla county. And It is
srfe to say that the last crate of Ore
gon grown berries to be marketed
next fall will come from Weston
.mountain, Umatilla county.
HOW TO SUCCEED.
Do you want to succeed? "Grow in
solitude, work, develop In solitude,
with books and thoughts and nature
for friends. Constant craving for In
discriminate company Is a sure sign
or mental weakness.
If you enter a village or small town
and want to find the man or youth
of ability, do you look for him lean
ing over the village pool table, sitting
on the grocery store boxes, lounging
in the smelly tavern with other va
cant minds? Certainly not. You will
find him at work and you will find
him by himself.
Proofs of greatness due to solitude
are endless. Milton's greatest work
was done when blindness, old age and
the death of the Puritan government
forced him into complete seclusion.
Beethoven did his best work in the sol-
itude of his deafness. Bacon would
never have been the great leader of
scientific thought he became had not
his trial and disgrace forced him from
the company of the grand retinue and
the stupid court to the solitude of his
own brain.
Don't be a sheep or a deer. Don't
devote your hours to the company and
conversation Of those who know as
little as you, do. Remember that you
are an individual, not a grain of dust
or a blade of grass. Don't be a sheep,
be a. man. It has taken nature a hun
dred million years to produce you.
Don't make her sorry she took the
time. Get out In the park an3 w'alk
and think. Talk more to yourself and
less to others.
There is not a man of average abil
ity but could make a striking career
If he could but do the best In him.
Chicago American.
AT THE COMEDY.
Last night, in -snowy gown and glove,
I saw you watch the play
Where each mock hero won his love
In the old unllfelike way.
("And, oh, were life their little scene
Where love so smoothly ran,
How different. Dear, this world had
been
Since this old world began!")
For you, who saw them gaily win
Both hand and heart away,
Knew well where dwelt the mockery
in
That foolish little play.
("If love were all If love were all,"
The viols sobbed and cried.
"Thin love were best whate'er be
fall!" Low, low the flutes replied.)
And you. last hight, did you forget,
So far from me, so near?
For watching there your eyes were
wet
With Just an Idle tear!
(And down the great dark curtain
fell
Upon their foolish play;
But you and I know Oh, too well!
Life went another way!
Arthur Stringer.
MYSTERY OF THE MAINE.
One of the mysteries of history was
the destruction of the battleship
malne, In Havana harbor, 10 years
ago. The wreck has never been rais
ed. If It were we should know wheth
er the vessel was blown up from the
Inside or from the outside.
The government will not raise the
wreck, and It lies where It sank, a
peril to all the ships that enter the
harbor. Spain Insists the explosion
occurred within the ship. Our ex
say the disaster was due to the spring
ing of a floating mine. The event
was either a miraculously timely un
timely accident, or the most futile
crime in the records of the world.
There Is reason In the ever recur
ring demand thai the wreck be rais
ed to prove the truth that It be taken
out of the harbor for the safety of
the ships entering there, that It be giv
en sepulure In the deeper sea, that Its
guns be dispersed over this country
aa relics. But some occult force com
pels departmental unresponsiveness to
those demands. What Is the reason
the Maine has not been raised? The
Mirror.
A short time ago the flume of the
Gibbs Ditch company, near Pesnastln,
Chelan county, Wash;, was blown up
with dynamite and S. P. Beecher, a
well known rancher In that vicinity,
has been arrested, charged with the
crime.
A STORY OF RATS
AND BANKERS.
The following excellent little Btory
which seems worthy of being repro
duced In the Fast Oregonian appears
in the May number of the Black Cut
magazine. It is by Don Mark Lemon
and Is as follows;
I don't know who wrote the story.
It was a newspaper yarn, taken from
an exchange that probably hod got It
of a syndicate but It certainly was
a clever little sketch.
I.reud It on the train one afternoon
while going home from the bank,
and, when I had finished It, I slapped
my knee and exclaimed, "By George!
that's neat " Then I got to wonder
ing if anybody had ever tried the
scheme, or had the writer, thought
It up hlmsef, Just for a story plot.
When I got home I read It to my
wife, and she laughed and said there
was a rat In the cage down cellar,
and If It were gone in the morning
she would know that I had taken it
with me to the bank. Of course she
was only Jesting, but it went to show
how easily one could carry out the
Idea, In the story, and I must have
looked thoughtful, for my wife sud
denly came over and threw her arms
about me and exclaimed: "Why,
Will, you wouldn't do such a dread
ful thing!"
Just to tense her, I looked sly and
asked her if It were a fair sized rat
In the trap, or only a mouse. Well,
she doesn't know yet how to take me
when I'm Joking, and pretty soon
she went down cellar and when I
strolled down a little later, the trap
and rat were both gone.
You see, the newspaper story was
something like this: One day at a
bank a bundle of twenty one-thousand
dollar bills was found missing
from the cashier's booth, and things
were getting to look bad for the cash
ier, when the teller saw the tall of a
rat sticking out from under a desk
that set against the grating Inclos
ing the cashier's booth.
Well, they moved the desk, and by
George! if that rat hadn't got him
self caught between the bars and
desk and strangled to death, with a
bunch of five-dollar bills In his
mouth. I think It was about twenty
bills.
They all congratulated the cashier.
Of course the rat had stolen the mis
sing twenty thousand, and afterwards
came back for more bills, and had
been caught and strangled In the
grating. They hunted hours for his
hole, but couldn't find It. However,
the rear door of the bank opened
on a short, blind alley, and It was
plain as Texas on the map that the
rat had stolen In that way, and gone
out the same way with the twenty
thousand, and the bills were some
where outside In the alley. But they
never found where.
It was just here that the writer of
the story got down to the neatest
little stroke. I don' remember Just
his words, but they were something
In this order: Why couldn't the
cashier have brought a strangled rat
in his pocket to the bank, stolen the
twenty thousand, placed a package
of five-dollar bills In the rat's mouth,
and slipped him under the desk?
That would have turned all suspi
cion from the cashier, and when you
consider how simple a thing It was
to do, and how few men In the world
are strictly honest, you finished read
ing the story with the conviction that
the cashier had stolen the money and
dime the trick himself.
Well, that's the newspaper sketch.
Now here's my story, anil mine Is
where the fun conies In. About 11
o'clock next day, down at the bank
where I worked I mian the day af
ter the sTtetch appeared In the news
paper we discovered that a bunch of
bills haif been mislaid, then another
bunch, then another and another; and
altogether two thousand dollars In
bills was found missing from differ
ent drawers and baskets?
Suddenly I smelt a mouse, as the
saying goes, and began hunting for
a rat. I found him! Then the cash
ier found another rat. about the same
time the teller found another. Then
I he president saw a tall slicking from
under a desk, and poked out the fat
test rat you ever saw.
I was laughing by this time till I
could hardly stoop to hunt for rats.
You should have been around the
bank yourself that morning it was
better than- having money there.
Well, altogether, we found seven
rats, every one of them strangled and
dead and each with a bunch of bills
In his mouth. The bills we recovered
came to sewn hundred dollars, but
thirteen hundred was still missing. So
you see that little newspaper story
cost our bank Just one thousand thre
hundred dollars, and we had to hush
it up or lose our reputation, for seven
dishonest men In one bank was a bit
too much.
But those seven dead rodents, hid
den nil about the office! I think I
would have laughed had I lost the
thirteen hundred myself.
Mosney, the Montana 'half-breed
outlaw who has given the officers a
merry chase for several months. Is
now said to be cornered In his cave
retreat with no possible chance of es
cape. Sheriff Martin of Butte and his
men are guarding the cave and expect
to bring In he outlaw dead or alive
The Chicago Railway company will
spend a million dollars for new car
equipment. The General Electric
company has the contract.
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CAUSED BY HUMORS 111 THE BLOOD
The skiri' is provided with countless pores and glands, through
which an evaporation is going on continually, day and night. This is
nature's method of regulating the temperature of our bodies, and pre
serving the natural appearance of the skin. These pores and glands
are connected with tiny veins and arteries through which they receive,
from the blood, the necessary nourishment and strength to preserve
their healthy condition, and enable them to perform this duty.
So long as the blood is pure and rich the skin will be free from
eruption or disease, but when the circulation becomes infected with
acids and humors its nourishing and healthful properties are lost, and
its acrid, humor-laden condition causes irritation and inflammation of
the delicate tissues and fibres of the pores and glands, and the effect is
shown in Eczema, Acne, Tetter, Salt Rheum, or somelother distressing,
dishgurtng skin disease.
These humors get into the
blood through a deranged or inactive
condition of the system. Those
members whose duty it is to coifed
and expel the refuse matter of the
body fail to properly do their work,
and this surplus or waste matter is
left in the system to sour and fer
ment and be absorbed into the
blood. There are also certain
other humors which get into the
blood from without. The juice or
milk from poisonous plants, such
as poison oak, poison ivy, nettle
rash, etc., enters through the open
pores of the skin and takes root in
the blodd. This causes a breaking
out which remains for a time and
then disappears, but returns at
certain seasons of each year.
The cause of all skin troubles can be traced to some kind of humor
in the blood. Smooth, healthy skins are only possible where the circu
lation is pure; and therefore the cure of any skin affection can only
come through a thorough cleansing of this vital fluid. Salves, washes,
lotions, etc., are valuable only for their ability to keep the skin clean,
allay the itching, and tend to reduce inflammation; they cannot correct
the trouble because they do not reach the blood.
S. S. S. cures skin diseases of every character and kind, because it
purifies the blood. It goes down into the circulation and removes the
humors that are causing the trouble, builds up the weak, acrid blood,
and completely cures
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Those who suffer with distress after eating, lot of appetite, bil
iousness, nausea, flatujence, and other derangements of the digestive
organs, should use the best means to get the Btomach well and strong.
Probably no other remedy will restore you to health so surely and
so naturally as
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Beecham's Tills immediately relieve acute dyspepsia, and are
equally beneficial in chronic cases of indigestion and stomach weakness.
They gently stimulate the digestive organs and have a wholesome
effect upon the liver and bowels, cleansing and toning the entire di
gestive tract. . Beecham's Fills relieve the weakened organs, establish
healthy conditions, improve the general health, create appetite and
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What Makes a Bank Strong ?
The Pendleton Savings Bank
Capital and Surplus $250,000.00
STOCKHOLDERS.
T. J. Morris
H"ert Boylen
. A. Devlin
J. W. Maloney
A. E. Lambert
J. H. Raley
R. Alexander
T. O. Montgomery
W. J. Furnish
R. T. Cox
Joseph Basler
E. Boettch.er
L. Dusenberry
E. W. McComaa
A. C. Koeppen
J. N. Teal
Frank 8. Curl
Daily East Oregonian, by carrier, 15 cents per week.
ECZEMA FORTY YEAJtS.
I want to tall you tha great
food I received from tbe nse of
B. 8. 8. I am now 75 years old
and bad suffered with Zosema
for forty years, and could find
nothing to oure me until I tried
8. 8. 8. I suffered intensely
with the ltohing and burning;
pustules would form from
which there flowed a stloky
fluid; crusts would oome on the
skin, and when ssratohed off,
tbe ekln was left as raw as a
piece of beef. I suffered agony
tbe long years I was afflicted,
but when I used 8. 8. 8. 1 found
a perfect cure. There has
never been any return of the
trouble. O. H. EVANS.
Stockholm, Web.
Eczema, Acne, Tetter,
Salt Rheum, Poison
Oak, Poison Ivy, and
all eruptions and dis
eases of the skin.
When S. S. S. has
driven the humor from
the blood, and cooled
and cleansed the acid
heated circulation,
so
THE IIIGCEST DISU
OF ICE CREAM.
we serve will not be found too
largo for enjoyment. It Is so
palatable, refreshing and whole
some. You cannot have too
much of the best of good things.
Stop In and try It the next
time you pass this way. It will
banish fatigue, quench your
thirst and be a treat whose de
licious flavor will linger long In
your memory.
The Delta Candy Factory
, J. K. HAWKINS, Prop.
In judging a bank, always remember that It It the
personnel of the stockholders, Directors and offi
cers that are behind the Institution which give con
fidence to the depositor that his funds are safe.
Is essentially a "Home" Institution. Its stockhold
ers are well known Umatilla county and Oregon
oltlzens. Its constant growth Is the result of care
ftl and conservative management, with the most
liberal treatment for all deserving enterprise.
Montie B. Owtnn
F. W. Vincent
E. L. Smith
C. E. Roosevelt
R. N. St&nfleld
Clementine F, Lewis
Marlon Jack
Al Page '
P. Thempaon
Estate of D,