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If mn only understood
That the hrart that sins must
aorrow.
That the hateful mind tomor-
row
Heaps Us barren harvest, weep-
lng.
- Starving, reeling not, nor sleep-
lng;
TenlernM would fill their be-
lng.
They would s-e with Pity's see-
lng.
If they only understood.
Prom "Poems of Peace," by
James Allen.
OLD Ql rSTlO.V OF TAXATION.
The failure of the state of Oregon
to collect )22.0uO state taxes due from
Yamhill county, and the decision of
Judge Galloway of that county that
the state tax law Is unconstitutional,
opens up once more that world-old
question of taxation with which Ore
gon has struggled since she was or
ganized as a territory.
In the first place It seems that It Is
Impossible to secure an equal and uni
form rate of assessment In a state
as widely diversified as Oregon. What
would be right and Just In the valley
counties where railroads and market
ing conveniences are plentiful would
not be right and Just for sparsely set
tled and Isolated eastern Oregon
counties and so the legislature, human
as it Is, is unable to make a law
which will be Just and equitable for
all parts of the great commonwealth
alike, it seems.
It seems that the present table of
proportions, under which the state
tax is apportioned from the different
counties, base, on a five year assess
ment, is about ns near right as It is
possible to secure. But Judge Gal
loway s'iys this method Is unconstitu
t' -nal.
If the state tax Is based on county
expenses, the sparsely settled coun
ties having long distances with little
population, heavy court expenses and
much county 'road t keep up would
be taxed out of proportion to the
property within their borders.
And on th'- other hand, the small,
compact counties having dense popu
lations, short distances, small amount
of roads to keep; up. and compara
tively small court expenses, would pay
an amount less than they should pay,
In accordance with their property
values.
' the law which would suit one
section, which would be Just and equi
table frr 0ne section would not be for
the other section and this question Id
really one of the big problems beforo
the people of Oregon.
With 33 counties and each with a
different schedule of values and each
with different environment and dif
ferent needs, the state of Oregon Is In
chaos as to tax laws.
It seems that the final solution of
the state tax question Is for the state
to have a method of levying taxes
wholly Independent and outside of
county valuations or assessment. The
Htate should have a way of levying,
high and above the chaotic county
method.
OPEN THE RIVERS.
The first report of the Inland
Waterways commission appointed by
President Roosevelt last spring, shows
that there are now In the United
Ktates 25,000 miles of navigated rivers
and an equal distance that may be
made navigable by proper action of
congress.
Forty-two states, Including Oregon,
Washington, and Idaho, boast of nav
tgabje streams, and the commission
finds that practically every one of
these 42 states and territories have
non-navigable rivers, the use of which
would be a direct benefit to the peo
ple at large.
Oregon Is fortunate In having a
representative In Congressman Ellis
on the rivers and harbors committee
of the house and with the co-operation
of commercial bodies, shippers.
Influential cltlreru and active com
munities. Congressman Ellis will be
able to secure favorable action for
Oregon rivers and harbors at another
session of congress.
The commission appointed by the
president to compile statistics on the
streams of the United States will have
a mass of information for the next
tension of congress and there will be
no txcuse for failure to open many of
the important streams to navigation.
The east should not and perhaps
will not stand as a barrier to western
development In future. The needs
and scope of this great section of the
country are now better understood
than ever before and western mem
bers of congress are given more rec
ognition and looked upon as repre
senting a really Important part of the
nation.
A PROSPKROl'S TRIBE.
The East Oregonlan takes pleasure
1:' calling the attention of Commission
er Francis E. Leupp, of the Indian
department, to the excellent financial,
moral and mental condition of the
Umatilla tribe of Indians.
This tribe has a greater proportion
of educated and enlightened Christian
Indians than any other In the north
west, unless it be their cousins, the
Nex Perce. A large proportion of the
tribe conducts their own affairs, buy,
sell, trade and traffic with the whiten
and are highly capable of caring for
themselves and becoming citizens.
The tribe is In better condition now
than ever before. Old contentions
have been wiped out. old animosities
destroyed, old factional fights forgot
ten and the reservation Is peaceable
and progressive and is a credit to the
state and to the nation and to the In
dian department.
For the past few years, after the
departure of Major Charles E. Wilklns
and before the coming of Major Mc
Fatridge. as agent of the Umatilla res
ervation, matters were In chaos there
A number of agents and special
agents gave up the fight In disgust
and the entire tribe was In an up
roar. It was the worst period on the
reservation since Its organization 40
years ago.
Hut Major McFatridge has cleared
up conditions admirably. He has suc
ceeded in enforcing the rules of the
department wtlh the least amount of
friction. There are but one or two
miserably small fights being made
against him and the great mass of
the people of Pendleton and Umatilla
county are with him.
It seems that It will be to the vital
interest of the tribe to keep Major
McFatridge In charge of affairs there
as long as he will possibly stay. The
salary should be raised and It should
be made a position which will attract
and hold a man of ability, vigor and
honesty, such as Major McFatridge
has proven to be.
DEMOCRATIC HISTORY.
Seventy-six years ago the first dem
ocratlc national convention met In
Baltimore. The democratic party was
old, even then, but conventions were
new.
The most remarkable feature of the
democratic party, historically consid
ered, U Its vitality.
It came into a definite and separ
ate existence during the second Wash
ington administration and placed Its
first candidate for president In the
field In 1796.
Four years later It was successful
In 'the election and entered upon a
lease of power that was all but un
broken for 60 years. It burled the
federalist party, witnessed the death
of the whlgs, smothered a half dozen
smaller opposition parties and was
supreme until 1860.
Dividing within itself in that year,
the party permitted the success of the
then four-year-old republican party.
The civil war followed, and for 48
years the republicans have had prac
tically unbroken control of the gov
ernment. IRRIGATION' IN PERU.
This government's active Interest in
reclaiming arid land in the west by
irrigation is not a solitary or excep
tional movement In the world of to
day. Irrigation is as old as civiliza
tion, but Just now it is receiving more
attention than ever before, and many
gigantic problems are being worked
out by the foremost engineers.
Peru Is one of the latest to turn Its
attention to developing waste land by
bringing water upon It from rivers
which have always gone idle to the
sea. It is true that irrigation In Peru
has been carried on since before the
days of Atahualpa, 400 years ago, bat
not on a scale to be compared with
what is now comtemplated.
A report to this government by
Charles M. Pepper, special agent at
Lima, says experts from the United
States geological survey and from the
reclamation service have been In Pern
for some time, employed by that gov
ernment to Investigate the possibili
ties of Irrigation.
The reclamation of 2.500,000 acres
between the mountains and the sej
has been pronounced feasible. The
rivers are not large, and the projects
la Peru would not compare for six?
with some of the great Irrigation
schemes In the United States. But the
marvelous fertility of the land In the
South American republic, and Its fine
climate, assures success in the highest
degree.
The arid lands of the United Put
with five or six Inches of rain a year
might be considered well watered If
compared with some of Peru's dry
wastes which are to be reclaimed.
The showers that visited them are few
r.nd far between once In from 10 to
14 years.
Put when water Is put on such land
its fertility Is phenomenal. The soil
has lain Inert or centuries without
any run-off to leach out the fertility
stored from time Immemorial. This
has been found true In our own west.
Jhe driest region often has the stmng
(t soil, once It is brought under Irri
gation and its salts dissolved and made
available for plants.
Peru's river, which are to be utiliz
ed, flow down from snowy mountains
and cross the arid country Just as
many of the rivers of our own arid
regions do. To that extent, the west
ern part of the United States and the
western portion of Peru have many
features in common and the engineer
ing experts who have gone down there
from this country can make good use
of the experience and technical
knowledge gained at home.
It Is worth $23,400, the amount
which Pendleton saloons would have
contributed to the city during the next
year In licenses, to know that for six
days there has not been a drunken
man on the streets of the city and not
a solitary drunken Inmate In the city
Jail. This Is an advertisement that
should attract a lot of those people
who have said they were looking for
a dry town In which to buy a home
and educate their children. Pendle
ton Invites you to make good. She
has done her part.
THE I'MIEARI) AXSYVEK.
"Oh, thou art hard," Youth cried, be
seeching Life.
"Why dost thou force on me the
yoke of pain.
And bow my shoulders, proud and
strong, today
Beneath the weight of age? Oh, I
would fain
"With leaf-crowned head and laugh
lng mouth live on.
And praise you with my songs; with
happy eyes
Gaze on the vistas where my dancing
feet
Will take me. But you make me
over wise.
"With knowledge, sadden, and with
tears bedim
My outlook till the world seems but
a waste.
Why hast thou made me fair and
strong 'and glad,
Only to wreck thy handiwork?
Make haste! Make haste!"
But Life, with eyes inscrutable and
calm,
And quiet lips, deigned not the least
reply.
Youth, whom she loved, embittered,
ceased his plaint,
An.l hurried past the serried years,
to die.
The lone, gaunt woman smote her
milklesri breasts,
And clenched her hands. Her moan
resounded far. '
"The Youth I love I may not nurse,"
she cried.
"I may not show him where the
right paths are.
"X may not guide his steps nor ease
his care,
Nor raise him If he falls, although I
yearn
To be his aid. I his own mother, may
not even speak,
For only through my silence will
he learn."
Hallett Abend.
SUNSET AT GUAYAQUIL.
The days and nights at Guayaquil
are of equal length. The sun knocks
off promptly at 6 o'clock In the eve
ning and gets up at 6 in the morning
with equal regularity the whole year
around. There is no twilight, no
gloaming, no Interval whatever be
tween daylight and dark only a bril
liant illumination, the sudden disap
pearance of a red ball Into a blue
NATURE SPARES
The Strtckca. Rom From Grief.
What a fortunate provision of nature
It Is, that deprives the rose of ir-.nuil
suffering; for how poignant would bo it
grief to discover. In the height of Its
blooming glory, that a canker fed at Its
heart, and that Its beauty and fragranrt
were doomed forever. Nature always
spares the suffering; she Is a veritable
store-house of pleasing rewards, for
those who seek her aid. In ths years
gone by falling hair and grayness have
cast a gloom over the Uvea of thousands
of young women, but thanks to the In
vestigations of scientists the true cauc
of hair destruction Is now known to be
a germ or paraalte that burrows Into
the hair follicles. Newbro's Herplclrie
absolutely destroys this germ, thiif
permitting the hair to grow as na
ture Intended. Sold by leading drt--glsts.
Bend 10c. In stamps for irr,l.
to The Harplclde Co., Detroit T'l h.
Two is ( cents and 11.00.
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. FAR-REACHIHG BLOOD DISORDER
Even in its early stages Catarrh is almost intolerable, caused by the
ituffv feeling in the n6se, the bmzinp noises in the ars, the continual
"hawking and spitting" difficult breathing, etc But whenjlhe blood
becomes thoroughly polluted from the catarrhal matter, theinflammation
extends to the bronchial tubes, causing hoarseness, and oiaggravating
cough ; the stomach is affected, resulting In dyspepsia, i effcppetite and
strength, and gradually all the mucous membranes of tbAbd$become dis
eased and the system upset and deranged. Frequently the ludneys and
bladder are attacked, and the constant passage of impure blood through tht
lungs, diseases these important members, and Catarrh terminates in Con
sumption. Catarrh is a deep-seated blood disease, and must be treated con
stitutionally, for it is beyond the reach of local treatment. S. S. S. cures
Catarrh by cleansing the blood of all the impure catarrhal matter and at the
same time building up the entire system. It goes down and attacks the,
cry
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ocean, a spread of flame coler over
all the western sky for a few min
utes and a purple haze In the east.
Then the surface of the ocean, like
the heavens, is lighted! with millions
of strange and shifting stars, for the'
water is so Impregnated with phos
phorus that each tiny wave is tipped
with light, and the foam that follows
in the wake of the vessel Is often
like a stream of fire. Sometimes you
?an see porpoises swimming along the
cow of the vessel livid with phosphor
escent light and followed by a streak
of sparks like a comet's tall.
The Southern Cross, with the right
arm tipped out at proper angle, lies
straight ahead in the midst of myriads
of unknown worlds that look strange
o those unaccumtomed to the north
ern constellations. Under the left
arm Is a large black spot In the heav
ens, brightened by only a single mod
est star, which the sailors call "the
devil's dinner bag." Over the stern
of the vessel In the early evening you
can plainly distinguish the familiar
constellation of the Great Bear, but It
goes to bed with the children.
DISCOURTESY TO WIVES.
A well-known Spokane man met
two women, stopped and conversed
with them. As he did so he raised
his hat In salutation and removed his
cigar. When he left them his hat was
again raised. In this he did ns every
well-bred gentleman would do.
Soon afterward he met his wife on
the street and stopped to talk with
her, but there was no motion of hand
to hat either at meeting or parting.
Everybody knows that the incident
Is by no means unusual. Yet Is there
any reason why the wife should not
receive the same courteous recogni
tion as the mere acquaintance?
When a girl takes upon herself the
marriage vows at the altar Is it right
that she should thereby give up ah
claim to the little courtesies of life
TT 7Tmi?-virrK9 Ki child-birth. The thought of
An aTkiaaB Ar J thc suffering in store for her,
jJL J J0 fM mm MxILh, robs the expectant mother of
pleasant anticipations, and casts over her a shad6v of pjoom.
Thousands of women have found the use of Mother's Friend during
pregnancy robs confinement of much pain and insures safety to life
of mother and child. This liniment is a god-send to women at the
critical time. Not onlv does Mother's Friend carry women safely
through the perils of child-birth, but
the coming event, reIievesTTi
morning sickness, ana oth-1
er discomforts of this period. hTSJj
Bold br draerkU at tl.00 per bottle. Book
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THI BR1DFIELD KEGULATUK CO
AUaata, Ca.
The t ondloton Savings Bank
Rcpcrtjof Condition.'June 30, 1908.
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts 825,904.29
Warrants 193.25
Banking house 50,000.00
Furniture and fixtures 10,000.00
Other real estate 1,500.00
Caflh and due from bonks 292,267.90
$1,179,865.63
LIABILITIES
Capita stock I 100,000.00
Hurplus 100,000.00
Undivided profits 63,727.32
Deposits 916,138.21
i
tl,179,66g,63'
I, J. W. Maloney, cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly
swear that the above statement la true to the best of my knowledge
and belief. J. W. MALONEY, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1st day of July, 1908.
A. E. LAMBERT,
(Seal.) Notary Public for Oregon.
Byers' Best Flour
; I in made from the choicest wheat that grows. Good bread la assur
' ed when DYERS' BEST FLOUR la need. Bran, Short, Steam Rolled
Barley always oo band.
II PENDLETON ROLLER MILLS
W. S. DYERS,
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disease at its head, in me circulation,
removes every trace of the Impurity that is
causing the trouble. Then as rich, pure
blood circulates through the body, the in
flamed membranes commence to heal, the,
mucous discharges grow less and finally
cease, and all the disagreeable and disgusting
svnintoras of Catarrh disappear. S. S. S. has
previously paid to her by the man
she marries? Why should a husband
be less polite to his wife than other
men are to her?
Why Is It that when you see a man
greet a woman on the street without
the usual salutation of a gentleman
you invariably say, whether you know
them or not, "He's her husband?"
Spokesman-Review.
HOW I.ONO DO DREAMS LAST?
How long do dreams last? A Ger
man savant Is Investigating the mat
ter. A writer In the London Chroni
cle says: "The dream comes In the
few seconds before the awakening,
and has no relation to time or space.
This Is clear enough to the man who
has ever been placed under an anaes
thetic for a short while and found
time and space eliminated.
As an experiment this writer was
placed under a whiff of chloroform by
a doctor. Absolute unconsciousness
supervened. Then a return of con
sciousness, the question of the uni
verse; up through layers of conscious
ness, with always the feeling. "Now 1
have solved it" and the "no" and the
"yes" alternating through centuries of
thought. And then the quizzical face
of the doctor remembered after a
million years. "How long have
I been under?' The experimenter
struggled up, and saw the doctor with
his watch In hand. 'Ten seconds,' the
doctor said. And the dreamer had
been outside time for a time that has
no measure."
DODGING WORK.
Which way arc you tramping pard?"
he said
As they leaned on the haystack props.
Anywhere, anywhere under the sun
Except where they have good crops.
Selected.
Read the East Oregonlan.
Is an ordeal which all women
approach with dread, for noth
ing compares to the pain of
it gently prepares the system for
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