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lal!y, kIi luonvha. by mall U.&0
Pally, ihrv numth. by mall 1.25
Patl. me njonlh. by mall .SO
Illy, mie year, by carrier 7.M
Itally. U numilm. by carrier 8.75
Pallv. throe muntb. by i-arrler 1.0.'
Dally, on month, by carrier 5
Weekly, on yon, by mall 1.B0
Weekly, nix month, by mall 75
Weeklv. four months, by mall 50
l3il W 'eefcly, one year, by mall 1.50
Beml W 'eokly, fix month, by mall... .75
8ml Weekly, fo'ir montba, by mall.. .50
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Portland. Orriron.
Chirac Itnrenu. 009 Security building.
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Member 1'nlted Preat Association.
Telephone Main 1
Entered at tbe poatofftce at Pendleton,
Oregon. x-ond claa mall matter.
.UNION OUlABE
How soon the great dead are
forgot! They lie
Learning grander things, for
they must know
The silent, gray-eyed mystery
of rain.
And hear amid the dark the
daisies grow.
They lie, not knowing how the
world forgets,
Nor raring for the Idle feet
that pass;
For God has much for the great
dead to do,
Within His dusky city 'neath
the grass. ,
Archlbold Sullivan In Smart
Set.
UMATILLA FINANCES.
The comment of Expert E. A. John
. son. who recently examined the rec
ords of Umatilla county, upon the ex
cillent financial condition of the
county. Is worthy of being reproduced
several times for the edification of
the taxpayers of the county.
Mr. Johnson said In closing his re
port: "The general financial condition of
Umatilla county should be a subject
Of Interest to the taxpayers of the
' county, as it must be a source of pride
to the board of county commissioners.
With a cash balance in the county
coffers of 173.481.74: a registered In
debtedness, uncalled, of but $31,415.
98; registered warrants called to
within a few months from date, and
assessed valuation of over $42,000.
000, tho county is unquestionably In
better financial condition today than
ever before."
That the county is now being ad
ministered by business men in a bus.
lr.es way who are above and beyond
political influences or petty, selfish
aims, is apparent from the excellent
condition of the county. And that
the people have re-elected two and
three times the same officials Is evi
dence that the people know what they
are doing.
A TIP TO SHEEPMEN.
That Oregon sheepmen have been
flimflammed out of about $600,000
by the unjustlfiedly low prices of
wool this fpring and summer is now
apparent from sales elsewhere.
This should be a kip to Oregon
sheepmen to go slow next year, and
the next, and the next, and so on ad
Infinitum.
Wool is a staple article, Independent
of buyers' combinations, "stuffed"
market reports or any other tempor
ary condition. It is like gold, wheat,
lumber, fish, iron or copper. It Is a
world commodity having a fixed place
hi the markets and In the needs of
human kind, and the producer should
get what It Is worth.
If buyers and commission houses
Join together to hammer It down tem
porarily, that does not diminish the
value of the wool. Growers need not
fear as to the ultimate market. Wool
Is ag good as the gold and there Is
no wool district In the world In which
banks will not gladly help woolgrow
ers to hold over, if prices are not sat
Ufactory. The woolbuyers and commission
houses have simply put Into their own
pockets $600,000 belonging to Oregon
sheepmen In the year 1908.
Will you let them do it again?
IGNORANCE THE ASSASSIN.
Every statistical report on mortal
ity among babies in the large cities
cries out In thunder tones for some
intellectual or educational test before
permitting people to marry.
It is said that rank, crass, Inexcus
able Ignorance on the part of Inex
lerlenced, vicious and Indolent pa
rents, actually killed 669 children un
der one year of age in Chicago dur
lr.g July.
Filthy home. Improper care and
unwholesome food, especially milk,
aro assigned as tho causes and the
health department declares that pro
sper care and humane treatment would
have saved at least two-third of these,
young lives.
You nee It every day, not In Chlca
Ko, hut In I'm.itiilu county and Pen
dleton, the frlniuful work of this as
sassin. Ignorance Young people,
mere "kids" themselves, marry" with
out knowledge of its meaning or re
sponslhllity and immediately begin to
bring stupid, sickly, Idiotic children
into existence for society to .rear, ed
ucate, support and perhaps at lust,
bury.
There should b some test for mar
riage, some assurance on the part of
young people that their Ignorance will
not add to the sum of human misery
nor heap up added burdens for soci
ety to bear.
TIIK STORY Or RAINFALL.
"Two hundred trillion cubic feet of
water on an average falls on the sur
face of the United. States every year."
This startling statement was made by
Dr. W. J. - McGee, secretary of the
Inland waterways commission, and an
expert connected with the bureau of
soils of the department of agricul
ture. This was not a haphazard state
ment on the part of one whose origi
nal research has made his name fa
miliar to scientists the whole world
over, but was made In the course of
an Interview which had for its pri
mary object a better knowledge of
the conservation of water and Its
uses for the benefit of mankind.
"Two hundred trillion cubic feet of
water," said Prof. McGee, "is, to the
average mind, but two and a lot of
ciphers. To be more explicit. It
equals about 10 Mississippi, and that
volume of water Is the entire basis
of our prosperity.
"The United States has an area of
three million square miles, but that
area could be cut directly In twain
I and with the same amount of rain
I fall we could sustain the same pop
ulation that we have today, conduct
i the same enterprises and raise the
same products, a condition which I
do not believe most people appreci
ate. We know very well, if we stop
to consider, that the market price of
any comirtodity is dependent on th
water supply.
"We buy land in the eastern halt
"f the United States and say that
there are so many acres in this par
cel or In that, but in reality we buy
water. This is fundamental. Water
N the first of our resources. It Is
the natural resolvent. It is power,
fertility, everything. And being fun
damental, values begin with the
water supply.
"With the 10 Mississippi falling
upon the land of the United States
every year, two Mississippi. run off,
thus one-fifth of the waterfall from
the heavens flows Into the sea.
"Of the eight Mississippi. remain
ing about five Mississippi are ab
sorbed passing off into the air to be
precipitated again and again. A
fraction, in part, passes Into the earth
and slowly reaches the oceans, while
another fraction Is consumed passing
into chemical combinations, such
plant growth, etc."
THE LOS ANGELES WAY.
The city and county of Los Angeles,
California, have voted to Issue $3,
500,000 in bonds for use in puying the
expenses of constructing good roads
Ir. that part of the Golden state, and
this action displays the commendable
spirit on the part of the taxpayers
and citizens down there.
Road building is purely a business
matter, and the people of Los Angeles
will not ask the state or tho United
States to construct the roads for them
They have resolved to build them
without further delay; and it will
pay, Just as It does for a city to Im
prove her highways by paving. .
Los Angeles has gone ahead at a
rapid pace during the past 10 years,
all of which is due to the progressive-
new of her population who do things
In a strictly business way knowing
that what Is Bpent In the way of sub
stantial improvements will be return,
ed several times through the Increase
of property values and the greater de
mand to own real estate, in the vicin
ity. The Umatilla-Morrow county dis
trict fair Is to be congratulated upon
securing Signor De Caprlo's excellent
band for the coming fair. This com
pany of musicians furnished the mu
sic for the first fair and was a leading
attraction. Patrons of the fair are
therefore assured of good music,
which Is a large part of the entertain
ment. Of course the legislature will elect
George E. Chamberlain to the United
States senate. He was regularly
elected by the people of Oregon and
the majority of the legislature la
pledged to support the people's
choice. The way to have a republl-
can senator Is for republicans to vote
for Huch. Oregon Is . a republican
state by at least 30,000 majority, and
whoever is the people's choloo is un
doubtedly the republican choice, be.
cause the republicans are in the ma
jority by long odds. So why complain
about It?, 'It Is tho will of the re
lublican party and the republican
legislature will heed it without doubt.
With liiahn democrats ' hopelessly
split on the Mormon issue, it lool,...
like a rousing republican victory !u
the Mem state this year.
THE HEST OF LIFE.
Not till I'fe's heat Is cooled,
The headlong rush slowed U a
ipiiet pace,
And every purblind passion that has
ruled
i Our noisier years, at last
Spurs us in vain, and weary of thd
race,
We care no more who loses or who
wins
Ah; not till all the best of life seem.s
past
The best of life begins.
To toll for only fame,
Handcla.ppngs and the fickle gusts
of praise,
For place or power or gold to gild a
name
Above the grave whereto
All paths will bring us, were 'to lose
our days.
We, on whose ears youth's passing
bell has tolled.
In blowing bubbles, even as children
do,
Forgttttlng we are old.
Put the world widens when
Such hope of trivial gain that ruled
us Ilea
Broken among our childhoods toys,
for then
We win to self-control ;
And mail ourselves In manhood, and
there rise
Upon us from the vast and windless
height
Those clearer thoughts that are unto
the soul
What stars are to the night.
Spectator.
DEFENDS EOTAL SUFFRAGE;
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, -president of
the xL.V England Woman Suffrage
association, has sent a letter to the
London Times, In reply to Mrs.
Humphrey Ward's recent attaek.upon
the oriual suffrage movement In
America. Mrs. Ward said that the
movement in this country was strong
In the second third of the 19th cen
tury, but Is now almost extinct, owing
to the organized opposition of women.
Mrs. Howe says:
"Nothing could be further from the
facts. In the second third of the 19th
century the movement was small and
unpopular. It has grown steadily In
numbers and strength ever since.
The change of sentiment In Its favor
among women has been especially
marked. The National American Wo
men Suffrage association grows In
membership every year, and Its annu
al Income has risen from $2"44. In
to $ 2 n . fi r, 2 In 1907.
"Of the 45 states of the bjnion. there
are anti-suffrage associations In only
four, and small anti-suffrage com
mittees In four more, while there are
suffrage associations In 32 states and
several territories.
"In New York, at the time of the
last constitutional convention, the suf
fragists secured more than 300.000
signatures; the ' anti-suffraglsts only
15.000. The woman suffrage peti
tions presented to the recent consti
tutional convention In Michigan bore
175.000 signatures. There were no
petitions on the other side. In Chi
cago, not long ago, 97 organizations,
with an aggregate membership of
more than 10.000 women, petitioned
for a woman suffrage clause In the
new city charter, while only one small
organization of women petitioned
against it.
"In every state where petitions for
suffrnge and remonstrances against It
have been sent to the legislature, the
petitioners have always outnumbered
the remonstrants. On the. only occa
sion when the government triok an
official referendum among women on
the subject (In Massachusetts In
18.95. ) the women's vote was In fa
vor of suffrage 26 to 1.
"Of the women In America who
take any lively Interest In woman
suffrage either way, the vast major
ity are In favor."
Mrs. Howe quotes a large amount
of testimony to show that woman
suffrage has worked well In practice.
She adds:
"Mrs. Ward ascribes all the defeats
of woman suffrage bills to the organ
ized opposition of women. In most
of the states where such defeats have
taken place, there was no anti-suffrage
organization of women at all.
In the few cases where these organ
izations existed there Is no reason io
think that their Influence turned the
scale. Whittler said years ago that
the men who were opposed to equal
rights for women merely used the
opposition of a few women as a cloak
for their own hostility. This Is equal
ly true today. The great obstacle to
wbman suffrage Is the Inertia of con
servatism, added to the strenuous op
position of the liquor Interests and all
the vicious elements."
"Will," said a newly married friend
to Will Maupln, the Nebraska poet,
I'm In a quantlry as to Just what I
should call my wifo's mother. I don't
like to call her 'Mother-in-law' on
account of all the comic-paper Jokes
on that name, and somehow there's
a certain sacredness about the word
Mother' that makes me hesitate to
apply It to any but my own."
"Well," said Maupln, "I can only
tell you of my own experience. The
first year we were married I address
ed my wife's mother as "Say'; after
that we called her 'Grandma,'"
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JAPS AXWER HOnSOW
Comparatively silent when Repre
sentative Richmond Pearson Hobson,
of Alabama. let loose his Japanese
war alarms In the house last session,
the Japanese press has yielded to the
temptation to reply to his speech at
the Denver convention. According to
advices to the state department, the
Jap Journalists have done It In an ar
tistic fashion.
For instance, the Japan Chronicle
says that Captain Hobson was once
less hostile to the Japanese, and re-,
fcrs to his visit to Kobe, where he
addressed the Young Men's Christian
association, us the possible turning
point.
"What did they do to Mr. Hobson
'fTCT
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y&J&mg?
The ordeal through which the expectant mother must rass is such that
she looks forward with t'rtad u the hour when she shall feel the thrill
of motherhood, livery woman should know that the danger and pain
of child-birth ca:i be avokleJ bv the use of Mother's Friend, which
renders piiaMe a I tne par:?,
assisting nature in its work.
By its aid thousands of
women have passed this
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irnoit or mrormHtion to women nt irv.
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Songs by Robert Fenner from the Salt air Palace, Salt Lake
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Absolutely fire-proof and the best
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A Better Show
ADULTS 10c
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210 E. Court Street. Phone Black 3171 ,
PERFECT T0NIG
that made him so censorious of Ja
pan, so determined to believe that
Japan had her eye on the United
States and some fine day would be
found In possession of Washington?"
asks that paper. "Can It be possible
that the members of the Y. M. C. A.
fell asleep when Mr. Hobson lectur
ed them on the duty of loving one's
enemies? We are afraid to speculate
further on what may have occurred,
but It Is certainly very curious that
Mr. Hobson's strong antipathy to Ja
pan dates from about the period he
was entertained by Japanese Chris
tlans In Kobe.
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