PAGE FOUR.
DAILY BAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1009.
EIGHT PAGES.
AN ftNPEI'KNDEN'T NKWSl'A PER.
rnblUbrd Dally. Weekly and Semi Weakly.
tt I'endleton. Oregon, by the
AST OKEGONIAN PUBLISHING CO.
SI RSCKIITICKN RATES.
Dally, i year, by mall 85.00
Dally, ill mntitba. by mall 2.50
bally, tbree months, by mall 1.28
Dally, one month, by mall 50
Dally, one year, by carrier 7.50
Dally, all months, by carrier S.T5
Dally, tbree montbs. by carrier .... 1.85
Dally, one month, by carrier 05
Weekly, one year, by mall 1.50
Weekly, tlx months, by mall 75
Weekly, fonr months, by mall 50
ami-Weekly, one year, by mall .... 1.50
Rami Weekly, six months, by mall . . .75
ami Weekly, fovr months, by mall . .50
The Pally East Oregonlan Is kept on sale
at the Oregon Newa Co., 147 6tb street,
Portland, Oregon.
Chicago ltureau. 008 Security Building.
Washington? D. C, Bureau, 501 Four
teenth street, N. W.
Member United ITess Association,
falepbone
Entered at the poatofflce at Pendleton.
Oregon, as second-class mall matter
SONG OF THE SWORD.
Take up the sword for the splen
did strife.
Life is the battle that leads to
life:
Far on the hills are the bugles
a-ring.
Far on the hills are the legions
a-swing:
Take up the sword, with Its
blade a-gleam
The sword of the soul in the
strife of dream!
Take up the sword of the strug-
gle and go.
Love lifts the bugle and life
hears it blow;
Morning by morning, and night
after night,
The banners of beauty are borne
in the light;
Take up the sword and away
to war,
Till the gates be won and the
strife is o'er.
Take up the sword of the mani
fest will
Ho for the banner that beacons
the hill,
Ho for the struggle that wins
to the rest
Of doing one's noblest and bat
tling one's best;
Take up the sword, and the
arm will grow strong
With the strength of the
trust and the sweet of the
song!
Baltimore Sun.
v
r
GUARD THE COAL LANDS.
The news stories bearing upon the
Alaska coal cases throw light upon
Secretary Ballinger's attitude toward
conservation and show how his ideas
differ radically from those held by
Pinchot and other true friends of con
servation. In Alaska there are coal deposits
almost equal to those of Pennsylva
nia, according to the dispatches.
Within the past few years people have
been trying to get title to this land
and some 700 claims are now before
the department. When Garfield was
secretary of the interior an Investiga
tion of these claims was made and It
was found that many of the filings
were made by "dummies." So they
were recommended for cancellation.
But when Ballinger ,who was for
merly an attorney for one of the coal
companies, became secretary he had
the cases "clear listed" and took other
steps to have them expedited. Then
the quarrel arose between the Interior
department and the chief forester's
fflce.
On one hand Pinchot and the for
estry men and with them L R. Glavis,
chief of the field division for the
general land office, stand for close
scrutiny of entries upon coal lands
with a view of protecting the interests
of the public; upon the other hand
Secretary Ballinger and his assistants
favor a "policy of expedition."
In this controversy Secretary Bal
linger is in the wrong. There is no
need In changing the routine In order
to rush the coal claims through the
department. The coal has been In Al
aska for many years and It will keep.
It would be far better If It could be
held by the government until congress
passed a law providing for the de
velopment -t the coal beds In the In
terest of the public. There is already
too much of a monopolization of the
coal and timber lands of the west.
The public Is now paying exorbitant
prices for both lumber ana coal be
cause of this fact. If the filings on
Alaska coal are allowed it will simply
mean that much more area for the
coal barons of the country. The en
trymen will never develop the coal
fields. They will sell their claims for
a song; Just as entrymen on Umber
lands have been forced to do.
Should the Ballinger policy prevail
with reference to the Alaska coal
lands It will only be a few years until
the same combination that owns the
coal beds of this country will also
own the Alaska coal. Then the Al
aska mines will be developed when
the barons get good and ready and la
the meantime the people of the west
will pay the trust price for coal or do
without It.
While the Alaska coal is still un
tnken the government should guard
it with zealous care.
GIVE IT A TRIAL.
In an interview in this paper yes
terday L N. POttlton, Kansas farmer,
predicted mat dry land alfalfa may
be raised with success In this country
Hi reaches that belief through having
sten alfalfa grown with success In
western Kansas where the rainfall Is
about the same as in eastern Oregon.
It would be worth while for the
farmers of this county to give dry
land alfalfa a good, honest trial. They
have much to gain and nothing to
lose by such action. If a variety of
alfalfa can be raised along with wheat
throughout eastern Oregon then It
should be raised. By raising alfalfa
farmers would secure an annual crop
or several of them, Instead of a bi
ennial crop. They would also be pro
ducing a crop that would make pos
sible the raising of more livestock
than at present and the raising of
livestock always means the enrich
ment of the soil. Furthermore a legu.
mlnous crop like alfalfa would re
store the nitrogen that is taken away
by the wheat and by Increasing the
humus in tho soil would increase the
moisture retaining capacity of the
soil.
Then another significant point about
dry land alfalfa is that It is a great
drouth resisting plant. A recent bul
letin by the Kansas experiment sta
tion had the following:
"Alfalfa starts slowly and it is rath
er difficult, especially In the more
unfavorable locations, to get a stand.
but when the plants are once estab
lished they are extremely hardy, sur
viving drouth and hot winds more
successfully than almost any other
piant, During periods of extreme
drouth alfalfa does not grow much;
sometimes oi Iy one cutting is pro
duced in a season on the uplands in
western Kansas, but the plant
through Its deep and extensive root
system is able to get a sufficient sup
ply of water to sustain life, and when
rain comes !t revives and grows anew."
Within a short time the farmers of
this country will be doing their fall
seeding. They will seed hundreds of
thousands of acres of wheat. Why
not get some dry land alfalfa seed
from Kansas, or some other dry land
section, and give that crop a good,
thorough trial?
A GOOD DECISION.
As to the strictly legal merits of the
case that has Just been decided by
Federal Judge Bean it is difficult for
laymen to judge. But from a stand
point of pubic welfare the case was
properly decided. It Is well for east
ern Oregon that the court has given
the Hill forces a right to go ahead
with their road. The building of the
Hill road means the Introduction of
new blood Irto the railroad activities
of the state. Furthermore it means
that there will be competing lines in
to central Oregon for certainly the
Harriman people will not allow Hill to
have free sway In a territory that is
naturally tributary to the Harriman
system.
Umatilla county Is a sportsman's
paradise. There are few counties
where a man may go out with an auto
one week anj chase a band of elk and
then race with a bear the following
week as Col. J. H. Raley did.
Twenty-five years ago there were
people who said "Pendleton has reach
ed its limit, I want no more of It."
But those people didn't know and the
croakers of today are as far from be
ing right as were the grouchy ones
of old.
The people of Oregon like Harri
man very well. But oh, you Hill.
WHAT'S IN M'CLURES.
Lieutenant Shackleton, whose re
markable Antarctic expedition dis
covered new lands and made the clos
est apporach to the south pole yet
achieved by man, begins his story of
the expedition, entitled "Farthest
.South," in the September McCIure's.
President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot
of Harvard describes the great suc
cess of the new Canadian labor leg
islation under the title of "The Best
Way to Prevent Industrial Warfare."
Sir Harry Johnston, the English sci
entist, gives "An Englishman's Im
pressions of American Rule In Cuba."
George Kibbe Turner discusses the
current temperance question from a
new standpoint In "Beer and the City
Liquor Problem." Jesse Macy, on
"The Efficiency of English Courts,"
and E. T. Brewester on "The Fly
the Disease of the House," contrib
ute two interesting and notable ar
ticles. The fiction includes stories
by Perceval Gibbon, John Fleming
Wilson and Kenneth Brown, and
there are poemB by Florence Wilkin
son and Wllla Slbert Cather.
The Male Graduate I propose to
girdle the earth.
The Female Graduate Why do you
begin on such a big thing?
THE CONSOLER.
Time comes to grief as sleep to weari
ness, On silent sainlles and with shadowy
hair
Sleep bends to sooth the fretful day
rime care,
And Time unto my grief shall do no
less.
But yet a little and his hands shall
press
Above the weeping eyes and close
them there.
Above the trembling lips, till all
despair
Lies like a sleeping child In his caress.
And when my sorrow wakes It will not
be
My sorrow any more', for I shall
smile,
Beholding it. to know it comforted:
No sorrow, tint a ventle niemorv
That still may walk with me a' little
while.
At twilight, or when April boughs
are spread,
Theodosla Harrison In the Cosmo
politan. LET Till: PEOPLE NOMINATE.
U'MSt-lntelligeneer.)
The state senate will display wis
dom if it passes the t'umnludl hill
providing for the nomination of su
preme court judges by the direct pri
mary system instead of by conven
tion, as the legislature provided in an
act at the regular session.
The arguments advanced by law
yers to secure a return to the con
vention system are not comnelllnir
ind a serious mistake was made w hen
t was sought to deprive the people
of the right to select their judges di
rectly if they so desired, as they
have shown they do.
Admitting that in many instances
lawyers may be better judges of the
professional attainments of candi
dates for the supreme bench than
aymen are, it must also be granted
hat the people collectively .are better
qualified to pass upon the important
matter of character than are any
small number of delegates. After all,
haracter is of far greater Import
ance in a member or the supreme
bench than mere knowledge of the
aw, as some recent illustrations have
nlv too forciblv shown.
The brilliant and successful advo
cate does not always make the best
judge by any means; rather to the
country. Nor is an extensive and
minute knowledge of the law neces
sarily accompanied by a judicial
temperament.
The broad question is this: The
people have a right to select for
themselves, both in the nomination
and in the election, the men who are
to serve them in the capacity of
judges of the courts. To argue that
they are not capable of an intelligent
exercise of this right Is necessarily
to araign the whole system of popu
lar government The attempt to de
prive them of this right was an ethi
cal mistake and a political blunder,
which should be corrected speedily.
If the American people are compe
tent to select a national president
they are competent to select a state
judge.
THE UNITED STATES IN CUBA.
"The impartial traveler cannot but
feel a sincere admiration for the re
sults of American intervention in
Cuba. Nowhere has the work of the
Anglo-Saxon been better done or
with happier results than during the
five and a half years (1899-11)02,
1906-1909) of American administra
tion of Cuban affairs. Yellow fever
has been absolutely eliminated, and
other diseases abated or abolished, by
sanitary improvements, supplies of
pure water, the draining of swamps,
and the isolation of hospitals. Ma
cadamized roads make it possible to
reach many places by automobile
or carriage; railways (mainly con
structed with British or Canadian
capital) have been pushed on till all
parts of the Island are accessible
from Havana.
American (and In some cases Brit
ish) capital and energy have restored
to efficiency the sugar, tobacco and
cotton plantations of the bankrupt
Spanish planters some of whom are
in the employ or In actual partner
ship with the newcomers; the cattle
raising Industry of central Cuba is
more flourishing than ever, the
sponge fisheries of Batabano have
been given new life; and a great Im
pulse has been Imparted to the culti
vation of fruits and vegetables. The
deposits of iron ore are being worked
with a new vigor, springs of mineral
water have been discovered or redis
covered, and an extended use (for il
luminating purposes) is being made
of the asphaltum deposits of central
Cuba. The police force has been en
tirely organized, and crime of all
kinds has diminished enormously,"'
McCIure's Magazine.
It Is not difficult to make a cow
ardly man back down when he has
his back up.
Eilors Piano House
Is THE ONLY PLACE WHERE YOU
CAN PURCHASE A PHONOGRAPH
and feel sure that you have secured
THE VERY BEST. Before making
your selection we ask you to call on
us, and hear every make tried out
side by side. We have the Wonderful
Victor, the one and only reliable cyl
inder machine tho Edison, the Colum
bia and other disc phonographs.
We carry a full stock of Victor and
Columbia Double Disc records, the
Edison cylinder records.
81S Main street,
PENDLETON, OREGON.
S.S.S.
S. S. 8. heals Sores and Ulcers in the very simplest way. It just goes
right down into the blood and removes the oausa, and the place is bound
to heal because the impurities and morbid mattors which haw been the
means of keeping the ulcer open are no longer absorbed from the blood.
External applications of salvos, lotions, plasters, etc., can never produce v.
cure becauso thoy tio not reach the source oi the trouble. At best they
can only allay pain or reduce inflammation; such treatment is working on
symptoms and. not reaching the cause. Every nutritive corpuscle in the
blood i3 weakened or infected, they cannot nourish tho fibrous tissue around
the place, but instead they constantly discharge into' tho ilesh around the
ore & quantity of, impure, germ-laden mutter which gradually eats into the
Surrounding healthy tissue and causes the ulcer to enlarge. Since impure
blood is responsible for Sores and Uleors, a modicino that can purify tho
blood is the only hopo of a cure. S. S. S. has long been rocognizud as tho
greatest of r.ll blood purifiers, possessing tho qualities necessary to remove
every impurity from tho blood. While curing the sore or ulcer 8. S. S.
brings about a healthy condition of tho flesh by supplying It with rich,
healthy blood, and thus makes the euro permanent and lasting. Book on
Sores and Ulcers and any medical advice freo to nil who write.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA, GA.
AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK
UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY
Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits
Over One Quarter Million
Out of T000 National Banks in the United
States, Less than 1000 appear on roll of honor
published by Financier, New York.
This bank ranks 365th among all national
banks.
Only bank in Umatilla County appearing on
the roll of honor.
Ranks 3rd among all national banks in state
of Oregon.
'amanri
FRONT
J -'
Located on tin- corner of Seventh and Stark .street, extending through
the block to Park street, Portland, Oregon. Our new Park Street Annex In
the only fireproof hotel building In Oregon.
Rates $1 a Day and Up. European
Byers'
Best
Flour
Don't drudge as you must while using coal, or other
dirty fuel, but have an
S. B. OIL BURNER
in each stove. It will save you time, strength, worry
and expense.
See it in operation at 607 Garden St, Pendleton, Ore.
The first stop towards being Independent Is to own your own
home.
We will help you to start.
MARK MOORHOUSE CO.
Successor to
FRANK B. CLOPTON Sb CO.
Money to loan, Bonds, InTestmeots. Farm and City Heal Estate
Fire Insurance, Life Insurance and Burglar Insurance.
112 E. Court St,
HEALS
SORES AND ULCERS
JEVCiTH
Is made from the choicest wheat that
grows. Good bread is assured when
BYERS' BEST FLOUR is used. Bran,
Shorts, Steam Rolled Barley always on
hand.
Pendleton Roller Mills
Pendleton, Oregon
Phone Main R3
THE STEAMING ROAST
rich with appetizing flavor Is within
your reach If you patronize this butch,
er shop and have a fairly good cook.
It Isn't only that the meat Itself Is
Juicy and tender, but also that we
know how to handle and cut It up.
It's to our interest to take good care
of you, because we want your custom
year In and year out.
Our glass refrigerator counter
keeps the meat cool and absolutely
clean, yet you can see what you are
buying.
Central Meal Market
108 B. Alta 8t 'Phone Mate SS
The
Cornelius
"The House of Welcome1
Col Park and Alder
Portland, Oregon
A hotel where the North
western people will find
hearty welcome and re
ceive courteous treat
ment at moderate prices.
G W. Cornelius
Proprietor
THE
PENDLETON
DRUG CO.
PHONE TOUR ORDERS-YOU GET THEM RIGHT
Milne Transfer
Phone Main 5
Calls promptly answered
for all baggage transfer
ring. Piano and Furnture
moving and Heavy Truck
ing a specialty.
$1.00 LOW
$1.00 FARES
sim
Between
THE DALLES and PORTLAND
Leaving
The Dalles at 3 p. sn. dally except
Sundays and Thursdays; arriving
In Portland 9:16 p. ni. oa
fast Sti-amer
BAILEY GATZERT.
Str. ).LLES I I V leaves The Dalle
7 a. m. Monday. Wednesday and
Friday.
Passengers on O. H. & N. Co., train
Ne. 3, 6 and 7, ran make con
nections as above, dally ex
cept Sunday, boat from
Portland 7 a. m.
W. L. CRICHTON, Agent, The Dalles.
s. f. McDonald, supt.
I Stock Food, and
Curatives for your horses
or cows ills.
COLESWORTHY
Sells them
At the Feed Store
127-129 E. Alta
THE PICKWICK
...HOTEL
Seaside - Oregon
"Home cooking a specialty."
18 large, beautiful rooms, over
looking the ocean. A new
modern house, all outside rooms
A home like place for particu
lar people.
Mrs. E. E. Longenbercer
, Manager
OPP. MOORE HOTEL.
P. O. BOX 434.
THE QUELLE
Gus. La Fountalne, Prop.
Best 25 cent meals In the North-
Flrst-class Cooks and Service.
Shell fish In Season.
La Fountalne Block, Mala WL