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THE JOURNEY.
Long It seems, the journey, and
yet the rest ain't far;
In the stormy weather, still we
see a star.
Still the light is shining back
of clouds of gray;
We'll get there, where the
dreams are, and rest in
peace some day.
II.
Still we find a song there, in the
Vale of Night;
Even in-the darkness a memory
of Light;
We fancy, in Life's Winter, we
reap the blooms of May,
Ob, well get then, where the
dreams are, and rest in
peace some day.
III.
Don't you hear the bells a-ring-ing?
Don't you see the
Journey's end,
With the peace which is endur
ing with Silence for a
friend?
The tears of years the crosses
that were burdens by the
IS IT COMING?
The organization of the national
progressive republican league has re
vived the talk of a possible new po
litical party. There are many who
see in the formation of the league the
first step towards the organization of
the progressive party about the time
of the next national election.
As a matter of fact this country U
already divided into two great politi
cal contingents the progressives
and the standpatters. The old republican-democratic
alignment has be
come a farce. Its existence is now
more nominal than real.
The other day the Kansas City
8tar had the following pointed com
ment upon the present situation:
"Standpatters have pointed with
exultation to the fact that you may
describe the representative as a pro
gressive, and by that description falls
to denote whether he is a democrat
or a republican. The assumption is
that he is neither, and fundamentally
that assumption is right.
"But to put It another way, you
may describe a standpatter fully, and
' by that description you cannot tell
whether he is a republican or demo
crat, and by the same token you may
properly assume that he Is neither.
"The important thing is that you
cannot describe either a progressive
or a standpatter without clearly de
noting whether he Is a progressive or
a standpatter."
That la It exactly. No one knows
Just what you mean when you say
a man is a derrfocrat or a republican.
But you do undestand when you are
told that he Is a progressive or that
he is a standpatter.
Perhaps by the time of the next na
tional election the "mills of the gods"
will have moved sufficiently that we
will see the new political alignment
openly announced.
Who knows T
A lOOK SUBSTITUTE.
It begins to look like the good roads
measures will meet with trouble in
the house. It is reported that the
grange and farmers union organiza
tions are fighting the measures and
have a substitute for the highway
commissioner bill. This substitute
measure does away with the employ
ing of a highway commissioner at
' 14000 per year and leaves the work
with the state engineer. He la auth-
orlzed to employ a deputy at $150
: per month to assist him.
But why should this change be
madeT The state engineer Is not a
roc builder. He la an Irrigation en
gineer. Four fifths of his work or
atan Im to 4o with problems per
taining to water and to Irrigation.
Xr. Lewi was formerly a TJ. 8. re-
clamation engineer and a good one.
But the East Oregonlan has never
heard of his building any highways.
Perhaps the substitute measure is
a move for economy. If so it is a
case of misapplied seal. If Oregon
Is going to spend $600,000 a year for
good roads surely the state can afford
to spend J4000 for a competent man
ti direct this expenditure. The move
to employ a $150 per month clerk
instead of an expert highway engi
neer is not good business policy. If
a man wished to erect a $600,000
building he would hire a good archi
tect, not a cheap boy, to draw his
plans.
If we are to have state aid in the
construction of roads lot us have it
upon a business basis. It would be
better to defeat the good roads pro
poganda entirely than to butcher the
scheme in the manner proposed.
IT 15 EACH ES THE SPOT.
In his annual report President Kerr
of the agricultural college shows that
SS.000 people residing within this
state have been direct beneficiares of
the work carried on during the past
year by the college and the experi
ment station council. The student
enrollment at O. A. C. this year will
be between 1S0U and 1900. This is a
Substantial gain over past years and
shows the growing popularity of the
I agricultural college.
Nor Is it difficult to understand
why the agricultural college is popu
I lar and is Bteadily growing n favor.
The school Is prospering because it
does work that "reaches the spot."
r. provides technical training and
that of a thorough sort. It fits stu
dents for work in such lines as agri
culture, horticulture, mining, civil,
mechanical and electrical engineer
ing, pharmacy, business, and house
hold science. The school does not con.
fine itself to purely cultural instruc
tion and so "waste Its sweetness on
the desert air." The agricultural col
lege gets down to business and pre
pares students for active life by fit
ting them for the fundamental duty
of earning a living.
The theory back of the agricultur
al colleges is that schools should first
look to fitting sfudents for the work
they have to do and that cultural
studies should be secondary to the
utilitarian. The idea Is that If a stu
dent can be trained so that he will
prosper in a material way he will fare
well socially. The converse of the
proposition is that it avails nothing if
a man is cultured if he cannot earn
a good livlihood.
The agricultural college is "here to
stay."
S1IOW HIM THE PROJECT.
While Col Roosevelt Is in the west
it would be very fitting to Invite him
to come to Pendleton and while here
to visit the Umatilla project. Dur
ing his first term as president the
colonel did valiant work for the pas
sage of the reclamation act and he
has ever been a staunch friend of
governmental reclamation. So per
haps he would like to see what a good
government project looks like at this
time. Incidentally he might be per
suaded to give an address of some sort
while here. Why cannot the people
of Pendleton and Hermiston unite in
extending the ex-president an invi
tation? If the legislature really wants to
do something In the way of pruning
expenses why not place the stats
printer on a flat salary? It Is a no
torious fact that the state printer ha
the greatest snap in the state and if
reports are true the annual earnings
of the printer at times exceed the
salary of the president of the United
States.
That there are more crazy people
in the east than one would suppose
is shown by the fact that In New
York some sapheads have formed an
association that upholds the Inter
marrying of all the races of the earth.
JOLTIXG THE EAST.
A Kansas senator was In this city
at shad time, and his political friends
in Philadelphia invited him to a mon
strous dinner down the Delaware. The
senator had a beautiful time. But he
refused to admit that Pennsylvania,
as a state, was superior to his be
loved Kansas, or that the products of
the east could surpass those of the
west.
When the planked shad was served
the senator eyed it in admiration.
That's a beautiful fish," he said.
"H'm," murmured the Philadelphia
politician, who was his principal host,
"I guess you don't have fish like that
In Kansas, do you?"
The senator shook his head, "No,"
he admitted. "No we don't have fish
like that In Kansas. We don't need
'em. The Lord knows where to send
brain food." Philadelphia Times.
An Optical Illusion,
"I 'specs Mlstah 'Rastus Plnkley
Id In trouble," said Miss Miami
Brown. "Las' evenln' I saw de tear
drops streamln' down his face."
"Dem warn't teardrops," replied
Miss Cleopatra Jackson. "He des got
hlsself a little splattered up flllln' his
Christmas gift fountain pen." Wash
ington Star.
The next bond Issue of the Penn
sylvania will be $100,009,000.
THE PATH TO YESTERDAY.
There's a path that leads to Yesterday
you know it;
A rambling path of blossoms and
perfume.
You remember how the wild grapes
overgrow It
To the house upon the hilltop deep
in gloom.
There's a path that leads to Yester
day through flowers.
Where the wood thrush is a voice
of magic, song;
Where the crlokot snaps its fairy
whip for hours
And a barefoot boy goes whistling
all day long.
There's a path that leads to Yester
day through dingles
Of forest, where the wood pool is
an eye.
And the sunbeam is a twinkle soft
rttat mingles
With a gladness of a girl who
dances by.
There's a path that leads to Yester
day, a glimmer
With the pearl and purple footsteps
of a dusk,
Where the first star leaps and flashes
like a swimmer,
On the violet verge of twilight
washed with musk.
There's a path that leads to Yester
day that's haunted
With the shadows of old memories
of bliss
And the ghosts of loves that roamed
there once, who counted
Every moment by a heartbeat or
a kiss.
Oh, the path that leads to Yester
day! It's calling!
Don't you hear it? How It calls
through many things!
Through its roses, like the memo
ries now falling.
And the dreamlike nestwarcl flut
tering of wings.
On the path that leads to Yesterday
we've started;
Hear it calling with the majiy
whippoorwills,
Like voices of old happiness departed.
Through the darkness where the
moon rests on the hills.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
LINCOLN' : .MAX A XI) AMERICAN.
In his liftime Lincoln was malign
ed and traduced, but detraction dur
ing a man's life time affords no test
of his life's value and offers no fore
cast of history's verdict. It would al
most seem as if the glory of immor
tality were anticipated in the life of
the great by detraction and denial
while he lives. When a Lincoln-like
man arises, let us recognize and fitly
honor him. There could be no poorer
way of honoring the memory of Lin
coln than to assume, as we sometimes
do, that the race of Lincolns has per
ished from the earth, and that we
shall not look upon his like again.
One way to ensure the passing of the
Lincolns, is ' to asume that another
Lincoln can never arise. Would we
find Lincoln today, we must not seek
him in the guise of a rail-splitter nor
as a wlelder of the axe of the back
woodsman, but as a mighty smiter of
wrong in high places and low.
The first word spoken after the
death of Lincoln is truest and best,
the word of Secretary of War Stanton
standing by the side of that scene of
peace, "Now he belongs to the ages."
It was verdict and prophecy, for he
Is not America's, he is the world's;
he belongs not to our age, but to the
ages, and yet, though he belongs to
all time, and to all peoples, he Is ours,
for he was an American. Stephen S.
Wise, In Pacific Monthly.
ALMOST LOST WEST.
The people of Oregon do not know
how nsar they came to losing their
new governor. Oswald West was on
the list for appointment to the In
terstate Commerce Commission. He
refused to consider the matter, say
ing that his duty was to serve the
people of Oregon for four years as
governor. However, his achievements
as State Land Agent and State Rail
road Commlssoner had attracted at
tention the country over, and, In
asmuch as Commissioner Cockrell, of
Mlssorui, a democrat, was not to be
reappointed. Mr. West could have
had the position, had he consented to
accept it.
The rtirement of Chairman Knapp
from the Interstate Commerce Com
mission gave Joy to the shippers and
consumers of the nation. During No
vember, In the middle of the week,
when Louis D. Brandeis and other at
torneys and eminent engineers were
presenting the shipper's and consum
er's protest -against proposed increas
es In freight rates. Chairman Knapp
spoke at the annual dinner In New
York, given by business men who sell
supplies to the railroads. Chairman
Knapp, was at the time, n'jrAng in a
judicial-capacity, ns chairman of the
commission, to pass on the Increases
In rates; and yet he declared his mind
already made up, and stamped him
self as an undesirable member of the
commission, in the opinion of the
shippers. They are saying that In
his new position on the Court of Com
merce he will be lmmerced in an at
mosphere of "Innocuous desuetude."
John E. Lathrop, in Pacific Month-
Beautiful women are seldom dis
satisfied with their nex.
Health Assured
There is nothing makes one feel so
good as to realize that he possesses
a strong stomach and enjoys robust
health and such an experience can
be yours sickly folks if you'll only
take a short course of
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
Thousands owe their continued good
health to Its use. Why not try the
plan today? It la for Indigestion,
DyapepMla, Poor Appetite, Belching,
Headache, Cnrtlveneea, Bllllonsnem,
Colds and Grippe.
"Yon are aa well m your stomach
HOSTETTBR.
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IS A
iEAON LIGHT
I2": you
In the year 1626 PETER HINUIT bought the whole island
on which New. York City now worth four thousand million
dollars is built. He paid $24 for the island. Had he put out
that $24 at 4 per cent compound interest in 1626 it would now
amount to as much as the present value of New York City.
Make OUR Bank YOUR Bank.
We pay 4 per cent interest on Time Deposits, compounded
semi-annually.
THE
American National Bank
Pendleton. Oregon
UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY
DIAZ, STATESMAN?
There are some $900,000,000 of
.American capital Invested In Mexico;
or those are the figures recently giv
en by our Consul-General there, Mr.
Shankiia. While this is divided am
ong thousands of Americans, most of
it is centered in Wall Street. The
Morgan group of financiers, the
Standard Oil group, the Harrlman
group, the Guggenheims, and other
such "big" Wall Street people if
there are any others are heavily In
terested In Mexico. The opinion of
a few of these men goes a long way
with the press and the politicians,
and through them, with the public.
The American Investors in Mexico
are usually boosters for. Diaz because
they know that their special privileges
come from him and depend upon his
whim. If they are interested in a
stock-selling scheme, or a land-promotion
scheme, their sales depend
largely upon the confidence of the
prospective buyer in the stability of
the existing regime. Therefore they
are strongly Inclined to feel that It Is
up to them to deny the reports of
barbarous conditions In the country
and to praise Diaz to the skies.
This is natural. It Is natural for
"business" to dread a change of any
You Cannot Do Better
17 ROOM HOUSE
On South Main, $1500 on
ly requires $500 cash to buy.
12 ROOM nOUSE
On South Main, will trade
for wheat or alfalfa land.
Would pay $5000 to $7000
difference on Rood wheat
ranch.
BEAUTIFUL NEW BUN
GALOW fine location, worth $5000
price today only $4000,
$1500 cash, balance easy
terms.
7 ROOM HOUSE
On West Court, worth $1500
but ii sold at once ?1050
cash will buy it
LEE TEUTSCH
Phone Main 5 550 Main Street
The Real Estate and Insurance Man
Byers'
Best
Flour
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sort. In " defending Mexico" as they
call It, they are, doubtless, acting in
accoalance with the immediate in
terests of their pocket-books. But
they are not acting In accordance
with their ultimate interests. They
should know that no one man, how
ever strong, can rule forever. They
should know that despotism cannot
last and that when It falls it falls
with a crash. They know that, while
they may sell their stock now, to
morrow their property and their
lives may be in Jeopardy, for there
can be no despotism that Is not
clouded with the threat of revolu
tion. John Kenneth Turner, in Pa
cific Monthly. .
PITTING HIS FOOT IX IT.
Mrs. de Bride was entertaining cal
lers. After they left she remarked
to her husband:
"I hope they didn't see my walking
shoes lying there. They would think
me very untidy If they did."
"Oh, If they saw them they prob
ably thought they were mine," ans
wered her husband In a consoling
tone.
And she hasn't spoken to him since.
Do you read the East Oregonlan T
6 ROOM HOUSE
On Union street, partly fur
nished, worth $900, price
$650, 1-2 cash, balance
monthly payments.
$2500 nOUSE
in Payette, Idaho, to trade
for Pendleton property.
Fine new bungalow in
Portland to trade for Pen
dleton home.
NICE 5 ROOM IJTOUSE
On Ann street, worth $1650,
$1250 cash will handle it
Lot 66x100. Splendid Bhade
trees and lawn.
10 ACRE TRACT
in Walla Walla to trade for
Pendleton property.
la made from the choicest whf that
Tows. Good bread is assured when
BYERS' BEST FLOUR is need. Bran,
Shorte, Steam Rolled Barley always on
hand.
Pendleton Roller Mills
Pendleton, Oxegoa.
Headquarters For
Toilet Goods
We are Bole Manufacturer a ad
Dlatrlnntor of the OMmM
TOILET CREAM
COLD CREAM
TOOTH POWDRR
and
MT. HOOD CREAM
Tallman & Co.
Leading Druggists of Easierr
Oregaa.
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PENDLETON
DRUG CO.
ItOEII.il MHM-I0I f0ISi
Detroit Engines
2 to SO H. P.
TJsea common Kerosene (lamp oil)
for fuel, also gasoline, nsptha or dis
tillate. No change in equipment la
necessary to change from one fuel to
the others. For prices aee J. W. Klra
brell, agent, Pendleton, Ore. Phone
Main 180. Sample engine at
Long Brothers
114 A 116 E. Webb St. Phone Main 74
You Make a
Bad Mistake
When yon pat off buying your
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until Fsll purchase It NOW
and secure the heat Roak
Spring coal the mined produce
at price considerably lower thaa
those prevailing in Fst and
Whiter.
By stocking op now yo
avoid Alii danger of being aa
able to secure It when sold
weather arrives.
Henry Kopittke
Phone Main ITS.
Fresh Fish
Meats and Sausage
EVERY DAT.
W handle only th pwt
f lard, kams and bacon.
Empire Meat Co.
Phone Main IS.
FRESH MEATS
SAUSAGES, FISH AND
LARD.
Always pur and delivered
promptly, If you phone the
Central Meat Market
108 E. Alta gk. Phone Main SS.
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