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THE ROSE OV STARS.
When Love, our great Immort
al, .
Put on mortality.
to the assessment rolls of the two
counties. It will mean that the re
clamation work will bo can-lid on by
Uncle Sam with a view to aiding the
settlers, not to making money off
them. The thing will be an irrigation
project, not a pipe dream.
Now
dent.
let us hear from the presl-
lHStTSS THE Sl'BJKCT.
And down from Eden's portal
Brought this sweet world to
be,
At the sublime archangel
He laughed with veiled eyes,
For he bore within his bosom
The seed of raradise.
He hid it in his bosom,
And there such wannth it
found,
It brake in bud and blossom,
And the rose fell on the
ground;
As the green light on the pral-
rle,
As the red light on the lea,
Through fragrant belts of sum
mer
Came this sweet world to be.
And the grave archangel, see-
lng,
Spread his mighty vans for
flight.
But a glow hung around him
fleeing
Like the rose of an Arctic
night;
And sadly moving heavenward
By Venus and by Mars,
He heard the Joyful planets
Hail Earth, the Rose of Stars.
George E. Woodberry.
THE WEST EXTENSION.
There are indications that the long
fight for the West Extension is about
won and that the extension will be
carried out on the basis adovcated by
the Pendleton Commercial club and
by the East Oregonlan. The engl
reering board has reported In favor
of such a plan and the entire matter
is now up to President Taft with
prospects that he will give his ap
proval. According to the news from "Wash
ington the board has reported in fa
cring of a plan that will irrigate
"something more than 30,000 acres
of land." It Is evident from this the
board wants to play safe and also
wants to protect the upper river peo
ple in their "rights and welfare." It
Is exactly what was suggested by the
businessmen of Pendleton and by
this paper. If the president gives his
approval to the report and orders the
West Extension made upon that bas
is the East Oregonian will be glad
indeed.
It is apparent that while the mem
bers of the engineering board listen
ed with attention to the opposition
forces headed by Coe, Burgess et al,
they paid scant heed to the arguments
produced in opposition to the exten
sion. The basis of the fight against
the West Extension was that there Is
not enough water for it. At the
mass meeting at the Oregon theatre
early in December opponents of the
project, headed by Dr. Coe, declared
there is scarcely enough water for
present projects. Dr. Coe belittled
the flow of the stream and argued
that in considering new plans the
government should consider only the
minimum discharge of the river not
the average flow. In a speech which
he read, J. N. Burgess opposed the
West Extension on much the same
grounds and said among other things
that it takes nine feet of water to
raise alfalfa on some of the land in
question. But such stuff as that did
not count with the engineers.
Should the West Extension be car
ried out with even 30,000 acres In
cluded It will mean much to eastern
Oregon. It will mean homes for sev
eral thousand new families In Uma
tilla and Morrow counties. It will
mean the addition of many millions
The proposition to have a meeting
of the Umatilla county good road
association to consider the good roads
bills that are to be presented under
the initiative next fall is a good one.
It is a timely subject and one that
permits of debate.
But while at it let us have a full
and f.iir discussion of all the propo
sitions to be submitted. There are
several plans proposed and they all
have features of merit Just how
good the various schemes will be
from a Umatilla county standpoint is
a matter that is not quite clear at
this time to many people. It Is first
necessary to ascertain the exact fea
tures of the various bills; then fit
the facts to the situation and see
what the results will be.
The measures drafted by the state
highway association and which Gov
ernor West champions are not the on
ly bills to be acted upon. The state
grange has also drafted some meas
ures. Those measures as well as the
highway association bills should be
discussed. The county bonding plan.
which has many advocates in Uma
tilla county, should be considered too.
There Is no need of hasty action one
way or the other with reference to
the good roads bills. The election
dees not occur until next November.
So there is-plenty of time in which
to debate the subject before local peo
ple take a stand for or against any
of the various measures proposed.
Why not have a big meeting at the
Oregon theatre and have the subject
discussed pro and con. Invite repre
sentatives of the grange to present
their measures and show the merits
of their proposals. Invite Governor
West and others to speak for the bills
drafted by the highway association.
Have prominent local farmers and
business men, members of the coun
ty court and others set forth their
ideas.
In the freedom of discussion there
la safety.
To Restore
healthy appetite and then
see that the food is perfectly
dfgnhted hax been the sue
orxsful work of
MOSTETTER'S
Slomach Bitters
for 59 years. Try av bottle
it is for irtdlKCHtlon, costive
ness, DyKix'jwia, CoMx, Grippe
ago he planted close to his cottage.
Another remarkable man of 97, a
descendant of the family of which
Lord Nelson was a member, is Mr.
John Foulden of Stoke Newlngton.
His memory is undlmmed by the
weight of years and his recollections
are of rnre Interest In his early days
he had a hard struggle for life, but in
1S34 he was appointed driver to the
king's mall coach from London to
Portsmouth. He drove that conch for
many years, and he proudly recalls
the day when his passengers includ
ed the Duchess of Kent nnd the little
lady destined to become Queen Victoria.
Mrs. Ann Cohen, a Jewess, who died
at Broadway, Westminster, at the age
of 102, a few day9 ago, enjoyed ex
cellent health until a few weeks be
fore her death. Her husband pos
sessed the distinction of being the
first Jewish overseer appointed in
England, and a bust of him Is now
in Westminster Town Hall. Cincin
nati Enquirer.
A GREAT VICTORY.
Some of those who have been mov
ing heaven and earth to encompass
the defeat of the West Extension and
to kill the extension have resorted to
Jugglery such as Machaevelli never
dreamed of. profess great rejoicings
over the report of the engineering
board favoring the project. It is a
wonderful victory they say.
Indeed it is. The anti-extension-
ists have won a victory that very
much resembles the victory of the
telephone trust in its fight on the
Oregon system.
They made the enemy pursue
them.
LCT OTHERS DO IT.
There are many big wheat farmers
in Umatilla county who did not wish
to bother with diversified methods.
They feel they are doing very well
at present. Such farmers might well
take Dr. Wlthycombe's advice and
rent their farms, in comparatively
small tracts, to men who will rotate
crops somewhat and keep hogs. It
will be good for the ranches. Big
farming . means big weeds and de
pleted soil unless unusual care is
t;iken.
Vice President Sherman is against
spell binding In congress. But how
al.out speaking to the congressional
record
Mexico is about as tumultuous when
in a state of peace as when at war.
Is It Old Man Winter's last appearance?
WHERE SOME MEN DIE OLD
STRANGE TEOPI.E FAR NORTH.
Mr. Stefansson, Arctic explorer, re
lates In detail in the New York Her
ald meeting with a race of Eskimos
in Victorlaland who had never before
seen a white man, and as, far as he
could ascertain none of their ances
tors had. There was a tradition In
the tribe that a neighboring people
had seen a man with a white skin
who had wandered there and died
because he could not learn to drink
seal oil.
The natives prepared to attack the
explorers with knives, believing they
were spirits, but were finallv molli
fied. They came up and felt the
arms and clothing of the party, and
having made sure that what they
saw was real they became more trac
table. In one of their villages was a
small piece of cotton cloth which was
preserved as a charm.
The party was received at the vil
lage and regaled with choice pieces of
freshly killed seals and stayed with
horn flagons of blood soup. Even the
dogs received large portions of hot
boiled meat. The party remained for
several days in this newly found vil
Inge, which Is in the middle of Dol
phin and Union Strait and north of
Cape Bexley.
Mr. Stefansson expiates on the de
tails which he sent to H. L. Bridge
man and which have already been
given in the Herald. He seems con
vinced that many of the strange race
which he saw there some with light
beards and hair, were descendants of
a Norwegian colony of three thousand
souls which disappeared In the fif
tenth century from Greenland. He
also has something to say about the
possibility of their being descendants
from forty Englishmen who were lost
from one of the Sir John Franklin
expeditions.
"The Victorialand people," contin
ues Mr. Sptefansson, "differ striking'
ly from those of the mainland excep
from the Akuliakattagmiut, who were
much intermarried with the people of
the north. They have a definitely
European appearance, especially in
the matter of beards, which are abun
MaMm$ Fwrder
Absolutely Jrure
Where the finest biscuit,
cake, hot-breads, crusts
or puddings are required
Royal is indispensable.
Royal is equally valuable
in the preparation of plain,
substantial, every-day
foods, for all occasions.
The only baking powder, made
from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar
No Alum No Lima Phosphates
dant and uniformly blond, some even
re.d. I have seen none with the blonde
hair, but Captain Mogg and others
who have wintered north of the Kan
hirgmiut, report hair dark brown and
blue eyes. I have seen perhaps forty
Eskimos, half-blood children and
adults, and none of them had hair
noticeably lighter than full bloods,
and none had light colored eyes."
1
THE WORLD'S COAL SITPIJES.
Some fglgures on the world's coal
supplies and consumption, In the
British government's recently Issued
annual coal tables, show clearly that
the United States is by far the great
est country in the world in its coal
supplies and, since coal is the pri
mary source of mechanical power, this
may be construed to mean that it Is
the greatest In the industrial' sense
also. It has wrested the claim to this
distinction from Great Britain.
In 1S86 the United Kingdom pro
duced 157.518,000 tons of coal and
the Pnited States 101,561,000 tons. By
1899 the relative position of the two
countries was reversed, the United
Kingdom producing In that year 220,-
095,000 tons and the United States
226,555,000 tons, in 1910 the output
of the British mines was 264,433,000
tons and of those in the United States
447,837,000 tons.
Germany's production of coal In
1910 was 150,372,000 tons, against
57,124,000 tons a quarter of a cen
tury previously. Japan produced
15,286 000 tons in 1910 and only 1,
374.000 tons in 1886. Thus several
nations are Increasing their coal out
put more rapidly than Great Britain,
whose fertile mines have become ex
hausted so that resort has been had
to deeper and thinner seams.
Britain Is still the great coal ex
porting country of the world, and
much of her commercial strength
rests on this fact, since coal Is a prof
itable cargo for ships carrying bulky
raw materials to her Bhores. Her ex
ports of coal were 84,542,000 tons in
1910. against 30,362,000 tons In 1886
But in the same period the German
exports of coal increased from 9
693,000 tons to 32,398 000 tons and
those of the United States from 1,-
216,000 to 15,271,000 tons. We con
sumed nt home In 1910 about two and
a half times Britain's consumption.
It seems to be quite common in
England nowadays to live to be a
nonagenarian or a number of persons
who have lived not only over "the
allotted span," but have run well in
to the nineties and turned the cen
tury, have come to light
liev. Philip Cariyon of Falmouth,
who received a telegram of congra
tu'ation from Queen Alexandra on
the completion of his hundredth year
on Dec, 30, Is a hale Welshman, who
and every day he spends some hours
ious illness In all his life. He was a
hard worker In his profession for sev
enty years, and even now he oacasion
ally takes his place In his old pulpit
In the parish church at Falmouth, but
preaching or not, he never misses a
service, no matter what the weather j
De like, and on the last Sunday of
1911 he walked to church.
At Hampton Hill, near London,
live Thomas Foster, who has Just
celebrated his ninety-seventh birth
day, and was head gardener to King
William IV. He Is a wonderful, old
Englishman, erect as a pine tree, and
etlli possesses a shock of hair which
but for Its snowy whiteness might be
the envy of many a man of 25. He U
frequently up at 4:30 In the morning
the United S'ates 101,561,000 tons. By
working In the orchard which years
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Oregon (motor Garaee
13. F. TROilBLEY, Mgr.
315 E. COURT ST. TIIONE MAIN 4C8.
The Electric
Self Starter
is an exclusive Cadillac fea
ture. It was mtde a part of
the car only after Cadillac
engineers had provtNl it
would add reliability to a
car of already tuiiiCKtlon(xl
reliability. More than 5,000
1912 Cadillacs are now in the
hands of owners and not one
has expressed diHsutlsfaetlon.
As a test of the Cadillac
Electric Starter we removed
the spark plugs from a reg
ular stock Cadillac Touring
Car so it couldn't run on Its
tig1n power, and pressed
the button of tho Electric
Self Starter. It was strong
enough to start the car and
to run it nine-tenths of a mllo
In fifty-four minute. . The
eleetrlo starter did this, re
member. The engine sup
plied no power. Then we
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touched the button and there
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The drug store that serves
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The
PendIetonDrug
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U la business for
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REMEMBER THIS WHEN
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Two Old IMaids
Anna What do you think Mr. Elt
lund charged me for sewing on a pair
o; soles on my shoes T
Clara Don't .know and don't care
Anna, he only charged me 6 So and
did fine work too yes, but I don't
like him.
Anna WU, well, you evld ntly do
or you wouldn't care.
Men's soles sewed on for 90c
Full line of men's fine shoes.
A. EKLUND
Main Street.
BRING IN
YOUR
PONY
VOTES
In order to avoid confusion
as to standing of contestants In
our big Tony Contest, we would
like to have all votes cast as
soon as possible.
Standings of each boy and
girl In the contest, are now dis
played at our store.
Tallrnan (8b Co.
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in Pendleton at the
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Particular cooks
Attentive Service.
For Breakfast
Ranch Eggs
Buttermilk Hotcakee
Good coffee
Every day
We Invite your patronage and
aim to please you.
A clean kitchen
Regular Meals
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La Fontaine Block, Main Street