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THE XEW AGE. Awake! awake! the stars are pale, the east Is russet gray; They fade, behold the phantoms fade that keep the gates of Day; Throw wide the burning valves and let the golden streets be free; The morning watch is past the watch of evening shall not be. Put off, put off your mail, ye kings, and beat your brands to dust; A surer grasp your hands must know, your hearts a bet ter trust; Nay, bend aback the lance's point and break the hel met's bar A noise is on the morning winds but not the noise of war! Ah! still depressed and dim with dew, but yet a little while. And radiant with the deathless rose the wilderness shall smile, And every tender living thing shall feed by streams of rest, Xor lamb shall from the fold be lost, nor nursling from the nest. For aye, the time of wrath is past and near the time of rest. And honor binds the brow of man, and faithfulness his breast Behold, the time of wrath is past and righteousness shall be. And the Wolf Is dead In Ar- cady, and the Dragon in the sea! John Ruskin. A XATIOXAL OUTRAGE. There is stirring need of a con gressional investigation of the brutal affair at Lawrence. If such actions as that are to go unpunished then America should tear down the statue of liberty and put a golden calf upon Itv pedestal. Our republic is a fake and a mockery if it tolerates such business. The authorities at Lawrence are not enforcing law and decency. They are hirelings of the mill owners who crack the master's whip around the feet of people who live in nothing more or less than industrial slavery It Is anarchy by the rich and it is the cause of anarchy by the poor. It is significant In connection with this affair that both the United Press and Associated Press carried stories setting forth the same essential facts. The associated press "tamed-down" its story as it usually does when there are stories unfriendly to vested in terests. But both press associations heralded the fact that the trouble arose over the action of the police and soldiers in preventing parents from sending their children away to other towns where they might be eared for. The explanations made in behalf of the mill owners are also damnable, i It Is said there is no necessity of sending children away to keep them from starving because they can be c&red for in Lawrence at the city poor farm. But iarents naturally re sent sending their children to the poor farm and they have a right to do so. They have a right to send them away where they may be fed by more friendly hands. If parents have not the right to peacefully send their children away to other towns where there are peo ple ready and anxious to look after thern then something has dropped jSSm YflO stomach tPoipVI VO aWi I la I Be persuaded to try the Bitters today. It improves health and prevents Ioor Appetite, Indigestion, CostiveneiM, Cokla, Griipe. out of our constitution. If we are to have a government like that at Law rence then we ehou'd wipe the stars from off the fing am l.vsctlbe the dollar mark upon the nation's ban-ner. A Qt ICK AXSWKK. If reports are true then the prayer of the Umatilla county good roads as sociation, expressed Saturday, for the county bonding plan for constructing good roads has been answered quick ly. The amendment giving counties the right to bond themselves is now in force and needs no further legis lation says n story from Salem. The Jackson county case fell down through improper procedure, not because fur ther legislation Is needed. If this is the case then all is lovely for Umatilla county and our good roads men may proceed at once to get busy so as to have the bonding plan voted upon by the people of the county next fall. There is no occas ion for delay. It will be interesting to see how the people of the county will take to the bonding plan. It is the ideal way to build roads in Umatilla county if the people will only vote the bonds. There are many who think they will and the East Oregonian is of the im pression that view is well founded. But no doubt there will be object ors. There always are. Some will criticise the plan from one standpoint, some from another. It is barely pos sible that the objectors will get away with the game and block any bond issues for road purposes. If they do and the county refuses to act of Itself then good roads men may well pray for the success of some sort of a state wide good roads plan. One of the chief merits of state participation in road work is that it would force action by the counties and therefore would bring results which is the thing needed. DOX'T LET IT GET AWAY. It is evident from the statements of Councilman Dyer and- others of the committee that visited the proposed 'power site near Milton yesterday thai the scheme looks good from a Pen dleton standpoint. It is interesting to note that when the councilmanio- committee called at the power plant of the Pacific Power & Light company they were denied admittance. "Why such discourtesy? The people of Pendleton spend over $50,000 a year with the electric trut. Why should chosen representatives of the people be denied the privilege of inspecting the light plant. Others have not been barred when they have called at the plant. It seems a fair presumption that the electric trust's power factory 's not all that it might be. Perhaps Mr Strain's friends are right in their dec laration that they have a proposition that is much better than the one now in use. Meanwhile it would be well for the city to get a firmer and longer option upon the site so as to permit of fur ther investigation and of the develop ment of the scheme in the event the people see fit to take it over. THE TROUBLE WITH BARRETT. At the good roads meeting Saturday C. A. Barrett attempted to assail the motive of Governor West in connec tion with his good roads policy. Theic was no call for it. As to the gover nor's views on good roads there .is room for differences of opinior. It is a complicated subject and many nocrt men disagree as to the methods of procedure. But no fair minded man will ques tion the honesty and t'neerity of t'ie governor's purposes. His action plainly show he Is trying earnestly to advance the cause of giod road.? In this state. He is not over deeply com- Mitted to any special policy. He is trying to serve the people of the state and is doing effective work. He has made the subject of good roads a live ii-sue and the movement is now in bet ter shape than it was before he cham pioned the cause. It Is not hard to guess what Is the matter with the man from Athena He dislikes Governor West, not mere ly because of his good roads views, but because the governor ousted Bar rett's son-in-law from an office to which he had no earthly right; an of fice that was wholly unnecessary and which had it been continued wonltf have been a shameful and unneces sary graft upon the state. Under the circumstances the op position of Barrett is creditable to Governor West and that expresses it mildly. A Popular Lad. "Taas, I've stopped smoking." "Swore off to please some girl, no doubt. I wouldn't stop smoking to please a girl." "I did it to please five girls." Louisville Courier-Journal. Ho'a Precocious, Too. Distracted Parent Hush-a-by, ba by! Baby G'wan! Edison says sleep too much. New York Sun. we FROM THE PEOPLE HOW OUR IJiGISLATORS VOTED mrinc-rn Union Lookout IUkui Re port on Wlmt He Saw at Sahiu. Milton, Ore., Feb. 26. Editor East Oregonian: Having been sent by the Farmers' Union to attend the twenty-sixth ses sion of the Oregon legislature, part of my duty was to report to the far mers how their representalves acted on measures in which they are direct ly intrested. This is the first of a se ries' of articles. Principal or A&ent. Every representative government is a history of the struggle for mastery between the people on the one hand and . their newly elected representa tives on the other. Such a government is founded with the hope and belief that a represen tative will work to carry into effect the will of the people. This is fine in theory but does not exist in fact. Many representatives are prone to make fine promises before election and to forget Immediately after. And are then actuated solely by personal feelings either of gain, ambition or election debts. These forged that representative means agent or factor and think that it means principal. This has been the history of our national congress. It has been the history of the Ore gon legislature. We, the farmers, believe that when the majority of the voters show by their ballots that they desire a cer taiu measure to become a law, a rep resentative has no right to substitute his beliefs for ours and try to defeat us. if he does this he ceases to be a representative and becomes a prin cipal. We have suffered much from such misrepresentation In the past and to correct these abuses we secured the enactment of the initiative and ref erendum laws. Two great bulwarks against the encroachment of the leg islature upon the rights of the peo ple. We thought this final. But our last legislature showed that their desire was still to be supreme by annulling an initiative law and substituting one of their own. This was House Bill No. 218, introduced by Pierce, car ried by both houses, but vetoed by the governor, to change the Rogue river fishery law, enacted by the peo- j pie at the last election. ' The reason given by some was that the people did not understand tbe bill w-hen they voted for it. If the power to annul one initia tive law is usurped for- this reason, our representatives may give this rea son for annulling all of them, and our initiative law becomes a dead let ter. The umatilla delegation voted as follows to change our law: Senator Barrett, yes. Senator Burgess, yes. Representative Peterson, no. Representative Mann, yes. . A. R. SHUMWAY, Legislative Committeeman. AX AUTO IX THE SAHARA. We stood on the edge of the desert and looked out over it. Then we looked at each other. Then we talk ed of other things, neither wishing t be first to suggest the mad idea. Then we read in the guide book: j "Eiskra to Touggourt, about one hun-j dred and thirty miles; a track possible! for wheeled traffic, but sandy in parts! anil swampy in places In bad weath er; it would be imprudent to venture ' upon it on a bicycle or in an auto-j mobile." Next day we looked again. and at last one of us put the thought! of both into words: "Well, I suppose' we shall have to try it!" The most modest traveller, like, ourselves, soon discovers that it is not the sandy plain of his school days. He finds, from time to time, great or lit tle spreading mounds, or dunes, of golden sand called "barchans" in whi6h only a camel does not sink ankle deep, and these, wind-created and wind-impelled, move forward al almost like live things. Engineers em ployed in laying our desert railways have made costly, and even fatal, mistakes by not recognizing the fact, now established, that "desert dunes 1 are not anchored Or stationary hills i of sand, but mobile masses, advancing! at a very appreciable rate in a defi-l nite direction." These dunes begin to! move, according to another scientific ' observer., as soon as a light breeze , blows; the air Is perceptibly charged with sand in a moderate breeze; and during storms their progress may be nearly two inches an hour, while their average advance is fifty feet a year, j Aflwuys m Get Our Estimates Before Buying Your Lumber Lath. Shingles and Mill Work Crab Creek Lumber Co. Phone Main 92 S. & S. is known as Nature's Cure for Contagious Wood Poison because it is prepared entirely from the blood purifying and healing extracts of roots, herbs and barks taken directly from the natural forests of the land. 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As it Is to"go a hundred CENTRAL MEAT MARKET Mo give S. & if. trading stamps with all cash purchases. Hon. Eugene 17. Ghaf in E....-K V . M. E. CHURCH MASS Tuesday, February 27, 1912 EVERYBODY INVITED With Your Lumber Orders Our entire stock of building'material is selected with care and good judg ment. We keep it in good condition and sell it reasonable-that's whats bringing us our over increasing business. We believe . in smellier profits and faster selling it amounts to the same thing in the end. NATURES CURE o FOR BLOOD POISOU yards, a score or more of them have to be leveled and since it takes five minutes' hard labor with the shovel to level a single one, any lengthy progress is very slow and fatiguing. From "The Automobile in Africa," by Sir Henry Norman, M. P., In the March Scrlbner. Absent Minded. A very absent-minded professor was busily engaged in solving a sci entific problem when the nurse hast ily opened the door of his library and announced a great family event. ' "The little stranger has arrived, professor. .v"Eh?" said the professor. it is a litle boy," said the nurse "Little boy. little boy," mused the professor. "Well, ask him what he wants." Tender Moats Cu! right Kept rUht We will choose your phone orders carefully and deliver promptly. DRESSED POULTRY EVERY SATURDAY Prohibition Candi date for President of United States in - 1908 WILL LECTURE At Pendleton COURT HOUSE 2:30 p. m. MEETING 8:00 P. M. ADMISSION FREE Tim OSCAR MAHLER, Manager 3 CREAMS 'A' SPECIAL FOR Chappy Skin Weather Cucumber, Almond, Edelweiss 25c a Bottle Koeppen's The drug store that serves you best. BRING IN YOUR PONY VOTES In order to avoid confusion aa to standing of contestants In our big Pony Contest, wt would like to have all votes cast as soon as possible. Standings of each boy and Klrl In the contest, are now dis played at our store. Tallman & Co. The Pendleton Drug Co. la In business for "Your Good Health" REMEMBER THIS WHEN IOU HAVE PRESCRIPTIONS, OR WANT PURE MEDICINES Two Old Maids Anna What do you think Mr. Kk. lund charged me for sewing on a pair oj soles on my shoes 7 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 Well, well, you evld ntly do or you wouldn't care. Men's soles sewed on for 80c Full line of men's fine shoes. A. EKLUND Main Street You'll get the best meal in Pendleton at the QUELLE Particular cooks Attentive Service. For Breakfast Ranch Eggs Buttermilk Hotcakes Good coffee Every day We Invite your patronage and aim to please you. A clean kitchen Regular Meals 25c Gus. La Fontaino La Fontaine Block, Main Street