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THE EUGENE WEEKLY GUARD, THURSDAY, MAR 17, 1010 THEEÜGENE WEEKLY GUARO S L . CHARLEN H. FISRKR. Editor and Publisher AN INDEPENDENT PAPER ■ _— .. Entered iM Futfrats Orv<oii, poatufflce as aecoud-clara matter PublMtsd every Thuradav at Eugen«. Oregon. tor She renarti •tre following ar« atthorlted t« tak« aad rerelgt tor —aao r ^M u— noart aw othor baatooaa for TM Dally aad Weakly Guard: awowrfl—J. L. Clark. •«burs—Geom A. Brorv. THURSDAY. MARCH 17. 1910 ' NEED OF IRRIGATION sible in the way of mental science? If 1 the faculties cau be so' absorbed in conversation that one-half the customary quantity r of food answers all purposes, is it not an indication that indul gence in any food is a needless concession to mortal mind? Is it true that the traditional horse, whose allotment of provender was greatly reduced until he was only to have one straw a day. died before the single straw was served, but then there is no record that the plan had been tried on him of diverting his atten tion to less material things. Had this been done possibly that horse might be alive yet. A great principle and a greater discov ery may be involved in this Chicago idea. We may be able yet to defy the grocer and the butcher and save money. •* ‘Ï i . THE PASSING OF PLATT Spring Medicine Pure Vanilla Since the passage of tho United Statos puie food and drugs law, every bottle of ex tinct of Vanilla or substitute nmU be cor rectly labeled. Whst does your label say? Extract of Vanilla should be pure and aged before it is placed ea sale. Wc have a PUP*: Vanilla Extract made from the long Mexican bear which we hr. .o had in process of manufacture since last Auguit. Try a bottle of our pure extract of Vanilla—the flavor and purity cannot bo surpassed. Put up in 25c and BOc bottles. % It hat been th« custom of people general, ly to take a spring tonic or blood purifier. After being housed up for the winter wo are usually “fagged out" in the spring Wo carry a full line of tonics and blood purifiers The Commercial Club at Eugene held a meeting recently to Former United States Senator Thomas 0. Platt of New York, consider the question of irrigation That is, irrigation for the whose death occurred a few days ago, was an influential figure upper part of the Willamette valley, says the Harrisburg Bulle in his state and in the senate for many years, but his influence Sassafras Bark in 10c pkgs. tin. Harrisburg was the first to hold a public meeting for this was not of the kind that makes for the public good. He was a Sulphur and Cream Tartar in 10c pkgs. purpose. Eugene followed, and since that time there are men “ boss ” of the type more common in an earlier day than now, and who have been working incessantly for some plan to develop a } ulphur and Cream Tartar Tablets in 10c which, there is reason to hope, will less often appear as time huge irrigation plant. pkgs. goes on. Fifty years of farming has proved that we do not have to To his mind any means by which a political end might be Hobson’s New Life Blood Remedy in $1.00 use water artificially to produce crops here, but since irrigation gained were justifiable. An ¡lustration of his methods was given bottles. i has been so thoroughly tried out in the western country there are only a day or two ago, when some past history was brought up men in this vicinity an ’. all through the valley who realize that Hobson’s Sarsaparilla in 50c and $1.00 bot just a little water applied at the right time would double, or pos in the Allds bribery case, and it was shown that a certain action tles. sibly quadruple the product of the farm. Another reason for of the legislature, not in keeping with public interests, was dic Hobson’s Iron Tonic in $1.00 bottles. irrigation is the fact that lands here are in greater demand than tated by Mr. Platt. His hand was felt in all departments of New York politics for twenty-five years or more, and no impor Bowers' Beef, Wine and Iron in 75c bottles. ever before, the price naturally soaring with this demand, and tant move was made without his consent. He selected candi in order to bring the condition of the soil into that state where We carry a complete stock of advertised it will yield in proportion to its market value it is necessary that dates for poular election, he controlled appointments, he directed patent medicires, and all drugs that i nould The new pure food fruit tablets—This legislation, he influenced business interests according as he improvements be made for the benefit of the soil. Irrigation be found in an up-to-date ar 1 first-class is the finest candy you ever tasted. All fla solves it. It is mere guesswork to say when this improvement needed those interests in politics: he made and unmade men as drug storo. vors, from gooseberry to raspberry. political and personal exigencies seemed to demand. will come, but when it does with it will come a host of settlers. Shrewd, unscrupulous, able, he ruled with autocratic sway. Multitudes of farms will take the place of the vast ranches. 1. His methods were not of the spectacular sort, but quiet and in will be a country alive with activity and we will all prosper—if1 Out-of-Town direct. His face suggested feline qualities which betrayed them Orders Filled we work. selves in his actions. The party machine under his management • Promptly N*-*»” 4 was well oiled and worked easily, but the time came when his DRAMATIZING THE BARNYARD Pure Drug Druggists, Cor. 9th and Willamette Sts. k. I ways ceased to be endurable, and the better element of his party rebelled. Such bossism, it was declared, was no longer to be There’s a Chicago man who claims that he wrote something tolerated, and he was cast out. or other in the play line which took on the lugubrious title of His public career was long—longer than it is to the credit of mission. Th<- chang« In the rate» on I l<<>»ohur< and shipments from the East In I«»« than nithwrn “The Merchant Prince of Cornville, and he further charges Hew York to remember. In the course of it he doubtless did carload lota Insofar as thia city Is il rato will I m > that Edmond Rostand, French dramatist, appropriated the plot some things for the general benefit, but he passed out of public c-ncerned will be as follows; Flr»t-\ class, 15c; second-class. 13c; »bird-I As this Is an I terstate rate thh of Cyrano de Bergerac from it, and also took the meat of Chan- yfe with these forgotten, and he goes out of the world with few class, pc. fuurth-claie, 7c. ttnmls-ion Is wii out power to re tecler from it. We are not disposed to treat lightly of this ques to regret his going, or to honor his memory. It is the passing of Tho situation an It 1« from the .i .ice |t, but It hs power to hold *11 standpoint of tho railroad i-oniinl»- tion, mainly because we are very much in the dark about it, the head of an outworn political regime. Other bosses may insestlgatlub, and If sufficient uvl »Ion la completely •et forth In the .bure |a produced to justify such particularly the Cornville end of it. We have never seen Corn- i come after him but they will be of a different class and work by following loiter to tho Albany Com- acUoo, may til* a cumplalnt with Bhw ville, never passed through it on a sleeper, never heard a station other and more acceptable means. mcrvlal Club: Interstate c tuvree coiumlaaluu. lie Mr. J. S Van Winkle. Secretary Al- fore thia Is done, however, it will caller bawl it out in the silly fastness of a slow-going night, never 1b any Commercial Club. Albany. be well to consider the fact that laid our eyes on it as it loomed large and importantly from the Oregon. THEY WANT A NEW STATE Salem. Albany. Corvallis and th<i wretched contour of a railroad map; in fact, never heard of it In rwply to a communication from other mentioned points have beg'H at all. There may be such a place as Cornville. We have the Dear sir—We are m receipt of enjoying tales which have not !>«’f ti Yreka, Cal., March 15.—That's the way the date line of Albany buxtnena men and the Albany Commercial Club, 8tate Hallroad ; yours of the Sth Inst., advising us estendwd as a whole or In part tu word of a Chicago man for it. Chicago men say so many things the town reads at present. Commiaaloner Oswald W «st haa that your club had passed reaols- Euvne. Roseburg. Medford. Ashland <>t< eg southern Oregon towns and we are inclined to doubt some of them, but in this special case A few years from now—so hundreds of earnest and enthusi clearly presented the commlmilon's tluna endorclng tho action of or Albany merchants In In aaklng the Interstate commerce we are perfectly justified, for the sake of saving the internal astic men who are holding a convention in Yreka today confi position In regard to certain pro- tho posed higher rates on eastern ship protesting against the proposed In commission for the old 10 cent rat« peace and quietness of a peace-ridden country, to grant what dently believe—the date line will read “Yreka, Sisk.” ments to valley points, says »he crease In freight rates by the South you should be prepared to show upon w hai ground. It any. a discrimina Salem Statesman. ern Pacific company ever the man of Chicago claims about his own authorship of the “Sisk.,” it may be explained, is an abbreviation for Siski tn In Information favor of said For ti' your we towns wish to can be proposed raise In rates will live March 22. it 10. The great but ignored “Merchant Prince of Cornville,” or about M. you, which is the strange and curious name adopted for the new go The justified the now rates will be effee- Into effect March 22 and will only , changes over the present rates say that The a.-w rates to Albany and tho Rostand's plagarizations from it. We say we grant this con state to be carved out of the northern part of California and the make a change In four clauses of be In the first four, or less t’> only freight or on shipments of less than load, classes: the other ads, ur will other tamed points are el.her rea tention. We can’t see anything so powerfully creditable in southern section of Oregon—provided the voters of those states carload if unrea car sonable or unreasonable lots. The differential rate load classes, are not affected. the Chicago author's work, even if he did inspire the Frenchman are willing. sonable. those to Eugene and other car- of ten cents added to transcontinent At present the rate to Albnny shipments was only enjoyed by Salem, Corvallis. Alrlle. Sheridan soutborn Oregon points menllor.<M to write a piece of “litherachoor” that got more expensive ad At today’s convention the proposition will be discussed in al merchants between Portland and and Intermvdlatre points Is made by souid un i tubtcdly be held to b>< un vance notices via cable than the Prince de Sagan s new title. all its ramifications, and plaqs wil be made to bring about an Albany, but Eugene. Roseburg and reasonable. for Biey are made In the a differential of 10 cents to •hi" way by adding the local from Ashland paid the local rate from adding Not having been in Paris since our last visit, we have not had an amicable separation from the mother states. the rate from trans-continental ter- Portland In addition to the rate from , rltory to Portland. Before this Portia:. I to the trans-continental opportunity of seeing and judging of the great chicken play at rate to Portland These loans ah ' ;.<l Leaders in the movement allege that the territory embraced the East to Portland. rate was made the through be considered In taking the mat first hand. Naturally Rostand wants to crow over it. It is a in the new state has been persistently slighted by the more popu This Is an Interstate rate and the special rate to Albany and the other points aleo ter up with the Interstate commerro crowsome sort of play. It never struck us as particularly artis lous districts of the two states. This has caused much dissat oommlsslon has no power to reduce mentioned was made by adding the commission it, but can Investigate and If suf rate between Portland and said tic to turn chickens into literature except by gustatory route— isfaction, and popular sentiment in the counties involved is al ficient evidence can be produced local IK'1-’, to the tranw-contlnental rate Th« reven yrar-'iM »on of Mr at <1 showing that the new rates are un to . w. tlund. Hereafter the Iras than old Samuel Johnson, you may recall from your reading of Bos most unanimously in favor of the Siskiyou project. reasonable a complaint may be filed carload rates will be made as of old Mm. Fred lh*nui. whlln pin'lug Mun- nil off u fence and broke hl* well, was a voracious consumer of fowl, and this, as we con- [ Medford, Oregon, will probably be the capital of the new I with the interstate commerce com- by using Uhe local rates as la now be- day, left ariu. ceived, was the principal method of conversion of chickens state, in case the plan goes through, although several other ; into literature. But Rostand does things differently. He takes towns are already clamoring for the honor. the external method—the absentee method, so to speak. He This is not the first time a secession movement has been introduces chickens to a higher level. It’s all very well, cack started in the Northwestern states. A few years ago an attempt ling over mere human attributes in plays and books, but your was made to combine portions of Washington, Oregon and Idaho real literature from this great day of 1910, you must admit, into a new state to be called Lincoln. The project has appar makes chickens regnant. Next year ducks and guineas will be ently fallen by the wayside—just as the present movement is dramatized, and the year after that pork will get a thorough jus likely to in due course of time. tification at the hands of the higher dramatic art—if pigs don’t — become extinct in the meantime. The possibilities are abso- The Peary pole controversy is waxing decidedly warm. lutely stupendous. Peary has flatly refused to divulge his proofs to congress, except Just received a large assortment secretly to a committee, on the ground that he wishes to protect of the latest things in Spring Jewelry the facts for his story publications. Thinkers are beginning to ONE MAN’S IDEA ask some real funny questions, or demand bothersome explana and now have on display many new An ingenious and ingenuous Chicago contributor to the tions on some of the statements made by Peary which don't ex and attractive things in American Magazine offers a new solution to the cost of living actly fit in together, and there is a growing idea that Dr. Cook problem. His plan is to eat less and talk more at meal time, and is to be still further robbed of his laurels—that he is to be' he offers proof that it will work, to-wit Ten years ago he and proven not the only genuine dyed-in-the-wool north pole faker. I his wife ate two eggs each at breakfast. Now each has one and Poor Doc; he seems to have opposition no matter which way he he gives his word of honor that they see no difference, so far as turns. j satisfaction of appetite and physical welfare are concerned .be tween one egg and two. They are not “Fletcherites,” though It is now declared that the meat boycott has been a complete also many new they chew their food slowly, doing so, it would seem, rather as failure, prices continuing to go up just as if nothing had hap-1 patterns in an excuse for lingering at the table for conversation than for pened. From the strong upward tendency, it is not hard to be prolonged enjoyment of the food. Of course, eggs are used only lieve that the time is coming when ham gravy will be only for the as an illustration, other food being lessened in quantity in the angels in heaven. same way. This is a variation from the old rule of "plain living and high The poet-philosopher, Walt Mason, in today’s Guard, talks A visit to our store places you under no obligation thinking,” for the plain living recommended by the early philos about March a3 a “weary month, hard to bear.” But as an ex to buy. Come and see the new things ophers seems not to have been incompatible with plenty. If one tenuating circumstance it might be pointed out that Uncle WaP ate crusts, he had all he wanted of them. And the “talk” whicl. lives ,in Kansas, instead of Oregon. is a part of the Chicago man’s scheme is not necessarily a result, of high minking. Nothing is said about its being anything more There is talk that Roosevelt will be asked to make a whirl than just talk, and being Chocago talk, so far as he is concerned, wind stumping tour of the West for the Republican party. Well, ■* nothing forther need be said concerning its quality or its theme. we’d be mighty glad to see Teddy, and hear him tell about the It is about Chicago, of course, and if that talk will take the place elephant, without regard to whether it was the G. 0. P. animal of food, any talk ought to answer the purpose. I or a real African one. The question that naturally suggests itself, however, is why stop at one egg in the limitation? If one has proved equal to two No, Margaret, do not waste any of your good, wholesome in satisfying appetite and sustaining strength, why would not a sympathy on any of that Cudahy-Lillis clique in Kansas City. lesser quantity be sufficient? Why not one egg between two From all reports Cudahy is just as -rifling and low-down as the people and other edibles in similar proportion? Is not the Chi woman and Lillis. The best of these three wealthy snobs is not cago experiment in fact a partial demonstration of what is pos- worthy of even mention by any decent person, rich or poor. Just Received a Fresh Supply of Diana Confections Es2 BOWERS DRUG Co I EASTER JEWELRY Hat Pins, Belt Pins, Collar Pins, Back Combs, Braid Combs, Hand Bags Silverware and Cut Glass Latest Designs, Nifty Goods, Popular Prices SETH LARAWAY 557 Willamette Street