THE EUGENE WEEKLY GUARD, THURSDAY, MAR 17, 1010
THEEÜGENE WEEKLY GUARO
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CHARLEN H. FISRKR. Editor and Publisher
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•«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.
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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
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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.
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