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Entered «« second class matter at *1¡C
post office at Moro, Oregon, July Ä , l» v i.
D. C. I rela nd , Editor.
C. L. IR E L A N D ................ Manager.
FRID A Y ........... A p r il 21 . 1911
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The railroads made a big thing
carrying passengers to the Roose
velt show; and it didn t cost them
much either.
The fact that we are sending
more artillery to the Hawaiian Is
lands only indicates that we are
for peace at any price.
The back-from-Elba bunch will
not fail to notice the retreat from
Moscow and the fact that one of
the next stops was at Helena.
Another Ridicalo« Law.
While he failed to overturn the
republic of Mexico, Gen. Stanley
Blue Mountain Eagle: W hy
Williams succeeded in demonstrat
the
open season for trout should
ing both his gameness and his en
close
in November and remain
tire lack of discretion.
closed during the winter months
Irrigation is working wonders in no one knows nor can any suggest
Utah. Latest reports are to the an explanation further than the
effect that it even washed away fact that no one cares to enjoy
the sins of the polygamous Mor- the sport of casting a fly hook,
over ice and snow banks. Assum
man elders.
ing that the closed season is for
the purpose of protecting trout
John Sharp Williams is reported and aiding the propagation, the
to have attained one of his am season opens just about the time
bitions in securing that identical it should close. One fishing along
seat in the senate once occupied any of the streams at this time will
by Jeff Davis I. There are a find trout spawning on the riffles.
number of eminent democrats in In this section this starts about the
Arkansas anxious to take that first of April, just about the time
identical seat in the senate now that the season should close. Ex
occupied by Jeff Davis II.
perience shows that the season for
open fishing should close about
And speaking of race suicide, March 1st and remain closed un
the new senator from New York til the middle of May or the first
demonstrates that large families of June. The idea of closing the
are not out of style by appearing season during November, De
in a family group with six daugh cember, January and February is
ters and a son behind him. They ill advised. Trout should be pro
are a fine looking septet, too, and tected during the spawning period
from his picture Senator O ’Gor- and that starts about the time the
mans blood is not thin in his veins. fishing season opens, on April 1st.
Billing and cooing with Eng
land, and making faces at Russia,
seem to prove a forgetfulness of
dark days when this nation was
struggling for life, with Russia as
our only avowed friend among
the nations until after the bary
tones got a chance to sing of "the
fire hot, and the deadly shot, that
sunk the Alabam.”
At a meeting of, the Astoria
Municipal club Dr Enna, of Port
land, gave a lecture recital of the
new opera Astoria, the theme of
which was written by Mrs Fredda
Gratka. Dr Enna was assisted by
Mrs Weinstein, of Portland,
who sang the leading role, and
Mrs A A Finch and Mrs J T Allen,
of Astoria, who sang the choruses.
Why it Made a Difference.
A Philadelphian who had busi
ness in Washington the other day
called to see Dr Wiley, the gov
ernment’s food expert.
In the
course of their talk they discussed
the persistence of some food
manufacturers to violate the pure
food laws. ,
“One trouble is that so many
persons lack a sense of moral obli
gation,” said Dr Wiley.
“They
seem to think that if they are not
found out they have not done
anything wrong. They remind
me of a little boy I once encoun
tered gathering mushrooms in a
meadow.
“ I looked into his bag, and, to
my amazement I saw he had
mostly toadstools.
“ See here,’ said I, ‘those are
poison; you mustn’t eat them.”
“ Oh, that’s all right,’ replied
the youngster; ‘they ain’t fer eati’n.
They’s fer sale.”
The Rev. Dr. Aked says N oah’s
flood wus a myth; but he does not
deny that there was a spring
freshet in the valley of the- Eu
Dr. Owens Adair, conspicuous
phrates.
for her efforts in behalf of civiliza
tion by advocating sterilization of
Bryan need nover consider him
depraved, degradated men, has
self a failure. Memphis thinks it
gone on a long trip. At Chicago
would be worth $2,000, (XX) to have
she will be joined by a niece, and
him live there, and it is not often
As all new parties want to grow
the two will visit New York and
that anyone gets $2,000,000 worth
why are they so ready to condemn
Washington, and sail from the
the organized discipline of older
of admiration.
Tormer city April 29th, for the
parties? The cant on this sub
Mediterranean.
ject
disappears when the duties of
John Sharp Williams succeeds
responsible
politics are reached.
to the bayonet-scarred desk of
The announcement comes from
Jeff Davis. Let John Profit by
the example; had Jeff stuck to that Washington city that after May 1st
Young Theodore Roosevelt is
the further importation of green
piece of furniture he had saved
making good at the carpet busi
tea into the United States will be
himself considerable embarrass
ness, largely due to his close ap
forbidden.
This decision was
plication, says his boss. Just think
ment.
arrived at because of the determ
what his father might have ac
A - New Hampshire legislator ination of the government’s tea complished if he had stuck to one
board that all green teas are arti
has a bill to make punishable by
thing, says the Oregon Daily
a fine eavesdropping through the ficially colored and that the sub Journal.
stances used for this coloring are
telephone. , He leaves a good
deleterious.
The dispatch says
Some restless Georgian has
deal to the ingenuity of the prose
that the order was expected to started an agitation for a govern
cutors. but as a real reformer there
have a far-reaching effect, espec ment investigation of the moon’s
is none beside him.
ially upon the commerce of Japan, Influence on things terrestrial evi
which exports artificially colored dently believing that anything
The international story now is
tea in large quantities.
that can drag the ocean around
that the Japs will join with Great
after it is husky enought to make
Britain and the United States in a
a watermellon vine get a hump
A
peculiarity
of
the
east
at
once
treaty of permanent arbitration.
on
it.
Probably like both of the other noticed by the westerner has long
high contracting parties, with cer been the absence of the silver dol
In spite of all warnings against
lar. The change for a five gener
tain moral reservations.
public debt, Portland officialdum
ally comes in paper dollars, while
¡6 breaking its neck to sell $750,-
the
silver dollar is obtainable at
There is a loud democratic out
000 more bonds, falling due when
cry against the activity of Bryan the banks when asked for. Now it may be quite difficult to pay.
at Washington. Let the demo the treasury department announces Seattle has just voted a new debt
cratic donkey throw Bryan if it that gold coins are soon to be sup of $800,000. Strangers looking for
dares; the peerless one would planted by yellow-backed bills in new homes steer clear of debt-
make a hole in the ground long general circulation. So rapidly ridden, non-taxpaying majorities.
enough to again bury the party in. are the people of the United States
taking advantage of the law auth
When the first shipment of
orizing the issue of gold certifi
In Buenos Ayres it is necessary cates by the treasury department copper ore ever sent out from
to have a mayor’s permit to sing that in a short time the mints will Alaska was started over the the
the national anthem; this ought to be called upon to coin gold for Copper river and Northwestern
give us a fuller appreciation of our almost no other demand than to railway from Kennicut, April 7th,
own glorious freedom; we can sing supply graduation presents or to it marked an epoch in the mining
Yankee Doodle when we feel slip into the toe of a stocking at development in the northern col
like it and no official questions are Christmas time.
ony. The cargo is valued at $250,-
asked.
000 and comes to the smelter at
Tacoma.
Peary has been voted the chair
Having had a bad attack of
once occupied by by.
»».
nann when Dame Fortune tried
British Columbia reds will have
Brooklyn academy oi sciences; to present them with a gold mine $425,000 to blow in at Victoria,
Cook’s effort to come back may for $250. James P Flynn, a bailiff,
since the government has paid the
now be regarded as a closed and Con Keefe, an Oakland pa
Songhees that amount for the
incident; an added proof that no trolman, are nursing a grouch be
water front reservation. The gov
man may come back who has cause they neglected the old max
ernment also supplies a new re
once thrown himself aw-ay.
im: “ Never put off till tomorrow serve on Esquimalt harbor, whith
what you can do today.” Flynn er the Indians will move at once.
Gov. Hadley 4 veto of the emi and Keefe were in treaty to buy a The city has been endeavoring to
gration bill enumerating among piece of land on Dutch flat, above secure the removal of the Indians
other things that it provides for Sacramento, where they spend for 30 years.
the appointment of a number of their vacations; during their ab
commissioners “ to travel under a sence a miner named Gregory oc
For the first time in 46 years,
roving commission;*’ somewhat, cupied the place.
“W e’ll buy the anniversary of the assassination
we take it, like that arrangement that land this June.“ agreed Flynn of President Lincoln this year fell
in the national democratic com and Keefe.
Now they have at the same date on Good Friday,
mittee under which men, “ under learned that Gregory uncovered and also on April 14, the date of
roving commissions.*' and 25 per 80 feet of gold-bearing quartz on the month in 1865 when the war
cent commissions, traveled for the the ground, and graboed it for president was struck down. This
raising of money to be used $2|0 and has formed a company coincident of dates has not oc
against “ the use of money" in to exploit the find, valued at $250,- curred since the day of the great
000.
tragedy.
politics.
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Haaltk Proverbs.
In a few one-sentence sermons,
as true as gospel, tf^e state health
department gave to the citizens of
an eastern state more direct infor
mation on the preservation of
health and happiness than ever
before since the department was
established, and the Commission
er and his able assistants are to be
congratulated on their work. Here
are some of the proverbs which
should be pasted in the hat:
The man who says he would
rather have smallpox than be vac
cinated, never had the smallpox.
An open window is better than
an open grave.
W arm rooms have killed more
people than ever froze to death.
If you let the child have the
measles when be is young you
may save a doctor’s bill later on,
but you may have to pay the
undertaker now.
A good iron pump costs less
than a case of typhoid.
If your milk man brings you
warm milk, mate it hot for him.
W ire screens in the windows
may keep crepe from the door.
A fly in the milk often means
a member of the family in the
grave.
If some people were as much a-
fraid of flies as they are of bad
water, there would be less typhoid.
When you see a child looking
like an angel, do not kiss it; you
might make a real angel of it.
Scarlatina may not sound so
dangerous as scarlet fever, but
ask the undertaker.
Rafas Correspondeace.
No shoot Sunday on account of
high winds.
Miss Nellie Morris is visiting
with Mrs Hubert Hill.
C C Deyo has a team scraping
sand for the railroad company.
A P Altermatt brought some
nice rhubarb to town a few days
ago.
Mr and Mrs Mulkey, the teach
ers here, spent Saturday in The
Dalles.
The dance at the hotel on the
evening of the 15th was well at
tended.
Mr Payne, a brother of Mrs A
P Altermatt, is here, and may stay
all summer.
J A Pyburn and Orren Hender
son have two teams moving sand
from the space between the hotel
and the Foister building.
The freeze of last week hit the
fruit; some say one half of it is
gone, others that most all is lost.
Can tell more about it next week.
The Rufus kids played ball at
Wasco Saturday the 22d. Score
14 to 10 in favor of Wasco. Sev
eral Rufusites went out to see the
game.
The head men, three in num
ber, of the cement company were
here Monday looking over the
situation but did not state their
mission.
It is reported that there will be
an excursion on the 23d, the O
W R & N stopping at Rufus for
passengers, as that is the date for
starting the pumping plant at Bla
lock.
The section gang has moved to
Rufus as the section house one
mile east town stands in the way
of the double track, and will have
to be moved; at present the men
are in cars on a spur here.
DeMoss Correspondence.
Prof. J M DeMoss is on the
sick list.
The Christian Endeavor was
well attended Sunday.
Every one enjoyed the Easter
program at the church.
W J Harper, of Corvallis, is the
guest of his uncle, Alex Hunter. z
H S DeMoss returned Saturday
from a business trip to The Dalles.
Real estate has been on the
move the past week around here.
# Mr and Mrs N P Gleason en
tertained quite a lot of company
Sunday.
Mrs Geo DeMoss who has been
on the sick list for the peat week is
nqw some better.
Mr and Mrs Alex Hunter made
a business trip to Centerville,
Washington last week.
My Sympathetic
Friend
Is There
Any O ld and Dingy
Furniture in Your H o m e?
Br SUSAN YOUNG PALMER
Copyright. 1910. by Am oricaa
Association.
My father and mother both died
when I was ao young that I have no
remembrance of them, and I was ec
to an orphan asylum. When I was
eighteen the matron one morning call
ed me Into her room and said to me:
“ You have been very useful to ua
here alnce you paaaed out of child
hood, but 1 am expected by the
managera to get on without help.
You are now old enough to be self
supporting and must either work for
yourself alone or In a home. I oc
casionally receive a letter from some
man desiring one of our grown girls
for a wife. 1 had one of these let
ters thia morning from a young man
In the west, who says that he has
a good farm on which be lives alone,
and he wishes me to send him some
one for a helpmeet whom I can rec
ommend. and he has forwarded let
ters recommending him. Let me know
I f you wish the position.”
The matron was used to condensing
everything she said just as she had
spoken these words. She was a good
woman, but was ao Intimately connect
ed with the world’s troubles that she
could not give much attention to those
of any one person. She turned to oth
er duties, and I left her to go to my
room to think.
The result of my tearful delibera
tions was that I was a few days later
handed a ticket and what money I
would need on the Journey and took
a train for the west. M y leaping was
telegraphed to my future husband,
who was to meet me at the station,
marry me and drive me twenty miles
to his farm. I had no money with
which to return or go anywhere else
In case he should prove disagreeable.
Indeed, I felt as though I had been
pitched over a precipice..
The train had left Chicago and we
were bowling along toward the Missis
sippi. I noticed a young man sitting
near me who was looking a t me, I
thought, sympathetically. I must have
shown my despondency In my face,
for his own reflected It or, rather, be
spoke commiseration.
Presently he
came over to me and said, with an en
couraging smile:
“ You look troubled. Is there any
thing I can do or say to make you feel
happier.”
There was that in his honest face
and eyes that invited confidence. I
told him my story. He listened to it
attentively and respectfully an<J when
I had finished said:
“Has It occurred to you that the
man who Is to marry you Is In the
same position with regard to you that
you are with regard to him?”
“I never thought of th a t"
“ And do you know that many ao
called love matches turn out very un
happily Y’
“I supposed,“ I replied, “th at It was
the forced marriages such as the one
1 am about to make that are fallurea.”
“There la no truer saying than that
marriage Is a lottery. I think you
have a better chance In yours than
those people who, blinded by love, see
no fault until a number of them are
plainly visible after marriage. Un
biassed persons have recommended
this man to you and you to him. You
both trust to them Instead of your
own judgment biassed by love. The
chances are largely In your fkvor.”
“W hat you say,” I replied, “sounds
encouraging, but It seems to me
that I would rather begin with love
even If I must end with disappoint
m en t”
“Spoken like a woman.” he rejoined.
“And I would rather begin without
love and end with love.”
W hat a treasure are these people
who have the faculty of lifting the
cloud that hangs over us and showing
us the sun shining behind. This yonng
man seemed to have only an ordinary
education, but any »deficiency was
made up by cbm mon sense. Then, too.
It was easy to see that he had a kind
heart. He wns constantly looking at
me out of those sympathetic eyes of
his, which said, “Poor child, how I
pity youf’ He was with me moat of
the morning and all the afternoon.
H e soon ceased to talk about my trou
ble, leading me Into other paths,
though he told me many instances of
persons who had made marriage .a
matter of business and found it a
matter of affection.
My lover—I was certainly thinking
the word, mockery that it was—had
written that my train would land me
In the night at the last principal town
on my route, and I was to remain
there, taking another train the next
morning.
When I parted with my
newly made friend I relapsed into the
asms miserable condition as before.
But I was tired, and that night, though
I went to sleep In tears, I got a fairly
good rest. Thia and a bright morning
kept me up the next day till I ap-
. proached the last station, where I was
to meet “my lover,” when it was all
I could do to resist a temptation to
throw myself from the train. I per
mitted every one to go out before me
and wished there were more of them.
Then when alone I nerved myself for
the ordeal and left the car.
M y lover was there waiting for me.
extending bis hand to asslatr,me down
the atepe.
▲ sudden wonder mixed w ith a wild
fluttering of my heart caused me to
pause
I f there is, you can make it look like new— give it
a rich, natural wood finish with -
S herwin -W iluans V arnish S tain
Fine for wood work too. Not a new “ fad ”
product, but one that has been made and sold widely
for years. It correctly imitates all the hardwoods.
I t spreads easily and anyone can apply it. A small
can goes a long way— try one.
JTVtf 1/ glad
to /Swu/ /•«
celer terdt
Now is the time to have those rooms repapered,
just before spring house cleaning. New designs
of paper now in. Drop in and we will talk it over.
HOSMER & CASE Moro, Oregon.
Real Estate Transactions.
Furnished by the Sherman
County Abstract Company.
Lillian Hinch and bus. to
F H Watts lot 5, blk 2,
Clement's add to Grass
Valley
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$ 1 00
Goodrich D Boardman to
H M Shull lands in secs
15 and 21, 640 acres, t 2
s, r 17 e
1 00
Roy J Baker to F T Jones,
west X of blk 14, north ¿4
of blk 15, lots 5 and 6 blk
18, Rollin’s add to Grass
Valley
J 00
F T Jones to Roy J Baker
nwX and n>4 swX
sec 6, t 4 s r 16 e
1 00
New Madden to C W
Moore lots 3 and 4, and
8% of nwX sec 5 r 5 8 19 e 1 00
U S to M Z Donnell neX
of seX and nw>4 of swX
sec 8 t 1 s r 19 e
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Gamp Outfit For Sale.
t At very reasonable prices: 1
camp wagon, fully equipped with
cooking utensils, folding table,
chairs; 300 ft. X in. wire cable; 2
tents; 1 team horses and harness;
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bags, and numerous other articles,
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I have one with a 20-horse
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machines about as good as new,
may be seen at McDermid farm,
between Wasco and M oro; will be
sold on favorable terms. Apply to
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DO YO U N E E D
GLASSES?
If so, don’t trust the most deli
cate organ of your body to a pedlar
or jeweler. I am an exclusive op
tometrist who has made a thorough
study of thaeye, and hold diplomas
from the best schools.
H ave F itted 600 P atient» In
Waaco a n d Sherm an Countie»
Right, an d try to Keep Them
Right.
My work cannot be excelled in
Portland, and it is cheaper for you
to come to me.
O ptical P arlo rs 3 3 ,3 4 V o g t B lk .
A. L OOLDER. A. B .,0. D„ Oph. B.
H e a v la a *
Mrs M L Evans who has been
visiting friends at The Dalles and
Hood River, returned home Sun
SteSOolS Wl)
day.
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•M A D ■ LA N D
CLIMAX
April Utfa, 1911
N<>«toe la hereby aiyen tbnt Leslie Sm ith,
of Ajax, Oregon, Who, on Jannsry 9th
ISOS, mode Homestend No. 14U4 eerial
No
for Io« 1, a»X n ^ X , end nW seX
eration B, kowti«hfp 2 eontbi range 19 asst
Yhllam eK e naeridisn, ha* filed notion of
intention to make final five year proof, to
PStntilish Ola in to the land ni»ovn deeerib-
ed, eetor ■ tb Register and Receiver of the
U ». Land O flk» at The DnlleS. Oregon,
on tb»*
day of May 191!, Clswnsnt
nem re »• «bureyee- Houb H o tt. John T
Pope, H arry R P a b u e r. >Va ltr i G Baaith.ail
of A la i, Oregon.
M .
Oak and Fir. Over-stock compels
as to sell below market price. -
Write os for quotations.
Holt Combines for Sale.
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D e p a r tm e n t o f the IntarioL United States
L e d Offlee. The Dallee, Oregon, _ .
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waking from aleep? The man waiting
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friend.
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