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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1904-12-17

Building operations have gone on
without delay of any kind from unfa-
vorable weather this fall. Not only
have we had an ideal fall for cattle,
sheep and farm work, but we have
had splendid building weather, in
fact, so far, there has been no oc-
casion for one going to California,
for its mild weather, as we have been
having regular California weather.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1904-12-17

Sbarying his jaded horse TO renewed
efforts when the animal should be refreshed
with proper food aud rest, is about as sen
sible as prescribing nerve tonics, alcoholic
compounds, coca mixtures and cocktails
which only spur on the already weakened
nervous system. Neither does It do to put
the nerves to sleep with narcotics. When
you feel worn-out, broken down, jaded. and
feel the effects of brain tire as we'll as nerve
weakness, sleeplessness and fatigue. take
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, a
tonic which will do you lasting good, build
you up, increase your appetite and strength
and improve the condition of the blood.
When the blood is impoverished the nerves
feel the effect. Nervousness in nine cases
ont of ten is the Tcry Of the starved nerves
for food" Feed the nerves on rich blood
and all nervous manifestations will cease.
-It has been seven months since using DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. and only
used three bottles Of the medicine when II made
me feel like a new man, writes S. A. Miller,
Esq (care Of Bir. Amos Hyre. R. ID. Io). DAYTON,
Ohio. FL had doctored with two local physi.
clans without benefit. felt all worn out, and
had an awful misery in my back for two years
but noticed a change for the better when ]
began using your Golden Medical Discovery
To gain knowledge Of your own body
-r~@ and .hcalth-send for the Peo-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1904-12-17

At the opening of new school in
New York City. the girls cooking
class served luncheon to the 51s4 stu
dents who occupy the school build
ing. If girls were taught more do
nestle economy in the schools and
colleges and less algebra and other
useless bric-a-b -brac. it would be good
thing AS long as women intend to
be wives and mothers, so long will
being able to make home exceed
in usefulness the ability to juggle
with logarithms
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1904-12-17

August F. Holly, a former captain
of the Princeton football team, has
just died from injuries to the spine
received while playing football. With
all their progressive and modern
methods, it is odd the Japanese have
not thought Of introducing football
into the Russian army. If they could
get up a rivalry between the differ
ent Russian companies and regiments
it would accomplish the desired re-
suit and save lots of money the Japs
are spending for ammunition.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1904-12-17
Worked the Slot Mnchines.

The Astoria slot machines which
are operated by the use of quarter
of dollar have been victimized re-
Gently by an enlisted man from Fort
Stevens He sent for 500 Canadian
pennies. which will operate the slot
machines equally as well as an Amer
lean 25-cent piece. He is reported to
have made a good cleanup.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1904-12-17

Lawson has the whip hand. What
he says comes pretty near coming to
pass on Wall street at present. Will
liam G. Young is the standard-bearer
of the allied interests of which the
Standard Oil is the chief. They have
lost s110.oO0.000 in depreciation of
values since Lawson commenced his
raid upon them. OF course not one
cent of value has been added to or
taken from the real value of the
wheat or copper which the Wall
street gamblers are juggling with.
They may squeeze the water out Of
a lot Of inflated stock that is all they
can do. Lawson viii have accom-
plished a splendid deed II ne can
show the lambs how surely they wiz
-.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1904-12-17

The running time between st. Louis
and Mexico City will be reduced 90
hours from and after January next
for passenger trains, by arrangement
between the Mexico Central and the
|. G. n. and Texas & Pacific.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1904-12-17

The public will be greatly relieved
when Mrs. Chadwick. Nan Patterson
and MIR. Smoot cease to occupy the
headlines of the papers. 1t is hard
to say which of the three cases is
the most unsavory.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1904-12-17

G. d. Hillman. who has been pro-
noting "Edendale." suburb of Sc
Eden. His victims have formed a
Hlllman Victim Society and are put
ting up money to see that he gets his
lust deserts
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1904-12-17
: Congressman George Henry White, o

: Congressman George Henry White, OF
Tarboro, n. G., writes the following let
ter TO DR.. Hartman concerning Peruna;
House of Representatives,
Washington, Feb. 4, 1899.
Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, o.:
GenfIemen-T am more than safis-
fled with Peruna, and find II 10 be an
excellent remedy for the grip and ca
tarrh. I have used II In my family
and they all join me In recommending
II as an excellent remedy.
Very respectfully,
George II. White.
II you have catarrh write to Dr. Hart
man, giving a full statement of your
case, and he will he pleased to give you
h!- valuable advice gratis.
A,'"ra4 Dr.. Hartman, President OF
orn .nni,arium. Columbus, o..
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1904-12-17
sses
Whatever expands the affec-

Whatever expands the affec-
} tions or enlarges the sphere of
} our sympathies. whatever
} makes us feel our relation to
} the universe, and all that 1t in
, herits. i'm time and i'm eternity.
} to the great and beneficent
} cause of all must unquestiona-
} bly, refine our nature and ele-
} vate us in the scale of being
, Claiming.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1904-12-17
Expert Collectors

We have located a branch office In
Pendleton, and will make collecting
defunct bills a speciality. No ac-
count too old for us to handle.
Our plan is: "No collections. no
charges, Suits instituted. judgments
advertised.
The Van Alstine- Gordon & Co., Mer-
camille Agency, ii. v. Lipe &
Co., Mgrs.
t1e e. Court st. Telcphone Main 31I
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-02
Your DEuygglsf recommends and sells
Dr.. Gr0onoce M0svura.

Monday and Tuesday, February 10 and 10.
The Evansville Farmers Club at Its meet
ing Saturday evening at the home OF DR..
H. B. Mcdonnell, College Park, appointed
Col. w. s. Powell and Mr.. John Snowden
additional members OF a committee having
charge of the institute, and decided to Sc
cure, If possible, a display of poultry.
The ladies of ST. CecilIa's Guild, Pinckney
Memorial Church, gave colonial tea" In
the basement of the church last evening.
the members of the guild appearing in cos
tunes of colonial days The affair was a
success in all respects.
Constable George s. Dent lodged In Jail
yesterday Georgiana Driver, colored wo-
man about eighteen years of age, charged
with having caused the death of an infant
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Francis l.. Edelen of
near Gallant Green, by giving the child
concentrated I've. The woman was en-
ployed by the Edelen family, and while the
mother was temporarily absent it is al
legged that Georgiana gave the child tn
lye The mother, responding to the cries or
her babe, saw the woman disappearing.
Dr. H. Bowen of WOodville was summoned,
but could give no relief, and the little one
death resulted two days later The woman
was committed to Jail to await the action of
the grand jury next May.
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dormant for long weeks, sprang into active
life again the little one came closer to
the border-line beyond which lie the
shadows.
He had operated twice, and now both he
and Abdulia watched by day and night
the man, with kind of awed wonder at
the Sahib's devotion mixing in with his fear
for the child.
AS the crisis came on Allan had curl
Gus feeling that in some utterly unin-
telligible manner his own life depended on
that of the child. He had imputed his
interest at first to professional keenness,
but as he watched through the long hours
OF the nlght-watched the faint breath flut
tering back and forth-he realized a greater
issue-one more far-reaching. Possibly the
Importance of the little life was exag
gerated by the attitude of the khansamah
whose eyes seemed ever fixed on the Sahib's
grave face, trying to read the outcome
there. Now and again the man would bury
his head in his dhotee and groan aloud
and the Sahib, despite all distrust, would
speak gently and comfort him.
And then when the temperature dropped
to LOS degrees and the child slept, with a
tiny bead of moisture breaking here and
there, and a quiet though faint breath in
place of the hot, strangled gaspS-when, in
fact, he knew the Sahib had saved his little
one-the one white thing in all his life-he
fell on his knees and caught Meredith's
hands and covered them with tears and
kisses. And then he went out into the
dawn, and, looking away over the city to
where Beebe Jan street lay, he clenched his
| fists and writhed in impotent fury. Verify,
| intuitions are wise friends to the wisei
| So little Yussuf Mink came up from the
place of shadows slowly and as II with
| some reluctance. but he came nevertheless.
And where before there had been great
| awe of the burra Sahib, there was now
something else-born OF helpless depend
ence on gentle strength and patience-a
| shy, childish coquetry that biossomed into
| q dominant, wornhipful love.
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Ice Too Thick to Be Good.

From the Boston Advertiser. -.
Boston Ice dealers are not complaining
because this years ice is in some places
three or four inches thicker than last year
crop. The New York harvesters have pre-
dicted an ice famine for this year on the
ground that the ice is too thick to be good.
but this cry is but move to pave the way
for a possible increase in the price during
the summer. Here the situation is accepted
as 1t is However thick ice Is, 1t cannot be
too thick to be good. Ice IN the Boston
market has been cut as thick as eighteen
inches, although twelve inches is the nor
NAL thickness. Ice that is above this may
containe a marked amount of snow, yet the
Boston dealers have been very careful to
let the weather itself eliminate the snow ice
danger in itself.
There has been an abnormally heavy fall
of SNOW upon the Ice this year, so that II
the crop were to be harvested now the pro-
portion of snow ice would be marked. How
ever by waiting until all the cold snaps
have brought successive freezes, they are
able to secure exceptionally pure Ice. This
years harvest may be a little larger than
usual, but Boston's consumption Is growing
so fast that there is no prospect Of lower
nricaa
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CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER ANlfl.
Meredith realized that he would have TO
look elsewhere for Aguf when he had as
certained that the worthy had not been
captured in the raid. Clearly the fellow
would give Grant road d very wide berth
for some time to come. Ben Alf was of the
belief that he had lett the city, and that
further search was useless. He based III $
opinion on the fact that none of the women
with whom he was in touch had seen any
thing of the parish in several weeks. while
there were vague reports that he had been
heard of in Poonah. and again. in Madras;
all of which, however, might have been cir
culated by the man himself. Strangely
enough, Meredith was far from q scuuraged
by either his own lack of success or The
dwarf's pessimiStic view; on the contrary,
he was buoyapt in the belief that he would
succeed, not only in this, but in any other
project he chose to undertake: but he told
himself there was no particular need to
rush anything. he still had some three
weeks for operations in the City before he
took his little trip into Behar.;
Now, two days after this, Abdulla's lit
tie son fell sick, and the man came crying
to his master for help. Meredith was at
first inclined to have the child sent to the
hospital but char ged his mind suddenly
at the last moment and not only visited
the little one in the servants quarters, but
had him removed into the bungalow, where
he and Abdulla could watch the case more
carefully Just why he did this he was
himself uncertain, but was vaguely con-
scious that there was very sufficient
motive somewhere. He believed that Loda
Influenced him continually, and, judging
that her suggestions would be generally
helpfuI despite her occasional attitude of
anita gonism. he acted on them blindly, with
rarely ANYTHING but satisfactory results
The case developed to diphtheifa. and a
certain professional pride. which had been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-02
The Right Kind of Newspaper.

From the Wall Street Journal.
A newspaper is a vehicle of publicity.
It's most important function Is to publish
the news. The improvementsof it's facili-
ties for getting the news and of the
methods of presenting news has. there
fore, been notable advance In Journal
ism. Moreover, it Is not strange that
there should have been a reaction from
the old style heavy editorial leader"
The demand was for something more d.
rect and simple But 1t is a law of every
such movement that 1t is necessarily car
rfed to extremes. Many newspapers were
80 far Influenced by the revelation in Jour-
nalism that with few exceptions there has
been a lowering of editorial apower. The
improvement in the news pages has not
been a full compensation for this loss, espe-
cially as the news pages themselves have
been corrupted by the advent OF the vel
low journalism" Instead of editorials We
have now comment in headlines and car
ICONS and editorialized news. Readers are
sought to be Influenced by opinions dex-
terously presented in spread" stories This
coloring of news by editorial opinion is in
every way unfortunate. The ideal is the
news presented without any bias or color
whatever and then forcible comment In the
proper place, the editorial page, by men OF
high mental power and trained in the art
of expounding the news of the day SO as to
give the reader an intelligent idea OF its
true significance, thus leading them to
sound opinions.
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the man-whatever he found It to be-to
the last farthing.
However, January was wearing away
without his getting any nearer to Agu1
and the moonstone or to a settlement OF ms
relations with Abdulla, and yet ne felt
quietly confident of clearing both these
things up before he and Nicholas left Bonn
bay on the second of the coming month.
He had visited Loda several times since
the night on which he had dominated her so
curiously and told her the story OF the
White Rose. He had left her that night
sleeping under strong suggestive influences,
but the next time they met there had been
not the slightest hint in her manner that
she suspected anything unusual had occur
red between Them He had asked her ad-
vice concerning the lost talisman. put she
seemed somewhat lacking in interest about
the matter. They had indeed stood to-
gether before the great crystal and seen
many curious pictures, which. however,
seemed to have small bearing on their
quest. They saw Abdulla with little Yus-
suf in his arms; the man was kissing the
little one, and had tears in his eyes which
the child was striving to wipe away. Then
came Sotoo, the birri- wallah, and smiled out
of the mists In the most bewildering man
ner: and, finally, the lmping reveller who
had attacked the doctor at the Saktipuja
scowled at them savagely for a moment and
was gone. These and more curious things
they saw, and were much perplexed as to
| their meaning-but Of the moonstone, moth
ing.
AS matter OF fact, Loda was not at all
herself these days, and IL the crystal owed
any of its potency to her magnetism. as
| many said, twas not to be wondered at
that the pictures were vague and inconse-
quential. Her power of divinattpn was we'll
nigh gone, and with it her confidence. The
| gods were working their will and, she was
| helpless before them. She told herself with
! a curious apathy that it didn't matter, af-
| ter all; that If she only sat still and ceased
| from striving there would come to her
what? Something she had dreamed. The
| hearts desire? Yes, that was. It, She felt
vaguely that the change In her was due In
some manner to Meredith; she realized his
| influence strongly at times, but It never oc-
CURED to her that he was exerting it con-
sciously or that 1t was directly responsible
| for her almost somnolent attitude. She
would lie for hours UP on the roof among
her pillows and flowers. dreaming. dream
| ing, dreaming, and the White Rose and
Soondai, Goonarthi and Laikura, all seemed
| to blend together harmoniousiy, and at
times the hearts desire drew yery near. But
! the dreams pass: the noises a the baxaars,
which had faded away thin ana far, grow
| insistent again; the White Rose and Goo
| narthi Nee away; even EoondaL and Lalkura
/ grow dim and shadowy-and left, are only
Loda, the witch, Yah Mahohdriled, and a
| cold perplexing doctor man.
t One night in the last week of January,
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HyattsviIle and Vicinity.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
EVANSVILLE, Nd, February 2, 1904
The Maryland Agricultural College base
ball team will open the season March 81
with the Georgetown University club. and
a few days thereafter leave for a week S
trip through Virginia Ed Brown, who has
done good work for the nine during the
past three or four seasons will again be
the star slab artist of the college team.
The Laurel board of trade has elected
these officers for the ensuing year: Presi
dent, Frederick C. Dezendorf; vice presi
dent, Michael ]. Tighe, and secretary, LIE
Page Cronmiller. Messrs. Emmit L. Pet
TIT, James P. Curley, Mayor G. B. Ii
manus and ex-Mayor Edward Phelps were
elected board OF governors. The board will
recommend the passage of a law providing
for the use of the Australian system of. bal
loting in all town elections. and law max
ing the term of the mayor and city coun-
cilmen two years, instead of one, as at
present and fixing salary of 800 per year
for the mayor and SIS each for the council
men. A law will also be urged for clos
ing saloons on election day.
The State Farmers Institute for Prince
Georges county will be held in Laurel
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ment added:
See, my lord, I would not anger thee;
and if thou wilt pass thy word to take Ben
Alif the dwarf, into thy counsel. / will
open and show thee how to trap this
beast; but if not, l viii surely go now at
this very time and stick my knife between
his ribs before thou hast the chance. That
is a last word of mine, Sahib; do thou give
me thine
And Meredith, touched despite his annoy
ance. answered: open. then thou pretty
bhudmash. / give my word"
The key grated on the instant and the
door flew in; there was a whirl of light
and drapery, and the girl was at his feet
crying for forgiveness.
'Sahib" she whispered, Il have planned
it all, and even prepared the way. The
sidi is always on the watch, and | should
judge she loves him; but, Sahib, she loves
, arrack better. Twice has she slipped to
my room when he was out. and would have
drunk like a pig had l given to her. So
what easier than for me to bring her to
the room again and let her drink and when
she grows drowSy pass the key out to Ben
Alif. who will open the door and pass 1T
back to me. l will return it. Meantime
thou and Ben Alif are waiting in the clos
ct After little she will return to the
room drunk, so that thou needst not fear;
she will sleep till he comes, and then open
to him as usual. That is all, Sahib"
Hum, and suppose she comes to the
closet?"
There must be little room for the gods
in all things. Sahib; and should that hap
pen-welI you are two big men and she is
but a small woman When she is quiet
thou seest have thought it all out-thou
shalt slip into my room, and Alif shall
bide there; and when he knocks Alif shall
open to him from the dark, so that he may
not see who is there. and thou and 1, Sahib,
will creep behind him rest he should sus-
pect and try to get back. and Are
there any more flaws, Sahib?'
NO Sotoo; thou hast planned this thing
we'll and If Ben Alif thinks well OF IT also
1t shall go as thou hast said-save only
! that thou shalt not come out from thy
room with me-
saThy word is my law always, Sahib she
answered docilely, but Meredith remember
ed the little matter of the closet, and de-
termined to keep a sharp watch on the girl,
that she took no chances.
1t was too late to attend to the matter
that night much as he would have liked
to as it would need some considerable dis
cussion of detail with Ben Alif ere they
could hope to carry out the plan TO sat
jsfactory conclusion--aud Ben Alif might
be anywhere between Dadur and Colaba at
that time of night So he told Sotoo to
leave word with Selim for the dwarf to be
at his bungalow early the next evening.
and that she was to prepare for their COM
ing later the same night, and in case any
obstacle rose he would send her word by
the dwarf before II o'clock.
Go be continued tomorrow
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And the little one was so naive
and sweet and unspoiled, so ut
terly and frankly sincere in his
worship, that the doctor must needs re-
spond in kind; and often, in the GONZALES
cence so wearisome to an adult such tor
ture to child, Meredith would sit by tho
little one, and while the weary time away
with games and Stories enjoying himself
the wondering interest, keen delight, or
doubt, that chased across the pretty, mo-
bile face And then perchance the child
would grow drowsy and fall asleep with his
little brown hand tucked away in the
Great Ones" And the doctor, while in
wardly ashamed, perhaps, would sit silent
and still till 1t pleased the little man to
come back from the land Of dreams and re-
lease him from his vigil.
And often the khansamah would creep to
the cheeks outside and peer through at the
pair as they played. or as the sahib kept
watch And once he saw the Great One"
as the baby liSped of him, StOop and kiss the
little ones brow as he slept half In his
arms and half on the pillows. Then Alb
dulla rushed away through the compound
to secret place that the bushes and tam
gled creepers shut In, and there In the
shadows he walled out the bitterness of
his spirit, and then settled down to cursing
the man in Beebe Jan street and all his
relatives-past present and to come-in
most fluent and artistic language seriously
and with somber purpose, mind you, with
out considering III the least the futility of
barking back to the gentiemans great,
> 3
in-law, and passing invidious remarks con-
| corning her. This exercise really seemed
| to relieve him immensely; SO. possibly, it
| contained virtues not apparent to the UNI
| initiated.
| As Yussuf gained strength again and was
| able to play about in the compound, Allan
naturally saw less of him, but the young
| ster encouraged to come In and talk
| to his fathers master, whose interest in,
| and affection for, the boy was to some de-
| gree reflected on Abdulla. The paternal
i possibilities of the man had never occurred
/ to Meredith and when he saw the intense
devotion that the fellow showed for the
| tiny sick mite of his own flesh it was a rev.
| elation. Since the child was about again,
Abdulla seemed hardly willing to have him
| out of his sight for an instant. and the lit
| tie one showed an equal fondness for the
khansamah. who appeared to spend his
| every leisure moment out in the open air
| with the boy. carrying him aloft on his
shoulders, soberly learning the games the
Great One" had taught him. or listening
to the fairy stories that he had gotten from
/ the same source.
| Meredith watched them casually, and 1t
| occurred to him that in any blow he might
strike at the man he would surely reach
the boy, and the thought was intolerable
| to him: yet but couple of weeks previous
he had been determined to pay his debt to