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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-01
OLD AGE PENSION.
Much Attention Given in France to
the Care of the INDECENT.

France evidently does not believe
that the old should be chloroformed
and put out of the way, for, according
to official reports received from United
States officials located at Paris, that
government has a system Of pension
ing for the aged. For more than a
century the French government has
been experimenting with schemes for
giving an annuity to the old, not, how
ever with entire success.
At the present time deposits are re-
ceived from any person, regardless of
age, but the amount may not exceed
500 francs ($96.50) in the course Of a
year. An account may be opened for a
child of three years of age; married
woman may deposit money without her
husbands consent. At any age be-
tween fifty and sixty-five Tor earlier
in case of permanent disability to
work. the depositor may claim his an
nuity, which is calculated according to
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-01
cnnYsANrHEMuM WEALTH IN THE eovERN1ENr GREENHOUSE

the cmount of his deposit and interest
and the probabilities Of life, but the
annuity may not exceed 1000 francs
| ($23l60).
In rural districts the tax gatherer Is
empowered to receive deposits, and In
many factories certain percentage Is
deducted from the wages and paid to
the Caisse in the workman's name. A
branch of the Caisse may be founded
| in any town or village, with the per-
mission of the project Of the depart
ment, and there are about $500 Of such
branches, with nearly 100000 de-
positors.
There are several large institutions
| for the care of the INDECENT aged Some
of these are free and q. others small
| charge Is made for board and lodging.
/ At Issy, near Paris, Is an institution
for widowers, widows, or married
couples, of whom both are over sixty
five years Of age and who have been
married at least fifteen years.
There are many small institutions
founded by private persons for old
officials, at some of which the charge
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-01
ALFALFA Two YEARS orr.

fresh cold water is poured in and the
handle turned slowly two or three
times when the butter is ready for
washing, sailing and eating.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-01
Coffee For the Army.

The yearly contract for supplying
coffee for the United States Army is
about to be let by the Quartermaster
General and the Department of Ag-
riculture has been called upon to de-
eide which brand shall be purchased.
This test was made under the super
vision of DR.. Wiley, Chief of the Blu
reau of Chemistry. He selected jury
of veteran coffee drinkers who know
and can tell good coffee from bad by
flavor and by the odor with the pot at
probably a hundred yards distant. The
jury assembled in DIR. Wiley's office,
where the bureau cook had prepared
several small lots of coffee from the
samples submitted. They were tested
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-01

feet. Flax roots 60 down three and
four feet. Grass roots, four to six
feet. Red clover completely occupies
the upper three feet of soil. Crimson
clover roots in a single year grow
three feet. Alfalfa roots 90 to the
enormous depth of twenty TO thirty
feet ALI of which may give some
farmers new ideas as to cultivation
which breaks the roots of plants, and
the distance at which to plant. When
late potato hills are three feet apart
each way the soil is very fully Oecu-
pied by the roots to a depth of three
feet. Each potato hill, therefore, Oc-
cupies twentY-seven cubit feet of sofi.
Salt Not Needed For Asparagus.
Another short article is on the Prop
er Fertilizers for Asparagus. Although
salt has been considered a time-hOn-
ored necessity for this crop, it has
been found that asparagus will yield
as we'll without as with it except for
the fact that the salt prevents the
growth of weeds.
Growing Mushrooms for Home USE
is another short article and Onion
Culture covers another. Another
short article gives the remarkable re-
suits of forcing early rhubarb with
ether.
Raising Calves on Skim Milk, sup
plemented, of course, by grain, is an
instructive little article, covering the
results of experiments in this line in
the government stations in Iowa, Ida
no, Kansas, Nebraska and Titan. En-
tire success has been had with the
skim milk diet and the practice is
considered even more desirable by
some authorities than allowing the
youngsters to have natural milk.
Other topics discussed are Noodles,
la product prepared by European
housewives and some manufacturers
from -four with the addition of GER
tain amount of eggs and salt the
dough being rolled into sheets and cut
into strips or fanciful shapes; Condi-
ton Powders and Special Stimulating
leeds for Fowls and Farm Animals;
the Relative Cost of Producing Meat
from the Beef Type and the DaiIy
Type of Cattle; the Use of Animal
Food for Young Ducks, showing the
gains of ducklings on rations contain
ing different proportions of animal
food; the Bad Effect of Using Milk
from Diseased Cows and the Produc-
ton of Cider Vinegar.
This is a free bulletin and applica-
ton should be made to your senator
or member of congress, or. to Secre-
tary James Wilson at Washington.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-01

by the jury from cups and spoons.
After the test the jury was dismissed
arate report, giving his views of the
coffee, and stating which Of the sam
were placed in sealed envelopes and
sent to DR.. Wiley who opened them
and submitted the finding to the Quar-
termaster General. DIR. Wiley also
constituted a part of the jury-a fore
man, as it were-to ascertain whether
his findings and judgment of the quail
ity of the coffee conceded with those
of the others.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-01
Good Cra nc.

plant ~ TIE Departments show
thls wear which attracted more than
saunl attention was a specimen about
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-01
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&NHR%%&X1A A GREAT SHXAyW7@
ESAY9yEl CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW sag&IkEs
WTrW MITCHELL ~taSM
GUY ELLIOTT MICHEL.

four feet tall on which grew eighteen
different and distinct varieties, some
white, some yellow, while others were
pink. brown and red. This was OBJ
tanned by grating stems from valu-
able sorts on a good stock.
The first ehrysanthemum known to
florists was yellow and was grown in
Japan. 1t was carried over to China
and from that country rapidly spread
all over the world. The passing years
however. wrought wonders, and the
chrysanthemum, the autumn queen"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-01

Perhaps nowhere in the world can
one find such a varied and magnih-
cent collection of ehrysanthemums as
may be seen every autumn at the Ma
TONS Capitol. The chrysanthemum
shows of Washington have become a
fixed institution so that society-diplo-
matte circles as well-look forward in
terestedly for the opening of the gov
eminent hothouses which display the
finest of Uncle Sans experiments in
this branch Of flower growing.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-01
One Minute Butter

The instantaneous ice-cream maker
seems about to give way to an In
Simultaneous butter maker. Thls IS Q
churn capable of making butter II
sixty seconds. The machine IS SC
handy that it might very well be
placed on the tea table as an acces
sorry to the cups and teapot, and YET
not look out of place. All that II
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-01

Empire Churn," reports Consul Lie
field, of Freiburg, Baden, does not
even need a special vessel for holding
the cream. The cream is placed in
the vessel so that the dasher is in the
center, and about 1-2 inches below
the surface. The handle is then turn
ed slowly for a few seconds, and
then at a good speed, and within one
minute butter is formed. Then some
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-01
TS55@s - = 70

plants. representing about 100 diff
erent varieties. Many of these are
the product of the govLrnments gar
deners, artificial pollenation and cross
breeding valuable varieties, bringing
about most startling results. This
year the most successful of the de-
partment's efforts is a~magnificent vel
low flower fully ten inches in dame
ter. The petals are extremely heavy,
well shaped and all in all the bloom
In a huge ball of molten gold. The
flower il not merely one for show;
florists who have seen 1t declare that
1t is Of much commercial value.
The Mrs. Roosevelt chrysanthemum.
Secretary Wilson was so pleased
with this Seeding of 1905" that he
authorized 1t named Mrs. Roosevelt,
in honor of the first lady of the land.
But the departments experiments
along the line Of CHI santhemum
crossing are not always q success.
Last spring efforts were made to
cross two yarieties-Merza and Lieu
tenant-C Colonel Du Crolsset-the lar
cest of the white and yellow kinds
with the hope Of producing complna-
tion Of value. When the flower of the
new plant unfolled itself it presented
an ugly mass of brown, red. yellow
and white, and OF but ordinary size,
1t had gone back. Other hybrids have
a tendency to 60 back to single petal
varieties and to distinctly different
color from the parents. And yet each
wear the efforts of the government
Gardeners are rewarded, even though
they produce one good specimen, by
ohiainlng a ehrysanthemum OF rare
beauty and shape.
Good Ora Ag.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-31
TO COLLECT BACK TAXES IN OREGON

The petitions for the initiative upon
a bill to provide for the assessment
and collection of taxes upon property
in this state, which has never been
assessed before, dating back as far as
1860, have been completed so far as
the drafting of the same is concerned,
and as soon as they can be printed
they will be sent out for circulation
before the public, says the Salem
Statesman.
Since the publication of the news
taht the petitions were being prepared
in the Statesman of Tuesday, Messrs.
W. II. and Webster Holmes, who
have drawn the petitions and bill at
the instigation of prominent taxpay-
ers, have been urged to complete them
in order that they may be put in cir
culation. There is no need of hurry,
however, as petitions for the initiative
upon any law may be filed with the
secretary of state up to not less than
four months before the election at
which they are to be voted upon takes
| place.
, As previously stated, if enacted into
law this bill will have the effect OF
collecting taxes upon all lands which
! have not been assessed heretofore, in
cluding thousands of acres of the best
agricultural and timbered lands in
the state, which were granted to the
railroad and wagon road companies
by an act of congress in 1866, and will
enrich the common school fund, into
which all proceeds above expenses OF
assessment and collection of such
taxes will revert, to the extent OF
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Governor Chamberlain, in his mes.
sage to the legislature of 1905, recon-.
mended that steps be taken by that
! body looking to the collection of bach
taxes upon all property which had moi
been placed on the assessment rolls
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-31
Real Estate Transfers.

Mary E. Olcot to A. s. QUAINT, lots
/. ., 3 and 4, in block D. Alba. Con-
sideration, $125.
Addie E. Esteb and L. A. Esteb to
Rose Kraft, all of lots F, G, H, I
and j, in Halstead's addition to Echo.
Consideration, $125.
w. H. Boyd and Emma Boyd to
James Johns. the 1-2 of lots and
s i'm block 4, Echo. Consideration,
$3.50.
John F. Temple, Jr., for the SW
Ia of section S3. township 3, north
of range 30, E. w. NJ. Patent.
Ruby Mccoy and James Mccoy to
b. l.. Archer for a part of the SW
IA of section /. township 8, north
of range 35, f. w. NJ. Consideration,
5000.
John McAfee. lots l and in the
NV IA and lots l and of the SW
IA of section 81, township l, south
of range 81, f. w NJ, containing 81
acres. Patent by U. s., issued in
1898.
John McAfee and Alvina McAfee
to d. w. Chapman, for the w 1-2
OF section 81. in township /, south OF
range 81, e. w. NJ. Consideration,
$1,000.
Frank Plant to d. w. Chapman
for the E 1-2 of section 81, in town
ship 1. south of range 81, f. W. M,
and the NE IA and the N 1-2 of the
NV IA, and the Sc IA of the SW
Ia section 6, in township 2, south OF
range 81, f. W. NJ. Consideration,
$4,000.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-31

therefor S17 1t is also said that Mr.
Meyer received $22 for his 3s, while
no details could be learned of the
price he received for his yearlings.
1t was also generally understood
that j. NJ. Boardman of Montana, has
virtually concluded negotiations
whereby he purchases 5000 head of
Is from above the line, paying there
for $21. This, however, is not Off
cial. Mr.. Boardman left for Dallas
last night with Colonel Slaughter,
whose guest he will be while in that
city.
Anoter deal was almost closed last
night wherein 5000 head of 3s and As
from below the line will change
hands.
Numerous small trades are report
ed to have been made conditionally,
but the details cannot be obtained.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-31
GENERAL NEWS.

Close political affiliation is being
sought by many British politicians be-
tween Canada and the British West
Indies.
Russell Sage the great money
maker. is in very feeble health and
no longer able to transact business at
his office in wall street
The recently concluded treaty be-
tween Afghanistan and Great Britain
is said to greatly strengthen the lat
ter's position in Southern Asia.
Japan is demanding 100000 in
demnity of Denmark for permitting
the Baltic fleet to coal at Danish
ports en- route to the Far East.
Archbishop williams, of Boston, is
no longer able to look after affairs.
He is so years Of age and recently
underwent a surgical operation.
Captain G. W. KirKman, of the reg
ular army will be tried by a court
martial at Fort Niobrara, Neb., charg-
ed with scandaIous and immoral con-
duct.
Mrs. Mary Brockwell, a widow of
Paducah, KY, murdered her three
little children to please a suitor who
promised to marry her if she would
get rid of them.
Thomas H. Watts Is dead at Mont
gomery, Ala, aged 80. He was the
great incohonee of the Red Men OF
the United States. He died of rheu-
matism which attacked his heart.
Secretary Hitchcock today designat-
ed William H. Code, of Los Angeles
as chief engineer of Indian irriga-
ton. He will have supervision OF ir-
rigation construction work on Indi-
an reservations throughout the West
The steamship British Princess has
arrived at New York with $4,000
bushels of Oregon wheat which is be-
ing reimported 10 meet the demands
of American millers, who anticipate
and are preparing for a shortage oi
wheat before the 1905 crop is har-
vested.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-31

Beside the government railroad grants
there are also thousands Of acres of
land which were purchased from the
state which have escaped taxation in
the past because there had never
been any public record of title upon
which they could be assessed.
Many owners of such state lands
have procured title to their property
but have not placed their deeds on
record and have thus escaped taxation
Governor Chamberlain says, however,
that there is a complete record of til
tie to all state lands sold in the past
kept in the office of the clerk of the
state land board to which the asses
sors of the different counties have
free access for the purpose of listing
the same and they are privileged to
do so at any time they see fit.
More than 100000 acres are en-
braced in the grants of the oregon
and California company, the Oregon
Central. now merged with the Ore
gon and California; the Willamette
Valley and Cascade Mountain Milling
road, and the Corvallis and Yaquina
Bay road.
The last two are wagon road COM
panies. In the oregon City land dis
trict these grants are in the counties
of Clackamas, Multnomah Yamhill
Washington, Tllamook, Polk, Linn
Marion, Benton, Lincoln and Column
bia. Only one county i'm the district
Clatsop, is excepted. Eighty town
ships are embraced in the Oregon
Central and the Oregon and Califor-
mia Railroad company grant.
As every odd section was given to
the company, it had 1440 sections, OF
921,00O acres. The Willamette Valley
and Cascade Mountain Military road
grant included 92,160 acres, and the
Corvallis and Yaquina Bay road grant
115,200 acres, a grand total of 1929
! $50 acres.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-31

PLENTY whiskey for Injun; plenty
plenty" said Spokane Jim, the well
known Umatilla this afternoon, to the
East Oregonian.
"Injun have plenty money git
plenty whiskey. Git 'em everywhere
White man charge Injun maybe 81
for pint; saloon charge white man so
cents for pint. White man steal so
cents from Injun every time he sell
'em whiskey. What's the matter In
jun no get pint for so cents?"
This is the philosophical view taken
by Spokane Jim, on the whiskey ped
ding traffic.
The cause of Jim's moralizing was
the sight of two Indian men and one
Indian woman leaving town this fore
noon so drunk that all reeled on
their horses and the woman was
held on her horse by her husband
who rode by her side.
When questioned as to where they
got the whiskey, he said there were
white men who hung around Pen
dleton saloons who did nothing else
than sell whiskey to Indians. He said
/ the saloon keepers did not do it for
fear of losing their licenses but they
kept these hoboes around, who would
carry on the traffic and divide the
profits with the saloons.
young Injuns heap drink now;
few years ago young Injuns no drink.
White man say heap good whiskey,
Injun taste him; Injun say yes, purity
good and buy bottle. White man
make so cents on bottle tell Injun
keep still" Spokane Jim says the
young Indians are now drinking
more than formerly becduge of the
ease with which they can procure
the whiskey.
While Jim is no saint himself, YET
he deplores the deeadence of his race
and continued:
when young Injun drink he ne
go to school; he fight, run away from
home, sell his horse, steal another
mans horse, make him bad Injun
Few years ago, when young men nj
drink heap good boys; go to school
herd horses, maybe work on farm
make money and no stay in Jail. Nov
no good. Like to stay in town may
be find bottle. get drunk. run hin
horse and fight when he get home.
He declares it is easier to ge
large quantities of whiskey for In
dams in Pendleton now than it ha
ever been before.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-31
NORTHWEST NEWS.

The grading of the portage road is
completed, and tracklayers started
March 20 laying track in both direc-
tions from the center of the line.
The fishing schooner San Juan has
arrived at Seattle from northern
waters with a haul of 10000 halibut
the largest catch recorded for a
boat of that size in many years.
The women of Spokane who are
interested in athletics and sports, are
making a fad of swimming, and ar
ranging for swimming lessons and
matches for the coming summer.
At White Sulphur Springs, Mont,
H. H. Meter has been found guilty
in the first degree of the murder of
Homer Ward. whom he shot last
Thanksgiving through the window.
William Scott, a well known street
and killed himself in the presence of
his wife and 2-year-old baby. Tenn
porary insanity from business worries.
In 1904 the Occur d'Alene produced
217,s0O,OOO pounds of lead and g.
100000 ounces of silver. OF that,
the Federal produced 94,300,000
pounds of lead and 3,O32,OOO ounces
of silver.
An Indian woman named Marian,
aged so years. is dead at Chatcolet,
Wash. She was a woman of much
strength of character, and credited
with as much influence as any chief
Of her tribe for the past 40 years.
Every vineyard at and near Juli-
aetta, Idaho, has been quarantined
by the state horticultural inspector
because of infection by phylloxera.
Many of them must be uprooted and
roots and branches burned.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-31
Strikes Hidden Rock.

When your ship of health strikes
the hidden rocks OF Consumption,
Pneumonia, ETC., you are lost, II you
don't get help from DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption. J. W.
McKinnon, Of Talladega Springs, Ala,
writes: 'T had been very Ill with
Pneumonia, under the care of two
doctors, but was getting no better
when I began to take DR.. Kings New
Discovery. The first dose gave re-
lief and one bottle cured me-" Sure
cure for sore throat, bronchitis
coughs and colds. Guaranteed at
TalIman & Co.'s drug store, price soc
and s1.00. Trial bottle free.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-31
ECLIPSE IN AUGUST.
sun Will BE Totally Darkened on
August 20.

Sun VIII DC IOliiS DuThSiitu oi
August 20.
The moon is going to totally blot
out the sun this year, the date of
which performance is set for August
20. In the United States 1t will be
observed as a partial eclipse at sun
rise.
The path of total eclipse will run
through Labrador. the North Atlantic
ocean, thence across Spain and the
Mediterranean through the north
eastern part of Africa. Rear Admiral
C. NJ. Chester, superintendent of the
naval observatory. has completed ar
rangements for the observation, for
which $4,000 was appropriated by
congress-
An expedition will be dispatched
on the United States ships Columbia
and Carter to establish stations at
which observation will be taken. Be
sides the staff of the naval universi-
ty, the force of observers will con-
sist of representatives of some of
the leading universities and colleges.
Professor X. H. Bigelow of the
weather bureau will accompany the
expedition in charge of the meteorO-
logical work. In addition to the
American naval expedition, Canada
will locate observatories I'm Labrador.
Germany and England will send par
ties to Spain and Egypt. The Lick
observatory will send parties to Lab
rador, Spain and Egypt, and Rus
sia viii send out two parties. The
event will be of great Importance to
astronomers.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-31


j. w. Baker, Vancouver.
r. H. Burke, Portland.
Mrs. Lydia Leroy, Myrick.
Miss Ellen Cole, Myrick.
DR.. S. H. Kophe, san Francisco.
o. j. Lasater, Walla Walla.
w. S. Holt, Portland.
Miss Constance Mae Corkle, Port
Portland.
c. F. Skinner Walla Walla.
j. w. Lyons, Walla Walla.
Grover Burroughs, Walla Walla.
P. NJ. Hannaman, Walla Walla.
A. w. Stine, Walla Walla.
5. D. Rinker, Spokane.
Mr.. and Mrs. c.. S. Paul, Spokane
DR.. F. NJ. Heckley, Echo.
NJ. Manask, Coshocton.
S. G. Warden, New York.
b. B. Titwiler, La Grande.
r. w. Daley, Seattle.
Mrs. T. Shultz, Brainard.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-31
Portland.
The Pendleton.

NJ NJ. Elllin, Chicago.
c. E. Metzger, New York.
Richard Obee, New York.
w. H. Garrett, Portland.
c. p. Tallman, New York.
h. Lederer, New York.
George r. Williams, Portland
Ted O'Malley, Spokane.
d. C. Rousseau, Urayguay.
]. Sam Cole and wife, Portland.
Richard MUIR, Portland.
T. H. Lane, Denver.
r. A. McAllister, Milwaukee.
G. S. Youngman, Portland.
E. B. Conan, Portland.
G. b. Atkinson, Moscow.
r. E. Paddock, Portland.
o. c. Dale, Portland.
T. B. KILN, Portland.
G.. ]. McEvoy, Starbuck.
A. Loesch, Starbuck.
H. B. Cation, Portland.
Peter Van Data, Portland.
c. AIDES, Spokane.
Edgar L. Forest, city.
Madz Sorenson, city.
Luke M. Hawley, city.
C. S. Wills, Boston.
A. p. Bradbury, Portland.
H. C. Bryson, Walla Walla.
Justin Wade and wife, Wall
Walla.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-31

Kindly Take Notice that Ely's
LIQUID Cream Balm is of great bene-
fit to those sufferers from nasal ca
tarrh who cannot inhale freely
through the nose, but must treat
themselves by spraying. Liquid Cream
Balm differs in form, but not medic
inally from the Cream Balm that has
stood for years at the head of reme-
dies for catarrh. 1t may be used in
any nasal atomizer. The price. In
Guiding a spraying tube, is rs cents.
Sold by druggists and mailed by Ely
Brothers, 56 Warren street, New
York.