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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-14
PALoUsE IMPORTS APPLES.
Shipment Made From Kalama to Sup
ply Market at Pullman.

For the first time in many years
the fruit crop in the Palouse country
was poor and outside shipments of
the fruit have to be made. Three
carloads Of apples were received yes
terday at Pullman from Kalama.
Wash, and these shipments are to be
followed by more.
The apples there retail at from
S1.50 To $1.75 box and are Of fine
quality being free from worms. The
apple crop in the Palouse country was
spoiled by the cold weather last Feb
ruary. and the apples that were har-
vested were of such poor quality that
they were hardly marketable.
The shipment just received is the
first for many years. Many tons of
apples were condemned this year on
account of scab and worms. Apples
in that country which ordinarily
would not sell, brought three and
four cents a pound.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-14


and rapid means of transportation
will result very promptly in the trans
formation of the field from a region
Of large stock ranches into a district
of small farms,
The projected railroad from On
tario to New Plymouth, "A road in
which New York bankers have inter-
ested themselves. i'm connection with
Boise and Sumpter. Ore, capitalists,
Will, If constructed, act as an import
ant feeder to the Short Line and its
projectors have announced that there
is basis for a hope by the people that
an extension of the line will ultimately
be built from New Plymouth to Boise.
In that event direct rail connection
will be afforded between Boise and
Ontario and thus over the new
branch from ontario to the west
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-14

According to the official count
4,O14,3O4 people live in New York,
and i,O52.36S in the rest of the state.
The World believes that these fig
ures are Inaccurate. as the enumera-
ton was made in summer, when
thousands were away" But. while the
present population of New York city
-heing S2S.62O greater than that
shown by the federal census of five
years ago-eXcites surprise and graft
fication. the rate OF growth indicated
by these figures is however, the point
most Interestingly discussed by the
press. for by il some trustworthy es-
innate can be made of the future size
of the city.
BY taking this increase. the papers
of n mathematical turn of mind are
figuring out just when New York is
likely to pass London and assume first
The New York Times compares the
size OF the two cities thus
London, our only leader contain
ed at its latest census that of 1901
4.536,541 but Greater London the
metropolitan police district, within a
radius OF Is miles from Charing Cross
contained i 5S1,372. Strike circle OF
l . miles from the New York city hall
and you include at least 100000 Of
.Ierseymen, who are as really New
Workers but for the state line between
us and New Jersey, as are any of the
circumambient surbans of London
Londoners. Add that 100000, and
the real population which belongs to
New York appears as at least an even
5000 O00."
The New York World ventures the
following predictions;
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-14
NEW YORK THE WORLDS SECOND CITY

New York grew 81 per cent in the
last decade of the last century. Spur
red by the beginnings of rapid tran
sit it bids fair to grow 4 per cent
or more in the first decade of the
present one At the time of the open
ing of the Subway, the World. from
figures then available estimated that
New York should overtake the county
of London by or before 1912. But
owing to conditions of business dull
ness and Industrial unemployment in
the British capital, London is less like
ly than New York to maintain its pres
ent indicated growth. The chances
are that New York will pass the coun-
ty OF London before 1910 and that
the 700 square miles of the English
metropolitan district will long before
1920 have been passed by an equal
area containing New York. Yonkers,
ard the nearby Jersey cities which
affard the only fair comparison.
And in order to keep abreast with
the times, and to provide for this
growth of its population, New York.
as the Rochester Democrat and Chron-
icle declares, lis spreading out
Bridges and subwavs are leading
to contiguous territory where space
and air abound ana healthful condi-
tions prevail. Ii would be futile to
say that the growth in population
must stop; but expansion is feasible,
and is going on at a rate that will pro-
vide room for the additional millions
who in the course of years will flock
to the country's great center of civili-
zation."
The slow growth of the population
of the state as compared with that of
the city of New York has not escaped
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-14
In Mad Chase.

Millions rush in mad chase after
health, from one extreme of faddism
to another, when, if they would only
eat good food and keep their bowels
regular with DR.. Kings New Life
Pills, their troubles would all pass
away. Prompt relief and quick cure
for liver and stomach trouble. Csc at
Tallman & Co. and Brock & McComas'
drug stores; guaranteed.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-14

saturday December 16, we will give
a 19x19 picture with every so cent
purchase of crockery or glassware.
Only one to person.
Owl Tea House is the place.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-14

Carpets-Rader-Carpets.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05

One of the most hopeful and signih-
cant indications concerning the posi-
bility Of any state or locality Is the
local pride of It's people. Without much
regard to the productivity Of the soil
or the wealth Of the people you are
Informed Of the peculiar fitness Of this
or that locality as all abiding place
for man. This Is more nearly true in
the west than In the east. But eastern
people are beginning to wake up to the
fact that their lands are cheap and,
furthermore, good investment. When
cases like this come to your attention
it makes for most hopeful considera-
ton, says a National Stockman cor
respondent. A man told me at Belle
vile, N. Y, recently that small farm
with 1000 hens had netted for the use
Of the farm and his labor last year
$1,40O. It makes one feel that things
in New York are changing.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05
Matter IndestructibHe,

An essential property Of matter, but
which does not commend itself to SUI
perficial observation, like those of ex-
tension and resistance, is indestructi-
bility. So far as experiment and OBJ
servation can discover matter can nei-
Their be created nor destroyed. On the
surface facts seem to contradict this
assertion, for any particular portion OF
matter may be decomposed and resolv-
ed into its constituent parts so that 1t
seems to have disappeared, because the
form under which we knew it Is no
longer present. In reality, however, no
diminution in the quantity Of existing
matter has taken place. One proof OF
this is easily afforded by combustion.
If we allow piece Of wood or coal or
any combustible solid body to burn
away" there will, as we all know, be
ashes remaining If while the combus-
ton is going on we take means to pre-
serve not only the ashes, but also every
part Of the body which would ordinari-
~ be dissipated, as smoke and steam,
and then weigh all the different sub.
stances, solid, liquid or gaseous, that
we have obtained, we shall find the
combined weights equal to the original
weight Of the body itself.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05
The PillOry In England.

1t is difficult to realize that as late
as June 26, 1880, SO barbarous pun
ishment as that Of the pillory was still
inflicted. One Peter James Bossy stood
in the pillory in the Old Bailey on that
day for perjury and was the last Of
a long line of victims, for it was abol-
ished Immediately afterward. Origi-
nally, like most medieval punish
ment, it was intended more as dis
grace than as bodily discomfort, but
a crowd that would watch all night to
gloat over public hanging in the
morning naturally did not spare the
victims of the pillory, who sometimes
died from the treatment they received.
More humane was the punishment for
perjury in 1863, when the offenders
were merely sentenced to ride from
Newgate to Cornhill with paper miters
on their heads. But they knew thing
or two in the middle ages, and no
doubt there was a street boy even in
146S.-London Chronicle.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05
BITS FROM THE WRITER'S.

There is nothing in life worth max
ing a secret of-except ones income
Seton Merriman.
Civilization means universal ciyility,
and to be civil to everybody argues
great power Of telling lies.-Eden PHIL
potts.
How exquisite in life is the art OF not
seeing many things and of forgetting
many that have been seen! James
Lane Allen.
Trnisms, whether they lie in the
depths of thought or on the surface,
are at any rate the pearls Of expert
ence.-George Meredith.
Have you never observed that If you
conscientiously neglect to do your work
it somehow manages to get done with
out you?-Henry Harland.
Relations, as somebody said, are dis
agreeable acquaintances inflicted upon
us by Providence. But it is no use
losing ones temper about what they
say. 1t only pleases them.-Richard
Bagot
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05
SOIL PROBLEMS.
The Maximum Crop Makes the Hon.
Civilizations For Plants.

The Maximum Crop Makes the Hon.
ey-Rations For Plants.
It is the maximum crop Of corn or
any kind Of crop which makes the
profit to the farmer. You know there
is no profit in raising forty bushels OF
corn to the acre; there is just simply
no profit in it IL a man cannot raise
more than forty bushels to the acre
on land worth $3.50 an acre. Figuring
the interest on the money and the
actual expenses Of raising the crop,
you will find by computation on forty
bushels there is no profit in it. We
must 90 above that. Well, now, then,
stop and think. II you grow hfty
bushels you have about ten bushels
profit; if you grow seventy bushels
you have increased your profit three
times, and that is where the profit Is
in changing not from twenty to thirty
or from twenty to forty-there Is no
profit in that-but In changing from
sixty to eighty; that twenty bushels Is
practically all clear profit. You may
have to pay cents bushel extra FOR
husking, perhaps, that Is all. Other
wise the expense is the same whether
your yield is sixty bushels or eighty
bushels
Balancing Plant Food In Soil.
In Illinois there is soil which we
find is only moderately we'll supplied
with phosphorus, while 1t contains
about twice as much potassium as
normal soil needs, but you will notice
it contains only One-sixth as much
nitrogen as it ought; on that basis II
needs more nitrogen, first OF all, to
make good crops.
You know the effect Of decaying
organic matter, how active 1t is. Fol
example, you put pitchfork in a pile
of manure and let it stand there FOL
three months when the manure Is rot
ting, and then go and examine 1t, and
if there are any tines left you can prob
ably break them with your fingers
they will have rusted through. WITT
decaying manure or clover residue'
the soil decays or decomposes, ana II
you have plenty of phosphorus OF
potassium in it you can make 1t soluDie
or available in that way.
l want to say that this Is the prln
ciple which we are working on In I'LL
nois. Wherever we have plenty o
plant food in the soil we want to &c
it out in growing crops. Where we hav
enough phosphorus or potassium al
ready in the soil, or where, as is com
mon in Illinois, we find the potassium
away above normal-above what Their
is ordinarily in good soils-we do no
think we ought to buy potassium t
apply to that soil, but we think 1t
the business of the farmer to liberat
the potassium from the soil, and W
can do that easily with decaying Of
ganic matter.-Professor c. G. HoI
kins Before Reunion of Ohio Agricu
| tural Institution.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05
OLD TIME DENTISTRY.
Queer Instruments In Harvard Den
tai Schools Collection.

Queer Instruments In Harvard Den.
tai Schools Collection.
Like many other Of the new" pro-
LESSONS, dentistry is a very Old one
It is known that 400 years before the
beginning of the Christian era Egyp-
tan dentists filled teeth with gold, but
no trace of their methods of doing their
work has ever been found. Aescula-
plus, the patron of physicians, was the
first famous dentist in Roman history,
and the old Romans used a toothpick
very much like the little wooden one
that is made today. The Arabians
ages ago produced a dentifrice, but it
soon seemed to be very generally used.
The story of dentistry Is told in the
instruments it has employed. AS they
are known today they had their be-
ginning in the sixteenth century, but
their evolution has been slow. In the
Harvard Dental school in Boston there
is a collection of instruments used by
dentists in the first half of the last cen
fury. One Of the formidable tools it
includes is what was called a key,
doubtless from it's peculiar shape,
which was used for extracting teeth,
the process being to slowly and pain
: fully twist and pry the offending molar
out of it's place. In order That no mis-
take should be made the dentist began
operations by hammering and prod
ding one tooth after another with a
sort of bludgeon until he had satisfied
/ himself-not to mention the tortured
| patient-that he had found the most
sensitive one and therefore the most
likely candidate for extraction.
/ The grandfathers of the delicate steel
| tools that lie in rows on the modern
dentists table were small in number,
but large in awfulness. There are in
the Harvard collection chisels and NAL
lets, rude forceps for removing the
teeth, miniature crowbars used to re,
pair cavities for filling, files for sharp,
ening the cutting and grinding sur
| faces of teeth and one particularly
horrid instrument, known as the pei
lean, with which teeth were Gifted"
How rapidly and recently dentistry
has become one of the important
sciences appears in the fact that II
the middle of the last century black
smiths were doing their best-or worst
to relieve the victims Of the tooth
ache, while today institutions like thu
Harvard Dental school attract stu
dents from all over the world. BE
sides, while it was sure torture to g
to the dentist in the so called "goo'
old days." such visit now is com
paratively comfortable, so far has tn
/ profession gone in the direction of per
forming its operations without caus
ing pain.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05
An ADimal Story For
Little Folks
Why They Did Not Marry

Mr.. Jim Panzee was very much IN
love with Miss Bah Boone, who was
known to be very terrible firt.
But Jim did not seem to care, though
the young lady was very hard to SUIT.
He tried his best to please her. Put
ting on his best looks he would come
and sit for hours at the foot OF her
tree and sigh and smirk and look coy,
and she would sit behind her palm leaf
fan and look bored and weary.
But she liked Jim for all that, and
think they would soon have been mar
ried, as Jim was about to propose, but
for one little event.
"You are so hard to please" he said
one day II have brought you all
kinds of nice things, and none seem to
suit you. You don't like figs unless
dry them and take all the seeds out.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05
An Interesting Experiment.

A vessel containing certain whlte
powder is placed upon the table, when
the operator advances, waving his
wand and uttering some magic words
coined by himself, when, 10, of sud
den the room is lighted up with bril-
liant light, so effulgent that it dims the
eyes of the spectators. The secret is
this: The powder is composed Of equal
weights of loaf sugar and chlorate OF
potash, separately reduced to fine pow
der and then well mixed together. This
is placed in cup, and when the pow
der is touched with the least drop of
sulphuric acid it will instantly burst
into a fame. The end of the glass rod
should be dipped in the acid immediate
~ before use.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05
ENEMIES OF CROPS.
Causing Peculiar and Subtle
Shrinkagc In Profits.

Causing Peculiar and Subtle
shrinkagc In Profits.
Fighting insects demands better
system Of farming which Of itself will
pay in other directions, and the Ameri-
can farmer must calculate upon insect
depredations as no small element in
his business. OF what use is it to rear
two blades of grass where but one
grew before If he is to lose both of
them by reason of insect attack? 1t Is
not the farm, but the profits thereof
that are lost through the deyastations
caused by injurious insects, and 1t
costs the American farmer more to
feed these insidious foes than it does
to educate his children.
Throughout the United States, where
the smaller cereal grains-wheat, rye,
barley and oats-are to any considera-
BILE extent cultivated, a multitude of
injuries to growing wheat are charged
by the average farmer to the Hessian
fly, whereas in many cases these raw
ages are really the work of insects
whose habits differ greatly from those
Of that insect. Indeed, some of them
are not flies at all, and even where the
ravages are caused by flies these are
not necessarily the Hessian fly, and the
same remedial and preventive meas
ures that are applicable to this notori-
Gus wheat pest may not be at all ef-
fective against them.
To be able to distinguish between
some Of the chief insect enemies Of
cereal grains, and especially between
many of them and the Hessian fly,
and subtle shrinkage in the profit Of
their labor and one they can meet in
many cases by simple measures.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05
rs IT STONED ?"

You won't eat cocoanuts because It's
so hard to chew them. What can ! get
your
ooh" she said YEARLY, II should so
like one of those lovely purple plums
that grow up on the mountain"
'I'll 80 to the ends Of the earth to
please you, dear. I'm off," said Jim
as he ran on, his beautiful tail drag
ging behind him. After much hard
climbing he secured fine luscious
plum and ran to her with it.
"Here, dear one" said Jim. Il have
brought it," holding it up to her. She
looked at it moment, shut her eyes
slowly and said: ''Is it stoned? You
know can't really take the trouble to
stone it,"
"Oh, you lazy thing!" said JIM
bah! I'll never marry your And he
didn't.
Don't be lazy, girls.-Detroit Journal
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05

200 pounds each nitrate Of soda at
equally divided intervals during the
growing season. This was distributed
and Immediately cultivated into the
soil on each side Of the row.
The specially treated field was ready
for market the latter part of June and
because of extra early maturity at a
time when good stocks We're scarce
sold for So and 60 cents per dozen. This
field was cleared July s, ground levcled
and second crop planted for fall
harvest. The field not receiving nitrate
came on the market considerably later
and, although good stock, melted only
20 and % cents. We were not able to
double crop this field as we did the
nitrate plot.-Orange Judd Farmer.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05
r,-.t rr.r..tl.nttc Yacht Race.

The three schooners, Henrietta,
vesta and Fleetwing, were the con-
testants in the first across the ocean
yacht race, in 1866, for stake OF
$4,000. Those three yachts made the
race in the depth Of winter, starting
from New York harbor on Dec. IL,
1866, and finishing of the Needles
fortnight later, the Henrietta crossing
the line on Christmas eve, the Vesta
and Fleetwing finishing in the early
morning hours of the great holiday.
And for almost the entire length Of
that 5000 mile passage they We're ac-
companied by strong westerly winds,
heavy seas and alternate squalls OF
rain, hail and snow. Neither the pas
sengers nor crew were in dry clothes
from beginning to end Of the race,
and they suffered every hardship. bar
ring shipwreck, that could come to
any one making the passage in the
| winter months.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05
InOculating Alfalfa.

Correspondents: I'VE have some
punches Of alfalfa that came up below
the hen yard three years ago that look
fine; we cut three times. A strip that
In spots where it was rich soil"
Comment by Rural New Yorker: Pull
up one Of those alfalfa punches and
see IL you can find the little warts or
nodules on the roots. If you can the
soil around those plants will be good
to inoculate a larger field. When you
seed again dig the soil around these
vigorous plants and scatter it over the
field to be seeded. 1t may mean a
good catch"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05
Carefully Led I'm To.

AYonder," said the party of the first
part, lis the house in which was born.
We lived on the first floor. McBooth
Harrington, the great tragedian. occu-
pied the upper apartments. He was
not only a famous actor. but Singh
larly fortunate man."
''Then," responded the party of the
second part, "you were born under
lucky star, eh?"
N. B.-The management begs to state
that it considers this one of the most
deliberately worked out jokes we have
produced this season.-Louisville Cou-
rier-J Journal.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05
COnstable's Sale.

C. W. Edwards No. In jus
VS.. tees Court, Ward 6,
Young Mckinney. Bossier Parish, La.
DY virtue of writ of fieri facias,
ID issued in the above entitled suit,
and to me directed, have seized, and
will proceed to sell at public auction to
the last and highest bidder, at Haugh-
ton, La, within the legal hours OF sale,
on Saturday, Oct. Z, 1905, the following
described property, to-wit:
One wagon, surrey, 1 sewing ma
chine, Is head of hogs (more or less),
lot household and kitchen furniture, |
saddle, grindstone, lot farming tools.
Terms of Sale-Cash, subject to the
benefit of appraisement.
j. w. ONEAL,
sep21-oct5 Constable, Ward 6.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05
TIMELY GARDEN TALK
Sow caulif1ower now.

Sow cauliflower now.
Green globe artichoke seed sown now
in a shaded seed bed will make large
plants by spring.
Broccoli, which can be sown now, Is
harder than the cabbage and deserves
attention in the family garden.
Cabbage should be sown by the mid
die of August. The seed bed requires:
to be shaded and kept moist and the.
ground should be very rich.
1t is best to have the Irish potato
planted by the middle Of August. A
good plan Is to take potatoes that haze
sprouted and set them in the furfow,
cover with two inches Of soil and. IS
they grow, work down more soil on
them
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05
The Dimcult Persian Tongue.


OF the difficulties in the language Of
Persia a traveller writes: 1.-THE words
one uses in letter are almost entire
" different from those used CONVERSE
tionally, and those in an ordinary
prose history are again different. Then
1t is almost impossible to distinguish
the lenses, and, lastly, the adjective
is generally indistinguishable from the
substantive, and the link between an
adjective and the term which 1t quail
fees is the same as the sign Of the pos
sessive. For instance. the text, This
Is my beloved son. may be read in the
Persian Bible This is the son Of my
beloved without the slightest violence
to the grammar"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05
Stray Sale.

FSTRAYED before me, E. S. Dortch,
T. Justice of Peace, Ward l, BossieT
Parish, La, on Sept. 8, 1905, by Ed
Kelly, of Sligo plantation, one Mouse
Colored Mare, about 10 or IL years old,
no marks-except on shoulder-looks as
if she has had fistula; appraised at $50.
The owner is requested to come for
ward, prove property and pay charges,
or the same will be sold, according to
law, at Taylortown, on Saturday, Oct
%, 1905, at II O'clock am.
sen2,-oct8 E. IS. DORTCH.