East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-11-16

ana the canuluateS all expressed
themselves as delighted at the de-
| lightful character or the trips, what
with the excitement, the sense that
they were getting there in great shape
and the general dash of the tours,
which were never the same in Incl
dents, but were continually presenting
fresh situations. And, wonderful to
tell, the autos were on their good be-
havior. never depriving the voters of
the exquisite delight of dumping the
candidates.
Antl-PneumOnia Poultice.
A place over in Jersey, the little
town of Washington, has had so much
pneumonia, that it looked for and dis
covered a poultice that citizens de-
clare cures pneumonia. 1t is the
board of health that recommends the
paste, so II has the flavor of official
/ ity as well as of onions, which form
| ing the principal ingredient, make
themselves known at once. Other
| health boards are spreading the same
tidings. Here is the remedy:
Take six or 10 onions, according
to size. and chop them fine, put in
large spider and over hot fire; then
add the same quantity Of rye meal
and vinegar, enough to form a thick
paste. Stir thoroughly, letting 1t
simmer five or 10 minutes Then put
into a cotton bag large enough to
cover the lungs, and apply to chest as
hot as patient can bear it. In about
10 minutes apply another and con-
tinue by reheating the poultices, and
in a few minutes the patient will be
out of danger. This poultice is re-
ported 20 have worked very success
fully in the town of Washington.
Pretty Girl, Small Cat and q Boy.
A big throng at Eighteenth street
and Broadway was intensely interested
in the performances of a pretty young
lady and a cat. a pretty young lady,
indeed, and very small cat. The cat
was staggering from weakness when
it came upon the scene, so weak that
1t fell just before the young lady
came tripping along clad In a stylish
gown of perfect fit and of costly ma
terial
The young lady did not hesitate for
a second, but straightway reached
down, picked up the very small cat
and put II to her small muff With a
piece of silver she sent a newsboy
after some milk. and when he speed
| lily returned, she and he knelt down
by a wall, and she held the bottle
while he curved his pudgy and be-
| grimmed hand into a cup, and the
small cats benefactor held It's head
down so that it could lap up the nee
tar, purring all the while as though
1t had just struck a cats paradise.
Quite unconscious to this little group
large crowd had gathered, quite fill
ing the sidewalk. Somebody suggest
ed as a policeman came up on the
run, that the young lady had been
! injured, and rang up an ambulance
The ragged boy then constituted him
self her knight. Jaw. g'wan,' he said.
you rubber-necks, and by the time
the ambulance arrived. the tender
hearted girl, the small boy and the
still smaller cat and the the muff,
had boarded car.
Hageman Holy LOCKER.
AS John r. Hageman. president of
the Metropolitan Life Insurance COM
pany, sat under the examination of
the Armstrong legislative committee,
he seemed a cross between Henry
Ward Beecher and Robert Collyer.
with a slight dash of st. Simon Styl-
ties thrown in to add to the effect of
sanctification. His emphatic express
sion of adherence for the perpendic-
ular pronoun made deep impression
upon William Barnes, sr., of Albany,
who looked on with a quizzical CLINT
In his bear eye.
When Mr.. Hageman finished the
statement about not drawing the sal
ary of 100000. Mr.. Barnes leaned
forward and whispered to man In
front of him, that Is the face of a
saint" Yes" retorted Mr.. Hughes
softly. for he had overheard the re-
mark, But no saint was ever so holy
as Mr.. Hageman looks"
The plan to establish n National
theater In New York has, at last,
ripened to maturity and it's realization
is not far or. \ coterie OF wa thy
men has provided fu'd C SO, ,000, ono
for tstAhl hinc a Ea'inrL .Theater
in this city. 1t is 10 be located on
Central Park West, between Sixty
second and Sixty-third streets, and,
Mr.. Heinrich Conried. the present di-
rector of the Metropolitan Opera
house, has already been engaged to
be the manager of the new house. Mr..
Conried is n man of great experience
and remarkable executive ability. If
any man can make the new National
Theater a success by his own genius
and efforts. Mr.. Conried is the one.