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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22
THE HARDEST METAL.

The success of tantalum as ma
terlal for electric lamp filaments has
drawn attention to the remarkable
properties of the metal, and may lead
to many demands II the supply can be
sufficiently increased. Chief of these
properties, as DR.. Mollwo Perkin
points out, is extreme ductllity, com
bined with extraordinary hardness
A diamond drill, rotating 5000 times
a minute for three days and three
nights, penetrated only quarter
through a sheet of tantalum one
twenty fifth of an inch thick, and the
diamond was much worn. This hard
ness suggests the use Of the metal fol
drills in place OF the diamond.-Kan-
sas City Journal.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22

II you can't 60 to the beach for a
month with the family, then go out
on the creek bank and camp for a
time. Every family in a climate like
this deserves an outing in the noun
tains or at the coast and many people
deny themselves a weeks outing be-
cause they think a camp on the creek
bank or in the Umatilla county noun
tains is a monotonous and tiresome
diversion. Try it. Make a regular
thing Of camping for two weeks every
year and every two weeks camped out
during the extremely hot weather will
mean a year added to life.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22

live here are objects OF pity and solicit
tude.
But, while the rocks are many and
the sand covers large area OF the
territory, these little valleys I have
just described are as fertile as the
soil of Egypt or the prairies OF Iowa,
and nowhere can a larger return per
acre be obtained If water is available
The reports OF the geological sur
vey credit Arizona with 10000, 900
acres of arabic lands-more than all
the New England states combined
and the average yield per acre under
irrigation is several times as great as
can be harvested from any farm east
crops Of alfalfa are cut in some To-
calities near here, and two crops can
be harvested from nearly every farm.
Nearly all of the land that can be
easily irrigated has been taken up,
and the development of other districts
is dependent upon the construction OF
reservoirs for the storage OF The
spring floods and expensive irrigation
systems. This can only be done by the
federal government and is now con-
templated under the Newlands re-
clamation act.-William E. Curtis in
Memphis News-Scimitar.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22

As a comparison Of the people and
conditions in parts of Tennessee and
in oregon and Washington, just make
a canvass of the people living any
where within a radius of 100 miles
from the Whitman monument at
walla walla, and see how many will
not know practically all about the
missionary, his life work and tragic
death Then turn to Tennessee, and
see how few living in the very shadow
of Merimether Lewis monument
know anything about the man or his
achievement. And yet Tennessee Is
one of the dearest old states in the
south. She has given the nation some
of its best and strongest characters
and cannot re ccnsurcd for lack of
educational interest among her noun
taineers.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22
Repartee From "Cow Counties" ;"

The Crook County Journal says that
man was frozen to death on the
streets Of Prineville few days ago.
He had read the thermometer upside
down and thought It was 95 degrees
below zero, and expired instantly.
That's strange. but no more so than
an incident occurring in Lakevlew
about the same time. Dick Wilcox,
assistant cashier of the First National
bank. hung a thermometer upside
down In his COW barn and the next
morning his COW gave ice cream
Lakeview Examiner.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22

Baker county papers say a report
has reached there that the Umatilla
county crop is short. Let Baker look
to her own laurels. If Umatilla coun-
ty ever had the promise of q good
year, IT is now. If 80 to so bushels
per acre on the best land and 20 to
% on the second grade land is a fail
ure, then we are overwhelmed with
failure. More farmers in Umatilla
county will leave the farm this year.
with a full competence, and ready to
live henceforth in town to educate
their families, than ever before in any
year. Failure? Why, the dictionaries
down here do not contain such
word.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22
is 1T COMING TO THIsP

Following is an Associated Press
dispatch which has been sent out
from Colfax, Wash, to the reading
public. 1t needs no comment.
"Colfax, Wash, Aug. 21.-An at
tempt was made to murder r. t.
Street about midnight last night AS
he was going to his room in the Col
fax Implement company's warehouse,
he was assaulted by an unknown thug,
while passing through a dark shed,
and seriously injured. The assassin
shot at Street and the bullet passed
through his coat, They grappled and
fought viciously, Street using hatch
ct he carried in his hands, and the
assassin using knife or dirk.
Streets scalp was laid open to the
bone in two places, his nose cut half
in two and his kneecap split with a
sharp knife, He managed to hit his
assailant one blow with the hatchet
and the thug ran away, leaving his
hat with a hole cut through IT. A
trail OF blood was visible for two
blocks, but the thug escaped in the
darkness, as the electric light engine
broke down at this time, leaving the
town in utter darkness.
Street caused the arrest of four
saloon keepers last Monday for VIOLA
ton of the Sunday-closlng law. and
each pleaded guilty and paid fine Of
$50 and costs. Street announced he
would demand of the city council at
tomorrow nights meeting that IL
censes of these saloons be revoked. In
compliance with the city ordinance
which provides for such action for
violation of Sunday-closing ordinance.
It is believed the attempt to murder
him is result of this threat"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22

The statistical and crop editor of the
Portland Oregonian rode through
Umatilla county on the mixed Walla
Walla-Pendleton o. r. & n. train a
few nights ago, but never stopped
over day in the county, so he is
highly qualified to speak on actual
wheat yields. If there was bushel
of wheat in the county which this
eagle-eyed statistician did not see, on
this hurried tour, he do-s not know
where it is hidden away. Therefore
his estimate of 100000 bushels for
Umatilla county is supposed to be cor
rect, to the kernel. Now, since this
scientific statistician has ridden
through the county and surveyed the
crops in sight of the railroad, let no
farmer who pays for the threshing,
speak Of the wheat yield. The statis-
ucian knows.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22

Friends OF law enforcement and I'M
proved morals all over the county
are watching the movement in PEN
dleton And not only In Umatilla
county are people awakening to the
fact that saloon domination has
reached the limit. but all over oregon
tnd all over the United States. Every
paper is filled with stories Of law en-
forcement and suppression Of vice, in
unexpected quarters. Newspapers
mat are standing for the enforcement
Of the law and better conditions are
sure TO suffer loss Of business for a
time. but intelligent business men will
not be dictated to by saloons when
they find that the majority OF the peo-
pie are against the saloons. II the
people on the moral side will stand
together In business az well as In sem
ument, they will soon prove to the
lawbreakers, who furnishe the bulk
u the business OF merchants. II
they INQUIRE who their friends are and
patronize them, the saloon mems boy
colt will soon end In disgrace and de-
feat
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22
HER ANSWER.

Today, dear heart, but just today,
The sunshine over all,
The roses crimsoning the air
Along the garden wall!
Then let the dream and dreamer die;
Whate'er shall be, shall be-
Today will still be thine and mine
To all eternity.
And oh, there is no glory, dear.
When all the world is done,
There is no splendor lasteth out
The sinking of the sun:
There is no thing that lasrs, not one.
When we have turned to clay.
But this: you loved me-all the rest
Fades with the world away.
SO little while, so little while
This world doth last for US.
There is no way to keep It, dear.
But just to spend 1t thus.
There is no hand may stop the sand
From flowing fast away
But his Who turns tho whole glass
down
And dreams tits all today.
John Bennett, in Memphis News
Scimitar.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22
NEW MINERAL FROM CEYLoN.

Thoria, or oxide of Thorlum, is used
in the manufacture of "mantles" for
incandescent gas burners. Hitherto
almost the only source of that ma
terial has been the so-called mona
zite sands, of which there are depos-
it's in North Carolina, European
makers of mantles, however, have had
trouble in procuring supplies from
America. Hence they are pleased
over an announcement which comes
from London chemists regarding a
mineral discovered a year or two ago
in Ceylon. 1t is known as thorianite.
Consignments of this substance,
containing about 10 per cent of
thoria, have been sold in England at
$500 ton. Unlike other thorium
minerals, thorianite contains uncom-
bined thoria which dlssolves In nitric
acid to form thorium nitrate. The
portion soluble In this acid contains
from 72 to 10 per cent of thoria, to-
gether with smaller quantities OF
uranium, cerium, lead and iron OK
ides, the insoluable part contains
silica and zirconia, and a certain
amount of helium has also been OBJ
tanned from the mineral
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22
THE NEXT DEAL.

The fellow who sits in the game of
life
With only a deuce and a tray
May feel that with trials his hand is
rife,
And it's scarce worth the trouble
to play;
But still, let him play 1t the best that
he knows,
Nor e'er his depression reveal,
For when the hands played It is fair
to suppose
That the Dealer will give a new
deal.
"A. ]. Waterhouse In San Fran
cisco Call.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22
THE END OF \ PLUTOCtAT.

A Missouri exchange thus bids
farewell to a departed citizen: HE
was a man of push. He played mar
bles for keeps when a boy and cheat
ed all of his playmates out of their
alleys; he swapped a bladeless knife,
sight unseen, for a fourblader, sold
that for so cents, bought a pound Of
sugar and some lemons and made a
barrel of lemonade, which he sold on
circus day for So. He started in
business and sold bad meats for
choice cuts and made "A fortune.
When he got $1,000 he organized a
company with $1,OOO,0OO capital,
mostly water. and sold the stock at
par, and when the company burst 1t
was found that he had sold out some
time before. When he died he was a
millionaire and left 1t all here. It is
warm where he is now"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22

The brutal and revolving order of
that acme of arrogant knaves, John
Alexander Dowie, to the effect that
avery mother in "Zion," as he calls
his settlement of mental imbeciles'
shall bear a child every year, is the
limit of beastliness. Polygamy Is a
white angel compared to the inhu-
man, unnatural and impossible creed
of this old hog.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22

A large number of anxious politi-
clans are now agitating the question
as to whether the direct primary law
will be beneficial or not. 1t may not
exactly suit old warhorses whose oc-
cupation for a lifetime has been the
carving of ready-made states for cut
and-dried conventions, but 1t stands
to reason that 1t will suit the indi-
vidual voter who may desire to do his
own thinking and voting
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22
ARIZONA NOT A DESERT.

There is a mistaken idea in the east
about Arizona. While 1t is recognized
as one of the richest storehouses of
metals in the universe, 1t is supposed
to be a hopeless desert, and those who
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22

The big papers of Portland sharply
eensure the country papers for en-
gaging in personalities week after
week, and then the big dailies forth
with engage in a battle of personali-
ties so bitter and senseless as to make
the little papers ashamed that they
ever stopped to such tactics.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22

The business man who talks to the
readers of newspaper as he talks
to the customers in his store is the
one who wins.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22
w. T. PARKER
Dealer In Dry Goods. Groceries and
Notions-IIats, Caps, Boots. shoe.
and Farm Produce.

have Just purchased the d. b.
Richardson store at Helix. Oregon.
and I am going to thoroughly remodel
1t and greatly increase the stock.
solicit your patronage, and IL Roed
goods and fair treatment can hoh
your trade. then know you will trade
with me. Bring in your farm pro.
duce. Highest market price paid.
hhA OREGON
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22

is THE MOST SATISFACTORY
FORM OF POWER IN USE TODAY.
YOU PRESS THE BUTTON. WE DO
THE REST. TAKES AWAY ALL
THE DRUDGERY, HEAT DIRT
AND DISCOMFORT OF STEAM
POWER. 1T Is NOT ONLY MORE
CONVENIENT BUT is CHEAPER.
FIGURE UP YOUR BILL FOR
WOOD, WATER, LABOR AND RE-
PAIRS ON YOUR BOILER AND EN-
CINE AND THEN COME AROUND
AND GET OUR RATES FOR A SIM
liar AMOUNT OF POWER. IF
YOU ARE BUILDING DON'T FAIL
TO HAVE YOUR HOUSE WIRED.
QUIT CLEANING SMOKY OLD OIL
LAMPS. AND PUT IN LIGHT THAT
ONLY REQUIRES TURNING A
BUTTON. 4 I. 4 + + =
IRONING DAY THIS WEATHER
IS LOOKED FORWARD TO WITH
DREAD. NO NEED OF 1T. WHAT
is THE USE OF HEATING YOUR
WHOLE HOUSE UP AND MAKING
A HARD DAYS WORK OF YOUR
IRONING WHEN WE CAN FUR
NISH YOU AN ELL CTRIC IRON
AND YOU CAN OPERATE 1T ON A
METER AT AN EXPENSE OF ONLY
FIVE CENTS AN HOUR. WE CAN
FURNISH YOU A SEWING MA
CHINE MOTOR AND 1T WILL ONLY
COST YOU TWO CENTS AN HOUR
TO OPERATE IT. ISN'T 1T WORTH
TWO CENTS AN HOUR TO YOU
TO HAVE A MOTOR ATTACHED
TO YOUR MACHINE. YOU CAN
DO MORE WORK WITH LESS FA-
TIGUE THAN IN TIE OLD WAY.
WE WILL MAKE YOU A FLAT
RATE IF YOU ARE A DRESSMAK-
Err OR SEAMSTREES. 1T WILL
PAY YOU TO LOOK 1T UP. COME
AROUND AND SEE US, Z = z
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22

The best law-the golden rule.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22

. > + ; = + = = = ? = = I
= We shape ourselves the Joy or I
= fear,
. OF which the coming life is I
. made,
. And fill our future atmosphere.
. With sunshine or with shade.
. The tissues Of the life to be
. We weave with colors all our
q own,
. And in the field of destiny
. We reap as we have sown.
a Selected.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22
ON AOA AlvM MuLL uNV MINLL

ON AOI LIVM HuLL INV IINIL
MAN.
If you re behind-hant in meeting
your engagement 1t isn't your fault II
you wear one Of our watches 1t tells
the precise time of day.
CORRECT TINIEPIECES
save anxiety, because they can be re-
lied on. Our guaranteed watches are
as cheap as many that are unreliable.
Price them and see.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1905-12-21
women
Hong Kong Paper Opposes Women
Missionaries for Interior China.
TELLS OF RECENT MASSACRE
Urges that Only Men Should be Sent
to Interior Points at Present on
Account Of Native Prejudice.

The shocking affair reported at Lin
chow on the North River, seems to call
for comment, yet the subject of mis-
sionaries and mission work in China is
such thorny one that it is task of
delicacy to refer to it and at the
same time to avoid transgressing some
article of faith, canon of good taste,
or rule of debate. The latest sad in
cident involving the cruel murder of
women and children, illustrates one
side of the matter, one drawback of
the movement; but to treat only of
that is to ignore the very genuine sec
ular usefulness of these embarras-
sing invaders of China, their educa-
tional and medical work. The long
list of feminine and juvenile martyrs,
however, of which the additions of this
latest catastrophe represent but a
small fraction, must renew in many
minds the doubt, often previously ex-
pressed, of the propriety of permitting
women and children to accompany the
male pioneers of the gospel. The
dreadful risks to which these defence
less members of the missionary corps
are exposed was painfully exemplifed
I in 1900 /; and we believe we are not alone
in thinking it would be better, for many
reasons, to restrict missionary work
and it's perils to males. The Chinese
idea of woman's status is not in any,
thing like accordance with the foreign
Idea; and there must be men mission
aries of experience who have been en-
abled to realize the many misconcep-
lions which occur among the Chinese
where women missionaries are con-
cerned. 1t would not detract at all
from their Chinese unselfshness were
these to set their faces against the in
trusion of women into what is en-
phatically sphere for men, and to en-
courage their uncomprehending breth-
.ern to a recognition of their full re-
spo visibility in countenancing the ad-
mission of women. Of course it can be
urged that there is work which women
can better do; but in view of the
dreadful price that has sometimes to
be paid, and the liability they will in
cur of being accused of selfish dis
inclination to the fuller martyrdom OF
celibacy, we trust the men missioner
les will not press this point too far.
If they succeed in their good work with
the men of China, the lot of the WON
en- Of China would be directly amel-
iorated as desired, without the inter-
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1905-12-21
A FRESH GLIMPSE OF CHINA
Quaiut News Itemr From the CeIes-
estiaI Empire as Given by Hong
Kong Papers.

The Po-Shang pawnshop situated in
Cheung KwaiFong street of the Sum-
Cheng village, Poon-Yu district, has
been established for a considerable
time, has large capital and has a
Furnishing business. There is a wide
canal in front of the pawnshop and a
small hill behind. The building is very
we'll constructed and is very strong. A
small fort has been placed on the roof
to protect it against attacks from rob-
bers, etc. No robbers had ever dared
to attack this place before although it
was known that many wealthy people
kept their values there. On the after
noon of the 10Th ultimo, many strang-
ers arrived in the village and steam
launch towing two junks was seen
entering the river close by. The peo-
pie soon found out that several hun
dred robbers had come to attack the
famous pawnshop. The pawnshop
people rushed to the roof and sounded
their gongs for assistance. The folks
fired on the robbers from the roof and
kept them at bay for over two hours.
A division of the robbers was then
sent on to the hill commanding the
roof and from there they easily dis
lodged the defenders and managed tc
get into the building which they ran
sacked from top to bottom.
: They carried away valuables to the
amount of 1000 taels and were about
to attack the neighboring houses wher
the advice of the more prudent ones
prevailed and they decided to leave
the place as daylight was approaching
The neighbors were in great conster.
nation and their fears subsidized only
when the robbers were known to have
left.
TAX ON PREPARED OPIUM.
On the LIST inst. Deputy Shun was
sent by the Viceroy to meet the Nam.
Hoi and the Poon-Yu magistrates anc
all the merchants dealing in prepared
Opium. These merchants were re-
ceived in the reception hall of the Nam
Hoi yamen. 1t has been decided tt
levy tax of four candareens pei
ounce of prepared Malwa or Patna Cd
ium. Every dealer shall send to thu
government detailed report of tn,
monthly sales and any sale effected
which has not been entered will b,
charged twenty times the duty. Thu
taxes are payable monthly and the Ii
cences renewable yearly.
THE WAICHOW REBELLION.
Owing to the Waichow insurrec
ton threatening to become more seri
GUS vlceroy Shum has sent dispatcl
to Admiral Ii Tsun instructing him t
(, proceed without delay to the scene 9
the disturbance with several division
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1905-12-21
HIGHWAY NOTICE.
o sTATa Or i lo%A. yss.

o sTATa Or d lo%A. Iss.
Denison, Iowa, Dec. 9TH. 1905.
To Henry Beeman, Louise Olson, Daniel
Hemphill, George Nj. Harvey and to whom 1t
may concern.
You. And Each OF you, Are Hereby Nosi-
fed. that the commissioner appointed to va
cate part of Highway No ne commencing 81
and on the east side OF fourth street in the
town of Buck Grove IN Crawford County.
Iowa, running thence tast 26S feet, thence
feet south and 1914 feet west of the y sec
ton corner on the north line Of section IL In
Township 81, North of range 80 west OF the
9Th Principal Meridian in said County has re-
ported III favor of the vacation thereof, and
II objections thereto or claims for damages
county in Denison, Iowa, on or before noon
of the 10th day of February A. D. 1905 or
such highway will be vacated without re-
ference thereto
EDw THEoBALD.
Auditor of Crawford county. Iowa.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1905-12-21
vention of women missionaries.

VeullOn VI women missionaries.
Returning to the matter of the Lin
chow affair, all accounts agree in at
tributing its origin to the action of
DR.. Machle; and as this gentlemen
has happily escaped the fate of his
companions, there can be no sentiment
tai objection to instituting an enquiry
as to his share of responsibility for
what happened. Article VIII. of the
Tientsin Treaty of 1858 says: "The
Christian religion, as professed by Pro-
testants or Roman Catholics, incul-
Gates the practice of virtue, and teach
es man to do as he would be done by.
Persons teaching it or protesting it,
therefore, shall alike be entitled to the
protection of the Chinese authorities,
nor shall any such, peaceably pursu-
ing their calling and not offending
against the laws, be prosecuted or in
terfred with. To protest against the
disturbance of hospital patients by
the noises of the Joss procession was
reasonable, provided it were properly
done, and the requset politely made to
the responsible parties. If it be true
that DIR. Machle laid hands on sac
red image carried by the procession,
we fear we must place large meas
ure of serious responsibility on his
shoulders. To behave disrespectfully
or sacrilegiously to Joss appears to
be such an unthought Of thing in the
case of Chinese that so far as we can
ascertain there is no legal injunction
extant, nor any legal penalty provided.
Therefore, it may be that this Jealous
missionary has not defended against
the laws although he cannot be
said (still assuming the correctness of
the received reports) to have been
''peaceably pursuing his calling. "
The missionary who wants to teach
the heather the wickedness and folly
of idol worship probably thinks he
makes fine point by maltreating the
idol; but he is not doing "as he would
= NC uOI1C ny. TUT we Icdu CIldC Llle
people of Linchow are very supersti-
tious, and" (quid rides)? "believe in
their gods. Some of them might con-
ceiveably think it necessary to pro-
fame the American place of worship,
or to handle disrepectfully some of its
sanctified furniture, in which case the
missionary's point of view would be
different. This affair will inevitably
have political results. We in no way
wish to whitewash the turbulent saw.
ages who have been guilty of such
heinous murders; but it will be but
| fair to both sides to make sure what
truth there is in these stories of pro-
vocation. The other point, which we
regard as most important, is matte,
for the various missionary societies, o,
their respective Governments. Will
they take into consideration the advis.
ability of forbidding the importation
! of women and children by inland mis-.
sionaries? We think they ought to-
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1905-12-21
of troops to quell the rebellion. 1t is
reported that Admiral Ii started on
his mission two days ago.

The biennial prediction that Con-
gresham Conner will have strong OPP
position for denomination has been
going the rounds. It's hundred to
one shot that he will have a clear
field. -Odebolt Chronicle.