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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-18
NJ. f. SOUTH CONFERENCE.
sixteenth Session at Milton, Angus
81, of East Columbia District.

The 18th session of the East Co.
lumbia conference of the NJ. E.
church, south, will convene at Milton
August 81, Bishop H. c. Morrison in
the chair. The pastors of the con-
ference and the lay delegates will
compose the conference. They will
continue in session during the week.
The appointment of the pastors to
the various charges is with the bishop
and his cabinet, the presiding elders.
Bishop Morrison is a preacher of
rare ability.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-18
NO FLOUR TO ORIENT
BOYCOTT HAS INJURED
PENDLETON BUSINESS

Local Mills Have Not Yet Received an
Order for the Oriental Trade,
Though Last Year They Did an
Immense Business With Both China
and Japan-Thcy Have Shipped
Some Flour Across the Pacific for
20 Years Past-Boycott VIII Help
Australia.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-18
THE SHEEP OUTLOOK
JAMES HACkETT REVIEWS
THE SITUATION IN OREGON.

Very Few Sheep of Any Kind Selling,
Although Buyers Are Plentiful and
the Demand Brisk-Nearly All the
Sheepmen Are still Haying and Do
Not Care to Sell at Present Prices
Later i'm the Year Strong Move
nent Is Expected.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-18

Oscar Key, who had his arm broken
in three places in an accident with a
machine near Wallula three
weeks ago, has returned to his home
at Weston. He is now rapidly re-
covering from his serious injuries.
He has been in the Walla Walla hos
pital since the accident happened.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-18
Suit on Note.

The Maple Bay Windstacker Co. has
sued w. w. Gillett for the sum of
$125, which amount is said to be due
them upon a promissory note given
them by the defendant and which has
never been paid.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-18
Expect Motors Monday.

The motors for the Pendleton Wool
en- mills are expected to arrive next
Monday and will be installed as quick
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-26
"rHE sREADwINNERs.p

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 The death of John Hay has recalled at- tention to the story of "The Breadwin- ners." which was the subject of very wide discussion when published as serial in the Century Magazine In 1883 The author chose to conceal his identity, and the resulting mystery served to increase the popular interest in what was. at the time. a new and striking picture of cer- tain recognized phases of American life
 Much internal evidence pointed to John Hay, then living in Cleveland, as the probable author, but he never could be brought to a public acknowledgement, and the publishers carefully guarded the mys- tery. Two or three other names were also associated with the story. but as the years rolled by these dropped out of con- sideration, and though MT. Hay had not followed the line of literature thus op- ened the earlier guess gradually settled into conviction.
 After he had become prominent in pub lie life there were obvious reasons why Mir. Hay was not disposed to own this ex- pertinent in a field of fiction that was not without some controversial dangers. At the same time the apparent disavowals were not very strictly maintained, and since his death his authorship of the story seems to be no longer disputed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-26
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Was Fine Man.

"I certainly do regret the death oi Di' P D. Pollock. formerly president oi mei cer university" said a graduate oi 'has college last night. q do not know ol any college president in the south "ho was more popular with the students than Dr. Pollock while he headed the college in Macon.
 "There are a number of former Meiee' students in Birmingham and Alabama, and I know that every one of them feel personal loss in the death or pr' Pollock. He not only took an active ih- terest in the mental and moral welfare of the students, but he was an enthusl- astic believer in physical training as we'll and did much towards securing an excel lent gymnasium for Mercer and enabling that college to meet others on the ath- letic field on an equal footing.
 Dr. Pollock did much for Mercer while president. In fact he did too much, for overwork brought on the trouble from which he died. He increased the endow- ment of the college, increased the at tendance about 50 per cent in two or three years and raised money for the erection of new buildings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-26
Work in the Warrior.

Until Major Craighills full report for the year ended June 30 is received a definite opinion as to the work on locks and dams below Tuscaloosa cannot be formed. It appears, however, that there is on hand for the prosecution of that part of the improvement $349,000, and Major Craighill advises the war depart ment to ask for $147000 additional. These sums are expected to afford a six-foot channel the year round below Tuscaloosa.
 Above Tuscaloosa four locks have been completed, and seven remain to be constructed in order to carry naviga- ton to the point where Locust and Mulberry forks come together-a point just about abreast of Birmingham, and distant from it in a straight line about twenty miles, From the junction of the forks the distance to the Frisco and the Southern railroad bridges is in straight line about ten miles. Naviga- tion in Locust fork to the railroad bridges would still be distant from Bir- mingham about fifteen miles, and the equalization of Village creek would be necessary in order to bring it to this city.
 The construction of seven dams and locks will overcome Squaw shoals, and practically bring navigation to the heart of this district This is the task in hand, and the Fifty-ninth Congress can perhaps be induced to provide for the completion of that task.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-26
Premier BaIfour's Tenure.

The adverse majority of three on Thursday night of last week will not lead to a dissolution of parliament, or toNa change in the government. Pre- mier Balfour and his cabinet will per haps stay in office until the present parliament has run it's course in 1907. This is, however, uncertain, because all feel that the electors no longer stand behind the government. and the opposition may secure another adverse vote. The adverse majority of three came upon a proposition to reduce the membership of the Irish land commis- sion in the interest of economy. It was not a large matter, and MT. Bal four did not so regard it.
 The trouble with the opposition is, it consists of factions. The liberal party is not unit. It recognizes no one leader, and the Irish nationalists
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-26
Extra Session of Congress.

President Rooseyelt's tour of the south. lasting twelve days, will be made in the late days of October. It will be perhaps his final presidential trip. And soon after he returns he will convene Congress in extraordinary session. The session is to be begun on November II. or about three weeks before the meeting of the first regular session of the Fifty-ninth Congress.
 Instead of railroad legislation. or tariff legislation, the friends of the ad- ministration now declare that an extra session is necessary because Panama canal legislation will be needful in No vember. This is new proposition, an afterthought apparently, after it was discovered that an extra session before election day would be damaging to the republican party.
 No one anticipates any valuable ac- tion from an extra session of twenty three days. It will expedite no meas ure. It will untangle nothing, not even at Panama, where affairs are not nov ing smoothly. It Is given out that the international board of consulting en- gineers is to meet soon, and they may favor a sea.level canal. If so, action by Congress will become necessary, but an extra session will not be able to accomplish it. An extra session or twenty-three days is in fact something in which there is neither harm nor good-a mere appearance of expediting legislation, without prospect or prob ability in that direction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-26
Discusses the Mosquito.

Dr. ]. M. Lowery who took part in the discussion of the Jefferson County Med teal society Monday night. writes let ter to The Age-Herald, in which he sets forth his views fully on the yellow fever and mosquito question. He remarks:
 What I did say was that l did not believe that tke stlgomyia fasciata Une mosquito which transmits yellow feveD existed In the Birmingham district at present, but that 1t might be imported here, and in support of this statement cited several experiments made by Sur geon H. R. Carter of the United States marine hospital service, by which. he demonstrated that this mosquito could live in baggage, packed in the ordinary way, for as long as thirteen days, pro- vided there was a certain amount of moisture present, e. g., as in soiled under clothing, I stated further that this mos quito could live as far north as the coast of Labrador.
 q said, however, that I was of opinion that Birmingham would be in no danger of an epidemic, even if one or two cases of yellow fever (coptracted elsewhere) should develop here; that the question, to my mind, was purely a financial one, and really narrowed itself down to this: Can we afford to have those one or two cases (although contracted elsewhere) de- yelop after coming to Birmingham! Would the surrounding cities, under such circurnstances. establish quarantine apainst us?''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-26
LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE.
At Ruling Prices Majority Stock Con
 srol Worth More Than Coast Line.

From the Wall Street Journal.
 At the ruling price for Louisville and Nashville on the stock exchange the 3OO'- GOO shares held by Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company are worth s45'5si,ooo. Atlantic Coast Line paid for these shares s45. .554,22O three years ago.
 The returns from dividends on the stock last year to Atlantic Coast Line amounted to approximately s2,16o.0o0. It is not for the return in dividends. however, that the majority control is now held.
 It is the confident expectation of the controlling factor that the Louisville and Nashville system will soon be brought to that point where 1t will have no superior in the southern transportation field. With that end in view the road Is being built up and Is gradually but surely, expand ing its traffic territory and enlarging it's volume of traffic.
 Within two years the majority interest expects the gross earnings of Louisville and Nashville to approximate from s4l'- oOo.oOo to 100000 a year. It is possible that after next year the minimum gross will be the $40,000.000 mark.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-26
From the New York Times.

From the NeW 1OTk liiucS.
 @ HE southwestern parson who was ((CD criticised for eating sandwich
 while performing a marriage ceremony excused the act on the ground that hunger has a privilege. There was thus conveyed a moral lesson on time saving worth the wedding fee several times over. It also showed how two things can be done at once, brancp or the same medication having It's own frequent ly useful applicability. Patterson barber is trying to repeat similar lesson py introducing telephones into his tonsoriai boudoir, as the attachment Of each one of his operating chairs. so that his GUS toner may carry on long distance con versation at the same time that he Is be- ing doused with the short distance dia- lectic of the establishment.
 The practice may recommend itself as a time-saving expedient, though 1t is not certain that in all cases it would work that way. The barber's interest in his customers messages would be pretty sure to abate from that which he ought to bestow undivided on his proper function The latter would not only suner rom this division of attention. but the mmu- n,ca tion themselves would stand good chance of confusion and perversion. Per plexed in the vortex of tonsorial chatter the patron would forget whom le was talking to and what he was talking apout distributing among the hello girls nov erinp together in alarm in their central" dovecote. degree of bewilderment con- siderably beyond that which is habitual to them. Multiplying these chaotic mas sages first by the number of all the barber shops in Patterson and next by that or all the operating chairs they contain would pretty nearly crowd off all rational communications from the wires as if the town was handed over to ministers or misrule intent only to make Its threaded and air spun system buzz by no inteiiisi- ble issue like an old-fashioned grandla- thcr's clock running down.
 Tho introduction of these instruments in such places may be a clever advertis- ing expedient, and that was manfesty the aim of its adoption But smart as tho notion is. it need not invite public commendation. or if 1t does 1t VIII not get 1t. It is quite possible to carry the "stren- nous life too far and make an intolerable burden of existence by crowding a pres sure of activities into what ought to be its chance intervals of relaxation and repose. The up to date barbers chair supplies to the customer a couch of ease for quarter of an hour or so. giving him the rest of which. in busy, hard-work-- ing generation like this, he is likely to stand in so much need. But all that would be changed if the fauteuil were strung around with telephone apparatus inviting to business and conversation.
 The example presented Is not ono to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-26
Kill the Mosuuitces.

The Jefferson County Medical society has by an almost unanimous vote ia vored the maintenance of quarantine in Birmingham as against New Or leans and other infected districts. Whether this conclusion be justified or not. it Is no doubt final, and the state board of health and Governor Jelks will, it Is plain, be governed by it.
 But this action should not stay Mayor Wards hands. Let him proceed to make and keep the city clean, and let him also wage war against all mos quitoes. He need not stop to inspect mosouitoes. All of the insects are nuisances and interlopers. Nature placed none here, and all Of them should be driven out. The task is not at all difficult or huge. The stygo- myia may not be here in strength, but no mosouitoes are wanted All cess pools should be drained or covered with oil right from John D. Rocke- feller's tanks. Cisterns should be screened. The bottom of the pestifer- ous rainwater barrel should be knocked out, and all vessels containing waste or stagnant water should be emptied. Houses should be screened, and mos quito bars are highly desirable. Sul- phur is good agent of fumigation, and to those whose hands or faces are ex- posed at night to mosquitoes a lotion composed of alcohol combined with pennyroyal, lavender, cedar or the like is recommended.
 Mayor Ward should strive unceas- ingly to drive the mosquitoes out alto gether. The expense will not be large, and the taxpayers will cheerfully foot the bills. It is four months to frost, and the fever has obtained good foot hold in New Orleans, and 1t is worth the while to take away all cause of nervousness in this town.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-26
Society Is no comfort To one not soclable.
 -cymbeIlne.
Stiuomvia or No StioomyIa.

At the meeting o( the Jefferson County Medical society Monday night Dr. T. D. Parke said the society had better find out something more about the mosquitoes in Birmingham before it went on record
 This is good advice. If the stigo- myia be unknown here-if no specimen of that variety of mosquitoes can be found in Jones valley-then let the horn be blown and the people told that absolute safety against yellow fever z. ms is this villages heritage. On the other hand, if freight cars have brought to this green and delightful valley the stigomyia, let us face the problem bravely and determinedly.
 Dr. Parke is rig-t. Let our stock of mosquitoes be inspected and classified. The yellow fever mosquito has been minutely described, and our scientists can identify him at sight. No miscro- scope is needed. The stigomyia is not a germ. It is an insect of good size, but bad intentions. Perhaps it can not be found in this valley, and if that be the truth of the situation let us know 1t and duly proclaim it. pr. Parke is on the right line-investigate first, and action afterward.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-26

and unionist free fooders are not agreed on scarcely anything except a dislike of the Balfour ministry.
 MT. Balfour still commands the con fidence of the house, but his grip is loosening. He had nominal majority of eighty, but in fifty by-elections he has lost twenty seats to the liberals. It is generally conceded that the lib- erals will carry the country in case of dissolution of parliament. The con servatives and liberal unionists have controlled the country since 1895, and their weakness at present is largely due to MT. Chamberlain tariff prop ositions MT. Chamberlain's chance of becoming premier is slim indeed, and his tariff reciprocity scheme has really no prospects at all. It stands repudi- ated by the empire it was to create. Free trade is vindicated and re-estab- lished in Great Britain.
 In case a liberal government is formed either Lord Rosebery or Leader ampbell-Bannerman will become pre- mier, probably the latter. But all feel that 1t would be well to keep Lord Lansdowne in the foreign office until the peace conference in the United States, the Anglo-Japanese alliance, the Moroccan problem, the Anglo-French entente and the Norwegian North Sea questions are further progressed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-26
AT THE WELL.

tTOn l<lIe. Once in youth I chanced to wander
 Through a fragrant, fiowery dell, And that day I came upon her, Fairy goddess at the well. By her stood an earthen pitcher,
 And her arms and feet were bare: She was using Natures mirror,
 Twining blossoms in her hair. While I stood and gazed upon her.
 She had risen from the brink, Maid or nymph' at last l queried,
 May I ask you for drink?' Then her eyes grew big with wonder,
 And smile began to tease All her dimples into showing
 Help yourself. sir, if you please" As she spoke I felt her magic
 Der my lazy senses creep, And I drew the maiden to me
 Kissed her, kissed her dimples deep. Then she frowned, took up her pitcher. And had gone a little way When she turned. then hesitated,
 Laughed and dropped here eyes to say sI shall come again for water
 On the morrow. and I think. Sir. you are 80 thirsty,
 You may want another drink"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-26
About Passes.

"On my trips over the l.. x NJ said man who travels. II frequently see At torney John c. Eyester, the popular counsel of the road, at New Decatur. The other day he handed me a new card he had had printed and after reading It one is not at loss to understand how Mir Eyester feels on the question Of rail- road passes. There is nothing especially peculiar about one side of the card but on turning 1t over the reader sees these suggestive quotations under the head Bible Against Free Passage:'
 Thou shalt not pass.-Num. xx:1S.
 None shall ever pass.-Isiah xxxiv1o.
 Suffer not man to pass-Judges iii2S
 The wicked shall no more pass.-Na- hum l:l5.'
 "'This generation shall not pass.-Mark xiii :S0.'
 Though they roar yet they cannot pass.-Jer. v:22'
 So he paid the fare and went--Jonah 1:3."'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-26
Iudas Greene Goes to New York.

Ut is no wonder to me that Judge Dan A Greene can sit upon the criminal bench of Jefferson county and with the greatest ease pass penitentiary and jail sentences on convicted criminals" said John G. Bradley, the clerk of the criminal court of Jefferson county, last night.
 Just let me tell you what the judge did this afternoon. He planned trip to New York and at first decided to take his wife and two little girls-Mary George and Susie. We'll everything went well until an estimate was made on the pos- sible expense account. This went up in high figures, and the judge then decided on scheme. By the use of twenty nickels and twenty bright, new coppers, he persuaded little Susie not to go to New York. but to stop over in Opelika and visit her grandparents
 To-day the judge and his family minus little Susie, are sailing towards New York on a Savannah liner"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-26
RACE PREJUDICE "UP NORTH"

Franklin O. Quillin in the Independent.
 Tn the town of Syracuse, Ohio, on the Ohio river, four miles above Pomeroy' a town of about 20O0 inhabitants, no negro Is permitted to live. No negro is per- mitted to stay in town over night under any consideration. This is an absolute rule In this year. 1905, and it has existed for several generations. The enforce ment of this unwritten law for Keeping the negro from staying in the town over a single night Is in the hands or the boys from twelve to twenty years or age, while the attempt of negro to become a resident of the town is resisted by the town en masse.
 When the colored man is seen in the town during the day he is generally told of more traditions. if he Is so ignorant not to know them already, and is warned 10 leave before sundown. If he falls to take heed. he is surrounded at about the time that darkness begins, and Is addressed py the leaders of the gang in about this language: "No nigger is allowed to stay in this town over night. We don't care what you are here for. Get out of here now. and get out quick
 He sees from twenty-five to fifty boys around him talking in subdued voices and waiting to see whether he obeys. 1T he hesitates little stones begin to reach him from unseen quarters, and soon per suade him to begin his hegira. He Is not allowed to walk, but is told to get on his little dog trot" The command IS al ways effective, for it is backed by stones Tn the ready hands of boys none too friendly. So long as he keeps up good galt' the crowd, which follows just at his heels, and which keeps growing until 1t some- times numbers seventy-five to one hun dred boys. Is good-natured and contents itself with yelling, laughing and hurllns gibes at It's victim. But let him stop his .trot" for one moment, from any cause whatever, and the stones immediately take effect as their chief persuader. Thus they follow him to the farthest limits or the town, where they send him on his way rejoicing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-26
Capt. Ira Y. Sage Here.

Capt. Ira Y. Sage and son. Herbert A Sage formerly of Birmingham, but wno have resided in Atlanta for the past ten or twelve years, are spending a few days in Birmingham For many years cap tain Sage was the superintendent or the Georgia Pacific railroad, which IS no" that section of the Southern railway sys- tenn extending from Atlanta to Green vile, Miss. He was the superintendent of the railroad when the western seetioh' extending from Birmingham to Green vile, was built.
 Birmingham is truly remarkable city," said Captain Sage yesterday after noon. We have visited all sections or the city today and l am glad to note the rapid growth of my old home town.
 The younger MT. Sage Is thinking or locating in Birmingham. He is an at- torney at law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-26
POSSIBLE TO CARRY THE
 STRENUOUS LIFE TOO FAR

be followed. and when it's originator dis- covers the various perplexities and confu- sions to which it leads and the air of exhaustion with which his ove-- -rked customers leave the place, he is quite likely to turn it out of his shop altogether. Carrying water on both shoulders is poor business anywhere but is particular ly inexpedient in a barber shop. From of old, conversation there has been in- tended to go in at one ear and go out at the other and not to wander off into the intricacies of an electrical system. Let the barber In New Jersey, as elsewhere, stick to his strops and father pots and the shoemaker to his last, cnd not try to recommend his legitimate and useful business by adding to 1t another in different line which needs it's own sep arate instrumental outfit and premises.