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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-21

"WelI, I have no money, of course, except worthless Confederate paper,
 but have two pairs of Colts navy
 six revolvers, and I'd be glad to give
 you one pair of them for my dinner.
 my horses feed and the provisions I
 have mentioned"
 Now look a-here, mister" broke in
 the mountaineer, rising and straighten-
 ing himself to his full height of six
 feet four, "when you come to my door you was mighty hungry. You axed fer
 a dinner an hoss feed, an I've done give lem to you free, gratis an fer nothin'. No man on the face O Gods yearth kin say as how he ever come to Si Watkins house ip need of dinner an hoss feed 'thout a-gittin' both. An no man kin say as how Si Watkins ever took cent O pay fer a-entertain- in of angels unawares, as the preach CTS says. But when it comes to fur nishin' you with side O bacon an some meal an salt, that's more differ enter. That's business. There's mighty little meal an mighty few sides O ba- con in these here parts, but I don't mind a-tellin' you as how my wife's done managed to hide few sides O bacon an little meal from the fellers what come up here to collect the tax in kind. Elf you choose to take one O them sides O bacon an a little meal an salt an give me one O your pistols, I'm quite agreeable The gun mout come in handy when I git little still a-goin' down there in the holler."
 'I'll do better than that" answered Duncan. "I'll give you a pair of the pistols, as I said.'
 Hold on! Go a leetie slow, mister, an don't forgit nothin'. You promised to gimme the par O pistols fer the bacon an meal an salt an fer yer din- ner an hoss feed. I've done toIe you as how Si Watkins don't never take no pay fer dinner an hoss feed, so you can't offer me the par O pistols 'thout oherin' to pay fer yer entertainment O man an beast, an I won't have that, I tell you"
 "very we'll" said Duncan. q didn't mean that. I'll give you one of the pistols in payment for tbe supply of provisions. That will end the business part of the matter. Now, I'm going to do something else with the other pistol the mate of that one.'
 With that he opened his pocketknife and scratched on the silver mounting of the pistol butt the legend: "To Si Watkins, in memory of visit. From Guilford Duncan. Cairo, H."
 Then. handing the inscribed weapon to his host. be said:
 q have right to make you q little present. purely in the way of friend ship, and not as pay for anything at all. I want to give You this pistol, and I want you to keep it. I don't know where I am going to live and work in the west, and don't know why I wrote Cairo, Ill., as my address. It simply came to me to do it. Perhaps it's a good omen. Anyhow I shall go to Cairo, and if I leave there I'll arrange to have my letters forwarded to me wherever I may be. so if you're in trou- ble at any time you can write to me at Cairo. I am as poor as you are now yes, poorer-but I don't mean to stay | poor. If you're In trouble at any time I'll do my best to see you through, just | as you have seen me through this time" - -----. 2.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-21

l was powerless to prevent that. The negroes, loyal to the rnistresses whom they had served from infancy, had gone wild in their enthusiasm of de. fense. They ran amuck, and when the morning came thefe was not one man of all those marauders left alive to tell the story of the conflict.
 In the meanwhile GuIlford Duncan, by means of his men, had gathered in- formation in every direction. He knew now that all hope was gone of his join ing Johnston's army, even if that army had not surrendered, as by this time it probably had done. He therefore brought his men together. Most of them lived in those mountains round about or in the lower country east of them, so he said to them:
 "Men, the war is over. Most of you, as I understand it, live somewhere near here or within fifty miles of here. As the last order that I shall ever issue to you as captain, direct you now to return to your homes at once. My advice to you is to go to work and rebuild your fortunes as best you can. We've had our last fight We've done our duty like men. We must now do the best that we can for ourselves under. extremely adverse cir cumstances. Go home, cultivate your fields, take care of your families and be as good citizens in peace as you have been good soldiers in war"
 There was hurried consultation among the men. Presently Sergeant Garrett spoke for the rest and said:
 "We will not go home, Captain Dun- can, until each one of us has written orders from you to do so. Some of us fellows have children in our homes, and the rest of us may have children hereafter. We want them to know, as the years go by, that we did not desert our cause even in Its dying hours; that we did not quit the army until we were ordered to quit. We ask of you, for each of LIS, written order to go home or to go wherever else you may order us to go.''
 The captain fully understood the loy- alty of feeling which underlay this re- quest, and he promptly responded to it. Taking from his pocket number of old letters and envelopes, he searched out whatever scraps there might be of blank paper. Upon these scraps he issued, to each man of his little com pany peremptory order to return to his home, with an added statement in the case of each that he had served Loyalty, bravely and well even unto the end"
 That night, before their final part. ing, the little company slept together in the midst of cluster of pine trees with only one sentry on duty.
 The next day came the parting. The captain, with tears dimming his vi- sion, shook hands with each of his men in turn, saying to each, with choking utterance: "Goodby! God bless you"
 Then the spokesman of the men, Sergeant Garrett, asked:
 Are you going home, Captain Dun- can?
 For twenty seconds the young cap- tain stared at his men. making no an swer Then, mastering himself and speaking as one dazed, he replied:
 Home. Home? On all Gods earth I have no home"
 Instantly he put spurs to his horse. half unccnsciousiy turning toward the sunset. s,n's--sr,-.rssy
 A moment later he vanished from view over the crest of hill.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-21

It pays to advertise in the Demo- crat.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-21

(To be continued.)
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22
PORTLAND'S POPULATION.

People who dc not understand have
been amazed at the fight made by
the Portland Oregonian against ad-
mitting the population Of Portland to
be over 10000 as shown by all the
directories, gazeteers and census re-
ports of the past year.
Under its remarkable outward
struggle is a secret business fight
which is gnawing at the vitals of the
Oregonian.
When the city of Portland reaches
to 10000 population or over, the
Oregonian and it's only child, the
Evening Telegram, cannot hold mo-
nopoly OF the Associated Press serv-
ice in The city, for according to the
rules Of that association its service
may be sold 20 a third customer in
city having 10000 population or
more.
When the population of Portland
is known to be 10000. that an
nouncement will open the doors of the
Oregon Daily Journal, that it may re-
ceive the Associated Press reports, If
it desires, in addition to its own excel
lent service and the Hearst service
which it now receives.
This, then, is the reason why the
Oregonian is willing to retard the
growth of Portland. This is why it
denies the remarkable growth which
Portland has made since the begin
ming Of the Lewis and Clark fair.
This Is the reason it denies the cold
facts in Folks latest direotory of
Portland, which gives that city a bona
fide population, including its suburbs
of 1875 souls.
| In this directory are listed 7S,O7S
names. Anyone can calculate the
population from this basis. Multiply
the names in the directory by 2.5 to
find the total population. That is the
rule, the world over.
Oregon is slipping out of the grasp
Of the ancient Oregonian. Portland Is
no longer a sleepy village. Progress
vIrile and amazing. has invaded the
state. Its farthest corner trem-
bles with the new life of Industrial
and moral development. But sitting
in its high tower, living in the past
ances, the Oregonian is stranger tc
all new forces.
Population grows whether newspa.
. pers do or not.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22

land which it win pay American cit
izens, interested in their government
to read and study carefully
1t is popularlv believed that New
Zeaiand is a country filled with po-
Ideal cronks. This doctrine has been
taught by the subsidized press ana
advocated by subsidized politicians,
pulHits, orators and agitators.
That New Zealand has made intel
useH, and practical progress is shown
bv RuSselrs article. Among other
things he says of this island republic;
Elsewhere society is disturbed from
time 10 time with strikes, lockouts,
labor wars riots, long and costly in
terruptions to industry, street fights
and sinister outbreaks of violence.
Here is a country without strikes,
without labor disturbances, without
walking delegates, pickets, Pinker-
tons, riots. headlines, injuncsions,
strike breakers, armed guards, spec
ial deputies, or militia called out to
shoot down citizens and defend prop
erty.
Elsewhere poverty increases, the
slums spread, millionaires multiply
accumulation becomes an imminent
threat, wealth and power gravitate
into the hands of the few, greed
preys upon need. and feudalism in
new guise seems to gain upon the
free institutions.
In New Zealand is no threat of
accumulating millions, no trusts,
money mania, no corrupted legisla-
lures, no extremes of condition, no
surfeit, no poverty, no destitution, no
palaces, no slums, no unemployed, no
epidemics. no overcrowding, no, pest
holcr, no noisesome back streets, no
heaps of unsanitary dwellings, no
spots where people i've without light.
fresh air and sunshine, no physical
degencration, no Hooligans, no
tramps, no idlers, no monkey dinners
nor dinners on horseback, no life in
surance scandals. no tax-dodging cor
porations no boodling, no free pass
bribery, no watered stock. no fraudu-
lent boards, no rebates, no railroad
combinations, no private graft, no
Immunity baths. no refrigerator car
swindles, nc beef trust. no SNUG De-
pews, Platts, or Morgans.
In New Zealand slum conditions
are utterly unknown and the death
rate is the smallest among the ma
tions.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22

blocks are being built. one at Will
liams and Knott will house eight big
stores in the lower story and half a
block away a neat two-story brick is
nearing completion. Farther up the
avenue the vacant lots are being oc-
cupied by frame blocks two stories
high, and no rooms are empty
Remoter suburbs and new districts
like the region about the new Michi-
gan avenue car barn have built up
business communities where a year
ago there were not even houses. Last
fall A.. Nolte built a two-story brick
at Killingsworth avenue and Albina.
The property was recently sold for
nearly twice what it cost. SO rapidly
has the section built up that the half
dozen new stores there are not suffi-
cient to care for the trade, and other
blocks are to be erected for the emer-
gency.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22

LEGISLATURE IN PENDLETON.

The informal meeting of the men,
bers OF the Oregon legislature to be
held in this city on october 80, is
unique in the history of eastern Ore
gon. It will be a historical event
II introduces a custom which the
East Oregonian hopes to see contin-
e9 nerpetually.
Oregon Is a big state, with varied
industries. diversified resources, mar
velous opportunities.
The members of the legislature
cannot hope TO make the best laws
and deal intelligently with state of
such prop portions, without a personal
acquaintance with her characteristics
and needs. Such a meeting rs will
be held in this city next Tuesday
should be held in Pendleton, Baker
City. La Grande, The Dales, Medford,
Jacksonville. Burns and other out
side cities occasionally preceding the
sessions of the legislature.
Such trips may be termed junkets'
by people who do not stop to think
but a personal acquaintance, infor-
nation secured first hand bv investi-
CATION and observation are necessary
in making practical and just laws and
the Fast Oregonian believes in such
junkats, if they are taken with good
intentions and for the interest of the
state.
The people Of eastern oregon are
cordially invited to meet in Pendleton
on October 90, when the members OF
the legislature come 10 this city, The
legislators are the servants of the
people and the more people we can
get together and the more public SEN
timent that car be concentrated in
Pendleton on that date, the better II
will please the visiting legislators.
Big questions are to come before
the next session, questions which mean
much to the state and 1t is a compli-
mem to the intelligence Of the mem
bers of the legislature that they ar:
going out to dig into these questions
and get at the bottom OF the facts be-
fore they act upon them.
Pendleton wnl assist in every pos
sible way in the quest for useful In
formation. The people of Umatills
county are invited to join the mem
bers here and accompany them t.
Walla Walla TO visit the jute plant.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22
PORTLAND'S EXPANSION.

That the remarkable growth of
Portland is going on constantly and
at an astonishing rate is shown by the
following review from a Portland pa
per:
Since the first of the year about 100
new business firms have been added
to the commercial directory of the
East Side. In several suburbs the
number of business houses has dou-
bled.
So quietly have the new firms come
and so easily has the growing busi-
ness of the territory absorbed the
new houses that few realize just how
the business interests of the East Side
have been increased in a few months,
a growth that has had no parallel in
the history of 'the district before this
year.
on Union avenue, between Haw-
thorne and Highland. IA new store
rooms have been thrown open to bus
mess since last January. All are oc-
cupied.
In addition to these new structures
several, like the LOCUS block, have
been built out of rickety buildings
that have been vacant for years.
Grand avenue, between East Burn
side street and Hawthorne avenue,
has four or five business blocks just
completed, and several more are being
built. All those ready for tenants
are occupied, and the ones building
will be utilized as soon as finished.
on Hawthorne avenue new blocks
have been built and occupied and on
the side streets generally throughout
the central district store rooms have
been remodeled, enlarged, new ones
built, and all hove been rented.
In the wholesale district big fac
tories have been built; commission
firms from the West Side have opened
branch houses in new buildings, pack
ing plants have erected new blocks,
and branch houses of firms like the
National Biscuit company have been
opened in modern brick blocks.
In the suburbs, especially In Albina,
business progress has been unusually
rapid. on and near Williams avenue
in the district adjoining Russell
street some of the best of the new
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22
Too BrnIny, Therefore Too Bad.

A New York dispatch says Carl
Fre6erchs, 9-ycar-old boy of Ho-
bcken, y. j., the American says, Is to
be operated on in the hope of reform
ing him. The lad is now at the
Railway refoTmatory, under constant
supervision by scientists.
The doctors believe the brains size
must be reduced. Tests made showed
that the boy has no sense of right or
wrong, and by the operation, which
will probably take place within a
week, 1t Is hoped to overcome the
criminal tendencies which have so far
defied the corrective attempts of his
parents.
The boys head Is of abnormal
shape, the skull coming almost to a
point. The ears are small but pro-
trudinr and the eyes are as sharp as
a ferret's. A strange feature of the
boys behavior is that at times 1t Is
good.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22

Read the East Oregonian.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22

Captain Kennedy. an old-time cattle
man of Corpus Christi, Texas, has Just
completed the purchase Of the famous
Cedros ranch. near Saltillo, Mexico.
The price is said to be s4,0O0.0 900. on
this property nearly s2,000,000 in
guayule Is growing and is included in
the deal. There are about 400 sitios
on the ranch and a great deal of
mineral wealth. Mr.. Kennedy has
also purchased the Morales property
near Jaral, for 100000.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22

Headquarters for Travelling Men.
Comn,odious Sample Rooms.
FREE 'RUS.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22
NEW ZEALAND.

Charles Edward Russell, in his ar
ticle. SOLDIERS OF the Common Good
IN the November issue OF Everybody's
Magazine, gives some inside facts
about the government Of New Zea-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22
SONG.

When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree;
BE the green grass above me.
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And If thou wilt, remember
Ard If thoIL wilt. forget.
| shall not see the shadows,
l shall not feel the rain:
shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on as II in pain;
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Happy | may remember
And haply may forget.
Christina Rosettl.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22
The Woman
Who Writes

10 her friends will create a fine i'm
pression-irrespectlve OF her diction
if she uses swell" stationery. Stop
to think. please, that good form" pa
per costs but little more here than
the very ordinary kind. Why not buy
the best when we sell that so cheap ?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22
Rates, So, $3.50 and So

Special Rates by the week or month.
Excellent Cuisine.
Prompt dining room service.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22

Bar and Billiard Room In Connection.
Only Three Blocks from Depots.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22

, have a profound respect for
} boys. Grimy, ragged and tous-
, led boys in the street will often
, attract me strangely. A boy is
} a man in the cocoon-you do
, not know what he is going to
, become-his life is big with pos
, sibilities! He may make or un-
, make kings, change the boun-
, dairy lines between states, write
, books that will mould charac-
ters.. or invent machines that
} will revolutionize commerce.
would you like for time to turn
backward, and let you see Abra-
ham Lincoln at > when he had
never worn a pair of boots?
Tie lank, yellow. hungry boy
hungry for love, hungry for
learning, tramping off through
} the woods for 20 miles to Dor
} row a book, and then spelling
} il ont word for word. crouching
} before the glare of the burning
} logs in the fireplace.-Elbert
Hubbard, in "Consecrated
Lives"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22

Mrs. Lizzie Chambers clerk In a
Spokane dry goods store, is missing
and is believed to be the victim Of
foul play.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22
HOTEL PORTLAND
PORTLAND. OREGON

PORTLAND. OREGON.
American Llan, SO per day and up
ward. Headquarters for tourists and
commercial travellers. Special rates
made to families and single gentle
men. The management will be pleas
ed at all times to show rooms and
give prices. A modern Turkish bath
establishment in the hotel.
Fl. c. BOWERS. Manager.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-08
EXPANSION OF SOUTHERN
TRADE.

The wonderful industrial progress
made By the South in the year just
closed. Is emphasized by the fact that
the Southland leads all the rest of the
country In the proportion Of banks es-
tablshed, as shown by recent reports
OF the United States Treasury Depart
ment
Promoters OF such enterprises never
locate in an unprosperous, unprogres-
sive community. That fact in itself Is
n recognition of the progress being
made In all Industrial lines. and the
development of these industries, vast
though they have been, are In a meas
ure small, as compared with what could
have been accomplished II the means
were mt hand OF giving the proper sort
OF publicity to the various enterprises
The latter need has demonstrated to
one OF the largest general advertising
agencies the importance of maintain
ing thoroughly equipped Office on the
ground
Nelson Chesman & Co.. OF st. Louis,
General Newspaper and Magazine Ad-
vertising Agents have established a
branch office at Chattanooga. Tenn,
and will do a general newspaper and
magazine advertising business through
out the South. IN these days OF rapid
fire service distance counts immensely.
and the location selected for this latest
branch of the Chesman Agency not only
facilitates the work OF securing desir-
able contracts but also insures quick
and unusually efficient distribution of
copy for customers in distant parts of
the country
With their organization they present
a splendid medium for the promotion of
southern trade, expanding II in home
and carrying Il into new territory, and
accordingly invite the accounts Of re-
sponslble concerns, and the record Of
the Agency fully justifies an acceptance
of their invitation.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-08
SPEAKS ON AIR CASTLES.
Unitarian Minister Ridiculcs Doctrine
or NicariOais Ntoncmcnt

In his sermon on theological air cas-
ties yesterday morning, In the Firs Uni
tartan church, Rev. Frank Fay Eddy
said in part
20 wonderful mind OF man. 70 itself
an enigma and ever fashioning for
Itself new words and twisting old puz-
2ies into new forms. No more In re-
ligi0n than anywhere else Is Il its des-
tiny to remain satisfied and question
ltss. Why should we content ourselves
In the old air castles? Why try TO
perpetuate the Jewish YRhweh? Why
try to scgregnte the little fragment of
literature contained In the Bible and
label II sacred? Why accept that Gu
rious combination of the logos idea of
the Alexandrans and the Jewish idea
of sacrifice that IL the doctrine OF vi
carious atonement in Christianity?
What are they but shadow forms, i'm
permanent ideas?
Have no fear because the minds Of
men are leaving this theological air
castle. We are outgrowing this phase
OF faith. we must have new concepts
II has taken US q long while to get
away from the geo-centric conception
of things and the little idea OF God
that went with 1t. At last we are be-
ginning to realize what IL means TO
live In a universe and our God must
grow TO satisfy our minds and all ex-
presions of our religious impulses
must sound more universal note.
Therefore we are deserving the old
systems OF religious thought that
have called theological air castles.
They have a natural place In the past;
they still have inhabitants In the pres
ent; but TO the future / doubt II they
will be more than the deserted air
castles OF religious thought.
1--WE have apparently arrived at the
end of an epoch In religious history
and the time has arrived when think
Ing men are constrained 10 build for
themselves more spacious house Of
Ideas for habitation Of faith. The
noblest personalities OF modern life can
find little spiritual satisfaction In the
ideas OF orthodoxy. Even when they
profess nominal allegiance to the faith
of their fathers they browse far afleld
TO satisfy the spiritual cravings OF
their natures. IL Is difficult to say
just what theological reconstruction
viii take place but certainly the deep
hunger is for a faith that Is inclusive
OF all that is natural and universal