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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-28
CHINESE FOR CANAL WORK.

Chinese labor is to be used in
building the Panama canal. This step
is to be taken only as a last resort.
American workingnen will not accept
employment as laborers in the canal
zone; negroes of the West Indian
islands have failed to render satisfac-
tory service; natives of Northern
Spain, who have ben induced to go
to the zone. are twice as effective as
negroes, hut enough of them cannot
be secured. The commission is COM
PEELED therefore to fall back upon
Chinese, and arrangements are being
made to import two shiploads. If
they prove as industrious as elsewhere
and show no i'll effects from living
in the tropical climate more mel Of
the same race will be brought to the
isthmus.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-28
THE BLUE AND THE GREY.

BY the flow of the inland river,
Whence the fleets of iron have fled,
Where the blades OF the. Grsve-grass
quiver,
Asleep are the ranks of the dead.
Under the sod and the dew.
Waiting the judgment day,
Under the one, the Blue,
Under the other, the Gray.
These in the rohings of glory,
Those in the gloom of defeat,
All with the battle-blood CORY.
In the dusk of eternity meet.
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the Judgment day,
II 'o~ the laurel. the Blue,
Under the willow, the Gray.
From the silence of sorrowful hours
The desoRte mourners go,
Lovingly laden with flowers
Alike for the friend and the foe.
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day,
Under the roses, the Blue,
Under the lilies, the Gray.
So with an equal splendor
The morning sun-rays fall,
With a touch impartially tender,
On the blossoms blooming for all.
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day,
Broidered with gold, the Blue,
Melowed with gold. the Gray.
SO. when summer calleth
on forest and field of grain,
With an equal murmur falleth
The cooling drip of the rain.
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day,
Wet with the rain, the Blue,
Wet with tho rain. the Gray.
Sadly, but not with upbraidng,
The generous deed was done.
In the storm of the years that are
fading
No braver battle was won.
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day,
Under the blossoms, the Blue,
Under the garlands, the Gray.
No more shall the war cry sever,
Or the winding rivers be red;
| They Danish our anger forever
When they laurel the graves of our
| dead.
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day,
Love and tears for the Blue,
Tears and love for the Gray.
F. w. Finch.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-28
ENORMOUS RAILROAD EARNINGS

According to preliminary report
of the interstate commerce commits
sion, the gross earnings of the rail-
roads of the United States, covering
approximately $4,000 miles of road,
will probably show for the fiscal year
ended June go, an increase of 10 per
cent over the s2,073, 100000 earned in
1905. This will prove a banner year
for America nrailroads. The official
figures will not be available for all
the roads for some months yet, but
the increases that have been shown
month after month give reason to ex-
pect the 10 per cent increase. There
have been heavy expenditures for i'm
proving roads, but the net earnings
will be very favorable. No section of
the country has failed to profit by the
favorable conditions which existed this
past year.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-28
CHURCH OF MANY BRIDES.

st. Georges, Hanover square, Lon
don, is the most fashionable temple
of Hymen in the British empire. st.
Georges lacks a very little of being
200 years old.
Some remarkable unions have been
solemnized in this famous building.
The registers with their signatures
would mean a fortune to a collector.
In 1886 the register bears the bold
signature of Theodore Roosevelt, then
plain ranchman, with perhaps little
thought of the presidency of the
United States. Underneath Is the sig
nature of his wife-Edith Kermit
Carcw. Browns hotel, London, is the
address President Roosevelt register
ed from and "widower" his state.
The vestry clerk who has been in
charge for nearly 80 years, recalls
the Roosevelt wedding very well. The
president secured a license and walk
dinto the church in a dark suit and
bowler hat with his bride and was
married without the famous red car
pet. Out of the thousands of entries.
his is the only one of "ranchman."
The first wedding in the church was
on April 30, 1925, between David
Williams and Sarah Thomas, both
humble parishloners. The record in
the register has almost faded. Since
then peers and princes numbering
many thousands have led their brides
to the altar,
Gladstone was the witness at many
great marriage as his numerous
signatures prove. The present queen
of Spain signed the register as Prii-
cess Ena OF Battenberg in December
of last year at the wedding of Lady
Ruperta Darlington.
The planest bride, according to the
vestry clerk, out of more than 1000
was George Eliot" the novelist, who
was married in May, 1880, to John
Walter Cross.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-28
WHEN l AM DEAD.

When 7 am dead, II men can say,
"He helped the world upon its way,
With all his faults of word and deed
Mankind did have some little need
OF what he gave"-then in my grave
No greater honor shall I crave.
If thev can say-if they but can
"He did his best, he PLAYED the man.
His ways were straight: his soul was
clean;
His failings not unkind nor mean,
He loved his fellow men and tried
To help them'-I'r be satisfied.
But when I'm gone. If even one
Can weep because my life is done
And feel the world is something bare
Because | am no longer there;
Call me a knaYe. my life misspent-
No matter. I shall be content
Westminster Gazette.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-28
GOSSIP.

Once upon a time there grew
Up from somewhere, no one knew,
Grew, and grew and grew, until
1t went up and down a hill
Where a pretty village lay;
Stopped the children in their play,
Made some nelghbors shun some
others,
Even caused a fight tween brothers;
Lifelong friends, 'tis said, 1t parted
Just little gossip started.
Such as little thing! All, 80
Oaks from tiny acorns grow.
Speak not harm of any one,
Lest 1t up and down hill run.
Chicago News.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-28
RUSSIAN RAILROADS.

A preliminary official statement of
the results of the operation of the
Russian railroads in 1905 shows In
comparison with 1904 an increase of
nearly per cent in mileage worked,
a decrease of less than per cent in
the number of passengers carried, and
decrease of 6 Y per cent in the num-
ber of tons carried. The gross earn
ings decreased about $25,000.000 or
2-9 per cent and the earnings per
mile per cent. The Transcaucasan
railroad, which extends from the oil
wells on the Caspian to the Black sea,
had a decrease of no less than 40 y
per cent in gross earnings. That part
of the Siberian railroad east of Lake
Baikal. over which troops, ETC., re-
turned from Manchuria, had an in
crease Of 5Oh per cent in earnings:
the Asiatic Midland, for reasons which
do not appear. decrease of 10 per
cent.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-28
TOM JoHNsoN's WAY.

Because of
Cleveland riding school from the suburbs the reecent
tried
he has uumphed n victorious.
dated municipal which
the threecen
sheris constabes in
tools of the Cleveland
$ honest,
which
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-28
A SONG OF DUTY.

"Wait! Wait! Watt" sang the syrene
by the way,
Tomorrow will do and be as good as
any other day."
And the chance to do went By while
the failure could but cry,
"Too late! Too late! Too late! And
the time is here to die"
"Dol Do! Dol" sang an angel in dis
guise,
Tomorrow may never come to thee
to-day, IL thou art wise!"
And success began to do-and at eve
his task was through,
When the wage was his because no
did the task there was to do.
III. L. Wilhelm.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-28
AN AGE OF VERSATILE MEN.

the business being lazy is asserted
Tribune he the active and versatile
specimen
labor
committee
enjoyment
ofr thane n the OF
the size Pendeon
entire
serving
then business
nonchalanty alleged by the tired
demands his
still
rche to live
Follow
Of
business earth this
added sho
the Of the thrills him witt
md nerves reless forces!
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-28

facilities
in
permanent
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-28
Lewis Hunter
House Furnis h er.
Bingham Springs
THE POPULAR BLUE MOUNTAIN RESORT.

Springs Hotel, the
Umatla river flows the hotel making
all sides
making Bingham Springs of the
restu resorts in Oregon The Hotel maintains its herd of
fresh vegetables the abe
pains
swimming pool Of popular features. Rates
a $3.50 orS25.O0
includes all privileges of including
swimming Address, NJ. FOLEY,
Springs
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
DENOUNCE AS FALSE
THEORY OF SUICIDE
Friends of Claude Williams Assert
That His Death Was Caused by
Wreckage in Meridian.

W. II. Seymour Of Montgomery, presi-
dent of the Alabama Cotton Growers
association, returned to Birmingham yes
terday afternoon from Meridian. where
he had gone to assist i'm searching for
the body of Claude Williams, son of
j. j. Williams one of the leading plant
ers of Sumter county. Young Williams
was buried yesterday at the family buy
ing ground near York.
1T is difficult to imagine the actual
damage suffered by the city of Meridian
by the cyclone" said Mr.. Seymour II
want 10 ask the Age-Herald to deny the
story sent out from Meridian 10 the effect
that Claude Williams cut his throat when
he saw he could not escape from the
building in which he was employed.
''rhere is not word of truth in the
story As matter Of fact. il the young
man was cut at all, it was done by glass
during the cyclone. When we found
his body 1t was lying face down, beneath
fifteen feet Of wreekage, and with both
arms extended. Death was instantane-
Gus, and there was not the slightest OPP
portunity for him to cut his throat. His
friends in Sumter county and in Meridian
feel very badly over the circulation Of
the suicide story, and want it denied as
often and as strongly as possible
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
SPECTACULAR FIRE
BURNS CAR BARNS
PROPERTY OF METROPOLITAN
STREET RAILWAY COMPANY is
DEsTRoYED-oNE MAN LOSES
HIS LIFE-Loss 100000.

New York, March 4.-The Forty-second
street car barns of the Metropolitan
Street Railway company, extending from
81 Forty-second street to the Hudson
river. were destroyed by fire tonight.
One man, said to have been an employe
of the company. lost his life, and several
persons were injured, a fireman seriously
Between thirty and forty cars of Thirty
fourth street eross-town surface line were
destroyed in the barns. The total damage
is estimated at more than $4,000.
The fire was an exceptionally spectac-
ular one, and at its height the flames were
leaping several hundred feet into the
air. Several immense gas tanks oil the
Consolidated Gas company. located dl-
rectly across the street, were seriously
threatened by the fire and report that
they were about to explode sent several
thousand spectators in a wild flight Tor
safety In the rush several persons were
hurt man on the second floor was
about TO be rescued when he tottered
back into the flames and was seen no
more. The fire was supposed to nave
originated from a short circuit.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
GREAT CROWDS TO
HEAR ELLEN NJ. STONE
CONVENTION OF STUDENT VOL
UNTEERS COMES TO A CLOSE IN
NASHVILLE = GREAT MANY
DELEGATES ATTENDED.

Nashville, March 4.-Tonight the great
auadrennial convention of Student Vol
unteers which has been in session in
Nashville for the past five days, closed
with the benediction, pronounced by Dr.
James Robinson of Edinburgh Scotland
1t was announced that the accredited
delegates numbered ass, including mis-
sionary workers from twenty-six foreign
fields. Several local institutions were also
represented. DR.. Carl Friese of Stock
holm, Sweden, delivered his farewell adj
dress to the convention tonight, and ca
BILE messages from co-workers in various
parts of the world were read.
This mornings session of the convention
heard two sermons by Bishops Mcdowell
and Thoburn of the NJ. r. church. This
evening there were separate services for
men and women, both largely attended.
A number of distinguished speakers were
heard. Robert E. Speer was the principal
speaker at the auditorium tonight and
there were also brief statements from a
number of volunteers of why they were
going to the front. These volunteers are
TO make themselves known to the execu-
tive committee by card, and their num-
Der will not be known for some time yet.
The executive committee will at later
date announce the next meeting place of
the convention.
Tonight at McKendrie church Miss Ell
len NJ stone related her experience as a
captive held for ransom by bandits in
the Macedonian mountains, and the crush
to hear her was so great that the services
of the police were necessary to handle
the crowd.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
TRAIN BLOWN FROM TRACK.
Accident Has Happened Three Times
at One Spot.


Poughkeepsie On. y Correspondent
New York Sun.
In the western Berkshire hills at Bos-
ton Corners is stretch of rolling coun-
try which terminates in a bold headland
pierced by a valley which forms fun
mel through which the gales of winter
sweep The locality is we'll known to
railroad men and many stories are told
by old-timers of incidents occurring
where the gorge Is spanned by the Har-
lem railroad.
As a group of railroad men were talk
ing over their experiences the other
night heavy limited Numbered by. Old
Joe Gonzales, the veteran engineer, was
in the group. When the roar subsidized
he remarked: "If it wasn't so heavy it
would leave the track at the first curve"
'Remnds me of the little dinky cars
they used to have when I started in
brakng years ago. cause they were SO
different I remember when the cars
were so light they used to blow off the
track"
"Tell us, Joe said George Vosburgh
of Boston Corners. ''of the time you tried
an Trip OIL Ntlt Dlib6t iNaNi iRiAiN
Hoyradt's place"
IF I remember" said Joe. sit was the
Chatham down train on the afternoon of
November % 1868. The wind sure was
blowing hurricane at the Corners. We
were crawling along six miles an hour
when we came down to the bridge at Bos-
Ton Corners. Two trains had been bowed
off there before and the engineer was
naturally cautious
Of no hpi1op fhp wind took a.
fresh hold and it seemed as If the fury
of seven cyclones was compressed into
one blast I was holding fast to brake
wheel for dear life. The rear car first
yielded and toppled off the top of a
thirty-foot embankment. In quick sue
cession three others followed.
1.-THE subsequent proceedings for an in
terval did not interest me. When I re-
gained my, senses I was tied up with
splintered wood bent and twisted iron,
but barring a few bruises I found myself
all right. The whole train was at the
foot of the embankment except the en-
CINE, which stayed on the track. One boy
was killed and six passengers badly
hurt"
.erhree times trains have been blown
from the track at that spot" remarked
George Vosbugh. '"The first time / was
a young lad The wind was terrific and
with 1t a heavy rain was falling. Three
cars were lifted from the track and rolled
oyer and down the bank.
1.-THE second accident was a freight
train, and ] think one man was killed.
When the third accident happened they
offered $40 to any one who would ride to
Millerton with the news. 7 had a crack
ing good young colt and htched him up
and started. The air was full of rails
and the horse and ] both had to dodge
some But I made it all right and got
the $40. Cars were light then. 1t isn't
likely such an accident would occur with
cars of steel and vestibuled trains"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
PRICES TOO HIGH
ON The ISTHMUS
A LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER SAYS
THAT PIG IRON COSTS $500 PER
HUNDRED POUNDS AND WHEEL
BARRoWs $3.50 EACH.

Washington. March 4!-(special)-L. ".
Ferguson, a locomotive engineer vino
for over one year has served IN thae
capacity in tie Isthmus of Panama has
given out statement charging that tn
purehaing agents of the canal are PAYING
unnecessarily high prices for material.
Among other points he makes are; Mos
of the redwood is purchased in New NorF
at cost of $40 thousand In a house
constructed for Stevens at Culebra com
mon sap pine cost $3.50 per 1909 and was
shipped from New York instead Of from
southern ports. 4 dve-room cottage cost
$500. The Hotel Blain, with no doors anu
no windows. cost $4,000. Cost of common
materials Pig iron. $50 per hundred
pounds; block tin IS cents per pound
70-ponnd steel rails ST ton; one lot OF
wheelbarrows $1.74 a piece; second lot
$40 a piece. refuse cheese for sanitary
department Al cents a pound.
Locomotives cost half as much again
through being reconstructed as railroads
here would pay.
lie also says that the imported Martin
ique women were not wives.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
BLUE CROSS NEEDS FUNDS.
Sends representative to Establish
Headquarters in America.

New York March 4.-Bors klebanof,
recently named as the representative in
America of the Russian Blue Cross, has
arrived here and will make his headquar-
ters in this city Owing to recent events
in Russia which have left many thousand
victims of war and riot, the Russian Blue
Cross which is a philanthropic organiza-
ton under the patronage of the Grand
Duchess Elizabeth Mavrilxievna, and looks
after the interests of the sick and desti-
tute children of all creeds and national
tiles throughout the empire, has been
overwhelmed with calls upon 1t. To meet
the emergency the society has extended
the scope of its work and is sending rep
resentatives abroad
The Blue Cross is in no sense rival
of the Red Cross. 1t maintains refugees,
asylums, training schools, work farms,
hospitals kindergartens, etc. Founded in
1882, 1t has grown rapidly and has an en-
dowment fund of half million dollars,
and receives such support from all classes
that 1t is practically the national charity.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
Special attention Is given to
the handling u perishabIeS.
low RATES AND COURTEOUS TREATMENT
Training Both Hands.

From Harpers Weekly. f5ss
An interesting discussion is being
carried on in England in connection
with the question of ambidexterity.
there being certain number OF physi-
clans and psychologists who are recon-
mending that the child should be taught
to use the left hand and with equal
facility. There are, however, those who
advise that the left hand should be
used only for left-handed motion, mas
much as 1t is not an exact copy OF the
right, and must possess corresponding
limitations. While the advanced ambi-
dextrists believe that in addition to Its
ordinary duties the left hand should be
taught to copy the movements or the
right, such as in ordinary writing, the
moderate advocates think that, recog-
nizing its limitations, the left hand
should be made to do on the left side
similar things. These, of course, would
be done by movements in the reverse
direction, and, therefore, II absolute
ambidexterity were required, as in
turning a screw or in writing, screw
with reversed thread should be used
and a reversed form of writing devised.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
Mexican Trade Increased.

Mexico City, March 4.--During the first
four months of the present fiscal year
Mexican trade with the United States
showed an increase in imports of over
one millions dollars. Exports to the Uni
ted States were s56.s0l, 80. gain of more
than N3oA,W0 over the corresponding
period of the previous fiscal year. Exports
TO Germany Increased more than s3.oO0,0oo
and TO Great Britain nearly a million
dollars. Imports from Germany fell off
more than n million dollars. While Great
Britain and France both sold less here
than in the previous period. The remark
able gains in trade with the United States
show how actively trade is being push
ed on both sides of the border
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
INTERESTING TALK
BY JAMES BOwRON
Entertainment by German Turn Vereln
Attracts and Pleases Large Num-
Der of Guests.

A large audience enjoyed the literary
entertainment of the birmingham German
Turn Verein last night. The feature of
the evening was a lecture by James Bow
ron on ancient Faiths and Modern Dis
coveries."
The speaker explained how scientific
knowledge of today authentieates the
story of mans creation-told in the Pen
tateueh. Mr.. Bowron pointed out that
man has always realized the existence of
a supreme being and believed in the i'm
mortality of the soul Records taken
from the ruins of ancient cities and from
the pyramids of Egypt show conclusively
that men 5000 years ago believed in
resurrection and a new life. Drawings
and inscriptions taken from Egyptian
tombs represented man before the judg-
ment seat suing for divine clemency.
An entertaining musical programme was
rendered, solo by Miss Norma Scholar
being especially pleasing. The programme
was as follows:
Piano Solo--Valse ,Choplh
Mrs Robert Newman.
Vocal Solo-Dreams Tolstl
Mr.. b. l.. Michaelson
Lecture-"Ancient faiths and Modern
Discoveries
Hon. James Bowron.
Violin Solo-Fantasie Ballet....C. de Beriot
Professor Koch
Vocal Solo-LoVe Me. - OcoIyh
Miss Norma Scholar.
Cornet Solo-Prof. Phil Memoli
Verrauscht-Zerronnen ....,....... An6efer
Maennor Choir.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
RoASTS EATRES.
Archbishop GIennon Scores People
Who Patronize Such Places.

St Louis. Mo-. March 4.--In a sermon
delivered today by Archbishop Glennon,
he severely criticised theatres and de-
plored the tendency of people to patron
lie them. He said In part:
ITO go night after night to the theatre
is mark of decadence. You avoid the
cancer hospital and the pest house, while
night by night you rush madly to en-
Joy the sad procession of moral lepers
exposed amid the plaudits of the multi
tudes; the cancerous growths, the deadly
vices that destroys the souls of men.
"Roue and demi-mondaine are depicted
with startling realism and mans de-
pravity and women's shamelessness are
held for public expressions of genius and
fiji means for entertaining a Christian
people.
you say even still there Is genius
back of it all. Yes, perhaps. But 1t is
only genius that gilds the tomb; the
phosphorous that accompanies the last
stages of putrefaction.'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
LAST SCENES TODAY.
Military Companies at Springfield, o.,
Will Return Home.

Springfield, March 4.-The last scenes
of the race riot of the past week will be
enacted tomorrow when the nine com
panies of militia now on duty here Will
return home. The four companies of the
Fourth regiment will return to Columbus
and the Xenia and Urbana companies
will leave early in the morning. The esti-
mated cost to the county of the militia
alone will be $4,000. The city has been
quiet all today and tonight. The body of
the dead brakeman, NJ NJ. Davis, was
taken to the home of his parents in CO.
lumbus today.
1t was said tonight that evidence had
been secured against about 800 persons.
including many mere boys, one but ID
years of age. The investigation shows
that the mobs were made up almost
wholly of young men from 16 to 81 years
of age
The grand jury that is to be called
Tuesday is expected TO make a thorough
investigation to make such an example
of Offenders that there Will he no moro
mobs in this city for long time to come.