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The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-02
SATISFIED FRIENDS AND FOES.
Joke on Congressman That Made Him
Many Votes.

Some years ago there came to
Washington a representative in Con
gress who was an ardent champion OF
the cause of prohibition.
One day friend of mine from
home dropped in to see the congress
man. During the course Of his stay
he had occasion to use his pocket
knife, which the representative much
admired. This knife had in it a
hook, designed" so the friend said
ito remove stones that might become
fastened in horses hoof on rocky
road" Finally, seeing the intense ad-
miration of the congressman for the
krA, the friend gave it to him. When
the Statesman had reached home and
had shown the gift to his wife, she
laughed.
John" said she, "any man who has
served three terms in the state sen.
ate, been lieutenant governor. and
had two terms in Congress, must be
a pretty good man if he doesn't know
Il champagne opener from hoof
cleaner"
Somehow the story got out and was
copied in nearly every newspaper in
the congressman's state. One day
the congressman met the newspaper
man whom he understood to be the
author of the first squib in the matter
You did me a great service sml-
ingly said the representative to the
correspondent. "All the Prohibitions
lists are taking my wife's view OF my
ignorance, and all the 'antis' are in
sisting that I'm a devil of good fel-
low for imposing SO successfully on
my wife. 1t works in my behalf
whichever way you take it.''-Satur-
day Evening Post.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-02

found clinging to the edge of thiI J.
story window at his home. and WIS
rescued from his perilous position wi b
difficulty
A more tragic result followed the
sleep wanderings of Harry Dari.
of Minersville, Pa. Walking in lis
dreams, he fell from third-sto y
window and crashed to his death
A few weeks ago Mrs. Maggie M
Cracken. GO years old. of Village
Green. Pa, arose from her bed aft
midnight and started upon a somnail
bulistic tour of the neighborhood. l.u-
fortunately she fell into small strn,.,o
near her home and was drowned.
Two cases wherein dreams had TO
do with death and disaster also cafle
from the interior of Pennsylvania. Al
Troy. last summer. Policeman Edward
Fenner was killed during pistol dI1t
with robbers.
A few hours later Comfort Smith.
a farmer. drove into town and related
dream of the night before.
Il saw Ed Fenner fighting a pisctl
duel with three men," he said to the
authorities. One Of the men WAS
wounded"
Smiths description of one of the
men was almost identical with that nf
a suspect whom the authorities were
already following.
On Oct 29. at Monongahela, Pa, one
of those disasters that SO frequently
attach themselves to coal mines &C.
Cured. Among those killed was Gem
eral Manager Hornicke.
1t transpired later that at about the
hour of the tragedy in the mine-ucar
midnight-Mrs. Hornickel awoke With
scream. She said she had witnessed
in her dreams an explosion. and th2t
her husband was among the victims.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-02
HAD FINISHED THE cAuRNINc.
Maine Mans Work Done, But Little
to Show for IT,

Albert Bowden. of Orrington,
Maine. runs a small sawmill near his
home, and in it is one of the old-fash-
Toned upanddown saws. He also
keeps few COWS, and it has been
customary for his wife to do the
churnins while he was engaged at
the mill.
Mrs. BOwden. however, recently
went on strike, and informed her
other half that he must churn that
week. He therefore took the churn
to the mill and attached it to the
gearing of the up-and-down saw. Then
he started the water wheel. and soon
had an up-to-date piece of machinery
in every particular.
Noticing that things were moving
smoothly, he attended to some other
Guties, until his attention was called
to the churn by "chug-chug," and,
looking that way, he saw buttermiik
spattering about, and on reaching the
machine was just in time to see the
bottom so out of the churn and his
weeks butter go into the mill pond
He surveyed the ruins a momer t.,
then went to the door, and, calling 20
the house, said: wife, I've chlIrnca y
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-02
Room for a New Doctor

The late DR.. p. NJ. Chase of Dan.
vers. Mass, very soon after he begs: +,
practice in that town met one Dt
the older physicians, who asked IN
rather sarcastic way:
Doctor how do you expect to gnt
a living in this town."
aWhy not?' asked DR.. c.
There are enough Of us here al.
ready" replied the old doctor.
"Oh, well, said DR.. Chase, Il expect
to have enough patients among those
you have given up
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When news OF the accident and It's
fatal result to Thornland was tete-
graphed his daughter Mrs. Charles
ThOren. Brooklyn. the family related
the victims prophetic dream.
Strange things are being done cDn-
stantly by persons while asleep. Some
weeks ago. at Wilkesbarre. Pa. Kate
Smith, in her somnambulistic rambles.
climbed TO the roof of the house of
Mrs. Sol Hirsch, in which she lived.
How she got upon the roof is a mEs-
terry. for she could only have gained 1t
by climb of which any woman wor Id
seem incapable.
A somewhat similar but more dan
gerous experiment was that of George
Tauwa1t of BOG Plane street, Newark
n. ].
Early ono morning Mr. Tauvalt Was
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-02
The Hour of 7r;urrj,

An English housemaid and her
friend, both of whom We're very "high
church, were Dragging of the ritual,
istic character of the services in their
respective houses of worship. Mary
the housemaid. thought to silence he,
opponent in the controversy by prouc
ly announcing:
But we ave mathis at our church.
That's nothing repoined the other
cOntemptuously, I'VE ave lnoleum al
up the aisle, and they burns insects :,
both services,"
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Likes Hiqh License.

DR.. Abegg, German official Of the
Department of the Interior. who is in
the United States making Il study OF
American liquor legislation. both for
himself and for the use of the German
Minister of the Interior, states that
the notion of high license is beginning
to take root in German government
circles. At present the license runs
only about $25 year in American
money.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-02
DOCTOR CURED OF ECZEMA.
Maryland Physician Cures Himself
Or. Fisher Says: "Cuticura REM
edies Possess True Merit"

"My face was afflicted with eczema
in the year 1897. I used the Cuticura
Remedies. and was entirely cured l
am a practicing physician, and very
often prescribe Cuticura Resolvent
and Cuticura Soap in cases of eczema.
and they have cured where other for
mulas have failed. l am not in the
habit of endorsing patent medicines,
but when find remedies possessing
true merit, such as the Cuticura Rem
edies do, ana broad-minded enough
to proclaim their virtues to the world.
have been practicing medicine for
sixteen years. and must say | find
your Remedies A No. ]. You are at
liberty to publish this letter. G. M.
Fisher NJ. D., Big Pool, Nd, May "a.
1905"
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-02
Farm Values in South,

1t is computed that farm properties
in the eleven states that once seeded
from the union have risen in value
more than billion dollars in two
years. The average yield of these
lands since this century began is
5000, 100000 u year greater than it was
in the preceding six years.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-02
&9 90 50

The enormous crops on our seed farms
the past season compel us to issue this
special catalogue.
SEND THIS NOTICE TODAY.
and receive the radishes and the wonder
full Bargain Book free.
Remit &c and we add package of Cos
mos the most fashionable. serviceable,
beautiful annual flower.
John A. Salzcr Seed Co., Lock Drawer
w. La Crosse, Wis.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-02
Rich; Juicy Radishes Free.

Everybody loves juicy, tender radishcs;
Salzer knows this, hence he offers to send
you absolutely free sufficient, radish seed
to keep you in tender radishes all sum-
mer long and his great
sALzER's BARGAIN SEED DooK.
with its wonderful surprises and great
bargains in seeds at bargain prices.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-02
New Minister to Norway,

Herbert H. D. Pierce, our new min
lister to Norway, and native OF Nas.
sachusetts. is relative by marriage
of Senator Lodge.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-02

I am sure Pisos Cure for Consumption saved
my life three years ago.-MRs. THos ROBBINS.
Maple Street, Norwich. N. Y, Feb. II, 1900.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-02
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES
..:.

Mrs. Newbride-Isn't that flour light
weight? Grocer-Certainly, ma'am.
otherwise your bread would be heavy.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-02

1t takes more than hot air to put in
a heating plant.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-02

Etc permanently cured No fts a ftcr
I'll , first day of Dr. Klines treat Nerve Resor
cr send for FREE 42.OO trial bottle and treatise.
DIR X H. KLINE, Ltd 93l Arch Street, Philadelphia Pa
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-02

Before raising the dust with an au-
tomObile it is usually necessary to
raise the dust for one.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-02

A story describes a telephone girl
whose appearance was SO angelic that
the hero imagined a halo around her
head. But wasn't ii hello?
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-02

There wouldn't be any fun in being
bad If the preachers wanted YOU to be.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-02

Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup.
For children teethtng softenh tho gums, reduces
haIamxtinu, alisys pain md colic 25c botio-
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-02

Our idea of society man is one who
neglects to say anything when he
speaks.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-02

Don't take any stock in the fellow
who is laughing stock.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-02

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
TAKE LAXATIVE BIOMO Quinine Tablets. Drug.
Rtsts refund money II II fails to cure. L. W.
GROVES signature 10 on each boz. 25c.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-02

Some men are forever mistaking mo-
toriety for fame.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-26
Irrigation Paws In Oklahoma.

w. Y. Fullerton, member of the Ok
lahoma board of agriculture, a pio-
neer in irrigation in southwestern
oklahoma, has rs acres of irrigated
land in cultivation this year. He is
growing turnips and sweet and Irish
potatoes and cotton. The water he
uses is drawn by gravity through a
two and one-half mile ditch from
Turkey creek. Last year he raised
400 bushels of turnips to the acre and
sold 1000 bushels at from so to rs
cents bushel. He raised a bale of
cotton to the acre, while neighboring
farmers on non-irrigated land raised
from one-third to one-half bale. Full
lerton boasts of one sweet potato that
weighed 17h pounds.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-26
AQUATIC PLANTS
How They May BE Successfully Guilt
waited In Tubs.

waited In Tubs.
The cultivation of aquatic plants in
tubs makes It possible for any one to
try his skill with them. or course he
need not expect to be able to grow the
rarer sorts Of nymphaea, but he can
succeed with many beautiful varieties
Of water lily and other plants Of that
class. A half barrel is not very at
tractive In itself, but its lack of beauty
may be concealed by the plants, or II
may be sunk its depth in the earth.
When II contains a fine specimen of
some aquatic plant we will forget all
about its lack of grace. When prepar-
Ing for these plants put in rich black
mud from the bed of streams or muck
from swamps to the depth OF foot;
then plant your roots in 1t and Ill with
water. Add enough water from time
to time to make up for that which is
lost by evaporation and give the tub q
sunny place in the yard or garden. II
you want to grow more plants than one
tub will accommodate, 1t is a good
plan to take four, FIVE, six. or as many
as you may decide on, and have them
sunk in the ground close together, SO
that the general effect will be some
thing like that which large tank
would give. A better plan, though a
more expensive one to carry out, is
to have a tank constructed of heavy
planks. These should be securely bolt
ed at the ends and the joints made
tight by white lead In the grooves.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-26
DESTRUCTIVE STORM.
Rain on Washington Side Reaches
Proportions of ClOudburst.

George E. Lord, who has been a
resident on the north bank of the
river for six years. and now has
charge of the commissary departmnet
of Allen & McKibor's camp No. :.
brings word of a rainstorm which oc-
CURED seven miles up the river
about O'Clock last evening, and at
tanned the proportions of a cloud
burst, says The Dalles Chronicle.
While the sky was perfectly clear
on the Oregon side, rain began to
fall over in Washington for a radius
of about three miles back from the
river. At the Pennington place, two
miles back and on the side of the
mountain, the storm was heavy, but
not so severe as at the w. A. Craw-
ford place, mile this side, where It
came down in sheets at intervals,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-26
A COLOSSAL GORGE.
The Sublime Beauties of the Grand
oGA Canyon of Arizona.

A"o ouohmo behuties OF the Grand
QS Canyon of Arizona.
This terrific cash is more than 200
miles long and more than a mile deep,
and its area exceeds 1000 square miles.
From the Ell Tovar rim, on which
stand, to the cleaning, snow veined
crags on the opposite side Of this stu
pendous cleft the distance Is thirteen
miles. Human vision cannot take in
the full extent Of this wide pageant Of
terror and glory nor Is 1t within the ca
pacity Of words to set forth its over
whelming splendor. The plain on which
l stand Is nearly 5000 feet above sea
level, and here, in prodigious fissure
-gaunt. abrupt, frightful and wonder
ful-are assembled mountains, valleys,
enormous rocks. precipitous crags, ra-
vines Of mystery and forests of gloom,
through which the black waters of the
Colorado rush onward in their resist
less flow and over which the dauntless
eagle wings its upward flight to meet
the sun. All the forms are here that
Imagination could construct, and all the
colors are here that glow In sunset
skies. Far down In the subterranean
vista the forests show like green lawns.
Not less than seven geologic periods in
the physical history Of the planet are
displayed in the layers Of tinted rock
black, green, gray, red, brown, blue,
pink, orange and alabaster. with many
other mingled hues-that constitute the
walls Of this colossal gorge; walls that
seem continuous and unbroken, yet
everywhere are rifted with lateral ffs-
sures, the beds of mountain streams
that swell the food Of the great Colo
RADIO river. The American continent
has nowhere else spectacle to show
commensurate with this in beauty,
grandeur and awe.-William Winter in
Pacific Monthly.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-26
SELL INDIAN LAND.
ABOUT 800 INDIAN
ESTATES TO SETTLE UP.
government Will Dispose of Inherited
Indian land to Highest Bidder
Seventy Tracts Principally on the
Crow Reservation I'm Montana TO BE
Offered for Sale-Sales VIII Scatter
White Settlers Among Tribes.

The general land office Of the
United States will shortly institute a
series of what will be known as in
herited Indian land sales, says a
Washington dispatch. In 1892 law
was passed by congress providing for
the allotment to each Indian OF what
ever tribe, quarter section of the
land of his reservation. This law
applied to the old and young, male
and female.
Many allotments were made soon
after the law was passed, and the In
dian owners of the allotment have
since died, from time to time. Their
land passed into the hands of the in
terior department In the capacity OF
an administrator on a wholesale scale.
The department now has about 500
of these estates to settle. many of
them in the Crow reservation, and
will begin to sell the land and dispose
of the proceeds of the sale to the heirs
of the dead Indians. In the regular or
der OF administering upon the respec-
tive estates.
The land will be sold to the high
est bidder, white or Indian, and the
man who buys tract will receive a
regular deed from the government,
just the same as II the transaction
was between individuals. In few
days the government may put up
about 20 OF these tracts. Ninety days
previous motive will be given by pub
lication In. some newspaper contigu-
Gus TO the reservation where the lands
are to be sold.
A significant feature of these sales
Is that the lands In question lie in the
uncedcd portions of the reservation,
as relating to the Grow tribe. and IL
therefore follows that In a very few
years white settlers will be scattered
through all that part of the domain
that has been reserved for the Indian.
II being reasonable to suppose that
white men will compose the large ma
jority OF the buyers when these lands
are prt up at public auction.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-26

The word 'ironmonger" has as curl
GUS an origin as any other word In the
English language. 1t means literally
an eater Of iron and came to its present
use in this way. There was once law
that forbade buying fish to sell again,
and the fish hawkers, who still carried
on their trade in spite Of this law, were
facetiously termed fish caters or fish.
mongers, for, to- evade the law, their
large purchases of fish were said to be
for their own consumption. Gradually
the term monger was applied to other
trades, rs cheesemonger. until at last
1t came to mean any middle man, as
distinguished from a manufacturer, and
so was applied to the dealer in hard.
ware.-London Graphic.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-26
why He Was Elected.

A manufacturer in the north Of Eng.
land expected to be beaten at the polls
by his own employees, with whom he
was extremely unpopular. To his sur
prise he was returned. His puzzled
agent sought for an explanation, How
is It," he asked one Of the workmen,
you voted for your master when you
all have such bad opinion of him p
well. you see, mon, we voted for IN
so he cud put hisself away in parlia-
ment In London. We don't want i'm
'erpw
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-26

washing out portions of the garden
and grain fields, causing all small
streams to increase rapidly and do
ing considerable damage. Several
neavy peals of thunder were heard
and for a short time hail stones fell.
The storm lasted for about half an
hour and was the most severe ever ex-
perienced in that section.
AS the body of water came down
the mountain it increased in volume
until when it reached Allen & Nc
Kibor's north bank camp, No. 2. it
was about 80 feet wide and was carry
ing with it 5O0-pound boulders. and
everything movable which CHANGED to
be in its path.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-26
CRAFT OF $4,000
BARLOW ROAD BILL
SHOULD BE DEFEATED.
Company Has an Option on Road for
$4,000 and Will Attempt to Sell 1t to
the State for $4,000 Through the
Initiative Law-W. S. U'Ren Tells
the Plain Facts of the Case.

The people of oregon are called
upon to pay a private company s24,-
600 for the Barlow toll road. This
company has an option on the road
for $4,000 and expects to graft the
state to the extent of $4,000 through
the initiative law.
The bill TO purchase the road will
be voted on by the people at the COM
ing election. Every man who desires
to see the graft defeated, should vote
mo" on the Barlow road graft of
$4,000
w. S. U'Ren, of Oregon City, who is
perfectly familiar with the case.
writes to the Portland Oregonian as
follows, concerning 1t:
II would like to submit some facts
concerning the proposed sale of the
Barlow toll road to the state of Ore
gon for s24 900. believe 1t should be
voted down because: 1t is not worth
the money; the promoters have an
option on the road from the owners
for $4,000 and will make $4,000, If
they can sell 1t to the state; no far
mers in Clackamas county are obliged
to pay a toll to get their products to
market; very few farmers live near
the road; the seven miles of toll road
between the mountains and the end
of the public road was offered to
Clackamas county as a free gin
about three years ago and refused; no
provision is made in the law for an
examination of the title of the alleged
owners, nor requiring the title to be
free from membranes; there is very
little travel on this road; drove
over the road across the mountains
and back seven years ago and did not
meet an average of one team day.
"W. S. U'REN."
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-26
Exc photouraphs.

An image impressed upon the retina
Of the eye remains there an appreciable
time. This is the reason why a torch
swung rapidly seems to be a circular
fame. The sensibility of the retina is
Indifferent at different times Of the
day. Every one has noticed how on
waking in the morning and looking at
the bright window, then closing the
eyes. he will observe an impression or
phantom Of the window for an appre-
ciable time after his eyes are closed.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-26
Nez Pcrce Interpreter Coming,

Albert Moore, the we'll known Nes
Perce interpreter, will leave in the
morning for the Umatilla reservation
for the purpose of adjusting heirship
land In which his wife is interested.
Mr.. Moore Is one of the most highly
educated Indians of the Nez Perce
tribe and is frequently called upon to
act as interpreter for members of his
eople.-Lewiston Teller.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-26
Prohibition In San francisco.

In the actual prohibition that pre-
walls in regard to the liquor traffic in
San Francisco the prohibitionists will
find happy illustration to use in
their future campaigns. The saloons
are closed on the grounds of broad
public policy, the greatest good for
the greatest number, and II this is
permissible in the exigency that con-
fronts the authorities in the ruined
city, and II proves successful in prac-
tice, 1t is not a far cry to a reasona-
BILE argument for prohibition that will
prohibit.-Lewiston Teller.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-26
william Swartz Acquitted,

After being confined in the county
Jail for more than three months under
the charge of murder, for causing the
death OF Fred Neuhaus by a slap on
the nose with his open hand. William
Swartz was acquitted this afternoon
and discharged from custody. The
Jury retired from the court room at
11:25 and returned with their verdict
at 1:52.-Baker City Herald
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-26

For a painful burn there is nothing
like DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve.
There are host of limitations of De
Wits Witch Hazel Salve on the mar
ket-see that you get the genuine. Ask
for DeWitt's. Good, too, for sunburn,
cuts, bruises and especially recon-
mended for piles. The name of E. c..
Dewitt & Co.. Chicago. is on every
box. Sold by Tallman & Co.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-26
Some Old Men.

After all, you know" said Mr.. Old
beau, "a man is only as old as he
feels''-
"Yes," said Miss Pepprey, but some
old men make the mistake of thinking
they are as young as they think they
feel."-Phlladelph Press.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-26

Why take a dozen things to cure
that cough? Kennedy's Laxative
Honey and Tar allays the congestion,
stops that tickling. drives the cold out
through your bowels, Sold by Tall
man q Co.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-26

How do you like being civilized p
asked the philanthropist.
"Well," answered the simple child Of
nature, civilization is great for the
mind. but It Is mighty hard on the d.
gestion. ."-Washington Star.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-26
HOTEL PORTLAND
OF
PORTLAND. OREGON

PORTLAND, OREGON.
American plan, 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
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-26

Ability doth hit the marx where pre-.
sumption overshooteth and dinadence
falleth short. t.-Cusa.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-26

Closing out all summer millinery
at cost. Mrs. Campbell's millinery.