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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-02
STOP AND LOOK AT YOURSELF.

a bright three-year-old child who
was given to passionate outbursts of
resentful anger each time her wishes
were thwarted was one morning sud-
denly lifted to the mirror with the
mothers admonition, Look at your
self! Immediately the childrs re-
sentful face changed, and nesting to
her mother, who wisely refrained from
saying another word regarding the
ebullition of temper, she, with an
apologetic hug softly sobbed away the
resentment
Some weeks afterward, during
which time there was a marked
change for the better in the tempera-
ment of the child, the mother had oc-
casion to reprove the little one for
an act Of disobedience, using perhaps
unnecessary warmth of temper at the
time. Without hesitation the little
one seized her by the hand and took
her to the mirror.
"'Ook at 'orself!" she exclaimed,
her childish voice as severe as her
strength permitted at the same time
struggling desperately to keen the
angry lines from her own tiny face by
puckering her lips into a form from
which issued succession of soft,
nonchalant oos.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-02
SECRET OF MONEY MAKING.

George Bernard Shaw, who wrote
Mrs. Warren's Profession, and who is
said to consider himself a better dra-
matist than Shakespeare, has an in
teresting interview in the last issue
of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, in
which he makes some sensible re-
marks on the subject of wealth. He
says:
"The secret of making money is a
very simple one. Charles Dickens
pointed out long ago that If you want
to make money you simply have to
do nothing but go for money. You
Americans have an idea that your
great capitalists, and 1 believe also
your millionaires, must be very able
men because they have made a great
deal of money. That is not the case.
instance, a fox-hunting hound must
have an extraordinary knowledge of
the country and of geography and an
extraordinary knowledge of English
character because he is always going
across country and always finding his
way in a marvellous manner, and Is
always associated with masters of
hounds and ladies of society," coun-
tesses and so on.
"The wonderful success of the fox
hound in always making its way
straight to its object is simply that
the dog never thinks of anything else.
1t smells the fox and devotes its
whole time to catching the fox. In
the same way we see that the man
who makes money is like the hound
running after the fox. He must be,
not a man of extraordinary knowl-
edge, but of extraordinary narrow
ness, to think that money is worth
while getting, because when your mil
lionaires get their money they don't
know what to do with it. The man
who has Imagination and a faculty
never has thought about money at
all. 1t is the last thing; 1t is a nui-
sance to him. He recognizes that
only the fear of starvation makes him
try to get money. He makes as lit
tie as he requires to get necessary
things"
His remarks are worth attention.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-02
THE BEST SCHOOL YEAR.

On next Monday morning, Septem-
ber 8, the best school year ever en-
joyed by Pendleton will open. The
public schools are better equipped
than ever before, an excellent corps
of teachers is employed, the schools
are better organized and have a bet
ter school spirit than ever, and the
work that will be done during the
next year will be characterized by
thoroughness and zeal.
The East Oregonian wishes to i'm
press the fact upon Umatilla county
people who are in search of good
schools that Pendleton offers every
advantage in high school and acade-
mic education that is to be found in
Portland, Spokane, Seattle or Tacoma
and that it is waste of time, money
and energy to send pupils away for
anything short of a collegiate edu-
cation.
You are invited to come to Pen
dleton, where everything possible is
being done to furnish you with thor
ough educational equipment. The
schools are open, free and inviting
and you are urged to make Pendletor
your home while educating your chill
dren.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-02
ELECTROLYSIS.

There is a strange, insiduous de-
stroyer known to physics as electrol-
ysis, whereby the hardest iron pipes
buried in the earth are slowly dis
solved, eaten away by the action of
chemical forces.
The Portland papers mention that
electrolysis has attacked large por-
ton of the water pipe system of that
city. Slowly the iron pipes which
ramify every part of the great city
are being decomposed, destroyed by
the secret, but ineXorable processes of
this fatal disease of the chemical
world.
Another phase of electrolysis is
seen in the crystallization of the driv-
ing rods of locomotives. After years
of usage in which the rods are SUBJ
jected to thousands of tons of pres
sure in turning the wheels of the en-
gines, their life seems to decay, they
become brittle, unstable and weak
and they snap unexpectedly at times
causing terrible accidents to trains.
This is a form of electrolysis, a slow
decay of the life of iron.
There is no known cure for it.
There is no known preventive. Sooner
or later this insiduous enemy attacks
the hardest and strongest of iron
Slowly its sturdy nature is undermin-
ed, as by a consuming fever, by this
unseen enemy and within a short
time it yields.
The menace of this chemical dis
ease therefore enters into the lon
gevity of every system of iron pipes
laid and cities should carefully esti-
mate before investing heavily in un-
derground water systems.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-02
BILL NYE HAD A COW FOR SALE.

Bill Nye, the humorist, once had
COW to sell and advertised her as fol-
lows:
Owing to my III health 1 will sell
at my residence in township 10, range
IS, according to the governments
survey, one plush, raspberry COW.
aged 8 years. She is of undoubted
courage and gives milk frequently. To
man who does not fear death in any
form she would be a great boon. She
is very much attached to her pres
ent home with a stay chain, but she
will be sold to any one who will agree
to treat her right. She is one-fourth
Shorthorn and three-quarter hyena.
will also throw In a double barrel
shotgun, which goes with her. In
May she usually goes away for week
or two and returns with a tall calf
with wabbly legs. would rather sell
her to nonresident.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-02
KANSAS GAINED 39,54O.

Kansas gained 39,540 in population
in the last year, according to the fig
ures of the sworn returns of the
county assessors compiled by the state
board of agriculture. The popula-
tion March 1 was 1,651,331, or
gain of "a per cent over the popula-
ton of last year, according to the
returns. This is the largest popula-
tion ever reported for the state.
BY far the larger percentages of
increase are in the western counties.
Seventy-four counties show an aggre-
gate gain of 4S,836, and 80 loss al
together of. 1896.
AS the officials in Atchison county
again ignored and nullified the law
and made only such partial returns
as suited their convenience giving the
county only 55S2 population, the fig
ures returned for 1905 have been
used in this years computations.
Each of the 80 counties lying west
of the 80 meridian shows a gain over
last year, except Phillips and Ness,
whose losses, however, total only S2.
The 80 counties show a net gain of
2O,532, or 11.S per cent Their net
increase is 54.6 per cent Of that for
the entire state.
Cheyenne, Wallace, Hamilton,
Greeley, Stanton, Sherman and Nor
ton, the seven extreme western coun-
ties bordering Colorado, show an ag-
gregate gain Of 26 per cent. The
largest increase reported is in Mont
gomery county, which has gained g.
$40, followed by Wyandotte with g.
$40, Crawford with 2757, Finney with
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-02
IDAHO HISTORICAL RELICS.

Hon John HALEY, who has charge
of the states collection of historical
objects, made a trip to Idaho City
recently and brought home some in
teresting articles. Among them are
six ancient revolvers of various sizes,
sack used for carrying gold dust,
three old blowers which were used
to blow sand from the gold dust, the
first butcher knife ever used for
slaughtering beeves in the Boise ba-
sin and which had been made In a
blacksmith shop; a rocker for placer
mining, a beaded belt made in the
early SOS, and four pairs of deer
horns.
The most interesting of the new ar
rivals in his room is an OK yoke,
which was sent here by express from
the northern part of the state. 1t
came from the Snake river, where a
massacre of immigrants had occur
red in the sos, and had lain out in
the weather at that spot from that
time until sent to the historical So
ciety few days ago.
Two new pictures are added to the
collection. One is of the first con-
ventiOn hall in the state-a rude los
building located at Salmon Meadows
Here the first republican convention
was held in 1863 when Idaho was
still territory. The other picture is
of an enormous rock on the Snake
river which was covered with carv-
ings made by the Indians.-Boise
Capital News.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-02
WHAT FULTON DIDN'T SAY.

Senator Fulton said a great many
things in his Benton county political
speech of Friday, but there are
number of important things which he
didn't say. and which are of interest
to the people of oregon.
He said that he favors more and
more centralized government; that he
opposes government ownership of
railroads, although he offers no REM
edy for acknowledged railroad rate
and traffic abuses; he said he would
offer members of the legislature no
advice as to statement No. /, and
that If he is defeated for the senator
ship at the polls he will not be a
candidate before the legislature.
But Senator Fulton did not say why
he joined with the enemies of the
president to defeat the forest reserve
policy which has been formulated to
save the remaining western forests
IL plll 6LttuS VI the lllllutI
syndicates; he did not say why he
voted against the La Toilette amend
ments to the railroad rate bill which
was urged by the president as a means
of regulating railroads; he did not
answer the charges made by Golfers
Weekly and other papers that the
senator took an active part in the
transfer of valuable klamath Indian
timber lands to the weyerhaeuser tim
Der syndicate, for but a pittance of
their value. y
The people of Oregon will want to
know about these matters before the
campaign of 1905 is over. The sena-
tor might as we'll get right with the
people, now, in the beginning of his
campaign. The unearthing of unsav-
ory relics is not a pleasant task, but
this is an age of investigation. The
one predominating symbol of the age
is the Interrogation point
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-02
SKETCH OF IDA TARBELL.

Miss Ida Minerva Tarbell, the un-
relenting foe of trusts and monopolies
and the literary Nemesis of the
Standard Oil company, was born in
Erie county, Pennsylvania, in 1857,
and was graduated from the Titusville
high school and Allegheny college. In
1888, when she was 26 years old, she
became editor of The Chautauquan
and held that position for eight years
Then she became a student at the
Sorbonne, Paris, and later at the Col
lege Of France. While in Paris she
wrote some articles which attracted
the attention Of S. s. Mcclure, and
for several years she was one OF the
editors of McClure's Magazine. She
has written lives Of Napoleon, Lin
coin and Nine. Roland. Her great
literary success was her series on
1.-THE History of the Standard Oil
Company"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-02
THESE DAYS.

Pray,
What is today
That It should be worse than the
early days?
Arc the modern ways
Darker for all the light
That years have shed2
Is the right
Dead
Under the wheels of progress
BY the side os the road to success,
Bleeding and bruised and broken,
Left IN foIgetfulness?
Is truth
Stronger in youth
Than in age? Does 1t grow
Feeble with years, and move slow
On the path that leads
To the worlds needs?
Does man reach up or down
To take the victor's crown
OF progress in science, art and COM
merce?
In all the works that plan
And purpose to accomplish
The betterment of man?
Does the soul narrow
With the broadening of thought?
Does the heart harden
by what the hand has wrought?
Who shall say
That decay
Marks the good of today?
Who dares to state
That God grows less as man grows
great?
William ]. hampton, in Pearson.
Magazine.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-02
ANCIENT BUTTER IN BOGS.

From time to time Jumps of butter
are dug out of the Irish bogs, and
specimens of 1t may be seen IN va
rious museums. A chemical exami-
nation has recently been made by
Messrs. Radcliffe and Maddocks of
a sample of such hutter, which was
found four feet below the surface of
a bog at Maghery, county Tyrone.
The original lump which weighed
about 20 pounds, is probably some
centuries old. and 1t is suggested that
it had been put into peat water to
preserve 1t. or to give II a flavor, and
had been forgotten. Yet so effectual-
ly had the fat been preserved by the
peat water that 1t still retained many
of the chemical characteristics Of
butter fat. though naturally its ap-
pearance had greatly changed. The
exterior was white and granular, and
the whole mass had been converted
into a waxlike material. The con-
clusion that It had once been butter,
. however. was confirmed by the fact
that numerous cows hairs were pres
ent
A similar alteration of animal fats
when buried in the earth for a long
period has frequently been noticed,
and the waXlike product is known
as 'adipocere." The name ariginat-
ed with Fourcroy, who, in 1889, COM
municated to the French Academic
des Sciences the results of his exami-
nation of the fat of some of the
bodies transferred from the church
graveyards to the Catacombs of Paris.
The change in the fat was most no.
ticeable in the case of bodies that had
been buried about Is years and orig
inally crowded together, the homes be-
ing coated with grape plastic sub
stance. Fourcroy came to the con-
clusion that this adipocere ("fatwax"
was formed by the slow decomposi-
tion of any animal substance, with the
exception of bones. hair and nails:
but Chevreul, who studied the phe-
nomenon in 1912, showed that only
the fat originally present was affect
ed in this way, and his conclusion was
confirmed by Gay-Lussac.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-02
IF THE CANAL WERE COMPLETE.

If the Panama canal were now COM
pleted, the American fleet which is
soon to be transferred from the At
lantic to the Pacific ocean could use
that canal instead of going the long
way around by way of Cape Horn.
Everybody remembers and delights
in the voyage Of the battleship Ore
gon, around Cape Horn, at the time
of the Spanish war. 1t was a mar
velous voyage test of speed which
astonished the world. But in this
transfer Of the great fleet, 16 ships,
almost all Of them in a class with
the Oregon, will be required to make
that long and perilous voyage
around South America, in order to
reach the Pacific coast of the United
States.
If war were in progress the entire
Pacific coast could be devastated
while the fleet is making that voyage
The canal would reduce the distance
by half This is one Of the object
lessons of the need Of the Panama
canal and should serve as an add.
tional incentive to hurry its compile.
ton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-02

These evils have already been endur-
ed and now the efforts of the govern
ment are toward saving some frag-
ments of the rag tag and bob tail'
leavings of a once magnificent range
and timber area.
The injustice, the corruption have
already been suffered by the people
in the grabbing of the timber lands
by the rich corporations and in the
accumulation of the ranges into the
hands of big syndicates. through the
flimsy laws which have done duty
for so many years.
The people will welcome almost
any kind of protection for the rem
nants of the public domain. The
heartiest cooperation should be given
the government in saving the grass
and forests for the future.
There can be no greater corruption
than has already been endured. There
can be no greater injustice than has
already been suffered. The honest
object of the government departments
is now to save, at this late day, some
OF the remaining resources of the
country. .
. Let us help, instead of criticising
Let us hope for the best and work
for the best.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-02

There are now to be found in
Pendleton stores, the finest stocks Of
merchandise ever displayed in the
city. Careful and extensive purchases
have been made by Pendleton mer-
chants for the fall and winter trade
and the people OF Umatilla and ad-
joining counties are cordially invited
to inspect them. Advertisements of
these excellent stocks will be found
in the columns of the East Oregonian
and readers are urged to study these
ads and take advantage Of them.
There is a message in each advertise
ment for every reader.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-02

With the Syrian sunshine, the rich
sandy SOIL the abundance Of water
and the favorable climate Of Her
miston, If that place does not cele-
brate watermelon" or Grape" day
next year, 1t will be wondered at by
the people who have unbounded faith
in Hermiston and that excellent sur
rounding country. While Freewater
and Milton with their strawberries
and peaches, offer delightful attrac-
tions, yet not all the glory of Una
tilla county is clustered about them.
The west end OF the county shares in
that glory.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-02
TOO LATE, MIR. WOOD.

c. z. S. Wood, in his impressions"
in the September number Of the Pa
cific Monthly predicts fearful cor
ruption in government departments,
and fearful injustices for small stock
men in the administration of the for
estry department and in the propos-
ed leasing Of the remaining range
areas by a government bureau.
He fears that rich and powerful
stockmen and timber syndicates will
monopolize the ranges under the
leasing system and VIII purchase all
the available timber under the fores-
try management.
1t is too late, Mr.. Wood, to talk
about timber and range monopoly
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-02
CALIFORNIA; GRAPE INDUSTRY.

Upward of 100000 acres are devot-
cd to grape culture in California,
which state produces more than two
thirds Of the entire grape output Of
the country the annual production of
wine being over 100000 gallons. At
a conservative estimate the rasin and
wine Industries of California, in vine
yards, cellars, cooperage. dlstilleries,
machinery and capital to carry on
the business, represents an investment
of at least $85,000,000
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-02

2441 and Leavenworth with 2069.
The smallest increase is in Osborne
county, which gained two. The
largest decrease is In Usage county,
whose officials certify falling off of
1889. Neosho, johnson, Jackson and
Chatauqua, as named, show the next
largest decreases.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-02
THE OLD WAY AND NEW.

The man who sells the same old
goods in the same old way
Is the very same man who, some fine
day,
Will find that his business does not
pay,
And his trade will go, day by day,
To the man who sells the same old
goods in brand new way.
Printing Art.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-02

The barley production Of the Unit
ed States for the year 1905 was 49,
$4,000 bushels. This was practical
ly all raised by six states-California
Minnesota, South Dakota. Wisconsin,
North Dakota and Iowa, the amounts
raised by the states named decreasing
in the order given.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-02
HOTEL PORTLAND
PORTLAND. OREGON.

'"UFI LAND, UREGUN.
Amei can plan, SO per day and up
wards. 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.
II. c. BOWERS. Manager.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-02

, I'll doubt no more! A wayside I
+ flower shall bloom I
: And live a day, and in a thous- 4
and years
Z Another like it rise among its !
peers,
Z Just to please God. The flow !
Z er is His, and l
3 Am His-His child. Why should I
Z I doubt Him, then?
I Tho I may fall asleep, I'll !
Z wake again;
Z He gave me of His life-I can I
Z not die!
+ Marvin L. Hill in the Swas- I
+ tika,
+ Z = Z 4 + = 4 1. 4 Z = 4 Z = 1
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-02

Sold at 81 90 per bottle by druggists. Our book
BRADFyELD REGULATOR co.. atlanta. O.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-02

the parts, and assists nature in
its sublime work. By its aid
thousands of women have
passed this great crisis in per-
feet safety and without pain.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-16
GREAT SHELTER
OF THE WORLD
Immense Plant in Course of
Construction at Steptoe Will
Have Large Capacity.

S. Z. Cohn, president of the Ameri-
can Commercial & Trading company of
Ely, New, is in Salt Lake City in conf
pany with his friend. William Wachtcr
of Reno. Mr.. Cohn is on his way TO
New York. and Mr. Wachter is on his
way to a little town in Bavaria, With
er he goes to visit his father, who is So
years of age, and whom he has not seen
for many years.
Conditions in and about Ely are in
most prosperous state said Mr..
Cohn. 1.-THE only thing that lacks in
our section is skilled labor. The new
smelter at McGill, i'm the Steptoe dis
trict, wants carpenters; it wants ma
chinists; it wants bricklayers; wants
artificers of various kinds. The wages
are good; there is no sign Of labor trou-
Bile; there is money in that country for
the man who can DO and who does do.
The new Guggenheim smelter. So
called, will, when it is finished, be the
largest copper reduction plant in the
world. 1t will, / understand, have a
capacity of 10000 tons a day The an
nouncement is that the Smelter will ne
running, in part, within a year, and
that it will be fully completed within
two years. There are now 1000 men at
work on the smelter, and between 600
and 500 in the mines and development
in the immediate vicinity of Ely. l tell
you," said Mr.. Cohn, with emphasis
that that country is the conner Of ;he
west. They are opening up new mines
every day-why, 1t was only two weeks
ago when the Phebe brOthers' property
developed most amazingly rich strike
They are in the Copper Flats, only
eew miles away, comparatively speak
ing"
while you're talking about Ely, Mr..
Conn.," remarked Mr.. Wacnter, don't
forget to tell him something about our
part of the state. Reno is on. the crest
of the wave of prosperity. In fact, the
whole region whereabouts is flourish
ing"