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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-05-18
Rather Mystifyino,

"Toodles what a silly name
that is for a bright and lively kid
Is four years old and his mamma and
papa think he's just about the best
boy that ever lived; but the other
day he got just a bit cross about
something or other and an "Oh, the
devil slipped out before ne knew it.
OF course, his mother was grieved
and hurt and she told Toodles so.
She explained that he mustn't be
naughty, and that above all things
he must not swear. But, mamma, .
said Toodles, sit amt swearing to
say that, cause there is a devil. "
But, my dear" said ToOdleS' mann
ma, you must not make light Of sa-
cred things"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-05-18
Tombstone Rsfuoe for car.

One day this week, when the snow
was rapidly turning to 5lush, and
when st. PauPs churchyard was be-
reft Of its w0nted groups of luncheon
hour strollers, one of the churchyard
cats, an unusually soiled and wild
looking specimen, was seen perched
upon the narrow top of a weather
worn headstone. The space was I'M
comfortably narrow, and, 20 keep
from falling, the animal was forced
to clutch increasingly. But the stone
was dry, the churchyard walks were
flooded, SO the cat stayed. a soiled bit
of white and black fur, suspicious
but apparently reSigned.-New York
Post.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-05-18
sneakinn of Eathers.

Two kids had been engaged in a
heated argument over the respective
merits of their sires, when Johnnie
clinched his argument with the fol-
lowing: Huh, that's nothing! My
father. was in the army, and once,
when he was standing on hill beside
cannon, war came up the hill. and
he fired the cannon and killed the
whole War"-Judge's Library.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-05-18
Low kafes to Pacific Coast.

Via Chicago, Union Pacific North
western line. Very low rates for the
round trip will be in effect to San
Francisco and Los Angeles daily to
May 18th, June 81 to 10Th and June
22nd to July 9TH; also to Portland,
Tacoma, Seattle and North Pacific
Coast points June Goth to July 18th.
Liberal return limits Variable routes.
Favorable stop-over arrangements.
Apply to any ticket agent of the
Northwestern line for full particulars.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-05-18
Best Steep of All.

IT see that an eminent physician de-
clares that two hours of sleep before
midnight are worth more than six
after that hour" Nonsense! Two
hours of sleep after. you're called IL
the morning are worth more than
anything else"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-05-18
Dull Times.

"Hello!" said the funny man to FIN
negan the undertaken. Il suppose your
business is dead with your" Faith,
It's worse than that" replied Finnegan.
"Shure. l haven't buried a. liVin' soul
a near a month"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-05-18
Twas Ever Tnus.

81 thought you called up information
for the number" said he. why did
you quit and ring Off" Information
had either dropped dea6 suddenly or
gone of to dinner with a friend" she
replied Il waited and waited and
waited, and all could hear was seine
blooming photograph playing awxy."
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-22
"RULLs" THAT ARE NOT IRISH.

Sovereign Visitor. official journal of
the Woodmen of the World, gives a
list of actual statements made to the
sovereign physician by applicants for
membership. We quote a few:
Mother died in infancy.
An uncle died of cancer on his
mothers side.
Father went to bed feeling well and
the next morning woke up dead.
Grandfather died suddenly at the
age of 10S. Up to this time he bid
fair to reach ripe old age.
Applicant does not know anything
about maternal posterity except that
they died at an advanced age.
Applicant does not know cause OF
mothers death. but states that she
fully recovered from her last illness.
Applicant has never been fatally
sick.
Father died suddenly; nothing seri-
Gus.
Applicants brother. who was an in
FAINT, died when he was mere child.
Grandmother died from a gunshot
wound caused by an arrow, shot by
an Indian.
Applicants fraternal parents died
when he was a child.
Mothers last illness was caused
from chronic rheumatism, but she
was cured before death.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-22

negro, and on the other of the land
lord who holds his negroes in practi-
cal slavery-it is significant that many
negroes are able to get ahead.
In Pulaski county, Georgia, there
are negroes who own as high as 1000
acres of land. Ben Gordon is one of
thein. his brother Charles has 500
acres, John Nelson has 400 acres
worth $40 an acre, the Miller family
i11s 1000 acres, January Lawson, an
other of Mr.. Crowns former tenants,
has 500 ocres; Jack Daniel 200 acres,
Tom Whel"n 500 acres.
4 mulatto merchant in Hawkins
Vile. whose creditable store l visited,
also owns his plantation in the coun-
try and rents 1t to negro tenants on
the same system employed by the
white landowners. Indeed. a few
negroes in the south are coming to
be not inconsiderable landlords. and
have many tenants.
Hawkinsville also has negro
blacksmith, negro BARRIERS and negro
builders-and like the white man. the
negro also develops his own financial
sharks. One educated colored man
in Hawkinsville is a mote shaver" he
stands for" other negroes and signs
their notes-at a frightful commits
sion.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-22
SAN FRANCIsCo's FUTURE.

After a new mayor had been elect
ed in San Francisco by the board of
supervisors the chief of police an
nounced that he would be true to
Schmitz Notwithstanding the change
in affairs, and the air is full of ac-
cusations and counter accusations. The
political situation is symbolized by
the physical appearance of the city
itself with its chaos of waste and
ruins and new buildings.
The real test of the reform spirit
will come when there is a municipal
election. If the people have taken
their lesson deeply to heart there
should be a publication of politics
that will win San Francisco good
name everywhere and give her new
life and hope.
All classes of grafters-labor graft
ers, corporation grafters and political
grafters-will be put out of business
by the election to office of men Of
the highest character and standing.
1t would be fortunate also II may
or could be chosen who possessed ex-
traordinary energy and great execu-
tive ability. For the task ahead is a
tremendous one whose Importance
cannot be overrated. If 1t is well done
the city will soon escape the odium
that has attached to 1t of late and
more than regain all that 1t has lost.
II there is not very marked change
for the better in the administration Of
municipal affairs the recovery will be
slow, and the rival cities which are
making the most OF the situation now
will profit by the delay. It is for the
voters of San Francisco to decide
what the future shall be.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-22
WHO MADE THE INLAND EMPIRE

In a hearing before the railroad
commission of this state on a demand
of the city of Bellingham for joint
and terminal rates, r. B. Miller gen.
eral freight agent of the o. r. & N.
company, made a statement that the
o. r. & n. company had developed
this inland empire country, and was,
therefore, entitled to its business.
To anyone who has knowledge OF
the history OF the o. r. & n. COM
pany this bald statement is an af-
frontery that only taskmaster could
assume over his bonded slave.
The fact IS that this inland empire
has paid for the whole Of the cost OF
building the o. r. & n. company's
lines, has built up Portland, and
without the traffic made possible by
the industry of the farmers Of this
section the o. r. G. N. company would
not be in existence today.-Daytor
Courier-Press,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-22
TRAVELLING is SAFER.

President ]. H. Harahan of the
Illinois Central railroad, has a record
which he thinks proves that 1t is
safer to travel than to stay at home.
In the past 35 years he has Travelled
2,2S1,250 miles. his daily averaged
for Is years being $50 miles. Had he
travelled In straight line, he would
have encircled the globe 81 times
and covered 1000 miles on the s2d
lap.
In all his travels he has been in
only one accident, and that was
hardly worth mentioning. ut is safer
for me to travel than to stay at
home." he says. II was slightly
shaken up In collision 20 years ago,
but 20 years before that 1 was blown
40 feet, my clothes torn off and I
was badly bruised and almost killed
while inspecting locomotive at
home. The boiler blew up"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-22
THE DREAD OF DEATH.

Granted that it is the will of God
that we shall remain on earth and
live our appointed lives there, it is
essential that mankind should feel
the dread of death. Without that
dread the world could hardly remain
peopled.
The dread of death is to the soul
what the law of gravity is to the
body. 1t anchors us to the earth
Without that dread to weigh us down
and keep US to the globe half man.
kind would be driven by curiosity
by the love of change, by the dread
of ennui, by what Bacon calls mice
ness and safety" to push open the
closed door and see what is beyond.
Children and few very happy and
easily pleased people might perhaps
say they would not explore farther
and that they were perfectly content
with things as they are.-St. James
Gazette.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-22

mess details out of their duties. The
second change should give the normal
schools q high standing in the state
and should place normal school grad
yates in public schools as teachers in
greater numbers than in the past.
The public schools should look to
the normal schools for the future sup
ply of teachers. The normals are CON
sidered training schools for teachers
and the normal course conforms to
the high school courses.
So the number of normal school
graduates in public school faculties
should greatly increase in future.
The Portland Oregonian complains
that typewriting and stenography are
to be taught In the normal schools.
II these branches are to be taught in
the public schools, why not teach
them to future teachers who are TAX
irg courses in the normals? Why not
fit normal graduates to teach every
branch taught in the public schools?
II the normals are to be considered
training ground for public school
teachers they must keep pace with the
public schools and it would be sulcid-
al to abolish branches in the normals
which are maintained in the public
schools. The work of the normals
would be multiplied by such course.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-22

Despite the fact that thousands Of
holders Of life insurance surrendered
or allowed their policies to lapse in
the year Of 1906 because OF the aglta-
ton against life insurance companies,
reports from standard insurance COM
panies and fraternal insurance orders
show that s327,576,19s were distribut-
ed in the United States in the year in
death claims, matured endowments
and other benefits. Including the
amounts paid to the foreign policy
holders. the total amount paid out
was brought to s447,57s,199. In 1905
the amount distributed in the United
States was 7.O19,972, or s2O,556,-
277 less than last year.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-22

Evans, governor OF Colorado. in build
Ing the Denver & Pacific railroad be-
tween Denver and Cheyenne, thus
connecting, in 1869, Denver with the
Union Pacific railroad, In later years
Mr.. Moffat became president of the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad, and IL
was during his presidency, In 1887,
that the railroad was extended to the
mining camp Of Aspen. Largely al
his own expense Mr.. Moffat built the
Florence & Cripple Creek railroad
connecting the famous Cripple Creek
mines with the Denver & Rio Grande
system.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-22
WASHING AS A FINE ART"

The Sunday oregonian OF yester-
day had half-page of illustrations
showing the society laundry school
of Columbus, o.. at work. washing
as fine art" is coming into vogue
among eastern society women. 1t is
being learned by dainty daughters of
millionaires who have been coddled
and petted in affluence and laziness,
and because these spoiled children are
engaging in it as a fine art, it is
spreading through all of the higher"
circles.
The East Oregonian remembers a
generation of women among whom
washing for big families was not only
fine art, but healthful art as well.
The grandmothers of the present gen.
Grafton who reared big families, hoed
corn, planted crops, carried babies in
their arms and washed every week
for go years, were Spartan mothers.
There was little consumption,
catarrh, dyspepsia, or insanity in
those families. The daughters did not
dwindle away at 80 and die from tight
lacing or worse evils.
The boys did not droop and shrink
into living skeletons from cigarette
smoking and midnight carousing. The
girls lived to be strong, beautiful,
lovable women, mothers of large
families and lived to a good old age
in possession of all their faculties. The
boys became pioneers who carved the
western half of this country from the
wilderness and lived to be old and
respected men.
In the homes of that older genera
ton washing and other useful work
was considered an honor. The girls
did not lace until their stockings burst
and their eyes bulged out. There were
very, very few grass widows with
sunken cheeks at 80, childless, puny
and disconsolate, in that other gen.
Grafton where washing was not con-
sidered degrading and where to be
beautiful and strong and useful were
crowning glories of womanhood.
The mothers of the older generation
were not considered old until they
reached 10 or so years. Outdoor life
and healthful work gave them iron
constitutions and they lived and en-
joyed long. Many women Of the pres
ent generation are "old" at 80, 35 and
40. They are not old from work or
exposure. They are old from ex-
cesses.
Excessive eating, excessive drink
ing, excessive idleness, excessive social
slavery, excessive rivalry for empty
social honors, excessive physical
crimes In dress and abuse Of body and
mind by late hours-these excesses
are shortening the life of the human
race and making that shorter life a
succession Of miseries and inconsis-
tencies.
A little journey back to nature will
do the race good and IL this fad of
washing for fun is carried far enough
1t may be considered one of the first
steps on that little journey,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-22
NEW NORMAL MANAGEMENT.

The first and most important bene-
fit of the new management Of the nor
NAL schools by single board of re-
gents for all the schools is that It
takes the details of the business man.
agement from the shoulders of the
presidents OF the normals and places
it upon the secretary of the board who
will be business manager for all;
the second important change is that
there will be uniformity in the normal
school work throughout the state.
The first change gives presidents Of
normal schools time to teach and di-
rect the educational work of the
schools, leaving the wearisome bus
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-22
A MONUMENT TO BILL NYE.

The American press humorists have
taken up the subject of erecting a
monument to the late Edgar Wilson
Nye, the monument to be erected in
Laramie, where Bill Nye first came
into fame, and where the best of his
fun was concocted.
Nye needs no monument to perpet-
uate his fame, but the monument is
needed to prove that the world ap-
preciated his genial humor. Bill Nye
made life easier for many burdened
man and woman. His humor. always
kindly and always ready, scattered
smiles all over the land.
The American press humorists will
honor themselves when they thus pay
tribute to Edgar Wilson Nye. The
association will meet in Los Angeles,
September 1929, and during the con-
vention an entertainment will be given
for the benefit of the monument fund.
Robert ]. Burdette, Melville d.
I.angdon, Sam Davis, Strickland w.
Gilliland, Edmund Vance Cooke,
Thomas A. Daley, Judd NJ. Lewis, w.
D. 'Nesbit, Sam E. Kiser and other
we'll known entertainers will have
places on the program.
If every one who has laughed at
Bill Nye's drollery will contribute to
the monument fund, 1t could be
erected of solid silver. Contributions
may be sent to Frank Thompson
Searight, Los Angeles, Cal.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-22
SKETCH OF DAVID II. MoFFAT.

David H. Moffat, the well known
western financier and railroad build
er, was born in Orange county, New
York. July 22, 1889. After working
for a time as bank messenger in
New York city, he went to Iowa and
became connected with a bank in Des
Moines. A few years later he made
the overland trip to Denver, which
at that time was mere frontier set
tlement. In 1867 Mr.. Moffat was
chosen cashier of the First National
bank at Denver, an institution of
which later he was to become presi-
dent. His first railroad venture was
in cooperation with the late John
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-22
80 e@ a. RIDS THE SYSTEM
-. -. -. OF MALARIA

Malaria atmospheric poison which unconscously breathe Into
through the aborbs the
copusces this vital fluid
weak condition that unable to properly the
ooto Then the OF such
pale weak vitality appetite
trouble affecting OF
the BODY producing state Of bilious
ness long spell follows when the blood becomes fully
poison and Ulcers bos aches and
skin affections of kinds often result from this nsdous
accumulate the blood sufficient
Malaria be removed from the system through the
and for this nothing equals s. This great remedy goes down
microbes and poons and
neny Malaria only eleanses the blood the but
needs that instead
spreading disease the system becomes
nourhing body and enabling to resist disease
greatest and builds and nvgorates the
system while dng the blood the Malaria Persons who
pleased with the prompt pleasant
produced S. and take with because
absolutely medicine being free from harmful minerals of
kind Book the blood and medical advice desired sent free to all
who write. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA, GA.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-22
NEGROES WHO ARE RICH.

Ray Stannard Baker reports in the
August American Magazine that he
has found southern negroes who are
rich. He says:
Despite the fact that much Is heard
on one hand Of the lazy and worthless
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-22
SHE ASKED NO MORE QUESTIONS

A kindly faced woman showed great
interest In going through the industri-
al home for blind men. Seeing one
sightless man busily Gaming a chair,
she said sympathetically:
81 don't see how you men do that
work at ALL"
That's the way with us. madam"
said the worker. cheerfully. 1--WE
don's see how we do 1t ourselves"
To another blind man she said:
"Do you close your eyes when you
sleep?"
The answer came quickly:
"Oh, no, madam; we have n watch
man, that goes around and closes 'em
for all of us at 10 o'clock"
The kindly-faced woman asked no
more questions.-Exchnng
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-22

China is to discourage ancestor wor-
shin. What's the matter with China !?
TIaven't they any sons and daughters
~ anything over there.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-22
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-22
HOTEL PORTLAND
OF

PORTLAND. OREGON.
American 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.
H. c. BOWERS. Manager.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-22

II you see 1t in the East oregonian.
It's so.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-06
DIsAsTROUs START.

The defense 10 tho rnaw trial in New
York yesterday made disastrous start
and District Attorney Jerome was the
star OF the proceeding
After the adjournment Of court Del
phin Delmss, OF counsel for Thaw, de.
clared himself much displeastd and sur
prised, for he expected 10 conduct the
case himself. In fact, FIVE OF the Thsw
lawyers declared themselves prepared to
leave Immediately if John b. Gleason
continued to direct affairs.
The days proceedings we're character
lied as farciCAl, and the opinion was ex-
pressed that it left Thaw in more pre-
carious position than he had ever oc-
cupied.
DR.. G. G. Wiley, tho first witness,
was thoroughly CHILLED by Jerome, and
the force of his declaration that Thaw
was insane WAS undermined by the dis.
tricl attorneys whirlTi attack.
The defense was not permitted to adj
dnce testimony showing insanity in col
lateral branches of the Thsw family in
support of the hereditary insanity plea.
Mr.. Jerome hurled many questions
full Of medical lore at DR.. Wiley, with
the intention Of discrediting his knOwl-
edge, and the witness seemed at loss to
answer in many cases.
Denying that he was hOmeopOthist
and asked what he was, he replied: ~
am q nervous practitioner. "
After undergoing searching exami-
nation on his knowledge of the pneumo-
gastric nerve the doctor Was asked
"Isn' it fact that all the functions of
human body are controlled by the
pneumo-gastric nerve acting through the
spinal marrow on ;he medulls oblon-
gata?' His answer WAS lost in the
laughter.
Dr. O. II. Bingsnan testified that
Harry Thaw had ST. Fitus' dance at the
age of was of highly nervous ten.
permanent, and slept very badly.
Albert Lee Thnw, 4 cousin, was not
allowed to tell Of insanity In collateral
branches of the ThaW family.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-06
WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEB c. 1907.

REPUBIcAEs IN Cincinnati are petit
tioning tue Presiden. not TO make Ralph
TYLER surveyor OF customs "because the
sons Of the frst families will have TO
work under Tyler as their bo's " That
ia precisely he objection that Charleston
made to Dr.. Crum as collector OF the
bort. Sentiments are the same under
the Bnckeye aud under the Palmetto.
Northern people are very anxious to
have the political rights of the negvoes
reco sniz ID 10 the South but they do not
want such recognition at home. 1t is
certain that the Influential republicans
OF Cincinnati are no fOnder OF having
negroes 10 prominent Offices than the
people 10 SOUTH Carolina are, and they
have communicated to the Hon. Nicho'
las Iongworlb, N. c., that if the Presl'
dents nominee shall be confirmed he
will not be elected Congressman again,
30 it seems that Mr.. Roosevelt 10 "get'
ting even" with Senator Foraker in the
Brownsville affair has oversloPped the
mark.