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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-10

wv $: :@ ,; ;s~, ;s, @: ::,; .;s:: s:;: been petitioning to be allowed to slug tn young
 "How's that?" asked MT. Hennessy.
 Well" said MT. Dooley, they say they can't do annything with these tender little growths onless they use a club. They want tn boord iv iddy- cation to restore what's called corporal punishmint--that is, tn fun iv lickin some wan that cant fight back. Says wan iv thim: Tn little vans undher our care are far firm bein' tn small angels that they look. As matther iv fact, they are rebellyous monsthers that must be suppressed be vigorous an, says he, stern measures. Is it right, says he, that us schoolmasthers shud daily risk our lives at tn hands iv these feerocious an tigrish inimies iv human society without havin' a chance to pound thim? Yisterdah a goolden-haired imp iv perdition placed a tack in me chair. Today 1 found a dead rat in me desk. At times they write opprobyous epithets about me on tn blackboord; at other times crood but pinted carrycachures. Nawthin' will conthrol thim. They hurl tn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-10

Copyright 1907, by Frank G. Carpenter)
 Halfaya.
 AM in the Sudan. at the end of the
 northern section of the Cape to Cairo 4 railroad. This part of the route is now completed from the Mediterranean sea to where the Blue and White Niles join to form the mighty stream which has built up the land of Egypt. l have gone on the railroad through the rich regions of the lower Nile valley, and am now in the upper end of Nuba at the rail- road station of Halfaya, which lies just opposite Khartun. My distance from the Mediterranean is equal to straight line from the Atlantic ocean to the bordere of Colorado, and am just as far south or Alexandria as New Orleans is south Of the booming city of Winnipeg. From here I can get steamers which will take mo up the White Nile for more than a thousand miles, and there are something like 800 miles of available waterways between that point and the other end of the road which has been constructed from Cape Town northward to far beyond the Zambesi river.
 In thinking of the Cape to Cairo route most people consider it as a continuous railway system or of olse iron track run ming north and south through Africa from one end to the other. InlS IL VIII never be- We shall go by steam from Cairo 10 the Cape; but almost one-third of the way will be over navigable lakes and rivers. This was the idea of Cecil Rhodes and 1t Is the idea of every practical engi- neer who has examined the country and its traffic possibilities. There will be one railroad line running from Cape Town as far north as Lake Tanganyika, and another practically continuous rail system from here to Alexandria. The rest of the route will be made up of rail and water. The White Nile above Khartoum may be paralleled here and there by iron tracks, but for a generation or so, at least, the traffic will be by steamers as far as the Belgian Congo, at Gondokoro, a distance of over HOO miles. At that point there will be a railroad strip of 100 miles or so to Dufile. and then the Nile will again be used and steamers will go up it to Lake Albert and across that lake to it's southern shores. Between Lakes Albert and Tanganyka will be little more than 300 miles of railroad, with 60-mile ferryage across Lake Kivu which lies between. Then will come the long stretch of Lake Tanganyika, consisting of deep waterway 400 miles long, and then the southern section of the road, going almost straight south to Cape Town.
 So far more than 5000 miles of iron track have been laid on the northern
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-10
WIT. Dooley's Philosophy


ber's cave? Who knows why he likes to collect in wan pocket ball iv twine, glass marbles, chewin' gum, dead sparrow an half lemon? Who knows what his seasons are? They're not mine, an they're not ye'ers but he goes as reg'lar firm top time to mar ble time an firm marble time to kite time as we go firm summer to autumn an autumn to winter Today he's thrying to annihilate another boys stick top with his; tomorrow he's thrying to sail kite out iv a lilly graft wire. Who knows why he does 1t?
 Faith we know nawthin about him an he knows nawthin about us. l can raymimber whin l was little boy but I can raymimber how l was a little boy. I call back as though twas yis-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-10
BY F. P. DUNNE.


terdah tn things l did but why I did, thim 1 don't know. Faith if cud look for'ard to tn things I've done since cud no more aisily explain why was goin to do thim. Maybe we're both wrong in the way we look at each other-us an tn childher. We think we've grown up an they don't guess that we're childher. If they knew us betther they'd not be so surprised at our actions an wudden't foorce us to hit thim. Whin ye issued some fool ish ordher to yeer little boy he'd say: 'Pah-pah is fractious to day. Don't ye think he ought to have some castor oil.'"
 Its a wise child that knows his own father" said Mr. Hennessy.
 Its a happy child that doesn't" said Mr. Dooley.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-10

camp was kept about six miles in ad- vance of the. rail head during it's con struction. There was always danger of attack by the Dervishes and the road was built through a hostile country.
 Today the ears move as smoothly over Kitcheners tracks as they do over those of Egypt, and they give that country regular connection with the Soudan. There Is now train de luxe connecting Khartoum with Wady Halfa. and this has both sleeping and dining cars.
 Soudan Sleepers and Diners.
 The sleepers are divided up into com partments about seven feet square with two berths to each compartment. There Is an aisle from which the compart- ments are entered, running along the side of the ear, and the compartments are large enough to enable one to have a wicker chair in them, In addition to the berths Each little room has an electric fan and is lighted by cleo tricity.
 The dining car service Is good and com paratively cheap. lie meals consist or a cup of tea and some crackers brought in by Nubian porter at daybreak' a breakfast in the dining car at o'clock A table d'hote luncheon at l and dinner along in the evening.
 I have kept the notes of one luncheon and dinner The lunch consisted of maca- roni with cheese, brotled squabs Vege- table oysters, lamb chops and friend po- tatoes, a salad, preserved peaches, orange and apples and cup of Turkish coffee. The dinner began with soup and hsh' These were followed by salmi of pigeon some spinach roast chicken and fried po- tatoes, a salad. assorted preserves, fruit and coffee The breakfast cost % cents, the lunch s12o. the dinner S.5 and the afternoon tea 30 cents. My bill was not presented until the end of the trip. By averaging 1t I find that my eating cost me S5 piastres, or s420 per day. The rates on that road also are dear. During ordi- nary seasons the flrst-class passage costs S35 for the 300 and odd miles. or between 6 and ' cents a mile. When the tourist season begins the charges are raised to $50 one way or to s100 for the round trip. This Is over cents per mile.
 "lt Was a Baldwin,
 In riding over the Soudan military road we stopped for time at Atbara. where the Black Nile from Ayssinia flows into the main stream and where is the famous bridge built by Americans upon orders given by Gen. Kitchener The contract
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-04-24
ENJOY THE CITY TODAY.

The present generation of property
holders in Pendleton is not going to
live always. Within another quarter
of a century all of the present list of
middle aged men must expect to be
relieved by another generation.
The property of the city will con-
tinue to increase in value. The
wealth which the present generation
will bequeath to the coming genera
ton will have increased many fold and
its ability to pay will have multiplied
likewise.
Why, then, should the present gen.
Grafton deprive itself of all the COM
forts of city life in order to hoard a
larger gift for the future? Why should
we not enjoy better streets, a city hall,
a good system of water works, better
sewer system and more secure
levee, now, today, while we are on
earth to enjoy such things?
What good will the boarded wealth
of today be to the property owner of
today half century hence? Why not
provide the necessaries and comforts
as we go along and enjoy them while
we may, leaving the increased proper
ty values of the future to take up the
burden where we lay it down?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-04-24
FATHER OF REFERENDUM.

The Sunday Orvgonian prints the
following excellent sketch of the be-
ginning of the initiative and refer
"ndum in the state of Oregon
Father OF the initiative and ref
erenium" is the title that has been
conferred by common consent upon
w. s. U'Ren of Oregon City. Though
the title has been rightfully confer
red, with all the honor or contumely
periencc has demonstrated the value
of his service, yet he was not the first
man to urge the amendment before
the legislature.
Friends of W. F.. King, now su-
preme court commissioner, say that
the first appearance of the principles
represented by the words Initiative
and referendum" in any practical
form in Oregon, and probably the
first introduced into any lawmaking
hody in the United States. was in the
form Of proposed amendment to the
constitution introduced by King, then
senator from Baker and Malheur, at
the session Of 1895.
No vote was taken at that session
and it was introduced in revised form
Mt the session of 1897, when 1t was
adopted by the senate, but the house,
which did not organize. took nc ac-
tion. Most of the features of the
present Initiative and referendum
clause were taken from the King
measure.
To Mr.. U'Ren has been accorded
the credit fer the adoption of the
amendment because 1t was he who
agitated the question until the state
conventions of both political parties
indorsed it and practically all the
candidates advocated it, thereby Sc
curing for it the overwhelming pop
ular vote by which it carried.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-04-24
MILLIONS FOR MUSIC.

An industrious calculator has esti-
mated that S10.O0O,OOO were spent
last winter by the people of Ameri-
ca for the enjoyment of serious mu-
sic-music, that is to say, as it is
known in our concert halls and opera
houses; not the music of the comic
opera stage and the vaudeville
house.
The figure is more likely an un-
derestimate than an exaggeration.
Few social phenomena of recent
years in this country have been more
remarkable than the enormous in
crease in the popular demand for
music of the better class.
Ten years ago the works of Wag-
nor, of Beethoven, of Schubert, of
Schumann, of Tschaikowsky were
relegated, in the average mind, to
the vague and unattainable limbo of
"classicol' music; today, one catches
ones carpenter whistling the "Sieg-
fried" motive from Der Ring des
Niebelungen," and the little dress
maker from the suburbs discourses
inteliigertly upon the revolutionary
art of Richard Strauss.
The publishers will tell you of the
large and increasing demand for
operate guide-books, for biographies
of great composers, for introductions
of all kinds to the secrets of that
supposedly mysterious art-the art
of music; and the great tribe of pop
ularizers flourishes as never before.
Modern Masters of Music" in
the May Everyhody's.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-04-24
THE HOLE IN THE BUCKET.

Every business has innumerable
leaks by which the income which is
earned at so much cost is permitted
to flow out unobserved, draining the
substance from the business while the
guiding energy of the institution is
struggling to keep up the source of
supply:
Alfred Henry Lewis, editor of HUI
man Life, of Boston, tells the follow
ing interesting story on James ]. Hill,
illustrating the splendid keenness of
his intellect and his appreciation of
the details of his vast interests. Mr.
Lewis says:
Mr.. Hill was once riding at night
on the rear end of his private car,
when his train passed over a long
wooden trestle. a freight train had
gone over, "a few minutes before, and
Mr.. Hill remembered he had given or
ders that after the passing of all
trains over this trestle, track patrol
man should go over the structure
with bucket of water and eXtinguish
any embers that might have fallen
from the locomotive.
Though the Hill special was going
along at 40 miles an hour, the alert
eye of the president caught sight of
a hole in the bottom of the bucket, as
the watchman in the moonlight threw
the vessel over one shoulder. Mr..
Hill ordered the train back to the
trestle and summoned the watchman
to him.
MY man, you are to the Great
Northern company just what the hole
is to the bucket you carry-a good
zeal worse than useless. You may
throw the bucket away and look for
another job. Human life is too dear
to trust it to one of your kind"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-04-24
LAND Is NOR BAD.

There is very little bad or poor land
in Umatilla county. 1t is simply mis-
understood. When farmers find the
right process, the right crop, the right
treatment for the sandy, arid land,
either under irrigation or dry land
farming 1t will all produce well.
Much of the incorrigible arid land
of the west is rated as almost useless,
while If its best characteristics were
brought out, it would make men for
tunes
I. is like the incorrigible boy. On
the surface and to the naked eye, 1t
appears bad-but get right down to
the true substance and spirit of it, and
it is full of good features, good traits.
So let us study the incorrigible land
as we would study the incorriglble
boy. Let us look for that system of
treatment, that application of practi-
cal sense which will bring out the
hidden virtues.
II is estimated that Colorado will
reclaim every foot of idle land in that
state, either through dry land farm
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-04-24
THE FRUITS OF FOLLY.

This week a representative of an
orphans home took out of Umatiila
county several deserted children
which will be placed in homes in
other parts of the state.
In nearly every case these children
were the offspring of young girls
who had been married early only to be
deserted later by the wretches who
promised to protect and support them.
AS a result, these helpless waits
must be sent among strangers, or be
kept on the charity of the state, either
of which is a most unfortunate condi-
tlon in which to bring up children.
Society owes it to itself, to take a
hand in matchmaking and marriage.
When the burdens of individual folly
fall upon society, then society has a
right to say how heavy those burdens
shall be.
When the charity of the county or
state must support the children of un-
fit or incompetent parents, then the
state and county have a right to say
whether unfit or incompetent people
shall marry and inflict their offspring
on the public. 1t is a serious question
and one which must be fairly and
squarely met by society sooner or
later.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-04-24
THE RACE FOR WEALTH.

Men are driven harder by their bus
iness today than ever before. There
is less real leisure, less real enjoy
ment, less downright pleasure for the
active business man today than in any
past period. Competition, the de-
mands of big enterprises, the dynamic
blows Of hard driving master-gold
all combine to shorten the life and
curtail the enjoyment of the active
business man.
Few men live to a great old age
any more. They carry such loads
upon body and brain that nature
cannot stand it long. They are filled
with dreams of wealth, struggles for
triumph, conquests of new fields and
the overthrow of rivals, until stag
gering at the zenith of their career,
nature refuses to bear the burden and
some trifling ailment snuffs out the
overworked candle.
You can count the strong, healthful,
virile, unimpaired active business
men in your acquaintance on the fin
gers of the two hands. The small
minority is free from some killing
nervous disorder while the great ma
jority are sufferers, victims Of the
serfdom of business.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-04-24
TIE UNDERWORLD.

Deep in the treacherous mazes of
sin,
Down where the highways of sorrow
begin,
silently, hopelessly, wasted and gray,
One of the magdalenes passes away.
Zone is her brightness of eye and
Of brow,
Drained is the cup of her bitterness
now,
Blanched are the lips that derided
the truth,
Hushef is the infidel laughter of
youth.
Who will upbraid her with all she
has lost
Paying the magdalene's terrible
cost?
Retter the solitude, better the sleep
Silence of charity, mantle her deep.
YEARLY, helplessly, wasted and gray,
One of the magdalenes passes away;
o, my compassionate Master of men,
Write In the sand of the Temple
again!
james Neil in Catholic Sentinel.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-04-24

ing or irrigation. Some of, the idle
land in Colorado surpasses the Oregon
desert for sterility, so If Colorado has
so far mastered the art of conquering
incorrigible land as to convert her
deserts into habitable tracts, let Ore
gon take hope.
In whatever triumphs in reclama-
tion may come to Oregon, Umatilla
county will always stand at the lead.
Here are the climate, transportation,
markets-all the needed facilities for
development. 1t may now seem in
credible that raw land under water
should be worth from $50 to 500 per
acre according to location-but there
is no reason why this same virgin soil
under proper treatment, may not be
worth $1,000 per acre.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-04-24
MRS. SADIE ABBOTT

Women for the most part spend
their lives at home, and it is these
women who are willing and ambitious
that their homes shall be kept neat
and pretty, their children we'll dressed
and tidy, who do their own cooking,
sweeping, busting and often washing,
ironing and sewing for the entire
family, who call for our sympathy.
Truly the work of such woman
is "never done" and is it any wonder
that she breaks down at the end of a
few years, the back begins to ache,
there is displacement, Inflammation
or liberation of the abdominal organs,
q female weakness is brought on, and
the struggle of that wife and mother
to continue her duties is pitiful.
Lydia g. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, made from native roots
and herbs, Is the exact medicine a
woman needs whose strength Is over
taxed. 1t keeps the feminine organs
in strong and healthy condition.
In preparing for childbirth and re-
ouperating therefrom it is most eff
cient. 1t carries woman safely
through the change of life and in
making her strong and well assists
her to be a good wife and mother.
Mrs. Sadie Abbott, Of Jeanette,
Pa. writes:
Dear Mrs Pinkham-
II suffered severely with pain every
month and also pain in my left side. My
doctor prescribed for me but did me no
good; friend advised Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and l wrote you in
regard to my condition. I followed your
advice and am perfectly well woman. The
pains have all disappeared and !! cannot
recommend your medicine too highly"
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Con
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-04-24
THE PRECIOUS BLACK FOX.

In the estimation of the trappers
and voyageurs of eastern North Am
erica, as well as in the eyes of the
very rich nobility of Russia and ST.
IBERIA, there is only one king of beasts.
and the name of this beast is the big
AMI ra1iantly shining black fox,
which roams over the cold and bar
reu hills that stretch from east or the
Penobscot river in Maine, through
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia,
and skipping the mouth of the st.
Lawrence river. extend in diminish
tng hummocks through western Lab
rador and end in the hillocks and
LaurentiNn formations which sur
round Hudson Bay.
As a rule about five perfect pelts
from black foxes are captured every
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-04-24

year. and Of these three are bought
by the great Hudson Bay Fur COM
pany or It's tributary associations.
Though Maine alone furnishes mora
than 10000 fox skins every year, and
though nearly 5000 active men spend
most Of the winter in trapping and
poisoning foxes and other animals
for their furs, only two times in the
run Of Twelve months are the COM
binea efforts of these individual hunt
ers able to secure a black fox.-Chl-
caSn Record-Herald.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-04-24

LYDIA E. Pnhams Vegetable Compound Where
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-04-24
ROOMS: $l.Oo and $l.So

Block and Half From, Depot.
See the big electric sign.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-04-24
MOTEL PORTLAND
PORTLAND, OREGON

PORTLAND, OREGON.
American plan, SO per day and up-
ward. Headquarters for tourists ana
commercial travellers. Special rates
made to families and single gentle-
men. The management will be pleas.
ed at all times to show rooms ana
give prices. A modern Turkish batS
establishment in the hotel.
II. g. BOWERS, Manakc-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-04-24

When Harry Mahar of Columbus,
Ind, goes tn his barn lot and steps
upon a neatly carved slab bearing the
Inscription 1890" he has 1850, 900
people on all sides of him, for he is
the center of population of the whole
United States.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-04-24
MRS. PRE- MsKlTRlcK

Mrs. Pree McKitrick, Of La Fargo,
Wis, writes
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:
"For six years I suffered from female
weakness was 80 irregular that would
90 from three weeks to SIX months, so
thought l would give Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound trial.
'TNow am once more well and can do my
work without pain. Any one who wishes,
can write to me and ! viii answer all letters
gladly"
Women should remember that Lydia
e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
holds the record for the greatest
number of actual cures of female ills.
Every suffering woman In h Q
United States is asked to accept the
following invitation. It is free, will
bring you health and may save
your life.
Mrs. Pinkham's Invitation 10 Women.
Women suffering from any form Of
female weakness are invited to
promptly communicate with Mrs.
Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. From the
symptoms given, the trouble may be
located and the quickest and surest
way Of recovery advised. Out OF her
vast volume Of experience in treating
female ills Mrs. Pinkham probably
has the very knowledge that will
help your case. Her advice is free
and always helpful.
,0und Succeeds Where Others Fail.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-04-24
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I It is with literature as with
! life: wherever you turn you
I stumble upon the corrupt mob
Z of humanity, swarming in every I
Z direction and soiling everything !
I like flies in summer. Nine !
. tenths of our present literature 1
Z has no other aim than to get !
= few shillings out of the pockets I
Z of the public; and in this pro- I
: gram, author, publisher and re- I
Z viewer are in league. Because I
2 most people read what is new I
( instead of what is best, writers I
2 remain in the narrow circle of 1
Z present ideas and the tendency 1
: toward the trashy stuff intensi- I
: fies.-Schopenhaeur.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-29
Deer Eat the Biz Ones.

Spearfish, s. D.-Deer that eat po-
tatoes and despoil the patches of pros
pectors have furnished the latest topic
for the nature takers whom the Presi-
dent has been busily denouncing.
Near Mineral Hill lives John Nee
han, who works number of claims
during the winter and cultivates
truck garden in the summer. Meehan
declares that deer in his vicinity are
becoming so plentiful that for three
nights past they have entered his po-
tato patch and gone from hill to hill,
digging up the vegetables and eating
them. He sat up the third night and
witnessed the performance. AS the
deer season is not open, he could not
Kill them, but drove them away.
The deer. he said, ate only the large
potatoes and paid no attention to the
smaller ones.