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The Forrest City times., 1907-04-12

B that big change was to be made in the proprietary medicine business, that the public demanded to know what the in- gradients were of the preparations they were advertising, and that a general reform was about to take place in pro- prietary medicine manufacturing and ad- vertising, formed a cooperative con- pany to meet the public's demand. This company was called The United Drug Co.,, of which the undersigned has be- comeone of thetwo thousand members
 Our object was, first, to manufacture line of prescriptions such as we had tried out in our stores and found to give the very best of results, and second, by owning our own cooperative manufac- turing company we would be able to know the exact formula of every prepar- ation we were selling, thus enabling US to give to the public the very best rem edies we could find at actual manufac- turing cost, plus single retail profit.
 This enabled The United Drug Con- pany to escape the heavy charges for advertising and other expenses such as have to be paid by proprietary remedies. What was most important, it insures safety and satisfaction to our customers, because we druggists know just what we are selling.
 A committee of experts was ap- pointed who spent long time in testing the merits of more than two thousand formulas and prescriptions recommend
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-07
"PUBLIC UTILITIES"

The following poem on the liquor
question, was written by Joaquin Mil
ler for Success Magazine:
To public use? Behold, of all
The beasts we breed to fight or feed,
This red-eyed siren, Alcohol,
Is worst. aye, worse than all their
greed.
Teach total abstinence? What gain?
Go tilt your windmills, If you may,
But while the world swings, tilt in
vain;
Aye, even to the judgment day;
Man is but man. and man he must
Remain. a poor, weak pot of clay,
Till he returneth to the dust.
Therefore, chain, muzzle, give in hand,
OF clean, strong, civil service men
Peoria or the utmost lano,-
This monstrous wild beast of the
den.
Pay keepers of this beast of prey
To keep him clean, to ward the
weak,
The witless; let the light of day
Drive out the midnight rot and reek,
Drive out each Circe, close her sty,-
Aye. close thousand,-open one
Where ships may rest or ships ride
by,
With sailors singing in the sun.
Let's give each soul the right to say,
Let's give each soul the right to
hold,
What it may give in bread or gold;
But give each city. town, the strength
To keep its every sinew free
To hold all monsters at arms length
Mad drink or mean monopoly.
why yield to drunken greed the street,
! The life without, the light within,
Then tax the very bread we eat
For such as neither toll nor spin?
And oh, the folly, piteous fate'
The sin of all sins. said or writ
To see the proud old federal state
Sell hell to who will pay for it,
To see this bravest, noblest land
Sell shame and death, sealed at the
still,
To all who stand with reeking hand
To mar, mix. poison, what they will
Sell hell for millions, billions, sealed
With Lincoln's great red fedora
seal.
Then loose it forth, all threads un.
reeled
And tangled, tangled, head to heel
My country, is this thing well done?
Nay. this the one utility"
The weightiest chain, and chiefest one
Yet we the people" are we free
, Put by these millions, billions, then
. Lay hold this master, monster
beast,
With brave. clean, cultured, mani!
men
T At still door west or still door east
. Let each town hold its million gold,
Each city hold all it controls,
But this would hold ten millionfold
And save,-how many million souls
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-07
INFLUENCE OF THE PORTAGE.

The settlement of the rate reductions
by the @. f. K y. which was pub
lished at length in the East Oregoniun
Jew days ago, show the direct influ-
ence of the portage road. The reduc-
tions affect only river points and
practically only those points at which
the boats Of the Open River Trans
pcrtation company touch.
This is sufficient reason TO believe
that the portage and the oper River
Transportation company are RESPONSE
BILE for the reductions. The railroads
must adjust their freight rates to
water transportation along the Co
lumbia river. Ii is the only logical
standard where navigable rivers are
found.
And the history of commerce in
the United States shows that railroad
traffic is even heavier along the great
water courses than elsewhere. Lower
rates ard river transportation will not
harm the railroads, but instead will
increase traffic.
The railroads running parallel to
the Mississippi, Ohio, Allegheny. Mis-
souri, and other large streams do more
business in proportion to mileage
than roads not in competition with
tie river lines. The same will be
| true of the Columbia river roads
Traffic will grow as the country set.
/ lies up, and while rates will he reduc.
ell to q reasonable basis, and Will,
river transportation will be of enor'
nous volume, yet the railroads vii
ne congested with freight movement.
Where freight rates are lowered t
a reasonable basis, the production o
crops will increase ard make NOR
business. While boat lines are stim
ulatiEg the settlement of the countr
and inducing homeseekers TO cultivat
cheaper lands. the railroads will shar
/ this prosperity and so in reducin
rates. the railroads are building u
their own business as well as maxim
| prosperity for the producer.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-07
JApAN's RESURRECTION.

Seemingly without losing a step in
her forward march. since the termi-
notion of the Russo-Japanese war.
Japan continues to advance in indus
trial and commercial lines.
\ recent number of the daily con-
sular reports issued by the department
of commerce and labor, says of Jap
ans Development:
Special Agent w. \. Graham
Clark sends Il letter from Japan deal
ing with the rapid development of
that country. He points out how the
japanese government is striving to
encourage the establishment of all
necessary manufactures in order that
the nation may he practically inde-
pendent.
In the same way the government
offers the remission of land taxes to
those who will cultivate hillside lands,
in order to increase the agricultural
resources of the country.
Great progress is being made in the
establishment of textile factories, and
Japan is already exporting coarse cot
ton cloths. The government aids by
loaning money at lower rates than the
government pays on its foreign loans.
IN subsidizing steamships, establish
Ing branch banks in foreign countries,
providing additional schools for com
mercial and industrial education, and
in other ways, great progress is made
in the development of the resources
of Japan. There is some uneasiness
in business circles because of the ma
tional debt and the necessity for in
creased revenue"
Japan's humanitarian practice oi
rcmitting the taxes on cheap, scabby
land, in order to induce settlers to
make homes upon the hills and in the
out of the way places, is worthy OF
imitation hy the United States govern
ment.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-07
NEW PAGE AND \ SQUARE DEAL

New capital is being invested in
Pendleton every year. Perhaps the
beginning Of the year 1907 sees a
lager bulk of outside capital interest
ed in the -ity than any former year.
This new capital comes to Pendle-
ton unprejudiced. unbiased, untram-
meled and is here to develop the city
ard make business.
II has purchased no old sores, in
hcrited no old fights, contracted no
Old prejudiccs. 1t begins a new page
and is entitled 10, and will give in
return, q square deal 1t is new
blood injected into the city and its
introduction is 10 be felt in increas-
ing prestige and business for Pen
dleton.
Every year is better year for Pen
dIeton. The city takes hold Of its
problems with renewed zeal every
year. II meets its issues with more
vigor and overcomes obstacles with
greater ease.
Itf business men are broad and pro-
gresslve and can clasp hands with
anybody who is making progress
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-07
SWALLOWING ROCKEFELLER.

The Memphis News-Scimitar is viii
ling to swallow" the Rockefeller
gifts to educational Institutions now,
in order to lay plans for better future
conditions, with the enormous funds
as a foundation to work upon.
In speaking of the recent gift of
Rockefelle, to Chicago university, the
News-Sc!mitar says:
John D. Rockefeller, it seems, has
given S2O.OOO,OOO to the University OF
Chicago.
Mr. Ro-kcfellar's motives, even if
not all right, cannot prevent great
good ultimately coming out Of his aid
20 the cause of education. Though ne
might exercise too great influence in
the selection of professors, yet his Sc
lectiops would teach part of the true,
If part Of the false, and the false will
die and the true remain.
BY the operation of the law of the
survival of the fittest, and law of Sc
lection, a higher character of teach
ers will continually be chosen; on the
average each new selection will be
better than the preceding.
The permanent fund remains, and
later will support instructors Of the
ideal character, as well as it may
maintain now those altogether not so
advanced
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-07
BLESS EVERYBODY

A curly head bowed on my knee,
\ little form all clad in white,
Two dimpled hands clasped reverent-
And God receives the last Good
night
No hour so solemn, none so sweet,
No scene of innocence so fair
As this when Faith and Childhood
meet
And know each other in a prayer.
Not blessings born of men she asks
Petitions for herself alone
Not countless treasures, easy tasks,
A harvest reaped, though nothing
sown,
Not happiness nor length of days,
Nor peace nor pleasure is the plea
Not even for mothers praise.
However sweet it seem to be.
For those she lCves this little child
In tender accents intercedes,
As # our hearts We're reconciled
To make contentment of our needs,
A blessing on each one of kin,
And then-Love's banner all un-
furPd,
As If to take Creation in
"Bless Everybody in the world!'
Bless all the world" O gentle heart
Trat throbs not with one selfish
thrill,
That isolates no soul apart
Forbodes no living creature i'll;
The incense from thy altar place
High in the clouds is wreathed anc
curl'd
To bear the message of thy grace
To everybody in the world.
W. p. H., in Ohio Magazine.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-07

They invite new capital There is a
field here for new capital as we'll as
home capital, No city in the inland
empire can offer better returns from
investments and the best era has not
yet come.
Perhaps there has never been u
time in the history of Pendleton when
all interests in the city could work
as cheerfully together as now. The
ness this era. 1t means much for the
progress of the city. 1t means greater
greater returns for home capital.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-07
INCOME OF BIG HOTELS.

II is stated on excellent authority,
that the manager of the Waldorf-As-
toria must receive in cash over S10,-
0o0 daily 1efcrc he can look for a
cent Of profit, says Success Magazine.
During the first year Of the eXis-
tence Of the st Regis, John Jacob
Astor's Fifth avenue hotel. no less
than 10000 were spent for Gu. flow
ers alone. Even this huge sum is out
done l. the florist bill Of the Hotel
Astor, which, by reason Of its count
less banqusts, expends about 100000
annually for these fragrant but frag-
ile decorations.
At the St Regis some Of the eXpen-
ditutes for everyday articles Of food
tax the Imagination and strain the
credulty. For instance the butter
coots $4,000 a year-morc than the
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-07

salary of the president of the United
states; the egg bill is $4,000; vegeta-
hles, $4,000; fruit. $4,000; poultry,
SllS,OO0; and meats, 100000. 1t
should be borne in mind that the st.
Regis is not the largest of the modern
hotels in New York, and hence its
commissariat department is by no
means The most notable from Il finan-
cial standpoint
George w. Bollt. manager of the
Waldorf-Astoria, paid, in single
year. S15C.0O0 to replace the broken
china crockery. etc, and it is stat
ed that. on IA friend commenting on
the magnitude of this sum, he replied
that lac did not think that his em-
ployes We're SO very, very careless
after all.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-07
INDIAN RAILROAD PRESIDENT.

An Indian chieftain as a railroad
president is a rare thing, but that is
what President Porter, chief of the
Creeks. II. His railroad Is the Indian
Central. 1t filed its charter at Guth-
rie. 1t is capitalized at y15,OO0,OOO
and contemplates the construction of
460 miles Of railroad in Indian terri
tory and Oklahoma within the next
two years. The road begins at Ponca
City and runs southeast to Paris,
Texas, with a branch line running
from the Red River northwest to ok
Iahonla City.-Kansas City Star.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-07

A circle of the ladies of the q. A.
r. has been organized at Boise with
10 members 1t is sort of rival or
eanization of the Woman's Relief
Corps.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-07
= +++*+++++%++++++++ :

, There is trouble and grieving =
; wherever We go,
+ There is always the trace of +
the tear;
; We cannot escape from the +
, presence OF woe,
? Vice ever is lowering near :
2 For each who remains on his :
feet through the strife t
+ a hundred men stumble and !
T fall;
= There are few who command in !
Z the battle of life
r But
+ It's a pretty good world, after I
+ all.
> $. E. Kiser. I
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-11
MONDAY, FEB II, 1907.

They are getting after the railroad rebaters across the water and as re- suit an important agreement has been entered into by all the railroad com panies of the United Kingdom, do- ing away with rebates, concerning which the London Financial Times says: Hitherto it has been common for agents of competing companies to depart from scheduled rates and give private rebates in order to secure traffic. The companies have now combined to end this system. A board of arbitration has been appoint ed to decide disputes; and should an agent of company offer special terms, which the board consider a contravention of the understanding, 1t will be within the power of the board to recommend to the particular railway company concerned the i'm mediate dismissal of its agent. Any company found giving an improper rebate is liable to heavy fine.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-11
WISCONSIN RATIFTES.
Big Four Agreement Accepted and
 Athletic Sports Revive.

The University of Wisconsin has approved the so-called Big Four agreement drawn up between repre- of Chicago. Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota recently. which makes two of the four insti- tutions to ratify the treaty formally. There was some doubt whether Wis eonssn would do this. as there has been a certain anti-athletic senti- ment in the faculty.
 President Van Hise and Prof. Tur- ner. who are the stanchest friends of athletic sports in the institution. are understood to have used their in fuence to obtain the ratification of the agreement Prof Turner was the original athletic reform man at Wisconsin.
 It is the feeling around Wisconsin now that the agreement has given Wisconsin a new start in athletics All winter teams have been handi- capped by the uncertainty of contests with colleges of the same size. and this has caused men to refuse to train This difficulty now is removed Athletic Director Hutchins said that |the action of the faculty had made
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-11

At Washington feverish anxiety is manifested to prevent anything that might be construed as giving offense to Japan. Certain senators as we'll as members of the house of rep resentatives have been warned to keep their associates in check and prevent them from saying anything calculated to influence the Japanese and thus indirectly help create a sentiment in Japan that would force the government to take hostile ac- tion. A Washington dispatch says: Secretary Taft was the medium through whom the warning was con- veyed to senators and representatives. He has dropped a quiet but impress sive word to many prominent legis- lators begging them to make certain that no more addresses are delivered pending a settlement of the school problem. In each instance MT Taft made it plain that the situation is grave. His explanation proved con- vincing and to-day there were whis- pered conferences in the cloakrooms of the Capitol, where opinions were expressed that unless extreme eau tion is exercised an open connlct be- tween the United States and Japan must follow"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-11
HEARD IN PASSING.

Governor Woodruff is certainly making good" at all the tallSfests hs attends. As time progresses, so good has his reputation for oratory become, 1t will take real ingenuity to grace. fully dodge the invitations that will pile upon the executive table.-HGrt- ford Post.
 The bill before the legislature pro- viding that railroad property in the different cities be assessed like other property, would, no doubt, in several instances be the means of the dispo- sal of interests now held largely as q means to blocking out legitimate cn. terprises.-Middletown Press.
 Former Sheriff O'Brien of Bridge. port is reported to be bending his energies toward the construction of q bill that will provide permanent pro hibiton for cities of less than 1o0,0O0 inhabitants. If he could pass his bills as easy as he draws them up there would be some unique laws on the Connecticut statute books.--New London Telegraph.
 One day last week old man Gotrox bought lot of those DO 1t now" signs and hung 'em around the office, Bond - How did the staff take 1t :? StOckton-Almost unanimously. The cashier skipped with S30 900, the head bookkeeper eloped with the private secretary. three clerks asked for an increase of salary and the office boy lit out to become a hishwayman, and got as far as Pittsburg before he was caught and disarmed.-Judge.
 The city wins again over the coun- try town, providing the present bill for 80 cent gas becomes operative in cities with over 50.OOO population. But why a resident of city of 50,000 should be benefited by legislation and enjoy 80 cent gas any more than q resident of community of 10000 where a gas plant exists, is of course eXplainable from a common .s sense standpoint. Legislatively, though, it is already settled. - Middletown Press.
 There must be some truth in the re- port that President Castro of Nenez- uela is dying, for there has been no news recently of opponents of the president being cast out of the coun- try. With Castro dead Venezuela would have an opportunity to recover respectable place among the South American states. but it is not expect ed that real saviour of the state will fill the vacancy left by the trouble some executive now near his end London Day.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-11

For many years past the educated Hindoos have been holding a national congress, the burden of whose utter ances is India for the Indians!" says one writer. Their purpose has been to unite ali classes and all creeds in the assertion of national rights for their country. Until recently the English have taken these meetings as a joke, and have quoted the inflated rhetoric Of the young graduates from the government colleges who ad- dressed the congresses, as "Babu English" In recent years the tone of the deliberations has grown more practical. and the testing has ceased. The speakers have taken up such questions as the frequent recurrence Of famine, the destruction of life by the plague, the yearly drain of s150,- 000,000 from India to England to pay home charges" and the folly of buying from English traders the things the country could make for it. self. It is this last subject which has moved :he Hindoo mind in a practical way. What the Indians call their Swadeshi movement is a plan to boy cott English manufactures, and thus to re-establish those national indus tries which once were the glory and the wealth of India. The members of the congress. returning from it's sessions to every part of India, have carried with them the seeds of this new harvest. and the people are or ganizing into a new Indian brother hood for the common interest.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-11

DEMOCRAT SELLS FOR l2 CENTS
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-11
him feel better than anything that
 he had heard of since he was a boy.
JOY IN A TRAMP.s LIFE.

have never emphasized sufficient ly the tramp's disgust at having ito do time" in June. From May till No- vember is his natural rowing time, his box-car vacation; in winter, jail, even the workhouse. is often more of a boon than otherwise. The Rome jail consequently harbored very un- willing guests in the persons of the few tramps lodged there. However, even thirty summer days. precious as they are on the outside" pass away sooner than one at first expects them to. and then comes that glorious mo- ment-thunder. lightning. not even a pouring rain can mar it-vhen the freed one is again his own master. There may be other experiences in life more ecstatic than this one. but I would willingly trade them all temporarily for that first gasp In the open air, and that unfettered tired on the ground. which the discharged prisoner enjoys.-Josiah flynt in Success.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-11

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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-11
DoCTORING WILD ANIMALS.

No achievement of modern medicine is more wonderful. possibly than the doctoring Of wild animals Tha dar- ing. skill. and ingenuity which enter into it give it peculiar fa<cinaiion: while it's value as 2 practical pro position has come to be mere and more widely recognized I'm the Feb ruary McCIure's A ". RoIker has de scribed some remarkable achieve ments in this field His stories of typical cases: of '-Raiah.- the orang- utan. whose death was as tOuehing as that of a child If '-tfoIslie- the wicke1-temperei tiger. whose opera tion cost his keepers infinite trouble and ingenuity:.-- of Oom PauI-- the little elephant who received fhe Tor eng treatment: and of many others. have a wholly novel and exe-ting in terp<t. and open up new fields to the imagination of the reader.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-11

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Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1907-12-31
T,ra1 tax s. s

Total tax ...-........- s. IS
PETER FOGhD and the following
described property:
A piece of land as follows: Begin
ming s. z. cor. Sec. i, T. -, r.. ZOE.
running w. along Sec line Of Sec, II
40 chains TO S. ". cor. Of S. z. H..
Sec. IL, thence X. 1905 chains to a
fence bearing T. & w. thence f. %
chains. thence S. 1855 chains 10
place Of beginning Imp. Trick dwell
ing. $1,000. Blocks 16 Il, .. 50, SO.
81. IS. 20. 40. Al ~. PearsOns and G's
div. ? Of which are in city limits, $500
The \. w Il of n. f. u. Sec. 90, T.
Is. r. 2oE (4o acres. $500. Furni-
ture. $50; 3 horses, So; : stock cat
tic. SEQ: 20 COWS, $500; wagons, $50;
machinery SIS: Total valuation.....
............... ........$2SS0 90
Tax ............ ...... s. 40
10 pc cent delinquency .. -
Advertising .......... 90
Total tax .......... $95 81
MRS. s. \. GEORGE, and the fol
lowing descrihe1 property:
Lots and >. r. A, Mussar div.
Dwellins. $500 furniture. $50. $3.50 0I
Tax ............ ........ /! %
10 per cent delinquency. q
Advertising ............ , o(