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Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-12-14
L. c. NJ. l.

Tha -keray to laugh at us, and the bes,
minds of Europe to turn up its nose.
Any American who has not read Josh
Billings biting satire upon Spread
eagleism" fails to understand the his
tory of his country. Josh explains,
for one thing, that among the GER
tain proofs that the Americans lead
is the fact that our steamboats, blow
up higher!
Volumes might be written upon the
subject Yet concrete instance will
suffice to make the meaning of this
article clear. In an eastern COMMUNE
ty-never mind wherc-some years
since-never mind how long ago
lived an upright man. He stood well
in his church and on the financial
highway. He had reared respect
able family; his name stood we'll to-
ward the top of all charity lists and
his simple word was good for every
penny he had. Yet he was democra-
tic of spirit and humble as a Christ
ian should be. The man was the
sort of man, men turn 10, as strong
hold.
One day a bolt shot out of clear
sky, struck this man and left him a
miserable wreck. His eldest daugh-
ter, a girl scarcely out of her teens,
ran away and joind comic opera
troupe. The mans hair grew gray
in week, he was seen no more in his
haunts and his friends said his heart
was broken!
About what? Absolutely about
nothing! His girl had developed his
trionic talent Knowing her fathers
prejudices against the s-1gc and her
mothers inability 70 differ from him
on any topic, she took the only pos
sible course. Her happiness led her
to the footlights. She became a
minor singer of promise and to the
end-for the end was not long in
coming-she remained good wom-
an. What happened? Her father,
noble, kindly, loving, almost super
affectionate,. drove her into an early
grave and soon followed, merely be-.
cause his ignorance of the stage as
a profession was his ignorance of the
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-12-14
Showing of
Christmas Gifts

More extensive than ever be-
fore, and the price range is so
great you can get a suitable pres
ent for just the amount you de-
size to pay. Many seasonable
suggestions--uscful and ornamen-
tal--at
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-16
ONLY A PICTURE.

Every thought that has ever been
expressed, or that ever will be ex-
pressed in the world has always been
in existence. In the light of mental
science, we create no new thoughts,
we simply grasp old thoughts that
have always existed, that have had
life equal to infinite mind itself
Men grope about in this multitude
Of thoughts, impressions and dreams,
Selling one here and there and giving
# expression. The words may be new
but the thought is old.
In mans present state Of mental
blindness and misunderstanding of
nature, he resembles a child in
darkened room. trying to dress itself
in the dark, from a multitude Of gar
ments hanging on the walls. Here
and there the child finds something
which It thinks will fit and It puts
IT on, not knowing its real color, style
or size.
The result, on coming to the light,
may be ludicrous in the extreme. But
nevertheless men wear mental clothes,
mental coverings and mental orna-
ments which look as though they
might have been chosen in this man
ner.
When we get out Of the rut and
climb up to the heights of mental life,
when we discard the habits and prac-
tices and weaken our understanding
and undermine our very life forces,
we will then be able to see, clearly,
in this little room Of the world in
which we now bllndly grope.
Nature is an open book, with every
thought that has ever been given ex-
pressed by man and every one which
is ever to be expressed by man In the
future, written legibly, distinctly, un-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-16
SECTION MEN APPRECIATE 1T.

81 was a passenger on train from
Kansas City the other day." said a
man to a reporter for an eastern pa
per, "and noticed little act of kind
ness l had never thought of before.
"A travelling man sat in front of
me and when we were out of Kan
sas city some distance the CONNER
cial traveller carefully folded up a
pile of Sunday papers which he had
been reading, and put them in his
lap and opened the window. He did
not throw them out Immediately,
though, but kept watching the coun-
try as we passed along.
"a few minutes afterward l saw
him hurriedly throw the papers out,
and looking out l saw a group Of
section hands waving their thanks
This is becoming quite custom
among travelling men. Section gangs
have little chance to see the daily
papers. and they are as much inter-
ested in the happenings OF the day
as any laborer.
THE custom has become so gener-
al that some papers have taken to
printing requests that travellers per-
form this courtesy"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-16
DAHO'S FIESTA.

Bush Livermore, editor Of the Po-
catello Tribune and son Of ex-Post-
master Lot Livermore of Pendleton,
has given the state of Idaho and es-
pecially the city and vicinity OF Po-
catello the choicest bit of advertising
ever enjoyed by any place in the
United States.
a few months ago he started a
movement for a Sagebrush Fiesta,
next year. as a sort of celebration of
the departure Of the wild sagebrush
wastes of western Idaho through the
reclamation of the arid tracts.
The idea took like wild fire, as it
were. and soon the Saturday Evening
Post, Golfers Weekly and other lead
ing literary publications took it up
and exploited it as a novel event and
one we'll worthy of the widest pub
licity.
Golfers Weekly has a circulation
Of about 10000 and the Saturday
Evening Post of $4,000 and it is
estimated that every copy OF a news
paper is read by five people. This
would give the Idaho Fiesta over
4.50O, 900 readers in those two papers
alone, to say nothing of the readers
of other publications which took up
the item and flung 1t broadcast over
the United States.
The result has been that Idaho has
been advertised as never state was
advertised before. The eyes of
thoughtful people in every nook and
corner of the land have been turned
that way and when the fiesta is ac-
tually held it is quite probable that
many prominent visitors will attend
this characteristic rite of the arid
belt, this funeral of the sagebrush
wilderness, this celebration Of the
passing of the old era and the coming
of the new.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-16
IDAHO'S DANIEL WEBSTER.

After Senator Hepburn of Idaho,
has served in congress for four years
Washington newspaper has discov-
cred striking resemblance between
the Idaho statesman and the famous
Daniel Webster. Says the paper:
Senator Hepburn looks very like
Daniel Webster, as several visitors
who are familiar with the latter
statesman's appearance remarked yes
terday. Not only is there a resem-
blance of face and figure, but the
senator's dignity of carriage and even
his dress, accentuate the likeness.
His short standing collar the ends
of which come up on each side of his
throat, with a generous space be-
tween them, and his black bow tie,
with its long ends, closely resemble
the old stock so much affected by
the solons Of the ddle of the 18th
century, and the cut of Senator Hey
burns black frock coat is not unlike
that with which pictures OF Webster
have made the present generations
familiar Altogether the likeness is
remarkably striking.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-16

tions and elements. Mr.. Taft could
not get away from this opposition, nor
could Mr.. Cannon on Mr., Fairbanks.
Mr.. Hughes is a man who has no
preiudices TO overcome. 1t is true,
that he is cordially disliked by the
bosses in .his own state, but these
gentlemen have so far been power
less in opposition to him and will have
no choice but TO support him II he
is nominated.
Governor Hughes Is one OF the
most remarkable men Of the day. and
the most remarkable thing about him
is that he has won the absolute con-
fidence Of the people Of the country
without resorting to the use OF meth
ods which usually corrupt ambitious
public men. and which have been a
blemish on the career OF even Mr.
Roosevelt.
Mr.. Hughes is a man whose integ-
rity is regarded as absolute. He is
just as much OF a reformer as Roose-
welt, and just as honest as Roosevelt.
Besides that he is without doubt an
ADLER man in some respects than the
president. and he has the wonderful
knack of compelling the right things
to be done without Seating the TOM
tom, playing to the galleries or zap
pealing to the people"
He is a man of clear vision.
He knows what is right. Knowing
the right, he stands for it, and is inn
movable. He makes no mistakes, he
asks no concessions, he will listen to
no suggestions of compromise. He
stands for what is right and thus puts
the politicians in the wrong II they |
oppose him.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-16
HUGHES OF NEW YORK.

The Oregonian says that from now
on the minds of republicans will turn
more and more to Governor Hughes,
of New York, as the most available
candidate for president next year,
says the Yakima Republic.
Secretary Taft was for a while the
popular favorite. That, we believe,
was because Mr.. Roosevelt seemed to
want him chosen. It was not because
Mr.. Taft had done anything to enti-
tie him to preferment. and It was not
because he was especially available.
The drift Of sentiment now is plainly
away from him.
The oregonian points out the rea-
son in half a dozen words-Mr. Taft
is a representative Of controversies in
the republican rank
II ought TO be plain, and we think
II is, that the republican party can
not afford to name a man for presi-
dent who would go into the fight with
the bitter opposition of certain fac
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-16
THE TEMPERANCE STEAMER.

Rev. Charles Sheldon recently re-
turned from Europe with the encour-
aging announcement that we are a
more sober people than our cousins
over the sea. This western preacher
says that the English drink less than
the Scotch, and that the Americans
are more temperate than either.
Mr.. Sheldon is greatly honored in
England. He was presented while
there with an address thanking him
for his services to the cause of tenn
perance. and bearing the signatures
OF all the prominent workers in that
movement. on his arrival in this
country he said he would like to try
the experiment of running an ocean
liner without the sale OF drinks or
tobacco. AS he has already run a
newspaper for one week ''as Christ
would have conducted IT," he doubt
less could make a success of the
temperance steamer.-The Delinea.
tor for December.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-16
OPENING THE WILLAMETTE.

That this magnificent river shall be
made navigable without toll or tax
from the upper vaSey to the sea has
been the dream of interior western
Oregon for generations. says the Salem
Journal.
From Eugene to the mouth of the
Columbia there has been a constant
demand for the unlocking of the
treasures Of water navigation the year
around for both producers and con-
sumer.
one of the greatest steps to bring
this about has been. taken in the pas
sage of the bill through the legisla-
ture by which the state undertakes to
help to the amount of 100000.
To be sure, this is to be spent only
on the acquisition Of free locks and
canal. and their maintenance by the
general government, but that is the
lock the unlocking of which unlocks
the whole river,
without free locks and canal the
river will not be much use for the
cheaper and heavier classes of freight
cannot afford to pay the tonnage of
so cents per ton now collected for
lockage.
The war department will be asked
to have new estimates made, based
on the report of the board Of en-
.gineers made in 1901. as to the proba-
BILE cost of acquiring and repairing
the locks at present prices of labor.
Upon that report congress will act
and the disposition of the war de-
partment seems to be to treat the
matter as settled that the general
government should acquire the locks
and canal.
Congressman Hawley has already
introduced a bill to appropriate $780,
900 to buy the locks and canal from
the corporation that now owns them
and will push the measure hard.
The Oregon delegation has con-
sented to take up this measure for
the relief Of the shippers Of western
Oregon, and make it among the first
bills that will receive consideration.
It is not known whether a rivers
and harbors bill will be passed at this
session or not, but II there is the Will
lamette river projects will receive
the greatest amount Of attention that
has ever been given them in the his
tory Of such legislation.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-16
HOW SHE WON BEN KING.

Because she talked with him for
30 minutes and did not mention his
fathers poem, "If ] Should Die To-
night" Miss Lindholm, daughter OF
Mrs. r. L. Lindholm Of Kenwood
won the heart OF Benjamin King, jr.,
son Of ben" King, "the poet" They
will be married in New York Decem-
ber "a.
TITS a simple thing" said the son
Of the humorist, when asked about
his romance.
Every time I had been introduced
to anybody, until met Miss Lind
holm, the conversation would be
about the poem.
"Now, couldn't help falling in
love with Miss Lindholm. I have re-
cited that poem more than a million
times. We have a compact never to
refer to 1t in our family circles"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-16
THE WONDER WORKERS.

The vagrant Wind was out today,
And through the sunny winter
hour,
He roamed the blue field OF the bay
An ancient fashioner OF flowers
He heaped them high in windrows
white,
He strewed them on the pebbled
shore,
And as they faded from my sight
This old magician wrought still more
A thousand wreaths he tossed the
land,
Rare garlands at my feet he lay,
He scattered blossoms on the sand
and flung each cliff a pale bou-
quet.
Herbert Bashford in Sunset.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-16
THE STORY OF THE EXPLOSION

Known dead, 800.
Estimated dead, 553.
Estimated property loss, $1,000. 900.
Number Of rescuers, about 800.
At least 400 families affected.
Three hundred widows made in the
twinkling Of an eye.
over 1000 orphans result from dis
aster.
All but three Of total number in
mine dead.
All machinery at both mines to-
tally destroyed.
Not single official of the COM
pany injured.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-16
mistakably for the wondering eyes
and understanding OF man.

Now that Portland has decided to
mould the pistols taken from her
hold-up artists into stove, she
might use the brass Of her financial
plungers for set OF kitchen utensils
and have very appropriate souvenir
Of two of her prominent occupations,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-16

+ BE a smiler-up the hill. !
+ Rough or smooth, keep smiling I
+ still, Z
+ Be a Smiler-let the throng Z
+ Hear your laughter and your I
4 song; !
4 Let the echoes of your cheer I
Z Calm the sobbing, stay the tear, I
+ On the lips and in the eye I
= OF a brother passing by! i
= Be a smiler-with the ring I
Z or the heart of youth and I
& spring +
+ In your "Howdy-do." today! I
+ To the neighbor on your way. :
= Baltimore Sun. :
+ Z
: $++%+++++%+++++++ +
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-03-07
NEW YORK CITY.

1t will cost $l1,77O,OOO more to run
the government of New York city this
year than it did last year.
Every hour there is an average of
10000 persons entering the surface,
elevated and subway cars in New York
city.
New York city had the first Hebrew
cemetery in the United States. 1t was
established in 1866, and a part of it
yet remains at New Bowery and Oliver
street.
Little Italy," the block bounded by
One Hundred and Twelfth and One
Hundred and Thirteenth streets, First
and Second avenues, has grown from
1872 inhabitants In 1900 to 4,412.
Strangers from villages and small
cities wonder why the New York city
authorities allow many of the walks
Of the city to be left unclaimed all win
ter, particularly where there are vacant
lots.-New York Herald.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-03-07
LAST WORDS OF FAMousMEN

Louis XIV. of France Q63s-1715), 81
thought dying had been harder"
William Ewart Gladstone QSO9
1888, British statesman. amen"
Phillips Brooks QS35- 1898, Ameri-
can clergyman, Il am going home"
Lord Chesterfield QG941773), Eng
nsh courtier, Give the doctor a chair"
Henry Havelock Q795-1S5D, English
general '"Tell my son to come and see
how q Christian can die"
William Mckinley (1S43- 1901, Amer
lean statesman and president: Good
by. All goodby. 1t is Gods way. His
viii be done"
Patrick Henry q736.1S10), American
orator and patriot: Here is a book
(the Bible worth more than all others
ever printed, yet it Is my misfortune
never to have found time to read it. 1t
Is now too late. trust in the mercy of
God"
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-03-07
MARRIAGE CUSTOMS.

The Change From tha Era Wlou
Wives Were Taken BY Force.
Marriage customs have changed ov,
gywhere with the advance Of civiliHa.
ton. Anglo Gaxons In ancient times. 4
y said, used TO capture their wives by
force from their fathers or tlasir hus.
hands, It did not matter which.
This was before Augustine came n
preach Christianity. Then purchase was
more common than capture, although
the latter seems to have been frequent
enough to the reign Of Ethelbert "a
need regulation by law. By this law q
man might run away with a woman,
provided he afterward paid her pre-
vious owner, be he father or husband,
90 shillings. II 1t was husband who
had thus been deprived Of his wife, the
woman's captor had not only to pay
him the fine. but also to buy him an
other wife. In any case the stolen wo-
man belonged TO her captor.
II a man had purchased his bride in
the days Of Ethelbert and afterward
concluded he had paid too much for
her, 1t was lawful for him to return her
to her former owner and claim again
the purchase price. provided that he
had not previously expressed satisfac-
ton by making the bride a present on
the morning after the wedding.
The next step was the foster lien, I"
when the bride price was paid on the
day OF espousal and was supposed 70
compensate the parent for the cost OF
bringing up his daughter. 1t seems,
however, that this soon fell into disrs-
pute, as there was no law against the
father engaging his daughter to nu-
merous suitors, taking from each the
Foster lien" and, OF course, cheating
all but one on the wedding day. which
at that time was only the day Of be-
trothal, when the suitor gave a WED"
or pledge for the future performance Of
bis contract. II the sutton did not claim
his bride within two years after the
wedding day, he forfeited all right to
her and to whatever money or goods he
had paid for her. If the woman and her
father broke their promises, the father
had to give the sutton four times "a
much as the sutton had already paid
him.
As civilization advanced the bride
price was given to the woman herself
and became her dowry, while nova
days the tables are frequently turned.
and the bride settles the money on her
husband.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-03-07
SHORT STORIES.

Easter occurs this year on March 81,
more than three weeks earlier than the
Easter date Of 1906.
A carved war god, recently discover
ed in a Colorado cave, is believed to be
more than 1000 years old.
There are about 1000 lepers In Co
lombia, or one to every 1000 inhab-
itants. Most of them are now isolated.
Cases are rarely found among the
classes living with hygienic care.
The Doukhobors of Winnipeg are
gradually recovering their senses. They
no longer turn horses and cattle loose
and harness themselves to the plow.
but, on the contrary, are now purchas-
Ing horses for farm labor.
The obligation to accept American
currency as legal tender in Cuba is said
to have constituted part of the dis
satisfaction which exists in that island.
1t is complained that there Is not
enough Of such currency to meet the
requirements Of trade.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-03-07
3. Id
THE HALL or FAME.

Governor Harris Of Ohio Is the oldest
hief executive Of any. state in the
nion.
Lord Northcliff, formerly Sir Alfred
armsworth of England, may be en-.
tied the greatest newspaper magnate
~ the world. He owns and actively
rects some forty prosperous dailies
nd other periodicals.
Captain Edward Howard Of Oakland
al., probably the oldest mariner in
Pc United States, has retired after
living followed the sea over eighty
ears. He is ninety-six years old. but
still stout and hearty.
According to Czech newspapers. at
pjezd, Moravia, recently joseph
eppner, 101 years old, led to the altar
sa Waldner, who has also passed
century mark. The young couple"
ew and loved each other for thirty
rs.
he youngest member of the Sixtietb
lgress will be larry B. Wolf. elect
from the Third district of MARYLAND
has just passed his twenty-sixth
hday and is married Mr.. Wolf be-
life as Baltimore newsboy and is
lawyer in good practice.
ptain A. W. V. Trant of the trans
ntic liner Devonian handles his
In first class style and in addition
time in the spare moments of his
ages to paint pictures in oil, write
words for music and compose
eS that are of more than ordinary
An e. Wilkie, chief of the secret
Sc, is one Of the best amateur ma
s In the country. He performs
PRS with deck of cards, and his
of hand maneuyers with coin,
erchiefs and other objects are a
OF constant wonder to his
ads.
pfessOr Moissan, the inventor of
cial diamonds, has been awarded
obel prize for chemistry Profess
oissan invented an electrical fur
giving temperature Of 5000 de-
His invention of diamonds was
ely challenged when it was first
known.
z. Henebry, Ireland's Rugby full
played the other day for seventy
les against the South Africans
suffering from a split ear, dam
skull, broken middle finger on
land, strained chest muscles and
niger cartilages. He received the
es in tackle ten minutes after
me began.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-03-07
In the Matter Of Tlps.

The man who tips the highest gsts the
best service and the most ostentatious
Difference. ''Glvs this to the cook" said
q St Louis parvenu, handing a dollar
to the waiter with his order, and tell
him to cook II my way" give this to
the cook, " said q scribe ut the next tn
BILE handing a two dollar bin to the
waiter with bis order, ''and tell him to
cook It his own way. for be Is q better
cook than / am" We will not be out
shone. We win not shrink in any mans
shadow. At the same time the pace h
too hot and fast for most Of us.-gt
Louis GIobe-Democrat
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-03-07
EDITORIAL FILINGS.

Porters on Pullman cars claim fa.as
Il gals their souls to accent fins
The life of the Pullman porter a fnll
OF gall.-Yomgstown indicator.
1t WIN be pretty rough ON us II the
Ice freezes 30 hard and thick this win.
ger that the companies can't cut II ana
thus there is another scarcity nor4
year-New York Tribune.
In addressing MIN as '4the beloved
most cherished, exalted, most honored
and excellent president" the sultan
must think Mr.. Roosevelt IN at Nae
head Of some dinky lodga-Detroit
Free Press.
Ihey are now talking not only Of a
national income tax, but of q state in
come tax as well A man viii only
have to lie twice instead Of once, that's
all. And the same lie at that-Akron
Beacon-Journal.
England thinks that the United States
constitution needs immediate revision.
In fact, there is a lingering suspicion
In Great Britain that there should have
been no United States constitution In
the first place.-WashIngton Post.
A chair Of journalism has been e.
tablished at the University of Missouri.
In honor perhaps of Eugene Field, the
greatest journalist the University of
Missouri ever turned out. She turned
him out In his freshman year.-New
York Mail.