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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-25
HAS AGAIN FLOPPED.

Since his last visit to Portland the
editor of the Pendleton, Tribune has
changed front again, on the question
of statement No. l, or the popular
election of United States senators.
Only few weeks ago the Tribune
said it believed in statement No. 1,
that it had long fought for that prin-
ciple and was convinced that the peo-
pie should actually choose the sena-
tors, in spite of hades or high water
or any other political emergency.
This morning the Tribune says, in
discussing the same persistent old
statement No. 1:
"This paper believes in
taking a popular vote for United
States senator and at least requiring
the legislature to select that man
WHO HAS BEEN CHOSEN BY THE
PARTY THAT CONTROLS THE
LEGISLATURE"
So the Legislature should choose,
not the choice of the people, but the
choice of the party! Same old game
under a new name! Same old ma
chine wearing the sleeps clothing of
a popular" (partisan) vote. When
the people say popular vote, they mean
popular vote.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-25
IRELAND'S FAIR.

In Herbert Park, not far from the
heart of Dublin city and partly on the
site of Donnybrook fair of unsavory
memory, stand the white buildings
of the Irish International exhibition.
The difference between these noble
palaces and the rickety booths of
Donnybrook is symbolic of the diff
ference between the old Ireland and,
the new; of the deeply significant
renascence and awakening of ma
ton.
lfeland's fair might well be called
her birthday celebration. Donny-
brook fair used to be the trading
place for all the peasants and small.
farmers and petty shopkeepers of the
country who could ride or walk to
the spot, for this was their great So
cial center. In the retrospect, Dom
nybrook may seem picturesque, as
showing the Irish joy in living, the
bravery and song.
But actually, in its wasting and
creating, its frothy politcical talk and
purposeless fighting, Donnybfook
showered the bitter effect of a cruel
land system forced on Ireland by a
people who could never understand
her.
But the old Ireland is dead, and
there Is new Ireland, becoming
more and more unified and coherent
through a variety of causes, chief of
Which are the new land system and
the recent industrial development.
Now the peasant may himself be a
small landholder. He lives, or mav
live, in a decent house. His younger
sons, through the new technical edu-
cation offered by the government,
may be fitted for skilled labor. His
wife and daughters supplement his
earnings by their work in home in
dustries. And all that Ireland is and
all that she will become are vividlA
suggested by the exhibition.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-25
LoCoMoTIvEs-oLD AND NEW

The first proposals for locomotives
ID the United States were issued by
'he Baltimore & Ohio Railroad COM
pany ON January 4, 1881. The price
guaranteed for a satisfactory locomo-
tive was $4,000. The specifications re-
quired that 1t should burn coal or
coke and consume it's own smoke. II
was not to exceed three and one-half
tons in weight, and 1t was required
to be powerful enough to draw on a
level road Is tons, inclusive of the
weight of the wagons, at a speed of
Is miles an hour.
This was only about rs years ago.
and a comparison between the loco
motive of 1881 with the electric To-
comotive, No. 5000, produced by the
General Electric company for the New
York Central railroad the most pow-
erful electric locomotive in the world.
illustrates the ADVANCE in transporta-
ton appliances.
On English railroads locomotives
had been in use before 1881, but the
Baltimore & Ohio was the experiment
tai station of the American railroad.
1t was then believed that the locomo-
tive could not overcome grads and
curves so the road was made as
straight as possible.
The new electric locomotive which
engineers make so bold as to claim
will ultimately take the place of the
steam locomotive, develops greater
speed, greater hauling powers, and
greater ease in handling and controll-
ing than any other type of locomo-
tive.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-25
SEPTEMBER "a IN HISTORY.

166i-The French in America made
their first treaty with the Iroquois
Indians.
1757-Rev. Aaron Burr, founder of
Princetown University and father of
Aaron Burr, vice president of the u.
S., died Born January 4, 1716.
1S29-Thirteenth amendment to
the constitution of the United States
ratified by a two-thirds vote.
1SS4-Dom Pedro I died at Lisbon.
Born October IL, 1898.
1S46-Monterey, Mexico, surren-
dered to the Americans.
1S54-Russians closed the harbor
of Sevastopol by sinking ships in the
entrance.
1S69-"Black Friday" financial
panic as result of attempt to corner
gold.
lSS4-Mormon colony in Wilson
county, Tenn, ordered by regulators
to leave the state.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-25

James T. Kirk, pioneer of the
'bos, died at the residence of his son.
j. f. Kirk, at Franklin, Ore, Friday
night, at the age of SO years.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-25
THE VALUE OF A GOOD HORSE.

Among the excellent horses exhibit
ed at the district fair is one, white
shire stallion, belonging to w. p.
York, the pioneer horseman of John
Day river, which is worthy of men,
ton, as an illustration of the real
value of a good stallion on a farm.
Mr. York said in speaking of this
stallieS that since he had taken him
out to his John Day ranch several
years ago, he had perhaps sold, at
good prices, 200 head of his Off
spring.
AS Mr.. York has the reputation Of
selling some of the best young teams
that come to Pendleton. and as with
in the past four years horses have
commanded a good price, a fair esti-
mate of the value of this stations
200 offspring marketed in Umatilla
and Grant counties may be placed at
$3.50 per span, or a total of 5000.
This is placing it very low for Mr..
York has received more than that for
many teams.
The sire of this 100 teams cost per-
haps $4,000 and has done his part of
the team work on big ranch. Can
arv' ne doubt the value of a good
stallion on the farm, when scanning
over these estimates based upon actual
experience?
This is but one illustration. Una
tilla, Grant and Morrow counties are
filled with Just such living demonstra-
tions of the value of horse flesh and
the East Oregonian takes delight in
the progress of the horse growing in
dustry in eastern Oregon.
There is no more fascinating nor
profitable rural industry and the in
PRODUCTION of dozens of fine coach,
Percheron, Shire, Belgian and other
breeds of good horses into these. rich
counties, is evidence that horsemen
are making rapid advancement in
practical horse raising.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-25
GRASS FOR THE FUTURE.

The Oregonian quotes a correspon-
dent from Burns as saying that go
per cent of the population of that
country (Harney county,, is oppos-
ed to the range leasing system" as
justification for occasional sharp op-
position to the range leasing and for
est reserve policy of the Roosevelt
administration.
Any one who will give the matter
even casual investigation will be con-
vinced that this statement from the
Burns correspondent is not only over
drawn. but is unjust to the conserva-
tive and practical stockmen of the
southeastern portion of Oregon.
Not more than so per cent of the
population of Harney county is en-
gagged in industries which are affect
ed in any way by the range leasing
system, and not all of this percentage
Il opposed to the Roosevelt policy.
lhtit IN sure " DS DltleI OppOSlllOH
where there is any interference with
some fellows good thing" on the
ranges of the interior as in the me-
tropolis on the banks of the VILLAIN
cite, and not all of the loud protest
contained in Especial correspondence"
special dispatches and other forms
o. publicity, can be taken for honest,
sincere and well founded opposition
to the forestry policy.
Anybody with typewriter and the
least bit Of grey matter can write
frenzied letter on any common topic
or issue, and often there need be but
little groundwork of fact to produce
ringing appeal which sounds good
in print, but which will not ''hold
water" in a practical investigation.
Harvey county stockmen and other
eastern oregon stockmen have not
conserved their range areas and grass
in the past; will they do II in the fu-
ture. without government protection
and aid? If they have over-grazed,
and trampled out and depleted their
ranges in the past. is It not safe to
say they would do so in the future,
II allowed to proceed in their same
wasteful ways? Where. then, would
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-25
FORCE IN A LIGHTNING STROKE

In lecture given a few weeks ago,
DR.. Charles f. Steinmetz, prominent
electrician, told Of the difficulty of
estimating the force Of thunder
bolt. OF course, 1t Is not possible to
use any instruments for that pur-
pose, but there are other aids to a
calculation.
One uncertain thing in the prob
lem is the length of time during
which the flash lasts. This might be
only a one-thousandth part of a sec
ond, but the impression on the eye
would continue for a tenth of a sec
ond anyhow. Another thing which
1t is easier to get at is the amount of
light given by a flash.
DR.. Steinmets estimates that this
on an average Is enough to illuminate
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-25

= There is a rest for every living +
2 thing +
. The wide-winged bird comes +
. from the darkening sea +
. At nightfall to the quiet of his +
. nest; =
3 The gray fox slips with morning +
. to his hole
. In the high cliff, the little lone =
. ly worm. +
. Weary with many travels in the +
. grass, +
. Creeps to his crevice home and +
= is at peace. +
= But the wild souls that go the +
3 way of hate, +
= They have no sheltering roof, +
, no hiding place. =
3 They wander, wander in the +
3 night and rain, =
. They tread the desert; for their +
= own wild hands +
3 Have broken down the bright +
, warm house of love, Z.
, The only covert for the heart of r
D man. +
. Edwin Markham in The &
= Nautilus for October. +
= q 4 + = = Il j. = 4! 4. = = = = 3 4 =
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-25

The good judgment OF the district
fair commission in selecting band
music for the fair, is proved by every
number rendered by Prof. McElroys
excellent corps of musicians. The
music Is half of the fair and espec-
Tally has the music of the present
event brought out sincere expressions
Of commendation by those who are
competent to Judge.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-25
THE MOTHER EARTH.

These come not aged and broken,
weary with labor done,
To lean tired heads against me till 7
cover their eyes from the sun:
Ihese are not feeble or puny, these
are my glory and pride;
why should l gather them to me.
hold them and cover and hide?
In the splendor and might of their
manhood, the flush of their
years they come,
Crazed by their singing trumpets and
the roar of the sullen drum:
with battle-flags whipping above
them they stand up straight
and tall
And they rush toward the shatter-
ing glory and miserably STUN
BILE and fall.
And they lie in heaps and in wind
rows, my young ones, nv
strong ones, my best;
And their youth and its power and
promise I must cover and hide
in my breast.
Selected.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-25

an area of two miles square. The
bolt itself might be visible several
miles further off, but the remotest
part of the region mentioned would
have as much light as would be CIV
en- by a candle-quite enough to read
by.
To produce that much light II
would be necessary to expend $4,000
horsepower for a second. These fig
ures look large, but the time is short.
Stretched out over one exact hour,
this amount of force would be only
little less than four horsepower.
THE WORRYING BROTHER.
Satan come a-chasin' me lively thro'
de night;
Run me fun de shadders ter de
breakin' er de light,
An l can't climb ter heaven an de
yuther place in sight,
An / don't know what's a-comin'
on Termorrer!
He run me-oh, he run me des eZ fur
ez he kin see;
He swim de ragin' river an he climb
de burnin' tree;
An 1 wonders what he wantin' wild
a sinner po' ez me?
An l dunno what's a-commin' on
Termorrer!
He sho' got time-I tell you!-ter be
runnin' roun' lax dat!
Wisht de harricane would head i'm,
or de earfjuake th'ow i'm flat,
De sinners sho'll be burnin' on de
griddles whar dey at
An l dunno what's a-comin on
Termorrer!
Frank L. Stanton in Uncle RemuT'
Magazine.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-25
HOTEL PORTLAND
PORTLAND, OREGON.

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
III. c. BOWERS. Manager.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-01-26
some Thoueht For Food.

If people were as particular to have
their food fit their insides as they are
to have their clothes fit their outsides,
they would be better satisfied with the
world and themselves.
When good digestion waits on appe-
tite a man may either dare to love or
fight.
The food that fits the stomach is the
food that rules the world.
If you forgot what you have to eat,
then you may bet you won't forget
what you have eaten and will continue
to eat 1t unless your judgment is as
weak as your digestion.
Indigestion is the devils workshop.
Dyspepsia uncovers a multitude of
sins.
It's easy going when your stomach
works all right.
No food is sometimes good food.
A meal Of victuals on the table is
worth two in the stomach.
An overloaded stomach Is bound to
break down.
Food that won't set on the stomach
shouldn't have a chance to.
An overful stomach is a pasture for
nightmares.-W. J. Hampton in New
York Herald.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-01-26
Two Doctors.

Almost every one has made his jest
about the proneness of doctors to dis
agree, the one prescribing exactly an
opposite course from that ordered by
another, but not every one has had an
opportunity to conduct such an expert
ment as was made by the late Baron
Lutz, formerly prime minister Of Ba-
varia. The baron was once severely
wounded in battle in both legs. The
wound in one leg was much like that
in the other. 1t struck him that there
was chance to study the ways of the
surgical profession and beguile the
long hours of his convalescence. He
accordingly called in one doctor and
gave him charge of his right leg, but
told him nothing about the wound in
the other, and then called in another
doctor for his left leg, keeping him
similarly in ignorance about the
wounded right leg. The doctors adopt
ed a very different method of treat
ment, but both wounds healed at about
the same time When the baron's legs
were quite we'll he derived a great deal
Of amusement from getting the doc
tors together and mystifying them with
questions about the way each had
treated 'his leg"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-01-26
Son." he gasped to the dstoRtshed boy


Their had trouble back there fifteen or
sixteen years ago. He was running an
engine and had a wreck There were
some passengers killed. The dispatch
er managed to throw the blame on ia
Their, and they indicted him for man
slaughter. He pretty near went crazy,
and all Of a sudden he disappeared,
and we never heard Of him from that
day TO this. But this man Scaylor,
mother stuck to it, knew something
about where father was, only he al
ways denied it"
Trembling like a leaf, Dad raised
up on his elbow. Whats your moth
er's name, son? What's your Manner
George looked confused. 'TH tell
you, Dad. There's nothing to be asham-
ed of. I was foolish enough, l told
you once, to go out on a strike with
the engineers down there I was
only kid, and we were all blacklisted
SO l used my middle name, McNeal
My full name is George McNeal Sin
clair"
The old fireman made a painful eff
fort to sit up, to speak. but he choked
His face contracted, and George rose
frightened. With a herculean effort
the old man raised himself up and
grasped Georges hands.
Son." he gasped to the astonished
boy, don't you know met"
'Of course know you, Dad. What's
the matter with your Lie down
boy, I'm your own father. My
name is David Hamilton Sinclair.
had the trouble. George" He chokec
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-01-26
THEATRICAL NOTES.

The various characters of the sue
cessful comedy drama, My Dixie Girl
during the action of the play form a
kaleidoscope picture of the hospitabIe,
care-f free lovable inhabitants OF the
blue grass region Of Kentucky, where
tho scenes of the play are laid. Every
character is a type and fits into the
story with a naturalness and consist
eney that blends the whole into a
clever. interesting play. Its action is
swift, its comedy Irresistible, the love
scenes delightful and the several stage
pictures skillfully handled The com
pany is an excellent one and is com
posed Of a number of favorite players
This play viii be given at Towle's op-
era house Sunday night. Seats now on
sale.
An innovation and one that is in
perfect harmony with the play is the
beautiful transformation scene which
is Introduced in the production of East
Lynne" coming TO the Towle opera
house. Thursday, Jan. 81. This mag
nifcent apotheosis Is in four scenes
and is entitled the Flight Of the An
gels" 1t is the work OF that master
of the scenic art. Mr.. Eugene Goodrich
who prides himself that this truly mag
niflcent and artistic work Is the finest
that ever left his studio Notwith-
standing the expense incurred for this
production. it will be presented in this
city at popular prices.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-01-26

up IKE a child, and George McNeal
went white and scared; then he grasp
ed the gray haired man in his arms.
When | dropped in an hour later they
were talking Historically. Dad was ex-
planning how he had been sending
money to Scaylor every month, and
George was contending that neither
he nor his mother hae ever seen a cent
of it. But one great fact overshadowed
all the villainy that night-father and
son were united and happy and mes
sage had already gone back TO the old
home from George to his mother, tell-
ing her the good news.
and that indictment was wiped out
long ago against father" said George
to me. but that rascal Scaylor kept
writing him for money to fight it with
and to pay for my schooling-and this
was the kind Of schooling l was get
ting all the time. Wouldn't that kill
your
| couldn't sleep till l had hunted up
Neighbor and told him about it, and
next morning we wired transportation
back for Mrs. Sinclair to come out on.
Less than a week afterward a gentle
little old woman stepped off the f1ier at
GAINESVILLE and into the arms of Geor-
gle Sinclair A smart rig was in wait
ing, to which her son hurried her, and
they were driven rapidly TO the hos
pital. When they entered the old fire.
mans room together the nurse softly
closed the door behind them.
But when they sent for Neighbor and
me, I suppose we were the two biggest
fools in the hospital, trying to look IN
conscious of all we saw in the faces OF
! the group at Dads bed.
/ He never got his old strength back
| yet Neighbor fixed him out, for all that
The skyscraper, once our pride, was
so badly stove that we gave up hope
of restoring her for q passenger run
So Neighbor built her over into a sort
of dub engine for short runs, stubs
and so on; and though Dad had vowed
long ago when unjustly condemned
that he would never more touch 6
throttle, we got him to take the sky
scraper and the Acton run.
And when George, who takes thG
fier every other day. is off duty ht
climbs into Dads cab, shoves the ole
gentleman aside and shoots around The
yard in the rejuvenated skyscraper a
a hair raising rate of speed.
After awhile the old engine got 81
full Of alkali that George gave her {
new name-Soda Water Sal-and i
hangs to her yet. We thought the bes
of her had gone In the Harvard wreck
but there came a time when Dad anC
Soda Water Sal showed us we were
very much mistaken.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-01-26
:. s. Sc IS s. IS

He jumped, but wasn't ever going
to jump, and my engine going full
against a red lamp. Not much.
II kind Of lodged down behind the
head; when she struck 1t was blff. and
she jumped about twenty feet up
straight. She didn't? Well, it seemed
like it. Then it was biff. biff. biff. one
after another. With that train behind
her she'd have gone through Beverly
hill. Did you ever buck snow with
rotary, Mr.. Reed? Well, that was
about it, even to the rolling and heav-
Ing. Dad. want to lie down? Le' me
get another pillow behind you Isn't
that better? Poor Musgrave!" he add
ed, speaking Of the engineer of 55, who
was instantly killed. He and the fire
man both. Hard lines, but I'd rather
have it that way, 1 guess, if was
wrong. Eth, DadY
Even after George went to work
Dad lay in the hospital. We knew he
would never shovel coal again. 1t cost
him his good back to lift George
loose. so the surgeon told us, and |
could believe it, for when they got the
Jacks under the cab next morning, and
Neighbor told the wrecking gang that
Hamilton alone had lifted it six inches
the night before on his back the
wrecking boss fairly snorted at the
statement, but Hamilton did just the
same
"Son," muttered Dad one night to
George, sitting with him, II want you
to write a letter for me-"
Sure"
1--WE been sending money to my boy
back east" explained Dad feebly. 81
told you he's in school,"
II know, Dad"
81 haven't been able to send any
since I've been by, but I'm going tC
send some when l get my relief. Not
so much as l used to send. l want yoJ
to kind of explain why"
whats his first name, Dad, and
where does he live"
Its lawyer that looks after him
man that tends to my business back
there"
"Well, what's his nameY
"Scaylor-Ephraim Scaylor."
"Scaylor?" echoed George in amaze
ment
Yes. Why, do you know him?'
why, that's the man mother and
had so much trouble with. 1 wouldn
write to that man. He's a rascal
Dad"
What did he ever do to you and
your mother"
I'll tell you Dad though it's mat
ter I don't talk about much Ny fa
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-01-26
E. W. TRIP IMPROVING.

Kankakee. ILL.,. Jan. 26.-Edward w.
Trip, Of Indianapolis, engineer of the
Big Four passenger train that was
wrecked and burned at Fowler last Sat
urday morning, is still in the hospital
here and though his condition is seri-
Gus he is improving. Despite reports
TO the contrary there is a chance for
his recovery. Miss Hazel Trip, daught-
er Of the injured man, said today that
her father had improved very much,
and she was hopeful he would be able
to leave the hospital in a few weeks.
Coroner Comley, of Fowler. may visit
this city in a few days to take the
testimony of Engineer Trlpp.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-01-26
THREATENED WITH THE TORCH
Kern Packing Company Has Had Two
Fires and Been Given Notice
of a Third.

Lafayette, Ind, Jan. &C. After
having two disastrous fires, both Of
them apparently incendiary, the Kern
Packing company, in this city, has re
ceived an anonymous communication
stating that as soon as the buildings
destroyed by Sunday mornings big
fire are replaced they will be burned
again. The proprietors of the plant
are determined that the fire bugs"
shall not succeed in their nefarious
work a third time and four men have
been sworn in as special police and
they will guard the factory on all four
sides
The first fire was a month ago. when
$4,000 damage was caused. Sunday
the loss was $4,000 The last check
for the insurance paid on the first fire
was received the day the second fire
occurred The Kern brothers have had
trouble with some of their employees
within the last few weeks and have
discharged a number They think ii
is the element that is responsible for
the two fires.