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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-07-14
WHERE Is THE BAND?

1t would require the services of a
microscope, X-ray or a search war
rant to find a trace of any of the
many brass bands of which Pendle-
ton has boasted in the past.
Pendleton will welcome the day
somebody with genuine musical in
stinct and enthusiasm organizes
small, snappy, efficient brass band
and puts it in position to play on all
occasions for reasonable prices. The
city will support such a band. The
city wants such a band and somebody
will organize just such before long.
There is a demand for a band every
week in a city Of this size. 1t would
have been very appropriate to have
had a band for the Garfield recep-
ton last week. 1t would have been
appropriate at every political meet
ing during the campaign. 1t would
be appropriate two or three times
each week on the court house lawn
and the business men and citizens will
gladly pay for the services of such a
band.
Who will take hold of this matter
and organize a Pendleton banda
band without selfish interests, with
out factions, without friction, with
out chickering's, without Jealousy?
A 15-piece band, snappy, up-to-date
and harmonious would be welcomed
and well patronized by PendletOn.
There is no reason why one of the
best band organizations in eastern
Oregon should not be maintained in
this city. 1t would be half of the pub
lie life Of the town. And the people
and business men will gladly support
the right kind Of an organization.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-07-14

will probably result from the arduous
examination, as was true of similar
tramp OF 100 miles taken by Mr.. West
over the west side some months ago,
The method is widely different
from the policy of the former rail-
road commission in Oregon, which
rode over the lines occasionally in
palatial cars, provided by the COM
panies without expense and with en-
tertainment provided by company Of
ficials. Valuable results never came
easy.
Mr.. Vests plan is sane and safe
for the public, which in the summer
months uses the Corvallis & Eastern
road extensively, It is Of a kind with
the plans he pursued in the state
land office, in which his service to
the state was invaluable.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-07-14
THE INJURED ONE.

A gentleman owning a sugar estate
in Demerara went out to visit it for
the first time. The day after his ar
rival he stood watching the punts
bringing the cane home a young ne
gro boy who was driving the mules,
wishing to increase the speed of them
struck one of them with the whip.
The mule promptly responded by
launching out with his heels and dealt
the boy a kick on the head which
stretched him on the ground, where
he lay rubbing his woody pate on the
spot where the kick had been receiv-
ed
Is he hurt Is he hurt?" cried the
planter in alarm. A full grown me-
gro, hearing the expressions of con-
cern. sprang forward hastily and, rails
ing the mules heels, shouted out:
mo, boss That mule him walk
tendah fo' a day or two, but him no
hurt"-Chambers Journal.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-07-14
ROOSEVELT INDICATED.

One of the highest compliments
ever. paid an opponent was given to
Theodore Roosevelt yesterday at
Lincoln, Nebraska, by William ].
Bryan, democratic nominee for pres
ident and democratic leaders from all
parts of the United States, who had
met there in conference.
At this conference it was unani-
mously decided by the democratic
leaders that no attack should be made
on the Roosevelt administration by
any democratic speaker during the
coming presidential campaign. 1t
was declared by Theodore Bell of
California at this conference, that
such an attack would mean the death
of democracy.
So the Roosevelt administration is
satisfactory to the democrats. They
will attack no part Of 1t in their COM
ing campaign. They lndorse it pub
licly before the American people.
They decide that there is no ,vulner-
able point of attack. They unani-
mously declare that to attack it
would mean death to democratic
hopes.
These are frank admissions for the
democratic leaders, Bryan included,
to make to the American people. And
since Taft and the republican plat
form indorse and stand for the RoOs-
evelt administration emphatically,
what is left for the democrats to
make fight for?
Since Taft was put forward and in
dorsed by Roosevelt as the best and
ablest exponent Of the Roosevelt or
republican policies, and now since the
democrats have indorsed Roosevelt
and his administration, there seems
to be no need for democratic ticket
or platform. The Roosevelt ticket
and platform should suffice, accord
ing to the decision of the democratic
leaders.
The only people who have a real
issue to fight for in the coming cam
paign, according to the decision Of
the democrats who have indorsed
Taft through Roosevelt, is the pro-
hibitlonists. No other party has in
dorsed their platform as yet.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-07-14
UNDERGROUND WATERS.

The highest recorded velocity of
underground waters has just been
discovered by II. c. Wolff of the de-
partment of mathematics of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, in the course
of an investigation which he carried
on in Arizona during the Christmas
holidays.
The rate of movement of under
ground water in gravels near Tucson
he found to be 144 feet in "a hours,
while the highest previously rated by
observers was only about 100 feet.
Mr.. Wolff was commissioned by
the chief photographer Of the United
States geological survey to spend the
Christmas recess giving Instructions
to members of the engineering de-
partment of the University of Arizo-
ma in the methods of measuring the
rate of movement of underflow
streams. The University of Arizona
is carrying on this work for the pur-
pose of developing the water resour-
ces for Irrigation in the nelghborhood
Of the city of Tucson.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-07-14
THE GREAT BLIGHT.

The white plague, the black death
and all the other direful foes of hu-
man kind dwarf into insignificance
when compared to the one great
blight upon the earth, the curse of
drunkenness.
Every day within your circle of
personal friends somebody is cut
down in the heyday of their life by
this blight. Bright, intelligent, ca
pable men, men who could shine in
any walk in life, lay down their arms
and yield to this arch fiend of all
bad habits.
Drunkenness is such a useless
senseless. nonsensical habit that it
seems that men would avoid it out of
sheer self-protection. 1t undermines
the health and sense of every man
who practices it. 1t invites disease
and early decay and ruins genius and
destroys honesty with a ruthless
hand.
Young men just entering life have
striking examples Of this curse before
them. They see brilliant lawyers,
editors, statesmen yielding up their
lives while yet at middle age. simply
and solely because they burnt out
their strength with the poison.
For hygienlc reasons, alone, every
young man should hate the drink
evil. Every sensible human being
desires to live as long as possible
and have possession of their senses
and faculties during all of their lives.
Drink cuts off the length of life by
half. 1t destroys the finer sensibili-
ties and opens the gate to every pass
ing disease. This feature of it, alone,
should cause young men to shun it.
But this is only one evil effect. 1t is
an economic waste, a cause Of crime,
a degenerating Influence which dulls
every victims finer senses and low
ers every high ideal.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-07-14
BUILD STONE DEPOT.

When the o. r. & n. company de-
cides to build a new depot in Pen
dleton 1t is sincerely hoped that a
fine stone building will be erected
The business of Pendleton and the
importance of this city as a railroad
center justify a building second to
none on the o. r. & n. system.
The company owns ideal depot
grounds in this city and could make
the Pendleton depot a model of beau
ty and convenience if it would. and
it is the hope of the East Oregonlan
that such is done, when the decision
to build a depot here, is reached.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-07-14
THE FIRST REPORTER.

The modern reporter harks back
to the reign Of Queene Anne and to
the unknown scribe who attempted to
tell the public the secrets of her par
lament. He had hard time of it,
for parliament wished to keep its
secrets to itself. In 1928 an order
was passed that 1t is an indlgnity to
and a breach of the privilege OF this
house for any person to presume to
give in written or printed newspapers
any account or minute of the debates
or proceedings; that upon discovery
of the authors, printers or publish
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-07-14
Australian Wood to Unhed State

Consul-General John p. Bray, of
Melbourne, reports that a large ship
ment of Australian hard woods, in
Guiding over 500 tons Of railroad
sleepers, has just been made from
Australia to San Francisco. AS the
woods are propably among the best
in the world for railroad purposes, it
is anticipated that this shipment is
the forerunner of many similar ones.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-07-14
MFATRIDGE UPHELD.

The East oregonian is delighted to
know that both Secretary Garfield
and Commissioner Leupp have en-
phatically upheld Agent McFatridge
Of the Umatilla reservation.
Major McFatrldge came here to
out a most unfortunate
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-07-14

ers of any such newspapers this
house will proceed against the Of
tenders with the utmost severity"
During the famous Wilkes case in
I'VE the reporters won the victory
which they have since had without
dispute.-New York American.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-07-14
WHAT is A POET?

Ambrose Blerce. one Of William
Randolph Hearst's young men and
professedly a literary critic, seeks to
cast aspersions on the memory Of
the late John Hay by insinuatlng that
he was not n poet. Mr. Blerce, al
though a caustic and iconoclastc
commentator, is usually just in his
conclusions, but there are many who
will dlagree with his decision In re-
gard to Hays poetic ability.
Did Mr.. Bierce ever read the fol-
lowing:
Forever in thine eyes, o Liberty.
Shines that high light whereby the
world Is saved,
And, though they slay us, we will
trust in thee"
II that is not poetry, Mr.. Bierce,
what Is It?
OF course the critic might urge that
the great statesman was mistaken as
to the quality Of the light that shines
in the eyes OF Liberty; that, In fact,
the lady is blind; that she is a myth,
and that, IL she really existed, few Of
us would ever trust her with five
cents, much less our valuable lives.
But that has nothing to do with the
quality of poetry-Exchange
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-07-14
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= Still glides the stream, and shall +
= forever glide; +
+ The form remains, the func- +
= tion never dies: Z
+ While we. the brave, the +
+ mighty, and the wise +
+ We men, who in the morn of +
: youth defied :
+ The elements, must vanish. Be +
Z it so! +
= Enough. if something from =
= our hand have power +
+ And if. as toward the silent +
+ tomb we go, +
+ Through love. through hope +
+ ana faiths transcendent +
+ dover, +
+ We feel that We are greater +
+ than We know. +
+ am not earth-born, though l +
+ here delay; +
+ Hopes child, l summon the +
= infinite powers +
+ And laugh to see the mild and +
= sunny day +
+ Smile on the thin and +
+ shrunken autumn hours. +
& l laugh, for hope hath happy +
+ place for me +
+ If my bark sinks, it's to another +
+ sea, =
+ Selected. +
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-07-14
Do You Think
For Yourself ?

Or. do you open your mouth like young
bird and gulp down whatever food or medi-
zine may be offered your
w n r. n q
UkSe6Sraan intelligent thinking woman.
In need ofGeIki from weakness, nervousness,
pain and suEeNng. then 1t means much 10
you that therA ans tried and -trus -holGsl
medicine oE-KiQHI- -coAtRosITlQs. sold b.
druggists for the cure ot w0mans Ills.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-07-14

Operation for Piles will not be ne
cessary II you use ManZan Pile Rem
edy, guaranteed. Price so cents. Sold
by A. C. Koeppen & Bros.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-07-14

-
The makers Of DR. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription, for the cure OF weak, nervous run
down. over-worked, debiltated. pain-racked
women, knowing this medicine to be made up
OF ingredients, every one Of which has the
strongest possible indorsement Of the leading
and standard authorities OF the several
schools OF practice, are perfectly willing. and
In fact, are only too glad to print as they do.
the formula, or list OF ingredients, OF which
1t is composed. IN plain English, on every
bottle-wrappeT.
n n n n n
The formula OF DR.. Pierce's Favorte Pre-
Bcription will bear the most critical examina-
ton OF medical experts, for 1t contains no
alcohol. narcotics harmful. or habit-formlng
drugs. and no agent enters into it that is not
highly recommended by the most advanced
and leading medical teachers and author
tiles OF their several schools OF practice.
These authorities recommend the ingredients
-yNDpsy--yy-v---- ---------.--s--s-
OF DR.. Pierce's FavOrte Prescription for the
cure OF exacily the sane ailments for which
this woTld-famed medicine Is advised.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-07-14

No other medicine for woman's Ills has any
such professional endorsement as Dr. Plerce's
Favorite Prescription has received in the un-
qualified recommendation OF each OF its
several ingredients by scores OF leading medl
cal men Of all the schools OF practice. Is
such an endorsement not worthy Of your
consideration
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-07-14

A booklet Of ingredients. with numerous
authorative professional endorsements by the
leading medical authorities OF this country.
will be mailed free 10 any one sending name
and address with request fer sama Address
pr z V. Pierce, Buffalo. N. Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-01
By Marvin Dana

ious of drinks. absnthe,
first concocted by French
chemist named Ordnare. He
sold the receipt for trif1ing sum in francs.
Soon. however the purchaser disposed OF 1T
for no less sum than fifty thousand dollars.
It's new owner was rich distiller. who amassed
a million dollars by the sale of the liquor. Be
yond this point it is hardly possible to estimate
what the receip t has been worth in money to
its possessors
The Oxford Press Syndicate values its
formula for making the very thin tough paper
used in the Bibles at more than a million dol
lars To perfect the process required twenty
five years of hard work and the expenditure
of hundred thousand dollars in cash.
A secret of even greater value is the formula
for making the paper employed for Bank OF
England notes. This IS family possession OF
the Portals of Laverstoke, to whom already in
two generations it has brought an enormous
fortune
The brilliant red cloth of the cardinals
robes worn at the Vatican has been manufac-
tured for many generations by the same firm
of merchants at Burtscheid, near A1x-la-
Chapele. The secret process for dlstillng the
dye is given by father to son. with every pre-
caution to prevent any outsider from gaining
possession of the receipt. In this connection
it is rather curious to note that this family OF
cloth merchants Is OF Huguenot descent, and
is Protestant to-day.
An English firm of bacon curers paid fifty
thousand dollars for the formula of the
Brandenburg method of curing hams. A
method of mixing chutney sauce which IN
the first instance, in India, was sold for a few
rupees, was recently disposed of for nearly
forty thousand dollars. The butler of an
English county family sold for a trifling
the receipt for making a sauce which had
been enjoyed by the family for hundreds of
years. The purchaser at that time the
head of the firm of Lea & Perrns of Worcester.
The revenues to the firm from this formula
have been enormous. poor soldier gave the
receipt for backing to barber in the town
of Doncaster who had given him money to
buy railroad ticket. The barber was con-
WINGED of the merit of the backing, and formed
a partnership with harness maker named
Day, of Tavistock-st., London. to exploit it.
Day & Martins backing afterward became
famous throughout the world.
When the monks of La Grande Chartreuse
were expelled from France. the senior abbot
carried the receipt for the famous iqueur in
casket of tempered steel, and this was never
for a moment out of his possession. In the
open market afterward. the formula for the
twin liqueurs, the green chartreuse and the
yellow, were sold for one million six hundred
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-01
WHAT MAY BE BOTH

EXTREMELY long and yet cur-tailed-A
- dachshund
Stronger than lion, yet weaker than cat
An unburied elephant.
Tough as iron yet useful only when shaving
A razor.
A bald headed and bear footed procession
Elisha and the bears.
A brilliant shine and dark night-Shoe
polish.
Good as raiser, yet dull as hoe-A hoe
Something that sticks close and sharply
divides-A cleaver.
Sharp and flat-A knife blade.
A kneesy position, yet impossible to stand
Kneeng
A heart light and innocent, yet heavy with
gilt-On paper valentine.
A singular article and many people-A-men-
First kind of butter, then kind of ticker
Ram-rod
High as a house and no bigger than mans
hand-A palm.
The common lot and the reaper that works
on it-Death.
Candied. yet given to lying in the teeth
Molasses taffy.
A spotless hand, yet all face cards-Four
kings and jack.
Tom Fullevy
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m1tted by the prepOnderanCe OF an md1V1dual
voice, the islanders to what mercy Washington
might show.
Settling the Income Tax
THIS is not the only time within recent years
that the final decree of the Supreme Court
has been affixed by one Justices casting vote
In the Wilson tariff bill the federal Govern
ment laid its taxing hand upon incomes, and
to the cry of Unconstitutional the Judges
returned the indecisive answer of a bench
divided four to four. Justice Jackson was then
near death in the South; but, with the courage
to be expected from of Lees old brigadiers.
he resumed his gown that the highest tribunal
might be able to express a mind The case
was at once reheard To the bowed figure of
the dying jurist the great lawyers argued as if
he alone sat on the dals, and the Attorney
General retired smiling; for he felt that he
had convinced the decisive judgment how GER
tainly incomes lay within the Governments
control
On the morning of the decision an illustrious
assembage thronged the little chamber which
had echoed, when it was the old Senate, to the
fiery music of Clay's tones and to the thun-
derous eloquence of Webster. The nine veneer
able figures seated themselves impresslvely
upon the bench, and in inverse order OF senior
ity delivered their opinions. In few minutes
the expectations of the audience were realized
and the Attorney General was proved, as
usual right; for Justice Jackson strained his
feeble voice to declare the act of Congress to
have been within its power The crowd OF
Senators and officials began to press toward
the door: for of course this declaration of the
one doubtful Judge settled the decision and
no one wanted to hear the other judges repeat
what they had said before. The tax on incomes
held
But before it could reach the door the crowd
paused agape. and establishment never ex-
ceeded in any tribunal swept over the hall OF
the Supreme Court One of the majority was
announcing change of mind. Justice Shiras
had seen new light. Therefore, it was the
other side that had the majority, and the
bench stood, notwithstanding Justice Jack
sons new vote, not five to four in favor of the
law, but five to four against it The smiling
Attorney General dropped into his seat aghast.
and the fortunate possessors of four thousand
dollar incomes, by this lucky transference of a
vote passed out of the court room free from
a federal toll The income tax was killed
A Vice Presidents Honor
THE only other tariff reform bill of the last
half century was, however carried by one
vote. In 1916 the House cut down the tariff.
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Single fragment Vi parchment SiA
inches by nine One by one, other ingredients
were introduced. 1t has been stated that at
the present time the mixture contains one hun
bred and thirty-seven different substances.
And every addition to the drink required an
addition to the receipt. The result was a
volume of more than hundred pages. 1t is
no exaggeration to say that this IS the most
valuable book in the world This becomes
rather amusing when we consider the fact
that the mendicant friar who first concocted
the 1iqueur regarded his invention with con-
siderable dsfavor.
He was as short sighted as Giovanni Farina,
who was the originator of can de Cologne. He
offered the receipt for sale at three thousand
five hundred dollars. A conservative estimate
of the total value of its sales profits since that
time is twenty-five hundred millions of dollars.
The Nanis of lara, in Dalmatia, were wiser.
They possessed one of their heirooms
family receipt for drink distilled from the
marasco, or wild cherry. When they finally
consented to part from their secret they re-
ceived in return large sum in cash and land
to the extent of several thousand acres. This
is the cordial popular the world over as maras-
chino.
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and when the roll was called in the upper cham
ber the senatorial votes fell evenly each way.
The Vice President then rose to exercise the
constitutional prerogative, important once in
a generation, of giving his casting vote. Dallas
was Pennsylvania, and had been always
earnest for tariff mountains high. The stand
patters of that session therefore felt secure.
But those were days when the Constitution
doomed large in mems minds, and the Vice
President, to the CONSERVATION of his fellow
thinkers, announced that in his opinion the
Constitution makers had given a casting vote
to the President of the Senate simply that a
ma ority might have its way, and the
jority of the whole Congress were for a low
tariff, he would waive his own opinions and
allow the bill to pass. Thereupon Philadelphia
and Pittsburgh made wailing up to heaven
for not until the Civil War were they able to
raise the tariff thus lowered by single man.
The Fate of Free Silver
ON an equally important question presiding
~ officer in the House once thought that his
vote would be equally historic. Had his desire
been realized, the great Bryan-Mc Kinley cam
paign would have been fought on other issues:
for the free coinage of silver was just prevented
by only vote from being carried by the
Speakers deciding vote. 1t was in the Har-
rison administration, and the Senate, over
whelmingly free silver had sent to the House
bill opening our minis unreservedly to the
white metal The Presidents attitude
unknown, and in the House therefore the gold
men felt that they must win die. But the
house Democratic, and the Democratic
Speaker crushed all attempts to obstruct the
legislation by parliamentary wiles.
One afternoon all preliminary obstacles had
been swept away, and the question was on the
bills third reading which if carried immedi-
ate1y sent the measure for the final roll call. In
vain the Speaker pounded his gavel into pieces.
wild uproar ragged throughout the hall and
steadily mounted as the members answers
showed how close would be the score. When
the clerk had finished, hundred voices ex
citedly demanded if they had been heard, for
the rumor had arisen that the tally showed
tie Pages rushed about for absent members,
and Speaker Crisp sternly ordered his own
name to be called.
Amid vociferous free silver cheering, he
answered "Aye!" but, despite this final effort.
his announcement of the result with de-
spair The discovery of clerical error pre-
vented the Speakers vote from being casting
one: by one hundred and forty-nine to one
hundred and forty-nine the House refused to
the bill third reading, and silver never again
came near being equal to gold