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The Detroit times., 1908-09-04

the last six months the climax has
been reached. when not one single
death has occurred.
A year ago there were six under
takers and four physicians In the
town. The undertakers have dwin-
died away until today the last one
sought more paying fields All but
two OF the physicians have gone. and
these two do farming on the side.
The Detroit times., 1908-09-04

The appearance AT ulluulSHt
AT the village station of Ramon or
two English people who had appar-
emily dropped out OF space more than
puzzled the small authorities at that
humble and forsaken township
Ii was not, indeed, many minutes
before puzzlement gave way 10 suspi-
cion. and the village stationmGster
hurriedly despatched porter FOL the
village policeman.
That official. when he arrived. swas-
cered into the station and from dis
Greet distance took very careful sur
vey of Langley and Miss Hunt.
J AS time went on. however, II be
came apparent that the mysterious
foreigners were perfectly well prepar-
ed 10 paw their way 10 Budapest and
as they were exceedingly peacea5le,
not to say mild in appearance, they
met with no challenge except few
casual inquiries in the guiso OF con
ye"sation.
None the less, however. they We're
carefully watched both during their
Journey to Budapest and on their ar
rival there. Langley, whose German
was extremely rudimentary. decided
that II would be better TO seek protec-
ton by pleading ignorance OF the
tongue spoken in these parts; and
therefore. when he boldly declared on
the police papers. with which
he was Immediately presented
at the hotel, that he and
Miss Hunt came from Aero, he was
unable to satisfy the polite question
ing OF the manager as 10 where that
place might be.
On the rOfi0wtug- morning ley
and Miss Hunt took the express train
The Detroit times., 1908-09-04

king Seoul and other point. his OWL
agents Tin Picking. Pokotilonl =,
1T thus appears that In 1912 VI
Witte controlled or directed IL the
far east not only railroads, but corps
of troops. fleet OF commercial seam,
ers. armed river boats. the port Oh
-r,Htrv-. and -fettsse-Ghiaese-bank.-
The Detroit times., 1908-09-04
Town Where Nobody pies.

This rOwu ts rIow-kHepn- as the I'M
dertakers' despair" because of the
phenomenal health record OF the $500
population. Two years ago Carver
stood about on par with other Mass
achusetts towns of the same size
Then came marked decrease.
In 1907 but sixteen deaths were re-
ported, and all OF these were over so
years OF age. This year. however. In
The Detroit times., 1908-09-04
Out of the Dim past

Christopher Columbus looked at the
land ahead with some trepidation.
This is close enough" said the
great navigator. IF I go any nearer
TO the mainland may get into trouble
with Castro.
Hastily dropped anchor he landed
ON Cat island and decided to leave to
others the discovery of the real Amer.
ica.-Chioago Tribune.
The Detroit times., 1908-09-04
What Would Become
Of Roosevelt Policies
If Taft Should Die -?
would vice-President Sherman. the
Man Cannon Got On the Ticket,
"A Attempt to Enforce Them?


5I Mr. Cannon sitting the House
resting his thumb o" the new Pde" of the Senate
sso sgo oe so. % 5 9 @
stance. R:ssIs'"
We reprint the above only point
made it, but because there emphasized the fact that The Times
Republican is shared quite generally the
try part the work of reform begun
by Roosevelt Roosevelt would continue it,
Golfers correspondent the nominee the "wellnean-
ing Mr.. Taft" just The Times has conceded
questioning honesty of Mr.. Taft this Bos
overlook the company the nominee in by OF
a running The Times
He willing accept the sincerity of the nominee and to
his intentions good when the Sherman
toned he is compelled to shake his head
He is compelled matter in what he may hold the
as of integrity and high ideals question the
sincerity of his party for president the choice of Pes
dent Roosevelt and for the choice Speaker Cannon
For president Republicans present whom
asked hail the champion of the peoples and the foe OF
the predatory that dehed the popular will
For vice-predent introduced who always
the side of the obstruons and reaconares OPP
posing Roosevelt and Roosevelt reforms at every by
doing acting in the the powerful and corrupt
poraons Mr. Taft supposed bring to book and set down from
power.
by the reactionary and
party led Cannon and fact could
strikingy contempt this Republican element
they osted his candidate
ming Numerically opposed Rooeveltsm are the
who thinks and who knows that what
accomplish accomplished solely
through the Republican but opposed
by the Republican party in the houses OF
that what be the honest intent
Mr. Taft he be elected that opposition would be
fearing Mr. Taft less than Roosevelt feared
Taft of less vigorous than Roosevelt less
apt to desk his chair that the fellows
capitol will do this that thing demanded by the
people before their constituents back home
thing obstructonists in vince at and
with Mr. White House they won't have to VINCE
they figure.
So far as the obstruction itself arrangement
could DC perfect the Bostonian perceives
Joe" Cannon that dear old to the will OF the
people, hand throttle those measures
approve and the senate he will have MS
vice-president on hand awaiting orders
Do you get the idea?
Taft suggest will the and then Taft
easy peaceful judicial temperament won't do anything
about it.
decided wisely cast his vote for William
Jennings Bryan in November
argued Bryan would be able accomplish any
thing through Republican congress.
But it isn't Republican congress yet
Nor certain that would be in the event of Bryans election
There mighty fine just too that Mr. Bryan
will be the president of the United States
Democratic is what the country needs # tor no
Adiche the Shermans and the
Cannons
In doing which thing alone will have been accomplished
for has achieved in all the
Republican has been power and the people have been
at the mercy Of these
the door and the of his
curbed, the people will rule.
you Taft Sherman you will only Cannon
back possessed of
of it.
The Detroit times., 1908-09-04
Too Small 70 Pray.

Yes, Your Reverence, our Johnnie
is wonder. He can play cards. bowl
and cuss like a trooper"
Can he say his prayers"
mo. he's too little for that. File
gende Blaetter.
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EDITORIALS BY THE PEOPLE


Of
of
The Detroit times., 1908-09-04
a WarnfnQ.

The arrest of the man who was
closely following the president is a
warning 10 Mr.. Taft.--St. Louis Post
Dispatch.
The Detroit times., 1908-09-04

The average woman Is willing to
stand up for her rights anywhere ex-
cept In q crowded car.
The Detroit times., 1908-09-04
CHAPTER xxxl.-(continued.)

W !: T.: e: 8; ::: :"
The Detroit times., 1908-09-04
EditarioI Donn of the Nntrnit Times
+
Golfers Weekly prints the fol

Golfers Weekly prints the fol-
lowing communication to that
paper from a man in Boston:
Sin the event Of the election Of Mr..
Taft. and along with him, Mr.. Sher-
man. will not our mutual friend, Mr..
Cannon, have a still tighter grip on
our free Government In fact. what
could the weI-meaning Mr.. Taft do
with Mr.. Cannon sitting on the House
and extending his long arm Of power
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Nv wINlFRED BLACK.

KNOW a foolish little girl.
She's a stenographer. and has
an invalid mother to support.
A few months ago the foolish
The Detroit times., 1908-09-04

Q.--What is 4 Joke?
A paragraph beginning He,
followed by one beginning She or
by question in one paragraph and a.
answer In the next.
Q.-Cap you give an instance Of tie
The Detroit times., 1908-09-04

over into the Senate, resting his thumb
+ Mr.. Sherman-the man he made?
"Llttle has come to my notice in n
seems to me-serious situation. Can II
"PersonalIy should like to vote
stances think | should risk Mr.. 6ryi
Congress to balance him, in preference &
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-12
FARMING BY THE SQUARE INCH

This is the story of a remarkable
| solution of the secret of success in
! farming on a small scale, chiefly for
the benefit of those who cannot ar
/ ford to buy large tracts of land and
would not be able to work them II
! they could. So writes II. ID. Jones IN
! the Technical World Magazine for
! July. To pique the curiosity of the
reader, let it be first explained in all
seriousness, that if farm cultivated
| in this way Is leased it should be un-
derstood that when the tenant moves
he is at liberty to take the soil with
him.
The soil used in this method OF
farming must be of unusual richness.
The story begins with the, efforts OF
two women to gain a livelihood from
Mother Nature. They leased five
acres of land in Berkshire, England.
Later they found that five acres was
too much land, and that they could
find full work for themselves and for
students who flocked to them to learn
how it was done with profit for all,
on piece of ground less than half
the size of that first taken.
The teachers Of the women were a
French gardener and his family, who,
with an acre of land in France. sold
$500 worth OF produce in year,
The scene at the farm is thus describ.
ed by one who visited it and made
the photographs that go with the ar.
ticle.
In bare plowed field stands
square palisade of zinc plates enclos-
ing about three-quarters of an acre.
Behind ii the French gardener and
the women who lease the land have
wrought what looks like sheer mir.
acle to anyone unacquainted with the
system
The ground is covered with invert-
ed bell glasses of the kind known in
Europe as clothers. Under each ben
at the time this writer visited the
farm were five lettuces. Lettuces
were growing around the bells and
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-12
BEFORE THE RAIN.

Clouds are dusky gray and still,
Natures waiting for the rain;
Birds have ceased their songs until
They can feel the sun again,
Trees are waiting, patient too.
flushed and silent as they stand
TIL the breeze comes sailing through
Fresh'ning all the weary land.
Waters ripping like a song
Where the willows bend above.
Gently coaxing it along
With tender mother-love.
The long grasses lilt and sway
To the music's mystic flow
In a dance of elfish play
Mirrored in the stream below.
Sentinel poplars, straight and tan,
Upward turn their shining leaves
And the tree-toads scrape and can
In tune that oddly grieves.
There's a brooding tenderness
That's so sweet it starts pain
Yearning through and through your
breast,
Then-here comes the driving rain.
Grace c. Bostwick, in the Sep
tember Everybody's.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-12
AUTUMN.

Who is the melancholy seer
That sees in Autumn's coming
Sad smile for man to fear,
His own extinction summing?
BEHOLD that warm and glowing hill.
The red sky burning over;
And vonder whore the lake lies still
See how the shadows hover.
Down there beyond the hilltops' rim
Whore few would care to trace it,
A cottage stands, secluded, dim,
With maple flames to grace it.
And like the late sweet call of birds,
Awing to find their nearest,
Across the stream and past the herds
| haste to find my dearest.
To him who holds one heart his own
All seasons find him votive,
But Autumn. rich in golden tone,
Is loves divinist motive.
Valerie De Nude Kelsey.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-12
THE WEB OF LIFE.

a pitiul piece Of patches and shreds
But stay your passionate grieving
Is it late to pick up the broken
threads
And change the pattern Of weav-
ing?
The warp was dyed. the wool was
drawn
To the loom without your willing;
But the shuttle that flies at early
dawn
Carries the thread of your filling
The fabric of life by which you're
known
Is not, perhaps, Of your choosing;
But the matter which gives it light
and
Tone is the color you are using.
over the dingy ancestral dyes,
over and under, and over.
The gold of your shuttle tints as it
flies
The blemish it may not cover.
Forward and onward you may not
pause,
In your own work disbeleving.
For still by the force of its unseen
laws
The loom goes on with its weaving.
And your inmost thought is caught in
The snare by law no one know
eth
And your purpose, be it false or fair.
Shows in the web as it groweth.
Well for you and we'll for us, sweet
friend
When, at last our shuttles falter.
If the weavers beginning where we
end
Find naught in the pattern to alter.
Selected.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-12
VICE-PREsIDENT CAN'T WORK

Mr.. Bryan proposes, if elected, to
make John w. Kern member of his
cabinet. says Success Magazine. His
original idea is that the vice-presi-
dent nominated in a great national
convention should be something more
than an ornamental office boy to the
United states senate. If the Nebras-
kan were running the household he
would make Mary Ann stop playing
the piano and help with the dishes
To Mr.. Bryan's proposition the only
objection made thus far is that 1t is
unconstitutional. Just what the max
ers Of that venerable document had
in mind when they created this office,
history does not state; they do say
that there were great jokers in those
days
We only know that every Ameri-
can boy today looks forward to the
time when he shall grow up and be
eligible to decline the nomination to
the presidency and that the
American people have become pro-
ficient athletes through long practice
IN running away from this honor.
Since we are such sticklers for con"
stitutionality, why not at least bring
that instrument down to date? OF
what use is a worn-out constitution
Of the model OF 1889?
We propose an amendment provid.
ing that the vice presidential nominee
be possessed Of fortune Of not less
than a half million dollars Forfeit
able in case Of escape); that he live
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-12
REFORM is NECESSARY.

| wish that we might find some way
To guess at what the brakemen say
When through the opened door they
bounce.
The coming stations to announce.
| know that others have complained
or this be-fore-and nothing
gained;
But can't we raise a raging storm
or protest that will bring reform &?
These men they ought to ed-u-cate
Their syl-la-bles to separate,
Their vocal culture, you'll admit
Would be public benefit
II Is not quite enough to hear
E-nun-ci-a-tion should be clear.
Not in-dis -guish-able notes
Just gur-gled somewhere down
their throats.
The sound "Chi-ca-go" should not be
The same as Is "Sche-nec- TIA dee, +"
Nor should Wee haw-ken" strongly
smack
TO anxious ears Of "Fond-du-Lac.
| really feel | must complain,
It's such an awful nervous strain
| wish that we could find some way
To guess at what the brakemen
say.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-12
MISTAKEN IDENTITY.

It is reported that the present de-
pot at Krupp was mistaken the other
day for a chicken house. This is the
way the story goes:
a prominent farmer in the vicin-
ty of Krupp, expecting chicken coop
to arrive, sent one Of his hands, a
newcomer to feach 1t.
On arriving in town the man saw
the depot; loaded it on his wagon and
started for the ranch.
on his way back he met a man in
uniform with the word "agent" on his
cap.
Hold on" cried the official
What have you got on that wagon %
"My boss chicken coop" was the
reply.
Chicken coop be blowed." ex-
claimed the official. That's the
Great Northern depot"-Jim Good
win, in "The Krupp Signal"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-12
IN APPRECIATION.

Last spring when the matter of
voting out the saloons was before the
PEOPLE Of Cmatilla county. numerous
substantial but misguided citizens de-
clared that If such a catastrophe"
should be visited upon the county.
that all business would suspend, So
Getty would be demoralized and the
towns Of the county ,,ould vanish
from the map.
So much for the prophecy. Now
for the facts
on September Z, 1908, two months
after prohibition was voted on the
county, the public schools Of Pendle-
ten opened with an increase Of about
10 per cent in attendance over last
year when there were about 80 sa-
looms In Pendleton.
During the months Of July and
h-gutt every merchant in Pendleton
did a larger cash business than in the
preceding July and August when
there were about 30 saloons in the
city.
on Thursday, September 10. the
city Of Pendleton granted a street car
franchise TO a company Of capitalists,
something that had not been pre-
sented to the city in a tangible condf-
ton while its 80 saloons flourlshed.
That Pendleton Is a better town
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-12
WHERE FARMERS DON'T FARM

This morning five carloads of Ne
braska hogs passed through Umatilla
county on the way to the packing
houses at Portland. Think of fat
hogs being shipped 1000 miles to mar.
ket through the best hog raising dis
trict in the United states!
Think of a country free from chol-
era, free from all the diseases to
which animals are subject, buying its
bacon and lard of country where
there is a constant struggle with de-
vastating stock diseases!
1t is a most unreasonable situation.
If Nebraska farmers can raise hogs
aud ship them 1000 miles to Portland
az profit, cannot Umatina county
farmers ship them 25O miles at a still
greater profit? Is it not really worthy
serious consideration from the practi-
cal farmers of this rich section? The
Kansas City Star says of a spectacle
in keeping with this just mentioned;
1T may sound a trifle strange,
says a Star reporter who has been
giving his attention recently to a study
of farm life, but I saw farmers buy
ing their butter and eggs, and in one
instance a farmer buying chickens
for his sunday dinner"
1t is doubtful whether that is in the
line Of progress, though the reason
assigned for this innovation was that
farm women should be relieved OF
the labor of looking after chickens
and COWS But fresh eggs, and real
milk and cream, and fresh chickens
90 to make up an essential part Of the
living in a farmers family.
And none of these things as they
are bought in town" begin to com.
pare with the eggs and chickens and
milk and butter that are produced at
home. There is no greater need for
vegetables to be fresh from the yard.
There is enough in knowing where
things that you eat come from, and
in knowing that they are right and
wholesome. 10 pay for all the pains
that is required to produce them.
Living on a farm without raising
chickens and keeping cows is too
much like having families" without
children. To make exotics out Of
women living in the country would
not be to improve conditions on the
farm.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-12

duties, but from the use OF Peruna am
almost restored TO health. | am quite
convinced that it has helped me from
chrome catarrh, to which | am subject.
1t has also benefited my throat.
al can truly recommend ii as the best
all-round medicine II has been my priv
ilege to become acquainted with.
"Ofthis am quite convinced from my
own experience"
Mr.. W. C. Rollins, Prairie View,
Texas, Secretary of the State Normal
and Industrial College of Texas, writes
that for years he had chills and fever,
and after taking Peruna his appetite
returned, he became stronger, the fever
left him, and he is now in excellent
health and vigor.
Pe-ru-na Tablets.
Some people prefer to take tablets,
rather than to take medicine in q fluid
form. Such people can obtain Peruna
tablets, which represen. the medicinal
ingredients of Peruna. Each tablet is
equivalent to one average dose Of Pc
runa,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-12

and has better prospects today than
she ever had, is a fact borne out by
a thousand testimonials that are be-
yond dispute and manswerable. That
bigger things are within reach of
Pendleton today than ever before is
also ndisputable and absolutely GER
tain.
In two years from now, it is conf
IDENTIFY expected that the entire state
of Oregon, Portland to the contrary
will be as dry as the
Arizona desert. from a liquor stapd-
point and Washington will not 6c
nearly so juicy as at present either.
Things are doing over the line and
soon the boast that Walla Walla is
getting Umatilla county money in ex-
change for booze will be an empty
taunt.
Hasten the day, good people.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-12

other vegetables sown broadcast were
coming up everywhere In each OF a
number of frames four feet square
were 80 lettuces, mass of carrots
and caullflower.
The entire secret of the growth Of
these products before the regular sea-
son is in the cropping and the soil.
Every inch of the soil bears at least
three crops a year. each Of them an.
ticipating the season and therefore
producing fancy prices.
This remarkable method of making
every inch of land count is described
in detail by the writer and the article
is illustrated with very interesting
photographs
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-12
THEY LIKE THE LAW.

Although complicated with first
second and third choice clauses,
features unknown in the Oregon pri-
mary law, the primary law of the
state Of Washington has given first
class satisfaction in its first trial.
The politicians were opposed to the
Washington primary law and fought
it bitterly, but the people passed it..
The same condition prevailed in ore.
gon. The same condition will prevail
wherever there are professional poll
ticlans. wherever there are men en-
gagged in the game of politics for
money.
But what has been true in Oregon
and true in Washington, will be true
il every state which adopts the pri-
mary law-the people will be satis-
fled. because it restores 90 ,hem their
sovereign rights as citizens. The
Spokesman-Review says of the law
and its first trial in the state of Wash
ington:
In view of the large number of can
didates for many nominations to be
filled by Tuesdays primary election
and the variety and character of the
issues presented, it was inevitable that
there should be some dissatisfaction
al the results Of the vote.
Only one candidate could be noml-
mated by each party for each office
to be filled. and every contest which
involves victory for the winner must
involve defeat and disappointment for
the men who lose.
But it is significant of the wide.
spread satisfaction with the general
workings of the law that there has
been little bitterness in the contests
which this first experiment with its
workings involved.
The principle of majority or plu-
rality rule is deeply implanted in the
minds Of the American people as a
result of more than a century's expe-
renee with a representative form Of
government, and now that the ma
jority. or the plurality as the case
may be. has spoken the results will be
accepted as final, as they should be,
1t is significant, also, now that the
primary nominations have been made,
that there is no talk of boiling the
nominations of the respective parties,
Under the old convention system
almost every nominating convention
involved contests for nominations
which became so bitter before they
were decided that the methods re
sorted to and the results accomplish
ed engendered a spirit Of party strife
and dissension which continued in ev-
idence through the campaign and
manifested itself in the returns from
the election which followed.
This first experiment with the new
primary law for state purposes indi-
Gates that it will prove an effective
cure for such party dissension.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-12

IN doubtful state; that he be nom
mated quietly so as not to wake the
delegates; and that his salary be paid
by the comic weeklies
The only alternative is to make the
position one or real Importance, and
to elect to It men fitted to perform
the duties of the chief executive which
they may at any time be called upon
u assume.