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The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-12-12
I WAYS OF The MEXICAN FOLK ARE
Often BOTH STRANGE AND AMUSING.
Domestic Service Cheap the People Who Have Any Means al XII Are Likely
Lad IMoIen Les-Curu; Table Manners Stest Etiquette
No KeaEes but Funeral Cas-

The very poor people simply rent
coffin to take the body to the Gene
terry. two men carrying it on their
shoulders. After depositing the
corpse in the bone heap they return
the coffin to the owner But to turn
from such grewsome things to an
other feature of their lives-court-
ships and weddings. While senoyita
is kept very closely secluded and
playing bear at the barred windows
until the time OF her engagement, af
ter which the young man is allowed
to call on her in the presence of a
chaperOn, yet she can meet him at
balls and dance with him; but i'm
mediately after the dance he must
take her back to her mother or 9TH
er chaperon, on the womens side OF
the room, while he repairs to the
mems side. The bear game" is
very amusing. Sometimes young
man having seen a senOrita in the
street or elsewhere who has caught
his fancy will make nightly vista
tons before the barred windows OF
her home. and, standing there in the
street. will gaze and gaze at the dam
sci within If she is in sight, or watch
for her if she is not.
Frequently a loyelorn youth will
watch thus at window for year
before Senorita will deign to notice
him. It is said that sometimes court
ships are carried on thus by the bear
game" for seven or eight years be-
fore they become engaged and he has
been accepted by her parents, prev
ious to which he is not admitted to
the house.
For the brides trousseau the BRIDE
groom always foots the bills, fire.
quently likewise selecting the entire
outfit. though this last obtains more
in the middle classes. The mother
and daughter in the best circles make
their own selections and send the
bill to the groom-tO-be. Two mar
riage ceremonies are performed, one
by the State, the other by the Church,
the fee for the latter being simply
enormous Five hundred dollars IS
usually charged for high-class we'd
dings. and no priest will ever perform
ceremony for less than $500, an I'M
possible price for the peon, already
beggared and kept down by the re-
quirements and exactions of the
church in this priest-ridden country.
The Church weddings are very
elaborate and beautiful, and though
they have neither bridesmaids nor
groomsmen, they always have spons-
ors at Church weddings and witness
es at the civil ceremony. A sump-
tuous wedding dinner in the brides
house follows the two services. after
which they dance all the afternoon.
and senorita. now sonora, is launched
on a life which American women con-
slider anything but enviable, for Mex
lean men are proverbially untrue t.
their wives.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-12-12
WOMEN OF TODAY.

At coming out ball in metro
politan city few years ago the
debutante and her grandmother both
',nced in the cotillon. They were
both slender and graceful, both beau
tiful dancers. To the casual observer
they differed in these respects: The
debutante had auburn hair, the I'M
lined face of the "unideaed girl" and
talked haltingly. The grandmother
had white hair, lines in her face, and
talked fluently. That they should
both be dancing aroused no particu-
lar comment.
Today numerous American women
play tennis until forty-play golf and
quieter games until sixty. Not long
ago a New York society woman who
is close upon sixty was told by her
physician that she must not here
after walk over twenty miles in a
day. Plenty of English sportswomen
follow the hounds" until past fifty
years of age.-Appleton's Magazine.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-12-12
Doggies Dine With Owners.

Most restaurants have rule which
forbids a patron from bringing dog
to the table. but in Brooklyn one eat
ing house proprietor has found it
profitable to cater to women who
have a fondness for dogs and desire
to have them for table companions.
Amy day at the luncheon hour three
or four women may be seen eating at
this place, their pets sitting beside
them on special high chairs. Doggie's
dinner is served on a special plate,
which is placed on a ledge in front Of
the chair.-New York Sun.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-12-12
UYPNOTIZE. DON'T
PUNISH CHILDREN.
Or. Randall Advocates Mental
Suggestion For Good While 62d
f.Ings ter Sleeps.

Not punishment but hypnotic sug-
eestion is the method advocated for
the correction of bad child by D-.
J. Herman Randall before the Kinder
garten Association at the Lydia
Wodleigh High School for Girls.
Dr. Randall deprecated punishment
at the moment of the offense, or later
when the impulse might be supposed
to have expended itself.
DO not Iambaste your child" he
said; seek rather to lovingly turn
away his thought from what is evil.
Affirm to yourself and get the child
to affirm for himself what is good.
In the early morning hour when
the mind is fresh, before the days
work has begun, is the time to instii
such thoughts into the young mind.
The bedtime hour is, perhaps, best OF
all. In fifteen or thirty minutes then
you can do more for the child in that
moulding of character than at any
other period.
Find out what is lacking, and by
means of story or the biography OF
some great man illustrate to him
what it is desirable he should have.
Don't tell him he is lacking, but keep
the idea of what he needs before him.
Let him hear it in the last words be-
fore he goes to sleep.
After the child is asleep sit beside
his bed and talk to him as he slum-
bers. l know a Brooklyn mother who
has followed this method with her two
boys for some months. She says that
now they talk back to her. though the
objective mind is sound asleep"
DR.. Randall is Baptist minister
who believes the regeneration of the
race lies in the training of the young
New York World.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-12-12
No Chinese Alliance.

No one has been able clearly to ex-
,lain how the United States could pos
sibly hope to profit by joining hands
with China. II JaAan is bellicose, the
big, flabby neighbor will be one of the
first to suffer, not the modern. we'll
armed, acknowledgement pow
er across the Pacific. II Japan en-
tertains warlike ideas, an outbreak
with the country which it is least
likely to defeat in a conflict is not as
probable as a breach with the nation
which offers the richest rewards in
case of a conquest and the greatest
chance of Observation-Disclosures Star.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-12-12

ADJUSTMENTS FOR CHILDREN.
The new kind of toys, reaction
against the rather foolish Teddy bear,
promise well, both as to the enter.
tainment they furnish the child and
their educational value. Indeed, IN
the eyes of the progressive-minded,
it is the educational side Of the mat
ter only that is looked at. But that
does not matter as long as good
time is insured. Children are always
willing to have what they want, If
they don't know it. The ordinary
child does not indeed need induce
ments to learn its Mother Goose
rhymes, but surely a nursery whose
wall are adorned with pretty-colored
prints, depicting the adventures Of
The Wise Man of Gotham The
Man Clothed All in Leather" or Lit
tie Jack Horner," each with its ex-
planatory verse beneath is made more
attractive. How delightful on q
stormy day are the books where chill
dren can point to their hearts con-
tent or copy pictures by cutting out
colored papers to make pictures eth
er "out of ones head" if one has
imagination, or like simple illustra-
lions in books. There are also card
board furniture, colored most delight
fully, that can be cut out of or put
together by small fingers. BY the
way. are the paper dolls quite out OF
fashion? They once were very dear
to the hearts of little girls; now
they are never mentioned. Arts and
crafts come into play in the way OF
diversions for little folk. There are
little looms now to be had, which
cost but trifle, and are yet large
enough to make it possible to weave
rugs, covers, spreads and carpets for
doll-houses, and 1t is more fun than
stringing beads. And stringing beads
has by no means gone out of fash
ion, neither have the old-fashioned
amusements, such as mud-pies, make
believe tea-parties and other diver
sions.-Springfield Republican.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-12-12
A Third Solution,

Two diners at hotel were disput.
Ing as to what pineapple really was.
One of them insisted that it was
fruit, the other insisted that it was a
vegetable. The friends determined
to accept the decision of the waiter.
who was called to the table.
John" asked one Of them, how
do you describe pineapple? Is it a
fruit or is it vegetable:"
ITS neither, gentlemen; pineap-
pie is always a hextra!" he replied
Bits
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-12-12
Railway Driven From Waterfall.

An interesting electrical railway.
driven with power generated by a
waterfall, has recently been opened
in Norway, from Thamshavn to
Evorkmo, a distance of twenty miles.
The power station is about six miles
from Thamshavn, while the power Is.
according to Electricity, generated by
a waterfall, fifty-eight metres high.
developing 5000 horsepower, and
driving five turbines representing the
same total of power. The railway is
owned by the proprietors OF the
Medal Copper Mines, and will carry
ore from the mines as well as con.
Quoting a passenger traffic. !
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-12-12
Shop.
Shop.
"Well, we'll, we'll! Is this 4

well, we'll, we'll! Is this n,,f
Snooper?"
Eyes, and this is-let me see-can
this be my old friend, Tom Grigsono"
That's who it is. l haven't see
you for-for-'
'Twenty-seven years.
That's right. Twenty-seven years!
Well! we'll! What are you doing
now, Bill?"
I'm a travelling evangelist. Are
you member of any church, Tom?"
Not yet; I'm life insurance So
licitor. / represent the best company
in the world Carrying all the insur-
ance you want, Bill?"-Chicago Tri'
bune.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-12-12

The paper used for the Sunday is~
sues of about 500 American papers
would suffice for G,0oo,3o0 volumes
Of 500 pages each.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-12-12

a Jacket OF ail-ovsr lace cut on grace
cul lines and finished with bind.
ing of satin.
Such short sleeves as appear on
the new gowns this season are in the
nature OF oyersleaves and are left
open to display close shirred under
sleeves of some tran parent materla.
Quantities OF white scutache inter
spersed with black silk balls trim Il
stunning gown of white. Accessor-
les. sash, hat. etc. are black
The very dark new shades of silk
and velvet are almost as effective on
light gowns as the touches OF black
and strike an entirely new ncte.
Dainty jabots are quickly made By
hemming a rather coarse net by rug
ming in and out with a very narrow
ribbon of color, then laying the net
in full box plait
DELEGATES LIFE
TO EVANGELISM.
Miss Jennie Smith, the well known
railroad evangelist, who conducted a
series of tent meetings in Richmond,
Va. has history full of unique and
unusual incidents. For ten years she
was an invalid, unable to move with
out assistance. withstanding hey
helpless condition, she spent a large
part Of her time travelling from place
to place. Having relatives and friends
broadly scattered throughout the
country. she frequently made long
journeys on trains, coming in con-
tact with many train operatives. AS
she could not rely upon her OWE
strength to insure her against the
inconvenience and dangers of travel,
she necessarily looked to the men
in charge of trains for aid She says
they were very kind to her. handling
her cot or wheel chair always with
the utmost tenderness. and paying
her every other attention which a
helpless traveller could need.
As a result of their kindness, she
became very strongly attached TO raii'
road men, and lived with the almost
single hope that she might some day
repay them for the service. Then,
she said, latter spending whole
night in prayer, my affliction was re-
moved in the twinkling of an eye. y
From that time she began the work
in which she is now engaged. For
the last Is years. with whatever
bodily discomforts and hardships she
has gone from ocean to ocean work
ing in the interests of railroad men
New Haven Register.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-12-12
THE LADY OF THE SUITCASE.

Mrs. McAllister. of Florida, going
through two months tour of Ell-
rope with only small suitcase for
luggage, furnishes a fresh and per-
tinent example of what woman can
do when she will. She has beaten all
the guide-books on point of prac-
teal, personal interest. Content is
justly hers, with satisfaction at her
feat Of turning custom-house sceptic-
ism to admiration.
This Florida traveller set about
her purpose without ostentation. She
offered to the women's club of Miami
no preliminary resolutions favoring
the one-skirt-and-one-ha idea in con-
nection with "the grand tour" She
brought before the State Federation
Of Women's Clubs no trumpet-sound-
ing declaration of equal rights with
men to the comforts of trunkless trip
ping. In her own determined way
she set out as the woman going
to see, not to be seen, and the globe
trotting honors of the hour are hers.
There are thirteen items in the
table of contents Of Mrs. McAllister's
suitcase. A lucky number, the re-
sultant of a rational process Of elimi-
nation. What shall l wear?" asks
the ordinary woman. planning for
Europe. What can / do without"
asked the tourist from Florida, and
everything she omitted was gain save
to the luggage-transfer companies.
This single-suit-case. tour OF Europe
is longer step toward the enamel
patton of sex than is the mobbins
of Commons or clamor from a cart In
Union Square. Courage to defy the
uawritten canons of frst-ca1an soelety
Is in itself almost a qualification for
the suffrage.-New York World.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15
Bib Shipment OF Fruit Boxes.

The box factory department Of the
Grand Ronde Lumber company at
Perry is shipping on an average a
carload Of fruit boxes per day for the
fruit growers association of Grand
Junction, Colorado, says the La
Grande Star. The company was
awarded early last spring the con-
tract for delivering 75 carloads of
these boxes to the Colorado fruit
growers The box factory has been
busy with this order for the past five
weeks. Peach and pear boxes are
now being sent out and after this
part Of the contract is filled the fac
tory will begin on apple boxes.
A couple of months will be requir-
ed to complete the order. This order
for fruit boxes for Colorado was Sc
cured by the Grande Ronde Lumber
company in competition with the
coast mills.
In addition to the box shipments
the Perry company is now shipping
TO the eastern markets on an average
of 10000 feet OF lumber per day.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15
AMONG THE EXCHANGES
OF THE
INL AND E M PIRE

pot, says the Yakima Republic. News
Of the discovery was telephoned here
yesterday and in the afternoon Coro-
ner Frank drove down to Wapato and
Investigated. The young man doubt
less died some time during the pre-
ceding night, but the cause Of his
death is uncertain.
Nothing which could assist in dis
covering the identity of the dead
man was found upon him. In his hip
pocket was a five-chambered 80 cal
iber revolver and In his coat pocket
a small flask containing little IL
quid This is not any alcoholic bev-
erage and the doctor is analyzing the
contents Of the flash with a view to
determining whether the man took
poison. The absence Of any apparent
cause OF death leads to the suspicion
that II Is a case of suicide.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15
BIg Yields OF Potatoes for Idaho.

A. G.. Roberts a live, rustling busi-
ness man Of Blackfoot, is in the city
on business, says the Boise Capital
News. Mr.. Roberts is an enthusiast
over the raising of potatoes in the
upper Snake river valley and has the
figures to show that their production
pays better than raising sugar beets,
besides providing labor for white
workmen instead Of japanese as the
sugar industry does.
He states that even at 30 cents a
hundred potatoes can be made a more
profitable crop than sugar beets and
with far less labor. Blackfoot for
several years has had the contract
for supplying the Oregon Short Line
and Union Pacific systems with po-
tatoes, furnishing between 40 and 60
car loads annually.
Hundreds of carloads are shipped
from Blackfoot, Idaho. Falls and
points on the Yellowstone park
branch each year, finding market in
Salt Lake, Denver, Omaha, Kansas
City and other eastern and southern
points, many carloads being shipped
to Texas cities.
He expects potatoes to bring a big
price this year In Idaho as the Greedy
Colo. crop has been practically ruin
ed and Idaho will be called upon to
supply the great market that the
Greeley section has been supplying
for many years.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15
SALOONS WILL
FIGHT IN GRANT 7.
VOTE WILL
BE TRIED IN COURT.
If the Result of the June Election Is
Set Aside Another Local Option
Vote VIII BE Taken I'm November
Irregularities in Ordering the Vote
Are the Grouds for the Trial.

The saloon men of Grant county
have undertaken to make a test Of
the prohibition law as adopted by the
people of that county on June first,
says a Grant county item.
They have engaged a couple of able
attorneys, Messrs. Errett Hicks and
V. G. Cozad, and the preliminary
brush was pulled off Monday. Neither
the contestants nor their attorneys
have outlined the proceedings, nor
the grounds upon which the measure
will be contested, but rumors hava
Il that the petition was faulty, in
that one thing was petitioned for,
while another was voted on gnd that
the measures are not Identical.
The petition and notices called for a
vote on local option, while the ballots
named prohibition as the issue.
Whether the use of these terms
are interchangeable within the mean
ing OF the law may be for the courts
to decide.
1t is also understood that II the
plea fails before judicial rulings that
there are other and stronger grounds
upon which to contest the order for
closing 1t is perfectly natural fot
the liquor men to exhaust their right
and this they will undoubtedly do.
On the other hand 1t is rumored
that victory before the court on
technicalities would be but short lived
as there is another election In Novem-
ber and the technical errors which
would invalidate an election would
permit vote to be taken at any time
and the presidential election would
seem to offer to the drys a chance to
bring the matter up without the preju-
dice that comes from special elections.
At any rate It would seem that the
battle is on, and will not end until
one side or the other goes down in
hopeless defeat.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15

Cherries Of the Kentlsh variety are
coming into market in large lots just
now, says the Lewiston Teller While
at the Weber fruit packing plant this
morning the cherries were being
packed for shipment. "There Is 60
ing to be an immense crop OF cher
ries this season." said r. H. Weber
this morning. "the biggest Wasco
county has ever had" When calling
at The Dales cannery it was found
that all is in readiness there for the
work to begin next week when Royal
AIMS will begin to come into market.
It is believed by all fruit merchants
that there will be floods of cherries
in market in 10 or IA days.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15
Washington Mayors to Meet.

Mayor Miller will shortly invite the
mayors of the various cities of WASH
ington to hold a conference in Seat.
tie during the first week of October
to take up questions of interest to
municipalities and to devise plans to
procure needed laws at the next ses-
sion of the legislature, states Sc
attic report. In a letter to Mayor
Miller Corporation Counsel Scott CAL
houn suggested that the proposed
convention he beld early so that af-
ter action has been taken by the va
rlous municipal representatives, time
will be had to draft the bills to be
presented to the legislature.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15
VIII Coach Whitman Team.

j. Merrill Blanchard, former quar-
terback on the Bowdoin college,
Maine, football team and more re-
Gently coach of the Washington uni
versity est, Louis) team. has been Sc
lected to coach the football eleven
at Whitman college as we'll as to as
sumo general charge Of athletics at
the Walla Walla college in the ca
pacity of director Mr.. Blanchard
takes the position left vacant by
Coach Baird, who has severed his con-
nection with the Missionary college.
The new coach comes to Whitman
with an excellent record and the man
agement is expecting good results
from his coaching next year.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15
Declare County "Dry."

At a session of the county court
held yesterday, an order was made
declaring the result of the recent
election and prohibiting the sale Of
Intoxicating liquors throughout Gil
liam county, after midnight June 30
1908, says the Condor Globe.
According to the provisions OF the
local option law, the county court is
compelled TO declare the result of the
election IL days after the general
election, or as near thereafter as prac-
ticable.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15
Hung Sheriff in Efngy.

A certain element in this county
who have no love or liking for a
sheriff who does his duty, went so
far in their ante-electloro work as to
burn in effigy the popular sheriff Of
Crook county on the morning OF cleo
ton. And that cheap demonstration
Of spite, opposition and llttleness re-
suited in making more votes for sher-
lff Elkins. He carried Prineville by
a majority Of II over his closest COM
petitor, and carried the county with
62s votes over Gongleton, the heaviest
vote ever given a candidate in Crook
county. When is II time 10 "lle down
and be good. bend Bulletin.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15
EARTHQUAKE IN BAKER.
COrmcopia Mine Country Most Heav-
fly Shaken.

At $50 o'clock last night the whole
country in the Cornucopla mountains
10 miles northeast of Baker, felt a
heavy shock, similar to that which
follows an earthquake Windows rat
tied, dishes shifted and changed
their positions on cupboard shelves,
foundations shook and houses sway
ed to and fro. says the Baker City
Herald,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15
A MYsteriOns Deafh

AT Wapato yesterday the body of
young man, whose age is reckoned at
about 81 or 22 by Coroner Frank. was
found by Section Foreman Peter Ben
son on the railroad platform by the
car barn, about 300 feet from the de-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15
Want Advertisements
FOE SALE.

FOR SALE-160 ACRES, PARTLY
seeded to alfalfa: two good or
chards; house nicely furnished. Sew
eral nice springs; fine sheep ranch;
good range; no reserve; very near
railroad, and arranged for two fami-
lies. Address 607, Weatherby, Ore.