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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-10
\ TIP FROM MILTON.

The Milton Eagle says that the
background for the Milton exhibit at
the district fair will be a display Of
15-foot corn raised by D. C. Masters
in that vicinity And the item goes
on to say that the entire Milton ex-
hibit will be in keeping with tbs
tall corn.
Now will the other towns and To-
calities of the county follow the ex-
ample set by Milton? Will they
make a creditable showing of their
excellent products? VIII there be a
rousing good exhibit from every town
in the county?
The people expect something from
every town and every community in
Umatilla county. This has been a
dry year and yet exceedingly good
crops for a dry year have been grown
and now is the time to show the real
merits of the county
Any country will produce good
crops in a favorable year but it is
not every country that will produce
good crops in an unfavorable year
and therefore it is especially timely
for Cmatilla and Morrow counties
to have a fine display this season.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-10
"LovE'S OLD SWEET SONG"

They didn't wear no uniforms nor
epulets nor trappin's
And their instruments were sorter
on THO bum;
rThe crowd around the band-stand
didn't smell OF talcum powder
But more of cigarettes and pizen
rum.
a little sawed-off feller, with careless
sort of hair
Got up and bowed and waved a
stick around,
And when the music started you could
hear the spurs aclakin'
As the cowboys stomped their boots
upon the ground.
Well. them band fellers meandered
over most their repertoir
And played heap Of tunes I didn't
know,
Till they hit upon that old 'un about
'just a song at twilight"
And when the flickerln', shadders
come and GO"
Now somehow seemed transplanted
from that slzzlin' mountain
town
And l fetched up in the days Of
"auld lang syne,"
] was back amongst the home folks,
a rompin' in life's mornln'-
on. the reveries | had was some
thing fine.
. Though the heart be weary, sad the
day and long"
Now that was rather hittin' home
/ guess;
And they kept on through the whole
piece till reckon my emotions
Had mellered to a pretty sloppy
mess.
j somehow got to thinkin' that the
present and the future
Are sometimes defamatons on the
past
That them hand-painted Delilahs and
and delirium tremens artists
And maybe the julep mixer. with the
sugar beet proboscis.
Who for lucre shoves the high-life
dope along,
Felt a swellin' meath his shirt front
and a lump come In his guzzle
When he heard the brass band play
Loves Old Sweet Song"
Robert c. Elting.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-10
THE COWBOYS PRAYER.

o Lord, I've never lived where
churches grow;
love creation better as it stood
That day You finished it so long ago
And looked upon Your work and
called it good.
l know that others find you in the
light
That's sifted down through tinted
window panes.
And yet, | seme to feel You near to-
night
In this dim. quiet starlight on the
plains.
thank you. Lord, that | am placed
so we'll;
That You have made my freedom
so complete:
That I'm no slave of whistle. clock
and bell,
street.
Just let me live my life as I've begun
And give me work that's open 70
the sky:
Make me a pardner of the wind and
sun
And / won't ask life that's soft
or high.
Let me be easy on the man that's
down
And make me square and generous
with all;
rm careless sometimes, Lord, when
I'm in town,
But never let them say I'm mean
or small.
Make me as big and open as the
plains,
As honest as the horse between my
knees,
Clean as the wind that blows behind
the rains,
Free as the hawk that circles down
the breeze.
Forgive me, Lord. when sometimes 1
forget:
Youn understand the reasons that
the hid,
You know about the things that gall
and fret,
You know me better than my
mother did.
Just keep an eye on all that's done
and said,
Just right me sometimes when
turn aside,
And guide me on the long, dim trail
ahead
That stretches upward toward the
Great Divide.
Charles b. Clark, Jr.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-10
WHERE PENDLETON EXCELs.

Pendleton excels many of the larg-
er cities of the northwest in many
features, but there is one particular
feature in which she is a shining and
ilustrious champion of the entire
northwest and that is in the hotel bus
iness.
In no other town Of twice her size
are there to be found hotels equal to
those Of this city. In equipment, ap-
polntment, service, prices and all the
features Of a good hotel this city sur
passes them all. Travelling men uni
versally praise the hotter service of
this city and make it an object to
come here and spend Sunday or make
their longest stops.
This is not so in a limited sense
hut universally all over the north
west, the praise Of Pendleton's hotels
is heard and kindly expressions for
the excellent service and moderate
prices are common on trains and in
hotel corridors everywhere.
So among her boasted institutions,
Pendleton should be especially proud
Of the service which she offers travel
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-10
AMERICANIZING CANADA.

Perhaps no other country in the
world was ever so swiftly changed by,
an invading citizenship as Canada
has been Americanized by the AM
orleans. Practically everything in
western Canada is American, except
the letter of the laws, and that is
rapidly conforming to American
ideas
All through southern Alberta
where thousands of American farmers
and merchants are now prospering,
the country is typically American.
American money is current every
where. All prices are marked in
America terms. All measurements
and sales are made on the American
basis. The hotels are An,r.Cen in
style and usages. The railroads use
American equipment and have Amer
lean rules and customs.
While Canadian money is not ham
died in any volume in the United
states, yet over tie line in Canada,
American money passes current
everywhere in banks. stores, hotels,
postoffices, on the farms, in railroad
Offices and every place where business
is carried on. There is no limit or
restriction in the use of American
money It is taken in any and all
denominations, by everybody.
While the borders between the two
countries are marked by monuments
and blazed trees, yet there is no real
line. The amalgamation of the AM
orleans and Canadians is going on
rapidly. Americans are buying and
homesteading thousands of acres OF
land, establishing innumerable lines
Of industry and soon there will be
complete change in the Canadian in
dustrial, commercial and social life.
While Canada has a prosperous and
class of farmers and bus-
ness men. yet new vigor and vim has
been added to the country by the
of the virile American
and his habits and customs.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-10
FATE,

Across the sea, hundred years ago,
A poor mans son was born. Fore
doomed to know
Few joys, he toiled and late in life
became
The father Of a child who bore his
name.
This boy at Castle Garden stood one
day
And, later. to the ore mines found his
way.
Deep In the mines he digs the heavy
ore.
Which, being loaded is transported
four
Hundred and twenty-seven miles by
rail
And twice that far by boat. Through
many a gale
]; safely passes to the fiery blast,
And, going through a hundred hands,
at last
Becomes the framework Of an auto
car.
a hundred years ago it chanced that,
far
Across the sea, not forty rods from
whore
The miners sire first beheld his heir
And heard his screech, another child
was born.
He braved the oceans storms and
stood one morn
At Castle Garden. full of grit and
hope.
And in good time upon a pleasant
slope,
He built a cabin and his loved ones
there,
Exc in good time, presented him an
heir.
This child becomes a man in spite of
mumps
And chlckenpox and all the various
bumps
y boy IS heir to-. In the market place
He buys and sells, joins In eager chase
Fer collars, and gets millions of
them, too.
And unto him son is given, who
Has nothing in the world to do but
try
To spend hrs income, to make money
fly.
He drives an autocar whose heavy
frame
Is made of steel that in due process
came
From what the miner dug down in
the mine,
He tears through crowded street he
seeks to shine
BY breaking all the records and runs
That miners child-he having moved
to town
She hears the angry toot, but, an, too
late!
She loses a big toe-and that is Fate!
5. E. Kiser in Chicago Record
Herald.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-10
THE GREATER DEVELOPMENT

Two electric line franchises, both
Of which promise to make Pendleton
the headquarters for a network Of
lines stretching through Umatilla
county are now being considered by
the city council Of Pendleton.
The matter Of developing this
county by means of electric roads is
now so far along. that, like the work
ers in 2 tunnel. the pick strokes can
be heard through TIE remaining wall
and soon the last intervening barrier
viii have been removed and daylight
will shine through.
The statement that two electric
line franchises are being considered
is far more important to Umatilla
county than can be stated in few
words. It means everything, in fact
It is the acme Of development the
crowning event In the Industrial march
OF this rich section OF Oregon.
With either or both Of these lines
reaching out from Pendleton into
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-10

the rich tributary territory, there
will come such radical change in
the life and activity of the county,
that it will simply be a revolution,
Rural life, will be entirely changed;
land values will multiply; homes will
be built all along the entire length
of the lines and there will be no fa-
vored places-all sections will be
blessed with equal development
Traffic throughout the section
touched by these lines will be in
creased. because transportation IA
cili;ies will be improved and products
can be marketed at less cost. Long
hauls will be abolished; wheat farms
will be brought into close touch with
the warehouses; profits will be great
er Cor the farmers; more. diversified
crops will be raised because it will be
possible to ship them to market at
any and all times when markets are
favorable.
This new era promises SO many
things that it is impossible to emu
merate them. 1t VIII simply mean
the highest possible development for
an already highly developed and rich
country and the upbuilding of Pen
dleton. which is already the best city
in the inland empire.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-10
THE GREAT RIVALRY.

Candidate. he come along,
Talkln' night am noon.
Clee club sing purity song;
We jnes in de tune.
Hab mos convincin way:
Specks dey mus speak true,
"Mistah Candidate" / say,
81 gwinter vote for youv'
'Nuther candidate draws nigh;
Has a band dats great,
Say dat opposition try
To swamp de ship o. state!
An now de question dat l note
A risln' th'oo de land,
Is dis: (which wins de peoples
vote;
De glee club, or de band?"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-10
HILL SEES THE SUNSHINE.

General business is improving and
with the prospects of good crops peo-
pie will have more money to spend in
the immediate future than they did
last year"
Listen to that, says the Spokane
Chronicle.
Who said it-some boomer some
wld-eyed optlmist, some joyous
dreamer?
No-not exactly. It's the statement
made in st. Paul last Saturday by a
man well known in Spokane for his
ability to smash rainbows and say
unpleasant things when he feels like
it-one James ]. Hill. Listen to him
again:
Business is slowly but certainly
improving It is lighter this year
than it was during the corresponding
period last year before the stringen-
cy. but it is steadily improving.
with a reasonably good crop the
purchasing power of the people of the
northwest will this year be greater
than in several years past. Informa-
ton which have received shows that
the yield Of grain in the northwest
will be at least 100000 bushels in
excess of last year, and the general
average price Of grain is higher than
it was a year ago"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-10
A MAsoN's FIRST PIN.

They were talking about Masonry
when a woman of the group, whose
husband is a 33d degree man, asked:
did you ever see the first pin OF
a Mason?"
mo" said one of the girls, "do
they have different pins for the diff
ferent degrees? None of the men OF
our family were Masons, and I don't
know anything about the order"
~ have one with me. I'll show II
to you" replied the Mason's wife.
The interested girls gathered around
her as she opened her purse and dis
played to their view the first badge
of every mothers son OF us-the sac
red safety pin.-Coast Magazine.
Feminine finery has ruined more
mon than strong drink.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-10
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.

For thirty years lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands Of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera.
ton, fibroid tumors, Irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, tlatulency, indiges'
ton, dizziness or nervous prostration.
Why don't you try it?
Mrs. Pinlham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-10
WATCH YOURSELF GO BY.


Just stand aside and watch yourself
go by;
Think of yourself as 'he" instead of
81"
Note, closely as in other men you
note,
The bag-kneed trousers and the seedy
coat.
Pick flaws; find fault; forget the man
is you
And strive to make your estimate ring
true;
Confront yourself and look you in the
Just stand aside and watch yourself
go by
interpret all your motives just as
though
You looked on one whose sins you
did not know.
Let undlsguised contempt surge
through you when
You see you shirk, o commonest of
men!
Despise your cowardice; condemn
whateer
You note of falseness in you any
where.
Defend not one defect that shames
your eye
Just stand aside and watch yourself
go by.
And then, with eyes unveiled to what
you lOathe-
Back oyour self-walled tenement
you'll go
With tolerance for all who dwell be-
low.
The faults of others then will dwarf
and shrink.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-10

Loves claim grow stronger by one
mighty link
When you. with "he" as substitute for
ST."
Have stood aside and watched your
self go by.
Strickland w. Gillian in Success
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-10

This woman says that sick
women should not fail to try
Lydia Il. Pinllham's Vegetable
Compound as she did.
Mrs. A. Gregory, of 1856 Lawrence
St, Denver, Col, writes to Mrs.
Pinkham:
~ was practically an invalid for six
years, on account of female troubles.
| underwent an operation by the
doctors advice, but in few months |
was worse than before. A friend ad-
vised Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound and it restored me to perfect
health, such as l have not enjoyed In
many years. Any woman suffering as
/ did with backache, bearing down
pains, and periodic pains, should not fail
to use Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-10

willamette valley Is not going to
have the only rapid development
through the building of electric lines.
The inland empire will also be COW
cred by lines and cross lines and in
land empire cities will be centers Of
activity. The Oregon country is now
entering it's best period
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-10

OF course. the fellows who were
beaten in the Washington primaries
this week don't like the primary law.
But the other fellows like It and 1t
will be a fixture on the statute books
hereafter. 1t gives the people "a
show"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-10
Ten Good Reasons Why
You Should Stop at
+" The Cornelius F"
The Best in Portland.

Situated in the center OF the
shopping district.
One block from the changing
street cars.
Not so expensive as some other
hotels
Sixty rooms with private bath.
Long distance and local tele-
phones in every room.
Writing desk In every room.
Carpeted throughout In the best
velvet carpets.
The rooms are furnished in solid
mahogany.
Every room contains a heavy
solid Simmons brass bed on which
is a 40 or 60-pound hair mattress.
The furnishings and general ap-
pearance OF the public rooms must
be seen to be appreciated.
THE CORNELIUS. Park and
Alder streets. Portland's newest
and 'most modern equipped hotel.
soliclts your patronage and assures
you good service and courteous
treatment. An exceptional hotel
for Eastern oregon families who
Some to Portland shopping and
sightseeing.
When next in Portland give US
a chance to make you look pleas
ed.
THE. CORNELIUS Free Bus
meets all trains.
EUROPEAN.
N. K. CLARKE, Mgr.
c. w. Cornelius,
Proprietor
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-10

Band wagons are more popular
this year than water wagons or air
ships.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-10
SHUTDOWN.

. SHUTDOWN. .
. SO be my passing!
. My task accomplished, and the q
. long day done.
. My wages taken; and in my .
. heart
. Some late lark singing;
. Let me be gathered to the quiet Z
west,
. The sundown splendid but Sc {
rene;
. Then death.
. W. E. Henley. .
. o o .
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-10

Feminine finery has ruined more
men than strong drink.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-11-28
LONE CEDAR.

Lone Cedar, Texas, Nov. %
Everything in the forks of the
creek is about as usual.
Crops are nearly gathered, some
few still have cotton to pick.
School begins this morning.
Rev. r. G. Thompson of Red Oak
visited J. X. Price Saturday night.
Mr.. ]. +. Page went to Bloom
ing Grove yesterday to hear Abe
Mulkey preach.
Prof. Roy Curd and sister, Miss
Bessie. of Rankin attended Sunday
school at Lone Cedar yesterday
Miss Curd will teach No. 2 this
term.
Mr. and Mrs. Munroe Brumbelow
Mr.. and Mrs. George Green and j.
X. Price went to Bethany, Navarro
county. Sunday to hear Rev Thomp-
son preach.
Lone Cedar Sunday school is be-
ginning to prepare for Christmas
tree and entertainment.
&. II. Price and wife visited Char
lie Langston and family Sunday.
Health is very good al present.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-11-28
MOUNTAIN PEAK.

Mountain Peak, Texas, Nov 25.-
The weather for quite awhile has
been very favorable for farm work,
and cotton picking for this season
is nearing close. A great deal of
corn is yet to be gathered. The crop
of oats is looking favorab BILE
School opened up Monday with
quite good attendance. A good
many of the patrons were present,
several of whom made short talks.
The remarks of w. ]. Free, our vii
lage blacksmith, were especially
commended.
The teachers for this season are
as follows: Prof. J. D. King, princi-
pal: Miss Blanche Gill of Waxahachie
intermediate; Miss Mamie VIM, pri-
mary, and Miss May Butler music.
With such a corps of teachers, the
success of the school is assured
Dr. J, T. Shytles will leave this
week for Knox City to look oct To-
cation. DR. Shytles has resided at
Mountain Peak a number of years,
has built up good practice and
has host of friends who regret to
see him leave. Mrs. Shytles was also
among the foremost III all moves
for the upbuilding of the town and
community. religious, social and
charitable. and will be very much
missed, as will also Miss Hattie,
who was very popular among the
young folks.
Frank Boothe and family and SON
in-law. John Lindsey and family left
this week for Knox City to make
their future homes. They were
among our best citizens. Mr.. Boothe
went in hopes that his wife's health
would be improved, which has been
very bad a long time Miss May Lind
sey. daughter of John Lindsey, ano-
Their of our popular young ladies
will be very much missed by ouI
Aouhe people
| Mrs. Lewis Clay died Wednesday
lea, re husband and three small
| children. She was inferred Thursday
at Mountain Peak cemetery, Rev
Harris of Maypearl. Methodist, con
Quoting the funeral services, &c
which church Mrs. Clay belonged
Mr.. Clay moved to Texas less than z
year ago from Tennessee and resid
Cd near Oak.
j. X Meredith is visiting his ole
| home in Tennessee at present.
The f. L. of A. met Saturday nigh
| with a good attendance and officers
for the coming year were elected
| john Holabaugh was elected frater
nal naSter and J. \. McBrayer, sec
rotary
| Oak gin bl rned Monday night
| Origin of fire not known nor loss Il
Gust omers. The gin was owned b,
I the Midlothian Oil Co. and managed
by j. p Armstrong.
DR.. Harris and Miss Eva Spears
were married last week. 1t vas
quiet affair and they went to house
/ Keeping Immediately. DR.. Harris vii
be Mountain Peaks practicing ply
s!Cian for the future. He is a rela
tive of the late Isham G. Harris o
| Tennessee.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-11-28

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sTEHsI,ETT NEWS.

sterrett Texas. Nov 24.-The
cotton fields are looking black now.
Soon all the cotton viii be gathered
School is progressing nicely under
The management Of Prof. Ike Smith
and Miss Annie Laurie Bivihss OF
Boycn.
Miss Ollie Dodson gave fare
well party Friday night which was
enjoyed by the large crowd present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Buchanan
spent Sunday with the formers par
ants Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. \. Buchanan.
Mr.. Jesse Jones left Sunday to
spend a week with relatives at Pi-
| lot Point and Garland.
Misses Ruby Robinett. Mary
North. Blanche Stages and Myrtle
Mccullough were shopping in Wax
ahachie Saturday.
! Mrs l.. c. Faulkner and children
| left last week for their new home
at Bluffdale. Erath county. We re-
greet very much to lose them but our
| loss is some ones gain.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-11-28

THE CITY ELECTION.

That a general interest was mani
tested in the election of a mayor to
fiji the unexpired term Of Mayor
Robertson. resigned, is fully attest
ed by the fact that more than seven
hundred votes were cast i'm Fridays
special election And it is because
OF this general interest that this pa
per feels most gratified. Whenever
question of government and CON
troll is determined by so nearly
full vote there is little room to
doubt that the result expresses the
real wishes of majority of the
people governed. And this is our
chief aim. even though the majority
might be opposed to our personal
views The paper and its editor be
lieves in the true democracy of the
people, aud we have long since
been convinced that when real SEN
timeut is voted the questions at is
sue are generally correctly solved.
OF course there are those who are
not satisfied with the result-that
is but natural-but when a majority
OF more than seven hundred voters
in the city Of WaXahachie declares
itself it seems TO us that the verdict
should be accepted without conten-
tion and quarreling.
In the campaign now closed the
question involved was not the cleo
ton of one Of the candidates over
the other as a better citizenship"
test. Two better men, standing on
their individual merits as moral, up
right citizens, were never offered as
opposing candidates. Just as A.
Lasswell is esteemed aud respected
so is 5. p Langsford esteemed and
respected. The good in the one re-
fleets the good in the other, but in
this, as ia all other campaigns, 9TH
er questions than the personality of
the men We're TO be considered, Mr..
Langsford, because Of his connection
TOT zen years WIN duIOlHiStGdt IONS
OF the city, was compelled to bear
lhc burden of mistakes made by
those administrations, The precipi-
'atiou of a campaign at this time
was charged by some as an attempt
200 pepeuate the ring rule, by
reason of which the city has suffer
ed, and though the innocent victim
OF such combination this had to
DO with Mr.. Langsford's defeat. The
people have grown tired of political
dictatorship and rebelled against its
continuation. While, because OF the
things that were behind Mr. Langs-
lord we opposed his candidacy for
mayor. when we come 10 consider
bis true worth as citizen it IS with
sincere regret we chronicle his de
feat
A Lasswell, msyor-elect, is a