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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-27
THE ABANDONED SEA ROAD.

When once the Panama canal Is
completed and the world-commerce
starts in a continuous and ever-in-
creasing volume through that cutoff,
the great sea highway. around the
Horn" about which clusters such
volumes of romance. tragedy mys-
terry. horror. will be abandoned like
4 worn out mountain trail
The flights of ships which now en-
circle the Horn year by year, daring
It's perils, weathering its storms, feed
ing with human life and treasure its
hungry nav, will be turned from
that far goal and will surge through
the new world-road cut from the in
significant 40 miles Of rock on PAN
ANA.
BY that cutoff in the highway OF
the world. 10000 miles of travel for
every ship navigating the western
hemisphere will be saved. The long
reaches Of that perilJus voyage will
be forsaken: no longer Will the mer-
chant fleets hail each other in the
stormy passages Of the Straits OF
Magellan; no longer will canvas wait
for fayoring breezes at the extrem-
ity Of the South American continent
before being able 10 pass through
the 200 miles of tortuOus sea road
dividing the east from the west; no
longer will the seamen tremble at
thought Of the wild hurricanes off the
Horn. no longer will the swift feet
Of the ocean greyhounds hurry to
pass that ominous danger point on
the great ocean highway; no longer
will underwriters add heavily to the
cost Of Insurance because Of the hid
den rocks and fearsome storms Of
me straits.
Like the "old Oregon trail" which
i now abandoned. this ocean high
ray viii become q faded dream.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-27

Occasional. merchantmen plying to
South American ports, will bump over
the abandoned sea-trail; but in that
lonely route they will meet but few,
IL any craft that once filled the
southern seas with sails.
The current OF commerce will start
on new route, thousands of miles
81 orter. from east to west, through
the Panama canal and an entire re-
adjustment of commerce and ship
pig will be made on account of this
row route.
Strange that this rocky barrier 40
miles in thickness, has made the COM
merce of an intelligent and aggres-
sive world travel the long, wild
wastes of the Cape Horn route for
hundreds of years. 1t is estimated
that one ship in 10 attempting to pass
the Horn since the new world was
discovered, has been lost An awful
price to pay for lack of foresight
enough to dig the Panama canal years
ago.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-27

The Washington state courts say
that an osteopath physician cannot
collect a bill for services, but the
same state permits cities to collect
licenses from fortune tellers, fakirs
grafters and blacklegs and every
imaginable type. 1t is to Washing
toms discredit that she does not rec
ognize the honorable and efficient
professions without discrimination.
It is only a step from a state school
of medicine to a state religion and
the dark ages Of oppression.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-27
LAWSON AS A PROPHET.

Copper is not such a difficult thinl
to understand when one has spent Q
life in 1t, as l ve."-Thomas w
Lawson.
81 do not believe copper will sci
for less than substantially 15la
cents for five years from April
1903. ."-T.W. L., October, 1902.
What happened: From August
1903, until August. 1904, copper sold
between ~ and IA cents, and then
Copper will break suddenly tC
lowest price in recent years. II. w
L., June IL, 1905. at the 15,cen
/ level
What happened. Copper rose stead
lily for 81 months. to 25h cents, th'
highest price since '73; and then
"The high price of copper is {
certainty. IT. w. L.. December
1906. at the 23-cent level.
What happened: Copper fell pre-
cipitously in seven months to III
cents.-By Frank Fayant, in Success
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-27

1t is to be sincerely hoped that the
voters of Oregon pass the University
OF Oregon appropriation bill at the
coming election. The bill will be on
the official ballot for a referendum
vote. Oregon cannot afford to have
II said that she refused to build up
her state university. She cannot af-
ford to drive her young men and wo-
men to Washington and Idaho to Sc
cure a higher education. Let US pass
the appropriation and never again
hold up an educational bill.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-27
PRIDE AND CONSCIENCE

Considering the mystery of pain,
l walked one day, when 10! in rags
awry,
Awrench and gnarled, a hunchback
shambled by;
Whereat ain what far certitude OF
gain
Dost thou debase thine image. and
disdain
Our hearts that love the beauti-
ful?" asked I.
"Wilt thou in thy derision, o Most
High
Like kings Of old keep monsters in
Thy train ?"
Alas / said, THE shadows of Thy
whole
And dreadful plan are witness of
the light
And strict concern Of relatively"
So came, unerring as the sunbeam's s
flight,
The indignant challenge OF mine un-
dersoul,
NAY who is straight in Gods
sight-thou or hep"
George Sterling.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-27

is the reason for so monumental an
undertaking?
The answer lies in Henry NJ. Flag
ler's belief that the island Of Cuba
will some day strike It's destined gate
of prosperity and growth. For Cuba
is the true objective of the railroad to
Key West. When the work is fin
ished, huge ferries will carry solid
trains to and from Havana; and a
through-rail route from New York
to Cuba will be completed.-Ralph ID.
Paine, in the February Everybody's.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-27
LINCOLN IN BRONZE.

Here do look upon historic form
Fashioned in bronze grown cold,
but glowing yet
In our Columbias memory casket
set
A sovereign jewel. Earths uncon-
scious storm
May beat upon and work the statue
harm;
old Time may toppls it without re-
gret.
Perish the bronze, but we will not
forget
The great heart for its brothers beat
ing warm.
The hand of Lincoln. bronzed by
honest toll,
That drove the AK and felled the
forest oak.
Then working up amid the worlds
turmoil
At one proud blow four million fet-
ters broke:
1t is not dust-still does it reach and
clasp
Past, present, future, in its kindly
grasp!
-Robertus Lore.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-27

II January business is any index
the year 1908 will be a banner bus
mess year for Pendeton. Sales and
collections have been better than for
many years before. 1t is the Pendle-
ton spirit.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-27
Right From the Reserve,

There seem to be several ed tors in
the state who deem 1t grand and
sublime occupation to roast" the
head of the forestry service, Mr.. Pin
toned in our city, and the courtesy
with which he treats all and the Will
lingness he shows to aid building up
the country and pushing its advance
ment seems, to us, to be the best rec
ommendatlon possible for depart
ment Of government which has done
and will continue to do great work
for the west.-Snake River Sentinel.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-27

Let US not cross any bridges be-
fore we reach them. There Is moth
ing sure about that expected hard
winter in February. We could stand
a months winter weather now since
We have had 10 months summer in
Umatilla county.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-27
A ForegOne Conclusion

my daughter is going to marry a
millionaire"
isn't that nice? Who is he, and
when is the wedding to be-"
~ don't know yet. She's just joined
the chorus. Detroit Free Press.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-27

More people know The password
IN Pendleton than in any other town
Of the size in the northwest. There
are "a secret societies here and all
of them have large memberships.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-27

R. A. Andrews has begun suit in
the United States circuit court at
Spokane against the Northern Pa
cific for S6172 for the death of $50
sheep and the shrinkage in weight
Of hundreds of others while in tran
sit from points in Oregon. Washing
ton and Idaho.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-27

Fur coats i'm Minnesota, shirt
sleeves in Umatilla. This is a Janu-
airy comparison which should be
good for few hundred settlers for
Umatilla this winter.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-27

The biggest event in Umatilla coun-
~ for 1908 will be the lifting of the
headgates of the Umatilla govern
ment irrigation project.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-27

: A Pilgrim met the Plague I
, one day and said: Whittier Z
, are you going?" Il am going I
, to Bagdad to kill 5000 people" I
, answered the Plague. A few Z
; days later the Pilgrim met the .
: Plague returning and said: I
+ "You told me you were going I
, to Bagdad to kill 5000 people; Z
+ instead you have killed $4,000 Z
: people No" replied the I
, Plague. Il killed but 5000 as Z
1 told you l would do; the I
; other $4,000 died of fright" I
, "Ah," said the Pilgrim, 81 per- !
, ceive that fear is more fatal I
than Plague" /
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-27

A sneak thief stole a necklace of
elk teeth valued at $500 from a ci-
gar store stand at Lewiston. The
necklace was on exhibition with a
number Of Indian curios
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-27

If the next Oregon Legislature will
scan the enrolment of the different
normal schools of Oregon, by which
1t is shown that Weston outstrips all
other normals. at the beginning of
the present winter term. there will be
no excuse for denying Weston what
she needs in the way of improve
ments and enlargement. The Wes-
ton school has an attendance of 1873,
while Monmouth has 1875, Ashland
135 and Drain but 73. Eastern Ore
gon has no other state school and
the Legislature must recognize the ur-
gent need for great big, efficient,
broad-guage, well equipped school
here. The Weston normal is such a
school and must be given means with
which to accommodate it's vast trib-
utary territory
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-27

Everybody is waiting for the Her
niston excursion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-08
A USEFUL FATHER.

From the New York World
 Fathers" says Edward s. Martin in the october Harper's, "are of plenty of use; particularly good ones." MT. Martin is replying to an American lady who has been complaining that the whole task of bringing up children falls nowadays on the mothers and that the fathers deal almost solely with effects after the mothers have done."
 The lady in this instance was stirred possibly by the Rainy Day clubs re- cent inquirty as to the fate of the old fashioned daddy and by its reference to the modern father as "a mere source of supplies" There is confusion for her and proof for MT. Martin in the case of Cornelius Hosey, ex-policeman and excellent parent, who gave up his job that he might educate himself to be a fit companion and precepter for his children.
 At AS Mr. Hosey sits among the fourth year pupils in the New York Free Evening High school. On the force he rose bE merit to be lieu tenant In his classes he is faithful and successful student. It is pleasant to note that he is popular among the other boys. As for his own boys and girls. they cannot fool him any more when he asks them questions about their lessons
 MT. Hosey believes that in helping his children on the basis of brains he is doing better than as if he kept on working and saved a few dollars, which they might run through and become a burden on the community" The point of view is not wholly origi- nal, but the ex-lieutenant's special way of following out his idea marks him unique among New York fathers. It seems fortunate that the police pension system is such as to make possible so interesting a manifestation of fatherly zeal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-08
am Sir Oracle, Nnd' when l ope my lips, let no dog bark. Merchant of Venice.
Alabama School Expenditures

The Alabama appropriation for pub lie schools is about $2.5O per capita This is considered liberal by some per sons, although the appropriation of $l00 to a rural school district contain ing 40 pupils is not by any means sui ticient. Nor is it at all liberal or wise, for it does not meet one-half of the necessary expense, and the result is poor teaching and short terms in the lesser rural schools.
 When Alabamas generosity to her higher institutions of learning is con sidered the niggardliness of her ap- propriations to the common schouis becomes apparent. Were the students at Auburn and Tuscaloosa and in the preparatory schools restricted to S2.J0 per capita they would fare poorly Why, then, should not the boys and girls in the district schools be treated as generously?
 In the far away and comparatively new state of Washington we see a diff ferent state of things. We see there an appropriation for the present scho- lastic year of s8,O00,OOO, or s52 per capita. Alabama cannot afford to equal that rate, but she can well afford 10 increase her present per capita. Nine teen out of every 20 children in this state get no education outside of the public schools, and the 19 have as good claim upon the public moneys as the one does who goes to the states higher schools. The per capita expenditure on the public schools should be in creased
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-08

intrigues and no force at their conn mand can restore Bulgaria or Bosnia or Egypt to Turkey.
 Albania and Macedonia are full Of the elements of revolution, and the situation relates more to what they will attempt than to anything the sigma tories of the Berlin treaty may do. There is really no power or combina- tion of powers to stay the disintegra- tion of Turkey in Europe, and the Young Turk movement will suffer q loss of prestige when Bulgaria secures recognition, and Bosnia becomes un- alterably a part of Austria-Hungary, and Egypt falls away from all yassal- age to Turkey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-08
Turkey In Europe Disappearing

The Young Turks, who propose to restore the prestige of Turkey by securing the retrocession of Turkish provinces have certainly bit off more than they can chew. Bulgaria, includ- ing eastern Roumelia, will become in dependent; Austria will annex Bosnia and Herzigovina, and England will con tinue to hold Egypt. Neither the young nor the old Turks can prevent these events.
 Turkey in Europe will then be con fined to Albania, Macedonia and the Adrianople district adjacent to Con stantinople-a strip all told along the Dardanelles about 100 miles wide ex- tending from the Black sea to the Adri- atic. Turkey in Asia is large coun- try, but Turkey in Europe has long lcen disintegrating, and the Youns Turks cannot stay the process. The try and Mosle niem are decaying, and the effort of the Young Turks cones too late to stem the tide. No
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AuthoFsty on rla, motives.

AutnOFIJ pn EO-OHHollNCSs
 T. ". Gentry of Richmond and New York. representative of the American Lo- comotive company, has been in Birming- ham for several days and will remain un- til this evening or tomorrow morning. He is a globe-trotter and wherever there is a piece of railroad he is on hand to explain the merits of the engines made by the American Locomotive company. He is now on his way from Cuba to Richmond, and since arriving in this city has sold three locomotives to the Bir- mngham Southern-one of them very powerful engine.
 MT Gentry is one of the best-known and most popular men in the mechanical world He began life IS an apprentice boy in the shops of the Richmond and Danville railroad now the Southern), at Manchester, on the James river opposlte Richmond. He grew up to- be a skilied machinist. Before he was 2S he was eeh- eral foreman of the shops and by the time he was 30 was master mechanic lie built the first consolidated engine ever turned out in the south, and is today an accepted authority on locomotives lie has inspected machine shops in every ln- dustrial center of the world and has pulled an engine throttle in England. France Germany and in all the British possessions and while he takes natural pride in the excellence of American ma chinery and in American enterprise In general, he says he finds much to learn in his line in the old country, especially in France.
 When the Society of Mechanical Engi- neers met in Richmond in the early sos, MT Gentry who was then master me- chanic of the Richmond and Danville, was elected a member. He held no di- ploma but had educated himself by study ing at night and had acquired broad knowledge of theory. The rules requir- ing a diploma from a school of teehnol- ogy were waived in his favor, in recogni- tion of of his general merits as motive power man.
 MT. Gentry resigned his railroad posi- ton years ago to accept a position with the Richmond Locomotive Works, now one of the American Locomotive com- pany's great plants.
 "I have been visiting Birmingham at frequent intervals during the past P years and have watched it's growth with great interest, but I have been particu- larly impressed with 1t on this trip" said Mr Gentry It has made wonder ful strides tecently.
 Tn probably no other city of Birming- hams size is there so much building in progress as one finds here. This year seems to be a record breaking year in Birmingham, notwithstanding general bus mess depression.
 'I am counting on Taft's election and l believe that soon after the election is over industrial conditions will improve. look for a new era of prosperity, be- ginning with the new year."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-08
WHEN HE MEETS THE KAISER

John T. sATcCutcheon. in Appleton s.
 But when Teddy meets the Kaiser. Well, the pen simply falters and refuses to go ahead. It would require a poet war correspondent, a rhapsodist, dra- matist, and historian-all in one-to do justice to the event. Two of kind. Dynamic force and a human volt face to face! And the pleasant things that struggle to burst out in chorus after the first few words of necessary for mality The scene in the throne room when Theodore she how he slew a lion will be food for an historical painter.
 Pages of cable stuff oceans of photo graphs, heavens lighted by one pro- longed explosion of fireworks, excur- sion trains rapidly whirling Germany ward, the Order of the Black Eagle, large size, for Roosevelt, honorary membership in the San Juan Hill Marching club for William. An ex- change of photographs all sizes and costumes, a walking contest, a hunting contest Jumping contest, a climbing contest and talking contest. The Mailed Fist versus the Big Stick! And in the meantime Washington will ex- pire with envy, ennui, and exaspera- tiOn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-08
Imports and the Treasury

Imports in August last exceeded in many articles the imports of August a year ago. This was especially signin- cant in the imports of manufacturers materials. More manila, more goat skins, more hides, more India rubber and more raw silk were imported.
 In September the value of all i'm ported merchandise was increased over that of August to the extent of s6,00O.- 900, bringing the months aggregate up to $59, ,166,034. as against $62, ,755,377 in September, 1907. The difference is not great, and some customs experts think imports will soon be AquaI to pre-panic figures.
 The treasury feels the new tide of business, for the September deficit fell to lower figures. The deficit at the end of the first quarter of the fiscal year stands at $33,61O,7 ,764, and the figures for September encourage the hope that the years deficit may be much less than has been anticipated. The deficit leakages will, however, go on, but the treasury department has a large free balance deposited in the national banks. After the election takes place and the crop movement is well advanced these deposits will no doubt be freely drawn on. Customs re- ceipts may, however, continue to in crease, and then the withdrawal of de- posits would not be large enough to affect the money market
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-08
Dry Weather and the Crops

The cotton belt is dry almost beyond precedent-so dry that the weather has ceased to contribute to the growth of either cotton or corn or forage crops. It has been dry enough to destroy or at least minimize the top crop. and if a killing frost were to come tomorrow it would do little damage to cotton and none to corn in the south. Cotton pick ing is well advanced, and if October re mains dry many farmers will not care what the weather in November may Dr.
 A pretty big cotton crop is being gathered in Texas, but in all the otheL cotton states the long period of dry weather has reduced the yield eonsid- erably. Those who began by predict ing a crop of 140O0,000 bales are nuw ready to reduce their estimate 1,00O,- 900 bales at least. The crop does not justify the present low price, but this low price is largely based on manipu- lation and the worlds decreased de- mand for cotton goods.
 It is freely conceded that the -ouCh has made this year good crop of corn and other food crops. Many a farmer in the south will purchase no corn in the year to come and when a farmers cribs are full of corn he makes his own meats, and in that way great deal of cotton money is kept at home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-08
Smallest Newspaper.

''The smallest newspaper in the world. according to the publishers statement appeared few days ago on the lower East Side of New York" said writer in the New York Tribune Tt is of the size of a postal card, with one half on the address side devoted to advertise ments and the paper proper printed in small type in Yiddish, under the title The Jester The name denotes it's character and it contains principally humorous par- agraphs, with local. national and inter- national points. The spirit of competition is abroad in that district, and on the day when the fourth number appeared a rival printed on a double card. was placed on sale. The latest of these miAia- ture publications is also devoted to Ghetto humor and bears the name The Devil. , In the crowded district small boys may now be seen on any day, crying in shrill ' ldish "The Jester." a cent and the
 Q, "The Devl,' a cent, always fol- laws. Both have large circulation and furnish fun for the crowds around the pushcarts and in the coffee houses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-08
Time to Decorate.

Thursday is the last day for the mer- chants to decorate,' said Secretary J. B. Babb of the Commercial club yester- day. q hope that every big store and every little store in the city will get busy and put out the signs of welcome to the visitors during the State Fair.
 Every one has plenty of bunting left over from the reunion, and it should cer- tainly be used. If one cannot decorate his building he should put a Welcome to State Fair Visitors in his windows and show the people of Alabama that Bir- mingham is always ready and glad to en- certain them.
 'The gates swing open Friday, and to all appearances larger crowds will be en- tertained than ever before. Birmingham has set a pace in the eye of the country for entertainment which she should main tain, and the matter of decorating is no small factor in that success"