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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-07
ADJUSTMENTS

1.-THE Little Minister" was the at
traction at the Oregon last night,
and those who had the pleasure of
seeing the play have been loud in
their praise of the able manner in
which it was put on by the Streeter-
Bryan company. Miss Bryan, Mr..
Streeter, Miss Eames and others of
the company were thoroughly appre-
ciated in their parts. This will be
the attraction tonight, tomorrow
night and for the matinee tomorrow
afternoon. This Is considered one of
the best matinee attractions produced
by this company. Souvenir cards will
be given to each child and presents
to the boy and girl holding lucky
numbers.
The Eagle Show Shop has fine
change of program, the pictures be-
ing among the very latest and up to
date. The colorings in some of them
are especially fine. This popular
place is being patronized quite ex-
tensively.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-07

tent parties need not apply. Inquire
at this office.
Wanted-A first class bookkeeper
wants job. Would post books for
small firms that do not employ reg
ular bookkeeper, Address S. H., care
Golden Rule Hotel.
Lost-A gold belt buckle, amythist
settings, with white ribbon belt at
tached. Finder please return to Mrs.
Thomas Warner, ALB Water street,
and receive reward.
Learn to be a sign painter at home.
You can not learn from books. Get
the practical experience and see the
work done. The only way to learn.
See F. r. Peale. with Lane. Signs.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-07
INDIAN SHOWS FORESIGHT.
Jim Pound Buys Coffin for Prospec-
tive Deceased Wife.

Today an unusual side of Indian
nature came to light when Jim
Pound. the well-known Indian, nego-
tiated for a coffin for his wife, who
lis now very i'll and not expected to
live. Knowing his squaw's serious
condition, Jim evidently wished to
be prepared for the emergency and
so purchased casket of Baker &
Folsom today He was intending to
take It out to the reservation this at
ternoon, but at o'clock reported
that as his wife might live another
day he would not take the burial box
until tomorrow.
According to the undertakers they
frequently sell coffins to Indians be-
fore the departing ones start upon
their journey to the "happy hunting
grounds"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-07
injured Japanese Improring.

The three Japanese who were
carved by fellow countryman in an
outfit car here last Sunday. night are
improving and none of their injuries
will be serious. This forenoon DR.. ].
G. NJ. Luttenberger dressed the
wounds and was surprised that the
man with the deep cut in his throat
would not take an anaesthetic while
the wound was being sewed up. When
chloroform was offered the Jap drew
up to his full height and pushing the
bottle away, said; "Me japanese
soldier; me no TAXA medicine; pain
no ehurta me-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-07
Woodmen and Friends to Dance.

The Pendleton Camp No. Al, w. O..
W.. degree team will entertain the
Woodmen, their friends and families
at a social dance to be given Monday
night, February TO- in Eagles hall.
All not Woodmen. but holding invi-
tations are requested to attend.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-07

The best remedy known today for
all stomach troubles is Kodol, which
is guaranteed to give prompt relief.
1t is natural digestant: it dlgests
what you eat, it is pleasant to take.
Sold by Tallman & Co.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-07
rhree Die IN Rallroad Wrecl.

Kitanning, Pa, Feb. I'm a train
wreck here on the Buffalo & Alle-
gheny Valley road today three per-
sons were killed and a score injured,
some feared fatally.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-07

Mamie Adams Pfeiffer, who dis
appeared from her home in Denver
three days after her marriage to
Lewis G. Pfeiffer, has been located
in a convent in Helena, Mont.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-07

H. H. Mack and L, f. lvanhoe oil
La Grande, came over last night on
No. s to attend the basketball game
here tonight between the La Grandf
and Pendleton high school teams,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-07

The management of the Star thea
ter expects to open Sunday with a
new burlesque show, the best that has
ever been seen here. There will be
new people and new attractions
During the past week they have been
putting on moving pictures which
have been drawing well.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-07

All kinds OF fresh vegetables act
Alexander's.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-07

The Dime had another fine change
of program today which will be the
attraction until Sunday when there
will be another. change. Some fine
new pictures and illustrated songs
have just been received.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-07

Read the East 0regonian.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-07
Insurance Losses Paid.

James r. Quick, adjustor of the
Firemans Fund insurance company,
came up from Portland last evening
to settle the loss sustained by Ben
Burroughs on the furniture in his
house by fire last week and today
paid Mr.. Burroughs the full amount
carried on the furniture lost and
damaged in the fire. Lot Livermore
has been agent for the Fireman's
Fund company in this city for the
past 35 years.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-07
TEA

If the tea is good you
ask for a second cup; if
not, you ask. for the
money.
Your grocer returns your money Il you don't
Ike Schilling's Best we pay him.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-07

Dressed chickens every Saturday at
Alexander's.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16
Pat crowe-Eyanaelist,

Marshalltown Times Republican,: If
the last resort of knave is patriot
ISM the last resort of drunkard, the
platform as temperance lecturer
Pat Grove is taking a logical or at
least natural course. However when
we think of Pat Grove as an evange
list urging upon men and women the
Christian life, most of us will find an
incongruity in the combination that
repulses and sickens. 1t will be an
extremely natural conviction that Pat
has quit the business of child abduc.
ton for confidence clay"
No doubt he will draw crowd. He
could get goodly number of curious
people into tent at ten cents head
to simply look at "the man who stole
Cudahy's kid" There are few of us
who wouldn't walk block to see a
criminal SO notorious. But to old fash
Toned people his presence in pulpit
smacks of sacrilege.
There is nothing else to it," Grove
ignorant, criminal with a record thai
might have put him behind bars fol
q long term, is posturing before the
curious as an evangelist. Perhaps i
is possible that he may do some
good" To the average home keeping
and ordinarily decent citizen it is hare
to see how.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16
All Dancing Not Bad.

Cedar Rapids Republican: When Mr..
Sunday talks about "lasciviousness
and Righteousness" in dancing, he
must talk without discrimination.
There are such dances, undoubtedly.
All things can be made evil even re-
ligion. But it is not fair to speak of
all dancing in that way. Men dance
with tleir wives, (. sons with /. their
mothers, and that we should think
ought to be the proudest dance that
falls to the lot of any man, they dance
with their daughters, which ought to
be next to dancing with their mothers
and they dance with their sweethearts
surely all these men are not ami
mated by any such thoughts and feel
ings as Mr.. Sunday describes There
are churches which tolerate dancing
and prefer to have it more or less un
der their own auspices, rather than te
have it more indiscriminate. These
people can not all be wrong, they car
lecherous or lascivious or base. No
we must be more fair, more reason
able, more just, more pure ourselves
/. in our utterances. The writer never
! danced a step in his life. and he
never expects to begin. He was
! brought up the other way. But no mar
1 has the right to sit in judgment OF
others and to pronounce wholesale
condemnation upon them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16
Women are the most delightful be.

Women are the most delightful be-
ings in all creation, but when one OF
them sets out to make a fool of her
self she can easily distance any com
petitor of the male persuasion. Omaha
has recently furnished case in point.
a woman there who was welded to a
very decent man and who had COM
Portable and pretty home of her own
ran away with a Japanese cook and
went to work with him in a dirty res
taurant in one of the depot towns of
Nebraska. Anyone who simply knows
enough to come in when it rains is the
acme of intelligence and wisdom COM
pared with such woman. The fool
killer cannot be too severely con-
demned for his negligence in her case.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16

Under the heading Have 8
Thought the Davenport Democrat of
fers timely and sensible advice to the
general public in the following words:
Everybody can do little to help
during the strenuous season upon
which the whole world has just en-
tered. Have a thought for the over
taxed clerk in the store; for the men
who handle the express barrels and
bundles; for the freight carriers who
distribute the boxes and bales, the
papers and packages that come
through the mails; for the youn
ladies who sell stamps. money-orders
and handle the registered letters; and
for the rest of them who worry and
work to make the rest of us merry
for days. or it may be weeks.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16

to indemnify or guarantee the other
against loss by certain specified risks.
He argues that in order that there
may be valid contract there must
be proper parties to such contract. In
his opinion slot machine cannot be-
come a party to legal contract, for
the reason that it is not an agent and
cannot act, neither can knowledge be
imputed to it. This, he holds, is espec-
tally true when the insured has no
opportunity to see or understand even
the general provisions of the contract
or policy which he obtains. The
auditor also objects to such machines
on the ground of morals and advises
that they be discontinued in this state.
His position appears to be well taken
throughout.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16
Better THAN PROHIBITION.

Those good men and women who see
no way to abate an evil but by pass
ing law forbidding it are getting
much superficial enjoyment at present
out of the progress of prohibition
| legislation. 1t is announced by their
spokesman as an achievement like the
marriage which ends the conventional
| novel that in six states prohibition of
the liquor traffic is now in full force,
while of the entire forty-siX states,
comprising the Union there are but
eight in which prohibition legislation
has made no progress. In new book,
Profit and Loss in Man." published by
Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York
Alphonso A. Hopkins, Phi. D., presents
a powerful plea for prohibition. based
upon purely economic lines. But like
all the pleaders for that way of fight
ing the evil of intemperance, Mr..
Hopkins assumes everything that
should follow the enactment of pro-
hibitory law but in fact hardly ever
does. The experience of Georgia and
other states that have adopted prohi-
bition and thought to trammel up this
consequence with Thou shalt not"
is not encouraging to many equally
earnest in opposition to drink and
equally anxious to abate it as nation
al evil of gigantic proportions.
Noting the conditions here set forth,
the Buff;llo Sunday News in an able
editorial article points out the fulility
of laws that forbid the traffic in what
one class of people want to sell and
another large class to consume. There
are earnest temperance men who be-
lieve that if one-half the effort and
means devoted to the passage of ILL
enforced and practically unenforcible
prohibition laws were expended IN
cultivating a public taste that should
look down upon the gluttony of drink
as upon any other species of debase-
ment. much more would be accom-
plished for the cause of temperance.
The News is in sympathy with this
view, and in the course of its article
takes occasion to say:
ATS uIuSut Is udTuiy iueeucu W SS-
tablish the proposition that personal
habits are the expression of person
ality and take little account of legal
authority except where immediate and
severe penalties are ever in present
view Such penalties can not be APP
piled to the drinker whatever may be
done with the purveyor of drink
when he is caught The personal habit
and desire for drink is the crux of the
whole matter Some men are ashamed
to be seen in any gross indulgence.
Their pride protects them from more
evil than do laws and penalties.
Fewer men are drinkers and there are
fewer drunkards now because OF
growth of this feeling. The habits OF
men generally are better today, out
wardly at least, than ever before.
The world is saved by taste. SO far
as it is saved, or largely so. The Pro
hibitionist could never have reduced
the grossness of the habits and Ian
guage of the eighteenth century by
penalties. Refinement did what they
could never do by law. The elevation
of personal dignity to the first place
/ in the morals of a people is surer
guaranty of advancement in all per
sonal habits than the fiercest OF re-
pressive enactments.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16
FARMS AND SCHOOLS.

Improvement of social conditions on
our farms as part of the general
scheme for the streng thening of the
national defense was the theme OF
a brief address by Governor Warren
Garst on behalf of Iowa at tie Nation
al Corn Show in Omaha last Saturday.
Governor Garst would have the state
and federal governments combine in
the institution of schools which
would make for the betterment Of
rural life Among other things he
said:
Iowa is said to have the smallest
percentage of illiteracy of any state
of the union, Nebraska acne
excepted The more favorable
condition in Nebraska is said
to be due to the fact that substantially
all the people of Nebraska are from
Iowa. Be that as it may, the fact re-
mains that 96 per cent of the boys
and girls of Iowa never see a high
school or college building except
from the outside. Now the thought
has come to me that the government
and the state should go into partner
snip upon 1nlS most eS5SHtldi anu
assured foundation for the perpetuity
of our government itself and establish
agricultural, manual training, domes-
! tic science schools, with military
training for the boys, offering or max
+ ing il an incentive for the boy or girl
who reaches certain state of pro-
fciency at sixteen years to enter
these schools to be trained in indus
trial pursuits and at the same time
the boys be given military training
Governor Garst urged that the
( farm should be kept populated on the
ground that it is from the farms that
the recruits come for all branches OF
activity. The farm is the natural en-
! vironment for the production of the
power of the initiative, and study of
the lives of men who do things will
show that a large percentage come
from the farm. AS one step for the
improvement of farm conditions Gov
ernor Garst would also provide for
good roads by having the states and
the nation join in a movement for the
construction of great highways.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16

Des Moines has been working hard
to get the Burlington road to put on
additional trains between that city
and points in the southern part of the
state. Of course Des Moines insists
that it's demands are for the conven-
fence of the public but if that is
true, then why, pertinently inquiries
the Iowa City Republican, not let the
people in the southern part of the
state do the complaining? The same
paper truthfully adds:
The fact is whenever city makes
a play for better train service, invar
iably it is after the trade that belongs
to the smaller towns. The railway
company which takes care of the small
towns, is the one that best serves its
patrons. The Iowa railway commits
sioners long have recognized the policy
of taking care of the smaller cities
and towns, and they have been much
criticised by the papers in cities like
Des Moines, and sometimes country
newspapers, too dull to see the point
| join in the criticism.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16
SHERMAN AND ROOSEVELT.

At the recent Gridiron club dinner
in Washington Vice President-elect
Sherman came in for a share of at
tention, as a matter of course. A
song was sung dealing with his past,
present and future. The first verse
told how all the delegates at Chicago
had welcomed the mention of his
name, and tn last verse outlined the
sad story Of mis- future as follows:
So Sherman accepted, you let that he
did,
And when he went stumping he lifted
the lid.
He dealt poor old Bryan terrible
blow
That made him seek refuge in far
Mexico.
Alas. in the senate poor Sherman
must be
AS mute as the mummy of Pharoah
you see.
He'll have to sit quiet the whole live
long day,
But how he viii stand it we really
can't say.
President Roosevelt was introduced
to those present in the appended
verse:
,Tf in a speech you want to preach
To help the human race;
I If on tramp Trough waters damp
You lead merry chase;
If far away YOU 90 to STAY
The lion in its lair.
Where r you go, we say to you,
You beat them everywhere.
Following this "intl oduct.on' a
chorus band paid this tribute to the
chief executive:
There is not another Roosevelt in the
world like you;
You paint the whole horizon bright
red hue.
There is not stunt one thinks of you
would not dare do,
There is not another Roosevelt in the
world like you.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16
The INVISIBLE NUN.

In its annual book number last
week the Des Moines Register and
Leader printed production from the
pen of Clinton Scollard in the current
Metropolitan Magazine and pro-
nounced it the weeks best poem. .
In the same issue it printed a poem
by Major S. H. M. Byers, author of
"Sherman's March to the Sea- which
was far superior to the Scollard con
tribution. 1t is entitled THE Invisible
Num-, and reads as follows:
Three nuns there were in a. ship at
sea,
And each was very fair;
But one was fairer than all the rest,
And she had golden hair.
Sweet nuns they We're, and their ros-
aries
They counted every day;
They held their beads in their lily
hands,
would that | were they.
They We're but three the ship-folk
said,
Yet four there were, l swear:
For the fairest one counted twice,
Because she was SO fair.
counted twice-for two she was,
Plain as the stars above;
For half of her was a sweet nuns
And half was a face of Love.
And ever when on the deck they came.
And low their voices fell
The ship-folks bowed to the sisters
three,
l bowed to fourth as well.
And they are gone, with their rosaries,
Gone are the sisters three
But half of her with the golden hair
Will stay forever with me.
That this paper is not alone in its
high appreciation of the above poem
is attasted by the comment of the Ce-
dar Rapids Republican, which declares
that for beauty of suggestion and deli
cacy of thought it is one of the finest
things it has seen in recent verse,
and adds:
1t has something of the charm of
Rosetti, the greatest of the Rosettis
1T is only in the mind and heart of
a man who really feels poetry, as
well as writes it, that such concep-
ton could find place. The fourth
nun is the invisible spirit that fills the
world with beauty and with love, with
holiness and with graciousness. The
man who has not seen that invisible
one has not lived all there is in life.
If Major Byers had no other deserts
and had never written anything else
if we were President we would make
him minister at Berne for that poem
alone.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16

The Waterloo Courier claims that
Secretary Shaw talked with blind I'M
reserve and inaccuracy when he as
serted that modern society is honey
combed with socialism. 1t is to be
feared that the Courier is less open
to conviction of truth from that
source than if the warning had been
sounded from another quarter. The
latest Democratic national platform,
like several of it's predecessors. was
saturated with socialism. Does it
mean nothing that more than six mil
lion voters gave adherence to the doc
trines it proclaimed? Even the Re-
publican party is not free from evil
dences of the same thing, as witness
its trend toward paternalism. I'm
provement of the waterways of the
country at government expense which
everybody favors, smacks strongly of
the socialistic idea. Extension of the
functions OF the postoffice department
to include banking and parcels post be-
longs in the same category Perhaps
if the Courier will analyze the situa-
ticn more carefully it will be less dis
posed to take issue with former Sec
rotary Shaw.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16

1t is given out from Des Moines that
there was less crime in Iowa during
the past year than during the proceed
ing year, according to the report of
the secretary of state now being com
piled from the reports of the district
court clerks throughout the state In
dications are that this report will show
decided improvement in the social
condition of the state The offenses
Tor which men and women were con-
victed We're not as heinous as some
have been in the past.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16

The delinquent tax sale in Bremen
county, this state, involved only
twenty-seven pieces of property and
brought in a paltry s26oS4. A year
ago the receipts from the same source
We're only $3.50; two years ago, $500.
and three years ago. s420. The record
is one of which Bremen county may
well be proud.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16
Congressman Kennedy.

Bonaparte Record: Congressman
G. A. Kennedy made special visit to
every county seat in his district be-
fore leaving for Washington. He an
nounced his dates and in this man
ner came into personal relation with
many whom he had not previously met
and who had various duties for him
gressmen who resent being made the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16
The Cedar Rapids Gazette has a

The Cedar Rapids Gazette has a
paragraph to the following effect:
Those who went to hear, were told
yesterday how Cedar Rapids got Billy
Sunday A year from now we will be
hearing how Billy Sunday got Cedar
Rapids-maybe.
There is no maybe" about it. Mr..
Sunday will get" Cedar Rapids as
surely as he goes after it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16
NO SLOT MACHINE INSURANCE

Auditor of State Carroll has decided
that slot machines which sell insur
ance policies cannot be legally located
and operated in Iowa He has writ
ten 10 the North American Accident
Insurance company of Chicago to that
effect. That company maintains a
large number of machines in the de.
pots of the state. Travellers deposit
a quarter in the slot and get an acct
dent policy good for a day. They can
do so no longer.
The auditor quotes law authorities
TO the effect that insurance is con-
tract whereby one party undertakes
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16

DIR. Macarthur is oppoced to the
Christmas tree custom because it de
forests the hills" There is something
in the objection. of course, but the
deforestation of the hills it occasions
isn't circumstance to it's depletion
of the pocketbooks.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16

The Clinton Herald thinks it only
fair to say that not half the liars in
the country are engaged in newspa-
per work. 1t might have added with
equal truth that those so engaged are
not the most Industrious, either.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16
keokuk, Iowa. -. December IS, 1908.

According to the latest scientific
dictum a soul is merely an "aggrega-
ton of psychomeres." A psyche
mere"-but everybody knows what a
"psychomere" is.