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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-05
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

The color OF the ground was in him,
the red earth.
The tang and odor OF the primal
things
The rectitude and patience of the
rocks:
The gladness of the wind that shakes
the corn;
The justice of the rain that loves all
leaves;
The pity of the snow that hides all
scars:
The loving kindness of the wayslde
we'll;
The tolerance and equity of light
That gives as freely to the shrinking
weed
As to the great oak. flarlng to the
wind
To the groves low hill as to the mat
terhorn
That shoulders out the sky.
And so he came
From prairie cabin up to Capital,
One fair ideal led our chieftain on.
For evermore he burned to do his
deed
With the fine stroke and gesture of a
king.
He built ne rail pile as he built the
state,
Pouring his splendid strength
through every blow,
The conscience of him testing every
stroke.
To make his deed the measure of a
man.
So came the captain with the mighty
heart;
And when the step OF earthquake
shook the house.
Wrenching the rafters from their an
clent hold.
He held the ridge pole up and spiked
again
The rafters of the home He held his
place
Held the long purpose like a growing
tree
Held on through blame and faltered
not at praise.
And when he fell in whirlwind, he
went down
AS when a kingly cedar. green with
boughs,
Goes down with a great shout upon
the hills.
Edwin Markham.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-05

perlntendent in charge of the state
asylum for the insane, who has pur-
chased enough cuttings OF the much
advertised spIneless cactus to plant
10 acres of sand hills on the asylum
farm.
If this wonderful plant. which has
been given to the world by Wizard
Burbank, does half II is claimed to do
it will solve suddenly the problem
of dry land farming. There are hum
dreds of thousands OF acres Of arid
land in Idaho so located as to be i'm.
possible of irrigation. This land IL
largely used now as a range.
II it can be converted into fields of
the Burbank cactus 1t will be able to
support a hundred times more sheep
and cattle than 1t does now. There
fore, the experiment to be made by
DR.. Hoover at the asylum farm will
be of utmost interest to the state
Pocatello Tribune.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-05

After Bishop Paddock comes to
Pendleton and looks over this rich
and prosperous district, views the
promise of this country. recognizes
the accessibility of Pendleton from all
parts of his immense diocese, and
meets the splendid citizenship of this
city and county there will be no
doubt about the location of his home.
This city is the geographical center
of his diocese. 1t is most accessible
from all parts of eastern oregon, has
unequalled train and mail service
and the eastern Oregon diocese is di-
rectly tributary to this city.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-05
/, THE FIRE DRILL.
**+*****+++%++4 :

Every public school in the country
should practice regularly the fire
drill. While it is too late to get
scared after a horror comes. al may
seem tickle to take up a serious mat
ter Of this kind simply because an ac-
cident has happened, yet the Cleve-
land horror in which IT'S school child
ren were burned to death, should
stimulate every school district in the
country to take precaution.
1t requires but a few moments to
practice the fire drill and it should
be done daily. The state should en-
force the rule rigidly for while educat-
ing children the state is under obliga-
ton to give them adequate protec-
ton.
Not week should pass in the pub
lie schools without a fire drill. The
teachers and children should be thor
oughly familiar with it and superin-
tendents and boards should see that
this Is not overlooked.
The life Of one little scholar Is worth
ten thousand times more than all the
time that may be thus consumed in
q century.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-05

the 100000 cells in your brain
Or are most Of them plugged up with
stupid laziness? Each one OF these
cells represents a unit of work, just
as each cell In the hOney-comb means
certain amount of labor for the bee
The beehive cells are filled with
honey and the cells OF your brain are
filled with protoplasm.
This protoplasm may be dead use
less stuff, or It may be the active,
wide-awake kind. Is the protoplasm
in your brain dead OF alive? II most
of 1t is dead, then wake 1t up, Stimu-
late It with some good old. fashioned
hard-headed thinking Don't be
afraid to think hard. II you are not
required to think constantly in your
present position, get a job where you
will have to use all your brains.
The average weight for the human
brain is 800 grams. The monkeys
brain weighs $50 grams. II you are
using only half your brains, then you
are no better off than the monkey.
and who wants to be a monkey?
When you accept position with a
concern you are selling your brains
all Of them. Be fair In the matter.
Be fair with your employer and be
fair with yourself Give him all you
have. Let the convolutions in your
gray matter grow deeper. Get the
benefit of every one of the 600, 900, 900
cells.
Don't be monkey but use all your
brains.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-05

ber 2l vessels, with half a dozen
others fully due. The January fleet
carried Oregon staples of a value OF
approximately sS,OOO,OOO. The value
of the February cargoes was about
$2,4OO,OOO, and March figures will be
about the same as those for February.
Exclusive of the coastwise business,
Portland exporters have cleared an
average of 100000 worth OF the three
staples mentioned, every business day
since November 1. These figures ac-
count in no small degree for the elm
ination of the financial stringency so
far as Portland and oregon are con-
cerned.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-05
IT'S TINE TO FIGHT ANARCHY

The two recent anarchistic Outrages,
the murder of the Denver priest and
the attempt on the life of Chicago's
cief of police and the recurrence OF
bomb explosions in eastern cities,
have finally reused the people Of this
country to the extreme danger and
menace that the spread of anarchy
has brought, says the Spokane Chron-
icle.
All have heard of anarchy. and rea-
lized that anarchists are undesirable
citizens" but nearly all have been
Indifferent, not realizing that their
laws. lives and institutions are already
seriously menaced.
Now, however, the people are be-
ing awakened, and efficient action
should follow. The police. the coun-
try over, will now war on all anar-
chists. Added to that the Catholic
church will exert its tremendous in
huence against the spread Of the doc
trines Of anarchy The danger in
which religion stands was eXemplified
by the Denver murder, and the un-
reasoning hate Of anarchists for the
officers Of the law was clearly shown
Monday in Chicago.
Sneaking murderers who work in
the dark, who shoot, kill and wreck
without warning without even the
excuse OF personal enmity for their
victims, have no place in this coun-
try or anywhere in the world,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-05
WAsHINGTON's DISCOVERY.

There is a great temptation. when
a man get on his feet to speak to a
crowd, to state thing a little strong
er than it is" said Booker T. Wash
ington recently. at seems to me it's
harder to tell the truth to a number
of people than to one man."
Mr.. Washington is right-when one
has a large and attentively sympathet-
ic audience, he is liable to stretch the
truth-just a little-for the effect of
feeling that he is able to sway peo-
pie. Maybe that is the reason that so
many of the promises heard just be-
fore election are often unkept.-spo-
kane Chronicle.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-05
A SCHOOL BLUNDER.

The oregonian of March in dis
cussing the relative merits and de-
merits of the University Of Oregon
and the oregon Agricultural college,
brings out some pertinent facts which
are worthy of consideration and
thought.
While there cannot be too much
education nor too many good educa-
tional institutions, yet the questions
suggested by the Oregonian are time
ly and highly essential to a thorough
understanding Of Oregon's higher ed
vocational standards The editorial is
as follows
1t cannot be denied that C. S. HUI
lin, OF Newberg, lays his finger on a
real weakness in our educational sys-
tenn when he speaks of the duplica-
ton of courses at Eugene and Cor
wallis.
1t is, beyond all question, an educa-
tional calamity that the university
and the agricultural college are not
united in one institution instead of
being established in different cities
and existing more or less in the capac-
ity of rivals both covering to a GER
tain extent the same ground.
It is also regrettabIe that this
weakness is beyond remedy. The
problem Of uniting the two institutions
Is now hopelessly insoluble, and the
some can be said of the duplication of
courses. Eugene ought not to drop
the technical and general scientific
courses, for without them her literary
work would become sterile. We live
in a scientific age and the college
which fails to teach the sciences
dooms itself to intellectual impo-
tence.
On the other hand, Corvallis must
continue to offer instruction in the
more essential literary branches, since
It would be wrong to deprive the stu
dents of well-rounded education.
They wish to pursue technical courses,
but they do not wish to become mar
row in mind and spirit. The fact is
that the colleges at Eugene and Cor
wallis are compelled by the very nature
Of a college to duplicate each others
work. This is one of the penalties
which the people Of oregon must pay
for permitting their educational inter-
ests to be managed BY politicians in |
the past instead OF by experts who
had the general welfare at heart; and |
il would be a sorry remedy for the |
to blight the future of
the university by cutting off its resour-
ces. While we have a university let
US support it with becoming liberality.
II we desire to join the group Of
semi -barbarous states which do not
maintain universities. that is another
matter.
The genuine remedy for the dupli-
cation of courses at Eugene and Cor
Wallis is, OF course, to repair the orig
nal blunder which separated the in
,titutions. This looks harsh and radi-
cal, but in the long run 1t would save
expense to the state while 1t would
enable the people to concentrate their
support upon one strong and progress
,ive college instead Of two struggling
1nes mutually jealous OF each others
We do not believe the
farmers as class will vote against
The appropriation for the State Uni
versity. They will sustain the insti-
tuition, though with a pretty general
feeling that something is wrong with
The system that compels them to pay
taxes for two colleges where one
would do better work.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-05
ROVER's SONG.

l shall leave them all behind me, all
the tinsel and the glare.
And the songs that lured and led me
to the pathsI dreamed so fair:
I shall bid goodby to pathways that
were tempting to my feet,
And give welcome to the meadows and
the clover blossoms sweet.
shall hear the woodthrush calling
and at morn the joyful note
OF the lark-shall drink for mlrth that
comes from every feathered
throat.
shall go the road l wandered when
l dreamed in twilight gloam,
And l wonder If they'll know me
when they see me coming
home?
I am going, staff and bundle, to the
winding, backward track
1 shall wend again the road beyond
the town that leads me back
To the fields Of blossomed sweetness
where the flags OF purple hue,
And the willows, graceful. bending, in
the quiet bayou grew.
There shall be no songs to call me,
songs that once were lifting
sweet,
When saw my last goodby and
homeward turn my weary feet.
No sea, no sky shall lure me, there
shall be no thirst to roam
And wonder If they'll know me when
they see me coming home?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-05
"PANTs" AND TROUSERS" )"

Everybody talks well when he talks
in the way he likes. the way he can't
help the way he never thinks of; the
rest is effort and pretense. The man
who says trousers" because he likes
to say It and the man who says
pants" because he likes to say 1t are
both good fellows with whom a frank
soul could fraternlze, but the man
who says trousers" when he wants
to say pants" Is a craven and a
trucker equally hateful to honest cul-
ture and wholesome ignorance.--At-
lantlc Monthly.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-05

Portland dispatched % cargoes Of
wheat, flour and lumber to China, ia
pan, Europe, Australia and South
America during the short month Of
February, says the oregonlan. There
are now in port under charter to load
outward with wheat, flour and lum-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-05

Andrew Carnegie has sent gift of
gratitude to Mrs. Henry Sanger
Snow. whose husband deserted her,
taking her fortune. Her father os-
sisted Carnegie many years ago. The
gift was q check for $4,000.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-05
ARE YOU USING YOUR BRAINP

Herbert ]. Hapgood in a series Of
short sermons for busy people. makes
use OF some convincing facts and
ciinches some points with fine mental
skill. One of his sermons is as fol-
lows:
Are you making use Of every one Of
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-05

= AS one who when a new-found Z
= landscape filings
? It's wealth OF promise open to I
? the eyes,
: Pauses with one glad impulse I
of surprise,
: And listens to the song of Joy
= that rings
= Through all the country, while I
= his own, heart sings
= In gladness with it-then I
= meath stranger skies
= Fares onward where the I
= untried future lies.
= Careless Of what the long. long I
= journey brings: I
= So I with you beside me I
= stretch my arms I
= In dauntless courage toward I
, the life to be.
> Gone are the idle fears, the I
= vague alarms I
, That marked the path behind I
= me; in your hand I
, I place my own and open Z
= eyed and free, I
. 1 journey with you toward the Z
, promised land. Z
, Mary Page Greenleaf, in I
3 Sunset. I
, r q . = !. 4. =. = I. = !. = 4 4 4 =.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-05
TO GROW sPINELEss CACTUS.

Every farmer in the arid districts
OF southern Idaho will watch with
much interest the experiment shortly
to be made by DR.. c. A. Hoover, su-
The Somerset reporter., 1908-03-05
Excessive Drinking
Orrine Destroys the Craving
for Drink Sold Under
Positive Guarantee

Excessive or continued use Of alcoholic
beverages always results in diseased condi-
ton Of the nervous system.
he drinking man IS often heard II say
81 can stop Of my own free will and when I
wish" bat the poor fellow is no% devoid Of
the power 10 act al the proper time and in
the right way, IT'S too late. the craving has
secured firm hold and because u the di.
seased nervous system he has not The ability
for sustained effort. The result Ne all know
Drunkenness IS no longer considered a
crime; eminent scientists and physicians
have agreed that it IS disease and must be
treated as such.
The home treatment that has been used
for number Of years, and IS highly success
full, is Ouine. II IS sold under a positive
guarantee that il il does not effect cure
your money will be refunded.
Ouine is in two forms. When desiring to
give secretly, purchase Ouine No. /, and if
the patient will voluntarily take the treat
ment, Ouine No. ? should be gwen. The
guarantee is the same in either case Orrine
costs bat Si.oo per boz. Mailed in a plain
sealed wrapper receipt Of price. Write
for free treatise on drunkenness mailed IN
sealed envelope 10y the Orrine Co., Washing
ton. d. c. sold by leading druggists every
where and IN this city by I. ". Buchanan.
The Somerset reporter., 1908-03-05
Epileptic Fits of
Children

Epilepsy or FITS in children IS even Of
greater frequence than in older people In
their active and restless life an attack is liable
to come a, a fatal monent. and the sun
shine Of homc viii be crushed out Of exist
ence A, the FIRST sign Of nervous twitching
or trembling, which is warning Of the di-
sease, Kosine should be used.
Deposit sI.so with Frank w. Bucknam and
get a bottle OF Kosine. II after using
same you are not satisfied with the results. he
will. return your money without question.
Price SI.so. Mail orders flied. lhe kosine
Co, Washington, d. c, OF Frank W. Buck
nam, Skewhegan, Me 10
The Somerset reporter., 1908-03-05
SO SOOTHING.
Its Influence HAs Been Felt by Sc
Many SkowheTan Readers.

The soothing influence OF relief
After suffering from Itching Piles,
From Eczema OF any itchiness OF
the skin.
Makes one 'eel grateful to The
remedy.
Doan Oln.mtn, has >oo,bed hun
dreds
Here's wba, one >sowbegan elt.len
SAYS
Frank Tooler, shoe maker, al IL
Madison Ave, and living Al Il Laugh
ton St, Skowhegan, Ne, says: "Our
little baby had some kind of a rash
on one side OF her tace. II was
very stubborn trouble and none of
the preparations we tried seemed to
help her n all. \ friend told me
about Doan's Ointment and | got a
box at Geo E. SIMPSONS drug store,
now Sampson 4 Avore's. We could
see Improvement the first morning
after il was used. A few applications
cured the trouble and healed the at
tiicted part 50 nicely that we could
not tell there had been a sore there
For Sale by all dealers. Price 90
cents Foster Milhurn Co, Buffalo,
New York Sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name Doan sand
take no other.
Sold and recommended oS + W.
Buchanan, Druggist.
The Somerset reporter., 1908-03-05
Death of Aged Citizen.

Alexander Weston, one OF our most
aged citizens, and direct descendent
of Joseph Weston, the first settler of
Skowhegan, died at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Chas. NJ. Fogg, on
North avenue, Saturday, as the result
of cold and congestion of the
lungs.
The deceased was born in Bloom
field, now Skowhegan, in May %,
1924, and all of his long life has been
passed here with The exception of the
last sixteen years, during which he
has divided his time between Skow-
hogan and Lynn, Mass, where two of
his SONS reside. Mr.. Weston was a
graduate of Bloomfield Academy. He
passed the first years after completing
his education in teaching in this and
other towns of Somerset county.
Later he took up the calling of laud
surveyor which he continued through
the active years of his life. Many of
the street and lot lines of this COM
munity were run out by him and the
lot plan of the South Cemetery was
made by him. He was for time the
Town Clerk of this place and also
served rs member of the School
board. In religious prefeHsnces he
was decided Cniversalist. He was
married in this place, in about 1885 to
Miss Climena Bickford of Smithfield,
who died January 20, 1880. The
surviving children are j. G. Fremont
Weston OF Thomaston, Mrs. c NJ
Fogg above mentioned and w. Abbott
and Laforrest, both of Lynn, Moss.
Funeral services were held at the
home of his daughter, Mrs, Fogg, on
North avenue, Tuesday afternoon,
conducted by the Rev. l.. l.. Lewis,
pastor OF the Universalist Church of
Madison
The Somerset reporter., 1908-03-05

ize himself in advance with the sub
jects that are 10 be considered 1t
would be great advantage if the
warrant could be made the subject of
discussion at a meeting or a series of
meetings held in the week preceding
the annual town meeting OF each
year, but in the absence OF that, each
citizen can benefit himself and his
town by giving 1t careful reading
and devoting the same thought to it
that he would to equally important
matters of his personal business
The Somerset reporter., 1908-03-05
Town Improvement Society.

The regular meeting Of the Town
Improve ment Society was held on
Friday, Feb. "A, in the Library parlors
with Mrs. Ada Daseombe and Miss
Lizzie Haines serving ar hostesses.
While the subject Of the afternoon,
English Literature OF the Nineteenth
Century came into the regular
course and line Of study pursued by
the Society during the past Two Sea
SONS, yet its treatment on this ocea-
sion by Miss Louise II. Coburn, Wa
very unusual in degree Of excellence
and interest, and the crowded rooms
gave eloquent testimony TO the de
sire Of all to whom the opportunity
was available to hear the clear. able
and analytical paper presented.
The fact that within the nineteenth
century there was given to the world
the greater part of all that is best in
literature, and that TO English writers
belongs the credit of producing books
that form the largest part Of the re-
sources of our own and all other
public Libraries, as well as most pri-
vate collections was brought forcibly
TO the attention of the listeners.
Poets, historians and essavists were
each considered in their proper class
and place, beginning with the trio Of
Lake poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge
and Southey. Sir Walter Scott, and
Shelley the poets poet were consider
ed. Keats who was characterized as
lone to whom poesy gave the freedom
OF her city," Moore, Lee, Hunt, Hood
who wrote the Song of the Shirt
that created such furore Of syn
pathy for the working woman
SEAN, gua>et and band.
Rand gAhset and sea
and who requested and deemed il
sufficient that upon his tom bstone
should be- placed this epitaph: He
wrote the Song Of the Shirt" Tenny-
son. Browning, and Mrs. Browning
the greatest woman poet that ever
wrote in English; Matthew Arnold,
Lord Lytton, Rossetti, Morris, ana
Swinburne who but tor his pugna
cious disposition would have sue
ceeded Lord Tennyson as poet
laureate of England; Christine Ros-
setti the greatest religious writer Of
the world, and Dickens the marvellous,
the inimitable. Gibbon, Bulwer and
Macaulay, Carlyle the prophet of dis
content-the noble discomfort that
helped all life; these and many
others were mentioned, and added TO
this to give point and finish TO the
whole, were inteTspersed recitations
of charming selections from the
various writers, closing with lifting
bewitching poem by Alfred Moves.
I'm Lilac Time"
No account would do justice to Miss
Columns presentation and method OF
dealing with the subject, and all who
heard her, aside from that pleasure,
are deeply grateful for the fact
brought freshly to mind in the most
interesting way, of the great riches of
books within reach Of the present
generation that all who will may
read.
Much pleasure was contributed to
! the afternoon by the music which
comprised Group OF Cradle Songs"
ga Rock a-bye Baby,
b. Husheen-Irish Hush Song,
&C. Lullaby,
! by Mrs. jeanette d. Judkins, and a
piano solo by Mrs Miriam Merrill
The Somerset reporter., 1908-03-05
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