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of rubles and drank their vodka. It has the same bar room and the same Odessa billiard table, but the vodka has disap- peared and Japanese bartender dis penses saki instead. Japanese girls wait upon you in the dining room and Jap anese boys act as your chambermaids. The hotel belongs to the South Man churian railway, which Is now Japanese corporation, and 1t has become a most orderly place.
 Grand Pianos for $25.
 I had talk this evening with an offi- cial who was here when Port Arthur fell. He tells me that the Russians were crazy to get away, and that furniture of every kind went for a song. Said he: Sofas, tables and chairs could be had for the asking, and grand pianos brought $25 piece. Costly hangings were thrown out into the streets, and some of the houses were set fire to by their owners. After we took possession I found our sol- diers tearing up valuable books, and using them for fuel or throwing them out Into the snow, and I besought the general in charge to allow me to go through the town and save the libraries He did so, and as he saw how many books there were gave me detail of soldiers to bring them in. We collected altogether about 2o,0oo valumes. The most of them were in Russian, but there were a thou sand or so in French and English. Sev- eral hundred were in Italian and some Chinese and Japanese. There were nine sets of encyclopedias all Russian or German, and a great many musical books.
 I tried to catalog them, classifying them first by languages, and later by subjects. The most of the volumes were fiction. but there were many scientific works. There were Russian translations of Shakespeare and Dickens, and also of Mark Twains "Innocents Abroad" The Russians had every luxury here. They lived well and at the close even better than we Japanese; for by the terms of our equalization we gave them fresh meat although we were living on canned stuffs ourselves. Nevertheless we could not sat isfy them."
 The Port Arthur of Russia was far diff ferent from that of Japan. In the old
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Port Arthur In 1909
BY FRANK e. CARPENTER.

Copyright, 1909, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
 Port Arthur Manchuria, 1909 T SPENT this morning on Quail Hill,
 where the Japanese are erecting a me- | morlal in honor of their heroes who died at Port Arthur. This hill is a saddle shaped elevation which rises to height of 1000 feet out of the arena of the ann pitheatre In which Port Arthur Is To- cated It faces the narrow entrance to the harbor where the Japanese and Rus sian gunboats showered shells upon one another, and about 1t may be seen the hills forming the rim of the amphitheatre upon which were the Notifications taken one by one by the Japanese during the siege.
 Quail Hill from now on will be called Monument Hill. It Is a fitting site to mark the glorious victory of the soldiers of the Mikado. It overlooks Golden Hill and the Tigers Tail, which, with their Notifications, protect the harbor entrance, and 1t is the first elevation to be seen coming in from the sea.
 It is right upon It's top that the monu- ment is now going up. great temple of silver gray granite, 1t will be about 300 feet high and will cost almost $2O0,000. The stone for 1t is coming by the ship load from ShimonoselI, Japan, and hun dreds of huge granite blocks are now scattered about the harbor and at the foot of the hill. Many of them are as large as a library table, and not a few weigh several tons each. A cable road has been constructed from the harbor to the site of the monument, and steam engine drags up the blocks on low cars.
 The monument is already about one third completed. The pedestal has been finished and the first series of Ionic col umns erected. The scaffolding about the structure can be seen for miles around Port Arthur, and the monument will com
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mand both land and sea- When I visited 1t today 200 Chinese masons were chisel- ing at the stones and the great blocks were rapidly rising into place. The work is being done by Manchurian Chinese un- der Japanese overseers
 Twenty-two Thousand Heroes.
 I have visited the worlds most fa- nous monuments from the mighty shaft to Washington, which rises from the base of the Potomas in our own capital city and the great sarcophagus @of Napoleon in Paris, to the gigantic boulders on the Rhodesian Hills, which mark the grave of Cecil Rhodes, but l have seen nothing so impressive as this At one end of the mighty eleva- ton stands the monument; and at the other end, perhaps 800 feet distant, Is a Shinton shrine of this same sil- yer gray granite, under which lie the bones of more than 22,000 Japanese heroes, who were killed at Port Arthur. The platform upon which the shrine stands Is reached through a great cop per bronze toril; and at each side If the latter is a granite lantern, like those one sees at Nikko and about the other shrines of Japan. The stone plat form must be more than 100 feet square, although the shrine itself Is comparatively small. These two monu- mentS cover the whole top of the hill.f They are reached by military roads, which wind their way up the mountain. and also by steps for foot passengers.
 The BattIefieIds of Port Arthur.
 Come with me to the foot of the mon ument and take birds eye view of the l(lttleields of Port Arthur, as they lie here in this quiet year of our Lord 1909. We are right In the midst of the amphitheatre in which, for eight months, day and night, went on the greatest gladiatorial show the world has yet known. Just under us is the harbor which was filled with the Rus sian gunboats; and on it's shores are the old and new towns which were oc- cupied by the soldiers during the siege. On that sea, outside, lay the blockad- ing Japanese squadron sending its shrieking shells at the ships and the city On the hills all about us were Russian soldiers, and on their oppo- site sides, the Japanese armies, crawl ing and blowing and turnneling their way to the forts. The story of how, inch by inch, every bit of the ground was fought over and how at last Japan was successful has been told iE song and story; and you may find 1t to- day in the books describing the war. doubt. however, whether any such story can show the real wonders of the de- fense and attack; or the heroism of both bodies of troops.
 The country about here is much like the
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took place. The grounds are scared by iron shot and the face of old Mother Earth has been pockmarked by the siege. The shells were thrown everywhere, and some of them went deep into the ground. As soon as the fighting was over the Chinese by the thousands swarmed over the landscape and gathered up every bit of lead and iron in sight. They even dug up the shells. Often they would find one which had not been exploded and would innocently pound on the cap with a pick. The result was another big hole in the earth, and the almond-eyed dig gers scattered over the landscape in pieces
 Today 1t Is difficult to find large chunks of shell, although there are innumsrable bits of iron about the forts as well as all sorts of relics of the Japanese and Russians. There are army buttons, torn caps and coats and pieces of the barbed wire which, charged with electricity. en- tangled the soldiers as they climbed the hills and burnt them to death. I saw rotting sandbags and altered leather coats worn by the Russians here and there about one of the forts, and picked up a pocketful of splinters from the shells which the Japanese had thrown.
 The terrors of the siege are shown by the museum in Port Arthur. The gov ernment has collected relics from the various battlefields and placed them in d DlB DululHB OutSlue Iuc tOWH They have made models of the forts, which show the deviiish ingenuity that both the Japanese and Russians used in de- stroying one another. There are great coils of the barbed wire which was scat tered over the hillsides. The wire was connected with powerful batteries inside the Notifications, and such soldiers as blundered against it in the dark were sure to be killed. There were twenty kinds of hand grenades. filled with nitro glycerin. They look like miners lamps. but when thrown they really lit the way to death.
 The Japanese had wooden guns, 10 or 12 inches in diameter, which they carried with them into the trenches Their projectiles for these were cans of Shimose powder holding from a pint to two quarts, and they caused ter rible destruction. They had also squares of deal board which were buried few inches below the surface. Attach ed to these were tubes of acids so connected by wires that they ex- ploded as the troops stepped on the boards, throwing Q wh ole company into the air.
 Here also are the mines which were used on land and sea. These are acorn shaped iron shells as big as a bush el basket which would blow up a ship at sea or destroy company or regi- ment upon land.
 The museum has every kind of shell, from some as high as one's shoulder
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bare hills of Montana or Colorado. It Is. dry and thirsty. There is no vegetation except scanty grass, with here and there bit of scrub oak. The fighting was all In the open, and the Notifications had to be thrown up out of rock gravel and dis integrated stone. The tunnels, made by the Japanese. were not through earth, but through rock, and in undermining the forts they could go but few feet day. Nevertheless, while overlooking these hills one sees scores of miles of such trenches. The work on the embankments reminds you of the great Chinese wall and the hundred miles and more of mtli- tary roads which the Russians built to reach their various Notifications im- press one with the vast sums which they spent, all in vain. Their forts were of concrete, reinforced with iron, and they embrace a circle or more than 10 miles. They made Port Arthur, the strongest fortress ever beseged.
 Today all of the forts erected for land defense are in ruins. The Japanese do not intended to repair them, and the only work they are doing is upon those facing the sea. They have added to and strength ened the fortresses on Golden Hill and the Tigers Tail, and they prohibit stran- gers from visiting the battlefields along the coast
 As to the other parts of Port Arthur one may go anyWhere, provided ne leaves his camera at home. There are scores or droschlIies which were brought in by the Russians, and are now owned by Chinese. These are hauled by little Manchurian ponies. and they will take you all over the country at 26 cents an hour or for little more than s2 a day.
 Mother Earth's Face Pockmarked.
 During my stay here I have visited mi nv of the hattleheldS and have tramped over the hills where the severest fighting
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The Bishops Choice,

From the LOS Angeles Herald.
 A celebrated Anglican divine, the late bishop of Rochester, who had been ailing for some time, decided to consult Sir Frederick Treves, the noted surgeon. After a careful examination Sir F-reder- ick pronounced his verdict, and added winter resort on the Riviera"
 Impossible" replied the bishop. "I have too much work to get through"
 Well" sal dthe doctor. you must make your choice. It is either Algiers or heaven"
 Dear me-" exclaimed the bishop, with sigh; then I suppose 1t must be AL giers'
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STATE NORMAL COLLEGE,
Florence, Ala.

Equipment-Fine Library, Chemical, Physical and Biological Laboratories, Shop for Mechanic Arts, Model School for Practice Teaching, etc.
 Courses in Mathematics, Science M2dern Ianguages, Literature, Latin, Er glish. History, Common Branches. Psycl blogy and. Methods, Manuel Training, MPsic. The whole session is devoted to thJ work of training teachers Gradual hold important positions.
 xell term begins September 1S.
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-01
FACE or MAN; MIND
AND BODY OF CHILD

New York, Mar. 1.-Physicians or
the Harlem hospital are watching
with interest the experiments which
are being made on Harry Needleman
a tailor's son, who has been stunted
mentally and physically by the re-
moval of the thyroid gland In his
neck when he was six months old. Al
though he now is 26 years old, he
is only three feet eight inches tall,
and while he has the face of man
his mind Is that of a child. Surgeons
are now administering daily an ex-
tract made from the thyroid gland of
sheep by means Of which it is hop
ed to start afain the long retarded
development of mind and body Re-
suits so far seem to be good, although
the case has not progressed to any eX-
tent where any marked change can
be noticed. Five grain doses of the
extract are given to the patient daily
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-01
IN DEFENSE Or THE NORMAL SCHOOLS

wears in normal school working,
specializing, carefully preparing unr
der the guidance Of critics whose
years of experience and observations
or experiences of others, are being
constantly used in the training OF IN
experienced men and women?
Students who enter normal school
are guided and taught to train the
child from the time they enter uh-
tn they are presented with a dipIo-
ma. The teaching spirit Is instilled
into their very being during the en-
tire course.
The idea Of many Of our present
senators is that the University grad
uate with a limited normal course
can do the same quality Of work that
a normal graduate can do. The
University may give the material ed
ucatlon, but the child study and de-
velopment cannot be given at any
other place than thoroughly equ-
ipped training department Of
thoroughbred" normal school.
Consult the heads Of the different
institutions of learning in your own
city who make it business to inves-
tigate and know about the work OF
the different teachers, and they with
out question can and will tell you tina
the teacher of training is the one who
is doing most for the boys and girls
of your place. Ask your own boy o.
girl as to whether or not the teacher
OF training can or cannot stand be
fore class and present the ordi
nary every day lesson in a more log
ical and learned way, and in half th'
time It takes an inexperienced one Il
do II.
The Oregon seate by abolishing tn
normal school has pulled up the YER
roots of our public school system
Cannot the teachers. parents an
children of this city do something to
ward replantlng them ere they die
I A NORMAL GRADUATE.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-01
LIGHTNING SETS FIRE
TO A CAN OF GASOLINE

The Lynch Printing company, at
so Marietta street. was the scene last
evening at 1850 o'clock of VIOLENT
explosion of gasoline. which broke
out all the front plate glass WIN
dows. and shattered the glass tran
SONS above, says the Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
A slight blaze followed the explo-
sion. and the fire department was
called out. Chemicals were used 10
extinguish the flames The damage
was probably $500.
A can Of gasoline, with a loose-fit-
ting paper stopper, had been placed
in the rear Of the shop, under an
electric switch. Presently came a
bright flash OF lightning. which 'gnit-
ed the rapidly diffusing fumes of the
liauid. at this time all over the store
The result of the ignition was vio'
lent conclusion.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-01

Predatory animals throughout the
sheen grazing districts Of Oregon and
Washington are to be the objects OF
n rigid crusade OF determination to be
started by the officials of the nation
n forest service. Confress has passed
n bill approprlating $1,000 for the pur
pose of having hunters to spend their
time killing these animals and these
nimrods, with a number of hunters
likely to be employed to aid the ore
eon Wool Growers Association, VIII
make life miserable for the cougars
COYOTES. timber wolves, wildcats and
bears that have for so long slaughter
ed sheep on the ranges Of eastern Or
cgon and washington.
The men to be employed by the
government to engage In this WORK
are all experienced hunters and are
experts in hunting down predatory
animals. Less experienced, but new
crthclcss proficient hunters VIII be
employcd by the Wool Growers AS
sociation. This system has been tried
IN California and there one hunter
alone killed II bears. The slaughter
Of sheen has been found to be ma
terially decreased wherever the sys'
tom has been tried.
This action came as a result ot
conference between Dan p. Smythe o
pordlcton and the forest service Of
flcials here and should result in mucf
good to the sheep growers OF th'
state. The average death rate amons
the sheep has been as high as 40 am
mails to the herd of 1000, but 1t i
cynected that It will grow less eaci
year from now on.
The district to be covered by thes
hunters will comprise all of the ma
tlonal forest reserve In eastern ore
pon and the Wcnatchee and Wenahi
districts wherever grazing is permit
ted. Of the animals which prey oI
tho sheep in this district the bear |
probably the least trouble, but bruli
will have to go along with the rest
Portland Journal,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-01
WIRELESS ADDS NEW
TERROR TO BATTLES

Los Angeles, Cal, Mar. 1.-Propeil-
ing and controlling submerged tor
pedoes by wireless telegraph, hurting
Instruments Of destruction against
hostile battleships without the sac
rlflce of men on the part of the naval
power equipped with the new terror
this Is made possible by the inven-
ton Of Carl Abrahamson.
Abrahamson Is now engaged in MS
laboratory in San Diego perfecting
the minute details of the wireless ter
ror for the use Of the United states
navy department
Nearly month ago Abrahamson In
the presence OF two attorneys, two
naval Officers and two naval experts
from the department at Washington,
conducted experiments with his In
vention which cleared up every doubt
as to it's ability to do what the in
yentor claims for IT.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-01

"We believe that every man IN TINS
world has the right to believe as he
pleases, also to follow out in actions
that belief and what II may lead up
to, provided he does not In any way
injure society" Can Vt be that there
Is in the state of oregon a man who
believes that the state senate, by its
recent action In abolishing the nor
NAL schools of our state. has not,
should this action continue in force,
Injured the society of our state?
Have the teachers of oregon no In
fluence on society? The foundation
OF good society is good citizenship;
the foundation Of good citizenship Is
good schools. No where does the
child come under the direct influence
of one person so mucn as in the
school room. Are you, as parents,
willing that your child should be
practiced on by an inexperienced,
unframed teacher who has but re-
Gently graduated from high school?
You say this teacher or that teacher
VINO rs "a SUCCESS ldu Nv h'i'''N'
school training. This teacher, or
that teacher whoever he or she may
be has worked out his or her own
salvation somewhere or somehow,
phacticlng on innocent children and
he or she can and will tell you frank
ly that an unlimited amount Of en-
ergy and hours of time were spent by
both teacher and child working out
the problem that should have been
worked out in a training school.
Must every man work his expert
ence and knowledge of life from the
very foundation of the world? Do W.
gain nothing or are we not wiser foI
the experience other have passed
through?
Can high school graduate with
limited high school. so called. norma
course cope or be expected to cop
with or equal in efficiency teachers
who have spent from two to foul
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-01
LEGISLATURE WAS NOT EX7RAVAGANT

not such a wild scattering of the
public funds as many have been led
to suppose.
Even members of the legislature
were under the impression that they
were making s4,O00,000 appropria-
tions. But counting everything that
can be counted, including the eastern
Oregon asylum contingent, the Will
lamette locks contingent and the ap'
propriation bill that failed, the total
would have been only sS,7OO,OOO.
Included in the s3,149,652 total is
$4,000 for state sanitariums that
will not become available during the
next two years this being the yearly
maintenance provided, and there will
be nothing to maintain until next
year. Then, unless congress proceeds
in unusual and unexpected haste,
nothing will be appropriated for the
purchase of the locks before 1910, at
the earliest. If these sums are ex-
cluded from the total, the footing
would be only s2,S24,652, or $2S2,222
less than was appropriated by the
session of 1907.
That the appropriations have been
held down to less than 100000 in ex-
cess of two years ago will be surpris-
ing to many in view of liberal sums
voted for improvements, such as
100000 for the Crater Lake road,
$4,000 for extending the portage rail-
road from Big Eddy to The Dalles,
$4,000 for removal of the deaf mute
school, $4,000 for armories, $4,000
for bridge over the Snake river,
$4,000 for state sanitariums for the
treatment of tuberculosis and $4,000
for new fish hatcheries. - Portland
! Journal
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-01

Appropriations made by the legls-
lature of 1909. after deducting a few
thousand dollars cut off by the gov
ernor's veto ak, stand at $3.14s,652.
This is only $9O,77S more than was
voted by the legislative assembly of
two years ago.
These figures do not include two
large contingencies that may be add
ed but do include $500, 600 to be rails
ed for tax levy beginning at $11OO for
the purchase of the locks at oregon
CITY. a sum that will not be expended
unless the government contributes its
share of the the expense. This contln-
gent amount is included because 1t
makes a part of the total of the ap-
preparations of two years ago, though
100000 of the amount will not BIT
collected.
The $S.149,652 total does not in
clude the provision for the eastern
Oregon asylum. Two hundred thou
sand dollars authorized for that pur-
pose will not be used unless the peo-
pie approve the project at the cleo
ton in 1910. Another item omitted
is the $S5OO64 that the legislature
intended to appropriate for improve
ments at the insane asylum and at
other state institutions. This bill fail
ed because of the miXup between the
two houses in the closing hours, and
therefore cannot be counted unless the
lawmakers convene in extra session
and make it a law.
The appropriations of the twenty
third session in 1905 were $2,23O,4SS
In 1907 the figures jumped to $S,O5S,'
S74. an Increase of SS2S,441. An in
crease of only 100000 over the two
years goes TO show that there wa'
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-01
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