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The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-10
Home Rule
A GOOD TIME.

~ 1OOO ' ll"E' WYE had a good time, - Life came with rosy cheeks and tender Across the morning fields to play
 with me. And. oh. how glad we were and romped And i'I@a laughed and kissed each other by the sea.
 I've had a good time. Love came and met me half way down Love went away, but there remained A little dream to help me bear my load, A something moro to watch for by the
 I've had a good time. Death came and took rosebud from my But sIsS, after that think there walked with me, To prove me how tho thing was not so An angel here of-evenings by the seq.
 I've had a good time A good. good time
 Nobody knows how good time but me. With nights and days of revel and or And tears tears and love and longing by the
 -MOuncO Byrd,
The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-10

It's hard to please everybody Some people don't want to be pleased Anything you can do or say for them only serves as fuel to fan the con. tinual fires Of strife,
The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-10

The passage of the postal savings bank bill is still pending in the sen ate. Although the republican party pledged itself to pass this bill in its platform, the bankers lobby have been able as yet to keep the matter in abeyance.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-10
What He Needed. |.

"You can see that am in need, ma'am." said the husky hobo. Cant you give me little assistance"
 certainly" answered the kind lady as she handed him cake of soap, .Here is what you need. -
The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-10

Down in Augusta they banQuetted president.elect Taft on possum. Now they are going to feed him alligator in New Orleans. If Bill doesn't watch out some of these southern cities will be giving him a rattle snake diet
The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-10

Poker experts will be astonished to learn that two pair are sometimes royal flushes. We refer to the meet, ing of the English and German royal families yesterday.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-10
FRESH GOODS.

The next Jefferson will bring us another fresh consignment of Fresh Premium Butter, Ranch Eggs, choice Poultry and Oysters. Our line oi fresh Salt Meats are the best to be had in any market.
 FRYE-BRUHN co.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-10
INTERIOR MEAIHER
Not q Gift.

Not a Gift. He-MlsS Pcachly certainly has the fatal gift of beauty, She-Why do you think SO? Heller complexion-isn't 1t a dream?
 She-Yes, but 1t isn't a gift. l was with her when she bought it-St Louis PoSt-Dispatch,
The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-10
A Hememade Puddle.

A Homemade Puddle. A ducklct very much desired To have a pond tor tanlO In which to paddle till he tired, Then rest upon the bank. But. Since pond could not be found. He cried like one berett The teardrops splashed upon the ground To right of him and left He squolled an hour as it appears, And then, 10 his surprise, He found himself afoat in tears And quickly dried hts eyes, Peter Newell in Saturday Evening Post.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-10
75C per bottle VIM. BRITT
 The Druggist
BRING YOUR OWN JUG.

Mount Vernon Rye and Belmont Bourbon direct from bond at whole, sale price by the gallon. The Mas cot, phone e. Delivery free.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-10
SUNNY AND WARMER

The result of the observation taken at Moore wharf at midnight, Feb. g 1909, is as follows; Temperature time observatn, 2 above Max. temp. preceding 24 hours 10 above Min. [" labOve Mean !" 5l above
 Barometer 29,94.
 Clear and north wind
The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-10
HEADACHES AND NEURALGIA
 FROM COLD.

LAXATIVE PROMO Quinine, tho world wide Cold and Grip remedy re- moves cause. Call for full name. Look for signature E. w, GROVE, 25c w.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-10

The cheering intelligence that bad blizzards are headed for the middle west was received over the cable yes terday. We Skagwayites might be worse off.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-10
RELIABLE ALL THE TIME.

The Pack Train Restaurant will serve wine with dinner orders, free In place of tea or coffee, Come on boys.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-10

All whisldes and wines served at the Pack Train Bar is purchased by Mir. Grim direct from the usdllers and win ies. H
The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-10

Yes, We have the proper sizes Of calling cards in the crash finish bris- tol. The proper type, too, The Daily Alaskan Job Dept.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-10

Turn about is fair play" The Skagway bowlers need not complain over their defeat at whitehorse.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-10

Now is the winter of our dtscon' tent" Act 1, Richard Third.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-10
BETTER PREPARED THAN EVER

Having put in a steam boiler and other machinery we are better pre-. pared than ever to do first.class work on short notice.
 SKAGWAY LAUNDRY.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-10

John Corson probably wishes he hadn't
The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-10
PANTHEON FIRE SALE.

owing to damaged labels caused by the fire In my warehouse [ will sell 3 Bottles Rainier beer ,,........5oe 3 Bottles Olympia beer ..........5oe i Bottle A. 8. c. beer ..........25e 3 Bottles Malt Rainier bser .....5oe 2 Pints Olympia beer ............25e 2 Bottles Ginger Ale .........,.25e These goods are not damaged, only the labels are solled, and this sale will continue until all are sold.
 J. F. ANDERSON,
 Pantheon Saloon.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-10
had RoYAL KlsslNe sgE.

As general thing kings and queens are about the same as the or, dtnary run Of humanity. They have the same joys, the same sorrows. the same ailments, the same ambitions, much the same tastes. Some Of them even possess sense of humor.
 Pity Che poor kings. Probably neither King Edward or Kaiser wil, helm enjoyed kissing each other, as they did yesterday, Yet these two mOnarchs gamely went through with the proceedings and then, just to take the bad taste out of their mouths, they kissed each others queen.
 It was a most rabjous occasion. Probably it was no less ridiculous to King Ed and Kaiser Bill than 1t is to the world at large But give them credit, they went through with the thing in most kingly fashion. Again we say, pity the kings. Except in the time of stress or trouble their chief use seems to be to contribute  to the gaiety of nations
 The |. 5. battleship Georgia seems to be hodooed. shortly after she was put into commission disastrous explosion occurred aboard her ih which several lives were lost, While passing through the Suez canal about a month ago two seamen fell overheard and were drowned. Three days ago her commander, Capt Maulrough, was relieved from duty for being drunk, and yesterday she collided with another war vessel. Why this series of calamides?
The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-10

Good friends are a mans best as. set.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-11-16
COLLEGES.

What should a lad go to college for
for work for the realization of a
definite aim, for discipline and a Sc
we're training of his faculties, or for
relaxation, for the release and exer-
else of his social powers, for the
broadening effects of life in sort of
miniature world in which study is only
one among many interests? That is
not the only alternative suggested by
recent discussions. They also suggest
sharp alternative with regard to the
character of the study the college
student should undertake. Should he
seek at college a general discipline of
his faculties, a general awakening to
the issues and interests of the modern
world, or should he, rather seek
specially and definitely to prepare
| himself for the work he expects to do
after he leaves college. for his sup
| port and advancement in the world?
The two alternatives are very differ
ent. The one asks whether the lad
I does not get as good a preparation for
modern life by being manager of a
football team with a complicated pro-
gramme of intercollegiate games and
/ trips away from home as by becoming
proficient in mathematics or in his
tory and mastering the abstract tasks
of the mind; the other asks whether
he is not better prepared by being
given the special skill and training of
particular calling or profession, an
| immediate drill in the work he is to
do after ne graduates than by being
made a master of his own mind in
the more general fields of knowledge
to which his subsequent calling will be
related. in all probability, only as
every undertaking is related to the
general thought and experience of the
world.
Learning" is not involved. No one
| has ever dreamed of imparting learn
| ing to undergraduates. 1t cannot be
done in four years. To become a man
of learning is the enterprise of a life
| time. The issue does not rise to that
high ground. The question is merely
this; do we wish college to be, first
of all and chiefly, a place of mental
discipline or only a school of general
experience: and. if we wish it to be a
place of mental riscipline, of what
place of mental discipline of what
a general awakening and release of
the faculties, or a preliminary initia
ton into the drill of a particular vo-
cation?
These are questions which go to the
root of the matter.-From What is
a College For?" by Woodrow Wilson,
in the November Scribner
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-11-16
THE WEATHER.

Eastern Oregon has just been in the
| grip of an unusual storm. 1t has been
many. many years since Umatilla
! county was visited with so much snow
and such cold weather at this time of
the year.
However at present it appears the
loss from the storm will be light. The
snow serves to protect the fields al
ready seeded to wheat. Whether the
weather will again become favorable
for seeding remains to be seen. If it
does not many farmers will be disap'
pointed for a considerable number
have not finished seeding But it will
he unusual indeed if we do not have
several weeks of fair weather before
the real winter arrives.
! Flockmasters who have all their
sheep upon their winter ranges have
not suffered by the cold. But it will
be miraculous if losses are not in
CURED by those having sheep still in
! The mountains.
/ Tho extent to which potatoes have
been damaged remains to be seen.
Many farmers had not dug their po-
tatoes when the bad weather began
and it now looks like they will have
t. leave them in the ground during the
winter. Such a proceeding will cause
less, the amount of loss being largely
dependent upon the class of weather
between now and spring.
The rainfall up to this time is slight
l. above the normal and this fact is
encouraging because moisture has
been the missing element during the
past two seasons.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-11-16
SOCIALISM.

There will never be need of the bull
let mentioned by Rose Pastor Stokes in
the dispatches yesterday. Mrs.
Stokes. VINO is the wife of a Million
aire socialist objects because organ
lied wealth is combining to fight So
cialism. She says the ballot must be
used against the Rothchilds and that
If it proves ineffective resort must be
had to the bullet
The safety of this country lies
in the fact that the great bulk of our
people are neither of the predatory
rich nor the miserably poor. Politi-
cally they are neither rabid advocates
or "stadpatism" nor are they anar-
cbists. The average American citizen
is sound of mind and is ever ready to
do the right as he sees it. This "aver-
age American citizen" is the ruler of
this country. By his ballot he can
make laws and name officers to en-
force them. All that people need to
do is TO convince him that a certain
course is right and he will follow it.
There is no need of the red flag of
anarchy in America.
AS a matter of fact this country is
progressing rapidly along the social
istic path. But 1t is moving in a sane
and sensible manner not with a rush
rs socialists would have it go. Gov
ernmental reclamation is a distinct
lively socialistic step. Governmental
regulation of railroads is socialistic
proposition. The idea of conserving
the natural resources of the country so
that all the people may share in the
riches provided by nature is applied
socialism. Other steps will be taken
just as fast as seems advisable.
The trouble with most socialists is
that they want the world to move too
swiftly. They forget that man is a
product of evolution; thar from the
prehistoric cave to the modern sky
craper has been long journey taken
step by step and that mans progress
f. the future must be as in the past
gradual
II is foolish for those who claim to
favor advancement to talk Of vio-
Ience. violence such as they speak of
only retards progress The Great
Revolution Of which socialists dream
is already underway and 1t will be
fought out in due time without blood
shed The plutocrats who want So
ciety TO stand fast as It is at present
and the anarchists who rave too much
against existing conditions really cut
but little figure. The world has AL
ways had these elements and always
will but It rolls along in its orbit re-
gar6less Of their shouting.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-11-16

fine; I'll have no wickedness in mine" 3"
And some day, when you're old and
gray, that youth may come along your
way, and say. in language ringing
true: "All that I've won / owe to
you! When l was young l read your
rot; it hit a most responsive spot,
encouraged me for stress and strife.
and made me choose the best in life"
And this will warm your heart and
brain; you'll know you have not lived
in vain. But if you write disgusting
dope, that thrusts at Truth, and
Faith and Hope; if you apologize for
vice, and show that wickedness is nice
it well may chance, when you are
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-11-16

l, involves the right of Syrians to citi-
zenship in the United States.
The chief examiner of the census
bureau has ruled that natives OF
Syria are not eligible to naturalization
How he has arrived at that decision
is difficult to understand. The nat
uralization laws specify that all white
people and Africans are allowed to
become citizens. the monaghan and
yellow races being barred. 1t is evil
dent that the census officials have
jumped at the conclusion that Syrians
because they are from Asia. are not
white people,
But this is a serious error and it is
very unjust to the many thousands of
Syrians within this country. Etymol-
ogically the word Syrian is derived
from Assyria, In ancient times the
Assyrian empire controlled all the ter
ritory from the Tigris river to the
Mediterranean, including Palestine 1t
was in the Graeco-Rom period the
word Syrian was adopted and it was
applied to the territory west of the
Euphrates.
students of history know that not
only are the Syrians white people but
their country has a right to pose as
the father of the Caucasian race. Many
centuries before the Christian era the
Syrians were cultured people. Syria
was the meeting place for the Baby
lonian and Egytian elements and the
manufactured products of Syria were
carried by Phoenician ships across the
Mediterranean.
If the Syrians are not bona fide
members of the Caucasian family it is
difficult to say who deserves that
honor. If they are not white neither
are the Jews. Furthermore the Great
Nazerene would be barred from natur-
alization should he return to earth be-
cause his people have been classed as
Asiatics.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-11-16
Diplomacy Wins.

Willy-You see, it was this way:
They were all three so dead in love
with her, and all so eligible, that to
settle the matter she agreed to marry
the one who could guess the nearest
to her age.
Arthur-And did she?
Willy-I don't know. know that
she married the one who guessed the
lowest.-Life.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-11-16
EDITORIAL INFLUENCE.

1t is a solemn thing, to think when
you sit down to splatter ink, that
what you write, in prose or verse, may
be a blessing or a curse. The gems
of thought that you impart may up
ward guide some mind and heart;
some youth may read your Smoking
Stuff, and say: That logics good
enough; the path of virtue must be
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-11-16

The ministers at Cairo are now LASH
ing the town officers for having al
lowed conditions that brought on the
recent race riot. But they should
have gone after the officers sooner.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-11-16
= ++*** +*+* *+++* :
STRENGTH.

= Who is the strong? Not he who :;
= puts to test l
= His sinews with the strong, and 1
proves the best; !
= But he who dwells where weak !
= lings congregate 1
= And never lets his splendid !
= strength abate. =!
= Who is the good? Not he who !
= walks each day 1
= With moral mSp along the high 1
clean way, !
= But he who jostles gilded sin 1
. and shame, 1
= Yet will not sell his honor or his 1
name. I
+ Who is the wise? Not he who /
= from the start 1
= With Wisdom's followers has 1
taken part; I
But he who looks in Folly's 1
= tempting eyes l
= And turns away, perceiving her :;
= disguise. !!
3 Who is serene? Not he who 1
= flees his kind 1
f.Some desert fastness, or some ::
cave to find; 1
. But he who in the citys noisi- !
est scene I
= Keeps calm within-he only is i
= serene. 4
= Selected. 1
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-11-16
Good Cook.

Indignant W.fe-That new chauf-
feur has only just brought the child
rem home and now he's taking the
cook out for spin.
Husband--Great heavens! He
doesn't half know how to manage a
car and she's the first decent cook
we've had in year.-Rrooklyn Life.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-11-16

George Arthur Brown is now trying
to enlist Portland capital in the con-
struction OF the electric line from
Dale to the Columbia via Pendleton.
Umatilla county has hopes he will
succeed. But If Portland people do
not want to build the road someone
else will.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-11-16

1t was below zero in Pendleton on
the night of November Is, 1909. Re-
member that. Some day you may be
the oldest inhabitant."
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-11-16

old, and in your veins the blood runs
cold, there'll come your way some dis
NAL wreck, who'll roast you sore, and
cry: "By heck! And also l might say
by guml Twas you that put me on
the bum! Your writings got me
headed wrong; you threw it into Vir-
tue strong: and in that prison that
you see, I'm convict No. 23."-Walt
Mason in Newspaperdom.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-11-16
SYRIANS.

A very interesting controversy is
now on between the census department
and the syrians living within America.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-11-16

Those who wish to be strictly up
to-the-r minute language no longer
say a person went up in the air"
He or she awaited" is the correct
form.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-11-16
The Swine or the FIower7

All mel saw huge and loathsome sty,
Wherein drove of wallowing swine
were barred,
Whose banquet shocked the nostril and
the eye;
Then spoke voice, "Behold the source
of lard!"
1 fed, and saw field that seemed at first
One glistening mass of roses pure and
white,
With dewy buds mid dark green foliage
nursed;
And, as fingered DER the lovely sight,
The summer breeze, that cooled that
Southern scene,
Whispered, " Behold the source Of
COTTOLENEr"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-11-16

In this weather Roosevelt's tales of
the jungle sound good. But away with
the north pole controversy.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-11-16

First to thine own wife be true.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-11-16
Nell-Maude has costume f.

Belle-Yes. I suppose she wouldn't
even make salad without wearing a
dressing gown.
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1909-12-17

Blot home the old gentleman's troub-
les had so pTeyed upon him that he
determined to end his life. Two
gashes on his neck showed that he
had first contemplated cutting his
throat.
Mrs. Nathan Blot, the daughter-in-
law, in telling her story of the sui
eide, said that she had noticed the
blood flowng from The wound in the
wrist of the old gentleman, but
thought that he had accidently slight
ly cut himself and after taking the
razor from him, told her daughter to
get a wash basin and set 1t near the
old mans chair. so that the blood
would not fall on and spoil the car
pet, and had given the matter no
further attention. going out of the
house into the yard where she was
when her husband returned. Upon
his return the son went into the house
and to the room occupied by his faith
er. and found him sitting upright in
his chair, dead. In dying and evident
ly in heed OF his daughter-in-law' s
warning against having the carpet
spoiled, the dying man had arranged
his left arm so that the blood from
the wound in the wrist would fall into
the basin, which the son found nearly
filled with blood.
Daniel Blot was born in Lehigh
county, Pa, August 12 1915, conse'
quently he was in the ninety-fifth yeai
of his age. He came to Garfield when
Is years old and settled on the farm
where he died His only possessions
when he arrived here were a small
bundle of clothing and a rifle, the lat
ter he always kept and highly priced
BY dint of hard work and thrift ht
accumulated enough of this worlds
goods TO make him comfortable. HC
was married to Susan Foulk in 1S41
She died about "a years ago since
which time he had made his home
with his son. He was a member o
Zion Reformed church, under the shad
ow of which he lived about eight!
years, and in his younger days wa
one of the most active sirits in pro
noting the welfare of the church. /
can be truthfully said of Daniel Blot
that he was thoroughly good man
He leaves two children, Nathan, ant
Mrs. Peter Konzem.
Before taking his life Mr.. Blot eV
identity burned his will as the charre'
envelope in which he kept the doc
ument was found in the stove In tn
, room where he lived. Three hundrel
dollars in money were found in a tat
/. lie drawer. The body of Mr. Blot wa
/ taken TO the residence Of H. c. Cla
, Monday afternoon. Funeral service
: were held Thursday morning, NEE
D ing at the house at 10 o'clock Ind e
j ing from there to Zion Reforme
I church where Rev. ]. C. Schaaf pr'
a nounced the sermon. Interment wa
9 made in the cemetery near the churcl
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1909-12-17
Mrs. Mary Wehr Dead.

Mrs Mary Wehr, lifelong resident
OF Mahonlng county, died at the home
OF her daug hter, Mrs. Mary Clupper,
Mahoning avenue extension, early Tues
day morning. Death resulted after a
long illness with the infirmities attend
ant upon old age. She was 80 years OF
age. Mrs. Wehr was born in Corners
burg March IA, 1919, Most OF her long
aud useful life was spent In that place.
About four years ago, on account OF fail
ing health and advancing age, she went
TO live with her daughter. Her maiden
name was Mary Strock. She was imar-
ried TO Nathan Wehr Aug. Is, 1889. To
them were born the following children
who survive: Solomon and August
Wehr OF Warren, and Mrs, Elizabeth
Herman and Mrs. Mary Clupper OF this
city. Mrs. Wehr was faithful mem
ber of st. Paul's Reformed church and
al ways took an active part in religious
work. The funeral was held from the
Clupper residence Thursday afternoon
at / O'Clock, and at 2 O'Clock from the
Lutheran church In CornersburR. To-
terment was made at that place.
Vindicator.
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1909-12-17
DANIEL BLOTT
ENDS LONG LIFE

Daniel Blot, the oldest man in Can
field township. committed suicide
Monday morning at the home of his
son, Nathan Blot, one mile north of
the village. The old gentleman used
a razor to take his life, cutting a deep
cash in his left wrist, severing the
radial and ulner arteries. The causes
that led up to the suicide are said
to have been disagreements with his
daughter-inlaw, the second wife of
his son. Mr.. Blot worried much over
conditions and had insisted on going
to the county infirmary to spend his
remaining years if arrangements could
be made for him to stay there and
pay for his keeping. Relatives, how
ever, objected to this and plans had
been made for him to go Monday
morning to the home of his grandson,
H. c. Clay, who resides a mile furth-
er north on the Canfield-Austintown
road. Before MIR. Clay arrived at the