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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-06
AMERICAN BARN DANCE.

The American barn dance, now
one of the leading novelties OF the
London bathrooms, has been intro
duced in this country. Several So
clety women startled the communl-
ty with IS. II. Henry's Barn Dance,
to which they danced the figures of
the Virginia reel and the hoe-down.
Since then the band and orchestras
have taken up the craze.
The method in which the dance is
Interpreted in that of six couples who
swing their partners to central
point, then waltz back to an angle
formed by the first retreating couple,
who in turn, exchange partners. The
following strains Indicate the musi-
cal theme to which this is done:
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-06
WE SHOULD FOLLOW IOWA.

1t seems very probable that an in
itiative measure providing for state
wide prohibition will be submitted to
the voters of Oregon next fall. AT
this time both the prohibition forces
and the liquor interests are doing
some work preliminary to the fray.
AS now arranged it will be the same
old fight between the two radical ele-
ments represented by the prohibition
lists one one side and the ''whiskey'
or saloonmen on the other. If such
a campaign is made we may expect
the usual bitter controversy marked by
hard feeling and by much misrepre-
sentation by both sides. The chances
for success will be in favor Of the
nrohibitionists for the reason that the
tendency of the times in this state
and elsewhere is decidedly towards
reform.
But the people of oregon should
not have to take their choice between
n law for state wide prohibition and
the present saloon system. They do
not like prohibition nor do they like
the saloon business as it is now con-
Quoted. In the past voters have been
compelled to take one or the other
and they have usually chosen prohl-
bition because the average man has
resented the manner in which the
liquor business was carried on and has
taken advantage of the opportunity
to "soak the system"
Now that the issue of state wide
prohibition is about to be thrust upon
us it is time for third party" to
enter the field. This party should De
dictated 10 by neither the saloon in
terests nor by the prohibitionists. This
party should represent the business
interests of the state exclusive of those
lines affiliated directly or indirectly
with the liouor business. This party
should present a bill of its own. This
bill should be a drastic measure pro-
yiding for the handling Of the liquor
business upon a modern, civilized bas-
u.s. not as 1t is handled under the
present saloon system.
In the state Of Iowa, state that
has gone through all the various
stages Of prohibition, such a law is
now in operation and it is regarded
as the solution Of the liquor problem.
Under the Iowa law the number of
saloons in a town is limited. Saloons
are closed at midnight and all day
Sunday. Each saloon has but one
room and it is room that is absolute
ly open from the street. There are no
screens nor frosted windows. No sa-
loon has chairs or tables for. card
playing. Upon the first conviction Of
a saloonman, or his bartender, fol
breaking the law, by selling to min
ors, to blacklisted persons or at ille
gal hours, ne loses his license, and car
never again engage in the business II
that town. Should he sell his estab
lishment to another man and his sue
cessor also violate the law, in an.
particular, the location can neve
again be used for saloon purposes. A
a result the owner of building mus
be very careful to whom he rents hi
property. In addition to all Of thi
the Iowa law provides that wheneve
a district attorney or a sheriff is in
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-06
BLUBBERING.

Captain H. P. Muse Of the Celtic
was regaling a little group of ladies
with sea stories.
zone trip" he said, there was a
woman who bothered the officers and
me to death about whales. Her one
desire was to see whale. A dozen
times a day she besought us to have
her called II a whale hove in sight.
II said rather impatiently to her
one afternoon:
"'But, madam, why are you 80
anxious about this whale question 2
Captain she answered, I want
to see a whale blubber. 1t must be
very Impressive to see such an enor-
nous creature cry '"-Rochestei
Herald.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-06
pendleton, ore.,. September 2S-oc-

Pendleton, Ore, September 2S-oc.
tober ..
Riverside, Wash, September 29-31
Moro, Ore, October 1-2.
Wilbur, September 29-October 2
Candy, Ore. September SO-octo-
Der 8.
PrinevilTe, Ore, october 40.
Walla Walla, October 4-9.
The Dalles. Ore, October So.
Burns, Ore, October So
New Westminster, b. c., october
1916.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-06

friend offered to give him an infal-
lible rule for such cases.
"It is a rule" he said, "that In
forty-seven years has never failed
me-"
His friend expressed his delight
and waited. The man resumed;
THE rule is simply this; Write
your f. and 'e exactly alike, and
put your dot exactly between them
Washington Star,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-06

To this melody the text runs as fol-
lows:
Come along and let's make merry
down at the huskin bee,
Applejack and good blackberry, Wen
have jubilee" etc.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-06
A RUE FOR SPELLING.

1t often happens that the easiest
way to do a thing is the wrong way.
The story Is told of man who had
great difficulty in spelling words that
had "ei' and "ie" in them. One day
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-06

II Hartman could,see what thriv-
ing business the o. r. G. n. is doing
he would get well.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-06

The dance proper occupies inereas-
ed interest, 1t is wrought to a eli
max in which the couples sing as
they dance. For this purpose a set
OF words called Down at the Huskin'
Bee" are invoked. The following
bars of Mr.. Henry's barn dance are
utilized:
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-06

OF box Of Benton county Craw-
ford peaches, one measured 13 inches
in circumference, another IL 3-4 and
many ofAhem over 10 inches.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-06

Irrigation and electric lines are
what we want.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-06

Did DR.. Cook plant the flag in the
water?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-06

LABoR's SONG.

= To create the wealth men cher !
= ish;
= To upbuild and bless; I
= To risk life, perchance to per- I
= ish,
= For mems happiness; I
= Clear the fields and plow and I
= plant them, =
= That the few may bask t
= In the fortunes others grant t
= them
= This is Labor's task.
4 Yet as God in man is waking i
= And his truth is known, t
= We have faith the day is break t
+ ing, =
+ We shall have our own.
= He on earth reigns, as in heaven :
= In his name we dare +
Z To demand as we have given +
+ This is Labor's prayer. =
4 j. A. Edgerton. i
= ++* + = = = + = + '' + = =
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-06

Lies always get ripe before we are
ready for them.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-06
Modern Farming.

Hard work." said the ready made
philosopher, "brings the greatest
happiness in life!"
"Yes," answered Farmer Corntas-
sci. specially when You kin afford
to hire somebody to do it fur you"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-06

In eastern Oregon all men are Ia
borers.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-06

Men seek for honors often because
they have lost honor.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-11
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Mark Gretchen protests that in a
country town a man can't even get a
haircut without people asking if he's
going away.
A teacher in the Douglass schools
gave to the class in spelling the words
"chagrined." Several of the pupils
spelled it 's-h-e-g-r-i-n-n-e-d." Then
she did.-Wichita Beacon.
A pleasant young gentleman who
claimed to be an English peer, has
proved to be nothing more than dis
appear, since he was given job where
he could get his hands on a few thou
sand dollars of other peoples money
at Wichita.-Hutchinso News.
The lola Record contributes a note
of warning to the discussion of the
state purchase of the John Brown bat
tie field at Osawatomie. Attention is
called to the fact that the business of
buying up battlefelds would bank
rupt the state if none other were ac-
quired except those on which Cy Le-
land met his Waterloo"
The Manhattan Nationalist, the new
daily paper. issued it's first number
Monday. The Mercury will also start
printed the first of the week The
owners say that they will give the
people of the city two good papers and
if that is the case they should receive
good support.-Salina Journal.
In its Kansas day editorial, the
stance Of the first Kansas day: "To
the Leavenworth Times, Kansas day
has perhaps deeper significance than
to any other newspaper in the state.
Forty eight years ago the news was
flashed across the continent and first
into the office of the Daily Times that
Kansas has been admitted to the sis
terhood of states. An edition of this
paper was speedily struck off and with
a bundle of copies of the Times the
late Col. D. R. Anthony made a record
breaking trip to Lawrence on horse
back where the territorial convention
was then in session, carrying to it the
first announcement of Kansas good
fortune"
The Kansas City Star styles the fol-
lowing paragraph from the Sedgwick
Paragraph as being sensible: "At
least a dozen country newspapers in
this part of Kansas are busily engaged
in giving stuff away in voting contests.
One would naturally think that the
dollar year received on subscription
was little enough without having to
throw in everything from pianos to
kitchen ranges and diamond watches.
If the papers are really not worth the
dollar a year asked why not spend the
piano money in making them worth
the price? The fact of the matter is
that any country weekly in this part
of Kansas is worth more than the
price asked. The question naturally
then why throw in thresh-
ing machine and a set of fat irons to
boot? If more subscribers are needed
why not put out a solicitor on a
business basis? Still, it's their
own business, and if every editor in
Kansas wants to turn philanthropist
we presume he has a perfect right to
do So"
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-11
A NEED OF COUNTRY SCHOOLS.

In his comment on the report of the
country life commission, which has
just been made public. President Roose-
welt says that from all that has been
done and learned by the commissioners
as a result of their Investigations three
great general and immediate needs for
the betterment of country life stand
out. He epitomizes them as follows:
F'irst-Enective cooperation among
farmers. to put them on a level with
the organized interests with which they
do business.
Second-A new kind of schools in the
country, which shall teach the children
as much outdoors as indoors and per-
haps more, so that they will prepare
for country life, and not as at present.
mainly for life in town.
Third-Better means of communica-
tion, including good roads and a par
GELS post, which the country people are
everywhere, and rightly. unanimous
in demanding.
Concerning his deduction on the need
of a new kind of schools, where Mr.
Roosevelt says the children ought to be
taught "as much outdoors as indoors
and perhaps more" it is reasonable to
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-11
WISE LABOR CAP1TAL1z1NG.

when the steel trust was organized
it adopted the policy of inducing its
operatives to invest their savings in
the common stock of the corporation, /"
says the Washing gton Post, "and to
that end special inducement was of
fered; and the bounty therefrom de-
rived, and paid as supplemental divi-
dend to the employees, amounts to
$621,oOO.
1.-The employees own stock in the
trust to the par value of $21.OO0,00O,
on which they have been paid divi-
dends aggregating $12,OOO,OOO. We
are not advised as to whether the
holdings of the operatives are increas-
ing, but it will be a happy day for
both capital and labor when the men
who work with their hands own ALL
or part, of the merchandise wrought
by their strength and their Skill That
would make strike an impossibility
for, if the wage was too small, the en-
hanced dividends would cure the
hardship, and if the wage was too
high, things would be evened by a
smaller earning of investment
'"Some very good men believe that
there can be security for capital and
content for labor when the men who
labor own the shops in which they
work and have a proprietary interest
in the merchandise they produce, and
not until then. That would operate
as an industrial socialism, without the
virus of a political socialism we hear
so much about. The road to this ben
efcent socialism is found in the profit
sharing plan of the steel trust, and,
though the S21,0OO,OOO that labor has
acquired is beggarly compared with
the total, the fact that the operatives
of the steel trust are capitalists to any
extent whatever is encouraging.
Perhaps there is not a better man
aged property in the world than the
lands and tenements. the goods and
chattels. and the rights and privileges
of the steel trust, and all of us Ameri-
cans, from plutocrat to hobo. will rise
up to call it blessed if it shall find a
way to make brawny labor a prosper
Gus capitalist"
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-11
FRON OTHER PENS
ENCOURAGING THRIFT.

Ex-Governor Longs remarks the
other evening on the need of rein
forcement in this generation of some
of the old precepts of thrift which
were imbedded in Poor Richards s
Sayings expresses the opinion of
many thoughtful observers. One
large manufacturing concern in this
city has just completed an interesting
experiment to see what it could do in
a small way to inculcate habits of
thrift. It had been it's custom to
make small money gift to each en-
ploye at the close of the year. On in
quiry it developed that the money
was almost invariably spent about as
soon as it was received. The per-
centage of it which was retained to
be of permanent benefit or for
emergency use proved triding. Ac-
cordingly this year the president of a
local savings bank was asked to tell
the employees, about to be benefited
by the firms annual gift, something
of the effects of time on steady
small savings, as disclosed by COM
pound interest returns. The annual
gifts were then distributed in as many
bankbooks. At the institution quiet
record was kept of these newly issued
books. Less than 10 per cent of the
accounts were Withdrawn, while to 80
per cent of them additional deposits
have since been made, an experience
which suggests that even facilities as
well known as those of savings banks
may be often neglected through ones
falling out of the habit of dealing
with them.-Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-11
FIREDIEN NEED WATER

City officials are rightly pointing
with pride to the fire record of Topeka
as compared with the similar records
of other cities of the same size. They
show that the fire losses in this town
have been materially less each year
than they have been in other places
and there can be no denying the fact
that this speaks well for the efficiency
of the local fire department.
In all the criticism that has been
properly provoked as a result OF the
Copeland disaster there has been no
disposition or no reason on the part or
anyone to set up a claim, which would
be really foolish. that the fire depart
ment of this city is inefficient. Be
cause the heads of this department did
not see fit to enforce certain proV1s-
ions of law relating to the equipment
of hotels and other buildings with fire
escapes, as they should have done, that
is no argument that the Topeka fire
department is an inefficient force when
it comes to fighting fires. 1t is an
exact truth to say that the local fire
department is as good, if not great
deal better, than those in other cities
of the size of Topeka. 1t ought to be.
The employees of it are treated literally
a most modern fashion and they are
provided with the best equipment that
there is in the market.
Because the fire department is eff
cient, however, is no good reason why
steps should not be taken to make
more adequate the water supply at its
or to create the means for
an emergency supply in case a big fire
develops. 1t seems to be the consensus
Of opinion among experts, who are
qualified to express an opinion on the
subject, that such a water supply is
not available in the city under present
conditions. This has also been demon
strated frequently at the smaller and
larger fires of the past few years
when the fire department has been
handicapped sorely right at the time
Of a most dire need with an made |
Iuate supply of water. And really the |
excellent efficiency of the fire depart |
nent has been shown by the manner |
n which it has successfully fought |
Tres and kept them from spreading |
without the supply of water that was
actually needed.
What is necessary for a better fire
protection then, more than additional
team engines, which will be a constant
Expense to maintain, is a better water
supply. Whatever the expense is in
one it will be worth the
money. That is what other cities are
loing. Even New York is going to an
unusual expense to provide a special
water supply for the fire protection of
ertain districts of the city which will
,bivate the necessity of it's maintain
ng the great number of steam fire en-
zines that it now does.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-11
THERE'S A coon TIME COMING

THERE'S A GOOD TIME COMING
I'm really glad enough to shout
Now that the days begin
10 stretch themselves and Iengthen out
Instead of drawing in.
NY mouth displays a happy grin
And not a sulky pout,
BECAUSE instead of drawing in.
Inc days now lengthen out
i need not now resort
10u see, the days are getting long
instead of growing short.
For long months past nv bank report
Faas fis SHOWN its balance wrong.
l ina I'm always very short
Until the days are long.
% so hate to see the time
u day too quickly pass
Q0ite early in the evening I'm
Obliged to light the gas.
But wealth once more I NAV anass
5Nor nave to pinch each dime
IL 5 more expensive burning gas
Ihan It's consuming time.
-Chicago News
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-11
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison GIobe.l
How your troubles are magnified after
darki
Have you ever noticed how very unpop-
ular an airy woman is?
People always behave themselves little
better when they get to thinking seriously
Of Judgment Day.
When everything is going bad, there is
always someone to make you mad by
telling you they might be worse.
Dealers are displaying valentines in box
parlor, the piano would have to be taken
out to make room.
Before the average girl has been en-
gagged two weeks. she has made a list of
she intends to take with her.
When a father stays home with the
children, it becomes his private opinion
within half an hour that their mother told
them to act their meanest
I am reasonably free from prejudice -
said q man the other day except when
carrots are mentioned. 1 not only dislike
carrots, but I dislike people who like
them"
In time the women seem to have swung
back to everything but the brides cake
with a sugar bride standing in the door.
When girl is selling tickets to a man,
she admires him for his genorisity when
he buys. but after she has married him,
and he buys tickets, she has a contempt
for him for being SO easily worked
A great deal is said in the women's mag
nights: In reality, the wife doesn't want
her husband to stay home; she wants him
to go with her. And this illustrates about
how much foundation there is for all the
walls in a womens maga zine.
Women have more wailing places than
men: Women wall to their friends, their
and the preacher, but none of their walls
serious. A man doesn't wall until he
meets some very sympathetic woman, and
the results arising from his wall become
serious.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-11

suppose that he had in mind the desir-
ability of teaching the pupils in the
country schools the fundamentals OF
scientific agriculture, so that their in
terest in this pursuit might be kept
awake and heightened and not crowded
out of their minds by other subjects,
not quite so important to their welfare
and to the development of the farming
industry to proper standards.
Legislation along this line is now
pending in the state legislature in the
bill which seeks to add a course in ag-
riculture to the curriculum of the
county high schools, and to which some
objection has been made. 1t might not
be bad plan to go further with this
subject and extend the teaching of ag-
riculture to the common schools of the
country districts. If, as is possible by
the teaching of scientific farming. the
school children can be shown that two
blades of grass can be grown were one
ordinarily grows, that corn and wheat
and everything else that is grown in the
ground can be made to yield larger
harvests and richer returns through
proper care, it is the most likely thing
in the world that they will become rather
fascinated with the possibilities of farm
ing and that they will be glad to remain
with their parents on the good old
farms and help in their Improvement in
all ways.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-11
Bridge a Bird Roost.

Ruoyard Kiphng. in his story. 1.-The
Bridge Builders wrote that whenever
plrds IN large numbers aIight on a
DIose elmer IN course of construction
OF completed, 1t is a sure sign that it
IS saIe. whether that be true or mere
~ saying of the far east, it is a fact
that the new Greensboro bridge over
the East river and BlackwelIs island
mas become favorite rendezvous of all
sorts or birds-pigeons, sparows. and
even Wild ducks. They come with the
uusk py the thousands, and are there
until the workmen turn to in the
morning.
Edward E. Sinclair, engineer of the
bridges construction corps. has never
known a bridge that birds have trusted
to fall in his twenty years experience.
He wrote letter to the bridge celebra-
ton committee Wednesday, in which he
directed the attention of the members
TO the way birds were patronizing the
structure.
clair, that the structure is perfectly
strong and will stand all tests was
employed In bridge building in Iowa
several years ago, and before the bridge
made their home on 1t. This bridge
was also criticised, but it is standing
today and has done twice the work ever
contemplated.
Another bridge whose stability was
questioned and to which the birds
f1ocked was built across the Missouri
river by the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe railroad, and this bridge is
doing great work today. Many of my
associates in bridge building have
noticed this same true instinct of birds,
and ornithologists say that birds in
large hocks will not settle on a weak
The bridge workers are glad the birds
have come to the bridge, for they are
prone to believe in omens, for most of
them have been sailors in their time
New York World.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-11
COST OF CENSUS.

Admitting the value of the sta
tistics gathered to many forms of re-
search, to commerce and to many
other interests and activities, the
question remains whether the in
formation compiled at such an enor-
NOUS expenditure has practical value
in proportion to its cost. 1t must be
remembered that the scope of the
census is now so great that it takes
several years after the Information
has been collated before it can be all
put in form for practical use, and by
that time, in a country where indus
tries are expanding as they are in the
United States, much of this informa-
ion is out of date before it is ac-
cessible to the public.
The original purpose of the census
was to secure an accurate enumera-
ton of the population necessity
under our constitutional system for
the correct apportionment of repre-
sentation in congress. Vital statistics
were then colIated, as proper COM
plement to such an enumeration. Now
there has been added a census of all
industries, of crop statistics and the
like. 1t would seem that the full
limit has been reached and that no
further expansion of the census ac-
tivities is needed--Seattle Post-1n-
telligencer.