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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-10
Rarest OF Emerson's Books,

"The Offering for 1929" is consid-
cred the rarest of all Ralph Waldo
Emerson items. 1t contains, on pages
so and SO, Fame" a poem, Emer-
sons first printed composition. A
copy of this rarity was sold recently
in New York. The offering was is
sued at least year previous to the
appearance Of the Right Hand Of
Fellowship" another early Emerson
item, which realized 800 at the Py-
ser sale in New York.
So rare is the work that 1t was
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-10
THE WIDOWS PROTECTION.

The porter inserted fresh boot In
the electrical polishing machine.
"I'll tell you a funny thing about a
widow" he said. "she is a regular
visitor to our hotel, and she always
brings here with her an old pair OF
her dead husbands boots. He must
have been a whopper, the dead man.
His boots are genuine mudscows.
"The widow is very timid. She is
afraid Of being broken in upon by
hotel thieves in the dead Of night. So
every morning she puts before her
door, beside her own dirty boots the
boots OF the departed. She thinks
they scare off thieves. New Orleans
Times
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-10

done. that the cattle raisers are real
ly not benefited by duty on hides,
but that the duty enures solely to
the benefit Of the packers trust.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-10

The DIETRICH tract Of irrigated land
in Idaho has been taken with rush.
But in the matter of elevation, and
transportation the irrigated sections
of Idaho are not equal to those Of this
county.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-10

Mrs. Russell Sage is giving away
her husbands millions at a much
faster rate than they were accumu-
lated. Too bad the same cannot be
done with the fortune left by the
late H. H. Rogers.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-10
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THE PESSIAIIST.

= He wanders where no path I
= ways are
= Amid the Vale of Fear;
= The Heights Of Life are far. I
= are far,
= He can but see the Near;
+ That, looming large, shuts from I
= his gaze
= The sunlit slopes, and pleasant
= ways.
= Why linger. hapless, in the land :.
= Where cares nor sorrows
+ sleep?
= Joy strokes US with a gentle
= hand;
= The wounds of Grief are I
= And Retrospection, broSding I
= long,
= Demands a vengeance for each I
= wrong.
= Life's landscape glows with col 1
q ors bright 7
4 To those who toll, serene;
+With Valor red, and Virtue white l
= To beautify the scene.
= Why gaze but at the dusty way, I
= Or sketch the shadows dim and I
= grey?
= George w. Priest. 1
= q = + + !. 4 + 4 = = + = = = I
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-10

II Mr.. Patten were only with the
Chicago men he might be induced to
"bulr September wheat.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-10

81 suppose you and your wife share
everything?"
mot at aiE She insists that have
all the faults
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-10

Pendleton will celebrate July 3.
Arizona republican., 1909-05-12

gave me a stnrt-I almost picked 1t up when I reached for a fower.'
 'I-I-guess we'd better abandon the the-fower scheme. hand't we, Ho.Aer?" Mrs. J. simply couldn't repress the laugh altogether
 Slr. J. went up in the air like a rocket. You think it's funny, don't you?'' he growled Well. if you think a little thing like that's going to stop me. Mrs. Jrstwed. you've got another think com ing"
 And the peevlsh Homer-dear returned once more to the fed-to another part of it, rather-to pluck wild flowers.
 The afternoon sun grew hotter and hot ter-but MT. J. still worked valiantly on. It vas slow and tiresOme work picking flowers and anxiously carefully scanning the ground for a square-yard around before plucking the chosen bios som. But, ere long. Mir. J. had quite an armful.
 Then they retired to the inviting shade of a big oak to rest q bit be- fore the homeward tramp Homer re- covered his spirits somewhat and even dilated again on the beauties of the
 
 Just as the sun was sinking. a blood red ball, in the West. they started.
 My" exclaimed Mrs. J.. wont these look fine In our apartment. Wen have enough to put some in every room and" But the sentence was never finished. Homer's foot had slipped on a loose stick and he shot in one direction. the flowers in another.
 There was nice comfortable little gully close at hand and Mir. J. landed on it's soft. wet, sOggy bosom-kerdunk. Mrs. Justwed screamed.
 "Oh, Homer, are you hurtT'
 Yea, verify, Homer was hurt-but not his bonesi It was his feelings.
 Picking himself up, he climbed gin gerly back to the top of the hollow-as wet ss a wet hen and as mad as he was wet.
 Mrs. Justwed solicitously helped him brush of the clinging bits of woodland mud and slime and gently extracted
Arizona republican., 1909-05-12

T TELL you, Blossom" exclaimed Mir. Fl Iustwed, as he turned the latch-key
 to their apartment upon their return
 from church the other Sunday, this
 is too glorious a day 10 remain in- doors. Let's go out aield this after noon. How does that old couplet run something like this. isn't It:
 March winds and April showers
 Bring forth May flowers
 That's followers. What beautiful things they are, The breath of the Heavens. the god of the sunshine, the fragrance of moonlit night, the music Of a sounding surf on a coral reef-ah. what thoughts the very touch Of them. the smell Of them. puts into q mans mind, stuffed and cramped with its winter hlbernation- what thoughts, Come. let's go-'
 Gracious. Homer" Mrs. Justwed chortled. ''is 1t as bad as that. You don't mean to say that you have spring fever already. I never knew you cared so much about flowers"
 ''Humh," suiTed Mr. Justwed. his springtime fancy taking flight Into utter darkness. you didn't. So. should have imagined. That fact Is obvious Other wise. we might have had few flowers about the house occasionally to brighten things up q bit-to add that artistic touch that you women are so everlast- ingly talking about"
 Why. Homerr' exclaimed Mrs. j.. in surprise, ''I didn't think you cared about things of that sort. I'll phone a florist right away and"
 Phone a florist" Mir. Justwed inter rupted, phone a forist-and pay him good money for what we can get our selves by q little walk into the country. We can pick them"
 Certainly, Homer-HOmer, dear right after dinner" acquiesced Mrs. Just wed. promptly, though a bit sarcastic ally, but I trust you remember our former excursion into tine primitive and that tiresome walt for the trolley car that"
 But MT. Justwed had banged and founced him away into the living room.
 An hour or so later. the Justweds were among the May howers-within walking distance of the city. however. and in 20 wise dependent upon q trolley car for n safe return. MT. Justwed had attended to that detail.
 Mir. Justwed was knee-deep in daisies fairly reveling in the green of the grass and the delicate fragrance of the gentle spring Zephyrs.
 Mrs Justwed wandered along leIsurely biding her time.
 In almost frenzy of delight Mir J. plucked the flowers with ruthless hand until suddenly he straightened up with d whoop that fairly froze Mrs. Justwed's blood.
 ''Snaker' he yelled. dropping the flow CTS and springing backward in leaps and bounds that would have done credit to q finished vaudeville acrobat.
 But Mrs. J. didn't even so much as move-after the first alarm. She just laughed she was a good thirty feet fIom the excited Homer.
 Mir Justwed quickly recovered his equilibrium. Also. he pulled down his vest and wiped off his chin.
 .'Whew!" he explained, that snake
Arizona republican., 1909-05-12
NElFu!st((q Qahenys1 1IEy1lloV B

few sticks and leaves from his rumpled locks and from under his collar.
 Come on!'' growled MT. J., starting ofr Ceterminedly.
 Mrs. Justwed hesitated
 "Can't-can't we gather up a few of these howers?" she questioned. dubiously. 'It seems a shame to leave them here after you worked SO hard picking
 Look here. Blossom" Mir. J. thun- dered. don't you ever mention flowers to me again! I wouldn't carry one of those dingdanged things home with me no ma'am, not even if 1t was made of golG."
 But Homer" Mrs. J. retorted. out of patience. that is so foollnsh, Just be cause you fell down--to throw all those flowers away! To let them lie not dozen feet from you and refuse to pick them mp again. That is downright child !sh. They didn't make you fail! I'll pick them up myself, will. so l will"
 Don't you touch them" Insisted Mir J.
 But they will brighten up the flat so-and you're so fond of flowers, Homer you ka0w.'
 There was pleading note In Mrs. Us voice-but 1t was there only to conceal her supreme enjoyment of Homer-dear's 5 discontinue.
 Rats" Mir. Justwed retorted. If you want flowers I'll order some frum the florist the very first thing in the morn ing and"
 And spend that money for things we might just as well pick in the fields ourselves for nothIng?" mocked Mrs. J.
 "Burr-r-rr." answered Mr. J.
Arizona republican., 1909-05-12
TWELVE HOURS SHORTER
 FROM COAST ID COAST
The Improved Train Service of the Hartman Line.

Omaha, May 11.-At Union Pacific headquarters today it was announced that the entire transcontinental train service would be changed in connec- ton with additional trains being added by the Hartman lines. The principal effect will be to shorten the running time between New York and the Pa eific coast by twelve hours
 Under the new arrangement. the St. Louis and Kansas City service will be shortened to San Francisco and Port land. The Overland Limited will make Chicago connections with the New York Central lines.
Arizona republican., 1909-05-12
Summer Home F1lr71ishi1q

INEXPENSIVE artistic, light ard g durable Is the furniture that the
 big shops are showing for sum
 mer homes. Chairs. couches. tables
 and even desks are in cane and bamboo, beautifully fashioned and with an eye to eheerfulness and season bleDess. The expensive summer rug of former years has been entirely displaced by the grass rug. which has excellent wearing qualities. Is cool as any other. Is grateful to t5s eyes and has the eI- cellent quality of cheapness.
 Air and light and plenty of them have been the watchwords of every health congress and the people of the country have become educated along hygleaic lines to such a marked degree that the furniture manufacturers have been com pelled to take notice and the great flood Of cheap. handsome and sanitary furnish ings has been the result.
 An important feature of suburban home settlements nowadays Is the bungalow. with it's spacious veranda, very much re- sembling a room. In shopping do noi forget to provide hammock and willow couch for the veranda md the Japanese hanging screen. w.-lch can be lowered to make the place private or raised to let in the air and light when necessary.
 Good, easily adjusted window screens play a large part in the furnishing of summer home They not only keep out The flies and mosquitoes. but they also .cr as filter for the dust-laden air which ever present in he-summeF time when us windows and doors are open In or Ter 10 allow the heat-worried residents ihe benefit Of every breeze that is stir ring
 The veranda is really the summer sit tin. room for the family and should be furnished with good taste and as comfort ably as the season of the year and the possibilities of the pocketboOk will ad- cit. The shops are flooded with pretty cushion covers and straw cushions that make acceptable as well comfortable seats for the household.
 And. by the way, the average household IS extraordinarily prone to the ''step" kabit. Young people of all ages, even the young grand sire who has reached three score rcd ten. enjoy sitting on the steps of an evening more than they do the comfortable chairs on the veranda- For this purpose grass cushions prove very satisfactory. and there should be plenty vf them. If there is a lawn the hanging of some hammocks and the addition of
Arizona republican., 1909-05-12
Caught Tn the Rain.

Y T Is scarcely necessary to state that
 the first thing the average woman thinks of when 1t begins to rain, Is her hat Though all else becomes soaked and drenchad, that hat must not become even so much as damp. When caught in sudden rainstorm. various expedients are resorted to. If newspaper cannot be oh tained. ever the handkerchief Is quickly fashioned into a cover for the precious hat Here IS a suggestion when caught in the rain, but 1t must be prepared be- forehand.
 Purchase a square of oiled silk suffi- ciently large to cover your hat. Cut 1t round and put an inch wide hem all around It. silk cord run through this makes the drawing string. This article can te tightly folded and carried in your shopping bag. Then when 1t rains. and you find yourself without an umbrella. take out the hat-protector. place it over your hat and fasten the end of the string under your chin Of course, 1t Is some what ungainly in appearance-but 1t saves the sorrow and expense of ruined hat.
Arizona republican., 1909-05-12
FEMININE FANCIES THINGS S@INTEPEST
The Girl You Can't Trust

be interesting as a bearer of choice bits of interesting facts. called by their right name gossip; but she is a dangerous one tc trust It is perfectly logical to argue that her tongue which wags so spiteful.y and enthusiastically about others will do the same thing concerning you yourself when you are rot present
 And then there is the girl who presages every bit of gossip she lmparts with an apology.
 Tt was told to me in confidence. my dear" she explains eagerly. but l made a mental reservation at the time to tell you all about it. for can't help feeling t is my duty to tell you. You mustn't breathe it to a soul, my dear. for wouldn't have it known that l told yod for anything in the world
 In this way and q dozen others she proves her insincerity.
 Or. if she isn't quite as had as this. she may be the sort of girl who is always ready with an excuse for commissions ard omissions that ought not to have been. She is always explaining vOlubly. and but rarely hesitates 10 make use of the per verted adage. "A lie is an abomination and an everpresent help in the time of trouble.
 Though not always the case. the Anger of doubt may be pointed at the girl who overpOwers yOu with sweetness She is over-effusive. She suggests and promises all sorts of pleasant things which she hasn't the slightest intention of carry ing out. She is in the seventh heaven of delight when she meets you and Is. apparently. on the verge of despair when she leaves you. She may be trustworthy, but she must be tested first.
 One of the best ways of reading n per son on sight is the eye. The girl who cannot look you straight in the eye is to be guarded against. A shifty glance Is nearly always indicative of q shifty. unstable character in which deceit Is more apt to predominate than frankness and truth. It Is scarcely necessary to state that the girl who has once been your enemy, but who suddenly changes and seeks to become your friend. is fol- lowing a questionable course. It may be that her change is sincere, and If so her conduct is all the more admirable. But if not, she is a veritable wolf In sheep's clothing. Time alone will tell.
Arizona republican., 1909-05-12

platform swing add much to its appear ance and give q great amount of com fort to everybody.
 Of course no woman who has an eye for the beautiful will neglect the floral adornment of the lawn and the veranda. Little beds of flowers can be cheaply and artistically arranged while potted palms, ferns and such like can be used on the veranda with ornamental effect.
 It has become quite fad of late years for families to eat their meals on the veranda. As this entails considerable ex- tra work, the table should never be over-burdened with dishes or ornaments. The servant. or the hOusekeeper, the case may be, will be compelled to make many extra trips 10 the kitchen. and everything should he done to Tighten their work
 There are many kinds Of fans that can he purchased at reasonable price that prove very satisfactory in keeping off flies and similar Insects from the table.
 The sensible housewife win remember that the lightest and easiest 10 clean and handle Is the proper kind Of furni- ture to buy for the summer home. Make everything as comfortable. as cool. as sanitary as possible in this way yon will be placing your household in a posi- ton to enjoy the long. hot summer days and making your owu work far lighter.
Arizona republican., 1909-05-12
Hall Gaines Novels at Home.

In the April Appleton's Hall Caine
 tells in his autobiography of the first
 novels he wrote whose scenes and
 people were taken from the Isle of
 Man, and not the least interesting
 part is the way the inhabitants of
 that little island looked upon them.
 have written several ManX novels
 since that first one, he says, calling
 up as from an ineXhaustible granary
 the crops of incident and character
 which l had unconsciously gathered
 in my youth, and perhaps it is by
 these books, whatever their short
 comings, that my name is best
 known to the public in general, but
 it has always been a source of pa
 thetic amusement to me to remember
 how the island itself received it's first novelist. If novels had been
 written about it before, that fact had
 made no impression upon its con seriousness, and if dialect poems of great raciness and charm had been published by Brown, the rumor of them had not unhappily gone far. But now for the first time a writer of story books had penetrated into it's households, getting into the heart of the country, going into the farm houses, and deliberately sitting down by the turf fire in the "chollagh" The outside world cannot understand what that means; but We who are of the soil and have visions of stern old Churchmen and grim old Methodists ! in every vilalge, who never saw a novel in their lives. and would not | have touched one with the longest | grip" if it had been tossed over the | tail board of a cart, can realize the feeling with which the island must !. have grasped the fact that a degen- crate son of her own was Gas the worthy preacher on the 'plan-b beg put it) actually earning his living by telling lies" It was not at once. however, that our sober, leading island reconciled itself to the idea that these novels were fictions at all. was constantly hearing them dis cussed as fact. Shortly after the
Arizona republican., 1909-05-12

I'll NEW way to clean silver Is to place
 it in a painful of sour milk that has just begun to thicien. Let the silver
 remain in the mI:k about an hour snd then wash in warm soapsuds and dry with soft cloth.
 In making griddle cakes beat two or three tablespoons of melted butter In the batter and fl will not be necessary to grease the Griddle.
 Burnt milk should not be thrown away, but put in a clean jar and placed in cold water In short while the scorched taste will disappear.
 Munns that would tempt even the most iaded of pa.aies can be made hy mixing in with the batter any DOT iion of oatmeal Hr rice left over from a previous meal This prevents the muf- fus from being taste!ess and dry.
 Small pieces of 'u!iei S"ap that are no longer usable shcuid be saycd ID
Arizona republican., 1909-05-12
PANAMA POLICE
 INVADE CANAL ZONE
A Conflict in Which Two Americans Were Killed.

Colon, May 11-In a conflict be- tween the Panaman police and em- ployes of the canal zone. near the di- viding line. C. M. Abbott, an electrician in the power-h house at Cristobal, an American, and a negro, also an. Ameri- can, were killed.
 The police crossed the zone at Cris- tobal in an effort to arrest an escaped prisoner. They were mobbed by West Indians, and finally were arrested by the zone police. The riot became so threatening that all places of business were closed quickly, but eventually the invaders were driven off.
Arizona republican., 1909-05-12
Helpful Housekeeping Hints.

q glass jar. When the jar Is nearly full ado little water and boil until the mix ture is of the consistency of mucilaSe This is a. excellent hair wash. as 1t precludes any possibility of small pieces of roip sticking to the hair, as is ire qucntly the case when n cake of soap k used.
 Every piece of stale bread should be snved. as so many dishes call for bread crumbs. First place the stale bread in q baking pan. and put on the shelf in the oven to dry. and brown slightly. Wien crisp. roll finely and place in an air-tght jar.
 Warm water. not hot, should be used for ucuralgia Dip the fingers in the water aud rub the face well. Then use n coarse towel until the cheeks are flushed The feet should be treated in the same msn1cr and then wrapped in wonlen blankets. In this way the blood Is drawn from the head to the feet.
Arizona republican., 1909-05-12
Making, IceCrea,r,.

T7u ITH the spring and the warm Ek N weather at hand. ones desire for W ice cream increases. The average housekeeper cannot afford to purchase the frozen dainty several times A week from a caterer. And many do not have it made at home as frequently as they would like. because of the arduous labor of freezing it. Here is a suggestion by which good portion of this labor may be eliminated. After the Ingredients are mixed pour them into the freezing can and surround with alternate layers of ice shaved as fine as that used at soda water fountains and rock salt. Cover the can completely with this and pour over the lee several quarts of very strong brine. Then bury the freezer in cracked lee and cover the whole with n piece of old carpet or a sack. After an hour remove the lee and salt carefully from the top of the freezer and. with n stout paddle. churn and beat the half frozen mixture for about five minutes Close the freezer and pack as before and let stand for several hours. By thii method the iaboriOus turning of the crank Is avoided
Arizona republican., 1909-05-12

publication of The Deemster" a good
 ManXman wrote to tell me that he had known Dan Mylrea from his
 bOyhood up. that he had often warn ed the poor boy against the way he was going. and that, when drink got the better of him at last, and he killed his cousin Evan, he had come to his house on the night of the murder and given him the knife with which he had committed the crime and my correspondent had kept it
Arizona republican., 1909-05-12

ever since. After The Bondsman,"
 I chanced on an old Manxman in
 Kirk Maughold, who told me he had known the place all his life. and he remembered Adam Fairbrother and the six big, lazy brothers. and the girl Greba, and the mill at Porte Vullin Gor it was "himself'' that felled it'D, but he was plagued nor tal' to fix Jason, the Icelander. and he couldn't meet with anyone in the parish who remembered anything
Arizona republican., 1909-05-12

about him. After The Manxman," !" shrewd old friend of mine, living by the water-trough on Ballure. con- ceived the idea that he was the hero of that story, a photographer pho tographed him in that character, and now the good canny man does a comfortable business by selling sou venirs of himself as the only orig inal Pete Quilliam. whom Kitty Cree gan was so heartless as to run away from.
Arizona republican., 1909-05-12
THE NEW GRAND JURY
 IN THE MUSKOGEE CASE
Instructions by the Court as to the
 Statute of Limitations.

Tulsa, okla, May 1.-The special federal grand jury, called to reinves- tigate the Muskogee conspiracy cases, was completed today and instructed by Judge Marshall
 Judge Marshall, in his charge, laid special stress upon the conspiracy to defraud the government. He declared that the statute of limitation does not show that a conspiracy was in exist ence at the time not barred by the statute
Arizona republican., 1909-05-12
Letting Our Babies Die.

There were 26.5O3 deaths of infants under one year of age in New York City last year and there were 450O in one summer month, and the other cities of the world show practically the same figures in proportion to population. The number of deaths of babies under one year of age is greater than the number of deaths from any other single cause or dis ease the world over