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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-27
CITY COMMISSIONS.

OF late there has been much dis
cussion of the subject of commission
government for cities. A number of
cities, in various parts of the country,
have adopted the commission plan
and in almost every case the new sys-
TEN works satisfactorily.
Galveston, Texas. is now governed
by commission as is also Houston
and other cities of the Lone Star
state. No less a parsonage than ex-
President Charles W. Eliot of Har-
ward recently visited Galveston to in
vestigate the commission system. He
praises the system in unstinted
terms and dwells particularly upon the
fact that the commission plan places
a municipal government upon a
strictly business basis and does away
with all sinecures.
But while the commission plan may
work admirably in the larger cities
it is doubtful if it would be feasible
in small cities such as Pendleton.
Should the commission plan be adopt
ed locally the city would be giving
up it's present system Of government
for one whereby the town would be
governed by ga body very similar in
character to the county court. City
commissions are usually composed Of
a mayor and either two or four COM
missioners. They are paid salaries.
At the present time Pendleton has
the free service Of a mayor and eight
counciimen. Though there is no re-
Enumeration attached to any Of these
offices, yet the honor connected there
with is usually sufficient to attract
good men to them. These men repre-
sent their respective portions Of the
city and usually do so zealously and
well. It is doubtful IL the personnel
OF a Pendleton city commission, should
one be provided, would be any better
than that Of the present council. 1t
might not be as good. Capable men
might be more reluctant about serv-
ing upon commission, because the
salaries would not be large enough to
be very attractive and the RESPONSE
bilities Of office would be greater
than at present. Men will sometimes
do for nothing that which they would
not do for hire.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-27
Humming Bird on Toast.

A man in San Antonio has just or
dered 500 humming birds from
game dealer in Mexico. These are to
be served as course in banquet.
There has never been found in the
crop of a humming bird any food
but what when alive injured the far
mer. Every bird of beautiful plu-
mage that is destroyed means one
less mouthful that the farmer must
produce. This winter a million rob-
ins have been shot in the south for
plumage and food. This spells agri-
cultural murder for the north.
The birds of Massachusetts are fast
dying out. Like our forests. they
must be conserved. Foreigners who
have recently come to our shores are
especially INSCRIPTIONS in slaughter
ing our bird life. The time must soon
come when more drastic laws will
be enacted in this state forbidding
the wearing of feathers. Our birds
alive are far more valuable to us than
their plumage when dead. Agricul-
ture is of more account than orna-
ment.
We are coming to find out that
birds are our best citizens. They
pipe for our joy and destroy insect
enemies. They stimulate our fancy
and eat our bugs.-Boston Post.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-27

The people who seem to have reli-
gion on the brain usually have no
brains in their religion.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-27

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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-27
A FRIEND OF HUMANITY.


His life was grand; and he, from out
his store
OF strength would oft some weaker
brother bless,
His hand swing open wide fast
closed door
Through which another passed to
happiness.
His life was sweet; and from his
kindly heart
His lips were ever ready with a
word
A flood of hope and courage to i'm
part
To one whose need his sympathy
had stirred.
And he was good; of him twas truly
said
That oft he went out. as was his
plan,
Ere yet at night he rested in his bed,
Somewhere to act the Good Samari-
tan.
And he was blessed; for men who do
such deeds.
Who to the world themselves and
substance give,
Whatever be their callings or their
creeds,
Are truly blessed. even while yet
they live.
F. Porter. in Boston Globe.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-27

BAND CONCERTS.

The Importance of making this city
an interesting place in which to live
can scarcely be overestimated. From
a business standpoint it is we'll to make
the town attractive. People will then
like the place and they will not leave
it. New people will come because
they find it interesting.
For the summer months it is doubt
full if anything would be of more gen.
eral benefit than a series Of good band
concerts. Pand concerts entertain
the public at large They are enjoyed
by the young and old and by those in
all walks of life. A series of public
concerts this summer would make To-
cal people, and visitors as we'll, feel
good toward the city. It is worth
while to have people feel good towards
Pendleton.
Why cannot series of band con-
certs be arranged for? Perhaps the
ladies' clubs will take the matter up.
Should they do so the movement will
be assured of success and the concerts
will be all the more enjoyable be-
cause of the fair auspices under which
they are given.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-27
NATURE Is KIND.

The rainfall for Pendleton and vi
cinity last night amounted to over
half an inch. 1t was a very timely and
welcome rain. Both in the farming
and in the stock sections of the coun-
ty the moisture was needed. Though
the growing rain had not suffered to
any extend by the lack of rain the
gentle, continuous shower was heart
lily appreciated by farmers. Should
there be a reasonable precipitation
between now and the end of the
growing season this county will un-
doubtedly pro luce a bumper wheat
crop.
But the present beneficial shower is
nothing exceptional in Umatilla coun-
ty. Nature is usually very kind to
the farmers of this section. This
county has never known a crop fail
ure. Several times each year the grain
is destroyed-in the minds of pessi-
mists-by frosts, droughts or other
blights, yet each year the county pro-
duces its millions of bushels of wheat.
Last year the total yield was below
the average, yet the price was suffi-
ciently high to fully make up for the
loss in yield. This year the outlook
is good for a splendid crop and for
the highest prices known in years.
Such is life in the northwest.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-27
SCIENCE PREVENTS BALpNEss.
The Fatal Germ and It's Remedy Nov
Facts of Science.

1t is the rarest thing in the world TO-
a man to be necessarily bald. No MAJ
whose hair is not dead at the roots, nee
be bald II he will use Newbro's Herr!
eide, the new scalp antl5eptlc. Hcrrr
eide destroys the germ that cuts the hat
of at the root; and cleans the scalp
dandruff and leaves 1t in a perfectly
healthy condition. Mr.. Manhelt, In o.,
Maryland Block, Butte. Mont, was en
tirely bald. In less than month Herpi-
eide had removed the enemies Of haii
growth, and nature did It's work By coy
ering his head with thick hair an incf
lcng. and in six weeks he had o normal
suit of hair. Sold by leading druggists
Send 10c in stamps for sample 10 Thf
Herpicide Co.. Detroit. Mich.
One dollar bottles guaranteed.
A. G. Koeppen & Bros.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-27
Jupiter Pluvius is good fellow.
Doom Of the Ear.

The new Paquin gowns leave no
room for mprovement-nor anything
else.
Recent authorities on dress give 1t
as their opinion that the ear will
have to go. 1t is beginning to in
terfere with the movements of the
Nazimova collar, which is steadily
rising in the world. Several dress
makers have already recommended
its painless removal. When It comes
to a case Of the ear versus the collar,
why hesitate Life.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-27
A BENEFICIAL CHANGE.

II is announced by the local morn
ing paper that II will no longer exist
as a daily publication. It is an an
nouncement Of interest and one that
is not received without regret.
But considered from broad stand
point the city will unquestionably be
benefited by the change. The Pen
dleton papers have been the foremost
small city dsilies in the state. It Is
not disparaging TO Pendleton 10 say
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-27

If Mr.. Rockefeller is anxious to
give money to Oregon schools but
does not look with favor upon those
OF the Willamette valley he might en-
dow the Pendleton academy which is
soon to be a junior college. This
school has field that is as large as
"all outdoors"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-27
UncOupled.

Jack, what is the baby crying
for?"
For the kitten"
Didn't I tell you not to take the
kitten away from him?"
II didn't mother. I took the baby
away from the kltten."-LAfe.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-27

SONG OF THE SPUR.

. o. it's no and hey for the wind .
. swept way. .
. And the breath Of the open .
. trail,
. Ere the East is stirred with a .
. ripple OF rose o
. Or the yellow stars grow pale. .
. And its hey and no for the .
. beating sun c
. And the slash Of the slanting .
. rain .
. For the singing grass and the .
. stinging speed, .
. And the sweep Of the stretch 0
. ing plain! .
. o, it's no and hey when the bell .
lowing steers .
. Storm down in a frenzied .
. rank, .
. To the head of the herd, while .
. my hungry teeth .
. Bite blood from the heaving .
flank o
. And it's hey and no when the .
dusk has set .
Pale lamps in her turrets .
high, .
. Homeward again where a far .
light calls, .
. Under a tingling sky! .
. Hilton r. Greer in Pacific .
. Monthly. .
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-27
Another Kind.

"Sir," requested the young man.
entering with a suit on his arm
"I've brought these clothes for you
to press. The man next door says
you are a gem at pressing suits!"
"Well, the man next door is right,
replied the suit presser; "only this
isn't a tallor's shop-it's lawyers
office"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-27

The question of the hour for this
county now is who is to be queen of
the Umatilla float in the Portland rose
show?"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-27

What is happening to the publicity
bureau? When last seen it was do
ing well, but interest in the matter
should not be allowed to drag.
The Springfield herald., 1909-07-30
COULDN'T GET 81 TO ENTHUsE
Hired Mans Remarks Could Hardly
Be Said to Be In Nature Of
Of Compliment.

The young lawyer. having been
nominated for the office of county at
torney, thought to surprise an eccen-
trio genius by the name of 81 who
was working as hired man on the
young lawyers fathers farm.
well. 81, what do you think?" the
young man began.
Sometimes one thing. Lonny. an
sometimes mother"
But, 81. they have nominated me
for county attorney"
"They might "a done worse, Lon
ny. Howsomever, don't holler till
you're out of the woods"
The young attorney was duly
elected, and on his next visit to. the
farm announced the fact unctuously
to 81. who was at the woodpile, saw
In hand.
"Well. 81. am elected by large
majority. What do you think OF
that?"
well, Lonny. down in our parts
where l was raised, when we wanted
stopper m hadn't any cork, we
generally took a corn cob."-Youth's
Companion.
The Springfield herald., 1909-07-30
CALLING DOWN THE BoAsTER
Good Little Story Told by William
Dean HowelIs as Rebuke to
Spread-EagIeism.

ut was William Dean Howells."
said o Chicago editor, who first re-
buked us Americans for our spread
eagleism, for our foolish boasting. l
see that Mr.. Howells has Just Joined
mems society for the promotion of
woman suffrage. Trust him to be in
the forefront always.
Il once heard Mr.. Howells deliver a
fourth of July GRAFTON in Maine. The
orator preceding him had boasted a
good deal. Mr.. Howells showed that
some of the mans boasts were even
impious.
He said that these spread-eagle
boosters deserved the rebuke that the
little child administered to the cack-
ling lien that had just laid an egg.
The child, angered by the hens con-
tinuous cawk-cawk-cawk. cawk-cawk-
cawk-cawk, shook his little finger at
her and said:
"'You fink you're smart. But bod
made dat egg. You touldn't help but
lay it,"
The Springfield herald., 1909-07-30
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

President Taft has advised Senator
Guggenheim that he expects to reach
Colorado about September goth or
21st and be present at the opening OF
the Gunnison tunnel.
Instead Of shaking hands across a
painted boundary on the bridge at El
Paso next September, President Tai,
and President Diaz will exchange Wis.
its. the former crossing into Mexico
and the latter setting foot on the soil
of the United States.
Assurance comes from Peking that
American participation in the loan OF
$27,5OO,O0O about to be negotiated by
the Chinese government on the Han.
kow-Sze Chuen railroad and other en-
terprises will be arranged to the en-
tire satisfaction of this government.
thus assuring the maintenance Of the
open door" In China.
Letters have been presented to Pres
ident Taft from twenty-five governors
of states in the Middle West and
South urging him to make trip Of
inspection down the Mississippi when
he goes to attend the annual conven-
ton of the Lakes to the Gulf Deep
Waterways Association at New Or
leans in November next.
The Senate has confirmed the Presi-
dents nomination Of Charles e. Crane
of Illinois OF be envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary to China.
Approximately 90S,000 acres OF land
in Wyoming were designated July 22d
by Acting Secretary of the Interior
Pierce as coming within the enlarged
homestead act. Up to date this makes
total of 11,584.0S0 acres OF land SO
designated in Wyoming. The land is
not susceptible of successful irriga
ton.
Reports published in Washington
that Colorado may send woman as
one of it's representatives to the Sixty.
second Congress are attracting great
attention and comment. The cartoonist
of the Evening Star, under the caption,
Catching the Speakers Eye in the
Future" pictures the Colorado lady
representative in the front row OF the
House. She wears composite mush-
room and peach basket effect hat, be.
hind which anxious members vainly
try to catch the eye of the Speaker
some saying: Hats off in 'front.'
others, Jaw, what's the USE"
President Taft has decided that he
will make the trip down the Missis-
sippi river from st. Louis to New Or
leans late in October, as the guest OF
the deep waterways convention, which
will be held in New Orleans upon his
arrival there. The date OF the Presi-
dents meeting with President Diaz OF
Mexico at El Paso, Tex, has definitely
been set for October 18th. The Presi-
dent will spend October 18th at San
Antonio, Tex, and will then make a
four days visit to the ranch OF his
brother, Charles P. Taft, near Corpus
Christi.
The Springfield herald., 1909-07-30
"A Cheap Skate"

Joel Chandler Harris" said an At
lantan. used to write comic newspa-
per editorials. Sometimes he made
fun of other editors in them, too.
Simon Simpson. a rival editor in
Mobile, having been made fun of,
wrote angrily in his rage:
Joel Harris has been getting off
some cheap wit at our expense
Joel, on reading this. grabbed his
pen and dashed off, quick as a flash.
for next days issue:
"'It must have been cheap, Simon
to be at your expense"
The Springfield herald., 1909-07-30
GENERAL NEWS.

Deaths by the Texas hurricane are
now estimated at twenty-five and the
property losses at 100000.
M. Clemenceau. the French premier,
and his cabinet resigned on the goth
inst, following the defeat Of the gov
ernment on a vote of confidence by
PIP to 17G.
In answer to an inquiry, sixteen gov
ernors have announced the belief that
their states will adopt the income tax
amendment. Seven are non-committal
or uncertain.
More than 10000 orphans have been
given outings by about fifty clubs this
year, according to figures compiled by
the secretary OF the American Auto
mobile Association.
The New York Central detective de-
partment Is arranging for the pur-
chase of bloodhounds to assist in
tracking down car thieves.
The Travellers Insurance Company
of Hartford has decided that "habitual
aviators" must fly at their own risk.
and has instructed its agents not to
insure them.
Bruno Hobbs, field secretary OF the
international committee of the Y. M.
c. A., formerly lawyer and business
man of Denver, was drowned July 22d
at Silver Bay, N. Y, by the upsetting
of a canoe.
An insurance policy of 100000 on
the life of E. II. Hartman has been
written by Lloyds, London, for New
York broker who has large holdings
of Hartman stocks.
Don Carlos OF Bourbon. pretender to
the Spanish throne, died on the 18th
inst, at Varez in lombard. He had
been Ill for long time.
Three hundred years after her orig
inal of the famous voyage, the repro
duction of Henry Hudson's vessel. the
Half Moon, came into New York Har-
bar July 22d. resting on the Dutch
freighter. Soestdyk-
The Springfield herald., 1909-07-30
Law of Attraction.

The attractions of men to women
and women to men are full of the most
perplexing Inconsistencies and contra
dictions imaginable. 1t is, for instance.
a physical law that magnetism is not
simple attraction of one thing for an
other, but the difference of two oppos-
ing forces of attraction and repulsion
of which the former is the greater.
The same law holds in relation to the
attraction of men and women for each
other. in which. as rule. the mascu-
line is the superior force.-T. P.'s
Weekly London.
The Springfield herald., 1909-07-30
Westerners urne Hides Duty.

Washington.-Desp the evident
determination of the President to have
the conference committee stand by the
House provision of the tariff bill plac
ing hides on the free list, the West
ern senators are maintaining an active
fight to retain hides on the dutiable
list even though the rate is scaled
Senators Warren and Smoot had a
conference with the President Satur-
day afternoon, and urged him to per-
NIT the conferees to bring in COM
promise at not less than ten per cent
The Springfield herald., 1909-07-30
Regulations.

"The Autocrat," remarked the Re,
condite Person, made a remark the
import of which escaped me until the
other day. He said: Many man
has reputation because of the repu-
tation he expects to have some day"
That's not half bad remark" sug-
gested the Practical Person, but my
son-just out from college, you know,
and In the habit of thinking hump
backed thoughts, as 1t were-said
something only this morning that ap-
pealed to me: Some men, he said.
get reputation and keep it; other
men get reputation and make it
keep them"
The Springfield herald., 1909-07-30
Aeroplane Crosses English Channel.

Dover.-Louis Bleriot, the French
aviator, accomplished the remarkable
feat of flying across the English Chan
mel Sunday morning in % minutes.
The distance from his starting point,
near Calais. to Dover, is about 81
miles, and he therefore Travelled at the
rate of nearly a mile minute. The
aviator left the French shore at 4:30
and within few minutes sighted the
white cliffs of Albion. He descended
gracefully in the Northfall meadow,
behind Dover Castle, at 4:53 a. m.
The Springfield herald., 1909-07-30
The Thrifty Scot,

A Scotsman and his wife were COM
ing from Leith to London by boat.
When off the Yorkshire coast great
storm arose and the vessel had sew
eral narrow escapes from laundering.
"Oh. Sandy" moaned his wife. I'm
ma afeard O. deein', but dinna care
to dee at sea-"
"Dinna think O. deein' yet" an
swered Sandy; but when ye do, ye'd
better be drooned at sea than any
where else"
"An' why, Sandy?" asked his wife.
"Why?" exclaimed Sandy. Because
ye wouldn't cost sac muckle to bury
The Springfield herald., 1909-07-30
He Bit.

The city man was jogging on to-
ward the summer clearinghouse in
rickety old wagon. The driver was
glum and far from entertaining, and
the city man felt rather lonely.
Fine field over there" he ventured
after long silence.
Fine" grunted the driver.
"Who owns it?"
"Old man Bit"
"Old man Bit, eh? Who are those
children stacking up hay?"
"Old man Bits boys"
"And what is his idea in having
them out there in the field such hot
day?"
"Wal, ! reckon he thinks every lit
tie Bit helps, stranger. Anything
else you want to know? Get up here,
hosses."
The Springfield herald., 1909-07-30

The Maya Indians in The province
of Quintano Roo, Yucatan. peninsula,
ambushed the Seventeenth Mexican
infantry at Ocum, killing six troopers
and mortally wounding seven others.
There was a slight earthquake shock
at Mason City, ILL.,. on the night of the
shaken open and hundreds ei people
rushed into the streets. No damage
was reported
The United States Circuit Court of
Appeals, in a decision handed down
at San Francisco, has sustained the
constitutionality OF the federal enact
ments providing that cattle or sheep
in transit by rail must be watered and
fed every twenty-eisht hours.
The success of several London suf-
fragettes in obtaining their release
from prison by carrying out hunger
strike" has caused all of the suffra-
gettes in Holloway jail to adopt this
method of gaining their freedom. Miss
Elsie Mackenzie was discharged from
prison in a critical condition, having
gone 151 hours without food.
Herbert Latham, the French aviator,
attempted to cross the English Chan
but after covering sixteen miles his
motor failed and the machine fell in
the water, from which he was rescued
unhurt by the French torpedo boat
destroyer Harpoon. He says that he
will try again.
Swift retribution overlook two reck.
less automobilists at Yonkers. N. Y,
who ran down and killed James Sim,
a motorman. The men in the car kept
on at unabated speed. Then within
sight of the group that gathered about
their victim, their machine skidded
into a tree, overturned and was de-
stroyed by fire. The occupants leaped
out and disappeared.
The prosecutors of Harry Thaw are
criticised and insanity experts scored
in 2O-page booklet which Mrs. Mary
Copley Thaw, mother of Thaw, has
Just issued. 1t bears the title, THE Sc.
cret Unveiled" and alleges the exist
ence of "cowardly combination"
against Thaw and the taking Of unusu-
ally oppressive measures in his case.
His entire sanity at present is strong
ly asserted.
At vichy. France. on the 21st inst.
Paul Tissandier made an aeroplane
flight of fifty-six minutes.
company has been formed at Ber-
lin for the purpose of erecting a great
airship garage, with landing and test
ing grounds. AS the company is inte>
ested in dirigible balloons, 1t designs
to lease about 1000 acres near Berlin
where it will erect great sheds and re-
pair shops and benzine and hydrogen
reservoirs.
John S. Wise. Jr., of New York. who
il now in Paris, says that former
President Roosevelt, just prior to his
departure from New York on his AT
frican hunting expedition, promised
him and other Republicans in New
York that he would return in time for
the mayoralty campaign. Mr.. Wise
says he has not given up the hope that
Mr.. Roosevelt will head the mayoralty
ticket in New York this autumn.
A cantilever bridge 1850 feet in
length and costing $3.00O.000 is being
built across the Copper River in
Alaska. 1t will be completed within
eighteen months. The bridge crosses
the river between two large glaciers.
the Miles and Childs. the latter having
a frontage on the river varying from
800 to 700 feet. Huge masses OF ice
weighing hundreds of tons break away
from the face and plunge into the
river with a report like the roar Of .
cannon
The Springfield herald., 1909-07-30
Privilege of English Husband.

A wife who complained at the
Marylebone police court in London the
other day that her husband used
abusive language to her was informed
by Mr.. Plowden that this was one of
a husbands privileges.
You must put up with it." the mag
istrate told her. Better an abusive
husband than no husband at ALL"
But | have had SO many years of
this kind of thing" she protested.
Il cannot give you any redress"
Mr. Plowden replied. You must ex-
pect a certain amount of abuse in this
world "