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Barbour County index., 1909-02-17
Victims Open War on Mushroom" Hat

pointed feathers which protrude and
could infiict untold damage if properly
aimed. No one accuses the navy girls
of attempting to do damage with these
weapons, but the fact remains that
there are several of the younger Off
GERS who have received painful CLAN
cling blows from the hats but have been
too gallant to complain.
THE way the damage is DONE" one
of the navy girls admirers said the
other day, 'is generally in this fash
ion: You go to tea and, after shak-
ing hands in the drawing room, spy
several of the fair young navy dam
sells all in group and talking viva
ciously. You approach cautiously and
begin the recital of some carefully
prepared speech about the weather
to Miss Converse. At the sound of
your voice Miss Newberry or Miss
Fremont or some other navy girlturns
her head quickly your way and de-
livers you somewhere about the face
singing blow with the edge of her
hat and the sharp pointed feathers.
OF course you suffer in silence. like a
man, but you silently pray for the day
when softer or smaller hats will be in
Style"
Barbour County index., 1909-02-17
New Aero Club at the National Capital

George o. Totten, Jr., and R. M. Nc
Lehman.
A committee of the Aero Club Of
America, with which the Washington
club will be affiliated, has been appoint
ed to receive contributions for a
memorial shaft to Lieut.. Thomas E.
Selfridge, U. S. A, who was killed in
the accident to the Wright aeroplane
at Fort Myer last September. On the
committee are Glen H. Curtiss, Prof
Alexander Bell and Lieut.. F. P. LaAm,
U. S. A. The shaft will be erected
either in Arlington National cemetery,
where Lieut.. Selfridge is buried, or on
the spot where the Wright aeroplane
fell on the parade ground at Fort
Myer. The latter spot is favored by
the majority of these interests.
Officers of the signal corps have not
given up hope that something may he
done by this session of congress to ap-
propriate money for the promotion of
aeronautics in the United States army.
They express hope that individual
members of congress may ask for
money for aerial protection of the dis
tricts they represent. They believe
if this should go through in one case
it would be followed by other requests
of q similar nature
Barbour County index., 1909-02-17
Senate Elevator ''Boys" Given a Raise

Vator conductors. If the presidents
pay was TO be doubled, he asserted
why not remember the hard working
men who ride the senator's up and
down every day?
But the senate warmed up SLOWLY
Senator Warren coldly argued that
II the elevator men were to be bene
nted, general adjustment of EN-
ployes' salaries would be necessary
AS proposed by Borah, the amendment
was beaten.
Senator Knute Nelson of Minneso,,,
however, sprang the same amendment
after changing the verbiage slightly.
he spoke of our poor elevator boys''
who work the day long all the yea,
round for scanty hundred a month
Not one of the boys is under 60. bu
that did not seem to make any dine,
ence. La Toilette put in an almost
tearsome plea.
When the test came the second timt,
even Warren had wilted and not a
viote was recorded against increasing
the boys salary from $1,000 to 81
400 q year.
Barbour County index., 1909-02-17

looked at him and asked him what
the layout was all about, and the
dwarf, who had learned to speak a
little English, got on his knees and
told Pa the skyship had landed in the
midst Of his own tribe, where he had
been stolen from a year ago by an
other tribe, and that the feast was a
cannibal feast got up in honor of the
tribal Thanksgiving, and that the
bodies roasting were members of an
other tribe that had been captured in
a battle, and the dwarf got up and be-
gan to talk to his old friends and
neighbors, and he evidently told them
we were great people, having rescued
him from the tribe that stole him, and
brought him back home in the skyship
safe and sound.
The people began to kneel down
to Pa and worship him, but Pa said
it made him sick to smell that stuff
cooking, and he told us that he felt
our end had come, cause we had
landed in a cannibal country, and they
! would cook us and eat us as sure as
cooking
Pa said if they roasted him and
tried to eat him, they would find they
had pretty tough proposition, but he
thought the cowboy and l would make
pretty good eating.
We got our Winchesters and revol-
vers off the airship, and got ready to
fight if necessary, when suddenly all
of the negroes, dwarfs and full-grown
negroes got down on the ground, and
kissed the earth, all in two lines, and
up to the far end of the line, near the
kings house, out came the king of the
tribe, dressed like a vaudeville per-
former, and he marched down between
the lines with stately tread towards
Pa and the cowboy and your little
Hennery.
He had on an old plug hat, so years
old at least, evidently only worn on
occasions of ceremony, and the rest of
him was naked, except shirt made of
grass, which was buckled. around his
waist, and he carried an empty to-
mato can in one hand and a big oil
can, such as kerosene is shipped in,
in the other, and around his neck was
lot of empty pint beer bottles strung
on piece of copper wire, and he had
his nose. and ears pierced and in the
holes he wore tin tags that came off
of plugs of tobacco.
He was sight sure enough, but he
was as dignified as a southern negro
driving a hack. Pa kept his nerve
with him, rolled cigarette. scratched a
match on the seat of his pants, and
lighted it, and blew smoke through his
nostrils. and looked mad, as he laid
his Winchester across his left arm.
Barbour County index., 1909-02-17
INDIAN GIRL MUSIC MAD.
Mind Deranged by Study, She Insists
on Playing Constantly.

Shawnee, Okla.-Miss Stella White
wing. pretty Indian girl, is believed
to be suffering from a peculiar de-
rangement of the mind, brought on, it
is thought, by too strict application to
musical studies. Not until she had
played her piano from morning till
night, without stopping, did her par
ents know anything was wrong
Physically she is in perfect health,
but insists on playing the piano con-
stantly. She has spent the last year
at a musical conservatory in Louis
vile, returning recently. A popularity
about her mania for music is that she
attempts some of the most difficult Sc
lections, far above the grade of or
d!nary practice, and executes them
with apparent ease.
In her execution of piece her mind
never wanders; she plays the music
as it is written, without interruption
AS soon as she wakes in the morn
ing she rushes to the piano and would
stay there all day if her mother didn't
persuade her from it.
Barbour County index., 1909-02-17
They Hauled the Boat Ashore aac
Took Refuge in a Cave.

for some time, during which their
lives were in great peril as their little
boat was dashed to and fro on the
rolling breakers, they found them
selves stranded on the beach of Man
haven.
Discovering a snug cave, they
hauled the boat ashore and stored it
away in the cave. Here four days were
spent in complete seclusion, the men
living fairly well on the provisions
which had been taken from the ships
stores.
The master of the Janow reported
the desertions to the police authori-
ties, who were unable to find any
trace of the men. The two sailors
eventually left their hiding place and
visited South Shields, evidently with
the intention of learning if their ship
had sailed. The mate of the vessel
chanced to be ashore, and he caught
sight of the two men. With the as
sistance of constable, he got hold of
one of the men, but the other, to es-
cape capture, leaped into the river
and disappeared.
Next day two river policemen and
the man in custody visited the cave.
The second man was not there, but on
coming away they met him on the
highway. After a desperate struggle,
he was secured. A six-chambered re-
volver was found upon him.
The two men were handed over to
The captain of the Janow, which pro-
ceeded on its voyage to a Russian
port
Barbour County index., 1909-02-17

YOUNGER officers of the navy who
are regularly invited to the de-
butantes' teas in Washington say they
are going to form an anti-mushroom
Merry Widow" hat league, or wear
baseball masks in the future.
1t appears that the so-called pink
teas" are sometimes positively danger
Gus If either Miss Newberry. daughter
of the secretary of the navy; Miss Oh
ga Converse. the Misses Fremont, the
Misses Goodwin or any of the other
navy girls turn around too abruptly
when naval officers or others of their
admirers get among them and come
within range of their hats.
These large hats of the mushroom
"Merry Widow" species are some
times as sharp on the edges as if they
had been specially stropped, and, in
addition, generally have stanch, sharp
Barbour County index., 1909-02-17
HE CONSORTS WITH ROYALTY

wrong way to hit the coast, and the
first big village we came in sight of
he was going to land and take our
chances.
Pretty soon a big village loomed
up ahead, on high place near a river,
with more than 100 houses, and fields
of corn and potatoes and grain all
around it, and one big house like
about 40 hay stacks all in one, and
Pa gave the word to stand by, and
when we got near the village the
whole population came out beating
tom-toms, and waving their shirts,
and Pa pulled the string, some of the
gas escaped, and we came down in a
sort of plaza right in the center of
the village, and tied the drag rope to
a tree, and anchored the gas bag at
both ends.
The crowd of negroes stood back in
amazement, and waited for the king
of the tribe to come out of the big
shack, and while he was getting ready
to show up we looked around at the
preparations for feast which we
had noticed.
1t was a regular barbecue, and the
little dwarf we had brought along be-
gan to sniff at the stuff that was be-
ing roasted over the fire. and Pa
Barbour County index., 1909-02-17
Initiated Into Novel Club

The "HaW, haw! hawI" signifies
that the initiation is complete, and
the new member blushingly receives
the congratulations of the older mem
bers Immediately. If he is a good fell
low he sets out to find a recruit up
on whom he himself may administer
the work"
The organization of the did You
Bite, Too?" club is the result of a
visit to Washington of two women
from New York in the interest of a
very captivating publicity scheme.
This scheme is now one of the secrets
Of the did You Bite, Too?" club.
A few days ago the young women
went back to New York. The day aft
er their departure a large bunch of
letters came to the capitol, all written
on the business stationery of the ho-
tel. Each letter contained a state
ment of the account of the person to
whom it was addressed. One was for
five automobile rides, another was for
dinners and suppers, another for nu-
merous bottles of wine, others were
for miscellaneous items, and one,
which was received by a young con-
gresham, who has plenty of the
wherewithal and doesn't care how he
spends it, was for board and lodging
for two persons for one week.
Those who paid homage to these
young women and wondered at the
lavish entertainment are wondering
no longer. The members of the did
You Bite, Too?" club know exactly
how they managed it. Now that it
is all over, if you can get one of them
to talk club matters he will tell you
it was one of the finest pieces of
high financing that ever came to his
notice.
Barbour County index., 1909-02-17

The cowboy was trembling, but he
had his gun ready. and l was monkey
ing with an automatic revolver, and
the king came right up to Pa, and
looked Pa over, and walked around
him, making signs. Then he looked at
the airship and gas bag, and shifted at
the feast cooking, and finally his eye
fell on the dwarf, who had been
mourned as dead, and he called the
dwarf one side to talk to him, and Pa
said to the dwarf: Tell him We have
just dropped down from heaven to in
spect the tribe, and take an account
of stock" The king and the dwarf
talked awhile and then the king came
up to Pa and got down on his knees,
and in pigeon English, broken by sobs,
he informed Pa that he recognized
that Pa had been sent from heaven to
take the position of king of the tribe,
and he announced to the tribe that
gathered around him that he abdicated
in Pas favor, and turned his tribe,
lands, stock and mines over to the
heaven-sent white man, and for them
to look upon Pa as king and escort
him to the palace and turn over to
him all his property, wives, ivory, cop.
per and gold, and he would go jump
in the lake, and in token of abdication
he turned over to Pa the plug hat,
and was taking off the beer bottles
from around his neck when Pa stopped
Barbour County index., 1909-02-17

the deal and said he would take
charge of the property and the pal
ace, but he would not have the wives
or the hat, and he would try to govern
the tribe so it would soon take it's
place beside the kingdoms of Europe,
but the old king must sit on his right
hand as adviser and friend, and run
the family.
The king agreed, and the tribe es-
corted Pa and the cowboy and me to
the palace, and placed Pa on the
throne, the cowboy on the left, the old
king on the right, and me at Pas feet,
and then about 100 of the kings wives
came in with COW tails tied around
their waists and danced before Pa.
and Pa covered his eyes and said to
the cowboy: Take this thing easy,
and don't get ratified, and we will get
out of it some way, but I'll be cussed
if eat any of that roasted nigger."
After they danced awhile tom-tom
sounded afar off and the crowd started
for the feast, and some niggers
brought in a tray of meat for us, but
Pa said we were vegetarians and the
great spirit would be offended if we
ate meat, and Pa made a sign of dis
tress, and they took away the boiled
ham of a colored person and brought
us some green corn and sweet pota-
toes, and then they all drank some
thing out of gourds, and all got drunk
except the old king and Pa and the
the cowboy.
When everybody was good and
drunk Pa called us all into executive
session and took charge of the af-
fairs of the tribe, and we were as.
signed to room as it was night. and
when we got in and shut the door. Pa
says to the cowboy: How does this
compare with life with the Nigg ,r
Indians?" And the cowboy said: This
takes the cake" and Pa examined
the old kings valuables, and found go:d
enough to pay the national debt. ard
diamonds by the quart, as big as wal
nuts, and Pa said: This sure looks
good to me, and we will tarry a while.
You plug up that gas bag so no guilty
gas can escape, aud some day we will
load up with diamonds and things and
make quick getaway"
Barbour County index., 1909-02-17

WASHINGTON has an areo club. 1t
w was organized the other day in
the office of Brig Gen. James Allen,
chief signal officer of the army at the
war department. Truman H. Newber-
ry, secretary of the navy, was elected
president; Robert Shaw Oliver, as
sistant secretary of war, first vice.
president; Thomas Nelson Page, Sec
ond vice-president, and Representative
Butler Ames of Massachusetts, third
vice-president.
Among the charter members of the
new club are Representative Parsons
of New York, o. II. Tittman of the
geodetic survey, Lieut.. Richard B.
Creery, U. S. NJ. c.; c. L. Mariatt,
chief of the bureau Of entomology;
Lieut.. George c. Sweet, U. S. N, of
the bureau of equipment; Col. Charles
H. Bromwell, U. S. A, superintendent
public buildings and grounds, District
of Columbia; Lieut. F. p. Lahm,
Barbour County index., 1909-02-17
TWO FUGITIVE SAILORS
LIVE FOR DAYS IN CAVE
DESERVING THEIR SHIP THEY
PUT TO SEA, BUT ARE DRIVEN
BACK ON BEACH.

Edinburgh.-After living for four
days and half in cave at lonely.
spot called Manhaven. on the Dur
ham coast, two Russian sailors, who
had deserted from their ship, the
Janow of Riga, have been captured.
Their vessel anchored in the Tyne
about week ago, and the men having
decided on leaving her in the night,
provisioned small boat and, under
the cover of thick fog, got away un-
observed. They pulled out to sea
with the hope, it is thought, of being
picked up by a outward-bound vessel,
but on getting clear of the Tyne piers
they got lost. and after drifting about
Barbour County index., 1909-02-17

tops at one grove and Pa let the ship
down a little so we could count the
spots on them, and 1 had a syphon of
seltzer water and 1 squirted it in the
face of big giraffe, and he sneezed like
a cat that has got a dose of smelling
salts, and then the whole herd stam-
peded in a sort of hippity-hop. and we
laughed at their awkwardness.
We sailed along over more animals
than we thought there were in the
world, and over thatched houses in
villages, where the negroes would
come out and take look at us, and
then fall on their knees, and we could
see their mouths work as though they
were saying things.
Along towards noon Pa yelled to
the cowboy that we would have to
land pretty soon, and to get the drag
rope ready. cause we were going the
Barbour County index., 1909-02-17

WASHINGTON most eyclu-
w sive congressional organization in
Washington is the did You Bite,
Too?" club. It was formed here the
other day in the cloak rooms used at
the capitol. The incomplete mem
bership list, which is withheld, con-
tains a dozen names. Like the Anani-
as club, the wishes of a prospective
member are not consulted If he is
considered eligible he joins because
there is nothing else for him to do.
The process of initiation is some
thing like this. A member, either Of
the senate or the house, receives a
letter bearing the return card of a
prominent downtown hotel. He opens
the letter and reads it, If his face
grows red and his eyes flash, it is a
good indication that he is material
for membership. If. after a moment
of thought. a smile begins to over
spread his countenance and he
reaches in his desk for his check
book, it is a mere indication no long
er. 1t Is a certainty He is then ap-
preached by member.
did you bite, too?" smilingly asks
the member of the member-elect.
Il did" the member-elect answers,
In effect.
"Haw! haw! haw!" roars the mem
ber
Barbour County index., 1909-02-17

A FTER protecting President-elect
"A Taft in the 100000 salary voted
to him recently. senatorial hearts
opened up to the conductors of the
senate elevators the other day and
scattered little loose change in their
direction. So that now. If the house
agrees, the president, vice-president,
speaker, the United States judges and
the elevator boys will get raise.
The president will have $4,000
more. the judges from $1,000 to $4,000,
the vice-2resident and speaker. $4,000,
and the elevator men 5000 additional
a year.
Senator Borah, who insurged all
along against the salary increases.
first took up the cudgels for the ele-
Barbour County index., 1909-02-17
Forceps Left in Wound Cause Death.

Forceps Left IN wound Cause Death.
Philadelphia-A pair of surgeons
forceps accidentally sewed up in the
abdomen after an operation IL years
ago caused the death of Miss Mary G.
Donovan of this city.
The operation in which the unfor-
tunate mistake occurred was perform
ed by surgeon of this city of high
reputation. who has since died The
facts in the case were suspected only
a few days ago following an X-ray ex-
animation made on the advice of ply
sicians.
She was Immediately operated upon
but the measure had been too long de-
layed and her death followed a few
hours later. Il was stated by the
young woman's brother that the opera
ticn IL years ago on his sister, who
had been from childhood an invalid,
was at first believed to have been
success. Afterward strange symptoms
developed and since that time Miss
Donovan's life has been one long
search for the cause of her Illness. The
forceps when discovered were COM
Dletely imbedded in the intestines.
Barbour County index., 1909-02-17
Our Best Two Wnrds

The friends the foreigner had m ade
during his visit in New York were sad
at his departure. They sat about a
table at cafe he had frequented.
talking of him. Good Sort" they
said. "Awfully sorry he's gone. OF
course. he couldn't talk in our lam
guage, but he knew enough of II to
make him interesting. Two wordr.
Have another"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-12
DISCUSS RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
AT CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y.

Chautauqua, N. Y, July 12.-Some
of the leading ministers of the Uni
ted States will take part in the smy-
posimus arranged for the National
Education conference. which opened
at Chautauqua today.
A series of morning lectures at II
o'clock will be conducted on the
general subject of "The Development
Of Character" the subjects and
speakers being as follows: "Charac-
ter Development Through the Col
lege and University" by Prof. George
Allen Coe, Union Theological Semi
nary; president of ;the r. e. A.
Character Development Through
the Sunday School," by Edwin ri
Starbusk, University of Iowa. execu-
tive secretary of the Council of the
r. e. A.; Character Development
Through the Church." by Prof. Her
bert L. Willett, dean of Disciples Di-
vinity Hall, University of Chicago:
Character Development Through
Social Living" (speaker to be an
nounced later) At $3.50 on each af-
ternoon there will be held confer
ences correlative with the morning
lectures under the general subject or
Moral and Religious Education in
the Home" Each conference will be
opened by brief address, after which
a discussion will follow, the whole
being in charge of the council.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-12
Elks I'm Los Angeles.

Los Angeles, July 12.-Los Angeles
is bubbling over with hospitality to-
day in honor of the Elks, and even
the few chronic grouches of the an
gelic city have loosened up to the
point of extending the glad hand to
the visitors come to take part in this
weeks convention of all Elkdom.
Festivities such as only the brothers
OF the horny heads and the big hearts
know how to inaugurate are in full
sway today, and the delegates will
not get down to the real business of
the gathering until tomorrow, Every
train today brings additions to the
throng who are met at the stations
by the Los Angeles Elks and told that
their money is counterfeit
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-12
CURE YOUR KIDNEYS.
Do Not Endanger Life When a Pen
dleton Citizen Shows You the Cure.

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dleton Citizen Shows You the Cure.
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If you have any, even one, of the
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For sale by all dealers. Price SO
cents. Foster -Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York. sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-12
Secs Mother Grow Ynnnr

1T would be hard to overstate the
wonderful change in my mother
since she began to use Electric Bit
ters," writes Mrs. w. L. GiIpatrick
of Danforth, Me. although past 70
she seems really to be growing young
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she could neither eat, drink nor
sleep. Doctors gave her up, and all
remedies failed till Electric Bitters
worked such wonders for her
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organs, cure liver and kidney trou-
bles, induce sleep, impart strength
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