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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-04
SOME MORAL PHILOSOPHY,

The levels of literature are more
than the heights, 1t isn't the bes
policy to print every scrap of stuf
that even great man writes.
To feel strongly that you are right
and to act on that feeling, is better
than to seek the advice of philoso-
pher even II you make a mistake,
\ little poem that gives one an es.
thetic thrill is more profitable thar
much fine writing.
II is hard work for some men t.
say Good morning." but there is No
man who does not feel better and
will not work better, for that univer-
sal salutation heartily gwen.
The essence of poetry is beauty
and the principal, value of it is the
refining influence it has on mems
lives.
Poetry that stimulates refined pleas
ure must be considered good, though
written in homely dialect.
Happy is that nation which loves
peace and knowledge as well as most
nations love war and rum.
Fear not the breath OF slander. Not
a thing in the world can injure you
except the thing you do. You cannot
escape that whether anybody knows
il or not.
A love Of applause IS the last in
firmity Of a weak one.
Each day you think of an injury in
creases the pain, Let the thing alone,
and you may live to know that what
you regret was the best thing that
could have happened.
&C. L. Dickinson.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-04
Truth
and Quality

appeal to the Well-Tnformed in every
walk Of life and are essential to per
manent success and creditable stand
ing. Accordingly, 1t is not claimed
that Syrup of Figs and Elixir OF
Serna is the only remedy Of known
value, but one Of many reasons why
it is the best of personal and family
laxatives is the fact that 1t cleanses,
sweetens and relieves the internal
organs on which it acts without any
debilitating after effects and without
having to increase the quantity from
time to time.
It acts pleasantly and naturally and
truly as a laxative, and its component
parts are known to and approved by
physicians, as It is free from all
Objectionable substances. To get It's
beneficial effects always purchase the
genuine-manufactured by the Cali.
tornia Fig Syrup Co., only, and fot
sale by all leading druggists.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-04
ALPHABET OR THE PLAYHOUSE

Eve keep learning things all tn,
time" said an infrequent theater-
goer. "I stopped in front of a the
ater the other day to buy a ticket of
speculator, and l asked him if he
had good single near the front.
Here's one in o., he said. 'th'r-
teenth row, third seat from the aisle
"Now. you know I don't carry the
relative positions of the letters of the
alphabet in my mind all the time; |
have to work for a living ana have
other things 70 think Of; but it struck
me that O must be further down the
line than thirteen, and so just count
ed up the letters on my finger tips
and l made 0 come fifteen, and |
said so to the ticked man, but that
didn't worry him any.
"'Tnere's no A in this theater,' he
said. and no I in any orchestra in
town
Having my finger tip figuring thus
handily knocked out. | bought the
ticket New York sun.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-04
PRESIDENT TAFT.

William H. Taft is now president.
During the next four years, if not
longer, he will be the head Of the
greatest nation in the world. The Of
flee he now holds is the highest til,
world has to confer upon any indi-
virtual. Also it is an office that in
wolves vast responsibility.
What kind of a president Mr.. Taft
will make, the future must tell. That
he is a man of immense ability cam
not be doubted, nor can his personal
integrity and patriotism be question:
ed. Then he is linked with the pro-
gressive element of his party, fact
of great importance.
In his inaugural address the new
president made the following signlfi-
cant statement:
"I have had the honor to be one
of the advisors of my distinguished
predecessor, and as such, to hold up
his hands in the reforms he has ini-
tiated. I should be untrue to myself,
to my promises and to the declara-
tions Of the party platform upon
which I was elected to office, if
did not make the maintenance ana
enforcement of those reforms a most
important feature of my administra-
ton"
If during his term Of office Presi-
dent Taft will consistently and cour-
ageously live up TO this declaration
all will be well. He will make q
good president and a popuar one. OF
the Roosevelt policies" there have
been many critics. Many things at
tempted by President Roosevelt un-
doubtedly deserved sharp criticism
Often his personal behavior was just
" open TO censure or ridicule.
But in the main, President Roose-
welt was right. He was certainly sin
cere in trying to better conditions
His honesty, his courage and his in
tense energy won for him the admira-
ton Of the people. He has had and
still has a remarkable hold upon the
hearts Of the American people. II
was Rooseyelt's influence that made
Taft president. He forced the nomi-
nation upon the republican party and
the people voted for Taft largely be-
cause he was Rooseyelt's friend. In
view If these things t is to be ex-
pected that President Taft will en-
deavor 70 carry out the work Of his
distinguished predecessor"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-04
A JOBBING CENTER.

Seemingly every city located away
from the seacoast will benefit by the
decision in the Spokane rate case. 1t
IS the presumption that the reduc-
tions granted Spokane will apply to
other owns as wei, Whether these
reductions WI come as result OF
the decision in the Spokane case is
not clear. Possibly each town will
have TO bring suit to secure the rates
TO which it is entitled. In its recent
decision the interstate commerce
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-04

improved methods. He has brought
back with him a fund of informant
tion which he will impart to the
Congress and will emphasize his re-
marks with illutrations taken from
photographs secured by him while
travelling in the Orient The region
he visited is one of the great dry
farming region of the world and 1t
ia believed can be made one of the
most productive districts of Eastern
Asia
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-04
AN ILLUSTRATED LECTURE
ON DRY FARMING

An illustrated lecture which Will
be of intense interest and Of large
educative value will be delivered on
the second night Of the Third Trans
Missouri Dry Farming Congress, Feb.
"a, by F. NJ. Meyers.
Mr.. Meyers has just returned from
a tour in northern China and Man
churia. where ne went to Investigate
the conditions on the farms investi-
gate the arid lands, condition and
character Of the soil and study tho
methods used by the farmers and
the possibilities Of the country under
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-04

The press dispatches say the city OF
Washington is in the grasp Of a biz
zard on Inauguration day But 1t was
a beautiful spring morning here. Too
bad the ceremony could not have oeen
pulled off in Pendleton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-04
THE WINTER FIRES SONG.

It's the same old song forever
The song I've come to know
The winter fire singin':
Long ago!
Long ago!"
II.
once twas a merrier music
That thrilled our young hearts so
But now It's singin'-sighin':
Long ago,
Long ago!"
An summers lost its sweetness,
An lonesome falls the snow,
An the fire forever singin':
Long agol
Long ago."
Atlanta Constitution.
In the last 10 years the sugar rev
enue was one-fifth of the total col
Iected, or $55O.oOO,OOO out Of $2,5o0,'
OOO 600
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-04

Johnny-Pa, what is an inflated
currency?
Father-The money you blow in
Bohemian.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-04
Q 90 - - Q . . .
THE NEED OF STRENGTH.

ItE NEED Ot SlhENGlH.
I long to reach the heights sub I
lime
To taste the sweetness of sue
cess;
I pray to have the strength to I
climb, I
To claim the JOY Of worthi- {
ness;
But if I may not play part Z
Such as the greatly gifted
can. Z
Lord, let me have the strength Z
of heart Z
To bear my burden like a Z
man. Z
long to be among the few Z
Whom sorrow ever pass Z
es by. q
. To share the blessings given to Z
The ones for whom proud {
banners fly; 4
But if I must pursue my way Z
Among the ones that humbly Z
strive. Z
. Lord, let me have the strength, 4
I pray,
. To bravely keep my hopes 4
alive q
. $. E. K,ser. in Chicago Rec q
ord-Herald Z
O 4
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-18
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
ALMOST LiFELEss MARKET.
Stocks Drffted Idly Back and Forth
on Nominal Transactions.

New York, Feb. 11~Only scanty
material for comment could be found
In today's torpid stock market. Spec
ulative interest was more stagnant
than at any time since before the ma
tional election. The few stocks which
moved appree%ahly, from some special
caussH, were without any sympathetic
effect on the general list, which drift
ed idly backwards and forwards on
nominal transactions representing
nothing more than the tentative eff
forts OF the room traders to scalp
small profit. The bond division still
altered a sharp contrast to the stagna-
ton of the stock market. although the
volume OF ransactiOns there also fell
away from the recently prevailing lev
81 OF activity. The doubt over the
final outcome OF the Erie financing
e partly responsible for whatever
check is perceptible in the bond
market. Dealers report the general
conditions in that branch of the mar
Eet excellent and designate the situa-
ton as approaching a famine appetite
for investment. This condition Is per-
ceptible in the manner Of fiotation of
new issues more than in the open
market for existing Issues. The ex-
pected Chicago Burlington e. Quincy
Offering which appeared over night,
proved TO be s15,000.000, against pre-
Nious estimates of probably 10000
900 or upwards, and the Offering was
closed as soon az opened. previous ap-
pAcations having been larger than the
total issue. AS the allotment price Of
80 IL compared with a price above
par for bonds previously issued under
the same mortgage. the prompt rist.
in the price Of the new issue to a
premium over the issue price was not
surprising. 1t bcame known also that
the New York Central had disposed
Of block Of $4,000, 900 of its refunding
8 IL per cent. bonds, previously au-
thoriged, without public announcement
or Offering. These evidences OF un-
stated investment demands for bonds
proved Intellectual in stimulating any
dealings in stocks, The halt in the
trade revival appears to nullify the
effect Of the abundant money market
resources in that department of the
securities market. The contents OF
the annual report of the Pressed Steel
Car company and the unfavorable
views expressed by its president over
railroad prospects kept attention fixed
on the subject today. Another reduc-
to. IN copper quotations here and in
London was a contributory factor The
gloomy feeling in the steel trade was
ceepened by reiterated reports of
coming cut, in prices. This is quite
directly effective on speculative senti-
sion Of congress and the tariff dis
cussiOn looming just beyond, the spec
ulstive element finds the new admin
istration deprived OF some of its pre-
dlcted hopeful power. Bonds were ir-
regular. Total sales, par value, S.
$4,000. United States bonds were I'M
changed on cali.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-18
SPORTS OF ALL SORTS.

Yale's first call for baseball candi-
dates brought out 200, varsity and
freshmen.
Attell will celebrate his 25th birthday
on Washington's birthday. He is nam
ed after Abraham Lincoln.
There will be a Langford KetcheH
fight some day, Willus Britt says. but
it will not be for some months to
come.
Brown easily defeated Syracuse at
basketball Tuesday evening by a score
of 50 to 25. The game developed into
a two act farce and was rough and
loosely played throughout.
The new Syracuse eight cared shell
Is to be so feet Ling. % IA inches
beam and 10 inches deep. The shell
is shorter. wider and deeper than the
other Syracuse boats. Hoyle is the
maker.
Grand Rapids has turned out another
crack boy In Eddie Nelson, a light
weight who Is headed for the east
With Nelson. Ketchen and Kubiak to
Its credit. the Furniture City is well
represented in fistiana.
Dorando continues to be by far the
buiest Of the professional Marathon
runners. His latest engagement is for
St. Paul next Monday night, when he
will do his customary stunt OF running
Is miles against relay Of three men.
Connie Mack has ordered Martin, a
TUFTS college player, to report at Phil
adelphiR after the training season is
over. Martin pitched in three games
with the Athletics last season and must
have impressed the astute Connie pref
ty favorably.
The Chadwick monument. to be pIac-
ed over the grave of the late "a ther
Of baseball, Henry Chadwick, will be
unveiled on the anniversary of his
death, April 20. Miss Florence S.
Richter of Philadelphia has designed
the monument.
Herbert Check, the former univer-
sity Of California athlete, set a new
mark for the so yards low hurdles
recently at the games Of the Olympic
club. He ran in 92-5 seconds. The
old record was 8 1-5 seconds, by A. A.
Jordan. Check won by inches from
Forrest Smithson, the worlds record
holder for the ITO metres hurdles.
ITO prove that I did not run away
from Hyland," said Pac1xy Mcfarland.
II am going to take the first train
back to San Francisco as soon as 1 see
my mother and attend to some busi-
ness deals in Chicago. The whole
scheme of the California promoters is
to boost Freddie Welsh into the light
weight char Pnship and give him the
first shot atattllng Nelson"
Captain Ted Coy Of the Yale football
eleven thinks that winter practice is
producing such valuable results that
he will keep the squad at it several
weeks longer. The work has been kept
up three afternoons a week and Coy
and Backfield Coach Henry Wheaton
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-18

spent 100000 on mis- baseball plant this
winter.
George Van HaItren says he win re-
tire from baseball IL the Oakland (Cal.)
management drops him. as has been
intimated. Van has been in the game
since 1888.
Big Larry Mclean. the Cincinnati
catcher, is getting into shape boxing,
wrestling and doing road work with
Mike Scnreck at the iatters training
quarters ct Oakley.
Jack Dunn has signed with Balti-
more. He gets a bonus of $4,000 if the
Orioles win the Eastern league pen
nant. $1,000 IL they finish in second
place and $500 if they get third place.
Johnny King says he viii not Join
the Chicago Nationals in spring train
ing until the week before the season
opens, but will attend to his billiard
nall business in Kansas City and train
with the local Western league team
Dave Brain has always been a hard
man to sign and the Columbus club is
finding it out. Indeed the Columbus
people were warned by the New York
club to delay handing over the pur-
chase money until they found out
whether they could sign their man.
Should the bill introduced in Tren-
ton by Assemblyman dwell permitting
Sunday baseball and other sports be-
come a law it is said that the Phila-
delphias and Athletics will have
grounds in Jersey convenient to Phil
.adelphia and play Sunday games
There.
Christy MaAhewson was asked the
other night whether he advised the use
of the spitbalI. We'll" he replied. ''I
rarely ever use IL unless l get tired Of
seeing Wagner or Chance knock out
base hits A great compliment TO the
batting proves of the two men and a
frank Acknowledgement from one OF
the greatest pitchers the game has
known that there are some men he
finds it difficult to cope with.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-18
CRYING FOR help
Lots Of II in Norwich But Daily Grow
ing Less.
The kidneys cry for help.

The kidneys cry for help
Not an organ in the whole body so
delicately constructed.
Not one so important to health.
The Kidneys are the filters OF the
blood.
When they fail the blood becomes
foul and poisonous.
There can be no health where there
is poisoned blood.
Backache Is one Of the first indica-
tons of kidney trouble
1t is the kidneys cry for help. Heed
Doan's Kidney Pills are what is
wanted
Are Just what overworked kidneys
need.
They strengthen and invigorate the
kidneys; help them to do their work;
never fail to cure any case of kidney
disease.
Read the proof from a Norwich cit
izen.
Mrs H A. SImonds. living at III
Franklin Street, Norwich, Conn. says:
For the purposes recommended I con-
slider that there Is no medicine equal
to Doan's Kidney Pills. The undoubt-
ed benefit their use has given my
friends warrants me in recommending
them very highly. The facts that lead
me to testify in favor OF Doan's Kid
ney Pills which ] procured from n. D.
SEWN & Sons drug store I will cheer
fully give to anyone DESTROYS Of know
ing them for their own good"
For sale by all dealers. Price soc
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, New
York, sole agents for the United States
Remember the name - Doan's - and
take no other
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-18
DIAMOND PIckuPs.

Jesse Burkett has started gymnasi-
UNI work in Worcester to get in shane
for the season.
Patsy Donovan says that Alperman's
injuries have prevented him from be-
ing one Of the greatest second basemen
in the game.
Pop Arson places Amos -Rusie at the
top of the list of great pitchers, hui
admits that he has never seen Christv
Methewson work.
Jack Coonlbs and Eddie Plank are :,
go to New Orleans ahead Of the Ath-
letics. Dygert and Schiller have been
in that city all winter.
The Polo grounds seating capacity
this year will reach close to $1,000
fshR T. Brush Is reported to have
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-18
The Lee & Osgood Co.. special ager

have driven the centers and quarter
backs and some Of the ends through a
red hot hour each drill. There are now
IS quarterbacks and seven centers, a
total of just % men at work.
H. f. Flynn of Pittsburg and Z. r.
Gage of Btnghamton, N. Y, have COM
pleted the first stage Of their globe cir
cling walking tour by reaching Los
Angeles. Cal. They departed from
Pittsburg Sept. and have been FIVE
months in crossing the continent, go
ing by way Of Chicago and Ell Paso.
From the time they started until
now they have lost only 80 davis and
for the number of days travelled have
averaged AZ miles. They are to walk
from Los Angeles to San Francisco
and there will take steamer for the
Orient. They expect to finish their
long walk in five years.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-18
PROF. MosEY KING
HAS QUIT THE RING.
Former New Londoner VIII Take No
More Professional Ring Matches.

Mosey King, who runs the sparring
department up at Yale. says that he
expects that he is through with profess
sional engagements i'll the squared cir
Gle and that he expects to give his at
tention and interests in the future to
developing boxers who spar for the
love of sparring and for general exer-
else.
No boxing instructor at Yale has
been so popular at Yale, except, of
course, the veteran William c. Dole,
who was more than boxing instruc-
tor, but whose work extended to ad
vice and instruction IN every field of
athletics and training.
King went to Yale four years ago the
Connecticut champion lightweight. He
had met such whirlwinds Of the ring
as jeff, Doherty and other claimants,
but whether he could humble JEFF in
his present form is another question.
JEFF Is certainly buzzing.
King sidestepped ring engagements
after he entered the Yale gymnasium
as instructor. His boxing science is
just the kind that do Yale men good
and many alumni who live in New Ha:-
ven are enrolled rs his pupils.
King formerly lived In New London
and he spends his summers in that
vicinity. He is an enthusiastic lover
Of outdoor life aid he annually pitches
a camp somewhere along the shore for
the summer vacation. King Is an old
friend and long ago pupil Of the vet
eran Austin Rice, who held the Con-
necticut lightweiqht title longer than
probably any other boxer ever will
Kings ring work reminds one much OF
his veteran teacher.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-18
christv Saws MaoKay is aFind.u

Christy Mathewson gave the Har-
ward baseball squad its second dose Of
major league manners Tuesday after
noon in the baseball cage. He thinks
he has a find in Bob MacKay, the hus-
ky football player and pitcher from
Andover.
At Audovsr MacKay was feralded as
a coming phenomenon in the pitcher S
box. Last fall he played on the var
sity football team at tackle and last
spring he pitched on his freshman
baseball team, where he won an 49,
inning game from thu Yale freshmen.
AFathewson has taken a liking to
MacKay and with the careful attention
that big Six" is giving him there
seems little doubt but that he will be
one Of the Crimson's leading box art
lists next spring.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-18
Baseball FeudS Drive PuIIiam Out
National League President Expects to be DeposedNo
More Fines by Umpres-American League Opens
April 12th-Sports of the Day.

not want me for president any more.
1t wants to go back to the days of
dealing from the bottom of the pack,
hiding the cards under the table, and
to the days when the trademark was
the gumshoe. / can't afford to quit
or | would resign now from my posi-
sion, which pays $4,000 year. But l
will have to quit at the end OF this
year"
While the whole banquet room was
thrown into a state of panic by the
remarks, President Johnson of the
American league jumped to his feet
and said:
I'VE refuse to believe that there are
lany grounds for these statements.
Pulliam has been under a strain in the
last few days.
But Pulliam persisted saying that If
while he was in San Francisco any
body should offer a job at $4,000 a year
he would take it.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-18
High Score by One Pin.

BY just one pin, Gray of the Norwich
Warriors took from C. Leroy Hill the
high single prize on duckpins at the
Rose alleys on Wednesday night. Hill
had a string of 112 up on the board
when Gray clustered a bunch Of 113.
beating him out. Hill rolled three
string of 334 on Tuesday, which beat
his own three string record for the
week by pins, and is hiAh to date.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-18
TIGERS FOOTBALL SCHEDULE.
Annapolis and University of the south
New on List.

Princeton. n. J., Feb. 1.-THE 1903
schedule of the Princeton university
football team was announced tonight.
1t includes nine games, one less than
last year. Syracuse, West Point and
Springfield Training school are drop
ped and the Navy and University of
the South are taken on.
The schedule follows: Oct. 2, Stew .
ems institute at Princeton; Oct. s, Villa
Nova at Princeton; Oct. 9, Fordham at
Princeton; Oct. Is, Virginia Polytech-
mic institute at Princeton; Oct 16,
University OF the South at Princeton
Oct. 20. Lafayette at Princeton; Oct.
80. Navy at Annapolis; Nov. 6, Dart
mouth at Princeton; Nov. 10. Yale at
New Haven
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-18
Foxhound Comes Home 600 Miles.

Norwich owners of foxhounds will
have something to swap yarns over
when they hear Of the remarkable per-
Torrance of a foxhound in the west.
This dog, which was named Seminole,
found its home over a distance of 600
miles, in which it was twice forced to
swim the Mississippi river. This is a
dog that is known to New England
fanciers, having been a prize winner
at the last Brunswick Foxhound club
field trials. near Worcester.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-18
$4,000 Price for ReadviIIe Track.

Boston, Feb. 17.-Another step to-
ward Obliterating the famous Readville
track was taken today at the melting
Of the New England Trotting Horse
Breeders association, at which a com
mittee was appointed to sell the prop
erty for $4,000 or less, and to report
at another meeting in April. II is ex-
pected that A. ]. WEIGH OF Hartford,
Conn, will be one of the bidders for
the track, but there are no plans for
continuing the racing.