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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-22
MOST PLAYS ARE "PADDED." /"

a play is rarely produced that
would not be improved, from a dra-
matte and artistic standpoint, If it
were shortened from a third to a
half. Many dramas that have sue
ceeded would be far better condensed
to one act. For instance, "The
Wolf" by Eugene Walter, would be
much stronger in this tabloid form.
"The Fighting Chance" by w. J..
Hurlburt, in which Blanche Bates is
starring, bears all the earmarks of
having been a one-act play stretched
into three. 1t has material for about
three quarters of an hour at the
most of exciting drama Not even
the wonderful skill of David Belasco,
nor the acting of Blanche Bates and
John Cope. can relieve the tedium of
the whole first and most of the Sec
ond.-Hartley Davis in August Every
bodys.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-22
\ SEATTLE INCIDENT.

OF course here in Seattle the state.
ment coming from the postoffice that
citizens in a regrade district climbed
twenty feet up a pole to drop letters
in a mail box will cause no surprise
for this is a place of little and large
wonders.
In the vernacular of the street, the
people here "go to it, and If the mail
box in question had been still higher
up, it would not have escaped use by
some citizen. The adaptability of the
average Seattleite makes it easy to
overcome the little inconvenience in
cident to much building and progress
Nor are they annoyed by these things;
they are glad the situation is just as
it is, for there is always something
doing, something new, and so they
laugh their way through conditions
which might annoy a less cheerful
folk
OF course the pole and mail box in
cident does not mean that every citi-
zen in Seattle would resort to the he
roic stunt of "cooning" an upright log
for a distance of twenty feet in order
to mail few letters; but the spirit of
the incident is the spirit of Seattle; il
is the impulse to move on, to do things
to walk, burrow or fly, and to get
there the day before if possible.-Post-
Intelligencer.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-22
OUT FOR A TIME.

Is annywan looking for trouble?
Is annywan game for a fight?
Although not pugnastic we name to
be gracious,
Wen scrap anybody on sight,
We're three, just three Irish in num-
ber
And we think we are pretty good
men
We don't want no rumpus, but if ye
should bump us
Wen fight amy crowd up to ten.
We're here in bunch altogether,
We're primed for whatever we
meet,
Wild smiles we will greet you or will
ingly meet you
Wild fistsses, brickbats or feetl
The city's all our for the avenin'
From Walkerville south to Park!
East side or west side where we ares
the best side,
Three Irishmen out for a lark!
Wen drink wild you, boys if you wish
it,
Wen fight wild you If you prefer,
Wild life we are hummin' Wen take
what is comm
We're ready for what may occur,
Today was a regular pay day,
There's nothing too good for us
three,
\ fight or a frolic, a row or rollick,
Three Irishmen out for a spree!
-Berton Braley.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-22

as affording the most remarkable
transformation wrought by irrigation
in the Northwest. He tells of re-
markable profits made by farmers un-
der the ditches and OF land selling
for $1,000 to $4,000 an acre. but he
makes only the most casual reference
to the Wenatchee district and none
at all to the Yakima Secretary
James explains to the editor that the
wheat farms have not been turned in
to irrigated ranches; that the wheat
yield is rapidly increasing instead OF
decreasing: that the Touchet is lit
tie patch Of 5000 acres on which
are but tive or three commercial or
chards; that the Wenatchee is the
only developed irrigated district in
besides the Yakima and
that the Yakima country contains
four-fifths of the irrigated land in
the Northwest.
It seems that eastern people who
have never seen the west and who, ap-
have never read anything
about this section of the United States
will never cease trying to write sup
,,..l1,. roI;otlo ,,,oro,;ra ort;oIas
dealing with conditions here.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-22
ARTIST VERSUS PLUTOCRAT.

The Princess Levoff-Perlaghy is rich
and lives in a palace on the Mediter-
ranean Sea.
She is a famous painter of por-
traits.
Bismarck, Won Moltke, Windhorst,
the Kaiser and hundred other no,
table of Europe have sat and looked
wise or fierce or pleasant before her
translating easel.
The Princess is very particular
about her subjects.
She does not care to paint the like
nesses of women-for reasons that a
gallant man would hesitate to state.
And the faces of men do not inter-
est her unless they are the composed
and conquering faces of those who
count.
The Princess has come to America
on a voyage of discovery and high ar
tistic enterprise.
She is looking through the land to
find among the myriad Americans
twenty-five faces that express the
highest kind of power.
She wants to put on canvas the Wis
ible features of the most creative
minds in this country-the minds that
more than any others, are making
America.
Now. it is an interesting fact that
this princess-painter, who is following
the lead of art and not the lure OF
money. and who has given her life to
the study of character as revealed in
human faces-can see no vestiges of
the highest kind of power in the faces
of American plutocrats.
She finds the original and creative
minds elsewhere than among the
money magnates,
For a beginning of her work she
has painted the portrait of Mr.. Ed
win Markham, the poet.
Her chief aversion is the gentle
man who stands at the head of the
Oil Trust.
mo money could induce me-" says
the Princess, "to paint the portrait of
Mr.. John D. Rockefeller.
THE desire to accumulate money is
not a qualification for my list of AM
erican nOtables.
'I do not object to rich men because
they are rich.
"The question is, What do they do
with their money?
IF they use it selfishly and cruelty,
their faces are not worth painting
San Francisco Examiner.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-22
AN AGE OF IRRIGATION.

Twenty years ago, the farmer of the
east and middle west shook his head
when told of the promise of arid lands
under irrigation. That was the era of
the snide irrigation company which
was growing rich establishing a few
miles of main bitches, tapping them
with a few lateral stub ends of blind
sluices. and selling at robbing prices
tens of thousands of arid acres which
all the established systems of irriga-
tion in the country could not dampen
in a twelve-month.
But the visit of Secretary of the In
terror R, A. Ballinger to Umatilla
county recalls the fact that changes
have come over the face of things
Legislation of the states has strangled
the strangling water companies. Laws
covering water rights in these states
have called for more careful scru-
tiny in the framing than have almost
any other field of legislation. The
national government has driven the
cattle baron and his hundreds of miles
of barbed wire fencing from that for
mer range country" of the maps.
And with the material precedent now
being set by the United states recla-
nation service in making government
lands ready for the farmer settler, the
tremendous and lasting scale upon
which it is working has served to put
irrigation at last upon the footing
which it has deserved.
Just what the United States is do
ing may be judged from official fig
ures for the year 1907. In that single
year, working upon eleven reclama-
ton projects in as many states and ter
ritories, 1881 miles Of main bitches
were dug, to bring 100000 acres OF
arid land under cultivation And the
result? In that one year eight new
towns were established in the desert
country, 100 miles of railroad branch
lines were built, and $4,000 settlers
were attracted from the settled por-
tons Of rain belt country to the west.
In the conduct of this work on these
eleven projects, now almost doubled
in number, 1900 government employ
es in the registration and classified
lists were employed, 5000 laborers
on the ground found employment, and
payroll Of $IOOO,OOO a month was
required to meet the expenditure, to
say nothing Of the cost Of engineering
material Of all kinds necessary to con-
struct the irrigation dams. canals, re.
servoirs, and pumping stations.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-22
The
General Demand

of the Well-Informed Of the World has
always been for a simple, pleasant
and efficient liquid laxative remedy OF
known value; a laxative which physi.
clans could sanction for family use
because its component parts are
known to them to be wholesome and
truly beneficial in effect, acceptable
to the system and gentle, yet prompt,
in action. . =
In supplying that demand with it's
excellent combination of Syrup of
Figs and Elixir of SIENNA, the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. proceeds along
ethical lines and relies on the merits
of the laxative for its remarkable
success.
That is one of many reasons why
Syrup Of Figs and Elixir of SIENNA is
given the preference by the Well
Informed. To get its beneficial effects
always buy the genuine-manufac-
tured by the California Fig Syrup Co.,
only, and for sale by ale leading
druggists. Price fifty cents per bottle.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-22
SPEAKING WE'LL OF THE DEAL

Dennis was doing his best to speak
respectfully of the dead.
"Yes," he said, Mike was a foine
mon. Honest, straightforward hard
workin', ginerous--'
"Ginerous?" questioned Barney
rather doubtfully. did ye ever know
of his treatin' any one in all his
loife?"
"Well, he nearly treated once"
NEARLY treated?"
"Yis. I remember once he dhrop-
ped into Cassidy's when tn boys were
all there. We'll. lads he sez, 'whatll
we have?' wild a wave of his hand to-
ward the bar. 'What'll we have p
rain or snow p "-Everybody's Maga-
zine.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-22

Goodwin's Weekly published at
Salt Lake City intimates that John
Observation-Disclosures who was
recently sent to the pen in California
for bigamy after It was discovered
that he had 25 wives. has lived a
misspent life. It suggests that had
he started out in Utah he might now
be the head Of the church, with more
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-22

1t is idle prattle to talk of Great
ing "a market for the ranchmen who
come to this city to trade and to sell
their produce" when the demands OF
the market are far greater than the
ranchman can supply. Poultry.
vegetables and the products of the
small farm" were never in greater
demand nor commanding higher pri-
ces than at the present. There is not
a rancher IN the country that could
10, turn off many times as much a.
ne has to offer for more than fair
prices. What we really need is more
ranchers and more produce. The
market is here and the prices are
right.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-22

The senator from Wisconsin
spends his nights getting his name
into the newspapers" says Penrose.
THE decencies Of senatorial proce.
dure will not permit me to ask how
the senator from Pennsylvania spends
his nights" retorts LaFollette "The
speeches Of Demosthenes." said Aes-
chimes, "smell Of the lamp" There
is great difference between the objects
which you and ! pursue by lamp
light" answered Demosthenes. There
is nothing new under the sun
GOodwin's Weekly.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-22
PERNICIOUS FRATERNTTIES.

All that the high school fraternities
have done for the social life of the
schools has been to accentuate deep
ly the social differences already ex-
listing, to convert the sweet, normal,
mutual associations of mutually at
tractive boys and girls into coarse,
obvious successes" and failures" to
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-22

emphasize by publicity the distinction
with which the popular" enjoy their
triumph, and to sharpen, by ARTIFICIAL
contrast, the misery in which the less
popular" endure their neglect
William Hard tin Everybody's.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-22

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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-22

"How on earth did you ever cultl-
vate such a beautiful black eye?"
asked Browns friend.
"Oh," replied Brown, who had un-
Intentionally been illustrating the fall
Of man on roller skates, 81 raised it
from a slip p.'-Everybodys Magazine
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-22
And thus spoke sewell Ford:

And thus spoke Sewell Ford:
1t was a dark night. A man was
riding bicycle with no lamp. He
felt in his pocket for match. He
found but one. Climbing to the top
of the pole, he lit the match carefully
and in the ensuing glimmer read:
WET PAINT.
-Everybody's Magazine.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-22

So far this has been a hard season
on the summer resorts but they may
come into their own yet.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-22

The long expected summer weather
was slow in arriving but it seems to
be here at last.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-22

wives than Solomon of saltwater
Bill.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-22

= + + + + + 1. = ? + I = + + I
j. Where bold sierras cut the I
+ sky
+ Mount Whitney, of the high I
+ most high, I
I. Halts the pale clouds that wan I
+ dew by. !
+ We creep and climb with eager !
Z feet, I
+ Until the world, fulfilled, COM I
+ plete, !
+ Plunged like despair before his +
+ seat, I
Z So high the peak was we had I
+ Earth's air wore thin, its woof +
+ undone, +
+ And blue space darkened round +
+ the sun. +
+ Yet as we trembled there and +
+ Quailed, +
I Lo, higher yet an eagle scaled :
1. Smooth sleeps of air, and sun i
+ ward sailed. !
+ Harriet Monroe in the Ameri- :
/ can Magazine.
= - + = + + + + + = = - =
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-02-02

Ice was taken here Monday from
three to foru inches thick 1t contin-
ued good deal OF snow.
Rev. I. WHAT'S gave a stereopti-
con lecture Sunday evening at the
Methodist church. Subject, "An Ev-
enlng in China" 1t was instructive
and enjoyed by all present.
Miss Lydia Brown received teie-
gram Saturday afternoon announcing
the death of her aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth
Thompson, of Los Angeles, Cal. TIE re-
mains will be brought here for burial
and will arrive about Friday or Satur-
day.
One of the most notable social
events IN the history of Millerb5rug
was the Senior dance given at the
Mlllersburg Military Institute Thurs
day evening by the Senior class. This
was the first annual Senior dance of
the institution, which will be continued
and improved on as the years go by.
The dance was given in the spacious
drill hall which was artistically deco
rated in military style, stacked guns,
swords, remnants Of numerous colleges.
( bunting and stars and stripes artisti-
cally arranged. Saxton & Trost's
orchestra furnished the music. Attrac-
tive leather covered programs upon the
cover of which was the college pen
nant, were given to the dancers.
About 80 dancers took part and the
grand march was led by Capt. F. J.
Kelley, of the Institute, and Mrs. Tan
dy Hughes. of Lexington. Many fancy
figures were made including that of
'O9 the class year. Three were twenty
four numbers on the program. About
II o'clock in the library and dining hall
OF the main buildlng,a bountiful lunch
con was served. Mrs. e. M. Best. who
has been Ill the greater part of the
winter was able to be out and assumed
large part of the management of the
affair. The chaperones were Mrs. Gar
rett Jefferson, Mrs. Vim. Study. Mrs.
R. A. Burton, Mrs. Sanford Allen, Mrs.
E. p. Gamble, Mrs. Tandy Hughes and
Mrs. Bruce Smith. The out-of-towu
visitors were Mrs. Lawrence Fitzhugh
Misses Hettie Frazer, Sarah Chenault. !
Curry Nugent, Catherine Hogarsv.
Elizabeth Mcfarland, Anetta Martin. |
Mary Vimont, Mira Vance, of Chicago
Ill. Emile Lacey, of Owingsville Mrs. |
A. B. Robertson, Misses Latina Wood. |
Elizabeth Johnson, of Mt. Sterling I
Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. John, Winchester
Rena Crosdale, Henrietta Taylor, Mar |
tina Waller, Lucille Morris. Gay Fergu.
son and Mr.. w. v. Ferguson, of Paris. |
The Senior Class of 1903 i composed of
the following: Lindsey PJgue sJohns,
president; Isaac Cunningham Haley,
secretary; Russell des Cognets, Edion
Giles Pagan, Thomas Pickett Hunter, !
William Kenney Ferguson, Thomas
Badger Robertson. James William
Miller. William Muir Lane, Robert
Hume Ferguson and Lancelet John
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-02-02
MILLERSBURG ITEMS.

Miss Lucille Morris, of Paris,is the
guest OF Miss Mary Mcdaniel.
Mrs. Russell Mitchell, who has
been quite sick. is improving.
Mrs. Hettie M. Brown and son.
Will Mac, are on the sick list.
-Born-W Wednesday night to the wife
of Mr.. A. F. Brown. daughter
Miss Margaret Stanard, who has
been on the sick list, is able to be out
again.
Mrs. AS. Best left Thursday for a
ten days visit to her parents, DR.. and
Mrs. Alex Hunter, of Washington, KY.
Communion services were held at
the Presbyterian church Sunday morn
ing by the pastor, Rev. R. S. Sanders.
Fresh Standard Oysters 30 cents
per quart; is cents per pint full meas
ure and no liquor.
PROCTOR & co.
Mrs. L. I. Vimont.and sister, Miss
Nellie Shay attended the funeral of
Father Barry at Lexington last Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. c.. Chanslor left
Saturday for few days visit to her
mother, Mrs. Wright, of Maysviille.
DIR. Floyd Long. of Chicago Uni
Versity, arrived at the bedside of his
mother, Mrs. james R. Long, who is
( critically i'll.
The interdenominational prayer
meeting was held Monday afternoon at
the Presbyterian church, Mrs. G. L.
Kerr presiding.
Mrs. MolIie Reed and daughter
Miss Mary, of Mayslick, were guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. j. ]. Peed and family
from Friday till Monday.
Mr.. R. c, Chanslor sold his beauti-
full little cottage on North Main Street
occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. E. M. Thorn
ason to Mrs. Annie Jefferson for SO. 600.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. T. Vimont moved
Thursday from the home of his mother
Mrs. Lavinia Vimont, to a temporary
cottage on his farm. Mr.. Vimont will
build residence in the spring.
Little Josephine Leer underwent
slight operation by DIR. Wallingford. of
Paris Tuesday, for adnoid. Her father.
ASuDy AccT udu one Oh MS COnSllS re-
moved on the same day. Both are do
ing nicely.
Mrs. VIM. Hamilton, whose illness
has been noticed in several issues of
this paper, died Friday morning at l2
o'clock. at the age of Sc. She was
formerly Miss Susan Williams and had
always resided near Millersburg. At
the age of IS she was married to Mr..
Win. Hamilton and was the mother of
two daughters, Mrs. S K. Proctor and
Mrs. G. E. Cooper. Mrs, Cooper died
several years ago leaving one son. Mr.
w. II. Cooper, who resides at Carlisle |
Mrs. Hamilton was a devoted Christian.
having united with the Christian church |
early in life. For the past two wears
she has been confirmed invalid. though
not confined to her bed until within the
last month. The funeral took place
Saturday afternoon at the residence
by Rev. 7. w. Watts, assisted
by Prof. G. c. Fisher Owing to the
severity OF the weather the remains
were placed temporarily in the vault
at the cemetery.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-02-02
To Be Greatly Improved.

The Chesapeake & Ohio railroad
control of which recently passed into
the hands of new syndicate headed
by Edwin Hawley and E. H. kHunting-
ton, will be greatly improved. Impor-
tant connections will be made that will
make the road one of the great trunk
lines. No changes in the management
are contemplated.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-02-02

Ice was taken here Monday from
three to foru inches thick 1t contin-
ued good deal OF snow.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-02-02

Rev. t. WHAT'S gave a stereopti-
con lecture Sunday evening at the
Methodist church. Subject, "An Ev-
enlng in China" 1t was instructive
and enjoyed by all present.
Arizona republican., 1909-05-30
An Adobe House Transformed Into Comfortable Modern
 Dwelling
Dwelling

houses built about a court.
 From the outside it would not be suspected that the house contained this Spanish characteristic. The house contains eight rooms, all of which open on the porch by the French windows. The main entrance is into a hall with the sitting room on one side and the library room on the other. There are two bedrooms, a large dining room, two baths and a servants dining room. It is one of the most substantial and comfortable homes in the city though some of the more modern improvements are lack ing
 The inner court is planted with young trees. The majestic cotton woods that formerly surrounded the house on the outside have been cut down and rooted up and replaced with evergreens, orange, pomelos, lemons and palms.
 Dr. Bell bought the house in Feb ruary 1908. and probably spent enough money in the reconstruction of it to build a good sized house. But there is nothing like the old adobe house for coolness in summer time and that type of house is character istic of Arizona architecture and should be preserved.
Arizona republican., 1909-05-30

There is no better example in Phoenix of the transformation of one of the old adobe houses into a mod ern dwelling than the illustration printed with this article. It is the home of pr. w. NJ. Bel. reconstruct ed from two old adobe houses for meTly known as the old Sin ms place, one of the oldest houses in the city and a landmark that dates back to the early days, almost before Phoenix was thought Of It is at 100S \. Center street.
 J. T. Simms was one of the early pioneers of the valley. He came here early in the sos and bought the house that Dr. Bell now lives in. The house was built in 1874 and was then far away from the newly born village of Phoenix. Simms then built an addition to it and these two buildings have been utilized by Dr. Bell for his house.
 Of the old houses there is little left but the walls, which are eighteen inches through. One of the charac- teristics of the old house which is preserved is the green shutters to the French windows. It is one of the few houses in the city that has shut ters. It is also one of the few