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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-01
GRATITUDE OF THIEVES.

The thief in the community is very
much like the boy whose meanness
or ruffianism has caused the other
little children to band together to
ostracize him. He may move about
with a sudden swagger, carry a chip
on his shoulder and a vicious CLEAN
in his eyes, but there is always a sob
in his throat. So the thief is longing
and aching to get back in the circle
out of which he has been ruled. If
any honest man wants to meet lively
gratitude, let him knowingly give the
countenance of his company to a
crook. 1t will be a favor never for
gotten. Every lawyer practicing at
the criminal bar knows this. One
very well-known practitioner of ge-
NAL personality and large tolerance
occasionally takes a client to dinner
at a good restaurant or braves an ap-
pearance with him at theater.
There have been embarrassing results
due to the criminals gratitude.
"After one of these evenings" the
lawyer laughingly told me, I'm kept
for days lodging and returning pres
ents sent by the crook-watches,
scarfpins, cuff links, and now and
then a valuable painting or a Per-
sian rug-all belonging to somebody
else. From How Thieves LiveP' in
the July Everybody's. ~
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-01
ALWAYS THE SAME.

immortality often travels in disguise
and It is because its external cloak
is sometimes fair and beautiful that
people are deceived. Notice the case
of Mrs. Woodell and Bob" Eastman
the principals in the shocking tragedy
Just enacted in Maryland.
Following the tragedy letter writ
ten by the woman to her clandestine
lever was found and in the following
passages she sought to excuse their
relations:
"Is the iron immodest when #
creeps toward the loadstone and clinga
70 its side? Is the seed immodest
when 1t sinks into the ground with
budding life? Is the cloud bold when
+. softens into rain and falls TO earth
because II has no further choice, or
Il II brazen when It nestles on the
bosom Of heavens arched dome and
sinks into the blue-black inhnity and
ceases 70 be itself?
rs the human soul immodegt when
drawn by force It cannot resist. II
seeks stronger soul which absorbs
its ego as the blue sky absorbs a
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-01
UNCONSCIOUS WORRY.

A great many people worry uncon-
sciously. says o. S. Marden IN Sue
cess Magazine. They don't under
stand why they are so tired in the
morning, why their sleep was so dis
turbed and troubled.
This mental disturbance is often
caused by the habit of taking things
too seriously, carrying too great a
weight of responsibility. Everywhere
we see people who take life too seri-
ously. Most of us are like the motor
man, who not only starts and stops
the car and tries to keep from run
ming over people, but also feels tre-
mendous anxiety and responsibility
about the motive power.
One of the most helpful lessons
us how to do our work as we'll as it
can be done and then let principle
take care of the result. How often
have we been amazed to find things
come out much better than we an
ticipated; to find that the great un-
seen Power that governs our lives
through a wilderness of trial and
tribulation into the open has guided
our life ship through the fogs of diff
ficulties and of sorrow. through the
storms of hardships and losses, safe
ly into port.
The pilot does not lose heart when
he cannot see his way. He turns to
that mysterious compass which sees
as plainly in the fog, and guides as
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-01
THE MOVING PICTURE SHOW.

Who rolls up the sable velvet, star
set curtain of the night,
And against the glim'ring back
ground pale and gray,
With touch as soft as heart beats
of the May,
Pushes Dawn recumbent on a couch
of shadows drenched with
light?
Naked as to thigh and bosom, with
her purple hair afloat,
Who commands her from her
swoon of sleep to rise,
Brushes al the shadows from her
dusky eyes,
And reveals her poised on nothing
leaning to the world remote?
Who winds round her length of
whiteness blue transparencies
of light,
Caught in fold and ripple with a
golden bar?
Who above her forehead sets the
morning star
Pinning there a mist of silver stolen
from the brow of Night?
Who designs the transformations in
this moving picture show,
Making lightning changes from the
blue TO rose,
Rose TO ruby flaming as the pas
sion grows,
All the ruby flaring golden in the
sunlightt's fervid glow?
Not a word of explanation thrown
on the announcement sheet,
When the mystic curtain of the
night is drawn,
But each day the splendid miracle
of dawn;
OF the Master Snowman, nothing;
Where His doors of silence meet,
Not an answer to our crying, not an
echo of His feeti
Selected.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-01
THE "STILL SMALL VOICE"

The moral Of this story may be
that it is better to heed the warnings
Of the "still small voice" before 1t
is driven to the use Of the telephone.
A New York lawyer, gazing idly
out Of his window, saw sight in an
office across the street that made him
rub hls eyes and look again. Yes,
there was no doubt about it. The
pretty stenographer was sitting upon
the gentleman's lap. The lawyer no.
ticed the name that was lettered on
the window and then searched in the
telephone book. Still keeping his
eye upon the scene across the street,
he called the gentleman up. In few
moments he saw him start violently,
and take down the receiver.
"Yes," said the lawyer through the
telephone, II should think you would
start"
The victim whisked his arm from
its former position and began to stam-
mer something.
YES" continued the lawyer Sc
yerely 81 think you'd better take that
arm away. And while you're about
f., as long as there seems to be plenty
Of chairs in the room"
The victim brushed the lady from
his lap rather roughly, it is to be
feared. "Who-who the devil Is this
anyway" he managed to sputter.
~" answered the lawyer in deep
impressive tones, "am your consci-
encew And then he hung up.-Every-
body's Magazine.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-01

The period of vacations is now at
hand and those who work in offices,
stores and shops are planning where
to go and what to do. Where to go
and what to do" are matters that
must be decided by the individual.
Very naturally different people prefer
different forms of recreation. Some
wish to lie in the shade and rest;
others want to fish or hunt. Some
prefer the gaiety of the seacoast;
others the seclusion of the mountains.
Some people do not want to take va
cations at all.
1t is for the benefit Of the last
named class these remarks are chief
" intended. Take a vacation. You
cannot afford to do without one.
"Do you think a vacation is a loss
OF time" asks o. S. Morden in Sue
cess. at is the best kind of an invest
ment-an investment in fresh brains,
in vigorous health, in increased vi
tality.
people who seldom or never take
a vacation get into ruts. Their minds
get stuffy and clouded; they lose the
power Of expansion, of growth; they
lcse freshness Of view; the ability to
grasp opportunities; and, finally, they
lose their grip on things and on them
selves.
"Recreation, for those who have
been held closely to business for a
long time, is like the turning up OF
hard soil by the plow, letting in the
sunlight and stirring up the chemical
forces that have been sleeping during
the winter. Slumbering germs start
when they feel the warm sun, the
gentle ran, and the tonic of the dew
There is rejuvenation and growth In
recreation in the country. 1t loosen'
I'D the hard soil Of prejudice-mental
ruts-and refreshens and invigorate'
the germ of character"
Heed the advice. Get out and rusti-
cate. Then when you come back
YOU will feel like working.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-01

floating cloud and as the warm earth
swells the seed, as the magnet draws
the iron?
Il do not feel myself to be bold or
wrong in drifting toward you.
would not feel myself wrong to go
straight to you tomorrow. There is
ever and always some human soul to
love and trust, and whose confidence
VIC would not alter.
we are not of our own making and
our lives belong to another-Brahma
who rules and is WISE"
Very poetic. But it is the picture
as it seemed before the crash came
and the glamour was dispelled. What
was the scene upon which the world
looked with horror after the cloak
had been torn away? Two people
stepped in sin and with disgrace and
death for both The woman MUIR
dered in a resort, where she should
not have been and the man shot
down by the. .officers of the law while
resisting arrest. Not so pretty.
1t is an old old story and has been
told in many forms But if carried
to the end the finale is always the
same. There is no profit in low liv-
ing and in the disregard of social
There was nothing in it
for Mare Anthony and it is safe to
say no one else has ever found it
profitable. There is a way that
seemeth right, but the end thereof is
the way of DEATH"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-01
THE WAY HE PUT 1T.

An exchange tells a story of a very
sinful wag" who was lunching with
DIR. Abbott and referred repeatedly to
his connection with Outing. At last
DR.. Abbott could stand 1t no longer
and protested: But, my dear sir I
am not the editor of Outing. I have
never had anything to do with Out
ing. While 1 live l hope never to edit
Outing. am the editor of The Out
look" why bless me. so you are!"
cried his vis-a-vls, Funny 1 should
have made that mistake. Really,
couldn't have confused two periodi-
Gals more strikingly different. Where
as, outing make a religion of sport,
The Outlook-."-Atlanta Constltu-
ton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-01
CULTURE"

The Oregonian sneeringly accuses
this paper of lacking culture because
it has observed that modern literature
seems more popular than .Lch works
as "Plutarch's Lives" and "Pilgram's
Progress" Yet the East Oregonian
has had sufficient appreciation of cul-
ture to work hard and consistently
in behalf of the educational institu-
tions of this state and especially the
Eastern Oregon Normal school, On
the other hand the Oregonian per-
sistently slandered the normal schools
and the lies perpetuated by that sheet
encouraged the anti-normal legisla-
tive clique to deny money for the
maintenance of those schools, an act
tnat has disgraced the state of Ore
gon in the eyes Of the educational
world. by thy works shalt ye be
known"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-01
GOT His HAIE BACK
Was Perfectly Bald When He started
to Use Newbro's Herpi, ide

Frederick MANUEL, Maryland block
Butte, Montana, bought bottle OF 30,
bros Herpicide. April 6, 80, and Logan
use It for entire badness. The hair fCi
licles in his scalp were not dead and
20 days he had hair all over his hea,
On July he writes. "and today my kai'
l. % thick and luxuriant as any oir
could wish" Newbro's Herpicide work,
n an old principle and with n new as
covery-destToy the cause and yoty RI
move the effect. Herplcide dcstrcys tie
germ that causes dandruff. falling ha'T
ard finally badness so that with t.
cause gone the effect cannot remain
stops falling hair at once and q new
Growth starts. Sold by le7dine
druggists. Send 10c. in stamps for sample
to The Herpicide Co.. Detroit. Mich.
One dollar bottles guaranteed.
A. @. Koeppen & Bros.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-01

When the United States government
spent a million dollars in order to
transform the land under the Una
tilla project from a desert into fertile
gardens it rendered a great service to
Umatilla county. For the work that
was done the people of this county
are appreciative despite the wall of
an occasional "knocker."
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-01

If Curt Pless is not dead his dis
appearance has at least made possible
scme fine journalistic work. The
tale of his strange life and the theory
of the 'long arm of an unknown
enemy reaching forth from the shadow
OF a Berlin palace" might furnish a
plot for a book that would rank with
the "best. sellers"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-01

Harrisburg Bulletin: When one
takes a look at some of our broad
acres of wheat, clover, vetch and
oats as they appear in this vicinity
right now, in spite of the, exceedingly
dry season, we are almost ready to
declare that things will have to
change very materially before irri-
CATION is one of the necessities.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-01

faithfully in the tempests as when
the sea is like glass. We are in touch
with a power greater than any COM
pass, greater than any pilot, a power
that can extrlcate us from the most
desperate situation.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-01

The fourth of July committee is to
be congratulated for arranging for
numerous rest rooms for the accom-
mediation of visitors who will be here
Saturday Some day Pendleton will
have a number of parks that may be
used upon such occasions.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-01

Several farmers between here and
Scio made kick this week against
fast automobling. says the Stayton
Mail. They said one machine went
so fast that the suction it made ac-
tually pulled carrots, beets and other
vegetables out Of the ground in near
by fields.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-01

Heney is enroute north again. Pos
sibly he is bound for Olympia to help
Governor Hay and his friends drive
the grafters from the Washington
state house.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-01

The main business street of Clat-
skanine, recently graded and cover
ed with crushed rock, has been treat
ed to a coat of crude oil property
owners along the street paying, for
the oil and the city doing the labor.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-01

Many "aspirants" for the post of
congressman from this district are be-
ing mentioned. Come on gentlemen,
the more the merrier. Pendleton will
back Judge Ellis against the field"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-01
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GENTLE WOMAN.

= Man may the sterner virtues
q know,
= Determined justice, truth Sc
q we're;
= But female hearts with pity
= glow,
= And woman hold affection I
4 dear;
= For guiltless woes her sorrow I
= flow.
= And suffering vice compels I
= her tear;
= 'Tis hers to soothe the ills be- !
= low,
= And bid life's fairer views ap- !
= pear;
4 To woman's gentle kind we owe I
4 What comforts and delights I
= us here;
+ They its gay hopes on youth be-
= stow;
= And care they soothe and age
= they cheer.
= -Crabbe.
+ q + j. + = = i. + 4 J. + > + 1
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-01

There is more mining talk in Port
Oxford now than there has been for
many years. says the Tribune. Cop
per is now the chief magnet with gold
a close second
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-01

Residents of Woodvllle who are
showing a great spirit of progressive
ness of late have succeeded in rails
ing the $4,000 which was required by
the county court before a bridge
would be constructed across the
Rogue at that point.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-01

The wooden mill building is good
medicine for local pessimism.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-01

Ordinances were passed for paw
ing seven more blocks in Albany.
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-12
Water Power in Canada

Deputy Consul c. A. Sleeves, at None
ton. reports that the electrihcation of
the Grand Trunk Pacific, or National
Transcontinental railway. from the ST.
Lawrence. river to Moncton. is now un-
der lie serious consideration of the
railway company. the dominion govern
naent and the New Brunswick cabinet.
Mr.. sleeves sends the following details:
Electrical engineers who have given
the subject consideration declare the
conditions TO be entirely favorable. The
distance between the ST. Lawrence and
afoncton is about $50 miles and for a
considerable part of the distance the
road passes through dense forests of
spruce and fir in tower Quebec and
northern New Brunswick, as well as
through the rich farming country along
the upper 81. John valley.
What has given impulse 10 the new
rover plan is that at Grand Falls on
the ST John river. 10 miles from the
St Lawrence and 160 miles from None
ton is located watel power sufficient to
develop a current for the working of
the whole road. At this point the river
has a natural fall of about 13O feet
and a fow that electrical experts esti-
mate Will be sufficient to furnish from
5o0 coo to 5000 horsepower continu-
ousir by the ntiiization Of comparative
~ Inexpensive means OF storage and
4 a'lScft alton.
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-12
Neglected Genius Honored

Who was Jacques de Romas? Ac-
cording to a Paris paper we learn that
he invented the lightning conductor
and that the "cerf-volant electrioue'
generally attributed to Benjamin
Franklin was the discovery of Jacques
de Romas- We also learn that in 1850,
having seen lightning strike the Cha
teau de Tampouy. he was drawn to
study the phenomena of electricity and
invented an apparatus which he termed
the brantometre, and ii was at this
period that the idea of the kite took
its form, Franklin for his discovery
was awarded the Royal society's Cop
ley medal in 1853.
Jacques de Romas, who was a physi-
clan, brought his discovery, so we are
informed, before the French academy
of Sciences. and in consequence of this
communication he was elected a corre-
spending member of that learned body,
which, moreover. recognized his claim
TO priority over Franklin, February 4,
1854
The doctor was born at Nerac, and
his townsmen consider that the time
has come when reparation should be
made for the neglect shown to him.
and they propose to erect a monument
to his memory. committee has been
formed under the presidentship Of M.
Fallieres Nerac is about SIS miles
southeast of Bordeaux and was at ono
time prominent Huguenot CENTER.
London Globe.
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-12
NINETEENTH LETTER
By HUGH SUTHERLAND

rapid survey of the country's history.
Assuredly this is necessary for Amer
lean understanding of the problems, for
even in matters historical the English
and Irish viewpoints are hopelessly al
variance. To most Englishmen-
though to less now than at any other
period-the story of Ireland is the story
of backward, impossible people,
who for centuries have retarded their
growth and the spread of civilization
by resisting the blessings of English
rule. Few of them nowadays will go
so far as to defend the atrocities of the
"conquests,' plantations and confisca-
tions, but at heart they do believe that
most of the woes of the country are
due to inherent defects in the Irish
character, especially that defect which
prevents recognition of English insti-
tutions as the best for all races under
the sun.
The evils of the past, they say, have
been atoned for; justice is being done;
why rake up wrongs of history that
should be forgotten? Why persist in
dwelling upon the past? Irish history is
not taught to English children, and
only in recent years has its teaching
to Irish children been permitted.
To Irishmen, on the contrary. the his
tory of their country is a constant in
spiration. The land is sown with ruins.
every one of which is the center of
heroic legend or story. The record is
inspiring because it Is filled with the
names of brave men and tales Of brave
in fact, the very sup-
preston of Irish nationality and Irish
progress has left the people little else
to venerate. In the face of England S
stolid assumption of superiority it is
comforting for them to recall that,
while England was still in the mists
of paganism, Ireland was bright with
culture and a Christian civilization. and
that until brute force and savage per-
secution had done their work Ireland
was the custodian of knowledge and
the teacher of Europe.
The history of these early days may
be treated very briefly. Geographical
1y isolated, Ireland escaped Roman in
vasion. and bears no marks of Roman
institutions. Her development was in
dependent, from within. During the
first centuries of the Christian era
there unquestionably existed in the
land civilization of an advanced type,
considering the time. Tribal organi-
cations ruled society, each tribe having
an elected chieftain. The tribes were
united in groups. or clans. and these
were. grouped again into the five king
donis of Ulster, Munster, Leinster. Con-
naught and Meath, all owning a senti-
mental allegiance to the king of all
ireland. whose seat was at the famed
hill Of Tara and whose sovereignty v
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-12

gated by toryism, that the Irish de-
mands are totally unreasonable and the
race incapaciated for the affairs of gov
ernment
/ purpose to examine. from the view
point of an American who has taken
the trouble to study the problem his
torically and by actual observation.
what these demands are and what
measure of justice there is behind them.
The term home rule, of course. carries
its own definition. Ireland demands
that her laws, now made and admins
tered by people foreign in blood, in
religion and in sympathy, shall be made
and administered by Irishmen. She de-
mands self government, instead of gov
ment which shall be created by the
votes of the Irish people and shall be
responsive and responsible to them
mother words, free Irish parliament
and an Irish executive responsible to
the elected body. Whatever the future
may hold. it is fairly obvious that home
rule, as it is usually defined, is the
vital and living ambition OF the people.
Are all the great reforms, then,
which have been discussed in these
letters to be dismissed as useless?
Hardly that. yet they alone can never
satisfy the Irish people, can never es-
ia blish peace and prosperity on sound
and permanent basis. The inmates of
an almshouse are free from care; all
economic problems have been solved
grateful as to yearn for something else
The metaphor is ex-
tremely faulty. yet. it has a hazy sort
OF application to the Irish demand for
home rule.
The impossible system of land tenure,
with all its attendant evils. is being
wiped out; the people are being made
owners of their lands-paying full price
for them; control of local affairs has
been put into their hands; an earnest
and successful effort is being made to
lift the more helpless victims of pow
erty; equality has been granted in fa-
cilities for higher education. And still
there remains the great demand for
self government.
No one can understand the Irish
question without some knowledge of
the history of the country. The evils
Of misgovernment and of land oppres-
sion that are visible today are not of
recent growth; they have their roots
in centuries long past. The half
starved peasant in Connemara is the
descendant of the victims of Tudor saw
futility Of Dublin castle were founded
In the seventeenth and eighteenth CEN
turies. Before attempting to deal.
therefore, with the present system OF
government in Ireland. we shall take