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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-17
WHY NOT USE IT?

BY proper use of the waters of the
Umatilla river the annual flood OF
high water period could be turned into
. blessing rather than a curse. AT
present the turbulent water is allowed
to flow down the stream washing out
bridges and railroad tracks and de-
vastating small ranches along the
river bottom. High water in the river
always means injury.
Yet along this same river lies hun
dreds of thousands of acres of land
that would be immensely benefited by
receiving some of the water that an
nually goes to worse than waste. BY
utilizing the flood waters of the Una
tilla the land in this section of the
county could be made to produce an
nual crops and to sustain 10 or 20
times the present population. 1t is
estimated that by means of flood irri-
cation enough alfalfa can be raised
to pay 10 per cent interest on $500
per acre land. That would beat wheat
even when wheat is worth S5
cents per bushel.
Why not make use of the flood
waters?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-17
LoCHINVAR ALOFT.

When Lochinvar some future day
Comes winging through the cloudy
spaces
And steals the bride and scars away
Before the guests astounded faces;
And when the rival savage clown
Starts off with papa and their min
ions
To flay the scoundrel upstart down
And clip the saucy cockerels pin
ions
All, then, methinks, will be case
Far worse than terra firma lovers
What awful swoops! What whizzing
pace!
What dodging under cloudy covers:
And, then, since it's been always so,
The grim pursuers almost catch
them
How can the fleeing hero show
His worth and wit to overmatch
them?
He never has nor will he mail,
For war, as love, he knows his way
in.
l see him scatter on the gale
a rare good blend of snuff and
cayenne,
Pursuit is paralyzed and weak
When spouting sneezes like a foun-
tain,
SO unpreceived the lovers seek
The Little Church upon the Noun
tain.
-Gorton Carruth.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-17
WORSE THAN PUNS.

l think there is one habit worse
than that of punning. 1t is the
gradual substitution of cant or slang
terms for words which truly char
acterize their objects. 1 have known
several very genteel idiots whose
whole vocabulary has deliquesced in
to some half dozen expressions. All
things fell into one of two great cat
egories-fast or slow. Mans chief
end was to be brick. When the
great calamities of life overlook
their friends, these last were spoken
of as being "a good deal cut up"
Ninetenths of human existence were
summed up in the single word bore. :"
These expressions have come to be
algebraic symbols of minds which
have grown too weak or too 'indolent
to discriminate. They are the blank
checks of intellectual bankruptcy
you may fill them up with what idea
you like; it makes no difference, for
there are no funds in the treasury up
on which they are drawn.-Oliver
Wendell Holmes.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-17
POTPOURRI.

Love is like the roses,
Fair and sweet in June
When in garden closes
Birds are all a-tune,
Pluck the flower, it grows for you,
Blushing meath its veil of dew.
Love is like the roses,
Fair and sweet in June.
Love is like the roses
How the color pales!
From the garden closes
Gone the nightingales;
Dim the petals are, and dry;
Say not, rose, that love must die!
Love is like the roses
How the color pales!
Love is like the roses!
Still their fragrance stays,
Spite Of leafless closes
Through the winter days.
Rose-leaves in your china bowl
Love still treasured in your soul
Love is like the roses
Still it's fragrance stays.
Catherine Grant Furley.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-17
THE TEACHER.

He took the soul of little child,
Fresh and plastic and good,
As he hammered 1t into the fashion
OF a growing mans iron mood;
Early and late he beat at it
With blows Of grown-up fist
Till the little soul forgot itself
And vanished in the mist;
The little soul forgot itself
And wandered far away,
And all that was left on earth at last
Was a form of ductile clay.
He took the soul Of little child,
Delicate, solft and sweet,
And he trod its dearest illusions
Like dust beneath his feet;
He sneered at its simple learning,
And jeered at its gentle glee,
And made of all its hidden things
A solemn mockery;
He fastened it down with habits,
And tied 1t about with dread,
Till the gentle soul Of the little child
For very anguish fled.
And he slowly hammered 1t into shape
This teacher stern and kind,
He took the soul of little child,
OF grown-up blockhead's mind;
He bound 1t about with habits,
And fastened 1t with a rule,
Till the little soul was fain Of death
And hated his dreary school;
And all that was left was mockery
OF childish hope and JOY
A poor little paling monster,
They called him the ""model boy.'
Robert Warren Gilbert, in The
Housekeeper.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-17
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NOW WE KNOW.

Taft has spoken. He is a Ballinger
man and a strict eonstructionist. He
believes that it is the technicality OF
the law and not the spirit that counts
It is all right for corporations to COB
Bile up the natural resources of the
country if they can employ good law
yers to show they are within their
illegal rights" In order to stop their
depredations laws should be passed
by congress, because congress won't
pass such laws to any extent. 1t is
wrong for the departments to protect
the public domain by means of regu-
lations because that would be impos-
ing upon the prerogative of congress.
The men who, under Roosevelt, were
taught that the government is the
trustee for the public and that offici-
ais should protect the public rather
than corporate interests, must learn
their lesson anew or get out CLAWS,
who seems to have been a very cap
able, honest official has been kicked
out because he was suspicious" of
Ballinger From the stories that have
been published it seems CLAWS had
much reason for his suspicion though
he may have lacked direct proof Of
wrong doing on the part of the secre-
tary.
"In my judgment he is the best
friend Of the policy of conservation
who insists that every step taken in
that direction should be within the
law and buttressed by legal authority"
said the president in closing his long
defense of Ballingerism. This state
ment will sound good to school boys
and others who are uninitiated. But
practical men know that law is not an
"exact science" It must always be
construed and it may be interpreted
literally or literally. In his speech
at the irrigation congress in Spokane
Clifford Plnchot gave his views upon
the subject as follows:
1T goes without saying that the law
is supreme and must be obeyed. Our
civilization rests on obedience to law
But the law is not absolute. It re-
quires to be construed. Rigid con-
struction of the law works, and must
work, in the vast majority Of cases,
for the benefit Of the men who can
hire the best lawyers and who have
the sources of influence in lawmak-
struction necessarily favors the great
interests as against the people, and
in the long run can not do otherwise.
Wise execution Of the law must con-
sider what the law ought to accom-
plish for the general good. The great
oppressive trusts exist because Of
subservient lawmakers and adroit le-
gal construction. Here Is the central
stronghold of the money power in
the everlasting conflict Of the few to
grab, and the many to keep or win
the rights they were born with. Le-
gal technicalities seldom help the peo-
pie. The people, not the law, should
have the benefit of every doubt"
This is the doctrine Of man who
is a true friend Of conservation" and
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-17

whose works show it, This was also
the idea OF Roosevelt who when he
found the plunderers at work did not
refuse to interfere because he could
not find the chapter and the page
wherein he was given authority to act.
Roosevelt believed in being a true
guardian of the public interests. He
was not stuffed" watch dog like
his successor.
The people elected Taft president
because they thought he was like
But for some months they
have been suspecting they We're bum
coed. Now they know it.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-17
q 80 CURES
%aFM %l7vM %asM
os. . ID % BLOOD POIS ON

the blood infected with Contagious Blood
Poison symptoms and throat ucerate
aPoo2, begins
usually different of the
body At the disease should be taken for the
trouble powerful and dangerous rae with If allowed to run or
tho and attack some
times ma complete physical wreck of the sufferer The disease can
Roadway s. according dlc
tonsi its progress can bo stopped the poison removed ana health
S. blood nsdous
chanse5 the circulation ard makes end cure by
driving quickly the blood and grad
uay tho disappear the health improved the skin cleared OF
all spots has thoroughly purified the
circulation the disease left SIS purely vegetable remedy
Contagious Blood all blood pur
book and medical advice free all who
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA GA
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-17
LABOR NOTES.

California militia was used to hell
the McCloud Lumbe, company has q
bill for $635.59 for supplies alleged tc
have been furnished the soldiers
The dispute between the photoen-
gravers and printers of San Fran
cisco has been adjusted temporarily
pending final settlement by the re-
spective national unins and the pho
to-engravers have returned to work.
Work has been found for 5000 per-
sons during the last six weeks through
the information bureau of the de-
partment of commerce and labor.
Most of them have gone to the wheat
fields of the northwest.
Stockton (Cal) street car men, who
have been having trouble with their
employing company over the question
of seniority, have compromised and
peace is again established. The set
tlement was brought about through
the efforts of Richard Cornelius.
New York and Brooklyn tailors are
on strike for a nine-hour day and
and the abolshment of the task"
system, under which men are forced
to do a certain amount of work for
a days pay. The strikers are max
ing headway and stand good chance
of winning.
The San Francisco Labor council
will send a delegate to the convention
of the Women's Trade Union league
at Chicago in September.
United States Senator Penrose in
troduced resolution in the recent
session of congress which provides
for the investigation of labor condi-
tions in western PENNSYLVANIA.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-17
OREGON'S GOOD WOOL.

By constant good breeding and by
proper care of their flocks the sheep
men of eastern oregon have made
oregon wool about the best wool in
the world. In the past Australian
woods have been at the lead but IN n
recent issue of the American Wool
Iand Cotton Reporter, a splendid tech
nical authority, appeared the follow
ing:
when mills are running, as they
now are, on light weights, they find
"a domestic WOOL an Oregon, for ex-
ample, rather more servicable than
an Australian The light weight fab
ric made of the Oregon wool keeps its
shape rather better"
Continuing the same article states
that some top mills are now offering
their Australian and Oregon tops at
the same price. Top wool is long
staple wool used in the manufacture
of worsted goods.
1t should be highly pleasing to Ore
gon flockmasters to know that their
wool is being so favorably regarded.
1t shows that the years of hard work
towards improving the flocks of east
ern oregon and towards eradicatlong
such troubles as scab have not been
in vain.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-17
"THE CALL OF THE WILD"

How loudly calls the wilderness,
There's many a man can tell,
Though in a city's busy life,
For long years he may dwell,
But in his heart, so sweet and clear
He hears the restless sea,
Or feels the forest atmosphere,
Forever wild and free.
Beyond the touch of counting-house
Beyond the clink Of GOLD,
The wilderness still calls him home,
Her beauty to unfold.
Esther Wirgman.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-17

1t will now be in order for Mr..
CLAWS to give the public the benefit
OF the information he has regarding
the Alaska coal cases. The public
may reverse" Mr.. Taft in this matter.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-17

1t seems very natural that a tele-
phone company should want a re-
ceiver.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-17

The new currency plan will be very
meritorious but the country is sus-
picious of those who are backing the
move.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-17

Perhaps if the reclamation people
return to Pendleton they can be in
duced to irrigate some land adjoin-
ing the city.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-17

No students are leaving these days
to enter the oregon normal schools.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-17

The East Oregonian did not support
Taft.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-08-27

Every little country village
has an ambition to become a
trade center and a boom city,
with no special natural features
or geographical advantages. I'm
der such conditions what is most
needed is some enterprise on the
part of its local capitalists. They
must make the first advance IN
the uncertain field of develop
meme. They must capitalize
small factories and see that they
are kept employed. When. the
local business is finally ievel-
oped and proves to the world
that they are successfus.hien
outside enterprises will l&ure
to step in and enjoy your pros
perity with you. just like fef
low who finds a favorite fishing
hole and catches fish, and all
the other fishermen who see that
he is catching will drop their
hooks right by the side of the
lucky fisherman. The business
Tnen of any town should stop
talking and hoping for others
to do something for the town
They should get together them
selves and prove to the world
that they have a money making
town. No outsider will want to
fish in our swimming hole until
we prove that they can catch
fish.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-08-27

The first car of lumber has
been received for the four bun.
dred foot submerged dam to be
built next month by the Western
Land & Irrigation Company, one
mile above town.
The plans for the dam were
drawn especially for the com
pany by Hon. j. T. Whistler, Of
the Reclamation Department and
the work will be under the sup.
ervision of w. B. Hinklc. II
will require 100000 feet of lum.
Der, SEQ piles and several cars
of cement to do the work. When
completed the company viii
have one of the best dams in The
country.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-08-27
BUILDING LOAN
ASSOCIATION
Local Capital viii Form Loan As
sociation to Help the Cause.

The time has come when Echo
must sit up and take notice and
recognize formidable competi
ton on the west. Echo has not
increased her population so much
in the past few months as she
should considering our great
and prosperous community, and
therefore some of our citizens
have begun to try to ascertain
the reason why.
Some of them assert, and it is
fact which cannot be denied,
that should n man want to live
in Echo at the present time it
Won d be impossible for him to
do so as there is not a halfway
respectable vacant house in the
town, and several of our good
citizens are now living in shacks,
but that is the best they can do
under the circumstances.
In view of the above condi.
tions several of our citizens pro.
pose to organize a building and
loan association so as to give
good people with small means
or those who do not feel like
taking money out of their busi.
ness, an opportunity to build
themselves a home.
The details OF this building
and loan association have not
yet been. worked out but from
the people who are behind the
move it is safe to predict that it
will organize on a sound and
sensible basis and that its Off
GERS /; nd directors will be select.
ed from among Echo's most con.
servative and substantial citi-
zens.
The association will fill a long
felt want in Echo and this pa
per stands ready TO do all in its
power to help in any possible
way. Give us the houses and
watch Echo grow.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-08-27

In Berlin aetf'y al tie repairs of
the rrln Jpn streets are carried ON at
might.
In Berlin The tbeatCrs have been
provided win hat ru..l3 Tor the wam.
en-. There are lockers large enough
20 aam,. Ho ug., lup5 Ing hats.
Emperor William has issued ''pu
vate cabiaet order expressing his dis
pleasure ta.l at dinners. dances and
| soiher entertainments o-iceTs Of hi'
'army smoke In tie presence Of ladies
eund asking that they cease the prac.
ltlce.
7, Lcln2ie has been so troubled with
tmalaIia thai the city authorities have
,Se,crmircd on campaign 90 stamp
SEut mosquitoes Every householder
wll be asked to inl all the insects IN
his own aplrfmeiits. after which In.
spcctors viii go around to see that
thorough vHrI, has been Cone.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-08-27
school COM
MENCES Soon
Listen For The Bell. 1t Has a hu-
sical Sound.

The first Monday in Septem-
ber our schools will open their
doors and bid you come for all
things are ready. The High
School is specially prepared to
give you a practical course of
training in the shortest possible
time. If your time is limited,
special pains will be taken to
enable you to get the most out
of it that will be of real practi.
cal value. The High School is
the best equipped of any graded
school in a place of like size in
the state, and there are but few
places Of three times its size that
equal it. Our town is pleasant,
social advantages first class with
a high moral atmosphere ali the
while prevailing. We proifer
the opportunities freely, and il
is yours to accept them with
profit. Make ready and start
with the opening of school. BE
always on time, employ your
talents wisely, and life has an
allotted place that you can ac.
ceptably ill with profit.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-08-27

The movement for national
credit to be extended to the re
clamation of arid and swamp
land is blocked by the Cannon
of Illinois. and the corporation
imbecility typified by Aldrich Of
the state OF Standard Oil, but
the time will come wi en- the
pressure from the west will be-
irresistible. The Republican par
ty needs the votes of the west
worse than the voters of the
west need any party.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-08-27
echo SHOULD
HAVE lights
Why Can't We Get An Electric
Light Plant Here?

Winter is coming and the long
dark nights will soon be staring
us in the face, and we will have
to gather up our old coal oil
lamp from the corner and then
light match to see if we have
light. The city should put in
the lights, but if they won't do
it they should then give a fran.
chise to some one who will 1t
will be no trouble to secure the
lights as the city can get the
money and have the plant in
running order in sixty days.
If every citizen will help a ill.,.
tie Ne will have an electric light
plant in time for the long weary
evenings. There is nothing more
cheering than good lights in a
dark town. When you leave
your home to visit with your
neighbor You will not then be
stumbling over boxes and trash
left in the street or carrying an
old greasy lantern, and the ey.
ening will be much more pleas.
antly spent. Your store will
not be dark for the want of
cleaning the lamp chimneys.
Now if we want to still remain
in the same old rut doing moth
ing, and saying to anyone who
will try 20 do something, Il will
help, but 90 and see what the
other fellow will do first" we
will be without lights until
doom's day. The thing TO do is
to say | win give so much, and
sign then. That viii lessen the
burden of the man doing the So
Letting.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-08-27
Things Theatrical.

Fanny Rice II Is said. meditates q
long retirement from the stage.
Kyrle Bcllew Is to spend his vaca-
tl1n IN . tour II Spain and cruising In
his yacht.
Eugene Walter has written play
f,r Frederic Thompson with the thrill
Ing title Of 'Thc Assassin"
Clyde Fitch had an offer made hlm
from Madrid for the Spanish rights -
his version Of The Blue Mouse
Rex Beach's novel The Barrlgr" Is
20 be produced next season, with a
cast headed by Guy Standing ana The
d1re Roberts II will be under the
direction Of Elaw * Erlangcr.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-08-27
Recent Inventions.

4 new incandescent paslirht brought
out IN England uses a cluster Of rods
which glow when the gas Is lighted
instead Of n mantle. Greater dura-
biity aud brilliancy are claimed.
A patent has been granted upon a
leyicc 20 strengthen the hand mus
cles, consisting Of weighted rods con.
nected with the fingers 20 offer resist
nnce when the fingers are moved
A recent French invention is a yarn
hJmidIGer. The yarns pass through a
swiftly revolving tuDe In which there
Is water. and by centrifugal force this
column OF water forms n cellar around
the yarn.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-08-27

We have enough men who
have come to Echo and pur-
chased land to hold for specula-
tion. Not so many such as some
places, but every community in
Oregon is held back by that sort
of thing. Echo wants home
builders. Echo wants workers;
men who will grasp the handles
of the plow and make two hun.
dred blades of grass grow where
none grew before; men who will
shovel water around from an IL.
rigation canal that trees and
vines may shade their hearth.
stones. Men who are willing to
earn their bread, and who do not
expect to speculate upon the
needs of their fellows. Com.
mon, ordinary, children loving,
home builders. Room here and
hereabouts for ten thousand such
men.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-08-27
Short Stories.

The world consumes 100000 needles
per day.
The coal LII Of The United States
navy during 1905 amounted to $5,5i5.-
C0t.
The crater Of the cytiuct volcano Of
Irmoud head VIII BE- utilized as n
powder magazine hy the army In It's
do-cnscs of Honolulu
Authoritative opinions hold that the
number cf aheu IN ~ ,ouuTia7 IN
Tie world decreased from 100000
in 1873 70 a01ou1Co0 IN 1908.
The first permanent station FOR air
shlus to bn opened IN New York IS to
D, built on the roof ~ The Hotel Astor.
III, proprietor l. about TO spend $40
C-D In devotiug G3000 square feet on
the roof of the building to the alrship
station.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-08-27
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoca Remedy
Never Known To Fail

Il have used Chamberlain's Collie.
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy since
II was first introduced TO the public
In 1872. and have never found one
instance where cure was moi speedi-
ly effected by its use. | have been 4
commercial traveller for Is years. and
never start out on trip without this
my faithful friend, J" says III. ;. Mich
OILS of Oakland, Ind. Ter For sale by
Dorm a. Dorm druggists.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-08-27
English EtGhings.

London has cighiy-eight public H.
braries.
In 1880 three persons were cremated
In England. Last year the number
was T9i.
Women conyiCts In England are adj
dressed by their first names instead OF
by numbers, as men are.
Recently at the Lambeth county
court creditor said. "He is very
dificult man to catch, so ! invited him
10 lunch ard served l.. u with the
summons then"
PILL. TOGETHER FOR EcIIn-
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-08-27

Show-going people in general
look forward with pleasure for
the annual visit of the Eiler
show which comes to Echo Au.
gust 30th. He always brings a
clean, wholesome entertainment,
and his company is composed of
ladies and gentlemen.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-08-27
Proverbs.

A dogs friendship IS better than his
hate.-w Welsh Proverb.
Better a master be feared than de-
spised.-Dutch Proverb.
Better slip with the foot than with
the tsngue.-ItaIian Proverb.
A friend 10 everybody is a friend
10 nobody.-Spanish Proverb.