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Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03
His conoiIiatorv Wav.

Mr.. and Mrs. Pickaway. although
really fond Of each other. had frequent
quarrels owing no doubt to infirmities
Of temper on the part Of both. Mr..
Pickaway was telling his troubles to
his elderly maiden aunt
IL try to be as good husband to
Bertha as l know how to be-" he said,
but we don't seem to get along. 1t
takes so little to irritate her. and when
she starts to scoldlng she never knows
when to stop. She takes offense, too,
at such little things"
"Then don't say those little things,
JOSHUA" said his aunt. "When she
is cross you must try to be concilia-
tory"
81 am conciliatory, Aunt Betty" he
answered. II often say to her. 'Ber-
tina, know the utter uselessness of
trying to reason with you. but will
you listen to me just a minuter and
she gets mad even at that."-Youth's
Companion.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03
A uaaful Peat.

Despite the fact that the spider, next
to the mouse, is most violently stimu-
lating to feminine sensitiveness, Il Is
an insect Of a very good character. 1t
feeds exclusively upon other freshly
killed insects. and they are the kinds
denounced by sanitary authorities, the
housefy being Its favorte quarry
His service in reducing the numbers
Of this pest is considerable, because
the spider is always busy, and he is
present In countless numbers, says
Leslie's Weekly. The reason why he
Is not more frequently seen is that he
Is retiring in his habits and shuns hui
man society quite as much as that
shuns him. He seldom bites anything
but food, and even when in self de-
fense he does assert himself the result
is no worse than mosquito bite or a
bee sting. The touching story of THE
Spider and the Fly" was evidently in
tended to invite sympathy for the fly.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03
They Like Fat Girl. In Tunis.

A Tunisian girl has no chance Of
marriage unless she tips the scale at
200 pounds, and to that end she COM
mences to fatten when she is fifteen
years old. She takes aperients and
eats a great deal OF sweet stuff and
leads sedentary life to hasten the
process. Up to fifteen she Is very
handsome, but at twenty what an i'm
mense, unwieldy mass of fat she be-
comes! She waddles, or, rather, undu-
lates, along the street. Her costume Is
very picturesque, especially II she be
Of the richer class. She is clothed
In fine silks Of resplendent hues of a
bright red, yellow or green and wears
sort Of conical shaped headdress, from
which depends a loose white drapery.
Turkish trousers and dainty slippers,
the heels Of which barely reach the
middle Of the feet, complete the cos
tune
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03
A Bernard Shaw Criticism.

Before fame came to him Bernard
Shaw wrote dramatic criticisms for
the London Saturday Review. The
following sample is characteristic OF
the man:
II am In a somewhat foolish posi-
ton concerning a play at the Opera
Comique. whittier l was hidden this
day week. For some reason l was not
supplied with program, so that
never learned the name OF the play.
At the end of the second act the play
had advanced about as far as an or
dinary dramatist would have brought
Ii five minutes after the first rising
OF the curtain or, say, as far as Ibsen
would have brought It ten years be-
fore that event. Taking advantage OF
the second interval to stroll out into
the Strand for a little exercise, l un-
fortunately forgot oil about my busi-
ness and actually reached home before
1t occurred to me that had not seen
the end Of the play. Under these cir
cumstances It would III become me to
dogmatize on the merits of the work or
Its performance. l can only offer the
management my apologies" Every
body's.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03
Buttered Side Up,

One Of the stories which Levi Hutch
ins, the old time clockmaker of Con-
cord, N. H., delighted to tell related to
the youth of Daniel Webster.
"One day." said the old man, while
l was taking breakfast at the tavern
kept by Daniels father, Daniel and his
brother Ezekiel, who were little boys
with dirty faces and snarly hair, came
to the table and asked me for bread
and butter. complied with their re-
quest, little thinking that they would
become very distinguished men. Dan
lei dropped his piece Of bread on the
sandy floor, and the buttered side, of
course, was down. He looked at 1t q
moment, then picked 1t up and showed
1t to me, saying:
"'What pity! Please give me q
piece of bread buttered on both sides
then If / let 1t fall one of the buttered
sides will be up"
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03
Count III. Times . Hor,. eor,.

To see horse when out at pasture
rolling on the ground and endeavoring
TO turn over on his back is a common
sight, but how many people have no
ticed that in doing this he observes
an invariable ruler The rule is that
he always rolls over either at the first
or third attempt-never at the second
and more than three attempts are
never made. In other words, II the
horse succeeds I'm rolling over at the
first try, well and good-that satisfies
him. But IL the first attempt is a fall
ure the second one always is. Then
he either rolls quite over at the third
or gives II up. He never makes a
fourth. II horses are rolling on slop-
Ing ground they usually roll uphill.
This is more easy OF explanation than
the strange custom regulating the
number of attempts. As to this no
adequate reason has ever been offered.
VIII those ingenious people who tell us
why dog turns around before lying
down and why ducks walk behind
each other In string instead of
abreast explain why horse never
makes four attempts to roll over and
never succeeds at the second2-Ex-
change.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03
HIS RETIREMENT.
How a Famous DueIist Gave Up
the Practice.
BY r. A. mitchell,

tCopyright. 1910. by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
Count Andreas MennerZek, a Hunga-
rian who had fought many duels, aft
er having safely come out of his fif-
teenth encounter determined to retire
from the field. On doing this he re-
solved to give banquet to those only
who could prove that they had partici-
pated in at least five duels. Selecting
three of his friends, all of whom were
entitled under the condition to an in
vitation, he asked them to examine
the credentials of those who claimed
the right to be present.
AS have said. the count proposed to
retire after his fifteenth encounter.
Some said that at his twelfth he had
shown lack Of nerve which was re-
peater and grew upon him in his sub
sequent encounters, and that the rea-
son why he intended to retire was that
he dare not continue in the field. His
twelfth meeting was with q mere boy
barely eighteen years old. The chal-
lenge was sent with statement that
the count had killed the challenger's
brother. Whether 1t was the youth of
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03
Comets Of the Past Century.

During the nineteenth century 235
new comets were discovered as against
sixty-two In the eighteenth century.
The nineteenth century also beheld q
greater number Of large and brilliant
comets than did Its predecessor. The
finest Of these were the comets Of 1911,
1s43, 1858, 1881 and 1882. In the year
1900 only one periodical comet was
known, Halleys. Now many are
known, Of which at least seventeen
have been seen at more than one re-.
turn to perihelion.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03
Evolution of ths Annie.

Apples are new In the economy of
the worlds use and taste. At the be-
ginning Of the last century few varie-
ties were known, and we can 60 back
In history to a time when all apples
were little, sour and puckery-crab ap-
pies and nothing else. The crab apple
was and Is In Its wildness nothing but
a rosebush. Away back In time the
wild rose, with its pretty blossoms
that turn to little red balls, apple fla
vored. and the thorny crab had the
same grandmother.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03

this his twelfth adversary or the cir
cumstance of that adversary's fighting
to avenge his brother or some super
stition no one knew, but Mennerzek
showed an extreme distaste for killing
the boy, intending to pink him. But
the youth fought so desperately that
the count was finally obliged to run
him through to save his own life. The
youth did not die, but it was said that
he would never recover from his
wound.
All these facts and encounters were
the talk Of Vienna, and never was
there so much interest manifested in
any function as 1.-The immortal's" ban
quet celebrating his retirement from
the field in which he had so long held
Fthe most conspicuous place. For two
months the committee examined Gre
fdentials. Among the applicants was
lone woman. She had been out only
Eight duel with man was equivalent
4 to the record Of "the immortal him
fself. She declined to appear before
kthe committee, but sent a certificate
2of physician who had attended her
after her encounter in which she had
been wounded. The committee, all of
lwhom were gallant gentlemen, unani-
2mously voted to admit the applicant
When the evening for the banquet
arrived Count Mennerzek received his
Hguests In an anterOOm communicating
with the banquet hall. He looked
about as if for some one and said:
But l have been told that l am to
Nentertain lady. l don't see her."
B 'She wrote, count" said one Of the
*tnvitation committee, that since a
Iwoman would be out of place among
$50 many men she would merely ap-
pear for few minutes after coffee
is served"
The host led the way into the ban
quet room and stood at his seat at the
head Of the table flanked by man on
his right who had fought the next
Zgreatest number Of duels-thirteen-
and on his left by one who had fought
the next number-eleven. The others
were arranged in accordance with
their records. One seat was not oc-
Eupied-that at the end of the table
opposite the count. 1t was reserved for
he lady.
|# For three hours there was the hum
conversation, naturally about the
ncounters of the conversers, while
be popping Of corks represented those
pntests wherein pistols or rifles had
Pen used. In several cases men met
zen who had been adversaries. 1t
as singular to hear them discuss In
friendly way combats In which they
pad tried to kill each other. Then
There were those who had fought and
had never been reconciled. Despite
The injunction of the host that every
man should be every other mans
friend some Of these glared at one an
other as though they would like to go
out again and settle their quarrel. One
couple attempted to leave the room
Tor such purpose, but found them
selves locked In. The count had fore
seen that the meeting of so many men
who had so often fought might kindle
anew some smoldering fame and had
taken the necessary precautions.
Coffee had been brought on and had
been drunk and still the one guest
In whom was felt more interest than
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03
A Curious Error.

The Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale
told how a curious error crept into the
translation Of the Lords Prayer into
the Delaware Indian tongue. The Eng
lish translator had as an assistant an
Indian who knew English. what Is
'hallow' In Delaware" asked the trans
lator. The Indian thought he said "hal-
loo" and gave him the equivalent.
Therefore the Delaware version of the
Lords Prayer reads, "Our Father, who
art In heaven, hallooed be thy name"
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03
Alabama,s Capitals.

When Alabama was territory its
capital was at st. Stephens. In Wash
ington county. The convention that
framed the constitution under which
1t was admitted into the Union was
held in Huntsville, where the first leg
islature met in October, 1919, and the
first governor was inaugurated. Caha-
ba became the seat Of government in
1920. In 1925 the capital was removed
to Tuscaloosa, and in 1876 1t was again
removed, this time to Montgomery.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03

one of the rea-
sons why food
prices have been
forced up to such
an extent.
Too many are
engaged in the
business of distri-
button. What we
need is MORE
FARMING. Too
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03
Didn't Want to Sec Much.

What are you wearing that mono
Gle forT' asked the theatrical man
ager. you paid to see the showT
"Yes," replied the young man. "but I
can see all l want of this show with
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03
As Corrected.

Tommy" said the teacher to
bright grammar class pupil, correct
the sentence Il kissed Jennie two
times'"
:" Il kissed Jennie three times,'" re-
piled Tommy proudly.-Chicago News.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03
Simple.

"How do you keep your razor
sharpr
EASY enough. / hide 1t where my
wife can't find t."-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03
Caustic.

Sapleigh-The doctor says there's
something the matter with my head.
Sharp-You surely didn't pay a doctor
to tell you that!-Boston Transcript.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03
His Ad, Answered.

A man stopped at newspaper office
on his way to the theater and placed
an advertisement for boy. Half an
hour later one fell from the gallery
into his lap.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03
How Good Ha Waa

George-Do you think I'm good
enough for you, darling? Darling-No,
George, but you're too good for any
other girl.-Illustrated Bits.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03
Why the Present
Cost Of Living
Is High.
@ - By Various Authorities 20 -

By JAMES WILSON. Secretary OF Asri-
culture.
prices are higher now
~ than ever before is certain.
The American standard of
living is HIGHER THAN THAT
OF ANY OTHER COUNTRY
ON THE GLOBE, and that is
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03

! :: :: : !" ! : !: ! : : : ! ;
= N forced up 10 sucn
~ an extent.
Too many are
engaged in the
business of distri-
button. What we
need is MORE
FARMING. Too
many persons are rushing to the
cities, and not enough are staying
in the country. Too many are
TRYING TO GET ALONG
WITHOUT WORK, and not
enough of them are in the business
of producing something.
ONE MAN COULD DO THE DIS
TRlBUTING WHERE TWENTY
ARE NOW ENGAGED IN 1T. THAT
Is THE REASON WHY THE COST
OF LIVING is HIGH AND EVERY
ONE COMPLAINING.
BY Senator MOSES E. cLAPP OF r1inne-
~HE NEW TARIFF LAW HAS
COST AND Is COSTING
- THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN
INCREASED COST OF LIVING.
The thing STARTED WITH
THE TARIFF INCREASES
AND is GOING ALL ALONG
THE LINE apparently.
Raise the price of one necessity
of life and the man who is com
PEELED to pay that increased price
must get more for what he has to
sell in order that he may pay it !;
therefore it necessarily affects the
price of what he produces. He
must either TAKE LESS PROF
1T OR ELSE RAISE HIS
PRICE.
BY Professor J. R. KENNEDY Of Illinois
University.
HERE is no mystery about
~ the increased cost of com
modities. 1t is the result
of perfectly NATURAL AND
INEVITABLE CAUSES.
Food used to be cheap, largely
because land was cheaper. The
country is filling up, and the price
of land naturally rises and with
the cost of the food products it
produces. AS LAND COSTS
MORE TODAY THAN FOR
MERLY, FOOD NATURALLY
COSTS MORE. 1t is the same
with ores.
1T COSTS MORE TO FARM TO.
DAY THAN FORMERLY. 1T COSTS
MORE TO MINE ORES THAN TEN
YEARS AGO. THIS MAY BE
PROVED IN A HUNDRED WAYS.
AS A RESULT THE PRICES OF
THE PRODUCTS OF THE FARMS
AND OF THE MINES HAVE BEEN
GRADUALLY RISING.
By Senator JOSEPH L. BRIsTOW of
Kansas.
HE increased cost of living
~ is due to a COMBINA-
TION OF A HUNDRED
CAUSES. The chief is the tend
ency to COMBINATIONS OF
MEN WHO CONTROL COM
MODITIES and fix arbitrary
prices on them.
THE FARMER CANNOT COM.
6INE. THERE ARE TOO MANY
OF HIM, AND HIS clRcuM-
STANCES DO NOT LEND THEM
SELVES TO COMBINATION.
THE INFLUENCES THAT
COME BETWEEN THE FARM
ERS AND THE CONSUMER
are responsible for that.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03

cheaper. w hat we
took off the Cana
dian product is
added to the price,
and we are not
benefting an y.
We put hides on
the free list, but
shoes have not be-
come C h e a p e r.
The tariff on sug-
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03

cause of high prices are given to
us. They tell us in scholarly lam
guage that the real causes of rising
prices are monopolies and trusts,
the tariff, the growing scarcity of
land, the laziness and indifference
of farmers, speculation, corrup-
ton, high freight rates, population
outrunning production, too many
people in cities, cold storage, less
ening supply, rising land values,
pure food laws, labor unions, the
greediness of "middlemen," auto
mobiles, hookworms, etc.
All advances in prices when con-
fined to particular commodities or
to particular localities or countries
could perhaps be explained in or
dinary ways. But no such expla-
nation will answer for a world
wide rise of the general price level
such as has been occurring during
the last twelve or thirteen years.
THERE is AND CAN BE BUT
ONE CAUSE FOR SUCH AN A0-
VANcE-NAMELY, A DEPREcIAT-
ING MONEY UNIT OR STANDARD
OF VALUE.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03

BY Senator WILLIAM E. BoRAH of
Idaho.
high prices are world
" wide is conceded. That it
is true of articles affected
by the tariff and articles upon the
free list is easily proved. 1t must,
in my judgment, be considered as
due to a MULTITUDE OF
CAUSES.
We seem to be approaching a
time when we shall be importing
food products, and this is due to
the failure to FERTILIZE AND
KEEP UP THE PRODUCING
POWER of our lands and the
failure to utilize the 25,OOO,OOO
acres of arid lands of the west.
No doubt the TRUSTS OR
COMBINATIONS have had an
unfavorable effect upon prices.
They have not only manipulated
prices, but by reason of these ma
nipulations and by reason of their
controlling the market they have
discouraged live stock producers,
many of whom have gone out of
business, while others have de-
creased their focks and herds.
By Senator CHARLES DICK OF Ohio.
HE present TARIFF LAW
~ HAS NOTHING TO DO
WITH THE INCREASE
in the price of commodities or the
cost of living.
We cut the tariff on lumber in
two, but we are not getting it any
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03

ar was reduced 20 per cent, but the
price of sugar is no less, and the
sugar trust is putting the differ
ence into its pocket.
Three things are to blame for
the increase in the cost of living
the INCREASED DUO
TION OF GOLD, which has rails
ed the price of staple products; the
great INFLUX OF PEOPLE
FROM THE COUNTRY INTO
THE CITIES, making the de.
mand for food products greater
than the supply, and general EX-
TRAVAGANCE IN LIVING.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-03
By Senator CHARLES DICK Of Ohio.

in the price of commodities or the
cost of living.
We cut the tariff on lumber in
two, but we are not getting it any
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1910-10-22

diplomacy. Packed within which is at
most hundred miles long and eighty miles wide
is population Of about quarter of a million
people, the sturdiest bravest and most warke
people anywhere to be found. The Montenegrns
fighting race among whom personal bra
very is account ed the highest virtue in man. BY
national decree the men all carry loaded pis-
tolls at their belts, and these they are prone to
small provocation. They have no regard
for the value Of human life, and family animosi-
ties are pursued through generations after the
fashion of the Corsican vendetta. Nicholas I. has
for years steadfastly discouraged these blood
feuds, which are a bane of Montenegrn life; but
racial instincts die hard and these men of the
Black Mountains not easily soothed into civil,
lization's ways.
In the early years of Nicholas reign Montene-
gro suffered much by pestilence and famine
well as by successive conflicts with Turkey,
which has ever been envious Of the Montepegrns'
stubborn independence. In the struggles of the
seventies Prince Nicholas and his people were
successful to the extent of recovering valuable
seaboard territory, in the possession of which
the principally was confirmed by the twenty
eighth article of the Berlin treaty In the szme
famous agreement of the powers the independ-
ence OF Monten6gT really existent for centuries
was at last formally recognized even by Turkey.
With so much conceded to their hcrosm and pa
triotism the Montenegrns were free to develop
their national resources, whicv are wholly agri-
cultural. Among the humanizng influences es-
sential to the progress of his people Prince
Nicholas promptly recognized the value Of edu-
cation and almost before the ink was dry on
treaty signatures an extensive scheme of elemen.
tary education was organized throughout the
principally. There are now some 200 primary
schools maintained by the state and attendance
is compulsory all children
Whatever Nicholas l. has done and may do
however, by way of fostering the arts Of peace
and of advancing the material prosperity of his
y-bp 4Ic Mon A,,cx
is essentially military. In all eastern Europe
there is no finer soldier than the hardy man of
the mountains. The Montcnegrn ruler knows his
strength in this respect, and he has fashioned
at least fifth of the population into a well-ds-
ciplined and wel-eQupped little aSmy comprising
5S battalions of infantry and Il batteries of artil
leTy but no cavalry.
or even greater account than their martial
order is the intense nationalism Of the Montene-
grins, n sentiment which their ruler stimulates
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1910-10-22

by royal decree well by personal example.
national costume prosaiC European clothing is
tabooed. Picturesque it u.s. the costume en-
phasiZes the cXtravagant theatrcality of the Mon
tenegrin pose. But if garments enhance ideal
Prince Nicholas is shrewd indeed in his ordi-
nance. Much that may eXtravagant and
absUrdy archaic to western ideas has a hidden
purpose in the Balkins Austrian, Russian and
German policy alike has aimed at such seve-
rance OF Serb associations as shall effectually
repress Serb aspirations TO a reunited empire.
On the other hand it has been the settled pol.
icy of Nicholas |. to keep the fame of Serb pa
triotism aght Hence it is that the fervent ma
tionasm of this Montenegrin people finds ex-
preston in the very Jackets of the men and the
skirts Of the women, in the mnstrelsy OF the
singe-strnged fiddles and the ever-present readi.
ness for war.
Montenegro has constitution, first granted
in 1868 The skupstchna national assembly
is elected by universal suffrage for term OF
four years ministry Of six portfolios repre-.
sents executive authority, but to all intents and
purposes Nicholas l. is absolute autoCrat. The
father OF his people, he gives public audience to
all and sundry and administers justice beneath
famous plane tree hard By the palace gates at
Cettnje. Such is the patriarchal ruler of pa
triarchal state who in the pursuit Of a national
ambition is exchanging the primitive simplicity
of ancient CzernagCra-as Montenegro was
styled-for the trappings and majesty of mini
ature monarchy.