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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-26

citation on Advertising at the Bos-
ton City club.
advertising" said Mr.. Jacobs, 'is
salesmanship, but It goes further and
reaches out more broadly. Appear
ance of stores is advertising treat
ment accorded customers, store SER
vice, etc. Advertising is not an eX-
pense, but an investment and. the up
to date merchant sets aside a fixed
per cent for advertising of various
sorts.
a local paper ought to be encour-
aged. 1t is the most powerful agent
of public opinion in the community
and the broadest carrier of your own
talk about your store. Papers should
cater to the advertisers, and the mer-
chants should cooperate with the pa
per to the mutual advantage of both
The newspaper is usually willing to
do what it can. A city ought to have
civic pride in a clean newspaper with
modern type, neatly printed, and II
this is so the advertisements generally
pay much better. Get in touch with
the newspaper man. He is generally
a mighty decent sort of fellow, and
he and you should be in business to-
gether for mutual profit."-Selected.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-26
4 TERRIBLE SILENCE.

Joe Struthers made a stern resolve
that he was goin' to be
Forbearin' an good-natured ever
more.
He said that after this no one was
ever goin' to see
His angry passions risin' at the
store.
He KEEP his word punctilious. When
the argument grew hot
And everybody shouted with a will,
He sat in utter silence. He was root
ed to the spot.
A-lookin' like a statue with a chill.
It was somethin' truly fearful to be-
hold his blazin' eye,
An see OF Joe a-holdin' of his
breath.
We longed to hear him speak We
were afraid that by an by
He'd simply sit an choke himself
to death.
We wished he would say somethin',
even if it was profane.
An if he'll listen to our solemn
choice,
He'll go right back to talkin' an to
cussin' once again,
For his silence is more awful than
his voice!
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-26
HE WON.

Elk Governor Bob Taylor Of Ten
nessee, was once entertaining a north
ern guest, who was rather skeptlcal
about the prevailing dialect in stories
Of southern negroes. He thought 1t
oyerdrawn. To disprove the conten-
ton, Mr.. Taylor laughlngly made a
wager with his guest that the north
erner would be unable 10 interpret
the language Of the first negyo they
met. Accordingly, they set out and
presently came upon a black man
basking indolently in the sun. Telling
his friend TO pay close heed, Mr.. Tay-
lor stepped up to the negro and de-
manded suddenly:
"Weh he2"
The negro blinked his eyes stolidly
and then answered in cultural
voice:
"Wah who "-Everybody's for De-
cember.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-26
ON THE UPGRADE.

Pendleton enjoyed merry Christ
has indeed this time. Christmas
business was good this year, better
than last year and in many respects
better than ever before" This is the
way the merchants talk and the mer-
chandise business is the best index to
the prosperity of any city.
Nor is it surprising that the holi-
day business has been good. If Una
tilla county ever enjoyed prosperity it
it enjoying it now. Last years crop
was a good one and the splendid rain
fall so far this year and the fine
growing weather indicates a bumper
crop next summer.
Then strictly local conditions, too,
are satisfactory. Pendleton is upon 4
sound basis and the trend is upward.
The liquor question-which has been
a source Of bitter strife in the past
has at last been settled upon a safe
and sane basis. We will have licens-
ed saloon system, yet the business will
be conducted under restrictions that
should insure peace and promote tenn
perance rather than drunkenness and
disorder. There will be an end to
the mail order liquor business jan
uary /, and from the business that
h. pfr nil
derive a revenue that will materially
aid in providing needed civic improve
ments and will incidentally keep down
the tax levy
During the past six months Pendle-
ton has derived much benefit from
the improvement work carried on by
the 0. r. & y. company. Upon the
line changes between Yoakum and
this city the railroad company has ex-
pended almost million dollars. From
that work the people here have deriv-
ed much business for this place has
been the headquarters and the trad.
ing center.
Other factors too have contributed
TO the present satisfactory state Of af.
fairs. The people voted down tht
county division bill and thereby pu
a decisive end to trouble from tha
score. At the same time they endorsed
the appropriation for the eastern Ore
gon asylum and prospects are brigh
that Pendleton will land that insti
tuition.
Surely Pendleton had good reasor
10 rejoice this year. May Santa Clau
find the city larger and still NOR,
prosperous when he comes again.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-26
TROPICAL INVESTMENTS.

IAN successful men are cautious"
Weeks declared. But II he knew the
wonderful opportunities this country
presents" The speaker leaned for
ward. while his chair creaked dan
gerously, and said with impressive
ness: my dear sir, do you realize
that a cocopalm after 1t Is seven
years old drops nut worth five cents
every day in the year and requires
no care whatever except to gather
the fruit.
mo"
Fact, And We grow the best ones
in the world right here. But the de-
mand is increasing so rapidly that in
ten years there will be a famine. Think
of it-a famine Of coconuts!" Mr.
Weeks paused to lend dramatic effect.
That's fierce" Kirk acknowledged.
What are they good for?"
Eating! People make cakes out
OF them. and oil and candy. Good
cocoanut land can be bought for fifty
, cents an acre. selected seeds for five
cents each; labor is sixty cents a day
No frosts, no worms. no bugs. You
sit still and they drop in your lap"
"The bugs?"
mo! No! The coconuts."
"Flne!"
But that's nothing Do you real
ize that this soil will raise sugar-cane
the size of your-of my-thigh, and
| once you plant it you can't keep 1t
cut out?"
You can buy sugar cane land for
a dollar an acre; 1t costs"
I'm no good at figures, Mr..
Weeks"
And rubber! There's the chance
for man with capital, Rubberv'
II WILL mean, Is that SOP"
Ever see any rubber trees?"
"Only in Brooklyn. From "The
Ne'er-Do-Well," by Rex Beach, N
Everybody's for December.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-26
THE LIMIT.

Testing about railways Of the south
Is rather an overworked profession.
Before Earring the crop, how
ever, let Senator Burton Of Ohio, have
the floor.
Speaking Of railroads." he says,
the ultimate word, in my experience,
was a limited on which I Travelled
in Georgia last summer. At a point
where we were making our greatest
speed man stood at the side Of the
track with moving picture machine
I leaned out Of the window and called
to him, How are you getting on?'
HE stopped turning the crank and
spoke with an expression Of deep dis
gust.
"'It don't seem to be no USE he
said. Hold your head still, please.
I want to get a time exposure -
Everybodys for December.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-26
THIS Is THE PLACE.

While fasteners shivered with the
cold Of midwinter yesterday Pendle-
ton people were able to enjoy a
Christmas out of doors The warm.
bright sunshine during the day gave
the holiday more the appearance of
easter than Of Christmas. No need
TO hover over fires or growl because
furnace fires burned low. Autoins
and driving were in order instead and
overcoats would have been a needless
incumbrance.
If Santa Claus is man of any dis
cernment he knows where Gods
country is.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-26
NATIONAL SHORTSIGHTEDNESS

'Tn this country" said the socio-
logist, Everything possible is done
to discourage people from marrying"
How so?" inquired one Of the lis
teners.
you have to buy the marriage IL
cense, fee the preacher, the boys give
you what they call a 'shivaree,' your
friends throw old shoes at you, the
newspapers print carlcatures of you,
life insurance agents hound you, you
hump right up against the cost of liv-
ing, and IL you find you've made
mistake you have to go to no end of
trouble to get divorce. Chicago
Tribune.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-26
WE ARE THERE TOO.

Yakima people are boasting Of an
irrigation project made in Yakima" !"
1, is a pumping project and the pump
that is used was invented by Yakima
man and It was made in North va
kima. SO was the cement pipe use !
10 convey the water to the land.
But then Yakima Is not ahead of
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-26
\ DEADLY PARALLEL.

Business is government. The man
agement Of a private business cores
ponds exactly to the administration of
the public business Of a city, state or
nation. The parallel is perfect even
as to forms. Small businesses are lit
tie monarchies; as all primitive states
were and as some states are today.
The head of a little shop or Of small,
competing factory is the absolute rul-
er of his private business. And pub
lie business used to be called the
kings business; andit was his. Even
the people were his, his subjects. They
had nothing to say about the public
business; they had no more repre-
sentation in the government than the
depositors Of a bank have in their
bank. And that seemed natural and
right to kings and people once. But
so many kings abused their power that
the management of public business
passed gradually out of the monarch
ical stage into the republican form
and we see the beginnings Of demo-
cracy in politics. And that's where
business management seems to be 60
ing.-Lincoln Steffens in Everybody's
for December.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-26

old Cmatilla. Down on the Umatilla
project cement pipe, made at Hermis-
ton is in use. No pumping plant is
needed but water is secured from a
reservoir, made in Umatilla county.
and that reservoir does away with
the expense of pumping.
Who is aheade
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-26
NEWSPAPERS.

That few merchants and corpora
tlons realize the full value of ade-
quate and systematic use Of newspa-
pers in advertising their business was
asserted by Ben S. Jacobs, advertis-
ing manager for Conrad e Co, who
addressed the Pilgrim Publicity asso-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-26
The Easiest Way.

Down in Bermuda Mark Twain
made a speech about snakes to a group
of little girls. The speech was great.
The only trouble was that the little
girls could not appreciate 1t. It flew
over their heads This was the hu-
morists conclusion:
Never warm serpent in your bos-
ON. 1t Is far easier to warm it by
placing 1t under the pillow of an in
innate friend"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-26

The three RS will receive very close
attention henceforth say the county
school superintendent. That is al
right, but it is poor time to mention
such a subject. Why not let the
small boy enjoy the holidays in peace?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-26

By having the crOsswalks cleaned
the city officials have conferred a
blessing indeed upon the walking pub
lie. Here's to the good work. Keep
ir going.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-26
THE GOOD OLD TIMES.

. Good times? What times? .
. These are ours. o
. Borne with through days and Q
. nights, sun and gloom and .
. showers; y
. Old times have left to US all q
= they had to give; .
y Those times we dream about; .
y these times we live, =
= Here is the struggle now, close .
y beside the door; .
y Strike out for truth and right .
= what can you do more, .
. Here is the man who strives, =
y spent with many a blow; =
. Dream not Of heroes dead; this .
y man We know. .
y Old times, good times, passed =
y into the night; .
y This Is the day to me, working =
y in the light .
y Dear as was yesterday. though .
y its memories shine, .
y That was another day-this day .
= is mine, .
. Good times? All times. Each =
= in its degree, .
D But these are the wonder-days .
y the times made for me. .
y Shaping the days to come by .
= their toll and strife, .
= Those time for dream and hope .
= these times for life. .
CouthOuy Smith, in st. .
= Louis Times. =
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-26
AT ANY COST.

Jane-Pve something on me mind,
Array, that I hardly knows 'ow to
tell yer.
'Arry-Aht wiv It.
Jane-fm afraid yet won't marry
me If I tells yer.
'Arry-Aht wiv It.
Jane-L'm a somnambulist, AIRY.
AIRY after prolonged pause)--
Never mind, Jane: it'll be all right.
If there amt no chapel for 1t we will
be married at a reglstry.-Punch.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-26

Possibly those big apples that were
raised on the Oliver place made hit
with the governor and his party.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-26

The riddle Of the sphinx may be
but anybody can un-
derstand the coal riddle at glance.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-26

Now for the New Years resolu-
tions.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-26

He hurts the good who spares the
bad.-French.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-11-27
GREAT RAILROAD TERMINAL
1OOPEN WITHOUT ceremony
$1o0,000,000 Station of the PennsyI.
vania Lines to be Inaugurated in a
Quiet and transformations Manner.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Nov. 27.-On the
morning of November q train drawn
by mighty electric locomotive will
burrow under the Hudson river ovel
to the New York side and dash into
the greatest building the world has
ever seen.
Inc run of that train will become
an epic in the eventful history of rail.
reading, as it will mark the formal
opening OF the Pennsylvania Lines in
the very heart of Greater New York
Some thoughts are too big for words
Just so is the opening of this won.
erful building too big for any cere.
mOny.
nothing. The Pennsylvania Lines Of
ficials rightly feel that they have done
the biggest thing in the marvellous and
bewildering history OF American rail-
reading and for that reason they re-
main silent and let their great achieve
ment speak for itself.
The greatest ceremonial pageant
that man could devise would be dwarf
ed into insignificance by the massive
JOI oAAAP1S 81 oAuSuI VI lAO IC" SlIuC-
ture.
For years an army of men have
toiled above and beneath earth and
water to accomplish the greatest
building and engineering achievement
the world has ever seen. Millions
and millions of dollars worth of ma
terial, work and brains have been
poured into the great crucible of en-.
deavor, and the finished product has
no equal on this earth.
This is probably the first instance
in history where the men back of a
great enterprise have had sufficient
faith in it to let it speak for itself.
The Pennsylvania Lines has just
cause to be proud Of it's New York
terminal. 1t Is the greatest thing of
it's kind the world has ever known.
Surely it needs no inadequate py.
rotechnics or gewgaws to introduce
it to the public.
The ceremonies would be forgotten
in a few day. but the massive ter.
minal will stand in it's enduring but
simple grandeur as the years roll by
as the highest pinnacle of achieve.
ment in railroad history. 800
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-11-27
France Has Run tho Gamut,

No other modern nation has under.
gone changes more frequent, more
radical, more sudden, bloody and dra.
matte. In forms Of government France
has boxed the compass-has been
feudal, monarchial, imperial, repub.
ncan and revolutionary. She has
sounded the depths of royal abso
lutism and of communistic anarchy;
has made and unmade constitutions in
the pathetic effort to get one that
would fit; has known q military des-
potism which bluntly told the women
to marry and bear children in order
that Napoleon might be continuously
supplied with troops; has known an
absolute monarchy where a graceful
manner was more effective at court
than a head we'll filed with sense an6
has known a government of the rabble
under which there was an insurrec-
ton against property and death SEN
fences passed against citizens for the
sin Of wearing aristocratic names and
clean shirts-From ''The Story Of
France" by Thomas E. Watson.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-11-27

selling the bri ght Christmas seals for
the prevention of tuberculosis. Permis-
sion to sell seals i'll the corridors of all
postofficeS has been granted by Secretary
Hitchcock. They will also be on sale
in department stores hotels, railway sta
lions, drug stores and in thousands Of
other places.
Every conceivable device for advcr-
Using the seals is being prepared. In
some places valuable prizes will be CIV
en-. Millions of slips. dodgers, posters
and other kinds of literature will be
distributed calling upon the public to
buy red cross seals.
\mong the agencies that are cooper
a,ing with the red cross and the tuber-
culosis societies are women'> clubs,
lodges, labor unions, business mems as
sociations, stores. banks, newspapers and
thousands of schoolboys and girls.
Every seal is a bullet in the fight
against tuberculosis in the community
where it is >nld and a million dollars
from the sale for the stamping out Of
this plague is the objrct Of the Christ
lids ldlllpdlSH
North Dakota is again in the field
this year as dispenser OF these very
popular little pa>lvrs The North Dakota
-Nti-tubrrculosi> association has been
made the agents for the state and pur-
poses to push their sale even more en-
crgctcally this year than last. Last year
they disposed of 5000 stamps, which
produced revenue of $o40lo With
the proceeds of this sale the associa-
ton has carried on al cducativc cam
pai"n among the people as to the cause,
care prevention and cure of consump-
ton. The press of the state has been
furnished regularly with reading matter
and it is rare to find a newspaper that
does not give some space to this sub
lcct. The Influence that has been exert
ed THROUGH this source is invaluable. We
wish to publicly express our apprecia-
ton to the aid thus furnished A num-
Der of local anti-tuberculosis associa-
tions have been organized in various
parts of the state, and these. by meet
ings, lectures and literature. have done
much to arouse public sentiment. We
furnished 700 ministers of the gospel
with literature and outlines for anti
tuberculosis sermons for the Sunday"
April a. 1910. Nearly 3no ministers re-
sponded to the call and preached the
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-11-27

been reduced from eight to six, and
New Hampshire from four to two;
Vermont. which in 1910 had 9 men,
bers, now has two. while Maine, with
eight in 1880, has been reduced to
four Massachusetts has the same
number with which she started in
1870. In 1910 the number was increas-
ed to seventeen, but by the lext ap-
portionment it had fallen to thirteen.
and the original figure of fourteen was
not regained until 1900.
New York Passes Three.
After Virginia and Massachusetts,,
Pennsylvania, with thirteen members,
had the largest representation in the
house of 1890 New York and North
Carolina never rose above thirteen,
but New York has gone as high as
forty, which figure was attained under
the apportionment of 1880, and is the
largest representation any state ever
has had After 1880 the New York
representation fell to thirty-one in
1860. Since then it has been rising
gradually, until now it has thirty-sev.
en-. Pennsylvania's present number,
thirty-two, is the largest ever enjoyed
by that state From the first census
to the present Rhode Island, with her
two capitals and double name, has
been uniformly represented by two
congressman. Delaware had two men,
bers during the decade of 1S10-182O,
but never had but one since.
Minnesota began with two members
in 1860. Its representation was in
creased to three by the reapportiOn-
ment act of 1870, to five in 1880, to
seven in 1890, and to nine in 1900
South Dakota has had two members
since the state was admitted to the
union.
North Dakota began with one, but
was given two by the cast of 1900.
Wisconsin gained one in 1900. In 1870
Iowa had nine members, six in 1860,
and two in 1850
The first apportionment made by
the constitution itself provided for
one member to every 10000 inhabit-
ants. with the result that at it's first
session the house contained only six
ty-five members. The census of 1890
resulted in an increase of 105, with
$4,000 as the basis of representation.
From that time forth, with one excep-
ton, the increase both in representa-
ton and ratio has been steady, as fol
lows:
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-11-27
NORTH DAKOTA MAY Have
; MEMBERS IN congress

North Dakota. Minnesota, Wiscon
sin and certain other western states
will obtain increased representation
in the lower house OF congress fol
lowing the reapportionment act thai
will be passed following the compile
ton and work of the census bureau
for 1910. At present Minnesota has
nine members. Wisconsin eleven. and
North and South Dakota each has two
The chances are that Minnesota. Wis
consin and the DAkotas will be en-
titled to increased representation, de-
pendent altogether upon the ratio OF
increase in population of the states
! named
The present unit Of representation
| is 193.167 persons. The house now
embraces 391 members. There is a
good deal of opposition to material
increase in the size of the member
ship. An effort will be made to fix
upon a unit of representation that
will not materially increase the per-
sonnet However. some states will op-
pose this program. TO maintain the
house at approximately it's present
membership would result in the loss
Of representation to Maine. Iowa, Ne
braska. a number of southern states
and possibly Kansas. The indications
are that the census of this year Will
disclose a loss of population in the
states enumerated and loss of pop.
ulation may mean loss of the congress
district determined upon by the sen.
ate and the house.
The constitution requires that re-
apportionment shall follow each de-.
cennial enumeration of the people.
and accordinly a redistribution of
seats in the house membership takes
place soon after the conclusion Of
each census.
Change Time Of Reapportionment.
Up to 1890 the reapportionment was
uniformly postponed until the first
session Of the congress succeeding
the enumeration. but after the elev-
enth census, a change was made and
the apportionment bills for the elev-
enth and twelfth censuses were
brought in and passed in each case
at the short session of the current
congress Immediately following the
census 1t will rest with the approach
ing session to determine whether it
shall follow the old or the new pre-
cedent.. Politics is likely to determine
the choice.
A loss Of membership would be
by no means new experience in
many states. In the first apportion-
ment made after the census of 1890,
when the house numbered all told
only 105 members, Virginia was CIV
en- nineteen, almost one-fifth of the
entire membership, and in 1900 that
number was increased to twenty-three.
Then there was gradual falling away
until 1870 when there was only nine
members from that state. Since then
there has been gain in one from
Virginia.
Barring the first apportionment,
Connecticut began with seven men,
bers and now has five; Maryland has
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-11-27

For clean hacks and careful drivers
Phone 105. Day or night.
WHITES LIVERY,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-11-27

The plan of the Red Cross Seal
sale, which opens in North Dakota
December /. under the direction OF
the North Dakota Anti-Tuberculosis
association, is outlined by Secretary
J. Grassick in the current issue of the
pubic health bulletin. Or the work
in general and of the aspirations OF
the state association, DR.. Grassick
speaks as follows:
Judging from reports at hand, the
National Association for the Study
and Prevention of Tuberculosis csti.
mates that by December I. not less
than 1:i,nnn.Noo rcd cross seals will have
been distributed to selling agents in for
tv different states OF the country.
Forty million seals have already been