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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-09-09

uncle George Webb of La Grande,
once state treasurer, celebrated his
eighty-sixth birthday this week.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-09-09

With the English the Dorking is the
favorite table fowl. 1t is a remark
ably full brensted bird and. though a
slow grower, uttalns "A large size at ma.
turity
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-09-09
Merchants Praise

The fairs will all be successes of
course
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-09-09

Pendleton is stiii a good and grow.
Ing town, says the East Oregonian.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-09-09
Don't Break Down.

Yes. the harvest is ine-better than
expected.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-09-09
Foleys
Kidney
Pills
What They VIII Do for YOu

They win cure your backacbe.
strengthen your kidneys. cor.
reet urinary irregularities, build
up the worn out tissues. and
eliminate the excess uric acid
mat causes rheumatism. Pre-
vent sright's Disease and Dia-
oates' and restore health and
strength Refuse substitutes.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-02
Teacher of Young Americans,

Crittenden AIarriott's entertaining
plan for interesting Juvenile citizens
in the subject, How Americans Are
Governed is to find expression in
his new book by that title which the
Harpers are preparing to issue early
in March. Mr.. Marriott, who is the
author of another book for young
people, entitled Uncle Sans Bust
ness has had very exceptional op-
portunities for observing the workings
OF government. on the military side.
which Will probably always be the
most interesting side to the boys. the
Government practices became familiar
TO him while he was acting as special
war correspondent in the Spanish
War, where mis- adventures were suf-
hciently thrilling to make a book in
themselves. y very different phase
was revealed when later he was at
tached to the District Government at
Washington, where, by applying
newspaper methods of Investigation
to the cases under his charge-those
Of erratic claimants and 'cranks'-
ne was able not only to reduce de-
partment expenditure by many thous-
ondS of dollars. but to form a iudg-
iIcnt of the relation government
properly bears to the individual At
p' esent Mr.. Marriott iS engaged with
the Geological Survey. where he has
been serving for the past five years.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-02
BAGGAGE THIEVES
BEING WATCHED
DETECTIVE SCHERER HAS MEN
WAITING FOR MARTIN IA
COBSON IN NEW YORK.
RICHMOND. VA-Special-

RI e II NJ OND, VAS ecial-
Chief Detective Scherer, Of the
Chesapeake and Ohio, has been. and
is, Keeping an eye on the famous
quartette OF baggage thieves which
ne rounded up here some years ago.
Inc last one &c be captured was Mar
TN jacobson, and he is doing every
thlng ne can to prevent being return
was fixed for yesterday In New YorI
put II was postponed till Thursday
Mr.. Scherer has detectives in New
York waiting to bring jacobson back
to Virginia for trial, and the men will
stay there till the case is disposed OF
ana the man placed In their hands.
Harry Allen, one OF the men who
was convicted and sent to the peni-
tentary some years ago for completely
IN the trunk robbery, was to have
been released from prison YESTERDAY
on conditional pardon, but in order
mat no trouble should result and
tice, the Governor ordered that the
man be held until further orders.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-02
TELEPOST TELEGRAPH
system IS FAVORED

WASHINGTON. ID. C.-SpeciaI.-
The District Committee OF the Sem
ate Saturday favorably reported the
bill to admit the Telepost autonatic
telegraph system TO the District of
Column ia. Ten or the twelve MEM
bers OF the committee were present
when the bill was considered. The
company is required to deposit $1O,-
wv with the Commissioner or the Dis
trict of Columbia as a guarantee that
work on the extension OF the system
INTO the District will be completed
within the time prescribed in the bill.
President Sellers. of the Telepost, last
night said he was prepared to comply
with the stipulation.
Today's action of the Senate
presages the early Inauguration of the
automatic service between washing
ton. Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadel-
phia and New York. and the early ex-
tension OF the system from Washing
ton, southwark through Virginia, to
Richmond, Norfolk and other points
"A good portion of the line between
New York and Washington is already
completed, and the rights of way for
the entire distance have been secured.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-02
BRINGS SUIT TO SAVE
THREE HUNDRED TREES

NEW YORK Special GutZon
Borglum. the sculptor, has begun a
taxpayers suit in the Supreme Court
to enjoin the city and John &. Rogers
from proceeding with the plans for
the development of Fort Washington
Park and the Riverside Drive extern
sion. Through Philbin. Beekman.
Menken & Griscom he will ask for a
temporary injunction this week
The main purpose of Mr.. BorgIum's
suit is to prevent the destruction of
800 elm, maple and chestnut trees.
some OF which are more than fifty
years old and over two feet in diane
ter. The Parks and Fairgrounds As
ISOLATION, of which Mr.. Borglum is a
director, is actively interested i'm the
proceeding, which is the result Of an
investigation made by the SCULPTOR at
the request of the association.
According to counsel for Mr.. Borg
lum, other plans for the DEVELOPMENT
OF Fort Washington Park have been
under way in the office Of Samuel
Parsons, the landscape architect of
the Park Department, and Mr. Borg
lumS complaint sets forth that the
power to institute and execute all
measures of park Improvement lies
solely in the Park Department, and
they can be executed only with the
assert of the department Iandscape
architect. The contract under which
the present plans are being executed
was made with Rogers by Borough
President Ahearn, who. it is alleged.
had no legal authority to execute IT,
The Rogers plans and those of the
Park Department are at variance, it
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-02
The Passing OF the Colon.

In the days when the masters Of
statelineSs and noble style were still
respected, the Colon was a power in the
land. Today we know him not, save
rarely, and then not In his rightful SER
wee. True, he may be found in con-
junction with the Dash, but the Dash
is supine rascal, indetermlnate, hest
tating, and no fit company for one who
was wont to be very pillar OF strength
IN the temple OF letters. There is some
thing deeply pathetic in the silent pass
ing or this grand old fellow, after all
MS noble record. But the world has
chhanged, and the Colon has passed with
the mtnuet. 1t is the age of the scrayyI-
ing Comma or hurried Dash: or IL we
do rise TO the height of the Semicolon.
That Is but half a Colon, after all, and
not 10 be compared with the fine old
inquire which served to buttress the
great phrases of the masters In the
average book of the present one will
not find single Colon used for its orf-
ginal and chief purpose. Either the
curt Period breaks in, or the limp Com
ma makes its Intellectual protest
against aimless perpetuity. One can
fancy our gallant old Colon fleeing
from the tumult of linotype and null
tiple press. He must have gazed re
grefully at the coming of all these
strange, awkward creatures to the com
posing room. He was the day Of small
clothes, lace and snuff-box. He lin
splendid makers of English in the mid
die OF the nineteenth century: but hav-
ing done that he could do no more
Ana now ne is almost forgotten by his
lerstwhile associates in the print err s
caSe.-New YOst Post
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-02
InCOgnitO.


me shades of night were falling fast
AS through town in Europe passed
A quiet man, with stealthy tread,
Who now and then in whispers said
"1ncognito!"
Before him blared a big brass hand.
He shot off guns with either hand:
red torch fiared above his head,
And as he cheered, again he said:
"Incognitoi"
He wore a sash, red. white and blue,
what times he beat a bass drum, too:
And then he stood upon his head.
AS. with wink, again he said:
'Incognito!"
rs that your name?" an old man
cried.
Begone! Your query gives me dread.
I'm travelling, you see," he said.
'Incognito!"
STAY cried a maid. Aren't you
T. r.,
The mighty hunter from ATARI"
Inc stranger blushed and hung his
I'm trying hard to keep" he said.
''Incognito,"
Where'er he went twas just the same.
But when they asked him for his
name
He would not mention it; instead
He tried to hide away, and said:
'Incognito!"
And thus all through the land he pass
ed,
And when he sailed for home at last.
Nobody knew the strange mans name,
Nobody knew from whence ne came.
His modest ways. his cringing mien.
Left mem 'ries calm and most serene.
And If you ask the people there
Just who he was. with puzzled air
Each one Will say and shade his head:
He never told; he only said:
"IncOgnito!"
New York World.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-02
VIII Try. Try Acatn-

weakened Democrat remarked
the other day that IF the Republicans
beat US this time with such a candi-
date as we have we had Just as well
quit trying and give it up" No, sir.
If we are beaten this time well try
EN- again next time, and so on to the
end of the chapter. The Democratic
party was not born to die. Just so
long as there are human rights to de-
fend; so long as there are wrongs to
be righted; so long as the cry of the
oppressed goes up from the toilers of
this nation for deliverance from greed
and robbery, just so long will there be
round those who will go forth to the
battle. No, Sonny, don't you despair.
waterloo and AppOmattoX are not un-
known names to the Democratic army.
which has been many, and may yet be
many times overcome by superior
numbers and resources" but never
has been conquered. and never will be.
Clinch Valley News
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-02
Judge MaddnI.s Ruling.

Judge Waddill, of the United States
Court. has made a ruling which seems
extraordinary. 4 former postoffict
clerk named FHckinger was on tria
for stealing money from a letter. A
postoftice inspector testified that he
and two other inspectors took Flick
niger TO a room and. after croSS-exam-
ming him closely, required him 70
show the contents of his pockets A
confession followed The judge ruled
that all this testimony be excluded be-
cause the personal liberty of tho de-
PENDANT had been invaded. and as no
court can compel q man to give evil
dence against himself. so no officer OF
the law may do 1t. This seems to for
bid an officer from searching a sus-
pected thief or from requiring a sus-
pected murderer from handing over
his weapons for examination to dis
cover whether they have been used.
has tho doctrine OF personal liberty
ever before been carried quite so far {?
Roanoke Times.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-02
Women Growing Taller.

strange news comes to us from Eng
land women are growing
This does not mean that the sex IS
widening its sphere of influence or that
women are strengthening their hold
upon society, nor that they are deyel-
oplng intellectually, but that thew are
ever growing tailed than they used to
Pc NOT this or that particular woman
put the whole sex in general or at
least women in civilized countries. The
average woman is steadily growing
taller Young girls of from fifteen to
elEhteen are even now three inches
taller than their mothers. In 1895 the
average height OF young girl was only
rive Feet five, and the growth contin-
ueS.
so much the better" you may saw.
rms is making a more robust more
majestic race, and toward the middle
OF the twentieth century we shall see
magnificent couples. sucn as those
winch aStonished the Roman conouer-
time of Caesar"
But you are mistaken
~ Is not the race which is growing
taller. 1t is woman-woman alone
Her companion remains stationary, or
is even inclined to grow smaller Thus
the difference in height, which was
the pride of the masculine sex. is little
by little disappearing. When the aver
age woman shall be five feet eight or
even i've feet ten, the masculine seX
ShaII nave lost this advantage for good
ana ever, and the young man will have
10 look up TO meet his sweetheart's eve
American. OiN
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-02
10 DROWNED ON
LAKE ship SINKS
Crew of Goodyear Had No
Chance to Escape, as She Scut-
tied Shortly After Collision
on Lake Huron-Ca-
reened and Sunk.

PORT HURON, MICH SDe-
cial.-The steamer Frank II.
Goodyear was rammed ana sunk
tuesday morning by the steamer
James B. Wood. Eighteen men
OF the crew OF twenty were
drowned.
The Goodyear belonged TO John
MitchelI, or Cleveland, while the
James Ii. Wood IS owned by the
Gllchrist transportation Com
pany.
The Goodyear. under Captain Harry
stewart, was steel steamer, original
~ mailing from Buffalo, of 3,43S tons,
built in 1902 at Lorraine, o.
Inc wood is larger vessel, of s.
i44 tons and 514 feet long against
the Goodyear's 416 feet.
The Wood was built in West Bay
Clty' Mich, in 1906, her hailing port
being Cleveland.
The disaster is one Of the worst on
the Lakes in recent years. The Good
year went down with only a few min
uteS Tor the crew to attempt TO save
themselves. Rammed Squarely, a
great hole was torn in her, through
Whlch the water poured at a rate that
would have completely filled her with
IN short time. The careening of .he
vessel, according to advices
received here, brought her deck un
der water.
The Wood stood by putting ont
small boats, but the other vessel went
down so rapidly that little attempt
could be made to get her Iifeboats
from the davits.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-02
Illusions.

1t is true we labor under MANY
Illusions, but if these were to be done
away with, we should hardly deem it
worth our while to labor at all.
Almost none of the things v,bicl,
man so ardently pursues in the be-
!let that they will make him happier
is really capable of doing so. and vet
II is needful that he keep ND the pilr-
SUIT Tor the sake of what he Incl
dentaIly achieves in behalf of destiny
The Illusions we labor under mar.
take, in fine, of the nature of sanitary
conditions, though they chiefly affect
the health of the spirit. and by that
nave no municipal functionarv an
pointed TO look viguantly after them.
Nor III fact. do they need any such.
since providence has been so kind as
to see to it that Illusions we SHAH al
ways haVe.-Puck
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-02
Flowers and the Love of Them.

God never made better people than
those who love flowers"
We do not believe that any man or
woman who loves flowers is or can be
utterly unworthy.
Some people who are not shining
examples Of virtue and graciousness
and goodness find much Joy in flow
ers, of course. Indeed, that monstrous
person, Henry VIII OF England, is his
torically credited with having been
passionately fond OF roses, causing
them to be cultivated around him in
INFINITE variety and loneliness; but
Henry. otherwise, seems to have been
an entirely bad lot Perhaps. how
ever, we should write Henry down as
the exception necessarily invoked to
prove the rule. Anyway, having dis
posed of him as a horrible example.
traVersing the initial statement, we
may with clear conScienceS proceed to
the brighter and happier aspect Of the
problem.
A nationally developed and eoui-
tably evidenced love Of flowers usually
is marked characteristic of gentler
natures. No harm to any person can
come Of loving flowers One some
times may fight and kill a fellow
creature, to the ultimate good of So
clety; one may trample ones way to
something of fame and earthly glory
oVe-zEthe broken and bleeding bodies
of slain and mangled foes-and this
for the love of flag, a home, and a
native landi But the love of flowers
engenders no such emotions within the
human breast. Flowers have to do
with restful sunsets and calm and be-
nign content. They herald the birth
OF spring; they ornament the droning
peace of summer days, and they mark
the final passing of the year to sweet
repose. Hate and the love of flowers
rarely have dwelled in the same heart
they are approximate incompat-
ibleS!
Blessed be the man who loves flow
efsi He is sheet-anchored to good
ness and the nobler things of life
Sordid, in truth, must be his nature
If he breaks away.-Charlotte Even
ing Chronicle.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-02
ROgues' Gallery Photos.

Boston joins New York in prohibit.
ing the police habit of putting the pic
lures of unconVicted men and women
in the "Rogues' Gallery" 1t is a real
reform. The assumption that anyone
is guilty, even before a grand Jury
much less trial jury, has so declared
him, is an outrage, and is or NAV be
at any time the means of severely pun
ishing the innocent.
1t is pleasant to note. once in a
while the adoption of a reform that
carries with II a loss instead of an in
crease OF authority reform that is
actually made for the protection of
the individual citizen and not in the
interest of arbitrary government
Petersburg IndeN-Appeal.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-02
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
ELECTS OFFICERS

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.-SpeciaI
The annual election of officers of the
college department. of the University
OF Virginia resulted as follows: Iau-
renee J,~rMartin, of Charlottesville.
president; +. +. Beirne. of Ricbn,ond
Va, vice president; Andrew II. Chris
tan, OF Richmond. Va. secretary and
treasurer; Samuel o. McCue, of Char
iotteSville, historian.
Martin is captain of the track team
ana Beirne member OF the track
squau. CHRISTIAN is a brother of Ar
cher Christian, who died from iniuries
received in the Georgetown Virginia
footoall game last November.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-02
GIRL GIVES 100000 TO
PROVE FTANCE'S LOVE

LOS S-Special-To nrove
that her cousin, Edward Svort6r-nar
was marrying her for love and not for
money, Miss Marietta Swortfiguer
decided TO her brother, Thomas Swort-
nguer, her entire property, valued at
SIOO,OOO, and married Edward. This
was the share she received from tba
estate OF her mother. who died re-
Gently. One of the considerations OF
the transfer is that the brother with
draws all opposition to the marriage.
MISS SWortfguer's brother and ia
Their held her under habeas cornus
proceedings until her fiance rescued
her. She left Los Angeles on her
honeymoon with no other belongings
than the clothes she carried with her
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-02
JIM JEFFRIES WILL
TAKE THINGS EASY

JEFFRIES TRAINING CAMP.
ROWARDENNAN, CAL Special
This week is to be the lightest seven
days of work Jim Jeffries has expe-
rienced in his training season up tin
now. 1t is likely, according to the
plans Jeffries announced, to be the
highest of all OF his training season.
Tor by next week Jim Corbett will be
here. and a lot of boxing will be on
the card of daily exercise.
Jehries, accompanied by Farmer
Burns and Roger Cornell, contented
himself yesterday. so far as regular
framing was concerned, with a road
run to Boulder Creek and back. n
distance of about ten miles
No other work was done in the
forenoon, and in the middle of the
afternoon Jeffries, instead of the Gus
tomary visit to his gymnasium, de-
parted from camp with his brother.
JACK, and Roger Cornell TO whip the
trout streams. Jeffries returned at
dinner time with the usual big mess.
Tor he has skilled himself in the Vag-
aries OF the mountain trout. and rare
~ comes home until his basket holds
the limit.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-02

The great baritone. Stgnor Foil when
singing in grand opera in his native
CITY, Cork, had to sing one OF his songs
from stage balcony. Tho arrange
menus were not very perfect and the
manager. fearing the carpenter had not
made the balcony strong enough 20
sustain the weight OF the big man, told
on two assistants to hold II up from
Deneath. The lengthy Signor was onlv
nan through his song when one man
said to the other:
BE jabers, Moike. this Oitalian is
Let's dhrop him: Pat; hos only an
Voice from the Signor above: VIII
Tare-an- Gums! Pat, but he's an
Oirishman; hould him up for the loife
or yez!-From Some Unrehearsed
Stage Efects" in the May Strand.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-02
consequences.

There is a joy in doing the right
thing always. There is sorrow always
in doing the wrong thing. The joy or
the sorrow may not follow Immediate
ly, but they follow surely. There is
not a thing that brings affliction TO
ones mind or body but can be found
If we go far enough back. All conse-
quences have causes that partake of
their nature.
All this may be short of Emersonian.
SO much the better. 1t is as close to
life as the kernel is to the shell. II
goes with US whenever we talk, trade,
visit. work. when we write. ride. see
shows or run politics. There is not a
thing done but that is ticketed with
the appropriate consequence The tic
ket is never lost. 1t may seem some
time to be blurred or hidden. but at last
II appears. Since the world was start
ed ii never failed To.
The man who lies. cheats. steals. will
sometimes find the consequences APP
pear in form that seems unrelated to
the otfenSe. 1t mi ght not appear in the
loss OF money or his house burning
down, but II may be steel thrust into
the heart of his dearest hope No for
tune. no friendship Will stand in The
way. We get back our mete as we
measure, sang Richard Realf, and ii
Is as true as twelve inches make a foot
Ohio State Journal
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-02
40 PEOPLE LEAPS
INTO LIFE NETS
One New York Woman Died In Arms
OF Fireman-FrOm Third
Story Window.

NEW YORK--SpeciaI.- forty
persons escaped death by leaping from
the second and third-story windous
into hfe-nets, Mrs Mary Miller, her
clothes ablaze, died in the arms of a
hre captain on the roof Of 333 East
SEVENTEEN Street early Monday. Her
husband, William, unconscious. was
saVeu by hremen, who also rescued
Max.
sixteen families were trapped when
the nre, starting in a hall Of the third
noor' spread with remarkable rapid
ity. When the first truck arrived the
house was a furnace.
Mary BecVar, aged seven, and Ed
ward Becvar, aged three. were fonnd
unconscious under a bed. They were
rushed TO the Presbyterian Hospital
bakery wagon being improvised as
an ambulance
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-02
NC DONALD NOW
OUT OF A PLACE
BIG CN. LET GO BY TRENTON.
SAYS RICHMOND WANTS HIM.
MUST BE DREAMING.

WASHINGTON, d. C.-SpeciaI.-
Big Cy Macdonald is still in Wash
ington, and will stick around home
uhui ne can see enough money to
tempt him to play professional baIl
The former Georgetown slugger Quit
the Trenton Club recently because
the salary was not satisfactory. II is
understood that Richmond, of the
Virginia League, would like to get
Macdonald, but If they do they will
nave to offer little bit better than
State league salaries.
When the writer talked with Cy last
week the big fellow said:
m going to play where I can get