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The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-02
Child Rebuked Famous Mar,

one of the best musical instruments of the sort to be found anywhere in America. Ill the early evening, the final meal of the day over, Aaron Burr sat down at the spinnet and be- gan to play upon it, and as he fingered the instrument with the deftness of an expert, filling the room with a popular melody of the day, little Mary Van Buskirk stood beside her idol, listening intently and watching him admiringly.
 There had been hung upon the wall right over the spinnet, since Aaron Burr's previous visit, picture of George Washington. At first, so in tent was Burr upon his music, that he did not notice the likeness of Wash ington above him, but at last he glanced up and saw the engraving Instantly the music ceased, a scowl flashed over Burr's features, and in an angry tone of voice he eXclaimed: That is the picture of a damned scoundrel!"
 He turned to the spinnet to resume his playing, but in that instant little Mary Van Buskirk, her face livid with childish passion, stood upon tiptoes, and drawing her little right arm and hand, slapped Aaron Burr as violently as she could in the face; and as she did so she cried: You shan't talk that way about General Washington. We all love him here, and he is good man, and you are a bad man to call him names"
 Aaron Burr wheeled angrily upon the child for an instant he held her in his gaze. Then he arose and went out of the house, and that house knew him no more.
 My authority for this hitherto un- published story? MT. George J. Thomp- son. a grandson of the little girl who dared to defend the good name of the father of her country against the slurs of Aaron Burr.
 (Copyright. 1910, by E. j. Edwards. All
 Rights Reserved.)
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-02
Take of TlUo Commanders

| seventy-two years. He had been a delegate from New York to the first l national convention of the Republican party. He had been the chairman of the Republican national committee in the first three national campaigns participated in by that party, and again, in 1872, he was made chairman of it's national committee. He it was who, following his reelection as gov ernor of New York in 1S60 sent more than 223, 900 volunteers from New York to the front before he left office in 1863, and for six years after va | eating the governors chair he prep- resented his state in the United States ! senate. So, when his funeral was held in the old brick Presbyterian church on Fifth avenue, in New York, many distinguished men, both in pub lie and business life, were present, though the day was one of the worst of the winter, with the rain falling fur1ously and the wind blowing vio- lently. President Arthur who in the early part of the Civil war had served on Governor Morgan's staff, was one of his pallbearers, and Capt Frederick c. Wagner, who, as provost marshal of New York, helped greatly to quell the draft riots in 1863, was one of the ushers.
 Along the aisle in which I served" | said Captain Wagner, there came a period when every pew was filled ex- cept one Into it l showed two late arrivals, and as it was the pew 1 in- tended to sit in myself 1 asked them if they would be kind enough to look after my overcoat and umbrella until my official duties were over. As the larger of the two politely responded that they would be pleased to do so, it flashed across my mind that I had seen him somewhere before, and next there came faint recollection of hay ing met the smaller men, also, on some previous occasion. But not un- til it was almost time for me to take my seat did it occur to me who they were. The larger one was Gen. Win field Scott Hancock, whom 1 had really never seen before, but with whose much-published likeness I had become thoroughly familiar when Hancock had run for president; and his companion was none other than Gen. Phil Sheridan. Neither was in uniform.
 ITO say that I was humiliated at the thought that 1 had asked those two distinguished generals to keep watch over my overcoat and umbrella is putting 1t lightly I determined to apoligize at the first opportunity, and after the funeral services were over I turned to them and said: Gentlemen, you must excuse me for having asked you to perform this service for me. I did not at first recognize you
 Instantly there sprang into Gen. eral Sheridans eye his characteristic twinkle, and little smile played about his mouth. We'll he said hearth ly, if the president of the United States can serve as night watchman in the treasury department building, it cant be beneath our dignity to serve as watchmen over the overeoat and umbrella of any one who has any part in this funeral.
 And the man who was destined soon to become the head of our army thus set me at ease, General Hancock smiled in cordial approval"
 Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved)
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-02
invention That Edison Was Paid
 For in Experience.
He Sold His Mcrophone Carbon Transmitter to Big Corporation at Its Own Price and Concern
 Made 800 Per Cent Profit.

While chatting one evening in the winter of 1892 with Thomas A. Edison in the library of his beautiful home at Llewellyn Park, New Jersey, I asked him what, in the way of money returns his invention of the incan- descent lamp and his apparatus for so dividing the electric current that it would be available for lighting had meant for him. He looked up at the light, which was glowing over his If- brary table, and for a few moments appeared to be making a mental cal culation, and then he said: "Tbat in vention brought me my first real cap- ital. l should say, at rough calcula- tion, that 1t has brought me about three million dollars already"
 After pause MT. Edison went on. with his characteristic smile: That is, after all, a very small part of the real capital this thing has created l should say that the electric light has created about three hundred mil lions of new capital, and don't think l am far out of the way in saving Indt It lufHlSneS support to a million persons, estimating the average family of an artisan at five persons"
 But didn't you get large capital out of your microphone carbon trans. mitter?" I asked. That was the in vention which made the modern per fected telephone possible"
 MT. Edison smiled broadly.
 T suppose I got paid in large part for that in experience" he said. q had a good many things to learn about business in those days"
 You may remember that the Vest ern Union Telegraph company, after the telephone was demonstrated to he practical invention-that was abont 1S76-planned adding a telephone sys- tenn to its telegraph lines. To every one it seemed certain that there was to be severe competition between the Western Union and the original tele- phone company for the telephonic busi-
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-02
GA TIES FOR PANAMA

scraper The series of girders above them will range from 3.8 feet apart near the bottom to feet apart at the top, and over the skeleton structure thus formed sheathing of water tight armor plate will be bolted much after the fashion of clapboards on house.
 The thickness of the plates will range from an inch at the base to seven-sixteenths of an inch at the top. The weight of a single gate will be about 600 tons and the dimensions are IT to S2 feet high, 60 to 66 feet wide and feet thick
 The thousands of individual pieces. numbered and fitted to go together as easily as children's blocks, will be shipped by steamer via Baltimore and with them will go over 400 skilled structural steel builders to set them up, The advance guard of experts leaves here in December and the first work will probably begin early in 1911. It will take three years to com plete the job.
 The location of the 46 pairs of gates will be: Twenty at the Gatun dam on the Pacific side, 12 at Pedro Miguel and II at Miraflores, near the Atlantic entrance. The gates are designed to hold back water 47.4 feet deep in a channel 110 feet wide, which means a pressure of million pounds.
 Engineers assert that even if tre- mendous explosion or earthquake should damage or destroy one or more sets of gates, no great disaster would ensue, for all locks are to be made in duplicate to accommodate traffic in both directions at once, and the wreckage of one set of locks would only necessitate the diversion of com merce into another set. But really violent earthquakes have not occurred in the Panama region for more than two centuries.
 Each lock will be ample for a ship 50 per cent. larger than any vessel now afloat, and it has been estimated that as many as 100 ocean ships may be handled in single day.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-02
DUR MIGRANT BIRDS
EmigrantS of the Air That Go on
 Annual Itineraries.
Alaskan Hawk, Which Makes Prodl. eious Journeys from Top to Bot tom of the Hemisphere-Th
 Mysterious Chimney Swift.

Chicago-No theory yet advanced by ornithOlogists accounts for the mi grafton of birds. Why does the Alas kan hawk quit his home in the Arctic regions and journey with such mighty toll through the torrid zone to reach the Antarctic ice fields, only to re- turn in a little while over the same route to the starting point, spending his whole life in the repetition of these prodigious but apparently use less journeys back and forth from one end of the earth to the other. We know more about the forces at play in the solar system than we know about the impulses of the migrant bird; we know more Halley's comet than we know of the forces that i'm pei the flight of the Alaskan hawk or the golden blower.
 The golden plover is one of the most remarkable travellers in the bird kingdom. The blower passes north ward in May to it's breeding site around the north pole. The eggs are laid on a cake of ice in June and six weeks later the old bird and the chicks start south. They loiter along slowly until they reach Labrador, where they make a stand for some weeks feasting on crow berries and becoming very fat. Suddenly all the plovers in Labrador rise as by signal and make for the sea The route is now over the broad Atlantic 400 miles from land, southward to the Bermu- das, over the Gulf, through Vene- zuela and Brazil, across the entire
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-02
Little Child Who Administered
 Rebuke to Famous Man.
How Young Mary Van Buskirk Scold- ed Aaron Burr When He Dared to Revile George Washing
 ton in Her Presence.

In 1797, after having served six years in the United States senate, Aaron Burr again became a member of the New York legislature, and thereafter for two years he made ire Quent trips between Albany, the state capital, and his home in New York city. These journeys, for the most part, he made on horseback, and for months whenever he arrived in the town of Athens, situated on the west bank of the Hudson some twenty eight or thirty miles below the capital he made it an almost invariable rule to visit at the house of the Van Buskirks. which is still standing This private house was famous gathering place for prominent men who were on their way to and from Albany and New York, and the entertainment that the owner of the house afforded his dis tinguished friends and acquaintances or the latter days of the eighteenth century and the first years of the nine teenth century is still traditional in Athens, some of whose early citizens became of great influence in the pub lie life of their times.
 Of the greater politicians who were guests of the Van Buskirks from time to time none received more cordiality than Aaron Burr, and none seemed to be more delighted with the hospitality shown him. In fact, he was a guest so welcome at all times that he need not herald his coming; there were al ways room and good cheer waiting for him, and Mary, the little daughter or the house, eagerly looked forward to his visits. Aaron Burr being favor lte of hers and she of his.
 One afternoon in 179S, when Mary was about seven years old, Aaron Burr arrived at the Van Buskirk man sion with the expectation of spending the night there In the parlor of the house stood spinnet, which was spoken of the countryside around as
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-02
How Consumers League Finds
 Numerous Recruits.
Members Go About Calling for Fruit and When Restaurants and Ho- tels Refuse Demands Lives
 Made Miserable.

New York.-A farmer living near Scranton, Pa, disposes of his surplus apples, windfalls, etc, by shipping them to town to be distributed to the children of the factory district.
 This Is good way to dispose of cuil apples. Every one of these chil- dren will become an apple eater and will never get over the habit. We need not fear a surplus of apples in the future while such an army is being trained, says writer in Rural New Yorker. Every year at this time some one comes asking what the Apple Con sumers league is. It happened that about dozen years ago the writer had dinner at a well-known New York restaurant. He became apple hungry, but 1t was impossible to find baked ap- l pies or apple sauce on the bill of fare. He called waiter and put up a hard complaint. In short time a very po- lite man came like one who seeks to side-step trouble and about the follow ing dialogue was spoken:
 q hope there is nothing wrong with the food"
 Why, it isn't all here!"
 What is lacking?"
 Applet Many of us were born In the country and brought up on apples. We like them and want to go where they are served. Why do you not of fer baked apple and apple sauce? This is ffrst-class restaurant-why not make it complete?"
 The manager looked around and saw Q dozen heads nod with That's right!"
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-02
Consists of Transmission of Blood Of Healthy Individuals Into Veins
 of Afflicted.

Chicago.-A cure for pellagra is as- serted to have been discovered as the result of experiments conducted at the Cook County Infirmary at Cunning. It consists of the transfusion of the blood of healthy individuals into the veins of the afflicted. Out of 34 cases so treated Dr. c. O. Wilhite asserted that nearly all have been cured.
 "Pellagra is common in our institu- ion," said Dr. Wilhite. '"The transfu- ion of healthy blood into the veins of he affected persons is about the only method I know of that will cure it, and ertainly we have had great success. on't think the Rockefeller Institute as anything on us in the treatment these cases, and, as a matter of act. l guess We have a little the best them because pellagra is uncom- non on the east and they cant get as
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-02
REVlVING HIS OLD ORCHARD
Wonderful Results of Proper Handling of Aged Apple Trees in Mas
 sachusetts.

Boston,. Stearns Wyman has had an experience in orcharding which will interest growers of fruits MT. Wyman's home is in Winchester, and apple trees, some of them half a hundred years old, have bloomed and fruited on his grounds without atten- ton until last year, when he got busy, with a view in mind of trying to make the old trees grow bigger and better fruit
 Large apples were produced by tree which the owner believed to be the most wretched-looking one in Winchester. It was a down-and-out growth, very old, hopelessly decrepit, and all in as a producer when MT. Wyman began revival work on it. He cleaned out the hollow trunk, filled the void with cement, removed all loose bark on trunk and limbs, cut away dead branches and covered the cut places with a preparation to keep out the weather.
 He did some very close pruning, but that was what the old tree needed, and very early last spring it bloomed in glory of gladness that surprised some of the neighbors who were quite sure that MT Wyman had been too severe in his revival work
 No fertilizers were used As the weeks rolled their courses the old apple tree seemed to get into the gayety of the sunshine and the breezes. Bees and humming birds quested sweetness in the hearts of it's blossoms, robins and inches and bluebirds filtered through it's foliage. and early in the summer first baby apples as big as horse chestnuts fore told to MT Wyman the autumn com ing of hiq fruit
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-02
The Play Censor.

You may not burlesque statesman on the stage. That discovery was made by Sir w. s. Gilbert in 1875
 Sir William had written play en- titled "The Happy Land," in which tbree of the leading politicians Of tho dav-Gladstone, Ayrton and Lowe
 were introduced. The play appeared in due course at the Court theater ana oI1 London flocked to see it, Then tha censor intervened. There were to ho no personalities. But the three no,iticians were easily recognizable aUen in. their disguise. "The whole ioke" writes Miss Edith Browhe' III
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-02
Little Story Told of Two Great
 Commanders.
How Gen. Hancock and Gen. Sheridan Watched Over Usher's Coat and Umbrella at Funeral of Edwin
 Dennison Morgan.

Recently 1 told now Chester A. Arthur, shortly after becoming presi- dent of the United States in 1881, act ed as night watchman in the treasury building for ten minutes. Today's anecdote is supplemental to that, in a measure, in that the former incident has some part in this one.
 In February of 1883 there died Ed win Dennison Morgan, at the age of
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-02
Freedom Of American Girl

vital comparison between English and American girlhood, It is far more significant and carries with it far deeper implications than the narrow ness of the average American girls activities and interests by the side of those that are cultivated by the aver age English girl, narrowness that IS most of all observable in the sphere of nublic life.-Harper's Weekly.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-02
HORNETS CLEAN OUT STUDIO
Artist Hangs Up Nest Over Fireplace and Has Decidedly Interesting
 Time-Got Stunq.

Winsted. Conn.-Robert Hamilton landscape artist of New York, was routed from his studio in the Berk- shire hills near Lee, Mass, the other night by hornets which had been brought to the place in cold storage by two women.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-02
FINDS CURE FOR PELLAGRA

as we have.
 We have been giving this treat ment for about four months and have treated 34 cases. The best blood for transmission comes from persons who have been cured of the disease, and 1t only takes one inoculation. Shortly after the treatment we notice that the skin of the patient clears up and he becomes more active in body and alert in mind"
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-02

her memoir of Sir w. s. Gilbert, was perpetrated in quite good-natured spirit, and Gilbert is happy in the rec ollection of having seen Gladstone himself convulsed with laughter in the stalls as he followed his own ad- ventures in fairyland."
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-02
A Saccharine Edible

What did the poe mean by talk. Ing about creature not too bright and good for human natures daily food?"
 Guess he meant what creature whom less ordinary men said the same thing about in other words that"
 What other words?"
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-02
Vain Regret.

If you had begun to save up when told you you would have nice little home now
 NO, wouldn't"
 Yes, you would, easily"
 NO. I wouldn't; I'd have a nice lit tie auto, darn it!'
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-02
Out of His Field.

A hobo approached man in a small western mining camp and asked for a quarter.
 Haven't you any trade or profes- sion?" asked the man.
 q have" answered the tramp
 Well, practise it, then" suggested the native.
 q can't" said the hobo, sorrowful- ly looking at the low-lying shacks around about. ''Im a second-story man."
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-02
Wife,s nntM

A wife is not doing her duty if she owes her husband more than shs loves Father Lonneny.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-02
REBELLION IN URUGUAY IS SERIOUS

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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-04-12
STANF|ELD IS NOW
INCORPORATED town
NECESSARY ACTION Is
TAKEN BY COUNTY COURT
First City Election VIII be Held Soon
Youngest Town in County Be-
comes unicipality-Umatilla and
Hermiston Bridges Ordered.

Stanfield is now an incorporated
town. The necessary action has been
taken by the couty court and all that
now remains is for the first city cleo
ton to be held. The order for this
viii be made by the court as soon as
desired by the citizens OF the new
municipality.
The town of Stanfield has undoubt-
edly developed the most rapidly of any
ever established in Umatilla county.
Since it was placed on the map a few
months ago it has simply growed by
leaps and bounds.
Other action taken by the court of
interest to the west end section was
the order made calling for bids for
the construction of bridges across the
Umatilla river at Hermiston and at
Umatilla. Both of these have been
needed for some time and the rapidity
with which the country is develop
ing makes their construction imper-
ative.
The April term has now adjourned.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-04-12
BURGLAR DRAWS
SENTENCE TO PEN
FRAK RAYMOND PLEADS
GUILTY; GETS IS MONTHS
Man Who Burglarized Hermiston
Store Must Pay Penalty-Grand
jury Investigating Gambling Joint
Real Estate Men Lose Commits
sion.

Eighteen months in the peniten-
tiary was the sentence drawn this
morning by Frank Raymond. the man
who burglarized the SCARBOROUGH store
at Hermiston several weeks ago. In
company with Frank Esperza. the man
accused of lifting a watch from Paul
Hemmelgarn's pocket, Raymond was
indicted this morning by the grand
jury. Upon being arraigned he en-
tered plea of guilty, waived time and
was sentence.
The Spaniard has not yet entered
his plea.
The grand jury is now supposed to
be engaged in investigating the
gambling joint in the basement of the
Matlock-Brownfield building on Main
street, which was raided on afternoon
last week by Chief of Police Gurdane
and Night Officer Kearney.
Real Estate Men Lose Commission.
The suit for the collection of a s2.-
600 commission for the sale of a farm
which had been filed by Coutts&
Hayes against ]. X. Bolts was decid-
ed last night about ten o'clock in
favor of the farmer. The jury went
out about O'Clock and about s
O'Clock came in for further instruc-
ton. The verdict was agreed upon
about 10 o'clock.
Special Venire.
The six men whose names were
drawn yesterday in the special venire
ordered by the court are George Mel
son, L. l. Mann. John NJ. Winn. Frank
Rogers, f. c. Johnson and Bruno
Weber
The case of Philemon Smith vers-
us Mosgrove and others is now being
tried. This is a case in which Smith
is seeking to collect rent which he
alleges is due for the use of a reser-
walton allotment.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-04-12
PTTTSBURGERS NOW WANT
COMMISSION GOVERNMENT

Pittsburg, April 11.-While the
select and common councils were
meeting and receiving and accepting
without comment the designations Of
several members indicted for alleged
grating, the Pittsburg board of trade
tonight was adopting resolution to
the effect that the councilmanic bod
les be abolished and a government by
commission substituted.
A committee OF the chamber of
commerce recently compiled a report
favoring similar action-a board OF
nine directors OF city affairs at SAL
ary OF $4,000 a year, A resolution
calling for the dismissal OF three of
Mayor william A. Magee's cabinet
members was laid on the table after
a concillatory address by n. M. Bige-
low. former director Of public works.
Mr.. Bigelow argued that action
against no one should be taken until
charges were proven. He told incl
dents Of his official life In Pittsburg.
He said once he was offered $4,000 by
Chicago concern TO accept a certain
article Another time man left a
cigar box on his desk saying Il was
gift smoke. It proved TO be filled
with $40 gold pieces. He hurried II
back to the donor.