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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-22
LOCALS

Pastime pictures please all.
See Lane & Son for signs.
Phone Main for United Orchestra.
Wall paper, paints, etc. Lane & Son.
1. C. Snyder, chimney sweep. r 3s12.
For rent-Seven room house. north
side. enquore 223. Perkins ave.
$4,000 residence can be bought at
bargain. See about 1t today. Lee
Teutsch.
The best moving pictures and
brightest pictures in Pendleton at the
Orpheum.
Lost-Gold watch and fob. Mono
gram S r. T. on back. Finder return
to this office.
Exhibition poultry fed by A. T.
Mathews Co. Fresh car poultry sup
plies just received.
a clean and careful shave always
at Mark Pattons shop. Across from
Alexanders. Phone for patrons.
Mothers, save your boys q sick
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-22
The Cosy,

"a Child of the Wild" A very ex-
citing western drama, picturing the
love of an Indian maiden for a pros
pector. See the exciting race to the
land office to file on a very rich gold
mine. See how the prospector be-
comes the squaw man. a feature film
by the Bison Co. Enough said.
"Vera, the Gypsy Girl" \ very in
teresting story, Gypsy story, showing
gypsy girls strong cove. y feature
American film, Don't miss this.
Fortunes Wheel" An every day
story of riches and poverty. A broth
ers' quarrel and its happy ending. An
imported feature.
Song-When the Meadow Larks
are calling. Annie, Laurie.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-22
PERSONAL
MENTION

j. A. Hubbard of Mckay. is in the
city.
]. o. Kincaid is in from his home
in lone.
T. C. Lord of Portland is registered
at the Pendeton hotel
Dr. w. G. Cole left on No. II this
afternoon for Portland.
! P. C. Hunter came up from his
home in Echo last evening.
M NJ. Melvin of Hermiston, came
up yesterday from his home.
R. C. Dunnington of Helix, is a Pen
dleton business visitor today.
G. H. Clark of La Grande, is bus
mess visitor in the city today.
B. L. Barry Of Dayton, Ore, is
spending the day in Pendleton.
r. A. Rankin of Mckay, is tran
sacting business in Pendleton.
John Hyde of Canyon City. is
spending the day in Pendleton.
Mrs. G. w. Proebstel, jr., is the
guest of Mrs. Kenneth McRae.
Miss Alta Kirk of Ukiah is In the
city on a shopping expedition.
J. w. Kenton is numbered among
the out of town guests in the city.
S. r. Lands of Creston, Iowa, is
registered at the Hotel st. George.
Charles Holman and wife of Her.
miston, are registered at the Hotel
Bowman.
V. H. Wylie of Walla Walla, came
over from his home in the Garden
City yesterday.
G. E. Mcclellan, the we'll known
Juniper resident is transacting busi-
ness in the city.
H. S. Murray of Freewater, was
among the passengers on the Spo-
kane train last evening.
T. w. Cline of Umatilla, came up
from his home in the far west end
of the county last evening.
Mrs. r. NJ. Klein and Dan Klein
came up from their home in STAN
field on the local last evening
Wesley Bowman, the popular trav-
cling man, was a west bound passen-
ger on the local this morning.
w. D. Fletcher returned to Walla
Walla today, after a visit of several
days with his son r. w. Fletcher.
F. B. Van Cleave and wife were
among the Hermiston people who
came up from that town yesterday.
Miss Daphne Leasure left this af-
ternoon for Portland where she Will
spend several months with her moth
er.
]. Herbert Strohm, one of Hermis-
toms city councilmen, came in from
the west end of the county last eve
ming.
Dan G. Mckenzie came down from
his Adams ranch last evening and at
tended the giee club concert in the
theater last evening.
Detective E. B. Woods of the o. R.
, & N. company, will arrive in Pendle-
ton this evening on business in con-
nection with his office.
Attorney j. p. Neal of Freewater,
left on the early morning train for
his home after attending the Oregon
Glee club concert last evening.
Mrs. Ernest Tatom, formerly of this
city, but now resident of Portland,
is up from her home to spend the hol-
idays with her mother, Mrs. Frank
Downey.
DR.. w. T. Williamson, head of the
private sanitarium at Mt. Tabor, was
here this forenoon as the guest of r.
Alexander. He left on train No. IT
for Portland.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-22

Music in the works of it's greatest
masters is more marvellous. more
mysterious, than poetry.-H. Giles.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-22

Dressed poultry next Saturday at
the cash meat market. Phone your
order now. Main 101.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-22

The way some New York women
are having their bust pictures taken,
they certainly look as if they were in
the social swim.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-22

Wanted-Day work by japanese
boy, cooking preferred. Enquire co.
this office.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-22

Be a man today, and a good fell
low tomorrow.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-22

Hot tamales at Hohbachs.
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-24

cooyrsb 1911 10y Tue New York Hcnd Co All
>>H | were getting ready for my work again.
w said the Rev Francis Il. Higgins, II would take
lessons In boxing" He smiled good bumorcd
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-24

Il round him In the hospital almost gone" he SAYS
1ou wanted me- PeteT j asked bim.
I'm going, Pilot. | want you 10 Ok IL for me-
But can't fix It for you Pete
hen why the hell did you Gomez
10 show You how You AK it.
And then, Just before the end, there ca me n faint
whisper ''
Pilot
Yes Pete
: Tell the boys made the gradev
Does 1t payf or course 1t pays. The worst ~ tba
saloons and places are out of the numbering towns
now The camps lighted Mt night and last veoT
we distributed FIVE tons of second hand reading mat
Ter among the boys and the homesteaders we donv
forget the little cabins. W
"A good many Of the boys give me their money IN
the spring and see that 1t gets to their families
where 1t Is needed. Some day perhaps I'll he sho %
iooN out for the boys the and I'm the Sonth
would rather have city church, wou I,
thke much of my preaching to close nm n1ost
OF then guess. I'd Ike to see more of nv uIfo and
my niue girl than do, but my place Is with the boys
tl = 4 sLanu thein and they understand me I'm
gong back to the real thing.
in the city you think nothing of sn.n1,, . in
loI meal Why, when have to paw Gftv cont fo-
a ho'ei ped have the nightmare and If pav Inore
lLlD quarter Tor IA meal / have lndiccstion IA
eTGr eaVe the woods or the work n cond holm II
iui' IL Whht higgins gets out of it-thnt and rho
PrecGion the PicturcsquencsS of his personoIit di
ne sincerity OF his work have brought him H. 6,
''S' HIGGINS. square
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-24

Pats buck was turned the whole pile would
go into the till
MY turn, Pat l said, putting my hand IT..
III take this
Look here, Higgins said the barkecper. what
do YOU mean by butting In this way
This Is my job and IN going II through !:
said He struck at me. but couldn't reach me; so he
came the bar with spring But before he landed
caught him on the point Of the jaw and while lie
was still stretched out the floor | got Pat out of
the place, When be the train for Wisconsin
sent a draft for his money To his old mother
1T used to be easier. When they logged by water
the camps were far away from the towns, and the
boys were safe for the winter. They could only have
log fall on them, or get cut In two by saw, some
thing Ike that, oil in the days work But they
log by rail-, and the towns spring up about the camps
Ike lceches. That's what they nre leeches made up
OF saloons and gambling hells and What do
they give boy who's worked from dark to dark six
days weck2 Nothing but what his money Will buy
bad liquor. Il crooked game and women that cities
nave tired Of 1t isn't only big spree In the spring
now It's little one every Sunday. The boss has to
send wagon ON Monday to gather his men out the
snake rooms
Not that all woodSmen drink Some Of the older
ones are sober, steady men with families But the
young fellows don't know anything else though they
arc quick enough to take 1t when II comes their way
They don't get a show,
Il know because have worked in the woods my
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-24

to camp staying few days and then getting thrown
ont for drinking or stealing
We'll John said. the first thing Is 10 get Won
straight With the authorities He was willing 10 GO
to jail but the Sheriff didn't send him there when
promised 10 keep my eye him
! got him job In another camp. and he stuck TO #
and paid up all that be could Of his back debts
Two years later he got n job In the summer cook
ing Tor a railroad construction crew. 4 former's
daughter brought them milk every morning and
pretty soon John came to to know il tbonobt bo
might marry her. found she knew the story of bis
IRE and had forgiven It, and after n time married
them Three years later be became my first mis-
sionary ~
The sum OF 5000 means missionary to Ms in tbo
woods for the boys furnish the rest of the money
themselves. That's why | have left my work ana
come out 10 tell about their needs No one man can
reach them all This year / am going 10 send man
INTO Northern Michigan, where the conservation nnonle
would tell you that the timber Il all cut but ,herc9
tnere are ten thousand still at work
i didn't ask the boys for any money because T
knew that everybody who went near the conns
ulu that At first they kept their hats and snolleJ
whie was talking. and finally night | wore nv
naI myself When got up 1 said BOYS This is the
ohy church we've got. Let's make it as good - ono
OF, '''i3 nat came
Another time big Frenchman was grinding HE
axe While | was talking The boys have asked mo
come out here and Talk to them said to him .ond
axe ~ - 'uu 'nat
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-24

tartar biscuit, dough bread boiled beef OF
sort of game and tea After supper the men amusc
themselves best they can; fall asleep others
play cards OF tell stories. Since the missionary has
entered the Ged the men also have books TO read
When the camp breaks In the spring and the boys"
90 to town in search of their ruin in the guise OF
the only pleasures they know they find him waiting
for them, watching over them stil.
Who's that asked 4 stranger i'm one OF the old
time saloons. seeing him take a drunken boy by the
throat and carry him out bodily
That's Higgins" replied in spiked boots and
mackinaw. His jobs keeping us boys out OF he'll,
and he's the only the job
There Is grand standing" about his
work Following his congregation into the haunts OF
their temptations is simply part of his duty IA he
sees IT. And the men recognize 1t as such 1t does
not occur to them that they witnessing an applica
on of practical Christianity such the modern world
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-24
Out of the Snake Rooms.

1t Is easy to listen to the tale OF the good Samaritan
you see him eSempli6ed before YOU In person
the man who Is telling the story. And many member
of his congregations The Pilot has with his own hands
taken out OF the snake room, the filthy denS where
they are thrown To and groan and shrek them
selves back to consciousness after the adulterated
whiskey of The Lumberman's Home" or "Jake's
Place"
And II during the process OF washing chem up or
nursing them through pneumonia the Pilot has rubbed
II into them" Ii is his recognized right so TO do He
has proved that he means what be says
The friend who would man In places where
they give him doped" wbskey, take his winter wages
of S4Oo in a night and cast him out in the morning
without cent has need of strong right arm. And
the Pilot does not hesitate 90 use his
"A young fellow. named Pat Murray n likely lad
asked me TO look our for him one spring" he said
but he'd been In town whole day before heard of
It Then found him In Jake Harts place one OF the
worst Just as l came in the door he put double
handful of bills down the bar Here buneswat-
ter he said. set UP the house
The men crowded up for their drinks and the bar
Keeper took few bills on the pile BUT I knew az
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-24

self grew I'D on frontier farm In Canada. hunting
with bow and arrow with the Indian boys and work
ing In the woods with my father l saved what little
money earned and when 1 twenty went to To
ronto for my first schooling. Five years later l was
through the High School and in my first little church
ont In Barnum. Mnn.
"ouc day was standing n log In the river
watching the men breaking the log jam. The logs
we're piled up twenty feet high. and the men were
working right in the face OF the Jam. when suddenly
they got the key log and the Jam gave way. We all
had TO jump Tor lives. and the men found out
who While we sitting on the bank, watch
Ing the logs go down all smooth and quiet the men
asked me to preach TO them. and did
Boys | said you're on the merry -go-round. You
work all winter IN the woods. and come down iu the
spring and blow your money. You 20 back on the
drive and blow your money. You go into the mills
aud blow your money. Then you 60 back TO the
woods and blow your money What does 1t get you? {?
Nothing bur the snake room 1t goes 10 buy diamonds
for other mems wives. Jnkc Sharkey's wife says she
can have ali she wants Her husbands got thou
sand men working for him In the woods She meant
you boys Are you going to do IL again after this
drve2
You can't stop? know you can't But the grace
OF God In hearts help you TO STOP and It's the
only thing that can And then prayed and sang
''Comc TO the camp and talk 10 us, Parson, one
OF them said when shaking hands. Nobody
wastes much time talking TO us
And 50 | wcnt. And ! told them the truth
all knew IT, / didn't have to preach hell 10 them
They knew that They'd seen Il In the snake rooms
The love OF God was harder for who'd always had
to pay FOR what they got TO understand But at last
OF them began TO what meant
cone night. Just l starting home.
named John Sornberger came to me with tears run
ming down his face.
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-24
Willing to Go to Jail.

MY Godr he says. If YOU know anything TO help
me tell me about IT. We went to an empty shack and
talked to him and prayed with him all night. He
told awful story of n life of theyery and crime
once he had hit man with jug and left him for
dead, and spent year I'm hiding. At the end of that
time he found that the man had got well, so he went
back He a dough puncher' a cook, and n good
one, but such drunkard and thief that he couldn't
keep n Job. lie a kind OF tramp going from camp
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-24

FN9 ASToR of the Parish of the Pines" is the
nG Rev. Francis E. Higgins evangel, who
AS1 minister's to the spiritual and often the
temporal wants of congregation of 10000,
and yet has church. He is the original of
Norman Duncan's stories of the Northwest.
His followers lumberjacks and his parish
comprises the vast timber lands OF the North
west, which he transverses with dog drawn
sledge, How he breaches in the language of
the woods and how he Practises muscular
Christianity arc told here.
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-24
LUMBERJACKS

"He went right on and began 10 whistle. Finnll{
Mike O'Leary the blacksmith, stepped MP 10 him TOOL
him bv the shoulder and threw him ont OF the door
I'm acknowledging for thePilot III hnve ye 10 Know,
he said. and any damned pea-soup that VhlnEs cam
do It step up right now. So after that 1t wai
good Shedding for
The camp always swept before got there
and the boys knew what hymns they wanted to sing
Jesus Lover Of My Soul is one that they liked
That's a damned fine tune. Pilot. said one OF them
night. Why don't they have tunes Ike that In the
showsl Let's sing her again! So we sang again, ano
next morning they started out In the dark for the
work they sang again
"othcr refuge have none
Hangs my helpless soul Thee.
Leave, oh ieave me not alone.
Sn preserve and comfort me"
''And when heard that song coming back through
all the solemn whlteness Of the woods knew where
my work was. and made up my mind that some day
would give all my time 10 It,
~ urged the boys to church when they were
in town. and day three of them dd-spked boots,
macknaw coats and all. The town was used enough
TO lumber jncks and river pigs but only on the streets
and In the saloons,
Pilot they said. while shaking hands With
them. we Just wanted to see whether you would give
good welcome here give you In cnmp,
but | guess you have
They would never come to my house until one day
after the drive thirty OF them showed up all at
II was hard squeeze getting them In, but my wife
and made them welcome, and they stood mp 10 sc
one OF them handed me slip of paper IL was
draft for So.
"You didn't ask us FOR money Pilot he said but
wanted you 10 we liked the way you have been
standing by us And before could thank them they
had out Of the house whooping and yelling like
lot OF boys.
After moved TO BemldJ | found I'd have to get
after the saloons before could do much more for tho
boys. ] believe II the worst town the ulap
There thrty-slX saloons, gambling hells snd
doing business in town OF fifteen hundred Ter
sons. Finally went round to the keepers OF the
places.
Boys l said. I'm going 10 close you mp. Youl
business Is bad and you know It, but III have you
know I'm fighting your business and not YOU.
IAN right Higgins they sad close away
81 spoke In my own church in meetings OF all the
churches, in town meetings and finally in the very
streets themselves. At last the citizens got reused
and they forced the Council to close up the places
After 1t all / met Johnny Strong the
street
''Tm going away Higgins, he said.
" i warned you. Johnny said.
"You did. Higgins he said I'm going East to
run hotei and I'm going to take Mamie Blake from
Breen'S place with me-
" You'll let me marry YOU, Johnny
Not now. Higgins Some day. maybe II sho
stands by I'm going To give her square deal
She's too good for this.
"Strongs got big hotel now and Mamies standing
by him the way that kind Of a woman viii II tb
second man she loves has spark of manhood In him
He can near make up to her for what the first
did"
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-24
The Tragedy of Dead Molly.

They are all his pnrshioners, apparently, the salooI
keepers, the gamblers. the women OF the Gown, a,
surely rs the lumbcrjacks and the river pigs. Very
simply he tells of going 10 the Of dead Molly,
she had asked him TO do. getting out the Bible which
had her right name written the fly leaf and
sending Il buck 10 the mother with letter that told
nothing of Moy's life OF the dose of blue vltrlo
that bad ended it.
Also In the line of his duty as he sees It was III,
long Journey he made to take Pete crushed in the fall
of mighty pine, TO hospital In st, Paul the sec
ond journey to help Pete when the doctors could d,
nothing more ,.. - .,s..7a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-02-14
HARVARD OARSHEN
WORKING IN GYM
Four Crews Begin Long
Grind Today-Many
Tentative Changes.

BOSTON. Feb. 14.-with enough men
on the varsity squad to make UP four
crews, Harvard ~.rsmen today began
practice for the long season Coach
Wray. who has been Ill for some time.
is now recovered and VIII superintend
work on the machines The crews viii
not be able 10 take to the river before
March J.
Newton viii start as stroke Last fall
he was at No. in the varsity. Roger
Cutler, who strOked the eight last year
after the change at New LOndcn. viii be
moved back to No. 8. where he rowed
most Of last season Captain INaid Will
be at No. :. Baden has moved from
No Z 10 No. ; being one O. the several
adaptable men of the squad who can
row equally well or port or starboard
side LOthrOp Wilmington viii change
seats with Bacon and viii be at No L
Roger Hooper, who rowed last year in
the second boat. viii start the season at
No ,. Sargent viii go from bow to No.
2, as be has proved too unsteady for
the ticklish work IN the narrow seat
Balch, OF the 1872 crew. viii be put in
for a tryOut at bow King, Of last
years four, VIII steer the varsity boat
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-02-14
CHAMPION CHECKER
PLAYERS MATCHED
Banks and Henderson Will Battle
In TOledo-Interesting
Careers.

New Banks, Of Detroit, one Of the
best checker players OF the country, Is
matched to play against Hugh Hender-
son, OF Pi.tsburg. for S1,Go0 a side.
Banks IS a young man, who has not
quite attained his majority, but, never
theless, has won for himself a place il
the front ranks of American checker
players His match with Henderson will
begin IN about q fortnight, at the rooms
Of the Toledo Chess and Checker Club
Henderson, his opponent, came here
from Scotland not long ago. over there
he was rated among the best dozen
players in the land OF the Thistle, and
had been seriously considered for q
place in the international match. played
with America IN Boston Instead, his
place. after much discussion, was given
20 SeabriElr. a player with q LONGER
record Henderson coached the late
Charles r. Barker for the match which
the latter won from DrOuillard, Of Kan
sas City. The .--atch between Banks
and Henderson will be one OF fifty
games on the restricted basis.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-02-14
CRIMSON TRYING
AN INNOVATION
Malachi Kittredge, Catcher,
Coaching Battery Candi-
dates in Finer Points.

BOSTON. Mass, Feb 1A-Harvard
candidates for the nine VIII take 10
the cage today beginning the spring
tuning up For two weeks the battery
candidates have been working under
Coach P5eoer-
Today Malachi Kittredge, the old
league catcher. viii start these msl
on the finer points Of that work. II
is an experiment TO have a catcher do
the work. which was done last SprirE
BY Christy MatheessOn, OF the Giants.
New nIen have TO be found for an
the places IN the infield with the eS-
ception Of first and second base, and
there are two vacancies N the Ou--
field A change pitcher mas also 20 De
developed 10 relieve Hicks who is the
rrainstay Of the battery department
The team viii so South on March J.,
snG spend a week at Charlottesville,
va. as the guests of the University Of
virginia Two games viii be played
there. and on the way home the an
r.uaI zane with GeOrgtOwn viii be
played in Washington
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-02-14
.FORDHAR FOOTBALL
FUTURE IN DOUBT
Faculty Will Substitute Pa
cifc Coast Rugby If Rules
Are Not Changed.

NEW YORK Feb 1L-AIanageT
Michael AIoriarity has arranged a tenta-
tive football schedule for the Fordham
team pending the work Of the intercol-
legiaJe rules committees session in
March.
The faculty has sanctioned il, and IL
IT can be proved 70 their satisfaction
that a safer and saner game viii be
the outcome Of the committees work
they VIII not hesitate to staEIS their ap-
prOvai on the list Of dates. II. how
ever. the dangerous features are not
eliminated, II Is quite probable that the
game of rugby as played Dy Leland
Stanford and other Pacific coast colleges
viii be introduced at Fordham.
The schedule as compiled BY MANAGE
MoTiaTity VIII be = hard one Games are
arranged with Cornell, Holy Cross.
Princeton, Georgetown, Svvarthmore,
and probably lafayette The manage
menU hopes to substitute Lafayette for
Syracuse on Thanksgiving Day at New
York
1t Is out Of the question that a cor
test with Yale viii be played this year
Tie schedule As Il stands is a gTueling
one, and the addition Of Yale would be
a hardship on the players
L was announced at FOrdham yeSteT-
day that John Coffey would be the
coach Of the baseball team for the com
ing season Edward McIane, an out
fielder with the BrOcktou New England
League team, was also candidate for
the position