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OUR GREAT WATERWAY

Our great Mississippi rises In Lake
ltasca and flows southwark, making
inc largest river in DIR country It Is
Travelled by large steamers loaded
Win coal and cotton and numerous
other things. 1t has many tributaries.
st. Louis. one of our largest cities, is
situated on this river. At its mouth
Is situated our great cotton port. New
orleans. Between our country ana
canada are the Great Lakes. They
are the prettiest lakes in our country.
and are fresh water. There arc many
large cities on their banks. Around
these lakes we find copper and other
minerals. also lumber. On these lakes
ono can see great barges loaded with
lrcn, Vessels go from one lake to the
other by way of steppes SuAerlor is
the largest of tho lakes. Between
Lake Eric and Lake Ontario is the
rails OF Niagara, which leap over n
| precipce and fall into the valley he
low ana make Niagara River In or
der Tor vessels to avoid the falls there
have been canals cut around. These
| Tails are famed for their beauty. IN
! der the fails is cave known as the
Cave of the Winds. 1t is visited Dv
travellers from all over the world. The
way travellers go To tho Cave OF tho
Winds Is in a small vessel known as
| the Maid OF the Mist,
MARY A, EARLY.
DaWsnnNiIlc va
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JOHN WILLIS HAYS.
EDGAR TERRY.
Correspondence Column.
Kainy-pax Letter.

Dear Editor,-1t is raining to day and
did not have anything to do. SO thought
l would write YOU letter. think that
Max Glass writes good stories. His auto
biography was fine. / wish TO Join the post
card exchange. Please send me badge.
for | have lost my old one. Wishing tho
club Success, remain your old member.
ELSIE HARDIN.
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EDITORIAL and LITERARY DEPARTMENT

the mountains to gather huckleberries
ana blackbcrrtes and often on picnics.
s. LUCILLE EARLY.
Jacksonville. Va, April 10, 1910.
Age 13 years.
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from here to the North Pole. and
! think he is hollerins; yet.
L. PORTERFIELD ONEAL.

Dear Editor,-Nly teacher read my
story to the children in my room at
school and my cars haven't cooled yet.
I don't think any album VIII ever DC
quite as nice az the ono I have.
Sincerely,
PORTERFIELD O'NEAL.
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would write YOU letter. think that
Max Glass writes good stories. His auto.
biography was fine. wish to Join the post.
card exchange. Please send me badge
for have lost my old one. wishing the
club SUCCESS, remain your old member,
ELSIE HARDIN.
His April Fools Day.
Dear Editor-l received my nice badge
and was very much pleased 10 get II. had
tine April Fools Day. aud hope you also
had pleasant one. was fooled twice.
which made me 20 mad. One girl told mo
! was about TO have I'll when she said
April Fool" You know how | felt then.
That night we came out and played games
under the electric lights and had nice
time. ! think Edgar Terry's drawing last
week was Just Splendid likewise many
others enjoyed the last page very much.
lnclosed l send piece OF poetry, which /
composed on ono OF our baseball players,
and also drawing of him. Again thanking
YOU Tor the badge, ! must close now, as
have 10 study. Your new. member,
WILLIAM MEADE.
SCI Paxton Street, Danville. Va.
Has Received Medal.
Dear Editor,-I haven't written to you
lately, as | have been very sick, but now
| am so happy that I couldn't help writing
II | tried. Can't YOU gucss what tho trouble
is? We'll, ! have just received my beautiful
l
| over again for affordlng one OF your MEM
| beers so much pleasure II everybody knew
| what beautiful medals wore given away
| every month and how nice and proud the
| feeling is when you can say that YOU have
| won medal, why think there would be a
great many more contestants for the two
medals at the end OF tho month than there
are now. ] have always said l WIS going
TO try TO win u medal. and have wSitfd
until now | have one. WELL the old say
Ing is that tho best comes to those who
walt and IL true in my case, for when
l opened my letter and found the media
within, mother said aho thought sho would
have TO giva me something to keep nt
quiet. because ] acted so crazy. jumping
around and dancing. Wasn't that fool!si
way for a great big girl like me to act
| Well, / hope that allowances VIII pc mad
for me- as / not responsible. In sun
| days page ] read both your lotter and Mar
| Fulton Rhudy's. and felt awful sorry 10
| both her and Gordon Knlpplc although
| suppose the person whoever 1t was did IT y
| spirit of fun, although l think Ike IN
| others that a joke may be carried too fal
| Well, as my letter is gettine entirely to
/ long 1 viii close, but first let mos than
| YOU again for my beautiful medal and tel
| YOU that think the club will soon be on
OF the foremost chidrens clubs IN america
and know all tho membsD Tall agree wit
i me- I correspond with o. or two OF tn
members. and viii be glad TO exchang
cards with any of the others, Just so an
not made one OF the victims OF pracucd
Joke. With love, your old member,
KATHERINE NJ BARNEY.
2oI East Franklin street, city.
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THE wEEl1,s coNrnlpurons.

Holman, Mary
Holman, Elizabeth
Ingram, Catharine
Jordan. Elizabeth
Justice, Mabel
Kennedy. Mortimer
ISic. Elizabeth
lSnipple, Gordon
Lewis, Gay Il.
Lumsden, Gladys
Meade, William
Meade, G. IS.
AGcDenrmon, f.
Ma rburs, +. It.
AIarburg. Edgar
Northlngton, II.
O'Neal. Reba l.
O'Neal, L.. p.
Perkins, Alice
peasants, Ann f.
Won Preissig, NJ. j,
Parrish. Carl
RoA, Edith y.
Ransom, Lyra V.
Shepherd, Virginia
Snow, Katherine
Shepherd. Robert
Smell. rutherford
Stauffer, Edison
Siegel. Grace b.
Thompson, T.. l..
Terry, Edgar
Thompson. Phyllis
Vincent. Wade II.
Wren, Ella
Watkins, Rose B.
Walker, Lucille
Whitlock, LOWE
Yancey, Mary r..
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Anthony, Blanche
A,,la.,n. r~.i,I

Anthony, BLANCHE
Anderson. Ethel
Burrows, Dallas
Beal. Sue p. S.
Brown, Cullen
Bane, Edith
Broaddus, l.. e.
Bobbett, w. B.
Beverly. Cedric S
Bondurant, NJ. *.
Beverly, Edgar X,
Barnette, NJ. E.
Beadles, Lucille
Bass, Ruby
Burton, John NJ.
Burks, Aline
4 Brown, Thomas
Coates, Elizabeth
Coleman, Viola
Cobb, e. G.
Cox, Thomas
Dove, Carter
pelbridge, j. r.
Early, Mary
Early, Lucille
Gayle, Bertha
Gebhnrdt, T.. NJ.
Gebhardt, III. NJ.
Ciebhardt. Della
Graves, i. Earle
Gray, Lila Il,
llerndon, Luther
lays. John
Rarris, Lucille
Harvey, *. Nj.
Hardin, Elsie
lite. Martha
Iterndon, Pauline
Hannah, j. Otis
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ALADDIN AND HIS LAMP.

PAULINE HERNDoN.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-10-17
Some day I'll buy each blooming
AUTUMN.

'Tis all myth that autumn grieves,
For watch the rain amid rne leaves;
With silver fingers dimly seen
1t makes each leaf a tambourine.
And swings and leaps with elfin
mirth
To kiss the brow of Mother Earth
Or, laughing mid the trembling grass
1t mods greeting as you pass.
o hear the rain amid the leaves
'Tis all a myth that autumn grieves
'Tis all myth that autumn grieves-
For list the wind among the sheaves;
Far sweeter than the breath of May
Or storied scents of old Cathay,
1t blends the perfumes rare and good
OF spicy pine and hickory wood;
And with voice as CAV as rhyme
IL prates of rifled mint and thyme
o scent the wind among the sheaves-
'Tis all a myth that autumn greves,
'Tis all a myth that autumn grieves,
Behold the wondrous web she weaves!
BY viewless hands her thread is spun
OF evening vapors shyly won
Across the grass from side to side
A myriad unseen shuttles glide
Throughout the night, till on the
hight
Aurora leads the laggard light.
Behold the wondrous web she weaves
'Tfs all myth that autumn grievesl
Samuel Minturn Peck.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-10-17

Santa Fe Trail. 1t is a solid actu-
to completion, with Kansas and Col
.orado well in advance. The where
as" and "be it resolved stage has
long been passed and the oratory has
given way to the crunch of the steam
grader. The New Santa Fe Trail is
practically finished between Hutchin-
son, Kansas. and Canyon City. Colo
rado, at which latter place one branch
ends. 1t is being pushed from La
Junta to Santa Fe and east from
Hutchinson to Kansas City and st,
Louis.
What the preaching Of twenty years
had failed to accomplish, the motor
car accomplished in one-the CONVEX
sion of the Kansas farmer to good
roads. In the western part of the
state ct the last county every third
family owned a motor car. At the
rate they have been buying them since
it is probable that car to every other
family would be nearer the fight fig
ure. Every town has its motor club
and garages have supplanted the liv-
cry stable. The farmers have their
sociability runs with the townspeople
and very frequently the merchants in
the trading towns go out on extensive
business tours, visiting the smaller
places within a radius of fifty miles
or so. With motor cars In such COM
mon use, good roads were not only
desirable but a necessity.-From "a
Fresh Trail to Santa Fe," in Techni-
cal World Magazine for November.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-10-17
A COW WORTH OWNING.

Some cows may give better milk,
but no COW in the world gives so much
of it as Josephine, an eight-year-old
Holstein- Fresian, the queen of the
herd of the Missouri state College of
Agriculture. Just now Josephine is
undergoing a test to determine how
much milk she will give in a year.
Having already broken all the other
lacteal records it is pretty safe bet
that Josephine will establish a clear
title to the heavyweight milk pro-
ducing championship and hold it safe
for some time.
Colanthe 4th Johanna, owned in
Rosendale, Wisconsin. used to be the
prize COW, but Josephine has beaten
every one of her records. In the first
six months of the present test jose
phine produced 16,S34 pounds of milk
against 1854 pounds for Colanthe.
In one day Josephine produced 1902
pounds of milk against Colanthe's
100: in one month Josephine produced
$3.50 pounds against the Wisconsin
cows 2,7S3 and she has beaten the
Wisconsin cows average for two, three
four, five and six months.
The average farmer is satisfied If
his COW gives ten quarts of milk a
day, but Josephine gives enough to
fill fifty-four quart bottles. Giving
the average person two-thirds of a
pint of milk a day she could supply
hotel with 165 boarders. The but
ter from her milk would be enough
to supply forty boarders three times
4. 1T a,
production, the milk given by jose
phine is inferior to that given by the
average dairy COW, although 1t meets
and exceeds the legal requirements of
butter fat. 1t is estimated that her
milk will produce a revenue of $1,000
to $500 a year.-From prize Cow
of the World" in Technical World
Magazine for November.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-10-17
HEROIC SCIENTISTS.

II peace hath her victories no less
renowned than war, then Dr. Mihran
X. Kassabian, who died in Philadel-
phia on July 12, was a hero perhaps
of even greater caliber than the he
roes of many wars. For DR.. Kassa-
bian died of skin cancer brought on
by X-ray burns in his marvellous
work as one of the foremost special
lists in America.
For years, unknown to many thou-
sands of sufferers he was treating,
DR.. Kassabian, slowly dying from the
effects of the very rays that were be-
ing directed by him to the cure Of
others, went about his daily work.
Last year 1t was found that the
skin cancer induced by the rays had
spread up the left arm and had caus-
ed the enlargement of the glands un-
der his arm. These glands were re-
moved by an operation by DR.. Chal-
mers La Costa, professor of Surgery
in the jefferson Medical College In
Philadelphia. The wounds did not
heal and second operation, consist
ing of the removal of the larger mus
cles on the left side of the chest, was
performed four months ago. After
this operation on the pectoral muscles
l. was found that the whole left side
had been affected and his condition
was pronounced critical. About ten
days before his death he went to the
hospital to have his chest dressed and
while there collapsed. He never left
the hospital alive.
The fact of the matter is that the
field of radio-activity has furnished
more than its quota of martyrs to
science. Professor Curie who with his
wife Madame Curie, won a place in
the history of science by the discov-
cry of radium was perhaps saved from
a martyrs lingering death by the
street accident which cut short his life.
His journey to London with the first
tube of radium ever exhibited there
resulted in a wound in the chest
which took months to heal. for the
radium emanation passed through his
waistcoat and underclothes and burn
ed his chest to the bone. His expert
ments with radium scourged his hands
and arms which were almost para
lived to the elbows and rendered un-
presentable to strangers. From
Martyrs of Science in Technical
World Magazine for November.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-10-17
A FUTURE FOOD FAKER.

DR. Harvey w. Wiley the govern
ment's brilliant food expert. was talk
ing about a notorious case of food
adulteration.
"The morals of these people," he
said. 'It Is incredible. But 1 know
little boy who will grow up and join
them some day.
II was walking one morning in a
meadow, when I saw this little boy
gathering mushrooms.
Have you had good luck?" I ask
ed.
Fair he answered, showing me
his basket.
But ] gave a cry of alarm.
Why. my lad / said, "those are
toadstools you've got. They're poison,
deadly poison.
HE tipped me a reassurlng wink.
"'Oh. they amt for eatin' sir he
said; they're for sale.'"
y Study the proposed new laws.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-10-17
DEMOCRACY THE ANTIDOTE.

Frequently since General Grant
was candidate for third term we
have heard of the "man-on-horse-
back" as fear of what will some-
time happen in this republic. That
dread has now seized the minds Of
many people through the evident in
tention of Theodore Roosevelt to
make himself master of the republic
can party. They fear that he is
candidate for a third term, and If
elected-then for a fourth term, and
thus gravitate to the man-on-horse-
back. This dread Of usurpation by
any man should not disturb any sem
sible person. The patriotism of the
great majority of the American peo-
pie would rebel against any such at
tempt, and any coterie or party that
would endorse such movement
would be smothered under an ava
lanche Of opposing votes.
There is but one danger to guard
against, and that could only be i'm
minent in consequence of a long war
with some foreign nation in which a
great and successful general would
be developed, without whose efforts
defeat would be probable; or If de-
feat occurred he would seize the reins
of government in consequence of the
exhaustion Of the civil power follow
ing an overwhelming disaster.
But there are no grounds for fear
ing such a catastrophe. In the near
future it is probable that, as the peo-
pie gain more power. both the army
and the navy will be reduced instead
of being increased as the republican
leaders have long desired.
Those timid souls who dread the
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-10-17
A SIGNAL TRIUMPH.

Science scored a signai triumph
one day last week. A terrific storm
arose off the coast of England and
a dozen ships or more were driven
aground in the gale. They would
have been wrecked by the score had
it not been for the warnings sent
out by the weather service. By
means of the methods used by the
weather observers it was possible to
foretell that within a short time a
terrific hurricane would sweep the
British coast and that it would leave
death and destruction in it's wake
Accordingly ships that were about to
leave port remained safe in harbors.
Other vessels hurried in from the sea
and sought places of safety. Thus
was Neptune cheated of most of his
intended prey.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-10-17
A FAMOUS HIGHWAY.

There still live in the West men
who know the old Santa Fe Trail In
the days of its glory when mile-long
wagon trains dragged slowly over hill
and plain. The prairie schooner OF
that day has given way to the motor
car of this, the bullwhacker has be-
come a chauffeur, and the old trail
has become the new-the New Santa
Fe 'Trail.-a motor speedway from the
bank of the Father of Waters to the
Plaza of Santa Fe. over the old
trail, these pioneers and their sons
are spreading a boulevard one thou
sand five hundred miles long.
It Is not merely a project, this New
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-10-17

well 1T night. I believe there is moth.
ing Ike the Pinkham remedies" -
Mrs. CLARA FRANKS, r. F. D., No. 8,
Knoxville, Iowa.
The success of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, made from roots
and herbs, is unparalleled. 1t may be
used with perfect confidence by women
who suffer from displacements, inflam-
nation, liberation. fibroid tumors, ir-
regularities, periodic pains, backache,
bearing-down feeling, flatulency, indi-
gestion, dizziness, or nervous prostra-
ton.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has been the
STANDARD remedy for female ills, and
suffering women owe 1t to themselves
to at least give this medicine a trial
Proof is abundant that it has cured
thousands Of others, and why should it
not cure you?
fyOu want special advice write
Mrs. .Pinkham, Lynn, Mass, fer it.
1t is free and always helpful.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-10-17
THE BRAIN is VERY ADAPTABLE

Each vocation makes a different
call upon the brain and develops fac
ulties and qualities peculiar to itself,
so that as the various professions,
trades and specialties multiply, the
brain takes on new adaptive qualities,
thus giving greater variety and
strength to civilization as a mass
says Orison SWEET Marden in Success
Magazine.
When the world was young the
brain of man was very primitive, be-
cause the demand upon it was large
ly for self-protection and the acquisi-
ton Of food, which called only for
the development Of its lower, its ami
NAL part. AS civilization advanced,
however. there was a higher call up
on the brain and a more varied devel-
opment until today, in the highest
civilization, it has become exceeding
ly complex.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-10-17
CALIFORNIAN CAUTION.

My Flora is a canny Scot
Too canny, truth to tell
For tho I'd have her share my lot,
She'll not commit herself
1 said: "Will you my sweetheart be-"
She answered: 'Hootsl You men!"
1 pressed her: do you care for me?"
She said: 81 dinna KEN"
What! Don't you know your mind %
I cried.
She said: tits warm the day.
l asked her: will you be my bride %
She said: "I couldna say"
Come lassie, shall it be this spring."
She cried: You're vera free"
Then tell me, may 1 buy the ring?''
Man! Please yourself" says she
Before the chahcel steps we stood,
st. Giles kirk, until
The parson asked me if I would
OF course I said: II will"
But when it came to Flo's reply
The nearest that she'd go
Was just to murmur cautiously;
II wouldna say I'll no.
London Truth
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-10-17
WHY HE'S SAD.

1 am sad just now as can be,
With quite sufficient reason.
Wher'er 1 wend my way 1 see
Sales OF the closing season.
They're most almighty hard to bear.
These slaughter sales of summer
wear.
Small wonder that my thoughts should
run
In such a gloomy channel,
Considering what they have done
To outing suits and flannel.
Just now they charge five plunks for
such
AS l bought for three times as much.
Straw hats they almost give away.
White ducks they're selling cheap
ly
And as for shirting-negligee,
They agitate me deeply.
l hate to see the signs. It hurts
To think what 1 have paid for shirts.
have not Is dibs to spare;
That makes me all the glummer.
That sum would buy in stylish wear
An outfit for next summer,
And. as it is, I'll have to dig
Up 80 for the self;same rig.
Some day I'll buy each blooming
thing
Not as I've always bought EN-
But winter garments in the spring
And summer in the autumn.
But at the present time my walls
Increase at the September sales
Kenneth Harris.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-10-17
PARTY LINES NOT DRAWN.

Appeals to partisanship have but
little force these days and this is as
it should be. That appeal is still
made by some because in times gone
by when party lines meant more
than they do now and people were
not as intelligent as they are now the
worthy plea. A man who makes an
appeal to partisanship Is seldom
prompted by high motives. 1t is
selfish plea and one may count that
nine times out of ten a man who
makes that plea has an axe to grind.
In the present campaign the ap-
peal to party regularity is an appeal
to embecility. The man who makes
that plea casts the insinuation that
the man to whom the appeal is made
is an ignoramus. This because party
lines, as they are generally known
are not drawn. The issues that are
uppermost this year are issues out
side the realm of either the republi
can or democratic parties.
In the state campaign the principal
question involved has to do with the
maintenance of the direct primary
law. There are two general factions
within the state. One is progressive
and upholds the primary law and
kindred measures. The other ele-
ment is reactionary and would do
away with those laws if but allowed
tc do so. The assembly was held in
violation of the direct primary law
for assemblies are absolutely antago-
nistic to the spirit and letter OF the
law. The men who promoted the as
sembly hoped to break down the d.
rect primary by the counter estab-
iishment of the assembly system
which would have left the primary
law intact but impotent. OF this
there can be no reasonable doubt
Since they were given severe set
back in the primary election the as
semblyites have lain low. They try
to put forth the impression that as
semblyism is dead. But it is not. 1t
Is only playing possum.' The re-
publican candidate for governor is an
assemblyite though they are not
parading the fact. But elect an as
sembly governor and an assembly leg
islature and see what will happen
The assembly plan will be dragged
forth from its death chamber and
the claim will be put up that the peo-
pie have endorsed the scheme.
II voters do right this year they
will look at the men they are voting
for and to the principles they up
hold rather than at the party labels
they wear. Men who believe in the
direct primary system should seek
out men who truly uphold the law.
There are republicans like Judge
Bean, r. 3. Kay, A. M. Crawford,
Willis Duniway. c. A. Barrett and
others who have observed the direct
primary law in spirit and letter.
Such men should be elected to Of
flee. But there are other republican
candidates. for state offices and for
local offices. that have not been faith
fui to the direct primary. The safety
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-10-17
WHY EGGS WE'RE HIGH.

1t was more than a suburban trolley
line. 1t was line that ran past far
mers' doors for miles and miles. At
one farmhouse a farmer with a bas-
ket on his arm got on the car and
took seat beside me, and president
ly / asked him:
"Are you taking eggs to town to
sell?"
"Yep-five Dozen"
How much dozen?"
"Thirty-five cents"
why is it that eggs are so high
right here in the country?"
He felt for his plug of tobacco, bit
off chew, returned the plug, and
then answered: -
wall, It's because burned fule
folks are willin' to pay that price
though hens are willing to lay 'em
for cent apiece and put in seven
days a week!"