davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-10
CAN THEY AFFORD IT?

u is persistently rurnored that the
Byers milling company or parties
representing that concern will seek
tc enIoin the paving Of East Alta
street The milling company does
cot want 70 have TO pay its share OF
me cost. The company Is also busy
With schemes 10 obstruct the noun
.ain water system.
But can the Byers company afford
n resort 70 obstructive tactics with
reference to paving and with refer
euce 20 the installation OF noun
toin water system? VIII It pay the
milling company TO fight the people
Of Pendleton by qulbbling over techni-
'alitics such as are being currently
discussed?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-10

office AT Vale by inhaling chloroform.
His body was discovered al the office
by other employees. He came to Vale
from Boise, where his mother and sis
ter now reside. They came from Boi-
Sc last evening to take charge Of the
body. which viii be taken 10 Boise for
burial Coroner r. o. Payne was
summoned To Vale and held an in
quest. The jury returned d verdict
that Butler took his own life and that
the cause was dependency and Ill
heaIth
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-10
.4%~NN ~~~~ eA~~
orsT III ovERHEAD WIREs.

Ordinances have been passed call
ng for bids on the paving Of East
Alta street, Cottonwood street and
sne block on Webb. The bids are 10
D opened in two weeks and after the
eontract is let the work must start in
&c days.
All Of this Is very well and meets
Tith the hearty approval Of the East
Oregonian. But there is another step
nat should be taken simultaneously
With TIE move so- street. paving and
the time for action is right at hand.
The overhead wires should be or
zered down on Main and Court streets
and ordered underground on streets
10 be paved. It Is an improvement
hat must be made If we are to get
the benefit OF paving and the benefit
from cluster lights. It is an improve
rent that is long overdue in Pendle-
lcn.
What are the city officials going to
10 about the matter? Are they going
20 sit idly by and allow the overhead
wires and the unsightly poles to re-
main while Alta. Cottonwood and
Webb streets are paved? Then will
they excuse the companies from doing
the work on the ground that it would
aot do to tear up the paved street?
To pave the district for which bid,
have been advertised will cost tbs
property owners In that district ovel
10000. Are the city officials go.
ing to persist in requiring the prop.
trty owners in that district to pay ou'
mat sum Of money and then balk a
requiring the electric trust and th'
telephone trust to do something FOL
ne bettsrment of Pendleton?
SO far the electric trust has blocked
the matter through the raising Of un
reasonable objections and through the
use Of Influences available to then
in such times as this Meanwhile th'
company has put its new rate schedule
fnto effect and Is now getting higher
rates than ever from the business
men Of the city. II is rank treatment
How much longer Is this situation
gting 10 continue? Is Pendleton to b,
conducted forever in behalf Of tn
Pacific Power & Light company AM
other corporations or viii the inter
ssts Of the people Of the city be giyel
come consideration.
Is the present city administrator
going 10 handle this problem an
work It out with a view to promotin
the civic betterment Of Pendleton 0
s the matter to be allowed TO dra
along until the people rise In revol
and tear things up by the roots b
passing m initiative ordinance agains
he overhead wires and by installin
ne com mission form Of government
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-10

angle OF about one minute Of arc,
that isi for exauple, that tne lines
ruled oue--v-e nr4sth of an inch apart
can be made Cus 20 be separate AZ a
distance u four yards. Beyond Jhls
the whole surface has a uniform gray
tiut.-DSuvsr Republican
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-10
Rrxnn Standing Pat.

Lincoln, Neb., aug. 1O.-Reopen-
ing his vendetta, with Democratic
Leader Underwood, william ]. Bryan
today, in the Commoner. refuses to
recant his recent criticisms Of Under
wood
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-10
EXPRESSION.

. The workmanship wherewith I
} the gold is wrought
} Adds yet rirEnez lI the
richest gold.
} VINO lacks the art TO shape
his thought I hold
} Were little pOorer II he lacked
the thought
} The statues slumber were
unbr0ken still
} In the dull marble had the
hand no skill.
} DisparaEle not the magic touch
that gives
The f0rmless though the grace
whereby il lives,
} Thomas Bailey Allrich-
. AAA AAA 4 q O = q O . . Q
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-10

Possibly President Taft does not
want Arizona admitted to the union
anyway. Too many democratic sena-
tors already, he thinks. Especially
since there IS to be a democratic
successor to Frye Of Maine
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-10

BY absorbing" the Racine line Of
Indian goods and likewise the sales
man who built up the business for
the Racine mill the Pendleton wooden
mill has shown a business vigor that
is gratifying.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-10
HAROLD BUTLER. AGED 30
AND ILL. \ VALE SUICIDE

Ontario, Ore.-Harold Butler, aged
20, who was in the employ Of the
Vale Light & Water company, COM
mitted suicide in the light company's
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-16
q HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES
A Newspaper Mans Struggle
for independence.

A LIVING WITHOUT A BOSS. Illus
trated z mo- PIP. 81. Harper & Bros.
The newspaper man who describes in
this book his own and his wife's new de-
parture IN life received his blue en-
velope" when he was forty. His weekly
space string" had been gradually
shrinking for some time, all of which,
being interpreted to the laity, meaneth
that he was discharged from the staff
of his paper after the steady decreas Sc
Of his average weekly earnings had
warned him that his best days in his
chosen profession were over. "A re-
porter is as good as his legs; and he
had been q reporter for nearly twenty
years. earning enough for his own and
his wifes support, but never a surplus 10
lay by for a rainy day.
Their total capital wherewith TO start
life anew amounted 20 $500 in the bank.
Both agreed that journalism was no
longer TO he thought of, and both agreed
to follow the advice so insistentIy given
nowadays in books and periodicals. that
Of a return 70 the country. Not to the
soil as the sequel proved-except in 50
far as a kitchen garden. a chicken run
and a Belgian hare run supplied their
own tabe-but 10 those that live there
on: and II If astonishing how many ways
there are Of earning a living in the
country aside from farming This book
proves IT.
These adventures in the country of
their birth did not lower their social
standard. else the task would have been
far easier. Summer residents" know
how difficult it is to find men willing to
do odd jobs IN the country, and when
such men are found they usually turn
out 20 be immigrants, French Canadians.
Irishmen, Germans. Swcdes and the
like. but natives hardly ever. The en-
ergetic ones have been drawn to the
cities only the shiftless ones remain.
And this Is true also Of the men of q
higher grade:
The country needs business men; bust
ness would grow about the energetic en-
terpTise Of a man going up there with In
tGlilgfDi fADdcltN 10 ldNult botN llc cllg
erd and the country end The
most curious thing about II is that up 10
forty or fifty years ago there were plenty
Of men doing just the kinds OF work |
have mentioned not only commission
merchants but mechanics and artisans.
The movement OF the best has beer unin-
terTuptedlv toward the city In a
broader sense than Is ever supposed there
could well be movement of back TO the
country
The city man, who had never even
gained the suburbanite's miscellaneous
stock Of experience. hired an old farm
house not entirely inaccessible TO the
city, but beyond the belt Of suburban
rents and real estate values. His first
attempt at earning q livelihood was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-16

keeping the books and attending to the
correspondence Of the local livery stable
keeper. freight carrier and expressmsn,
paynent being 'in trade" first Of all by
the hauling Of the newcomers belong
irgs to their farmhouse. leased with an
option to buy at IS month. Then fol-
lowed an agency for barbed wire con-
Germ. and. later. connections with real
estate dealers in the city. Both the
manufacturer and the real estate men
had connections in the place. but these
correspondents waited for business to
come to them. instead Of going after It.
The picture drawn by the author OF neg
lected opportunities, Of undeveloped
prosperity IL not wealth. in the country
are impressive and what is more, they
are intensely practical and suggestive.
The little volume is, indeed. Of great
practical value as an economic docu-
ment, not merely for those who at the
approach Of middle age are confronted
with the problem Of finding new hveli-
hood. but also for young men who are
seeking In overcrowded cities a promis-
ing first start. 1t is not oversanguine, It
holds out no hopes Of wealth, but II
points out the possibilities OF sane
healthful, Independent and comfortapie
existence, and. what is more. he can
continue to carr 1t well into ripe old
age: THE country Is ready to use
man as long as he can totter. He may
go to his work leaning on his cane, but
he is welcome. The best local carpen-
ter was seventy nine, 'goin' on to eighty,
and goin' some as the village parlia-
ment that gathered nightly at the store
loved TO put IT,"
Success was not won without bitter
struggle by this valiant couple. Disas-
ter faced them for a long time While
they sought their footing, and the drain
on their small capital, however well con-
trolled. went steadily on. The first VIII
ter was one of bitter hardship for these
citv dwellers, accustomed TO steam neat
and hot water supply, ignorant OF the
ways Of country comfort. But the
neighbors were neighborly and helpful
even when their true incentive was pure
curiosity, as when. leaning over the new
Corners fence, they gave them good ad-
vice about planting and pruning and
cutting. and taught them how 10 dis
tinguish between a dead and live
branch on an apple tree, even in VIM
ter when trees are bare Of leaves
Last but not least, this is a delight
full tale Of adventure in the here and
now. touched with humor and optimism
and the pretty sentiment Of true. help
full companionship in marriage. The old
newspaper man has not lost his skill
with the pen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-16

Of his son and daughter by his nrst "iie'
The second Mrs. Cassilis was Belgian
or at least so she said. and when the
experienced reader encounters lor-
eigner in popular English fiction MS sus-
picions are at once aroused. once more
they are well founded. 1t taxes many
pages to unmask the pretty, seinsh ht'ie
woman and TO unravel her past winch
Is, indeed, lawless one Ana we. she
was Of excellent birth. All TINS wouid
probably have remained hidden uhtIi Ihe
end had not Hope Cassilis, the daushler
Of the first marriage. been oroereo
abroad for her health by a Famous
physician. She chose TO tour Touraine'
which beautiful country she ana the
readers Of the story do conscientiousiy'
personally conducted by the author VINO
freely mingles the guide book ana
French history with her fiction. And so
Miss Cassilis's mysterious double Is hrst
heard of at Blois and encountered again
at Tours. traced to Chenonceaux, CHI
non, and the castles of Langeais. Loches
and Luynes, and cornered at last at
Azay-le- Rideau.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-16
A GOOD BIOGRAPHY
Professor Sloane's Napoleon
in a New Edition.

THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON Bona Bon
Ph. D., L. H. D.. LII d. Library edi-
ton, revised and enlarged. WIN p ssr
VII, 4s7: vii, AS; VII, 81. The Century
Company.
Professor Sloane's Life OF Napoleon
Bonaparte" was published fifteen years
ago with great pomp Of colored illustra-
tons by famous French artists, In large
form, and with q luxury Of paper and
binding that made its appearance the
leading event Of the publishing season.
II is now issued in library edition" OF
four thick volumes. minus the colored
plates but with portraits In his preface
to this new edition Professor Sloane
states that, in his opinion. there is
really very little controversial matter
regarding Napoleon which is not mat
ter Of opinion: the evidence has been SO
carefully sifted that substantial agree
ment as to fact has been reached" The
work. then. in its present form, rewrit-
ten in parts, amplifed in others. by the
light OF the masses Of material that have
been issued these last fifteen years, may
be regarded as the authors def1nitive
history OF Napoleon. He has reduced
the number of footnotes, to which, he
says, experience has taught him to at
tach but slight importance, but has
added to the heads Of his chapters short
lists of good references "for those who
desire to extend their reading: experts
know their own way"
In no essential point has Professor
Sloane found cause to change his tudg-
ments. Amplified. especially in the case
Of Napoleon's early years. Of the CONT
mental system. the Louisiana Purchase
and the last phase" the work remains
essentially the same in It's Interpretation
Of history and its estimate of the charac'
ter and the achievements Of the Corsican
Even in its original form. the work was
widely popular, notwithstanding its
price That popularity is likely TO be
largely increased By the present far less
expensive edition.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-16
FICTION
Castles and Palaces, Lumber
Camps and a Vicarage.
a PRETTY ROMANCE.

PANDoRA's BOX. BY John -, Ai1 me-
Mitchell With four illustrations ~ 'ne
author. 12mo, pp. 3so. Inc "
Stokes Company.
Romance rosy and golden is still WIN
us. Our inheritance from the past II ac-
companies us from nursery ana play
ground across the threshold OF unfoidins
life. when we live II in the days or our
youth, TO re-live It again in later years
unless we have grown grabbed, in reHn-
riscence, or vicariously In stories such
as this. So here Is a brave romance Oh
the springtime Of life, its smiling blue
sky and radiant sunlight, romance OF
the daughter Of hundred earls ard OF
the son of an American fortune. into
which. as he himself explains, his father
had been cheated. To enjoy such story
one must surrender to It's authors mood,
refuse to listen to the voice Of criticism
az never saw such a sunset In my llre'
said Turner's housekeeper when ne
proudly showed her his latest canvas
mo. but don't you wish you had?' asked
the Infatuated painter
Mr.. Mitchell loves to give touch OF
the occult to his fiction. and did SO with
signal success IN Amos Judd" In the
present story the touch amounts 70 little
more than a trick OF the memory on the
side of the woman and a perhaps scien-
tif1cally defensible condition OF inherited
memory in the case OF the man. Ana
Pandora's box plays anew the very part
Of loves postoffice which ii had been
made TO play many years before. Parts
Of the plot clash little with the prevail
ing mood. the prevailing color scheme OF
rosy gold; the wicked old ogre especially
is perhaps a little too realistic for so
sossamer a fiction Of the tender dawn OF
love. and in the comparison between two
national social standards the victory is
no doubt too easily given to ours by the
frankness Of British mercenariness in
matters matrimonial: but, as has just
been said, in the case Of fiction such as
this one must surrender TO the narrator
without reserve, lest the pleasure be
marred Yet in the end one cannot
help rejecting what consummate mas
ter Of this dainty genre the author OF
THE Cardinals Snuff-Box" was.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-16
GOOD REALISM.
CONCERNING HIMSELF. The Story of
an Ordinary Man BY Victor L. White
church. l2mo, pp. $50. The Baker &
TAYLOR Company.

CONCERNING HIMSELF. The Story Of
an Ordinary Man. BY Victor L. White
church. l2mo. pp. $50. The Baker &
Taylor Company
This is one OF those older fictions TO
which new writer's like Mr.. de Morgan
and Arnold Bennett are giving new
lease Of life-the older fiction that con-
Germs itself not with an episode in its
hero's career, but with his mental growth
ard material progress from birth 10
death. Mr.. Whitechurch does not &C
company his ordinary man" all the way
on his path. but leaves him contentedly
settled in his appointed little niche in
this world in an out of-the-way, obscure
English rural vicarage. II Is the record
of an average pilgrims progress, In
which there are no startling changes OF
fortune or destiny: the record Of life
IN which there are neither dashes nor
exclamation points. nor asterisks-noth-
ing but commas. inclosing clauses that
merge unobtrusively into the narrative.
And there is no promise OF important
outward or inner changes in the fuller
life in common at whose threshold the
author stops, leaving the final period TO
his readers imagination. This is capita
realism, unfailingly interesting in its
simple placid progress. plumbing no pro-
found depths. reaching no great heights,
maintaining the level Of existence, OF the
undistinguished majority. There Is
knowledge Of human nature and OF
human life in the book, whose pages are
enlivened with a touch OF quiet humor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-16

possess, making her fortune on the s'Aeo
only to be rewarded with ingratitude
and treachery.
All this. and much more. may be reaa
in Mr.. Collins's gossipy, rather scandai-
ous. and not always romantic book
which is a good average specimen OF us
kind.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-16
IN THE BALKANS ONCE MORE.

THE RED FON son. A Romance o.
Rharhazonia. BY Edgar NJ. Dilley.
Frontispece IN colOrs by John Goss.
l2rno PIP S63 Boston: l.. c. Page & Co.
once more the Balkans. and the in
trigues and dangers Of the confused sue
cegsion 10 the throne of one OF the pen
insula's many imaginary principallties
that have been traced on It's map since
the DAYS of Ruritania. It is becoming
increa singly difficult 10 invent variations
on this theme conHH, but the author has
succeeded in inventing twins. the exist
cnce Of ore Of whom is a puzzle to the
PhlladeIphia physician from the moment
he becomes involved I'm the tortuous
game for "A throne. He has rashly ac-
companied his polyglot college friend OF
obscure nationality 10 the shores Of
Rharbazonin And so he Is of In whirl
az conspiracy. mystery. secret orders,
warning interests. Of all the obligatory
dangers and complications of tale such
as this. Not until the moment OF tie
coronation in the cathedral is the mat
ter settled. to the satisfaction OF the
American. his friend and everybody else
concerned. not forgetting the Japanese
chauffeur OF the party-the first Of his
nation. we believe. 10 ringle In near
Eastern affairs Of state.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-16

| from the press. One Of them, sisnor
Guglielrno Ferrero's Women Of the
Caesars" has been announced by tho
Century Company. The other volume.
entitled Lives of the Expresses Of
Rome" is the work OF Mr.. Joseph Nc
Cabe.
He Wants to Know.
Mr.. Ellis Parker ButIer-wIth whose
name most amusing memory OF pigs"
| IL associated, and nobody can help feel
ing IL. worse luca-has been sparkling
with curiosity on a subject Of reason
able interest It is in the September
''Bookrnan" that tire sparkling is done:
want TO know how Bernard Shaw
Likes Extraordinarily done. or raw?
! want TO know what kinds OF SHOES
NJ. Maeteriinck and HoweAs use
have great curiosity
Regarding George Ade's new DDot ,re~
Hairp.ns Of wire or celluloidy
What kind OF soap does London hke7
Does Robert Chambers ever "hlke"2
or did he ever Or. II not.
Does he IKE cabbage, cheese. or whats
want 10 know the size Of gloves
Onuenheirn wears. and X he loves
Olives. ard how his clothes are made.
What does he eat? How is he paid1
All sorts Of things I want 10 learn.
That are not Of the least concern
To anv one For, OH and oh,
I want 10 know I WANT TO KNOWl
want TO know, and know I will
The printing press is never still.
For me IT prints such facts. as thesel
The Anarchists.
formal history Of anarchy written
bv Mr.. Ernest yizetelly, is TO be pub
I,sbed soon under the title Of THE AMI
.rch,sts" II is stated that the BOOM
draws a sharp line between anarchy an7
rihlIisrn. but il traces both 70 the teacht
,rgs ~ Michael Bakunin-the Russian
vrho is described by Mr.. Alfred AUSTIN
nc Meeting a friend on the streets ~
cs,eva and remarking that "desparing'
- the success Of all projects for thd
o-re1toration Of society and mankind ne
,,,os starting himself 10 death, WHICH
- calculated would occur in about thres
avs, +irew Mr.. ViZetelly treats the
,rou,th and results Of Bakunin ooc
+-,,es IN Europe and America, ana sees
o,,,.ion Of the theory OF destruc-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-16
MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY.

THE MEASURE OF A MAN. A Tale OF
the Big Woods. BY Norman Duncan.
limo, PIP. $50. The Fleming II. Revell
Company.
This tale Of the lumber camps and
lumberjacks of the Northwest is COM
panion volume 10 Mr. Duncan's earlier
DR.. Luke OF the Labrador" with which
story his many readers have persistently
linked the name of DR.. Wilfred T. Gren-
fell, notwithstanding the authors repeat
ed statements TO the contrary. In the
'present instance he has deemed it neces-
sary, therefore, TO warn US in advance
that the hero OF The Measure OF a
Man" is rot a portrait of the Rev.
Francis z. Higgins. q missionary Of the
Presbyterian Board Of Home Missions
IN Minnesota. but. on the other hand. he
admits that many of the incidents Of his
story have been taken direct from Mr..
Higgins's own experiences in the field.
The new book. one fears, is not likely
To dim the fame and popularity OF its
predecessor Written with the same un-
mistakable enthusiasm and conviction. Il
lacks, for one thing, the romance OF grim
hardship that gave DR.. Luke so strik-
ing a setting. The STUDY Of the man and
his environment is less vividly conveyed.
His work is told not so much in its
achieving as in the retrospect; his con-
quests Of 4 rude primitive world In tho
wilderness, made too uniformly easy.
Still there are striking tales here of
conditions that almost beSGar belief
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-16

broueht out under the title OF Irasic
rnisodes Of the French Revolution IN
Brittany"
The Great White North.
"Through Northern Mists" is the tue
~ the history of Arctic exploration
which Dr. hansen has lately completed.
ue has been engaged upon this work
for several years. His own drawings
With contradictions of old charts and en-
gravinrs. will illustrate his two volumes
BeeuiIns "reminiscences.
A vo,r,me of "reminiscences which mas
aroused much interest abroad and WHICH
has bsen mentioned from time to time
in these columns, Is that OF the Parisian
phvsician. DR.. Poumies de la siooutie-
II Is pleasant to know that Putnam 10
issuing the book Immediately. Tne ooc-
tor lived under six sovereigns, from
Louis XVI to Napoleon III. ana ne
wrote of all he saw and heard with SIN
gular vigor and vfvidness.
Mayor Gaynor on Libel.
The legal ana etHichl iish''
speech and a free press are discussed III
an article which Mayor Gaynor has pre-
nared for the October Century" Eng
land and America constitute the field
upon which he ranges.
Coming Fiction.
Mr.. Perceval Gibbon Is bringing OUT
a new novel. the third of his South Afri-
can trilogy. 1t contains at least one
original character, Kaffir doctor, edu-
Gated in England. Mr.. w. w. Jacobss
new collection Of short stories, entitled
"ship's Company" will be issued about
the same time as Mr.. j. NJ. Barnes
Peter and Wendy."
Lears Letters.
A volume Of the Later Letters OK Ed
ward Lear" is nearly ready for publica-
ton. The author of Nonsense Verses
was not nearly so amusing in his Letters
as in his rhymes; nevertheless, his ex-
periences and his friendships in the
period between 1864 to 1888 ought 70
provide some entertaining material
Roman Women.
Two books dealing with the Imperial
women Of ancient Rome are COMING