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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-05-08
JUDGE KINGS PROPOSAL.

The East oregonian publishes to-
day an interview with ex-Supreme
Judge Will r. King, one of the dele
gates TO the democratic national con-
vention at Baltimore in which he
says he will work for the adoption
by the democrats of a plank in their
national platform calling for needed
reform regarding presidential cam
paign funds.
Judge Kings proposition is one that
has been urged recently by this paper
1t is so full of merit that it cannot
fail to appeal to all who truly favor
government of the people, by the
people, for the people" The manner
in which our presidential campaigns
are now financed is something of
which the people should be ashamed
and afraid. 1t is relic of the old
days of bossism and political de-
bauchery.
ptOplc VI lHG States
are foolish to allow Wall street mag
mates like George w. Perkins and
others to finance the presidential
campaign in any way. shape or form.
When they do it they expect to get
their money back and they do get il
back through the prestige they have
with the administration and the influ-
ence they have in affairs of state.
The people themselves can finance
the presidential election and they
should do so by regular appropri-
auons by congress. Let the people
pay the campaign bills of both par
ties and see that money is spent only
for legitimate work 1t will insure
square deal between rival candi-
dates, it will cleanse national politics
immensely and free administrations
from any obligations save to the peo-
pie at large.
The idea which Judge King is ad-
yocating is directly in line with
other progressive measures that Ore
gon has given to the country. 1t Is
2 scheme Of equal merit with the
preferential primary idea. 1t is very
fitting that the Oregon delegation to
the Baltimore convention should pre-
sent the matter and work for its ad-
option. No doubt the delegation will
be a unit in working with Judge King
IN asking that this recommendation
be written into the national plat
form
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-05-08
FROM GRANT TO ROOSEVELT
New York WORLDLY

N-NSN 1OIh w Orlu.J
There were 756 delegates in the
republican national convention OF
1880, with 379 votes necessary tc
nominate.
On the first ballot Grant had SOi
votes out of the 755 that were cast
leaving him within "a of the neces.
sary majority.
On the thirty-sixth ballot Grant had
SO6 votes out of the 755 that were
cast. leaving him within ~ of the
necessary majority. But James A
Garfield had 399 votes and was nom.
mated for president
Illinois had AZ votes in the conven.
ton, and "a of them went to Grant
Pennsylvania had S5 votes in the
convention and 80 of them went tc
Grant.
Missouri had 80 votes in the con.
vention, and 29 of them went to Grant
These are now Roosevelt states
and Mr.. Roosevelt's managers point
to them as final proof that he will be
nominated. Grant had a majority OF
the delegates from all three of them
and in addition he had 81 Of New
York's 20 delegates, with Roscoe
Conkling, the manager of the Grant
campaign. as their chairman.
Mr.. Roosevelt's friends expect tc
swing the Southern delegates wher
the test of strength comes at Chi.
cago. Grant had almost all the
Southern delegates thirty-two years
ago. but Grant was not nominated for
president
Will the delegate who presents
Roosevelt's name at Chicago make a
more appealing speech than that OF
Conkling when he stepped to the front
of the platform and began
When asked what state he halls from
Our sole reply shall be;
He comes from Appomattox .
And its famous apple tree?
Conkling. with all his genius, with
all his eloquence, with all of Grants
tremendous popularity and with 30G
delegates behind him. could not nom
mate Grant for a third term. Can
Theodore Roosevelt do for himself
what Roscoe Conkling could not dc
for Ulysses. S. Grant?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-05-08

NIT and the prices differ. As to
which concern has the bes, Offer it is
not easy to say. 1t is a matter for
close investigation and the answer
also depends in large measure up
on the limits to which the compa-
nies will so in the way of price re-
ductions.
To cope with this situation Pen
dleton has a mayor and eight council
men elected 10y wards. None of the
officials receive pay and none of them
are under bonds. They give such
time to their duties as they find it
possible to do. Some of the members
are taking but casual interest in
the mater. Others are accused of
taking too much interest.
Without reflecting in the slight
est degree upon the integrity or the
ability of the councilmen it is but
truth to say they are not solving the
problem very fast. Many property
owners are showing little reliance
upon the council and are striving to
work the thing out for themselves.
K is a hard thing for them to do.
In the view of this paper Pendle-
ton would set better results from a
paid commission of three men chosen
not by wards but by the people of
the entire city. Such a commission
would be quick working body. The
council is clumsy, A commission
could meet each day or twice a day
il necessary and go to the bottom of
the paving business. 1t could deal
with the various paving concerns up
or a strictly business basis and get
the best results obtainable in the
shortest possible time
1t is regrettable the commission
forces did not muster q
few more votes last December.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-05-08
DEWEY TRUE To HIS IDEAL.

Sitting in his office recently, and
looking upon the old sea chest which
contains the records of that fateful
day at Manila, 1 asked Admiral Dewey
what was uppermost in his mind the
night before the battle of Manila,
when he contemplated entering har-
Dor mined with torpedoes. His eyes
sparkled as he replied:
"All night and all morning my
mind had reverted to one picture
that of Flag Officer Farragut, whom
L first men at New Orleans in 1861.
There were no admirals in those days,
the captains being the highest rank
ing officers; and our commander was
the flag officer. We young cadets
grew instinctively to admire the in
trepid Faragut, and that night at Mo-
bile will never be forgotten, when his
voice rang out load and clear:
Damn the torpedoes-full speed
ahead Somehow that command
would ring in my ears every time dam
ger confronted u.s. One does not in
stinctively think of himself in such
moments, but of some hero whose life
has impressed him."
Then 1 ventured to ask the admiral
why he did not give his command at
Manila in some dramatic and stento-
rian way like Farragut. With that
modesty known only to Dewey, he
replied, 81 was not thinking Of myself;
| was thinking of Farragut"
Dewey's command to begin one of
the greatest battles in all history was
given in an ordinary tone, as if he
were simply ordering a cup of coffee.
History records it that he calmly said
to the commander: "Gridley, when
you are ready, fire"
History is made by the men who
carry with them all their lives some
ideal, and who, with limitless bravery
and courage, give in less than sixty
seconds those commands that make
history for ages Joe Mitchell Chap
pie in National Magazine.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-05-08
WHEN HIGHT FOUND HELPER.

F. S. Hight, the manager of the
Willard hotel in Washington, had a
plumber at his house for several days
plumbing around.
Hight noticed that the plumber
had no helper with him. He talked
to the plumber about this lapse, and
called the attention of his own fam.
lily to a situation that he had never
observed before-a plumber plum bing
without helper. Also he spoke about
1t to various persons around the hotel.
Presently the bill came in. In II
We're charged, with great care and
particularly, a large amount OF ma
terials, and then occurred this line.
For plumber and helper, $780,"
Hight sent the bill back and sug-
gested that as there had been no help
er with this expensive plumber, il
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-05-08
AS ONE THAT UNDERSTOOD"

Just before the curtain rose on the
Shakespeare birthday commemoration
performance of Hamlet" at WAL
lacks theater in New York a few
days ago, Cooper Cliffe, noble read
er of verse. came out before the au-
dience and pronounce lines entitled
ION Shakespeare's Birthday" by HUI
bert Osborne and Laurence Eyre.
What are the dull, warped covers of
this book?
shell willed with the murmur of a
human set;
An empty shell, forgotten on the
shore;
A silent, printed book, forgotten on
the shelf.
You deem it empty still? Nay, hold
it to your ear.
1t has living song, wide as the rest
less sea;
A sea of men. 1t is no pedant song
There on the printed pages you shall
meet
Wayfaring men such as are murmur-
ing now
Upon the pasteboard pavements of
the town
In rags and tatters, or by some strange
chance
Sewed into finery for gaudy part.
In cotton-Velvet state.
Before a curtain, as in Shakespeare's
time,
Or spoke today on we'll appointed
stage,
That song is quick; for this man
makes us hear
Real life that sings behind the paint
ed mask.
His world was just the ordinary
world:
He only had the humble, artless
knack
OF sketching men and women as they
pass,
Suffering the petty woes of every
day;
His model-human nature:
Ana MS creatures OF the fairy world
No more fantastic than the impulses
That drive US on toward heaven or
hell.
This was a man that went into the
past
And found there men and women like
ourselves;
No better and no worse than you or
/;
The boundaries of their lives still birth
and love and death.
He made them live in music; but that
antique song
Sang of the larger life, pulsing again
In London alleys as it had in Rome
The life we see today upon our thor
oughfares.
Chisel no epitaph in finished stone:
On living hearts, in simpleness and
truth
First write him down as one that lived
and loved;
And then as one that suffered much;
and at last
Just set him down as one that under
stood.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-05-08
RABBI BEN EZRA.

Not on the vulgar mass
B Called work" must sentence
pass,
, Things done, that took the eye
and had the price; 4
B Ger which, from level stand,
, The low world laid its hand.
B Found straightway to its mind.
B could value in a trice. I
, But all the worlds coarse 4
thumb
} And finger failed to plumb. 4
So passed in making up the 4
} main account;
All instincts immature,
All purposes insure, 4
} That weighed not in his work.
} yet swelled the mans ac-
count. Z
Thoughts hardly to be packed Z
Into a narrow act,
Faneies that broke through Z
and escaped.
All / could ever be,
All men ignored in me,
} This 1 was worth to God, whose
wheel the pitcher shaped. Z
Robert Browning. Z
, O q % O . O o Q >%>> O Q
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-05-08
THE LACONIC I.ACONIANS.

William Lyon Phelps, professor oil
English literature at Yale, was dis
cussing, at a dinner in New Haven
the significance of words.
Some words" he said, "have a
history, and knowledge of their
history gives them a richer meaning
Take for example, the word Iaconic.
Philip of Macedon was threaten
ing the Laconians
If enter your city,, he said, 4
will level it to the dust!'
"lf!' was the Laconians' reply.
And the pointed brevity of that
reply is imbedded in our word lacon-
ic' like a fly in amber."--New York
Tribune.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-05-08
\ MISGUIDED MOVE.

1t will be bad for this state if the
move to consolidate the university and
the agricultural college gets even
enough support to place a consolida-
ton measure upon the ballot this
fall
1t is argued by those favoring con-
sclidation that the move would work
saving in expense. But that cannot
possibly be the motive back of the
undertaking. There must be another
reason. The saving that would be
brought about would be nothing COM
pared with the loss that would be
worked
To consolidate the two schools
would mean to kill one or the other.
l. the consolidated institution, should
be located at Corvallis it would mean
the knell of the university. 1t would
mean that young men and women of
Oregon seeking university training
would go by the hundreds to the uni
versity of Washington and to Cali
fornia schools. If the consolidated
schools should go to Eugene it would
mean the death of the agricultural
college and be hard blow to that
valuable class of instruction given at
Q. A. c. Oregon students wanting
training such as is now given at Cor
wallis would go to the Washington
State College at Pullman or else
where. They would not go to a uni
versity for it.
Though agitators and tinkerers
may argue to the contrary school kill
ing is not a good thing for Oregon.
Through the most shameless false
hoods by Jay Bowerman and the
Portland Oregonian two of the Ore
gon normal schools were killed not
long ago. The saving in expense
since that time has been almost moth
ing but the thing has had the effect
Of abolishing normal school instruc-
ton in eastern Oregon and southern
oregon. We have "consolidated''
normal school at Monmouth but it is
never heard of here. 1t is doubtful
il dozen students are in attend
ance from eastern Oregon. This pa
per knows of no students in attend
ance from Umatilla county and this
Is the largest county in eastern Ore
gon. 1t Is a bad situation and bodies
III for the educational interests of
Oregon.
Oregon cannot afford further blum
ders along this line. Stop the school
killing. The argument about econ
omy is rot. The saving brought about
through consolidation would be slight
ard it would be brought about at
heavy sacrifice. Oregon can we'll af-
ford TO maintain it's two big schools
If there are people who think other
wise they should work to abolish our
statehood and to divide Oregon's ter
ritory among tine neighboring states
A state that cannot afford to main
tain a thorough educational system
has no right to exist.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-05-08
DODGING THE MANAGER.

Mayor Brand Whitlock of Toledo,
who refused $500 increase of sal
ary, was talking about certain trust
magnate.
He's got bad name" said the
mayor. Hence he can't get a square
deal. He's got as bad name for a
lawsuit as Dodgin had for a manager.
Dodgin was the new manager of a
biscuit concern. There was a work.
man at the concern who liked to
sneak off to shed at about in the
afternoon and smoke a pipe and look
over the afternoon paper for an hour
or so. Well, one day as the workman
sat reading and smoking in the shed
Dodgin appeared.
Who are you?' Dodgin asked
sternly, frowning at the idle workman
The workman frowned back. Huh,
who are you?' said he. I'm Dodgin,
the new manager was the reply At
this the workman smiled. so am T.
he said heartily. Come in and have
a smoke. kansas City Times.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-05-08

was his opinion that the bill was sub
Ject to revision in that item.
He received this reply: Dear Sir;
1t is quite true the plumbers helper
was not at your house. but he helped
round the shop getting the tools ready.
and SO forth."-Saturday Evening
Post
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-05-08

In the whole field of medicine there
Is not healing remedy that will re-
pair damage to the flesh more quickly
than BALLARD'S SNOW LINIMENT.
In cuts, wounds, sprains, burns, scalds
and rheumatism its healing and pen
etrating power Is extraordinary.
Price 25c, soc and s1.00 per bottle.
Sold by A. C. Koeppen & Bros.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-05-08
A WINpFALL.

Have the Fosbergs inherited mon
ey?"
NO"
They seem to have come into a
fortune suddenly"
Yes, one of Mr.. Fosberg's former
wives married a millionaire not long
ago and refunded the alimony."
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-05-08
1T WOULD BE BETTER.

In the present street paving stu
alton there il fine argument for the
commission form of government.
There are several paving concerns
here seeking TO obtain work. Each
has a proposition of its own to sub
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-05-08
Exacting.

Robert-My wife is very methodi-
cal. She is never satisfied unless she
knows where everything is kept.
Rounder-Mine's the same. She
even wants to know where my late
hours are kept.-Boston Transcript.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-05-08
DiSaDDOinted,

Wife-oh. John, dear. haven's you
got a headache?
Husband-No, why
Wife-Oh, I'm so sorry l have a
new headache powder here l wanted
to try!-Puck.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-05-08
just Like a Woman,

HE discovered that his wife had
two detectives training him for six
months"
How did he discover it?"
She sent him the bill"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-05-08

rounds. the day is breaking and the
roosters are beginning to crow.
Harry Stalate-How punctual is
nature in her workings.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05
MILAN

Mrs. James F. Renfro of Davenport
spent Monday at the home of Mrs.
Lawrence Martin.
Miss Jean WEIGH of Rock Island
spent Wednesday at the home of Miss
Katherine White.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Greasy and
daughter, Harriet returned home
Monday.
Mrs. Norris NJ. Cannon and son, Le-
roy, of Rock Island spent Monday at
the home of Miss Ella Cannon of
Vandruff's island.
Miss Leonard Mill has taken a DO
sition with the West End settlement
OF Rock Island as pianist.
The Misses Helen and Francis
Boggs of Alexis spent Saturday and
Sunday at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Roy Fink
Miss Florence Bayer, who for the
past two years has been living IN Da-
kcta, is here making her home with
her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Adams. She is attending the Milan
lubhc school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Depew have re-
Gently moved to the Derrick properly
on Dickson street and Mr. and Mrs.
Newton LOBBY and family have moved
into the mouse OH Fifth and Grant
streets, which was vacated by the De-
pews
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rhoadarrner
of Orion visited Sunday at the home
of Mr. Phoadarmers brother, E. l..
Rhoadarmec and family.
The Misses Ruth Ruge and Irene
/ Saulpaugh of Milan attended a slum-
Der party given Thursday evening by
Miss Grace Curry, who entertained 10
( of her schoolmates.
Ben Latin, who for the past two
years has been attending and teach
ing at the University of California, is
home on a visit.
Miss Mary E. Mclaughlin returned
home last week after an extended trip
through the east.
The Ladies' Aid society of Rural
net at the home of Mrs. Milstead of
Milan Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. William Cohen, Mrs. Albert
Danielson and Mrs. Irene Ruge enter
( tanned the w. w. B. society at the
home of Mrs. William Cohen.
Glass No. of the First Milan Pres
byterian church met at the home OF
Miss Lauretta White and organized
club. The evening was spent in
games and a very jovial time was
enjoyed by all. Luncheon was served
George Brown, Jr., who for the past
few years has been employed by the
Tri-City Railway company, has taker
a position with the Des Moines Street
| Car company.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05
CANALS IN ENGLAND.
They Had Their Origin In a Matri-
moniaI disappointment.

They Had Their Origin In q Matri-
monial Disappointment.
The British system of artificial IN
land navigation. which includes sew
eral thousand miles of canal, may be
said to have had its origin in matri-
moniaI disappointment The Duke of
Bridgewater, the originator of the sys-
tenn, was engaged to be married Just
after he had attained his majority. A
dispute arising between the couple, the
match was broken off. The dukes
chagrin changed the course of his life.
he gave his first and last ball to the
London world of fashion and then bur
led himself among his coal fields at
Worsley. Eschewing the society of
women, he refused even to employ
them as servants in bis manor house.
Disappointed In marrying the most
beautiful woman in England, he de-
termined to unite by means Of a canal
his coal fields with Manchester, then
beginning its career as a manufacc
turing town In those days good roads
were the exceptions, bad roads the
rule The cottons of Manchester and
the woolens of Leeds were conveyed
from place to place on pack horses.
which logged along in single file. The
freight charge from Leeds to London
was S63 ton. When the dukes canal
was finished the prices of coal and
other commodities in Manchester fell
one-haIf
The success of this canal started the
duke to build one which would con-
meet Manchester with Liverpool To
procure the funds be reduced his per.
sonal expenses 70 400 q year. So
straitened was he at times that the
London bankers hesitated to discount
his note for 300. Sometimes when
hard up he would send his steward
upon collecting tour among the ten
antry Of the dueaI estates. The stew
ard would ride from tenant TO tenant,
getting Is here and f10 there When
he had collected money enough he
would return and pay the canal labor
ers their weekly wages, In a few
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05
SWEET REVENGE.

Mark Twain Proved That His Old Time
Chum Was q Liar.
When the great man arrives" the
associates of his boyhood days who
used to laugh at the idea of his ever
amounting to anything" retire unob-
trusively to the background. But
when the opportunity arises to make
an example of some such skeptical old
friend surely no one could rise to the
occasion more effectively than did
Mark Twain on the occasion describ-
ed by Albert Bigelow Paine in Har-
per's Magazine.
he came to Keokuk to visit and was
offered S. a week and board to remain.
he accepted. In the same building
was a book store In which a young
man named Edward Brownell clerked.
He and Sam clemens became great
chums
Sam read at odd moments, at night
In bed, vOiuminously-until very late
sometimes One night Ed Brownell,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05

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That remedy is Newbro's Herpicide,
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In no way can one add more TO her
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than by the use Of this remarkable and
well known scalp prophylactic.
On account Of its astonishing merit
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Herpicide finds users everywhere and
among all classes. II may be puT-
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toilet goods counters. You will find upon
inquiry that Herpicide has the conf
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05
Taylor Ridge

Alex Norris Of Hamlet spent Sunday
with friends near the village.
Miss Margaret Schubert is visiting
with home folks.
August Hartman and family spent
Sunday " it'll Mr.. and Mrs. John Lowe.
Miss Nell Hayes returned home FRI
day from Huron, s. D.. where she has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. Lee
Baker.
Miss Mary McManus, who is al
tending school at the Villa de Chantel.
returned home Friday to visit over
Sunday with her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Schneider spent
Sunday with Mrs. Anna Hintermeister
and family.
Quite a number OF young folks from
this vicinity attended a box social
given at the Black Oak school Wed
nesday night
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lowe were Rock
Island visitors Monday.