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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-09-23
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In an editorial Saturday the Port
land Journal asks why more atten-
ton is not given to
Why We Don't the selection of the
Have Better men who constitute
Legislators the legislature. who
make laws for the
state and spend something like $5,-
100000 of state money every two
years.
I'VE have long overlooked the i'm
pcrtance of the legislature. We have
fallen into the habit of "cussing" ii
after the session, only to elect the
same kind of a gang to the next ses-
sion. In all our numerous public
follies, one of our supremest faults
is the inattention and incompetency
we have displayed in electing mem
bers of the legislature"
Very good, but it is too strong an
Indictment Of the voter The voter
does fairly well with the opportunities
at hand. The chief trouble quite Of
ten is that the right men are not up
on the ballot and the humble citizen
has no chance to make a good selec-
ton.
Why don't better men become can
didates for the legislature? Ask
some fellow you think should run and
you will find out. You are liable
to be told. 81 cannot afford it, it is
an expensive luxury"
1t is a luxury to be a legislator in
Oregon. The East Oregonian knows
of one man who served a term in the
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-09-23
Official City and County Paper.
THE LIMITED.

D God who has given speed
, To the whirlwiud and the steed;
b Who has bidden the hawk fly
on
For the tempest's gonfalon,
= Has given a greater might
b The instant force of his flight
, Where the rods of iron are bent
= To girdle a continent
b Where over the Hudson lean
D The lights of the Wolverine; I
D Where, through the dust and the I
q din.
. The Overland" drives in
. Like a torrent of steel i'm space 4
y To the huge Pacific Gate;
= Each at his stated hour
y In a gust of fiery power,
= Spirits of metal and coal.
y Where the sharp Sierras roll, 4
. Plunge, and struggle. and strain I
= From the East to the West Z
E again,
= Are there any greater than Z
= these.
. Who have served the centuries, Z
. Who hour by hour link
= Ocean to ocean brink?
= Scorn them or praise who will, 4
. They are Gods servants still. Z
= BY Leonard Bacon in The sun
, set
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-09-23
SEVEN DAUGHTERS ENOUGH

The Rev. John w. Cavenaugh pres
ident of Notre Dame college, tells Of
priest who was giving a lecture on
the evil of great wealth. In the au-
dience was man the priest knew
The man was the father of seven girls
and the lecturer pointed to this man
as an example.
Think" said the priest, "of being
the proud father of seven daughters
Think who is happier-the man with
a million dollars or the man who is
the father of seven daughters.
81 W l, ask you, Mr. Sheldon. who
do you think is the happier?" said the
priest, pointing to the subject of his
argument.
The man arose and said: Father
/ think that a man with seven daugh-
ters is the happier. A man with a
million dollars worries for more. A
man with seven daughters never
does.-Kansas City Star.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-09-23

The telegraph may annihilate dis
tance, but it takes the messenger boy
to kill time
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-09-23
S~~S"~%

Roosevelt is proving a poor defen-
sive fighter. He is especially weak at
explaining why he did
y Poor not prevent the forma-
Showing in ton of trusts during the
Retreat. seven years he was pres
ident. Accused of hav-
ing allowed more trusts formed dur
ing his term than were formed all
told before he entered the white
house or since, he replies:
"The reason why there was any
growth in illegal trusts at all as re-
peatedly pointed out in messages
while 1 was president, was that we
were not given the proper law for
dealing with them"
Such a statement when the Sher-
man law was in operation all during
the Roosevelt administration! The
Sherman law absolutely prohibits the
formation of com binations in re-
straint of trade. 1t was as sweeping
ir its scope as anyone could possibly
have desired. At that time it had
not been weakened by the supreme
courts decision wherein it wrote into
the law the word reasonable u
Through the simple course of doing
his duty by enforcing the law Roose
welt could have prevented the forma.
tion of any or all of the 10000 trusts
formed during his occupancy of the
white house 1t is because Roosevelt
did not do his duty that the countr!
| is now in such a predicament.
The colonel appears to better ad
vantage on the offensive than wher
! his back is to the enemy.
~O
! That little throng in the Roundup
grandstand yesterday gives goot
promise of a big attendance when the
real show is underway
~S~s~s~~
When Mrs. Hartman is called a
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-09-23

legislature. He is a professional man
in moderate circumstances and his
time is worth something He spent
the customary hundred dollars" on
his campaign and gave up two months
of valuable time to work at Salem.
He could not pay his expenses out
OF the salary the state gave him and
estimated at the end of the term that
counting his loss through neglect of
his business he had easily paid $1,000
for the fame he had acquired.
The case illustrates in part why
more good men are not selected as
legislators and fewer unfits. The con-
ditions surrounding the job tend to
drive sensible men away and to in
vite notoriety seekers and grafters.
II is not a nice statement to make
but it is one containing more truth
than poetry.
The Roundup is the magnet that
draws the crowd and it illustrates
the life of the old
Ii Makes time west. The dis
\ Balanced trict fair portrays
Entertainment. conditions in the
eastern Oregon of
the present. II shows that Umatila
county is a wonderful grain growing
section and produces one per cent of
the wheat of the United States. 1t
shows something of the horticultural
possibilities of the county and the de-
'velopment of the various irrigation
projects, governmental and private
The progress in animal husbandry
and something of our manufacturing
industry as well as the finer arts.
1t is true of course that the crowd
finds the old time exhibition the more
interesting. That is. because it is
more spectacular and less common
place, not because it is more import
ant The district fair and the Round
up make a week of balanced enter
tainment. showing both the old life
and the new.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24

There are 2,151,570 miles of public
roads in the United States. OF this mile
age statistics for the year 1904 show
that about per cent are improved,
says Butte (Mont.) Treasure State.
During the crop year 1866. s5,497.-
100000 pounds of farm products were
hauled over common roads from farms
to shipping points. No figures are in
cluded for forest or mine products. or
for the general commodities of life that
go from city to country. 1t is evident
that the slightest saving in cost of haul
ing per ton would assume striking pro-
portions when considered for the entire
country. Figures show that these great
crops travelled in wagons over the coun.
try roads POS, 432, ga miles, merely in
being transported from the farm to the
railroad shipping point. Investigations
have established the fact that the aver
age cost of hauling per ton per mile is
% cents; on stone roads, dry and in
good order about cents; on stone
roads in ordinary condition, 10 cents;
on earth roads containing ruts and
mud, 80 cents; on sandy roads, when
wet, 80 cents; on sandy roads when dry,
Ga cents.
A reduction in the cost of hauling
from % cents to 10 cents would mean
an average saving of over $3.50 900, 900.
The figures quoted. and Mr.. Cushman
is relying only on the record, show that
the American people are paying about
$1,000,000 a day as a penalty for their
refusal or failure to get into the good
roads movement. The $3.50. 900 900 re-
ferred to by Mr.. Cushman becomes more
significant when it is remembered that
it is loss which comes direct from the
pockets of the farmers. The railroads
do not pay any particular attention to
the condition of the country roads. They
take the wheat, corn and other farm
products at the railway station and the
producer gets the value, or market price,
of the shipment. If the farmers of the
nation are paying 100000 a day more
than they should in the cost of carry
ing their products to the shipping point,
it requires no expert to show that if
they had good roads they would be re-
ceiving 100000 a day more for their
products than they are now receiving,
or about So a year for every man.
Until very recently little attention
has been paid to securing protection
to the "Great American Drink" the
ruling by the board of food and drug
inspection prohibiting the importation
of coffees grading below No. being
the first move on the part of the gov.
eminent to establish coffee standards
whereas the importation of teas has
been under the watchful eyes of spe
cially appointed government inspectors
for years.
Granting that the board of tea ex
perts as originally conceived was de
signed to be helpful to the trade and
the federal authorities, it has now out
lived its usefulness and should, if con
tinued, be separated entirely from the
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24

treasury department and made sub
sidiary to the board of food and drug
inspection, under whose jurisdiction
should come all questions pertaining to
the importation, regulation or purity of
teas and coffees. There is no need for
any interference by the treasury de-
partment. The tea examiners should
be made answerable to the board of
food and drug inspection.
What the trade really needs is a
board of coffee experts composed OF
three members, say a coffee importer,
a coffee rooster, and a coffee jobber;
and a board of tea experts, composed
woman and child in the nation. Every
cent shaved in the cost of transporta-
ton is a cent added to the price the
farmer receives for his products. The
addition of $3.50 00o, 900 a year to the
income of the American farmers would
mean a great strengthening of the pur-
chasing power of the agricultural class
and a marked increase of agricultural
assets. In addition TO this direct gain,
the good road adds a value to every
acre of farm land in the nation,
growth in value that would much more
than cover the cost of establishing and
maintaining good roads. No taxpayer
can lose on any investment he may
make in improving the highways.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24
cIReEzD az III ChZHEsR REII1ZDLUC2T

herculean. The soil, however, is fer
tile and although it is cultivated by
hand, or by the rudest of farming i'm
plements, not an available foot of 1t is
permitted to go to waste. Fences,
which occupy space, are rare in
China Even grass. which in compar-
ison with grains. such as wheat, bar
ley and corn, conduces less to the
support of life, is denied room. Fish
is abundant and rice is the staple
food for the bulk of the population.
All decaying matter is returned to the
soil to fertilize it and, thus replen-
ished. the land continues to yield rich
harvests.
In the mechanical arts the Chinese
are as industrious and patient as in
the cultivation of the soil. but they
lack the tools and more than the
tools, that spirit of initiative and prog
ress which means success today In
some Of the arts they are wonderfully
skilled. But as an industrial people,
as the term is understood in progress
sive America. they lag far behind
Some Great Achievements.
To the student of history they seem
a different people from those who
built the Grand canal, the most re-
markable waterway in the world; who
carried the Great Wall over rivers,
mountains and canons for nearly 1900
miles as a barrier against Tartar in
vasion; who first devised the system.
crude as it was, of movable type and
who first used explosives in the art of
r-fo hot
the period when their national life
seemed to crystalline and progress
was turned backward.
Among the monuments of mankind
the Great Wall is unique. 1t includes
greater mass of masonry than all
the works of ancient Rome and Egypt
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24
The Tea Board Scandal.

If the charges filed with the presi-
dent against certain members of the
board of tea experts be proven, it is
high time the board be reorganized, if
not entirely abolished, says Tea and
Coffee Trade Journal.
For many years the board of tea ex-
perts has been kind of exclusive insti-
tuition, which went about its business
with a solemnity calculated to impress
the dealer who never suspected that any
of its members had clay feet. And
now, what disillusionmenti
AS general proposition, in a coun-
try whose principal drink is coffee and
not tea, there is much more excuse for
a board of coffee experts than for a
board of tea experts. AS the per cap
pounds as against 1 pound of tea, it
would seem, upon the face of it, that
there is ten times more excuse for a
board of coffee experts than there is
for a board of tea experts.
of a China tea importer, a Japan tea
importer and an India and Ceylon tea
importer, a wholesale tea dealer and
an Independent chemist. Let these
boards be appointed by the chief of
the bureau of chemistry and let them
work with him with a clear-cut notion
of the duties they have to perform
to uphold the pure food law, secure a
square deal to all dealers, playing no
favorites and having no star chamber
sittings.
Some way must be devised whereby
the interests of the consumer (who. in
the last analysis, most needs protec-
tion) shall be fully safeguarded, not
only from impurities and shortcomings
in the manufa cturincr Droppss hut also
from the greed and cupidity of dealers
who have no real concern for him and
whose only aim is to best each other
and who sometimes fall out among
themselves. Such a board as is here
suggested would secure ample protec-
ton to dealer and consumer.
But whatever the outcome, one thing
is imperative just at this time, and
that is the establishment of central
bureau, where a scientific, uniform tea
test shall be made to apply to all i'm
portations, and to which inspectors
should be required to submit all dis
putes.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24

-aqueducts and pyramids-combined
Twenty feet high, 25 feet wide at the
base and Is feet at the top, with
huge towers from 81 to so feet high
rising at intervals OF 100 yards for
the accommodation of armed men, 1t
is carried over broken country a
distance of 1853 miles. And this
great work-the most supendous line
OF defense ever erected by man-was
built more than 200 years before
Christ, while the shadow of ancient
Rome lay over the world.
The Chinese race mas had its win
ter and now it seems that this won
derful people have again reached
The shackles OF a benumbing con-
servatism are being broken and the
leaders of the race while reverent of
the past are looking toward the fu-
ture-toward light and power and
progress.
The revolutionary movement today
is more than anti-dynastic. 1t means
more than the expulsion of the Man
chus, who have lorded II over the
Chinese since they were called in to
aid in the suppression of a rebellion
in 1643 and finding the country so
good and so favorable concluded to
remain. Corrupt as may have been
many OF the Manchu rulers, they
cannot justly be charged with all the
miseries which have afflicted China
during the period of their ascendancy.
These evils. while undoubtedly aug
mented by Manchu rule. may be
traced to the system under which the
spirit of Chinese progress has been
throttled-a system which was found
ed by her sages and which during
thousands OF years has become crys-
talized in her national character.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24

If you Eye Salve. use the best
PETTIT'S EYE SALVE is the standard.
is reliable and costs no more than inferior
goods that are unknown. Used by Physicians
and Oculists helps where all others fail. It
ia not the TUBE or BOX that cures il
is the SALVE that does the work. Guaran-
teed by Howard Bros. under the Government
Food and Drugs Act. Don't be deceived or
mised. The only really antiseptic Eye
salve that has been in the market for years
Sold by Druggists throughout the known
world.
Land in Japan can still be owned
outright only by japanese subjects, the
entire country being nominally the prop
-erty of the emperor.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24

Suit has been started in Seattle to
set aside the distribution of the 81 ,OOO,-
600 estate of John Sullivan, the Sc
attic pioneer. The plaintiff, viii F,
Hayes, an attorney, charges that the
estate was fraudulently procured for
the distributes by the procuring of
pretended relations in ireland to claim
relationship.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24
BEST BLUING MADE.

Twenty years experience back of
RED CROSS BALL BLUE. Every
housewife that uses it will have no
other 1t is the only blue that is all
blue.
Liquid bluing is discarded forever
after RED CROSS BALL BLUE is
tried. Makes clothes clear and white.
Price 10 cents. AT ALL GROCERS.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24
'What's Smith doing nowfn

What's Smith doing nowf''
IS turned out to be an inventor. !"
What has he inventedfD
"a pickle compass.
What kind of compass it thatfv
on attach it to the pickle and it
tells which way the juice is going to
squirt when you bite it.''
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24
COLLEGE Has chinese Girl Debater.

Albion, Mich.-Albion college will be
represented in the state intercollegiate
oratorical contest at Olivet on March I
by Miss Sui Wang, Chinese student in
her junior year. Miss Sui S Grafton
bears the title, "China' IS Crisis"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24

Do you ever have Headache, Tooth
ache or Earaehe9 Most people do.
Hamlins Wizard Oil is the best house
hold remedy and Eminent for these
everyday troubles.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24
TRY MURINE EYE REMEDY

Tor Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyes
and GRADUATED Eyelids. Murine
Doesn't Smart-Soothes Eye Pain
Druggists Sell Murine Eye Remedy,
Liquid, 25c, soc, $1OO. Murine Eye
alive in Aseptie Tubes, Csc, $1.OO. Eye
Books and Eye Advice Free by Mail
Murine Eye Remedy Co.. Chicago.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24

Who makes the best liver pills? The
J. c. Aver Company, OF Lowell, Mass.
They have been making Ayers Pills for
over sixty years. II you have the slight
est doubt about using these pills, ask
your doctor. Ask him first, that's best.
Made by tho J. @. AVER co.. Lowell. Mass.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24

Always shake in Aliens Foot Ease powder.
Cures corns, ingrowing nails and bunions. At
an druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Don I
accept substitute. Sample mailed FREE.
Address Allen U. Olmsted, lie Roy, n. Y.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24

Cholly-What' IS the time, old chapq
I've an invitation to dinner at T, and
my watch ism t going.
Gussie-Why, WASH your watch in
vited too, deah boy9
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24

The government of Australia is now
Offering handsome prizes for the best
designs to be used in making a new
series of postage stamps.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24

Southern Pacific officials announce
that much of the main line and some
of the branch and feeder lines viii be
double tracked and that the West Side
and Yamhill divisions radating out of
Portland will be electrified.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24

Although Holland is famous for its
diaries, the oleomargarine industry also
fiourishes there. Fifteen margarin fac
tories give employment to $500 persons.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24

Howard E. Burton, Assayer and Chemist
Leadvile, Colorado. Speciment prices: Gold,
silver. Lead, S1.OO; Gold, Silver, 75c; Gold
SOC Zinc or Copper, $1OO Mailing en-
,elopes and full price list sent on application
Control and Umpire work solicited. Refer
ence: Carbonate National Bank.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24
Rich Saloon Man Shoots Youth.

Menlo Park, Cal.-John H. O'Keith,
a wealthy saloon keeper here, shot and
probably fatally wounded Albert Free
man, aged 81, in front of the saloon.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24

ONLY ONE "BRoMo QUININE''
That is LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. Look
for the signature of E. W. GROVE. Used the
World over to Cure Cold in One Day. 25c.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24

PILES CURED IN TO IA DAYS
Your druggist will refund money If PAZO
OINTMENT fails to cure any of Itching,
Blind, Bleeding Protruding Piles in to
IA DAYS soc
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24

More than 25O ocean-going vessels
are equipped or are being fitted with
oil burning engines ranging from 800
to 500 horsepower
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24

To put bands of gilt paper on cigars
made in the United States costs 2,OOO,-
900 a year.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24

Mothers will find Mrs. Wnslows Soothing
Syrup the best remedy to use for their children
during the teething period.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24

Nearly every locality in Mexico has
its special variety of bread.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24
Hoods SarsapariIIa

Which puriies and enriches the blood
and builds up the whole system. -
- Get it today in usual liquid form or
chocolated tablets called Sarsatabs.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24
Loss of Appetite

Is loss Of vitality, vigor or tone, and is
often a forerunner of prostrating dis
ease.
1t is serious and especially so to
people that must keep up and doing or
get behindhand.
The best medicine to take for it is
the great constitutional remedy
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-24

HE history of the human race
affords no more interesting
study than that of the huge
Chinese empire, which after a
slumber of MANY centuries is
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-06-22

president, said to have begun over So
cial preferment, there is no evidence
of disagreement in the several branches
of the family, for they are the most
Industrious rooters who ever raised
their voices for a relative. Mrs. Chas.
P. Taft is by all odds the chief rooter
and her enthusiasm for President
Taft's cause is made apparent fire.
quently.
The choice of gowns among the best
dressed Chicago society women dur
ing the convention has been white
cloth tailored costumes. Mrs. Ogden
Armour, Mrs. Carter Harrison and
Mrs. Louise K. 'Tobet have worn stun
ming white suits with cool, filmy lin
gerie blouses.
Distinguished women from other
cities, however, seem to prefer the
fancy taffeta silk suit chiffon with
waist to harmonic.
Upon one point Of their costume all
the women from Mrs. Theodore Roose-
welt to the youngest debutante have
agreed and that is rings on their fin
gers and buckles on their shoes. .
Scarcely a pair of feminine feet have
entered the Coliseum doors this week
but what have been decorated with
cut steel, hammered silver. gun metal
or ebony buckles.