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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-24

the dereiIcts Of nfe-cry out on the
other hand. that they are not to blame
for their failures, that they were born
power rules their days and brings their
every effort TO naught. Their labor is
barren Of results. Their struggles fruit
less. Their sacrifices in vain. Opportunity
never knocks at their doors Happiness
passes them by. They seem to have the
curious property OF attracting evil to
themselves, as others draw good about
them.
And who shall Judge which Of these
two contentious is right7 Who shall say
whether we are the puppets OF fate or its
master? Does not life itself begin in the
greatest gamble on earth? Is not luck
mothered in the cradle?
Two children are born the selfsame
moment, of the same parents, as nearly
alike as humanity possible. No eye can
discern any material difference between
them, but in the little hairless skull Of
the one is a brain that will make him
great writer. great general great
statesman. a great finaneier, while the
other little head contains only a feeble
intellect that will never be able even to
think clearly or to do anything more
than to grasp a few elemental facts.
The wall Of two new born babes heralds
their coming into the world. To the ply
stefan. to the nurse. to even the moth
ers, they sound exactly alike, but one OF
them comes from the throat of q Csruso
and the other from the throat Of one who
viii never be able to carry tune
Chance settled before they were born
who were 10 be the Kiplings. the Glad
stones, the Nspoleons, the RockefelIers.
the Carusos. II was luck. and not pecu-
liar fitness that put the crown on the
head OF the king Of England and the
car Of Russia and made Franz Joseph
emperor Of Austria and Emmanuel king
Of Itaiy-
And which Of US, looking back upon our
own lives. does not marvel at the part
that llck-fafe-k ismet-e2lI It what you
sIAthe occult power that somshow
seems 10 rule our utmost effort. has had
upon our destiny. You saunfer pur-
lpossiy dozn q strest. an Idle turning 10
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-24
A GOOD LITTLE SPORT
By WILLIM F. KIRK.

You see some queer sights In city,
Said Colonel Erasmus MePhee,
Though few Of such sights stir up pity
In the heart Of a rounder like me.
I've gambled from ceylon to Nome. boy,
And 1 think l can tell a mans worth;
Well, this morning. while walking Up
home, boy.
met the best sport on this earth.
He was tiny and ragged and Quiyering.
In his arms was a poor little pup;
I stopped when saw the two shivering
And said. Well. young fellow. what's
upr
The kt6-he was only baby
Came out of the half heated she'd:
4 thought / could stay IN here. maybe.
1 was getting my dog wsrm.' he said
THAT'S aI-he was getting his dog
warm!
Tears are things that a gambler re-
ststS.
Bu i gness that CONC drops beat the
barrier
When looked at his little blre wrists
j szAkza him taI nothing Was lacking.
And zu. hlz along far. you see.
A good HlaAs spca. = EUr1z backing
Sac crS.nsi Kxzzzrs NePhes-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-24

human beings. the man and woman.
blIndfolded. who, starting from different
directions, perhaps having different ends
In view, stumble along until their paths
meet.
go are marriages made. So IL the race
perpetuated. So do men and women
come into the heaven Of happy marriages
or the purgatory Of unhappy ones. They
follow the line of fate,
II you ask a man why he married tho
particular woman he did, he will prob
ably tell you that he loved her, or at
least he thought he did when he asked
her to be his wife. II you ask him why
he loved her, or imagined he did, he
cannot tell you. Nine times out OF ten
she isn't at all the type OF woman he
had always intended to marry. Generally
he had no notion at all Of marrying when
he did. She had no particular beauty. no
special charm to attract him more than
other women. but suddenly the line OF
fate brought them together. and for veal
or Woe the die was cast.
We who believe In love and romance
believe that every soul has its counter
part, every heart Its true affinity. every
man and woman their real mates. Some
times these two. starting from the ends
Of the earth. maybe, come together,
though they must cross seas and con-
tinents and break down all the barriers
Of caste and wealth on the way. That
is when the gods are kind. Then Is the
perfect marriage.
But the pity OF II Is that the right two
do not always meet. The line Of fate 10
not always in matrimony any more than
the road that leads TO happiness, and
perhaps no better excuse can be offered
for the domestic failures than that they
were helpless in the grasp OF destiny.
through which they stumbled blind
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-24
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II IA said the Queen Of sheba tested
solonon,s wisdom By bringing before him
an equal number OF boys and girls.
dressed exactly alike. and asking him to
decide which was which ..--
The father Of wisdom called for wash
basins and told the group to wash It's
bands.
The girls daintily rolled up their cuffs,
but the boys spiashed away without re-
gard to nsatness.
And there you are.
There was no match trust in that early
day. II there had been any the great
king could have enjoyed a simpler test.
For the London Chronicle declares that
l when woman strikes q match she inVar1-
ably scrapes It upward and away from
herself. while e man scrapes 1t in and
toward himself.
Fin your match boz and tJ this
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-24

Inc I o 7 tuhale
swell o u I their
chests and ooioiy
proclaim: am
the captain OF my
soul. They point
to their achieve
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-24
BY DOROTHY DIX

The question Of how far we are indi-
vidually responsible for our destinies. for
our successes or failures. our happiness
or MISERY. is one that neither science nor
experience has ever answered.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-24

folded. as the man and the woman in
the picture, not knowing whittier they
went, nor whom they were TO meet, nor
the purpose of the high gods In deciding
their lots. II was kismet
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-24

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tsza q IsAh<5rn tn Pzr.s TIA eru-Jouth-
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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-24

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rzrrnx-.z1 Ell voEaS tzro nc sE EnE
h-sa ta,zre 81 4 sesz 1afrmz WI c=-uE
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roo csr. axnEuy Nza Z N dzzt tr=z
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-24
Fioue-s for snan Girl.

This il to Be q nowsr year In the realm
Of small folks Nothing can be more ap-
propriate to adOrn the frOcks Of little
Kris than gsrlaa5s Of roses or festoons
e. fe-Ee-Es 5o<z
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-24
He's a Pauper Today

sol1I~S %, Arso ovpS VAN
ENsH11 OF NE pusry snAo
NeN HlErs FOR IRE esr
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MS STpAnktn WAJ n4oeouSuIJ
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VT ~ me jToRs KEEP spgo
" Too foOrto a 4AsoJUeE
~ SooR eA1KSAep WOULD
~oo CAL n a tseese s.uLET
1OMkS4 DON'T yuT
YOUR HAND IN me
LEMONADE PTIafR:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-24

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NALSso ALONG STNE ST WIN Hee
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SsHEsS WHIT Old me
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OFF 4 WAIT TO SEE The
eN7ERToo.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-24
By Tad

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HES Se " n4AI MAN. CARED
TO GRAFT HE~oOLp HAVE
BEEN NoRnA a hlLLtoH-
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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-24

The members OF the Dickens club arose
and passed into the dining room
We've had a real Intellectual feast." "
Mrs. jameson observed. as her eyes
rested appreciatingly upon the table laden
with dainties.
very" Mrs. Gresher declared heart
fly.
I'm SO glad Joined the club. After
we've finished Dickens ! move that we
take up Shakespeare or one Of the popu-
lar authors-or some one"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-24

Pz-crzn AfrzranS IN rss Rnad 10
Bty Rerurnx
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-12-25
CHILDREN At CHRISTMAS TIME.

Christmas Golfers
be
You who children blessed
o a
OF
in
boarding houses in village
lonely
is
the
Christmas
fire throws soft light the yueide
body the
world with its misery
PHILOSOPHERS
and i'm
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-12-25
MEASURING ICY TORRENTS.

In order to determine the poSsi-
bilities of rivers as a source of pow
er or the extent to which they may
be utilized for irrigation, navigation
or other useful purposes. the first
necessity is to measure accurately
the volume of their flows. For this
purpose the United States Geological
Survey maintains many steam -gaging
stations and its photographic engi-
neers are continually travelling from
station to station to determine the
flow of the rivers at various heights
of water. Different methods are en-
ployed to get at the exact flow of the
rivers. In some places it is possible
for the engineer to wade across the
river dropping in his electric current
depths and thus being able to deter
mine almost exactly the flow. AS
the records should be kept through
out the year many of these measure
ments can be made only after chop
ping out a hole in thick ice. The hy-
drographer wears high rubber boots
which may come up to his shoulders,
but while he may keep dry he is nat
urally under such conditins apt to
get rather cold. For measuring deep
er rivers trolleys are erected and
small cars run across them from
which the photographer drops his
instruments into the water In meas
uring some of the larger rivers cables
"A mile in length are used. the hydro
grapher traversing the entire dis
tance and making his soundings every
few feet. The results of these meas
urements are later computed into the
number of cubic feet per second flow
ing down the rivers and published in
| reports that are issued to any per-
sons who may be interested in irri-
cation. water power or other form of
stream development
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-12-25
IN DEFENSE OF y SLANDERED INDIVIDUAL

a
children ii
membering little dwell the
is
natural houghtless people him with
possibly
Where people make mistake in thinking
a S
happiness
OF
entirely worldly of
a n a
a A who
a u of in
lie
which
his
o
Those crtse
a lie sain
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-12-25
You Can BE HOspitablc Even If You
Have Little Money.

In the December Womans Home
Companion writer contributes an
article entitled THE House of We'll
comes" which is a practical discus
sion of hospitality. The point is made
that to entertain, money is not me-
cessary. AS an illustration of the
point the author goes on as follows:
An instance of this simpler and
higher manner of entertaining and
It's beautiful results is set out in one
OF those graceful incidents seeming
ly trivial in themselves, yet so full of
deeper meaning, in An Inland Voy-
age. The author and his friend had
been canoeing; they have. l believe,
been caught in drenching rain; are
muddy, discouraged, befouled with
the weather, looking, indeed. like
tramps. They come to a small VIII
lage, resolved there to rest for the
night They go to the inn to ask
supper and lodging: but the host
looks them over and will have none
of them. What, such looking tramps
as that in his inn! They are invited
to move on as though they were com
'hpi
They had not thought of such a
possibility. If they felt discouraged
before, they begin to feel downright
disheartened now, indignant too. and
altogether out of conceit of them
selves and the world. | believe they
go still further, and are met by no
better luck. No one will receive such
tramp-like fellows. They are even
jeered at by some urchins in the
street. They have lost much cour-
age; they are beginning to almost
lose their self-respect and. what is
nearly worse, respect for their fell
lows.
And then better thing happens.
They come by chance to the home or
inn. l forget which, of Monsieur
and Madame Bazin. Here they are
received kindly-very kindly it seems
indeed by contrast-and are given
something that might be called well
come. Madame and Monsieur Bazin
of the type of warm-hearted
French people-make them comfort
able physically and make them feel
at home. Their self-respect begins to
return and their hearts warm again." 4"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-12-25
THE THIN WINTER GOWN.

Paris has decreed that once again
the winter gown shall be diaphanous,
carried. out in chiffon or muslin vel
vet or at very thickest, crepe de
chine or almost gauzy satin. Except
in the severest weather there is some
thing to be said for these dresses,
when they are worn by the possessors
of magnificent furs. A long fur coat
is far too warm to be healthy, If
worn over thick dress, except on
very exceptional days, in our climate.
Unfortunately, a fashion may be
intended for one class, but it will be
copied by others and the result of
such a mode as that of the thin win
ter gown spells pneumonia for a good
many people. However, at least the
locks are very pretty, especially
Mhan trimmed with fur. Fur and
Ole lace combined are a very fash
iona e trimming at the moment, al
Though 4 famous French dressmaker
has den unced the mixture as in bad
taste, ant being bad art.
For the evenings, of course, thin
gowns have II all their own way. Even
brocades have been brought to such
a degree of lightness and suppleness
that they are practically like gauze.
Indoor gowns are still being trim
med with pink or pale ground canoes
and they We're also seen on hats and
coats, so those who possess these fine
ornaments can still wear them in this
very effective manner
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-12-25
SALE OF BONDS.

Sealed proposals for purchase of
six per cent street Improvement
Bonds of The City of Pendleton, Ore
gon, aggregating $3925.7O (being Z
bonds of $4,000 each. and ! bond of
$429.7O, to be issued for improve
ment of that part of Webb Street ly-
ing between Main Street and Cosbie
Street-Series "H") are hereby re-
quested and will be received by the
Recorder of The City of Pendleton, at
his office in the City Hall thereof
until o'clock p. NJ on the Sth day
of January. 1913; each proposal must
be accompanied by certified checks
for $500.00 payable to the Mayor Of
said City, the same to be forfeited If
bonds are awarded to the bidder and
he refuses to take them and to be re-
turned to the bidder If he be unsuc-
cessful. The City reserves the right
to reject any and all bids.
Dated December gath. 1912
THOMAS FITZ GERALD,
Recorder of The City of Pendleton
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-12-25
SALE OF BONDS.

Sealed proposals for purchase of
six per cent Street Improvement
Bonds of The City of Pendleton, Ore
gon, aggregating $6723.95 (being 13
bonds of $4,000 each, and l bond OF
$22395, to be issued for Improvement
of that part of Jackson Street lying
between Main street and Blaine Street
Series "G'D are hereby requested
and will be received by the Recorder
of The City of Pendleton, at his Of
flee in the City Hall thereof, until 5
o'clock p. NJ. on the Sth day of Janu-
airy, 1913; each proposal must be ac.
companied by certified check for
$4,000 payable to the Mayor of said
City, the same to be forfeited If bonds
are awarded to the bidder and he re-
fuses to take them, and to be returned
to the bidder If he be unsuccessful.
The City reserves the right to reject
any and all bids.
Dated December oath, 1912.
THOMAS FITZ GERALD,
Recorder Of The City of Penileton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-12-25
SCIENCE AND THE THEATER.

In New York City all save three of
the fifty-two theaters are to be with
out orchestral bodies during the sea-
son of 1928. The majority of the
forty-nine playhouses are installing
device known as the Unit Orchestra,
which is nothing else than a scien-
tific development of the pipe organ.
wherein all of the string, reed, and
brass families of instruments are sci
entifically operated without the mu-
sician in the flesh, save one lone play
er at the console.
Throughout the country a similar
state of affairs is in order, while in
the various summer resorts one may
find that where heretofore singers
and musicians have had lucrative
field of endeavor, the entertainments
are now almost wholly provided
through scientific stimulation of the
living performer.
This is so true that the most inn
pitulated to the unquestiened en-
croachmen of modern artifice Oh the
realm of Thespis. The Shugerts,
Klaw and Erlanger Al H. Woods,
William A. Brady, and Henry w.
Savage are all investing heavily in
the motion-picture industry, realizing
as they do that another such disas-
trous theatrical season as the season
of 1911-12 has been would bankrupt
even the wealthiest of them. Hence
the new season will witness the spec
tacle of New Yorks ultra-swell home
of grand opera, the Metropolitan
opera house, as the temple of the 81
lent drama. for here is to be present
ed The Miracle" the sumptuous
Reinhardt spectacle which has for
months been the reigning sensation
at the London Colosseum.
The gentlemen who have for years
been catering to the public's entertain
ment were wont to regard these pho
to-play productions as temporary
craze, but when they saw the New
York theatef packed to the doors at
regular theater prices to see the
Kinema-Color offerings on the screen,
and when they found that the fash
ionable Lyceum Theater had drawn
boX-office with motion pictures, they
were quick to affiliate themselves with
the film industry. And now comes
Daniel Frohman, the dean of mana
gers, at the head of a company cap
italized at half a million, which has
for it's object the production of high
grade plays on the screen, with the
worlds greatest players enrolled in
the casts.
Mr.. Frohman's inaugural produ, =
ton is to be Elizabeth" the latest
Bernhard success, with the divine
Sarah herself in the title role; and
already it is announced that Madame
NaZimOva James X. Hackett, Ed
ward H. Sothern and Blanche Walsh
are to follow the lead of Nat c. Good
win, who has achieved added fame
and greater fortune through the per-
petuation of his artistry through the
production of "Oliver Twist as a
photo-play, with the comedian him
self as Fagin.-Robert Grau in No
vember Lippincott's.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-12-25
We are Becoming a Nation of Play
wrightS.


The witty person who remarked
that the correct form Of national sa-
luton for an American at the present
time should be, How goes the fourth
act of your play?' might also have
observed that the interest in dramatic
things that has of late become so no
ticeable is throwing some curious
side lights on American character
istics. No one who has had the op-
portunity of knowing is in doubt as
to the gehuineness and, at certain
points, the almost comical intensity
of the interest. Evanston, ILL.,, and
Boston and Cambridge, Mass, may
be as unlike as one chooses i'm some
respects, but they are quite alike in
the ambient in which their dramatic
leagues have their being. Those
young men, usually with portfolios
under their arms, who may be seen
attending en- masse some Special
performance" of a play with "mod-
ern" tendencies, and who make their
professional and technical comments
between the acts, are, east and west,
brothers under the skin. They sug-
gest something new in the air They
give the feeling that those enthusi-
asts may be truthful prophets who
foresee a period Of great dramatic
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-12-25

achievement for the American peo-
pie. Not that it need be so. There
was time in England, when every
body made music" just as in certain
places, everybody now, with us, ap-
pears to be writing play. Yet
England, while it still produces prob
ably the largest proportionate num-
Der of persons prepared to sing
(mostly badly on every occasion,
never has supplied a great musical
genius to the world. Whether or not
the analogy be discouraging for the
American drama, what seems to be
clear is that we may come to a meas
ure of national Standardization
through our making of American
plays, such as our novels, somehow,
have always failed to give us.
From The Point of View" in the
Christmas Scribner.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-12-25

ways for the benefit of the town. The
residents We're not willing that all this
generosity should go unrecognized
and on the evening before his depar-
ture he was waited upon by quite a
delegation of leading men of the town.
The spokesman of the party delivered
saying:
And when, as Is your avowed in
tention, you come among us to re-
main permanently in the guise of a
corpse, 1t will be our highest duty and
chief pleasure to see that your grave
Is kept green
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-12-25
HOW'S THIS?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
f. ]. CHENEY x CO., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known, f. J.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable In all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by his firm.
NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE,
Toledo, O.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mu.
cOus surfaces of the system. Testimonials
sent free. Price - cents per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-12-25
CURLING THE NEW YEARS HILARITY.

All general
should consist
cowbel dispose stock
the
be
everywhere urging that New
isl
indicated instructions given 70
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-12-25
GRATITUDE.

1t is told of a man of wealth that
he spent the summer in his native
town, village in New England, after
a absence of a number of years.
While there he had the ancient bury
ing ground in which his parents and
other relatives were hurled put in
good condition and built neat fence
around it. He also gave the town a
fountain and small library
in addition to being generous in other
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-12-25

COnvaleSccnce after pneumonia. ty-
phoid fever and the grip. is sometimes
merely apparent, not real To make
it real and rapid there is no other
tonic so highly to be recommended as
Hoods Sarsaparilla. Thousands so
testify. Take Hoods.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-12-25
Catarrhal
Deafness

Penetrating, Germ Destroying HYO-
MEI Often Restores Hearing.

Penetrating, Germ Destroying HYO-
MEI Often Restores Hearing.
When deafness is caused by Ca
tarrh, Booths HYOMEI breathed per-
sistently often restores hearing.
Catarrhal Deafness is caused by
Catarrh germs in the Eustachian
Tubes and HYOMEI by killing these
germs reduces the inflammation and
cleans out the tubes.
If you suffer from Catarrh, Sore
Throat, Coughs, Colds or Bronchitis,
just breathe HYOMEI. You take no
risk for Tallman & Co. are authorized
to refund your money if YOU are not
satisfied, HYOMEI with inhaler, 81;
without inhaler soc. At all dealers.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-12-25
SUNSHINE AND GOOD HEALTH,


the the city physician
Pndleon always been heathful which live
people who seldom