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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-08
Tickets Sell For S1.5O.

Owing to a Autographed error
yesterday, it was made to appear that
tickets for the annual library ball are
selling at one dollar, when, as a mat
ter of fact, the club ladies are charg-
ing one dollar and half. The tick
cts are being sold by a committee
and are also on sale at the Pendle-
ton and Tallman drug stores and so
far the ladies are encouraged by the
interest taken in their attempt to
| raise money for the library.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-08
Leaves For Los Angeles.

Mr.. and Mrs Mark Moorhouse left
today for Los Angeles where Mr..
Moorhouse will assist Roy Raley and
j. H. Gwinn in putting on a wild
west show. Mr.. Moorhouse also
hopes to improve his health by a So
journ in the sunny south Mrs. Clark
Nelson and Mrs. Roy Alexander will
leave Saturday for Portland from
which city they will sail for Los An
geles to Join the Moorhouses for a
month.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-08
Wife is untrue; Wants Divorce.

j. w. Dixon has commenced suit
against his wife, Mary Dixon, whom
he married in Olympia in 1907, al
leging in his complaint that since
Dec. /, 1911, the defendant has been
immorally cohabitating with Horn
Daniels in this city. He asks for the
custody of their two-year-old daugh-
ter, Pearl. j. p. Neal is attorney
for Mr. Dixon.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-08

brought to close. tho only other case
set for trial, that of Frank Spinning
VS.. S b. and Sadie Walton, having
been settled out of court. The Jury
in the trial yesterday gave the plain
tiff verdict for $2S.S7, just the en-
cunt which the defendants had Of
fered to pay before the trial.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-08
Paving Waits ON Weather

L, f. Mahoney, representative of
Warren Bros, who secured the con-
tract for the paving of Alta, Cotton
wood and Webb streets, is in the city
and declares his company will start
paving operations here just as soon
as the weather settles. He states that
all preliminary work has been done
so that there will be no unnecessary
delay once the plant is started.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-08
Sues to Collect Notes.

Robert L. Moore has commenced
suit against the Milton -Freewater &
hudson Bay Irrigation company for
the collection of notes aggregating
S1S27.10 alleged to have been exc
cuted by the defendant and now past
due. F. B. Sharpstein and c. c..
Gose of Walla Walla are the plain
tiff's attorneys.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-08
Rnck from California.

Mr.. ard Mrs. Will S. Ferguson re-
turned yesterday from southern Cal"
ifornia where they went several weeks
ago. They found the warm climate
intolerable and did not remain as
long as they had intended.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-08
Circulating Judges Petition.

Major Lee Moorhouse is today cir
culating a petition among local re-
mating petition of Chief Justice Rob-
ert Eakin of the state supreme court.
The petition is being quite literally
signed.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-08
Newsy Notes
of Pendleton

Inforces Screening of bitches.
f. F. Averill, deputy game warden,
left this morning for the west end of
the county where he will inspect ir-
rigation bitches to the end of enforc-
ing the law ordering such bitches
screened for the protection of fish
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-08
Gives Life to save Dog.

Gilroy, Calf. Feb. S.-Sacrificing
himself for love for his dog, Charles
Ottoline, age 20, leaped in front of
a passenger train, tossed the dog to
safety and was killed himself.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-08
nirch Creek Ranch Sold.

j. w Bush, through his agent. E.
T. Wade. has sold to Julius Guderian
his Birch creek ranch consisting of
$50 acres, The price is not given,
but it is known that it runs up into
the thousands.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-08
TO BEAuTIFY ROUNDUP PARK
Continued from Page u

dirt for the track, is being leveled off
and will be surfaced and planted to
grass seed, The southwest corner
and plots back of the east b.eachers
have already been surfaced and sew
ed to bluegrass and serve as an indi-
cation of the appearance of the whole
park when it has been treated like
wise. Surface dirt is also geing put
upon the curves of the track in or
der to improve that speedway and
make it the best quarter mile track
on the coast.
The large area between the track
and the Indian village grounds is
being partly filled in order to give
more room for horsemen at the next
show. Other work that is now being
done or which will be done before
the 1912 Roundup include the paint
ing of the grandstand, the construc-
tion of an arch entrance, the build
ing of a twenty-foot cinder driveway
leading about the entire park, the
construction of additional bleachers
on the northeast side of the track,
the enlargement of the corrals and
paddocks, the installation of another
row of boxes in the grandstand, the
seeding of the arena and a consid-
cradle number Of minor improve
n1ents
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-08

Circuit Court Finishes Term.
When the jury in the George Mil
Ter company VS.. s. Z. and Sadie Wal
ton trial brought in its verdict yes
terday, the extra term of court was
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-08

for the discussion of the Stewart mat
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-08
The Ultimate Park

However, the work which is being
done this year il but small part of
that which is contemplated. The city
has already purchased piece of land
just east of the enclosed area and
may purchase still more. The asso-
citation already owns piece of land
extending 13O feet west of their west
fence and several hundred feet south
of the north fence and this together
with the tract to the east of the park
will be included within the park The
| water to which the ground is entitled
will be taken from the river near the
Ladow property and will be piped
down Court street to the park. There
it will empty into irrigation bitches
and viii be run in both directions
around the park to give life to the
| extensive lawns and shrubbery con-
! templated. 1t is the present inten-
| ton to form an artificial lake just
north of the Indian bleachers into
which one of the irrigation bitches
viii flow, while farther west a swim
ming pool of large proportions is con-
| templated. F'ountlins will be inter-
spersed frequently about the park
and many other methods Of beautify-
| ing will be employed.
VIII Be Lasting Monument.
! The purpose for which the directors
are working is the construction of a
| lasting monument to the Roundup
should it ever cease to exist as a To-
cal institution. Inasmuch as the
show is municipal affair and no
designed to make money for the
stockholders. 'the directors are of th'
opinion that the Profits of the an
nual shows can not be more henefi
cially disposed of than in providing
city park second to none in the coun
try, the size of the city considered
They point out that a park on tn
scale planned by them is almost al
impossibility for a small city whicl
must rely wholly upon taxation 10
its revenue and for that reason the
believe their action will be commend
ed by every person in the commu
nifty
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-05
MONUMENTS IN EGYPT

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 Pierre Loti. who is in America as- sisting at his debut as a collaborator in the creation of spectacular play is quoted as deeply deploring the fact that the water above the Assouan dam is inundating the island of Philae and the picturesque ruins that have inter- ested Psychologists and tourists
 Says NJ. Loti:
 T do not understand how for com mercial purposes the English govern ment could order and the English peo- pie sancction such a violation of beau ty but l do know that any gain which may result from 1t will be vastly over weighted by the loss to the world"
 Pierre Loti is delightful writer, but his sense of value is not one that commands respect The monuments of Nactanebo II, Ptolemy Philadelphus, Ptolemy Euergetes and Neos Dionysos are interesting to stall-fed globe trot- ters who go up the Nile from Cairo in "dahabeahs," and to personally con- ducted" tourists who are herded into trains by their keepers to take the dust and lectures, between the various points of interest from Alexandria to Assouan They arc also enlightening to students, inspiring to artists, entrancing to men of ina gination like Pierre Loti. @But added together and with such modern monuments as the Pavilion of Trajan and a temple of Hathor finished by Augustus thrown in, are not more in- teresting monuments than the Assouan dam, which perpetuates the fame of the British as builders in the Nile valley. and betters the lot of thousands of Egyptian farmers whose predecessors needed the dam for 5000 or 5000 years.
 The pious kings of ancient Ceylon, who built irrigation tanks by throw ing dams across defles and impound- ing the waters of mountain rivers for the benefit of valley farmers, did not distinguish themselves as engineers as greatly as the vainglorious rulers of Egypt who sought to make their names immortal by building pyramids which survive in mockery of the despots who British who built the Assouan dam ex- ecuted a triumph of engineering greater than the greatest of the pyramids. They made an irrigation tank to hold a bill lion tons of Nile water and destroy the age-worn Egyptian proverb about the impossibility of ''arresting the tears of Isis as they flow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-05

From the London News.
 Not more than 20 years ago Billings
 gate was notorious for hooliganism
 swearing, and general disorder. So
 famous did the habits of the fish mar
 ket become that the word Killings gate" was recognized as sufficient de-
 scription of any specially shocking ex-
 pression. This still survives. The
 phrase choicest Billingsgate' is still
 common, and to be a master of Bill |lingsgate" is still to be master of swearing.
 But apparently it Is time that the world ceased to be a term of reproach, and became nothing but the descrip- ton of an admirable fish market. The Billingsgate of today is pretty well as refined as a suburban drawing room, and certainly as refined as any other market. It is anxious to be freed from the reputation of the Billingsgate of 20 or 30 years ago
 Tn those days there was constant
 swearing, fighting, drunkenness, and
 horseplay. A stranger went into the
 market at his peril, and was often ptlltu Wlll lSHY anu Soiittliitc Aoh- sderably hurt.
 Now everything is entirely different. Only the surprising headgear of the fish porters survives. Every other char asteristic has gone. It is unlikely that a better or quieter body of men could be found anywhere than the 2000 fish porters.
 That they resent the survival of the
 old impression is quite clear, "Its time" said a salesman of 30 years ex- perience in the market, that Billings gate and bad language weren't always put together. It's nothing but libel, I'll guarantee that you can walk about here for hours and not hear a word
 that you couldn't hear in the drawing room of the Archbisop of Canterbury. I wouldn't like to say as much for the meat market; but you never hear any thing about choicest Smithfield;' it. always choicest Bllngsgate.'
 Its time we heard the last of that
 Bllingsgate is as quiet any other
 place. It's fit for any lady. l don't care
 who she is-she could walk about here Lwithout knowing, for all the language shed hear, that she wasn't in her own house."
 It certainly seemed that the sales
 man was right. At the busy time of
 the morning, when there was plenty of scope for impatience, there was nothing to support the ancient reputation of the place.
 The same story of reformation was told at Billingsgate Christian Mission and Dispensary Mir. Andrew Scheer-
 boom, one of the committee, said that
 the market had changed completely in
 the last 20 or 30 years
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-05

system which became failure almost as soon as it had been written into the constitution of 1790 It has been per mitted to stand because it has been ignored, but this year we have reached crisis in which it has become an ac- tual danger to the public welfare. The su-.-.,,Sa ..ess e. President Taft are ac- tually disfranchised by it. The plan of electing President and vice pres ident should be rewritten on broad, safe lines and the electoral college sys- tenn abolished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-05
conccrning Municipal Ownership

'I have been much interested in the matter of municipal ownership of public utilities, and have read a great volume of literature pro and con on the subject" said a prominent member of the Cham Der of Commerce. "I question the advis- ability of municipal ownership, and such articles as the following editorial from New York paper have had a decided in fluence on me:
 Tn report made to the mayor of
 New York city by the commissioner of accounts, after thorough examinations
 it is shown that the loss to the city through the operation of Its own ferries has amounted to s6,625.OO0 in the seven years of the experiment. The city had
 invested, including terminals. slo139,267 up to the close of 1911, on which it now pays interest of almost S500,000 year. which. of course, must be added to the total that the taxpayers are out.
 So far as the city is concerned. the acquisition of the ferries has been a bad bargain. The loss to date has been about 5s per cent of the entire tax levy for the
 borough of Richmond, and 1t follows of course that the municipality is A loser by the possession of such section. The main feature. however, is that the city
 has lost out of all proportion to the deficit when operated by private capital. Having made bad bargain. which may have been necessitated by the exigencies os the case. ana having ample forewarn- ing that the ferries did not pay expenses, the municipal managers. with that disre-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-05
KNOCKING ABOUT IN PARIS

ebrated and as popular with connoisseurs as Chateau Yquem is today, and the dn- gy Rue de la Goutte dor, now the resort of the "Apache.n takes it's name from the Montmartre wine of the best quaIity. In fact, this particular vintage was so removed that it was the custom for the town of Paris to present four casks of 1t to the King of France on each anniver- sary of his coronation
 In 1214 an international wine exhibition was held in Paris. Germany refused to take part in it. but Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy. and France sent their best vintages. The reigning king, Philippe Auguste, presided himself over the judg- haustive test the jury declared the wine of Cyprus to be king of tfie wines. the Malaga was proclaimed vicerov, and the Goutte dor vintage was one of the three dukes, the others being the Malvoise and the Alicante Seventeen other wines were awarded the rank of count or baron.
 It was this very success of the wine of Paris which worked it's downfall. Those who had hitherto cultivated other crops decided to grow nothing but vines in fu-s ture, and planted them indiscrminately, without regard to the nature of the soil. The result was a gradual degeneration in the quality of the wines, and with their lost reputation, the cultivation of the vine was finally abandoned altogether Today Suresnes is the nearest place to, Paris which can boast vintage of it's own, and this wine is of inferior quality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-05
Gov. Wilson on Roosevelt and Taft

At Indianapolis Governor Wilson discussed openly and frankly the ad- ministrations of Taft and Roosevelt covering nearly 12 years. He did not hesitate to speak of them by name and to declare what they had done, or rath- CT what they had failed to do. In this respect the Indianapolis address of Governor Wilson differed from any other he had delivered.
 He declared in substance that Col onel Roosevelt proved incompetent when in office, and that MT. Taft has followed in his footsteps. Under the two men the protective tariff was left either untounched or increased, and trusts and monopolies grew up on a scale never before dreamed of. He should have added that neither broke up or in any degree inn paired single monopoly, and yet both had the advantage of the drastic Sherman antitrust law. "The very conditions,' said Gov ernor Wilson, that we are trying to alter, are conditions which were ere ated under the leaders of the two branches of the present republican party, because it is true that these conditions were just as much created under MT. Roosevelt as they have been created under MT. Taft
 This is indeed the plain undeniable truth. Special privilege sprang up in the administrations of Roosevelt and Taft until it ruled the land. Pro gressives like Senator LaoFllette re- fuse to follow either. There is small choice between them. "To my mind" !" said Governor Wilson at Indianapolis, 'it is choice between tweedledum and twedledee." The intelligent men of the country know this is the truth, and those who really desire to see the interests unhorsed will vote for Will son and Marshall
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-05
Fees in Jefferson County

When the constitution of 1901 put Jefferson county on the level of Win ston in the matter of salaries and fees, it acted ridiculously. The section in question, No. 96, was gumshoed through the convention, and there are those who think the shoes were fur nished in this county. Be that as it may the constitution was adopted, and under it as it stands the legislature can make no change in Winston, for example, that does not apply also in Jefferson. This is injurious in some respects to Winston as well as to Jeff ferson.
 That section in the constitution of 1901 can be amended next month so that Jefferson county can be handled by the legislature independently, and surely a county as populous as Jeffer- son is should stand by itself. It is diff ficult to see how any voter can say "No" to a manifest proposition, for at present the sheriff in Jefferson coun- ty almost equals the President of the United States in salary, and there are clerks of the courts in this county who outtop in pay United States judges. The county collector outranks the vice president of the United States in salary, and the list runs to the end in like proportions. Instead of reasona- ble salaries unreasonable fees are ex- acted. and the people first and last are overtaxed. The weak and humble are oppressed.
 The voters throughout the state do not love the fee system, and 1t IS hoped the pending constitutional amendment will lift Jefferson county out of the rut into which it has fallen. It is hoped that the other counties will aid this county to escape from the harsh terms of section 96 of the con- stitution of 1901. No harm whatever would in that way be done to the oth- CT counties of the state while Jeffer- son county would be relieved of a heavy burden.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-05
Disfranchisement in California

There is really no appeal from the decision of the California supreme court in which the convention which placed Roosevelt electors in nomina- tion by vote of SS to 15 was de- clared to be the only legally consti- tuted republican convention of Cali fornia, and that its nominees are the nominees in California of the republi- can party.
 Nor does the primary law permit the placing of Taft nominees on the official ballot by petition. The Taft voters can write the names of Taft nominees on the official ballot, but few voters will do that. Practically speaking the Taft voters of popu- lous state stand disfranchiscd, both male and female, and there is no rem edy in sight.
 It is but an additional illustration of the dangers of the present electoral
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-05
HOW TO WRITE PLAINLY

From the Chicago News.
 l am moved to set down a few earnest words on the subject of handwriting. What moves me is the number of corre- spondents I have, and some of them dear friends, whose letters plunge me into de- spair They are not letters, they are problems they are spasms.
 The worst of it is that these people are hopeless They will never change. They would as soon think of altering the shape of their noses or strengthening up their ears as of remedying their chirography.
 A beautiful penmanship is not to be desired. It goes along with lovely head of hair or gorgeous whiskers. But for the sake of one's correspondents and human ity in general one should learn to write so that the writing can be read,
 And tbis can be done. Anybody can write plainly who will try. And not to talk into the vacuous air, I will tell you exactly how. Follow me, and l will not say that your writing will be striking, distinguished or pretty, but I will say that people can read it. Any one of the objects of writing is that it may be read.
 Rule 1. Separate your letters. Nine tenths of the illegibility of manuscript is due to tanning letters together. When you have made one letter. move your pen over and put distance in between that and the next letter.
 ?, Watch the six letters i, Q, n, m, u and W. They are the curse of writing. Get the habit of making your not with a loop, but like reverse g. so that it will never be taken for l. The letters and Il are nothing alike if you practice writing them correctly; always make the n with the shoulder up and the II with the shoul- der down. Practice the word minimum; if you can write that legibly you are a good penman.
 3. Don't forget the little tails on your b. Y, O and w. Make the bottoms of your and W sharp cornered
 1. Distinguish between a and o. Always bring the last stroke down along the body of the letter in a, never in o.
 5. Curve your over; don't leave it sticking up straight like an l.
 6. Don't write d like ct.
 :. Never loop your |; always loop your l. Make your l tall and your short. Cross your t: don't slap the cross down anywhere; put it on the t. And put the dot directly over the i and j, not some where else.
 s. Give plenty of abdomen to a, d, 2 and q.
 9. Always loop the tail; never the q tail.
 10 To keep the hinder part of h. and D close up to the stem; don't separate.
 H. Settle on one kind of an and k and stick to it.
 P. Give the letter distinguishing feature. Don't write it so that it may be taken for almost anything.
 Adhere to these dozen rules.
 Remember that English words are con- posed of separate letters; they are not Chinees word signs.~
 Do this and bring little joy and peace into this already troubled world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-05
Thinks Taft Will Be Second

There is a marked change in the view that the public takes of the pres idential contest so far as the outcome of the election Is concerned" said J. D. Atherton of St. Louis.
 'It is very generally conceded that Wilson will be elected. Democratic vic- tory seemed well assured early in the camapign but 1t is even better as- sured today. There can be scarcely a doubt about New York. It will give Wilson a good plurality. ffsf
 'The change I speak of relates, to Roosevelt and Taft Up to two or three weeks ago most of the people I met talked as if Roosevelt would get a larger popular vote than Taft and would have more electors than Taft, but l believe the general opinion among disinterested lockers on now is that Taft will be second and Roosevelt third"