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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-09
Healthful Hospitality

Ebert Hubbard has defined true hos
pitality as 'the gentle art of making
folks feel good" and-the shortest road
to a mans heart being through his stom-
ach-he argues that hospitality consists
largely in providing palatable, whole
some, digestible, ~well-cooked food. To
this end, the shortening medium used
plays no small part. Cottolene makes
food that accords with all the principles
of hospitality. 1t makes things crisp,
short and palatable, and wholesome and
nourishing as we'll. Food cooked with
Cottolene makes you feel good and
makes you keep on feeling good.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-09

Senator Jonathan Bourne of Ore
gon is opposed for reelection by Ben
Selling of Portland. A circular let
ter sent by Mr.. Selling to the voters OF
Oregon contains this sentence:
He (Senator Bourne) is identified
more with the class of "Aldrich Re-
p%ublicans'' than any other republic
cans, while he claims to be a progress
sive.
This sentence makes Mr.. Selling an
easy man to classify. Either he Is
too ill-informed a mar TO represent
any community in any legislative body
or else-and, u%nhappily, one is COM
PEELED to accept this as the more
probable assumption-he is willing to
use a palpable falsehood to further
his W political fortunes. Few men
in the senate have a better title to
the term progressive than Mr.
n- a.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-09
THE COST MUST DETERMINE.

An interesting controversy is on
in Portland just now regarding
freight rates TO Portland, Astoria and
Puget sound. The progressives led
by the Journal are urging the claim
of the Columbia river points to lower
rates than are awarded Seattle. The
Oregonian takes the old time narrow
view of the question and opposes the
scheme just as it pposes most other
moves for advancement. It will
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-09
THINKS SENATOR BOURNE IS REAL PROGRESSIVE
Submitted by o. ID. Tccl, NJ cnrbcr Peoples Party League.

Bourne. With probably n exception
he has dom more than any other man
to, further progressive measures. In
doing so he has only been consistent
with the character OF the community
he represents 1t is well within the
truth to say that no single act in i'm
mediate future would be such a ca
lamity to the progressive cause or
give so much hilarity to the stand
patters as the reputation of Senator
Bourne by his constituents in oregon.
oregon has done powerful and i'm
pressive things for progress; 1t can
now do an equally spectacular thing
against progress, but no reasonable
person believes it wilL-Mark Sullivan
in Golfers Weekly.
Every standpatter in the state of
Oregon Is for Ben Selling.
o. d. TEEL..
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-09
AID THE GROWER TOO.

The following editorial from the
Atlanta Constitution deals primarily
with the cotton industry but it is re-
produced here because the ideas set
forth apply equally well to the wheat
business.
The senate committee on agricul-
lure the other day ordered reported
favorably a bill the enactment OF
which would be a far step in redress
ing an immemorial wrong upon the
cotton grower. Framed by Senator
Smith, of South Carolina, it provides
that the director of the census. in
connection with the ginners' report OF
cotton production. shall publish the
foreign and domestic consumption OF
cotton of American production. the
surplus held by cotton manufactur-
ers of the United States and the ex-
ports.
1t would have been better had the
included statistics of con-
sumption of cotton wherever pro-
duced and foreign as well as domestic
mill stocks. In this way only could
complete information be gained of
the cotton-status throughout the
world, and the government has suffi-
cient international machinery at its
disposal to assure at least approx
mate accurace in such an undertaking
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-09

Teams wantedVFor street i'm
provement work at Pendleton. Apply
at Room IL Smith Crawford Bldg.
Wages IS per day and wagons fur
nished.
For sale-Big white eggs. full
blood S. C. Black Minorcas, the kind
that lay big eggs and lots Of them. 81
per Is. ]. G. Miner, T04 E. Court
street.
We have On hand several cigar
show cases and counter show cases
that we will sell very reasonable IL
taken at once. Pendleton Planning
Mill and Lumber Yard.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-09
LOCALS

Burroughs. Main s. Fuel.
Main ITS for coal and wood.
Bicycles! 727 Johnson street.
Phone Kopittke & Gillanders, for
dry wood and Rock Spring coal.
l. c.. Snyder will spray you trees,
Spray dope for sale by gallon.
For Rent-Furnished housekeeping
rooms. Apply at SOC Water street.
For rent-Furnished housekeeping
rooms. Inquire at 401 Aura street.
Large stock OF telephone poles at
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-09

Dray Service to Asylum.
Onr dray will mako regular trips on
Monday. Wednesday and Friday at 2
Penland Bros Transfer Co
Main 500.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-09
Notice to Members TerpsichOrean
Club.

The third dance of the series to be
given by above club will take place
Wednesday evening, April 10th.
Hereafter an additional charge will
be made to members bringing extra
ladies.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-09
TO CURE a COLD IN ONE DAY

Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quiniae
Tablets. Druggists refund money II it
fails to cure. E. W. GROVES sigma
cure Is Oh each box. 2so.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-09
officl. City and Count, Paper.
\ PHILOSOPHER OF LIGHT.

. \ PHILOSOPHER OF LIGHT.
. Asked how the world was go =
. ing.
. He never shook his head; Z
. well as could be expected"
. Was all the word he said. Z
. There's night enough to lead 4
. From the valley to the hill.
q And the rivers sing in music Z
. When the mockingbirds are 4
. still.
. THE seed we sow in sorrow
. Still to the light was led:
. Our daily prayer vas answered; .
. The green fields gave us =
. bread!
. Not even in the darkness
. OF the night we had to roam .
. For Love was at Life's win Z
D dowS
. And lit the lamps of Home. Z
D V.
. And so, we walked contented Z
. Along the worldly way; Z
. The night is ever singing
. OF the sunlight of the Day" Z
. Frank L. Stanton. Z
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-04
Another "lowa Idea.v

Chicago RecordHerald: Several
years ago the country rang with tthe
Iowa idea, as to tariff rates and their
relation to trust abuses. Now the
Iowa ex-republican ''progressives'.
have preached new idea--the popu-
lar election of postmasters.
This is the Iowa third party contri-
button to the bull moose platform. 1t
excited great enthusiasm in the con-
yention. and met with no opposition.
The reports do not even say, in brack-
cts. laughter"
Well. the opposition will not be
long in coming. Mr.. Roosevelt is a
short-ballot advocate, and unless the
Iowa platform changes his own ideas
the Iowa idea will have very short
run. 1t is, of course. childish and abb
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-04
DEATH YESTERDAY
AFTER LONG ILLNESS
OF Deserving and Much Respected
Old colored Citizen OF Long
Residence Here.

After several months illness Ben.
jamin Harris, an old and much re-
spected colored resident Of Keokuk,
died at his home 1902 Franklin street,
at 1920 o'clock Saturday morning, at
the age of sixty-six years, after an
illness since last October, OF com.
plication of diseases, the direct cause
being last stroke of paralysis which
came Friday night.
The deceased was born at Paris,
Tenn, and came to Keokuk In 1869.
where he has since resided. About
forty years ago he was married in this
city to Miss Nancy Williams. He fol-
lowed the occupation of house and
yard man and served several of the
prominent families of Keokuk in that
capacity, for long term OF years.
For over twenty years he was in the
employ of the late Colonel Perry,
then he was with the Huiskamp fam
lilies, II. G. and II w Huiskamp, re-
spectively, for about twelve years and
then was engaged with Thomas H.
Pond at the time he was stricken.
He was a quiet, obliging kindfy
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-04
NEW YoRHs POLICE SCANDAL

NEW YoRNs POLICE SCANDAL.
Every good influence in New York
should be invoked In the ferreting out
OF the facts In the Rosenthal murder
case, to the end that the human jack
ais, who, If half that Is alleged be
true, prey upon life for their living.
may be brought to justice and the city
redeemed from what appears to be
the most astounding system of graft
and rapaeity ever revealed in this
country, says the Omaha Bee.
New York is confronted by a SOL
emn duty. 1t must get to the bottom
and clean out this frightful abyss of
crime. 1t should make such an exam
pie Of the cuiprits as to deal an effec-
tive blow to similar attempts at or
ganized graft there or elsewhere In
the land. This Is NOT a local atrocity;
it is a crime in which every city and
every decent public servant must feel
a separate concern.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-04
Real Break in Cost Of Living
Deep Significance Behind Late Downward Trend

ducts show no great activity at the
slightly risen prices and that the arti-
fetal rise in copper and tin have re-
suited in burning the fingers of many
spectators. The reaction from the
high prices evil is in full swing
The rapid exhaustion Of the buying
power of the great masses of the pub
lie has been quite as much of fac
tor in bringing down prices as have
the larger crops. Syndicates may
warehouse food supplies, keeping
them for certain length of time in
cold storage and force the public to
pay exorbitant prices. but the time in
eyitably arrives when the people, ex-
plotted to the limit. through sheer ne
cessity, and exhaustion of ability to
buy freely, cut down their buying or
ders and the cold storage people be-
gin to do the worrying. Then they
commence to sell for what they can
get, irrespective of whether further
supplies are great or small. II, as
SCENES to be the case at present, the
supplies outside syndicate control are
becoming larger and larger, SO much
the worse for the food cornerers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-04

that it might assure that We should
all be we'll, that is, healthily born
nevertheless later in life would bring
many into environments and condi-
tions in which they must succumb.
I'd fill the world with clinics, with
hospitals. with laboratories for re-
search, of course, to strengthen men
against mere disease. But that Is not
enough. Even though equally start
ed, the race is not fair. For men
come into crowded world, into a
world in which they have no share
and in which it is increasingly diff
cult for them to get their share.
The world and the people in 1t have
been good to me.
have had all that was coming to
me and more, and have enjoyed it.,
frankly, often enough without ever a
thought OF those who got nothing. Ny
good impulses have often flared up
only to die out in sheer lethargy OF
well-being. and / have been praised
for things for which have deserved
no credit, oftener than have been
blamed for things for which was re-
sponsible.
Singularly fortunate have | been In
my friends. No man ever had friends
more enduring, more often called up
on wantonly for support long since
| forfeited by his own follies and sins.
Ii do not hate the world. love 1t, and
loved the flesh, and the devil, too, nor
even yet am I wholly cured. The
pageant, the lights, the wine. the wo
men, the songs, the roses-all these
appeal to me. All these are, In mod
eration--on which side have seldom
erred-the festival of life.
| haven't money enough to worry
me-and often little enough to worry
my creditors and they've been de-
cent, too--but have had the things
/ that give joy And I've had some ecs
tacies of sorrow, too, in my time
though never that most debased OF
| luxuries. self-pity.
4 When I think OF how little others
have had, with better right than mine
I confess 1t is not the world hate
nor the people in it, but only me.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-04
Some lfs.

Now il the file in rasplng tone
should call the auger a bore,
And the monkey wrench nut from
the vsei, would the plane just
smooth things DER?
If the house was full and the water
drunk would the hose reel all
around?
And if the waters could speak as
they flow, how would Long Is
land Sound?
If you board a spell at a shore hotel,
is the billow that you pay?
II single car weighs several tons,
how much does the whole sub
way?
Can a scavenger be cheerful man
when he's always In the dumps?
II the water pipes in a dance hall
burst would the dancers use
their pumps?
II Harvard oarsman rows in a shell,
in what does the salmon roe?
II no grass is grown in the frozen
NoTtHs WHdt theH uoeS the ES-
kimo?
If gun missed fire would para
chute?
This stuff gives me a pain.
II Franklin Park is beautiful spot,
why is Jamaica Plain?
If a bullfrog wore hobble skirt,
would the lily pad-and bark?
If thief broke into drug store, do
you think that the dogwood
bark?
II parrot can swear, can crocus,
too?
Enough ere we all grow i'll!
This is the frivolous sort of thing that
Is dubbed a Daffydill.
Boston Transcript
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-04
A Confession.

William Marion Reedy in the Mir
ror: | have pretty good time in life.
Troubles and sorrow / have had, re-
pentances and regrets. am not con-
seious of anything in myself that en-
titles me to the blessings that have
been mine have seen hundreds of
better men go down in the great game
in thirty years better men in every
conceivable way.
oh, the roster Of dear, dead, brave,
good fellows who have failed and fal.
len while 60 on, with smaller tai
ent, less rare soul than any OF them.
Not that am such success, not that
| pose false humility. simply
state the truth. | have been forgiven
things that damned others. have
erred grievously and suffered far less
than / should, though possibly one
should not say this until the last chap
ter is closed.
My paths have indeed lain IN plea
SAINT places. Those other better men
| than walked the burning mari and
went out in dark defeat. There be
folk who will remind me that there
/ is another life in which will be re-
dressed this and like inequities. That
may be, but If such reflection gives
| them any consolation 1t brings no fear
| to me. We are not now dealing with
man sub specie aeternitatis, but with
/ him here, now, for the brief hour in
Il - ~, ~
know, between a sleep and a sleep.
Sometimes I think the only secret
OF success is to survive. In short,
mere health is an advantage that Is
| incalculable. The person who has the
strength may simply. through his
power to persist, triumph over his
own weaknesses, errors and sins. The
festival OF life should be for all. That
1 We can make it relatively universal
i festival I do believe. We can surely
give more men and women more OF
health than is now their lot. Even In
this inequality / have cited, we can
see how 1t is in our power to make
men equal. We can give them health
and strength to survive. We can give
them sufficient time in which tc
wear down and out their own evil
passions and outlive their follies and
fesceninites. We can give play t.
4 hearts and brains which failed of eff
4 fectiveness aimply through weakness
of body.
i For this, have hopes of science
/ hut science cannot do 1t all. Granting
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-04
New York Financial World.


At last there has been real break
in the cost Of living burdens which
have borne SO heavily on the Ameri-
can people for so many years. The
first signs come from the west, where
there has been veritable panic
smash in the cost of all vegetables.
This is due largely to the vastly larg-
er crops of potatoes, and garden stuff
OF all sorts, including small fruits.
Sugar is down from liz to cents
per pound below the seasons high
price, butter is 5 to s cents per pound
cheaper, flour is off so to IS cents per
barrel, potatoes have crashed from 50
per bushel to rs cents, and Chicago
dispatch says that consuming inter
egts are buying very sparingly OF
packing house products because of the
brighter prospects for much lower
prices for live stock the balance OF
the year. The bright outlook for corn
is another factor making for eager
ness on the part of shippers to gel
rid Of their holdings before the ex.
pected break comes. The fact is not
to be lost sight of also that steel pro.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-04

Corn yield estimates are rising
gradually as the market comes to APP
preciate the new conditions under
which the growing crop is being made.
Governments indication, as of July l,
was ISL, 100000 bushels. Now many
experts put the crop at 1900, 100000 a
gain OF about 3,500,0uO bushels a day
since the beginning OF July.
What the country is beginning to
appreciate in corn possibilities Is the
fact that the poor crop of 1911,
amounting to only 1851, 100000 bush
els, awoke the corn growing interests
to the necessity OF giving more atten-
ton to fundamentals and prelimina--
les. Specialists found the vast major
ity of growers We're planting defective
seed. Then the great seed campaign
began, with headquarters at Chicago
and branches In almost every school
house throughout the surplus terri
tory. The boys and girls took hold.
They all became laboratory special
lists on seed corn, and gave their par
ents no rest, day or night, until new
er and better provision WAS incorpor-
ated in the preparation into the pres.
ent seasons corn campaign.
Another factor is the more inteili-
gent enthusiasm of the boys identified
with the corn club movement all over
the country. A cotton planter in south
ern Georgia relates that his boys are
giving up cotton for corn because
they like 1t better and think corn is
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-04

surd. The really progressive idea is
extension Of the merit principle to the
postmatsers Of every class save the
first, perhaps. and the appointment OF
first-class postmasters by an efficient,
Independent head Of the department
without reference to any consideration
save fitness. Popular election would
make for inefficiency, spells, local
independence" and decentralization. 1t
would be profoundly reactionary.'
Are spoilsmen and reactionaries al
ready invading the third party?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-04
Overlooked Corn Facts
Reasons for Rising Estimates Of the Crop.
Wall Street Journal

a nicer crop to grow The attitude of
the rising generation of farmers IS be-
ing revolutionized. In the Memphis
district boys corn club demonstration
work has taken deep root under the
guidance Of the special agent of the
Federal Department Of Agriculture,
Thomas A. Early. People have little
idea how much the corn club move
ment means to farming prosperity"
said Mr.. Early to the Wall Street
Journal. in recent interview. Not
only seed selection, but better soil
treatment and systematic attention to
a more limited acreage have finally
turned the tide in many communities
away from the extensive toward the
intensive method of growing.
third factor is seasonal one
the clean condition of the fields at
the end of July. The corn plant is not
big for this stage Of the season. In
fact. 1t is only about so per cent of its
normal height, taking all things into
account. But the seed potentially this
this year Is, on balance, greater than
that of 1911 The state Of filth Is
such that It will have to rain long
and hard before much moisture runs
away. The hot days OF August are
near and the crop has already had d
good deal of rain The farmer has
done better than usual, and If ma
tnre measures up to her opportunities
IA 5000, 100000 bushel bin might not
contain all that the horn Of plenty
has to pour into 1t.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-04
Three Hundred Miles Of Wheat.

The tonnage of wheat drawn by the
Canadian Northern railway in 1910
was increased in the past year by A.
100000 bushels. During the cores
ponding period of 1910 only 24,00o,000
bushels were brought out of the
country. There is an interesting side
to this statement; 1t is hardly possible
to get more than 1000 bushels OF
wheat into the average freight car,
for this Is allowing an average capac-
ity of 10000 pounds 1t will be seen,
therefore. that if 3S,750,ooO bushels
were handled the precise quantity
nearly 10000 cars were utilized. TAX
ing the AVERAGE length of a car as
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-04
BLESSINGS or HOT WEATHER.

BLESSINGS OF HOT WEATHER..
ITO us, says the Cedar Rapids Re
publican, "the summer time is the
most marvellous of all the gifts OF God.
We bow in reverence before the might
of the sun. when his rays are mingled
with the moisture of the air. Summer
is the great miracle worker, the feed
er Of the world The bounty OF heav-
en- is poured into our laps through the
heat of the summer.
June, July and August they feed
the world. If they were not what they
are the world would starve to death.
"A continuous temperature below so
during these months for one year, and
half of the world would starve the
next winter.
1T is the temperature of So and 80
and 95 that makes the red checked
apples in the orchard, that fills the
golden grain in the wheat, cats and
the corn, that natures the potatoes in
the ground, the berries on the bushes.
What a gift of heaven this sum
mer weather is to the world. What a
miracle nature works out in these
NINETY days. All the seven and seventy
wonders of the world that man has
invented and worked out. all of them
put together are but as cry in the night
of distress compared with what nature
works out in these few days of heat
and rain about which the unthinking
complain.
In Iowa, July and August from
nothing bring forth 300,000.00o Of
bushels of corn, the golden corn thai
feeds the world, whether in cerea
form Or In pork or beef. or yellow
legged chickens.
The heat of the summer is ths
greatest blessing vouched safe to thu
world. 1t is a pean and poem ant
a prayer; the mercy of God and tn
bounty Of creator and the happiness
lof the creatures.
"And If now and then nature in he
desire to perfect the crops and to feet
the world slips in a day that is
ttrifie too warm, should we complain
rs 1t too much to bear in return for al
til gifts that are placed in our hand
through the heat from the sun?
May heaven forgive the man tina
4 despises our warm weather, and VIII
rails at the heat through which tn
world is sustained, nutured and CON
iforted'
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-04

man of the old school, always prompt
and reliable in the performance of ev-
cry duty, devoted husband and a
careful and loving father. He was a
faithful and devoted member OF the
A. M. b. church church and OF Alexan
der Clark Lodge, U. B. F.
He had large number OF friends
in Keokuk, regardless Of color, be-
cause of his correct department
throughout his long residence in the
city. He is survived by his faithful
wife, who attended him d,tring his
long afflictIon with tenderness and
care that was touching, and the fol.
lowing children: Mrs. Benjamin M.
ryles and Mrs. George Snoddy, both
of Keokuk, and Mrs. M. G. Buckley.
of Chicago, and the following sons
all OF Keokuk: J. D. Harris, M. L. Har.
ris and 7. d. Harris.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-04

A life preserver which had drifted
$4,000 miles from the coast of Japan
10 Scotland, has been received at San
Francisco b. Captain Robert Dollar.
1t fioated from the Stanley Dollar,
which went aground in Yokohoma
harbor in September, 1905. 1t is he
lieyed to have drifted through the
northwest passage. the first authentic
record OF such an occurrence, and
was picked up near the Shetland is
.ssands latt September.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-04

The British board OF trade solemnly
announces its conclusion that the IL
tanic was travelling at too high rate o.
speed, something the world knew
months ago What benefit this inquiry
is to confer upon humanity remains to-
be developed.