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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-07-13

wished to do so, He is the only true
progressive in the race, But fortunate
IL the East oregonian wants to sup
pert Wilson. 1t endorsed him in the
primary campaign and said some
things about his chief opponent that
have since been proven true.
The only serious menace to the
Wilson candidacy in oregon thus far
ie that the esteemed oregonian has
been saying many kind things about
him. II it continues to do so many
good people may come to think there
ic something wrong with the famous
New Jerseyan and it may be neces-
sary for Governor Wilson to Harvey
ize the Portland morning paper.
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In this particular section of the
world good cheer abounds and it
should because Pen
Watermelons dleton Elks copped the
BY the first prize in the big
Pound. parade in Portland
and the outlook for a
bumper wheat crop is great
But there are other places where
all is not we'll and one of them is
Texas. 1t has been discovered by the
Corsicana sun that this season the
practice of selling watermelons by
weight is being established. The re-
port is to the effect that the idea iG
spreading and 1t is causing uneasiness
among that part of the population
that prefers TO buy watermelons by
the thump and by their looks without
reference to anything so mechanical
as a pair of scales.
1t is pointed out by the Texas pa
per that coming Immediately upon the
advent of the presidential preference
primary the reform in the method OF
handling melons is too much. We
are progressing too fast Besides the
practice of Weighing melons will in
jure personal pride. 1t will elimi-
nate the pride of the dealer or the
grower who knows how to match his
skill against his customer and sell a
melon for ten cents more than it. is
worth. 1t will also put a crimp in the
vanity of the shrewd buyer who inn
agines he skins the dealer.
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If the government would appropri-
ate money needed for conducting the
legitimate expenses of the presiden-
tial campaign it would not then be
necessary to learn from whence al
the Doodle came.
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From all reports it will be some
time before Miss Portland entirely
forgets the visit of Pendleton lodge
No. 2SS.
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-07-13
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The Portland Oregonian, big pa
per with very petty ways at times has
made the following
Wilson Entitled attempts to be sar-
To Oregon castle at the ex-
Support, pense of the East
Oregonian:
The early days of a beautiful
Spring saw Oregon in the midst of
stirring primary campaign. There
was no great novelty about it, for
Oregon is used to elections and the
ways and wiles of candidates at all
times of year; except that for the first
time in history the people of the state
We're to express their preference for
candidates for president and vice
president. democratic and republican
The democrats named DR.. Wilson and
had votes to spare-lots of them-to
help out the republicans. They were
aided and abetted in this more or less
laudable enterprise by the democratic
newspapers of the state, all of which
were violently against Mr.. Taft, and
for Mr.. Roosevelt, or Mr.. La Toilette,
or both.
But where, oh, where are the
Roosevelt democratic newspapers
now? Where is the noble pose Of
disinterested independence they as
sumed? 1t has yielded. of course, to
the intense partisanship they always
had. Where once we had a touching
display of impartial interest in the
general welfare, we now have a gem
uine manifestation of party loyalty
that purposes to achieve a democratic
president. These papers are for Will
son because he is the democratic no
ninee; they would have been for any
other if he had been chosen at Bal
timore. They never were for Roose-
welt or La Toilette; they always were
for that policy or that candidate that
made most trouble for republicans.
Now the mask is off.
These remarks are for the benefit
Of little papers like the Pendleton
East Oregonian and the Medford
Mall-Tribune, and some others. They
fumer and frothed and foamed be-
cause Taft did not indorse the Oregon
system. The democratic platform ig
nores the Oregon system, initiative,
recall and all; and so will Wilson in
his letter Of acceptance. But that
viii make no difference to those
Journalistic camel-swollowers.
As sarcasm very good, but where
in is the point? In what way is this
paper and in what way is the Medford
MailTribune inconsistent in support
ing Woodrow Wilson. While he was
in this state year ago the governor
endorsed the Oregon system in every
particular save the recall Of the ju-
y
most able manner and he was
cheered for his candor.
When President Taft passed
through the state he said nothing
about the Oregon system. But when
he reached New York he took a fling
at this state by asserting that people
who favor such reforms as Oregon
has enacted are neurotics. He had
some of his cabinet members go forth
and deliver speeches of a similar
tenor.
As a consistent follower Of the pro-
gressive cause and an advocate Of the
oregon system this paper could not
wen refuse 70 support wilson II Il
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-07-13

doctors at Chicago. where we resided at that
time. After trying all the medicine OF the
two doctors without any result, we read OF the
Cuticura Remedies, and at once bought the
Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Following the
directions carefully and promptly we saw
the result, and after four weeks, the dear
childs face was as fine and clean as any little
baby's face. Every one who saw Gilbert after
using the Cuticura Remedies was surprised.
He has head Of hair which Is pride for any
boy OF his age, three years. We can only
recommend the Cuticura Remedies TO every
body" (Signed) Mrs. II. Albrecht, Box SS3.
West Point, Neb, Oct. &c. 1910.
Although Cuticlira Soap and Ointment are
sold throuEhout the world, liberal sample
sent free cH '.af'r7 f0 Potter Drug 6
Chea. C9.U. l-8. Boston.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-07-13

InbtlL was llDuDlth
but a few weeks old.
His little face was
covered with sores even
to back Of his ears.
The poor little fellow
suffered very much.
The sores began as
pimples, his little face
was disfgured very
much. W. hardly knew
what he looked like.
The face looked like
raw meat. We tied
little bags Of cloth over
his hands to prevent
him from scratching.
He was very restless
at night, his little face
itched.
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-07-13
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-07-13

For Rent-Furnished apartment
rooms, 5O2 Water street.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-07-13
ACE DISFIGURED
WITH ECZEMA
Covered with Eruption to Back of
Ears So They Hardly KnewWhat
He Looked Like. Used Cuticura
Soap and Ointment. In 4
WeeksFace Fine and Clean.

"Our little boy Gilbert was troubled
with eczema when but a few weeks old.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-06
A HoLD-UP GAME EXPOSED.
rKeo,,,,s ronstitution-Demo

Ikeokuk CONSTITUTIONS democrat
Before you pay charges on an ex-
press package again, it might be a
good idea to make sure the churges
have not been paid at the other end.
The extent to which the express
companies have been robbing the peo-
pie by collecting charges at both ends
Of a shipment. as revealed before the
interstate commerce commission. is
amazing and outrageous.
In the case of one company alone 1t
vas shown that it made 5000 over
charges in one day and collected in
one year $4,000 as overcharges.
And in addition to the cases of over
charging which have come to Tho at
tention of the commission, it is be-
lieved that thousands of shipments are
raid for at both ends of which the
commission never hears, owing to the
fact that the victims do not know they
are being fleeced.
An officer Of the company above re-
ferred to admitted that the system en-
ployed to identify prepaid packages
vas faulty. but had no particular apol-
ogy to make.
Demand for transportation charges
on prepaid shipments must cease" de-
clared Commissioner Lane, who was
plainly provoked The complaint of
this practice by express companies is
UNIVERSAL"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-06
IOWA BLOOD IN HIM.
Davenport Democrat

Davenport Democrat
Iowans can look with pride on the
swelling boom that has been started
by a we'll organized literary bureau
for Governor John Burke Of North
Dakota. as a first class man for second
place on the Baltimore ticket. Gov
ernor Burke essentially belongs to the
northwest BY virtue Of first posses
sion Iowa has the strongest claim on
him. He was born on a Sigourney
county farm. of pure Irish stock. His
education was drawn from Iowa dis
trct schools. and from the state uni
yersity. His first clients discovered
him as a lawyer IN Des Moines. Then
John Burke made himself solid in Min
nesota, and later captured North Da-
kota in about the same style that
Captain Sam Van SAINT won in his race
in the state next door to us. Governor
Burke is reasonable rather than rad
ical
Except that Judge Martin ]. Wade
was disappointed in not first seeing
light in Iowa the parallel between these
two popular democrats is a close and
interesting one. Either is equal to the
highest demands that can be made on
him
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-06
A SENATORIAL TYPE.
IWaterloo Co1rier.l


The people Of the United States rec
ognize in Senator Kenyon a type of
statesman which has heretofore been
little known in the houses Of congress.
While Kenyon is a progressive he is
not a stickler for new doctrines and
isms. He has commanded no partic-
ular attention as a champion Of oppo-
sition TO tariff or corporation abuses
altho he has taken strictly progressive
positions on these questions.
Ana the senate needs ore. Iowa's
junior senator has attracted national
attention by his unconlpromising atti-
tude on the Lorimer and Stephenson
scandals by his attack on petty graft
in the senate, his advocacy of in
crea sed pensions for the old soldiers
to be partly made up from stopping
the losses on graft, by his support Of
temperance measures to protect dry
territory and by mis- efforts for higher
pay and social justice to those COM
PEELED to work at starvation wages.
Here is list of reforms initiated
which, if carried thru, will be more
beneficial to the country than many
of the measures now 50 hotly disputed
in the political arena. They stand for
Justice improved opportunity, higher
ideals and infinitely more happiness
than that secured under present con-
ditions And the question OF corrupt
elections to the senate is quite as i'm
portant to the honor and life of the
republic as any issue now before the
public. This vile, shameless and whole
sale splitting in the face of the c!ti-
Zenship Of the entire United States by
purchasing seats in the senate must
be stamped out, and Senator Kenyon
of Iowa is taking the lead in the good
work.
If Kenyon has not done as much
as Cummins and others on some or
the political issues of the day he is
foremost In representing type OF SER
vice which is just as important. AS
Lynn H. Dinkens Of New Orleans,
president Of the Interstate Trust and
Banking Company, said in Des Moines
| the other day, 1t would be national
misfortune II Iowa should fail to re-
turn Kenyon to the senate when his
short term expires.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-06
Topics of the Times

The socialist candidate for lieutenant
governor is Story county farmer, but
there will be no division among pigless
socialists Of the pigs on mis- farm.
The senate will, it 10 reported, re-
store the number Of cavalry regiments
to fifteen and thus save the extra army
posts which are a patriotic necessity
to Des Moines and other points where
they are located II there Is one thing
Des Moines would hate to get along
without it is anything like an army
post or a pension office.
Attorney General Wickersham pro-
poses to resign from the American Bar
Association If it approves the action OF
its executive committee which proposes
to GUST a colored lawyer from mem
bership. But he will not resign. 1t
is against the traditions Of the present
cabinet to resign anything.
The winter passes, the snow goes.
men fade like the leaf, but not the
Lc-::..er inyestiga ton. Nay, nay.
Every cloud has silver lining
quoted the Wise Guy.
Yes agreed the Simple Mug. but
unfortunately it takes other people to
see it."-Philadelphia Record.
Manager Dixon Of the Roosevelt
crowd also losses his hat into the ring
and remarks that if personalities are to
be part of the campaign he is on hand
with the goods. Looks as tho apathy
would melt with the SHOWS, doesn't it?
A Dubuque man is fasting twenty
days to beat a record. SO far he has
taken nothing but water and that Of
itself is record in Dubuque.
The Chicago Tribune says the need
of the steet car company N Chicago is
more cars. Marshalltown must have
slipped one over when old No PSI was
secured
It must be awful to be placed like
LATE Young between two intimate
personal friends" who want the same
office It must be horrid to feel the
heart strings tear from side to side
thataway.
Andrew Carnegie has made gifts OF
2.346 library buildings, at a cost to
himself of s57,447,17S. During 1911 he
made 121 new gifts in the United
States and CANADA, amounting TO ST.
1880. These varied from s210,000 TO
Los Angeles down to $4,000 to Pierce.
Neb. He made fortytwo increases to
previous gifts, amounting TO s60S,270.
Don't you think the government
ought to regulate corporations?
Il don't know replied Senator Sor-
ghum, sometimes l think a govern
ment official has enough to do to get
elected to a JOB and hold onto it with
out assuming any more responsibility"
Washington Star.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-06

marked. 81 may be rather later than
usual But, there. it can not be helped"
At breakfast next morning he was
stonily silent, and the stiffness of the
room was not even broken by the tick
tick Of the clock on the n1antleplace.
Mary. dear" remarked James pres
entity. there is something wrong with
the clock. l wound it up last night,
too"
"oh, no, you didn't" said Mrs. James
icily. What you did wind up was
Teddy's musical box when you came
TO bed at O'Clock this morning, it
vas playing Home, Sweet Home. -
Chicago Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-06
NOT LIBERTY BUT LICENSE.

England is in a condition almost as
disastrous as tho she had been invaded
by great army. The fires are out in
her factories. Industries employing
hundreds of thousands of men are idle.
In one city alone 100000 men have
been notified that they can no longer
be furnished employment, and $4,000
mc:e are TO find themselves unem-
ployed within q week. Travel has
largely ceased. On one OF tie pr:cci-
pal ship lines across the channel be-
tween France and England one boat
daily carries the traffic. Activity
would scarcely be more stagnated if
thee ountry were in the hands of a
livelihood Of thee ountry are suspended
while the miners and coal owners and
operators settle a wage question.
Perhaps the owner OF building has
a right to burn it if it is sufficiently
segregated that the confla grafton
would not endanger other mems prop
erty; he certainly has no such right
if he is to burn the property and sac
rifice the lives of others. There can be
no moral right vested in any organi-
zation or individuals or property own
ers or wage workers to kindle disaster
which whelms all classes and endac-
gers all property. The time is on the
way when such senseless methods as
that under way in England will not be
permitted to run amuck thru the in
terests and over the livelihoods Of all
men irrespective of their personal in
Movement in the dispute
Nothing in literature offers adequate
comparison with the folly of strikes
and lockouts unless it be Charles
Lambs ludicrous relation of the
Chimes understanding that the only
way to roast pigs was to burn down
the house with the pigs inside. There
is better way Of settlement. Beyond
that there is the right Of the common
citizen to life. liberty and the pursuit
of happiness to be considered. When
thee ommon good asserts its right and
the ordinary citizen who suffers with
out cause by strikes and lockouts exer-
cises his just powers we shall wonder
that these economic outrages were per-
United to exist so long
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-06
First use Of Tobacco.

The first pipe smokers, 1t is claimed.
were the medicine men. Tobacco was
used in the first place AZ an incenSe to
burn before the great spirits. The
burning of tobacco was an expression
of mans homage to him just as the
burning Of spices. such as franklin
cense and myrrh, has been in the
Orient since time began. Among the
Indians from Hudson's Bay to Caps
Horn the plant was regarded ~ 90
cred, hence the present use, divine
weed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-06
When Liberty il License.

Liberty is the portion Of peoplo
who delight in humanity. who revere
Justice, despise hattery and, vensrato
truth. While you are not such pso.
pie, o my fellow citizens, In vain will
you talk of liberty. Instead Of liberty
you will have RIGHTEOUSNESS, and to
that you will all in your turns fall
victims. You will ask for bread and
will get-dead bodies! And at
length you will bow down your necks
to the yoke, and find your vile refuge
in the rule of despot.--Mme. Ro-
land, address Before the Revolur
tionary Tribunal"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-06
polIcem.n,s Novel Excuse.

Policemen on trial at headquarters
are apt at excuses. says the New York
Sun. Former Inspector Williams used
to tell Of an officer who was charged
with having lost his whistle. When
asked to explain he said you see, l
went home last night and put my whis-
tie on the table I turned round and,
bless me, one of my kids was choking
aid nearly black in the face. You see
commissioner, he'd swallowed the
whistler rs he dead?" asked the
sympathetic commissioner. mo. sir"
was the reply. "He isn't dead, but
he's got the whooping cough. and now
every time he coughs the whistle
blows and the cop on the post comes
a-rluuiucn
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-06
Knew the Reason.
Papa" sai(

Papa" said the hopeful youth, can
you tell me what is natural philoso-
phy?"
"Of course, I can" said papa, proud
and relieved to find that there was at
least something he could tell his Off
spring. Natural philosophy is the SCI
enee Of cause and reason. Now, for
instance. you can see the steam coming
out Of the spout Of the kettle. but you
don't know why or FOR what reason it
does 80, and
oh. but do. papa!" chirped the
hope Of the household. THE reason the
steam comes out Of the kettle is so
that mamma may open your letters
Listen to them now" he said. as q
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-06
GREATER IOWA PRICES,

Land safes recorded in Iowa "this
spring indicate that Iowa land prices
like time and tide wait on no man ex-
cept the person with the price and that
while candidates. come and go the
steady increase in value of Iowa farm
lands goes on forever. From every Sec
ton of the state are reported sales few
of which fall below the 500 mark and
most Of which rise over 1925, while
many are beyond 5000. 1t is worth
while to remark the land sales. They
are the pulse Of prosperity in Iowa
Northwestern Iowa, not long ago low
priced land, sells farms in practically
all it's counties above 5000 Sales at
1910 and s215 are not uncommon
the 500 class and the time is not far
distant when those farms will be
eagerly sought at 5000. Southwestern
Iowa, the blue grass belt where land
sold outside the peculiarly excellent
lands of the Nishna valley ten or
twelve years ago at approximately $50
an acre has little land valued at less
than 500 and much that is priced
at 5000. Central Iowa farms are
rtaed from s125 to $3.50 and listen to
southeastern Iowa:
Nearly $4,000 worth Of farm land in
eLe county was sold yesterday and
deeds filed in the recorders office in
Keokuk. The highest price paid was
by Dennis Morony, who bought 24O-
acre tract from A. B. Gillaspey for $780,
600. which is s125 per acre.
Three warranty deeds recorded at
the johnson county court house totaled
more than Sill, 900, and other transfers
were recorded by the dozen, running
from $4,000 to $4,000. Considerations
ran from 800 to $500 per acre.
In the light Of the advance in prices
where has the Spectator in farm lands
made more speculative money than in
Iowa during the past twenty years
And what purchaser has taken less
chances? The beauty Of the Iowa spec
ulation has been that it was never a
speculation but the safest Of invest
mentS. In that period there have
millions and millions of Iowa money
been thrown at the birds who sing
Sweetly Of mining stock and the half
hundred gek-rich-qu songsters But
when the gain is counted and the books
balanced the investor in Iowa farm
lands win be found with the plethoric
pocksebook. It Is as true now as II
was then that Iowa farm lands are
good investments at the current prices
The reason was expressed by bibu.
1ous gentleman on a train In Iowa some
years ago when he said that a new
ba1v vas. born every minute but th<
E1sA AaA quit making corn land
Sometimes men get the idea tia;
EhsV aFe personally responsible for tn,
oRsatnASs % Iowa AID that e the.
90 ths state would stop growing. I
! = NOT -. One Or more Of these me,
80 bslng born every minute but tn
1ss6s 49, g.: 1z.a:x::1s SS .s--
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-06
Exe.laht Of the Mouse.

How much does mouse see? To
look at a mouse, one would think that
sight counted for great deal in it,
life; but experiments go to show that
this Is only true within certain limits.
Nice are good at distinguishing DIFF
ferent degrees Of illumination and DIFF.
fersnt colors (preferring rad and yell
low TO blue and green). and they are
quick to detect movements; but they
have little sense Of form and little
binocular vision. Microscopic study
shows that the retiua has no rods
and no "fovea."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-06
Meteor's Rings.

In the entrance to the American
Museum of Natural History in New
York stands large meteor brought to
that city and presented to the museum
by the Peary Expedition company. To
handle the immense mass Of metal
and stone large iron hooks and rings
we're made fast at several places.
"The other day." said a museum
guard. "a young New Yorker about
seven years old stood with his moth
err admiring the exhibit. The mother
read the description, saying that this
came from another planet and was
hurled through space, finally landing
in the arctic regions"
Mamma" asked the little Knicker-
booker, was that stone hung to the
other planet by those rings?"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-06
Cause and Effect.

Miss Elizabeth Marbury, a New
York theatrical agent, was con-
demning the shrewish, scolding type
of woman. "You can always tell her"
said Miss Marbury. "If you can't tell
her in one way you can tell her IN
another. l said to woman the other
Sunday: why, my dear, how hoarse
you are!' Yes she answered angrily.
my husband was out late last night.