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The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-05-03
Appeal To neuss And Senate
Starts Flood Of Gold To
Flint Water.
NORTHERN ROUTE DANGER
RECOGNIZED YEARS AGO
Elder Ismay. Father OF J. Bruce
Ismay, Urged Changes As
Long Ago As 1875 In
Letters On File.

Washington, u C., April 30 Special
President Jnseph E Ransdell 0f IN
National Rivers and Harh,rs Con
Rresa, senstOr-elect from Louisiana
has returned from his plantation
along Tile Mississippi with sorrOwinl
tales Of loss Of life and destruction o
property due to the awful food OF TIT
mighty river which must still further
be held In leash that life and prOpert,
may he saved from continuation OIL
these terrible visitations Of Provi
dence.
Congressman Ransdell with his
usual celebrity and forcefulness 81
wrought upon the members of con
gress, with the aid OF his colleagues
living along the Father OF Waters
that the senate has passed an emer.
gency joint resolution making imme.
diately available sl,50O,O00 OF the
amount that will be carried in the
river and harlMr hill for the Mlssis.
sippi river levees TO the end that the
levees destroyed by the flood may be
at once rebuilt and threatened levees
strengthened. The house committee
on rivers and harhOrs has reported
favOrably a similar resolution but
now that the senate has taken pri-
mary ac,inn the house will substitute
the senate resolution for its own and
before this letter appears In print a
million and u half dullars will he
made immediately available tor the
board OF engineers to begin the bust
ness Of closing up the creyass>trsn,ade
by the mad watses; ~
The flrods theisxreatest in our his
tory, hasswept away houses, destroy.
ed millions OF dollars worth 1T prop.
erty and hundreds of lives and has
rendered homeless, it, Is estimated,
more than 100000 people,
DANGER RECOGNIZED.
One OF the striking things that has
been made public siucc congress has
been underwriting to prnbe the Incl.
dents surrounding the Titanic disas.
ter is the fact that rs long ago as 1875
an effort was made tn secure an agree.
ment between fnrrien steamship Lines
for ocean-voing vessels To av"d the
shorter northern route at dangerous
seasons Ut the year, when icebciRs
were likely To he encountered
During meeting OF the house CEN
mittee on merchant marine and fish
cries letter was read tu the commit.
lee that WAS written by Thnuas j.,
nay, the father uf }. Bruce lsmav, pres.
dent Of the international Mercantile
Marine company which owned the
10 1876, 10 which he urged
lpon a conference Ut foreign steam.
hip owners that they enter inuo an
agreement whereby all the lines
mould send their ships aver the more
onthern but safer route at dangerous
easOns Of the years. Another letter
rom Thomas lsmay to the same ef.
ect, written 10 1889. was also read to |
he committce, t0 atiUw that the dan
er from the shorter northern route
lad always been recognized by steam
hip companies.
The letters In question were among
be dies Ut the commissioner OF navi.
alton, and were furnished by him tn
he chairman OF the cpmmittee, Rep.
Alexander OF Missouri.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-05-03
Telephone Talk No. I.

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The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-05-03
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nod" he writes, that DR.. Kings New
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The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-05-03
J. B. D0RSETT IS A CANDIDATE
Virgins Man Wants To Go To
4 Baltimore.

At the solicitation OF many friends,
l hereby announce myself as a candi-
date for delegate to the National
Democratic Convention at Baltimore
from the Sixth Congressional District
OF this state, subject to the action Of
the Democratic primaries to be held
May It'll.
The support OF the Democratic
voters OF this district will be greatly
appreciated.
j. B. DoRsErT.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-05-03

oaina (kanJ Union: Those Demo-.
U e,a's VINO oppose the nomination or
GOVERNOR Wilson as the Democratic
candidate for the presidency should
advance some better reason than that
ne mas changed bis mind or shifted his
point OF view on political issues. The
man who stands today where he has
always stood on all political questions
y 700 much of Bourbon TO deserve
sne support Of Democratic voters.s
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-05-03

"Dr. Thomas Eclectic Oil Is the
best remedy for that often fatal d..
sease-crOup. Has been used with
success In our family for years."-Mrs.
L. WhiLescre, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-05-03
j. b. DOR6ETT.
Virgins, Miss. April 9th, 1912.

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dy, pmply complexion. headaches,
nausea, indigestion. Thin blood makes
you weak. pale, sickly. Burd0ck
Blood Bitters makes the blood rich,
red, pure-restOres perfect health.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-05-03

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The Cairo bulletin., 1912-11-10
LADIES' SUITS.

The great popularity our Suit Depart
ment enjoys is due to the fact that we
feature the best and most practical lines
of Ladies Suits, In purchasing a Kauf-
mans garment you have every assur-
ance that you are as we'll clad as the
best. Our garments are always exact
in point of style and quite moderate in
price. They have been designed and
cut by the worlds foremost tailors.
Prices Range from $40 TO $40
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-11-10
FUR DEPARTMENT.

Our buyers, having spent several weeks
in the east, have made special efforts
in selecting an enormous assortment of
the very newest and latest the fur
world offers. Do you want natural
lynx, a near seal, a natural or blend
mink, or japanese mink, or black fox,
or red fox, Isabella. opposum or black
pony? You will find them here in a
great variety, reasonably priced at from
$3.50 10 $500 a SET.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-11-22

fear On the heels OF this constant
fear comes insanity. and the scene
ends with a death frightful in It's
pangs and merciful only In its re-
lease.
With the effects of absinthe 30 well
known It becomes a matter OF ma
tional congratulation that this gov
ernment on the 25th of last June,
prohibited the importation OF this
drug into the United States. The law
went into effect the first day of 0c-
tober and is strict and stringent In
its commands. 1t was through the
pure food and drug department that
those OF our officials who saw the in
creasing use of 1t and it's deadly ef-
fects were able to reach and com
bat 1t. If that pure food and drug
department never did before and new
er does hereafter anything for the
people, this one act will justify the
existence.
AS a result of the enactment
against 1t, the importation of absinthe
, was largely increased during the past
month. Dealers who pander to the
self-destruction of their patrons laid
in big supplies for the future. But
no supply can last for good, 1t is only
o question of a comparatively short
while before the slender-stemmed
! glass will be empty and the habitual
user will plead in vain for 1t to be
| filled. Smugglers may bring in small
quantities to the coast cities, but the
country at large will be free from the
body -debasing, mind-rotting, soul
losing influence of the incisive green
venom that is the very life-blood OF
deviltry.
When the American people wake
up to the unmeasured good eventual
ly to be achieved by it, they will See
in Pure Food Inspection Decision
147" a short but effective proclama-
ton of emancipation for an increas-
ing number of Americans who were
following the French surrender to the
absinthe habit
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-11-22

poppy and peacock BY the eighth
century tea was common enough in
every part of China and there is a tax
record dated in the year 1913 showing
that emperor Tih Tsung was deter
mined to exact revenue from tea.
Since that date tea has been regu-
! larly taxed as a luxury in every coun-
try where it is extensively used.
Tea was carried to Japan and cul
! tivation established early in the ninth
century. 1t is quite difficult to estab
| lish the exact date when tea drink
ing was introduced in Europe. There
is no trace of it prior to the year
1888 although other Chinese customs
had been imported before then. Tea
was brought to Europe by the Portu-
guese who were the most daring in
the worlds explorers and discoverers
In that distant day. But tea drinking
did not become a habit until the en-
terprising Dutch traders introduced
the custom a few years later.
The earliest mention of tea drink
ing in England occurs in letter
from Mr. Wickham from Japan dat
ed June q, 1915. In 1856 the Eng
lish began to drink tea in society cir
cles, the supply being imported from
Java at the cost of $50 to $50 pound.
1t, is quite needless to say that the
common people did not drink much
tea during those days. About that
time the following advertisement was
printed in an English paper:
THAT excellent and by all Physiti-
ans approved China drink called by
the Chineans Tcha, by other nations
Tay, alias Tee, is sold at the Sultan
ess Heal cophee-house in Sweetings
Rents, by the Royal Exchange, Lon
don"
By the year 1877 tea was being ex-
tensively imported and from that day
the price gradually became lower and,
consequently more people began to
drink it, until early in the eighteenth
century the annual consumption was
two pounds per person In England
Today tea is used the world ar
ound. 1t Is the natural drink Of Rus
sia, extending all over the Russian
empire and into Siberia. It is the
favorite beverage Of all ASIA includ- |
ing Tibet, India. China and Japan. In
England. Canada and United States |
tea drinking is practiced by practically
every household. Millions and mil
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-11-22
ABSINTHE, a DEVILS DRINK.

A slender, long-stemmed glass filled
with the green devils blood we call
absinthe would be the appropriate
death sign for many a man whose in
tellect, unclouded by the drugging Ii
quid. might have been a beacon light
to his fellows.
In Europe and Northern Asia there
is a plant called wormwood which
Is so bitter it has become a snynoym
for that word. THE wormwood of
life" in the poets line means the very
quintessence of bitterness of fate.
1t seems then, peculiarly appro-
pirate that the liquor which, above
all others, darkens and blasts a mans
life should be the product of this
weed Distilled by means of alcohol
its juice becomes abslnthe, the green
poison which is the sure and unfail-
ing ally of the devil wherever and
whenever it is used.
More than half a century ago, when
the French were fastening their hold
on Algiers and making 1t a depend
ency of their government, an order
was issued to the soldiers to mix the
extract of wormwood with their Ii
|
quors as preventive of desert fe-
vers. The order, issued merely as a
medical precaution, was obeyed; the
soldiers drank the bitter flavor and
came home addicted to a new phase
of dissipation.
| For the wormwood, stimulating the
mental faculties for while, gave
| them pleasureable sensations and
showed them beautiful visions. But
while it was doing this 1t was eating
away the fine sens. bilities, the pow
ers of clelr thought and conception
and leaving in its train ghastly line
| of wrecked minds and bodies, the
! floasam of ambition and hope, the
| prey of every gust Of evil passion.
| In a few years absinthe drinking
had become the curse of France. The
alarmed government seeing its devas-
! tating effects, forbade its use in the
army and navy, but scattered all over
the country are distilleries where the
green stuff-sometmes adulterated
with blue vitrol to increase its fierce
ly stimulating qualties-is manufac-
tured and sold. Ask a patriotic
Frenchman what it Is that Is pauper-
izing so many of his countrymen, and
he will answer 'absinthe." Ask him
what is cutting down the intellectual
average of his country and what is
filling It's madhouses and its grave
yards with unnecessary victims, and
the answer will be "absinthe."
The thirst for 1t. once cultivated,
becomes mastering passion not to
be denied or gainsa.d. The user goes
to bed and gets up thinking of the
slender-stemmed glass and it's green
contents; ambition, energy, hope are
gradually drowned in the liquid pois-
on, and the man becomes a human
derelict whose haunting demon Is
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-11-22
WHY SCIENCE APPROVES
OF LOVE MATCHES

A defense of love at first sight was
made by Sir James Crichton Brown
in his presidential address 10 the
conference of Sanitary Inspectors
81 am a believer" the celebrated
physician said, Sin the love match.
not only from a romantic but from
eugenic point of view. In very
large proportion of marriages love
plays no part, or only very subor-
Ginate one. Rank, social influence,
ambition and what Carlisle calls the
cash nexus are dominant factors, but
marriages thus made are not the most
likely to produce favorable results in
the next generation.
"Our aristocracy, the late Profes-
sor Laycook used to say, has been
saved by it's occasional alliances with
| actresses and milkmaids. There must
! be deep physiological significance in
the spontaneous, inexplicable attrac-
ton that instantly draws two persons
| into sympathetic union and the off
spring of unions thus brought about
are, | believe, more likely to De heal
thy than the offspring of those who
| nave dllltu lIltIlSGlNtS III COlu DlOOu
from mercenary or sordid motives.
II am not defending foolish, hasty
early marriages, of which we have a
great deal too many. The abolition
of Gretna Green was a loss to the
! novelist, but gain to the country.
Love at first sight of the right kinG
blesses him who has experienced It,
and is charged with blessings Cor
those that come after him."
On the same subject President Da-
vid Starr Jordan, of Leland Stanford
University, takes up this phase OF
eugenics and calls it the "Burbanking
of the Human Race" He agrees with
Sir James Crichton Browne in the
matter of love, declaring that love is
the best base for marriage
81 used the phrase, 'Burbanking
the Race" says President Jordan,
ito show that, although systematic.
scientific selection of mates could be
made to produce great physical
strength, beauty endurance and even
mental power, those very persons who
might be thus effectively mated would
never submit to state dictation.
IF they would, they must in time
eliminate the most vital element in
human evolution-love and initiative.
Love is the best basis for marriage,
and love Is a very real and noble
thing, in spite of the baseness of its
limitations.
"The value of eugenic study Is in
the diffusion of sound ideas of live
and parenthood. Government can do
something to refusing to those WIN
cannot care for themselves because Of
feeble-mindedness, disease and vice,
but legislation must be undertaken
very cautiously, giving the individ-
ual benefit of all doubt."--San Fran
CISCO Examiner.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-11-22
INDOOR CULTURE
OF THE LILY

Many of my floral friends have ad-
mired the lovely Gala lily, which is
known by most florists as the Rich
ardia Africana. and have doubtless
wondered why they could not be sue
cessfully grown in the house with
more common flowers.
Their culture is really more sim
Pile and easily accomplished than that
of many of the commoner house
plants We find in homes of flower
lovers.
In the first place it is important to
secure the larger and more fully rip
ened bulbs, sometimes called rhizones
and these should be placed in good
sized pots,
The more commonly sold tubers or
rhizones, as the florists term them
are about two or three inches in d.
ameter and should be placed in a six
or eight inch pot. The soil should
be rich loan, we'll mixed with about
one-third well-rotted COW manure.
The bottom OF the pot should be COW
cred with few bits of stone or brok-
en- pottery. and a layer OF moss, to
provide drainage The tuber must be
placed in the earth to a depth that
| will allow about an inch of earth
above its crown. The soil should be
about an inch below the rhizone to
insure its being thoroughly secured
| In position.
After the earth containing the tu-
ber is we'll watered, II should be plac-
ed in a dark. cook place. until the
roots have gained a good start.
AS a rule these roots are quite mas
sive, and form a nice clump about
the tuber. The earth should be kept
we'll moistened, but not soaked, and
when the roots have grown consider
ably the pot should be brought out
into a light room where there is q
little more heat.
A north window will answer, but
an eastern exposure will be much
better, and the foliage and stalks will
be much larger. Also, they will las
longer.
The lily will send up one shoo
with bloom, and then, just as the frs
bloom begins to fade, another is start
ed This is the time to cut off tht
first fading bloom. Care must be ex
ercised in removing this that the sec
ond is not injured.
Cut it down close, but be careful
the new shoot is not clipped. If
third shoot appears, which is Otter
the case with large tubers. and wher
the plant has had the proper car
and the right kind of soil the sten
of the second bloom must be remove,
with the same care as the first, ant
the third handsome bloom will com
forth
If a group of fine blooms are de
sired. several tubers should be plant
ed in a pot of nine or more inches
This should produce very attractiv
display for a window.-Philadelph
North American.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-11-22

lions of pounds of tea leaves are con-
sumed every year
Old fashioned methods of growing
and preparing tea were too slow and
costly to supply the world Agricul-
tural experts have improved upon the
tea bush, improving the uality, and
they have discovered many countries
where tea can be successfully grown.
In place of the old charcoal fires for
curing tea modern electric dryers are
now used in many places in India and
modern machinery is used in packing
1t for the market.
In preparing tea for drinking pur-
poses the Russian way is the best.
The Russians make tea in a samover.
which is a copper urn, heated by
charcoal, designed purposely for tea
making. The word is taken from the
Tartar sanabar, meaning tea-urna The
common method of making tea in a
pot by throwing in a small handful
of tea leaves and boiling them on the
stove is all wrong, yet this Is the way
most people prepare tea. Tea should
never be boiled and the tea leaves
should never be allowed to stand in
the beverage because, If allowed to
stand, poisonous oils and tanning soak
out and into the drink.
American adaptions of the Russi-
an samovers are always best for tea
making. In these the tea leaves are
placed in ea-ball" and suspended
in the pot. The water is brought to
a boil by electric heat and when the
beverage is just the right consistency
the tea-ball is raised to the top of the
pot where 1t remains, imprisoning all
the detrimental qualities Of the tea
leaves which might get in the bever-
age If allowed to remain in the pot
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-11-22

of reform carried on by the assocla-
ton since the annexation of the
Congo by Belgium has OF late shown
good progress. and that the two main
objects for which the association was
founded have been secured.
The journal puts the question
whether the time has come when its
raison d'etre has ceased, but It ans
wers its own question in the negative.
Primarily, the old legislation. the
Leopoldian conception of land as
wholly the property OF the state. re-
gardless of the rights of the natives,
is still unaltered by any act or dec
claration on the part of the Belgian
government Secondly, that the as
sociation cannot regard its work as
complete because his majesty's gov
ernment Is not themselves in a posi-
ton to feel fully satisfied that the re-
forms are being completely applied.
1t was only in July last that the last
area to be effected by the reform law
came under the operation of the
law. This area consists of the rich
est rubber producing region left in
the Congo and barring the very worst
! form of abuse in force under the
Leopoldian system. conditions in the
| country can hardly be said to have
| improved.
In view of Sir Edward Grey's state
ment in the House of Commons In
April, that "his majesty's government
will not recognize the annexation Col
the Congo by the Belgian government
until the British consular official!
have laid before the house positive
evidence that the state OF affairs /:
satisfactory" the determination OF tn,
Congo Reform association to continue
its work is we'll Justified
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-11-22
MOTHER! WATCH THE
CH|LDREN'S BOWELS
II Gross, Sick, Eeverish, Bilious or
Tongue Is Coated Give Delicious
''Syrup of Figs"

No matter what ails your child. a
gentle, thorough laxative physic
should always be the first treatment
given.
If your child isn't feeling well:
resting nicely; eating regularly and
acting naturally it is a sure sign iha.
it's little stomach, liver and 30 feet
of bowels are filled with foul, con
stipated waste matter and need u
sentle, thorough cleansing at once.
When cross, irritable, feveriJh
stomach sour. breath bad or your liz
tie one has stomach-ache. diarrhoea.
ed; give a teaspoonful of Syrup or
Figs and in a few hours all the clog
geo up waste, undlgested food and
sour bile will gently move on and out
Of its little bowels without nausea.
gripin or weakness, and you will
surely have well, happy and smil
ing child again shortly
With Syrup of Figs you are not
drugging your children, being com
posed entirely of luscious figs, senra.
and aromatis 1t cannot be harmful,
besides they dearly love its delicious
f.g taste.
Mothers should always keep Syrup
Of Figs handy. 1t is the only stom-
ach, liver and bowel cleanser and reg
ulator reeded-a little given today
will save sick child tomorrow
Full directions for children Of all
ages and for grown-ups plainly print
ed on the package.
Ask your druggist for the full name
Syrup Of Figs and Elixir of Senra,"
prepared by the California Fig Syrup
Co. This is the delicious tasting, gon-
uine old reliable. Refuse anything
else offered.