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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-01-09
.P|TTSBURG IS
FACING FLOOD
ENORMOUS DAMAGE DONE
Mills Arc Flooded and Thousands Of
Men Are Idle-Rivers Are Nine
Feet Above the Danger Mark
Forty Eight Feet Is Predicted at
Wheeling, Va.

Pittsburg. Pa, Jan. with eigh-
teen hours warning, Uittsburg is pre-
pared for a flood. At the junction
of the Monongahela and Allegheny
rivers the water already is thirty
one feet deep. nine feet above the
danger mark. No fatalities are re-
ported. The damage is enormous.
Mills are flooded and thousands of
men are idle. The crest of the flood
is expected to be reached in the
Ohio river this afternoon. A stage
of forty eight feet is predicted at
Wheeling. If this is reached damage
will be enormous.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-01-09
Two Lodging Houses are Destroyed
and Thirteen Inmates are BeIiev-
ed TO Have Perished.
HEROIC REsCuEs MADE

F1lmsy Frame Structures Are Easy
Prey to Flames-LOdgers Cut Off
From Stairways and Several Leap
70 Safety-F4remen Are Hampered
In Their Work.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-01-09

Cincinnati. Jan. 9.-The Ohio river
reached stage of forty five feet be-
fore noon, rising at the rate of six
inches hourly. 1t is predicted that
the fifty five foot stage will be
reached by Saturday. No serious
damage is reported.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-01-09
EXTRA SESSION
is DISCUSSED
WILSON HAS CONFERENCE

Refuses to Divulge Details of Discus
sion Between Himself and Senators
Smith and GOre-Tariff and Cur
rency Subjects Talked Over-No
Conclusions Reached,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-01-09

CONTINUED on page 5,)
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-01-09

Continued on page eight.)
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-09

Batting ones hook with science
and catching fish by the wholesale is
a fairly good occupation, provided the
game wardens don't get wise. A
fisherman of this character recently
got himself in very bad with the au-
thorities of a certain western county.
He was seen peddling large guam
titles of fish through the streets Of
one of their cities and the game war
dens could not understand how he
got them, as SEEMING or using nets of
any kind was forbidden. He didn't
have them shipped to him, either,
they learned. He was known to go
fishing every day or two, but when
observed from a distance he didn't
seem to be doing anything out Of the
ordinary. A clever officer solved the
mystery, however, --.-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-09
Daily Healthogram.

If breakfast isn't your best meal
of the day try getting up with the
sun and walking an hour before you
sit down to the table. It may cost
you more to live, but you won't be
sorry.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-09
VANILLA ICE CREAM

One quart of single cream, either
sweet or sour. Two cups. of sugar
three if the cream is soUr-One-half
a teaspoon of vanilla extract. Freeze
in the ordinary manner, repack and
serve after it has 'ripened" two
hours.
If you wish to make a company
dish" of this cream pour over it, just
before sending to the table in sherbet
cups, a sauce made of four heaping
tablespoons of sweet chocolate graf
ed to a smooth paste with six table
spoons of cream. Add two cups of
boiling water and cook in boiling
water. Stir constantly for ten min
utes after it begins to boil. Flavor
with half a teaspoon of vanilla and
pour over cream just before sending
to the table.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-09

He came upon the fisherman
seated comfortably on an embank-
ment beside the river along which a
trolley line ran. The man appeared
to be doing nothing at the time he
was found. His fish pole was held
out behind him, straight up in the
air., and the line seemed to be
wrapped around the pole.
Closer investigation showed that
the end of the pole touched the troll
ley wire, and an examination of what
appeared to be the line brought out
the fact that this was in reality stout
copper wire. The trolley wire was
charged with 500 volts of electricity.
The fisherman simply connected the
line with the river and electrOcuted
all the fish in his vicinity It was a
much easier way of getting them
than by seining and it brought him
plenty of fish. The discovery of his
secret cut off his business imme-
diately.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-07

B. F. Keith's name is a synbnym for
vaudeville. He is as thoroughly identified
with this form of amusement as Carnegie
with steel, Armour with beef, or Morgan
with money, and for the reason that his
genius brought all the present wonders
of vaudeville to pass.
Born in New England, BENJAMIN
Franklin Keith grew up on a farm which
he left in his teens to follow various
circuses. firing of the tents he went to
Boston and pondered over the show
manship he had learned on the road and
the possibilities before him for opening
a hall show" He observed that variety
was vastly entertaining but without
class, standing or public consider alton
due to its surroundings. the abuse of
low comedy, and the poor salaries paid
performers. This was in the early
eighties. Mr.. Keith concluded that the
wit. the humor, the interest and excite
ment provided by variety actors would
delight the best elements of the public
If presented\ in a clean way in clean
structures by artists who saw future
before them under responsible and re-
putable direction. Mr.. Keith promptly
began business in a store. 1t was not
long before he enlarged and then en-
larged again and steadily working ut his
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ROMANTIC HISTORY OF LLOYDS

who had fallen within the clutches OF the
law, or were likely to do so, were fire.
duently insured. One insurance is still
recorded of the possibilities of the exc
cution of two Jacobite Scotch peers after
the I745 rebellion at a premium OF L.
per cent: the life OF John Wilkes was in
sured at a premium of per cent; that
of Alderman Bond at per cent The re-
turn Of Wilkes to Parliament was lnsul ed
ar premiums carrying from 80 to so
and his election for MiddleseN at the pre-
r,irin, of from 800 to $3.50 The chance
of war with France was insured against
at a premium of so, and dissolution
Of Parliament at a premium of S75. Trav-
elers might insure their return from Tor
eipn countries at various rates. Henry,
when going to COnstantinople, insured
his return for $3.50 on the payment OF
s.. go.
It has been truly observed that the
country was greatly indebted to Lloyds
for the great service rendered during the
wars which were almost continuous from
1775 TO lSl5, and Incidentally these wars
led 10 the development Of Lloyds, 1or
they attracted marine insurance 10 Eng
land from all parts of the world. And
some measure of the British success at
sea was due to the patriotic zeal OF uh-
derwriters in insuring supplies tnat "eTe
brought to England. Otherwise 1t wouid
lave been impossible to bring commodl-
ties into the country.
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conception Of vaudeville. as variety be-
gan to be known he introduced a great
diversity into his programe, resolutely
banned all profanity and indecency, AMI
kept his amusement places like parlors.
Family Entertainment.
He made vaudeville a truly family en-
tertainment and the good folk of Boston
began to believe that 1t was an amuse-
ment well worth while. During this
period he invented the continuous per-
formance and was the first to use cleo
trio lights in theater. Then Mr.. Keith
did an amazing thing. He began build
ing a beautiful house for vaudeville.
Keith's first Palace Theater opened In
1893 and astonished the amusement world
by its magnihcence. 1t was then and
still Is one of the finest theaters in the
world but the greatest marvel Of that
Gay was that 1t housed the once despised
vaudeville. Boston is conservative, but
even its clergy indorsed Keith vaude-
Vile as presented in the new theater and
the aristocrats of the Back Bay mace
weekly visits to Keith's. From that time
on Mr.. Keith's advance was irresistibla.
He built duplicates of the Boston house
in Providence and Philadelphia, pur-
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chased and remodeled theaters in New
York, and last year bought outright for
S, ,OOo,O 900 the Percy G. Williams Circuit
in New York.
With the addition of Chases 10 his
circuit he now has in his personal con-
troll and ownership thirty first-class
theaters devoted to Keith vaudeville
scattered between Portland, Me-, and
Chicago He has recently completed in
New York the Palace-the costliest
structure devoted to vaudeville in the
world. Mr.. Keith is the creator and
president Of the United Booking Offices
of America, a central orgs snization, OIL
clearing house Of vaudeville, that serves
every first-class theater in the United
States.
In securing a good theater in Wash
ington he has accomplished something
that he has long set his heart upon
doing.
Has ResourcefuI Executives.
Like all captains OF industry. Mr..
Keith has surrounded himself with re-
sourcefuI executives, the general man.
ager of Ms circuit of theaters and also
OF the United Booking Offices being Ed
ward F. Albee, a former New York City
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complete it. Much Of the novel was pen
ned when its author could not even
sit W.
Sir Walter Scott wrote, or rather die
tated, his most popular novel, Ivan
hoe" in bed-or at least from a sick
couch. He had two secretaries who
used to take turns at writing down the
fruits OF his fertile fancy, although he
was in the most constant and severe
pain, the interest of the great story
went on unchecked to the end.
The Road Member" by Michael Fair
less, has been and is one OF the best
sellers on the market Michael Fair
less" is'the pen name Of young girl
who died in her teens" and she wrote
THE Road Member on her death bed.
finishing II but a few hours before actu-
ally quitting this mortal vale forever.
Weir Of HermistOn." Robert Louis
Stevenson's last unfinished book, was
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newspaper man and editor. whose dis.
cernment in theatrical affairs attracted
to him the attention of Mr. Keith about
twenty-seven years ago. Adding Mr.. Al
bee to his stan proved one Of the wisest
steps ever taken by the founder III
vaudeville. In his loyal, indefatigable
service the Keith interest is paramount
and dominant with Mr.. Keith's general
manager.
After passing him through the fires
Of long and strenuous experience, 3. r.
Keith has advanced his son. A. Paul
Keith. to the position of assistant gen.
eral manager. The young man, equipped
with the best education money can buy.
began at the beginning when the time
came for him to qualify for his destined
future control of the Keith fortune and
activities. He served obediently and un-
ceasingly in the advancement OF the
Keith standard throughout the large
cities of the country. and went from
higher post to still higher post only as
his ability and knowledge warranted.
Now, on the sunny side OF thirty, he
stands third in order from the supreme
post. and is capable at any time to carry
forward the exalted ambitions and poll
cies OF his father.
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Great English Insurance Con-
Germ, Established Over 200
Years Ago, Does Legiti-
mate Business as Well as
Taking Freak Risks.

In the history Of business and com
mcrce there is no more romantic chap
Ter than that which concerns Lloyds.
that great organization of brokers and
underwriters. which conducts all the
maritime insurance Of the world, and, as
: side line. 30 TO speak, accepts all
sorts of freak insurance
As many readers are doubtless aware,
one may secure at Lloyds insurance
against almost any conceivable risk
against twins, bad weather; appendicitis
or other illness; earthquakes and what
not.
CuriousIy enough. these queer insur-
ances played an important part in the
carly history of Lloyds, which was so
named after Edward Lloyd, man who
EcTt in Tower Street. toward the close
o. the seventeenth century, a coffee
house which WAS the great meeting place
at that time for persons interested in
shipping and matters connected with ship
ping, says the New York Telegraph.
Lloyd was a man of great enterprise,
and he was really the originator of the
great system of maritime and CONNER
tial intelligence which has been so de-
Neluped that today IIoyds agents are
10 be found on every coast in the world.
Day by day they report by electric cable
and wireless teegraphy the passing or
arrival of vessels in their particular core
er of the globe, and it is thus thai tn
world, through the medium OF Lloyds, is
able to keep in touch with the movements
of every ship. And in number of great
volumes kept At LlOyds is daily entered
the position of every British ship. or the
date and place at which it was last
spoken.
For the greater convenience of mer-
chants meeting at the coffee house,
Lloyd founded, in 1896, a shipping pa
PER, which he himself edited. When,
however. he attempted to criticise in
print the attitude of the House OF Lords
with regard to silks the paper was i'm
mediately suppressed, and was not al
lowed to be republished until thirty
years later.
At the same time. however, Lloyd
was often able to render the govern
ment service, and he was the first to
communicate the news of the capture
Of Porte Bello by Admiral Vernon after
the death of Admiral Hosier.
There is preserved at Lloyds what is
believed to be the oldest maritime insur-
ance policy in existence, dated January
20, 1850. 1t was issued to Richard May
upon goods and merchandise, and also
upon the good ship Golden Fleece, 80
tons Casper Hicks master), from Lisbon
to Venice, at the rate Of 4 pounds per
cent"
There was a clique which gathered at
IJoyd's coffee house, however. the mem
hers of which INDUCED in all forms of
gambling, and it would appear that they
shocked tie staid clients of I-loyds, for
these, in the latter part of the eighteenth
century, migrated, and leaving the cof-
fee house removed their business to the
Roval Exchange, where they established
themselves as a society in 1T4, in
building which stood on the site Of the
present institution.
As an illustration OF the gambling IN
suecuIative insurance which was carried
on at Jloyd's coffee house il might be
.--an5iansd thai 49, 49, - Li-I-------
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Earthquakes in Your Home.

When the stairs creak and the furniture
gives out mysterious cracking SOUNDS
~ night We sometimes sit up in bed
and wonder if there is a burglar about
but it doesn't occur to US that what we
hear is really an earthquake on smal
scale. The night air has caused the wood
to contract with a snap, thus accounting
for the alarming sounds. This is just
exactly what the earth is doing period
ically. To a microbe reposing on the pol
ished surface of the table this disturb
ance is probably as violent as an earth
quake is to a human being.
An earthduake is a terrible thing. 1t
comes without warning. 1t is over before
one knows which way to fly, and its fury
can be abated by no man.
Yet to the geologist earthquakes are
only symptoms. They are not causes so
much as results-results of great stresses
and strains within the earth that cause
slippings and slidings from time to time.
II the rocks on the shell of the earth slip
and crate against each other SO much
as an inch along a fissure ten miles in
length. a shiver is felt. A slip of fifteen
feet along a course OF 800 miles sufficed
to bring about the terrible San Francisco
earthquake and fire.
These strains and stresses accumulate
steadily within the earth. The point at
which they have once found relief is
weaker to resist the next strain. 1t slips
again presently. By successive move
ments its sides become more and more
displaced. Rock layers, mineral veins,
coal seams that cross the line of dis
placement are logged out of their course.
So are roads, fence lines. and brooks that
run across 1t on the surface. In the San
Francisco quake one mans front yard
was moved twenty feet to one side of
his house, and in another place the slip
line came so close to a mans barn that
some piles of straw, throw out from the
windows. were carried away. In Japan
cliff twelve feet high interrupted
roadway, and thousands of similar cases
might be cited. These were primary
movements along the line of the disturb
ance that caused the earthquakes.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-07
HUMOROUS SIDE OF FLY-SWATTING

sharp pointed edge Of his wire swatter
had rudely tickled a full grown mule
with the usual results.
The boy was rescued alive with diff
Guilty by hastily organized relief
corps
Worcester, Mass, aspires to a claim
Tpon two notables-Professor "Fly-Trap''
Hodge and the worlds champion fly
swatter, who made his record by breed
ing his flies on a garbage heap and
catching them with the professors traps
1t was there also that the BOBBY prize
was won by a lad when he missed a fly
in the. garret OF his home, tore loose
and so tangled the electric wiring that
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written in bed. or rather dictated TO the
noveIist's devoted wife.
Mark Twain wrote nearly all his later
books in bed. He had a specially con-
trived bed desk fitted up. so that he
could write without trouble or exertion
while propped luxuriously smCng his pill
lows.
He used to aver that most Of his best
thoughts came to him in bed, and that
the trouble and worry of getting up,
shaving and dressing dispersed them all
and left him in no mood for cOmmenc-
ing his literary labors.
Keats wrote one Of the finest and most
pathetic sonnets in literature on his
deathbed: Charles Wesley wrote a lovely
hymn on his. and Mozart, as is well
known. composed the famous Re
quiem.'' which was performed at his
own burial, while he lay dying.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-07
Some Of Those Who Essayed
to Kill the Pests Had Ex-
periences that Dampened
Their Enthusiasm in the
Campaign.

Not a little humor, and some sudden
calamity, developed during the fy-
swatting campaigns of 1919 And the fly
didn't have a close monopoly on the
gloom stunts either. Sundry human be-
ings incidentally fell heir to a men,
tionable part in the lines Of tragedy, as
well.
The fly swatters did a great service
to the country; If in no other way. then
by attracting attention to the danger in
toleratins the pest. There are (also were)
a number of last years crusaders, how
ever, who will not enlist in the cam
paign of 1914.
y few of these are the unfortunates
whose names are enrolled among those
who fell in battle. The others, as a
matter of personal preference, and by
reason of painful experience. will elect
hereafter to adopt long range methods
of fy-swatting.
A Boy Scout in a Kansas suburb got
fly and hornets nest at one swat.
He was very sOrry-very. Count him
among the ex-swatters for 1914
Last August, at Sherbrooke, Canada,
four boys poured oil over their catch
in swat-the-hy contest in order to
burn them. All the boys caught fire and
one died from his injuries. Three OF
these boys will try drowning them next
year.
man in Philadelphia woke up num-
bled something in Quakerese, scratched
a hairless spot on top Of his head,
grasped a desk pad and made a wild
swing at fly. He missed the fly and
fell out of a fifth story window.
Lands on the stove.
An enthusiastic youth in Seattle. where
the anti-by crusade was especially active,
T11 III lzHz
long reach, and landed, just below his
suspender fastenings, squarely in the
center Of baking-day stove. He didn't
stay there long enough to interfere with
the baking.
well-defined portion of his trousers,
however, remained on the stove The
odor of burning cloth called his mother
upon the scene. She called the doctor.
1t took him several days to complete
the job of skin grating he found await
ing him. Young Master Seattle will do
next years swatting with a beanshooter.
There was the Boston lad who guessed
wrong on a low fly and sideswiped a
streak Of high-voNage electricity in the
form of stubby tail attached to a 60
horsepower bulldog. Boy and dog were
very soon closely attached to each other.
1t was not a friendly attachment, so far
as the boy was concerned; nor the dog,
either.
The boy was willing to sever their con-
nections on a compromise. The dog held
a different notion; also a combination of
boy and knickers. After the townspeople
finally succeeded in separating them there
was urgent need of a surgeon and a
tailor. Hereafter this boy will probably
do his fly swatting by absent treatment.
Mule Plays n Part.
There was the Boy Scout in the Wash
iDgton crusade. lie was bus!ly engaged
in swatting flies about the outdoor
market stands. With trained eye he
detected an enemy in the offng. Gal
lantly he advanced, charged for a strike
and-slipped on a banana peel.
The fv nSd sn the hnv' The
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seed on account OF being free from foul
weed seed. Even alfalfa has shown better
Yields where seeded after sugar beets.
j. d. o'DONNELL.
What "InieDsiye" Farmers Sny.
could quote hundreds of letters ns
similar, tenor received from American
Ioot crop or intensive" farmers scat
tered from Ohio to the Pacific Coast, but
one should suffice. One hundred and
twenty-siX bushels OF oats and seventy
four and One-half bushels of wheat per
eCrc in Montans-twice the average yield
OF oats and two and one-half times the
average yield OF what they grow in Ger
many does not partake Of foreign pal
aver or of 'moonshine."
In the face of such yields, so readily
secured by the application of brains and
elDow-gTease, II seems idioiic to farm
four times the area in order to secure
the same Weld. and for the representa-
tives of our great Department " Agri-
culture to teach such doctrine to our
G.COJ,c0O American farmers seems moth
ing short of criminal.
Heretofore we have been able to bring
hundreds of thousands of additional acres
OF virgin soil under the plOw each year
but today approximately all of our avail
able area in tn. humid regions has been
reclaimed and to provide food stuffs for
cur increasing population We must in
crease cur yield per acre. Otherwise we
ultimately will be largely dependent upon
foreign nations for our foOd-stliffs, our
imports Of which now exceed our exports
by several hundred million dollars an
nUally.
The science. or art Of agriculture be-
gan with the birth OF civilization. when
the roaming tribes ceased to exist on
wild products and began to SOW and reap
From that day to this. the effort Of
many Of the worlds leading thinkers
has been to coax the land TO yield more
Sbundantly.
"PIOw. Then PIov AGnIn."
Two thousand wears ago Cato, the
greatest agriculturist OF, his time, said
What is the first principle of good ag-
ricultuTe? To pillow well. What is the
second? To plow again. and the third is
to manure" With abundant land and
far less population than the world has
today. neither Cato nor any of mis- long
line of successors have advocated ''ex-
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NOVELS WRITTEN IN BED.

From Stray Stories
1t is over fifty years since East
Lynne" was published. yet both the
novel and the play founded upon il are
as popular as ever. The novel was writ
ten in bed, at house in Upper Nor
wood.
In fact, so Ill was Mrs. Henry Wood,
its author. that she did hot expect to
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it caused short circuit which started
fire that came near burning the house
down. Next summers hy-swatting in
that house will be done with one of the
professors catch-'em-alive traps
A young girl fty-swatting in a Cincin-
natl meat market slipped on a greasy
floor and lost a long braid Of hair in =
power frankfurter machine. 1t was all
her own hair.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-07

Harness has been patented by Mis-
souri, woman for chickens to hold their
wings down and prevent them flying
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sugar beets is bringing extra value for
seed on account Of being free from foul
weed seed. Even alfalfa has shown better
Yields where seeded after sugar beets-
Yours truly,
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There was the Boy Scout in the Wash
iDgton crusade. lie was bus!!y engaged
in swatting flies about the outdoor
market stands. With trained eye he
detected an enemy in the offing. CAL
lantly he advanced, charged for a strike
and-slipped on banana peel.
o. The fiV as..an ned not the hnv. The