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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-05-26
HAYING TIME is
ON AT STANDFIELD

Stanfield, May 26.-Haying has al
ready started in this locality and the
present week will see many crews in
the field. Although the present
spring has been backward and cold,
the alfalfa has grown nicely and is in
fine shape for cutting. Most of the
ranchers near here will get four cut
tings this year, but those who secure
only three will have fine fall pasture
The unsettled condition of the wealth
er is holding back many farmers. as
they are fraid of spelling their first
crop by getting it wet
The East Oregonian will buy your
old rags. Must be large and clean
Bring or send them tn this office al
your earliest convenience.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-05-26

R. o. Hawks is building a 20x32
two-story addition to the old Ewing
residence in Byers' Grove. The i'm
provement will cost about $1,000.
C. s Howard has secured a per-
NIT to build small addition to the
kitchen of his residence at 1914 Webb
street.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-05-26

Orono, Maine. May 26.-The cham
pionship of the smaller colleges of
New England is at stake here today
when Maine University meets the
strong Tufts nine here. The Univer-
sity of Maine teame was slightly fa
vored.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-12
GRIT THAT WOULD OTDOWN|

who had to meet and stave off cred
itors.
Now, when we are practically as
sured of time (Which is what we most
needD to retrieve ourselves, we can
stop and take stock.
Against these Universities we can
say that for eleven years we have
lived decently. not lacking either food
or clothing which was necessary.
I'VE have been bringing up three
children in good and healthy con-
dition, and we have had enough
simple pleasures to keep US well and
happy in spite of our troubles.
I'VE have had sickness and acct
dents, but none were fatal.
when things were at their worst
all had grit enough for-was to say
that we were young enough and
| strong enough to start in over again
and make a success yet; because
will not doubt our ultimately sue
ceeding.
II would keep saying to myself.
We might be much worse off, We
might not have enough to eat or to
wear or a good home or, most of all,
| we might have lost hope, under our
mountain of debt, as many do, and
| lapsed into q listless, ambitiousless
life. with nothing ahead for ourselves
or children: so / am most thankful
| that our grit has carried US through
and has given us doggedness and
| perseverance enough to carry us
through whatever more may come"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-12
A Thirteen-year-old Wireless Operator

handy with tools, so 7 didn't have
much trouble getting it up
The girl operator was visiting the
Art Museum in Cincinnati with her
school class when notified of her APP
pointment. An inquiry of several of
the pupils for the little girl wireless
operator brought this prompt reply:
That's Alace,' pointing to little girl
in a pink Bingham dress, knee length,
with her hair in q blond pig tall
After some persuasion Ohio's new
ly-appointed girl wireless operator
consented to go to Woodward High
School and there illustrate her Prov
ess. Professor j. Fl. Simon, In charge
of the physics department, and a
number of the students watched Alice
as she sat down at the wireless used
at the school for demonstration pur-
poses and readjusted the mechanism
to conform with her own ideas.
:" This set is too small to amount
to much. I use a quarter-inch coil,
but l have the largest tuner posi-
BILE with an amateur set. This helix
I use is also large, and instead of dry
cells use a dynamo. Right now the
dynamo is out of fix, so ] have used
the electric light current with an in
terrupter,' she explained to those who
were trying TO understand things
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-12
THE RIGHT OF THE SOVEREIGN PEOPLE.

WHETHER A Statewide referendum on law is within the
power Legislature being delegation of the legislative
power question may be passed by the state courts IN
their decision the chancellor bill
There doubt of the right of the Legislature to refer an
act to of the political subdivisions OF the state
The Legislature agent of the sovereign the people, and it
might be said that referendum only reference by the agent
sovereign for judgment where the Legislature
is in doubt having had definite instructions Every party
platform recognition of the principle that the Legislature is
elected the will of the people, who are the SOW
eegn when the Legislature in doubt what is more reason
able should appeal the sovereign settle the doubt?
The chancellor bill adopted by the people, If there were
no fatal ITSELF could the court to the people,
the sovereign deliberately adopted by the sovereign
and of law is invalid because the Legislature
the people and because the people acted in their
sovereign capacity?
After the people rendered Judgment question of
State policy them by the Legislature their representa-
tive and agent the power aside the popular
will only ground that the people have right of judgment
except through unnuced legislators when these legislators
are deadlocked on the question and cannot act?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-12
BY HERBERT QUICK
Author of ''on Board the Good Ship
Earth" Etc. Editor Of Farm
and Fireslde.

Author of sOn Board the Good Ship
Earth" Etc. Editor Of Farm
and Fireslde.
II, as / think, we are as 9 mat
ter of policy and duty, bound to rer
peal or suspend the law providing
for free passage for our coast wise
ships and imposing tolls on the ships
of other nations, what shall we do
about tolls?
We can let everybody's ships
through free and make the world a
present of the canal, for one thing;
and 1t would be money in orr pockets
as a nation to do this rather than
charge tolls which would even retard
the movement of freight
If the interest on our Investment
is twelve or fifteen millions a year
and we operated the canal free, it
would still be a good Investment. II
nearly doubles the efficiency of our
Maryland that alone Is worth the
annual charge. 1t will break the
freight monopoly of the transcon-
tinental railways-and that will be
worth many times twelve ipillions q
year
But no such generous policy is
necessary. W can exact tOilS winch
Will carry the charges and not re-
duce the usefulness of the canal,
avoid offense to the nations of the
world and deal fairly by our treaty
obligations,
To do this we need only adopt the
rate-making methods any competent
freight agent would use.
Tolls through canals are generally
calculated on the tonnage of the ves-
sell No matter with what she is load
ed, or whether she Is loaded at all,
she pays on her tonnage. She pays
as much if filled with hay or crushed
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-12
THAT FIENDIsH DRUG-BICHLORIDE.

IN THE of why take bichorde OF mer-
cury If YOU suicide yourself with small cannon or
chop YOUR head with broadaxe gup down gallon or so OF
cheap grog Anything isn't something that for results keeps
your friends and the general public in suspense
Judging the stories that have been printed lately no more
horrible imagined than that which results from taxing
mercury tablets when you adopt this method you arouse
rho susnon that YOUR object away with
self as TO attract sympathy of newspaper readers
The heroic fights against mercury poisoning by the Southern
the New York merchant seem to have created the
psson in some that the direct road to fame TO
swallow bichorde mercury Maybe the newspapers are at fault
Maybe too much being given by the public press the
torures of absorbed quantity of this drug
However that public eagerly awaits the day
when suicide by mercury will either go of fashion, better
vet when the sale of particularly fendh poison will be pro-
hibited by law.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-12

In the Interesting People" depart
ment of the November American
Magazine appears a sketch of Alice
McConaughy, thirteen-year-old
Cincinnati schoolgirl who Is a wire
less operator licensed by the federal
government She Is the daughter of
r.. C. McConaughy, national bank ex-
aminer, and did her first practical
wireless work last spring during the
great Ohio flood. Following Is an ex-
tract from the article:
"Officially Alice McConaughy is
known to the government as 'S-E.Z.,
holding license No. 1866 for General
Amateur Radio Station of the Second
grade This license gives her the
right to maintain and operate a re-
ceiving and sending government sta
ton for a period of eight months.
After which renewal is made by in
spection and examination.
"Six months ago this little girl in
stalled her wireless apparatus, q very
large one, in the kitchen of her homo
because 1t was the most convenient
place and so that she could converse
with her mama while. she busted her
self about her household duties. Tier
mania did the homework there ana
Alice began learning the mysteries OF
the complex international code, which
she soon mastered. Part of the APP
paratus which carries the messages
to the world is an aerial fifty feet
high with four wires.
Who built that?' she was asked.
"T did,, was the offhand answer
| Il can climb pretty good and am
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-12

The American Magazine hos been
offered prizes for the best letters en-
titled what ! Am Most Thankful
For" and in the November number
publishes the three prize-winnins con-
tributions The following letter won
first prize:
"Of all the blessings which | can
count as belonging to me this year
and for which am thankful, am
most thankful that I have not lost
my grit.
''Eleven years of time and strength
and everything we had have gone into
the making of our 160-acre homestead
here in North Dakota, and yet today
if we sold everything We possessed we
could just about pay our debts
"A long series of crop failures from
drought and hail, and much and
wel1-advised venture of buying a
traction engine which then did not
work, and was eventually (but toe
late for our good replaced by the
company with a new one, have eaten
up all we have been able to make.
cit has been most discouraging, and
the past year has been one Of exceed
ing and unceaslng worry and work OF
mind and body for both my husband
and myself.
Through 1t all have been most
thankful that / was able to keep my
courage and help my husband keep
his, as he bore the worst Of the bur-
den, being the provider and the one
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-12

Ending One Cycle to Beein Anothers
From the New York World
The arbitration under the amended
Erdman act of the wage dispute be-
tween the Eastern railroads and their
conductors and trainmen ends just
about as did arbitrations under the
unamended Erdman act. The men do
not get all the gains asked for, but
probably most OF what had been OK
pected.
This arbitral award, however, has
the peculiar distinction of being
wholly unanimous and not at all
unanimous BY some strange trick of
logic or legerdemain the names of the
two representatives, respectively, Of
the roads and the men find their way
with apparently equal force to signed
approval of the award and to en-
phatic disapprovals which disapprove
of and kill off each other.
Does this end an old cycle in rail-
road wage increases or begin a new
one? 1t is the prevailing opinion" of
the board that 1t ends an old cycle.
But in ending an old cycle with en-
tended expense burdens on the roads
new weight has none tho less been
given to their demand for increased
rates, and what Is to prevent higher
rates from starting new cycle OF
higher wage demands as effective as
the old cycle has proved to be?
Is there ever to be an end Of this
spiral performance of railroad rates
and wages at the climbing expense
of all other capital and all other
labor?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-12
Certainly, Knott, Said Watt

"Burr-r-rr." went the telephone,
and the following dialogue ensued:
Are you there?"
Yes"
Who are you, please?''
Watt
What is your name, please?"
Watts my name"
Yes, what is your name2'
II say my name is Watt--Johp
Watt
f"Oh. Well, I'm coming round TO
see you this afternoon"
"An right. Are You Jonesg
No; I'm Knott"
who are you then, please?"
will Knott
"Why won't your"
II say my name is William Knott"
oh! ! beg your pardon"
Then you'll be in this afternoon II
If come round, Watt?''
Certainly Knott"
"Burr-r-rr!" went the ring -off, and
Knott, as he sat down again at his
desk, began to ponder whether Watt
said he would be in or not.--Tit Bits
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-12
PANAMA TOLLS

rock as if her cargo were Silks, pianos
or tourists
No railway man would ever be SO
insane as to adopt such a scneine OF
charges; and yet / believe this is ex-
actly the scheme which our law
adopts for the Panama canal I pc
lieve the tolls are $1.26 a ton: some
thing like that, anyhow. When the
phospl1ates of the Columbia Nalley
are mined and ground for fertilizer,
they will have to pay $1.25 q ton. inc
gold from the sTreadwell mine IN
Alaska can 90 through at the sans
rate. The millionaires owning tpe
Treadwell mines can personally 20
through at S1.25 ton. This Is cruely
high for fertilizer and absurdly low
for gold | submit, -nlillionaires shoulu
have a higher rate than manure.
All freight rates are so calcuiateu
that the traffic will move freely Inc
goods which need a low rate get II.
The goods which can pay a high rate
without feeling it, pay it..
The government should back up and
start over again on Panama tolls
We are nov steering right into the
middle of bad middle in which we
shall be in the wrong. We should
make the tolls according TO the value
| of the things carried. Hay, crushed
rock. coal and lumber should pass
through at a toll very much below
SIPS. Oranges. lemons and fruits.
shonld nav more. SILK still more.
twenty passengers Weighing a ton
could easily pay 500. a ship with no
cargo should go through free. IN the
interests of the canal If she is COM
ing back with load.
These are the principles on which
ali lust tariffs. and most which are
not Just. are leveled. The adoption
of them would settle the treaty ques--
| tion. It would settle the matter OF
reducing freight rates on the rail-
WAYS. And 1t would make the canal
a paving property.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-12

For a month in midwinter of 1878
/ lived at the same hotel in Belve-
dere. New Jersey, at which the at
torney-general OF the State, the late
John p. Stockton, was staying. we
sat at the same table in the dining
room. our rooms were adjoining one
another and We became very well ac-
quainted
THE attorney general was at that
time prosecuting ten or twelve prom
inent citizens of Warren County, New
Jersey, who had been indicted LOT
certain money improprieties. Some
Of them were prominent Office hold
ers. All of them had been highly
esteemed as respectable citizens The
prosecutions resulted in the convic-
ton OF these men and nearly all OF
them served terms in the New Jer-
sey State prison.
[ was especially interested in At
torney General Stockton because his
brief service in the United states
Senate, just after the close of the
Civil War, and the turning OF MIN
out of his seat in the Senate hau
made a profound impression on me.
He was a member of the distinguished
Stockton family of New Jersey, pa.
even though he had not been of Kit'
TO llldL ittlllliS ONb NN'tN.
his strong and yet very charmino
personality would have brought him
to great prominence in New Jersey.
The attorney general and | depart
ed by the same train from Belvedere
Immediately after the trials were
ended. We were compelled to war;
at Philippsburg two or three hours
in order to make a train connection.
Attorney General Stockton told me
while we were waiting that he was
getting very hungry and he asked
me TO go with him in search OF a
restaurant where we could get at least
an oyster stew.
We found place of that kind anc
over a dish OF steaming oysters the
attorney general told me about a
very curious incident and a very
strange blunder which cost him his
seat as United States Senator of New
Jersey.
ST was elected Senator. not by a
| ma jority vote, but by a plurality
vote of the New Jersey Legislature,
| he said. II received forty votes
Thirty-seven votes were cast for an
other candidate and there we're foul
members of the Legislature who were
not present.
THE Governor OF New Jersey duly
certified to my election. / Went tc
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-12
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
Attorney General Stockton's Fatal Vote

Washington and, although there was
a protest filed against seating me,
yet the Senate admitted me. | took
tho oath and was assigned to a desk.
"a little later the protest against
me was laid before the appropriate
Senate committee. The objection
was based upon the fact that I had
not received majority of the votes
of the members of the Legislature.
II remember very well that Lyman
Trumbull, who was then Senator,
took the ground that, as the Legisla-
ture had by its own act authorized
the election of Senator by plurality
vote and as this act had been secured
by a majority vote of the Legislature,
there could be no question about the
legality of my election.
eat that time partisan politics ran
very high in the Senate. The break
of the Republicans with President
Johnson was just beginning.
"It was apparent that the vote in
the Senate as to whether should re-
tain my place in the Senate or lose
ii would be very close. One of the
Republican Senators who was In
favor of turning mo out had paired
with a Democratic Senator who was
i'll. When the Senate came to vote
L
pair and voted against me. There
upon thoughtlessly announced that
as this pair had been broken | felt
justified In voting myself upon the
resolution. did vote and the result
was there were twenty-five votes in
favor of my retaining my seat and
twenty-one against There was where
/ made the fatal mistake. IL ] had
not voted then the vote in the Senate
would have been tie twenty-one to
| twenty-one, so that the resolution in
favor of rejecting me would have been
| lost and that would have been the
end of the matter. But as | voted
with the majority it was possible to
call up the matter the next dav on =
| technical parliamentary motion and
one or two Senators were persuaded to
vote against me. Therefore the Sen
ate declared that had not been legal
| ly elected.
81 was told as ] was going out OF
| the Senate by one of the prominent
| Republican members that the vote
| rejf citing me was due entirely to the
desire Ct the Republicans to maintain
sufficient majority In the Senate
two-thirds--to enable them to pass
any measure over the veto of Presi-
dent Johnson as, in fact, they did q
! few months later
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-12
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

the youngest chief executive magls-
trates of Massachusetts,, though he
will not be the youngest in the list.
That distinction will still belong to
George S. Boutwell,. who was but
thirty two when he was inaugurated.
He was postmaster at Groton at
twenty three. and a member of the
Great and General Court at twenty
four Our next youngest governor
was William Il. RUSSELL who was in
augurated at the age of thirty three,
and who had previously been mayor
of Cambridge in his twenties. John
d. Long became governor at forty
one. after a long apprenticeship in
minor offices. Governor Walsh will
be governor at the same age as Gov
ernor Long and Governor Banks.
Nearly all our other governors, in
recent years at least, have been
farther along in their forties. Two
of them. Douglas and Foss, had
turned fifty at the time of their inau-
guration. 1t will thus be seen that
the age of fifty. which President VIII
son has fixed as the dead line in the
conduct of national affairs, is treated
much the same way in this venerable
commonwealth. Great things have
been accomplished. and are still be-
ing done. in various lines of human
activity by men after fifty, but the
field Of politics. local, State and ma
tional. Is being monopolized chiefly
by younger men.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-12
THE TEETH OF THE SCHOOL CHILDREN.

THE GREAT importance of the of chidrens teeth in Their
general health well recognized by physicians but yet be
the minds of public school boards have other
the schools.
dental clinics for children Their
suppanted by professional instruction. The offer
welknown dental practitioner visit the schools
and children the of their
given be lost 1t would affect hundreds of human lives
many knowledge highest
should be hesitancy about the acceptance of this
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-12
THE FIRST PARCEL POST CHRISTMAS.

HOW MANY people realize that the Chrsmastide is only
six weeks away will be the first Christmas under
the parcel Millions of holiday gifts will seek that
channel instead of the express majority of people put
off mailing Christmas parcels until the last few days usual
is easy to see that postal service will be swamped with the
added business Mail clerks and carriers will be cruelty
overworked of people will be vexed and disap
pointed by belated deliveries.
the notice Mail your Christmas parcels early
which will displayed every posoce will give the parcel
fair chance mercy the army of oers in the mail
service and will make all the land Dc
your holiday shopping early This is not merely sentimental
appeal