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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-06-20

Those who find agony in the work
ings of the direct primary law grasp
at every suggestion
1t Must Be offered towards SUBJ
Working Well. verting the measure.
In Washington a
state convention is being held, not to
nominate candidates, but to adopt
platform saying what their various
candidates shall think on current sub
jects.
How kind of these politicians to get
together and say what the policies Of
the republican party in Washington
shall be and what public men shall
stand for. What load they take off
the shoulders of the voters. How
grateful the people of Washington
must feel to have these self picked
patriots assemble and plan out the
destinies of the state in this manner.
For pure kindness the Washington
politicians almost equal the philan-
thropic gentlemen of this state who
held that immortal assembly in Port
land four years ago and designated a
state republican ticket in order that
the common voters of the party might
be saved the necessity of using their
own judgment as to the fitness OF
candidates.
Ye old time politician finds it very
hard TO accustom himself to govern
ment under the direct primary. He
would like to go back to the good
cid days" Either that or there is a
degenerating influence acting on him
in some manner. It may even be
that unseen forces for reasons oi
their own are working on him to gel
him to assert himself and make the
fool people" recognize his Leadership
once more
Whatever may be the secret back
OF the present assault on the primary
law the move is complimentary Il
that law. Such complaints indicate
the direct primary is working well
When Il is necessary for foes of the
primary to maintain an expensive bu'
reau in this state TO carry on a pro
poganda for publicity showing how
iniserably the law has failed it is firs
class proof the law is doing som'
good.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-06-20
A GEORGIA REFRAIN.

"It's hot on high. and Its hot below.
And the DEVILS IN the weather when
the wind won't blow"
But for this we sigh. and for this we
pray
A wind that'li blow the world away
Though II land In the country Of The
Judgment Dayl
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-06-20
$600,0o0,0
Automobiles


The trade estimates that the sales of
automobiles for 1914 will aggregate to-
tai Of $600,0OO,0OO.
And yet some pessmists talk about dull times.
1t is interesting to note that this immense volume
Of business has been largely built up through per-
sisten advertising inkedwith consistent saesmanship
And more enlghtening still is the fact that
much the larger percentage Of automobile advertis-
ing is used in the daily newspapers
The newspaper advertising which in most cases
is directly linked up with the name Of the local
dealer the sales message that brings direct results.
The automobile is useful servant. but had
there not been such aggressive and intelligent adv
ertisng its manufacturers would still be among the
infant industries.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-06-20

CONSTANTINOPLE, June 20.-The
relations between Turkey and Greece
have reached high tension over the
alleged prosecutions of the Greeks in
Asia Minor, and it is because of these
prosecutions that many thousands of
Greeks have left Turkey or been
forced out of the country and are re-
turning to the home land.
American Ambassador Morgenthau
has used his good offices with the
Grand Vizier and has obtained at
least temporary withdrawal of the
order issued at Smyrna for the dis
missal of Greek subjects employed by
foreign commercial houses, including
several American concerns.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-06-20

With the warm weather period up
on us there is consolation in the fact
the new water system will soon be
ready for use.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-06-20

The administration can afford to
ignore manufactured appeals to let
the trust laws alone. The biggest
part of our trouble comes from the
fact the trusts were left alone too
much.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-06-20

The fact Villa is to be in supreme
command of the troops on the way
to Mexico City may greatly hasten
Huerta's desire for peace.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-06-20
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After half the world has acquired
with much difficulty the new dancing
steps, or stunts,
Group Dancing which ever the right
Next. word may be, there
now comes the dis
concerting news that the dancing
style will undergo another radical
change. The dancing masters, as
shown by recent assembly at Cleve-
land, want to denature the current
types. Not only that but they want
to go back to the old group dances
as far as possible. Apparently this
means a return to the quadrille and
the minuet. Since prevalent styles
III other lines incline to the colonial
who knows but by next winter the
tango and the hesitation waltz will
be known to memory only and every
dance will have a grand right and left
and a swing?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-06-20

has shown the Mexicans that adven-
turers and mine owners are not the
only Americans. The efficiency meth.
eds that had been used in the clean
ing up OF the former plague spot
v hich now is the Panama canal zone
have demonstrated their excellence in
Vera Cruz before the eyes of the res,
idents As a result there is a feeling
among many that the whole republic
might profit by course of treatment
like that which has done so much for
one city.
Human experience shows that near
ly all national antipathies arise be-
cause of restricted acquaintance.
Where the human race is split up into
small tribes, holding little or no in
tercourse one with another, each
tribe hates and fears all the rest, The
drawing of tribes together into great
nation makes for peace. Likewise
the drawing together of the nations
through intercommunication, either by
actual residence or by knowledge of
alien customs. ideals, art or litera-
ture, brings into being what has been
called the international mind"
If the occupation of Vera Cruz has
made our next door neighbor better
acquainted with us it may yet prove
a blessing in disguise for both
countries.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-06-20

ATHENS, June 2O.-The American
and British Vice-Consuls at Smyrna
have gone to Mitylene to investigate
the situation of the Greek refugees
who have arrived there from Asia
Minor.
A recent official despatch from Nit
ylene. which lies off the coast of Asia
Minor, reported an attack by the
Turks on the town of Alvalik, on the
mainland, which includes in its popu.
lation $4,000 Greeks.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-06-20
GREEK NAVY IS PREPARING
FOR WAR AGAINST TURKEY
FEELING AT HIGH TENSION OVER
ALLEGED PROSECUTIONS
BY TURKS.

LONDON, June 20.-A despatch to
the Times from Athens says Greece is
actively making naval preparations.
According to the Durazzo cores
pondent of the Times he is authorized
to deny that Prince William has any
intention of abdicating the Albanian
throne.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1914-04-09

the solar year, after a lapse of 10
years, and 30, as 1t were, to run q
cycle. He published his discovery at
the Olympic games, B. c, 433, and the
cycle has ever since borne his name.
But though the new moon really
happened on the same day of the year
after space of 10 years as 1t did
before, 1t fell an hour earlier on that
day, which, in the course of time, as
will be seen. created serious error
that had to be reckoned with and
caused much confusion.
A cycle was then framed at Rome
for 81 years, and generally received
by the western church, for 1t was then
thought that in this space of time the
moons changes would return, not only
to the same day of the month, but Of
the week as well.
During the time that Easter was
kept according to this cycle Britain
was separated from the Roman en-
pire, and the British churches for a
time after the separation continued to
keep Easter according to this table Of
"a years. British and Irish churches
adopted the Alexandrian rule. accord
ing to which the Easter festival could
Lot begin before March s. About 100
years later the English churches con.
formed to the Roman rule. The Roman
system now prevails the world over,
and Easter Is celebrated on the same
day everywhere.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1914-04-09

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laid down: mat march Fl shall be
accounted the vernal equinox. That
the full moon happening upon or next
after the 2lst of March shall be taken
for the full moon of Nissan. That the
Lords day next following that full
moon be Easter day. But If the full
moon happen upon Sunday, Easter
day shall be the Sunday after
AS the Egyptians at that time ex.
celled in astronomy, the bishop OF
Alexandria was appointed to give no.
tice of Easter day to the pope and
patriarchs. But 1t soon became evi.
dent that this arrangement could not
endure. 1t was too inconvenient and
liable to interruptions. The fathers
OF the next age began, therefore, to
adopt the golden numbers Of the Me-
tonic cycle. and to place them in the
calendar against those days in each
month on which the new moons should
fall during that year of the cycle. The
Metonic cycle was period of 10 years.
1t had been observed by Melton, an
Athenian philosopher. that the moon
returns to have its changes on the
same month and day Of the month in
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1914-04-09

took up a trowel and dug into the
rich earth. Then she scattered the
dead powder in the hole that she had
made, and covered it carefully.
A fortnight later she took the child
to see it.
You remember that dead black
powder that we sowed here" she re-
minded him.
Yes" he answered quickly. 1T
was just here. This is the little board
you put in so that we might know"
And yet these pretty little gray
green plants came from those dead.
black seeds" she told him.
Right out Of them?" he asked
breathlessly.
Yes. They seemed so small and
black, you know; yet there was the
germ of little plant In each one Of
them, and soon they will be covered
with bright flowers. We could never
believe anything so strange If we did
not see it right before our eyes. And
so it is with the loved ones that we
think are dead. They are not dead;
and in some other world, we do not
know where, they bloom from their
cold, lifeless bodies, just as the leaves
broke from the tree, and these little
plants from the dead seeds"
"Yes-yes, l see," breathed the
child, through starting tears.
But men were dull" went on the
loving aunt, trying to make it very
plain to him. For hundreds of years
men had seen the dead trees leave
out, and the plants spring from
dead seed, and still they could
not really believe that II man died
he would live again. So God sent
Christ to show us all these things. He
taught us how to live; and then he
seemed to die, but he rose from the
dead on the third day, and talked with
his friends, to show us that, as he
lived after death, SO we should live
also. And the great apostle Paul
made it palmer still. He said that we
were sown natural body and we
should be raised a spiritual body. We
do not understand it, any more than
we understand this marvellous change
of the seed into the flower; but we
must believe that it is true
Yes" breathed the child: Il see,
and must believe that my mother Is
up yonder'-he waved his little hand
with a beautiful new body; not
sick any more, and happy. and that
will see her again when go up there,
too"
You see," she explained to him,
"men were so glad-so glad when the
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1914-04-09
Activities of Women.

OF the 10000 trades union women in
New York city so per cent. are foreign
erS.
In Oregon the law fixes a minimum
wage of 1925 week for adult women
clerks.
Miss Elaine Golding has gone to
Panama. where she expects to swim
the Panama canal.
Kansas women are asking that they
have equal property rights with their
husbands.
Mrs E. H. Hartman, widow of the
railroad magnate receives on an aver
age of 800 letters each month asking
for aid in the shape of money.
Miss Mary E. Bell, who acts as spe-
cial examiner for the interstate com
merce commissioner. is the first WON
an who ever acted In that capacity.
Miss Anita Belleville, who acts as
purveyor of the correct time In Lon
don, is probably the only woman IN
the world to hold such position.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1914-04-09

great hope came to them that they
would live after death that every year
they rejoice on the day Christ rose.
For two thousand years they have kept
that day. Just think what JOY 1t
brought into the world"
''Is 1t the happiest day in the year,"
he asked her.
She thought Of the day Of Christ's
birth, and spoke Of it.
but think" he said at last thought.
fully, that it was more beautiful to
have him come back from the dead
even than to have him born; SO |
am going to like the Easter day best
of all"
She did not find any fault with his
choice She knew that just then, to
that afflicted little heart, the thought
of the Easter day was the sweetest
thing in the world.-Christia Herald.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1914-04-09
HUSBANDS FOR SALE CHEAP
Woman In Her Dream Saw Men Done
Up In Bunches Like Asparagus
and Sold for Ten Cents.

Some time ago a man was awakened
in the night to find his wife weeping
uncontrollably.
my darling!" he exclaimed. what
is the matter?"
"A DREAM" she gasped. Il have had
such horrible dream"
Her husband begged her to tell 1t to
him In order that he might comfort
her. After long persuasion she was
induced to say this:
II thought | was walking down the
street, and ! came to warehouse
where there was large placard, 'Hus-
bands for sale You could get beau
tiful ones for $500 or even for $1,000,
and very nice looking ones for as low
as hundred"
The husband asked innocently:
Did you see any that looked like
meT
The sobs became strangling.
Dozens Of them" gasped the wife,
done up In punches like asparagus
and sold for ten cents bunch
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1914-04-09
LIME UNEQUALED AS
A SOIL IMPROvER
Should Be Worked In During CuItiva.
ton.
w. e. HANGER.
Maryland Agricultural Experiment
Station.


Maryland Agricultural Experiment
Station.
Farmers everywhere have now
started their spring work. Manure
spreaders are busy getting manure
out on fields to be plowed for corn
No doubt many are thinking OF using
lime ON their fields. Why not use it
on the field to be planted to corn?
This is an excellent plan because the
lime can be spread on tie land after
blowing and worked into the top lay
ers of the soil at the same time that
the seed bed is being prepared.
The mistake is often made of using
too light an application. Not less
than ton of burned lime or two tons
of ground lime stone or oyster shells
should be used per acre. Such an APP
plication as this need not be given
oftener than every once in five or six
years so that the cost for lime would
not be more than SO or 60 cents an
acre per year.
While the good effects of lime may
not be very evident on the corn crop.
it will no doubt increase the grain
crop following and certainly stimulate
the growth of clovers and grasses the
following year. Probably in no other
way can a like amount Of money be
expended to greater advantage.
In buying lime it has been found
that if pure burned lime costs $2.75
per ton at the kiln, then hydrated lime
or Stacked lime should be $40 and
ground limestone $50 per ton. What
kind you should use depends entirely
npon its quality, price, and the distance
It can be hauled to advantage.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1914-04-09
We SHOULD HAVE
BETTER GRASS YIELDS
Seeding Timothy To Itself With Lib
erdl Top Dressing Doubles
the Yield.
NICHOLAS SCHMITZ
Maryland Agricultural Experiment
Station


Maryland Agricultural Experiment
Station.
The yield OF timothy hay In Mary
land, boln i'll quanty and III the Ions
per acre is far below what could be
prontaU.y produced on the land now
in meadow. In fact. farmers have
harvested so many unsatisfactory
crops OF late years that tAey are in
clned to try something new as
forage crop ii any,ning can be found
that would be an improvement ON
timothy, red top, or the clovers.
The remedy, | believe, is not to be
found in new crop, but IN better
cultural methods than those We al
ready have. Recent experiments at
the Maryland Experiment Station lndl
cate that much improved yield may
be secured by seeding grass to ltsen
in the early fall and by the proper use
of fertilizers in the spring. These
tests carried on in tree fields, one OF
timothy, one of red top, and one OF
mixture of timothy, red top, and clover
showed that phosphoric acid when APP
piled alone as in raw bone, acid rock,
or any other material had very little
cHGCl vi lliiio'hS, iSu wy Va ohy
other grass On the other hand,
nitrogen or ammonia, especially as
found in Nitrate of Soda, regularly
gave a large increase in yield
Taking into account, the ease OF
applying the fertilizer and the quality
of the hay, the best results were got
ten by using equal parts of nitrate of
soda and acid phosphate at the rate OF
$50 pounds OF each per acre. AS COM
pared to strips of grass adjoining that
had no fertilizer used on 1t the yield
in 1912 was 1.33 tons per acre as
against 294 tons where the above mix
ture was applied as top dressing.
In 1913 the yield was 81 tons, as
against 293 tons or over three times
the yield on land where no fertilizer
was used 250 pounds of nitrate OF
sode was found to be the most
economical amount to use in making
the greatest profits possible by top
dressing.
The fertilizer should be applied as
soon as the grass starts to grow.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1914-04-09
Day of the Goddess of Dawn.

Easter, or, as it is called in Ger
many. Ostern, was the day of the
Goddess Ostra (her Anglo-Saxon name
was Eastre), the goddess of dawn, of
the coming morning light In her
honor the bontires were lighted, and
deep-rooted indeed must the worship
of her have been, for the name was
kept and applied to one of the highest
Christian feasts.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1914-04-09
Benefits of Lent.

After all, said Mrs. Gadsleigh, I'VE
really need the quiet and the self-de-
malls of Lent"
YES" replied Mrs. Ka Flippe, Il
don't know how | should ever have
been able to collect the evidence l
shall need in my suit for divorce If it
hadn't been for the lull that Lent has
brought in my social affairs"
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1914-04-09
LEGWEAkNESS IN CHICKS.

A small dock of chickens on free
range will usually get plenty of bone
forming material from the bugs and
insects they pick up, but in the case
of large focks there isn't enough to go
around, especially if kept on a re.
stricted run. Lime and ashes will help
some, but are not enough. The safest
plan is too keep some ground or granu'
lated bone in a dish before the chicks
at all times.
They will eat very little, but this
little they want badly. Let's not have
any weak-legged crooked breasted,
hump-backed loose feathered, I'M
healthy looking creatures in our back
yards this spring. few cents worth
of bone will work wonders.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1914-04-09

To the UnbelieVer

Is II too much to lay
Your unbelef aside
lust for this one brief day,
Just for His sake who died
Nailed to the cruel tree,
There where the darkness fell1
Is II too much. since He
Gave so freely and wellp
Is It too much to give
Him they could cruelty
For teaching men how to live,
For showing them how to dieP
Humbly He came, and SO
He went on His righteous way.
Is 1t too much to throw
Doubt aside for today
Is it too much to bow
Humbly little while1
Think of His bleeding brow.
See His plying smilel
He gave us His all and took
Nothing but sin away;
Is It too much TO look
Upward with love today1
S. E. KlSER
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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1914-04-09

He child was sobbing bit
terly, The sweet young
mother whom he loved
had been buried in the
earth. He thought that she
had gone forever.
A loving aunt had come
to take care of him, and
she tried to comfort him
Your mother Is living
still daarn she said. "YOu
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1914-04-09

will see her again. She is watching
the same as ever
NO, no." wept the child; she Is
dead. The doctor said SO; and | know
it is true, because | kissed her, and
she did not kiss me back again. II
she had known, she would have kissed
me back again-for she always did.
And, oh, oh-my mother is dead
Il know it seems SO, darling"
sighed the aunt, whose own heart was
sore and heavy, but under that still
face there was yet life. Christ showed
US that when he rose from the dead
He did not answer when his mother
and his disciples called him, but one
day he rose from this seeming death,
to show us that no one really dies
That was the first Easter day. Men
had always hoped-but they had never
surely known before then-that the
dead could rise again. Is it not beau
tiful, dear"
The child for a little seemed com
forted. Then he looked over to the
familiar chair where the sweet mother
had been wont to hold him and pet
him, and again he broke into sobs. He
was only five-and his little mind
could not grasp the great, sweet truth
which his aunt had been telling him
At last she said: Il will show 1t to
you some time so that you will under.
stand
1t was In the early springtime that
the young mother had been laid away
from his sight. The cold winds were
blowing, the trees looked bare and
gaunt and dead.
Out among the leafiess woods the
aunt led the grieving child.
See these poor trees" she said to
him. Does 1t not took to you as
though they were quite dead?'
He felt carefully of the branch
which she held out to him.
Yes" he answered.; ut is only an
old dead stick-just good to burn in
the fire"
1T seems so,' she admitted, but
wait while, and we will come back
here again"
One warm, sunny day, few weeks
later, she took him to the same spot
and showed him the same bough
again. 1t was covered with soft,
fuzzy leaf-buds, and little clusters Of
tender green leaves were bursting
from them.
This is the same bough that you
thought was dead" she said, What
do you think now"
1T wasn't dead. was it," murmured
the child slowly What pretty leaves!
| am glad it wasn't dead"
"And it is SO with our dear ones
who die" she reminded him gently.
They seem dead, but they really
live; and somewhere they are happy
and beautiful-more beautiful than
they were here-just as the leaves are
more beautiful than the bare tree"
The child gazed after them. Then
he looked back at the once deadlock
ing, bare trees. He remembered well
the queer, brown sticks. How wonder
full it was!
They seemed dead" she reminded
him again, gently; but you see that
they were not"
NO. he rejoined thoughtfully, "they
were not"
1T is SO with our dear ones" she
repeated. They may seem to be dead,
but they are not"
One day she took some poppy seed
and showed to him.
rs it pepper?" he asked. "Or is 1t
the powder that my father uses In his
gum"
No. she told him. ut is not pep
per nor POWDER but it seems just as
dead, doesn't it,"
YES" he answered again, positively.
ut is just as dead as it can be-
Il am going to drop it into the
earth here" she said gravelv: and she
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1914-04-09
BONE NECESSARY
TO HEALTHY CHICKS
Builds Up the Framework OF Their
Bodies and Keeps Them
Healthy.
ROY H. WAITE.

ROY H. WAITE.
Maryland Agricultural Experiment
Station.
All growing animals require mineral
matter with which to build up frame
work to support their bodies. The
more rapidly an animal natures the
larger the proportion of mineral ma
terial required in its feed during this
growth. Most animals mature slowly
enough so that they get sufficient ash
from the ordinary feeds, but chickens
grow very rapidly and if one isn't care
full in feeding more flesh VIII be
formed than can be supported by the
birds bones.