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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-12-17
UMATILLA MASONS
NAME OFFICERS At
A RECENT ELECTION
BANQUET FOLLOWS-A. &. MEANS
IS CHOSEN WORSHPFUL
MASTER OF LODGE.
Joint Installation With order OF the
Eastern Star VIII be Held on De-
cember 27-FOllOwing the Work
Banquet Will be Served for Mem
bers and Their Friends.
lspeclal Correspondence. }

UMATILLA, ore, Dec l7.-At q
very well attended meeting Of the To-
cal Masonic lodge officers for the
ensuing year were elected. After a
lengthy session at the hall the mem-
bers were invited by the officers-el-
ect to a special at Duncan restaur-
ant
Those elected were; A. G, Means
Worshipful Master Mart Griffin
Senior Warden; Hughbert Barkley
Junior Warden: Laurence Bullock
Secretary; Frank McNurlen, Treas.
urer; ]. A. Stephens, Trustee.
A joint installation with the Order
Of Eastern Star will be held on De-
cember 27. This will be for all Ma
sons and their friends. After install
latiJn a banquet will be served.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-12-17

trade flow strongly toward America.
They may not always so flow There
are those whose interest II will not be
TO have them flow our way. This is
not the occasion for fear lest some
thing happen somewhere and some
how which will not be pleasing to
some one. but is the time for action,
taking. indeed. every possible
thoughtful step to safeguard that ac-
ton. but remembering that action is
the thing needed
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-12-17
OFFICERS CHOSEN AT
HERNISTON BY THE
EASTERN STAR LODGE
JOINT INSTALLATION WILL BE
HELD WITH MASONs ON
DECEMBER 2t.

After Exercises a Banquet Will BE
GIyen-IIard Time Farty Is Given
at Home of MFR. and Mrs. Barham
Many Present-Other News NOtCi
Of HermlstOn Country.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-12-17

matters. There could hardly be a sin
gle step in the fiscal world which at
this time would be more helpful in
establishing our commerce abroad on
a firm basis. Several strong instltu-
tions have signified willingness to CO.
operate in establishing roreign banks
if permission is given them by the
law.
This can not be done too soon.
Time presses The hour for movement
is now. The currents Of the world s
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-12-17
POSTCARDS IN DISCARD.
Warning TO People Issued by Post
master at Aberdeen.

ABERDEEN, Wash, Dec IL
Scores Of Christmas postcards have
been destroyed here because they do
rot conform with the federal law pro
hibiting cards bearing tinsel glass or
metals from being distributed through
the mails.
Postmaster John j. Carney has is
sued a special warning to people not
to mail such cards unless they are
sealed in envelopes.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-12-17
AGED WOMEN IS KILLED IN
FALL FROM AN AEROPLANE

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 16.-Mrs. T. A.
Comstock, 70, was killed and Aviator
G. $. T. Meyerhoffer was painfully
injured when a wing of their aeroplane
collapsed and precipitated them from
a height Of 100 feet into the bay. A
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-12-17

sold Eveywhere
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-12-17

launch was rushed from the warship
Oregon. Both We're taken aboard
where efforts TO save the woman's life
were futile. She was the oldest wa.
man to ever make an air flight here.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-12-17
Crock Wires Cut.

LONDON, Dec. Photographic
communication between Greece and
Serbia has been severed, advices re-
ceived here say.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-14
BALANCING TO Music.

One of the most difficult trials that
an equilibrist of any kind can under
take is TO give an exhibition without
the aid of an orchestra. Good. stirring
music is of immense assistance to the
performer in more ways than one. In
the first place. it encourages and gives
confidence to an extent which would
astound any one who had never before
experienced 1t. By always performing
TO one tune the artist is able TO take
his cues from it, and he keeps time
much as n step dancer does. The mu-
sic enables the performer to confne
his attention to what he is doing by
drowning any small noises among the
audience which might distract him.
Most equilibrists during what they
consider their browning feat dispense
with the orchestra. and this adds CON
siderably TO the danger.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-14
Dutch Hyphenated Names.

l believe, writes a correspondent. that
1t is the custom in country districts in
France for married women to retain
their names in association with those
of their husbands for shop signs when
they are in trade, or more especially
when the lady has succeeded to the
business. In Dutch society the custom
is for the lady to use her name hyphe-
mated with that OF her husbands. A
circular about a loan exhibition at The
Hague which / have contains some ex-
amples. For instance
Nine. Huyssen de Kattendijke-de
Breugel Douglas.
Nine. de Karnebeek- Baronne de Was
senaer.
Baronne Sweerts de Landas Wy.
borgh-Smith.
In each case the lady's maiden name
follows that Of her husband. In
France, on the other hand. the oppo-
site order is followed.-London Specta-
tor.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-14
Floor of the Ocean.

The ocean floor is an interminable
desert OF grayish ooze. largely compos-
ed of minute shells, in which. If one
were to walk over it, the feet would
sink deeply. There is no plant life
whatever. even the sea lilies being
merely animals resembling flowers in
appearance. 1t is believed that most
of the deep sea animals-not the fish
es. but the lower forms-live by eating
the ooze or mud on the bottom. digest
ing the organic matter it contains.
The mud eaters. many of which are Of
gigantic size. are the common prey OF
sharks and other rapacious fishes.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-14
Member Of the Associated Press.
THURSDAY, JANUARY Il, 1915.
JUDGE JAMES L. MARTIN.

The news of the death of Judge
James Loren Martin came with stag
gering force this morning to the peo-
pie of his home community. Although
6S years old Judge Martin was at the
height of his powers intellectually, and
there had been no intimation to peo-
pie generally of any weakness in his
physical condition. He had been
conspicuous figure in the public life of
the state 40 years. He was but 80
when he was elected speaker of the
Vermont house of representatives.,
serving in that capacity three terms,
and being one of the youngest men
who ever filled the office. He had
been honored by election and appoint
ment to many positions, his career be-
ing rounded out by his work as Judge
of the United States court, in which
! position he succeeded his distinguished
/ townsman, the late Judge H. II.
Wheeler in 1906. Judge Martin was
gifted with brilliant mind, was a
! skilled parliamentarian, successful
lawyer and he brought to the bench
not only deep knowledge of the
principles and practices of the law
but a thorough understanding of hui
man nature. He was often called to
New York to preside over important
sessions of the federal court, and the
Danbury hatters' and other notable
cases came before him. The best trib
ute to the quality of Judge Martin s
service on the bench is his record--ir
eight years the United States Supreme
Court had never reversed one of his
decisions.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-14
seIsium's National Anthem.

The national anthem of Belgium. 'IA
Brabanconne." is set to lighter music
than the dignifled British and Russian
compositions. Its author and composer
were both Belgians, and the song was
written to meet the public need at the
time OF a great crisis in the country's
history, the revolution of 1880. when
Belgium repudiated its so called ''amal-
gamation'' with Holland.
The music was the work OF a repu-
table musician Of the time, Francois
Won Campenhaut, a violinist. a fine
tenor singer and a composer. ia Bra
banconne' constitutes Campenhauts
principal claims upon posterity. Cam
penhaut concentrated his efforts upon
giving the soldiers Of the revolution
good marching tune. one which would
carry along the burning enthusiasm of
Jennevars words without emphasizing
any of their deeper qualities. He
caught something OF the impulse of
Rouget de Isle in the composition of
la Marseillaise." and even reproduced
a hint of the rhythm of the great
French song.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-14

The London Times may be pushing
side issue to the front in criticising the
Mexican "unpolicy" of our govern
ment. 1t may be aiming to divert at
tention from the neutrality' contro-
versv, but whatever are its motives its
assertion that American action has
contributed nothing to the restoration
of peace and order in Mexico is so just
that only followers of the Administers
tion will feel duty bound to dispute
it. The Times is moved by President
Wilson s declaration that Mexico "has
as good q right as any European power
to spill all the blood she pleases in set
Ting her domestic AFFAIRS to remind
us that we are not acting up to the
spirit of trusteeship for neutral inter
ests, either, and that some of the blood
Mexico has been pleased to spill came
from the veins of Americans.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-14
rssTTnu me sromacn.

Giving a patieRts stomach & rest by
feeding him through tube that passes
aoWn his throat and completely
through his stomach is one form OF
medical treatment. The tube is not
removed after each meal, but is left
in place for days, and even in some
cases for a few weeks, as it is not
long before the patient becomes accus-
toned to it and feels no great discom-
fort from its presence. The main pur-
pose of tube feeding is to stop all di-
gestiye operations in the stomach and
so give an opportunity for the healing
or sores, such as ulcers, but it has
been used for other stomach ailments
also. Tubes are designed that may
be swallowed easily. and they have a
little golden bucket at the lower end
1t has been found possible in most
cases to get the bucket to pass com.
pletely through the stomach in the
course of night. Food must be care
fully prepared for patients undergo
ing this treatment. because the stom.
ach is not allowed to do its part in
digestion. Warmed and strained milk.
eggs and sugar OF milk. poured into
the tube in small quantities every two
hours during the day give sufficient
nutriment to the patient. - Saturday
Evening Post
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-14
SPELL OF THE PRAIRIES.
where the Ocean Of Land Seems Vastsr
Even Than the Sea.

WheTe the ocean 81 Land Seer ma VastsT
Even Than the Sea
J had believed that / realized the
yastness Of the United States without
having actually Travelled across the
country, yet | had not realized il ut
all, and / do not think that any oAe
can possibly realize it without having
felt 1t IN the course of long journey.
| had imagined that | understood the
pralr1es without having laid eyes upon
them, but when / raised nv window
shade that morning and found the
prairies stretching out before me /
was as surprised. as stunned. AZ
though 1 had never heard of them be-
fore. and the idea came 10 me like an
original thought: How perfectly enOr-
/ had discovered for myself the truth
of another platitude.
For a long time lay comfortably in
my berth. gazing out at the appalling
spread of land and sky. Even at sea
the great bowl of the sky had never
looked so vast 10 me- The land was
nothing 10 it. In the foreground there
was nothing. Nothing met the eye in
all that treeless waste of brown and
gray which lay between the railroad
line and the horizon, on which was
discernible the faint outlines OF sew
eral ships-ships which were in real
ity a house, g windmill and a barn.
Presently our craft-for ! had the
feeling that l was on a ship at anchor
got under way.
On We sailed. over the ocean of land
for mile upon mile, each mile like the
one before it and the one that follow
ed, save only when we passed little
feet Of houses. like fishing boats at
sea, or crossed an inconseQuential
wagon road, resembling the family
i discernible wake of some ship long
since out OF sight.
Presently / arose. and. Joining nv
companion. we went TO the dining car
| for breakfast. He. TOO. had fallen
under the spell of the prairies We
sat over our meal and stared out of
the window like n pair Of images. Aft
er breakfast il was the same. We re-
turned TO our car and kept on gazing
! out at the eternal spaces.
Now and then in the distance we
would see cattle. like dots upon the
plain. and once in long time n horse
/ man ambling along beneath the sky.
| The little towns were for apart. but
each little settlement had its wooden
/ church. and each church its steeple-a
steeple crude and pathetic in its ex-
preston of effort on the part of poor
little hamlet to embellish more than
Julian Street in Golfers.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-14

An increase of 149 marriages per
formed in Brattleboro in 1914 as com
pared with 1911 shows that numerous
couples are flocl1ing here to have the
nuptial knot tied from states which
require the filing of an intention to
marry a few days before the ceremony
is performed. 1t is up to Vermont to
enact law in conformity with that of
our neighboring states, so that large
towns near the border like Brattleboro
are not made the mecca for clippers.
The home of quick and easy marriages
isn't quite so unenviable a distinction
as that attained by Reno, where the
marriage bonds are severed with neat
ness and despatch, but more harm than
good viii come from encouraging hasty
marriages, and if the legislature will
help a little we will be willing to give
up our coupling industry.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-14
tCobyrlg ht.p

His speech was enc of the most con
vincing in the great debate on that
subject and he must be admitted to be
the champion of the unskilled labor of
this country. President Wilson is said
to be opposed to the literacy test and
Senator Dillingham; 5 complete presen-
tation of the facts places him in the
position of forcing upon the weakest
members of our great industrial system
unrestricted competition from men
more unfortunate than themselves.
Vermont was certainly heard and hon
ored in the action of the senate on the
great immigration problem.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-14
Bayonets In Battle.

The bayonet is used in warfare as
much as ever. Its chief value is its
moral effect upon line of troops. The
reasons why a comparatively small
number are actually killed by the bay
onet are that those charged fee before
the attack or those attacking are shot
down or fail back before the concen-
trated fire. The hand 10 hand conflict
with bayonets is comparatively rare
because one or the other side has given
way before grips are reached. The sol
diers in the United States army are
trained in this type Of fighting.-New
York Tribune.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-14
AMUSEMENT NOTES.
VOICES SUITED TO SCORE.
Robin Hood Company Better than Orig
lnal Bostonians, de Koyen Saws.

Although Robin Hood il % wears
old, and Reginald de Koven has writ
ten many other works, this is the first
time that ne has lent his name TO any
company presenting his operas. The
de hoven Opera company. composed
mostly of grand opera singers and
headed by Ivy Scott of the Century
grand opera, New York, will he heard
here Mt the Auditorium Thursday even
ing, Jan. 81, and radical as it NAV
seem, Mr.. de KOven is authority for
the statement that the vocal balance
and cahbre OF the present company
suits him even better than did the
original BOstOnianS This is explained
by the fact that in those DAYS there
was Il certain amount of catering TO
comedians OF the organization, and
now, while the comedy roles are not
neglected, the music is sung hy SINGERS
possessing voices suited to the score.
who were carefully selected from the
grand opera houses of this country and
Europe.
The veteran comedian, George B.
rockingham, the last of the original
, Bostonians in harness, will be seen
in his favorite role of Friar Tuck. Mr..
rockingham, who has appeared in
every important revival of Reginald de
koven : work, has played the part
more than 5000 times. During the
performances in New York the first
week in September last season, the
veteran comedian announced that his
birthday was imminent and in his hon
or Reginald de Koven conducted the
orchestra at the performance. Mr.
rockingham refused to state how old
he was, but owned to be at least %
as he had been playing in Robin Hood
that long.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-14

When DR.. Dernburg was talking to
the Amherst college boys, one Of them
suddenly asked him: ''You say that
Germany promised to indemnify Bel
GUM and also to leave her independ-
ence undisturbed? But how did Belgium
know that Germany would keep her
promise?' DIR. Dernburg, it is said,
was at a loss for an answer for the
moment, but doubtless he has evolved
one since.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-14
Faithful Service Recognized.
burlington Free Press.)

burlington Free BreSS.)
The reappointment by Governor
Gates of State Bank Commi ssioner
Frank C. Williams, State Commissioner
of Agriculture E. S. Brigham and
State Tax Commissioner Charles a.
Plumley assures the people of Vermont
the enjoyment for another biennial
term of the services of three public
servants who have done splendid ser
vice in their respective fields. All of
these men have shown backbone and
independence as well as faithfulness
and efficiency in their work, qualities
which the public is prepared to appre-
ciate thoroughly at a time when we
are finding evidences of faithfulness
to the commonwealth in the past in
connection with various developments
land in various directions. Public stand
ards were never higher than today, and
it is reassuring to find men who are
ready to 90 even beyond the require
ments in their zeal to promote the com
mon veal.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-14
MARBLES OF VERMONT.
They Surpass the Product of Italy's
Famous Quarries.

d44OuS 2ud1LlSS-
The greatest marble producing in
dustry in the world is no longer to be
found in the famous Carrara district
of Italy, but in Vermont, where one of
the richest veins in the wCrld stretches
in an irregular line across the state
So great is the production Of marble
In this section that the inhabitants
have lost much of their appreciation
CT its value and use il for such humble
and utillitarian purposes as paving, I'M
derpinning for barns. hitching posts,
stepping stones and drinking troughs
for horses. This vein is about fifty
seven miles long, from / 800 to 1900
feet in width and runs from 375 TO
$50 feet in depth, and from it is being
taken in enormous quantities white
marble that is equal to the finest Ital-
ian marble as well as an endless va
riety Of blue, yellow, green and Jet
black marbles.
For quarrving and finishing the mar
bic the most up to date methods and
Equipment are used, no part of the
work being done by hand that can
possibly he done by machinery. Hand
methods of drilling, still in vogue in
Italy, have been entirely superseded
by power driven drills and channeling
machines. The blocks as they come
from the quarry are handled by der
ticks and are conveyed in most cases
BY an inclined railway or a ropeway
20 the mills, where they are sawed and
3haped by power driven machines. only
he last delicate stage of polishing be
nc done by hand.-Popular Mechanics
Magazine.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-14
HELPFUL WORDS
From a Brattleboro Citizen.


Is your back lame and painful.
Does it ache especially after exer-
ton?
Is there a soreness in the kidney re-
gion?
These symptoms suggest weak kid
neys.
If so there is danger in delay.
Weak kidneys get fast weaker.
Give your trouble prompt attention.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for weak
kidneys.
Your neighbors use and recommend
them.
Read this Brattleboro testimony.
Mrs. A. c. Chadwick, 200 Elliot
street, Brattleboro, says: 81 had dis
ordered kidneys and suffered con-
stantly from backaehe and distressing
pains across my loins. | could hardly
get around to do my homework.
doctored and tried several medicines
but nothing brought me relief until ]
got DOan s Kidney Pills at the Brat
tleboro Drug Co. Two boxes removed
the backache and other symptoms OF
the trouble
Price soc at all dealers. Don 7
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Chadwick had. FosterMilburr
Co, Props, Buffalo, \. y.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-14
Non-Combustible Roofs.
(Lynn Iten.)

=
Probably few owners of real estate
were aware that Vermont green slate
for roofing costs no more than cedar
shingles. This is CLEANED from the
statement of Fire Prevention Commits
sioner O'Keefe, who is supposed to
know all about such things. When Il
slant shingle roof has reached the re-
newal stage, the thing to do Is to make
a slate roof of it. Flat roofs can be
recovered at a small expense. The
commissioner believes that a start
should be made at once. There are
fiat roofs which should be made safe,
and a great many pitched roofs that
already need safe covering. If an
ordinance can be passed which would
apply to new construction, and the re-
nOvating of roofs that require it, and
an impartial enforcement OF it become
the order of the day, we might make q
beginning, and in a few days all the
coverings of buildings would be non
combustible. So serious matter as
the rendering of our wood roofs proof
| against fire would not be regarded with
the Indifference accorded to it by our
city government. Imagine a fire get
ting a good start in the Summer street
section of wooden buildings, something
that is as liable to happen as in any
of the great fires of record, and what
would be said of those whose neglect
| contributed to the disaster This mat
ter may be neglected a little too long.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-14

The danger from high tension wires
passing overhead in thickly settled
communities at time when the wind
is blowing a gale was strikingly en-
phasized yesterday in the press de-
spatches to The Reformer announcing
three instant deaths, in different parts
of New England, from touching live
wires.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-14
Too Commercial.

Bobbie II saw you kissing sister
again last night. Castleton-Well. I'm
not going 10 pay you 4 quarter this
time. Ten cents is enough. Bobby
That's the tendency in these days. 10
cut ont the middleman and let the
goods 60 straight from the producer
to the consumer without charge.-Life.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-14
The auniversitxv Of Ham.

The town Of Ham has perhaps the
most notable chateau in France. A.
ancient as Rheims cathedral. its enor-
nous walls have held as prisoners
Joan of Arc. Condo, the Huguenot
leader. and Prince Louis Napoleon aft
er his attempt at Boulogne in 1910 TO
win over France. Here for six years
he was a compulsory student, as he
himself put it, in the University OF
Ham until his escape in Is4G disguised
as a northumberland Chronicle.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-14

The cotton outlook is much brighter
than at any time since the war began
on August first. The long period of
small sales has ended and a very brisk
demand is now visible. Exports are
increasing steadily, and are now great
er than at any time in recent years.
Naturally, the price of cotton is rising
with the demand, and is now at a price
which enables the growers to at least
pay their expenses. 1t will then be
much easier for them to get credit for
another years operations, and we are