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Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
HumIIItY's Power.

A woman once came to the cave Of a
sage who was renowned for his pro-
found analysis Of her sex.
Father" said she, 'let me sit at
your feet awhile. am but woman
faulty and foolish and weak-but
would fain be the pupil of your learn
ing and the disciple of your virtues"
And the sage, secure in his wisdom,
consented.
Then he laid himself down to sleep
in the shade of a rock, out of the glare
of the sun. When he awakened he
was blindfolded and bound hand and
foot-a prisoner to love.
He had protected himself against
every feminine weapon except the
most dangerous one-humility!-New
York Evening Sun.
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All Work Guaranteed
New Castle County, SIS.
THE STATE OF DELAARE

To THE SHERIFF OF NEW CASTLE
COUNTY GREETING:
Whereas, Bernard ]. McEntee by his
Petition to the Judges of our Superior
Court, filed in the office of the Pro-
thonotary of said Court in and for
New Castle County, for the cause of
complaint therein alleged, has made
application to our said Judges that a
decree may be pronounced dissolVing
the marriage existing between the
Petitioner and Regina G. McEntee.
We Therefore, Command You, as you
were heretofore commanded that you
summon Regina C. McEntee that she
be and appear before the Judges of our
said Court at the next term thereof to
be held at Wilmington, on Monday, the
First day of May next to answer the
allegations of the said petitioner,
Bernard J. McEntee according to the
Act of Assembly in such case made and
provided, and also to do and receive
what the Court shall then and there
consider concerning her in this behalf
as to the Court shall seem meet and
consistent with the provisions of the
said Act of Assembly.
AND HAVE YOU THEN HERE THIS WRIT
Witness, the Honorable Jane
Pennewill, at Wilmington, the Sixth
day of March A. D. nineteen hundred
and sixteen.
Issued March 16, 1916.
JOSEPH WIGGLE SWORTH,
PrOthOnotarV,
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Not Creatures Of the Sea.

The National museum at Washing
ton, contains a notable display Of
the bones Of several species Of extinct
mammals which, if seen alive in the
ocean, would be called huge sea SER
pents. They we're carnivorous and
their long, slender jaws were armed
with formidable teeth. Although a
few remaining individuals Of the group
may have given actual basis for the
sea-serpent stories, these extinct ami
mails were not reptiles, but mammals
which, like the whale and seal and OF
ter, had happened to evolve in an
aquatic environment
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His Exclamation.

The streets were crowded with idle
miners and the city authorities, taking
advantage Of the fact, had a good
amount of work done putting in sew
ers, paving streets, etc.
Mulligan, who was not above earn
ing little extra money whenever pos
sible, had taken over a job at digging
bitches.
One, morning his friend CHANGED to
pass him as he was laboring shoveling
earth.
Halo, Mulligan! What are yez
doin' there?"
The workman leaned on his spade
and made a long pause before an
swering:
"Oh, OF thought OF would work just
whole Oi was oidle, boy"
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How to Cool Water.

Travellers in desert lands carry wa
ter bags of heavy canvas or linen
duck. These bags, when filed, con-
stantly Sweat" or exude enough mois-
ture to cool the contents of the bag
by evaporations. Wet canteens do the
same. A covered pail or other vessel
may be used; wrap cloths around it,
keep them wet, and hang in a current
of air.-Outing.
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Not Such q Fool.

"Here's a strange case," said Mrs.
Spotter to her husband. "A man
they called the town fool up in New
Hampshire died, and they weighed his
brain. It was heavier than the aver
age"
rs that all it says about him?"
"Yes-except that he was for many
years entirely dependent on well-to
do relatives"
"Auh-he was no fool. If you have
well-to-do relatives, why use your
brains?"
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Beginning Of Jury system.

The jury system with twelve men
comes down to US from the time of
viking invasions Of England, those peo-
pie customarily dividing their lands
into cantons, and each canton into
twelve portions under twelve chiefs.
These passed judgment on the more
serious criminal and civil cases and
the custom has outlasted all the inter.
Vening centuries.
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There MIuht Have Been.

A Boston minister who always
breaches to large congregations made
sanctimonious, psalm singing, pro-
fessed Christians who have no real
religion in their makeup target for
his wit. A little boy who heard him
remarked after he returned home
from the morning service: Mother,
/ shouldn't have thought Doctor Blank
would have spoken that way about
Christians this morning. There might
have been some Of them in church. >
Exchange.
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His Last FroIIc.

Where have you been until this
hour?" said Mrs. Lawyer To-wit to her
late-returning hubby. I've been look
ing after some SUITS" alibied To-wit.
"Yes, 1 know those suits; the old dia-
monds, hearts, spades, and clubs.
Well, this is the last night I'll let you
out" Buffalo Express.
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Find strenuth in Nature.

When 1 would recreate myself I
seek the darkest wood, the thickest
and most interminable and, to the
citizen, most dismal swamp. 1 enter
a swamp as a sacred place. There is
the strength, the marrow of nature.
The wildwood covers the virgin mold
and the same soil is good for men
and for trees-Thoreau.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
The IJsuaI Wav,

Say, Grimshaw! Would you rec
ommend young Sam Shook as being
of good moral character and entirely
worthy of confidence? have po-
sition Of trust for which he is an ap-
plicant."
Certainly" replied Grimshaw
heartily. Give the young fellow
show, Jinglefritz." Then after the in
quirer- had passed onward, satisfied,
Grimshaw turned to Trotter. who
the deuce is young Sam Skook?" he
asked.-Kansas City Star.
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To Remove Moisture From Can.

TO Ren1oVe Moisture From Cans.
No matter how good the quality of
your coffee the beverage will not be
up to the standard unless the coffee
can be sweet and clean. have found
that by dropping a lump of sugar into
the coffee can, after it has been thor
oughly cleaned, and keeping it there
until again used, the sugar may
absorb every trace of moisture in the
can and keep it sweet and fresh. OF
course, fresh lump of sugar must be
used each time.-New York Evening
Sun.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
Crop Always Worth While.

Grow a crop of pleasure with corn
and wheat and clover; it is one of the
most important crops on the farm, and
ought to be harvested little every
day. "An work and no play"-you
know.
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Scientist Up to Date.

"Have you succeeded in demon
strating that astronomical theory Of
yours?" Certainly not" replied the
scientist. "As soon as an astronomi-
cal theory becomes thoroughly dem
onstrated it loses half its value as a
subject for magazine articles. Life.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
Probably Had To.

WELL" said the doctor, you're
cured at last. How do you feel?" Il
feel,' said the patient, looking at his
wallet sadly, 'T feel as If could start
life all over again."
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Natural Query.

Little Elsie-''M Mamma, how much
do people pay a pound for babies?"
Mamma-"Babies are not sold by the
pound, my dear" Little Elsie-"Then
why do they always weigh them as
soon as they are born?"
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Dessert SPOONS Lament.

"I think it's real mean" sobbed the
Dessert Spoon. Here they're going
to have rice pudding for dinner to-
night, and I've got to go upstairs to
give Jack his cod-liver oil. Ugh!"
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
lODLErowN, DEL, JUNE II 1916
HIJCHES FOR PRESIDENT

THO lacking the magnetic personality
i of Mr.. Roosevelt, that has stirred
thousands into enthusiastic approval and
that once moved and moulded a whole
Nation. Mr.. Hughes, still has many
admirable qualities, and is in character,
abilities and wide experience in public
affairs, exceptionally fitted for the office
of president of this great country.
Truth to tell he is no more the choice
today of the Republican bosses than he
was when named for the governorshlp
of New York by the discredited bosses
of that state.
His independent and infexible honesty
that made his course as Governor of the
Empire State a pattern of upright and
wise craftsmanship, fits him to exercise
with like success and honor the yet
higher office to which his countrymen
have summoned him.
Read the superb tribute that organ of
the chagrined Democracy, the N. 7.
World, pays him:
HUGHES
''Ten years ago the Republican
party of New York was torn by
factional strife and smirched by the
damning exposures of its partnership
with insurance corruption and fl
nancia corruption. In despair the
bosses turned to Charles E. Hughes,
who was counsel for the committee
that The World has compelled the
Legislature to appoint to investigate
the life insurance scandals, and
nominated him for Governor.
A shattered and discredited Re
publican machine has again turned
to Charles E. Hughes, and invited
him to provide a window dressingof
character and respectability for the
Republican camp aign. The Repub-
lican bosses hate him now as they
hated him when he was Governor of
New York They have taken him
up as they took him up in 1906 only
in the desperate hope that he will
win for them and establish them in
power. If he should he elected,
they will fight his national Admins
tration as bitterly as they. fought
his New York Administration.
His high character, his splendid
record of public service, his spotless
integrity and his devotion to duty
are sordidly capitalized by an Old
Guard that is in partnership with
Privilege and Plutocracy for the re-
establishment of re dictionary
government.
Gould finer eulogy possible be given
by the enemy to the candidate of the
opposition Small wonder then that
Democratic politicians are already
gnashing their teeth with rage at the
prospect OI ldClIlS d Ie-uullSO INepuOlI-
can party with such a standard bearer
as that
We have said that we believe Mr..
Hughes in his formal letter of accept
ance, wherein he will more fully set out
the views only in part spoken in his
brief telegram to Chicago. will leave
those insolent hyphenates of the Ger
man-American Alliance" no doubt
whatever that he repudiates their un-
American purposes and practices as
fiat treason to the land which has so
Hospitality welcomed them, and prefer
ably would have their enmity than their
support if it must come in that unpa-
triotic guise of a Kaiser approved
+'German-American" allegiance.
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Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
What Interested Her.

Now, about this life insurance I
contemplate taking out, premiums
vary" "Premiums?" chirped his WIFE,
Il want plush-covered postcard al.
bum, john
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
Man Who stIcks- wilma

It is hard to stay on and work and
stick, when things seem to go wrong;
but we have found that is Just the
way to make things 60 right
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17

Patience Needed for Success.
The advertiser who loses his pa.
tience will lose out. The masses who
read advertisements move slowly
Mail Order Journal.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
Or Destructive.

About all that experience teaches is
to refrain-and that's not constructive.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
uncIa Ehen.

DE man dat can't be on de level"
said Uncle Eben, must expect to have
a lot Of ups an downs in dis life"
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17

Ratio Of Crimes Increase.
It is said that crime increases at
the rate of 300 per cent every twenty
years.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
Optimistic Thouoht.

The sting of every reproachful
speech is the truth Of it.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-03-31
Motion Picture News
What the Picture Thcaters Have
% Tel You.
FIGHTING BLOOD"
PLAYS TO CAPACITY


The Pastime was filled to overflow
ing last night and many were turned
away, standing room was at a prem
lum and seats were out OF the ques-
ton The attraction was William
Farnum in the William Fox Master
Production. Fighting Blood" and
big Bill Farnum as the lumberjack-
preacher, certainly scored the hit OF
his brilliant career.
Dorothy Bernard and an all-star
cast gave Mr. Farnum brilliant sup
port Fighting Blood" is the great.
est outdoor action drama ever pro-
duced by any company. 1t is a virile
story of the Kentucky mountains and
was inspired by the famous song
MY Old Kentucky Home"
A big producer civilian Fox); a
big star (willlam Farhum): a BIG
play ("Fighting BLOODY a big direc-
tor oscar c. Appel.
Along with this big six-act feature
also is shown chapter eight Of the vi
tagraph serial beautiful THE God
dess." Remember today is the last
chance to see this wonderful pro-
gram. Place, Pastime theater. Please
come early.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-03-31
onnInt storv or south a. Ana.

"Ye hain't never seed these here
mountains with nothing green, no
birds singing-nothing but rain and
snow. They'll be like that for me all
the time after Samson's gone" This
is the plaintive wall OF Sally Miller,
the mountain sweetheart of Samson
South, when she is besought by the
artist to consent to South's departure
for New York to work out his talents
with paint and canvas. 1t is one OF
many homely. yet full Of meaning
speeches that occur in ''The Call Of
the Cumberlands, the Pallas pictures
offering which is TO be seen at the
Alta theater today and tomorrow on
the Paramount program. Dustin
Farnum is Samson South in the story
and Winifred Kingston is Sally Miller.
Don't fail to read the special Dustin
Farnum autographed edition Of the
book.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-03-31

(Adv)
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-03-31
Barn for rent, 4Ol Aura.

Barn for rent, 4O1 Aura.
For sale-A tent, cheap. Phone Ar.
Furnished room to rent. Phone 2s4R
For tree spraying. phone l. C. Sny-
der
Mrs. Packer, dressmaking 400 E.
Alta.
Housekeeper wanted. Arlington
Rooms.
Woman wants TO work by day or,
will cook on ranch. Phone 207 R.
Found-Degree of Honor pin. In
quire this office,
Five room bungalow for rent In
quire BONN.
For rent--Furnished Housekeeping
rooms 4O1 Aura.
Ror rent-5 room modern house;
furniture for sale. s1S W. Alta.
For rent-Furnished room, close
in, hot and cold water Phone 26SM.
Good building lot for sale on West
Webb street. Telephone 624.
l haul your garbage and trash.
Phone 55SM. 1903 W. Railroad st.
To rent-Modern heated rooms and
apartments. Close in. GIT Willow.
Penland Bros transfer Co. haw
'torage warehouse Phone Sss.
Old papers for sale; tied in bun
lies. Good for starting fires, etc.
l0c a bundle. This office.
Very many people desire to GUY
ands in eastern oregon. What have
you to offer. and price2 N. Berkeley.
For rent-office room in Judd
building, Apply F. E. Judd, American
National Bank.
S. C, Rhode Island Reds, dark, vig-
orous, cock and 4 cockerels, s2.Oo
each, Nellie Hopkins, Weston, Ore.
For sale--26 head fresh cows ana
heifers. Inquire Gritman Bros
For sale or trade for mules. IL
head of good work horses Address
Jas. Hill. Helix, Ore.
For sale-Wicker baby carriage 7O5
Wilson or phone 24SJ
For rent-Nicely furnished front
room All convenlences. Phone
| 5S9w.
Wool sacks for sale. pound Sec
ond hand sacks, % cents each PEN
dleton woolen Mills.
Found-Gold watch. owner NAV
have some by calling at this office,
identifying and paying charges.
Lost-sum of money Monday ev-
ening in postoffice or corner court
and main. Reward. P. o. Box 41S.
For sale-Beautiful gentle shet-
land pony and complete outfit, har-
ness, buggy and saddle. Inquire Ba-
ker Furniture co,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-03-31
Temple Theater.

Hazel Kirke, a beautiful girl of the
Kentucky hills, daughter of Duncan
Kirke, a miller, is sent to be educat.
ed by Squire Rodney. who has prom
ised to marry her upon her return
An this in repayment for a small
sum which Rodney advanced to save
the old mill from the auction block
Five years later near the end of her
school year s,she meets Arthur Car
ringford, a fine young fellow, Al
home again, she renews her promise
to Rodney.
Temple today and tomorrow.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-03-31

the artistic effect and the plans OF
the library board and the residents OF
the vicinity contemplate the planting
of vines to climb up these walls, the
sowing of lawn at the foot Of the
building and the construction OF a
winding path along the bank of the
river. The location OF the building Is
slightly one and places It in view of
all Main street so that the visitor
cannot help but he attracted by it
and very probably to IT,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-03-31
sUNDAY-PAULINE FREDERICK IN 'THE SPIDER"

Observation-Disclosures
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-03-31

Strayed from my place one sorre
mare, reached foretop, weight abonl
$50 pounds, hip short on left hind leg
branded; one dark bay mare branded
XB on left shoulder. one white hinC
hook, reached foretop, weight abou
500 pounds. Suitable reward for re
covery Of these animals.
v. WESTERSUND,
(Adv) Helix, Ore, r. l
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-03-31
IInRAnY NEARING COMPLETION
lcnn,lnned rrom paEe one. }


,num Of inconvenience to the haul
ers.
There is no waste Of space IN inc
entire building and this has been Sc.
cured. too. without any sacrifice oI
convenience.
The arched entrance to the build
ing will be one Of the most artistic
features OF the building The battle
ment effect of the new Monroe stree
retaining wall. abutting on the IL
brary building on the east, ADDS t'
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-03-31
For Rent.

Sheep ranch and range for 5000
sheep; meadow cutting $50 tons Glow
er hay: water controlling spring
summer and fall range, with good
winter range. Will rent for term OF
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-03-31

Leap Year Dance Tonight.
At Eagle -Woodman Hall, given by
the Lady Eagles. Four hours of
dancing, 9 TO !. Admission, soc; la
dies free.-Adv.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-03-31

ton. Good buildings: lots Of water;
fruit, berries. Price $4,000, $4,000
cash. Address Chas. NJ. Schneider,
Weston, Ore.-Adv.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-03-31

For sale-Sewing machine in first
class condition. Owner going east
and no reasonable offer rejected. lit
w. Court street, Apt. 8.
Prompt automobile taxl service,
day or night. Funerals to cemetery
only $3.50. Phone $50. st. George
Hotel. Carney Taxi Co.
Mattresses made over. furniture,
couches, chairs repaired, recovered
upholstered like new, wire springs
tightened. Deliver country. Phone
227J, La Dow Bros, z1S Beauregard
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-03-31

Upland Farm for sale.
Choice quarter section, 1874 acres in
cultivation. s 1-2 miles east Of Wes-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-03-31

Bowman Hotel Property for sale.
Doing good business. Terms. o. p
Bowman, Pendleton, oregon.--Adv.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-03-31

Located 1-2 miles south of PEN
dleton. o, P. Bowman, Pendleton, ore,
ADV.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-03-31

years, $4,000 per year. Address. mail
or wire, Mary l. Hill, DEMO. Ore
gon, via Winnemucca, Nevada.-Adv.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-10
ALLEGED EXToRTION FOR
 WILSON CAMPAIGN FUNDS
Democratic National Committee in
 Trouble Over Discovery Made.

New York, Oct. 9.-The democratic national committee is in trouble over the discovery of its attempt to eXtort Wilson campaign funds from post masters and other federal office hold CTS. Chairman Mccormick undertook at first to deny utterly that any such attempt was being made. He said the charge was "arrant nonsense, and ab- solutely untrue.' Then he learned that the republican national commit tee had proof that the charge was true. Thereupon MT. Mccormick sought cover by making public letter written by the Texas state chairman, tnstructing the ibagmen how to vio- late the law and escape the peniten- tiary and announcing that he and the rest of the democratic national com mittee repudiated it. But a great deal more is needed from MT. Mccormick in the way of explanation and denial before the case is closed. Something is needed also from Postmaster Gen eral Burleson in whose state, Texas, this attempt at eXtortion was made. Something is needed also from MT. D. o. Roper, who resigned the office of first assistant postmaster general to become a, member of the democratic national campaign committee, cited by MT. Ridgeway as authority for the extortion scheme. When MT. McCor- mick has given due attention to this case from Texas he may be ready to take up the case of the state of Wash ington, and issue a repudiation of the gangmen who are so active in collect ing assessment from federal office holders there
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-10
WHEAT VALUES BROKE
 SEVERELY YESTERDAY
Because of the Wholesale Destruction of Vessels Off Massachusetts Coast

Chicago, Oct. 9.-Wheat values broke severely today, 4 34 cents a, bushel, altogether on account of wholesale de- struction of vessels and because of the fact that sailings were being can celled on a large scale. Sharpened export demand. however, rallied the market, which closed firm at 1 1-2 O 3-4 cent net decline. with Decern- Der at 157 IA and May at 156 3-4.
 Corn finished 3-S to 518 cents down, oats off 3-4 and provisions showing a loss of five cents to fifty-two cents.
 Excited rushes to sell carried down wheat prices in some cases 4 1-2 cents right at the outset, but evidence that exporters were actively buying on the decline caused confidence to some ex- tent to replace seIni-panic. Recovery in quotations was making rather mo- table progress until word came that British vessel owners were giving or ders to postpone departures at such leading ports as Philadelphia and Bal umore. Then the weakness in the wheat market was temporarily renew ed and the breaks were worse even than at the opening. Export buying, however, again became apparent and to a considerable extent offset fears that business with Europe would be seriously curtailed by inability to make shipments. -.-------------
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-10
COMMANDED INCOMING
 AND OUTGOING LANES.
German Submarine Commander se-
 iected Good Position.

Boston. Oct. 9--When Lieutenant Captain Hans Rose went warning on enemy shipping he placed the sub marine U-53 in 9 position to com mand both the incoming lane and the outgoing lane of what is known as the outside course' of Atlantic travel.
 Operating off the Nantucket light ship, he was much farther from the American coast than the common de- scription of his zone of activities sug- gests.
 The island of Nantucket lies 20 miles south of the elbow of Cape Cod. The Nantucket lightship is stationed 45 miles south of Nantucket island. Be- tween the island and the ightship arc dangerous shoals. Accordingly, while operating off the liehtship, the U53 was 45 miles from American territory and 65 miles from the mainland. So far as an invasion of the three-m1le limit neutral zone. was concerned, the warship might as we'll have been in mid-ocean.
 Immediately south of Nantucket 1sl- and is the lane followed by eastbound vessels Twenty miles south of the island is the path of shipping bound in for New York.
 The U-53, scouting 10 miles south of Nantucket in clear weather Sunday, was able to pick up every craft going and coming on the outside course and only had to wait for her prey
 Vessels that upon being warned shifted their course to the inside route that took them over the perilous shoals between Nantucket and the mainland escaped the submarine, but it is appar- ent that shipping generally chose the submarine danger in preference to the hazard Of the shoals.