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PROFESSIONAL CARDS PHYSICIANS DR. A. L RICHARDSON, Physician and Surgeon. Ofnee orer Bill' Drag atom. Oflke Phone 1S64 HasiS m Paoae Ml N.MOLITOR M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Corner Adams iTau and Depot Hi. OSftM Phone ZM Heslderie Phone 681 WILLARD SMITH PHYSICIAN AND, SURGEON tswla balldlng, oppoalU Hammer Hons Offioe Hours, 1 to 4, 7 to I BACON & HALL, YSICIANS AND SURGEONS Ofnee la Koley building, Psoas 1191. C. T. Uaoou, Residence Phone III M. It. Hli,eSldeiM 2U1 DKS. DIGGERS & BiGGCRS piiyaiciaae and Burgeons O W Blggers, M. D. Ueo, U Bigger. M. D Telephone Office mi Kealdenoe 1881 Office' Kslalon Building over J. M More. sUstdenee on Madison AVe. second door treat of 'orraer residence, Dr. a W. Ulggers La ORAMDK - OREGON ProfeMhoaal calls promptly attended to day or night. DENTIST8 REAVIS BROS. DENTISTS. OAec Hommer Building Office Phone s-l Mealdenee Phone 117 C. B. Cauthorn DENTIST OITloe) Over Hill Drug) Store La Graode, Oregon R. l. LINCOLN DENTI8T Up stairs, cot Adjuna avenue and Depot 8U Phone y VETERINARY SURGEON Dr. P A CHARLTON VETERINARY BURGEON, Office at A T Hill's Drug Store La Grande, Oregon Phone 136 J Reaidenee phone red 701 Farmers' line 68 DR. W. T. DJWNE8. V NT K ill N A It Y SUUOKON AND DENTIST Leave order at Red Cross Drug (tore Residence Cor uh and I t Thirty Svs years experience, beat of reference furnished ATTORNEYS CRAWFORD & CRAWFORD Attorneys-at-Law I.A UKANDH, OKKOON nice In Koley balldlng. J. W KN0WLE8 Attorney and Counsellor At Law omco in KtUstou Building Phone U6 1st (JrandeOr. H. t. WUIIama a C. Williams WILLIAMS BROS. ATTORN EYS-AT-LAW QIAos In Balaton Building Phone iDvi La Orande, or. L. A. PICKLER Civil. Mining. Irrigation Engineering ami aurvc Estimates, Plans, aud eTeolnVatlons. Offioe 1110 Adams Avenue, with John EUough LA UHANt.lt, OUKOON Lodge Directory. HAH1.KH-U tfranOe .Vine 154 P O hi meets every ounasy night in tv oi r hsll sf I t T WiUSg UIVUINU ' 1 BlcvlUd U. attend. . A. Melott, W. P. J . tk Polio. I , W. H lOO V 1st UrsuUe Lotlire. Mo la nseis .l ibeir hell every Saturday night. Vlsl Uog uuem eon cortuaii v laviieo to aiteuu. Uomtery plat can be seen at of) ice of City MMiai G. W. Robertson, N U II, K, Oaolidge, Ben. STAR KNl-AMPMKN'r No 31, I. O. O. P. neat every Aral and third Thursdays in the mouth in Odd renown hall. Vial ting pairl srehs always welcome I . R. Suuok, C P. Eduioad Bobtnaon, Sortbe KabTKUMMTaH OBB Uok Chapter Mo is mewe we seunau auu roan n weaBceaay is jscu nwois ei ;:u p iu in ssuonu- 1 eiupi Hurtle Aldrich, W U Mary A Waraioh. ita M. W.A. L a Grande Isiuip Bo. 7703 meets every first and third Wednesday of the month at 1. o. o. r . uau. aii visiting nelch bors are cordially iuviUxl to attend. K. ReiUeud, V, 0. John Ball, Clerk. PORSBTKB8 OP AMERICA Court Maid Marion, No tt mu eaoh Thursday night in iv a r nan. nruuiai are inniaa to aiienu. X a xtitson. CBief Hanutr. C 8 Williams, Pin. Hee Board of Trustees -or.u 1 Burgers, John Vail nan iierocn mioses. I La Grande Evening Observer Currey Bios., Ed's and Prop. Published daily except Sunday Saturday, August 5. 1905. Entered at the Grande, Oregon, Mail Matter. Poet Office at La aa Beoond Claaa One year in advance $6 60 Six months in advance. . . .3 60 Per month 66c Single copy ...6c ADVEUTI.-UNO KATKrJ Display Ad rate tarnished apoa application Local reading notices 10c per line first Uoa, o per llae An each subsequent l Has, Resolutions of condolence, 50 per line. Cards of thanks, to par llae. PEDANTRY TO BLAME The teachers Association closed a most interesting and in strnotive session of four days duration, yesterday, wherein many thing were said about interesting children in their studies and some of the difficul ties which teachers find in get ting the young to take an interest therein. The Observer paid as close attention to all I bat was hsiu as it could and now ventures the assertion that the principal reason why children do not take an interest at once in the several studies presented to them, is the unintelligible, to them, names which pedantry has given to the several studies. The makers of school hooks, and most books on scientific subjects, give the books intend ed for young English speaking children, not English names, but long ones, concocted from dead languages that have not been spoken for centuries and of which the children know noth ing. The child sees one of these big meaningless words on the title page of his now book with out even exciting hi? curiosity, for to its mind it makes no sug gestion and is as unpronouuc- able and meaningless as his or her own name would be spoiled backwards. From this intro duction the child intuitavly con cludes that a package thus label ed must be full of dead stuff and unpleasant conundrums. The book is taken up with fear and trembling as a traveler in a strange land would enter upon a road with a finger board on which were words from the vo cabulary of a people dead for a thousaud years and of the mean ing of which neither he nor the natives of the laud know any. thing. Does the road lead to the graves of the people whose words have been mangled, for the finger board inscription, or is the itucriplion a warning of his fate should he take that road? Take the name given to the book iute tided to leach our American children how to talk and write proporly their mother language Is there anything in the long word, grammar, that suggests to the child what he is going to learn in that book? It is not an English word, but a Greek word, changed so that Plalo, the most learned of the Greeks, would not kuow it, aud have 110 idea what it meant. Not one bait of the teachers of trammer can defiue the term so 'hat an American child, how ever bright, can catch but a vagae glimmer of its meaning. Children do not like to grope in the dark, or play hide and seek i . 1 1 1 . uuuvr mju pern 01 1008IU2 a standing mark, or it may be the ferule on their tender hands, hence they take no interest iu grammar. Arithmetic is another word inflicted upon the American children by the vain pedantry of the men who prepare books for the young, The word does not belong to our vernaotular. and to make it, two old Greek worda are patched together. Look into yoar dictionary and yon will see that there are, and were, at the time ofita making worda enough of common Eng lish words to define the meaning of the exhumed Greek, which shows that an English word could have been selected, the meaning of which every child ould know at aight or sound, or if not his mother would and could define it in common every day language. It is safe to say that oue half of our children work more than half way through the Arithmetic in a blundering manner before they know the meaning of the term. The aame difficulty is en countered in Geography, Agri culture, Anatomy, Hygine, Bi ology and in nearly every subject taught our children in our schools. Thia dead weight that Pedantry has fastened upon our children crushes out enthusiasm, renderea it difficult to interest them in- subjects so hidden with worda from the dead languages, to the nep-leet of our mnthur tongue, that it takes years of ohild life to find out just what their instructors are trying to teach them. TREASURER S CALL FOR CITY WARRANTS Notloo la hereby given that there are now (nnda on baid to pay all out atanding warrants leaned on Water Fund of La Orande City, up to and including, No, 5561 endorsed June 15th 1005. Interest on all warrants on water Fund from No 5168 to No 5651 inolu aive, ceases from tola date. La Orande, Oregon, Aug 3rd, 1905. J WALSH City Treasurer. Omes dizzy pellt, tired feeling, atrmacb, Kidney and liver troubles. Makes jrou well and keeps yon welt. That's wbat Holiister'. Uocky Moan tain Tea will do. 85 cents, Tea or Tablets. Newlin Drag Co. There are many k.,da of meat, but we sell only ..ne best kind. A trial order will convince you of the truth of this statement. We kill only the best specimens and kill it correctly. Our prices are as low as con sistent with the best quality. Bock & Thomas GOOD PASTURE not) aores fine pasture, adjoining city, Abundantly watered, Cowe iu beard $1.50, dry stock and horoes 1.36, per month, Stock delivered on abort notion at reas prioea El. E.Jones, Phou 1276 La Grande 1 YOU u mm ill Ifyoiir tickets nad and Klo ttiamie Kalh Line oi the world" ; the Denver tne "Heenio BKOAUfcE i'here are so niany acenlc ail -at t 11 end imiiN oi i merest tiling tho i'te . f tan fie . f lUat thi tup itns wunsDQ Denver l ist never beeomea tiresome If you nre going east, write lior ttny tell you nUalltftrelbU1 w"1 W C McBRIDE, Agent, 124 Third St. Portlard Oregon J. R. OLIVER. UNION OOUNTY ABSTRACTS Farm Loans a Specialty Best equipped abstracter in Union county. Many years experiences with the Union county records gives me a great advant age. It is folly to pur chase realeatate without first securing a proper abstraoL An abstract from my office will show the title just as it appears on the official record. J. R. OLIVER, LA GRANDE, OREG JN Room 31, Bommer Bdlg. EC OAVI9 President J H CHII. DM Sec. and Trees. BLUE MOUNTAIN MARBLE AND GRANITE CO. LA GRANDE OREGON Complete assortment of fin- At w i.I.Ia ivMnii , o hi ways on band. Estimates cheerfully furnished upon application. Headstones and Monuments A Specialty MEW SECOND HAND STORE All kind of second hand goods bought and sold GEO. GROUT, Prop, 209 Kir St. bet. Adams and Jefferson G. L FOWLER Truck and, Transfer Wood and Coal Phone 1611 All order given prompt attention. RED FRONT LIVERY BARN Wm. Smith, Prop, Srfe and reliable rigs furn at all times. Special ac comodations furnished to commercial travelers, Phone. 3-6 WM, SMITH FEED STORE Hay, Grain and feed. Free deliverv to all parts ef the city. Mountain trade a specialty. Phone 1961 Horses, harnea and wagon bought and sold A Grim Tragedy la daily enacted, In thousands of ironies as Death oialms, in each one, another victim ol Consumption or Pneumonia. Bat when Coagha and Colds are prop erly treated, the trsgedy is averted. V U Huntley, of Oakladon, Ind, writes "My wife bad the consumption and three doctors gave her up. Finally she took Oi. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds which cured her, aud today sue m well and strong. " It kills the germs of all diseases. Oue doae relieves. Uoar anteed at 60o and 81 by Newlin Drug Co., druggist. Trial bottle free. URIC ACID In the blood causes Rheu matism.Sciatia.Luinbago, Neuralgia and Gout. You can remove the cause by wearing one of our REX RHEUMATIC RINGS Manufactured by the Rer Rheumatls. King vx., n amor J. UH.'cttcut. Price $2.00 oo a, J. R. SMI Til, ANNOUNCEMENT Having purchased the painting and papering business formerly owned by 8tackland & McLachlen, we wish to inform the public that we are prepared to take contracts for all kinds of painting, paperhanging and decorating. We are experienced workmen aud guarantee satisfaction. We are here to stay and we are willing to let our work speak for workmanship, and the quality for our stock. A trial order solicited. STANIELS & JARMAN. l SUMMER a ! Until further notice we will be able to furnish our v customers with the very best W Black Caps Black Berries Red Raspberries Peaches a And all other seasonable and tree mpddacia r.ortrFDV CTTlDF W iiL.uiAunM ut.VUi jivim- m Uoi.l'ir and Jefferson 8ta. 0. RALSTON, Prop, ti ST. LOUIS LIVERY LARSEN & w Rigs furnished for parties, best carryall Keep If ou have no other way call on the LA GRANDE LIGHT AND POWER CO. and secure an Rates nnd all prices will be explained at the office tee seeaae. "The man who loves his wife the most. Is not the one to let her roast." Theie hot days, in a kitchen overheated by a swelterini; stove-Cut out the family wash day. Send your laundry tcus Saves wood, time and energy. Don't burn up a lovely disposition. Send your linen, all of it to Ae B. C. STEAM LAUNDRY PHONE js i85i U4Granie, Oregon. FRUITS Peach Plums f fruits, tresh from the vine &, AND FEED STABLE f N0RRIE, Props. ) First class turnouts fur nished lay or night. Special accomodation for commercial men. Bett service guaranteed (f f Horses boarded by day, weaa or inonin. funerals and picnics. The in the city. Cool Electric Pan : -
