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JPAGB two LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1910. KHIGHTS HOLD THEIR SEFu "IBD - JESSE PiUl IS CHAXCELL03 C0X3TAXDER OF RED CROSS LODGE. local Lodge Holds Its Seml-Annnal Election Here Last Evening. i Semi-annual election of officers for Red Cross Lodge No. 27 of Knights of Pythias, was held last evening and Jesse B. Paul Is the new chancellor commander. The full . slate of off ers as elected follows: J. B. Paul, C. C, A. C. Williams, V. C, Ed Wright, prelate; Jesse A."" King mas ter at arms; E. C. Fields, M. W.; In ner guard, E. Relsland; Outer guard J. F. Baker. Other officers of the lodge hold over for a year and were sot elected at this time. Manager Ben Noyes of the new creamery in this city, transacted bus iness In Elgin today between trains. i CRESENT CREAM I COFFEE 40c A POUND J A Blend of carefully J 8 selected, well milled J p coffee of the highest J f - grade. Put up in air- J1 ' tight cans. , t 99 COFFEE 25c a pound, i t P1I0XE BLACK 81 J 5 rAl llbUW I BROS a Do You Want AH ome that will pay for itself A Five Acre bearing Frui Farm IX miles from La Giande postoffice, in May Park, with 4 room house, pantry and closet, good cel lar, barn and, fruit house, 2 chicken houses, windmill, with water piped from tank to barn and chicken lots, all in splendid condition. mm io sun PURCHASER. Inquire . -v. SHERWOOD WILLIAMS, Imbier, Ore. A SWAP AT $2300 - ... ' ' ' If taken before JULY 1. Six room house and three large lots close iu Inquire at 805 Penn Ave. Phone Black 1222. ORIGIN OF THE ALPHABET. 6tUntit Gives Credit to Esmitea, . Egyptians ind Gmki. . The Phoenicians were denied tlie rredit for the invention of the present alphabet by Dr. Paul Ilaupt of Johns Hopkins university In paK?r read at the recent meeting of the American Philosophic society. The Phoenicians, a seafaring people, be declared, would have utilized in their alphabet if they hud one, symbols of their special fields of labor. There is, however. In our ulphabet do single symbol of any thing relating to the sea or to com merce, he declared. Instead of these things agricultural Implements and the tools and usages of Inland peoples had been Included, such as tents and ox yokes. This led him Co the conclusion, along with other indications, that the alphabet was the joint product of the Semitic. Egyptian and Greek civiliza tions. To this assumption Dr. Morris Jastrow. Jr.. lent the weight of. his authority by declaring that the Phoeni cians never had a literature or ever reached a stage of civilization that would require an alphabet of such re markable simplicity as ours rfnd thus showed the Improbability of their hav ing invented It. - In his discussion of the origin and achievements of the Phoenicians Dr. Ilaupt took occasion to rap some of the sacred traditions of ancient schol arship and popular belief, such as the story of David and Goliath. "David did not kill Goliath." be declared. "It was Elhanan of Bethlehem who did that, as any scholar can easily find out by reading bis Bible and other ancient writings aright. Another general be lief Is that the culture of Palestine la ancient times was wholly Jewish, the product of their history and Ingenuity. As a matter of fact, It Is largely Gre cian and was carried to the Iloly Land by these same Phoenician sailors." ' . NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Notice is hereby given to all whom it may concern. That , Elizabeth i Donnelly has been appointed by the County Court of .Union County, Oregon, Administratrix of the estate of John P. Donnell, deceased. AH persons having claims against the estate of said deceased are re quired to present them with the proper vouchers within six months from date hereof to the Administra trix at No. 1206 Adams Avenue, La Grande, Oregon, or to Arthur C. Wil liams, at his law office In La Grande, Oregon, for her. '"' Dated May 27, 1910. ELIZABETH DONNELLY, ' Administratrix of the estate of John P. Donnelly, deceated. June 7-14-21-28, July 5-12. RACIAL IMPROVEMENT. Finsit Physical Types Found In Small ; Families. There is a popular Impression that Immigrants have larger fainjlles than the native born, and this is true of the earlier settler. Professor Boas of Co lumbia university, who has recently conducted an extensive Investigation of our Immigrants, finds that In the sec ond generation the size of families Is about the same among the Immigrants as it Is among the native stock, two or three children to a family. Whatever bearing this fact may have upon Individual morality and the fu ture of the nation. Professor Boas clearly shows that race suicide also spells race Improvement lie find the finest physical types, as a rule, in the smallest families. Professor Boas pre sents remarkable statistics showing bow the stature of children varies ac cording to the size of the family. When a family has one child the height of that one tends to be consid erably above the normal. When a family has two children their height Is still above the normal, but not so far above as Is that of the child of (be one child fumlly. In families of three, four and rive children the aver age height is still above the normal, though In decreasing stages. But after the fifth child the stature becomes ab normally low. This fact Is partly but not entirely explained by the better care and nutri tion tho earlier children receive, for Professor Boas finds that the same rule prevulls In the families of the mercan tile and professional classes,' where naturally the struggle for existence is not so burd as in the families of skill ed and uuskilled laborers. McClure's Magazine. , '. . Pitting In Boiler Plates. Much of the cause of pitting In boil er plutes and flues lies in the particles of slug and carbon which have been forced Into the plate during the process of rolling." The foreign bodies are eloc-tro-uegative to the boiler plate, und small galvanic cells are set up that eat away the metal surrounding the foreign substance. A remedy for gen eral electrolytic corrosion and wasting lies in the employment of fine plates connected to the boiler shell. Electro lyUc actlou is set up between the two metals, with the result that the boiler Is protected from the acUon of the acids In the water and the line alone suffers. . Where this remedy Is used a sufficient number of slabs of sine should be attached securely to the boil er so that there should be at least 1 per cent of sine surface as compared with the entire heatlug surface of the boiler. -Railway and Locomotive En gineering. Silver I Old Lead. It may not be generally known, that old. or what may more nrooerlv be called antique, lead usually contains a considerable proportion of silver. This la readily recovered by what is known as PatUnson's process, which Is an electric application used in separations of the molecules of silver from the lead. 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