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pace 4 iiA GKAlfDE EVENING OBSERVER, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1911. THE OBSERVER , BRUCE DENNIS Editor and O'Tiier. Entered at the posfortice at La Grande as spcond-f l iss ma(t( r. SUBSCRIPTION . RATES Pally, single copy 5c Dally, per week, Vc Dally, per month....... Cue This paper will not publlBh an ar ticle appearing over a nom de plume. .Signed articles will be revised sub ject to the discretion of the editor. , Please sign your articles and save disappointment. TAXING GROSS IXCOMES. The city of Portland Is at least awakening to the fact ttiat her public service corporations should be taxed on their gross earnings. It Is pro posed to Insist on the lighting corpor ations paying 3 per tcent on gross business transacted. Whether this Is a Just tax or not only those Investi gating matters can tell. But this much Is certain public service corpora tions in most cities and towns pay nothing like the amount they should tor the privilege of doing business. Furthermore, it would be but right for corporation to issue a report of It business to the public so that watered stock could be detected and the earning power of money actually invested be determin ed. If this were done the great en mity against these corporations would oon diminish provided" the the earn ings are within reason and Justice. But in many instance the earnings are not within reason' and therefore there is a profound secrecy thrown around corporation business. Too much water is added to actual in vestment; too much, money is re ceived from bond sales for the pub lic to be made wise to the transac tion. The day is coming and the cor porations of the west as well as the east, had J ust as well make. ' up their minds to It. when tjie public will know what legitimate earnings are ; being made by these concerns that serve the pubjic and receive their business from the. public. " At once we hear some one say, "what right has the public to bntt in to a business where individuals' have Invested their money ?" If the deal ings of these companies were with Individuals, or if there was healthy competition in their lines this state ment might be well taken, but such Is not true. Franchises are granted, the right of eminent domain is given and many other concessions are re ceived from the public by these con cerns who la rettirn should be com pelle to play fairly with the people. Not only In Portland but all over Oregon and the northwest there needs to be a readjusting of the attitude of the public service corporation toward the public. How Electricity is tfenxnrcd. Few of us, outside of engineering circles, know how that mysterious servant.: electricity, is measure. We only know that the regular monthly billa call for -1567 154324 kw-hr. for which please remit 12.40." Many of us have gone down cellar, or up In the attic, with a lighted candle to stare with mystified wonder and pro found awe at the little mechanical meter with its Incomprehensible dials and unreadable figures only to won der what it was all about Strictly speaking, electric energy Is measured In kilowatt hours. A kil GEORGE TALKER, PRes. P. J. D0LMES, Vice Pres. W. L. BREMIOLTS, Ass't Cash EARL ZCNDEL, 2d Ass't Cuh, F.L.MEYr!!S,Co8hler. La Grande National Bank of La Grande, Oregon United States Depository Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits $200,000,00 (:eouk nLat'Jv . :...hsu:miilts Ft J. jittLXL's n. j.ri? vt v ..'. With enr ample rcsonrccs uni facHHIes we ran render you effl. cleat service aad handle jour business to your entire satisfaction. owatt hour Is practically the same as one and one-third horse-power hours since 746 watts equal one horse-power. The watt is a rate of work Just as a horse-power is a rate of work. One tells how hard the dynamo has to work, while the other tells how hard a horse or engine has to work to produce the required energy. The measurement of electric power may be simply explained thus: The current enters the house and a cer tain fraction passes through a small motor contained in what is called a meter. The moving part of the motor or armature, Is connected to an ordin ary counter, such as is used on bycl cles, gas meters and automobiles. This system of toothed wheels is arranged to count the number of watt hours of electricity. A thousand watt hours is called a kilowatt-hour. The .pre fix "kilo" always means 1,000. A kilowatt-hour costs about ten cents. If the result is desired ' in horse-power hours it is only necessary to remem ber that a kilowatt hour Is the same as one and one-third horse-power hours. The wattmeter is peculiar in that It measures power consumed. An in strument which measures the quan tity of electricity or "Juice" Is known as an anmeter. because quantity of "electricity", is always measured In uiuVoit. An instrument which meas ures the pressure which drives the electricity is called a voltmeter, since electric pressure ie measured in volts Just aa water pressure is measured in I pounds. The wattmeter, however, take account of both pressure and quantity; that is, it multiplies the volts by the amperes and gives the result In watts. Volts multiplied by amperes give watts, Just as pounds-times-feet give horse-power, provided we assume that the work was done in A certain time that is, so much work done in a second, or minute or hour. The dynamo or "generator" furnishes a certain quantity of energy in kilo watts, but this amount of energy must be used for one hour before one-kllo-watt-hour can be charged. Two kilo watts for half an hour would amount to .the same thing. Thus It is neces sary not only to state the rate of work in kilowatts, but also to state the time In hours, hence the bill states that the cost has been so much for such and such kilowatt-hours that is, so many kilowatts furnished light or power for so many hours. For example 10,000 watts energy supplied for five hours would amount to 60,000. watthours or fifty kilowatt hours. .''. The ordinary sixteen cand:e-;iv'-er lamp consumes energy at tu rate of about fifty-five wjtts, since the pressure ewerted by the generator is about 110 volth. and each lamp al lows one-half of an ampere to flow through it. This is three and one half watts to a candle power. Mazda I lamps use about one and one-half i watts to a candle, power. One hun dred and ten multiplied by a half gives fifty-five, the number of watts, or as the engineer puts it "Joules per second." The Joule Is, strictly, a cer tain amount of energy or work exact ly like the ordinary foot pound, and is related to the .watt in the same way j the foot pound is related to the' horse power, differing only in stating the I time In which a certain work is done. ; It makes a big difference whether , work Is done In an hour or a week, and of course we wish to pay for work actualy performed. This the wattme ter really keeps track of, and, whether we 'use one light or a hundred, this little instrument will always be on hand, night and day, to take a record of the amount used. Perhaps the un thinking personMVho carelessly leaves C ft PKJinOTOX IV. P. (LEAVER r.'jr. by hit 1 the electric light on when not needed would be "more careful if he remem ! bers that the generator has to actual i ly exert one-fourteenth of a horse , power to keep that single light going, j even though the cost !b but half a cent an hour, v , AFTERSOLFERIPiO. ' The Gentleman In White" and the Idea of the Red Cro.e. During the Italian war 1S.j3 y Mng Jean Duuant was trio Kilns in that country. After the baftl if Solferiuo he visited rie field,- and. seeing the terrible suffering's of the wounded sol diers who lay around unattended, he, with the assistance of several ieasant women, formed an ambulance. service, with its headquarters lu a little church at Castigllone. Ilevhelpcd with his own hands to bind up the wounds of Frenchmen, Italians and Austrians alike. "They are all brothers," he said. "A wounded enemy Is an enemy no long er." And lie and his corps of helpers brought water and medicine and smoothed the pallets of straw nnd cheered the unfortunates and closed the eyes of the. dead and performed the Inst kind offices for the dying. Dunant was regarded by the hundreds of wounded ns a miracle of goodness little less than an angel. "The gentle man in white" was the way In which the officers spoke of him as he moved around pmnn -;cf uKur cloth ing making him conspicuous on the Held. i, Ills experience, at Solferlno. where he saw that the willing hands of a few untrained helpers actually saved many lives and comforted hundreds of others, Inspired him with the grand Idea of an organization the Red Cross. Christian Herald. COSTLY DROP CURTAIN. The One, Meissonier Didn't Paint For a ' ; French Theater. . ' The enterprising manager of a thea ter called upon the famous French art ist Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier on one occasion and asked him to paint a drop scene for a certain theater and name his own terms. . - , ' "You have seen my pictures, then?" asked Meissonier. "Oh, yes," exclaimed the manager, "but it Ja your name I want! It will draw crowds to my theater.? ' "And how large do you wish this curtain to be?" inquired the artist. "Ah. well, we will say 15 by IS me ters." Meissonier took up a pencil and pro ceeded to make a calculation. At, last he looked up and said, with Imper turbable gravity: s "I have calculated and find that my pictures are valued at 80,000, francs rtr meter. Your curtain, therefore, will cost you Just 21.000,000 francs. But that is not all. It takes me twelve months to paint twenty-five centime ters of canvas. It will therefore take me Just 100 years to flniBh your cur tain. You should have come to me enriler, monsieur. I am too old for the I underajdngnoj , ' xAcadio-Numerals. An lllustratioir"of-s-hat mankind owes to the labor saving Arabic nu merals compared with preceding forms of notation Is shown In adding 1848 to 1848. the sum of which la expressed in only four figures, or 3600, Meantime in Roman characters we would have to denote 1S48 with the capital letters MDCCCXLVIII. Repeating these let ters explains why Cicero complained of the sweating toil of all addition. On that account Homer's total of Aga memnon;s fleet Is not. the correct sum of the different contingents to it which he gives of the Grecian states. Herodotus is worse yet when he gives the total figures of Xerxes' army after enumerating the quota of the various nationalities which composed if Like wise what a Jife insurance company would now do without Arabic nu merals may be'' imagined. Dr. Wil liam Hanna Thomson in Designer.' How Machinery Breathes. An EuglM) writer ;u euvliioti'Int subjects, Morvyn O'Gonunn. cnli.-t m tention to the fact that c iioii oi" ma chinery, such as an autoinobli.v !:'!! aside after belnp nsa ii in danger f internal rnstins through a klud u rc-" Juration which nffe;ts cylinders, trenr boxes, dutch chiiiiilnus, intcrsives i:i ball bearings, and so forth. Every in- Closed air space "breathes" by draw, i lug In air when a fall of temperature r contracts its y:vlts and expelling it , when the walls expand through heat. The moisture' introduced with the ulr Is deposited in the cavities and may produce serious damage through rust ' The popular belief that oil will pro teet the Inaccessible parts of unused machinery is fallacious, s'ace nearly all oils take up about 8 per cent of water in solution. Acts pf the Apostles. The weight of testimony is in faYor of St. Luke as tfcj author of the Act of the Apostles, though some respect able critics claim that the authorship Is quite unknown. There are no sure data for determining uhe date of th Acts. Various dates haTe been as cribed. Some think jbyat It jjas writ -j A i ii i .hi ...-V. )V jfy. ,U tth i hi A A , gfc. W V nV, stuiiV l-J ti -HiPV . 'to isfn . A 11 ni ii iTi " " k i A A a a g Thirteen Proves to Be a Lucky Number Wests The Most Successful Sale we ever held PRICES LOWER THAN EVER BEFORE es IN EVERY DEPARTMENT Hen's Clothing reduced 25 to 50 per ct. One lot Men's' Suits, sale price . .$2.90 One lot Young Men's Suits, sale $3.75 Men's Dress Pants at . ... . . Half Price . i , Malone MackinawsV your choice $4.30 Boys Xtragood Suits reduced 25 per ct. Annual Clearanc EVERY ARTICLE IN THE STORE REDUCED 1 1 8 Wo IKo WESTjHt QUALITY STORE fen atout the year 80, while otherU hold that it could not have been writ ten before the second century, about A. D. 125.-New York American. A Hard Stunt A man can do almost anything when he discovers that he must." "Have you ever felt that you must get upstairs at 2 a. m. without waking your wifer-Chicago Record-Herald A Sensitive Child. - . Uncle Gus-So this Is the baby, eh? I used to look just like him at that age. What's he crying about now? Niece Susie-Oh, Uncle Gus, he heard at you said. Chicago News. By desiring what Is perfectly good we are part of the divine power against evll.-George Eliot MARCHED AND MUNCHED. The Soldiers Who Didn't Steal th Apples Ate Thorn. A reprimand which takes the form of a juke ls'soinctiiuts more effectual than a burst of anger. Su.'h an exam ple was furnished by a O lUViierate officer and described by T. O. Moore m his 'Auecdou-s of Geut rfil (. kbai ue' The southern army, march-.;: ncrws the mountains of lleuiL;. i...u 1; u;i ply trains cut oif and oulii Jo live upon the country. ... Apples, t best m-ii r.n.l ''piirslajtuims were plouty, but. t' '--. h;:i orders not to dcpvoUui np.; u i rlvutv property. Oiie ufty 1 wui midgut along in the rear of General Gran bury's brigrde whou I ta?. down the road General Cleburne sitting on the top rail of a fen. e, while below him lay five or tlx bushels of fine red aj ples. Near by stood a number of sol diers, who looked as mean as men could look. Gfiieral Graubury saluted General Cleburne. vho remarked: "I'm peddling apples today." "How's thati" ... . -"T!:re gentlemen," pt.iutlng to tha BoWlers who had Vtolen the apples, "have beeu very kin.!. ' T!iey have gathered, apples for uie aiid charged nothing. I'll give them to you and your men ' Now get down nnd take one, and each of your men take one only one. mind you-uutil - all are gone. The invitation was accepted, the men cheering for "Old Pat," When the apples were gone the general made each man who had steien the apdea carry a rail for a mile or two 13 iearaece Men's Shoes, Men's Shoe3, Ladies' Suits Misses Dress Gordon Furs :e of Muslin UncTwr in the Millinery Department. Old Postal Rates. ! The high postal rates that prevailed In the earlier years of the last cen tury made the transmission of a letter or parcel a matter of serious moment "A packet weighing thirty-two ounces was once sent from Deal to London," writes Mrs. Eleanor Smyth in her life of Sir Rowland Hill. "The postage was over 6, being four times as much as the-charge for an Inside place by the coach. Again, a parcel of official papers small enough to slip inside an ordinary pocket was sent froni Dublin to another Irish town ad dressed to Sir John Burgoyne. By mistake it was charged as a letter in stead of as a parcel and cost 11. For that amount the whole mail coach ply ing between the two towns with places for seven passengers and their lug gage might have been hired." London Chronicle. To Identify a Child. My small son did not return at the regular time one day while out with a maid. The thought terrified me that in case of an accident there Would be no way of Identifying him should he be lost. The next morning I cut pieces .of wide tape, on which I wrote very clearly his name, address and our tel ephone1 number in indelible ink. I sewed one of these pieces to each of his underwalsts, In front where It :oukl be plainly seen. K. E. A. in Bar ter's Bazar. Taking No Chances. Tfc Reamer had left the pier. The young man on the tar barrel still waved his handkerchief desperately. "Oh, whafre'you waiting for? Come on," said his companions disgustedly. "I daren't." with one fearful glance backward. ' "What's the matter?" "She has a fleldglass." said theroung man. Everybody's. In the Barber Shop. Customer-What do yon mean by that sign, "Shavinc Pessimists, 2u cents?" Barber That's because it takes more time to shave a man with a long face. Jndgo. Distance. ' "Father. Is it very far across the ocean?" "Tee; It's a long way." "About how many blocks?" Brown ing's MSgaKine. He that. lives upon hones win fasting. Franklin. A wmm sale price . . . . 90c to $2.65 sale price .... 50c to $2.90 ft reduced 25 to 50 per cent Shoes . : ... 90c to $1.25 Sale One lot Waists at . . Half Price j reduced . . : . . .25 per cent J LET US DIE FOR voir . In fact the only way we Ihe Is by dyeing. Don't dye yourself. It's better than dyeing yourself. WE DIE EVERY DAY. AXD DYE FOR AIL . ..Our charge for dyeing for you won't Je hglh. A sample Job, In sufficient For best dyeing and cleaning hare us do it ELITE CLEANING & DYE WORKS, Phone Main 61. all THE Grocery 6 Bakery Now ready for business at the I old stjmd. under the manage- I ment of Herbert Pattison, ow- ing to the withdrawal or Mr. 4 Herman Iloeseh. b ftm now -u, xp Berve tne publi(J best I can. Yours very truly, Herbert pattison. Royal Grocery t Bakei j 7.. i . Roy