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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 191L PAGE 8 Mm Prices for the $15 Set of Teeth &9.00 110 Gold Crowns. 22-K ...$3.00 $10 Bridge Work' (beat). .$5.00 $10 Porcelain Crowns ...:$5.00 Teeth Cleaned ............ TWELYE TEARS MODERN PAINLE65 IX OTI5TSw Over Newlin Drug Co. Depot and Adams Avenue. III GO ON THE LAST DAY XA GRANDE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN STEADY VISITORS AT iISOUNDUP Hot a Train to Pendleton bat What lias Carried Many From Here. Pendleton's Roundup is getting a good play from this side of the moun tains. La Grande neonle like the kind -of a show the town over in Umatilla county is pulling off and as a result every train hraade for Pendleton since Thursday has carried a large delega tion from La Grande. This morning many tickets were - Bold for Pendleton at the local station and a number crossed the mountains in machines. Those returning from . t ' . nl a ' ' L . uitj huow luuruuity ana yesieraay greatly strengthened the desire on the : part of others to attend which makes ai . large total from here - during ' th tnrea days. And the part that cannot help pleasing Pendleton is the fact that no one returns who Is not thor oughly satisfied with the vent and has a word of praise. ANOTHER NEW HOME. -tfoun ji. mpe huts a i,ni, ana rotn- fiwnces Immediately to Build. The north side of the city Is develop ing very rapidly this season. Now houses art under construction, cemout -ulrtAWnlka nrfl hnlnir nut ifnwii In mnnt. sections; water mains and -electric ' lights arp in evidence everywhere. A few days ago John R. Cope purchased through the Geo. H. Curney Real Es tate Agency two choice lots Just north of the large public school building and already his a part of the material on the ground for a new residence. AM UMMER uggestions Take two-thirds of a glass of cold sparkling SAM-O, add one-third of any ?f the following fruit juices: i Ainun, yi ange, rineappie or lirape , -jieasor it right and mix It togettaer rood for what alls jou In this kind of weather." rim best work Gold Fillings . $L5 up Silver FUllngs 75c Cement Fillings . . . . . ..... .We Re-enameling .... .......$2.00 Plates repaired good as new $1.00 up GUARANTEED Hones t Work Honest Prices Painless Extraction A Splendid Social Event. One cf the delightful occasions of the season thus far was that held at the home of Mrs. C. W. Nlbley on Wed nesday afternoon. It was an after noon where nimble fingers and busy minds held full sway. The borne was nicely decorated with golden autumn ! flowers and the luncheon was served In a color scheme of gold and white, j which was pleasing. Two guessing j contests were held. . The first was a Shakespearean romance and the win ner was Mrs. F. S. Ivanhoe, the prize being a beautiful book. The second was a geographical contest and Mrs. W. Y. Stoddard of Perry waa the win ner . The prlae waa a handsome brass vase. The event was enjoyed by the large number of guests who were pro fuse In their compliments to the hos tess.' ,' , v'..' . SMclul Songs .Tomorrow. The lsls Is going to treat its patrons to extraordinary songs tomorrow. Miss Garrlck will, sing ."Night and. Day," and Mr. Fenln will sing, "Hear Ye, O Israel." These are excellent produc tions and knowing Mies Garrlck and Mr. Ferrln as the people do It la not ne-oassary to add that the rendition of the songs will be delightful to hear. Why Otan Swift Didn't Go to Ascot I Dean Swift was the earliest man of note to make mention of the historic i Ascot race meeting. It is .In one of his "Letters to Stella" in August, 1711. that the great Jonathan says he "saw a place they have made for a famous horse race tomorrow, when the queen will come." But being "tired with rid. Ing a trotting, mettlesome horse a dozen miles, having not been on horse back this twelvemonth." Swift deter mined "not to go to the race unless 1 can get room in some coach." As he was hindered by . a caller all , the coaches were filled before he could reach one, and as a consequence the world lost the description of that earliest Ascot that only tbe author of "Gulliver's Travels" could have penned. ? ondon Spectator. ' A GREAT PROBLEM By KATHLEEN L M'CL'RDY Copyright by American Press Asso ciation. l'Jll. Three hundred years ago timepieces were rare. There were town clocks In some European cities, but the watch , had not yet been developed. " Fran Stoekel, living In the square of Stutt gart, where she could see the tower clock by stepping to her door, had a clock of her own and used to set it every day by the clock In the tower. Now, at this time the minds of men did not work as quickly or as shrewd ly as they do now. The masses were still superstitious, referring every nat ural event to a supernatural course. The people of Stuttgart were as stupid as any, and it took tbem as long to get a proposition through their heads as would be required to bore a hole through a millstone with a gimlet A murder was committed among them at least was supposed to have been committed, for the body of the murdered man could ' not be found. Franz Gobel, a peddler, had stopped all night at the house of John Mertz, and In the morning Mertz had disappeared. Gobel was caught leaving the bouse with some' money Mertz had left be hind him. Gobel pleaded guilty to taking the money, but denied having in anyway injured Gobel. Neverthe- J less he was arrested and tried before i a Jury, sucn system or mai navmg recently come into use in Stuttgart. The fact that Mertz had disappeared and Gobel was going away with bis money was quite enough to prove to the Stuttgartians of that day that Go-' bel had killed Mertz. They convicted him in short order, and he was sen tenced to be hanged. In Stuttgart was a man named Vent nor, who possessed a curious combina tion of knowledge. He knew quite as much law as the attorney, of that period which was nothing at all and be knew something of mathematics and astronomy. Gobel sent for hftn and declared on a crucifix that be had not murdered Mertz, but had scared htm away In tbe middle of the night by playing ghost In order that he might secure his money. Tbe condemned man begged Ventnor to save him.. Ventnor was as Ingenious as the peo ple of Stuttgart were stupid, ne took what money tbe prisoner had and, go ing to the keeper of the clock; bribed him to let him (Ventnor) Into the tower whenever he wished to go there. The next day at noon, when Frau Stoekel went to ber door to look at the , town clock In order to set ' her own, she found that the clock had gam ed twenty minutes. A gain or loss of five or ten minutes would not have surprised her, but twenty minutes quite took her breath away. However, she and every one In Stuttgart had perfect confidence, in the town clock, and sbe set her own timepiece back. The next day, finding that It had gained anoth er twenty minutes, she set It back again hnd moved the regulator to cause It to go slower. Nevertheless on the. third day her clock bad gained an hour, " , Frau Stoekel, convinced that her clock was out of order, tried to get some one to fix It. Several of the best mechanics tried, but the more they tinkered with It the faster It ran. Not withstanding the work done on It, In a month It had gained in all twenty four hours. Gobel was to be executed Just one month from the date of the sentence. The day before the Intended hanging Ventnor went before tbe Judge, wbo had sentenced his client and declared that the execution would be Illegal. When asked why he asserted and brought two witnesses to prove that be had turned the town clock back at various times enough to effect the loss of a day. Therefore the date appoint ed for the banging would be the day after that named In the sentence. The Judge was puzzled. Taking a quill pen, he began to make figures, He figured awhile, when a fellow townsman came In, and, having heard the problem as to whether the setting back of the clock had lost the town a day, he, too, began to figure. One by one tbe citizens came in till the room was full of persons driving quill pens with a view to working out tbe prob lem. At midnight, since there was no result, the Judge Issued a stay for the hanging, and the next day the figuring went on. At the end of a week the Judge sent to tbe university at Heidelberg for a professor of mathematics and astrono my to come to Stuttgart and tell tbe Stuttgartians whether Gobel If banged as sentenced would bare been illegally executed In other words, whether by the setting back of the clock a day had been lost The professor came and told tbe burghers that a day bad not been lost, but when be attempted to Drove his words no found llatanara l headed to. understand him. The Stuttgartians after the profes sors departure began to wrangle among themselves, . some bellevlnir b.1.4 t0,,Vhem' otbm - toa been lost. Bur all agreed that a new day should be fixed for the bnnglrg and a guard meanwhile placed arouud the cock tower. . From opinions they came to blows, and a fight wa on when who should come sauntering along, looking like a frightened cur, but the murdered man! He said that the ghost at his grandfather had told him to go away and stay away for a month. The people crossed themselves and Bet Gobel at liberty. - SCALES OF THE EEL Thsy Arc Vary Minute and Resemble Herringbone Brickwork. In the ordinary acceptation of the term the eel is a scaleless fish. But It is due to the fact that its scales are very minute and imbedded in the skin. They form, as pointed out by a cor respondent, very interesting and beau tiful objects for the microscope. In size the scales of the eel vary from one twentieth of an inch upward, accord ing to the age of the fish. They are formed of two layers of a clear, horny substance, the upper of which is studded with crystals of calcium car bonate. These are so transparent as to look like empty cells. ' The scales vary in shape from a .blunt to an elongated oval and are sometimes al most kidney shaped, i . , , This is bow the scnles of the eel tell its age. On each may be observed at intervals several more or, less clearly marked lines parallel to the margin. These mark Hues of growth, one for each year of the life of the fish. Three years, nowever, must be allowed for the innermost ring, as tbe eel has nc scales until tbe third year. The scales do not overlap to any extent and are arranged in series of small groups at right angles to each other, so as to resemble what is known as herring bone brickwork. Conger eels, how ever, are said to have no scales. Lon don Field. BALKED THE BURGLAR. It May or May Not Have Boon a Low . : Down Gams, but It Won. The man with his coat collar turned np and his derby pitched down over his eyes wbo was slouching along in the shadow of the building suddenly beckoned to the man on tbe other side of the street.- "Her: "s an easy one. Pete," he growled hoitrsely. "Wbere'n an easy one?" snarled Pete. "Thlt here bouse. It's like taking gum from a stenographer that's fixln' her hair. Some chump has gone away an' left nis latcn key in tn:s uoor. Pete look a. swift look at the house and Detain to back up. "You can go to it," he said. "1 don't want to butt in on It" "Are youse nutty 1" "Naw, 1 ain't 'nutty. But de feller wot lives dere Is a low down sneak wldout no feelln' fer nobody, an I don't want nothln ter do with 'im. No. don't know htm, but I'm next ter his game. He sticks that key in dere to ketch suckers like you. Dere s a wire on dat key an' a million volt battery attached to dat wire. I wouldn't touch it If yer'd gimme de First National bank. But go ahead I'll b acrost de street watchln' wot happens." Nothing happened. Cleveland Plain Dealer. - The Problem of tho Glacis The enrves of vaalatlon of glaciers vh!ch are collected In the Alpine mu seum in Berne show, according to Pro fessor Brueckner, that the twenty -six great glaciers of Switzerland which were very extensive at the beginning of ,the nineteenth century thereafter receded, at first slowly and then more rapidly, until the close of the century. The course of recession was Interrupt ed about tbe middle of the century by a brief advance, in which only two glaciers exceeded . tbe limits that bounded them at the commencement of the century. .The glaciers showed a second slight advance between 1390 and 1S95. Although the curves of the various glaciers are similar hi gen eral, each exhibits well marked pe culiarities, which make it difficult to trace any connection between ell niatic changes and fluctuations in gla elation. The problem of the glaciers Is still involved in obscurity, .and much patient research will be required to effect Its solution. scientific Ameri can. t - , A Scientific Question. "Nothing is ever totally lost or de stroyed." aald tbe professor of physics. "In that case," said tbe simple and frank person, "bow do yon explain the JUct that everybody loses umbrellas and you never meet anybody who has found one T Washington Star. Hard Water. Aunt Jane Is the water where yon liva now hard or soft? Niece I guess It's pretty hard. The girl spattered some on the lamp chimney the other night and, it broke all to pieces. - !" this world one nrnst be a littla tlce for Sale of Improvement Bonds. Notice is hereby given that the city of La Grande, Union county, Oregon, will receive sealed bids for the pur chase"' o improvement bonds in the sum Of $39,476.64, bonds In denomina tion of $500.00 each, bearing 6 per cent Interest per annum, up to 5 o'clock p. m. on, Saturday, September 22rd, 1911; said bids to be filed with the recorder of the city and to be ac companied by a certified check for 5 per cent of the total amount bid. The successful bidder will be required to pay for said bonda within tea days af ter notice that said bonds are ready for delivery. -La Grande, Oregon, September 16th, 1911. " , : ' . v C. M. HUMPHREYS, Recorder of the city of La Grande, Oregon. 1 9-16-6t PROFESSIOXAL DIRECTORY PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS M. MOL1TOR, M. . D. Physician and Surgeon. Corner Adams Ave. and Depot St. Phones: Office, Main 68; H. L. RICHARDSON, M. p. : I. W. LOUGHLIX, M. D. Drs. Richardson & Loughlln, Physicians and Surgeons Phones Office Black 1362; Ind. 353. Office Houre 9 to 11; 2 to 5; 7 to 8. Dr. Richardson's Res. Main 55; Ind. Dr. . Loughlin's Res. Main 757; Ind 1297. C. H. UPTON, Pb. G. M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Special attention to Eye, Ear. Nose and Throat Office In La Grande National Bank Build ing. Phones: Office Main 2; Resi dence Mala 32. ATTORNEYS AT LAW COCHRAN & COCHRAN Attorneys Chas. E. Cochran and Geo. T. Coch ran.' La Grande National Bank Building, La Grande, Oregon! T. H. CRAWFORD ROBT. S. EAKIN CRAWFORD & EAKIN Attorneys at law. Practices In all the courts of tbe state and United States. Of fice in La Grande National Bank Building, La Grande, Oregon. D. W. C. NELSON Mining Engineer, Baker City, Oregon. -DRS. UNDERWOOD & CNDERW0OD Physicians and Surgeons. DR. H. L. UNDERWOOD Special attention to diseases and surgery of the eye. DR. DORA J. UNDERWOOD Specialist for women Offices. Cor. Adams & Depot, over Wright Co.'s Drug Store. Phones Main 728; Main 22. wseswtsi k i "" GEO. J W. ZIMMERMAN Osteopath r Physician. Sommer Bldg., Rooms 7, 8, 9 and 10. Phones: Home 1332, Pacific,. Main 63; Residence, Black 951. Successor to Dr. F. E. Moore. G. T. DARLAND, CHIROPRACTOR, ' not Drugs, not . Surgery, not Oste opathy Consultation free.- Room . 20, La Grande National Bank' Bldg. J. C. PRICE, D. M. D. Dentist Room 23, La Grande National Bank Build ing. Phone, Black 399. ; , DR. P. A. CHARLTON, Veterinary Sur geons Office at. Hill's Drug store, La Grande.' Residence Phone, Red 701; Office Phone, Black 1361; In dependent Phone 53; Both Phones at Residence. . ' , Ladies Button Shoes and Sr-- -ss have them as high as eighteen button. The proper shoe for short sldrts. In prices from $4.00 to $5.00 L i. F tenth Shoe Co. DEAD SEA WATER. i Its Buoyancy Not So Great as to .Swimming Impossible. In Jerusalem ridiculous stories arf told of the impossibility of bathin In. the Dead pea. and' It Is even sa j by tbe superstitious that no animas or vegetation can exist near It 1 truth is that if Palestine belonged to any other power but Turkey the north ern shore of the Dead sea would prob ably become a popular bathing station and health resort, as 'the chloride of magnesia which enters so largely into the composition of the water would be found to have medicinal and eura tive properties, says the ZIon Herald. So far as swimming Is concerned, the excessive buoyancy of the water of the Dead sea 'simply renders It dif. flcult for the swimmer to make much headway, but if care be taken not to allow tne salt water to get into the eyes a swim is both feasible ana en Joyable. The Dead sea contains 25 per cent of solid matter and is. bulk for bult heavier tnan tne numan body. In ton of water from the Caspian sea there are 11 pounds of salt In the Baltic 13 pounds, in the Black sia 28 pounds, in the Atlantic 31 pounds, In the English channel 72 pounds. In the Mediterranean 85 pounds, in the Red sea 03 pounds and in the Dead sea 1ST A KOTRE DAME LADY'S APPEAL To sit knowing sufferers of rheumatltm, whetli. er muscular or ol the Joints, sciatica, lumbar backache, pains to tbe kidneys or nraralmi palna, to write. to her for a home treatment which has repescedlr cured all of these torture She feels It her duty to send It to all aulTemt FREE. You cure yourself at home ss tUoumnk will teMifyno chtnge of climate being necm ssry. This simple discovery bonlnhea uric scid from the blood, .loosens the stiffened Joints, nr tnes the blood, snd brightens the eyen, f,h. elasticity and tone to the whole system. It the ahose Interests yon, for proof addreits Mrs. M. Bummers, Box B, Notre Dame, Ind, For WOOD and COAL Phone Main 6 ym mm I mwHW WASHDAY MONDAY Make your washing easy by using some of the fol'owlug powders: ; Borax Soap Chips. Citrus Washing: Powders. . 5-XInnte Washing Compound. Wyandotte Cleaner and Clean ser. . t ' . , t . Pearllne. " Gold Dust ' . These will reduce the boll and drudgery and make your clothes whiter and sweeter. , For sale by iPattisott Bros. are still in lively de- Tan .-o. u. i,.m0u mm a oay nauitoo kind to be kind enougtL-Mari- 'vaux.