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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1911)
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1911. PAGE 3 4 m 0 'j OOOOOOOSSOC Cassfed ldverfsng I X VV Jt . AlUUb IUOU1. , Modern Phone to Red 61 or call at 1208 Seventh and M. VV I , U It'VT liiinmlflhQil . WANTED-r$12u0 cash will give city realty.valued at $3000. P. 0. Box 207 9-30-tt FOR RENT Three ' housekeeping rooms and usa of kitchen. . Modern. No children. $18.00. Wood, water and light, 1518 JefferBon. 10-10-3t FOR SALE Pair fine well bred 1400 lb. young horses. Cash, time or trade Apply Klrtley stables. 9-30-tt FOR SALE Team horses, wagon, har ness and cow for sale. Phone Black ,3622. LOST Between city hall and Cove. Brown traveling bag, containing clothing. Leave at Observer of fice. 10-9-4t FOR SALE Three milch goats, one 8x10 tent, one 10x14. Inquire . at Valley creamery, or corner Fifth and Q. ' . 10-9-tt WANTED Place for boy to work for board and room and go to school. Address Guy Spencer, or call Farm 78. 10-9-6t WANTED A woman to do housework. Apply Snowflake bakery. 10-9tf WILL TRADE Good five room house and 4 lots. Will trade for horses or cattle. 10-1 1-tf LA GRANDE INVESTMENT CO, La Grande, Oregon. LOST A Pillow mink muff. Leave at Paul's cigar store and receive re ward. FOR RENT Furnished room for light housekeeping at 1406 T. Ave. (10-1-tf FOR SALE Wood In any quantity. Phone ,706. Waters-Stanchfleld Produce company. ' J 10-9-tf PURSE LOST LOST Purse containing $50 In gold, $15.00 in currency and some small change, part of the money consists of old coins, dates of which can be given by owner. Liberal reward. Leave In formation at this office. . tf. Specials SWEET POTATOES CELERY CABBAGE RADISH RED and GREEN PEPPERS LETTUCE ONIONS EGG PLANT SQUASH PUMPKIN City Gtfo'cey and Bakey The Home of Fancy Groceries. Phone Main 75 Complete Equipment tor Resetting ann Repairing Rubber Buggy Tires LA GRANDE IRON WORKS ' D.FITZGERALD, Proprietor ' , , ' 1 COMPLETE MACHINE SHOPS AND FOUNDRY OLD ENGINEER IV RECOilER MAN HURT AT PENDLETON DEEM- ED OUT OF DANGER! ' Both Feet Cut Off but Life Will Bp . Saved Plonr Engineer. (Pendleton East Oregonian.) Jack Wright, the -veteran engineer who yesterday fell beneath the wheels of a passenger coach on No. 17, Is to day resting easily at St. Anthony's hospital and the attending physicions expn;B8 hope that he will ultimately recover although his age Is against his chances. Both feet were severed, one at the ankle and the other about four Inches above the ankle; His daughter, Mrs. Herbert Barn hart of Starbuck, was notified last night and the railroad company placed a special train at her disposal to reach her father's bedside, the rim of 98 miles from Starbuck to Pendleton b lng made in two hours and fifteen minutes, probably the fastest time ever made between the two points. Other relatives have also arrived. The Injured man was Just board ing the train- for The Dalles where he was to make proof on a timber claim today when he missed the stepft. Dudley Evans, the well known brake man, grabbed him when he saw the engineer had missed the steps, but was unable to prevent the accident J. W. Copeland. -of Dayton, Ohio, purchased a bottle of .Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for his boy who had a cold, and before the bottle was all used the boy's cold was gone.' Is that not better than to pay a five dollar doctor's bill? For sale by all dealers, eod & wkly Savoy Hotel EUROPEAN PLAN The rooms are good and Steam heated only one block from depot 0. C. Brichoux, Prop. GRAPES; TOKAY, MUS CAT and CONCORD GRAPE FRUll ORANGES BANANAS QUINCES APPLES PEAKS PRUNES ' AID 1 TAKES PO SENDS MESSAGE TO THE WORLD OVER FATAL VIAL. Former Pendleton Foandrrman Takes Own Life at Athena Yesterday. - (Pendleton Live Wire.) With a vial of cyanide of potassium before him while writing bis farewell message to the world, William ?.egger, a mechanic who formerly owned the Pendleton foundry, . and 'for several years a resident of Tacoma, and a brother-in-law of County Judge Ma loney of this city, drank poison last evening in the St.. Nicholas hotel at Athena and was found dead thU morn ing by one of the chambermaids of the hotel. ' Hi? arrived in Athena yesterday at about 4 p. m. and registered at the hotel, going to his room without cast ing any suspicion as to his premedi tated suicide. . The letter left by the suicide was. unsealed and was not addressed. It read in part as follows: "Before you Judge, stop and think. How are you to Judge! I have made many mistakes, but will make no more. My request Is to bury me In a rough wooden box, and If I hav enough friends to lay me away do it and I thank you for It but if not, let the expense be borne by the county (Signed) "WILLIAM ZEGGEF.." Zegger had two small children bur led In the Athena cemetery, and' it Is presumed that he went there to com mit the deed and to be buried beside his children. Coroner Ralph Folsom went to Atheua this morning to investigate the circumstances and declare i It to be a premeditated suicide. Fiuancial reverses are,8upuosed to have led to the act. SCHOOLS III CHINA They Have Curious and Strenu ous Methods of Teaching. AMAZING FEf.TS OF MEMORY. For Years the Pupils Are Kept "Get tins by Heart" Books of Which They Have No , Understanding, ' After Which Comes the Explanation. A Chinese schoolboy seu off one flue morning wben seven or eight years old to enter on bis Instructional course. He makes the most profound obeisance to bla teacher. LI is parents provide tbe table at which- and the stool on which be sits. They also supply the "four precious articles," tbe Ink slab, the ink cake, the pen or brush tor writ ing and tbe paper. ' . He will have no need at flrtit of the writing materials, all bis time being employed Id memorizing tbe books given blm. Perhaps a dozen boys, each a class by himself, are busy on his entry. Each is shouting his task at the top of bis voice, the teacher sitting at bis table In all tbe som nolent wakefulness of a Judge. No wrong pronunciation or Intonation es capes his practiced ear, and correc tion la frequent It is a simple country bouse, with Its earthen floor. Its unglazed windows and Its air of utter poverty. Our young hopeful, says the National Re view, In due time Is introduced to tbe Trlmetrtcal Classic" and the ques tionable, statement, which forms Its very threshold, that "men at birth are radically good." so set in classical form that be has no more Idea of its meaning than If It were In Greek. It is not meaning, however, that la tbe object Just now, but sound and mem orizing. , ' , Then he will be Introduced to the book of surnames. 400 in number, as another exercise In "getting by heart," after which in parts of tbe land tbe Thousand Character Classic" is set This is a book consisting of tbe num ber of characters named, no one of which Is ever used twice. Still no ex planation is vouchsafed For all the learning our youth is gaining he might with equal profit memorize a number of auction catalogues. lie is given In varying order, according to the custom followed by bis teacher, tbe four sacred ! books the "Great Learning," also , known as "The Door of Virtue;" the ''Analects" of Confucius, the "Doctrine i of tbe Mean" and the "Book of Men I cius." As early us thirteen. It may be, be will Lave done tbe memory work of the four books and be capable: of reel lng off "Turds, rods, furlongs or miles" of learning. Then enlightenment Id tbe form of explanation begins Dark ness U made visible, and education may be said to have begun. There is wearisome work In sight now. As If tbe book themselves, were not of sufficient difflculry. there are end less commentaries after tbe fnsblon of onr own on the Bible or Shakespeare Tbe "Great Learning" provides Illus trations of virtue, aim at tbe constant renewal of good and o at tbe attain ment- of the highest excellence. Its ideal is a righteous government over a tranquil and happy people. The "Doc trine of the Mean" Is more strictly In dividualistic. Correct conduct In every stage of life Is Its subject Tbe chief competitive examinations are three In number. The first for the Sltusal. or B. A.' degree. Is held at tbe prefectural city: the second, the Ku-Jen. or M A., at tbe provincial capital, and the third, the Tsln-shl. or LL. D.. ut Peking In oue or other of these tbe clever youth whose ca reer we are following may possibly find himself In a peculiar position as competitor with his own father or even his grandfather, who. with more per severance than ln k or brains, keeps "pegging away" year after year till success arrives or death Many are tbe attempts at trickery, cribbing, bribery or whatever may bring the candidate sufficiently near the top to be one of the favored few who "pass." the percentage of these being fractionally small at times. To -' -" - v.- s cautions such as could never have been suggested in tbe west Every candidate has hts own little cell In which be works during the days of tbe examination. Not a few die tinder tbe ordeal. "Any essay is good which gives a man hts M. A.." says the proverb, and "If one comes out first on tbe dragon list there Is a chance within ten years of being In tbe Phoe nix pool." which being Interpreted means that he who beads tbe M. A list Is likely by and by to become a Hanlln.'. So. Indeed, it happens to onr young hopeful now arrived at years of much discretion. He even becomes the Sbuang Yuan of hts year, the laureate or senior classic, as be might be named in the west Whereupon on his return to his na tive province he is received with the highest honors from the highest peo ple, tbe viceroy leading, and then a curious thing happens. Many of the peoplo of tbe province having tbe same surname apply for the honor of being permitted to worship at the ancestral hall of the successful genius and ac company their appeals with valuable persuasives. Tbey thus establish a claim to relationship with tbe ami able desire of having a friend at court New York Sun. Its Equal Dont Exist. . No one has ever made a Balve, oint ment or balm to compare with Buck len's Arnica Salve. It's" tbe one per fect healer of cuts, corns, burns, bruises, sores, scalds, boils, lucers, eczem, salt rheum. 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