LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1911.
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, Modern Phone to Red 61 or call at
1208 Seventh and M.
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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,
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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
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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
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