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PAGE 6 LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1911. located Keliabie uentis s easteb price Our untarnished reputation wherever we have established office is a recommendation we look to with pride, and our motto, "Honest work," "fair dealing," has always made our success continuous for the past 10 years. . We guarantee our work, And if it Is not right we make It right without any extra expense to ,'ou. We would rather be busy all th3 time and make a smaller profit from each Individual patient than charge prohibitive prites. Peo ple In all stations of life patronize this Institution of Modern Den tistry. PAIXLESS fin II r EXAlimTIOS, COXSnTATION EXTKACTI05 OUC V F66 ESTIMATES A5D ADVICE , Prices for the Best Work $15 Set of Teeth ....18.00 $10 Bridge Work (best) r qq $10 Gold Crowns 22k . 12 year protection guaranteed. Gold Fillings .. fUO up Silver Fillings 7c Plates Repaired ......$1.00 of Modern Dentists Our offices" DEPOT Si ADAMS AVE. OVER XETfllS DKTIG CO. SMt Lake. Baker. La Grande. Portland. DEBATIXG SEXT VEXTUBE. JL of 0. Turns Its Attention to Foren ! sic Affairs Hereafter. WHITMAN I -runii i inn nur ItlHILLIHb Ul.t JHEIJiOLDS ASD EXDBEItG HOME TO SPEND WEEK-END. Bbj Baler Mayer Not In Game Tester, day Contest Interesting1. FOOTBALL SCORES TESTER- DAT. La Grande high 11. Elgin high 0 Baker high 5, Nampa 5. Pendleton 48, Heppner 0. O. A. C. 6, Whitman 3. Washington U. 30, Pullman 6. $ Multnomah 16, Oregon 6. S La Grande people attending the O. A. Cl-Whltman game yesterday say the contest which resulted 5 to 3 In O. A. C.'s favor was exceptionally interest ing O. A. C. scored a touchdown on an onside kick to Robertson, who, with Reynolds for Interference, went over for a touchdown on a short sprint. At one other time O. A. C. lacked a foot of a touchdown. Nlles, the premier fullback of the Whitman team, was the brilliant star for Whitman, earry the ball most of the time himself. He scored a drop kick. also. Reynolds and Enberir Home. Two of the O. A. C. eleven were In the city this morning for a few min utes when Quarterback Charles Rey nolds came home to spend the week end with bis parents and Enberg the stalwart from Baker, passed through La Grande. ; Enberg did not play yes- nolds will return to O. A. C. probably Sunday. University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore Dec. 1. (Special. With, the close of the football season the gods of Brain and Brawn are deposed at the Unlver- 1 sity of Oregon. For the next four months the votaries of Debate and Ora tory will be undisturbed in their of ferings. The death knell of the for mer gods was sounded last Monday evening when 20 stripling met in wordy combat over the question of the Judicial recall. The forum was gory at the close, and there were thumbs up for ten and thumbs down for ten others. And now these ten whose names are the squad, frbm which will be chosen the six men who are to uphold the honor in debate of their 'varsity again honor in debate of their 'varsity against Utah, Washington, and Stan ford: Carlton Spencer, Cottage Grove; Vernon Motscbenbacher, " Klamath Falls; Earl Jones, Newburg; William Dunlap, Portland; Leon Ray, Eugene; David Picett, Prlnevllle, Peter Crock ett, Pendleton; Herbert Lombard, Eu gene; Ralph Moores, Salem; William St. John, Eugene. The question for all three debates Is "Resolved, that Judges should be Bub Ject to the recall." The two final try outs to pick the Oregon teams will be held December 5 and December 12. The date for the Utah debate is Friday, January 19, and will be held in Eu gene. The date for the triangular de bate, with Washington and Stanford, Is Mbrch 15- FILES CURED IX 6 TO 14 DATS Your druggist will refund money If PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days. 60c. Wallowa Lodge Celebrates. (Eenterprlse Record-Chieftain.) Standley lodge No. 113, A. F. and A. M., of Wallowa, dedicated its beau tiful new hall last Thursday night with great eclat. Grand Master Bald win of Prlnevllle, PaBt Grand Master Ed Kiddle of Island City, other high officers and many Masons were pres ent from Summerville, La Grande, El gin, Lostine and Enterprise. A session of the Grand Lodge of Oregon was opened, the Entered Ap prentice degree was conferred on a candidate by Wallowa degree team and the Impressive dedication cere monies performed by the grand, mas ter. The exercises at the hall were fol lowed by a banquet at the McCrae hotel, prepared and served in fine (style. At the board were speeches by the grand officers, Rev. Thomas Johns of Ontario, and others. CONCEIT. OF BARBADOS. A Mighty Colony Is "th Littls England of tho Tropics." None of the great nations of the earth Is half so proud of itself ns the little colony of Barbados, a mere speck In the Caribbean, which calls Itself "the little England of the tropics." Alone of all England's West Indian isles, Barbados has belonged to Eng land ever since It was first colonized by white men. It has never been con quered by the enemy, as the others have been. This fact naturally gives the Barbadians a good conceit of them selves and indeed makes them Just about the proudest people on earth. When, Just before the Crimean war, England was hesitating whether she should attack Russia, the Barbadians sent this message to the cabinet: "Go ahead. Don't be afraid. Barba dos is behind you." King George wos offered nn nsylum by "little England" whett Napoleon Bonaparte proposed to invade England. "If you were driven from England," the Barbadians wrote, "come hera You will be safe with us to protect you." When England was suffering her worst reverses in South Africa the Barbadians were not worried. They kuew that If matters really reached a crisis "Barbados would go in and finish, the business," as one of their newsua pers seriously put it. KANAA BURIAL GROUNDS. Bolivia's Fearsoma Valley of tho Shad ow of Doth. There is a valley in Bolivia, South America, which might well be called the Valley of the Shadow of Death. It has been Inhabited for an Indefinite period of years by the Kanaa Indians, who are kindred to the various South American tribes and number now only a few hundred souls. That they were once a very powerful tribe is indicated by the condition of the land which they as a .tribe still in habit. One cannot travel any distance through their land without . coming npon the old and forsaken burial grounds. of the Kanaa dead. These places ennnot be called graveyards, for the bodies are not burled, but rather placed upon elevated platforms, wrap ped in the garments of death and bound to the crossbeams that they may not be displaced. In one of these burial grounds there will be probably fifty high skeleton platforms, itn.l on each will lie from three to five of the Kanaa dead. The air In that part of Bolivia is very pure and preservative, for It is one of the highest plateaus of the continent, al though Kanaa valley is Just a little below tbe plateau's height A traveler passing through that land at nlsht and by moonlight would be awe stricken at the gloomy vision those graveyards present Won by His Wit. On one occasion a dress rehearsal at His Majesty's theater was prolonged till the small hours of the morning. The company grew very weary, par ticularly a gentleman who had been with Sir Herbert Tree In a good many productions, but who bad never at tained to more than a very tiny part. When the time came to rehearse his few lines he was ho ineu iuai u!a was anything but distinct. "What's tbe matter. Mr. Z.?" ask ed Sir Herbert In bis most sarcastic tones. "Are you saving your voice fof the rehearsal?'; "No, Sir Herbert." wan the retort; "I've never been able to nave anything under your management." Sir Herbert, nn exceedingly witty man himself, was ho pleased with tbe retort that the salary of the small part man was raised. I.ondou M. A. P. tome to mis ocore with Confidence . Opposed to Mourning Clothes. "A southern physician of recognized skill and eminence urges that all out ward symbols of mourning should be abandoned." says Munsey's. "For many years be has esptvssod his views. He has won over a large number of peo ple who see no reason why the heart should advertise its sorrow by the conspicuous insignia of gloom. There are or have been peoples wiser in their generation. Tbe Romans of tbe days of the republic wore blue as a sign of mourning. It is tbe proper thing in Asia Minor now. The Turk mourns in violet and tbe Persian in pale brown. Until a French queen set the present fashion in the latter half of the fifteenth century white was the color of grief in Europe, as it Is now in China." Gossard AS C0SSABDS GIVE HEALTH WELL AS STYLE. By wearing the Gos3ard Corset, which Is built RIGHT, thousands of women are gaining remarkably in health. Physicians trace many ills of wo men to tight lacing or faulty corsets and prescribe the Gossard for ' ail ments caused by other corsets. The Gossard 13 a God-Bend to the woman who wants solid comfort for her back, perfect freedom In breath ing, In walking, or when seated, or whose pride demands a stylish, dis tinctive figure. There Is a Gossard model for every figure. $3.50 to $8.50. Try one and be convinced. A com plete line always on hand. MRS. RODT. PATTISOX. Phone Blk "1481. Ooraetlero Saved Ills Wife's Life. "My wife would have been in hev grave today," writes O. II. 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The flesh of'W fruit Is like candled citron, and Its seds, our nutmeg prop er, are enveloped In a yellow rind that Is our uiiicu "Nutmegs i;re dried for two months In n moderate heat. They are then sorted, and the small hikI broUen ones are thrown into the press for the pur pose of extracting their oil. tbe essen tia! oil of nutmeg being a very i-ostiy article of commerce. "Tbe big. Una. choice uutmegs, if they are now put on the market, are all right: but. the oil being so costly, there Is a v.-ay of extracting: it without the use of the press. The tine, choice nutmeg Is siee;ied In hot water and ntervivM-'1 -l '"itli lime Then. though all its oil and nearly all its flavor have departed, it looks O. K. Tt looks O. K., but it is a worth less 'wooden nutmeg, and if you grate it over anything you get no flavor, while if you stick a pin in it no oil exudes." Exchange. Sand Dunes In Gaseony. One of tbe most interesting and re markable of the many regions for the observation of sand dunes lies between Bordeaux and Bayonne. in Gaseony Tbe sea here throws every year upon the beach, along a line of. 100 miles in length, some 5,000,000 cubic yards of sand. The prevailing westerly winds continue picking up the surface par tides from the westward slope, whirl them over to the Inward slope, where they are again deposited, and the entire ridge by this means alone moves grad ually inward. In the course of years there has thus been formed a complex system of dunes,' nil approximately parallel with the coast and with one another and of all altitudes up to 250 feet. These are marching steadily in ward at a rate of from three to six feet n year, whole villages having sometimes been torn down to prevent burial and rebuilt at a distance. A Des Moines man had an attack of muscular rheumatism in his sholder. A friend advised him to go to Hot Snrlncs. 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