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OVT BE AN IBEX.
A contributor to the Saturday Eve
nine PoBt has Invented a new name
fw a mossbaek Ibex, which leads to,
the following adaptation from his ar
ticle by the Roaeburg Review:
- Assuming that a mossbaek, or Ibex,
la a typical RoBeburger which,, of
wcourae, he Isn't but assuming for the
lake of argument that he Is, there la
at once a striking difference between
a typical Roseburger and a typical
realdept of any other Oregon city that
! grooving rapidly, such as Eugene,
a fair examnle ot the Wllla-
niettealley, or Metyejrflfcfc-die sbuthj
or Hood River, or La Grande In BasH
em Oregon, say. Catch n Menrord or
a Eugene man at a banquet or on a
jleeplng car, at a funeral or at a wed
dlng.'or anywhere, and barely men
tionJust baroly whisper tho mime of
11a town, that's hia cue; he's off then,
telling you how much It Increased in
population In the last ten years and
low much more It Is going to Increase
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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 19lg. ' t
.;. .. ' ..: . ..,:,. ' ,.:V.y ... , . -j--'-- --J"-" ' I ill I lY'jl' III 1 1 1 1 I '
I in the next ten. and bow many new mmmmmmmmmmwmm ' ' " , ..
fnr.tnriPH have started ud and - how
many new buildings have been built
during 'the past six months, ana now.
many new buildings have been puiii
during the past six months, and bow
many miles of new sidewalks .have
been .built this fall, and how much ,
pavement has been laid; what line ll-,
mate they have and what line fruit j
they can raise. . He has all tne avail
able figures right where he can put
his fingers cm them. ... His pockets are
loaded with statistics and, he hauls
them out by the handful and sprin
kles them oW'you like confetti at a
carnival. f '
von mav begin to wish,, after an
hnnr nr two: that he would change tlo
subject and 'talk about Russian dan
cers or the newest white hope or some
nw thine: but. in any event you are
impressed with the fact that the plie
he comes from is quite boih u",
nd that heaven, with a few modem
Improvements, would be something
like It only, of course, heaven has'nt
anything like the fruit they raise and
the climate they have He Is organ
ized to booBt his town first, last ana
jrfihe Hm.,-5Bea-k Bltta of him
llvnayJawaVwltf it; but
raise your .voice against bis town and
iiVpiceodinKly behoove you to
be good at one of two things-fightlne
or rnnnli.g, ' '
m ffurd to the Roseourg pei
we were speaking of a moment or two
ago however. It Is different. He na
all the sense of 'local pride that an
angleworm has. Mention- to him
the large ' and no aoum. grau'
growth in Roseburg's population it-
shown by the ' recent census, anu
ov. Btlfllna a yawn, that figures nev
er Interested him particularly: but it
( la true, then something ougnt to ne
rtonn rleht away to keep theBe rubes'
from swarming in and taking all the
good snaps. Direct his attention to
the figures of Roseburg's gross busi
ness in a year and he remarks,' wear
ily: "Yes, it has been a fair eeason
tnr thn mnvlnar nlctrue shows." Com
plain to him ot some crying municipal
evil and ask him wnat hetninKs ougni
n he done about It.' and he thinks
probably you had better call a police
man.- Aim a bltter Jeer. at .Rosemirg
and he shows no heat whatsoeevn
but hand him one little short-arm per;
sonal Jolt Just one and you certaln"
ly will get his goat pardon me, his
Ibex. ' ' -' i j.
There is no. necessity' for a person
b'elne an Ibex.: even under the most
adverse conditions. . For an example
read the following:
"Once there was a cyclone tfiat hit
a town In Arkansas and turned it in
side out. It wasn't one of those little
one-ring cyclones that are here today
and cone tomorrow. It was a three
ring and. elevated stage cyclone, with
himiodrome .track and a street pa
rade three miles long, traveling with
Its own private besom of dostruction
It did all the things that one of those
orthodox old-line ' southwestern cy
Jmoo nntnrnllv WOUld do. It , WBE
immediately nreceded by a swallow
'tailed bolt of lightning, which com-
!'iintelv undressed a prominent citizen
1 hung his clothes, neatly pressed, over
nmK nf nn ndlacent tree, una
branded him'on the stomach with Wit
iter TonninffA "Rrvan's. initials, and
vnnsed into the earth with a loud roar
lng sound and a smell like. somebody
. 1 1
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.First
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-".appearance, you win Demorcuiwiucuguicu niuiuwviv
New Shipment of
Spring styles in
Tilt Shoes
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frying ham, Then the main attraction,
came along and proceeded to act up
something scandalous. It blew Julep
straws through the three-toot brlclt
Bide of a distillery ;. It removed the
paper from the walls and left the pic
tures hanging there; It speared the
hovel and Bmote the palace, and Jt fell
iun that well-known Arkansas dem-
ocrat who sVore never to ave untu,
Samuel J. TIlden was president artd
- .1 ti BU.HI, niliia .IT nun SIM ft
muwou a.i -o - - -
of his face, but left the rest of hts
DOSCBge : , cumuuiunvcij MMvwm.
And then It moved on to the. next
stand., leaving that town iooK,..g
tnougn 11 ougni , -
dealt over again., - . ;,.-.
"in the course of a hours
editor of the leading home gaper -
there was but one-dug jf
from under several tons of plastering
and laths and unpaid subscriptions
and suchlike ; flotsam and Jetsam;
and, after he had excavated a lone
printer and a crippled press and a
Btickful of type, and one thing andan;
other, he got out an extra, giving the
main details. As extras go',-this wasn't
such an extra extra,: but . across the
front page, in the biggest font of typw
the editor could resurrect, ran the
lines bo satisfying to local pride:;:
"Hicksvllle Devastated by the Biggest
Storm That Ever Hit a Town This
Size.1 , ;i ', '
"Twelve Dead, and the Wind Blew
' Eight Miles an Hour Faster Here
Than It Did In the St. Louis Cy
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('Now that's the kind of an editor
that lived in : Hicksvllle,' Arkanaaa.
You can flnd them in' Koseburg or Eu-'
gene or Medford or La Grande but
he wouldn't have suited a mossbaek
1 mean an.lbex-not a minute. The
appropriate for such nn affair to him
would have been a headltua. reading
something like this: . :
"Blngvllle.JVIped Off the Map 12
Lives Lost 1 . f ;--:':
"Fruit Trees' Uprooted and Orchards
Ruined;' Crops ' Devastated; Hard
Times Ahead." .. .. '. ;V;, . :
The moral to this story Is obvious.
An Illinois farmer shipping stock
to Chicago, succeeded In crowding 130
large hogs into one car, and Is now
open to offers from street railway
companies, who would appreciate his
services as a conductor. ,
To make telephone conversation
more audible, a Danish banker has hit
Spriiig" Showiini
Designed and taUored especially for particular young men. In
cludes the popular new shades of Blue, Tans and Plum Mixtures
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want clothiniT that
1 upon vthe . expedient .of heating the
upon i
.transmitter '.' In thlB country the lan-
guage usea rrequenny aoes inuu
If you call" a grape fruit, would (t
be right to Cauliflower fruitless?
DICKEXS AJiMVERSARY TODAY
.... ug hundred years -g0 t0.
Dickens, the English
.
niiat -wni hnrn., . V.Ipkens is such a
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friend of so many La Grande perus
ers of standard literature,, that it Is
not am,8s to eivumerate some of the
. lranortant. events In the author's life,
I Here are Bome of the most Important.
, . Dlcken8, career. , V
; m;JCIiarlel! JoUn Hu,fllara Dil;k.
ens born at Portsea, near Portsmouth
Dickens, a clerk at
the son of John Dickens, a clerk at
the. Portsmouth dockyard. ,' s
; 1816 Removed with his parents, to
Chatham, where he resided until 1821
when the family removed to London.
"1827 At the age of 15, with the ad
vantage of, less thanvtllree years at
school! he began life on his own ac
count' as a clerk' ln: a 'solicitor's of
fice. . ;' :" ,' . ; : '''
1828-r-After a year. In the sol'c'tor'a
office where he acquired tho intimate
knowledge of law and lawyers that he
afterward used to good advantage In
his famous novels, young Dickens be
came a law reporter. ''
: lS31At the age of 19, he found em
ployment as a parliamentary reporter.
In which occupation he displayed
great efficieucy. ': "'
tl833 Wrote a slight sketch entitled
"A Dinner at Poplar Walk," his (lrsf
essay , In the realm of literature.
1836 At the age of 24, he publish-'
edthe opening parts of "The Pick
wick Papers," the. work which was
to make h!m famous" v
. Married Miss Catherine Hognrth,
daughter of George Hogarth, publish
er of the Evening Chronicle to which
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.Dickens contributed, his first sketches
r 1840 At the age of 28,' he had1 com-
pleted "Oliver . Twist,". "Nicholas
Nickleby," "The Old Curiosity Shop"
and "Harnaby Rudge.'' y ; ? ;
. 1841 Paid his first visit to America.
'" 1843 At age of 31 he hid written.
"Martin' Chuzzlewit", and the first of
his Christmas books. :', , :
1 8471 At the age of 35, he had com
pleted "Domeby and Son" and four
more of his famous Christmas books.
1849 At the age of 37, he had com
pleted "David Copperfleld," which is
regarded by many critics as the great
est of his works. . .. :
1863 At the age of 41,' he completed
"Bleak House," which is famous for
the exoellent construction of its"plot
and has retained its place as one of
Dickens' best efforts. ,; :;; : ''
.1854 At the age of 42, he had com
pleted "Hard Times.", ..'.;;,
1857 At the age of 45, he had com
pleted. "Little Dorrit." : :l S ;
1859 At the age of 47. he had com
pleted "A Tale of, Two Cities," and one;
of the-most; powerful of his works.- ;
" 1862 At "the age of 50, he completed
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cbaracterlsUcaily' 'humorcrtid .'of,'"ihl811''
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1866 At the age of 54, he completed
"Our Mutual Friend."
:' 1867 At the age of 55, he arrived in. .
America to begin a lecture tour in
which he appeared in mnny prin
cipal cities and was. received every-
where with the greatest cordiality and
enthusiasm.
-1868 At the age of 66, he returned .
to England in failing health, having
depleted his strength by hard work
and the excitement .Incident to hts
American tour. S
1869 At the age of 67, he began
writing "The Mystery of Edwiu Drood
which he did not live to complete.
1870 At the age of 68, on the eve
ning of ! June 9, the ' great-writer : ,
breathed his last at "Gad's Hill Place"
his home In Kent not far from Roches
ter, which he had purchased In 1856. '
. 1870 On June 14, the remains were v
laid to rest in Westminster abbey. In
accordance with Dickens' own often-
expressed , feelings in the matter,: the .
funeral was strictly -private.. .
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