La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, May 01, 1912, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE 8 LA GBANDE EVENING OBSERVER, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1912. ' . M in III IH" The Elite THEATRE Proprietors: Mrs. T. Nf Murphy. Mrs. Fred Swaney nui Mrs. . F. Sinclair. THE HOUSE OF FEATURES. "THE PATH OF GENIUS" ... . .. Powers . A vibrant drama lull of tbrilU .dellghtB and charms. "HAPPY HOBOE'S HELP . . , Hestoi A parktlng comedy drama. "THE SUB-CHIEF'S CHOICE" A virile story of a Redman's love. "GAUMOXT WEEKLY NO. 1. . Topical. Prof. Parke's Illustrated lecture, ."WONDERS OF ALASKA." May 3rd nud 4th Captain Smith and tbe Titanic L T iiattie r. Mcdonald home is sold today. W. S. Snook to Fit the Residence Up on Modern Apartment Lines. Modern equipments pertinent to an apartment house. will be provided at 1616 Sixth street this summer when W, S. Snook rebuilds the nllttle Mc ': Donald home and refits It for apart-, ment houae facilities. Mrs. McDon-' aid today closed negotiations for the eale of the resldouce property which ' has a largo frontage on Sixth street, ' and will commence the construction of a bungalow on Fourth street at once for her own me, Mr. Snook will rebuild and repair and enlarge until he has a modern apartment house on the Sixth street property. The Mc Donalds built the residence sold In this deal over 20 years ago and for many years the residence was one of the most sightly as to location and; architecture that the city boasted of. With the repairs nnd renovations will Getting Left is what those nuisiruided mortals arc doing who buy wheels on the strength of their being "just as good'' 'n,s' the Columbia bicycle. There is no other wheel .just as good aud certainly none better. The Colum bia Avheel stands for all that is superior in bicycle construction grace, beauty and , case of run ning; New stock just ar rived. Leighton's Garage W BUILD WIS disappear one of the old substantial landmarks in the greater La Grande era. PLAYERS OFF ' ON FIRST TRIP BOISE GROUNDS TO BE USED UN TIL SEASON STARTS. Manager Bradley la off With Hig Co horts to Get Into Trim. Thirteen baseball men, representing overshadow the fame of Lord Ran tbe residue of tbe contingent -,that dolph, even as William Pitt eclipsed worked out here for the La. Grande! tbe renown of Lord Chatham, moves cluto in the Trl-State league, left last Thomas McCaleb. In the New , VorU nigm ior uoise wnere warmer ciunes , and lesB rain will permit consistent training before tbe opening of the, genIug tran(,mlR8DeV And. though league season next week. Blue tickets moBt authoritative latter day die were issued to a good portion of can-1 turn of science answers in tbe nega dl dates before the train left, Manager ' tlve, there are not a few noteworthy Bradley taking the following . with , exceptions that Involuntarily occur to him for tbe ante-season training; jtne nrlnfl.'-.'.' - Pitchers: Molnnis,. Stamp, Wlnne, 1 a new man, Taylor and Etehandy, er-. roneously known as Chandecy; catchers: Owens and Meigher; fielders: Fitzgerald, Hogoboam, Brad- ley and Walters, the latter a new man from Salt Lake; outnelders, Tex, Proe and utility pitcher. ERROR CAUSES FAULTY (Continued Iron page ewe) principally because of the blunder In ,..i,i,. . .t, kn. ... ,ti i. making up the ballots our voting be- lug confused, and voting for an In- dependent candidate whose name was at the top of the Taft delegates. In this way many Taft men voted for nine men and their votels were thrown ' out. We shall carry the tight to the convention floor." It Is believed that Senator Murray Crane'B defeat in the primaries as a delegate at large means his retire ment from political life. Roosevelt supporters now claim one delegate In the eighth district. If this is true, Roosevelt will have 19 dele gates timl Taft 17. The official count in the eighth district givea Taft only three votes plurality over a Roosevelt man. Roosevelt supporters are clr culatlns' ji 1 1 1 1 ions demanding a re count of the votes. Hu:on, May 1. President Taft gets 26 of the Massachusetts delegates to ' 1st. and Robert, Lord Lytton (Owed' the republican national convention at' Merodltln, poet: James Mill, philosoi Chicago and Roosevelt gets-10. This! Imur und ''Istorlan. and John Stuart is the net result today of the fiercest I Mi econoudst; Isaac Disraeli, author. 1 1. v . , . land Benjumln Disraeli. Lord Bencous- pollt.cal fight New England has ever, &M 8tutHmilI1 novellst. 0abre, seen, when the complete returns from R0aaetti, poet, und Dante Gabriel Ros all but three Binnll towns In the state settl. poet and painter; Thomas An were tabulated. On the figures them-' nold, educator und historian, and Mat- selves Taft and iRoosevelt split even, Roosevelt got 10 straight delegates and his list f delenates t lame, eleht 1 .. ... . 111 an, uuieiueu iiiose uieugeu ior rr. ... . . Taft. This left each man IS. But Roosevelfs statement this afternoon that as Taft carried the primaries, he (Roosevelt) will 1 not Insist that the delegates at large Vote for him, nnd this gives Taft a larger number. It Is not certain if the delegates at large will fall in with the suggestion. New Ranks Open. Washington, May 1. One thousand fourth, class postofllces scattered throughout the' United States opened postal savings banks today by order of Postmaster General Hitchcock. This br ngs the num-ber up to St.000. .Methodists Assembled. Minneapolis, May 1. With S50 dele gates from every corner In the world where there are Methodist churches, in attendance, the quadrennial con ference of the Methodist Episcopal church, the largest Protestant gath erinsi in the world, opened its con vention here today.. NatloiMil Capital llerse Show Washington. D. C May 1 A nota feature of the second annual horse show at to national capital, which opened today at Potomac Park, is the !:;rr? number of trained chargers en tered by United States army officers. The show will conl'nue to the end of the week. ' Six thousand dollars In prir.es will be distributed among the wiun'tig owners. Assay Offices Go. Washington, May 1. Abolition of the assay offices In Boise, Helena, Se atile and Salt Lake City was recom mended In the budget appropriation 1) II r- rr-rtcd to the house today. linked ranis, Great Fathers Who Gave to the ;. World Great Sons. THE QUESTION OF HEREDITY. ! 8olenee Aeierte That Geniue It Net Transmissible, Yet Her Are Numer eus Brilliant Exceptions, Both An eient and Modern, to That Dictum. . An allusion by Henry W. Lacy, an acute judge of contemporary notables, to Winston Spencer Churchill as a born parliamentarian In whom tbe genlua of bis father. Lord Randolph Churchill, lives again and who uiuv vat nrovu to " ' "We are prompted by these allusions Miirnr -ncro nnr nrar nr n i i run rrnm among the ancients such fathers and 8Dectlvey aB rnlllp of MHCtioB an(J Alexander the Great. Hamllcar ln-'an,i nannibal. Marcus Junius Brutus and Lucius Junius Brutus, Vespasian ' and Titus? Also we find genius resl- dent both In Pepin and bis offspring. Charlemagne, to which case might be added, did space permit, tbe few great mnflla.ftl Rnfrllah Irlnca trhn roora nlui the eons of great dings. Nor should we omit to mention tbe poets Bernardo Tasso and bis progeny, Torquato Tas so; also tbe great Nicholas Bacon and : tbe still greater Francis Bacon." In-. ; deed, tbe list might be multiplied to an ' appreciable figure by taking an ex- "aci to universal biography. There are. besides, qtilto a number of sona posses8ej of BUcn eJ.trnor(inarT taient that they might, by slightly stretching a point, be likewise called men of genlns. "In tbe biographies of great Germans we see this fac t especially creeping out now and then, und in France, to men tlon only three cases, we Und genius exemplified In such a sire and offspring as Etlenne Salnt-Hllnlre Geoff roy and Isidore Sulut-Hllulre Ueoffroy, as La zare liippolyte Curuot and Sadl Caruot and as Alexandre Dumas pere and Alexandre Dumas tils. "(Julie rich In Illustration of the np parent hereditary transmission of gen ius Is the list among, Englishmen: Here, eunflnlng our examples lo those whose fame beltings to the last-eon tui.y, we uluy 8eiect llt random such names as Sir WJIIfum Herschel and Sir John Frederick William Herscbe!, astronomers; George Canning, orutor and prime minister, nnd Charles John banning (earh, first viceroy of India; Edward Hulwer, Lord Lytton, novel- thew Arnold, poet nnd critic; Justlu McCarthy, politician aud historian, and Jt'u """t"? McCarthy, advocate. "In American blogranby we find the . , , , ., , names of such famous fathers and Bons reBpeotlvey B8 lncrease MatUL,r and Cotton Mutuer. theologians; John Adams aud Jutm Qulncy Adams, both presidents and statesmen; 'l.lt'ht Oorse" Uarry le, patriot, and Robert E. Lee, soldier; General Zachary Tay lor and General Richard Taylor; .lo seph Story. Jurist, aud W. W. Story, sculptor: Oliver Wendell Holmes, hu morist and poet, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Jurist: Louis Agasslz and Alexander Agasslz, naturalists: Na thaniel Hawthorne and .In I Inn Hau lm me,' writers of fiction; Thomas c'rawfonl. sculptor, and Marlon Craw- ford, novelist: Henry George and Henry George, ,lr., economists: the two Ceorge luue&KUfs. luiiu.icui.e p..i.iU w,:.o .lu.ucs. the most famous of the Swedenhorglnns, and his sou nnd namesake, the gifted novelist "That the genius of Interpretation, a truly great art. may betimes be In herlted would appear from the in stances of Nitch great actors and their sons respectively as Junius Rrutus Booth and Edwin Booth. Sir Henry Irving and Henry B Irving, the two Salvlnls. Tommnso and Alessnndro. and both Coquelln pere and tils "It Is observable from the examples recorded In this article that the genius of fathers and Rons ofttimcs manifests Itself In the same sphere of endeavor, either of them approximating or ex celling, as the case might he. the fame or excellence of the other "It goes without saying that lllns (rations, perhaps far more numerous, might be given to prove the conteu tlon of tbe best recent sclentlfi thought namely, that mental nttrl butes are not Inheritable. For all that 1 we believe we have produced a sutll cleut uutnber of concrete exceptions to affirm that In this particular the late 1 dictum of science, which, of course. Is (ever empirical, la not altogether and absolutely conclusive." KOREANS ARE GLUTTONS. Vwuyt Raady to Eat and Always Gorga Thamaalvaa Whan Thay Can. The Koreans appear to be the great est eaters In the. world, ' To this the Japanese, French. English. Dutch and Chinese all bear witness. All reports concerning tbe Korean capacity for food seem to agree. In this respect there Is not the least difference be tween the rich and the poor, the noble aud the plebeian. To eat much Is an honor in Korea, and tbe merit of a feast. It would seem, consists not so much In the quality as In tbe quantity of the food served. Little conversation occurs during the Korean, meal, for each sentence might lose a mouthful A Korean is always ready to eat He attacks whatever he meets with and rarely cries "Enough!" Even between meals be will help himself to anything edible that Is offered. . The ordinary portion of a laborer Is about a quart of ' rice.' ' which ' when cooked makes a good bulk. Tbls. how ever, is no serious hindrance to bis de vouring double or treble the quantity when be can get It V Eating matches are common. When an ox is slaught ered and tbe beef Is served up a heap ing bowl of tbe steaming mess does not alarm any guest. When fruits, such as peaches 6r small melons, are served It Is said that they are devoured without peeling. - Twenty or thirty peaches are deemed nn ordinary allow once per ierson and rapidly disappear Such prodigality In food is. however, not common, and for one feast there are many fastings. The Koreans are neither fastidious In their eating nor painstaking in tholr cooking. Nothing goes to waste. All Is grist that comes to the mill In their mouths. New Vork Press. - A FUNNY SULTAN. .; Ha Liked to Play Practical Jokas Up.in Hit Invited Questi, We all like our little Joke, and east ern potentates have from time Imme morial enjoyed tbe reputation of be ing tbe merriest of mouarcbs. Tbe Moorish palace of Sultan Abu Yakub Yussuf at Seville known today as the Alcazar contains one of the most elaborate practical Jokes extant When In a gay mood some important mer chant or notable of Seville would re ceive a pressing Invitation summoning him to tbe presence. In a fever of de lighted expectancy the flattered guest would don bis whitest raiment and hie him to tbe palace. There be would be ceremoniously conducted to the gardens nnd directed up tbe long avenue. But. ulas, half way up it he would Inevitably tread upon a moving flagstone resting upon a spring, nud Immediately countless fine Jets of water would gush out of tbe ground nnd from tbe surrounding shrubbery nnd drench him.- Amid the jeers of the courtiers tbe luckless and bedraggled wight would beat an un dignified retreat Before be was al lowed to leave tbe palace, however, be was sworn to secrecy on pain of death. At all costs nothing must make tbe Joke fall flat when repeated. The treacherous flagstone has been removed, and today tbe visitor may pass with Impunity, but a peseta to .the bead gardener will usually cause the fountains to play. Not many peo ple know of their existence, however The water Is sprayed through hun dreds of tiny pipes, so small as to be almost Invisible, which are placed in tbe cracks between the flagstones. Strand Magazine. By and Largs. A correspondent asks. "Where did the fool expression 'by-and large' come: from, and what does It mean?" It Is Bcnrce'-y fonihh. for the mco who In vented the phrase were the great sail ors of the past, aud by aud large they opened n new world for folk to whom the speech of adventure is a closed volume. To sal) -b.v" Is lo snil as close to the point from which the wind comes us the ship's lines will allow and us skillful steering will permit. To sail "large" Is to sail with the wind. Together they Include all- possible points of Railing. Therefore "by and large" Is a vivid phrase to express the Idea of all Included Xew York Suu. The Proud Duke. ' An English importer iii N'ew YOrk told a story illustrative of the pride of the late Duke of Fife. . "A very rich woman In Grosvenor square," he said, "oiice asked the duke to dinner in terms like'these: "'Mrs. Parvenu's social secretary Is desired to Invite tin Puke of Fife to dinner on the 7th Inst, at 8 o'clo:-k.' "To this Invitation came back the answer: " 'The Duke of Fife's piper is desired to inform Mrs. Parvenu's social secre tary that the Duko of Fife declines her Invitation.' "-Washington Star. Depending on the Neighbors. She was a rather plump old woman and had always tried to he accommo dating to her neighbors, but even her obliging spirit had to refuse n request from a neighbor who sent by her little boy the following message: "Please, ma'am, mother- sent nip over to see If I couldn't get a couplp of pounds of lard off of yon."- Llppln-cott's. Don't Neglect your dress; many a young man has lost good oppor tunities for advancement in life simply because he did not dress well. The Price of stylish, serviceable clothing to-day is so little that anyone can afford it. If you doubt this come to our store today and see clothing priced at less than it is worth. We'll prove it to your satisfaction. $15.00 At this price we lead them all and as it is cur leader they are unequalled elsewhere. Others at $10.00, $16.50, $18.50 and $20.00. .. j . , GE Opening In the Tri-Statc League. . Reading, Pa., May 1. The cham pionship season of the Trl-State Base ball league was opened today with games In Harrisburg, Trenton, Al toona and Reading. The league circuit la the same as last year, comprising Johnstown, York, Lancaster and Wil mington; In addition to the other four cities named, The season will con tinue until September 4. HUMPHREYS' CASE TO JURY Corvallls, Ore., May 1.- The t-!it,e of George and Chas. Hunivhrers. broth. I crs, charged with the murder of Mrs. hliza Wrttilltli, went to the jury short- ly after noon today Is expected. An early verdict Impo Bankers, Merchants, Manu facturers and Residents. A complete up-to-date Metrou compiled tinder expert direction, not embrace other portions of t prosperous enough aud su flick-n lily Directory, llther lties of 1 in Oregon have theirs. Why n The Xew Directory will centa fer appertaining to this City; In Directory containing the names ing' his or her occupation togct ness ant residence. The publishers will place (hi the low price of $1.50 by suhsc Business men will readily re La Grande Directory as a most For Rates etc.. Address DIRECTORY PUB. CO. La Grande, Oregon Goodness Worth Excellence Is Stamped On All Our Suits For Men IBEL'S New Bishop of 'Ogdenebrug . ugaenshurg, N. Y., May 1 In the presence of many high dignitarfies of the Roman Catholic church and practically all the clergy in the dio cese, Rt. Rev. Mgr. Conroy was to day consecrated auxiliary bUhop of Ogdensburg in St. Mary's Cathedral. Cardinal Farley of New York offic iated, assisted by "Bishop Colton -of Buffalo and BIsh'op Gabriels of Og densburg. The sermon waspreached by Bishop Hlckey of Rochester. : Delaware for Wilson. Dover, Del., May 1. s;x delegates to the national convention at Balti more, all favorable to the- candidacy of Wilson for democratic nifislitenHBl , nominee, were named to-lay by the democratic state convention. ' riant Notice olllnii City Directory is now being exclusively for La Grande, it will he county. La Grande is large enongh, tly Important to demand an up-to-date ess Importance and smaller linnnlnMon ot La Gmnde In accurate information of all charac other words, it will be a complete of every resident of La Grande. hnw. her wltJu their specltic place of busl-. s VHltinhle work upon the market t ription only. cognize the great value of using the pronianie aaverusing medium.