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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
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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
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