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TA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1912.
THE OBSERVER
BRUCE DENNIS
EDITOR AND OWNER.
Vatered at tbe poMouice at La Grande,
Oregon, as second class matter
SUBSCRIPTION KATES.
ally, single for 5e
Bally, per week 15c
Daily, per month .ie
W 0 H L I) GLIMPSE
Toussaint L 'Overture vai the grtat
ft Haitian tlie island ever produced;
lie was Its Washington expelling the
British Invaders. j was a negro.
61r.ce thai date, 1798, the little country
Jbas bad stormy times. Last week the
president, Cinctnnatus LeConte, was
killed by what la supposed to have
been an accidental explosion In the
palace.
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. Irish Suffragettes
"Ye Jlst can't monkey wld the Irish"
Is the way one man expressed it,
"whether ye he man or wenan It
in true that the suffragette pbo were
recently sentenced to terms of five
yars each in prison have found the
saying to have . some weight. .' .Mary
Leigh and Gladys Evans are the cul
prits. 0 0 0 0 '
WkaoVs Funeral
Hon. H. S. Knox has been delegated
by the president as envoy, extraordi
nary to Tokyo to attend the obsequies
of the late Japan emperor, Mutsuhlto.
It will occur September 13th.
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Millionaire Bom
We wonder if a three million dollar
baby is one mite sweeter than one in
borne of tb poorer.
tWr. 0 9 0 0 '
BIUy" Sanday Aphorism
, Speaking of poverty in the line above
recalls a remark of that odd man,
"Billy" Sunday. He says, "A man
without money is poor, but be who
has nothing but money is poorer."
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Mexican Mormons
From the press dispatches it would
appear that the Mormons who went
from the United States had the good
sense to retain their citizenship in the
good land of Uncle Sam, ,
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Metropolltanlzlng
Thm word metropolis means the mea
suring city. Now, this being so, it
Tfould be but natural that the mea
suring city would set for us tne proper
standard of morals, government, etc.,
etc. Thus tar we of the eastern sec
tion of the state have very little oe
, casion to copy after any points of
flaunted excellence In our state's larg
est lown. Portland seems very much
decadent and decayed in many re
spects. 0 0 0 0
Joy RIder In the Country
Fometblng serious is sure to happen
sooner or later in connection with
the, would-be irr-asponslble Joy-riders
who. Infest the highways of our valley.
Recently a wild bunch whose machine
number as well as their own person
nel is known did some work next to
the dastardly by shooting at random
Into fields and gardens, narrowly
missing one fanner who was at work
In his own field. When personally re
mount rafet! .with, they laughed In the
old farmer's face. Forbearace ceases
to be a virtue after while, and some
of the fast fellows may not be able
to exceed the sped of a vengeful and
well directed bullet. A word to the
wise is often sufficient, but to fools a
dictionary is of little value. It will be
hard to find a jury that will convict a
farmer or other outraged Individual
who shoots at some automobile fend
on the highway.
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OuutaiHjna Bridge
Lovers of the Chautauqua trail ought
now to visit that sylvan retreat if only
to see the new steel bridge which
Straightens the Spruce street crossing
at $he 5rande Ronde river. Dangers
f injury to foot travelers la eliminat
ed by the 'footways on either side the
drive.
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Wanting Frmlt
In Fruitdale and elsewhere In our
opnlent valley art many hundreds of
gallons of luscious cherries actually
going to waste, in our city are plenty
of people w'.io have but limited means
and feel that tbey are able to buy only I
ths aeceaswrles of life, and cannot af-1
ford the luxury of frt'it. It were cer
talnly a kindness to permit such to
have the cherries for the picking. Why
this wasteT It looks crlmiual.
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Makes Some Difference
Luclle; "Warm bread always tastes
good with butter."
Eleanor: "It don't when you don't
have any." .
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Xylology.
This Is the name of a nw science.
It Is the employment of experts to ex
amine the kinds of wood used by cabinet-makers
and furniture dealers to
determine if the goods bought pre such
as advertised. It has been a custom
amounting to a vice for substitutions
to be made for mahogany, walnut find
other fine finishlugs. He is to be con
sulted, too, as to the proper sort of
material to use in building and con
structing. oooo
Li Grande Appreciated
A gray-headed man was being pilot
ed through the new high school build
ing last week. The man bad lived all
bis life thus far in Willamette valley,
ble perfection til one sees the Grand
ble perfection until one see tne
Grande Ronde. After seeing the beau
tiful building with all its up-to-date
appointments, he said: "Truly, I am
surprised; I feel like I were In Boston
where I once went to school." That's I
all right, too, One great trouble about
Boston Is its distance from La Grande.
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Appreciation of a Kindix,
A little seven-year-old was walking
on our streets a day or so since, and
said to a fellow boy: " think Miss
is the very kindest lady in this
town, don't you,' Tommy?-' "Gee, but
she is fine," said Tommy. "Well, nay
mamma is pretty near as nice as she
is, don't you think?" 'Yes.' "Why, I
ithink my ma and Miss are just the
nicest people in La Grande, don't
you?" "Umbub.''
" 0 0 0 0 "W"M
Hater's Gardens "'"'
The casual,., wanderer about the
streets of La Qrande or the busy man
of -affairs , woufd scarcely know there
are so many places of real artistic
beauty lp our.city. One of these is the
variegated garden of Mr. Kaler west
of1 CprnprdsJe where he has such a
well regulated variety of flowers,
flowering shrubs and trees. Do you
want to see the old black or white
oak of the Buckeye or Hooeler borne?
go to Kaler's. Just now, he baa a
fine.fre show, of .gladiolus, (be care
ful how you pronounce it!) hydrangea,
Scotch broom, balloon flower dahlia.
Siberian dogwood, sumacs of different
sorts, and almost everything to please
the eye of the merest connoisseur. Go
to see him and he will gladly show you
many beauties, and .charge you noth
ing for the sight.
STEADY ADVANCEMENT.
It is said by those who should know
that the nomination for the presidency
was stolen from Janus G. Blaine. But
't is aloo said the methods used were
no! of the crude nature that were used
by a oatlonnl committee to Bteal the
presidential nomination a few weeks
ago In Chicago.
Many point to the Blaine cass today
and say, "This Is llttlo, If any, worse
than that," which Is poor reasoning
and unsound logic. The country Jins
advanced since Jim Blaine's time. Peo
ple are more enlightened now than
they were then. Newspapers are cheap
er and mon? plfntitul and the rank
and file of a.11 parties are taking a
keener Interest In how things are done
than they were In those days whfn
everybody lined up for the ticketafter
It. was made, regardless of how It wa
made. , i
It would b a blot on American cltl
reiiKhlp to let the ad at Chicago go
by without rebuke. Every nation 'up
on the face of the earth would right
fully laugh at the United Stats and
pity the people who were under the
oppressive yoke of a few practical
politicians and yet claim to be free In
thought and action.
Party loyalty no longer serves the
purpose of holding several millions of
voters in line when it ts apparent taat
fraud has been committed. The day
has come in Uie great onward march
of progress and advancement when the
man who labors Is going to exercise
his rights under the constitution. He
Ik going to express himself on ques
tions of national Importance and will
henceforth refuse to carry the torch
in a 'procession while the few who
have been made rich, worse than rich, j
v, governmental ravors sit back and
smile.
Had Jim Blaine lived
and suffered the loss of a prudential
Seashtra I nrail
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nomination through trickery be could
have appealed bis case to the people
the highest tribunal and there would
have been some Interesting political
transactions for a while at least. : .
The advancement has been slow and
steady but it Is here, and in this cam'
palgn there will be republicans by the
thousands rebuke the .national commit
tee's action by voting for Roosevelt
and against the Penrose-Crane-Wtl-liams
steal.
THE
COUNTRY EDITOR AND
HIS
FIELD. , ':"
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Miss Edna C. McKnlght, of Albany
lias filed a copy of her senior thesis
upon the "Tendencies of Country Jdur-
nnllsm in Oregon,' at the University of
Oregon library. The theats,. which re
relcev d honorary mention at'.oraf
mencement in June represents a study
of Oregou weekly newspapers from
1901' up to the present time. ;..
Miss McKnlgbt's thesis tells, how
the country weekly has developed dur
ing the last ten years Into a powerful
organ for the improving of social and
Industrial conditions on the farm. Her
study of the Ales of Oregon newspa
pers leads her to believe that the spe
cial field of the country weekly news
paper Is In furnishing the news of the
community, rather than that of na
tional interest. Her reasons for this
stand is that, the extension of the rur
al mall delivery system has brought
the people of the country within easy
reach of the big city dailies.
A small portion of her thesis Is as
follows: '
"There la an awakened interest in
ttM country weekly paper which is au
outgrowth of a new attitude which
we are beginning to hav toward the
problems of country life. Within the
bust few years tlrere has been a grow
ing realization as to the importance
of developing and maintaining a high
Icel oi rural living. . .
The value of the country editor's
service was first brought to the nt :
tlon'of the American public by the if--nnrt
of the commission on country
Hfs which mentioned him as bclni.
cxe of the possible regenerative a?ju
cis -f rural life. Today, there aio f.'.i-
tluct tiiKt signs of an Interest lu i ur.n
Journalism which promises good re
sults'.
"The fact that the country subs-il'i-
er constitutes from 15 to 75 per cet.t
of the subscription list, suggests t! c
question io toe interests of this ."0
or 75 per cent receive as careful cpi:-.
ulceration as do the remaining 25 per
cent of town subscribers. Examina
tion of the papers of Oregon during
the first part of the last decade revealr
the printing of but little news o war
rant the support from the farmer. Be
yond occasional mention of bis vl.lt to
town, and now aid t-en a write-up of
s "e local enterprise the papers bid
little o' Immediate personal interest
tc the farm. With the material .v.
plottatlon of the etat, however. ,tre
newspaper necessarily began to pav
more attention to the outside constltu
in this day ents.
"Among the many hopeful signs
Via O.-W. R. & N.
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advane is the effort to have an efficient
local correspondence service. An In
teresting fact of note in this connec
tion is the recent action of the Bend
Bulletin In offering to pay $1.00 per
column to country correspondents.
This publication establishes a prece
dent in this respect.' The significant
result of such a policy is the placing
of rural interest on a more nearly
equal footing with the Interests of
the town. Other points in favor of the
rural constituency are the change In
the character of ready-print material
and the attention to country govern
ment.' . .
Reports from Wallowa county indi
cate the Bull Moose family Is growing
with marked rapidity . At Enterprise
i.ext Tuesday evening there will be a
crunty organization formulated which
will be marked by a BuU Moose ral'y.
YWillowa .county always was quick o
catch step with the psform of the na-
lion and Blow to recede from the y
s.'tlon of right.
Well, tliat Aator baby is born. Hu--inr
for the kid! May he get his faro
dirty, cry for baby food, fight with thi
neighbor kids and ao all the thn
r
. MISS NETTIE M. GALBRAITH , ..'
; PriucijNii of -:' ''.'
ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
(Episcopal) .
, , . , , , OF WALLA WALLA, WASH.
SI. P.14 ... !oui.aa It, lm. a n , ,,a, ,Bl 4 h .,m.
rlw'"' AlltSTlON
TRAIN
! U.at- the children of poorer people do.
Until that cbap Is old enough to get
foolish be will just be a natural baby,
doing all the things that other babies
do. He Is t,o be pitied for having in
herited vast wealth.
Just whether or not England can
taste the canal explanation in the spir
it that it ii given ismains to be seen.
England 'usually chooses to put ber
own construction on the acts of the
United States. .' w ' -'''v.
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POLITICS AND POLITICIANS
Michigan democrats will hold 'V-
state convention in Grand Rapid on
September 26.
Dayton, Wyoming, bas followed the
example of- HQinny well, . Kansas, in
electing a woman mayor,
Thomas AyerB of Pierre, S. t)., has
made formal announcement of his car-
dldacy on the democratic platform for
the United States senatorship from
South Dakota.
Governor Thomas R. Marshall, the
democratic nominee for vice president
pcceted an Invltnt'on to dei?vr
BoniiKorleg of St. Paul's School.
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INFORMATION FROM AGENT J.
! ths commencement address at Valpar-
also university on August 15.
Judge Egburt E. Woodbury of James
town, N. Y., has announced his candi
dacy for the republican nomination for
governor of New York on a platfoim
favoring a new direct primary .law. - .
Thomas R. Shipp, who has received
the republican nomination for con
gress in the seventh district of Indiana
is widely known as the secretary of.
tle national conservation congress.-
Addison T. Smith, clerk to the sen
ate committee on manufactures and
private secretary to Senator Heyburn, '
bas been nominated by the republicans)'
of Idaho for representative at large.
If Woodrow Wilson is elected preei-
dent he will be the fifth Presbyterian
to be exalted to that office. Andrew
Jackson was. a Presbyterian, as were
P.olk, Buchanan anjl Cleveland. j-jfe.
The decision of Woodrow Wilson
that he will not resign the governor
ship, but remain In office, follows a
precedent set by Governor Hayes of.
Ohio in 1876; by Grover Cleveland who
in 1994 retained the governorship of"
jS'ew York; and by Theodore Roosevelt
who was a candidate for vice president
in 1900 while governor of New York.
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