La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 08, 1913, Image 8

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Newspaper Page Textrr-. TA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1913. ft SHIPPERS IT ISLAND BUSY TWO CARLOADS 8RNT MONDAY. OUT LAST Personal Jfoativa and Sew Fro oi Suburb. Items Island City, Jan. 8. (Special) Considerable hog shipment to Port Inad has been the rule the past week. T. H. Kiddle went to Portland Mon day with a carload of hogs. Garret Blockiaud and Aaron Jobu son shipped a car if hogs to Port land Monday. Island Vltt New Mention. Chief Mason has retained from a business trip io Po.-tlvid. B. E. Arant, professor of t!is Isl'inJ City high school oa.i retjriu.1 affer pending the holiday, with bU par ents at Monmouth. La Rose Bailey ha returned from Ontario where she apmt the holidays. Miss Shelton, a 'ej:!ier a' Island, has returned from Union where she pent the holidays. Tab Thomas of Allcel was a visitor here Monday. Thomas Muilenburg U out after an attack of la grippe. The Odd Fellows lodg met Satur day night after a bus'neM soss'on and held a stag supper. Carl Perrlne and Frank Terry have returned to the mountain where they are trapping. j A an Offset, "That girl has been promoted twice to my once. She has all the luck In this office." "Well. 1 notice that she also has most of the work on her shoulders 80 1 ernes she's entitled to the luck." Washlngton Herald. Mada Her Laugh. Tom-Did' Mis Roxley entertain your proposal? Jack On the contrary, my proposal seemed to entertain her. -Boston Transcript. ! ENDED THE COMEDY. ." A Telegraphic Dialogue That Closed With the "Wires" Down. Two telegraph operator were seated In a downtown cafe recently when an athletic young man and an exceeding ly pretty girl entered. They were plac ed at a table opposite the "key" men, who , were sitting side by side In a position facing the girl. As Is the custom of the craft when wishing to discuss some one in a public place, they telegraphed to each other, using their knives on the plate. "Peacherluo. Isn't she?" one ticked to the other. "A tree full." came buck the tapping reply. "Wouder who the sack Is with her?" "Search me looks like a boob tied op with a wren like her." "Bet they aren't married, if they are. all she ueeds to do to get a divorce la to exhibit that mup of bla In court.' While the two men were enjoying a luugb over thitr silent Joking they were surprised and somewhat alarmed to hear some more ''table knife teleg raphy." The "penehertno" was doing it, and abe did not look at all pleased, either. "Tou two had better look out while you are all together." carelessly ticked ber knife blade while she listened to something ber companion was saying. "Tula stick and Iswb. as you called him, with the divorce mup. Is my hus band safe mover by trade. He eats fresh little boys." Something hapiiened to the "wires" about that time, and ail communica tion ceased. K an wis City Journal. 8tar Oistance. " Miles are useless In measuring as tronomical distance. Tliey have to use the rate of light-184.000 miles a second In covering the mighty spaces with which they are forced to deal. Even then we csnnot tin 1 f understand, let us say. the iuiiueiiHe dlatauee of Gamma, in the constellation Virgo. Many, many years in nut light travel In order to reach our little world from these two sunn. They might even have been extinguished hiuulretls of years ago. and yet we should still "see" them, so Taat are their distances. In the year 1877 a new star suddenly shone forth lu the -Swan." but many did not know thnt the star really came Into existence hundreds of years be fore, but Its light did uot reach the earth until It whh seen by the observer to 1877. New York American. Why Wife Waited. A certain married man who boasts to the boys thai bis wife uever slta p for him slipped out for a cigar the other evening after supper and failed to notice that Ids wife had her party own -on. When he softly tiptoed i... hnnut at "J a. m. he was Mis aunirlMst to see a dewy eyed 1 trio down the stairway, turn her 1 in hlia and tearfully say: , here are I wo hooks I Just couldn't .-h- won't ou unfasten them so 1 can go to bed?" Fortunately he -mild and did. Chi eaco Becord Herald. CONQUEST OF THE AIR. First Publio Flight of an Aeroplane In Thie Country. In "The Curtis 'A vim inn Hook" Glenn Curtis descrilieH the flint public aeroplane flight U America, lu the days before any one had ever beard of the young Yankee luveutnr. aud be was ex perimenting with Alexander Graham Bell and other: "Baldwin climbed Into the seat, took the control In hand, and we cranked the motor. When we released our bold of the machine' It sed over the Ice like a Beared rabbit for two or three bun dred feet and theu. much to our Joy, It Jumped Into the air. This was what we bad worked for through many loot months, and naturally we watched the brief and uncertain cowne of Baldwin with a good deal of emotion. "Rising to a height of six or seven feet. Buldwln flew the unheard of dis tance of 318 feet 11 Inches! Then he came down lnglorloiisly on one wing. As we learned afterward, the frail framework of the tall hud bent and th machine bad flopped over on Its aide and dropped on the wing, which gave way and caused the machine to turn completely around. "It had taken Just seven week to build the machine and get It ready for the trial; it had taken Just about twen ty seconds to smash It. But a great thing had been accomplished. We had achieved the first public flight of a heavier than air machine In America!" THE FIRST WATCHES. They Had Weights, Not 8prinae, and Were as Big a Plates. At first the watch was about the size of a dessert plate. It bad weights and was used as a "pocket clock." The ear liest known use of the modern name occurs in the record of 1552. which mentions that Edward VI. bad "one larum or watch of Iron, the case being likewise of Iron gilt, with two plum mets of lead." The first watches may readily be supposed to have been of rude execu tion. The first great Improvement, the substitution of springs for weights, was in 1550. The earliest springs were not coiled, but only straight pieces of steel. Early watches had only one hand and. being wound up twice a day, they could not be expected to keep time nearer than fifteen or twenty minutes in the twelve houra'Tbe dials were o! silver or brass. TfiVcases had no crys-1 tals, but opened at the back and front and were four or five Inches, in diam eter. A plain watch cost the equivalent of fl.OOO In our currency, and after one waa ordered It took a year to make It Exchange. . Exasperating. A stuttering salesman called on a New York buyer with an excellent proposition. In well turned sentences he proceeded to lay before the buyer his superb argument But, alas. In every well turned sentence there were 1)k" uud "rns," and over these the (talesman stuttered pitiably. The buyer before whom he waa pleading was a caustic, nasty sort of t-liup. aud after five minutes of stutter ing at a point where the salesmnu win floundering most dreadfully, the buyei held up bis hand and said: "I'm afraid I can't understand you. Call Hgalu when you're sober." The salesman turued scarlet with mortification aud rage. "B-b-b-but" "No," said the buyer, waving hlio resolutely toward the door, ."not now when you're sober." And the Infuriated salesmun depart ed. Washington Star. Maeaulay as a Talker. Where Mucuulny's talk fulled is clearly shown by Grevllle. "If he could trend less heavily on the ground, If he could touch the, subjects he hnndlp with a lighter hand, If be knew when to stop a well as he kuows wum to suy. his talk vi.t:!l be us attractive as It Is wonderful." It is all summed up In the sentence. "lie gave society more than it required mid uot exactly of the kind" Maennluy. In fact, suffered from excess of the first requisite of talk, according to Johnsou "materi als." As Sir Henry Taylor said. "HI memory had swamped his mind." Hushes of Ignoniuce 11s well as of al ienee are necessary to the perfect talk er. And so, us bus been said, Maeaulay often exhausted his audiences before Ite exhausted the subject. Londou Curoutcle. A Juvenile Critie. A small girl or live was walking re cently with her mother through the public garden In Boston. The Wash ington monument attracted ber atten tion, and she Inquired what It was. 'That." replied her mother, "la a statue of George Washington." The little lady regarded It critically for some moments, and then ahe said. Washington didn't take a very gmsl statue, did he. mother?" Everybody's. No Self Seeker. Indulgent Uncle The trouble with you. Horace, Is that you have nut struck your proper vocation. You haven't found yourself yet Seni uraee Nephew-Hub: You want uie to be a self seeker, do you, uncle? Chicago Tribune. It Was on Foot. "You say that there la a movement on footr "Rtiredld you expect It to be on horschsrk. "r Bn automobile, or per haps lu an slr-.bln" New 01 I'rww 1-2 PRICE SALE HERE IS THE GREATEST SALE IN LA GRANDE. HERE IS A SALE THAT IS SIMPLY CLEANING UP ALL THE BUSINESS A SALE IN WHICH PRICES HAVE BEEN CHOW CHOWED AND CLAW HAMMERED BEYOND RECOGNITION. A SALE THAT COMPETI TION WILL NOT EVEN CATCH UP WITH THE ECHO WE LEAVE BEHIND. Thousands of Dollars Worth at 1-2 PRICE, AND EVERY ARTICLE IN THE STOCK CUT DOWN TO THE LAST NOTCH IN PRICE. THE LOWEST PRICES EVER MADE BY THIS OR ANY OTHER STORE. HERE ARE A FEW PRICES Men's Suits Women's Suits Dress Goods Silks Women's shoes Women's and 1 $5.00 j, , t1 Children's Un- 2 to a ' $10 - derwear PRICE $9.25 PRICE PRICE Pair Y2 PRICE Sweaters Dresses Women's coats Child's Coats OverCoats Furs Vt K V2 V2 V2 V2 PRICE PRICE PRICE PRICE PRICE PRICE Lowest Price Sale BOUNDARY LINE MARKS. those Between Hanover and Holland on the Rhine Are Unique. Many of the International boundary marks display a sentimental as well as a practical character. The famous "Pillar of Farewell." which marks the line between Russia and Siberia, has been celebrated In soug and story. This boundury mark stands between Ekaterinburg, In Russia, and Tlumen. In Siberia. It stands on the main road, along which thousands of exiles have passed. It is an obelisk of brick, six teen feet in height On the west side It bears In Russian characters the word "Euroe." aud on the east side the word "Asia." The boundary marks along our north ern frontier, separating us from Can ada, are of a most practical sort For many hundreds of miles the St Law rence river uud the great hikes form the natural boundaries, but there Is a vast stretch of prairie land beyond 1 with no natural boundary marks demarcation. The herev are pillars of Iron and wood placed at Intervals of one mile. They have been alternately supplied by the two governments and may be seen from the Lake of the Woods to the Red river valley. Be yond that the marks are mounds of earth and calrus of stone. The strangest of European frontier Hues Is that marking the boundary be tween nanover and Holland, where It crosses the Rhine. A row of pontoons lies across the river, chained bow and stern. Inasmuch as the dividing line runs through from stein to stern, the eastern halves of the boats are pnlnted In German colors, the western In Dutch. The effect Is most striking. Austria has a frontier line of about 3.S00 miles, of which 2.0!M1 Is Innd Every mile of this must be guarded agninst the encroachments of Austria's neighbors. Germany Is In a similar situation, since her land frontiers, bordering upon Russia. Austria. Swlt serland. France. Holland and Belgium are 2.2.13 miles In extent, and by far the larger portion Is not protected by mountains, rivers or any other natural boundaries. The German seaconst how ever. Is only 744 miles In extent Har per'a. DRESS OF MALTESE WOMEN. Silk Hooded Cloaks Hide Faoe and Form From the Curious. The dress of the Maltese Is very sin gular, and that of the women striking In the extreme When abroad they are all arrnyed In black. They put on over theu- other dress a robe or loose skirt of that color, brought high on the bosom, and in place of bonnets their beads are covered with a black silk mantle which Invests their shoulder and descends hairway behind. The part which oner the head Is furnished with a piece of whalebone in serted In the hem. which keeia It In po sition and prevents the silk from drop plug over the eyes One hand, placed Inside, is always ueitsnry to bold to gether the Hr of tho rnrf In front, and the other ham! is mien bid under its folds, only a torvnuger being snt A W El A L E OF A fered to appear through the opening left for the purpose. Of course, under such mufflers little can be seen of the beauties of form or feature If a Maltese nymph happens to poBsess them. The eyes and 11 moving, pall black figure are all that can be distiuguisbed. But sometimes the fair one deigns to exhibit her face to a curious gazer In place of engrossing herself the privi lege of seeing, uud features good hu mored, rather pleasing tbnn handsome and Irradiated by a pair of fine, spark ing eyes, are displayed to the beholder. The complexion Is a durk olive, partak ing a' little or a nort of mulatto tinge. The mantle Is obviously borrowed, or rather It bus descended from a distant age and people. It answers to the veil of eastern Indies. Such tlgnres. thousands of whom are abroud on the Subbath. give the streets a funeral look. It seems as If all Malta had gone In'", inourulng. Philadelphia Inquirer. Winklewads. ': No man can be n hero or a nome aciion .... ,Kke , ,, h. nA. that hlii suspenders break. No matter If she lives out west or east or north or south, A woman early learns to hold her hair pins In her month. They hung the picture on the wall, as gal leries will do. And those who saw that painting wished they'd hung the painter too. Don't name the child until you see what later years reveal What Is Ita batting record and what bases H can steal In this swift axe or living we can tell the patient man He solders one small hole a duy and don't stamp 011 the pan. Dalian News. Didn't Know He Was Running. "I was talking to my colored man of all work the other day," suld the Hou. James Yates Mellon of Cleveland, "and I asked hlni If he went to church." " 'Yassuh. I goes to church every Sunday," he said. " 'Are you a member? " Y'assuh." "'What church? " Trespeteeryun.' "Do you believe In the doctrine of election? " 'Y'assuh.' " 'Do you think I am elected to lie saved?1 "Ijiws. Mr. Mellon, I didn't even kuow you all was a candldateT " Cleveland Plain lHaler. It All Depends. The magnate took his pen in hand and eloquently wrote: "I wouldn't trade Rill Beeswax for a mil lion dollar note. There never waa a better man then Bees wax ever played." The magnate argued thusly when he an gled tor a trade. But when Bill Heeawax up and asked the magnate for a rntae The maenate up and roaated him In forty- town aj a. "You poor old spavined boob," he said. "you have a tot ef gall! Toa're luckr to be playing la be baseball yar at all!" oElBEL'S urn SALE I DITCH ALMOST RUDY (Continued from Paee 1) completed and dynamite blasting dis continued. "There remain to be excavated about 24,500,000 cubic yards. But on-: ly 6.000.000 need be excavated before the canal can be opened. K 1: hoped that the last steam shovel can be re moved from the Cut by J.ily 1. Then the dyke at Bas Obispo which holds the water 'of Gatun Lake out of the Cut, can be removed and the water will flow. Remaining excavation necessary can be accomplished by steam dredges. "Less than 8 per cent ot the toial excavation ai'd concrete work Is un finished. At the present rate boih will be finished and all gates and the machinery for one set of locks will be Installed by September. Then, if the water In Gatun Lake is ulgh enough, the first ship can be put through one complete set ot locks. If one ship can go any number can." MIXED WIVES. The Dilemma That Mr. Church Faced and How He Mastered It, In the early part of the last century there lived In an old New England town a Mr. Church, who in the course of bla early life was bereft of four wives, all of whom were buried In the same lot In bis old age It became necessary to remove tbe remains to a new cemetery. This he undertook himself, but In tbe process the bones became hopelessly mixed. Ills "New England conscience" would not allow blm under tbe palnfnl cir cumstances to use tbe original bead stones, so he procured new ones, one of wblcb bore tbe following Inscrip tion. "Here lies Hannah Church and prob ably a portion of Emily." Another: "Sacred to the memory' of Emily Church, who seems to be mixed with Matilda." Then followed these lines: Stranger, pauae and drop a tear. For Emily Church lies burled here. Mixed In some perplexing manner With Mary. Matilda and probably Han nah. Exchange 1-2 PRICE SALE Come Today Hurry FIRST WEEK COMES TO ENQ (Continued from Page 1.) swamped with the business. Peitaps The thing Is entirely experimental and the provision that the postmas- ter general shall have the power to change zones and rates, and the, like will enable the department to expand or contract according as the needs de mand. . JUDITH SXODGIKASS MARRIED On Western Trip for Honeymoon and Will Come to La Grande. Announcements of the marriage ot . Judith Xell Snodgrass, formerly ot La Grande, to a wealthy Kansas City resident, reached La Grande yester day. The several relatives and many friends rf the bride were remembered with announcements. The groom Is Raymond Atwood Wells, for several years vice president of the Wells Fargo Expcess company and a step son of the founder nf tha hlff urnrpu company. He has retired from acti. connections with the company now, however. The announcements telling of the wedding of the former La Grande girl and the Kansas City man were Issued by Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Snodgrass, uncle and aunt of the bride. The marriage occurred Decem ber 31 at Kansas City, and Mr. and Mrs. Wells left Kansas City Monday night for Denver. After a marriage tour through California, they come to La Grande to visit their friends and relatives. Since her departure from La Grande the bride has toured Europe with Dr. and Mrs. F. E. Moore now of Portland, and while In Kansas City was connected In an Important way with one of the big department stores of Kansas City. THIS WILL INTEREST MOTHERS. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, a Certain relief tor Ftrehihneu, Headache, Bad Stomach, Teething Diwirden, more and reflate the boweli and Uwtroy Worms. They break up .""V?,,?4 b'-. They are ao pleaaant to the tatte Children I Ike them. Over 10,000 teatlmonlala. I'fted OT Mothers fnr 94 mm Tk. Sojd t all DniKjri.!., Uc. Stnyile mailed . 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