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TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1913.
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER,
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THE OBSERVER
B PUCE DEN NiS '
EDITOR AND OWNEH. .
lite red at the postofiie t t firando,
Oregon, m second class matter.
STJBJjCBlPTIOJJ BITES.
aflr, alegie opf
ally, pe free .....K
Mir. par aiaatb M
But. any way, after what eeemed
the longest time to us we were at
u.r roH from that trlson:- (my, how
cold It wuN and we found ourselves
In a stream of water that -was run
nina from the lower end of a canyon
I was ap glad that I organized a glee
rlub among us and we sang ana
danced and Jumped and snJaahed and
romped till we got away flown to
where the water was clean enough to
wash ourselves In; for, oh, how dirty
we were! .
Two or three times. the sun came
down at me just as I was getting
n.rm nn a blade of Krass that was
i growing near the edge of the stream
I, , v.-J vJ I rlHInir hill
My origin may oa no queerer than 4 friend Jumped and caught me away
that of any one of my many affinities, from 1m and off we went n our
or acquaintance I say acquaintance nogT frollc till we came to one of the
es, for I And out that almost every-fBilnw. i eVer saw: they
told me his name was Pool: and he
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' ATOM OF VAPOR.
t A Biography.
J. D. Oilman.
' I soberest fellows I ever
fhlnv otvmi 1 iha tthrilA onrth lovps ... L. .n.
me, seeks nie and) Is so Insistent upon
my very heart-life that It dies unless
I agree to-Jojn it. yet eo far as that
la concerned 'it Is only one of the
many, many mysterious things hard
for so brainless an atom as myself to
comprehend. In fact ;I mm so slow
to learn, I seem to have been very old
before I remembered anything. I was
gray with age or something else
when knowledge first became mine;
and I was high up In the sky herding
with millions and millions of others
ao like myself, I am sure none but
our mothers could have told us apart.
There were Indeed clouds and clouds
of us. Tt was a summer day, such
as they have In that country, end as
I now recall It, we bad risen from
the earth somewhere In Tibet: I
think It was Tibet, for although I
have been In that country about ten
million times since then, I never saw
the exact spot agalp; and ' we were
rolling and tumbling about and Jost
ling each other In 'all klnda of Jolly
style, first on the back of one gust of
wind and then another, when we saw
at a Immense distance from us a
J)lg bunch of hunches Just like our
selves. They got caught in the arms
of the winds and were rushed toward
us and we toward them till we were
black 1n the face. We wiggled and
twisted and squirmed till we became
ao hot the blazes began to . fly in
every direction. We were Just so
mad we lost pur way and the very
first thing fce knew we had gotten to
the border of. the upper air close to
the aarthless'land where Jack Frost
Is king, and he captured the whole
lot of us and squeezed Va In his froz
en fists till we were the most beauti
ful slx-slrie'd -crystals you or anyone
else ever saw. '
Then King Jack gave us a puff with
a breath so icy we all were glad to
scamper off in any road to get away
from him; he -blew us over the Chang-la-Pod-la.
or main watershed of the
Himalayas and dropped us into one
of the deepest, coldest canyons
Imaginable.! We had not been ' long
there In his Ice-prison when he sent
a lot of others who just Jumped on us
and tramped us all out of shape and
tied us tight In the arms of a hard
hearted old glacier whore we stayed,
oh. I suppose about a thousand years,
I do not reully know, for the sun
ahone so little up there that we could
not keep track of the months, let
alone years; for It is winter there
even In summer time.
frowned at us and told us to keep
tllt. w did not like that, so we
nnletlv edited around his lonesome
old house till we saw a chance to
slip out with some Dsn that were go
liiar that wav. Once In a while we
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stopped to leap up In the spray and
play In the' colore of some of the
many rainbows that play In beautiful
silence In the far-away nooks of the
unlhablted world.
This was the river Brahma-put ra
that gets bigger and wider all through
Its distance of 1500 miles down to the
hot Indian ocean As we reached
lower levels we saw more and more
evidences of warmer lands, and many
gauzy-winged flies dipped down
among us very often. Watching my
chance, I leaped out of the current
Just aa one of those fine fellows made
a dash at us and I lighted on his
wings; he did not seem to notice me
at all, but, horrors! a few minutes
afterwards a trout jumped for him
when he came too near the water and
grabbed him and me and down he
went. I was not long In finding
out what to do, for when the . fish
opened his gills in breathing, out 1 j
scampered.'- I wanted no more ex
perience like that
For daya and weeks, I guess, we
went on, on, on, down through the
weirdest, wildest canyons, over
mighty falls, through underground
passages where no human being has
yet ever been, and into India and
then out to the great salty ocean. We
had no sooner reached that great
world of water than a typhoon came
alotig and picked up. hundreds of
millions of us at one 'whirl' and car
ried me (and I suppose the others of
us, although I became separated rrom
the rest of our crowd) away up In the
air toward the high mountains of the
upper Ganges. In a thunderstorm I
went back to the soil and seeped
through among the roots of some
bamboos reaching the nasty Ganges.
That is one of the trips I never care
to mention to my friends. It was
not so bad then as now since so many,
people live there for the river Is now
worshipped as a god and the millions
who -Infest Its shores are Indescrib
able in their filth.
I have had some experiences that
the mere thinking of would make me
grayer than I am if that were possi
ble. They were worse than ( that ad
venture with the trout np In the Hlm
a)aas. 1 will tell you one: this one
is a real scare. - It waa ao long ago I
cannot even count back.
After- traveling- around the "world
In clouds that are visible and In vap
or Invisible, and having been Up and
down the earth In sea-currents and
driven by waves, and having aeen al
most all the land by means of their
creeks and rivers, I got an exper
ience in, Egypt that I really thought
waa golag to be the end of me. In
fact I waa gone so long, and bad such
a hard time getting free, the world
did not look at all as I remember it.
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ated are safe.
This bank has bee" la busiaess tweety-arx year.
It has grown buu.o i...... .. .. . .. . ' ' . .. ,.u ,. .,,.
most prosperous fftanctai Institutions tn the WMit.
The soundness of its policies le attested by the long list of conserv
ative bustaoaa men who traasMet their bualixws here; also by an
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conservative management.
This bank baa facllTtaj lor taking care of more htgh sjrade busi
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La Grande National Bank
La Grande, Oregon
Capital, flOOsW.M Barplas, tna.m. Rraouaae,
DESIGNATED DBWSITOBT Of TJNTTEB 9TATB9 OTEWTSTKfST.
TJTfTTSP STATES WSTAL SlTIWCS
I waa somewhere under !he equator
near the coast of Africa and a zephyr
caught me and lifted me Into one of
those invisible aeroplanes that have
been running ever since creation and
I was driven by an air-chauffeur ovetl
the blazing sands of Sahara desert '
past lake Tchad up Into the heights
9fn KlIama-NJaro. So aoon as I
could do so, I slipped down that old
mountain's back and got over Into
the head waters of the Nile. After a
long time of it I finally reached tow
er Egypt and was quietly resting
after the tiresome Journey, when
most unexpectedly I was dipped up In
vessel carried by a slave attached
to the mortuary chamber of the chief
of embalmers to ' the king's house
hold. As we approached the place.
few of the knowing ones jumped
out, but I did not so escape. One of
the greatest Pharaohs was dead and
bis coffin, called a sarconhaeus.
which he had kept on hand for a long
time, naa to be cleansed and rean
nointed for hie funeral. I was used
In assisting In this process, but I was
continually fearsome that I might be
left In that regal coffin ; so, when the
opportunity came, I clung to the hand
of the servant who washed the casket
and was watching for an occasion to
escape on the back of some air-cur
rent that might slip In; but everyone
that came avoided me. When they
picked up the body to lay It In the
great stone box, In some manner I
slipped off his hand and became en
tangled in some of the wrapping of
the corpse, and before I could disen
gage, myself I beard the stone lid
scrape Into place, and a sudden chill
seized me. .
How long I lay In that darkness I
never could find out: for they took
that huge stone, coffin to one of the
gigantic pyramids and after climbing
down the longest, darkest, winding-
est stairways you ever and never
heard of, they, placed It in a place
railed -a fcrypt " and , sealed all the
doors leading to it and there were
many of tbem.'too. Poor me! As I
said. I never knew how long I stayed
there. The first I recall was that
some dry air of the Sahara came In
and became busy awaking us all and
driving ua out: it made threats about
extermination and -annihilation and
spme other swear words which I nev
er did understand, but. must be some;
thing dreadful. So. after a time, so
long I could not see back to the be
ginning of it, I began to work and
twist my way in some direction, but I
cpuld not Bee, and knew not which
was the way out. So the first thing
I knew I was through the wrapping
and next to the clammy body of the
old monarch. Ugh, but that was
ghostly! After a little, a few years
maybe, I reached the side of the sar
cophagus and wormed my way
through It to the wall of the pyramid.
Ages went by. How many of those
granite layers I pierced 1 11 never
know. , '
( When I finally emerged there was a
zephyr waiting for me and 1 joyously
Mow Much Do
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No matter how much or how little you pay you should see .that .you jet ;all the
.value possible you are entitled to it. j j
Our Clothing Department Offers Batter Values
Highest quality of materials, finest tailoring and very latest styles all jiacked
bv our binding guarantee of perfect satisfaction, whether you buy a $15.00 suit
or a $35.00 suit. ' , - : '
Were Sole La -Grande Agents for
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Fidelity $15.00 Suits ' :
Society Brand Suits
$20.00 'to $30.00
'A,
Alfred Benjamin Suits
$20.00 to $3S.OO
Hirsch-Wickwire Suits
$25.00 to $35.00
The choice of America's best men's furnishings on display in our men's department.
l aniln(Toh.
GORDON $3.00 HATS
MANHATTAN SHIRTS
$1.50to$2.5ff
EAGLE BRAND CAPS
50c to $1.50
STETSON $4.00 HATS
INTERWOVEN HOSIERY
25c to 50c. .
J. E. TILT DRESS SHOES
$4.00to$5.50
The Fownes Cloves
for both women and men.
Prices $1.60 and 'up.
The Quality Store
Alteration Dep't.
In charge of an expert fitter
and is giving perfect satis
faction. v. .
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Jumpfd Into his arms and he carried
me lightly till I came to talk to you.
But, It seems to me .1 can smell i
that old mummy yet Can't you?
'AGE SO BAR.'
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Everybody in La, Grande Is Eligible. 1
70TH M H V a
A Lesson
in Geography
Teacher-4 Where isCorkr
(immy(ptMtwff)--"That't easy,
n the center of the Spalding
Official National League Ball."
Thfct liltU pfr of cork hat n?v.
otutiumavd th tram. Batten In
, th to kwffUM wno eoukln't com
within 10 points of thmfi "300
arvatUininc thatHtinr(Hm.whU
lh Weimar oi ts nrm prvtrresainff
proporttonatrly. Tha Cork Otntar
has solvTCi th effort to rt mora '
bat tin without rnakihjr a fare of
tha tram. Tha fart tnat th bit;
leas-tiea ua tha Cuk Canto ball
xdutirvtv proves that it ts tha
km aoutrht for ha la oca bvtwean
pitching and battiaa;.
A. a SPALDING & BROS.
156 Gmu7 StrMt, San Frmndtco
A ! ynar twrml d W for StwMInc r talon.
Old people stooped with suffering,
Middle age. courageously fighting.
Children, unable to explain;'
All In misery from their kidneys..
Perhaps a little backache first. '
Urinary disorders, dropsy may
uickly follow.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for sick
kidneys.
Are endorsed by thousands. '
Here's La Grande testimony:
Mrs.', W. M. Andis, 1502 V avenue
La Grande, Ore., says:1 "t have use:
Doan'a Kidney Pills with the best
of results, and have also given theni
to our little girl for weakness of the
kldneya. She had complained a great
deal, but Poan's Kidney Pills sool
acted on her whole system, strength
ening her kidneys and benefiting her
in every way. All kidney sufferers
woald do well to give Doan's Kidney
PHI atrial."
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