La Grande evening observer., April 21, 1913, Image 4

MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1913.
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER,
PAGE TWO
THE 'OBSERVER
BRUCE DENNiS
EDITOR AHD OWNEB.
gitere at the pottofflce at La Grande,
Oregon, m second elait matter.
8CBSCBIPTI0JI BATES.
; Bafly. single eouy , t
all, ner month f
POWEK OF THE (OXCIMEB
Co-operation as a mean not only
' for ending the consumers' Ills, but as
a method for fighting monopoly and
brlnslne about an InduBtral demo
cracy to which the buyers, the right
ful rulers of industry, shall keep the
profits to themselves Is brought to the
attention of the American public in
he April number of the Review of
Reviews, which says:
In Europe is seen the co-operative
movement at It highest stages of de
velopment, in 1884 British, co
opcratore. numbered 717,000, In 1894,
1,200.000; lu 1904, they had grown to
, 21,180,000. Last December the English
Wholesale society returned to Me con
stituent societies $1,000,000 as their
share of the net profile of $1,600,000
made during the previous 'x months;
half a million dollars was retained
..for extending the enterprise. The
case of a family In Glascow, Scotland,
that for year paid Its rent from the
profits on its purchases Is cited. The
English Wholesale, arounsed by the
high price of coal, I making large
purchase of coal lands. Already the
English Wholesale, aroused by the
largest flour mills and biggest boot
" tad shoe factory in Great Britain.
These two enterprses have a capital
of $37,000,000 and have , 21,000 em
ploye on their payrolls. The biggest
bakery In the world, situated In Glas
gow, is a local co-operative enterprise,
Besides giving the people the benefit
of the profit of each purchase co
operation has stopped the leakage in
family Income caused by adulteration,
stiort weight and overcharging. The
reason la very -simple. The co
operative storekeeper would be cheat
ing the very managers of the enter
prise, for In ths cage the purchasers
re the manager and he is dependent j
on them for hia position.
" In Belgium the profits Instead of
tiAtn vniKrnaJ , ihn I. V.
form, of a cash rebate are used for J
collective purposes, sick and death j
benefits, free medical aid, old age
Jiensons. maternUy subsidies, dav
narsarlcs and genei-iil clubhouses.
These last have free libraries, rend
ing rooms, lectures, dances and mov
ing picture shows. In Ghent the co
operators have bought a theatre
where "the audience elects the actors
nd chooses Its own plays. Ig the
permanent employ of this society Is
the famous Flemish sculptor. Van
BreeebroeVk, who Is hired to decorate
all the co-oicrat!vc burdugs and to
create a distinctive working clnss art.
The basic principle of rooperatou la
the fact that (he people hold supreme
power as consumers. As workers the
tapitallst s(,orna them, as consumers
he bows protrate before them, '.tfem
kenshp is open to all coiners, each
The Test
Time determine whether tbe policies under which' a bank is oper
ted r safe. i a t ,'
This kank has been In business twenty-six year.
It ba rmwn t.tiiv nn'ti i homme one of t?:o sfrcng'-ti'. and
most prosperous financial iuMltutions In the West
The soundness of Its policies Is attested by the long list of conserv
ative business men who transact their businees here; also by an
earned surplus or $130,0u0.a0. the work of time and the res-ill of
conservative management.
TbJs bank baa facilities for taking rare of mere high grade bu?!
nes and offer lis services to those who appreciate the best In
banktag.
La Grande National Bank
La Grande, Oregon
CaplUl, flH.tM.W Surplus, I13M0O.M Resources. 1,100,004.0
DISreHATTB BSFOSITOBT OK I'XITED STATES 0YEBSMET.
tnrrrsD states fostal sayisgs depository.
member Irrespective of capital Avert
ed having one vow, and hi share of
the proceeda depending on the Pur
chase of hlmaelf an hia family.
Capital aa Such does not ahare In the
profit, all the money over and above
that eubacrlbed by members drawing
ordinary rate of lntereat. That the
movement already ha reached gigan
tic proportlona 1 ahown by the fact
In 1911 co-operative soc'eties
throughout the world did a business
aggregating $250,000,000. Thla la an
Increase of ,18.500,000 over that of
the previous year.
With go much discussion of cast of
llvlue. waves, etc., In ths country it,
lg only p. (iU"it'on of time before gen
eral a tention mutt be directed to this
movement, holdng forth as It does the
possibilities of making moderate In
come adequate and of beatng monop
olistic extor-Mon at Its own game.
Washington T. M. C. A. physical di
rector declares he haa a system that
will do away with aervousnees. Pros
pective brldgegroom will be thank
ful for the eourae.
MerrJe England indeed!. Between
dynamite and threats, the suffragist
are making anything In Cromwell's
day look a tnme as a street carnival.
Suffragists inn argue that one thJng
they do not require tbe taxpayer to
furnish is the cuspidor for public
buildings.
Wool Is to be admitted free. For
$7.50 we ought to be able to buy a
suit thai won't shrink wtb the. April
shower.
ARUINEDR0MAN8E
Genevieve Ward's Story of Hei
Wedding Tragedy.
PARTED AT THE CHURCH DOOR
After a Dramatic Ceremony Followin(
a Complication That Became an In
ternational Affair and Was Ended b
Our Government and the Oar.
In Mrs Tweoille's "Thirteen Year,
or a if liny wouuius Life are some
Stories pf (ienvvleie Ward, the famuim
I 'treb. XZI-.S33Ty
I .Una nioruliig In March. I'mIS. came a
knock ou Mih. Tweed lex door, and in
uf CODllu,,,llw,.-a, d,.ar;.
(, exclaimed. "So I thought would
just look you up I have walked six
'"Ilea tliiM morning, and after a
little
' rest mid clmt with yon I shall walk tin
' other mile home and enjoy my lunch
eon nl! th better for It"
I "Von are a marvel!" exclaimed our
author. "Seven miles and over seventy
I saw your Voliimiila' whs a great sue-
cons the other day when jou played It
with llenson."
''Yen," xlie mild, "and the next day I
started for Koine. I got a telegrum say
inc one of three old cousins, with whom
I was HtnyliiR In Rome a few week
previously, hnd died suddenly, so four
hours after receiving the message I set
out."
"Were you very tired 7"
"No. not nt nil. I knitted nearly all
the way and talked to my fellow pas
sencers ami when I arrived. Instead of
renting, went at once to aee to some
business, for these two old stater, our
of Time
of wbo7u KsltlHtd. were HlisoliltelT' pros
trated wltb grief and had done nothing
while awaiting my arrival. I atayed a
fortnight wltb tbem. settled tbem up
and arrived back a few daya ago."
Here Is tbe pathetic story of Mis
Ward's marriage tragedy aa she told It
to Mr. Tweedle:
"I was traveling with my mother and
brother on tbe Riviera In ISfift when
we met a Russlau, Count d Uaerbel.
Be was very tall, very handsome, very
fascinating, very ricb and twenty-eight
I was seventeen, ne fell In love with
me. and It was nettled I should be mar
ried at the consulate at Nice, which I
was. Rut tbe Russian law required
that tbe marriage should be repeated
In the Russian church to make tbe
ceremony binding: otherwise 1 was bis
legal wife, but be was not my legal
husband.
"It was arranged, therefore, that I
should go to Paris wltb my mother,
the coput going ou In advance to ar
range everything, and we would be re
married there In tbe Greek church.
When we arrived In Paris it was Lent,
when no marriage can take place In
tbe Greek cbuivh, and so time passed
on.
"Be must bave been a thoroughly
bad man, because be did bia best at
that time to persuade me to mo awny
wltb him, always reminding me that I
was his legal wife. The whole thing
was merely a trick of this handsome,
frfsciontlng rascal. He promised me
that If , would go to him he would
take me to Kussla tit once, and there
we should be remarried according tu
tbe rules of the Greek church. Helng
positively frlghteued by bis persist
ence, I told my mother At the same
time rumors of De Guerbel'a amours
and debts reached her ears, and she
wrote to a cousin of ours, then Amerl j
can minister In St Petersburg, for con
firmation of these reports
"My couslu replied. Come at once.'
We went. I, of course, under my name
of Countess de Ouerbel. which I bad
naturally assumed from tbe dny of our
wedding at Nice, and we stayed at tbe
embassy tu St "Petersburg. The
count's brother was charming tu me.
He told us my husband was a villain
sud I had better leave blm alone That
was !ruHjsalble, however. I was mar
ried to blm, but be was not married to
me. and sucb a state of affair could
not remain.
"!t became an International matter,
and It was arranged by tbe American
government and the czar that we j
........ I l .u . I .. 1 1 ! A 1 l n, I
miummu iiv uiuiiunj uinrneu ai nap
saw. The count refused to come. The
czar therefor sent sea led jrder8 for
his uppeurauce. wearing a diuck arena
and feeling apprehensive and nilsera
bly sad. I went to tbe church, und at
thtaltat rails, supported by my futher
und mother and the count's brother, I
met my husband,
"It was a horrible crisis, for I knew
my father was armed wltb a loaded
revolver, and If ie Guerbel refused to
give me the last legal right, which was
morally already mine. Its contents
would put an end tu the adventurer's
life. There we stood, husband and
wife, knowing the service was n mere
form, but the marriage was lawfully
effected, lie bad completed hi part
of the bargain, and we bad learned his
villainy. At the door of the churcb we
parted, and I never auw blm again,"
Hia Instrument
"That executor Is very energetic In
carrying out the various provision of
tbe testator."
"He does seem to be working with a
will."-Baltimore American.
The Oyster.
Huxley said that an oyster la as com
plicated as a watcb All we know
atmni It Is that It's awful to swallow
one that la out of order. New Orleans
Picayune.
One He must be thatrbed wltb an
other or It will soon rain througb.
Oweu. Earthworm! For Rheumatism.
Ynar paragraph, writes a correspond
ent, giving as a cure for bronchitis a
bag of earthworms on the chest, re
nt nits me of a prescription I beard of
thirty year ago. given also "In
ll serlousuess," In Nottingham mar
net place, as a remedy for rheumatism.
In this case. too. the earthworms form
ed one of the constituents, hut It was
uevcasary to put them hiio i. o....t
iKiiir Unn them a quantity of powder
ed iul( kllnie Tbe resultant itmi
Muml. well rubbed Into the affected
purls, was gtianiiitevd ly the pre
acrllier'to he a certain cure tor then
mnltsm London Chronicle
Mixed aa to Definitions. j
Hungry lllggiim Wot. ton iIiiiom
wot a miser Is? A miser is a jusii tii:ii I
denies hlsself the nix-esMiirie ot it.
wbea he Has the iimney tn hay e.n j
Weary Watkins tlh. I hare met some i
Of them fellers (tut I fought the
called thelrseive I'rohlliltloutsts.-Kx
change
Her Poor Teet.
"Doe your buwhaad ever tell yon
you have piwr tnstel"
I'requeutly."
'And amrt reply do yon make to
blm;"
"I think of what I married and say
uoiliiiiu ' lloihn Post
AN ARCTIC EXPERIENCL
Talking and Wrangling to Ward Off
Brooding and Insanity,
"I ' had not much opportunity tn
speak English during tbose twenty
eight mouths wbeu Iversen was my
ouly companion." says Captain Eiuar
Mlkkelseo coucenilng an experience
iu tbe arctic region. . "I thought It
would help to puss the time If 1 tried
to teach blm KuglUh. but it dldu't
amount to much. Iversen wasn't keen
on learning a new language when
there seemed to be very little cbnine
of our ever wanting any language at
all. except to say our last prayers, und
so tbe scheme fell through.
"When the others were there we
talked uhoiit everything through those
dark months everything under the
sun. Sllcii-e Is golden, perhaps, hut
not lu the arctic, for to live men left
to their own devices speech, continual
speech, is the only saving grace. Si
lence in'uht tie uvoided at any cost, for
silence menus brooding. Still It Is us
well aa a rule tu, avoid controversial
topics politics, for Instance tbougb in
the last dvsiierate winter, tbe third of
this trip. 1 remember we did talk poll
tics, having exhausted pretty nearly
everything else.
"One of us. for tbe purpose of argu
ment, became a stanch Conservative
and the other a Socialist of the deepest
dye. All the things we hud to urgue
about were two and a half years old
and might have been settled, perhaps,
but for us the world bud stood still.
We even got us far. I believe, us in
volving Kurope in a universal war, and
then It suddenly occurred to us that in
these circumstances no ships might
come next year to the Creeiiliuid coast.
and that awful prospect was too hor
rible to contemplate, so we dropped
politics. We dreamed a gooddeal and
found some comfort In tolling each
other our dreams and perhaps em
broidering them a little.
"It scarcely seetus, credible, but I re
member that it was almost a relief to
wake up one nlgbt wltb a raging tooth
ache. At any rate. It waa something
new. and I begun to calculate bow
long it would last until I could get to
a dentist, supposing we were taken off
by a ship tbe following summer. I
made It 210, days say. 5.000 hoars of
toothache. It didn't last as long aa that,
but It stayed quite long enough to
make me prefer some other kind of
distraction." Chicago News.
The Concertina.
The concertina dntea from the early
part of the Inst century. Its Invention
was n nearly indiscretion of Sir Charles
Wheatstone of telegraph fame, who
took out a patent for it in 1820, tbe
very year In which somebody in Vi
enna Invented that similar Instrument,
the accordion. The concertina wn
popularized by Signor Itegondl, who
had come before tbe public as a juve
nile prodigy with tho guitar. At one
time no London concert was really
complete without him and his concer
tina, and he astounded the Germans
with the music be could get out of it
Exchange. , .
Stood by His Theory.
Thales. the n Helen t philosopher, de
clared that there was no difference be
tween lite and death. "Why. then,"
cried one of those to whom the remark
was made, "don't yon put an end to
your HfeV" "Hecause." was the reply.
' there Is no difference.'
.
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