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THAT NEW ELECTION PLAN.
Proportional representation or, . as
its advocates prefer to call it, "the
unanimous constituency system
representation," already is in1 success
ful use in Sweden. Denmark. Jauan
parts of Germany, South Africa and
the state of Tasmania in Australia.
It is now the big political issue in
France, where it' is proposed in the
elections for the national house of
. deputies. . .
The claims of this system now are
being pushed in this country, es
pecially for municipal 'elections. It
is said that bv this method a reDre-
sentation of minorities is possible and
that it thus brings about a share in
. the government by all classes in the
city. .7
The system in brief is to allow the
voter not only a first choice f,vote but
a second, third, fourth or any number,
depending on the total of candidates
v running. . Where one or more of the
candidates receive enough votes to be
wio uuniuiiiuua ui wile iiatuuii-
. al unit decided on they, are declared
elected, : In picking out the rest the
second, third and other choices are
counted in a way which ends by mak
ing men elected the unanimous selec
tion of a certain group. The details
that tell just how this is done are
: given in a pamphlet issued by the
American Proportional Representative
league, C. G. Hoag, of Tamworth, N
H., secretary. The explanation of the
system Covers several pages of this
document and its ramifications are
such that they are not easily summar-
7 ized. 7 , '
The strongest argument, for the
innovation is that it does away with
our present tyranny by bare majori
ties. . As applied to the city govern
ment, it enables the voter not only
to vote for a man of his own ward, but
for the candidates in other wards if
he wishes. . It frequently happens now
that there are on a ticket more than
one or two men whom citizens would
tike a share in electing. They are con
fined, however, by ward boundaries
and hence can have a voice only in the
selection of their own direct repre
sentatives. If they vote for a loser
they are without representation in the
The Test
TJma determines whether the policies uirtr which a bank Is oper
: ated are safe.
Tata bank has been in business twenty-six yean.
It ha grown steadily until It has become one of the stroageat and
most , prosperous financial Institutions In ths West.
The soundness . ,u policies U attested by fine long Hit of conserv
ative business men x transact their business here; also by an
earned surplus of ;iso.!i.,v.00, the work of time snd ths rei'tlt ot
conservative management.
This bank has facilities for taking care of more high ra1e bust
aaae Ud offers rts service to those who aprecste the -best In
. buklBi. .
La Grande National Bank
La Grande. Oregon '.
Qs!tal, tl00.0M.M. Surplus, IISO.OOO.M Resources, J 1.100.0M.OI
osanurifiD dbtositobt p critbb batcs gotbwvkeiit.
CJT1TED 8T1TSS POSTiL SI THICK DBrastTCMIT.
council.- Under ths proportional
resentation plan aa worked cut in the
countries which have adopted it every
class that can make ' a " .respectable
showing at the polls" bar its spokes
man in ine governing: ooay.
.'Next To listening to. an agent ex
data a .weunm cleaner the hardest
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thing in the listening Una is Jwing
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judge In debating contest.
Three more women are to be added
to the San Francisco police force.
Japan starts anything, there's
city that will be prepared.
Harold McCormick of Chicago
go to his office every day in an air
ship. That is one way to beat
slow elevator service.
i. . j,ju-i a
Bulgaria asks for only $400,000,000
war indemnity when it wouldn t have
cost her anything to add. on a few
more ciphers.
Philadelphia has organized a school
for milkmen. One. of the. facts
that I
should be taught i.s that two pints
make a quart. 7' 7?
But the question arises as to how
the grape-juice administration is
going to christen its battleships.
of
A paper haneer never complains be
cause a rush of business drives him to
the wall. ' i
The slash skirt, if banished, will
come into play all right as a bathing
suit.' k .. .
THE BEAR
THAT JOKED
By M. QUAD
Copyright.
1013, by Associated Lit
erary Press.
'1 might have hawgs to sell but fur
r!ie b'ars. and 1 might have bacon in
my smokln' house but fur the darkles.
XwUt the one and t'other I'm driv
en to eat coon aud possum meat most
of the time.
Dn-wir-eone b'ars and
dawir-Koue darkies!"
The Arkansas squatter; having dellv-
fw1 XI..'. I ail ...
-
ered himself of the above, filled his
corncob anew, drew several long puffs
aud continued: i " '
"Everybody knows what a taste the
darky has fur bacon, but you will meet
up with mighty few people who know
that a b ar will face most any odds to
git hold r fresh pork.
"Aslile from the pork question, the
b'ar Is aio smart in hevltf n sense of
buiuor. I never beilrd one go haw,
haw, baw. but I've seen 'em wwnrln' a'
grin ami feelln' tickled. I
it was one night about five years
HU luni a iiar come along at night,
.uu iuok my p.g out or tne pen. I was
iylu sick at the time nnd couldn't ci
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out to shoot him. but I reckoned he'd
hang around till 1 got a show to alt ,'
even. " ): I
It WSS a mouth ttefe' I waa rnt
snd then apring aad come, and for ,
w.a ut gooo. ah I could do was to4
w ;vT. " wwmm,M make -
uiiu ie-i . inn hat sakTM a itkiu x.i
bim feel bad. 1 sot some barbed wlr
and strung H across the nen. and whn
all was ready I killed a woodebuck
and dragged bim around tbe pen and
th rowed his carcass In. Tho old .
man seen wbst was goto ea and aald:
, 7 . . 1
'iBvanr yo rwlne to tancla chat
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of Time
rep
Par 'up In that barbed wfraf
That's what it s fur.' said I.
" "What to' cot acta tUrnf
"Ha carried off oer bawg.' :
"That was bakes jf was toe
jo root ine pen in. l wenido't o any
foolln' witb that b'ar. ' Ha nm 'iam!Am'
reand yers tbe otiier 4ay" wbeji
was away, ana m OMd .JuigMy
npes ana eoieuiu. Be alnt no critter
to Joke witto."
: 'Bot ae'lLBMr to staad-tt iaet
same: If h vtm iitenn Mum
w reei ocKteo to oeath.
r 'Waal.' said Hbe. To' n ihuA
If
rm telltn' yo' Miut If jo' loka with
one
b'ar he'll cam out ahead. Thara
ana van. some awes Id for fun.
some don t
That 'night about Meven oVlot-fr
will
b'ar cum snookln' round.' 1 voa nwniro
uuu neura cun snimn', but I kept quiet
till he climbed 'up the logs of the pen
the
ana aroppea aown inside. He knowed
woodebuck from bawg, of co'se, but
woodi-buck was good 'nuff for him Jest
coen. ir ne saw them barbed wires
took em for strings. Leastwise
leaped right down, and next mlnlt
was makiu' fuss 'nuff fur three
DirntS. Tuev bi!Hl him hnwlln
over to Jim Tanner's place.' La wd,
aah, but it made my.ha'r stjinfl nn m
hear him take oni But I got on
cioines ana went out to rub it into
him
a little. Lookln' down into the pen. I
called bim a bawg thief and lots of
other names, and' every time be roared
i luuguea in uis race: I jest poised fun
at that critter till I. was tired- How
the varmint . got free and got out of
tlm r... I I....
i.ivu i. uunuu. uui ue-was ironic in
the mawnin'. Thar was blood and fur
all over the pen. and thar was fur scat-
lereu ail round the yard, and I reck
on he'd had a bad time of it That was
the last 1 seen of that b'ar fur n inner
time In fact, so many 'weeks had gone
by I'd clean forgotten him when I cum
home ou day and the old woman said
to nft:
" Mini, tamp nieetiu begins toinofrer
at ioon creelc, and we ll tote ourselves
over thar.'
I " 'Too much suoutiii',' said I. 7,
" 'Yo' never mind the shoutin' hnt
f ..... . ' -
gic reaoy.-
I didn't keer to co. but 1 didn
wa.nt to fuss, aud so the next mawnin
, we toted along. We reckoned to stay
. 10 uays. out op the second day the old
woman sam to me:
Jim, yo' 'member that b'ar yo'
joKeu with' -M
'1 reckon.'
"'Ever seen him senceT
" 'Noap.'
waai, rve had a vision. Jl was
puttin' the beanc over to cook while 1
listened to the preacbln' when that
i uicnLuiu vv Lin ll i.iiff i
j b'ar seemed to rise right up befo me
I . . . . . .
and he was griunln'.
"'Wbat about?
"'I couldn't say. bnt he was feelln
powerful good nntured over sunthin'
Don't yo' reckon we'd better go borne?
woat furr
"To see If that varmint hntn't hln
up to sunthin'. He may bev got the
caoin ooan open.
"I laughed at her fur a snell. hnr
she got so anxious that we anally sot
oui rur noroe. vt'e was stJ half
mile away when a clond of feathers
came fiyin' throuab thi sir: ami o
ootn groaned. When we got a Httle
nearer we saw the front door open,
aud intr nn '
" wrv n-iuvu ill UUUU BICI li
scene n no cyclone ever left hhin
That blamed h'nr hud hln i .ki
fnr a rlur an4 k
ad anif snratxhoii hi .-.i Jt .
ed till the fireplace was about Um
only .thing, left. J?Pe .stood tnar fur
awtuie and flirtn't Bay nuthin'. , Then
bk . .m . .
the old woman quietly turned to mo
and asked: .
" 'Are this Jim Hope of Arkansas?
-'She are,' I aald.
. " 'Waal. Jim Hope.' she said as ahe
i"""" v" uCTiruuuon insiue ana
mA n . ,
- ju a iv iiiioyeioer
1 too lunns nur me. and I'll walk tvr tin
, mother's aM atop , till yo' glt ready to
wjj vote 0;. new things nnd gll
over cracsin-flftrajte wire Jokes!'
A DEED AND A WORD.
A little stream bad lost Its way
mid tbe grass and .fern.
A passing stranger' scooped a
well. .
Where wen it men mirht tun.
e walled It-In aud boug wtta
care
A ladle at the brink.
He thought not of the deed be
did.
But judged that a I) might
drink.
He passed again, and, to, the well,
By miintuer never dried, ., .
Had cooled ten thoimand parch
ing tongues
And saved a Mf beside.
A nameless man amid a rowd !
That thronged tbe dally mart
'Let fall a word of hope ami lov,
Unstudied, trom. tbe heart
A wbisper on the tumult thrown,
A transitory breath
it raised a brother from tbe
dust.
It saved a soul from death. .
O germ. O fount. O word of lova,
O thought at random cast,
T war put little at tbe Bret,
Bnt aalgbty at tbe last
. -Charles. arts
are
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BULGARIAN NECKTIES
The most papular fad of the season in neckwear
for men Price 50c'each". ' vw ... "'
New lot Womens'
Neckwear just re
ceived. ;
"FILIPINO NINE . COMING.
Team, Will Play In Japan Too Due
Here June 25.
An All Kiliniiio baseball ten m. rnm
posed of fourteen of the fastest play
era in the Phllinnlncs. will m on
tour of Japan aud the United State.
this summer. The team Is due to" ar
rive In Sun Francisco about Jimn 9a
under, the direction of Alejandro Albert
and B. . Vi(let5. the Tea Tu manager.
i Uei r illplno has made wnndorfni
strides in the progress of the national
game in the rhilinnlnes ninno a mat
ron occupation, andlthe mnnntromonf
or rue renin Is confident that tho maw.
ers will make a creditable showlug.
The members of this team represent
several different tribes of the Philip
pines. Includina the
MRn.van. rampammn. BIcol ana m...
bebe. .
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PKBSOJTALS.
Lou Larison went
to Baker this
morning.
jV-T. Corbett returned home thla"
morning froni Portland. . ' ,
N. K. West returned homo fWii
Portland this morning. .
Miss Mable Wallace wlio 'has Wn
attending school in Spokane returned
home this morningi. t '
Miss Helen Anette of Boise.
through Ija Grande this mornW . re
turning home from Moscow.
sho attended the graduation exerices.
hhe was met at the train by a number
or her la Grande friends.
Delile Green returned home last
night from Salem where he was called
by his father's illness.
Gene Good returned home last nlirllt
from Eugene, where he has been at
tending the university. .
Edith Adams returned home from
Baker last evening.
Jas. E. Bannon. Portland: J. "A
Hnrnn. Portland: D. - ReMlnv. '' tnrf.
. ni - -
ion
land: B. W. Stool. Dnlrmri..' Krm
ko. W. Hyatt, Enterprise; N. Bisal
Hon, Portland: H. W. Hamilton. En
taD
terprise; Ora Hamiltofo, Enterprise;
W. W. Reed. Seattle: Chas. Steward.
ybtor"
Pendleton; E. F. Tucker, Salt Lake;
and W. F. Hatch, of San Francisco,
among those stopping at the
Sommer. " ' . '
R. F.
Weed, Baker; D. H. Strauss,
I
(3i : a" "i"!,"!r" re'
V ; twAw duced 25 uer cent.
Salt Lake; M. Kirts, Pomeroy, Wash,;
S. E. Price, San Francisco; W. B.
Starkey, Portland; J. W. McCommach,
Pendleton; W. C. Elliott, Perry; A. J,
Leonard, Portland; C. E. Colar, Port
land, and C. F. Robertson of Seattle,
are among the guests stopping at
the Foley. 7 'gg, jj
P. L. MorleV. Wallows ;'.t. F. Woo.
ver, Union; C.' A. Saxoh. Uriioh: W. s.
Burnett, Starkey; Mrs. L. M. Duncan.
Joseph; Mrs. G. E. Mltckeli, Josenh:
R. F. Faulk. Paseoi'Ktra. Hi.
B. B. NUTTER
: KflLiS At 'SCROLLS.
twflerB'and llning-terytWng in ths
-assigns in "wall Papara art
here in the most aftiaUc oattrn nH
moat pptiWr colorlnga. We ar show.
tag a jartieularly handsome line of,
parior ana urawim? "hSbm nah- v.
kindtnat will'prettte'tlie'discriminat
ing 6Ml8ewife of itfMlstic tastes. Ths'
qualities ara hifi bnt 'the nrieea
exceedingly reasonable.
IvOSj Sixth St. Pboa tod 97i
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CORSETS
VThey'lace in front without belts.
DucKies, Danas,-straps or other pat.
out contrivance. They naturally,, ea.
fly, sensibly and eomfortaM.- ..v,-.
Ule ibdorflen. They are anthnaJncti.
e&ny endorsed by eminent nMui,.i..
xor -xneir Hygienic 'qualitiea. ,
"'Yotf'will neer know the truest on
tjitil
ttrd
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wee ironi Draso'e', nHric natbi. II
aaniury oeiu ua pal'w; apfOns
MRS. E0T PATTISO
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Phone Red 8221. Rm.
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bf corset tdmfbrt am M .An .to. ! hrnnH I I Z
yon have been fitted t 1 ' WIUUO !
PhoteRed S221 ahH' I'-jii IS raaS5ES5gasa s
hhd 'ijrve yon a trial fitKn 1. 1! Order vmr kj .J.. !
combTete' line of Coanafri. .. Co. We alt . .
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NEW, FINES
SCRIMS
Just Received
Many new patterns and weaves in the
popular voile and square mesh scrim
with plain and fancy drawn work edges
25c to 45c yard. -
See .them in our windows today.
'Dainty new. designs in'
VANITY. BAGS
in both ffunmetal and
gilt 50c to $1.75. 7
Elginj V. Kennedy, Medical Springs;
H, Remillard, Elgin; C, W. Chandler,
Banks, Idaho; and John Cobel' of imh.
ter, are among those stopping & the
Savoy, . -- V fSp?"'.
Marry Hyde, couhty assessor
Baker county, i8 in the eitf today on
business matters; . .
Martin's Candy j
Factory
FULL LINE OF HOMEMADE
CANDIES ALWAYS FRESH
ICE CREAM IN ANY QuAN- s
THY J
ADAMS .AVE. !
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