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PAGE FOUR LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER THE OBSERVER BRUCE DENNIS. Editor and Owner Entered in the post-office at La ' Grunde, Oregon, as second class Batter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dally, afligle copy 5e Dally, per week 15c Daily, per month 65c Daily, per six months in ad vance $3.50 Daily, per year in adrance.. ..,$7.00 Daily, by mall per year in ad- vaiter $4.00 Weekly Observer, per year in advance IJ.60 YOU CAN CURE THAT BACKACHE, Pain along the back, dluineea, headache and ceo eral languor, Get package of Mother (Jrayt IUII111M.II h ' . I i . J uraaiiviiui, "w p.uiw uu narp cure I forall Kidnej.Uladder Mil Urinary trouble. When I TTKl feel all run down, tired, weak and arihA I energy oee thia remarkable combination of natnre herbaandroota. Aa atonlolazatlTelthunoequal. Mother Gray'i AromBtle-Leafleaoldby Drag SlataoraentbjrmallforSOcta. Bampleaent FRKB, ddreaa, The Hotter Gray Co., La Bo, N. X An eminent minister says profanity is on the decline. He probably don't own a second-hand motor car. Suerkraut is now $17 a ton in Chi cago, but $17 worth of it ought to last the ordaniary man a lifetime, MURDZRED BY A MOT! I. Advertising rates on application. All copy for display advertising must (each the office the day before the ad appears. Address al) communications to !HE OBSERVER, 1710 Sixth St.. ILLITERACY AND REVOLUTION. According to a bulletin of the . bureau of education, department of the interior, notwithstanding the troubled conditions in Mexico, 167 government schools for the native population have been organized in the . various states. The information is secured from a statement on Latin American republics in the annual re port of the commissioner of education. The lack of education of the peons, or non-taxpaying native born Mexi cans an4 Indians, has made possible the fostering of one revolution after another and the constant turbulent state of affairs in the Mexican re public. All of, them have a grievance and this grievance is due' to the ad vantage that has been taken of them by the more enlightened though less principled land holders who subject the peons to a sort of slavery that is no less vicious because the natives enter voluntarily into it. for once en meshed there is no hope for them but revolution. ' - The education of these people would, bring about a peaceful revolution that would lift them out of their bondage and the foreiigners who have studied and are studying Mexican conditions are coming more and more to the conclusion that this is the only solu tion. 2 But at the present time the Mexicans are a class of people with whom it is next to impossible to deal argumentative; becanune they are naturally suspicious of any one or any set of people who interferes with the regular order of their lives, and their illiteracy makes reasoning with them out of the question: The only freedom that they know is that pro vided when the yare given arms and ammunition and are permitted to roam the country and plunder and destroy.,. The extension of the government schools, under whatever administra tion, whether that of Huerta or his successor, will help them to a better nndertsanding of life, the ability to reason and eventually the ability to set themselves free of bondage, but the process will be slow because it will be obstructed by the land-holders who see in it the approach of the end of their potentialities. A new variety of dahlia has been named after Postmaster-General Bur leBon. Sulzer wants a brand of rose mary named after him. . .... A New York man choked to death on roast beef the other day. Million aire? Sure. A Curious C.'ao and the Evidence Upon Which It Wat Oooided. Jn oltlen times it wuh nut rare for animals to bo accused and convicted of various offenses and given Judicial trials, but there is a more recent case recorded, in which a moth was proved to have been a murderer. It wns the case of the Princess Cu ravelin, at Na ples. After. giving n dinner party she proceeded to her room to snatch a few minutes of rest. In order to refresh herself for a dance. - She was discovered lying dead on her bed, with a pistol wound Jn her heart Her husband. Prince Carovella, had been noted for his jealous disposition, and as it was certain that no stranger could possibly have been in the prin cess' room suspicion pointed to him. and he was arrested. The pistol wns found Ivlnir near the I murdered woman, which In itself was favorable to the prince, for no mur derer, unless he courted detection, would thus leave the weapon to be discovered. In spite of this.- it was probable that things would have gone hard with the accused but for the shrewdness of n Naples police officer. This man carefully examined the bed chnmber, and. lying on the floor by the bedside. h found one of those large moths that nbound In Italy. 'A lighted cnndle hnd stood on n table by the bed, and the moth's wings bore evident marks of having been badly singed against the flame. What wns more Important still, some of the powdery dust from the moth's wings was found on the trigger of the pistol, and pistol had lain in such a position that it covered the princess' heart. It wns clear, argued this astute Sherlock Holmes, that the moth had burned Its wings and had fallen on the table where, writhing In agonies, lis wings bad struck the trigger of the pis tol, nnij the pistol had. beep thus fired. It wns noted "that the hair trigger worked with exceptional ease, It should be remarked that these Italian moths are larger than any with wbtoh we are familiar In this country. On this evidence the prince wns rightly acquitted. , Pearson's Weekly. . MUSIC. Music has as little association with the other arts in respect of Its contents as it has in re spect to Us materials. It has for Its best and truest state no object of Invitation, and because of this It stands isolated from all other products of the human uilntl., Oh the one hand are the tiling which . ore projected, irrnxped. comprehended by 'the intellect: on the other, an rawe InsrlriiiK solitude outside the do inuln of rtuiwin. uiid therefore beyond Its reason stands music, bodying forth the forms of rea son. Henry Edward Krebblel. THE PERFUME. Thnt you have once lived in my heurt To remember forever . I'm doomed. The vase which thnt perfume has held Remains always perfumed! From the Spanish. Hard to Deorde. Smlthers I am going to have my pic ture tnken. A good deal depends upon the pose, don't you know. Now. what kind of a position do you think would bo the best for me? Brownrlg Well. I don't know. I was going to say ?lth your back to the camera, but then your hair is rather thin behind. Boston Transcript- . Mads It Clear. "My second husband is no more like my first one wns than day Is HUi nlghf -..... "But remember thnt yon should nev er speak III of the dend." "Oh, 1 hnd no Intention of doing thnt. On the contrary." Houston Post Never Suspected It Until Then. .."When did you find thnt you oared for him?" "About n (junrtcr of n minute after I discovered thnt he no longer felt that 'Ifo would not be worth living, if he ouWn't have me. '-Chicago Reconl-iii.i.i.i La Grande National Bank Organized in 1887. DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. UNITED STATES POSTAL SAVINGS DEPOSITORY. Capital $100.000.00 Surplu $130.000.00 Total Resources $1,000,000.00 For twenty-six years, in all kinds of financial weather, we have successfully catered to the monetary wants of the people of La Grand and the Grande Ronde Valley. W respectfully solicit your bustneaa. La Grande National Bank La Grande, Oregon THE COMMON LAW.. It Is our own common lnw which teaches us that excessive . or unequal taxation is tyranny and that false economic. legisla tion Is in the end .a deadly foe to labor and to that uplift of the worklngman which all good citizens now so earnestly desire. . In a country where the suffrage Is universal the material and moral uplift, of the voters Is an imperative necessity, for no state can long endure the strain of an unlnstructed and Impoverished political majority. No statesman of this country is either wise or great if be bns not the fear p.nd respect of the common law In bis heart. Show me a dema gogue and I shall see a foe of the common law. That there are new economic wrongs to be ad justed in this as in every other land no thinking man denies. But these wrongs are not the product of the common law, but have come about through new . agencies and in defiance of .the common law. Surrogate R, L, Fowler of New York. BLUE. The night has a thousand eyes , And the day but one: Yet the light of the bright world dies ,i With the dying sun. . i The mind has a thousand eyes And the heart but one: Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done. . ' Francis W. Bourdlllon. MAETERLINCK ON SPIRITS. His Opinion About Those Materialized by Mediums. Maurice Maeterlinck, writing abopt life after death In the Fortnightly Re view, makes these remarks about the so called "spirits" that are materialized by mediums: .... "It Is a remarkable thing that they appear to be much more interested In events here below than In those of the world wherein they move. "They seem, nbove all. Jealous In es tablishing their Identity, to prove thnt they still exist, thnt they recognize us. that they know everything; and to con vince us of this they enter into the most minute and forgotten details with extraordinary precision, persplcnclty and prolixity. "They are nlso extremely clever at unraveling the Intricate family connec tions of the person actually question ing them, of any of the sitters, or even of a stranger entering the room. They recall this one's little Infirmities, thnt ones iiiaii.iiitn. the eccentricities or tendencies of n third. "They have cognizance of events tak ing plnce nt n distance, but there comes from It nil no brcnth, no glim mer of the hereafter, not even the something vaguely promised nnd vnguely waited for. "We shall bo told thnt the mediums nro visited only by Inferior spirits, in cnpnblo of tearing themselves from earthly enres nnd souring townrd greater nnd loftier Ideas. It Is pos sible, nnd no doubt we nro wrong to believe that n spirit stripped of Its body can suddenly bo transformed nnd reach In a moment the level of oui Imnglnlngs. but could they not nt least Inform ns where they are and whnt they feel and whnt they do?" Vindicated. "Gentlemen of the Jury," announced the attorney for the defense, "my cli ent is accused of operating a speak easy. I will have the defendant take the stand." "Mr. Whistler, are you the defendant In this case?" "Y-y-y-yes, s-s-slr." "Will you pronounce your name for the Jury?" "T-t-t-tom-tom-tomns Wh-wb-wh-iss-Issler." And without leaving the box the Jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Ciu clunatl Knqnlrcr. Do You Realize How Near It Is? Months before the little folks yes and older folks toobegin planning and looking forward to the Merry Xraas time when troubles and cares of every day life are forgotten in the joy of giving to loved ones and friends. What Kind of Gifts Will You Give? Will it be gifts of useless bric-a-rac and novelties to older folks and cheap toys to .the little -folks or will it be sensible gifts of useful articles that will be pleasing and lasting for grown-ups and unbreakable toys for th echildren. Our Line of Useful Gifts. Was nevr so complete before. Every department offers many practical gift suggestions , at attractive prices. Just Received A Beautiful Line of the Famous French American Hand Embroirdered Underwear One of these dainty Undergar ments would be sure to please her $2.50 to $5.00 Sole Agents' for Steiff's Impt'd German Toys Unbreakable toy animals and character dolls of every descrip tion. See them in windows and in our TOYLAND In Balcony 25c to $8.00 What Better Gift Would You Give than a Chief Joseph Indian Blanket Large Blankets $5 and $7.50. Small Blankets $1.50 and $2 New Line of the Popular PARISIAN IVORY NOVELTIES Give Her a Set of GORDON FURS taaMNalMlatta Do You Comply With the j BUTTER LAW?! If not, read the following law and have your Butter Wrappers nicely printed, with your name and weight of butter thereon. CAUTION! CHAPTER 179, SECTION 3. "It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to sell, offer or expose fer sale, any shert weight butter within the State of Oregon. All butter sold or exposed or offered for sale in rolls, prints or squares within the State of Oregon, shall be plainly marked: 'Eight ounces, , full weight,' sixteen eunces, full whight,' 'twenty-four ounces full weight,' or 'thirty-two ounces, full weight', every roll, print or square sold, offered or exposed for sale skall contain the number of ounces marked thereon; and any person, firm, association or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine or not less than $25.00 nor more than $100.00, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than six months; or both such fie and imprisonment.'' The Observer can furnish you with good parchment Butter Wrappers, printed according to law. We are printing for the best buttermakers in this valley, and would like to add your name to oar list of satisfied customers. You can send your order by moL Write plainly and state tbe size ycu wish. The Evening Observer La Grande, Oregon 1
