La Grande evening observer., February 03, 1914, Image 4

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1914
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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
THE OBSERVER
BRUCE DENNIS, Editor and Owner.
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asaiiled through this world-wide cele
bration to see the futility not only of
war, but pf the ceaseless building
warships and the constantly growing
preparations for wars that may never,
and should never, materialize.
Considering the progress the world
for an office In Washington, D. C. The i n0w makine. it i not too viio.,
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distorted and warping allurements
of a rapidly civilizing world about
them," ' .' ''" . ''y'.
Substance brought recognition and
honor as it always does, and ere long
our American father was suggested
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WHY MEN DON'T LEAVE HOM&
Some time ago. the Observer con
tained an editorial entitled "Why men
Leave Home," which created much
discussion. In a sense it was a re
flection upon a class of women cal
lous to all sense of duty, corrupt in
a moral sense, and really of no good
generally. The editorial ' made ' this
sad condition in the feminine sex one
of the main reasons why many men
felt constrained to forget their vows
made at the marriage and sought
other companionship.
; We have been asked to say some-
s W $ing of the other side of the story
. J and it has a beautiful side in justi
fication of that large body of. faith
ful women who are a blessing to any
community, who sow and reap, who
rear-children, and help bear the bur
dens of life in short normal, good
women. , .
It is a pleasant task and we gladly
accede to the wishes of these people,
but we are going to show the other
side, not by a dissertation on the phil
osophy of domestic life, but through
the recital of a story that is said to
have happened many years ago in one
of our sister towns,
In the early days of Eastern Ore
gon when men braved, the wilds of
these regions, gambled with death,
mocked obstacles and fought a figh
worthy of the best AWerituii blood,
they were often fonied to smother
one of the finest instincts in man,
namely that of race propagation with
women of their own race and color
For some it was a task calling tor too
great a sacrifice. That mUural yearn
ing for children, thai enchanting coo
ing of $b$ Vi'ps, the maoiy sense of
cuty in providing for off spring, the
enobling spirit that grows out of pro
tection of young, the distant pleas
ure of worthy sons and daughters in
old age, a home with all its drawing
power and charm these and other
promptings often spurred men to
break the conventions of society and
marry brave daughters of the red
race.
The incident we have in mind was
just such a union. The contracting
parties were happy. All their aims
centered in building up a home,
of accumulating a substance for old
age and of mothering and fathering
children. These came in duo time,
healthy, rudy youngsters, full of the
strength of the red man and intelli
gent and thirfty like their American
father. Father and mother planned
for their children, nursed them when
sick, guided their ideals and put forth
a real endeavor to make of them
worthy young men and women. They
lived close to nature, communed with
' the birds of the fields, tilled the soil
and drew from mother nature a
community spirit that blotted all con
sideration of their respective parent
age. They were happy in each others
society and gave little care for the
delegation, that made this offer to tho
squaw man, with some natural rub
bing of hands suggested however,
that, he could hardly go to the great
city, become a member of fashionable
society with such , an impediment as
his Indian wife. The . suggestion
startled him and he declared with
much precision of words that it would
be impossible. But they were friends
perhaps seeking some favor through
him as a medium and would not take
no for an answer. He was advised to
get a divorce.
On his way home he thought and
thought. The honor of going to
Washington as one of the nation's
lawmakers Btirred his ambition. He
would put the matter before his wife.
He broached the subject slowly, grad
ually giving her an insight into h's
intentions, and pictures that had been
created in his imagination. She pro
tested. She recalled all the vears nt
toil, their mutual love, their childr-n,
their future. This thought was like
a hurricane that threatened to tear
out her reason by the very roots.
Each trip to town found him in the
same company. Tho argumen . grew
stronger. Finally they arranged a
banquet at which all of the good look
ing women of the city were invited
to appear in their best gowns, in
r'r m8t ?!"?""'"? and in all I
of the trappings known to a fashion' I
ably dressed woman. 6ur sqdaw .roup. J
was there, and felt elated at the work
ed up adulation of women who hardly
knew him before. He went home that
night, his head in a swirl of thought
and feeling. He spoke to his wife,
mentioned divorce and promised to
provide for her liberally in the future.
Sho consented but that consent waa
freighted with a reserved, unexplain
able feeling: She looked into his
eyes, their gaze met for an instant
The pent up feeling in her broast
burst forth like a torrent and she fell
sobbing into his arms. The scales
fell from his eyes and he clinched his
fist and declared with firmness: never,
if I go my wife goe. She who h
loved me all this wn!is, has borne me
children and helped me make a for
tune, is entitled to share it with me.
With this the battle was won and
he remained at home.
to forecast the day when all interna
tional disputes will be settled by
peaceful means. This nation is pe
culiarly fitted to set its sister coun
tries an example of fair dealing. In
the last analysis, all wars have been
for plunder. This country has open
ly declared that it seeks no more ter
ritory, and, what is more, it has prov
ed and is proving through its course
in Cuba and the Philippines that it
does not seek to annex territory
against the will of the people of that
territory. It has thrown its strong
protecting arm around the smaller
and less favored countries in Central
and South America and said to Eur
ope through the Monroe doctrine:
"Hands off." : '
The people of the old world coun.
tries do not want war. They do not
long to annex their neighbor's terri
tory, no matter what the fast-dying
rulers of those' countries may desire I
to do. And the people everywhere are
gradually coming into power. The day
is not far distant when the people
themselves will have their will. And
the people want peace.
TAKE TIME
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Cause for Anger. s
Mr. Wilkins was near the exploding
point when his neighbor met him on
the street.
"That man Tompkins," he burst out.
"has more nerve (than any one I ever
met!"
"Why?" asked his nelphbor, curiously.
"He came over to my house last
evening and borrowed my gun to kill
a dog that kept him awake nights."
, "Well, what of that?"
"Why," shouted Mr. Wilkins, "It
was my dog - be killed!" Ladles'
Home Jiurnal.
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The Farisiaris are said to have
ceased wearing socks. It now begins
to look from the Jatest styles of
French party gowns as if eventually
the French won't be encumbered with'
much more than a bear.-skin,
Chicago hospitals are numbering
the ,'nonges so that they won't be
sewed up in the patients. If the
surgeons would sew up their itemized
bills that way no one would object
much.
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Though Mr. Taft has had thirty
five pairs of trousers successfully cut
down, we fear that the problem of
how to take an eighty-pound overlap
out the union suits will stump even
a gifted Yale professor cf law.
All Puffed Up.
"The town of Plunkett Is all puffed
up. And over what?"
. "Dunno. Got a new pitcher fer the
ball team?"
; . "Nope."
"Opery house projected?"
"Nope."
"What is It then?"
"A flying machien flew over the
durned town the other day."
His Reproof.
Mrs. Votelelgh (coming home at
ID Are the dear children all right?
I haven't set eyes on them since morn
ing. Her Husband Huh! You go about
airing your views; better you'd stay
st borne and view your heirs.
His Fortune.
"I .kn.iU ,K1n1r It won - nltv XTal
and his sonB didn't know anything 0rev AITri
about poker. It would have
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FEBRUARY 16TH
1 Battle Hymn, from the opera
"Rienzi" : Wagner
The Glee Club
2. Solo: "Macushla". .Mac Morrough
' L. Ross Johnson, Tenor
3. "Absent" The O. A. C. Quar
tette .. Metcalf
Johnson, Greene, Thomas, Jordan
4. Solo: "The Clang of the Ham
mer" .... Bonheur
George Randolph Thomas, Baritone
5. "But they Didn't" Rogers
The Glee Club
6. Violin Solos.....
Second Mazurka .
Henri Wienawski
.To a WildRose.
Edward Mac Dowell
Laurence Skipton
"Bring Her Again". .. .Hastings
The Glee Club
Intermission.
The Rural Trobadours. .Original
Scudder, Steinmetz, Hollowell
Scotch Monologue a la Harry
Lauder
- Mr. Henry Russell
Trials of a "Fusses," in pan-
tomine Original
Jonasen, McColIum, PouUon, Greene,
Flint, Boon
11. Reading: "Cremation of Sam
McGee" .Service
Joy .Scudder
12. Collegiana Original
. The Glee Club
College melodies and popular airs,
vitalized with exuberant "college
spirit.
Personnel
Prof. William Frederic Gaskins, Di
rector; George Randolph Thomas,
Asst Director; Joy W. Scudder, Pres-1
ident; Fred A. Holmes, Manager; Mr. j
A. M. Woodman, Accompanist,
First Tenor.
L. Ross Johnson; '15, Bloomington, I
111., Agri.; Jno. E. McColIum, '17, Sa-'
linas, Calif., Logging Eng.; W. WJ
Boon, '17, Portland, Ore., Forestry: 1
Garland E. Hollowell, '16, Milwa.uHe '
Min. Eng.; Lee Roy Woods, Jr., '16,
Cottage Grove, Ore., Forestry; Noma
Poulson, '17, Baker, Ore., Agri.; Ed
gar Vestal, '16, Payette, Idaho, AgrL;
Harvey L. Lantz, '15, Cove, Ore., Agri.
First Bass.
George Randolph Thomas, '16,
Portland, Ore., Elec. Eng.; F. K.
Greene, '17, Aberdeen, Wash., Agri.;
John W. Flint, '15, San Diego, Calif.,
Agri.; Olaf Jonasen, '17, Davenport,
Iowa, Forestry; Raymond E. Nich
olson, '14, Hood River, Ore., Agri. ;
Second Bass.
Joy W. Scudder, '14, Seattle, Wash.,
Agri.; Melvin H. Jordan, '15, Corral
is, Ore., Commerce; Avery Stein
metz, '15, Portland, Ore., Agri.; An
ton Benj. Chindgren, '17, Mulina, Ore.,
Music; Dunbar B. Pinckney, '16, Aber
deen, Wash;, Agri.; H. W. Russell, '15,
Stunt Man, Glenco. Wyo Commerce.
Read the advertisetmts too.
beeuj ,
Second Tenor,
such a diversion In the arte,
, "They couldn't Ha-vi lt wltn
any success, because they never had
more than two of a kind."
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Phone, Red 3931. La Grande.
FRESH TAMALES AND
CHILI
All kinds
of
HOT DRINKS
Ice Cream
Finest Line of
Fresh Candies
in town
HOT TAMALES, OYSTEB
COCKTAIL, HOT BEEF TEA,
HOT TOMATO NECTOB.
We Carry a FultlLine of
Bread and Pasfry
A CENTURY OF PEACE.
"When Love Overflows," was the
subject of a Texas min:stei-'s ronr.on, j
Everybody knows that love is likely j
td overflow in the moonlight, but the 1
phrase for it is "slopping over
Thomas A. Rice, '14, Portland, Ore., f ,
The one hundreth anniversary of1
peace among English sraakinS eojta
will be observed at, the fr.fc ehd of
the present year. This celebration
will begin Chfstaiaa we, for it was
on December 24, 3814, that John
Quincy Adams, James A. Bayard,
Henry Clay, Albert Gallatin and
Jonathan Russell, on behalf of the
United States, and Lord Gambler,
Dr. Adams and Henry Gouldburn,
Esq., on behalf of Great Britain, sign
ed the Treaty of Ghent, which ended
the war between the two countries.
Not long after that treaty was sign
ed John Quincy Adams expressed the
o
hope that the peace thus restored
would be enduring, saying: "May
the gates of the temple of Janus
closed here never be opened during
the century." No one doubts now
that this hope will be realized, for
there has been no war between Great
Britain and this country since 1814
and even the loudest of all calamity
howlers cannot foresee an open rup
ture between Uncle Sam and John
Bull before Christmas.
Not only the United States and
England, but Germany, France and
other nations as well, will take part
in this celebration of peace. It is
Secretary Byan tnat hu am
bition since 6$-iood has bien to sit
in the, Tjirrfed States senate. Not so
much & sit there, of course, as to
sthM& up and talk .
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8AFE. j
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Drink Sfyj-Q1 Mineral
and
Know the Joy of Living
Yoavll
4Msf&BBtfsss&
Obituary of Mrs, D. A. McAlister.
Last Sunday afternoon the funeral
services of Mrs. D. A. McAlister were
held in the Baptist church at 2:30,
Rev. R. E. Close of the Baptist church
officiating. Interment was made ir,
the Odd Fellows cemetery. The many
friends who came to pay their last
respects to the dead, filled the build
ing to the doors, and those who knew
her will remember her as one who
was loving and beloved, and a faith
ful Christian. She was born in "Mich
igan in 1851 and came to this valley,
in 1864, where she endured all the
hnrdshiDs of Dioneer life. November
1867, she was united ih marriage to
Mr. D. A. McAlister, and for 46 years
has lived on their farm 'near this
city. A husband ana six cnnaren,
Mrs. Willard Moss, of La Grande;
Frank, of North Powder; Will and
Reese of the Grande Ronde valley;
Charles, of California, and Authur,
of Nevada, mourn Tier loss, four
daughters having preceded her to the
Heavenly home.
T5uest I shouldn't' drink this French
wine. I hate the land of France.
Writer That's all right sir. It's
merely labeled French It's bottled la
California?
Retail Department Phone Main 8
For Lumber, Lath
Shingles, Sash and Doors
Ruberoid Roofing
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GEORGE PALMER LUMBER Cn
Moral: Be Up to Date.
1T tnlkrd of love In a cottage.
But she firmly answered: "No."
And his rival won by talking
Of love In a bungalow
The Make Up.
"Why do you insist on wearing that j
large diamond and smoking excessive- i
ly large cigars?"
"I'm trying to look like an old-fash-1
toned lobbyist In the hope that some-1
body desiring to Influence legislation
will let me run up an expense account."
How to Prevent Bilious Attacks.
"Coming events cast their shadows
before." This is especially true of
bilious attacks. Your appetite will
fail, you will feel dull and languid.
Tf you are subject' to bilious attacks
take three of Chamberlain's Tablets
as soon as the symptoms appear and
the attack may be warded off. For
K be hoped that every nation will be Ma by all dealers.
Both Went Under.
"I was once a prosperous merchant
with a good business and aeroplane,"
explained the tramp.
"What happened?" asked the house
wife. "I ran them both Into the ground,
mum."
6ome Class.
"You and Downs are very chummy."
"Why not? We were members of
the same class at college."
"What class?"
"The 142 pound class, middle
weights." Puck.
Round and Square.
"Tho mode of expression plays a
very Important part In diplomatic ne
gotiations," "Yes; but there is not much ubo of
trying to make a well rounded sentence
take the place of a square tdal."
La Grande National Bank
Organised in 1887.
DXNI6XATEB DEPOSITORY OF UNITED STATES GOYERNMEXT.
US1TED STATES POSTAL SAYINGS DEPOSfTOXY.
Capital $100,000.00
Surplus . 7fi40,0O0.0O
Total Resources $1,090,000.00
For twenty-six years, in all kinds of financial weather, we have
successfully catered to the monetary wants of the people of La
Grande and the Grande Ronde Valley.
, We respectfally solicit your business.
La Grande National Bank
La Grande, Oregon