SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1914
PAGE FOUR
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
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SHIPS.
The minstrel show given at Elgin their wishes into legislation.
Thursday night was not only a good By studying in advance the exper-
show, but it was also a vehicle ience of other states and countries
through which Elerin and La Grande along suggested lines we would avoid
- people were permitted to show the many pitfalls. By subjecting laws to
ever existing friendship and to fur- the strictest scrutiny as to their con
ther cement that community feeling stitutionality we would avoid the vex
Jin Union county. jatious delay and uncertainty incident
. . Over a hundred people went from to the "te8t" cases iled 80 frequently.
La Grande-not wholly to see the Bv trvinf? to. out beforehand
show, but also to see the people of the exact '. industrial and polit
Elgin and have a brief visit with ,cal effects of would dodge
them. These La Granders returned those mistakes now so common.
home happy over their trip, singing' While few would go so far as to
the praise of Elgin as a host and advlse the lawmaking bodies entirely
anxious to go again. - to 8USPend 8ct,v,ty for .of
When Jack Peare, for the min- Krea' "" "uv
Charles Z. Tyron, of the Hardware creasing the weight in the hands of
Merchants and Manufacturers' as-1 the postmaster general, the railroads
, ., .. ...j, . I might find themselves confronted with
soclation, more recently said that he(a problem grealer tnfl one
thought it would be a benefit to the i jB t be eliminated by this weighing.
country if congress and all the legis
latures would suspend activity for
five years.
These of course, are the exagger
ated expressions of a rather common
conviction that we are suffering from
too many laws. Our statute books
are cluttered up with them. Their
multiplicity brings the profession of
lawyer into existence. Even the law
yers cannot keep up-to-date. Laws
are ground out so rapidly that those
who try to become authorities on all
the latest patterns made by the legis
lative machine have little time left
for practice. .
Fewer laws but better ones should
be the watchword from now on. If
we enforced all of those we have or
only a half of them, we would keep
the courts busy. Necessarily a good
many become dead letters. All such
should be repealed. When there is
a public demand for a certain law it
woulOesecwa-iLjintithe peo-.
pie had time to decide exactly what
they want before attempting to write
FOR SALE Excellent milk cow,
$55; phone Faim 154. 2-28,10t,p,
fi!(TdR0uSSCK00LING.
He Carried to His Death the Lesson He
Learned at Eton.
Dr. Kent?, the terrible head muster
of Eton, encountered one winter mum
lug a small Ixiy crying miserably mid
miked hlui wbiit wan the mutter. The
child replied thiit he was rold. "Cold."'
roared Keute. "Vim imisi put 'p with
cold, sir: Vou uve uot ut rl girls'
school!" '
It Is a horrid anecdote, mid 1 am
kind beatred enough to wish that Dr.
Keute. wlio was nut without Jls genial
moods, hud tn ken I lie Ind to Home geu
erous tire (presuming such il tiling wan
to be found i nud lind warmed tils fro
ten bands and feet. But It so chanced
that iu that little snivelling boy there
lurked a spark of rde and a spark of
fun. and both iki.ited at the rough
touch nf the master.
He probably sloppedTrylng. audHe
certainly remembered the sharp ap
peal to iiianliiMid. for fifteen years later.
with the Third dragoons, he charged
at the strongly Intreiiched Sikhs i.TO.OOO
of the best nghilng men of the Kbalsui
on the curving hniiKs of tbe SutleJ.
And as tbe word wan given lie turned
to his superior (.Hirer, a fellow Eton
ian, who was scanning the stout walls
and tbe belching guns. "As old Keate
would say. this Is no girls' school." be
chuckled, und rode to his death on tbe
battlefield of Sobrunn. which gave La
hore to England. Agnes teppller iu
Atlantic.
CORRECTED BY A SENTRY.
The
ncident Which Led to Coleridge
Retiring From the Army.
In bis voiinic dtivH the tioet Cnlprlrtirp
strels, made his curtain talk telling lnem 10 siowiy ana auempi in. bad a little love affair which ended in
the people of the good feeling that their work. 10 secnre luality rather disaster, for the lady refused him. In
existed in Union county, it met a re-
sponse.
had licked the blarney stone on the1
old sod, but seriously every one pres-t
Movie theaters in New York nave
reduced the
ent admitted the truthfulness of his three fents-
price of admission to
Still some people say
remarks. When he affirmed the fact that the ?ost of necessities is not
so well known that the prosperity of comln8: "own.
Elcrtn and her namilp. Union nnr) 1SpiI
people and every other sectfjon of I K ofte,n seems difficult nowada,s
Union and Wallowa' counties helped leu wnner PeP'e are dancing to
ine
La Grande, and therefore this city
is directly interested in each com
munity, it drove home truths that all
know to be true. I
the music of the orchestra or
kick of the punch bowl.
Japan has a battleship named Tan-
And when the manager of the Elgin I g0" -vld?t'y for use at close quart-
band, for whose benefit the show was
given, spoke in earnest words of the
the glad feeling experienced by Elgin
people at the La Grande turnout,
tllAit ttriiA tA mtofnlrfillr his mAitnlnv
More such trips as the Elks min
strels Jook will do good and when El
gin talent pulls off a good show let
them journey this way for the latch
string is hanging on the outside of
the door. : ' ':
CLUTTERED UP WITH LAWS.
(. ' ' '
. It is very apparent these days that
there is a reaction against the sur
plus of laws which are on the stat
ute books and which are constantly
being ground out by congresses and
legislatures. The governor of a West
ern state recently was quoted as wish
ing that his ' legislature might ad
journ for ten years. Another man,
However, Providence does no tem
per the wind to the slit skirt.
Weighing All Mail. "
For a period of five days all mail
that is placed aboard mail cars is
being weighed. The period began on
the 18th of this month and will con
tinue until the expiration of the time
limit. This is done once in four years
for the purpose of arriving at a basis
on which to formulate a contract be
tween the railroads and the govern
ment. Increase in parecls matter has
been big since its increase to 50 lbs.
for the local and first aone, but no con
tract was made with the railroads to
offset the increase, and for this reas
on the profits in the railorad depart
ment have been larger than usual.
It is likely that some kind of step
rate increase will be adopted because
in the future, with the power of in-
despair be enlisted in a cavalry regl
uient. which be hoped would be or
dered on foreign service, that be might
nd his blighted enreer on the tented
I field. For family reasons he dropped
bis correct name, but from a feeling of
sentiment retained tiie initials, so Sam
uel Tuylor Coleridge became Private
Kilns Tompkins Catuberbntcb.
The regiment did not leave tbe coun
try, and it was nut long before his soul
wearied of barrack life and Its utter
absence of romance. His military life
ended In a curious fashion. 'One day
while Coleridge was doing a weary
aentry go two officers strolled past
One of them made use of a Greek quo
tation, wbich tbe other corrected. The
first insisted on his correctness, while
the Other was just as positive he was
.wromf.
While they disputed, the sentry sud
denly presented arms oud respectfully
informed them that they were both in
error. He gave the exact quotation,
name of tbe author and otber 'circum
stances. If his musket had spoken tbe
hearers could not have been more as
tonished. Tbe incident led. to an in
quiry, und tbe poet was restored to
tbe bosom of his family. Argonaut
La Grande National Bank
Organized in 1887.
DE8IGKaTEI DEPOSITORY Or UNITED STATES 60TKRMIKJIT.
UNITED STATES POSTAL SAVINGS DEPOSITOSI.
Capital
Surplus
.1100.000.00
lTToTooo.00
Total Resources
. ..SI.000.uOO.00
For twenty-six years, in all kinds of financial weather, we nave
successfully catered to the monetary wants of the people of La
Grande and the Grande Ronde Valley.
We respectfully solicit your business.
La Grande National Bank
La Grande, Oregon
Bavarian Distances. , ''
In toe Bavarian highlands signposts
along tbe roads, Instead of stating the
number of miles or kilometer to the
various villages, give the amount of
time which the average pedestrian will
supposedly take to traverse ,the dis
tance. This Is merely an otllclal ex
pression of tbe very general custom of
tbe peasants In the region, who Invari
ably tell inquirers on the roads not
bow fur it Is to a place, but how long
It takes to get there. "
For instance, one asks, "IIov far Is
It to Oberauituorgnu?"
"A small half hour." will lie the on
wer, or iierhnps "A good half hour"
or "A liig half hour."
Which Is piUKlIng until the wtrsnger
reams that a --'mil half hour" means
Iweiity-Hve lutiittteN "a good half hour"
thirty minutes and "a Dig half hour"
thirty-five minutes.
Qualified to Paint Him.
Ambrose Patterson, the Australian
painter, secured a commission mice to
paint a very lengthy and wealthy sub
urbanite, l'ntterson himself Is n lank
brush, tfhootlng np beyond six foot one
Inch. He was rather priding Wmself
on having been given this commission.
I tiearltig In mind the great pressure of
' artists round every possible Job in
Australia. Eventually, however, the
ultter explained. "1 was a long time
lookln' for a sootnble bartlst," he said.
"I'm six foot two an' a 'nrf, and till I
struck you I 'adn't seen a painter what
'ad enough 'Ight to do a full length of
me." Argonaut
8ohiller and Goethe. .
Schiller was. rrom all accounts, a
'much tluer man thnu Goethe, but In
mental grasp nud artistic power the
Sage of Weimar was bend and shoul
ders above his dear friend Schiller.
The 'tiennnns know this, and while
they love Schiller far more than they
do tioethe, tbey nro not blind to the
fact that the latter was much the
greater intellect. New York American
The new footwear is here
in all the populat lasts
' ; ' ., I. - ''
Each of our exclusive' shoe departments offer not
only the largest assortment of stylesto be found in
the city, but we are exclusive agents; for several of
the best known makes of high grade Jshoes for men,
women and children. ' j ;'. . j '( ' y,
In Our Men tis Boys Shoe Dept
J.E.TiltDress Pat frog an' s
Shoes Boy's Shoes
the shoe that fits better
and wears longer. R2 to $3 W
$4.00 to $6.00. ' J 0U 10 d,ou"
Connolly $3.50 Dress Shoes
The result of several years' search .to find the best .
possible dress shoe for men that could be sold at
$3.50.' Ask to see them. - ' a ,
In Our Ladies and Children's
Shoe Department
Yesterday we received another shipment of spring
styles for women, which added to oui already large
line gives a very complete assortment of the season's
popular new lasts and leathers. We ?are sole La
Grande agents for the following high grade makes:
Pingree Made Utz Dunn
shoes for women and Shoes fo V'omen and
" 'Misses. 'Misses v
$3.00 to $5.00. K- j $2.50 $$5.00.
Dr. Edison The Romper
cushion sole shoes for nature last shoes for
tender feet. . . . growing, children.' :
$4.00 and $4.50. $1.75-ta$2.50. . .-,
See Our Window Displays Feat'
the Baby Doll Shoes, English Walkers, Kidney Heels
and Louise Cuban Heels. Expert shoe fitters in both
shoe departments.
'I
Anatuie France on Journaln-n.
M. Anntole France." In reply to a
toast of his health, said: "I have been
a journalist and am one still. I owe
to Journalism some of the iiunlltlei
that you have exaggerated. , Journal
ism taught me a g-ent part of the art
nf writing. The two things most use
ful In writing ar- ease and simplicity.
Journalism teaehe those things so well
that the style e'en of great writers
like Chateanlilini.d gained from Jour
nalistic experience."-London Times.
New York' Sewage.
Kvery day the.v Is poured Into the
Harlem river IKMKKI.IHK) gallons of sew
oge: Into the North river. 13L'.OiK).(HKi
gallons: into tht Kast river. '.'IH.IKHMKXI
gallons. So ii the course of a yeat
New York city pollutes (ts harbor with
about 4!t.)f.M.Nn gallons of refuse
mutter-New York World.
Judicious Charity
"1 don't believe he Is so miserly as
they say. I hear he Invites his poor
relations to visit him each year."
"Yes. Thev nil live at a considerable
distance mul are ton poor to come."
Smokers Smoke La Homer
Clear Havana
Save your bands from the La
Homer Cigar; and win a prize.
We will give $30.00 in prizes:
May 30-1914-lfet prize - $15.00
2st: Drize - 10.00
3st" prize - - 5.00
Send bands to all dealers or
to Factory 1527 Madison St
LA HOMER CIGAR FACTORY
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