La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, April 15, 1914, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextLA GIUNDE EVENING OBSERVER ' PAGE FOUR IV SIOJXjISSJJX 1 , AX'llXU XU, XX4. I THE OBSERVER BRUCE DENNIS, Editor and Owner. Entered in the Post Office at La Grande, Oregon, ag second class ..matter. ... '-': '. , ,- '- Advertising rates on application. All copy for display advertising must reach the office the day bafore the ad appears. . Address all communications to THE OBSERVER, 1710 Sixth Street, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Daily, single copy , Daily, per week ............ Daily, per month ........... ....5e ...15e ...65c .$3.50 .$7.00 .14.00 Daily, she months in advance... Daily, per year in advance..... Daily, by mail per year, in ad vance i Weekly Ovserver, per year in advance SL6I CHEERFUL, POLICEMEN. At first thought the order of. an Eastern mayor to his police force, that whenever two or more of them meet they must salute and smile, seems a bit officious. x Can one smile to order; and is a forced smile of any value ? : But thinking, more deeplyyou'll see the order rests on a right philoso phy. It is possible to cultivate cheer fulness by will power. The habit of smiling isn't harder to form than the habit of grouching and think how much pleasanter it is for others. Emotions are as contagious as measles. We .wouldn't knowingly let a victi mof measles roam at large to infest those with whom he came in contact Perhaps in time we shall also quarantine a chronic grouch. What we have learned in recent years about plychology brings into play new laws to regulate human con duct not unnecessarily statute laws, but scientific laws, social laws. You would muchpther have a glatf-hand-ed Sunny Jim for a neighbor, a work mate or a guest than a billion sour face, even though the latter might be the wiser, the more efficient of the two. v May we not, then, reasonably ask of our public servants that they be cheerful as well as capable; courteous and good" humored as well as effici ent? A tenor singing in Brussels has been hoard in Paris by wireless tele phone. But of course every great in vention has its drawbacks. One tango toucher is getting $500 a week, 'but any ono who has drop ped in at a tango class .will under stand that he earns every cent of it. Check Your April Cough. Thawing frost and April rains chill you to the very marrow, you catch cold Head and lungs stuffed You are feverish Cough continually and feel miserable You need Dr. King't Now Discovery. It sooths inflnmed and Irritated throat and lungs, stops cough, your head clears up, fover leaves, and you fool fine. Mr. J. T. Davis, of SUckncy Comer, Mo., "Was cured of a dreadfulcough after doc tor's trentment and all other remedies failed. Relief or money back. Pleas antChildren like it. Get a bottle to day, 60c and $1.00, at your druggist. Bucklcn's Arnica Salve for All Sores. Adv. TO TRADE For automobile new 4 room house and aero of ground. Red 3751. , 4-15-tf. FOR SALE $105 double seated black top rig for $00. 1517 Madison. 4-15-tp. A Cure for Sour Stomach. Mrs. W . T. Thompson, of Battle Creek, Mich., writes: "I have been troubled with indigestion, sour stom ach and bad breath. After taking two THE UNIVERSAL LESSON. "Some one knows something that I don't know" Tbla la life's lesson wherever I go. My train pours on through tbe night's black sieve; I feel ber Joggle and veer and give. Yet she clings to tbe rails, by laws divlue Applied by cannier bands than mine. And sbe sings me to sleep wttn ber rhythmic Bow, "Some one knows something that you don't know." I see In a station a yokel rude Wltbfowllng piece rust crusted, old and crude Vet strewing tbe floor round bis muddled feet . Are trophies of game for a mon arch meet, Again tb lesson that goes to show Some one knows something that 1 doD't know. I raise my gnze to the stars at night. Lending, through leaious of leagues, tbelr light Amazed, 1 murmur, "And yet 1 see Tbe meogerest marge of Immen sity!" So I whisper bumbly, with head bent low. "Some one knows something that 1 don't know." , This Is my lesson wherever I go "Someone knows something tbat I don't know." Strickland Clllllan In Leslie's. MAN'S LITTLE DAY. Flrat thing a fellow knows at . - morn lie's born; Then. say. at 10 o'clock the next lie's vexed By readln'. 'rltln', 'rithmetlc. Till sick. At noon be bus to go to work . Or shirk. , Then, round . 'bout 2. hp takes "for life" A wife. From 2 till time to bring In lights Uo fights And struggles with bis fellow men. And then He sits around n while nnd thinks And blinks. And when nt hint It's timt- Tor r bed , . , tic's dead. -W. W. Whltelock In New York Times. THE SOUL. The soul of mnu Is audible, not visible. A sound alone betrays the flowing of tho eternal fouu- tain. Invisible to man. Longfel low. Tho soul is n Ore that darts Its ra.VN through all the senses: It Is In this lire that existence con sists: all tbe observations and nil the efforts of philosophers ought to turn toward tills lire, the cen ter and moving power of our sentiments and our Ideas. Mine, do Stuck THE DYNAMO. The dynamo hums like a droning bee As It feeds Its brushes lazily. For it spins so fast that It seems quite still, And little wo doom that It turns a mill. Drives on the trolleys nnd lights a town. Whisking Its people up nnd down. In their great hotels and castles of trade. Or that out on the waves In the storm's tirade It cheers the crow of n wound ed ship And sends It aid on a wireless tip. nut It does all this while all we see Is tho dynamo there, like a dron ing bee Feeding Its brushes lazily. -Italph Hacon. Dottles of Chamberlains Tablets I am wnt0i it fstidlous critic and sees lit well. These tablets are splendid ' tie to admire In the verse of Alfred none better.' For sale by all dealers. ' N"?es- fc , . . . I Noyes once brought to .Mr. Brj.dgpn The j? Scrap Book! ' Both OiTied Away, In Tiling 1 Iteineuiher" Frederick Ton-iiseiid Martin, writing of Mrs. Pe ter Luiilliird Ronalds, says that In bfs toiinger days she was nominated In :'nrlsns the '"Parti dos Salons" be iinxe of bt-r exquisite soprano voice, n London one evening an American tov woman was so carried awny with this voice tbat sbe left ber seat nnd clasped about the -neck of Mrs. Ronalds not only ber arms, but' ber "valuable neck lace." saying, "Pray. : pray ac cept this as a tribute to your divine voire!" Tbe next day the giver of the neck "PRAT ACCEPT THIS." lace reappeared and without ceremony ivowed to Mrs. Ronalds that sbe bad made a mistake In donating tbe neck lace, because sbe bad been "carried uwny" by the sound of Mrs. Ronalds' voice. "What a pity."-Answered Mrs. Ro nalds, "for tbe necklace has been car ried away too. It's now In my safe at tbe bunk!" - Wayfaring. Surely we stumble as we turn away And choose a path outleadtng from the light Where our own shadows veil the ground from light. Concealing pitfalls Into which we stray. Yet on the Instant when our -hearts re trace The upward road, from darks where they have lain, The light Illumines every step again, And every help In the ascent we face. Alain Dunbar In Nautilus. Where He Drew the Line. Ol' Blje Wilson was tbe sole propria tor of a bnlky horse. The fact was pret ty well known throughout the neighbor hood, and Blje couldn't have disposed of that horse even -' to David II a ruin, who bought a horse that would "stand wltbont hitching." I One day a neigh bor drove up be hind Blje. who was stalled as usual. ' It was a' narrow embank ment, and there was on room to pass. The neiBb.BijB,g horJwodld bor accepted tbe turn nis iead. situation pbllo- sopblcally. Every now and then BIJe's horse would turn his head. ';and as promptly Blje would shy a pebble at It. It seemed tbat tbe box bed of bis side bar buggy was loaded with pebbles. "What'er ye doln' that fer, Blje?" tho neighbor asked. "That woirt start j Mm." "Waal, ye see." BI,1e answered. "I don't mind a hnwss balkln" now an' , then, but I be dumed If he can turn around an' grin at me about It!" He Was No Hog. In the old days of hand composition a printer known from New York to Ban Francisco as "Pilgrim" Hazlett wandered Into a Pennsylvania town snd asked the editor of the weekly fi a "sit." "Well." said tho editor. "I can put you to work, but I'm afrnid 1 cnu't pay much money." "Make me an ofTer." said the rilgrim "All right. 1 can give you two meals a day at my house, you can sleep here In the office on tills I' ti-.e. and I'll i take care of your laumlty. Then If i you need tobm-cn get It across the street at the grocery. They run an occpunt with us And up nt the brew ery you can get a can of beer when ever you like. 'Resides. I'll pay you H u week. Is tbat satisfactory?" "tlosh." said tho Pilgrim after re peating the offer to get It straight In his mind. "It 1 get all tbnt what do I want with the $4?" Of a Wild Nature. Just outside the entrance to the yard at the Naval academy is an apartment house where some young ofllcers live, nnd baby carriages are a not infre quent sight in this vicinity. Not long ago the commander of the yard had a notice posted on one side of the gate forbidding automobiles to enter because they frightened the horses. Shortly afterward tho follow ing unofficial notice appeared on the other side of the gate: "Baby carriages and perambulators not allowed In this yard. They scare the bachelors." New York Post. One Was Enough. Ill 1 Every Woman Should See Our Window of $15.00 and $20.00 Dresses Offered This Week at Only $9.90. ' " '. . , . " . .... ... .'. . ; . . .. ... ., 1 ' , ,' i . ' ' 1 .-' ' ' ' ' , '" ' ' .. ' I ' f - V' ", '- V "' J '' ' Not cheap Dresses Not out of style Dresses But this season's , newest styles in Ratine, Messalines and Silk Poplins "andlficlu'de inariy of the popular in ' Take week MODISH NEW SKIRTS "We have just received two new shipments of the latest New York styles in separate Skirts, including all the popular plaids and plain shades. V Prices From $5.00 Up. Many new patterns in Fancy Ribbons Just Received. two very lung odes (hat he proposed to ubuilt to the Knglish Review. "I'll read them both aloud." tbe ruling; 'mail said, "and afterward you will tell me which is. In your opinion, rho more likely t" lie accepted by tbe ICngllsh Review." ... r;; .,. Poor Mr Hridgi-s sighed and settled himself In his elinlr. and Noyes. in bis loud, harsh voice, read the first ode. It was very long, and tit its conclusion .Mr. rtrldues leaiied to his foot and said hrlskl.v: "Now. iny t-oiuig friend. I can advise run Semi the vthpr -ode to the Re lw:" Nicoleon and the Balloon. When .aneoii was n .xotlug cadet be went on one m-cr.sion to witness the ascent of a balloon In the Chumps de .Mars, tie entered. unieroe!ved. the inclosure which contained tbe balloon, which was then very nearly full and about to ascend, and requested tbe aeronaut to allow. .him. to enter the car. The request, however, was re fused, tbe reason given being that tbe feelings of the boy might embarrass the aeronaut. "Though I am young. I fear neither tbe powers of earth nor of the air!" Bonaparte Is reported to have ex claimed. On being requested to retire, the lit tle cadet, enraged at the refusal, drew bis sword and. slitting the btlloon'lp severul places, destroyed the apparatus' which bad hoeu constructed with Infi nite labor and Ingeuuity. Such was Napoleon's first and taut attempt to ascend in a balloon. .. Lord Kitchener's Way. Lack ot I inuls was upon one occa sion the excuse brought forward by a head ot (le.ruirtinent as the reason for not proceeding with certain public works at Cairo. Lord Kitchener, with I'liiirni terlstlf terseness, scrawl ed across the official document In blue pencil, "Find the money." Needless to suy. the money was found. Another time when the question ot making a roadway from Cairo to He louau. ,K distance of fourteen miles, was broached Kltcheuer asked the re sponsible engineer If the road could be completed by a certain date May 1. He was told It could scarcely be done. "But Is It possible?" asked Kltcheuer. "It's possible, but" "Very well, then.'' came the Nap Iconic reply. "I shall drive my car from Cairo to lli'loiian over that road on May 1." And he did. Mechanism of the Ear. The butiiau ear is a delicate piece of mechanism. -That which we ordlnnrliy designate as the "ear" Is. ufter all, only the mere outer porch of a series of winding passages which iead from the world without to the world within. Certain of these passages are Oiled with liquid. (H'sldes having membranes stretched like parchment curtains across the corridor at different points. When a sound wave strikes these tliey are turned into ibnitluns and made to trenihle like the head of a diua does when struck with a stick or with the lingers. Itetween two of these parchment-like curtains a chain of mi nute bones extends, which serves to tighten or relax the membranes aid communicate vibrations to them. ; In the Innermost place of all a row of white threads called nerves stretch like the strings of a piano from the. Inst point from which the tremblings reach, passing thence Inward to tun brain, , .. . v: - Who Uses Economy in Buying 1 your choice of this entire Mine this for SYNOPSIS OF THE ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE Equitable Fire & Marine Insurance Company of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island on the 31st day of December, 1913, made to the Insur ance Commissioner of the State of Oregon, pursuant to law: CAPITAL. Amount of capital stock paid up ..; ..$400.000 00 INCOME. ' ' Net premiums received during the year $343,227.43 Interest, dividends, and rents received during the year 42,657.11 Income from other sources received during the year '. 189,732.38 ' Total income ., ;. ,. $575,616.92 - DISBURSEMENTS. . Net losses paid during the year1- $219,066.70 Dividends paid during the year on capital stock , . 24,000.00 Commissions and salaries paid during during the year ;.r:r..... 115,844.69 "" ", Taxes, licenses, and fees paid during the year ... . 19,297.13'. Amount of all other expenditures1 .... . . ; . .';'. . . . 339,761.61 ' - ' Total expenditures ... .j. ............. . $717,960.13 (ASSETS. " Value of real estate owned (market value). .$101,180.00 Value of stocks and bonds owned (market value) 705,382.17 -)': Loans on mortgages and collateral, etc. :. 115,400.00 .' "- Cash in banks and on hand .. , . , 9,263.54 Premiums an course of collection written since September 30, 1913 Ui. , ... ... . ..... 20,234.26 Interest and rents due and accrued '. 9,065.74 Total assets ........ .'.L ... late Less SPECIAL deposits in any State (if any here be) ., $108,028.24 Total assets admitted in Oregon $852,497.47 LIABILITIES. Gross claims for losses unpaid .$ 47,678.45 Amount of unearned premiums on all outstanding risks I 204,898.22 s Due for commission and brokerage' 250.00 All other liabilities v 43,068,99 ' ' Total liabilities exclusive of capital stock of $400,000.00 - $295,895.66 Total premiums in force December 31, 1913, i.- .. 423,406.37 BUSINESS IN OREGON FOR THE YEAR Total risks written during the year .$797,979.00 Gross premiums received during, the year ..' 11,506.11 Premiums returned during the year 2,721.57 Losses paid during the year ..', 4,606.91 Losses incurred during the year 4,793.53 Total amount of risks outstanding in Oregon Decem ber 31. 1913 $787,995.00 " EQUITABLE FIRE & MARINE INS. CO. Bv SAM'LtJ. HOWE, HARVEY WELLS. J 5 (President or Secretary.) Statutory general agent and attorney for service: Note Special deposits not hold for the protection of all the policy hold " ers of the company cannot be admitted as an asset and included in the published statement. Adv. - - 4-1 5-It. La Grande Organized OJSieSa'TED I)EP09IT0KT OF HS1TEB STATES SOTER!OIEJIT. CKTTKD 8TTE8 POSTAL S.tTISfiS DEPOSITORY. Capital $100,000.00 Surplus $140,00000 ' Total Resources $1.000.000.00 For twenty-six years, in all kinds of financial weather, we havs successfully catered to the monetary wants of the people of ' La Grande and the Grande Ronde Valley.' - ; ... We respectfully solicit yonr business La Grande National Bank La Grande, Oregon $9-90 MORE NEW CREPE WAISTS For wear with separate Skirts or with Spring Suits, these charming crepe waists are very popular. The new tango China Blue, Orange and Purple shades are included. , ; Prices From $4.00 to $7.00. New arrivals this week Jet Trimmings Fan cy Beads. New Silks, Fancy Coatings. J (if i i .. . '. $960,525.71 National Bank in 1887.