La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, June 25, 1914, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Textpa ok roup. THURSDAY, JtJNE 25, lDif Li UilASbti EVENING OUjSEUVEU THE OBSERVER BRUCK DENNIS, Editor and Owner. Entered in the Post Office at La Grande, Oregon, as second class matter. ' Advertising rates on application. All copy for display advertising must reach the office the day before the ad appears. ( , Address all communications to THE OBSERVER, 1710 Sixth Street. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Daily, single copy 6c Daily, per week 15c Daily, per month .65c Daily, six months in advance. .. .$3.63 Daily, per year in advance..... $7.00 Daily, by mail per year, in ad vance $4.00 Weekly Observer-Star, per year in advance $1.50 INHERITING INSANITY. The report of the superintendent j of the state hospital I or me insane at- Mendota, Wisconsin, furnishes da ta that is worth the caref ul considera tion of legislators and other who may undertake to promote the cause of eugenics. He finds that ,29.4 per cent of the 878 admissions to the hospital during the last two years can be traced directly to heredity That is a startling disclosure to the laymen, although it may not be sur prising to those who are more famil- iur with insanity and its history in this country. It is a serious question when al- riost one-third of the total number of patients in a state ir(titution can trace their disease to heredity and that only two-thirds come from fami lies in which there has been no in sanity. Either one of two things niust be true; One-third of the popu lation of Wisconsin has had insanity in some branch of its family, or else heredity is a predisposing factor in, such cases. It is not likely that tho 29.4 per cent represents the propor tion in the state's population tha. hat. had insane relatives. It is likely it demonstrates a danger in permit- ting the marriage of those who have ' er,,i with three cheers and a tiger for l'ad ancestors of unsound minds. It the. ladies who servedl, for those wh' seems to indicate, a way in which g ng and for everybody in general. A? something definite and effective could th( guests filed from the hall, th-. la done to check the spread of in- qiartet sang, appropriately, sanity. "How Can I Bear to Leave Thee." , -- - - .- . The banquet closed just in time to The Titanic survivors will not be ' nllow the guests to catch the mail, able to collect any damages, accord- 80 that the entertainment of the Ing to a supreme court ruling. Court guests, commenced a second after Ok probably thinks they aru extremely train came to a halt Monday morn lucky to be survivors. 1 ir.g, until its departure last night. I The menu served the guests, f ol- - Now it is charged that the Lon- don militants are drugged in jail. Very likely. Something has to be done to prevent them from burning the jails. An ox 25,000 years old has been uncovered in California. One of the few that escaped the beef trust. Nowadays a bird in the hat is worth 15 or 20 in the. bush. Convention Closes With Dinner. (Continued from Page 1.) jingle he had written about the con vention. George T. Cochran, La Grande, ex temporaneously spoke of the value of a wider business acquaintance. Mr. Glafky of the Pacific Coast Produce company in Portlnnd spoke La Grande National Bank Organized in 1887. DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY OF UNITED STATES GOVERN MENT. UNITED STATES POSTAL SAVINGS DEPOSITORY. Capital $100,000.00 Surplus $110,000.00 Total Resources $1,000,000.00 For twenty years, in all kinds of financial weather, we have successfully catered to the monetary wants of the people of La Grande and the Grand Ronde Valley. We respectfully solicit your business. La Grande National iBank a Grande, Oregon briefly, remurking like every other speaker from without the city gates did, of his entertainment and instruc tion while in La Grande. Modesty would forbid a local newspaper or a local merchant to repeat one-tenth o. the kind words spoken for the La Grande businessmen, and the neigh borhood club came in for well-deserved p;aise from practically every speaker. George Stoddard touched on other resources La Grand? has aside from those of the cultivated soil the tim ber and urged for united action to have the rough products of Oregon made into the finished goods within the state. C. C. Chapman, manager of the Portland commercial club, and a boost er of good repute, called marvelous th'i energy and municipal spirit shown in the entertainment of this convention by La Grande, and closed with pay ing; a beautiful tribute to the pa triotism of La Grande because the' decoration scheme embodied re white and blue, 'and at the conclu sion of his toast, every man and woman was on his feet cheering the patriotic speech. This spirit of pa triotism broke out repeatedly, and at every outburst of orchestra or qua? tet with national airs, the rising sa lute was extended. 1 J. C. Mann, of Portland, was also called upon ' and assured the La Grande people that when they came to Portland next January, they would receive the best there was in Port- land. The La Grande quartet, with Mess? ers Ferrin, Howland, Stoddard and Bramwell in it, got off its right foot again.. After a formal num'ber the singers cut loose with harpoons set 1 1 music that kept many , of the visit ors squirming, and as the spirit of the thing caught on, there were calls for1 more and the rest of the program 'v.ts sidetracked until the crowd had got a portion of its fill. The quartet kept the audience in laughter from the beginning to the end. The Salem bunch' backed up by Portland live vfros, had a refrain for each speaker, singing songs adapted to La Grande, and this valley. With these quar tet with the regular song num btrs, there was ample music for the cocassion The banquet came to -an lows: ' Crab Cocktail Roast Chicken Baked Ham Cranberry Jelly Asparagus Salad ' Saltines Boston Baked Beans Scolloped Potatoes Celery Hearts Beet Pickles Olives Cheese Pickles Bread Saltedl Pecans lee Cream Strawberries Cake Coffee Moran Confident of Winning. (Continued from Page 1.) retire to the River Oise on Sunday h- comes back with the merry persi tuge: "wrong number, Steve; after Saturday night my home's on th'i River Is." If Moran, the Merry, is right in hi. (If pe, that same little River Is will mean be one of milk and honey, of gold and banknotes, for the iad from Smoketown, I'onn.,t will be the most popular hero who ever told the Sta tue of Liberty Good morning, Roose velt's return from Africa; Cook's re turn from the North Pole (or vicinity) 0? any of the other' homecomers will have nothing on him, while vaudeville engagements audi all the other spoils of pug championshipdom will .put him vlere Rockefeller will be grinding hit false teeth. If he gets licked: Curtain. - vi-"" n -.. Whan the Trouble Started. Blagg bud lived nil Mm Ufa In. the city. Never luid In setu anything In tbe vegetable Hut- except factory made gniKH until lit divided to spend the MtiiiiiniM working "ii Cousin Hiram's (arm. Not knowing much III the way if tliivnig u he ml- 11 harrow, the ne farmhand wan put in work whitewash iiik Ihi- itiitlmlldiiiKs. while the rest ol tlie'MiulT took l (he innilleld. Wheu CoiikIii Uii'iiin returned tu the house at 110011 Slngg wni -sitting nil the wood pile looking us II' hi- had licen crawliuit on Ills nine throiiKh ten ill-re of mind liuri. "Give me my money. Ihmm," wild he In 11 mournful vol.e "I'm golug bark to town." , "What have ye been doln' ter yer self" asked Coiislu IHmin. wonder Ingly sizing up the new baud. "Whuff uupiKMieUV "I don't know exactly what happen ed." wns the dejected reply of. Slugs "but it started when I tried to white wukIi that thing they en II a beehive." -rilllnileliihla Telegraph. ' Drilling Holes In Steal. r When holei. nie drilled and then reamed In soft steel bare the metai materially increase In strength, the average limit of elasticity liuprovlim I2..H per rent and the average tensile strength (IJ.prr cent Tills phenotne non Is explained thin: In putting to eether the parts of a test piece broken under tension it Is found lliat the two ends, do imt cnlnMde and that, while tlie ed res evike a good contact. ' the central par; do mil. thus Indicating flint the ''ii Mile begins al the cenlel and that the edges have a higher leu die resistance than there Is along tlie axis of the bar Therefore. If Severn holes are dil'led so i:s nut to Inline the material too much, as might he the ease with punching, the average ten f.lle strength of the section across the holes per unit of metal will he hlghei thnn before the holes were drilled since each hole creates, so to speak additional edges. -I,oiidon Mall. Her Contribution. A man. n new acquaintance, once told Dr. Joseph Parker of London that be had put a live pound note in the plate Instead of the half sovereign he had Intended. "1 hope you don't repent of your chnrlty," said the doctor. , "Indeed, no," snld the guest . "Because." said Parker. "I remember that one of my congregation once did. It was a woman, and she came to the vestry after service one Sunday morn ing to tell me that a week before she must have put a sovereign In the plate Instead of a shilling, because she could Dot account for the loss other wise. But she didn't get tbe change from me," snld the doctor, .with a smile. "I told her It wns too bad, of course, particularly as God would only give her credit for the shilling." To Transfer Printing. Anything printed on paper with ordi nary printer's Ink con be transferred to a clean sheet of pnper In the follow ing mnnner: Take three drams of com mon yellow soup and dissolve It In one quart of hot water. When cool add one and a half lluld ounces of spirits of turpentine. Put all In a bottle, cork It and shake well together. Take a sponge or soft brush and apply some of the solution to the printed surface. Let it souk for a few minutes. Lny It fnce down upon the paper on which tbe transfer Is required nnd press both together evenly between the leaves of a thick book plnced under weights. In a time varying from half a minute to several hours, according to the new ness of the printed orlginnl. It will be transferred In reverse. A Matter of Small Moment. A local Itritlsh olliclal in India want ed military protection against what he considered to he the danger of an In dian rising nnd traveled nil the way to Simla to lay before Lord Kitchener, the commander In chief, the state of affairs In Ids district nnd to urge that troops should he sent to support the civil arm. Lord Kitchener declined to do anything of the sort. "Hut, my dear sir. do you renllze llint I may be murdered In my bed one uightV" expostulated the official. Kitchener eyed him over for a min ute nnd then said coldly. "Well, what of it?" Queer Fish. j Some curious lisb found In South ! American waters breathe with lungs as well ns gills. During the dry sea son the fish curls up at the bottom of a burrow, with Its tall over Its fnce, nnd remains there until the rise of wnter dissolves the plug with which It stops the entrance to the burrow. His Mistake. "I understand yon entertained a num ber or people nt dinner Inst ulght" "That's what I thought" replied Mr. Cmnrox, "but my wife says 1 bored 'em.' Washington Star. THE CHRISTIAN. ' HoJInesH appeared tu me to be Of a 'sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, culm nature It seemed to tun it broilKlil mi Inexpressi ble purity, brightness, peaceful ness tind rnriKUrarnt tu the soul,' nnd that It made the soul like a . fk'ld or garden of God, with all v tunnnor of pleasant tlowers, that Is all plensnnt, delightful uud undisturbed; enjoy lug a sweet calm and the geutle, Vivifying beams of tbe sun. Tbe soul of -a true Christian appeared like such a little white dower as we see in tbe spring of the year, low and humble ou the ground, opening Its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun's glory, rejoicing, as It were, In a calm rapture; diffusing around a sweet fragrancy, standing peacefully and lovingly, in the midst of other flowers round about, all In like manner open ing their bosoms to drink Id the light of the sun. Jonathan Ed wards. . TO THE WILLOW TREE. Thou art tu all tost love the best The only true plaut found. Wherewith young men and maids d Is treat And left of love are crown'd. Wben once tbe lover's rose Is dead. Or laid aside forlorn. Then willow garlands 'bout tbe bead Bedew'd with tears are worn. Then with neglect, tbe lovers' baue, Poor niiiids rewarded be For their love lost their only gain ' Is but a wreath from thee. And underneath thy cooling shade. When weary of the light The love spent youth and love sick mnid Come to weep out the night Robert Herrick. - FATHER TIME. Think not thy time short In this world, since the world Itself Is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and u short Interposi ; tlon, for a time, between such a state of duiation as was bo fore. It may be after It Sir Thomas Browne, Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love. De la Brnyere. He who knows most, grieves most for wasted time. Dante. Time, to the nation as tbe in dividual. Is nothing absolute: Its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling. Draper. THE MARINE. An' after I met lui all over tbe world, a doln' all kinds of things. I.Ike a udln 'Isself with a Gal lic' gun to I ilk t.) them 'eatiien kings. K sleeps In no 'auimlek instead of 11 cot. V11 'e drills with thv deck on a stew. I'll.-,. Isn't 11 Inn ,,n n,e top or vie ejurn 1 l"i,. 'icL'gnr l"ii t kiiow or do V ai n . Im at night on a ...,., ,., . (v I '" :''i' lle Is " 11 fiinite: I '. - 'i -e"t . hliMitntll eosmo ...if:-.' s !! ii it n"i" i.ui I.'inlvinl Kipling Are You Interested I IN 40 Acres near Suniincrvillc, has on it: house, barn, arid henhouse,- ...$2,000 10 Acres within 1 1-4. miles of La Grande postoffiee, with 7 year old apple trees .$2,750 10 Acres near Suinmerville, 3 1-2 or i acres cleared, has house, barn, cellar, woodhou.se on same. Price $950.00 We have Others But These Are Good, Don't You Want to Sec Them? If So Call On La Grande Investment Co. 1113 Adams Ave La Grande FOR THE JULY ' . .THE Oregon-Wash. Railroad & Navigation Co. Will sell Round Trip. Tickets at One and One-Third Fare . Between - all points except on river or beach lines where one way fare is $6.00 or less. ; " ' ' ' Tor full particulars fares, .'..'' "'; schedules, etc., ask any ' "', agent Of the ' O.W.R.(aN. A PEEP ATMEXICO The Country's Area . Now and What It Was Originally. HAS LOST A VAST TERRITORY. Naarly a Million Square Miles of Its Land Have Bean Added to the United States Still a Big Country, Though, and Has an Enormous Coast Line. It Is Interesting to note that the area of Mexico Is practically as great as that of the United Stales between the Mis sissippi river and the Atlantic coast. the great lakes and the gulf of Mexico, varying In altitude from sen level to 18.000 feet Its climate is uffected by these elevations nnd by a range of eighteen degrees of latitude. Twelve hundred miles is the distance traversed In pussing aoiith from Juarez, on the northern boundary, to the capital, and UOO miles more to the southeastern boundary. The gulf of Mexico and Caribbean seu const line extends for 1,700 miles, while the I'nclfle ocenn nnd gulf of California touch 4.000 miles of Mexican coast Prior to 1830 Mexico, as n Snnnloh colony, and the United States covered approximately equal areas, but the Texas secession and tbe result of the Mexican war added nenrlv a million square miles to our territory, and the extent of Mexico now is less than one- fourth that of coptlnentnl United States. Mexico hns still territorial ex panse equal to the aggregate of Austria-Hungary, Germany. France, Great Britain and Ireland. The total area of the republic. 707.000 square miles. Is less than that of Texas, California. Montana, New Mexico and Arizona combined. ' The average density of population of Mexico approximates twent-v nor square mile, the most thickly populated parts, outside of the federal district, being tlie states of Tlaxcala and Mex ico, the former being less than Dela ware In size nnd of about tbe same density of population and the latter be ing nearly aw large as New Hampshire, but with more thnn twice the nuniher of Inhabitants. The federal district. molded after the District of Columbia, but of eight times grenter ares, la mir. rounded by the state of Mexico, the large population of the canltnl. 470.000. materially aiding In bringing the averr age to more than 1.200 per square mile. uuring nearly auo years subsequent to the conquest by Cortps, Spain domi nated Mexico A centnrv nim n hnlrl efTort for freedom wns started, which eventually resulted In the republic of Mexico of today. More than half of the first century of Mexican Indenend. ence was nhm-tlve, one coterie after ON SALE July 3 and 4 Final Return Limit July 6 another coming into temporary power and a number of those acclaimed rat ers after brief regimes meeting Igno minious death at the hands of tbe peo ple they sought to govern. The form of government adopted by Mexico follows in general that of tlie United States, having executive, judl clal and legislative divisions. Each of tbe twenty -seven states is represented in two bouses of congress, composed of senators nnd deputies. Congress holds two sessions eneh year for limited pe riods. Each state hns Its governor and legislature nnd is subdivided Into dis tricts or counties, over ench of which a Jefe politico is placed, the districts bavins subsidiary municipalities with magistrates, presiding ulHclnls and councils The so culled autocratic fea ture of the government may be largely due to the fact that governors hold of fice, with approval of the president that Jefe polltlcns have similar rein. ! Hons with the governors and that the j officers of the municipalities are gener ally controlled by the Jefe pullticos. ine church and state ore ludepend- ent and congress cannot pass laws 1 prohibiting or establishing any reli gion Of the 10.000.000 Inhabitants two-llfths claim direct descent from ancient tribes or families which are accepted as the basis of Mexican his tory, two-fifths are of mixed native and foreign blood, the remainder being classed under the common appellation of "foreign." The City of Mexico. 204 miles by rail west of Vera Cruz and 7.400 feet alti tude, is reached by two rail routes climbing from the hot lands through difficult mountain passes, one of jrhlcb closely follows the trail taken by Cor tes in 1510. by General Winfleld Scott with American troops in 1847 and over which fifteen years Inter the Invading Fivncb troops passed. It Is the most populous city. One-half of the railroad mileage of the country is between sea level nnd 8.000 feet and about an equal amount between 5.000 and 10.000 feet From National Geographic Society in Washington Ancient Gold. In olden times gold was obtained abundantly from the rivers of Asia. The sands of PnctolUR, the golden fleece secured by the argonauts, the yellow metal of Ophlr. the fable of King Midas, all Illustrate tbe eastern origin of gold Alexander the Great brought nearly .J500.000.000 of gold from Persia. Gold also came from Arabia and from tbe middle of Africa by way of the Nile. Ways of a Woman. "Let us go into the garden," he said as the twilight hour approached. "Ita afraid you'll want to sit in the hammock with me and hold ray hand." "I swear 1 won't" "Then what's the use?" Detroit Free I'ress. i t i'.