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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1915.
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among the European tongues. Ger
man comes second, Russian third,
French fourth, Spanish fifth, with
Italian a close sixth and Portuguese
seventh. ;' " .' -
There are, roughly, 5000 new
iwords in our language every year.
How many of them do you learn?
Kor instance, do you know .100 more
words than you knew last year?
many people aon t.
(Also, in everyday talk, you prole
ably don't use more than 1000 differ.
ent words.- Certainly, not the 5000
you are suggested to acquire every
is montns.
HOW ENGLISH LANGUAGE EX
PANDS. . . .
One hundred and sixty years ago,
Samuel Johnson, the English writer,
startled' the English speaking world
by publishing his dictionary, which
defined the amazing number of .50,
000 words! This was the first really
great dictionary of the English lan
guage, and it was acclaimed as being
remarkably complete. Its predeces
sors were left so fur behind that thev
dropped out of existence. - . I
POLITICAL CONSCIENCE,
Mrs. McCann, chairman of the Los
Angeles civil service commission, de
clares that women look upon political
i affairs with . more conscience than
men. She .. may be - right, but, ' like
maul arbitrary distinctions between
the sexes, the assertion needs to be
proved.
, Generalizations are always danger
ous especially upon ethical, themes
Lios Angeles women.- may look upon
pontics witn more conscience than
Los Angeles men. . Mrs. McCann may
have a hicher concention of rioliticn
than her husband; but neither isolat
ed case ii oi the slightest value In
establishing an . axiom applicable
everywhere. -
(Women have' voted in Wyoming
longer than in any other state; yet
Wyoming snows a political con
science no more tender than Iowa.
Both states elected to congress men
who considered it the heieht' of
statesmanship to give their : states
expensive and useless army posts
Bullokar was the first to attemut -Tn feinule constitutents of Senator
. " i ...... j- j i
ifuucu never uittcipiineu mm lor
that absurdity, which in view of the
present unpreparedness of the army
seems akin to treason, any more
than Cap. Hull's male constitutents
in lowa disciplined him for his raid
upon the 'treasury. . In these cases
the women showed no more political
conscience than the men, nor less.
If California s women are less
amenable to fraud, flattery and fav.
oritism in nohtics than the men it
is probably because they are new at
me. game, uive tnem time and
brand-new, spick and span feminine
conscience will likely be calloused
and sullied until it is unrecognizable
irom tne mane conscience, if indeed
it is . ever possible to divine con
science along sex lines.
a real hnglish dictionary. He com-
. pleted his labors in 1615, and ' the
following year his work was pub
lished un'der the title of "Compleut
English , Dictionary." It contained
5080 words muny of which are now
obsolete.- Although the 'English
tongue has been tremendously en
riched since Bullokar's day, his work
was even 'then far from being so
"complete" as he claimed in " the
title. r ' I
In the middle of . the seventeenth
century, Bullokar was eclipsed as an
authority by Thomas Blount, whose
"Glossographia" contained less than
10,000 words. Soon af terward Blount
was superceded by Edward- Phillips
whose dictionary, "A New World of
English Words," denned 13,000
words. This dictionary passed
through a number of editions, and by
the beginning of the eighteenth cen
tury it contained 20,000 iwtords. ;
This remained ' the record until
Samuel Johnson began his lexico
graphical, researches. For -eight
years the man who wrote "Rasselas"
in a week to pay for his mother's
funeral,, wrestled with the great
problems connected with the origin
wihen he published his dictionary of
50,000 words he was thought to nave
established a record which could
scarcely be surpassed.
Johnson's dictionary remained the
supreme authority lor nearly three.
qunrters or a century. Then came
Noah- Webster an 1 American lexico
grapher who in 1828 published a diu-
tionnry in two volumes containing
160.000 words. A little later Josonh
Emerson Worcester, a native of New
Hampshire produced Jiis '"Compre
hensive Pronouncing and Explana
tory English Dictionary," with 105,
000 words. After that many "new
editions of both Webster and Wor
cester vied with each other for su
premacy. In 1860 Worcester pub
lished his great quarto "Dictionary
of the English Language," which he
came a standard authority wherever
the English - language is spoken.
Webster's 'dictionary iwas also con
tinually enlarged and improved (fol
lowing the death of the founder in
1843) and became a standard
throughout America.
Tonvjard the close' of the nine
teenth century the dictionaries of
the English language passed the 200,
000 word mark and 220 years ago an
English dictionary containing over
.100,000 words was published. The
latest dictionaries contain nearly
hnlf a. million words,' and, at the pres
ent raite of growth, of the English
language, -it is likely that the half
million mark will be passed within u
few years.
The present war is likely to have
the effect of accelerating the growth
of the language by adopting and in
corporating many words of French,
German and Russian origin. Of, the
3500 languages . and " sublanguages
now spoken by the people of the
Observing woman's aDtitude for
campaign ng in lodce. c ub- and
church politics, one is constrained to
suggest that possible women will
beat men at organization, ; crowd
flattery and that subtle are of
harmonizing conflicting interests
which is vulgarly called nitrigue.
You will search history in vain for
more capable politicians than Eliz
abeth of England, the late dowager
empress of China and several more
elegant but less respectable ladies
who sat . behind thrones and pulled
wfires which made monarchs dance.
. Yet so easily do men adjust them
selves to circumstances in this re
markable age that we suppose after
peace is declared some of the mot
daring aviators will be running jit
ney aeroplanes. I ' "
A preacher was robbed of $175 in
a Chicago street car. The detectives
have not yefr- been able to learn
where a preacher got $175. , ,
The English advance is delaying
while a reserve of ammunition is be
ing accumulated, and perhaps as soon
as a reserve of macaroni has been
secured, Italy will go to war.
Why is it that iwhen you touch off
the kitchen stove kindling with a
match you have to put on kerosene to
make it bum, while if you drop a
match in the woods you have to put
on a pail of water to keep it from
setting fire?
The list of deadly weapons used by
the Germans ought perhaps to , be
extended to take in sauerkraut.-
LEGAL NOTES"
5 Months of Seasonable Wear Ahead! And the1 Entire
' Stock of N. K. West's Brand New
Suits and Coats at Sacrifice
Prices
Every garment new this season, carefully selected for our regular
trade. Taking everything into considerationthe V newness, , : correct
style good qualities ahd previous moderate prices you can not af
ford to put off the purchase of a suit or coat when you can now have
your choice of any one at a big saving from the former price. There
, will be no inore new coats or suits r eceived this season and there are
only about 25 suits and 40 oats left. Note these 'generous reductions.
Keg. $ 9.00 Coats now.I..:....$ 6.75
Heg. $11.50 Coats now.:.........$ 8.65'
Reg. $12.50 Coats now...... $ 9.40
Reg.- $13.50 Coats nbwi$10.15
Reg.-'$15.00 Coats now....... $11.2-5
Reg. $20.00 Coats' now... $15.00
Reg. $22.50 Coats now..:.....$16.90
Keg. $25.00 Coats now..:.... . .$18-75
Hog. $27.50 Coats no w.....J.....$20.65
Reg. $12.50 Suits no w...... .....$ 9.40
Reg. $15.00 Suits now..... $11.25
Reg. $17.50 Suits now-:--:.$13.15
Reg. $20.00 Suits now.........-.$15-00
Reg. $22.50 Suits now...... $16.90
- Reg. $25.00 Suits now $18.75
Reg. $27.50 Suits now $20.65
Reg.. $30.00 Suits now... ...$22.50
Reg. $32.50 Suits now .....$24-40
. Reg. $35.00 Suits now $26.25
J
veys NE 1-4 of NE 1-4 of Sec 2 Tp
Ihe Grande Ronde Lumber Com-
I'OMftiUNICATION.
Editor La Grande Observer, Dear
Sir mere has been so much of
pany to Ed Saling $300. Warranty iumo,wand. mlsconclptiu,n U'
f j vttt. . a iV.iU . . . 7L I Mrs. Moon's case tlmt t.h nttanriintr
May 19th, .1015)
Convyances
John G. Berry, ot ux to J A John
son. $500. Warranty Deed. Conveys
SW 1-4 of NW 1-4 of Sec 27 'Tp 1
S R 39 E.
T Ann Rlnm PnQA PAQOntltAl Mnrv
Morris and Fannv Sommer to M t.
world. English lends all others Carter. SI etc Warranty Daad Con
Deed. NE 1-4 of NE 1-4 of Sec 31,
NW 1-4 of NW 1-4 and SE 1-4 of N
W 1-4 of Sec 32 all in Tp 2 S R 87 E.
lERie Blair and Ed Blair her hush
to Lucy' Wade. $1 etc. Warrants Demi
Conveys: Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and .5 and
M, Z6 26, 27 and 28 m Block 14 in
the city of Imbler, Oregon.
conditional mil of Sale
Mitchell Lewis & Staver comDanv
of Portland to W S Daugherty. $3287-
ou (.rum ijiw.oi oaiance due in
mos. $1950.) 1 Mitchell Automobile,
Mod-B-6-45 No. 55989; 1 Mitchell
Automobile, Mad D.-5-36 No. 51479.
1'artial Satisfaction of Mortgage
F. M. Jackson to Bird F Lewis .nt
ux, Certifies that $1500 has been naid
oncertain Mtge (between? panties
hereto dated 21st May, 1910, recorded
Book 40 puce 234 and covennnr
(part of Lots 19 20 and 221 of Blk
100 Chaplin's Add. to La Grande.) .
Satisfaction of Mart gages
R E Haines to Molvin G Olson, ot
1. Releases Mtge dated 26th Oct 1914.
ecorded book 44 page 180 and cov
ing E 1-2 of Lots 6' and 7 in Rlopk
1, North Powder. Oregon, also cer
tain chattels.
! (May 20th, 1915.)
Wm Wiglesworth to Nels Christen
sen. Releases Mtge dated 23rd Dec.
1909, recorded Book 38 page 445, and
covering Tract of 10.4 acres in the
E 1-4 of NE 1-4 of Ses 19 Tp 4 S R
40 E.
La Grande Investment Company to
D M Hoots, et -ux Releases Mtge
dated 14th May 1910, recorded Book
110 page 252 and covering tract of
10.4 acres in SW 1-4 of NE1-4 of Sec
19, Tp 4 S R 40 E. '
Suits Filed
Delia Dunnington, Pltf vs John L.
Dunningsham (Suit for Divorce.)
Mrs. Moon's case that the attending
physicians feel that a statement
from them is desirable. Her failure
to reveal details concerning the as
sault upon her is indubitably invol
untary and due to the shock which
severe injury to the head sometimes
causes, ihe loss. of memory is com
monly though not always temporary.
Occasionally there is recovery of
memory for past events up to a cer
tain date, then a blank, which blank
may be for a period of one day cr
many weeks, and may be either temp
orary or permanent., -(This
period of lost memory is en
tirely apart from the question of
fracture. Furthermore extensive
fractures of the bony skull are not
always accompanied by dangerous
damage to the brain itself or to the
blood vessels which supply it.
' In Mrs. Moon's case there were
four scalp .Wounds, two of which were
trivial, two were accompanied by a
fracture of the vault of the skull.
One of these must have involved the
base also because of the . prolonged
bleeding from the ear lasung to the
present time,- and also a slow infil
tration of blood into both orbits of
the eyes. There is impaired vision
of the left eye and partial paralysis
of one eye-lid.
Very fortunately no large hem
orrhage or great laceration of brain
tissue occurred or paralysis and
pobable death would have supervened.
H. L. UNDERWOOD.
CLIMATIC DATA
Climatic data, based on read
ings for 24 hours ending last
r.;cht at 6 o'clock:
Maximum 64; Minimum 45.
4 Temperature a J2:30 . today,
4. .f. 4. .j. 4. 4. 4. 4.
jj2f"a!"2jarl2'i4
. E. KIESLAND, .
Plasterer and Contractor. ."
Cement work of all kinds, Foun-
r dations . and Flue construction.
Cement block a specialty. Call
and see these blocks at E. C.
Davis' Marble Shop. Phone Red
871.
The Philosopher Says
i "BEAUTY IS ONLY SKIN DEEP"
He is right in more ways than one , No matter how costly your
hfyase may be, if you do not keep it well painted and the walls fre
quently papered or tinted, there is nothing attractive or homelike
about it. The expense is not great, if you get your supplies at
1
OXNER PAINT STORE
P. S. Better still, let them do the work, too.
LA GRANDE NATIONAL BANK
Capital 1200,000.00 Resources $1,000,000.00
Surplus $50,000.00
OFFICERS:
Fred J. Holmes, President C. C. Penington, V.-Prest.
F. L. Meyers, Cashier .
Earl Zundel and H. E. Coolidge, Ass't Cashiers
Fred J. Holmes
C. O. Penington
F. L.' Meyers
DIRECTORS:
A. T. Hill
J.F.Conley
J. G. Snodgrass
. H. E. Coolidge
A. Blockland
II. S. Brownton
What This Bank Aims to Do
To promote our customers' interests as we would our own ;
To do all we can to make their relations here profitable
and agreeable to them ;
To contribute to their enterprises, the co-operation, fore
sight and timely assistance which a good Bank can
properly bestow..
Politeness 100. "
A seventh grade boy encountered
the following sentence in his gram
mar examination: "The horse and
the cow. is in the field." He was told
to correct it and give his reason for
Vi n nAt-.Aj.tjAn Tkin . ...tint Kn
Eugene D Selders Pltf vs Lucelle te. The cow and horse ig in the
Selders. Deft. (Suit for Divorce,) fieij. La(Iies should always come
first." Wnmnn'l) HrntlA rVm.n.nnirm
V. - j n ,1 4 mji.l. i
ranter ana naniieia uowesi niuacrs.
.Pendleton, May , 20. Parker and
Bun field of Portland, were the lowest
bidders for the construction of the
new wing at the Eastern Oregon
State Hospital and it is considered
they will have the contract though
it has not as yet been awarded. Ac-'
cording to a message from Secretary
of State Olcott to the East Oregonian
the contract will probably be made
tomorrow. !
The Parker and Banfield bid was
$70,634 and the firm of Olsen and
Johnson had the next lowest bid,
itheir offer being $77,680. The Beers
Building company . ot rortiana mane
a bid of $79,600. All told 15 bids
were submitted for the work. j
IThe bids were opened in Salem yes- -terdav
afternoon. Superintendent
McNary is now in western Oregon on
business connected witn tne new
wing. The plans lor tne wing were
prepared by W. U. r.nignton, ae
siener of the main building. It is
the supposition that the successful
bidder will start work at once so as
to have the new wing ready for use
Las quickly as possible. The legisla
ture made on appropriation m iuu,-
000 for the wing and the remainder
of the fund twill be used for equipping
the wing. The new wing Is desired
so as to relieve the congestion at the
local Institution and at the main in-'
sane asylum at Salem. . I
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III THREE POUNDS III
flit eelut, ireah-roast 'JW, .
ih ijonee no oust no cnaii f If 1
air-tight cans. III.
Commencement Ends June 16.
iWhitman College, Walla Walla,
Mav 21. The commencement of the
college culminates on . June 16. The
graduating - class numbers thirty
three, besides four graduates of the
ClonswrvaWry of Music. Senator
William E. Borah of Idaho wlil be
present at commencement and win
receive the honorary degree of doc-'
tor of laws, voed to him . by the
trustees two, years . ago, but which ;
he has been unable to accept up to
this time on account of the sessions,
of Oongrs. . y .1-,
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