La Grande evening observer., June 11, 1915, Image 4

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HARNESSING NATURE AGAIN.
ENGLISH.
Of all the blessings which it has
pleased Providence to permit us to
enjoy none breathes a finer fragrance
or bears a diviner aspect than the
gift of expression.
Expression is the fumlmental law
of life. t
Every human soul seeks to express lyay uttereth speech.
itself to the world. ftwho listens reverently all
The musician pours out the pent; speaks a various language.
raptures of his breast in words of
liciuid harmony.
The puinter portrays his spiritual
perceptions in the visual vocabulary
of Art.
The builder expresses his genius in
the solid and symmetrical forms of
Architecture.
The locomotive which thunders
through our city is the soul of the
inventor dressed up in imn clothes.
Every ship that comes to America
ia an expression of the soul of Colum
bus. All the . material splendors of civ
ilization are but the strivings of' the
soul of man to express itself,
the perpetual silence of deep and aw-'
ful prison cells, would languish in
hopeless torpor and final extinction.!
The sublinfe edifice of civilization
would topple from its lofty height
and 4ury light of ages beneath its
appalling ruins.' !
The Creator has endowed the whole
universe with language. "Day untoi
And to him ,
nature
Happy
lis he to whom, it is no foreign tongue, ;
acquired imperfectly and with toil- j
some effort, but rather is a native!
tongue, learned unconsciously at the j
knees and from the eternal a lphabet I
of the Great Author! j
Language is a solemn thing, It I
has grown iip out of the i gonies, the j
aspirations, the wants, weariness,!
toils, triumphs, transports and tears j
of the sobbing ages.
The sonorous roll of many of our
words speak forever of the vanished
splendor of imperial Rome. Many
others are redolent of the 'great
beauty of the ancient Greeks. Still
! others are a whisper from the dust
If Nikola Tesla had announced a
year ago his intention to radiate
cloctric energy through the earth so
that a dozen great power plants
might supply all curtli dwellers wim
power and heat he would have been
hailed without reserve as a contrib
utor to the peace of the world. But
ho muny splendid space annihilating
and nation binding inventions and
armgements have demonstrated their
powcrlcssncss to prevent war or
have actually increased its horrors
that Tesla's right to be hailed pacif
icator must await the test of time.
More than a hundred years ago
Robert Fulton, an advocate of uni
versal peace, justified his attempt to
sell submarine to jNapoleon Bona
parte on the ground that BushnelPs
invention would make naval warfare
impossible. Luckily for his peace of
mind Fulton was spared the pain of
seeing to what absurd length brav
ery will go in its defiance of death.
Instead of abolishing war upon the
sea submarine development made it
more cruel. Explosives of immense
value in mining arid agriculture are
most efficiently used in war. So also
with rndio telegraphy anil aeronau
tics. Swift means of communication,
once hold as undermining war, in
crease the size of armies, multiply
battle shocks and permit the trans
portation of cannon larger than
beauts can haul.
The great soul of- humanity i3 that once was Nmevah and that once
aflame ' with inward beauty. Thai was Tyre.
Arts are its feeble efforts to give In other of our words I hear a
adequate and endurinsr expression fa 'voice With a ripple of tears, and hear
that ineffable inward splendor which ! the sobs welling up from the heart
is forever craving publicity. of that' hounded race which was once
No joy of which the human breast j e chosen guardians of the Shekinah
is familiar is equal to the rapture of f God'.
those exalted moments when, under The pedigrees of many perished
the spell of inspiration, and in fine nations are written in our English
frenzy soaring, the soul gets out in language; it is. a vast temple in which
some beautiful fqrm of self-exprcs- the accumulated wisdom of vanished
oion. million's is enshrined.
The tragedy of life is soul suppres- Consider the marvelous beauty and
sion. The constraints of environ- power of English speech; the felicity
ment, or the limitations of educa- f its phrases, the fullness of its
tion, condemn many a glorious spirit ! synonyms, the flexibility of its struc-
to a ife of su en silence and dumbiiure its simplicity, spienaor ana
despair.
' Chill penury represses their noble
rage,
And chills the genial currents of tin!
soul."
The pent-up wonders of the soul
crave publicity. Hence the printing
press, the pen, the orator's tongue,
Ktfpnn't.hl
Shakespeare, girdling the globe
with the sweep of his genius, and
ransacking the heights and depths of
Kuman mind, is never at a loss for
words of power to give expression to
his sublimest thought.
Adapting itself to the epic flights
the painter's brush, the sculptor's f Milton, we soar on seraph's wings
chisel all the manifold and vari- to the crystal battlements of heaven
ous avenues of self-expression. itself, or sink "in horrid ruin and
Imagine humanity suddenly bereft combustion down" to the nethermost
of the power of language! depths of hell.
Commerce, the communion table of Bacon conceived no thought too
business, would be shattered into profound, Locke none too subtle,
fragments as by a thunder bolt from , K-eats none too ecstatic, for the noble
heaven: the chafincr seas would be-' resources of the English tongue..
come cemeteries, of ,., the merchant There is not a thought conceivable
based on the abiding principles of
truth and beauty, it stands amid
toppling thrones and decaying dynas
ties like some lofty and stdpendous
Appenjne, that, rooted in the founda
tions of the world, rears its giant
Ifoi'm grandly into the heavens, while
fleets of the world. A million click-, in the human mind that cannot bethe mutable world rocks at its feet
MM
Of all the Stores in the City, This Store
is Giving You , the Best upporturmy
to Buy Women's Suits or Coats
BECAUSE
Not one single garment it lef from a previous season. Every
one is new this season. The styles are most desirable.
The reductions are most generous from the regular .
prices. Investigate.
Tomorrow - Saturday - Ia the Last Day of the June
WHITE SEASON SALE
Including our entire stock of undermuslins, all em
broideries, entire stock white wash fabrics, such as plain
and fancy voiles, oxfords, stripe and check crepes, rice .
clothe, Swisses, piques, repps, Persian lawns, batiste,
sylvia lawns, organdies, dimities, India linens, nainsooks,
long cloth and many others.
NEW SKIRTS
New black taffeta skirts, in new styles of extra grade taf
feta, finely tailored; priced $10-00
New white serge skirts, all sizes, pleated and circular
styles; priced ..$6-00 and $7.00
New novelty skirts, in blacks, blues and black and white
checks; priced : ..$500 to $9.00
ill. m iiiiuni ii i i w
ing telephone,, telegraph -and cable
instruments, the nervous system of
civilization, would rust in mournful
disuse. Thought itself, condemned to
Toll Me the Secret
"Hoit do Bio,
make such MS-
mkma nwffim Mine are always drj.
And if I maHe the tatter thin II. fa
How do Ju do it? -
It M the baking powder. '
sad moist, yet light and
powder rau used c,
oven as weH as in .the mixii.
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clearly, beautifully and strikingly ex
pressed in the familiar words of Eng
lish speech. There is no thought
rbove or below or beyond its scope.
The difficulties we experience in ex
pressing ourselves is not that ' lan
guage is inadequate but that ' 1 our
command of language is limited. ,
Conceived in the' mind of the' 'mas
tor of language, and born of the trav
erse of vocal genius, its words come
forth with hands and feet and take
hold of the earth and the heavens.
The English language is one of the
grand organ voices of the soul, and
like the soul it is immortal. The ma
terial splendors of civilization crum
ble into oblivion and pathetic dust.
Great empires rise, flourish and pass
away; a sunken Rosetta stone on the
banks of some dateless Nile is the
only historian of their vanished great
ness. But this imperishable institu
tion, erected to the intellectual gen
ius and glory of man, stands secure
from generation to generation; the
dust of material dissolution eddies at
its base like drifting sand at the feet
of the Pyramids. Imbedded in the
eternal necessities of thought, broad-
is really a blend of t wo biikingfecwders, one of which
starts to raise as noon rrj -nolsturr is added The
other is inactive until htvit in applied. This sustains
the raise until your muffins, ' 'scuits or c" is lone.
K C Baking Powder costs less than th? old
fashioned quick acting kinds, yet you need ase no
morj and it is superior to them In every way.
m Try a can at our risk and be convinced.
and the thunders peal above its head.
A. R. MARKER.
International Congress of Viticul
culture Discusses Prohibition
San Francisco, Juna 11. Prohibi
tion will be discussed at length" dur
ing the session of the International
Congress of Viticulture meeting here
today. The substitution of light wines
for strong drink will be advocated as
a means of combating bsolute pro
hibition. Hundreds of wineg rowers
of their country nd Europe are here
for the Congress whlph will continue
its conference for six days under the
ausQiccs of the Panama-Pacific, Expo
sition.
Members of the California State
Board of Viticultural Commissioners,
the California Grape Protective Asso
ciation, the American Wine Growers
Association, American Pomological
Society and the Manufacturers and
producers Association of California
in addition to representatives of vari
ous affiliated organizations, will aid
in the hght to make light wine the
world's beverage.
FlliUKES-IN BUT ARiHJKl ffllSBM MYSTERY.
LA ?.
1 Capit '
i
ANDE NATIONAL BANK
1 ' vv Kceources $1,000,000.00
50,()tK).00
Fred 3." Holmes, Presidents
F. L. Meyers,
Earl Zundel and If. E. Coolidge, .
'ton, V.-Prest
Fred J. Holmes
C. C. Penington
F. L. Meyers
DIRECTORS:
A. T. Hill
J. F. Conley
J. G. Snodgrnss
11. E. Coolidge
A. Blockland
H. 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 bee tow.
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,.,.KATHER,NE Rl-I-'-:R. THE 1S-YEAR-OU) BHOAUWK1 L A 1
I t S)". D,E" OP STRYCHNINE POISONING AFTER A lU'GOY
KllK WITH HEK SWEETHEART. 1MNIEI- HtlU.EY 1R ?
S OWN IN THE OTHER PICTVkK.. IT HAS 1 1 K E N 1' HO V I" U T HAT
HE BOY nOl OHT THE POISON. AND THE CORONEl!' Trnv
AtTl'SBS 1IIV. OF MUtW ME WILL NOT T P I
DEATH IS STILL A .MYSTERY T TALKl S0 T,1E
Reserve Your Rooms
for the big
EXPOSITION
$1.00 to $2:00 a day.
Address: ''
HOTEL THOMAS
' Next Door to Every Thing in San Francisco
o 971 Mission Street -
Near Sixth.
ON DIRECT CAR LINE TO EXPOSITION AND DEPOTS. '
San Francisco, California.
Take Universal Bus or Taxi to hotel at our expense.
Very Few .Vacant Houses in La Grande ar.e really in a
good state of repair. Don't you notice that most of the
vacant ones are shabby and weather-beaten? In no other
way can you add so much to the attractiveness of & house
which you want to rent as by painting. You get big re
turns for the small amount of money which it costs.
USE THE BEST OF MATERIAL, AND "GET IT AT
OXNER PAINT STORE
P. S. Better still, let them do the work, too.
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HOLDING UP THE QUALITY
of our meat supply ls. to say the least, a" hard matter.'
We accomplish this through the adoption of rigid mspec
tum before purchasing. We accept nothing but prime
beef and other meats from the buyers. Therefore you're
safe in buying here.
Grande Ronde Meat Co.
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