La Grande evening observer., January 05, 1916, Image 3

"WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 191G.
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
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A Few of Our Winter Birds.
" , La Grande, Jan. 5. (To the Editor)
"It is not an act of charity, to feed
'Che birds at a spason when even their
great courage and energy often fail:
Call it an act of friendship, and il will
not disDutA it: hut. after all, it is a
duty the partial payment of a debt
for the hundred joys which birds have
added to our lives." E. H. Baynes.
The juncos, or Bhow birds as they
sare Generally called, are the common
est of the winter birds. ; They are
smaller than the sparrow, with heads
land collars, tiny white bills, cinnamon
brown back, -wings and tail. - Their
tails (have outer white feathers visible
'tonly when they fly. Their breasts arp
'gray and their sides washed with a
'cinnamon pink. These little birds are
always grateful for crumbs during the
severe weather and are also fond of
bird seed. They nest high in the
mountains or in the north, returning
in flocks in the early fall to 'begin their
work of consuming weed seed.
I The cedar wax wings, a large flock
of Which was driven down from the
mountains by the severe storms, arp
amongst the Most beautiful sof birds.
Their general color is f uffy suffused in
places with pink, and their faces black
with a flaring crest of 'buff. The ends
of the wings aire Mack inlaid with a
mosaic pattern of red,, yellow, and
white. Their tails are black edged
with yellow on the end and orange-red
underneath. The flock can be recog
nized by its trilling whistle.-. They
feed on frozen apples which are yet
halnging on the trees, rose hips, moun
tain ash betries, and any other fruits
they can find. In the summer they eat
enorm'otas amounts of canker worms
and .other destructive worms and in
sects. .My' : '2T fij; ( ;V. .;:' r-,
The Grosbeaks, -which also go in
flocks, are about the size of robins.
The male birds are ' an olive : yellow
with black iifsad, gold crowns, large,
3ieavy bills, black wings banded witfh
white, and black tails yellow under
neath. ' r t- , .
The females are grayish' without
the gold crown, and the white arranged
in spots over the black.. They eat box
elder seed, (mountain ash berries, froz-
en apples, etc., land are very fond of
sunflower land hemp seeds.
. Other winter birds are the gold'
IE FEET
finches (wild canaries) which turn
ibrowniah in winter, flickers, tsojmg
sparrows, robin, chickadees, kinglets,
nuthatches, woodpeckers etc. AH these
birds are grateful for crumbs, suet and
seed, and will amply- repay the donor
Jw.thnir interestine comlDany. Do not
'.allow the. English Sparrow to feed at
your f'lunch counter", ror -wrey win
drive away the more interesting atad
worthy birds. Also do not feed the
birds where they can become a prey
of the neighbor's cat The winter can
never be lonesome with a varied flock
of lively birds about the house and
yard.
Some Queer Ones
AND
SOF
Use '
'Tia ' ' for puffed-up, burning,
aching, calloused feet
and corns.
Why go limping around with aching,
puffed-up feet feet so tired, chafed,
Bore and swollen you can hardly-get
your shoes on or off! Why don't you
get a 26-cent box of "Tiz1' from the
drug Btore now and gladden your tor
tured, feet? i ' ' .; ;., , . , ,
"Tiz" makes your feet glow with com
fortj takes down swellings and draws
the soreness and misery right out of
feet that chafe, smart and burn. "Tiz"
iojftantly stops pain in corns, callouses
ai. bunions. ; "Tiz'f is glorious for
tired, aching, gore feet. No more shoe
.wgutucBB uu more loot torture.
Chicago wlzurd has run $200 up to
$100,000 In wheat within a few weeks.
! Operated on 131 times, St, touts'1 man
spends time in hospitals sewing and
crocheting.
Atrocity note: Somebody put a forged
check for $1,000 In Billy Sunday's
thanks offering at Syracuse. , ' r
. Ostrich at 83 a portion New, Year's
eve delicacy in New York, as twenty
of the birds were bought by hotels,
Mormon of did school, eighty-six, but
never owner of a pair of socks. Is sur
vired in Deuver by 278jdescendants. '
Autopsy of Oregon man necessary
before estate could be settled, because
he had included in will a $10 gold piece
he swallowed, and they had to get it
The "watch wrist,", new London ail
ment' due to wearing waist watches.
If woman throws out arm, elbow crook
ed and . brings tha back of the hand
uppermost with a twist and jerk, sueH
has it , , t . . .
ly and of the"uobillty are exempt rrom
the tax, as well as certain accredited
diplomatic representatives. ...? All in
comes under 000 marks (about $200) a
year are also exempt and there ' are
various classes of income which are
exempted, Including that from foreign
sources and military pay. , V: '
The Prussian Income tax before the
war amounted to $87,822,000 a year,
and this was divided among 18,850.291
persons. ;-Baden in 1908 (the latest
available figures) raised j5.6OO.50O
marks (about $3,900,000), or nearly 3a
per cent of her total budget from her
income tax. H.";- ;: w. -v-;v.,'.":'
As a general rule, the smaller Ger
man states have depended more heavi
ly upon the income tax than the larger,
although?. Saxony ' raised in "1908 the
sum of 61,575,000 marks ($14,890,000),
or 73 per cent of her budget by this
means..' Bavaria's Income tax, on the
other hand, amounted to but 0.3 per
cent of her revenues, raising only
4,030,000 marks ($1,180,000.) ..,.
How tits Milliner Get Even.
..- A local , business man. who has a
friend In a nearby town who is a mil
liner, told a story of bow the latter
once got "even" with one of the lead
ing social lights of the place after she
, had tried to be unfair with him. The
busbaud of the woman In question had
bad a bit of bard financial sledding,
and during the "reconstruction" period
she had to go light on clothes. So one
day she bad the milliner send up soma
A hi tun. L. .. , 1 , . .
w. uu we, uaim uu approval, wuica no
did. She sent them all back, but in a
few days appeared on the street with
a duplicate of the most expensive one
of all, which she had evidently made
herself. In that, town there Is a mid
dle aged woman of urcertafn mental
qualities - and nnquesttonable poverty
who . Is more or loss of a: town charac
ter. To her the milliner gave the orig
inal of the duplicated hat, much to the
discomfort of the social queen, who ap
parently saw the point New York
Times. .-,' . . . i ''.-'-.
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ALL GERMAN STATES HAVE
AN INCOME TAX SYSTEM.
PATENT OFFICE REVISES RULE
Praotitionsrs and Inventing Public Con-
' ' . suited as to Changet.
The general rules of practice before
the patent office, revised to date and
effective on Jan. 1, received the hearty
approval of Secretary of the Interior
Lane on the recommendation of Thom
as Ewlng, commissioner of patents.'
"The new rules," said Commissioner
Ewlng, "while elaborate and technical,
make for brevity, slmpllttcatlon, speed
and efficiency"')- -: ; . '". .
'A j'cur ngo Commissioner Ewlug ap
pointed a committee to make a thor
ough revision of the rules of practice.
Ko. geaerai 'revision of the rules had
been made for several years'. .-?
After ten months, of work, the t&
suits were submitted to patent exports
and patent attorneys throughout the
country with -the request that they
give the : patent , office the benefit of
their suggestions in respect of the pro
posed changes.' '' Hundreds of sugges
tions were made, and. all have been
carefully analyzed and many of them
Incorporated in the new rules. :
; This was the first time In the bisfgry
of the patent office "that practitioners
before the office and the inventing pub
lic ever were consulted concerning the
formulation of the rules and practice.
Prussian Method of Raising Revenue
- la ths Most Complete.
Reports received in the United States
that several of the German states are
preparing to make considerable .in
creases la their income tax levies have
excited much interest and' fuller re
ports are eagerly awaited. :
The German empire, as a whole, does
not levy any Income tax, but the twenty-six
states which compose the em
pire' all have either complete or par
tial income taxation. . Their individual
methods of making the levy, however,
vary widely. Prussia, vhlch Includes
more than half the total population of
the empire, has one of the most com
plete systems. '
The Prussian Income tax Is levied
upon all Prussian subjects actually
domiciled In Prussia, as Well as on all
Other nersons domiciled in Prussia, a
residence of one year . establishing !
uuiuiciie. wuiuu ' iue meaning oi me
tax.law. It also includes corporations '
and co-operative societies except those
whose activities are charitable, scien
tific or artistic exclusively. -
Certain, members, of .UwrojaM jaml-
HIAWATHA,
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HIAWATHA,
Not from Longfellow; but the BEST coal from Utah, hard dur
able, economical semi-anthracite. The nearest approach to the hard
coal of Pennsylvania.- , . ,-;.t .;. .-, - -,,.. -, - '
'X ' ROCK SPRINGS COAL.
The Cleanest and BEST for cooking. Almost as cheap aa wood,
everything considered. Will not blacken friend, wife's or V 6 hired
girl's hands, or soil the cooking utensils, like some Coals. A
f reeburning heat producer. All c0al screened and delivered free or
SLACK. - '....
We sell slack SLACK at $4.00 a ton.
WOOD Yellow Pine, Red" Fir, Tamarack. Good Fresh and DRY,
as we keep it in Sheds. , . ; , , .
DRAYAGE, DELIVERY, PIANO AND FURNITURE MOVING.
FIREPROOF STORAGE AND FORWARDING.
MERCHANTS' DELIVERY.
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One Block East of Depot. Phone Main 10.
Lynch & Stewart
One block east of Depot- ' Phone Main 10
APPLES ENOUGH FOR ALL
New York Has 1,410,335 Barrels, and
. Other 8tates Have an .Abundance. . .:
New York .bad almost exactly the
same quantity of apples In cold storage
at the beginning of the cold storage
season Of 1915 as were reported on the
same date ip 1914. The office of mar
kets, of the federal department of agri
culture says, however, that there are
15 per cent more apples in storage in
the whole country than on the same
date one year ago. . . ; ,
' New York reports 1,327,231 barrels
and 249,313 boxes. At the rate of
thjee boxes to a barrel this is a total-
of 1,410,335 barrels. 1 No other state
has half so many; those having the
nearest in quantity being Illinois. Mis
souri and California. All of the far
western states report apples only In
boxes. ; ..;.':;' '. J
Humors of Indexing.
:. Quite as bad us the cryptic alphabet
ical headings under which Important
subjects are sometimes hidden in an
Index are the delusive cross references
that . lead to nothing. . - The present
writer, looking up the subject of sliver
plate lu an index,' read "silver plate,
see gold plate," thou "gold plate, see
plate," then "plnte, see hallmarking,"
then "hallmarking, see plate marks,"
und finally, "plate, marks, see silver
plate," which brought him back to
where he had started. The most cu
rious freak of Indexing In my experi
ence, writes a correspondent was de
tected in the course of revising and ar
ranging a collection of obituary arti
cles which bad been neglected. - I
searched In. vain for Queen Victoria in
that Index, though it was certain that
her majesty's life was included in the
collection. But neither under "Q", nor
under "V". was it to be found. Finally
it was discovered accidentally under
T'r-'The Queen 1" London Chronicle.
The Capitol Dome.
: The capltol dome at Washington is
the only considerable dome of Iron In
the world. It Is vast hollow sphere
weighing 8,000,300 pounds. ; How much
la that? More than 4,000 tons, or al
most the weight of 70,000 full grown
persons, or about equal to 1,000 laden
coal cars of four tons each, which, If
strung oat ene behind the other, would
occupy a mile and a half ef track. , Ua
the very top of the dome the alio
goricai figure'1' America," weighing 13,
065 pounds, lifts Its proud bead high in
the air, Ibe pressure of this dome and
figure upon the piers and plNars Is 14,.
477 pounds to the square foot ' It
would, howeverrequire a pressure of
755,280 pounds to the square foot to,
crush the supports. . "Zi"Ht '. "
Home l "
Where you "Wish- you were about
twenty times a day when you .are
away from it ,-P::-. ' r j-
Vt'bere you got three square meals a
day and didn't appreciate them.
Where you can use the shower bath
any- time you want it ', .- .
.Where yon can step across the hall
wearing a -Turkish towel and a cake
of soap without fear of seven or eight
people seeing you.
. .Where you don't have' to dress for
dinner-. ,'mBfSb$$SlS!fo'!ia
; Where you don't have to tip some
one every two boars. .
, Where the view, isn't much, but the
food and beds and company and gen
eral environments have got it all over'
any other spot on the, map.' r,t . :
. .wnere you .go when an the other
places are closed. Boston Herald.;
housewives
YOU WILL FIND PLENTY OP FRESH CER
EALS AT OUR STORE. PHONE MAIN 80
PATTISON BROS. GROCERY.
RALSTON SELECTED BRAN
Pure and clean, put up in 1
lb. 4 or. packages, sell for 20c.
The health food . recommended
by physicians. Recipe for cook
ies and gems on each package.
MOTHERS CRUSHED OATS-t
Two sizes, 2 for 26c and 40c
The 40c package contains a fine
piece of aluminum ware, also
with 6 coupons and $1,00 cash
you get a big aluminum steam
cooker capacity of cooker 2 1-4
quarts.
PETTIJOHN'S s BREAKFAST
FOOD Consists of rolled
Wheat with all the Bran. You
get th nourishment, Of the
whole wheat also the Bran' so
necessary to proper regulation.
1 lb. 8 oz. - package and sells
for 25c.
POST TAVERN PORRIDGE
A food made of Whole Corn,
Rice and Salt, those are blended
together and make a very fine
porridge. Directions for Grid
dle Cakes, Fried Mush, and Pud
ding with- each ipackage, 1 lb.
12 oz; packages 20c. , ...
QUAKER OATS
Puffed Rice Puffed Wheat
SHREDDED WHEAT
Albers' Oats Afters' Wheat
' POST TOASTIES
Golden Rod Oats and Wheat
WHEAT NUTS
Kellogg Corn Flakes
Yellow amd White Cornmeal
New York Buckwheat
Pattison Brothers
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First Leap Year Ball.
Silverton, Ore., Jan. 3, The Moose.
lodge of this city, with a membership
of 200, provided the young women
of Silverton with the first leap year
privileges in 'the way of a leap year
ball on New Year's night The ladles
Were charged the usual admission fee,
while the men acted as: wall flowers.
Chamberlain's Cought Remedy Sti
... , , , EffeetuaLi .'-v r-iAr'' :
. "I have taken a great many bottles
of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and
every time it has cured me. - J Kava
foand it most effectual for a hacking
cough and for colda. , After taking it
cough always disappears," writes J.
R. Moore, Lost Valley, Ga. Obtainable '
everywhere.; 'I''eP p. 'S-
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The 8oft Answer.
"Yes, I'll take Jim's note for a hun
dred any time," said , a banker when
an offer to sell a note to the bank was
made. ''.
': "I want to warn you, though," said
the man in whose favor the note had
been drawn, "that Jim is a good prom
isor, bnt a poor payer. I don't want
you to have anything against me be
cause of this note." '
' "Jim's honest and I'll take bis note
for a reasonable amount any time,"
said the banker. "I bad some trouble
with him once over an overdraft and
It turned out that the bank was at
fault and that he ' had ' not 'actually
overdrawn. I'll' admit I was pretty
nasty In my tfllk to him about It be
cause I watt so sure the- bunk was
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