La Grande evening observer., February 11, 1916, Image 4

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 1, 1916'.
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
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T-l in rvnprn CD Inegect of the hen m ine auy
THE OBSERVLK 'prosperity, when they bought their
. I eggs of Scandinavia and Russia rather
BRUCE DENNIS, Editor and Owner. ;than turn their shooting parks into
j Henneries anu ineir mum mm "--
. entered in the Postofflce at La
Grande, Oregon, as second class
matter.
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WAR PROFIT FOR THE HEN.
The American- hen is accustomed to
praise. Every once in a while some
enthusiast, battening upon statistics,
proves her to incomparable biped,
superior far to the goose that laid the
golden egg.. The figures do not lie;
the fact is thnt all our hens combined,
fancy and scrub stock, mother and in
cubator reared, lay 30,000,000,000 o-?gs
a year, or 80,000,000 eggB a day.
These figures may not interest tho
American who cracks an egg between
looks at his morning newspaper or the
.housewife who stirs eggs into a enke
without thought of her good fortune.
But they are at once a lure and a dis-1
may to the egg caters of Britain who
realize that by comparison the British
hen is scandalously inefficient. The
British are also full of remorse ut the
As egg imports from Scandinavia
decrease the British look across the
water at the American hen which,
as the English said early in the war,
is doing "business at usual." Yet a
little while and life producing shells
will join the death dealing kind in the
export list. Of course we never have
more than enough eggs for ourselves
and foreign egg buying is sure to
raise the price, but who is mean
enough to deny the hard working
farmer's wife who runs the poultry
end of the farm a chance at war
profits. -
POWDER AND BREAD.
The two problems of the warring
nations is tomorrow's powder and to
morrow's bread. Outside of the
strategy of the? battle line, the chief
study of both groups of belligerents
has been to produce and secure their
own supplies of ammunition and food
and to cut off, or interfere with, the
supplies for the enemy.
Curiously enough, powder and
bread, these two oddly assorted essen
tials of humanity at the present time,
contain large percentages of nitrogen
iB the more difficult to produce, car
bon being com'paritively easy to se
cure. Hence when they talk of a
food or ammunition supply, it is lnrge
ly a question of nitrogen. ' At the
present time it is a scarcity of nitro
gen that confronts the countries of
Europe.
All the most important indispens
able foods are combinations of nitro
gen, carbon and the war elements in
! various proportions. By a singular
and grim paradox, all the most violept
and lifedestroying explosives are born
of the same elements, from the faniil-1
iar nitre and charcoal of the old fash- j
ioned black gunpowder to the most
murderous and destructive melinite
and shimose. So nitrogen bulks
largely in our future happiness ' as ;
well as our present misery. I
Only a few years ago Sir William !
Crookes raised the warning that the;
human ruce was in danger of coming;
to an end by nitrogen starvation and j
he made un eloquent argument for his
theory.. . ' ' j
One of the most important elements :
in the richness of the soil is the '
amount of decayed and decaying j
vegetable or animal matter contained
in it, whether in the form of humus
from the slow decay and accumula-j
tions of hundreds of years of grass or i
brush and trees, or in the form of j
barnyard manure or other refuse rich j
in vegetable und animal remains, or
in the shape of some form of commer
cial fertilizer, such as guano. The
.' accumulation of nitrogen from decay
ed vegetation is a slow process, but it
can be exhausted in 30, 20, yes even
in 10 years of persistent cropping and
cultivation.
La France ;:;
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0o Per cent pure thread silk, 5 per cent pure dye. Nothing is used in
the finishing process to make La France silk hose appear heavy weight
No tin nor weighing at all; nothing to injure their service to you. Extra
reinforced heel, toe and foot; 3 thread knee; strong garter top; only pure
Japanese silk used. That's why we believe "La France" to be the best
value yet produced in Silk Hose we want you to try a pair of them the
best silk stocking for $1.00 in America black, white, and every new
shade. Every size at pair - $1.00
In extra wide top (out size)' pure silk in 'black or white, pair ....$1.25
A big assortment of fancy pure silk hose just received in plaids,
stripes, etc. new black and white effects and other new color combina
tions priced pair '. .....$1.25 and $1.50
Europeans speuk of us as "mer
cenary." Witnessing the kindly,
charitable and unselfish acts of Euro
peans this criticism, should cause us
deep humiliation.
Our plant wizard is trying to grow
a seedless watermelon. Please don't
let it become heartless.
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accompanied by a Deiendahle label will he suitablv rewarded.
There is saitl to be a scarcity of
goats in this country. However, we
have several in mind who are still on
the job.
A man in Kansas has just written
a book "How to Keep Prosperous."
It ought to have a large circulation
among ministers and newspaper men.
When the telephone is improved to
the extent that one can see the talker
there are likely to be fewer morning
visits over that instrument by some
of the housewives.
Many people say they have stoptoed
reading the dreadful war news, but it
may not be so much on account of
the horrible details as because they
like sentimental love stories.
A woman is as old as the man she
wishes were har husband thinks she
is.
j Watch Developments in This Paper 1 1 1
Dwight Edwards Company
Portland. Oregon
Chicago authorities will break up
all fox trot parties as immoral. Some
time ago they regulated saloon clos
ing hours and arrested folks iwho
flirted on the streets. Looks like
the Windy City is going to die and
was trying to ease its conscience.
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OUR SAFETY.DEPOSIT BOXES. HE KNOWS THEY ARE SAFE,
SO IS HE AND HIS FAMILY.
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LA GRANDE, OREGON
Capital 1200,000.00 Surplus $50,000.00
; ; ' Resource $1,000,000.00
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first of its kind in the middle west. So
irapidly has the asfcocWtiton grown
that it was found necessary to divide
the first meeting into sections, one
for daily men, one for the week
lies and another for job men. i
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Today's Oddest Story
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A Cleveland, O. Feb. 10. II. K. A
Knupp, prone to do what his
I- name implies after the alarm A
clock riu if s in the noming, used
! to get up, shut the tlimg off A
I and go . i.ek to l ed '.nd over- A
v sleep so much th;i" li" -o three j-I
more aruiseis, put one n each
A corner ot the ricm j?i . now, -j.
V by the time lit has rade the
V rounds and shut t!ie:: .all off A
he's re.idy to stay up.
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Little Hoys,. Circus Crazy, Lost
Bluff ton, Ind. Feb. 10. Somewhere
in tho United States two lost little
boys are wandering around looking
for the circus they dreamed and read
and played about so much oi. the
home place of John Wolvert'in, near
here. Ever sinco early in June of
last year the boys Abner, 15 and Rus
sell, 13, have been gone. Their fa
ther and older brother Archie have
spent a great deal of time and money
running down vague rumors of lost
little boys in cities all over the mid
dle west. It is almost a year since
they ran nwny and the little boys
have not been found.
John Wolverton is not a rich man.
He has n pretty good farm and works
hard to keep it up in tho right kind
of crops. His wife died several years
ago and after that Wolverton's inter
est all centered in his boys and his
home. Wolverton doesn't talk much
about Abner and Russell, but he
watches enrgerly for newspaper re
ports of lost boys, and he keeps
much to himself. He has in the last
year by his neighbors been looken up-1
on as a heartbroken man.
A neighbor bid who bud traveler! nej
n I'azor Back, or roustabout with n,:
circus is said to have fired the lads i
imaginations with his wonderful
stories of life with a circus. It was;
not long after this boy's return that:
Abner and Russell slipped out of tho 1
farm house one night and ran away. 1
Both the boys are fair, with brown i
hair and blue eyes and a trifle under-1
sized for their nges. Wolverton of-'
fers a reward of all his resources!
will allow, for information that will '
lead to the finding of tho boys. His
arldrew is In Care Archie Wolverton, ;
R-0 West Wiley Avenue, Bluff ton,,
Tr'wiani.
1'iwa Newspapers Meet i
l'w Moines, la. Feb. 10. Nearly'
LOi'O newspapermen arc here today
for the opening of the two days' ses
sion of the Iow Press association:
.J. Jt, .J. .t. A A A A .J.
War Newg of a Yeur Ago Today
Six great battles were rag
ing in the Carpathians. The
Russians retreated from Czer
nowitz when the Germans forc
ed a way into Bukowina. Pre
mier Asquith announced that an
absolute blockade of all Ger
man ports is being considered.
.J. .J. .J. A A A A A
Burial Customs of the Hittitet.
Although the tombs of the necropolis
hnd been rilled at an early date, a
great deal that is new was learned
about I he Imrlal customs of the Hlt
tltes. (iiarcriil vases, simple In design
and undecoraied, held the ashes of tho
cremated body, together with any trin
kets the person was wearing at the
time of death. A small vase about a
foot high w is Inclosed In a footed ves
sel of cylindrical shape, which was
beautifully decorated In patterns like
those of Crete and Cyprus. Around the
middle vessel were grouped various
dishes containing burial gifts or oil,
most of them plain, but some of beau
tiful shape and as thin as modern
china, though uugluzed. It can well be
seen that these two vessels would pro
tect tile ashes from dampness from be
low, but as both were open at tho top
there was a largo cover, like an enor
mous bowl. Inverted over the other two
vessels. Christian nerald.
Placer Gold Along Snake River.
For .n,iuny years gold has been
known to exist in the valley of Snake
River, particularly in the part of it
that passes through southern Idaho.
As early as 18C2 prospectors are re
ported to have extracted gold from
gravels in Jackson Hole. It occurs
at many places both on the present
river bars and on terraces along the
river representing ancient levels of
the water, but it does not occur in
quantity so great as to support large
operations with marked financial suc
cess, though some miners have made
a small amount of money. Probnbly
the most extensive workings were in
southern Idaho, in the vicltiity of
Rupert, Minidoka, and American
Palls.
Most of the gold is in very small
flakes having an average fineness of
.945. About $149,000 has been pro
duced since 1902, the earliest date
for which records are available. A
little platinum occurs with the gold
but not in commercial quantities.
Many dredges and "process" ma
chines have been tried on Snake Riv
er, most of them depending on amal
gamation for the recovery of the gold,
but the sluice and rocker, the sluice
supplemented by burlap tables, have
proved the most successful.
An account of this region and a
bibliography of the literature pertain
ing to it, with descriptions of a num
ber of typical localities, has been pub
lished by the United States Geological
Survey in Bulletin 620-L, by J. M
Hill, which may be obtained by ad
dressing the Director of that Survey
at Washington. '
Coffin Pasties.
Minco pies now are generally round,
but there was a time when they were
of a long, cotlln shape and were. In
fact, often referred to as "coffin pas
ties." But this somewhat grewsomc
name and shape do not appear to have
detracted from their popularity.
Scogln, for Instance, In the edition of
bis "Jests" published In 1620. is re
ported to have said on his denthbed,
"Masters, I tell you all that Btand about
mee. If 1 might live to eate a Christ
masse pye I csre not If I dye by and by
after; for Chrlstmasse pyes be good
meat" London Chronicle.
Couldn't Get at Him.
Grubbs Voting Blower tells me that !
at the trial of the last case In which he j
participated he moved the Jurors to !
tears. Stubbs Yes, go one of the jur
ore told mo. He said that they were
hemmed In by a high railing and two
bailiffs were constantly on gunrd. Tho
tears wore tears of rage. Richmond
Times-Dispatch.
Tru-Bhi
Grocery
HAS A GREAT BARGAIN
IN
CHINAWARE
THIS WEEK. Now is your chance to supply
your home with a very nice set of high grade
China ware, at the right price. Just think of the
price, only 3.80 for a 36 piece set while they last.
CALL MAIN 16.
C. J. Black's Grocery
Corner Adams and Fir Street
Main 16
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