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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
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or gap, because they are light and comfortalble, because they retain
their original fit after innumerable washings.
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WAR AS IT IS SEEN
Victor Murdock, who is to open the
Grande Rondo Chautauqua this yar,
(pent some time at the war zone of
Europe. Following is a description of
"r as Vt Is seen.''
"In my last I described a demolish
ed church at the front. I did not toll
it all. While I was standing in the
midst of , the powdered luins and
peeping into a grave where someone
had been buried five hundred years
ago, and which was now open to the
sunlight, there must have come in
to my eyes a certain sort of a look.
II suspect it was the souvenir look.
I have never been much on souvenirs
myself. I wasn't born that way.
But I recognize that it is a tending
American trait, and as I am an Amer
ican, bone, blood, sinew and trimmings
that probably I was guilty. At any
event, one of 'he officers nearby
caught the glint in my eye and he was
not going to see me suffer. He pick
ed up the biggest thing left in tflrat
church if was a slab of marble
gravestone wltlh some Latin words on
it. Armed with this he approached
me, and with a most courteous bow,
presented it to me. There was only one
thing for me to do, and that was to
accept it with profuse thanks. And
I did. I tucked the ghostly thing un
der my arm and fared forth. For
the rest of the day it was with me. I
crawled through long communicating ,
trenches, spraddled barbed-wire, bur-
irowea underground and watched a
big gun pounding holes in the Gar
man lino, ducked under buildings and
viBited commanders working in cellars
uy canuie-ugnt, aim that laitnrui
gravestone remained over at my side
"As a rule a civilian at the front
doesn't arouse much curiosity among
the soldiers. They are busy men as
Off ff Av:irr-
OVU KJCUW
MRt TOU ft DADDY?
YOU'LOVE YOUR FAMILY, PERHAPS YOU WASTE A LOT
OF MONEY IN DRIBS AND DRABS" THAT IF PUT INTO THE
BANK NOW WOULD GROW TO A BIG SUM.
IF IYOU LIVE "YOU" :CAN ENJOY YOUR MONEY, IF YOU
DON'T IT WILL PROTECT YOUR CRILDREN,
YOU "ARE SETTING YOUR BOYS A GOOD EXAMPLE
WHEN YOU PUT MONEY IN THE BANK.
BANK WITH US.
WE PAY 4 PER CENT INTEREST '
La Grande National Bank
LA GRANDE, OREGON
Capital $200,000.00, Surplus $50,000.00, Resources $1,000,000.00
Fred J. Holmes, President: C C Penington, Vice Preiident; F. 1
Meyers, Cashier; E, Zundel and U. E. Coolidge, Assistant Cashlara.
! . . DIRECTORS ,
Frd J. IIolmM, J. G. Snodgrasa, 3. F. Conley, C C. Peninta, IL
S, Brownton, F. L. Meyers, A. Blokland, A. T. HH1, BU E. Ooolidye,
a rule and they give one look and
let you go. tft was so with . me on
other days. But on this day I las.
cinated them. Their eyes followed me
everywhere.. The man who was un
loading a half-ton of mot s&oel ut
the front door of the Germans turned
and . gazed on me as I passed. But I
knew I wasn't the attraction it was-
that tombstone. At one p'-int vhere
some soldiers were-gathered about a
portable kitchen, I almost felt called
upon to stop and make thcin a speech
vindicating myself. And moreover
the tombstone itself took on an accu
satory attitude. The name of the
man it covered wan't on it, but there
was. a irest in peace. I didn't know
him. ll never would knnw him. I had
no. legal title to the .property, . and
surely a man's tombstone is his own. I
am sure that if m . future war five
or six hundred years hence, some ga
loot from Australia visits Wichita
and carries away ;my of my tomb, I
will visit him at night and freeze his
young blood and make each individual
hnir upon his head to stand, as Lon
Iloding used to say, like quills upoq
the fretful -h n brus.r -.--,
"Here was an ancient friond who
frobably worj arni"r and carried a
ance and roii-j to Jerusalem and cut
sirloins out of Turk, and sloshed
around to the best of his ability fr-r
sixty years or so, an-l then in his old
age came back to tin ok! towr. a:id
sat around and told tho boys wbfit
he Hid to Ihe-.:1 when they all went
up against the walls of Jericho, lie
is a man I would have liked. I don't
think there is iinv question alout
that. : kn-wr but lit;! out war
and warvu. , but I ta knjw that old
age. i.'i ar und ic!!.ng v.hat it
did, 'ii:VJ youth in tliu f,w-f of dninif
it beat a city block And whon this
old fiiiior had to! I nit tor!i over
,80 often i.nat the ;r iJ 'ti io inn
coulu itll when re Jrirj'i't oiit a
Dhrasu and would suii lv it. and he
knew his time had come, he had but
a single request to make to posterity
He wanted to rest in peace. And he
said so. And here, after the request
had been observed so long that it bad
become a vested right, the Germans
camo along with pointed steel balls
nnd ploughed him up; and a wandering
Yahoo from a country that wasn't
even discovered on the day of the fun
eral, walks off with the request under
his arm.
"But I went on with my investiga
tions with my tombstone held against
my heart, lit was thick enough to
stop a shrapnel bullet or a shell-splinter,
and I knew the old fellow, if he
could have heart! one snort, would
have modified some towards me m
spite of himself.
"I traveled from first line to second
to third, to fourth, back through the
fifth to the sixth, vast labrinthinc
works of defcr.su, crossing and ens
crossing. Over-lapping the heads
of roads, springing out of fields sud
denly, poking up in back yards, twist
ing through groves, winding over hil
locks a deep, complete, inconceive-
nblo intricate barrier against which no
army in this world can march and livo.
I watched again the long lines of traf
fic whkh feed and clothe and shoo
tho soldiers. I visited the great re
pair shops which pound the autos
back into shape nnd tho great army
abatoirs where the soldiers' meat ys
slaughtered. I went on back to th
evacuating hospital and saw the train
roll in with its burden of sick and
wounded from the front. I saw the
vast and bewildaring spectacle of war,
incredible in its ramifications, incom
prehensible in part or in whole, over
whelming, stupefying, benumbing to
the eyo, the car, the senses. ,
"And I hitched my tombstone a
littlo further nn under mv arm and
jrroped- my way back to the lodging
place awl to bed. My bead was
throbbing witn the stupendousness of
all II had seen. I could not sleep I
laid it on the tombstone wMoh I had
left proped up against the wall, star
ing at me through the night. I
thought possibly that he- had conclud
ed that if he wasn't going to be fallow
ed to rest in peace, I Shouldn't either.
"But after a time he seemed to re
pent of it, for I got to thinking about
a thing I had experinced that day as
I plodded through the mud. There is
something about the mind that makes
devastation pall upon you. You tire
of destructin. You weary of ruin. I
had turned away from a battered city
glutted with the sight and with my
tvhole interest in all of it waning.' I
had turned (to a nersistent peasant
plowing in a shell-torn field and found
preliminary statement of the general ng of artificial colors of foreign or
results of the 1914 census of tnanu i igin. ,t
facturesfor the dyestuff and extract I Natural Dyestuffs Produced,
industry has been issued by Director The natural dyestuffs produced in
Sam L. Rogers, of the Bureau of tlhie 1914 includa 28,989,962 pounds of log
Census, Department of Commerce. It wood extract, valued at $1,311,906; 4,
consists of a statement of the qualities 1 509,943 pounds of fustic extract, val
and values of the various products ued at $222,804; 3,844,882 pounds of
manufactured, prepared under the di- quercitron extract, valued at $112,945;
rection of Mr. iWillium M. Steuart, , extracts of other dyewoods and veget
chief statistician for manufactures. I able material cutch, : brazilwood,
The figures are preliminary and are ! gambier, indigo, etc. valued at $120,
subject to such change and correction . 826; and ground or chipped dyewoods,
as may be necessary from a further
examination of the original reports.
valued at $97,294. The production of
logwood extract shows an increase of
Establishments Reporting and Value i 2!K9f ?er Cjnt ta lulintity.fd P'
of Products 8 cent in value as compared with 1909. ,
Returns were received'from 133 es- ca1tj?n f Establishments,
tablishments engaged in the industry ?f ? U establishments manufac-
JG revalued t &LSSSlSA
It waxing again. And m that thought ' mVTS ko5 " -"L .T"? , , i New York, 18. in New Jersey, 17 in
I slid off into the blessed sea of sleep." ,:raiXT.-7 7 ' Massachusetts 13 in Virgina, 9 in
RATS DEVOURED HIS HEAR , J , , 1
4. -w..ui7 i.lwuiio ncic CVC1VCU
was attorney for the 'Q! (from 124 establishments, with nrn.
And the indemnity company which in-j ducts valued at $16,788,676, including
- sured j dyestuffs valued at $4,819,247, tanning
The owners of the mine. materials valued at $7,120,307, mor-
I pulled the wires with judge and jury ; dants, assistants, and sizes valued at
And the upper Courts, to beat the $3,276,801, and other products to the
value of $1,572,321,
The number of establishments re
porting in 1914 was greater by 9 than
the number in 1909, and during the
same period the total value of pro
j ducts increased by $4,552,446, or 27.1
linois, 2 in Wisconsin, and I each in.
Alabama, California, Connecticut, In
diana and Michigan.
COMFORT NEEDED ON FARM -.
Washington, D. C, April 20. Ini
the design . and construction of the
farmhouse, fthe question of utility
alone should not be the determining,
factor. The first thought should be
the making of a home. The amount
claims
Of the crippled, thle widow, and or-
phan, ''
And made a fortune thereat.
JTie Bar Association sang my praises
n a high flown resolution,
And the floral tributes were many j per cent 1 incrse n vajue oi j of money to be invested in the build-
iut wie im mvuiutu my . joyestutts produced was $2 299 281 or ,n8 01 inVJiomB snouia not oe aeser-
And-a snake made a nest in my skull, j 47.7 per cent. of tannm ' materials mined by ts relation in size to the
Selected. $719 750, 0r 10.1 per cent; and of balance of the plant, nor by the-
1 . ..'. . m , . Imordants, assistans, and sizes, $i,.amount that as necessary merely to-
A RIDDLE WITH A MORAL. j 767,424, or 53.9 per cent. (provide a shelter, but the amount to
Of the total niimhf.T. tt UfKiiDi,. be invested should be that which tha
Riddles are bad enough, hut a rid- intents reporting for 1914 22 were en- 'owner may reasonably afford without
qie with a moral!
much! remarks the
that is too j gaged primarily in other industries , financially crippling himself too se-
Liierary uigest. "'"".ra "-pruuuci.s uye- A,T
Still, in thie case of the riddla pro- ".u"s un? extracts cnieny assistants '
, 1 , ..v m - . lT), , hjiu uiiining extracts vaiuea at $764.-
pounded by the Toledo Blade the , 353. At the census of 1909, .17 such
moral is a good one and the riddle is establishments reported similar by
suflkiently puzzling to inspire some '. products chiefly assistants and dye
interest. We are apparently con- j stun"s f the value of $834,102.
fronted with a description of our L lt ,ls toe V01 that these statis
. . 'tics do not embrace the production of
greatest common enemy. What is this ;jvo:n. , : '
monster ?-
. I am more powerful Lhan the com
bined armies of the worlds
tt have destroyed more men than all
the wars of the nations.
I am more deadly than bullets, and
I fhsive wrecked more homes than the
mightiest siege-guns.
I steal, in the United States a'o.ie,
over $300,000,000 each year.
I spare no ono, and I find my vic
tims among the rich and poor alike,
the young and old, the strong and
weak. Widows and orphans know
me.
I loom up to such proportions that I
cast my shadow over every field of
labor, from tho turning of the grind
stone to the moving of every railroad-train.
II massacre thousands upon thous
ands of wage-earners a vear.
I lurk in unseen places, and do most
or my worK silently, l ou are warned
against me, but you heed not,
' I am relentless.
I am everywhere in the house, on
tho street, in the factory, at railroad-
crossings, and on the sea.
I bring sickness, degradation, and
death, and yet few seek to avoid mo.
I destroy, crush, and maim; 1 give
nothing, but take all.
I am your worst emeny.
What is the answer? Do you say
"drink" or "hatred" or "self-inter-
est?" The answer is given in the
words of the riddle: "I am caroloH
ness." DYESTUFFS AND EXTRACTS. !
Census Btireau's Summary Concerning
iiyeing or tanning materials, mor
dants, assistants, etc., which were con
sumed in the establishment where pro-
The average citv dweller in buying
a house for a home does not proceed
solely on the basis of what he can'
expect to obtain in case it ever is de
sirable to place the house on the mar
ket. He is not likely to consider the
purchase of a home as a financial in
vestment, but as a social one, which
will enable him to obtain for his fami
ly, the comforts and conveniences that
he could not enioy in a rented house
duced, but refer, only to the output of a"d to have for his family a genuin'
tnKi;ul..nMn - : 1 11. : 1
viiMjuuouiireiua iiiuiiuiactunng xnese I a genuine iiumts illc.
products for sale, and of plants op- If he is able, when the time arriv
erated separately and apart from tan-1 to dispose of his property to financi' I
neries or dyehouscs, although under
tne same ownership.
The dyestuffs as reported for 1914
include natural dyostuffs valued at
$1,865,835 and artificial dyestuffs of
tho value of $5,246,655, the latter
comprising 12,169,635 pounds of syn
thetic or coal-tar dves valued at $4,
052,947 and 4,991,336 pounds of min
eral dyes valued at $599,746. Compar
able therewith is an aggregate pro
duction in 1909 of 12,2G7,'I!)9 pounds of
artificial dyestuffs valued at $3,462,
430. The increase for the five-year
period, therefore, was 39.6 per cent in
quantity and 51.5 per cent in value.
Coal-Tar Dyes.
The statistics for coal-tar dyes in
clude the products of establishments
iimng intfirmadmUH and part-manufactured
mau-rials as well as those
that start from tho basic coal-tar
crudes. The industry included 25 es
tablinhment in 1914 which manufac
tured artificial dyestuffs of minora! or
chemical origin, and of these,' 16 re
ported the manufacture of synthetic
advantage, well and good; if not,
considers, and properly so, that he i
made a cood investment ttom
social side.
"DANDY" GETS PENNIES
Its Breed Is Question, but Dogcateni
Can't Harm Pet.
Omaha, April 29. Dandy, the
household dog at the Burkhart home,
will not be taken by any old dog catch
er man this year. Dandy is not much
on pedigree, but it can wag its tail
with nonchalance and hold up its head
because Elinore and Marion Burkhart,
7 and 9 years old, respectively, ;
walked into the Omaha City Clerk's
ofllce and handed over 50 pennies each,
in return for which they received dog
license tag No. 257 and a . receipt
showing they had paid the money. -
These children saved their .pennies '
lor some time, and now they
may
si CCD without having bad dreams of'
the dop catcher pettine Dandy. The
or coal-tar dy and 11 tho production ! dog is .white wiuhl black spots, and
of mineral colors or dyes. . jwhen tie dog license man asked for
in connwtton wltn the foregoing : uanays creed they looKea ai eacn
vit i ,n??ST I?r Jmaiiidr eompriai
VW'SLahm'fta, D. C; May 1, mCA 4uind by
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ttaUrnfrrt concerning the output of
eoni-tar dve in the United States, it
hould h saW that but littlo over one
Iwilf of th amount reported by var
ious flrma consisted of wares actually
fnado in this country from, crude or
ernhnannfuctured materials, thp fre
mainder comprising essentially pro-
aio mixing or blend-
other in bewilderment, as if they had '
forirotten tn hrinc Rome imooTtant
facts regarding tjjie past lifo of Dandy, i
There is a blank space on the rec-v
ofds where the breed should bo re---:
corded, but.tihRt did not make any dif- .
ferenoa jwhoii the clerk banded overj;
the tag and the youngsters proudly '
fastened it on Dandy's neck. V