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.HVHY RUSSIA IS DOING BETTER.
There ar many people who do not
understand the present success by the
Buseian armies in view of the re
verses suffered at the hands of the
Germans earlier in the war. The foJ
'" lowing statement from a Russian pa
per, foe Petrograd Novoe Vremya
gives eome light upon the situation:
At the opening of the war, Russia
- muhilized 400.000 soldiers, and or-
, dered them to the assistance uf Ser
vian Two days later Germany, after
her ultimatum of 24 hours, began de-
. ploying troops all along our frontier.
Half of the troops ordered south had
(therefore to be recalled to defnd our
line against the Germans. Two hun-
t dred thousand men could neither hold
the Austrian million, nor the German
- million, much less go to effective aid
in behalf of little Servia. One mil
lion men were therefore called to
' &rms; and without even two weeks'
. frilling tihiey were rushed .to two
fronts. They were no soliders, mere
.human cannon fodder, and the event
men. Meanwhile another million
men were called to arms, and drilled
an entire year. They are soldiers,
and they are at the front now. Six
hundred thousand more are drilling;
and another half million has been
called to arms this spring. The rem
nant (if tha orioHnal rmv' in Iphr
' than one hundred thousand effectives
, of the first recruits not more than
six hundred thousand are left; but
our total effective today is one mil
lion seven hundred thousand, with an
other drilled million to back them.
Economically, Russia hardly feels
the war; many provinces have barely
heard of its existence. True, we have
an increase of twenty billion dollars
(forty billion rubles in our national
debt) but the pressure has not sunk
into the general public. Only one
item has brought restriction the
vedka (whisky). Russia today
nit;hpr mfLkpK. Ktlln r iikpx tht nr.
ticle. As a consequence, according to
the statement this spring to tfhe dou
ma by M. IJarek, Russian minister of
finance, the savings institutions
throughout the country, the mother
house in Petrograd and ten thousand
said branches in tine provinces have
wonderfully improved in deposits.
If the statement is to be relied upon
H is easy to surmise that in future
battles on the eastern front Von
Hindenberg will find a different story
from what he met with a year ago.
Caught unprepared Russia did poor
fighting. With her great armies
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LA GRANDE, OREGON
Capital 9200,000.00, Surplos $50,000.00, Resource $1,000,000.00
Frd i. Holme, President: C. C. Penington, Vice President; F. L,
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brought into use and properly sup
plied with munitions that country is
now in jshape to take revenge for the
kBS of Warsaw pnd the overrunning
of Poland.
' WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY
Argentina's Growth.
Christian Herald.
The last census just published fixes
the population of the Argentine Re
public at 7,888,287. The census of
1895 gave the population as 3,954,911,
i so that the record shows almost a
doubling vS the inhabitants in the
I past !i0 years. Buenos Aires is a
! large and beautiful city with a popu
lation of 1,375,914, about Ihsilf as
I many as all of Argentina had 20
1 years ago. The fertile soil, the form
lof government the encouragement to
industry, the improvement in educa
tion, the freedom in religion, have at
tracted a large number of enterpris
ing citizens xrom all pars of the
world.
Making Our Way.
From Charleston News and Courier.
How many of us pass our time in
waiting for life to give us something
instead of trying to find it for our
selves. We even go so far as to think
that life owes us always more than
we receive, that we fulfill our mission
on earth by simply living a harmless
existence and that fame and fortune
sihould be ours by right. It is for
this latter reason that we so oftn re
sent the good fortune of others and
allow ourselves to believe that we
have been diseriminHled against by
Providence. We do not seem to
realiz that it is well worth our while
to do some Suing more than wait for
what may or may not come to pass,
that we are the architects in large
measure of our own success and that
we must make the best of what is be
fore ub in order to learn the rights to
fulfill Kile desires of our hearts. If
we make but little headway we are
quick with our excuses and are al
ways ready to place the blame upon
others who can in no way be held re
sponsible. If, on the other hand, we
do succeed it seems quite natural to
take the credit ourselves, whether we
deserve it or not. The chances are,
however, that if we amount to very
much in this world the credit belongs
to us more than to anyone else, even
thouglh we do receive assistance at
times from those who take an interest
in us. The point of the matter is that
we must fortify ourselves to meet
conditions as they come and to do our
best to shape them into (happiness and
prosperity for ourselves.
DO YOU KNOW THAT
Better wages make better health ?
Better health makes better citizens 1
Better Citizens make a better na
tion 1
The U. S. Public Health Service
found 78 per cent of the rural homes
in a certain county unprovided with
sanitary conveniences of any kind?
Cholera is spread in the same man
ner as typhoid fever?
Scarlet fever, kills over 10,000
Americans each year?
Hookworm enters through the skin ?
He who builds up health lays up
treasure in the Bank of Nature?
It is estimated that there is 1148 bil
lion feet of privately owned timber in
Oregon west of the Cascade Range,
and 270 billion feet in Washington.
The National forests contain 102 bil
lion feet, making for the west side
of the two states a total of timber es
timated at 780 billion board feet.
Our Want Ads bring results.
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7 CURIOUS CORDOBA. ," "
This Spanish Town U So Compact It
Looks Like Ono Building.
Coi-doba is scheduled on the Euro
jxan itinerary a a half day stand.
Those who go from Seville to Granada
and those who go from Granada to Se
ville take Cordoba on tbelr way. Fif
teen minute for the cathedral, five for
the alcazar, an hour for luncheon and
on to further dlscoverie that 1 the
Cordoba program. The hotel of Cor
doba are, in consequence, unpalatiah a
circumstance in itself which endears
the little town to the judicious. "I donot
believe there 1 a lift In all Cordotnv,
and if your wife wishes for any reason
to buy a new hat she must go out of
the hotel for it and tben it will be
three years old.
At night all the tourists are gone to
Seville or Granada, and yon and the
Cordobaus and the stars share the
amenities of Cordoba's one boulevard,
of whlcn everybody is very proud, be
cause It is much superior to anything
that Paris or even Madrid can show.
It was a lucky chance which caused
them to build Cordoba so handily be
tween Seville and Granada. It has pro
vided a still little backwater for the
traveler' repose, a spot where he may
forget that American bars exist, eat
bis meals untroubled by the squeaking
of a tango bund and adventure himself
among the mysteries of a bill of fare
Jell.r printed in blue and illegible Span
ish. You could put your hat over Cordoba,
and very little would protrude. It is
the compacted little town. From the
tower of the cathedral it ail looks like
one building. Too can hardly perceive
the streets, so closely do they wriggle
among the houses. The roofs are yel
low, brown, gray, red; the walls and
their shadows every color in the world.
Among the buildings the green of
palms, orange trees, leinott frees, chest
nuts, soothe the glare struck eye. The
Guadalquivir snakes through Its rich
plain from the faraway flat hills (red,
gray brown, yellow), and over all are
the great sky of the south and the huee
sun of the south, which imposes si
lence on the world till nlgbt shall set
the guitars a-buzzlng. William Caine
in Century. ,
CAUSE OF RHEUMATISM.
Cavities Holding Pus, It Is Claimed,
Breed the Dread Ailment. j. '
In the American Magazine is an arti
cle on rheumatism by Dr. Arthur It.
Beyuolds, who says:
"The cause of rheumatism is pus
formed and imprisoned in some part
of the body. It gets Into the circula
tion and is carried by it to the regiOD
affected. These pus places may be in
spots more or Jess closed up, so they
are not easily drained. They may be
located about the teeth, at the end of
the roots of dead or diseased teetfojlin
the crypts of the tonsils, in Boinejof
the sequestered places in the nostrils,
in the bony sinuses of the head. They
may be in tie bladder, the kidney, the
gall ducts or other places. The pus
producing spot may be as small or
smaller than a pea or it may be larger.
Its existence Is frequently unknown to
the patient, especially if it be hidden
in soft tissue like the tonsil. It may
even exist in the bony socket of a
tooth without giving pain.
"Several different organisms produce
pus, and any or all may produce rheu
matism when transferred to the Joints
or the heart.
"The physician today seeks for the
pus cavity when he meets a patient
with rheumatism, nnd lip endeavors to
clean It up. Ilbeuuiallc pains have
been stopped 1th magical promptness
by simply extracting the offending
tooth. It is nut always easy to find
the pus places in the hidden parts of
the body. The X ray shadowgraph is
essential hi locating the trouble. It
shows definitely and accurately all
trouble about the roots of Hie teeth,
and its use Is therefore of the first im
portance in ferreting out the pus In the
deep structures."
Duncan Smoked In Church.
Blr Walter Scott in bis "Heart of
Midlothian" refers to one Duncan of
Knockduuder, an important personage,
bo smoked during the whole of the
sermon from an Iron pipe tobacco bor
rowed from other worshipers. We ars
told that at the end of the discourse
he knocked the ushes out of his pipe,
replaced it In his sporran, returned the
tobacco pouch to its owner and Joined
In the prayer with decency and atten
tion. Domeitio Strategy.
Husband I am not ready to go out
yet. Wife But I am. and we must go
Immediately. Husband But, my dear,
your hat Is not on straight Wife
Dcnr ine! Isn't It? Wait a minute till
1 go to my room and put It right
Kxlt wife for half an hour, and her
shrewd husband completes his work.
Argentina.
If the country has the same average
potentiality for producing food as land
similarly situated In North America or
Europe, It would seem that Argentina
can support 100,000.000 people easily,
ts only small parts of It lie outslds
the temperate eone.
Ths Point of View.
"The darkest cloud has n sliver lin
ing." remarked the optimist.
"Rut It Is dark cloud. Just the
same," Insisted the pessimist. Ex
change. Silly Fellow.
"Ton art the ouly girl that can make
me happy."
Are you sure?" . '
"Yes; I have tried til ths others."
Philadelphia Record. '.-'.'
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For Warm Days
Cool, comfortable pumps. Every pair redua-d.
We show more styles and a bigger range of sizes and widths
than any other store in La Grande It makes a difference, too,
when you come to be fitted; it makes the fitting easier for you
also you are sure here of an accurate fit which always means
solid comfort for hot days and every pair now at greatly re
duced prices in our July Clean-Up Sale.
O. A. C. Man Writes Book For Women
Architects
The MacMillan Company, publish
ers, New York, have accepted for pub
lication a college text book on Domes
tic Architecture, by Eugene L. Robin
son, professor of Rural Architecture,
Oregon Agricultural College. This
text is designed especially for the use
of girls in schools of Home Economics
and is the first architectural text
book for girls to be published in the
United States. It contains about
90,000 words besides 50 ink drawings
and problems in house planning.
The scries which is to include the
new text consists of standard works
on Home Economics subjects, such as
Cooley's Foods and Household Man
agement. This series is edited by
Professor Sherman, of Columbia Uni
versity, New York. The book on Do
mestic Architecture will appear in
August.
Professor Robinson has charge of a
rather unique line of work at O. A.
C, called Rural Architecture. In
cluded among the courses is the one
on House Construction and Decoration
in which a hundred women have dur
ing the college year made drawings
much like the sketches of an archi
tect. The author of the forthcoming
text is a graduate in Architecture
from the University of Pennsylvania,
is a licensel architect of Illinois and
was recently promoted to Professor of
Rural Architecture at O. A. C.
O. A. C. Hens Beat Own Record
After having shattered all records
for one week's laying at the Storrs,
Connecticut, Egg Laking Contest, the
Oregons, entered by the Poultry de
partment of the Oregon Agricultural
College, came right back the follow
ing week and did two eggs better.
The first week's record that excited
the comment of poultry journals and
newspapers all over the United Sttcs
was C2 eggs by the pen of ten hens.
lhis was nn uverage of 6 2-10 eggs
'per hen a week, nlmost an egg a day.
The following week s record was 64
eggs or an average of 6 4-10 eggs per
day. The grand average of all pens
and varieties for the same week was
45 eggs per hen.
DEFENDANT TWO YEARS OLD.
Son of British Officer Charged With
Improper Guardianship.
New York, Ju 25. Audrey P.id
dlc, Jr., nearly twa years old, the son
of a British oiheer now at the front,
will be erraiirned in ths Children's
court next Friday charged with im
proper guardianship.
Audrey's mother, Mts. Audrey Rid-,
M S . I aV W II T v w .T r T T-
! die is an American woman. She is a
wireless operator and an aviator. Af
ter the husband went to the front, the
British authorities put her under sur
veillance. For this reason she and
the baby returned to Amreica. Since
arrival in New York she and Audrey
have lived in hotels here.
Finally, the child was left, officials
of the Children's society say, with a
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maid at Mrs. Riddle's apartments for
several days.
The proprietor of the hotel called on
the society on May 5 to take charge
of the child. The society officials said
Mrs. Riddle's mother, a wealthy Chi
cago woman, has given assurances
that she will take the child and care
for it if it is legally committed to her
by the court.