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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-30

Goyerness-Now, just one more
subtraction sum" Dolly-Oh, Miss
Crawford. l don't fink Mumie would
let me do any more of those sums,
cause in them you borrow ten and
only pay back one, and that's cheat
ing!
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-30

Maud Cat the party)-There's Irene
over in the corner, talking to kill
time. Mabel-Is that why she looks
daggers at the clock every few min
uteS?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-30

De good book say dat de meek
shall inherit de airth, en- dey may in
herit it, but the Lawd knows dey don't
get it.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-30
LIVESTOCK.

HORSES AND MULES FOR SALE AT
J. B. Dunham's stock yards. East
Main street
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-30

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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-30
r, TEL.

Try the Cascade Fuel Co. for wood
or coal Phone Main PA.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-30

ALREADY PROVEN TRUE-GOOD
news. Good news! Good news.
1t will cost you nothing to be put
on the right road to health and hap
piness by calling in the afternoons
at Rooms 10 and 20, Postofiice build
ing, Walla Walla, Wash. If impos-
sible TO call, write. Letters conf
Dental. A woman will receive the
ladies and give good references.
Quacks and drugs never used.
A FRIEND TO THE SICK.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-30
FOR SALE
CARD SIGNS FOR SALE.

OLD PAPERS FOR SALE AT
Statesman office. rs cents a bundle.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-17
A woman's Club Successful.

The Empire Club, Of London, sort
of in ernatiOnal women's organization,
is very successful. 1t is a sort of gen.
eral rendezvous or open house, into
which visiting ladies' from other parts
OF the world can drop and be sure Of
renewing old acquaintance with their
by visitors from the British colonies
and from the United States, Mrs.
Herbert Chamberlain is president and
among the prominent members are
the Marchioness of Londonderry, the
Countess of Jersey and Lady Stanley
Clarke.-EYchange.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-17
MADNESS EPIDEMIC.
Many Members of High Hungarian
Nobility Go Violently
Insane,

A singular epidemic of madness seems
to be making its way among the higher
Hungarian nobility and affecting some
families of European notoriety.
Count George Festetics, the eldest
son of Count Tassilo Festetics and Lady
Mary Douglas-Hamiton lately COM
mitted suicide in lunatc asylum by
hanging himself. He was only 20 years
old.
Another Hungarian magnate, Count
Szabo of Arad, the owner of nearly 500,-
900 acres of land. has had to be confined
as dangerous lunatic. He had lately
incurred heavy losses at play, and was
laboring under the impression that he
could not pay his debts, and that his
creditors We're pursuing him night and
day with red-hot irons to brand him as
a swindler.
A third noble, having large estates
in Pennsylvania, Count Estaaby, has
fallen victim TO mania, after a wild
career of dissipation extending over sew
eral years, during which he sold every
stick of furniture in his castle and every
tree on his extensive estates. Now he
regards himself as an incorporation of
various Old Testament personages-
sometimes Moses, sometimes Abraham,
but more frequently Solomon.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-17
ALARM CLOCK LIFTS PILLOW.
Unique Mechanism Contriyed for the
Convenience of People Deaf
and Dumb.

w. E. Shaw, OF Brookline, Mass, gave
an electrical party" recently. the fea-
ture of which was the exhibition Of an
electric clock for blind deaf mutes. Mr..
Shaw is deaf and dumb and he was as
sisted in demonstrating the workings Of
his invention by Tommy Stringer, blind,
deaf and dumb, who is making great
progress in the sciences.
The clock not only tells the time, but
alarms the sleeper by agtating lever
which is connected by a string to pill
low, causing the pillow to move up and
down, the vibrations being communicat-
ed to the sleeper by a touch. A circuit
Is closed, by which an electric current is
sent through a small incandescent lamp
in front Of a parabolic mirror, the rays
of which are thrown into the face of the
sleeper. 1t releases a spring connected
with hammer, which falls upon full
minating cap the loud explosion of
which at close quarters is perceptible to
a deaf person.
1t also gives notice of the entrance OF
burglars by any Of the above methods,
by means Of connection by wire with
the doors and windows. It gives indi-
cation of fire by electric thermostats
placed anywhere on the premises.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-17
SILVER DOLLAR is A PUZZLE.
Boston Bankers submit Odd Mintags
to the Experts of the Sub
treasury.

Richardson, Hill G. Co., bankers, of
Boston, have submitted to the subtreas-
ury experts silver dollar that puzzles
them. Apparently it is a genuine issue
Of the United States mint. but no one at
the subtreasury ever saw a coin like it.
1t is the size and weight of the stand
ard silver dollar. and the diverse side,
with the head of Liberty, is similar TO
the face of the present coin. The re-
verse, however, is unique. Around one
arc Of the circles is United States of
America" with ''Deo Est Gloria" in
barely decipherable letters below. In
the lower arc of the circle is the des-
ignation "One dollar" with the date
1879, The central design of the reverse
is what makes the dollar unlike any in
circulation. There is a small circle in
the center, with these figures: 1895. 8
S, AZ G, 100 c, 25 grams" 1t probably
is one of series of silver dollars which
had been minted, but had not been put
in circulation.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-17
PELLET IN HIS EYE.
Patient Probably Didn't Know II
Wasn't Hurt in Taking
1t Out.

William Akey. who lives at Will
Jamestown Station, Mass, had a shot
removed from one of his eyes by DR..
]. B. Hull, after it had been there
for more than three years. The pellet
was removed without much trouble or
pain, and the sight has not been in
iured in the least.
The boy Is seven years old, and the
shot entered his eye when he was four
He complained a little when he re-
ceived the injury, but his parents knew
nothing Of the accident thsn, and so
nothing was done about it. A small
air rifle was the cause, the boy hav-
ing been engaged at play with two
others when the stray shot struck him
1t panied for the instant, but the eye
soon became normal in appearance.
1t was not until recently that it was
found there was something in it. Dr.
Hull was consulted, and he soon found
the shot under the eyelid, quite Sc
curely lodged, as the membrane had
grown about it. The physician says
he does not believe the boy knew the
shot was in his eye, for, if it had
panied him, he does not think William
could have stood it uncomplainingly
for three years.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-17
DOGS TO SAVE SOLDIERS.
Plan Pursued on st. Bernard in the
Alps Proves Successful I'm n Test
in the Italian Army.

The use to which dogs have been put
by the monks of the Hospice of ST.
Bernard, in the Alps, in searching for
lost persons and administering most ur-
gent aid, in the shape of cordials and
food, has suggested to the Italian army
the training Of dogs to discover the
wounded soldiers and to bring to them
the water and stimulants they may need
after long exposure in the field.
At the recent maneuvers of the Ital-
ian army near Venice several collies,
which have been educated by the Off
GERS, were tried for the purpose of dis
covering hidden soldiers lying suppos-
edly wounded in the least accessible
points Of the field, and wonderful sa-
gacity was displayed by them In search
ing for the wounded and gently lying
beside them in order to offer the cor
dials they carried in TASKS tied around
their necks.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-17
AUTO PLOW BEATS HORSES.
Experiment Shows That the Motor IL
Both Cheap and Eff
fective.

At the Chislet Agricultural associa-
tons annual plowing competition the
other day, near Canterbury, England,
the lvel agricultural motor defeated all
plows drawn by horses.
The motor hauled a three-furrow
plow over the ground with ease and
accuracy. and afterward proved that it
could plow field of six acres in eight
hours, at a cost of five shillings per
acre, thus not only saving time, but
doing the work 100 per cent. cheaper
than horse-drawn plows
The motor was also shown to be use
full to farmers not only for blowing,
but for thrashing, chaff-cutting, reap
ing, moving, and, in fact, for all work
on which the horse is employed.
The horse on the farm in the future
will be not necessity, but curios-
ity," said Mr.. Hoffman, the manager
Of the Ivel agricultural motor. "Our
motor can do everything for the farm
er that the horse can do, and it does
not want feeding. An occasional
drink Of petrol is all that it requires. !"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-17
BIG TRADE IN ANTIQUITIES.
Italian Government Is Greatly Con.
cerned over the Clandestine
Business.

The Italian government is greatly
concerned over the clandestine exporta-
tion of statuary and antiquities to Eng
land and the United States. Although
there is law inficting heavy penalties
on those who attempt to dispose of an
tiquities in foreign countries, the trade
IN these articles continues brisk. Only
few days ago the cable signaled the
arrival of large quantity of statuary
in New York aid Boston, which is to
be set up in the garden of fashionable
dame in Newport 1t has come to the
knowledge Of the authorities that
large association of thieves is robbing
many of the museums and monuments
OF their priced sculptures. Recently
Baron Kanzler, secretary of the arch
geological commission in Rome, had to
denounce to the Roman police the con-
tinuous thefts of historical articles from
the catacombs. Three persons were ar
rested the other day while coming from
the catacombs of st. Ippolito, to which
they had forced an entrance.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-17
BLIND buT KEN.
Career of N Pennsylvania shows His
Afiction Did Not Lessen Ills
Business Ability.

Francis B. Kaufman, aged Al, one
of the most expert blind business men
in eastern Pennsylvania, has just dieG
at his home at Leesport, Pa.
He lost his sight 20 years ago in a
stone quarry explosion. Then he
went into the lime burning and cattle
business.
As cattle buyer he had no superior
In buying oxen he ran his hands over
the animals and with remarkable dex.
terity and good judgment could select
20 head from big drove and secure
some of the very best in the lot.
When out on a collecting tour he
frequently brought in very large sums
of money. Each batch of money he
collected he kept separate. To his
partner at home he handed the re.
ceipts, batch by batch, and asked how
much was in that package
When told the amount he would
promptly say: MIR. - paid that"
or THAT is from Mr.. -" He was
always correct. He could make change
in silver coins, but necessarily for
the paper money denominations he
had to rely on the statements made by
his customers
He knew lime by the feel Of 1t, and
was as successful at that branch of
his business as at cattle buying.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-17
BAD coin MACHINE REFORMS
Countcrfciting Apparatus Has
Varied Career and Ends asa
Hitcbing Post.

In the dooryard of Edwin l.. Parker
on the shore of Onota lake, Pittsfield
Mass, stands an old counterfeiting ma
chine, whose history dates back beyont
revolutionary days, when the manufac
ture of spurious coin was carried OF
In New York and Philadelphia.
No one has the authentic history o.
the machine and how long 1t was uset
for illegal stamping of spurious coins
before 1t lived down its dark recorc
by many years of honot labor and wa,
finally retired from active operations.
The machine was used by a gang OF
New York counterfeiters in about 1770
whose operations attracted the atten.
ton OF government officers. The coin.
makers sent the machine to Philadel
phia in load of charcoal. The ma
chine was overtaken by the officers ano
the gang was taken back to New York
where the plates and dies were de.
stroyed.
During the war Of 1912 the machine
was shipped to Pittsfeld where Lemue'
Pomeroy, who made guns for the gov.
ernment, used It to stamp out the
S-shaped plates which went on the stock
Of the flintlock muskets.
The gun factory burned and the ma
chine fell into the Housatonic river
where it remained some years. Caleb
Goodrich then bought the machine and
used 1t for cumming the old fash.
Toned up and down saws used in saving
lumber. From there it was taken to the
Plunkett mill and was used for like
purpose.
About 30 years ago 1t was purchased
by its present owner, the administra-
tor of Mr.. Goodrich's estate Soon after
the circular saw came into use and there
was no more use for cumming" ma
chine Since that time the machine has
stood in the dooryard of Mr.. Parker,
where 1t has been used as hitching post
and as a tether post for young cattle.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-17
TWO YOUNG MINERS.
The Boys Dig Gold in Klondike to
Pay for Schooling.
wash Out $4,000 from the Gravel on
Their Claim and Return to
states to Get nm Edu-
cation.

On one of the last steamers to leave
Alaska before ice shuts in the territory
for the long winter night, there returned
to the states the two youngest gold min
ers who ever came out Of the frozen
north-probably who ever came out Of
any mining region. They have come
back to school, and after school they
are going to college on their own earn
ings.
Even in the boys stories there are not
many youngsters who are the equals OF
these two for grit, perseverance and
shrewdness. One is 16, the other l4
Through their individual efforts they
have earned $4,000 between them in the
Klondike in the last three years. with
the avowed intention Of acquiring bet
ter education for themselves than their
parents could afford to give them.
The two are the sons OF Edward
Heacock. Of Grand Forks. other boys
long to go to the gold fields, or the
plains, or some other adventurous dis
trict. These two saw all Of the out
skirts OF civilization that they had use
for. and their longing turned toward
college life and good scholarship back
in the states. where these things were.
Their parents couldn't afford luXuries
Of that sort to their children but the
boys lived at home, they were not both
cred with schooling, and they received
permission to do what they could to-
ward raising an education fund.
The family was at Skaguay then. and
1t was summer time. The boys gathered
berries and sold them. The money they
earned they invested in boat and a site
by the river for a lumber yard.
Then they turned their attention to
the driftwood in the harbor. gathered
that, and sold it. If 1t was useless for
anything but flrewood. they sawed and
chopped 1t and sold it at an increased
price.
They made $500 in Skaguay in one
way or another. Then the family
moved up TO Dawson. The boys made
more money there by collecting lumber
from the Yukon and by picking berries
and selling them.
When their capital had increased a
little they bought a claim on Skookum
gulch. All last winter they were sink
ing holes through the frozen ground,
and there weren't any harder miners in
the camp.
They continued their work through
the coolest weather, and when the
spring came turned their attention to
washing out the gold from the gravel
they had dug. When they cleaned up
this autumn they had $4,000 and their
mine still to fall back on Then they
started for the home state they had left
as little boys.
They will go to school at Newberg
Ore, and next vacation time will go back
to the Klondike to see how they can aug
ment their capital before returning to
school. They are probably the young
est mine proprietors under a school
masters care.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-17
Classic fed.

A man in Louisville had barrel Of
snails sent him from Italy recently,
but the custom house officials held
them up because they could find no
duty to levy on snails and it did not
seem right to let them in for nothing.
1t looked, says the New York Trib-
une, as If the snails would pass the
rest of their lives in the custom house,
but the man finally offered to pay
duty on them as wild animals and the
officials let him have them.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-17
A New IntOxicant,

Experiments made in West Virginia
demonstrate that il a man eats salt
saturated with kerosene he will stag.
ger and see double. II 1t also makes
him shake hands with a lamp post,
says the Chicago Tribune, and insist
upon singing his own words to "Hia-
watha" at midnight. West Virginia
will prove dangerous rival to Ken
lucky.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-17
Seek to Restore Louvre

A movement is on foot to restore
much of the lost splendor of the
Louvre. Recent excavations in the
garden on the Rue de Rivoli side show
that about third of the entire pal.
ace is underground. The Societe des
Vieux de Paris will try to have the
ancient moat and drawbridges re-
stored, thus enhancing the majestic
appearance Of the palaces and con-
tributing to It's preservation.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-17
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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-07-09

Will Start at Dillon, Mont, and Run
to Thunder Mountain.

Butte, Mont, July GA dispatch to
the Inter Mountain from Salmon City,
Idaho, says:
There is no longer any doubt that the
new railway being surveyed from Dill
lon, Mont, west. in this section of Ida
no, is to go to Thunder Mountain. 1t
is also known that f II. Hartman is
to build the road. w. B. Dodridge, of
st. Louis, former managing operator of
the Union Pacific, was here last week.
He promised this section railroad
within three years. The work from
Dillon down will he pushed. The ter
minus at Thunder Mountain would give
a free outlet from that great mining
district to the Oregon Short line at Dill
Ion and thence to the smelters at Butte
and Anaconda.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-07-09
PACIFIC CABLE SPL|CED.
First Message Sent by President
Roosevelt to Govern.
or TAFT.

New Yok, July 5.-The Pacific cable
was successfully completed at 1880
O'Clock last night, Eastern time. by the
welding together OF the eastern and
western links at Honolulu on board the
cable ship Anglia, thus completing the
entire line of telegraph from San Fran
cisco to the Philippine islands, dis
lance of over 5000 miles, and bringing
to conclusion the greatest and most
difficult of submarine cable enterprises
undertaken in the history of ocean tel
egraphy.
A message from president Roosevelt
to President Mackay, OF the Commercial
Cable Company, was sent over the new
cable around the world in twelve min
utes, and Mackay's reply was sent
around the world in nine and half
minutes. The best previous time for
message around the world was on one
sent by United States Senator Depew
from the National electric exposition,
Grand Central Palace, in this city, in
1896. 1t took fifty minutes to transmit
the message.
rlrsC message was 10 IaIt.
The first message sent over the new
cable was one from President Roosevelt
at Oyster Bay to William H. Taft, gov
ernor general of the Philippines, at
Manila. Following Governor Taft q
reply was the message from President
Roosevelt to Clarence H. Mackay, pres
ident of the Postal Telegraph and the
Commercial Cable companies. Mr..
Mackav's message vas followed by a
number of congratulatory messages
from governors of states and other pub
lie officials to Governor Taft.
The time for sending the globe cir
cling messages had been set for noon,
but the weather conditions at Honolulu
were uDpropitious and the event had to
be postponed.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-07-09

ness is the worst part of his illness,
and that the best remedy is activity
Rome, July 6-The pope seemed
somewhat Frustrated after rather ex-
citing morning, and at th.s hour, 2:45
D. M, is enjoying much needed sleep.
Berlin, July 6.-Rome dispatches
published here represent the pope's
condition as hopeless.
Washington, July 6.-The following
cablegram has just been received by the
Catholic college:
"The condition of the holy father is
still grave, but no worse. Night calm.
Takes food without reluctance. Mind
perfectly clear"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-07-09
LONG STRIKE ENDED.
Lady smith Miners Have Voted TO
Return TO Work.

Nanaimo. B. c., July 6.-By large
majority of all the mon at Ladysmlth'
and not by a mere section az before, the
strike in the Wellington colliery Com
pany mines has been voted off and the
first work train for nearly four months
has carried miners out to the pit.
The Western Fuel Company, OF san
Francisco, will reopen the Harwood
mine, which has been colsed down lor
nearly year. President Howard say
that the competition of fuel oil mas
about reached the limits OF its field anu
will not extend any further. He antlc,
ipates very busy season for the lslanu
cOllieries.