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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-09
Fugitive of Oakland, ILL.,,
Prefers Death to
Prison.
HAD FORGED NOTES
Power in Coles County
Politics for State
Machine.

Ridge Farm. H., March 9.-John w.
Newman. an alderman of Oakland, H.,
and u fugitive from justice. commit
ted suicide here yesterday with poi
son. He was a stock dealer at Oak
land.
Three months ago Newman fed
from Oakland. when il was discovered
he had uttered forged notes. He had
been elected alderman in the First
ward at the expense of the whisky
interest and held the balance of pow
er in the city council. He was Il
shrewd political worker and power
in Coles county politics for the state
machine. He helped to defeat State
Senator Pemberton year ago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-09
Mystery In whereabouts,

The news of Newman's suicide gave
the first knowledge to his family and
others as to his whereabouts since his
flight. The authorities were seeking
him on forgery charges and it is sup
posed he decided to die rather than
serve a term in the penitentiary.
Newman's wife and daughters. ac-
companied by Acting Mayor Thomas.
of Oakland, were with the dying man,
who was rational for a time and bit
terly complained of the poison acting
in so slow manner.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-09
INDICTS DEPUTIES
U. M. w. Official Says Reported
Riot of Strikers Was Mas.
sacre by Officials.
EVANS MAKES AN INVESTIGATION
OF the Recent West Virginia Battle
and Finds the Deputies En-
tirely at Fault.

Indianapolis, March 9.-The official
report of Chris Evans, who was sent
to the West Virginia coal fields to in
vestigate the killing of the colored
miners at Atkinsville, has been re-
ceived at the headquarters of the
United Mine Workers. Evans says
that he went TO the scene of the trou-
BILE and found there in a house occu-
pied by cOlored man called "StOne-
walr' Jackson the dead bodies of Will
lam Dodson, William Clark and Rich
ard Clayton, all colored. The report
continues: ''On inquiry we found that
the wife of jackson, with four chill
dren, together with eight colored men,
were in the house and that about day
break all that We're inside were
awakened by shots being fired into the
house from the outside.
Deputies just Began Shooting.
''This shooting took place without
anything being said to those on the in
side, and the three colored men 1 have
mentioned were found dead on the
floor. Two were in their night clothes
and the other one was partly dressed.
with one shoe OH partly laced and
the other foot bare. We visited an
other house, where Joseph HiZer lay
in bed mortally wounded, having been
shot through the window as he was
stopping to put his trousers on after
getting out of bed.
Cunning h ANS Bi utal Reply.
Hizer lived with his sister, and she
made the statement at the inquest that
she pleaded with those shooting not TO
kill her children, and in reply Cunning
ham said: Women and children must
take care of themselves In no in
stance could we find where these peO-
pie had been asked to surrender un-
til after the deputies had commenced
shooting at the occupants of the houses
named
Lawson Returned the Fire.
"We next went to the house Of
Lucian. Lawson. who was considered
mortally wounded. 1 am led to under
stand that after the shooting referred
TO this man. with others, returned the
fire of the posse, and this is the only
instance where any attempt was made
to return fire Cn the part of the min
ers. During the shooting in many in
stances the men and women pleaded
with the men outside to have mercy
on them, but their cries were met with
derision and curses.
Shooting Was Purely WantOn.
"Our investigation proves conlusive-
Iy that no effort had been made to
shoot or resist except in the one case
mentioned, but that all would have
haoD foo Glad IN have SI1rrpndprpd if
they had been allowed the opportunity
to do so.'' Evans says that the cor
oner's jury has rendered a verdict of
felonious killing against Cunningham
for the killing of William DOdson.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-09
Farmers Are Excited.

The rock is Trenton limesone, which
it is declared lays just above the oil
bearing strata at SpindletOp. The
possibilities of a large oil field this
close to st. Louis are enormous, and a
keen appreciation of this fact has set
all the farmers around Keller's home
preparing to try their own ground.
More than 10000 acres of land have
been leased and machinery has been
ordered for four new companies,
which will test the new fields.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-09
Residents of Madison
County Have Wis
ions of Fortunes.
COMPANIES FORMED
More Than Ten ThouS-
and Acres of Land
Leased.

East ST. Louis, March 9.-Madison
county is stirred up over the reported
discovery of oil a few miles north of
East st. Louis. Ferd Keller and his
son have been drilling eleven months
in the hope of striking oil.
There are many gentle swells in the
ground in that vicinity, on the tops
of many of which are mounds left by
the. ancient inhabitants of the fertile
valley. The Kellers started their well
on one of these. 1t is now 400 feet
deep. and considerable oil has been
brought out.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-09

Dawson City, y. w. r., March o.
Five people were burned to death in
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

Notice is hereby given. that sealed
proposals will be received by the city
OF Walla Walla, up to Monday June
10Th, 1903, at 3 o'clock p. m. for grad
ing the alley between Main st. and
Alder st. from First ST to Fifth st.
in accordance with the plans and
specifications now on file in the City
Clerks office
All bids must be accompanied by a
certified bank check in the sum Of
$3.50 as a guarantee that the success
ful bidder will enter into bond in such
sum as the council may direct for the
faithful performance Of the contract.
Each bid and check should be seal
ed-marked bid for Improvement of
Alley, and addressed to the City
Clerk. r. P REYNOLDS.
City Clerk
First publication in Wana Walla
Statesman May IS. 1903.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03
COLUMBIA co. LAND
FOR SALE.

E. Campbell has some good bargains
in grain land for sale in the best bar
ley belt of the northwest and at prices
that you can afford TO pay.
One section in Umatilla county, a
well improved farm. 250 acres in fail
wheat, 2 acres in orchard. IS acres in
alfalfa, $50 acres grain land. All
stock and machinery goes with the
sale at $22.50 per acre. If YOU want
a bargain do not lose any time
Also one section in Whitman c0un-
~. All fenced. all tillabIe, but 100
acres; ~ miles from station; good
springs. Price So per acre.
Two sections in Adams county.
Plowed this spring. Prices IS per
acre. 8 miles from Washtucna
For further information call at of
flee Barrett block, upstairs, rooms 6
and I. WaIla Walla.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Sealed proposals will be received
up to July 9Th 1903, by the city of
Walla Walla. F O. B. cars at Walla
WaIIa, for the following described
lumber, tO-Wit:
Joists, ia, 4X4-1S it. long. red fir
9.576 feet B. NJ.
Flooring, 104 pieces 4X12-1S, red fir
or tamarack-7,48S feet b. NJ.
Flooring. 104 pieces 4X12-16. red fir
or tamarack-6656 feet B. NJ.
End plank. s pieces 3x12-1S, red fir
or tamarack-432 feet B. NJ.
Bridging, 20 pieces 2x4-20, red fir
or tamarack-267 feet B. NJ.
Total-2441J feet B. NJ.
The lumber must be good, free
from large knots and shakes. Each
bid must be accompanied by a certi-
fed bank check in the sum of 800 90
payable to the City Clerk, as a guar
antee that the successful bidder will
as soon as notified, enter into con-
tract and give bond in such sum as
the council may direct for the deliv-
cry Of the lumber on or before July
goth, 1903. r. p REYNOLDS,
City Clerk
First publication in Walla Walla
Statesman May 29th, 1903.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03
WALLA NALLA MARKETS
REVISED DAILY.

Retail Prices.
The selling quotations on the local
market are:
Sugar-Per 100 lbs, 5000.
Cheese-Per ID, Zoe.
getables-POJatOes 15C.
Fruits-Orange per doZ. soc to 6Oc
Lemons per dOz 35C. Apples per box
81 to $1.25.
Eggs-per doz 20c.
Butter-Country per roll SOC Cream
cry per roll. coo.
FIour-Per Dbl. $500 to $3.50, Ora
ham flour per 50lb sack, S1lO.
Whole wheat flour per sack, $l.lO,
Rolled Oats per ID sc.
Hay baled per ton-Timothy $25.
Alfalfa $19. Grain $40.
Bran-Per ton $500, per sack zoe,
Shorts, per ton $4,000, per sack 95c'
Rolley barley per ton s21, per sack
$50 Wheat per ton $23. Oats per
ton $26, per sack s1,40.
Fish-Per ID. Salmon 15c. Halibui
121ac. Soles 10c, Perch 10c, Rock
Cod 121ac, Herring 1Oc, Catfish l212c
Crabs 25c
Meats-Beef-Por STEAK
171b. sirloin steak, 15c, round steak
pic. shoulder steak, 121ac, NO. !
prime roast. 121ac. common roast, lOc
boiling beef, &c to SC, leg of mutton
15c, chops, 121aC and 15c. pork roast
121ac chops 121ac.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03
Buying Prices.

Buying prices.
These are the quotations on the 10
cal market:
Rhubarb-Per half crate 35c.
Spinach-Crates Soc.
OnionB-Green, half crate, 6Oc.
Lettuce-Half crate Acc.
Asparagus-Per box toe.
Beets-Per sack Acc.
Apples-Per box, 75c.
POtatoes-Per Cwt. Coo.
Turnips-Per half crate 4Oc.
Radishes-Half crate 6Oc.
Green peas-per ID. sc.
Cabbage-Per ID. &c.
Gooseberries-Per 24-quart crate
s1.00.
Strawberries-Pe crate SO.
Butter-Country soc to Coo per roll.
Eggs-Fresh, per case, s4.25.
Poultrv-Chickens- per &c
SC. BOOSTERS per ID. sc, Spring Cnlck-
ems per ID. zoe, Turkeys per TO- l5c'
Geese per ID. &c. Ducks per doz 80
Pigeons young per doz 81.
Choice Beef Cattle-Cows, 312c TO
3a4, Steers 412c
Good Hogs-Live 612; dressed 712.
Calves-Live 512. dressed sc.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03

Mandy, I'm glad to see that your
new hat hasn't any stuffed sOngblrds
on it." "Of course it hasn't auntle.
The dear sweet little things are get
ting to be dreadfully out OF style
nOuyH
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03

Teacher of art class What do you
know of Alma-Todema? New Pupil
She's a girl in the sixth grade at the
Wentshaw school. only her last name
isn't Tadema. It's Taggart
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03
The WAY 1t Is.

II suppose said the impression
able young girl that you didn't have
to wait long for a husband. Mrs.
Sharpe? NO" replied Mrs. Sharpe,
Il didn't. but | do now-till midnight
ar least, and often longer.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03

Sunday school teacher-NOw, John
ny. what is the golden text? Johnny
(Whose father is in politics I'm
multitude Of cOuncilmen there IS
wisdom
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03

Miss Passay (coyly)-Just think!
Last evening he suddenly caught me
in his arms and kissed me. MISS rep
prev-He always was good-natured
felloW-and so unSelflsh.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03
PIANO TUNER.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
CHE OPODIST

AFTER IS YEARS OF SUCCESSFUL
experience in Europe and America
DR.. J. LaurencOn, specialist, sur
geon and chirOpodist informs pat
rons that all ailments Of the feet.
such as cOrns, buniCns. caIlouses.
improving nails. club nails. horns,
warts. pers piration, aching. rheuma
tism, etc. can be treated and cured
absolutely without pain Patients
treated at home if desired. Office
at Hotel Louvre Room 80. PA
Main St. Phone Red 621. Consul
tatiOn free
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03
." It Works Out.

NE cabmen have UNI
, a, w. presume they'd boy
a man who would accept the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03
x Z; :; 4 Z; :: 3; q q q q q q q 4 z 3 & e
A Joke or Two.
Another View.

Its hard to lose ones relatives,
said the poor man, insinuatingly.
"Hard?" grOwled the millionaire.
Why it's almost impOssible."
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03
WAN TED.

A RESPONSIBLE MANAGER WANT
ed to take charge of wareroOms and
office in the following counties:
Spokane. Stevens, Lincoln, Douglas,
Adams, Whitman, Franklin, Walla
Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Aso-
tin and office to be at Spokane. Ap-
plicant must have $500 cash as Sc
curity and AL reference Address
Manager P. o. Box 1888 San Fran
cisco, Calf.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03
BOARDING..
BOARD AND ROOMS.
LAUNDRY,

SAM KEE HAS BOUGHT THE
laundry, No. s, East Rose New
help. Good work Call for and de
liver goods.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03
ne Height of Darino.

Undergraduates hero.
-"chneck-A hero is a TELLER
a 10 tie tin can to a bulldogs
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03
Don't Hesitate
a Cold Fact

The Cannibal King CHS teeth chat
tering)-What was it you served with
the last meal? I've had a prolonged
chill ever since.
Royal Cook-That, sire. was a fe-
male missionary from Boston.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03
JUNK SHOP.

Rev. X. Horter-Shame on you,
You're drunk half the time. why
don't you do better? Lushman-Can
afford it. 1t costs money to be drunk
all the time.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03

BICYCLES AND REPAIRS.
VIAVF,

VIAVI helps nature t. make posi-
tive cures. No drugs, no mineral.
purely a food principle. Just apply
it and nature makes the cure. You
can have a talk with me about it free
OF charge. Rooms 10 and 90 post
office building, Walla Walla, Wash.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03
Rates to the East

Railroad & Navigation
Hnoes the following
points during the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03

Read the ads in the Statesman.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03
CITY NOTICES.

Today's news in the Statesman.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03
LIFE READING.

THE GIFTED CLAIRVOYANT WHO
has the best recommends of the
city will continue to give readings
1t her home, COG West Alder street.
Phone White 563.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03

-s\S General Agent.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03
FOR SALE.

AT A BARGAIN.
AM GOING EAST AND WILL OF
fer by farm containing 100 acres
of good wheat land All under Gull
tivation: 80 acres in summer fallOW
wheat: so acres in summer fallOw,
including all summer fallOw wheat,
lies almost level and within 10
miles to town and close to station.
Will take $4,000. and will give time
on part. Buildings ami abundance
of water Enquire this office
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03
TINSMITH.
EMPLOYMENT OFFICE.

Help of all kinds furnished on
short notice.
Middle aged woman wanted out of
town.
North Side Employment Office.
IL N. Fourth St. Phone Black 1892
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03
LAND REIMBURSEMENT.

REIMBURSEMENT FOR SALE OR
trade, Claim near KahlOtus Care
this office.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-03
GOOD LOTS.

FIVE GOOD LOTS ON DI, sion
street Installment plan. Pay
ments easy. Call on B. S. Woodruff,
Office No. ), Quinn Bldg
20 kILCH COWS.
FOR SALE-ABOUT 20 HEAD OF
mich COWS for sale Apply to Pat
B. Downing, Yellow Hawk.
FOR SALE-FRESH JERSEY
mich COW AMI calf Inquire of l..
BieTSner
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-19
FRIDAY EVENING,

. < s A
ishly abandoned, and shall be able to
make far better terms for our trade" It
is absolutely true that II Great Britain
starts out with the adoption by her par
lament Of the preferential tarifr scheme,
she will find herself impelled to repudi-
ate the Golden Manchester system, which
Sir Robert Peel carried to the statute
books after one OF the most strenuous
parliamentary struggles in the history
Of England The people Of the United
Kingdom will have to submit to some
vigorous instruction. for recent proceed
ings in the house of commons and ex-
pressions outside of it indicate that they
are far from ready to return to a. policy
they dropped and repudiated nearly sixty
years ago.
If the last free trade country repudiates
that policy, 1t Is inevitable that American
political economists who hold that the
country will be ruined" II we modify our
protective duties. will be compelled to rec
ognize the positive value of reciprocity
treaties. and dropping the word they de-
test, call them commercial treaties and
consent to give and take with foreign
nations.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-19
Books and Authors
THE RESCUE oFTHE BEST

John Finley, who contributes a paper on
Letters and Life" to The Lamp, enter
ta1ns the view that letters give immor-
tally to many thinkers who would other,
wise have died and oftenSrestore the dead
readers to life again and that If man
should write a really good poem and drop
it in the middle Of Sahara 1t would be
caught up In some way and carried some
how into common repute. He refers to
the finding Of the literary remains of the
poet Bacchylides, who lived in the time
OF Plndar, In a royal tomb at Luxor, by
the side OF the mummy of his royal pa
tron, who would have the companionship
OF the poetry he loved thru his journey
in the realm Of darkness to the dawn
But for the passion for Bachylides' poetry
entertained by the king, this parchment
containing some twenty Of his poems
would have been unknown and Bacchy-
ndes would be a name and nothing more.
1t IS imprudent to assume, however, that,
what Is really valuable as literary product
IS never lost. It'll is held in some quar-
ters that the fittest in literature always
survives. 1t is hard to believe that.
Judging from the literary remains which
nave survived the wreck Of time and the
destructive forces of war, incendiarism
and nature the inferior has survived to
an oppressive extent. It is very possible
that tne world lost nothing in the way of
letters by the burning of the Alexandrian
library. The Bacchylides incident Is i'm
pfesslVe, but 1t certainly does not estab-
lsn rule that in some way the genu-
nely good poetry or genuinely good any
thing else in literature is inevitably res
cued from oblivion.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-19
Good Preaching.

Students of the University Of Iowa have
week, tho none Of 1t came from the pulpit
On Tuesday President Cyrus Northrop, of
the University Of Minnesota, gave the stu
dents the benefit Of his ideas on the kind
next day Senator EIoar. delivered an adj
dress on their relation Of the university
to the nation.
President Northrop's address was largely
cation. He was willing to concede that
the education Of the day Is not SO good,
perhaps, as the traditional education of
our ancestors in developing mental power,
but he felt sure that it was greatly SUI
perior in the inculcation Of knowledge.
In this alteration in It's character. Pres
ident Northrop ably commended, education
well its own part in changed
times. What we need In this American
democracy is knowledge. Where all the
people make up the sovereign power all
men should know, as much as possible,
those things which in an autocracy but
few need to. know. The mistakes Of demo-
cracies proceed not so much from evil in
tentions or erroneous Judgment as from
partial and erroneous information.
Senator Hoar's address was a magnif1-
ent companion piece for President Nor
throp's. It dwelt upon the necessity OF
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-19
Retaliation.

London cable notes that the result
of Tuesdays debate in the house Of COM
mons was to obliterate the "open mind
of Premier Balfour and commit the gov
ernment practically to a policy of re-
taliation. This goes somewhat beyond
Mr. Chamberlain's preferential tariff pro-
posal, the discussion of which, last week.
apparently gave him a serious backset
"A policy Of retaliation means that If the
self governing colonies Of Great Britain
accede to the proposal to give preference
to British manufactures and products in
return for Britains preference for col
onial products in the English markets
Britain would impose retaliatory duties
upon goods of any foreign country which
would undertake to penalize a British
colony for according advantages to the
mother country.
Mr.. III. w. Wilson, fair trade Eng
tlish statesman, quite nationally suggests
that such a policy would not amount to
much as 1t would be only a middle course
between free trade and protection. and
sooner or later there would have to be
a tariff protecting British manufactures
against all foreign competition, for, with
out it. foreign goods could be shipped to
England and be introduced az British
goods into the colonies at the reduced
or preferential rate. In speech last
month, as a bait to the workingmen,
Chamberlain proposed that the product
I Of the tax on food should be given back
to them in old age pensions. It. is very
doubtful If the aggregate Of such tax
would furnish fund adequate to such
purpose. Mr.. Wilson thinks preferen-
tial tariff plus a tariff protecting British
manufactures against all foreign compe-
tition will surely enable Britain to regain
that bargaining power which we SO fool
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-19
A HISTORIC BILLIARD TABLE

There is a billiard table in London at
the present moment that can boast of
lifetime Of two centuries and a long ac-
quaintance with men who have made his
tory. 1t belonged originally to Louis
XIV, passed into the possession of Ma
poleon l., and now, in It's old age, has
come into the hands of Messrs. Orme &
Sons, and is on exhibition in Soho square.
This celebrated table is smaller than an
English table. The body of the table is a
block Of oak, weighing 10000 pounds,
covered with cloth of electric blue, The
frame Of the table is of rosewood and the
six pockets perhaps the most striking
feature Of the table-are reproductions
in bronze Of queer, hideous old gargoyles.
When the ball falls into the pocket the
lower jaw of the gargoyle drops, and
the bail is found in its mouth. 1t is
clever piece Of ancient mocha nisn
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-19
DIDN'T LOOK THE PART
Washington (Iowal Press.

Washington (Iowa) Press.
:, Richard Henry Stoddard did not look
IKE poet, and. therefore, we don't be-
lleve ne was one. He looks like a farmer.
or mechanic or business man; good for
AFFAIRS, but not worth continental for
fairie or fancy A poet always looks the
part. II his eye is not in q, fine frenzy
rolling, IT at least CLOVIS. That is what
dlstlngutshed rustic Robbie Burns. De-
SPITE MS peasant aspect and homespun.
his eyes glowed like live Goals. and ali
remarked those tell-tale eyes. He was a
poet, and somehow he had to look it, and
did.
Browning did not look like a poet, but
ike bank president, and those may call
him poet who want to-we don't like his
STUN. You have to stand like a tame bear
on your hind legs and pump your brains
to understand his verse, and then you
don't understand it. No one does. God
cant. It is too "deep' That is why it is
called "great"-because it is incompre-
hensible. The unknowable is always
great" if you let it impose on you.