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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-28
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
That Contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely derange
the whole system when entering it
through the mucuous~ surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except
on prescriptions from reputable ply
sicians, as the damage they will do
is ten fold to the good you can pos
sibly derive from them. Halls Ca
tarrh Cure, manufactured by F.. j..
Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no
mercury, and is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and nue.
Gus surfaces of the system. In buy
ing Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you
get the genuine. 1t is taken inter-
rally and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F.
]. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price, 75c, per
bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-28
Sold and Guaranteed by the
Pioneer Drug Store

in Boston. Fell out with the Standard
Oil in 1901 and lost about $4,000, 900 in
o few days in a sensational drop in
Amalgamated stock. Vowed vengeance,
and lay low.
Began a campaign of publicity look
ing to a rehabilitation of his fortunes
and to getting square" with Standard
Oil.
Acquired a copper mine of his own
in California. Began promoting
combination CT Lake Superior mines
as rivals to the Amalgamated.
In 1901 he built a racing yacht at a
cost of $250,O00 and offered her as
defender of the Americas cup, but
without being admitted to the trial
races. Broke the vessel up at the end
of three months. and at cost of $40,-
900 published book telling all about
it, the entire edition of which he gave
away.
Acquiring fame as a buyer of pink
fer 10000 and naming it for his wife.
Built a stock farm among the rocks
of Scituate at cost of $2000.OO0 be-
cause his wife liked the site.
He accumulated the finest kennel of
bulldogs in the country.
Bought a triangle of land in the
Back Bay for nearly $500. 900 and made
it into a park for the benefit of his
neighbOrs, most of whom did not like
him.
Does not belong to any city club.
Spends all his evenings at home.
Is superstitious.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-28
winins and dining and entertaining

and sailing.
Those were the days before the au-
tomobile had attained its vogue. But
when the auto came where was Tod?
Riding in one of the swiftest, with
Eddie Cannon" Bald, speed mer-
chant graduated from cycling instead
of from the turf And rumor had it
few short years ago that Tod lost
something like 100000 in a scheme
whereby he and Henri Fourier. the
gerat French chauffeur were to make
their everlasting fortunes manufactur-
ing "6evil' cars.
Tod is at his ease, whether it be
conversing with the nobility on turf
affairs, with experts on automobiles,
or with theatrical friends. He is a
real cosmopolite. Be it Main street
in Kokomo, Broadway or the Bots de
Boulogne, Tod is the same dapper
young gentleman of faultless sarto-
rial appearance and suavity of man
ner.
. Would Tod be able to hold his own
in the saddle? Have his years on the
ground, enforced idleness and lack of
racing activity taken away the cum
ming, and would he be able to defeat
the stronger youths who have come
into the limelight in recent years
Hildebrand, Fuller, Redfern, Burns and
but there are those who believe Tod
would be able to SHOW some of the
jockeys of today, just as he did on
that eventful day in 1897 when he rode
five winners out of seven races at
Newmarket.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-28
More Remarkable the Other Way.

More Remarkable the Other Way.
Biggs-I was reading in the paper
this morning about a Texas man who
was struck by lightning while he was
swearing. Remarkable occurrence.
wasn't it.
Riggs-Oh, don't know. If light
ming weer to strike Texas man wnen
he wasn't swearing it would be much
more remarkable.
Would Buy One Chip.
I'm the famous Silver Bow club in
Helena they used to play big poker"
said Artemus l. .Litchfield of Canada.
AT the game one day sat Marcus
DAILY. Senator Hurst and ]. B. Higgin.
when there burst in a radian New
York drummer, who had two weeks
card to the institution. He marched
up to the players and politely asked il
he might take hand.
Why, yes: come right in said
Daily.
THE drummer pulled out roll OF
bills and threw hundred-dollar note
down on the table. Let me have
chips for that he said, gracely. He
went and hung up his coat and hat.
When he returned the bill still lay on
the table.
=. What's the matter gentlemen"
the travelling man raughtily inquired;
amt my money good?'
why. yes: to be sure, said DAILY.
Hearst. give the gentleman one white
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-28
BRIGHT DAYS FOR SLOAN.
Popular Jockey May Break Into Racing
Game AGAIN,

CHICAGO, Dec. 28.-Brighter days
are dawning for Tod Sloan. The clouds
which has dimmed the brilliance of
the star has been dissipated by the
edict of the Paris court, which awards
Tod his $4,000, and the chances are
that the versatile young man will perk
UP bit.
Tod, who is now 81, has led a career
changing scenes, has been about the
limit. The idol of the American turf
before he went abroad in 1897; the
wonder of British racegoers, because
of his marvellous performances, al
though using a style of riding totally
different from that which prevailed
since the Year One on the English
tracks; the wonder and despair of
gentlemen whose pride it was to dress
in the height of fashion-all this Tod
had been, and much more. His ac
complishments are too varied for emu
meration, his exploits would fill VOL
umes
Always a Good Spender.
Tod always could spend money And
he has few peers in spending it artis-
tically when he has it to blow. OF
late years he has frequented the high
places less than of old, and it must be
that the four years spent on the ground
have put a considerable crimp in his
roll The best hotel was always his
headquarters on his visits to Chicago
in the old days but when he last passed
through Chicago his coming was in
the most modest fashion, for he put
up at an ordinary hosiery, and
whereas he had been wont to burden
porters with his car load Of trunks,
one was enough.
May Try to Ride.
Now that he has won his suit, will
he again step into the spotlight? Will
he seek recognition in the dazzling
haunts of old and will his friends rally
to deluge him with offers? Will he
try to ride? 1t is not beyond the realm
of possibility that he will.
Tod wauld be an attraction; that
goes without saying. But would he
shine with the old-time luster? Tod
has always gone at a swift rate,
whether in the saddle or out. Even
while riding at Sheepshead, in the
height of his American successes, he
was maintaining a swift yacht, had
friends galore to invite him to dine,
and he himself was no SLOUGH at en-
Pertaining. In fact, it is said of him
that his actual riding in races was MS
diversions; his serious pursuits were
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-28
BATTLE CREEK SANITARIuM
You Don't Catch
Cold

after having a TURKISH BATH in our
place. If you leave a bath room with
we pores of your body open they close
Immediately after going out in the
cool air, consequently you contract
heayy cold. We have a system that
guarantees all danger from taking a
cold After the bath an oil massage
IS given, the pores are filled with oil
ana while the oil is being absorbed the
pores are gradually closing, so by the
ufne the oil is gone the pores are in
thelr normal condition. The oil is
SAih food and is very nourishing.
Try it.
PHONE MAIN 7o5
t. ". fnoCh. Prop.
NO. 7 SOUTH THIRD
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-28
How to Get Health
Inc Secret of Restoring Health Lies
In Replacing the Same Substances
to the Body That Have Become
Impoverished or Wasted

BY disease, overwork, worry, expo-
sure or abuse. When you are run
down, getting thin, weak, and tire on
the slightest exertion, the life and
strength of your blood are wearing
out. When you grow irritable, melan-
choly and nervous your nerve force is
decaying and vitality is becoming low.
Disease acts on those whose blood il
watery, impoverished or impure, and
never affects persons who have plenty
OF rich and pure blood. DR.. Chase's
Blood and Nerve Food supplies what
is lacking in the blood and nerve
force. 1t contains everything that
makes new and rich blood and perfect
nerves, in fact, it is blood itself-the
very essence of nerve force. making
it the grandest of all tonics for the
sick, convalescent and overworked. 1t
restores vim, vigor and vitality to
aged and worn out people, and i'm
parts a glow of health to pale and
sallow people. Price so cents.
Sold and Guaranteed by the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-28
but the roses were selected because
they were supposed to be more appro-

but the roses were selected because
they were supposed to be more appro-
pirate at a dance.
The roses and the other flowers,
too, were stolen by the young women
from a grave in Lone Fir cemetery the
the graveyard to get the flowers for
the ball, as they did not care to spend
money in buying them.
They made no effort to conceal the
purpose for which they stole the
flowers from the grave. number of
persons were in the cemetery at the
time, and distinctly heard their con-
versation.
Miss Lynda Oberg, 466 East Stark
street, and her sister went to the Lone
Fir cemetery to place flowers on the
grave of little nephew who died sew
from the grave which they were dec
Grating is one that was recently made
1t was that of father who is mourn
ed by large family. Where grief is
keenest flowers are freshest.
I'VE were putting flowers on our
nephew's grave a week ago Sunday
afternoon said Miss Oberg, when
two young women stopped at a new
grave short distance away. Only
short time ago an old man was buried
there and his family mourned him
deeply. They have shown their love
for him by putting beautiful flowers
on the grave every day.
The young women were talking
about going to a dance on the follow
| ing night, that is, last Monday night
We could hear them plainly, for they
We're not far away. They didn't seem
| to care whether they We're heard or
not. They needed flowers they said
and also needed the money that it
would take to buy them. So they had
gone to the graveyard to steal the
| flowers, and save the expense of pur-
chase.
"'Oh, here are some fresh flowers
on this grave said one.
Then they went over and helped
themselves. They We're very discrim-
! mating and deliberate. They cast
| some aside. or rather put them back
on the grave, saying they We're not
| the proper sort to wear at a dance.
They selected the long stemmed flow
ers, and left the others.
After taking all they wanted, leav-
| ing the grave almost bare of flowers
of any kind, they went away. They
seemed happy and laughed and chatted
pleasantly as they went
Some persons are said to make a
regular practice OF carrying away the
flowers from the different cemeteries.
| Indeed, some assert that the stolen
| flowers are sometimes sold in the
streets of Portland. Those who have
seen the tombs of their relatives Or
/
ously, and declare that stringent
measures will be adopted if the prac-
tice is not stopped.
There is a widow ON the east side
! whose husband was buried in Lone Fir
cemetery seven years ago. Since
then his grave has been kept as green
as his memory by the faithful women.
! Several weeks ago she planted rose
bushes near the grave. Next day she
found that the bushes had been dug
up and carried away.
Other incidents of Dissertation are
related. Protests have awaited moth
| ing, and it is said that steps will be
taken to apprehend those who are
guilty. Vigorous prosecutions will fol-
| low if arrests are made
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-28
COUNT CASSiNPS JUBILEE.
Has Had Fifty Years In the Diplomatic
Service.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 28.-
Count Cassini, the Russian ambassador
today rounded out the fortieth year of
his diplomatic service. He was pleased
to call the occasion his golden jubilee,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-28
ROB GRAVE TO BLOOM At BALL
Flowers That Loving Hands Place On
Graves, Women Wear at Dance.

PORTLAND, Ore, Dec 2S.-At a
dance in the city last Monday night,
two young women wore a profusion of
beautiful roses. They had a plentiful
supply of other flowers at their home
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-28

Tho bachelor who never growls at
the weather would make an excellent
husband of the meek and lowly varie-
ty.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-02-02

and well treated, and whether the Of
ficers are doing their duty and look
ing after their men properly.
Thus it is that the Mexican army is
the best in Latin America, not even
excepting the Prussianized troops of
Chile. 1t is mainly composed of full
blooded Indians, who are readily dis
ciplined and as brave as men could be.
Foreign officers say they are second
to no other troops as marchers and
fighters. and in frugality and content
ment they are far ahead of most of
the worlds soldiers. Diaz is proud of
them, and they look upon him almost
as a god.
Sometimes his officials in Mexico
City require his presence urgently to
decide knotty point or sign some i'm
portant papers. What has become of
the President to-dayT" they ask one
another excitedly.
The answer is always much the
same. He has heard Of an old wom-
an, 100 miles away, whose husband
was killed fighting for the independ-
ence of Mexico. She is living in pow
erty. Immediately the President has
dropped everything and gone off to see
her and to arrange for her future. He
would never delegate such a task to
subordinate.
When he became President, away
back in 1875, before his principles be-
came known, his relatives and friends
used to go to him for easy jobs under
the government. They expected to be
allowed to plunder the treasury in the
good oid-fashioned Mexican way. and
they We're very much disgusted when
Diaz made it plain that he neither in
tended to loot ON his own account nor
TO allow anybody else to do so.
Since then DiaZ has dealt sternlv
with many of his family and his tribe,
who, having been placed III public of
fee, abused their trust
Although Diaz has been an auto
crat for twenty-eight years. welding
absolute sway over all the affairs of
his country, he is unspoiled by power.
His mind is broad and his views -liber-
al. He is not above taking advice or
admitting that he has made a mistake.
President Diaz is now IS years old.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-02-02
SOFTENING HARD WATER.

Scientific Method of Removing the
Objectionable Elements.
Rain water, while percolating
the surface or deep streams, picks up
large quantity of carbonic acid, by
the presence of which the chalk (car-
Donate of lime), magnetism limestone
(chalk and carbonate Of magnesia).
ironstone, soda, potash and few 9TH
er compounds are enabled to dissolve
and are held delicately and unstably
in solution as bicarbonates, says the
Engineering Magazine.
Now the fundamental operation Of
the soften1ng Of waters hard from this
cause is to remove the excess Of car
bonic acid by the addition of some sub
stance with which it readily combines,
and preferably one that forms an in
soluble or only very slightly soluble
compound. Quickiime calcium OK
ide) when carefully dealt with is the
best Of these on account of its cheap
ness and splendid efficiency. The
quantity of excess carbonic acid in
the hard water is determined by analy-
sis, and from the result the required
amount of calcium oxide is calculated
to completely satisfy this in the proc
ess of forming chalk. The lime Is add
ed to the water in the form of milk
Of lime of known strength, and what
might be termed the beautiful part Of
the reaction is the double transforma-
ton that takes place. The newly added
milk of lime not only becomes insol-
uble chalk by combination with the
carbonic dioxide, but reduces the bi-
carbonates Of lime and magnesia to
the insoluble monocarbonates, and all
three fall together in the form of
heavy and rapidly clearing precipitate.
The bicarbonate of iron when robbed
Of its carbon dioxide falls with the
chalk and magnesium carbonates in
the form Of red rust, the superabun-
dant water remaining perfectly clear
and soft The potash and soda, of
course, remain dissolved, but are not
in any way harmful if present in only
small quantities.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-02-02
THINGS WORTH KNOWING.
Keep a Brave Heart-Each Day Come.
as Fresh Gift.

Keep a Brave Heart-Each Day Comes
as Fresh Gift.
1t is more natural to talk about the
faults of our friends than it is to talk
about their virtues; we understand
them better.
The most reckless spendthrift in the
| world is the one who squanders time.
When a married woman sallies forth
to look after her rights her husband
stays at home reviewing his wrongs.
A man calls ecru, tan and fawn color
by the generic term of "drab"-he
knows a stylish gown when he sees
it.
Encouraging the growth OF high in
terests in children is one Of the best
means of preventing those which are
unworthy.
Every act we do is full of the power
of reproduction; we are tracked and
hunted by our own deeds, and after we
have lost them from view and from
memory they reappear and claim as a
right the mastery over our fate.
It's hard matter to reconcile our
selves to the fact that knowledge is
power when we possess all the knowl-
edge and the other fellow has the
power.
Each day comes as a fresh gift.
Meet with a brave heart all that is in
the days portion, but shrink not from
phantom lions or from shadows that
seem to blot the sun.
No man should be intrusted with
power who will not use it for some
good
We should initiate the things we ad-
mire in other that our own nature
may be blessed by that which we ad-
mire.
The depth from which our words are
spoken is the measure Of the depth at
which they will be heard-Ju1ian Haw-
thorne.
The only true knowledge of our fel-
low man is that which enables us to
feel with him.-George Eliot-Kansas
World
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-02-02

When Warren Hastings was charged
with using his despotic power in India
for private gain, he cynically replied:
when 1 think of my chances I am
surprised at my moderation"
There is a despot of to-day who has
had far better chances of graft"
than even Warren Hastings, but never
used them. That man is Porfrio Diaz,
for twenty eight years the autocrat of
Mexico. His power over the public
treasury during that long period has
been absolute, but even his worst enc
mics do not allege that he ever robbed
his country of cent. And that is in
deed remarkable in a Latin-American
country.
Diaz is the hero of the Mexican
army. When he was young soldier,
the Hero Of Puebla" was the most
admired and popular officer in the pa
triot army that fought the French in
vaders. He was always the first in
the charge, the last to retreat, the
quickest to volunteer for the post Of
danger He held his own life as moth
ing in comparison with the cause. Yet
no officer was more careful Of the lives
and comfort Of his men. ....
Throughout his career Diaz has paid
great attention to the welfare of the
Mexican army. He often visits the
soldiers unexpectedly in their camps
and barracks, tastes their food, finds
out whether they are regularly paid
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-02-02
PROBABLE AGE or THE SUN.

Discoveries of Radium Changes vievru
Of the Scientists.
One OF the first speculati0ns to be
reawakened by the marvels Of radium
was that which concerns the age Of the
sun, says the London Standard This
is far-reaching conception in
science. Biologists used to demand
at least 200, 900 years for the earth
and they were met by the physicists,
headed by Lord Kelvin, with the reply
that no such draft on the bank Of time
could be allowed. The veteran pro-
fessor believed that he had demon
could not have shone more than 1OO.-
100000 years and most probably not
more than 2O,OOO,OOO. The doings of
radium have altered all that, because,
as Prof G. IF. Darwin says. in letter
to Nature Of London:
Eve have recently learned the ex-
istence Of another source of energy and
the amount available is so great as to
render it impossible to say how long
the suns heat has already existed or
how long it will last in the future" :"
Lord Kelvin treated the solar orb as
a condensing white-hot body, slowly
cooling, and gave this poor planet Of
ours some barely 100000 years long
er in which to support life; but now,
thanks to radium, the old earth may
have a length Of life before it incom-
parably longr-that is, If the sun is
made up Of any similar radioactive
materials, in addition to the iron.
sodium, hydrogen, helium and other
ordinary elements for which alone he
has hitherto given credit. Prof. Oar
win remarks:
knowing, as we do, that an atom
Of matter Is capable of containing an
enormous store of energy in itself, 1
think we have no right to assume that
the sun is incapable Of liberating
atomic energy to a degree at least COM
parable with that which it would do
If made of radium." Hence, he con-
cludes that the suns latent heat-giving
power may be extended ten or twenty
times; in other words, our central
luminary, this earth and our neighbor-
ing worlds in space may have at least
1OO, 100000 years before them. And
thus, even with our slow progress, life
may become worth Hving-in that
lapse Of time. Needless to say that
Prof. Darwin does not assume that
the sun is actually to any large extent
made Of radium. The essence Of his
communication lies in the words that
an atom of matter (as we now are) is
capable Of containing an enormous
store Of energy" The energy Of the
atom is the new stupendous doctrine
of physics, which we owe to the con-
tituent of pitchblende, discovered by M.
and Nine Curie. On the solar surface
not radium only but other elements
may exist in a condition Of radio
activity, which, as yet, we cannot pro-
duce here
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-02-02
HEATER FOR WATER.

An Attach m ent that May Be Fastened
to an Ordinary Lamp.
In every home there has come the
time, summer or winter, night or day
when warm water was wanted, and
warm water was not to be had without
the task of building fire in the range
or stove. A Michigan man has devised
an affair which, with the aid Of an Or
dinary lamp, will provide the neces-
sary heated water in a few minutes
after it is wanted.
For accomplishing this purpose he
provides a receptacle conveniently To-
Gated on a table or shelf, and which
contains the water to be heated. This
receptacle is connected by tube at
it's base with cylindrical heater,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-02-02

which fits on the lamp in the place of
the regular lamp chimney. A second
tube from near the top of the heater
makes another connecting link with
the reservoir. Through the center of
the heater, extending from bottom to
top, is an aperture in which the fame
of the lamp plays. This heats the
water in the surrounding cylinder, and
the heated water rises to the top.
There it flows through the upper con-
Meeting tube to the reservoir, from
which, at the same time, cold water
is passing through the lower tube to
the heater 1t can readily be seen
from this explanation of the principle
Of the affair that in very short time
all the water will be heated, and the
degree of heat needed Is easily OBJ
tanned by the regulation Of the time of
heating.