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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-09
After their testimony a recess was

After their testimony a recess was
taken.
The Chadwick securities in the
hands of Banker Reynolds were OPEN
ed this afternoon in the presence of
attorneys. Their face value is $5,-
100000; the actual value is not one
cent.
These securities had been in safety
deposit vault at Jersey City for some
time, and were brought here today by
Reynolds.
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Fatally Burned.

MONTERREY, Cal, Dec. 9.-Kathlyn,
the 13-year-old daughter of Charles
Rollo Peters, a noted California paint
er, was fatally burned this morning in
the Peters home, dying a short time
afterward in great agony. She was
playing in front of an open fireplace
when her clothing caught fire.
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Indian FIGHTER Edwards Dead.

CORY, Pa, Dec. 9.-Colonel T. A.
Edwards died today. He was with
General Cook in Oregon during the
Snake Indian war. He fought with
General Candy when he defeated the
Modocs and captured Captain Jack.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-09
Black Sea Fleet Cannot Go.

MANCHESTER, Dec. 9.-The Dis
patch learns that the sultan has as
Sured Great Britain that Turkey will
adhere to the treaty of Paris and pre-
vent the passage through the Darda-
nelles of the Russian Black sea fleet.
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Golden Swords for Two.

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 9.-The
czar has conferred on General Bilder-
ing, commanding the Seventeenth
army corps and General Sakharoff,
chief of staff under Kuropatkin, golden
swords set with brilliants, bearing the
inscription, For Valor"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-09
Fire Threatens Port Arthur.

ROME, Dec. "a dispatch from
Chefoo states that Admiral Togo is
hombarding the docks at Port Arthur.
Dense smoke is ascending from diff
ferent parts of the fortress, indicating
The possibility of a general conflagra-
non.
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Japan's War Budget.

TOXIC, Dec. 9.-Party leaders and
today. 1t is probable that a loan will
be floated to meet the deficit. The
proposed increase of taxes does not
meet with popular approval.
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How Japanese Took the Hill.

TOXIC, Dec. 9.-In the attack on
2e3-meter hill the japanese -drenched
the timber works with kerosene and
started a furious fire, which was fam
ned by a strong gale. The advance
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-09
Gone Into Receivers Hands.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. "a sem
sation was created this afternoon by
the announcement that the Neafie &
Levy ship engine building company
has gone into the hands of a receiver.
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Officers Killed or Wounded.

TOXIC, Dec. 9.--The headquarters
staff today published list of 36 off,
GERS Killed and 40 wounded. 1t is pre-
sumed the casualties occurred at Port
Arthur
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Dividend on Southern Pacific.

NEW YORK, Dec. "a dividend
of per cent has been declared on
preferred Southern Pacifis, payable
January Is.
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Bio Fire at St. Joseph, Michioan.

ST. JOSEPH, Mich, Dec. Sire
originating in the enders of the Moore
department store today destroyed sew
eral business houses. The loss is esti-
mated at 100000.
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was slow as the Japanese were obliged
TO make roads with bags of earth
They took the hill by a sudden night
attack
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-29
BITS ABOUT RAILWAYS.

To-day there are approximately 1.000.-
QUO railroad men in the United States
under what amounts to q practical rule
Of total abstinence.
Denver is soon to have a big plant for
the handling Of gilsonite and asphaltum,
from the enormous beds of these natural
products, which lie along the line OF the
new "Moffat road" the short line" OF
railway that is being constructed, from
Denver to Salt Lake City, Utah. The
plant is expected to cost about $1,000 GOO,
and to employ approximately GOO men.
One of the northwestern railroads will
substitute a row of evergreen trees fol
the board snow-breaks which have lonl
been employed to protect the tracki-
from the drifts of winter. Planks oftei
get out of order and are constantly
showing the effects of veal A live
tree repairs it's own injuries. This dis,
tinction was in the mind of the man
who said that he preferred his bare
hand to mittens, which could not mend
their own bruises.
The first railway in China was built ir
1897 and extended from Picking to Tien-
Tsin, a distance of rs miles. 1t has
since been extended to Shan-Hai-Kwan
an additional distance of 81 miles. From
Picking there is a road to Tun gtschu, a
distance of 1876 miles. The main road
however, is the Lu-Haa railroad, e.
tending through Pechiis, Hoiian and
Hupe to Han-Kau, vita a tot&l length
of 652 miles. There arr a number OF
branches to this road.
Twenty-Five railroads center at Chi
cago, excluding separate divisions; ten
of them eastern trunk lines, ten southern
of western trunk lines and five belt or
transfer roads designed for the inter
change of eastern, western and southern
traffic. Within the district bounded by
Ohio, Desplaines and Eighteenth streets
and Lake Michigan, an area OF say
$500 acres, all or nearly all these trunk
lines and their several lake-carrying
auxiliaries own or lease in and out
freight stations. This region is the
Chicago terminal Here centers 50
per cent. of the total mileage OF the
country.
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scoLDINC SET TO MUSIC.
And It Took the Wagnerian Brand to
Do the Jawing Full
Justice.

In one of TIE big One Hundred and Tween,
ty-fifth street beer gardens a brass land
was playing what purported TO be a .Wag'
merriam selection with positively deafening
effect, relates the New York Times. The
good-natured people around the tables had
wisely abandoned all effort at conversation
Not so with one woman, a shrewish-looking
person, who was leaning over a table shak.
ing her finger at her husband and doing
her best to make him hear the abuse that
she was evidently hurting at him. Sudden
ly, with one grand blare, tae music stopped,
and the woman's voice, pitched in a veri-
table scream, was heard.
lyon bald-headed, sour-faced idiot, Ill-'
Checked by her own strident tones she
looked about her in constipation. Not so
the husband. He was ealloused to abuse
Picking up his stein he looked at his wife
and growled:
Shut up till the band starts again"
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-29
HOW TO LEARN TO SWIM.
When Once You Have Learned That
the Water Will Bear You
Up, It Is Easy.

There is no need for so much fuss
about learning to swim. 1t is no trick
at all. Once you have learned that the
water will bear you up you cannot
help swimming, for every movement
you make in the water is swimming.
Every unweighted human being who
browns, browns himself out of pure
fear, says Woman's Home Companion.
How can you acquire this conf
dence? Not by going through the mo-
tons on the dry land; not by a strap
around the chest, or corks or inflated
rigamajigs. Being tossed in where
the water is "over your head and
hands we have agreed to bar. How
shall we go at it gently and reason
ably? I'll tell you. Begin in still wa
ter. Wade out until your shoulders
are covered. There's no use pudding
and paltering with any less. Squat a
little, and get yourself wet all over.
Now your pinch" is over. Get your
breath, and let's talk awhile. Don't
imagine you are drowning when the
water gets into your ears. 1t is not
SO terrible as it sounds. Even if a lit
tie Stops into your nose, it is silly to
make a fuss. 1t won't hurt you. 1t
takes a lot of water to drown a person,
and you will soon learn to eject what
gets into the nose without having to
stop swimming. Wade out just a lit
tie further until it is up to your chin.
lift your chest. and keen it expand
ed, breathing with the abdominal
muscles as if you were singing.
Stretch your arms out to form the let
ter T. Hollow in your back and stiff
en- your spinal column as if you were
a person of some Importance. Lean
your head back until only a little
patch around your nose and shut
mouth is out of the water. Lie back.
There! You are floating. If now you
gently paddle with your hands you
are swimming.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-29

way. and whether he mad done the trick
before or not. | don't know, but he knew
how to open this door at once.
At the front door there is another screen
door, and it so happened that, while the
kitchen door opens at the right, the front
door opens at the left.
Here was q chance to test the little
bears knowledge of doors, so, when |
saw that he was very anxious to enter
the house. l latched the kitchen door,
and let him go around to the front. 1t
was at once evident that he had had no
experience with doors that opened at
the left. for he devoted all his energies
to the right-hand siGe, and for many
minutes worked hard at the crack close
to the springs and hinges. After he had
given it up as a bad job, l brought him
back and opened the door just an inch
or two. In a moment he inserted his
nose, and ever since he has been able to
open that door as easily as the other
one.
The morning after his arrival l took
utLl Jul lOI d vain, duQ LIZ IollO WCo IL
like a dog, making frequent excursions
into the woods and the long grass which
bordered the road. Every now and then
he would dash up some big tree with
surprising agility. Where there were no
branches he advanced up the trunk by
leaps. with fore paws wide apart and
with hind paws near together. He al
ways came down backwards, and with
considerable caution, often looking be-
low, either to see where he was going, or
to find out how far he was from the
ground. He was most inquisitive, ex-
aiming everything we came to, from
flowers and stones to old farmhouses,
which he would enter with an air which
suggested condensation.
BY and by we came to a large stone
watering trough, into which clear water
bubbles from a spring. OF course the
little bear had to examine that, so up
the side he went, and, after taking a lap
or two of the water, he deliberately slid
right into it, and swan from end to end
of the trough and back again. Then he
descended to the road and galloped along
as before. Presently a countryman driv-
ing to work, turned his horse toward
the trough that it might drink. But the
horse, although very thirsty, would not
come near. So the trough had to be
emptied and cleaned and filled again,
after which the horse came up and drank
as usual. Several horses have, at diff
erent times evinced a marked dislike to
either the sight or odor Of the little
bear, though other horses will let him
play around their feet without so much
as raising their heads.
ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES.
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HOW TO BUILD A CISTERN.
Ohio Man Describes a Method Which
Has Given Satisfaction for
Twenty Years.

I will try to tell your readers now
to build a cistern that will supply
good water for all purposes. Dig hole
ten feet in diameter and II feet deep
SMALLER if you want). Make the bot
tom in shape of a saucer or a little
lower in the middle, for convenience
in cleaning. Commence in middle or
the bottom to lay the wall with brick.
Soft brick will do. Lay the brick fiat
in the bottom and On edge around the
wall, making a tWo-incn wall. use
mortar the same as in any other brick
work. Be sure to put the bricks against
the dirt wall solid. Build the wall the
shape of a jug.
After the outside wall is finished,
build a wall across the center, using
good line brick, and use cement in
stead of mortar. Make the joints per-
fectly tight so the water will have to
soak through the bricks. This center
| wall must be four inches thick, so lay
| the bricks fiat. Make an inlet and out
let with three or four-inch sewer, or
gaspipe; or common drain tile, laid
in cement will do. OF course, they
want to be on the same side of the
center wall, and the pump on opposite
side. Leave opening at top large
enough to get down on either side OF
center wall.
Now the brick work being done,
cement the bottom and side walls
thoroughly with good cement. Let
no water get into the pumps side ex-
cept that which goes through the CEN
ter wall, and if you don't have water
good enough for any purpose just let
me know. In 1883 we had one built
as above and it is working all right.
In 81 had the one put in where we
are living. and l know it is all right,
for we use water from the cistern for
cooking and drinking part of the time,
and have a splendid well, too.-T. j..
Timmons, in Ohio Farmer.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-29

firewood is long, and long enough
SO it will hold a large armful. This
foundation can be solid OF not, as de-
sired, but is much lighter If made
of Stats. At each end is fitted q solid
upright piece which is as wide, and
almost as high, as the width of the
foundation. This serves to keep the
wood in place, the sides being left
open and the wood placed crosswiso
In the carrier. An iron rod is bent
for a handle, or a piece of band iroI
can be used, either M being fastened
firmly to the foundation at the bottom
Of the outside of the upright ends.
A more simple that any boy can
make has a foundation like the first,
and a BEN green branch for q handle.
For the upright ends. use the
branches, bending them SO the ends
are fastened to the corners of the
foundation and the rounded part
comes about q foot above it. The cor
ners must be strongly fastened with
screws, and the handle be placed out
side the end pieces to hold them firm.
These carriers do away with the old
~woodbox, which is SO often an eyesore
in an otherwise attractive Kitchen
Orange Judd Farmer.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-29
RAISING HOGS ON SHARES.
A Practice Quite Popular in Iowa and
One That Yields Big Profits
to Investors.

Iowa farmers in many cases are rent
shares, having stocked the farm on
shares to tenants. A telegram from
Iowa City says that the problem now is,
on what basis shall the increase of
brood sows and other animals supplied
on shares be divided at the end of the
season?
The owner of the animals placed out
on shares has usually expected at the
time of divisions half of the increase of
such animals, or if the animals are not
sold, an equitable division of them has
usually beer made. This plan has been
carried out many times in this county
with both sides of the bargain well
owner of the sows gets all the best of the
bargain.
The a in which a careful farmer of
the county figured it out this spring, and
1t is on his figures that the most of the
present contracts are based, is to take q
herd of ten sows, and placing the usual
value upon them, about $3.50, credit that
to the owner. He credits also ten acres
of pasture land, rented for about $50, to
the same side of the book, bringing his
investment up to about $500. He then
takes the average production, of about
six pigs to the SOW, and values them at
$72, or $72O for the whole herd.
Up to this time 1t has been the custom
for the investor to take half of this
=
sum, or $3.50, - his share OF the In
crease, and since money has been tighi
during the past few years. he has had
no trouble in getting it. 1t gives him,
however, about 100 per cent. on his in
vested capital for the risk involved.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-29
A YOUNG BLACK BEAR
THE ANTICS OF JOHNNY WERE
VERY INTERESTING.
Ernest Harold Baynes Tells of a Mis-
chievous Little Present He Re-
ceived-It Envinced Won
derful Intelligence.

About ten days ago | received by ex-
press a fair-sized box, from which issued
a series of strange noises.
Wow" said something inside the
box. Wow! Wow! Wow!-Scratch,
scratch, w
Wow!"
Naturally, l was interested, and has
tened to read the inscription written
upon a large card, which had been tackled
to the top of the box. 1t ran as fol-
lows:
please water me and give me some
thing to eat. But do not give me fruit
or sweets, as it makes ms sick. l like
milk. | am for Ernest Harold Baynes
(The Haven Cottage), Newport, N. H."
All this only heightened my curiosity,
and, Selling a hammer and an old chisel,
l quickly pried open a corner of the box.
In an instant there vas poked through
the opening a little black head, with a
tawny muzzle, thick, furry ears and
small, dark eyes, and | realized that my
guest was a baby black bear. The ex-
preston on his face was decidedly surly;
the little chap was evidently greatly dis
| pleased at having been kept in such
small quarters for more than 48 hours,
and he grunted peevishly as he drew his
sturdy little body out onto the lawn.
The ho~usekeeper appeared with a
large bowl of crackers and milk, and IS
soon as the little bear saw her coming
he ran to meet her, and, without wait
ing for the food to be set down, he stood
up on his hind legs, seized the rim of the
bowl with his fore paws, and hoisted
himself into it. Then he was set on the
ground, with the food before him, and
I don't believe that anything would
have induced him to leave it. He lay
fiat on the grass, with his fore paws
round the bowl, that it might not get
away from him. and with his muzzle
buried almost to the eyes in the crack
ers and milk.
A door closed simply with a spring
he could open as well as l could. He
would first pull it ajar with one of his
fore paws. and then insert his muZZle.
In the kitchen there is a screen door
which closes with a spring in this
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-29
KLnLNNSUp Nv.
GfK},, S., EgIlG]5S
A HAY-STAcKING DERRICK.
Continuance Like the One Here De-
scribed Saves Lots of Time
and Lessons Labor.

Many farmers, whose barn capacity
is somewhat limited, stack the larger
portion of their hay crop until after
threshing, and then haul it into the
barn later for winter feeding. Under
such circumstances this method seems
advisable, for then, if the weather
should happen to be like what we have
had the past two seasons, there is not
the danger of losing the entire grain
crops. OF course during some seasons
there is a greater bulk of roughage to
be stored than during other seasons,
nevertheless, the majority OF farmers
know just about the producing capa-
city of their land, and can quite accu-
rately estimate amount of barn room
that will be required to store their
crops and from year to year be able,
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-29
WHY THE FARM BOY MINIS.
It Is Because His Early Life Has Made
Him Responsive to Every
Moral Suggestion.

No boy need ever regret that he was
born in the country and reared on a farm.
He may lack the keenness and polish of
the city cousin. He may be embarrassed
by his own awkwardness, and feel that
he is at a hopeless disadvantage in the
race, but the country boy has a wider
range of practical ideas. From the very
first his little services are in demand.
He becomes at once a part of the force
that is making for home comfort and
prosperity, and feels the independence
of n who is helping to support him.
self and add to the general store. The
farm boy is likely tosregard his life as
one of drudgery, and such it may be,
if he loses interest in his surroundings
or is pressed with a continual round OF
duty. There is something heroic in
the country boys struggle with the ele-
ments. Rain, snow and sleet only brace
his courage. The garnering of the crops,
the housing and feeding Of the do
nestle animals. the gathering and prep
aration of the winter fuel give a purpose
and zeal to his toll. Then there is the
long tramp, sometimes of miles, to the
district school, lessons learned before and
after long hours of labor. Is 1t any
wonder there are keen wits developing
all outside of graded systems and in de-
fiance of pedagogical order? 1t is the
intensity of purpose with which the
mind acts under the influence of vigor-
Gus health and the conscious value OF
time that accounts for these results. So
from the farm is being supplied a stream
of active world-worlers, men not afraid
to do their duty. and bubbling over with
energy and ambition. Touch the couI-
try-bred boy. now the merchant prince
or the successful professional man, and
how responsive he becomes to every
suggestion of moral life! The same
canont be said of boys reared in the
midst of other surroundings. 1t is the
contact with nature that makes the in
delible impression upon life. No great
er gain can come tothe country at large
than that which comes from the promo
ton of the love and appreciation OF
rural life. Health. happiness, purity
and peace are the natural Inheritance
of those who dwell surrounded by fresh
air, beautiful scenes, bright skies and
pure social Observation-Disclosures
Epitomist.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-29

as soon as a crop is ready to be har-
vested, to secure it by storing under
shelter. There is but little doubt tina!
If the loss sustained from stacking
crops were accurately figured out,
there would be enough loss upon the
majority of farms in five years to pay
the cost of building a barn sufficient
ly large to store all the crops raised
upon the farm.
The past two rainy seasons have, !
think, demonstrated that capital in
baras is a good investment. There
are, however, a great many farmers
who are a~bundantly able to have con-
veIient barns for storing their crops
who have not, simply because they do
not believe the above statement. Upon
my own farm | have plenty of stor-
ing room for all the hay and grain. If
l had not, | would not hesitate a mo-
ment to invest in more barn room.
But where the barn is lin
tied, and it is necessary to stack hay.
a derrick similar to the one illus
trated in the cut can be erected that
will greatly lessen the labor involved
in stacking. The derrick shown in cut
requires three poles, two 40 feet long
and one 81 feet. The two longest poles
should be arranged in the shape of an in
verified V by boiling the ends together
with a three-quarter-inch bolt. The poles
should be set into the ground at least
four feet in order to help stay the
derrick. The derrick can be raised
by the use of a rope and tackle, anc
thus greatly lessen the heavy lifting
1t will be necessary TO stay the poles
by running a No. 10 wire from the
top to the single pole over the top
of the other poles, and then down to
the ground about 80 feet from the
foot Of the derrick. 1t will also be
necessary to stay the derrick in 9TH
er directions. The manner in which
the fork is arranged is very clearly
shown in the cut. This derrick has
now been in use five seasons and has
proved very satisfactory.-Leo c. Rey-
nolds, in Ohio Farmer.