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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1904-02-11
THE VOCATION OF THE WIFE.

The VOCATION OF THE WIFE.
Now the occupation of being a wife,
including presumptively, as it does, the
occupation OF being mother, is one OF
extremely comprehensive scope. Some
women who seem not to have had very
much education do very we'll at it, and
some women who have been profusely
educated make pretty bad work of it.
says Harper's Bazaar. It is calling in
which health goes for more than ac-
complishments, that phase of wisdom
which we call ''gumption' for more
than learning, instinct for much, and
character for most Of all. But you can
not overeducate a girl for the occupa-
ton of being a wife.
You may keep, her too long at her
books and out of what we call so
clety;;" you may teach her to value un-
duly things Of minor Importance; YOU
may misdirect and miseducate her in
various ways, but you can't educate
her to think so wisely on so many sub
Jects that she will be above that busi-
ness.
Nobody is really SO superior as to be
too good to marry. Plenty Of women
are too good to marry this or that or
the other individual man: too many
women, perhaps, in these days, are ed
ucated beyond the point of being salts
tied with any man who is likely to
want to marry them, but the woman
who seems too good for human ma
lures daily FOOD hasn't been overedu-
Gated
The trouble with her is that she
doesn't know enough. She is not over
developed, Out stunted. Education is
the development of ability, and a wife
and, even more. a mOther-can't have
her abilities too much developed. Her
place is seat Of power, and all the
knowledge that she can command will
find field for it's employment.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-11
OLIVER MEATS CARRIE.

Oliver cambridge, the King of
Of Tramps." was received in audience
by President Roosevelt. Carrie Ma
ton, the Queen of Hatchet- Handlers y
was not. Carrie is angry. Oliver is
happy. The president is still in eX-
cellent health and Mark Hanna is sup
pressing whatever jealousy he may
feel over the two incidents.
The Kansas hatchet-manipulato
may be incensed over the courtesy eX-
tended to the chief of the wanderers
But she should remember that Oliver
cambridge has written books of his
experiences and displays scars receiv-
ed in his nominations. while she has
done nothing worse than break plate
glass, deliver speeches and OCCASION
ally infiict punishment on a foe to her
cause.
The truth about Carrie is, that she
has led a life too strenuous for sever
al years. and, withal, has done nothing
except fight. She ought to temper her
strenuOusness by writing a few vol
umeS exploiting her experiences in
and out of Kansas and giving her i'm
pressiOnS of the United States SEN
ate. But. in order to issue publica-
tons which might have a large sale
she should move to Zion City and COL
laborate with Dowie.
AS an author Oliver cambridge, "the
King of ThampS,' appealed to the liter
airy instincts Of the president, who has
also written books. Carrie Nation,
on the other hand, is only a speech
maker and a realistic reformer. The
office department would be more
in her domain than the White House.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-11

tors at their annual meeting in New
York last week. This was not uneX-
pected as, at the last quarterly meet
ing. the dividend was reduced on the
common stock from 4 to per cent
basis. The directors declared the usual
dividend on the preferred stock.
The great consolidation found it up
hill work to pay dividends on so much
water soaked stock, which, under the
influence of irrational conclusions as
to what the market would stand, they
had recklessly issued. The slump in
the year recently closed they We're
s1OS979O12, as against 1888, 30S,763 in
1902, and $105,941,160 in 1901 during
the first nine months of the existence
of the corporation, the most important
consOlida ton of the industrial order in
the country. The big corporation had
to take it's chances in floating its secu-
rites with other ambitious concerns,
and when it is reflected there have
been issued the formidable sum Of
stocks and bonds to be disposed of to
the public-it is no wonder that there
resulted very large amount of undi-
gested and indigestible securities. The
year 1908 witnessed a very much re-
duced capitalization. the aggregate
with $11222 ,20O in 1902 and $2,S05,
40 900 in 1901: S945 $4,000 in 1900 and
in 1899, when the hunger for specula-
ton material became active, $2,663 445,
OOO
Since the furious speculation in in
dustrials began in all its Vigor in 1899
hundreds of overcapitalized concerns
have been pulled out of the market and
abandoned. Questionable business
methods in organizing many. and the
growing conviction of the public that
they want something OF more value
than Water-soaked stock certificates,
and the security clogged stock market
brought about the wet blanketing OF
new promotions, the enormous liQuida
ton in securities. and the supreme ben
eft to the investing public of getting
values down to normal.
The stock trading figures for 1908
show the decline Of activity due to the
lapse of the speculative fever. The
figures for stocks are $50, .096, and
for Jtatet, railway and unlisted bonds
$504 1853 200-the smallest amounts
since 1898, the maximum being in 1901
when the stock trading aggregated
governments, $3.50, 161 900.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-11
REPUBLICAN CLUBS AND
HARMONY.

The organization of republican clubs
in this city has never done much to
promote party harmony and success.
In April, 1896, a republican club of
over 400 members split wide open over
the question of whether it should be
named after Mckinley or Lincoln.
The old pen ring voted for the name
Mckinley and the 'reformers,' led By
Miles c. Moore and Tom Brents, voted
to name the club in honor Of Abraham
Lincoln. OF course this question mere
ly gave a test of strength and the real
bone of contention was the control of
the party organization and patronage.
When the refOrmerS were beaten by
ten or twelve votes on what they de-
nounced as an arbitrary ruling by
drew from the club in a body. Some
of those Conspicuous in the bolt became
silver republicans" after the nominal
ton of Mckinley on a gold standard
platform. but the ajority stayed in
the party under the leadership of e.
D. Croker. who succeeded in control
ing the republican county nominating
convention a few months later by a
narrow Majority, thus aVerthrOWing
the pen ring that had long dOminat-
ed the party councils. The earlier
convention, however, was controlled by
the McGraw wing, who sent Al Gold
man as delegate to the ST. Louis ma
tional convention.
In 1900 another club was formed
whose membership was chiefly con-
fined to Croker republicans and which
took an active part in securing the
election of Levi Ankeny as delegate to
the Philadelphia national convention,
which renominated Mckinley.
Two years ago the call issued by the
county chairman for primaries limited
the privilege of voting to members of
the Mckinley club and as a result few
of the Boxers" made any attempt to
vote.
Now another republican club has
been organized. practically in secret
and it promises to create another row
or rather to keep the old one alive.
The Levites having taken all the offices
| of the club now invite the Boxers" to
come in and be good. A committee has
! been appointed by the "Boxers'' to
meet the officers of the club and ask
/ that the organization be disbanded and
that a cali be issued in due form for
| meeting of reDllhlicanS of all fac
tons to organize another club. 1t is
now up to the Holy Rollers" It re-
mains to be seen whether or not they
will get down on their narrow bones
and beg the Boxers" for peace and
harmony.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-11
ROLL EN- ALONG BOYS.

Now that John Adam Schmidt has
ioined the Holy Roller" republican
club it will be in order to enroll the
names of the nine Russians whom he
had naturalized at the expense and for
the benefit of the machine IN the city
campaign last June. Those gentlemen
are said to be loyal republicans, al
though they cannot tell the constltu-
ton of the United States from circus
bill, and they can produce strong am
davits from prominent republicans that
they had been in the country long
when they went through the routine
of naturaliza ton just in the nick of
time on the night of the closing Of the
registration books for the last city cleo
ton. Their credentials are at the
county clerks office and they should
be sufficient to entitle them to member
ship in the club of Holy Rollers
AS it is the intention to make the
club the biggest thing of the kind
that ever happened in Walla Nalla
county. these men SnOulu De duill!tteu
without question, since their leader
has already been received into full fell
IoWship. Race. color, character, pre-
vious or prospective condition of ser
vitude should not be considered in the
effort to make the club buster.
The party organ has offered to wager
all it's small change that the club will
outnumber any similar organization
ever formed in this county, and in
order that it may not be bankrupted
by losing its dimes every name posi-
bic should be enrolled regardless Of
all technicalities and Whimsicalities.
WhOop her up, boys. Let every Roller
work to swell the roll from morning
to night. Hip, hip, Whoo-ray.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-11

if held by the court to be Vallq, Would
permit her father to go free ana un-
punished.
She has since repudiated the IN
strument signed in Toledo and states
in her letter that l am to continue as
her counsel and that the proceedings
in this court shall not cease until the
entire matter is cleared up and the
estate or it's value restored to her.
Further delay was gained by the
defense on the ground that Laing S
counsel, former Senator Mason, is
busy elsewhere.
This is a fragrant example of the
frauds practiced under probate laws
but many others just as bad might be
cited. They all demonstrate the ne
cessity for reform in the probate laws
However, good laws will be of little
use unless administered by honest
courts solicitous for the proper pro-
lection of widows, orphans and all
others whose interests are lntruSted
to judicial supervision and control.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-11
Seek Increased WAGES.

In line with the movement now we'll
launched looking to the abolition Of
the tip evil is a proposition to assist
the Dorters in the matter of salary. 1t
is said to be conceded by the Young
Mems club Of St. Paul that unless the
can not support himself and family
unless he receives gratuities from pas
sengerS. The matter will be brought
to the attention of the railway officials,
Union Pacific increased the salaries of
the white porters $3.50 each a month
When the colOred pOrterS were dis
charged. The new rule on the Union
Pacific prohibiting the solicitation or
acceptance of gratuities in any form
went into effect last Friday. and on
that day the white porters superseded
the colored.
Advices received from st. Paul state
that the matter has been brought to
the attention of the northern roads,
and it may be a subject for discus
sion in the near future. Meantime,
however, printed matter will be pre-
pared and sent to every cOlOred porter
in the service of the companies. urg-
ing the abolition of the evil system
that proved the undOing Of the colored
in the United States.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-11
SHUT OFF THE TIPS"
The Pullman Porters on the Northern
Railways Are Getting Scared.

Are people who travel on the rail-
freed from the porter's tax-the tip?
asks the Chronicle.
Fearful lest the roads running out
of St. Paul east and west should fol-
low the lead of the Union Pacific and
discharge all colored porters employed
on trains. q step made necessary on
account of the persistency of the col
Ored help in the matter of leVylng trl-
butte from patrons in return for atten-
tons and accommodations, it is an
nOunced that the Young Mems Sunday
club of St. Paul, the membership of
which consists of cOlOred pOrterS and
other colOred men, has undertaken to
prevent the northern roads from TAX
ing such action.
The method adopted by the club is
to discourage the tip system. Advices
received in Tacoma state that the
leaders in the movement openly aVOW
that the only way in which the cOlored
porter can now hope to retain his pO-
sition on the trains is to abolish the
tip evil, says the Ledger, and with this
object in view a consultation of all
concerned was held on Sunday and the
DOrters were brought face to face with
the fact that their positions are and
will continue to degrade themselves
and embarrass patrons of the roads by
eXacting tbs.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-11
MEET IN SATTLE SATURDAY,
FEBRUARY 8.
Will Determine Whether There Will
Be One or Two State Conven
tons This Year.

Seattle, Saturday. February 6. is the
time and place selected by Chairman
Ellis Morris of the republican state
central committee, for the meeting of
the committee to decide upon time ana
place for holding state republican
convention for the purpose OF naming
delegates to the national convention in
Chicago.
Chairman Morrison will send out
the call for the meeting of the state
central committee early this week.
The announcement of the time and
place for the meeting Will arouse new
interest in the controversy now wag1ng
as to whether the party shall hold Two
state conventions this year. as is usual
in presidential years, or only one as
has been suggested by =. D. Croker
and other leaders of the Ankeny faction
of the party.
Chairman Morrison announced the
date selected for the meeting of the
committee in a conference which he
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-11

According to a statement made by
Senator Ankeny's paper a few weeks
ago. Pickrell of ColfaX was offered
Yakima Jones' seat in congress at the
last republican state convention II he
PickrelD would deliver the vote of
Whitman county against the railway
commission plank championed by Gov
ernor Mcbride. OF course this offer
TO Piclrel must have been made by
the Ankeny- Stevenson fellows who
were fighting the proposed plank.
Pickrell no doubt would have grabbed
at the bait if he had been able to de-
liver the goods. but as he knew he was
not, he made virtue of necessity and
avowed his undying fidelity to the in
structions of the Whitman county con-
vention in favor of a railroad COM
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-11
HOW ESTATES ARE ROBBED.

How estates are robbed and heirs
defrauded under the probate laws Of
most of the states is forcibly illus
trated by the case of Mrs. Clara NAL
colin nee Laing, of Michigan, q years
of age, who recently discovered that
she was born an heiress to $4,000
and that her father as guardian had
lost the entire fortune in wildcat in
vestments The woman's mother died
in Chicago when Clara was an infant
and she was given into the care of
her grandparents, who lived in Mich
igan. A few months ago her grand
parents died and she went to Chicago
to visit her father By accident she
learned of the fortune belonging 10
her. She engaged Ex-Governor HAM
ilton of Michigan as her attorney, and
he found that nearly the whole amount
could be recovered from her fathers
bondsmen. Then the father got busy.
What he did was thus told by Hamil-
ton in a statement before Judge Cut
ting in Chicago:
This HELPLESS and almost friendless
daughter has been enticed to Toledo
| on the pretense that her father was
dying. Reaching that city, she was
! frightened into the belief that hel
| father is liable to be sent to prison
| for the wrongs he has done her. She
| finally signed a paper releasing hel
father as guardian. 1t was to save hel
parent from a PRISON cell that this
young woman signed a paper, which
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-11

1t cost the county over $1,000 to
have two $15-a-day experts report that
there is practically nothing wrong with
the county records. About all the re-
port amounts to is a recommendation
that the county buy a lot of book
typeWriterS and blank books on which
the experts would get rakeOff. These
supplies are needed just about as badly
as cash registers and other articles
furnished to postOfficeS by Machen and
Beavers under the supervision Of Perry
Heath. Persons competent to judge
state that the work done by book type
writers fades out much more rapidly
than writing done with pen and ink,
and if this is true they should not be
used on public records. Taxpayers
generally will agree that the experts
have already got enough out of this
county ard that the ordering of the
costly supplies recommended by them
would better be cut out.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-11

According to Dave Larimer, The
Politician" of the Spokesman-RevieW
Mayor Gilbert Hunt and Ex-Governor
Miles c Moore are rivals for the honor
of representing Walia Walla at the re-
publican national convention at Chi
cage next June. If this be true there
will be a lively scrap between the
Holy Rollers and the Boxers" to
decide which it shall be. Go to it,
boys, and may the best man Win.
Lay on Macbeth, lay on Macduf, and
cursed be he who first cries Enough 5"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-11

Mayor Hunt says that Walla Walla
surpasses any town he saw in the East
as a place Of residence except in re-
spect to good streets and electric rail-
ways. These disadvantages he believes
can be easily overcome if the people
of Walia Walla viii wake up and pull
together for the advancement of the
city. That is just what the business
men and property owners are expected
to do at the meeting of the Commercial
Club tomorrow night when many
questions Of vital interest TO the town
will be discussed. Among them will
be a gravity water system and the
paving of the streets in the business
district. There should be a good at
tendance and free discussion Of all
questions before the meeting.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-11
a Lesson IN Adver+;e;,a

In their 1904 calendar iust r,..;...,
n. ". Aver d Son have adhered +,
their popular conception of y hrsi,,...
calendar, but have changed The d.
and coloring. The size is the Coz.
about IA by 2S inches, with LARGO ~,
able dates. but the clay modelled das3~,.
printed in sepia tints. gives mo-,
prominence to their we'll known no.,,
Keeping EverlaStingly At It Priv,
Success: not a bad thing. by tho w..
for business people, and most otbo.
people. to have before them tbroDobo,.
the year.
The blank spaces occurring ~
month contain terse preachments n,
business getting, advertising in general
and y. w. Aver & Sons methods ~
advertising in particular. the whora
forming a very interesting and in
structive lesson in productive public.
ity.
1t is generally conceded that this
advertising agency annually expards
more money for advertising than any
other concern of the kind. which fact
lends interest to their utteranGes On
the subject.
Requests for this calendar addressed
to their Philadelphia office accompan-
led by % cents to cover cost and post.
age, will be taken care of for the pres
ent. Last year the supply LASTED
barely ten days.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-11

mission. This offer to Pickrell proves
that the Levites are just as ready 10
knife Jones as they are to throw the
harpoon into Cushman and 1T is an
other illustration of the brotherly love
that prevails among the republican
leaders of this state. Was ever such
love as this seen before-that man
would sacrifice his friends to save him
Splfo
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-11

had with Gov. Henry Mcbride At ;.
Hotel Cecil in Seattle. Saturday yvr
neither OF the gentlemen would discn,
the conference for publication :,
learned that Gov. Mcbride eynrasss,
his entire satisfaction With -,
nOuncement
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-11

1t is reported that the deacons of the
osition of the Boxers for a new deal
and that all prospects of their getting
together have gone glimmering.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-11
CASE OF SHRINkAGE.

The quarterly dividend on the COM
mon stock of the United States Steel
corporation was passed by the direc-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-11
CITY OFFICIAL PAPER
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.
WEATHER..

Tonight and Tuesday fair, cooler to-
night.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-09-09
German colonists in Palestine,

Industrial conditions in Palestine
have suffered severely from the loss to
labor by a steady stream of emigra-
ton of Palestine's people to other
parts Of the earth. An exception to
this rule is presented by the parts Of
Palestine in which Europeans have
settled. In these the land has been
made to yield not only larger but fair
ly profitable harvests. To the German
cOlonists a great deal Of credit is due
for their success in proving that a
great future awaits the agriculturist
and horticulturist who goes the right
way to work in Palestine's fields and
among its vineyards and orchards. A
German colony that settled on the
heights of Haifa thirty-four years ago
has prospered. Not one of its ninety
families is poor. All are fairly we'll
TODD They have raised grapes from
Affentaller and Rieslilg, scions from
which a wine free from alcohol is
made. This is sold to the natives and
serves as very refreshing drink.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-09-09
CHAMPION TELLS TWO YARNS,
And as Fish Stories They Are Mighty
Hard to Beat.


After supper | joined the caucus
ont on the gallery Of the hotel. and
there, friends. citizens. and fellow
COuntrymen, | met up with the great
granddaddy, the genuine, original OF
all the fish yarncrs in the world. He
was a small old man with a white
beard and a serious demeanOr, and
ne spoke in a low. even, ftute-toned
voice that never quaverod. l cannot
give all the tales he told out there,
but can give a couple Of samples.
Said he:
Up at my place a short spell ago
the boys and me cut down big tree.
After it fell we set down a mite to
rest on the trunk, and | hear some
thing making a noise inside.
"Boys.' seZ !, amt this tree hol'
Icr?'
NO., SCI they, its sound and
solid
Then | hear the fuss inside again.
grabbed an AK, and sez |, as | went
to chopin:
"'There's something inside this
here, and I'm a-gOin to know what
it is
BY Ned! There was a holler
place inside, and in there was a nine
pound catfish what Id been hearin
flappinI"
How'd that fish get in there?"
asked a listener.
Haven't got any idea how he did
les n the tree growed around him.
which | reckon it had, some time OF
other"
For a second sample the old man
! furnished the following:
There was a terrible big fish" said
he. what used to come up the Usage
before the war, and we got TO hearin'
so much about it that passed. of us
! fellerS set in to catch him. We got
| 200 feet of inch and half rope, had
| the blacksmith weld us a big hook,
and we put on a whole dog for bait.
/ We set our line, and soon, sure
enough, the fish swallered the dog,
hook and all, and the hook hung. We
couldn't nigh pull him out, though
there was ten of us, so we hitched on
two yoke of oxen, and after a hard
struggle we managed to drag that
fish out on the bank. He was nine
foot between the eyes, and his eyes
sOt closer together than they ought to
set in a fish of that size" kansas
City Star.