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newspaper, brought to the morgue the
dead mans wife. who had been es-
tranged and for whom the husband
had searched vainly for more than
five years.
The romance in the lives Of the
Rings, beginning prettily, ended in
sadness. long ago, but the story of it
was never known, save to a few. until
the woman, making her claim as the
widow, related il to the Fort William
authorities.
1t began seven years ago in a
little southern Minnesota town. Young
Ring and Florence Gordon, whose
parents lived on farm near the town
came to love each other and were
married under the happiest circum-
stances. They lived happily for year.
Then came an estrangement, and the
wife went away without saying where
she was going. She came to Minneap-
oils.
Ring, believing that she had gone
to Chicago, went there in search or
her, but could not find her. Then he
employed detective to continue the
hunt. He, too, was unsuccessful. The
expense of these searches, the wife
said, forced her husband to sell his
ia no
Minneapolis and came here.
He found her. but she ran into an
other room in terror
AT that time,' she told the press
correspondent at Fort William Il loved
my husband more than ever before.
yet one glance from him would have
killed me-
So she fled down the back stairs of
the house and disappeared again. She
went to Duluth and later to Fort Will
liam, where she lived under another
name.
Eventually Ring entered the employ
of Barnet & Record, and a few weeks
ago was sent with a crew to assist
in the construction of a large elevator
at Fort William. He did not know that
the woman he had sought So. long
was there. The scaffold upon which he
was working fell last Saturday and he
was killed instantly. Now the widow
says she is entitled to his life insur-
ance and to whatever else may be due
for the death of the man she left. Mrs.
Ring says they have a little boy of
six. She isn't certain, but thinks it is
in the home of Rings parents in the
southern part of Minnesota
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districts could not be operated. Ac-
cording to Mr.. McKissick, the street
lights could not be turned on early
Saturday evenings, when the business
houses were using so much electric
light: also when the opera house was
open. He stated to the council that
his company expected to give a rebate
to the city for the time the street
lamps were not lighted.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-21
For sale by L. L. Tallman.
Missourrs Electors May Go East.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Nov. 21.-JOhn
Ford of Monet, NO. republican cleo
tor, has proposed that the entire del
egation of eighteen members of the
Missouri electoral college go to Wash
ington together. The electors meet at
the state capitol in January and off,
cially cast their votes. One member
is then elected to carry the returns
to Washington. Mr.. Ford thinks each of
the electors will want to be the mes
senger. To please everybody and be-
cause Missouri has done a most ex-
traordinary thing in selecting republic
can electors, he proposes that the full
eighteen go in a body. Several other
electors agreed to the proposal.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-21
Haque Tribunal Meets.

THE HAGUE, Nov. 21.-The Hague
tribunal met today to arbitrate the
differences between Japan and Eng
land, France and Germany, as to the
tax levied by the Japanese government
on the buildings situated in the for
eign concessions at Toxic.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-21
OdeIi May Fight Depew.

There is no way Of telling at present
whether he will try to succeed Depew
in the senate. He would like to go to
the senate as a stepping stone to the
presidential office, and if things are
in good form he may get into this
race, but if such a program should
promise to injure his presidential
chances by making doubtful his con-
troll of the New York delegation to the
next national convention, he may per-,
NIT Depew to succeed himself.
1t has been known for some time
that Odell has had his eye on the sem
ate. 1t is risky business however,
for a man having presidential aspira-
lions to antagonize both United States
senators from his own state. Odell
lifted Platt's scalp last summer at the
state convention, which nomna ted
Higgins, and he might get more than
he bargained for if he were to attempt
to lift Depew's in January. Depew
realizes that he is in some danger. It
is said that he has never given more
of his time to a campaign in New York
than he has given this year. He was in
the field almost continuously, speaking
night and day, and sleeping on his
car.
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DEATH REVEALS FIRST WIFE
Edward Ring Didn't Know She Was
In Same Town.

MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi. Nov. 21-
A tragic coincidence marked the death
OF Edward Ring, the Minneapolis man
VINO was killed in Fort William Ont.
last week by falling with a scaffol5in.
on new elevator. The news of the az.
cldent. published in a Fort u;,i,on,
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Roosevelt Likes Root.

While the president will take no
hand in the contest, he is understood
to have remarked privately that he
would not object to being followed by
Elihu Root. Should Mr.. Root be a
candidate for the nomination, he
would have to fight the Odell machine.
and the odds might be against him.
However, may republicans who dislike
Odell would favor Root or anybody
else, if by SO doing Odell could be de-
feated.
Root is the best of the three named
His availability will be determined by
the trend taken by the trust question
during the next four years Since leav-
ing the cabinet he has been in the en-
ploy of several of the largest corpor-
atoms in the country, among them the
Northern Securities company.
Now that Roosevelt has removed the
vice presidential hoodoo, it is believe
that both parties will find it easie,
to select higher grade men for that OF.
flee, than, as a rule, have heretofore
been chosen.
cy odr., -fbxcy'spcyPhrdlu rdlu hrdlu,
Folk Leads Democrats,
Talk in the east is beginning t.
center on Folk of Missouri as a strop:
compromise democratic candidate fo]
the presidency in 1908 Bryan Ger.
talnly could not refuse to support him
for he was Falk's especial champio,
this year, and there is nothing in hi
record which makes him OBJECTIONABLE
TO the eastern faction Besides. /;
may be advisable in four years to g,
to Missouri for candidate if the dem
ocratic party is to recover the groun,
which it lost election day.
The chief objection to Folk is tina
he is not man of great ability: tina
ne may not measure up to the presi
dental standard. But after the nom
lnation of Parker this year. that OBJ
lection ought not to be insurmount
able, in the light of Folks availabint,
and the record he will be expected +
make as governor.
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FAIRBANKS. ODELL AND ROoi
LOOM UP AS POSSIBILITIES
FOR YEAR 1908.
EoIk Appears to Be the Strongest
Among the Democrats-Missour'
May Be Favored.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Nov. 2l.-Al-
ready figures are beginning to be seen
on the republican horizon as possible
candidates for the 1908 presidential
nomination-Fai OdeI and
Root.
Fairbanks undoubtedly accepted the
vice-presidential nomination this year
with a view to seeking first place Ia
ter on If Roosevelt could break all
precedents and establish new order
of things SO far as the vice presl-
dency is concerned, Fairbanks may
want to know why he should not be
able to follow in the Roosevelt path.
Governor Odell won an astounding
victory in the election of Higgins, as
governor of New York. He staked his
all on the cast of a single die, and
has made good. The Higgins victory
will perpetuate Odell in New York
politics and make him more of ma
tional figure than he has heretofore
happ
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-05-14
DISPENSE WAR BULLETINS.
Professional Story Tellers Serve Jap
anese Masses After the Fashion
of Newspaper Extras"

In Japan, story telling Is an old and
popular calling. Fhe professional story
tellers have their particular halls, where
at the present moment hundreds con-
gregate to listen to war news. True. the
Japanese story teller does not attract
the more refined or highly educated peo-
pie, but so popular is he with the masses
(who can seldom afford to attend the
theater) that he may be classed among
the most interesting of those who live
to please and instruct.
The Japanese news narrators OF the
present time are among the most pop
ular men of the cities in which they
ply their strange vocation. These YER
bal war bulletins and vocal dispensers
Of information upon the great conflict
now waging between Japan and Rus
Bia serve the masses after the fashion
of the American newspaper extras"
and the smaller the community where
they hold forth the greater Is the I'M
portance of the professional purveyorI
Of war intelligence and picturesque mar
rative.
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stock of these dainty dress accessories.
These lace ruff1es, by the way, are most
satisfactory when they are made UP on
special little bands of their own into
which they can be gathered or folded,
SO that they are complete in them
selves. The band can then be tackled
quite lightly into the sleeves and the
be washed or cleaned. Girls who may
chance to have nice little pieces of real
lace given to them, from time to time,
as some lucky girls do. should make a
point of collecting and saving them
carefully, with view to the manu-
facture of these dainty. ruffies in the
immediate future.
But to return once more to our
sketch, whence have wandered to give
this little disquisition on the subject Of
ruff1es, the style of the graceful walk
ing skirt is well worth noticing care
fully. The wide fat pleats, which are
outlined with tailor stitching, run
downwards from the waist and give
the effect of an overskirt, bordered
along the edges by lines of stitching
and groups of dull gold buttons These
pleats come only at the sides and back,
leaving plain panel down the center
of the front, and the skirt is finished
near the hem with double box-pleats
to form ffounce At the waist there
lis wide rucking belt of white soft
kid, drawn through a large buckle of
dull gold
In the matter of hats, mademoiselle
will have wide choice this summer,
and she must indeed be very difficult to
suit if she is not able to find something
that will be specially becoming to her.
The hats with turn-down mushroom
brims are not to be despised by any
means for country wear, since they
give a good shade to the eyes, while to
the average girl they are quite sur
prisingly becoming. For morning wear
they are pretty trimmed either with a
very wide frayed-out ruche of glace
silk or else with choux OF soft satin
ribbon. arranged round the crown In
graduated sizes. For morning wear
also, the straw hats. trimmed only with
straw, are very appropriate. Sometimes
the straw is arranged in the form of
loops and bows, rosettes, or buckles
In other cases the straw is worked up
into the close semblance of punches of
small flowers, tiny roses and rose buds
for example. tinted in various colors
to match the straw hats upon which
they will be used for trimmings
ELLEN osMONDE.
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often as it might be. think. for smart
but useful summer petticoats. The
three full fiounces, at the hem, are
sewn on to deeper fiounce. which
should be protected underneath by a
second thickness of the material sim
ply hemmed. These flounces might
have three little tucks to border the
hem of each, or, if still smarter effect
is aimed at, each flounce might be
adorned with three rows of white satin
baby ribbon.
An idea which might appeal to some
girls would be to have the petticoat It
self of white alpaca, and then arrange
the deep fiounce and the three small
frills in white glace silk, SO that the
effect is that of silk skirt, while the
cost is considerably less. and the dura-
bility considerably greater. This idea
might be carried out, of course. equally
well in colors, as In white. with the ad-
vantage that the colors, unless very
pale shades were chosen. would be Tar
more economical than white.
Our other illustration represents one
of the latest and prettiest versions of
the coat and skirt costume, q simple,
but becoming style. which is likely to
BE worn all the summer through. since
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"a HUMBLE CAME IN THE NoRTH coUNTRY.

we so for walk in the snowy forest
and, pointing out the deer tracks, he
sagely remarks concerning the traveller,
whether 'yearling doe, two-year-old or
old buck" be looks up the slope from
the river and says an otter has passed
by; he comes in with pretty slain mar
ten and asks me to take his pitcher" TO
send Mr.. Bachelor.
Uncle Phil, surely, will be amusing.
Uncle Phil of strong individuality, Of
careful habit of exaggeration, and so
"techy" one must handle him with
gloves. Many stories are told Of the
old fellow, some true, some o'er-true.
Two can vouch for. His wife, a tiny
wizened old body of 65 or so. could not
stand the long, arduous climb to her hus-
bands woods retreat, so the old fellow.
desiring her society, put her in his pack
basket and carried her up the trail on
his back. The other little anecdote has
to do with no such act of chivalry, but
illustrates that all, ladies included, must
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pile and WATERFALL for aimless strolling
and wandering.
The Bachelors lived on farm, the
one described in "Eben Holden" as be-
longing to David Brewer. pleasantly
situated in the Paradise Valley of Eben
Holden fame-"a valley reaching to
distant hills and river winding
through it, glimmering In the sunlight;
long, wooded ledge breaking into
naked, grassy slopes on one side of the
valley and on the other deep forest
rolling to the far horizon; between them
big patches of yellow grain and white
buckwheat and green pasture land and
green meadow and the straight road
with white houses on either side OF 1t,
glorious in double fringe of golden rod
and purple aster and yellow John 's-wort
and the deep blue Of the Jacobs ladder.
Looks good deal like the promised
land" said Uncle Eb.
Though not showing much enthu-
siasm for the tasks about the farm, the
youthful Irving was not indolent when
it came to books, liking both study and
reading. standing high in his classes,
fond of oratorical flights and Of trying
his mettle in the debating tournaments
that used to exercise young gentlemen of
an argumentative turn of mind. When
he shook the local dust from his feet and
set out for t'the pageant of the big town.
he proved himself anything but an idler,
worked away with the energy and endu-
rance inherited from those hardy an
cestors that travelled from Vermont to
the New York Wilderness, there to carve
out home and competence for their
families; and worked with the hope may
hap inherited from his mothers May
flower ancestry. OF the story of the sue
cesses and failures experienced by the
creator of Eben Holden. newspaper
readers are more or less familiar. so we
shall merely refer to the fact that the
way was not all fiowery, that fame and
financial returns did not come at mo-
ment's call
Mr.. Bacheller is fairly early riser,
and his habit is to write until four
o'clock In the afternoon--a long period
for intellectual labor. For recreation he
wisely chooses vigorous outdoor exer-
else. and his vacations are spent prefer
ably in the woods. in tramping and fish
ing and hunting. in camp-life and whole
some outdoor living. In the portion OF
the Adirondacks from which am writ
ing this sketch, he Is familiar figure.
Guide and residents have much to tell me
OF the author that visits this delightful
spot. have recently employed as win
ter guide and snowshoe instructor Ben
son, youth that last summer led MIR.
Bachelor to the best haunts for trout.
directed his course through the pleas
ATTEST woodland trails, and have been
much interested to find that the patron,
after month of that close companion
ship necessarily existing between woods
guide and guided, continues q hero.
Benson says he and Mr.. Bachelor had
their pitchers taken about rs times
last summer when they VIZ in the
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there can be no longer any doubt that
the neat. semi-fltting. and occasionally
even light hitting Elton coats and bole-
ros viii quite take the place OF the
loose Russian blonses and pouched
fronts. which have been popular now
for such long time. This pretty
dress should be made In a fine smooth
cloth or soft tweed in a pale shade OF
pastel green, the coat arranged with an
applique and strappings OF white box
cloth, and further adorned with small
dull gold buttons arranged in groups
Of three.
The coat is cut with the prevailing
slope on the shoulder. where the seam
Is hidden under strapping of white
standing cloth. and at the wrists there
are those full ruffies of fine lawn. which
are also to be seen on most of the new
walking costumes for the late spring
and early summer. Deep rufIies OF lawn
or lace, chiffon or mousseline de sole,
are everywhere asserting themselves,
and mademoiselIe may be glad to
know of this fact, so that she may pro-
vide herself beforehand with goodly
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TRYING RACHEIIER

rA,MRVING BACHELLER - we
ZAE cling to the desirable old
u ~ fashioned custom OF making
~ - a celebrity ours, of emitting
IN the formal mister--is q
~ \ wCodsman through and
through. His knowledge OF
forest and stream, and of the dwellers
therein. he has obtained flrst-hand. His
writings are permeated with the spirit
OF the woods.
Not only does Mr. Bachelor appear to
us writer closely familiar with Nature
as found in the Adirondack woods, but
an author sturdily appreciative OF that
American of whom we have cause to be
proud; of the plucky pioneer, the from
tiersman OF the early west, men capable
of using their firearms when necessary
and using them effectively, fearless, yet
God-fearing, "dreaners that worked,
adventures that prayed" unlike the
daredevil, six-shooter cowboy and
ranger of the later west. We hold Mr..
Bachelor interpreter Of the life of the
woods, and revealer of the character OF
the Seltter lndt lalu the louhudtion VI
northern New York.
1t was in this region Mr.. Bachelor was
born, at Pierpont. little village in st.
Lawrence county. just in the foothills
of the Adirondack mountains. Here he
spent his boyhood days; here went to the
district school. took part in the debating
societies, was a sharer in and observer
OF the social life he was later to picture.
And here he roamed the woods, spending
his time In that pregnant idleness which
years later was to bear rich fruit. His
father, however. thought this one Of his
seven children merely lazy boy (not a
budding genius), who babe fair to grow
up good-for- nothing. He was a good boy.
to be sure, but indolent. neglecting wood
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iuStfZ<Mi tue mOueEU 6iiis AZ" NAeAs
TE really pretty materials are
obtainable SO cheaply. and
nov also that fashion seems to look SO
kindly upon the many charming modes
which are eminently suitable from the
very fact of their simplicity. to the
special requirements of mademoiselle.
Just now, when the summer season 10
almost upon us with its wealth of light
and dainty materials for charming and
inexpensive gowns, seems an appropri-
ate time to say something to the girls
along that line.
To the girl who is going away for
the, summer to the seashore or lake
or mountain resort. or the girl who is
to spend the months at home, some
thing quite new and very pretty in
the way of a dainty dressing jacket
should prove specially interesting. 1t
is just such jacket as this which our
artist has illustrated in one of the ac-
companying sketches, and although the
design is an exceptionally pretty one,
the jacket might nevertheless be very
successfully attempted by a clever
home dressmaker, such as many of the
girls Of the present day have proved
themselves to be.
The material suggested for the dress
ing jacket In question is one of the new
patterns in Viyella, with little punches
of flowers in pale shades Of pink and
green, scattered over an ivory-white
background. The Jacket is prettily
gathered on cords all the way round,
the cords going across the back and
front, and also along the top of the
sleeve. The collar is Of fine muslin or
lawn, with white embroideries 1t Is,
of course, detachable, as it will proba-
bly, need to be washed more often than
the jacket itself. If embroidered lawn
is not forthcoming the collar might be
made out of two embroidered hand
kerchiefs, cut across diagonally, so that
they make four points. This collar is
finished in front in quite new way,
with large buttons covered with rib
bon, and sewn in the center of ribbon
rosettes, which are then finished with
loops and ends The sleeves are drawn
into band of embroidered lawn, and
hAiSHSu Win AiiIcu lawn iihtS, 1nu -
esettes and loops Of ribbon to match the
trimming in front.
This delightful little jacket for smart
occasions, but for those who prefer
something of simpler kind the same
idea might be carried out very success
fully in floral Viyella. without any rib
bon trimming. and with collar and cuffs
of plain cream viyella, outlined with
feather-stitching or narrow cream silk
washing braid. The pettieoat which
has been sketched with this dressing
jacket would be very suitable for early
summer wear, made in fine white al.
epaca, material which is not used as
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woods: that they got so used to folks
stopping them and asking to let them get
snap. they didn't think anything of
1t at all. Mr.. Bachelor, so his guide
tells me. is big and lusty and can en-
dure good deal; will carry pack HIM
self. not expect a guide to do the whole
thing. as do so many city fellows. He
can hunt and fish, too: but Is not like
some-does not want TO fish till there
Amt a trout left in the stream" He
goes tramping along, seems to enjoy
just walking and being In the woods,
and when night comes is not tired and
cross. gather he is more OF natnral-
ist than sportsman, and that he Is q
pleasant fellow. quiet yet jovial, demo-
cratic and generous; treating a guide
as though he were fellow-being,
worthy of respect and courtesy Alfred
showed me letters received from his
hero, letters couched in friendly phrase.
as equal to equal. and told me that the
author had sent him two books, his own
writings, and that on the blank page OF
each had written mice verse and
the words from Irving S. Bachelor to
his friend.
Benson has caught some OF the tricks
of the trade and confides to me he be-
lieves MIR. Bachelor was up here re-
ally to get material" and have small
doubt such was the case, and expect ere
long We shall have from the pen of this
student Of nature and of human nature
fine character-study OF the habitat OF
the woods OF to-day, the Adirondack
guide. And in the brief glance Of him
I have enjoyed ! am convinced he Is
worthy Of Mr.. Bachelors study. There
is Alfred, himself, who should be put
in book; Alfred, quiet, observant, skill
full, plucky. dweller in the woods sum-
mer and winter, filled with woods lore