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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-11
Germicide Door mats, Germ Proof
Wells, Fumigating Attachments
for Letter Boxes, Money Hand
lers and Many Other Articles to
Ward Off the Attacks Of the
Invisibles.
New York Tribune,

+ 4
@ Germ fear is a feature of the TWEEN
tieth century. There is an antiseptic
or germ destroying craze. The public,
or part Of it, awakened, at last, to
the existence and the peril of germs,
demands-a little too frantically, per-
haps- germ protection.
In response to this demand there
are offered to the public many strange
and ingenious devices. The object of
these devices is the prevention Of all
such diseases as arise from the swal-
lowing of germs, or their touch, or
their inhalation. Thus:
There are on the market money
scoops-silver instruments Of pocket
-wherewith to handle unsteri-
liked coins.
Germicide Doormats.
There are germicide doormats.
These, being stepped upon in the right
spot, emit a spray of highly volatile
fluid that is supposed to render harm
less the millions of disease germs
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-11
(To be continued next Saturday,

An official document has just been is
sued by the Italian government dissuad-
ing skilled mechanics from emigrating to
the United States, as it is expected that
the Industrial prospect of this country
will be much depressed in the near fu-
ture and the number Of unemployed enor-
mously increased
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-11

child which bore such a striking re-
semblance to Ermyn. s'Wha--what
do you mean-'
He stopped, staring at Beatrice in
dumb bewilderment and horror. She
on her side said nothing, and still hid
her face.
Are you sure, Lord Catherington,
that this is your child at all %
Lord Catherington stood for q mo-
ment confounded. Then he said,
sternly, touching Beatrice sharply on
the arm: Tell me the TRUTH Is
the child mine?''
She could not look up. In broken
accents she sobbed out:
mo. I've deceived you. The
chiId's mine, my husbands. The
child entrusted to me by-by Lady
Catherington was-was the one that
died"
He uttered sound that sent shiv-
er thru her. Then he put little Ernyn
gently down, and, with a hoarse, NUT
tered word of unintelligible apology,
| he turned and went out of the room
without another word to her. There
was something in the very sound of
his staggering, uncertain footsteps that
cut the guilty woman to the heart.
She had done the one thing he
could never forgive. In spite of all
her joy in her recovered child, Be
atrice felt that her own heart was
| broken.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01

reason was the wise regulation of Caesar
abandoned and a eapricious one substi-
tuted. q
Caesars regulation was still further dis
turbed through an error in intercalating a
day every third year, instead of every
fourth, and in the course of few centu-
lies the equinox sensibly refrigerated to-
wards the beginning Of the year.
Pope Gregory XIII now took hand
and directed that 10 days be suppressed
in the calendar, and, as the error of the
Julian INTERPOLATION was found to amount
to three days in 400 years, he ordered
the intercalations to be omitted on all
the centenary years, except those which
were multiples of 400. So every year
whose number is divisible by four without
a remainder became a leap year. except the
centurial years, which are leap years only
when diyisible by four after emitting the
twi ciphers. Thus 1900 was a leap year,
but 100. 1900 and 1906 we're common years
and 1000 will be leap year.
The Gregorian method has been adopted
in all Christian countries except Russia.
The Mahometan years, observed IN
Turkey. Persia and Arabia, are purely
lunar and consist of II lunar months, com
mencng with the approximate new moon,
without any attempt to keep to the same
season with respect to the sun, 50 that
they retrogade through all the seasons IN
about 1914 years.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01
HOW NEW YEAR DAY CAME
TO BE NAILED DOWN

time, of origin so remote as to be entirely
lost sight of.
The month is made by the synodic revo-
luton of the moon, which is accomplished
in about 29A days.
Twelve lunations complete the cycle of
the seasons, with the exception that they
vary ll1a days from the time taken by the
sun in its annual swing around the circle.
To retain the months and at the same
time fix the year and harmonic the differ
ence in time formed a problem that is not
yet quite settled.
Among the ancient Egyptians the month
consisted of 80 days invariably, and in
order to complete the year five days were
added at the end, They lost a quarter of
a day each year, and in l,46l years
whole year was lost. Naturally it com
menced sometimes at one season and
sometimes at another
Julius Caesar first fixed the first day
of the year where it is now and provided
for it's remaining there. With the advice
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01

next annual meeting. They now declare
that the choice of that city was matter
of sentiment and not Of Judgment. The
only reason advanced for the choice Of
Spokane as rallying point is the desire
of the association to hold its meeting in
each of the several large cities of the state.
1t is shown that it is more desirable to
meet west of the mountains, by the fact
tina the Inland Empire Teachers associ-
alton holds annual meetings east of the
mountains, thus dividing the attendance,
with the State association. The teachers
of Western Washington win be inclined to
stay at home rather than go so far to
attend the convention next year.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01
WATCH SERVICES

Watch services were held last night in
many of the churches Of the city. At
midnight whistles and bells sounded the
knel of the year 1903, and then rang in
a Happy New Year to all.
There will be many attractions to en-
liven New Years day. The Tacoma High
school is playing the Indians of the Puy.
allup reservation a game of football on
the Eleventh Street grounds this after.
noon. The Y. M. G. A. has kept open
house all day, and tonight special pro
gram will be given All the theaters have
provided exceptionally fine attractions fol
tonight.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01
ELOPEMENT

Because of the affection Of Il. Grant,
bartender, for another mans wife, the
home OF Henry Brisner of Sumner has
been broken up Grant came to Sumner
while Brisner was away on n business
trip. He formed the acquaintance Of Mrs.
Grant and soon their actions aroused the
suspicious of the neighbors. When the
husband returned home he was informed of
the state of affairs and a stormy time fol-
lowed in the Brisner home. Monday.
while her husband was in Tacoma, Mrs.
Brisner took her two children and left
with Grant. Nothing has been seen of the
couple since, but they are supposed to be
in Seattle
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01

of Sosigenes, he fixed the mean length of
the year at 1851 days and decreed that
every fourth year should have 1865 days,
the other years having $685. His first year
commenced with the lst of January of
the 10th before the birth of Christ. In
order to get his year started right, the one
Immediately preceding it was drawn out
into AS days, and was called the year of
confusion
In the distribution of the days through
the several months Caesar adopted the
simple method of making the first, third,
fifth, seventh, ninth and eleventh months
have 81 days and the others 30, except
February, which had 20, but every fourth
year 80.
This order was soon interrupted to graft
fly the vanity of the Emperor Augustus,
by giving the month bearing his name as
manv days as July, which was named for
Julius. A day was taken from February
and given to August, and, in order that
three months of 81 days might not come
together, September and November were
reduced to 80 days and 81 given to De-
tober and December. For so frivolous a
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01

New Years day comes around so regu-
larly and so naturally that we are apt
to overlook the fact that one of the big
gest questions with which the worlds
astronomers have had to deal is that of
getting New Years day nailed down so
that it does not go sliding out of place.
The ancients had all sorts of trouble
about this. The sun and the moon each
goes its own way and their seemingly err
ratio courses were not easily reconciled
And they had to be got together before
fixed year could be determined. 1t has
taken centuries of figuring, and there still
remains little fraction of time that is
not quite whipped into the calculations.
The day, of course, easily suggested it
self
The week is an arbitrary division OF
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01
IMPROVEMENTS
AT CAR BARNS

Now that most of the cars of the street
railway company have been standardized
the tracks at the car barn will be widened
so the cars can be taken in. Formerly
there have been four tracks at the barn,
but by standardizing them sufficient space
will be left for only three. A temporary
track will be built north of the car barn
for the use of the cable cars, while the
work of reconstruction is going on.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01

The Hebrew calendar is dated from the
creation. which is considered to have taken
place 1890 years and three months before
the beginning of the Christian era. The
year is leni-solar. and, according as it is
ordinary or embolismic, consists of IL or
10 lunar months, each of which has 20
or y, days. The duration of the ordinary
year is 354 days and that of the embolimic
is 1884. In either case il is sometimes made
day more or less in order that certain
festivals may fall on certain days of the
week
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01
NEW YEAR ANNOUNCED

The national capital announced to Ia
coma the exact moment of the birth of
the New Year at midnight by ringing a
bell in the office of the Western Union
Telegraph company The electric wire was
connected with the United States naval
observatory at Washington. This plan
was carried on extensively throughout the
United States.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01
SUCCESSFUL TEACHERS

As a result Of the examinations recently
held by the state board of education six
life diplomas were granted. The success
Arville NJ Wylie OF Seattle, Mrs. Amy A.
Case Of Olympia, Miss Ellen Ingram Of
Walla Walla, Miss June Rogers of Day
ton, Miss Sadie Burr of Spokane and
9. b. Beach Of Bremerton.
The board also issued "a honorary d.
plomas upon certificates from various in
stitutions. Three state certificates were
issued upon the diplomas of accredited
schools.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01

some very rich country. If we could only
ship over one branch of the o. r. & N,
why, it would mean a great thing for us.
You would see more wholesale houses
spring up in Tacoma than you could shake
stick at Look at Seattle, she is prac-
tically the terminus of both the Great
Northern and the Canadian Pacific, be-
sides having the Northern Pacific running
in there.
"If the Union Pacific should come in
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01

here and it will in time, the Great North
ern and the Canadian Pacific will be COM
PEELED to do So AS it is the Great North
ern gets a nice little business, but if we
get the Union Pacific there will be more
competition and the Great Northern would
have to come to Tacoma. Yes, we want
that Union Pacific road, and any more that
we can get"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01
REFITTING
GREYHOUND

The steamer Greyhound is being re-
fitted at the Eureka dock. As yet Cap
tain Wilson has made no definite an
nouncement of the packets run. He saws
when refurnished the boat will be one of
the finest on Puget Sound.
She will be transformed either into a
coal or oil burner and win be out in
about 10 days.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01
0be |fage
FLORENCE IL

Florence Roberts appears at the Ia
coma theater tonight in THE Frsky Mrs.
johnson, a satirical comedy that has run
ming through it most interesting story.
Saturday night another popular play, THE
Unwelcome Mrs. HATCH will be pre-
sented
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01
aIIETI.O. BILL

That lively farce, Hello Bill' will be
the attraction at the Tacoma theater Sun
day night. There is well defined plot in
the piece and the story is plentifully
sprinkled with the right kind Of wit. John
DAILY Murphy, well known in this city,
will be BILL"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01
"SANDY BoTToM. .

The opening performance of SANDY Bot
tom" at the Lyceum theater was greet
ed by large audience last night Some
changes for the better have taken place
since the play was seen here last year and
1t promises to be more popular than
ever.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01
NEWSPAPER MAN
NOW 4 BENEDICT

Francis Goss, Tacoma newspaper man,
was married last night in Seattle to Miss
Bonnie Rice of that place The ceremony
took place in st. Marks church, Rev.
Llwyd officiating. Mr.. and Mrs. Goss will
be at home in Tacoma after Monday
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01
j. II. SToDDART.

/ Next Monday Beside the Bonnie Brier
Bush" will open two nights engagement
at the Tacoma theater. 1t will be pre-
sented by j. III. Stoddart and strong sup
porting company.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01
EDISON THEATER.

Rose Golden with her illustrated songs
and the other attractions at the Edison
are being applauded this week by audi.
ences that crowd the house.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01
BALL AT TACOMA HOTEL.

The Ankh Unnofie club gave ball at
the Tacoma hotel last evening About 80
couples attended and many Of them re-
manned TO hear the bells ring in the
New Year.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01

COME LATE

The teachers of this state are now re.
GREETING that they chose Spokane for their
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01

WASHINGTON TRUCK CO., j. @. Hew.
lit & 90. General freighting, household
goods, safes and pianos removed. Office
lO9 Tenth st. Office telephone, John 234l.
Barn telephone. James 234I.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01
BIG GAIN

The customs report of this district for
the past six months will be in excess Of
the corresponding period of 1902. 1t is
thought by Collector of Customs @. w.
lde Of Port Townsend that the gain win
be about per cent, or from $4,000 to
S25 900.
FOUND--Ladies' handbag, with purse and
small amount of money. Cali at the
Northwestern Detective Agency, Room
426 California Bldg. ~.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-01

NORTHWESTERN Detective Agency,
1867 Cal. Blk. See Us. Tel. Black 1925,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-15

then he becomes discouraged. For
several months he has been at the
home of his father On Turnbow fiat,
near Palouse. On pleasant days he sits
in a big arm chair on the north porch,
facing the road, and watches the teams
drive by. Neighbors and friends fire.
quently call on him and he enjoys their
visits. He still hopes that he may re-
cover the use of his body
When shot Mr.. Turnbow weighed
nearly 200 pounds. Now he will weigh
but little more than half of that. His
body has shrunken until there is lit
tie flesh on his bones. He has no
feeling below the shoulders and suf-
fers no pain.
Brown is out on bonds Of $4,000 on
charge of assault with intent to kill.
He spent nine months in the county
Jail before giving bonds. His trial is
set for next October. He is now talk
ing of opening a real estate office in
Oakesdale.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-15

tive drills. Prizes in the aggregate
sum Of $4,000 are to be awarded the
winners in the competitor. This money
will be paid in gold to the captains of
the successful companies next Satur-
day, on which day the six army Oft-
GERS who are to act as judges will an
nounce their decisions. The drills will
all take place at the Jackey club park,
and will begin Wednesday morning,
continuing each day until all classes
are finished.
The decoration of the city in honor
of the conclave has been carried out on
scale never attempted before. Flags
and bunting hide the fronts of build
ings and residences throughout the
city. In the downtown district, the
decorations include many magnificent
Pythian emblems formed from num-
dreds of multi colored electric lights.
The social features of the encamp-
ment will be noteworthy. Arrange
ments have been concluded for two
grand balls in honor Of the knights
and the ladies accompanying them. Re-
ceptions will be held at the leading no.
tells, beginning this evening. Other
features will include boat rides on the
Ohio river and an excursion to Mann
moth cave
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-15
MURDER CHARGE WILL NOT LIE
Man Shot by j. e. Brown Lives More
Than Year and a Day.

GARFIELD, Aug. 15.-J. f. Brown
cannot be tried for murder, should T. j.
TurnbOW die as a result of the gun
shot wound inflicted by Brown Au-
gust 9, 1903. The law specifies that, in
order to establish a charge of murder,
the victim must die as a result of the
wound inflicted by his assailant within
one year and one day from the time
the wound was inflicted. That period
expired, in this case, several days ago.
Turnbow is alive and may possibly live
for months.
Since the day he was shot Tom
Turnbow has been a helpless paraly-
tic. From his shoulders down his body
is completely paralyzed, but his mind
is bright, and he talks as cheerfully as
before he was shot, except at rare in
tervals, when he has bad SPELLS and
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-15
MESSAGE OF FOE ON HIS TABLE
Manifesto Of Revolutionary Party Is
Found After PIehve Funeral.

ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 15.-Wher
the ear returned from Won Plehve's fu-
neral, he found on the table in his
study in the Peterhof palace a mani
festo of the Russian revolutionary par
ty explaining the reason for Won
Plehves murder.
1t also declared that the terrorist
party's committee Of action had re-
solved to remove all obstacles and all
men stopping the way for the freedom
of the Russian people from despotism
The ear gave the document to the
minister of justice, NJ Muravief, in
Structing him to conduct a personal
investigation. The commander of the
Peterhof palace, General Hesse, will be
dismissed
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-15
TIE FAIR ROUTE

Via Chicago or New Orleans to St
Louis, is the one that gives you the
most for your money, and the fact that
the Illinois Central offers unsurpassed
service via these points to the Worlds
fair, and in this connection to all
points beyond makes it to your advan-
tage, in case you contemplate a trip
to any point east, to write us before
making final arrangements.
We can offer the choice of at least a
dozen different routes.
B. Fl. TRIrMBULL
Commercial Agent,
142 Third Street, Portland, Or.
J. G. LINDSEY, II. F. & p. A.,
142 Third ST., Portland, Or.
P. B. THOMPSON, F. & PA.
Room 1, Colman Bldg, Seattle.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-15
THIS COUPLE HAVE VANISHED
Their Empty Boat Is Found On the
Shore of the Lake.

BELLINGHAM, Aug. 15.-An up
| turned boat found on Lake Whatcom.
not far from Silver beach, together
| with the disappearance Of a young man
and woman from this city who rented
| the boat, seems to give conclusive evil
| dence of an accident in which two
night of last week, William McKen-
zie and Miss Katie Bast secured a boat
| at Belanger's landing and started out
| for row on the lake. Neither mas
been seen since and the finding of the
| boat lends color to the belief that both
were drowned.
| Mckenzie is % years old. He form
| erly conducted cigar store here.
| Lately he sold it and went to work at
the Great Excelsior mine A week ago
| he came back to this city and had
| been staying at Beck's hotel, where he
had $145 on deposit. About o'clock
| last Monday he borrowed dollar from
mis- cousin, the day clerk at the hotel
not wishing to break his deposit From
| the hotel he went to call on Katie Bast,
a 16-year-o girl with whom he had
been keeping company for several
months, and invited her to accompany
him on boat ride on the lake. She ex-
| tended the invitation to her father who
declined the invitation, but permitted
his daughter to go with Mckenzie in
whom he had great confidence. A
strong wind was blowing when they
| secured the boat, and it is presumed
! that they We're swamped.
| The boat man waited till II o'clock
| for them to return, believing they had
stopped with the girls sister and
| brOther-in law, who were camping at
| the lake. The father of the girl held
to the same belief until next day.
A search resulted in the finding of
| the boat
Mr.. Bast does not entertain the idea
| of an elopement as he was not dis
| cOuraging the association of the two
The boat man who rented Mckenzie
| the boat refuses to believe it is a case
of drowning, as with the way the wind
I was blowing it would have been i'm
possible for the craft to drift where It
was found and claims to nave found
| the place where the boat was hauled
| on shore.
| In the absence Of any apparent mo-
| tive or preparation for elopement and
| in view of McKenzie's ignorance of
| boats, however, the drowning theory is
| most generally believed. The lake is
| bling dragged by many boats.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-15
O, r. q n. Co.

For Triennial Conclave, knights
Templar, September to and for the
Sovereign Grand Lodge I. o. o. F..
September 10 to rs. the o. R. & N. Co
will sell excursion tickets to San
Francisco via steamer or rail, $3.50.
Dates Of sale
Via steamer August q, % and Sep.
TENDER 1 and 2.
Via rail September 1, 2, 3, Is, 16 and
II: limit October %.
For berth reservations call on OF
address r. BURNS,
Il .-~" General Agent.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-15
Rate to the worlds Fair.

To st. Louis and return $4,000
To Chicago, and return 80. 90. $500
To st. Louis. returning from
Chicago, or
To Chicago. returning from St.
Louis ........ ............... $3.50
To st. Louis returnin via Chi
cago, or
To Chicago returning via st.
Tickets on sale-September 5tn, 9Th
and It'll; October Sd, 4th and 5th.
Good going for ten days, returning
80 days. Stopover in either direction
within limits. For information as to
routes and side trips, sleeping car ac-
commodations, etc.. call on or address
any agent, or,
S. B. CALDERHEAD,
Gen. Pass. Agent, w. & G. R. R'y
A. D. CHARLTON, Walla Walla.
A. G. P. A. Nor. Pac. R'y
Portland. Oregon.