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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-12-14

The presidents foreign policy, as revealed
in his treatment of The Hague conference
the Monroe doctrine and the Santa Domingo
case, Is an especially strong feature of this
message. It shows that the country has never
had more earnest or more consistent con-
servator of peace than the man whose few
enemies are wont to call him war lord-or-
more properly speaking, were wont to do this.
Kansas City Times.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-12-14

Perhaps the most crushing blow admins
tered in recent years to the Penrose- Durham
state machine-more disastrous, in fact, than
the defeat Of "Errand Boy" Plummer in the
state treasury fight. is concealed in an order
issued yesterday from the main office of the
Pennsylvania Railroad company. This order
cuts off all the free transportation that has
been such an important factor In the work
OF the state and local political organizations
and means that the bosses themselves. as well
as their satellites. will In the future pay their
railroad fares or else refrain from travel.
Following Is the the official and far.reaching
order: In view OF the general agitation on
the subject OF legislation on railroad rates
and the abolition OF all forms OF rebates and
concessions II has been decided by the man
agement OF the Pennsylvania railroad that all
forms of free transportation will be dlscon-
tinued after the end OF the present year"
For some time the pass evil has been under
consideration by the trunk line officials aud
yesterdays order was the result. Having
boldly taken the lead, the Pennsylvania rail-
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-12-14

The president has much to say on the
subject of railroad rates, but little that is
new. The tariff question is one which the
president considers of secondary Importance
or too delicate for discussion. If the presi-
dent could only condense diffuse sentence
into few weighty words his messages would
be state documents that all would read and
enjOy.-Chicago Tribune
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-12-14

If we were asked to give general idea
of the presidents message in the fewest
possible words we should say that the
writer Stands pat This would cover the
passages on the absorbing topic of railroad
rates pretty thoroughly. Such changes as
are made from the message of last year in
dictate no changew hatever in spirit and
purpose. The one distinctly disappointing
passage in the message relates to the general
tariff question. It contains nothing to en-
courage the advocates of tariff reform.-New
York Herald.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-20
A. HABERSTOcK SAYS 1T is IDEAL
FOR LIGHT LAND
COUNTRY.
Acre-EspeciaIIy Adapted for
Poultry Raising.

| A. Haberstock, residing two and one
half miles east of Walla Walla on R..
F. D. No. 8, believes that the farmers
| of Walla Walla county are not suffi
GENTLY conversant with the virtues of
Jerusalem corn, which is especially
| adapted to lands of semi-arid nature
and which he declares is the finest
chicken feed in the world.
Mr.. Haberstock called at the States
! man office Saturday evening and re-
lated his experience with Jerusalem
corn. II obtained samples of Jeru
salem corn in Klickitat county eighteen
years ago and since then have raised
small crops of the grain every year"
Mr.. Haberstock said. unlike any
other corn Jerusalem corn grows in
punches and there is an average of
about 1900 kernels to the bunch. The
kernels are small and white In color
and make the finest chicken feed
imaginable. 1t is excellent feed for
horses and once they taste it they pre-
fer it to oats. Jerusalem corn thrives
only on semi-arid land which must
be free from alkali. Land that is ir-
rigated or SUBJ irrigated, is fatal to it's
growth, which makes it especially val
liable to the light land country. My
experience in raising Jerusalem corn
is that it obtains it's moisture from the
air instead Of from the soil. This be-
ing the case it takes no strength from
the soil but instead imparts strength
to it. 1t is especially valuable in put
ting summer fallow land in condition
for a wheat crop.
my methods that I have followed in
raising Jerusalem corn is to plant the
seed along in May. 1t is not necessary
to place the seed more than two
inches deep. The hills should be about
three feet apart with four to five kerr
nels to each hil1. The corn natures in
this valley along late in September
and October, although in a warmer eli
mate such as in Klickitat county, l
have known it to mature in August.
The average yield of Jerusalem corn
I find is from 35 to so bushels an acre.
The stalks grow from to Z feet in
height For chicken feed I would pay
as much per bushel as for the finest
wheat The corn is very nourisning
and being of small size it is peculiarly
adapted to poultry raising"
Mr.. Haberstock will have several
punches of the corn on exhibition at
the Statesman office in a few days, that
farmers who are interested in its Gull
ture may examine it.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-20
WALLA WALLA COUNTY EXHIBIT
AT LEWIS AND CLARK
FAIR ASSURED.
preparation to WaIIa WaIIa
County Fair Association.

After an informal discussion with
the Lewis and Clark fair commission,
appointed Saturday morning at a
meeting of taxpayers held at the court
house, the board of county commits
sioners late Saturday evening appro
priated $4,000 for county and school
DR.. Blalock Mord Mcdonald and
Charles Whitney appointed a commits
with the commissioners and the meth
DDS to be pursued in gathering the ex-
hibit were gone over in detail.
The commission will employ several
persons conversant with the work to
visit every community in the county
where exhibits of merit might be OBJ
tanned. Extreme care will be exercised
in disbursing the appropriation and
every bill contracted will first be
audited by the commission before it is
presented 10 the DOdru lOT pay Illeul
Vouchers will be demanded for every
expenditure no matter how small an
amount it may be.
In view of the fact that so short
time remains in which a creditable ex-
hibition can be gotten together, the
committee will proceed at once to order
jars for the fruit and grain exhibits.
Mr.. Whitney was Of the opinion that
several hundred jars would be needed.
1t will be necessary he said to get the
orders in early at the factory as there
would be a big demand for jars this
year.
Before bringing the matter of an ap-
preparation to a vote Chairman Nor
row stated that he wanted it under
stood that every community in the
county was to be represented. He did
not want the exhibit to be merely a
Walla Walla, or Waitsburg affair but
something that would be a faithful
representation of the resources of the
whole county.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-20
ject of the government investigation.
Not DISCLOSING Plans.

Joseph Weissenbach attorney for the
Chicago house of the Schwarzchild &
Sulzberger company, when asked for
details concerning the conference
1T is matter with which I am not
acquainted"
How about the story that the
Schwarzchild & Sulzberger company,
have been offered $22,O0O,O00 by the
trust for their business
II know nothing about that" said
Mr.. Weissenbach; "see Mr.. Sulzber-
GER
rs the Schwarzchild & Sulzberger
company in direct competition with the
big packers-the trust?"
''The Schwarzchild & Sulzberger
people have opened independent com
petition with the so-called Big Five
in many places throughout the United
States, and they do business independ-
emily of what is commonly called the
combine.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-20
IRONCLAO VESSELS.
The First Ones Seem to Have Been
Built by France In 1855.

The First Ones Seem to Have Been
Built by France In 1855.
The idea of protecting ships by means
Of armor appears to have originated
in the United States, but the French
were the first to adopt it. Five floating
batteries were constructed in France
with oak sides eight inches thick, pro-
tected by armOr four and three eighths
inches thick. In March, 1855, the first
of these, the Tonnante, mounting six
teen guns, was launched at Brest, and
the other four were all launched in the
same year These vessels were first
used at the bombardment Of Kinburn
in the Black sea on the 18th October,
1855. Two English vesselS-the Erebus
and Terror-were at once built on SINH
lar lines, but did not arrive at Kinburn
till the Oath Of October, too late to take
part in the bombardment.
The results Of this experiment were
so satisfactory that the French govern
ment fitted a wooden frigate, then
building, with armor Of the same thick
ness, and in November, 1859, the first
irOnclad frigate, La Gloire, of $500
tons displacement and 800 horsepower.
was launched-Pearson's Weekly.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-20
WAR ON THE BIG FIVE.
Independent Packers Create Big Fund
for Fight.

CHICAGO, March 2O.-It is to be war
to the knife between the big Five"
of the beef combine and twenty-six
firms and corporations classed as in
dependent packers. The fight for
standing in the courts and before the
public will begin in Chicago, March 80,
when the special federal grand jury
begins it's investigation of the affairs
of the alleged beef combination. A
fund of 100000 has been raised to
carry on the fight against the beef
combine and set the claims of the in
dependent packers squarely before the
American public.
The largest of the so-called indie
pendent concerns, Schwarzcnild &
Sulzberger, is concerned in the move
ment to place the Independent crowd
in right light and fix the responsible
ity for monopolistic manipulation
where it belongs. The principal
plants Of the Schwarzschild & Su1z-
berger company are in Kansas City,
but there is large plant operated by
the same company in Chicago and a
branch in New York as we'll.
Defense Is Planned.
The independent packers are under
stood to have held meetings in Kansas
City the latter part of last week. These
conferences were called to devise a
plan offensive and defensive, so that
when the federal grand jury takes up
the subject one week from today they
will be in a position to defend their
business interests against any aliega-
ton which may be charged against
them by "the trust" which is said to
be seeking a means of shifting re-
sponsibility for present infraction of
the antitrust law.
The Kansas City conferences of last
week were transferred to Chicago Sat
urday. The leaders of the "independ-
ent" coterie met in the First National
Bank building. Max j. Sulzberger, res
ident vice president Of the Schwarz-
schild & Sulzberger corporation, at
tended the conference. When ques-
toned, he refused to discuss the sub
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-20
BLESSING THE WATERS.
Unique and Solemn Annual Ceres
mOny on the River Neva.

Unique and Solemn Annual Cere.
mony on the River Neva.
Midwinter in St. Petersburg each year
sees a unique and solemn ceremony
called ''the blessing Of the waters" A
chapel of ice, richly decorated with Or
naments from the palaces and churches
and dedicated to st. John the Baptist,
river Neva. The river Is then called
the Jordan, and religious services are
conducted in the temple by the metro
politan or high priest Of the national
church, attended by the emperor and
all his court. The ceremony is in mem
DRY Of the baptism Of Christ and is
supposed to be a safeguard against
dangers from floods as well as to bene-
fit those who make their living on the
sea.
A hole is cut in the ice in the center
Of the floor of the chapel. From this
the people are baptized by spanking
by the priests, and the faithful mem
bers Of the Greek church go in vast
crowds to get their share, while reli-
gious devotees often plunge into the
ice cold food through the hole. If they
catch cold and die, as they often do,
heaven is secured for them. On the
evening before the ceremony devout
churchmen make crosses on their
thresholds to prevent the evil spirits
that are driven from the water from
taking refuge in their houses.-Chicago
News.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-20

DR.. Blalock VINO had char.
washington exhibit at the colur,
exposition said the commit ~
mind the following out of plan,
were inaugurated at Chicago aa'
exhibitors name would be attac, s'e
his exhibit. If grain or,n@
exhioitors name would be SHOW,
variety of grain, where if u,
even to the section, township
range the average yield per ae,.
any other information tbo, ~
thought necessary to Interest ;, W.
lie Fruits and any other exhibit. ~
handled in the same manner. Tb,. va
ing fully understood the board r,,'
an order appropriating $4,000 ..
recommended. w
Held Up Race Track Appropriate,
AS was foreseen the Commits,
failed to take action on the 49,.
mendation that $4,000 be apnro,.,''
for the Walla Walla County po,
ISOLATION. The liberality of tbo a
zens' committee rather staggAr.s
commissioners, and the matter win
laid over until the next regu1ar
ing of the board. According -
commissioners they have no -,
right to appropriate any sum fl, y
relief of the local association. A.
was passed by the 1902 legislatrro :
ing boards of county commjsson..
the power to levy a half-mill tar Fl.
fair association after such associo+..
has held two successful fairs ~.
Walia Walla association has held -.
such fairs and the commissioners b.r,
the power to levy such a tax brt <
funds would not be available ur.c
next year until such time as the ,as,
taxes are payable.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-20

Doctors, lawyers, business men, min
lister regret too late that they were
in too great a hurry to lay a good
foundation for life's work. How
much less suffering-fewer mistakes
greater efficiency-would there be were
it not for this misleading desire for
quick, though false returns. Each
new year lays more bare the folly of
Impotence.
1t is a mistake to conclude that our
usefulness is impaired from wealth of
experience. Time should lend value to
eral thought. Even Shakespeare does
injustice to mankind and unintention-
al insult to both man and God, when
he puts into the mouth of Jacques the
words:
The sixth age shifts.
Into the lean and slippered panta-
looms
It is not true. You will find few
really great men who thus shuttle out
of life. Why, the great Gladstone was
an intellectual giant at eighty nine
At the very most Shakespere's satire
applies only to the life mis-spent
Sons of God grow until death. Ange-
10 reaches his greatest at ninety
when he wrote the sane words:
Borne to the utmost brink of lifes
dark sea,
Too late thy joys 1 understand, oh
earth.
How thou dost promise peace which
cannot be
And that repose which dies at birth!
The retrospect of life through many a
day,
Now to it's close attained by heavens
decree,
Brings forth from memory it's sad ar
Only old errors that follow me-"
L
when he sang:
Sunset and evening bell, and one clear
that the dark,
And may there be no sadness of fare
we'll, when I embark.
Sunset and evening bell, and one clear
call for me,
And may there be no moaning of the
bar, when put out to set"
Life must be looked at as a whole
if rightly to be judged. 1t must be
related in mind to the future as we'll.
What 1 am trying to get before you is
that God has a great purpose with us
here, and only as we meet that pur-
pose are we able to make permanent
success. This earth is a great shore
where we may walk and gather up the
jewels of virtue-power and character.
Oh. the shore is strewn with these
jewels. They are for you. Don't
waste your time gathering worthless
bits of folly and remorse. Merit,
worth, character, manhood, woman
hood, search for these.
But you do not know them when you
see them? All! this is the purpose of
the Christ. He is the standard-the
touch stOne-by which all are tOtaled.
He is the true standard and measures
him as such our lives are true or
false. Truth is the summit of being"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-20
Agreed With Both.

Horace Greeley was the author Of a
style in editorial writing which had
been often initiated, but probably never
equaled. During his editorship two
newspapers, neither Of which was
friendly to Greeley, became engaged in
violent alteration. The argument
grew warmer until each paper openly
called the other liar. 1t was the op-
portunity Greeley had been waiting for.
He announced in his paper that che
had the honor to agree with both Of
his distinguished contemporaries"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-20
When We Did Not Care For Japal

When We Did Not Care For Japan.
When the first embassy from Japan
arrived in Washington member of the
senate rose and said: "Mr. President.
the first ambassadors from the venera-
BILE country of japan are about to ar
rive. move the senate do now adjourn
to meet and welcome the japanese"
Immediately another senator was on
his feet, not to second the motion, but
to say sharply, "Mr. President. hum
bly, trust the senate Of the United
States of America will not adjourn for
every show that comes along" That
settled it-From Mrs. Roger A. Pryor's
"Reminiscences"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-20
NOTICE..

I desire to inform the public that
have purchased the Arlington Hows
I have thoroughly renovated the sam.
and changed it's name to that of N.
Farmers Hotel. 1t is my purpose IA
conduct a clean, comfortable AMI 70.
spectacle lodging house and l SOY.
a snare of your patronage. ~
forget the location, corner Fifth ami
Main streets. J. NJ. Graham.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-20
EXTRACT FROM SUNDAY MORN
ING SERMON PREACHED BY
REV. MORTON GREGORY.
Uroes the People to Seek for Merit
Worth. Character, Manhood and
Womanhood.

Choosing as his subject Merit,
Rev. Morton Gregory, Sunday morn
ing addressed a large congregation al
the Christian church. An extract from
the discourse follows:
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-20

Armory Hall can now be rented tr
any and every occasion. The hail has
been newly renovated and Is sultath
for public meetings, dances, receptions
and entertainments. For terms, apply
to A. Schwartz, manager, Tel Main
226.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-20

Peoples Cash Market, fine Meats,
fresh Salmon, Oysters, etc., No. II
South Third street. Phone 90. Gus E.
Augustavo, Prop.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-20

Pruning trees, digging wells; also
repairing cisterns. ]. A. S., 1853, corner
Chestnut and Sprague.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-20

Pianos for rent. Judge Taylor, No.
N. Sixth Street.
The Washington times., 1905-07-29
OUR PURE VINE CRUSADE
HURTS GERMAN EXPORTERS
Appeal TO Government to Secure AM
rulment-Consul General Guentheg
Finds Much Adulteration.

The rules adopted by the Department
of Agriculture for excluding adulterated
wines from Germany have created
alarm in the FatheTland similar TO that
produced among American grain and
beef men here by the adoption of the
new German tariff law
The wine producers of the old country
are greatly alarmed over the warfare
waged in the United States against aduI-
terated wines. The German government
has been appealed to 10 take steps to
secure the annulment OF the American
regulations.
Various boards Of trade throughout
the German empire are taking action in
the matter They assert that the regula-
tions of our department are unduly
harsh and that in view Of the restric-
tions imposed by the German laws
against authorizations, they are superf1u-
Gus also.
Consul General Guenther, of Frank
fort, has advised the State Department
of the furore that has been created in
Germany by our wine regulations. He
further reports that the statements
made by German boards of trade re-
gardinE the purity of native wines are
not borne out by facts.
He says there are frequent trials IN
that country for wine adulteraIion,
which is a widespread evil.
The Washington times., 1905-07-29

the selection of Indiana's favorite son
as chief custodian. Nobody familiar
with his equipment for safeguarding
against excessive temperatures will
entertain fear for the safety of the
delicate plant while he is in charge
Considerable collateral evidence in
dicates that the entente thrives
especially at about the temperature
required for champagne. In that
case, he must be a reckless patriot
who would object to any modest ex-
penditure for cold bottles and hot
birds as appropriate settings. If it
be true, as charged, that the joint
highs have spent $4,000 without pro-
ducing any visible result. why, the
answer is that an entente doesn' t
loom up on the horizon like Pixies
Peak, but that nevertheless it is well
worth the most expert attention
The Washington times., 1905-07-29
BIG ARTIFICIAL LAKE is
MILLIONAIRE'S NEW FAD
Tobacco King Duke Plans Costliest
Landscape Work in America
for His Estate.

SOMERVILLE, y. J.. July 29.-James
b Duke multi-millionaiTe, president OF
the American Tobacco Company who
has spent millions Of dollars IN trans
forming a dozen farms in the Raritan
valley into a 2,Go0-acre park, has just
begun the most extensive piece Of land
scape work ever attempted on a private
estate in America.
The wori. consists of cScavating thir-
teen acres Of land for an artificial lake,
the construction of a reservoir covering
fourteen acres on the highest elevation
In the valley, and the building of a ter
race ten feet high, covering eight acres,
as a site for a milIiou-dollaT residence,
TO be erected next year.
Mr. Duke first invested a fortune in
trottIng stock. but his venture failed
Then he purchased one Of the finest
herds of cattle in America, paying $lO,00(
for single animal. tuberculosis de-
Veloped among the cows as the result OF
high living. Then he laid out ii race
track for the benefit of local sportsmen
but disoTderly crowds marred the peace
Duke later built $4,000 stone stable
which he stocked with hlooded horses
which have been discarded recently :oT
automobiles
The Washington times., 1905-07-29
The Joint Highs.

Disposition TO capuOus criticism of
those eminent statesmen and diplo-
mats who compose the American
branch of the joint high commission
should be frowned upon with all
severity. AS We understand the mat
ter, these gentlemen are the Gus
todians of the justly celebrated en-
tente between this country and the
British empire. True, the ambassa-
dor at the Court Of St. James may
be entitled TO some consideration as
a sort of special partner with limited
liability; but the joint highs are the
real parties in interest.
Under these circumstances the dan
ger OF any amateurish interference
with such delicate relations is so
obvious as not to need elucidation.
The entente now in existence is a
national asset of such S significance.
and at the same time Of so delicate
texture, that 1t ought never to be
trusted to the handling OF any but the
most yelyet-nngerea diplomatist. It
is not the common or garden entente,
but is the variety known 10 science
as the entente cordiale, al orchid
which is especially liable to injury IL
subjected to extremes of heat.
1t is doubtless this particular char
acteristic OF the entente that dictated
The Washington times., 1905-07-29

CHICAGO. Ill. July 29.-F'rank NJ. Ma
han, of Chicago. president of the Lin
n-M;.han Company, declares that III
the rear future ne Will start for Wash
ington in an airshiD OF his own make
and will reach that city within ten
hours
Il don't simply promise success, said
Mr. Mahan. I'm do it. / have studied
the aerial navigation problem for sixteen
years. and I have its solution beyond
the peredventure OF doubt.
Il can make from 125 to $50 miles an
hour IN the airship I propose to con-
struct Doubters can come TO see the
start or stand at the finish line. as they
viii. I shall be at both places in ful-
fllment of my agreement
Mr.. Mahan's projected airship is fly
ing machine, pure and simple 1t will
have wings like those of bird. and
these will furnish the sole progressive
motive power. though they are TO be
worked by a gasolene engine.
Frank M Mahan is a widely known