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The statesman., 1905-04-28
AN AMBUscADE.
Danger in kissing Your wife II You De
1t at the Wrong Time.

1t ut the Wrong Time.
You must have ben trying to eat
buzZsaw in notion" said the friend to
the man who hasn't been married long.
mot as bad as that, but nearly" he
responded, as he tenderly rubbed the
scars that adorned his mouth and chin.
Been seeing how far you could slide
on your face7" asked the friend, anx-
iously. mo. Say For heavens sake,
II you will say nothing to anyone I'll
tell you how It happened. You know
my wHe and have been married just
long enough to have most OF the gloss
rubbed of from the honeymoon? In
fact, have arrived at that point where
We take things az a matter OF course,
and realize that there are others In this
world as well as ourselves. We'll, the
other morning It suddsnly dswned
upon me that hadn't kissed her for
= whole week. and my conscience
smote me. Even now, told myself,
she may be crying her eyes out, under
the impression that love her no
longer. remembered how we had
promised each other during our honey
mon that our married life would be one
long, sweet dream, with the honey
moon as a basis. ! ehided myself for
my indifference and determined 70
make amends at once. well. looked
my wife up and found her IN her room
doing up her hair before mirror.
Stepping quickly forward. with all the
ardor Of my eourtshlp days threw my
arm about her and planted kiss upon
her lips. At least such was my inten-
tlon; but instead. ran my mouth into
bristllng array OF hsirpins that shi
had stuck between her lips. II theirs
we're any doubts before about thO
honeymoon being over, there was non'
when the lady got her mouth free o'
haiSpins and Eaid what she had to say
or the subject The next time ! kiss
my wife l am going TO reeonnoiter the
neld in force before attseking.-DetToii
Free PTess.
The statesman., 1905-04-28
IN PRAISE OF ABsTlEeiIcE.
Woman's witty Remark Deserved to
Have Made a Convert

The most brilliant woman in
Rome" said cosmopolitan, "is the
Marqulse de Monsters Merinyille.
She Is the daughter OF the late w. s.
Caldwell Of Kentucky.
The Marquise de Monstiers'Merin'
vile. besides being brilliant is OF a
religious. spiritual turn OF mind. She
hates all manner Of excess, and espe'
cially she hates excess in drinking
"A young English baronet at.
tempted at dinner one evening to quiz
Nine. do Monsters Merinyllle a little
on her rigid and Purithnical ideas.
Lifting up a glass OF crisp champagne.
he said:
What harm madam, can ensue
from drink 80 beautiful and oleanT
Much harm, replied the marquise
grayely.
"'Ah. no. said the Englishman.
Wine is good. It is a tonic. II makes
blood. 1t makes you fat
81 have seen Il make you lean,
said the marquise, and, as the Eng
llshman, puzzled. looked at her with
elevated brows, she smiled, and add.
ed:
Ion your stick
The statesman., 1905-04-28

Win ner Drains and her pen to right
the wrongs that are inflicted upon her
"shut-in" countrywomen by their ''trus
tees who so often defraud them of
their wealth. A great step toward the
success Of her efforts has been accom-
plished recently, for she has been ap-
pointed by the Bengal government as
legal adviser to Purdah women in the
administration of her estates.
The statesman., 1905-04-28
What $50 Long" Means.

"You may have wondered, perhaps
how the slang expression, so long.
came to be so generally used" said
Columbia college lecturer the other
day. at is usually used in closing
conversation, and is simply form OF
good-by. The Norwegians brought II
to this country. In that land Of the
midnight sun, 'saa laeng' is a common
form of farewell. 1t means the same
as the 'au revoir' OF the French
Among the early settlers in America
we're many Norwegians. and the
phrase was picked up from them.
They pronounce it with the g soften.
ed and accompany it by a wave of tie
hand
The statesman., 1905-04-28
The Main Thing.

"A village client Of mine had been
trying through me for seven years to
collect claim against the govern.
ment, said the lawyer. and at last
the claim was allowed and received
a check for 5000.
"As the man was poor knew that
this would be a great windfall for
him and It was with considerable ex.
ultation that put the check In my
pocket and started for the house. The
man himself was away somewhere,
but as his wife answered my knock
| showed her the check and called
out:
AT last. Mrs. Davis-at ,lst!'
"'What is III? she asked.
THE claim has been allowed and
here is check for sS,000.'
"'Yes. see. she answered. but
please don't talk quite so loud or you
will wake the baby upi'"
The statesman., 1905-04-28
Has No Corner.

"The old fallacy that every man In
Boston is simply saturated with learn.
ing no longer bothers my mind" said
an agent for a Massachusetts, firm the
other day. II receive each week two
or three dozen letters from the home
ONCE and they are written by FIVE or
six different men-heads OF different
executive departments. Now. also
get letters from all parts Of the West,
but in the Boston letters find more
bad grammar, more miserable rhetoric
and more misspelled words in ten
letters than do in 100 written by
western people Of the same standard
OF general Intelligence. You don't
want to think the Hub has corner
on education"
The statesman., 1905-04-28
strsnn. charItabIe eequest.

Many persons who wish to bestow
charity have strange ways Of carrying
out their ideas Some years ago an
Englishman named James Moss left
$500 10 be Invested In land. the rent
OF which was TO provide FIVE gowns,
according to the will. "of a sad blue
color" for as many aged and poor
men living In the town.
The statesman., 1905-04-28
lnfanIbly,

There is no place In a woman's
room to rut note or trlnket so she
will see It frst However, put II on
her mirror and she will see II second.
New Orleans picavune.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-12-30
CHINESE BOYCOTT STILL on
To Remain In Force Until DeS"''
end Is Accomplished.

New York, Dec. 28.-Dr. f. ~, e.
Tong. the representative of the Out
nese government who is here to clea.'
a public sentiment against the GU -os
sion law as administered, declare
there will be no abatement OF inc Wy 1s
colt in China against American so0'
until the desired change is mace. H.
He said his most recent advlces ,; 10
dictate that the movement OF resai If
ton has spread to every province =, T.
the empire. Everywhere meicn't -.
and their customers are worklns tha
.gether to shut ont goods made III
United States. ills
At Tientsin, DR.. Tong asserted m
for the production of cotton ana W." aonr
en- goods have been started and q . nO
mill Is in operation. Women are n saht
ana hand with the men in the hsr
against American goods. In purosS rst
ine powder for their faces, tne in
question they ask is, s'Was It ma @rma.
American II the answer is anI| We
tive they refuse TO bny. .Wn "a DR..
are seeking to accomplish, saia law
Tong, is an adjustment OF .no ut a
and it's administration that VIII ~ p nose
stop to the injustice to which I snb.
ii this country are constantly
jected. 9
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-12-30
BRITISH BARK LOST
With ALL ON BOARD

Victoria, B. c., Dec. 28.-The Brit
ish bark Pass of Melfort, Capt. Scoug-
all, from Ancon for Puget sound, drove
ashore on the rocks of Vancouver ISL
and quarter of mile east of Amph-
ritite point Tuesday night and all on
board were lost.
The vessel was making for the en-
trance to the straits when the terrific
southwest gale drove her to a lee shore
on Vancouver island, and the doomed
: ship piled up on the rocks, breaking
up soon afterwards.
Bodies of the lost seamen are now
coming ashore.
number of ships buckets, all
marked ''Pass of Melfort, . were found
on the beach, and not far away in a
small bay at the extreme of Amphri-
tlte point, the ships barometer. brok-
en- boats, oars and fgureAead of the
wrecked bark, together with other
wreckage.
The Pass of Melfort is a British steel
bark OF 2,346 tons, built in 1891 AT
Glasgow. She was last seen by the
Brodrick Castle, which was passed by
the wrecked bark, and Capt. Oleson.
OF the Brodrick Castle, who himself
mad q narrow escape while coming
into the straits, had expected to find
the lost vessel in port before him.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-12-30
TICKET SCALPERS LOSE
IN SUPREME COURT

Olympia, Dec. 28.-The anti-scalp.
ing law passed by the last legislature
at the request of the railroads has
been unanimously sustained by a de.
cision of the state supreme court.
The decision came up in the case OF
Hugh J. O'Neill, of Seattle, who was
arrested for violation of the law and
was denied release on habeas corpus.
On appeal to the supreme court the
constitutionality of the act was at.
tackled on several grounds.
The supreme court holds first that
the title of the act is not defective.
Second, it is held that the act is not
unconstitutional from the standpoint
of taking property without due pro-
cess Of law, for the reason that the
right to traffic in railroad tickets fol
speculation and gain is not an indi-
vidual property right contemplated
by the laws. The right of the legis-
lature, under its police powers, to reg
ulate the sale of railroad tickets to
prevent fraud is affirmed.
In the decision the supreme court
holds against decision rendered by
Judge Alton B. Parker, of New York,
saying that while the once Democratic
nominee for president ''has distin-
guished personality as jurist and
otherwise which should cause his
opinions and arguments to receive
much consideration, but his conclu-
sions are not supported by the deci-
sions of other courts. -
The decision of the lower court de-
nying release to O'Neill is affirmed.
The opinion has the approving sigma
lures of all the members of the court.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-12-30
Volcano Spouis IN North.

Victoria, B. c., Dec. 28.-The pas
sengers on the steamer Tees, from the
North, report q great volcanic erup-
ton on Princess Royal island on De-
cember 2. The whole side of Mount
Peno, which is over 1000 feet high,
slid into the surf at Inlet lake. raising
the level about twelve feet. General
Manager Lucedu, Of the Surf Inlet
mines, and a party we're crossing the
lake in launch at the time, and, as
enormous waves were created, had
great difficulty in saving their lives.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-12-30
WASHINGTON NEWS.

The Ufford sawmill, west of Chelan,
has been destroyed by fire.
Dayton is to be connected with
Whisky creek region by rural tele-
phone.
The Northern Pacific car shops at
Tacoma were damaged $40, 900 by fire
the first Of the week.
Reardon is holding series of enter
tainments for the purpose of estab-
fishing school library.
A Japanese waiter and thirty horses
were burned to death in a fire at the
Montana stables, at Seattle, Monday.
A representative of the American
Biscuit Company has purchased the
Superior Candy and Cracker factory
at Seattle.
The question of prohibition has be-
come live one at Cashmere. There
is one saloon at that place and a Wig
orous campaign has been opened to
revoke it's license.
The Pullman school has leased q
room in the Congregational church
for the primary room overflow and
will open school there after the holt
days. Two new teachers have been
employed. The school board now
has two outside rooms rented for
school purposes, the other being in
the city hall.
Washington state ranks ninth in
postal expenditures.
The First Presbyterian church of
Quincy has fled articles Of incorpor-
alton.
The state plumbing board held it's
semi annual session at Everett last
week.
The State Dairymen's Association
met in annual convention at Belling-
ham Thursday.
A deal for Tacoma tide lands
amounting to $4,000 has just been
closed. 1t is supposed to be for rail-
road purposes.
Seattle bank clearances for the cal
endar year will approximate $500, 600, :
600. The gain exceeds $40, 900, 600
and is an average of 100000 for
each business day.
]. p. Chilberg, brother of Andrew
Chilberg, president ONT the Scandina-
Wan American bank of Seattle, and a
we'll known resident Of that city, died
suddenly Thursday. He was 81 years
of age.
Postmaster Stewart reports that the
receipts of the Seattle postoffice dur
ing the fiscal year ended June 30,
1905, amounted to $4O4, 572. The ex-
penses Of the Office during this period
were $163, esq.,
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-12-30
SOIL SURVEYS MADE.
Bureau OF Agricultural Department
rlakeS Report on Years Work.

Bureau OF Agricultural Department
r1skes Report on Years work.
Washington, Dec. 27.-The soil sur
vey of the department of agriculture
has mapped Is, 572, 800 acres Of land
during the past fiscal year, according
to the annual report of the soils bu.
reau. Surveys were made in twenty.
eight states. RhodeI sland is the first
state of the Union of which com.
plete survey has been made.
The maps show the different kinds
of soil which occur in different areas.
The report says that the work dur.
ing the past eight years shows the
three great agricultural problems are:
First, the Western farmer is chiefly
concerned with the presence of alkali
and it's removal or control; second,
the Eastern farmer is chiefly con-
cerned with the study Of the adapta-
ton of the proper crop to the proper
soil, and third, with the maintenance
or restoration of soil fertility.
The tobacco Investigations of the
bureau have been extended. In Texas
cooperative experiments have been
carried on with the farmers, the re-
port adds, with the result that new
varieties of filler tobacco are being
grown that sell for from 80 to 40 cents
q pound, with an average price Of 80
cents. In this manner new industry
is being developed in q region where
the staple crop-cotton-is being seri-
ously threatened by the ravages of the
boil weevil.
Under the methods introduced by
the bureau Of soils, profits have been
increased from IS per acre, under the
old system, to nearly $50 per acre I'm.
der the new system.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-12-30
Eliot on child Slavery.

New York, Dec. 27.-President Ell
lot, speaking before the Society for
Ethical Culture, said, among other
things: "a new kind of slavery
which has grown up in the last few
years is the employment of young
children in Southern mills, where
there are $4,000 under the age of IA
working from 10 to IA hours day,
besides being compelled to work al
ternate nights. Four or five years
ago there we're only $4,000. There
are also 5000 children working in
and about mines, and thousands en-
ployed in clothes factories, when they
should be at home, and this terrible
slavery is spreading"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-12-30
PURCHASING Prices.

The following prices are offered to
the producer by the local dealers for
delivery in round lots I. O. b. Seattle,
and are subject to change without
notice:
Grain-Oats, $26027 per ton; bar
ley. $22@2S per ton; wheat, chicken
feed. $24.50 per ton; bran, SO per ton;
shorts. $40 per ton; corn. $28 per ton.
Hay-Eastern washington. SIS per
ton; Puget Sound, $10@11 per ton:
alfalfa, $9.50@10 per ton.
Eggs-Strictly fresh ranch, .33@34
34c per doz.
Poultry-Live hens, 13@13kc per
lb; old ROSTERS, k9@10c per lb; ducks,
12@13c per Id; geese, 9012c per lb;
springs, 15c per lb.
Hides, Pelts and Wool-Heavy and
sailed steers, over 60 lbs, 11@111sc
per Id; medium, sound, 91k@11c per
Id; light, sound, all weights, 10hc per
Id; cows, sound, all weights, 101sc per
lb; stays, bulls and oxen, 7@8c per lb;
sailed kips, 10@11c per lb; calves, 11@
lie per lb; culls, 1c less per lib than
sound; green hides. 1c less per lb than
sailed; dry hides, 17@18Hc per lib;
sheep pelts, $4,000 each; shearings
15@50c each; Eastern Washington
wool, 24@25c per Id: dirty or timber
stained, zoe per lb: tallow, 3h@3%e
per Id; grease, 1@2c per lib.
Live St0ck-Sheep, wethers, 31k@
3%c per ID; ewes, 3@3Ac per Id;
hogs, 6A@6Ac per lb: steers, 31x @
3Ac per ID; cows, 2h@3c per Id:
calves. 303Ac per lb; lambs, So PEI
head.
Tacoma Quotations.
Wheat-Club. New, 72c; bluestem
TIC; red, 69c.
Fresh Meats Cow beef, &c; steer
beef, SIC; wether, 8@8hc; spring
lambs, 8@9c; ewes. 7h@8c; pork, "a
TIC; trimmed, 11@11hc; shoats, 81
@3 each; veal, dressed, 1880.
Poultry - Turkeys, dressed, 23c;
chickens, dressed, spring, 16c; ducks
dressed, 15c; geese. dressed, Ice; liye
hens, 12@12kc; ducks, live, 10c;
geese, 10c; spring chickens, 13cs
Butter Washington creamery. $40
33c; ranch, 16@1Sc; Eastern creamery
Eggs-oregon, 24@25c; Eastern, ~
@25c; fresh. 25@26; Washington
ranch, soc.
Oats-$2s@2e; rolled oats, $4,000
Hay, Alfalfa, Etc.-Wheat hay
$1250@14; timothy. $17.50018.5O:
mixed. {12.6o@14; clover. $1s@14; al
falfa. $11012.
Feed Corn. $ss; wheat. $as.5o: bar
| ley, whole grain, $1,000: rolled, SIS;
bran. $2e021; shorts. $21.500z7.6o.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-12-30
ORIENTAL EXPORTS DoOBlE.
Figures Given sOat ~ Buresu q
statistics.

S&OuuS1UCSs
Washington, Dec. 27.-No featprs 81
the export trade Of the United St1tee
for 1905 has shown q larger growth
than the trade with China and japan,
according to bulletin issued BY the
bureau of statistics OF the department
Of commerce and labor.
In the ten months ended with Oc-
tober the exports to China aggregated
more than $5O, 600, 900 in value,
against $40, 900, 900 in the same
months Of 1904. Exports to Japan
were $40, 5O9, 900, against little less
than $2s, 600, 900 for the same period
in 1904 and q IS, 600, 900 in the CORE
spending months in 1908.
No other country Of the world to
which our exports are sent shows
gains approximating those Of China
and Japan.
The growth In exports to China ie
especially marked in copper, cotton
cloth, -four, sewing machines, loco
motives, paper, canned beef, manu-
features Of tobacco and lumber,
though copper and cotton cloth are
by far the most important Of these
items.
To Japan the growth occurred in
flour, carriages and other vehicles,
raw cotton, agricultural machinery,
sewing machines, locomotives, leath-
or, paper, canned beef, tobacco and
lumber.
Flour is about the only important
article of export to China showing
any material reduction this year,
while manufactured tobacco shows q
material increase.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-12-30

Of the Week

Forty persons were injured in q Los
Angeles street car accident Sunday.
A new Italian cabinet has been
formed with Premier Forts at the
head
A movement is on foot in New Jer-
sey to secure the passage Of measure
abolishing capital punishment.
The sultan of Morocco refuses to
agree to the holding of the interna-
tional conference regarding Moroccan
reforms at Madrid instead Of Algier-
icas.
The Mexican Central railroad has
arranged for $4,000 Japanese labor
ers, who will be set to work on the
extension of the road to Colima and
Manzanillo.
Glasses to give instruction in Eng
lish to the Russian Jews who are ex-
pected to come to America as refu-
gees, will be started at once by the
Chicago Hebrew institute.
The steamer Miowera, from Aus
tralia, just arrived at Victoria, reports
that when she arrived at Tanning ISL
and the cable staff were without pro-
visions and were living on cocoanuts.
Mrs. Drusilla Hall johnson, the
daughter of soldier of the American
Revolution, died at her home in
Northampton, Mass, Sunday, aged
100 years. Her father, Aaron Hall,
was taken prisoner by the British
during the struggle for independence
and carried to England.
For the first time in the history of
Mexican railways, Mexico has been
given a schedule of passenger rates
from points in Canada and the Unit
ed States that are on par with the
rates offered to California and other
Pacific coast points. It is expected
to result in large tourist travel to
Mexico.
Mississippi has enacted a law max.
ing house breaking capital offense.
The cruiser Marblehead has sailed
for Manila from the Mare Island yard.
G. w. johnson, prominent Minne-
sofa politician, died at Minneapolis
Thursday.
Field Marshal Yamagata has been
appointed president of the privy
council of Japan.
Admiral Dewey has gone on record
as strongly opposed to hazing. He
thinks dismissal should be the PEN
atty.
Miss Ethel Watterson, youngest
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Wat
terson, was married last week to Alex
ander Gilmour, a Louisville business
man.
The death of Henry Harland, the
American author who wrote ''The Car
dinal's Snuff box" is announced in a
cablegram from Italy. Mr.. Harland
was born at st. Petersburg in 1861.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt gave
their first formal dinner to the mem
beers Of the cabinet and their wives
and q few invited guests Thursday
evening. The dinner was in the state
dining room.
The resignation of William r. Kel-
ley, general solicitor of the Union
Pacific, is announced. His successor
will probably be John r. Baldwin, of
Council Bluffs, who has been Mr..
Kelley's assistant.
Over $50, 900, 900 worth of diamonds
and other precious stones have been
imported into the United States dur
ing the present calendar year, which
is by far the largest importation in
the history of the country.
Bob Fitzsimmons was defeated at
San Francisco by O'Brien in the thir-
teenth round. After the fight Fitz.
simmons declared that he was forced
into this fight, but that no money
will tempt him to enter another.
BRITISH BARK LOST
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-05-29

Following is a graphic resume of
Portland politics. written by Editor
f. Hofer of the Salem Journal. who
is maintaining Portland headquarters
and furnishing hot criticisms on many
things in the metropolis
DR.. Harry Lane is putting up
snappy fight for the mayoralty of
Portland. Whether you like him or
not, his speeches are racy. He seems
to think it makes slight difference
whether one row of bricks or two or
three go into a sewer wall He throws
down the gauntlet to the dive-keeper
and the walking delegate and for the
prostitute who leads fuzzy blanketed
poodle by a string.
He asks the support of the women
and that is always good politics. In
talking with those who cater to the
blame Tom Word the democratic
sheriff, for whatever there is of a
closed town. They say Blazier, who
keeps some of the largest places of
amusement, spent $4,000 to elect
Word and his house was one of the
first closed up These men say Will
liams is their friend and the cham
pion of an open town.
Joseph Zones, policeman, says
there has been great improvement
under Williams. The policemen do
not get drunk and gamble as they
used to do. A saloonman on Wash
ington street says he is forced to close
at midnight. while the big concert
saloons and gambling houses are al
lowed to run all night. He has lost
$4,000 the past year and curses the
Williams administration.
Jerry Lusich. the Greek oyster
house man, who has been i'm Port
land for 20 years, says the town is
dead because the sporting element
are under the ban of Tom Word and
that Williams is all right.
A bunch of sports who follow the
race track, arrived from Frisco on
the boat Thursday morning, and told
me Portland was the best town on
the coast after the Bay City for their
profession.
l figure it all up that if Williams
gets any republican votes he will be
elected by from 100 to 5000 majority.
For he certainly is solid with the
sporting classes.
on the other hand. Dan Vollmer,
Salem man who holds a chair in one
of the big barber shops, says there
is the same talk and feeling in the
air was when Word and Manning and
Chamberlain were elected. He says
the race will be close and Lane may
win. He says the Independent voters
who get no graft out of politics are
all for Lane.
Now, there you have all l have
heard on the subject at Portland, cir
culating not in heArlington or Com
meroial clubs, but among the mudsill
element of society down among the
common substratum of society, where
people are more apt to have real feel
ings and express honest thoughts.