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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-30

Highest excellence In String Instru-
ments. Washburn, Regal, Stuart, at
Stanley's. % Main st. Phone 255.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-30
STATE LAND ssIoNER MAY
GO TO WASHINGTON CITY
NEXT MONTH.
Will Press States Claim Under the
Geary Act Despite Protest of
tho People.

With the people Of the entire Yakima
valley struggling with might and mair
to remove all obstacles in the way OF
inauguration of governmental recla-
nation work in this state, Land Com
missioner Ross still proposes to make
a fight for the selection of $4,000 acres
Of Carey land in Yakima and Benton
counties. Mr.. Ross, who arrived here
last night from Olympia, today at the
Butler hotel announced that in al.
probability he would go to Washing
| ton next month to make further con-
| test for the lands which former Land
Commissioner Calvert selected under
the Carey act. This, too, despite the
fact that the representative public Of
ficials, business men, property own
ers and commercial organizations o.
the whole Yakima valley have wired
directly to the secretary of the interior
protesting against the attitude as
sumed by the state land commissioner.
is the report that comes from Seattle.
Ross Stands in Way.
II have never consented to the with,
drawal of the states application fol
the allotment of the Carey lands"
said Mr. Ross, land do not propose
to do so now Tuesday I received a
wire from the congressional delegation
at Washington in which the statemen,
was made that the senators and con-
gressmen from this state had been told
by the reclamation officials that the
state could not possibly water the
Carey lands even if they were allotted;
and, further, that the state should not
seek to make money out of the gov
eminent reclamation enterprises in this
state The state delegation rather pu
it up to me to decide whether Or not I
should make a further showing before
the secretary of the interior The
substance of the telegram was
that statements along the line have
indicated were given to the delegation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-03

Day-the shop closed The first day, October
3d. young man came in at about this hour and
brought watch-1ocket to be repaired. 1t
a curious contrivance, very old and rare, and, l
at glance, of great value. 1t in the
shape of pomegranate, extremely small but of
solid gold, overlaid with colored enamel and set
with pearls On the front there five large
pear-shaped pearls and on the back four-the fifth
had been lost from its socket. The pearls We're
fine and wonderfully matched. The young
was anxious to have it put in ORDER saying that
he would return for it in ten days
after he left the shop l recollected that in my
interest in the curious trnket, had neglected to
put down the name and address he had given, and
l could remember nothing but his first He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-03

a glance, L saw that she was distinguished.
She joined the group looking at the
clocks and seemed to be listening to my
story about the Guise clock. She had
a bunch of violets at her belt, and |
noticed the fragrance Then more people
came in, and for the moment | lost sight
of her Nor did she come near me again.
After awhile the greater part of my
guests left, and she was not there l
remember thinking of her once or twice
as | let out my last visitors. 1t was late
before did so and | had lighted the shop.
l had five apprentices then in the rear
shop and two attendants, but one of these
was home sick. The other, Pierre, helped
me close UP after the men left their work.
| slept over the shop then, as | do now;
but l always closed off these two rooms
this and the work-room-before | went
to bed, and as they had no connection
with the living part of the house, | used
to fasten the doors, keeping the keys my
self. The windows were securely ironed.
The shop is a kind of fortress-you
neither can get in nor out when | have the
keys. That night | fastened it as usual,
and sending Pierre home got my supper
and went to bed.
THE next day being All Saints l went
to visit a cousin in Batignolles and re-
manned until evening. That night | was
in my room overhead as usual, and as we
had been to Montmartre and Pere la
Chaise, was tired and slept well.
Judge my establishment then, m S1en,
to be awakened at dawn with a great
ringing and humping at my back door.
l tumbled out of bed and into my dressing
gown and slippers and went downstairs
more asleep than awake, and opened my
door to find-"M. Felix paused and looked
at me for appreciation-'t find, n'sien
the Project of Police!"
mot usually a welcome visitor, NJ.
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the face Of a tiny watch.
docs it keep time, NJ Felix" asked gravel,
He shook his head sadly Its nearly alway
five minutes slow, m'sien," he admitted with
sigh. "These baubes of much us
in that way; but it came doing mischief enoug
once to last its lifetime" And he looked at it wit
evident tenderness, as he closed the case.
'As said" he went on, lit was brought me on
day The next, the eve of All Saints, the sho
crowded all day. 1t must have been towar
five o'clock when she in M'sien smile:
oui there is woman in it. l noticed her at once
She was not tall nor very short, but of perfec
proportion, as | thought, slender and graceful
Her simple black dress and her thick veil keI
her from being conspicuous; but at once q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-03

speak until it and the throb- throb, tick
tick, began again and went INCREASINGLY
The shop one of the quaintest in Paris and
famous for its antiquities. Some of the rarest old
timepieCes in the world treasured there, and
with its quaint overhanging story above and its
strong shutters and modest show-window, it was
a bit of old Paris in the heart of to-day; the
little old brown with his Gascon accent and his
twinkling dark eyes, his bowed shoulders and worn
velvet jacket, figure of the past, working
amid his old tirnepieces and loving them some
men love their children
NJ. Felix smiled complacently. 1--WE keep good
time here m sieu," he observed. "What it
you asked? When the dukes clock stopped? All,
m sieu, that is long story You will hear it?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-03

was NJ. Louis-I cudgeled
my brain, but could recall moth
ing more, and gave it up at
last, satisfied that he would
be sure to return, and equally
confident that | could not
forget his face. He was not
handsome, but his features
were good, and he had GER
tain clear directness of gaze
that pleased me. The locket,
however, had really made me
more careless than | should
have been. By the way, N sieu,
you would like to see it?"
He did not return them"
l exclaimed at once.
Felix smiled. You antici-
pate, m'sieu," he said sagely-
that is also part of my story.
But look at the watch now"
AS he spoke he opened the
drawer below the showcase
and put a small velvet case in
my hand. 1t contained
wonderful trinket, a pome-
granate of gold and enamel
studded with pearls, five in
front and five on the back.
"Ah, you were able to
match the pearls" l remark
ed" for none is missing here"
"To match them-or to find
the lost one," he replied dryly,
and touching a spring showed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-03

l1lc1ld It tllN, Tic ClOSh-
wv maker of the Rue
Saint Lazare, leaned
his elbows on his showcase
and took off his spectacles.
do l never permit that clock
to run down? Non, m'sien,
neverl" he said. And since |
repaired it in '6S it has never
stopped but once, and then
the old man broke off with an
odd smile and a shrug of his
shoulders.
And then, NJ. Felix" l
said, forseeing a story, for
the little old clockmaker had
as many stories as he had
clocks in those long tiers which
lined his curious shop from
end to end and beat out the
time with hundred metallic
tongues.
Before he could answer me
now, the great clock of which
we spoke began to strike; its
silver bell, sweet and clear as
the note of a bugle, counting
the hour-one, two, three
and with it all the other clocks
doomed out; the tall clock
with the image of the Virgin,
the clock of the Twelve Apos-
ties, the clock with the cuckoo
and the great clock from the
Tuileries. Neither of us could
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-03

Then sit down there by the window; we
will be less disturbed by the noises from
the street. The clocks? Non, m's1eu,
they never disturb me- | was born to
love them and to make them talk.
am so accustomed to them that | do not
observe their voices as a noise; it is merely
company to a lonely old man
He seated himself, as he spoke, on the
worn bench by the window which over
looked little paved court in the rear
of the shop, and his expression became
so absorbed and SO unmindful of me that
ventured to recall again the dukes clock
Il had not forgotten, mister" he said,
smiling. Il was indeed looking at the
irons in this window and thinking that
you would be amused to hear that these
very irons had much to do with stopping
the dukes clock.
But to begin my story. First, m'sien
knows that the clock is at least three
hundred years old and was once owned
by the Due de Guise? Bien, it has
served, as | believe, many strange pur-
poses, 1t is SO big and SO open within the
case that a boy can easily hide there,
and even small man; it is said that spies
have hidden there. 1t passed LON the
Gt,ises to the Rohans, and so to the Condes
and at last to poor old Felix of the Rue
Saint Lazare. Yet with all its noble
history and its long pedigree, l doubt if
anything more tender is told of it than
my little story.
1t is now twenty years ago, m'sieu,
and | was then much in the way of the
fashion. All the world came to the Rue
Saint Lazare to see my clocks, and | was
in the habit of exhibiting my curiosities
and talking of them. That is my fault-to
talk too much of them" he added, smiling
1t happened on the last two days of
October remember it we'll because on
the first of November-being All Saints
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Az friend Felix, the clock
IV maker of the Rue
Saint Lazare, leaned
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-10
FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY.
Ninth Street Christian Church Holds
Celebration.

The Ninth Street Christian Church cele-
brated the fourteenth anniversary Of its
founding yesterday. Rev. E. B. Bagby, who
has been the pastor ever since the congre-
CATION was organized and has made the
church one of the most prosperous in the
city through his engaging personality and
skillful efforts, preached at the morning
service The auditorium was beautifully
decorated with flowers and a large au-
dience was present.
Mr.. Bagby's address was in large meas
ure reminiscent of the past fourteen years.
shall we draw water from the wells of sal.
vation." He compared the blessings Of
the gospel to waters drawn from the wells
of Palestine, cool, pure and refreshing, by
a traveller who has been journeying over
the dry and dusty desert.
Since the organization Of the church.
April s. 1891. he said, there have been 1880
members enrolled, over 1000 on confession
of faith and by baptism. He said $4,000
has been raised for purposes connected with
the church administration, over $4,000 be-
ing used for missions and benevolences. Six
young men from the church have become
ministers, and one is now teaching the gos-
pei in China. The church, he said, has
also helped in starting three missions in this
city.
Five persons united with the church a.
the close of the services, making a total Of
seventy who have been added since the re-
vival meetings began four weeks ago yes
terday, under the direction of Rev. Walter
Scott Priestly and the pastor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-10
NAN PATTERSON DEPRESSED.
Learned of Likelihood of Trial Being
Postponed.

A dispatch from New York says: Nan
Patterson learned Sunday nthe Tombs of
the likelihood of her trial again being post
poned, and the news greatly depressed her.
For some time past she has been buoyed
up by the approach of the date set for
her trial, and she welcomed it's coming as
a relief from the monotony of prison life,
especially as she feels confident of ac-
quittal.
The Smith letters have been thoroughly
gone over by Mr.. Rand during the last
week. 1t is understood he has obtained
from them pretty good idea of the source
from which the money was obtained that
enabled the Smiths to travel about this
country and Canada for the better part of
a year eluding District Attorney Jeromes
detectives.
The attorneys for Nan Patterson affect
to make light of the letters taken by the
detectives from the Smiths, and sent in
hot haste to District Attorney Jeromes
office before any legal steps could be taken
by the defense to recover them. Mr.. Levy.
referring to the assumed importance of the
letters said:
I'VE care nothing about the letters which
the district attorney Is said to have taken
from the Morgan Smiths in Cincinnati. We
don't think they amount to shucks. What
we do care about is that We have prepared
for trial, and are convinced that there is
no good reason why there should be an
other postponement
Mr. Rand knew all the circumstances
when he suggested April 10 as the date
when he would be willing to go on with
the case, and 1t is an outrage to propose
further postponement with Imprisonment
for unfortunate woman who Is not only
willing, but anxious to stand trial again
in the effort to regain her liberty
Those familiar with the woman as she
appeared during her previous trials will
not fall to notice the traces which prison
life has left upon her. The color has left
her cheeks and there Is less sparkle In her
eyes. Her bearing now lacks something of
the dash and charm so noticeable when she
formerly faced a jury. Somberness of spirit
and greater determination of purpose have
taken the place of the lighter manner which
marked her former actions when fighting
for her life In court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-10
Virginia Navy Flagship.

The steamer Rappahannock. the flagship
Of the navy of Virginia. came up the river
to Alexandria Saturday afternoon and re-
manned over until this morning, while her
master, Commodore Hudgins, attended to
some official business The Rappahannock,
with the other vessels of the Virginia navy,
are used to enforce the oyster and fish laws
of the state, and are kept busy during the
oyster season. April the taking of oysters
ended. and since that time the vessels have
had little to do. although the Rappahan-
mock found a dredger at work on the lower
Potomac day or two ago, but the vessel
escaped by going up In shoal creek where
the steamer could not reach 1t. Capt
Hudgins. however captured the dredging
apparatus and put the craft out Of bust
ness. The officers of the steamer report
that many of the fishermen operating nets
In the bay are taking up their nets, the iow
price at which shad and herring are selling
making 1t Improbable to continue In busi-
ness.
To enforce its orders the Rappahannock
Is armed with a four-pounder rapid-fire
gun, mounted on her bow, and this is used
to persuade vessels to heave to when they
are suspected of violating the laws
Mr.. VIM. H. White, who for several years
was engineer on the Randall line steamers
from this city, Is chief engineer on the Rap
pahannock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-10
Gov. Vardaman and the Negroes.
Editor of The Evening Star

To the Editor of The Evening Star:
He that is first in his seemeth just.
1911
1 cannot allow the statements of Gov.
Varadman to pass unnoticed. 1t seems i'm
possible for him to speak without fling
at the unfortunate negroes, in whose be-
half although of the other race, / write
In his inaugural address. about a year and
a half ago, he declared that education was
a curse to the negroes, and now in con-
versation with Mr.. Curtis he makes the
same declaration, but in different words.
His wish is undoubtedly father to the
statement. In order to show that education
is curse to any people 1t must appear that
their condition is worse than while in a
state of ignorance. Let US look into the
matter and we will see If this is true con-
corning the negroes.
cred a crime in the south to teach a negro
to read or write In all the slave states
there was not one colored person who could
teach others. There were a few colored
Governor Vardaman considers the Presi-
dent. They owned no real estate and no
money except a few freedmen.
What are they now and what are their
possessions? In the old slave states there
are over 1900 physicians and about the
same complement of lawyers. 1t is not
claimed by any one that those negro pro-
fessional men are in any wise inferior They
have some 10000 teachers, and very many
of them are quite equal to their white
brothers and co-workers in pedagogy. There
are also over 10000 preachers, and it is
safe to say that for their advantages they
are not a all behind the white pulpit men,
AS to their property, they have S7j0,OOO =
600 worth of farming lands and $3.50 600 600
in city and town property, a thousand mil
lions in all. They have their colleges, uni
versitfes and industrial schools. AS to
money, they have number of banks owned
and managed by negroes, and, 1 would like
to tell it to the civilized world, no cOlored
cashier has ever run away with other peo-
pies money. This may be the reason why
the governor thinks they are an inferior
race.
Seriously, are the negroes inferior? If
the Anglo-SaXon race had been ground
down for several hundred years under the
heel of villainous tyranny, nothing but
chattels, our children sold from u.s. men
and women beaten and starved to satisfy
so-called masters, men murdered and wom-
en- ravished, is it at all reasonable that in
SO short time we could have done any
better? Let me make comparison. When
the 1sraelites came out of Egyptian bond
age they did nothing but wander in the
wilderness for forty years. When the ne
groes of the south became free they went
to work with a will and determination to
do something and to be somebody, and now,
in less than forty years, they have their
property and educational institutions, as
meagerly described above. Besides thew
have added to the intellectual wealth of
the nation in such men as Bruce Lee
Mebanes, White, Washington and hundreds
OF others who are infinitely superior to the
man who says education has been their
curse. g. B. MCINTOSH.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-10
OUR TRADE WITH CUBA
INCREASE OF AZ PER CENT IN Elk
PORTS.
Imports Show Growth Of Only 16 Per
Cent-Principa1 Articles Of
Commerce.

Exports from the United States to Cuba
in the eight months ending with February,
1906 amount to $24, log, 6S7, and are larger
than in the corresponding period of any
fiscal year in the history of our trade with
Cuba. Compared with the corresponding
period of last year they show an increase
of over AZ per cent while the imports from
Cuba In the same time show an increase
of only Is per cent. The statement of trade
with Cuba during the eight months ending
with February, just issued by the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor through its
bureau of statistics, shows especially
rapid growth in exports to that island and
that the increase occurs in practically all
articles entering into that trade.
In imports the growth is not nearly so
rapid and occurs in but two or three arti-
cles, chiefly sugar.
Growth Of Exports.
The exports to Cuba in the eight months
ending with February were valued at s24,-
1266s7. against s16S9s, SS4 in the corre-
spending months of last year, an increase
of AZ per cent, while the imports from
Cuba were 42,26O.359 as against s36, $50 060
in the corresponding months of last year,
an increase of but 16 per cent 1t is quite
apparent from these figures that the ex-
ports to Cuba during the fiscal year which
ends with the month of June will be larger
than in any earlier year. The largest ex-
ports to Cuba in the history of our COM
merce with that island were those of the
fiscal year 1904 when the total was ST.
3d. 1865, and the exports during the
eight months of the present fiscal year
show an increase of AZ per cent over those
of the corresponding period of 1904, the
largest earlier year, it is quite apparent
that the total for the year 1905 will mate
rally exceed that of any preceding year.
Articles of Commerce.
In practically all articles of importance
the exports of the eight months ending
with February. 1905, are larger than those
of the same months Of the preceding year.
Comparing the Fights months period of
the two fiscal years, flour increases from
$1,5O0, coo in 1904 to 81, COG, 600 in 1905; cat
tle, from $4,000 to $780,, 600; lumber,
from $749O0O to $9S7, eco; corn, from $751;
COO to $G29GO0; cotton cloths, from 1902
GOO to s4SIOOO: cars and carriages, from
$4,000 to 1852, 600; furniture, from $685.
OdO to $344.O00; builders hardware. from
$253,00O to $3OG,O0O; bacon. from $212,03O
to $3O0,OO0; mineral oils, from $1S1, COO 10
S259, Ot0; and SO on down the list increases
occur in practically all the important ar
ticles entering into that trade. Books and
and mats increased in expectation from $780,,
600 nthe corresponding months of the pres
ent year; fruits and nuts, from $64, 600 to
500, 600. while manufactured cotton other
than cloths, agricultural implements, sewing
machines locomotives, cotton-seed OIL ma
val stores, electrical machinery, bicycles
and other articles also show marked in
crease.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-10
HEBREW IMMIGRATION.
Tide During Spring Months Expected
to Break Record

1t is predicted that the tide OF Russian
Hebrew immigration will pass all records
during the coming spring months is fore
shawoded by the extra ordinary amount OF
Passover money that has been sent
from the New York post office to Russia
during the last fortnight.
From March Is to April s, 27.627 money
orders payable in Russia were issued, tho
aggregate amount of money involved being
S361. 415.
During the five years in which Russia
and the United States have exchanged
money orders the largest number of orders
has been sent from this country three or
four weeks preceding the Passover. This
year the holiday falls April % Last
year It was three weeks earlier.
During the corresponding period last year
the post office sent to Russia $223.159
Nearly all these orders are sent by Rus
sian Hebrews. The total amount sent 20
Russia last year from this post office
alone was $S,S47,0