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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-06
JlMMlEROY FINDS A STRANGE
PICTURE.

Everybody who knew Jimmieboy
was willing at any time to take his SOL
emn affidavit that he was a good boy.
SO when it was announced that he was
going to live at Uncle Sans house
everybody was pleased. Even the 9TH
er little boys, who were envious of
Jimmieboy wished him luck, ana said
they were glad Uncle Sam had taken
him in. and as for Jimmieboy he was
delighted, because next to the big no
tel at Santaclaus Villa, Uncle Sans
house was about the incest place to
live in that anybody could wish for.
In the first place, Uncle Sam was
very generous old gentleman, and was
most liberal in his allowances of the
pocket money of the boys who came
to stay with him, 1t was said he gave
Teddy, the biggest boy in the place,
two whole dollars week to spend as
he pleased, and there were others who
had found endless pennies and nickels
and sometimes several quarters in the
old gentleman's pockets, which they
could hope to have for their very own
il they only behaved themselves as
well conducted boys should, and did
udl OIClC Dahl dShCu luCIl " uO
promptly, cheerfully and without whin-
ing, or showing a disposition to play
hooky. In addition to these pennies
and nickels and real solid gold dollars
Uncle Sans gardens were full of the
most beautiful plum trees, which need
ed only to be shaken to drop into the
laps of the shakers whole apronfuls of
delicious plums, which they could eat
themselves, if they wanted to, or, if
they were generously disposed boys,
could give to their friends if that
pleased them better. Sometimes, to be
sure, some of the little boys gorged
themselves too full of these plums to
be quite healthy always and once in
a while it happened that there would
be naughty boy who would sell them
to the wicked fruit dealers in order to
get more money for themselves, but
these boys were quickly found out and
sent away from Uncle Sans house in
disgrace. But all who knew Jimmieboy
knew perfectly well that he was not
that kind of boy. They knew that
he would never eat any more of the
plums than were good for his diges
ton. They had no fear that he would
ever mink OF SeIllng any or uncle
Sans plums to fruit dealers, who
would treat them as they would any
old fruit and let bad people have them
for profit, or that he would give them
away to boys who didn't appreciate
what fine plums they were just to
make himself solid with them He
was a bright-minded, conscientious,
gileiess little fellow, and so I say
everybody was glad when word came
that Jimmieboy had gone to Uncle
Sans house to stay. They said that
as he grew older Uncle Sam would
grow more and more attached to him
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-06

settled in Uncle Sans house, In fufl
possession of the bureau, with nothing
to do but to keep it polished up and
looking fit against the day when Uncle
Sam or someone else for that matter
should come to look at it. 1t looked like
very easy job at first, but when Jim
mieboy came to look into the bureau
drawers and saw what a lot of things
they contained, and thought of all the
labor it would take to keep things in
shlpshape order, he began to see that
he had his work cut out for him. But
ne. went bravely at it and in very
short time had things in first class or
der, and then the queer thing happen
ed. One day, down at the bottom of
the biggest drawer in the bureau, Jim
mieboy found very handsome picture
of a huge arch, with tremendous iron
gate swinging from hinges on the up
RICH tsides of it. Over the top of the
arch was carved on a marble slab the
words ITO Trustland," and a little low
er down was another sign, on which
was inscribed the warning, Abandon
hope all We who enter here All this
interested the boy very much, but what
interested him even more was the
country that lay on the other side of
the arch, in which the lad could see
what appeared to be marvellous trees,
the fruit of which was not apples or
pears, or oranges, but solid gold mug
gets as large as baseballs. The leaves,
too, even under a magnifyinfi glass,
were not like the leaves you see on or
binary trees, but long, oblong green
things that looked like they might have
a negotiable value up to S. or $40. In
deed, on every hand Jimmieboy could
see that these leaves were marke
with VS. and KS just like the little
green engravings that Secky Pshaw
printed for Uncle Sam to pay his bills
with.
"Gee!" quoth Jimmieboy, as his eye
took in this wonderful vista. THAT
must be mighty fertile soil inside there
to grow trees like that If had an
bills I'd have ice cream at every meal
and five kinds of pie for supper"
And just then a very curious thing
occurred in the picture. At first Jim
mieboy could hardly believe his eyes,
for it was indeed remarkably strange
that as he gazed at what seemed to
be an ordinary fiat photograph it
should become suddenly alive. The
trees within the arch began indubita-
bly, to wave as though stirred by some
passing breeze, and the huge iron gate
that had hitherto forbade entrance to
Trustland swung slowly open as if in
viting him to enter. simultaneously,
from the other side of the arch there
emerged a huge, awful looking creature
like the Cerberus that Jimmieboy re-
membered to have seen pictures of in
his who's Who in Mythology" only
this animal had more heads than he
could count, and could speak Ameri-
can, which the original Cerberus could
not do. This strange creature paused
as he got to the road just outside the
arch and gazed all about him as if
looking for somebody, and then sat
down in what seemed to Jimmieboy a
contemplative fashion and began to
sing the folling plaintive little song in
chorus with all his heads
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-06

soh. I'm q rusty, trusty, dusty crusty
Cerberus. $50
guard the gates Of Ducatville with
. shotted blunierbuss.
With all my sixty-'leven heads bark
by night and day,
And when I grown. upon my soul, the
nefghbors move away.
And yet, way down within the heart
that's mid inside b. me,
You'll find truly wondrous store of
amiability.
I like to ease the burdens of the rich
and Of the poor
And always have pleasant work for
knockers at my door.
So come.
So come.
Oh, come and visit me.
l am fearful locker, but I'm gentle
as can be.
AS long as you've single cent I'll well
come you with glee.
So come, and enter in the gate ana
visit little me.
OF Trustytown, and Ducatville, of Long
Green by the Shore.
And Stockburst in the Uplands, I'm
official janitor;
OF Blunderbug and Plunderbug, and
all the Land of Tin,
I'm what they call in vulgar phrase the
leading puller-in.
do not care what you possess, of lit
tie or of much.
With all the world try to keep con-
tinually in touch"
And if you don't believe it, why just
come inside and see
How very kind, and easy, and how
simple can be.
So come.
So come.
Oh, come and visit me.
No matter what I look like, I'm as
harmless as can be.
As long as you've a single cent I'll well
come you with glee.
So come, and knock upon the gate and
visit little me-
The effect upon Jimmieboy of this
little ballad sung crooningly by all the
voices of this strangely gifted Cerberus
was at first such as to make him a
trife drowsy. but if he had been in
danger of yielding to the lullaby and
going to sleep, the very next words of
the Cerberus would have brought him
back to watchfulness again. AS the
last line fell from the many lips every
one of the many eyes appeared to fall
for the first time upon Jimniieboy.
Hullo, son." said one OF the heads,
almost staring him out Of countenance.
How do you find yourself these love-
ly spring days?"
II never lose myself, SO I don't have
to find myself at ALL" returned Jim
miebOy pertly.
Smart child that" said one of the
cerberus heads to another, which i'm
mediately nodded in agreement.
ITO smart to stay outside, seems to
me-" said the other.
Got any money with you?" asked a
third head.
ooh, I know where there's eight
cents stored away" said Jimmieboy,
with a laugh.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-06

Wednesdays and Sundays, Chicken
Dinner at the White House Restaur-
ant. Broughton r. Gupt!ll. Props.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-06

(Next week Jimmieboy interviews
Mr.. Cerberus and starts on an event.
full journey)
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-28
Plowhead and Mabee, alfalfa

Plowhead and Mabee, alfalfa
seed $s.85.
SD. Hartkopf, we'll rope and
repairing pump $3.50.
In the matter of the petition of
L. Huntley ct al residents of Pre-
cinct No. of the Pioneer Irriga-
tion District, praying for the ap-
poiutment Of James A McRobbie as
director of said precint, on motion
laid over until April meeting.
In the matter of the application
of the Victor Land and Live Stock
Co. Ltd. for refund of S137.37 on
1902 taxes on sheep belonging to
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-28

the inhabitants of the territory en-
braced within the boundaries there
of, therefore on motion, petition
granted and the following is here
by declared to be the boundary line
of the said new school district, to-
wit: Commencing at the N. E.
corner of the S. E. quarter OF Sec.
20 TIP. 7 N R S w. B. M. running
thence west to the N w corner of
the S E Il of Sec go, thence south
TO the S w corner of the S E II of
Sec 90, thence west to the N w
corner of Sec 81, thence south to
the S w corner of Sec 7 Tp6 N R
W. B. M, thence east to the S E
corner of Sec. 9 thence north to the
place of beginning. And it is fur
Their ordered and declared that said
new school district be known as
School District No. So of Canyon
County, Idaho.
On molten adjourned until IAN
uary 18th, 1905, at 10 a'clock a. m.
Approved,
F. E. FISK,
Attest: Chairman.
JOHN A. TUCKER, Clerk.
Caldwell, Idaho, Friday, January
IS, 1905.
The Board Of County Commission
ers met at 10 o'clock A. M. pur-
suant to adjournment from yesterday,
all members of the Board being
present, when the following pro-
ceedings were had:
On motion the official bond of
I. G. Perkins as Justice of the
Peace in and for East Emmett
Precinct Canyon County, Idaho,
accepted and approved and ordered
filed.
On notion the following bills
were laid over for investigation:
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-28

sldwell. Idaho, Thursday, Jan.
Eeo5.
Ae Board Of County Commits
Yrs of Canyon County met at
clock a. m. pursuant to ad-
ament from yesterday, all
|bers of the Board being pres
then the following proceedings
had: ~.'
1 motion the following bills
read and passed upon and
ants ordered drawn on the
i Fund for the amounts al
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-28

motion the following bills
read and passed upon and
ants ordered drawn On the
lty Fund for the amounts al
II.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-28

motlon adJourneo Until jan
roth, 1905, at 10 o'clock a. m.
Approved, .....,.
F. E. FISK,
st:. 81. Chairman.
sHN A, TUCKER, Clerk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-03
INDIAN AS AN IRRIGAToR.
Land Along the Rio Grande Artificially
Watered Before Annexation.

From the Manufacturers Record.
Texas has at present about 100000 acres
of irrigated land. of which $1,000 acres
are planted in ordinary crops and 225 900
acres in rice. For years stock raising has
been the only industry of the arid and
semi-arid portions of the state. but the
homesteaders of the last decade have
cut up the great ranches into small farms
and created demand for water with
which to make their crops grow.
Cotton fields are pushing their way now
into western Texas. The rice fields are
confined for the-most part to the coast
country, but the belt of irrigated land
where general farm products flourish ex-
tends from Ell Paso to the Guadalupe and
and from the Rio Grande to the Red
river on the north.
Irrigation is. however, no new thing in
Texas. 1t must not be forgotten that the
lone star state is commonwealth with
the romantic history that BELTS border
state. Long before it became a republic
the Indians were irrigating land along
the Rio Grande. Afterward the Fran
ciscan friarS who came with the early
Spanish conquerors carried on irrigation
for the cultivation of their fields in the
southwestern part of what is now the
state of Texas In the northern and cen
trail parts of the state irrigation has been
carried on to limited extent for many
years.
For some time irrigation development
in the Pecos and Rio Grande valleys has
been retarded by the lack of water sup
ply which the heavy demand on those
rivers in New Mexico and Colorado oc
castons- There are many places however,
In the trans-Pecos country where i'm
pounding dams might be constructed
across narrow canyons or gorges to form
reservoirs for the storage of flood waters.
The use of impounding reservoirs has
NOT entered largely into the irrigation
economy of the state, but the demand
for water grows attention is turned to
this source of supply and the storage
reservoir at Wichita Falls will soon be
duplicated at scores of other points in
Texas San Saba valley, above the town
of San Saba, is one of the most fertile
sections In the world. and definite plans
have been made for the construction of
dam across the canyon eighteen miles
above the town to form an immense stor-
age reservoir from which water can be
conducted to the valley below.
This canyon is fifty miles In length. and
by means of series of dams and canals it
is believed that 10000 acres above and
below the town might be made to form
an immense storage underditch. 1rriga-
tors along the stream from the head of
the canyon to the springs already have
taken practically the entire normal flow
of the stream. making any system in the
lower San Saba dependent largely on
storage water.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-03
FELL FROM LADDER
PAINTER DIES as RESULT OF AC-
CIDENT.

John R. Clements. ffty-five years old. a
painter by trade fell from ladder in front
of 633 A street northeast this morning
shortly before 8 o'clock and sustained in
juries which resulted in his death at the
Casualty Hospital about ten minutes after
the accident.
Clements, who lived at 21S B street north
west, was employed by Arthur Wood of
All Sd street northeast. This morning when
he reached the A street house to go TO
work his nervous and shaky condition in
dicated that he was not able to go to work,
and he was advised that 1t would be we'll
for him to refrain from ascending the
ladder. Placing the ladder upon the porch
he proceeded to climb to the second-story
window. Just before he reached the top
he reeled and fell dropping upon the brick
pavement in the areaway. distance of
about thirty five feet, and receiving many
injuries. message wa ssent to the Cas-
ualty Hospital for assistance and ten min
utes after the accident occurred DIR. Jarboe
had the dying man in the hospital. The
doctor found that Clements had sustained
a fractured skull, broken thigh and leg.
fractures of three ribs and both arms and
several scalp wounds Five minutes after
he reached the hospital life was extinct.
Several friends called at the hospital and
made inquiries about Mr.. Clements. They
said he had a brother living in the eastern
section of this city, and daughter living
at Congress Heights. Coroner hewitt WIS.,
tied the scene of the fall and gave a GER
tif1cate of accidental death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-03
CUTS INTO THE STOMACH.
Modern Surgeon Able to Accomplish
What Was Deemed Impossible.

From Leslie Magazine.
Modern surgerys great achievements have
been in the abdominal region. For a gem
surgeon out of this territory. Here disease
intrenched itself and bid the surgeon def
ance. But now the surgeon intrepidly en-
tiers diseases former stronghold, routs it.
and In so doing performs Ife-saving feats
with the organs that seem absolute miracles
to the unlocking world
Take the stomach. If Ii Is too large the
surgeon enfolds a portion of the wall and
sutures tStitches) the edges: II part of it
is diseased. say with cancer, he cuts Ii out
sutures the edges and If necessary cuts n
new opening for the head of the small intes-
tine and sutures 1t into place. If the esopha-
gus Is INSTRUCTED so that food cannot he
taken naturally, tube is inserted through
the abdominal wall into the stomach. and
when the man is hungry he merely drops a
premasticated meal into the tube: or. In
case cancerous area be so large as to de-
mand such severe operation. the surgeon
may remove the entire stomach and suture
the esophagus TO the duodenum
Contrast this last operation with the
working principle of the '10's that to enter
the stomach is death. and you see how far
surgery has travelled in a generation This
last operation Is. of course rarely per-
formed even now, but there are today few
stomachless persons in the world Zone re-
turned TO work within two months after the
operation). attending to their regular duties
taking special diet. and apparently Just as
happy IL their stomachs were not In Jars
on laboratory shelves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-03

what hand labor did slowly and clumsily.
The modern veneer machines have been
instrumental I'm reducing the cost of bar
an extent that the work of feeding the ma
chimes constitutes most OF the requirements
or the operators. The slaves are cut to the
required thickness by the machines and
then pressed into shape by hydraulic pres
sure until they are ready for the assem-.
bling machine.
feature of barrel making In this coun-
try is the grading or the circular packages
so that all the lumber brought to the fac
tories can be utilized. One class OF bar
rels must be absolutely watertight. without
flaw OF any kind in their slaves Barrels
made for the OIL. whisky and paint trade
must not only be fla wless but they must
have resistance power equal to a lateral
pressure OF 800 pounds. IL order to secure
this the slaves must be put to "A rigid test
beforehand and they must be cnred. so
there will be no danger of shrinkagc ard
for this work must be carefully selected
and IL must be cured by natures slow but
sure process Kiln dried lumber would
never do. The condition of kiln-dier wood
is such chat II would prove too brittle.
The choicest oak, hickory ash or other
hardwood must be selected for barrels used
Tor such purposes. and their cost is conse-
Quently In proportion to the extra labor and
cost of the raw product. out of every dozen
trees In an ordinary woods only four or five.
will be found to pass the most rigid examj-
nation and tests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-03
Automobiles on Texas Ranches.
From the Houston Post.


Il have just returned from a tour OF the
great ranching region of western Texas"
said the salesman, ''and as ii Is my custom
to make that belt at least twice every year
1t comes easy for me to note progress.
No man who has not visited 1t i'm recent
months can even surmise the great change
worked by the automobile. Why the latter
mas now brought points more than lG0
miles distant from the railways into the
closest possible touch with civilization
What used TO be days of travel between
distant ranches and railway stations is now
merely matter of very few hours.
Nearly all the ranchmen own their auto-
mobiles, and you can see them skimmtnp
the broad prairie In every direction ar
times frightening the jack rabbits and the
coyotes and striking CONSERVATION to the
hearts OF boot owls and the rattlesknakes
with the passing OF the cowboy has AL
most come the passing of the COW pony
100, for on several big ranches / actually
saw men rounding up the herds i'm automo-
plies For the most part the country I'm the
great ranching region OF Texas is leyeI ar
slightly rolling. making the finest place in
me world for the automobile All along
the Southern Pacific to the west and tbe
Texas and Pacific and Fort Worth ana
Denver railroads dozens of automobiles are
TO be seen from car windows STANDING or
stations where the buggy and the rs,ch
wagon used to be-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-03
PROFITS OF THE sUFZ CANAL.
Rates to Be Lowered Again to Keep
Dividends Below 25 Per Cent.

From the New York Tribune
Tis forty years since" and what a diff
ference between then and now, At that
time men were saying the Suez canal never
would or could pay operating expenses At
the present time its profits are so enor-
nous that the company is compelled again
and again to reduce the tolls In order to
keep the dividends within legal bounds OF
truth, Mr.. Greenwood was president when
thirty years ago he persuaded the British
government to buy the khedive's shares.
Lord Derby, the foreign minister did not
like the scheme Sir Stafford Northcote,
chancellor of the exchequer. distinctly dis
approved IL. Disraeli himself, prime minis
ter. doubtful.
1t did not seem a tempting thing TO pay
S2o000,GO0 for shares, the interest on which
had been mortgaged for nineteen years But
Mr.. Greenwood was persistent. He pointed
out what most of the shares apart from
the khedives. were held In France while
so per cent of the traffic through the canal
was British. So British commerce must
pay tolls into French pockets The tolls
were high, and when England asked that
they be reduced France answered that n
England did not like the canal she might
send her commerce by the old route around
the cape. In the end Mr.. Greenwood's pleas
prevailed and the British government paid
S2000.OO0 for shares that are now worth
$40 600, 600
the other day, which said this years divi-
dend was only Ill per cent. Not FOR a
long time has it been low. The dispatch
should have said it was al francs a share
a far different thing. AS the shares are OF
900 francs each. the dividend is at the rate
OF 2S.2 per cent, or just twice what was a.
ilrst stated Last years dividend was I.p
franc a share, or 26 per cent. Now the
London agreement binds the company nor
TO appropriate profits of more than % per
cent. but to reduce the tolls as much and
as ofteh as may be necessary to keep them
DOWN 10 that inquire. That is why the COM
pany proposes another reduction.
1t did reduce tolls two years ago from o
to S1a francs ton. but still the profits kent
on increasing and pushing the dividend
above the % per cent limit There are
those who reckon that If tolls were now re-
duced to francs the company would still
be able to declare yearly dividend OF *
per cent, and that few years hence q still
further reduction can be made without i'm
palrment of the legal dividend
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-03
CHINESE NEATNESS.
Their Personal Habits Contrast With
Their Usual Surroundings.

Prom the New York sun.
Next time you are in Chinatown notice
the finger nails of the inhabitants. You will
be surprised, possibly. to find that they are
generally as clean and bright as though
they had just come from the manicure
As are his finger nails. so is the rest of
the Chinaman's body. 1t is one of the queer
contradictions about this contradictory peo-
pie that although their houses are usually
surrounded by fringe OF dirt and although
they don't take to modern sanitation a bit,
they are very cleanly In their personal
habits
The daily hath is an Institution A bath
tub Is not necessary. Your Chinaman man
ages very well with few cupfuIs of water
and waShrag.
lie completes his toilet by polishing his
long nails. and every day or so he visits the
barber, who shdVes not only the scanty hair
on his face, but also his head and tie in
SIDE OF his ears. II he can afford IL the
Chlnaman puts on a clean blouse every day
or two. 1t is no accident that these people
are nation OF laundrymen. 1t comes to
them naturally.
Last summer a bunch OF university SIN
dents took a summer job on a big caIifor-
MA ranch. The regular hands had a good
deal of fun over their habits of personal
cleanliness
They're regular d Cinnamon" said
tie hands Always washing themselves"