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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-10-31
BATTLESHIP RHODE ISLAND is
GIVEN A TRIAL TEST THIS
AFTERNOON.
When Completed Vessel Will Be One
of the Most Powerful Ships of
the Navy.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 31.-The
battleship Rhode Island, recently COM
pleted in the yards of the Fore River
Ship and Engine Co., by the instalment
of 10000 horsepower engines, is being
tested for speed today by trial run
from Cape Ann to Cape Porpoise and
return. The shipbuilding company OBJ
jected to the method of determining
the speed of the ship by means of the
standardized screw and the naval au-
thoritis therefore arranged for the trial
run. The battleship, which mas a dis
placement of 5000 tons, is expected
to make about twenty knots an hour.
When completed the Rhode Island will
be one of the most powerful ships of
the American navy. She is fifty feet
longer than the Maine, the largest
type of battleship Uncle Sam mas in
commission at the present time. The
hull rises twenty feet above the water
from stem to stern. The Rhode Is
land will be able to concentrate a
broadside fire of four twelve inch and
six eight-inch breech-loading rifles and
six six-inch rapid-fire guns, without
counting the numerous smaller guns of
her secondary battery, sending a weight
of metal, that will sink anything that
gets into it's way
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-10-31
NOVEMBER HAS PROVEN TO BE
RATHER AN ERRATIC
MONTH.
Data for 10 Years Past Issued by
Observer Newman-CIoudy
Weather Predominates.

Plenty of rainfall, few clear days
and perhaps zero weather may be ex-
pected during November according to
data for the month of November is
sued yesterday by Observer Newman
of the Walla Walla weather office. The
data issued covers a period Of 10 years
and was compiled from the records of
the local office. They are issqfQ TO
show the conditions that Prevailed
during the specified time and the OBJ
server says must not be construed as
a forecast of the weather conditions
for the coming month.
The mean or normal temperature
for November is 43 degrees. The warm
est month was that of 1899 with an
average of so degrees and the coolest
was that of 1896 with an average tenn
perature of 81 degrees. The highest
temperature recorded was IS degrees
on the 4th in 1891, and the lowest was
degrees below zero on the 2Sth in
1896.
The average precipitation for the
month is 2O7 inches and the average
number of days with .01 or more of
rain is II. The greatest monthly pre-
cipitation was SIS inches in 1897 and
the least was .01 in 1890. The greatest
amount of precipitation recorded in
any "A consecutive hours was 1.76
inches on the 18th and 10 in 1899. The
in any "a consecutive hours was ga
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-10-31
But Olson's Restaurant always leaus
THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL

maintains unexcelled service from the
west to the east and south. Making
close connections with trains Of all
transcontinental lines, passengers are
given their choice of routes to Chicago
and through these points to the far
east.
nation as to the lowest rates and best
routes are invited to correspondence
with the following representatives.
B. H. TRUMBULL,
Commercial Agent.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-10-31

The case of Mrs. Carter, Is years of age, sur-
passed in SUFFERING the description in Dante's
Inferno. FIFTEEN YEARS of suffering with
terrible ECZEMA, combined with MALIGNANT
ERYSlPELAS. Itching and burning with UN-
TOLD AGONY. Face swollen so SHE COULD
NOT SEE. Ears enlarged to THREE TIMES
their natural size. ENTIRE BODY COVERED
WITH ECZEMA. Looked as though BRAND
or like the body of person DENUDED OF
CLOTHING BY FIRE VEINS SHRUNKEN so
they could not be distinguished. Left side EN-
most powerful opates had no effect whatever. It
was plt1ful to hear her PRAY and BEG FOR
DEATH. SEVEN SKILLED PHYSICIANS
gave her case up as HOPELESS. Patent nos
trums, germ killers, ETC., were tried freely, yet
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-10-31

inches on the 3oth in 1896. The ave-
rage number of clear days in Novem-
Der is 6; partly cloudy IL, and cloudy,
II. The prevailing direction of the
wind has been from the south and the
average hourly velocity Sc miles. The
highest velocity was 3S miles from the
southwest on the 26th in 1892.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-19
MISTAKES OF THE YOUNGSTERS.
Echoes From the kindergarten Heard
at the Teachers Convention.

GCnoeS from tne kindergarten Heard
at the Teachers Convention.
A party of teachers at the conven-
ton at Ocean Grove recently were dis
cussing the mistakes made by chill
dren, especially in the matter of single
words Some instances were cited.
A Kindergarten told of one young
ster in her class who interpreted the
line in school song. There's a giant
in me hid as referring to something
wrong with his head And indeed
even those who have not the least
strain of Gaelic in their blood may
find weird and perverse tendency
in that phrase 'in me hid" to suggest
strange meanings.
Another teacher told of a little girl
who in the hymn Onward, Christian
Soldiers" sang:
Christ, the railroad master,
Leads against the foe.
1t was the same pupil who origin
ated this reading of a sentence in the
Twenty-third Psalm: My cup dumped
over
One child rendered line in a song:
Buckles it over his dirty back, for
sturdy back" and another tot, in re
peating the Lords prayer, suddenly
stopped to call for an explanation of
the line which lie recited "Give us this
day our dirty bread,'
The sensitiveness of children was
illustrated in the last story.
Il have been drilling class for
some exercises at a school entertain
ment," said one teacher ''The chill
dren were divided into battalions and
the leader of the first group was a
youngster of unusual precocity, very
bright indeed but often led by his
cleverness into mistakes which the
more stupid pupils would never have
made.
1.-The first battalion is going toe
fast 1 corrected, and this little chap
breaking into tears, ran to seat and
laid his head on the desk, sobbing.
1T took several minutes to comfort
and console him, and assure him that
I hadn't been making fun of him.
He thought l had said: The first
Italian is going too fast and he re
sented it,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-19
Manchuria Before the War.

An English traveller writes BE
fore the war began in Manchuria I
came down the Lao river with Rus
sian expedition. We fought the chun-
chuses (Chinese robbers) every after
noon about tea time, but rarely in
nicted any damage on them because
they hid in the crops. One evening
we got desperate and pursued them
through the kaoling fields, with COM
plete lack of success, only to find on
our return that the Chinese magistrate
who accompanied us had collared
twelve Cinnamon supposed to be
chunchuses and had them all tied to
a pole by their pig tails. 1t was the
business of the Chinese authorities to
deal with all captures, so these twelve
men were practically condemned to
die. In company with the missionary,
who was interpreter for the expedi-
ton, 1 pressed for an inquiry. The re-
suit was that six of the victims were
proved to belong to a theatrical COM
pany which was stranded in the neigh
boring village. They were instantly
released. One of the others was sub
jected to a more rigid examination and
died under the lash. Owing to this
untoward incident the rest were set
free. But it was pure luck that the
whole twelve were not beheaded."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-19
Importance in pottino az

Because John c. Setter, postmaster
at Fern, Cal, neglected to dot the 'ti''
in his name, the postoffice department
at Washington declined to honor his
requisition for Office supplies until the
omission was rectifed. The blank
was returned to Setter, who dotted
the 'i'' and then returned the paper
to Washington. The supplies came
in time, considerably delayed by the
departments insistence. The patrons
of the Fern postoff1ce were unable to
purchase stamps for two weeks be-
cause the postmaster neglected to dot
the little letter 81 Setter has been
postmaster for ten years and this was
the first time he ever had a blank re-
turned to him for correction.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-19
800 Carp in a CABBAGE Patch.


Eight hundred carp in a cabbage
patch will give a slight idea of the
number of these fish in Canandaigua
lake The connection may not at first
be plain, but it must be understood
that the lake and the cabbage patch
are adjacent.
Thomas Rafferty,, who owns a farm
on the east shore of Canandaigua lake,
about three miles from the village,
went out to his cabbage patch the other
day and found it covered with dead
and dying carp, some of them of 10
to Is pounds weight
They had invaded the land during
the high water of Sunday, and had
been left stranded by the receding
waters.
Rafferty, didn't consider this a piece
of good luck. He could not get rid of
the fish all alone, and soon his neigh
bors came to him with loud COM
plants and threats to have him in
dicted for maintaining a nuisance.
Finally he called on the village
board of health for aid. There were
more than 500 of the fish.-New York
Sun.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-19
The nWidow stowe.r

The house in which Harriet Beecher
Stowe lived for a number of years in
Hartford is now being torn down to
make room for the advancing fac
tories. 1t is recalled that Mrs Stoves
husband, who was at the time profess
sor in Andover, stopped over in Hart
ford to inspect the house which his
wife was having built To make sure
that he was before the right house
he asked the workmen, and to his
amusement he was told that he was
right and that it was the house being
built for Widow Stowe"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-19
Why He's Eating Out.

Hello" exclaimed Hashley, meet
ing Bakerman in restaurant at 1880
a. m, Il thought you were going to
cook your own breakfasts while your
wife was in Europe. Come to think
of it, you even invited me up to see
what you could do in the way of
bachelor dinner"
That's right replied Brakeman,
gloomily, but my plans have been
upset, for the present, at least
shall have to wait until my wife
reaches the other side, receives the
letter 1 wrote to her last night, and
can find time to reply. You know
what a careful, methodical woman
she is. Well, she made out a list of
everything in the house l should re-
quire while she was gone, told me
where to find it and put the keys of
all the cupboarGs 1 should be likely
to use on a separate ring
"Wen?" asked Hashley, after long
pause.
Then she carefully locked the
cupboards, packed the list and the
keys in her trunk and carried them
away with her.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-19
unoratefuI State of Maine.

James G. Blaine, whose name was
so many years linked with Names
political fortunes, has no monument
erected to his memory in the state.
Shortly after his death there was an
effort made to procure funds for such
a purpose, but the difficulty in getting
subscriptions was SO great that the
project was abandoned. The state
has not even claimed the remains of
her once illustrious son and the body
is buried in Washington In the ro-
tunda of the statehouse is the bust of
James G. Blaine, done in pure white
marble. More than the usual interest
has been attached to this work of
art since it was learned that it has
never been paid for Prof. G. Trenta-
move of Florence, Italy, made the
bust and it was placed in the rotunda
of the capitol in 1899, but up to this
day the sculptor has never received a
red cent
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-19
THE ORIGIN OF sUNDAE.
Popular Hot Weather Refreshment
From New Orleans.

Sundae sounds like an East Indian
name for the popular soda fountain
beverage, and most people probably
think that is its origin, but it isn't"
says Herrick J. Gray.
1.-The name originated in New Or
leans and in an interesting manner.
A druggist there whose soda fountain
was an extremely popular resort
found himself one Sunday without
the usual supply of tanks, through
some strike or other trouble, or else
he was unable to obtain ice, l forget
which. AT any rate, he wasn't in a
position to serve anything but ice
cream and E.-ups, and he was almost
in despair.
AN expert sign maker, he soon
had signs in his windows announcing
that in order to push it properly
nothing but the new Sunday drinks
would be served at his place that day.
His patrons were nothing loath to try
the simple combination of ice cream
and sirups, and others were attracted
through curiosity. The new combina-
ton made hit. Before night it was
buzzed about in hundreds of homes,
: and the next day the demand was
lively for that new Sunday drink.
Gradually other soda fountains began
dispensing it, the request for it con-
tinued, couched in the same form,
however, and it wasn't long before its
use in advertising caused the substitu-
ton of an e for the Y, probably be-
cause it looked better; and there you
have the whole story. Not as ro-
mantle as if it were a tale of India,
but still not uninteresting. What do
you Think"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-19
ROYAL Matchmaker.

Queen Marie Christina of Spain, who
has sorrowed deeply over the loss of
her eldest daughter, never allows grief
to interfere with duties of the state,
and in the interests of her son she.
has been entertaining parents of eligi-
BILE princesses, the charming daugh-
tiers being included in the party. Her
majesty considers that young royal
personages should be allowed to
choose their own consorts-of course,
within their own caste; and though
the marriage of the Princess of Astu-
rias was unpopular at the time the
queen favored it knowing that her
daughter preferred Prince Charles OF
Bourbon Caserta to any other sutton.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-19
Old ENGLISH Inns,

The Ostrich inn at Colmbrook, Mid
dlesex, England, has had an uninter-
rupted existence since the faraway
days of King John. 1t was doing
thriving business before Magma Charta
was signed, and had qualified as
veteran before Crecy was fought The
Seven Stars, in Manchester, was a
licensed house in the year of PoictierS
1850, two-thirds of century before
the cathedral was founder, and it
boasts today a staircase clock which
began to tick ever so long before
Doctor Johnson was born--nearly two
centuries ago.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-19
puhfous Response.

Dubious Response.
The church WAS crowded. the aisles were
With ribbons and blossoms, a sweet ef-
feet
The organist softly did begin
That same old chestnut tom "Lohen-
grim
BY the altar rail was a noble lord.
With an air OF distinction. distinctly
bored.
His mother-in-law in prospectu stood,
EnwTeathed in smiles and a velvet hood
Sweet bridesmaids. chiffoned. with envy
sighed.
As they met and preceded the schoolroom
bride.
Who hung on the arm of her pompous
SIRE
Resembling tub in his new attire.
Inc whoie affair was rehearsed ana
planned,
As the lord, with his brandy and-soda
hand.
Approached he exhaled an alcohol whifr.
Oh. twas sad to see, but how often seen.
L ne red-nosed lord and the sweet six
teen,
But the funeral service went on apace.
While the bishop smiled with paternal
And asked the episcopal question terse:
do You take this man for better or
Then the maid made answer in accents
slow
Meath her quivering veil: well. don't
quite know"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-19
Moral standards in business.

From a thousand pulpits our mid
summer moralists assure their perspir-
ing auditors that things are bad, very
bad, in the business world just now.
The publicists and the reformers
shake their heads dolefully and re-
peat the pessimism. The magazinists
and the paphleteers search in vain
for some less depressing theme Isn't
it barely possible that the vast ma
jority of observers are all generalizing
too much? The morale of our bust
ness life is not to be measured by the
rascals who occasionally come to the
surface in it any more than the rO
tency of the Christian religion is to
be judged by the backsliders from
it-(New York Mail-)
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-19
Jealous of Imaoinary Ills.

Talk of woman's jealousy of her
husband" said a physician of long ex-
perience in New York. 1T is moth
ing compared to her jealousy of an
others chronic ailments. Half the
doctors would starve if it were not
for the prevalence of illnesses that
are purely imaginary. OF course, it
does not do for US to tell a woman
who has firmly made up her mind that
she is i'll that she is not i'll. In nine
cases out of ten she would lose her
temper and consult another doctor
Among certain women invalidiSm
gives them a distinction which is
gratifying to their self-love. They may
literally be said to enjoy poor health
They look for the doctors visit to
them, or they call at his office, as the
most exciting event of the day. If
they know him well enough, they
implore him to waive professional ETH
Quette and tell them about ailments
of other women who consult him.
Women of this description-and they
are legion-having a craving for mar
tyrdom, which doctoring an imaginary
illness seems to satisfy
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-19
Preacher Too Strenuous.

Rev. Thomas Mcleod, Brooklyn
clergyman, in a sermon in the Con-
gregational church, North Adams, re-
Gently, rounded out a statement by
saying: You can put that in your
pipe and smoke it." A woman who
was up in front rose and, in tones
audible all over the church, said !:
"Sir, we are not accustomed to such
language in this pulpit. Such words
are more fitting for the race track
than the house of God" Mr. Mcleod
paused for a moment, and then re
torted mildly: Il have no objection
to women speaking in meeting
Whereupon the incident closed and
the dominic continued his sermon :
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-19
Talking Good for the Teeth.

Somebody has advanced a new
theory to account for the rapid decay
of the teeth of human kind. 1t is
due, this wiseacre says, to the decline
of conversational powers Talk ex-
ercises the jaws. and jaw exercise is
beneficial to the teeth. The more
talk the more benefit. Our ancestors
were forced to talk because there
were few amusements to silence them.
Their teeth were more shapely and
stronger and they endured Nowadays
cheap entertainments of many kinds
entice the teeth owners and cheap
literature of an engrossing character
draws them from the natural exer-
else that their molars and incisors 30
sorely need.-(Boston Transcript
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-19
Heinze Not Afraid of Hoodoo.

Tenants of the big Office building
at A Broadway, New York, are not
called upon to face the danger of a
thirteenth floor. There is no such
unlucky location in the edifice, that
number having been jumped. The
next floor above the twelfth is the
fourteenth. F. Augustus Heinze, the
thorn of the Amalgamated Copper
Company, does not appear to have in
herited any superstition traits. His
Office is 1913 on the thirteenth foot
of 81 (thirteen reyersed) Nassau
street. In his fight with the Amalga
mated Copper Company Heinze has
been exceptionally fortunate. But the
superstitious say he would have been
doubly fortunate if he had Joined
forces with the Standard Oil crowd in
the first place
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-19
The Verdict of Public Opinion.

Public opinion was the first great
Judge. 1t drove the malefactor from
his own people to the desert, to live
an exile, with every mans hand
against him. Its judgments are still
true and righteous. Cunning lawyers
may befog juries- Wrongdoers may
hide behind technicalities- But there
are verdicts of public opinion which
are branded into their skin and which
they can never erase Not for all
-offenses, but for certain offenses that
is ssthe great corrective and punitive"
Its value can not be easily overesti
mated. There are men in New York
now who are finding the verdict Of
public opinion scarcely less blighting
than the sentence of criminal
court.-(New York World.l
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-19
RAeY,s INSTINCT
Shows He Knew What Food to Stick


Forwarding a photo of a splendidly
handsome and healthy young boy, a
happy mother writes from an Ohio
town:
1.-The enclosed picture shows my r
year-old Grape-Nuts boy
'Since he was years old he has
eaten nothing but Grape Nuts. He
demands and gets this food three
times day. This may seem rather
unusual, but he does not care for any
thing else after he has eaten his
Grape-Nuts, which he uses with milk
or cream, and then he is through with
his meal. Even on Thanksgiving day
he refused turkey and all the good
things that make up that great din
ner, and ate his dish of Grape-Nuts
and cream with the best results and
none of the evils that the other fool
ish members of the family expert
enced.
He is never sick, has beautiful
complexion, and is considered very
handsome boy. May the Postum Conn
pany prosper and long continue to fur
nish their wholesome food!" Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Greek.
Mich.
There's q reason. Read the little
book. THE Road to Wellvilles- In evs
cry pkg
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-19
MRS. PoTTER's BRIc-A-BRAc.
Her Home Recently Sold Was Filled
With Costly Things.

Friends of Mrs. Bowen-Potter, not
to mention collectors of rare things.
Will wish they had been present at the
sale of her household goods, which
took place recently at Bray Lodge,
says the Boston Herald. Americans
who have visited the famous actress
in her attractive home can recall the
interesting furniture which filed it,
and may well long to have become
possessed of some object to add to
their own collections. One of the lin
spirations,'' as well known New
York woman describes it, is ma
hogany settee which once belonged
in the assembly rooms at Bath and on
which tradition swears Nell Gwynne,
with the merry monarch, had often
sat. The back is a rare piece of trel-
lis work, and would alone make the
seat valuable did not this association
hang around it. Then there is another
souvenir from which Mrs. Potter must
hate to part, the superb fourleaf
Chinese screen which was presented
to her by Ii Hung Chang himself one
day in Canton. But it was a collec-
ton of Japanese paintings that made
artists rave when they were shown
Mrs. Potter's bric-a-brac, and it is
hoped the rare examples of Japan's
oldest and youngest painters might
find their way to Boston.