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Not Fit to Print
A Frenchman calls President Roose'
welt a philosopher. What the beef
trust Ia calling him cannot Oe printed.
Rock Springs Miner.
, 1905-02-21

Daily Republican. SO cents a month
, 1905-02-21

TUESDAY,. FEBRUARY 81, 1905.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09
Make a Bio Hit,

In addition to the beautiful Parsi-
fal Pictures which are being shown
every night this week at the Star
Theater, there are some of the most
humorous moving pictures ever flash
ed on screen. They have proven a
great hit from the fact that many peo-
pie go every night to see these ex-
tremely fanny pictures which pre-
cede the "Parsifal' pictures, which
also attract a good attendance. AT
first some people who did not know
were inclined to confound this high
class and novel entertainment with
the ordinary picture show, but this
false conception has faded into OBJ
livion, as the attendance is increas-
ing nightly. A souvenir matinee is on
this afternoon and a good house greet
ed this most worthy entertainment.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09
LIFE INSURANCE AGENTS.

A correspondent asks The Statesman
to say word for the insurance agent,
which it gladly does. The soliciting
agent of the insurance company earns
every cent he acquires. His work IS
hard, his welcome is cold. He has no
snap. Some one in the insurance
business has written a pamphlet en-
titled THE Thirtietn Man, to show
that this is about the proportion OF
men solicited. who take insurance. The
average agent can see about five men
a day. This, means that he insureS
about one man a week. The average
premium is not high enough to make
him rich on this basis. Besides, the
sixty days to nine months. The man
who pays cash with his application is
the rare exception. On the other hand
the agent settles In cash with his COM
pany at the end of thirty days. This
some bank, which will discount his
notes and enable him to pay the
company and live. :'..
The work of the insurance solicitor
is hard and it never ends. His ankle
ties about his prospects are carried
over from day to day and week to
week, until his life becomes a singular
nightmare of hope deferred.
The soliciting insurance agent mas
as much reason to be indignant over
the disclosures of rottenness in the
New York companies as anybody else.
1t hurts him financially and it hurts
him personally. He has not known
that Mccall and McCurdy were knaves
or fools, and he has been crediting
their literature and making it the basis
of his arguments. On the fundament-
al proposition of life insurance ne
knows that his company is sound, and
he knows also that the returns to poll
cyholders, by conscientious manage
ment at the nome office might have been
such as to greatly tighten the work.
Therefore We are to look upon the soli-
citing agent as being as much the vic
tim of the system as the public. If life
insurance is correct in principle the
work of the agent is praiseworthy
above that of many other vocations
Don't step on the agent because of
your indignation at the misuse of a
great idea.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09

Thirty-two teachers of Walla Walla
county filed into the county court room
this morning ready to take the reg
ular quarterly teachers examinations
which started today under the su
pervision of County School Super
intendent Bond. The examinations
will continue over until Saturday.
The teachers present this morning
wrestled with intricate arithmetical
problems and catch words PROFOUND
ed in the spelling examinations. Expe-
rienced teachers say that the examina-
ton so far is the severest that Walla
Walla teachers have been tested in
for years and the young teachers
trying for higher diplomas are fearful
over the result of the markings.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09

may be adopted by other communities
as a solution of the race problem.
Buxton is a settlement of 5000 and
of these, all but 200 or 300 are negroes,
the exceptions being principally
Swedes and Welsh. The government
is entirely in the hands of negroes.
There are two justices of the peace,
as the town has never been incorporat-
ed. They are Spencer Carry and
George Terrell, two constables, John
and Nelson Walker, and a deputy
sheriff, A. Perkins.
The colony operates on the self
government plan and whenever a vio-
latior of the law is found in the place.
he is waited on by a committee and
told to behave himself or leave town.
If he does not behave he is given five
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09

days to get out, and then If he bas ~,
complied. he is taken to. the edge ~
showed over.
Buxton possesses the only co,oras
Industrial Y. M. c. A. in the wor,s
1t is second in point of membersbir.
only to the colored Y. M. c.. A II
New York City, and Secretary John
son expects to pass that mark This
winter. The building is a handsome
one, thoroughly equipped with baths
gymnasiums, reading rooms, etc.
Nearly all the men are employed N
the extensive coal mines nearby. The
place has grown from nothing to 5000
in five years and its popularity With
the colored people indicates that il
has not reached it's full develop
ment.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09

seen for the first time. Much is, ex-
pected of this drama, as it has made
a great success throughout the east
Another feature for Friday evening is
the presentation of the $4,000 baby
buggy to the holder of. the lucky
coupon. Never has a gift attracted
such attention as this one, and visit
to PauPs Furniture ware rooms on
Main street will convince the most
skeptical that it is the most valuable
present ever given in this city in a
like manner.
The temperance Of Rae Bronson is
also another feature of the evening
and taken all in all, one of the largest
houses of the season will assemble to-
morrow night to enjoy a good play
and applaud the many favorites to be
seen in the cast.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09
SEEKS RECRUITS IN WEST.
Zion Leader, Disguised With Lack of
Appreciation, Invades New Fields.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Nov. 9.-Dis-
lowers in Europe or to recruit his
tenth legion in the wicked city of Chi
cago, John Alexander Dowie has sent
an advance guard of his Zion restora-
ton hosts through Iowa, Nebraska and
South Dakota to interest investors in
the stock of his enterprise in Mexico,
and incidentally to pick up any prose-
lytes that might be found.
Elders A. Burchard and Cornelius
Smythe are in charge of the special
car sent through these three states.
The Zionists say that at this very
in Mexico, and that it will be a pay
ing proposition. The manner in which
investors are to become rich is ex-
planned no further than to say that
community of people will follow
Dowie to Mexico and there, beneath
the dome of southern skies, bring all
their titheS into the StOrehOuSe.
Dowie hopes to repeat in Mexico the
deal he made in Lake county, Illinois,
when he purchased $500 acres along
Lake Michigan for $50 an acre, and
by a system, increased it's value to
$50 a running foot. His agents de-
clare the people Of Chicago are anx-
ious to get away from contamination
and start a new home in the land
where chile con carne is free and the
coal man does not ask for money
Tobacco, whisky, profanity and all the
vices and superfluties will be taken
away from those who emigrate to the
new haven.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09
HINTS TO SUFFRAGISTS.

The Massachusetts, WOman'S Suf-
frage association complains that re-
plies to Grover Cleveland's articles in
the Ladies Home Journal are denied
publication by the editor thereof
whereupon the woman suffragists
threaten to withdraw their subscrip-
tions to the paper. We doubt the eff
cacv of this move. The Ladies Home
Journal fills a long-felt want. 1t has
in this country without the Ladies'
Home Journal. Suffrage is not the only
people have, and the Ladies Home
Journal represents all the rest 1t
teaches how to crochet and how to
make three dollars worth of Christmas
presents out of a ball of string, some
glue and a bit of colored pasteboard.
Since the Journal achieved it's enor-
nous circulation there has been per-
ceptible falling off in the cost of
Christmas. People who once strobe
through the shops tearing their hair
in a vain endeavOr to think what to
buy for this or that dear one at home
now simply sit down with the Ladies'
Home Journal and the kindergarten kit
and the deed is done. The recon-
mendations of the Ladies' Home Jour-
nal on matters of etiquette are
of World wide celebrity, and it's
literary departments are full of
thoughts. No, the women suf-
fragists cannot exist without
the Ladies' Home Journal SO long
as they remain ladies and have home.
The proper course for the women to
take is to convert the editor of the
Ladies' Home Journal to their way Of
thinking. Suppose Mr. Box should
throw his influence for woman's suf-
frage, what would the opinions of the
Clevelands and people of that caliber
count against 1t? There would be
revolution in public sentiment the mo-
ment it became known that Mr.. Box
had resolved to give the space former
ly devoted to the overstitch to the
cause of woman's suffrage. How to
approach Mr.. Box and to secure his
advocacy of the cause is a debatable
question, but we have no doubt that
boycotting the paper is the wrong way.
Mr.. Box is a man of the greatest te-
but he cannot be driven. 1t might be
well to try him with pots Of jelly and
homemade pies.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09

For three months teams have been
engaged in hauling away from the
government printing Office at Wash
ington government publications for
which no other use can be found than
to be remade into paper at a pulp
mill, Less than GENT pound is re-
allied out of the million pounds or so
of the useless stuff. The printing of
flee cost the government nearly as
much as the rural free delivery sys--
tenn last year and much of the stuff is
useless because people will not take 1t
as a gift. Why do we do it?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09
TRICKS OF TRADES.

Attention to little details mas had a
marked effect upon the export trade
of a number of American manufac-
turers and jobbers. The Importance
packages to which the Chinese are ac-
customed has been harped upon by
consuls until it finally permeated the
American brain. Almost Immediately
there was a gain in trade, showing
that it was necessary not merely to
have the goods, but our makers must
nave them in the commercial language
of the country to which they We're con-
signed A little while ago a New York
jobber made the discovery that he
could do more business in South
America by studying the credit sys-
tenn of the republics south of us He
had made an intelligent digest of the
customs of different countries in this
respect, with the result that he soon
doubled his exports.
A member of an important imple-
ment manufacturing company, said re-
Gently, referring to his export bust
ness: I'VE advertised in a number Of
papers and as a result we received
many inquiries from people who ought
to be buyers. These letters of inquiry
came to us in various languages and
for a long time we used to answer
them in English and We're puzzled to
! ceived.''
After joining an association which
has a bureau of translation, this firm
was agreeably surprised to find that
there was a change in it's trade ac-
count from the start. The idea Of a
company sending letters in English to
France, Russia, Brazil and Morocco
and expecting results may appear gro
tesque, but it is just what American
jobbers have been doing. The organi-
cation of a translation bureau mas
worked wonders for trade. Trade is
so universal nowadays that it really
demands a language of it's own. Pos
slbly Esperanto will yet get hold upon
the reading and speaking world
through being made the Language OF
commerce. Certainly no dilettante eff
forts to establish a universal language
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09

Germany is edging around to learn
on what terms the United States will
make arrangements to avoid "a dread
ed tariff war" The tariff barOns of the
United States are always ready to
make arrangements to avoid sucn con-
tentiOns. They merely ask that the
other country make all the concessions,
while the United States collects all
the tariff.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09

absence of such information. it would
he impossible to say whether the F'rei-
burg effort at municipal ownership JUS
tifies itself. The assumed balances in
tho different departments would 1ndl-
cate. however, that the line between
nrofit and loss is Rugged very closely
in the light, water and railroad depart
mentS.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09
OWNERSHIP IN PLENTY.

According to the report of Consul
Liefield, Freiburg, Germany, must be
the best ever on municipal ownership
Freiburg has a population of 10000
and owns the street railroads. gas,
electric light and water plants, a thea
ter, slaughter house, pawnshop, saw
ings bank, cemetery, building lots, for
ests, vineyards and a daily newspaper
The city imposes a tax of S11 a year
for invalid insurance on each family
with a servant. The poor have free
medical attendance or free hospital
treatment. The city orchestra plays at
the city theater and gives free con-
certs on Sundays. Officials, teachers,
widows and orphans participate in a
pension fund. The theater is not made
self-supporting but is considered a
necessary adjunct of the education OF
the people. The schools are not en-
tirely free. but have help from the city
treasury. The city savings bank has
1886 depositors, with deposits of Sc.
319,S51.
There is an absence of specific in.
formation in the consurs report as t.
the financial status of most of the mu.
nicipal enterprises. Most of them show
a small balance, but there is nothins
to show whether proper reservation
are made for repairs, depreciation ant
a quota of the funded debt In tn,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09

will be productive of results. The
basis of language is the necessity of
communication. Mere facility of COM
munication will not answer where stern
necessity is not present also.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09
COLORED PEOPLE RULE IOWA
TOWN.
Administration of Buxton Conducted
Exclusively by Negroes.

BUXTON, Iowa, Nov. 9.-There ex-
lists at this place probably the most
remarkable negro colony in the north
The town is really one for negroes, and
inhabited almost entirely by cOlOred
people and governed altogether by
them So successful mas been the ex-
pertinent and so prosperous are the
people as a whole, that the scheme
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09

The university of Jena has estab-
lished a new precedent for universities
by the appointment of professor OF
dramaturgy, that is, of the science of
drama and of dramatic art. The ap-
pointee is DIR. Hugo Dinger. The pro-
lessor may be trusted to have big
stick handy for "voddyville."
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09

Country editors in Kansas are COM
planning of the rural carriers and want
an order prohibiting patrons from
giving the carrier chickens, apples,
pumpkins and watermelons. The edi-
by the rural carriers. 1t is hard to
mould public opinion on a spare diet.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09

The republican Boxers" in Ohio
and Pennsylvania and the demo-
cratic Boxers in New York and
Maryland evidently got in their work
Tuesday.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09

Beef Trust Manager-Where are
you going with that bag of samples?
Beef Trust Agent-Them amt
samples. They're gold bricks. I'm 60
ing out to sell to Garfield.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09

AS Roosevelt will not accept a thlro
term, what is the matter with Will
liam Travers Jerome, man OF
equal courage, ability and integrity?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09

The car means well, but there are
large numbers of the nobility who must
be cared for. Work would certainly
sprain them.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09

The growing price of shoes shows
that the tariff on hides is something OF
a skin game-in spots.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09

The cars baby boy is glad of 1t
anyway. 1t is pretty hard to run
country without a constitution.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09

The casualty record on the railroads
must have been in one of the collisions.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09

Between football and the Jewish
massacres in Russia, the Peace society
is passing some restless nights.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09
ADJUSTMENTS
"SuItan of SuIu."

This organization comes with the
prestige of a four months run at
Wallack's theater, New York, and
from all accounts the production will
vie in splendor with any of the
latter day lyric compositions. Lavish
costumes, gorgeous gowns designed
by Will Barnes, dainty lingerie from
Austrian and French looms will be ex-
nibited in unique groupings, while
the scenery will truthfully represent
in color the tropic glories of the
island of Sulu. Mr.. AIDE, the librettist,
is credited with having a most eff
cient colaborer in musical setting in
the person of Alfred Wethall, young
western composer whose composition
has been awarded most generous
praise. This attraction will be at the
Keylor Grand November IA.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09

Senator Plat is in the senate for an
express purpose.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09
Dainty Foods
Demand It

TN EVERY Receipt that calls for cream
l. of tartar, soda, or baking powder, use
the Royal Baking Powder. Better results
will be obtained because of the absolute
purity and great leavening strength of the
Royal 1t will make the food lighter,
sweeter, of finer flavor, more digestible and
wholesome. 1t is always reliable and uni
form in its work.
Alum and phosphate baking powders
some of them sold at the same price and
some Of them cheaper-will make neither
dainty nor wholesome food.
ROYAL Co,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09
"ShaII We Forgive Herr" & Hit.

One Of the most enjoyable plays of
the many successes presented by the
Ed Redmond company was offered
last evening to the usual big house
and all unite in proclaiming it a most
satisfactory bill. There is much to
commend it to theater goers, as it
contains a strong story of great heart
interest, illustrating romance in
far off Australia.
The characters are we'll drawn and
in the capable hands of Mr.. Redmond s
excellent players the play is pre-
scented with vigor and thoroughness.
Shall We Forgive Her. will be Civ
en- for the last time tonight and will
undoubtedly attract another big
crowd who enjoy a worthy play.
Friday evening the program will
undergo a complete change, and a
new play, Jack O. Diamonds will be
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-09
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS:

Copy Of change Of advertisement
must be delivered to tho business Of
ice by the hour Of 10 o'clock q. m. to
insure insertion in the issue Of even
late.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-18
BASEBALL

John R. Bender, whose prowess on the grid
iron and the diamond has made him the most
talked-of athlete ever enrolled at the University
Of Nebraska. has confirmed the report that he
is seriously contemplating becoming profess
sional baseball player. when he completes his
college career next June. .--.'-
Bender has accepted terms from Manager Dale
Gear of the Little Rock, ARK, team in the
Southern league. He stated today that he had
not formally signed contract. altho there was
an understanding between Gear and himself that
virtually amounts to contract and Is sufficient
to hold him for Gears team. When the. an
nouncement made that Bender had decided
to become a professional member of the athletic
board investigated his right to captain the
university baseball team during the coming
spring. on the ground that his amateur standing
was involved. It was found; however, that the
rules are silent as to the conduct Of student
after he has graduated from the institution and
as Bender has not accepted advance money from
Manager Gear his right to captain the university
baseball team cannot be questioned. ,.:~,'
Pitcher Pittinger whome the Boston National
league club. traded to Philadelphia for "Chic''
Fraser Is gisgruntled over the change and refuses
to sign with the tailenders. He has been given
the management Of the Carlisle, Pa, team and
says he will pitch for that organization rather
| than play with Philadelphia. -. .:-. ..<..'-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-18
SPORTS
SPORTING
SPLNDRZFT

Bender Nebraskas celebrated athlete, has an
nounced that he will become full-fedged pro
fesstonal baseball player in the spring and will
play with the Little Rock, Ark, team. Bender's
amateur standing has been questioned for several
years account Of his playing summer ball,
but Nebraska's athletic system did not seem
to cover the case. Bender was clever football
player and has aggravated a number Of cases
of gopher heart disease by some of his tactics.
If he puts the zest into his professional
work that heSkiispayed as an amateur his
success will be certain.
A New York special today in telling of vic
tory Of Columbia Wisconsin ut basketball,
classes Wisconsin as the Champions of the
west" The writer had faint impression that
Minnesota entitled to the premier position
In western basketball, but perhaps Walter Camp
has decided dfferently--in the face of the
scores. Walter has a weird way of picking
football teams, and he may have broken into
basketball. If he has, 1T Is case OF the
king do wrong altho the cat may still
claim the privilege of looking at the king The
news should receive warm welcome at Madi
son. 1t is the first time in long time that
the badgers have been accorded championship
honors in anything save ''rag-chewing.'
This year has truly been one of disaster altho
1t is still but infant in swaddlng clothes. To-
day the venal press Of st. Paul Is growing over
the fact that the Baltimore whist trophy has
been wrested from Minneapolis holders and car
ried In triumph to Jimhilyille. There Is a
grave fear that some of the members OF the Min
neapolis women's team forgot the trump, or
trumped her partners ace st. Paul whist
playeresses had best beware. Mime will have
her revenge.
Major watkins has notified Colonel Lee that
Minneapolis Is to have winning team this year:
Captain Dickinson and Lieutenant Fox are
awaiting reinforcements for Fort Nicollet. Ser
geant Tom Gleason and Corporal Morrill, are
polishing up their coaching codes About 10. 600
high privates Of the rear rank are beginning to
chafe. It Is about time for Major Watkins to
begin his bombardment of contracts. The fan
season begins in a few weeks. --O'Loughlin.