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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08
M'PHAIL BRAVELY FACED DEATH.
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that in the saloon at the time were
seven Or eight men, several of them
being Swedes. After several rounds OF
drinks, McPhail said he started to
leave the place, when something flash
ed in his brain and he started back
into the saloon. What followed Nc
Phail said seemed hazy, and he could
not remember whether he shot AL
derson or not, but he supposed that
he did.
McPhail said that Anderson was al
ways jealous of his trade. Both men
conducted saloons in Darlington and
rivalry for trade was keen. McPhail
alleged that one time Anderson had
hired three or four men to kill him
The men visited McPhairs saloon and
in the mixup they pounded him over
the head with clubs. He was left for
dead. McPhail said that after that
beating, every time he got mad ne
became dazed and could not remember
what would happen during his spells.
McPhail said that Anderson must
have said something to him that made
him mad the night of the killing as
he remembers that something flashed
in his head and he turned blindly
back into the saloon What followed
he could not remember, but ne suppos-
ed that he must have shot Alder
son.
McPhail declared that he was not
afraid to die. 1T seems hard, but
a man can die but once and 1 guess
this is my time" McPhail said, talking
through the iron bound door of his
cell. McPhail reiterated this sew
eral times and it could be seen that
he was steeling himself for the ter
rible ordeal on the morrow McPhail
denied that he had a family, but said
that he had sister and other rela-
tives, but where they lived he refused
to say.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08
Song Writing Pays.

IF you have some literary talent"
said the actor, why don't you try
song writing? Clifton Bingham makes
$500 writing songs. Clifton lives in
London. He wrote Loves Old Sweet
Song and In Old Madrid
He has written over 1000 songs.
He turns out, in a good season, a
song a day. All Of these songs, OF
course, don't succeed. Some don't
even get published.
you might do with your songs,
if you take up my scheme, as Cliff
ton does with his. Clifton writes
song and then he has a hundred cop
les of it struck off at a printers ana
he mails these copies simultaneously
to a hundred composers. He asks
each composer if he wants to write
the music to the song enclosed, ana
on what terms he'll write it. Out OF
the answers he gets Clifton selects the
one containing terms most advantage
GUS to himself and closes.
Clifton says that an ordinary poet
like Kipling or Yeats, is not III u
write songs He says the song writ
err must understand vocalization anu
the production of the voice., otherwise
he'll put in his songs words that reao
all right, but that a singer vocaliz-
ing correctly, can't pronounce CHI
ton has studied vocalization.
Clifton one day told me what NJ
liked about his own songs. He saiu
they scanned easily and smoothly aH'
they contained thoughts that reaol'
awakened the composers genius lH'
versificatiOn was always easy TO pio-
nounce, and there never occurred
word or combination of words tii''
would be detrimental to the artls''
production of the singing voice. HELL
to illustrate his meaning better III
quoted from himself-he quoted 'N'
beginning of his most succeo
song:
Long years ago in old MADRID
Where softly signs of love
light guitar etc.
Clifton advises magazine poets
study vocaIization and then
special dicker. writer can't get
songs. He says that, even with spO
cial dicker. a magazine can
more than % or 80 cents a line 1ro'"
the magazines, whereas, on surg
he runs a chance of getting go
$50 a line, and maybe more.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08
GRAFT IN STRIKES.

Mr.. John Cummings recent review
of the Chicago teamsters' strike in the
Journal of Political Economy throws
some interesting sidelights on this
freak contest between labor and capt.
tai. 1t appears to have been a strike
without a cause, or constituency. The
teamsters struck ostensibly in SYM
patty with the garment-workers. The
garment workers repudiated the SYM
pathy and the teamsters continued the
contest without knowing why they
We're doing it.
But their leaders knew, and Mr.
Cummings makes it pretty plain that
this strike was an Outcropping in labor
circles Of the prevalent vice of graft.
The strike was begun that it might be
bought off. 1t had its Shea to foment
the mischiefand fill the streets with the
terrors of instruction, and it had its
labor commissioner" whose duty was
to bring about settlement" for cash.
The price was originally moderate
and 1t grew srNaller and more reason
able as the strike progressed, and de-
feat was plainly in sight But owing
to the "parsimony" Of some business
men in Chicago, the settlement was
never brought about. From the vie
point of the commissioner. this was
great error. 1t cost money and it cost
lives.
Unquestionably, unionism suffered
severely in the defeat of the teams
ters' strike. The men were ignominious
ly beaten in a game where thew had
all the advantage. Employers were
encouraged to resist, and the open
shop came to the front as shibboleth.
Graft is an insidious growth, It's
presence is quite apt to be denied. but
when its presence is demonstrated it
Is the part of wisdom to seek it's roots
and pull them up. Graft in notifies
might have been denied dozen years
ago, but today the method is not denial
but cure. Graft in insurance would
not have been admitted twelve months
ago, but today the country is aroused.
not in denial of it's existence, but in
clamor for its extinction. 1t is not
surprising that the disease has made
itself felt in the labor movement. The
labor movement is not responsible for
Hs appearance, but it will be respon-
slble if the condition shall be permitted
10 become characteristic, just as the
nation will be responsible if graft is
permitted to keep its grip on politics.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08

stantIy recruiting the criminals depend
ents and detectives which fill the IN
stitutions of the state-criminal, cor
receive and, to some extent, charitable
-at'a an expense of $3.50 year for each
nerson. This much of the harm result
inc can be measured in dollars and
cents of expense saddled upon the
state. But this, again, is mere incl
dent, a tri1e compared with the loss
to the state of the labor and general
efficiency of those incapacitated for
their duties by intoxication. The slip
shod, poorly done work, to say nothing
of the diversion of hundreds of thou
sands of dollars from the channels of
legitimate trade into traffic in that
which only brutalizes and destroys, is
the more serious phase of the matter.
Governor Hanly is convinced that
"wide-openness" never pays in bust
ness way, and, furthermore he is con-
WINGED that the notion that it does is
losing ground every day.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08
A Bird Story.

"There is true bird story" said
clergyman. "All through our ex-
ceptionally cold winter, with its
abundance of snow, I threw bread
crumbs every morning from my study
window to the birds. 1 suppose that
from December onward so birds daily
got their breakfast on my white lawn.
THE other day, the snow being gone,
1 decided to stop these birds break
fasts. 1 threw no crumbs from the
window 1 sat down, instead, to
work at my desk.
But pretty soon an angry and i'm
patient chattering arose. Louder and
louder it grew. I couldn't near my
self think So I went to the window
and looked out.
There, below, were SO or 60 birds,
looking up at me and chattering furi-
ously. And, as 1 stood there, a snow
bird actually flew to the pane, and
tapped it-tap, tap, tap-with his bill.
Here he seemed to say. Here,
breakfast. What's the matter with
your
Il smiled, and rang for the usual al
lottment of bread crumbs
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08
THE STORY OF VINOL
BY the Green G. jackson Drug Co., of
WaIIa Wala.

"Our experience with medicines ex-
tends over many years. We have had
ample opportunity to watch thousands
of them and their results, and We can
honestly say that we've never sold
medicine in our store that gives more
universal satisfaction as does VinOl.
trinsic merit, and We want every
body in Walla Walla to know more
about it, and why we stand behind it.
For centuries cod liver oil has been
recognized as the greatest of all
body building agents for wasted hu-
man strength and vitality-yet on ac-
count of the disagreeable odOr, taste
and heavy indigestible oil which en-
velopes its curative elements, it in
variably clogs the system, upsets the
stomach and it's virtue lost.
Now modern science has proved
that the oil or greasy part has no
value either as a food or a medicine,
and the medicinal elements of which
there are about fifty different kinds
in the Gods liver represent all the
tonic, BUDDY building and curative
powers of this famous old remedy.
After twenty years of study two
eminent French chemists discovered
way to separate all these medicinal
elements from the oil and livers
and give to modern medicine all the
valuable curatives of the Gods liver
without a drop of the useless oil, and
thus made Vinol.
"Vinol, therefore, is guaranteed to
contain in a highly concentrated form
all of these medicinal curative and
bodybuilding elements actually taken
from fresh Gods livers, without oil,
and for this reason it is fast super
seding old fashioned cod liver oil
and emulsions.
LAS body-builder and strength
creator for old people, weak women,
puny children, for the anaemic and
after sickness, and for all pulmonary
troubles We honestly believe it has no
equal Green e. jackson Drug Co.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08
OPENNESS.:-


Governor Hanly Of Indiana is apply-
ing the Sunday closing law to the on
TIRE state, and in an address made at
the Indiana state conference of char
tiles combatted vigorously the theory
mat "wide-open" town means bust
ness prosperity. He has heard what
others have been told repeatedlv-that
"wide-open" town, a condition
Where the law touching public
morals is disregarded makes for
good business conditions. He denies
the proposition fatty and estimates
mat 1t cost the state of Indiana Ia
year 100000 simply to pay the turn
key fees and the board of men in
the county jails under the charge q,
1ntoxication on Sunday.
But if that We're all the penalty. the
case would not be so bad, The trouble
is that, from such conditions. whore
me law touching public morals and the
hquor traffic is disregarded, are con-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08
MORAL EDUCATION.
Superintendent Urges Adoption Of a
Plan.

Plan.
MILBANK, S. D., Dec. S.-ProfessOr
M. M. Ramer, state superintendent of
public instruction and president of the
State Educational association, mas re-
turned from the capital and is enthu-
siastic over his plan for moral instruc-
ton in the state schools. The plan
will be taken up at the meeting of the
educational association at BrOokings
on Dec 81 Bishop O'Gorman of Sioux
Falls will discuss the matter from his
standpoint, and Governor Elrod will
speak for the state DR.. Chalmers will
represent the state educational insti-
tutions.
The theory of moral instruction in
the schools has been before the nation
al Educational association for the last
five years, but nothing definite mas
been done. Spasmodic efforts have
been made in various states to intro
duce such teaching. superintendent
Ramer hopes to get a committee ap-
pointed that either will select a text
book for teachers or compile such a
work Of his plan Superintendent
Ramer says:
1.-The public has exactly the kind
of schools that it has demanded. The
cobooJc roro forhiddop RI diccrSc mat
tiers that could in any way be termed
religious. This meant that the ques-
ton of morals had to be neglected also.
Then the people cried Goddess schools,
because it was discovered that the stu
dents in all grades were acquiring a
disregard for things sacred and ethi-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08
WHITMAN COLLEGE STUDENTS
INVOLVED IN DISCUSSION OF
IMPORTANT SUBJECT.
College Politics Was Subject Of Talk
Made by Rev. Austin Rice in
Chapel.


ished?" was the question debated at
the Athenaeum Literary society last
night The railroad question, the. in
surance question and trusts are minor
matters just now at the campus, in
comparison to the all absorbing topic,
Shall fellow go with the same girl
twice?" The agitation of the question
has sprung up anew with great vigOr
within the last two Or three days and
is the main subject of conversation
wherever groups of students. get to-
gether in either Reynolds or Billings
hall. 1t formed a large part of the dis
cussion at the faculty club meeting
early in the week, and from that the
question has been actively taken UP
by the students. Many of the students
agree that it would be far better for
the social life of the college if the pre-
vailing custom were not as it seems to
be, that fellow either must go with
one girl all the time or else cut out
the girls altogether. They claim that
many of the boys who now do not go
"over to Reynolds on social occasions
would do so more if it were not for
the idea now held that it is Quitting
ill.," as they express it. On the other
hand there are those who uphold the
other side of the question, saying that
the steady" system is the only one
which will practically work and that
even if the other were inaugurated it
would return to the present one in a
short time.
The debate last night was led by r.
V. Perringer and w. Maxwell against
the steady" system and Rufus Cole
lively discussion took place after the
meeting by members of the society and
visitors VINO came for hearing the dis
cussion of such an up-to-date ques-
ton
Seven students sent in their names
last night to become members of the
society, Walter and Willard Felt
house, Frank Spagle, George Phil
brook, c. Dimick, G. Potter and c.
North.
college Politics. was the subject Of
chapel talk at Whitman this morn
ing, given by Rev. Austin Rice. He
called attention to the fact that poll
tics in college is often fiercer and
more given to intrigue than out in
everyday life. In outside life one has
mis- church, club, lodge and family, be-
sides, but in college one must meet his
political opponents all the time. Amer
leans recognize that in itself an office
amounts to nothing and that nine out
of ten times it is a greater distinc
ton not to have one than to have one.
The speaker plead especially for a
kindlier feeling on the part of men,
bers of rival factions toward one an
other and showed how old students
who had been keenest enemies in COL
lege politics, coming back after COL
lege days were over, would be the
greatest of friends. He urged the
transference of the latter day point of
observation to the present
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08
CURES THE SICK
CERTIFIED EVIDENCE THAT n,
DARRIN RESTORES THE Az
FllCTED TO HEALTH
No Reason for Anyone to Suffer WI,
Relief Can be Had.

Nearly everyone has heard &c
Darrin' who has recently returned 70
Walla Walla to resume his practioo
for short time, and hundreds o
testify of their own experience as "a
mis- great skill and wonderful sro
cess in treatment OF all forms =,
chronic and obstinate diseases.
The certificates of cures made br
this celebrated physician would sn
volume. They embrace every die.
ease to which humanity is exnos
ed. His remedies and method =,
treatment is painless, almost pleas.
ant and infallible. DR.. Darrin is .,
titled to great credit for his almos.
miraculous discoveries in the art Of
treating disease and there is NJ
durable known malady that he canno,
conquer.
An Open Card.
The following open statement ia +
IKE hundreds OF OtnerS that take
pleasure in praising what the docto,
mas done for them:
Mr.. Editor, Dear Sir: During the
past three or four months I have
been suffering from intense and So
we're pains in my back and hips. 50
that I was not able to work. l placed
myself under Doctor Darrin's treat.
ment and was Immediately relieved
and have recovered my former
strength, so that I can now return
to my former occupation.
MARTIN H. SMITH
DR.. Darrin makes no charge for
private counsel at his office, in the Ho-
tel Walla Walla on East Main St. op-
posite the depot. Consultation, thor
ough examination by the latest Euro
pean method and a candid, correct
opinion are wholly free, and above all
strictly confidential. His fees for
treatment are very low and reasonable
and he is always willing to arrange
the terms Of payment to suit the cir
cumstances of the case, such as time
accommodation or instalment pay
ments to those not able to pay cash.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08

Socialist orators are continually be-
ing arrested in Kansas City for block
aiding the streets. Other political
parties sometimes rest, but the So
cialists are going all the time.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08

The announcement that Charles Dana
Gibson has gone abroad to study draw
ing will come as a shock to publishers
who have been paying him $1,000 apiece
for his pictures.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08

The umpire and the crowd saw the
Chicago football player "kneed" by the
Michigan gentleman, but the jury in
the Kenyon college case did not see
young Pierson railroad-tracked.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08

The Chicago city official who tagged
the stockyards smell and said, You're
it," wasn't much of a detective. There
have been suspicious in that part of
the city for some time.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08

The junior Mccall is going abroad
to bring back Judge Hamilton IF the
judge will come" Otherwise he will
wrestle with the judge to give up that
s235,OOO which pa is pledged to pay
giving it up should be given with each
policy.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08

The Russian prisoners hope they
will not be sent home until it is safer
They do not mind going to war, but
they have objections to the Russian
method of debate.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08

Banker Whiteman has secured
stay of sentence The court had pre-
viously given him a stay OF eight
years in Jail. We will now see which
stay" goes.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08
Probing the Beef Trust.

CHICAGO, Ills, Dec. Seth S. Cur
ney, traffic manager for Schwarzchild
and SulZberger, spent three hours be-
fore the federal grand jury this morn
ing. He emerged pale and reticent
The investigation of the packers con-
tinued and new prosecutions are
expected.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08
Compromise With Sultan

CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec S.-The
ambassadors Of the powers have sub
mitted the amendments made by the
sultan to the original demands. tt is
believed compromise will be effect
ed in a few days.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08

Congressman Lands of Indiana says
that the world is all right 1t might
be much better world if the senate
didn't mold it back
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08

The report that the man who lost
the game for Michigan had committed
suicide was exaggerated. All he did
was to give himself two or three swift
kicks.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08

The sultan consoles himself with
the thought that ne is not receiving
fact he believes some of Russia's old
messages to him should be exported
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08
Public MispIaces Blame.


of others.
Public MispIaces Blame.
THE great trouble is that the public
has misplaced the blame. The schools
are exactly what the people have de-
manded. The teachers 1 believe, stand
ready to take up the work of sowing
seeds of morality just as soon as the
public will lend it's approval.
lone of the incomprehensible feat
ures Of the situation is that the teach
err is expected to quote and draw con-
illusions from the words of Shakes
PEREZ Longfellow, Dickens, Hawthorne
and the rest, but he must scrupulously
avoid quoting the language of Christ
Yet no one pretends to deny the fact
that Christ lived and died more
to relieve suffering and to render the
earth a tolerable' place in which to
live than all other characters COM
bined. The situation seems to be too
inconsistent for consideration. Per-
sonally, l believe in the sanity of the
American people. 1 believe they are
not really cognizant of the true state
of affairs, and that as soon as they do
see it they will make this wrong right.
THE most serious aspect of the sit
uation is the fact that the schools
promise to give the children every
thing worth having that will help
them to live completely
Religious Teachings Avoided.
''These schools have studied to omit
the teachings Of morals and religion,
therefore the child has come to think
that the moral and religious side of
his education is unworthy of account.
The impressions that have been lefa
in this silent manner nave been about
the most telling teaching that pos
sibly could be done. Even if the par
ents were doing their duty in regard
to the moral and religious instruction
of their children, it is essential that
the schools place the stamp of their
approval on that side of human edu-
cation, from the fact that their 81
lence on the point cannot be other
wise than potent in creating sentiment
antagonistic to the religious side of
mans nature.
Il have not thought the question
clean through as yet, but 1 am con-
WINGED that the public must grapple
with the problem and do so imme
diately, or the neglect will be accom-
panied with grave results. There is
enough absolutely undisputed ground
in the religious world to save the race.
Why not agree on that undisputed
ground and absolutely avoid all con-
troversial points? 1t does not matter
what any teacher believes relative to
the Sabbath question, so long as ne
avoids discussion on that point.
Il have arrived at the conclusion
that there cannot be any effective
moral teaching absolutely divorced
from the religious element"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08

To be the emperor of Korea is about
as interesting as to be mayor of New
York, with Murphy calling at the Of
hce every morning.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08

The Boston chief of police says the
safest place for a woman to carry her
money is in a little bag around ner
neck. Anywhere that she cannot get
at it to spend it is the safest place.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08

A Brooklyn machinist has invented
a motor six times as powerful as
steam. Mr. Hearst wants to borrow it
for his fight to GUST Tammany.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08

Chicago woman threw $4,000 into
the fire in order to learn whether her
husband married her for her money.
What is the answer?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08

Christmas shopping is now the Sc
rious prablem. If you wait until to-
morrow the article you were looking
at is gone.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08

Judging from the fact that he has
employed twelve lawyers many people
insist that Mayor Mcclellan must be
guilty
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08
Costly Fire at Buffalo.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec. S.-The 'A'f
of the Union Dry Dock company
the Erie Railway freight house'
destroyed by fire this morniils'
= the loss.
hundred thousand dollars is the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-08

]. p Morgan may be called on to
testify that his dealings with the in
surance companies were not merely for
exercise. ~s