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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-01

and grand as he remembered 1t. And
something uncomfortably like a big
lump suddenly rose in the financier's
throat.
The parsonage was as weather.
beaten as the church; though a Vir
ginia- creeper had mercifully man
tied its decay; the porch was sunken,
the windows and doors sagged, and
the whole place had the pathetic look
of an aged and suffering human being.
Wells hesitated for a moment, then
abruptly crossed the street, pushed
open the gate hurried up the path,
and lifted the knocker.
A woman of gentle face and pleas
ant voice opened the door and babe
him a courteous goOd-day. May |
see the clergyman? he asked. He
was shown directly into the pastor
study. A man sat bent over a desk
writing, man with white hair and
patient face whose deep lines spoke
OF sorrow. The financier felt his heart
contract How like-how like another
face he remembered in that very
room!
The clergyman welcomed his visitor
warmly. We are always glad to see
strangers, he said; so few come to
our quiet little village
Il was here many years ago" re-
turned the caller. As matter of
fact, II stayed here long time.
l regret to see the church so sadly
out at elbows"
Yes" said the old pastor gently.
it needs repairing badly, as well as
the parsonage But, with depreca-
tory smile, you see, sir, we are so
poor
Il lived here in this parsonage,
said Wells. looking about. 1t is not
so much changed | slept upstairs in
the gable room. The window looked
toward the church"
Wouldn't you like to see your old
room?" gently suggested the pastor
If it's not too much trouble,
No trouble whatever. Mother!
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15
DIVERTING FUNDS.

Congress is beginning to discover
that limit on an appropriation bill
does not limit and a direct appropria
ton does not direct. The army de-
partment, it has been discovered, di-
verts a great deal of money from the
transportation account to finishing up
barracks and other buildings in way
which gives great delight to the ar
cnitects and landscape artists of the
department, but which was never
contemplated by congress. Now, it
is the navys turn to come to the
front and congress is investigating a
report that the millions appropriated
last year for repairing hulls were not
used for repairing nulls, but all went
for other purposes.
It may be said that there is no dis
honesty in these transactions because
no money was stolen. 1t all went into
government work. There is, however,
dishonesty in these projects which
will evidently lead to stealing in time.
Congress appropriates money by law,
not merely by a process of bookkeep-
ing These laws are made to be
out of their legitimate meaning a
violation of law occurs. The navy
gets money for the repair of vessels
and machinery of vessels and the de-
partment finds it has more than it
needs. Does it leave the balance I'M
touched in the treasury? No. 1t di-
verts the surplus to some other work
for which congress has appropriated
too little or for which it has made
no appropriation at all. The war
department takes transportation money
and makes it cover the grading of
grounds for new buildings, thus add
ing to the cost of the building which
congress said should not cost more
than a certain sum.
1t is evident that congress can keep
no track of it's business if this sys-
tenn is permitted to continue. 1t will
soon be in the position of the man
VINO gave his wife $50 and a book in
which to keep an account of her
transactions. He received at the end
of the first month the luminous state
ment: Received of Henry $50; spent
it ALL The departments never fail
to spend it all nor to ask for a de-
ficiency appropriation.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15
ON DUTCH WATERS,
Journey Along Canal and the
Scenery 1t Presents.

A Journey Along Canal and the
Scenery 1t Presents.
II can think of no more reposeful
holiday" says writer, than to step
on board of one of those barges
wedged together in Rotterdam canal
and, never lifting finger to alter the
natural course of events-tO accelerate
or divert-be carried by it to, say,
Harrington, in Friesland, between the
meadows, under the noses of great
black and white cows, past herons fish
ing in the rushes, through little villages
with dazzling milk cans being secured
On the banks and the good wives wash
ing and the saturnine smokers in black
velvet slippers passing the time of day,
through big towns, by rows Of somber
houses seen through delicate screen
of leaves, under low bridges crowded
with children, through narrow locks,
ever moving, moving, slowly and sire
ly, sometimes sailing, sometimes being
towed, with the wide Dutch sky over.
head and the plOvers crying in it, and
the clean west wind driving the wind.
mills, and everything just as it was in
Rembrandt's day and just as it will be
500 years hence"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15
NEWSPAPERS,
Striking Things That Great Men
Have Said About Them.

Striking Things That Great Men
Have Said About Them.
A correspondent requests that we
print some of the striking things great
men have said about newspapers-that
is, sayings that embody the purpose
and doings of the press. With pleas.
ure
Bryant said: ''The press is good OF
evil, according to the character of those
who direct it. 1t is a mill that grinds
all that is put into it's hopper. Fill the
hopper with poisoned grain, and it will
grind it to meal, but there is death ip
the bread"
James Parton said: "The newspaper
press is the peoples university. Half
the readers in Christendom read little
else"
Jefferson said: 1.-THE basis Of our gov.
eminent being the opinion Of the peo-
pie, the very first object should be to
keep that right, and were it left to me
government without newspapers OF
newspapers without a government ]
should not hesitate moment to prefer
the latter"
Cardinal Gibbons said: "The dread OF
exposure in the public press keeps many
man sticking close to the path of rec
titude who otherwise would stray of
into the byways Of graft" - Chicago
Journal.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

The trouble with the argument OF
the defender of the trusts is that the
trust monopoly does not give uniform
rates to every customer. 1t gives what
it chooses, and as everybody knows
it does not always choose to use ev-
erybody alike. When the trust has a
monopoly there is no escape for the
customer who is Disseminated
against; if there were competition he
would stand some chance of escape
from unreasonable charges, though he
might incur the risk of his competitor
getting the better of him at some 9TH
err time. In regulating railroad rates
the government undertakes to see
that injustice is not done either by
the railroad monopoly or by reckless
competition.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15
PEDANTIC CRITICISM CON-
DEMNED

1t is pleasing to see some of our
greatest English scholars taking a
stand for more liberty in spoken and
written language. The old narrow
scholasticism which condemned a
word or a usage because it did not fit
given theories still survives, and still
tries to hold writer's to the letter of
grammarians rules, warping free and
easy as to adopt a theory Of syntax
or etymology and set ones self up as
an authority. Small minds with
smaller attainments have been given
to this sort of criticism. They have
insisted with pedantic obstinacy that
this usage must be wrong because
there is a rule against it, and that
word must be abolished from polite
speech because of it's doubtful etymol-
ogy.
Our language, in fine, has suffered
from too much ''schoOlmastering-"
oIllIIS udNC LII SOllcIl lIIdl
is merely an attempt to explain and
codify forms of speech, and they have
tried to trim our language to fit the
grammar. They have persistently
| fought new words and phrases made
| by the people, who after all make the
! language, and have even condemned
old ones endorsed by the greatest
! writer's of English.
This small bore criticism is no
| longer accepted as final by anybody,
since men of deep culture and sane
judgment have been showing its fu-
writing in the current Harper's
Monthly, takes a heavy fall out of
the cock-sure authorities who have
been 'schoolmastering the language
He cites some instances where they
have gone astray through the posses
sion of "a little learning" The re-
cent movement to stop using none
| with a plural verb is a case in poin.
Self-constituted authorities on style
who are adopts at making other peo-
pie miserable, nave condemned trans
gressors of this rule as barbarians
| They reason that none" is a contrac-
ton of mo one" and cannot be any,
thing but singular Professor Louns-
bury shows that the antecedent Of
none may as well be plural as singu-
lar, and that either is correct accord
ing to the circumstances. Shakes
peare, Milton and the King James
version of the bible furnish many in
stances of the plural use.
The example of the best authors
means little to those who are not IA
miliar with them. but it is coming to
be recognized as the safest guide in
disputed questions of locution. Tae
best authors often disagree, but gen.
orally We can find a preponderance OF
example on one side, which is fairly
safe to follow. Masters of English
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15
MOZART AT SIX YEARS OF AGE.

signs of the musical talents which later
were to astonish the world. At four
he commenced composing. At five he
made his first public appearance, and at
six years he composed his first publish
ed work, a sonata. When his father
took him to London at seven years Of
age his playing, and especially his
powers of improvisation, excited uni
versal admiration. Thenceforth he
climbed to greater heights of fame. He
died in 1871. In many places through
out the world the one hundred and fif-
tieth anniversary is being remembered.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15
THE "LOsT ARTS"
They Are Not So Much Lost ~ Thev
Are Discarded.
tongue.

They Are Not So Much Lost ~ Thev
Are Discarded.
'Not so many years ago it was quite
commonly asserted that modern work
men could not quarry, or, having quar-
ried, could not handle stones as large
as the monoliths Of Egypt" says sci
enlist, land the writer has heard pub
lie speaker Of note assert that it would
be impossible to handle, with modern
implements, such large stones as were
used in the pyramids or to join them
as perfectly as they are Joined there.
Yet, when occasion arose, larger stones
than any of these were quarried IN
Maine, and some of the larger mono
liths themselves were transported not
only to sea, but across it and erected in
England, France and America.
"There are individuals today who
might if they chose cause the transpor-
tation to and erection in this country
of the largest pyramids or build new
ones ten times larger and more dur
able. Pyramids are not being general
ly built nowadays because they are not
in line with the trend of modern ambi-
ton, that's all.
ct is very doubtful if a Damascus
blade would stand half as severe
usage as a modern band saw blade or
even as much as the spring of forty
cent clock, while the ornamentatiOn of
those wondrous blades, so far as the
mechanical execution is concerned, can
be excelled by apprentices and anna
teurs of today"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

w. D. Marks, a practical construc-
tor of railroads, has figured carefully
that the total railway capital in the
United States on June &c. 1903, was
99990,25S Of this about $5,600,-
100000 was actual value and the rest
about 1000, 100000, represents watered
stock, which IS used to keep up rates
and to work speculative games. When
the square deal hits this imposition on
the public there will be a smashup fol-
your life.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15
PRESIDENT HADLEY'S COMPARE
SONS.

President Hadley of Yale defined
football recently as a major sport"
like deep-sea fishing, hunting big
game and yachting He defended it
on the ground that there We're fewer
deaths in the game in proportion to
the number of combatants than in
any of the other major sports.
President Hadley, we suppose, is an
authority and has the right to clas-
sify major and minor sports and put
football in competition with north
pole expeditions rather than pugilism
or baseball, but there are some VINO,
not knowing his authority in the mat
ter, will deny his classification Foot
ball is played upon land, mans nat
ural element. 1t is, therefore, not to
be compared in hazard with yachting,
in which man takes the ocean risks as
we'll as the competitive chances.
Again, football is not to be compared
with Devastating, since there are no
weapons in the game. It is played
with the bare hands. There should be
no comparison of the risks in a game
in an open field by men who have
prepared for it, and the sport of hunt
ing bears or lions, where the hunter
takes the triple risk of shooting him
self. being shot by his companion, or
being killed by the quarry. Such dis
ingenious or ill-digested Illustrations
do not help football. They rather
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

The Southwestern Kansas Imple-
ment and Hardware Dealers aSsocia-
ton brings action against the Santa
Fe railroad, charging violation of the
laws against freight rate discrimi-
nation. The Santa Fe responds with
the charge that the association has
no standing in court, being itself gull
ty of violating the antitrust laws
This situation ought to let the public
in on some more secrets.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15
THE STATESMAN LEADS.

Yesterdays Evening Statesman, 60
ing to press at o'clock, announced
exclusively that the ship subsidy bill
had passed the United States senate,
although the vote was not taken until
$50 p. m. The fact that when it is
$50 in Washington, D. c., it is only
$3.50 in Walla Walla accounts for the
Statesman's being so prompt to give
the news apparently before it happens
This is onl. one example of the super
iority of the Scripps news service and
of the advantage that an evening pa
per on the Pacific coast has over any
morning competitor. If you would
read todays news today you should
subscribe for The Evening Statesman
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

ITO stroll about the London streets, -
says Harper's Weekly, sis a pastime;
in Paris it is also an education. hard
~ understand how an Englishman
after a walk down the Avenue de
pOpera or the Boulevard des Italiens
can bear to even glance at a Bond
street jewelers.. To see what the
French are doing in jewel work Of ev.
cry kind Is to make one feel that Lon.
don is not merely generation behind
but could not in a hundred centuries
catch up"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

speech are not its only makers, but
their attuned ears have saved them
from most common errors ana nave
taught them its most clear and beau
tiful forms. Sucn men, rather tnan
rule-splitters who cannot write, are
the worthy exemplars of our English
tongue.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

The supreme court of Minnesota
has so construed the liquor law as tC
make treating" a violation of the
statute. The law requires every man
selling or giving away liquors to have q
license. Thus a man who treats
must be licensed. Have one with me,
says your friend from Red Wing. It's
all right, bartender, my license is 546,-
S27"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

ty-five years Of age, but looks older on
scribed as a good natured sort of fell
low who takes life much less serious
ly than his uncle and the latter's son.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Thomas w.
Lawson has prophesied that young
William will be the head of the Oil
trust when John D. Rockefeller, ST..
and Henry H. Rogers die or resign.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15
MOZART'S BIRTH.

1t Occurred One Hundred and Fifty
Years Ago.
On Jan. p, 1856, in Salzburg, Aus
tria, there was born great musical
genius, perhaps the greatest the world
has ever known. Mozart was his
patronymic, and on the day following
his birth his sponsors gave him in bap-
tism the additional names of Johannes
Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus,
but they could not handicap his genius
even by such string Of names as this.
At three years Of age Mozart showed
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

Copy of change of advertisements
must be delivered to the business of
flee by the nour of TEN O'CLOCK a.
m. co insure insertion in the issue of
.ven date.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

Addressing gathering the other
day a speaker gave his hearers a
touch of the pathetic. Il miss" he
said, brushing away a not unmanly
tear. I miss many of the old faces I
used to shake hands with"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

HE makes love to summer girls IN
the winter time and to winter girls in
The summer"
Whats the ideaY'
Thinks they come a little cheaper
when they're out of season."-Cleve-
AMI Leader.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

chairman of the committee to inyes-
tigate the condition of the Potomac
river at Washington. Who said La
Toilette wasn't going to cut any ice
down there?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

Edward Everett Hale, Jr., a middle
aged professor in a college, has just
been converted in a Methodist revival
in the good old-fashioned way. he
says it is a good thing, different from
learning or anything else he ever took
mold of, and better.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15
Not a Question Of Seasons.

"HOw should we get married If there
were no London season." asked the
debutante
"Some of you would get married II
you were bricked up in an ogre's cas-
tie and had to be rescued" said the
American millionaire "And ten sea-
sons wouldn't marry the rest"-Lon-
don Boudoir.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

The New York Life payments TO
Judge Andy Hamilton for services
total the astonishing sum of 1884,
1924. Wonder what he did with all
that? Probably, like Hi Henry Rog-
ers, he feels that it is none of the
public'S business.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15
FRENCH PRESIDENT ELECT.
Career of Nj. Fa11ieres, Who VIII
Soon Succeed LOubet.

Career of Nj. Fa1lieres, Who VIII
Soon Succeed LOubet.
Clement Armand Fallieres. who will
succeed NJ. Loubet as president of
France, is an old line Republican with
a clean record. He was elected presi-
dent on Jan. II by the senate and
chamber Of deputies in joint session
in accordance with the French consti-
tuition. which does not provide for a
popular vote on the choice of presi-
dent. He will be the eighth president
Of the third republic. NJ. Fallieres is
sixty-four years Of age, native OF
Nerac, in Gascogne, and financially
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

Los Angeles desires a new union
depot, but is reproved by the Boston
Globe for not asking for a new union
station.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

Count Boni spent money at the
rate of $4,000 a day-just about the
amount "Scotty'' would like you to
believe he spends. But really, "Scotty''
pays out every day about $3.50.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

Mr.. JeromeS Characterization of
ed eX-statesman and rising sun that
got stuck on the horizon will also
stick
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

General Horace Porter wants our
navy largely increased. Any man
who had the legal affairs of large
shipyard in hand would hold the same
opinion.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

The shah of Persia sent Miss RooSe-
welt pair of socks knit by himself
Dear old shah, he was always practical
and helpful in his gifts.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

Gold mas been discovered at Houl-
of the Increase Mather Consolidated
Gold, Silver & Salvation Company,
Limited
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

The presidents appeal 70 the peo-
pie to stop croWding ought to be
needed Full reports of the wedding
will be published.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

Mr. Wallace tells the senate COM
mittee that Taft nearly cursed him.
Taft did not understand there was
any doubt about it.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

Russia is going to do little innocu-
Gus voting. The grand old dukes will
see to it that the people do themselves
no harm.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

The horrifying thought that Count
de Castellane may have to work
somebody at home to get a living
chills all Paris.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

make people more suspicious of it,
since such strained comparisons ap
pear to be necessary in order to justi-
fy it at all.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

Mr.. Shonts declares the canal can
be completed in seven years. Not I'M
less it is begun.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

Already people VINO went to
school, with Attorney General Had
ley in Missouri are turning up.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

De PAW university, Methodist, has
dropped compulsory Bible study.
Crowded out by football, probably.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

A Detroit paper ascribes DR.. Dow
les troubles to egomania. His success
was so great that it swelled on him.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

well to do His political career began
in 1875, when he was elected to the
chamber Of deputies, and he has been
a member Of several cabinets, besides
being once premier himself. When NJ.
Loubet was elected president In 1890
he took the latter's place as president
Of the senate Because he Is very
democratic in his manners and shoet
and stout bis opponents said he vas
UNITED for the presidential od1eA
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15
WILLIAM g. ROCKEFELLER.

KorAE Man Who Is Slated For Head
Of Standard Oil Trust.
william G. Rockefeller, who was q
figure in the Standard Oil inquiry con-
Quoted in New York by the attorney
general of Missouri. is the son of Will
liam Rockefeller. younger brother Of
John D. Rockefeller. He is about thir-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-15

Entered at the Postoffice at Walia
Waila, Washington as Seeond-ciass
Matter.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-07-21
ADMIRAL FATALLY SHOT.
Chouknin, Suppressor of Black Sea
MutinY, is Wounded.

Chouknin, Suppressor of Black Sea
Mutiny, is Wounded.
st. Petersburg, July IAN attempt
was made at l o'clock this afternoon at
Sevastopol to assassinate Admiral
Chouknin, commander of the Black sea
deet. The admiral was wounded and
taken to hospital.
The would be-sssassin is a sailor,
who hid in the bushes and shot at the
admiral as be was walking in the gar.
den OF his villa. The culprit has not
been apprehended.
Admiral Chouknin's condition is ex-
tremely serious. The bullet lodged in
his lungs, making breathing difficult.
The doctors hold out no hope of his re-
covery.
The admiral's assailant is thought to
be one of the sailors of the battleship
Otchakoff and his act is supposed to be
in revenge for the execution OF Lieuten-
ant Schmidt, the revolutionary leader.
Admiral Chouknin was universally hat.
ed by his sailors and at the time of the
execution of Schmidt the revolutionists
condemned him to death, 100 of their
number pledging themselves to carry
out the sentence.