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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-24
MODES OF THE MOMENT.

Black gowns are SO elaborate this
year as to be more striking than colors.
It is said that next summer silk
waists with sashes to match will be
worn with lace skirts.
White linen stocks with scarfs of
plaid or checked silk are among the
smart showings in neckwear.
Shoes are growing more pointed. The
latest showings take one back several
years, when needle points were 'in."
Some of the fur coats are distin-
guished by vests and cuffs Of bright
blue or green velvet, embroidered in
gold and silver.
A simple but pretty and effective
waist is made of coarse cream net, with
a little vest and deep cuffs Of finer
net of the same tone. The vest, cuffs
and stock are fancifully edged with
heliotrope ribbon.-New York Tribune.
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Dominion Government Committee
Will Soon Make Report
FAVOR MAXIMUM, MINIMUM AND MEDIUM
WILL BE SUBMITTED TO LEGIS-
LATURE AT FIRST SITTING
IN MARCH.

After taking evidence in all Of the
large manufacturing centers in the Do
minion of Canada, the commission, ap-
pointed by the Dominion government
to look into the best means of i'm
proving the present tariff regulations
and revising them so that they will be
on a more even basis relative to those
countries with which the Dominion is
anxious to trade in very friendly
terms, has decided that the triple tar
iff scheme suggested by the minister
of that department some months ago
is the only thing to cover the entire
case and leave no room for trouble. is
the report that comes from New West
minister, 3. c.
This triple tariff scheme consists of
the maximum, minimum and medium
scales. On the minimum scale Eng
land Japan Australia and New Zealand
will likely be the only countries, Japan
being the only one besides the colonies
but as England and the Dominion are
very anxious to keep Japan in friendly
relationship, her trade value being
thoroughly realized the island country
will be given every advantage in the
new schedule.
Other countries wishing to trade on
the minimum basis will be given
chance to do so, but the commission
is of the opinion that only England,
her colonies and Japan will unite in
this trade merger on the low scale.
The maximum basis will be levied on
those countries that for some time
have been dealing in high duties to-
ward the Dominion.
The report of the commission will be
! made to the legislature in March dur
ing it's first sitting.
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1t Won For SardOu.

1t is singular fact that the famous
French dramatist Sardou owed his first
success on the boards to his excellent
handwriting. He had sent in his often
rejected play, LA Taverne des Etudi-
ants" to the Odeon management for
consideration, and the manuscript was
thrown, with some others, upon table.
One day at rehearsal the charming &C
tress Mile Berengere was attracted by
the handwriting and took up the manu-
script. crying, ooh, what an exquisite
handv' She read the play and recon-
mended it so strongly to the directors
that they were induced to read it and
then accept it. At the time Sardou was
starving. He had gone through seven
long years of terrible hardship and pri-
walton.
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SOLD TO ONE MAN,
Orlando Ross Disposes of the Village
That He Made and Thrived In.

That He Made and Thrved In.
SOLON, Ind, Feb. 24-Orlando Ross
is no longer proprietor of the town of
Scion. For $4,000 he sold it to William
Dellinger, of Scottsburg, Ind Five
years ago Ross bought a crossroads
store at Scion. He paid 500 for the
stock. About all he had to sell was
bacon. molasses and flour. In a short
time he had everything to sell from
a needle to a self binding harvester
machine.
Scion thrived. Ross built fifteen cot
tages and established another store
He engaged in the business of running
a wagon buying butter and eggs from
the farmers wives for which he gave
them calico and notions. Ross pros
pered until he decided he was ready
to retire Along came Mr.. Dellinger
and asked him what he would take for
the town.
Six thousand dollars for the town
as she stands" said Ross.
Throw in your two old market
wagons that are out on the route" re-
piled Dellinger.
king of village of about fifty souls.
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PlTH AND POINT.

The trouble with being peacemake1
is that you are liable to be accused Of
butting in.
The sensation OF blushing would be
a familiar one to most Of US If we knew
how often we were thought q nuisance
A man never knows how small hi.
house is until the baby screams all
night nor how large it Is until the baby
is dead.
Here is a good old fashioned saying
to repeat to the man who worries:
Never take more on your heart than
you can kick OF at your heels.
There are supposedly sixty minutes
In every hour, but in the last hour.
when there Is much to be accomplished.
there are not more than twenty nina
Atchison Globe.
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Bio lnterschoIastic Meet,

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. "a
The third annual interscholasitc ath-
letic meet of this city will be held at
Convention hall this evening. A very
ambitious program has been prepared
and nearly all the schools, high
schools, business schools and prepar-
atory schools of this city, Baltimore
and several other cities, will be rep
resented among the entries for the
fourteen events On the list. The pro-
gram includes three open events.
Among these is a fifty-yard dash, a
half mile and a one mile run. 1t
promises to be one of the most sue
cessful and interesting scholastic
meets ever held in this city.
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GOOD FOR THE APPETITE.
Log Kept by German Aeronaut Shows
Flight Was Spent in Feasting.


PARIS, Feb. pa Berlin CORE
spondent tells of an interesting bal
loon trip made by Herr Lenkeit, ac-
companied by several army officers.
Prince Joseph Albrecht was present at
the start
A log kept by Herr Lenkeit goes to
show that balloOning, in addition to
any services it may render to science,
is excellent for the appetite. In fact
the only remarks in the log record the
prowess of the balloonists as trencher-
men.
Ten o'clock the breakfast, eight
boiled eggs, four buttered rolls, wine
and mineral water. Twelve O'clock
the second big breakfast, outlets, bread
and butter, champagne, mineral waters
and red wine. Al half past p. M,
Brunswick sausages with red and white
wine.
These copious meals evidently, how
ever, only acted as an appetizer as the
passenges record that on reaching Ber-
lin, they dined at the Monopole restau-
rant.
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B
THE HALL OF FAME,

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman Is
said to be the first prime minister of
purely Celtic strain.
DR.. Harrington Of the Massachusetts
board of health says 1.-The majority of
people are going pure food crazy"
Professor Edward Leidfreed Of Phil.
adelphia has been elected dean Of the
American Commercial Schools institu-
ton in Chicago.
]. o. Davidson, governor of Wiscon-
sin, thirty years ago walked the streets
Of the capital penniless stranger. He
began life as a farm hand.
When Obadiah Gardner, master Of
the state grange Of Maine, completes
his present term he will have held the
Office longer by some years than any
Of his predecessors.
Lazard Bros, bankers of Paris and
New York, made a present to all their
employees of an amount Of money
equal to half the entire years salary
as bonus at New Years.
DR.. E. A. Mears, an authority on or.
anthology, recently discovered several
new species ON the summit of Apo, a
volcanic mountain Of the island Of Min
danao, in the Philippine group.
A. B. f. Hildreth, editor of the Intel
ligencer of Charles City, Ia, is prob
ably the oldest editor in the country.
He has been in the newspaper business
for seventy years and is now ninety.
Letchworth Cox, who was stoker
on the first locomotive that ever got up
steam in America, recently celebrated
his ninety-first birthday in Jamesburg.
N. J. He was born in Chester county.
Pa.
John G. Clark has just retired from
the service of the Bank of California
after a connection Of fifty years, first
Us paying teller and then as keeper Of
the banks cash. He went to California
in 1851.
Robert Hall Mccormick of Chicago
by the new additions to his famous col
lection of the productions of English
artists is now the possessor of the
finest gallery Of English art outside Of
the British museum itself.
Captain William J. De Grass, recent
~ a Mexican, but formerly Of St.
Louis, is dead. For nineteen years he
was consul general to Mexico for the
Hawaiian Islands. He served with
distinction in the Union army during
the civil war;
Alexander Graham Bell has returned
to Washington highly pleased with the
results of experiments with kitefying
machines at his estate in Nova Scotia.
He is working on new and larger
kite, which he will call Oionos, or bird
of good omen"
Professor William II. Holmes, ar
chaeologist Of the Smithsonian institu
ton, has discovered that many Of the
collection Of American antiques in the
institution collection were made In a
present day factory in the City Of Mex
leo. They embrace specimens Of an
Gent Mexican pottery.
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SIZE OF A THUNDERBOLT.
GeolOgists Have a System by Which
Such Measures Are Taken.

GeOlOgists Have a System by Which
Such Measures Are Taken.
did you ever see the diameter Of a
lightning flash measured?" asked a
geologist "Well. here is the case which
once inclosed a flash of lightning fitted
it exactly, so that you can see how big
it was. This Is called 'fulgarite,' or
lightning hOle,' and the material it is
made of is glass.
when a bolt Of lightning strikes a
bed of sand it plunges downward into
the sand for distance less or greater,
transforming simultaneously into glass
the silica in the material through which
it passes. Thus by its great heat it
forms a glass tube of precisely its own
size.
Nov and then such tube, known
as a fulgarite, is found and dug up.
Fulgarites have been followed into the
sand by excavations for nearly thirty
feet. They vary in interior diameter
from the size Of quill to three inches
or more, according to the bore Of the
flash. But fulgarites are not produced
alone in sand. They are found also in
solid rock, though very naturally of
slight depth, and frequently existing as
a thin, CLASSY covering on the surface.
"Such fulgarites occur in astonishing
abundance on the summit Of Little Ara
rat in Armenia. The rock is so soft
and porous that blocks foot long can
he obtained. perforated in all direc-
tons by little tubes filed with bottle
green glass formed from the fused
rock.
"Some wonderful fulgarites were
found by Humboldt on the high Nevada
de Toluca, in Mexico. Masses Of the
rock were covered with thin layer of
green glass. Its peculiar simmer In
the sun led Humboldt to ascend the
precipitous peak at the risk of his life"
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THE AGILE TIGER.
lie II "Sh0d With silence" and II ~
Quick ~ Lightning.

he In 'Shod With silence and II ~
Quick as Lightning.
Most wild animals are specialists
that is to say, they are highly develop
ed in one particular direction. The
tiger is great as a stalker. His feet
seem to be "shod with silence" r. II.
Elliot, for many years resident OK
India. cited an experience of one Of his
neighbOrs illustrative Of this point
He had been much annoyed by tigers
and at last tied a bullock out in a clear
ing and took up his own position in .
tree to wait till the tiger should come
after the bait. The ground was COW
cred with dried leaves, which in hot
weather are so brittle that even the
walking of a bird over them can be
heard for a good distance.
In no very long time a large tiger
slipped out Of the forest and slowly
edged toward the bullock. His method
was so elaborate and careful that the
man who saw 1t used to declare that
It would have been worth 1000 rupees
to any young sportsman to have wit
messed it.
So carefully did he put down each
paw and SO gradually did he crush the
leaves under it that not a sound was
to be heard. Between him and the bull
lock was stump about four feet high,
with long projecting surface roots.
This, plainly, the tiger looked upon as
a godsend
He got upon one Of the roots, bal
anced himself carefully and so was
able to walk quickly and silently as
far as the stump. He approached so
gradually and noiselessly and his col
or against the brown leaves was so
invisible that he was close upon the
bullock before he was perceived.
Then instantly the bullock charged.
The tiger eluded him and in moment
more had his paws on the bullock
neck ready to drag him down. Then,
like a flash, he caught sight Of the
rope by which the bullock was tied
AID turned and sprang into the forest,
all so quickly that the man in the tree
had no opportunity to fire.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-24
MANY GIVEN DIVORCES.
South Dakota Courts Have Busy
Half Year.

Half Year.
PIERRE, S. D., Feb. 24.-An analy-
sis of the divorce record of South Da-
Kota for the first six months Of the
operation of the vital statistics bureau
shows that Sioux Falls is far in the
lead of any other point in the state.
more than one third of the decress
granted for that period of time being
in that circuit. A total of PIT couples
sought separation in that time and out
of that number 1877 came from outside
states to this state for divorce pur-
poses
The causes advanced for securing
relief from matrimonial truobles show
ed desertion to be in the lead with
1O1 cases. Among the causes was 80
divorces on the grounds of non-sup-
poht, 80 for cruelty, IA for intemper-
ance and for neglect Twelve cases
were heard and granted in which the
reason given has not yet been reported.
Out of the total Sc DEGREES were
granted by Judge Jones, of Sioux Falls;
81 by Judge Mccoy of Abtrdeen; %
by Judge E. G. Smith, of Yankton; 10
by judge MCGEE, of Rapid City; Is by
Judge F. B. Smith, of Mitchell; 13 by
Judge Marquiss, of WATERFOWL; II by
Judge Gaffey, of Pierre. II by Judge
Rice, of DeadwoOd, and 1 by Judge
Whiting, of Huron
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-24

The eastern manager Of a large west
ern manufacturing concern has be-
nignly clerical appearance that COM
mands confidence. He was standing on
corner in the shopping district of Phil
adelphia waiting for a car when q
woman, handsomely gowned and evil
IDENTITY a stranger, approached him and
said inquiringly:
Il wish to go to Broad street station"
Instantly he replied in tone of in
dulgent seriousness:
Every we'll, you can go this time. but
don't ever, ever ask me again. Phil
adelphia Ledger
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company, and Mr.. Williams, as counsel
took early occasion to compliment the
aged negro on his expert testimony.
To which the latter replied:
"Thankee, Marse John; but I was
sOrely skeered when dat lawyed man
begin to ask me about de lantern. l
was Altered, for a minute, dat he was
goin' to ask me if it was lit or not. De
oil done give out some time befo' de
accident"
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For Several Minutes.

Didn't you and Mr. Spoonington
have trouble of some bind last nightY'
asked her anxious mother.
Eyes; he said my lips were like lus-
cious cherries and my ears like little
Shells"
"Well? Was that all?"
''N-no; he said my hair had the fra
GRANGE of apple blossoms, and when l
wouldn't let him bury his nose in it for
fear he might loosen my switch he
seemed to be really put out, and for
several minutes we were just as cool
to each other as we could be"-Chica-
20 Record Herald.
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SHE COULDN'T TELL.

they Asked Her, hut She Only Blush.
ed and Shook Her Head.
They were talking about proposals, as
will sometimes happen when three girls
get together; not the proposals they had
had, of course-that would be too shock
ingly indelicate-but the proposals other
people had habitat is. proposals in
general.
"A proposal. anyway, is no such def
mite event as people seem to think, /"
said the tall girl, speaking with the con-
viction of one who knows.
well, I don't think there ought to be
anything Indefinite about it." said the
red haired girl severely.
what Mary MEANS" put In the short
girl lis that man doesn't pop in on
you suddenly and say. viii you marry
meT In so many words"
Certainly he does not" said Mary.
"A proposal is generally an indefinite
thing running through weeks and even
months. The man puts out silent, sub
tie feelers all this time. He isn't going
to plunge blindly into a humiliating re-
lection. If he has an ounce Of discern
ment he can tell pretty well how the
land lies, and once he knows that he
doesn't need a Lovers Guidebook' to
teach him what to say"
What does he say" asked the red
haired girl meaningly.
wait" calmly advised the tall girl.
you'll know in good time"
II always thought" mused the littlest
girl, leaning her chin ON her hand, that
it would be interesting to know how a
side of the question discussed"
"Hear! Hearw cried the red haired
girl. "Dolly's seeking pointers"
mo, I'm not" answered Dolly COM
posedly. What l say will depend on
what 1 think of him, and shan't need
anybody to teach me that"
"Well, my dears," remarked the tall
girl, with furtive glance at the spar.
king diamond on her third finger,
sometimes she says something and
then again she may say nothing at ALL
l have an idea it all depends on the
Observation-Disclosures. buI VI Ou0 IuluB you
may be sure, she does not say this"
The tall girl, arose and took a little old
copy of Jane Eyre" from her book
shelf. Finding the place, she read
aloud:
"'Mr. Rochester, If ever I did a good
deed in my life-if ever I thought a
good thought-if ever 1 prayed a sim
cere and blameless prayer-if ever l
wished righteous wish--I am reward
ed now. To be your wife is for me to
be as happy as l can be on earth.
That's the way classic heroine &C.
cepted her proposal, girls. But 1 don't
think"-and the tall girl smilingly laid
the book aside-"that it's the modern
way"
What Is the modern way, Nary
slyly besought both girls. '"rell us
what you said"
But Mary blushed and shook her
Observation-Disclosures Bulletin.
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String to His Generosity.

Edwin and Lisa are two little cousins
OF three who are almost inseparable
and divide most Of their goodies. One
day Edwin had a whole cracker, un-
buttered, and half one which was
buttered. He gave the former to Lisa,
and his mother commended him for
giving away the larger piece.
Little Lisa looked up acutely. "Yes,' ~
said she, "he gave me the biggest, but
he kept the butterest." New York
Press.
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But He Didn't Ask,

Willie was paying a visit. and he
found the intervals between meals
longer than usual
Il amt going to ask for any cake"
he remarked at last blandly.
That's very nice Of you, Willie"
said his hostess.
Because" he went on loudly, ignor-
ing her remark, "in houses where ladies
is polite to little boys don't have to-"
Willie got his cake.-Woman's Home
Companion.
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Don't you think every statesman
should cultivate manner Of great dig
nity?'
"a manner of great dignity" answer
ed Senator Sorghum, "is an invaluable
adjunct. 1t prevents people from ask
ing bothersome questions for fear of
seeming impertinent" - Washington
Star.
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The Living.

Sis-Why did you throw up your sit
uation, Ernest? Brother-Because I
am going to get married. Sis-But
what will you live on-love? Brother
oh, no! We are going to live on my
loves father.
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The Real Triumph.

II suppose you feel better since you
have delivered your speech" said the
encouraging friend.
1T isn't so much to deliver SPEECH"
replied the immature but sagacious
statesman. 1.-THE real triumph consists
in getting it listened to-" = Brooklyn
Life.
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In Danger.

Gregson Tin alarm)-Great Scott, I've
left my pocketbook under my pillow!
Fisher-Oh. well, your servant is hon
est, isn't she? Gregson-That's just It
She'll take It to my wife.
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Poor Father,

Poor Father.
II suppose l ought to ask your IA
Their for your hand?'
''Well. yes. it might please him. and
it can't do any hurt. OF course it
wouldn't be at all necessary If mother
were home"-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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"Have you ever done light house


what, Bobby, in trousersv' exciaim-
Cd the visitor. How long have you
been wearing themr'
mot very long" replied Bobby.
''Only down 70 my kneo."-San Fran
cisco Can.
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What we call despair il often only tho
painful eagerness Of unfed hope
George Eliot.
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Pa-Well, what is it now?
Willie-Pa, is a thousand logger q
bird?
Pa-Certainly not; it's an insect.
Willie-Pa, why amt turkeys thou
sand leggers philadelphia Press.
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lis there any answer, boy?"
Messenger Boy-I don't know;
didn't have time to read it-New York
World.
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Nothing.

One day they had a falling out
And played the game Of sulk and pout.
And what dye think twas all about?
Nothing.
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Nothing.

She went to mas and meant to stay,
Which made his dinner late that day.
When she returned what did he say?
Nothing.
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A Setback.

A Setback.
BLANK says lots of clever things, but
they're never original"
swell, it's better to say clever things
second hand than never to say anything
clever at all.''-Detroit Free Press.
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Although he stayed out late that night
And drank glass or two for spite,
What did she do to serve him right?
NothinX
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Same Thing,

"Are you giving your daughter mu-
steal education?
'Well. perhaps not that, but I'm pay
ing for one"-New York Life.
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Now. ere the ending Of the week
Each caught the other going to speak!
What better ending Is to seekr
Nothing.
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Yet friends and neighbors were perplexe4
And some old ladies even vexed
10 wait and ind what happened NEXT
Nothing.