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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05

"big thing" Children talked about
him upon the streets. Grownups din
cussed him. The papers and magazines
took up the subject Parliament heard
speeches on Jumbo; even the queen
took time to discuss him. But the so
ciety In defense claimed that Jumbo
was becoming ferociOus and unman-
ageable, which proved to be true.
Once in America, Mr.. Barnum adj
vertised Jumbo to the limit. Ameri-
cans went wild over the animal, and
he was exhibited from coast to coast.
AS Mr.. Barnum had anticipated, jun
DO became cit" But on Sept. Is, 1885.
while the Barnum s. Bailey show was
at st. Thomas, Ont, the famous ele-
plant was killed by a freight train
while he was on his way to be loaded
into one Of the Barnum cars.
But that was not the last OF Jumbo.
BY prearrangement noted taxidermists
were engaged, and the skin and skel-
eton of Jumbo were prepared and
placed in the natural history museum
in New York city, where they are the
cynosure of all that visit the great in
titutiOn.-Billboard.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05
The Worlds Building Wonder.

The biggest and most mysterious
building Job on record may be said to
have been the construction of the great
wall of China, planned by the Emperor
Chin lie Wang, 214 B. c. The length
of the wall was 1850 miles, up hill
and down dale. with a width and
height Of fifteen and twenty feet re-
spectively. How the wall was built
of brick and granite in region en-
tirely destitute of clay to make the
former and bare Of the latter is a
problem which has never been solved.
Fifty thousand men were employed in
it's construction, and so well did they
do their work that, although in many
places the wall has fallen into decay,
there are still considerable portions OF
Il intact
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05
Announcing an
Engagement
By BEATRICE STURGES
Copyright, 1905, by Beatrice Sturges

Daisy Leonard and Jack Rawlinson
had been engaged for two years and
nobody knew it. 1t was Daisy's own
idea to keep the affair a secret. There
seemed to her a deep romance in hav-
ing what the novels termed a hidden
love-" and besides a girl could have so
much more fun when she was not tick
eted as belonging to some one particu-
lar man, and so checked off the list Of
possible girls to be invited to picnics
and escorted to dances by all the other
nice young men.
She was sure of Jack, who adored
her, and way down beneath the frivo-
lOus surface Of her heart she loved him
very much, but at the same time girl
who has always had her own way and
been the center Of a crowd Of admirers
does not want to give it all up.
At least Daisy didn't. She was
spoiled child and was quite accustomed
to having her own way. All her life she
had done what she wished rather than
what her mother had told her. Finally
Mrs. Leonard wearied of struggling
along without a husband and with
headstrong daughter for so many
years. In June she had married again
and gone abroad for the summer, and
Daisy had been sent to the mountains
with her aunt and family of cousins.
Jack, who worked in the city, came
up now and then for a day or two,
when Daisy treated him just about as
she did some half dozen young men
who were all her devoted admirers.
One day she and Jack had strolled off
to a big rock which overhung the lake
and was well surrounded with trees,
and here Jack had protested.
Il say, Daisy, you ought to give me
show"
Goodness, Jack, how unreasonable
you are! Didn't l give you a trip to
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05
MEN, WOMEN AND MEALS.
Something on a Tray and the Ty-
ranny of Food.

Something on a Tray and the Ty-
ranny of Food.
When men suppose that dinner goes
on whether they are at home or not
they labor under a curious miscOncep-
ton. Arthur Pendenys, writing about
this melancholy fact, declares: Some
one once said that an ordinary wom-
ans favOrite dinner is an egg in a
drawing room. All women have pas
masculine mind things on tray are
unsatisfying, but to the feminine body
they embOdy the very mamma from
heaven" 1t is easy to understand that
Arthur Pendenys or any other mas
culine mind might have trouble in
comprehending the why and where
fore of this debilitated taste, but no
woman would be at loss to explain
it. 1t comes from the fatigue which
woman suffers as the result of her CO.
lossal task of feeding man. To nour
ish the human race is the appointed
work of woman. At the very incep
ton Of life this is her labor, and never
can existence be so fine, so free, so
heroic or 20 beautiful that she must
not PAUSE three times a day-or more
10 bend her mind to the menu that
shall please her lord. She has been &C
cused of writing no epics. 1t is said
that she is incapable of composing an
oratorio, of designing a cathedral or
conceiving an heroic statue or painting
a picture of the first quality. The re
tort is that she might have done some
thing of the kind if the men had not
been hungry so frequently and so in
sistently. To be the nourisher of the
human race is an undertaking so pro-
digious that it is a marvel that the
mere evaporation of being chained to
the larder has not made iends OF lu
natics out of women, and from squaw
to countess their sufferings in this re-
gard have points of similarity. Is it
any wonder, then, that with the ever
hungry man out of the way the woman
seeks escape from the tyranny Of food
and leafs strawberries by moonlight
on a howery bank?'-Reader Maya
zine.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05
Agricultural Politics.

A young farmer who had been elect
ed to state legislature and instructed
to follow the lead of the state central
committee of his party was taken to
task by some of his constituents for
voting against a party measure.
my friends" he replied, when l
was boy one of our neighbors got
new hired mana chap from the city.
One day he took him out to pasture
lot and set him to turning the 500
under
You start in here he said, and
pillow right to that old red cow
"Then he went off about his work.
Toward noon he came back to see how
the fellow was getting along and found
he had plowed rambling furroW all
over the field and was still at it.
"'Herev he shouted. What do you
mean by that sort OF work.
"'Why,' said the man, you told me
to pillow to the red COW, and I've been
blowing toward her all morning, but
she keeps walking all over the field
"Now, I'll admit, gentlemen, tnat
you told me to pillow to red COW, Dut
l should like to have you as farmers
compare my burrows with that cows
trail"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05

THE LAUNCH MEANTIME WAS SPEEDING
IN THEIR DIRECTION.
the glen this afternoon on purpose to
stay with you? They didn't like it a
bit, either"
They? What are they to you and
me, Daisy? Aren't we everything to
each other? I'm sure you're the whole
world to me, sweetheart" he added,
taking her hand.
idly with the other at a fern growing
out of cleft in the rock. 1t was very
nice to have such a splendid big fellow
as Jack so devoted to you and all your
own, but it was fascinating to 60 row.
ing one day with Tom, and riding next
day with Jim, golfing with Will and
playing tennis with Dick. 1t made life
exciting, and she intimated as much
to Jack.
"These fellows here are too fresh.
anyway, and l don't like the way you
go around with SO many Of Them" he
objected.
would you rather have me go with
one all the timer" asked Daisy, mis-
chievously tickling his cheek with a
piece of feathery grass.
"Yes, and / should be the one. Dear,
it's time we settled this thing-either
you are engaged to me or you are not.
If you are, then matters are going to
change, and l intend to look out for
you and to have 1t understood by your
aunt and everybody at this place. If
not
He broke off and sat looking across
the lake with firm line around his
lips that the girl had never seen before
She drew her hand away Indeed,
he had dropped it when he had first
begun to speak. She stiffened, a.
though her lips trembled, and if he had
looked at her probably everything
would have been different, but he sat
and gazed moodily at white sail
across the blue lake.
IF the engagement is irksome to
you" she began stitfiy-
He turned to her now impatiently.
"For heavens sake, Daisy, don't talk
nonsense. l want what Is due me.
that's ALL 1 came up this time chiefly
to tell you that have been transferred
to the western branch of our business
and have to be there in six weeks. Will
you come with me, sweetheart? You
know how 1 love you, and 1 want you
now for my very own. You will, won't
your"
She might have said yes, but as
luck would have it voices and steps
broke on the stiffness Of the wood.
and in an instant two girls and two
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05
Blatkerskite.

"Blatherskite" is an Americanism,
or, rather, an old word which has sur
vived chiefly in American usage. The
way it came to be popular here is
curious. 1t is really the old Scottish
"bletherskate." from "blether," to talk
nonsense (old Morse "bladhr," non
sense, and skate" a term Of op-
probrium In the song ''Maggie Lau-
der" written about 1850, occur the
words, "Jog on your gait, We blether-
skate" and this song was a very pop
ular one in the American camp during
the war of independence; hence the
vogue Of the expressive word in its
Americanized form. 'Bletherumskite'
was the Irish version early in the nine
teenth century.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05
At SCHOOL IN JAPAN AND A JAPANESE AD-
VERTISING SIGN.

VERTISING SIGN.
are now nearly 10000 elementary
schools in Japan, and the empire is
well provided with institutions of a
higher grade. Formerly a Japanese
schOolrOom was long room in a long
house. with matched roof, broad door
ways closed with paper covered lat
ticed frames sliding in grooves and
bare floors covered with mats for the
pupils, who sat on them at tables
about eight inches high. This type of
school is gradually being supplanted by
those resembling the American or &C.
cidental type.
The Japanese copy our methods OF
education and trade and even our ad.
vertising customs and business signs.
Americans who are interested in con.
tinuance Of friendship between the two
nations and our influence for good up-
on the progressive conquerors of the
car look with apprehension upon incl
dents which tend to disturb the hith.
erto good relations and Offset the eff.
forts made to establish the confidence
Of the Japanese in our real friendship.
On the other hand, it is argued that
Americans must protect themselves
against perils incident to Immigration
from the orient, whatever the effect
upon our relation with the japanese
or other Asiatic races.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05

President Roosevelt has evolved an
original and decidedly startling solu-
ton of the Japanese question. But
although originating in broad and COM
prehensive statesmanship-on lines
truly of fundamental Americanism-the
idea is not enc which may be accepted
without protest in the west In Wash.
ington they meet the highest class OF
educated Japanese. Out west we NEE,
the section man-and the difference
is too great
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05
A FOolOmeter.

Some visitors who were being SHOWN
over a pauper lunatic asylum inquired
of their guide what method was EN-
pIoyed to discover when the Inmates
were sufficiently recovered to leave.
"Well," replied he, 'you see, It's tnis
way. We have big trough OF water
and we turn on the tap. We leave IL
running and tell 'em to bail out tne
water with pals until they've emptied
the trough"
"How does that prove it?' asked one
of the visitors.
"Well," said the guide, then as
amt idiots turns of the tap."-Boston
Transcript
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05
ME ction
Of President
Roosevelt in
directing one Of
the members of
his cabinet, Vic
tor III. Metcalf.

secretary Of commerce and labor, to
inquire into the course of the San
Francisco authorities in excluding JAP
anese from the ordinary public schools
has attracted general attention to the
subject of the japanese in America.
The mikados subjects are sensitive
people, and they have resented the ac-
ton of the San Francisco authorities,
coming so soon after the sealing Incl.
dent in which Japanese fishermen
were killed by Americans engaged in
enforcement of the law against poach-
ing in the seal district of Alaskan wa
ters. The two incidents have threaten
ed to mar He harmony and cordially
existing hitherto between the Amer
lean and Japanese nations.
The subject has been discussed in
japanese journals and has caused anti
American comment.
The anti-Japanese agitation on the
Pacific coast is no new thing. The lat
est phase Of it is due to conditions arts
ing in consequence Of the earthquake
disaster. The matter Of segregating
the Japanese, Chinese and Korean chill
dren in separate schools was taken up
by the labor unions in San Francisco
after the earthquake and the school
board in acting in conformity with this
sentiment claims that it is simply pro
ceeding in accordance with state laws.
There are about 500 Japanese who
were pupils in the schools before the
earthquake Since being barred from
the regular schools most of them have
stayed away from the separate schools
as a matter Of protest. Chinese and
Korean children have in general at
tended the schools provided for them.
In defense of their action the school
authorities say that many Of the Jap
anese children, so called, are men from
twenty to thirty years of age and that
it Is wrong they should mingle in the
schOolroom with American boys and
girls. Another objection to allowing
japanese pupils to mingle with Amer
lean school children is based on the
allegation that some are afflicted with
trachoma of the eye 1t Is said that
many Japanese come to this country
by way Of Honolulu, which is technic-
ally home port, and thus escape
examination by the immigration au-
thorities, becoming a source Of danger
to the community.
The United States has hitherto eX-
tended a cordial welcome to the Jap
anese, and admiration for the subjects
of the mikado as a race has greatly in
creased because of the pluck they
showed in their bloody contest with
Russia The schools and colleges of
this country have always opened their
doors wide to students of both sexes
from the Flowery Kingdom, and many
of these students have made fine rec
ords and in general have been quite
popular with their fellow students.
The Japanese government has not only
sent a great many japanese youth to
the United States to study at our
schools and colleges, but has modelled
the schools it has established in Japan
largely on the American plan. There
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05

Naturally we are expected to criti-
else the presidents message. But the
one great, Objectionable feature upon
the advantages of bitulithic in Wal
la Walla over asphalt. Perhaps this
is due to the fact that Frank Reese
has been too busy with the councilmen
to meet the president.
The city council has again DELAYED
action on the Fourth street bridge
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05
torrent

President Roosevelt has enoed our
awful suspense. He has recoiiiiiio
a graduated income tax and a erauu-
ated inheritance tax. Whlle cheeriuAS
having our income tax we were ieariui
the lawyers would get all that was
left behind. We now rest easy III Tue
know,edge that Uncle Sam will get
1.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05

The councilmen complain of the
odors from the fire department stables
the people complain of the smell
from bitulithic-but just wait until the
perfume begins to arise from the pro-
posed purchase of that new city Gre
matory-the same that gave Spokane
its greatest scandal.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05

We had always imagined the odor
from the fire department stables un-
derneath the city hall were counter
acted by the healthy smell of btu
lithic-but perhaps the odor crept IN
bewteen doses of the smell.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05

After Arthur Brisbane has fully
digeSted the significant roasting given
his chief in the presidents message,
William Randolph Hearst will emit a
simultaneous yelp in four large cities
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05

cular appendageS of one William Jen-
nings Bryan and one William Eandol II
Hearst We're considerably fcverish
message bearing on capital and labor
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05

That stern Puritanism in President
RooSeVeltS chapter on marriage and
divorce and then b airing on race suicide
will so far toward restoring that con-
fdence shaken somewhat by his ul-
ira japanese views.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05

The big stick in Panama and the
"big stick in San Francisco look like
CalifOrnianS.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05

That council meeting last night was
a disappointment to the gallery as 1t
"was only for a time" that it looked
like the usual clash between Glasford
and some other member.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05

not speak to each other in court yes
terday. That doesn't indicate a quar-
rel. They may merely be practicing
the system in vogue in all We regu-
lated penitentiarieS.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05

a federal grand jury in aWlla Wal
la may jar more than few people
in the Hogan-Northern Pacific case.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05

startling head in the Union this morn
ing. Does it mean the first story is
turned up?"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05

This may be proper but we "ouio az
visa residents across the creek 10 uo
their spring shopping at once anu oe
fore another rain starts the seent'ns
torrent !.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-05
JAPAN AND AMERICA
QUESTION or HOW TO TREAT THE
JAPANESE IN THIS COUNTRY.

The San Francisco Incident and Its
Eject ON International Relations.
Schools Of the Mil<ado's Empire and
His Subjects In the United States.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-01-11
ROBERTSON THE STAND
VICE PRESIDENT OF STANDARD
OIL COMPANY QUESTIONED
IN MISSOURI CASE.

New York. Jan. Gil. H. Rogers
vice president and director OF the
Standard Oil company of New jersey.
was 4 witness before Commissioner
Frederick H. Sanborn in the hearing
10 wi evidence by which Attorney
General Hadley OF Missouri is seek,
Ing 10 exclude the Standard Oil com
psny Of Indiana, the WaterS-Pierce
company and the Republic Oil com
pany from doing business in Missouri
or operating under a pooling agree
meut alleged 10 have been made 10
crush competition,
MIR. Rogers refused 10 answer ;
question Is 10 whether he is a stock
holder 0! The Standard Oil company
OF Indiana, He had previously said he
is q director Of tha, company. Counsel
for the Standard Oil interests advised
Mir, Rogers not 10 answer and said
The question and the right OF ATTORNEY
General Hadley OF Missouri 70 have 4
lis, Of the stockholders OF his com.
pany IS pending in the courts and THAI
he wanted tbs court 10 decide il.
Il beg 10 he excused" said Mr.. Ros.
erS.
Attorney General HaGley then asked
th..; The question and refusal 10 an.
Swsr y certified 10 the supreme corr,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-01-11
Fight on a Reservation.

Details of a fatal clash between an
Indian policeman and drunken reds ON
the old Fort Berthold reservation Doc
20 have reached the officials at Fargo
Drags Wolf, an Indian officer, attemnt.
ed to suppress a rowdy lot of his
friends, and they attacked him. IN
the fight that followed the policeman
killed one of his assailants. He was
beaten into insensibility with a neck.
yoke and lay in the snow from
o'clock to 9. Despite his terrible ey.
p%erience it is thought he will recover
Several other Indians We're more Or
less injured. The part of the reserva.
tion in which the trouble occurred is
within the boundaries of Mclean coup.
ty, but the local officers there have nut
the matter up to the United States eff.
Gals at Fargo, who will investigate.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-01-11
LOSS OVER HALF A MILLION.
Fire at Kansas City Destroys Several
Office Buildings.

Kansas City, Jan. 6.-Fire during
the evening caused a loss of slightly
moro than $500. 900. The property dam
aged and destroyed occupied two
thirds of the block on the west side
Of Walnut street. between Ninth and
Tenth streets. The losses are dis
trihutcd as follows:
National Bank of Commerce., Office
building and iNlures, loss Sl0o 900;
Woods building. owned by DR.. w. S.
Woods, president Of the National Bank
OF Commerce.. loss Sl5o.000; Columbus
Buggy company, stock loss 100000;
w. ". KimhNll Piano company. stock
loss $4,000: HcttiuGer Bros. Manu-
~facturinE company, surgical lnStru-
tents and physicians supplies. stock
loss 10000: occupants OF Offices in
Bank Of Commerce building aud adj
joining property, $4,000.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-01-11
FELT TWENTY MILES
EXPLOSION KILLS FIVE, FATALLY
INJURIES TWO AND MAINS
TWELVE OTHERS.

Chicago. Jan. Give men were
killed, two others were fatally hurt
and twelve were manned by an
explosion at the plant of Delese &
Shepard at Gary, Ill.,, fifteen miles
from this city. According to advices
received there two employees of the
company were warming dynamite pre-
paratory TO blasting when it became
isnited and exploded, together with an
additional quantity of it which was
lying near.
The force OF the explosion was fell
as far as South Chicago. more than
twenty miles away.
The majority OF the men injured
were working in a pit near one OF the
stone cruSherS. which was demolished
by the force OF the explosion. Large
pieces OF the machinery OF the crusher
fell into the pit. injuring every man
who was working there.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-01-11
Want Laid Enioined.

The paint manufacturers Instituted
Injunction proceeding in tn" United
States court at Fargo last week 10
prevent the enforcement OF the pure
paint law. which became effective last
week. Commissioner Ladd had al
ready issued $4,000 bulletins giving
analysis of some of the leading brands
of paints. The new law is attacked
on several grounds, chief OF which Is
that there is no provision for me
prosecution of paint manufactures
within the state, and no provision for
prosecuting individual painters iF
mixing illegally. The white LEAD
clause is also attached The @restraii'
ing order against Commissioners l.a0!
preventing the enforcement OF tlr
North Dakota paint law, has been con
t1nued till Feb. Is.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-01-11
Business House Burned.

The business portion of Lakota had
q narrow escape from total destruction
by fire one night last week. Shorty
before midnight fire was discovered in
the general merchandise store Of
Hutchins & Libby, in the middle of the
principal business block. The entire
building and contents were completely
destroyed and the fire was not unde:
control until 5 o'clock the next morn
ing. Mr.. and Mrs. Hutchins, Miss
Inga Johnson, Miss Helen TennysOl
and Miss Clements, who live over the
store, had a narrow escape. They
were awakened by dense smoke and
were able to save only a few things
The loss is upwards of $4,000. with
$4,000 insurance. Fortunately the
night was very calm and water suppl
was adequate.