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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-28

the cemetery suggests that as cruel
crimes are done in the name OF un-
ionfsm as ever were committed in the
name Of liberty.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-28

The quality and quantity of the
Standard Oil arguments is positive
proof that the Standard is up a
stump.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-28

The grain of salt is hereby removed
from Senator Foraker's declaration
that he has no presidential aspirations
His vote against the rate bill settled
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-28

The car is beginning to wonder if it
is not constitutional to send the douma
to Siberia. The grand dukes are sure
of it,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-28

Barney Oldfieid, who was SO nearly
broken up by an automobile accident,
is out after his fellow men again.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-28

The car now knows what Sunday
means to working man. The douma
is not in session on that day.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-28

Particulars of the contest: All that
you have to do is to have every MEM
Der of the family buy twenty copies
of the Statesman each night. In each
paper will be found the coupon print
ed below. Cut out coupon. Each
coupon secured on Wednesdays and
Saturdays will count 10000. Write in
coupon name of some one you really
feel is the most popular father. Then
mail coupons to this office, care of Edi
tor Fathers Contest
Here is the COUPON:
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-28

No matter what the Ohio legislature
may think, Ohio's statesman, George
B. Cox, is proud of Foraker.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-28

NJ
All Iowa is hanging GREATNESS onNhe
decision of Fred n. Kretschmer. of Dk,
buque. 1t may rest with Kretschmac
who shall be the next governor of tho
Hawkeye state, Cummins or Perkins
and nobody knows how Kretschmer is
going to decide
The Dubuque man is a candidate for
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-28

. = = . = = . . . . . q . y .
. For the Most Popular Father in y
y Our City. y
In this contest fathers can buy all
for himself will count just as much
as any other vote cast in his favor.
P. S.-The itinerary involved in a trip
to Wallula and back again will be IL
Illustrated in one of our early issues.
End p. S.-City fathers barred from
entering this contest.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-28
SNAP SHOTS.
BY Phil. PaIouse.

= = = = = y = = y y = y y y Z
If the local baseballists are to retire
from the arena that is something that
is to be greatly regretted. Baseball is
one of the best sports of the day. 1t
is legitimate SPORT in every sense
and a community that will not support
little legitimate sport is not alto
gether healthy, but has something
wrong with it. With no healthy amuse-
ments in the athletic line to follow
this summer, there are only two old
things left for us to do in Walla Walla ::
Work twenty-four hours day for
eight days week and drink whiskey.
IT'S a tough program that stares us
in the face.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-28
GREATEST AFFAIR EVER.

GREATEST AFFAIR EVER.
Evening Statesman Voting Contest for
Most Popular Father.
All Fathers in the City Eligible to
Enter Contest.
Contest Creates Great Excitement
Throughout Northwest.
Prize: A Round Trip to WalIula and
Bottle Of 3-Star Brandy.
Object Of Contest: To Increase States
mans CircuIation-100,0 900 Increase
Expected by Last Of Week.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-09-21
A Splendid Wheat Crop.

The annual crop and business report
of the Commercial National Bank of
Chicago, covering the Mississippi Val
ley, and a few of the more important
States of the Pacific coast, says, in
part:
The wheat crop of 1906 will be
among the largest and best ever pro
duced. The yield not only will be
great, but the weight and quality will
be far beyond the ordinary. In these
respects it may be considered nearly
perfect. The period of uncertainty is
closing rapidly and the crop may now
be called practically out of danger.
The yield Of soft winter wheat is large,
quality the finest and movement free.
Inasmuch as this movement has begun
early and all grains are now nearly or
quite on an export basis with the ten
dency of prices downward), a large ex-
port business may be expected"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-09-21
The Farm Toulouse.

No building on the farm pays better
convenient C access that there need be
no excuse for leaving farm implements
exposed to the weather when not in
use. Properly cared for, many nipple
ments that now last only a few years
ought to be serviceable as long as the
farmer lives to need them, Besides, a
tool that has not been rusted, warped
and cracked by exposure will work as
we'll the second and third year of use
as the first. On many farms the tools
are so much injured by being left out
of doors that after the first season they
cost more for repairs than they save
in labor.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-09-21

While on the march from Frederick
City, Md, to Gettysburg, in the sum-
mer of '63, Sergeant Jordan of Com
pany G, Nineteenth Maine, carried an
unusually large knapsack, which was
the occasion of many sarcastic and
teasing remarks by the boys. One very
bot day, when the dust and blazing
sunlight were almost binding, Jordan
was trudging along beneath the weight
of his mammoth knapsack, his hat
pulled down over his eyes for protec-
ton, when some os:e on horseback rode
up and called out:
Say, sergeant, how far are you go
ing to carry that knapsack?"
Farther than you can drive your
old horse if you swap three times"
yelled Jordan, whose patience had
been already pretty thoroughly ex-
hausted by a thousand such questions.
The horseman with his scabbard
gently raised the rim of Jordan's hat,
locked him in the face, and replied :
well, you will do, by thunder.
Imagine the surprise of Jordan when
he recognized General Hancock in the
person who had spoken to him.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-09-21
Crested White Ducks.

Bulletin No. 81 of the Department
of Agriculture says of the Crested
White duck:
The Crested White duck is what may
be called an ornamental duck, much the
same as Polish chickens. They are
not bred to any great extent in this
country, and they are very seldom seen
in the showrooms. They have no es-
pecial value to the farmer, as better
and more easily bred birds are to be
found in the Pekin and Aylesbury.
These ducks have a medium-SiZed
head; medium-sized bill, a large. we'll
balanced crest upon the crown of the
head; a rather long neck; medium
length back breast. round and full 3:
body, round and Of medium length ;
medium-length wings that smoothly
fold: hard, stiff tail feathers. with
weIl-curled feathers in the tail of
drake; and short and stout thighs and
shanks. Their eyes are large and bright
and of deep leaden blue or gray color
The shanks, toes and webs are of a
light orange color.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-09-21

next morning. The two regulars went
their way, and when within a few miles
of the Union lines in Eastern Kentucky
were recaptured and taken back in
irons to Danyille. l went on alone, trav-
cling by night in the mountains, stop
ping in the cabins of colored people or
in caves, or sleeping in the widest and
most inaccessible places. On Flat Top
mountain l struck Il Union settlement
Before this my feet had been frozen
and l could hobble along with the
greatest difficulty, and was all the time
suffering the keenest pain. l almost
fell into the cabin of 4 negro just be-
fore reaching Flat Top. He and his
wife took me in and dOctored my feet
Then | was taken on Il mule to the
Flat Top settlement, where | stopped
several days. Here | came in contact
with Il squad Of rebel deserters, who
were afraid to go into the Union lines
in the belief that they would be sent
back to Richmond for exchange. This
would, of course. place them in the
hands of their own authorities. | slept
with one or another of them each night,
and convinced them that this theory
was wrong. In the end they went with
me over ninety miles Of mountain road
10 Charleston, Virginia.
There | was given transportation to
Gallipolis, at the mouth Of the kene-
wha. and from there was sent down the
river to Cincinnati. Leaving the boat
at Cincinnati / had not gone ten yards
before | met lady of the old home
nc;ghborhood. She was, richly and
handsomely dressed, and had just
stepped out of Ter carriage. l was as
dilapidated Il specimen of soldier as
any one ever saw She saw me, eeOg-
nized me. shouted my name, and took
both my hands in hers. No words that
l ever heard in my life were as sweet
as that wOman'S SObS: Poor Tulloy :;
poor Tulley.' She almost dragged me
to her carriage, and after a rest, 1
started for home, where I arrived the
night before Christmas.
"Of all the sixty-five men who <s-
capped fOm Danville that night oniy
three reached the Union lines. All the
others were captured or shot. I have
ECver seen the man Of the Thirtieth
Indiana who led in the escape He was
then :; light-haired, boyish young fellow
Ct 20. as daring a man as there was in
tie army, and / would give half 1n% sal
a"y to hear from him nOW.-Chicago
Inter Ocean
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-09-21

I raise five crops instead of one on
the same ground, and on the same vines
with hardly any extra work. Plant in
the usual way. When a cucumber is
taken from the vine let it be cut with a
knife, leaving about an eighth of an
inch of the cucumber on the stem. Then
slit the stem with knife from it's end
to the vine twice, leaving small por-
ton of the cucumber on each division.
On each separate slit there will be a
cucumber as large as the first. By this
method you will only need one-f1fth the
ground that you would need if grow
ing cucumbers in the old way.-Walter
Strosnider in Epitomist.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-09-21

A small farmer who has made a sue
cess of marketing his produce gives
sound and ingenious advice in a recent
magazine. His preliminary work sug-
gests Hannah Classes famous preface
to her Instructions for cooking hare
First find a lady customer" is his adj
vice. To her sell nothing but the
choicest of fruit and produce. 1t will
not be long before she will acquaint
her friends, and they in turn will pass
along the word to others. 1t pays to
sell nothing but the best; the inferior
produce can be fed to stock, and in a
short time the farmer will find he has
a good market and a good price, with
no leakage of profit to the middleman.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-09-21
Short Meter Sermons.

Hard lcks make good luck.
Goodness is manliness made perfect.
Only an insignificant temper is lost
easily.
The common task makes the uncom,
mon hero.
Grumbling does not help your growth
in grace.
We find in the world what lies in our
hearts.
MANY a cross disposition is mist, II
for a divine cross.
The way to find life's gloom is to seek
only your own glory.
Some of the best sermons ever given
have come in soup plates.
You cannot chase away this worlds
Gloom with cast iron smile,
MANY soul has chosen real sin be-
cause chastised for imaginary ones
IF men treated their stomachs better
their souls would worry them less.
No one knows any more about heaven
than he finds out by making others hap
py.
IT will be hard to cash your repent
ance in heaven unless it is indorsed by
reformation.
When a man looks on his religion as
ticket. he is apt to find himself on the
wrong train.
When YOU meet truth that is afraid
of anv other truth you may know you
have found a falsehood.
The saddest failure is when a man
s+ons Mt a small success when he was
called to a great one.
If Won cannot find your neighbor, you
oortainlv cannot find your own way on
the heavenly road.
The call to watch and pray does not
mean to watch your nelghDor "hile
Won pray for your own needs.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-09-21
Water Needed by Corn.

Much interest has lately been mani
tested in determining the exact amount
Of water required for the growth OF
plants. This is just as important in
the east as in the irrigated region, for
we often have droughts which made
necessary the most careful cultivation
to prevent plants from suffering. Pro-
fessor Clothier has found that after
corn becomes two feet high each stalk
uses up three pounds Of water a day
until the ears mature. This is equlva-
lent to an inch Of rain week. In
regions where the average rainfall is
lower, and where a good, milky quality.
of sweet corn is desired in the garden
during August and September, it is OBJ
viously necessary to have the soil in
the most perfect state Of cultivation so
as to retain as much moisture as is
needed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-09-21

The weight of horse is an import
ant item in estimating his value for
draft purposes, for the tine-bQned horse,
with well-developed muscles, may do rs
much work as the heavy-boned one for
Il short time, and is even better for road
purpose. But in blowing, or other
heavy, steady drawing, the light horse
is less useful Then, in price, the
weight is an important item. If good
horse weighs over 1000 pounds he may
possibly sell for as much as 81 per
pound and from 1900 to 1000 pounds,
for less, the price rapidly declining,
1900 to 1000 pound horses selling at
from 10 to 80 cents per pound, though
it IS considerably more than any other
grade of stock on the farm will bring
if the horses are we'll bred. !
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-09-21
The R0bber Cow.

Two COWS cost $40 each year for
keep. One of them yields 1900 quarts
of milk year, that bring $S6. The
other yields 100 quarts, that bring
$26. The latter loses about $14 and
reduces the gain on the former from
SAG to $50. Why do you keep that 1900
quart COW? You would be better off with
the one that clears SAG, for you would
have only half the Investment, half the
work and half the feeding, ana You
would gain $14 each year.
There would be no surplus butter on
the market for years TO come and
prices would rule strong if all the
COWS were eliminated which are kept
at Il loss. Dairy farmers have not yet
half walked up TO an understanding OF
the great practical Importance, of weed
ing out the Improbable cows from their
herds Many a man would make fair
profit, that now faces constant loss, il
he would keep only such cows as pay
Il profit on their keep.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-09-21

Weight is the main object of the
farmer in fattening stock for market,
and this weight is easiest obtained by
feeding corn in order to produce fat.
Farmers have long been taught by ex-
perience that fat is desirable quality,
and that it adds to the attractiveness
Of carcass on the stall. It has been
demonstrated at the experiment sta
lions, however, that the weight can be
secured at less cost, with greater pro-
portion of lean interspersed with the
fat, by feeding a heterogeneous ration,
which means that, in addition to lib
eral supply of corn, an animal should
receive variety of food that is not so
rich in oil, starch and sugar as is corn
This fact is worthy of consideration
How About 1T.
The coreless apple
Has been born,
But who would ask
For cobless corn?
New York Sun.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-09-21
DEATH OF SUMMER.
BY Rev. H. Pereira M

BY Rev. H. Pereira Mendes.
%" great is Thy goodness which
p hast stored for those that rever-
Ihee.-Psalms Xxi, 10.
H"'uAin more sober colors are re-
E'"1 The radiance of spring and the
'~'2 of summer. The leaves are
E-N'o- hue. The evenings draw in;
'''e~e> murnur the first whispers
!" Tel. Us that natures life is wan
h"5 too soon the end will come.
'td We call death-nature'&
"' utter year the same story is re-
Nlf0Etlde'S tender leaves of
e. summer blossoms. autumn har-
:, l4'>e spell beauty. joy. prosperi-
WINTER blasts and shrouds and fet-
>.'--What? The reverse of beau
...@ lE ana prosperity? No-em-
l1y2Ny no.
" IS beautiful in Gods creation.
'-.' ol the winter blast is the rus
: q, The Solden grain in the coming
S'1, From under this shroud Of
VIII spring the grow tbs which
""h JOY. And the letters Of
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-09-21
SAYS JESUS VISITS EARTH.


When we study the life of Jesus for
it's historical significance, the broad re-
lationship Of his life to time and events,
we see that he steadily prepares a
group of men for that work. He teach
es them more definitely than he teaches
the world
AS he approaches the end of his earth
ly career he tells them plainly of his
tragic end, the three days in the tomb
and the resurrection from the dead,
with all the attendant circumstances.
AT the present time the school men
teach us that we are under the supreme
care and conduct of the Holy Spirit,
that Christ's work is finished and that
he now has no more to do with the
earth work than If he were stratum
in a series of strata of the earth's phys
ical phenomena. But to me there was
and there is great comfort in the re-
stored text, in the restored thought,
that Jesus visits the earth, that his per-
sOnal spirit visited the apostles, deter
mining and changing their course of
work and travel.
We go beyond the privilege Of asking
in his name, we may feel that he walks
with us and aids us here in this world.
I like to think that he loves us all and
visits our homes just as he did III Beth
any because he loves us. There is a So
cial content in the thought and it is re-
demption from carelessness, from de-
spair and from tragedy. If we can only
feel, as we have Il right to feel, that he
is personal champion and friend he
is restored to us on earth.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-09-21
How He Killed Yankees.

Everybody calls Alfred J. Stofer, a
well-known Washington character, MA
ior'' Stofer Where did you get your
title, Stofer?" Representative Littlefeld
of Maine once asked him. Earned it,
subj" Stofer replied, KILN Yankees in
the war" But, Stofer, You were not
old enough to be soldier" "Who said
l was soldier, sub who said 1 was a
soldier? I was livin' in my native vii
lage of Culpeper, Virginia, sub, in
those tryin times, and it was there 1
won glory for the sainted Confederate
cause and myself KILN Yankees" But
how did you kill them?" KILLED them
by Indigestion. sub, by Indigestion. l
sold 'em apple pies and killed 'em by
scores
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-09-21
General Lees Break fast.


Toward the end of the Civil War the
value of a well-organized scout service
came to be fully appreciated by the
leaders of both armies. PerhaS no COM
manderS of modern times were better
served in this respect than General
Grant and General Lee. Both were kept
Informed daily as to nearly everything
that went on within the enemy's lines.
General Gordon relates that one
morning toward the end of the long
conflict, when the Confederates, officers
and men alike. were reduced to unpleas-
ant straits for food, captain from the
Union headquarters went, under flag
of truce, with a communication to Gen
eral Lee concerning the exchange of
prisoners.
General Lee said the captain, with
a SMILE after delivering his message,
General Grant sends you his personal
compliments, and bids me to assure You
that he knows exactly what you had
for breakfast this morning"
General Grant must be misinformed
as to this replied General Lee, survey
ing the message-bearer with a sad
smile General Grant is a generous
man; and if he had known with what
a breakfast | had to content myself he
would certainly have sent me half of
his But give him my compliments" he
continued. with a sudden twinkle; land
say that although l do not know as to
his breakfast, l have full particulars
concerning his dinner last night"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-09-21
SCOT and Smoke Kill Cattle.

What was at first thought to have
been a contagious disease among cows
belonging to Allanson Hallcock, of
Washingtonville, near Middleton, n. Y,
has been discovered to be the result of
too much smoke and SCOT. Eight cattle
died and post-mortem examinations
have shown large quantities Of SCOT in
their stomachs. Near the place where
The cows were pastured a large steam
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-09-21
7ff]rl5{ = POPULAR
81 PULPIT |

ice are but prophetic of harvests which
build prosperity.
what holds good in nature around us
holds good i'll our own human lives.
The springtide of life, with its tender
leaves Of hope, its buds of promise. its
dreams and happiness and beauty. its
visions Of success and prosperity, passes
away
linen III the Summertide of our exist
| ence we begin to realize that things are
not what they seem, but the disappoint-
ments, the defeats, the tangleS, the
strains and the stresses shall be found
to mean the strengthening of our own
character, the development of our own
possibilities for better things, leading
to the harvesting in life's autumn of
all that is worth harvesting-the wis
dom, the experiences, the groWths and
fragranceS Of tried love and the bios
SONS and fruits of tested friendship.
Let the autumn come, even though
| the beauty is so different from the Wig
Orous and glowing and promising beau
| ty Of earlier days. When at last we
Will behold the great goodness which
God has stored for us we will have
| learned to have faith in Gods work
ings. We will have discovered graft
| tude for Gods blessings. We will have
| made amends for our shortcomings and
we will be Gained by our hope for
| Gods salvation.
These are the notes of the perfect
chord-tO most of us on earth a lost
chord. We hear it's far-Off sounds more
plainly; it's melody is restored to our
memories when our ripened years re-
mind us that death, Gods ingathering,
is at hand. That divine ingathering
will mean that He will. with His hand
| and with His power, with His wisdom
| and with His alchemy, gather in,
weave, merge and transmute all the
sorrows and tangleS, all the lost hopes,
faded visions, foiled efforts, all the be-
reavements and pains and trials of
life, into something new and beautiful
and wonderful, even as He tranSmutes
the desolation of winter, it's blasts, it's
snow shrOuds and its icy letters, into
the beauty of spring, the radiance of
summer, the harvests of the autumn.