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Evening star., 1907-08-11
ASIDE.

Florence Roberts is to appear i'll a new
play of New York society called Sham"
Sheridan Block is to star in play called
The Heart OF Russia
Bluff
Wright Lorimer has begun rehearsals in
his new play, 1.-THE Quicksands."
AL Leech's comedy is to have the taking
title Of Happy Days"
Tom Jones" has passed its one hum
dredth performance in London.
William H. Cranes new comedy by
George Ade is called Father and the Boy
Henry Blossom. 1r., and Victor Herbert
are to write new opera for Fritzi Schen.
Corinne is to appear in vaudeville, her
feature song number being Mexican sere-
made called MY Chiquita."
The son of Blanche Chapman is to be
member of the company in which his
mother will appear as Mrs. Wigs.
Ruby Ray. a London favorite. has been
engaged by Charles Frohman for The
Dairy Maids"
I.oie Fuller has been writing one-aot
plays, two Of which are Japanese. and
third is called The Holland Dame
R. E. Graham has been engaged for the
principal comedy role in Savage's produc-
ton of THE Merry Widow
Robert Warwick. who was leading man
with Mary Mannerng last season. will be
I'm Virginia Harneds company.
Frank Gheen, who was in the support Of
Robert Edeson in ''Strongheart," Is to play
the title role in David CorsOn."
Olga Nethersole is spending the last part
of her vacation in Scotland. She will re-
turn to the United States late this month.
A street railway company in a Pennsyl-
vania town has decided to back a theatrl-
cal company, which is an innovation in
the "angel' line.
John e. kellard is to play the leading
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although both the opera at the
4 National and Miss Charlotte
Walker and her associates at the
Bellsoo are in their closing days Mari
1aua and III Troyatore" will be the fare
well operas Of the Aborn companies. and
'Srous.D Kate" ard The Marriage of Kit
ty' of Miss Walker.
With the opening of the box office tomor-
how for the advance sale OF seats for the
August 10 opening. Chase's VIII await
the inspection Of its legion OF loyal follow
ers IN the confident anticipation that un-
sl.lt.I admiration will be its tribute. To
bring about the gratifying state and to
make radical departure from the artistic
schemes of seasons ago, Mr.. Chase dis
patched his chief OF tine stage and scenic
department. MIR Geo. r Thompson. to the
larger American cities to Investigate the
latest works of art painters anc decorators
as rA"mpIded in the magnificent private
and public buildings erected recently.
Ia The famous Wa,dorf-Astoria in New
York city Mr. Thompson discovered the
decorative color scheme that appealed to
him as best adapted TO the structural form
OF Chase's classic interior He quickly
transferred to note book the entire scheme
or blending OF colors and ornamentaton.
The principal work by Mr. Thompson and
his score of assistants was In the main
lobby and the magnificent drawing room
OF the theater. Here the walls CLINT with
the fashionable shade of green, punctured by
classic medallions and festoons freely shad-
ed In gold. The ceiling is tinted with green,
ivory and gold. interrupted by colored bands
aud panels heavily bordered by gold, with
occasional stained glass ovals letting a
soft cathedral light filter through the red
diamond panes. The effect obtained by
this adherence TO modern convention in
abe matter OF the blending OF green and
Evening star., 1907-08-11
The LYceum,

That the Innocent Maids is one Of the
best and most popular burlesaue or
ganizations that visits the New Lyceum
Theater will be amply proven when that
company opens Its engagement this week,
commencing tomorrow matinee. The
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zation of players. patrons OF the Majestic
may expect the very best of stock produc-
tionS.
Evening star., 1907-08-11

Eleanor Robson will appear during the
coming season in "Salomy Jane" with
probable occasional appearances OF Merely
Mary Ann
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James O'Neill OF "Virginus'' is to be both
historically accurate and pictorialy beau
tlful.
Evening star., 1907-08-11

male role with Amelia Bingham In THE
Modern Lady Godiva." and later will star
in Shakespearean characters
Evening star., 1907-08-11

Gilbert Parker's Right of Way" is to be
produced in this country in September and
later on In London. Here Guy Standing
will play the principal role.
Evening star., 1907-08-11

Frank Gheen, who was in the support OF
Robert Edeson in 'Strongheart," Is to play
the title role in David Corson."
Evening star., 1907-08-11

Olga Nethersole is spending the last part
of her vacation in Scotland. She will re-
turn to the United States late this month
Evening star., 1907-08-11

season in the musical version of The
Galloper." which version Is called "A
Yankee Tourist"
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Robert Warwick, who was leading man
with Mary Mannering last season, will be
in Virginia Harned's company.
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Weekend Trips, Steamer St. Johns
SATURDAY. 5:45 PM SUNDAY, s:43 AN.
HOME AGAIN 1890 Pm. SUNDAY
Evening star., 1907-08-11

r F. Graham has been engaged for the
nr,ncipal comedy role in Savage's produc-
ton of THE Merry Widow"
Evening star., 1907-08-11

A street railway company in a Pennsyl-
vania town has decided to back a theatri-
cal company. which is an innovation in
the angel line.
Evening star., 1907-08-11

Jo,e Fuller has been writing one-aot
plays. two of which are japanese. and
third ia called The Holland Dame"
Evening star., 1907-08-11

IE SUMMER stock companies
seem to be prospertng in this city,
although both the opera at the
4 National and Miss Charlotte
,,-.r,-.,- - t.r asso.-;,+as o. tho
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-01-15
ENGLISH WALNUTS IN WESTERN
WASHINGTON.
(By Capt. G. N. Hogan.)

A great many people, when the sub
ject of English walnuts is brought up,
associate it with semi-tropical fruits
This is an error as the walnut does
it's best under conditions much too
cold for such fruits as the orange,
lemon, banana, fig, olive and others,
but the climate should not be so cold
as to go below zero. 1t is possible
that some varieties may withstand
even a few degrees below zero, but
continued cold will be disastrous. AS
the climate in the western part OF our
state seldom goes as low as zero, 1t
has led some of the progressive or
chardists to experiment with walnuts,
and every instance has met with sue
cess. Often it is very early bearer,
as some varieties produce nuts in
five or six years
| am convinced that it need not
be confined to rich river bottom soil,
as I have seen trees on the high up
lands bearing nuts when six years
old. and | was told that the same
trees had produced nuts the previous
year. This was a very high ridge, but
on the deep fern land of the nature
cf shot clay. | have in my yard trees,
four years old from the nuts, that
last spring and summer bore nuts,
but they did not mature.
In Cowlitz county Walnuts bear ear
ly and mature; Clarke county has a
number Of trees in bearing, and the
same is true of Lewis county, and |
am convinced that it will prosper in
all the counties around the Sound, as
| have seen some very fine nuts said
to have been raised in Whatcom coun-
ty.
In Regard to Varieties.
In regard to varieties, the Mayette
and Franquette have proven to be
very desirable, as the nuts are very
large and very handsome and mature
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-01-15
Great Truths on Agriculture.
.4+00xy
CT. F. LittOOy. J

We need better butter, we need bet
ter berries, we need better apples, we
need better vegetables. Not only do
we need them better, but we need
more of them if they are good.
Thousands of dollars worth of as
paragus and tomatoes are shipped an
nually into SnohOmish county alone,
and we could raise both here better
than the truck we receive, especially
the former.
Farming cannot be learned in day,
and because of ineXperience the first
move is generally bad one, since the
limited capital for investment is in
volved.
Our market will not be supplied I'M
til farmers learn and know and carry
out the principles of intensive culture.
They must learn this because luck, ia
vorable and wasteful conditions are
things of the past.
The business men of a community
the commercial bodies, the financial
institutions, the press and the social
and civic conditions are all affected
by the success or failure of the agri-
cultural interests.
The farmer must learn intensive
principles, because of the cost of get.
ting land in proper condition to per-
manently work along intensive lines.
He must learn that to be successful
in this his efforts must be confined
to a small are nd the work planned
so that little, if any, help is needed
and that his hours be not any longer
than for other occupations.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-01-15

in time to escape the fall rains. They
been asked. where can we get the
trees?" This has been a problem to
a great many who desire to plant
groves. The grated trees are so high
priced that they are out of the reach
of most people, but by planting nuts
from grated trees they have proven
to be equally as good as the grated
| would advise those intending to
plant to get the nuts from trees that
are grown here, as experience has
taught us that trees from nuts grown
here will produce earlier than trees
raised from imported nuts. The rea-
son for this l will not attempt to eX-
plain, but it is nevertheless a fact.
| have often been asked if there is
any insect, pest or fungus that will
cause injury or destruction to the
trees or nuts. So far have not found
anything detrimental to nuts or trees,
but it is more than possible that we,
in the future, may be troubled by in
sect enemies as we'll as by fungus.
No fruit that l know is immune. At
some time in it's history an enemy will
appear, but that will be blessing to
wide-awake orchardists, for the
thrifty man reaps the reward of his
labors. l believe this holds good in
every branch of horticulture as well
as in every branch of industry.
Is Profitable Crop.
The financial results from the plant
ing of walnuts may be surprising to
those who will venture into the indus
try. A tree last summer produced
gallon of nuts, or to be exact, ten
pound lard pail more than full the
year before it had about two dozen
nuts. The nut that produced the
tree was planted six years ago last
spring. About fifty trees to the acre
should be planted trees to be about
forty feet apart. At ten years OF
age, if they produce fifty pounds OF
nuts to the tree, which | consider
conservative estimate, at 10 cents per
pound (they are now Is cents at
wholesale) amounts to $4,000 per
acre. and every year adds to the prof.
it's as the yield increases. | am in
formed by persons whose veraclty
have no reason to question, that near
Vancouver, Carlke county, there are
trees about twenty years old that this
year will produce 400 pounds of nuts
per tree.
The cost of harvesting does not COM
pare with apples, as the nuts when
ripe fall to the ground and can be
picked up by children as well as, and
perhaps better than by older persons.
Perfect cultivation should be given
at all times, and suitable building
should be provided for storing where
fire is kept, in order to season the
nuts l wish to be put on record when
saying that in the future western
Washington will be one of the greatest
nut producing countries of the world
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-01-15

ton: Summer-Yellow Transparent;
fall-Duchess of Oldenburg; early
winter-King and Mignonne; late win
er-Spitzenburg. Wagner, R. l.
Greening. | read the list of fruit
recommended by Mr.. Littooy That
list would almost brighten a man; it
is too long. At the Portland fair
Whatcom county exhibited about 112
varieties of apples. And | know of
several varieties grown here that
were not exhibited. This great num-
Der of varieties is the hardest thing
our fruit growers association has to
contend with. We find it difficult
to get a car lot of fancy shipping ap-
pies of one kind at one place. We
are telling our fruit growers at every
opportunity to plant only few of
the best varieties that have been tried
and are found good. If person will
plant an orchard of the list | have
given he can have apples from July
till June next year. Four or five
years | kept apples all winter and
up till the new crop was large enough
to use, but when the berry season
comes on apples are but little value
except for sale on fruit stands. l am
talking from fifteen years of expert
ence and not from what | have read
in nursery catalogues. My advice to
Whatcom county planters is to plant
the list | have named, then if you
want to try a tree or two of each of
the other varieties you will be all
right The Gravenstein, for some rea-
son unknown here, will give crop
only once in four or five years. My
neighbor has six or eight acres Of
Gravensteins and has had about two
crops in fifteen years. The Spy will
not do much till it is twelve years old.
1t is hard to beat when it gets to
bearing. You can make it bear
little earlier. The English Russell
in quality is almost as good as a
pumpkin. The Golden Russell is one
of the finest favored and latest keep
ing apples we have, but the color
and small size make it Of little mar
ket value. The Wealthy is a very
pretty red apple, but is of poor quail
ity. 1t will stand rough usage before
rotting One or two trees each Of the
following varieties for home use can
be recommended: Snow, Grimes
Golden, Golden Russell, Mother, Spy,
Jonathan and HubarStOn'S.
X *
In our next issue | have promised
to take up the question OF spraying.
The season for spraying for the San
Jose scale will soon be upon us, March
is the best month for the spraying for
this pest. Get everything in readiness.
Now is a good time to study the ques.
tons that must be met in spraying
during the coming spring and summer.
kIIITC MECTE 2 NJ
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-01-15

Don't Forget that we handle large
quantities of Peaches, Plums, Apricots,
Apples and Pears Send us a trial ship
ment Send for Stencil. We want only
first class pack and shippers. A. ID.
Blowers & Co., Seattle, Wash.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-01-15
DR.. THOMPSON'S
KoIa Tablets for Men

Make life worth living. Will make you
a new man. Strong and we'll The
greatest nerve stimulant known. Send
S5c for small box, or 81 for 8 boxes. to
last a month, to Closson & Kelly Drug
gists, Seattle, Wash.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-01-15

In regard to varieties, the Mayette
and Franquette have proven to be
very desirable, as the nuts are very
large and very handsome and mature
The Tupelo journal., 1907-02-08
Started Lincoln Boom.

When / was editor of a weekly pa
per in Illinois in the fifties, writes
William o. Stoddard in Success, l felt
a great interest in a Springfield law
YER and ex--congressman named Abra-
ham Lincoln.
Everybody was talking about the
coming nomination for the presidency,
and one day / dashed off a little edi-
torial suggesting that Mr.. Lincoln had
had experience at Washington as a
representative, was able and fearless,
and would be a good man to lead tie
nation in the crisis that We all could
see impending. On reading what ]
had written, before giving it to the
printer, / felt that the idea was such
a good one as to be worth circulating
beyond the confines of the rather lin
tied clientele of my own paper. / had
ESQ proofs pulled, n of which ! sent
to each of the papers in Illinois. Many
of them printed it when / did, and thus
we started the presidential boom Of
Mr.. Lincoln.
During the campaign I supported
him with all the strength Of my per
and tongue, but had received no recog
milton from him. and when ! dropped
The Tupelo journal., 1907-02-08
POTENT LIQUOR is SAKE.
Lafcadlo Hearn's Testimony ~ 70
Strength Of Japanese Wine.

There is no liquor in the world upon
which a man becomes SO quickly In
toxicated as Japanese sake (rice
wine), and yet none of which the Ell
fects last so short a time. The In
~toxication is pleasant as the effect OF
opium or hasheesh. 1t is soft, pleas
ant, luminous exhilaration. everything
becoming brighter, happier. lighter;
then you get very sleepy.
At Japanese dinners it is tSe rule to
become slightly exhilarated, but not to
drink enough to talk thickly or walk
crooked. The ability to drink at ban
quets requires practice-long practice.
There are banquets of many kinds,
and the man who is invited to n at
which extensive drinking may be e
pected Is careful to start in upon an
empty or almost empty stomach. By
not eating one can drink a good deal.
The cups are very small and of many
curious shapes. One may be expected
to empty SO. A quart of sake is a good
deal; two quarts require iron nerves
to stand. But among the Japanese
there are wonderful drinkers. At a
military officers banquet a captain
offered me a tumbler holding a good
pint of sake. l almost tainted at the
sight of it, for it was only the first.
But a friend said to me: only drink
a little and pass it back" which did.
Stronger heads emptied cup after cup
like water.-Letters of Lafcadio
| Hearu.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-02-08
Two Pages Of D r. Taft's Diary.

writes, Friday evening, April IA, with
my wife; arrived at the theatre about
eight p. m. The president and party
arrived about $50 p. m. Saw him
take a sea- with his back immediate
" opposite the entrance door OF the
box. and facing the stage; could not
see the president after he was seat
ed. owing to a division in the front
of the box extending from the lower
rail to the top; people could see his
left profile from the opposite side of
the dress circle from his box. / occu-
pied a seat in an orchestra chair in
section C, No. IT'S, about three rows
hack from the orchestra railing, and
somewhat to the left of the center of
the stage. l could see Mrs. Lincoln
in one corner of the box and another
lady, whom / subsequently learned
was Miss Clara Harris, in the opposite
corner nearest the stage. From the
relative position when / saw him seat
himself, he must have been sitting
between the two ladies and just be-
hind the division of the box, which in
%tercepted the view of his face from
my seat.
cat about 1920 p. m. my attention
was directed toward the presidents
box by the report of a pistol, and !
saw a man drop from the state box,
The Tupelo journal., 1907-02-08
SaU the AssassinaIc n
of President Lincoln
Diary of Dr.. Charles S. Taft, recently Discovered IN
New York, Is a Remarkabe So,0enir OF the
Great Tragedy of April n, 1865.

shouting as he did so, Sic semper
tyrannis!' AS he struck the stage he
partly fell, sinking down until his
knees nearly touched the floor; he
sprang to an erect posture in an in
slant, b~randished a large knife which
he held in his right hand for about the
space of three seconds, then darted
across the stage with the knife held
above his head and disappeared. A
few moments of great confusion then
followed, many persons jumping upon
the stage and some passing out in the
direction the man who had leaped
from the state box had taken.
Il was endeavoring to pacify my
wife, who wished to ieave the place,
when | heard several shouts for a sur
geon; this was the first intimation I
had that any one had been wounded.
| sprang upon the stage calling out
that | was a surgeon, when l was
seized by several men and lifted up
to the state box. When | entered the
president was lying upon the floor sur
rounded by a number of men, who
we're about lifting him to remove him.
Some were advising his removal
home; this measure l opposed, stat
ing that l was al army surgeon and
wished him to be removed to the
nearest house.
"As we passed down the stairs j
inquired if there was any other sur
geon present, and a gentleman who
was near me, supporting the head,
The Tupelo journal., 1907-02-08
MAY BE COFFEE
That Causes all the Trouble.

When the house is afire, it's like a
body when disease begins to show, it's
no time to talk but time to act-delay
is dangerous-remove the cause of the
trouble at once.
For a number Of years." says a
Kansas lady, Il felt sure that coffee
was hurting me, and yet, l was so fond
of it, 1 could not give it up. ! paltered
with my appetite and of course yield
ed to the temptation to drink more.
At last l got so bad that I made up my
mind / must either quit the use of cof-
fee or die.
Everything ! ate distressed me, and
I suffered severely almost all the time
with ~palpitation Of the heart. / fire.
uuently woke up in the night with the
feeling that / was almost gone,-my
heart seemed SO smothered and weak
in its action that l feared 1t would stop
beating. My breath grew short and
the least exertion set me to painting. I
slept but little and suffered from rheu-
matism.
Two years ago 1 stopped using the
old kind of coffee and began to use
Postum Food Coffee. and from the
very first i began to improve. It
worked a miracle! Now / al eat any
thing and digest 1t without trouble. l
sleep like q baby. and my heart beats
full. strong and easily. My breathing
has become steady and normal, and
nv rheumatism has left me. / feel
like another person, and it Is all due
to quitting coffee and using Postum
Food Gomez, for l haven't used any
medicine and nome would have done
any good as long as ! kept drugging
with coffee" Name given by Postum
Co.. Battle Creek, Mich. There's q
Reason" Read the little book, The
Road to MELVILLE" In pkgs. All
tgrocerS.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-02-08
PROFESSOR HAD LAST LAUGH.
Final Erasure Neatly Turned Joke on
Students.

President Hadley, of Yale, was talk
ing about his student days. Il remem-
Der a stately and venerable professor"
he said, upon whom some sophomores
once tried to play a trick.
1.-The professor, one morning, being
unable to attend to his class on ac-
count Of a cold, wrote on the black
board:
CDR. Dash, through indisposition, is
unable to attend to his classes to-day
'"The students erased one letter in
this notice, making it read:
"Dr. Dash, through i~ndisposition, Is
unable to attend to his lasses to-day.
But 1t happened a few minutes later
that the professor returned for a box
he had forgotten. Amid a roar OF
laughter he detected the change in his
notice, and, approaching the black
board calmly erased one letter in his
turn.
Now the notice read:
CDR. Dash, through in~disposition, is
unable to attend to his asses to-day
The Tupelo journal., 1907-02-08

A remarkable souvenir of the assas-
sination of Abraham Lincoln recently
came to light in New York. 1t is the
pocket diary of DR.. Charles S. Taft,
who formerly resided at No. 273 West
Twenty-second street. In his time
DR.. Taft was an eminent physician
and attended many notables, among
them Governor o. p. Morton of Indi-
ana. But no experience in his life
equaled the one he records in his note
book.
He was present at Ford's Theatre
that fatal night and witnessed all OF
the tragedy which ended in the death
of Lincoln. He was one of the first
physicians to reach the wounded pres
fdent's side, was present at his death,
and helped to perform the autopsy.
DR.. Taft begins his memoranda OF
the great tragedy in these words:
Notes of the circumstances attend
ing the assassination of Abraham Lin
coin, president of the United States,
on the evening of April ID, 1865, as
witnessed by me; also the medical
notes of my attendance on the presi-
dent up to the time of his death and
of the post-mortem examination five
hours after death.
The notes were writtena April Is,
1865, at the earliest possible moment
after my attendance upon the presi-
dent and the post-mortem examina-
ton"
ATTENDED Ford's Theatre" he