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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-19
Wilbur Memorial M, e.

Wilbur Memorial Methodist EpiscO-
pal church. Robert j. Reid, SAL Newell
street, pastor. Sunday school at 9:45
a. m. Glass meeting at II m. Ep-
worth League at $50 p. NJ. Preaching
at IL a. m. and 1880 p. m. Subject
morning sermon. "Certainties." Pray
er meeting Thursday evening at 1880
p. m. A cordial invitation to all.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-19
The RIGHT ;Jame.

Mr.. August Snerpe. the popular over
seer of the poor, at Fort Madison, Ia,
says: 'Dr. Kings New Life Pills are
rightly named; they act more agree
ably, do more good and make one feel
better than any other laxative" Guar
anteed to cure biliousness and consti-
patton. Csc at E. L. Smal1ey's drug
store,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-19
Sunday at The Churches

: trict, both morning and evening
Prayer meeting at the church Thurs
day evening at 1880 p. m.
| The public Is cordially invited
Strangers will receive a cordial well
come
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-19
First Methodist Episcopal.

First Methodist Episcopal church.
VIM. E. Thompson, pastor. Sunday
school 9:45 a. m. Glass meeting at
12:15 p. m. Bible study Tuesday at
1880 p. m. Epworth League at 80
p. m. Preaching at II a. m. and 1870
p. m. Sermons by Rev. Gabriel Sykes,
presiding elder of Walla Walla dis
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-19
The BEST MAY.

Providing you want good shave |
or hair cut, ETC., call at the Antiseptic
Barber Shop on Alder st. 32l
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-19
Unimportant

Unimportant.
Gus-WhO did Reggie marry?
Cholly-Five thousand a year. for
got her other name.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-08-29
GENERAL CAMPAIGN
Suggested that Real War be Made on
the Land-Lubber Rats.

In connection with the fumigation OF
vessels to kill the rats as precaution
against the bubonic plague DR.. John +.
Holt, of the Public Health and Marine
Service of the United States, has suggest
ed that general crusade against rats be
made not only in this city but In all
seaport towns. He states that rats are
especially malignant in spreading all
diseases and that Astoria is particularly
infested with them. The only other
city to realize this on the coast is
Seattle and recently the public spirited
men arranged for rat killing day and
all the brokers and business men along
che waterfront got out and worked like
iends to rid the city and docks of rats.
Just what method would be used in
getting rid of these animals is not stat
ed but these are means of killing them.
The cats in Astoria are not very sporty
AS there is enough for them to eat
without hunting for a rat. But if there
was some good breed of hunting cat
introduced or if all the felines were
starved and the rat terriers were given
a commission the rodents would soon
have to seek other territory.
In speaking of the local situation in
regard to the recent orders regarding
vessels to be inspected and fumigated
DR.. Holt said: Everything is progress
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-08-29
FINDS THE BRAcELET.
Little Jack Lum Gets the Reward For
Having Bright Eyes.

A lady who lost bracelet about q
week AGO and advertised in the paper
received her lost property yesterday
when il was turned over to this office
by Jack Lum, one OF the bright chill
dren OF Mr., and Mrs, Lum, of China
town.
Jack is a small boy but speaks good
English with as many slang words as
the average American boy, When asked
what he was going TO do with the re-
ward money jackson replied:
"oh. | spend him all right"
He was asked when he would spend
il and this was his answer:
II ketehum good time at Regatta with
it. | spend, sure Mike,s
He had friend along with him who
was there to see that the money was
spent properly and judicious purchases
made. Both lads departed in high glce
with the money which came to them
almost out Of the clear sky.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-08-29
CHANGES IN WISE BLOCK.


Herman Wise, our popular mayor and
business man, announces that the por'
tion of his block now occupied by the
Western Union, 535 Commercial street
will be taken on October l by B. j.
Sloop, who will move his l0-cent no
tion store to this place. By that time
the Western Union will have moved
into its new quarters on Twelfth
street.
The other section of the building own
ed by Mr.. Wise and which is at the pres
ent time the home of the Nickelodeon
Theater will be occupied by Jalofi
Bros, dry goods store on September
or shortly after.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-08-29
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NJ. f. Macauley and husband to
Elizabeth c, Lewis, lots and 4
block l, Pine Grove. ve..,,.,h.....,.,,$ $500
Wm. Silfar to c. A. Maulding, lot
TO- block I, Bradbury's.. S5(
U. S. to Emma Everett, SE l-2
Of NE Ia sec So, I ) N, R 10 w,
so acres, patent. ............
U. s. to Ray E. Watts, Sc Ia
OF see "a. T.5 N, r 10 w. 100
acres; patent ................
Ray L. Watts to G. W. Earle. Sc
IA sec "a, 7 n, r 10 w, 100
Frank Melvin and wife to w. N.
Jones, f. IL OF SW Ia and SW Ia
of the SW la sec 0, 7 5 n, ROW;
l20 acres ........,,....,..s. |
Frank Melvin and wife to w. N.
Jones, n l.2 OF NV Ia OF sec 2,
I s n, R9 W; las acres. ....,..,.. |
August Jacobson and husband to
R. NJ. Woodin, lot 10. block 8, AL
derorook ...,..,.,......... loVo
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-08-29
MORTGAGE IS FoREcLoSED.

Judge Gantenbein yesterday ruled
judgment and foreclosure OF mortgage
given BY the Eastern Candy Works for
$500 in favor Of P. G. P. Attias, The
mortgage was executed to secure loan
falling due in june and which remains
unpaid. The property covered by the
mortgage is located at $40 and 400 Wash.
ington street, Portland, and at Astoria
and Seaside.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-08-29

says c. g. Hays, a prominent business
man Of Bluff, Mo, that Bucklen's Arnim
Salve 10 the quickest and surest healing
salve ever applied to . sore. burn on
wound, or to case Of piles. I've used
it and know what Pm talking about.
Charles Rogers. druggist, 25c.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-08-29

sing smoothly and the officers fumi-
eating vessels as fast as possible. We
are treating the vessels and saving as
much time to their captains and owners
as possible and that will be our con-
stant care. The detail of the plan Is
working to perfection"
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-08-29

~ Morning Astorian, 90 cents pes
month. delivered BY carrier.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-09
HATPIN AS AN ICEPlck.

From the Philadelphia. Record.
 Lady, lend me your hatpin, please" said burly iceman to a resident of West Philadelphia: "me partners gone up the alley with me ax." Accordingly the lady lent him her hatpin and then watched developments. The iceman stepped to the back of his wagon and, prodding a great cake of ice with this slender article of feminine apparel, soon severed a piece of ice of the desired size. As he delivered the ice he thanked the lady, remarking as he did so that he usually carried . hatpin himself, but thought his wife must have worn it the day before and forgotten to return it. The circumstance seems odd but inquirey disclosed the fact that trained nurses are given to using even ordinary pins in breaking off bits of ice to administer to fevered patients, and tHat a larger pin, such as a hatpin. is e.icient (and far less noisy) than the usual ice pick the latter article beipg tabooed in the sick room.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-09
In the Canebrake

President Roosevelt has exchanged the tones of the man with something up his sleeve for the bobcats vail and the wild goose's honk-honk as it fies southward with an eye to tem- perature only. No one will say his present surrounding is not preferable, for neither the bobcat nor the wild goose, not even the black or brown bear of Louisiana, is half so much to be dreaded as the scheming politician, The President hears this week the call of the wild instad of the call of the financial or political masnate whose eyes are glued on 1908.
 Let no one say the President has not chosen the best possible retreat in the 'Tensas canebrake, for he has. It is not only he best retreat in that canebrake, but 1t is probably the only one on land in which the Pres ident can stay isolated 16 days. He is among alligators, porcupines and what-not, including bear or two, If the bear scouts can find them. The fear is that there are more bear scouts than bears in the Tensas swamps.
 But whether or nc the President bags. so to speak, bear, he has wholly escaped the gents in high hats and the entire crowd that flock about the seat of power. The bayou is bet ter than the avenue to the President, ard the chances arc that he will en- joy every hour of his stay in the canebrake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-09
southern Por.s Barred Out

Attorney General Bonaparte lives in Maryland which is eongested state -a state that is say that has, more immigrants than it desires. It wants few if any more, at any rate, and when Louisiana submitted its case to him it is a question whether il selected an impartial umpire.
 Louisiana, it appears, induced Geron- imo Garcia to leave Cuba for the pnr- pose of finding new home in this country. Louisiana paid his fare to New Orleans and she agreed to get him place as a farm laborer As a matter of fact she left him free to get a place, but the state board Of immigration did pay his fare, he agree ing to return the money as soon as he had earned it.
 Attorney General Bonaparte holds that the state does not under the new immigration law differ from an individual no matter what the law says. He holds that a state has no right to pay the passage of an immi- grant, and that ii has no right to make specific promises of employment to individual immigrants. In short, he holds that state has no practical ground left to stand on when it tries to induce immigrants to come directly to the south
 The decision of the Attorney General Is not final, and Louisiana proposes to test the matter in the courts. In the end she will doubtless ascertain that the new immigration bill passed by the last Congress is gold brick so far as the south is concerned. It was devised to defeat southern aspira- tions, and 1t will be found to be equal to the task Congress can cure it, but not the courts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-09
POPULAR WITH DOGS.

From the Cleveland Plain, Dealer
 Every once in a while I hear some body telling about the man that has such winning way about him that even the dogs on the street make up with him and follow him said the man with the quiet droop to his mustach Ut all sounds great to be such a win ming lad as all that" he said. but for my part I can't see it. for I'm the man. Yes, I'm the man that the dogs fol- low. And wish they would keep away.
 Ever since I was kid have had sort of liking for little dogs. and I never pass a dog that I don't sort of snap my fingers at him. Then the dog no matter how uncouth or how pedi- greed he Is. will make up with me. Now as l say. l like dogs. and if the thing ended with two or three hungry looking ones following me home, | wouldn't object. But it's got so that every one out our way-I live out In the East End-thinks I steal dogs. Some neigh hor will miss a dog and immediately chase over to my house. and maybe find the brute lettering about tn ere Then the man jumps on me for enticing his dog away from home. I had three or four cases like that last week and I'm getting tired of this loved -by-dogs proposition.
 "The next time I see n dog prepar- ing to press his cold. moist nose against my hand I'm going to shy a brick at him"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-09
AN OPERA BOX.

From the New York Times
 We suppose that the social signif- ieance of MT. Henry c. Tricks pur- chase of Box No. 19 in the parterre of the Metropolitan opera house will not be overlooked. Higher social dis tinction is possible in New York, per haps, but 1t is rare. The exact price paid by Mr. Prick for the Barbey box has not been revealed, but 1t Is said to be more than $1O0,000. This is a large advance on all previous quota tions."
 Only a few years ago s30,000 was considered a fair price for a parterre box, though few were ever obtaina ble at that price, Those were the days, too, of many assessments on stock holders, when nobody expected grand opera to pay it's own expenses. Mir. Conried has put the Metropolitan opera house on d paying basis. Mir Haggin is reported to have paid sSO,00o for the late Heber R. Bishops box five years ago. The increa sed price may be indicative of good business pros poets or of an augmentation of the social honor that accrues to a parterre boxh older.
 It Is not incumbent on a box owner, however to personally occupy his box oftener than one subscription night week. In season of twenty weeks this provides enough grand opera in one winter to satisfy all social require ments and purely aesthetic yearnings. It is not only permissible, therefore, but really gracious to sublet the box for the other subscription perform ances. and thus enable folks in so- ciety who do not own boxes to get their names in the list of box occupants. Thus, at ruling opera prices par terre box may be a good pecuniary in vestment as long as the conditions es- tablished under the Conried manage ment prevail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-09

 From the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
 @ HAT delight and "comfortab ble- \0 ness" in literature is found In
 long and leisurey books put never in short stories is urged by a clever writer in the outlook. She had just fin- ished reading a magazine story, 1t seems' which was 'condensed, vivid, crushing u whole life tragedy into seven pages anu a half" lhe story introduced sixteen characters, all clearly drawn. 1t was interesting, stimulatirsS- as tour oe force it was noteworthy but It was not the least D't comfortable.
 Of course 1t wasn't. Comfort rom hooks means 'eisnreliness, contemplation ,horoueh acoualntance with the people of the plot. None of these things IS 10 be found in, the magazines. The immense nopiIlarity of short stories is due to one thing only, that they are short. rhey are so exactly the right length for filling In the half hour while we are waiting Tor dinner. We live in an age when people are always hurryng on from one thing 10 another and only the odds and ends or ,nterin,s are to be given to reading. But to that merit of brevity, very much eise that is at least as well worth "nhe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-09

beneficial and even necessary, because they restrain trade just so far as to prevent ruinous and disastrous com petition They are intended to regu- late competition and not to prevent it. There is a clear need today of such an amendment of the Sherman antitrust law as will make 1t possible for reasonable combinations for the regulation of competition to exist un- der the sanction of government au- thority.
 This is all right if there are any good trusts. The Journal does not mention any, and until it does get down to specification it would be bet ter to let the bin stand unchanged It would be well to enforce it freely in order to make up for 12 years in which it stood a dead letter on the statute books. All trusts in those years seem to have been considered good trusts, but in these more in- quisitive days there is a disposition 10 consider all trusts harmful and perni- cious.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-09
Cotton Gamblers in New York

Shelton Sims of Mobile describes in the Atlanta Constitution the scenes he witnessed in the New York cotton exchange. From his pen flows a deal of truth touched up with a constant play of satire. He says that even an honest cotton exchange in New York would be about as rational proposi- tion as would be a pineapple exchange in the Klondyke. New York has never had an honest exchange. and MT. Sims thinks the one it has has done the south more financial hurt in the past 20 years than have the boil weevil, the cotton worm, the boil worm. and all the other natural enemies of the cotton plant.
 MT Sims naturally asks how long must the cotton growers toll and sweat to support in luxury the use
 and hurtful aggregation of samb-
 s in New York? It goes with
 saying that the prices of cotton
 ould be made amid the cotton fields
 stead of thousand miles away.
 1t the cotton growers have had no more to do with, the regulation of cotton prices than have the inha bi- tants of the moon. and they never will have until organized and co-opera- tion became the custom, the habit. the watchword of all producers them selves. When they are well organized
 ? first steps have been taken-and
 len they are willing to cooperate
 the common good in the time of
 irketing cotton and in the naming
 it's price, then and not until then,
 II the gamblers in New York cease 10 put cotton up or down to suit their own schemes and those of east ern spinners. New York has ceased 10 handle spot cotton in any consider able quantities. Deliveries under it's rules are few and far between, and thy are not bit angelic They are in fact unspinnable. But it still handles contracts and by pushing them up and down it makes the price of cotton at the farm This should not be. New York should be driven out of the cotton business altogether, and the way to do it consists in organiza- ton and cooperation in every one of the 500 odd cotton counties in the country. The Farmers union and the Southern Cotton Growers association are blazing the correct way to con summation devoutly to be wished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-09
lohn Sherman's Antitrust Bill

Seventeen years ago Congress by virtue of it's power to regulate com merce among the states passed the antitrust bill and the very first sec ton of it declares it's object as fol lows Every contract or combination fin form of a trust, or otherwise, or conspiracy fin restrain, of trade or commerce among the several states, pr with foreign nations is hereby de- cared to be illegal" Not long after the passage of the bill Senator Sher- man wrote a book of personal recol- lections, and in that book he de- clared that combina tions had been or eanized to prevent competition and to advance prices and profits, and he hoped the courts would deal with such combinations so as to prevent and destroy them.
 Neither the courts, nor any admins tration moved hand to prevent, much less to destroy. trust during the first 12 years of the life of the anti trust law, but about five years ago efforts were begun to enforce the law, and those efforts have been kept mp ever since, much to the satisfac- ton of the general public, made up in good part of feeced consumers. The Standard Oil was fined under the terms of the Elldns bill, but the pro- ceedings in New York against that combine are conducted under The Sher- man law.
 ''1be law as ii stands says the Wall Street Journal. strikes at all combinations that are in restraint of trade. Now it is clearly understood today that there are combinations in restraint of trade which are absolutely
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-09
HOMER DAVENPORT'S ARAB

the same breed into Spain; Cortez and his associates in conquest carried tho Spanish descendants of the Moorish horses into horseless America. From these so-called Spanish horses came that so- scalIed native breed which spread through out North America. and which in differ ent districts is called by different names. The line of descent is long but it is straight.
 The native horse of California, after three and a half centuries of in-breednS and il-usage at the hands of Spanish and Indian masters. retained qualities clearly marking him as Arab. Reduced in size by harsh conditions, he nevertheless retained the form and the colors com- mon to his ancestry. with the same extra ordinary capabillty for endurance at speed. If his temper had been spoiled by hard treatment and scanty living, the fact that he had any temper left was mark of his descent. He had. too, the paces typically Arabian, the delightful canter. the alert and springy walk. with truly aristocratc indisposition to the work-a- day trot His feats of endurance, as pioneer records bear witness, were mar- velous. That we should practically have lost a breed of horses so splendidly cap- able and so honorably associated with oup pioneer life, is truly pity.
 It is much to wished that some horse enthusiast with money to spend. would undertake, by selection, careful breeding and the Infusion of new Arab blood, to restore a race of horses of which at many points we have not seen the equal. Under careful and systematic breeding of the native horse with the imported Arab, we should unfalingly get a beast which, for the uses of the saddle at least, could not possibly be surpa ssed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-09
The AIleahanies.

You southern people who boast of your scenery (and you have a right to do sol, ought to see the other end of the Aheghany mountain range, at this season of the year" said Alexander King of Summerset, Pa, who is stopping at the Metropolitan.
 Just now the frost has fallen, the forests are in color, the grasses and the winter wheat give a green verdue and the sight is natural picture beyond de- scrption by any thought or any pen than that of a poet.
 And do you know asked MT King, that we grow rich in that region on grasses? Hay is our principal crop, and the farmers make from $50 to s75 per acre with timothy. That is our staple product and you southerners buy it every year, and do not seem to know that right here in Alabama you can produce grasses of equal value. with freight deducted. What a splendid opportunity Alabama does pos sess."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-09
ABOUT SHORT STORIES

must be sacrificed. There is charm, for instance, which hardly ever comes except from discursiveness. from having plenty of time It is not mere chance that the permanent and most beloved fiction is al- most without exception long. Whose favorite book is a volume of short stories?
 Short stories are to be admired, not loved The doing of them well is task for the master. Nothing in fiction is so hard to do exeellently. The killing point about writing, the craftsmen tell Us, Is to know, not what to put in, but what to leave out. And in a short story you must leave out nearly everything The best short stories, ordinarily, are mar vels of condensation. There Is not an unnecessary phrase, rot a super1uous word. It is astounding how much has been compressed into little space-"a whole life tragedy in seven pages and d half" The art, the technique are highly laudable. And it is that impression. rather than liking for the people and things we have been reading about that many of us are apt to carry away with
 The Maupassants of literature get their full admiration from the connoisseurs. but 1t is the Thackerays that win close places in the hearts of all of us.