The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-16

vessel of the type that brought over
the colonists TO Jamestown in 1907 or
the Pilgrims to Plymouth in 1920, will
| peacefully lie upon the placid waters
of Hampton Roads beside the ocean
| greyhounds of today; the pack mule
side the Mogul engine with it's mile
of loaded freight cars the old stage
! coach beside the lightning express
| will make a historic picture. one at
| the beginning and the other at the end
Of stretch of 500 years and odd and
progressive lesson in Illumination will
| be the pine knot, the lard lamp, the
! tailOW dip. the kerosene lamp and
the electric light. arrayed for inspec-
] ton; the mounted messenger under
net work Of telegraph wires or stand
! ing beside a wireless telegraph sta
ton will be suggestive picture.
| There will be the old carding board,
! spinning-wheel and reel or the flax
| break, scutching- board and knife, the
little spinning-wheel with it's distaff.
all huddled in the shadow of the great
mass of machinery carrying a thous-
ands pindles and working with unseen
| fingers SO deity as to be marvel even
in this the beginning of the Goth cen
fury The old hand loom will bear
no semblance to the delicate but pow
erful mechanism that make the fabric
of today The needle and thread and
thimble will look snail and inefficient
indeed, by the side of the sewing ma
chine; the old jig saw beside the flying
band OF steel; the old oyershot wheel,
the undershot wheel, the flutter wheel
Or the turbine are well worn steps
that led TO the mighty but still mys-
terious electrical motor.
For the Farmer.
The agriculturist will look with in
terest upon the successive steps from
the old wooden moulboard to the pres
ent steel pillow; fro mthe old harrow
with wooden teeth to the disc harrow;
from the old bull-tongue. single and
double shovel plO VITO the modern cul-
tivator where the operator sits on a
spring seat with a sunshade over him
and plows or cultivates both sides OF
a row at corn at once; from the sickle
and the grain cradle to the Walter A.
Wood harvester, to the Buckeye drop
per, to the Deering and McCormack
and other self-binderS, to the Marsh
Harvester, to the California Harvest
hot re thy.nchnS o1nanC and sacks
the grain at one operation. He VIII
also be reminded of the marvellous
progress made even within his own
time if he is a man Of mature age, by
looking upon the old fail and chall-
piler beside the fastest and best sep
arators.
Old and young alike will be inter
ested and instructed in comparing
the old goose-qUill or turkey-Cuill pen
that the teacher prepared with much
time and pains. with the Spencerlan
or other steel pens. the gold pens
and fountain pens of today and note
perhaps with sigh that all have, from
an artistic standpoint, degenerateu into
a machine-a marvellous machine. it
is true. but still a machine, the type
writer
For the Printer.
The old student of the art preserve
tive" who could throw up his 10 or
Is thousand ems in as many hours, !
will turn with q sigh from contemplate
ing the rule and stick to the Mer-
genthaler. and think sadly of the time
when the boy" from the different
alleys" used to gather around the I'M !
posing stones and Jeff" TO rthe last
quarter in the crowd and then go
thirsty till the ghost walked.
The old Washington handpress, the
army press. the old cOuEtr yCamppeH
the old Babcock. Hoe. Potter and Cot
trell look like fossilized pigmies be-
side the modern presses now maze
by some OF these people, that turn on
anywhere from a four page to TWEEN
ty-four page paper printed, pasted. cut
folded, faster than you can count.
But. the comparisons that could De
made are so numerous that it IS I'M
possible to follow them to the END III
an article that is necessarily prescflD-
ed in space. The jamestown Ter
Centennial will embrace all and VIII
be mint in wealth of information
and an International school worthy OF