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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-02-06

less Shields in his later career proved
that he was a brave and able man. In
many respects his career was most re-
markable. He volunteered his services
in the Mexican war and was promoted
rapidly. Both at Cerro Gordo and Cha
pultepec he was severely wounded. For
his bravery at Cerro Gordo he was
brevetted major general. President
Polk then appointed him the first terri
torial governor of Oregon, but Illinois
elected him to the United States senate
in 1S49, where he served a full term of
six years. Then he removed to Mime
sofa, and when that territory became
state he was elected to the United
States senate for the first short term of
two years. Later General Shields set
tied at Carrollton, Mo-, and served two
terms in the state legislature. But for
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN. whose life

n BRAHAM LINCOLN. whose life
~ was never model or dignity
and convention, engaged in two
affairs during his career which
he always wanted to forget. OF his
connection with these events he SEEM
ed to be heartily ashamed. One was
almost a duel, and the other was rev.
olutionary act as legislator.
Lincoln as a Whig served in the Illi-
nois legislature of 1S40-41. There was
a bitter fight against the state banks,
led by the Democrats. The state of af-
fairs was such that the Democrats be-
lieved that an adjournment of the leg
islature sine die would kill the banks
The Wings undertook to prevent this
by absenting themselves and thus re-
ducing the attendance below n quorum
Lincoln and Joseph Gillespie, another
Whig, wers delegated to attend the
sessions ap1 call the yeas and nays.
The sergeant at arms was sent out to
gather in enough Wings to make a
quorum. Lincoln and Gillespie, with
another Wig, then ran to a window
of the church In which the legislature
sat and jumped out.
Gillespie said after Lincoln's death,
81 think Mr.. Lincoln always regret
ted that he entered into that arrange
ment, as he deprecated everything that
savored of tae revolutionary"
But it was what Lincoln in letter to
his close frf,nd Joshua H. Speed called
his ''duel with Shields" that caused
him more regret than any other Incl
dent connected with his public life.
This also was brought about indirectly
because of Lincoln's attitude regarding
state finoDces, though there was
more roma:tic side to it.
In 1912 Encoln was engaged to Mary
Todd. whose particular chum was Ju-
liza Jayne, afterward the wife of Ly-
man Trumbull. James Shields, a young
Irishman, was the state auditor He
was said to be Unfortunately vain" and
to have set himself up as a great beau.
though united by nature for playing
that part. Mary Todd and other Spring
field bellies seemed to take delight in
ridiculing Shields for his social preten-
sions. Miss Todd had some talent as
sarcastic writer. There appeared in
the SangaIaon Journal, a Springfield
newspaper, q series of articles, presum-
ably humorous, in which Shields was
made the butt of ridicuie. The first ar
tice criticised him in Il good natured
ssT.aayy-fer- '. .ayy r-ais- management of state
finances. The succeeding articles held
him up to public ridicule on account of
his social ambitions. Lincoln wrote the
first, and the two girls wrote the other
articles, but when Shields demanded of
the editor rhe name of the author Lin
coin gallantly "stood for" all.
Shields demanded a retraction. Lin
coin considered his letter offensive and
requested him to withdraw the letter
and state his case more mildly. This
Shields refused to do. He challenged
Lincoln to fight him. Lincoln had been
strongly opposed to dueling, but under
the circumstances he felt compelled to
accept the challenge. AS weapons he
named cavalry broadswords of the lar
gest size. A point In Missouri opposite
the town of Alton was designated as
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the place. The two prospective COM
batants and their friends accordingly
met there, broadswords and all, but at
the eleventh hour some mutual friends
intervened, and the affair was settled
with honor and without actual fighting.
1t appears that the friends of Shields
boasted nightly of his fighting PROV
ess and his ferocity. Lincoln said to
William II. Herndon, his law partner,
afterward: 81 did not intend to hurt
Shields unless did so in self defense
If it had been necessary l could have
split him from the crown of his head
to the end of his backbone" Consider
ing the length Of the Lincoln arm as
compared to that of Shields, who was
built otherwise. this does not seem to
have been vain boast.
This "duei" kept popping up for
many years afterward. In 1853 Lin
coin said to Herndon, IF all the good
things l have ever done are remem-
bered as long and well as my scrape
with Shields it is plain l shall not soor
be forgotten"
Mr.. Herndon speaks of Shields with
considerable disparagement. Neyerthe-
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Two Things Of Which
Lincoln Was Ashamed
By ROBERTUS LOVE

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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19

I l consider it one OF the most vicious
patent medicines offered for sale.
! There is a general antelope sentiment
among druggists throughout the coun-
try. Many of the larger cities have or
dinances specifically prohibiting the
sale OF certain narcotics but the CO.
caine fiends nave recourse to these
patent medicines. which contains the
drug. Many of them who cannot buy
cocaine direct for a dollar buy a bot
tie of this catarrh remedy to satisfy
their craving.
"A representative of wholesale
house said to me that the sale of the
catarrh cure to which 1 refer is apall-
ing as showing the wide spreading
evil Of the cocaine habit.
1T is for this reason we contend
the requirement of the law would be
vicious in its operation.
Then, again. We insist that to re-
quire physician to publish on the la
bel of a prescription the contents Of
narcotics might eventually force a
doctor out of business. Take the case
Of an extremely nervous woman, for
instance. Her physician might order
a prescription containing small
quantity of strychnine. Reading it on
the label it might arouse a suspicion
in her highly nervous condition that
the doctor was trying to poison her.
scr suppose in the case of person
suffering with intense pain, the doctor
may order a prescription containing
four grains of morphine. The patient
finds relief, the pain is allayed and he
seeks to study the contents of the Won
derful medicine. There he finds on
the label the quantity of morphine with
the other elements of the formula He
can get this filled at any drug store
and he becomes a user Of the drug
until he becomes a wreck as a NOR
phine fiend.'
What We seek, therefore," contin-
ued Mr.. Jensen, els to eliminate that
feature of the law which requires the
publication of narcotic contents wheth-
err on the package Or on prescriptions.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19

President John Augustus stood at the
door extending hand of welcome
When the stranger got it he held it as
though he owned it until finally they
both withdrew to an outer hall where
they held a whispered conversation.
After the first hymn, President Well
told secondly how all creeds ought to
be cut out. and how nobody ought to
lose his job in hard times because the
stores that laid the men off ought to
be run on the cooperative plan, with a
big meeting hall in every store where
the employees, the brothers rather,
could come around nights and have
earnest discussions; also that when he
got his national church going he was
going to start such department
store; but first he meant to found a
bowling alley for the young people of
his flock to bowl in.
"And now" he said, 1--WE have a
brother here who wants to address
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19
URGES NEGRO SEGREGATION
Evanston Preacher Would Separate
Races and Send Blacks South.

CHICAGO Feb. 19.-The complete
separation of the white and black
races in the United States, the blacks
to be herded in tiers of counties in
the bottoms of the lower Mississippi
valley, was the solution of the negro
problem suggested last night by the
Rev. John H. Boyd, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church, Evanston. speak
ing at the eleventh annual banquet of
the Chicago Credit Mems association.
This separation, he said, is taking
place under our eyes in Evanston and
Chicago, illustrated in the BLACK
belts" and Negro belts and Ozark
town." The black man, as a compe-
titor of the white man, he asserted.
has no future in the United States.
Congressman Duncan E. McKinlay
of California. member of the Taft tour
of tibet orient party, discussed the
trade relations with the orient and
said Japan was the most dangerous
competitor of this country for the east
ern markets and in a decade would
have the absolute supremacy of trade
unless this country changes it's pori-
cies radically.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19

both the city of Chicago and the Unit
ed States government yesterday went
into the business of purifying art and
literature. and hereafter salacious adj
vertisemfents and books not strictly
I'D to the standard of morality will
have a hard time evading the eagle
eve Of the vigilant officials.
Pictures of women inviting prOspec-
tive purchasers to use certain nostrums
or to buy this or that health food
will hereafter have to be clothed and
all the billboards and streetcar signs
will be expurgated so that the most
modest person can take no offense.
Mentors of the law descended on the
office of a "Bitters" company last
night and shamefaced, and with many
bushes. confiscated p packing boxes
filled with pictures of women in a
state of anti-sartorial simplicity and
arrestes w. E. Slaughter president of
the company. The goods seized were
valued at about $4,000.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19
Congressman Use Society Stunt
To Curry Favor
CONSTITUENTS ATTEND RECEPTIONS
AND BEAUTIFUL GOWNS
DAZZLE MANY.

WASHINGTON, d. c., FEB. 10.
There are several senators and men,
bers of the house who understand the
value of invitations to the White House
receptions held every winter, when
those invitations are distributed among
their constituency These little tickets
that admit the holder to the dress pa
rade in the east room, where Wash
ingtOn society is out in force and where
everybody who is anybody can be
found, are valuable perquisites for the
member who wishes to impress his
visiting constituents. When the sup
ply runs short members frequently turn
over their own invitations to those
cards are marked mot transferable, -
and there would be an accounting on
the part of somebody if the deception
was discovered.
However, there is little chance of
detection, as the admission card en-
closed in it's neat little envelope is
scarcely ever opened by the door
keeper; he doesn't have the time. Ad-
mitted into the cloak rooms, the guests
form in line and are shot along the
receiving line past the president at a
double quick pace, and almost before
the presidents purely formal word Of
greeting is heard, the guests have been
pushed on and are almost out of hear
ing.
4 got 16 of these invitations for my
constituents to the army and navy re-
ception." said a New York member of
the house the other day. This men,
for this particular reception is the ia
vorite among Washingtonians. The
gold lace of the army and navy Of
ficers and the glittering regalias and
uniforms of the diplomatic corps make
it a most attractive sight. not to men,
ton the handsome gowns of the wom-
en- INV constituents" continued the
New York member, thought that re-
ception was the greatest thing they
had ever witnessed. They had never
been to one and were thoroughly i'm
pressed with the whole show. 1t ought
to help me some in my next campaign,
for those little bits of pasteboard that
carried them by the doorkeeper has
certainly established my Ntation at
home with the man in the White
House."
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19
New LdW Would Make More
dope HendS' Than at Present

TACOMA, Feb. 19-Members of
the state board of pharmacy are seek
ing to obtain. notifications in the pure
food bill now before the state legis-
lature so far as it relates to prescrip-
tons and packages of drugs.
Secretary Jensen of the state board
of pharmacy returned from Olympia
yesterday. He says the bill had al
ready passed the senate and was under
consideration by the house committee
where the representative of the phar-
macy board first had a hearing on
their position on the bill
1.-The pure food act introduced on be-
half of the grocerymen," said Mr. Gen
sen, sis supposed to have followed the
national pure food law. In order to
make that act operative it provides for
the appointment Of a commission, so
it is in large degree an experiment,
though a worthy one. Some of these
provisions, we learn, were not clearly
understood by the supporters of the
measures here. The druggists are not
fighting the bill as a whole, but there
are some provisions in it which we
consider vicious and we are seeking to
get these modified
I'm presenting our case to the COM
mittee of the house we made no objec-
ton to the general ideas of the meas
ure, but we objected to certain para
graph in section defining what the
term misbranded' shall apply to in the
case Of food or drugs if it fail to bear
a statement on the label of thequantity
or proportion Of any morphine, opium,
cocaine, heroin, alpha, Or beta cucaine,
chloroform, cannabis, indica, choral
hydrate Or acetanilide or any deriva-
tive or preparation of any substance
contained therein.
Will Lead 20 Use of Dope.
Nov, if this were to be done,.' said
Mr. Jensen, I'VE believe it woull lead
more people to become dope fiends.
For instance there is certain prepar-
alton advertised as a catarrh cure It
is stated on the label plainly that it
contains a certain amount of cocaine
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19
WELL, WOULD YOU BELIEVE It?
Seattle Reports Say Carl Hall, Once
Of Whitman, Is to Be Star Of
~" Track Team.

SEATTLE, Feb. 19.-The years
prospects for spring track athletics at
the university are unusually bright.
owing to the wealth of promising ma
terial in the freshmen class With
these, together with those who have
already won their laurels on the
cinder path. Washington should have
as fine a track team as any college on
the coast
In regard to the new men the Pacific
Wave. the college weekly, states in
its last issue: 1.-TWO freshmen, Of
whom much is expected this season
are Carl Hall and Orc Holdman The
coach believes that he can develop
Hall into remarkably fast sprinter
"Holdman enters Washington from
Whitman college, where he made his
track team two years ago. Though
only first-year man he is already
considered the best all-around athlete
in the college and in the first inter-
class meet this year he secured the
highest number of points.
In this meet he won first place In
the high hurdles, the low hurdles,
the broad jump and tied for first in
the high jump. Holdman is also a
good pole vaulter and it is expected
that he will show up we'll in the
spring meets. At present he holds
possibly the best record in the north
west, having vaulted II feet inches
BY careful training Coach Connibear
hopes to develop Holdman into an
athlete capable of holding national
| records. Holdman has large amount
Of endurance and plenty of grit. In
| the inter-class meet he won both of
the hurdle races though he had never
! trained for those events before.
Carl Hall is another athlete whom
Coach Connibear hopes to develop into
very fast Splinter. In the prelimin.
airy races Hall has shown up remark
ably we'll, and Coach COnniber hopes
to develop him into one of the fastest
22O-yard men on the Pacific coast. In
the hundred Hall has also shown up
very we'll. and he has all the qualif.
cations of the fastest kind of sprint
err Coach Connibear is following out
the instructions of the successful
| trainers of the large eastern universe
ties in picking out the most prom
Using men of the freshmen class and
giving them the necessary athletic
f.! training to develop the best athletic
| adding to it's force of athletes every
year that Washington will be able
to hold her supremacy on the track.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19

you. He-prOmises not to consume over
eight minutes
Whereupon the elderly person arose
and consumed Is. He stated that his
"lOve-nature" from childhood was such
that he was doing good; but tonight
he wanted to know whether he was
his brothers keeper because there had
been too much animosity and selfism
and Cainism and not enough yearn
and too little uplift; and that anyway
Evolution meant that all the angels
were coming down to inhabit human
bodies and that great crisis looms in
the not far distant future.
Afterward when the colored man was
putting out the lights President Well
explained how the aged person had
managed to get in his talk.
You see, it was like this; He sort
of drifted here and borrowed 81. and
so l thought l might as well let him
speak his piece so as to get maybe
some kind of run for the So
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19
EXAMS FOR REVENUE SERVICE
Deputy Collector Wanted at Tacoma
at $1,000 Salary
APPLY HERE MARCH s FOR POSITION
APPLICANTS MUST NOTIFY OFF,
GER AT SAN FRANCISCO
OF INTENTION.

The United States civil service COM
mission announces an examination to
be held March 6, 1907, in Walla Walla,
for the positions of deputy collector and
clerk in the internal revenue district
of WASHINGTON. A vacancy exists in
the position of deputy collector in Ia
coma. at a salary of $1,000 per annum,
which will be filled as the result OF
this examination. The examination
will consist of the subjects mentioned
below, weighted as Indicated:
1. Spelling twenty words Of aver
age difficulty); weight 10.
2. Arithmetic Comprising funda-
mental operations. common and decl-
NAL fractions, and practical problems
in the elements of percentage and
mensuration); weight 25
s. Penmanship (the handwriting OF
the competitor in the subject of letter.
writing will be considered with spe-
clal reference 70 the SIoiiioh''' Va
bility, rapidity. neatness, general ap-
pearance, etc.; weight 25.
4. Letter writing Ca letter OF not
less than $50 words on some subject
of general interest Competitors Will
be permitted to select one of two SUD-
jects given); weight 20.
:. Elements of accounts: weight H.
6. Time Consumed in examinat1on)
weight 10.
In rating the element of time
credit of 20 will be given II the eN-
animation is completed in the MAXI
mum of five hours allowed. For each
interval of five minutes less than the
maximum time a credit of one. III ao-
dit;on to 20. will be allowed. For COM
Melting the examination in two anu
one-half hours or less the maximum
rating of 100 will be given. NO circuit
will be given for time unless the aver
400 percentage of the remaining SUD
jects is at least 20.
Age limit, 81 years or over on the
date of the examination. Inis eA
animation is open to all citizens u 'ne
United States who comply with the re-
ouirements. No application Will De ac-
cepted unless properly executed anu
6,ed with the secretary Of the Iweii'n
civil service district, Charles l.. 0ns
dor Room 241 P. o. building. San
Francisco, prior to the hour OF ciosins
business Monday, February 20.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19
MAN AND WOMAN TAKE POISON
Mrs. DERRICK Is Dead and COMPANION,
Is Put Under Arrest.

AUBURN, N. Y, Feb. 19.-As the
result of a suicide pact, Asa Kenyon, OF
Oneonta, and Mrs. Marie Dedrick. of
Syracuse, each drank an ounce OF
laudanum today. Mrs. Dedrick is
dead. Kenyon, who probably will re-
cover, is under arrest.
Kenyon and Mrs. Dedrick came here
a week ago and stopped at the Ex-
change hotel. Kenyon says they agreed
to die because they were tired of liv-
ing.
Before taking the laudanum Kenyon
wrote letter to Mrs. H. c. Tubbs, of
Cooperstown. Mrs. DERRICK left letters
addressed to H. c. Dedrick, care United
States Express company, Syracuse,
and to Mrs. F. n. Adams, No. 42O South
Clinton street.. Syracuse
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19
PAID FOR MISTAKE WITH LIFE.
Young FEELS Took Poison Because
Bridge Had to be Built.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. Feb. 19.-De-
Spohdent because of slight inaCcu-
[7cy which had crept into an import
ant piece of bridge work of which he
"du charge, Walter ]. Fels, 81 years
ol age a civil engineer employed by
me Milwaukee Electric company,
Committed suicide at his fathers home
mere oy taking carbolic acid
by the illness of his chief, the work
building bridge near Delafield
"'N 9e'o!yed upon young Fels. a
N''S'dhe. which was not discovered
"'''" 'Ae bridge was nearly completed
'V0eSSlIated the tearing down of the
structure. and this induced acute mel
"!i'"oIla on the part of the young en-
s'''eeF' lie had been in the employ Of
,'ie street railway company three
Years
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19
LIVES DUAL LIFE II YEARS
Wisconsin University Athlete, Living
as Laborer in Indiana.

MADISON, Wis, Feb. 19.-After be-
ing mourned as dead for Il years Char
les MCGEE Williams. the famous Wis
conSn university baseball pitcher who
disappeared in Chicago in 1894, was
found today at Merrillville, Ind.
He has been living there since July,
1894, as an ordinary workman. He is
married and owns his own home.
According to Williams story. he suf-
tered mental alteration when he myS-
teriously disappeared from a hotel in
Chicago. Williams said:
ON July 6, 1894, l suddenly found
myself in Hammond, Ind l had no re-
collection of how got there, and it was
only by asking strangers that l found
Where | was and what day of the month
and year it was | began to trudge
away without purpose. and found my
self some days later here in Merrill
Vile"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19
THEY GET TWO DOLLARS WORTH
When "Open Discussion" Time Came
p At Church Meeting Stranger
Spoke Little Piece.


NEW YORK Feb. 19.-There STROBE
stranger last night to Genealogical
Hall on west Fffty-eighth street, where
John Augustus Well, as the head and
front Of the National Church, "gives
heart-to-heart talks every Sunday
night d o'clock. Subway and Broad
way cars let you off near the hall.
Good speaking, singing, music and
20 minutes for open discussion. This
party has no dogmas Or creed.
The $50 minutes for open discus
sion" was suspended last night, but
the stranger, who was elderly and
bore a pOnderous manuscript. got his
in by a ruse as shall appear.
Before the meeting was under way
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19
To Teach MEANING of Feb. %.

ROME, Feb. 18.-The government
has instructed directors of all schools
to explain to their students on WASH
ington's birthday the meaning and inn
portance of the celebration of this day
in the United States. The instructions
close with the words: "All civilized
countries must aspire to peace as their
supreme aim.''