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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-12

he heart to give it away. It's Iore-
gone conclusion that the "Bunc
wouldn't give away anything it got its
hands on.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-12
Kino Edward Grateful,

LONDON, Feb. 12.-At the opening
of parliament this morning the king
said: Il recognize with gratitude the
sympathy shown by the people of the
United States and the assistance their
naval authorities extended to jamaica"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-12

We had just about made up our
mind to withdraw our patronage from
the local postoffice when Postmaster
Brunton handed us several packages
trial
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-12

The Spokesman-Review declares the
reason the Evening Bunc" did not de-
fend its owner against the charges
of misrepresentation of the Sweeny
campaign funds was because so much
was given him in confidence he hadn't
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-12

Washington and New Ybrk have
suddenly awakened to the fact that
the Castellane divorce case in Paris is
not in it with the Thaw murder trial
in New York
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-12

The barring from the mails of those
yellow newspapers publishing all the
sickening details of the Thaw trial will
probably increase the local sales and
offer inducements to the morbid to
move to New York for further in
formation. =
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-12

In that bill introduced by Senator
Graves furbidding newspapers to pub
fish accounts of any criminal proceed
ings, the senator overlooked accounts
and reports of council meetings.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-12

OF course no one really cares what
the secret meeting yesterday afternoon
The results will be sufficiently demon
strated to the property owners when
the tricky ordinances discussed are
passed
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-12

One question of utmost Importance
to the property owners is where Coun-
Gilman Bachtold gets off at in the
meeting tonight And there are bets
both WAYS.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-12
JOINS HER SOLDIER LOVER.
Angry Parents Can't Stop Marriage
Of Miss Sewnin and Col. Blaine.

Angry Parents Can't stop Marriage
Of Miss Sewnin and Col. Blaine.
DES MONIES, Feb. 12.-Love for
gallant Colonel Robert Blaine, was
stronger with Miss Lecta Sewnin. a
popular Bussey, Iowa, girl, than obedi-
ence to her parents and instead Of pin
ing alone for her soldier lover, the girl
will make trip with him to the Phil
lippines.
Colonel Blaine, who is stationed at
Fort Robinson, Nebraska, arrived in
Des Moines, last night. Today Miss
Sewnin came and a marriage license
was secured this afternoon.
In the meantime, angry parents at
Bussey were striving in every way pos
sible to stop the marriage.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-12

The starting of a passenger train out
of Walla Walla this morning over the
w. & c. r. was almost as great an
event as the coming of the first To-
connective into the ancient town years
ago
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-12

The indications are that number OF
bad actors in the millionaire class In
New York will undergo merciless ex-
posture in the Thaw trial.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-12

Cheridah Simpson and her galaxy Of
beauties left town this morning. But
several crimsoned plumes were left be-
hind as souvenirs.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-12

Box car specials and $50 stage
coaches are luxuries that only a good,
live city like Walla Walla may enjoy.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-12

Mr.. Bob Aliens warm admiration
for Mr.. Peter F.. Dunno is now ex-
planned
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-12

The saying, call roads lead to
Rome" happened before Mr.. Hartman
broke into the railroad business.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-12

The noise of those happy chinks last
night filed several crevices with re-
verberatiOps.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-12
BIG WORLDS HORSESHOE.

LONDON, Feb. 12.-Alfred Wander
bilt has arrived for the purpose as
one of the American directors of the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-12

He who marries and runs away, may
live to marry another day.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-12

Entered at the Postoffice of Walla
Walla, Washington. as second-class
matter.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-26

How A CADET GREW TALIER.-It
may be asked what man who from
his size belonged in B company at
West Point was doing in the eighth d.
vision among the tall men OF d COM
pany, says a writer in the Atlantic.
It came about in this way: My second
wear, owing to an increase in the size
of the battalion, the overflow Of my
company, B, and the various other
companies had to room in what was
known as the angle" which threw me
with John Asbury West, Of Georgia, OF
D company West and myself became
very close friends, and that we might
continue to room together, just before
the battalion was formed in 1850 at
the close of the encampment for divi-
sion into companies, he suggested that
I stuff some paper in my shoes to lift
me up into the flank companies.
Thereupon we inlaid good share Of
q New York Herald in each shoe, low
cred my trousers to the extreme limit
to hide my heels. and, to my hearts
delight, the result was, in counting or
the battalion, fell just inside OF D
company. And on that bit Of paper in
my shoes all my life has hinged; for
had stayed with the studious B COM
pany, I should in all probability have
graduated in the engineers, and the
rsream Of my life would have run
through different fields.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-26

THEN He WAS SoRE.-An actor
without funds managed in some way
to get a second class ticket on a line
OF steamships running between Seat
tie and San Francisco, says the Argo-
naut. The voyage between these two
points consumed the better part OF
three days, and in view Of the fact that
his finances were at low ebb, he solved
the question in this way: The first
day out he slept all day to keep from
eating, and remained up at night to
keep from sleeping. The second day
he took physical culture exercises. On
the third day he could not stand the
strain any longer, and went down in
the dining room and ordered the best
meal on board the boat While eat
ing this meal he could see in his
minds eye a picture of a cell in the
bastile in San Francisco. After finish
ing his meal he said to the waiter.
How much do 1 owe your" Moth
ing" replied the waiter, your meals
are included in your ticket?"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-26

c. and w. S. Grissom Sunday from
Gainesville. Fla. brought news Of the
death there on that day or their uncle,
Mr.. j. r. w. Grissom. The message
stated that the body would be brought
back to CASTOR for burial in old Olney
cemetery, near the boyhood home Of
the deceased. Mr.. William Grissom
only son of the deceased, left Gaines
vile yesterday, Monday, with the
body and Is expected to arrive today.
The body, accompanied by relatives
and friends. will be taken to Olney
Presbyterian church where funeral
services will be held, followed by in
terment in Olney cemetery. Mr.. Girls
som was ninety years old and death
resulted from the infirmities incident
to old age.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-26

THE WATER DISCHARGED By RIv-
ER.-Many rules and methods have
been given for calculating the quanti-
ty Of water discharged by a river, but
the following appears to be the clear
est and best: To get a mean velocity
of river or other stream find first
the surface velocity in the line OF cur
rent by observing the rate Of feet per
minute at which a floating body Is
carried down. AS an approximation
to the truth the mean velocity may be
taken at four fifths of the greatest
surface velocity, and If this is multi
piled by the area in feet Of the cross
section of the stream the product is
the discharge in cubic feet per minute.
For military purposes the following
rule Is given for ascertaining how
many men a stream is adequate to
supply: Multiply the velocity per
minute by the breadth, depth and 800,
and this will give the number of men
for which the brook Is an adequate
supply. The velocity Of feet per min
ute Is obtained by floating a cork, and
noting the distance it travels In a
given time"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-26
DEsoTo OAK DOOMED.
Parasite Has Attacked Florida's
Giant Tree, Over 800 Years Old.

The famous great oak in the beau
tiful park surrounding the Tampa
Bay hotel, and which is known as the
De Soto oak, for the reason that De
Soto camped under 1t when first he
landed on this coast, is doomed to
death. says the Tampa correspondent
Of the Cincinnati Enquirer. 1t has
been attacked by a parasite which
has killed whole forests in Florida.
The parasite is a sort Of moss which
blows off other trees with the wind.
Whateven tree it lands on, there 1t
sticks. The parasite burrows into the
tree. 1t breeds very fast, and the
moss it makes grows just as rapidly.
Whenever 1t lands on tree, the be-
ginning of the end for the life Of that
tree is a settled fact. Strangely
enough, too, it produces plant in
the branches of the tree very much
like q water lily in appearance. 1t
blooms and produces a remarkable
effect when the flowers are on. In
time the moss hangs down in great
confusion from every branch Of the
tree and all over its trunk. The sap
is sucked from the tree and its death
Is but a question of time.
The De Soto oak Is going by the
boards the same way. And 1t seems
great pity. 1t is giant among all
the great oaks of the universe. 1t
is over thirty feet around at Its base
and we'll up its height, rears Its head
several hundred feet, and has gigan-
tic branches reaching out, as straight
as a chalk line, for a distance Of over
so feet. 1t Is known to be over 800
years old. But 1t Is an Ill wind that
blows nobody good. The stringy
moss, not much wider than several
strands Of hair from a horses name
or tail, is put through cleaning pro-
cess in Florida and is shipped north
to factories where it is used as a sub
stitute for hair in the stuffing OF SOFAS
and mattresses for beds.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-26
Mixed Drinks of Pompeii.

That there Is little new under the
sun one often has occasion 10 admiI
for frequently antiquity reveals many
things which show that the scientific
knowledge and the devices Of today
were the property Of some few wise
men hundreds of years ago. A Biz
mingham manufacturer visiting Pom
peii not long ago was amazed TO nnu
in a collection a small cable skillfully
made Of tough wire and almost exact
ly similar to those used in modern in
dustries.
You may go in the silver stores to-
day and select from an artistic assort-
ment Of hotwater urn, with its lamp
like .contrivance for keeping up the
temperature, and deem that you are
buying something extremely modern.
But you will be mistaken, says the
Chicago Chronicle.
There has recently been added to
the Naples museum a splendid collec-
ton Of these objects dug up from the
ruined city. Archaeology has been able
to piece together an almost entire
picture of the uses Of these beautifully
designed urns. In Roman times wine
was always mixed with water.
The host would ask his friends how
they would like to have it. Some pre-
ferred to have their wine cooled, and
snow or snow water was put into the
wine. Here is where the world has the
advantage over a Roman in the mod
ern refrigerating methods which makes
1t possible to have ice at all seasons
without regard to the product OF the
winter But a custom among the Ro-
mans which nowadays seems strange
was the admixture of hot water with
the wine.
Special vessels were adopted fol
heating or keeping the water hot and
they were often of beautiful and elabor-
ate design. There are many and in
genious varieties of these urns. each
one possessing a space for the hot wa
ter q tube or other receptacle for hot
Goals and a tap. Besides their chief
use of heating water for mixing with
wine they could be used also for cook
ing stoves.
Great numbers have been dug up In
Pompeii and Herculaneum. where In
the day of their prime they must have
formed beautiful table ornaments
Now that the winter custom Of mixing
hot punches and toddies is in vogue 1t
is not improbable that the artistic i'm
pulse will lead to the reproduction of
these beautiful ancient models.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-26
Humorous department.
Won the Case.

A number Of years ago General Ben
jamin F. Butler was a guest Of friends
in Brooklyn. During his visit he noted
the rule Of the street railway compa-
nies compelling conductors to register
fares as soon as passengers entered
the cars and before the fares were ac-
tually collected. Two or three years
afterward he represented the plaintin
in a damage suit for $4,000 in which
a Brooklyn street railway company
was the defendant. The principal
witness for the company was the con-
ductor of the car on which the acci-
dent occurred, and his testimony was
so strong as to make things look bad
for Buffers client. But Butler recall
ed the unusual rule he had remarked
years before, and on cross examination
he said:
Your company requires you to ring
up fares as soon as passengers enter
the car doesn't it?"
YES"
Suppose a passenger boards your
car and then finds he is on the wrong
line. Do you state that fact to your
superiors, and do they make allowance
on your returns for that fare?"
mo. l lose the nickel"
DO you mean to say the company
won't take your word for S cents?"
mo, they won't"
Yet" said the shrewd veteran. turn
ing to the jury. "the company asks you
to take this conductors word for s15,-
O0O."
Buffers client received a verdict
Brooklyn Eagle.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-26

SINGING KErTLE-The Japanese
who know so well how to add little
unexpected attractions to everyday
life, manufacture, in great variety
of forms, iron teakettles which break
into song when the water boils, says
Youths Companion. The song may
not be very perfect melody, but 1t Is
perhaps as agreeable as the notes pro-
duced by some Of the insects which
the Japanese also treasure for their
music. The harmonious sounds Of the
teakettles are produced by steam buo-
bles escaping from beneath thin sheets
of iron fastened close together nearly
at the bottom of the kettles. To pro-
duce the best effects some skill Is re-
quired in regulating the fire. The
character of the sounds varies with
the form of the kettle. These singing
kettles have been used for many CEN
turies.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-26

WHERE WAS AaosTINo?-The fol-
lowing story going the rounds of the
press should be of interest to the
American woman as proving what sar-
castle things they say occasionally OF
women on the other side:
Prof. Matteucci, superintendent OF
the vesuvius observatory was dining
with some Americans at the Hotel
Royal at Naples. The dining room
fronted the sea. The waves crashed
against the massive embankment OF
stone, and showers of white spray rose
high in the sunlit air.
This is heavenly. But what Is II
like in your observatory when Vesu-
vius is active?" a young woman asked
1T is not like heaven" said Prof.
Matteucci. 1T reminds me of story
about q Neapolitan widow whose hus-
band had been dead for some years.
One night she was persuaded to go to
a spiritualist's seance and there the
spirit Of her dead husband appeared
and spoke to her.
my dear Agostino, said the wild
ow to the shade; are you happy now?'
"I am very happy Agostino re-
piled.
Happier than you were when on
earth with me?' asked the widow.
Yes replied the shade; I am far
far happier now than 1 was on earth
with you
Tell me, Agostino; what is it like
in heaven?'
Heaven said Agostino. I am
not in Heaven Chicago Evening
Post.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-26

HER VIEW Of THE WEATHER BU-
REAU.-Congressma Perkins was talk
ing about his bill for progressive in.
heritance tax.
Even a Millionaire" he said would
approve this bill If he looked at 1t ir
a broad way.
But few billionaires look at such
things broadly. Everything to them
has but the one narrow, personal as
pect.
They are much like the old lady
who, seeing a storm signal, asked
what 1t was. She was told that the
weather bureau now studied the
weather, and telegraphed its forecasts
far in advance all over the country.
THE old lady, being personal, could
see but one advantage in it, and she
said:
"'Oh, isn't that convenient for the
washerwoman?'"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-26

THE MOTHER ER-INLAw.-A certain
mother in law had stopped so often
with her daughter as to cause quar-
rel with the husband, and one day.
when she again came to stay, she
found her daughter in tears on the
doorstep. II suppose George has left
you," she shifted. "Yes"-sob. Then
there's a woman in the case!' sne
asked, her eyes lighting up eXpectant-
Iy "Yes"-sob. "Who Is it?" she de-
manded. "You"-sob. Gracious" eX-
claimed the mother-in-law; Il am
sure never gave him any encourage
ment."-The Bellman.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-26
UGANDA CLOTHING STORE.
Spring Shopping of a Native of East
Central Africa.

Central Africa.
People in civilized lands who read
Of the difficulties experienced by trad
ers and explorers In Africa in the mat
ter Of getting labor for house building
and transports are apt to ask why
these savages will not work. The truth
7 is nature is too kind to them.
Their houses grow Of their own ac-
cord in the shape of reeds and rush
es. says the New York Sun. The ants
their giant hills. A trap set in a mo-
ment for an antelope will provide
meat for a week, while such fruit and
vegetables as may be needed grow
wild in profusion, foremost being the
plantain.
AS to their clothing in Uganda, at
any rate, this grows upon trees. The
bark cloth tree of East Central Africa
these people with garments of soft,
flexible, natural cloth, which Is sewed
together by the women. 1t Is extreme
ly light, porous and durable, nearly
white in color, and readily stripped
from the tree like cork.
Unfortunately since the construc-
ton of the Uganda railway-one OF
the chain of lines that penetrates the
African continent from Cape Town al
most to the pyramids-the women and
girls Of Uganda are beginning to ask
for white and colored cottons Of civ
ilized make. The people are fast
amassing wealth through the opening
up Of the country.
The child king Of Uganda, Daudi
Chwa, still keeps the bark cloth for
his regal robes, though 1t is hard for
the youngster to be dignified as he
sits at his lessons in a missionary
school in Mengo, the Uganda capital.
His father, was the dreaded Mwanga,
who tortured, and burned to death
many of the pepole whom he suspect
ed Of a leaning toward civilization. 1t
was he, too, who caused Bishop Han
nington to be murdered in Busoga.
Uganda was visited years ago by
Stanley, who interviewed Mtesa, the
then mona, ch who was in the habit
of f1aying alive those who crossed his
savage will. Stanley wanted to send
news to London about this African
country, butlthe only practicable route
open at that time was by the valley
of the Nile.
The explorer entrusted his letter to
young Belgian, Linants de Belle
fonds, but on his way north Belle
fpnds's expedition was attacked by the
Bari tribes and himself tortured and
murdered. The punitive expedition
sent out later to inquire into the young
explorers death found in one of his
high knee boots Stanley's letter to the
London Daily Telegraph challenging
Christendom to evangelize Uganda
"the country where men and women's
clothes grow on forest trees" This
letter was finally sent to General Cor
don at Khartoum, where he, too, met
| tragic death, and was later on for
warded by him to its destination.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-26

a. A man who was doing his best
to convince the world at large, and
himself in particular. that he was per-
fectly sober tried to purchase a theatre
seat and was told that there was only
standing room. He bought an admis-
sion ticket and made another one of
the crowd standing up in the back
watching the show.
After a few minutes he returned to
the window and gravely handed over
another dollar. Gimme mother stand
ing ticket" he said thickly, Il want
more room to see."-BOhemian.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-26

COOP EXAMPLE.-Little joey is the
youngest member of a family where
vital faith in the power of thought
concentration is fully recognized, says
Youths Companion. Quite logically,
therefore, when his recent acquire
ment, a couple of bantam hens, began
to lay very small eggs, much below
Joeys standard of size, he put his
mind on the matter, with an original
If slightly unscientific result.
Going to the henhouse one morning,
Joey's father was surprised to see an
ostrich egg tied to one of the beams,
and above it a card, with the words:
Keep your eye on this and do your
best"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-26
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
ADVERTISEMENTS

Inserted at One Dollar per square for
the first insertion, and Fifty Cents per
square for each subsequent insertion.
A square consists Of the space occu-
pied by ten lines of this size type.
E Contracts for advertising space
for three, six and twelve months will
be made on reasonable terms. The
contracts must in all cases be confin-
ed to the regular business of the firm
or individual contracting, and the
manuscript must be in the Office by
Monday at noon when intended for
Tuesdays issue, and on Thursday at
noon, when intended for Fridays is
sue.
- Cards of thanks and tributes Of
respect inserted at the rate Of 10 cents
per line.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-26

HER SHARE.-"This proposition"
said Rudolph Boxer, of Indianapolis,
during a shareholders meeting, ire
minds me of one that a wife made to
her husband the other day." says the
Washington Star.
James, she began, you know how
1 have been scraping and saving all
the year for my Easter costume"
Yes said the man, I know
"'Well,' she went on, I've decided
on it now. 1t is an empire gown of
pale green broadcloth, and it is to
cost $3.50. l want to ask you to help
me a little
"How much do you need?' the hus-
band inquired.
1--we got all but $125,' sae re-
Piled"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-26
"PRACTICAL
GARDENING''
Valuable New Book Just
Out
By Prof. J. s. NEWMAN
OF CLEMSON COLLEGE.

"Southern Gardeners Practical Man
uaI.U Is the name of a new book by
prof. ]. S. NEWMAN Of Clemson Col,
lege, recently published. 1t Is devoted
especially to conditions as they exist IN
South Carolina, tells what garden veg
etables, fruits, shrubs, ETC., can De
grown to advantage in this State ano
gives detailed information as to now
they are to be Planted, Ferttlized ana
Cultivated. ,..,
The author has devoted hfetime
to work of this kind and Is propaply
tbe highest authority in the South on
the subject Of which he treats. NO
gardener, whether amateur or protes-
sionaI, can afford to do without this
book.
It may be had at the office OF THE
YORKVILLE ENQUIRER for S1.l0
Copy; by Mail SIPS.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-26
AT THE BRATToN FARM.

WY E now have a herd Of thorough
w bred Guernseys headed by a
registered bull.
we are offering all the other cows
we have at a bargain. 1t Is worth
while to come and see US.
We want to sell a number OF short
horn beef cattle.
]. A. MILLS, Manager.
Jan. 2h TT u.