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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-07

INTERESTING ITEMS


The prince of Monaco is again afloat
on science bent. This time he has
sailed for Spitzbergen to prosecute his
Investigations as to the currents of the
upper air.
Senator Albert j. Beverage, the
youthful statesman from Indiana, is
the most Industrious magazine writer
in congress. He contributes regularly
to certain publications and says that
but for the money he earns in this way
it would be Improbable for him to re-
main in the senate.
The duke of Orleans has announced
ize a new expedition, starting next
spring, to penetrate as far as possible
along the northeast coast of Greenland.
The purpose of this expedition is to
join the Danish expedition under Erick-
son, which left Copenhagen last June
to explore the coast of Greeland.
All the justices of the United States
supreme court except William H.
Moody, the youngest member are grey
haired. Mr.. Moody is blond and his
hair is that pale straw color which
turns gray only very late in life. His
ruddy complexion gives an additional
touch of youthfulness, so that the con-
trast between Mr.. Moody and other
members of the court is striking.
The firt wheeled carriages were used
in France in 1859.
Japan has bought and is buying large
numbers of Normandy horses for the
new cavalry regiments of the empire.
Prize winners at trotting races are
preferred. Many horses of the Breton
breed are also being purchased for Jap
anese service.
few wild animals perish in forest fire
They have instructive knowledge OF
it long before it reaches them and fly
to swamps and large rivers. They can
lives have been saved by horses instinc-
lively taking to water.
A machine which automatically shut
fles pack Of cards in an instant with
the cards concealed from sight and
which changes the position of nine
| out of every 10 cards is the latest me-
chanical device for card players. 1t not
only protects the cards from injury
but gives an absolute square deal
shuttle. The machine, says Popular
Mechanics, weighs four pounds and at
taches in a moment to any table. 1t
is about IL inches high.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-07
WORRIED ABOUT EDWARD.
His Renewed Devotion to His Wife
Excites Apprehension.

LONDON, March 7.-One of King
Edwards symptoms which greatly dis
turbs his physicians is his manifestly
His majesty's heart is weak physical
~ The slightest exertion makes him
short of breath. Perhaps his doctors
fear his renewed affection for the
queen. who was when he took her from
Denmark and who is one of the most
charming wom- 1 in Europe. indicates
that he is aging rapidly.
The king Will leave for BiarritZ next
Tuesday, and Sir Ernest Cassel and
the others OF the royal entertainment
syndicate will do their utmost to
amuse his majesty for six weeks there.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-07
NOTICE TO OUR PATRONS!

On account Of heavy advances in
price Of material we have been com
PEELED to increase our prices on bottle
beer as follows:
One dozen pints, $1.o0, with rebate
of 15c for returned empties.
One dozen quarts, $500, with rebate
OF Csc for returned empties.
This new price list will 90 into ef.
feet March list, 1907.
JACOB BETZ BREWING 4 MALT.
ING COMPANY.
STAHL BREWING 4 Mailing
COMPANY.
WAllA WAlIA RoTTllNc
WORKS. s
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-07
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given to all per-
sons to not let my son. Ben Kennedy.
have liquors of any kind. He is a mi
nor, and l will not be responsible for
any debts contracted by him.
ROBERT KENNEDY. 46
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-07

OTTAWA, Mch. IA coal mine,
burning for the past 120 years; the
biggest natural gas we'll in the world
on fire for II years; the largest Oil
field yet discovered, and tropical heat
are some of the marvels Of today that
are s. own to exist in the Canadian
suparctic regions.
These facts were stated in the evil
dence of explorers given before a
special committee of the dominion SEN
ate in the course of the dominion sem
ate in the course of the inquiry re-
specting the Hudson bay route and the
resources of the north. According to
one of the experts, Prof. Won Hammer
STEM who has made extensive explo-
rations in northern Canada, there is
an immense deposit of hematite iron
ore between Athabasca landing and
the mouth of the Great Slave river. On
the lower part of the Athabasca there
was stone suitable for building, clay
for making brick, sand from which
glass could be made and natural gas
with which to melt it.
Pelican Portage is Location.
The greatest gas we'll in the world is
! located at Pelican Portage. The gov
eminent here had sunk a hole S6C
feet deep when testing for oil II years
ago. Boring was suddenly stopped by
a great rush of gas, which subse-
quently took fire and has been blowing
out and burning continuously evel
since. There are indications that the
greatest petroleum field in the world
will be developed in the country ly-
ing between the Athabasca river and
the Peace river.
Another expert witness and explorer
Mr.. Elihu Stuart, superintendent OF
forestry, showed the committee sam
pies of wheat and barley grown at the
Catholis mission on Lesser Slave lake
Mr. Stuart stated that the Mackenzie
basin has an area of $4,000 square
miles. which is 100000 square miles
larger than the ST. Lawrence and
great lakes basin.
Though lying we'll othe north of
the continent. the &owth of vegeta
ton in this basin was surprising. This
fact was owing to the great length OF
the day during summer, the sun be-
ing visible for about 80 hours out OF
! the "a. July Is last, at Fort Provi-
dence, near Slave lake, in latitude
SIPS, about $50 miles north of Ed
mention. Mr.. Stuart saw wheat il
the milk. potatoes in flower peas fit tC
use. tomatoes, turnips rhubarb, beets
! cabbage, onions and other garder
vegetables.
The strawberries had been ripe fol
some time, and the people there hat
currants, gooseberries and saskatOons
To illustrate the heat of summer il
that far north country, he said that a
Fort Chipewayan it had been 100 de-
grees in the shade for several days anC
nights. SO great was the heat a
times, indeed, that Indians coming
from the Alaskan boundary to NEE
the steamer Wrigley, had on one oc
casion last summer lost two dogs from
heat in the Arctic circle.
Mr.. Stuart further testified that Of
the Slave river he had passed a banl
of burning coal about 20 miles il
length near Fort Norman, which Mac
kenzie had reported burning in IT'S:
, and which has been burning ever since
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-07
SOLD AS BRIDE, SHE SAYS.
Wife Of IS Declares Father Made Her a
$40 Bargain.

NEW YORK, March Mrs. Mary
Garlbel. who says she was married
last May, and who has just passed her
sixteenth birthday, told Magistrate
Moss in Harlem court today that her
father had sold her to the man who
married her for $40, and when he had
gotten the money, took her to the
mayors office to see that she fulfilled
the bargain. The father is Fidelli Ric-
co. 2416 First avenue.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-07

Wait at the Book Nook for the cars.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-07

"Barney's wooden leg has been PAIN
ing i'm of late" said Scholes to his
wife. How can that be-" asked Mrs
Scholes, irritably. Mrs. Barney has
been thrashing i'm with it," was the
explanation.-Tid Bits.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-07

DR.. J. F. Boyle. rooms 1924 Ran
som building has changed his Office
ohoue numoer to Main S94.
New-York tribune., 1907-07-07

Salvation Army immigration bureau, told me
that the floating foreign element in Argentina
was the only proposition the arnN had ever
tackled and failed to make substantial head
way with. The trouble principally with
Italians, and other Southern Europeans, whom
the organization had attempted to help but the
lower strata OF English and Americans en-
countered had alSb proved of a most incorrigible
type. Blankets. said Brigadier Smith, had re-
peatedly been stolen by whom the army
had sheltered free Of charge for weeks, and one
migrate even went far to cut the head out
Of the big bass drum and carry it off When
apprehended he had cut up the sheepskin and
converted 1t into a pair Of Ieggings, a tobacco
pouch, 'bota,' skin wine bottle. a col
lapsible dicebox several patches for his baggy
'bombachos" and a pair of shoestrings. The
culprit was a Basque immigrant, and his act
is recorded as Of the most sacrilegous in
the annals of the army.
The Argentine tramp-"atorante." they call
him. from an Italian word similar in etymology
to the word hobo-dates back TO the early
eighties. at which time the great transatlantic
movement to South America began. Prior to
that time there was little immigration and few
tramps. Last year there entered at the port of
Buenos AyTes alone over three hundred thou
sand foreigners-in proportion to the popula-
tion of the two countries, about six times the
increase We had in the United States for the
same period. Tramps have increased at about
the same ratio, for the immigration, nearly half
of which is Italian, is drawn from the lowest
classes Of the countries from which 1t comes.
Argentine immigration restrictions con-
spicuous by thsir absence, and Southern Euro
peans who cannot provide themselves with the
necessary certificate of good character or suf-
ficent money To come to the United States sc
to Buenos Ayres.
It was not many years ago that a tramp
steamer entered at New York carrying several
hundred Italians. not one of whom was quail
fed 10 land. The captain cabled TO the COM
pany that had shipped the immigrants for
orders, receiving the prompt reply: Put about
at once for Buenos Ayres; everything goes IN
Argentina" And go they did-every one of
them-just thousands Of others of the same
class had gone before and have gone since It
IS from the worst of such these that the
"atorante" army is recruited. There is an old
sailors ssong about the ports of South America,
the first cOuplet of which is:
Extradlton does e
TO the port Of Callso.
Further along in the SAME song IS one which
goes:
New-York tribune., 1907-07-07
ARGENTINE TRAMPS.
South 4merica Has Her O7on
Type Of the Hobo.
By Lewis r. Freeman.

Whether they are called "swagmen'' and
.t,,rrp their blueys" and boil their Billys'
- cook their tucker on the ''Wallaby Track"
IN Australia. or whether they are called 'dorp-
5ronpersv and trek across the great Karoo in
cor,h Africa and bake their 'skoff'' over smoul-
5er4ng fires Of OK chips. or whether they are
called ''hoboes," and "trunEeI their bindles"
and stew their 'muIligans' as they hit the
;iesr across the western plains of the United
States or whether they are called 'atorantes"
and turn their asados" and suck their mate
pots" between marches about the boundless
panpas OF Argentina. there is one thing common
10 su bona 1ide tramps, their aversion TO work
There are some 10 whom the name is applied
who tramp to find work: the real tramp tramDs
N avoid it. There are those who tramp from
force Of circumstances. but the genuine hobo
frsrps because he likes it. or because he likes
nothing else better; or at the worst, because he
disikes il less than anything else.
The loafers in city parks ara not tra1nps as a
rule but "a her, are the hereditary lazy and the
generally Incompetent. who constitute the rank
To withstand the strain of steady tramping
requires vigorous health. and a certain amount
Of energy, while successfully to meet the diff
culties Of the unexpected situations constantly
confronting these victims Of the wanderlust
requires no mean qualities of nerve and re-
sourcefulness. faculties usually either undevel-
oped or degenerated in the park hobo"
Tramps generally speaking, are confined TO
the newer countries of the world. and almost
exclusively 10 those Of the temperate latitudes.
Thus IN China and India, there are many beg
gsrs and no tramps: in Europe, fewer beggars
and q number Of traups, and. in the United
States and temperate South America. Africa and
Australia many tramps and few beggars.
The tramp Of Australia is by far the most
Characteristic product. The tramp of Europe is
mere Of a street corner beggar than q wanderer.
while the American hobo army is a nondescript
bo5v Of riff-raf from all the other countries Of
New-York tribune., 1907-07-07
HUMOR In GOSPELS.
What a Clergyman Finds Is Little
KnozUn an Words of Jesus

1t is safe to say that to the great mass OF
Christians It has net even occurred to ask whether
Jesus had a Of hunor or not, writes the Rev
Shepherd Knapp of this city, in THE Biblical
World" for March BY many the question. even II
raised would be at once dismissed trihing or
perhaps irreverent: but to others it may seem not
only proper but interesting inquiry There
are some of us who think that sense of humor,
is very marked addition to human character
and who would feel that the life of Jesus was
unhappiy limited and incomplete IL it was all
'sombre and strenuous" The assurance that He
Joined in mems innocent laughter would be well
coined by for some of the same reasons that
make us treasure the assurance of His sympathy
in human sorrow. The lives Of some of the most
Christlike whom ourselves have known
have helped to convince us that a Christ VINO sell
dom or never smiled, and who was a stranger TO
the instincts of human mirth would have lacked
a power that greatly needed by Him in His
work of winning and redeeming men.
our evidence of the existence Of this genial
quality in Jesus is naturally scanty. 1t is not
strange that the Gospels should emphasize the
serious side of His message almost to the exclusion
Of every other aspect of 1t. The message was. OF
course, serious II there were touches OF
humor in it here there. they Incidental.
Commonly they could be forgotten without ir-
reparable loss to the truth with which they were
connected The very process by which large part
Of the teaching of Jesus preserved and finally
recorded the necessary compacting of it in oral
transmission the gradual selection of the salient
points to be expressed. and the rejection Of all
that was non-essentiaI-this process. of which the
effects appear on almost every page of the Synoptic
Gospels, would naturally tend to eliminate many
lighter turns OF thought expression. such
at present have IN mind to look for: or If. on the
other hand the words of the Master were thor
oughly recast, rewritten from a special point Of
view and according definite literary plan. this
elimination might OF course be still more complete
and. matter Of fact in the words of Jesus re-
ported IN the Fourth Gospel there does not seem
to be a single trace of humor anything that
even remotely suggests its presence
New-York tribune., 1907-07-07
SIGNERS AUTOGRAPHS.
Hoo the Signatures Haze Increased
IN TaIue Since 1878.
nr MarwIck JaInes Price.

There Is q literary end" TO the Fourth Of July
quite as perennial the patriotic firecracker. The
young this land OF the free and home OF the brave
may in the great national holiday only noise
and picnlcs and athletic contests; their elders, II
SO far as they may have been bitten by the gentle
little bug OF the collecting mania, viii find in t also
reminder OF those patriots who put their signatures
the immortal Declaration when the fourth day
OF the seventh month came first into official
being. The autograph hunter longs for them. the
historian cherishes warmly such as he may own.
while the mere hnanCieT realizes that they
are we'll worth his cQusderatiOn-a collection or
letters signed by those dfty-six good men and true
would be indeed a sound investment 10 put against
the proVerbial rainy day.
In the last thirty years IS sners' " autographs
have accrued in value from three to five fold, and
there is chance that th4 prices are to fall 1t IS
rather 10 be expected that they Will gradually but
surely rise yet more. In 1SsS there were sold at
auction In Philadelphia twenty-nine items, repre-
senting that number OF the signatures Of the
Declarations sponsors in almost every case ap-
realized for the lot $3.50 5O-and the selfsame
pieces sold to-day would be worth from $2OO0 To
81 O00 4 complete collection OF documents bearing
the signatures OF all the sgnerS' would bring.
less than $4,000, while II the letters should
tain references to the famous paper which spraug
into Immortality that summer forenoon in 1116 or
TO other events of greater or less Importance TO
II TO the Revolutionary period the price in the
aggregate might easily run up to $4,000
The detailed list OF the twenty-nine autographs
sold the auction in 1873, with the prices they
brought twenty-seven years ago, compared with the
prices set upon similar pieces by OF the
largest and best known autograph dealers Of to-
day shows teilingy the steady advance in value
that has attached to them. AT the sale in question
Button Gwinnett's signature, one of the rarest OF
the set attached TO draft. brief. of
letter and tho letter itself while the signature
OF Thomas Lynch. jr,, had been cut from the fly
leaf OF q book In every other case. however, the
letter bearing the signature had been written by
the hand Of the signer. The dates attached
hAVV htr fhA laff
New-York tribune., 1907-07-07
DIFFICULTY IN TRACING.

Even supposing that sayings OF Jesus which
were originally frightened by sdellghts of humor
preserved for us absolutely intact. literal
quotations OF His precise words. the presence Of
the humor in them would not necessarily be GER
tain to US. For It is n Well known fact that often
humor which unmistakaole in the spoken
word seems to evaporate in the process OF record
Ing. The speakers and the expression. of his
face are needed as commentary. and without them
the spirit Of tho utterance becomes indetermInate
Probably all Of US have experienced the misfortune
Of writing a humorous letter which, on arriving
at its destination. read in perfect seriousness.
and by this fact caused all manner Of msunder-
standing But this Illustration. II 1t helps 10 make
plain the difficulty of tracing the presence OF a
sense Of humor in the words Of Jesus suggests also
tho possible usefulness OF such undertaking. In
some instances the readiness TO perceive a lurking
smile behind the impersonality Of the text might
even contribute something to serious exegesis.
Let us. then, examine the sayings of Jesus with
a view TO determine which OF them. II any, will
admit element OF humor in their Interpretation:
and in doing let It be understood that the word
Ing any expression Of amusement. any form OF
pleasantly any apparent perception of the ludicrous
exercise Of the imagination. Nor need we exclude
But before proceeding to canvass the evidence.
notice one or two characteristics OF Jesus re-
corded words that make His possession OF a sense
or huInor seem more or less probable In the first
essential Of humor, highly developed lie
~ s~ieGAs - naDIll'iiIy IN lEarts IafabIe5. metaphors
dance that His collected sayings like sort OF
moving picture.
In The second place. there is often kind OF
homel!ncss In His imaginative expressions that
would provide excellent raw material FOR humor
when needed. II Will make you fishers OF men IS
an instance, especially considering the common
place associations OF tie phrase In tho minds Of
those Galilean fishermen TO whom It was ad-
dressed 4 similar example, though actually
spoken the words are very far removed from
pleasantly, Is found IN ono OF Christ's woes pro-
Nouuced upon tho scrihes and Phar!sees; "Ye are
pear beautiful, but inwardly are full OF dead mems
bones There IS Il sort OF unvarnished direCtuess
u this striking word picture that under other con-
ditons would easily lend itself to tho uses OF
humor. And II may be observed by tho way that
who so keen IN detecting and exposing an
incougruty as Jesus hero proves Himself 10 have
been certainly possessed important essential
OF he humorous uOiut OF
New-York tribune., 1907-07-07

the globe This IS also true OF the Southern
South Aulsg;cs tramp--whOua, as being the
newest thing = tre-1pdonn. am reserving for
speclaI :nent!o---aIG even the "dorp-dropper'
Of Souts zr.-ca nay be British, Boer, Portu-
guese OF Ge-LaGn. or half-caste Of these and
any one OF the numerous native tribes that peo-
pie the country. But as Australia has never en-
couraged immigration, and as there have not
been for many years enough descendants Of the
aborigines 20 make 2 mixed race possible, the
tramp Of that country is a simon pure Britsher
Tie Australian swagnan considers his calling
almost in the light Of 2 profession, which makes
him clannish and slow 10 take up with any
foreign devotees Of the simple life who chance
70 drift down that way. He even has language
of his own, and TO the ordinary person listening
n q coupIe OF swagrnen talking the converse
ton is an absolutely unintellgible succession
OF such words as "bluey," billy" "brumby'
"back-lock," '-yorrbat.' ''wallaroo" and rnuIga-
scrub" connected up with equally wild ana
weird adiectives and verbs. and interlarded
with oath and !diom TO match.
New-York tribune., 1907-07-07

and worn out wine skins we cannot help wondering
whether Jesus besides the seVioUs truth he was
expressing. not induging in a smile at their
expense. II he not. he might surely have ex-
pressed his truth without twice using terms
so uncomplruentary TO his hearers.
It would perhaps be tedious point out further
instances; ana il is enough to say that. We're it
desirable the illustrations OF Christ's humor
could be- considerably extended. Indeed. II prob
able that when the possibility OF humOr in
the Masters words has been conceived those who
re-read tho Gospels with this subject in their
thought Will be surprised Mt the frequency with
which they detect the Vestige OF Il smile; and
at the freshness and hfelikeness which seem to be
restored to many OF the incidents and sayings by
the recognition in them OF the touch Of humor.
New-York tribune., 1907-07-07
THE LOWEST TYPE.

The Australian "swagmen" have a surpris-
ingly thorough system OF organization, and they
are looked upon as one Of the most potent OF
the unlisted" political forces Of the common
wealth. In the month Of election they centre
from all quarters on Sydney. Melbourne, Bris-
bsne Adelaide and Perth, according TO which
capital they have been previously registered
in, and. as the possible caster Of the deciding
ballot there is little that the swagnan asks
for that is not readily granted him. In the last
election the tramp vote was credited with turn
ing the victory TO the Socialist or Labor. party
ana re-establishing Il IN power
But Il the Australian 'swagrnan'' IS the high
est Development in tranps the Argentine "ator-
4te" is The lowest. IN a recent interview in
london Brigadier Frank Smith. head Of tho