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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03
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SPORTING TIPS.


Charley Neary and Dave Deshler
fought a fierce 1O-round draw before
the Badger Athletic club of Milwaukee.
They fought at 1873 pounds.
The fight between Mike Shreck and
Harry Rogers which was to have been
pulled off last night at Shelbourne,
Ind, was stopped by the sheriff to the
disappointment of 1900 fans
Grays Harbor doesn't want to be
counted out of the baseball world. The
hackers of the club are quoted as stat
ing that they have $4,000 with which
to back the team this coming season.
Freddie Weeks stepped notch
higher in the estimation of the Colo
RADIO fight fans lately when he dropped
Willie Mcnamara in the third round at
Pueblo. Weeks was the superior in
every part of the game.
Russ Hall has been playing hide and
seek with the newspapermen in Butte
and Seattle. In Butte they We're eX-
pecting him to arrive after he had been
there and returned to Seattle. In Seat
tie they have ben waiting for him to
return while he has been there since
In San Francisco they appear to have
given up all hope of keeping Seattle
in the Coast league. The talk now is
for four team league comprising Los
San Francisco Oakland and
Portland. President Bert is in New
York where he will attend the meeting
Of the national association.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03
4 WILLING CANDIDATE.

( liam 3. Lewis was once widely
known in American politics by rea-
son of his close association with Gen
Jackson. He has often been given
credit for utterances of that famous
party chief which showed shrewdness
and appealed to popular feeling. He
was Jackson's press agent when one
was Leeded. But he did not depend
so much upon the newspapers as
upon other agencies to create a senti-
ment in favor of Jackson. One eX-
preston which greatly pleased the
public found place in various letters
written by the general to democrats
IL different parts of the country He
inspired the letters to Jackson asking
VII her he was candidate. and die
t2tef answers to which he knew full
publicity would be given
The striking idea in these replies
was tLat the presidency of the Unite,i
States was an Office which should be
neither sought nor declined. saws the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03
State Librarian Makes Suggestions
to Governor Mead
TO COLLECT DATA FOR LEGISLATURE
BELIEVES THAT WASHINGTON
SHOULD GREAT ARCHIVES
COMMISSION.

OLYMPIA, Jan. 3.-Govsrnor Mead
today made public the following letter
which he has received from State Lii
brarian ]. NJ Hit:
Permit me to call your attention
sible in my biennial re, ,rt, and because
it is somewhat delayed in publication,
to two topics of more than ordinary in
terest in connection with the work of
the library.
The first relates to plan to collect
and preserve the official records of the
state and county Offices The term
archives is used to include all books,
papers. manuscripts, maps and draw
ings, whether printed or written which
are official original records and are
required by law to be preserved. All
such documents are of the greatest
value, not only as the original rec
ords of most of the states acts and
the basis for legalizing vast NUMBERS
OF official and private acts, but as the
foundation of very much of our states
history, both political and industrial.
1t hardly seems necessary to add any,
thing to the plea for the desirability
OF preserving these records while they
may be had. This state is not so old
that fairly complete set of it's earlier
official records could be collected if a
serious and systematic attempt were
made now and by a commission bear
ing the seal of the legislatures approx
al acting along well studied and COM
prenensive plans.
Records Accommodating.
1T is well known that the accumu- !
lation of official records is becoming
so great in many offices and the facil- |
tiles are so meager for housing them
that they are piled away in manner
that makes them peculiarly liable to
become destroyed or injured. Few Of
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03

gamous insult, Pamela, who is maze
Lord Advocate of the island, divorces
seven Of Ki-Ram's wives, and allows
to each of the seven half of the sultan's
income. The unhappy monarch is thus
plunged into hopeless financial diff
culties and is promptly jailed for al
legged contempt of court. Many novel
complications ensue which provoke
mirth for all but the unfortunate sui
tan. A cable dispatch which gives
the sultan certain concessions enables
him to retain some Of his old customs,
but his divorced wives marry Uncle
Sans blue jackets. The piece is su-
perbly staged, the scenery is work of
art, the cast is a strong and capable
one, and the chorus is made up of
girls, young, graceful and pretty and
who can dance and sing.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03
CHRISTMAS EVE IN PARIS,

Picturesque Scenes at the Madeleine,
Historic French Church.
They drove to the Madeleine through
streets already full of life and move
ment of hurrying crowds, darting fig
ures now plunged IN the black shad-
ows and now slipping out into the full
glare of the clustered lights. The big
perspective of the Place de la Con
cOrde, thickly sewn with lamps, was
shot through with glistening reflections
from the tops of carriages. the arcade
of the Rue de RivOli was brilliant as
stage setting. the hotels in the broad
Rue ROyale We're abaZe with light, and
far at the end of the street where the
lofty portico of the Madeleine showed
clear against the starry sky. hundred
sparks twinkle from the cabs fitting
along the boulevard
The steady roll of wheels merged
with the varying notes of horns in
motors and the sound of talk and
laughter from the sidewalks. and all
blended in great humming symphony,
struck through with the rafting, syn
COJdtcu CidCk-tldth VI uOOlS upOh TIC
asphalt, like the staccati Of sharp
drums.
The crowd at the Madeleine was al
most impossible, but somehow they
gained the steps, the vestibule, and
were swept in the solid pack Of men
and women through the door at the
right The great floor was filled with
a thrOng as varied as Paris Itself.
Piety and the idlest curiosity, youth
and age. came together. As the pro-
cession came in sight its song was
Joined by the organ in the sanctuary.
and the music rose louder and fuller
in. single godlike voice ranging down
from the dazzling altar.
Suddenly, like artillery. the great or
ean overhead crashed out in a volume
Of sound that flooded the whole vast
interior like a wave. sweeping over
the heads of the kneelihg crowd and
to the shadOwy arches OF :
the roof The very conclusion toOk
the listeners breath away, and III tne
recoil men and women burst into
tears. and pillows of emotional excite
ment rolled back and forth through the
church. = Winfield Scott Moody IN
Scribner's.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03

labor-shows that by far the greater
number of the petitioners who success
fully applied to the court for divorce
were residents of the city, and that
about 20 or 80 per cent were women.
In a large proportion of the cases dur
ing the year the principal ground for
divorce was desertion or failure to
provide, and in a considerable number
of cases the applicant pleaded igno-
rance of the whereabouts of the de-
PENDANT, and secured legal separation
by default after the procedure of pub
fishing summons
President Roosevelt has declared
his intention of urging upon congress
the adoption of some legislation max
ing uniform laws governing marriage
and divorce in all the states of the
Union. At present no two states have
the same regulations, and, in accord
a &c with the recent decision of the
United States supreme court, it there
fore iS'pOSsible for a man or a woman
to be married in one state and unmar
rieG in another, and there can be but
little doubt that the divorce laws of
to contribute to this confusion during
the licent years.
Attaining Some Prominence.
Exact figures concerning the proper
ton of divorces to marriages in King
county are not yet available. but it
seems certain that the records there
will show quite as high proportion of
divorces as in Pierce county. In fact,
Seattle and Tacoma are rapidly com
ing into some prominence as divorce
communities.
A survey of the grounds put forward
fCr divorce will convince any investi-
sautor that. practically, mutual desire
for separatiOn-that is, agreement not
to contest the suits all that is nee
sssary to insure a decree. When the
c, mplainant is the wife, it is custom
AIRY to allege some sort of cruelty"
but the pleas of this sort put forward
are sometimes so far-fetched as to
challenge credulity. and very often
they are so fantastic that, if true, one
marvels that the plea was not the in
sanity of the defendant. In cases
wherein the husband is petitioner. the
plea of infidelity is advanced perhaps
in nine cases out of ten, whereas ii
figures in the complaints of wives
very rarely. This fact suggests study
for sociologists.
The pleas advanced often are decid
eddy humorous. A woman has recent
iy filed petition on the ground that /
her husband on festive occasions, such !
a. Christmas eve and New Years eve. |
is ir the habit of making her get up
f; ON bed and keep him company
throughout the night. She also states I
Il at if she falls asleep in her chair !
during one of these vigils he throws |
DC les at her One wonders whether |
tt, Sc bottles are significant of the
character of the husbands celebration i
or whether they are the invention of
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03
AN IMPOSSIBLE IDEA.

Most everyone imagineS he knows
how to run a newspaper. 1t is bust
ness that requires long apprenticeship,
and even those who engage in it best
equipped for beginning spend years in
unlearning as we'll as learning. An
ideal newspaper has been described as
one that printed all the news and all
comment necessary to elucidate the
news; with articles on current
topics. on subjects historical and lit
erary, all we'll written and embodying
the results of latest information, says
the Missoula Muscular. Such news
paper in the mind of the idealiSt
should have but few advertisements
and they should be printed without
display. When the Portland Ore
gonian asserts that this is an impOs-
sible newspaper it says what all news
paper men know it to be true. 1t would
be high priced and have but few read
ers. 1t would not have money enough
to get the news, pay its writer's and
compOsitOrs and do its work. Adver-
tisements are the basis of all modern
Journalism and the best newspapers
are those which have the greatest in
come from advertisements. Adver-
Users desire results and the best me-
dunn to reach the public has been
proved to be the newspaper. The news
paper charges and the advertiser pays
for space according to circulation
The Oregonian knows when it says
! that no newspaper except OF limited
and unpaying circulation is possible
without advertisements.
The Press and Printer of Boston
| finds Endorsement when it claims that
it is superficial criticism, therefore,
that objects to advertisements in the
newspaper; because without advertise
ments there can be no newspaper at
all: certainly none worth the name.
Even the reader who may not wish to
see any advertisements at all gets the
benefit of them, in the largest and best
presentation of news and other mat
ter that interest him. But on the
whole there are very few readers who
are not interested in advertisements
of one kind or another.
Nor is there any right or proper
ground of objection to advertisements
printed with great display. The object
of the advertiser is to secure attention
and trade. He is the judge for him.
self of the methods surest to bring
these results. Herein it is that the
interest of the reader and of the ad-
vertiser is a common one. The mon
| ey paid in for advertisements enables
the publisher to produce a good news
paper at cheap rate: the goodness
and the cheapness of the newspaper
make readers for it. Of course i'm
pI per advertisements are to be ex-
Guided.
There often has been talk, in an
ideal way of newspapers that would
print the news and nothing else. No
newspaper of any value can be so pro-
duced; for no newspaper containing
full news, with extent and variety of
matter, can be published, if the price
for which it is sold to its readers con-
stitutes its income Since the best
newspapers are the ones that can pay
the most money for news and writer's,
and for support of the general ma
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03

Chicago Tribune, 1t found expression
in Sc, eral forms, but the resultant I'M
preston always was the same, no mat
ter what the exact wording might De.
The changes were rung upon II until
the average honest democrat learned
to think of the "hero of New Orleans
as a sort of Cincinnatus who STOOD
ready always to heed the call OF coun-
try but who would never stand Tor any
political scheming to secure for him-
self. without the clear call of the peo-
pie, an office of the dignity attaching
to the presidency. There is little
doubt that the work OF Lewis IN
spreading this notion was ef1ectlve III
it's results upon Jackson's political ca
re er.
Il looks much as if the peerless
leader" of Lincoln, Neb., had Oeen
re ading up the history OF Lewis ana
the other men who managed" An
drew Jackson For he is now quoted
as saying: while l have not yet ar
nounced that would be candidate, l
have not stated that l would not be
candidate, and do not intend to. Such
a high honor as the presidential NOM
ination is something that no American
citizen should decline" In the case
of Jackson the words were repeated so
often that most every one thought
they really expressed his sincere con-
viction. 1t is not likely that the same
words used by Bryan will be so pow
erful
The situation reminds one OF the no.
tice sometimes appearing in college
paper or in the columns OF the local
news sheet to the effect that a re-
cent graduate has accepted posi-
ton" with some firm or other. Every
one knows that the individual men
toned has been hunting a job ever
since commencement day but no ed1-
tor would be so cruel as to announce
that so and so has at last got job
when the cheerful euphemism OF "aar
ccpting a position" is so much better
sounding and so much more pleasing
tc the friends of the boy. There need
be no undue anxiety on the part OF
Mr.. Bryan lest any one think he might
decline the nomination for president if
rendered.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03
ADJUSTMENTS
IN GREAT PLAY.

Unquestionab!y the most important
dramatic offering that will be seen
here this season will be the joint ap-
pearance of William H. Crane and
Ellis Jeffreys in a splendid revival of
She Stoops to Conquer" under the
combined direction of Charles Froh-
man and Liebler & Co. These two
stars will be supported by an admir-
able company of players that has been
especially selected with a view to
their suitability to classic comedy
The date set for the appearance in
Walla Walla is JAN 90 at the Keylor
Grand.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03

'tuueIul ana Q1gnlne0, yet melOd1OuS.
The song numbers are delightfully."-
catchy and nave been wnistled upon
the street and played in drawing rooms
since the first inception of this comic
opera three years ago. The story Of
THE Sultan of Sulu" briefly is as
follows: HIRAM has recently invad-
ed the territory of one Of his tributary
chieftains, or dattos, and captured the
whom ne has added to his family of
wives. The enraged inferior has de-
clared war upon his sultan and threat
ems to invade his stronghold when a
snip load of United States marines,
commercial travellers and soldiers,
headed by Colonel Jefferson Budd, an
Arkansas politician and commanded by
Lieut.. Hardy, U. S. A, appears in the
harbOr of Sulu. Accompanying this
expedition is a company of Boston
school mains chaperoned by a hard
visaged spinster, Pamela Jackson. They
are received with open arms by XII
Ram. Colonel Budd proceeds to ini-
tiate the willing monarch into the uses
Of the American cocktail to the inf1u-
ence of which he falls hilarious vic
tim. While the Sultan is saturating
himself with cocktails his wives are
taking lessons in the art of flirting
with Uncle Sans soldiers, Inspired
by too frequent rotations of the Ameri-
can drink HIRAM proposes marriage
to the indignant Pamela. In order to
be avenged upon HIRAM for mis- poly
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03
tie necessities of the laws of Wash

tie necessities of the laws of Wash
ington.
Cases where the lord of the house
threw the diner, sometimes dishes and
all. at his wife are not uncommon. Not
infrequently he throws the dinner out
of the house altogether.
Habitual drunkenness is common
plea advanced by wives, so common as
to suggest some doubts of it's truth.
It is a charge that easily sticks" and
Y ich is, of all charges, the most diff
fl. ult to disprOve.
Divorces on the Increase.
In the year 1905, the highest proper
ton of divorces to marriages was
reached by Kansas City and San Fran
cisco, where the proportion was one
to four. In Pierce county during 1906
the proportion was one divorce to
4.S6 marriages. Thus it will be seen
that Pierce county is rapidly approach
ing the top notch.
The divorce epidemic started to
take root in the states in the latter
part of the SOS. From 1867 to 1880,
inclusive, the number of divorces in
creased 1877 per cent. From 1870 to
1880 divorces increased 70 per cent.
tie rate of increase has been keeping
up steadily ever since 1880. On the
last occasion on which an attempt was
made to gather divorce statistics In
the 20 or 80 largest cities in the Unit
el States, in 1891, it was shown that
curing that year the proportion OF d.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03
Tacoma Statistics Show P|entQ Of
mismated Couples
IS llRGE PERCEN1AGe OF DIVORCE
ONE HUNDRED GRANTED OUT OF
EVERY FOUR HUNDRED AND
sIxTY-sIx MARRIAGES.

One hundred divorces for every 466
ty for 1906, says the Tacoma Ledger.
During the IL months the number OF
was 1929, and the number
of divorces 242 These figures are de-
rived from the official records.
A somewhat cursOry examination of
the superior court records-careful
examination would involve many days
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03
GEORGE AIDES OPERA.

The management of the Keylor
Grand, on Sunday and Monday, will
present the best musical attraction of
the past decade, ''The Sultan of Sulu''
by George AIDE, author of Fables in
Slang" Alfred G. Wathall has supplied
the music, and the score is said to be
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03

Everybody in Walla Walla is solid
ly in favor of supporting the boosters
for the open river-everybOdy except
those busybOdies who are trying to
amalgamate Senator Ankeny with a
crooked direct-primary law
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03

chinery of publication, the part that
advertisements must play in the pro-
duction of the newspaper is seen at
glance: and through the widely read
newspaper the tradesman finds the
best of all methods of bringing his an
nount ements to the notice Of the pub
10
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03
A SUGGESTION.

Mother-Yes, children, Santa comes
down the chimney SO quietly that you
never hear him.
Tommy-Why doesn't pa try coming
home late that way?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03

According to Secretary Shaw ''tOo
many $40 bills are being held in re-
serve" Walla Walla can testify that
a great many of them have managed
in the last few days
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03

1t has been several hours since
"Bill' Kirkman or Bill" Glasford de-
clared each other falsifiers. Also it
has been several days since they de-
Tended each other against the charge
of being bought"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03

Nobody threw a SNOWFALL at the
f1ume of the power plant this morning.
1t was just a transfer of responsible
ity' on the wires.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03

Few people are writing letters to
the Evening Bunc" nowadays. They
are afraid they will be published-as
were those dreadful Crocker letters.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03

There are a number of swift poll
ticians in Walla Walla who will not
travel so rapidly now that the pass
system has been abolished.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03

The northwest could have worried
through a coalless Christmas with less
discomfort if it had had better sup
Ply Ct Yule logs as a substitute.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03

Those open river boosters are
truly occupying the center OF the
stage before they take to the center
of the rivers.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03

DR.. Braden. after some delay in
diagnosis, finally decided to perform
an operation upon Mr.. Gus Harras-
much to the latter's discomfort.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03

f Senator Foraker is trying to pro-
woke another flood of presidential mes
sages he is taking the right course to
Ting it on.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03

Mrs. Rockefeller probably meant,
when she referred to oysters, that
John DIS stomach could not afford
them.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03

The car shortage, it may be remark
ed, is not taking any Christmas vaca-
ton worth mentioning.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-04-04
Assaulted BY Ex-SIave.

Dallas, Texas, April. 1.-The fir st
case OF criminal assault ever kno wn
In Texas by an ex-slave was commit
ted near Bouham. An old negro,
known as Uncle Johnny" and past
20 years, outraged Mrs. George
Trent, a white woman and then beat
her brains out with a club. The me-
gro, probably fearing his crime W ould
be found. out and he be lynched, went
into a room adjoining the one In
which he had committed his horri BILE
crime and, placing the muzzle OF
gun to his head blew nearly all oihis
head from bis body. The old negro
had been a slave in the Trent family
before the war and trusssd servant
since emancipation.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-04-04
The Wonderful Hog.

He is filthy, and yet will be found
on every farm and on every mans
table. He is used for more purposes
as q feeder OF the human family than
any other, remarks the Southern
Agricultural. He is manufacturer
Of hams, he furnishes hall OF the lard,
his hair is made into brushes, his
head into cheese, tooth brushes, glue,
buttons, fertilizer, fats, bacon, knife
handles, whistles, soaps, sauce, saus-
age and satisfaction. Asa condenser
he beates the finest steam machinery.
He will put ten bushels Of corn into
less space than q bushel measure.
Corn loaned to q hog Is cash at
good investment, safe and at q large
interest. And II he is fed on Essex,
rape and alfalfa be can manufacture
bacon at three cents per pound, but
the people have to pay the butchers
and combines about Toto 15 cents Q
pound for bis product.-Ex.