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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-07
William Lorimer.

The breaking of the deadlock in tn.
Illinois legislature and the election ii
William Lorimer, to succeed Senator
Albert J. Hopkins, brings unique fig
ure to the upper house.
Lorimer has had meteoric career.
Twenty odd years ago he worked as a
common laborer in the great Chicago
packing houses. Here he entered the
field of politics. Abandoning work in
the packing houses Lorimer entered
business as contractor, where his pol
tiles helped him. At one time he was a
conductor with the Chicago street rail-
road company He has won and lost
large sums of money IN business and on
the stock market, but still retains a
comfortable fortune.
Not long after his entry into politics,
Lorimer became the acknowledged re
publican boss of Chicago. His leader
ship suffered an eclipse five years ago,
when he opposed Deneen's nomination
for governor of Illinois and lost He
has often been charged with playing in
with the democrats during his political
career, but nevertheless has always
bulked large in republican politics in
his state.
He has served twelve years as
member of congress, and was reelected
last November for two years more.
The new senator is chunky, rather
short man, with dropping eyelids and
mass of straW-colored hair. He has
a family of eight children-mostly
girls. Lorimer is reserved in his man
ner, even-tempered and does not smoke,
drink or swear.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-07
How to Fight.

TOW 10 right.
Man pitting against the ny's num-
bers, omnipr5sence, facility of flight
and overpowering virulence-compard
with that of the cobra by the Mer-
chants association of New YOrk-his
own invincible intelligence when
science becomes it's guide, has evolved
destructive measures so simple, yet
SO effective that nothing more than CO.
operation and persistence in thsir en-
ployment are required to wipe out the
whole race of Musca domestica in the
United States by the Tins the summer
is over
The first of thee measures lies in
depriving the fema fly of a place to
deposit her eggs, for they cannot de-
velop or hatch without the heat and
moisture characteristic of the manure
pile. Even human waste, which to
the superficial observation appears the
favorite battening material of all flies
is chosen only when the female cannot
secure access to stable manure.
The absolutely protective screening
of all such waste products of animals,
beasts and human instantly stops the
scarcely a farmer who does not know
the uses of a manure pit or building,
if he. choose to employ either; there
is scarcely a house-dweller who does
not know the principles of cleanliness
applicable to the pestilential clubhouse,
wherever thr, local health has not sue
ceeded in compelling it's elimination
from the back yard.
On the other hand, there is the
equally important, and equally prac-
ticab!e, SYSTEM Of defense against all
flies which have succeeded in being
born 1t is simply the screening OF
every entrance to the dwelling ,sainSt
further intrusion and tho catching and
killing of the flies that are already
inside, either by means of fly paper or
the cruder methods of a damp cloth
or even the artful hand.
With a house cfan of dirt and de-
caying material, with no dogs or win
dows unguarded by screens, and with
no food whatever left exposed to the
germladen tracks of a single fly-well'
there would be no flies.
With any of these precautions
omitted, the presence of a typhoid fe-
ver tuberculosis-of any and all Of the
fatal diseases which the INSECT eats
out does not digest, and carries, but
Ices not carry away-is inevitable IN
every community; and the percentage
If chances works always for most i'm
ninent danger OF infection to those
Who permit most flies to breed or
Who most largely harbor them.
The WARRIOR it must be apparent
low that it is a real war, and no more
been definitely and
widely declared. 1t is one in which the
common enemy has no human friends'
md nevertheless has many million
human allies, for whoever is not the
active and relentless foe IS
Is most dangerous BREEDER, alder ana
.bettor. And the question now, for
very intelligent one among the men
ced eighty millions is:
Which?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-07
FIGHT ON FLIES
BY WHOLE NATION

readily as John l.. Sullivan could have
crushed Charley Mitchell-if he could
have caught him.
The annihilating process would be
more reproductive than humanity, or
if humanity had nothing else to do
spectacle of S0,OOO,OOO people chasing
fles would be only a dsgree more gro
of Sullivan chasing Mitchell.
With those two alternatives elmin-
ated the problem of the house fly, once
its pcrnicious activities were demons
trated, became one as great as that of
the yellow fever mosquito of Cuba
and Panama. Farce, in the first rays
of intelligent investigation, glimpsed
wholesale tragedy, as tragedy had al
ready been glimpsed in the pellucid
pools of wayside brooks which
whole countryside poisons with ty-
phoid.
This common fly, only one of whose
species, by q single, fatal footprint
can kill a man, lays 120 eggs, which
hatch within sight hours. The larva
period lasts five days and the pupa
period five days-in ALL 10 days for the
new generation to leap into full active
life
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-07
HOW MANY Or THE SENATORS
IN CONGRESS ROSE FROM
HUMBLE POSITIONS.
Health Conditions on the isthmus OF
Panama-Iorimer's Meotoric Ca
reer-other Bright Gossip.

| WASHINGTON, d. u, June al
though BILLY Lorimer used to collect
nickels from passengers as a street car
conductor, and occupied various other
| positions in the industrial world which
| many folks would regard as mental,
J he will not find himself lonely in the
| senate. There are many other mem
| BEES Of this so-called Most Exclusive
| Club in the World" who are of humble
| orig n and who got their first start in
| life in just such ordinary, every day
occupations as those which first en-
| gagged the attention of the new solon
from Illinois.
Senator Curtis, of Kansas, was once
jockey, and a very good one, too.
nator Scott, OF West Virginia, was
a glass blower at the time, when, with
half-naked bodies and brawny arms,
the workers in that industry collected
a portion of molten glass upon the end
of a tube and with their own breath
blew it into shape.
Senator Beverage, of Indiana, was
lumber jack and helped to denude
the forests which he is now so eager
to save
Senator Nixon, of Nevada, was
telegraph operator before he got inter-
ested in mines from which he has since
made millions.
Gallinger, of New Hampshire, started
in life as a printer, and then studied
medicine and became a doctor before
he entered politics.
Senator Smith, of Michigan had un-
usual advantages in training in par
liamentary procedure, for he began his
career as a page in the Michigan legis-
lature.
Senator Chamberlain of Oregon,
clerked in a general merchandise store.
Even the great Aldrich, Recognized
leader of the senate, and arbiter,
through his position as chairman of
the finance committee and his control
over the pending tariff bill, Of the les-
TIMES of almost every mine, factory
and mill in the United States. gcf his
first practical business experience be-
hind the counter of a retail store.
he silver haired Senator Iut>ley
of CO nnecticut, also b-,san lie as a !
clerk, while Senator Perkins, of Cali
fornia, still refers with pride, to the
tine when he served as 4 sa; - Def )r+
tn mast in many long voyage.
Senator Richardson of Delaware,
VI ose father was cani.rr and packer
ent red into that business and learned
ne trade, working his WOW up from TIC
lowest position.
Senator Jones of West Virginia, was
born three days after the death of h s
father in the civil war. AS soon as he
was old enough he had to hustle for a
living. He hired out to do all kinds of
farm work when he was only ten years
old
So Lorimer will find many among his
new colleagues with whom to swap
hard-luck stories, or better still, tales
of obstacles overcome, and success won,
by pure grit
r.,l d.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-07

adduced, but by the amount 80
on which the fits can batten. 49,,
Is pertinent to observe that evor,.
possesses $4,000 foot hairs ~
infInity Awes Imagination
Ihese hairs exude a slimv er,,
peculiarly adapted to the ac,u,o,,I.
ton of bacteria. Upon those foot bai..
dwelling-hoUse flies have bea, f.,
to average $4,000 poisonous germs -
insect, or-to be mildly precise aho,.
it 12,S79,656,66O 900, 600 600. 900 ooo am
germs are carried to menace the no
ton within the few summsr month.
Carry Germs.
True, flies do collect bacteria. al
though not quite in the capacit. 90
aerial pricipitants; rather far ratbor
as terrestrial scavngers; stable flies
carrying 10000 garms each and swiu-
barrel flies an average of 6.6OO am
germs.
True, also, that flies do eat the
deadliest of germs. Tests made again
and again from N,w York to CHICAGO
have shown that house flies eat the
sputum of cOnsumptives as readily 90
they do the waste of typhoid patients.
and the same tests have shown unite
as conclusively, thh, manner in which
the tubercle bacili and the germs Of
typhoid fever pass gayly through the
Intestinal tract of the flies and are de-
posted, evcretEd waste, as much
alive and kicking as they were when
they emerged from the constructive
and the typhoid patient.
Imagine the terrible consequences of
contamination of the food supplies of
the family by house flies.
Peace has its victims no less than
war. The 1000 children of New York
who annually perish of intestinal dis
orders are chiefly this f1y's victims;
markedly high percentage of all ty-
phoid cases are due to the fly.
Asiatic cholera, so fearful in its raw
ages, is among the fly's specialties; tu-
berculosis is another; every disease
which begins or ends or endures in
filth is his ally; and it has even been
demonstrated that the fly carries and
deposits, in active and virulent con-
dition, the bacillus of the scourga be-
fore which the white man quails in
sick and terrified oathing-leprusy.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-07
Can't Cut Rations.


In attempting to cut down the es-
Inmates for the army appropriation
for the forthcoming fiscal year, in ac-
cordance with President Taft's policy
of retrenchment, Secretary Dickinson
has run amuck of the army ration De-
spite all coaxing and coddling and
threats, it will not down. 1t stands in
solent and pugnaeious in the way of
all reductions, and cannot be shooed
or driven to cover.
+ In ordinary perspective it is but an
insignificant thing, a matter of 'two-
b is" or less, but it's omnipresence
makes it a thing of commanding i'm
portance. Placing the army at a low
estimate of $4,000, there must be 50,-
600 rations every day for 365 days
every year
In size, the ration remains the same
so much beef, SO many prunes, so much
flour and other articles of food-but
in the last few years the price of the
ration has crept up steadily. For the
fiscal year of 1907 it was % cents: for
1908, 22.5 cents; for 1909, 225 cents.
For the fiscal year of 1910 it's approx
mated cost will be only a trife less
than % cents. With this rate of in
crease it will cost the government $500
more per day to feed the army during
the coming year than it did this year,
and if the ration keeps on mounting
upward in price, heaven knows where
the additional expense will stop.
The criticism of incompetency or in
discriminate buying made against the
manager Of the domestic household
does not apply to the subsistence de-
partment of the army. 1t is probably
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-07
Eound Two Portraits.

While digging around in dust-cov-
cred pile of nondescrlpt odos ana ehos
in a Iong-disused room of the capitol,
w. r. Duckstein, an art restorer, re-
Gently found two portraits OF Judge
Alonzo Taft, father of the president.
The pictures were covered with dirt
when unearthed. They were maze In
the early 7Os by Charles Crane. an art
ist of considerable reputation at that
time The portraits have been cleaned
and renovated and are now at the
White House where they are objects
of great interest to the president anC
his brother C. P. Taft.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-07
How Flies Reproduce.

Males and femaySS are about even
ly divided. In q. single summer, in
in the latitude of Washington, D. c.
not a bad average for the country at
large-one pair of fliss will produce
twelve generations.
The total number of their descend
ants is then 14,O67, 792, 900, O0O,O 900
flies.
Admit that the whole 100000 of us
devote the whole summer to the kill
ing of the whole family of a single
pair of f1es, and every man, woman
and child in the United States must
kill 1854, 400 of the pests to wipe
out that ona fly family.
Now multiply the descendants of
that one pair Of flies by the original
first families of the summer, in num-
Der so trivial, in comparison with
their actual horde, as merely one mil
lion-which does not rept sent the first
lS ldiiliIltS Oh Single SeCOnQ-CldSS
city-and we have a total of 14,067,-
1872 zoo, 100000, 100000 flies that we are
called upon to exterminate or 1884,
100000 to be slain within three
months by every possible fly chaser
among us, including the newborn
babes.
Divided up, it means that the hand
that smites the fly would have to move
at the rate of 22.614,12O times per sec
ond, and never miss a fly.
Remembering always that even al
lowing for the destruction in their
ranks wrought by natural causes
bird, reptile and insect foes and their
own short span of life-the calcula-
tion is still limited not by the figures
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-07

aoduced, but by the amount Of g.,
on which the fits can batten o., >.
Is pertinent to observe that every a.,
possesses 10000 foot hairs
Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-30
THE REPUBLICAN, TICKET.

The republicans nominated ticket of true. and tried men last night and they should command the confidence and respect of their party because their past management of public af- fairs gives assurance of satisfactory future administration of the business of the town.
 It should be borne in mind that the issue upon the liquor question is not . partisan question-there is no polit- ical liquor party. Concessions are con- stantiy made to these two organized forces by both parties in order to hold their divided support in political matters, and on Monday men of all political convictions will be voting to- gether for license and for no-license.
 Republicans who are level headed will vote from convictions, not from prejudices aroused by the discussion of the liquor question and side Issues resulting from personal differences of opinion of the leaders arrayed against one another upon this important nor al and social Issue.
 We should keep sweet and good natured, do our duty with sincerity, and respect one another's opinions. Rashness never yet produced rational or satisfactory results.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-30
OTHER PEOPLES MONEY.

There was. a day and people who put the right estimate upon debts. It was the Romans who defined debt as "other peoples money" And the con- sensus of opinion of New England merchants is that too many folks are walking about with other folks money in their pockets when 1t should be op- erating fin business or drawing divi- dends for its real owners in the banks , The Bridgeport Telegram makes telling points when it says: Long credit carelessly granted by retail merchants to their customers is one of the greatest economic curses of the United States. It necessarily increases the price of goods to the cash buyer and he is obliged to pay the bills of delinquent neighbors because the mer- chant must make up for his losses or go out of business"
 Long credit never did stand for quick profits-they stand for a burden car- ried by the wrong man; and where they are too numerous they represent slow and antiquated people. The man who is never out of debt is never in very high favor unless his collateral is known to be more than sufficient to meet all his obligations. The man who gets most that's enjoyable out of life and contributes to the success and happiness of others is he who pays promptly and keeps good money in healthy circulations.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-30
FOR FALL BLousEs.

Several little points have bobbed up for the amateur maker of the new fall blouse. She will recognize in them, first the renewed sanction of the shirt waist So long as the coat suit exists and is renewed and i'm proved upon Gas in the coming fall models). the blouse will spring forth with some fresh touch
 A tendency exists in favor of a long shoulder line, whether it be got by the actual cut or the trimming.
 The banded bishop sleeve will prob ably be a favorite in the lingerie blouse.
 The sheer frill in front of the heav- fer blouse will most frequently be used down the left side or crossing from the left shoulder to the waist line.
 Yokes of lightweight linen are to be introduced in some of the heavier linen blouses and the collar in all gar ments of the better quality is to be made to match it. This last is. no doubt, natural turning away from the low priced separate collar.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-30
DELICIOUS MINT JELLY,

Mint Jelly-a jelly of a delicate green and delicious with roast lamb is not difficult to make. One who has had success with it gives directions as follows:
 "Crabapples-the light-colored kind should be selected-are the foundation. cook these until they are very soft, and let them strain through cloth bag over night. In the morning I measure the liquor, and to every pint of juice I put an equal quantity of su- gar. Then I let the fruit juice come to hard boil adding, when 1t begins to boil, a dozen sprays of mint to ev- cry pint of juice. This mint I first tie up in cheesecloth bag. When the juice of the mint has boiled for Is minutes I take out the mint and add the sugar, which has been heated in the oven. After the sugar is added the mixture should boil until it jellies, us ually about five minutes. Then I add a little harmless green coloring mat ter, minute amount. to suggest mint, as the mint leaves will not lend a pret- ty color. The flavor of the crabapple Is not perceptible and the mint flavor will set your mouth watering. Not only is the jelly tasty. but it is exceed ingly attractive to the eye"
Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-30
HOLDING DOWN THE CANAL
 FLOOR.

While every American citizen real izes that the Panama canal is tre- mendous undertaking, he does not un- derstand the things that the engineers are doing to make it stable against slight disturbances.
 Although the floor of the Gatun lock of the Panama canal is of concrete thirteen feet thick, it is being anchor ed down to the bedrock by means of lengths of railroad track.
 The floor of this canal will repre- sent a. weight of 100000 tons and it will be covered by forty-fve feet of water, so to those who do not under stand the conditions, it seems astound- ing that it should be found necessary to hold it down by any other means than it's own weight.
 This provision is needed to take care of the strain when it is found neces- sary to let the water out of the canal. The withdrawal of this great quantity of water might possibly wreck the canal if some provision were not made to take care of it.
 The danger of such an occurrence is somewhat more probable in this par ticular case than is encountered un- der ordinary circumstances, owing to the near presence of the lake, the wa ter of which might exert considera- ble pressure on the outside walls of the canal lock upon the withdrawal of the canals water.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-30
VISITING CARDS.

The size of visiting cards vary from year to year, but persons of good taste make it a rule not to follow all of fashions vagaries in this direction. Cards of medium size and square ef- fect-they are somewhat longer from right to left than from top to bottom are much used by fashionable wom- en, those used by the married women being somewhat larger than those by the unmarried. Cards for men are more slender, but the old narrow slip once used by them is quite out of date. The fashionable card for men meas ures within a fraction of three and three-quarters inches in length and two in width. Ths came size is per- fectly suitable for women, though, of course, the squarer shape is the more stylish.
 Script and old English lettering are used, but a plain Roman lettering gives the best effect, and such plain, sound, black lettering is always in vogue.
 Bristol board is pure white, with the surface polished but not glazed, shapes the card, and except for the name of the person and the house address there is no other engraving; so that those who persist in adding a family crest or any other ornamenta- tion do not understand the incest sides of this social custom. Cards with beveled edges are distinctly passe, and if they are gilded they ex- press the height of bad taste.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-30
HE RECOGNIZES rHE DANGER.

The fact that President Taft recog- nizes the power of the banquet to un- do him Is assurance that he will not in this extensive trip of his allow the people to over-stuff him, or tempt him to an indulgence in mixed dain- ties. which wfll do him more harm than good. He Is not afraid of corned beef and cabbage or any other plain and wholesome food. but mixed meats and mixed sweetmeats and mixed drinks and inordInate indulgence and irregular hours will not support bone nud muscle or keep a man intellectu- ally bright.
 The Providence Journal is right when it says:
 There Is something barbaric in the customary public dinner as it is given in this country. The menu is iff- variably long and tedious nor does one menu differ from another in glory. The experienced guest knows in ad- vance exactly what he is going to have. Of course, it is not necessary to limit the fare to beef and cabbage in order to achieve a certain measure of sim plicity. But the weary round from oysters to cheese might easily be va ried. The trouble 1s no doubt, that most of the diners on these occasions have the opportunity to feast elabor- ately only on rare occasions; and if they are paying five or ten dollars apiece they like to feel that they are getting the value of the money. Not being skilled epicures. they measure this value in quantity, rather than in quality. The distinguished guest, however, is certain to have sat at hundreds of similar banquets before and to have been sated with epicurean titbits'''
 President Taft has given notice what he thinks of these banquets and what a peril they are to a mans well-being and in his inclination to avoid them as much as possible shows that he will take care of himself without re- gard to how the other banqueters may feel about it.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-30
PRESIDENT MELLENS GREAT
 TASK,

President Mellen makes masterly showing in the years report of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, and while there is stiIl a small deficit, the indications are that he will achieve his purpose in hold ing the stock up to it's old value by sustaining the dividends, which some stockholders have openly declared it would be impossible for him to do.
 The fiscal twelvemonth ended with the thirtieth of last June, and in the period since then the showing has been considerably improved, so that at the present time the eight per cent. dividend is we'll assured. The pro- posed increase in the capital stock of the company will be variously regard ed, but Mir. Mellen is quoted as say ing that he hopes and expects the div idend to be maintained at the old rate, and his past achievements leave no doubt that he will accomplish his purpose. A man of less resourcefui- ness would have been discouraged be- fore this; but he lacks neither conf dence nor ability in facing this great task.