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Evening star., 1909-06-27
BALKINESS.

You can beat q mule when the critter stops;
You can pull his IL wearlly hops;
You can pound him nightly here and there
As he gloomily stands with a patient air.
mules q mule. You make him feel:
You can light q bonfire beneath his keel:
You make him squirm, though he will nst
tote
But what can you do with motor boat?
Peoria Herald Transcript.
You can start IL IL you re on TO your job;
You can oil the crank OF the thingunbob
You can tighten the dinGus II Its loose,
Then open the valve and turn on the juice;
Put goo on the whizzer and twirl the crank;
Zee that the jigger hts snug on the shank.
II the thing still bxlks. spite OF NIL your care.
You can sit in the stern of the boat aud swea4t
Chicago Tribune.
Evening star., 1909-06-27
A WOMAN'S WAY.

Her husband will get loaded"
He'll 90 the primrose way:
He'll squander all his earnings
And leave her to work by day;
Yet, when he 10 arrested
For this, without a doubt,
She'll promptly leave her washing
And 90 and bail him out.
Her husband will deprive her
or comforts In the home.
He'll club her and he'll snub her
And he'll go away to roam;
But does she say, You scoundrel,
I'll have you up for ths:"
Ali, no, she tells the neighbors
That her life is perfect bliss.
And thus 1t Is she labors
To keep him In her heart
To minimize his errors
Which leaves the sorest smart;
And though she's often foolish
In that she thwnrts the laws.
Should you ask her why she does II
She'll just answer you, Because.'
st. Louis Star.
Evening star., 1909-06-27
Delayed Luxuries.

Knowed him when he was a boy.
Many years ago.
Never saw a kid enjoy
Cake an pastry SO!
All along through dinner time
Used to hear him sigh.
Had enough O. plain food. I'm
Ready for the pie.
He's a statesman with a face
Known both west and east.
Holds a most important place
At the mental feast.
Through debate he sits at ease,
Yet. as time goes by.
Yawns as if he's thinkin', please
Pass along the pier
Evening star., 1909-06-27
COMES ON SUNDAY!

/ been good since vacation come,
An l tended the lawn,
/ washed my feet ev'ry evening, some,
An I afn't never gone
Out doors at night, ner fippin' ears,
Ner turtle fishin'
An amt eft them preserves o. mas
Without permission;
So whaddR you know about this here
An II amt no lie
/ got TO 90 to church. this year
On the fourth O. July,
-ClevelanA La
Evening star., 1909-06-27
Evident Misrepresentation.

"You say you have no faith in the sin
cerity of that man who signs himself
Constant Reader"
mo faith whatever" answered the ed
itor, wearily. las constant a writer as
he is couldn't possibly have time to read
much"
Evening star., 1909-06-27
Well Named,

whats that you call your mule?"
AZ calls him Corporation answered
the old colored man.
How did you come to give him such
name?"
"Fum studyin' de animal an readin'
de papers. Dat mule gifts mo- blame an
abuse dan anything else in de township
an goes ahead havin' his own way, jes'
de same"
Evening star., 1909-06-27
Heredity.

IT don't know what to make Of that
young spendthr.ft," said the prudent rela-
tive.
IT should say he is a victim OF hered-
ity," said Miss Cayenne. "It was a mis-
fortune to inherit a lot of money
Evening star., 1909-06-27

Baltimore has no fear that the railway
interests will undertake to reduce 1t to
the status of a way station whose most
important features are telegraph office
and a flower bed.
Evening star., 1909-06-27

The prohibition party is not making the
political capital that might be expected
of its declaration in plank No. 4 OF it's
succinct platform In favor OF equitable
graduated income and inheritance taxes"
Evening star., 1909-06-27
HIS SUMNER GAME.

A summer game my fancy suits
It Is the game Of picking routes.
All often has ambition scared
To routes that ! could ne'er afford.
study folders. and the trains.
And fnd rare pleasure for my pains;
And Jet. tis strange, I never use
The routes that thus ! pick and choose.
Cleveland Plain Deaias.
Evening star., 1909-06-27

Polar explorers do not express great
confidence in one another's expeditions
II will be q long time before anything
like a merger Is effected In arctic trans
portation.
Evening star., 1909-06-27

AS a man with reputation for distin-
guished silences, Judge Alton B. Parker
does not feel called upon to jump into
the tariff discussion.
Evening star., 1909-06-27
VERY POETIC.

She was so fair
He could but stare,
His optics opened wide.
Quite OF his guard
The festive bard
Grew truly saucer-eyed.
The poet viewed
Her pnlchrltude
And pruiscd it to the skies.
And did aver
He'd drink to her
With both his saucer-eycs.
Louisville Courier JourrA
Evening star., 1909-06-27

A vegetable diet is commended for sum-
mer. But 1t should not be accompanied
by ignorant experimentation with mush-
rooms.
Evening star., 1909-06-27

The income tax may be a reliable reve-
nue. raiser, but the democratic delegates
to Denver did not find 1t much OF a vote
winner.
Evening star., 1909-06-27

1t begins to look as II Sir Thomas Lip
tons cup-lifting enterprise would never
again get any farther than the debate on
rules.
Evening star., 1909-06-27

The Wright brothers have brought to
light the fact that the camera Is as In
dustriously employed In civilized regions
as in the hunting districts of Africa.
Evening star., 1909-06-27

Ii the predictions that farmers will use
automobiles in carrying produce comes
true a good-roads movement that really
means something may be looked for.
Evening star., 1909-06-27

Some anti-imperialist will doubtless be
holding before this country the fear Of a
Theodorus Africanus
Evening star., 1909-06-27

No genial persuasion on the part OF
Chauncey NJ. Depew WILL convince num-
ber of political personages that 1t IL O
Joke for a man to have to pay his own
railway fare.
Evening star., 1909-06-27

Wu Ting-fang thinks man should live
200 years, but is doubtless ready to make
an exception in the case of the Chinaman
who is wanted In New York for homicide.
Evening star., 1909-06-27

This summer the Chinese eating house
supersedes the roof garden as the scene
of sensational tragedy in New York.
Evening star., 1909-06-27
Dont's.

Don't eat too much.
Don't drink at all.
And il you'd find
Some comfort small
And slumber through
A peaceful night.
Don't read the "don'ts"
That people write.
Evening star., 1909-06-27
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Experience.

ut Is hard to succeed in finance with
out experience" said the observer.
YES" answered Mr.. Dustin Stax.
There must be experience: and one Of
the objects Of the game is to let other
people get most OF TT
Evening star., 1909-06-27

ER.oFed second.cisss mail matter at the post
ONCE at Washington. d. G.
Evening star., 1909-06-27

Half century ago there were very
few survivors of the war OF the revolu-
Evening star., 1909-06-27

There was trouble between the market
men and the authorities half a century
ago. and in discussion Of
Market the matter The Star in its
Rentals. ..-rho " ran.srs - ' iop'' of s.ams SUI
Evening star., 1909-06-27
ITALY AND HUNGARY In TRIPLICE

cial affairs OF Hungary and they claim
for Hungary the right to participate
in the Italian fetes under the Hungarian
flag. And they add in unison that II the
Wecker.e cabinet has not resigned there
would certainly be interpretations In the
Hungarian parliament.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-09

People talk about suffering from fear
but it seems to me that great many
people rather enjoy being afraid. How
else can you explain the way in which
many women coddle and foster an6
feed their fears?
OF course it has always been more
or less expected of women that they
should be afraid of things.
Some men enjoy cowardice in a Wo-
man as much as women enjoy courage
in a man. Women know this ten
dency and play upon it. | don't be-
lieve one woman in ten is really and
truly very much afraid Of a mouse
and yet l don't think more than one
woman in ten dares to appear not to
be-
But it isn't against the young girl
who knows that a certain degree OF
timorousness is part of her appeal to
the other sex and who therefore cult
Yates it, that / am inveighing. l be-
leve too thoroughly that ''all's fair in
love and war
It's the grown-up women who have
long ceased to plot against the other
sex and who still go on coddling their
terrors that l object to.
I know several women who are
afraid of lightning Not one of them
makes any effort to overcome this ter
ror, but every time a thunderstorm
breaks they all give themselves up
whole heartedly to the luxury of being
afraid.
One of them insists that all her fam
lily shall gather around her and sit in
chairs each leg of which has been
placed in a tumbler. Another fees to
a dark closet and crouches in the cor
ner till the storm is over.
All of them talk during the storm
of nothing else than the fear they have
of lightning, things they have read
about people who were killed by
lightning and terrible storms they
have known.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-09
EVENING
By...
Ruth
Cameron

A woman who lives near me has
/ always been afraid of hydrophobia
| She has coddled and petted this fear
until it has become one of the most
| absorbing interests of her existence.
| No mention of a death by hydro
| phobia or of a mad dog scare in the
newspaper ever escapes her. She has
read about the disease in medical
books. She mover meets a doctor with
out getting him to talk on the subject.
Ona of the greatest events of her life
was meeting a man who had had hy-
drophobia and getting him to detail
his experiences. And last but moi
least she keeps a scrap book in which
she has posted all the cures for hy-
drophobia that have been published
for the last 80 years. She had 1871 the
last time I saw her.
Is it any wonder that she has man.
aged to convince herself that she is
going to die of hydrophobia, and that
the mere sight of dog fills her with
terror?
| If the women who are afraid of
lightning made point of talking of
other subjects, reading some, especially
interesting book or busying themselves
with some exceptionally absorbing
task during storms, the chances are
that they might forget to be afraid
If the woman who so much breads
hydrophobia puts the subject out of
her mind kept a pet dog and made
herself realize what harmless creatures
dogs are under proper conditions she
would probably have nothing left but
vague fear of that undoubtedly dread
disease.
But the trouble is that they're all
rather like the chronic dyspeptic who
was found looking unusually gloomy.
Whats the matter?" inquired his
friends
"Oh DEAR" groaned the dyspeptic,
give eaten something that agreed
with me-"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-09

NEW YORK, Oct. 9.-Among the
important news events scheduled for
the coming week are the following
Moncay.
President Taft arrives at Los An
geles, Calf, spends two hours of the
morning visiting his sister, Mrs. Will
liam A. Edwards. visits San Pedro
harbor and enjoys ather amusements
planned n his honor.
Case started by President Roose-
welt against the Indianapolis News in
Connection with Panama canal fund
resumed at indianapolis in the United
States circuit court
Disciples of Christ begin celebration
of centennial of their church at Pitts
burg. Pa.
Arthur P Heinze, brother o- F..Au-
gustus, with whom he has been ac-
cused of irregular banking and cop
per operations appears before United
States circuit court, New York. to re-
ceive sentence for impeding justice.
Mrs. Judson Harmon, wife of Ohio's
governor addresses Ohio Newspaper
Women's association at Columbus.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-09
The Coming Week
Day By Day

Annual conventio Of order of Moose
meets at Washington.
Five hundred delegates gather al
Richmond, Va, for national wholesale
druggists annual convention.
Rochester, n. Y, celebrates 18th
anniversary as a city by opening mon
ster industrial exhibition.
Master horseshoers meet in annual
session at Davenport. Ia
Tuesday.
Pittsburg, Pa, completes plans to
hold biggest Columbus day celebra ton
in the country this evening. Guests
will be from all states.
Over 10000 members of organized
labor will march in parade in Wash
ingtOn, in honor of Samuel Gompers,
recently returned from Europe
President Taft leaves Los Angeles
in the eevning for several short stops
in Arizona.
Supreme court of Portland, Me,
hears suit filed by Samuel Jarvis and
Newman Erb against F. Augustus
Heinze, accusing him of trying to Sc
cure control of the board of directors
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-09
THE EVENING STATESMAN wAILA WAIIA WASHINGTON

Steers may be fattened upon very
economy in the production of meat.
The quantity of feed furnished fat
proportion of the feed digested by the
animals. The more feed eaten the less
in proportion will be digested.
One lot of steers which was fed 20
per cent less of the same feed than a
second lot, produced per cent more
flesh.
Steers can be continuously expert
| mented upon and fed in stalls for a
long period under normal and practi-
cal conditions in such a way that they
thrive and fatten as we'll at least as
steers do when fed in the feed lot
during the same period of the year
and upon the same feeds. This newly
demonstrated fact is of great impOr-
lance in scientific investigation for
only in such stalls can all waste pro-
ducts from the animals be collected.
While this work goes into the chem
zeal laboratory and though many pro-
cesses and calculations which we can
not follow, yet the practical farmer is
vitality interested in the results and
conclusions, which are easy to under
stand. 1t is simply new and neces-
sary way of a answering instead of
guessing at-great practical questions
in the economic production of beef,
pork and mutton upon lands which are
rapidly increasing in money value
While decreasing in productiveness I'M
der former methods.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-09
With the Small Farmer
New Steer Feeding Test

The Animal Husbandry department
of the University of Illinois has car
ried out a most important nine months
experiment to find the food require
ments of mature rattenIng steers. the
maintenance requirements of such
steers, the influence of the total feed
and the proportional quantities of diff
ferent feeds upon the digestibility of
the food elements: the influence of
the total feed and total nitrogen of the
feed upon the use of nitrogen made by
the steers: the effect of the quantity
and kind of feed upon the quality Of
the meat produced and upon the special
activities of the animal organs This
experiment was conducted by Prof H
w. Mumford. head of the department
and by Prof. H. S. Grindley. head of
the laboratory Of physiological chem
istry. The full results and conclu-
sions are not yet ready for publication.
but the methods are of interest as
shOWink how science tackles such a
job, and what a deal of mental and
manual labor are required to learn a
little new truth.
twenty 2-year-old Hereford steers
as nearly uniform as possible were
selected. Four We're reserved for later
use and sixteen divided into four
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-09

groups They all got the same kind
of feed and in the same proportion, but
ton, just sufficient food to maintain
the body weight without change; group
4, all they would eat and groups and
stood at equal intervals between the
above two in amount of feed
Another division of the animals was
made into four series, each series con-
tanning one steer from each of the four
groups. Two of these series, eight
steers in all, were put into specially
prepared digestion stalls where a care
full and accurate account was taken of
all the food and the excretory products,
and the remaining two series We're fed
in ordinary stalls In all instances the
feed. the water and all the animals
were weighed. and in all other respects
the entire twenty steers We're given the
same general attention.
The proportion of roughage to con-
centrates, beginning with a ratio of /: Il,
was gradually changed to 1:3, and
again to Is. Ground oil meal was
added near the close of the feeding
period, which continued for nearly nine
months.
In the digestion test chemical an
alyses were made to determine the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-09

amounts of nitrogen. crude protein,
actually consumed, digested and ex-
creted. Eight of the animals was con-
out the experiment and all waste was
collected at once. Detailed records
teresting items that happened during
each "a hours
ton tests have been intermittent and
of only five to ten days duration, but
this test was continuous from the be-
ginning to the end of the whole expert
ment giving far better knowledge of
animals
The Illinois station is the second or
third in the United States to undertake
elaborate and thorough chemical
studies in connection with the prob
lens of economic, scientific and prac-
teal methods of fattening beef cattle.
And this is by far the most extensive
feeding and digestion experiment ever
conducted.
The methods here followed are en-
tirely new and quite different from
those ever used before. A large num-
Der of animals are experimental upon
at once and for long periods, thus in
results. The steers are kept under
conditions very nearly the same as
upon the farm. Following are some of
the new and interesting results Of fun
damental Importance:
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-09
Some New Desk Styles.

In desks, those with the colonial
scroll posts of dull finish mahogany
are very popular. A new idea in the
Craftsman work is the open desk hav
ing drop shelf operated in the man
ner of those of a sectional bookcase
which may be lowered over the pig
eonholes, keeping the dust from let
ters and papers when the desk is not
in use The desk table is gaining in
popularity, since economy of space is
desideratum in these flat-dWelling
days. This has desk top that slides
out like drawer usually with ink
well and pen grooves sunk in it, An
other combination piece is a Morris
chair on mission lines. having shelves
for books and magazines beneath the
wide arms.
In the smaller pieces of furniture
the Martha Washington sewing table
with it's crystal knobs cleaning
quantity adds a honey touch to the
bedroom. Smoking tables, copper
mounted, with a raised back to hold
a piperack, are essential furnishing
for the den.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-09
Ter imperishable designs.
Living Room Selections.

For the comfortable, unpretentious
living room, which is fast making any
sort of a parlor seem a painful tradi-
ton, there is nothing can be selected
with greater safety than a modified
mission or colonial style in fumed
oal' A new model in this line is call
ed the flanders furniture, strongly
suggestive of Dutch sturdiness in it's
low tones and bowl motif This is
also particularly good for the dining
room or library. For the dining room
pieces cane is effectively employed in
the seat and back of the chairs. Ma
hogany is still favored, in the more
expensive woods, but always in the
dull finish.
An imitation of the popularCircas-
sian walnut has just appeared, called
satin or gum walnut, which is very
inexpensive and will no doubt be
much used where the lighter toned
woods are desired.
London, which sets the fashion in
furniture as Paris does in dress, has
attempted a revival of the William and
Mary perior, but as these styles ne
cessarily are only possible to the ex-
tremeiy affluent it is not expected
to gain great sway. Much interest
has been shown in the Adam revival.
however To the layman the Adam
furniture is distinguishable fro msim-
liar styles by the shield device, as dis
tinct from the mirror or ladder or
Japanese developments of the Chip
pendale and Sheraton
Cane Furniture Revived.
A direct outcome of this Adam re-
vival is the cane furniture now con-
siderably used. The framework, usu-
ally in Louis XVI style. may be of
walnut or some wood enameled in
gray or white, preferably, though
boudoir sets have been made in deli
cate pinks and blues. The bedroom
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-09
Wednesday,.

Rhode Island republican state con-
convention begins at Providence
President Taft makes short stops at
Phoenix and Prescott, Ariz.. and is
greeted by crowds at several small
stations along his route.
Annual meeting of Boston & Maine
railroad directors takes place in Bos-
ton; since New Haven railroad has
acquired control of the B. & NJ, it is
believed President Lucius futile, of
the latter road will retire.
Brotherhood of ST Andrew begins
twentyfourth national convention at
Providence, R l.
Stanley Nazarko and Thomas Willis,
sentenced to hang at Wilkes Barre.
Pa, tomorrow prepare to die. Nazar-
ko killed his common-law wife and
Willis murdered Cameron Cool. a
wealthy horseman
Society of the Army of the Cumber-
land holds reunions at Chattanooga.
Tenn.
American ShipbuiIding company
holds annual meeting in Jersey City,
n. j. Minority holders of common
stock will seek stronger representa-
ton on the board.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-09

Thirteenth annual convention Of the
meets in Hopkinsville, Ky:
Suit of the United States government
against the Tobacco trust comes up fer
hearing before the supreme court
Regis Post. who recently resigned
as governor of Porto Rico, sails from
San Juan for New York
Thursday.
Japanese cruiser Irzuma, with
Prince Shimadzu arrives at San
Francisco to attend portfolio festivities.
Turkish government begins examina-
ton of various quick firing mountain
guns submitted by foreign competi-
tors in hope of securing Turkeys or
der
DR.. Ernest Fox Nichols, inaugurated
as president of Dartmouth college,
Concord, N Fl.
National dairy show opens at Mil
waukee, Wis.
President Taft spends day visiting
grand canyon of Arizona.
Friday.
King Alfonso opens Spanish cortes
in person.
San Domingo convenes its senate
and chamber of deputies in special ses-
sion to consider reform of tariff laws
Battleship North Dakota begins trial
trips over the Rocqland course.
Japanese commercial commissioner
to the United States arrive in Proyl- :
dence, r. l.
Resignation of Charles H. Trea'
United States treasurer takes effect
His successor is Lee McClung, treas
urer of Yale corporation.
Capt. Thomas Franklin, L. s. A. put
on trial in Army building, New 1ofA'
charged with irregular transactions
while stationed at West Point.
Anthony J. Biddle, PhiladeipnN'
author society man pugilist makes ue1
but as a rival of Caruso at puo"'
concert in the Bellevue Stra1ord ~
tel.
At Albuquerque, n. NJ, in the eve"
ing the present will attend DanQU'
and hear statehood discussed.
Saturday.
President Taft arrives at T.
Texas, where he receives WISH
President Diaz, of Mexico. the N"
lean president viii return the comp
ment twice over by leaving his GU
try's confines to participate ID
monies on the Mexican side OF INC
der. Secretary Ballinger JOINS
idential party. ..,s
Bryan day celebrated at sea-
exposition.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-09

When the little bride, flushed of
face and shy of demeanor, buys the
furniture this fall for the bungalow
or the smart city home, she is likely
to be bewildered at the variety of
woods and designs offered for her Sc
lection. Fashions in furniture change
as completely as fashions in dress,
though more gradually, to be sure.
One might suppose that revivals Of
certain periods in dress would coin
eide with the revival of the same
period in furniture, but instead we are
constantly confronted with the an
achronism of Empire, or 1880, or me-
and Mary or ultra-mOdern furniture
styles.
There are two general laws in the
Sc ection of furniture at the present
day that the little bride will do well
to follow. One is made clear by the
statement of buyer in one of the
largest furniture houses in the coun-
try, that they sell 20 pieces of furni-
ture in the dull, soft finish to one
with a high polish The other is that
the day of the ornate. carved, gin
gerbread" variety is past. Massive
effects, in colonial curves and mission
angles, are desired, except of course,
when schemes of period decoration de-
mand the Chippendale, or Sheraton,