The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-20

lolline- out over a brass muZZle. This
toy is made to sell at Sc. The pink
pig is another mechanical toy, cost
50, which will sell well. 1t squeaks,
rolls it's pink eyes and runs around in
circles.
North pole games will be legion,
although most of them are based on old
ideas For instance, a board is
marked with the route of the various
explorers, and the game is to deter
mine which, by a series of movements,
can reach the pole and return first in
safety. BY means of another board,
the question of which reached the pole
first, Peary or Cook, can easily be
settled A globe is half circled by two
sets of figures running from 1 to 6.
Peary and Cook, the players, get six
markers each, and these take turns in
coving the figured disks. If Peary leads
out by putting marker on and Cook
follows with one on 3, he announces
tinued until won, the victor being the
man who can first reach 81 with his
marker. There are many bariations of
old ideas all applied to the new game,
the goal always being the pole. Eskimo
dolls, Peary and Cook manilzins, rub
Der balls made in the shape of the
globe, with all it's familiar outlines
of continent and ocean. with the north
pole standing out prominently, are
common today.
The presence Of Roosevelt in Afri-
ca has also given the toy makers ideas,
elephants, lions and the like are many.
One of the oddities is the butec toy,
named after the butec, one of the queer
birds Mr.. Roosevelt bagged. The comic
supplement humorists are also drawn
upon for ideas for plaster and rub
Der figures.
Booklovers will be interested in an
auction sale to be held in New York on
Monday, when a great rarity. a first
edition of Edgar Allen Poe's CAL Aa-
raaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems,"
published in Biston in 1920, will be
knocked down to the highest bidder.
There will likely be a spirited contest
for possession of the rare and inter-
esting volume.
The book is from the library of
Frank Maier of this city, and it is the
copy which Poe gave to his cousin
Elizabeth, and contains his autograph
inscription, For My Cousin Elizabeth.
E. A. Poe
This copy, which is small Svo.,
plain cloth, with one cover detached,
first appeared in the auction room at
the George H. Moore sale in this city
in 1898. 1t was incorrectly and i'm
perfectly described in the catalogue,
and realized only SIS. 1t reappeared
in the Harold Pierce sale in Philadel-
phia in 1903, and then it brought $1,S25.
Another valuable Poe item is the
original manuscript, entirely in his au-
tograph, of his fugitive poem, "The
Spirits of the Dead" The variations,
printed versions are numerous. The
poem is written on two pages, four
quarto.
There is also an interesting auto
graph letter written by Poe from
Philadelphia, on June 4, 1912, to DR.. J.
Evans Snodgrass of Baltimore, dis
GUESSING at some length his famous
story 1.-The Murders in the Rue
Morg1ue'' and it's sequel "The Mystery
of Marie Roget" based upon the muir
der of Mary Cecilia Rogers in New
York
To consider the projects of Euro
pean countries, and learn what Amerf-
can sociologists have to offer by way
of caring for the aged, sick and dis
abled workers Of the nation, consti-
tute the principal business before the
National Civic Federation when it
meets in New York on Monday. The
following statement has been given out
as basis for consideration of this
topic:
What shall be done in the United
States with the aged, the sick, the dis
abled wage earners, whether employed
in private enterprise or by municipal,
state or national government? These
! are the problems which the ablest
statesmen of every nation in Europe
are trying to solve, beginning in 1871
| with Emperor Bismarck and coming