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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
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What does your husband like for
his breakfast" Anything / haven't
! got in the ouse."-CleyelandLe Leader.
Bess-"That's a quaint ring you're
wearing. Is it an heirloom?" Tess
-"Well. 1t dates from the Con-
quest."-Cleveland Leader.
My sense of sight is very keen,
My sense of hearing weak;
One time | saw a mountain pass
But could not hear its peak.
Oliver HEREFORD.
Diner Ito innkeeper's wife,
"What Schiller Is in poetry and
! Raphael in painting, so are you in
understanding" - Meggendorfer
Blaetter.
Fat Man-"What! Are you going
to let this small boy shave me?"
Barber-"Let the boy have his fun
for once. It Is his birthday, SIR
Fliegende Blaetter. I;
Lady-"What makes these peaches
so unusually high, my MANI
Rooney, the Peddler-"Well, tits this
way, mem-they come from the top
o. the tree."-Puck.
Wife-"Here's another invitation
to dine at the Flatleys. What a bore
those occasions are" Hub-"Yes;
even their dinner knives are DULL
Boston Transcript.
The Flower Girl-"Yus, the pore
dear gal fell downstairs and broke
'er leg, an now 1t s flew to 'er cad,
an she's got orsefriction of the cellu-
loid cavity. The Sketch. ,
A young mar in Pratt said to the
divine object of his alteration: do
you think your father would object
to me marrying you?" She replied!
II don't know. If he's anything like
me he would. kansas City Star.
Mrs. Hayseed (indignantly)-
Here's an article, Hiram, that SEE in
Tormosa a wife costs S." Mr.. Hay
seed CATER some thought)-"Wa-al.
I reckon a good wife's with it,
Judge.
She smuggled in a set of furs,
She struggled in a gown;
And oh, what righteous wrath was ners
The day they called her down!
Public Ledger.
81 see that royal blood has been
discovered in an old American fam
ily." Don't believe 1t. Some gossip
is always making a slam at u
old families. philadelphia Public
Ledger.
Here is a telegram from papa"
says the clipping bride. HE says for
US to come right home and live with
him and mamma" II didn't think he
would be so vindictive as all that"
signs the clipping bridegroom.-From
Life.
Macdougall-"Yon's an awful like
sight to see on the Sawbeth, Angus!"
Angus-"And what awful like sight
do ye see, Macdougall?" Macdougall
There's Archie an his lass smil'
ing and hurrying as if 1t was a week
day just" :
Vicar (who does a little stock rails
ing)-"How' are you, Mrs. jenkins!
I'm sorry to say that I haven't seen
you at church lately" Mrs. Jenkins
Eyes, sir, that's so. I'avent been
so regular as T used, but-(conf-
dentially)-I don't 'ardly dare, for !
no sooner see you a-comin' out of the
vestry after the choir but I think Of
that there pig as I owes you for
Punch.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
Mermaid For Breakfast.

A stranger meal than any ever par
taken by Frank auckland or the most
hardened and cosmopolitan traveller
is described by Juan Francisco de st.
Antonio in his account Of his travels
and adventures in the Philippine ISL
ands, published at Manila in 1888.
In this curious little work the author
tells us that he once breakfasted on
a mermaid, and he further gravely
describes it's flavor as being like
fresh fat pork.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
The Real Thing.

whats doing in the way o.
emusements?" asks the newcomer Of
the old inhabitant of Hades.
Baseball game every afternoon
answers the old inhabitant.
Baseball? You don't mean it!
That's great! I was a fan from way
back on earth. On the square, dc
you have baseball every day."
Sure thing"
by ginger! This place suits me
Baseball, Say this can't be Hades.
then"
Yes, it is. The home team always
loses. Life.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
THE BLACK CANYON OF THE
GUNNISON.

The Lord. He smote a racecourse here. two
hundred fathoms deep.
All lined with frowning craes OF black,
piled granite heap on heap,
And then He loosed the waterway and
babe His horses leap.
And so they rush with snow white names
where suns rays seldom glance;
All. how their foam aecked heads are
tossed, and how those white names
dance.
And he who seeks to ride those steeds has
not a feathers chance.
The ages come, the ages 60, and cities dot
the plain, ,
And then the cities vanish, as the dust
yields to the rain.
But still the Lords white horses race be-
tween those black walls twain.
Arthur Chapman, in the Denver Re-
publican.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13

lumbago. I decided to try Doan'e
Kidney Pills and a short while after
l began using them | was able to
walk. After taking seven boxes !
threw away my clutches and the
lumbago has not returned from that
day to this. Through using. Doan.s
Kidney Pills l am to-day a healthy
man."
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
Dress Trimmings.

Jet and spangled robes used to be
sufficient in themselves without being
trimmed or made elaborate in any
way. Now they must not only be
combined with lace and satin, but the
paillettes themselves must be used
with hand embroidery and pearls or
let.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
K

[ always like the freakish verse,
The kind that runs downstairs;
The kind that circles round the page,
Or does it's turn in squares.
It's fun to see the poets stunts,
Helped by the typo men; .,
Just see again.
the way runs up
this runs and then
down hill
{ do not think that people ought
To keep the same old gait;
They ought to break loose now and then
And keep an evening '~"late."
A long straight line, without a break,
Is bad for verse or men;
up hill
this runs and then
the way runs down
Just see again.
Boston Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
Braidin1.

A smarter way of employing braid
ing nowadays than as a regular trim
ming Is to use it as if it we're embroid-
cry, very fine braid, closely set, form
ing applied emplacements. pocket
flaps, deep hens to long ~stoles, elbow
cuffs and quantity shaped supple
buckles or simulated clasps.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
Got the Worst of 1t.

"Did you have a pleasant time at
the picnic, Ronald? I trust that you
remembered to fietcherize, and masti-
Gated each mouthful 100 times"
"Yes'm, an while I was chewin' my
first bite the other boys ct up all the
grub. From Life.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13

to March, 1897, |.
was confined to the
house, an invalid,
from kidney trouble.
For months | had
tottered about on
crutches, a discour.
aged and '~despairine
man. was prac.
tically crippled with
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13

A big fortune awaits the man who
r~ediscovers the lost art Of the Sar.
acens, who made sword blades so
keen that they could cut in two the
best Sheffield blades of the present
day.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
Again.

With the advent of crepe for the
gown there has been a revival of all
materials of that class. Seersucker
has been called back, and, standing
out from among the less expensive
qualities. there is the East Indian
seersucker, which may be got through
the importer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
!: 81: 81 ;5;:;s:::'%';:s::::s::Thompson'sEye Water.

Poison from eating vanilla sauces
Or ice cream thus favored Is not un
known. Vanilline favors the growth
of certain poisonous germs. Vanilla
sauces and ice cream should be eaten
when first cooked or frozen.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
Pretty Belts.

Ribbons of various kinds are used
with handsome buckles for belts,
though the fashionable ones show the
printed flowers overstitched with silk
floss. The idea is good in trimming
and brings out the flower in an en-
bossed effect.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13

To build a tunnel under the Eng
Iish Channel. according to present
project, would entail an expenditure
If $75,000,000
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13

For a number of years Washington
has been far and away the largest
lumber producing State in the Unioni
and it still is ahead, but last year
Louisiana nearly caught up with it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
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S2 0~z@AOz~ ~

New York City.-The blouse that
Is tucked over the shoulders yet plain
at the front is a favorite one just
now, for it allows most effective use
of embroidery, soutache and trimming
of the sort. This one is designed for
young girls and includes the new
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
,Jabots on PIaStronS.

Jabots are usually worn on b
transparent plastrons of thu shawl
fashioned corsages.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
White and Black.

White serge is one of the suit ma
terials that is being smartly lined
with black satin.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
YEARS OF 1T.

A Dark Picture to Look Back Cpon.
John Corey, Constable, Attlca, N.
Y. SAYS: From September, 1896,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
PROPORTIONS Considered.

The proportions Of the wearer
must always be taken into considera-
tio1 when deciding upon a model.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13

tucked sleeves and is altogether at
tractive. In the illustration 1t ls
shown made plain in one instance.
with an embroidered front in the
other, and it is equally smart treated
in both ways. 1t is adapted both to
the odd waist and to the entire dress
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13

indigestion or any stomach or liver ailment.
Munyon's Paw-Paw Pills regulate the.
bowels, correct indigestion, constipation.
biliousness, torpid l~ivers, jaundice, sallow
and dull compilations. They purify the
blood and clear the skin of pimples, sores
and most eruptions.
One pill is a gentle laxative; two pills a
thorough physic. They do not grippe. they
do not weaken. Price Is cents.
MUNYON'S REMEDY CO.,
SD and Jefferson Sts., Phila., Pa.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
5 5sss 'sss, ts:sssr ct Fl

,HIt.pREN LICK TIE SPOON. Relieves Flatuleney, Correct,
Grtninr Aids Digestion. CSC, ALL DXU0GisTa
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-04
FAIR
FOUNDED ON RIGHT PRINCIPLES

The question as to whether or not
there is room in Walla Walla for a
manufacturing institution employing
any number of men, women or chill
dren, is not a sentimental one. 1t is
solely a business proposition for the
man or men who pay their money
each week for the required labor. If
product cannot be produced of such
merit to enable it to be sold on bust
ness basis, it is a matter of regret and
one that most vitally concerns some
one else than a competitor in the same
line of business.
1t is rather an alleged cute" dodge,
if the competitor can make it work,
for him to assume the under dog
attitude and make the business COM
munity believe that the salvation of
their own businesses depends upon
how long he can conduct a business
upon a sentimental basis.
The Statesman cannot recall. just
at the present writing Of a candy
manufacturer. who has been sue
cessful in meeting his bills, or Sc
curing a line of credit, on such a
basis. Neither can it recall a hard
ware dealer who depends upon any
thing but the merits of his goods, and
the ability of his clerks to swell the
daily volume of business. Should one
Of them go whining around the city
begging for business with the under
dog" gag, he would probably be given
another kick and reminded of the fact
that it frequently happens that the
drubbing than he got
When the Davis Kaiser Co, Hanger
& Thompson. Motter- Wheeler Co, the
Chicago Store, or the Skiles Dry
Goods Co, decided to add another de-
partment to their business, do we
hear anything about monopoly or
the under dog?" Most certainly not
The addition of another department is
made for the purpose of increasing the
volume of business without material
ly increasing the rent, their light
charges, or their help. There is no SEN
timent about it.
When the owners of the machinery,
who also pay rent on the Mottet
building on East Alder street decided
TO add the additional department TO
tHell buHlHeSS' tISS ulu So lioil pulC-
ly a business standpoint. 1t was be-
lieved that the thousands of dollars
worth of machinery could be used
sixteen hours each day instead Of
eight. They believed that the inter
est on the investment would be no
greater by using the machinery six
teen hours; the rent would be no
greater and many economies could be
accomplished. When one of the other
establishments of the city installs a
new department do we, or anybody,
accuse them of doing so for reasons
other than business sagacity or bust
ness economy? Any other reason adj
Vanced is meer buncombe.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-04
PROPERTY OWNERS HAVE
PETITION FOR COUNCIL
Will Ask City Lawmakers to Remedy
Defect in Record Which
Affects Title

A petition will be presented to the
council tonight by the property owners
in Isaacs third addition to the city Of
Walla Walla, asking the council to cure
a defect in. the record, which is held
to affect the title to about every lot in
said addition. 1t seems that in May,
1900, H. P Isaacs, then the owner of all
the lots in Isaacs third addition, pre-
scented a petition to the council, ask
ing that the plat of said addition be
vacated, and the amended plat of the
addition offered at the same time, be
substituted.
The council promptly granted the Pc
tition and passed ordinance No. 706,
which vacated the old plat and substi-
tuted the amended plat. Now it seems
that because no notice for thirty days,
or any other time, was given, as re-
quired by law, the old plat is still in
effect in legal contemplation and a
street runs from Boyer avenue to
Isaacs avenue, through the middle of
the addition and University street runs
where the alley now is plated be-
tween University and Pearsons, and
some twenty lots have clouded titles,
which the petition seeks to correct.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-04
BUSINESS IS FIRST INTESEST
Continued From Page One.)

from local manufacturers. Estimating
that sum at four per cent and it would
amount to $4,000. We have Just raised
a publicity fund of 10000; that money
sent away for goods is lost to this
city; 1t never comes back.
When Mr.. Richardson, of Portland.
was here starting the publicity move
ment, he made the statement that one
good college was worth 10 busted fac
tories; that we did not need factories.
We do not want busted factories-we
want live, paying establishments. Mr..
Richardson, you must remember was
from Portland. He may have had an
ak to grind. 1t is quite probable that
he was instructed by the big business
interests of Portland to make such
statements to us, so the business go
Ing to that point would not dwindle
away.
I'VE do want factories; but what we
want more is for Walla Walla people
to stand loyalty by those interests now
to get more manufactures; the as
slstance must be mutual. I have been
informed that some of the biggest
business men of the city are send
ing away for their printing, when we
have. up on East Alder street. one of
the finest printing establishments to
be found anywhere in the west. Not
long ago / noticed in front of one of
one of the railroad offices a rocker ad-
dressed to a prominent business man,
and it was shipped from Portland; 1
am convinced there were five or more
Walla Walla establishments that could
have supplied, that same chair as well
as did the Portland firm
IF the business interests won't
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-04
HINES SUES BURLINGAME
AND ASKS $500 JUDGMENT
Plaintiff Claims Nearly That Amount
Is Due Him on Hay Deal Which
the Two Entered.

Because of an alleged hay deal, in
which he claims that he is still minus
the sum of $696.S5, suit was COM
menced in the superior court this af-
ternoon by c. w Hines against E. c..
Burlinghame.
The plaintiff states that he made an
agreement with the defendant whereby
he was to be paid a stipulated price
for various kinds of hay. According 1"
the contract, which he still retains,
Hines sold 70 tons of baled alfalfa at
1925 per ton making a total of $606.S5
He also sold "a tons of timothy at 81
per ton and AZ tons of alfalfa in the
stack at IS per ton, making in all an
aggregate sum of $1446.S5.
Having been paid by Burlinghame
$3.50, the plaintiff yet insists that he
has due him $696.S5, that no part of
this has been paid and that he wants
it, Costs of the trial are also asked
of the court.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-04
STATES
CITY BUILDING
TABLE COMPARING GROWTH OF
THE CITIES OF THE MA
TON FOR 1908.
New York Is First, and Seattle, Al
though Comparatively Small, Stands
Seventh in the List.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 4.(Spe-
ciaD-The total cost of the buildings
erected in the principal cities of the
United States in 1908 was $546, 467, $50,
according to jefferson Middleton of the
United States geological survey, who
has collected statistics on this subject
in connection with his Investigations
of the clay-working industries. In 1907
the cost of buildings in these same
cities reached a total of. $626,14S,S90
The decrease in cost in 1903 therefore
amounts to $79.6S1, 500, or 1913 per
cent. The following table shows the
number of permits issued and the cost
of buildings erected in each of the
cities:
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-04
SUPPORTING A NEWSPAPER.

1t is only in the small cities and
towns that a newspaper manages to
exc out living by whining" that the
business community should support it.
1t is only theer, and only in some
Of those places, that the sentimental
excuse is used to make a living for the
editor. Even in some country towns
the editor has business instinct suffi-
cient to raise above the charity dodge.
In these towns you find the editor
hustling for subscribers and making
an effort to supply the news of the
community, thereby making it bust
ness proposition for the merchant to
buy advertising space. In a city the
size Of Walla Walla no business man
should be lead into buying advertising
space unless he believes he can use it
10 advantage He should not buy it be-
cause some one threatens him with
dire results. Instead, he should re-
fuse TO encourage business blackmail.
No one has an exclusive right to run
newspaper in Walla Walla any more
than another man has an exclusive
right to engage in the mercantile bust
ness. If a merchant buys space in a
newspaper for any other purpose than
expecting to make a profit out of it,
he is breeding trouble for himself and
the blackmailer who forces him to
90 something against his will. The
time for using space simply to help
the editor is past in Walla Walla. Ad-
vertising space is rapidly becoming a
commodity, selling for so much per
inch per thousand circulation. The
ficticious sentimental value will soon
have no standing. 1t is now something
of real value, to be placed in the hands
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-04

of competent statesmen, and sold the
same as any other commodity. All this
die the community, has only one pur-
pose. and that is coerce or force the
the newspaper business upon some
other basis than true and legitimate
one. Just because there are half
dozen papers in the city is no reason
why a merchant should be bambooZled
into buying space in all of them.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-04
Try to lmpeach.

SAN FRANCISCO, May AT
tempts on the part of the defense to
impeach the witnesses of the prosecu-
ton in the Calhoun trial were re-
sumed today when former Supervisor
Max Mamlock was called to the stand
He acknowledged that he received
$4,000 for his vote on the trolley fran
chise from Gallagher, who was the
chairman of the supervisors. The de-
Tense frequently called attention to the
alleged difference between the testi.
mony of the witness and the trans
cript of his evidence before the grand
jury.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-04

stand by home manufacturers, we will
not, to put it in those words, allow our
employees to come to you. l am not a
believer in this half hearted manner
and we must realize before long that
our manufacturing industries must be
supported"
O'Neil Has Regrets.
Charles H. O'Neil, editor of the
Prescott Spectator, and one of the
members of the A.-Y.-P. commission
from Walla Walla county, in following
Mr.. Conway, expressed deep regret in
the poor showing made by Walla
Walla county manufacturers in avail
ing themselves in the opportunity pre-
sented by the fair commission, to
make a good showing of articles man
ufactured here. When first called upon
Mr.. O'Neil said practically every man
ufacturer promised to be represented
by finished products, the display cost
to be entirely eliminated, and the
freight charges paid by the commits
sion.
When the time came for collecting
the exhibits of manufacturers, it was
found that all but a few of the more
enterprising firms had allowed the
matter to go by default, and not more
than half a dozen firms are represent
ed in the exhibit car that leaves to-
night for Seattle.
Mr.. O'Neil quoted figures that
showed an investment of two millions
of dollars in manufactures in this
county, and an annual income from
finished material of more than three
millions of dollars, with between 500
and 500 men employed. That so few
had taken advantage of the great Of
fer presented, he said, was the source
of deep regret on the part Of the fair
commission.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-04

binary person does that while only the
extraordinary person listens well. 1t
means wearing an expression of intel
ligent attention, hearing what is said,
being genuinely interested if possible
and if not possible, pretending to be.
The fine art of listening also in
cludes making the right kind of re-
mark when your companion ceases to
speak.
Some people will wear an express
sion of very intelligent interest while
you are talking and when you have
finished will make some remark which
will show that they have not thought
at all of what you were saying.
Other people will perfunctorily ap-
plaud your stories and then tumble
over themselves to cap them by others
with such unseemly haste that you in
stantly realize that they have all the
time been thinking of what they were
going to say next and not of what
you were saying.
A thorough mistress of this gentle
art makes all her friends depart from
her feeling that they have talked well.
And the odds are that they will be
more anxious to visit her again than
they will the clever maiden who sends
them away with the feeling that she
has talked well.
The ability to listen we'll is a bust
ness as we'll as a social asset.
We were talking the other day about
young man who had made an I'M
usual success as commercial traveller
81 can't understand it," said one of
us. He never struck me as such a
wonderful talker"
Perhaps not" said another, "but he
is better than that-he's wonderful
listener"
Last, but not least, the people who
really do listen intelligently are in a
fair way to absorb something that is
worth knowing and to be able to say
something worth saying when they do
talk
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