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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-23
Maud Powell.

Maud Powell was introduced to the
American music loving public by
Theodore Thomas at the concerts OF
the New York philharmonic and at MS
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-23

take effect and be in force from and
after five days after it's passage, ap-
prevail and publication.
Passed the Council December 81,
1909.
T. D. S. HART, City Clerk.
Approved December %, 1909
EUGENE TAUSICk, Mayor.
Published in Evening Statesman
December %. 1909.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-23
Valla Wdlla Passenger Train
Schedule
NORTHERN PACIFIC r. R.

NORTHERN PACIFIC R. R.
Dcoar'SS 1ot Is Seattle, Tacoma, Port
PascTI, "a 1P'', 6 30 A. M. and = 40 Z. NJ.
u.n m,'u Waitsburg (Mixed) -. 8 80 p. NJ.
F EayeRa and Pleasant View, Sunday :,
nu' only Mixed :.....1 10 A. III.
Ss.ttle Tacoma, Spokane, Portland, =,
I'LL. anu and Waitsburg (Mixed) Q 100 A. NJ
e eayeRn and Pleasant View, Sunday
'u' only Mixed .o....'.'.3 :45 r. NJ
R & N. r. r.
p ,fPsna' Pendleton, Echo, The Dalles,
A'' Portland ,......::..-..a :o0 a. NJ
,+bans, Pendeton and east 3 100 Z. Nj.
n nsyton, Pomeroy, Colfax and Spo1
D.1 kane Wailuia, Spokane 80 80 P: N.
n M, and way points. 4 80 A. NJ.
WsIiu. and way points. 49,. 3 100 A. M.
"'''O Arrivals From
port,ond. The Dalles, Echo, Pendleton.
sDok anna A 1oifaz, Pomeroy and D. Day :,
ton ;,.ton and Atbcna5 :YS ?. NJ N.
portiond. Walula and Spokane 6 ID A. NJ
n To,tl, and way points. g 40 F. NJ
Wsula and way points ....... 8 100 T. Nj.
MOTOR caro-. r. & N.
Arrive from Dayton and way
nointS ......... ~ 10 d. III
Leave for Wallula and way
points .'..: III 10 d. LIZ
Arrive from wallula and way
re peD' for Dayton and way
points -. :. :. -. - =. =.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12

garment His money earning power is
literally at his finger tips for It Is almost
entirely to his sense OF touch that lie
determines the grade to which each hide
tina he handles belongs.
Striking dizziness and skill must be the
gift OF the women who sew the skins to-
Eether in the formation OF cloaks and
capes and muffs. After the cutter has laid
out the parts they must be stitched to-
gether in such a way that the seam will
not show and externally the surface will
bear the appearance of being a single
continuous piece.
This work is done by women operating
machines of varying adjustments of fine
ness, according to the grade Of fur under
the needle. A we'll ordered shop has per-
haps a half q dozen of these machines.
The stitching produced by these machines
is infinitely finer and more accurate than
any that possible could be done by hand.
The secrets Of the fur dyeing trade are
hidden behind factory walls in smoky
London and naughty Paris. The dyeing Of
sealskins is the speciality of these estab-
lisments. The London houses have beer
practically monopolists in the dyeing OF
seals for more than a century. The
Partisan dye is considered second class
according to the furriers OF Omaha.
The use OF dye is the means of many
cunning deceits in the making of fashion
able furs. Thu tawny pelt of a muskrat
can be mauled, manhandled. massaged and
dyed into a semblance of mink that none
but the expert can detect, except after a
season of wear and then the buyer is toe
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12

we buy from the trappers who come to
Omaha cost us not less than $3.50 a hide.
This southern animal is lighter in color and
Of not quite so fine a quality, but still a
highly desirable fur"
The workers in furs are among the
highest paid OF those who labor with their
hands. Strange to say the deft American
has never turned to the f%urrier's art. In
all the fur shops of Omaha there is not
one native born American workman,
Furrier's, like watchmakers, must be men
of great patience and care. The %furriers
are almost uniformly Slavs, with here and
there a German. The Slavs have been
workers in furs from time immemorial
and the arr is all theirs.
The head workman in one Of Omaha's
most pretentious fur shops draws $50 a
week for his labor. His Is the function of
putting the costly furs into shape for the
cutting OF the garments. BY skillful manipu-
lation he pulls and stretches and stitches
away at the costly pelt until they assume
the form that he approves. Working with
furs that cost into the hundreds of dollars
for every few square inches, he cannot
afford to make mistakes and he don't. That
Is one reason why he is paid 80 well.
At a second table stands another high
priced workma sorting furs. He selects
those which will go together to make a
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12

about where Fort Omaha now is, accord
ing to the lore of the old-timers.
The preparation OF the furs and their
manufacture into garments is an interest
ing part of the industry. Many of the
Omaha shops receive their furs directly
from the trappers and from the traders
who buy them at the trading posts out on
the frontiers.
At a visit to one OF several furrier's
shops in this city will show the visitor
some surprising and little understood de-
partments of tho fur business.
Here is a geauine crown sable from
Russia said an Omaha furrier, reaching
into a rack in his big storage vault. 1T
is a top grade skin worth about $3.50"
He held up a tiny bit of fur about the
size of a lady's handkerchief. This bunch
of ten Of them packed just as they left
the ears domain cost upward of a thous-
ard dollars.
Here Is a box of mink skins from New
York state, the one finest fur of its kind
in the world. This mink is worth about
1900 as it stands and much more after our
workmen turn it out in wearable things.
There is 80 imported gag about mink
that is one article that Europe wants tc
import from us from it's sheer quality
alone. Why, even the Nebraska mink that
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12

mean ar absolute total, for many thous-
ands of dollars worth inevitably escape
the statisticians.
Most any day one will find one of these
trappers at some Of the Omaha f%urriers'
establishments selling his catch. These
men are quiet fellows and will tell a
stranger little about their life and work.
The Nebraska trappers are to be found
out along the t'renchman, a stream in the
southwestern part of the state, and the
Dismal, in north central Nebraska.
The fur business has been the making OF
some of the worlds greatest fortunes.
John Jacob Tstor, the founder of Astoria,
Ore. began life as a fur trader, and his
millions are an important part in the
worlds finances Of today.
In Omaha there are a few men whose
wealth saw its beginning in a branch of
the fur trade. which is dead, dead with the
passing of the buffalo. Buffalo hides al
one time could be had at a standard prize
of about 81, and in the memory Of mer
still active in the affairs Of Omaha, they
could be bought for $3.50 by the carload
| Now the buffalo robe is a rarity.
In the early days there was a trading
station of Importance in the Sublett Trap
ping company's system near the present
! site Of Bellevue and another somewhere
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12

wanton killing practically eXterminated
them. The fur seal herd was depleted
TO about zoo, 600. a closed season was es-
tablished from 1895 to 1916. during which
seals were killed only to supply immed-
late needs for clothing and food for the
natives and the killing of females was
prohibited for all time to come
This decisive treatment bore fruit and the
herd was gradually rehabilitated. During
the first twenty years of American pos
session. 100000 male seals we're killed an
nually to supply fashionable fur for the
people way around the world. From their
discovery to the present day no less than
5000. 900 seals have been taken from these
islands. The United states government
alone has realized $40, 10000 from these is
lands since 1870.
The people of these islands are most in
teresting. They are the original producA
ers of much finery in the rough. They
are know as Aleuts. These peculiar folk
we're brought to the island by the Rus
slams to carry on the work of the sealery.
They come from the chain of islands des-
ignated as the Aleutians. These people
are quiet native folk, related perhaps In
a distant sort Of way to the Anui. The
government looks well after It's wards
there and the islands are in an absolute
state of peace and serenity. These simple
people have no local government. They
just catch seals and sleep, that's all.
All through the dark forests of the great
Canadian northwest, big, rough, silent
men are working with their traps and
snares in the deep pines and thickets,
These trappers work far up to the north
ward. even beyond the Arctic circle. There
pelt when worked into a little neckpiece
may bring so much as $1,000. The catch
of the north includes the valuable martin,
the northern mink, wolves, lynx, wolver-
inc, and many lesser beasts Of prey.
The arts Of the trapper are his secrets,
perhaps as much through his inability to
explain those mysteries which the big
gloomy woods teach him as his t~acturnity.
1t is a lonely life he leads. A gun, a sled
load of traps and provision and a few
dogs constitute his fertilization against the
rigors OF the wild. A few times in the
year he may visit the trading post of the
factor" as the head officer of the out
posts of the Hudson Bay company is
known. Human company is not one of the
trapper's needs.
TIL trapper's territory is not restricted,
however, to the wilds of Canada. Even in
the state of Nebraska there are not a few
lingering yet who make their living from
the little furry animals. The reports show
that in 1907 this state produced about
$4,000 in furs. This, of course, does not
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-10-02
Absent Minded "Prof:" Will
Become an Extinct Species

Then the fatigue caused by the var
ious readings viii: be noted-if the
patient becomes tired reading one size
of print and whether another is more
appealing to the eye.
The next process is the testing OF
the memory and 5ere it is expected
that the greater failings will be found.
Absent mindedness will be readily dis
covered and a psychological dissection
performed. If students memory
works best on things that he has actu-
ally seen he VIII he made to exercise
his mental power in remembering
things that he has heard. If he re-
members those things best which he
has felt his prescription for his era
mum capacity will be along other
lines.
Professor Judd. head of the school
Of education, says: I'm this fashion,
We hope to diagnose many individual
cases and cause great improvement
along psychological lines. and l hope
to see the project great s1lccess.
There have been carried out in re-
cent years in psychological laborator-
les many investigations which have
had very close relation to educational
problems, but the movement toward
the development of separate labora-
tory for such studies is relatively new.
Such laboratories exist in Europe.
The equipment of this laboratory at
the University of Chicago will in
some respects resemble the equipment
of a psychological laboratory, but
there will be special devices for in
vestigating writing and reading, and
the other forms of mental activity
which are developed in school work.
The organization of this laboratory
promises much for the development
of a science of education''
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-10-02

Chicago, Oct 2.-The absent-mind.
ed professor, SO long considered legi-
innate prey for joke-smiths, is to be
eliminated from the field of educa-
ton.
The University Of Chicago is pre-
pairing to open a department that will
make Observation-Disclosures a thing of
the past. Pedagogues of the future
are to be trained so that they will
have no inclination to wipe their fore
heads with textbook or try to read
Greek verse from a handkerchief.
Not only this, but all other psyche
logical ailments are to be cured by the
new department. which will be a
branch of the school of education of
the university. The department will
play doctor to students who are not
making proper progress in their SUBJ
jects, study their cases, diagnose their
ailments and prescribe for their cure
All, however, will eventually be put
through the psychological laboratory
to learn why they don't do better
work.
The project will be conducted as a
sort of physiological laboratory. First
the patient will be put through SER
les of writing exercises. He will be
given pencil and paper and will write
in as many ways as he knows how.
The doctors will time the perform
ance, notice the ease in the script and
make calculations rs to the perform
ance. The whole thing will be record
ed and tabulated. Next the subject
will be made to read from each of
set of books printed in different sized
type. AS he reads a doctor will take
photographs of the movement of the
eye and the eyeball. The same test
will be used on different lengths of
sentences and different styles of type.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-10-02
IS At ITS HEIGHT
Fly Season, Nearing Its Close,
Proves to Be Most
Undesirable.
WAR ON THEM FRUITLESS

The fly season is now at it's height
With the advent of the cool nights the
little winged pests forsake the chilly
atmosphere of out of doors and seek
shelter under cover of the houses
where the steam heat is turned on.
However, housewives of the city are
rejoicing over the fact that the season
Is drawing to a close, as the approach
ing arctic gusts means death to the
little insects.
The flies are thicker and more an
noying than ever just at this season of
the year. The campaign conducted
against the pest by the State Board of
Health did not succeed in driving the
musca domestica, the fly's stage name,
from the borders of the state. But
the fight against this enemy of socie-
ty which is said to carry as many as
$1,000 germs tucked behind it's right
ear, and has foot capacity of $4,000
600 germs, is being strenuously waged
by the board and next year, it is hoped
will show decrease in the number of
pests.
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were wildly enthusiastic over the pros
pect It's the greatest forward step
in the history of the labor movement
said one. Even hardened old bache-
lors will jump at this opportunity of
getting a wife and her Easter lid for
ten years thrown in. It's one of the
grandest moves in the history of eco
nomics, and to think that I married
last month"; and he sighed softly and
sadly left the room.
The fourth day of the convention
was devoted to discussions as to vari-
GUS means to promote the growth of
unionism among women. A resolution
was introduced by Miss Louise La Rue
OF San Francisco. asking that the Chi
nese exclusion law be extended SO as
to apply to japanese, Coreans and Ash
atics of every sort. This will be acted
on at today's meeting at the studio of
Miss Anna Morgan, Fine Arts build
ing.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-10-02
GARFIELD NOTES

Each term a civic school is organic
ed at Garfield to unity the school and
enlist the active cooperation of the
pupils in school interests. An cleo
ton Of members of the school council
was held this week and on Friday this
council met for organization. The
standing committees were appointed as
follows: Each committee meets with
a teacher who is to give advice if call
ed on, but in the main permits the
committee to consider topics unaided
Physical Education Ralph Snavely,
Florence Burgess. Ruth Butler. Mabel
Reifel, Frank Gem. Florence Porter
Committee meets with Mr.. Boggs
Social Education-Anna Nicholson.
Karl Haner. Alta Mcpherson, Earl
Gilbert.
Committee meets with Mrs. Graves.
Overwhelmingly Clements, Paul
Newlin. Wilson Taggart Mary Candy.
Committee meets with Miss Lesh.
General Enthusiastically Neal. Dor
othy Land, Benten Barlow, Eleanor
Clifford.
Committee meets with Mr.. Ellis.
Finance-Ralph Snavely. Anna Mich
olson. Mary Clements. Ralph Neal.
Committee meets with Mr.. Heironi-
mus
Mr.. Boggs was chosen as school
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-10-02
Business College Notes

| Rev. Wade of the First NJ. E. church
had charge of the morning exercise
Friday. He gave a very interesting
/ talk and also read some lines of po-
etry which were very beneficial to
the school
Fred Sleek mas been absent the
greater part of the week on account
of the death of his father He has
the sympathy of the faculty and stu
dents of the college.
| Miss Eva Miller is out of school on
account of illness.
Mr.. Lott was out of school Thursday
to attend the wedding of his sister.
| Russell Morton Of Eaton, O., entered
school this week.
Rollie Phillips, Charles Harris, Clay
ton Jordon and Paul Kepler who were
in school last year have resumed their
work at the college this week.
| Roy Simcoke has taken position
with I. r. Howard & Co.
The test given at the close of the
month showed very creditable work in
the commercial law class.
Chas. c. Cring, genera! manager of
the Indiana Business College made a
business trip to the school Thursday.
He reports the business as very good
over the state and that the employ
ment department had seventeen calls
during the past week which they were
unable to fill.
Lottie Ingersoll has accepted a posi-
ton with Mr. Murray. manager of the
Murray and Phillips theaters.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-10-02
Get q Husband in One Year
and Win q $40 Easter Bonnet

Chicago. Oct. "A SO Easter lid"
every year for ten years. thrown in
with every husband-only one allowed
to each girl. however-is the alluring
promise of the Women's Trade Union
league to every girl belonging to the
union who can find a husband
They don't actually specify a hat, but
as they agree to give each girl who
can show either an engagement ring or
marriage certificate, $40 cash a week
or so before Easter. it doesn't require
Sherlock Holmes to figure out how
the money will be spent
This was decided on yesterday after
noon in Miss Anna Morgan's studio in
the Fine Arts building at the meeting
OF the Women's Trade Union league.
OF course. there was at once a wild
clamor by the women who didn't want
husbands. To appease them it was
decided that those who don't want to
get married. could get their $40 in the
shape of vacation money" each year
There were several fair ones Of uncer-
tain age who coyly admitted that they
didn't want a hubble, but did want the
SO.
This original method of winning
girls to the union and winning hus-
bands for the girls. called the mar
riage dover system" had its origin in
the difficulty experienced by labor Or
ganizers in persuading girls to join
the union. Fear was expressed by a
few of the married ones-who showed
little enthusiasm in the project at any
time-that the marriage mills would
be so busy and run at such speed that
poor work would result and the divorce
mills would get busy next
The few men present at the meeting
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-10-02
BAD GANG WORKING

gang of shop lifters has invested
New Castle and business men of that
city have suffered considerable loss re.
Gently. The problem which faces the
merchants of the Flower City is a Sc
rious one and scarcely day passes, it
is said. that quantity of goods is not
lifted" from some establishment. The
matter has assumed such serious pro-
portions that a private detective agen-
cy in Indianapolis has been consulted
and probably the services of two or
three 'Sleuth Foots'' will be secured
with the view of breaking up the prac-
tice.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-10-02
HAD EIGHT ALARMS

The fire department responded to
eight alarms during the month of Sep.
TENDER. Three of the alarms were
false. The fires were all small af-
fairs and the total loss did not exceed
SIS.
Fire Chief Ed Miller, who was in
jured by falling from a scaffold in
front of the city building Wednesday
afternoon is rapidly recovering from
his injuries. The wound in his head
is almost healed. The chief is still
very stiff and sore, however, from the
effects Of his fall, but notwithstand-
ing this fact is able to be at his &C
cumtomed post of duty.
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WATCH THE RESULT

The regular four years inspection
of the steam and eletcric railway
properties of the state by the state
board of tax commissioners will be
arranged for soon by the tax commits
sioners. County officials as we'll as
the different township officials of the
county will be much interested in the
trip and its results. The tax rate for
the steam and electric roads was re.
duced considerably in this county by
the state tax board. without cause so
far as the township and county auth
critics are familiar
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-10-02
V. c.. r1, u Soldier.

At one of the London police courts a
young hooligan was being tried for an
assault on IAN elderly man. The mag.
istrate, noticing an old customer in the
hooligan, thought he would give him a
little fatherly advice, and remarked
Young man. I'm surprised at a big,
strong, healthy looking fellow like you
always getting into trouble. Why, you
seem to be always wanting to fight.
Why don't you 60 for a soldier?"
Imagine the smile which Illuminated
the magistrates face when the youth
replied, II did once. your honor. and
he nearly '-'''~' ->~''
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-10-02

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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-10-02
NURSES To ATTEND

A number of Richmond nurses have
signified their intention of attending
the Indiana State Nurses Association
meeting which will take place at In
dianapolis on the 5th, 9Th and 7th of
October. Several papers which will
be of much interest to local nurses
will be read.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-10-02
ENTERED MINISTRY

The Rev. T. J. Graham, of the First
Presbyterian church of this city took
part in the services at Columbus. O.,
last night, which marked the official
union of Rev. Joseph Taylor Britain,
recently of Yonkers, N. Y, with the
Central Presbyterian church at Column.
bus. Rev. Graham was a classmate
at Hanover college with Rev. Britain
The local minister's advice to the new
pastor was to do the work as he used
to play foot ball and not worry over
results. BE your noble SELF con-
cluded Rev. Graham, six feet. one and
one half inches of it, believe
PAMELA:
Be sure TO use Gold Medal Flour.
To-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-10-02

His Object.
THE trouble with you Is that you
have no object In life"
Yes. ! have"
What is itg
ITO be able to attend my wealthy
father in laws funeral."-Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-10-02

treasurer for the term and Lawrence
Jessup as recording secretary. At its
next meeting the council will elect a
financial secretary and will then take
up the active work of the term.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-10-02

In Massachusetts,. tree planting is
systematically conducted along the
pub1is highways. Fifteen thousand
trees have been planted in few
years.