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to persons or corporations already pos
sessing more than a limited area
THE general policy adopted the year be-
fore has been continued of not exchanging
large tracts of rural land for other classes
of lands, such as city property, ana OF
retaining or only leasing large tracts
which might ultimately be found to be
capable OF superior uses. instead OF sell
ing them now at low valuations as Iands
capable only of inferior uses in the pres
emf state of knowledge.
AS to general appropriations. especially
those for soil, topographic and nyoIo-
graphic surveys and forestry Tor the Is
lands, the governor says:
Hawaii is mainly an agricultural couh-
try. There is little manufacturing. ex.
cepting what is incidental to agricultural
industries. There are few mineral re-
sources and comparatively little mer-
charitable timber. The conditions arc
such, owing to lack of knowledge OF trop-
ical agriculture. distance from the word
markets. tariffs and other causes, thdl
thus far only few products have been Pro-
duCed on u sufficient scale Tor expert III
appreciable quantities. Mucn en!e' P.Ise
has been shown, no wever, In eXpel lmenta-
ton, and much disposition toward the
adoption of scientific methods.
Marked progress has been made IN
knowledge of possible crops and methou
of cultivation what II IS posslple ~ a.
complish by ingenuity, perseverance ana
scientific methods is shown BY the achieTe-
ments of the sugar industry. The same
causes are now producing most encour-
aging results in other industries which
are more suited to small prorrletorS.
What the experiment staten OF the Ha-
waiian Sugar Planters Association, one
of the largest and best private stations
to be found anywhere. has done for the
sugar industry is being accomplished 10
some extent for other industries py lne
federal experiment station and In a lesser
degree by the territorial board Of agri-
culture and forestry and the college OF
agriculture and mechanic arts.
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Called Devil, Claims Damages.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special DISPATCH 10 Inc Star
HAGERSTOWN. Md. December 49,
Rev. William Grant Slime. a minister OF
the Church Of God. ordained at Har
pers Ferry five years ago. is the plain
tin in a damage suit, the trial OF which
is now in progress at Chambersburg.
Shines brother. Samuel w. Slime. the
defendant. Is alleged to have called fhe
plaintiff a devil. the basis Of the claim
for damage.
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ROCKVILLE, MD.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, December IS. 1909.
Charles s. Adamson. aged thirty-one
years, died at an early hour yesterday
morning at his home. near Avery. this
county, Of an affection of the lungs. He
had been i'll a long while, but death was
unexpected He was a son Of Mrs. Helen
Adamson and the late Robert AdamsOn,
and was unmarried.
Thomas j. RevelS of the vicinity OF
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Purnacious Chimney Sweeps.

Julius A.. Koch and Gus Williams, the
former fifty-eight and the latter sixty
eight years OF age. were arrested by the
police Of the second precinct last night
and charged with having engaged in an
ARRAY on the street. The men are Chin
ney sweeps and live at 46l Missouri
avenue.
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and Maryland, unsettled weather SUM-
day possibly snow Monday generally
fair, continued cold; moderate northwest
to north winds.
The cold wave persists over the central
valleys and the plains states, and has ex-
tended into the districts from the gulf
states northeastward to the middle At
lantic states, the temperatures ranging
from 10 TO SO degrees below the seasonal
average. The line of freezing temperature
extends into southern Mississippi and
nearly to the Texas coast, and the cold
wave warnings of Friday night have been
extended into the east gulf and portions
Of the south Atlantic states. including
northern Florida. In the extreme north
west it Is somewhat warmer.
The disturbance that was over southern
Texas Friday night has moved to the
northeastern gulf coast. accompanied by
general rains and SHOWS in the gulf and
south Atlantic states. There was no other
the lake region, western Texas and New
Mexico,> where SHOWS continued.
There will be rain over the southern
and rain or snow over the northern por-
ton Of the south Atlantic states Sunday.
and probably snow over the southern por-
ton of the middle Atlantic states. fol-
lowed by generally fair weather Monday.
Local SHOWS will also continue Sunday
in the lower lake region. and probably
northern New England: elsewhere the
weather will be generally fair Sunday
and Monday. except in the northwest,
where local SHOWS are probable
It will be much colder Sunday In the
east gulf states. and sunday afternoon
and night in the south Atlantic states
with a cold wave. 1t will be somewhat
warmer Sunday in the plains states and
the Rocky mountain region. and Monday
in the central valleys and upper lake
region and the southwest.
The winds along the New England coast
will be moderate westerly: on the middle
Atlantic coast, moderate west to north;
on the south Atlantic coast. light to
moderate northerly. possibly increasing;
on the east gulf coast, moderate north
west to north; on the west gulf coast.
moderate north to northeast; on Lake
Michigan, moderate westerly, becoming
variable.
Tide Tables.
Today-Low tide, 7:15 am. and 7:49
pm: high tide, 1887 am; and 1:l5 pm:
Tomorrow-Low tide, Sill am. and S:52
pm; high tide, 1885 am. and Oil pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-sun rose, 7:15 am; sun sets.
4:41 pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises. 7:15 am.
Moon sets-11:U pm. today.
The City Lights.
The city lights and naphtha lamps are
lighted by thirty minutes after sunset;
extinguishing begun one hour before sun
rise. All arc and incandescent lamps
lighted fifteen minutes after sunset and
extinguished forty-fve minutes before
sunrise.
Temperature.
Midnight. 81: 9 am, 80; 4 am. 81; 9
am. "a: am, %: 10 am. %. II noon.
20; 2 pm, 80; 4 p.m., 80; pm, %; s
pm, q.
Maximum, 81; minimum. -.
Relative Humidity.
Sam, 50; pm. 40: Pm, g..
Rainfall g D. m. to PM, o.
Hours Of sunshine, TT.
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EPISCOPAL.
PEOPIE-S HENSON

PEOPLES EHENSoNG. Mt. ST. ALBAN. Sun
day. Dec -. at 40 pm. in st. Adams
Church. special preacher Rev. 4. y. Clement
Brown. The service will be sung by the cathe-
dral choir. Take Teneytuwn cars
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-19

Nicholas Murphy of Grantsville. Gar
rett county, Md, has been commissioned
deputy game warden, with jurisdiction
in his section of the county.
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FIRST ~ p. CHURCH, 9TH ST. BET. f AND
u SC In the absence Of Rev B- p. Truitt,
during tn. month of December. Rev. j. n. Nc
I.aughlin will occupy the pulpit. Sunday. Dec.
70: Morning suhJert. DO the Dead Speak -
Evening subject The Slums: Cause and Cure"
Rest chorus choir the Hill. Gu the Anacos
tia line del7-3t
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Went Mad Once Before.

And now 1 must disclase the fact that
at that time my brother had been for
many yearse contending with adverse
pecuriary circumstances says Robinson
Watson.
When the great news came it was like
veritable avalanche Cf good fortune to
him.
But it was more, much more; it was
too much; 1t was more than he could
bear. A week later it became evident,
beyond all doubt, that his mental bal
ance was gone
William Watson's decisions. says his
brother, assumed the form of a belief
that he had a mission to perform against
certain exalted perscnages. That belief,
the brother is convinced, has returned.
THE poet" he says has come to
America with a deeply rooted belief that
he has a mission of hostility against a
certain family in high station in Eng
land. Nothing can dissuade him from
that wild infa -uation.'
This family. as disclosed in New York
recently by the poet himself, is that Of
Premier -ASquith.
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CHURCH NOTICES.
NyTARIAN.

ALI. SOULS CHURCH. COR. 14TH AND l.
SITS. Dr. Ulysses q. Il. Pierce, minister: IS
s.m.. Sunday school. Class for the Comparative
Study of Religion. and Unity Study Class; IL
An. morning service. sermon 10y the min
lister: 30 pm. Young Peoples Religious
Inion. There is also kindergarten during the
nnur NJ morning worship. The public invited
to all services de1S2t
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MAD, SAYS HIS BROTHER
Strange Obsession Has Come Over
Him Again, He Says.
MISSION TO DOWN ASQUITH
Hallucinations Foreign to His Ra-
tional Temperament, and He Will
Be Sorry When He Wakes UP.

NEW YORK. December 1s-Willam
Watson, the British poet who came to
this country recently, has disappeared as
completely as has DIR. Cook. His brother.
Robinson Watson, believes he is under
the obsession of a recurreut hallucination
that first attacked him seventeen years
ago in the stress of overwork and the con-
fiict of powerfully opposed emotions.
II. who alone have the right to speak
out" says Robinson Watson. declare de-
liberately. in full knowledge. that the
terrible things lightly hurled by my
brother against certain distinguished
family are in no sense the responsible ut
terances Of the poet, William Watson.
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Will Be Sorry When he Wakes Up.

''1'hey are the outcome Of a mental NAL
adv alien to himself When he returns to
himself the William Watson we know will
condemn them with burning words and
bitter tears"
Robinson Watson goes or To explain,
i'll an interview telegraphed to the New
York Evening Mail from Montreal and
published today, how his brother came to
enter on what is perhaps the saddest ex-
perlence that can be endured in the life
OF any mana mental alteration.
On the death of Lord Alfred Tennyson
William Watson. he says. labored fifty
hours, without rest and almost without
food, to produce what was originally in
tended to be a brief commemorative poem,
but. under the impulse of burning ambi-
ton became "Lachrymae Musarum,'' a
poem of which Robinson Watson quotes
Gladstone as having said that lit is
greater Slan Tennyson's own ode on the
death of the Duke of Wellington"
The poem won it's author Immediate
fame and a grant of GOO from the royal
bounty fund.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-19
Need of Prohibitive Statute.

There is need of a statute prohibiting,
even after patent obtained, conveyances
of land taken up for homestead purposes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-19
WORTHY of Further Federal Aid.

It is highly desirable and only just that
further assistance should be furnished
by the federal government. particularly
in soil, topographic and photographic sur
veys, reclamation, branch experiment
stations, etc. the appropriations 1or
which should be made to apply to this
territory-an integral part of the United
States-but which the controller or the
Treasury has held do not so apply. Ha-
vail apparently yields by far more rev.
enues to the federal Treasury than any
other part of the United States OF equai
population
The water problem In Hawaii is aii-im-
portant, says the governor In discussing
irrigation and reclamation
There Is excessive rainfall" he says.
.'in certain districts and on the mountain
tons or upper slopes Of all the larger
islands, and comparatively little rainfall
on the leeward sides OF the islands. me
rainfall, indeed, varies from few inches
to several hundred inches year. accord
ing to locality. The greater portion OF
the land best suited to cultivation lies IN
comparatively arid regions. The main
problem is that OF conserving the water
and transferring it to the arid lands.
Much attention has been given to forest
preservation, and is now being given to
forest propa cation, for the purpose Of
conserving the rainfall.
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Irrigation on Small Scale.

Irrigation is required mainly for the
taro, rice and cane lands The taro lands
we're irrigated by tile natives in ancient
times and require flooding, as is the case
also with rice lands. These. the taro
and rice lands, are the principal lands
irrigated on small scale, the former
being cultivated mainly by Hawaiians
and Chinese and the latter by Chinese.
The receipts of the government for
the wear were $3.O51, 1851, an increase of
S3s1, s49 over the amount ($2, 660. 1889
for the previous year.
The expenditures were 2,9S4.9S4.1O, an
Increase of SILT 6O5.24 over the amount
i1:i7a.SG) for the previous year. The
receipts exceeded the expenditures during
the last year by $118,542.71.
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WEATHER FORECAST.
Unsettled Sunday, Possibly Snow.
Monday Fair. Confined Cold.

For the District Of Columbia, Delaware
and Maryland, unsettled weather Sun
day, possibly snow. Monday generally
fair, continued cold; moderate northwest
to north winds.
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Up-River Waters,

Up-River Waters
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HARPERS FERRY. W. Va, December
1S-The Potomac was very muddy and
Shenandoah slightly muddy this after
noon.
Temperatures in Other Cities.
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Per cent of possible sunshine. 81.
Temperature same date last year
Maximum, 80; minimum, 81.
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Xmas Trees Beautified.

The liberal Of Filter" "a sparkling pow
der, will make the Xmas tree exceptionally beau
tiful.
Nmas Garden Paint ...I5c
Big collection of gift mirrors.
Hodgkin's PAIN. a AH IN '' s, @,r D'''o'
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Have Home Well
Heated for Xm1aso

A cold house will the Nmas festivi-
Ties If that furnace o latrobe has caused
any trouble let US do tine remodclng at once
Coberth. Hanes & White Co.,
I'LL II ST. NV. Phone NJ. 2139.
.Irf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-19
Just a Suggestion.

Have the Plumbing rcmoielinS done now
and avoid future trouble and expense.
HUTCHINSON & MCCARTHY. 1911 14TH ST
dels-6d
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GENTLEMAN WHO KINDLY ASSISTED LADY
drug store that met with ear accident cor
18th and SITS NV. Monday evening III y
o'cIock please call mt ia NJ ST. n W. and
ohIipa Mrs ELIZABETH Hunt. deli -3ts5
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Temperature.

Midnight, 81; am, 80; am, 81; 9
20: 2 pm, 80; 4 pm, 80; pm, %; 8
pm, q.
Maximum, 81; minimum. -.
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8 an. 50: 2 Pm. 48; 8 pm. 81.
Rainfall g pm. to 8 PM, o.
Hours Of sunshine, TT.
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Well End YOUR
Roof Troubles
You can depend our thorough. sincere work
10 hoId--to put the roof in perfect shape; at
small cost ton. Call us up,
IRON CLAD S%s3x I 1tl2 Main sa; M n
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-02-19
SUGGESTED BY CHILDREN.
Origin Of the Argand Lamp and the
Telescope.

Some of our most usGul mechanical
appliances owe their Existence to the
ingenuity of children in fashloning
their playthings. Argand who in
vented lamp with a wick fitted into
hollow cylinder, was one day busy
In his workroom. Sitting before the
burning lamp, his little brother was
amusing himself by placing bottom
less oil flask over different articles.
Suddenly he placed 1t upon the fame
Of the lamp, which instantly shot up
the long circular neck Of the flask
with increased brilliancy. Argand did
not allow such suggestive occur
renee to escape him. The idea Of the
lamp chimney almost Immediately
came into his head, and In short
time his invention was perfected.
The telescope owes its origin to
similar occurrence. The children Of
Dutch spectacle maker happened to
be playing one day with some Of their
fathers glasses in front Of the shop
door. Placing two Of the glasses to-
gether, they peeped through them and
were exceedingly astonished to see
the weathercock of the neighboring
steeple brought within a short distance
Of their eyes. They were naturally
puzzled and called their father to see
the strange sight. When the spec
taCle maker looked through the glasses
he was no less surprised than the
children had been. He went indoors
and thought the matter over, and then
the idea occurred to him that he might
construct a curious new toy which
would give people good deal OF
amusement. Not long after the tele-
scope was an accomplished fact.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-02-19
LEFT ON her DOORSTEP
FOR THIS mother

Mrs A. G. Tuson, Of Mvermore, Cal.
writes; Il picked up from my door.
step one day a little book in which
soon becamn very much interested
My little sill of Eve years Of age had
been troubled for a long time wi.a
loss of appetite, extreme nervousness
and undue fatigue. She was all run,
down and in very delicate condition.
This little book was very compre-
hensively written, and told of the new
method Of extracting the medicinal ele-
ments of the Gods liver from the oil,
eliminating the obnoxious oil which is
so hard for children to take.
"Just the thing said l, for my little
daughter and | Immediately went for
bottle Of Vincl. 1t Helped her won
derfully She has gained rapidly In
flesh and strength, and she does not
take cold half so easily.
Il am extremely grateful for the
good 1t has done her, and hope other
mothers who have weak, delicate or
ailing children will be benefited by my
experience and just give Vinol trial"
PENDLETON DRUG COMPANY.
Pendleton, Oregon.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-02-19
60-HOUR WEEK FOR
EMPLOYED WOMEN

Salem, ore, Feb. 19.-The 10 hour
law is amended by a bill introduced
by Senator Bailey which passed the
house yesterday so that now it pro-
hibits the employment of women and
women and girls for more than six
days a week, aside from the original
prob lbition that they shall not be en-
ployed more than 10 hours a day
Virtually the bill prohibits the EN-
ployment of women and girls for more
than so hours each week.
An exception is made for one week
preceding Christmas, when it will be
lawful for retail stores to employ wo-
men and girls 10 hours a day, or ~
hours each week during that week.
The b'll affects girls employed in
manufacturing. mechanical or mer-
camille establishments. laundries, ho-
tells, restaurants, telegraph or tele-
phone offices, or in the office of any
express or transportation office.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-02-19
NO MOOSE FOR NIGHT RIDERS.
Stay of Execution Granted for Con.
demned Men.

Jackson, Tenn, Feb. 19.-Althougf
this is the day set by Judge Joseph E
Jones, at Union City last month, fol
the execution of the death sentenc'
imposed upon the six night riders
Garret Johnson, Arthur Cloar, San
Applewhite, Fred Pinion, It'd Burtor
and Roy Ransom, the condemned
men have secured a new lease of life
through an appeal to the Supreme
Court, which is expected to act upon
the case during the May term at Jack
son.
Attorneys for the men are confident
that az appeal to the higher court
viii eventually result in a mitigation
of the sentence imposed upon the
night riders, and that they will escape
the gallows
The so-called night riders were al
legged to have inaugurated a veritable
reign of terror and many atrocious
crimes are attributed to them, al
though they We're convicted specifical-
ly of the assassination of Captain
Quentin Rankin at Walnut Lag. on
October 10 last.
Appeal to the Supreme Court was
taken at the conclusion of the trial
last month, after the court had over
ruled a motion for new trial, based
on various grounds. They were in
substance that the Court had erred
in excluding certain testimony and in
receiving the evidence of various wit
nesses; IN refusing each defendant
twenty-four challenges; in allowing
proof as to night rider meetings and
acts Of lawlessness unconnected with
the murder of Capt Rankin, and that
one of the jurors had before the trial
expressed an opinion as to what
should be done with the man who
killed Capt Rankin.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-02-19
WATER MEASURES
ARE IN DANCER
SUPPLEMENTS TO WATER
CODE MAY NOT PASS
senate Committee on Irrigation Gain
Reputation As Legislative Obscruc-
tion-Onc Bill Provides for TOpo-
graphic Survey and one for Tax on
Water Power.

Salem, ore, Feb. 19.-Once more
the senate committee on irrigation,
which jockeyed with the water code
bill and delayed reporting it until
Senator +. j. Miller insisted on bring
ing 1t out under the rules, Is in line
to gain fame as an obstruction to
progressive legislation.
The committee just now "has in
charge" two house bills Of import
ance. one is the Rusk bill appro-
prlating $4,000, to be spent, dollar
for dollar, with the federal govern
ment in the making Of topographic
maps of Oregon, and the other the
Eaton bill, imposing small charges
for water powers hereafter appro-
priated, when they are in beneficial
use.
The appropriation for topographic
surveys IS regarded as matter of
great importance by the conservation
commission, which framed the water
code. 1t is through such surveys that
the investment of capital Is fostered
and invaluable data gained as ba-
sis for future operations in irrigation
and use of land. There Is a DISPOSE
tion in some quarters to oppose any
thing with which the United States
reclamation service has to do, and
opposition TO the federal service seems
to have created some prejudice in con-
nection with the Rusk bill.
The Eaton bill would permit a tax
of from 25 cents to 81 per hoursepow-
er per year on water powers in use,
when the water is appropriated after
the passage of the bill. This Is being
opposed on the ground that 1t might
interfere with the development Of the
state. 1t is being argued that the
legislature should let the subject alone
for time now that a water code has
been adopted. and wait to see how II
works beforetaking another step.
Chairman Merryman OF the COM
mittee on irrigation has several times
been asked to call a meeting to con-
slider the Rusk and Eaton bills. He
has so far failed to act. but Eaton
has a promise that the water power
bill will be reported today. Other
business is p,ling up ahead and II
looks as II these measures may be
lost in the final scramble. when time
is limited and when a little talk and
objection will prove effective in de-
feating a bill.
Senator Miller, who did yeoman
service on the water code, is a firm
believer in the justice and need of
both the Rusk and Eaton bills. He
says there is no reason to doubt that
money spent in cooperation with the
government for topographic maps
would be well invested and that the
charge on water power within the
limits fixed is eminently fair, since
the income from these powers is val
ued at from $50 per horsepower, up
wards. per year.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-02-19
An Easy Job.

Indifference displayed in the face of
the uncertainties and dangers of life is
characteristic of the WesseX dwellers
in the Islands of the Vale" according
to Eleanor G.. Hayden, the author of
the book Of the title, who supports her
statement with Il story of humorous
turn.
A certain cottage and its old mistress
had improved so greatly in comfort
and appearance that visitor shrewd-
ly surmised that the son of the house.
lazy ne'er do well, had turned over
a new leaf. He inquired about it.
Yes, sir, my sons in work now"
said the smiling old mother Takes
good money, he does, too. All he has
to do is to go twice day to the circus
and put Lis head In the lions mouth.
The rest of the time he has to him
self"