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The Globe-republican., 1909-10-07
Ten Dollar, Reward.

Areward Of $40 viii be paid spyone
giving information leading TO the copvic.
ton Of violation Of tbe,Rame laws 10 this
county. especially bunting out Of season.
The time prairie chckrS may be killed
does not begin until September 10, !,
--'f- ~ ~ e. BKEsON.
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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-09

| that in home things the wild and
wooly' has not yet taken leave of
the haunts which gave it existence.
but of the retail merchandising the
claim is made by those who follow
| it EhAt the west and that Walla
Walla stand on a par with anything
the east can produce, except possibly,
| the very largest stores in New York,
Clhicag go or philadelphia
Trade Bound to Grow.
WalEa Walla merchants say that
within the next decade the retail BUSH
ness of this city will double on its
present value and volume. That such
may very logically happen is conceded
by those in close touch with con-
ditions when the activity of the Hill,
Hartman and independent railroad
system in developing the territory now
only scratched over is taken into con-
sideration. Even during the current
year homeseekers are pouring into this
portion of Washington by the thou
sands.
Advertising is being done in an eff
fective way both by the local COM
mercial organizations and the rail-
roads. The publicity literature is re-
plete with the alluring attractiveness
\
Of the country Views of dollars be-
meath the surface" to be ''plowed up
at will are far more realistic than
! typical And since the men and Wo-
men who do the blowing must have
the necessities of life, it is only ma
tural say dealers, for them to get such
necessities where they can buy the best
for the least
To furnish such necessities then is
the key principle on which Walla
Walla's retail trade is anchored
| Specialization in everything CONNER
cial hah enabled the consumer to Sc
lect with the minimum of economy
from the maximum Of variety and
for him to realize a goodly profit while
the man who sells also makes a gain
Nor does he need seek his market
Realizing that the degree of their sue
cess depends upon the proper and
honest presentation of their offerings
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in a convincing manner Walla Walla
merchants in many instances employ
men who study the business of their
firms and then tell the buying public
about it through the columns of Wal
la Walla newspapers. Walla Walla
merchants are fast learning the value
of prodigality in the use of printers
ink, and it may be said to their ever
lasting credit, no merchant, taken as
a class by and large, are such stick
lers that what they say shall be the
truth, whole truth, and nothing but
the truth.
Wherever men an, women make
their homes in this section Of the In
land Empire Walla Walla newspapers
find their way, carrying the ehoiceht
offerings of the market to the con-
sumner. And this fidelity has been it's
own reward, dealers claim, as hun
dreds of out of town shoppers daily
seen on the streets and coming in on
the electric cars from points in Ore
gon or on the railroads from nearby
towns, will prove.
The incessant demands of the trade
have already this year brought some
new stores into the city and others
are coming while some of those stores
long established are contemplating en-
larging their facilities. New depart
ments have been added in few stores
and with plenty of money in circula
ton among all classes merchants as
sert that stocks are turning with a
rapidity never before equaled in the
city.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-09

The removal of the congressional lib
rary from beneath the roof of the capi-
toll leaving that building to the legis-
lative branch of the government and
the supreme court of the United States
and the recent erection of the two fine
marble structures for the use of the
senators and representatives adjacent,
but not within the capitol grounds,
will doubtless lead to the enlargement
of those grounds, And it will not be
surprising if on the private prperty on
First street between East Capitol and
B streets another government building
is erected for the judicial branch of
the government, for such has been sug-
gested.
The present conditions of the CAPT.
toll and it's surroundings were not in
the widest dreams of the people a
hundred years ago, and had one at that
time asserted that the time would come
Wnen the building would be too small
for the legislators his sanity would
have been questioned. For then. be-
sides the members and supreme court
of the United States, the circuit court
and petit juries had apartments.
When, in the summer of 1900. the
government located here, with John
Adams at the head, the work on the
capitol had been in progress some years
J the foundations in, the walls of the
south wing built up a few feet and
| the work on the north wing so far
| advanced that November II the sec
ond session of the Sixth Congress was
convened therein. There were but 81
} senators and less than $50 represent
atives. Mr. Jefferson was vice pres
ident; Gen. John f. Howard of Mary
| land, president pro tenn of the senate;
! Theodore Sedgewick of Massachusetts,
| speaker of the house; S. A. Otis of
! Massachusetts,, secretary of the SEN
ate: and J. w Condy of Pennsylvania
until December 8, 1900, and John Beck
/ ley of Virginia until 1907, clerks of the
| house. The senate was permanently
and the case was the same with the
house. In January, 1901, the courts,
with their clerks and the marshal, NOV
j ed into the lower rooms, and in 1892
the first case of murder was tried there,
that of McGirk for the murder of his
wife, for which he was hanged near
where the Botanic Garden is. now.
This was more than ordinary con-
gress, inasmuch as for the first time it
| became the presidential contest, there
having been tie on the electoral vote
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-09
The Married Man Does Stunts With Broom and SCrubbg Brush

formed the whole task, when, bump!
my foot that was ahead collided sub
stantially with the Edison photograph
on the second landing, and together We
rolled to the bottom in a shapeless
Disguised and unsanitary mixture,
while the record of CarusO's
masterpiece. which had been released
in the descent, grilled out the pathetic
strains and bars of, Father, oh Father
Why Don't You Come Home
"By the time the clock in the steeple
had struck one, the old girl appeared
at the head of the stairs and turned
on the lights. 1 was too indisposed to
make much of an outcry, though the
lower side Of my anatomy was aching
terribly, and my spine felt like a gold
filed collarbutton had been forcibly
injected therein.
"@What's the matter, hubby?' she
asked excitedly.
Nothing, whatever, dearie,'
answered with what poise and equa-
nimity I could muster on the spur Of
the moment, You had hard day yes
terday, and I'm going to help you
out by beating that carpet sBut
could see at a glance that she did not
put much faith in my carpet
propensities.
"'You get up here to bed before 1
come down after you she demanded,
and I made haste to divorce myself
from Caruso and other distasteful
things associated with him.
mo. Stubby, t here's something
vrong with the system when the wo-
men will persist in stirring up a he'll
a r.oee inst to get little inoffen-
sive dust out from under the piano or !,
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an art square. I've tried to fathom
the mystery, but this is about all the
deduction 1 have gained. There isn't
much need of my going into the exas
perating details relative to the boycott
that has been declared on hard work.
Some people may be inclined to accept
the baseless notion that housekeeping
time is a season for getting rid of lot
of useless impedimenta, but it's no
such thing. 1t serves no other purpose
than an exploration expedition to dis
cover how many things you have
souandered money for during the past
year, and to re-arrange what's left
after the breakage item has been
checked off.
among it's most prevalent symp-
toms are cold meals, paint buckets,
general confusion and a distressing
desire to go back to Nature, leaving
enlightenment and civilization to run
their natural courses and then be
stored away in the garnet with lot
Of other entirely unsatisfactory and
useless obstacles to human happiness.
can get along pretty well with meas
les, automaniacs, street car conductors.
Chief Davis and Mayor Tausick, but
when it comes to universal human
diversion of beating rugs and swab-
bling out stove pipes, I am compelled
10 assume virtues to which / can't
even lay claim to mechanics lein.
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between Mr.. Adams and Mr.. jefferson,
and in the house the latter was chosen.
There was much other important bus
mess relating to foreign relations. In
dian affairs, etc, and from then till
each house became settled in it's cham
Der the members made the best of their
surroundings, legislating amid the
noise, dust and the other customary ac-
compartments of building operations.
Some of the prominent members were
Aaron Burr of New York, Gems. Sum-
ter of South Carolina, Roger Nelson
and Howard of Maryland, j. B. Varnum
of Massachusetts, john Langdon of
New Hampshire c. Pinckney of South
Carolina, Return J. Meigs of Ohio, W.
II. Harrison, afterWard president;
Henry Clay and Col. r. M. Johnson of
Kentucky, John Randolph of Roanoke
and others.
South Wing Occupied.
The south wing was covered in 1906
house in the first session of the Tenth
congress was there convened. Gen.
Varnum being the speaker, though the
chamber was not completed. 1t was
discovered at once that there was so
much echo as to render it difficult to
conduct business, but this was partially
overcome by the hanging of draperies.
Thus the whispering stones to which
capitol guides are wont to take stran-
gers. now that the walls are bare of
: drapery, are accounted for; the dis
covery was then made. There were
then but seven standing committees
of the house, but the committee on the
district was added, and needed lar
ger room, and there was a demand for
accommodation for special committees.
In the north wing, after the house in
1907 had vacated the library, it was
taken by the senate, and the work in
the senate chamber as we'll as on the
rooms occupied by the courts, was COM
pleted. The senate, in the meantime.
occupied the library, but February 10,
1910, it was again in it's chamber. In
1911 both wings were reported sub
stantially complete, but subsequently
the north wing.
Thus stood the capitol at the time
of the invasion by the British, August
%, 1914; two wings covered in and oc-
cupied, and across the foundation of
the center building, laid before 1903,
was an inclosed walk connecting the
two. After the war, while congress
occupied temporary quarters, the dam
age was repaired and the central build
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-09

I've been thrown into the vortex of the
maddening whirl, with not thing
looking natural save the wood shed,
and that's slightly disfgured. The
whole thing mas hit me where I live
like unto gimlet holes in noodle soup,
and I'm wondering when it will end.
There is something peculiar in woman,
Stubby. After she has seen a room
looking neat and tidy for about two
DAYS and a half, she will get some
thing into her bun with regard to a
change, and before the ice man can
make out his bill, there is a swish,
swirl, and the old room looks like an
athletic field after a big track meet.
1.-THE piano is divorced from its
little cosy corner by the fireplace; the
CARPET is turned around to be cross
wise Of the floor; the rocker is con
|nected with a new location in the
southeast corner, and book rack fills
the Willows former resting place.
When hubby comes home at night,
tired and weary, thinking what a nice
little place he has to rest in, he enters
and forthwith bumps his shin bones
on a wash-tub full of books. me
stove is sitting where it should not De-
and SCOT spots cover the formerly
polished floor. Did you ever have
sensation such as Is produced by
similar experience? I have.
"The only way I can account ior
woman's regularity in desiring to rip
things to pieces and make the place
seem anything blu nome-like, is De
cause of the fact that Eve was pre-
vented from any such exercise an
her longing for something she couiu
not have has been passed oo"h
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through the ages by heredity.

through the ages by heredity.
"'Come, dearie,' Eve would say to
Adam, after they had lived under the
shade of one tree for week or Two,
let's move over to that big plum tree
They would do it, and after a while,
old Ad would get his full of prunes
and they would, upon suggestion of
Eve, wander over to a banana tree.
Eve had a cinch on the housekeeping,
but Ad doesn't know what he missed
in the line, of housekeeping.
mot to be outdone by her neignbors,
my other half this week announced
with a proud flourish that we would
inaugurate a thorough and systematic
campaign of dirt determination, and no
protests were filed, though several
were concocted during the brief inter-
val between the hour of the announce
ment and the date of beginning oper-
atoms. There was to be no halfway
business about it; it was to be real,
bonafide stock reduction event, with
no price tags marked up for the oc-
casion.
Like Balaam when his top piece
was caught in the spruce tree branch
and his ass rode out from under him,
I yielded to the inevitable, and have
since been suspended in mid-air Won
dering when the earth would again
strike the rut and revolve on its axis
trough the same old orbit. But it
.o,l,d not be so bad If l could be
left out of the shake-up. Now, for in
stance. I bear evidences of having
taken down pictures. See that saffron
,ored confusion just abaft my left
stener? That's where a life-sized
crayon portarit reached down from Its
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or Buck, I'm not sure which, came
along swinging night stick and gave
voice to the same COMPOUNDED words
that had been ringing in my ears for
three hours:
"'Beat it, Thereupon 1 immedi
ately decided to take just one more.
Some time after, 1 escorted the last
car home, for no other reason than /
wanted to have a seat all by myself
and defy Drake, Anderson and the rest
of the plutocratic trolley magnates by
putting both feet on the next seat
tomary habits of peace and patience
so long as nobody tries to interfere
with my personal liberties.
Reaching home, I gave the front
steps the high sign, waved a fond
welcome at the door, greeted the latch
key effusively, and made a grandstand
entry. Then, as never before, the signs
of housekeeping were imprinted upon
my ecstatic vision, for there, In a
jumbled mass of junk and insaHitation
reposed what was left of almost every
commodity with which we had been
keeping house for the past eleven
years. 1 lost no time in falling head
long across the top of the heap, bury
ing my facial projections in a roll II
butter sitting on a pink rose In the
middle of a Persian rug.
FINALLY the stairs came round to
where I was, and by great good chance
7 caught hold of the hand rail and
swung onto the rear step. Round by
ound I lifted myself above the dls-
jointed array of stuff below, and was
ust congratulating myself upon the
ase and grace with which l had per-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-09

hook and bit me twice in succession.
"Also 1 give evidence of having
mixed things with the kitchen range
and the imprint of couple of joints
of stove pipe that met in mortal COM
bat are easily discernible. My left
knee joint will give testimony to the
reaching home one night, by a mahog
any-colored center table that had beer
and planted in the straight and mar
row path that leads from the night
lock to the downy feathers.
"That I have wrestled for the gate
receipts with the bureau is not to be
denied, for as conclusive proof 1 might
reveal three-cornered cash located
somewhere abaft the bowsprit and not
wholly out of sight that I received in
the last fall Yes, it threw me three
times within an hour, and then was
not satisfied.
Last night when 1 got home, an6
tired enough to call quits, the old girl
introduced me to an open-work carpet
beater and notified me that it was in
need of exercise. Beat it, she said
sternly, without any indication of ex-
tenuating circumstances.
did 1 beat it Well. squelch me for
a cub reporter doing the city council
II I didn't. And that's not the worst
Of i'll didn't forget to stop beating it
until some time after midnight AS
was standing disconsolately at Third
and Main streets debating whether to
'old the lamp post or let the lamp
post hold me-and trying to decide or
he side whether it would not be ju-
dicious to take just one more-Andre
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Long WhskerS and Little Pig Lead to Home and Forum

it over to his spouse, who guaranteed
to buy a pig with it in the course of
tima
Each week the money was boarded
and in a few months a pig was seen
running around the place, where form
erly but man md his patient wife
lived. Time passed and during this
period, the family treasure made
good by raising litter of little pigs
This was considered a fair beginning
by the heretofore unfortunate couple
and when a born trader came along
and proposed that they swap" the
pig and brood for a NANCY colt that
he was leading, the bargain was
struck
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1t so happened that the colt was
the ugly duckling up-to- date and i,
was a matter of no surprise when it
developed some speed and finally was
sold for a good round sum-
Having been so fortunate in the first
trade, another was soon consummated
whereby the colt was transferred to
person with the desire to get
something for nothing and the couple,
who were the erstwhile owners of the
solitary pig found themselves possess
sed of an automobile This was used
with great enjoyment on the part of
the owners, but when it was sugges-
ted that they give it UP for piece of
property in Southern California, the
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deal was Immediately closed and they
moved from this valley to their new
home.
1t was at the time when the craze
was in the air and being stung by the
same bee, a we'll was drilled on the
recent acquisition.
1t was at this period that the god
dess of luck seemed to forsake the
footsteps of the unhappy couple and
it appeared as if their little hoard had
literally been sunk in a hole in the
ground. However, it is always dark
est before dawn" and one bright day
the drill tapped a gusher that was
famous the country over as being the
finest in that locality. Wealth began
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Would that l could wander back
again, Stubby, to those good old bare
loot days, when everything looked
rosy; when things were just what they
seemed and life was worth the living.
O1times my mind reverts to childhood
Iancies. but it is always too late that
We really appreciate what we have"
On, forget it; what's the rumpus
mas your black cat got the measles, or
uio the spec6led hen lay a goose egg?'
Never mind, groucho; you've got no
monopoly upon the finer sentiments,
ana Il I take a desire to make a few
remarks upon an important subject, 1
can't see that it's any skin off your
Shout so long as I've got a seat to
'HSSeH and my fare is paid to Second
and Main"
Let 'er ramble, then: shoot your
wad"
"hereupon the time-tried Married
'''n' wearing a look Indicative of
ores and troubles galore, bit off a
'@ir sized wad of light colored fine-cut
and continued.
AS l was about to remark when
VI saw fit to inject your inappropri-
aomonishments into the trend of
:. discourse, happy springtime, with
- uays Of housekeeping is at it's
III housecleaning-that's the great
80 iean revel just now. It's more
'uiar by far among members of the
oo, e' sex than reading the society
,na INNS OF the daily papers and eat
d. '-e'zels and beer in the roof gar
Gems at night. INC i'0i gar
do,.a se'ner with many another moor
no.. VINO likes to see things good
su and decorous around the bunk.
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to roll in upon these people from that
time to this and by another deal only
recently made, the California place
was sold for a magnificent sum and
the late owners are now travelling
around the world seeing the sights 80
long denied them.
Visiting this city. they Immediately
went to the scene of their former
labors and barking back to the days
when pig was regarded by them as
a fortune, the couple now SO rich, fell
to discussing the ways of providence
in the rope of determining whether
Junk, blind fortune or foresight is to
be credited with their immeasurabls
happiness
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that pig be purchased and after it
had been sufficiently fattened, be kill
ed and sailed down for future use.
This was taken as wise suggestion
on the part Of the husband, but the
difficulty arose as to how to procure
pig without an outlay of money
when none was obtainable. 1t was at
this point that the novel and bright
idea occurred to the good wife, who
Immediately transferred it to the fam
lily prop, he receiving it in the spirit
given. The suggestion was that he
give up the services of a barber and
instead of spending his regular Is
cents every three or four DAYS. hand
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If the statement were made that
person could make a fortune merely
nv eliminating the services of barber
for q snort space of time, the idea
would be given short shift and the
person to whom it applies in this case
would possibly be held up as an object
of ridicule. but as was learned recently
in this city, former resident OF
Walla WaIla is now a man of afflu-
ency and lives like king, all because
at the suggestion of his wife he stop
ned going to the BARRIERS to get his
weekly shave.
Although the name of the person,
who happens to be the hero of this
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story wishes his identity to be kept
secret, the fact remains that he ar
rived in Walla Walla only few days
ago from California, where he has be-
come independently ricn, owing to a
lucky strike in the oil district of that
locality.
The story dates some 20 years back
and has its origin in this valley, where
the couple, who are now living in
luxury, had for a home a modest
abode of the crudest structure. Even
food was scarce in this household and
in order that supply of winter meat
could be laid away, the frugal house,
wife suggested to her lord and master