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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-15
The New Literature and Poetry.

Bliss Perry in the ATLANTIC
That our citizens are awake 10 moral is
sues is unouestionable. They have been
utilized effectively in the short story and
the political novel. But the hour for
that unification of feeling essential to the
life of national poetry has apparently not
Vet come. The new literature Is not yet
commemorative of the best thinking and
feeling of the country. The magazines
are more Immediately representative. no
doubt. than books: but they are less truly
representative than the newspapers. The
daily press gives more adequate and.
mon the whole. more reassuring indi-
cation of the trend of contemporary at
fairs than do the magazines. But back of
even the press are the people. unadvertis-
ed. unrepresented or misrepresented, in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-15
Circus Daring Due to Heredity.
From the Bohemian.

FrOTn the BOhemlan.
Alfred T. Ringing tells me that nine
tenths of the leading performers before
the public can be included in thirty fami-
lies. AS sharply defined any old Eng
lish lineage. they can be traced backward
in some instances more than two centu-
ries-each generation accepting without
question the heritage of spangles and
tights The circus daring and the circus
muscles and the circus restlessness have
descended from father to children and
thence to children again. The thrill Of
the sawdust ring has got into the blood
From the parent trunk branches have
crossed and crisscrossed until. as I'm the
case of the Clarkonians and the Demotts
and the Siegrists Florenzes, great circus
lines have been built up and guarded with
the Jealous care Of royal geneaIogy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-15
Cowboys Songs.
From the San Antonio Express.

From the San Antonio Express.
John A. LomaX. associate professor of
English I'm the State Agricultural and Me-
chanical College at College Station, is
preparing a compilation sof native ballads
and songs of the west, particularly those
known as cowboy songs" Mr.. LomaX
lays these songs have for the most part
never been in print. but like the Masonic
ritual are handed down from generation
to generation by word of mouth He has
collected nearly 100. and is certain there
are many others, which he hopes to
secure. These songs deal mostly with
the range and with heroes of tragedy
and desperadoes like Jesse James and
Sam Bass. They also include ballads of
buffalo hunters freighters and rangers.
Mr.. LomaX does not draw the line and is
as anxious to secure those that are crude
and even vulgar as the printable sort, like
that one familiar in all cow camps that
begins: Bury me not on the lone
prairie-e.''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-15
Down Town===Near the Market.


prose and verse. and yet working out da y
by day our national destiny. The real
laboring man is very different from the
brawny fellow with a bakers paper car
and a blacksmith's hammer who does
duty for labor In the political cartoons
The farmer who really farms does no,
wear the goats beard and the striped
trousers of the caricatures The Ameri.
can young man is travestied by thos,
firm hinned, taiIor-made creatures who
clutch their hair thoughtfully in the mag.
azines: and If the real American cir
were like her pictures we should despai,
of the republic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-15
ERROR MEANT DEATH.
Typesetters and Proofreaders on
Chinese Paper Careful.
From the New York Times.


From the New York Times.
China. with all its vast population,
boasts not quite two dozen daily papers,
but among them are the two Oldest papers
in the world. The Kin-Pan used to be
considered by Europeans the oldest paper,
but it has been issued a mere thousand
years. The Tsing-Pao. or Picking News,
was first published 800 years before the
Norman conquest, and has been issued
without intermission for nearly 1,4OO
years. The Tsing-Pao has the appear
ance of yellow-backed magazine OF
twenty-four octave pages, each page con-
tanning seven columns. consisting of seven
Characters
Two editions are pIblished-an edition
de luxe for the court and the upper
classes at a cost of twentyfour- cents a
month. and an edition inferior in paper
and printing. costing sixteen cents a
month. 1t has a circulation of about
1000 and is really the Times of China.
chronicling the movements of the en-
peror and of the court, and printing the
ministerial reports. 1t is probably the
most exact newspaper in the world; the
punishment for an error in printing was,
until recently, at least. instant death!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-15
The Swaffham Tinker and His Dog.

From the Strand MagaZIDt.
Two quaint figures are carved on the
two top pews and reading desk of Swaff-
ham Church. According to legend tin
ker had a dream bidding him to go to
London bridge and a stranger would re-
veal to him how to find a pot of money;
so off he went with his dog, and at the
bridge a stranger stopped him. saying:
Last night l had a dream bidding me to
so to Swaffham and Dig in such and
such a place and there find pot of
money. but / don't believe in dreams
Then back went the tinker. dug for and
found the pot as described and also an
inscription bidding him dig deeper. which
he did. and found another. and with
them restored Swaffham Church. The
carvings were put up to perpetuate his
memory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-15
Beer Maker in House of Lords

do not think that the London countv
council has ever before had a decision to
affiX a commemorative tablet to a house
frustrated by the householder 1t has
happened now. The council wished to put
a tablet on II Carlton House Terrace to
record Gladstone's residence there. Lord
Ardilaun. who holds a lease of the house.
has declined permission for the fixing of
the tablet. i suppose it is not altogether
surprising. 1t would no doubt be irritat-
ing to Lord Ardilaun to be reminded
whenever he entered his house of Glad
stones name and his work. But in effect
he has only succeeded In marking the
house for other people far more nota bly,
than tablet would have done Lord Ardi-
laun is a member of the great brewing
house of Guinness, makers of the famous
Dublin stout. and was raised to the peer
age on "beerage," as many call 1t. by
Lord Salisbury.
1t is difficult to understand how he can
live happily-as one supposes he does live
in house with such associations. For
tunately, he has three other houses-one
at Clontarf. one In County Galway, and
one at Killarney-to which he can retire
when these grow too oppressive When
the worst comes TO the worst he can
always sell No. IL Carlton House Terrace
as the late Duke OF Westminster after
the home rule split, sold Frank Hollis por-
trait of Gladstone.
The terrace of houses in which No II
stands is one of the most aristocra ticaIiy
populated quarters in the whole of Lon
dom Lord Ardilaun's next-door neighbor
at No. 10 is Lord Ridley. Next to Lord
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-15
to interfere with the ordinary comfort of

to interfere with the ordinary comfort Of
life and impair the reasonable enjoy
ment Of his habitation is nuisance TO
him. 1t is within the bounds of posi-
bility that in great centers of population
a new class of experts will arise to draw
salaries from the municipality as noise
specialists. Unusual noises long contin-
ued undoubtedly induce deafness aside
from irritating nerves and numbering
sleep At any rate they destroy a dis
eliminating nicely in hearing, especially
in those who have what is called mu-
steal ear
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-15

Only One "BROMO QUININE'
That Is LAXATIVE BRoMo QUININE. Loos
for the signature Of e. W. GROVE Used The
World over to Cure q Cold in One Day. 25c.
Oc9-f-tf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-15
AGAIN SELECTS CAMP PERRY
RIFLE PRACTICE PROMOTION
BOARD CHOOSES RANGE.
National Matches of 1909 to Be
Shot in Ohio-Change
in Conditions.

At the meeting Of the national board for
the promotion of rifle practice yesterday
afternoon in the office of the president Of
the board, Gen. Robert Shaw Oliver, as
sistant secretary of war, conditions for
the national matches for both rifle and re-
volver this year were decided on. The
matches will be shot at the range belong
ing to the state of Ohio, located at Camp
Perry, commencing with two days Oh pre-
liminary practice August 20 and II. The
match this year will be the seventh an
nual event. Those of 1907 and 19oS were
also shot at Camp Perry.
There are three matches Included IN the
program the national match, the indl-
vidual match and the revolver match.
The national team match Is for teams OF
twelve rifiemen from the infantry and the
cavalry of the Army and Navy, the MA
rine Corps the Naval Academy, the Mill
tary Academy, and teams from each state
and territory. The firing covers all classes
employed in service rifle practice, Namely
slow rapid and Skirmish.
Change in the Rules.
The principal change in the rules TO gov
ern the national team match was one by
which on basis of the position of the
team shooting last year, of which the
number was fifty, the contest for 1919
is separated into three divisions. The
first division will consist of the first fif-
teen teams. the second Of the second fif-
teen teams, and the third of the other
teams shooting last year.
Three sets of prizes will be given. but
the match is shot as one contest and a
team In either of the two lower classes by
making a superior score may win place
i'm the first division or even the national
trophy itself which is the first prize. 1t
is expected that this will greatly stimu-
late interest in the match. as 1T prac-
tically makes three contests in one. Am
munition for the match will be selected
after a trial of all kinds of commercial
ammunition and that of government ord
nance manufacture, each team shooting
the same kind.
Ohio Proffers Range.
The Camp Perry range becomes avail
able for the matches through the offer of
the governor of that state TO put it at the
disposal of the national board for the
purpose The range is the largest now
in existence in the Uni;Cc .,...;es, although
other ranges of equal size are in cOntem-
plation or under construction. There has
been an increasing entry list In the ma
tional matches ever since the first was
shot and this years is expected to bring
forward more contestants than any pre-
vious year.
Interest in rifle practice has been grow
ing constantly in the United States during
the past six years and it Is considered
that the national matches are largely re-
10 fn,.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-15
King and Queen Indifferent.

Although both the king and the queen
are very fond of an old-fashioned Christ
mas Yuletde is not recognized by their
majesties on the scale Of splendor which
obtained under Queen Victoria. The
king has put an end to many of the high
! " expensive customs which Queen Vic
| toria maintained. The huge baron of
beef is no longer cooked with impressive
ceremony in the great roasting kitchen OF
| Windsor Castle, nor does the king think
| it necessary to supply all the late queen S
descendants with plum buildings.
AS for the wild boar's head, on which
| society writer's are dwelling so lovingly,
it is really the head of the ordinary farm
| yard swine faxed up with false tusks,
cochineal and so forth. Nor is it true
! that their majesties spend $4,000 On
/ Christmas presents. Proba bly, G2,OU
would be nearer the mark. OF course, in
addition to the gifts purchased in hard
cash there are generous presents of
pheasants. mares and other game from
the Sandringham preserves, which keep
about 400 families on and about the royal
estate in luxury for days to come. At
Windsor too, the king distributes about
800 tons of coal to the deserving poor.
Not all LondOners have stopped in Lon
don. however. The Christmas holiday
flight from the capital began last week.
The Swiss winter sports are chief attrac-
ton this year, and hundreds Of people
have daily left for Adeboden, the Grin
delwald and st. Moritz for skating. curl
| ing ski running and tobogganing A.
cordinE to the various tourist agencies
! the traffic this winter to Switzerland is
greater than it has ever been. Messrs.
Cook alone have sent two parties con-
sisting of well over 200 people, this week,
and further parties are due to leave every
Two days or so, TO say nothing of the
hundreds of single independent bookings.
Paris has also attracted the usual large
number of people and the claims OF the
Riviera are just as strong as ever This
year. too. new ground for English holiday
makers has been opened up in the neigh
borhood of the Pyrenees. This district
combines the attractions Of sunny place
with winter sports. Biarritz. Pau,
Lourdes and ST. Jean de Luz are ideal
winter resorts for those who wish for
warmth, and yet at such places as Faux
Bonnes are to be found all the delights
/ of the Swiss mountains in winter, while
couple of hours away is the northern
capital of Spain, San Sebastian Hum
dreds, too, have motored away to country
| houses with automobiles covered with
holly and bales of presents strapped on
/ top and back
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-15

From the famous Elgin district.
Selected by our own expert for quail
ity. The combined sales of Elgin
Butter In our $50 stores aggregates
over a million dollars a year. This
quality of butter is well worth the
price Others ask 40c, but we offer
1t at the usual A. & P. reduction
Our price
35c.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-20
THUG SENTENCED SEVENTEEN
HOURS AFTEn DARING HOLD-Up
Swift Justice Melted Out In a Chehais
county Court.

ABERDEEN, May 20.-Damon Hal
ferty was held up shortly before mid
night as he was in the act of entering
his home on East Eighth street. Two
men rushed up behind him quickly and
threw him to the ground One held a
band over his mouth and the other
riled his pockets, securing $40 and
valuable watch. Halferty at once noti-
fed the police and Chief Dean put all
his available men on the chase Within
twenty minutes after the crime was
committed one of the highwaymen
had been locked up in the city Jail The
arrest was made by the chief himself,
." no discovered the man hiding in the
n ud and slime beneath a house on the
toe flats. The prisoner gave his name
as Frank Ostrander This morning in
police court, Ostrander pleaded guilty
and was taken to Montesano, where
Judge Irwin, of the superior court,
sentenced him to a 5-year term in the
penitentiary.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-20
Scarlet Fever.

SPOKANE, May 2O.-To keep open
both front and rear doors and all WIN
dows of street cars during pleasant
weather is what the street car COM
panies of Spokane have agreed to do
to check the spread of scarlet fever ac-
cording to DR.. NJ. B. Grieve, city health
officer.
"One pint of formaldehyde will be
sprlnkled in every street car every
night during this epidemic states DR..
Grieve.
The Librarian at the circulating IL
brary at John VIZ Graham's was taken
sick with scarlet fever this afternoon
and sent to the isolation hospital. The
library was ordered closed immediate-
ly.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-20
Chain Gang Prisoners Escape.

ELLENSBURG, May 20.-George
Barker and John Lawrence. each serv-
ing thirty days on the local chain
gang, escaped this morning. j. Poyser,
guard in charge of the prisoners, was
unable to take up the chase fearing the
other members of the gang would also
escape. The escape was made at 8
o'clock, shortly after the gang had been
put to work improving the parking on
Sprague street. While PoWser was
talking with a passerby, Barker ana
Lawrence dropped their rakes and
sprinted toward the Northern Pacific
tracks Poyser fired twice in the air
and brought a patrolman to the scene,
but after short chase the men lodged
into the warehouse district and were
lost to sight Each of the escaped pris-
onCrs had served ten days of his sem
tence
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-20
Three Days Celebration Planned.

REPUBLIC, May 20.-At meeting
held at the city hall today it was
agreed that the national holiday should
be observed in a manner commensu-
rate with the revival in mining and
business. The following were chosen
as an executive committee, with in
structions to appoint subcommittee
and arrange for three days sport on
July 4, and 6. w. j. Hall, G. j. Tom
kins, E. G. Harvey, J. E. Mcfarland,
G. A. Stewart, P. H. Walsh and d. E.
Walter. The committee has the as
surance of funds for expenses. Spe-
cial trains will bring visitors from
Greenwood, Phoneix and Grand Forks,
B. c., and Danville, Curlew. Ferry and
way stations in Ferry county.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-20
ALLOTING STOCK
ON THE FOREST

up a legitimate industry. On the other
ly persistent in their appeals for fur
Their recognition than that already al
lowed them. In handling this matter
the forest officers must act as fair and
impartial judges for both classes.
There is one fixed and immutable
point in this entire proposition which
cannot be changed except through i'm
provement of the ranges, and that is,
the number of stock which a given
area will ordinarily support. When
the forest ranges are carrying the full
number of stock which they safely cen
the only thing that can be done to NEST
the demand from new settlers is to re-
duce the number which any one man
can range and give the new settler the
benefit of this reduction.
In order that the larger holders may
not be too seriously reduced from year
to year, they are guaranteed that they
will not be reduced below a certain
point and the new owners are restrict
ed to a certain established number to
increase their number from year to
year until they have reached the limit
which is set for one man or COM
pany. In this manner the reduction is
spread over several years and the larg-
er owners are given time to meet it.
But the small men ara quite as insist
ent that they are being Disseminated
against, as are the larger men, because
many of them claim that instead of
starting at the low figure they should
be allowed to enter the forest if they
wish with a number equal to the full
limit, which would result in making
the annual reductions on the large
holders several times heavier than they
ere under the present system.
For the year 1909 there were 80 new
ticular forst with their stock, but with
tie reductions made upon the older
users it was impossible to take care
of but five of them; and while the
older users complain of the reductions
necessary to meet this demand from
the new men, the new men also COM
plain because they are not allowed a
large number at the beginning. One of
the basic principles in. handling graz
ing matters on the national forests is
that it is better to help a small man
make a living than a big man a profit.
The policy of the forest service in
max ing these reductions and restric-
tions is not to injure any person nor
to allow the nef man to enter the for
est with such large number as will
necessitate unnecessarily large reduc-
tons to meet them The number al
lowed each individual is believed to
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-20
DRESS CONVENTIONS.


Not only must one wear the proper
gowns at the proper time during the
winter. but there is also certain for
mality of dressing during the summer,
and this will be a matter interesting to
the June bride. as well as to the girl
who is about to open her summer cam
paign. To know what to wear and
when to wear it makes it possible to
choose ones wardrobe with the greatest
ease and to feel a satisfaction in the
right decision. OF course, in summer
one does not need very formal costumes.
Simple suits for the morning, fluffy
gowns for the afternoon and cool, be-
coming gowns for the evening will be
all that any one will require. Let us
review the entertainments and the
sports Of the summer.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-20
WOnn1anS' Exchange
2 G,,~>--,-

In the mornings only simple pleasures
are usually misunderstanding tennis
golf, walking and driving; for none of
these need one wear anything but
frocks of linen or bingham. Absolute
plainness should be the keynote, and
the wise girl will see that she never
wears a frock which is not immacu-
lately clean.
Fluffy Gowns for Afternoon.
For the afternoon slightly more fluffy
gowns will be useful and pretty, for
usually the hours after 4 are spent in
rather a leisurely way. These after
noon costumes may be muslins, dimi-
ties or gowns of some French novelty
materials. A parasol, too, makes the
girl more summary, and, of course, a
hat, but not merely of the tailored kind.
Plain hats are all very we'll for the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-20
EVENING CHIT=CHAT
By Ruth Cameron

fondness, instead of sending masses of
flowers to make the house into a
scented mausoleum, put the money
they would have spent thus into sup
porting a cot at the children's hospi-
tai for a year.
His family received far greater COM
fort from visiting the little inmates
of Wills cot" than they possibly
could have from a houseful of sad
white roses and the other mournful
flowers that people usually send to
grief stricken homes.
They say they feel their boy far
nearer there by the cot dedicated to
his memory than by his grave.
Another family, instead of erecting
an expensive shaft for their child,
marked his grave with a very simple
stone and made his real monument a
little drinking fountain for the dogs
he loved so dearly.
"Therei is no flock however watched
and tended
But one dead lamb is there;
There is no fireside however well de-
Tended,
But has one vacant chair"
Doubtless everyone who reads this
has some dear memory that will come
back more poignantly next Sunday.
And if even but few will honor that
memory with the flowers of kindness
as we'll as earth flowers, next Monday
will see a happier world.
Nor will the happiness be only for
those who receive.
RW G,>o-,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-20
OPTION ON
THE PROJECTED LINE
Spokane Men Break Into the Traction
Field With Scheme to Build
the Columbia and WaIIa
WaIIa Road.

Option on the projected electric line
from Dayton to Wallula. as planned
by the Columbia & Walla Walla Trac-
ton company, has been secured by NJ.
c. Parker and E. M. Symonds. of Spo-
kane, who will endeavor to interest
eastern capitalists in the project to
complete the line as originally planned.
Mr.. Parker announces he will go
east at once to finance the scheme
Money will be secured to take up the
contracts and to do construction work.
Besides the line between Wallula and
Dayton connection will be made with
Milton, Oregon.
ITO illustrate the inducements for
building a line over the route the pres
ent survey covers" Mr. Symonds said,
1T is only necessary to point out the
fact that the people there are paying
the railroads 1926 a ton for hauling
grain to the coast. We have secured
quotation Of 81 by water from Wal
lula and our road will tap immense
wheat growing districts.
The Columbia and Walla Walla COM
pany when Incorporated two years ago
had as president Miles G. Moore; J. H.
Morrow, vice president, and c.. c. Gose
secretary. Soon after the organization
the original company acquired a site
of the Tukanon river above Dayton for
the development of 1000 electrical
horse power, employed experts to make
the survey of the route and closed
contracts for nearly all of the 62
miles of right of way. With this done
an option was given the farmers last
fall who organized the Walla Walla
& Columbia company to take over the
project and elected DR.. n. G. Blalock
president and general manager. The
new company failing to finance the
enterprise before the expiration of the
option the holdings reverted to the
Columbia e Walla Walla