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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-28
BIOGRAPHICAL CALENDAR
May %.
WARREN HASTINGS.

Peculiar interest attaches to this,
the 177th anniversary of the birth of
Warren Hastings, first governor
general of India, because of the pro-
ject to erect in Calcutta monument
to his memory that will be surpassed
in cost and beauty by few other me-
MORALS to the worlds heroes.
The career of Hastings was one re.
plete in incident, and narrowly es.
capped ending in deepest disgrace
Born in Worcestershire, the section OF
England made famous by it's sauce, he
was educated at Westminster school
and decided upon a literary career.
In 1850 he was sent to- Bengal in the
capacity of a writer, or what would
now be known as a press agent, for
the East India company. His task was
to manufacture public sentiment in
favor of the corporation which en-
ployed him, and in this he was so
successful that in 1872 he became
president of the supreme council of
Calcutta. The Nabob of Bengal had
been deprived of all real power by the
East India company, and Hastings
aided in the project to place the coun-
try under even more direct control of
the company.
Extraordinary resource was dis
played by Hastings in what was
termed by his enemies the "spoilation''
of the Mahrattas, the NiZam of the
Ocean, the Hyder Ali of Mysere and
other comic opera monarchs. To pro-
cure needful money it was alleged
that Hastings used methods not even
permissible in the Christianization and
civilization of the heather in his treat
ment of the rulers of Benares and
Dude. A motion for his recall was
passed by the English house of COM
mons, and in 1884 Pitts bill estab-
fishing the board of control was
passed and Hastings resigned his post
as India's first governor general.
He returned to England in 1885,
and in the following year faced the
crisis of his life. He was impeached
by Burke, charged with the receiving
of brides, maladministration, and acts
of injustice and oppression toward the
native rulers and people of India. His
trial was among the most celebrated
| in English annals, Burke, Fox and
| Sheridan laundering against him and
calling for his conviction. The trial
dragged along until 1895, when Hast
| lngs was formally acquitted, but not
until he had spent his entire fortune
! in his defense.
The East India company was appre-
ciative and settled upon Hastings ar
! annuity of $4,000 year, and in adj
| dition loaned him the sum of $780,
600 without interest. He died in 1918
and the Calcutta monument will prob
ably be completed in time to be deda
| Gated on the centennial anniversary
! of his death.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-28
GOLDEN SHOWERS.

Golden dollars have been falling over
the great Inland Empire within the last
few DAYS. No dollars fresh with the
stamp of Uncle Sans cage but gold
en- shower from the hand of that Won
derful alchemist, Nature, WhG turns the
vapors of the skies to material wealth
bringing smiling prosperity to the
greatest grain producing belt In the
world. Although the full worth or the
recent showers cannot be fully deter
mined until the harvests are gathered
next fall it is known that they VIII
mean millions Of dollars in the pockets
of the farmers and as the prosperity OF
the country depends upon the success
of the tiller of the soil all lines of bust
ness will feel the stimulating touch OF
Natures blessings.
Encouraged by the prevailing high
prices of wheat the farmers of the In
land Empire have increased their acre
age and thousands of acres have been
added to the vast stretches now YER
dant with growing grain. Reports from
all sections of the three great grain
growing states of the west bring glow
ing accounts of bumper yields now in
the making. With every warehouse in
the country swept clean of last years
harvest, millers securing the country
from east to west for grain with which
to keep their wheels turning and prices
in eastern centers soaring at the high
est mark known for years, the outlook
is indeed one to gladden. the hearts of
the farmers and those whose successes
with the good things of earth and en-
deavors.
The recent rain could not have fall
en- more OPPORTUNITY. In some of the
lighter-soiled sections brown spots had
already begun to appear as evidence of
the uninterrupted ravages of cloud
less sky and whitening wind but now
the winter wheat, Just heading, has
been spurred along to vigorous growth
that will withstand all but the most
adverse weather conditions during the
warmer months. Should dollar wheat
continue, and there is at present no
indication that it will fall much below
that mark, Walla Walla county viii
harvest a five million dollar crop. With
this turned into channels of legitimate
business, city and county will TEEN
are guaged by the fruition of his en-
Joy AN unparalleled prosperity.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-28
CAMPAIGN FOR CONSUMER.

There are lively times ahead If the
president is really determined TO make
a campaign for the relief of the ultl-
mate consumer Senator Lodge, repre-
senting New England privilege, says
that the consumer is q myth.
Yet the consumer has real money to
pay taxes and real votes to elect presl-
dents and congressman. Most of the
great fortunes of the country have been
made out of additions to the artihciai
prices the consumer pays for as many
of the necessaries of life as he can af-
ford. Trouble comes to their possess
sors only when his power to pay has
been exhausted, and he is obliged to
wear his old clothes and patronize soup
kitchens.
He has been so we'll tanned that this
is about the only time that he uses his
power to make presidents and con-
gressmen; so that it is no wonder that
| think him a myth in what they call
good times If the consumer were kept
keenly alive to his interest all the time
| by inspiring leadership, he could take
and keep the government out of the
hands of the servants of privilege
Roosevelt showed what could be done
by direct appeal to the people in other
directions. but he left the tariff ques-
ton to his successor. 1t has bigger
possibilities of public service than any
of his policies.
| Taxes on consumption pay the whole
expense of government, but that is a
small part of the burden the consume,
carries. Protection has been pushed
so near prohibition for the necessaries
Of life that ten dollars of the artificial
price go to its benefciaries to one tina,
reaches the treasury 1t is the art OF
the system to conceal this like the in
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-28

he the largest city in the state to-
day.
Walla Walla, Wenatchee. Pasco'
Colfax, Pendleton, Baker City and
other interior towns have all had their
growth retarded by the injustice or
excessive freight rates. And this is
also true of all the other inland cities
west of Denver.
At last victory and justice seem
near at hand. The interstate COM
MERGE commission has decided that
freight rates to all interior points are
excessive and in the Spokane case de-
cision laid down a principle of rate
revision for the railroads to adopt.
Rut the railroads, reluctant, to give
nm part of their excessive earnings,
have brought forward a scheme of re-
vised rates that does not square with
the commissions decision, and they
are using every artifice to hoodWlnk
the public. deceive the commission and
cheat the interior.
If the large interests of Spokane
will provide the means needed to
clinch the decision the long fight WIN
soon end in victory. 1t may be neces-
sary to defend the decision in the
courts, and some time and money Will
surely be required to complete the
application of the commissions .hnd-
ings: but all that expense and effort
with all that has gone before, Will be
trifle compared with the great gam
that will come with just freight rates
81, 900, 900 saved each year, and the
profits and payrolls of hundreds OF
new factories.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-28
1Rxa1 G

cidence of the indirect tax. 1t is the
program of the president to bring it to
light
He has rejected the sophisticated
tables of cost, duty and revenue made
by the hired experts of privilege and
is having tables of retail price and
total duty for leading articles of con-
sumption made for him by government
statisticians.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-28
NO CASH TO PRINT
SENATE JOURNAL.
Printing of Laws and House Proceed
ings Uses Up Appropriation.

OLYMPIA, May 2S.-The senate
journal of the last legislative session
will probably not be printed. Sta'e
Printer Boardman said tonight the
printing of the session laws and mouse
journal, will probably exhaust the SIV'-
900 appropriation and when the money
is spent the work will stop. Orlginahy
but $4,000 appropriation was carrleu
is the bill, but this was finally III
creased $4,000. The unusually largo
session laws with 1900 pages, the Dis
gest in the history Of the state, ha'
used up about $500 of the approprla-
ton. The session laws will be out 'h'7
week: the delay, Boardman says h"'
been because he had to wait about tNo
weeks for copy and proofs on the III
dex. Copy for the house journal was
the first in and the printers are q"
work ON it. This journal when COM
pleted is expected to use up the Ie
manning $4,000.
Copy has reached the printer i0'
the new state booster book. Forty-n'e
thousand copies of this Zoo-p"'O
book will be printed for free distriOU
ton at the exposition. 1t CONAN
writeups and general statistical mat
ter, about the state and each coun'''
state Secretary Howell said TO-DAY ''''
books will be ready for distripu"O
early IN June. Today he shipped seEe'
al thousand copies Of the 1907 nooS'e
book to the state headquarters o.
exposition for distribution.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-28
EVENING CHIT-CHAT
By Ruth Cameron

gust knowing that what you saw
meant absolute danger. But did you
ever report that man to the conductor
/ Probably not.
And yet in almost any city in the
United States there is a law against
| splitting in the street cars.
| You believe in that law, don't you
Then why don't you help administer
! it?
| About a year ago a brutal murder
| was committed one night, not far
! from where live. The next morning
before the fact had been published in
| the newspapers, woman on farm
some miles away heard two men
among her farm hands talking about
the murder.
/ If that woman had been interested
in administering the law she would
have reported the fact and those men
might have been arrested then. in
stead of a year later as they actually
were.
The responsibility of their being at
large all that time rested on her
shoulders.
Of course there are many laws
that the average woman cannot help
administer, but there are plenty that
she can. There's the law about cruel
| ty to animals and the law about
cleansing milk bottles and child labor
| laws and street cleaning regulations,
and so many others that the bare
mention of them would about fill this
paper.
In Boston there is a woman's club
whose express purpose is to study the
laws and help administer them. IT
every city in the land have such
woman's club it would be a better
land
And if all women did their duty
and lived up to their privileges in
this way, perhaps in the course OF
decade or so they might get their
rights.
Who knows?
R 70
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-28

The laws are merely the machine,
while the administrator is the idea
ex machina" And wouldn't you rather
be a goddess than machine maker
any time?>
And every woman in the land can
ba that kind of a goddess and what
is more she ought to be.
There are probably five times as
many infractions of the average law
that go UNPUBLISHED as those that are
punished.
But if every woman would make II
her business to bring all the lnfrac-
tions of the law that she sees to the
attention of the authorities, the pro-
portion might come much nearer what
it ought to be-
Did you ever sit opposite man on
the street car, and see him furtlvely
spit upon the floor? Doubtless you
have and have shuddered with dis
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-28
Two Court Houses in ChehaIs.

ABERDEEN, May 2S.-Two court
houses for Chehalis county to cost
$4,000 each, have been decided upon
by the county commissioners, accord
ing to a statement made today by
Commissioner Hopkins of this city
One of the new buildings will be built
at Montesano and the other on the
harbor midway between the cities of
Aberdeen and Hoquiam. The-contract
for construction will cover both build
ings.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-28
Shoots OF One of His Toes.

COLFAX, May 2S.-Thurston Morley,
the 1S-year- old son Of c. B. Morley, a
Colfax farmer, accidentally shot himself
in the right foot with a 22-caliber squir
rel rifle, almost .severing the second toe.
Young Morley was standing with the
muzzle of the rife resting on his foot.
charged
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-28
Gypsies and Indians In Fight.

NORTH YAKIMA, May 2S-Two
Indians and several white men, be-
coming dissatisfied with a horse trade
they had made with a gypsy band
Saturday night, raided the gypsy camp
Sunday night, and a tight resulted. In
the melee a baby and another child
We're stoned, knives were flashed, and
the leader of the gypsies was cut in
the hand. Policemen and sheriffs were
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-28
Chehalis Citizens to Boosts

hHEHALIS May 2S.-The Chehalis
Citizens club last night elected the
following officers: President, D. w
Noble; vice president, w. S.. Short
secretary. E. r. Merrell; treasurer, w
II. Allen: steward, w. F. Wst. A ban
quet will be held Friday night, and
professional interests of the city will
unite to work for a Greater Cheha-
lie
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-28

The woman who sees man cruei-
ly beating a horse and does not stop
him or summon a policeman to stop
him does not deserve the right to vote.
For no one who fails to exercise the
powers he has to their full extent de-
serves more.
Women-except in a few states
are not yet allowed to vote, and by
voting. help make the laws in this
country.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-28
30 nd Town to Pay Debts.

DAVENPORT, May ga special
bonding election will be held here June
81 for the purpose of voting on the
bonding of the city to secure money to
refund, outstanding warrants and also
to supply funds for installing new iron
water mains
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-28
Not to Marry.

PARIS, May 2S.-Claus Spreckles,
sugar magnate, soon to return to Amer
lea, today denied the report that he is
engaged to Miss Mary A. Case. of Port
land, Oregon, who is here cultivating
her voice.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-28

my heart that they
ought to be, but
facts are facts, and
they are not. But
every woman in the
United States as
well as every man
has the right to
help administer the
laws.
And isn't it as de-
sirable to govern as
to make the laws by
which governing is
done?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-28
Plan Railroad to Mines.

NELSON, B. c., May 2S.-Plans are
in preparation for the construction of
a railroad from the shore of Koot-
enay lake at the end of the Dewdney
trail up to the Bayonne mine. dis
tance of about 81 miles. The Dewd-
ney trail touches the lake about six
miles from Kootenay landing.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-28

In Paris recently New Yorker who
had been seeing the town" requested
the hotel clerk to send up a tub of
water for his morning bath. The re-
quest was granted and half an haur
later the request was repeated. The
clerk was astounded. He went up to
tn New Workers. room.
Didn't I send up one tub for your
bath?r he asked through the keyhole.
Eyes, you did, answered the New
Yorker, but drank that"
Those who have ever tried to battle
in the tin tubs provided in Paris ho-
tells will appreciate this story.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-28

One of the oldest jokes on the vau-
deville stage relates to bathtubs and
bathing. One comedian boastfully
tells his foil that he is the dirtier of
the two. "Of course you are" says
the other, you're older than I am"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-28

Two recently arrived immigrants
while inspecting a new house reached
the bathroom, where a porcelain tub
met their eyes.
MY, what big aquarium" said the
first.
That's not an aquarium, you fool"
said his companion. That's a punch
bowl"
Still another story is told Of a young
pair who went fiat hunting They had
a summer cottage and simply wanted
a city apartment for the winter. After
considerable searching they found a
fat that suited them exactly. They
were all ready to sign the lease when
the wife realized that there was no
bathtub in the fiat. She mentioned her
objection to her husband.
What if there isn't a bathtub?" he
said. We'll only be there a few
months"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-28
WOn11e11'S EXCHANGE.

Many amusing bathtub stories are
told about New Workers. One of the
best concerns a young millionaire who
recently built fine home on Riverside
Drive. He was very English in his
Tubing every morning. He was more
than ordinarily lazy and he disliked
walking from his bed in the morning
to the tub, which was in the bathroom
at the end of the hall. So he had a
narrow gauge track laid from his bed
side to the bathroom and a new bath
tub constructed on wheels. BY the aid
of clever electrical device he had it
so arranged that by pressing a button
at the head Of the bed, the tub would
fill, and by pressing another lever IT
would run over the track to his bed
side Then he would roll out of bed,
take his tub and, after he had emerged
push another button and the tub would
run back to the bathroom.
The device was most successful, and
the young millionaire was so delighted
with it that he showed it to all his
friends The fame of the device spread
to other cities, and one afternoon two
Chicagoans called at the house to see
it. The millionaire was all smiles, and
room and pushed the button for the
tub to run in.
The tub came in, accompanied by
terrific shrieks. His wife was in it.
That was the last public exhibition
of that tub.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-28
AUDITING
BOARDS ORGANIZED

For First Time TIVE Bodies Will Pass
Upon Accounts.
OLYMPIA Nav 9S.-Military audit
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-01-08
TWthoiotA

Toothpicks were ill common us. !, bncient Rome. So,netimes they wars made of Quills. but preferably or fife wood of the nast!e or lentiss trao whose astrtngent and aromatic y,1;} known to modern dentistry Marttaf's spigrams frequently mention inc der. decalpium. or toothpc,s. snd reco.I. mend the wooden kind aE}ye the ou.i; The toothpIck was taken .o f...s,aas by travellers from Italy and France.
 AS Mares says. '+rf1e using of 1t ,n public was long deerne,l an affected mark Of gen;flity." Shakespeaye takes h1s view when he makes one of tt,s characters ia King John remark:
 Now. your trave,er--
 10 and his 1oofhi,tck 2, my worship',
 mess.
 And when my knight!y stomach h suf,
 fcrd.
 Why. then Huck my teath and catechisa Ny picked man of countrisA
 The m os; fantastic ,,se to which the eoothrlck has ever been put was the Axteeath and seventeenth century fash. Ion Of wearing It .u tie hat as tru, phy or an ornament
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-01-08
Umbrellas in Battle

It is conceivable that the nt'ccr c "eEinxton's day thought him q tervf- Ole old bully. He actrallv forbade mbrellaS in hatile. He expected them not only io expose u.,I sacrifice their Ives af the wor,l of command, h9t ac. tunNy tn risk the furnishing of t!4c:i beautiful! uniforms in the rain whic,, Eel! during 3 l,n'tie bear Bavonnc He saw the Crenadiers sheiteriDg under 3 forest of Un1hrriiaS and sent of I.orH si!li Wlth this message. Lord Weiiin. ton does not approve 0f the Use of un,- bre'tas during tbe enemys firing anu VII not allow the 'Gcit,eiuen'S Sons
 nakn themselves ridiculous in ths
 Of the army" After the batt]e
 'nel Tyntng waS reprinsanded br
 duke for permitting the offehse
 the grea: man, The guards is -- form may. when on duty at St IGncs, carry umbrellas if they please but in tic field it Is not only ridic,ilous but uninilitary," Let is not be forgot ten, however, that tue delinquentn. dandles though they were. proved themselves amons the brayest v;1er fighting was going on.--St, James f1r xQtte
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-01-08
Ars Womer's Watches lnferior7

~Yes, madam" said the teweler showing watches to a woman custom or, this Is Il sixteen point action, the best that is ever put in a lady's watch
 "Don't you put just as good works lr lady's watch ns in gentlemansY asked the woman.
 "Why. no, uot at all, madam. La dies do not aeed such good watch Most always they wind up their natc' once in awbile. and then they let fl b, for week or two without using 1t This is as good as any lady needs"
 The woman explained that she was
 business woman and just as depend Tut on trains and boats as a man. but pe jeweler remained unmoved in the bnviction that sixteen point was all Iay woman needed.-San Francisco AM.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-01-08
Great Pigeon Cities Tn the Sv.arnps.

Each spring in May all the rosy gull sf & wide region somehow agree to re sort to particular one of variou. narsly lakes for the purpose of rear Ing their young Just how they decide the important question Is not for us hu mans to know. At any rate, what thc9 do select is a great area of grass. reeds nr rushes growing out of the water and there. cit of tho abundance of dry items. each pair builds partly float ing nest, side by side with others Thousands upon thousands Of them These great cities of the prairie pi geon present one of the most dramatic spectacular sights in tie bird life of this continent, comparable in Q way to the former breeding ''roosts" of the real wild pigeon.-Herbert K. Job in Outing Magazine
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-01-08
" tho Troa Falls, Wta a+ of ths fvx,

tho 1ree Falls, Wta+ of the ivy7
 We hear il great deal about the mod s<n girl developing mannlshness, inde oendence and losing her femininity. 4 great many people are much alarmed because girls are not trained. as for merly, in wo,nanly gentleness. It |. . beautiful figure of speech to describe 0e feminine character as the ly, which clings to the masculine oak fo, support and fiji return covers aai beau odes it's h!deous knots and scars.
 But If the oak falls what becomes of the ivy?
 There is too m,,ch of this ivy clingins and beautifying idea in training girls They should be taught tlai E ie :nst H.: necessary to ue tndepens:ent, to h self supporting as tu be able to ciiu. and beautlfy. Tn other words tie, ought to be ohie to stand alone f ths tree falls and not go iowp with It. anccess Magazine.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-01-08
Italy's Lcanino Towers.

Most gleanels of the wonderful con xder the leaning tower of Pisa to Dc something unique in architecture. This iS an error. however, for there are tive others In Italy and several in othe3 European cities The two at Bologna are the most remarkable One of them ss S21 feet in height and leans over six and half feet from the perpend!c. riar, and the other is l61 feet high And has "a lean" of over nine feet The oldest of these two remarkable structures was built in the year 1110
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-01-08
lie Placed an Order.

A small. sharp faced boy. ore Of whose eye!nls had an inclination tt droop in a chronic wink entered a tailor shop i'll upper Broadway, ap- preached the proprietor and silently handed him button. The tailor took 1t and looked puzzled.
 "What's this for?' he asked. "I don't want it. I've got plenty of but, sons.''
 Oats all right" said the youngster But yer want business. don't yer?'
 "YeS.
 Well. just sew pair O pants or lat button"
 The small boy was half way la th' olocl, before the tailor reaesit3 the door.-NeW York Globe