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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
RACING THE BATTLESHIPS

If it be true that the president has
loose when the signal is given to sail
from Europe for Hampton Roads and
come home as fast as possible without
any regard for fleet or squadron for
nation, the old ocean will see the
greatest race in the history of a long
line of maritime tests of speed.
The race of two great ocean liners
from port to port-of clipper ships
from New York around the Horn to
Hongkong-of fleet yachts off Sandy
Hook for the Americas cup or of the
puny shells of Harvard and Yale at
Poughkeepsie, were as nothing to this
great test of speed among sixteen of
the largest and heaviest ships afioat,
equipped with powerful engines and
built for nothing So much as strength
and speed.
There will be some who will Ques-
ton the presidents wisdom in giving
such an order-or rather such permits
sion-but the majority of the people of
the country and particularly the Of
ficers and crews of the big ships will
welcome the opportunity with ex-
ceeding joy, and it is safe to say that
the men aboard the last ship into Nor
folk will positively refuse to speak TO
any of the engine room crew for years
to come
1t has been a long and hard endur-
ance test for these shfps-a sort of
Marathon-and this race across the
Atlantic will show their capabilities
OF fn;C
The Oregon has lived for ten years
as the best loved ship in the Ameri-
can navy and she will doubtless con-
tinue as such for many more. That
love for her was generated when. on
top Of her long and lonely dash from
Seattle to Santiago she steamed at
full speed into the group of blockading
vessels and reported herself ready to
fight.
The ships of the battleship fleet have
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
"a Winters Tale

There is so mucn beauty in the
comedy of A Winters Tale'-so much
thought, character, humor, philosophy,
sweetly serene feeling and loveliness
Ct poetic language-that the public
ought to feel obliged to anyone who
successfully restores it to the stage
from which it is usually banished."
So writes William Winter of 1.-The
Winters Tale" in which Charles B.
Hanford, supported by Miss Marie
Drofnah, appeared last night at Mac
auley's.
1t was in this play that Shakes
peare threw down the gauntlet to
the defenders of the "unities of time
and place" and braved the wrath Of
an Elizabethan audience by letting
sixteen years elapse between the acts.
They were great sticklers for the uni
ties in those days, if one may judge
by the comments originally made upon
the drama by Sir Philip Sidney.
While it is true that the play wan
ders about throughout a generation.
skipping long tracts of years, yet the
old material of the falsely accused
Queen, the exposed child, the troubled
course of true love and the feigned
DEATH have been welded together into
one superb poem, striking every note
of pain and sorrow, of love and jea1-
ousy, and redolent, too, of that earlier,
happier world-that golden rustic
world of Bohemia, where the shep-
herds and the shepherdesses are per-
haps the most, charming of all Shakes
peare's rustics. There, too, we meet
Autolycus, perhaps the most irresist-
able of all Shakespeare's rogues, and
Shakespeare dearly loved a rogue -
Louisville Herald.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
RICHARD ARkWRIGHT,

George Washington and Richard
Arkwright were born in the same year
The worlds thought of Washington is
of the one who, when a new era of
human rights and liberty was to come
to men, was the central majestic fig
ure of the mighty drama, and his
name has been upon millions of lips
every day since he lived; it will be
echoed from millions of lips daily to
the end of time.
But not one man in a thousand can
tell who Richard Arkwright was or
what he did to distinguish him from
the millions of his generation whose
names are already forgotten says
GOOdwin's Weekly.
\ But if Washington and his COM
peers gave a new idea of human H.
berty to mankind, Richard ArkWright
made it possible for poor men to be
decently and cheaply clothed, and that
is one of the mightiest factors of
civilization. AS a learned writer re-
Gently said: ''The loom ION which
Queen Elizabeth had her robes woven
was almost precisely like than on
which the robes of Queen Semiramis
were woven three thousand years be-
fore"
1t was Richard Arkwright that
changed that. He spent wellnight a
lifetime on the work; he was mobbed
as one who would, for gain, take work
from the poor; his machines were de-
stroyed, even the courts were hostile
to him. but he persevered; because of
his work tens and hundreds of thous-
ands of poor people have ever since OBJ
tanned profitable employment; because
Of it Great Britain became the great
est manufacturing nation on earth, and
has drawn to herself immeasureable
wealth; and. because of his work, for
few dollars, the modern woman can
robe herself in garments that would
have been the envy of both Semiramis
| and of old Queen Bess.
| One of the greatest educators in en-
| lightenment is clothing. 1t Aistin-
guishes the civilized from the barbar-
Gus man: in the old days the status of
nations was gagged by the splendor
of their courts; in every town the way
any prominent lady dresses is the con-
cernment Of a hundred other ladies,
and men are measured more or less
by their clothes.
This gives an idea of what Richard
Arkwright did for mankind. 1t was
he who made cotton king, and by do
ing that he would have undone, in our
republic, what Washington and the
other fathers accomplished, had not
God been watching and turned the
danger aside.
Indirectly his work has clothed and
warmed millions of the worlds poor:
indirectly and directly. it has possibly
| done more for the comfort and eIeva-
ton of the poor than any other one
thing. There We're no mistakes made
when George Washington and Richard
Arkwright We're born in the same year.
Contemplating his life and his work. it
seems a curious truth that with every
great advance of the world, or in eve
ry great crisis of the world, the man
Is sent to perform some especially
needed work. Watt came with the
steam engine, just when the freedom
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
Time. Not Space

Mrs. Frank was a trusting SOUL anC
rarely questioned the opinions OF
others about matters concerning which
they were supposed to be informed
One day she came home with a new
pair of shoes under her arm. Got
them at Brides she explained, "an6
they're the best / ever bought you"
What is SO very good about them?'
inquired her son, for whom the shoes
were intended.
why, the salesman said that you
could walk farther in them than in
any others without getting tired, and
I said that you couldn't walk very far
just now on account of your knee, you
know, and he said that he meant far
Their for the same distance. So
bought them, and here they are. Save
tie string, please. Youths Com
paniOn
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
He Was Game.

Mrs. Nicholas Longworth tells a
quaint story about an English boy
''They are very precocious, indeed
she said chose little chaps from
Elton or Rugby. with their round, So
Der faces and their quiet air. A very
pretty American girl was talking one
evening in London to one of these
urchins. And have you got a sweet
heart yet. Tommy she said playfully
NO. said Tommy, still. I'm game
enough for a bit of spoOning, if that's
what you're after"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18

Little William had planted some cas-
tor beans in the back yard, and as
usual they grew very rapidly. Every
day he would take note how muolh they
grew. One day, while William, his
father and mother were seated at the
dinner table William became silent
and thoughtful, and after looking a
long while at his mother, then at his
father, turning to both in turn, he re-
marked: Mama, you're not growing,
only me and the castor beans. De
lineator
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
ADJUSTMENTS
o
"Mary's Lamb" in CHICAGO.

"Mary's Lamb" is exceedingly funny
whenever the bald and attenuated
earle gets into the action, which is
often, and it is also well spiced. The
'shadowgraph' girls, who still hold
the record for prurience, are seen in
some new poses. Two new songs,
"Nursie' and "Leander' have pe"r
added and the list of auxiliary pr;nci-
pals has been completely changed.
Mr.. Carries temperance was cordial
ly welcomed by an audience that prac-
tically filled the Auditorium. "Mary's
Lamb which was one of the summer
successes in New York, appears to be
the most profitable vehicle that Carrie
has had since 1.-THE Tenderfoet."-C.
w. Collins in the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Richard Garlic ministerial and hum
erous. appeared again in Chicago with
Mary's Lamb" at the Auditorium. sur
rounded by a stunning aggregation of
girls with flashing heels and voices and
clothes of such variety and make
that the winsome ones must nave Worn
their anatomy to shreds in changing
them. ''Mary's Lamb is one of those
breezy farces that takes one skating
over ice Of all degrees of thickness:
it introduces the wife, the henpecked
husband and stage person in the ever
lasting. to everlasting triangle-done
into a laugh. earle is a clever man.
He writes his own plays or makes
somebody else's over, knows his own
limitations and surrounds himself with
galaxy-yes. that's the wOrd-of
creditable folks who know how to do
their parts and add glory to his
Forest Arden in the Chicago Examiner
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
"Brewster's Millions"

The COhan & Harris comedians,
headed by Robert Ober, will present
''BreWster's Millions at the Keylor
Grand theater in the near future.
This splendid play, set all New York
laughing last season and developed in
to one of the most favored entertain
ments of the year. Besides its origi-
nality in construction, plot and story,
it contains a marvellous scenic effect
and is described and commented upon
as one of the wittiest comedies pro-
duced in a decade
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
What They Were Doing.

There is a government official in
Washington to whom an unnecessary
or inane question is as a red rag to a
bull.
Last summer he made his usual
trip to Europe. On the first day out
from New York he was strolling on the
promenade deck, when suddenly there
appeared before: him a man whom he
had not sen for years.
why. Professor exclaimed the
man. ITO meet you. of all men Are
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
A Wide Range

Aunt Anne, an old family darkey.
was sitting with knees crossed in the
kitchen, when the young daughter of
the house entered and, impressed with
the hugeness Of the Old woman's feet
asked what size shoe she wore
well, honey" replied Aunt Anne.
I kin wear Fights; l ginerally wear
mines: but desc yer Use got on am
twelves, an de good Lawd knows dey
hu'ts me!"-Everybody's Magazine.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18

OF the word "Burgomaster," ana sa.eu
peanuts. cigars, whlskey, cnocoia'os;
hon hons. neckwear and shoes anu
rarchiefs are all named after Inc
p,,,gona ster" Manager Catron mas
ssc,,red this musical gem for the Key
- Grand theater early in February.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
SAVED
FROM AN
OPERATION
ByLydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
Louisville, KY" Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has GER

tainly done me a
world of good and
l cannot praise it
enough. I suffered
fromirregularities,
dizziness, nervous
ness, and a severe
female trOub lie.
LydiaE.P inkham's
Vegetable Com
pound has restored
me to perfe ct
health and kept me
from the ODeratinQ
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
He Struck Out.

Jagreen-I saw you talking to Bor-
rows on the street this morning.
BilbrOwn-Yes
Jagreen-Did he strike you for a
loan?
BilbrOwn-NOt exactly. He struck
at me, but never touched me.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
NeurOtic Jelly.

Little Wilbur was eating luncheon
with his mother Presently she noticed
that he was eating his jelly with his
spoon.
wilbur, DEAR she said to him.
you must not eat your jelly with your
spoon
I have to, mother" he replied.
mo. dear, you don't have to. Put
your jelly on your bread"
Il did put it on my bread, mother, -
said Wilbur. but it wouldn't stay
there; it's too nervous The Delin-
Gator
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
Danger.

DdIIStT.
Its dangerous to hug the shore in
war;
Said young Lieutenant McFeit.
But it's more dangerous to hug a
girl
With a pin in the back of her belt
Chicago News
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18

In the face of the increase OF saia-
ries from deputies in the county OF
fees to the president of the United
States. comes now the proposition 70
double the salaries of the judges. II
this keeps up it will not be long be-
fore some bright politician makes re-
duction of salaries his paramount is
sue and sweeps the country.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
How 1t Was Done.

For years. remarked the actor
man, Il have tried in vain to elevate
the stage"
That's an easy natter replied the
young architect.
And the very next day he drew the
plans for the original roof garden.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18

Having started off by violating the
constitution in adjourning more than
three days without the consent or the
senate. who can tell where the mouse
of representatives will land before II
gets through?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18

Whatever faults he may have as a
maninulator of the cold wave, resi-
dents along NEIL creek are convinced
that Weather Observer Grover GER
tainly knows how to handle thaW.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
Aerial Drill.

Young captain, who was drliiihs
49, oyvkward squad, commanded thus:
.Iow nv men; listen to me. When
/ say Haiti put the foot that S Oh 'ne
ground beside the one that's IN the ar
and remain motionless. = success
Magazine.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18

of mankind hung more upon Great
Britain than on all besides. and when
her people needed sometnins Desiuo
the soil on which to live and TO create
wealth. Then Arkwright came to give
the steam engine profitable employ
ment
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
1.-THE Bureomaster."

Popularity" is surely the sign of
"The Burgomaster." Never in the his
tory of this comic opera success has it
proved SO popular as the present sea-
son. Manufacturers all over the coun-
try are recognizing the sterling worth
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
Detecting an Order.

Waiter in a downtown restaurant to
customer-What will you have, sir?
Observation-Disclosures and longs
Waiter beg pardon. sir?
The customer. evidently foreigner,
repeated his order The waiter was
nonpulsed. Cross examination helped.
He wanted hard egg sandwich and a
tongue sandwich.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
Good Reasons.

Good Reasons.
Have you heard that Jim has quit
smoking?''
NO"
yes; you see. he is little near
sighted, and the other day he emptied
his pipe in a powder barrel
Bohemian.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
To Her Credit.

80 you believe in telepathy.'
Yes answered Mr.. MeektOn. MY
wife knows what / am going to think
about some time before l have made
up my mind on the subject myself
Washington Star.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18

Rooseyelt's son is credited with this
description Of his father: If dad goes
to wedding he wants to be the bride;
if he goes to a funeral he wants 10
he the corpse" Does it fit?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18

Having started his libel suit against
the New York World, Mr.. Roosevelt
will probably want to be the trial
Judge and jury in the case.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
The Same Old Professor.

The Same Old Professor.
"carson's the most absent minded
chap I ever saw.
whats he been doing now!
"This morning he thought he'd left
his watch at home, and then proceeded
to take it out of his pocket to see if he
had time to go home and get it."-Lip-
pincOtS.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18

An extraordinary treaty having been
negotiated with Honduras, bank cash
iers and others who fly by night will
have to find some other hiding place.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
Wolfe, Valaer & Brooke
Real Estate
ID and Il Paine BLDG.
Phone 1921

$500 for a fine garden and fruit
tract of 10 acres, only two miles from
city and close to car line, abundance of
water to irrigate with, would take
a small city priperty as part payment.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18

$4,000 per acre buys $50 acres, 1SC
acres in summer fallOW wheat, five
miles to town, abundance of well
water, young orchard, will take good
city property as part payment, and
take grain payments for balance
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18

But probably Mr.. Taft will find in
1912 that glad hands in the southland
do not make votes in the electoral
college,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18

$500 down. balance on easy payment.
buys fine modern bungalow of si1
rooms, fire place. basement, close in
in Green Park, Price $4,000.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18

The Prize.
Dobbs sent his painting to the show,
But later on, alack!
Instead of winning terrapin,
He got a canvas-back.
New York Herald.
Short and Sweet.
Mama-Come, Violet, you must say
your prayers.
Violet-Pve said 'em, Mama.
Mama-What did you say?
Violet said amen. New York
Herald.
Damaged
Algy-Was Willie's suitcase damaged
any by water in the accident?
Reggie-Yes. Every one of the
labels have got soaked off-Bohemian.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18

ONLY $3.50 PER ACRE FOR 1920
acres-all tillable; $40 in wheat
rented for one-third. All fenced 2
miles to station Small improve
ments. Easy terms.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18

you going across?
''Yes!" grOwled the professor. "Are
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18

$27C0 buys fine new five-room house
new barn, wind mill; one-half acre.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18

Two GOOD LOTS ON WALLA WAT.
la avenue, 52x2JS. Close to- Division
street. Price only $500 for two.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
FOR observation-disclosures

OLD PAPERS FOR SALE AT THE
statesman office. 15c per 100
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18

$1,000 buys a fine diversified farm o.
240 acres, considerable can be irrigat-
ed, $50 acres wheat land, balance good
pasture and alfalfa land.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
TAILORS
PHYSICIANS

DR.. ]. c. MACK. PHYSICIAN AND
Surgeon. Special attention given to
diseases Of women and electrical
treatments. Office, rooms 21 and
%, Jaycox Bldg. Phones, office, Main
40; residence, Main 22o. Id
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18

ST. PAUL JUNK SHOP BUYS AND
sells at wholesale and retail all
KINDS OF Hides, Wool, Scrap Iran.
Brass, Copper, Rubber, Lead, Zinc.
Bottles, Old Rubbers and Second
Hand Sacks, and Second Hand Fur
nlture, Stoves and Carpets. M. Gold
stein, Phone2207; Sc East Main ST
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18

A good livery stable in Waitsburg
rented for five years at $50 per month !:
TO trade for Walla Walla property.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18

To trade for smaller property, one
acre, running water, ram, new modern
elght-room house, hot and cold water,
close to car line, east of city. Price,
$4,000.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18

FOR SAI-E-ReaI Estate
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Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1909-11-26

Governor GIasscock, we are told, is
of the opinion that he can get the iegis-
lature TO pass a county local option
bill If he gets them in special session
We Doubt this. The money Of the
whiskey trust was mighty powerful
in the defeat of the measure at the last
session and as the same fellows would
have the question to handle again 1t Is
not likely that they could not be
handles again by the saloon influence
a. they were the last time. 1t Is only
q question of time when the people
will arise in their might and put down
the saloons. There are but thirteen
counties OF the fifty-five in the state
which have saloons now and the forty
two counties are not long going TO be
bossed by thirteen.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1909-11-26

AS evidence of the marvellous devel-
opment of the cotton manufacturing
industry In the South it is stated that
for the past two years the mills of this
ection have consumed more cotton
than those of the North. Some details
comparative and others we find in the
Brooklyn Standard Union that forty
years ago the North worked up nine
times as much cotton annually as the
South, but the latter section has gain
ed 3,l0o per cent, In its factories since
then. During the time mentioned the
North increased its output of manu-
featured cotton goods 222 per cent. AS
recently as nine years ago the North
consumed almost twice as much raw
cotton as the States which form the
other section of the nation. And still 1t
Is hardly an exaggeratlon to say that
cotton manufacturing in the South is
yet in it's infancy.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1909-11-26

Agigantic merger was effected when
the American Telephone & Telegraph
Company, bought large majority Of
the capital stock of the Western Tele-
graph Company, the largest erganiza-
ton of the kind in the world. This is
the biggest combination formed IN the
country since the organization of the
Steel Trust This is not all for it is said
that the deal when completed will in
clude the purchase of the Postal Tele-
graph Company as well aggregating
in all more than one billion dollars
which will be dominated by one set of
financiers. One can hardly conceive
what billion dollars means. If that
amount were coined into silver dollars
and made into chain with the edge
touching the chain would reach from
New York westward around the world
and then a second time across the
continent to San Francisco.