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PAGE FOUR THE EVENING STATESMAN Established 1861. Official Paper of Walla Walla County Published by STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. PERCY C. HOLLAND, Mgr. R.

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By the way, the immunity bath doesn't seem to be doing the meat trust much good now-a-days. George Peabody Wetmore, who has been called Aldrich's rubber stamp, wants to go back to the senate. Rhode Island is too small a state for two real senators. The real question in Russia is whether the douma can be persuaded to adjourn for a few minutes while the czar readjusts his crown. Bishop Fallows insists that editors need to be prayed for.

This is perhops true. And it may do no harm to call the attention of Providence to the needs of bishops. We are all "pore, weak critters." The St. Louis Post Dispatch has carefully worked out from the new arithmetic the table of strawberry measure. It applies to other things: pint makes a quart.

Sixteen pints make a crate. Top berries make a sale. Nobody makes a kick. If you are opposed to the blocking of work on the new gravity water system through the granting of the permanent injunction sought by leading Boxers, vote for the re-election of Mayor Hunt who is determined to carry out the -will the people when they voted almost unanimously to authorize a bond issue of for the building of this water system. One hundred million gallons of alcohol are consumed annually in Germany in the arts; In this country.

5,000.000 annually. These figures are impressive as evidence of the obstruction laid In the way of a useful article of commerce which for half a century has been subject to heavy internal revenue tax. amounting at the present time to $2.08 per gallon, or more than sixteen times its cost. A good park theater in Walla Walla during the summer months would help to relieve the monotony of all work and no play. The bane of existence in Walla Walla is the lack of legitimate resorts for pleasure, amusement and recreation.

The Y. M. C. A. building will help some, but we also need public parks, gymnasiums, swimming pools, picnic grounds, and other means of outdoor diversion.

There is still a great field for philanthropists and public spirited citizens In Walla Walla. A reporter, describing an interview with Health Commissioner Charles J. Whalen in Chicago, with reference to the sale of diseased meat, says that the health commissioner was very angry when told of the charges of neglect against his assistants, and that he did not want any "long-haired radicals appointed to go into the stockyards to foment trouble." These remarks, the reporter says, were interspersed with profanity. We would naturally expect a health officer who took that view of the matter to use language not suitable for publication. A BOSTON EXPERIMENT.

In Massachusetts, the supervision of pas and electric liprht plants is a state function, committed to a state agency Headquarters for Fine Diamonds And all Kinds of Jewelry-Watch Repairing IfiE MARTIN IKWELKY COMPANY JESSIE MARTIN. Graduate Optiri. 125 Main Street Ey Tested Fittftd known as the gas and electric light commission. The regulation of prices is a state and not a municipal power. The legislature of Massachusetts has recently passed a bill and the governor has signed it, providing for a sliding scale of prices in Boston and its vicinity.

This bill provides that beginning with June 30 of the current year, the standard price for gas shall be 90 cents per thousand. The bill also provides that the stockholders shall receive in dividends 7 per cent, which rate may not be increased except upon certain conditions. These conditions are that the profits shall bear a relation to the cost of the gas. When the earnings exceed 7 per cent, depreciation, interest and all other legitimate charges having been taken care of, the dividends may not be increased without a reduction in the price of gas. The arrangement is rather complicated, but the principle is that the public shall share in the profits of the co.npany over and above 7 per cent.

The Boston Transcript regards this bill as a step backward from municipal ownership in the gas industry; in fact, it claims that that was the issue really involved and that the bill is a compromise between the extremes of municipal ownership and private ownership without amenability to supervision to the extent of determining the measure of profits which may be derived from the business The arrangement is supposed to work automatically and to preserve an equilibrium between the earnings of the company and the rate charged for gas. The bill has nothing to do with fixing the terms of the charter or specifying conditions under which the company may do business, further than to provide for this regulation of price; but it is an interesting experiment in lieu of government ownership. NOX-POLITICAL, POLITICIANS. Hearing that some Missouri democrats are finding fault with Governor Folk, a Nebraska paper remarks: "If the democrats of Missouri don't like Folk we'll take him. He would not need much overhauling to make a pretty good republican." This comment is illustrative of a remarkable fact in our present politics and that is that the men who are of vital moment in public life, the men who are doing something, appear to fit in one party as well as the Senator La Follette would make a pretty good democrat.

Indeed it is suspected that in his three-cornered battles with the stalwarts and the opposition party in his own state the democrats have largely supported him. Governor Folk In his campaign for the governorship carried his state as a democrat while it was throwing its electoral vote to Roosevelt and choosing its first republican legislature in thirty years. President Roosevelt has been denounced as not a republican and he has recently been read out of the democratic party by the lugubrious Mr. Towne. This does not mean that the president is universally disliked in both porties.

It means just the opposite. It signifies that in his most important public attitudes the president comes so near being now a republican, now a democrat that both parties are alternately excited by the fear or hope that he will change his politics. His failure to do so makes one party or the other rise up and vociferate its dissatisfaction with him. One would gain the impression that the president has no party politics. He has, but he does not set his party platform up as a mirror in which to view his attitude as president.

He acts from a sense of duty and right irrespective of the rules which such men as Gorman, Piatt or Odell would set up for It all comes down to the fact that there is less politics and more political activity in the country than there has been for many years. The politics of finesse, of organization and of machinery have given way to the politics of ideas, of aspirations, of accomplishment. Roosevelt, Folk, La Follette. Garvin, and many others who might be named have obscured tactics in the desire to achieve results for the people. This may explain why they are a puzzle and a pain to the old-style bosses.

WHERE IS THE PURE FOOD BILL? It is rather remarkable that the agitation of the beef question has not created more of an interest in the general question of food. Meat, while it is an important element in the food supply, is, after all. only one element. There are hundreds of others, some of little importance, others more important than meat itself. Yet we are all discussing meat as though we believed that when the clean killing and dis- secting of healthy animals was brought about, the whole problem would be solved.

The truth is, the beef question should be considered as merely a phase of the food problem. The country is, perhaps, fortunate in having such an exposure made of weak points ofshrd posure made of the weak points of meat that a reform will resultrdlu meat inspection that a reform will result. It is alwaps possible to get specific reforms in America if you focus the whole of the unparalleled publis opinion of this country upon it. The keenness of satire, the eloquence of denunciation, the learning and the constructive suggestion which the American people can bring to bear instantly upon the solution of any problem upon which they are united is sufficient to compel anything to be done. But it is the characteristic of the people that when they have seen one job finished they turn away from the work with a yearning to play a while.

It is difficult to interest them immediately in another campaign. It is always difficult to interest them in a general campaign. Xovv a general campaign happens to be what the country needs in the pure food matter. It will not do to attack the abuses in the meat trade and go to sleep over the adulterations of hundreds of other foods. While we are about it, why not make a clean sweep of the whole rotten tribe of poisoners? If 800 telegrams a day can be sent to Washington to save free transportation to railroad men's families, how many hundred thousand should be sent Speaker Cannon demanding that he take the pure food bill out of his pigeon hole and give to the house.

The speaker has been unable to find the demand for the bill. There is a demand for it. But it is so large and so diffused a demand that it cannot make itself felt in Washington. If it were something simple, specific like the examination of meat or the saving of passes. Speaker Cannon would have heard about it long ago.

The pure food bill is being strangled in the house because of an alleged lack of demand for it, when, as a matter of fact, it is the very magnitude of the demand that prevents it being organized in such a way that the pin-headed statesmen will hear it. By the way, that immunity bath POWER OF A SONG. Won Thirty of the Sinner'! Fellow Prisoners Another Chance. In a newspaper note Mrs. Florence Maybrick, the famous American wornan who spent many years in an English prison, is reported to have resumed her maiden name of Chandler Day and to be living quietly in New York in straitened circumstances.

To thousands of your readers the fact that Mrs. Maybrick was the sister-in-law of Stephen Adams, the composer of "The Holy City," and that hers was the first female voice that sang the hymn will come as a revelation. Stephen Adams' true name was Michael Maybrick, youngest brother of her husband, and the song was sung for the first time on board his yacht. A most touching incident in connection with the hymn occurred in San Francisco several years ago. It was Monday, a busy day.

A long line of "drunks," as many as could be accommodated, stood ranged before the bar. A former member of a noted opera company, who had fallen on evil days, was one of those taken in the dragnet, though not in line. After the noise and bustle attendant on getting the first batch of prisoners into order a strong, clear, powerful voice rolled up from the cells, singing: "Last night I lay a-sleeping There came a dream so fair." The words, sung in such an unusual place, produced a visible shock among the sodden wretches. Men dropped on their knees and wept In silent prayer. The mingled music and sobbing Interrupted the court's proceedings.

The judge, making no order to stop the song, it moved to a climax: "Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Sing for the night Is o'er! Hosanna In the highest! Hosanna for evermore!" Seeing the visible effects of contrition on the faces of the men, the Judge, impelled by his feelings, remarked to thq officer that there must be some good left in them; they must have another chance. And so it came to pass that the singing of "The Holy City" gave thirty of the singer's fellow prisoners another Commercial Tribune. Estimating a Home The Arabs have two methods of estimating the height to which a colt will grow, the first being to 6tretch a cord from the nostril over the ears and down along the neck and compare this measurement with that from the withers to the feet, and the other method being to compare the distance between the knee and the withers with that from the knee to the coronet. In the first method It is considered that a colt will grow as much taller as the first measurement exceeds that of the second, and in the second method, if the proportion is as two to one, the horse will grow no taller. THE EVENING STATESMAN WALLA WAuLA, WASHINGTON.

MILUN IN LIMELIGHT Railroad Commissioner is Charged Witt) Violating Compact HISTORY OF THE RECENT LIME WAR HE IS ACCUED OF FLOODING THE MARKET WITH CHEAPER GRADE OF THE ARTICLE. In a sensational series of affidavits filed in the federal court yesterday in the suit of Ernest V. Cowell, of San Francisco, against State Railroad Commissioner John S. McMillan to prevent the sale of the Tacoma Roche Harbor Lime company and to secure a receivership to investigate the company's affairs, McMillan is accused of having entered into an agreement in the evening to maintain a schedule of lime prices and then flooded the market before midnight of the same day with his lime, sold from fifty to sixty cents cheaper than the agreement provided. This is said to have precipitated the lime war of 1901.

1902, 1903 and 1904. Hugh O'Neill, a lime burner, who left the Tacoma Roche Harbor Lime company a short time ago, swears that the dynamo that ought to have been used to provide electric lights during the lime burning at night was busy charging the electric motor In the launch of young Fred H. McMillan, left in charge of the Roche Harbor plant as superintendent when his father moved to Seattle after receiving an appointment as state railroad commissioner. O'Xeill claims that about one-third loss resulted from inexperienced handling of lime at the plant. Alpheus Byers, who was one of the incorporators and stockholders of the Island Lime company, with a plant located at Ocean, near Deer harbor, on Orcas island, ten miles distant from Roche harbor, makes the sensational charge of a violated agreement against McMillan.

In a lengthy affidavit he recites the fact that the lime companies signed a compact to quote lime at $1.25 f. o. b. the boat at the plant and to compel agents or dealers to sell at $1.60. A copy of the agreement is given in the affidavit, which shows that in the event of any change in dealers, each manufacturer was to be notified; only one representative in a county was permitted; Tacoma dealers had jurisdiction over the territory in southwestern Washington and in Cle Elum and Roslyn.

To the fulfillment of the agreement the "business honor" of the principals was pledged. Byers swears this agreement was made at 6 p. July IS, 1900. Immediately after signing the agreement he accuses McMillan of calling in Seattle dealers and notifying them that the price of lime would be $1 in this city and 75 cents a barrel f. o.

b. the boats at Roche harbor. He is accused of having attempted to flood the market before rivals could learn of his purpose and of precipitating the lime war that continued until August or September. 1904. Despite the fact that a lime war was raging.

Byers claims his company paid dividends ranging from 25 to 40 per. cent, and though complelled to ship barrel materials from Portland and Aberdeen and pay coopers 1 cent a barrel higher than the running wages on the sound because of the isolated position of the lime plant, secured barrels at a cost of 20 3-10 cents. These figures on profit and cost of barrels are important, for one of the charges in Cowell's suit against Mc- Millan is that the plant which ought to have paid dividends regularly has paid but $16,000 since its organization. He also accuses McMillan of suppressing information regarding the cost of barrels to get a contract with the Tacoma Roche Harbor Lime company for barrels made by himself at a cost of 30 cents. McMillan's, affidavit filed today says these barrels cost him cents to manufacture, and the royalty on the Waterman-Chapman barrel machine brought the cost of the barrel up to 25 cents.

To McMillan's affidavit, answering the Cowell charges, is appended a letter written to a Toronto capitalist whom McMillan says he had interested in a big cement enterprise at Roche harbor, and who would have purchased the McMillan lime interests. This letter severely criticizes McMillan's management and had the effect of blocking the trade. In McMillan's affidavit he also confirms the story that he had practically completed a sale of his interests when the serving of Cowell's affidavit spoiled the deal. He accuses How Lime War Started. Dividends Were Affected.

the Cowells of having upset past plans of a similar nature. A bitter attack is made upon Henry Cowell, who died two years ago, and whom McMillan charges was a "grasping, selfish and hard-hearted man." pursuing a vindictive course up to the time of his "death by violence at the age of 91." Ernest V. Cowell, the son, who has brought suit to enjoin Mc- Millan from disposing of his interests in the lime corporation and to have appointed a receiver for the company, insists his father died at the age of 84, but passes by the discrepancy In his age to vigorously defend his father's character and reputation. Each of the McMillan charges was met by Cowell in counter affidavits. GIRLS WHO MARRY TOO SOON Tbey Are Influenced by Trivial Considerations or by Loneliness.

"In nine out of ten cases girls do not nurry the right man." said the pessimist. "Too sweeping a percentage," put in the bachelor. "Make it six out of ten. and you will be nearer right." "But I thought they always did in America." remarked the woman of the party. "They think they do, if you refer to their thinking they are in love, my dear madam," the pessimist replied, "but half the time they are in love with the notion of being engaged and of having a home of their own, and they are cap- SHE MET THE EIGHT MAN TWO TEAKS TOO LATE.

tlvated by a Gibson face and figure or a record of college football or a man's popularity in society "Enough, oh, dear me!" "What girl," pursued the pessimist, warming up to his subject, "ever pauses to dissect a man's character? Half the girls who marry do so too early in life." "But girls who have talent, who have aspirations in life?" "They are the worst fools. Deliver me from the artistic temperament! It takes a long time for any talent to mature, and in the meanwhile there are moments of intense loneliness, made all the more bitter by glimpses of the happiness of other women who have homes and friends, for that appears to the lonely girl to be their happiness. And the lure works. To gain companionship she marries some man, only to speedily outgrow him and find out how maddening all his faults can be. I knew of one such girl, who married a man during her period of loneliness and struggling.

After two years she left him and went to London with her tittle child. Success came to her, as it was bound to come, and she met the right man two years too man who could have worshiped her like a queen and made her life one continual comfort and happiness. But it was too late. She was tied to the mistake of her earlier days for life, and she realized that because she had not patiently waited she had lost her chance of happiness." BEATRICE ASHBY. POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

How bard a man falls after having been boosted too high! When a man gets the baby to sleep, how proud he Is of himself! There is usually enough humiliation in all our lives to keep us modest. It is not the stingy man who becomes a burden as age approaches; It Is the spendthrift. A pathetic admission older people often make is, "The romance has all been knocked out of me." What has become of the old fashioned woman who called her friends "copycat" when they bought something like hers? When a man Is reasonably happy and content, it doesn't just happen. He is compelled lo use common sense and work to an Globe. Birds That Carry Their Young.

The woodcock, it is said, has been known to carry away her young when threatened with danger. She places the in on her spread feet pressing them between the toes and the breast. A naturalist says many woodcocks also carry their young down to marshy feeding grounds in the evening, returning before dawn. In fact, they have no means of feeding their young except by carrying them to their food, for they cannot convey their food to theak Keylor Grand! JNO. B.

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