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PAGE SIX DESTRUCTIVE ARTISTS. fhe Rain They Wrought While Smarting Under Critieiani. By no 1110:1ns unusual was the de struction of the Borglum angels in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine by the sculptor himself while smarting under the criticism that there were no male angels shown. (Jerome, the famous French sculptor, had been working for weeks on the clay model of a group representing Spring. It had almost reached completion when the artist became convinced that the treatment was wrong, and in a minute he had beaten the entire group into a shapeless mass of damp clay. Hogarth destroyed a picture which had been somewhat severely criticised by one of his friends, but the most spec tacular destruction Is related of Char tran, who for a time had a studio In New York. He was visited by the hus band of an American woman whose portrait he was painting, $5,000 being the agreed price. The husband, while admitting it to be a splendid work of art. declared that he could see abso lutely no likeness to his wife in the pic tured face. Chartran laid down his brush and. taking out his penknife, slit the canvas into ribbons, after which he bowed his critic out. It afterward de veloped that the man was disparaging the portrait merely in the hope of ob taining a reduction In the price. ERRORS OF SPEECH. Common Abuse of the Verba to Get, to Lay and to Lie. The verb to get is one of our much misused words. It means to acquire, win, obtain, and primarily it signifies the putting forth of effort to attain something. Consequently it is not only superfluous, but Incorrect, to speak of a man as "getting drowned" or "get ting sick." and you may unfortunately "have a cold," but it is impossible that you "have got a cold." At this mo ment no exceptions occur to the writer to the rule that got should never be used in connection with have, which alone sufficiently expresses possession. Say "I have the picture," not "I have got the picture." "The dog has a broken leg," not "The dog has got a broken leg." The irregular verbs lay and lie are frequently confounded. Lay is an ac tive or transitive verb, and lie is pas sive or intransitive. We lay things down or have laid them down, but we and tilings lie at rest. You lie down, have lain down, will lie down or are lying down; she lay down yesterday and is going to lie down this afternoon. A frequent error is to confound the past tenses of these verbs. One should say, "Mary laid the book on the table and lay down herself," but the book lies on the table. THE STOMACH. How It la Affected by the Use of Mixed Fatty Foodn. The stomach never Ims the least pow er of digesting true fat. This is dis posed of in the intestines. When eat en in the ordinary forms, as fat meat, butter, etc., the fat separates out in the stomach and does not in the least interfere with the work of the gastric juice on the other food, but when a Don fatty food has been intimately mix ed with grease the latter prevents the gastric juice getting at the food it could digest. Fish fried in oil or but ter is by no means the most marked example, as the fat does not penetrate very deeply. Potatoes mashed with butter are rather worse, and minced vegetables fried with butter are bad offenders. The reason advanced ex plains why pork is difficult of diges tion. The muscular fibers are mixed up with fat cells, and by the liberation of tlu' oil in each tiny cell the eaten pork Is made into an oily paste. A very strong stomach will do the work required, but it is not a fair task to impose frequently, and a weak stom ach will refuse to do anything beyond reminding its owner by a few stabs that it will not stand such treatment Webster's Portrait. Daniel Webster once sat for his por rtait to G. P. llealy, and the senator's remark when he surveyed the complet ed picture became one of the artist's favorite anecdotes in after years. "I think." said Webster as he looked at his counterfeit presentment, "that is a face I have often shaved." Healy found Andrew Jackson a disagreeable and unwilling "subject," and he compensat ed himself by painting Old Hickory with absolute fidelity to nature, not glossing a single defect. The portrait gives Jackson an ugly, savage and pal lid face. Napoleon's Poison. A curious detail of Napoleon Bona parte's costume was the religious care with which he kept hung around his neck the little leather envelope, shaped like a heart, which contained poison that was to liberate him in case of ir retrievable reverses of fortune. This poison was prepared after a recipe that CabanaJa had given to Corvisart, and after the year ISOB the emperor never undertook a campaign without having his little packet of poison. Mm Wan Tender. "Young Mr. Softy paralyzed Dr. Sim ton when he went to be vaccinated," observed Gaswell to Dukane. "How was that?" "He asked the doctor to put him un der the Influence of anaesthetics." A Pnrslarbted Girl. "I will work night and day to make you happy," he said. "No," she answered thoughtfully, "don't do that Just work during the* day and atay at home at night" Patting yourself on the back is a dlf. flcnlt ttiah sefdom done gracefully. PROFESSOR BELL'S KITE. Be Hag Invented One Which Win Snatain a Large Weight. Kiteflying is not always mere boys' play. No less a philosopher and scl«- entist than Benjamin Franklin, the bi centenary of whose birth is being cele brated this mouth, indulged in It. As a boy Franklin was a great swimmer, and he invented a kite which, when he lay on his back and floated, would pull him across a lake in which he was ac customed to bathe. Later in life he made the famous kiteflying experiment by means of which he discovered that lightning and electricity were the same. Curiously enough, a great electrical In ventor of our own time, Professor Alex ander Graham Bell. Is interested in kites. He has developed the kite to the point where it will sustain a weight of over 200 pounds and remain stationary In the air long enough to have several i PROFESSOR BELL FLYING HIS NEW EES. ! pictures taken. The kite which will do this is named the Frost King, and Ik recently lifted a man named Neill Mo Dearmid, weighing IGS pounds, to s, height of thirty feet and supported him, The Frost King carried, In addition to i McDearmid, a rope ladder and flying j lines weighing sixty-two pounds, and I its own weight is sixty-one pounds, so j that a weight of 288 pounds was ku» ! tained altogether. This kite is com j posed of 1,300 tetrahedrul cells. A tet ; rahedon in geometery is a solid figurt i Inclosed or bounded by four triangles. | The cells give the Frost King a total I area of 752 square feet of silk, or * j supporting surface of 440 square feet Seven years ago Professor Bell an { nounced that he hoped to be able to J construct a kite which would carry a | man and a motor engine in a ten mile j breeze at the rate of ten miles an hour. | He feels encouraged by the success re j eently attained to continue experiment 1 *. RAMON CACERES. | The Santo Domlngro Situation and the New President. Ramon Caceres, the new head of the | government of Santo Domingo, suc i ceeded to the presidency when Presl- I dent Morales fled from the capital of ) the Dominican republic. He was tho | Incumbent of the office of vice presi j dent, and when the flight of Morales j left the presidency vacant the cabinet i Issued a proclamation declaring Gen j eral Caceres president. The incident I ■ RAMON CACERES. involves no change in the dominant party in Santo Domingo. The party known as the Horacia, or peace party, has controlled the government for some time and in the last election received many increases in strength. The cabi net representing this party has domi nated the presidential office owing to the peculiarity of the Dominican con stitution, and as Morales was ambi tious to conduct his own government he fell under the suspicion of disloyal ty to his cabinet and party and was also suspected of intending to join the opposition, or Jim Inez faction. The change in the head of the government was not accompanied by fighting at the capital, though encounters have since occurred outside of it The mem bers of the cabinet retained their places and discharged their functions, aa usual. Collection of customs and or derly transaction of business went on as before. The situation is of special in terest in this country on account of the treaty pending in the United States senate providing for American super vision of the collection of customs in Santo Domingo and the payment *f foreign debts from each fond* THE BEAUTIFUL HAND. A Deeiaion That Stood the Teat of All Time. There was a dispute among three ladies as to which had the most beau tiful hand. One sat by a stream and dipped her hand into the water and held it up, another plucked strawber ries until the ends of her fingers were pink and another gathered violets until her hands were fragrant. An old, hag gard woman, passing by, asked, "Whc will give me a gift, for I am poor?" All three denied her, but another who sat near, unwashed In the stream, un stained with fruit, unadorned with flowers, gave her a little gift and satis fied the poor woman, and then she ask ed them what was the dispute, and they told her and lifted up before her their beautiful hands. "Beautiful In deed," said she when she saw them, but when they asked her which was the most beautiful she said, "It Is not the hand which is washed clean In the brook, it Is not the hand that is tipped with red, it is not the hand that is gar landed with fragrant flowers, but the hand that gives to the poor is the most beautiful." As she said these words her wrinkles fled, her staff was thrown away and she stood before them an angel from heaven, with authority to decide the question in dispute, and that decision has stood the test of all time. STATE LOTTERIES. They Were Once Very Common and Very Popular In Europe. Lotteries were common in ancient Rome, and during the middle ages lot teries were utilized by the Italian mer chants for the disposal of their goods. Some of the Italian states then adopted the lottery as a means of raising reve nue, and the institution of state lot teries afterward became very com mon and very popular throughout Eu rope. The earliest English state lottery of which there is any record was in 15G9, when 40,000 chances were sold at 10 shillings each, the drawing taking place in the west door of St. Paul's cathedral. The prizes consisted of articles of plate, and the profits were employed for the repair of certain harbors. Early In the reign of Queen Anne private lot teries were suppressed "as public nui sances," but government lotteries, how ever, were still maintained, and from 1709 to 1824 considerable sums were annually raised in lotteries authorized by acts of parliament. The average yearly profit to the gov ernment from 1793 to 1824 was over £340,000. On the ground of injury to public morals lotteries of all kinds were abolished in England in 1826.— London Saturday Review. FORGET YOURSELF. No One Can Grow While Hla Thought* Are Self Centered. Forget yourself. You will never do anything great until you do. Self con sciousness is a disease with many. No matter what they do, they can nev er get away from themselves. They become warped upon the subject of self analysis, wondering how they look, how they appear, what others will think of them and how they can enhance their own interests. In other words, every thought and every effort seems to focus upon self; nothing radi ates from them. No one can grow while his thoughts are self centered. The sympathies of the man who thinks only of himself are soon dried up. Self consciousness acts as a paralysis to all expansion, strangles enlargement, kills aspiration, cripples executive ability. The mind which accomplishes things looks out not in; it is focused upon Its object, not upon itself. The immortal acts have been uncon sciously performed. The greatest pray ers have been the silent longings, the secret yearnings of the heart, not those which have been delivered facing a critical audience. The daily desire la the perpetual prayer, the prayer that Is heard and answered.—Success. What the Blind See. "I can always tell when people artt looking at me." said a blind man. "In deed, nearly all blind persons can tell when people are looking at them. 1 have always about me a soft golden glow of light When people whom I like come into my presence this glow becomes paler, lovelier. When those I dislike are about the glow is darkened and besmirched. I can tell what kind of characters people have by the touch of their hands. There is individuality In the touch. A man's touch shows me whether he is alert or sluggish, cold or passionate, kind or cruel." Stone In the Heart. A Greek woman employed In the American hospital in Caesarea, Turkey, was stirred by a revival. She straight way asked leave to visit a woman whom she had injured and to whom she had not spoken for ten years. When she trudged through the snow three or four miles to ask her "enemy's" for giveness her relatives were sure she had gone daft, but the next day, when she came back to the hospital, she said, "We made peace, and the stone In my heart is gone." Hot Bo Resourceful as Most Girls. Nell—Some of our proverbs are so ridiculous. For instance, "Where ig» norance is bliss"— Belle—What's the matter now? Nell-Why, you know, Charlie gave me my engagement ring last week, and I simply can't find out bow much it cost him.—Philadelphia Ledger. Hot Altogether Unsuccessful. Bobby—Went fishing yesterday in stead of going to school. Tommy- Catch anything? Bobby—Not until 1 got home. THE EVENING STATESMAN, WALLA WALLA. WASHINGTON. NEW SHORT STORIES A Hard Earned Dollar. The late Patrick A. Collius, mayor of Boston, studied law at Harvard. A Harvard man said of him: "Collius was above all things a friend of progress. The progress of woman delighted him. He was glad to see wo man educating herself from a shut in and subordinate place in the household into a free and equal partnership with her husband there. "He liked to see a wife treated liber ally and reasonably. Nothing angered him more than to see a coarse, low wit ted brute of a man domineering over a woman twice his superior in quickness and intelligence. "On the subject of household ex penses I heard him tell a committee of women once about a certain home mis sionary movement "In this movement every participant was to contribute a dollar that she had earned herself by hard work. "The night of the dollar's collection came, and various and droll were the "HOW DID YOU EARN YOUtt DOLLAIiV" stories of the money's earning. One woman had shampooed her hair, an other had baked doughnuts, another had got newspaper subscriptions, and so on. "The chairwoman turned to a hand some woman In the front row. " 'Nvw, madam, it is your turn,' she said. 'How did you earn your dollar?' " 'I pot it from my husband,' she an swered. " 'Oh.' said she. 'From your husband? There was no hard work about that.* "The woman smiled faintly. " *liou don't know my husband,' she said,'' A Versatile Young Artist. A story is related of the late Dr. Field, whose memory is cherished by hundreds of Bangor people because of bla good deeds. The reverend doctor was exceedingly fond of children and was always interested in their studies and pastimes. One day Dr. Field called on one of his lady parishioners to dis cuss parish work. The lady's little daughter was In the room, and Dr. Field noticed that the child was h> tently marking on a small slate. Thy reverend gentleman asked the child what she was doing and received the reply, "Drawin'." "Let me see what you are drawing," asked Dr. Field. And the little girl immediately prof fered the slate. "Why, witwt is this you're drawing?" asked Dr. Field. "That's a picture of you," was the an swer. "Well, now, 1 don't think that looks anything like me," said Dr. Field. The little girl looked at. the fig ure on the slate for a moment and then, entirely unabashed, said, "Well, never mtnd; let's put a tall on it and call it a horse."—Bangor Commercial. If All Wives Would Believe. Chairman Shouts of the isthmian ca nal commission said the other day in Illustration of woman's credulity: "A young man entered the drawing room of the girl whom he was soon to marry. " 'Oh, John,' she said, 'father saw you this morning going into a pawn broker's with a large bundle.' "John flushed. Then he said in a low voice: "Yes, that Is true. I was taking the pawnbroker some of my old clothes. You see, he and his wife are frightful ly hard up.' " 'Oh, John, forgive me!' exclaimed the young girl. 'How truly noble you are!' "—New York Tribune. The Major and the Walter. Vanity Fair recently told a story of Major Evans Gordon which proves that hU powers as an Interpreter cannot be regarded as unlimited. He entered a small restaurant in Marseilles with a friend who spoke no French. To the major fell the ordering of dejeuner. No butter accompanied the hors d'oeu vres. "Du bwurre," demanded the ma jor. The waiter stared. "Du beurre, s'll vous plait." The waiter cocked an expectant ear, but remained puzzled. "Du beurre!" thundered the major for the third time. "Beg pardon, sir, but 'ave you ordered your beer?" said the waiter—Dundee Advertiser. P. L. Hutchlns, the cotton expert, was praising an apt and witty speech. "It reminded me," he said, "of a scene in a magistrate's court that 7 taw in my boyhood. "An old man was haled before a magistrate for stealing chickens, ana the latter said sternly to him: " Ton are charged with robbing hen roosts, Ay friend. Have you any wit nesses?' "The veteran smiled calmly as he re plied: "•No, sir. In my country we don't rob henroosts before witnesses."* — Mew York Tribute. An Apt Answer. BAKER RAILROAD MAN'S RASH ACT KILLS HIMSELF THAT HIS FAMILY MAY GET HIS LIFE INSUR ANCE POLICY. BAKER CITY, Ore., February 7.— H. E. West, 30 years of age, a railroad man of La Grande who had been *i(J3 Baker City the past few days out of work, became despondent Monday night and committed suicide at the Crabill hotel in this city by taking an over dose of morphine. He had a wife anl family l'ving at La Grande. West left a letter for his wife stating that he had nothing to live for and his dying Would help the family by leaving in surance money to them. His wife ar rived at Baker City this morning, prostrated by the shock. It is said that their married life had always been of the most pleasant order. The coroner's jury at noon today returned a verdict of death by committing sui cide, from taking an overdose of mor phine. Talking machines. Victor, Edison, Columbia Zanophone at Stanley's. Always Remember the Pull * j axctive jjromo Quinine (VLJy on every J STATIONARY CHEAP \ § During the month of February w© will sell our entire line of X ! TABLETS AND BOX PAPER J ▼ at half price, regardless of cost. This is done to make room for our 4 f new and up-to-date line which is due to arrive about March Ist and I T is a rare opportunity for you to buy good stationery for less than the T X manufacturers' price. \ E. L. SMALLEY, DRUGGIST \ 6 EftJ-t Main St. Phone 137 % J \ Have yon any Books to bind? Have yot* any Maga zines to bind ? Have yot* any Special Books that yot* want made ? Have yot* any Special Rulings ? THE HICKOK RULING MACHINE About March I, 1906, The Statesman Company will have installed the most tip-to-date plant between Portland and Salt Lake, prepared to do all kinds of RULING, BOOK BINDING ot PRINTING. Will make anything from a Visiting Card to the Largest Ledger used by the County or City of Walla Walla, f Keep your money at home by bring ing your work to us. We can do it and produce the finest at fair prices. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1906. WARNING TO PUBLIC. The public is hereby notified that I will not be responsible for any bills contracted in my name unless upon a written order signed by myself. P. D. BEXTLET. Statesman want ads bring results.