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The Real Vacationer.

Something of pity stirs the heart of
the real vacationer when he looks upon
the efforts of the busy man to take a
vacation. He makes such work of it.
He has no capacity to float into it "as
a feather is waited downwards from an
eagle in his fight" to let the great
world and it's strenuous life go flashing
on while he drifts into a casual corner
to forget and be forgotten The impetus
of the great fight carries him on and
he rides through his allotted days of
rest surrounded by the identical mental
conditions, the same atmosphere Of life
in which he has worked.
Now there is an illbegotten idea, and
it is generally supported by a majority
Of the barons of trade, indicted and I'M
indicted, that vacation should be mere
ly change of work. Think Of it,
mere change of work! A murrain on
such lack of filial piety to the mother
tongue of us all. It is high treason to
assert that a gentle word, which is
blood brother to vacuous and an own son
to vacate, should be muddled up with
plebian word like work.
A vacation implies Nervousness, the
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mercial success. Minneapolis Journal.
A Notable Contest.

|
The final step in a long, vigorously
! fought contest ended last week, when
the school board Of Chicago ordered a
warrant drawn for nearly $50, 900, the
money to be distributed pro rata and
added to the salaries of the teachers OF
that city. AS indicating the capacity
and pluck of women to stand up and
fight for their rights; as vindication Of
their organizations by which individual
forces are concentrated and directed the
contest is notable.
About the time that sundry interests
in st. Paul felt the pinch Of crazy specu-
lation and, clamoring for relief induced
retrenchment which cut the salaries
of teachers and reduced the property
valuations to which the school tax was
tied by a PERCENTAGE limit, Chicago like
wise suffering, cut the wages of it's
teachers sharply There, as here, When
the pinch passed and prosperity bloomed
again, the teachers were forgotten.
About three years ago the Chicago
teachers federation, told that the tax
levy did not yield enough to permit re-
storing their wages, began an investi-
cation to find out why it did not. They
had not far to GO They found that
sundry large interests and the assessors
were on very friendly relations with the
usual result that the assessors saw with
lenient eyes the property of their friends
and laid hands upon but a meager por-
ton of it. A condition, by the way, not
at all peculiar to Chicago.
Then the teachers began a fight
They hired lawyers and brought suits:
got beaten and began again; carried them
from court to court. They showed what
the property of these friends of the as
was reasonably worth; what it
was assessed for and asked the courts
to order the assessing boards to assess
the properties at their fair value The
court at last sustained the
and ordered the board Of equal
zatlon to increase the assessed values.
But, before the mandate could be served
the board wound up its business in a
hurry and adjourned sine die.
Then the teachers had to begin again.
The court ordered the board to recon
vene Finally, after two or three years
IF this kind of fighting, the teachers
won out, the assessments were raised,
the school and other funds were replen-
shed, salaries were raised and all, ex-
cept the sundry interests, are happy
St. Paul DISPATCH.
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your mind won't ''bobulate. .

One on vacation has right only to
documentary knowledge, such as the
meaning of hollow feeling in the stom-
.ch, the significance of darkness and a
few first principles, such as IF you stay
out in tho rain you will get wet, I" etc.
A man who comes back from a vacation
with the knowledge that John D. has
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that ancient bugaboo about mature alb
horring vacuum" for nature is dis
credited as discretionary by her liking
for cyclones and violent disturbances,
such as volcanoes end earthquakes and
other strenuous performances.
It was probably Charles Lamb who
said-for there is some doubt, as about
many really good things, as to who
really fathered it that he liked to '1et
his mind bobulate in vacuum That
is the real philosophy Of vacation. Of
course persons whose natural state that
is, are excluded from taking a vacation;
but they, fortunate creatures, do not
need any; they are already there, and
the rule of the barons might, as a con-
cession, be applied TO them.
The motto of a vacation should be ''go
out to grass. Be blood brother to
the OK heisn' t particular about his rela-
tives and get into vacuum even if
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The Even Chance.


The railroad witnesses before the sen
=zafar committee on interstate commerce
a year ago and railroad men generally
have been assuring the public from
zEIEae 80 time that rebates were things
saof She past, that the Elkins law had
3xn oekad out determinations of that
kind and that there was no'occasion for
further activity of the government on
the EaEe question. This was popular
.sz,xyument with Mr. Elkins and other
srailnaad senators at the beginning of
ELe discussion of the rate bill, but in
stances of discrimination are continu-
ably cropping out. Our Washington
bureau furnishes some recent instances
of the breaking up of the rebate sys-
tenn in favor of the Standard Oil in
New England Mr.. Mellen's road
and Mr. Mellen, by the way, is one OF
the most liberal and fairminded of rail-
road managers, an advocate of rate
-weg1lla alton and an adviser of the presi-
xient-has finally consented to a through
rate on oil from the west to New Eng
Hand points, the effect of which is to
admit the Independents into New Eng
land in competition with the Stand
ard Oil company, which has hitherto
had a monopoly of that trade. The
activity of Commissioner Garfield of
the bureau of corporations was suffi-
scient notice to the New England roads
10 grant through rates on 0 | from the
west the same as on coal, lumber and
al other classes of freight, Other
woa6ls have followed the example of the
New York, New Haven & Hartford.
<A1otner instance of discrimination in
favor OF the Standard Oil company is
furnished by the experience of an indie
pendent reliner at Whiting, Ind, who
,q'sgaiRg into possession Of the fact that
khE Standard Oil was getting a secret
wa#ge of o cents a hundred pounds to
East st. Louis, while he and other in
-a1eHH2dents were paying Is, compelled
.the railroad to grant him the Scent
zraaa under threat OF exposure to the
1Eege1ai authorities. The rate was
granted, but shortly afterward he was
~sDf erred a flattering price for his plant
zsazad sold it ostensibly to an English
syndicate, but, as he believes, to the
Standard Oil, which has been enjoying
special favors at the hands of railroads
IN fiat section of the country amount
aEgg, 1T is estimated, to quarter of
million dollars in 1904.
This secret rebate is the secret of
mere fortunes than that of Mr.. Rookie
feZler and the campaign which has been
5Tsszugnrated against it will restore to
many independent and comparatively
arau competitors the even chance
which %hey have needed in order to
make the difference between success
ard failure Undoubtedly one reason
why a great many fail and why few
succeed has been the special favors en-
-Toyed by the few at the expense of tbs
asaTaIy. the abolition of rebates prom
Asses greater stability in trade and the
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latter course.

latter course.
It is this view of the case which
makes the unsavory opposition of the
packers to real inspection almost mex
.plicable. There is only one explanation
that they hoped to get the benefit of
the government label on their goods
without accepting the law which would
carry heavy duties on their part. The
president declined to be drawn into such
trap. He wanted to be in 9. position
to say to the world: Eve have legis-
lated in such way as to be able to say
to you that if the meats you buy here
after are not. properly put up, the gov
eminent of the United States is morally
responsible.
The anti-paternalist says: where
is all this to end? If American meats
are to be sold abroad under a govern
ment guarantee, why not shoes, ma
chinery or any other manufactured pro-
ducts?"
1t is a dull mind, however, which
cannot see the difference between a
product which goes into the stomach
of customer and which is sealed to his
view until after the purchase, and a
piece of open machinery Minneapolis
Journal.
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Inspection and Paternaljsm.

The presidents reply to an organiza
ton of English grocers assuring them
that the government power stands be-
hind the guarantee that in buying
American canned meats hereafter they
are buying the pure article, has been
attacked in some quarters as savoring
of paternalism.
But it is difficult to understand what
other reply the president could have
made. While he nay have been moved
by desire to soften the grief of the
packers who received a severe blow by
the disclosures in the Reynolds report,
he spoke nothing but the truth. The
governments guarantee is now behind
the inspection of canned meats not only
for ourselves but for foreigners. It
was for this reason that the new in
spection law was pushed thru. The
government has, been inspecting meats
in Chicago, but had discovered that its
inspection did not inspect The ques-
ton before the government was either
to abandon the whole business or to so
strengthen the law that the govern
ment mark on can of prepared meat
would mean something. 1t chose the
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been indicted or that King Haakon has
been crowned or that Jones wife has a
baby or that X, his substitute, has mud
died up his account books, hasn't been
on vacation at ALL He merely sent
his body away for a little brutal relax
alton and missed the spirit of the whole
performance. st. Paul Dispatch.
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GIGANTIC COLLECTION

Remote barbari and unpeoped the gd the the
cm Of the Equator npenet unges burning deserts
yielded
Strange Members 1nnaE World COMPLETE GIGANTIC
The P Noah assemble his grand collection the Ark from the
animated brought doors All e embracing
famed the
alive Of the huge bloodsweing Hippo Stately Giraffe Monster E
Ferocus Tigers india
Striped Zebra and all the the forest
life brilliant
strange
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-01-01
ASYLUM MANIACS HAVE
MASQUERADE BALL

PITSTBURG, Dec. 2S.-Ma ger
Dimont, of the Western Pennsylvania
Asylum for the Insane last night per-
mitted the inmates to indulge i'll O
masquerade ball, each ward being
allowed to dress his or her imaginary
part. Six hundre inmates joined in
the amusing but intensely pathetic
dance. The music was especially slow,
as it has been discovele that fast
music irritates the insane.
The woman who imagines she is
the queen of Eng land was given raD-
er crown and robe. and swept majesti-
cally through the hall, accepting the
imaginary homage of imaginary sab
jects. Another who murdered her
mother, father and brother imagined
that she was Lady Macbeth. She low
cred her dignity sufficiently to dance a
twost5p with a hospital doc tor.
Elaborate preparations were made for
the event, and it probably brought out
the most unique array of gowns ever
seen. Patients seemed to Enjoy the
dance, but the grand march pleased
them best of ali. A limited number
of spectators Id the galleries were de-
pressed by the strange vagaI les of the
mad people on the floor all of which
were giatlfied to tie full by attendants.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-01-01
WEALTHY ITHACA WOMAN
MARRIES HER COACHMAN

ITHACA Dec. 21.-Aiter remain
ing single forty eight years. devcting
her time to charity and social reform,
Margaret B. Fisher, a wealthy lender
of society 10 this city, called Rev. A.
E. George to her residence last even
ing and i'll the presence of two maids
OF the household married Her coach
man, at Kelly.
Mrs. Kelly is an ardent worker i'll
the Social Service League, Congregat-
ional church and Womans' club. Being
worth half million she is generous,
and her charities are many. size is
handsome and it is reported mas refns-
ed many offers of marriage. Kelly is
forty three years old. Mr.. aud Mrs.
Kelly left Immediately ON short wed
ding trip. and will be at home after
the holidays. Society are wond-
ering what they shall do.
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AMERICAN SQUADRON MAY
GO TO RUSSIAN WATERS

CHICAGO Dec. pa dispatch TO
the Tribune from Washington, o. G
says:
The administration will send .
squadron aud not siugle ship to
European waters for use in.he Russian
crisis, in case American life aud pro-
perty are menaced. At conference
yesterday between the president, Sec
Ietary Root and Secretary Boneparte.
instruct ions were given Admiral
Sigsbee, commanding the cruiser
squadron of the NORTH Atlantic fleet,
to proceed with the Brooklyn, the
Galveston, the Tacoma and the Chat
tanooga to MADEIRA then, if necessity
arises, the squardron will go to the
Baltic Otherwise it will winter at
Naples.
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burglaries, and stating that since his
conveIsi IN and preparation to 20 to
India as missionary, he had deter
mined to make reparation for his mis-
deeds. is making good.
John Long, prominent rancher,
who resides at Iitton Springs, in this
county, wrote to Page at his address
in Brooklyn and told him that ten
years ago he missed set of harness.
He described the harness and the cir
cumstances under whi;h IL had dis
appeared and what i5 cost Yesterday
he got reply aud a money order for
the amount of the bill for the harness.
Among other things the Rev. Mr..
Page says:
Tell those others who doubt my
sincerity, il they will write to me and
describe the articles and places where
their goods were taken, ana if l stole
them, will pay for them. the Lord
helping me-"
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Would Give the Hens No Rest

CHICAGO, Dec. 29.-A dispatch to
the Record. Herald from Berkely, Cal.
says within a short time hens will lay
eggs acoordi lg to program whether
they want to or not, Instead of refusing
to work for so long period evry year
that tile price of eggs mounts up to
famine rates. if the plans of Profess I
Jaffa, nutrition expert at the state un-
iversity, do not 40 estray.
Prof. Jaffa is conducting some ex,
periments which he expects will be
concluded by January /. He announc
ed yesterday that his researches have
justified his belief that he would be
able to control the moulting period of
hens, which normally begins in the
middle of the summer and continues
into September. October or November.
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To Promote Laughter

PARIS, Dec. 27.-An association
for the promotion of laughter has just
been formed by group CT professors
and students attached TO the medical
faculty of the university.
Tie members have drafted a circular
which they propose TO address to the
various universities, colleges and aoad.
emies of France, calling attention to
the fact that Frenchmen are gradually
losing the art of laughter and Decom
ing tacituIn and m0rose people. The
circular appeals to them to encourage
the reinstalIation of the bright, sonor-
Gus, and Joyous laugh of our ances-
tors -
The circular further enumerates
five different classes of laughter, each
of Xhich gives the key to man 8
character. Those who la -gh i'll "ah, :"
are of frank disposition, and love
noise action and movement.
Laughter in eh" denotes genei-
Gus, hardy and determined Dature.
But those whose laughter gives the
sound of the French "u' are misanth.
ropes, hypocrites and misers, while
laughter in Zee is the property of
children ard simple minded persons
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LABOR LEGISLATION
FOR new ZEALAND

AUkLAND. N. H., Dec. 80, New
Zealand's Labor legislation" comprises
large number of acts of parliament
and amendments, most of them passed
in 1890 and since, affecting the rela
tions of employers and employed and
tending toward the establishment of
state socialism. Briefly summarized,
wishout attempting at this stage to ex-
plain the details or full scope of opera
ton of the various acts, the principal
achievements of the Liberal labor
party in control of the government are
as follows:
Government ownership and opera
ton of railroads. Partial nationdliza-
ton of the land through leasehold ten
ure of crown lands, and exercise of the
right of eminent domain to break up
large holdings. Abolition of general
property tax and institution of taxation
of unimproved land values, exempting
improvements and small holdings
Not the single tax, however. Gradu-
eted land tax, bearing heavily on large
holders and prohibtive of absentee
landlordism. Government aid to set
tiers in the form of loans at low inter-
est. Graduated income tax, exempt
ing small incomes.
Compulsory compensation of injured
workers by employers, combined with
optional government, insurance of the
emplOrer against loss.
Prohibition of the truck system in
payment of workers.
State, life, accident and fire insur-
ance in competition with priAate COM
panies.
Regulation of the employment of
women and children and abolition of
the sweating" system.
Regulation of the hours of labor.
Improvement of physical and sani-
tary conditions of factory labor, en-
forced by strict inspection.
Government operations of coal mines
to check monopoly and regulate prices.
Establishment of postal savings
banks and national commercial bank
Government steamship lines carry
ing light to foreign ports.
Early closing of shops on local option
syst I'm.
Government inspection and grading
of farm produc is, combined with ex-
pert al vice and assistance to the farm
ers.
Civil service protection OF public en-
ployes.
Old age pensions. s..
Ballot reform: one man, one vote.
Acknowledgement of women.
Judicial arbitration of industrial dis
putes and virtual abolition of strikes,
| lockouts and boycotts.
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RETURNS GOODS STOLEN
BEFORE HIS CONVERSION

SANTA ROSA, Dec. 2S.-The Rev.
John H. Page, of New York, who some
time ago wrote to Sheriff Frank Grace,
of this county, Sheriff Smith, of Men
docino county, and at least two other
California sheritfs, contessing that.
ten years ago, he travelled through
these northern counties stealing horses,
hogs, sheep and innumerable other
things, in addition to committing
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-01-01
FOR SAlE--FARMS

Ten acre fruit ranch, threekroom
house, plastered; 500 fonr yer old
trees; 800 three year.old trees; vo,and
a half acres alfalfa; packing bouse
with good cellar. Pric, $4.IOd ST..
200 cash, balance easy .erms. q, A.
Virtue, 500 Boston block, Seattle,
Wash.
One acre tract close in; room
house; water in house; good outbuild-
ings; close to school; snap at 81 100,
1926 cash, balance easy terms. Ad.
dress box 27S. Wenatchee, Wash.
For saIe-12 acres of valley land,
good wa ter right. all ssfenced, to
acres in alfalfa, balance all plowed,
close to high school, postoffice an
stores. Price $l100. $500 cash and
balance on 8 years time at per cent
inter est. John s. Mooney and Co.
Choice acres, 440 trees, best var
ietles, close in, $3.50. a bargain.
]. s. Mooney and Co.
$l3, 500-4, 500 acres fine timber lands
and good pasture, sure to done,c Ill
value in short time. Situated onlv
10 miles from Wenatchee. There is
enough timber on one section to paw
for the whole tract.
Bousquet and Holm.
S.. 10000 acres near Cashmere, ali
under water. so trees bearing and
800 young trees, 3 acres in al:slfa
small house, small barn. Terms.
Bousquet and Holm.
$3OoO-69 acres 1smile from hiz
school. about 20 acres under waite
with good right. Over so fruit trees
Bousquet and Holm.
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FOR sALE--susuasAN PROPERTY
FOR RENT--AOUSES
FOR SALE--cITY PROPERTY

New house and lot bOxl20, Mob
Hill, good barn ON property Price
$3.50, $3.50 cash, balance easy terms.
Address box 27S, Wenatchee, Wash.
Two lots. Mob HILL so 100. Price.
1915, $3.50 cash, balance easy terms.
Address box as, Wenatchee, Wash.
A snap for cash--lot 1870 1870, all
set to two-year old trees, four room
house, pantry and bathroom. Good
water right and city water Small
barn, property in city limits. Price
5000 If you speak quick. Address box
21S, Wenatchee, Wash.
Corner lot, 30 100, five blocks
from postoffice. $3.50, half cash. bal
ance easy terms. Address box 21S,
Wenatchee, Wash
a snap for snail money-good three
room house, corner lot 90 100 house
nearly new, good ontbuildings. Price
$625. Cash 1925, balance easy terms.
Address box 27S, Wenatchee, Wash.
For sale Five room house, los so
by 1870 on Wenatchee avenue, doors
south of court house, easy terms. APP
ply to owner on property.
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Thousands of Pension Bills

WASHINGTON. ID. G., Dec. 81
More bills were introduced ling tie
fourteen days congress was in session
than during the entire fifty eighth con-
gress. Over II, 900 pension bills have
been introduced in the senate and house
since the session began on Dec. 4.
Members of the hnnse contri buted
about 10, 600 of these bills. while the
senators added apout 2,500. The
average for the house is about twenty
pension bills per membe and that of
the senate is considera bly, larger.
Fully 9, 900 of the ~. 600 pensions bills
are what is known as private pension
bills or "claims The invalid pen
sions committee OF the house has al
ready received more than 6, 900 bills.
It is easier to beat base drum than
a earn, H.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-01-01

Jspan's new ambassat Or to tie
United States the ViscouuG Aoki, is
over sixty. The land of the rising
sun. " ith a history of thousands of
years. goes to its mature men, not with
a bottle of chloroform. but for wisdom.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-01-01

Caleb Powers has been locked up
six years and his case is still
i'm the courts. The exclusively Dem.
ocratic juries that tried Powers are
getting some satisfaction out of Ken
tucky's big political grudRe.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-01-01

The Japanese anniversary of New
Years day, callei Skinner. con-
tinues for an entire week, or long after
an American has forgotten most Of his
good resolutions.
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FOR sALe-WENATcHEE FRUIT LAND

Eleven and a half acres-First class
fruit land with water right. all irrigat-
ed. Nine acres in orchard. 200 trees
four years old, so three years cid, two
acres alfalfa, four room house, out.
buildings. Price 81, 100, 81, 900 cash,
balapoe IN easy terms. Address G. A.
Virtue. Seattle. Wash.
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President Roosevelt an not be ac-
cusad of narrow partisanship. Dem
ocrats in all parts of the country are
receiving choice appointments to off
ce, and very desirable plum was late
ly offered TO former President Cleve-
land.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-01-01

A law to preve Mt stage beauties from
participating in dinners given by sporty
rich men might be good thing for
society, aud would certainly do the
stage no harm.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-01-01

The an nouncement that Russian Pol
an is to have ten temporary military
dictators is calculated to make free
dom shrek its lordest But Poland
can point to the fact that no one dis
tator can hold it down now.