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The Greeley tribune. [volume] (Greeley, Colo.) 1870-1913, 1907-10-17
CARVING the Donkey.

A schoolboy was recently present.
ed with pocketknife, with which,
boylike, he cut and marked every
thing that came in his way, from
the dining room table to the cats
tail. A few days after he had be-
come the happy possessor of the
knife his father was startled by see
ing two men bringing home the
young hopeful in very dilapidated
condition. The father, of course,
was very much alarmed and in
CURED of the boy who had hit him.
Nobody hit me-" the boy an
swered between his sobs. "a dom
key kicked me in the eye"
"Eh? - echoed the father
Haven't | told you thousands of
times that donkeys and powder are
not fit things for boys to play with !?
What were you doing to the DON
key?"
Il wasn't playing with him at
all" said the boy. 81 was only try
ing to cut my name on his back. p
London Express.
The Greeley tribune. [volume] (Greeley, Colo.) 1870-1913, 1907-10-17
A Doubtful Compliment.

\ clergyman was about to leave
his church one evening when he en-
countered an old lady examining the
carving on the font. Finding her
DESTROYS of seeing the beauties of
the church, he volunteered to show
her over, and the tlustered old lady,
much gratified at this unexpected
offer of personally conducted tour,
shyly accepted it. By and by they
came to handsome tablet on the
right of the pulpit. "This," ex-
planned the good man, ''is a memo
rial tablet erected to the memory Of
the late vicar"
"There now! Amt it beautifulw
exclaimed the admiring old lady,
still f1ustered and anxious to please.
"And I'm sure sir, | 'ope it won't
be long afore we see one erected to
you on t'other side"
The Greeley tribune. [volume] (Greeley, Colo.) 1870-1913, 1907-10-17

Among the gems of a collection
of schoolboy "howlers" are the fol-
lowing:
Charon was man who fried soles
over the sticks.
The heart is over the ribs in the
midst of the borax.
"A thermometer is an instrument
for measuring temperance.
The snow line stretches from the
north pole to the south pole, and
where it crosses the Alps and the
Himalayas it is many thousand feet
high in the air.
"Honi soft qui NAL y pense" cLet
him be honored who thinks evil')
A toga is sort of naval officer
usually found in China and Japan.
Contralto is a low sort of music
which only ladies sing. - Kansas
City Journal.
The Greeley tribune. [volume] (Greeley, Colo.) 1870-1913, 1907-10-17
FLINT AND FRICTION.
Methods by Which Primitive Man Pro.
cured His Fire.

cured MS firo.
Doubtless the production Of fra
by sparks from the flint was follow.
ed by the discovery that friction
would produce flame. In regions
where suitable stone was not easily
found the inventive aborigine de-
vised the whirling stick, or fire drill.
This was a stick of hard wood with
its lower end set in hole in a
block of very soft, dry wood.
The stick was held upright be-
tween the hands and whirled by
rubbing the palms first one way and
then the other. A moderate down.
ward pressure was exerted, and as
the hands worked down on the stick
they were occasionally shifted to u
higher hold.
An Improvement on the hand
whirled drill was the application of
bow for rotating it. The first
man to make bow drill is entitled
to fame as the first inventor of a
machine, for he combined several
working pieces in one apparatus for
accomplishing desired end.
This father of inventors must
have conceived the idea that if he
should make a turn of his bow
string around stick and fix the
two ends of the stick in holes he
could rotate the stick much more
easily and rapidly than was possible
with the hands, producing great
friction and heat much quicker and
with much less exertion. We can
imagine we see him-a great,
brawnv, hairy man, with bit of
goatskin for clothes-sitting cross
legged at the mouth of his cave and
rigging up the first operative ma
chine that was to produce fire.
He must have procured a large
piece of soft and dry dead wood and
followed spot for the lower end
of the stick. Then putting this I'M
der a slanting rock he must have
wedged another block of soft wood
ABOVE the SUCK.
Having fixed them solidly in place
by piling stones around them, he
would then take a turn of his bow
string around the stick and draw
it back and forth rapidly, securing
blaze in short time.
With what triumph he must have
viewed his work when the first Jet
of flame burst from the smoking,
charred mass that he had coaxed
into fiery existence! 1t is easy to
picture him calling his family or
followers about him to see his first
machine, perhaps half consumed in
the fire it had made, and explaining
its operations with enthusiasm
Circle Magazine.
The Greeley tribune. [volume] (Greeley, Colo.) 1870-1913, 1907-10-17
MOUTH BREATHING.
The Many Physical Ills For Which n
Is RESPONSIBLE,

Nature intended us to breathe
through the nostrils, and if for any
reason this becomes difficult or i'm
possible we suffer for it.
The nose not only warns or lust
tempers the air as it is drawn
through it into the air tubes, but it
also filters it in great measure, keep
ing back not only much of the solid
matter in the form of dust, but also
the bacteria carried by the dust par.
ticles or floating in the moisture Of
the air.
In mouth breathers the air strikes
the back of the throat and rushes
into the windpipe before the chill
has been taken off and while it is
still laden with dust and bacteria.
In this condition it causes local irri-
tation, which results in congestion
of the mucous membrane lining the
air passages. This congestion when
long continued passes into chronic
inflammation or catarrh.
Theinlammation gradually spreads
if the cause continues and often
passes from the throat into the
ears, where it produces thickening
of the delicate structures there and
finally deafness. The mucous mem.
branes throughout the air passages
and all their ramifcations become
thiclloned, secrete phlegm and lose
in great part their power of resist
ance to the germs of pneumonia,
diphtheria and other diseases.
The causes of mouth breathing
are numerous. Anything that OBJ
structs or narrows the upper air
The Greeley tribune. [volume] (Greeley, Colo.) 1870-1913, 1907-10-17

passages-the nose and vault OF the
pharvnx-forces the sufferer TO
breathe through the open mouth
A deformitv of the nose. the pres
ence of "adenoids" or enlarged ton
sis may cause the trouble. Exam,
nation for such conditions should
be made whenever child is seen to
breathe hab.tuallv with the mouth
open, and as soon as the cause IS
discovered it should be removed.
So many serious consequences may
follow mouth breathing that II
should never be allowed to go on a
moment after its cause is ascer-
tanned.
One cause that is not often sus-
pected is a deformity of the nose
resulting from the use of improper
nursing bottles by babies, but the
most common is the presence OF
adenoids.
1t is useless to scold or remon-
strate with a mouth breathing child
if the habit is caused by the air
passages being blocked by growths
that call for removal. He must
breathe to live. and if the legitimate
for air are closed by dis.
ease nature does her next BEST
Youths Companion.
The Greeley tribune. [volume] (Greeley, Colo.) 1870-1913, 1907-10-17
st. Elmo's Lioht

St. Elmo's light or fire is the
name which has been given phe-
nomenon often seen at sea during
lhuhaerstorms. 1t appears in the
shape of brush or star. seldom
round or square, usually at the tins
OF the masts or, if on land, at the
points of gables or spires. 1t is oc-
caslonally accompanied by Kissing
NOISE and on this account is be-
neVed to be an electrical manifests-
tion. The old time mariners be-
l n the light to be the spirits of
castor and Pollux, who we're sun
posed to watch over men who "go
down to the sea in ships" they al
ways regarding the "fre" as n sign
that the force Of the storm had
been spent.
The Greeley tribune. [volume] (Greeley, Colo.) 1870-1913, 1907-10-17
Easily Solved,

a country schoolmaster thus de-
ivercd himself:
IF a carpenter wants to cover a
TOOL fifteen feet wide by thirty
broad with boards five feet broad by
Twelve feet long, how many boards
will he need?"
A new boy took up his hat and
made for the door.
Where are you goinga" asked
the master.
no lind carpenter" replied the
boy HE ought to know that bet-
yer IMAM any of us fellers. Lon
don Mail.
The Greeley tribune. [volume] (Greeley, Colo.) 1870-1913, 1907-10-17
LANDS ON ITS FEET.
The Fall Of the Cat and the Curiosity
Of Scientists.


The curiosity of scientists knows
no bounds. The French Academy
of Sciences once had under eyAnl,
nation and discussion the YER IN
teresting question, why does cat
always fall on its feet ?" The old
answer, "In order that it shal. not
break its back did not seryp N
this investigation. Members OF the
academy were DESTROYS of ascerjain-
ing not only the real reason, but the
precise method by which cat, when
dropped feet upward, managcs to
turn over instantly in the air, with
no object to brace itself again in
order to procure the muscular reac-
ton that would seem to be neco ,ary
for the revolution.
To assist its study the dsiiI-
guished members of the academy
had one of its scientists preparc d
series of instantaneous photographs
showing cat in various stages Of q
fall from considerable height.
These photographs were obtained
under the personal inspection of q
committee, and several successful
"drops," which the unfortunate cats
must have been totally unable TO
account for. were necessary.
The photographs, it may be men
toned, failed to establish anything,
except that the cat actually turned
over in the air. AS to how she did
it, they afforded no clew. And as it
was already known that she did it..
the camera may be said to have con-
tributed nothing toward the solu-
ton of the problem.
The committee next set itself
about settling the matter by discus
sion. Several members presented
their theories and compared notes
The laws of mechanics and geome-
try were applied to the known
movements of the cat, with no other
effect than to prove that cat can
not possibly turn over in the air,
which. however, it is well establish
ed that she does.
One academician maintained that
the animal is able to displace its in
ternal organs in such a way as to
affect its center of gravity while in
the air, causing it to turn, by new
center of weight, to one side and
then, by another displacement, to
throw the weight so that its back
comes uppermost.
This claim. however, was but an
theory. Another man Of
science insisted that at the very in
slant when the cat is dropped, say,
from the hands of the person who
holds her, feet uppermost, she is
able to make an impulsive move
ment, using the operators haAis to
push against, as it were. At all
events the cat begins to turn in
stantly upon being let 60.
However. it has against it the
fact that the cat turns SUCCESSFULLY
when there are no hands or other
objects to push against-when, for
instance, she is firmly held, back
downward, by threads, which are cut
at the right moment, allowing her to
drop suddenly.-New York Times.
The Greeley tribune. [volume] (Greeley, Colo.) 1870-1913, 1907-10-17
WOES OF THE LANDLADY.
One Of Them Is That of Serving Out
the Portions to Suit.

"Trouble?' said the landlady.
"Why, people that never kept a
boarding house don't know what
trouble is.
"To say nothing Of the incessant
daily, weekly. monthly, year in and
year out, never let up grind OF 1t,
there's a million little things that
YOU have to keep looking out for all
the time or YOU are sure to get into
more trouble. and one of these Is
the serving of the portions for the
boarders at table.
"One person wants fat meat, and
one wants lean. and one wants his
meat well done. and another likes 1t
rare. and you not only have to re-
member all these things and keep
doing them right all the time,
though you may be doing forty 9TH
err things at the same time. but even
when you've remembered them all
Yourself and got them all straight
YOU have to take the chances of the
waitress putting them on the table
right, before the right people, and
then when YOU come to take INTO
account how difficult it Is when the
meat doesn't turn out all right for
YOU. how hard it is then to cut lean
meat out of fat and fat meat out
of lean. why, its enough to turn
anybody's hair gray.
But. after all. the chief trouble
is with chicken. Everybody wants
white meat. and you know there's
only certain amount of white meat
in any chicken. but everybody wants
that, and nobody wants legs-par-
ticularly they don't want legs. But
what are YOU going to do about it
somebody has got to have the
legs. and on chicken days | always |
have a great problem before me. | ]
know practically who'll stand for
legs and who won't, and then, be-
sides. when we have chicken | al ,
ways try to distribute the legs /
around on the different tables, scat /
tered like, so that there won't seem
to be too many legs, so that it won't
seem, you know, as if everybody
was getting legs; but. for all my care
in this, in this very house on chicken
day last week | had a fearful calam-
itv befall me.
''At one of my tables | had six
men, all nice enough men, but all
disposed to be little fnicky about
their food. and I'd tried always the
best l could to please them, and l
think I'd have got through with it
all right but for one trouble breed
er among them = there's always
somebody to make trouble = and
this unfortunate accident. l was
going to send only two legs to that
table, and those far apart on oppo- |
site sides. and neither of them for
the troublesome man, but the best
of us are liable to make mistakes,
and | think | must have sent three
legs to that table myself, and the
waitress did the rest.
''She got the orders mixed up
somehow and put down on that ia
Bile six legs. 1t was ust legs all
around the table. al when the
growly man sees this:
Gentlemen he says, 4 can
stand for most anything, but when
they come to feeding us on six leg
ged chickens | draw the line
"And that whole table of young
men left me at the end of the week.
I tried to explain it to them, but l
couldn't make them understand at
all.
Trouble? Why, you don't know
what trouble is unless you've kept a
boarding house, New York Sun.
The Greeley tribune. [volume] (Greeley, Colo.) 1870-1913, 1907-10-17
Wall Paper and the Sick,

81 am glad the walls of my bed
room are not papered," said the in
valid. Nobody but the sick knows
how nerve racking it is to lie all
day long looking at the wall paper
that doesn't match. 1t matches
well enough, you understand, for
people who are well. They never
would notice where the flowers fail
ed to hitch or the stems met too far
down the fraction of an inch. but
we notice it and worry over it and
cry sometimes because it worries us
so. My wall is painted light blue,
the color of the skies. 1t doesn't
hurt my eyes at all to look at it. 1t
doesn't worry me. When the cur
tam Is down it is the very softest
kind of blue, so gratifying that | fall
asleep looking at it. Oh, yes: the
only thing to do with the walls of
the sickroom is to paint them light
blue. New York Press.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-05-03

referendum has been set for May H.
. 1t has been planned to bring this
up at the meeting of the Trades
Council last evening, but as the plans
were not fully completed, the routine
business was allowed to occupy the
entire attention of the council.
The general lines along which this
campaign of education is to be con-
Quoted has been outlined in previous
issues of the Times. The position
taken by the trades unionists / to
put legislation directly into the
hands of the people, and their plan
of doing this is to get men elected
to the legislature who favor this
movement The movement is foster
ed by the State Direct Government
eague.-Seattle Tins.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-05-03

of O. s. Stocker. returned to her
home last evening. Mrs. Stocker is
much improved in health.
The famous Palm Ice Cream. We
natchee Drug Co.
Mrs. Bernice Thompson is now
employed in the grocery department
Of the Big Store.
Miss Maud Boblet of Quincy is
temporarily occupied at the Big Store
taking the place of Mrs. ]. NJ. Ellis.
Daggy lecture at the theater to-
morrow night Free to ticket holders.
who is away on leave.
One of the wokmen on the new
bridge dropped piece of steel day
or SO ago-it fell on his toe and hurt
him some
Milo Camp sold his Burch Flat
fruit farm to Dr. Saunders. The
tract lies about miles form town,
across the Wenatchee river.
The World-Advance Press has just
turned out an order of neat menu
cards for the "Orondo Cafe which
has opened for business in the Oron-
do avenue building formerly occu-
pied by E. " Martin as a real estate
Office. The new restaurant is neatly
fitted out and equipped for brisk
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-05-03
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

The pulpit at the Christian church
will be filled Sunday by T. A. Mere
dith, Rev. Adams having. been ill
most of the week and being unable
to appear.
Be sure you get tickets to the Dag
gy lecture at the Theated tomorrow
night.
A surprise birthday party was CIV
en- on W. S. Taylor on Burch Flat
last evening. Ice cream and cake
were served and songs and instru-
mental music whiled away the hours.
Those present were Mr.. and Mrs. /.
P. Ferrin, Mr. and Mrs. G. p Perrin,
Mr. r. D. Shrigley, Miss Stata Shrig-
ley, Miss Inez Ferrin, MasSrs Oscar
Lowe and Harry CARRIER, Master
Glen Shrigley.
John A. Gellatly is confined to his
home with a slight illness.
A special meeting OF the county
commissioners of Chelan county will
be held in this city on May 18th.
Miss Opal Kinney, who has spent
the past three weeks with the family
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-05-03

trade. c. w. Sharp, the proprietor,
arrived from Seattle about a month
ago. and after looking over the field
decided upon this venture.
Daggy is the best speaker on the
coast. Hear him.
The Lake irrigation company has
let contract to Jack 'O'Connor for
the enlargement of its irrigation res
ervoir. The project will be complet-
ed at cost of about $4,000, and will
furnish plenty of water for those IN.
der the ditch.
The famous Palm Ice Cream. We
natchee Drug Co.
HOUSEWORk WANTED-Washing,
cleaning, etc. Mrs. S. D. Porter,
next door to 326 Chelan avenue.
SILL
DR.. C. w. Sigrist of Columbus, O.,
is in the city The doctor is brother
of Attorney c. F. Sigrist of Oroville
DR.. VIM Mccoy, who has been in
Seattle for the past week, has return
ed to Wenatchee.
'PURITY"-The ice cream made
especially for the Red Cross Phar-
macy. Guaranteed pure by pure food
laws.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-05-03
Married Last Night.

Fred Alfred Wise of Chelan and
Miss Edith Agnes Story of Boulder.
Colorado, were united in marriage
last night by the Rev. Adams of the
Christian church. at the parsonage,
800 King street.
Miss Story arrived yesterday from
her Colorado home. and the newly
married couple leave today for Che
Ian, where the groom is engaged in
mining.
No HEAD
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-05-03
Minneapolis; Miss Mae Palmer.


Minneapolis; Miss Mae Palmer,
Aurora. ILL.,: w. Sumner. Seattle.
Great Northern-H. w. Gladhill,
Chamberg, Pa; w. L. Taylor, Spo-
kane; S. Farley, c. c. Stevens, Spo-
kane; w. A. Segar. Detroit; Henry
Hebaurager, Kaylord. Mich: T. c..
Simmons, Everett; Herbert Shaw,
Bellingham; F. A. Hayward, J. W..
Hamman, Seattle; F. Kerr Thalcott,
7vsrett; c. w. Wallace, Spokane:
L. d. Heaten, S. F.; w. j. Zindorf,
Spokane; Q. NJ. Haroldson, Omaha:
Geo. H. Ellis, city; F. M. Grant, w.
L. Dunn, Spokane; l. A. Navarro,
city; Chas. E. Black, Seattle.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-05-03

Following are the arrivals at two
of Wenatchee's hotels for May 2.
1907:
Roosevelt-O. Fl. Mum, d. F. Gle
ment, Los Angeles; c. r. Murchison,
Chelan; H. E. Wichsham and wife,
Seattle; Mrs. Franklin w. Palmer,
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-05-03
DIRECT GOVERNMENT CAMPAIGN

State Federation of Labor Will In
augurate Education Campaign
The date on which the Washington
State Board of the Federation of
Labor will start the big campaign to
educate the general public on the
practical exposition of the direct
primary law and the initiative and
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-05-03
No HEAD

FOR SALE CHEAP-Gentle team.
harness and wagon. Also light
spring wagon. l.. H. Turner, Leav-
enworth. 5-1-5-4
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-05-03

'PCRITY"-The ice cream made
for the Red Cross Phar-
macy. Guaranteed pure by pure food
laws
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-05-03
SHOES

The OxfOrds are now at their
best. Full line, exclusive smart
designs, comfortable to wear and
correc.. in every way. All are
fairly priced.
Ladies' Shoes
More than half the shoes for
sale in Wenatchee are in our
stock. Where else can you get
such service?
The new lines are models of
elegance, comfort and economy.
New heels, new toes, most recent
feathers.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-04-27

Gu the recent panic have not yet entirely healed but the lower
values has diminished the danger of further panic brought
class OF buyers and considerably clarified
the principal sources of relief has
e money market which largely the result Treasury po
~ ana OIL recent liquidation well the check imposed upon
speculative operations The latter had locked up for
months past These have been diminished amongst
rich holders and the supply has increased correspondne
% another influence which tends larger money supplies
the growing conservatism of bankers who much inclined to
against new enterprise unless of the mertorous
sort than they have been for several years discrimination
sometimes shown by exacng higher interest rates. under present
conditions bankers are often giving flat refusal projects with
out regard 10 terms This sound policy and If persisted will tend
correct much OF the recent OVERRIDING bring business back
the normal 10 w "
N" !" newspaper k arc tho newspper tap and
~" " qss' "A'A h'y some W oF tbng or m community