The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-02-26
they SAY


lowing:
The lumber markets fiat, they say
Lifeless, listless, timber
And yet there's quite a movement
now
In presidential timber.
Bishop Potter anG other prominent
divines have filed a formal protest
with Congress against the expendi-
ture of $60,000,000 for the four new
| battleships.
How can we protect our mission
aries in China without gunboats?
The history of the world shows
that for the best results the sword
must accompany the cross.
/ That Judge Grosscup of Chica go
as a director of the street railway
company-has been arrested on a
charge of criminal carelessness.
That Spencer Martin is enjoying
his perennial revel among the flesh
pets of Spokane.
That marriage is a lottery in which
Divorce is too often the only prize.
That a Green Dress Ball is ad-
vertised for St. Pats Day Donning
a green gown would make some YER
dant members of our apple aristoc-
racy appear over dressed.
That Cashmere showed Rev. Hill
ton a lively time last night.
They do things right in the Vale
of Kashmihr,-eyen to simplified
spelling.
That the stricken people of Brew
ster are to have a new bank; they
hope this second venture will be the
real thing.
I That Bill Simmons says he's talk
ing his meals off the mantel since his
recent cruise on the poop deck of the
cayuse; he had occasion to ride to
Monitor today, but stood on the
horses back and balanced himself
with a rake handle.
j That the Wenatchee bachelor who
not long ago extended the use of his
backyard to a heighbor's wife for
drying her wash, and in which she
displayed divers garments calculated
to inspire passers-by with frightened
distrust of the bachelor, is in trouble
again.
This time it is the celibate's own
fault
That the following, handed in by
former Nebraskan now residing in
Wenatchee. is a narrowing example
of careless country journalism:
high WATER-The rain of
booming on Wednesday, and in many
places the water was spreading over
the bottom, catching hay on the bot
toms of the farmers who had been
too busy to remove it.-From Dodge
COunty's Paper.
That Charley Stohl is to tackle
the soliciting game in Spokane on
March /; his friends wish MIN luck
That Sam Summers predilection
for fish balls had nothing to do with
his recent appointment.
That the Rev. Mccartney will speak
tonight at the Presbyterian church
on the topic Does 1t Pay to be a
P2rent?"
We cannot guess the answer
Some Foreign Mission boards
grant an annual bounty on children
born to workers among the heather.
I Excepting Queen Victorias prize
of SIS for every bunch of triplets
born in the British Isles, this is the
only bona fide instance of CASH re-
turns that occurs to us.
| But it will be worth any parents
while to hear this live young man
from Bellingham answer the novel
query.
! That the Ankeny dinner at Wash
ington developed into knocking
party, assailing the nations chief
executive.
! Some people think, considering
the great vote this state gave Roose-
welt, that it's senior senator should
| have choked off Charlie Fairbanks
ct al when they began taking a fall
! out of Teddy.
That c. A. Battles lately lost a
bet, and in consequence is obliged to
wear shirt of many colors"
I Joseph OF biblical fame was near
ly killed for a similar offense.