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The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-06-04

Two Palm Leaf Fans, sc. Fire
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The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-06-04

X. P. Wright came down the river
yesterday on his way to Seattle.
John Briskey went to Cashmere
yesterday to spend his vacation.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
CONCRETE PILE DYKES.
The Government Will Test Tnciy Valu
On the Missouri.


The Government Will Test Tncir Value
en- the Missouri.
The first concrete pile dixie ever auilt
IN the United States in connection with
river Improvement work is to he con
stfncted at st. Joseph. Mo. as soon as
the Ice goes out OF the Missouri river in
the spring. The dixie will be 500 feet
long. and it will cost $4,000 IF it
proves to be successful. il is probable
that few if any wooden piles will be
used hereafter in the river Improvement
work of the government. In the long Ell
wood lhan1 reclamation dixie. built on
poslte St Joseph last year. Mai r. H
schultz. engineer in charge of the Mis-
souri, river improvement work. placed
twenty-five concrete piles at the shore
end of one of the bikes as a test Of their
usefulness for such work. These plies
Wlthstood the grind of the ice and scour
OF the current, and stood up better
through the floods of last summer than
the wooden piles alongside them. An
inspection recently showed them to be in
perfect condition. and on this showing
Maj. Schultz has decided to make a
hnal trial in a regular dixie. exposed to
every test that such river works can be
subjected to. He decided that the piece
of work TO be done opposite St Joseph
offered the best opportunity for this so
the test is to be made there.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
Fined by Federation of Musicians.

An aggregate fine of $1,000 was inn
posed by the Chicago Federation of Mu-
sicians upon Francisco Ferrullo. direc-
tor, and Salvatore Tomaso, manager of
Ferullo's band The fines were levied
for violation of contract stipulations and
for playing engagements at the Coliseum
and the Bismarck gardens last summer
below the union scale of prices. Ferullo
and Tomaso were fined $500 each The
trial was conducted by the executive
board of the Musicians union The
fines must be paid within thirty days,
following which an appeal may be taken
to the national executive board. The
alternative is expulsion from the union.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
Lake Chad

Mr.. Knights proposed expedition to
the interior of the Sahara will concern
itself chiefly with that still uns0lved
mystery, Lake Clad. Recent explorers
have signally failed to agree as to the
shape and size Of this extraordinarily
situated sheet of water Apparently the
lake is divided into two by a belt of is
lands and reedy swamp land, but where
as the maps of the French explorers
late expedition has declared it impas-
sable. And that is not the only question
to be solved. for there are very varying
accounts of the size of the lake. 1t is
said to be shrinking. There is even a
theory that it contracts and expands
within n certain cycle of years.-London
Evening Standard
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
THE JANIT0R, THE ARTIST AND
THE GIRL.

Oscar Ochre was an artist who could paint
a pictured ''ad'
With a mastery of pigment such as Turner
never had.
Scoring canVases or panels he would man
bos'n's chair
And adoFn the sides of buildings, twenty
fathoms in the air,
While Miss Oskaloosa Judkins from her fat
across the street
Watched him work with wide-eyed wonder
and pronounced his pictures sweet .
IIargreaye IIains was tall and handsome.
and he janitOred the Hat
Where Miss Oskaloosa Judkins had her
habitation at
And before the scenic artist came his han
piness to dim,
He adored Miss Oskaloosa and she rather
favored him.
But how. can one mere janitor ia matters
Compete with an exponent Of external mu-
raj artF
Oscar ochre painted figures Of heroic sons
Flooding home against sunset labeled
Use Hyena on
Which irrelevant inscription did not mar
the purple grass
OF the foliage of the popars or the waving
cobalt grass.
And as Oskaloosa watched him from the
window where she sat,
She thought less and less of HaPgrea yp
Hams, who ianitored the flat.
Certain men are born to set aside to cast
off like a glove
TO toss into the discard of the gentle
game Of love;
When tickle maidens play them false. they
don't appear to mind,
But janitors Of Harlem fats are seldom Of
that kind
And consequently Hargreaye uaius chewed
grimly his cigar
And planned 4 terrible revenge, with &C.
cent on the ''R.'
Hargreave Hams next day assembled to the
beetling parapet
OF the building down which Oscar on his
staging had been let.
There he waited till the window of 4 hat
across the street
Opened softly, for he wanted his revenge
to be complete.
And when Oskaloosa $ face peered forth
lit up with love and hope.
Took Hargreave Hams a Ratchet out and
hacked at Oscars rope
As the strands We're swiftly severed Oscar
scented something wrong
And petitioned for assistance with voice
both deep and strong.
HargTeave looked at OskaOosa. ''Shal, .
quoth he II cut the line2
/ will spare this painter party if you'll say
that you'll be miner
Oskaloosa wrung her fingers. signifying
deep distress
Stretched her hands toward helpless Os-
ear. sobbed and answered sadly.
Yes -"
Hargreave Hams Kissed, "Ha. | triumph!
What gladstone hour is thisn'
But, kind friends, pray clinch your tri-
umphs, ere you sit You down to hiss.
Though it's said all men are liars, trust the
other sex, fOrsOoth,
When advantage seems to urge her on to
trihc with the truth!
Oscar Ochre and the maiden were united
Tuesday week,
Thus the craven-hearted Hargreaye was
some baffied, so to speak
james J. Montague in New York Amer
lean.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
Hypnotized Dv Spiritualists

Police Captain Ryan of Newark, n. j..
and some of his detectives visited n
spiritualistic meeting and arrested Oliver
G. Meltor and his wife, who were CON
Quoting the meeting. They also took to
the police station Blanche Neal, aged II,
whose home is said to be in Trenton
She was paroled in the custody of man
said to be a well known New York law
yer. Miss Neal claimed to be under the
hypnotic influence of Meltor. She said
she had been unable to get out of sight
of the couple and that she had communi-
Gated her position to an outsider, who
notified the lawyer and the police.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31

NOhStatualOhat Film 10 be ShNeu'
The old elm at Corydon, under
whose -ugged limbs the State consti.
tuition vas drawn up ninety-three
yearg sgo, and which for while
seemed doomed to destruction has at
last found a permanent caretaker in
the Corydon organization of the
Daughters of the American Reyolu-
ton
This old elm, which has always
claimed the attention Of visitors to
The first State capital and has been an
object of reverence for loyal HOLSTERS,
is called the constitutional elm be
cause of its connection with that i'm
portant event in the history of Indi-
ana. At present it is in an excellent
state of preservation, although there
is evidence of some past neglect in
caring for it.
The trunk of the constitutional elm
Is five feet in diameter at the base
and the branches have spread OF
nearly 120 feet. A forestry expert re-
gently estimated that the tree is now
$50 years old and said that with prop
sr care, barring destruction by the Gle
ments of course, the elm should -four
ish another hundred years Indianap-
oils Star.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
MAKES DEAD DOGS BARK.
A Famous French Scientist Performs
Electrical Experiments.

DIR. Marage, famous for his many Gu
rious experiments on the human vocal
organs, has made dead dogs bark by ap-
plying an electrical current to the mus
Giles of the larynX. DR. Marage read Il
paper to the Academy of Medicine in
Paris describing his weird experiments
on deceased dogs. He said that often he
has made them bay, howl, growl or yelp
with currents of different intensity DR..
Marage argues. therefore, that when
singers lose their voice it is not because
of failure of the vocal chords. but he
cause the muscles operating the chords
are paralyzed. He holds out the hope
to despairing tenOrs and sopranos who
are dumb unsteady that proper treat
ment with electricity will restore their
voices
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
"Dis-a-RanEc."

At city night school where an ok
ceedingly mixed class, composed OF
Russian Jews, Italians, Slays and
Frenchmen, was trying to attain some
facility with the English language. one
bright young man from Naples distfn-
guished himself above all the others
The problem set before the class was
to write a paragraph containing the
word "disarranee." and he wrote:
My wife she get up in the morulns
and she cook the breakfast for me,
and when she try to light tne stove,
he would not burn and she say. !
don't Ike disarrange.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
LIKES THE IRISH.
Hetty Green Thinks They Are the Great
est People in the World.

On his return from the New York con
ference on employers liability and com
pensation, Geo. NJ. Gillette of Mime
apolis Travelled on a Lake Shore train
from New York to Chicago with Hetty
Green, and had the honor of being pre-
sented to the famous woman financier
Not being aware that Mr.. Gillette knew
her identity, having been introduced
merely as Mrs. Green, she chatted for
an hour entertainingly. Il found her. ="
said Mr.. Gillette, "a delightful woman
wonderfully alert and well Informed. and
with Il strong sympathy for everything
Irish. | found nothing in her to account
for such a leaning, but was convinced
that she thinks the Irish are the great
est people in the world. There was no
explanation of it; she just likes them,
that's ALL"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
THE MAN WHO DISAPPEARED

The special Providence that some peo-
pie designate chance led to Othello
breaking her cervical vertebrae on the
very day she was destined to sail for
Sydney from Perth. Being sick OF the
place, and being moreover, able to find
a passage in the Prometheus, and car
ried my effects aboard in the falling
dusk of summers night
On the morning of the third day ]
found my normal self, and staggered up
a stairway that rose up in lumpy projec-
tions, and smote me violently all over
my anatomy Once on deck the scene
was grand in the extreme The tramp
had run bow on into screaming south
erly buster and was making such tire
mendously heavy weather of it that my
heart paused in its beating.
Something of interest was happening
on the foredeck One of the hfeboats
had been struck by great sea- and was
fast breaking adrift from its lashings.
If once the few temporary lashings gave
way. the boat would be hurled against
the lee bulwarks, and with the velocity
she would have gathered. would neces
sarily have effected a clean breach in the
iron plating.
Half dozen men were clustered un-
der the break of the forecastle, and one
who appeared to hold little authority
was haranguing them in tones which
reached my ears even above the scream
ing of the gale in the scant rigging. The
men refused to 90 to the rescue of the
doomed boat, and while / was medtating
on the size of the hole that would be
made in the bulwarks. saw very
plueky deed performed. The big oilskin
clad figure forward took coil of rope
across his shoulder. wa, hli his chance
and ran to the boat. He was caught by
a wave ana dashed with stunning force
against the latch com5in9s. hut re rose
again, and succeeded in lel hing his OH
iective. and then. with quick sailorly
movements, he passed turn after turn of
the stout rope he carried round the boat
and her checks
The work was done, and he crawled
YEARLY to the ladder where | was stand
ing. His Sou'wester had vanished and
| recognized the long, square jawed face
with the remarkable black ewes and the
tawny hair.
Hello. Collins!" | said in wondprment.
Tie looked at me in amazament for a
long second, and then his tongue passed
over his salt-cracked lips. Then he said:
Go to the deuce! My names Jones
James Ioncs. boatswain of this ship"
Then you're the nearest like .trthur
| Eemond Collins. second son of Lord Col
ms OF amy man I ever met. H." | retorted.
III tact, you are Arthur Collins"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
Paws a Debt to Geo. Gould.

Lawrence Waterbury. the New York
clubman and polo player, has wiped out
a $1,000 debt to George Gould. An
nouncement of this fact was made as the
action which Gould brought against his
former "chum'' was about tn be tried in
the supreme court When the case was
called counsel for both sides announced
that the action had been dismissed. The
Gould claim is said to have represented
loan made to Waterbury several years
ago. Since then fortune has smiled ana
frowned on Waterbury, but recently he
has been successful in Wall street
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
A Lively Squirrel.

An old negro who lives in the country
came into town one day and saw an
electric fan for the first time in his life.
The whirling object at once attracted his
attention and after gazing at il for sew
eral minutes with the greatest astonish-
ment and curiosity he turned to the pro-
prietor of the shop and said: Say, boss,
dat suttenly is a lively squirrel you got
in dis yeah cage, but he's shu'ly goin
10 bus his heart if he keep on maxim
dem resolutions SO fas'r'-The house,
keeper.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
Mr.. Glumm.

My old friend Mr.. Gumm declares
That holidays are all Il sell;
They interfere with our affairs
And cost lot If cash as well
And yet his wor IS cannot provoke
My envy for b S boarded sum.
I'd rather find II yself dead broke
Than view tho world like Mr. Glumm.
He vows thai festival events
Are but rehearsals for i'll health
He tastes no pleasant condiments.
Unless, perchance, it's done by stealth
But cen dyspepsia cannot make
My views of life to his succumb,
ia rather have a stomach ache
Than nurse a crouch like Mr.. Glumm.
Washington Star.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
Don't Want Harry Thaw.

\ correspondent writing from the
State hospital at Niddletown, y. Y, has
this to say concerning the effort being
made by Harry Thaws mother to have
him transferred To that institution. THE
news that Harry *. Thaw would like to
get himself transferred to this State hos
pital or Poughkeepsie has been received
here with unanimous feeling that he IS
not desired as a guest. The hospital has
enough to contend with now. without
having this captious young man sent on
to further embarrass and compHcate
matters"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
Hartman Land for Rockaway Park.

If the plan recommended by Comptrol-
Ter Metz of New York is adopted by the
board of estimate, 700 acres belonging to
the e. II. Hartman estate will be added
to the proposed seaside park at Rocka-
way. In his lifetime Mr.. Hartman of
fered the 200 acres to the city for s..
100000. The price put upon the 34S
acres included in the original site was
81. 100000. As it is planned to acquire
both by condemnation. it is believed that
the total cost will not be less than 50
NNN ONO
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31

Peterson of Dubuque related at recent
dinner some examination stories.
Once in. Bible lesson, he said. :" /
repeated the text. Arise and take the
young child and its mother and flee into
Egypt And then | showed the children
"A large picture that illustrated the text
III bright colors-
"The children studied this picture
eagerly Then al frowned. all looked
rather disappointed. Finally a little girl
said:
Teacher. where is the flea 2 Phil
a9elphia Record.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31

The two Alexandrian libraries of the
Bruchion and of the Serapaion contained
49,. 800 different works. making a total
of more than 100000 volumes, according
to Kallimachos: 100000. according to To-
sephus; 100000 according 10 GelIiuS.
This difference between the number of
works and the number of volumes is
easily explained by the fact that II was
customary in ancient times to subdi. az"
each work into as many volumes rs there
were CHAPTERS or cantoS
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
A Warning to Slow Restaurants.

The downtrodden patrons of restau
rants won great moral victory in Chi
cago recently. The question was how
long should a patron be expected to wait
for his order in IA restaurant William
O. Plumbe. New York magazine writ
or. ordered ham and in Madison
street restaurant Then he waited, kept
on waiting and waited some more. Then
he started to leave and was arrested for
disorderly conducted, Judge Newcomer
ruled that persons need wait ouly -
reasonable time" and discharged
plumbe
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
Not an Authority.

we have decided not to deny you
your degree without giving you one more
question in astronomy" said the profess
sor in The Fair Coed to the hunking
student "One question you answer has
now been deemed rather unfair, as
prominent authorities i'll astrology differ
radically"
oh" said the delighted student. Il
was partially right, after all"
No" added the prof" Il said au-
thorities differed. You agreed with
none" Boston Record
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
Thaw's Mother Active.

A determined effort has been begun bv
the mother of Harry X Thaw to have
her son removed from the Matteawan
asylum To some other institution. 1t is
alleged that Thaw has been deprived of
certain liberties granted him by the
court. ami that he has been 50 treated
at Matteawan that even if he is aow
sane he viii lose his reason if he remains
I'm that environment
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
Could Prove 1t.

A few days ago Aid. Elmer A. Day
was CHANGING over the register at one
OF the local hotels to see if friend
stood a man who has holding onto the
desk for dear life in semi-successful
attempt to maintain his balance.
Il s'pose you think I'm drunk" said
the stranger, looking belligerently at
Day.
No not in the least" replied the
alderman, anxious to avoid the possi-
bihty of row.
well, you'd know | was if | let go
this desk" answered the man.-Newark
Star
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
Before and After.

Col. Peterby met his colored gardener
Jim Webster, short time ago. Jim had
been recently married.
How do you like matrimony, Jim?"
asked Col, Peterby.
Jim shook his head obviously.
Whats the matter?'
Yer see. boss, before we were mar
ried, when | knocked Mt de dore she used
ter say: Am dat you, honeysuckleT
Now when | come home she bawls
out Clean off dem boots before you
comes in dat dore, you black mole, -
Baltimore News.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
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The longest sea wave ever measured
by the photographic office was hal. 4
mile in length
Sweden's increase in population
last year was the greatest for any of
the last ten years.
The Chilean government has under
construction sixteen different railroad
lines or extensions.
Blast furnace Stag waste is being
chemically treated in Great Britain for
utilization as cement
The Cape Cod ship canal. work on
which is well under way was project.
ed before the revolution
Attempts at aviation that met with
some degree of success were made by
an Italian priest in 1751
Recent cases of bubonic plague in
California have been traced to squir-
rels eaten by the victims.
The Australian state OF Victoria
spends nearly 100000 a year in its
warfare against the destructive rab-
bit
The Austrian government is build
Ing automobile trucks designed to car.
ry twenty ton guns up IS per cent
grades.
The swamp area of the United
States, if combined, would cover the
New England states, New York and
New Jersey.
London's electric street railways
carry about 412,00O,000 passengers A
year, of whom "a per cent pay but a
cent fare.
Wooden pavements in Paris, treated
with bath of alkali, carbonates and
wood tar at a high temperature, are
said not to need repairs more often
than once in two years.
1t requires approximately ten tons
Of pitchblende to yield single grain
Of radium bromide, to obtain which
over a thousand reductions and crys-
affiliations have to be made
The development of motOr-car en-
gines, and other machines having
much vibration, has concentrated at
tention upon devices for locking nuts
upon bolts In a recent discussion Of
this subject attention is called to the
fact that, for ordinary motor-car work,
well-6tted nut frightened upon a we'll
fitted thread will not slip under vibra-
ton if the number of threads is more
than twelve to the inch Such bolts
and nuts should be secured with
spring-lock washers. They are then
safe up to a bolt diameter of over
three-quarters of an inch
Whether the globe on which we
dwell is gradually drying up or not is
a question that has been much debat
ed. Recent discoveries in Central
Asia have been regarded by some as
favoring an affirmative answer, but
others have replied that the observed
phenomena are simply periodic
changes. Doctor Walser of Zurich
champions the affirmative view on the
ground that great number of Euro
pean lakes have certainly disappeared
within the last $50 years The canton
of Zurich, for example, had 149 lakes
quarter of century ago, and only
seventy-six to-day He believes that
similar tendency to disappearance has
affected the lakes of Germany and
Russia
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
The Flowers.

erdge anent the two candidates. las the
two ladies at the Halloween party.
The younger lady said, spitefully, as
she sat beside the other during a waltz
they were both walfiowers:
- wonder, dear, if | shall lose my
looks, too. when / get to be your age?
You'll be lucky if you do snapped
the older lady.'-W Washington Star.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
Raids on Mythology.

The Centaur would he just the thing
A runaway to stop;
Today he'd make and no mistake
A handy mounted cop.
Kansas City journal.
Old Argus in the baseball field
Would surely be a peach;
Should three men be on bases he
Could keep an eye on each.
Boston Transcript.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
Quite at Home.

Bucou-And did you feel al homo trav-
cling i'll Russia?
Egbert--Oh, quite at home; when the
hrakemen called out the stations |
couldn't understand them any better
than | can over here,-Yonkers States
man.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
"willie" Golfers Latest.

II the lambs club a group Of actors
were laughing heartily over a story just
told them by the irrepressible Willie"
Collier, when some one, in spirit of
banter, asked:
willie. isn't that one Of lye's
stories!"
Not yet" quickly answere, lie
LipnincOtts.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
A Financial Epigram.

II. IL, Rogers" said a New York
broker, always advised young men to
get hold Of capital. lie used TO point
out TO them that without capital u man
could do nothing, nothing He used to
pack this truth into very neat cpl
gram.
Fortune, he used 10 say. cant
knock at the door Of man who has no
house. New York Times
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
Had Bumped the BUMPS.

Charming Peddler-Lke souvenir of
the place, sir?
Tourist (who has been mountaineering
Thanks; | think | have enough al
y.-Meggendorfer Baetter
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
Get Out the Wilderness"

Get Out the Wilderness"
De noise er people mOvin'-
Halleluia In de airl
Git out er de wilderness.
Or start a sawmill dar,
Never time ter stay
Wild de lazy, lazy day.
De country is a-gwine
Long de halleluia way!
DE happy folks is risin'
An de GROWERS is a-dwindln';
Cit out er de wilderness,
OR split it into kindlin!
Never time ter stay
Wild de lazy, lazy day;
Wild all de country gwiHr
Long de halleluia way
Atlanta Constitution.