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The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-03-18

Reuben May and wife, of Leaven-
worth, are in the city today on bust
ness.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-03-18

Caswell, and others. One pleasant
and conspicuous feature Of the meet.
ing was the presence Of large num-
Der Of ladies who also took an active
part in the proceedings.
Some Of the speakers In their adj
dresses advocated making an aaEess-
ment of two cents per acre Of all the
lands in the valley. the money so
raised to be employed in the neces-
sary surveys and Investigation. An
other plan also suggested was the
bonding of the land proposed to be
irrigated, the money raised by the
bonds to cover expense above named.
Considerable land in California, Tex
as and other states has been irrigat-
ed by the latter method of raising
the necessary funds.
During the course of this meeting
it was decided to form new cor
poration, to be named the Quincy
Valley Water Users Association"
Articles Of Incorporation were or
dered drawn and a committee on by
laws is now at work formulating the
same
Our neighbors at Morrison Flat
have kept up this work for a long
time with most commendable ener-
gy and their labors will not be in
vain. They have been untiring in
their efforts, and it is up to every
farmer in the Quincy Valley to take
an interest in this work, the advan-
tage of finally securing irrigation be-
ing glaringly plain to everyone.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-01-15
| NEW YEAR INJUSTICE.

rhs Darkssper Complains of tho 0oos
 Resolution Habit.
 John. I'll have to lay you of for the arst two weeks of the new year You Harry. will have to lay. of week"
 The speaker. a lean man, stood in a spiendid and spacious beer saloon, 2 place Of polished mahogany onyx col umns, great mirrors and large paint. tngs Of beautiful women Ropes ana wreaths of evergreen twi1ed aliout the cillars and the eIettroliers and on the passive bar stood bowl of free unch. for 1t was New Years day.
 Yes, boys" said the lean man yOu'l have to go."
 What for boss?" asked the young # of the two bartenders. Mechanic lily with his wooIen bar cloth he DC; ished the bar till 1t shone again. ans anxiousiy he gazed fn his employer face
 "Nhy. John, you ought to know what tor
 The saloon keeper spoke impatiently fat man entered from the street. ap preached the bar with reluctant ster> then all of sudden turned hurrieJl, and departed.
 "WeIl, I'll be danged" said Barter de, John. That's the fourth fellow ha.. ione that this mornin' What's 1t G.eaH anyway"
 "You ought to know what it means John.' repeated the saloon Keeper It's meaning is the cause of your sus pension"
 'Yes, John,' the man resumed; you, suspension Is caused by the New Years swear off of that fellow auu thousands like him. All over the broad land. John. countless numbers of mcu swear off drinking for yea. on New Years day. Half of them stick tc their swear of for d week. and ,:l other half. with just d few exceptions stick to 1t for two weeks Ihos. two weeks of January. John are ai ways the two poorest weeks on .h. publican's calendar. He can't pay ex penses; hence he rstrenches; hence he lays of prudent. industrious young chaps like you--chaps with t,it ru, by. so that they can stand a little i1ie. ness without privat!on."
 "A!l right. But" said John suikily- but ain't got nothing put by. and think its shame that my poor G!fe and innocent babe have got to suffer at this joyous holiday season through the swear of of q lot of foolish. thoughtless men. 1t don't seem rish. aor 1us,"-phlladelphfa Bulletin.
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4 Frost Desoiated Land.

I learned from an eyewitness soma, thing about Spitzbergen. that deser. arctic island 50o miles north of the North cape of Norway and within 7U, miles Of the north I,ole: a frost fleso!at cd land. where the grass grows longer than tl.e trees and huge glaciers in ts,s. ice hr'dged valleys amid the jasgc,. mountains move majestlcalIy down t;s to the sea until mighty icebergs, :. Gionstvons birth. break off and r:,.: to the surface amid thunderous reporr, once tue o:tly sound that broke tfis profound silence oe those awful sV.l sudes. spitzl,ergen is tue only spot Q earth that is positively known as Ne Nau's land. 1t is the possession e: no country aud has nothing even rc sembliug specified government The island seens likely to remain Nc Mans Land, though it is said that aa effort has been made by Norway i:, establish some sort of pretecsofa&s &s x,,s, h--NAtiohai Magazine.
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BOOMING HIS TOWN.
Nsw . Young Board of Trade Prssidsnt
 "Made Good" With tho People.

Ns~ . Young Board of Trade President
 "Made Good" With tho People.
 Systematic town boosting is fes- sage of American business activity which aims at the general good instead a personal! profit One western town Ind board ot trade which had slept along for years without doing anything Ia particular. except eating some food Naee a year at q banquet and listening D some spread eagle oratory. says the 9..tsburg Dispat tch Tha organiza tior became nor!bund, ana its presidency vas an h0aor no longer sought tor. The directors ne, and gave the place Do young man "' the type "we like to ncour: sc" The young man took his spb seriously and went to work, 1t wasn't long before lie grew an idea of .1S own
 Every family that moved te toWn he spotted. Employment was provided aor the breadw inncrs where necessary, md the new people were made to feel 1t home. When this personal stten- :0on had got in its work, q representa- i've of the board Of trade Interviewed |Ae head of the new family This Ill. Arview was incorporated into a letter: .nimeogrsph copies were made, put intc stamped envelopes and made ready tt mail. Then tho letters were taken to 8e newcomer, and he was asked to address them to his friends "back ,ast." The scheme worked like magic md the population boomed Of that nea many new ones were born. The young man has been several times re ssected president of the board ot trade and he can have anything the people & that town can give him.
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SCHOOL GARDEN RULES
cASse a Massachusetts institution as
 Managed by Wemsn.

A school garden in Watertown sx@ss., has adopted the following sGaes, says the Los Angeles Tifoes ls regular and punctual in attendance Ieep garden orderly. Keep recor' Nook correctly. Leave tools clettnes aaA put away before going home Rr ssarteous to all, and if absent or lat, lMgnssh excuse from parent or ieachrr
 IT any one repeatedly breaks thes' rl2es his relation with tue school wi
 ixYgainate The classes meet twice 7 weekly ednesda! after school ADJ Meurday morning one hour each lr1
 sa They will work In the garden through the summer vacation. IT T fwpil Is absent, q suhst'tute "a sent Badges or pins of green aud &Af'r "ft worn, telling garde", number ana 'Ils' R class Notebook are hcpt, &ee' r2,
 ns the tcmperatur'' attendance, d#te. azae of planting, plan of garden ant. My other notes they care tc tccorJ.
 When Insects are found CT Dir Asard, questions are asked and noiie. aiken of their habits. etc. During the ;N1nmer children will be taken In small Scups on short walks to hear tho wSres of nature. The children already jRvs advice to parents telling them the fAsSt methods for planting cucumbers md beans and setting out tomato .1lants. The parents and friends take much Interest, visiting the garden xNile the children work. helping to leep their notes correctly and the gar s1sn in good order. The Woman's cln' Days the expenses ana has the busl ,asss management Of the garden. The ilave taken up the work in mosl .Atisfaetory and helpful way.
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levo Worth Retainina.

The newly married man who as sumes the air of having bought wo. man with the wedding fee and lays aside his careful winsomeness loses what he thinks he has won. If love h worth w0oing to secure it is worth woOing to retain.-Professor Dr. Page. Congreg tionalist, Boston.
 Singing With Children.
 If some parents. would do little less scoldinc and q little more singing with their children perhaps they might have just the same spiritual influence for good as had your sainted mother when she gathered the children about her every Sunday afternoon to sing the gospel hymns. .Rev. Dr. Frank De Witt TaliDage. Presbyterian. Les An' geles. Cal.
 A Desire to Be Guarded.
 It is the desire to know that we have got to guard with more strength than any other one thin. t!,ii we can men. ton. It has Wrecks.,f ,;lore lives. bro. ken more hearts, dt~ suyed more pros. poets. filed more gra, es and sent more souls to bell than everything else con- bined. God help us to guard st.--Rev pr. Len G Broughton, Baptist. At. lanta. Ga.
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THE CHlLDREN'S HOLIDAY.
!n China New Ysar's is the Little
 Ones Great Festival.

sr China New Ysar's is the Little
 Ones Great Festival.
 Except at the Chinese New Year which comes In February. 1t Is yer. hard to catch glimpse of children iD China. Little beggars will run beside you for miles to earn l cash. a copper coin with square hole In the middle of 1t. worth the twentieth of cent. but children who have parents to care for them seem to be kept in doors all the time or only allowed tG play In walled yards and gardens We used to say to each other: "Why, where are the children? Haven't they got anyY But at New Years we found out that they had. This Is the great holiday of all the year in China. when everybody hangs out flags and colored lanterns and sets off firecrackers. (We borrowed our custom of hrecrackers tor the Fourth of July from Chlna's New Years) All the people put on their best clothes and the children the best of all, jackets and trousers of bright blue or green or yellow or pur pie, the boys and the girls so much alike that you can only tell them apar, by their hair. The boys of course is braided in pigtail, and the girls Is done up on her head with silver pins or. if she's q very grand little girl, with gold or jade. Thus decked out, the children go walking with their proud papas and mammas and often go to the theater, which Is 6 rare treat fos them.
 Perhaps Chinese children have romp ing plays together, but they always look as If they were born grown up St Nicholas
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-01-15
School Gardens Create Tasss.

The educational value of the schna
 mrden cannot be overestimated. Wha, vs want to do Is to teach the children 'sAste-get taste into the child. get tast, Ato the household and then finally taste into the comnunity-and when we hars done this we need not fear the resun~ says the Los Angeles Times The lacl
 1 taste in the community generally i> sn unfortunate fact, notwlthstanding sur grand school system. and may he attributed in large degree to tht failure to appreciate it's necessity bl sur educators. 1t Is particularly pleas
 Ing to those most deeply interested L Aoee how unlyersa! Is becoming tx demand for school gardens Reform 1, many branches of public Improvement would be far easier of accomplishmea
 arw had the children of the previou; generation been trained in the fund.-.
 mental principles Of taste. the powN s1 perceiving, approaching a1d discov srinG beauty and excellence. The more Ye consider the curriculum 0. our put, IIc" schools, the more we perceive how Ricou2d he Improved to meet the chang Ing conditions of our American life DHg children need far more than th, 'dnrss R's to At them for citizenship a, e Is drawing upon us. Tho at,nospher. md appurtenances Of the scl, oolroou Should tend to impart culture and 'easse. which h turn arc transferred te i3se home and thus minister to the zen sxal upbuildlng. One of the surest and Saat ways to accomplish this greatest tSoou to both school and home Is to carry at times the schoolroonl s6gura lively, at leasU out into the p&ce and atmosphere and tns!uAnce e sehe school garden
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-01-15
Every Little sIt helps.

'FYou say you encouraged our friene se make another New Years resoln ton P
 'I did" answered the man whoss heart Is all right.
 "But don't you know he'll break il at the end of six weeks at the leasi ealcuiation?-
 'I hope not And even if he does he'll be six weeks ahead of the game =
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-01-15
FOR RENT,
Dwellings.

No. BIS Cherry St. 6 room dwelling No. 20o3 West 9th avenue, { room dwelling.
 No. 2063 West 9th avenue, 1 roon dwelling.
 Desk room for rent.
 | have q greater demand for dwell ings than am able to supply. Ii you have a dwelling vacant it would pay you to place 1t with ne. I solicit share of your insurance represent Old Line Companies, Tele- phone me and I will call.
 CHAS. HANCOCK. Insurance. Real Estate aud Loans.
 Office 1ls Pine Street.
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Whore New Ysars kasts q Mont

Where Now Veare kosts . Month.
 The celebration of New Years is carried on more extensively in Japan than in any other country. The reason for this can only be accounted for by the fact that the custom has beer handed down to succeeding genera tons for centuries. The time the oc casion involves is quite lengthy. last ing from the 18th of December OKoto Haj!me-vtz, beginning of things> to the I6th of January Uokonin no yabu iro. which is apprentices' holiday. On both of the occasions a sort of stew Is eaten, composed of red beans. rice sliced fish and konnyaka root.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-01-15
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.

The annual meeting of the stock holders Of the Pine Bluff Trust Coan~ pany, for the election of directors to serve for the ensuing year and for slch other business as may come be- fore them. will be held in the rooms of said company on Monday, January IS, 1909, at 3 o'clock D. m.
 U. C. BELL,
 Secretary and Treasurer
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Don't Threw cudgsls st V

 Whatever fai!ings you E... aave--anl heaven Knows .tl have soma 191At they should struggle day and nish' to try to overcolne- ISsY stand within the market place anc aS you coldly fruwn. with all the strength that you possess throw cEdgels at your town. Do not uI.ceas singiy complain about he streets and squares. sH9tA failures her officials have, tho pa. yuns talks and prayers. sAmd do not n an endless pIaint your small opinion give 3R how much better things were done where you have chanced to live S1 things gre not what they should b. ,-. and ought to be improved. gD0 up yo2r sleeves and go to~woTk an6 have what's wrong removed. Not let mo say. whatever ltne of actior you purrue. n iot destroy what you nSW hAve tU Yoa oaA bu111 ensW.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-01-15
A Lasting Caster Gift.

Al Easter present ihat will give real lasting pleasure is Il window box tiled with growing plants Cur flowers are epheAer:t!. and often the I,ottet, plant bought aud semi .as ail Caster gift lasts but little N hite
 These window hax,, are a neW .iss- parture to tlli>s p,Iii,,&e They are of rustic bark, ob!onG. square or roul'h as you choose. They should coutain flowers Of an enduring nature. X baby rambler rose. sweet alyssum, ferns pansies, mignouettes and the bright yei- low GcntAsts, als. all good Sometimes the florist put.' q s,ii' of Scotch heather in the box.
 Such a box ses in {. sunny window would give pleasure all through the spring aud later could be but outside. Boston Tsave.er
 A curioes Episaph.
 The following epltaph is-copied from . tomb in the vicinity of Port Royal. Jamaica: Here neth the body ot Louis Caldy. Esq, native Of Mont pellier. in France. which country h4 left OH account of the revocation. He was swallowed up by the earthquake which occurred at that place iu 1892 but by the great providence Of God was. by second shock. flung Into the sea, where he conttnueu swimming un- til rescued hy a boat and, lived fost2 ysars aftsrward."
 Her Advantage.
 "1tar iaugtfec has an angelic a,a position
 "Yes; we always let her hnve ne, 0wn way about every thing"
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A Persuadsr.

PerSuador.
 "DId you make any New Years reso iution?" asked Miss Miami Brown. "No." answered MT. Erastus Pink icy. "but doue persuaded Mistah Coli flower to make one. After l got thoe with him at de las parlor social he was willin' to promise dat he'd stop zyin' to pick 'sturbances fohsvsr an 0ver."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-01-15
Nsvised Vsrslen.

Nsvised vsrsIen. { JomsmhAr, remember. SAo house whore was born AAA also the janitor. bsllbey. butcher hey baksr boy. bootblaek. eisvAtof maA Orscsre bav Aal UsWshsy 0Ae1senas uesu. ~.1lov yGp6 oxD
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Nippeei Tn the Bud.

Nipped In the Bud, Nudge Which is proper to sa, @reUd me $1O." or Loan me Sib:' N:ekwire-It won't do you any goot ', .-sy either.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-01-15

TO OUR friendship and good w which attain the position We hope by liberal courteous a With New greetings you health happ,nea. and
 'f TykxN&1 W. C. HUDSON,
The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1909-02-05

thousand horsepower worth the California estimate
$40 100000 year One of the strongest features the company
situation, explained by its bankers that "a
Of undeveoped hydraulic power sufficient supply the entire
central California market for many years to come"
The companys bankers also explain with becoming modesy that
I the control the hand of the best and economical
waepower and the other hand of the markets for power
through the ownership of the distributing companies the principal
cities and with large Of power the business
of the company is beyond the reach Of serious competition
This the California situation taken
Hectng Pacific and Electric Company, the who
engineering its operations In attempting complete their mastery
of the power situation the State hey doing good business for
their stockholders and long the public encourages their
they be blamed for following What interested
observing the trend Of the utilization of watepower
trend which has progressed simply little further the Pacific
Coast than in other parts of the country.
The significant fact for that almost four-fths of the
waterpower that be developed commercially California has
passed revocab from the ownership of the public the
ship of corporations The policy that permits this inevitably leads
the creation of monopoly placing the pubcs interest last
stead of foremost
1t hard to imagine any industry suited the
combination spells monopoly than the development of power
public waterways The possible supply sled
waterfall wherever the fancy wills The economies Of
combination are numerous they include the savings that from
avoiding duplication transmission lines and generating plants
well the concentrated control of its
sources the ownership of municipal franchises and
ongterm with private who at the
mercy who the only available power Under these
dons hardly requires any argument prove that inevitable
tendency this business the public relnqushes its author
ity is to the creation of monopoly.
matters far the powerconsing public concerned
whether this monopoly by single combination
tending the country by series combinations each one
supreme territory There weldened limits beyond
which practicable transmit electric hydraulic power and
company which controls the power Of single State or group
Of States will have nothing to fear from competition
The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1909-02-05
THE PRESIDENTS PERQUISITES

suppose that the presidents salary of $4,000
la year all he gets Besides this he is allowed $69920 for clerk
hire $35 for maintenance Of the White House and for horses
vehicles contingent fund about the expenditure of
which questions asked $4,000 for travelling expenses but Of
which be kept and only actual expenses used $4,000
for the greenhouses $4,000 for fuel $4,000 for Of White
House grounds $4,000 for repair Of greenhouses $4,000 for print
ing and s. for lighting the White House grounds total $22948o
Then the president and his family have the free use OF Several
yachts In short the president relieved Of al all but
his personal and family expenses and the OF private entertain
n1ens
While this practically clear $4,000 is much less than that paid
the heads of other nations be sufficient and he
chooses president part Of it. and the country will think
the less Of him for making expensive displays Indeed he
Will set good example to do
this particular when there complaint about large
deficit consequence which and harbors be
proved and when there general outcr against Of
official salaries all along the line the proposed increase in the
president and other federal officers ought be opposed
This being successfully done in high places would
establish immensely valuable precedent
The Republican party has spasm OF virtue and then and
passes bill like the depository law and then Immediately
relapse endeavors devise evang the
A great old humbug
The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1909-02-05
THE CALIFORNIA VIEW
fasteners PLAINLY TOLD AS To FEELING ON
JAPANESE QUESTION

The San Chronicle thus vigorously discusses the
japanese question: stating the position Of the people of the Pacific
Coast:
The matter Of antJapanese legislation Sacramento
in fair be settled in accordance with the dictates
without mparng ability maintain the Pacific
Coast white mans country but the contrary greatly actat
ing the accomplishment Of that purpose The thing which
mdo all that has been done restrain the unw and throw
all the fat back into the fire any such bung
chants and manufacturers reported from New York Any
certed unconced attempt induce other bring press
IRE to bear California in order that trade may suffer-
would feeling here whose consequences might be
serious
The members New York Board of Trade may as well
understand that compared with of
conditions noweyisng few agricultural communities where
the japanese have already driven the white the wall
whole trade of the Orient notngand the Pacific Coast
the aborg of the Pacific Coast directly
vay interested in Asiatc than those of any part
Of America Those of who counseng great
present time moderation all legislation and perfectly
of Japan nation for the part
mined than the widest agator that immigration Of Japanese labor
shall that agricultural lands shall pass Oriental
possession and that Oriental civilization shall suppan impair
the civilization of America We simply have and
dsncinaon unnecessarily do anything in the world
the feelings impair the dignity OF friendly nation However
different the Japanese from ourselves however impossible
civilization side by side own however great the
interest OF both nations keep the of the peoples apart
rational people of California recognize fully of any
other Of the world that Japan great nation that within
last fifty the japanese people have done what other people
earth have been able accomplish centuries
Oriental well Oriental intellectual
surpassed by that of any other human beings
masses of their people are inspired by patriotic spirit which has
cxored the admiration of mankind Recognizing all this yet
insist that Oriental workers here and that Oriental
ownership of farms cannot be endured
That principle has been accepted by the Governmental Japan
In its way and collaboration with United
nen all that desire way to be accomplished without
any way mpang the friendly relations OF great nations We
may respectfully heed the representations of the President that what
Legislature proposes might neutaize the work which the
governments good faith doing accordance with dses
but when batch OF New York merchants proposes bring pressure
upon abandon California Oriental civilization order that
Eastern merchants may calico inclined tell them
5lunly that will see them hanged first.