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The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-14

A. d. Hawkins, of Seattle, re-
turned from a business trip up the
river yesterday, and is spending to-
day in this city.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-14
LOST CHAIN AND CHARM.

DON5I VI1IfIN NND CT1dISN.
chain and Eagle charm
with two claws. Initials H. I. P.
on back. Return to Office Eagle
Transfer Co. and receive reward
1920
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WAITER WANTED.

to wait on table at
Japanese restaurant. Orondo ave-
nue.. 1915
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GIRL WANTED.

WANTED - DINING ROOM GIRL
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Fair Tonight and Tomorrow.
Washington-Fair tonight and Fri
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Jack Horner left yesterday for
Cashmere.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05
Appealed to the Clerk for Relief.

Clerk of the Court Erwin, Of Bun
combe county, according to the
Asheville Citizen, received a few
days ago the following letter from a
distressed citizen of South Carolina:
Dear Sir: l sect myself to drop
you few lines as got my licens
there and married nearly year dur
ing that time my wife had left me 8
times, she will quarl all night at me
and on las Sunday was a week ago
she quareled nearly at day at me for
not going to preaching with her Sc
on las Sunday we started and she
comenced quareling at mefor going
Some of her own people says she is
diseased, that the blood runs to her
head so / want you to write and tel
me what terms | will have to do tt
get divorce from her."
This man should have his divorce
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05
Identification by Veins.

A new method of Identification of
prisoners has been devised by means
of photographs taken of the veins on
the back of the hand. Professor
Tomassia, an Italian professor, the
inventor, bases his methods on the
observation that no two persons have
the veins on the back of the hand so
much alike as TO allow room for con-
fusion-less. indeed, than with finger
prints.
The prisoners hand is held down.
ward for several minutes, or the pulse
at the wrist is restrained, and the
veins are then photographed. This
photograph, Professor Tomassla says,
will always be available for explicit
proof, whereas criminals now under
stand that with an ordinary razor
they can operate on their own hands
without much pain or inconvenience,
and many change the pattern OF the
finger print beyond chance OF identl-
/ fication.
To burn the finger tips is more
painful, but perhaps even more ef-
fective. On the other hand, as Pro-
fessor Tomassia points out. only a
serious and dangerous operation can
modify the veinal system. London
CtopIorI
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05
INCREASES The COST.
New Tariff Adds Many Millions to The
Price of Clothing.

Unless the congressional confer
ence committee, to which the tariff
bill has been referred. shall change
the wool schedule, the cost to the
people of wooden wear OF all kinds in
the next year will be increased $780,
100000. General advances of from
20 to 25 per cent. on all popular
grades have already been announced
by the mills. In mems suits alone
buyers must pay S12O, 100000 more
than former prices.
This prospect can be averted, If at
all, by inducing the conference COM
mittee to rewrite the wool schedule.
Clothiers have already begun work
in this direction by sending yester-
day through a committee, to which
several cities are represented, an ap-
peal to members of the conference,
and they will tomorrow address each
member of the Senate finance and
the House ways and means commit
tee. The Cincinnati clothiers are
urging reductions upon every men,
Der of the Ohio delegation.
The appeal is non-partisan. 1t is
hoped that dealers in other lines Of
Uoolen wear will join nit. The con-
ference committee will not change
the schedule unless convinced that
public sentiment backs the demand.
There will be a chance of relief if
such sentiment finds prompt express
sion.
Prices of wooden wear are regu-
lated by the National Association of
Wool Manufacturers and the Ameri-
can Wooden Company, both of which
have headquarters in Boston. They
control the majority of the mills. On
the pleading that increase of popu.
lation has out-paced wool production
prices have been increased. In Eng
land the increase on the same plead
ing has been II per cent. The Bos
ton trust thereupon put up Ameri
can prices from 20 to 35 per cent
The independents have adopted trus
figures.
The clothing industry is the thir(
largest in the country. Its output /
valued at 5000, ,OOO,O 600 annually. A
fully 95 per cent. of the people wea
/ American clothing, the clothler
claim to voice the preponderatini
sentiment in favor of the chang
they propose. Quality has alread
been reduced and weight diminishe
in the cloths from which popula
priced clothing is made, and sti
worse conditions are threatened ur
der trust dominance. New Yor
World.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05
CHEAP COAL RISES In VALUE.
Means By Which II Does Twice the
Work of High Grade Coal.

According to expert government
reports on fuel the gas engine is cap
able of generating from two and
half to three times as much power
from given amount Of coal as the
steam engine.
1t economies also in another way.
Fuel with so high a percentage OF
impurity that it could not hitherto
be used in factories can now be made
to generate sufficient power by
means of gas engine to do the same
work that otherwise would require
double the quantity of high grade
coal
The Ignite coal, OF North Dakoto,
has thus been made to give out as
much gas engine force as the best
West Virginia and bituminous coal
used under steam boilers.
Some sort of coal is indigenous to
almost all part of America, but the
fact that in the average steam en-
CINE only 5 per cent of the coal ener-
gy is transformed into actual work
ing power made low grade coal lit
tie commercial value until the per-
fection Of the gas engine, which in
creases the efficiency of fuel by al
most II per cent.
Time was when the big mills had
to be placed beside some swift run
ming stream to secure water power.
Later on factories sought the vlncln,
ity of the great coal fields, but to-
day, with the generating power OF
the gas engine, it is matter OF lit
) tie importance SO far as power II
concerned where a plant is built
National Magazine.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05
a-----=s--4----
Tourist BfOmidiOmS.

A statistician who recently return
ed from a trip to British Columbia
is willing to affirm that he heard peo-
pie ask:
How cold does it get here in the
winter?" 2, 133 times.
what is the height Of that noun
tain?" 796 times.
"How far away do you suppose
that glacier is?" 92l times.
Is this the Medicine Hat where the
weather comes from?" 1.142 times.
How far do you suppose it is over
to where that man is plowing?' 1,23l
times.
"Are there any trout in that
stream?" 4 4,621 times.
"Do the bears ever come down tc
the railroad?" 944 times.
Where do we change time again?
$3.50 time.
"Why is it that it doesn't get darl
here until nearly 10 o'clock?' 3, lS'
| times.
Has anybody ever climbed to tn
top of that mountain" 2,246 times
"Are these the Rockies or the Sci
kirks?" 9,246 times.
Wouldn't it be great if we coul'
have one of these mountains set dow
on the prairie back Of Chicago?' 90
time. Chicago Record-Herald.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05
An Cld.Timer Found In Montgomery.

The Ashboro Courier says that at
the recent term of Montgomery
county court Mr.. Reuben Hancock
was a member Of the grand jury.
Mr.. Hancock is 65 years old, in good
health and lives within 10 or Is miles
of Troy, the county seat, but until
his service on the grand jury be had
visited the county town but once IN
his life. He has never rode on a
train and never bought any CONNER
cial fertilizers. Last spring, says
the Courier, Mr.. Hancock's son
bought bag of fertilizer, but when
he took it home the old gentleman
used some talk not intended to be
heard by the preacher and sent the
young man forthwith back with the
guano, declaring that this bought
stuff" would take all the strength
out of his land.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05
Lee in StdtuaPy Hall.

1t is significant sign of the times
when the Boston Transcript, one of
the foremost exponents Of public
opinion in New England, declares
that Massachusetts people, as a
rule, believed that the statue of Lee
should be courteously accepted by
Congress. The statue Of the confed-
crate chieftain has been cast and is
upon its way to Washington, where
it is proposed to place it in statuary
hall as the gift of the state of Vir-
ginia. There is no doubt that in
making this selection of a companion
statute for George Washington, Vir-
ginia honored its most beloved hero,
the personiication Of all that is high
est, noblest and most chivalric in the
generation that in vain for the Lost
Cause.
Virginia wrought her gift to the
nation in sad sincerity, but there was
also in this offer an undertOne of
proud defiance that could not be con-
cealed. In a way it was a challenge
to the memories Of the past. And it
is this which gives significance to the
attitute of New England, once the
hotbed of Abolition. Were any pro-
tests to be lodged one could under
stand and excuse it, coming from the
State which once thrilled to the pas
sionate pleas of Garrison and Phil
lips. But the broadminded men of
the old Commonwealth Of Massachu-
setts harbor no hate. More than the
flowing periods of campaign orations
this episode tells the story Of a coun-
try thoroughly reunited and nation.
allied.
Accurately rejecting current opin.
ion in the North, the Transcript says
"The argument that treason should
be made odious has in this instance
long ago lost its force. The people
of the country hold Robert E. Lee
in high regard. This has been vel
expressed by Charles Francis Adams
in his various addresses. Lee wa
soldierly in his attitude during thu
war and highminded and honorable
in his course thereafter, and his ad
mirers are by no means limited t.
his own section Of the country. Tn
nation really owes him great deb
of gratitude for stopping when tn
contest was over, instead of allowin!
it to degenerate into guerrilla wei
fare.
"Lee fought his battles with valor
conducted his campaigns as befitte
a great military leader, and whe
vanquished in the field laid down hi
arms. After that he applied himsel
to healing the wounds of the strue
gle Washington Post.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05
Contempt in Court.

Mark Twain was waiting for a
street car when a young girl ap-
preached him, smiling. She was a
lovely girl, fresh, blooming, ingeni-
Gus, bubbling with enthusiasm, and
evidently on her way home from
school.
Pardon, me-" she said. Il know
it's very unconventional, but may
never have another chance. Would
you mind giving me your auto
graph?''
"Glad to do it, my dear child y
said Mr.. Clemens, drawing out his
fountain pen.
"Oh, it's so good of you, 'gurgled
the girl. "You know, I've never seen
you but once, Chief Justice Fuller,
and that was at distance; but I've
seen your portrait so often that |
recognized you the moment saw
you here
"Um-m-mm!" said Mr.. Clemens,
non-committally Then he took from
her eager hands her nice little auto
graph album, and wrote in bolc
script these words:
cit is delicious to be full,
But it is heavenly to be Fuller.
| am cordially yours,
Melville w. Fuller
Mr.. Clemens has not heard from
Chief Justice Fuller yet.-Harper'
Weekly.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05
NUMBER 81.
Get Into the Boosting Business!

Do YOU know there's lots of people
SittIn' round most every town,
Growing like broody chicken,
Knocking every good thing down.
Don't be that kind of cattle.
Cause they amt no use on earth.
But just be booster rooster,
Crow and boost for all your worth.
If your town needs boostin' boost
her,
Don't hold back and wait to sec
If some other fellows willin',
Sail right in, this country's free.
No ones got a mortgage on it,
It's just yours as much as his;
If your town is shy of boosters,
You get in the boostin' biz.
If things don't seem to suit you
An the world seems kinder wrong.
What's the matter with boostin'
Just to help the thing along?
Cause if things should stop again.
We'd be in sorry plight,
You just keep the horn a-blowin',
Boost her up with all your might.
If you see some fellow tryin'
For to make some project go.
An you can boost it up trifle,
That's your cue to let him know
That you're not going to knock it,
Just because it amt your shout,
But that you're going to boost
little
Cause he is got the best thing
out.
From Crowley Signal"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05
A Mammoth Clock.

The tower of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance building, New York city,
will be ready soon to have the clock
installed in it. The clock will be the
largest in the world. The hands Of
this clock are being tested on the
building of clock company at Grand
and Willoughby avenues, Brooklyn.
They are so large that in making a
revolution they pass three stories of
the building, and when one Of them
is passing window the light is COM
pletely shut off, making the room
within so dark that the employees are
forced to quit work. The hands are
made of manganese and bronze, and
are of bridge truss construction.
They weigh close to 1900 pounds.
The minute hand from the center pin
to the tip is IA feet, and this combin-
ed with the counterpoise of six feet
makes the hand 20 feet long. The
hour hand, of course, is much small
er, being II feet long. When the
hands are placed in the tower OF the
Metropolitan Life building they will
have a wire glass covering that will
admit illumination. In each hand are
placed 24-inch electrical tubes. in
pairs. The clock will be 400 feet
from the level of the grond, and
when the hands are Illuminated by
electricity it is said that they can be
seen 80 miles away on clear night.
Other features of the Metropolitan
clock will be l 900 pound bell with
hammer weighing over 100 pounds
There will be four other small bells
to strike the Westminster chimes
The clock will be operated by cleo
, tricity. The hands have taken foul
months to make. New York Press
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05
The GalloplDg Cost OF the Panama
Canal.


that a modest bond issue Of $397,-
100000 may be authorized by Con-
gress for Panama Canal expenditur-
es, instead of the original sum of
13O, 100000 fixed in the Spooner act
of 1902. Excluding the $50, 900, 900
paid for the French canal rights and
for the canal strip, practically all the
money which was provided by the
Spooner act, and which was guaran-
teed to be ample, has already been
expended and the work today is
about one-third done.
Presumably in limiting the propos-
d bond issue to 1897 7,O00,O 900 it is
hoped that the ultimate cost of the
canal will be kept within that sum.
Still, Colonel Goethais last spring re-
fused to say that it might not reach
$500, 100000. In 1906 the consulting
engineers, whose minority report Mr.
Roosevelt adopted, gave solemn as
surances that, aside from the expen-
ses of sanitation and government,
the canal would be built for $780,
| 7O5, 200. They had figured it out to
the dollar. In January. 1908, before
the Senate Committee on Interocean-
ic Canals, the chairman of the 18TH
mian Canal Commission stated that
the cost would not be less than $3.50,
900, 900, and might be $500, 900, 900.
On February 9, 1909, Senator Kit
fridge, chairman of the Interoceanic
Canals Committee, informed the
Senate that the --latest estimated
cost Of the lock type of canal, ,includ-
ing the purchas price of the canal
rights and of the Canal Zone rights
$50, 900, ,OOO-will bring the present
estimated cost to $4O0,OOO,OOO, more
than 5000, 100000 in excess of the
sum originally estimated and more
than S1OO, 100000 in excess of the
conceded minimum cost of the sea-
level canal"
| Would the country have so light
heartedly approved the Panama Ca
nal project if it had known at the
start what it was in for? Does i
really know yet?
As part of the 1897, 100000 bono
scheme it is intended by the sale 0.
bonds to relieve the deficit by re
turning to Fhe Treasury the 1000
900 paid TOR the canal rights and th'
Canal Zone rights. At the TIM
Rooseveltism had not got into its full
stride and this sum was paid out O
the current receipts of the govern
ment. 1t was matter for legitimat
pride that the revenues permitte'
such thing. But we have profte'
; by the study Of high finance.
, Like Mr.. Hartman, who on taking
over the Chicago and Alton foun'
that extensive improvements and ex
: tensions had been paid for out of ne
I earnings and made the discovery
| pretext for big bond issue, the Ad
7 ministration hopes to profit by a bon
l sale by means of which it will Great
a new debt out of money paid out b
the Treasury seven years ago. Hal
rimanizing the national finances is
decided novelty.-New York Worlc
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05
Scared With a Hot Iron,

or scalded by overturned kettle-'cu
with a knifc-bIpiscd by slammed door
injured 10y gun or in any other way
the thing needed at once is Bucklcn $
Arnica Salve to subdue Inflammation
and kill the pain. It's earth's supreme
healer, infalliblc for boils, ulcers, fever
sores. eczema and piles. pc. at +. l..
Whitehead Company.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05
Here Is Relief for Women.

Ii you have pains in the back, urln-
arv. bladder or kidney trouble, and
want a certain herb cure for women 5
ills, try Mother Gray's Australian
Leaf It is a safe and never-failing
regulator. At Druggists or by mail
80 cents. Sample package free. Ad-
dress, The Mother Gray Company,
Leroy, n. Y.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05
AUTOS KEEP FARMERS AWAKE.
So Indiana Rural Roads Are BeSet
With Traps.

AutomObiling in lnnlana Is becom-
ing increasingly dangerous, pleasure
riding is on the decrease, and dealers
are beginning to complain of the eff
feet on the trade.
When autos were new On the coun-
try roads and farmers horses were
easily frightened by then. it WIS sup
posed that the prejudice of the farm
ers against the machines would disap-
pear when their horses became accus-
toned to the sight. But the reverse
of this appears to be true End driv
ers of machines are having more
trouble in the rural districts than
previously.
Many automobile parties once
drove out to towns and cities forty
or fifty miles away, got dinner and
returned by moonlight, but such ex-
cursions have been almost entirely
abandoned through fear of accidents
caused by bridges proposely weaken
ed, deep ruts in the roads made to
give the drivers trouble and other
means of annoyance, which the farm
ers have invented to prevent the use
of the roads both by night and by
day. In many cases machines have
been wrecked, and hundreds of minor
accidents have occurred through
what the autoists call the unreason-
able prejudice of the farming COM
munities.
In one case for more than a mile
on one of the highways pieces of
barbed wire two or three feet long
were laid at distance Of few feet
apart and for more than a week au-
tos going over the road were stopped
by punctured tires. One auto picked
up four pieces of wire in few hun.
dred yards and each made a puncture
in a different wheel.
The most dangerous devices, which
the auto owners have had to contend
with are large poles laid across the
roads, usually at sharp turn, an(
planks removed from small bridge!
or culverts, which bring the machine
to sudden halt with jar that some
: times throws the occupants out OF
the road. Men have driven over /;
road in the afternoon returning af
: ter nightfall have run in deep rut
, that were not in the road when the.
passed over it a few hours before.
They think that the person wh'
: thus tried to wreck their machine
2 saw them pass, and soon after nigh
! fall purposely made the ruts t
wreck their machines. In man,
cases farmers living near the seen
Z of mishaps have refusee to lend as
sistance to people in disabled autos
: even declining to let out their horse
t to pull to machines, though asked t
a name their own price.
: The farmers say that there are tW
sides to the question. They con
e plain that many of the automobil
v parties visit road houses and are in
: hilarious mood when they return
a making the night hideous with thei
|. mirth and the honk honk of the
machines.
They say that they work hard dul
ing the day, getting up at 4 a. m
q and retiring at 8 p. M, that the
have earned night Of quiet an
l. rest. Instead Of getting this the
. are kept awake, if they live near
f public road, by the ceaseless passir
70 of machines whose occupants see
4 to have no consideration for anythir
except their own pleasure. Indian
polls Dispatch.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05

Take Kodol at the times when you
feel what you have eaten Is not digest
ing. Kodol digcsts what you eat 50
YOU can cat sufficiently OF any good,
wholesome food, if you will Just let
Kodol digest it. Sold by +. I. White
head Company.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05

The best remedy we know OF IN all
cases of Kidney and Bladder trouble
and the one we always can recommend
Is DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills.
They arc antiseptlc and at once assist
the kidneys to perform their important
work But when you ask for these
nils be positive that you get Dewitt, $
kidney and Bladder Pills. There are
limitations placed upon sale to deceive
vou Get DeWitt's. Insist upon
them, and if your dealer cannot supply
vo,,-refuse anything else in place OF
them. Sold by E. T. Whitehead Com
pany.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05

Tommy-Pop, what is the differ
ence between vision and sight? Tom
my's Pop-Well, my son, you can
flatter a girl by calling her vision,
but don't call her a sight. .-Philadel-
nhia Record.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05

Farmer Hayrick-The city is
MIGHTY wicked. Farmer Corncrib-
Yes even the trees are behind bars.
New York Sun.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05

It flows like electricity through your
veins: it does the work. If you are
wasting away, take HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea. 35 cents, Tea or Tab
let's F.. T. Whitehead Company.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05

Impure blood runs you down-makes
YOU an easy victim for organic diseases.
Burdock Blood Bitters purities the
blood-cures the cause-builds you up.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05

Baby won't suffer five minutes with
Group if you use DIR. Thomas Eclectic
Oil at once. 1t acts like magic.