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The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-04-08

Dave Sullivan, of Seattle, is in the
city today looking after his interests
in the valley.
Fred Herthwick leaves tomorrow
for Seattle and will go from there to
Cleveland to visit his parents.
For perspiring, tender, offensive
feet, use Pedicura. Guaranteed to
be effective. The Owl Pharmacy has
it. $50
George P. Stafford, of Bradford,
Pa, was in the city yesterday, COM
ing down on the boat from the Slate
Creek country, where he is interested
In mining. Mr. Stafford will return
later ON in the season for another
trip to the mining claim.
Wanted, married man by the
month, to run ranch. Phone eve
nings, 482. 49,
If there, is anyone who wishes
splendid 100 acre home, equipped
with all modern conveniences, 80
acres under water, SO cultivated, big
house and barn, creek through the
middle of the farm, for $3.50, 3d.
$50 cash, balance easy, see me be
fore 9 o'clock Saturday night. L. H.
Bowman, Olympia hotel. 49,
For perspiring, tender, offensive
feet, use Pedicura. Guaranteed to
be effective. The Owl Pharmacy has
~ $50
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CITY NEWS.

C. A. Pearsall returned last night
from winters stay at his old home
at McGregor. Iowa. Mr.. Pearsall last
spring bought the Herbert Stearns
five-acre tract on Orchard avenue,
and last night he brought his family
ana household effects with him.
Style Shop special sale on trim
med hats Friday and Saturday.
Three doors north courthouse. L.
Gussman. s**
Miss Amy Solomon, who has been
visiting at Columbia River for two
or three weeks, returned home this
morning
Wanted, man to work on ranch.
Phone evenings, 4S2. $50
c. A. Harris is making a hurried
trip to Entiat today on business.
Mckinley and Century editions of
loo music at the Bazaar. -"
w. o. Parr, who has been in the
Big Bend country for a few days, re-
turned home last night. He states
that the farmers are busy planting
wheat.
See the special sale at the Style
Shop, three doors north Of court
house. go
A boy baby was born yesterday to
Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. Usher, on Or
| chard avenue.
$1.00 will bring a Victor Talking
Machine to your home. Ask us how.
Sherman, Clay & Co. So
H. N. Maxwell, who has been in the
Moses lake region, returned to the
city this morning. He reports that
the development of the region is 60
ing on very rapidly and that the
country should be valuable trfbu-
tary to Wenatchee.
| Jardineres Csc to 81, at the b.
zaar. 80
| N. w. Ball returned from Seattle
| this morning, where he has been for
several weeks. Mrs. Ball will remain
week longer.
Buy your Sunday dinner at the
home bakery sale at the Wenatchee
Bazaar Saturday. *"@
William Godfrey, of Seattle, is in
the city visiting in the home of Chas
F. Fry, in the Gehr block.
10 ct. galvanized pals, Csc; II
qt. galvanized pals soc; IA at. gal
vanized pals CSC. at the Wenat-
chez Bazaar. 80"
J. S. Upper, of Billings, Mont, a
brother of E. M. Upper, who has
been in the city for a week, went to
the Methow and Okanogan country,
where he expects to purchase some
land for a group of men in Montana.
Home bakery sale at the Wenat-
chez Bazaar Saturday. $50
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and Great Northern freight service
was announced In bulletin received
yesterday. The new wage schedule
gives day switch foremen 40 cents
per hour, against 35 cents per hour;
day switchmen 81 cents per hour;
night foreman, AZ cents, and night
helpers 80 cents.
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FOR SALE

FAILING HEALTH urges me to go
to California, hence my home on
Pennsylvania avenue, consisting OF
Groom modern house, is for sale
cheap, at terms to suit purchaser.
The best view to be had. Rents
for $45 per month. Phone 1884
or call on Mrs. w. B. Moody, IL
D Street North.
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SWITCHMEN GET RAISE
Hill Lines Announce New Scale fol
Men In Northwest.

An increase of cents per hour for
the switchmen in the Seattle ter
minals of the Hill lines and a like
increase all over the Northern Pacific
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LOST

LOST-A P. O. box key, stamped
number 81. Leave at Daily World
As
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FOR SALE

FOR SALE
STAMPED linen doilies, 10c. Set
turnover collar and cuffs, 12c. Hand
painted velvet pillow tops, $1.00.
Write Mrs. w. E. Morphew, Brew
ster, Wash. 40
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FOR SALE OR TRADE

FOR SALE OR TRADE
FOR SALE-Or will trade for We
natchee property, a 16-acre tract,
6 acres in orchard; SIS inch wa
ter per acre. Located in Entiat
Fruit Lands, on the Columbia.
Write J. D. Bonar, Waterville,
Wash, 5-5
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WANTED

WANTED-A cook for Twisp hotel,
In the Methow valley. Write or
phone Mr. Ruark, Twisp Hotel,
Twisp, Wash. Ala
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COAL

PRINCETON lump, 50. Acme egg,
$3.50. AS good as any coal on the
market, and better than most of
them. Phone the Cannery.
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LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING
ROOMS FOR RENT-Just the thing
for couple who wish to do light
housekeeping. House modern and
in good condition. Close in. Write
w. R., care Daily World. 40
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FOR SALE OR TRADE

FOR SALE OR TRADE
FOR SALE OR TRADE-160 acres.
5 acres in bearing orchard, 90
acres in wheat, near Bonita, Wash.
Call on or address, w. P. Beck,
Columbia hotel. Bill
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-10
Frankly Told General Blair He Would
Not Vote for Him, Before Accept
ing Hospitality In 1856
Campaign.

There is the story Of the first meet
ing of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and
Francis P Blair, Jr., who, as leader
of the Union party in Missouri, pre-
vented that state from joining the
Confederacy, served under General
Grant in the west as a brigade COM
mander and is praised by him in his
mentors, and, when Grant first ran
for the presidency in 1868, was the
tail of the opposing presidential ticket.
l am able to repeat in substantially
General Blair's own words the anec-
dote as he related it during the COM
paign of 1868 to the now venerable
Smith Ely, who was mayor of New
York city in the late seventies.
I'm 1885," said General Blair, Il be-
came a candidate of the Free Soil
party for election to congress from
one of the districts of which st. Louis
was a part. You know, my father,
Francis P Blair, was a very promi-
nent Free Soiler, and my brother,
Montgomery Blair, afterwards became
a member of President Lincoln's cab
met So, you see, it was in my blood
to fight hard for the Free Soil cause,
and in order to do this to the best of
my ability, as soon as l was nominated
for congress, planned series of
open air meetings which, as whole.
would cover my entire district
AT one of these meetings-and it
was one of the best l had-I noticed
hat one of my attentive listeners was
a man seated in a two-horse country
wagon and smoking a pipe. After |
had finished my speech | did what was
infrequently done during the cam
paigns of those days. invited my
friends to join me in drink to the
success of our cause, and we ad-
journed to the little bar room of the
near by tavern.
las we were standing there, wait
ing to be served, some one touched
me on the arm. Mr. Blair he said. l
want to introduce you to an old army
officer. His name in Captain Grant,
and he has been listening to your
speech And as Captain Grant was
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-10
Big Merchant Hid Percentage

waiting my turn in the town barber
shop. In it l saw some reference that
led me to suspect that / might be on
the right track | made some in
quiries. and was told that l would
probably find John F. Lewis's mother
living upon little farm some distance
out of the village.
Il went there and found-a coal
black negress. She told me her story.
She had escaped from slavery in the
South years before the outbreak of
the war, made her way into Canada
by means of the underground rail
way settled in the village nearby, and
in time married a Scotchman of the
name of Lewis who was a sort of pio-
neer in that region John F. Lewis
was the son of that marriage. In ear
ly boyhood he had gone from home,
determined to conceal the fact that
he was the son of a slave woman by
a white father, and being sure that his
physical appearance would make it
easy for him to do this. From then
on until the day of his death he had
been accustomed to send to his moth
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-10

er money presents three or four times
a year, he, in turn, receiving from
her each time a pledge that she would
not reveal his parentage. This pledge
she had faithfully kept, breaking it
to me only when she felt that the
death of her son had left her free to
talk.
We'll, to make long story short, l
obtained the fullest corroborative
proofs of the mothers statements, and
was authorized by her to contest her
sons will in her behalf. / did so, the
will was set aside, and satisfactory
division of the estate was made be-
tween the black mother of the dead
man and the young white woman OF
superior attractiVeness, refinement
and modesty who had been named by
Mr.. Lewis as his sole legatee. Fol-
lowing this settlement the mother re-
turned to Canada AS for the young
woman, she lapsed into absolute OBJ
security, and from that day to this her
identity has never been fully estab-
lished Nor was there ever any salts
factory reason advanced as to why Mr..
Lewis should have bequeathed his
property to her, or imposed upon her
the condition that he did in his viii"
Copyright 1910, by E. J. Edwards.)
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-10
After His Death, John F. Lewis Negro
Mother Was Found in a Little
Canadian Village and Broke
His Will.

"One of the great antebellum rivals
of A. T. Stewart, the first of our mer-
chant princes, was John F. Lewis"
once said to me the now sole survi-
cor of the Lincoln presidential electors
from New York state, former Judge
Abram ]. Dittenhoefer, who is now
nearing his seventy-fourth birthday,
and the incident l am going to tell
you about him simply goes ao prove
the statement that l have often made
that lawyers, clergymen and ply
sicians come in contact with many,
many romances in real life that are
infinitely stranger than the fiction,
even, of the master writer's.
Il knew Mr.. Lewis in the latter
years of his life, when he was looked
upon as one of A. T. Stewards strong
est rivals, and wealthy man. He
was a man of striking personal appear
ance. He was as erect as an Indian,
and as muscular; his complexion was
somewhat swarthy, his large eyes
were dark, and his hair curly. Many
persons were of the opinion that there
was strain of Spanish blood in him,
and the common understanding was
that he had come to New York as p
lad from the West Indies. But he
never spoke of his early life, not even
to certainty of him was that he had
begun his mercantile career as hum
bic clerk in the great retail establish
ment which in time he came to head.
while l was in Europe a year or
two after the close of the civil war
Mr.. Lewis died, and shortly after my
return to this country l read in legal
paper brief report of the filing of the
will left by Mr.. Lewis. At once it
struck me that the conditions of the
will would not stand the test of con-
test, if any were made. 1t provided
that the bulk of the property, running
up into the hundreds of thousands OF
dollars, should be turned over to and
possessed by the young woman named
therein, so long as she remained I'M
married. But in case she married, or
refused to accept the sole condition
imposed upon her, the estate was to
be placed in trust and the entire in
come from it used to beautify Mr..
Lewis burial plot
ut so happened that l was retained
to see if there were any relatives of
Mr.. Lewis living. After long search
the only clue l was able to get that
might lead to the discovery of living
relatives was the fact that Mr.. Lewis
had occasionally received letters from
little town in Canada, many miles
north of Toronto.
II decided to go to that town, and
after breakfast on the day following
my arrival, 1 CHANGED to pick up a
newspaper from a chair nearby while
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-10

any others, but they pull unconscious
ly from nervousness. Steady prac-
tise may help overcome this nervous
ness, and help the hitting.
When a runner gets on bases he
ought to have definite plan of how
he is going to get around, and signal
the batter his intentions, but he must
not allow that to keep him from ta-
king any opening he sees, and he
must be watching every instant for a
half passed ball, and be ready to
change his plan in fraction of Sec
ond. When | reach first look around
to see the positions of the outfielders,
and watch the second baSeman and
shortstop to see which is going TO
take the throw If an outfelder is out
Of position | want to know it, for
may decide to try to take two bases
on hit, or take two on anything he
a player gets a ball out of position
to make a strong, fast throw. A base
runner ought to know exactly how OPP
posing players throw, and the
strength of their arms, for a runner
may take a base on one man when he
would not dare to start on another
Above all things, young players
ought to study the game, and the 9th
er players. One can learn lot just
by watching other players and study
ing their actions-and experience and
knowledge of the other players helps.
There is one more thing; always
play square. l feel almost as badly
when we win game we don't deserve
as when we are beaten. | don't mean
that a player should not take every
legitimate advantage, but that he
should not take unfair advantage. The
longer | play the more satisfaction
there is In winning in a sportsman
like way. There is no satisfaction in
winning by trickery, and fellow who
does some hot-headed trick regrets
it. They do not pay. The other fell
lows are trying as hard and earnest
ly as you are.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-10
orientals, Notion Of Paradise.

Russia. in deciding to annex Box
hara, shows a desire to gain posses
sion of what the Orientals regarded as
an earthly paradise. For so the coun-
try watered by the Zarafshan or Sam
arcand river was anciently described.
.'ZaraIsLan" in Persia means what it
was supposed to be to the countryside.
1.-The Scatterer of Gold" But the river
is the scatterer of gold no longer.
The irrigation works of the Russians
at Samarcand are drying up the river
and lepcpulating the country. Box.
hara in English stands for "Eastland,"
but in spite of the Temoteness which
the name suggests, it has played a
conspicuous part in the history of the
world from the times of Genghis Khan
to the announcement of yesterday.
The city of that name does not believe
in town planning, many of the streets
being scarcely wide enough to let
camel thi ongh.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-10
Teacher Opened Nations Eyes

school teacher in Troy, N. Y, Mr..
Wells sprang into national fame as an
economist, and from then on till the
day of his death in 1898, he was an
authority in economic matters.
About decade after he had done
this good work for the nation, l met
Mr.. Wells for the first time, and one
day, months later, when our acquain-
tanceship had ripened into friendship,
told him that l was curious to know
how he came to write the essay which
had served so greatly to change tho
business world from a condition of
despair to one of enthusiastic optim-
ism.
We'll" said Mr. Wells, as he tugged
gently at his whiskers, which grew in
clumps each side of his ears, when l
was a college lad back in the fort4es
was intensely interested in all sub
jects that related to the natural re-
sources of the country. For example,
l found deeper pleasure that ! have
ever received from fiction in reading
the statistics which aimed to tell how
much of it was available for growing
wheat This liking | carried with me
from college, INDUCED it at every OPP
portunity, and, finally,I became con-
WINGED that the American people had
not begun to realize what their natur-
al resources were.
"This was my frame of mind when
all that unreasonable doubt about our
not being able to carry our heavy
Civil War debt was filling the country,
and one day l went for a walk over
Mount Ida, the high hill back of Troy,
N. Y, to think about the problem. On
the way back made detour which
took me by some freight yards. There
| saw cars marked with the initials
of railways of Illinois, Minnesota and
Wisconsin, and it was easy to guess
that most of them were filled with the
natural products OF those states. And
there were other cars carrying the
manufactured products of New Eng
| land and of New York state. Why
| said to myself, as l looked down
upon them all, what is three thousand
million dollars to a country with such
inexhaustible resources as ours? Our
railroads alone are soon to have a
| greater capital than our debt And
with that there propped into my head
the thought, Why not publish an es-
say that will show the people what
| they've got in the way of natural
wealth, and what they must do in or
der to get material results from it?
Put it simply, and they'll see it, and
there'll no longer be this foolish doubt
of our ability to meet our national OBJ
| legations.
So" concluded Mr.. Wells, Il went
home and wrote a pamphlet along
these lines 1t was published. 1t at
| tracted wide attention. had letters
! of thanks from members of the fed
eral administration. was told that
what | had written had at last opened
the eyes of the people. Perhaps it did.
At any rate, know that | enjoyed
immensely writing that little essay
on the subject that has always been
near and dear to me-"
! Copyright. 1910. by E. J. Edwards)
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-10
Publish Newsnaner at Sea

The circulation of the Cunard Daily
Bulletin on the steamship Lusitania is
over two thousand a day, and has
reached $500. This journal has thirty
two pages. 1t is excellently printed
on fine glazed paper, and sells at FIVE
cents copy. 1t goes to press at one
a. M, and is ready for the breakfast
table like the newspapers ashore.
Many passengers have it delivered to
their berths. and read the daily news
before they get up. Practically everv-
thing of news value in the whole world
appears in the ocean daily as soon as
it is printed in the dailies on land
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-10
David A. Wells Showed How the
Country's Natural Resources
Would Take Care of the
National Debt.

For months following the close Of
the Civil War, one of the great ankle
ties felt throughout the United States
was borne of our enormous national
debt of more than three thousand mil
lion dollars. Where were we going
to get the money to carry on the gov
eminent and pay the interest on this
colossal debt? Many persons were
doubtful of our ability to raise the nee
essary revenues; they felt that the
burden imposed upon us by the war
was so great as practically to pros
trate-in fact, almost bankrupt-the
nation.
In the midst of this widespread anx-
iety there appeared one day modest
little pamphlet which bore the title.
Our Strength and Our Burden" and
carried the name of David A. Wells
as the author. AS logically as one
works out a problem in aritchmetic,
he demonstrated that the natural re-
sources of the United States were OF
inconceivable richness, that we had
hardly scratched their surface, and
that from their development would
come all the money necessary to run
the government, pay the interest on
the national debt and, ultimately, to
reduce it to normal proportions.
So simply, so convincingly, was the
pamphlet written that it changed the
national viewpoint in day, almost,
frora tbo4 Of DocciricDo t0 homo. aDd
at once, too, from being an obscure
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-10
TY COBB SAYS YOU MUST
TAKE CHANCES To WIN
DETROIT'S GREAT FIELDER DE.
cLARES PLAYER WILL HELP
HIS TEAM If HE GRASPS
EVERY OPPORTUNITY.
Ry TY COBB.


Copyright, 1910. by Joseph B. Bowles.)
Taking chances at all times, taking
every reasonable chance, and some
the way think player wins games.
If he has speed, and courage, and con-
fidence, and then takes the chances,
seizes every opening and runs hard
and slides harder, he will help his
team win.
Sometimes it seems to me that one
ball player is better than another, sim
ply because he has more nervous en-
ergy and what we call CUTS" than
another. Nowadays the teams are so
closely matched and the men SO near
ly equal in ability, that the team to
skilful leader, and then something
to keep 1t hustling and fighting AL the
time.
If this is meant for advice to young
players, just tell them that they must
hustle every minute, forget them
when l get into a ball game all I
think of is to win that game and get
around the bases. / can't see or hear
the crowd, and every opposing player
Is my enemy, no matter how good
friends they may be off the ball field.
think that is the way a ball player
must feel to win. He must forget him
self, forget everything, and go after
that game with every bit of strength
and speed he has, not loafng a min
ute, and taking every chance possible.
He must run out every ball he hits.
AS for batting, that is more or less
natural ability and determination. A
man may improve his hitting by
steady practise, but l doubt whether
man can be taught to hit. l think
the secret of hitting is not to be
afraid of injury and not to pull" at
all. There are lots of batters who
pull, that is, draw back slightly from
the plate when the ball is pitched, and
lose the force of their swing. In most
cases these batters are as fearless as
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No False CcLors for Grant

brought to me | instantly recognized
him as the man with the pipe in the
two-horse wagon who had followed my
speech so closely, and by inference
placed him as the retired army officer
who, | had heard was living on the
Dent farm in the suburbs of st. Louis.
I'VE chatted pleasantly for few
moments, and then l asked the cap
tain if he would join me in taking a
drink
Why, yes, l should be pleased to
take drink with you, Mr. Blair, was
the response. L have heard your
speech; l came out here to hear it.
But you ought to know, before | take
the drink, that shall not vote for you.
| intend to vote for Dick Hubbard, the
Democratic candidate, because | am
opposed to all this abolition nonsense.
don't think abolition agitation is the
way to reach this slavery question
Il was pleased with the frankness of
Captain Grant" General Blair contin-
ued, land all the more cordially in
vited him to join us all in a drink,
which he did, soon thereafter taking
his departure in his two-horse wagon.
And / don't think that l saw him
again after that until l reported with
my brigade to the General Grant who
had captured Forts Donelson and
Henry and had fought the battle of
Shiloh. At that meeting General
Grant spoke of the drink we had had
together during my congressional cam
paign And today he is the Republic
an candidate for president and am
the Democratic candidate for vice
president"
Copyright, 1910, by f. J. Edwards.)
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-10
BROOKLYN YOUNGSTERS PROMISING.

Brooklyn has a number of young
sters who promise to Shine in the
fast set with a little more experience.
Tony Smith, Daubert, Wheat and Dali
ton are a most promising combination.
Tony Smith at short is not bigger
than a stick of gum in stature, but in
fielding he is a giant. Fast as light
ming, and quick thinker.