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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-12-02
ITEMS FROM ALL OVER THE STATE

Following out the plan as outlined
by Samuel Hill, honorary president Of
the Washington State Good Roads
Association, for a system of trunk roads
leading from the Canadian border on
the north to Vancouver, Wash, on the
south, and then skirting along the
Columbia river, thru the Big Bend
country to Spokane, and thence across
the Cascades, passing thru Wenatchee
back to Seattle, engineers in the en-
ploy of the state are making a pre-
liminary survey of the country roads
in this state that will be utilized for the
main trunk road
J. D. Farrell, formerly Of Spokane,
is slated for president Of the Oregon
Washington Railroad & Navigation
cmopany, a corporation organized under
the laws of the state Of Oregon by the
officials of the Hartman lines to con-
troll the North Coast, the Oregon Rail
road & Navigation company and the
Oregon & Washington Railway com
pany.
Over eleven thousand people in the
state of Washington are today receiving
a pension from the government, accord
ing to a report just issued by the com
missioner of pensions. This number
Of people annually receive $1,863,659.-
81 and 80 pensioners in Alaska receive
$13,414. Only one person in the
entire country is yet on the pension
rolls on account of the Revolutionary
war, this being Mrs. Phoebe Palmeter
of Brookfeld, N. Y, whose father par
ticipated in that memorable struggle.
The women of North Yakima are
leading the men four to one in the
registration for the school board election
on December 8, at which time also the
question Of bonding the district for
BIS, 600 for the erection of a new
school building will be decided.
IA mass meeting was held at Twisp,
last week to begin an organized effort
to cut off a new county from Okanogan
to be called Methow county. ]. w.
Faulkner was elected representative on
the county division issue. Methow
county would have an assessed valua-
ton of about $1,000, 900 and nearly
5000 population.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-12-02
Swining Wilson's Scientists

Secretary Wilson is fond of saying he
has the biggest training school in the
world for scientists. He has 1000 in
dependent investigators under his di-
r%ection, and their achievements have
done more, perhaps, than all the other
agencies to give the work of American
scientific men good standing and high
repute in Europe.
The sessions of several important ag-
ricultural societies of the distinctly high
brow class-societies composed of men
who rank as scientific investigators and
yet retain a firm grip on the practical
side of farming-have just ended in
| Washington. To these men, who came
from all parts Of the country, Secretary
Wilson made some remarks Of welcome
and in the course of them he let slip
the information that some Of his most
valued men had been taken from him
by big commercial interests. One of
these, he said, would soon leave the
department to accept a big salary and
important duties; but, he said, he was
glad to have his mems talents recog-
nized, as it was an encouragement to
the rank and file and assured them the
world was watching their achievements.
The man referred to by the Secretary
was G. Harold Powell, who conducted
the Investigations of the department in
California, Georgia, Florida, New York
and practically all the fruit-raising Sec
tons of the country into the causes of
decay of fruit in storage and transit,
probed the cold storage problems and
deduced practical reforms which have
saved the growers, shippers and hand
lers Of fruit millions of dollars a year.
The results of Mr.. Powelrs work have
been found profitable in Australia and
in almost every other country where
fruit is a considerable item of produc-
ton. MI. Powell-he disclaims the right
to be called professor" although he
was trained at Cornell under the most
eminent agricultural scientist in the
world-was selected by the orange and
lemon growers of California to be man
ager and secretary Of the Citrus Pretec-
tive League at a salary Of $40, 900 a
year. Mr.. Powell is said to be the lead
ing expert in his line in the world.
For some months past he has been
acting chief of the Bureau of Plant
Industry.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-12-02
BonnycIabber.

New drinks have sometimes a glori-
GUS and brief popularity. Lord Straf-
ford, writing to Lord Cottington in
1896, extols "bonnyclabber," which he
says lis the bravest. freshest drink
you ever tasted. Your Spanish don
would, on the heats of Madrid, hang
his nose and shake his beard an hour
over every sop he took of 1t and take
1t to be the drink of the gods all the
while"
No one, however, seems to know
the exact composition of the seductive
"bonnyclabber," although from an al
fusion to it by Ben Jonson 1t would
seem to have been a mixture of beer
and buttermilk.-London Chronicle.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-12-02
WiIlinq to Divide.

Goblet should like to lend you
that $40, old man, but | know how it
would be If | did. 1t would end our
friendship. Stone-Well. old chap.
there has been a great deal Of friend
ship between us. think If you could
make it five we might worry along on
half as much.-Life.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-12-02

Remaining in postofice. uncalled fol
Monday, November %:
Anderson, Albert Gale, Will
Adams, R H Guist, John A
Beezley, F (2) Koss, Chas
Burgeson, Bernie Mckenzie, S
Choate, Burnham Newton, H S
Casey, c w CT Roeschke, John
Dawson, ] H I'D Talbert, C E
Williams, Chas F
In calling for same, please say 'ad-
vertised." J. c. DAVIS. Postmaster.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-12-02
The Eatafnl MASSAGE.

Hubby-Didn't l telegraph you not to
bring your mother with you? WHEY
1 could not help it, Frank. She insisted
on coming after she'd read your tele-
gram.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-12-02

The Chelan branch of the Farmers
Union has decided to incorporate a
stock company to establish a coopera-
tive general store in Chelan. The par
value of the shares is fixed at SIS, and
each stakeholder is limited to five shares.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-12-02

Genuine benevolence is not station
airy, but p~eripatetic. 1t goes about
doing good.-Nevins.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-03-09
The Learned German Bow.

During the civil war George Den.
ker, German boy about 16 years old.
who had enlisted as a volunteer from
Pennsylvania, was slightly wounded
'Dumpy," as he was called, always
wore one Of those old-fashioned Ger.
man hats, which caused lots of fun
for his comrades.
Maj. Mcdowell. his commander,
happy over the victory of the day,
and ever ready 10 have fun with the
German boy, who could not speak
English very plainly, said to him as
he saw him sitting near a stove In
the hospital with his arm In sling:
"Dumpy, remove that helmet"
"Das hell mitt? Das hell mitt
vat?" said the German boy rather
embarrassed.
The helmet, that hat" said the
major.
DE hell NIT your hat" said the
German boy, getting angry. This
made everybody laugh, even the
wounded. who had listened to the
ersation.-National Monthly.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-03-09

For 10 years the engineers contin.
ucd their exploration work, and mean.
while a national determination was
slowly forming that the task OF unit,
ing eastern and western Norway
should be undertaken in spite OF all
obstacles. In 1894 the storthing de.
cided upon the construction of a rail.
way from Voss 10 Taugevaud. and In
1898 the continuation OF the line
through Hallingdal to the junction
point on the Christlania- GJovik rail.
road, Roa. was decided.
AS preparation. transport roads had
to be constructed and barracks for
engineers and workmen built; 500-
600 kroner ($l35.OOO) had to be spent
on transport roads alone. The Grave
halls tunnel was constructed by pri-
vste contracting firm: the rest of the
work was done directly by the state
The whole road was built exclusively
by Norwegian engineers and work.
men. The contractors on the big tuDI
mel once made an experiment with
Italian workmen. but they very soon
proved so far inferior TO tho Norwe.
CLANS that they had to be sent home
after a few weeks trial.
The railroad has a length OF 492
kilometers $500 miles) and there are
l7S tunnels, aggregating 36,6S2 meters
Ul9,250 feeD. The total cost amount.
ed to 54.0OO.O0O kroner (s14.5s0 ,OO0).
II has been necessary to put up wood.
en- walls at many exposed points.
There are three rotary snow plows OF
American system. these having proved
far superior to other patents which
have been tried. by their help and
the wooden walls 1t is believed that
the traffic may be carried on as regu-
larly as on any other railway.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-03-09
Consul Pontlus, at Swatow, Tells In
teresting Story Of Industry In
Peng-chow District.

Washington.-Mr. Albert W. Pontius.
the American consul at Swatow, sends
an interesting report of how the Chi.
nese fans are made. Fan-making. he
writes is o. origin so ancient in south
ern China that no one knows when IL
was started Tradition has It that the
first Fans were made In the little viii
lage ot ng-Chow, at. Ampow, which
Is about three miles from Swatow.
For hundreds of years only the women
In the different villages through which
the industry spread. were the fan
makers, but so great is the demand
now for these cheap fans. used as they
are by the millions for advertising
purposes that nearly every man. wom-
an and child works all day and half
the night at fan.making
The industry is almost confined to
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-03-09
ChriStiania-Bergen Rail Line
Across Mountains Completed.
Eastern and Western Parts Of the
Kingdom Have Easy Means Of
communieation--Ev OF
Much Importance.

Christiania - The opening of the
railway across the mountains from
Christiania to Bergen recently by
King IIaakon was an event In the mis-
tory of this country of far wider i'm
portancc than any one not well ac.
quainted with Norway, geographically
and geographically, would be able to
appreciate. Norway Is divided into
three Isolated parts by the Dovre
mountain and by the broad and wild
range of mountains that bear success
siVely the names of FyleUeld and
Langfjeldene. The overland route be-
tween Bergen and Christiania was.
even more than the route to Trond.
hjem. great hindrance to traffic pass.
ing as 1t does for a considerable dis
tancc over mountains of a height of
5000 feet and more
Although Norway was united into
one kingdom as early as S72 by King
Harold Haarfager and has remained
united ever since, the natural splitting
up Of the country into the western.
northern and eastern districts has in.
evltably TO some extent impaired the
feeling of unity in the nation. And
the barriers which nature had raised
between the districts have formed
very serious obstacles to personal CO
operation for the development of the
economic resources of the country.
The consequence has been that the
progress has been considerably slow.
er than 1t might otherwise have been.
Good roads were constructed in the
principal overland routes in the begin.
ming of the last century, and they
represented an immense improvement
on the ancient trails which had been
possible only on foot or on horseback
But journey OF several days in
carriage was expensive and entailed
great loss Of time and, I'm the winter
time, severe hardships In 1880 the
railroad to Trondhjem was completed.
Thus the great barrier between the
northern parts and the southeastern
parts OF the country were overcome.
The highest point of this road does
not lie more than 1000 feet above sea
level; but many people thought It
could not be kept open In the winter
time. This fear proved groundless
and the road turned out to be a very
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-03-09
That Jersey Devil AaaIn.

Staunton, Va.-Report comes from
Hightown that David Meeze has just
seen what some declare is the famous
Jersey devil. which was reported to
have first been seen in New Jersey,
whence II gets its name. Meeze says
that the strange bird or beast was
flying directly over him and had a
head like horse and feet and legs
like a mule. 1t scars along on great
red wings. II is said that the animal
was seen in West Virginia some
months ago. 1t is supposed to live in
the mountains, feeding on bear and
deer. II is the most extraordinary
combination OF beast and bird ever
seen In these parts.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-03-09

for 100000. a profit OF half a million,
or 500 per cent on his capital. Surely,
you say. when this is possible. yearly
average of on'v "a per cent seems
very small
But suppose a big "insider" starts
out at the age OF 40 with a speculative
capital o S1G,OO0,000 and cleans up two
per cent. a month until he is Go. The
writer knows an outsider" who has a
larger capital than this, who is owning
40. and who has made several millions
In the last year. If he can make a
pawnbrokers profit the next 25 years
how great a fortune will he have?
Over two billion dollars! The income
from this would give him $50. .000, 900 a
year the rest of his life. If young
Jack" Morgan could have started at
25 with $l0,000.000 and made "a per
cent. profit a year for so years he
would amass $4,000 000. 900, or more
than the total wealth of the United
States and all Europe. Even an as
sured ten per cent. yearly profit In
speculation for so years would multi
ply s10.0O0000 TO more than a billion.
or more wealth than any man has ever
amasseu.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-03-09
London's New Official Offers to Cap
ture One Thousand Rodents In
Three Nights.

London.-Tt seems that the grue-
some freemasonry which binds Eu.
ropean official executioners together
causing them 10 intermarry and in
herit the profession is not without
its parallel among ratcatchers. Hence
John Jarvis, who has Just been APP
pointed official ratcatcher to the Lon
don county council at salary of
$243.l2 year. is a ratcatcher by in.
heritance and instinct quite as much
as he is by profession.
Since 1903 each male member Of his
family has devoted his life to catching
rats, and 80 II was with the greatest
confidence that Jarvis issued a chal
lenge to all the ratcatchers In the
kingdom to catch mora of the vermin
In given time than any man living,
provided that neither dogs nor ferrets
were employed In the hunt. Further
more. he said that with the assistance
OF his uncle. Mr.. ]. Dalton. he would
undertake TO catch 1000 rats in three
nights.
AS Jarvis made these challenges he
fondled half a dozen tame white rats,
while his seven-year-old daughter at
his side played with couple of fer
rets. Il have no son to carry on the
business" he said, "but Kit, there, and
her younger sister both know pretty
well all there is to know about catch
ing rats
The means use for catching them
alive is a family secret. known only
tp my people for the last four gener.
ahons. | won't tell you exactly what
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-03-09
RCtcatcher Issues a Defi

that secret IS. but | don't mind letting
you know that 1t acts very much in
the same way as chloroform does on a
human being. over my back | fling
a huge sack, connected with trap.
door arrangement at my side wear
noiseless boots and black clothes.
"As walk down the passages with
bull's-eye lantern attached to my
side the rats, scared by tn light,
scamper past me. AS they run | can
pick them up left or right hand and
drop them into the trap-door. Gradu.
ally they work their way around to
the sack on my back. My! How they
fight! Sometimes when fancy have
a hundred / find half of them are
killed by the time / arrive home"
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-03-09
Dreams Are Too Rosy.

The lambs who go to Wall street ex-
pect to double their $1,000 in a few
days, but If II were possible to double
ones capital only once a year 81 900
would grow in ten short years to more
than 4 million, and to more than a
billion in 20 years.
One of the most fascinating and dan.
gerous lures Of the plunger is the
pyramid" a speculative pyramid is
= mass of securities bought on margin
with the paper profits of bull mar
ket When the bull market collapses
over goes the pyramid and the paper
profits fly away in the storm.
For months and months all the wise
acres Of the street have been watch
Ing the growing pyramid of plunger
In steel He bought. after the panic, a
big block OF steel at bargain prices.
and kept buying more out of his profits
rs the stock rose from s22 to sos. At
the top it was gossiped that he had a
profit OF from $4,000 600 to s25,O00. 900
In steel and other stocks.
But he didn't cash in"
Now that the bull market has col
lapsed, nearly all these millions have
vanished.
This plunger's pyramid was built up
In this fashion. He bought, we will
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-03-09
Chinese Adept Fan Makers

the Peng- Chow district, because here
abounds a particular kind of bamboo
especially suitable for the rigs and tho
handle OF the fan.
The manufacture of the fan is very
simple. For the frame the split BAN
boo is repeatedly rived until each
piece is sufficiently slender and fiexi
BILE. These thread-like pieces of bam
boo are arranged In row. attached TO
each otner by a thread passed cros',-
wise through the middle. This thread
is fastened to a semi-circular strip OF
bamboo giving the fan It's shape. The
ribs are then slightly heated and bent
at the ends. The fan has now the pc
culiar and characteristic shell-llke
shape at the top. Very fImsy silk
gauze Is then pasted on the face, and
kind OF tissue-like paper on the back
After the handle is attached. the bor-
der OF the fan is black vanished and
the gauze is coated with a chalk-and-
water mixture. The handles are made
OF bamboo. various kinds OF hard wood,
bone ana ivory. The hand painting on
the fans is cleverly done, IN some in
tances being works Of art The medium
quality fan retails for 25 cents Mexi-
can (ten cents gold), better grades.
one to tour dollars Mexican (40 cents
to $3.50. The amount now exported
yearly amounts to about $4,000 This
fan trade of late has shown a decrease,
due to the importation of Japanese
straw fans, which have met with
favorable demand
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-03-09
NEW ROAD

lucrative national Investment al
though II has not ns yet paid directly
in the form of dividends: It has done
better than that by greatly accelerat-
ing the development OF the Trondhjem
district and of Nordland and Fin
marken.
In 1872 Investigations were com
menced with the view OF discovering
the best line for railway between
Christiania and Bergen. and in 1874
the storthing voted the first part OF an
eventual Bergen -Christianla railway.
the selection from Bergen to Voss.
But TO the general public the contin.
uation seemed impossible and more
like one of Asbjornsen's fairy tales
than anything else. for the field ex-
plorations had more than confirmed
the popular conception that the diff
fculties to be overcome were truly
formidable. The railway which has
just been opened follows practically
the line which the engineers traced I'm
1874 From Voss to Opset. a distance
of about so kilometers (35 miles), Il
rises with steep gradients from 339 to
5,100 feet. and. rising further to max
imum height of nearly 5000 feet, II
passes altogether distance of more
than 100 kilometers through high
mountains. coming down to 4.S00 feet
at Gieilo. And In these inhospitable
regions II was found necessary to bore
the Gravehals tunnel. not less than
5,311 yards long. besides number of
ehprfa- fnnpaIc
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-03-09
The PLunger and
His Fest Vanishing
Pyramids of Stocks

every one.eighth decline, at SS5 he had
accumulated $4,000 shares more at an
average of about 500. This gave him.
then. 100000 shares OF steel in ALL
costing an average price OF nearly $50
a share. Ir other words. his pyramid
was top-heavy, for he was carrying
100000 shares OF steel. worth S25 800.
600 in the market. on n margin of only
five dollars share. or S1,500.000 This
pyramid became the target of less
light-waisted spectators. tor the
brokers carrying the plunger's stock
demanded more margin, and had to un-
load the pyramid when the margins
were not put up. The unloading OF
the pyramid fastened It's own de-
struction.
This has been the eXperieBIs OF
nearly every big plunger in the mar.
kets. He has become fascinated by
the building Of his pyramid and has
kept on reaching for more and more
millions until the whole thing toppled
over.
That fortunes may be amassed In
market speculation II one but has lin
side information" has been the popu.
lar belief ever since the days Of the
English trading companies of the sew.
enteenth and eighteenth centuries.
The South Sea Bubble in England and
John Laws bank in France we're but
violent outbreaks of the credulods
greed for gold Fortunes have been
made by clever men who have under
stood the psychology Of enthusiasm.
and who have made capital out OF the
credulity of the crowd.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-03-09
MONEY HIDDEN UNDER CARPET
Son Finds $500 In Small Bills Lett
by Mother, Who Was Thought
Penniless.

South Norwalk, Conn.-When Mrs.
Frank A. Slavin dieo It was thought
she did not have a cent. The kitchen
carpet was taken up and two layers
OF small bills, which almost covered
the entire floor, were discovered.
There was nearly bushel Of them
when piled up, and they amounted TO
$4,000. Her son. Charles A. Slavin.
was about to vacate the house and
stood in the doorway debating wheth1
er to take up or leave the kitchen
carpet He thought II mtgnt do 20
cover the dog kennel. and so he pulled
Il up.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-03-09
History Of "La Grippe

Grip was first discovered in Eng
land in 1173, since when there have
been more than one hundred epidem-
les. II first appeared in the United
States in 1927 and went all over the
western hemisphere. The last epidemic
started in Bokhara in May, 1889, and
reached the United States in the mid
die of December. Its rate of spread is
exactly as rapid as travel Since 1888
there have been grip epidemlcs In
most American cities every winter
Just as there are many mild cases of
"caolerine" during deadly epidemics OF
cholera, so there are many cases Of
bad colds IN the head. or grip" false
Influenza. when paa g-,D 10 aboa.s-N
4. PTesT
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-03-09

!: 4: $: :. : : + +; 6: &; 4; :
~V the steel tsust. Ut young
w. Mr.. Rockefeller knows so
much of what IL going on
that he can always get in IN the big
awnings in the market and make money
Is easily as rolling of a los. This Is
surely the idea you get freq reading
all the stories told about The cold
blooded way in which the kings of
finance manipulate the market and
fleece the lambs"
DO you think one of thEle insiders
ought TO be sure of averat, ng "a per
cent. on his speculative capital. two
per cent. a month--a pawn 'oker's In.
terest? This is very little. you say.
With 100000 a year ago a speculator
could nave bought 100000 worth of
steel common, borrowing the other
$4,000 from the banks, AMI the could
have sold the stock six mclths later