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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-04-29
S1.OO Per Year
Life is Merely Chemical Reaction

The moral which the moths silly
fascination for flames is supposed to
point is no longer applicable to the
young idea. For years Prof. Jacques
Loeb, of the University of California,
has made study of this peculiar be-
havior of insects toward light. From
his investigations it seems that the
moth is guided to the fame not by
reprehensible curiosity, but because it
is suffering from a kind of paralysis
which is caused by light and which
compels the moth to fly to its doom.
Heliotropism is the awesome technical
name for this once completely misun-
derstood proceeding.
Moths are not alone in this inability
to escape light. Plants grow toward
the light, as everyone knows in these
nature-study days. 1t was a great
achievement on Loeb's part to prove
that animals were helioropic as we'll as
plants. The same influence which
causes the moth to seek the fame
leads many animals to swim, crawl or
fly toward light. Sometimes light drives
an animal away, in which case the
creature is said to be negatively hello
tropic. Whether they be positively or
negatively heliotropic, animals of both
classes assume positions in which sym
metrical points of the body are equally
illuminated. Following this instinct a
crab or an insect blind in one eye will
move around light in circle for
hours.
Light is not the only agency that
thus affects animals. A certain fly feeds
preferably on fermenting fruit, toward
which it flies in a straight line both in
daylight or in darkness; but when it is
deprived of one Of its organs of smell it
circles around the fruit, instead of ap-
preaching it directly. Alcohol, ether,
Tactic and acetic acids, and other COM
pounds found in fermenting juices,
have similar effect.
According to Prof. Loeb these mys-
terious influences are chemical in their
nature. To prove his theory he has
modified heliotropic reactions by chem
ical means. A fresh-water crab, which
usually avoids light, and is, therefore,
negatively heliotropic, is drawn to
light like moth when a little acid is
added to the water in which it lives.
Alcohols, alkalis, changes in tempera-
ture, have a like effect on other
aquatic animals. All this is but link
in a whole chain OF theories formulated
by the modern experimental biologist
with the ultimate object of proving
that all life is but chemical reaction.
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MUST USE YOUR OWN NAME
Can't Call Melons "Rocky Ford Unless
They Are Grown There

Since the days of the immortal
Shakespeare, says the Wenatchee Re-
public, the world has been wrestling
with the question of arriving at the
probable value OF name. Politicians
have fallen or risen, chorus girls have
attained fame or lost it, cigar makers
have built up fortunes or dissipated
them for no other reason than they
have or have not discounted the old
axiom that there is a whole lot in a
name.
A populace none too we'll versed in
the intricate workings Of psychology
have simply stood aghast and wondered
how things can happen as they do"
Effects have been quite manifest, but
causes have been hidden. People
couldn't forget the name, or else they
couldn't or wouldn't remember.
But now comes the department Of
agriculture at Washington in food in
spection decision No. lis bearing on
the use of geographical names as ap-
piled to food products, and lays down
the law that Rocky Ford canta-
loupes shall not hereafter be grown in
some other state where perhaps condi-
tons are very dissimilar to those in the
Colorado district where the genuine ar
ticle is known to have originally been
developed to perfection. Also, Indian
River oranges must not be harvested
in some other state or section where
there is not and never was an Indian
river
In other words, the melon branded
Rocky Ford must be raised in the
Rocky Ford district in Colorado, and
an orange purporting to be an Indian
River will have to present its pedigree
showing that it is entitled to all the
rights and privileges of the genuine
Florida fruit from the Indian river
locality.
Similarly, Elgin butter cannot be
any kind of product picked up indis-
criminately, but will have to be made
in that great dairying section along the
Fox river in northern Illinois and
southern Wisconsin and tributary to the
town that made the butter famous.
And Wenatchee applesl Of course,
by legal Interpretation Of the depart
ment of agriculture's decision, they
must come from the Wenatchee valley.
Surely those that have been dubious
as to the value of name will have to
revise their ideas and admit that the
pure food law is not only going to work
some changes, but has actually begun
to accomplish what many had given up
as impossible of fulillment-the max
ing brand or name stand for what it
says and not aiming to perpetrate a
fraud by stating an untruth by imphca-
ton or indirection.
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WILSON CREEK

Summary: Stolen bases = DAILY ?, Ray
mond 2, Bee, Smith; Schiei 2. Sacrifice hits
Bee, Weller, Gather. j. Three-base hit
Schiel Struck out-By Russell 5, Lee 6.
Bases on balls-Of Russell q Lee |. Hit by
balls-Scott l. Double play -Tholin and
Raymond by Weller. Time-lh. 35m. Um-
pire-Moore.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-04-29

And now another big land scandal
looms up in Idaho, this time in con-
nection with alleged fraudulent transac-
tions of the state land board, involving
many Of the high state officials. SEN
sational Developments are promised.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-04-29

Il don't think" said Mr.. Rich to
the prospective son-in law, that you
can dress my daughter in the style be-
fitting her birth"
Good gracious!" exclaimed the
startled young man, Il wouldn't want
tol''
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-04-29
Union May fine President Taft

The Central Trades and Labor Union
of St. Louis, representing every union
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-04-29

All heat records for April at Los
Angeles, Calf, were broken Saturday,
when, at 1:l5 p. m, the thermometer
registered a maximum of 100 degrees.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-04-29

A better Echo than ever. Read it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-15
PLAN TO SPEND A MUTATION.

What "A Million for tuberculosis
from Red Cross Seals" will do in the
checking of consumption. is explained
in a bulletin issued recently by the
National Association for the Study
and Prevention of tuberculosis.
Counting every available bed for
consumptives in the United States,
even those in aImshouses, penal insti-
tutions, and hospitals for the insane,
there are at the present time accom-
modations for hardly 10000 tubercu-
losis patients. This is just about one
bed for every ten INDECENT consump-
tives, and if all tubercuIous persons
in the country are counted, both rich
and poor, hardly one for every TWEEN
ty-five or thirty. If sufficient hospital
accommodations are provided only for
those who are too poor to pay the full
price for the treatment, fully 275, 900
more beds in special institutions for
tuberculosis would be needed at once.
The immense outlay necessary to pro-
vide and maintain so many beds in
hospitals. makes it imperative, the
National Association for the Study
and Prevention of tuberculosis de-
clares, that such institutions be erected
from public money, either municipal,
county or state. In order to get ap-
preparations for public hospitals for
tuberculosis, agitation is necessary, and
in order to create a campaign of agi-
tation, organization is demanded. But
in order that an organization may
carry on an effective campaign, funds
are needed.
These funds it is proposed to secure
in as MANY communities as nossihle
from the sale of Red Cross seals.
The National Association cites one
illustration of the way in which small
sum spent in education has secured
large appropriations. The New York
State Charities Aid association in the
three years. 1908. 1903 and 1910. has
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-15
AYHlWKER JOTy

Speaking of prosperity among the
farmers, remarks the Atchison Globe:
VIII Oswald, farmer, has been offered
$25 each for six dogs, and refused the
offer.
This wall goes up from an editorial
writer on the Emporia Gazette: ut
must be a pleasure to do editorial work
for the Wichita papers, and not be re-
quired to abuse the census bureau"
Charlie Blakesley notifies Miss Jessie
Morrison that If she will send for a
copy of this weeks Valley Falls Vindi-
Gator she will learn that she is under
deep obligation to Political Purpose
for her pardon.
Sings the poet laureate of the Hill
City New Era: Mary had a hobble
skirt, SO tight she couldn't roam; and
everywhere that Mary went, she had
to stay at home" That beats anything
ALI Austin ever wrote by several city
blocks
IT found a letter the other day re-
ceived in 1885," confesses Tom Thomp-
son Of Howard. 1t had a postscript
which said BE sure and burn this I
did-24 years after 1 received it, and
Is years after the party who wrote it
was dead"
A representative of the vinland Vine
who always happens to be around when
Bill Sincaller has anything to say.
heard him remark the other day: Time
is valuable, daughter, but a good way
to spend it is by taking a little more
to assemble yourself. Hair awry and
powder on spots is not economy Of
time"
1.-THE bride was beautifully decorated
with tuberoses, carnatton pinks and
FERNS" reported the Barnard Bee re-
Gently in q writeup Of wedding. And
while 1t does not say so, the Salina
Journal thinks 1t is fair to assume that
the groom, too, was handsomely decor
ated with red, white and blue bunting
extending from ridgepole to the ground.
This inquiry went up not long ago
from Mack Gretchen: What has be-
come of the old-fashioned woman that
shortened cornbread with 'cracklings?' "
ct don't know" answers Tom Thomp-
son, but I wish did. The state could
we'll afford to offer a reward for her
and If found put her on the pension list.
Talk about Governor Stubbs' salt ris-
ing bread, 1t amt in it with corn
bread shortened with cracklings--
fatty bread as Old Uncle Ned would
call it,
Some new Kansas game laws which
have been put forward by the lola
Register: Book agents may be killed
from October 1 to September 1; spring
poets from March 1 to February j;
scandal nongers, April 1 to February
1; umbrella borrowers, August 2 to
November 1; and from February to
Nav 1, every man who accepts a paper
two years and when the bill is present.
ed says, ct never ordered it," may be
killed on sight without reserve or relief
from valuation or appraisement laws
and buried face downward without
benefit of clergy.
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spent in the upstate portion of New
York about $4,000 in arousing the
people to the danger of tuberculosis.
As direct result of the public senti-
ment produced by this outlay. the
state, county and municipal authori-
ties have already appropriated for tu-
berculosis work $1,5o0,oo0 and ap-
preparations for hundreds OF thousands
of dollars are pending. Hundreds of
hospital beds have been provided, and
the association already aims for mo
Uncared for tuberculosis in 1915"
Thus, the National Association says
If a million dollars is realized from the
sale OF Red Cross seals, millions more
will be added to 1t from the public
treasures. Last year 100000 stamps
were sold. 1t is aimed this wear to
sell four times as many.
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HUNOR or THE DAY

MY dining room is the hottest place on
earth. 1 wish I knew what to do to cool
it." Did you ever take a friend home to
dinner when your wife didn't expect it7''-
Buffalo Express.
Patience-Isn't he the slowest thing Won
ever saw? Patrice-He certainly is. why
If he ever does propose to a girl, I'll bet
he'll send the proposal by a messenger
boy!-Yonkers Statesman.
Captain, is there no way in which tho
ship may be savedT"
None at all, sir. We are going to the
bottom, but would not worry about the
ship. sir II I were you; she is fully in
Wasp.
,a gTiend-when you run over a log. in a
country road, what do you do? Motorist
THANK heaven that is wasn't a porcu-
pine.-Toledo Blade.
What's the debate in the town hall
Whether It's better to keep up good
ing or maintain a mudhoIe and charge
heavily for hauling 'em out"-Pittsburg
Post.
Hell have been trying to discover why
a woman is so much more curious than a
Winnie? sheW1 don't i know. rms s m,Ss
I've never been curious enough to inquire
London Opinion.
II never saw the captain show cowardice
but once When was that?'' You
know how bald he is?" Yes" well, In
the last engagement when the eneniy's
aviator began to drop his bombs I saw
the captain put on HIS cap."-CleYeland
Plain Dealer
You will be glad to hear, Henry DEAR
said Mrs. Willoughby, that my new dress
does not button up the back. ''TioorayI''
cried Willoughby. turning e somersauit on
the divan. How does It button, NV
dearT' Down the back" said Mrs
Willoughby.-Judge.
Enthusiastic Climber Ito exhausted COM
panion)-It seems a shame to leave Won
here. old man, but I mayn't get another
chance. Exhausted Companion-That' All
right, old man: you go and climb the
silly thing while 1 carve its name on INV
alpenstock.-Punch.
Yes" said the busy merchant ct al
vertised for a porter, but only a strong.
muscular mus man can FIJI the place. What
spring chickens In a downtown res
taurant." answered the applicant Take
off your coat and get to work at once"
said the b. m. as he turned to his ledger.
Chicago News.
Boreleigh-Ah, good morning Wieua1
How do find you this morning? WfewaS
Your finding me this morning was pure.
" accidental assure you.-Philadelphia
Record.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison Globe.l

Making money isn't as hard as get
ting along with women.
Every man thinks he would make a
good automobile driver.
A gentleman is as able to fight as a
bully, but he doesn't like it so well.
When we want a thing to happen.
we are too apt to think it will happen.
There is almost as much fraud about
patriotism as there is about politics.
Most women say they don't like to go
to afternoon parties, but keep going,
People who say, st don't care what
people say about me-" are always very
sensitive.
We notice that when man begins to
save his money, he also begins to talk
lot about it.
A horse that woman can drive is
worth about fifteen cents as a driving
horse for a man.
The man who says he has been work
inc so hard he hasn't had time to eat
dinner, usually Hes.
Some people can talk about one thing
while thinking about another, but they
don't do it very well.
Whatever you do a man said to
his son in a show, ''be careful that you
do it yourself. There are no easy jobs"
Our idea of modesty is a man who
will whip a man much larger than him
self and then not tell anyone about it.
Tell a woman just once that she is
good looking, and if you want to re-
tain her friendship, you'll have to keep
Il up.
People may convict you of being a
hypocrite. which isn't so serious, but If
they convict you of being a fool, that's
serious.
An Atchison man hates a badge so
much that he dislikes it when the con-
ductor on railroad train puts a check
in his hat.
If the business men were as en-
thusiastic about advertising as adver-
Il ing solicitors are, there would be a
newspaper on every corner.
Alois Philip, the fiddler. claims that
he is a hard worker. Which is funny.
when you remember that people fiddle
to while away idle time.
No matter how many friends you
may have, and how popular you are.
you must not lose sight Of the fact
that you must make your own living.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicaeo Nevva. !

lfTom the chicago News.
After going to the buyer coal goes
to the cellar.
1t is better to make an excuse than
to blame the innocent.
A lucky man is always harpinR on
his superior judgment.
Even the lowly dealer in old Junk il
apt to be man of metal
A woman's idea of a brute is anv
man who declines to flatter her.
It sometimes happens that a Rray-
haired man Is willing to dye for a
woman.
The faster the automobile goes the
sooner the ambulance may overtake it
Don't attempt to navigate the sea
OF matrimony by another navigator's
chart.
Were it not for human nature the
confidence man would be unable to
earn his salt
No matter how fat a woman Is.
she thinks she'll be all right the next
time the fashions change.
There are two anniversaries that a
woman never forgets, the day she was
married and the day she gave the baby
its first bath
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QUAKER MEDTTAT1oNs.
LFrom the Philadelphia Record. ]

From the Philadelphia Record
The girl who marries for a title
gets all that's coming to her.
Hope springs as eternally as a
woman springs from mouse.
Even a church has its nave of
hearts when there's a wedding
The trouble with an off day is that
it is too often followed by an off day
The average man feels that his
hands are tied if he hasn't a free foot
Man wants but little here below, but
he frequently wants a fresh supply
of it.
The young doctor ml-. have pa
thence before he can hope to have
patients.
The race is not always to the swift
The hair sometimes gets in the soup
as well as the turtle.
Many a man is like a dog with its
tail between its legs. He has great
difficulty in keeping his end up.
Hoax-"They had a falling out and
never spoke to each other again"
Joax-"How was that?' Hoax
''They fell from an aeroplane.
1.-THE early bird catches the worm, -
quoted the Wise Guy. Eyes, and then
finds it a mighty long wait till dinner
time" added the Simple Mug.
Blobbs-'Im afraid it's going to
rain today" Slobbs-"Oh, I think
not. just saw the weather man going
down the street with an umbrella"
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lar information, accompanied by
steady stamping Of feet.
Traitor. Traitor. Where is MOI
ton?''
The Judge dropped from his chair and
buried his face in his arms and AROUND
him the storm OF execration ragged
From the gallery Cecilia Morton
watched the turmoil with passionate
wondering joy. Some one had planned
this demonstration. Some one had
filled the han with trained rooters and
organized the younger delegates into
Jeering chorus; some one who knew
that Judge Clarkson's public humiha-
ton would restore the prestige Of the
friend he had betrayed
Harry Seldom, the all but accepted
lover, the politician of dreams and
theories which had seemed so beautlInl
to her, was running about the nan
frantically impior1ng men to be quiet,
to cease their dishonor Of a judge OF
the supreme court. An unutterable
contempt for him swept over her.
Didn't the man know this was for her
fathers honor?
She looked at Merle Adams. He was
standing a little apart from the crowd.
On his strong, young face was an ex-
him raise his hand in an almost i'm
perceptible gesture. Instantly the reg
ular, rhythmic clacking, the base Of
sound on which the uproar was built,
ceased. The lighter, miscellaneous boot
ings continued for a moment and then
died away.
Merle Adams raised his eyes to the
gallery. Cecilia was leaning far over
the railing. He read the look on her
face and the message of her suddenly
outstretched hands. Across the MOB
of excited, gesticulating politicians he
sent the answer to her message, push
ed his way through the crowd and ran
up the gallery Copyrighted,
1910, by Associated Literary Press.)
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

A gamblers folk don't find so much
fault about his gambling II he wins.
-
The man with a motor car has no
trouble in having all the company he
wants.
-
No two women ever seem able to
agree as to what constitutes prettiness
in q hat.
y =
If some things were not put off
till tomorrow 1t would be a period of
idleness for many people.
y
Women cannot expect to make any
great strides forward as long as they
cling to the fashion of wearing hobble
skirts.
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MONEY IN FLOWERS.

The system of intensive gardening
carried on in France yields especially
notable results in it's application to
Horticulture. For the Nice district, for
example. the Syndicat des Horticu1-
teurs is quoted in a consular report as
giving the production of flowers last
year as 1850 tons, valued at $780,
900, the industry employing 1880
persons. These flowers, the report
goes on to say. are transported daily
by special trains to the north, mostly
to Paris. London, Berlin and ST.
Petersburg. They are packed in light
willow baskets and are forwarded by
parcels post The varieties embraced
are chiefly carnations, violets and
anemones. For orange blossoms, tube
roses and jasmine a local market is
afforded by the perfume factories.
Male workers in the flower gardens
earn so cents a day. women 40 cents
and girls 20 to % cents. So remun-
erative is the flower industry that
farming is neglected in the Nice dis
trict, and, consequently. there is a
large importation of dairy and farm
products. Considering the gains that
are to be harvested in this field and
the opportunities which the American
market affords, it is singular that the
pursuit of Horticulture in this country
remains within it's present narrow linn
its.-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
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mo ANnrHER uErEN

There have been countless Helens since
down;
And beauty has brought many a prince
The ties Of honor to disown
For gallantry's renown.
And Helens oft and oft have won
The homage of the poets heart,
And led his aspirations on
And up, where Genius dwells apart
A mark for SANDERS dart.
B4I, Pallas-like, I see thee stand
. with serious, retrospective gaze,
AInsnas bounty in thy hand,
whose purpose only wisdom sways,
And never blame or praise.
All, better such a life where come
The outward calm, the inward peace,
Onvext by passions fret and foam,
IMAM teh long glory that was Greece,
me grandeur that was Rome"
Edward N. Pomeroy, in the Independent.
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he desires to be a doctor so he could
put his pals into proper physical trim
and enable them to hold job when
they succeed in getting one. MANY
Of my boys are SICK he says. 'They
can't hold a job when they get one"
DR.. How appears to be working from
the wrong end. Isn't it most reason
able to assume that the getting of a
job is what makes the average hobo
afelr
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In the anti-Taft and pro-Roosevelt
quarters, the recent aeroplane flight
on the part of the colonel will be
looked upon as another indication of
his superiority over the president. Mr..
Taft has merely watched aviators put
on stunts with their machines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-15

Excellent progress is being made in
the one direction that will do more
than any other to solve negro race
problem" such as it is. The work of
educating the negro has advanced to
such an extent that only 40 per cent
of the race in the United States is IL
Hterate. Ten years ago SO per cent
of the negroes in the country were il
lIfarataa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-15

At the request of the interstate
commerce commission, the railroads
have postponed the date. from Novem-
Der 1 to February 1, when they will
put their proposed increases in freight
rates into effect, If they are permitted
TO do so at all. By that time it ought
to be demonstrated pretty conclusively
just how the railroads have been able
to get along under the rates as they
now exist.