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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-28
BICYCLE AIDS
AN ELOPING COUPLE

: Northumberland, Pa. - Miss
Mabel Merle of this city was
Cupid's assistant in the elope-
= ment from this place Of Mrs.
+ Lydia Kirkendall. a pretty young
widow, and George Oswalk. Mrs.
Kirkendalls parents opposed the
match. Her father, Samuel Nuss,
learned the young pair had start
: ed for the train. He ran for his
bicycle, but couldn't find 1t. and
by the time he had made his way
to the station afoot the train had
: pulled out. Miss Merle had hid
; den the irate parents bike"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-28
BOARD HOLDS NO MEETINGS
Members, but Never Calls Them
In for a Conference.

There is no more familiar title
among government departments than
the board of trade. 1t seems to be re-
sponslble for all kinds of things and
all sorts of undertakings and happen
ings. 1t will find you chairwoman or
negotiate commercial treaty. 1t con-
sists of a president and a large num-
Der of members among whom are
reckoned the Archbishop of Canter-
bury and the speaker of the house of
commons, q writer in London Tit-Bits
states.
BY law these members have a right
to be called to discuss questions Of
trade and to help the president to shape
his policy, yet the fact remains no meet
lngs are ever held The president
never dreams of calling his committee
together. He does much as he likes,
comes to his own decisions, and then
announces that "the board thinks so
and So"
One wonders what would happen II
the archbishop or some other member
were to insist upon being consulted.
this this surprising method of doing
business should cease.
The board of trade does not stand
alone. Every school-teacher In the
land knows that my lords" say this
and my lords" rule that. Their full
title Is "the lords of the committee of
the privy council of education" but
they never meet, and the vice presi-
dent would probably be puzzled TO
name a half-dozen of them. Mr., Fish
err and his predecessors rule without
my lords,' but In their name. Thus
do they get credit for the good they
do and are a refuge In the day Of
storm.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-28
AIRPLANE ROUTE TO SWEDEN
Trelleborg and Sassnitz to Be the Ter
mini Of the Proposed Line Con-
meeting With Germany.

The following bulletin on Trelleborg
and Sassnitz, the terminl of the pro-
posed Swedish German airplane route,
which assumes special significance In
the light of recent developments In
the diplomatic relations between Ger
many and Sweden. has been issued by
National Geographic society.
Between Trelleborg, the most south
erly town in the Kingdom of Sweden,
and Sassnitz, a summer resort on the
northeastern shore of the German
island of Rugen, express steamers In
times of peace make regular trips
across this arm of the Baltic in four
hours. This is the chief water link in
the 24-hour express service between
Stockholm and Berlin. Neither town
would be of any Importance were it not
for the fact that they are the termini
of this steamer service.
Trelleborg is quaint old town of
some 10000 inhabitants, lying 20 miles
southeast of Malmo, capital of Skane,
teh most populous province in all Swe-
den 1t is only 16 miles from Malmo
to the Danish capital, Copenhagen.
Sassnitz is one of several popular
seaside resorts on the Island of Rugen,
the largest insular possession of Ger
many, having an area about equal to
that of Cape Cod Only about $500
people make Sassnitz their permanent
home, but during the bathing season In
times of peace the village Is visited
annually by more than 10000 pleasure
seekers.
The water trip from Trelleborg to
Sassnitz is 60 miles. Thus the rail-
and-steamer distance between Stock
holm and Berlin is 415 miles.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-28
HIGH COST IN WASHINGTON
Houses and Apcrtments Rent at Fab
ulous Prices-one Woman Prom
lses Ordinary Wear and Tear.

Two women sat at a local theater
the other night. They were dressed
eft to KILL" in the good old Hoosier
idiom, and wore diamonds galore.
writes Charles E. Tracewell in Wash
ington Star.
They were talking about the subject
of rents, topic Of absorbing interest
In Washington just now, when house
or apartment of any kind is difficult
to obtain for love or money.
1t has been matter of gossip that
many wealthy people have come to
Washington recently, and that many
of these have rented furnished houses
and apartments at fabulous rates.
The two women at the theater were
discussing this very thing. What was
more, one of them was one of those
wealthy ones in question, judging from
what she said.
"You know, my dear" she was say
ing to the other, II won't say I'm 60
ing to use an ak, but"-she smiled
significantly-"when my lease Is over"
and she smiled again-'well, there
is going to be some ordinary wear and
tear, my dear, there is going to be
some ordinary wear and tear"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-28
All Gone Feeling.

"Some men," said Uncle Eben, rs so
smart dat when dey gifts through talk
I'm you don't feel helped none. You
jes' feels kind O. lonesome an ignor-
ant"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-28
OFFERS TO FIGHT FOR
A DRAFTED BROTHER
President Receives Patriotic Let
ter From lndiana-Cannot Be
Accepted Under Draft Terms.

Terre Haute, Ind.-Robert G. Cope
land, refused permission by local Sc
lective draft board to take the place Of
his brother, who had been drafted.
wrote direct to President Wilson.
Lieutenant Colonel Hugh S. Johnson,
Judge advocate to Provost Marshal
General Crowder. to whom the letter
was referred, sent the letter to AdJu-
tant General Smith Of Indiana, with
this comment: "The case of Robert c.
Copeland is most interesting, and he Is
to be highly commended for his fine
spirit, but under the selective service
act substitution of one person for an
other is absolutely prohibited. I will
thank you to notify Mr.. Copeland that
his patriotic offer could not be accepted
for this reason"
Young Copeland wrote to the presi-
dent as follows: Il know l am asking
you a great favor, but If you will but
read 1t over and think out what I am
trying to let you know think you will
treat me all right. There are three boys
of us-Curtis, twenty-five years old
married and living in Pittsburgh; Rea,
twenty-three years old, lives at home
and makes good wages I, twenty years
old, at home and learning the plumbers
trade at SO week.
"My grandmother is seventy-two
years old: my father died when was
seven months old, and my mother died
last September. When you called for
the new army Rea was drafted, and
am asking you if you can fix it so can
take Rea's place. | am in good health.
good ears and good eyesight and don't
touch any kind of intoxicating drink.
will lay down my life for the dear old
flag.
Now, Mr.. Wilson, you can see for
yourself that / am doing right, for you
know could not support my grand
mother on SO week | am writing to
you without saying anything to Rea
about 1t. If you can, please let me
know at once
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-28
The JUDGE, II Knows.

"What, you here againT exclaimed
New York police magistrate when
his eyes fell upon familiar face be-
fore the bar. "Why, you're only out of
the workhouse," said the magistrate to
the man, who was arraigned for strik-
ing his wife. "Well. you see, judge"
began the prisoner, 1--WE have mice in
the house-you know how 1t is, judge
and my wife set trap for them. l
was going around the room In my bare
feet-you know how 1t is, judge-not
thinking of the trap. stepped on the
bait and my big toe caught In the
sharp wire n0ose-you know how 1t is,
Judge" "What's that got to do with
striking your wife?" II threw th9 trap
at her-you know how 1t is, Judge
and she didn't dodge It," mo, / don't
know how it is. You had been drink
ing last night" II had one drink--you
know how it is, Judge" 1.-TWO months
In the workhouse-yOu know how 1t
is" said the magistrate.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-28
OLD FRIENDS RETURN
TO BRAVE DOGS GRAVE
Canine Gained Fame Among the Pow
der Workers q Score of Years Ago.

San Francisco. After an absence Of
nearly sixteen years. during which he
lived adventures In all parts Of the
earth, Jack Nearing, an old time resi-
dent, returned and visited the grave Of
Bob Evans. a dog that gained fame
among the powder workers Of Pinole a
score Of years ago. Nearing was at
that time a powder worker at Pinole.
Bob Evans was Scotch collie,
which the powder works of that time
declared was the bravest dog In the
world He was born In Pinole on the
day that Dewey made his famous en-
trance into Manila harbor. Bob prov
ed himself to be fighter and was
named in honor Of great naval hero Of
that time. He was a victim of six
powder explosions, but never received
worse injury than a singed coat. One
day he was run over by a train, and
the workers at the powder mills gather
ed collection of 500 for his funeral.
Ever since then, when one Of the
boys of those bygone days comes to this
city, he visits the grave of Bob Evans
and. decorates 1t with tokens of SYM
pathy for the brave and faithful play
fellow who met his death sixteen years
ago.
Nearing has not been In this city for
eight years until he made his pilgrim
age to the shrine of his memories. He
left here In 1901 for the Boer war and
after peace was declared went to Los
Angeles, where he is railroad man.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-28
SALMON THRIVE IN ATLANTIC
Humpbacked Variety From Pacific
Coast Retain Their Habits When
Placed In Eastern Waters.

Many thousands of humpback sal
mon, native to the Puget sound where
they were collected by the government
two years ago, entered Pembroke, Den
nys, Penobscot, st. Croix and other riv-
ers In eastern Maine as part of the
fisheries bureau plan of stocking the
east with the pride of the Pacific coast
catch.
The bureaus investigation shows
that the humpback in its new environ
ment retains its Pacific coast habit of
proceeding to the ocean shortly after
it begins to swim and returning to the
rivers to spawn and die when two
years old.
The government has made annual
shipments of eggs of the humpback
salmon across the continent for the
last five years, drawing the consign-
ments alternately from Washington
and Alaska.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-28
To Boil Eggs by Telephone.

Telephone operators need a sense
of humor to make the petty annoy
ances of their occupation bearable. If
they have that, they can find endless
matter for amusement In the freak
lshness of the human nature that ex-
hibits itself at the other end of the
wire.
A telephone subscriber asked his
operator to ring his bell in three min
utes, and Immediately hung up his re-
ceiver. At the appointed time the SUI
pervisor rang on the line, ana the
subscriber responded merely with
"Thank you" Later he called again
to thank the operator, and explained
that he had been boiling eggs and
wanted to time them. They had been
cooked to the queens taste, he said.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-28
Joke Books for Soldiers.

Making joke books for soldiers is
the latest form of patriotic industry
on the part of those who stay at home
1t Is said that the plan originated
with Rudyard Kipling.
A blank book, preferably with large
pages, is first obtained. Upon the
pages are pasted the funniest pictures
and anecdotes found in current news
papers and magazines. Some bright
short stories are also included.
The books are then sent to army hos
pitfalls, where they afford great enter
tainment to convalescent soldiers. Day
after day the books are in steady use
until they are worn out.
Surgeons say nothing is so essential
in the hospital as to keep the patients
In good spirits. Toward this end the
jocks books are valuable help.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-28
Tractor Has Feet and Legs.

A tractor without wheels designed
especially for dragging cultivators in
cornfields, is described by Popular Me-
chanics Magazine. Instead of wheels
1t has four legs with ski-shaped feet,
these legs having hip, knee and ankle
Joints and they take steps like those
of an animal.
The legs are driven by a gasoline
motor. They are steered around cor
ners by making those on one side
take longer steps than those on the
other and reversing is accomplished
by transferring the knee-caps from the
front to the back of the joints.
The machine can straddle row of
six-foot corn without touching the
stalks.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-28
INDIANS IN AUTOS.
Many From Oklahoma and Nebraska
Attended an Iowa Dance.

Marshalltown, Ia.-When Longfellow
wrote of Hiawatha and his long jour
neys afoot into the land of other tribes
men the poet never dreamed that some
day, and not so many years thence, his
Indian brothers would be travelling by
automobile
The big powwow celebrating the har-
vest. or corn dance, of the Meskwakis,
near Tama. is over. and in attendance
at the celebration were several auto
mobile loads of Nebraska and Okla
homa Indians. who many years ago
were a part of the Iowa Sac and Fox
tribe, from which the Meskwakis
sprang.
The Indians drove good cars and left
over the La Crosse, Tama and Kansas
City trail for La Crosse, where they
will visit friends among the Wisconsin
tribes
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-28
The Cow Won.

An official of the board of health In
Massachusetts town notified citi'
zen that his license to keep a COW on
his premises had expired In reply to
this letter the official received the fol
lowing communication:
'Monsieur Bord Of He'll just get
your motifs that my licens to keep my
COW has expire wish to inform you
Msieur Bord of Helt, that my COW she
beat YOU to it-she expire tree week
ago. Much oblige. Yours with respek
pete"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-28
rloket.vendlna semaphore.

At Kansas City an electric interur'
ban railway has tried out, with graft
flying results, coin-operated soma
phore Intended for way stations where
cars do not stop unless signaled. To
operate the signal, one places a nickel
in the slot and presses lever. This
actuates the semaphore arm, ignites
red lamp, and issues five-cent
ticket to the prospective passenger.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-28
Where Are the Germans, Mammal

Mothers four-year-old is very much
Interested In the war. He often hears
his father reading the war news.
"What is a fort?" he asked his nam
ma, recently.
There is one near the CITY," the
mother said. "I'll take you out there
some day" and she kept her word.
When the four-year-old had seen the
buildings and the soldiers drilling, and
mother had explained to him the OBJ
iect of the training, the little lad
asked:
"But where are the Germans, man.
ma T'-Indianapoli News.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-28
The Idle Rlch.

SHERMAN was right in his famous
remark about war;
Goodness me, l should say he was.
Just look at my tie. It's at least two
inches shorter this year than last, all
because of this horrid war"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-05-24
Dynamite Squads Check Blaze
After Score Of Blocks Have
Been Devastated.
SOLDIERS AID FIREMEN
Men From Officers Reserve
Training Camp Aid in Saw
ing City From Flames.

Atlanta, May 21.-Fire that started
late this afternoon in an obscure me-
gro section swept a broad path
through the residential section of At
lanta, devastating scores of blocks
and destroying many Of the city's fin
est homes and hundreds of negro
houses. Although the flames were
not entirely under control tonight
they had been checked half way
through the exclusive Ponce de Leon
avenue residence section and fire Of
ficials believed there was little dan
ger OF further spread.
First estimates of the damage placed
it at between 100000 and $780,
600. So far as could be learned the
only life lost was that of "a woman
who died from shock.
The fire was confined to the north
eastern part of the city and the only
business houses burned were several
warehouses near Decatur and Fort
streets, the point Of origin.
A high wind carried the flames
northeastward with a speed which
soon outran the efforts of the FIRE de-
partment. Within an hour after the
first alarm the blaze began to assume
the proportions of a conflagrationand
fire officials called in several hundred
men from the Fort Mcpherson off.
GERS training camp to aid in the fight.
Appeals for help brought fire equip
ments from half dozen neighboring
cities.