CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS A fire at Omaha, Neb., Sunday night, in a $1,000,000 grain elevator, caused a loss of $500,000. Work has been begun on an irriga- tion scheme near Chewelah that is planned to reclaim 10,000 acres. It is announced on authority that about $175,000 has been guaranteed toward a fund to help Dr. Cook prove his claim to discovery of the north pole. Eight cases of smallpox were discov- ered at Charleston, Wash., last week, and all schools, public halls, saloons and pool rooms have been ordered closed. Humbert Leblon, a noted French aviator, was dashed to death in Spain Saturday when the motor of his aero- plane broke down when he was at a height of 140 feet. The state fair association is spending $27,000 in improvements this summer and as a result expects to have the finest exhibition grounds in the north- west. Secretary Ballinger has temporarily withdrawn from all forms of disposition many tracts of land in Washington and Idaho. A total of 7370 acres along the Columbia river in Washington is with- drawn. An ordinance modeled after the Chi- cago one, and prohibiting the use of hat pins which protrude from the hat more than two inches, is being consid- ered by the Seattle city council. A 3000-pound sunfish, thought to be the largest ever captured, was caught with rod and line off Catalina island, California, last Friday, after a struggle lasting two hours. It is stated by the union officials that the voluntary wage increases an- nounced lately by certain railroads will not alter the plans of the trainmen and conductors who have made demands for a larger increase. The Salvation Army in this country will have to change its name. On ap- plication of the English organization New York courts have issued an in- junction forbidding the present Ameri- can organization from using the name, F. M. Hoskins, who owns 2SOO acres of land near Dayton, Wash., is planning one of the largest orchardsj and nurseries in the west. Work of letting out 75,000 apple trees has; already commenced. For the first time since 1907 the army cutworm has appeared in Montana in vast numbers. It is feared much damage will be done to the winter j wheat before the season is over. Mad Mullah has risen again in re-! bellion to British rule in Arabia and fully a thousand natives friendly to the English have been killed. Many towns have been razed and vast areas laid waste. The two Japanese who were arrested at Manila for attempting to purchase photographs of the fortifications of Cor- regidor have been released on orders from the secretary of war. • Three prominent Germans, one a | member of the reichstag, lost their lives Sunday by being crushed and drowned j while making a balloon ascension near Stettin, Germany. A fourth member of the party was rescued in a serious condition. George H. Williams, 87 years old, | known as the "grand old man of Ore- ' gon," once a member of President Grant's cabinet, and the most promi-. nent figure in politics and public life in Oregon, died suddenly at his home in Portland, Monday, from heart failure. , As a result of the reduction of the tariff on cream it is believed the price of butter will be sharply reduced in the northern states. A chain of creameries is to be built along the border and but- ter made from Canadian cream. The largest irrigation project ever launched in the state of Washington, the Klickitat Irrigation & Power Com- pany, has nearly the required number of acres signed up for water rights. Out of the 250,000 acres required, 222,000 have been signed up. About one- third of the lands to be irrigated lie in in the northeastern portion of Klickitat county, and the remainder in Yakima and Benton counties. The man who sets out in life's race expecting to have a walk-over is likely to be run over before he has proceeded far upon his way. —Ex. To Venus in Twenty Minutes The Hookworm in Oregon Trouble For Hubby. No Criterion. » Once during the progress of a certain ease Sir Charles Darting remonstrated will):i barrister for the way in which he was arguing a point. •Yes 1 admit it," replied his loni- suip, with a quiet untie, "but thai wan the fnult of the judge who allowed it " -London Tit-lilts. William Sidis, the 11-year-old math- ematical wonder at Harvard, has turned his attention from problems of the fourth dimension to aerial navigation, and as a result is now authority for the statement that an aerial journey to Venus inside of 20 minutes is a possi- bility. According to Sidis, he has solved the problem of aerial navigation, and all that remains is to put his conclu- sions into practice. His plan is to at- tach a piece of radium to the stern of an airship. Radium gives off the alpha rays, which leave the radium with great force. These rays, Sidis says, would be suf- ficient to drive an airship at tremendous speed. Sidis has figured his theory out mathematically, but so far has made no attempt at a practical demonstra- tion. , Dr. Edwin Montgomery of Walla Walla says he has discovered in Weston. Ore., six cases of "hookworm," the first he has heard of in the northwest. The family moved to Weston recently, and came from Smith county, Tennes- see. The possibility of its being trans- mitted to the soil and in this way spread over this section of the country' is somewhat alarming, but the doctor says it can now be cured. The father called Dr. Montgomery to see his ten- year-old boy. The boy had all the symptoms and a further examination showed the presence of the worms. A number of cases of this disease have lately been discovered in Cali- fornia. At a recent tea port; where the fare provided could not by any means be termed palatable a guessing game was instituted, and the lady who vvou it was asked to say what she would have as a prize. She greatly flattered her youug hostess by requesting a slice of the cake with which some of them had desperately struggled at tea time. "Why did you ask for that stuff?" a disappointed and ctill hungry youth asked her. "You know very well it isn't fit to ent." "I have a definite purpose in view," answered the young lady, carefully placiug the piece of cake where there j would be uo possibility of her forget- ; ting it. "1 mean to make my husband . eat it—if Qeceaary, to force it down his throat crumb by crumb—and thus con- I vlnce him that somewhere in the wide, j wide world there Is an even worse cook than be imagines his inexueri- j enced young wife to be."—Pearson's. I Weekly. The Englishman In a Groove. Id England nine-tenths of the lads 1 of the middle classes look forward to nothing more than a seat at an office 1 desk with a certain number of shll lings a week for a certain number of years. To attempt to do anything else would be to run the risk of social os- tracism. A young tnau may loaf re- i spectably on his family, but he must on no account start a business If It Involves selling anything or producing anything with his hands. That would be bad form. It would be getting out- side the groove. Thus for the great mass of the people England holds no romance. The lad who thinks he could do something Is diioooraged. Every- thing is so cut and dried. Every class distinction is 10 definitely marked. The Whole weight of public opinion is against the smallest divergence from the ordinary rule.—Manchester (Eng- Inndi Mall. Next Door to It. An acquaintance of the late Josh Billings was one day talking with him about the remarkable increase of Imi- tations and substitutes for original articles, as \u25a0•oleomargarine" for "but ter," "celluloid" for "Ivory," and so forth, "and," said he, •many of the substitutes go ahead of the real thing. I gneu in time there will lie a substi- tute for everything, though 1 don't know about 'wisdom.' " "No;" replied the humorist, "up to the present time at least there Is no really good substitute for wisdom. But silence Is the best that has so far been discovered." "You will pardon me, my lord," said the latter, "but perhaps 1 may remind you thai jou argued \u25a0 case in a aim liar way yourself when you were nt the bar." Killed by Fear. Frederick I. of Prussia was killed by fear. ' tils wife was lnsauo. and one day she escaped from her keeper and. dabbing her clothes with blood, rushed | upon her husband while he was dozing In his chair. King Frederick imagined her to be the "white lady" whose ghost was believed to Invariably appeal- whenever Hie death of \u25a0 member of the royal family was to occur, mid he was thrown Into a fever and died in six weeks A mortgage on the house will not prevent the roof from leaking- —Ex An Idol With Diamond Eyes. Ancient Iceland. His Compliment. No Apology to Offer. Assembling Herself. •Xbc «Uavcnwortb jLcho. Drawing Inferences President Lincoln once told tln> fol- lowing story to 1». 11 I'.aics. naiMflar ..r tin war department telegraph offlce: •Tin like an old colored man i knew. He (pent so much of his time preach- ing to the Other slaves it kept him and them from their labors. Uls master told him be would punl^i him the next time he was caught Reaching. •' 'But, marsa." said the old man. with tears in bi<t eyes. 1 always has to draw infruenCM from Bible texts when dey oomes in ma haid. I jes" caln t help it. Can you. marsa f "'Well.' mid liis master, '1 suspect Ido sometimes draw inferences. But there Is one text I never could under- stand, and if you can draw the right inference from it I'll let you preach to your heart's content.' " 'What is de text, marsa?' asked the colored man. The ass snuffeth up the east wind." Now. what Inference do you draw from that?' " 'Well, marsa, I's neber heard dat text befo' nohow, but 1 'spects de in- fruence am she got to snuff a long time befo 1 she get fat' "—Plttsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Trapping a Tiger. The tiger Is possessed at times of an almost supernatural cunning, a won- derful sense of smell and a line in stinet with regard to traps and the like, which make him as difficult au animal to take alive as any existing Sometimes he can be snared, but not often. On one occasion the writer's native Indian servant ran in in a great state of excitement to say a tiger was trapped lv the jungle half a mile away, and the entire camp, of course, at once flocked over to see the prisoner. The trap was exactly on the principle of a humble mouse trap, with a tailing door, and built of strong timbers laced together with rattans Tile imprisoned tiger was a full grown mate, and it would be difficult to Imagine anything wilder than his rage as he roared and stormed and hurled himself in futile fury on each part of the structure in turn. There he was to stay until hunger had rendered him manageable, the lucideut showing that the tiger can be trapped, although not often.—London Globe. It is a curious fact and one scarcely known outside of Kussia. and there hardly ever mentioned, that the fa- mous Orloff diamond was once the right eye of the great Idol Serrlngham In the temple of Brahma. This pre- cious gem was stolen at about the be- ginning of the eighteenth century by a French soldier who had made a pre- tense of being converted to the Hindoo religion in order to gain the confidence of the priests and admission to the temple. The Funehman tirst sold the diamond for L2,000. On the next turn It was bought by a banker of Con- stantinople for L12.000. The banker kept It until 1774 nnd then sold it to the liusslau empress for L90,000 and a life pension. The gem has been in the Hussion royal family ever since. As it is now set lv the Imperial scepter of Kussia Jt present! a flattened, rose cut surface and weighs exactly 194 Vi carats. Iceland whs founded A. D. 874 by men from Norway. In the words of John Fiske. "it was such a wholesale colonization of picked men as had not been seen since ancient Greek times and was not to be seen again until Winthrop sailed into Massachusetts bay. It was not long before the pop- ulation of Iceland was 50,000. Their sheep ami cattle flourished, bay crops were heavy, a lively trade—with fish, oil, butter and skins in exchange for meal and malt — was kept up with Nor- way, Denmark and the British isles. Political freedom was unimpaired, jus tice was fairly well administered, na- val superiority kept all foes at a dis- tance, and under such conditions the growth of the new community in wealth and culture was surprisingly rapid." The governor of a wesiern state was making Inspection of certain state In- stitutions when he made inquiry as to the progress of a chaplain by him ap- pointed to an insane asylum. "How is he getting on?" asked the governor, thinking to get an unpreju- diced opinion from the official acting ns his guide. "Fine!" exclaimed the man. "His preaehin' Is very successful, governor. The Idiots enjoys it especially."—Cin- cinnati Commercial Tribune. "Why spend three years cultivating your voice If you don't Intend to go on the operatic stage?" "For the same reason, I suppose, that you've spent fifteen or twenty years in cultivating a discriminating taste for alcoholic beverages and yet don't in- tend to go into the saloon business."— Chicago Tribune. "Hubby, did you bring home my new switch?" "Yep." "And my puffs?" "I did." "How about my face powder?"' ": •\u25a0 "Here's your complexion. Now get busy and assemble yourself."—Louis- | ville Courier-Journal. Hard to Deal. >\u0084 Wigg—now do you get along with old Crusty? Don't you find him hard to deal with? Wngg—As hard as a wornout pack of cards.— Philadelphia Record. Prejudice squints when It looks and lies when it talks.-Abrautes. A Bill Nye Story. Needed an Explanation. Plaid and Tartan. Hall Caine'a Moonshine. Won't Stay Retained. His Definition. A sharp faced little boy at the end of the end form bobbed up his bead and exclaimed. "Please, teacher, nobil- ity!"—Work and Play. Jack Knew. I intimities are things that ihow what Mifii are.—Epictetus. According to the Hook man. Rill Ny« once madv ii short speech at an au- thors dinner 111 London that was much relished by the bookman pres- put. lltetDdißg the publishers, ill whom it whs Indirect!} aimed. "Just a year ago." said Nye. "I was walking on the principal street of In- dianapolis when I met 11 man whose appearance showed that he was re- dmed to the very depths of poverty. His clothes were ragged, his face uu- BbuVeD, his hair long and matted and his feet unshod. As I passed him a look of recognition came into bis eye. " "Nye. old fellow, don't you know me'r Don't you know Abel P Jones, who was your clussmate at college?" •• -What. Jones: Is It really you? Well, well: What can Ido for you?' •\u25a0 'For heaven's sake, help me. I aui starving Lend mo half a dollar.' "I felt iv my pockMh They mn empty. 1 had no money myself. But a bright thought Hashed through my mind. '• "Abel, I can't lend you the half dollar. 1 haven't got It. But, look here, I'll tell you what I will do—l'll let you publish my next book.' "Uentleiuen. that wus just a year ago, and this tuoutti Abel P. Jones sent me an invitation to go to Europe wltb him lv his steam yacht." A little boy was often whipped by his father for lying, lie usually took it as a matter of course, but on one oc casion it seemed to excite him to re- flection. After il was till over he stood before his father in a thoughtful way. which attracted that worthy's atteu- Uon. "My son," said the father, "what are you thinking about?" "Father," said the son, "when you was a little boy. did you use to tell lies?" "No, my sou. When I was a little boy I did uot tell lies." "Father," returned the son. "when mother was a little girl, did she use to tell lies?" "No. my son," replied the father. "When your mother was a little girl she did uot tell lies. But why do you ask me these questions?" "Well." said the little fellow, draw- ing ii long sigh. "It is the most mys- terious thing In the world to me that a father who never told lies when he was a little boy and a mother who never told lies when she was a little girl could have a boy that tells as many as 1 do." Will the southron ever learn thai "plaid" Is not a syuonym for "tartan?" Not long ngu an Englishman came iuto a hosiers establishment in Glasgow and asUi'il v man behind the counter to show him some "plaid ties." The atteuduut, perhaps wondering what this new and weird article of wear- ing apparel could be, was completely baffled until explanation elicited the fact that a necktie with a tartan de- sign was required Dickens, too. is a sinner in this respect, for he makes Bob Sawyer say with regard to wheth- er his political proclivities are "buff" or "blue"-"l'm v kind of plaid at present, a compound of all sorts of colors." Moreover, an English dic- tionary gives an adjectival meaning of "plaid" us "colored in squares." I've never heard such use in Scotland. Has any one else?— Scottish Field. Authors and artists who have be- come well known by means of making the moon dance in the wrong houses of heaven are numerous, but we never expected Hall Came to Join the group. Yet in "The Scapegoat." chapter 23. on Israel's return from prison after eveufall. we find that "with a wave of his baud he was gone into the dark- ness, it was a wonderful night. The moon, which was In Its first quarter, was still low in the east." It was indeed a wouderful night. On no other night since the creation has the moon in its first quarter ever been seen low In the east.—London Star. This notice appears on :\ Flushing steamboat: "Passengers should obtain a receipt for all provisions taken on board this boat and are requested to retain the same." Busier said than done. It reminds us of the old limerick: There was a young man of Ostend Who said he'd hold out till the end, L-iut when halfway over From Ostend to Dover He did what he didn't Intend. — London Globe. At n London board school the teach- er had explained to the children the meaning of the word "ability." "Now. children," she went on, "what word would express the opposite to ability?" On coming borne from the office the father met .luck und Dick. "What have you been doing today, boys?" he questioned. "FigiitinV replied Dick. "Fighting, eh? Who licked?" "Mamma did." answered Jack.—Ex- change. In Keeping. Mediuru—The spirits won't rap un- less you write out your request on pa- per. Patron—Any special kind of pa- per? Medium - Certainly - wrapping paper.—St. Loujs Star. jFridav Bprfl 8 1910 LEAVENWORTH MERCANTILE CO. == GENERAL i Merchandise "The Store That Saves You Money" If You Want Some of This Get in Quick! 100 acres of No. 1 fruit land will be put on the market the first of the week. Level, choice land, and will go fast. It is now being subdivided into five and ten-acre tracts, and will range in price from $200 to $300 per acre. Only one mile from town. 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The chewing-gum girl lives from hand to mouth. —Ex. Got Tired of Being Dry Elections in 260 cities and towns in Illinois Tuesday on the saloon issue show a decided reversal of the vote of two years ago. Many cities having a large population were recaptured by the "wets." Reports show that 39 dry towns went wet, 19 wet towns went dry, 72 wet towns retained the saloon and 110 dry towns remained true to their colors. The crow sticks steadfastly to his caws.