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December 1 1916
ML, BLIND FOUR YEARS,
SUDDENLY RE6AINS SIGHT
Physicians Baffled, Mother Re
gards Cure of the Child
as Miraculous.
IrrlnKton, N. J.--I can see, mam
ma. saldGenevleve King, elerenyear
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John J.
Klnsr, to ber mother. The mother
could hardly believe It was true, but
the child can see plainly, after having
been blind four years.
"It mtist have been the hand of God
which lifted the blindness from my
daughter* eyes," said Mrs. King.
"Genevieve was sent home from
school four years ago by the medical
inspector, with instructions tnat she
be treated for pink eye. She rapidly
grew worse, and two months later be
came totally blind. Physicians' treat
ment seemed to have no effect
"'She began to show improvement
"When I massaged her eyes with bo
racic acid, witch harel and water.
For five months I have continued this
constantly. I wished to get a bill
changed, and she asked If she might
do the errand. I was afraid to let her
(to out alone, but she Insisted. In a
few moments she returned. She ran
swiftly across the room and flung her
self into my arms with the cry, 'I
can see, mamma!'"
The girl said she groped ber way
downstairs and upon the walk, "when
suddenly everything was light In front
of me, and I could see and ran back
to tell mamma. My eyes do not hurt
oow, but the back of my head achea
awfully."
Sbe will return to school soon.
TWO RODE A FISH.
Man and Hit Son Were Mounted For ■
Long Time In River.
Wichita, Kan. —C. A. Whitney of
Route 9, on the west side, and his six
teen-year-old son rode around on the
back of a forty-two pound catfish for
half an hour In the Chickaskla river
near Drury the other day. They final
ly landed the fish and brought it to
Wichita.
Mr. Whitney and his son have been
camping for the last month. Neigh
bora told them of several times seeing
a monster fish in the river. Mr. Whit
ney, wading Into the river, felt around
until he located the fish.
He got one hand in the catfish's gills
and Jumped on its back. The fish dart
ed forward and whipped arouud In the
water until it was about to throw its
rider off. Mr. Whitney's son rushed to
his father's aid and climbed on top of
the letter's back to weigh down the
catfish. For half an hour the two men
rode the fish aronnd, struggling to get It
to the bank. They finally succeeded.
BARIC MAKES DOG A HERO.
Neighbors Find Mrs. Matt Allen Near
Death From Gas.
New York.—Should Mrs. Matthew
Allen, sixty-seven years old, of 416
Fourth street, Brooklyn, wife of Matt
Allen, a former racing trainer, recover
she probably will owe her life to her
pet dog. Baby.
The barking of her dog aroused
neighbors, who detected the odor of
gag coming from Mrs. Allen's apart
ment. They brokp In and found the
woman half conscious. She was taken
to the Methodist L'niseopal hospital.
The gas escaped from a leaky jet
ALIEN INDIANS GIVEN
A HOME IN MONTANA
Government Set* Aside 57,000 Aores
For Them.
Havre, Mont—The stony pathway of
the Rocky Boy Indians has at last led
tc the green sward. Driven about from
pillar to poßt ever sim c they wandered
ucross the Canadian boundary through
Glacier National park, Montana, sev
eral year* ago as tramp tribesmen of
the Cree Nation, this band of 300 red
men have hau so hard a lot that the
nickname fell naturally upon them.
Now, with the opening of the Fort
Asslnibolne military reservation, em
bracing 2u0,000 acres near ihls city.
the United States government will Bet
aslfle 57.0T0 acres for them. They are
rejoicing in the fact that they are to
have a penuuuent home.
There are about 73,000 acres of till
able laDd in this tract and this Is to
be thrown open to white settlers. The
reservation is In the Bear Paw moun
tain*. Uncle Bam has departed from
the regular lottery in the disposition of
this laud to settlers. Application for
parcels In this tract may be mad* at
Havre. Mont
CLEVELAND'S SON AN ORATOR
Makot On* of Principal Speeches at
Laying of Cornarstone.
Princeton, N. X—Richard Cleveland,
•on of Grover Cleveland and » sopho
more, "was one of the principal speak
era at the laying of the cornerstone of
Princeton's new $500,000 dining hall.
In behalf of the under classmen of the
university tie thanked the trustees and
donors of the new srructnre.
The structure win be known as Mad
ison nail, after President Madison,
class of 1771. In bis dedication address
President Hibben Bald the trustee* had
named the quadrangle, which the new
structure completes, the Russell, Sag*
hall, to compliment to Mrs."RusselJ
Sage, through whose generosity most
of the bnlidtae* that Inclose'lf were
mads possible.
PTNE TREES OF FINLAND.
They and the Birches Art the Wealth
of the Country.
The pine trees of Finland are the
gold mines (if the country and really
| Its chief trade. Tines and silver
birches flourish on all sides. Every
thing or anything can apparently be
made of tiirch linrk in Finland. Shoes,
baskets, large or small, gait bottles,
flower vases, even an entire suit of
clothing is banging up In Helslngfors
i museum, manufactured from the bark
i of the silver Wren.
The lakes of Finland, of which there
are five or six thousand, rarer about
a sixth of the country, but these lakes,
I rivers and waterways all take their
share in the wood trade. In the au
tumn the trees are felled and left for
the first fall of sn»w, when they are
dragged two or three, one behind the
other.
By this menus the trees are convey
ed to the nearest waterway, where
they are stamped with the owner's
registered mark and rolled upon the
ice of lake or river to await the natu
ral transport of spring. On the voy
age those soldiers of the forest travel
hundreds of miles to the coast, til)
finally arriving at such an enormous
wood export station as Kotka they
meet their doom.
On the completion of the floating
sens"ii the stock of legs nt Xi tka often
amounts to 1,D0b,000. On arrival at
their destination they are separated
and distributed according to the marks
of their respective owners. Large
floating houses await their arrival. The
steam sawmills are waiting for the
trees. As they go In half a dozen
saws run into them at once, and out
come boards and planks of various
thicknesses and widths.
FORESTS IN EAST AFRICA.
Impenetrable Tangle* Where Every
thing Is Dripping Wet.
The dense growth of a tropical for
est In East Africa is Uiub described
In "The Rediscovered Country," by
Stewart Edward White:
"Imagine first the iilanting of sin
gle great spreading trees at spaced in
tervals, trees in shape like elms, ma
ples or beeches, but three or four
times their size. Fill in the spaces
between them with a very thick
growth of smaller trees—loo feet high
and a foot or sft through—then below
that a leafy undergrowth so dense ns
to be impenetrable to either sight or
locomotion This undergrowth Is of
many varieties. It puts out big leaves,
smaU leaves; grows on bard stems,
watery soft stems; it stands a foot
high or forty—generally both.
"Underfoot are ferns. Along the
slanting trunks of trees grow ether
ferns and damp mosses. Streamers
of moss depend from limbs and sway
in the currents of air Orchids cling.
All small dead twigs are muffled
tightly in vivid moss. On the slopes
of the canyons and the heads of ra
vines are little forests of tree ferns,
feathery and beautiful. These run to
thirty feet in height
"Everything is dripping wet. In
deed, the strongest single impression
that remains to me of that forest is
that it was a varnished forest. Every
leaf, every branch, every smooth sur
face, shines polished. Always in the
ear Is a slow, solemn drilling."
Big and Little Postage Stamps.
This country has tbe honor of hav
ing issued the largest stamp ever made
—an old five cent stamp, restricted to
the mailing of packages of newspapers
and not Intended for letter use. This
stamp was four inches lone by two
inches wide, about two-thirds as large
as an ordinary banknote.
The quarter .shilling stamp of Meek
lenburg-Schwerin. which was issued
In 1850, is the smallest ever Issued—
less than a fourth the sizo of the cur
rent penny Eiiplish stamp — and it
would take about fifty of them to cov
er the surface of the largest issued by
the United States.
The Last Straw.
"I never see you and Jim Johnson
together any more. You used to be
almost inseparable."
"I know, but I got tired of him. He
was always triving me advice."
"What of that? Yen didn't hnve to
take his advice, did you?"
"Of course not, but whenever 1
didn't take It it always turned out
that 1 would have been better off if I
had."—St. Louis rost-Disputcb
Wood* For Carving.
Oak is the most suitable wood for
carving, on account of' its durability
and toughness, without being too bard.
Chestnut, American walnut, mahogany
and teak are also desirable, while for
fine work Italian walnut, lime, syca
more, apple, penr or plum are generally
Argonaut
. . A Fishy Romanes,......
Mabel—So Jack Miller didn't marry
Miss Herring after all? Judith— No.
She rejected him. Mabel— How did
Jack take it Judith—Oh. he said there
was as good fish in the sea as were
ever caught out of it and went after
Miss Salmon.
Located.
Lawyer— And * you" say your neigh
bor's dogs' are vicious and dangerous?
Do you mean to say that you live In
! a 'state of perturbation? Witness— No.
air: I live In the suburbs.
Hi* Description.
Peck—Of course, like all women, you
i have an Inordinate euiloelty. Mrs.
I Peck—Got a curiosity, liav« I? I've
S got a freak.—Boston Transcript
' Ha can't be wrong whose life is In
j the right— Pope.
Cbc leavenwertb j£cbo«
BOTH WEP.E SCARED.
Hard to Tell Whether the Man or th*
Bear Ran the Fas'.jr.
A prospects numed Wbately, *ho
was collecting specimens near Cooke,
Mont, says the New York Evening
Post, worked too long and decided to
spend the night In the mountains. The
leather was warm and pleasant, and
he stood his rifle Bgalnst a tree and
lay down to sleep. In the course of
the night he was awakened by the
heavy breathing of a large animal and
an oppressive and very disagreeable
odor. Half conscious of something
standing over him. he lay perfectly
stilL
Soon there was a grunting and snuff-
Ing close by his head, and he under
stood that he was underneath a grizzly
be;ir! A cold sweat came over him.
and he was paralyzed with fright
Vi'hately's rifle was out of reach. He
had no knife, and he feared that the
grizzly might attack him at nny mo
ment. Acting on a sudden impulse, he
doubled up his knees and with all his
strength plunged both his fists and
feet simultaneously against the stom
ach of the beast
It was a complete surprise for the
grizzly, which was even more fright
ened than the man. It ran squealing
and bellowing Into the timber, while
Whate'.y, whose knees were knocking
together with frlgut. gathered up his
goods nnd struck out for Cooke City In
the dark. He did not dare to pause un
til he was safe In the settlement
RILEY AS A LION.
It Need.a Plotting to Gat tha Po«t to
Attand Gatharinga.
It whs a mark of our highest consid
eration to produce RUey at entertain
ments given In honor of distinguished
visitors, writes Meredith Nicholson In
the Atlantic Monthly, but this was not
always to be effected without consid
erable plotting. (I have heard that In
Atlanta "Uncle Remus" was even a
greater problem to his fellow citizens!)
RDey's innate modesty, always to be
reckoned with, was likely to smother
his companiunnbleness in the presence
of ultra literary i*>rsonages.
His respect for scholarship, for liter
ary sophistication, made him reluctant
to meet those who, he imagined,
breathed an ether to which he was un
acelimated. At a small dinner in honor
of Henry James he maintained a
■met silence until one of the other
puests, In an effort to "draw out" the
novelist, mentioned Thomas Hardy
and the felicity of his titles, Instancing
"t'nder the Greenwood Tree" and "A
Pair of Blue Eyes."
Riley, for the first time addressing
the table, remarked quietly of the sec
ond of these, "It's an odd thinp about
eyes, that they usually come In sets!"
a comment which did not. as I remem
ber, strike Mr. James as being funny.
Strength of a Czar.
A story Is told which Illustrates the
phenomenal physical strength of the
old czar. At a little station not far
from the capital the imperial train
was delayed for quite a time, and the
czar, being hungry, partook of some of
the simple food of the buffet. Mean
while the little daughter of the mayor
presented the empress with a bouquet,
the flowers of which were hastily gath
ered from private hothouses In the
neighborhood. The stalks being still
damp and earthy, the empress visibly
hesitated to take the bouquet in her
neatly gloved hand. The czar coolly
took up one of the heavy pewter plates
on the table, and twisting It as If it
were paper, made a neat covering foi
the stalks. There is nothing Incredible
in the story, since the czar had been
known to bend a kitchen poker as an
ordinary man would a strip of tin.
Struggle For Exprauion.
There is a certain hardship in each
age's strußple to attain expression
against the overwhelming mass of ex
pression already in existence. In no
other field of human effort does the
practitioner have to contend with
ghosts. A living general does not have
to array his battailous against Caesar
or Hnunibal or Napoleon. A living ath
lete does not go up against Heracles or
Milo. But a book or picture or musical
composition has to flght not only against
its natural rivals of the present, but
against all that has been preserved
from Ihe past.—Charles Leonard Moore.
Morality In Nature.
All things with which we deal
preach to us. What is a farm but a
mute gospel? The chaff and the
wheat, weeds and plants, blight, ram,
insects, sun—lt Is a sacred emblem
from the first furrow of spring to the
last stack which the snow of winter
overtakes In the fields.—Emerson.
Matrimonial Note.
"This thine of getting married," said
the girl who was busy with her trous
seau. "Is certainly a trial."
•A trial, yes," agreed the cynical
bacheVir, "but It really isn't half ao
bad as working out the sentence."—
Exchange.
No Let Up.
"Tour daughter has a remarkable
voice."
■Tin glad you like it What do you
think remarkable about It?"
"Its endurance."—Detroit Free Press
Her Friend.
Kathryn—How do yon like my ne»
suit? Klttye—lt looks all right ai far
as I can see. Turn around and I'll tell '
you where it doesn't fit in the back.—
Boston Globe.
Contrary Proceeding«-
She— My aunt has Just given me her
watch. He— How odd! I have Just
given mine to my ancle. —Baltimore
American.'
NATURE'S FLIERS.
Aviator* Make a Poor Showing Whan
Compared With Bird*.
Although of recent Tears aviation
has made such tremendous strides, the
feats of present da; aviators cannot be
compared with those of nature's fivers
—the birds. In speed, endurance, lift
ing and sighting power birds beat aria
tors every time,
A common swallow, for Instance, can
travel in the air at the rate of 120
miles an hour. The vulture when
swooping on Its prey cuts through the
atmosphere at nearly 150 miles an
hour.
The fastest an aeroplane has ever
traveled Is 103 miles an hour, and this
speed was only obtained by building a
freak machine, dangerous to handle.
Then, again, birds can fly for twen
ty-four hours at a stretch without de
scending, even In boisterous weather.
After eight or nine hours' continual
flying an aviator Is wearied both men
tally and bodily, and If he has had
strong winds to fight he Is often In a
state of collapse.
At a height of 10.000 feet the earth
in detail Is most dlTirult for an aviator
to see. and It is only with strong
glasses that be can discern even large
buildingß and rivers. But, although at
high altitudes, hawks and kites can
spy tiny lizards and field mice on the
earth, for their sighting powers are
twenty times stronger than those of
aviators.—London Olobe.
SPRAINED ANKLES.
They Are, aa a Rule, Accompanied by
Broken Bones.
The first step In the treatment of a
sprained ankle should be a carefully
taken X ray photograph, according to
Dr. S. Bernard Rosens; welg In the New
York Medical Journal, for the reason
that simple sprains without fractures
of the bones are rare. And the treat
ment of a break Is different from that
of a sprain.
The simple sprain is treated with
movement and massage The ankle la
soaked for fifteen or twenty minutes In
water as hot as can be borne. This Is
followed by massage and passive move
ments, then alternate hot and cold
douches, and a loose dressing of lead
and opium wash Is applied. This to
carried out twice a day, and after three
days tire patient Is made to move his
own ankle. This is now strapped for
support, and the patient Is advised to
walk about, wearing a high laced Bhoe
and carrying a stick.
If a bone be broken the ankle is Im
mobilized with a heavy adhesive dress
ing or a light plaster cast. At the end
of a week massnge. baking and move
ment are given, nnd not until after this
Is the pntiet.t allowed to try to walk
Worms Sap Your Child's Strength
Is your child pale and fretful? Does
he cry oat in sleep or grind his teeth ?
These symptoms may mean worms and
you should obtain relief at once.
Kickapoo Worm Killer is a pleasant
remedy that kills the worms, and by
its mildly laxative quality expels it
from the system. Worms sap the vi
tality and make your child more sus
ceptible to other ailments. Your
druggist sells Kickapoo Worm Killer.
25c a box.
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A cold does not get well of itself.
The process of wearing out a cold
wears you out, and your cough be
comes serious if neglected. Hacking
coughs drain the energy and sap the
vitality. For 47 years the happy com
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Wenatchee's Best
The smoky haze in the air, the cool even
ings, the frosty nights, warn us that summer is .
past! Baking days now take their place as the
big days in the household. Home-made bread,
cookies, pies and cake's are wholesome, delicious,
and can never be supplanted by any other foods
under the sun. Our flour is best for home
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