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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-11-27
LIeuRIA AT SAN IuAN.

The commandment at The San Juan
navy yard reports the arrival there OF
the Italian cruiser Liguria.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-11-27
Swamp-Root Completely
Cured Me.

About year ago ! was suffering from what
supposed was rheumatism. ! became so bad that
could hardly get my feet from a sitting posi-
ton. lost in weight IRON 1876 to l45 pounds
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-11-27

! tried different kinds Of medicine, but received
little help. l has' aC idea MY kidneys were
affected, however. | shoi ght l would try DR.
kilmcr's swamp-Root AMI see what the effect
would be. bought two lsrge bottles, and they
have completely cured me
Most sincerely JoUrs.
VIZ. NJ PARTCH.
Kew Haven, Addison Co., Vt
Feb. 18th. 1903
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-11-27
Heartily Endorse
Swamp Root.

I had tried 50 many remedies without their
having benefited me that l was about diseOur-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-11-27

lengths from extreme the other all the staple Overcoans
Goats Plain and Fancy including
and Oxford Mixtures; Furined Overcoats,
he comfort of warmth the luxury trimmings finish
! peculiar Fit Reform"
study OF the impressive expressive as the stock
the values; the styles
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-31

has had enough empty promises at the
hands of Henry Mcbride and a justly
indignant host of voters will so declare
at the primaries next summer" Our
contemporary might perhaps interest
its readers and others bit by enumer-
ating a few of the "smpty promises"
with which the governor is alleged to
have surfeited his fellow citizens in
Skagit county. We suspect that the
"indgnant host' referred TO is made
up to considerable extent of gentle
men whom the governor was unable to
serve promptly and satisfactorily at his
pie counter in Olympia.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-31
Eighth Grade Examination

The eighth grade examination will
take place Jan. 2l-22.
The several places of this county at
which this examination will be held
will be announced In "a later issue of
the ISLANDER.
Pupils may have the benefit of two
consecutive examinations, providing
they attain at least so per cent in at
least four of the req uired branches.
The completion of one of the follow
ing list of reading circle books is con-
dltion for the procuring of diploma:
Good Manners, by Orison SWEET Mar
den.
Pushing TO the Front, by Edmund
de Amlcis.
Heart, by Edmund de Amicis.
Greek Heroes, by Chas. Kingsley.
Historic Americans, by EldrIdge
Brooks.
MRS. C. b. BUXTON,
Supt. of Schools.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-31

Approves Rural Free Mail Delivery ard
Good Roads

Approves Rural Free Mail Delivery ard
Good Roads
Among the important topics pre-
sented to congress by President Roose-
welt in his annual message was the ex-
tension of the rural free mail delivery
and the construction of good roads. On
these subjects he said:
"The rural free delivery service has
beer steadily extended. More routes
have been installed since July / last
than in any like period in the depart
me ats history. While due regard to
economy must be kept in mind in the
establishment of new routes, yet the
extension of the rural free delivery sys-
tenn must be continued, for reasons of
sound public policy.
"No governmental movement of re-
cent years has resulted in greater inn
mediate benefit to the people of the
country districts. Rural free delivery,
taken in connection with the tee- :
phone, the bicycle and the trolley, ac-
complshes much toward lessening the
isolation of farm life and making it
brighter ana more attractive. In the
immediate past the lack OF just. such
facilities as these has driven many of
the more active and restless young
men and women from the farms to the
cities; for they rebelled at loneliness
and lack of mental mpanionship. 1t
it is unhealthy and undesirable for the
cities to grow at the expense of the
country; and rural free delivery is not
only a good thing in ITSELF but is good
because it is one of the causes which
check this unwholesome tendency to-
ward the urban concentration of our
population at the expense OF the coun-
try districts.
at is for the same reason that we
sympathize with and approve of the
policy of building. good roads. The
movement for good roads is one fraught
with the greatest benefit to the coun-
try districts"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-31
Origin of Christmas

"The observance of Christmas is not
of divine appointment, nor is it of New
Testament origin" says the New York
Tribune-Farmer in answer to an in
quiry. "The day and month of the
birth of Christ are nowhere stated in
the Gospel history, nor can they be as
certained from any other source. The
fathers of the first three centuries do
not speak of any specia. observance of
tine Nativity. Some writers trace the
observance to the second century, about
the time of the Emperor .Commodus;
but it is historically certain that the
Christmas festival proper is of compar-
ativsly late institution. At the same,
time the heathen winter holidays (Sa-
turnalia, Juvenalia, BrumalIa) were un
doubtedly transformed and, SO TO speak,
sanctified by the establishment of the
Christmas cycle of holidays; and the
heathen customs, so far as they were
harmless (e. &. the giving of presents,
lighting of tapers, etc., were brought
over into Christian use.n
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-31

The new city of Bellingham has had
its first municipal election and has
chosen Alfred l.. Black as it's first
mayor, in spite OF the united opposl-
ton of the city's papers, which earnest
ly supported j. b. Bennett, present
mayor of Whatcom. There are many
who profess to look upon the result as
convincing evidence in support of their
theory that the influence of the press Is
van ing. Perhaps it Is, but it does not
follow because it sometimes fails to win
a fight that it was not right in making
it. 1t is but a few weeks since the can
didate of the most corrupt aud con-
scienceless political organization in the
world-an organization whose one car
dinal principle is plllage of the public
was elected mayor of New York city
by great majority, Notwithstanding
the strenuous opposition of every re-
putable paper in the metropolis. And
unfortunately such instances are of fire.
quent occurrence in almost every large
city i'm the land.
The ISLANDER does not presume to
pass judgment upon the relative merits
of the two candidates for mayor OF
Bellingham, both OF whom the editor
has known personally for quite num-
ber of years. 1t does not believe for
moment that Tammany methods will
characterize the administration of
Mayor Black, or that his supporters
were inspired to labor in his behalf 10y
any such music as could be made by
rafting the bones of the skeleton of
Gov. McBride's railroad commission
BILL Nor does it believe that the papers
which opposed his candidacy were in-
fuenced in the least degree by any
venal consideration. One of them sold
to him considerable amount of adver
tising space in which he was extensive
ly exploited as MAN Who Does
Things" And so he does, and so also
lO all vi 10 Wv siAih6o1 oc'AAN VI "'tS''
might better be left undone. San Juan
county is interested in having a large
city grow up on the shores of the big
bay at the gateway to which it lies and
it cordially extends to Bellingham and
its first mayor its best wishes for a
"Happy and Prosperous New Year"
Although Falrhaven is the tail end
of Bellingham the result of the first
election indicates that "the tail will
wag the dog" until the next election is
held in the spring, seven out Of twelve
councilmen having been chosen from
Fairhaven as well as the mayor, street
commissioner and police justice. One
of the councilmen is Thos. Kinsey for
several years storekeeper for the Roche
Harbor Lime Company.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-31
YEARS AND MEN

The year is dying; soon twill lie
Behind us in the fading past.
We watch it going, and we sigh
To think it couldn't always last.
All pensive for little while
We count the vanished years and fret
Then greet the new one with smile
Aud hurry onward and forget.
The passing years are like the meu
We have to serve-they pass away.
We M ourn the master dead, and then
The new one welcome and obey
We soon forget, if he is kind,
The virtues of the kindly dead
We do not mourn the years behind
If hope lies in the one ahead.
5. Il. Kiser in Chicago Record -Heral
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-31
Opposing the Governor

Apparently Gov. Mcbride is not to
have "smooth sailing" in his home
county in his fight for the governor
ship nomination. The Anacortes
American, whose owners also con-
troll the leading Republican paper of
the county seat, says: "Skagit county
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-31

The Orange Judd Farmer makes the
crops of the United States for 1908 at
follows: Wheat, 7O4,OtO,OOO bushels;
corn, 2,436, 100000 bushels; oats, S29,-
900, 900 bushels; rye, 81 800. 900 bushels
barley. 139,OOO,OOO bushels; fa1seed.
26, 900, 900 bushels.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-31

A good advertisement works when
You sleep. 1t Is a perpetual guide to
the would-be buyer and always leads
to one place-that of the man who ad-
vertises.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-31
CRITICISM AND
CONTEMPLATION
OF SERVICE OF PACIFIC WIRELESS
TELEGRAPH COMPANY

The Facts as To Service Between Revenue
Cutter Grant and Land Statious-En-
dorsements Show that at Has Accom-.
plished All Promised"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-31

FIRST ELECTION
CLEAR CASE OF THE TAIL wAGGING
THE DOG

Former Resident of this County One of
the First Counciimen-Eighth Grade
Examination - Skagit County Opposi-
tion to Gov. Mcbride.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-31
" EsTERN UNION TELEGRAPH Co.,
C. b. GooDELL, Mangr.

1t may be true that there have been
some recent changes in the personnel OF
the company, but that is hardly mat
ter which concerns the public so long
as the company fulfills its contracts
and mainta tains its service.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-12-31
NEW LINE OF ATTACK

A new line of attack by the Hanna
crowd upon Roosevelt is developed ev-
cry few days They now say that lit
is not Wall street that is fighting him
so much as the sober, staid citizens of
this countryside farmers, the small
dealers and what may be termed our
intelligent middle class, who form the
true conservative forces in the United
States-that he cannot be depended
upon to act safely and wisely in a ma
tlonal crisis, but may on the impulse
of the moment SO involve our nation
in foreign complication that great
war, with the suffering and loss which
such a contest would involve, would
be the only way in which We could
honorably extricate ourselves from
the plight into which he had mad
vertently plunged us. 1t is the dis
trust of this class of our common peo-
pie, not the emissary of the great
financiers, that the president has to
seriously take into account"
The men who are arrayed against
Roosevelt in his own party are the
shrewdest politicians in the United
States. Besides that they are men
without conscience and believe in the
doctrine that everything is fair in
politics" The intelligent middle
Glass; to which these gentlemen re-
fer, have become so besotted and ig-
norant from constantly reading a sub
sidized press that they are hardly a
factor in politics any more. They
have become insane partisans, taking
no more effective, active part In con-
ventlons than the man In the moon.
They simply vote 'er straight and let
Ii go at that.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-12-31
THE AGRICULTURAL PRESS

II Is not too much to say that tho
peoples party evolved from the farm
ers' alliance, and that. therefore, the
great majority OF Us members were
farmers OF course, other organiza-
tions Joined with the allIance-the
Knights OF Labor espeeIally-but ar
ter all IN said and done, the fact re-
mains that the peoples party was
essentially agrarlan. Those who we're
not actually farmers were engaged In
some business or profession which
wan Intimately associated with agrl-
culture.
With the rising tide Of popullsm
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-12-31
THE COMMON ENEMY.

The action of the Omaha Jefferson
ian club in inviting back the forty
gold democrats whom it expelled in
1896 is being made the subject of
comment in all the eastern papers.
They generally claim that it indi-
Gates that Bryan and the Kansas City
platform is to be abandoned by the
democrats OF Nebraska. DR.. Miller,
in accepting the invitation, says:
Il accept the action of the JEFF
fersonian club as a very agreeable
overture to the gold men to join in
unifying the party against old di-
visions; and it is very agreeable
wholly apart from myself per-
sonally. 1t will encourage our
friends in the east to better pre-
pare for the battle of 1904. | hope
similar action will be taken ev-
erywhere, that we may success
fully meet the common enemy"
1t is rather difficult to decide what
the doctor means by 1.-THE common en-
emy." He has been for some years a
recognized member of the republican
party and it is hardly to be believed
that he looks upon that party all at
once as "the common enemy The
common enemy must therefore be the
populist party, which the republicans
and gold democrats alike join in de-
nOuncing. AS far as the populists OF
Nebraska are concerned they, each
and all, delight in having 1t an
nounced that they are ''the common
enemy of all such aggregations ard
are ready to fight it out on that line.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-12-31
F RANK JAMS.
St. Paul. Nebraska.
St. Paul. Nebraska.

came host of papers advocating The
economic reforms demanded by the
Omaha platform. They soon came to
be powerful factor In American
politics. With the advent of Mark
Hanna as chairman of the plutocratic
forces, more attention than ever be-
fore was paid to the presg-especiall
the smaller country weeklies. Now,
it would be fallacious to assume that
the press is wholly cause or simply
an effect, the truth being that 1t Is
both. AS a cause, it helps to shape or
mould public opinion as an effect, it
reflects public opinion. Hanna was
wise enough to see that the uprising
against plutocracy could be checked
in marked degree by silencing the
populist press so far as it was posi-
BILE to do SO. Great pressure was
brought on all the larger populist pa
pers, of state or national circulation,
to drop partisan politics and become
purely agricultural journals; and
the smaller papers as rule were not
difficult to manage, because, in so
many cases, the editor was not prop
erly supported by his political breth-
rem and when good opportunity was
afforded, sold his plant to some man
with plutocratic backing, who changed
1t into republican or political"
paper.
Only few of the many larger pop
ullst papers established prior to 1896
are In existence as such today. The
Independent, The Missouri World, The
Southern Mercury. The vineland In-
dependent, Joliet News, The Dalton
tGa.) Herald, with probably few
others which now escape our memory.
are "all that Is left OF them-left OF
six hundred" In Nebraska. Kansas.
Texas. and few other states. how
ever there are stlll a good many pop
ulist county papers of eight to fifteen
years standing.
The Farmers Advocate, with which
was consolidated Tho Central Farmer
ttho evolution OF Prof. ylnceEt'a
''Nonconformist). now and then
takes an editorial shot al plutocraey:
but for tho present II Is pushing the
propaganda for farmers eleva,ors--a
grand work, by the way-and says
very little along the line Of the Omaha
platform. Farm, Stock a Home. Of
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-12-31

could be taken; but If the state laws
require a convention, of course, a con-
yention must needs be held. The mat
tiers of detail can all be worked out
the only question being whether the
members of the peoples party really
want to nominate in this way.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-12-31

Minneapolis, however, Is one farm pa
per that Is talking populism out loud,
as may be seen from editorials re-
printed elsewhere in this issue This
Is encouraging. 1t shows that pop
ulism is forcing itself to the front
again. Just now these papers are to
great extent simply rejecting public
opinion; but by and by they will be
making public opinion.
&@S>$S$&
SYNTHETIC POLITICAL ECONOMY.
1t amazes one to reflect what tree
mendOus effect a small and apparent-
ly insignificant thing will have In
changing the trend of economic
events. A small insect has enormous.
ly increased the value OF exports and
caused the inflow of more than $20,-
100000 of gold to the United States
within sixty days. The shortage in
the cotton crop caused by the boil
weavil, the great advance in price,
the increase in the value of exports,
the importation OF gold, the addition
Of that amount TO the per capita cir
culation, the steadying of other mar
kets, an increase In bank reserves, an
easing of the money market, all follow
each other as the direct results of the
work OF small insect. The indirect
results are so numerous that they
cannot be counted Among them is
the reduction of the wages of some
900 textile wagc-workers, the clos
ing down of some OF the mills, tho
throwing out of work of many thou
sands who have no other means OF obs
tanning the necessarles OF life, the CT
feet upon other trades by the loss OF
purchasing power OF SO many thou
sands, the rise In price OF woollen
goods on account of the short supply
and high price OF cotton goods and
so on almost endlessly. Some of these
days another Herbert Spencer will
arise and promnlgate q synthetic
philosophy OF political economy.
SS>%cScS
Oswald Hicks. Macon, Mo-: "No
great national reform was ever won
within old party lines. Applying this
truIsm 10 the demands OF the peoples
party would dictate that we a. q party
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-12-31
I47-BIack PercFerons, BeIgians and Coachers-I47

DREcT
profits
afem
JUDGE PAYS HORSES
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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-12-31
SWEEPSTAKES STUD

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SAW Ms !s HOT ADyERTR
I'm the STRING OF
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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-12-31

Well WE'LL Cheer Get peaches ripe
They sensational Nebraska State
Fair Ole had snap) m had whole barn full Of prize wi.n there
tory Also championship Psrcheron stallion 4: and
Then ams kept show pat. and the best
the Nebraska State Fair for exhibition and not shown or None
b State Fair and these he had tho first and second prize
leading
BEL0Il1 and 0ERrANY. entitled the
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-12-31

Oswald Hicks. Macon, Mo-: ma
great national reform was ever won
within old party lines. Applying this
truIsm 10 the demands OF the peoples
party would dictate that we a. a party
should ever maintain independent ac-.
tlon." >
>sS>S$<s$S
Join the Old Guard OF ropullsm.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-24
The Head of the Tobacco Trust.

Mr.. Duke, the head and organizer
of the Tobacco Trust, is himself a
very modest man, always willing to
attribute to one or another of his
energetic associates the credit for
the various business coups that are
accredited to the great trust, but his
business methods, bold to the point
of audacity, have often startled some
of the more timid of the American
and Continental stockholders. He
never hesitates to pursue to its legi-
innate conclusion any course that he
embarks pom and he has the reputa-
ton of being a business fighter who
never asks quarter, though he fire.
quentIy extends it. A few years
age, when reference was made to the
two salaries of $4,000 per year which
Mr.. Duke was drawing as president
of the American and the Contin-
entail Companies, he is reported to
have remarked that he earned all the
money that he was paid to him "by
avoiding the fool mistakes hat the
other fellow made."-From the To
bacco War, in Leslie's Monthly for
March.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-24
A ChiIdren's Garden.

Give the children an opportunity
to make a garden, says Countrywide
in America. Let them grow what
they will. Let them experiment. It
matters less that they produce good
plants than hal they try for them
selves. A place should be reserved.
Let it be we'll out of sight, for the
results may not be ornamental. How
ever, take care that the conditions
are good for the growing of plants
good soil, plenty of sun, freedom
from the encroachment of tree roots
and from molestation of carriage
drive or chickens. It may be well
to set the area off by a high fence
of ~chicken-wire screen; then cover
the fence with vines. Put a seat in
the enclosure. This will constitute
an outdoor nursery-rOOm; and while
the child is being entertained and is
gaining health he may gain expert
ence and nature-sympathy at the
same time.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-24

was a time of faith, of reverence, OF
simple honesty. In every land but
the South good and wise men are
mourning the decay of reverence, of
the religious spirit. Reverence is
the need of our time, of all times.
AS long as a healthf1 reverence for
the beautiful, the good and true, for
God and the manifestations of God,
in man remain, we are safe, let creeds
change as they may. Now while this
religious revolution is working, some
land, some people must stand out as
a light, must bear the ark of the
covenant. In our boosted industrial
and commercial supremacy, in u
mad rush for the dollar-when we
are forGCting that there are stars IN
the heavens, flowers in the fields, and
beauty in the landscape, and virtues
of souI-it is we'll that some land
and people stand a b~eacon-light, on
tent to live soberly, righteously and
godly in this present evil world, and
to remember that the Kingdom of
God and of man is not altogether
"meat and drink, but righteousness,
JOY and peace."-March Home and
Flowers.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-24
Trying to Drown it Out.

Commissioner of Pensions Ware
recently put on his pay roll an old
negro from the country. The man
was to make himself generally use
full about the office. The first day
he went to work the Commissioner
told him to put out an electric light
in an ante-rOOm.
Fifteen minutes later the Commits
siOner saw the old man pouring wa
ter from a pitcher on the bulb.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"Deed, boss, I dun tried to blow
it out, and couldn't, and now I'm
a-goin' to drown it QUIT" .
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-24
THE HOME CIRCLE
Opportunity

And this l saw, or dreamed it in a
dream:
There spread a cloud of dust along a
plain,
And underneath the cloud, or in it,
ragged
A furious battle, and men yelled and
swords
Shocked upon swords an shields. A
princes banner
Wavered, then staggered backward,
hcmmed by foes.
A a hung along the battles
edge,
And thought: "Had I a sword of
keener steel,
That blue blade that the kings son
bears-but this
Blunt thing" He snapt and flung
it from his hand,
And, lowering, crept away, and left
the field.
Then came the kings son, wounded,
sore beset,
And w~eaponless, and saw the broken
sword,
And ran and snatched it, and with
battle shout
Lifted afresh, he hewed his enemy
down,
And saved a great cause hat heroic
day.
f. r. Sill.