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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-09
Orcas
Hrea 5, So. M.
EAST SOUND

L. G.. Rudow returned on Monday
from trip to Bellingham.
Miss Drothea Smith, of Bellingham,
is the guest of Miss Grace Waldron.
Charles H. Showers made a bust
ness trip to Friday Harbor this week.
Mrs. w. A. Mackay returned on
Saturday from a short trip to Seat
tie.
Mr.. Andrew Newhall spent Tues
day at East Sound visiting his may
friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. C. Baker are visit
ing their daughter, Mrs. Park Perry,
at Friday Harbor
The Madrona Club had a most de.
3ightful meeting on last Thursday
with Mrs. Alfred Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. G.. Head left on
Thursday for Seattle to visit Rev.
and Mrs. Herbert Gowen.
Miss Louise Hastings left on Mon
day for Bellingham to continue her
studies at the high school.
Joseph Kindall, of Belling ham, is
spending week at East Sound, the
guest of Mrs. G. W. Waldron.
Ben Ketchum, of Seattle, who has
been spending the summer at the
Templin home, left for his home Sat-
nrday.
Miss Grace Philip left the first OF
the week for Seattle to enter the
training school for nurses in the Seat
tie General hospital.
VIM. Fry, former resident of this
place and now from the Cariboo coun-
1ry, spent few days here last week
visiting relatives and friends.
Prof. and Mrs. Epley, of Belling.
ham, are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. C.
-. Buxton. Prof. Epley is one of the
Faculty of the state normal school
The Aid Society of the Methodist
church met on Wednesday with Mrs.
Donahue. A large number Of ladies
were present and enjoyed delight.
full afternoon.
Charles Woods left for business
Trip to Seattle on Tuesday. Mrs.
Woods accompanied him as far as
Deihngham to visit relatives and
friends for a few days.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-09

AvcIdSG mcau temperature tOf august, 81 de-
grees. Average rainfall for August, o.er inches
RICHARD WILLIS, Observer.
Benjamin Fillbrook died at St.
Luke's hospital, Bellingham, Tuesday
evening at five o'clock, after short
Illness. He was buried in the Olga
cemetery Thursday at noon. He was
an Englishman by birth, but came to
this country when quite young and
served in the regular army for thirty
years. He was a veteran Of the civil
war and retired as commissary SER
geant with pension of 81 q month.
He was q fine citizen and universally
liked in this vicinity, where he resid-
ed for fifteen years. He was rs years
old.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-09
DEER HARBOR
Geo. Derby was in Bellingham this

Geo. Derby was in Bellingham this
week.
School will begin Monday with Miss
Cohern as teacher.
Miss Jeanne McLachlan has return
ed to school in Seattle.
o. L. Loos is arranging to build a
three-horse power gasoline engine.
Mrs. o. T. Loos spent the first of
the week with relatives at Pole Pass
Mrs. Harric aid little daughter, of
Seattle, are spending few days here.
David Kimple will hold services at
the school house tomorrow morning
at 10 o'clock.
VIM. Dewey has returned from Sc
attic, where he had been working for
several weeks.
Mrs. W. S. Thomas and children
have returned from visit with her
mother in Seattle.
Work began on the new school
house the first of the week. Mr..
Landers has the contract to build it.
Charlie Wooten, who spent his va
cation at his parents summer home
here, returned to Seattle Saturday.
Daniel Murray has returned from
Seattle, bringing with him 17-foot
sail boat, which he intends to cat-rig.
The w. C. T. U. had d meeting at
the school house Sunday evening. Es-
pecially good features of the program
were papers read by Mrs. McLach-
Ian and Mrs. Murray.
Capt. Chas. Caldwell, of Seattle,
spent the early part of the week with
friends here. He is planning to OPP
crate a 7O-ton gasoline trading schoon-
er among the islands this fall and win
ter.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-09
Island
pop. 1850

Miss Peterson, who has accepted a
position in the school here for the
coming year, arrived at East Sound,
Saturday She will make her home
with Mr.. and Mrs. Will Prindle.
A. A. Morgan, late keeper of the
Patos island light station, has been
transferred to the customs service at
Port Townsend. Mr.. Durgin, of Port
Townsend, will come the first of the
month to take the position of keeper
at Patos.
The public schools opened on Mon
day with large attendance and
every indication of successful and
profitable school year. Prof. Jones,
the new principal, comes to us highly
recommended from the University Of
Wisconsin Miss Jamison, who is to
take the grammar grades, is from the
state FORMAL school at Bellingham,
while Miss Peterson, of the primary
department, is well known on the isl
and, having taught acceptably in
other districts.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-09

trip to Vancouver, B. c., last week.
One thousand boxes of apples and
pears we're shipped from here last
week.
Mrs. Allen, Of Little Falls, is visit
ing at the home of her sons, on Shaw
island.
Mrs. Ganson returned home We'd
nesday after an absence of several
weeks.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-09

There was an enjoyable dance Sat-
urday night at the home of Harry
Walrath.
Mrs. Robt. Sandwich and two
daughters were guests of her brother,
c. F. McLennon, this week.
Mrs. Chas. Hanson, of Harper,
Kitsap county, is visiting her broth
ers, John and w. S. Allen, on Shaw
island.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-09
ORCAS AND SHAW

VIM. Hogan is building log apple
house.
Mrs Wade spent two or three days
at East Sound this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hale and children
went to Seattle Wednesday.
Mary Hammond went to Friday
Harbor Monday to attend school.
Geo. w. Meyer made : business
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-09
DOE BAY AND OLGA

Miss Berthrame is visiting friends
in Bellingham.
Albert Viereck has been in Belling-
ham the past week.
R. G. Willis is visiting his daugh-
ter, Mrs. 0. Freel, at West Sound.
Lewis Hiatt is back at his home at
Olga, from a summer visit at Port
land.
T. c. Morrow went to Bellingham
Wednesday in his launch with party
from Olga.
G. N. Culver shipped So head of
sheep Wednesday on the Islander
They were bought by Paul E. Lander,
of Vancouver, B. G.
Game Warden Robertson has re-
ceived large shipment of Monaghan
pheasants from the Simpson Pheasant
farm, Corvallis, Oregon, for distribu-
ton in the county.
Clay Cunningham has a freak of
nature in his orchard. On one of his
Gravenstein trees there is one limb
that has borne perfectly red apples
for several years-a deep blood red
all over. They are perfect Craven
stems otherwise, but seem to be bet
ter bearers than the yellow ones. Mr..
Cunningham has grated rs trees
from the scions, and intends to work
over some more of his orchard to
them
Following is summary of the
weather report of the Olga station
for the month Of August:
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-09

Baker Bros, Friday Harbor, make har-
ness and shoe repairs promptly and neat
ly. Work solicited from all parts of the
county. Freight paid one way. Work
may be left at L. G. Rndow's store, East
Sound, to be forwarded.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-09

Miss Mullis, the Friday Harbor milli-
ner, will he at East Sound on the Goth, 2lst
and 22nd inst. with a choice selection of
ladies' and children's hats and millinery
Latest styles and lowest prices.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-07-07
Give the Devil His Due.

The best time to start an agltatloil
70 abolish capital punishment is now.
Commence it at once, educate pupiic
opinion to regard the death penalty
as barbarous, inhuman and uncnrls,
tian and the next legislature Will
obey the will of the majority of the
neople and expunge it from the stat
utes The spirit of the age demands
that some other punishment be SUP
stituted Fear of the galloWs is no
deterrent from murder, and TAKING
the murderers life in return for the
life he may have taken, is revenge,
not the kind of justice demanded in
the nineteenth century among CIVIL
lied and enlightened people.-Whte
River Junction Landmark.
There are two sides to every aues-
ton and even the death penalty Is
not as black as it is sometimes paint
ed. Legally taking the murderers
life is not revenge and it is not MUIR
der. any more than killing man or
woman in defense of ones own life
is murder If the infiiction of the
death penalty will act as a defense oil
the lives of the people of state, the
state has a perfect moral right to in
fiict il. In so doing, society is not
avenging its own wrongs. it is not
bringing retribution on an evil-doer'
as is sometimes foolishly assSrted.-it
is merely striving to protect its own
life from the murderer as a class. IL
can not be said that there is any
moral wrong in the enforcement OF
capital punishment for clearly proven
and heinous crimes. but it is unneces-
sary and undesirable if a better way
Of protection can be found Public
sentiment thinks it sees better way
in life Imprisonment. which would be
less trying to the public nerves and
conscience and. II made absolutely un-
amenable TO pardon. except for estab-
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-07-07

The press of the country is rightly
protesting against the selection by
President Roosevelt of Former Assist
ant Secretary of State Loomis as jun
Tor special ambassador from this gov
eminent to France upon the occasion
of the conveyance of the body of the
revolutionary hero. John Paul Jones,
to the United States. Former Ambas-
sador Horace Porter. through whose
labor and at whose expense the body
was secured. should not have been
called upon to share the honor of the
special ambassadorship of the United
States with anyone upon this occasion,
least of all with man whom no less
parsonage than Acting Secretary OF
state Taft has severely rebuked as in
discreet in his diplomatic service. In
addition to the slight thus put upon
Gen. Porter. who is well able to fill
the honorable post alone, respect 10
the memory of the dead patriot and
consideration for the gallantry of Adj
miral Sigsbee and his men demand
that none but men above reproach IN
the national service be associated IN
the undertaking. Obscurity is earn
estly soliciting Mr.. Loomis.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-07-07

lished innocence. more effective as a
deterrent.
The death penalty II too harsh
measure to command respect In this
liberal and tolerant age, The result
is that, In states where II purports to
be IN force, II Is seldom enforced and
instead of working injustice upon
criminals by unnecessary severity.
the public suffers the injustice Of hav-
ing dangerous criminals go without
the punishment they deserve and
which the safety OF human life de-
mands.
BY all means let the next legislature
repeal the capital punishment law:
but not because it's wicked. or be-
cause It's too severe on murderers.
It's really not severe enough upon
them, as we use II. Repeal It because
1t is not giving human life In YER
mont the protection due so sacred and
valuable a gift.
And II, In its place, we substitute
the penalty of life Imprisonment for
murderers. let us not fail to appre-
ciate the magnitude of the burden
which the state thus assumes-the
care and custody of these unfortunate
creatures as long as they shall live,
with the responsibility. not only OF
what a lifetime in prison shall mean
to them, physically, mentally. morally
and spiritually, but of the influence
they may exert upon others.
The question of what we shall do
with our murderers is not answered
with the pronouncing of the judicial
sentence. We do not escape respon-
sibility for a human soul when we
repeal the death penalty and put the
murderer into prison for life,
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-07-07
"A Misplaced Switch"
fNew york Evening Post. !

New York Evening PostI
At the very moment when the presi-
dent was preaching to college students
the value to the country of upright
public service, he was destroying the
worth of his words by publishing his
apologize for Paul Morton. Never i'll his
whole career did the president put his
name TO such web of special plead
ings. of easuistical and illogical ar
guments, as here appear, varied only
BY an irrevevant excursion into the
AFFAIRS of the Equitable Life Assurance
society--as If to distract attention from
the real defendant. The whole state
ment is a most disheartening indorse-
ment of a man who is by his own
sworn testimony a defiant law-breaker.
on his part, Mr. Morton seeks to ex-
plain jocularly that 1t was against MIS-
express orders that the Santa Re con-
tinued its Illegal rebates in defiance OF
the courts, by an oversight-"by sort
of misplaced switch" as II We're. We
have to note a misplaced switch OF
more serious kind. No hostile critic
has dealt Mr.. Roosevelt harder blow
than he has given himself by this ex-
traordinary document. Coming as II
does after his action in the case of MI.
LOOMS, ii ought to be apparent to eN-
cry unbiased person that the presi-
dents moral sense is not TO be trusted
whenever the conduct of personal
friend is concerned.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-07-07
GOOD NEWS.
Many Brattleboro Readers Have Heard
Il and Profited Thereby.

Good news travels fast and the
thousands of bad back sufferers in
Brattleboro are glad to learn that
prompt relief is within their reach.
Many a lame, weak and aching back
is bad no more, thanks to Doan's Kid
ney Pills. Our citizens are telling the
good news of their experience with the
Old Quaker Remedy Here is an ex-
ample worth reading
Charles Affair, now retired, living in
Vernon. lower end this state. says:
when | went TO George f. Greene's
drug store and asked him if he knew
of anything to cure backache he hand
ed me out box of Doan's Kidney Pills.
positively asserted that | was near
ly dead with pain through my kidneys
and loins. | was subject to attacks
for years. some of them so bad that
/ was. il not confined to bed at least
to the house. for days at time. Lat
terly the aching was almost continual
and there was added to it trouble with
the kidney secretions. undoubtej proof
that my kidneys We're in a very dis
turbed condition. despite the fact that
l doctored and used more than one
medicine. Now / cannot positively
say that Doan's Kidney Pills have
radically cured me. bot of this I am
certain the treatment has brought in
finite benefit and If occurrences take
place now know what to use to check
them"
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster MiIburn Co. Buffalo
New York sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name Doan's and take
no other.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-07-07
A Defense of "Fads."

In his opening address to the Ma
tional Educational association at AS
bury Park Monday. DR.. William II
Maxwell, president of the association
and superintendent of the public
schools of New York city. cleverly de-
Tended the methods which have been
so severely criticised under his admin
istration in the latter capacity. He
said:
japan has given the world another
great object lesson in the value oil
education She has demonstrated to
the world that the training of the
young to skill of hand, to accuracy OF
vision to high physical development
to scientific knowledge, to accurate
reasoning and to practical patriotism
for these are the staples of japanese
education--is the best and cheapest
defense of nations.
He declared that the men who have
invented the term 'fads and frills'
to designate the features of modern
school training are Selfish politicians
who see that it costs more money to
teach the new subjects and thus Q
large proportion of the public revenue
| is diverted from the field of political
spoils" and he referred exultantly to
the Saving common sense of the COM
mon people" which. when appealed to
comes to the rescue of these same
fads and frills as it recently did i'll
New York city.
Friends of the agricultural move
ment in New England will learn with
satisfaction that DR.. Maxwell favors
also the fad" of scientific agricultural
teaching in the schools. He said:
To retain the country boy on the
land and to keep our soil from ex''
haustion, it is high time that all our
rural schools turned their attention, as
some of them have done. to scientific
agriculture. Scientific agriculture prac-
tically taught, is as necessary for the
rural school as is manual training for
the city school, and trade schools also
will inevitably come.
Looking ahead, DR.. Maxwell's pro :
phetic enthusiasm saw also specialized
schools for foreign boys and girls, just
landed, and for confirmed truants and
embryo criminals.
He admitted that the problem of the
teacher is more important than that
of the curriculum and urged the sup
fermentation of the born teacher, 50
rare in the profession, by carefully
trained instructors.
These utterances from the head OF
the national association of educators
to more than 10000 of its members
are notable as showing the decided
trend of national educational effort.
The prospect for the Inauguration
of an photographed fad or even the
approach of a wave of spelling reform
seems to be exceedingly poor.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-07-07
wNDHAM COUNTY FRIDAY JULY yo

demned 10 die virtually stopped her
execution the day before Il was to come
on and placed her under the protec-
ton OF the general government until
the highest tribunal In the land dis
poses of her plea. And II II should
turn out that she has been Illegally
treated and her rights denied In state
courts she may be set free by the court
of highest authority In the nation
II any of the laws of Vermont are un
constitutional that applied In her trial
and conviction they will be declared so.
II Is privilege to live under the broad
Jurisdiction OF such q court, content In
the thought that the legal rights OF
the poorest. humblest citizen are Sc
cured to him.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-07-07
Doing Needed Work.
Rutland News.l


The splendid work of the Vermont
Humane society is disclosed TO some
degree by the review of the past years
operations at the annual meeting oi
the organization just held In Rutland
This society merits the cordial co-op-
Grafton of everyone. There Is no ques-
ton that through the instrumentality
of its agents numerous cases of cruel
ty TO children and to animals are very
effectively attended TO, of which the
public knows little or nothing. The
meanest and most despicable person
Is the one who will abuse child or a
dumb brute. and it is to prosecute such
miscreants, to prevent their nefarious
operations, and to educate and enlight-
en- those of british proclivities thai
this association exists. May the time
speedily come when the necessity for
the existence of the society will abb
solutely cease!
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-07-07

Streams of immigrants continue tc
pour into New York through Ellis Is
land. breaking all previous records
More than $4,000 immigrants have
landed at Ellis Island since June l.
and the official estimate up to the end
of the month is s4.0s5 as against 5l.1Sl
in June of last year, an even larger
proportionate increase than IN May
this year. The high-water mark in
Immigration is usually reached In May.
The census Office approximates the
total immigration for this fiscal year
at l.OeI.s5s which indicates recor
breaker. the high-water mark being
s57.04s. for the year ending June 30.
1908.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-07-07
Policeman Publicity.
fond du Lac Reporter

l.
The society for the suppression oil
news is the bane of the newspaper
profession. Scarcely day passes
that the editor does not receive re-
quest to suppress something. The
argument is always made that If the
matter becomes public the innocent
will suffer with the guilty, but II Is
generally evident that the guilty are
more concerned about their own repu-
tation than they are about the feel
.ings of the innocent. Publicity is the
best policeman of the age. The fear
of it prevents more offences than the
law detects. The desire to keep out OF
the newspaper is almost as strong
with people as the desire to break the
laws. Sometimes they are aecommo-
dated in their desire to escape no.
toriety. but when they are the editor
sooner or later has occasion to regret
his mistaken kindness
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-07-07

II the glorious Fourth was typical
OF the dawn of our national independ-
enee, perhaps the night OF July u
hideous with heat and noise. sleep
destroying and ve-raching. was APP
propriately so as signifying the ma
tlon's wretched state under the heel
of the oppressor." II was certainly
typical of something undesirable, Gel
ebrations of the intense nature char
acterizing the American Fourth Of
July should be confined within the
limits of twenty-four hours.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-07-07
This Has Gone, Already.
tPoultney Journal

one of the atrocities perpetrated up
on our school children is the modern
fad called vertical writing. our pupils
spend years requiring II. and then if
they attend business college" must
learn penmanship over again. it Is
slow. tortuous and while legible is not
a style that commends itself to young
men, especially. When young man
enters business life rapidity is as es-
essential as legibility. and when he at
tempts to slowly form the pot hooks
required by vertical style he will prob.
ably anger his employer. who will ask
him In no dulcet tones. Young man
when you went to school why did you
not learn TO write?" But 1t is fad,
and of course fads go.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-07-07

Notwithstanding the announcement
that the battleship Vermont will be
launched next month in the time hon.
ored way, there still seem to be linger-
ing hopes that the governor will have
his daughter christen the vessel with
maple syrup instead of Mumms brut.
Maple syrup has no more place on the
bow of a battleship than champagne
has on griddle cakes.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-07-07

The loss OF an eye, Tuesday. by u
little Londonderry boy. through set
ting off flre-crackers In a glass bottle
Is warning that Is issued pretty near
home to all windham County people
Only sympathy can be felt for parents
when such distressing accident oc'
ours in a community for the first time
but II is negligence little short OF
criminal when parents allow sport OF
this kind knowing, by the actual ex'
perience of their neighbors, what the
results may be. 1t is time to stop
celebration" of this character
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-07-07
Effect Of the Auto on Trade.

white River Junction Landmark
A paragraph is going the rounds OF
the papers to the effect that In many
rural communities the advent of the
automobile is driving the patronage
of the farmers to the catalogue houses
in the cities. The reason assigned is
that it is safer for the average farmer
to order his goods by mail than %
trust his wife or boy with team To
60 to local stores.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-07-07

This Rockefeller business re-
minds one of the old woman who had
a batch of mince and apple pies To
distinguish one from t'other she
marked the mince pies "T. NJ" cts
mince). and the apples pies 1T. NJ"
CTaint mince). A hundred thousand
dollar gift of John d. Rockefeller to
the heather We brand IT. T.. CTS
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-07-07
Legal, Perhaps. but Unjust.

Judge Hoyt Wheeler's decision
granting an appeal of the Mary Rog-
ers murder case to the supreme court
of the United States may be pro-
found legal document but 1t strikes
us as hair splitting argument,
feebly defending an act that oughtn' [
to have been performed. II. he Is
right, we can't see any reason why the
murderer should hesitate to strike the
fatal blow-any reason, that is. so far
as law is concerned.