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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-12-29
ISSUES NOTE OF PROTEST
Vatican Declares Rights Of Religion Out
ragged By France.

Vatican Declares Rights Of Religion Out
ragged By France.
Rome, Dec. 24.-The Vatican has
Issued note of protest against the
course Of the French government and
has forwarded it to all the papal rep
resentatives abroad, including the
apostolic delegates. A summary of
the protest is published in the Observ-
atore Romano.
The note protests primarily that the
rights of religion have been outraged
by the French governments prevent
Ing the head of the church communi-
cationg with the hierarchy by the ex-
pulsion Of Mgr. Montagnini from
France, who was secretary of the papal
nunciature at Paris.
The note does not touch upon the in
volatility of the archives Of the nun
ciature at Paris, as the authorities on
international law do not agree upon
the duty of state in the matter of
documents left behind by the repre-
sentatives of a foreign power with
which relations have been broken,
when the interests of this power have
not been intrusted to third friendly
power.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-12-29
Hetty and the Cakes.
PAY PENALTIES OF GENIUS.

Captaina Of the World Nearly All
Sufferers from Nervous Diseases.
OF supreme captains Of the world
there are but six or seven and scarce
one among them exhibits genius In its
healthiest colors. In ambush for near
= all OF them some form of nerve dis
order Turks. GrotesQue as the state
ment seems, epilepsy, manifest in great
er or less degree, revolves upon their
destinies. Charlemagne, the great and
wise captain of the Franks, who stands
for feudai civilization, who "snatched
from darkness all the lands he con-
quered" and who reared an empire that
no band but his was able to control.
il almost the sole exception. What says
the bead roll?
At 80 Alexander the Great, who had
reckoned himself god, died during or
just after one Of his frenetic orgies.
Caesar, the foremost man of the ancient
world, had strange commissions In his
later years and it may be that the dag
ger of Brutus saved him from declining
married to a violent woman and whose
only son Gied in boyhood, was epileptic
during his ten last years of life.
The adventurous and daring Give.
world famous and the conqueror Of In
dia, at 40 was decidedly a neuropath.
In his memorable duel with a brother
officer he missed his aim, flung away
his weapon and cried: "Shoot and be
damned! l said you cheated and say
SO still" Give was passionate, morbid.
equity and an opium eater. At 40, rich
and of unstinted reputation, he commit
ted suicide. Wellington was distinctly
epileptic. His fainting fits after Water
loo were frequent and 1t was an attack
of epilepsy that carried him Oh. The
Romanoffs have been homeopathic for
nearly three centuries and one OF the
epileptic fits Of Peter the Great is said
to have lasted three days"
Charles ", whose mother was insane.
had fits in his youth and was equity.
bald and scrofulous. Frederick the
Great (from the face Of whose father.
when he took Z walk, says Macaulay,
"every human being fled"), reared In
perfect hell of palace, had certain
general unsoundness of mind to which
mercy was altogether foreign
The stock of Oliver Cromwell was
not over-healthy and of the homeopathic
tendencies Of the Protector himself
there is sufficient evidence. Mohammed
-but let Mohammed rest. Joan Of Arc.
the divine girl-woman, seer and soldier.
who came from her sheep folds OF Lor-
raine to make victorious the orifamme
Of France-Joan heard voices and saw
visions and was kissed, she said, by the
celestials.-London Times.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-12-29
CUBAN Commission
TO DRAFT new LAWS

Havana, Dec 26.-Gov. Magoon has
signed the long-awaited decree ap-
pointing a commission to revise the
laws of Cuba. This commission will
submit to the provisional governor the
draft Of new electoral law, a law de-
filming the organization and functions
of the judiciary, civil service law.
and also treat on such other subjeces
as may be referred to it by the provi-
sional governor.
The commission consists OF Col. E..
81. Crowder, of the judge advocate
generals department of the American
army; Jose Miguel Gomez, secretary,
and Erasmo Boudet, Francisco G. JUS
tiz, Manuel @. Coronado, Felipe g.
Sarrain, Otto Schoemrich. Miguel F..
Womb, Alfred sails and Major Bran
ton Winship, U. s. A.
The salaries of the members of the
commission, except those in the en-
ploy of the United States government,
are fixed at $500 a month. The first
meeting will be held January 8. This
is regarded as the first step toward
holding new elections.
The bill of complaint recites that
the Great Northern's original author
lied capitalization was $4,000, 600,
that oeing the limit fixed by it's char
ter, and that between February l.,
1890, and March /, 1895, defendant
made several large increases of stock
until on March /, 1906, its capital
stock aggregated substantially $780,
100000.
That all these increases were first
msade without application to the state
railroad commission, as required by
law; that defendant has determined
again, to increase it's capital stock, this
time to $21O, O0O, 900, and that no ap-
plication has been made to the state
railroad commission.
The attorney general contends that
unless such proceedings are restrained,
not only will the state be deprived of
investigating the propriety and pur-
poses of the issue, but that the COM
pany proposes to pay the same divi-
dends at the rate of Z per cent on the
increased as upon thep resent capital
ization, thus increasing the fixed an
nual charges of the defendant by the
sum of 81, 200, 600, great portion Of
which will have to be paid by the
roads Minnesota patrons.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-12-29
Iyn;torm Classification of Freight

Chicago. Dec. 26-An effort is to
be made by the railroads to obtain q
uniform classification of freight in re-
snonse to the demands of shippers and
to suggestions of the interstate com
MERGE commission. The first step In
this direction has been taken by the
Central Freight Association, which
has asked the Eastern lines 20 JOIN II
n considering the question. The plan
i. TO appoint committees representing
IA western and Eastern lines, which
viii confer together and see II uni
form Classification cannot Be agreed
upon. 81.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-12-29
MAY COMPROMISE ON ii d
ship SUBSIDY BILL

Washington, Dec. 24.-There Is no
doub that systematic efforts are being
made in the house of representatives
to pass compromise ship subsidy act.
There is be Left that after the holt
days. when some of the nom ers have
been home and have come back fresh
from their constituents there will he q
majority among Republicans and much
more than majority for compro-
mise subsidy measure. which will 20
before the country as an attepmt to
establish steamship lines to various
countries, with the assistance Of liber-
al aid in the way of contracts for oar
rying mail.
The program Of the house managers
as outlined thus far is to limit the APP
preparations entirely to specicfi lines
of steamships running to ports in coun-
tries where there is prospect of in
crease of American trade. Everything
in the way Of general subsidy is to
be swept out of sight.
There are to be no payments for
mere tonnage, no donations to the
shipyards of Pennsylvania aud Maine,
no slush funds for the creation of q
feet of irregular steamships, designed
almost solely to earn subsidies, in
stead of dividends based on legitimate
reight charges.
To this extent, the compromise
which is now being put into shape by
the house managers, is distinct victo-
~ for the people of the middle west,
who have for so long a time fought
the subsidy measure, because they
believe it was designed for the sole
benefit of few dying shipyards on
the Atlantic coast and because it
would not make the cost of carry inc
American farm products any less.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-12-29

Washington, Dec. 26-The supreme
court of the United States has decided
the inheritance tax case Of Camille
Cohen and other legatees under the
will of the late Matthias Colby, OF New
Orleans, against the tax authorities OF
that city. The state law providing
for tax on requests was attacked as
unconstitutional because of it's retro
active features. The opinion affirmed
the decision of the supreme court OF
Louisiana,
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-12-29
Educating the Filipinos

Washington, Dec. 24.-secretary
Taft and DR.. David P. Barrows, direc-
tor of education in the Philippines,
spent several hours discussing the
educational conditions in the islands
with President Roosevelt. DR.. Bar
rows cold the president that within
six or seven years there would be
practically no ignorant children
among the 1000, 900 of Christianized
Filipinos. He declares that it is the
object of the bureau Of education to
give universal education, and not to
make the same mistake that the Span
iards made.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-12-29
GENERALIZATION DOCTRINE
IS OPPOSED BY BRYAN

Lincoln. Neb.. Dec. 22.-W. ].
Bryan, commenting on Secretary Of
State Roots latest speech, enters his
emphatic protest to the doctrine Of
Capitalization which he says Mr.. Root
endorsed. Mr.. Bryan says:
"He seems to rest his argument upon
the old idea Of destiny-the refuge of
q man who wants to do q thing which
he cannot defend. The destiny argu-
ment carried US into our expensive ex-
pertinent in Imperialism, and now des-
tiny is relied upon to oblite. ate the
states and centralize all government at
Washington.
"The constitution, while made more
than q century ago, is adequate for
today. The changes that are needed
are changes Of method, not Of princi.
pie. The division of the powers Of
government was founded upon the doc
trine Of self government and the pres
ervation of the nation depends upon
the careful observance of the limita-
lions between the things that are local
and the things that are national.
"Those who do not recognize the
doctrine of local self government can
make argument in favor of the trans
fer of all the power to the federal gov
eminent, but those who believe in
the doctrine of self government recog-
nize that the people can be trusted
best with that with which they are
best acquainted, and that the people
are best acquainted with the things
which are near them and Immediately
concern them"
II Secretary Root has in mind the
Japanese question as it presents itself
in California, Mr.. Bryan says he VIII
find the American people unwilling
to turn the school system over 10 the
federal government merely to please
any foreign nation. however friendly.
If he has in mind the elimination OF
trusts, hetwill find it unnecessary 20
denriye the states Of present powers to
max congressional action effective.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-12-29
Dealings in Futures May Be Prohibites

Washington, Dec. 26.-In deciding
the case Of Gatewood against the state
of North Carolina, in which Gate
wood was prosecuted for keeping a
bucket shop in Durham, the supreme
court of the United States in effect
held the state Law prohibiting the deal
ing in futures TO be not Fepugnant TO
the federal constitution. Justice White
delivered the opinion affirming the
decision Of the supreme oouftd North
Carolina.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-12-29
Hoquiam Council Grant. Franchise

Hoquiam, Dec. 22.-At meeting OF
the CITY council last night the fran
elise granting the Grays ii .rbor q
fuget Sound Railway Company
right of way through the city from
the east city limits to waterway No.
o. distance of one and a half miles,
was passed.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-12-29

A st. Petersburg dispatch says that
Inc Russo-Japanese negotiations. the
status of which last week was highly
unsatisfactory, have entered upon q
favorable statge and q rupture is no
longer anticipated.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-12-29
Game OF Noted Men.

The hostess begins by saying: II
know a celebrated poet, the first part
Of whose name is very black, and the
last Is an elevation"
The player, responding "Coleridge,"
in turn describes the name Of some 9th
er noted person. For instance, shake
speare," saying: II know a noted author
and poet, the first part Of whose name
people do when cold the last part Is a
weapon Of warfare.
Only give the profession, nothing else.
The following names readily lend them
selves to this simple but instructive lit
tile game;
Wordsworth.
Shelley (Shell-lea).
Church-hill.
Webster.
Wal-pole.
Washington.
Long-fellow.
Blackstone.
Isaac Walton (Eye-sack-wall-ton).
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-12-29
aac Walton (Eye-sack-wall-ton).
Washington,s Death.

George Washington died OF disease
that was then called quinsy, but which
Is now known as acute laryngitis. His
physicians treated him according to
their best light and knowledge, but
such treatment now would be little
short of criminal An eminent author
ity says that il medical men had known
as much then as they do now. the dis
tinguished patient would probably have
been cured in a week. As 1t was, ne
slowly strangled to death by the closing
of his throat. At the present time ply
sicians treat case Of this kind by
tracheotomy; that is, by making an
opening into the windpipe, through
which the patient may breathe. They
also diagnose case BY nsing the laryn-
goscope, which enables them to look
Into the throat and see exactly what the
trouble IS
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-12-29

The Walla Walla city council has
lat I contract for garbage crematory,
to cost &ls, 600. The council also
ordered all billboards next TO side
valks TO be- taken down.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-12-29
new TAXING SYSTEM
STATE Commission HAS PLAN FOR
NEXT LEGISLATURE.
Would Tax Railroads and Other
PublicService Corporations for
State Purposes Only-Claimed
These Taxes Would Run State
Machinery.

OlYmQlds D0C. GS."AoA0o1Ou VI AoAA-
ways and all other public service COR
porations for state purposes only, with
the submission of a constitutional
amendment for that purpose, il neces-
sary, will be urged by the state tax
commission before the coming legisla-
ture. - 49,
In its forthcoming annual report the
commission goes into an exhaustive
discussion of the subject from which
it reaches the conclusion "that the
total amount of taxes actually levied
upon the assessment of 1904 for all
state proposes excepting schools amount
ed to $841, 396,78; that the total
amont of taxes paid by railways upon
their operating property was $751;
1856. So, or only $40, $50. 10 less than
the total requirements Of the state;
that with the taxes that may be re-
ceived from express companies, pri-
vate car lines, which, at the present
time, pay practically nothing, and the
taxation OF telegraph and long dis
lance telephone lines, for state pur-
poses only, and not commenting on the
extremely low valuation of railroads
for the year 1904, or the fact that
many lines of new railroad are at pres
emit under construction, which will
add materially to this class of proper
ty, the entire state government can
we'll be supported without resort to
local taxation for state purposes, and
should the recommendation for the
specific taxation of moneys and credits
be adopted, it ID thought that the gen.
eral tax for school purposes can be
materially reduced as we'll.
Effect Of the Plan
"These results can be accomplished
without imposing any hardship or un-
fair shifting of the burdens OF taxation.
The adoption of such a plan would re-
move the incentive to low valuations
in the various counties which now in.
dulge in a spirited rivalry to escape
paying an equitable portion of state
taxes. The effect of such a plan up
on the individual taxpayers in the
different counties would be in some
localities to slightly increase the
amount OF his taxes, while in others
they would be cnrrespondingly re-
duced. Not enough, however. in
either case to materially affect the
amount Of tax paid by him.
"The labor of extending state taxes
upon the tax rolls OF the various coun-
ties would be done away with, and
bookkeeping much simplifed. The
tax going directly into the state treas
ury would be Immediately available
for state purposes, not remaining in
the hands Of the county treasurers for
days and, sometimes, months, as is
now frequently the case. And, above
all the system has stood the test of ex-
perience, as it has been thoroughly
tried in many states, and, in every in
stance has proven eminently satisfac-
tory"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-12-29

near whom you walk, to say nothing oc
the raping effect on yonr own Nerves,
VI course You would like to abate the
nuisance. and the editor Is going to HEN
you ~ making suggestion. The creak-
ing Is sometimes caused BY the rubbins
together OF the two pieces Of leather
tnat form the sole. In a case Of that
KIND, It Is said that the creak may be
stopped by driving a wooden pee
through the middle of the sole. TINS
holding the two pieces of leather firm.
80 that they cannot rub against each
other. Another remedy Is to soak The
sole In oil. A different kind Of creak.
but one equally unpleasant, Is caused
by the rubbing together Of the two
pieces OF leather that form the countsP
OF the shoe. This the shoemaker will
remedy by opening the seam of the ND
per, and putting in little French
chalk.
Eye Will Fool You.
The next time your crowd" IL around
you just say: None Of you has an eye
that Is any good. guarantee that not
a single eye in. the crowd can see
straight" OF course, the challenge will
be taken up.
Then you need take only a sheet OF
thin pasteboard-a visiting card Is the
best-and punch tiny hole in 1t with
pin. Give 1t to any one in the gath
ering and tell him to hold the card up
to strong light so that the little hole
Will be about eight inches from the eye.
Then give him the pin and tell him to
hold it. head up, between his eye and
the hole in the card.
This is what he will see The Din that
he Is holding will seem to vanish, and
instead of 1t there will be an image OF
a pin upside down in the air behind the
little hole in the card. No matter who
tries 1t the result will be the same.
Hetty and the Cakes.
On the table heaped-up plate Of cakes;
Cones sweet-toothed girl that not one
takes,
But many; and soon doth she begin
To eat them ala greedy sin
Most dearly paid for by the sinner,
Who, poor little maid, could eat no din
ner;
And later that night in commissions lay,
When her parents thought she'd die srs
day;
But the doctor dose of ipecac gave;
And that is how they. managed to save
A greedy girl, called Hetty White,
From daath, near caused by her appetitA.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-12-29

Do your shoes creak? II they do you
.ars sort Of nuisance to everybody
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-06-07

through the back alleys OF the city to
the river, representing him as drunken
soldier whom they were conveying TO
the guard house. They would ibei
row to Jersey shore, and turn him ovel
to Lee. This plan failed. On the day
preceding the night fixed upon for the
execution OF the plan Arnold had re-
moved his headquarters to command
an expedition to the south against
Virginia. Instead OF Champe crossing
the Hudson that night with Arnold NJ
his prisoner. he found hims on board
British transport, with Arnold ms his
commander.
Arnold's expedition against Virginia
well illustrates the low degrading
character he had. He with 1900 men
marched into the city Of Richmond, de
stroyed property, and almost burned
this beautiful city TO the ground. He
little regarded the lives OF human be-
ings, marching with uplifted head and
drawn sword massacreing IN 9th ere, and
little innocent children.
After the close Of tue war Arnold went
to England and lived about twenty
years, stunned and despised by everyone.
Arnolds treachery stands by itself in the
annals Of history Of all time, rs great
warning TO mankind against reckless
selfishness. immoral extravaganza. and
total loss OF upright moral character.
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-06-07

tack the vital organs, causing catarrh of
the bladder, or the kidneys themselves
break down and waste away cell by cell.
Bladder troubles almost always result
from arrangement of the kidneys and
cure IL obtained quickest by a proper
treatment of the kidneys. If you are feel
ing badly YOU can make no mistake bv
taking Or. kilmer's Swamp Root, the
great kidney, liver and bladder remedy.
II corrcets inability to hold urine and
scalding pain IN passing il, aud over
comes that unpleasant necessity of being
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night, The mild and the extraordinary
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II stands the highest for its wonderful
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swamp Root IS pleasant TO take and IL
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sample bottle Of this wonderful new dis
eovery and book that tells all about Il.
both sent free by mail Address. DR.. XII.
mer & Co, Binghamton, n. Y. When
writing mention reading this generous
oiier IN this paper Don't make any
mistake, but remember the name. Swamp
Root, DR.. Kilnier's Swamp Root. and the
address, Bingliamton, n. ", ON every
bottle,
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-06-07
FIND DIAMONDS IN NORTH.
Discoveries in Minnesota and Canada
Excite Dealers in New York
and London.

New York.S-The finding OF about 20
drift diamonds in northern Minnes- ia
nno southern Canada has stirred New
York and London diamond merchants
TO the possibility of diamond fields be.
ing located there.
The geological indications point to
such fields being found in Ontario.
north OF the lakes. This " the opinion
OF officials OF the Dominion geological
survey engaged In this branch OF
work.
Recently a large quantity OF what
was hoped to be diamond bearing gray
ell was shipped TO New York, but ey.
animation failed to reveal precious
stones.
The work TO be done by the geologl
cal survey is TO locate the source OF
the drift diamonds. These specimens
irlfted away from their original home
but their discovery proves the exist
ence OF the diamond field In no very
remote place.
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-06-07
Ex-sLAvE MEETS MASTER.
Southern Negro Encounters Man Who
Owned Him More Than Forty
Years Ago.

Springfield. Neb.--IIarry Edmund.
son, a well-to-do negro living two miles
from hero. and Mason Peters, a rich
stockman. of Kansas City. met a few
days ago for the first time In over Al
years since 1864. Then Harry at the
age OF four years. had recently been
presented to Mason Peters, the eldest
son OF Ashby Peters. OF Clay county.
Mo. on whose homestead the boy was
born In slavery.
Together with his mother and Ave
brothers and sisters, Harry had been
sold at auction. but Mrs. Peters had
taken a fancy to the little fellow, and
at her intercesslon he was not deliv.
cred 10 his new masters, but was al
lowed to remain on the old homestead.
and was given as present to the
elder son OF the family.
Soon after his mother. calling her
six children 10 her. set out TO seek
her own and their freedom, having lost
faith In Uncle Sam. They made their
way 10 what Is now Kansal City,
Kan. where they found friends and
Harry "just growed." Now he Is the
happy possessor OF wife and family
and fine S0-aere farm.
Through a newspaper clipping Ed
mundson recently located his old mas
ter and In response TO letter received
an Invitation to pay him visit The
Invitation was accepted and the one
time slave had a pleasant time with
his former owner He has just re.
turned to his Nebraska home.