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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1906-03-23
Learning to Shoot.

Among the special aims Of the na-
-ional guardsmeu who met ln Wash
ugton recently was an Appropriation
Tor providing target practice FOR die
militia. In warfare today something
more is wanted rban that recruits be-
able to project a bullet iu The air on
Tie chance that ii may nld target
somewhere in the opposing lines. Ii is
an art to handle the modern military
rife, with its killing possibilities at
1000 yards and not much probability
that the foe will stand for it at closer
range.
Somehow the Beers kept the British
Tommy Atkins" at a distance with
out having had much target practice
They could shoot to kill. but they ac-
quired proficiency by really shooting
at live things which might have killed
them. That is how it is in war. A
man needs to keep his nerve under FIRE
as well as keep his nerve TO fire
straight Washington said, what we
need Is a good army. not large one"
We have an army Of citizen soldiery
numbering over 100000 men. Proper
Iy supported in the stage Of prepara-
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1906-03-23
Victories Of the Revolution.

The recent statement by Governor
Pennypacker that the Continental ar
mics won but two battles in the Revo-
luton will have the effect Of sending
the people to their histories for the
facts in the case, and, whether the
bold statement is borne out literally
or not, the searchers will arise con
WINGED that Washington and his men
won a great victory and did it by hard
fighting. Saratoga and Yorktown We're
unequlvocal triumphs, and an army
can afford to rest its giories upon
those two military achievements. But
there were battles and battles, as arm
ed conflicts are usually designated.
Our Revolution was long and
tedious war, and the fact that the Con
tinentals kept the field at all was a
triumph Of arms. The British learned
by bitter experience in countless en-
gagements, which the military expert
Of today might call skirmishes, that
the ragged rebels had fight in them.
And as a matter of fact it was policy
sometimes to fight and run away 50 as
to be ready for more important occa-
sions. Washington often so maneuver-
ed as to avoid pitched battle and stili
threaten the enemy This was notice
able in his campaign around New
York. 1t was good policy to wear the
enemy out, and often the Continentals
were the best fighters at the point of
contact, and their smaller triumph had
all the Importance of a moral victory.
To win without hard fighting is the
best of warfare, and the bands OF
Wayne Stark, Sullivan, Greene, Lin.
coin. Marion, Sumter and Putnam
by the persistence as well as by the
might of their valor, worsted the red
coats in the end.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1906-03-23
S1.0O Per Year
Calling BacIE TO the Soil.

The idea which has taken root among
philanthropists and social reformers
more especially those imbued with thf
spirit of Christian socialism. that tht
farming districts and humanity in the
cities would both be gamers if tilt
crowded cities could unload their sur
plus population upon the vacant lands
of the country has found a champion
in the National Advertiser.
The case seems so obvious that The
only question raised by advocates OF
the scheme is how to get funds 10 carry
it out II appears 10 be taken fos
granted without inquiry that the III
successful and dissatisfied people IL
town will make good tillers of the sob
OF at least capable and contented hew
ers of wood and drawers of water &c
the natural tillers Of the soil.
When the problem is thought ou
there is apparently no good reason te
suppose that the average city man OF
city woman will thrive under the rad
ical translation which will be involved
in the effort to empty the streei
into the cornheld and hen yard. The
chances are that the city habit Is mat
ter Of generations and ingrained. Some
ancestor fled from the country and tht
farm to the town of his day and bred
a race Of city people TO whom the
country and the farm are dream pie
lures and nothing more. If years OF
city vicisstudes, and especially OF
financial stress, have brought them tc
the dregs of life any fate seems prefer
able until the Rubicon Is crossed and
the glare and roar of the city are gone
never to return.
The one faculty that could reconcile
the city person 10 country life is Who'll
ly lacking in the average town bred
persou-that is, stiffness, the knacs
of taking hold of any and all kinds OF
work. Failure at first is certain to fol
low an attempt to turn from the SHOP
OF counter to the plow and the milking
STOOL If the cash of the generous
could bridge this gap some good might
be done by wholesale migration from
the teeming avenues to the fertile hills
and prairies. But subsidy is the very
opposite of necessity. that world old
mother of industry and stiffness.
The example of our early forefathers
naturally springs to mind when the
question Of peopling the land is under
consideration. They We're not all born
farmers. and they tackled the wilder
ness barehanded. But they were prac-
tically stranded Oh hostile shores and
had to dig or die Many of them did
die. and we witness today the handi
work of the capable fellows that sur
vived the struggle If the ablebodied
city folks could be lured to the fields
and forests and have their bridges
burned behind them, as was virtually
the fate of the early American colo
nists, a percentage would stick to the
soil and come out farmers. The editor
of the Advertiser suggests that the ma
tional government institute a colonial
ton system to relieve the cities and
people the vacant lands.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1906-03-23
Banishing Egyptian Darkness.

France may not get the free swing
she bargained for with England in the
land of the Moor, but nevertheless she
Is pushing on her empire around and
through the Sahara desert and slowly
letting light in upon the loved Egyp-
tan night" as Kipling would call it,
of the natives. 1t is really enough to
make African Rip Van Wrinkles rub
their eyes after the sleep of ages to
see the track of steam communication
closing in upon that last citadel of Mo
hammedan seclusion, Timbuktu, on the
upper Niger, which will soon be within
nineteen days of Paris. This will be
accomplished by combined river and
rail communication between Dakar, on
the Atlantic, and Timbuktu. From
Paris to Dakar. by rail to Bordeaux
and steamer to Dakar, is nine days.
When the projected railway lines are
all completed the time from Dakar to
the Mohammedan center will be eight
days
Within the memory of this generation
no white man could enter or even APP
proach the forbidden city of the Arabs
except he went in disguise, as did Pro
fessor DR.. Otto Lenz, an Austrian, who
stained his face so as to pass for
Mohammedan and entered and lived
there some years. This yentursome
Austrian was the last of five European
travellers who in the course of $50
years saw this mysterious center of fa
natical Mohammedanism. One of these
died in bondage to the Arabs, one was
murdered and three escaped to civilza-
ton and stimulated the French to sub
due this ancient town.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1906-03-23

One thing is certain from the recent
general elections in England, and that
is that London drawing rooms VII
have much less to do with legislation
and appointments to high places than
they have had the past twenty years.
The men in oyeralls have made up their
minds to use the vast power which be-
longs to them, and doubtless the day
has gone by when great English ladies
can make or mar the career of a Brit
ish statesman. Under the sway of the
horny handed the house of commons
will resemble a workingmen's congress.
and the reputation it has enjoyed as
the finest club in Europe" will prob
ably be a thing of the past.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1906-03-23

DR.. Eliot Of Harvard has no sympa-
thy with the pessimists who decry de-
mocracy in America as a destroyer of
true civilization. Recently he said;
The great movement of the world today
Is toward democracy The great keynote
of the present century, the century that
we are just entering upon, viii be democ-
racy in all things. one hundred years
from now the population Of our country,
which is now for the most part wilder
ness viii be beyond any present concep-
ton, and this great nation will be the
most democratic that the world has ever
known.
Democracy in America will be vim
dicated if this republic emerges at the
end of this century the most demo-
cratic nation the world has ever
known" Social and economic prob
lens confront us, and their settlement
cannot be delayed. Only that form of
government which affords the greatest
good TO the greatest number" in fact
as well as in theory, will be allowed to
stand.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1906-03-23

Even ex-Chief Devery is willing TO
await developments in the case Of the
aristocratic millionaire clubman ap-
pointed deputy police commissioner in
New York. he of the impressive name
Rhinelander Waldo Says Devery:
"You can't tell whether a man is a
fad or a fancy till he lodges his con-
tract. You have to wait awhile to see
what he's goin' to do"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1906-03-23

One Of the greatest of Englani's so
biologists declares that the plaque Of
poverty which has fallen upon bis
countrymen is due to the extravaganza
and idleness Of the middle class w0-
men, who ape the follies and affect the
silly manners of the upper class, so
called. In that crisis a queen Of the
Victoria stamp would so manage as 20
make the influential upper class an ex-
emplar of virtues rather than of vices.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1906-03-23

rion this army should furnish officers
for 100000 men in time Of war, an ar
my equal to that Of the north in 1860.
The militia is the peoples army, Almost
all states are liberal supporters Of their
national guard The general govern
ment should incline to Washington's
idea to the extent Of making what mil
itary we do maintain good in the
sense of being up to date when called
upon to shoot.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1906-03-23

Farmers in the province Of Ontario
are out with a sharp protest against
the proposed increase on manufactured
products. Primarily these farmers IA
vor reciprocity with the United States,
but failing IN that they ask thar agri-
cultural implements. wire fencing. etc.
be admitted free and the rates on other
manufactures generally lowered.
<he New Zeaiandsrs seem TO stand
~ heroically at the polls in support Of
t.leir socialistlc experiment in govern
nssnt. FOR at the recent election they
voted Overwhelmingly 10 continue H.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1906-03-23

That New York plaintiff in suit 10
recover from restaurant keeper be
cause a wire nail was served him in q
piece Of mince pie viii, of course,
only have his trouble for his pains
but incidentally we shall have some ju.
dicial utterance on the proper ingredi-
ents of that standard American deli
cacy.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1906-03-23

In China when a bank fails they first
cut off the heads Of the officials and
then divide the assets among the de-
posltors, with the result that there has
not been bank failure in China for q
thousand years There is no reason to
suppose that our eXiled bank presidents
and cashiers are exploiting high finance
among the Celestials. For them the
shut door is rs good as any.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1906-03-23

Joseph Chamberlain's reelection TO
the English parliament in canvass
where nearly all Of his powerful party
colleagues were defeated at the polls
was owing largely to the splendid
campaign work Of his American wife.
American brains are quite as valuable
as American cash in the equipment Of
European homes.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1906-03-23

France picks out presidents over six
ty and selected one of seventy-four in
the time of storm and stress when the
present republic was founded and
Theirs became head of the state. Ac-
cording to the verdict of history, it was
q wise choice.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1906-03-23

According to reports from spoilers,
the peach crop is doomed to failure by
the warm weather Cold or warm, the
peach trees are always in the view
with alarm" class.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1906-03-23

With the victims of Town Topics so
"easy" to give up, the soldiereditor
will probably put in the plea that 1t
would have been a shame not TO take
their cash.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1906-03-23

Nothing has been heard from Rud,
yard Kipling since the English election
returns began to come in. Their gen
eral import is enough to make the poet
Of lnnerinliam skin OF 10 Africa.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1906-03-23

Keating : cu.lery IS the best.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1906-03-23

Bargains in Paint, White
Lead, Colors and Varnish
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-03-10
PRICES FOR THE SATURDAY MARKET BASKET

affected all vegetables and
from be expected drop Saturday
splendid line of food ufs the local markets
exceedingly Shalos
adshes lunches beets Toe bunch
head lettuce 1mmed 4Oc pound;
bushel zoe peck; Ber
potatoes soc peek potatoes SOC peek turnp
spinach all 40c peck. Bermuda
pound; white yellow onions, 4Oc peek Tomatoes
pound; beans at 35c quarter peck Florida
punches for 5c; cuumbers 25c each;
peppers mint,
parsley bunch; plant punches for
5
weakness of the market have declined doz
Country butter is 2sc pound; Elgin is 35c.
Turkeys 25c and
ducks
has the fact that this
is of
a Apples peck with
box apples which 81 Bananas
a California
dozen quart.
Grapefruit is plentiful at 121ac to 15c EACH
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-03-10

Gin the past week eggs have drop
ped 5 cents' said local retailer
yesterday. eggs are now on the
market at Is cents per dozen and I
think that the bottom price has been
reached"
The Wayne County hen has been
working overtime during the present
mild winter and eggs at all times
have been obtainable. Everybody at
present can afford to eat eggs and
there has been a strong demand but
more eggs are being offered to the
retailers by the country people than
they can use. A farmer made the
prediction yesterday that by Easter
eggs would be selling at s cents
dozen. In the larger cities eggs are
being offered at 10 cents per dozen
but they are all packed eggs.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-03-10
CHICAGO MARKETS
A Flood of Bearish Statistics on
Wheat, And Nearly All Trad
ers Wanted to Sell-Corn
Market Was Weak.

Chicago, March 8. Especially A
flood of bearish statistics caused a
sharp decline at the opening Of the
wheat market. Almost all the trad
ers were on the selling side, and
there were few buyers. The weather
conditions were favorable for the
new crop, and Liverpool cables low
er, the shipments from Argentine in
excess of previous estimates and the
exports from India increased. There
was a break Of about lie from the
closing of yesterday, but the market
steadied somewhat at the end of the
first half hour, on covering by shorts.
May wheat opened 5s@Ac to 1@1sc
lower, and declined to 763sc, advanc-
ed to 76Rc and reacted to 1899,
where for time it held steady.
Large Grain Receipts.
The corn market was weak, partly
in sympathy with wheat and also be-
cause receipts were in excess Of pre-
vious estimates. May corn opened
A@3sc lower, sold up to 1870
@431ac, and declined to 1919.
There was little trading in oats
and the market was easy along with
other grains.
The market in provisions was bare
ly steady, notwithstanding an adj
vance in the price of live hogs. There
was very little trading, the pork mar
ket being especially dull.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-03-10
REAL ESTATE
TRANSFERS.

Samuel K. Hagins to Will
liam H. Shockney, quit
claim deed to southeast
quarter section "a, town.
ship, Is, north, Range IA,
east, excepting a certain
20 acres. Consideration
James M. Shelter to Herman
Austerman, 60 acres off the
north side of the southeast
quarter section %, township
13, North; Range /, west.
Consideration ...... $3.50
Jessie M. Pearce to Jane M.
Reid, part of lot 80 in Rails
backs addition to Rich
mond. Consideration $1,000
John A. Drummer to William M.
Lamb, lot No. on east side
of Market street, in the town
of Dalton. Consideration. -. S. 200
Heirs of Christian C.. Burgess
to Frederick Hovelmeier, GER
tain real estate in Township
IL, various parts. Considera-
Frederick Hovelmeyer to John
Lester. real estate in Town
ship II. Consideration. $500
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-03-10

New York, March 9. Especial. -
Large buying orders caused opening
prices in the stock market to mount
vigorously, with wide gains in several
specialties. Strength in the London
market helped the opening here.
After the usual wavering and rea-
lizing incidental to a strong opening
in which the Hill group, Reading and
Atkinson reacted point, the mar
ket moved aggressively upward, with
buying of Union Pacific and the coal
stocks a feature. More general in
terest was displayed in the market
than for some time, the purchases
comprising a large variety of stocks
in which the gains were significant
Atkinson was fed out literally or
the rally and the inability of this
stock to recover contributed to q
slight falling off.
Movement Sharply Upward.
An advance of 2s4 in Reading was
a feature. A disposition to take
profits caused an irregular movement
for a time, but new points OF
strength were developed.
Atchinson continued backward ant
yielded more than a point. Bonds
were steady.
Very little restraint was placed or
the movement of prices, and the fluc
tuations in special stocks were wide
In general way speculation showed
increasing confidence on the long side
of the market, which even the per.
sistent pressure against Atchinsor
did not seem to diminish. Pretty
nearly every stock that had any
claim to prominence was numbered
in those that were quoted a point OF
more above yesterdays closing. =
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-03-10
Indianapolis Cash Prices.

Wheat-Dull; No. 2 red, SOC
track; No. 3 red, 76c track; No. 4
red, Zoe track; March, soc; April,
7sc; May, Use; wagon, soc.
Corn-Steady; No. white 43c,
through billing 43Ac; No. 3 white
43c, through billing 43Ac; No. 4
white, Ale; No. 2 white mixed 421Ac,
through billing 4234c; No. 3 white
mixed 42112c, through billing 42s4c;
No. 4 white mixed, Ale; No. 2 yellow
4212c; No. yellow, 421ac; No. 4
yellow, 4Oc; No. 2 mixed 421ac,
through billing 42s4c; No. 3 mixed
4212c, through billing 1890; No. 4
mixed, Ale.
Oats-Firm; No. 2 white, 3134c;
No. 3 white, 3114c: No. 2 mixed, Gle.
Hay-F'irm: choice timothy. SILL
90; No. timothy, $1,000; No. ? tim
othy, 5000; No. l clover mixed,
$50.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-03-10
Dayton & Western TrdCtloDCo
(In effect March 4, 1906. Subject to
change without notice.)

Leave Richmond for Eaton,y West
Alexandria, townsville, New Lebanon
and Dayton: $500 AS :10-9:1O
9:55-11 :10-11:55 A. M. lilo
l :55 - 3:10-3:55 - 5:1O-5 :55-
:10-9:1O P. M.
9:55 and IL 100 P. M. to Eaton and
West Alexandria.
New Paris Branch Through Service.
Leave Richmond for New Paris
$685. :45-"S :10-9:55 - :55 A.
M. 1:55 - $685. 7:1O-
"S:1O-9 ;55--D:0 100 P. M.
transfer ct New Westville. /
Direct connection at Dayton with
"Lma Limited' trains for Troy, Pr
qua and Lima, leaving Richmond at
600 :00-12:00 A. M.-3:Oc P. M.
CONNECTIONS-At Eaton with p,
c. c. & st. L., for points north and
south. At West Alexandria with
Cincinnati Northern r. r. points
north and south. At Dayton with
electric lines diverging for Troy, Pr
qua, Sidney, Lima, Xenia, Springfield
Columbus, Hamilton and Cincinnati.
Through rates, through tickets to
all pints. For further information
call Home Phone 260.
MARTIN SWISHER, Agt.
Arrangements for parties, special
cars, etc., call, phone or write to
c. 0. BAKER, G. F. & P. A.
West Alexandria, Ohio.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-03-10
new YORK GRAIN MARKET
Wheat Broke Violently Under Heavy
Liquidation Due to Weak Gables
and Big Argentine Shipments.

New York, March 9. Especially
Flour-Receipts, 1924; sales, LOO;
Wheat-Receipts, $4,000 bushels;
sales, 100000 bushels; Corn-Re-
ceipts, $3.50 bushels.
Today's receipts of -four were
smaller by one half over Yesterdays
and sales were dull and lower
Wheat broke violently under heavy
caused by large Argen-
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-03-10
Other Grain Markets.

Liverpool, March 9.-Wheat-
Spot, nominal; futures dull; March
Is sgd; May, IS 4s4d; July, 6s 4s4d.
Corn-Spot, steady; American mixed
new, As I'd; American mixed, old,
As 712d; futures steady; March, As
Id; May, is I'd.
Cincinnati, March S.-Flour-
Dull. Wheat-Easy; s5@S61a. Corn
Firm; 431ac. Oats-Firm; 33c.
Rye-Quiet; 81. Professionalism
lard, $3.50; bulk meats, $500; bacon,
1925.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-03-10
Sheep-7,000; steady.
Other Live Stock Markets.


Hogs, top, heavy, $500 to 1915 per
hundred.
Hogs, 400 lbs, common and rough,
$500 to $50 per hundred.
Hogs, 200 and $50 lbs average $500
to 5000 per hundred.
Choice butcher steers, $4.35 to
$3.50 per hundred.
Lambs, $3.50 to Sc per hundred.
Calves 5000 to $3.50 per hundred.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-03-10
NEW YORK MARKETS
LARGE BUYING ORDERS CAUs-
ED OPENING STOCK PRICES
TO MOUNT VIGOROUSLY.

After the Usual Wavering and Rea-
LIKING Incidental to Strong Open
ing, the Market Moved Aggressive
ly Upward. More General Interest
Displayed. Very Little Restraint
Placed on the Movement Of Prices.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-03-10

Senator Lodge says Government
rate regulation In other countries has
tended to raise railway rates. This
is of course, why the roads oppose it
here
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-03-10

Sales to p. M, 100000.
New York money market, 5 and
51a and 4s4 and 414 per cent.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-03-10

So intense was the excitement in
Washington Saturday, the 18th that
the navy department even forgot to
watch the progress of its beloved
dry dock Dewey.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-03-10
THE LOCAL MARKETS
WITHIN THE PAST WEEK EGGS
HAVE DROPPED FIVE CENTS
IN PRICE.

A Farmer Made the Prediction Yes
terday That by Easter Eggs Would
be Selling for Eight Gents Doz-
en-. Most of the Eggs Now Being
Sold Here Are From the Farmers.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-03-10
Indianapolis Wagon Market.

111e11e'11eSPO11O "USOI IN01A CV'
Corn-43@47c.
Sheaf Oats-$S.OO@9.OO.
New Shelled Oats-32@35c.
Millet-$7.0O@S.OO.
Hay-Timothy, $9OO@1050; clo-
yer, $7.OO@S.O0; mixed hay; $1,000
900; straw, $4.00@5.O0.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-03-10
Chicago Livestock.

Receipts - Hogs-21, 900. Left
over, 1888. Prospects, sc higher.
Light, $6.O5@6.3O. Mixed, $6.O5@
$50. Heavy, $6.OO@6.35. Rough,
$6.00@6.10.
Cattle-2,000; strong.
Sheep-7,0OO; steady. -.
Other Live Stock Markets.
Omaha, March 9.-Cattle Re
ceipts, 1900; market steady. Hogs
Receipts, $500; market &c higher;
bulk of sales, $6.121a@61712. Sheep
Receipts, 5000; market steady.
Cincinnati, March 9.-Hogs-Ac-
tive; butchers and shippers, $645 !;
common, $5.15*6.35. Cattle-Quiet
fair to good shippers, $4.40@5. 25; ;
common, $2.00@3.00. Sheep Steady
$3.5O@5.75; lambs, easy; $4,000
$50.