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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-23
4 MAN AND A MOB.
The Way Lyon PIayfair Handled the
l~aneashire Strikers.

The Way Lyon PIayfair ene
Lancashire Strikers.
During the great labor riots in Lam
cashire about the middle Of the last
century the ready resources of Lyon
Playfair saved one Of the only tive
mills which remained open at the time.
The government was anxious that
these two should continue in action,
and supplied the workmen engaged
with muskets. But a great force OF
strikers advanced upon one of the
two, and it "a obvious that the day
was lost. The mob meant to wreck
the place. Playfair, who was a friend
of the owner, appeared in haste among
them, keeping the proprietor u OF
sight. He put the case frankly to the
strikers. The gates of the mill We're
closed, but the numbers of the strikers
made them irresistible; hence 1T was
of no use their all going in and wreck
ing the place. Let d few of them enter
the premises, remove the plugs from
the boilers, and thus, without damage
to the works, secure their stoppage.
Even a d%isorderly mob, brayely met by
a man of courage and tact, will listen
| So did this one. Playfair's proposition
sounded fair, but might not ~treachery
lie behind it?
He Immediately put their doubts at
rest by offering himself as hostage.
He would accompany the deputation
while the others kept guard over the
works. The men agreed. and Playfai1
strolled off with the men chosen. To
gether they went to the boilers n
withdrew the plugs. This stopped the
works, but did no other damage. While
thus engaged Playfair was able to lis
ten to the story Of the leaders, and
found many of their demands most
reasonable and such that afterward it
was possible readily to concede them.
The little party returned from thelr
innocent wrecking and found the mob
honorably preserving order. The sci
enlist gave them a couple of sover-
eigns with which the buy food. and
they returned him three times three
in cheers. There remained only one
other mill to close, that at Clitheroe.
and upon this the strikers now
marched. Again they were thwarted,
but this time not by pacific means,
but by the might of the military.-St,
James Gazette.
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1O1A SIdIO puDl4S
utilities commission, spoke on the rela-
ton of public utilities to social unrest.
He asserted that the public was Grim
inaily negligent for allowing present
evils to exist, as 1t could exert the
pressure which would check abuses.
He stated also that the time had come
when the corporations of the state
must learn to put the public service
and safety ahead of private profit.
1.-THE public" he said, shas been treat
ed like victims to be plucked instead
Of friends to be cultivated. The ele-
mentary laws of honesty and fair deal
ing have been violated. Rapacity and
Indifference to ordinary human rights
have prevailed. Everything has been
subordinated to the immediate and
enormous gain Of the few. Change all
this. Obey the letter Of the law. The
American people do not and never will
begrudge a generous pecuniary reward
for a first class service, but they do
md will object to a first class price for
l fifth class service"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-23
INDUSTRIAL
releoraphers, Strike Extends.

4 Because the Western Union manage
ment at Chicago had refused to rein
state operators who refused to handle
messages from the strike breakers at
Los Angeles the entire force of night
operators except six traffic and wire
chiefs went on strike early Aug. 9.
On the preceding night forty-nine Of
the Chicago operators had left their
keys when the messages sent by the
nonunion operators at Los Angeles be-
gan coming in, and for this Isl
they were promptly discharged. Other
men who We're ordered to take their.
places refused and also quit work. As.
Chicago is the chief relay station of.
the country this strike is expected to
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-23
AS He Viewed Il.

Stranger lin small town)-I saw by
the papers that a boy lives here who
was born with no legs and no arms.
I am a dime museum manager, and r
should like to find him.
Citizen-No use hunting him up. His
parents won't exhibit him.
ssThey won't? Well. it beats all what,
blessings fall to folks as can't appre-
ciate 'em."--Kansas City Independent.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-23
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Garden
FANCY STRAWBERRIES.

Some Kinds That With Proper Culture
Produce Large Fruit.
An interesting account of the Mil
lionaire strawberry is given in Rural
New Yorker, which says:
Five years ago Henry Jerolaman, the
New Jersey strawberry man, produc-
ed a Seeding, specimen fruit, which
is here shown. When the increase OF
the first plant had made a row eight
feet long Mr.. Jerolaman on going away
one day told the boy left in charge that
no berries were to be sold from those
plants for less than 81 per quart, think
ing that would be prohibitivc. On his
ieturn the boy handed him 81, Il Gus
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-23

good, rich soil and kept well cultivated
during the growing season. All I'M
ners should be kept off the plant.
Emil Gorafe, a grower of the Dixon,
also says:
l like to set strawberry plants for
large fruit in August or early Septem-
Der on land well enriched with fresh
stable n the previous spring.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-23

the maximum
permitted under
the law and is
the largest fine
ever assessed
against any i'll
diyidual or cor
poration i'll the
history of Amer
lean criminal
Jurisprudence
In the course OF
his decision the
Judge lnerciless-
ly scored the
practices of the
Standard Oil
c o m p Il II y =.
Among other 1
things he said:
I'VE may US
well look at this
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-23
Never Touched Him.

Nodd-Would you mind returning the
book you borrowed Of me last year?
'Todd-solne n borrowed It OF me
and hasn't returned it vet. Did you4s
ever see anything like the way some
people act about d thing like that3
They have no sense OF honor. Life.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-23
ECAL-CRiMINAL
Standard Oils Record Fine.

Judge Kcucsaw Mountain Lands or
the northern Illinois federal district
court has imposed q fine of $29.2lO,O0o
upon the Standard Oil Company of
Indiana, convicted ~ 1.4GI counts OF
receiving rebates from the Chicago
and Alton railway. This penalty is
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-23

press us with the
fact that he is real
ly human he doesn't
send for a great ed
itor. but Ii e r S
some reporters about
him on the golf
lin k s and h a II d S
t Ii e III OIL t a e w
homemade homilies
and wooden witt
cisms and pulls the
game"
At the same place
Frank w. Stevens,
chairman Of the New
Vy- LeL ,.l>1s-
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-23
SOCIOLOGICAL
stentatious Wealth Scored.


In II recent address at the New York
state Chautauqua assembly Bishop
Henry G. Potter. speaking on the rela-
lion OF the church to social unrest, stat
ed as his belief that among the greatest
causes of this unrest We're the lavish
and extravagant expenditure by the
rich and the presence Of luxury in the
midst Of the saualor and %privation OF
tenement life. He also arraigned the
church for its indifferences, inaction
and lack of personal sympathy for the
physical and mental ills of the people.
The same note was struck by another
speaker at ~Chautauqua, Mrs. ]. G.
phelps-Stokes, wife of the millionaire
Socialist. who denounced the methods
by which many of the rich secure their
wealth As we'll us their oStentation in
using il. She said. "Tlat men and
women who crush the life out of the
people that they may Haunt the power
to luxuriate and idle and still further
pppiess should dare to give big dona-
tons to charities is almost mendura-
BILE"
Restricted Birth Rate Desirable.
Professor Edward A. Ross, head Of
the sociology department OF the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, in Il lecture to- the
students said that restriction in the
birth rate is Il movement which ut the
bottom is %salutary and that tho evils
in its train appear to be minor or tran
sient or self limiting or curable,' thus
taking direct issue with President
Roosevelt's We'll known idea as to rfce
suicide. Professor Ross says he is
with those who hate famine, Wall.
saber tootled competition, class antag-
onism, degradation of the masses, vast
ing Of children, dwarting Of women
and cheapening of men, and asks if
the time will come when the mother Of
more than three is regarded rs Il pub
lie bencfactor and placed on the pay
roll of the state" Professor Ross linn
self is the father of three children.
Causes of Social Unrest.
Among the addresses recently made
before the Chautauqua On. " assem-
bly, was one by Erlnan J. Ridgway,
publisher OF Everybody's Magazine, on
Journalism and the Social Unrest"
He contended that the press, instead
Of arousing class war, performed a
great work in checking it, even the
much criticised yellow journalism. He
said, 1.-THE yellow journalist. when he
literally yells the 100000 poor fami-
lies of this country out of their mental
apathy and compels them to take IN
interest in life and affairs, is a public
b%enefactor." He said that John d.
Rockefeller knew the real secret of the
newspaper and "when he wishes to i'm
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-23
Celery Ia solis Beds.

Where celery planted i. solid beds Is
banked with earth the entire quantity
OF soil required must be thrown up by
hand. Under these conditions banking
witlrssoil is not profitable except on q
very limited scale;4-W. r. Beattie.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-23
ROCKY FORD MELONS.

They Are Successfully Grown Over a
Large Area.
The far famed Rocky Ford canta-
loupes are being successfully grown
over a large area. The specimens here
shown were produced in the Blue
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-23
KEEPING TAB
ON THE WORLD

Record Fine For Standard Oil to
Be Followed by Others, and
Criminal Prosecutions Near.
Alabama Brings Southern to
Rate Bill Terms Pending Ac-
ton of State Courts-WiI|iams
Wins Mississippi senatorship.
TeIegraphers Begin Strike at
Chicago - Anti-Christian CRU
SADIE In Morocco Follows Bonn
bardment of Casablanca.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-23
Farm Wood Lots.

Throughout a very large portion of
the United States nearly every farm
has a certain part of its area under
wood, either planted, as in regions
otherwise treeless, OF Of natural growth,
The value of this wooded portion, be-
sides affording protection from the
wind, is chiefly for fuel, fencing and
railroad ties, with some building ma
terial and the wood needed for special
uses about the farm. Without the
wood lot the farm very often would be
an improbable Investment, because the
farmer could not afford to buy the
wood which now costs him very little
except the labor of cutting and moving
it, but i'll the majority of cases this
part of the farm is far less useful than
it might easily be made. This is true
because the farmer does not study it's
productive capacity as he does that OF
his fields and pastures, and hence does
not make 1T yield as fully as he might,
with little or no additional labor, il he
went about it in the right way.AGifford
Pinchot.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-23
81 h NOW.

When a fence is GoSl,.. put it up, and
then it will not get &C. worsa, When,
a harness is broken, ,aendd il. before
you have a runaway q. before It be
comes worthless. When weeds. bugs
or fungi threaten, get aftsr them be-
fore the damage is done.--Tarni Jour
nal.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-23

According to figures gathered and col
lated by i Chicago business concern,
there is little ground for the unfavora-
made from time to time. These figures
show All crops fully UP to the average
for this season. with the exception Of
the corn crop, which was injured i'll
certain sections by the unfavorable
weather Of late spring, but even this is
weather may yet give nearly or quite a
full harvest,
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

year. and which was presented to the
National Encampment by the propri-
etors of the Glass Building. will be put
in place On the tower of Convention
Hall next Monday. Contracts for dec
Grating tie various places and meet
ings and the Reunions will be let early
next week. In accordance with the
expressed wish of Chief
Brown. the decorations will consist
largely of American flags The Com
nander-in-Chief says that every Amer
ican home ought to possess an Amer
ican flag. and to see that it is effectively :
displayed on all public occasions
The reviewing grand stand will be
erected either in front of Convention
Hail or on the lot just south of the
House of Pansa. The larger official
stand will be erected on lot just oppo-
site the reviewing stand.
The Committee on Information has
plans perfected for the care and COM
fort of visitors. A large company of
guides will be employed. who will be
equipped with a special helmet as a
distinguishing mark.
The Army Nurses. who are dear to
the heart CT all comrades, have been
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

ter starts on his Western trip. BY rea-
son of Mr.. Metcalf's lcng service on the
Naval Committee of the House. whild
he was a Representative in Congress.
he is unusually familiar with naval af-
fairs on the Pacific Coast, and will hava
some ideas of his own about what
should be done. He will also bring tho
President an important political word
about political conditions on the Pacific
Coast and about the japanese situa-
ton. The President is very determined
to have a treaty with Japan that will
exclude Japanese coolies, as the present
provision in the immigration laws.
whereby Japanese coolies can come in
only when they have a passport, is not
working satisfactorily. The Japanese
continue to pour in over the Mexican
and Canadian borders in spite of all
Immigration Inspectors can do. This
bodies more trouble with California the
coming Winter, unless something can be
done to check the arrivals effectually.
The President feels that if he can Sc
cure such a treaty he will have in
trenched his Administration in favor on
the Pacific Coast and eliminate all pos
sibilities of Democratic inroads from
that quarter during the next Presiden-
tial campaign.
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made the objects of special care by
Executive Director Sterrett They will
be quartered with the Misses Buss on
Philadelphia street. and will be met at
the station by a special committee
The Kirkpatrick Band. of Troy. has
been engaged for the official band. A
list of available bands has been COM
pleted, and will be furnished on appli-
cation to the Executive Director or
William T. Moon. Chairman of the
Committee on Music.
Horses for the Parade.
Specially favorable arrangements
have been made for horses for the pa
rade. J. w. Lyman. Chairman of the
Committee on Horses and Carriages.
has secured rate of So each for saddle
horscs-a rate which has never been
equa!led at any National Encampmcnt.
Tho Committee on Medical Aid and
Public Comfort is under the direction
of g. Scot, Towne. NJ. D.. Chairman.
He ia assisted by r. Il. Miller, assist
ant To the Executive Director, in maxi
ing the arrangements.
Arrangements have been made for the
The National tribune., 1907-08-22
FRANK NJ. sTERRETT,
Executive Director, 41st National En-.
campment, G.. A. IL.

Born in Clarke County. O., Oct. IS,
1S45. Educated in the district school,
Troy, O., Grammar School and Ohio
Wesleyan University.
Enlisted in 1853. Served in 5th Ind'p't
Battalion, Ohio Cav. and 147th Ohio.
Detailed in charge of gun of heavy
artillery at Fort Ethan Allen in the in
| trenchments at Washington, u. e.
| 1864; detailed to the United States
Coast Survey during the Summer. and
| assisted in laying out the National Gem
etery at Arlington Hights, Va.
Travelled in Europe in Fall of 1865.
Read law in Springfield. O., in 1866 Z.
Taught school in 1S6S-69. Commercial
traveller from 1869 to 1879. Postmaster
at Troy. O.. from 1879 to- 1885. Re-
signed from post Office to become man
ager of a manufactory of proprietary
articles in st. Louis. and continued TINS
work until 1894 He was the Repub-
lican candidate for Congress in the 12th
Missouri District (St. Louis), the second
manufacturing district of the United
States, in 1890 and 1894: was elected
and counted out. He has been engaged
in buying land and laying the same out
i'm additions TO ST. Louis from 1894 to
present time. He was the Financial
Secretary of the st. Louis Worlds Fair
during the promOtive period. and Presi-
dent of the Missouri Commission at the
Omaha International Exposition. He
organized A. H. Coleman Post, 159, De-
partment of Ohio. and was it's Com
mander for the first two years. Was
Commander of Frank p. Blair Post. l.,
Department of Missouri. 1892. and Ad-
jutant-General under Commander-in-
Chief Rassieur. 19O0-1901, and part of
Torrance's administration. He was De-
partment Commander of Missouri in
1903-1904
He has been the member Of the Coun-
ell of Administration for the Depart
ment of Missouri for the IL past con-
secutive years, and on the Executive
Committee of Walker, Clarkson, Goblin.
Sexton, Johnson. Shaw, Rassieur, Tor
rance, Black. and the senior member In
the present administration Of Com
mander-in-C Chief Brown, being the
youngest man and the oldest in length
of service. yin
He is now living In Troy, o., but con-
tinues his business in st. Louis. Mo. He
was called to Saratoga Springs as Ex-
ecutive Director in March. 1907.
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SPEAKER CANNON.
He Makes an Unexpected Visit 10 WASH
inEton-Iike "Br'er Rabbit" He Lays
Low

Speaker Cannon's visit 10 Washington
was rather picturesque. He came un-
announced and unexpectedly. General
ly when he visits Washington in the
hight of the dull Summer season the
Speaker is willing 10 talk little for
publication. but he was silent this time
He is one of the committee on the part
OF the House that is supervising the
construction of the great new office
building just south of the Capitol. This
fact always gives him Il plausible errand
for visiting the Capital City. and when
he has come on matters of politics that
he is not desirous of informing the pub
lie about he generally states that it is
on business connected with the nnyv Of
flee building
That structure is NOW nearing COM
pletion. and by December will be ready
for occupation by the $500 members
of the National House. numbering 3S6
Congressman and few Delegates. The
offices are OF the most substantial char
acter, and will give the Congressman a
place to invite their friends and also Il
place to write letters and conduct their
official business. a tunnel. now being
constructed, will enable the members to
walk underground from the office build
ing to the Capitol One of the con-
veniences now being installed in the
building is a stock ticker service. Moth
ing of that kind has ever been known
before at the Capitol, altho divers Sena-
tors and members have been accused of
keeping in pretty close touch with Wall
Street
The Speaker is saying nothing abont
his own Presidential boom. He still has
his lightning rod up, and is comforting
on occasion with Congressional friends
who are expected to help bring dele
gates to his support. But he is purs,I-
Ing Br'er Rabbit policy of laying
low" and "sayin' nuffin.'' The progress
of the Taft and Hughes booms has not
discouraged the Speakers friends at all.
for they regard these as hot-weather
growths that will hardly withstand the
blighting winds of December and jan
uary.
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Veteran. i. the City.

Uriah Huber, McCutchenville. O.
Comrade Huber served in the 9th Ind.
in the three-months service, and was
wounded at Cheat River. He re-enlist-
ed in the 101st Ohio. in which he be-
came a Sergeant. and was captured in
front of Atlanta. spending some eight
months in Andersonville. He is running
a sawmill combined with some other
factories.
w. T. Carter Royce City. Tex. Conn
rade Carter belonged TO Battery B, 1st
Ky. l.. A.. and is n carpenter by trade.
He has been living in Texas for IT
years.
John T. Kilham. 1st Potomac Home
Brigade. Harper's Ferry. w. Va. Com
rade Kilham. who served in the Army
of the Potomac, has been for years a
conductor on the B. & o. Railroad.
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

Returning home with his right hand
and arm permanently disabled from q
shell wound. he entered the preparatory
department of Oberlin College O., in
the Spring of 1866. After finishing the
preparatory course he took up the regu-
lar classical course. and graduated with
the class of 1872. Two years previous
TO his graduation he was Principal of
the high school at Steubenviiie, o. Thus
in four years he completed ftwo years
preparatory Greek, three years pre-
paratory Latin and a tfourfyears' col
lege course. tc 10
Commander Rowe continued as Prin-
cipal of the Steubenviile High School
after graduation and held this position
for Is years. Since leaving 1Steubenville
he has held the Supermfendency of the
following city schools: Huron and Sioux
Falls, 5. d.; Little Falfs9 Milan, and for
the last few years Payette. Idaho.
He will attend the Nsdionul E.ncamp-
ment to be held at Saratoga Springs,
Sept. 9-14.
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use of the Aimory as an emergency
hospital The ambulance service will
be ample. and will be furnished by
local parties. A special automobile SER
vice has been organized 1t is proposed
TO place 10 s.GIonss at regular Intervals;
along the line of march, where water,
surrounded by ice. will be deposited.
Each of these stations will have boy
In charge who will cary water TO the
veterans they pass by.
The medical service will be furnished
by physicians from Saratoga Springs
and Troy branch hospital will be
established at the ID. & H. Station for
use OF those who mag need medical
attention on the arrival of trains
Forty hospital aids and II nurses have
been engaged. and branch emergency
hospitals will be established at other
points as need indicates.
Arrangements have been made for
providing seats for the veterans while
waiting for the parade to form. and n
Saratoga Box and Lumber Co. for fur
nishing 1000 of these benches.
The press arrangements are in charge
of G. H. Benedict, Chairman of the
Press Committee Mr.. Benedict has ap-
pointed committee of 40. representing
the papers of the immediate vicinity OF
Saratoga Springs and the State. A
| the press correspondents who may be
present at the Encampment has been
engaged, and will be equipped with
type-writing machines and desks
The room is in the Arcade Building
and is in close proximity to both tele-
graph offices.
Halls for Reunions.
The arrangements for halls for Re-
unions are in the charge Of w. NJ.
Kfmball, assistant to the Executive
Director. and the accommodations af-
forded will be ample.
The Woman's Relief Corps has issued
the following circular:
Headquarters Womap's Relief Corps.
Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the
HsHpblit. Yonkers. N. r. June 26.
"Cjrculas Letter No. I.
sHaMns been appointed . Committee