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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

Are the British rich in immediate
danger of being taxed off the British
isles? This is a question that is be-
ing asked seriously. The British press
day by day echoes the despairing pro-
tests of the well to do against the rap
idly increasing burdens Of taxation, Of
which no man knows the end. The
prediction is freely made by English
men of affairs resident of this coun-
try that any substantial increase in
taxation will be followed by an exodus
of the British we'll to do, and espe-
cially of the British rich from the
British isles. They will seek in this
country or some other haven where
the idea Of taking away the property
of those who have it to give 1t to
those who have none does not obtain.
The Englishman pays tax when he
1nherits property.
He pays an income tax on his rent
ais and on his salary.
He pays tax on his automobile,
He pays tax on all stock exchange
transactions.
He pays tax on all his land and
on all increase in land values.
He pays, in addition to the rent of
his dwelling, taxes for lighting, paw
ing and police protection.
He pays tax for the privilege Of
wearing a ring with a crest on it, and
a. tax for putting armorial bearings
on his carriage.
He pays a tax for his carriage, his
dog, his gun and his pistol.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY,

Excerpts Made from Trade RepOrtt
of Various Countries.
Belgian works are getting large or
ders for steel rails from Brazil, Swe
den, the Kongo and other coun
tries, also for bolts and metal ties
says the New York Sun
The rubber industry in Mexico is
not as profitable as was expected In
side Of few years the far east will
have 100000 para trees producing
from one to three pounds a year o.
rubber superior to the best Mexican
grades. Fewer trees produce more
rubber in the far east.
The study of English has been made
compulsory in the primary schools O.
Gautamala.
In 1908 there were organized il
Austria thirty-fve joint stock com
panies, with ST., 100000, about half the
1907 record in number and amount.
Italian imports of American goods
in the nine months ended March
1909, reached value of $47,278,791
or S6,215,000 more than in the nine
months ended March, 1908. Argen
tina's imports were $25,484,817, an in
crease of $1,149,000.
The Swedish government has ap
pointed tariff commission in prepa
ration for a thorough revision of the
tariff in 1910.
July 1, 1909, will begin the enforce
ment of the new pure-food law il
Switzerland. The American mea
trade Is largely interested, as somt
Of the restrictions are very stringent
and the inspection fees may be put
far too high.
The Mexican railroad finds it's ia
cilities overtaxed to move the impor
tattons entering the country at the
port Of Vera Cruz. Notably amon9
importations the automobile demand
in Mexico is shown to be steadily in.
creasing. Taxicabs are success II
Mexico city. All told Mexico bought
$36,897,715 worth of American goods
in the nine months ended March, 1909
against $34,539,937 purchases by Amer
leans of Mexican goods.
Portugal imports yearly from $50
100000 to $65,oOO,o0O worth of mer
chandise, of which per cent il
American. Six articles-cotton, corn
petroleum, tobacco, wheat and slaves
account for all but 100000 worth
Of the American goods imported That
100000 is made up Of nearly 300 ar
ticles, many Of which are materials
for manufacturing. In manufactures
imported the American share is in
significant. Transportation is our
handicap besides want Of knowledge
of the Portuguese market. American
letters are not infrequently addressed
Lisbon, Spain" Tariff rates are high
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09
GEORGE JACKSON.
The Man Who First Found Gold 1n
Rocky Mountains and Died Poor.
m 1l.L c-,,;1ro will dedicate

rha Man Who First Found Gold In
Rocky Mountains and Died POOR.
To-day Idaho Springs will dedicate
a monument to the man VINO nrst
found gold in the Rocky mountains.
George Jackson Is dead and beyond
the reach of the honor paid MS mem
ory. He died several years ago IN an
obscure corner Of the State Where ne
was making a fresh try at fortune,
irving again in old age to find for
himself enough gold to remove MIN
from the necessity to keep up the
search. Independent and self-rellant
to the end as he had been when nifty
years ago he was living on the natur-
al food of the country and making his
home under the stars, he who had
pointed the way for many men to be-
come millionaires through mining
gold, lived and died with empty peck
cts.
The day George Jackson found the
first gold in the land out OF which
great State was to be reared because
of his find, he was most interested In
the fact that he had found some dig
gings where he George Jackson) was
going to make fortune If he could
and that he had killed mountain
sheep which would help out his di-
minishing supply Of States grub I'M
til he could get back to where he
could get more of the same. His chief
concern right then was the fact that
his dogs, Drum and Kit" had been
worsted in fight with carcajou and
were too lame to travel. There wasn't
much in all that to suggest thoughts
of empire building or greatness. Time
has taken care of that and brought
it into perspective. On his part 1t
was a simple act in the days work;
in the light of fifty years we are
ready to pay with our regard the debt
of obligation under which he placed
a State which set up business in his
footsteps.
Time is jealous of it's large tasks.
1t picks and tests the men it permits
to perform them. Most often it con-
siders the privilege of doing them
sufficient reward. Jackson was per-
mitted to find the gold; others were
forced to be content with merely min
ing it. The others grew rich; Jack
son had been marked for blazer of
trails, a searcher. So he died poor in
the midst of the rich field he had
sown; died as he had lived a poor
prospector doing the work Time had
picked him to do. He left to the flu
ture only memory, but that will live
on long after those who were priv
legged only to harvest in his field will
have been forgotten. 1t is a way Time
has Of evening up the score.-Denver
Republican.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

Pilgrim tercentenaries will be nu-
merous for the next few years John
Robinston took his congregation from
Scrooby, England. to Amsterdam three
hundred years ago last year, and in
1909 he moved to Leyden. The house
he occupied in Leyden is marked by
q tablet, and a bronze memorial has
been put up on the church in which
he lies buried. Several other places
connected with him and his followers
still remain unmarked. Some of them
are to be adorned with inscriptions
this summer.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

Concerning the charge that a col
iege education breeds idleness and in.
capacity, where is the evidence to be
found warranting the broad state
ment? Certainly not in the record of
the Harvard class of 1908, nearly one
third of whose members worked their
way wholly or in part through college
and all Of whom are now either in
active employment or continuing their
studies. Nor in the protest of the
college oarsmen against the postpone
ment of the Poughkeepsie regatta on
the ground that the later date would
interfere with their taking employ
ment. Nor yet in the conditions re-
ported by a commissioner of the Lon.
don Times, who noted the greater
number and influence of college men
in business life as one of the striking
phenomena of American development
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

One of the large paper-making COM
panies lately decided to manage it's
forest in accordance with the princi-
pies laid down by the government for
estry service. The owners of three of
the five million acres of forest con-
troIled by the paper-makers have been
in consultation with the head of the
forestry service to discuss plans of
cooperation.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

penitentiary doors may not swing shut
on either. But the price must be paid
all the same-paid in the coin of the
soul, in peace of mind and loss of self
respect, and in thousand ways in
which our human nature, even while
it yields to evil, yearns for the eternal
good and stretches its hands upward,
no matter how low it may have fallen.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

1t would be a rude jolt to Prof.
Pickering and Flammarion to learn,
on opening up communication with
Mars, that the inhabitants of that
chesty and exclusive planet had long
been picking our secret thoughts off
the interplanetary wireless at every
Vernal and autumnal eXquinox.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

Canadians, by ordering navy on
the installment plan, should encourage
the Swiss admirals to plan few
battleships.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

Sir William Ramsay's feat of trans
muting chromium, thorium, hydrohuo-
siIicic acid and bismuth into carbon is
great, but it ought to be easier to G'g
the dusky diamonds right out of the
ground.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

us there any difference in the mean
ing Of the words nautical and ma.
rine?'" asked Mr.. Malaprop.
Not much" replied Mrs Malaprop.
Zone is a cinnamon OF the other."-
Chicago Record-Herald.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

A confirmed bachelor objects to
some of the spring hats on the ground
that they violate the scriptural injunc
ton concerning the hiding of ores
light under a bushel
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

The Kansas Magazine mournfully
says that SO per cent of the poetry
It. receives is "intolerabiy bad 1t
would be interesting to know what
percentage of the poetry it receives
1t prints.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

In Missouri a farmer has been call
ing home his pigs at night by means
of a photograph. The phonograph, it
appears, has a totally different effect
on pigs than on human beings.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

AN English preacher declares that
London is the wickedest city in the
world" That makes the fourth wick
eldest city in the world we have heard
of during the past six months.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

One of the magazine writer's asserts
that Americans are fogged, thrown
into prison and shot in Guatemala. If
this is the case it would seem to be
the immediate duty of Uncle Sam to
convince Guatemala that he is a hot
tamala
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

Nat Goodwin has divided his for
tune with his new wife. In case trou
bic follows this should simplify mat
tiers as far as alimony may be con-
cerned.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

A member of the German Reich
stag was attacked by hysteria while
speaking and was forced to quit. Over
here when public men get hysteria
they keep right on talking.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

Margaret Ellington will now try the
Nevada remedy for that too-much
married feeling.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

"A Colorado town advertises for
female teacher with glass eye, gray
hair and a cork leg" A steady job
for the right woman.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

The Wright brothers will now devote
their time to the elevation of Amer1-
can sport.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

Mrs. Baker Eddy, in the language of
Mark Twain, retorts that rumors OF
her decease are grossly exaggerated.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09
Grown-Up Children.

1t Is not only the frivolous whom
the spirit of childishness is just now
leading astray. Stiffness is the fash
ion even among the wise Women
especially affect a kin of childish
shrewdness in talking on serious sub
jects. Like children who have the
habit Of romancing, they lose the
sense of reality, and because they
never talk exactly as they think they
begin to think exactly as they talk
London Spectator.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

Wireless reports from Africa are to
the effect that the nervousness in the
Jungle is becoming acute.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

When we hear a woman say that
all men are alike We wonder how she
knows.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09
Publisher.

The man who has nothing to live
for can afford to loaf.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

Some great men, when they die in
the pomp of place and power, are
mourned for with official trappings by
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09
Fooled the Baby

Fooled the Baby.
Hewitt-Ooes your baby keep you
awake?
Jewett-No, I fooled him; as soOH
as he was born I got job woTklns
nights.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

The Wright rshp has wheels but set of wooden like
initial
which
it afoat
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

The proposal of a legislator in
neighboring State to prohibit profan.
ity by law will probably come to
naught, but it is significant when a
legislative body seriously contemplates
the labelling of profane language as
unlawful. The English language is
rich in expletives, more so, it is said,
than any other modern language. 1t
is strange that a race as piously-
minded as the English should have
made it so, but nevertheless it is
fact. From the army which swore so
terribly in Flanders, Englishmen,
who never were in the army, appear
to have learned much swearing. It is
said that Americans, who have obtain
ed their language and some Of their
institutions from the British, have i'm
proved upon the profanity of the moth
er country. The American swears
more picturesquely, if not more pro-
fusely, than the Englishman. But law
would not abolish swearing, because
it would not be enforced. The habit
can be effacted only gradually, by
education. Then there is the 'cuss-
ing that goes on about the house. 1t
is picked up by the children. In
many homes they learn to lisp in
profanity. Father might set a watch
on his tongue for their sake. There
is this objection to swearing which is
fundamental, that it associates the no.
blest ideas with the meanest feelings.
1t is irreverent, whether we believe
personally in reverence or not. There
is a second objection to 1t, that it i'm
poverishes the speech of the individ-
ual. 1t contracts his use of English,
language which is nobly capable of
expressing any emotion from grave to
gay without resort to explosives. The
man who has only learned to swear
out his indignation or admiration, is
poverty-stricken in his means of ex-
preston.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

great gatherings of an agitated popu-
Everett Hale marked, but by a deeper
and truer mourning. In hundreds of
thousands of American homes he was
surely spoken of with that touch of
personal regret which is the truest
tribute to a man such as he. The
older folk, who in days of civil war
were stimulated and permanently
nodded by his Man Without Coun-
try" and who have never ceased to
talk of what that book had meant to
them, will feel their grief as keenly
as those Of the younger generation,
who know more directly of the useful
life which the departed leader had led
even to his last days. World peace
was DR.. Hale's great dream, and to
him all the many movements to that
day. Spiritual peace and strength and
helpfulness for the individual was
something which he was peculiarly
fitted to foster, first through his
preaching and later through his Lend
a Hand clubs, now scattered to the
ends Of the earth. His ethical teach.
ing was intensely human and practi-
cal. His life was that of love, broad,
pure and refreshing, for all the good
in man. No uttered tribute to this
noble man can be other than poor and
feeble compared with the silent trib-
ute which will go out toward him
from the hearts of his countrymen as
spontaneously as his loving helpful
ness went out toward them.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1909-04-15
WEST TOWNSHEND

c. E, Grout is attending court.
School begins Monday, Mrs.
Marion Brooks teacher.
4 N. H. Lawrence is making some
repairs on his house.
Miss Mary Perkins of Sunapee
was a guest at the Switzer home
stead the past week.
Taft's mill shut down Wednes-
day on account of high water.
Quite q number of the boys enjoyed
the day in Brattleboro.
Miss Hortense Switzer is en-
gagged to teach the South Wind
ham school and Miss Ethel Bristol
at East Jamaica.
Miss May Burton has gone to
Tlverton, R. l., to spend the sum
mer with Mrs. Joseph Church.
Mrs. Syrena Burroughs, who has
been with her daughter, Mrs. AL
fred Patch of Newfane, for the past
three weeks, is home again.
The B. B. Sunday School class
No. 4 held a social and sugar eat at
the vestry last Monday evening.
A good crowd was out and a pleas
ant time erioyed.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1909-04-15
DORSET VALLEY.
Finding Fault.

Scarce a week goes by but some
one writes ME that they want me to
give so-and-so fits. This is a COM
mon human trait. People like to
see others given Gifts as they call
If, but how different it is when some
one gives them fits When the
laugh is on them they hop and
bound and don't like the party who
wrote the joke on them. But
throwing all this aside, did you ever
think how much easier it is to ind
.sanlt than il is to do anything, and
how discouragirg it is to have every
little mistake one makes picked up
and made a joke of? And yet lots
Of people seem to live upon gloat-
ing over others failures, and usual
ly the ones who laugh the loudest
are the most touchy and will get
mad the quickest when they are
caught.
A good joke is good thing, be-
cause a good laugh is better than a
good cry, the same as bright smile
and good word is better than a
frown and a growl. Life is too
short for long faces and sour sneak
ing ways. The old-time long, att
stere, sour, melancholy face that es-
pecially pious people used to wear,
has gone out of fashion and a good
genial smile taken its place, and the
world is better for it. The man
who has good word for all and
leaves smile behind him as he goes
through the world is worth more
than load of pills and plasters Civ
en- away. But it is natural to some
to always look OH the dark side, to
always find fault, to be forever
prophesying evil and trying to make
others unhappy. 1t is easy to dc
this, Tor the SANDER monger will al
ways find plenty of helpers, ard a
SANDER will gSGw faster than toad
stools, aud as about as fragrant.
How many young girls have had
their prospects in life ruined by
some SANDER monger, who, through
envy or spite, have told some half
truth about them and set the vile
tongtes wagging! Surely the fault
finder is no help to cheerful people.
Judge Fullerton
For more than fifty years l knew
w. Fl Fullerton and III all that
time he was always cheerful, full of
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1909-04-15
LONDONDERRY

Mr.. and Mrs. + i. Sterling Of
Weymouth, Mass, have been visit
ng at P. R. Hoit's.
Mrs. Arson ChadN lex is very
H.
Mary Piouty of Prouty of Peru
las been visit g Mrs. Julia Stone
1t Mrs w. l.. Cibson's.
MIS- c. +. Bacon returned
Thursday from Poston.
Mrs. Julia Store has been very
i the past week.
Dir Fitzjei aid has gone home.
The Ladies Aid meeting was de-
erred until he coming Saturday,
when report of the cost of tbs
lew bell will be read. Two new
front doors IRE on the way to b
placed in the church.
Stillman Chilis finishes work at
the Carleton House April II A
Mr.. Chaplin takes his place.
Mrs. Wern.off has been sick but
IS a little b>ttcr.
George Hari ington is moving his
family back to S. Londonderry.
Mrs Don Wyman helped at Il e
Carleton House a few days last
week.
Following is clipping from the
Comas Prairie Courier of Blain
county, Idaho:
Mrs. Asenath Walker Garfield,
one of the oldest residents of Cor
raj, passed into the Great Beyond
Friday, March 10, 1909, at the age
of 90 years, 5 months and 5 days.
She was born at Ludlow, VT, Sept.
Ia, 1913, and was married to Elisha
D. Garfield of Londonderry, Vt. i,
in I847. Two children were born
into their home, who survive her
Mrs. L. E. Ellington of Woods
ION, Kan, and Mrs. H. l.. Clark,
with whom she made her home
since the death of her husband at
Woodston, July 8, 1898"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1909-04-15
Our Nci2hbors.
TOWNSHEND.

William Fisher ana daughter,
Hattie, have move t. W. Towns
bend.
John Howard has bought tn,
Harrison Eddy place expecting t'
use it as a summer home.
Fred Osgood returned to VI
University last week Wednesday.
Miss Esther Dale returned to
Springfield, Mass, last week.
Mr.. Gates has moved on to the
place formerly owned by +. L
Lowe.
Mrs. J. ]. Dale went to Spring
field, Mass, last Saturday to be
gone few weeks She may v;>il
elsewhere before returning home :
Mrs. Colburn and daughter,
Belle, of Nashua, n. H, are visit
ing at c. Q. Stebbins',
Miss Christie Park came Satur
day to A. Z. Park for vacation.
Mrs. Van Schaick is expected
this week at Charles Austin's
Abbie Starr is stopping at +, l..
Hastings for her Easter vacation.
Miss Ellen Cobb of Bondville is
caring for Mrs Tina Cobb.
The Congregational ladies held
their annual Thank offering Mis-
sionary meeting at the home Of
Mrs. F. L. Lowe last Friday after
noon. A prepared program was
used, consisting of responsive read
ings, singing, and reading of letters
from missionary workers.
Sunday both churches were pref
tily decorated with house plants and
Easter lilies. At the Congrega-
tional church an Easter exercise
was used in place of the regular
morning service. Several of the
older people had short talks or pa
pers on assigned subjects, two all
thems by the choir, also other East
er songs by the choir assisted by
some of the young people. The
primary class assisted with one song
selection.
The district schools will begiI
next Monday with F. Z. Gilber
as teacher i'll No. 6, Miss Olcestel
Wheeler in No. 7, Miss Lottit
Jones i'll No. 3, and Miss May
Howe in No. s.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1909-04-15
Cne Beck Authors.

Robert Burton. the author of ''The
Anaiomy of Melancholy" may claim
this homer: His book has stood the
test of time as few books have. Pro-
fessor Sain;sbury writes that AL fit
rea'ers Of English literature have
loved him" Lamb praises the fam
tastic great old man" and, indeed,
borrowed from him many a choice
phrase. Among other remarka BILE
ore book authors" may be mention
ed Sir Thomas Mallory, whose fa-
noss collection of ATthurian ro-
Tsnees is one of the imperishable
treasures CT the English tongue;
Richard Hooker, whose Laws of Ec-
cles:&stical Pc!ity" is still a stand
ara book on the CO stitUtion of the
Church CT England. and Gilbert
Write whose immortal Natural
His cry CT SeIbourne" is still read
with pleasure mi ..~oit.