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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-08-12

Senator Burrows must have made a
poor bargain with the Interests" his
opponents claim he has served for so
long. Otherwise he would not have a
mortgage on his home as a reward for
long party service.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-08-12

1t rs decided compliment to w. A.
aosencrans of Corunna, that he will
undoubtedly be made the Republican
candidate for senator in the Ingham-
shiawassee district without opposition.
This is an unusual honor for first
harm candidate. He will prove worthy
u the confidence Impressed in him.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-08-12

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The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-02

Twenty aged and tottering veterans
marched Monday through the City OF
Graves scattering flowers over the
burial SPOT, of the 81 comrades VINO
have gone on to the greater COM
mand.
Gwen here in the Far West, thou
sands of miles from the center oi
the country's civil war soldeiry the
roll of the dead is greater than the
roll of the living. The steps OF those
who remain are trembling and weak.
The voices that read the beautifui
words Of tribute are husky and ia'-
tering. They who carry the flag s'op
often to rest. The Grand Army oi
the Republic is fading away. 1t is
anpronriate that the little chiidren
should lead them; that a loving ana
venerating younger generation shou'u
nrecede them in the march.
The ceremonies in Lynden. Mem
orial Day, were very simple. Inc o'u
soldiers and their wives were carried
to the cemetery in automobiles. Thefe
at tho gate the thinned ranks were
cl, sed up, and preceded by the little
girls and the wemen of the w. Il. Z.
thew marched to the compost mouno
representing the graves of all those
national heroes whose last resting
place none but God know. The SOL
emn and beautiful words OF the "
A R. ritual were followed by the W.
R. c. program in memoriam. This
was followed by the silent march a.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-02
CLOSING EXERCISES OF GOOD YEARS WORK
CLASS DAY PROGRAM, AND THE SCHOOL JOURNAL

The closing formality Ct this years
school work, and the presentation II
diplomas will take place at Jameson 8
opera house tonight.
Last night the two graduating girls,
assisted by the Juniors and others.
gave their class day program at the
opera house. The hall was crowded,
and the applause with which each
number was received seemed a fitting
tribute to the splendid work Of the
teachers and pupils in the prepara-
tion OF the program and in the years
study. Following is the program as
rendered:
Piano Duet :. Vera Robinson. Mamie
... WeelnOuse
Music ......... Lynden Glee Club
What we Have Done, Elizabeth Ryan.
Jane Adams, Chicago's first Citizen'
.................. Ruth Frasie
The Hero 1 Admire $50. Roy Clark.
Solo Mrs. d. Muldel
Mother Natures Protective Devices. /.
Olive Heio
The Farm and the Community
....... Clarence Wander Griend
Class Poem-The Juniors .........
Mamie WeelhOuse
One of the Heroes ...... eva Muider
Some Rays From Radium ..........
... Walter Muenscher
Americas Funmaker ;. Bessie Taylor
Solo Mr.. Smalifieio
Conservation Of the Children .......'
Croto TOnning
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-02
TWENTY VETERANS HONOR OLD COMRADES
CHI, ,DREN AND SOCIETIES OBSERVE MEMORIAL

mong the graves, each veteran led
by little girl in white, who bore the
load Of the flag the soldiers loved SO
well.
Later on the way home the bodies
stopped at the bridge where the w.
X. c. after short ceremony Joined
with the G. A. r. in scattering flow
ers into the flowing water that they
nlght be swept on to the ocean,
tribute to those who went down in
their country's cause, at sea.
The roster of those whose graves
were decorated reads:
John Lynch, for whom Lynden's G.
A. r. post is named.
J. D. Robinson
Austin Chambers.
James Bremner
f. NJ. Cavender
w. G. Booth
Philip r -hrbacher
Chas. Vinup
II. w. Smith
Alfred Corfee
c. A. Bervers
Mahlen Bartlett
G. L. Ramsdell.
+. M. Emmons
NJ. Dimmick.
A. j. Swim. h
Jas. O'Neil
NJ. Galbraith
| -Hansen.
Anthony Wills.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-02
A.;OTIiEj. DUTCH CITY

There stands too, a memorial tablet
III l.eyden-the thrice-charged Ley
dch jar of our national life, the city
.whice has Teen ever electric with
rev ideas. This is the city that Of
Tered a new home to those three ty-
plcal companies of makers of dis
t'uct.Ve America-the Pilgrims, who
iou.ided New England, the Walloons,
VINO settled New Netherland in Amer
lca. and the Hugenots. who enriched
our national composite with Their
manifold gifts and graces. In Leyden,
IN The new H use of Archives, one
Sn learn twenty-fold more from the
Written records about the Pilgrims
than in all England. 1t was in Ley
den, while the English universities
still admitted only adherents of the
State church. that Leyden university
educated about five thousand Eng
lish speaking students, many of
whom were or became American cit
liens. Here, too, was educated Jean
Luzac, whose advocacy of the Ameri-
can cause, backed by that of a brill
liant company of Dutch Statesmen
writer's and dramatists, who saw in
the American movement for freedom
the reflection Of their own history
led to the rec -gnition of the inde-
Ependence of the United States OF
America by France, Spain and the
Netherlands and the armed neutrality
of Russia and Prussia in Our favor.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-02

years VIC have fought our battles to-
gether. Sometimes we felt dishearten-
ed s.metimes not, but through thick
and thin we have kept the light bright
We have spent four very pleasant
years with our teachers and you, our
fellew students. Our desires and aspir-
atoms may have been many and fanci
FIJI but we are just human beings af-
ter also what more could be expect
Ied
We all know that the desire for
Continued on page two)
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-02

Here was born a written COnstitu-
tion, followed almost exactly as
model for our own.
Here was begun the recording Of
deeds and mortgages.
Here was established our present
university education.
Here was begun the free public
school system upon which our own
was based.
Here was born red-and-white
striped flag, each state represented
by stripe.
And all these before the sixteenth
century had closed-the very founda-
ticn-stones of our own republic-year
before England ever thought OF these
elements of government or education.
Those five bronze tablets commem-
crate some other facts that the Amer
i6an knows not Of:
That the Dutch gave the first for
eign salute to our flag.
That Dutch loans paid our starving
soldiers, upheld our credit, and, when
repaid, remained here to develop four
million acres of land in Pennsylvania
and New York.
They tell of the Dutch champion
ship before all Europe of our Revol-
utiOnary cause.
& They tell of asylum and religious
freedom extended by the Netherlands
to Pilgrims, Wallcons and Hugue-
nots-three bodies of Christians whom
intolerance harried out of the borders
Of England, Spanish Belgium and
France. and who subsequently. on
American soil. became the best of
American citizens.
OF such things do these tablets
speak. But they only speak in arpt.
If through tablets the whole truth of
our Cclt to the Dutch could be told
1t wOa;': be necessary to cover the
Netb rlanos with bronze from one end
to the other.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-02
A. FAMILIAR SOUND

Just take one Dutch city-that oi
Utrecht To thousands of Americans
Utrecht Is but spot in Geography.
Yet vr:l might every patriotic Amer
lean uncover at the mention of this
Dut'n city's name, for here was the
first seat of federal government IN
Nosthern .FurOpe.
At trt,cht the Liberty Bell
first rang Out.
Here men talked of "the Father of
his country" the Declaration Of In
dependence the written Constitu-
tion,' bred. IN of speech and Con-
science for all Men, and THE Sup
remacy Of the National Government
over Secession"
Her. it was declared that 1.-The Un-
ion must and shall be Preserved"
And all this occurred two hundred
years before bunker Hill was won.
So uniformed are we Americans OF
our :eai origin that thousands of us
think of tfese phrases as American
that we coined them: that they are
our own. And yet over there in the
Dutch city of Utrecht. were they
barn nearly two hundred years before
oar Republic was born, and carried
over here by our fOrefathers. Where
does England appear as the Mother
Country Of America with such q
parallel.
Think Of federal republic of seven
States in 1879, built on religious liber.
ty and free common schools, before
Roger Williams or William Penn wa,
l'b IN!
No wonder that one American-s
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-02
THE PILGRIMS

These men and women brought to
America, as naturally part cf them
selves as their eyes and hands, the
great institutions that their twelve
years residence in the Netherlands
had taught them meant freedom of
life for nation. For remember, too,
what else they brought over.
Take the common modern practice
of the State allowing a prisoner the
-srvices cf : lawer for his de-
IIerSe,' aisI the office Of asds.s4rtcf ut.
tbrney for each county. So familiar
to US are these that we regard them
as American inventions. Bath institu-
tions have been credited to England
whereas, as a matter Of fact, 1t is i'm
possible to find in England, even to-
day any official corresp1 nding to
our district attorney. Both of these
institutions existed in the Netherlands
three centuries before they were
brought to America.
Take the equal distribution Of pro-
pcrty among the children of a per-
son dying intestate-that is, without
will. This was brought to America
direct from the Netherlands by the
Pilgrims. 1t never existed in Eng
land.
| The record Of all decide and mort
cages in public office, a custom
which affects every man and woman
who owns or buys property, came di
rect to America frcm the Neither
lands. It never came from England
since it does not exist there even a
the present day.
The township system, by which
each town has local self-government
with its natural sequence of loca
self government in county and State
came from the Netherlands.
The practice of making prisoner
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-02
Bessie Taylor
LYNDEN'S LIGHT ON THE ALTAR
OF KNOWLEDGE
Vera Robinson

When the class Of 1910 entered tne
Lynden High School as Freshmen Ill
the fall Of 1906. we numbered four-
teen. 1t seemed an easy task theh' 20
keep the lamp trimmed and burning
but one by one our class mates drop
ped by the wayside-some became
discouraged, others entered different
Institutions of learning until we TWO
were left alone. For the past TWO
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-02

medicine by his wonderful discover
lies until the Dutch medical school
became the authority for all Europe.
From the Netherlands came that
great lesson in the publishing of book
lii the shape of the famous Elzevir
books.
1t was the first nation to place
the reader and spelling book in the
hands of the child, irrespective of
staticn.
| As musicians, for nearly two hum
dred :ears, the Netherlands stood SUI
prene. 1t was the Dutch who found
| ed in Naples, the first musical con-
servatory in the world. and another
in Venice, and it was to their influ-
ence that the renowned school Of
r me owed it's existance.
INVENTIONS OF THE DUTCH
1t was the Dutch who introduced to
the world the manufacture Of woolen
cloth that marked an epoch In history
and followed this up by developing
the manufacture of silk, linen tapestry
and lace until they made their cities
| III Flanders the manufacturing center
| of the world.
1t was the Netherlands that devised
and presented through the Van Eyek
brothers the wonderful discovery OF
oil painting, and gave. in the person
of the brother, Jan Van Eyck the
originator of the painted portrait.
Then came the invention Of wood
i kx, n,sfn oh N
quickly by the printing of books
from blocks and later by the brint-
ing press.
Thea came these wonderful inven-
tions, all Dutch:
The telescope. l..
The micro scope.
i The thermometer.
The discovery of the capillary cir
culation of the blood.
i The invention Of the pendulum
clock-by which the Dutch gave to the
world the beginning of anything
} which we can call the accuracy Of
J time.
Then came the marvellous discovery
Of measuring degrees Of latitude and
Longitude.
r - Then naturally came the compass.
i The windmill with movable cap.
ri The glass hothouse. /
The first use Of underclothing.
The first bedstead.
The first brick.
Even in sports, the popular game OF
golf, SO often attributed to Scotland.
, was played in the Netherlands over
{ fifty years before it was ever thought
of in Scotland.
, institutions?
Is it to be marveled that a nation
so prolific in ideas, In inventions, in
leading the world, should have played
3 so important a part in the shaping
? Of our American life and American
: institutions?
But the time has come for Amer
leans to know the facts. We Ameri-
: cans have done a wrong to the peo-
t pie of the Netherlands in talking a.
, bout England as the Mother Coun-
try of America wrong hOwerer,
. which Time the great referee. is now
! beginning to set right
, So, when we ask ourselves again,
3 "Why is it that we Americans are 80
:. different from the English?" let US
remember these facts. Well may we
e ask ourselves: "Why, in the name OF
/ history shouldn't we be?"
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-02
RECORD 8OF a SMALL LAND


What tie Netherlands has done FOL
America seems not 80 strange when
we consider what this same amazing
little country has dcne for the world
Just read this marvellous list of lead
ership and invention:
1t was the first nation, for exam
pie, to master the soil and teach agri-
culture to the world. 1t taught the
whole world to garden. We think of
England as the country of the rose,
but the first rose ever cultivated by
man was grown in the Netherlands
and sent to England.
We think of the Bank of England
as the institution of finance whence
The worlds broadest lines of banking
have come. But go back to the estab-
lishmeLt in 1909 of the great Dutch
Bank of Amsterdam, with one hun
dred and eighty millions of dallars de-
posits. preceding the establishment
of the Bank of England by nearly a
hundred .sars
,'nivrrri,, cd. cation in the fJu"d'
| ing the great University CT Leyden
| in 1876 marked an epoch in the
worlds history of educatl"n and made
the Netherlands the center OF learn
ing of Euro pc. Here was founded in
tcrnatjonal law through Grotiius. Here
Boerhave, a Dutchman, revolutionizec
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-02
OUR BEGINNINGS

The five tablets that speak Of
were erected in the Dutch cities OF
Utrecht, Nijkerk, Amsterdam, Ley
den and Leeuwarden. And why? Be-
cause a marvellous parallel to our own
political origins is presented by
these citiec in the far off days before
ever the Mayflower sailed for Ply.
mouth Rock. Amazing are these par.
allels II we will but study them In
the history Of these Dutch cities In
connection with what happened years
after on our own soil.
Here was q federal republic form
ed by a Congress Of State Delegates
exactlr as we did.
Here was a Declaration Of Inde
pepdence framed with the spirit-yea
the very words and phrases-of oul
own.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-02

I wonder how many people know
Deg ago was talking to friend
se said:
II like Lynden, and you have one Ol
he greatest farming sections In the
tate. but don't want to settle in a
reign community"
My friend only. showed ignorance.
There is no 0lner people who SC
arrival In America-good citizens too
1t is the first work Of Dutch Churches
and schools to instruct In citizen
ship. Wherever p .ssible their church
kes and schools are conducted in the
English language, because that is the
Language Of America. Knowing these
things, and wanting all Of the Trib-
reprint from the Ladies' Home. Jour-
nal, an article written by that great
Lis, orian DR.. William Elliot Griffis,
on Americas Debt to the Dutch
Dr.. Griffis writes:
'.Thc truth as to our vastness of
our debt to the Dutch has been l)ng
In reaching the American public, but
It is coming out at last. Why has it
been 80 long delayed? Because 81
much of our history has been written
with SO great dependence upon Eng
iifh sources and 81 little upon Dutch
sources. Most Of our American his
tory has been written within cannon
shot Of the Massachusetts State Capt.
t0l. doubtless because here was once
the largest collection of books in Eng
lish. But what historian of American
institutions-with two except ms. of
Transatlantic v .rk done by paid prOx-
ies-read Dutch, Oh delved in the ar
chivcs Of the Netherlands?
Now, howaver, the tide is turning.
It ;s mn longer subjected that one Is
necessarily Eai:ve of the Neither
because he calls attention to the glar-
ing defects in our popular hist orys,
ignoi ing. es they do, vast areas Of
fact known to the scholar in Dutch.
Il am e.. grandson of an English
man with nc Dutch blood in my viens
bu. Lave studied American history
in tEG Dutch documents. Ard when.
last E,iInli,cr. l saw five tablets es-
taglished ON the soil Of as many I
Dutch cities, tn addition to two others
reared. all given by Americans. and
tej,ieyinE In enduring bronze to the
growing recognition, late as it comes
of the overwelming infleunce welded
by the Dutch upon the springs of
American history-I realized that
the time had at last arrived when
the truth was about to come out.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-02

vo,rae not Dutchman--Cnaries
Francis Adams. saw history stragnt
when he said that "in the great De-
veloping drama CT civil ana sens.yu' .
liberty, the modern phase OF esp,u ,a
tion /. the ultimate verdict ol ms
tory will concede to the Nethef,snus
that at one time and for long el
it stood forth alone. but erect IN ues-
perate bravery, the sole champieh oli
earth of both civil liberty and rehs-
ious toleratiOn.'
The cry, mo taxation without re-
presentation" sounds In every Aius'
ian ear like the first gun !" tne
American Revolution. But away pacx .a
In 1477 mo taxation without consens
was the Dutch law enunciated.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-02

anu Rotterdam are confessions of OBJ
iigation, net from modern enthusiasts
nor faddls.s. hut from those who ac-
tlaliy received those benifits three
hundred years ago.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-02
JUNIOR RECEPTION

JUNIOR RECEPTION
One of the most enjoyable evenings
f the year was spent at the l. o. O.
F. hall Tuesday May 31st when the
Junior class gave reception for
the Seniors.
The hall was prettily decorated dur
ing the afternoon by the class and
the list Of invitations extended only
to the parents CT the entertained
and entertainers together with the
school board and teachers.
A short musical program was given
after which old and young alike en-
joyed themselves with games and an
occasional drink of punch making
the evening one Of the most pleasant
of the year.
The Juniors borrowed Mr.. Edson's
owls which represented the two wise
Seniors.
The High School and Sth grade are
plannin.. to take trip to Canada Fri
day morning and spend the day pick
ni-king. The girls are planning fol
plenty Of food which makes all pic
MICS successful.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-02
WAR FOR AMERICA

Take another city in the Nethe'iauu
--Leeuwarden! Here 1t was by vpte
of the States Of Friesland in IfoA,
that the Dutch republic first rec1g-
nized the existence OF our own re-
public of the United States. Only
little later, on Apri. 10. 1882, came
the States Generals vote to receive
John Adams. our envoy. 1t was tnls
act which virtually ended hostilities
for us. fer 1t made our independence :
fact-even Mt the grim test OF fin-
ance, since tht Dutch bankers by
their loans made our National Gov
ernment, with credit, possibility. u
three silver medals commemorating
American Independence. two were
struck IN the city OF Leeuwarden.
This act brought down on the Meth
erlands the wrath of Great Briton,
and for our sakes the Dutch b3re
the brupt 0f war when their Admiral
Zomtnlan worsted King Georges fleet
at the Doggerbank on August 5, 1882.
In the Boston Estate House" there
now lies American history wherein
william bradford has borne witness
In classic phrase to our debt to the
Dutch city Of Amsterdam. having
written In his book II. Paragraph Isl
by joint consent they resolved to
go into the Low Countries, where
they had heard was freedom OF relig-
lon for all men ..... and lived at AM
sterdam." Whom harried or hanged;
and whole . .aaaneFs9Atfous
faith and order thrown into the filthy
English ;ails OF their time the PHI
grim Fathers crossed the North Sea
to the Netherlands and freedom In
1903. A tablet Of bronze erected In
last summer speaks thii
and points to tie true Mother 0i
America.
And again 1t was that same young
Pilgrim of the Pilgrims
who. having rs above testified his
gratitude t. Amsterdam, added there.
to Il still broader confession of what
the Pilgrims owed to the Dutch
Fer 1t was that young Bradford who
fron, the new country. wrote In Dutch
:. Obliged by the good and court
eous en,rcaly which VIC have fount
in your country, having lived there
many years with freedom and good
content. as also many Of our friends
do 10 this oay. for which we and
our children after us are bound to be
thankful to Your cation and shall
never forget the same"
II in these words bradford. the Pill
grim. did not pledge the never-endinf
gratitude Of AE..r.cm to the Dutch
he surely came near it-as the mem
orial tablet at Rotterdam implies. s;
we see that the reminders Of our deb
to the Dutch Mt Amsterdam, Leyder
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work, and turning prisons into work.
houses, and, in fact, our whole mo-
dern american management of free
prisons which has caused the admir-
alton of the entire wSrld, was brought
from the Netherlands to America by
william Penn.
All this is not to be wondered at
when one stops to consider that the
men who founded New York were
II t Englishmen, but largely Dutch
men; that the Pilgrims, as has been
pointed out before, who settled Ply
mouth, had lived twelve years In the
Netherlands; that the Puritans who
settled elsewhere in Massachusetts,
had all their lives been exposed to
Dutch influence; that Connecticut, as
we'll as New York. was owned or
first settled by the Dutch West India
Company; that Roger Williams, who
founded Rhode Island. was Dutch
scholor; and that William Penn, the
founder of Pennsylvania, came of a
Dutch mother.
How many Americans know that
lHC ClJy IL DulAoAAO wac AuAu Out ~
the Dutch as New Amsterdam"
How many Americans know that a
Dutchman. Van der Kemp. riding on
horseback, in July, 1892, from Utica
to Niagara. predicted the future Erie
Canal?
Even our widest known American
family names are purely Dutch, only
they have been perverted and chang
ed in the English. The Dutch name OF
Pickard became Packard; Bruyn
and Brouen became Brown; DeWill
became Dwight; Kuyper became Coop
er; Groen became Green; Hardt be-
came Hart; Jansen became Johnson
and 50 on.
These and ether proofs seem over
whelmingly to establish the fact that
the spirit of our national life is far
mole Dutch than English. The seeds
Of that spirit we're implanted in the
Netherlands in the breasts of the ear
liest makers Of this country and have
flowered broadcast to their present
development with faithfulness tt
their Dutch originals in many case'
northing short Of amazing.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-02-10

LOST-A fur muff, between depot
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