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The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1910-04-29
The "Dutch Standard"
An J. c. Welliyer in Hampton's Magazinel )

L
Holland was long the worlds sugar headquarters In the old
A avs Of sugar making Amsterdam brokers gauged sugars
@ nt;rey by The color presumed to be lighter in
P as the molasses had been drained off crystals
M Dutch standard consisted of 20 glass bottles filled with
trades of sugar carefully graduated in color from the darkest
~ e The darkest almost moasses with sugar CRYSTALS
.G in # and No next lighter No 2; and on up
When cargo of came into Amsterdam, samples
60 brokers' office and matched with standard colors
e sugar was certified be of the grade indicated by the
b on the bottle whose color matched the sample Prices
we're made according to the Dutch standard numbers number 20
s s the highest and No: 1 the lowest price
Holland being the sugar emporium the Dutch standard became
the world standard. -. c,4 o:. -,
1N' Vhy do you object removing the Dutch standard?
because replied Senator Smith, 81 think the commercial
d has been accustomed that standard would not
render the sugar world chaotic by striking wherever sugar pro-
' Biow looked like pugst swinging knockout blow
aThe senator is mistaken After examining the tariff laws of
come AZ nations here list of those that the Dutch stand
m and those that Countries that do the Dutch
ondard United Kingdom, South African Union, Australia Aus
rHungary Belgium Bulgaria France Tuns, Germany Greece
Holland all Dutch colonies Italy Montenegro Norway Russia
Roana Finland Serva Spain Switzerland Korea Persia Hon
a Costa Rica Mexico Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador
prm Uruguay Venezula Cuba Haiti Dominican Republic
will give you the of the eight nations that do
nee and the only ones that do They China, Japan British
india Portugal Denmark Sweden, Canada and the United States
The advocates of the standard that recognized wherever
sugar produced speeces Their pet prenSe had been e
posed by little honest information
Mr. Welver maintains that if congress will eliminate the
will be broken and American beet sugar will have opportunity to
compete independently for the domestic business He rightly mann
an that sugar taras well as all other ar1S not so oD
onbe because because OF It's morals
Such trusts as sugar constantly corruptng our nac
U of government at Washington To end the monopoly and
these attendant evils for ALL Mr. Welver suggests new sugar
tariff law doing away entirely with the Dutch standard The Dutch
standard simply and solely color Standard it has nothing TO 90
with the purity Of the sugar In fact the Cuban sugar maker mas
to go extra expense keep from giving the pure white sugar
we prefer to USE The time the sugar tariff is up fo revision
the Dutch Standard must be wiped out
The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1910-04-29
Caught in the Act

1t appears as if an attorney general of the United States ad
caught with the goods him, says the Portland Journal
egenc Bainger brand of conservation were suc '
clean bill of health Mr. Wkersham led the president INTO giving inc
secretary had to dated backward months and cunud'
dace indicates that the attorney general was equal 10 te
Possibly the evidence against Mr. Wckersham is not SuC
m t # I enono 70 ndc him before the great bar OF pubic
opinion Testimony already adduced before the Banger
ting committee points SO strongly Mr. Tafts attorney genera |
yemen shall fasten this charge upon Wickersan and caDl
officer be caught in the of dating important docune
two months in order political eNgency the SPec wan
be amazing. ela,.o +re
The episode will tend lessen the limited c0lu =
country has in the presidents reactonary advisers. jad
becomes and apparent that one OF ue @ Ga ~ + err
png that he recently declared that one term will be que
for me"
The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1910-04-29
Record Land Prices
(Oregonian. J


New records prices of Oregon orchard lands established
by the sale week of twelve Medfod S275
and large ndeveoped land $t25 While
these transactions make records they
of prices paid large number of other indicate
thing than good healthy growth based sound conditions
There nothing speculative hazardous paying
for land which has returned profits averaging $500 many
No looks askance proposition which has paid
dividends of 20 for years. especially when the
outlook than favorable for continuance of the dividends
with increases probable.
The which only
land but for other lands Oregon Washington and Idaho
rey justified wherever the producing power of the lands has been
demonstrated eectuay they have been the three North
Pacific States These values steadily increasing because there
corresponding increase the population that is drifting from the
the country from the soil The moderate
salaried professional who desirous of owning home the
hardly smaller investment than required
buy small orchard which will only provide the home
will produce the Land which sells from $500 $4,000
valuable admit of careless cultivation and the high
grade farmers and orcharsts who make profitable these figures
establish standard which attractive that offers incentive
for others energetic and thrifty bring their lands the
high level of production
The advantages intensified cultivation such necessary
keep these wonderful lands their maximum producing
nnumeabe they plain any who has visited
prosperous communities which have recently taken the place of
big great stretches of wild land With overwhelming
market these products of the soil which reach their highest de-
perfection this favored region there nothing sight
indicate that the present high records will long mark the limit of
values
The small and the fruit orchard attracting people
Oregon being drawn here by any other of wonderful
resources for their metested earning capacity has eliminated the
of chance from made present record
prices.
The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1910-04-29
Railroads in Alaska

Benjamin Hampton editor of Hampton magazH, ii In
@ advocating government ownership OF raroad m rsorta
his May magazine he saws: Whoever controls AlasEaS P
hon controls the territory Now the Guggenhe Morgan %
cate controls the transportation Hence oonsToI 9okan aS experts with
he has talked on tbe subject assured him privately that
else than government railroads can Alaska from the @ u e
each one added the Morganhems are SO powel | iii work
Prevent the enactment OF any law for this purpose !he VIZ
some scheme through congress- man SAID by w' or do
@ will their bonds or give them laiu Id railroads
with the peoples money the Morganheims retaining
oohtrol of the roads ,,a could be
1t has been estimated that sufficient roads Tor aW
built for $40 600 600 and that they would money in
amounts the beginning Mr. Hampton says ,og tand
e sane and feasible There every reason o want
only for not doing it. The is that the MOI dominate
T a railroads themselves that through them tnes
'Naska and pour her great wealth into their own p
And Assistant Attorney General Peterson @ ao nship in
@ exercising the rights and preogatves Of Ane[r 1 hoard and
e acquisition of land Evidently the Brady lafd tbe have
e believe they must uphold these rights OF citizenship Il @
" acquire the entire state
The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1910-04-29

Goodng the role of land locator does not
up great advantage In assisting Secretary of State ansdon
the right of American citizenship by filing upon desert
claim the governor doubtless thought the entirely
between would be mentioned public
like this.
The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1910-04-29
Sherman the Bourbon

Some might have think little before beng able to
recall Sherman who spoke St LOUIS Mon
night OF the tariff and then finding the
familiar they will remember that he the vcees
dent of the United States says the the Butte Miner.
Mr. Sherman appears finds the Adrich bill most excellent
and he only think OF possible ground Tor criticism
of the law and the high enough
would be impossible to get tariff rate too high Tor MI
Sherman for belongs the Cannon school, and for several
while member of the house was one OF the speaker most 1
and useful lieuenants
convention most extraordinary enacted for Uncle joe
who delegate the gathering rushed the platform and made
speech secondng Mr. Shermans nomination incidentally gng
the gentleman great send off
The speaker appeared conceive the idea that II he could get
Mr. Sherman presiding officer OF the senate he and his ee
ant could run the legislative mill to suit themselves
nce Joe knew that time he had complete control OF the
house and could determine bills should be passed and which
defeated appeared think that would be well to Obtain
some hold senate and he though Mr. Sherman would be just
the boy work through to that end
OF course Cannon imagined years ago that 1t
would be possible clip his wings and take OF his power away
from him.
tive matters in the senate his being entirely devoted hold
ng on by the skin of his his present position and such
hority as is still left to him.
Ii not surprising Mr. Sherman should praise the tariff
for he IS Bourbon OF whom said that they never learn any
thing and forget anything
Mr. Sherman having become ossllzed IN his present POSITION
probably does anything about the trend OF general e
1ent regarding the Adch BILL and these recent congressional
elections and their meaning entirely wasted upon him Tor he
can obtain no enlightenment from them.
They call him Sunny Jim in the senate and few persons seem
o take him seriously
The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1910-04-29

of great interest to the people OF Idaho hat In
state officials and attaches are so exceedingly thrifty Miss S. Belle
Chamberlain and Robert Lansdon admit the acquo OF touSa
of dollars of Idaho land which they boasngy assert he
rd nv exercising the rights of citizenship If they had
een elected to the positions they hold they would not have had the
land which additional for the people approaching the thrifty
character of these officials Doubtless the people dispense
with their services mayap consideration OF their lncant
thrift will reeect them order that they continue to exercise
e naienabe right citizenship the acquisition OF real estate AZ
the thrifty rate they been going within few years they woud
he among the large of the state Thrift IS the proper
word + more euphoniou than others that might be u
thinkingly used.
The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1910-04-29

Evidently somebody lied.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-29
BENEATH BIG BEECH.
Rural Dominic Ties NuptiaI Knots
Divorce Courts Do Not Sever.
Liberty Church Neighborhood Not
Only Marriage Center, but Its Peo-
pie Consider It a Youthful Mis-
fortune to Die Under Seventy.

Gosport, Ind.-There has been dis
covered a remedy for the divorce evil.
1t is simple but sure cure. Let the
Rev. Josiah Burton, a rural dominic,
living four miles east of Gosport, tie
the matrimonial knot beneath the,
boughs Of "Cupid's Beech" Then, II
his record holds, all divorce laws may
be eliminated from the statutes and!
no one need go singing: I'm On My
Way to Reno" 1t is the Rev. Josiah
Burton's proud boast that no divorce
court has ever severed tie he bound.
The Rev. Josiah Burton has three
affairs of matrimony-his little church
across the fields, his home and-most
romantic of ala grand old beech
tree that has been popularity chris
tened "Cupid's Beech" because of the
marriage ceremonies performed be-
meath its boughs. The tree stands at
the corner of the fence that surrounds
the old minister's home and no mar
rage ever solemnized in it's shade has
ever been shattered by a divorce
court
The Rev Josiah Burton is an inter-
esting man in an interesting locality.
Not only do his matrimonial knots
stay tied, but there seems to be some
good angel lowering over the hills in
which he dwells whose mission is to
grant happy old age to all who find a
home there. To die under 80 in the
vicinity of "Cupid's Beech" is looked
upon as passing away in infancy.
In the early part of the last cen.
fury there moved into the hills of
Owen and Monroe counties many men
and women of sturdy type from
Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee and
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Is
the Carolinas. Among those who
came was John Burton, the father OF
! Josiah. In the year 1918 he settled
on a tract of ground four miles east
of Gosport in section now known as
Liberty Church neighborhood. The
| country was then sparsely settled and
there were only mere bride paths
leading to the few settlements.
I By 1880 the country had become
little more populous and there was
| talk of establishing church. There
we're many denominations in the
neighborhood, and it was finally de
cided to build church that should be
Observation-Disclosures but with lean
ings toward the Methodist Protestant
creed. John Burton gave enough
ground for the building of a church,
and another member of the new or
ganization donated ground for GENE
terry adjoining the church.
On the morning of September %,
1881, company of neighbors gath
cred at the spot given by John Bur-
ton as a church site. Each carried a
broadax. The men were divided into
two squads. They then went into the
forest in search of yellow poplar
trees. The giants of the wilderness
began to fall and soon the brethren
were hewing the trees with that ex-
pert swing known only to the pio-
neers.
When dinner time came the church
builders sat down to a meal such as
only old-fashioned cooks could cook.
All of the food and the dishes were
carried to the place by 10-year-old
boy. That boy was Josiah Burton,
and the church was started on his
tenth birthday.
Liberty Church is an interesting
type of the old-fashioned meeting
house. 1t Is plain room with plain,
old-fashioned pews. The pulpit was
made by local carpenter and the
choir and organ have slightly ele-
waited platform to the left of the min
lister.
If there is one thing that makes the
aged minister who presides at Liberty
Church happy it is wedding. He
doesn't know how many couples he
has united in marriage, but he has yet
to hear of one of them being broken
by divorce decree. Uncle Josiah
takes supreme delight in having some
couple drive up to the door and call
him out to tie the nuptial knot. 1t is
then that he dons his Prince Albert
and white cravat and puts on his
most responsible air. In recent years
he has had numerous calls for we'd
dings in the shade of "Cupid's
Beech Providence seems to favor
all who are married beneath that
tree,' says the minister. $50 come
ye!''
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-29

on his last journey, and now was the time TO
dip deep into the pile of printed and annotated
stuff" 1t would help him to forget anything
absolutely silly as little wife upstairs in
her room, the tears of temper still wet on her
cheeks, and employing her small white teeth
in reducing to tattered waste" a soaked lace
pocket handkerchief
Henry Morris Moore felt himself very supe-
rior. He was calm, cold, judicial, and above
what he called 'infantile tempers"
Upstairs Clara wept and fretted.
To think, only to Enthusiastically ten
months married, and it had come to this! All,
II only she had known! Were all men SO cruel,
so bitter? Did nobody care for her? She
would go to her mother-No (Clara's reflection
came refreshingly cool, like splash OF cold
water), MCDOWELL, not quite that! For one
thing, she knew her mother and Mrs. Muir
ray-Linklater would pack her back to her
husband" Clara heard her mother speak these
very words.
Butt was over. So much was fixed.
Never, never would it be ''glad confident morn
Ing again" Henry had settled that when he
spoke those words--those cruel dividing words.
He mad saia-had said-well, Clara could not
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-29
GuiI!otine for China.

Paris.-China has received from
France its first guillotine. 1t will pc
set up inside the new prison, as, ac-
cording to recent regulations, execu-
lions will no longer be public. The
penalty of death, as laid down IN the
old code, had six degrees death by
torture, immediate decapitation and
exhibition of the head, immediate
decapitation without exhibition OF the
head, decapitation after some months,
immediate hanging and hanging after
some months According to the new
code. the death penalty IS four de-
grees-immediate decapitation, de-
ferred decapitation, immediate hang
ing and deferred hangir
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-29

world, not even Harry had ever been allowed
to peep within. Indeed since she was married
she had not often done so herself. But now
now that the happiness of her life had found
cred beneath her, she would go back-it might
be all the pleasure (sob) that was left her
thus to live over happy past. CA time.)
Watkins, the Moores' new maid, expert
enced some surprise (and not unnaturally)
when, in the exercise of her vocation, she was
carrying copper jug of hot water to Mrs
Moore's dressing room before sounding the
first gong, she observed her master and mis-
tress approach each other from opposite ends
of the corridor. both insently reading like
people on stage-he in small black book,
she in one large fat and red.
still poorer opinion had Sarah Watkins
of her new place when she saw the readers
look up simultaneously, suddenly and guiltiy
close their books turn on their several heels
and so exeunt.
"And them SEE as what they has only been
married tel monthsi" she meditated. well
we'll see what's to come Of this!"
The family dinner that night was distin-
guished by extreme correctitude or demeanor,
and an etiquette almost Spanish IN It's state1-
ness They were nothing if not polite-that is,
when Watkins was in the room. But Watkins
knew and stayed moment on the mat, listen
ing to the silence that dropped like pail. She
entered, smiling to herself knowing (oh, expe-
rienced Watkins) that she would find Clara
looking sideways at the pattern OF the carpet
as though she had never seen 1t before, while
at his end Of the table Harry was molding
bread pellets as If for wager. These things
do not vary
But even Watkins the wise did not know
everything Penny fiction does not inform
its readers what real people do. SO as soon
as Clara had escaped out of the dining room,
before he had time to open the door fer her,
Harry sulkily sat down and felt for his cigar
cite case He was sure he had left 1t in the
drawing room Yet he would not go for 1t.
He could hear Clara playing noisy jig, the
wriggle and stamp Of which he particularly
loathed.
1.-THE little wretch" he said laughing In
spite of himself, "she knows quite we'll"
Good evening Mr.. Moore" said his wife,
and he rose and went "Your cigarette case Is
in the smoking ROOM.
But this time Harry he'd it all his own way
Six feet of blonde colossus made short work
of mere pinpricks of the tongue. Clara found
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-29

quite remember what. But, at any rate 1t was
over. She could never forgive him-for saying
that-yes, about dear Aunt Laetitia. Oh, yes,
she remembered, chat he could never get her
single night to himself without some stalking
old she-patriarch with reticule coming in to
spoil everything"
Clara would not have her family spoken
against by score of Henry Moores. She
had been educated carefully In the Murray
Linklater cult, and no We're de We're could be
prouder of her name.
Clara, in her bolted bedroom, was getting
out her plotting book and pad to write to her
poor wronged aunt. She was going to ask
refuge for the few remaining days Of blasted
life. Yes, that was the adjective she was using,
and (strange coincidenceD the villain below
stairs was also using it, though perhaps in a
more coloquial sense. He had just knocked
over a whole pile of the neat notebooks in
which he stored away his literary material, and
was passing off his own clumsiness in fnvec-
tive against inanimate things. This was his
mans way Of biting his handkerchief
But the strong arm of coincidence reached
yet further.
Stumbling and grumbling, Harry gathered
up the fruit of his travel experiences and be-
gan restoring them In the little three-cornered
shelves where he kept such things for refer
ence. Work would not ego" tonight, somehow.
One renamed In his hand-a small pocket note
book with rounded corners, which served to
carry about him for the shortest personal jot
tings. Usually 1t lay among his keys on the
dressing table, and when he shaved he was in
the habit of putting down word or two-oh,
as brief and bald as possible
But this particular stubby volume happened
to be his diary of two years ago, and he stood
there with one hand mechanically pushing the
notebooks INTO their places, while his eyes, en-
tangled by what he read, transported him to
the ragged carpet, the peremptorily furnished
lodgings, the solitary walks, hands deep in
pockets, overcoat collar up, cap pulled low
Of the days when first But stay. what was
Clara doing?
She had got out her plotting book from un
der 1.-THE Songs of the North" The new maid
very hard on the temper of young wives are
new maids, as cass-had damned it into the
rack, bending the corners shamefully. And so,
when at last Clara had released the folio, 10!
a cascade of solidly built volumes in red basil
clattered to the ground. She. had just time
to spring back; for the volumes had solid brass
locks, all opened with the same little gold key.
She wore it about her neck, and no one In the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-29

This looks like something new in
Ehe way of domestic economy. A will
filed in the New York Surrogate's Of
zee rYovides for an allowance to one
~ tie heirs, young lady, for the
purpose of giving an education which
akculd be practical and include cook
cry, drawing and cutting" 1t evil
&entIy was 5the purpose of the testa-
&aF to have the girl trained for house
wfeeIy duties.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-29

In a railroad office in West Phil
Adelphia there is an old and trusted
clerk of Celtic extraction who keeps
his associates in a constant state OF
good humor by an amending series OF
witticisms, interspersed with bulls SO
glazing that even he himself has to
Join in the laugh that invariably fol-
lows such break on his part.
There was some trouble on the teie-
phone one day recently and Mike. as
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-29

Only scientific institutions or learn
ed chemists will be permitted to buy
Eadium. AS it is $36,OOO,OOO pound,
one can readily see what hardship
eEzis arbitrary regulation is going to
work among the general public. seek,
ting radium bargains.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-29
Sounded Best When Silent

he is called among his friends, lost
much of his usual good nature in his
efforts to get the gist of message
that was being sent from another of
fee. The man on the other end of the
wire finally became exasperated and
asked Mike if he was losing his hear
ing.
Il can hear you all right until you
begin to talk" said Mike. but then |
can't understand word you say
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-29

In Detroit a man was arrested be-
cause he shot off firecrackers on the
ewenty-ffth anniversary of his wed-I
ding. A man who wants to celebrates
because ne has been married twenty
Eve years ought to have some priyi-
heges.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-29

An Oregon detective has been deco
rated by China for guarding the Chin1
csc prince on the latter's recent visit
Co this country. But detective sport
fng yellow jacket and a peacock
feather would be rather hampered in
BIS business of secret identity.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-29

They sat long silent that night in their own
home. near each other, and happy Harry's
heart was softened He was in the mood for
concessions
Dear" he said, eff you would like Aunt
Laetitia to come and stay with us month"
ooh. bother Aunt Laetitia!" exclaimed Mrs
Henry Moore, 81 only want you'
And thus did Clara Murray-Linklater deny
her fathers house and cleave to her husband