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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-06-30
That Seems to Be a Common Occur
renee In GERMANY

renee In Germany.
English law IL occasionally subject
to criticism. but for real comedy we
are a long way behind Germany.
In Berlin recently an ironworker was
sent to prison for week because he
laughed Going along the street be
saw II merrymaker being chased by a
particularly stout policeman. and the
sight ticked him. He was promptly
hailed before the court for scandal
Another man attempted to get into
a moving train and fractured his leg.
After six months in the hospital he
was discharged. cured, when the state
railway department at once prosecuted
him for breaking their regulations The
law and leg breaker was fined SIPS.
Stepping into an omnibus man
trod on the foot of a lady. who was SO
annoyed that she said be walked like
a hen She was fined S. for using this
term of reproach
Claire WALDORF. the Berlin singer. out
witted the police, however. She was
warned that If she sang any Of her
songs on Easter Sunday there would be
trouble. But the announcement was
made that Claire WALDORF would posi-
lively appear She did So did the po-
lice And she sang-the German ma
dona anthem.
The promised prosecution did not
take place.-London Answers.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-06-30
Irish Mllionaires Scarce

In classification OF millionaires by
nationalities it will be found that Irish
men are very far down on the list. Why
this should be so may be hard to under
stand at first. The Irishman, generally
speaking, possesses more than average
intelligence.
He is an excellent workman and a
capable business man. But the fact
remains that he rarely becomes a
millionaire.
Rev. Francis x. McCabe, President
Of De Paul University, Chicago, has
offered an interesting solution. He says
the fault, if it can be called fault, is
in the Irishman's heart, not in his brain
or business acumen. The Irishman is
so generous toward his fellow man that
he has little chance to accumulate mil
lions for himself.
Irish generosity is bar to an Irish
millionaire" is the way President Nc
Cabe puts it. That is why there are
not nearly so many millionaire Irishmen
as there are millionaires OF other indi-
vidual nationalities.
The Irish are always looking on the
bright side Of things to come, not only
for themselves but for others as we'll.
They have carried with them always
spirit of optimism. They are, more
over, people of deep religious con-
victions and faith They have done
an important work in the building up
Of the civilization of the world"
And, after all has been said and done
this may be better than becoming
mere millionaires.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-06-30
A HASTY MARRIAGE.
And the Bride Was Not the One tho
Wooer SOUGHT.

SNud STo was tslo SuV htto
Wooer Sought.
Oliver Cromwell was so great man
that he dwarfed his surroundings. and
1t Is singular how little the majority
Of people knew about the family and
family life of this 1.-The most typical
Englishman of all time" He had
three daughters. the youngest of
whom was Frances. Her attractions
must have been considerable. The
young woman had several love affairs,
but certainly the one that had most
amusing termination was her fiirta-
ton with her fathers chaplain. Jerry
White.
One day the protector surprised Jer-
ry on his knees In the very act Of
kissing the lady's hand. Cromwell
coldly demanded the meaning of the
scene. and Jerry. with a pretty wit,
exclaimed that he had long been
counting that young gentlewoman,
my lady's woman" although without
success. He was now thereby humbly
praying her ladyship to intercede for
him.
Cromwell turned at once to the wait
ing woman and requested to be in
formed why she refused the honor his
friend. Mr.. White. would do her. The
young woman. fully equal to the &C.
casion. replied magnanimously that If
Mr.. White intended her that honor she
would not be SO churlish as to deny
him. 'Call Goodwin" returned Crom-
well. and the pair were married
straightway.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-06-30

II you want to kill weeds cultivate or
hoe them when the sun shines hot.
Good men are scarce, and bad ones
often havd to make themselves so.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-06-30
MISPLACED AFFECTION.
Tragic Story of Snake Charmer and
Her Pet Reptile.


Miss X, snake charmer wei
known among show people. firmly be
lieved that one of her snakes was
really fond of her. She could do any
thing with it-fondle it. kiss and ca
ress 1t.
She grew so fond Of It that at last
she even let 1t sleep on her bed, to the
great disgust of the other performers
In the show She would eat her meals
with this horrible thing coiled around
her neck. and once. In very warm
weather. she took it under her coat
amuse itself by crawling over the
ground She followed it about and
kept a most careful watch over 1t ut
was valuable performers. but It
showed no disposition to go off into the
woods. rs she feared 1t might. but
came back to her and colled round her
as usual
She was warned several times that
the reptile was very dangerous. but she
grew more and more reckless. and the
snake appeared to become more and
more attached to her.
And then one day without any warn
ing. directly after performance when
she was caressing 1t in her own room,
the snake suddenly threw back its
head. looked at her steadily and with
lightning-like swiftness struck her be-
tween the eyes. leaving two tiny pune
lures. She hastily uncoiled 1t and
thrust 1t into its box. but she died
within half an hour.-McClure's Maya
vino
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True Elouuence,

True eloquence. indeed. does not con-
sist in speech. Ii cannot be brought
from far. Labor and learning may toll
for 1t. but they will toll In vain.
Words and phrases may be marshaled
in every way. but they cannot CON-
pass 1t. 1t must consist in the man.
in the subject and in the occasion AT
fected passion. intense expression. the
pomp OF defamation. all may inspire
to it. They cannot reach 1t 1t comes.
If it comes at all. like the outbreak
ing of fountain from the earth or the
bursting forth OF volcanic fires with
spontaneous. original. native force
Webster.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-06-30

Beauty is seldom completely satisfy
ing. The birds that sing are not the
ones that are good to eat.
Some misinformation has such con-
vincing sound that it is so hard to re-
sist it.
The summer girl is now busily en-
gagged with the dressmaker, who is fit
ting her wings.
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Friday June 80 1911

Keep cool during the heated term
but there is little hope that you will be
able to keep cool enough to induce
those people you owe money TO 100
cut your acquaintance.
The successful borrower Is as quick
as lightning. Also he never strikes
twice in the same place.
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One Of the St Louis country clubs
has an unwritten rule that whenever
a member kicks for something he
thinks the club ought TO have 1t Is at
once put In at his expense. Not long
ago member complained Of the
cream. THE club ought to have a
couple of fine cows of its own" he
growled. That ended the incident for
the time being. but the first of the
month he found the following item on
his bill:
Two Jersey cows. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $l5o
The result of this policy is one of
the most complete country clubs in the
Mississippi valley. but the members
are growing more and more cautious
about kicking. and acquisitions are
nothing like so common as they for
merly were st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Just Once.
'But Griggs thinks you are his best
friend If you lure him into making
this hopeless investment he surely will
never have anything more to do with
you"
"That's all right I've never expect
ed TO use him more than once."-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
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Remaining in postoffice. uncalled fol
Monday, June 26:
Adams, Paul E O'Keer, James
Brooks, Frank Playford, VIM
Casey, John 8 Popkins, Gus
Kelly, B Wenzlof, Leo
In calling for same, please say adj
yertised." ]. c. DAVIS. Postmaster.
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Some day we may get on friendly
enough terms with Mars to swap canals.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-12-01
OFFICIAL INVITATION
TO AMERICANS
HOW ROBERT ROGERS, MINISTER
OF THE INTERIOR, IN WINNIPEG
ADDRESS, ISSUES WELCOME
OF AMERICANS TO WEST.
ERIN CANADA.

During the course Of q reply to an
address presented to Hon. Robert Rog-
ers, the newly appointed Minister Of
the Interior Of Canada at a banquet
given at Winnipeg in his honor that
gentleman spoke on immigration. The
tone of his remarks was that be intend.
ed to pursue an aggressive and for.
ward policy in the matter Of immigra-
ton. In part, he said:
1.-THE most important branch per.
haps Of that department (l1terior) il
that Of immigration.
IF there is anything more than an
other we want here 1t is a greater pop
ulation, and it shall be my duty to pre-
sent to the people in all parts Of the
world where desirable enigrants are
to be found the advantages and the
great possibilities of this country. We.
have received in the past a reasonably
large immigration from south Of the
International boundary, and in this
connection let me say just a word for
our American cousins who have found
happy homes amongst us, and those
whom we hope to welcome in greater
numbers in the years to come. There
are hundreds of thousands of them in
our prairie provinces, happy in the en-
joyment Of freedom as great as they
ever knew, and all contributing In
material way towards the development
of Canada. We are not blind to their
value as settlers. They come better
equipped with scientific farming
knowledge than most of our emil
grants, and constitute without doubt
the wealthiest class. Of emigrants any
new country has ever known. AS
head of the immigration department it
will be my privilege to offer them a
welcome hearty and sincere, and to
so contribute to their welfare that I'M
der the protecting folds Of the Union
Jack they will enjoy as great degree
Of liberty and happiness as under the
Stars and Stripes. The Borden gov
ernment cherishes nothing but the
kindliest feelings for the people of the
great republic to the south, and will
do all in It's power to increase the
bonds of kinship and neighborly good
feeling that has SO long existed.
(Hear, hear) .a.
while we adopt vigorous emil
grafton policy in that country, we viii
also adopt the same vigorous policy in
other parts of the world. We will go
to England, Ireland and Scotland. and
every other country irrespective of
race, creed or nationality, where we
can find suitable and desirable emf
grants for this great country. think
much good work can be done In those
countries, and especially perhaps at
the present time in England, Ireland
and Scotland. Now, then, 1t will be
my duty to stir up that policy in the
most vigorous manner possible"
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-12-01
PRINTH PAPER WITH A LITHP.
Thomebody Thoie All Etheth to Thop
lthue Of the ThaWteIle
Thentinel.

Los Angeles. Cal.-The oldest news
paper ever printed in southern Cali
fornia is this weeks issue of the Saw
telle Sentinel, which makes it's ap.
pcarance without the letter "s" ex.
cept in the advertisements and few
leading articles. Henry Schultz.
county statistician and editor and pub.
Usher of the paper. makes the follow.
ing explanation:
AT the time the Thentinel wath
about half tibet an evil-diphpothed
thief entered thith office and carried
away all our etheth and for thith
reathon our thurbthcriberth will
have to do the very betht they can in
reading thome OF the articleth which
are thpelled in the manner which they
may have noticed in thith announce
ment."
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-12-01
SHE SAVED IS LIVES
Noted Woman Lighthouse Keeper
Dies on Duty.
"Grace Darling" Of AmerIca-The
Only Woman to Hold q Commits
sion From the Government
In Her Work.

New York.-In the closing OF the
career OF Ida M. Lewis, for so years
keeper Of the Lime Rock Light in
Narragansett, bay, one of the most
famous heroines Of the world passes
from the stage Of American history.
Since early girlhood she watched the
tumbling waters Of the Narragansett
from her little white house on the
rock and through the long years her
lights never failed to guide mariners
to q safe port through storms and
heavy mists.
Sixty years ago, when but a strip
ping Of girl. her father, the keeper
of Lime Rock Light. was stricken
suddenly Ill. She took his place and
for weeks, while the old man lay
dying, she tended the lights. When
he died she was appointed keeper in
his place and since that time her
deeds have kept her before the world
in a remarkable way. Her record Of
rescues is IS lives. Eight times she
has ventured onto an almost impos-
sible sea and taken struggling humans
from the water.
The rescue that made Ida Lewis
the most famous heroine of America
occurred on stormy morning in
March of 1859. 1t was hardly dawn
and Ida's mother was the first to
awaken. From her window she saw
two men. out in the raging sea, cling
inc RI hCot thof hod t,,rred <,,rfIo
Her screams awoke her daughter,
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-12-01
Ida Lewis and Lighthouse.

who stopped not for shoes nor hat
out of the house into the cold, driving
wind and faced the snow and sleet
It took Ida fifteen minutes to launch
her dory in the dangerously high
surf. At last she pushed beyond the
inshore breakers; and then she rowed
for dear life. When the nearly ex
hausted men saw Ida one OF them
cried: TITS only grill" Whereupon
he let go his hold OF the capsized boat
and sank. A moment later, when he
reappeared, she seized him by the
hair and with abnormal strength
dragged him into the boat. The Sec
ond man shouted that he was so
frozen that he could not help him.
self and SO a second time Ida pulled
a half dead man out OF the freezing
water and into her little dory.
For all of her wonderful rescues
Ida Lewis received fitting recognition.
Congress honored her with medals.
She was a pensioned member OF the
Carnegie Hero Fund and the Massa-
chusetts Humane society rewarded
her with a token of its esteem.
For years the home of Ida Lewis
on Lime Rock was the Mecca OF the
worlds greatest men and women.
They felt themselves honored to be
able to call on her. President Grant
and General Sherman were among
her most noted visitors.
Her latest recorded rescue was Of
a woman five years ago when she was
sixty-seven years old. There are a
number of brave deeds to her credit
that have never been made known.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-12-01

first English dreadnought was put in commission
American-dYawn plans for two such vessels, tenta
lively called the Feasible and the Possible. re
posed in dusty pigeonholes in the navy depart
ment at Washington. They were resurrected
later in the light of developments abroad.
Thirty-five sea-going battieships and dread.
Notwithstanding with the Indiana, Massachu
sets and Oregon group, laid down in 1891 and in
GLIDING the $S,000,000 dreadnoughts New
York and Texas, yet unborn-may be said to.
stitute the main line of Uncle Sans sea fight
ers.
The other battleship groups and types in
chronological succession are g. Iowa; 3. kear-
sarge and Kentucky; A. Alabama, Illinois, Wis
consin. Maine. Missouri and Ohio; S. Virginia
Rhode Island. New Jersey. Georgia. Nebraska
Kansas Connecticut. Louisiana, Vermont. New
Hampshire, Minnesota. Mississippi and Idaho
After these, beginning in 1906 with the near
dreadnoughts South Carolina and Michigan. come
the present dreadnought series: North Dakota
Delaware, Florida. Utah. Wyoming. Arkansas
Texas and New York.
In the meantime as demonstrated In the mimic
Battle of Block Island" this summer the sub
marines have practically proved the battleships
vulnerable therefore outclassed and obsolescent
These maneuvers may be said to have borne out
the prediction of plank In the Proposed Plat
form for the American Party. published in 1907:
I'VE desire that the American navy shall be
the most powerful and efficient in the world; but
we consider that new inventions have displaced
torpedo-boat and monitor, and therefore hesitate
to make further appropriations for these types OF
fighting craft
Conservative statesmen in the United States
senate have denounced the vast appropriations
for armored ships-sums estimated in the aggre
gate at more than $10OOO.000-as a bad invest
ment. They have stigmatized the United States
navy as "a lot Of old tubs, more dangerous to
those on the inside than to those without"
Even in England the day of the dreadnought Ia
beginning to decline, while the submarine-to say
nothing of the war aeroplane-is yet in infancy.
At this rate. ere long, our congress may hear
the cry of the armed-peace advocates changing
to Millions for development OF the divingboat;
not one cent more for dreadnoughts!"
The naval men themselves are not slow to read
the signs of coming change.
1t may be only question of very few years
when the general adoption of 14-inch gun capa-
BILE of shooting with accuracy at a distance OF
fifteen miles will revolutionize naval warfare
Such gun is now In process Of trying-out, and
If 1t proves success 1t will make all the coast
defenses of today practically useless
There Is no doubt" declares Rear Admiral
Francis T. Bowles, u. S. NJ, retired, that fleet
equipped with the new 14-inch gun Of the latest
type could raze New York or any other seaport
.n less than hour 1t seems to me that the
answer to this problem of coast defense is made
by the submarine believe that the submarine
is going to be taken more seriously every year
by naval expertss 1t is the most deadly enemy O.
the battleship"
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-12-01

DIV much am I offered for this
dne steel cruiser Detroit-butlt
In 1880, cost me $1.233.O39, al
most as good as new, only q bit
shop-worn. and I'm sacrificing
my old naval stock SO as to
make room for a couple OF 3d.
O00-ton battleships i've just
asked congress for. How much
for the Detroit? Do I hear
$4,000? Well, $4,000, then.
No? Why. gentlemen. you
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-12-01

sev-are ont of the front line now. Some OF them
participated in the recent theoretical coast ma
neuvers against New York and Boston. but they
were technically sunk by the submarines anu
torpedo boats.
For an example of rapid tobogganing into
desuetude, look at the three stately protected
cruisers St. Louis Charleston and Milwaukee.
which cost about $3S00,O00 apiece when they
were built in 1902 Even then certain Dick Dead
eyes of the navy declared that this type was OBJ
Ssolete before the cruiser trplets went into COM
mission. Be that as it may. at the present day
these $11.000,000 worth OF cruiers are generally
regarded as three white elephants which the navy
is bothered to know what to do with.
The monitors stand for picturesque but ex
pensive fad, dating from the infancy days OF from
clads in the Civil war of fifty years ago. when
Ericssons small "cheesebox on raft" IN Hamp
ton Roads put the Confederate Merrimac out OF
business and saved the nation. II 1t were not for
past performances" prestige there would not be
ten million dollars worth of monitors rusting in
the rivers today. Four of these curios. which
have been within a decade reomdeled into single
turret coast defenders, are the Cheyenne once
the Wyoming, the Ozark, formerly the Arkansas
and the Tallahassee and the Tonopah. which used
to be respectively the Florida and the Nevada.
When a special class craft is tried out. SUCH
for example, as the Vesuvius dynamite gunboat OF
nearly twenty years ago, she soon either goes to
the lumber attic herself or else puts some other
type in the obsolete class. In either case. Uncle
laneous.
Such is the universal law of naval evolution.
England. France and Germany in this
naval junk business a vast scale. and Italy
and Austria in a smaller way
The excuse is the general one OF modern mill
tarism-that competitive war preparation is the
price of peace. From the financial viewpoint OF
the taxpayer the high cost of peace is about the
same as that of active hostilities
At any rate, the most recent practical lessons
of war are applied with marvellous results OF
progress to the worlds naves. and in no country
ia this more strikingly exemplifed than in the
United States.
Walter s. Meriwether the well-known naval
authority. has shown in illustration Of the de-
velopment OF gunnery since the Spanish war
that in the target practice OF United States war
ships today the percentage OF misses is actually
smaller than the percentage OF hits was at San
tiago
According to the same authority. the idea OF
the modern dreadnought or albig-gun battleship
originated in our own navy. Years before the
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-12-01

de, the Olympia was Admiral Deweys flagship
.ot Manila Bay. and the Raleigh, also Of the Ma
Mia squadron, was under command of Capt. Jo-
.oeph B. Coghlan Of "Hoch der Kaiser fame. The
Olympia is at the Naval Academy, the Brooklyn
III the Philadelphia yard and the Raleigh at
Mare Island.
a The armored cruiser Brooklyn, built at Phil
odephia in 1866, is the largest of the vessels
named. She Is of 9,215 tons displacement. and
was completed at cost of S., O67915 The next
largest of the four vessels is the Saratoga Tex
New York;, an armored cruiser Of $500 tons dis
placement. built at Philadelphia in 1891 and cost
ing almost much the Brooklyn. The Olym-
rta is a second-class cruiser, built at San Fran
cisco in 1925. The Raleigh is a third-ciass
cruiser. built at Norfolk at about the same time
Both are of the protected type.
a Some of the big armorclads are but recently
out of commission, or I'm reserve"-that means
headed for Davy Jones's locker, though as yet
the marked-down price tag has not been attached.
others-for instance the $2OOOO.O0o job lot of
Snonitors-would probably be unstable ut any
Iirice as floatable or fighting vessels.
Admiral Jack Philips old battleship Texas.
which bore the brunt of the fighting at Santiago.
was rechristened the San Marcos. SO that her
ntate name might be given to one OF the new
lNreadnoughts. Then, last spring. the venerable
EWar-horse was towed out into Chesapeake Bay
md set up as target for the New Hampshires
Sbig guns and dynamite shells to batter into scrap
4 hon. What come-down from twenty-five years
&A ago, when the Texas, constructed at a cost OF
i a, POP 121, was beauty of the new squadron!
#M Simpsons old flagship is the Saratoga
having surrendered her name to the newer New
York. She has been rebuilt at cost of more
than half a million dollars, and is now in the
4Ehilippines-the only one of the Santiago lighters
"a actual commission today
Schley's famous Brooklyn. in her declining days.
5eposes peacefully in the League Island navy
yard Philadelphia. The Iowa. Fighting Bob
Evans ship, is in reserve. as also the Mas
4 Sachusetts. the Indiana and the Oregon-the gal
1ant battleship that Captain Clark brought half
~ around the world in record time. without
3 keeak
These and other good old-timers are not yet
all in" by any means. Still they couldn't hold
heir own in the fighting line with such husks
Youngsters as, say, the Connecticut or the North
Dakota. today. much less with the super-dread-
noughts of the Florida type OF tomorrow. There
nore, according to up-to-date standards they are
q the obsolete class. When a vessel once gets
here, as a rule, the rest is silence
z Even the stroud Atlantic feet batteships OF