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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-09-01
HEARST IN CABLEGRAM
OPENS WAR ON TAFT.

New York, Aug. 26. Open oppo-
sition to President Taft and denun-
citation Of the republican party chief
as tool Of the trusts is the bur-
den OF q cablegram from Paris by
William Randolph hearst which is
taken as putting him definitely and
irrevocably in the ranks Of the pres
ident's foes.
The Hearst cable was addressed
primarily to the Washington Post.
but Is featured in Hearst's papers
everywhere under headlines which
stamp 1t as declaration of war.
The cable first considers Taft's
record, and explains why Hearst for
some time has supported him. His
change of sentiment he bases upon
Taft's veto of the tariff bills. He
reviews the part of the democrats
and insurgents in congress played in
aiding reciprocity, and says:
"Mr. Taft should remember that
he is not wholly responsible for reci-
procity. He merely proposed it, as
many man has done before him.
1T was the democratic house and
insurgent senate which passed the
reciprocity measure and made it into
law.
These bodies passed the reci-
procity program with the full inten-
ton OF having the tariff reform bills
pass with it, and Mr.. Taft played
an unwise and unworthy trick, not
only upon the public. but upon those
of his associates to whom he was
under the greatest obligations, when
he vetoed the two reform tariff meas
ures which congress voted and the
country needed.
"Mr. Taft's reputation of his
platform and his pledges occurred
when he signed the outrageous Aid
rich bill''
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-09-01
INLAND EMPIRE RAILWAY
SITUATION REVIEWED,

Spokane, Wash, Aug. 28.-Waldo
G. Paine, general traffic manager of
the Spokane & Inland Empire Elec-
trio Railway system and president of
the Spokane Transportation club, was
the principal speaker at a luncheon
by the Spokane Chamber of Com
merce in honor of transportation men
on August %.
Reviewing the situation in the In
land Empire Mr.. Paine said railroads
already constructed represent an ex-
pendture of s25O,OOO,OO0 and give
employment to $4,000 men directly
and about 100000 indirectly, adj
ding:
The gross annual earnings of the
group of railroads in the Inland EN-
pre- is s37 100000, of which amount,
roughly, IS per cent, or $27,75O,OO0,
IS earned in the handling of freight
Fifteen per cent of the freight re-
celpts is from the products of agri-
culture, 4 per cent live stock, 46 per
cent mines. Is per cent forests, 10
per cent manufactures, 4 per cent
merchandise, and 4 per cent miscel-
laneous.
Forty cents of every dollar earn
ca by the railroads in 1910 was paid
lot labor, or s14,S0O,OOO, was ex-
pended by the railroads in the Spo-
name country in cash payments to
employees. Fourteen cents was paid
lof fuel, or $5,1SO,OOO, principally to
mines located in the district. About
cents of every dollar, or $1,10O,-
WV Is paid in taxes to the federal,
STATE and city governments.
twenty per cent, or s7,4OO.OOO.
- paid out in maintenance of track,
Du'iulngs and equipment, and out
.; OF steel rails, is principally spent
49,. 'ne territory served by the railroad
using the materials. The balance of
~ ~ per cent must cover loss and
uamage claims, interest on funded
snu otner indebtedness, and dividends
u stockholders, if any,"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-09-01
CANADIAN RECIPROCITY
CAMPAIGN AT WHITE HEAT.

Ottawa, Ont, Aug. 27.-Reports
coming in from all parts of Canada
show the intensity of the election
struggle now under full Roadway,
and reflect also the position and
progress of the various elements on
the main issue, reciprocity between
Canada and the United States.
Although the campaign comes
while harvesting is at its height,
conventions and political meetings
are drawing audiences unparalleled
for size. 1t is conceded that great
er percentage Of votes will be polled
than ever before In Canada.
A Dominant Issue.
Reciprocity has continued the
dominant issue since Premier Lau-
rier and Opposition Leader Borden
made their initial addresses.
Since then Mr.. Borden has re-
NAMED in Ontario, speaking daily,
while Premier Laurier, after one On
tario meeting, has swung over the
French-Canadian province Of Que
bee, where he has been addressing
from one to two meetings each day,
including Sunday.
Laurier's Belief.
The fight for reciprocity is based
by Premier Laurier and his follow
ers on the economic advantages It
will bring to Canada and they de-
nounce the annexation cry as hOl-
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-09-01
e. cAM!lo Of WEST pollrI


AmSn9 the old guns from past wara
On Trophy Point there q one nat =
fondly remembered BY every graduate
q the West Point military academy.
Il is IN Camilo," literally sTha
Camel. : relic Of the Mclean VA.
but dating far back o. that.
This antiquated piece Of ordnance.
which y three parts silver and pointed
light green. bears its name and the
royal cost Of arms Of Spain over an
inscription relating that 1t was the
property Of the Regiment OF the Gold
On Fleece, commissioned under Ferd.
Inland and Isabella ct the time when
Columbus set out on his famous voy-
age to discover new world. It would
be interesting to know what the Span
ish grandees would have thought IL
they could have foreseen that the very
cannon which probably Numbered God
speed to the explorer would one day
be captured by the unborn nation OF
the undiscovered continent to which
Columbus was bound. The ancient
gun was probably brought to Mexico
as part Of the armament Of Spanish
ship, and many years later was pressed
into service in the Mexican army.
where the "sinews of war" were al
ways at a premium. It was taken at
Monterey by the Americans and sent
to West Point as the most appropriate
place for such an interesting relic. In
former years 1t was mounted and
pointed its tapering, old-fashioned
muzzle out over the CLASSY Hudson
just as wickedly as It did when the
gunners Of the old Spanish regiment
used to send the fire leaping from its
throat. but lately 1t has been dis
mounted and laid with other trophy
guns In long row on the grass.
where it affords seat for the tired
excursionist.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-09-01
PRESIDENTIAL PROGRAM
IN WASHINGTON STATE

President William H. Taft's itin-
erary in the state of Washington
was contained in a dispatch received
Sunday night by Congressman Will
liam E. Humphrey from Charles D.
Hilles, secretary to the president,
and, in spite of the brief twenty
four hours allotted to Seattle, the
schedule of the chief executives
stopping places in the Evergreen
state is significant in it's scope.
Pass Here to Bellingham
The president will first pass
through Seattle about midnight Sun
day, October Is, on his way from
Tacoma to Bellingham, it being the
first visit of president to the north
ern Sound cities, and brought about
through the personal solicitation of
Congressman Humphrey within the
last few weeks at Washington.
Returning from Bellingham the
president will remain the guest of
October 16, to 1880 o'clock Tuesday
evening.
Stops in This State
The complete itinerary in this
state is as follows:
Vancouver, $3.50 a. m. Saturday,
October IA; Kalama, 1920; Kelso,
$50; thence to Castle Rock and Che
halls, reaching Olympia at 1850 p.
M; Tacoma, 4:30 p. m.
On Sunday, October Is, the presi-
dent will climb Mount Rainier as
far as the Tacoma & Eastern and the
automobile road will permit.
He is due back in Tacoma late
Sunday evening.
Down Sound Cities.
He will arrive in Bellingham at
noon October 16, then visit Mount
Vernon at 1 o'clock, Everett at $3.50
o'clock, and then come to Seattle.
From Seattle the president will go
to Walla Walla, thence to Lewiston
and Moscow, Idaho, and from there
to Spokane, whence he will start the
home trip.
President Taft is due to attend the
ground breaking at the Panama-Pa-
cific exposition in San Francisco Oc-
tober 8 following visit to his sis
ter in Los Angeles.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-09-01
OLD TRIALS BY WATER
INNOCENT WOULD SINK WHILE
GUILTY WOULD FLOAT.
Modern Survival Of The Ordeal In
Daimatla-How Il 10 Employed
~ the TibetAns.

Throwing people into the water to
let It determine their innocence or
guilt was widely in use in the seven
teenth and eighteenth centuries. a
Synod OF West Prussia. forbade it,
use In 1745. Sporadic cases. however,
occurred during the whole OF the nine
teenth century.
Prof. E. p. Evans wrote In 1895 OF
its use In Dalmatia, where In some
districts 1t was still customary to
throw all the women into the water
on specified day to see whether they
would sink or swim. A rope was at
tached to each in order to save from
drowning those who proved their in
nocence by sinking, while those be-
lieved to be guilty because they float
ed were also rescued and made to
promise to forsake their evil ways on
pain of being stoned.
A traveller has described modern
survival Of the ordeal used in detect
ing thieves in southern Russia, says
the Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette. All
the servants of the household where
the robbery occurred were assembled
and as many balls Of bread were
made as there were suspected per.
sons.
A sorceress then addressed each
one Of the number. saying that the
particular ball of bread which she
held in her hand would sink or swim
as the party addressed was guilty or
innocent. She then flung it into the
water.
Boiling water was used in ordeals
by the Persians and it Is referred to
In the Avesta. It contained both the
sacred elements, water and fire, sug.
costing the deluge past and the fiery
doom of the future. In the simplest
form of the hot water test the bare
arm was plunged to the wrist in trivial
cases. and to the elbow in more BE.
rious trials, usually to bring out rings
or coins thrown therein.
In Tibet plaintiff and defendant set
tie their cause judicially by plungine
their arms into boiling water contain
ing a black and a white stone. when
he who brings up the white stone wins
the verdict. A King of the Goths in
the seventh century, with the sanction
Of the Council of Toledo. recommended
the boiling test for crime.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-09-01
wi, MBIA RIVER CATCH
AND PACK $4,000, 900


ma AS'orla' Or, Aug. 26.-The sal
co Tn fishermen who ply the lower
soil 0nioia river in more than 1000
60 oo ana motor boats, have received
son 'VV'Voo for their work this sea-
non, winch has just closed. The
i.s .A Is So per cent. above that of
IN YEA, year and 100 per cent. more than
rive. 49, The pack for the entire
wo sI is estimated at $4,000 cases,
sns 'n Sa'465, 900, making the catch
emil, PACK worth 100000. The
lar.o PACK mas already been sold,. q
tho % portion of it having gone to
mus a.iantlc seaboard via the 18TH
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-09-01
Sound Cities to be Heard.

Olympia, Aug. 2S.-The public
service commission expects to hold
an informal hearing on September
/ to discuss with railroad officials
and shippers the question of distribu-
tive rates out Of Seattle, Tacoma and
other cities. On September 2, the
commission meets with the Oregon
commission and representative of
the interstate commerce commission
In Portland, and the local commission
wants to talk conditions over with
Sound representatives before the
Portland meeting.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-09-01
remarkable Feat Of Aged Man.


A wonderful feat Of endurance mas
lust been accomplished by an OLD
man, ninety-two years OF age. named
Herbst, who returned to his native
town OF Zurich the other mornlne.
Lately he set out on foot from Zurich
for the Tyrol, on receiving letter
that his mother, aged one hundred
and fourteen, was dying in village
near innsbruck. Herbst did not nave
mfacient money for the railway fare'
Init he knew the country and the
mountain passes, and he decided 70
nndertake the long journey alone He
found his mother dead. but va n
Anne to be present at her funeral.
Ace : weeks rest the old man st.ft'
a back for his Swiss home over ne
80 route. He says he VIII never
49, tia mountains again He va
lormeriy guide In the TyroL
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-09-01

What kind Of voice has that Mrs..
Highcy. anyhow :" asked SQuiggles.
II don't know exactly" said Dudd-
leigh. I'm not up on voices, but
should say. judging from her pertinar
city n singing Cavaliers Rusticana'
from Z q n. to To- p. m. every day
Of the week, that she's what you might
call An sintermezzo soprano. HAr
per's Weekly.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-09-01
Insurance Men Choose Spokane.

Milwaukee. Aug. 26.-Fred w.
Potter, of Illinois, was elected pyesi-
dent of the National Association of
Insurance Commissioners. F. II.
Hardison, Of Massachusetts,, was
chosen vice-president. and Harry L.
Cunningham. OF Montana, secretary.
Spokane, Wash, was decided on aa
the next place of meeting.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-09-01
Anti-Jewish Riots in wales.

London, Aug. 26.Except in
Bafgoed. the anti-Jewish outbreaks
IN Wales have ceased. Rioting and
stone throwing were renewed 1t BAR
COED last night. Troops we're again
called ont and scattered the crowds
With bayonet charges.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-09-01
Chicago's Population 2,2e4, 1874

Chicago, Aug. 2S.-Chicago's pop
ulation is now 2,264,184, according
to the announcement made today BY
the publishers of the new Polk City
directory. These figures show an In
crease Of 76,901 over the federal
census made year ago, which gave
the city's population as 2,185,2S3.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-09-01

W. =. A. Has $50, OS7 Members.
Men, ~ iork, Aug. 2s.-The Young
Oa7 CHRISTIAN Association has IS :
in, -. members, q gain OF 39,44e dur
assoo ,ne past year, according to the
Amer, a.ions year book Of North
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-09-01
To Address Conservation Congress

To Address Conservation Congress.
Kansas City, Aug. 2S.-President
Taft will address the national con-
servation congress in Kansas City
September 25. Acceptances of invi-
tations to attend the congress were
also received from Secretary of War
Stimson and from Clifford Pinchot.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-09-01

Idaho Trades Land with Government
Washington. Aug. %. The state
of Idaho and the United States gov
eminent have agreed to exchange
about 10000 acres OF land In that
state, so that each may have IT,
lands In more compact body than
1t present.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-30
NJ. ROSTAND'S VERSE
A Book of Fairylike Ideas.
Paris. ADril IL

Paris, April IA.
Holy Week is characterized by a
quiverful Of poems brought out by the
leading publishers First Of all comes
Les Musardses." a new edition Of the
early verses of NJ. Edmond Rostand, in
Guiding also several light. graceful
Anacreontic sonnets and madrigals never
before put into print neatly got mp By
Fasquollc. As the author of "Cyrano"
points out. the French verb "musarder"
means "to dreamily contemplate fairy
like ideas" what more charming. for
instance, than the dainty little poem de-
scribing the "Heure Charmante," after
a delicate repast during a summer even
ing. when the aroma of sparkling Asst
muscat grapes and beautiful flowers
mingles with music and with smiles Of
fair women? Also. the idyl Of the two
lovers Of Margaridon: the tale of the
smugglers on the Spanish frontier. the
Chimes of Saint Marmet': the big bear
OF the Pyrenees dancing mazurka all
exquisite Whiffs OF fanciful dreams
From the maison Eugene Figuiere
comes "LOrbe Pale" little hook Of
poems prose as well as in verse. by
Valentine de saint Point, one OF that
brilliant group Of women Of letters whose
vocation is 10 describe the vie in
.teNeure" and darlns self -inlrcspection.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-30

to speak TO any of the club members ~
the general surprise. he made Ms az
pearance at the annual banquet OF las
club shortly .afterward. but he hdu Nv.
forgotten the matter, and when az.
the dinner, he rose To speak. ii vas W
vious that a storm was brewing. .,,.
II had desired" he said ito do -
club great favor by Introducing -
its deliberations the new spirit ol -.
age: for the time must come wheh ~ ~,
Their resistance against the new IDEAS
he impossible. What is the result To-
have regarded my proposal as soniethus'ss
almost criminal and even some oi ,r,o
ladies have cast the intended gilt n'.
the mud. Only uneducated persona
nay. worse. only the scum of the ea''"
could behave as YOU have done. 80,
His flow OF speech was interrupted -
one of the ladies-a Danish oun.'..i.n,.
being removed i'm q faintng conu,'h s
for the anger and scorn with Nh,'p -,
spoke were both extraordinary am -" Ia
alarming. Then. as he resumed n ia
quence again carried him away s',,,a-
launched forth into violent Vonu IT, ~
ton of the conventional relanohsu',s, nee
men and women. and OF the ssass.
which was always offered 10 ne" inst
ending with 2 flow of bitter scoIh
the shallowness OF the age ,,- ard
When he had finished spedhins ,ons
took leave ~ the sstounded sues's 20 ,hs
realized that he had gwen ven ,,ionsrv
very essence OF all those teNV .o hurled
ideas and ideals which were 70 oe THE
upon the world so soon afterward 10 ,a.d
Dolls House" and which were snnlic
10 divide the reading and thinkrs a.rs
INTO two hostile camps for many ~ q"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-30
ROBERTS PAINTINGS.
from The London Globe.

From The LOndDn Globe.
The extension Of the CarnaValct Ma
scum is drawing attention to that note
worthy collection. and Paris con
temporary points out that one Of the in
terestng objects on view is plate with
rural scene showing sheep and 4
woman with child. This picture has is
story. 1t was painted by Hubert Robert
AT one time keeper Of the Kings pict-
ures, when he WAS confined at St Pcla
gins Hubert. who designed the Royal
gardens. was for six months in cap
tivity. He rose at Il In the morning and
painted till midday. Then he PLACED al
ball. As time went on In captivity he
started painting everything upon which
he could lay hands. After eating his
dinner he would paint the plates and
embellish the furniture with landscapes
Altogether he painted nifty three piece;
In this way. besides many which he gaVG
10 his companions In distress. His pict-
ures on plates sold at the time for q
louis. and II rs said that he escaped
through the completely Of his guardian,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-30

Mile. Valentine de Saint-Point has IN
herited traces OF the inspiration OF Id
MARITIME, who was her great uncie'
"L'Orbe Pale" evokcs delicious aspects
Of the moon and stars, the sea, nsher-
men. albatrosses and flowers. 1t Is
pleasing collection Of fertile rhapsouies
and whimsical reflections. NJ FRANCIS
James has completed the first ana sec
ond songs" of his bucolic poem, Les
Georgiques Chretiennes." published py
Fasquelle in which one finds protusion
of elegiac conceptions. simply ana crew
erly developed. Two of the most Ell
fective of these are the Song OF the
Seraphim" and the Song OF the Grass
hopper" Another delicate and vapor-
Gus volume of poetry is that whicn NJ
Ernest de Ganay has devoted to Les
Fleurs du Silence" also brought out by
Fasquolle
General Decaen. A second volume OF
whose memories and journals. edited ny
Lieutenant Colonel Ernest Picard ana
Lieutenant N1CtoI 10
by Plon, was. i'm his way, one OF the most
remarka bic men Of his time. Appointed
by the Directory to the command OF
division of the Army of the Rhine. under
the orders of Moreau. General Decaen
captured Munich and afterward took a
brilliant part in Moreaus victory OF
Hohenlnden After the peace OF Lune-
Vile he sought to become mediator
between Moreau and Bonaparte. 1t was
perhaps on this account that Napoleon
regarded him ever after with suspicion
Decaen was proud, sincere and truthiul
He had too strong a character to efface
himself in the manner that Napoleon de-
manded. The result was that ne was
sent to Pondicherry as captain genera
of French India. But the hostlllteS
with England prevented him from reach-
ing his post. and he escaped to the lie
dc France. General Decaen was won
derful observer. and his Journal, III Which
each day he noted down what he saw
and heard, is of great historic value. be-
sides making highly interesting reading
G. |. r.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-30
Literary .Nese,s and Criticism

King. whose government was covcrtF
attacked in the reception discourses OF
its open sessions and the compositions OF
it's prize winners. 1t was only fear OF
Voltaire's sharp pen that prevented It's
suppression at this time. the author
holds. Under Louis XVI, In his turn
the protector of the Academy, this home
Of liberal thought gradually fell behind
the growing aggrcssiveness of popular
opinion. The Revolution abolished it in
1890. as useless and tainted with aris-
tocracy." on August -, l'9o cora
Fructjdor. Year IT'D. the National Con-
vention decreed the foundation of the
National Institute, on the principle OIL
Colbert's idea for q composite Academy
The constitution Of this institute, WIN
IFS departments of the mathematical ana
uhvsical sciences. the moral and politicaI
sciences and art and letters, was so
framed that the name Academic Fran
caise could not be attached to any one
Of them.
In Nav. 1900. Lucien Bonaparte, then
Minister of the Interior, under the con-
sulate. proposed the establishment OF
thu Academy, but Napoleon, memper
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-30

have suspicion that one broad instinct
of caste will ultimately control. We find
the winding up of affairs entirely natu-
raj: IL leaves the indivdualities afore-
said each with his or her integrity Of soul
untouched I'm the hands of a lesser
writer we know just how the tale would
have been managed Miltoun would have
given up the woman he loved under the
pressure Of purely mechanical form of
social opposition, and his sister would
have turned from beloved adVenturer
to loveess marriage with man of her
own class as the result of similarly OBJ
vious discipline. When these two make
the decisions that Mr. Galsworthy de-
scribcs II is in part because their fam
ily has reasoned with them. but 1t is far
more because they are true 10 them
selves. In other words, Miltoun and
Lady Babs may be never so disposed to
kick over the traces. and yet, in the last
resort. they cannot but obey an inner
tied instinct. There. we maintain, Mr..
Galsworthy affirms his artistic offlores-
cence. In his earlier writings he seems
to scorn the facts in human nature that
he exposes and to do so where scorn is
out Of place. In THE Patrician' he does
not condOne, but neither does he con-
denim. IT is true that, being human HIM
self. he now and then slips in a passage
from which one might infer a half
humorous, half-bittcr criticism. but in
the main he emulates the masters of fic-
ton and leaves his moral to speak for
itself OF course, this makes him vast
" more interesting and impressive.
THE Patrician' is a book of BRAIN
stuff. in which the author has no longer
Il case to prove but slice of life to
put before us 1t is one Of the best nov
els we have read i'm a bong time and 1t
makes us eager To see what Mr.. Gals
worthy will do next.