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Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-18

The Austrian army Is furnishins the same kind of a surprise In thi war that the Russian did with Japan
Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-18

Chairman Mccombs of the demo- cratic national committee. sees the re- publ1cans running third this fall. Even after Maine that reveals defective in- sight.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-18

It is strange what lot more time and attention is wasted in these days upon ancestry than upon posterity
Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-18

At its best 1t is still a case of "watchful waiting in the republic south of the Rio Graude.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-18

EDITCRTAL NOTES, It appears to be a season for big game in Europe.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-18

Vitry-Le-Franeois-A town in north eastern France, on the Marne, 20 miles southeast of Chalons, and 100 miles by rail east of Paris. The pres ent town was built in 1545 by Francis to replace the older town burned in the previous year by Charles V. It nlanu- faetures cement and decorated wares, and has a population of about 5000.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-18

River San-Rises in the Carpathia mountains, at a point near the 'cente southern border line of Galicia- It course to the Vistula carries it pas Sanol, Przemysl and Jaroslau. Frog the latter place 1t flows northwest t the Russian Poland boundary lin, where it marks the boundary for te miles. From thence it flows into th Vistula1
Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-18

cigars, lacquer and metal ware, flax and hemp yarn, cotton, linen and or gans.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-29
THE STRENUOUS LIFE.

1.-The strenuous life is in most cases
the least effective and efficient" Will
liam c. Redfield, secretary of com.
merce, told the Brown university stu
dents in an address on Effectiveness.
1T is an infantile view of industry
which measures it's results by either
the duration or the extent of effort
he said. Both the hustler and the
apostle of strenuousness have become
back numbers in their methods. They
are today in the same category with
him who also ran.
eve deplore lives lost in war, and
have advocates of peace who are flu
ent in speech regarding the terrors
of strife he said, yet, while one
must sympathize with those who have
lost dear ones in battle, are we as
eloquent and active as respects the
many that are slain in industry? We
mourn the nineteen of Vera Cruz. but
IN the first three months of this year
there were slain many times that mum
Der in the industries without great
public grief, and the yearly death list
from automobiles in the streets OF
New York makes our occupation OF
Vera Cruz look relatively like a plea.
sure excursion
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-29
FARM WAGES AND COST OF
LIVING

A decided increase in wages, short
er hours and the higher cost of board
ing farm hands are assigned by the
bureau of labor statistics of Missouri
as being partly responsible for the
increase in the cost of living between
1894 and 1914, a period of twenty
years A bulletin on the subject, just
given publicity by Commissioner John
T. Fitzpatrick, while dealing chiefly
with the present cost of farm labor in
Missouri as compared to It's worth
two decades ago, also gives compare
tive facts and figures for other states
and for various European countries to
prove that the same condition exists
elsewhere.
The increase in wages and the re-
duction of the number of hours of toll
a day are suggested as an inducement
to the unemployed of the large cities
and towns to flock to the rural Sec
ton, work on farms and live happy
and contended on the fat of the land
with ample time daily for recreation
and education for those inclined to be
studious.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-29
THE UNcREDITED FARMER.

There are 100000 farms in this
land of the free. On them, of them,
by them, for them, 25,OOO,000 of the
nations 100000 of population live
and move and have their cornfield be-
ing. Also, that rural $4,000, 900 are as
the backbone of the country and the
beating heart thereof.
For more than fifty years, congress
has been legislating to help the manu-
facturer. For more than fifty years
congress has been legislating to help
the banker. Over these two public
favorites the government, for half a
century, has hung in all solicitude
like painter over picture.
Thus tenderly nursed, the banks
have multiplied in their possessions
eight-fold and report an average divi-
dend prosperity of 111s per cent. Also,
they should have called it rs per cent,
but were. too productivity wise. For
your banker is as cunning as a pet
fox. While the banker has multiplied
his dollars by eight, the equally CO.'S
seted manufacturer confesses to a
present six dollars where he could
find but one before.
The farmer?
Had he been stepchild to the gov
eminent, or some chance-sown found.
ling left upon the public doorstep, he
couldn't have encountered larger de-
gree OF callous arctic coldness and
neglect. So far from being legislated
for, half of what nest-feathering has
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-29

Probably every reader Of this paper
has noticed in reading. the Veterinary
columns in Farm Journals this advice:
"Clean up and disinfect" 1t is
phrase that is used perhaps more than
any other In recommending measures
to prevent and exterminate contagious
diseases This being the case, it is
worth while knowing something about
what to use to accomplish this clean.
ing up and disinfecting. OF course
there are a great many different dis
infectants on the market. Everyone
is familiar with carbolic acid, corro-
sive sublimate, formaldehyde, etc.
However, there is very serious OBJ
lection to these materials for they are
rank, irritant poisons. Many people
refuse to have them around because
there is always more or less danger Of
a disastrous accident. A mistake in
picking up the wrong bottle, or an i'm
proper use Of one of these is apt to be
q very serious matter.
1t is really fortunate that there is
disinfectant that will do everything
that those mentioned will and yet is
practically free from these serious OBJ
jections. Kreso Dip No. / is admitted
by psychologists to be powerful
disinfectant, cleanser and purifier, yet
practically non-poisonous to higher
animal life. Every stock owner ought
to be posted upon this subject Book
lets and circulars can be obtained at
the drug store at Friday Harbor.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-29
"cAsT.lRoNo SCHOOLS

Are our schools "cast iron ma
CHINESE" The question is suggested
by the press report of a recent adj
dress by DR.. VIM. O. Crone, of Chi
cago, to the Chicago Bar association,
in which he said that criminals are
made because boards of education try
to make the children fit the curricu-
lum, instead of making the curriculum
fit the children. He was the first
speaker at dinner in the Midday
Club.
After enumerating and describing
the periods of development in chill
dren, during which they respond to
certain courses of study, he attacked
the present method of teaching.
1--WE must make our education fit
the various periods of Development
he said. "As it is now we teach one
subject all through the elementary
school, Boards of education through
out the country-and there are usu-
ally lawyers on the board-make cast
iron systems of study, and their idea
of giving boy his education is to
press him in this cast-iron machine
until done.
1.-THE step-chlldren of the state,
whom the state finds itself compelled
to care for, are wards because they
are misfts. We pay the penalty in
those whom we have to provide for
because they were not understood"
Miss Jane Adams, of Hull house,
blamed the "unattractiveness" of the
law for much of the evil of the city.
I'm our district" she said, "the boy
who is the leader of a gang is the one
who most successfully tells the other
boys how to put things over without
getting caught. II the boy is particu-
larry successful he becomes the alder
man of the ward.
1.-THE law stands outside-as some
thing harsh and to be avoided. Many
think Of the policeman as the law.
Couldn't something be done to make
his Interpretation Of the law more at
tractiye?"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-29

This world with its valleys, woods
and hills,
Yesterday the same as today;
Is only place the Creator made
For us children to come and play.
At first we build our houses of sand,
And our life is free from care;
But later we build them of brick and
stone
And rear them high in the air.
But it's only just play after all what
we do,
And no matter how high we may rise
Or how great our achievements may
seem to be;
After all, we're just making mud
pies.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-29

The little city of Friday Harbor, rich
in historical associations of the bound
airy dispute of the last century be.
tween the United States and England,
and county seat of San Juan county,
has made bond issue of $4,000 gen.
eral municipal water per cents,
which has been bought by John E.
Price & Co., one of the leading Seat.
tie bond houses. With the proceeds
will be built a gravity water system
This issue constitutes the sole indebt-
edness of the community, which is an
important center of the fishing and
lime industries of the county-Post-
Intelligencer
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-29

The farmers feed them all and
therefore only as the farmer pros
pers can the rest of us prosper. "
was the motto at the Pomona grange
meeting held at Edgewood recently.
Let US not forget that we need more
than food. We need clothing. houses
to live in and thousands of things.
Food is very important. Farmers
are OF the greatest Importance, but
every trade is of great value to us
all. To whom would the farmers sell
II others did not buy what thew
raise? So many like to buy every.
thing SO cheap, they do not like to
see others make living. We like
10 see farm products command a
good price, we hate to see foreion
countries ship in their products when
we have millions of acres of land idle
Inc higher farm products are. the
more people will take to farmino and
the better for every one Of US
wages will increase and general
prosperity viii reign.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-29
rono forward in downy favor OF the
banker and the manufacturer was at
oor nlucked. stripped expense.

como forward IN dOWny favor VI tu0
h.nLor and the manufacturer was at
his moor plucked, stripped expense.
The result should be no mystery. me
turban population increased u per
lcant while the farm population
ehronicled an advance Of but 10 per
cent While the whole population
climbed Is per cent, farm production
advanced 10 per cent. 1t may be as
well to mention, too, that since 1887
dollar in it's purchasing power has
dWindled to rs cents in England, ~
/ cents in Germany and France, and 69
cents in free America.
You have heard that the American
manufacturer is in competition with
the German and the French manufac-
turer. Even so. Then, by the same
trade token, is the American farmer
| in competition with the German and
French farmer. When men or horses
contend, four-ffths depend upon how
those men or horses are trained and
handled Since the three are rivals,
consider how the French, the Germans
and the Americans send variously
their farmers into the competitive
lists.
| IF credit be the life of trade, it is
no less the life or agriculture, and a
farmer must borrow money as much
as any hard-pressed Pittsburg steel
maker or needy Broad Street stock
gambler of them all. Approaching
that cry for credit, while America has
| given the farmer the cold shoulder Of
utter neglect, Germany and France
have fostered and protected him.
Germany and France have made it
easy for him to borrow money. Am
erica has done all she could to or ple
| him in his borrowing and break his
credit down Thus the french farm
er is loaned money at AZ per cent;
the German is given what money he
calls for at AZ per cent; while here,
in liberal America, the farmer pays
an average of SA per cent for every
dollar he borrows, with the certainty
of being logged to death by his credi-
tor the moment the crops are in.
Markets may be fiat, that shall not
| avail him. Win or lose, he must sell.
Fer the American farm creditor is
short-time shark, and the farmer must
meet his demands.
/ All things recalled, wouldn't it be
| the part of craftsmanship to do con-
Occasionally something for the Ameri-
can farmer? He's one-fourth Of your
population and the nations best hope.
| The American merchant borrows at
Is per cent. The american stock
gambler, producing nothing, accom-
! plishing nothing, merest leech living
! By The toll OF others, bCrrows for
even less. The American farmer, with
lau that can be said to his good and
solvent advantage, must and does pay
I81s per cent.
And all the time the savings and
postal banks are bullying with billions.
if the government would make two
blades OF grass grow where but one
| has grown Beforehand publicly it
would pay-the wide-fung chance lies
open. Let it model action on French
or German lines, and place the farmer
on a borrow ;ng par with the merch
ant, the manufacturer and the stock
| jobber Let it evolve system Of
farm loans when shall put those saw
| ings and postal bank billions, at per
cent, within the farmers borrowing
] roo -IInarSt,s MAGAZINE
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-29

Prospects for a large yield of fruit
of all kinds, with the possible excep-
ton of peaches, have not been eQualed
at any time within the last decade
the United States Chamber of Com.
merce committee on statistics and
standards on the condition of fruit
The report deals with all fruits OF
commercial Importance, including ap
pies, peaches, pears, plums and
prunes, grapes, strawberries, cherries
and the like.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-29

Sockeye and blue back salmon, five
cents each; steelheads, nine cents
each; springs, chinooks and kings,
twenty cents each; silvers, two cents
each; chums, one half cent each and
humpbacks, one-half cent each. The
above is the tax which it is proposed
to levy upoa the leading industry of
Friday Harbor in one of the initia-
tive measures to be voted upon this
fall. The royalties proposed to be
charged are nearly equal to the
price cannerymen pay for the fish
during the season. Thus the can
nerymen Of this state will be obliged
to pay almost twice as much for his
raw product without being able to
raise his selling cost.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-29
Stop! Lookl Listen!


If YOU do not do more than your
share you will not get more than
you expect.
It will take but one word from
Washington to put the grin and
go in Gringo.
1t may not pay to hunt crim-
inals, but it is every mans duty
to be on their trail.
When we look at some people.
we are tempted to believe that Gre
alton has a sense of humor.
Few men can do great deeds,
but every one of us can do our
best and that is expected of us.
You may buck the tiger and
play the fool in more ways than
one, but you can not buck nature.
Be blamed sight more anxious
about the fittings in the inside of
your head than on the outside Of
your body.
1t is when you are in the frame
of mind to hurt somebody that
YOU are most liable to do lasting
injury to yourself
You do not need to measure
yourself or take your own weight.
The other fellows will do it, their
scales will be fairly correct.
Do not always think of making
reputation. If you do your best,
the reputation part will follow as
naturally as a tail on dog.
1t is the fellow who is everlast-
ingly afraid of doing more than he
is paid for that wears out the
sidewalks looking for a job.
You are not in half so great
danger of having your system poi
soned by what goes into your
mouth as by what comes out of it.
Many young man fritters away
his time looking for something
Soft" when he might satisfy his
craving by taking mirror and ex-
aiming his Uranium.
Substitution is not necessarily
confined to the handlers of mer-
chandise. We have known Of in
stances in which highly esteemed
citizens palmed off sanctimonious-
ness for sanctity.
Talking about cranks, we wish
to state that common everyday
cranks are very tiresome, but it
takes certain kind of cranks, who
fight for something worth fighting
for, to get big movements started.
There is vast difference be-
tween being busy and being busy
body. The underlying defect in
the latter type is that they over
work their tongues, while their
brains and hands are constantly
on vacation.
Down in California they lay
claim to having bluer skies than
an w here else in the United
States, and it may all be true, but
when it comes to offering the real
brand of climate, with the accom-
paniment of inspiring scenery for
the enjoyment of the tourist,
Washington has it all over the
Golden state. AS matter of fact
"blue sky" is not an entirely COM
mendable asset. The people up
this way are endeavoring to place
it under the ban altogether,
through the medium of initiative
legislation.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-29

Untidiiess is being considered a
disease by cities and is beginning to
receive the same rigorous treatment
as an epidemic would get. The big
cities were first to undertake clean
up campaigns each spring. The
time is coming when the town that
does not clean up Systematically
each spring will deserve the adverti-
sing which the village wag hung up
on the front gate of the most up-
kempt premises in town: "Wanted-
A little pride"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-29

famed condition of the mucous sur
faces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness (caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circu-
lars, free.
F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constl-
patton.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-29

It seems that our peculiarly patrl-
otto (?) administration at Washing
ton is seriously considering whether
or not to award to British manufac-
turers the contract fer supplying
the American army with American
flags. British bids are some 81 OOO
to IS, 600 lower than American bids
for the contract. 1t is astonishing
that even the un- Americanism char
acteristic of American free traders
should dream of going to such a
length as that of having "Old Glory
furnished by foreigners. 1t would
be a sight for gods and men to see
American soldiers marching under
American banners bearing the
strange device, 'MADE IN ENGLAND. "
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-29

After all, the world is run on a di-
vine made plan. Life would be a col
orless, uninteresting affair. if all
mankind were established on a plane
of deadly equality, having common
endowments and uniform cap city
for development. 1t is the individ-
uals who have forged ahead and
pulled the world after them who
have established higher and nobler
standards of living. 1t is the posi-
bilities inherent in every boy and
girl to rise to an eminence far above
their present posision that kindles
ambitions and gives to us men and
women whose lives and works are an
inspiration. 1t is the uncertain ele.
ment in our destiny that gives US our
day dreams, our richest experiences
and serves to distinguish human ex-
istence from that of the lower order
OF animate things.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-29

The promise for a winter wheat
crop, as indicated by the recent gov
eminent report, is for volume more
than 1OO,000,OOO bushels in excess of
any previous production.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-29
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,

March rs, 1914
Notice is hereby gwen that Hattie V. Harrst
whose post Office address is friday Harbor,
Wash, did, on the goth day of March, 1913, nile
in this Office Sworn Statement and Application
No. o2eI2, to purchase the Lot OF, section . o.
Township IS N, Range West Willamette Mer-
idiau, and the timber thereon. under the provis-
ions of the act of j, ne 8, 1873 and acts amenoa
tory, known as the Timber and Stone Law,
at SUI h value as might be fixed by appralse-
ment, and that pursuant to such applea a[ss,
the land and timber thereon have been aPpIdis'
ed the timber estimated $4,000 board feet n.y.
and the land s4oos; that said applicant Will OIL. Ol
fer final proof in support of his application anu
sworn statement OH the sixth day OF June, l9l4,
before Clerk of the Superior Court, al Fhuay
Barbor Wash. -. rur.
ANY person is at liberty to protest MS pun ur
chase before entry or initiate contest al any
time before patent issues, by filing corroJ s;c.
ted affidavit in this Office, alleging facts "ni'A
would defeat the entry.
John c. DENNY
Register.
First Publication March II. 1914
II; Inn
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-29
DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED

DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED
by local applications. as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deaf
ness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
inflamed condition Of the mucous lin
ing of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube is inflamed you have a rum
bling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it Is entirely closed, Deafness
is the result, and unless the infama-
ton can be taken out and this tube
restored to its normal condition,
hearing will be destroyed forever;
nine cases out of ten are caused by
Catarrh. which is nothing but an In
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-29
The Tale of a Dollar Bill

The Tale of a Dollar Bill
A farmer went to town to spend
Some of his hard-earned dough.
And in a merry jest, and just
To show his printing Skill,
He printed his initials on
A brand new dollar bill.
He spent that dollar that same oS'
Down in the village store;
He thought twas gone forever 'i''
And he'd see it no more.
But long before the year rolleuO "
One day he went to fill
A neighbours order, and recelVeO
That same one dollar bill.
Once more he spert that dollar O''
In his own neighborhood, i
Where it would do hlmsell 'D'
friends
The most amount of good, -,
Four times in two years it came D'''
AS some bad pennies WILL ii
And each time he'd go oct and sD'''
This marked one dollar BILL ,,;,bt
Had he been wise that dollar A
Be in town today;
But just two years ago
He sent it far away. 49,,
The people who received II wv
| know have got it still,
For twas to a mail order n0u''
He sent his dollar bill. IL,
No more will that marked d0''''
Come into the farmers hano - nay
And nevermore will it help y
The taxes on his lands
He put it where it never Can
It's work in life fulfil; :, death
He brought about the l'viDS
Of that one-dollaf D'A' -Excbsns'
Read the San Juan lsi'
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-29

First Pu blication March II. 1914
Date of Last Publication June s. 1914