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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-24
Nationwide Movement to Reduce Taxes

Those who have kept up with the
trend of things must have noticed the
movement, which has taken nation
wide scope, to reduce taxation. The
movement in mems minds began last
spring when taxes became due, or at
least that is true of the state OF Wash
ington. Following a winter OF slack
trade and employment, with a conse-
ouent scarcity of money, the question
obtruded itself on the taxpayer in way
that could not escape attention. The
figures on the debit side of the ledger
doomed large, and the tax item showed
a progressive increase from the previous
year. A little investigation showed
that this item had been growing for
years, but while times were good and
money plentiful it was not noticed.
When, however, turn in the tide OF
affairs came, when business showed
smaller profits and employment was
less constant, men all at once realized
that taxes had mounted higher, that in
a lew years they had practically doubled,
men began to look into the cause and
found that taxation had increased out Of
all proportion to the profits in business,
the earning power of money, the rates
of labor and the productivity of land.
A little reflection will convince most
of us that extravaganza and careless
ness 90 hand in hand with prosperity.
The country was prosperous for num-
Der of years. We were, like wanton
bows that swim on bladders, riding on
the crest of the wave of prosperity, with
no thought of the maelstrom OF hard
times ahead. When the tax bill was
presented and the nation ran its hand
into the pocket to pay the bill with the
customary indifference Of the past,
there came a rude awakening, akin to a
shock, when we realized the pocket was
empty. 1t was then we took thought
yes, several thoughts, because taxes
must be met, like death, without finch
ing. That the present movement to
reduce taxation is very serious and earn
est is quite evident from a reading OF
the newspapers. The movement is not
unlike the parable Of the man who
locked his barn door after the horse
was stolen. Still, if the movement
grows into fixed habit on the part OF
the taxpayer to insist on keeping down
the taxes it will not be barren in re-
suits.
Automobiles are responsible for the
yood roads movement and account for a
considerable increase in personal ex-
penses, and in large measure are re-
sponsible for increased taxation. Better
roads were sadly needed in this coun-
try, but the taxpayer is now paying for
them. The good roads movement will
not stop, but from now on it will pro-
coed with more delberation. In the
past three years more than billion
dollars has been invested in road i'm
provement in this country. Good roads
are among the economic necessities,
but they are expensive and great
many taxpayers have come to suspect
that they are costing too much.
The tax reduction movement indi-
Gates that the taxpayer in the future
will favor making haste more slowly.
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C;vo Rrvan a IOh in china
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-24
Adventist Meetings

A meeting Of special interest will be
held in the Masonic Hall on Monday
evening, Sept. 81, at 8 o'clock. Elders
C. A. Burman and F. M. Oliver will be
the speakers of the evening.
Elder Burman, who is the president
of. the Upper Columbia Conference OF
Seventh Day Advsntists, is visiting
Leavenworth for the first time.
All are cordially invited to attend this
meeting.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-24

NOTICE is hereby given that at a stock
~ holders meeting of the Tumwater Say
fngs Bank, ii was decided that the assets of
said TumWater Savings Bank be sold to the
Leavenworth state Bank and that said
Tumwater Savings Bank go into voluntary
liquidation and notice is hereby given to
ali the creditors If any, of the Tumwater
Savings Bank, to present their claims
against said Tumwater Savings Bank to the
undersigned at the Leavenworth State
Bank in LeaVenworth, Washington, within
a reasonable time.
Dated this 9th day of September, A. d.
1915.
l.. f. BULLS,
President Tumwater Savings Bank.
Sept, l0-Oct. |.
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Business Paragraphs.

NOTICE-If you have lost anything, or
found any article, or If you want to buy, sell
rent, locate, or get Information, write or
call at this office and place an adj in our
Business Paragraph Column" You Will
get quick results. Rates 10 cents line for
first insertion and cents a line afterwards.
Minimum charge % cents
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-24

The Echo is prepared to do better
and cheaper printing than ever. Come
and get our figures before you let the
next job. Don't send it away until
you have given US chance. 33tf
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preparation made at the last meeting OF
the Legislature would not permit fur
Their increase in the expense for this
particular class Of college work.
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For Sale

For Sale-A few pairs of pillows,
guaranteed genuine live geese feath-
ers, picked on the farm. Weight 71a
to lbs per pair. At less than whole
sale prices. Mrs. F. A. Parkhill,
1868 Leavenworth.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-24

Olympia-The state board Of equali-
cation will be able to make state levy
for all purposes less than 7 mills, against
500 in 1914, 8.81 in 1918.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-24

Fcund-Bunch OF keys, in city park.
Owner may have same by proving own
ership and paying for this ad. Call at
this office. "a
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-24

Wanted-Girl not less than II years
old to wait on table morning and evening
for her board. Mrs. Bellingham. 37-8
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-24

This is the time to set out ever
bearing strawberry plants so you can
gather berries next year. Jas. McDan-
lei has plants for sale. The kind that
have proved themselves right here at
home. Soft
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Miscellaneous

Two good milk cows for sale. See
F. S. Searles. SO
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LOST
FOUND

Found-On Front street, pair gold
glasses which owner can have by pay
for this notice. 81
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Methodist Church

Services in the morning as usual.
The evening hour for service has
been changed from 8 to 1880.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-24

The state building board has decided
on eight new buildings.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-24

Printing, from visiting card to a
three sheet poster, can be done better
and cheaper here. Nothing too large,
nothing too small for US to figure on.
Leave your work at home. 1t pays to
patronize home industry. 33f
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For Rent

Three-room house for rent. Apply
to Mrs. E. L. Miller. 38
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Oxford Hotel for rent, furnished.
Call at hotel for information. SO
FOR RENT Two room shack close
in. CHEAP, with water and electric
lights. Inquire at Echo office. If
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-01-07

it would not cost much to live, as he
could take his grub from home,
and now if he only had little money
to buy books. William Stonecipher
said if that was all there was in the
way then he would give him the
money with which to buy the neees-
sary books. The boy went. He
"shacked.' He secured an educa-
ton at Tuscu1um, little college,
but those of us who have recited
within it's halls and stood upon the
campus in the shade of it's classic
oaks can say as Webster did of Dart
mouth, eve love it"
Time rolled on and Sam Milligan
became a lawyer and bye and bye,
William Stonecipher, the old farmer
got into big law suit that threat
ened the title to all his property. He
employed Sam Milligan, the young
boy who said he could shack" if he
had money to buy books, to defend
him in the law suit Sam Milligan
won the case and as an act of graft
tude for the friendship shown him
in other days refused to accept a fee
for the work done. Time rolled on
and Sam Milkigan became a Justice
of the Supreme Court of Tennessee.
During the administration of the late
Andrew johnson he was that gentle
mans confidential and legal adviser
and intimate friends have credited
him with the preparation of many of
that gentleman's state papers. When
he died Sam MfIligan was Justice
of the U. S. Court of Claims. Now
did William Stonecipher make good
use Of his money when he bought
school books for young Sam MILL
gan, or should he have sent the
money to Africa?
There are boys and girls here in
the heart Of Dixie who both desire
and deserve an education. Is it best
to help them or send the money to
Timbuctoo?
With best wishes and personal re-
cards, l remain,
Most respectfully
Tenn. B. CLAY MIDDLETON.
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THE JEFFERSoNHAN

intention to build less expensive
home on site near where Gen. Long
streets old home had stood on Long
street heights But Immediately af-
ter the adjournment of the Georgia
legislature in August, 1912, which,
due to my efforts, passed the resolu-
ton directing the suit to recover Tai
lulah Falls from the Georgia Rail-
way and Power Company, the direc-
tors Of the Southeren States called 8
meeting and declared the entire loan
of $2,750 due, alleging as the reason
lapsed interest of about $50, which
was due about the middle Of June,
1912. I was informed that the di-
rectors of the Southern States Life
Insurance Company were variously
interested in the waterpOwer deVel-
opment being carried on by the Geor-
gia Railway and Power Company at
Tallulah. I advised the Southern
States Company that | would find
some one to take up their loan. This
/ did and the money was held at
Gainesville for a considerable length
of time. 1t was my opinion at the
time, shared by intelligent friends,
that the Southern States Co. was not
concerned for the collection of
debt. The intention was to injure
and embarraSs me in my campaign
for reappointment as Postmaster, be-
cause Of my activities for the presef-
Walton of TalIu1ah Falls.
I was never given a proper chance
to settle with the Southern States
Company. They proceeded to sue me
and secured judgment at the January
1914 term of the court, in the face
Of affidavits of two leading physicians
of Atlantic City that I was too i'll to
attend court.
/ am invoking the bankruptcy laws
of the United States, as interpreted
by the District Court of Georgia, to
protect my estate against the execu-
ton of the judgment Of the Southern
States Life Insurance Company.
Today the whole South is expe-
riencing the throes of Involuntary
moratorium, due to congested cot
ton and the failure of President Will
son and Congress to furnish relief.
There is no money in the South and
under these circumstances the sale
of my residence where my mother
lives, would merely result in the
change of title.
My integrity is pledged to the pay
ment Of every farthing Of my debts
and the burden will be immeasurably
increased if my real estate shall be
sold under present conditions
My great desire is to protect my
creditors, at the same time, without
prejudice to them, to furnish a home
for nv widowed T0Othpr
In the meantime I desire that the
people of my native State, the great
Empire State Of the South, on whose
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-01-07

''Huge battleshfps they build, and
huge guns they mount on these f1oat-
ing rarnparts, until file OF Dread
naughts line the coast--for what?
TO be ready for peri1s that may
never come. But I give them piti~
full little purse; and, in return, they
issue to me the lawful right to uns
mask my batteries ON c.ery square;
and my guns play upon humanity,
every day and every night, of every
year."
From ''The Song of the Barr
Room," in Watson's Prose Miscella.
MES, second edition. Price $1.OO.
THE JEFFS, Thomson. Ga.
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hills and in whose valleys my anees-
tors have slept for hundred years,
should know that it is not my inten-
ton to evade the payment Of single
cent of my just obligations, for what
ever purpose assumed.
I am merely pleading for a fairer
chance to discharge heavy load of
debts shouldered in what I conceived
to be the interest Of all the people.
The various members of the Tai
lulah Falls lyceum troops, scattered
throughout the country, who have
claims for services rendered, are re-
quested to submit them to me inn
mediately at my New Jersey address.
HELEN DORTCH LONGSTREET.
Bradley Beach, N. j., Dec. End, 1914.
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To the People of Georgia
To Georg ians:

gxT OUR attention is recalled to
~ the fact Of my ejectment
from the Gainesville Post
Office, and the financial
troubles that have ensued
therefrom.
The debts of the Tal1ulah Falls
Conservation Association assumed
during struggle extending over
term of years, for the preservation
of Natures most wonderful gift to
Georgia, pressed upon me so heavily,
coupled with serious illness, that I
was forced into bankruptcy to pro-
tect the interests of all my creditors.
I borrowed money, giving mort
cages on all my real estate, to carry
on the conservation work for the
sacred purpose of saving from the
destroying hand of commerce, the
crown jewel in the diadem of Geor-
gfa's matChleSs mountains.
have submitted a composition
proposition to my creditors which
provides for term Of years in which
to retrieve my wrecked fortunes and
pay every cent of my obligations,
dollar for dollar But there is an
influence which has blocked my
efforts in this direction, not having
been satisfied with ousting me from
the Gainesville POst-office.
When Gen. Longstreet died he left
nc estate. After his death and my
appointment TO the Gainesville Post
Office, bought lot and built resi-
dence in Gainesville. My building
experience mad been limited, and by
the time the house was completed, it
had cost me vastly more than my
income would warrant in residence
property. The Southern States Life
Insurance Company held first mort
gage on my home in Gainesville, an
tedating my activities in behalf of
Tallulah Falls. In the very begin
ming of this loan, / arranged with
the Company to carry it Indefinitely,
beyond even the five year period for
which it was Originally borrowed. |
did not expect to have to pay the
Southern States Loan at all. I was
holding it to help in an advantageous
sale Of my residence, as it was my
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Poor Children of the
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fast in the wake of its sounding. She knew only that it fitted in with her childhood's conception of the Indians warwhoop. But she did know that in an instant after it had been borne along the wind she had seen a thing lieved had she heard it from the lips of narrator.
 She saw in one breathing space the half-raised figure of Fletch McNash un- der the quilts of his bed, and that of young Jeb under the covers of his pallet. She saw in the next breathing space, with no realization of how it had happened, both of them crouched low at the center of the floor, the fa- thers eyes glued to the front door, the sons to the back. The older man bent low, like runner on his mark l awaiting the starting signal. His right l hand held the rife at his front, his left lightly touched the floor with fingers spread to brace his posture, and his face was tensely upturned.
 So. while she counted ten, father and son crouched in precisely similar i poses. one covering the barred door at the front with a repeating rife. the other seeming to stare through the massive timbers of that at the back with leveled pistol No one spoke. No one moved. but the regular swelling breath of sleep had died. for every pair of lips in the place was holding l it's breath, bated.
 Then came fresh pounding of hoofs and scattering of gravel and chorus of angry, incoherent voices sounded | above the noise of fiight-or was it pursuit? Whatever words were being | shouted out there in the night were swallowed in the medley, except a wake of oaths that seemed to float be | hind
 The noise. like the other which had preceded it, died swiftly, but in the instant that it lasted Fletch McNash had lifted his left hand and brought his rife to the ready" and his son had instinctively thrust forward his cooked revolver.
 For full minute, perhaps, the girl in the bed had the picture of two fig ures bent low like bronze emblems of motionless preparation, yet not syl- liable had been spoken and when. from quite a distance beyond. there came the snap of single shot, followed by the retort of volley. they still nei-
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where it might mean pitched battle. So it had been awaited, too. up and down the creeks and branches that crept from the ragged hills, where men were leading morbid lives of isolation and nursing grudges.
 During the three days that the sus- pense continued each recess of court found the longlimbed frame of Milt McBriar tilted back in a split bottom chair on the fagstones at the front of the hotel His dark face and pierc. ing eyes gaZed always thoughtfully and very calmly off across the dusky town to the reposeful ianguor of the piled-up, purple skyline. Likewise, each recess found seated at the other end of the same house-front the short with ruddy face and sandy mustache. Never did he appear there without two companions. who remained at his right and left. Never did the dark giant speak to the florid man, yet never did either fail to keep a glance directed toward the other.
 The man of the sandy hair was Breck Havey, next to Bad Anse the most influential leader of the clan. His in fiuence here in Peril made or unmade the officers of the law
 When these two men came together as opposing witnesses in homicide case the air was fraught with ele- ments of storm.
 "Thar's war a-brewin," commented a native. glancing at the quietly seat ed figures one noon. An them fel- lers air in ther bilin'."
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ther spoke nor moved. But at last. as if by one impulse, they rose and turned to face each other. Then. and then only, was there ut terance of any sort inside the house
 In a voice so low that Juanita would sense was painfully alert. Fletch said to his son: Il reckon ther wars on again"
 The boy nodded sullenly, and the father commanded in an almost inau- l dible undertone:
 Lay down."
 The boy went back to his pallet and the father to his bed. For long time there was dead silence, and then one by one they took up again their chorus of snores. Tomorrow might bring chaos but tonight offered sleep. Still the girl lay gazing helplessly up at the rafters and wondering what things happened out there in the grim, un- communicative silence of the slopes.
 A little while ago she had been dreading what might come. Now, in an access of terror. she thought of what must come.
 "Ther wars on" That was enough. Evidently there had been hell" over there at the dance. She had reached the country just in time to see a new and sanguinary chapter open
 She would in all probability see people she actually knew. with whom she had spoken, and whose hands she had taken. the victims of this brutal blood-lust.
 And in the face of such things these human beasts could sleep!
 But one was not sleeping, and after a while among the snoring slumberers Good Anse Talbott rose and knelt be- fore the hearth. There were still a few glowing embers there, and as he bent and at last took the knotted hands away from his scanned face they cast feeble light upon his features and upon the bare feet that twisted convulsively on the stone fireplace
 It was a tortured face, and as the girl watched him she realized for the first time the significance of the words ito wrestle in prayer" It suddenly came to her that she had never before seen man really pray. For an hour the hackwoods missionary knelt there.
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ary kick of his brogans and shed his coat Taking off her own boots and jacket. she slipped between the faded "comforters" of the sheetless couch.
 In five minutes the taper was out and the place was silent save for the cracking of the logs. The little girl at her side lay quiet. and her regular breathing proclaimed her already asleep. In another five minutes Jua- nita. with closed eyes and burning lids and aching muscles, heard the nasal chorus of snoring sleepers. She alone was awake in the house.
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by Charles Neville Buck.)

Her grandfather's fortune, or for tunes, since the plural rather than the singular fitted their dimensions, had come to her with his wish that part or them should go to advance education in the Alleghenies. She was to be his stewardess in overseeing the work. but that she should go in person and permanently to that crude environ ment had not been anticipated. Those who had known her in her life of nor nal luxury, of dancing and playing, and of deliciously rhythmic person. ality, would have laughed at the idea as absurdly incongruous. Of this fact the young man had heatedly reminded her on the night when she gave back his engagement ring and announced her determination.
 "Juanita," he had expostulated. with a suffering of hopelessness in his eyes which she ached to comfort "Juanita, dearest, courts and juries and the bayonets of militiamen have struggled to CiviliZe those savage people, and for a hundred years they have utterly failed. Their one god is Implacable Hatred"
 "I shant go with juries or bayo- nets," she had retorted.
 You will go without knowing them, their ways, their point of view"
 T don't know them now, but I will know them"
 You haven't even letter of in- troduction.'
 T never heard"-her voice rang with note against which he knew the futilty of argument-"thatt the Savior needed letters of introduction"
 And so an imagined heartbreak and crumbling world of illusions-as she fancied-had driven her suddenly into self-appointed exile-and mission.
 Her education had been pointed to fitting her to oversee such work-done by the hands of others. Even then. had not he and all the rest goaded her with their insistent refrain, You cant do it?' Now she was here.
 She drew herself up straight as she sat on the stile and impatiently dashed away the moisture from her eyes. If that other man had only had in him the iron wasted on this desperado. Anse Havey! She rose at last and went unwillingly back to the cabin.
 The host sat barefooted before the fire and talked with the missionary. The girl heard their conversation through the dullness of fatigue. won dering how she was to sleep in this pigsty, yet restrained from asking per mission to retire only by her embar- rassment and unfamiliarity with the native code.
 At last she heard Brother Talbott suggest Hits gittin' ter be late an we've got tol'able long way ter jour ney termorrer. I reckon we'd better lay down"
 Juanita began counting heads. There were six in the room. and the boy Jeb was yet to return from the dance, and while she was still trying to work out the problem the woman pointed to a corner bed and suggested: T reckon you'd better bundle in with Dawn"
 She saw the girl crawl into bed just as she was and the mission