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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1920-07-09
NOTICE.

Sealed proposals will be received
by the Township Clerk of the Town
ship Of L'Anse, Baraga County. Mich
igan, up until six o'clock p. M. July
20, 1920, for cutting trees and brush
ing a right-of way for a highway
twenty-four (24) feet wide, and piling
the brush and trees on the side Of said
right-of-way, described as follows:
Commencing at the Northeast
Quarter (NEA> of the Northeast
Quarter (NEA) of Section twenty
five (35), in Township fifty-two (52)
North of Range thir;y-iwo 1922 West
running thence on the section line
East one mile to the Township line.
Also strip of road described as
follows: Commencing on the Section
line between the Southwest Qunarter
(SWA) of the Southeast Quarter
(SEh), and the Southeast Quarter
(SEA) of the Southwest Quarter
(SWA) of Section twenty-five (25),
and running thence North on the
quarter line one and one quarter miles
to the eighth line Of section twenty
four (24).
Further specifications may be OBJ
tanned from the Township Clerk by
order Of the Township Board and the
Highway Commissioner.
Dated: July 1, 1920.
TOWNSHIP OF L'ANSE.
Harold E. Nilsen, Supervisor
Michael Connor, Clerk.
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COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

L'Anse, Mich, June Is, 1920.
A regular meeting Of the common
council of the village Of L'Anse was
held in the council chamber on the
above date. There being no quorum
present, the present council adjourned
to June 16, 1920.
ED SEAVOY,
Village Clerk
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Annual Report of the
Board Of Education

L'Anse, Mich, July LIST, 1920.
To the Honorable Board of Education
of L'Anse Township:
Gentlemen:-I herewith submit my
report of receipts and disbursements
for the year ending June 30th, 1920.
RECEIPTS.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1920-07-09

WANTED-A girl for kitchen work,
also girl as chambermaid. Douglas
House, Houghton. Good wages, will
pay railway fare. 1913
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1920-07-09
Treasurer's Report.

L'Anse, Mich, July 1, 1920.
To the Honorable Board Of Education
Of L'Anse Township:
Gentlemen:-I herewith submit my
report of receipts and disbursements
for the year ending June 80, 1920.
1919.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1920-07-09
. L,Anse. Mich, June 16, 1920

L'Anse, Mich, June 16, 1920.
An adjourned regular meeting of
Tire common council of the village of
L'Anse was held in the council cham
Der on the above date. There were
present August Menge, president;
Trustees Nilsen, Bentzen, Jacobson,
ard Johnson. Absent trustee, Chris
tchson.
On motion of Nilsen, supported by
Johnson, that the follwing bills be
allowed by the vote following:
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by thinking, one may innocently di-
vert and Pleasantly entertain him
self, as in all weathers, so in all
fortunes | run to thinkers mostly
Tom Paine, Thomas Huxley,
Thomas Jefferson, Darwin, Alexan-
der, Agassiz, Gibbon and suchlike.
$50, you see, I have Infinite
riches in little room,' as Marlowe
says. Behold me, then, ensconced in
my bare study after / have washed
the windows in half a dozen Green
witch Village studios. Bankers who
roll up from Wall Street in their
perfumed limousines to spend their
evening in tapestried and soft-car-
peted homes have not the luxury or
unworried leisure that l have. To
be sure, my walls are bare-not
picture on 'em. My wooden chairs
are empty and my tumbledown
kitchen table swept clean of every
thing but dust. But when l prop
myself up comfortably in a corner
there and abandon myself to the
great world of books, what do I
care for surroundings Upon my
bare walls see enacted the whole
pageantry of history. That little
wooden chair expands into big soft
one, spacious enough to hold the
bulky frame of old DR.. Johnson,
who, while / look on, sits there by
the hour shaking his fist and rolling
out his big words at the assembled
company, Goldsmith, David Garrick
and Boswell. Or when 7 look out
my window 1 see below the seas OF
adventure or the fields wherein
many glittering knight rides. to-
perform feats Of daring"
Mr.. Window Washer, having
emptied his bucket and wrung his
cloths, prepared to depart.
"Lemme see," he said. "Three
windows at 80 each and one sky,
light at so. That's $1.4O. Not bad
for half an hour, is it," ...,e.
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VlEW of the Milton of the Yang Kiamg The
her1 becomes Very nGrro1O and saUift I'D is narqcble
only for light draft and high powered boats

thing as an official class. 1t is for
the Chinese merchant to deal with
the officials. The foreigner knows
only the Chinese merchant. And the
Chinese merchant, through hundreds
of years of dealing with his Of
ficials, knows just what percentage
to allow for official extortion.
Possibly this sounds like an ex-
aggeration. Well, Robert Dollar
says:
after twenty-five years of trad
ing in China have yet to lose my
first penny through a Chinese mer-
chant. But" he adds, Il lost my
first penny in America within three
minutes"
If it still sounds like an exaggera-
ton, there is the explanation of
Ross w. Smith:
Americans as nation are specu-
lators. When they go to China they
are still spectators. They are not
content to accumulate money by the
comparatively slow process of trade,
but want to make it all in month
with concessions. Any one who gets
concession has to get it from the
officials. He has, to buy it by pay
ments to any number of officials Of
high and low degree, and he is con-
stantly being MIXED by successive
governors and other officials. Every
new governor he encounters starts
at the beginning. The new governor
does not start with the conces-
sionnaire where the old one left off.
He begins all over.
"Of course, the man who goes into
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12
The intellectual Window Washer and Tom Paine

First published 1891. Some soap
suds happening to fail on the book,
the window washer carefully wiped
it off with his tattered sleeve, waved
it through the air to make it dry
and then meditatively held it in his
hand.
Z Il like TomsP aipc," said Mr.. Win
dow Washer reflectiveIy. 81 suppose
it's because l am a bit like him. He
once lived in Greenwich. Village I've
washed the windows where he used
to look cut on Sheridan Square from
his house in GroXe Street. He was
a man without home, fitting from
America to France whenever there
was a revolution going on. Only I
fit on a much narrower scale-from
Greenwich Village to the Rowery-
and avoid anything that looks like
a. revol ptiop. ,,,. These are, the times
that try. mems SOULS said Tom
Paine, when he, wrote. The Crisis
during the American REVOLUTION,
Then he went to. England and fired,
as he, said,.. this book at Edmund
Burke for attacking the French Rev
olution.' He never had much TO eat,
Tom Paine didn't, and while Tn a
BIT life him, 7 disagree with his the:
orrvv nff;9e' ''t1. g.: ri<o }.e., ~
:<..a. ..'t'
y. The Secret Of Happiness
''Rll'tefl you;| brother" Continued
Mr. Window Washer turning over
the pages Of ne f. Rights =. 81 Man,
1--WE, found the ,seeret of happiness.
It's independence, that's what hap
pi#sess is. Phat ewhat Tons Paine
fohehs FOR all hts life, but r~found
i g. without i! 4. a strpsKle.. The rights
Of man he preached haut J, practices,
Ill., t@l you about. u, brother. r.
"First I've got Bill of Rights.
1t calls for little work. Not much.
mind you--only abouT four hours a
day, and five days to be considered
Ta4 ,g.Aak.l. 49, ssst 'ils 'sigT
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let's came down from the cliffs, and
there we're several narrow. escapes
among the passengers, while the
wooden upper works. Of the, boat
were made TO resemble "a pepper
castor. The marines, turned loose
their machine guns and swept the
cliffs. Several Chinese .tumbled
into the river and haye not. since
been seen nor has there BEEN any
further, .n1olestation, Of the, Robert
Dollar II.
But one never can tell. China is
q peculiar place. Those who are
familiar with it say they have never
been able to discover. that there is
any written law or: that the laws or
customs of one province ahava any
bearing in. the neiga,boring districts.
1t seems to be the, fact, according to
Robert Dollar and Boss w. Smith,
New York n,anager9o of the Rcbept
Dollar Lines, that there are three
principal classes in China, the off,
cial class, the commercial class and
the laboring classes, including the
farmers. The official elass INCLUDES
the army. o
Practically Independent,
The army class and the official
class in each province are supposed
to be subject to some sort Of central
authority in Picking, but, as mat
ter of fact, they are practically in
dependent. China is made up. in
other words, of an agglomeration% of,
separate feudal kingdoms or princi-,
palities, all owing allegiance to Be-.
king, but regarding or ignoring that
allegiance according. as. private in-
terest dictates. -. To he sure the.
governor of province receives has
appointment from Picking, but, the
appointment seems to be in the
nature of a reward ,for.,.: political
henchmen, and the governor .ipme>,
diately becomes an independent
ruler. There is no limit to- his term
of office. Usually, however, two or
three years is long enough for him
to acquire fortune, and he retines
and turns the job back to Peking
for the reward Of another satellite:
Like the governor the army is
nominally subject to orders from
Picking. Practically, the army of a.
province is the private force of.the
governor. If the governor of
neighboring province commits faux
pas, intentional or otherwise, the
offended ruler makes private war,
Provincial soldiers are paid when
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g. week. Then it calls for plenty of
good food, a good place to sleep and
lots of leisure to read books in. 1t
absolutely forbids me from having
any boss and from responsibilities
beyond this here tin bucket and
cloths to wipe windows with. That
my Bill of Rights-no worry and
let the world drift along as it
pleases.
- How do / do it when everybody
is complaining about the high cost
Of living? I'll tell you, brother"
said Mr.. Window Washer, settling
down into soft armchair. 1--WE got
life reduced to maximum of
leisure with minimum of work.
While all the rest of the world is
Tuning and fussing and hurrying
and fretting and dying Of heart
failure and going blind trying to
figure out way to make both ends
meet, why, Pm just as cool as Gu
cumbers.
Beating the III. C.. of L.
cts just this way. I've got a
room on the top floor Of the Saliva
ton Army Hotel, overlooking the
Bowery.. Rent, Is cents a night,
paid daily. No worry about a
months rent coming due. Baths
free. II you're clever, as I am, you
know where to get good meals in
the vicinity of the Bowery, ranging
in price from 20 to 40 cents, accord
ing to your appetite. Meals about
81 day. No board bills coming due
at the end of the month. A couple
Of dollars. week for luxuries and
books, mostly paper-back books like
this one. Clothes not much, for I
don't 60 in for style. Average ex-
pensea- about 81 a day. Now, by
working o maximum Of four hours
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is in the nature of the race. But
the secret of the British hold on the
foreign commerce of the world is
that tenacity that enables their
young men to go to a foreign coun-
try and stick to a business until
they have brought it up from moth
ing to a great enterprise"
The second rule is to stick to the
letter and spirit Of bargain
through thick and thin.
"The Chinese merchant" says
Mr.. Smith, will never break bar
gain either in it's letter or it's spirit,
no matter what it may cost him.
He doesn't care how hard a bargain
you may drive with him. In fact,
he likes a hard bargain. He enjoys
making it. But he does require that
the bargain be stuck to once it is
made. Once gain the reputation
with "a Chinese merchant Of holding
to your bargains and nothing can
take him away from you. You can
hold his trade for fifty years, no
matter what inducements your rival
may offer him in the way of prices
or terms"
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China looking for concession runs
up against the officials. Of course,
he has to pay, and pay, and pay; and
pay, time and time again. But if
the same man were there for trad
ing purposes, if he were doing bust
ness with the Chinese merchants,
buying and selling from them, he
need never come in contact with the
officials; he need never pay penny
to them. The two classes, the Off
cial class and the merchant class,
are as separate and distinct as
though they did not exist on the
same continent"
Mr.. Smith suggests three rules
for the American business man in
China, In the first place, take the
way the Britisher, for example, goes
to China. A young Englishman
leaves home for the Far East. He
goes to China to make his career.
He goes out in a subordinate posi-
ton. He makes his home in China
and learns the business he is in and
the habits and customs of the peo-
pie he has to deal with. Twenty
five or thirty years slater he is the
managing head of his concerns
business in the Far East. But the
young American goes to China ex-
pecting to stay four or five years
and come home with fortune as
the result Of series of lucky specu-
lations.
Why the British Win
II don't know how we are going
to change it," says Mr.. Smith. 1T
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ing. He appeared In
-A- A Greenwich Village with 4
galvanized tin bucket filled
with damp cloths. Sometimes when
he had an order to wash a. skykght
which could not be reached from
chair he brought a small folding
ladder, but not often. He explained
that he was not fond Of climbing
the interminable stairs to the, heights
where some of the villagers chose ia
live, and that carrying his bucket,
empty save for the damp cloths,
called for about all the exertion he
cared to expend.
In personal appearance he was not
unlike any other window washer.
He had a general aspect Of having
been saturated with soapsuds, as If
for whole lifetime he had been en-
gagged in absorbing the loose, spray
from off the windows he had washed
His manner was easy: and deliberate,
as il nothing ever bothered him.
You probably wouldn't have given
him second look if your, eye did not
change to- scan his right hip pocket.
A Copy of Tom Paine Us.
out'of his Flip pocket, as he7eaned
over to polish the window glass, prs
jectcd something which, although
NOT revolver; has, nevettheiess,' fig
ured In history as having killed. ID
good many old fashioned and rs9ess
tionary ideas. IL was cheap; dirty,
paper bound book, much w0rn FROM
having been diligently read ~ ',"''
AS he leaned over The book worked
Itself OUT Ss ai7s pocket and fell on
the floor. Ets~titls page read the
Rights SR Man, W Thomas Paine.
Il {4ss Is1s49 Mr. nm s3sS Ags asY S~ms
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action. They would be an intoler
able restriction on the prerogatives
of an independent ruler. Hence
there are no codifed laws in China.
especially as concerns taxation.
With regard to certain customs,
which long experience has shown to
be particularly effective in enforcing
obedience, the laws are made to fit
each particular case as it comes up.
Faxes are levied as the governor
needs money and upon those who are
able to pay and in such amounts as
they can be forced to disgorge. Most
of the laws relate to disclosing the
location and contents of the cash
box.
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Doesn't Affect Business

1t would seem that such conditions
would make it impossible to do bust
ness in China. Such is not the case.
SO entirely separate are the official
and commercial classes that business
is done in China, at least so far as
foreigners are concerned, with entire
forgetfulness that there is such p.
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JOHN DOLLAR head of the Dollar Line of steamers qyo
- establishing servce 1915 miles up the Yaog-tse

payment can no longer be avoided.
They are a dirty, ragged ana more
Or less hungry lot and usually on
the loot. -,
Theresare three, methods of pay
ing them. If a neighborin@ spray-:
ince is weak the army of the strong
err province goes, on the loot in the
neighbours territory This. is. the
favorite method. Next, comes the
looting: Of strangers passing through
the district. ..~ ia. -. ..-.~-: -.
A Last Resort
The third method is to squeeze the
inhabitants of the province. But this
is the last resort, as the Golfers of
the; inhabitants are the private loot;
Of the governor. 1t Is from them
he acquires the wealth that enables
HIM to retire and turn his appoint
ment back to Picking. Naturally, the
governor does not share his private
plumber with the army, unless under
dire ,compulsion.
Codifed laws, of course, would
hamper the governors freedom of
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time for intellectual pursuits. Take
a look at ME, brother, over at the
Salvation Army Hotel. During my
drinking days l used to have room
on the ground floor, SOS could en-
ter and depart without their know
ing my condition, for you must know
they never permitted any DRINKS in
that hotel. Now I have a room on
the eighth floor, commanding, as I
said, a pantomimic prospect of the
Bowery and the East Side generally.
Well, now, supposing I've just fin
ished my days work, or supposing
it's Saturday or Sunday, both of
which are my regular days off. You
will see me walking into the ele-
vator and going up to my room.
"Not much furniture, to be sure.
But enough, for space is a luxury in
which l indulge myself. A chair,
table and bed. On my table you
will see my treasures. These are my
books. Cheap and ragged looking,
mostly, just like me. But that's only
on the outside. 1t is as if all the
great men come to see me in their
working clothes. For they, too, are
window washers, only of a different
kind. Anyway, they've got their
minds with them and I'm not partic-
ular about their being dressed up.
Vain some Of them undoubtedly were
in their lifetime, as was poor Gold
smith, who spent the sixty pounds
he got for The Vicar Of Wakefield
on gaudy clothes and some port wine.
But now they don't care. They're
all alike externally. It's only in their
thoughts that they differ.
Likes the Thinkers
$50 when I arrive in my room /
am greeted by a host of friends.
He that loveth book says Isaac
Barrow, will never want a faith
full friend, wholesome counselor,
cheerful companion, an effectual
comforter By study, by reading,
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for five days week l can make
$1.25 an hour-30 cents a window
the rate is now-which comes to SIS
a day. Surplus after deducting ex-
penses, So day.
Nov, brother, I'll tell you some
thing. This isn't any prohibition
lecture. If my vote would bring
back hard liquor and beer right
now, I'd vote for it. But listen.
used to spend all my surplus for
liquor. Consequently / used to sleep
in doorways instead of a private
room, and l didn't have as much lei
sure to pursue my favorite pastime,
which is reading. When I drank I
never was bothered with any sur
plus. My accounts always just came
out even. That is, I had nothing on
hand till I took my bucket and went
to make some more. Now, / must
confess, I've been a little bit worried
lately about this surplus. 1t grows
on me and begins to look like a
responsibility, which, of course,
would infringe on my Bill Of Rights.
1t makes me think of Tom Paines
words, These are the times that try
mems souls
Shorten Up ON Work
"The only way out Of the dilemma
apparently will be to cut down my
working hours. More leisure will be
the result, and leisure, I may say, is
my hobby. ),
mine hours for sleep, four hours
for work and eleven hours for lei
sure: That's about the way it works
out, brother"
Mr.. Window Washer accepted q
cup Of coffee and a piece of cake
proffered him and, adjusting the pill
lows of the armchair more comfort
ably, continued:
"1sn't it fright the way some
people go on about the high cost Of
living and about never having any
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12
Has His Peculiarities

Give the Chinaman what he asks
for, especially in little things, is
the third rule. The Chinese mer-
chant may want his packages done
up in red paper. If he does, the
British trader will give him red
paper, but the American is all too
prone to say:
1--WE wrap these things in brown
paper, and brown paper will have
to do for the Chinese"
That simply means that the Brit
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A CHINESE sedan chair,
4 Il a method of Transported
tion that still completes avith
motor cars euen IN the coast
r ,''' cities
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12

, By Tom Steep
N is job was window wash
ing. He appeared lin
-M- -A Greenwich Village with 4
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12
Why the British Win

II don't know how we are going
to change it," says Mr.. Smith. 1T
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12
By Fred B. Pitney

wv THEN man has been a
M pioneer all his life it is
w hard for him to stop in
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! a '7s' ~ e - q ss9V sss ~ ssNN
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1920-06-10
WOLF TRAIL.


Little Miss Leola Moberley is ILL.,
The farmers Of this place are set
ting tobacco today.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Casey visited Nc
and Mrs. jesse Casey recently.
Mrs Nose Ray spent the day re-
Gently with Mrs. Joesiah MeCulley.
Mrs. Raymond Davis and daughter
spent Sunday with Mrs. Hunter Day-
is.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Cotton and
children were visitors in Madison last
week.
Miss Bert Daley visited Miss Thel-
ma Wheeler Of Lancaster, the past
week.
Mrs. Minnie McCulley and chill
iren spent the week end with re.
latives
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Ray visited
relatives in Lancaster Saturday night
and Sunday.
Mrs. Harye Teater and daughter
spent the day Friday with Mrs. Hugh
Aobsrley.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1920-06-10

Mrs Joe Ray and Mr. Bernard Ray
were shoppers in Lancaster Saturday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. W I. Moberley spent
Wednesday night with MIR. and Mrs.
Walter Casey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Land and
bright little sons spent the week end
with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Casey and
children attended the street fair At
Lancaster Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Daley and Mrs.
Robert Sewers were in Lancaster
Wednesday shopping.
MIR and Mrs. Powell Daley and
son visited Mr.. and Mrs. Asbie Hen
dron Of near Nicholasville, recently.
Misses Myrtle Teater and Tinelue
Chilean were the pleasant guests Of
Mrs. Elijah Mcmillan Thursday
night.
Miss Myrtle Teater returned to
her home Sunday in JesSamine co.
after a two months teaching at Guns
Chapel
Mr., and Mrs. Walter Casey and
children we're visitors u Mr. and
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1920-06-10

Mrs. " T. Moberley Saturday and
Sunday.
Mrs. Frank Land and Miss Inez
Land were afternoon guests Of Mrs.
Powell Daley and Miss Bert Daley.
Friday
Mr.. and Mrs. Nose Ray and chill.
dren spent the week end with Mr..
Harry Speaks and family at NJ,
Hebron
A number from this place attended
the party that was given at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs X. y. Price Of Point
Level Thursday night.
Misses Thelma Simpson. Berniee
Teater and Bessie Teater were the
attractive visitors Of Miss Myrtle
feater and Mrs. Allen Teater last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbert Daley and
son made a recent visit with Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Sebastian. Mr.. Jesse Sc.
bas,ain and Mr. and Mrs. Homer
Sebastais.
MIR. and Mrs. Elijah Mcmillan
and son. Mr.. and Mrs Harmon Teat.
er and children spent delightful
day Sunday with Mr. and Mrs Al.
leo Teatsr