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LEAVENWORTH ECHO
Vol. 2. No. 7.
George Keating
Shelf and heavy hardware, loggers*
supplies, stoves, tinware, etc.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLIHENTS
Strictly Sanitary Plumbing
The daintiest line of valon-
FCDV. 14 tines ever shown in this city
If you want to look at some-
St. Valentine's thing neat drop in and see
them. I have the comic, too.
. . Da.V . . JIJST ARRIVED-A Dew line of
box papers and tablets. School
tablets a specialty.
A. A. THOLIN POSTOFFICE BUILDING
The Turn water Light & j
Water Company
Are now prepared to figure with you on wiring your house B
and supplying you with Electric Lights cheaper than you i
can afford to clean kerosene lamps, to say nothing of the bet- H
ter service. They will also do your plumbing satisfactorily jj
" and at reasonable cost. All kind of Electric and Plumbing N
supplies. M
The Tumwater Light & I
Wat C o m p any
THE FINEST
Bar Between Seattle and Spokane
THE THE HIGHEST
Grade of Wines and Liquors
nppn A THE BEST
* ■—rMV-r-m. Grade of Imported and Domestic Cigars
_,^ . __ In addition to which we have all the
g~>>^ H^ accessories that go with a drinking
place patronized by gentlemen
THOLIN & SMITH
COMMERCIAL LIVERY I
_r==AND=-
FEED STABLE
i Special Attention Given Hunting Horses Boarded by Day or Week
and Fishing Parties at Reasonable Rates
' Drivers Furnished That Know setii noKKl*. Ftop.,
and Show the Country Uavenwurib, w anblneton
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£■ io yo\i
! We h»« jurt r«eiTed our consign- |
J mrnt of California bwect P« Seeds I
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la .-"t vmritty cI . lon
■L >u» i% the time to plant Jh- .^eu.
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, "3CITY DRUG STORE v
/ , E. A. MX' Msnarer
Leaven-worth, Wash.
Plain and artistic job printing at the j
Echo office.
Leavenworth, Wash., Friday, March 3, 1905.
EXTRA COPIES
Of (he Illustrated lCdltlon of the lirho
of January 6. 1805
About two hundred copies of the Echo
in which a description of the town and
surrounding country appeared, lor sale
at this office at fiv« cents |>er copy. Get
a half dozen and fiend them to old
friends In the t-ust anil south.
Fraud Exposed.
A few cnuni'ifi'iiers have lately been
making and trying to tell imitations of
Dr. Kind's Now >i civ.mv fur Consump
tion, Coughs uncl " ■ (I-. aid 01 I" P IT;'-.
icine*, thfieliy i I'fr.'inui' t; ib< | ii'lii'
Tin- ii- <• ■»■ .ii >ii 1 i ■>■«•;! ■■■ of such
people, *ho m' .i ii I'ritii, through
i >'.i in ill* ''•'pui.itt on of remedies
which have lie v succ ssfuliy our D|(
disease, for over 35 years. A surf pro
(■■... lo joii, in <»ur n.itn, o ; tht*
wrapper. Loo;. I i it, un all i>.Kni_
or Bucklen's rean die*, as all other* are
mere imitation)". 11. E. BUCKLES' &
CO.,Chicago, 111., and Windsor. Canada.
City Drug Store.
Cuba's Bright Outlook.
Frank Steinhart, United States con-
I sul general at Havana, in a report to
the state department makes some in
teresting statements regarding the
progress of the new republic of Cuba.
The receipts of the government for the
fiscal year ended June 30, I." I', were
130,112,241.10 and the expenses $17,
--330,508.10. The balance in the treas
ury, including $2,968,689.37 on hand July
1, 1903, was $5,860,372.37. Payments
Of interest had been met on the $35,
--000,000 of bonds floated to pay the
army of independence and on the $3,
--000,000 Cuban junta bonds issued dur
ing the revolution, the total public
debt of the island, and the bonds were
selling above par.
The exports of the island for the cal
endar year 1903 were $78,480.4 IB as
against $64,948,804 for 1002. Returna
for the fiscal year have riot yet been
-completed. Of the exports $01,134,902
went to the United States.
Cuba has now 573 miles of public
railways and a great number of plan
tation railways, which import a large
amount «>f American steel and railway
supplies. The Havana electric rail
way operates a mileage of 48.22 and
gives excellent service.. The telegraph
service is extensive and good, the rate:
being about the same as those of tele
graph companies in the United States.
Telephone lines are in operation in all
the larger cities and towns. Three ca
ble lines Connect the island with the
outside -world, and one runs around
the island. Steamships of twelve com
panies sioi' regularly at Cuban port*,
The cleanliness inculcated and en
forced during the period of military
occupation is strictly adhered to, and
the sanitarr condition of the country
is constant'}" improving. The water
systems of the large cities are satisfac
tory, particularly that at Havana,
which carries the purest water to the
city from fie springs of Vento, nin?
miles distant, through the magnificent
Isabella 11. aqueduct.
Life and property in Cuban cities and
towns are well protected by the munic
ipal police forces. The maintenance of
safety in country districts and along
highways is intrusted to the rural
guard, a fine l>ody of men. well mount
ed and equipped and numbering 1
chief. 108 officers and L\SS."> men. It is
planned to increase the number of men
to 4,000.
Flattery of Otic "Sew Generation."
The studied neglect on the part of
Europe for all tU!ng3 American is a by
gone and one we can well affqrd to let
be a bygone if I'rau Berths yon Sutt
nor of Austria represents the best opin
ion over the wat<V. I'rau yon Suttuer
was the Austrian delegate to the peace
congress last year and since her return
to Europe has bee'! opening the eyes of
the continent to some truths about
American people, t'cuir ideals and insti
tutions. She says:
The new generation which is growing
up over there, with their slender, tall.
muscular figures, the'r minds thirsting tor
knowledge, their rei-ned manners—what
this generation will f<how the world is
certain to Justify the expression! used iv
cently with regard to tho United States by
some foreign writers--the land of the fu
ture, the land of unil.nlted possibilities,
almost the land of impossibilities over
come.
The good qualities praised by Frau
yon Suttuer are not of recent develop
ment. However, it would be foolish to
look back to the past if our youngsters
are to be estimated with common sense
and fairness across the water. Better
late than never.
There is nothing suspicious in the
fact that the title of "general" is so
often brought before the public eye In
one way or another these days. There
Ware over 2,000 generals commissioned
In the Federal army alone during the
civil war. The Confederacy was not
stingy about general commissions ci- |
ther. Then there are the regular army,
, the Spanish war volunteers, the pro
visional army of the Philippines and
the militia of all the states. Every two
or three years each of the forty-live
new state administration? appoints two
■ or more staff officers with the rank of .
general. The title sticks upon whom it I
once lights, the same as -colonel" and
"judge" In the south, btft with better
reason, for no a rule it is legitimate.
The "devil wagons" at icrge through
out the land cannot "move on" too 1
quick toward the Florida beach auto- j
mobile racing course. Thwe they may
smash one another to pie ■"; with im
punity, and the ocean -wUI obliterate !
■.!••• debris, while sr.2o reap!© :i >ttt '
sroaJ riddance, '
! Scnooltenchlng and its Reward*.
"Does scbooltcaehing pay?" is a ques
tion which finds various answers, but
mostly negative ones, in the mouths of
the teachers themselves, says Arthur
Goodrich in Leslie's Magazine. "Any
: man who has brains enough to earn
$1,200 a year teaching," declared one
teacher to Mr. Goodrich, "can make
$12,000 a year doing something else."
Another, a high school principal, de
cried his vocation not because of its
1 small financial returns, but "because a
man likes respect and reputation
among men, and few men respect a
schoolteacher." Only one out of elev
en teachers Interviewed by Mr. Good
rich felt satisfied with Ills work. "I
n:a!:c enough money,'' this one said,
"probably as much as I could in an
other profession. I Imagine the ma
jority of people peel me as much
as 1 respect the majority of people. I
i:r.il a great deal of satisfaction in my
work, nnd few even wealthy men have
as long a vacation."
Xo professional course of study is re
quired of a man who is to teach. The
qualifications as outlined by a well
known superintendent ore: "First, oaar
actcr; second, scholarshipa university
education if passible; third, physical
health; fourth, aptitude." Yet it Is
difficult to find enough pood teacher*,
according to the statement* of super
intendent!!, and difficult to keep them
when once obtained. But a small per-'
centage of college graduates take up
teaching, and many of these go into
other line:: of work at the first oppor
tunity. Out of a graduating class of
2SO at Princeton last year but twelve
expressed nn intention to teach.
This evident prejudice against teach
ing as a profession is hard for an out
sider ta understand unless it lie due to
the same spirit of unreal which makes
men of every profession did fault with
■■:;■ lives. It is dor/ tful if the aver
age doctor cr lawyer finds more pleas
ure in bis work than the average teach
er does in his. The schoolteacher is gen
erally sheltered fro:;> uncongenial per*
son.-.. and as to salaries, while they rang*
for women and men from $200 a year to
$0,000, the average salary of men
teachers in p-iulie schools in New Jer
sey, for example, is ,S^7 a month. The
average Income of the doctors of the
United States has been estimated at
$7511 a year.
Beyond liie •luestion of money there
is an indirect reward for the school
teacher which f.:cn of other professions
have not The doctor may point to re
markable euros, the lawyer to the wiji
ning of a great law case, but the suc
cessful teacher has an army of wit
nesses, themselves doctors and lawyers
and business men, whose success is in
part his own, whose minds he has
molded, whose Impulses he has stead
ied, whose ambitions he has encour
aged. Herein lie* bis real reward.
As for the future of the teacher, with
the growing consolidation of schools,
the tendency extending even into the
rural districts, h's position becomes
more permanent and his chances of ad- j
vancement better. In the larger cities
teachers are pensioned after kins serv
ice. Men have failed In every profes- ,
sion, and there am perhaps as many
who have found teaching worth while
as those who have succeeded in other
tine"..
accent statistics show tint there is
a decided movement of people from
towns and cities t 1 rural districts. Life
in the Interior is not so loaf ly and un
social as it was before the el'-.trie rail
ways and telephones came lu\o general
use. And free mail delivery with par
cels post will help the good work along.
St. Louis exploited the Pike, and the
Oregon exposition will introduce the
Trail. There remain the Canyon and
the Peak, and these might go as a
combine at fie Pathfinder exposition
which will '10 due one of these days.
Russia, it is announced, is to have an
$800,000,000 navy, th- equal of any
i afloat, if the Japanese and the British
fishermen keep out of its way.
1 The St. Louis police report that the
city contains but forty eight persons
who are destitute of proper food, cloth
ing and fuel. There should be' at least
100,000 St. Loulsans in the grip of
want to maintain the average of per
sons in this country alleged to be in
distress by Mr. Robert Hunter in his
book, "Poverty." Evidently the world's
fair brought the good things of life
within the reach of the 1 jwliost in that
favored city. --••
$1.00 Per Year
Let the Girls Br G>rlK.
The question so often discussed 111
addresses and papers devoted to the
training of the young. "What shall we
do with our girls?" can be met In all
seriousness with the question. "Why
not let them be girls?" The clever wo
man poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, whose
pen is active in the cause of social re
form, recently took issue with the prop
osition of the New York schodl authori
ties to train girls with boys ami like
boys. It is proposed to educate girls
of twelve to fourteen years of age in
classes with boys under men teachers
and a man principal. To this Mrs. Wll
cos objects in her editorial corner of
the American. She says: "There is no
time In the life of woman, from the
cradle to old age, when she needs the
careful guidance, by precept and exam
ple, of the best of her sex as during the
years specified. That is to woman
hood like the awakening of spring to"
the earth. A frost in the young May
orchard spoils the summer fruit. A
wrong influence in the early years be
tween chilJhood and young girlhood
spoils the woman." Mrs. Wlleox adds
that young girls could but be forced
into precocious tendencies if placed iri
continual association with the opposite"
sex during that important stage of
their development.
The subject is open to wide differ
ences of opinion, but it would seem
that If It is not good for boys to grow
up like girls, a fact universally conced
ed outside of the circle of Little Lord
Fauntleroy cult, neither is it good for
girls to grow up like boys. The tend
ency of school authorities, however.
teems to be to expect the:u to dj the"
work of boys at school and to imbibe 1
n like spirit of restlessness r.m\ ambi
tion. On a higher plane of progress a
Speaker addressing a convention of
teachers in Chicago recently advised
young women not to marry until they
could support a hU3band. This is
Frankly accepting man's sphere as the'
t.estiny for woman.
The argument is n^t new. for it ij
Identical with that of the promoters of
higher edttcatiod for woman when they
declare that woman should be trained
to take care of herself in every emer
gency, as iplnsterbood, widowhoDd and
the head of a fatherless family. It can
be set against this argument that
American women have come oft pretty
well In these crises heretofore under
the old fashioued system of training for
woman's natural sphere. Every com
munity has its capable, managing, suc
cessful widowej mother* who werv
reared primarily for the domestic cir
cle. In the hour of need they had the
strength to meet the occasion—strength
born of what once would have been
counted a weakness, their affection and
devotion.
The future for girls cannot be antic
ipated and safeguarded like that of
boys. "Love is of man's life a thing
apart; 'tis woman's whole existence."
A boy will marry and come to him
self by hustling: a girl marries and.
ciimcs to herself by fidelity, devotion
and suffering. Out of one or all of
these virtues will develop strength for
any and every ordeal. The more girl'
like or feminine the girl, the nidre
womanly will be the woman.
That English letter addi'-ssed to Jo:in
Smith, etc., "t'sona" (United States
of North Americai, was imperfectly
addressed and has been reiirned to the
writer, Man.- Smith, etc.. "Ewisicasa"
(England. Wales, Ireland. JVotland. In
dia, Canada, Australia, So Hh Africai.
Now the Sir Edward Clarke's nlekii.-i-u'
incident is closed
The number of Yale prr.^uates who
are busy in other than strictly learned
pursuits shows that higher education
does not necessarily lead to bookish
ness. About 2j per cent of the grad
uates now in nctive life h.'ive taken tc
manufacturing and commercial pur
suits. There are MM farmers among the
graduates as against MO journalists
and authors, a few more manufacturers
than doctors and as many financiers an
ministers. The law holds the greatest
number, but the lawyers are outnum
bered by those engaged in nanprofes
sional callings.
The Indiana legislature is discussing
the advisability of taxing bachelors. A
tax on Indiana authors might bring ii*
more returns.
John L. Sullivan's lecture od "His
toric Sports" is not an autobiography,
despite the apparent significance of Urn
title.
