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_-- -TMT = San (r^fr). Islander The Islander Co. X^SjS^ Publishers Twenty-Fourth Year Subscription Price $1.50 a Year Entered ai the Postoffice at Friday Harbor, Washington, as second class mail matter FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1914 You may drive a horse to drink, but you can't make him take water. The University of Washington has been placed on a scholastic level with Harvard, Yale, Cornell and other prominent Eastern institutions by the German universities. Graduates irom Washington hereafter will be per mitted to enter the universities of H< idelberg or Berlin without the for mality of undergoing examiation. Jerome K. Jerome has gone to the root of the trouble when he says: Too many grumblers, too many peo ple finding fault, too many scolding journalists,, " many critics, too many drum-thumping martyrs, too many Mrs. Gummidges, 'feeling it more"; too many people sneering, too many people shouting abuse, too many people spitting venom, too many people seeing evil, too many people who know everything, too much hate, too much scorn, not enough kindness, not enough hope ; that's all that's wrong with the world." Come On In, the Water's fine! While the east is sweltering in the heat, people being prostrated by scores and babies dying off like fiies, it is comforting to know that on the hottest night ever recorded in San Juan county the temperature wr,? only 72. And this is not a l&r,d of snow and ice either. If c gvt the chance to go skating or play snow balls once in five years we can consider ourselves mighty lucky. Ou, we've £ot some climate out here in little old San Juan county now that the ice bergs, Esquimaux, polar bears and fur seals are exter- Monday, June 8. has been desig nated as "Clean Up Day" by the city council and it is hoped that all g.od citizens will turn out and do their share with their hands and ks so that their "faces" will be aiiAitus to get busy at dinner time. i Loid in*ends us to use both our hands a^d i<x es when we eat. but he expects u= to give our mouths a a lay-off between meals. "Wind" is alright in its place, but it don't help much on Clean Up Day; it only kicks up a dust and makes a worse litter than ever. However, most anyone, properly qualified, can ob tain a "peddler's" license from the city clerk, so don't despair, turn out and give us a hand anyhow. After an exchange of letters be tween Mrs. Josephine Preston, state superintendent of instruction, and Richard Seelye Jones, executive com missioner of the state commission for the Panama-Pacific exposition, in which the, former argued that $4,000 ■was too small a sum for an adequate educational display at the San Fran cisco fair, the commission proposes to go ahead with its original plans, retaining control of the educational exhibit, as all others. "We believe $4,000 will be enough tor our purposes," said Mr. Jones. "We plan to make our exhibit tell g. phicaHy just why the Rusell Sage foundation ranked this state first in its report en education. Because many other exhibits, such as agricul ture, manufacturing, stock raising and dairying must be provided, we cannot see our way clear to discriminate in favor of the educational exhibit." THE AVERAGE MAN'S TAXES A writer in The World's Work des cribes "the average man in America" from the point of view of family and income, as one whose family comprises four persons, including himself, and whose earnings are $517 a year, plus a possible $330 from a daughter who also works, thus making a total fam ily income of $847. Thi average Am erican "rents a small house, having no real estate." So far as he himself realizes,.he pays taxes, when he pays taxes at all, upon a few personal ef fects only, and amounting' in all.to a lew ./dollars : a year. For the privilega ,of living in a free country, -■..:.li war- Bhips on "sea, street lights in front - • - -rent or his house, the policeman [on -Ms on a\a corner, and public service commis sions looking after his interests," he feels that he is paying nothing, or next to nothing. The truth, however, is that of this average man's income of $875 there is paid by him toward the upkeep of his government more than a fifth of that sum —that is, he pays §140. Instead of paying nothing, therefore, "for the privilege of being an American citizen," he makes a very substantial contribution for that privi lege. THE "FARM-PRODUCTS" POST The latest extension of the parcel I post service will be welcomed by city 1 folk and farmers alike, notes the Chi | cago Tribune, because it permits the shipment of farm products in lots of ; twenty to fifty pounds in ordinary ! crates and boxes and will in opera ; tion relieve both producer and con- I sumer from the tender mercies of "an j unscrupulous middle-man." Another : new ruling, it might be noted here, al- I lows the attaching of duly stamped ' letters to parcels to insure their sim | ultaneous delivery. The "farm pro j ducts post" is limited to the first and ; second zones, a distance of about 150 ' miles, and its purpose, to establish di ! rect traffic relations between truck i gardener or farmer and the city pur chaser, will, it is believed, red-uce the | cost of living for the one and add to ; the margin of profit for the other. As ' sales are managed now, a writer in the Louisville Courier-Journal says, "food products for which the farmer ! receives $3.24 on his farm are retailed ;in the city for $5.55." The new idea is ' attributed by this writer to a coopera- I tion, between postoffice and agricul tural department experts, who calcu ' late that the figuring of this sum un '. der the parcel post system will work : cut somewhat as follows: The farmer I will prepay postage and n.ccppt $4.25 i for the articles of food for which the commission merchants now give him approximately $3.24 and which they [sell to the consumer for. $5.55. Thus j the farmer will pocket an increase of $1.01, and the city consumer will save $1.30 on each such purchase, accord ing to the theories of Hie "experts" who are trying to eliminate the "mid ' dleman" and divide his profits between ! the producer and the consumer. The high school students of the state are coming to the rescue of the taxation experts and state authorities who have been all but bluffed by toe problems of taxation for the last in numerable decades. During the sea son of 1914-15 about eighty high school debating teams will each wrestle three or four times with the question, "Re solved, that a system of taxation be adopted in the state of Washington under which revenues from public service corporations operating in more than one county shall be applied to the support of the state govern ment, and the revenues from remain ing property shall be used exclusively for local purposes." In announcing this question for the ensuing school year, Assistant State Superintendent C. A. Sprague outlines the meanings of the terms used, and urges that libraries all over the state make a special effort to accommodate the students who will wish to make a study of the question during the sum mer. The announcement of the ques tion is made earlier than usual in or der that student debaters may study the working of the taxation system during the assessment and tax pay ment period. Among the conditions and defini tions to govern the question are the following: The question of constitutionality of the proposed system is waived. "Indirect sources" shall include rev enues from state lands, inheritance taxes, escheats, fees for corporation charters, automobile licenses, taxes on insurance companies, fees of state of fice, share of liquor licences. "Remaining property" shall include | real and personal property, franchises of public service corporations not op ei ting in more than one county, li quor licenses, local licenses. , ."Local purposes" shall cover govern ments of all political subdivisions" of the —municipality, county, port district, road district, school distrid "The reports of-trie state board cf tax commissioners and of the* state j board of equalization will be feu* j quite helpful. ■ Copies of the reports i may be found in public libraries and copies of the latter may he secured by addressing the state board of tax com missioners, Olympia." " The most recent advices as to the condition of the wheat crop this yt-.r fully bear out the earlier ones; indeed, there are grounds for believing that the government estimates may be ex ceeded. Observers declare that a combind crop of spring and wintet wheat, amounting to 900 million bushels, "seems almost a certainty"— that is, providing no serious devastat ing agencies , get to work, such as drought, excessive rain in the harvest ing period, and black rust. That there will be a large surplus for export seems beyond question. That soiae grounds exist for a still larger crop than 900 million bushels has been •pointed out by a writer in the New York Times Annalist. He names as a possibility a round billion bushels: "The largest spring wheat yield ever recorded in this county was in 11)12, when the farmers of the North west harvested 330,000,000 bushels. The acreage from which that crop was gathered was not so large, by a con siderable margin, as that which has been seeded this season, it 70,000,000 bushels can be added to the 1912 to tal this year, and the winter crop turns out as large as now indicated, the bii lion-bushel wheat harvest will have been achieved. A crop of that size will mark a new epoch in the history of the country's agriciultuve. It Las been made possible by the rapid develop ment of new farming lands, both in the Southwest and the Northwest, along with improved methods of agri culture. The winter wheat yields in dicated in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, experts who have been making a close study of conditions in those states declare, are in a measure the result of the e:orts in recent years to teach farmers to raise crops scienti fically." "Holland," a well-known writer for The Wall Street Journal, flecl a harvest of this size, which is "higher tha nexperts have ever named," is a fair possibility. He says: "Recent information ten^s to con firm the belief that in the United States there is to be harvested of winter wheat more bushel ' .; the combined average harvest and spring wheat for the past Tive or six years. Some weeks must pass be-! fore there can be a fairly reasonable j estimate of the spring w heat harvest, | but the informatii □ no« at band justi fies the hope that anlea i eri- ; pus climatic ;I " Is harvest! will be a very large one. "Therefore it is within the rang* o. possibilities, even j , there will be garnered this year 'tween 900,000,000 and 1,000,000,01 M bushels of wheat. There dees not ap- ; pear to have been any attempt upon a nation-wi ' i to prj scientific wheat cultivation. There has i been stead;- . '■■■'$.. ent in the < ration of wheat, but not enough i"\!~;- ' to explain the prospect for the harvest. "The experts, Mr. Hill among thei \ have been accustomed to say that in England wheat is cultivated so as to yield about thirty bushels an acre, al- j thought the soil of England baa been , under cultivation a thousand years or ' more. Fourteen bushels an acre have j been the average wheat production in the United Etates in recent years. Mr. Hill believes that the production should be at least 100 per cent greater. It must be greater if we are to rely i upon our own soil for wheat, which is the grain food of highly civilized peo ple. "No one can tell at this time wheth er the promise of an enormous yield of wheat is due to an ephemeral spurt or whether it does not point to large increase in the wheat harvests here after. Of course climatic conditions have been favorable, although this is not believed wholly to explain the promise of a great increase. This promised harvest, should the promise be realized, will be of very beneficial influence upon our money markets. It should provide a greater surplus for exportation than any that we have had in recent years. It should serve con siderably to increase our visible trade balance." The influence such a crop is likely to exert on general trade and trans portation interests is discussed by a writer in the New York Evening Post, who raises the question whether this crop is likely to supersede politics, leg islation, and the Mexican situation as an influence for prosperity. THE MEXICAN SOLDIER The chief , element in the armies of Huerta and Carranza, says Mr. Luigi i Marzini in a letter from Mexico to the Corriere deila Sera (Milan), is In dian. The officers are Spanish aridl half-breed, but the men who do the fighting are the aborigines, forced into the ranks without physical exam'ina- non or military training. But the In j dian loves ■ ■-■ light,;even though he Ibe armed only with bow and arrow, jAs a matter.;.of /act, the,trained and drilled army of Porflr'o D*az f vre ire told, has well-nigh vanished, and stan dards of military discipline have de generated. "According to official sta tistics th,e gross number of men killed during the rebellion of three years has | Amounted to 1^,000." All kinds of re-j emits, by the law of compulsory mili-; tary service, are enrolled in the ranks, j Even prisoners from the jails are en- '■ listed, and if any one of the upper or mercantile class is averse to service in the camp he is permitted to pay an Indian to take his place. The Panama Pacific international Exposition is n-t to overlook the dog. He will be given three days and an nouncement has just been made that the exposition dog show o November |6j >T and 18 will carry awuy $0,[>03 in p izes. Long Strikes Out 27 Batters In Game Bob Long, several years ago a player in the California State League was showered with congratulations Mondaj as a result of pitching a co run, no-bit game at. Cincinnati. Just 27 men faced Long in the full nine in nings. Each man who stepped up to the plate walked right back to the bench after making three ineffectual attempts to connect with the ball safely. What will probably b^ the fastest motor boat in the world has been ordered from a Seattle boat-building concern by John W. Considiue, Jr., son of the theatical magnate. The craft will be 20 feet long and will be equipped with a 175 horsepower rac ing model engino, whose speed is es timated at between 50 and 60 miles per hour. The new boat will be fin ished in time for the Fourth rfjuly races that are to be held on La«e Washington. Be!'ingh2m To Seattle In Two Hours Tt takes a carrier pigeon only two hours to fly from Beflingham to Se at tie, trials of the Seattle Racing '. r □ Club establishing that fact yesterday. Capt. Elraore of the Steamer Kulshan liberated the birds at S o'clock in the morning, the win ter arriving in Seattle at 10 o'clock'. tary Lukens' bird was first in two hours, Gregson's bird second in 2 |»Oi ra 20 minutes, Day's bird third in ■ 26 ■ r '■ . The oext race be held from Castle Hock June 14. iXir.kcvv TrGut Panted in Lewis T nty-two thousand rainbow trout, ranging from a half-inch to an inch in length were placed in the trout streams of Lewis county Satur day aft/moon by Game Warden Nor ton Wynn and his deputies. The rought from the state Bsh hatchery in Seattl and upon ar rival here were divided into three equal lots. One bunch was f 1 eed in Lincoln Creek, the second was turned i the south Turk of the Newau kum, while the third was taken to Dunn Creek, between Dryad and Doty, this creek being a tributary to the south fork of the Chehalis River. The streams in which the trout were planted will be closed to fishing for a term of two years. County Gz~re Preserves Legal Judge Houser, of Skagit county, has rendered a decision upholding the constitutionality of that portion of the 1913 game code giving county game commissions the right to create county game preserves. '""J ©»"«■ f CaCl k Co. Soon after the passage of the law, the Skagit county game commission demanded that a hunting club of the Seattle business men cease feeding on their reserves, because by doing so they were pnabled to attract ducks in tremendous quas.tities. This they refused to do, ard as a retaliatory measure the game commission de clared the entire shooting reserve a gaaio preserve, which eliminated shooting or killing of any nature. The decision is particularly pleas ing to the game commission of the state because many attorneys have insisted, since the enactment of the law, that this portion of the game law was unconstitutional, and for this reason many commissions hesita ted to exercise their rights to estab lish preserves. The sportsmen of Everett and Bell ingham both have shooting reserves in Skagit county, while one other Se attle club also has one there, and it is known to be the intention of the i Skagit county game commission to ! throw all of these shooting reserves ' into game preserves. DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED fay 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. Wiien thiij.tube is iuHaiued you have a rum-; ■ -*"•*■ i' ■ \ and Poultry. Kills Lice, Mites, Fleas, Ticks, and Cores Disease. Disinfects, Cleanses. Purifl HAST TO USB. INEXPENSIVE. "flflet. For Sale by FRIDAY HAittfOit DRUO CO. 'Probably every reader of this paper has noticed in reading the Veterinary columns in Farm Journals this advice: "Clean up and disinfect." 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Kreso Dip No. lis admitted by bacteriologists to be a powerful disinfectant, cleanser and purifier," yet practically non-poisonous to higher animal life. * Every stock owner ought > to be posted upon this subject Book jets and circulars can be obtained at the drug store at Friday Harbor. bling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflama tion 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 flamed 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 Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circu lars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for consti pation. L. J. Irvvin, Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public Conveyancing Phone 32 FRIDAY FTARBOR. WASHINGTON* DENTIST Dr. C. J. 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