The Washburn leader. [volume], May 21, 1909, Image 4

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FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1909
When a person has the auto
craze, even an alarm clock sounds
like an auto at a distance—to him.
The largest boat in Montana
was launched last week at Mon
dak. The boat, "The City of Mon
dak" was built by Capt. Senechal.
The Minneapolis authorities re
port about 100 Scandinavian im
migrants a day for the past seven
ty five days passing through there
enroute to farms in North Lakota.
Three of the county commis
doners of Emmons: county have
been indicted by the grand (jury.
"They are charged with graft in
connection with the erectibh'bf a
^'L^'v number of bridges in the county
and also with gross negligenoe in
'st-1 the discharge of the various,duties
v, 7'•"$/~ of the board.
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J# 0 Newspaper meii,. as .a rule, nave,
(mi two things to qeti—spatfe and
subscription—and itwouM fte just
as consistent to as^' yourgroTOr
lor a dozen oranges "just to jfill
up" as to ask the editor for a
dozen lines in his paper just to
boost your business with the idea
you are doing a kindness in help
ing to fill up spaoej,-|&M, the
TIT* E TO
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WASHBURN LEADER
JOHN 8ATTERLUND Proprietor
L. L. 8ATTERLUND Manager
Published every Friday at Wash
burn, McLean Co., N. D.
Entered at the Postoffice at Washburn, N. D.
as Second Class Matter.
OFFICIAL PAPEB OF MCLEAN
AND CITY OF WASHBUKN.
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change. Try e^uigp|a«e dinner
at the hotel justtomake a^show
ing of business for the house.
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Independence Day of Norway
was {not celebrated in Washburn
on the 17th. The good all day
rain seemed celebration enough
Prominent Washburnites and
Wiltonites who took the county
division cure and are now suffer
ing from an overdose, contemplate
getting a portable kicking ma
chine.—Mercer Telegram.
The date for the spring term of
district court has not been set, but
will be about the middle of June.
No court has been held in Wash
burn for over a year, and it will
take at least two months to clear
the calendar.
The county officers who were in
the courthouse have moved into
the new office building. The clerk
of court and states attorney have
also moved into that building.
The judge and superintendent of
schools will be found in the court
house. This puts an end to all
the office rent that was being paid
out each month for the four
offices used outside of the {court
house. The officers, and their
employees .fortunate enough to
bet in the, new bnilding now, have
large, commodious quarters. The
vaults are large and well fitted
with shelves and drawers, and the
oounjty's |busfaess will now be
oarried out as it should be.
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Memorial Day.
LANlf. ^IAvIyOU
CYOUR
am.
are now being made
for this fitting observance
of Memorial Day In Wash
burn^ 'Hon. Andrew Miller,
of Blsnuprok, will be. the
speaker of the day. Every
Olio 10 cordially invited to
oometO our olty on that day.
Registered HerdfOrd bulls
for sal#. F. R. Sehofleld,
Hensier* N. D. ,'
RAUGUST,
Additional locals
Monday morning a fire started
in the waste paper basket in the
Citizen Print Shop at Goodrich
and had a good start before it was
noticed. For a time the town was
in danger of destruction, but the
lire was put out and Editor Burt
will be the only loser. The amount
of damage done has not been
learned.
Union memorial services, at the
Methodist Episcopal church will
be held Sunday, evening, 30th inst,
at 8 p. m. The program is as fol
lows: Introduction singing, con
gregation prayer responsive read
ings Washburn male quartette
responsive readings address, Rev.
D. D. Mitchell "Abiding Peace,''
William Peterson responsive read
ings Washburn male quartette
address, Mr. A. 0. Banard "Un
broken Rest," Leslie Befgum an
nouncements singing, congrega
tion benediction. All the old sol
diers are urgently requested to be
present at this service.
Rev. E. E. Smith of (ilen Ullin,
general missionaiy for the Congre
gational denomination, spent last
Wednesday, between trains in
town. Mr. Smith's general work
is to look after the financial end of
the churohes in this part of North
Dakota and Montana and to orga
nize new churches. He spoke of
miore than twenty Congreguational
churches west of the Missouri
river in the southern tiers of
counties. It. has required a great
deal of persistent effort and strong
faith in God to bring it, about but
he that the reward is abun
dant. He spoke of the general
good feeling prevailing in Wash
burn towards the Congregational
church and its ^tbr While here
he found it easy to raise a hand
some amount for this church.
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8CoVoNE?A|F
not Ky^ n*ow
Will soon be heard, but this is to remind you
that it will pay to TALK TO US, as early as
you choose and it will pay you to do so now.
We will insure your 1909 Growing Crops
Now on Rates and Terms that you can not
afford to be without the protection.
Fire and Tornado Insurance on Farm and
City Property at lowest Bates.
Remember this is the Strongest Exclu
sive Insurance Agency in the City.
Our Motto "You Scratch my back and I'll Scratch yours."
WASHBURN, NORTH DAKOTA.
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The People and tie Stage.
In a lecture upon his chosen art. re
cently delivered at Harvard, Mr. Per
cy MacKaye, a successful dramatist,
pleaded for popular encouragement to
the writers of plays. Ete held that
the^ dramatist's true incentive is the
public gathered in front of the foot
lights or at least the multitude who
may be reached through a play. He
woUld have the appreciative theater
goers support the genius who enter
tains them by "a slap on the back."
Mr. MacKaye seems to forget that the
manager always takes toll on public
appreciation at the box office.
But a recent scathing editorial in
Collier's Weekly points oat that the
people have no chance to approve of
the playwright's work and that the
genius for whom Mr. MacKaye pleads
must first suit the whim or the greed
of tbe manager. There is no freedom
in the theater, says the editor, because
the head of the "booking trust" dic
tates what the playgolng public shall
see. A citizen cannot choose a play to
see as he chooses the magazine or
newspaper to read. The stage sprang
from the people to meet a human
want. It must get back to the old
plane before dramatist and public can
work out its destiny face to face.
If the proposed Lincoln highway
from Washington to Gettysburg could
be made an object lesson in good
ro«dfi building, tbe cost would be
worth while for that feature alone.
TTben tbe ball of the bouse of repre
sentatives is fixed over hundreds of
congressmen will be "reseated" with
out tbe trouble, and expense of ap
peallngtotbelrconstituents.
If Uncle Sam Jfeepe peace In Central
America merely by doing a little plck
eting he'll be In line for a big peace
contract wben those new battleships
are finished.
Wu .Ting Fang thinks, tbat
is hot peace music. He prob­
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ably heard It on a phonograph and felt
nice iigbtlng the machine:
Thanks are due to Admiral Sperry
for telling us that It was a war cruise,
not a junket. We shall not let
Worry us any more.
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'Gatain daifi is not likely to gain as
mucli' prominence' in
language as YuJa dam
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Security Abstract & Loan Co. Washburn
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Farm Loan land Insurance Agency,
Canada's Old Age Annuity.
A recent act of the Dominion par
liament indicates that our neighbor on
the north is looking ahead and prepar
ing to meet tbe grave industrial prob
lems of the future. England has pen
sioned old age. but some of the great
est economists of the nation hold that
this necessity could have been avoided
by following the plan of other coun
tries, in' establishing old age annuities
at the expense of workingmen and
employers.
The system which the. new law will
inaugurate in Canada is calculated to
encourage thrift, tbe same ns the post
al savings banks. Through a govern
ment bureau old' age annuities will be
sold to workingmen, and the annual
cost of running the bureau will be the
extent of the government's financial
risk. Workingmeii may begin at any
age to pay into the bureau a small sum
weekly and provide for an annuity of
from $60 to $235 out of their own sav
ings. There are liberal rules for re
newals when payments lapse and for
paying the accumulations to heirs In
case of death. Employers may con
tract for annuities for employees, and
benevolent societies may provide in
this way for their members. There is no
compulsion in tbe law, but public opin
ion will in time no doubt heartily en
courage this form of old age insurance.
Richelieu's epigram on tbe France
of his day, "Tbe rich men despots and
the poor banditti," has always been ap
plicable to Turkey and doubtless al
ways will be. Change of rulers is of
little avail. A sultan becomes a power
for evil because of the Turkish system
of rapacity and corruption.
Very large divisions of the Turkish
empire are peopled by noa-Turkish
races, and no doubt millions of sub
jects of the sultan' have never grasped
the meaning of the Young Turk move-
The April bride is back from the
honeymoon and elbow deep in house
keeping when tbe June bride is still
wishing it were all over.
Judging from Schefket Pasha's zeal
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the throne. it must be .that' thing If it happened and good enough
Abdul Hamid bad put him in tbe Ah- to have happened even If tt didn't.
aulas club.
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Chief Source of Customs Tax.
It appears that twelve articles oi
classes of articles of Importation pay
about three-fourths of the customs du
ties collected by the United States gov
ernment. Yet the making of tariff
schedules which will produce the need
ed revenue and bear equally upon the
interests to be considered is far from
a simple matter. The rates levied ap
ply at different rates and in different
terms to various grades and qualities
forming each group and in many eases
to the various grades of material bear
ing the same name. Bleaching adds
one-quarter of a cent per yard on cot
ton cloth, and dyed, colored or printed
clotb of the same grade pays double
the duty of the plain unbleached ma
terial. Variations in weight'and the
number of threads to tbe inch lead to
further variations in rates. Cotton
laces bring in five times as much reve
nue as cotton cloths, and tbe rates on
laces vary from 1% cents to 7% cents
per square yard plus 20 of tbe value.
Tbe twelve articles or groups which
yield the bulk of the customs revenue,
named in the order of their importance
as revenue producers, are as follows:
Sugar, cotton manufactures, leaf to
bacco, manufactures of fibers, manu
factures of silk, manufactures of wool,
raw wool, liquors, manufactures of
Iron and steel, earthen and china ware*
chemicals, drugs and dyes and fruits
and nuts. Two years ago sugar yield
ed 160,000,000 out of the $829,000,000
collected. Cotton yielded $39,000,00p
and earthenware, fruit and drugs each
$7,500,000. Tobacco and fibers each
yielded $22,000,000 two years ago, silk
and wool manufactures each $20,000,
000, raw wool and liquors 16,000,000
each and Iron and steel $12,000,000.
Since the reduction of the internal rev
enue in 1902 receipts
ftou
this source
have averaged less than those from
customs by about $40^)00,000 a yea#.
No use ^o worry because the average
consndiM eighty-two pounds of
every year. The sugar trust
can put up .the price If there'Is any
danger of oversweetenlng.
That disputed Mecklenburg declarer
tlon of Independence was surely a good
Wbatever happens to clean up Con-: greatest "man hfthin.1 the" on earth
stantjnople, many a Turk outside will wiU be small potatoes In comparison
remain "the unspeakable." I Wiethe man aVthe bat
For the eosulhg six 'months the$
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