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The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-25
Manaeement of Knife ana Fork.

After the knife and fork have once been
used they should not again rest on the tsr
blecloth, either enirely or in part, but DC
laid across the rim of the plate. Garry fooa
to the mouth with the fork and never with
the knife. When carrying food to the
mouth with the fork. use the right hand
only. Do not spear" the food with the
fork, but slide the tines of the fork under
the food and so lift it. Do not allow the
fingers to grasp the blede Of the knife OF
the tines of the fork; keep them within the
limits of the handles. At the end OF
course lay knife and fork parallel to eaca
other on the plate, with the handles polnF
ing toward yourself Housekeeper.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-25
THE DEATH PENALTY.
1t is Imposed on the seattle-Meeker
Murderer.


SEATTLE. October 2O.-Thomas Blarck,
the murderer of Charles FL. Birdwell and
William Jeffrey and the would-be MUIR
derer of Detective Cudihee, was to-day
found guilty of murder in the first de-
gree and the death penalty imposed.
This was not done, however, until he
had made two desperate attempts to es-
cape and forced the Sheriff to have him
taken into court by main force. Blanck
was ugly at the long drawn-out trial,
and was watching for the first oppor-
tunity to escape, which he thought pre-
sented itself while he was being taken
upstairs to the courtroom between two
guards. One guard had pair OF nip
pers around his right wrist and the other
was walking at his side. Suddenly Blanck
struck the man who had the nlppers on
the Jaw, knocking him down the stairs.
The other guard jumped after them and
grabbed Blanck by the collar. A fierce
fight ensued, in which the prisoner was
finally fioored by blow on the right
temple from a revolver in the hands of
the guard he had first struck. Blood
covered the marble floor at the base of
the stairs, and the prisoner left trail
of blood on the way back to the jailer's
office.
After he was ready to 60 again to court
he became sullen, and refused to move
Nippers were put on each hand, but he
still refused to move. Suddenly he
sprang to his feet, shot both hands out
and then commenced to kick and bite at
his guards. Jailer Munroe tried to grab
him by the throat, but Blanck caught
the jailer's finger in his mouth and bit
off large piece of flesh. The fight
lasted three minutes, and it took five
men to overpower him. He still refused
to 90 to court and it was only by the
combined force of four men that he was
taken in. His counsel presented no wit
nesses. This was great surprise, as 1t
was expected strong fight would be
made on the insanity plea. The jury
was out thirty-fve minutes, and brought
in a verdict of murder in the first de-
gree and imposed the death penalty:
Blanck's record before he commenced
killing people here is still secret, which
he has not divulged even to his attorney.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-25
Press Criticism and Success.

One OF the most successful painters in New
Iork-a man OF unusually aggressive style
says: Its pleasanter to have good notices
OF yourself than bad ones, but in my own
experience can hardly say that criticism
has affected me in the sale of my work.
About two years ago could not seem to
satisfy any of the fellows on the press, and
they Joined In rapping me. but that was the
very time that began to make money, and
I've really had no reason to complain since"
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-25
A Natural Ouestion.

Florence was visiting her grandmother
in the country, where buttermilk was a
great treat. One day at lunch sweet
milk was given to her, whereupon she
asked for her favorite buttermilk, and
was told there was none that day. "Then
why don't you milk the sour cow?" she
asked.-New York Tribune
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-25

ST. PAUL, October 20.-The general
counsels of the Northern Pacific and the
Great Northern have notified the Rail-
road Commissioners of North Dakota
that they will not obey the recently is
sued order to reduce Ignite coal rates in
that State for the reasons that the pres
ent rates have been accepted by the
Commissioners as reasonable rates, and
that the earnings of the roads do not
warrant reduction.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-25
MANURE FOR GARDENS
Commercial Fertilizers Used
by Truck Gardeners.
VALUE OF INTENSIVE FARMING

One Main Essential for q Good Crop of
Early and Tender Vegetables is a
Highly Fertile Soil. and This Fertil-
ity Must be Kept Up.
The truck gardener uses home and
commercial fertilizers more freely than
any other class of farmers. One main
essential for good crop of early and
tender vegetables is highly fertile soil,
and this fertility must be sustained
throughout the year. We learn more
from these truck gardeners what square
yard of soil will yield than from the large
general farms. Generally the garden is
situated near good market, and land is
SO valuable that every foot must be utll-
lied. Land is more valuable than ma
nure in their case, while on many large
farms the reverse is the case. A good
truck gardener will make half-dozen
acres support himself and family in COM
fort, while many farmer falls behind
every year on a fifty or 100-acre farm.
The difference, after all, is largely in the
methods pursued by the two men.
The truck farmer teaches the value and
necessity of intensive farming. Reduce
the size of the farm so that every square
ward can be thoroughly cultivated. 1t
improves the soil as we'll as increasing
the Weld. This is the reason why many
small kitchen gardens of farmers are
richer and more productive than the
Il tn
to it's cultivation, and incidentally in
crease its fertility. Manuring garden
is not simply applying manure, but Is Is
also stirring up the elements OF the SOIL
so that they can be used as plant food.
The average field is allowed to grow over
with weeds at some time, and after the
crop is we'll under way the soil cannot
be fortified or cultivated. Owing to the
absence of air and light in it great deal
of the fertilizing elements naturally in
the ground is lost to the crop.
In the market garden there is a con-
tinual cropping and an almost uninter-
rupted use of the land. One crop Is
gathered, and another is Immediately
planted. More manure is used and
plowed and narrowed in. The soil gets
soft, mellow and warm. Weeds are kept
down bv the continual cultivation, and
the market gardener can continue to use
the same soil year after year without its
running out. In other words. this con-
tinual Gu tivation, use and manuring of
the soil is the surest way to keep it
strong and fertile.
We need plenty of available plant food
in our soil, and it must be put there
literally and in the best form. But one
of the most common things is to let
great deal of this 60 to waste. The land
is not cultivated sufficiently to make the
food available for the plants. 1t conse-
quently leaks down into the subsoil in
the course of time or is washed away.
Very often our apparently infertile soils
do not seem to improve with the heavy
application of manure; but when they
are cultivated continually, and crops are
taken off and others put in, the land
gradually improves. This is due simply
to the fact that continual cultivation
often fertilizes as much as manure does.
w. E. Farmer in American Cultivator.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-25
FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
A Sick Boy King.

The boys and girls viii be sorry to
hear that Alphonso, the little boy king
Of Spain, has been very sick with scarla-
tina. They viii be sorry. not because
the little fellow happens to be king, but
because he is a good little boy. He wiD
be years old on the 18th of May next.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-25
Mexican Silver in Porto Rico.

MADRID, October 20.--Urgent tele-
grams have been received from Porto
Rico, asking that the government take
steps promptly to relieve the financial
disorders caused by the enormous guam
titles of deprecated Mexican silver with
which the island is flooded. The enc
mics of Governor General Daban say
that the silver is set afoat in his inter-
est, and that he profits largely by the
operation.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-25
Mrs. C1axeland,s Namesake.

Little Frances Cleveland Lamont is
the daughter of Secretary of War La
mont and is 4 years old. She was born
in Washington She has two sisters,
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-25

The great evil that afflicts the poultry
focks of the country to-day is inbreed-
ing, says the American Farmer. This
course is followed by some through care
lessness and by others to produce birds
that will make good record in the show
room. No matter what it may be that
causes the owner of flock of fowls to
follow inbreeding, the result is equally
disastrous. for the vitality of the whole
flock is lowered, its productiveness di-
minishes, and its progeny becomes
dwarfed. There are those who advocate
pretty close breeding in fowls in order,
as they say, to perpetuate the best char
acteristics of their stock, but oftener it
is the weaknesses that are perpetuated,
and more than overbalance the good
derived from the practice if ever any
comes from it. Bantams are VIGOROUSLY
poor breeders and hard to bring to per
lection, and this simply because they
have been inbred with the deliberate
purpose of dwarfing them until the Vi
tally of the stock has become reduced
to such a low ebb that in many cases the
chick cannot survive the first few weeks.
Blood must be changed if the best re-
suits are to be got from the breeding of
poultry, and he who does not do this
will be sorry for his course if he perse-
veres IN 1t for any length of time.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-25
Another Newspaper Change.

CHICAGO, October 20. = The Times
announced this morning that at stock
holders meeting yesterday afternoon
Adolph Kraus, until that time minor
ity stakeholder, had secured control of a
majority of the stock and will assume
control of the paper to-day. Preston
Harrison and his brother, Carter H.
Harrison, will still hold large block of
stock. Kraus was Corporation Counsel
under the late Mayor Harrison, and was
an intimate friend of his,
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-25
Notes.

An item worth considering when we
are counting the costs and profits is
good pillow team. Plow teams are of all
sorts.
Never allow a hog to eat or sleep in
the dirt. 1t is naturally clean animal,
but it does not always have the oppor-
tunity to be 80.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-25
When James G.. Blaine Was q Bow.

Young Jim Blaine used to look on and
laugh while the other boys battered each
other, and he often raised row among
the other boys and watched it. One day
as school friend was coming along the
road he found to his surprise that Jim
had actually gone into fight himself.
One Tom Mcbride was his antagonist.
Tom had Jim down and was sitting
across his breast pounding away at him.
"Tom," said the newcomer, what are
you doing?" II am going to lick Jim
Blaine until he cries Enough" "Say
Enough Jim, say Enough said the
mutual friend of the ombatants Don't
be lying there and taking beating for
nothing" ''By jingo," said Blaine. Il
will never say it if lie here forever.
At that the third boy pulled off Mcbride.
and that ended the fght.-Cor. New
York World.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-25
Jobbing Quotations.

The following are the prices paid by
retail dealers for round lots delivered at
the wharf or on the cars, or the jobbing
rates quoted by wholesale dealers with
ordinary terms of credit:
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-25
Two Tiny Roman Musicians.

There are now in London giving mu-
steal recitals and exhibitions of their
skill two little Italian girls named Rosina
and Beatrice Cerasoi. They are aged ID
and Ii respectively. Rosina. who is the
oldest, is considered as fine pianist as
any one in London, and Beatrice, who
pronounces her name as if it were spelled
"Bee-a-tree-chee," is inferior to her sister
only because her hands are 50 small that
she cannot yet do as difficult pieces as
she would if her hands were little big
ger.
When Rosina was only years old, she
took a medal at the conservatory in
Rome, and her playing was so pleasing
to the queen of Italy that she invited
both sisters to the royal palace and pre-
sented them with beautiful silver box
with plush Innings. For year Rosina
and Beatrice have been in England COM
pleting their musical studies, and it is
said that the little musicians are SO
bright in their other studies that they
have already thoroughly mastered the
English language City Times.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-25
Fertilizers for Small Fruits.

An exchange says that "a heavy crop
of awberries or raspberries removes
much smaller amount of plant food from
the soil than do other farm crops; yet
Notwithstanding this the limit of profit
able production is reached in a very few
years with these fruits" 1t is indeed
astonishing what small amount of act
ual plant food is contained in 100 BUSH
els of straw berries, raspberries and other
berries, and yet how much manure is
usually considered necessary for the pro-
duction of such crops. believe that
excessive richness of the soil is really
far less important factor in making good
crops of small fruits as other conditions,
especially the right texture of the sol,
temperature, moisture and perhaps slight
shading. Ii you have fairly rich, strong
loan and can keep this cool and moist,
you will have no trouble in raising ex-
cellent crops of strawberries, currants,
gOoseberries and red raspberries. Sue
cessive crops of Strawberries are out of
the question less on account of the need
of plant foods, but on account OF the
difficulty of keeping weeds down and of
age and exhausted vitality of the plants.
But after all successive crops of any kind
of small fruits will need applications of
plant foods. Currants and gooseberries
need good treatment, and deserve it.
Ashes and bone are good forms in which
to give them food. But, if reasonably
well treated in this respect, the crops
will be sure on suitable soil and in suit
able locations. Black raspberriess sue
coed best on gravelly loan, such as suits
corn; but little shade is also quite &C
ceptable to them. The great enemy to
the crop in recent years is anthracnose
(rust), and it now ruins whole planta-
tions. The plants will give only crop
or two, and the plantations must then
be renewed. But why do the growers
not try spraying?
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-25

Bessie, II years old, and Julia, Q years
old. Little Frances is the only child
Mrs. Cleveland has ever named after
herself, and the little girl is said to be
very proud of the distinction.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-25
Another OIL Strike.

WILKEsBARRE, Pa, October 20.-The
fact has just been made public that the
Standard Oil Company and the Eastern
Pennsylvania Company have discovered
large tracts OF oil fields in Susquehanna,
Luzerne and SchuylkilI counties. Pros
pectors have been at work year, but
the matter was kept secret and many
farmers were induced to part with their
lands at market figures. In Huntingdon
Valley, Luzerne county, the operations
of prospectors aroused suspicion, and
the farmers there are demanding fabu-
lous prices for their land.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-25
NONE WILL BE LARGER.
Mammoth Tin Plant to be Built Near
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

Mammoth Tin Plant to be Built Near
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
PITTsBURG, October 20.-The ground
will be broken at New Kensington within
a week for the foundation of tin plant,
which will, it is said, be by far the largest
tin-plate works in the United States.
The site of this big establishment is a
piece of ground embracing ten acres adj
joining the property of the Excelsior
Glass Company on the Allegheny river
front. The projectors of this new enter
prise is the firm of Goldsmith, Loewen-
burg & Co. of Portland, Or, and New
York city. When completed, it is said,
the works will have cost over $500, 900.
The output of the works, it is estimated.
will be sixty tons o. tin plates daily.
The plant will be operated as a union
mill, and hundreds of workingmen will
be employed. The Pittsburg Tin Plate
Manufacturing Company will, it is said,
also erect tin plate mill at New K-ns-
ington at once, having capacity of
thirty tons daily.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1894-01-19
MAJ PIP
Jan 10th, 1891

Jan. 10th, 1891
Ei Riley returned home from Mime
apolis last week with two whole ewes.
Ed says he can wink just as we'll with
mis- new eve as with the other bat cannot
see as we'll with it
A wreck occurred on the Great North
ern. SIX miles east Of South. Shore last
Thursday which totally demorallzed the
engine and two cars. No one hurt
A progressive cinch party was he'd al
Neal Holdens last SATURDAY. A good
time was had by all who attended.
VIM. Stenensen and Miss Claude
Dufie of South Shore we're united IN
1natrmony last Wednesday, Rev. Dale
of Huron, officiating.
Mrs. Coltix, OF South Shore, died last
Monday. Mrs. Colfx was an old rest
dent Of South Shore and owned the
Lakeview house. She leaves three sons
and one daughter to mourn her loss.
H. A. Wilson, of Winona. Mimi. IS
making his brothers here short visit,
Gene Wilson and Fred Philleo went
to Mibank Monday to see the Workman
goat.
We see that Blister was not the only
correspondent that was absent last week
Even our Twin Brooks scrappers We're
rot in it. BLISTER
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1894-01-19
some Pertinent Quccs">.

Summit signal:
EDITOR SIGSAL:-I received two .et-
tere recently which ar" goo'
illustrations of til" difference
between the times a year ag" ana the
good old times we are having at pres
ent, fulfilling the last Years drm'cralc
promises. One letter was from Young
man who owns claim near Summit
ana who by working on farms and the
pinerIes is en1eavoting to get enough
money together to starr farming for nlm-
self He worked IN tae Plner eS last
Winter aud left a few days ago intending
to 90 there again. He writes "ihry pay
nothing this winter in the woods, there
are so many men. am Wo.k'ug on .
ranch for my board Last winter thls
Young n4n received So per month.
The otner letter Was from a relative IA
Chicago who says. :" There must be one
hundred thousand men oul OF tmplot :
ment here never SAW anything Ike 1t.
OF course the papers have been full OF
tAis change for some time, but here are
two good Witnesses Who are "h tae
ground Can some ot the numerous
democrats or popuUsts ropulist> papers
explain why there should be such =
change H. the business OF this great
/ country in twelve months: rs GoF
! Mekinlev says. we have 'the same men.
the same energy. the same factories,
/ and here we base the same plneries and
! If not the same trees plenty OF others
ready ta be cut, and still here are tae
men anxious to work, but others are till
! ing thei~ places al almost starvation
wages. II Our factories continue IL
shut down will not many OF the men bn
driven west and take 10 the farms:
viii not tals diminish the consumption
Of the products OF the west OF when
there is alreauy an overproductiUn:
Does not every thinking man IL this
country know that we have lost ground
in the last year in national progress
Why all this decentralization OF business
In one word it Is alstrust. Distrust OF
the democratic party and its leaders, and
because OF that distrust our mines are
closed, our shops are locked up, our
pineres are full Of idle men, and, to 90
| back to our Young man, he only gets his
board for doing chores instead Cf his s3s
!! per month, aud the country is D. D.
which is democratically demoralzed.
A FARMER
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1894-01-19
Yankee DOOdIe.u

The tune Of yankee Doodle has had
seven or eight treatises written upon it
IN the last 30 years, ascribing it to yari-
Gus dates and origins, even back to The
Netherlands and the days Of Cromwell
and the Charleses. Dr.. George Grove Of
London, author OF the Dictionary Of
Music and Musicians" has investigated
thoroughly the various musical libraries
and the British museum in England,
finding no traces Of it whatever. thus ex-
ploding all the mystical, traditional and
apochryphal accounts thereof.
But y ankee Doodle" had an origin
and has history. 1t was written by
DR.. Richard Schachburg, whose COM
mission dates 1871, in the French and
Indian war Of 1855 under General JEFF
frey Amherst and was intended as a
take off, on the rag, tag ana bobtail'
recruits of the colonies that came into
the army. It took SO well. however,
that the Americans have ever adopted it
and would not part with it for anything.
The first words,
Father ard went down to camp.
were IN the Boston Journal IN 1863, and
the first record Of the tune is In Arnold's
Two to One" l16o. So that Yankee
Doodle" although written by a British
surgeon, is really American. Boston
Transcript.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1894-01-19
The Cat In Ancient Times.

The cat was SO very highly regarded in
England at one time, both as Il rat and
mouse catcher, and as an ornament to
society, that we find the following salu-
tary law passed by one Of the princes
of Wales:
"If any one steal or Kill Cat that
guards the Princes Granery, lie is to
forfeit q mich Eve, its Fleece and
Lamb. Or, as much Wheat as, when
poured upon the cat suspended from its
tail, with the head touching the floor,
would form q heap high enought to cover
the tip Of the former
Though the Welsh had high opinion
Of tho cat, the ancient Egyptians had a
still higher. These intelligent and civ
ilized people treated cats with great dis
tinction. It was /; crime to kill them,
and when they died they received pub
lie burial, at which the people mourned,
having first shaved off their eyebrows as
a token of sorrow. The most prominent
cats were upon death EN- balmedin drugs
and spices, and cat mummies have been
found side by side with those Of kings
! When Cambyses, the Persian, attacked
| the Egyptian city Of Pelusis, he cunning
| " provided his soldiers with cats in
stead Of shields. When the host ad-
yanced, the Egyptians retired in confu-
! sion upon discovering that they would be
unable to do damage to their enemy
without seriously ilnperiling the lives Of
vast numbers Of cats. And SO the city
was taken easily and without the loss of
blood or Of cat. 1t cannot be disputed
that the ancient Egyptian cats must have
enjoyed life very much. St Louis Post
Dispatch.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1894-01-19
BIG STONE CITY.
Jan. 18th, 1S9.

Jan. lotll, Ioof.
The following taken from the Mime
apolis Tribune is an account OF the we'd
ding of young lady who for some time
lived in Big Stone about eight years ago,
and will be of interest to her acquain-
tances here:
A prettiy appointed home wedding took
place yesterday afternoon at the resi-
dence OF Mrs Charles Eoughton On
Fourth avenue south, when Der danght-
er. Miss b .rnice Boughton, was united
in marriage with Robert Sharpleo,
Stephens, Young n n well known on
sChange and in the Chamber OF Com
merce. The ceremony was performF''
by Rev. Thomas McCleary, and was
witnessed by less than halt hundred
friends. The bridal dress was OF white
crepe, trimmed with valencinnes lace
The marriage service was read beneath a
canopy Of smilay studded with roses
and the bridal couple stood on rug OF
roses The brides boquet was OF roses
The rride has been a cashier tor num-
Der of years with J +. CalhoGn 4 90,
and among her wedding gifts was a
ouanitv OF silver as a testimonial. ~ 'he
Chamber of Commerce the groom was
presented with gift IN gold, ana on
Tuesday evening the presentation was
made by President Pllshurv ne
Young couple have begun Housekeeping
at 81 East Seventeenth street.