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The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-08
A Shopkeeper With Two Prices,

Twas buying pair of spectacles not
long ago from the man that sold me
every pair ever had. Several people
were standing at the counter. I laid
down $3.50 and started to go. He called
me back.
1.-TWO dollars. if you please, Mr.. By
stander."
"Why-why," said in establishment,
II thought it was only $3.50"
1.-TWO dollars, sir. never sold a pair
OF spectacles in this shop for less"
added the other SO cents and once
more turned go. Again he interrupted
me.
81 wish you would step back into the
rear of the shop, Mr.. Bystander. Ihave
geological specimen l want to show
you"
l followed him meekly. As soon as we
were out of hearing of the others he
showed half dollar into my hand.
':There's your geological specimen, he
growled. Don't you ever play me q
trick like that again. You never paid SO
for pair of spectacles in your ife."
l felt that had met genius and was
humbled Observation-Disclosures Trib-
1ne.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-08

An imperial decree announcing the
accession to the throne of the Grand
Duke Nicholas, the Czarowitz. is ex-
pected from Livadia in few days.
The theaters and restaurants were
closed last evening, but the streets were
as busy as usual. Crowds stood about
the places where bulletins from Livadia
had been posted, reading the official an
nouncement of his Majesty's death. 1t
was reported here last night that the
populace of Moscow, indignant at what
they believe the malpractice of DR.. Sar-
charjin in the case OF Gar, were wreck
ing the doctors house in that city. The
telegraph offices are crowded with news
paper correspondents seeking to send
their reports, and merchants are await
ing the latest news from Livadia. The
garrisons at Cronstadt and St. Peters
burg have taken the oath of allegiance
to the new Gar.
SWEARING ALLEGIANCE TO NICHOLAS.
LIvADIA, November 2.-Soon after 4
O'Clock yesterday the members of the
palace guard were marshaled in the
square in front of the place chapel for
the ceremony of swearing allegiance to
the new Gar. They were the first to
take the oath. The Grand Dukes were
the next to swear allegiance, and they
were followed in the order of precedence
by the high court functionaries, court
officials, military officials and civil Off
Gals.
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FOUR MONTHS DEFICIT
Showing for October and Els
cal Year to Date.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES

Government Receipts Greater Than Last
Year, But Fifteen Million Dollars
Less Than the Expenditures-LOss In
Internal Revenue.
WASHINGTON, November "a deficit
of SIS, 900, 600 for the fiscal year to date,
as compared with deficit of $25, 900, OOO
for the corresponding period OF the last
fiscal year, is shown by the treasury Of
ficials' statement of receipts and ex-
penditures issued for October and the
previous months of the fiscal year. For
October the receipts were $4,000, 1000, or
S., 500, 900 less than October, 1893. This
loss is shown in internal revenue re-
ceipts, which are only $500, 900 or about
half of what they were in October OF last
year. Customs revenues for October
have exceeded by nearly $4,000 900 SINH
lar receipts for October, 1898, while for
the four months of the current fiscal
wear they are $2,750,000 less than for the
four months of 1898. The total receipts
from all sources of the four months OF
this fiscal year have exceeded the re-
ceipts for the corresponding months of
1898 by ST., 900, 900, which was the period
of last year most affected by the panic.
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ALEXANDER Ill. DEAD
Car of All the RuSSiaS Passes
Off the Worlds Stage.
PREPARATIONS FOR FUNERAL

1t is Understood the CzarOwitz VIII I'm
mediateIy Issue Proclamation De-
cIaring Himself Czar-Sincere Mourn
ing in the Royal Families.
ST. PETERSBURG, November 2.-The
angel of death, in the shadow OF whose
pinions the autocrat of all the Russias
has been lying for many days, yesterday
beckoned and the soul of the man who
had in his hands the lives and destinies
of millions upon millions was borne
away. Calmly and peacefully as asleep
ing babe, he who by his slightest word
could have plunged Europe into a war,
the horrors of which defy description,
fell into the dreamless sleep which he
feared not He, though the head of the
church, whose members number over
10000, 600 persons, took his last rites a
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NOTES..

Feed is too high to feed it to any but
the best stock this winter.
If you think you can starve a calf fol
a week, then feed we'll for week and
have it catch up in thrift, you are mis-.
taken.
Some dairymen feed but twice a day
that there may be a longer period Of
quiet for digestion. Our own custom is
to feed three times.
Have dry, comfortable quarters for all
fowls. Even ducks should have a dry
floor to "roost" &? on. A little straw
sprinkled on the floor will help in clean
illness.
The production of apples in the United
States is about LAC, 900, 900 bushes; OF
peaches, sc, 900. 900 bushels, and of pears,
cherries, apricots, plums and prunes,
1000, 600 bushels.
Buy a churn somewhat larger than
you think you need. It is best to fill it
less than half full, especially if barrel
or swing churn. Do not crowd it even
in your best butter season.
Horticulture is an important depart
ment of agriculture, and it's study and
practice will certainly stimulate the
farmer to better tillage, larger crops,
finer stock and greater success in every
way.
One who has been successful in raising
hogs thinks that a thoroughbred boar at
20 cents pound is cheaper than scrub
at cents. In fact, he says that you can
hardly pay too much for first-class boar
if you have much use for him.
A humane writer says: Keep the flies
out of the stables. Close up the cracks
and tack mosquito bar over the windows.
This may cost you little money and
trouble, but it will save you many dollars
worth of horse flesh. The horses will
pay for it by doing lots more hard work
without fatigue.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-08
Henry ROch effort Sentenced.

PARIS, November 3.-Two Judges of
Seine Assizes, sitting without a jury, to-
day pronounced condemnation upon
Henri Rochefort, sentencing him to
three months imprisonment for having
published an article in the Intrapsige-
ant insulting the judiciary. M. Farjat,
manager of the Intransigeant, was tried
for completely in the offense, and was
acquitted. M. Farjat was tried by a
jury. The anarchists, Paul Reclus, Pom
get, Cohen, Martin and Duprat, were
condemned in default to twenty years
Imprisonment each at hard labor.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-08
Condition of the Banks.

WASHINGTON, November 3.-The alb
stract of resources and liabilities of the
national banks of the United States Oc-
tober 2, 1894, as given in reports to the
Comptroller of Currency, shows the ag-
gregate amount of individual deposits at
that date was 1928, AIS, 819, against 81,
451 124 $50 October 3, 1898. Loans and
discounts have increased during that
time over $161, 100000. The amount of
specie in national banks October 2, 1894,
was 1927 ,25O, 1854; legal tenders, $780,
544, O6S,
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-08
Headed This WAY.

New YORK, November 3.-The Treas
ury Department notified DR.. Senner,
Commissioner of immigration, yesterday
to look out for the arrival from Havre of
Antonio Fernandez, Spanish anarchist.
He is suspected of having been impli-
Gated in the anarchist outrages in Bar
celona. 1t is said he is man of educa-
ton. He was recently imprisoned at
Mines, France, as suspect, but was re-
leased for lack of evidence about ten
days ago. Detectives Swallowed him to
Havre, where he gave them the slip.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-08
Revolution in Peru.

TACOMA, November "a special to
the Ledger from Victoria, B. c., says
the flag ship Royal Arthur and four
ships of the Pacific squadron have been
ordered to Callao at once. The flag ship
left under full steam tonight. The Brit
ish consulate there has been taken pos
session of by revolutionists, the Consul
made prisoner, his wife and daughter
killed and the consulate burned to the
ground. The flag ship will call at Vic
toria for one hour about midnight. Adj
miral STEPHENSON is on board.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-08
Mexico and Guatemala.

New YORK. November ga dispatch
from the City of Mexico says informa-
ton has been received here that the gov
eminent of Guatemala following the
usual course, has consulted a foreign
diplomatist in. the City of Guatemala, as
to the Mexican difficulties. The diplo-
matist says Guatemala's position is I'M
tenable hence that country has with
drawn its troops precipitately from the
disputed frontier territory at Aqua Azul.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-08

Gounod received his first instruction
in music from his mother, who was a
distinguished pianist. He won the grand
prize at the Paris conservatory when he
was 81.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-08
POLITICALLY CONSIDERED.
The Effect of the Death Upon European
Politics.

The Effect of the Death Upon European
Politics.
BALTIMORE, November Sin an inter-
view to-day regarding the effect of the
Cars death upon European politics
Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, United States
Ambassador to Great Britain, said:
Forewarned has been forarmed with
the countries of Europe in this case,
think. They knew that this great friend
of peace was dying, and were prepared
for it. have reason to believe and hope
that the doctrine of peace, which the
Gar has striven so hard to establish,
will be followed out by his successor.
There was only one line of policy on this
subject in Russia, and that was the
Cars policy. l know of no strong op-
position to the peace doctrine in his
ministry, and do not think that his
death will affect threatening affairs, now
existing between France and Russia, OF
Russia and Germany. Nor will the sad
occurrence result in any change in the
triple alliance in my opinion. In re-
gard to his succession the devolution oil
power will, | think, be carried out strict
ly in accordance with his policies"
IN HIS FATHERS FOOTSTEPS.
PARIS. November 3.-This evening
there is but the one absorbing topic on
the boulevards and in the cafes, clubs
and theaters. Ii the President of the
Republic were dead, the expressions oil
regret could not be more general. The
probable effect of the event upon the
Russo-French alliance and the Euro.
pean situation in general is discussed by
every group in the streets or cafes. The
views are almost without exception op.
| timistic. The belief is that Nicholas viii
adopt his fathers policy.
JOINT ALLIANCE TO BE URGED.
LONDON, November 3. - The CORE
spondent of the News says the French
party in Russia and the Russian party
in France intend to jointly use their in.
| fluence to induce the new Gar to enter
into regular offensive and defensive al.
lance between the two powers. 1t il
believed, however, they will not succeed
in attaining anything beyond the main.
tenance of the present entente.
| NEW GEAR HAS LIBERAL VIEWS.
| New YORK, November 3.-The Her.
AIDS st. Petersburg correspondent tele.
craps as follows:
81 have had an interview with Rus.
sian high parsonage, who is intimate
with the Czarowitz. He assured me that
the new ruler would make no change in
Russia's foreign policy. Should there
be any change, it will be exclusively in
domestic affairs, for the new Car has
much more liberal views than is gener.
ally supposed"
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-08
The Circle Broken.

ONANCoCK, Va, November 3.-Five of
the leaders of the Sanctifed Band on
Chincoteague Island have been indicted
for conspiracy in separating wives from
their husbands and for being a public
nuisance. Their trial began Friday, and
will probably last for a week, as there
are nearly 100 witnesses to be examined.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-08
Marauding Chinese,

SHANGHAI, November 3.-Small bodies
of Chinese have attacked several Rus
sian frontier towns, and in one seized a
quantity of arms and ammunition. In
another case the Chinese were repulsed
with loss of sixty men.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-08

The average weight of 10000 men
and women weighed in Boston was:
Men, 141H pounds; women, 124x
pounds
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-08
A S1angy Congregation.

HAekle Flossie-The people at the Epls
copal church are very slangy, don't you
think, mammal
Mamma-No, dear. What makes you
think sol
E1ossie-Well. every time the minister
stopped residing they all said ah there
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-08
ANOTHER RESIGNATION.
He Could Not Approve the Penal Code
Amendment.

He Could Not Approve the Penal Code
Amendment. -
BERLIN, November 3.-The resignation
of Herr Heinrich Won Heiden Codow,
Prussian Minister of Agriculture, Do
mains and Forests, rendered yesterday,
is due to his inability to approve the pc
nal code amendment prepared by the
Department of Justice at the instance
of ex-Chancellor Won Caprivi.
HIS SUCCESSOR APPOINTED.
New YORK, November "a special
from Berlin says Count lido Stolbergh
has been appointed Prussian Minister OF
Agriculture, Domains and Forests to sue
coed Herr Won Heiden Codow, whose
resignation was announced yesterday.
DR.. MIGUEL, formerly Prussian Minister
of Finance and now President of the
Council, will give dinner to the Chan
cellor, Prince Hohenlohe. Herr Won
Heiden Codow and the Secretaries of
State have been invited, including Ca
priv, but he declined the invitation and
has gone to Basic.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-08

Many Of the houses in Madrid haves
long palm branch twisted along the ralr
ings Of one of the upper balconies. LIE
was blessed in one Of the churches on
Palm Sunday and is kept until anotn"
u substituted in the following year.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-08

The first agricultural instrument, the
ancestor OF both spade and pick, was
pointed stick.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-08
Farm Life.

Prof. Allen Moore says: The farmer
must be so educated that he can see a
grandeur in his vocation not surpassed
by any other business. He must live
above the drudgery of farm work and
see that his calling possesses opportuni-
ties not surpassed by any other. The
hustle of the city does not disturb his
meditations while planting cultivating
or gathering in. He can look at the
beautiful flowers at his feet and there
see the pencilings of the Creator of the
universe. Every leaf is book, and even
the stones beneath his feet are "stum-
bling blocks for the ignorant, but food
for the WISE" If he turns his eyes up
ward and beholds the candles of night
glimmering in the skies, that grandly
true line will echo through his soul,
"The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the armament showeth His handi-
work" Humanity cannot be encom-
passed with grander teachers. No won
der that the farm has produced the
grandest men the world has ever
known. The farm children must be ed
ucated to feel that there is a grandeur
and an honor in farm life found nowhere
else.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-08
THE SEATTLE MARKET.

The following quotations are the prices
paid to farmers and producers by Seattle
business houses for articles named, the
goods to be delivered in Seattle:
HoPs-Choice, &c per pound.
Haydn carload lots: Puget Sound,
$7@S per ton; Eastern Washington,
$40.
GRA1N-In carload lots: Oats, choice,
$16@17 per ton; barley, $14; wheat,
chicken feed, 80; corn, SIS; cracked,
500.
PoTAToEs-$8@12 per ton.
BUTTER, Eaas AND PoULTRY-Handled
on commission.
HIDES, PELTs AND TALLow-Heavy
sailed steers, over 80 lbs, 4@41ac per 10 ;
medium, Sc; light, under As lbs,
&c; sailed kip, &c, and calf, per 10, &c;
green hides 1c less than sailed; dry
hides, 5@6c; culls of the above one
third less; dry elk, per Id, 6@Sc; dry
deer skins, summer, Zoe; good winter,
12@15c; poor and thin winter, DC /;
sheep skins, 15@25c; full wool, $4,000
wool, 1900; tallow, 3@4c.
LIVE SToCK-Choice beef cattle, 21a @
234c; choice sheep, Sc; good hogs, 44c;
calves, large, &c; small, &c per ID.
Loas-Fir, superior quality, $500
600 per M; choice cedar, $3.50; COM
mon, per M, $500; spruce logs, $3.50.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-08
Two Thousand People Homeless.

Boston, November 3.-The American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions in this city has just received a
cable message from Turkey reporting a
great fire at Radjin, by which 1000 peo-
pie were rendered homeless. Rain is a
town in the Taurus Mountains north of
the plain of Galicia.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-08
Not Pleased With the Choice.

LONDON, November 3.-The Standards
Rome correspondent says: The Vatican
views with disfavor the nomination of
Prince Hohenlohe to the German Chan
cellorship, because he opposed the doc
trines of infallibilitv and the temporal
power of the Pope. Nevertheless it's
diplomatic reserve will be maintained.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-08
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:
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Poker Money,

"Where does all the money go that is lost
at poker? 1wish somebody would tell me, 1"
said Harry Dale of Cincinnati THAT has
always been a standing mystery with me,
as guess that it has been with thousands.
Somebody must win, and somebody mist
lose, but what goes with the money! Who
gets the benefit of the winnings? On my
word could never see into it.
Sin any regular game there will always
be one or more strong players, who gener
ally got the best Of 1t, and so there is a
contingent of chronic losers. But never
saw the recognized successful poker player
yet who appeared to have any more cash
than the rest of his associates. Two heard
1t said often by some unlucky chap, allud
Ing to another lucky devotee of draw,
That fellow has kept me broke for the
last ten years, but at the same time there
was little if any difference in their flnan
cial standing, and so I'd like to find out
what becomes Of the money that lost -
Washington Post.
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letters was hopeful, too, but 1 haven't
heerd from him now these six years. His
fathers dead, too-died three year ago
from horse kick, so I'm alone"
Her voice grew tremulous, but she
frightened again.
Sometimes settin out there in front O.
the house after tea, doze off, kinder
dreamin, an then 1 think can see Tom
comm up to the gate, back to his old moth
er, him grown man. An when I wake
up | always feel cold, an have little cry
to myself, an then I'm all right again, fer
1 know I'll meet him up there whom
Maybe he's not dead. He might have
gone wrong, " said the tramp without rails
ing his head.
My Tom go wrong? Why, man, Of my
boy Yves alive today Pm sure he'd be hon
est an good as l am I'm settin here.
You're down In the world but, not know
in tho facts, l amt sayin but what it
mightn't "a hoon all your fault. But ef
you'd known my boy as do you'd never
believe he cd go wrong, It's all l have
now-my faith in my religion an my
faith in my boy-an if anything shook
either I'd rather not live"
For several minutes they sat silent,
struggling with tho thoughts that came
upon them.
Slowly the wanderer rose.
"Thank you for the meal, missus. I'm
goin on" And he turned and walked
slowly toward the gate, the little terrier,
unnoticed, barking at his heels.
Passing through the gate, he latched it
carefully, and without turning his head
started up the road at his old slouching
gait, his hands thrust deep in the pockets
of his trousers, his head bent forward his
shuflling feet kicking up clouds Of dust,
which settled behind him as he passed, as
though to oblterate his footsteps.
The woman, who had come to the gate,
stood there and gazed after him, her hand
shading her eyes.
The tramp made no sign until he reached
the bend in the road. There he stopped,
half turned and looked back for moment,
then disappeared round the bend. Had it
not been for the dust the woman might
have seen him wave his hand.-New York
Telegram.
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Making Artificial CIouds.

Artificial clouds were recently made for
tine protection Of vines from frost at Oae-
leain, on the Swedish Norwegian frontier.
In carrying out this novel innovation
liquid tar was ignitCd in tin boxes placed
along the vine rows, and large sections of
solidificd petroleum were fired at various
places in tho vineyard. From these COM
hustibles large clouds of smoke arose and
thoroughly protected the particular vine
gard in which the experiment was being
tested, although vines in the immediate
neighborhood were badly injured by the
frost, One Of the European metropolitan
weeklies in commenting on the utility of
the method spoke very unfavorable Of 1t,
declaring that it could only prove effective
in very calm weather. If the editor of that
journal will brush up a little on meteor
ology he will learn that calm weather is
about the only time in which killing frosts
occur.-St Louis Republic.
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aReThe first prize for fountain pens
was awarded to the Waterman Company
on their Werman's lde al Fountain pen.
A full line of these pens is found at the
BANNER StationeryStore.
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Ladies' whose systems are poisoned
and whose blood is in an impure condi-
ton, due to menstrual Irregularities,
derful tonic and blood cleansing prop
critics Of P. p. P. -Prickly Ash, Poke
Root and Potassium.
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"Eh bein, monsieur, if your hat is in
iured, you have only to go to hatter's
and get it blocked"
II shall take no instructions from you,
mademoiselle.
'None the less, monsieur, 1 repeat, you
should go to halter. There is my broth
er who is in the halter business on Rue
des Martyrs"
"Would you like mo very much to go
and have my hat pressed at your brother S,
mademoiselle?"
Would you very much like me to go
to breakfast in restaurant with your"
"Eh bcin, mademoiselle, shall go to
your brothers with my hat only on the
condition that you come with me to a res
taurant for breakfast. p"
"Eh bien, monsur, shall go with you
to restaurant only on condition that you
take your hat to my brothers."
And l." cried Molesquin, who had
been attracted by the discussion, but who
had said nothing, land shall not forgive
you for having interrupted my studies I'M
less you will accept box tonight for the
Theatre dcs Gobelins."
eve accept" cried Edgar in his turn,
who saw in this sudden interruption a
chance to change the conversation to a
softer vein.
Molesquin went back to his room, and
the three young people went down stairs.
The breakfast was delicious, and the
afternoon passed with the rapidity of light
ming. The dinner-for one must have
dinner-was also very good, and the even
ing was spent pleasantly at the Theatre
des Gobelins.
After the performance Molesquin joined
the three others, and the four went to
! drink beer at tho nearest cato.
In word, this story, thoroughly Pari-
sian, ended in marriage. -From the
| French.