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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-25

ten was raised to the rank of knight,
and the brothers gave him a hearty
welcome. The rank of page was con-
ferred upon C. G. Berry.
Go ahead, brothers of No. IL, and
''let Zion in her beauty rise, her light
begins to shine
The Justus R. temple which gave
tie hall Saturday evening, the 18th
inst, made about $25. The sisters are
grateful to all who assisted them in
the good work.
The grand chancellor has sent out to
all grand lodge officers the following
circular:
Dear Sir and Brother shall Off
cially visit Myrtle lodge No. l, located
at Salt Lake City, Tuesday evening,
December 8, 1895. Your presence will
greatly add to the pleasure and profit
of the evening. Let us meet together
and enjoy a social hour in discussing
the truths and principles of Pythian-
ism. am yours in F. c. and B.
JOHN P. MEAKIN,
Grand Chancellor.
Myrtle No. 1 will receive the grand
officers in proper form, and the even
ing will be one of intellectual enjoy
ment for all who attend.
The Western Knight for November is
at hand, and is up to the usual stand
ard. Amongst other good things it
contains an eulogy on the late
Brother Turner from the pen Of Grand
Chancellor Meakin. 1t is so good We
reproduce it as follows:
1T is with a sorrowful heart and
a bowed head to the inevitable law
of nature, that / pen these lines to
inform you that the silent messenger
Of death has once more entered our
portals. and taken away from our
fraternal circle one who was our
friend and brother.
Brother William H. Turner, after
several months of illness, passed away
to the great beyond on Sunday, Octo-
Der 81.
Brother Turner was a prominent
citizen of Ogden City, loved and re-
spected by all who knew him.
'He was an Englishman by birth,
devoted to his adopted country and no
flag was as dear to him as the stars
and stripes.
He was an untiring worker under
the banner of Fraternity; he labored
and hoped for the betterment of hui
man kind.
"At the time of his death he was
trustee of the Grand Lodge, and K. of
R and S., of his subordinate lodge,
OSQen NO. 4. LII Ills lliciluoiilES iiS w e1o
as true as the compass and cheering
as the light.
He died surrounded by family
circle composed of faithful wife and
several devoted children. and to them
I extend the heartfelt sympathy of his
brother knights of Pythias in this
their dark hour, and would say, though
the sting of death seems more than
possible to bear, we join with them IN
mourning the loss we have all sus-
tanned. and cling to the anchor of hope
that ere long husband, wife, children
and brothers will be reunited-some-
ere-sometime-in land where
death will have no sting and the grave
no victory; till then under the myrtle
we must leave him and say, Faithful
friend farewell
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-25
CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS AND EAST.

You leave Ogden or Salt
Lake in the evening, and
ONLY after breakfasting in the
sumptuous dining-cars of
TWO the Santa Fe Route. on
the third morning, you ar
DAYS rive in Chicago, or St.
Louis, in season to attend
LOST to business or connect with
all fast trains for the east
VIA Someone has said recently
that the track of the At
SANTA FE Gibson, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad was in such per
ROUTE feet condition that the
long distance run of the
TO Flyer on the New York
Central could be equalled,
CHICAGO if not exceeded, by it's
magnificent trains.
q GEORGE E. GILMAN,
Gen'l Agt. Pass. Dept, so
ST. LOUIS. West Second South st.
Salt Lake City, Utah.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-11-21
INDIAN DOGS.
They Have No Love For the White Man
and Show It.

They Have No Love For the White Man
and Show 1t.
Kickapoo Indians are very fond of
dogs, both alive and fricaseed. Around
their tepees, or wickiups, or Queen
Annes, or whatever they call their
abodes, there are always half dozen
wolfsh dogs. An Indian dog hates a
white man as far as he can see him
and loves an Indian as far as he can
smell him, and that is saying a good
deal.
When white man driving through
the Kickapoo country sees dog by the
roadside, his natural impulse is to whis-
tie in friendly way, for somehow in a
wilderness of prairie or forest dog is
a comfortable sight.
But the instant you whistle to an In
dian dog he turns his tail and is out OF
sight quicker than if he had been kicked.
An Indian never whistles to his dog
when he wants his beast to come to
him; he places his tongue against his
teeth and Kisses.
The colored population of Oklahoma
have almost as many dogs as the Indi-
ans. Those who live in the blackjack
sand hills are dog rich. These dogs have
a deep rooted aversion for the white
man also. When an old colored cotton
planter comes to town, some of the dogs
are sure to follow, and when the old
man walks up town the dog stays right
between his feet like country dog un-
der a wagon. And whenever white
man comes within swapping distance
the dog gets busy. -Kansas City Star.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-11-21
The Parliamentary Franchise.

Men and women in England vote
equally for town councils, local boards,
poor law guardians, vestries, church
wardens and school boards. For very
shame, says the president of the Inter
national union, extend the parliament
tary franchise, which has been granted
to every ignorant laborer and denied
not only to the honest, industrious work
ing woman, but to the thoughtful, edu-
Gated lady, whose gardener, coachman
and groom can record their votes before
her eyes, while she is practically out
lawed. AS for the argument that wom-
en- as politicians would destroy the peace
of the domestic circle, it is universally
conceded that family life is infinitely
richer and more attractive to men when
politics are not tabooed on account of
the ignorance or indifference of the fe-
male members of the household.
In questions of intellect women have
proved themselves able to cope with
men. Let justice then be done to both.
Our ruler is a queen, yet still poll
tician. In the duties and difficulties of
her high and arduous Office let her
daug hters as well as her sons have the
privilege Of helping her. Strike off the
last shackles which cramp a woman e
energies and restrict her usefulness and
let justice triumph over prejudice and
hypocrisy.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-11-21
Cutting 1t Short.

A barber's shop is sometimes trying
place for men who dislike to hear other
people gossip. The barber, especially if
he has little shop and is alone, must
talk to his customers Here is q scene
in country barber's shop, a full beard
ed and rather sour looking gentleman
being in the chair.
Hair cut" says the customer.
Cali right, sir. How'll you have it
cut?''
"Short.
"H'm-purty short, or only mid
dlin?''
Every short. 3"
"H'm-I wouldn t. if was you, sir. -
"Why not?''
II don't think very short hair would
suit you at all we'll, sir.
''Oh, yes, it would. It would suit me
exactly"
"H'm-what makes you think SO,
sir?''
Because I shouldn't have to come
here for long time.
"Oh!' The barber cuts away in ST.
lence and very short. -London Tit-Bits
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-11-21
Praises the Bicycle.

It seems to be cOming-scientifio ap-
proval-in all directions. DIR. Cham
poniere, member of the Academy of
Medicine, has made observations on
Frenchwomen who have used the wheel,
and he finds they are better performers
than men, learning more easily and
with less purposeless expenditure OF
force. He finds marked increase in the
amount of muscle developed all over the
trunk of the body, especially about the
torso. The lung capacity is increased,
full, healthy action Of the heart is re-
stored and the deposition of fat is avoid
ed. The doctor asserts that he can detect
infallibly the woman who uses the
wheel from her sisters when they cross
the streets. One proceeds with self con-
fidence and ease when the other lodges
and invites disaster. He then examines
the mental discipline afforded by the BIZ
cycle, and thence deduces his most strik-
ing conclusions. He finds that the wom-
ans powers of attention and observation
are awakened in an extraordinary de-
gree, or rather that these powers, with
which all human beings are endowed at
birth, are saved from atrophy, which in
both sexes is one of the most marked
defects produced by civilization. The
wheelwomen move with something of
the freedom and dignity observed in
some of the higher uncivilized races.
The doctor disclaims any intention to
theorize, but at the close of his article
permits himself to dream of new
Frenchwoman as the product of the BIZ
cycle.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-11-21

tistics, however, to back up much that
he said, and among them these In
1880 Alabama produced but Ill, 1870
tons of iron ore, and in 1890, $50, 319
tons. In the former year she turned out
$1,000 tons of pig iron and 925, 600
tons in 1890. The subsequent increase
has been so rapid that she now produces
more ore and iron than any other south
ern state and is only surpassed by two
in the Union. The average cost Of min
ing ore in Alabama is 50 cents per ton,
while in Pennsylva it is said to be
81 10, in Michigan $2.07 and for the
whole United States $1.71. In the main
mineral district of the state are this
month 40 coke furnaces, Is charcoal
furnaces, 10 rolling mills, pipe works
and car works, and what the district
now badly needs is a variety of small
establishments to work up iron into the
numberless small utensils and conven-
| fences.
| The other states, so far as they have
had their days at the exposition, have
| done their prettiest, and Tennessee calls
especial attention to the fact that she is
to have her own exposition next year,
| the centennial of the states admission
to the Union.
Of course everybody who comes to the
fair takes in the Midway, and the popu-
lar verdict is that few of the shows
are SO bad that they are good. 1t is also
mine They deserve mention and pa
tronage for their pure recklessness and
barefaced fraud. The "forty-niner min
ing camp" is not in the Midway proper
and l doubt if it possesses a single fea-
ture truly representative of early Cali
fornia. But it does contain some inter
esting relics. and the songs, dances and
plays are without parallels. A Juliet on
a stool for a balcony, Romeo in min
er's costume, Desdemona smothered
with big dishrag, stage robbers who
talk all the time they are robbing and
desperadoes who pull pistols at every
pportunity-well,C California may have
had such things in some out of the way
place, but no chronicler has mentioned
it. For artistic violation of every known
law of art, literature and the drama and
for perversion of the truth of history
this place deserves medal
The other Midway shows are much
as at Chicago, but some of them are far
better. ]. b. PARKE.
! Atlanta
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-11-21
MAY BE SINGING FISHES.
A Phenomenon Of the Sea Which IL In
teresting and Mysterious.

teresting and Mysterious.
Here is an account of phenomenon
of the Pascagoula river in Mississippi,
to which, although it is not generally
known. the attention of paturallsts has
been called on account OF its mystery
At times very remarkable sounds are
hoard at the mouth of this river. The
local fishermen say that it is ''the spirits
singing under the water. 1t is a muir
muring sound, which rises gradually
and then falls to lower tone. The
music ceases when the waters are dis
turbed, and when they are quiet it be-
gins again.
Several explanations have been offered
as to the origin and cause of the mystic
rious sounds of the Pascagoula. The
most satisfactory theory is that the
sounds are produced by species OF fish
in some unknown way. Professor It.
Brown Goode, who is an authority on
fishes and fish life, thinks that the drum
fish may cause the sounds in question.
Instances of peculiar sounds being
heard at sea and ascribed to fishes are
not uncommon, as the following exam
pies will show:
In 1924, when Lieutenant White OF
the American navy was at the mouth OF
a river in Cambodia, he and his crew
were surprised by unusual sounds. de
described the noises as a mixture Of the
bass of an organ, the ringing OF bells,
the cultural cries of large frog and the
tones of an immense harp. The natives
said that the sounds were produced by a
school of certain kind of fish.
DIR. BUST, 1847, reported that party
of people in boat on the waters near
Bombay heard strange sounds, which
the natives held to be caused by fish.
The we'll known English traveller, Sir j.
Emerson Tennent, heard similar sounds
from the lake of Batticaloa in Ceylon,
and here again the natives claimed that
fishes made the sounds. Several CORE
spondents of newspapers have reported
having heard sounds which were pro-
duced by fishes. One writer in the Lon
don Field, 1867, AYERS that in the har-
Dor at Greytown, Nicaragua, he was
haunted at night by these mysterious
sounds. Another il the same raper tells
of musical sounds which he heard in the
Tavoy river. Other instances OF more
recent date might be mentioned.
From all the accounts given we may
draw some interesting conclusions
Thus it seems that the sounds are al
most always heard on shipboard, though
Charles Kingsley once heard them at
Trinidad from the shore; that they are
usually heard in tropical regions; that
they are more often heard at night than
at any other time; that they are COM
monty heard at the mouth Of 1ivers, as
at the mouth of the Pascagoula, and
that they have been reported from far
distant places in America, Europe and
Asia Our Animal Friends.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-11-21
Pigeon Roosts Fifty Years Ago.

Pigeon Roost, Scott county, Ind, re-
ceived it's name from its being the night
ly rendezvous Of the passenger or wild
pigeon. These pigeons usually selected
some heavily wooded or elevated locali-
ty for their roosting, bordering on their
feeding grounds, which might be sever
al hundred miles in extent. The pigeons
usually commenced to arrive before sun
set and continued in increasing mum
bers until after midnight. At daybreak
the birds would begin to leave the roost,
and on swift wing depart for their feed
ing grounds, miles away, returning at
night, as stated. 1t may safely be said
that these birds ranged the forests OF
Indiana from the Wabash to the Ohio,
and extending far into Kentucky. So
large were their roosts that they became
localities of great interest. None was
more famous than the one in Finley
township, Scott county, Ind. hence the
name of the settlement early established
there-the Pigeon Roost.-Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-11-21

One does not have to go far III this
latitude to find man ready and able to
exalt the horn of his own state. AS
successive state delegations have come
in and made the big auditorium OF the
exposition roar with speeches and ap-
plause it has seemed to me that each
one strove to Guido all its predecessors.
Having heard many Of them, my YER
dict is that Alabama has taken the cake.
One of her spokesman perpetrated few
remarks, of which the following are
specimen sentences:
"God made Alabama fine state.
He put greater variety OF good things
in the ground there than almost any
where else He gave her the most agree
able climate, the greatest abundance or
cooling springs and wholesome waters
Her northern zone, the fertile valley OF
the Tennessee, has been pronounced by
many the garden spot OF the south. Ala
bama has a richly endowed state uni
versity, handsomely equipped agricul-
tural and mechanical college, many
other institutions for the higher educa-
ton, five normal colleges and a first
class public school system. There are IN
the state over 200 newspapers, OF which
II are dailies. Taxes are the lowest IN
the Union, and a man can get any kind
of politics he wants, from high church
Republican goldbug to fiat money and
farm produce currency. What can a
man do in Alabama to make a living !
Why, he can do nothing for that matter
and make living. There is no record
of any one ever having starved in the
state. There is good money waiting for
an industrious man in anything. Nearly
half the area of the state is still i'll
timber Come and go with us, and we
Will do thee good, for surely the Lord
hath spoken good concerning Israel. Ii
you are tired OF six months winters,
come, and when you first cast eyes on
the Tennessee valley you will feel as
the Indians did when they named the
state and shouted: Alabama! Ala
bamar meaning Here is our rest. -
And SO OF for quality and ad libituD,
for quantity. He presented official sta
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-11-21
MERITS OF THE RAiSiN.
II Has Great Nutritious As Well as S1e'
dfcipal Properties.

II Hss Great Nutritious As Well ~ t1e-
dicinal Properties.
As the grape cure has made its way
into modern methods of dealing with
disease-hundreds filling the German
establishments where this return to ma
ture is probationary patient VINO
has found himself made over by the
treatment has added to 1t use OF the
dried grape or raisin. Fruit OF all sorts
is becoming more and more part OF
the regular food supply, and growing
constituency of people announce them
selves as believers in diet OF fruit and
nuts. Leaving these extremists out OF
the present question, it is certain that
health increases for whoever substitutes
fruit. both fresh and dried, for large
part of the ordinary diet In daily use.
One of our best literary workers has
found that bunch OF good ralslns with
a slice of bread or crisp cracker or two
makes a lunch that is not only satisfac-
tory. but leaves the brain clear for the
afternoon work Even in the days OF
our forefathers the Muscatel raisins,
called so perhaps from the Musca grape.
brought by the Moors from their Afri-
can homes into Spain, were credited
with a special recuperative force, and
known as "raysons of the sum-" They
were part of the eauipage of last ill
ness Saffron water and these "raysons
of the sum- were side by side on the
neat little table, which held also the
big Bible reserved for solemn occasions,
all three reminding the sufferer that he
or she had done with the ordinary fare
of mortal life.
But there need be no such somber as
ISOLATION with the raisin of today, our
own California providing at its best a
rich fruity raisin, sun dried, OF course,
vet not so much dried as distilled, all
the watery parts being driven off and
the richer qualities of the grape devel-
oped in natures own alembic. These
raisins, with whole wheat bread, make
a genuine food, good for child as we'll
as man and hailed by the children with
reclamation. The need for sugar-an
instinct with children-is met in raisins
or dates in infinitely more healthy fash
ion than in any other order ct sweet,
and the child who has full provision OF
such fruits makes no demand for candy
or cake.
The best California raisins are now
cheap enough to be within the means OF
all, and their use is steadily increasing.
A set of young lawyers in New York
have adopted fruit as a lunch, finding
that work can 60 on with none Of the
sense of heaviness produced by the ordi-
nary meal, and raisins have been intro
duced as one of the most satisfying
FORMS -Philadelphia Press.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-11-21
GEMS OE THOUGHT.

There are few defects in our nature so
glaring as not to be yelled from obser-
walton by politeness and good breeding.
-Stanislaus.
The art Of using moderate abilities to
advantage wins praise, and often &C
quires more reputation than real bril-
liancy. -Rochefoucauld.
An hours industry will do more to
produce cheerfulness, suppress evil hu-
moIs and retrieve your affairs than a
months moaning. Anon
Politeness has been defined 20 be arti-
fetal good nature, but we lnay affirm,
with much greater propriety, that good
nature is natural polteness. STAINS
laus.
Opinions, theories and systems pass
by turns over the grindstone of time,
which at first gives them brilliancy and
sharpness. but finally wears them out
-Rivarol
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-11-21

folded, fexed, distorted, Illuminated, split
across and contaminated. And if there
is anything else twisted or abnormal
which local geology can be it is also
that. The results are claimed to be
splendid All sorts of coal and mineral
formation are brought close together,
and all this with climate singularly
favorable to the white man.
And all this raises the old, old ques-
ton, Do some little sections of the earth's
surface naturally produce energy and
talent, or is it merely by the accident of
superior people having settled in them?
Certain it is that long before Columbus
tradition ran that this section and the
adjacent parts of Tennessee and Ala
bama were inhabited by mighty race,
and the first white men found here the
most advanced Indians east of the Mis-
sisSippi. When the Revolutionary war
ended, the best class of Tories in the
Carolinas, chiefly Scotch, left their
homes and located among those Indians,
and hence it was that 80 years ago the
Cherokees had schools, churches, looms,
ironworks and printing presses.
But there are some dark shades to the
picture. Georgia sorrowfully admits
that she has nearly 5000 persons, the
great majority colored, in Jail, waiting
trial. or at hard labor for their offenses !;
that her present convict system is I'M
qualifiedly bad, and that the great mass
of minor offenses among the blacks are
ignored because of their frequency. 1t is
an odd fact that Georgia was the last
colony to admit slaves, after protesting
for 90 years. Yet in 1860 she had the
largest number of slaves, and now has
the most colored people. What she has
done for them is shown in these figures !:
There are in the state / colleges and
other institutes for the higher education
of the colored; there are 2,750 public
schools, in which ON the first of this
month were $50, 500 pupils, and in the
city schools are 4, 500 more, making
154, S04 colored children in the state
schools No comment could add to the
eloquence of these figures. And finally
it may be stated that Georgia contains
5000 miles of railway, exclusive of side
tracks; that their gross earnings for the
year ending June 80, 1894, were ST.
20S. S24, and the railroaders say that in
the current year the sum viii be 40 per
cent greater. All these facts have con
densed from many talks and renorts.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-11-21
RobDing Mail Boxes.

The running down of the gang of
thieves who have been successfully op-
Grating Oh Uncle Sans mail boxes all
over the country calls attention to the
insecurity of these handy receptacles.
1t is by no means generally known that
all the street boxes, such as are in gen
eral use by the postoffice department for
the reception of letters, can be opened
by the same key. Most of them are fit
ted with padlocks set up, )" as the tech
nical phrase is, to one key, SO that a
key which is available here would also
open lock of the same kind in Pitts
burg. The department makes every ef-
fort to keep the keys from being lost or
stolen, but the fact that the men who
worked the boxes had duplicate keys
proved that they go astray. Unless the
people of the P. O. D. remedy this de-
feet, people who drop cash or negotiable
paper into the red boxes on the lamp
posts will feel bit nervous until they
file away the receipt.-New York Let
ter in Pittsbura Post.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-11-21
BRUIsERs.

No set of men in the world more aptiy
illustrate q certain important point than
prizefighters. The point is with regard to
the punishment they give and have to
take. Whether victors or vanquished,
they come out OF a contest bruised from
head to foot. That such men should be
seen with all the blue spots cured seems
marvellous, until we know that they have
used st. Jacobs Oil. Everyone knows the
virtue of the great remedy and that it will
cure bruises, and the moral is all can profit
by the example. If the fighter knows that
he can be so easily cured, it is a lesson to
all subject to hurts, they will lose no time
from work if they use it.