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The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-24
DANGEROUS RULES OF ETIQUETTE
Treating In New Mexico Is Fraught With
Many Difficulties.

Treating In New Mexico Is Fraught With
Many Difficulties.
The man from New Mexico and his
friend stood against the bar in one of
the palatial saloons of Chicago. The dis
penser put out four glasses.
"Where's your beeswax?" asked the
New Mexico visitor.
"I'm not on, responded the dispens-
er.
Never tend bar in New Mexico?'
The dispenser said he had never had
the pleasure.
Pleasure nothing. 'Tain't no pleas
ure, I'm tellin you. It's much as q
mans life is worth. But see you don t
savoy about the beeswax. Well, I'll tell
you how they drink in New Mexico.
There's only one thing to drink, that's
whisky-liquor, see? The bartender sets
up one glass. He amt got no whole lot
of glasses like you. He just sets up one
wax, and he marks the glass for as many
drinks as there are drinkers in the par
ty. Say there's three. He puts two bees
wax marks on the glass about so far
apart. Then he fills the glass with liq-
uor to the rim of the glass. The first
man in the party drinks down to the
first beeswax mark, and then he passes
the glass to the next man, and he drinks
down to the second beeswax mark, and
the third man drinks to the bottom Of
the glass. 1t amt safe for man to go
below his beeswax mark. A man in
New Mexico who'd do that wouldn' t
live long enough to send his wife dy-
in request A New Mexico man might
rob stagecoach, but he wouldn't drink
below his beeswax mark. Got any wa
ter?''
"Oh, yes. Plenty of water
"Well, set 'er up. And if there's any
thing extry for it I'll pay the cost. Say,
this is the all 6redest town I was ever
in. The idea of settin up four glasses
for two men to drink outen. 1 reckon
there ain't another town on earth where
such stravagance is seed. Chicago
Herald.
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Rules For Admission to the Fair.


Passes which bear indication of hav-
ing been tempered with are to be taken
ND. Children under years of age will
be admitted free. provided they are &C
companied with parents or guardians.
If the little visitor is not carried in arms,
the gatekeepers must direct that they
pass under the wings of the turnstiles.
The gatekeepers are made the judges Of
the children's ages. If childs general
appearance and size indicate it to be old
er than years, the official is empowered
to deny it admission. The gatekeepers
are instructed to exercise great discretion
in this matter.
Besides the Photographic passes, trip
passes and special press passes, there is
another pass called complimentary
card This pass will be issued in the
name of the person to be admitted and
will be good only on the day of issue.
When such card is presented, the gate
keeper must insist that the holder de-
post with the pass one Of his personal
cards. If the visitor is unprovided with
such card. the official will furnish a
blank card and pencil. and the holder of
the pass must write his or her name
thereon This is for the purpose Of Sc
curing some sort of Identification. No
deviation from this rule Is permitted.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-24
THE exlLES OF ENGLAND.
C,eir Tombs and Memorials Scattered all
Over Europe.

E.ieir TOmbS and Memorials ScAe1ereu IA
Over Europe.
No doubt we have driven out our own
exiles as we'll as received the exlles OF
foreign states, although not in the same
proportion and measure. There are
tombs of Stuarts in Italy, and there IS
a church in Rome where have rested for
centuries the remains OF the greatest
Irish rebel who ever stood up against
the English crown But the ashes OF
any Stuart would be welcome to rest
ing place here if it were so desired, ana
if the plot of earth which holds the BODY
of the gallant Tyrone were to be 1ncor-
porated with the soil of any English
cemetery no Englishman would make
objection, and indeed we fear that very
few Englishmen would know who the
Earl of Tyrone was. There is some sat-
isfaotion in thinking that an English
man travelling in foreign countries finds
little of mute reproach in the craven
names of exiles on tombstones. The
bearing home in triumph of some ban
ished mans coffin is often the crown OF
a political party's endeavor. Sometimes,
too the refusal to allow of the bringing
home makes man and a party popu
lar. We can most of us remember we'll
how the father of the late President Car
not became in a moment popular IDOL
out of comparative obscurity because he
sternly refused to allow the remains OF
his own father to be brought back to
France from grave in Magdeburg
1t was in the zenith of the second
empire, and Napoleon III thought he
could do a popular thing, and indeed
perhaps sincerely felt the desire to be
generous, when he offered to the Car
not family to restore in triumph to
France the coffin of the organizer OF VIC
tory Carnot, the son, sternly refused
to accept the invitation. His father, he
said, had given his genius and his life
to the service of the French republic.
His body should never rest in land
which was governed by imperial des-
potism. Perhaps the late President Car
not might never have been the chief
magistrate Of a French republic if his
father had not thus peremptorily and
publicly rejected the offer of Napoleon
III. Time came round, and the empire
is gone, and the Carnot tradition had
its revenge. Napoleon III, to do him
justice, was not ungenerous III his deal
ing with political opponents, at all
events with political opponents whom
he thought no longer able to work him
harm. 1t is not easy, however, to make
safe calculation in that way. The man
in the coffin is sometimes able to work
more harm to the ruling system than
the orator in the political tribune. -
London Telegraph.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-24
BsiiiIsticling Extraordinary In Paris.

RilIstickin;, Extraordinary In Paris.
Paris has On a coat of many colors. Its
walls are covered with the professions OF
faith. in all hues and tints, of candl-
dates for the town council. the govern
ment alone having the right to stick
white bills. Eighteen hundred billstick-
ers have been at work night and day.
They only take snatches OF rest IN the
offices of billsticking contractors, where
they throw themselves to sleep awhile
on piles of placards.
They start out in shifts of six or seven,
and before they come back placard from
$50 to 800 bills, trying wherever they can
to cover over the bills of hostile candi-
dates. Each member of each shift earns
5 francs for every $50 that he sticks. He
makes during the war of placards, which
lasts three weeks, about 25 francs day
and night.
The paste pot with which he is sup
piled contains A pounds, enough to stick
1000 bills, the weight of which is 9
pounds. One of the gang carries lad
der. There are 600 candidates, for each
of which about $4,000 bills are stuck.
This uses up 100000 of them and $780,
600 kilos of PASTE Besides this placard-
ing each candidate sends round to the
electors in addressed envelopes profess
sion of faith and voting tickets. Nine
teen hundred persons at francs a day are
engaged in writing the addresses.
,attor
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-24

| Personally conveyed all persons ad
| judged insane in her county to the insane
asylum.
Made all arrangements for the execu-
ton of a condemned felon and was the
| happiest woman in the state of Illinois
when the governor committed the sentence.
Organized ladies' cavalry club for po-
litical purposes and personally conducted
her husbands last campaign.
| Contested in an equestrian tournament
and received a diamond studded gold
medal as the best horsewoman.
| Took several carloads of cattle to the
Chicago market and disposed of them at a
good profit.
| In addition to the above, Mrs. Ames
has conducted a millinery establishment
in Belvidere and has supplied the maids
and matrons of the city and the surround
| ing country with the latest fashions in
headgear.
Yet she says she has done nothing re-
markable.
Every one in the town speaks in the
| highest terms of Mrs. Ames as public
| official, business woman and a wife.
Her home life is much the same as any
| other good woman's, and every room in it
gives evidence of the delicacy, refinement
| and dainty femininity that characterize
her private life.
Mrs. Ames was born in Canada, but
she is of Scotch Irish and English parent
age. Mrs. Ames was tho only daughter,
and during her girlhood was a chum of
her brothers. She took part in their games
| and sports and never allowed any of them
to excel her in any undertaking. To this
fact she partly attributes her liking for
| those occupations supposed to be wholly
within the province of the male sex.
! Sixteen years ago Albert T. Ames was
| first elected sheriff of Boone county, Ills.
| He served two terms of two years each
and one term of four years. AS the law
was changed SO as not to permit of consec-
utive succession, he was out of the office
for four years and was then elected to an
other four years term, which latter ex-
pired on the first day of December. When
he took charge of the office, he made his
wife his chief deputy He knew her bust
ness capacity and wanted the Office in safe
hands during his necessary absence. Mrs.
Ames took hold of the work with enthusi-
asm. She kept the records of the office,
served papers in civil processes and showed
such adaptability for the criminal work of
|
she was given charge of the county jail.
This was novel experience to the pris-
oners, and several times they became un-
ruly. They found, however, that they
had to deal with a woman who could not
be trifed with or imposed upon.
One day, when they had been let into
the corridor, they became involved in a
discussion which led to row. Mrs.
Ames came in to stop it.
| "Quit this right away!" she exclaimed.
"All of you will have to go to your cells
and be locked up until you learn how to
behave"
I'D like to see you stop u.s." said the
leader of the group, heavy set criminal
with an ugly disposition.
| Maybe l can't" said Mrs Ames, "but
this can!'' she added, whipping out pis-
toll and leveling it at the prisoners. Nov,
| go back to your cells, every one of you!'
| They went without another word and
were thoroughly disciplined before receiv-
ing further liberties.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-24
A VERY NOBLE FIGHT
AN EMINENT LAWYERS LONG
CONFLICT WITH DISEASE.

Twenty-Five Years of Prosperity, Ad-
versity and Suffering - The Great
Victory Won by Science Over a Stub
born Disease.
From the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution:
Foremost among the best known law
yers and farmers of North Carolina
stands Colonel Isaac A. Sugg of Green
vile. Mr.. Sugg has resided in Green
vile twenty-five years. While nearly
every one in Pitt county knows Mr.. S. g
history, perhaps all do not know of his
return to business again after an illness
of sixteen years. No man has gone
through more than he and lived. 1t was
a case of the entire breaking down OF the
nervous system, attended by excruc1at-
ing, agonizing, uncomfortable pain. Opt
ates and stimulants only quoted tempo
rarily, and all treatments failed him.
Only his love of family and friends pr =
vented suicide. He told a reporter t.e
following interesting story:
6 kept at my work as long as could,
but nature gave way at last and sue
cumbed to the inevitable. My entire
nervous system had been shattered by
the stimulants and Opiates | had taken !;
my blood had actually turned to water ;
my weight had dropped from 173 pounds
to l23, and it seemed to everybody that
the end was in sight. Why, [ could not
bear the gentle hand of my wife to battle
my limbs with tepid water. was sim
ply living from hour to hour. | had
made my will, settled my business and
waited for the last strand of life to snap.
t. hot hot
similar case as my own was brought to
my notice. This man had suffered very
much as l had, his life had been dis
paired of as mine had, and yet he had
been cured. Think what that little word
meant to me-CURED. The report
stated that the work had been accom-
plished by medicine known as DR..
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. |
investigated the report thoroughly, and
found that it was true in detail. Then
[ procured some of DIR. Williams Pink
Pills and began taking them, and began
to get better. l began to sleep like a
healthful child, sound, calm and peace
full. My appetite came back, and my
nerves were soothed and restored to
their normal condition and l felt like a
new man. But the greatest blessing
was the mental improvement. l began
to read and digest, to formulate new
plans, to take interest in my law prac-
tice, which began to come back to me as
soon as my clients realized that | was
again myself. After lapse of ten years
| ride horse back every day without ia
tigue.
That DIR. Williams Pink saved
my life is beyond doubt, and | am
spreading their praise far and wide"
Inquiry about the town of Greenville
substantiated the above facts of Colonel
Sugg's case, and that many others are
being benefited by DR.. Williams Pink
Pills.
DIR. Williams Pink Pink Pills are for
sale by all druggists, or may be had by
mail from DR.. Williams Medicine Com
pany, Schenectady, N. Y, for so cents
per box, or six boxes for $3.50.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-24
VALIANT SARAH JANE.
Sheriff and Jailer of Boone Coun-
ty, Ills, For Two Years.
MAINTAINED PERFECT DISCIPLINE.

Opened Court, Served Writs, Arrested
Murderer, Carried Pistol and Inspired
Her Prisoners With Wholesome Awe-A
Good Housekeeper Withal.
After 1a years of active hazardous and
exciting life as chief deputy sheriff OF
Boone county, Ills, Mrs. Sarah Jane Ames
has hung up her handouts, quit carrying
o gun and delivered the keys of the county
fail into the hands of her successor, says
Belvidere correspondent of the Chicago
Times.
While Mrs. Ames' official title has been
"chief deputy sheriff." she has, in fact,
been the high sheriff for the last two years
on account of the i'll health of her hus-
band, Albert T. Ames, who held the GER
tificate of election to the office which his
wife has filled. She discharged the duties
In such satisfactory manner that the Re-
publicans tried to prevail upon her to &C
cept a nomination for sheriff last fall.
In her public career and in private life
Mrs. Ames has ever exhibited the unfail-
ing sign of genius-modesty. She says
that she has not done anything remarka-
BILE. However, here is what she has done
during the time she occupied the sheriff's
office with her husband:
Served papers in all forms of civic proc
ess
Opened court each morning during the
term.
Was in charge of the county Jail and
personally admitted and discharged all
prisoners.
Made more arrests than any man con-
nected with the sheriff's office.
Arrested several criminals at the point
of pistol.
Tracked fleeing criminals into other
counties and states and apprehended them.
Unraveled several mysteries of crime
and brought the perpetrators to justice.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-24
nrroKE A FULL HEAD OF STEAM

Ia gathered by that tremendously destructive
engine, malaria, put on the breaks with Hostel
ter7s Stomach Bitters which will check its prog
ross and avert disaster Chills and fever, bilious
remittent, dumb ague and ague cake are prompt,
ly reli we'd and ultimately cured by this GENIAL
specific. which is also a comprehensive family
biliousness, constipat ION, SICK head ache, ner-
yousness, rheumatism and neuralgia. Against
the hurlful effects of sudden changes OF tenn
perature. exposure in wet weather, close appli-
cation to labor;ous mental pursuits and other
influences prejudicial to health 1t is most
trustworthy safeguard. 1t fortifies the system
and hastens convalescence after facilitating aud
hesh-wasting diseases.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-24
THE PRICE OF A WIFE.
sayages Place a Varying Value Upon Their
Chosen Helpmates.

Savages Place a Varying Value Upon Their
Chosen Helpmates.
In the earliest times of purchase a
woman was bartered for useful goods or
for services rendered to her father. In
the latter way Jacob purchased Rachel
and her sister Leah. This was Beena
marriage, where a man, as Ill Genesis,
leaves his father and his mother and
cleaves unto his wife, and they become
one flesh or kin-the woman's- The
price of a bride in British Columbia and
Vancouver island varies from EGO to
$40 worth of articles. In Oregon an In
dian gives for a wife horses, blankets
or buffalo robes; in California, shell
money or horses; in Africa, cattle.
A poor Damara will sell daughter
for one COW. A richer Kaffir expects
from to 30. With the Banyai, if moth
ing be given, her family claim her chill
dren. In Uganda, where no marriage
recently existed, she may be obtained
for half a dozen needles, or a coat, or
pair of shoes. An ordinary price is
box of percussion caps. In other parts
a goat or a couple of buckskins will buy
a girl Passing to Asia, we find her
price is sometimes to so rubles, or at
others a CARLOAD of wood or hays A
princess may be purchased for 5000
rubles.
In Tartary woman can be obtained
for few pounds of butter, or where
rich man gives 90 small oxen a poor
man may succeed with pig. In FIJI her
equivalent is a whales tooth or mus
ket. These and similar prices elsewhere
are eloquent testimony to the little value
a savage sets on his wife.-New York
Advertiser
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-24

One reason for the fact that the general
health of the community is growing better
every year is that more people take regular
exercise. Exercise, however, has its diff
culties. If INDUCED in little too long, or
so violently as to make one liable to take
cold, it results in stiffness and soreness OF
of the muscles and joints.
ALLcoCK's Porous PLAsTERs are invalu.
able in such cases. Placed on the back, the
chest, on the limbs, they afford instant re-
lief and leave the muscles free from all
soreness. Some athletes cut them into
strips and apply them to parts of the limbs
where they could not put whole PLAsTER
and find that they are a great relief and
assistance.
BRANDRETH's Pulls cure constipation.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-24
A LUCKY WATCHMAN.
Frederick Kunert of the BOatmen's Bank
Plays in Great Luck.

Plays in Great Luck.
The Boatmen's Bank is the swell bank
of st. Louis. 1t is also the oldest bank.
Formerly the Boatmen's did business on
the river. and river men, big and little,
made it their repository. Now the
Boatmen's is In possession OF palatlal
quarters of its own at the northwest
corner of Fourth street and Washington
avenue. There were hundreds of clerks
at work when The Sporting NeWs man
called there yesterday, but the happlest
mortal about the place was Frederick
Kunert, who occupies the humble posi-
ton of Waterman.
Draft Clerk Abrams was also looking
happy. He had just returned to the
bank building with Kunert. He had
been at the office of the Adams Express
Company identifying Kunert as the man
who had drawn one-tifth of the $4,000
prize given by the Honduras National
Lottery Company in the November
drawing. He held ticket No. 1898.
When Kunert and Abrams returned to
the Boatmen's Bank with more money
than Kunert had ever owned individual
" in all his life before, there was quite
a commotion in the big bank building,
and all hands wanted 10 know what he
was going to do with his money.
Kunert replied: g | am going to in
vest it right in this bank in bank Sc
curities. With this money in bank
will always feel independent and as
though 1 had something to fall back
on"
Around the bank it was said that Ku-
merits ticket was one of thirteen the
clerks in the Boatmen's Bank had been
in the habit of buying each month.
Kunert said: This is only the sec
ond ticket | have purchased in the Hon
duras National Lottery, and l have such
good luck | guess | will have to give
that company's tickets another twirl.
What | like about their way of doing
business is that the prize, which | won,
was paid me SO promptly, in fact i'm
mediately the moment my Identification
was made known. "-St. Louis mo. J
Sporting News, January 5.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-24
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
'ess expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
The value to health of the pure LIQUID
axative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system.
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-24

sold through druggists, at the price OF the
cheaper made pills.
Pheasant Pellets cure biliousness, sick
and bilious headache, dizziness, costive-
ness, or constipation, sour stomach, loss of
appetite, coated tongue, indigestion, or dys-
pepsia, windy belchings, heartburn, "
pain and distress after eating, and kindred
arrangements of the liver, stomach and
bowels Put up in sealed glass walls, there
fore always fresh and reliable. Whether
as laxative, or in larger doses, as gently
acting but searching cathartic, these little
"Pel1ets'' are unequaled.
AS dinner pill, =" to promote Digestion
take one each day after dinner. To relieve
the distress arising from over eating, moth
ing equals one of these little Pellets. !"
They are tiny, sugar coated, anti bilious
granu1es. Any child readily takes them.
Accept no substitute that may be recon-
mended to be ''just as good" 1t may. be
better for the dealer, because of paying
him better profit, but he is not the one
who needs help.
A free sample "a to doses on trial, is
mailed to any address, postpaid, on receipt
of name and address on postal card.
Address WORLDS DISPENSARY MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION. Buffalo. N. Y.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-24

relations of the mikado's kingdom to the
rest of the world At commencement
time she read an essay entitled British
Policy Toward Japan" She predicted
that Japan would soon take high place
among the civilized nations of the world.
and her prophecy seems to have been well
founded.
Her marriage to Count Oyama was ar
ranged by her brother while she was still
at Vassar, and it is said that she saw her
fance but two or three times before she
became his wife. With her thorough edu-
cation and her wide knowledge of the
world she is decided power as the wife
of Japan's minister of war She has borne
him three children and is devoted wife
and mother. She has dark olive COM
plexion, intensely black hair and hands SO
beautiful that she would not disfigure
them with rings when she was at Vassar.
She was bright student, but did not
delve into the depths of a subject like
many of her American fellow students.
When she was at Vassar, her future hus-
band was an attache to the Japanese lepa-
ton in Paris. He is brainy, intellectual
man, and his rise In Japan has been very
rapid. He has prosecuted the war against
China with great vigor and ability and is
now in the field at the head Of the second
army Japan sent to China.