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The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02

are entirely covered with linen. The
blue denim ones, trimmed with white
braid, resembling the blue and white
delft which is the latest popular fad in
china, are perhaps the prettiest, al
though the rose or yellow duck are love-
ly with certain colorings
All white ones are also very effective,
trimmed with blue and white braid and
tassels, also touched with blue, with
blue nails, the latter being covered with
fine Bolton cloth. The white linen braid
and tassels may be made to match the
material by working in cotton of the
same color as the covering The sketch
represents tall table for a palm pot
The low tea tables may be made after
the same design; the legs may be either
round Or square Old rose linen, white
linen braid, white buttons of Bolton
cloth and a design embroidered in white
cotton on top are the materials used in
this table.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
CYClOMANIA.
The Scientific Name of the Craze For
Wheeling In France.


Wheeling In France.
Gle Velocipediste" is the title of an
amusing little essay in the Paris Figaro,
in which that familiar division of the hui
man family, the cyclist, is discussed from
a naturalist's point of view.
Like the June bugs, which skim buz-
zinelv over the flower beds, says The FL
caro-, 1.-THE 'Velox communis flies along the
surface of our streets with disquieting ra-
piditv. frequently grazing in its course the
careless pedestrian who loves TO cross
crowded thoroughfares while reading his
newspaper Of all the animals of the Pa
risian fauna it is by far the most prolific
and multiplies with startling rapidity.
The male of grayish yellow color, is gen
orally homely. The female, on the other
hand. offers in the harmonious and opu-
lent beauty of her outlines veritable treat
for our charmed eyes. She is tanned with
out difficulty.
"The number of 'velocipedistes has so
augmented during the last few years that
it has become public danger. The Acad-
envy of Medicine is justly alarmed at the
progress of ccclomania, as is called this
circular madness, which was studied for
the first time by the celebrated Esquiroul,
who himself at last fell victim to the
same terrible malady.
sit is dangerous to get in the way of the
'Velox cOmmunis, this animal not being
accustomed to diverge from the straight
lire which it follows imperturbably. The
frequency with which it runs down and
mains whatever happens to be in its path
is too well known to be dwelt on here.
Sometimes the cycii:it En- CRATER travels in
troops, and even in single file, like the
wild duck. The augurs of antiquity-a
verse of Ovid seems to prove 1T at least
would have drawn good or bad omens ac-
cording as they perceived the flight OF the
WEDGES in odd or even numbers.
IN. de LacaZe-Duthiers believes that
these animals have among themselves con-
tests of speed analogous to our horse races.
He has even been able to observe a 'velOD
of large frame which moved necessarily
about circular track without taking the
least repose or absorbing the slightest nour-
ishment He concludes from this that this
insect possesses crop like that of the tur-
key, which permits it to store a certain
quantity of nourishment, a portion OF
which it lets fall from time to time into its
stomach.
"The cry of the 'velox' is frightful. Its
terrifying discordance is sometimes aug
mented by an apparatus which reminds
one of the COW bells of Switzerland, or the
horns used on our tram cars.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
DOUBLE BARRELED NAMES.
The Agony Was Started by English Peers
| and Landed Proprietors.

and Landed PrOprfetors.
Double barreled surnames, of course,
have long ceased to be- novelty. ANYBODY
who is anybody has insisted for the last 5o
wears on giving his friends the unnecessary
trouble of directing their letters with
nair of surnames, where one would seem
to answer every reasonable purpose. 1t
was the peers and landed proprietors who
began this little game of spelling your
patronymic with a decorative hyphen.
They chose to marry heiresses or inherit
property from distant branches of their
families, and to advertise the fact by as
suming both names, their own and their
wives. or their own and their benefactors',
as if by dint of acquiring couple OF es-
tates they had duplicated their personality
and went about thenceforth as living jan
uses, like the Siamese twins or the two
headed nightingale. They were all OF
them Pelham Clintons and Curzon- Howes
and Ashley Coopers; they reioiced in their
duality as Agar Ellises and BOTTLE VIII
brahams; they blossomed forth with de-
light into tandem pairs of Leveson-Gowers
and Knatchbull- Hugessens.
Some of them indeed even went step
further, and appeared, like Mrs. Mala-
props Cerebus as "three gentlemen rolled
into one," dazzling our eyes with such SUI
perb designations as Cochrane- Wishart-
Baillie, or Butler Fuller Elphinstone. Aft
er this was it any wonder that mere ordl-
nary commoners should feel they would
stand no chance in the struggle for exist
ence unless they aspired incontinently to
be Robinson Smiths and Higgins Baker?
You may see nowadays Gwendoline Mont
gomery Mullins keeping a suburban sweet
shop, and Adolphus Cecil-JOnes at the re-
ceipt of custom in a metropolitan railway
station When things have reached this
length, what can our old nobility do but
"go them one better by assuming quad
ruplet? Snrnames are now threatening to
be no longer double barroled, but positive
ly to develop into perfect six shooters.
Montagu-Douglas Scott and Twistleton-
Wykeham- Fienncs won't satisfy the ambi-
ton of our newest creations. l believe l
am right in saying that at one time the
member for Westminster was correctly de-
scribed as Mr. Ashmead- Bartlett Burdett-
Coutts- Bartlett Burdett COutts, though he
has since sloughed off some portion of this
reckless superfluity and everybody must
remember the stirring line, Long may
Long Wellesley Long Pole Wellesley live, y
which dates back as far toward the begin
ming of the movement" as the days when
Horace Smith wrote Rejected Addresses. J"
-Cornhill Magazine.
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TO FLORENCE.

Within an old Italian book read
These words, which | have still remem-
brance of:
"Who reads this book when | perchance am
dead .
Should worship Florence as his only love.
He only wrote of that most fairy town,
The City Of the Flowers, as she Is na1neo'
have an easier task to win renown
In one who's fairer faced aud falrer FAMED.
For you are fairer than Firenzas howers'
Sweeter is your smile than all its sun,
And would give my life and all its towers
If the rose petals of your lips | won.
Here at your feet lay my need OF song;
Take it and kiss it, though you hardly look.
shall have readers through the whole year
long
If all who love you, Florence, read my book
Fay Durham in Home and Country.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
LETTER CARRIERS IN THE ALPS.
Their Terrible Hardships In Winter and
Heroic Devotion to Duty.

Their Terrible HardshipS In Winter and
Heroic Devotion to Duty.
Among letter carriers the world over
probably there are few who undergo for so
small a pittance such terrible hardships as
those who carry the mails in the high Alps
in winter. They arc paid but % cents per
day and frequently lose their lives in the
performance of their duty. The world at
large hears of them but rarely and then
only from some chance traveller who has
been snowbound in hospice in those high
attitudes.
The postman at Villar d'Arene, in the
Alpes Maritimes was badly frost bitten
last winter while making his rounds. A
Partisan journalist happened to be in the
village when the mail arrived and said to
him, 'You have good excuse for not 60
ing over your route today, because you are
i'll and more than three feet of new snow
fell last night
eyes, monsieur" the carrier replied, 81
know all that very well, but-que voulez-
vous? There is in the bag a letter from
Louis Jousset, which comes from TOnquin
You cannot understand how impatiently
his parents are awaiting that letter from
their son. Every day they ask me, Is there
nothing from him yet?' They are anxious
about him. He is so far away. And now a
letter has come shall / make them wait?
Oh, no. have not the courage, though l
fear from the pain l suffer that neither the
postman nor the letter will reach their des-
tination."
On the way from Abries, on the French
side, to Bobbio, in Italy, some miles before
reaching the Col de la Croix, separating the
two countries, there is a house of refuge,
which was built nearly 100 years ago by
the French government. For some time
previous to last winter it was kept by a
cantonnier and his wife, but through care
lessness or complacence they allowed
Italian soldiers to come there and spy
across the border. Last winter, therefore
two gendarmes were stationed there, and
the place was furnished with a telephone
to the village below. They were supplied
with provisions every two days by post
man named Blanc, from Abries, some
miles distant. The snow fell so deeply one
night in February that it filed the steep
pass which led to the house where the two
soldiers were stationed. Blanc, neverthe-
less, knowing that they would soon be
without provisions set out to relieve them.
He did not return, and the next day his
body was found. The two gendarmes,
meanwhile, were starving, and it was only
at the risk of their lives that some hardy
villagers rescued them two days later
Nayv York World
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
A LOVE SONG.

Nv little leaves. why are you gladf
Answer. quivering little leaves,
Small clapping leaves, so freshly clad
In green world that never grieves.
Answer me, for my heart Is sad
Love God, love Godl they sing,
Cav as the birds awning.
NV little flowers, what's your delightg
Now answer, for my soul believes
In your sN ct petals, pure and white
Sweet purity no man deceives.
Answer, my flow 'rets fair and bright.
Love God, love Godl they sing,
Gay as the birds awning.
Fresh blades Of grass, you cheerful SEEM
What is it that all grief relieves?
Thick We upspring, fair sunbeam
In your low stems its brightness weaves'
How do you keep that sunny gleamf
Love God, love God! they sing,
Gay as the birds awning.
The flowers and grass make their reply,
With all the merry clapping leaves,
And cchoing the holy cry
The dropping heart its joy retrieves
All voices to their Maker fly.
Love God, l.ve God! they sing,
GAY as the birds awning.
Constance Hope in Good Words
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
THE FAT CAPTAIN.
Ills Order. It's Method of Execution and
the Boys Comment.

"Join the militia, if you wish, my
boy" said the old man in his kindly
way, "but don't get in company that
has fat captain. "
81 don't see what difference that can
make" returned the boy. "Do you
mean to contend that fat man can It
be good soldier:''
"Wel], not exactly that, my boy"
explained the old man; "but in some
ways you will find the thin man or the
man of medium build preferable. Didn't
I ever tell you of my experienced"
"Never''
"Ah, that explains your doubts, then.
You see, I once had an ambition to
wear a uniform and march behind a
band, just like you, and joined COM
pany that unfortunately had a fat cap
tain. No one thought of the captain par
ticularly at the time the company was
organized, but we all learned to look
out for such trifies later While we
were in the armory it was all right and
every thing always passed off satisfac
torily, but when we began to drill out
of doors-ah, then we found how seri-
Gus matter drilling with fat captain
was
"But why?" asked the boy. "You
haven't told me that yet. -
He'd lose his breath just at critical
moments. He'd start us out at double
time and then get so winded himself
that he couldn't stop US. Of course we
would have to go on. We were too we'll
drilled to step until we received the Or
der to do so. / remember once he start
ed us out, lost his breath, was unable
to order halt or to keep up with the
column and we ran three miles before
we stopped.
"What made you stop them" inquired
the boy.
eve ran into stone WALL" replied
the old man promptly.
"Pooh! Why didn t you scale it? You
were nice kind of soldiers, you were.
If I'd been your captain, I'd have court
martialed the whole lot of you for dis
obedience Of orders. p"
Then the old man looked at the boy,
and the boy looked at the man, and
chasm seemed to open up between them.
They were no longer friends. Chicago
Post.
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THE DEVILS CODE.
Legend of a Monk, the Devil and a Quick
Nights Work.


Stockholms public library contains a
wonderful work which is called "The
DEVILS Code" and which in addition
to its extraordinary name is said to be
the biggest manuscript in the world.
Every letter is most beautifully drawn
and the magnitude of the work is so
great that it seems impossible for any
single monk to have done it.
The story of the origin of the manu-
script, however, not only gives it as
the work of one man, but also states it
to be the work of a single night. The
story runs as follows:
ga poor monk had been condemned
to death, but was told mockingly by his
judges that if he was able to copy the
whole Code between darkness and
dawn he would be saved. Relying upon
the impossibility of the task, those who
sentenced him furnished him with the
original copy Of the Code, with pen,
ink and parchment and left him.
death must have been as little liked
in the middle ages as it is now, for the
monk, forgetting the hopelessness of
his task, commenced it. Before long,
however, he saw that he could not save
his own life by such weak exertions,
and fearing cruel and horrible death
he invoked the aid of the prince of
darkness, promising to surrender his
soul if he were assisted in the task.
"The devil kindly obliged by appear
ing ON the spot, accepted the contract
and sat down to the work, and next
morning The DEVILS Code was finished,
the monk being found dead. The copy
ing clerk from the internal regions pre-
sumably fled away with the poor man Is
soul as soon as the wicked compact was
finished ,-Pearsnn' s Weakly
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02

making tables
for coun t r y
houses, which
she has placed
for sale at the
w ON an s ex-
changes, an d
which are so
pretty and dainty
that a descrip-
ton may be well
come. They are
Of various shapes
aud co1orc apd
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
A Dainty Sprinkler.

O'K1ef-Doesn't Miss Flipsley niaho
pretty picture as she sprinkles her HOVER s'av
McEll-Yes, and judging py 'no lions; "
size is holding her skirt she seems an 18th.
10 let the neighbors see that she uses n no,
ing but the best quality OF hose -0i0'
lyu Earle. ,-~
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
Brazilian Morning Glory.

The Brazilian morning glory will
prove a pleasant surprise to those who
have not yet grown it. 1t is as easy of
cultivation as the old fashioned morning
glory. Its flowers are rose colored and
very large, while its leaves are often 8
and 10 inches across. 1t makes a beauti-
full screen for a window or piazza
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
Real Enjoyment.

Simmons-You laughed at that dreary
old yarn of Mudge's as if you really
enjoyed it.
Timmins-I did really enjoy it. 1t is
one of my own jokes. indianapolis
journal.
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Chinese Money.

1t is held by some that the coinage of
China was invented especially for the
confusion of the foreigner At any rate,
two market villages 20 miles apart are
quite certain to have a different rate of
exchange, and-but this may be only a
coincidence-the foreigner is not the one
who profits thereby. Thus, suppose you
tender 81 at Stone Umbrella mart, and
after much weighing and testing thereof
are given in exchange 1000 brass coins
strung ON string, Of varying weight
and thickness.
Arrived at the Plain of Peace, you
buy 81 worth of fowls, and put down
your 1000 coins, only to be told that
the exchange is ,l60, and you have to
find the balance. Next day, having in
vested all your savings in cash, you re-
turn to Stone Umbrella, intending to
buy up all the silver in circulation at
the lower rate of exchange.
Alas, for your hopes! You are met
with a chilling, "These cash are ten
parts. e., 100 per cent-worthless, I"
and in confederation of his statement
your would be victim points out, or pre-
tends to point out, the absence of certain
blurs on the horrid little rings of brass.
-Blackwood' s Magazine.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
400 PersOnaI.

"Knickerbockers?' she said. "Why
not? I have perfect right"
"And the left?" one asked her hest
tatingly. But she preserved dignified
silence, deeming the question in the ma
ture Of personality. - Indianapolis
Journal
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Now Comes the Sleeve Extender.

The sleeve extender is the latest in
vention to be used instead of stiffening
each separate pair of sleeves with the
various Innings sold for the purpose The
"extenders" resemble small bustles and
are sold at little less than 81 a pair.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02

Equivocation, a word now applied to
any evasion, was once understood to
mean the calling of diverse things by
the same name.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
COUNTRY HOUSE TABLE.

A Useful and Pretty Article That Can Be
Made In Many Styles at Small Cost.
A charitable woman, who uses her
artistic talents for the benefit of others,
utilized her Lenten leisure this year in
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
vENEzUELA's GREAT STATESMAN.

Senior Andrade, Lawyer and Diplomat, His
Country's Only Foreign Minister.
Like All Sin, Senior Andrade, Vene-
zuela's minister to the United States, is
childlike and bland, but the impression
Is rapidly gaining ground in Washing
ton that he is one Of the shrewdest and
The morning times., 1896-05-17

business and Obviate the necessity for re-
pcated disturbance of the streets
on the same line il has been regarded as
advisable 10 bunch all legislation extend
ing various street railway routes, espe-
CGIly those that are Iu controversy. until
such time as an omnibus Dill could be agreed
upon.
IJ mas been deemed eNpedient TO defer
tie proposed extension OF certain streets
until the courts finally pass upon the con-
stitutiOnalty of the highway act. and the
Commissioners have in each Instance made
Recommendations to that end. in order that
a HarmOniZiHg systeIn may be arranged.
An understanding prevailed TO the ef-
fCcJ that the Senate desired TO take the
initiative regarding 4 n increase OF Jue
c.Jg., water supply. and hence but little IN
veStigatiOn has been made b. the House
committee on that subject.
The free library bill is hung up in confer
encc the House cOnfeTees being instructed
10 insist that all the expenses OF establish
ment and maintenance shall be paid out OF
the District revenues This viii In all
probability Kill the bill for this Congress.
The clerk of the District Committee,
George b. ClementSOn has made most
the discharge of his duties has rendered val
liable service TO the members OF ehe COM
mittee and in addition has materially light
ened the IabOrs of the reporters in trans
hitting the work performed by the com
nlittee 10 the public through the press OK
he city. -
The morning times., 1896-05-17

THE PIANO MARKET.
What Becomes of All the Second
Hand Instruments

Hand Instruments.
About so. 900 pianos are now being
manufactured annually in America, and
they are practically all for home conSump-
tIon Last year only $40 instruments
Were shipped abroad Most OF them went
to south America, but few were sent TO
Germany
We get from Europe far fewer pianos
even than We send there. There has Deem
an effort made among fashionable folks
10 introduce here an English make. It's q
fine instrument at home butlt won't do Tor
America. because our climate Is so much
dryer than the English that the wood ShrInks
and warps here ruinOuSly.
Pianos little need protective laws. In
every CaseiJiS the Sane-ChangeS OF climate
affect all makes injuriOusly.
One famous American firm have met the
difficulty by establishing factory IN
Hamburg for the German market
Germany sends some pianos TO South
America and To Australia, and altogether
she ma kes Is many as we do. France and
England only turn out 40, 900 year. The
growth of the business here has been
great. for in 1860 our output was only
80. 900. There are about 100 factories
in and about New York
I Pianos seem to disappear from the world
almost as mySterioGSly as plns-perhaps,
/ considering their size, the fact that the
| streets are not blocked with cast-Off pianos
I is more curious than that the face or the
earth fails TO be OverlaId with pins. An
I experienced New York dealer says THAT he
/ has known of but three that were cut up
/ for kindlin9 wood. Yet they often sell Tor
! little more than so much pine would BRING
! One secondhand dealer says he DOught SIX
/ last week for $50 1t is the custom or
| most houses To take old Instruments anu
I allow something for Them The deducflou
| is counted as almost dead loss, out lt brings
/ trade. The old instruments are refitted
/ and polished up, however, aud sold again
| To whom? Where do they go? is still the
/ question
well saws the dealer, most OF them
| go-but 1 can't tell you why-tO Philadel-
mia. Perhaps it is because there are so
I many boarding houses there. Boarding
houses are the chief refuge of second
hand pianos. Then there is good deal OF
business in Philadelphia In selling them TO
I country people all over the land Men that
/ go into that branch of ira ie can get pianos
pretty cheap, for the first-class houses
sometimes get so overloaded with them
that they are almost willing TO pay II
| have them carted away
The morning times., 1896-05-17
w hen?

One mo rning in the garden. bed,
The onion and the carrot said
Unto the parsley group:
"Oh. when shall we three meet again,
In thunder, lightning, hail or rain?"
''Alasr' replied, in tones of pain,
The parsley: In the soup!'
a -Drake's Magazine.
The morning times., 1896-05-17
POTOMAC RIVER REGATTA.

If the joint committee on Potomac River
regatta hopes TO make greater success
than that OF former years out OF its under
taking this year, il seems about time it
was getting together.
II has been customary always for the
club committee which takes the initiative OF
is first appointed, to call the preliminary
meeting of the joint committee. AS yet no
move has been made by that committee,
although the Columbia and Analostan com
mittecs have been appointed ten days and
more ago.
The date of holding tie regatta is the first
important matter to take up, and the gen
eral opinion seems to be that ii should be
held as early as possible this season, some
time about the beginning of August, some
say; Others would like TO see i July 15 or
thereabouts. The earlier the better, as
il tends TO bring down larger list OF out
of-town entries OF good quality.
MN r-rT,rS Nrr