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 THE OLD SONGS.
No Such Popular Music as That Sung by
 Men.

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 Men.
 Two old New Workers sat together ill one of the up town music halls the other night when an ample woman, with an ample contralto voice, ambled out on the stage and performed Just a Song at Twilight. " She kept it up for two verses, and it wasn't so very badly done, but at the end there was hardly hand clap of applause.
 "Frost, said one of the old New Workers, perhaps for want of anything better to say.
 Nevertheless, :" answered the other. .'that woman has got the glimmering of all idea that might be made very profitable by some music hall manager in this town, for one season at least. The trouble with her song is that 1t was never a great favorite, and what popu- larity it did have was too recent. But let some manager get good singer to do the real favorite among the old Eng fish ballads, and I'll bet he'd make q hit It would be better if he had quar- tet of men. There is no such popular music as the singing of men. Let such a quartet come here and do the old songs, and you'd give up your dollars to hear them, and I'd give up mine, and so would all the rest of the boys, and they'd keep it up long enough, toe, to make it good investment. But the singers must be good ones, with we'll trained voices. There's a lot of the old songs which are extremely popular, in spite of the fun that's made of them. There's Annie Laurie, for instance. Sung as a second bass solo, with the rest of them doing the accompani- ment, it would go sure. And there's Sally In Our Alley Why. there's a man up at the club who makes q spe- cialty of ballad singing, and he never gets away without doing that song. He has high, sweet tenor voice, and there isn't 6 man who has ever heard him who wouldn't go miles in the rain to hear him repeat it. 'Marsa's In tho Cold, Cold Ground is another, and there are those old Irish ballads, Kath- leen Mayourneen' and Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms. There was a quartet i'll Boston several years ago that used to go around tho country giving concerts. Ive heard them several times, and the time they made the biggest hit was when 9 big part of their programme was made up of the old songs It hash been done in sum- mer season in New York that l can re- member, and I'd like to see it tried. It would get my money sure. "--New York Sun.
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S|LvER'S
 APOSTLE.
Life Story of Richard
 Parks BlaEd.
A FREE COINAGE CHAMPION.
Looming Up as a Presidential
 Possibility.

The stanch Missourian's Long Fight For Free Coinage-sketch of His Career-An Orphan at Tkirteen-His Experiences In the Far West-How He Met His Wife. Pushed Into Poiitics-His Eleven Terms In Congress Life on the Farm. Personal Characteristics.
 1.-The time has come, ,, the walrus said.
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of hobby" bang tails were sold by MT. Bland without a moments hesitation, and the only good they have ever done the Bland family is to point the old fashioned moral for the benefit of the younger Blands that Handsome is as handsome does. ,
 Either Mollie or Peter with Mr. Bland solus or accompanied by Mrs Bland and the children, traverses a pleas ant old country road, winding through soothingly rural scenes, when one or the other goes from home to Lebanon or from Lebanon home.
 All along one side of the road there has been spread before the eye a success sion of fields of wheat, and orchards dot the landscape here and there in way that would fill the soul of truant schoolboy with everlasting bliss. As you take the last turn in the road you see the Bland home, plain two story red brick house, with a quaint wooden portico ill front and the lawn, where Mrs Bland entertains her neighbors of summer evenings, has for shade several beautiful maple trees The brown old Missouri road goes right on past the side of the Bland house without stop ping, but there is bowed old tree in the corner of a fence at that exact point, and 1t is at that tree you stop, and to it you tie your horse and enter MT. Bland s grounds by side gate, which opens on path leading to the front door.
 All around stretches the beautifully level landscape, dazzlingly clear in the rarefied atmosphere of the Ozark pla- teau, and of all that wide and pleasant country but modest 160 acres under cultivation are MT. Bland's and 240 acres of wild land, ' still yerdant with it's virgin forest trees. A corner of the uncultivated land touches corner of the cultivated, and it is the regret of Mir Bland's life that the former, like the latter, isn't blooming with peach and apple and cherry trees, or green and gold with wheat, or yelyety with grass. He says, with sigh, that his 22 years in congress have prevented his keeping up this farm as it should have been kept up
 And then he looks out across his land with that farm love in his eyes that never dies out of the soul of a country bred boy
 When he is at home, MT. Bland spends
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a great part of his time in his study, a tiny bit of a den to the west of the old fashioned hall, with stove, three chairs and roll top desk for furniture. Here he receives callers and talks to them freely the while he chews great wads of tobacco and crosses and un- crosses his legs to suit his comfort. He seldom wears collar or cravat, but his gray beard flows down his broad breast and somehow you find so much dignity and purpose in this earnest man, forget ful of personal appearances, that you forget them yourself.
 MT. Bland's family consists of his wife and six children. Ten children were born to them, but four of them died. The eldest is Miss Fannie Bland, a girl of 19, who is being educated ill Washington. Theodore. boy of IF, comes next, and he is at school at St Louis. The home children are Hugh, aged IA; George Vest Bland, aged 12; John, aged z, and the baby, Virginia Elizabeth, aged B. The home children run about barefooted, are healthy and strong and would make the White House seene of continual excitement If their father ever got there.
 There is considerable disparity in the ages of Mr. and Mrs. Bland, but that has had no effect upon their happiness Mir Bland is 61 years old, Mrs. Bland 43. and yet they say they both feel young and recognize no difference of years.
 Mrs. Bland has placid, quiet face, with large blue eyes. Her hair is gener- ally worn parted in the middle. and any painter would be glad to have her pose for him were he painting picture of the Madonna She is remarkable for a woman whose husband has presidential aspirations.
 Her candid and frequently expressed opinion is that his chances of landing ill the White House are mighty slim. She does not like politics or political life, and the possibility of her reigning in the White House does not dazzle her d bit. She would rather live on the farm
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Queer Pear Tree.


 A freak of nature which is q source of much interest to horticulturists is displayed on . pear tree i'll Widow Alex ander's yard on East Main street. Leb- anon, Ind. Blooms entirely foreign to the nature of the tree appear from two different branches, while the branches ill question are natural and of this years growth. The tree bore nice lot of fruit last year, and as no pears are yet ill sight speculation plays decided part as to what the winsome widow will feed her palate on from this tree. Many make daily visits to see the blooms. A professor from Purdue uni yersity is to visit the find, and his views are eagerly awaited.
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near Lebanon. She is vastly more inter- ested in the well being of the farm ami mals than ill the condition of her hus- bands campaign, and the fact that old Mollie, the horse, was sick would ap- peal more strongly to her than the news of some backset to her husband's s cam paign.
 Mrs. Bland does all the work of the household, no house servant being em- ployed. One hired man looks out for the farm, and with true democracy he eats his meals with the family. Ordinarily the ex-congressman helps with the farm work. but just now he is devoting much of his time to political matters. Mrs Bland can hitch up old Mollie or old Peter, and usually she drives to Lebanon once day. She is Catholic, and, al- though her husband was raised Prot estant, the A. P. A. people ill his dis trict are bitterly opposed to him and helped in his defeat ill the last congress sional election.
 Liberal In His Religion.
 Recently, when spoken to about the A. P. A. opposition because of the re- ligious belief of his wife, MT. Bland said: II was born and raised a Protes- tant. 1 ant one yet, and am willing to die ill the faith. yet I do not consider my chances of heaven any better than the chances of my good wife. If true Christian virtue, character and moral ity and life deyotedly true to the teachings and precepts of our Saviour are to be the meas ire of our future hap piness, I cannot expect to reach that state of bliss she so richly deserves.
 ''Let the fact be used for all it is worth. If mans religion destroys his influence, then it is hardly freedom of conscience.
 If all who profess Christianity would give all their precious time to the relief of the widow and orphan-would give their substance for the care of poor, starving humanity all around them there would be no more pulling of Chris tian ears or stirring up of strife among those who profess to follow the meek and lowly Jesus.
 The personal characteristics of the great free silver leader are odd and diff ficult of delineation. Honesty and fear lessness are prominent and easily dis cernible attributes, but his other quail ities are complex. There is a singular
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had remained lawyer right here ill Lebanon. But was brought out for the nomination before I knew it by old Judge Bradfield i'll paper which he controlled here, and I have been ill pol itics ever since. have not been disap- pointed ill my political ambitions, but your truly happy man is he who makes a home and stays there and leads 8 quiet, uneventful life and keeps out of the whirl and hurry. Gratified ambi- tion is far from being true happiness y
 Do you mean-taking hypothetical case-that ill the case of a man, say, who had fought for one principle all through his political life, had lived to for the peoples good, this man would have done better to have remained country lawyer"
 He would have been happier all his life, said MT. Bland, with perfee! sincerity. '1He would never have had the glory or the gratified pride of ambi- tion realized, but if he loved the coun- try practice of law, as I did, and home life on a farm, the life which he was used to up to his nineteenth year, as was, he would have been happier all his life for sticking to it and refusing to be led away by ambitious dreams And that's what I should do, if l had my life to live over again. ,
 Such is the man whom fate may favor after long years of dalliance, for. if the silver people do all the things they claim they will do at the Chicago con- vention, there is more than possibility that Bland will be nominated for the presidency.
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"The time has come. the walrus said. 'To talk of many things.
 -aAlice In Wonderland. 1"
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ly easy gait, and MT. Bland goes in for comfort, not show
 So semiweekiy the great advocate of the rights of the white metal rides his venerable black pony into the town and halts at the same hitching post i'll front of the postoffice and ties her there, and the folks Of Lebanon smile and pass the word to one another:
 There come Mollie and Mr. BlandP'
 And then they crowd around the latter to shake hands with him and talk poli- tics after the manner of all true Mis- sourians.
 There are occasions when MT. Bland is accompanied into Lebanon by Mrs. Bland and two or three of the six Bland children, and when this is the case Mol lie is left Ut liberty ill the big blue grass pasture stretching south of the Bland homestead. The family rockaway is then brought into use, and between its we'll worn shafts may be seen Peter, the carriage horse, ;" dear as an heir loom to all the Blands, because Peter has been their carriage horse for Is years and is just like one of the family. There is tradition among the people of Lebanon to the effect that Peter has made this trip into town so often that he insists upon its consisting of just so many steps at such a gait and that when he misses his calculation by half dozen paces or so he goes back home and starts all over again. This, how ever, is given only as tradition, not as cold fact.
 Drives cone Hoss Shay"
 What is true concerning Peter and his sacred claims on the family rockaway is that about three years ago MT. Bland bought span of carriage horses and re; tired Peter to the rustic but honorable, blow. The new span of horsf szere i great improvement on PetsI, M far as appearances went but one uaj 1ld5t frightened at . passing Friz st1aili and tried to run away with a III ea1,sQ of Blands homewass B6 f3ids Rf1a from that moment Peter had s 5o, hefs| tween the rockaway shifts The s5all
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Thoroughly Pressed.

A man in Waterville, Me, a few days ago found under a book letter, sealed and stamped, which he had placed there more than three years ago, to press the envelope flat securely before mailing.
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Tn ArkadaIphtn. Ark

State Teachers Convention June 23rd to 2,th For this occasion the Iron Mountain Route will sell round trip tickets for $325. Tickets on sale June 22nd to 18th inclusive, with. final limit for return of June 26.
 H. c. TOWNSEND, J. l.. REINAcH,
 c. P. & T. A. City Ticket Agt.
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To Little Rock.

State Convention Arkansas Ep- worth Leagne. June 2 to p. For this occasion the Missouri Pacific Ky. will sell round trip tickets for $l 20. Tickets on sale June 22, 23 and A Limit of return June 26th.
 Fl. E. MIzELL, II. c. TOWNSEND, Agent.
 q. F. x T. A.
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DIR. A. w. TROUPE PINE BLUFF, ARK.

Office hours-2 to 4 p. m.
 Office with Anderson-Meyer Drug Co. Telephone No. GA. Residence, No. 9l7 West Fifth avenue.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-04-23
SHERiFF,S SALE OF REAL ESTATE.

By virtue of an order of sale issued out
of the Superior Court Of the State of
Washington, for the County, of San Juan
judgment rendered in said Court on the
3lst day of March, a. ID. 1896, in favor Of
The Canada Settlers Loan and Trust
Company, a corporation, Plaintiff, and
against DIR. w. III. Hayes and Sarah j.
Hayes his wife, Defendants, for the sum
of S1202 "a 100 with interest at the rate
of nine per cent per anDum from said 3lst
day Of March, A. d. 1896, and the further
sum of attorney fees, and $40. To-
100 costs Of suit, 1 have levied upon the
following described real estate towit:
The north half q Of the southeast quarter
Cd Of section twenty-eight (23) in town
ship thirty-six 1861 north Of range one
west of the Willamette Meridian, con-
tanning eighty (SO) acres more or less ac-
cOr,(ing to the government survey, situate,
lying and being in San Juan County,
State of Washington.
Notice is hereby given that on Monday,
the 18th day of May, A. d., 1896, at
the hour of ten O'Clock, a. m. of said day,
at the Court House door, in Friday Har-
Dor, in said county of San Juan. 1 will
sell all the right, title and interest of the
said Or. w. H. Hayes and Sarah j. Hayes
his wife, defendants, in and to the above
described real estate, at public auction, to
the highest and best bidder, to satisfy
said execution and all costs.
Given under my hand this 4th day of
April, A. d. 1896.
NEWTON JONES, Sheriff of San Juan
County, w Arlington,
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-04-23

THE influence of the federal bri-
gade" in Democratic politics in this
state seems not to have been sufficient
to prevent the state convention from
c)mirg out squarely for free silver by
the adoption of the following money
plank, which is brief and to the point:
1--WE demand the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at the ratio of Is to
without waiting for the Intervention
of any other nat on.n Now if the Re-
publican convention will declare for
the use of both gold and silver to the
extent to which they can be main
tanned in circulation at parity in pur-
chasing and debt paying power" and
emphatically oppose the "free and un-
limited coinage of silver until its in
ternational reconciliation can be
brought about, the issue will be fairly
presented to the voters of this state and
neither party will be open the charge of
'straddling' the question. The Oregon
Republicans would have been much
wiser to hayefollowed the lead of New
York, Massachusetts,, Wisconsin, Min
nesota, North aud South Dakota and
Nebraska in this respect, than that of
Ohio, or the National Republican plat
form of 1892.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-04-23

CLAUS SPRECKLES, the sugar king
of California, replying to Il letter from
the Whatcom board of trade, doesn't
offer much encouragement to farmers
to engage i'm sugar beet raising i'll thu
state at present. He says ii would cost
half "a million dollars to establish a
sugar factory and refinery large enough
to admit Of profitable operation, even
if the industry We're protected AS 1t
should be by the tariff laws. He adds,
however, that if adequate protection
is afforded 10y the next tariff law
he will extend his operations to
Oregon and Washington, it having
been fully demonstrated that both
states are well adapted to sugar beet
culture. AS the Republican party is
the only one from which there is any
hope of securing this projections, the
farmers of the coast states who want
to raise sugar beets will do we'll to bear
this point in mind when they cast
their votes ;his fall.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-04-23

rency question, which will be the chief
issue of the campaign, the convention
declared itself fatty i'm opposition t"
President Cleveland and his admins
tr ton and appropriated, without the
least change of sentiment and but
slight change of words, the money
plank of the Populist platform of 1891,
and there is nothing in any OF It's decia
rations likely to CRATE harshly upon
the sensitive nerves of the most ram
pant PopuIist. But even fusion, ii Ii
comes to that, will avail them nothing
Its success bv means of any combina-
ton, either in the state or nation, Is
hardly within the realm of possibility.
1t has wandered too far away ate
strange gods and become irretrievably
lost in the wilderness Of It's own foliles.
After the next election its once great
camp will be the very abomlnatloh 81
desolation and in vain will its warning
leaders invoke the spirits of jefferson
and Jackson to again Undue it with
new life and hope.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-04-23
SHERIFF., SALE OF REAL ESTATE.

By virtue of an order of sale issuet out
of tn" Superior court OF the state of wash
ington, for the county OF San Juan, and To
me directed and delivered, fora Judgment
rendered in said court on the first ID day
ner. plaintiff. and against Hattie A. Range
and J. w. Range, Claudius NJ. Rivers and
Ad Rivers, James f. King and Adlin
King, defendants, for the sum of 81 ,247. 25
with interest ut the rate of ten QO) per
cen Der annu n, from said first CD day of
April. a. d. 1896, and the further sum of
5 -aItorney's fees, and 5000 costs O..
suit, | have levied upon the following de
scribed real estate, tO-Wit:
The northeast one quarter "a of the
southwest ont-quarter al and the north
west oic-quarter "a of The southeast one
quarter "a of section ten Q0, township
thirty-five t35) north, range three 81 west
of the Willamette meridian, situate, lying
and being in San Juan county, state Of
Washington.
Notice is hereby given that on Saturday
the 9th day of May, A. d. lS9 at the hour
of 10 O'Clock, a. m. of said day, mt the court
house door. in Friday Harbor. in said
county of San Juan, | will sell all the
right, title and interest of the said Hattie
A. Range and j. w. Range, Claudius NJ.
Rivers and Ada Rivers, James f. King
and Adlin King, defendants, i'll and to the
above described real estate at public auc-
ton, to the highest and best bidder, to
satisfy said execution and all costs.
Given under my hand at Friday Har-
Dor, this 7th day of April, A. d. 1896.
NEWTON JONES
Sheriff of San Juan County, Washington.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-04-23

SECRETARY CARLISLE addressed Il
great audience Of worlllngmen in Chi
cago few days ago on the currency
question and among other things well
worth nothing told them that the I'M
limited coinage of silver at the ratio of
IS to of gold "would drive the 1922, :
900, 900 of gold now in use out of the
country, and by reducing the purchas-
ing power of all other money actually
reduce the amount of the circulating
medium instead of increase it, He re-
viewed briefly the history of the finan-
ella, legislation of the country, quoted
the extremely low rates Of wages pre-
vailing in the leading silver standard
countries, and drew conclusions which
could hardly fail to impress a large ma
jority of his hearers with the soundness
of his views.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-04-23
ADVERTISING RATES;
The Official Paper of San Juan County
THURSDAY. APRIL Ord, 1896.

TT is announced that the national
council of the A. p. A. has determined
to do everything in its power 10 pre-
vent the nomination of Mckinley for
the presidency, and if nominated III
spite OF its opposition then to do every
thing possible to prevent his election
Judging from the number OF states
which have already elected delegates
positively instructed to support Mckin-
lev the work of the A. p. a. against
him has not thus far been very effect
i've In fact there is some ground for
suspicion that the apparent opposition
of the A. p. A is really designed to
bring him Catholic support. 1t is to be
hoped. however, if such is the case,
that the organization has entered upon
its policy with respect to Mckinley's
candidacy without his knowledge or
consent. 1t would be as un-American
as it would be impolitic and ineXcus-
able for any man to seek to make re-
liglous prejudice a stepping stone TO
the presidency of the United States. j
would be we'll for the republic if every
one of its citizens, native or naturalized,
Protestant or Catholic, would look up
on this question as did the great first
president when he wrote in 1870 as fol-
lows:
The citizens of the United States of
America have right to applaud them
selves for having given to mankind eX-
amples of an enlarged AMI liberal policy
"a policy worthy OF imitation. All pos
sess alike liberty Of conscience and i'm
munities OF citizenship. 1t is now no more
that federation is spoken of as If 1t was Ivy
the indulgence of one class of people, that
another enjoyed the exercise of their in
herent natural rights. For, happily, the
government Of the United States, which
gives to bigotry no sanction to persecution
no assistance, requires only that they who
live under its protection should denean
themselves as good citizens, in giving it
on all occasions their etfectual support.
May the children of the stock of n braham
who dwell in this land continue to merit
and enjoy the goodwill of the other in
habitants; while every one shall sit in
safety under his own vine and fig tree,
afraid May the father Of all mercieS scat
ter light and not darkness in our paths,
and make us all, in our several VOcati0nS,
useful here, and in His own due time and
way, everlastingly happy.