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The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31
READY roE BUSINESS.

With a very active, energetic working
man, or man of business, q cane or crutch
is sign of some affirmative, but ne Will
have to use one or both if sciatica sets In
and disables his hip Worse than all this,
he NAV be bed-ridden for long time, and
still worse, may be obliged to resort to sur
gical treatment Why all this should be
endured when the trouble can be easily
cured must be because hesdont know tnat
St. Jacobs Oil. the great remedy for pain,
IS a special cure for this very much dreaded
malady. It has proved itself the most
soothing and penetrating remedy for reach
ing the sciatic nerve and efectually curing
its agonies that has perhaps ever been tried.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31

written a dozen pamphlets advocating
various reforms, the most famous OF
which, the "Irrepressible Conflict, ;"
was used as campaign document
against him in the recent campaign.
He has now in press novel, Looking
Forward, or a Story of American
Farms
Mr.. Rogers is tall, we'll preserved
man, spare of flesh and vigorous His
gray hair and furrowed face reveal
age, but his blush gray eyes are bright
and animated, and his tongue and pen
are ready and interesting.
He is poor in the worlds goods, but
lives comfortably in modest residence
with a wife and two daughters, one OF
whom is a teacher in the Puyallup pub
lie school. His three sons are married
one in the grocery business at Puy-
allup, one in the printing business in
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31
Cardinal satollis Church.

Rome, Dec. 22.-In the presence of
numerous prelates and the best-known
members Of the American colony, Car
dinal Satolli today took formal possess
sion of the titular church of Santa
Maria del Ara Cool. to which he was
assigned by the pope at the last con-
sistory. Cardinal Satolli delivered an
eloquent discourse in connection with
the ceremony.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31

John R. Rogers, the governor elect
of Washington, was born September 4,
1888, at Brunswick. Me. He enjoyed
good educational facilities, but left
home at an early age to learn the drug
business in Boston. He went to the
state of Mississippi in 1856. where
some years were passed as druggist.
During the late war he lived in South
ern Illinois, where he taught school,
finally buying farm and becoming
farmer. AS all his relatives were
Democrats and Southern sympathlzers,
he quite naturally held the same views.
In 1870 he returned to his native town
and the drug business. In 1876 he
went to Kansas, again becoming a
farmer. He was elected to number
of minor offices as greenbsck Repub-
lican. In 1887 he established the Kan
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO ..
TrrCAQ CoJINTy So

STATE OF n og.s' e e1Us 1g TOLEDO S..
FRANK ]. CHENEY makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHENEY & Co.,
doing business in the city of Toledo, County
and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for
each and every case of CATARRH that cannot be
cured by the use of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day of December, A. D. 1856.
SEAL A. w. GLEASON,
t~~~) Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
of the-system. Send for testimonials, free.
f. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31
Protest Against Choctaw Treaty.

South McAllester, ]. T., Dec. ga
The people of South MoAlester held q
mass meeting last night, and entered
decided protest against the treaty be-
tween the Choctaws and Dawes COM
mission, claiming the treaty is unfair,
unjust and oppressive to non citizens,
causing them to pay double value for
improvements, practical confiscation
OF the property of the poorer classes, il
it becomes law.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31
Football in Mexico.

Columbia, Mo-, Dec. .22.-The Mis-
souri, Tigers, the crack team of the
Missouri state university. have re-
ceived an invitation from President
Diaz. of Mexico, to play game of
football in that country, and have made
arrangements to start for the City of
Mexico Immediately. The game will
be played at the Indianola grounds De-
cember 81. The Tigers returned home
recently after playing series of sue
cessful games in Texas
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31
Eczema
All Her Life.

Mr.. E. D. jenkins, of Lithonia, Ca,
says that his daughter, Ida, inherited .
severe case of Eczema, which the usual
mercury and potash remedies failed to
relieve. Year by year she was treated
with various medicines, external appli-
cations and internal remedies, without
result. Her suherings were intense,
and her condition grew steadily worse.
ALI the so-called blood remedies did not
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31
Political Agitation in MOSCOW.

London, Dec. 22.-The Vienna cor.
respondent of the Daily Mail reports
that. as an outcome of the agitation in
Moscow, one student has been SEN
fenced to death and others to twelve
years imprisonment. This political
agitation came to head in efforts to
hold meetings commemorative of the
Khodinsky plain disaster, during the
coronation of the czar, which were
prohibited by the police.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31
BORNE DOWN WITH INFIRMIrIEs

Age finds its surest solace in the benignant
tonic aid afforded by Hostetter's Stomach Bit
tiers, which counteracts rheumatic and ma
larial tendencies, relieves growing inactivity
tant for disorders OF the stomach, liver and
bowels Nervousness, too, with which old
people are very apt to be afflicted, is promptly
relieved by it.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31

seem tc reach the dis
ease ct all until S.
SIS. was given, when
an i'm prove n nj
was at once noticed.
The medicine was
continued with fav-
orable results, and
now she is cured
sound and we'll, her
skin is perfectly
clear and pure and
she has been saved
from what threat.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31
Anarchists Sentenced to Death.

Barcelona, Dec. 22.-Eight of the
anarchists who recently had their trial
in this city for throwing bomb into
the Corpus Christi procession last June,
have been sentenced to death.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31
HoIrr,s SCHOOL FOR BOYS.

This school is located at Burlingame,
San Mateo county, CAL, in charge of Ira G.
Hoitt, Phi. D. It is accredited at the State
and Stanford Universities, and is one of the
hest of its kind. Twelfth term begins jan
uary 4, 1897.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31

Two bottles of Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton cured me of bad lung trouble.-Mrs.
J. Nichols, Princeton, Ind, March rs, 1890.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31

ened to blight her life forever.
SIS. Guaranteed purely vegsfa6ke)
cures Eczema, Scrofula, Cancer, Rheu.
matism, or any other blood trouble.
It is real blood remedy and always
cures even after all else fails.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31

OF the 800, 900 fossil insects collected
from all over the world it is said that
only twenty Of these are Of the butterfly.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31

A million acres of forest are cut
down every year to supply European
railway companies with sleepers on
which the lines are laid.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31
G ARLIsLE's REPORT.
Statement of tho Governments Ffnan-
ciaI Conditfon-Debt IL increasing.

statement
cial Condition-Debt is increasing.
Washington, Dec. %. - Secretary
Carlisle, in his annual report on the
state of the finances shows the revenues
of the government from all sources to
have been $409, Ats. 40S, and the expen-
ditures $434, 678,65a, which leaves
deficit for the year ended June |,
1895, of $25. 203,245.
In addition to the ordinary revenues
collected during the year the cash III
the treasury was increased by the fol-
lowing sums:
From the sale of 100000, 900 per
cent thirty-year bonds Sill. GAG;
aud from the issue of per cent bonds
in liquidation of interest accrued On
refunding certificates converted during
the year. $4,130, making total OF
gill, ITO, $40.
As compared with the fiscal year
1895, the receipts for 1896 increased
$19,I02,215, of which the following are
the principal items of increase:
Profit on coinage OF bullion deposited, 20
etc $50
Postal o'olo'ooo
There is shown to have been de-
crease in ordinary expenditures OF a.
Obs, 852.
ESTIMATE FOR THIS YEAR.
The revenues of the government for
the current fiscal year are thus estl-
mated upon the basis of existing laws:
From customs
From internal reyenue................ loJ,Om,oooo
Miscellaneous So'OOO,UOo
From postal service. o9,'9S,lzo
Total estimated revenue siO7. 793, 12O
The expenditures for the same period
are estimated at s472, 1898, 1870, leaving
an estimated deficiency for the year OF
$64. 100000.
These estimates of receipts and ex-
penditures, the secretary says, are
made upon the assumption that there
will be no substantial change in exist
ing business conditions, and that the
present scale of public expenditures
will not be reduced. But if our ordln-
airy business activity should be resumed
and the consumption of articles subject
to taxation should increase to it's
normal proportions, there may be, in
fact, no deficiency in our revenues.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31

The human race is but contest Of
dollars.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31
'Gladness Conps

With a better understanding >. ~
w transient nature of the mas ol Tie
ical ills, which vanish before nu phys
forts-gentle efforts-pleasantp es
rightly directed. There is corntt
the knowledge, that so man IV4alort IL
sickness are not due to anv sct tUa@1sa
case, but simply to a constina tsJal Dis
ton of the system, which the ' nI0o
family laxative, Syrup of Figs r nros
" removes. That is why it Is t bh'Oapt
remedy with millions of families s :. on!
everywhere esteemed so highly bdlds
who value good health. Its hs. uyaQ
effects are due to the fact. that =; ataeal
one remedy which promotes ;n rSS lhs
cleanliness without debilitat;nose rna
organs on which it acts. It is tbnss tAa
all important, in order to get ;tt s tre
fetal effects, to note when v We Osle
chase, that you have the genn Tua pas
Gle, which is manufactured bv tbs S StIe
fornia Fig Syrup Co. only and solS Sdlf
all reputable druggists. 0 .!
If in the enjoyment of good bs.,s
and the system is regular, laxat;vaaa,'
other remedies are then not neeS lssS% :,
afflicted with any actual disease sN
may be commended to the most st;,u uas
physicians, but if in need of lara.; ;.el
one should have the best, and with ~
well-informed everywhere, Svmn u J,
Figs stands highest and is most laTrr. y
bed and gives most general satisfact;%g
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31
HON. John R. ROGERS AND HON. THuRsToN DANIELS


the sta'e of
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31

A Towering plant is said to abstract
from the soil two hundred times Its
own weight in water.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31
MAILED FREE To- ..... Spy sSaIf Price
HOUSEHOLD GOODS. EH

This circular is issued for the oef t6enssls
country customers who cannot d, va ne your y
Gre 9i You VIII With find both goods p co.,
right. WILL ~ ncisco CO.
Sla-S2O Market Street, San franc.1O~-l ~ n
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31
CIary's TheFa|f.
at2 washlnoton ST., Pc Hand. On.

3f2 Washington ST., Pc Hand W. !
81 25-Knit Wooden Skirts, worth y. rorth 81
dozen Mems Gray Wool Half Hose aso So'i rod
cents. o2. S5-Ladies Welt kid o SnOtt r. adj
value, $3.50. Kid Body Dolls, l6c, 29el IL.
Soc. dressed Dolls, SC, 15c, zoe, zoe anu
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31

There is shown to have been de-
crease in ordinary expenditures OF a.
nix 259
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From customs ....... $148, 0O0,0 DOC
From internal revenue ...... $4,000 900
instantaneous sources, 20,0G0,000
From postal service. SO, 1913, 12O
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31
ESTIMATE FOR THIS YEAR.

The revenues of the government for
the current fiscal year are thus estl-
mated upon the basis of existing laws:
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-31

Total estimated revenue. slO7. 1913, II
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-06-04

President Homer T. Fuller, of Drury
college, Springfield, Mo. announces that
he has received singular proposition
from wealthy Massachusetts, man,
whose identity he would not disclose.
The man offers Drury a large sum OF
money il it will verify the truth OF
war incident which is alleged to have
taken place in Missouri, and equals the
story of Damon and Pythias. The
president announces that the college
will accept the offer, and requests the
students to help him secure evidence II
such thing really did occur.
The story is that in the early part OF
the war detachment Of Confederate
troops in Missouri took about 400 Union
prisoners. Twelve of these prisoners
were lined up and shot without provo
cation by the Confederate officers. Up
on hearing of this act the commander
of the Federal regiment drafted twelve
prisoners to be shot in retaliation. AS
the line was being formed young man
named William Lear stepped forward
and asked permission to take the place
of one of the condemned men. who was
his friend. The request was granted
and Lear was given the place OF hls
friend.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-06-04

ing with glee as they twisted off their
scalps. A frightened wolf betrayed
their ambush, The train took another
route and was saved. For an hour or
more the Indians watched and waited.
none daring to move for fear Of be-
lied that their game had escaped from
the trap. and sullenly and noiselessly.
the 300 moved down the path, up the
rise, into the cedars where their ponies
were herded, and without shout or
curse or sound to be heard ten yards
away they mounted and rode away and
the ridges hid them from view.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-06-04


At one OF the engagements in Tennes-
see Confederate captain was detailed
to support a battery. The Federal
troops made fierce assault and csr-
ried off one Of the guns. The officer
was furious over the loss of tho gun
and swore that his men should charge
and recapture it. One Of the privates.
who now lives near this place, said:
Look here, captain, If the confederate
government must have a gun. propose
we chip in and buy one."
A hungry Confederate by the name
of Johnston walked into a farmhouse
while the family were seated at the
supper table. The farmer had been
so much troubled with soldiers that he
concluded not to invite the man to par
take of the meal with him, but to make
conversation said to the Confederate:
What is your name:"
"Take-ab!te." replied the soldier.
What" repeated the farmer, Take
a-bite?"
Thanks" said the soldier, "as you
insist, l believe l will eat something"
and sat down at the table.
A slim specimen of North Carolina
left the ranks of his regiment while
passing through Front Royal and ap-
preaching lady standing ON her porch
made the following comprehensive re-
quest: Miss, will you please give me a
drink of water? l am SO hungry don t
know where l am to SleeD tonight -
Warrenton Virginian.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-06-04
ApriCOts In the South " est.

The summary Of the bulletin on ap-
ricots recently issued by the agricul-
tural station at Tucson is as follows:
l. Our cultivated apricots are de-
rived from three species, but one (Pru-
nus Americana) furnishes all that are
valuable for fruit in this region.
2. The fruit takes a large quantity
OF potash and phosphoric acid from the
soil.
3. In the fruit an average of "a per
cent Is flesh and per cent Is pit. Kali
sha has the smallest proportion of pit
and Breda the largest.
4. There is 81 per cent of juice and
10 per cent of fiber in the flesh of an
apricot. The juice contains 10 per
cent Of sugar, the flesh IL. and the
whole fruit, including pit, II per cent.
OF albuminoids (crude protein) there
is IL per cent.
5. The mean weight Of fruits of all
varieties was l ounce each. The Breda
bore the smallest fruit, averaging
about % to the pound. The largest
fruit was IL to the pound, borne by the
kaisha and Moorpark.
6. The soil not being a typical one
for either apricot, plum or peach
stock, the growth Of trees upon the
different kinds of stock was practically
the same.
Z. This season upon this soil fruit
from trees Of several varieties is
larger, of better quality and earlier
when upon apricot stock than upon
Myrobolan. Other varieties show NO
differences due to stock.
8. Pringle was the first to ripen,
but the fruit is not Of as good quality
as most others.
9. St. Ambrose bore the finest ap-
pearing fruit.
10. Royal was the most prolific.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-06-04
Roar OF the Cannon.

More than twenty years ago we nearo
preacher in sermon declare that
since the opening of this century the
cannon had never ceased to roar. That
is. there had never been time during
the century when there had not been
war somewhere. He said it was wrong
idea to call this the century Of peace.
Wehave watched events since that time
and have never seen time when there
was universal peace. War RACES some
where, and when one war is brought
to close another flames out. These
are not always great wars. but they
are wars all the same. To-day there is
war in Abyssinia, Central America, and
what may be designated as wars in
Central Asia and Farmosa. Tomorrow
the panorama will change: some Of the
old scenes will disappear and new ones
will burst on the vision. In this way
history is made.
1t Is doubtful If there ever was time
when the changes were SO rapid as at
the present time. The increased facili-
ties for intercourse and the perfect
means OF transportation accelerate both
thought and action. AS an illustra-
ton OF this we point to the invasion of
the Transvaal. The scene passed quick
ly. A few days only elapsed between
Its beginning and end. No such thing
could have taken place fifty years ago.
We have no way Of judging Of the fu-
ture but by the past. was the saying OF
an American orator. but in the light
OF modern events the judgment must
be by the very recent past. Judging by
that past there is little proba bility that
the time Is near when the roar of the
cannon will cease to be heard.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-06-04

The Ohio law directed against the
wearing of high hats by women in thea
ters has led to agitation in other quar-
tiers. The Women's Health Protective
Association of Brooklyn, N. Y, has ap-
pointed committee to ask theater
managers Ito post up notices asking
women to remove their hats during the
performance, and to provide place for
the safe keeping of the hats" So long
as men alone were concerned in the
crusade against the high hat there was
little hope of mitigation of the Attic
ton. Is the probability of such mitiga-
ton increased by the accession of a
corps Of women to the force of the cru
saders? Who can tell? AS the elder Mr.,
Weller observed, Women are rum
c.eeturs."
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-06-04

The faculty Of Yale University has
knocked in the head DR.. William Lyon
Phelps course in modern novels, de-
creeing that this new study shall be
abandoned at the close Of the present
college year. 1t appears that the pro-
fessors of ancient English literature
and Of Greek and Latin have been play
ing to empty benches since DR.. Phelps
inaugurated his speciality of up-to-date
fiction. Homer and Plato. Virgil and
Pliny, Chaucer and Spenser had no
show at all when brought into compe-
tition with Robert Louis Stevenson and
Rudyard Kipling, Tolstoi and Howells,
Hall Caine and Marion Crawford And
so. to save the poor ancients. the fin
de-sieclists have been summarily
sQuelched.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-06-04

The young unmarried men Of the
congregation Of one of New York's
most Questionable churches are
said to have banded together in a
Bachelors club to make 1t easier for
them to escape the leap-year snares
and pitfalls which surround them on
every side. 1t Is claimed, owing to the
vigOr with which some Of the girls Of
the congregation are pursuing them.
This sounds doubtful, but 1t should be
remembered that almost anything is
possible in New York.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-06-04

OF his contrasting methods in general
"The portion of my crop giving
yield Of 104 bushels of husked. we'll
dried CSC pounds, shelleD corn per acre
was five acres of 81 planted last year.
My land is slightly rolling prairie and
about fair average of Kansas soil,
with a hard, impervious subsoil. The
five acres mentioned were at one end
OF 25-acre field, part of which had
been in potatoes for two years, and the
last crop dug with listing pillow late
IN october, which was about equivalent
to deep fall blowing.
In spring the ground was much like
a bed of ashes. 1t was then deeply
ploWed, made fine and smooth with q
plank drag and drilled the first week in
May with a planter Of medium width,
with a deep-grained yellow Dent corn;
about the same quantity OF seed was
used as would have been II from three
to somewhat less than four grains had
been placed in hills the ordinary dis
lance apart. This was cultivated four
times with common gang cultivators
and hOed three times-the last hoeing
after 1t had been finished with the cul-
tivatOrs.
Il am a strong believer in deep and
thorough cultivation, and long since
learned that a good crop of corn and
rank growth of cookie burs, crab
grass and similar weeds cannot occupy
the same ground at the same time.
have not SUBSIDIZED for previous crops,
but last fall invested in sub
soiler and used it on Is acres. in
tend planting 100 acres in corn this
season and aim to have it all SUBJ
soiled. Am subsoiling my fields the
narrow way first (they are from 40 to
80 rods wide and 120 rods long, as deep
ly as four horses can do the work, at
distances of two and one-half feet. Will
then throw up the ridges cross-wise Of
this with listing pillow, following it
In each furrow with subsoiler as deep
as three horses can pull it. and drill
the seed Immediately in the track Of
the subsoiler. This will leave the land
subsoiled in both directions.
my whole crop for 1895 averaged
only 81 bushels per acre. yet would
have made Is bushels but for an unfor-
tunate invasion just at the critical time
by an army Of chinch bugs from an
adjacent 30-acre field of oats. With
proper treatment Of our soils and thor
ough cultivation, am of the opinion
that in all favorable seasons such as
last we should raise from rs to 100
bushels of corn per acre instead of the
more common rs to SO bushels. am
always careful to avoid cultivating
when the land is very wet, and think
many farmers make a serious mistake
by working their corn when the soil
cleaves from the shovels in chunks.
The sun is likely to then bake the
ground, and the growth loses its bright,
healthy green and turns a sickly yell
low. F. D. Coburn."