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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-06-09
RESULT OF THE FIRE.
Tho Forts Mt tho Santiago HarbOr I'm
trance Wore Demolished.

trance Wero Demolished.
Cape Haytien, June ga Santiago
dispatch says: The American squad
ron, which bombarded Santiago yes
terday, was composed Of IA vessels,
among which we're recognized the Iowa,
Brooklyn, Massachusetts,. Texas and
New Orleans, besides gunboat and an
auxiliary cruiser, believed to be the
Columbia.
The five vessels which were recog-
nized opened fire on the batteries at
Punta Gorda, Ell Moro and Socapa,
and also on the cruiser Cristobal Colon,
which advanced toward the entrance Of
the harbor. The Americans fired pro-
jectiles of SO centimeters, and the, bat
teries, as well as the Cristobal Colon,
kept up an incessant responsive fire.
Two shots landed on the after part of
the Iowa, causing much damage. On
the Spanish side, the damage was insig-
nificant.
The American squadron withdrew at
6 O'Clock last evening.
This morning the American squadron
reappeared off Santiago, but contentcd
itself with firing two shots, which are
believed to have been signals agreed
upon with the insurgents, who, NUM-
bering 1000 or 5000, are said to have
been three or four miles from Santiago.
Great events are expected hourly at
Santiago.
The Spanish authorities have taken
extraordinary precautions, and have
placed in the narrow pass at the
entrance Of the harbor special con.
trivance, which permits the closing and
opening of the port at will.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-06-09

Minor News Items.
know henry I. Stanton, the widely
Frankfort. A'0'Ay poet died at
constrno .lckes, OF Steubenville, O., has
''cie principle.
thor ., RANGES AM Hodgson Burnett, au-
and 9th. Little Lord Fauntleroy,
divorce er novels, has been granted .
With no rom Or. Swain M. Burnett,
nama ppp I to use her maiden
Gloucester County Democrat., 1898-04-14
Highest Butter Yields.

The largest butter record for full
year is claimed for the Holstein COW,
Pauline Paul, 2199 H. H. B., /, 1853 1864
pounds, made in 1890, owned by ]. B.
butcher & Son, Pawling, N. Y.
The largest seven days record is
claimed for the Jersey COW, Princess II,
S046 A. J. G. c., 46 50-64 pounds,
made in February, 1885, while the
property of Mrs. S. M. Shoemaker, Bal
timore. This record also includes, as far
as we know, claim for the largest
daily yield, which would be close ap-
Proclamation to six pounds.
The highest record ever reached by a
COW in public test was made by the
BrownSwiss COW, Brienz, at the Amer
ican fat stock and dairy show in Chi
cago, in 1891, where her average daily
yield of butter fat for three successive
days was 8. ii pounds, the equivalent of
1853 pounds butter. The largest yield
OF butter at the World s fair in 1898
for one day was by the Jersey COW,
Brown bessie, AZ pounds Exchange.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1898-04-14

sey produces considerably more butter
than the Holstein- Friesian, SO far as we
know, always more to given amount
of milk That is another way of saying
that Guernsey and Jersey milk is richer
than Holstein.
But occasionally along comes cow
of the black and white breed that up
sets all the known facts in regard to
butter making powers. For instance,
the greatest butter COW ever in America
was the imported Holstein -Friesian
Pauline Paul that made 1,153 63-64
pounds in year, or over three pounds
every day and Sunday, too, for 365 days.
The COW in the illustration is west
ern born and bred. When only years
old she gave 66 pounds of milk in one
day and made in week 161a pounds Of
butter. just observe her shape.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1898-04-14
Grading Plants,

A writer in The Country Gentleman
calls attention to a detail worth giving
attention to in pricking out plants
that is, careful grading to size:
A box of seeding plants is exactly
like field of corn during the first
month. There will be great difference
in size and vigor of plants. Part is no
doubt owing to environment and vary
ing fertility of soil, but much, think,
is from extra vigor of certain seeds,
which if we could trace back to their
origin would be found better bred than
the others.
Whatever the reason, I find it pays
to grade the plants carefully and put
each grade in separate fats. Cabbage
and tomato plants keep up the differ
ence in earliness, however it may be in
yield, the large, strong plants at prick
ing out time being often two weeks
earlier in results than weakly ones from
the same fat. Last year. although my
soil was all quite rich and mixed care
fully SO as to make it of uniform excel
lence, the difference in size of plants
eAlhCO NOcho 4lOt1 tu0 COluluS up VI Gu6
seed was SO great that Of 5000 plants I
potted in ~ inch pots nearly 500 Of
the strongest, and as result scarcely a
dozen in the whole number failed to
furnish fine heads, while the rest on the
same ground planted the following day
had about l5 per cent of small or de-
fective heads. 1t was not altogether in
the potting either, for had about so of
a smaller grade in pots also, and they
averaged but shade better than the
same grade in fats.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1898-04-14
Lamb Barn.

The 610 lambs were all in one barn,
being only out long enough each day to
take their grain ration. A geared air
moter on the barn pumps the water,
shells corn, saws wood, etc. The barn
lis an ideal one for ventilation. On the
north and south sides doors about four
feet high hang to the outside post of
each bent, which is 12 feet, and reach
Ito the next post. Immediately above is
a door of similar dimensions, but hung
at the top and swinging out to form an
awning, thus securing perfect ventila-
tion and at the same time making am
pie protection from stormy weather.
These doors, being directly opposite
those on the other side, and the hay
racks all in line with the posts, the
team can be driven through at each
bent, thus making it easy to remove the
manure-a point too often overlooked.
The hay stored in this barn is all taken
in from the end from the outside, using
the sling to unload. w. A. McDorman
in Country Gentleman.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1898-04-14

robust sons and daughters, and did not
become weak, complaining invalids as
consequence.
There are probably several reasons for
this. One is that they lived more III the
open air, and another, and probably the
most influential of all, is that they we're
less prudish than the women of to-day
They were not ashamed to know something
of their own physical makeup. They were
not too nice to take care of their health in
a womanly way. Women nowadays suf
fer untold tortures in silence, because OF
weakness and disease of the distinctly
feminine organism, rather than consult
physician, or even talk upon the subject to
their own husbands They imagine that
troubles of this description can only be
cured by undergoing the disgusting exam
nations and local treatment insisted upon
by the average modern physician. Doctor
Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures all dis
eases peculiar to women in the privacy of
their own homes 1t does away with the
necessity for examinations and local treat
ment It acts directly on the important
organs concerned, making them strong.
healthy and vigorous Ii fits for wifehood
and the burdens of household duties. 1t
allays Inflammation, heals liberation and
soothes pain 1t tones and builds up the
nerves. 1t banishes the discomforts of the
time of expectancy and makes baby's ad-
vent easy and almost painless. Thousands
have testified to its merits.
over 1000 pages of medical advice free. Send
2I onecent stamps. to Mailing onfr. tor pa
per-covered copy of Dr. Pierces Common Sense
Medical Adviser Cloth bound 81 stamps. Ad-
dress DR.. R. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1898-04-14
For Lousy steers.

We find the following directions for
ridding fattening steers and their quar-
ters of a pest of lice without doing any
harm to the cattle:
Remove cattle from stable; then
thoroughly cleanse the walls, posts, cell
ing, feeding racks, etc.; then shut up as
close as possible and burn sulphur in
large quantities. Next day give every
thing in the stable thorough white
washing with freshly made hot lime
wash, in which mix two ounces of crude
carbolic acid to the gallon. The follow
ing emulsion is safe and effective: Ker-
osene, two gallons; common or whaleoil
soap, one-quarter pound; water. one
gallon. Heat the solution of soap and
add it boiling hot to the kerosene.
Churn the mixture for ten minutes. Di-
Lutte the emulsion with eight parts of
water and apply it TO the animal by a
thorough rubbing. Fifty animals can
be treated with ten gallons of liquid.
Repeat in one week.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1898-04-14
BLADDER TROUBLES.

The bladder was created for one purpose
namely. receptacle for the urine. and as
such it is not liable to any form of disease
except by one of two ways. The first way
is from imperfect action of the kidneys.
The second way is from careless local treat
ment of other diseases.
SAMPLE SENT FREE.
Unhealthy urine from unhealthy kidneys
is the chief cause of bladder troubles. 1t
is comforting to know that DIR. Kilmer's
Swamp Root fulfills every wish in quickly
curing bladder and urinary troubles 1t
corrects frequent calls, inability to hold
urine and scalding or stinging pain in pass
ing it, or bad effects following the use of
liquor, wine or beer, and overcomes that
unpleasant necessity of being compelled to
get up many times during the night to
urinate. The mild and extraordinary effect
of DR.. Kilmer's Swamp Root is soon reali-
zed. IL stands the highest for it's wonder
fnl cures of the most distressing cases. If
you need medicine You should have the
best. At druggists fifty cents and one
dollar. You may have sample bottle
and pamphlet, both sent free by mail
upon receipt Of three two-cent stamps
to cover cost of postage on the bottle
Mention GLOUCESTER COUNTY DEMOCRAT
and send your address to DIR. Kilmer &
Co., BiDghsmton, N. Y. The pr0priet0rs
of this paper guarantee the genuineness
OF this offer.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1898-04-14
THE LISTENER.

Edgar Allan Poe is running photo
graph gallery in Hackensaok, N. j.
Walter /. Miller, young colored law.
yer of New Haven, has been chosen presi.
dent of the Princess Anne academy i'll
Maryland.
The late Sir Henry Bessemer was in his
eighty sixth year, but until comparatively
recently was always at his desk as usual,
at an early hour in pursuance of his early
habit of industry.
Benjamin T. March of Illinois, one OF
the most distinguished looking men in
congress- rose from private to a colonel
during the war, served in nine states and
was shot four times.
Secretary of the Navy John D. Long is
said to be the most polite man in the ad-
ministration, and while he was in congress
he was always the first to congratulate new
members on their maiden speeches.
According to the Washington Post, John
Murray Mitchell of New York is the only
member of congress who insists upon hav
ing his name printed in full on all public
papers to which it must be attached.
The Oldest cardinal is Theodolfo Mertel,
who was born at Allumiere, near Civita
Vecohia on Feb. 9, 1906. Though he is
paralyzed on one side of his body, he still
attends to most of the duties of his office.
A rumor is again current that Russell
Sage is about to retire from business.
When asked about similar report some
years ago, the artless old man said, why,
If stop work, what is there for me to
doa''
Irwin Mcdowell Garfield, son of ex-
President Garfield, tried his first case in
the municipal courts of Boston recently
and came out victorious. He is 81 years
old and is said to be an unusually able
lawyer.
George w. Vanderbilt intends to con-
tinue the development of his model vii
lage of Biltmore, n. c., by the erection
of a schoolhouse for white pupils, the
building of several handsome dwellings
and the establishment of an electric light
plant
1t is said that Speaker Reeds partiality
to schoolteachers who visit the capitol is
due to the fact that he once taught class
in a Portland school. Mr.. Reeds BIZ
ography in the Congressional Directory
makes no mention of his experience as a
teacher.
Mr.. W. W. B. Beach, NJ P, holds the
record as the Silent memDer. Ii is SAID
that he once asked for hearing at an up
roarious election meeting on the ground
that during noarly 40 years of parliamen-
tary life he had never opened his mouth
in the house.
The coachman Georges, who distin-
guished himself at the Charity bazaar fire
in Paris by his GOODNESS and bravery in saw
ing life, was soon thereafter decorated
with the cross of the Legion of Honor
The French minister of finance has now
given him place in his department.
George Gould has been censured by
many women for not bidding on Fortuny's
Choosing the Model" He defended him.
self at dinner by saying, "Had Mr.. Clark
been foreigner I certainly should not
have let him purchase the picture, for
should have overbid him or any one in or
der to keep the picture from adorning the
wall of foreign gallery -
Gloucester County Democrat., 1898-04-14

1t is now conceded that to make gilt
edge butter it is necessary to use sep
arator. Professor Babcock says that
hand separators rightly handled will
give 5 per cent more butter than any
other system and that you can churn
separator cream at lower temperature
and more exhaustively than by any 9TH
er system Of getting the cream. Next
the churn. | use the swing churn, but
any of the concussion churns are all
right think if were getting new
churn would try an end over end bar
rel churn.
We find that the best temperature for
churning is from 5S to 80 degrees and
that temperature entirely controls the
time of churning, but that the lower
the temperature at which you can churn
and bring the butter in a reasonable
time the less liability there is of loss
by the butter fat passing off in the but
termilk. We average about 20 minutes
for churning. When the butter comes
and the granules are about the size Of
wheat kernels, stop churning, draw off
the buttermilk, wash the butter with
water at temperature of 48 to so de-
grees and wash until the water runs out
clear. This will harden the butter and
prevent its massing together. We salt
in the butter bowl at the rate of three
fourths ounce to pound. Some of my
customers want less salt and some more,
and try to suit them all, but the gen.
eral market calls for one ounce to the
pound.
Great care must be taken not to over.
work the butter, as overworking de-
stroys the grain. like to see the grain
distinctly in butter when you break a
piece of it, SO that it will show ragged
edges. have not said anything about
color, as we do not need to use it with
the Jerseys and my method of feeding
R. S. Hartley in National Stockman.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1898-04-14
ORCHARD AND GARDEN.

One of the best ways of improving tho
farm is to set out an orchard.
Fine, we'll rotted manure used as top
dressing will help make the garden grow.
One of the best preventiyes of mildew
on plants is powdered lime busted on them.
Commence the cultivation in the gar
den as soon as possible after the planting
is done.
Allow no fruit to grow on straw berry
plants the first season. Pick off all buds
and blossoms.
Thick planting of trees is just as much
against production as the crowding of
plants in the garden.
Place a circle of cardboard two or three
inches high around the tomato plants
when set out to protect them against cut
worms.
Large, plump seed are much better than
small ones. They furnish moro nutriment
to the young plants and make for them a
more vigorous start to grow early in the
season.
By planting in long rows in the garden
not only is much time saved in planting,
but the garden oultivator can be used in
giving much of the cultivation, saving
time and labor.
While it is an item to give thorough cul-
tivation in the orchard, care must be taken
not to injure the trees in any way. When
cultivating, stir the ground shallow close
around the eos--EXchanQe.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1898-04-14
iaGG2:l53fsssRNM
Lps'Np GRRDEN
TESTS OF PEAS.

Some of the Newer Varieties Reported Up
on-The Abundance Pea.
Newcomers in peas were tried last
year on its own grounds by The Rural
New Yorker. which now makes a re-
port upon them There was introduced
last year the pea 1897, or Prosperi-
ty, and this year pea is offered as
Gradus, which is thought by some to
be the same. Concerning 1897 The New
Yorker says:
By whatever name it may be called,
it, in our opinion, combines more nearly
all the desirable qualities of the wrin-
killed. peas with the earliness of the first
earlies of any variety at present in the
market. The claims made for the
1897 were essen TALLY these: "The
vines grow 21a feet high; the foliage
large and vigorous. The pods are as
large as those of Telephone, produced
in great abundance and we'll filled with
from six to eight peas of the best quail
ty and of the largest size. These peas
are ready for the table but three days
later than the best of the first earlies. !"
Our seeds were planted April 5, or four
days after the Surprise, Motifs Excelsior
and Triple x. June 12 the vines were
nearly three feet high, leaves large and
of light green color, stems of medium
size. At this time the pods averaged
31s inches long and nearly an inch
broad. The pods were nearly straight,
holding an average of six large seeds.
The vines were very productive.
The first picking was June IA as
against Surprise June z, which were
planted four days earlier, showing the
1897 to be but three days later. The
vines were later noted as "yellowish
green, very productive. :" Eaten June
II, they were judged to be "best" in
quality, sweet and tender-the color,
when cooked, being of lively, bright
green. From this trial the 1897 is
two days earlier than Motifs Excelsior.
Later. pods grow to larger sleeper
haps half an inch. Prosperity, 1897
and Gradus. assuming that they are the
hdIu6, Originated Will IuOudS AdAbOH
of England. 1t has been tried for four
years in this country. Mr.. Burpee, who
has tried the Gradus pea, says this of
it: It is the earliest large podded pea in
cultivation, while the peas are of most
superior quality, both in size and deli
cious flavor.
On the Abundance pea the report is:
Planted April L; first picking, June I'll;
vines branching, extra vigorous, / a to
2 feet high; large leaves; very produc-
tive; pods often in pairs, inches long,
five to eight seeds crowded in the pod.
This was first tried at the Rural grounds
during the season of 1884. We regarded
it then very close to the Yorkshire Hero.
The seed was sown then April Z, and
the first picking was June %. The
vines grew to q to 2 feet in height,
often 20 pods TO vine; pods small,
borne in pairs; seeds large, averaging
five to pod. Fifty pods weighed ~
ounces, contained 252 seeds which
weighed 41s ounces. The Abundance of
today is much like the Abundance of IA
years ago.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1898-04-14
DlAAs.eeRRIEsEIlnE|RE. s,ni |
HoLsTEIN-FR FRlEsIAN.

Cow of This Breed Not to Be Beaten For
Butter.
Here is the picture of an American
bred Holstein Friesian cow that makes
600 pounds of butter in a year. If any
Jersey or Guernsey can beat that, now
is her owners time to make it known.
The truth about the comparative but
ter making powers of the breeds is as
follows: AS rule the Jersey or Guern-
Gloucester County Democrat., 1898-04-14
Old Reok.

On the plantation of Mr.. 7. R. Ar
misted of Cabin Point, La, is an ancient
mule. Old Beck. She is SO old and SO
useful that she becomes mule of his
toric interest. The fact that this crea-
ture is 80 years old and still making a
full mule hand every day shows the
powers of the horse-donkey hybrid
We copy from the Tennessee Farmer
and Southern Stock Farm picture of
this famous mule. In letter concern
ing her Mr.. Armisted writes:
"Old Beck was raised in Kentucky
and shipped to the New Orleans market
Gloucester County Democrat., 1898-04-14

monsters of horseflesh, II hands high
and weighing over ton. The illustra-
ltion shows the curious spectacle of a
great Shire trotting around the ring in
his heavy and clumsy way. like bear
dancing. He is the property of the
prince.
1t is said the only money the prince
ever made has been in selling horses of
his own breeding. Each spring he has
at his Sandringham estate an auction
sale of horses of his own raising They
bring great prices, chiefly from the fact
that snobs buy them because they are
from royalty's stables.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1898-04-14
II dAkIIRT

To Eds0ard r. Wood and Mary K. Wood.
By virtue Of an order of the Circuit Court
of the County OF Gloucester made ON the
twenty fourth day of February, eighteen hun
dred and ninety eight in a proceeding wherein
the Township Of Franklin the said County of
Gloucester Is petitioner and you are defendants,
you are required to apps ar at the Court House in
the City Of Woodbury. in said County on the
twenty fourth day of May. next at ten o'clock
in the forenoon OF said day and show cause be-
fore said Court, why you should not be ordered
to pay the sum OF two hundred and ten dollars,
being the amount OF tax assessed in the name of
the said Mary K Wood in the year 1895 against
certain lands and premises situate within the
boundaries of the Malaga School District and
lying in and adjo lining the village of Malaga in
the said Township of Franklin, consisting of two
hundred and eighty three acres of land more or
less with the buildings appurtenances (which
said lands and premises were 8 Id to the said
Township of Franklin for thirty years by virtue
of a tax saleImade by Matthew +. Crum. .Collec or
on the third day Of October 1899 together with
interest and cost thereon as well as the cost Of
said proceeding. or said lands be ordered to be
sold in fee simple absolute free and clear from
any estate in or lien upon the same in favor OF
you the said Edward R, Wood and Mary K. Wood,
to raise and pay the amount Of tax due with dis
bursementS as aforesaid.
A. H. SWACKHAMER,
Attorney for Petitioner.
Dated March II, 1895. Woodbury., N j.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1898-04-14

Referring to the straw berry mulch,
New York correspondent of American
Gardening says: 1t is mistake to re-
move the mulch too early from the
plants, or as soon as frost is out of the
soil. The mulch keeps the frost in Ion
ger and we let it stay on until the plants
have made decided start into growth,
SO we can see the young leaves peeping
mp. If it is taken off earlier, a quick
growth is the result and the one killing
frost that visits us every year in May
cuts off all the early bloom and our best
fruits are sacrificed. In other sections
this reason may not apply, and if a pro
lection is given, it may be taken off
early to induce crop of early fruit
which may be anticipated with reason
able surety. Some growers advocate
leaving Oh this mulch as a summer one.
but with as it is Indispensable that
good stirring of the soil be given as soon
as it is dry enough. in order to kill all
weeds, and more particularly to stir in
9 sprinkling of some good fertilizer
round each clump. Last season we did
not apply this persuader. and the result
was an object lesson to us.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1898-04-14
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

James Sweeten, administrator of Matthew
Kelly, deceased, by direction of the Surrogate
of the county Of Gloucester. hereby gives notice
to the creditors of the said Matthew Kelly de-
ceased, to bring in their debts, claims and de-
mands against the estate of the said decedent,
under oath or affirmation. within nine months
from this date. or they will be forever barred of
any action therefor against the said admins
traitor. JAMES SWEETEN,
Administrator.
Dated February 49, 1898 2-l7-98
Gloucester County Democrat., 1898-04-14
ROYAL DRAFT HORSE.

Big Shire Bred by Prince of Wales shows
Its PAGES.
Albert Edward, prince of Wales, has
been successful in two undertakings
he is the leader of Great Britain's So
cial set and he is an up to date breeder
of live stock. He is only second to his
lamented father in the interest he takes
in the improvement of domestic animals
within the kingdom.
Ii is as horse breeder and dealer,
however, that he is most conspicuous.
He has the Briton S liking for huge and
heavy draft horses of the Shire breed,