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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-07-07

nn. FLORENCE 4. WOLFE. s,s flulbsssy
s., Laaesstes. Ohio. wsltess
DEAR MRS. PINxHAM:-For two
years was troubled with what the
local physicians told me was inflamma-
ton of the womb. Every month sui.
fered terribly. l had taken enough
medicine from the doctors to cure any
one. but obtained relief for short
time only. At last concluded TO write
to You in regard to my case. and can
say that By following your advice am
now perfectly well.
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The great barrier reef along the coast
of Australia is about /, 500 miles long,
the work of coral insects.
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RELIEF FROM PAIN.
Women Everywhere Express their
Gratitude to Mrs Pinkham.

Mrs =. a. WALDEN. Gibson. Ga. wsltess
DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:-Before TAX
ing your medicine, life was burden
to me. I never saw well day At
my monthly period suffered untold
misery. and q great deal of the time I
was troubled with q severe pain in my
side Before finishing the FIRST bottle
of your Vegetable Compound ! could
tell It was doing me good. Icontinned
its use. also used the Liver Pulls and
Eanative Wash. and have been greatly
helped. I would like to have you use
my letter for the benefit Of others
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Bad Roads Tax.

! There is great deal OF disagreement
among farmers as to the best methods
Of road management. Some hold to the
old road district supervisor system, be-
lieving that 1t cannot be improved;
others believe that the road district
should be not smaller than a township
and the work done by contract or un-
der direction Of supervisor appointed
by the trustees, and the tax paid in
cash; while still others hold that coun-
ty management Is the thing. Good
roads can be made on all these methods.
provided the right kind of man bosses
the job, man who knows how to move
dirt economically, who understands
what it takes to make good road, and
who can get work out of the men,
whether working out their road tax
Or hired by the day or by the month.
The point we wish to emphasize Is that
however they might disagree as to how
they should pay their taxes for good
roads, they are all paying bad roads
tax. This is tax that does not pass
through the hands of the treasurer or
collector. Every community by fail
ing to adopt the best method on which
they can agree in making good roads
levies the bad roads tax and pays 1t,
each man In proportion to what he
needs to use the roads. The man who
fails to get, hogs to market because Of
impossible roads and loses Is cents per
100 on the price is paying his bad roads
tax. The man who is obliged to go to
market with thirty bushels Of wheat on
bad roads when had he succeeded in
getting the roads properly worked
might have taken sixty bushels Is pay
ing his bad roads tax. The man who
has to hitch his horse and walk into
town because he cannotsget through a
mudhole is paying his bad roads tax.
If farmers would think Of the amount
Of bad roads tax they are paying every
year, they would In time learn the ne
cessity Of agitating the subject so thor.
oughly that some system by which dirt
can be moved at the least cost and
placed to the best advantage on roads
would be adopted.-Wallace's Farmer
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ing seed of cress. dandelion, parsnip
and satisfy In spring; carrot, endive
and spinach In the fall: small onions
put in ground at same time. All these
will live through the winter with
light covering Of leaves, straw or stable
manure, and furnish a supply OF vege-
tables and green's long before we could
grow them in the spring, and just when
needed to purify the blood and tone up
the system. A dozen roots Of rhubaro,
If lifted late in fall and left exposed to
a sharp freeze, then planted In the
earth floor of cellar or root-house Sc
cure from frost or light, will furnish
large family with all the sauce and
pies they care for from January Till
outdoor plants are ready for use.
Mushrooms are SO easily grown that
there is no reason why all should not
enjoy them In fail and spring as well
as summer. Let us live up to our priv
ileges, take the good things of this life
and throw physic to the dogs.-Ex-
change.
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Hoods Sarsaparilla
s.fes In BULGARIA.

Hoods pills cure all liver Ills. Is cents
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In Japan every workman wears on
his cap an inscription stating his bust
ness and his employers name.
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Six Good RatiOns.

DIX 0OO0 AdtAOhSs
Reports Of the ration used on very
large number of prominent dairy
farms have been collected by the On
tario Experiment Station. OF the ra-
tons reported, the following are recon-
mended by the station as especially bal
anced:
No. 1-22 cows, Shorthorns and Jer-
seys, average weight 1000 pounds,
yielded $500 pounds Of butter per year.
Ration-6 pounds bran, 3 pounds oil
meal, 80 pounds ensilage, pounds
timothy and 4 pounds oats and vetch
hay
No. 2-11 cows, Ayrshires, average
weight 1000 pounds; yield, 1874
pounds of milk and 700 pounds Of but
ter. Ration4 pounds bran, 2 OF peas,
of oats, / of oil meal, "a Of timothy
and clover hay and 10 Of roots.
No. 31-24 cows, Ayrshires and
grades, average weight 800 to 1,20O
pounds; yield, 1000 pounds of milk
each. Ration-5 pounds bran, 5 of peas.
35 to Is Of ensilage, 10 Of timothy hay.
No. 1913 cows, grade Jerseys and
Holsteins, average weight 900 pounds;
yield, $SOO.75 worth Of cream, sold In
Montreal. Ration-5 pounds of bran,
Of oatmeal, 80 of ensilage, 10 Of hay.
No. 81 - Guernsey cows, average
weight 1000 pounds; average yield,
6,OOO pounds milk each. Ration-9
pounds bran and shorts, 3 Of corn meal,
10 Of clover hay, As Of roots.
No. 39-18 cows, grade Shorthorns,
average weight 1000 pounds; yield, $54
per head. Ration pounds peas, Of
bran, 2 of oil meal, 40 Of ensilage, 5
of hay and Of straw.
Most Of the It's herds reported con-
tanned more or less thoroughbred dairy
blood.-Dairy World.
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THE FARM AND HOME
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARM
Err AND HOUSEWIFE.
Lot of the Hired Man on the Farm Is
Not Always P1easant-Best Methods
of Road Management-Old Fashioned
Farming that Yields Good Results.
Woes Of the Hired Man.

Spring is the season when the hired
man begins his weary rounds. After
alternating through the winter season
he goes to work refreshed and invig-
orpted. His outfit consists Of some to-
be eco and several hickory shirts, and
some more tobacco, and two pairs or
nveraIls. and some more tobacco, and a
lot of tobacco. He has few comforts
In life when he begins to work. be
has long hours and plenty of them.
Darkness rests upon the face OF the
earth when the hired man crawis
yawning from his couch and dons MS
purple and fine linen and goes to the
barn to curry his horses and milk cows
and feed hogs and water the bumDie
bees. He has done fairly good day
work before sunrise, but all that ne mas
ACCOMPLISHED comes under the head or
chores.
Darkness Is again on the face OF the
earth when the hired man retires to his
couch. Too often that couch Is the re-
verse Of downy. Too often is the TICK
stuffed with corn cobs and the pillow
like a wooden ham. Very often when
the hired man is falling in a pleasant
slumber, dreaming that he is dead, the
Stats of the bed all come down at once
and dump him on the floor; and then
be has to sleep the rest Of the night
with his head on the floor and his feet
higher than the window, and In the
morning he gets a roast for breaking
down the furniture. In many homes
the hired man Is regarded as a sort of
an outcast; If there is a musty old loft
In the house that has to be reached by
ladder the hired man is expected to
sleep there.
Nobody ever offers to sew any of his
buttons on for him, and pretty soon he
has to hold up his trousers with pieces
Of barb wire and tie his shirt together
with binding Irvine, and he spends
time that ought to be devoted to the
corn In keeping his clothes from slid
ing off. At many farm houses 1t Is con-
soap except on Sunday morning. The
people wash themselves at the pump In
water hard enough to be cut into nails.
We heard of a hired man who dislikel
this sort Of thing, and he bought big
cake of tar soap for his own use; his
employer said that he didn't want any
dudes about the place and fired him.
Walt Mason, in Denver Field and
Farm.
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For the speedy, safe and permanent cure Of Al
Nervous Chronic and Special diseases, even
In their most aggravated forms. There is no man
In the world who has erected 80 many permapent
cures In both Men and Women Of troubles which
other physicians of acknowledged ability had eiyen
up - hopeless - this eminent specialist
ailments, Of YOUNG, MIDDLE-AGEb and OLD
MEN. The awful effects Of neglected OF impfop.
eIly treated cases, causing drains, weakness Il
body and brain, dizziness, falling memory lack q
energy and confidence, pains In back, loins and
Kidneys, and many other distressing symphonic
uniting one for study. business or enjoyment d
life. DR. Ratciine can cure you. no matter who or
what has failed.
WAX MEN. He restores lost vlgor and Vi.
tality to weak men. Organs Of the body which
have been weakened through disease, overwork,
excesses or ndiscretions are restored to full power
strength and vigof through his own successful ~.
tenn Of treatment.
VARICOCELE, hydrocele, swelling and ter
derneso Of the glands treated with unfailing succe
SPECIAL DISEASES, inflammation, dis
charge, ETC., which, II neglected or Improperly
treated, break down the system, cause kidney and
DIsEXsTs 81 WOMEN. Promp. and H.
peclal attention given to all their many ailments
WRITE Yyou are aware of any trouble, DO
NOT DELAY. Call on d.. Radcliffe today. Hyou
cannot call, write him. His valuable book free n
al sufererA CONSULTATION FREE And conf
Dental at ot1ce or BY letter.
E. N. RADCLIFFE, ~ First ln- HlTnE. M
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Reported by Downing, Hopkins-& Co.., Inc,
Commerce building. Portland, Oregon.l
, 1898-12-09

New Fleet of American Steamers Al
most Ready to Carry Our Goods to
West Indian Ports-Can he Used as
Auxiliary Cruisers.
For some months we have been talk
ing about our new III with the
West Indies, where we now have
princely possessions. At last the begin
ming Of that commerce is in sight. In a
short time a fleet of four fine new
American steamers will be making reg
ular trips between Boston and ports in
Cuba, Porto Rico and Jamaica. These
boats will carry Uncle Sans mails and
will be auxiliary cruisers, being SO con-
structed that in less than "a hours they
can be equipped with big guns.
The first of this fleet to float is the
Admiral Dewey. The other three steam
ers will 30 named Admiral Sampson,
Admiral Schley and Admiral Farragut.
They are to be used by a Boston fruit
firm. The Admiral Dewey, which was
launched Aug. Is at Cramps shipyard,
has just been equipped for service and
is now being made ready for the govern
ment test Of speed. On her decks are
permanent gun mounts, and when it is
necessary to convert her into an armed
auxiliary cruiser she will carry a for
midable battery Of four Q inch rapid
fire rifles, two forward and two aft.
The three sister. ships Of the Admiral
Dewey will be turned out as fast as pos
sible. They will all be 900 feet over
all, SO feet beam and with % feet depth
of hold. They will have accommoda-
tions for so cabin passengers each and
room forward for a crew Of 40 men.
The ships are to have a maximum speed
of 16 knots.
Near as the West Indies are to us and
important as our with them
has been most of it has been carried on
in foreign bottoms. We have allowed
English shipowners to monopolize a
large share Of our transportation. But
with our increasing trade in this direc-
ton has come n revival in American
shipping circles. Other steamship lines
to lie run Is tuGa and Porto Rican ports
are contemplated They will be needed,
, 1898-12-09

dar and escorted him to the royal watt
ing room, whence, ten minutes later, he
drove away to the house of some friends.
Do you remember any occasion ON
which General Miles or General Shafter
had their hats crushed by an enthusi-
astio mob of admirers? Were any high
officials waiting at tho pier to welcome
Sampson or Schley? IIobson, it Is true,
was kissed by an impulsive young wom-
al. Perhaps that is more satisfactory
than having your hat smashed.
To the sirdar was next given the free
dom of the CITY of London. This is an
intangible gift, it is true, but the honor
is SO unusual as to have some senti-
mental value. The lord mayor does not
make a pre- sent of it to every one. He
said nothing at all about it to me when
[ was there.
That Kitchener'a welcome was not q
mere burst of temporary enthusiasm is
shown by the fact that he has since been
lionized at every turn. The Prince, of
Wales has chad him up" to Marlbor-
ough House for luncheon and long talks,
Lord Salisbury has entertained him at
Hatfield, aud he was summoned to Bal
moral to receive the personal thanks Of
the queen. Lesser honors have had to
take their turn, and he is still being
banqueted right and left.
Our own Barry Pain, who elects to
delight Londoners with his quaint and
polished verse, has summed up the sit
uation' in lines which begin:
Didjer fency yer wuk, then, were overf
Didjcr think yer cud shut up the shopf
Yer did yer fust benkwit Mt Dover,
An benkwits yerIl do till yer drop.
Too poplar ter git any pity,
Yer'l lunch wheer the lunchings is long.
YerIl dine as they dimes in the city,
Yer will, an l 'opes as you re strong.
There have been sword presentations
and other like incidents as we'll as some
which cannot be classed. The sirdar
finds 1t almost unsafe 10 appear III pub
lie. W herever he goes he Ii at once rec
ognized and surrounded by u crowd. The
enthusiasm does not seem to wear off.
Yes, the English treat their heroes
differently 1t may BIZ that our method
is the more suitable tor a republic. I
am not pointing a moral. Thereby wish
to draw u timely comparison.
SEwELL FORD.
, 1898-12-09
Resolution.

WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council of the
Borough of Wildwood did on the first day of
March, A. d. 1897, issue Improvement Bonds
of THE said Borough to the amount ofThirteen
Thousand Dollars for the purpose of building
a Borough Hall, Grading and Crawling
Streets and constructing System of Sewer
age, all of which said improvements have
been authorized by ordinances of said Bor-
ough duly passed; and
WHEREAS, the said amount of Thirteen
Thousand Dollars has been expended on said
Improvements which are not yet completed,
more particularly in respect to the construc-
ton of said system of Sewerage, and Is there
fore not sufficient to cover the entire imme-
date cost of said improvements.
Now Therefore, be 1t resolved by the Mayor
and Council OF the Borough of Wildwood,
that in order to provide for the immediate
and remaining expense of the completion of
said system of Sewerage, there be and hereby
is authorized to be issued Improvement Ger
~tificates of said Borough, to an amount not
exceeding Three Thousand Dollars $4,000,
or such portion thereof as may be required to
complete said work, said Certificates to be
signed by its Mayor, attested by its Clerk and
countersigned by its Treasurer, and payable
within five years or less, with interest, in ac-
cordance with the provisions of an Act Of the
Legislature of the State of New Jersey enti-
tied "a General Act Relating to Boroughs,"
And be it further resolved that Upon the
execution of the said Improvement Certifi-
Gates, as aforesaid, the same shall be disposed
of by the Finance at the direction
of Council, but at not less than the par value
thereof.
And be 1t further resolved that in accor.
dance with the foregoing resolution, there be
and hereby is authorized to be issued I'm.
provement Certificates for The sum of Five
each or multiples thereof.
Passed Council Nov. 20, 1898.
Approved Nov. 80, 1898.
LA1IMER r. BAKER,
Mayor of Wildwood.
JED DUBOIS, Borough Clerk.
, 1898-12-09
A HERO'S HOME COMING
How England Welcomed Kitch-
ener, Lord of Khartum.
We DO SUCH THINGS DIFFERENTLY.

Princes, Lords and Vast Mobs of Peo-
pie Greeted the return of the Man
who Wiped Ont the Mahdists-The
Enthusiasm still ~Unabated.
We often accuse ourselves OF being
great hero worshipers. But are we? It
seems to me that nowhere on earth can
\ hero drop out of sight SO quickly and
30 completely as in our own country.
We are very ELUSIVE for a few days,
and then something new-a big foot
ball game or a fresh murder mystery
knocks the hero out in the first round.
He Is put on the shelf with the "has
beens" before his laurel leaves have
even begun to curl at the edges. About
the only way our heroes avoid oblivion
is to jump into politics just as quickly
as possible. Then they are assured that
every campaign will bring a revival Of
the story Of their heroics.
The English do these things different
~. The men who win England's battles
on land or sea receive something more
substantial than the excited plaudits of
the multitude. They are not shelved.
They are not forgotten. There Is no de.
lay in doing ont the reward either.
The treatment Of Kitchener since his
return from the Sudan Is an example.
The news that the hosts of the Mahdi
had been wiped out and that Britain's
path from Cairo to the Cape had almost
, 1898-12-09

By virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias to me dt-
rected, issued out of the Court of Chancery of
New Jersey, | Will expose to sale at public
vendue, on
MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1899,
between the hours of twelve and five O'Clock,
p. M, to wit, at one o'clock in the afternoon
of said day, at the Sheriffs office, Cape May
Court House, Cape May County, n. j.
All those certain lots and parcels of land
situate in Wildwood Beach, on the Five Mile
Beach, County of Cape May and State of New
Jersey, known and designated on Il plan of
lots of the Wildwood Beach Improvement
Company, filed in the Clerks office of Cape
May County aforesaid, as lots numbers six
teen Q6) and eighteen QSl of block seventeen
~ and bounded and described as follows, to
witt
Beginning at n point on the southwesterly
side of Oak avenue at a distance of forty feet
enthusiastically from the intersection of the
southwesterly side of said Oak avenue, witt
the southeasterly side of Railroad avenue and
extending thence along the southwesterly side
of said Oak avenue enthusiastically eighty
feet, and extending thence at right angles
thereto between parallel lines, in length or
depth enthusiastically one hundred feet.
Containing eight thousand square feet of
land, strict measure, subject, however, and
liable to all the covenants, conditions and res
ervations contained stipulated and provided
In the deed of conveyance of the above de-
scribed premises by the Wildwood Beach I'm
provement Com pany, bearing date the 2lst
day of November, A. b., 1888, and recorded In
the Clerks Office of the Countyo of Cape May,
ut Cape May Court House. New Jersey, in
Deed Book No. ~, pages 43s, DC,
Seized as the property of Walter =. Eden
born and Frank skinner, Executors, &c, of
Adeline E. Edenborn,d deceased, ct ais, defen-
dants, taken in execution at the suit of
JOHN W. REEVES, Sheriff.
Dated December 3D., 1898.
Samuel p. Jones, Solicitor. pfS0 81
, 1898-12-09
THE ADMIRAL DEWEY.

too. for we expect to do considerable
business with these islands where the
stars and stripes wave in the place of
the red and yellow flag Of Spain.
The United States is the natural
source from which those islands should
receive their imports. By discriminat-
ing laws Spain can NO longer keep them
as her markets and what they have
heretofore bought from that country
they will now naturally buy from this
country. In 1895 Cuba and Porto Rico
bought from Spain goods to the amount
of 1856, 1873, 798, about 81, 600, 900 more
in value than the United States sold to
all South America in the same time.
Some idea of the of those is
lands may be gathered from the fact
that the tonnage of the ships trading to
Porto Rican ports and to Havana
amounted in 1895 to z, 760, $50 tons, or
over 100, 600 tons more than all the
ships of sail and steam, barges and canal
boats belonging to American ports on
the Atlantic and gulf coasts in that
year.
The insurrection in Cuba and the
war between Spain and the United
States have prevented for tie last three
years normal conditions of trade from
existing in either Cuba or Porto Rico.
The year 1895 is taken as the last year
in which anything like a normal state
existed in both islands, though Porto
Rico, of course, suffered much less than
did Cuba.
American merchants are all prepared
to seize the trade of Porto Rico as soon
as the tariff and the rate of exchange
are fixed definitely. If a high tariff is
maintained between Porto Rico and the
United States, it will choke trade be-
tween the two. Merchants are also find
ing fault with the rate of exchange re-
Gently established, asserting that it is
entirely too high. In short, the trade
conditions are not yet shaken down.
AS Porto Rico Is q natural market for
American products so tbs United States
is u natural market for the products Of
Porto Rico. LII 1896 Porto I.ico raised
coffee to the yalue OF SI2, 546, Go, sugar
to the value Of oser So, 500, 600, mo-
ltsses to the value III S552, Goo and to-
bacco to the value CT S436, $40. Butter
and lard are about tie only things With
which the United States mas been sup
plying Port1 Rico.
Heretofore England has supplied For
IL Rico with cotton goods. The United
states ought 10 get possession Of this
tr&de at once. Just what the possibili-
ties of Porto RHO are and how extensive
they are it is IS yet a little too early to
tell The soil is CT remarkable fertility,
we'll tin bored and watered.
One thing is ce-tain-the present
means Ct communication between this
country and tho newly acquired is,and
are to be greatly enlarged. This en-
largemcnt Las in Il n:annCr teen rrepar-
Ell fer and will ken pace with the
growing trade. g. J. BowpEN,