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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-02-02
THE islander has received di-
rect from Eastern mills the largest
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shipment OF commercial stationery
letter heads. note heads, state
: ments, envelopes, card stock, etc.
ever brought to San Juan county.
It has fine assortment of the latest
and neatest faces OF type and has
s never been SO we'll prepared as it is
now to do fine job printing and
guarantee satisfaction as to work.
manship, quality of stock and cost.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-02-02
NOTICE,

Any other publications not named in the above
list which you may desire, will be Furnished
upon application.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-02-02
REPLY TO INVITATION.

Kind friends of our island home,
In Juggling rhyme you babe me come
In old style garb to enjoy
A pleasant eve without alloy.
The place, the day and the time,
Is made especial in the rhyme;
But still more earnest you desire
That l shall don an old attire,
Now, wonder what is meant
By your purpose, or intent,
To prescibe the mode and fashion
Each shall wear on this occasion.
Is it Missouri or old Kentuck
(Butternut or bluejeans)
Minnesota or Kanuck
uinseywOOlsy or nankeens)
Made of tow from Arkansaw
Or furry robes of Esquimo?
Is it English, Dutch or Scot,
Fiji, Malay or Hottentot?
Yank Or Southern, north or south,
Fit for Webfoot Or for drought?
Shall it be silk or merino,
Or more simple Philippine?
Or some other tribe more clanish,
1t can't be China nor he Spanish!
Now you see why Pm in doubt,
Which old fashion shall prevail;
My old clothes are all worn out,
Nought is left to tell the TAIL.
All! Me thinks have 1t now.
Your purpose was to fifty show
The changes rapid in fashions PROV
AS down life's stream we quickly go.
Life's short span soon fades away,
Nor need we to be told
That youth was but yesterday,
Tomorrow we grow old.
Sad thoughts arise as we look back
On days of long ago,
To memory's view all things were new
In fashion and in show.
But why repent or lament
That to Orcas Isle we came,
We've all that's good i'll clothes or food
Our habits are much the same.
u. E. HICKS, East Sound.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-02-02
OLD FASHION SOCIAL.

EDITOR ISLANDER Friday eve
nlng, January 9th, the ladies of East
Sound held an old fashion social in
Odd Fellows hall, attended by a large
gathering of residents from the village
and surrounding neighborhood, and a
real old fashion time was had, closing
with down east supper and dance.
A number of the ladies were attired in
ola style garb, in hair and dress, in
many Instances 80 well disguised as to
deceive their most intimate friends.
Inc program consisted of old time
songs. Rotations and stories, which
were appropriately responded to by
Miss Alice Hunter, the Misses Matte
and Nettie Showers, Miss Edith Hast
ings, Miss Lee, Miss Molly Harrison,
Miss Phillips, Miss Adkins, Miss
Nichols and others including Alex
Smith, Ben Harrison and Esquire
Hicks. The following invitation was
sent to the latter gentleman and his
reply was read:
INVITATION.
We kindly claim your attention,
And beg leave to mention,
That the East Saunders are still alive
And continue to prosper and thrive.
we are going to have an Old Fashioned
Reception
And hope the people will attend with
out exception,
And that they will come in Old Fashioned
attire
Is our committees most earnest desire.
So be prompt to respond to the call
On next Friday eve. in Odd Fellows
Hall,
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-02-02

DISSOLUTION OF co-PARrNERsH1p
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-05-11
Subscribe for The Sequacloo Valley News
ONLY 80 CENTS 4 YEAR!
Correspondents Wanted all over the Valley.
news OF THE STATE.

Mos quitos are presenting their
bills at Tullahoma.
A strong carpenters union
has been organized at Jackson.
Mad dogs are causing some
trouble in BlOunt county.
The cooperative company at
Ruskin Eas planted over go acres
OF corn.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-05-11

jackson BARRIERS have organ
lied.
Deer Lodge has better fire pro.
lection.
Middle Tennessee has bases
bali league.
Memphis will have a new cen
trial police station.
Buffalo gnats are killing many
animals 1t Uuion City.
An electric light plant at Ath-
ems Is ready for business,
G. W. Steagle will erect 10
room hotel at TullahOms.
w. Y. Mess. of Chicago, will
develop y deposite Of potter's
clay near Hartman.
Rice culture will be given es,
peciaI attention this year by q
McMinu county tarmera.
c. w. Cook aud }. r. Brand,
on, merchants at Normandy, lost
$1,000 worth Of property by
fire.
Rats are reported so abundant
around Winfield, Scott county.
tina, the taimera fowls are fright.
eued away.
The work Of boring an oil we'll
near jamestown continues but
the prospects for success are not
as bright AS desired,
The next annual normal Of
Bradley county will convene at
Charleston, Monday, July IT,
and will continue two weeks,
The ordinance to compel busie
ness houses to close on Sunday
has beeu defeated by the board
of mayor and aldermen Of Wood,
bury.
Arrangements have been made
for the construction of q few
hundred miles Of telephone in
East Tennessee to include q new
line from Knoxville to Bristol.
Martha jenkins and her neiCe
were bound to federal court
charged with completely in the
robbery of the postofice at Eliz-
abethton.
Hawkins county farmers orr
gsnized s. mutual fire insurance
company two years ago and all
though over 100000 worth Of
property has been insured there
has not been an assessment.
The fire which has been rag
ing IN the mountains near Allen
town has beeu extinguished BY
the recent rains. The hle tor {
while burned so near The low
landa that number Of homes
were threatened with destruction
Charles .. Smith, contractor
OF Chattanooga, served notice On
Gen. IL. V. Boyntou, Of the Ma
tional Chickamauga park com
mission, to the effect that h
had a laborers' lien on the Geor
gia monument dedicated las
week, for $4,000 alleged to b
due him for the contractor erect
ing the monument.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-04-26

where fourishing communities ought
to exist and would exist had it not
been for this fatuous and suicidal
tendency of land owners; but where
now much of the surface is still cover
ed with the heavy aboriginal forest of
the hammock, or the light sandy pine
lands have been SKINNED few years
and then abandoned.
We do not mean to Intimate that
there is no land in Florida that can be
bought cheap. There is much cheap
land, and there is also much fairly
good land that is offered cheap, having
been used by non-residents for fruit
culture up to the time of the freeze.
But, Notwithstanding all this, much of
the land adapted to farm and vegeta-
BILE crops, such as a wide-awake, prac>
tical farmer would think it worth
while to cultivate in farm staples, is
still held at prices equal to OR above
those asked for soil of greater fertility
and much nearer to market in the mid
die South or in the North.
A man who is sufficiently intelligent
to make a living out of the soil is not
going a thousand or twelve hundred
miles away from his markets and pay
any such prices for land in the rough,
then pay half or two-thirds as much
more to put it into productive condi-
ton, cleared and fenced, unless he is
under the dire necessity of exiting him.
self ON account of some malady, in the
hope of recovering health and prOlOng-
ing life, for which man will give all
he hath.-Times-U Union and Citizen.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-04-26

have distributed it throughout the land
long before the arrival Of the white
man.
Jonathan Carver, an Englishman, ex-
plored Wisconsin and the adjacent ter
ritory in 1766-67, and in his book, pub
lished soon after, he mentions the COM
monest insects. The honey bee is not
among them, but the humble bee is re-
ferred to as follows: ''The bees of
America principally lodge their honey
in the earth, to secure it from the
ravages of the bears, who are remark
ably fond Of it,
According to a writer in The Ameri-
can Bee Journal for July, 1866, the
honey bee was first noticed by white
men in Kentucky in 1880, in New York
in 1898, and west of the Mississippi In
1897. At the present day this indus
trious little bee is scattered through
out America, and the production Of
honey is constantly increasing.-Chas.
II. Coe in Scientific American.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-04-26

of some twenty feet, rendering it's boz
tom practically above tide water, an
the magnificent territory of rich lane
capable of successful reclamation.
The value of the lands in what u
known as the Everglades of Florida
has been scientifically and practical
tested, and there is no room to douT !
their great fertility. The deep bla(
mold soils of South Florida have be-
analysed by prominent chemists
this country and in Europe, anG
comparison of results shows a rema1
able uniformity i'm the components
these rich soils. Prof Aiken, of
Royal Agricultural Society of Sc
land, in an analytical report on the
soils, says: 81 have never seen a sa
Pile Of soil so attractive or contain
in 1t, to such a degree, those char
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-04-26
Florida's Reclaimed Lands.

In his message to the legislature
Governor BlOXham says:
On the goth of June, 1898, the Trus-
tees of the Internal Improvement
Fund entered into a contract with GER
tain parties who became incorporated
under the laws, of the State, as the
''Florida East Coast Drainage and
Sugar Company" for the reclamation,
drainage and purchase Of some eight
hundred thousand acres Of land grant
ed to the State of Florida by the Act
of Congress of September 28th, 1850,
in the extreme southeastern portion OF
the State, embracing a large portion
of what is known as the Everglade
region.
This elevated basin, from its eastern
border to the Atlantic, has a total fall
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-04-26
The Honey Bee Not a Native of
America
America.


No one seems to have taken the time
and trouble to thoroughly investigate
the early history of the honey bee in
America. Enough is known, however,
to assure us that it is not indigenous to
the country, but was, in all probable
ity, imported by the early colonists.
The earliest mention of honey in
America, so far as considerable re-
search disclOses to the writer, is in Irv-
ing's account of DeSoto's wanderings.
While the adventurer was at the vii
lage Of Ichiaha, in June, 1910, his men
found ga quantity of bears grease pre-
served in pots, likewise oil made from
the walnut, and pot of honey. The
latter they had not before seen, nor
did they ever again meet with it
during their wanderings."
Some have inferred from this that
the honey bee was in Florida at this
period, and that it was Indigenous to
America. But this does not follow;
first, because the village in which the
honey was found was located in the
country since known as Northern
Georgia, or, perhaps, Northern Ala
bama, and not in Florida; second, the
honey mentioned was very possibly
the product of the bumblebee, which
was native and very widely scatter
ed.
Nevertheless, the honey bee was
probably introduced by theSpanish set
tiers, in Florida, at least, at a later
period, for Bartram, who explored the
country in 1888, mentions honey and
beeswaX as articles of barter among
the Indians. He speaks of honey in
so many places in his book, that it
must have been quite common and,
therefore, could not have been the
product of the humble bee, whose
store of honey is very scant. Bartram
was told by a physician that there
were few or no bees west Of the pen
insula of Florida, and but one hive in
Mobile, which latter had been brought
from Europe. Traders had also in
formed him that there was none in
West Florida.
AT this period the honey bee was
common all along the eastern shore of
the country, from Nova Scotia south
ward. The fact that it was not found
in the interior is good evidence that
the insect was not native of Ameri-
ca. Otherwise natural swarming would
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-03-03
SONG OF Il SAVE.

tas sh-iek of tie strong that are
a.4- -.a- people the woodlands Of
4...;
t.- r, 81 q merci!ess war.
hoes ty river, - lake, aad by
,a.-r saws scream or the bright axes
~ u.
Az. .ls song j. :he song OF the saw.
.ae,e .is.n;s groun past US a-drip from the
BOON.
:. r.a here from The calm Of the forest and
LII.
.-ra-t 1T the thunderous roar Of the mill.
itra4uir Of pulley and grunblc Of shaft
re-. III" u.uul and din ofthe sawyer's rude
or.tL.
her: in the cbb Of the riotous blast.
t-t.e -aT mighty carriage gOe. thunder
ing past,
man ut the lever and one at the dog,
I., laughter il bloodle9s and srn5cle5s the
s. ne anguish Of death and the torment.
,- m.i,erinG there in the long, awful yell.
f..- |-4ri!!s ubov. tuuult OF gearing and
j Tue carriage roars down and the timber
meets steel.
'ca1a' Md 4 board il laid bare Tor a
tanr.
reo. AMI Il timber T rmaneion and dome,
4 $50" walls Of II alace, or tolls honcly
j. .eft from the fIanks 81 the PROSTATE King
SprGce.
Al thus j., the clamor Of pullcY and wheel.
L. tat plat Of tn" wood and the slash of
TIE $50 eel.
ANr,l#trIt il, InIninv at N.ipI's afljrIN
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-03-03

some q the mali-es got aboard
q io"1r Wis lut i'll irons II $ iarv
confinement. When DToote got
sobee enough he va, brongl, to tie
mast and questioned Iv the skip, er.
1T seems that on the night before.
tloole, beng In a crafty state %
drunkenness, and knowing he would
be thrust into the brig Immediately
lie arrived aboard the ship for liberty
breaking. had hired a shore-boatlnan
to pull him off 10 the ship. Instead
of taking him TO the q the
boatnan, acting under instructions
from his crafty. Jagged passenger.
quietly pulled the boat alongside the
anchor chains, and O'Toole was just
Timber enough to shin up the
chains, under Owe of darkness
III the middle OF the night. and, after
reaching the to'gaIlant fo'c'sle, sneak
down below to an empt: bunker. along
vita a couple of quart bottles of
whisky. He had come 10 life just as
the "All hands abandon ship call
went, and, with his carcass full of
whisky. he took it into his head that
1t was his part Of the job to set the
ship III motion. SO he had turned
the steam into the cylinders of the
port engine, set the throttle at the
full-sL >eed- ahead notch, and just let
her go. It was lucky the wheel was
dashed hard aport, or the ship would
unqnestionahly have been beachcd,
instead Of simply turning in a circle.
OToole got a general court-martial
and was '.beached' without imprison-
ment, and the ~bluejackets lost their
ship"
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-03-03
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

\a,r'v 81 80 Iieaosos - =,
,,eal :, IL ..,.,3 ~ ,,;c-s
Il Atat' 81 az aiaI' morse beats
~ 70 ~ 'li'eS ! minute q an oH !"
70 70 50 times
An men OF rain la!ilnS upon an area
on one square inile Is eluiSa.eht 70
Hearlv ''oo'' ooo gallons, weighing
lto'-oo'ooo pounds or o4,o44 tons.
Chemists have extracted from coal
yellow. twelve Of orange, nine of violet.
besides shades of other colors too
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-03-03
Under Observation,

It is often stated in the papers hat
a prisoner has been placed under cob
servation," but probably very few
people have an idea how it is carried
out. Most people doubtlt s. picture to
themselves a cell with q sort Of peep
hole IN the dDorat which a warder per
petuaily has his eve. That, however,
IS far from being correct in the ease
Of the observation ward Of the intirmary
at Holloway, III which the suspect III
connection with the latest London
"horror' is at present confined. Ac-
cording to an account IN Lloyd's
ment, containing ii beds. 1t is en-
tered through two doors. the outer one
being of iron. while the inner one,
which is OF wood, is provided with an
observat on hole. A table and wooden
chair, placed near the centre Of the
room, are for use of the warder on
duty, and on the table are pens, ink
and paper with a book IL which he re-
cords his observations of the prisoners.
In addition to their beds. the prison
ers are provided with chairs, these
being generally drawn up round the
fireplace, which Is closed in a sort Of
cage to p event anyone but the warder
from getting at the fire. The lower
part of the windows, of which there are
four on either side of the apartment,
is Of thick ribbed glass, so that a view
Of the outside surroundings IS impos-
sible. and of curse there are heavy
bars on the outside. London Chron-
icle.
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-03-03

The amount of power expended on
a piano has recently been figured out
in a way which, If not altogether &C
%curate, is at least interesting. Com
menting on the stateInentthati It really
requires more force to sound q note
gently on this instrument than it does
to lit the lid Of a kettle, SAYS Won
ans Life, 1t is easy to verify it if ono
takes a small handful of coins and
piles them on a key Of a piano.
When a sufficient quantity is piled
on TO make n note sound they may be
weighed, aud the figures Will befound
to be true. II the pianist is playing
fortissimo a much greater force is
needed. At times the force of six
pounds IS thrown upon a single key
to produce a solitary effect.
With chords the force Is generally
spread over the various notes sound
ed simultaneously, though a greater
output Of force is undoubtedly ex-
pended. This is what gives pianists
the wonderful strength in their fin
gers that is often commented on.
A story used to be told Of Paderew-
ski that he could crack a pane Of
French plate glass, half an inch thick,
merely by placing one hand upon l.
as if upon a piano keyboard and strik-
ing it sharply with his middle finger
One Of Chopin's compositions has
q passage which takes two minutes
and five seconds to play. The total
pressure brought to bear on this, it is
estimated, is equal to three full tons
The average "~tonnage' Of an hours
playing Of Chopin's music varies from
twelve to eigh:y-four tons.
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-03-03
/ ?90l9 Was The Ghost. :
~ a IS Naval officer. :

>2tAl sailors are yeEy prone to wax
@.e stit'ous over queer happenings
i. board the ships wlcreon they serve.
tat Il cruiser nov out Oh the Pacific
.tat3oa, to which | was attached q few
Vas ago, might easily have got a re-
llfa ION as u ''bewitched ship on a
"ettaln uncanny occasion had not the
'.lste1y been so prosnicaily cleared
~. The ship was ordered from Mare
ls'Aui to San Diego, to take part in
'se winter dover fiesta at San Diego.
'aI, aud, incidentally, to so through
rs ~seulaunual great gun practice aud
DC ~ water drills as Il side issue of the
'Etllslon. When wegot into the har-
her OF san Diego the people ashore
"1ie 4 whole lot OF us, aud the men
@Nlsd were almost taken OF their
~ With the hospitality they found
.atthc beach Ia truth, everything
'3A.e 50 easy for them in San Diego
'H tue ships company was 4 good
o,i demoralized, and, liberal az the
er was III the matter Of overlook
a3Senteelsm on the part of the
jackets, the mas. er- at-nrms was
S,tt y city busy all the time putting
- the beach To bring III long-over-
4" sailors who got so mixed up in the
".t Of the carnival that they
''i.at navigate back to the ship.
y g Mo had been IN the harbor OF
'%t lego tor a week 1t became neces-
- !2r al hands to report aboard, Tor
- '1Htalu decidcdto have a first rate
'%.'..'lon Of the drill, all hands
@.@4ton ship. So the chief maste :
=. 'T..' Went ashore for q big round
"''i 'Ge derelicts. and he succeeded
a,4erlns IN all of the liberty break
except en-" man. an oller. named
#1" o'Toole had been five DAYS
.-9 leave. aud when the Jimmy
.etlrnrl 10 the snip with the
He had hauled in and re-
i.1t o'Ioyie wasn't tinaable
e, she oilers chances for a
-' c.prt-n.agtiaI when he did re-
"e'e considered Of the best.
t- Was got MP IL a couple OF the
aa@ ne ship rulle out into
IN ha -aor Tor the '.all hand
.'A >a.''' exercise. q big flock of
H'e't carrying people from
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-03-03

In India all callings are hereditary.
A. bakers son becomes a baker, and
his sou after him, and SO on from gen
GRAFTON to generation. The census,
however, reveals some more startling
vocations than that Of the breadmak-
er. The people Of Allahabad espe-
ciallv are not ashamed Of their profcs-
sion. Thir,v-tive describe themselves
a. men who Bag with threats Of vio-
le1ce,' 226 as 'hatterers for gain"
?14 a:'low blackgnaids," 29 as'howl-
ers at funerals, while as many a.
6312 publicly that they
are poets Ia other districts are
found. besides the ordinary profess
sions, i, 900 toM-tom players. - max
ers OF crowns for idols. l4J car clean
ers. ana-most curious OF all-.'hcred
i.ary painters of horses with spots"
The celsus containing this interesting
information IS Kept =. tue SausA:rk
college a. Bena.es.
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-03-03
Killed a Vampire.

The other morning Mr.. f. NJ. Riley
killed a vampire in his room on Lamar
street. 1t measured 13 Is inches
from tip to tip OF wings and 5 inches
from nose to end Of tail. Its holy
was covered with purplish-grav fur
like satin. Its wings were brownish
black, ana to the touch we're like soft
silk. Its head rcsembled a bulldogs.
When held to the floor bv Mr.. Riley
with a stick it emitted \ kissing noise
like a goose. 1t is several times the
size Of q leatherwing ba,.-Selma
Times.
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-03-03

4. Johannesburg carp "rushed"tNo
natives for q sovereign each on the
ground that their lasses We're not
In ord /. The ''nigs," while readily
parting. took note Of the Zarp's
numb II and reported him. and he has
now four months II which % mediate
on the progress Of civilization among
the aborIglnes Of South Africa. -Afri-
can Review.
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-03-03

The first camp meeting IN the United
States was held on tee banks Of the
Red river. Kentucky. 10 1794
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-23
qEALTH AND TERRITORIALITY.

While most people who discuss the
question with the Advertiser agree
that 100000 could be well-spent in
putting the town in better condition
TO resist plague, there is doubt that
the Council of State, now that Homo
lulu has received a clean bill of health,
could go ON and provide the money.
The powers of that body to appro-
pirate depend upon the existence of
war, invasion or pestilence. We are
at peace with all the world and the
pestilence which lately ran its course
has been officially laid away among
unpleasant memories. This being true
the declaration that the Council of
State has no right 10 appropriate
100000 or any other sum is stoutfy
maintained and cannot easily be gain
said.
The matter is one for the Legisla-
ture TO take up, but the title of the
Legislature TO meet is involved in
some doubt. This journal believes
that, under the terms of the Newlands
resolution, the Legislature still exists
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-23

The tourists who have flown in
alarm will probably feel safe when
they refth the United States but their
chances of good health there will be
much worse than here The sudden
exchange OF the emollient climate of
4 trade wind island for the raw fogs
of San Francisco or the SHOWS of the
country farther East cannot but put
these people in the way OF the grip or
Of some Of it's kindred maladieS. And
the grip kills it's hundreds where the
plague slaughters its tens. Imagine
the state OF mind which prompts a
man 20 leave here where there have
been six deaths from something re-
sembling. the plague and go 10 greater
New York where there were $4,000
serious eases OF grip last winter. a
large proportion OF them fatal.