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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-04-09
An Old English Inn.

The Raven inn. an old hostelry at
Hook, near Basingstroke, England. was
built in 1853 and still retains its quaint
old half timbered work, overhanging
gables and small windows. The house
gained wide notoriety in the latter
part of the eighteenth century during
the American war of Independence
through being the residence and place
of capture of the famous Jack the
Painter" who reused the whole coun-
try in 1776 by his deliberate attempts
to fire drydocks and shipping. He sue
ceeded at Portsmouth, where 100000
damage was done: also at Bristol, but
was foiled at Plymouth. So great was
the scare that in response to a reward
of $500 offered by the government
for his capture the whole country was
ON the alert, and he was run to earth
and captured in this interesting old
house and eventually hanged and glib
beted at Portsmouth. His real name
was James Aiken.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-04-09

That the era of advanced prices upon
staple commodities has not taken any
contrary turn as compared with 1902 is
shown by the compilations of leading
commercial AUTHORITIES in this country
and England. Ssuerbeck shows that
British prices at the end of February,
1908, were 1.S per cent higher than
they were at the end of February, 1902,
whereas the Economists data puts the
increase at 6.3 per cent. Bradstreet's
index of the commodity movement in
this country gives an increase of ga
per cent in favor of March /, 1903, as
compared with March ], l9O2.-West
Coast Trade.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-04-09

not less than one nor more than ten wears m
the highest responsible bidder, rental price n
be cash, paid in advance at the begiuning oF
each leasehod year,
Any lease at said premises will he made ONLY
OIL The condition and understanding that said
county reserves to itself road and street right
of-way over and across said described lots Of
land approximately as the SAME is used and
travelled by the public over the same at this
time.
This notice is made under. and based on that
certain order of the Board of County Commits
sioners, made on the Sth day OF January, A. ID
1903, relative to this matter, which said order
appears of record at pages $3.50 Vol 3. County
Commissioners Journal of said county.
Notice is hereby further given IL at the Couu-
ty Commissioners of said county 'Wnl meet at
the county auditors offiCcs lin the county court
house at Friday Harbor, San Juan CO autv
Washington on the 9TH day OF April, a. ID. 1908;
at the Eoar of 2:3o O'Clock D. m Of said dav for
the purpose of leasing said property
1t is ordered that this notice be published
in THE gan Juan Islander the official news.
paper Of said county, and that a copy of said no.
tiCe be posted according to law.
The said Board of Commissioners reserve the
right to-reject any and all applications and bids
made under said order and this notice for said
described real estate and property.
Dated at Friday Harbor, san Juan county,
Washington this 18th day of March, A. D.
1903.
PETER DOSTIAN,
ISAAC SANDWITH,
WIN. GRAHAM
County Commissioners of san Juan County
Washington.
Attest: FRED r. KIRBY.
Clerk to County Commissioners
By WM. O. CLARK. Deputy. :
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-04-09
CANINE INTELLIGENCE.
A Dog That Felt He Had More Sense
Than His Master,

My friend was staying one autumn
in Wales. Smoking and chatting one
evening with a local farmer, the talk
fell upon dogs. The farmers sheep
dog lay before the fire, and the farmer
instanced his sagacity. He made an
exclamation in Welsh. At once the dog
rose and went to the door. You
might let him out" said the farmer.
1.-The sheep are in the corn is what
said to him" The dog passed eagerly
out In few minutes there was
scratching at the door. The dog en-
tered painting and lay down at the fire
again. Shortly afterward the farmer
repeated his Welsh remark. Again
the dog ran to the door, and my friend
let him out. Again in few minutes
VAS the scratching at the door, and
again he lay down before the fire pant
ing. After an interval the farmer re-
marked in Welsh, quite in the way Of
conversation: Il am not easy about
those sheep. do believe they're in
the corn" The dog, without rising,
looked up at the farmer. gave two
sharp yelps and turned round to his
sleep again. He said as plainly as
though 1t had been in words: Don't
be fool. I've been out twice, and
ther're not in the corn."-London Out
look
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-04-09
No. $50
EXECUTORS NOTICETO CREDITORS

In the Superior Court of tine State of Washing
ton, tor san Juan Couty
IN PROBATE
In the matter of the estate of Alexander Ross
deceased.
Notice is hereby given that letters testament
airy on the estate and last will and testament of
the said Alexander Ross, deceased, were issued
to the undersigned OH the 9TH day of April 1903
by said Superior Court in and for the county of
san Juan, and that all persons having any
claims against said Alexander Ross, deceased
or against said estate are required to present
them to me for allowance at my residence in
said county of San Juan, state of Washington
within one year from the date of the first publ
cation of this notice, or they shall be forever
barred
Dated this 9TH day Of April, 1903.
DONALD ROSS,
Executor of the last Will and Testament of said
Alexander Ross, deceased.
Date of first publication April 9, 1903. At
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-04-09

Sealed bids will be received at the Office OF
the treasurer of San Juan county, at Friday
Harbor, Washington up to O'Clock Saturday
April IS, 1903, for the purchase of Twent y-seven
(27) Bonds of School District No. s of said coun-
ty for the sum OF one Hundred (SIool each said
bonds to be dated May 1903, and to run
Twenty (2o) years, with option of said dis
trict to redeem at any time before maturity
alter five 50 years, Interest not to exceed
Five 81 per cent, payable semiannually. Prin-
cipal aud interest payable at county trcasurer's
office, i'll Friday Harbor, Washington or else
where, at option of bidder. Bids must name
price and interest offered. The directors re-
serge the right to reject any and all bids
c. M TUCKER
Treasurer San Juan County, Washington.
Dated March 26 1908. 4t
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-04-09
THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1903
NO MONEY NEEDED!

The following from the Empora,
Kansas, Gazette, is strikingly similar
in its sarcastic style to the article un
der the heading, "What's the Matte
With Kansas" which gave to the Ga
2ettc and its editor, VIM. Allen White,
a national reputation a few years ago
when the Popuist wave rolled over
the west and reached its highest height
i'm that now rich and prosperous state.
Mr.. White is now among the keenest
and most prominent critics Of men and
events whose writings add weight and
interest to the leading periodicals.. On
the subject Of running newspaper,
the Gazette says:
at doesn't take money to run a
newspaper. 1t is a charitable institu-
ton, begging concern, highway
robbery. B'Godfrey, II newspaper is
child of the air, a creature of dream.
1t can go on and on and on, and when
any other concern would be in the
hands of a receiver and wound up with
cohwebs in the windows.
at takes wind to run newspaper:
it takes gall to run a newspaper. 1t
requires scintilatiag, acrobatic imag-
nation, and half dozen white shirts
and railroad pass to run a news
paper. But money heavens to Betsey
- l. a. a
ed money in conducting a newspaper
Kind words are the medium of eX-
change that do the business for the
editor-kind words and church social
tickets. When you see the editor with
money watch him. He'll be paying
the bills and disgracing his profession.
Never give money to aa editor. Make
him trade it out--he likes to swap.
Then when you come to die, after
you have stood around for years and
sneered at the editor and his little Jim
crow paper, be sure and have your
wife send in for three extra copies by
one of the weeping children and when
she reads the generous and touching
notice about you, forewarn her to neg
lect to send fifteen cents to the editor.
1t would overwhelm him. Money is q
corrupting thing. The editor knows it
and what he wants is your heartfelt
thanks, then he can thank the printers
and they thank the grocers. Take your
job work TO the job offices and then
come and ask half rates for the church
notices Get your lodge letter heads
and stationery printed out of town,
and then flood the editor with beauti-
ful thoughts in resolutions of respect
and cards of thanks. They make such
spicy reading; and when you pick it up
filled with those glowing and vivid
mortuary articles, you are SO proud of
your little local paper.
but money--scorn the filthy thing.
Don't let the pure, innocent editor
know anything about it. Keep that
for the sordid tradespeople who charge
Tor their wares. The editor gives his
bounty away. The Lord loveth a
cheerful giver. He'll take care of the
editor. He has a charter from the
state to act as door-mat for the com.
munity. He will get the paper ont
somehow; and stand up for his town.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-04-09

mLst have inferred from our taiK tnar
we were going to capture her lover and
had ridden through the storm to warn
him. reaching him few minutes be-
fore US and remaining In the cabin
TO delay us while he rode away. She
had saved his life. though she had per
lied her own in doing So She was not
dead. and we removed her tofhe ranch
of our guide. She recovered. and ]
learned many years after that she ano
Bill had left the country together.
WALTER GRAY CHARNLEY.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-04-09

whoop it up for you when you run for
office, and lie about your pigeon-toed
daughters wedding, and blow about
your big-footed sons, when they get a
"a week job, and weep over your
shriveled soul when it is released from
your grasping body, and smile at your
wife's second marriage. Don't worry
about the editor, he'll get on. The
Lord knows how-but somehow"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-04-09

Correspondence and other communl-
cations intended for publication IN
the ISLANDER should reach the Office
not latter han Tuesday. The paper
goes to press Wednesday aft moons,
before the arrival Of the mail steamer
from Orcas island points and very soon
after the arrival of the Seattle steamer
via Lopez.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-04-09
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10 all subscribers paying owe year i
odyance land arrears, if unv) t." 1olIo"
ny named publications are o.''reo' l"
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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-04-09
Notice Of Intention to Lease County
Real Estate

Notice is hereby given that the County Com
missioners of san Juan county, state of Wash
ington, propose to lease Lots d and of Block
&C" Water Front Addition to the town of Fri
cording to the recorded plat thereof on file in
the county auditors Office of said county, and
to which plat reference is hereby especially
made), with the appurtenances, for a term of
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-04-09
CREDITS

l, Clarence NJ. Tucker, County Treasurer for
san Juan County, do hereby certify that the fore.
going is a true statement of the collections and
disbursements for the quarter ending March
81, 1909. CLARENCE NJ. TUCKER,
County Treasurer.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-07-17
Cost of Clothes In Russia.

Barring the inhabitants of the earth
who wear practically no clothes at all,
the costume of the average Russian
costs the least. Ten rubles. or about
$3.50, will clothe male citizen of the
cars realm, while the woman's cos
tune will cost less than three dollars.
The mans costume is coarse cotton
trousers tucked into boots of half
dressed leather, a cotton shirt and a
sheep-skin coat. A coarse Camlet
caften bound around with sash, COM
pletes the dress. The women wear a
sarafan, or long petticoat, which is
held up by straps running over the
shoulders, chemise with sleeves to
the elbow, a kerchief over the head,
and a pair of shoes. Stockings are
sometimes worn, but more frequently
the legs and feet are bound with strips
of cotton or linen cloth. For outdoor
wear a quilted jacket or long cloak is
added. The simplicity and cheapness
of dress is not due to any lack of van
ity, but to the poor circumstances uR-
der which the majority of the Russians
live.-Detroit Free Press.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-07-17
ON BEING A
BOSS
If You Sit on High Place. Don't
Gaze at the Clouds
From Letters From u Self Made Mer-
chant 10 His Non," by George
Horace LOrimer

Consider carefully before you say n
hard word to man, but never let a
chance to SAY a good one go by. Praise
judiciously bestowed is money invest
ed.
Never learn anything about your
men except from themselves. A good
manager needs no detectives, and tile
fellow who can't read human nature
can't manage it, The photograph rec
ords of a fellows character are lined
in his face, and mans days tell the
secrets of his nights.
Be slow to hire and quick to fire. The
time to discover incompatibility of tenn
per and curl papers is before the mar
riage ceremony. But when you find
that you've hired the wrong man you
can't get rid of him too quick. Pay him
an extra month, but don't let him stay
another day. A discharged clerk in the
office Is like splinter in the thumb-a
center of soreness.
Never threaten, because q threat is
promise to pay that it isn't always con-
venient to meet, but if you don't make
1t good it hurts your credit. Save
threat till you're ready to act and then
you won't need it. In all your dealings
remember that today is your opportu-
nifty; tomorrow some other fellows.
Keep close to your men. When fell
lows sitting on top of a. mountain he's
In a mighty dignified and exalted posi-
ton, but if he's gazing at the clouds
he's missing heap of interesting and
important doings down in the valley.
Never lose your dignity, of course, but
tie it up in all the red tape you can find
around the office and tuck it away in
the safe.
It's easy for boss to awe his clerks,
but man who is feared to his face is
hated behind his back. \ competent
boss can move among his men without
having to draw an imaginary line be-
real one if it exists.
Besides keeping in touch with your
Office men you want to feel your sales
men all the time. Send each of them q
letter every day, so that they won't for
get that we are making goods for
which we need orders, and insist on
their sending you line every day
whether they have anything to say or
not. When fellow has to write in six
times a week to the house he uses I'D
his explanations mighty fast and he's
pretty apt to hustle for business to
make his seventh letter interesting.
Right here l want to repeat that in
keeping track of others and their faults
it's very, very important that you
shouldn't lose sight Of your own. Au-
thority swells up some fellows so that
they can't see their corns, but wise
man tries to cure his own while remem.
bering not to tread on his neighbours.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-07-17
A Biological Farm.

An effort is being made to esta blish
a new kind of scientific farm at Woods
Hole. 1t is to be known as "biolog-
zeal farm" and the purpose is for ex-
perimental investigation of heredity,
variation and evolution among living
organisms, as well as for study of the
life histories, habits, instincts and in
telligence of animals. The advocates
of the scheme point to the fact that
many of the problems involved in such
studies and Investigations cannot be
settled in laboratory. 1t is necessary
that the living forms be observed amid
natural conditions, and without inter-
ruption from year to year. The pro-
posed farm" would consist not only
of fields and woods, but also of ponds,
of reach of the sea, and of islands.
Many leading evolutionists have long
urged the foundation of such an estab-
lishment, but hitherto nothing of the
kind has been done except by individ-
ual effort on a small scale.-Youth's
Companion.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-07-17
To Rent Until Paid For.

We have about a hundred second
hand organs, including the Taber. Estey
Mason & Hamlin, Smith-American,
Shoninger, Queen City, Bridgeport,
Wilcox & White. Palace, Burdette,
Packard and other makes, which have
been thoroughly over-hauled. and re-
finished and are as good as new, and
warranted for five years, at prices, rang
ing from $40 to $50. Terms: So down,
and 50 per month. Our store is over
crowded, and we must have room for
new goods and we have decided to dis
pose of them at exceedingly low prices.
There is no excuse for your not having
an organ, now. Write for prices, and
styles, today, sent free on application.
MCKANNON BROS. & CO., As Church
St., Burlington, Vt.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-07-17
"OLD Gorgeous"
ALPHABET
Some Modern Maxims by John
Graham, Pork Packer
Compiled From Letters From Self Made
Merchant to his SON." by George
Horace Lorimer

A tactful man can pull the singer from
a bee without getting stung.
Beauty is only skin deep, but that's
deep enough to satisfy any reason
able man.
Clothes don't make the man, but they
make all of him except his hands and
face during business hours.
Duty means something unpleasant
which the other fellow ought to do.
Easiest way to make enemies is to hire
friends.
Fools will turn out fools whether they
go to college or not
Give most men a good listener and
most women enough note paper, and
they'll tell all they know.
Hot air can take up balloon q long
ways, but it can't keep it there.
IL you give some fellows talent wrap
ped in a napkin to start with in bust
ness, they would swap the talent for
a gold brick and lose the napkin.
Just to be sociable some men will eat
a little food now and then, but what
they really live on is tobacco.
Knowing how to be humble is heap
more important than knowing how
to be proud.
Loyalty is the one commodity that
hasn't any market value, and it's the
one you can't pay too much for.
Marriages may be made in heaven, but
most engagements are made in the
back parlor with the gas so low that
a fellow doesn't really get a square
look at what he's taking.
Never threaten, because threat is a
promise to pay that isn't always con-
venient to meet, but if you don't
make it good it hurts your credit.
OF course you're in no position yet to
think of being engaged, and that's
why I'm little afraid that you may
be planning to get married.
Pulling from above and boosting from
below make climbing easy.
Quick to fire, slow to hire-when you've
found you've hired the wrong man
you can't get rid of him too quick.
Remember that when you're right you
can afford to keep your temper and
that when you're wrong you can't
afford to lose it.
Say less than the other fellow and
listen more than you talk, for when
mans listening he isn't telling on
himself, and he's fiattering the fellow
who is.
The fellow who has to break open the
babys bank toward the last of the
week for car fare isn't going to be
any Russell Sage.
Unmarried men are a good deal like a
piece of unimproved real estate-they
aren't of any particular use except to
build on
Vacation of two weeks-enough to
make a sick boy we'll or a lazy one
laZier.
Whenever any one offers to let you in
on the ground floor it's a pretty safe
rule to take the elevator to the roof
garden.
x-ample is only a small part of man
ayers duties.
You can trust a woman's taste on ev-
erything except men, and it's mighty
lucky that she slips up there or we'd
pretty nigh all be bachelors
zulus, explained the deacon, are de-
priyed of twenty-five helpful little
tracts every time you smoke a two
bit cigar.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-07-17

cry kidney and bladder disorder, from
backache to diabetes.
Mrs. c. f. Goodnow living at 143 WASH
ington street New Britain, Conn, says:
II gave testimonial In December. 1896,
touching the merits of Doan's Kidney Pills,
and in the statement said that had been
bothered with my back and kidneys for
over thirteen years, not constantly, but
when l caught cold 1t generally settled in
my back, making 1t lame and sore. Often
the pain through the small OF my back was
so severe as to make me cry out. l read
about Doan's Kidney Pills, and procured
some from u. w. Thompson * Co.'S drug
store, on Main street. They helped my
back Immediately. and in short time re-
lieved me Of the trouble. have taken
Doan's Kidney Pills at intervals during
the last five years, when i felt an attack Of
backache coming on, and they always
brought instant relief. / am never without
them In the house."
Doan's Kidney Pills sold at all drug
stores: so cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buff.
falo. n. Y.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-07-03

buy the six best at $25 q piece The
others will be sold there at public auc-
tion
We have both read and heard of the
merits of alfalfa as feed for the COW,
the hog and every other farm animal.
Just now the cry is alfalfa for the hen.'
1t is said to be great egg producer.
If every farmer in the country who
owns cows would plant from two to five
acres of good fodder corn, it would be
worth millions of dollars to them, in
keeping up the milk supply throughout
the season of dry grass.
Ten years ago prevailing drouth was
accounted for by tile drainage and scar
city of timber. Eastern states are still
heavily timbered in spots, and at present
there is a great dearth of moisture,
while on the old time American Dessert
torrents have fallen on treeless country.
Rules that work both ways all the time
are not numerous.
The delegation of German farmers and
experts who are now in this country
studying our farming methods will see
something to astonish them when they
reach the OF eat ranches of the West.
There they will find sixty-ho-se power
traction engines, which pull simultane-
ously seventeen l4-inch plows, which
pillow twenty feet. The outfit will pillow
from forty to sixty acres per day, or will
pillow, drill and harrow, all az one time.
with properly arranged tools from thir-
! ty-fve to fifty acres per day.