The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-07-23


You can't tell the Russians that the
yellow peril Is not real.-Indianap-
oils News
Ethiopia for the Philippians" cries
negro bishop. Well, we hear no pro-
test in misunderstanding Post
A woman is willing to take the ben
eft Of the doubt and let man have the
doubt of the observation-disclosures Her
aid.
1t would be something of calamity
II one of those floating mines should
strike the sea ashington
Times.
IL Montana train robbers would sub
scribe to state ethics they would work
exclusively through the Legislature
Detroit Free Press.
Reports from the meteorological de-
partment have 1t that the bacillus OF
lockjaw has begun to sit up and notice
things. Free Press.
Boston physicians are using the
piano as an instrument to cure nerve
diseases. This must be "a painful oper-
alton. New York Herald.
who are the truly great?" asks DR..
Newell Dwight Hills. We refuse to
guess until the batting averages have
been figured up.-Washington Post.
Railroad companies are making ex-
tensive additions to their sidetrack IA
cilities at st. Louis. Probably prepar-
ing terminal facilities for the presi-
dental booms. Post
Under the latest Supreme Court de-
cisioE railroads may kill employees with
inpunity, SO long as they are not ex-
ecuted by direct, order of. the manager
or president.-Detroit News Tribune.
There is to be a scientific collection
Of mosquitoes at St Louis. Most peo-
pie will be far more interested in dodg-
ing the uncOllected ones when the hot
weather comes on.-Philadelphia Bull
letin.
A box entitled How to Get Rich"
is being advertised for sale at the price
Of 81. A good tip 10 one wishing to
get rich would be to save his dollar
and not buy the book.-Atanta Jour
nal.
Chicago woman seeks divorce
because her husband has not smiled in
ten years. Popular Judgment should
be Suspended until the husband tells
why he has not smiled. Minneapolis
Times.
Secretary Taft says that the new
capital of the Philippines Lies i'm a
pocket of the mountains" Pleased to
learn that it does not lie in the pocket
OF some real estate syndicate-Wash-
ington Star.
Barnum's greatest show on earth"
has not only abolished street parades,
but 1t is now accompanied by its own
chaplain. There's no telling where
this reform mania will end.-Atanta
Constitution.
The first butterfly farm" Is said TO
have been esta blisbed only a year or
two ago by the English entomologist,
William Watkins. at Eastbourne, but
already several similar farms have
come into existence In France. The
object Is to rear rare genera of the
Bombycidae. the silk worm family.
They have. by crossing. obtained some
new varieties. which are sought after
10y museums Of natural history. They
are also endea voring to acclimate In
France species Of silk worms indigen-
Gus to other countries. The farms
plum trees. castor oil plants and other
plants, the leaves of which serve as
food for the caterplllars. COcoons are
Matched on branches protected by
gauZe, and for the sake OF uniform
temperature. the insects are often kept
in a room until after the first p1oult-
ing, when they are placed on bushes
in the open air and protected from
birds by coverings Of muslin or tulle.