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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-30
Saving
Money

We wish to call your atten-
ton to the desirability Of saving
money. John D. Rockefeller
tells us that anyone can make
money;few can safe it. 1.-THE man
who is saving money is build
ing character; he is acquiring
power. It is the man with char
acter and money who is able to
take advantage Of Opportunity
when she knocks at his door.
It is the fixed habit of saving
something, no matter how small,
that counts. Persistent saving
creates asthabit of life that is
fruitful in results. 1t is Russell
Sage's advice to young men to
save twenty-five cetns out Of
every dollar earned-and stick
to it. But if you can't save
twenty-five cents save ten or
five; save something anyway.
The best way to save is to
start a bank account. Money in
your pocket is easily spent, but
money in the bank is out of
easy reach.
Did you ever think about the
power of interest? Do YOU
know that 81 deposited each
month will amount to $64.72 in
five, years and to $1,000 in ten
years at per cent? That S. de-
posted each month will amount
to $S24.8I in five years and to
$699.5S in ten years? Think it
over, remembering meanwhile
that The SAN JUAN COUNTY
BANK is well equipped to care
for its large business; that it has
established Banking by Mail
department, which it places at
your service, and thatit receives
deposits from 81 up. It aims to
encourage thrift, to promote the
saving "habit. II would be
pleased to open an account with
you and to help you save.
An attractive little booklet,
Banking by Mail,', will be
maiIor7 1,x~<x~r $4,000 e
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-30

Attorney w. r. Garrett left
Wednesday to spend a few days in
Bellingham, New Westminster and
Vancouver. He will attend the
provincial fair at New Westminster
and it is presumed that Mr.. Garrett
will make a close study Of the cows
and horses there with a view to gath
ering material for the Forthcoming
Ladies Guild debate, which is to de-
termine the relative usefulness OF
these animals to mankind.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-30

Rev. C. G. Pratt will hold services
at Mitchell's bay tomorrow, Oct. /,
at 2:3O p. m. and at Roche Harbor
at 7:30 p. m.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-30

Most of the teachers of the county
will leave for Bellingham today to at.
tend the institute which will convene
there Monday.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-30

Mrs. Breedlove returned a few
days ago from visit with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Thos. L. Monnett, at Blaine.
Mr.. Monnett is teaching about two
miles from town.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-30

Mrs. Lamphard, mother of Walter
Lamphard, died at the home of her
son Tuesday after a long illness. She
was in her 85th year. The funeral
took place Thursday afternoon, Rev.
O. M. Gillette conducting the service.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-30
Mutual Fire Insurance


The supreme court of Wisconsin, in
Gilman v. Druse, held that a mutual
fire insurance company may levy an
assessment on each member thereof.
to cover any deficit; and further that
NEW MEMBERS are also liable under
such assessment for old debts.
No member can avoid his liability
for accrued losses by cancelling his
policy.
A retiring member is liable for un-
adjusted losses as well as adjusted
LOSSES during the life of his policy.
Membership of a mutual is not end
ed by the burning of the members
own property.
Membership does not cease with
the failure of the mutual, but lasts
until the court winds it up.
In 81 Howard, N. Y. "a, the court
held that even when or where the
premium has been paid in cash the
insured is still a member, and there
fore liable for his share of the debts.
The Insurance Year Book shows
that on January 1st, 1905, the affairs
of 120 Mutual Companies were in the
hands Of receivers.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-30

G. L. Henderson left Monday for
Seattle and Portland. At Seattle he
met some cousins from Nebraska
whom he had not seen for thirty
years.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-30

Everett C. Woodin left Tuesday for
Tacoma where he expects to remain
until the first of January.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-30

Mr.. and Mrs. Hale, Of Everett, ar
rived Monday to visit their daughter,
Mrs. VIM. McKeever, and family.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-30
Local and pereonal

Everett Woodin has sold his place
at Mitchell bay to VIM. Malcolm.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-30

Miss Sweeney, county superintend
ent of schools, went to Seattle Thurs.
day and will go from there te
Bellingham to attend the teachers
institute to be held there next week.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-30

Mr.. and Mrs. John King returned
Tuesday from the Lewis and Clark
exposition and visit with Mrs.
Kings sister, Mrs. Stevens. Mr..
and Mrs. c. L. Carter, who went
with them, returned Wednesday.
They all report having had most
enjoyable trip.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-30
Ice in any quantity for sale at Fowle's

Don't buy any stoves or ranges till you
have examined the large stock carried
by the Morse Hardware Co., lOz5-lO39
Elk street, Bellingham.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-30

Mr.. Stuart, from Nebraska, is Wis
iting his cousin, Mrs G. L. Hender-
son.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-30
National Debts Per Capita

the per capita debt of the great ma
tions of the world are furnished by
Hon. Ellis III. Roberts, former
treasurer of the United States. He
says that "For each of its inhabi-
tants France in 1903 carried a debt
of $151.6O; Spain of $1O8.84; the
United Kingdom of 5000; Russia
in Europe. $31 .35; Austria Hungary,
$24.32; Germany, because France
paid the cost of the war of 1870,
$1O.51. OF British colonies, Aus
tralia owes $3.50 for each person,
and Canada $50. By contrast the
United States is indebted only SILL
38 for each person. Measured by
the estimated worth gifts property,
the debt of France was 11.9 per
cent of it's wealth; of Germany, 7.73
per cent; of Russia, 1914 per cent;
of the United Kingdom, 6.25; of
Australia, 4.18 per cent, and of
Canada, 600 per cent; but the ra-
ito of the debt of the United States
to it's wealth is only ninety-seven
one hundredths of one per cent.
eff Uncle Sam were to draw on
the savings banks, their deposits in
the single state of New York, or A
per cent of their deposits in the
country as a whole, would pay all
he owes, and 36 per cent of the de-
posts of the national banks would
perform the same task. 1t would
take only 20 per cent of the value
of farms to offset all his bonds. The
exports of agricultural products for
single year are enough to cancel
all his obligations. The public
lands which belong to him, unap-
propriated and outside of the reser-
vations, not including the Philip
pines, would, if sold at $1.O3 an
acre, pay every dollar of his in
debtedness.
"Thus the burden of Uncle Sans
debt is light by every comparison.
He collected revenues in 1866
amounting to $15.73 to each per-
son of the population. If he should
collect in the same ratio now, he
could cancel all his bonds in six
teen months, besides meeting all
his expenses, and SO wipe his slate
clean"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-30

FOR SALE-Seventy COZ acres of land
rs acres under cultivation. Good house
and barn and plenty of water. Quarter of
mile from salmon banks. Call upon or
address III. STQLL, ARGYLE.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-30


The state superintendent has
certified to the state board of equal
ization that the number of school
children in the state is 2O7,O99 as
shown by the last school census.
The state board is required to pro-
vide school funds amounting to not
less than $40 for each school child,
provided that the levy for school
purposes shall not exceed five mills.
The state superintendent further
certifes that the revenues to the
school fund from sources other than
taxation for the twelve months last
passed were $500, 853. This de-
Quoted from a total of 5000, 800
required on Il basis of SO for each
pupil leaves a total Of 81, ITO, 1877
which will be raised by the FIVE
mill tax which has been levied by
the state board.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-30

The famous Bellineham Royal Dairy
ice cream always on salorat FoWleis soda
fountain.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-30

One good result of the recent
Bellingham excursion is already
apparent in the definite announce
ment in our news columns this
week that . large creamery will be
erected here Immediately, in conse-
quence Of the favorable impression
of the dairying advantages Of the
island obtained by one Of the visit
ors on the trip to the valley.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-29
At the Grand

Regular legitimate thrills are what
the Grand is handing out this week
The Ulrich Stock company is giving
more for the money in this way than
any show in town. The name of this
thriller" is 1.-The Great Train Rob
berry" and the title is tame compared
to the show itself.
If the author had had his way there
would not have been a dull minute in
acting of Henry Auerbach, there were
great many. The lines of Solitaire"
are really funny, but Auerbach, in his
usual fashion, chose to weary his audi
ence. Every other detail was quite up
to the standard of this variety of enter
tainment. There were Indians bran
dishing knives, there were enough pis-
tolls and knives in evidence to stock
a whole armory, and alarms and eX-
cursions two to the minute through ev-
cry act. Add to this the fact that the
principals stalk through the play in dis
guises, not one but many, and that
there is double villain combination, it
must be acknowledged that this show
should do a good business.
The climax of the play comes when
the express train trundles on to the
stage to be robbed. 1t is robbed with
terrific waste of ammunition, and an
onslaught from that convenient band of
Indians that was so thrilling that the
air was punctured with feminine
screams. such as rose above the clamor
of the gallery.
Richard Buhler succeeds in being
very sane and plausible; Ethel Clifton,
who does the lightning change act,
makes a much better boy or hoyden
than society woman, and Albert Nc
Quarrie is really funny.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-29
BURBANK OFFERS
GOOD MELODRAMA
"ME AND MOTHER" is FULL OF
THRILLS
CLIMAX is NERVE RACKINe
LARGE Audience Witnesses One Of the
Best Performances of the Season ,
In Langdon McCormleks
Latest Play

The Burbank this week Is offering a
racking melodrama in four acts called
me and Mother" Langdon McCor-
mick did It. 1t is filled with thrills.
Instead of starting out tamely and
mounting to a climax. in the very first
act they are on the track of secret
murder and bounding a gang of cour-
terfeiters, and 1t keeps on steadily
mounting. The third act is almost more
than ordinary human nature can bear.
The whole cast Is in the furnace room
of a steamer armed like an arsenal, and
the boiler is about to explode. The audi
ence expects the boiler and all the fire
arms to go off at once. But nothing
happens until the curtain goes down.
Langdon Mccormick knew just where
to stop. it seems. one additional min
ute in that third act would send whole
house into Mysteries.
"Me and Mother" is a good melodra-
ma. The title is the worst feature.
Neither is it a taxing piece; it makes
no great demand on this clever stock
company and the parts are as well
filed as the lines allow.
John Burton and Henry Stockbridge
are, as usual, the best features of the
piece in character parts and they really
create.
Desmond in a red shirt and slouch
hat, with the bad grammar that the
title typifies with him to the end, makes
a fine swashbuckling hero that the gall
lery applauded to the echo VIM. Ber-
nard, as the impossible villain, was un-
usually reserved in a trying part, really
succeeding in making Jules Loveday
natural.
OF the women, Dot Bernard and little
Fay Banter scored heavily; both were
unusually clever.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-29
Give All a Chance

The Belasco theater management has
evidently inaugurated a policy of Civ
ing every actress chance for this
week. Beginning this evening Miss Ag-
mes Rankin is predicted to place her
self high in the Los Angeles hall of
theatrical fame in the leading role of
''Tennessee's Pardner." 1t is a predic-
tion based on the fact that she has al
ready made a name for herself in this
same part in San Francisco.
'Tennessee's Pardner" is a Bret Harte
story, with strong. rugged characters,
clearly drawn. 1t will mark the re-
appearance of George Barnum as an
actor and as usual has been prepared
under his direction. 1t has been sched-
uled as a holiday attraction and a spe-
cial matinee Will be given Tuesday.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-29
STATUES OF FAMOUS MEN
CHISELED IN CLEAR ICE
NEW ART INTRODUCED BY LOCAL
coNFEcTIoNERs
Latest Thing in Soft Drinks ParIors
of Los Angeles Is Sculpture Work
in Frozen Water-Makes Pretty
Decoration

Did you ever hear of ice sculpture?
Well, how would you like to be the
ice man?
The latest thing in window decora-
tion and advertising for ice cream par
lors and soda water fountains is the
placing in the windows of statues of
famous men or women chiseled in
clear ice.
The sculptor takes a large sized
block of ice, which must be perfectly
sound and clear, and with sharp tools
fashions the figure he has decided
upon.
An expert in the art makes rapid
progress and in a few minutes after
he has begun work the rude form and
general lines of the figure are discern
ible. When the square block has been
chiseled to the general proportions de-
sired the sculptor takes finer tools and
begins work on the head.
Busts of Presidents
This may be of some we'll known
man or woman, or some figure which
exists only in the fancy of the artist.
Often the sculptor chooses to repre-
sent the bust of Presidents Mckinley,
Lincoln or Roosevelt. When the head
is completed the sculptor chisels as
much more of the figure as he desires
and then the PEDESTAL, all out of the
same block of ice, the finished statue,
pedestal and all standing about four
feet high.
One figure which was placed in the
window of a local ice cream parlor
Sunday represented harp with the
figure of woman, about half life size,
sculptured on the front of the frame.
The entire frame of the harp was of
ice, but the strings were made of small
ribbons.
Such figures chiseled in ice as have
been described last but a few hours.
yet they serve as a tremendous draw
ing card for an entire afternoon, for
the features remain distinguishable
for some time. The great fault with
the work is that the nose, being the
most exposed portion of the face, will
melt first and thus disfigure the head.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-29

right thinking people that a man Of
ordinary intelligence will be held
guiltless who sets an example Of wrong
doing before the rising generation, be
he rabbi. priest or preacher. To say
that It is the abuse and not the use
of intoxicants that Is wrong is sophis-
teal and misleading. OF the four mill
lion drunkards who curse our land to-
day perhaps not one can be found but
that started out on this false assump-
tion--that he could drink or let it alone
at pleasure.
Respectable Saloons"
They say II people must" drink It
is our duty to provide respectable
saloons for their accommodation. We
emphatically deny that people must
drink, become drunkards, abuse their
families, or become a public charge
to a community. 1t is no more our
duty to provide respectable" saloons
for drinkers than It is to provide IRE
spectacle" places for the lecher-
Gus. Further the term respectable"
applied to any misunderstanding es-
tablishment Is misnomer.
Personally I hold Rabbi Edelman
In high esteem both as man of learn
ing and Of influence. especially with his
own people. I only regret that he does
not use his influence in urging the
Jews of this city to join with the
Christians in the overthrow of the sa-
loon, which is without a single re-
deeming moral feature to support it.
AS a student of the book of nature and
given-I cannot agree with the inter-
probation of the latter. 1t belongs to
a misty past that was welded to much
error. STEPHEN BOWERS, Ph. D.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-29
Mrs. Flske Enaaaement

The sale Of seats opens this morn
ing at the Temple auditorium box office
for the coming engagement of Mrs
Fiske and the Manhattan company. The
engagement is for Thursday and Fri
day nights. and a special matinee Sat
urday The play to be presented is
Mrs. Fiske's latest New York success,
Leah Kleschna."
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-29
Fischer's Theater

New vaudeville acts presented at
Fisehers this week include Gilbert sa-
roni, monologist, known as "The Old
Maid" of motion picture fame. Dem
ming and Kelly, black face singing and
dancing comedians, the tourist trio,
musicians, and new motion pictures.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-29
Symphony MEETING

Tomorrow being holiday the direc-
tors of the Symphony Orchestra associ-
alton will meet next Friday morning at
II o'clock at Birkel's music house. Any
one interested In the future OF the sym
phony orchestra is invited to be present.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-29
Eminent Authorities

The gentlemen perhaps are supported
in their views by eminent authorities.
But no number of authorities can make
wrong right or remove the fact that
the saloon is the darkest blotch on our
city, state and national life. The
preponderance OF scholars and philan-
thropic men are greatly against these
views on this subject But no amount
of seholasticism can make sin white or
wrong right. Almighty God has writ
ten over the very arehway of the
world that mo man liyeth unto him
self" and no argument can convince
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-29
Goodwin Seat Sale

The sale of seats opens this morn
ing at the Mason theater for the COM
ing engagement of Nat Goodwin.
Amador ledger., 1905-03-10
LOST COINS IN THE MAIL.
They Cause Much Trouble and Worry
to Postal Clerks

They Cause Much Trouble and Worry
to Postal Clerks.
Ordinarily no man is rich enough
to escape that certain sense of elation
which comes from picking up nickel
on sidewalk, but when a railway
postal clerk finds such a coin in q
mail pouch where it has worked out
ksl1n insufficient wrappings not only
does he miss this elation, but it may
provoke profanity.
For a nickel lost in a pouch of mail
in transit becomes a matter for ma
tional concern. 1t comes to view per-
haps just as a pouch of mail is emp
tied upon sorting table, and when
it has broken away from the bunch of
letters and cards and circulars, roll
ed to an open space on the table and
there settled down, heads or tails, with
noisy spinning dance, the clerk who
first sees it is 'it."
a necromancer could have no more
idea than the man in the moon as to
what particular package it rolled out
of, and if he had and should tell the
try to restore. the coin to the original
package. That would be too easy al
together
No, it is a lost nickel from the mo-
mcnt the clerk has to see 1t spinning
there before his eyes, and according to
the tender governmental conscience the
clerk has to get ready for the inau-
guration of about $1S.43 worth Of fuss
over it,
For himself he doesn't dare to go to
bed for a short nap until he has got
rid of his cents worth of RESPONSE
bility to the government for the ac-
ton of the fool person from whom the
nickel was parted. He digs up his
printed form for such occasions print
ed and provided and at once fills out
long blank, describing the coin, tell
ing the circumstances of its being
found and whether it landed heads or
tails on the table, naming the pouch
from which it was emptied, the num-
ber of the train carrying it, the date
and a few other details.
This report, with the nickel, goes to
the headquarters Of the postal division
in which the car was operated, and
from these bonded officials, by the
same general red tape route, the small
coin finds its way to the seat of ma
tional government and to the fund rep
resenting the great constituency of the
postoffice department, which persists
in sending money in envelopes through
the unregistered mails of the service
Chicago Tribune
Amador ledger., 1905-03-10
SHE FORCED HER WAY.
The Ruse Annie Russell Used to Get
on the Stage.

The Ruse Annie Russell Used to Get
on the Stage.
William Gillette was seeking young
girl with a southern accent to play
Esmeralda Annie Russell answered
an advertisement. She was in short
dresses, with her hair down her back
and sixteen years old.
"Now, my little girl, run back to
your good mother and your Sunday
school lesson" said the dramatist kind
ly. "The stage is not for such as you.
Run along, my dear"
The little girl obeyed dutifully, but
with no intent of accepting the dis
missal as final. At the place where
she was boarding was an actress who
starred in the small towns in "East
Lynne" and from her Annie Russell
borrowed an elaborate stage gown
with a long train which she plastered
with jewelry, also borrowed. She put
on high heeled shoes and piled her
hair on the top of her head. Thus ar
rayed she again applied to Mr.. Gillette
for the position. He talked with her
without a suspicion that he had seen
her before, and later he said to the
manager:
"Well, l think that girl might do.
OF course we can easily make her look
younger, and some good fairy will have
to teach her how to dress. But she
is certainly the most intelligent look
ing applicant we have had"
And that is how Annie Russell Sc
cured the engagement that made her
fame.--Eyerybody's Magazine.
Amador ledger., 1905-03-10
Admitted the Lie.

Concerning King William ". of Eng
land the following story was told, the
Countess of STAFFORD being responsible
for it: "The king was at dinner. Next
to him was a titled woman whom he
was entertaining with some extraordi-
nary anecdotes, which the lady found
it impossible to believe were true. She
therefore answered, oh, sir, beg your
pardon, but really do not think that
can be true To her surprise he in
stantly replied, You are quite right,
marin, there is not a word Of truth in
it. 1t is a lie, marin, a lie. In fact,
marin, we all lie; we can't help it. We
had it from our motherp This" con-
cludes the Countess Of Strafford, "was
the biggest lie Of all, for Queen Char
lotte was very truthful person, never
given to lying"