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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-08-12
A RESoURCEFUL MAln

/ II.
TOW She Brought Her Father 10 ~,
Way Of Thinking.
She was in love with . vonnc L.
tor. young 400
Hes quite impossibIep' cried be,
mother 91h when informed of 4. ~
Out t, Of the question:" asserted
her father. '0' 'ee
the girl. 'ns's'e0
-, you can't live on prospects,
said the father.
The next day she was ill.
1 can see nothing wrongo said
the physician who was called to at.
tend her.
Nevertheless he left a prescrip.
ton, but it seemed to do no GOOD
The symptoms she described were
con11lctlng and confusing.
Its very strange said the phv.
stefan.
IF you do not understand the
case we must get some one who
does, said the mother.
80, after week or more of ex.
perlmentlng, another physician was
called in.
"A trifing indisposition," saiG
the second physician. s1'll have he1
all right in day or 500
But in. a day or so she had him
puzzled. Her lover had told he,
how to do it.
every time I see her, said the
second physician, ''there seems to be
some new complication. I can't
ind anything radically wrong, but
her statements certainly show that
she is not all right"
By this time the father and moth.
er were worried, and they sent for a
specialist. The latter looked wise.
but he met with no greater success
than the two who had preceded him
although his bill was considerable
larger.
The father had just seen the bill
when the girl called to him.
Il fear," she said YEARLY, "that
this trouble is going to continue in
definitely. Don't you think it would
be wise to have physician in the
family?"
The father looked at her suspi-
ciously.
Perhaps it would,'' he admitted.
"And it's so easy to have one, y
she persisted.
Arrange it to suit YOURSELF" he
said resignedly, for he was a man
who knew when he was beaten:
The next day she was able to sit
up, and the day after she had en-
tirely recovered But the father
continued to look at her reproach-
fully to the day of the wedding.
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Crushed.

The cigar girl in Walnut street
office building is red headed and is
frequently leased about her hair by
customers. She doesn't let them
worry her, though, and usually gives
them as good as they send. The
other day a young man stepped up
to the cigar case and touched the
girls hair with his finger. Draw
ing back his hand quickly, he began
to shake it. sEMyp he said. u
burned myselfp' ooh, no, you
didn't" came from the girl. ~ cure
away too green to burn" When the
youth heard several men near Dy
laugh he found he had pressing busl-
ness outside.-Kansas City Times.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-08-12
New York Telephone Rates

New York Telephone Rates
If you think local telephone rates
are high, note the prices New York
ers have to pay In that city $75 a
year is charged for 600 calls on a
direct wire and 8 cents for each mes
sage over that number; for 500 calls
$87, for 1000 calls 500, for 200 calls
$243 and a charge of 3 cents for calls
in excess of 1900 above the allotted
number. An unlimited service can
not be purchased. Any person de-
string to use the telephone within the
borough of Manhattan has to pay 10
cents per call. If he wishes to call
up party in Brooklyn 5 cents is
added. Only short time ago the
total charge for a call in Brooklyn
was 20 cents, but it has recently been
reduced to 10 cents.
The famous Bellingham Royal Dairy
ice cream always on sale at FOwle's soda
fOuntaih
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She Succeeded.

Lady-Is this a Heights car?
Conductor-Y es'm. Step aboard,
please.
Lady-Well, what time are you
due at Wilson?
Conductor Four-thirty. Please
step aboard.
Lady-Just a moment. Would
you accept a transfer that's a little
overtime?
Conductor-No, ma'am. Say, we
are starting blockade. Are you 60
ing to get on or not?
Lady-Yes, I-ah, Laura, here
you are! Get on. [ got him to hold
the car for us. Thank you, con-
ductor. Did you hear the story
about
Ding, ding!- Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-08-12
The ''Oregon Country"

| The old Oregon country includes
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and a
small portion of Montana and Wy
oming
The state of Washington alone is
larger than the New England states,
together with the state of Delaware
and the district Of Columbia
Oregon is larger than New York,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey to-
gether.
The ''Oregon country" is equal in
extent to the thirteen original states
of the Union, which now support a
population of more than 100000
inhabitants.
The New England states, together
with New York, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and Delaware, had a popula-
ton Of 21,231, $50 in 1900, while
Washington and Oregon together had
but 931, 500.
The combined area of England,
Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Denmark,
Holland and Belgium is 1000 square
miles less than the area of Washing
ton and Oregon, and these countries
have population of more than 80, :
600, 900.
France and Germany have each an
area just about two-thirds as great
as the old "Oregon country" and
they support populations of 40, 900, 900
and 80, 900, 900 respectively. - World S
Work.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-08-12
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 il. ''The man
VINO is saving money is build
ing character; he is acquiring
power. 1t is the man with char
acter and money who is able to
take advantage Of Opportunity
When she knocks at his door.
1t is the fixed habit of saving
something, no matter how small
that counts. Persistent savino
creates a habit 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 bank account. Moneyin
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 Won
know that 81 deposited each
month will amount to S64. 70 in
five years and to Sl39.s0 in ten
years at 3 per cent? That IS de-
posted each month will amount
to $324.SI in five years and to
S699.5S 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 a Banking by Mail
department, which it places at
your service, and that it receives
deposits from 81 up. 1t aims to
encourage thrift, to promote the
saving "habit." 1t would be
pleased to open an account with
you and to help you save.
An attractive little booklet.
Banking by Mall" will be
mailed upon request if YOU
mention this paper.
THE
SAN JUAN COUNTY BANK
Friday HarbOr, Wash.
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personal a ttrac
tiv enc IS. Such
fears are largely
warranted by the
effects which this
change produces in
many women. But
no woman need let
these fears fret her.
Those who have
used DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescrip-
ton do not suffer
from the change
of life either in
face, form or feel
ingS as do other
women. This fact
is due to the in
innate connection
of the general
haalth with tho
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-08-12
charlemaane's Humor.

Charlemagne was in need OF amuse-
ment.
"Why," they asked him, edo you
have such a large number OF court
testers in constant attendance on
your royal person Z"
because" he replied, with right
regal chuckle, 81 could not earn the
surname of The Great were | not
careful to keep my wits about me-
It is said that the courtiers died
laughing.-Cleveland Leader.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-08-12

The Creeks Related New Years 20. :, :
like all eastern Christians tne
Greeks adhere to the old, or Gregorlan'
calendar. and their year begins Twelve
davs later than ours. Jan. ! Is deol-
Gated to st. Basil, who appears .
hove been a native Of Caesarea, IN
Cappadocia. In Asia Minor ana ais =
IN Epirus children 60 from mousse y
honae singing odes in honor Of tne
saint. which. however, are genelaIls
extended to cover some finely turned
compliments to the occupants. wlsn'n s
them = good year and requesuns
,.rcesse st. Basil = always repre'
.erted il these songs = scnooaDoy'
whose touch quicksnS m
"a. with new HE.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-08-12
UNDER ARREST
FOR ASSAULT
AUSTRIAN FISHERMAN SwEARS
OUT COMPLAINT AGAINST
PETER GLASS

Peter Glass, proprietor of purse
seine outfit on the salmon banks, was
arrested Monday on complaint of a
number of fishermen who have been
working with him, charging him
with assault with intent to commit
great bodily harm. The men are
Austrians and have become involved
in wrangle over the division of the
proceeds of their fishing operations
and it is alleged that they filed crimi-
nal complaint against Glass with a
view to forcing him to settle upon their
terms They objected to going from
Eagle Cove to Richardson to fish and
when Glass started to tow them there
with his gasoline launch they cut the
tow rope of the scow upon which
they were riding and allowed the
scow to drift ashore with the tide.
Glass, they say, became violently
angry and running his launch along
side the scow landed among them
with a big knife or gun, or some 9th
er warlike implement, and proceed
ed to chase them into the briny deep
on the 'stern and rock bound coast. >
Glass says that the story of his CO.
laborers departs materially from the
straight line of truth and further
that they disabled his launch by re
moving some essential parts and
choking other parts with sand and
also that they feloniously appropri-
ated his checks for the sale OF fish
and about $3.50 in cash, which they
have thus far refused to disgorge.
The matter came up before Justice
Tucker at Argyle Monday and was
continued until Sept. 4, Glass, who
has engaged Attorney w. R. Garrett
to defend him, putting up $50 cash
bail for his appearance.
| The Friday Harbor Drug Co. sells the
best flavoring extracts in any quantity.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-08-12
Poor Pay in the Pulpit

Somebody has hunted up the figures
and found that the average salary OF
a Harvard professor is 1880, while
the average minister in the vicinity
Of Boston draws $500. This may
partially explain why the theological
schools are not turning away appi-
cants. Minneapolis Journal.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-08-12

When Iife's autumn comes mes women, WON en- worn
e that sff Seee burdegs e1
wlIIth, , M' \ change in form. in feature, in
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-08-12

Lime, cement, lath, brick, sewer pipe,
drain tile. Seeds in bulk.-Morse Hard
ware Co., Bellingham.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-08-12
LEAVE ARRIVE

through Tickets to All Points, and
sleeping Accommodations call
upon or address,
A. N. BUSSING, Agent.
izzz Dock St., Bellingham, Wash.
L. A. NADEAU, Gen. Agt.
Seattle, Wash.
a. D. CHARLTON, A. G. p. A.
Portland, Oregon.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-08-12

noa, ~ STOVES taken in exchange for ranges.
ALL 'nrow your old stove away: We can
H. you good price for it.-Morse
'"are Co., Elk st., Bellingham.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-08-12

The famous Bellingham Royal Dairy
ice cream always on sale at Fowle's soda
fountain
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16

iety and trouble we could save ourselves If
We could be contented with simplicity. The
women of slender means and small houses,
who could give two well-cooked dishes,
cleanly and daintily served and be con-
tented to rise from wholesome and simple
meal to talk of things of worldwide inter-
est, and to receive and impart ideas, would
be doing a service to their day and gen
Grafton In the same way. If those who
have a large inheritance and big places
would really seek their friends for the
pleasure of enjoying their society, for the
delight of conversation and mutual inter-
course. they would be helping to remake
society. / have often heard people use the
expression, II go to London to see my
friends but IL they We're honest they
would have to admit that from May to the
end of July they have not held intercourse
with single friend. They may have seen
them in crowd or in the park or across
a dinner table, but not for one hour have
they been able really to sit down and enjoy
their society. We are told that society has
grown too large, that this constitutes one
OF the great troubles of hostess I think
II we were to say that society has grown
TOO complex, that pleasure is made not only
into a profession, but into a speculation
that so much Is laid out in order to win go
much more with the attendant anxieties
OF all business enterprises, we should have
arrived at the sum total of what consti-
tutes the real troubles of hostess.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16

News, to take back to Boston or other
northern ports. The round trip, under ia
vorable conditions, consumes from ten days
to two weeks.
In addition to the captain and his mate.
the crew of an ice schooner usually con-
sists of about eight sailors On the Es
telle Phinney six different nationalites
were represented in the crew. There were
two Norwegians, one Swede an Irishman,
an Italian, a German and the rest were
Americans. In pleasant weather the work
of the crew is not especially onerous. The
sailors work in shifts of four hours each.
and If they so desire they may sleep for
four hours after finishing their turn. But
In rough weather, when all hands are need
ed in the sails, on deck at the pumps,
there is no sleeping and much work.
Sometimes the schooners are becalmed
out at sea and since they must depend on
the winds for motive power. the vessel must
wait until the breeze comes up. Again, in
foggy weather. the movement of the
schooners is slow, owing to the necessity
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16

Gardens is joke to IL. A bowling chatter
ing sound reaches you. which grows almost
deafening as you mount the stairs, no easy
task; but on reaching the landing the fight
begins. II you are strong, you are able to
elbow your way into a crowd of people who
are engaged in pushing each other round
and round the rooms. If you are tall, you
have the advantage of seeing over peoples
heads. and being able to steer for certain
corners in which you may happen to rec
ognize people whom you know, but If you
are not, you are often obliged to be con-
tent with view of the back of the man or
woman who happens to stand in front of
you. Sometimes by a lucky chance you
may be found. like needle in a bundle of
hay. by friend who happens upon you. as
he pushes his way through the rooms, and
then POSSIBLY, aided by his superior
strength. worn out and tired with the
struggle you arrive at the refreshment
room. and sometimes you may have the
luck to be able TO discover the back stair
Meanwhile the hoslesss sole occupation is
TO wiring the hand of so many hundred
guests. and repeat the same thing dozens
OF times. For her there is no enjoyment in
those hours OF standing, nor has she the
satisfaction of knowing that her guests find
pleasure In her entertainment. The reason
why her party has been spoilt Is her anxiety
to offend nobody and include everybody.
When the cards written, scores of peo-
pie come to her mind whom she dare not
leave unlimited There are a thousand rea-
sons why the So-and-So's must be added.
and then her friends ask for invitations for
other friends and she does not like to re-
which can only be expected to hold two
hundred people are obliged perhaps to con-
tain over three hundred and fifty.
To the anxious hostess large dinner
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16

by the storekeeper who uses 1t in his meat
chest or by the soda fountain or bar room
proprietors who break up the frozen pieces
In the beverages sold over their respective
bars.
The Zee traffic between the New England
ports and the national capital Is no incon-
siderable item In the estimation of the
owners of the sailing vessels About TWEEN
ty-flve or thirty schooners-three and four
masted vessels. commonly called Ice
schooners'-are employed each summer in
delivering cargoes of natural ice to the cap
ital city. Each of these schooners carries
a cargo valued at from SIS, 00O to $4,000, and
each vessel makes about two trips season.
When II is considered that this source is
only the smaller part of the Ice supply of
the city some idea may be formed as to
the amount Of ice used in Washington.
The ice industry on the Kennebec and
other rivers IN Maine is a profitable and
extensive one During the winter time
large forces OF men are employed by vari-
Gus companies in cutting and storing the
ice which Is later shipped to southern cit
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les for summer use. 1t is by means of the
immense sailing vessels that the delivery
Is made TO Baltimore, Washington and
other cities along the southern coast
The Estelle Phlnney, Capt. ]. D. Phinney.
a big four-masted schooner which brought
a cargo of ice to Washington recently, Is
a typical ice boat used in the traffic be-
tween Maine and Washington. This large
vessel must depend entirely upon the winds
for its progress on the ocean, and while
1t is passing up or down the Potomac river
to and from Washington 1t Is towed by
tugboats.
After taking on a cargo of from 1000 to
1,3O0 tons of ice at the mouth Of the Kenne-
bee river, the big schooners set sail FOR
Washington. Under favorable weather con-
ditions the voyage to this city, covering
about 700 miles, is made in less than
week, but in stormy weather two or three
weeks is required for the trip. The Ice
schooners have a forward cabin, for the
captain and other officers and guests,
fo'castle for the crew in the stern and an
engine room. The engine is used entirely
for hosting the huge sails and for pump
ing out the hold. Below the deck in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16
Burying Uncle Sans
Dead Sailors

Out in Seattle Washington, they bury a
man for 81, and it is officially declared that
he gets first-class funeral. Bargain days
In the big stores of the big cities can't fur
nish any such attraction as this. and there
is now something for a man to die for.
The United States government has SOL
EMMY concluded contract with the Bon
ney-Watson Company of Seattle to put
away all dead seamen at 81 each. This is
about the cheapest figure of all the con-
tracts made by the marine hospital service
but 1t is alleged by the officials of that
service that the seaman who has had the
good fortune to die in Seattle gets a bang
up burial for the figure named. Just what
things are furnished is not officially made
known, but 1t is hardly likely that the
caskets that are used are bought from the
coffin trust 1t is well-known fact that
the undertakers in nearly all cities Of the
country get their goods from the coffin
trust and are required to sell al list price.
This price is generally steep enough to make
the friends of man feel that he has been
put away at reasonably decent figure, re-
CARELESS of just what the outfit was.
A. II. Glennan, acting surgeon general OF
the marine hospital service, has sent out
circulars to accounting officers of the treas
ury informing them that contracts have
been made In various parts of the country
for hospital care and treatment of sick sea-
men and for their interment in case of
death. These contracts are for places where
the service has no hospital of its own, rs
in most of the principal cities and seaports
of the country. There are over 100 places
where these contracts are made. and sea-
men are not allowed to be treated any
where except at regular hospitals or at
hospitals under contract.
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Steel Rails on Curves.
From the New York Globe.

11OH t1Ie -~t" IofH UIoDe.
On the sharpest curve of the Boston ele-
waited the wear of the rails is so great that
they have to be renewed every forty-four
days, wearing down in this short period
from 060 to OFT inch, The Inconvenience
caused by such frequent renewals led to
experiments with nickel steel. These rails
only wore 0.53 of an inch in 204 days. A
manganese steel rail now being tested Is
giving even better results, and will probably
eventually replace the nickel steel rail. The
rapid wear on sharp curves is apparently
due to slipping of the wheels. The rigid
axle prevents any differential action, such
as is allowed for by the equalizing gear in
automobiles go that on curves either the
outer one forward Judging from the APP
pearance of the rails. 1t is the outer wheel
which does the more slipping.
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Of keeping a sharp lookout for other ves-
sells, which may be sailing or steaming in
the vicinity.
On several occasions the Phinney has been
struck by severe storms while at sea, when
the waves washed high and poured over
the deck, necessitating extraordinary exer-
tons on the part of every man in the crew.
During one of the storms which this
schooner has encountered in its voy-
ages of fourteen years the vessel was
driven by the winds far out of its course
INTO the gulf stream a considerable dis
lance south of its intended destination.
The storm was unusually severe, the
storm sails cracked, the masts creaked I'M
der the strain of the storm and the fierce
winds shrieked through the rigging. The
schooner was heavily loaded with the huge
cakes of ice and the vessel rolled from
side to side at the mercy of the angry sea,
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~ Thousands of Washingtonians ben-
eft by the cold winters OF the New
England states without being obliged
II TO experience the unpleasantness OF
the frigid weather to which the
inhabitants of that cline are annually SUBJ
jected. Every summer, when the mercury
is doing It's best TO jump out OF the Their
mometer in the national capital. many thou
sand tons Of ice manufactured the pre-
ceding winter by the icy breaths OF nature
In the rivers of the cold New England
section. are brought to Washington in huge
sailing vessels to keep the residents of the
capital cool. The voyages of these cold car
goes are sometimes made over perilous seas,
ard not a little hardship IS occasionally en-
countered in the long journey of several
hundred miles from the Maine rivers to
Washington.
But 10 these incidents connected with the
delivery OF the ice in this city probably
no thought is ever given by the house
holder who sees the ice in his refrigerator.