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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-03-03
70 Test Water.

A test for the purity of water,
which can be easily applied and
which gives Z fair idea Of the pres
ence or absence of organic impuri-
ties, is made by using solution Of
permanganate Of potash in the pro-
portion of one grain to two ounces
Of water. Use this test as follows:
Take long, clear glass, fill it with
pure or distilled water and add to it
as much of the testing solution as
will tinge it pink Then do exactly
the same to glass of the water you
suspect and watch and compare the
colors of the two samples. If the
pink color does not disappear or if
it does not turn brown in the sus-
pected water you may conclude that
it is safe to use it. If, on the other
hand, it disappears quickly probably
animal matter is present, and it
slowly vegetable matter. In either
case the water is not above suspl-
cion.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-03-03
At Least 4 Help.

sUncle DAVID was an Oldtown
character, some of whose sayings
have been put into black and white
by Mr.. Norton in his Sketches" OF
that vicinity. David used to run
RATS Of lumber down the Penobscot
and was wont to boast that he "al-
ways sold to one man, and when he
didn't sell to him he sold to some
body else"
One day Uncle David was stand
ing on the river bank when stern
wheel steamboat passed. He gazed
long and thoughtfully at the vessel
and then, turning to q bystander,
said in tone of deep conviction:
sThat wheel is q great sarvice to
that boat"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-03-03
SOUTH ii Poems.


= lseessss eseems ths eiaves
~. - rIanssr@
A0oF conditions n South
e ene1lca Frank Wiborg, author 81
9 commercial Traveller In South
1sllca, says: The large planters
= Icnador complain that they Lose
part OF then crop every year
,nlouen maDailty TO get sufficient la
Dole!s 70 harvest It. As in most
,loplcai countries, the question Of
,apol ls most serious, for among the
,o~el glasses the necessities of life
aLs SO lev ana SO easily obtained
.llat there u little or no incentive
lot steady application. In Ecuador
.lle attempted solution OF this is the
lnIroductlon OF the same vicious
system winch our government, found
u force n the Philippines namely,
Peo e OF debt service.
Q gam hold on the laborer the
planter oilers him q small loan,
Wncn ne with characteristic i'm
Plosldence eagerly accepts with the
unuerstandng that ne is to enter
Inc service OF the planter and pay
:; PACK the debt little BY little. Until
- Is PAID ne cannot enter the employ
OF any one else. It is to the advan-
tases o. the planter to keep the debt
unpaid, and 1t seldom happens that
debt once contracted in this way Is
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-03-03
Early Zee Of Tar and Feathers.

We learn from the English annals
of the historian Hoveden, who was
court chaplain to Henry Ill, that
the old custom of tarring and feath-
ering is one that dates back to the
time of Richard the Lion Hearted.
He tells us that this renowned king
on setting out for the third crusade
made this enactment, among others,
for his feet: "a robber who shall be
convicted of theft shall have his
head cropped after the fashion OF .
champion, and boiling pitch shall pc
poured thereon, and the feathers Of
q cushion shall be shaken out on
him, SO that he may be known, and
at the first land at which the ship
shall touch he shall be set on shore. .
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Mot Such - Easx Matter.

ssThese shoes will be all right
said the salesman, "after you have
cot them broken in" The young
man, who had been hesitatlng be
tween that pair and one SIZE lar :.
GER took the salesman's word for i
and purchased the shoes. a week :,
later he came back to the store WITH
. perceptible limp J
II wish you'd stretch these shoes,
he said. ssThey hurt my feet terri
ssHavent you got them broken Y
vet 2" asked the salesman.
1fOh, yes, said the young man.
aThe trouble is that ] cant get my
feet broken in.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-03-03
A Foe Of Fsuds.

Stranger You say that man has
killed forty people?
Mountaineer Yes, IN q feud
Feuds is bad things, and we don't
want no more of them in these ere
parts.
Stranger But that man is going
right along attending to his bnsi-
ness as if nothing occurred. Why
don't you arrest him
Mountaineer Arrest HIM Gee
Willigan, stranger, that 'ud start
another feud, and / just told ye We
don't want no more feuds. New
York Weekly.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-03-03
TRADING IN FLORENCE.


& u Hard - Tsll who wilma, -
Buyer Or tha Seller.
A man observing hat marked -
francs thus reasoned to himself
saThe price is marked IL francs
That means 10. The .shopman viii
offer it for 8. It is not worth more
than 6. / don't want to give moro
than 4, so I'll offer him 2"
This suggests the principles upon
which trade is carried on. The fol-
lowing is an illustration Of the proc
ess:
Buyer What's the price Of that
hat?
| Seller-Twelve francs, sir.
B. lin tone Of astonishment
Twelve francs? Heavens, what :
pricel
SITS not dear, sir. You
couldn't get it as cheap anywhere
else in town.
! B-Nonsense! What's the lowest
price you'll take for it?
Swell, as it's you I'll sell it for
II.
B.-Per Baccol Why, it's not
worth half that.
| Swell, what will You give for
it?
b. won't give centime over 6
francs. (This very decidedly, as il
he really meant it.
Six francs! Why, it cost me
more than that.
B.-Go along! (Tries on the hat,
which is very becoming, and contin-
ues in coaxing tone): Come, now,
let's finish this affair. Name your
price.
Swell, take it for 10 (seizing it
as though everything was settled
and hurriedly wrapping it up).
] B. Stop, stop! Pm not going to
give that price. Makes for the door,
as though he also thought the affair
ended.
| Stop, sir! Tell me now frank
~ the highest price you will give.
| (This in an encouraging tone, with
head ON one side and sweet smile.)
/ B.-Come, Eli give your. Makes
show of pulling out pocketbook,
with the air Of having made hand
some offer that would be snapped
at.)
! s. (now beginning to get excited)
This is more than / can bearl We
will talk no more about it!
| B. (Seeing too much decision in
shopman's manner We'll, come
now. How much will you take? I'll
give you 8. There!
$40, no, no! / won't sacrifice
the hat!
/ This is the moment for the buyer
to rush from the shop, sometimes
even getting to the corner of the
street. when the excited seller will
dash after him, imploring him to
come back again and take it for ga.
Then work begins in earnest, and
they rise and fall alternately by half
francs and sometimes fight over the
last two sous. When the bargain is
completed amid torrent of words
and wild gestures the conqueror
(which is the conqueror?) goes off
with his hat as proud as the victor
of score Of battles to admiring
friends, who turn it over and peer at
it and examine it critically, praising
him for his shrewdness in making
such bargain.-London Mail.
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Steamer
lydia ! thompson
carrying q. 5. Nail, Passcn-
gers and Freight

Leaves SETTLE, from Lilly 4
AM n"ffa Ti Dock, Sundays. Tuesdays
To- r. thursdays at midnightfor Port
pp4Send. Richardson, Argyle, Lopez,
klD AY HARBOR. Roche
nnarbor, Deer Harbor. West Sound.
ana "S s, Fast Sound, NewhalI, Olga,
The eenru ~ leaves Bellingham st 2 8. M.
tbo most Beautiful Trip on Puget Sound,
islan a9uee winding among the lovs1y
and Sil Jus OF the San Juan archipelago
Fnaac crossing the Strait of San Juan dc
via@s, alfording passengers the finest
moa'n, OF the Cascade and Olympus
CHAS. e. PEABODY, Mgr.
FRANZ 6l2 First Ave, Seattle
ANk r. BURNS, Srpt. ssss
N. P. Pier No. /, Seattle.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22
FlNNY DELlCACY FAST PASSING
FROM GREAT LAKES.
Government Asked to Provide Funds
10 Prevent Loss of Remunerative
Industry and Valuable Food
Product.

Detroit, Mich.--That the whitefish
Of the great lakes are passing as rap.
idly from existence as did the mil
lions of of bison which at one time
swarmed the American prairies Is an
undisputed fact, ard with the reali-
cation that with the departure of the
whiteiish industry the United States
government loses one of its most re-
munerative industries, and also one
of the most valuable food products on
The market, IL is strongly urged that
some remedy be adopted at once.
A man prominently connected with
one of the government fish hatcheries
and who is well informed on the
question of fish culture and propaga-
ton, stated that the one and only sue
cessful remedy is to promptly in
crease the capacity of the various
hatcheries.
THE government should be willing
to eXpend ten times the amount of
money it now does on the propagation
OF the whitefsh," said the hatchery
man, because the whitefish is the
most valuable fresh-water fish known,
end even exceeds the value of salmon
$50 per ton in the eastern markets.
while considerable more is paid out
yearly for the Pacific coast hatcher
les.
And then, too" he continued, &c.,
600 more whiteflsh eggs can be hand
led in the same space taken by sal
mon eggs"
To illustrate the seriousness of the
impending whitefish destruction, the
following figures, which are correct
in every instance, were given out for
publication:
The catch of whiteflsh in Michigan
in 1891 was $4,000 pounds, while in
1904 it fell off to 4,197,000 pounds. In
Lake Erie the catch for 1889 was g.
100000 pounds and in 1899 it came to
100000 pounds. From 1898 to 1905
the catch in Ontario decreased from
100000 pounds to 2,S95,000 pounds.
The total catch of whitefish in the
great lakes on both the American and
Canadian sides in 1904 exceeded
100000 fish, averaging two pounds
and half in weight, and the loss of
eggs contained in these fish exceeded
$4,000, 100000. In 1905 the combined
hatcheries of the United States and
Canada only propagated the eggs
from less than 10000 fish. which is
altogether inadequate to overcome the
great loss of eggs destroyed by the
fishermen.
Lake Michigan alone in 1904 gave
up 100000 fish, and it is safe to say
that Lake Erie provided 100000 OF
the finny tribe, so to overcome this
loss the eggs of fully $4,000 fish SHOULD
be propagated each year.
A three-pound whitefish yields ovel
10000 eggs, but OF these only 80 pei
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22
BULLET IN HEART A YEAR.
Case of Philadelphia Negro Ranks
with Medical Marvels.

Philadelphia-By living one year
with a 3S-caliber bullet nesting in the
apex of his heart, Frank Robinson a
giant Germantown negro, has won a
firm place in the ranks of the medical
marvels."
Robinson was shot on September g.,
1905, by Policeman Morley, in trying
to escape arrest for shooting Craps"
He was taken to the Germantown hos
pital, and the doctors, being unable to
probe for the bullet, said he would die
within a week.
Showing superhuman strength, the
negro, who then weighed 200 pounds,
successfully withstood an attack of
blood poisoning, and recovered. When
his trial for assaulting Morley came up
in May Judge Won Moschzisker said
Robinson had suffered enough. and
gave him sentence of 10 days, after
serving which he was released.
The doctors say Robinson will not
live more than seven years with the
bullet in his heart and, strange to say
the more the negro eXerts himself the
better his chances of living out the
limit. The bullet is now less than one
sixteenth of an inch from the walls Of
his chest, and if he allows himself to
get any stouter the walls will press
the bullet and he will die instantly.
81 never knew what hard work was
before l was shot" said Robinson.
But you can just bet I'm workin hard,
movin' furniture, every day now, and
I'm goin' to try and get so thin that
my chest won't never touch dat bullet.
I'm down to $50 pounds now"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22
Growers Get $50 Per Ton-ship Thou
sands of Car Loads.

Fort Dodge Ia-Farmers in the vi
cinity of Bristow are gathering the
largest crop of cabbage ever raised in
that county. Owing to the absence of
cold storage at that point, the entire
crop from $50 acres planted this sea
son will find its way as soon as gath
cred to the green goods markets of
Minneapolis, Kansas City and Chicago.
Raising cabbages on large scale is
new industry in Iowa. In 1904 the
records show that only nine cars of
cabbage were shipped from Bristow
1t was more in the nature of an eX-
pertinent that the farmers took it up.
In 1905 there were SO cars shipped out
and this years crop from the $50 acres
is expected to require 500 cars to mar.
ket It.
Cabbage is now planted in much the
same manner as corn, cabbage plant
ing machine being one of the new
things in agricultural implements.
With this machine a man can plant
five acres per day. The plants are
placed the same width apart as corn
and cultivated with a cultivator. When
the OPP is laid by it is done with
hoe. One man can hoe an acre a day
by hand
Acco ding to those who have hao Ok
perienc4 in the raising of cabbage
after this method of cultivation, with
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22
RARE BIBLE FOR MORGAN.
Millionaire Buys Original cIuny Copy
in Illuminated Text.

New York-In competition with
King Edward of England, who sought
it as memorial to his mother the
late Queen Victoria, j. Pierpont Nor
gan has bought the original Cluny
Bible, in illuminated text, on parch.
ment, the work of the Cluny monks in
France, and more than 200 years old.
With it he also obtained an iuu-
minated copy of the original order Of
arrest for John Bunyan on = charge
of heresy, The Bible was considered
one of the finest works of art in
France. Mr.. Morgan is said to have
paid $4,000 for it and the manu-.
script, They were assessed here at
$4,000, and duty was placed at $4,000.
Mr. Morgans bankers paid the duty.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22
WF4YTEFZSH BECOMING SCARCE

cent. hatch, and only four per cent of
these reach maturity-that is, four
years old.
Last year the American and Cana
dian hatcheries propagated less than
200,000,000 fry, while the number of
eggs in fish caught was 35,OO0,OO0,-
600.
Forty years ago the catch of white
fish in the Detroit river on the Amer
icah side alone exceeded 100000
pounds annually while in later years
the combined catch of both the Amer
lean and Canadian sides only amount
to $4,000 pounds.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22
Youngest Civil War Soldier.

Washington.-The long discussed
question of who was the youngest SOL
der Of the civil war probably has
been settled in favor of Perry Byan,
of Seattle, Wash. He enlisted as a
drummer boy in Company d, Twenty
fourth Iowa volunteers on Aug. %,
1862, at the age of nine years and ten
months, He was born Oct. %, 1862,
In Kane county, Illinois, but enlisted
at Mount Vernon, la. After serving
nearly year he was honorably dis
charged on a surgeons certificate of
disability, Pension officials have in
vestigated Byan's papers. and found
that his representations are correct
He will receive a tidy sum as back
pension.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22

IOWA HAS A VERY LARGE CABBAGE CROP

a good season like the one of this
year, there should be 500 per cent.
croft in the business. The product is
easily disposed of; in fact, buyers
from all of the principal markets have
visited Bristow and all of the crop has
been contracted for. With the add
ton of storage a much larger profit
could be assured, as one grower was
offered $50 for a ton of good sound
heads last March.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22
So They Laugh.

The laughter of the different nations
is said to vary greatly, The Italian
laugh is languid but musical; the
Germans laugh in deliberate fashion.
The French are spasmodic and uncer.
tain, the upper-class English guarded
and not always genuine, the lower
class English explosive, the Scottish
of all classes hearty, and the Irish roll
licking. The Chinese laugh is not
50 expressive as the European. 1t is
usually a litter rather than a genuine
outburst of merriment.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22
canada,s Population Increasing.

The census of 1901 showed the Ca
madam population to be 5,371,315, an
Increase of about half "A million over
1891; calculation based on . census
of the northwest, the immigration re-
turns and other official sources of in
formation, estimates that since 1891
there has been million increase in
the population, far larger growth
than has been shown in any decadal
census since confederation, in 1866,
and one-fifth of the total growth of the
Dominion during the whole of the
nineteenth century.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22

In the first eight months of 1905
our trans-Pacific trade amounted to
$197,791,041. In the same period of
the current year we exported to that
market only $126,679,96S worth of
goods. The Japanese victory over
Russia in the far east seems to have
been a commercial triumph over us as
well.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22

The officer who managed the race
between automobiles and balloons in
Germany, the other day, was run over
by an automobile that was not taking
part in the contest. People who man.
age such affairs should know better
than to run around on foot
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22

If M. Labeuf. the eminent French
naval engineer, is right-if the sub
marine has got the battleship skinned,
why then the answer would seem to
be to tunnel all the harbors. get
under any approaching submarines,
and blow the beggars up.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22

A dwarf palm has been discovered
in Algeria which produces fine quail
ity of vegetable hair that makes a
good substitute for horsehair. An
other blow at faithful Dobbin!
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22

Count Witte, who is in Paris, says
he will never return to power in Rus
STA The count must be one of those
wise people who have discovered that
it is foolish to deliberately hunt for
trouble.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22

A tobacocnist of High Wycombe,
England, has been fined every week
for nearly five years for opening his
shop on Sundays. The fines began at
Is shilllngs, but are now seven and
sixnence.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22

to be collecting stores of arms. A
few legs and heads will come in
handy when the bombs begin to burst
again.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22

Five submarines have sunk with
their crews in the last four years.
There seems to be a fatal significance
in the name
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22

Life is like the ocean. 1t browns
one man because he yields to it pas.
sively and blindly. 1t buoys up the
other because he strikes it skillfully
and with lustY shows.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22

The automobile accidents make the
reckless driving for which horse own
ers ued to be so severely punished
like child's play.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22

The marriage of a couple in ST.
Louis was prompted by joke on mat
rimony. 1t is dangerous to joke about
matrimOny
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22

A Pittsburg millionaire eloped with
n 17-year-old girl the other day. 1t
is alleged that she was not mem
Der of any of the choruses.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22

1t is proposed to declare that au-
tomobiling is interstate commerce,
and to grant national licenses. Sem
sible move.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22

The Cognac is the name of one Of
II balloons which started in the great
aerial race from Berlin. That name
should have sustained It,
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22

Never use what is not your own,
never buy what you cannot pay for,
never sell what you haven't got, is a
pretty good rule to go by.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22

A Berkeley (Gal) man has invented
new language which has no swear
words in it. Our golfers will doubt
less agree that it fills long-felt want.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22

A Cleveland girl wants to enlist in
the navy. Most girls are willing, how
ever, to join the navy by marriage.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22

A new malady is called the auto
heart. There is an auto head that
sometimes needs treatment
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22

Those Ohio girls who are asking to
enlist in the navy would, If their re-
quest should be granted, become tar
tarS.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22

Russia is to build battleship of
the type of England's Dreadnaught-
one that need fear nothing but its
own crew.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22

With hazing abolished and football
denatured, how may a college youth
get even with his enemies?
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22

Persia may be beautiful country,
but the shah appears to have beaten
the car several laps in getting a par
lament into practical working order.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22

The poorest people on earth are
those who make the most of what
they have and the least Of what they
are