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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1907-01-05
Prize!

FRED. A. WESCOTT Manager of the Black Diamond
Development Company will give One Black Diamond De-
velopment Company Certificate of SHARE PAR VAL
UE $1,000 the Stakeholder composing the greatest
Der of words using the letters contained in the words
BLACK DIAMOND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY"
Not using any letter times than they appear in the
words: BLACK Diamond Development Company"
FOR EXAMPLE-Back, Black, Book Cook,
Clock, Command Diamond Demand, Development,
Man, Money, Moment Etc.
Your list of words must be PLAINLY WRITTEN on
side of paper only and your Name and Address attached
and must be on hand in my Office Feb. Ioo7-"The
day the Pipe Line is finished connecting Black Diamond
Wells with Kansas City"
No abbrevations profanity proper allowed.
If you Stakeholder NOW, buy some Stock at
once and compete for this prize of $1,000
This Offer is open to man, child who is a
Stakeholder in Black Diamond Development Company
February Ist, 1907
CONTEST CLOSES FEB. 1ST, 1907.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10
BASEBALL is EXPENSIVE.
National Game Is Great Industry
and Millions Paid to See 1T.

National Game Is Great Industry
and Millions Paid to See 1t.
One can say that thousands of dollars
are expended annually for baseball
games and convey in vague way what
baseball expenditure means, says the
Washington Post.
Presenting that 25,OOOOO0 spectators
witnessed baseball games in 1905, which
is the estimate Of one hopeful citizen, IL
is fair to say that at least half Of the
25,OOO,OOO paid admission to the games.
Suppose that each Of this 12,5OO,OOO
paid % cents to witness his favOrite
sport. That would make gross total
of S3,125,OOO at the gate in one sea-
son. That begins to sound more like
figures
Now add the car fare which was
expended by each spectator, where the
games are played in large cities, and
the amount which was handed out to
the peanut boy and the lemonade ped
dler, and an idea begins to form that
baseball receipts accumulate quite a
total, even if it is the cheapest and most
popular form of outdoor sport.
Nor is what the spectator pays to wit
ness the games all that is expended dur
ing the year. Great factories work day
and night to make baseballs, and men
have acquired fortunes in placing their
wares before the public. Hundreds OF
tailors are employed in making base
ball uniforms and scores of turner's gain
a livelihood turning out baseball bats,
while the forests of the Middle West
have been ransacked to obtain the best
timber to provide the players with
"sticks" to suit them.
Put 100000 more on top of the
amount paid to see games, and the mark
has jumped over 100000. Even that
doesn't tell the story. Clubs expend
large sums in travel. The railroads
and the hotels are benefited. Spectators
frequently journey long distances to
witness matches between famous mines.
At the worlds series last fall there
were three spectators who had come
all the way from California to see the
Giants play for the championship.
The fact is, baseball costs the people
of the United States more than 3d.
100000 annually, and the bill is grow
ing heavier every year; but so small
Is the per capita expenditure and so
great the enjoyment which is derived
from the game that it is contributed
without complaint and more open indi-
cation of real satisfaction than any
indirect tax which is levied upon the
community at large in behalf of a good
time.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10

and hats the reason you are some
tlmes~cross and unwilling to do moth
er's wishes. If you do not watch these
pesky little creatures, they will soon
nibble all the good away. To keep the
mice out you must set trap for them
the trap of watchfulness-and have
for bait good resolutions and firmness.
When the pantry is free from mice,
then begin to store it with good things
Il sat silent for while, and then /
said: What kind of good things, grand
pa?
And he answered: High principles,
good thoughts and kind feelings
Laura was silent, too. fof moment,
and then said: ''I'm going to try to re-
member my great-grandfather's teach
lngs, because l see how much good they
have done you. You are the bestest'
mother any girl ever had. Good night,
mother, darling" and with bound she
was off to bed
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10
SKETCH OF A RUINED MAN.

| owe Lived All Sorts of Life" Said
the Tramp, land Lived 1t Twice."
David Grayson, author Of "Adven-
lures in Contentment," tells the story
of tramp in the American Magazine
Il is really character sketch Of a
ruined man. Mr.. Grayson reports his
efforts to get the tramp to live regu-
lar life as follows:
"'Friend,' l said, stop here. We
have a good country. You have trav-
eled far enough. l know from expert
ence what a corn field will do for a
man.
81 have lived all sorts of life,' he
continued, and 1 have lived in all
twice, and 1 am afraid
"'Face it, 1 said, gripping his arm,
longing for some power to blow grip
into him.
"'Face it, he exclaimed, don't you
suppose l have tried-a few times with
out thinking would be enough
I might be all right. 1 should be all
right
HE brought his fist down on the
table and there was note Of resolu-
ton in his voice. I moved my chair
nearer to him, feeling as though 1 were
saving an immortal soul from destruc-
ton. l told him of our life, how the
quiet and the work of 1t would solve
his problems. l sketched with enthusi-
as1n my own experience and 1 planned
swiftly how we could live, absorbed in
simple work-and in books.
"'Try it, 1 said, eagerly.
~ WILL he said, rising from the
table and grasping my hand, III stay
here
Il had peculiar thrill of exultation
and triumph. 1 know how the priest
must feel having won soul from tor
ment
"He was trembling with excitement
and pale with emotion and WEAKNESS
One must begin the quiet life with rest
So l got him of to bed, first pouring
him a bathtub of warm water. l laid
out clean clothes by his bedside and
took away his old ones, talking to him
cheerily all the time about common
things.
"Owin9 to the excitement Of the
evening 1 spent restless night. Be
fore daylight, while was dreaming a
strange dream of two men running, the
one who pursued being the counter
part of the one who fed, heard my
name called aloud.
II sprang out Of bed.
The tramp has gone called Har-
riet, my sister.
"He had not even slept In his bed.
He had raised the window, dropped out
on the ground and vanished"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10
Animals as Mechanics.


1t is only within recent years that
men have learned how to make houses
and other structures Of cement. This
art is probably yet In crude stage, and
by and by mankind may learn to use
the material in vastly more skillful and
efficient ways.
But many of the lower animals have
for ages been making their houses of
mud or of similar plastic and harden
ing substances. The cliff swallows
ski1lfully built home is indeed a won
derful structure, especially when we
take into consideration the simple way
i'll which the bird does the work. I'm
agine boy Or girl trying to make
such structure of mud and handling
the material only by the aid Of pointed
pliers. Yet the bird does it and does it
we'll with her pointed bill. In some ce-
ment structures, especially in railroad
embankments, you have probably no
ticed that the workmen first put in sew
eral iron rods to increase the strength
Of the wall. This is, practically, what
the phoebe, the robin and other birds
do when they mix a liberal supply of
grasses and other plant fbers, and even
strings, through their concretions Of
mud.-St. Nicholas
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10
Daddy Long Legs.

He is also called the harvest spider.
But he isn't a true spider-nor an
insect.
He belongs to the family known as
Phalanglidae
Eight long legs help him to get along
in the world.
He has four long legs and four about
half length.
All his legs spring from body which
is grOtesquely small
They are a benefit to us, as they
subsist on plant lice and other insects.
During the day he is usually quiet,
save on cloudy days, which he mistakes
for twilight.
He passes the winter in the egg state,
Matching in the spring and becoming
full-grown in summer.
In the North their bodies are rather
small and their legs comparatively
short. The legs Of a Mississippi speci-
men measured nearly four inches.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10
The Three Old Ladie..

There was an old lady all dressed in silk
VINO lived upon lemons and buttermilk
And thinking this world was a sour old
place,
she carried its acid all over her face.
another old lady all dressed in matches.
LIVED upon nothing but lucifer matches
80 the world, it made her strange and
cough,
AND sure as you rubbed her you set her
off.
Another old lady, all sunny and neat.
Who lived upon sugar, and everything
sweet,
exclaimed, when she heard of their
troubles, II never!
For the world is SO nice | could live on
forever"
Now, children, take your choice
VI the food your hearts shall eat:
1nere are sourish thoughts, and brim-
stone thoughts,
And thoughts all good and sweet.
And whatever the hearts feeds on.
Dear children, trust to ME.
Is precisely what this queer old world
VIII seem to you to be-
Mary Mapes Dodge.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10
500 Reward. SfOO.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all its
Cure is the only positive cure known to the
m edical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitu-
| tional disease, requires constitutional treat
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system, thereby destroying tho
foundation of the disease, and giving the pa
tent strength by building up the constitution
proprietors have so much faith in its curative
powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list
of testimonials.
Address. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, Use.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10
Snort of Infant .Jauauese Girl.

Little girls in Japan make play
Of one thing that in after years be-
comes labor, labor Of love, though it is.
So soon as a girl is old enough, per-
haps 3 or 4, her dolly is tied to her
back in the same way that she was
fastened to her nurses back when she
was baby. She carries this about
while at play, says the Circle, and as
she grows older larger doll is used,
until she has grown accustomed to the
weight and is able to carry her baby
brother or sister, thus relieving her
mother, who perhaps works in the rice
fields or in a tea garden.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10
A Novel Watermark.


Have YOU ever noticed the water
mark on your letter paper! II you
have this little story will interest you.
go right upstairs" Towards nurse
said to him the other day, land wash
your face; it's very dirty"
Howard disappeared and came down
again In a few moments, his nose Shin
ing from the effects Of soap and water
and his cheeks scarlet from an ener-
getic scrubing. But, alas, the enthu-
siasm had evidently died down before
no had proceeded very far with his
washing. Behind his ears there was
an unmistakable black streak, continu-
ing round underneath his chin.
"Why. Howard" exclaimed nurse In
horror. you're not half clean. There's
a regular watermark back OF your
ears"
81 know It," exclaimed Howard, In
stantly. Ibid it on purpose. Inc
watermark has to be somewhere on a
GOOD article. doesn't it? So l thought
that would be the best place for IT.
cause my ears hide 1t lot
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10
Harvard. Oldest Graduate.

Charles A. Welch Of Cohasset, Mass,
is the oldest living graduate of Har-
ward, the sole survivor Of the class of
1888. He is wealthy, in good health
and as much interested in his alma
mater as though he had graduated only
last year. He practiced law for more
than 20 yearx
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10

Congress passed only 700 bills at it's
recent session, which is a pretty good
record when one stops to consider that
it was tempted by the introduction Of
34.45O.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10
Discovered 1t.

The physician was called to the bed
side Of the suffering man.
"How did the accident happenY he
asked.
HE persisted in looking for gas
Leak" they Observation-Disclosures Senti-
mel
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10

Professor Matteucci denies having,
said the earth will soon be bumped by
comet and the people who werei
afraid OF being Jared out Of fat Do
litical Jobs can breathe easier.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10

One million divorces is this country's
record for twenty years Still, we
must not become pessimistic. Lots Of
people get married and live happily
ever afterward
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10

-Four Brussels banks have failed T.
will 60 hard with their officials II their
failure does any damage to King Leo
pold's financial interests.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10

The Arkansas girl who announced
that she would marry any man who
would promise to support her isn't re-
ceiving as much mail as the average
widow who still has her late husbands
life insurance intact,
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10
Shake INTO Your Shoes

Aliens Foot-Ease. powder. It makes
tight or new shoes feel easy. 1t is a
certain cure for sweating, callous and
gfsts Price 25c. Trial package mailed
FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted.
Leroy, New York.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10

John d. Rockefeller says he is worth
only $3OO,OOOOOO, and Henry H.
Rogers has recently had to borrow
money for the purpose Of continuing
operations on a railroad that he Is
building in Virginia. Chancellor Day
must be finding it hard to keep on
hoping for the best.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10
Explained.

"Say, paw"
"Well, son?"
"What is a diplomat?'
"Well, son, I'm diplomat when
ever succeed In making your mother
believe what I tell her" -Milwaukee
Sentinel.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10
\ Redtfme story.

Ioura settled herself at her mothers
,noe and with upturned face waited
For her bedtime story.
Mother usually told Laura a story OF
her own youth, and this evening she
heoan without Introduction:
sWhen / used to be out OF temper,
~ naughty In any way, grandpa Wouid
coll TO me, Mary, Mary; take care
There's mouse in the pantry
.-rhis. OF course, made me stop cry
,no and after wondering bit, wouid
, ,,'n + the pantry to see whether there
was really q mouse in the. the trap a,,nd Du.
- moo what he meant, for, said ! there
o''s' - mice IN mothers pantry, and |
have no pantry -. 49,
- .srhen grandpa pulled me to MS knee
- said: your heart. child is your
aantrv: the little SINS are the mice tna1
p l,at n and nibble away all the good
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10

A 7-year-old boy has been arrested
for incendiarism. It would be a good
plan to turn this boy into base burn:
er.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10

Things always look dark when On
Gle YIN Hill puts on his colored spec
tacles and begins to peer into the fu-
ture
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10

FITS st. Vltus Dance and all Nervous Diseases
lilo permanently cured by DR.. Kline's Great
Nerve RestOrer. Send for FREE$2 trial bottle and
treatise. Kline, Id .931Arch St., Phila Pa.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10

FOR SALE. Halls Safe as
good as new. Will sell
ChedDfOr cash or on time
payments if sold at once.
For dimensions address
p. o. Box 27, Seattle.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10
He Felt EN-.

Racon-They say there are over a
million species of insects In the world.
Fcbprt-That's no news to me. Don't
,ou suppose | ever went to a Sunday
School picnic in the woods ?--Yonkers
Statesman.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10

Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Soothins
syrup the best remedy to use for their children
during the teething period.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10

Platforms are made for ono party q
stand on and the other to jump on.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10

One of Shakspeare's plays II being
performed in Chicago with good deal
of success, perhaps owing to the fact
that the scenic effects are equal to
those employed in any of the musical
comedies.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10
The "MOraI" Aspect.

When a man claims he won a "mor-
al'' victory it means he has had the
stuffing licked out O. him.-Topeka Cap
itsl.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10
Classified ADS

,nTTCE- The following announce
ne S are from leading business mess men
anu lnoding, The list may contain just
isa InTroposition you are looking fer.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10

The game of whist a woman plays'ls
not reliable index to her useful &C
eOnpIshments.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10

pENs,IES UST must keep up an Elk
base ~ w ORGANIZATION for the pur-
VI freezing out competition.
WE DO NOT.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10

chesnsr" e have no competition selling
SihL AT THE TRUE, NOT AT AN
INFLATED DDTNE
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10

rpInv,, TRUST sets aside HALF THE
psnso OF the register to pay the ex-
10 $50 the agency and Commissions
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-08-10

ssIIs TRUST, at INFLATED PRICES,
VI the instal1ment plan.
WE DO NOT.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-09-12
Graded sehool Opens September 10

The Kingstree graded school
will begin work again on next
Monday. September 1s. An
unusually able corps OF instruc-
tors has been secured and the
ensuing year promises to be the
most successful yet. Following
is a list of the teachers and the
work which will. he under their
supervision: Mr. P P Bethea,
9th and 10th grades; Mr. E B
Hallman, 9th grade; Miss Ross.
7th grade; Miss Beckham, 9th
grade; Miss Stoll, 4th and 5th
grades; Miss Onslaw, End and
3rd grades; Miss Erkmann, 1st
grade; Miss Campbell, instructor
of piano.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-09-12

On last Tuesday while Scott
and Miller of the Peoples Mar.
ket were driving twenty nice
beef cattle through town, upon
reaching the railroad one of the
COWS broke into the waiting
room at the depot and walked
straightway up to the ticket
window apparently in quest Of
a ticket back to her rural home.
The accommodating agent ap-
peared promptly at the window
to wait upon the customer, but
for some reason he refused to
sell the desired ticket, while at
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-09-12
Summons for Relief.

Complaint Served)
State of South Carolina,
County of Williamsburg
Court Common Pleas.
Drucilla Altman, Francis E Eaddy,
Victoria Hanna, john B. Altman and
Susan U. Stone,
Henry Altman, Lizzie Thompson,
Josie Altman, James II Altman, Dalhe
Altman. Warren Altman, Gausle
THOMPSON, Eula E. Breeze, James 6.
Thompson, Cassie B. Thompson, Walter
81. Thompson and s. B. Poston,
Defendants.
To THE DEFENDANTS, Henry Altman,
Lizzie Thompson, Josie Altman, ames
H Altman, Dallie Altman, warren
Altman, Gausie Thompson. Eula =.
Breeze, James G. Thompson. Cassie b;
Thompson, Walter H. Thompson and
s. B. Poston.
You ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and re-
ouired to answer the complaint In this
action; of which copy is herewith
served upon you, and to serve a copy
of your answer to the said complaint
on the subscribers at their office IN
Kinestree, South Carolina, within
twenty-days after.the service hereof; ;
exclusive of the day ofsuch service; and
if you fail to answer the complaint
within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff
in this action will apply to the Court
for the relief demanded in the complaint.
LEE & AsKNs,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
To the defendant, Eula E. Breece:.
Take notice, that the complaint In
this action was filed the in office OF the
Clerk of the Court Of Common Pleas
for Williamsburg County, State OF
South Carolina, on the 7th day OF Sep
tember, A. D., 1907.
Lee & Askins,
4126t Plaintiffs Attorneys.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-09-12

the same time, with a rope that
had been handed him, he skill
fully threw a lasso through the
window and securely roped her
by the horns in true Western
style. This is Mr. Tayloris first
experience with beef cattle in
the passenger department; and
the whole bovine tribe should
"hereby take notice" that their
patronage is not desired. This
unusual incident attracted a
large crowd Of laughing people
to the depot.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-09-12

For RENT-One store building at
saltera For terms apply to Mrs S E
Davis, Salters Depot, 8 G.
WANzD-To buy Stock Certificates
of Williamsburg Live Stock 10.
Address, "BUYER,"
9-1s-3t Kingstree, s. q.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-09-12

Kingstree Dry Goods Co
watch Space"
County Dispensary Board
Monthly Statement.
wv King ct al-Corporators'
Notice.
Elizabeth Yarborough- Not.
ice Final Discharge.
Lee & Askins-Summons For
Relief.
Blizzard Hardware Co-Shin.
giles, Lime and Sewing'Maehines.
L Stackley--.Clothing, etc.
Collie Epps-lncorporators'
Notice.
Orangeburg Collegiate Ins I'll
tute-Boarding School.