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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-10-15

rs it-ah-very important, Mr.. Ha.
vers?" he inquired.
Very" said Dick.
The old gentleman lifted appealing
eyes. "The matter could not. / sup
pose ah-wait?" he suggested.
Not an instant" was the inflexible
reply.
In that case" quavered Sir Deans.
III the ladies will pardon my defec-
ton"
Then the two men strolled away.
mo doubt" began Dick tempestu-
ously, you think me an awful young
ass, Sir Deans"
"Eah-not yet" was the guarded
reply.
You're an old man. I am a young
one" Dick went on heedlessly.
"Ah-very young. I should say"
said Sir Deans, smiling at him.
Dick gulped down something that
seemed to rise in his throat. I'm plain
English, I'm in love with
Miss Stephany." he announced grudly.
Wait minute. And try not to laugh,
please. I've loved her ever since first
set eyes on her. And l am conceited
enough to believe that-in q woman's
way-she-she likes me, too.
do you think it fair, sir, with your
advantages of wealth and position, to
try to cut me out with the girl, when
you know you don't really love her
yourself and I do =
while it stands to reason she can't pos
sibly feel any genuine"
Pardon me-" interposed Sir Deans,
blinking rapidly. Il have no desire to
balk your confidence. But surely you
must now agree with me that it il
indiscreet to be so much in earnest
after dinner? Let me put it to you,
as a man Of the world. that 1t would
be wiser for us to return to the ladies
at once"
Il don't want to be wise; want to
be happy" Dick answered miserably
Sir, give me chance. Don't dazzle
Ella. She is only child, really. Don't
lead her on to act unworthily, to be-
have In way that she would be sure
to regret-regret very bitterly, with
tears-in the future. I'm not rich, as
you are. cannot make her my lady,
as you can. But God, how I love
her!" And the boys eyes filled with
tears.
IF you married her." continued
Dick. do you think either of you
would be happy? Wouldn't everybody
know that she had married you, not
for yourself, though she admires and
respects you immensely"-this was a
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-10-15
THE REED PLAYER


y . dim shore. where water darken-
ing
Took the last light Of spring,
I went beyond the tumult, hardening /.
For some diviner thing.
! saw the firef1ies shine below the
wood,
Above the shadows dank.
As Uriel. from some great altitude.
ine planets, rank on rank.
AND now unseen along the shrouded
mead
one went under the hill,
He blew cadence on his mellow reed.
inat trembled and was still.
1t seemed as II line of amber fire
Had shot the mathered dusk,
As II had blown a wind from ancient
Tyre
Laden with myrrh and musk.
He gave his Turing note amid the fern:
Its enigmatic fall
Haunted the hollow dusk with golden
turn
And argent interval.
I could not know the message that he
bore,
The springs Of life from me
HIDDEN his incommunicable lore
AS much a mystery.
And, as followed far the magic play
er,
He passed the maple wood,
And when passed. the stars had risen
there
And there was solitude.
Duncan Campbell Scott.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-10-15
Rise of the Hindu Woman.

From her role of half-toy, half-slavo
to man, penned up in the seclusion Of
the zenana (woman's apartments), the
woman of Hindustan Is rising to
equality with man. India is daily
getting anxious to accord it's women
a humane and just treatment, says
Saint Nihal Singh in American Re-
view of Reviews. Sex inequality had
deereed that while the widower was
allowed to marry, even permitted to
indulge in polygamy. the widow was
forced to remain widow. This in
junction is no longer being faithfully
obeyed. Widows Of the highest castles
are being allowed to marry. More
over, Hindus are making special eff
forts to establish homes where young
and old widows are kindly treated and
taught how to be nurses, doctors,
teachers and missionaries. The aim
Of these institutions is to inspire the
widows to help toward the uplift OF
East-Indian society and also to make
them capable of supporting themselves
instead Of being charges on their rela-
tives, as has been the case heretofore.
Polygamy was never very common in
India, but to-day 1t is doomed. To-
day the woman OF India Is leaving the
privacy of her apartments. going to
modern schools for education, and en-
tering the arena of public activity. to
help along the evolution Of Hindustan.
Schools and colleges, especially de-
signed for girls, and neighborhood
centers meant for the advancement of
matured women, are coming to be
pronounced features Of East-Indian
cities.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-10-15
MIssoURI's NEW BLUE LAWS.

Waiter Girls, Gun Toters and Some
Others Made Unhappy.
All Of Missouri,s new laws do not
work smoothly-to start with. anyway.
a st. Louis dispatch to the New York
World states.
There's the law ordering that no
woman shall work more than nine
hours day. flfty-four week. and that
no female shall be employed in a place
where intoxicating liquor is sold.
Thirty-two mattresses are employed
in Compton's white Kitchen" where
a man cannot get drink stronger
than ginger pop If his life depends on
1t. These fair mattresses are paid by
the hour and have been working
eighty-four hours a week. earning
good wages and receiving many tips.
also earned by their engaging man.
ners.
Compton posted the new schedule
Of work hours in the white Hitch.
en-" the mattresses rebelled.
I'VE want our old hours" declared
the girls, who are known to their en-
ployer by numbers only.
II would be pleased to accommodate
you," said Compton, ''but the law says
fifty-hours and that is all you can
work"
Its none of the laws business, II
we are willing" said No. %, who was
spokesman.
"A pretty law!" shifted No. 2, who
Is head waitress and wants everybody
to work. "I'd like to serve hash to
the fellows who passed it. They would
get mighty little hash,"
TITS an uplift movement" Compton
exclaimed. 1.-THE women had this law
passed to benefit you girls. It's like
suffrage; some women want to vote.
but If they gain the suffrage and are
compelled to vote, they will protest.
But stand by the law until it's
knocked out"
Another Of the new laws makes Ii
felony to steal hog. Besides. pork
chops and ham and eggs are very
cheap.
A new statute relating to carrying
concealed weapons grieves chivalrous
| Missourians. This law deprives the
accused of trial in police and justice
| courts and directs that he stand trial
in a circuit or criminal court. The
penalty juries may inflict is severe.
IF a gentleman Is forbidden to go
armed, how is he to resent an insult ?"
ask all the Col. Triggers of the old
school.
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prcoRD PRICE EXPECTED
FOR THIS YEARS HOPS

Tacoma. Wash, Oct. 11.-James IL
one If Isaac Pincus & Sons well
known authority, believes tn"' us
wear will break all records 1or nle 8,
hon nrices and that the growers WIZ
reap fortunes. In an intervle" ne ie'
views the market as follows: :
"The situation in the hop market Is
stronger today than it was at THIS .line
in 1882 when crops went 10 81 d
Mound. This is the first time III .ne
history of the world that no country
has produced enough hops Tor us own
consumption.
During the last 80 days there mas
been an advance here OF Genus a
mound in the price of hops, ana III
other parts the market has gone up
more rapidly. Growers in Wasnlhglon
are being offered 26 cents; IN Can'
fornia 26h cents; in New YORK d. re ,
IN the Continent AZ to 81 cents. Inc
market in London is 80 cents.
"The worlds crop has been harvest
ed and our estimate of 95S,OOo nun
dredweight has proved substantially
correct. This is so per cent OF the
1908 Weld. The consumers are no"
realizing the extreme shortness OF the
supply. in consequence of which the
market has advanced rapidly in all
sections. -,
at is estimated that the world Will
REQUIRE 100000 hundredweight 1or
this years consumption. The ylelo
amounted to 100000 hundredWelght
less. This deficiency must be supplied
from the stocks in the hands OF the
growers, dealers and brokers. Inc
stocks are not so large as stated. Ii
was predicted by some of the dealers
that no matter how small the l9OS
crop would be, there was on the Con-
tinent enough old hops to prevent a
big advance in price.
''That the big holdings of old hops
are a myth has just been proved by
the English, who are buying heavily
in Germany. The Germans used to
buy heavily in England, which is con
fronted with big shortage.
"The market will not take an active
squirt on this Coast until next week
when the official estimate of England
will be published, and when samples
of Coast hops are received in Lon
dom
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shrewd thrust-"but for the wealth,
ton it is within your power to confer
upon her? And don't you think when
the glamour of possessing all those adj
vantages had faded away, that she
would feel Inundated and ashamed?
She might even get to hate you, know
ing that everybody knew why she had
become your wife and despised her in
consequence. Some women would envy
her, no doubt; but their envy would
be an added insult, because it would
rank her along with them. She would
grace your household could not
give you her heart; and at last you
would grow to realize that you had
ruined her life = and, incl
dentally, mine, too, not to speak OF
yours"
but am not aware, sir, exclaimed
Sir Deans, that you personally have
any sort Of claim whatsoever upon my
consideration. You see, leave myself
out of the matter entirely-as you do
=" No, no." he added hastily, test
ilv. II have heard enough-more than
enough. You assume too much. young
man." He put up deprecatory hand
hetween them. mot another word.
Let us go back to the ladies"
AMI then they walked slowly back.
"Ah-h! / am tired" sighed Sir
Deans as he sank into his old place
beside Mrs. Stephany. II say, Havers,
why don't you take Miss Ella and show
her that waterfall. Most wonderful
sight with all those colored lamps
hing about it." he remarked address
ing the dumbfounded Mrs. Stephany.
Ella rose slowly, regarding her lovers
face curiously.
Then, as the two young people wan
dered off together, Sir Deans turned to
Mrs. Stephany, again with MS rare
charming smile wrinkling the crows
feet about his eyes.
Tonight" said he, endeavor1ng Dy
an unwonted tenderness OF tone 70
soften the asperity of her demeanor;
tonight, Amelia, / have been 1ndulg-
ing in a pern1cious naDH tnat
thought | had completely discarded
many years ago..
Indeed" quoth the lady.
.I have been what Is called
thinking things over" he ex-
planned.
"And II I may say SO, Sir Deans
von have also made me think, she
said softly, after a pause.
when we were young together" ne
aa,d eve were sometimes grateful for
1,t4,a kindly interference, were we
not?"
II don't know what you mean. she
said.
IT mean what meant then" no re-
piled: in those golden days when we
"a dreams Of 4 future IN common. !
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its stockholders were not aliens. This
effort to smoke out Strahorn fails be-
cause the court says it is the duty
of the defense to prove the stockhold.
ers are aliens, and not the duty of the
company to prove that they are not.
In the Spokane case of E. d. Smith
against the City of Spokane the su.
preme court holds the city has power
under police regulations to take ex-
elusive charge of the scavenger work
and put private scavengers out of bus
mess. Smith had done that work for
ten years when the city took charge.
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think It was because Ella reminded me
80 much Of you that thought want
ed to marry her.
Mrs. Stephany fingered the stun q
her dress. Il hardly follow you, even
now" she faltered.
But, why" he whispered, drawing
closer to her; why should seek to
possess replica whilst here IL the
original7 Will you marry me. dear?'
For answer she slipped her soft
warm. motherly hand into his dry,
shriveled palm.
Il have often wondered why you
never thought Of asking me. instead OF
Ella" she confessed demurely.-Edwin
Pugh in Sketch.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-10-15

Ancient Egyptian Incubator.
There has been In Egypt a system.
of Matching eggs by artificial heat from
time immemorial. One establishment
was constructed of sun-dried bricks.
mortar and earth. It was provided
with twelve compartments or incuba-
tors, each capable of Matching $500
eggs, or altogether 10000 at one time.
The season begins In March and lasts
until May, and three patches Of eggs
are Matched In this time, each taking
an average Of three weeks. The num-
Der of eggs treated at this establish
ment In a single season was 10000.
from which $4,000 chickens are usul
ally obtained. The price Of eggs Is
twopence-halfpenny per dozen, and
chickens just Matched are sold at sew
enpence-halfpenny per dozen. The
number Of chickens Matched IN thia
manner yearly throughout Egypt Ii es-
timated at $4,000 900, and would. I'M
der ordinary circumstances, reouiro
100000 mothers.
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EFFORT TO SMOKE OUT
STRAHORN NOT SUCCESSFUL

olympia, Oct. 10.-In affirming the
ueclslon of the Spokane superior court
~ condemnation suit brought by the
->ortn Coast railroad against Mary O.
ano William Foreney, the State SUI
pieihe court held that Promoter Stra-
nofh' OF that mysterious line, may pre-
GIVE the secret of the identity of his
Dachers. A point was raised in the
vase that the company could not con-
0enin because it had not proved that
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-10-15
HEARST WILL AGAIN MAKE
RACE FOR MAYORALTY

New York, Oct 10. - William R.
Hearst announces that he will accept
the nomination for mayor as rendered
at an Independent mass meeting at
Cooper Union.
Mr.. Hearst's statement outlining the
conditions upon which he will accept
is in part as follows:
Whether | am a candidate or not
will support the rest of the fusion
ticket nominated in opposition to Tam
many Hall. When the independence
League committee withdrew from the
fusion conference, it declared that it
still stood ready to support frank
and honest expression of progressive
principles and candidates, irrespective
of party This is your opportunity to
substantiate that declaration. Nomi-
nate me if you so desire with the
greater part of that ticket behind me
and ! will run.
"The candidates nominated on the
fusion ticket are worthy of support.
The ticket is already in the field. If
we nominate another ticket, both tick
cts may be defeated If we nominate
the fusion ticket, Tammany will be de-
feated. And if Tammany is defeated
the citizens will win
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Only the other day the papers told
the story of man who travelled all
the way from Indiana to Massachu-
sets to trace and buy back an old
family horse that he had sold a few
months before. Ever since the horse
had been gone the mans wife had
grieved. Her condition had finally be-
come such that her husband gladly
paid larger price than he had re-
ceived, and cheerfully bore the cost
OF an expensive trip besides, to get
the horse back. In the same week
New England newspapers recorded the
tragic death of an old man who was
living comfortably with married
daughter in town near Boston. The
cause ascribed was his longing for the
farm where he had spent most of his
days, and which he had left for a
presumably easier existence. There
also appeared lately in one of the mag
azines a description of the pathetic
last act which marks the final aban-
donment OF an old farm-the auction
by which the homely household uten-
sils that have borne so intimate a re-
lation to the home are distributed
among neighbors, to whom they have
no special significance. Similar things
are constantly occurring. To any one
with insight, says the Youths Com.
pan1on, they disclose the depth of SEN
ttment which lies hidden even in the
most Unconditional of lives. For young
people. especially, they are full of sig
n1ficance. Nothing is more natural
than that son should say: Father
Is getting to old to live alone any
longer. The land is all run out, any,
way. We might as well sell the old
pace and bring him down here with
us, where he can be more comfort
able. 1t Is the beginning Of the trag-
edy. No land is ever SO run out that
1t does not produce a harvest Of mem
cries more precious than the best crop
Or corn 1t ever raised. You can make
the old man comfortable, but you can
rarely make him happy. The roots OF
an old tree go deep, and the real sus-
tenance they draw comes not through
such obvious tap-roots as food anu
shelter and clothing, but by little
threadlike fbers hidden from sight,
twined about every stone and pene-
trating every clod. 1t is i'll trans
planting such q tree.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-10-15

Even in the prohibition Stafe
there Is always more o. less trouble
brewing.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-10-15

kennewick: "Will you please inform
me of a good, quick-growing wind
break that would be suitable for this
region? III. M. T."
For a quick growing wind-break,
We believe there is nothing better than
the Lombardy poplar, but after it has
grown it has no wood or lumber value,
and for this reason we recommend the
planting of black locust. We rate
Wlnd-break trees in your region as fol-
lows: % black locust; (2) white will
low; CD Lombardy poplar. If you
wish trees to stand after the wind
breaks are removed, we suggest that
you plant black walnuts every twenty
10 thirty feet along the edge, and you
VIII have in that very valuable tree"
corning the kind of fruit trees that can
De successfully grown in the Puyal-
lup valley. | have some land lying on
one of the benches about 100 to $50
Ieet above the valley proper, located
ABOUT two miles west of Puyallup and
On the opposite side of the river. l am
NOW clearing this, and have about ten
acres slashed and burned. The soil is
sort OF sandy loan surface with a
suosoll of sand. have been given to
understand that apples will not grow
there. However, most of the orchards
l nave seen have had apparently no
care and the trees were covered with
moss and other foreign growth. 1t
mas occurred to me that possibly an
apple that does not require much color
would be all right, and that pruning
and care of the trees would overcome
the deformities in the fruit
"B. w. R."
We, too, have heard that it is inn
poSsible to grow apples in the Puyallup
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24
Holiness of Amenders.

stitution, in every instance, as opposed to the interpretation of New England.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24

ly. Their remarks that other affiictions might have been visited upon us re- minds us Of a story.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24
Real Estate Transfers.

Deeds of conveyance in the following transactions in real estate in which amounts of 5000 or more were involved were filed yesterday in the office of the probate court:
 s75Oo-B. T. Selman to Mrs. F. S. Davis ct al., lot 8 in subdivision D of blocl 106, Elyton Land company's survey oi Birmingham, fronting % feet on the soutt side of First avenue between Twenty fifth and Twenty-sixth streets and extend ing to depth of 1s21a feet.
 $2OO0-T. G. Tildsley to Q. L. Corey, lots 2l to 25, inclusive. in block 263, North Bir- mingham Land company's survey of North Birmingham.
 s1s2e-James M. Perkins to J. F. Kent, part of the northeast quarter of the north east quarter of section Il, township IS, south, range west
 sl13e-S R. Hawkins to G. A. McAllis- ter, 45 acres in the northwest quarter of section 20, township IS south, range west.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24
RIGHT OF WAY
 GRANTED RAILROAD

The commissioners appointed to hear condemnation proceedings instituted by the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad against the s. D. Jones Real Estate & Insurance Co.,, and T. A. Lacey and heirs, by which 1t was sought to secure a right of way through certain property lying on the outskirts of Besse- mer. made their report yesterday. decid- ing that the railroad should pay $25OO for the right of way through the property involved With this settlement effected. only three more pieces of land break the right of way of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic between Birmingham and Bessemer. The contractor is already on the ground between here and the Marvel City and 1t is stated that work on the job of extending the Atlanta, Birming ham and Atlantic tracks into Birming- ham will be pushed forward, the railroad expecting to have its own tracks into Birmingham by March l, 1910.
 A second suit involving the extension of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Allan tic into Birmingham, instituted in the probate court by the Alabama Terminal company against s. A. Oldacre, ct al. will soon be taken up py the commis- sioners.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24
AGAINST SUPREN E COURT
 THE FIGHT IS DIRECTED
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1)


 ly. Their remarks that other affiictions might have been visited upon us re- minds us of story.
 "Got Of Light"
 There was a lynching in Texas. A body of men strung a negro up in punishment for an unmentionable crime. After cutting down the body and preparing to leave, they spied the white eye of another negro peeping through the cracks of the fence. Jn stantly they surrounded the curious creature, and bringing him before the corpse said:
 Now, you black rascal, if you say anything about this, we'll string you up.'
 "'No, no, white folks" replied the negro. 'cose I ain't goin' to say any thing bout it. I think that negro got off light. I thought you white folks wuz going to beat him before hanging him. He shore got off light? Virtue and Brain, Too. MT. Wnlett resented the imputation tn at all the virtue of the state is OH the side of the amendment. We have as much virtue as they" he said, "and a great deal more intel l Iigence."
 ] He next took up the question of pon- | tics inv olved in the proposed scheme, ! pointing out that three of the amen T. ists have announced for governor | WealIley, Mallory and Seed. He re- 1 ferred to the rumored political ambf- 1 tions of Conner, and paid his respects to | Brooks Lawrence.
 T was a Conner man. he said. T followed him to the pumping off place. I could not have followed longer with | out a surrender of personal liberty" He declared that with the passage of | the amendment the laws, already l drastic, will become so drastic that it will be necessary to appeal to the fed eral constitution for protection. 'Jn Case we do have to make such appeal" said he, I've will have to ask protection under tho hated fourteenth l and fifteenth amendments-the only amendments applying to the separate states. When we do this, we admit that state i'ghts' was failure, that for which yoL old soldiers fought and bled. ,"
 Trusting the Legislature. Tn urging you to vote for this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24
DAMAGE SUIT HAS BEEN COMPROMISED

It is probable that this morning the attractions of the Pleasure Way of the late State Fair, which were attached Wednesday afternoon by Sheriff Higdon, will be released, the suit for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by Mrs. Hall, who was injured in the human laundry having been compromised for $75. The compromise judgment and the costs in the case, it is understood. will be paid this morning, in which case the attachment will be withdrawn.
 It was learned yesterday afternoon that Frank Spellman had sold out his interest in the attractions which were here on the Pleasure Way. The price paid for the Spelman interest .n the shows could not be ascertained, but 1t is stated that the buyers settled the suit instituted by Mrs. Hall and that the side shows will leave this afternoon for Macon, Ga.