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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-22
OLD ENGLISH HOLIDAYS.
Significance Of Many Of Them Net
| Understood In America.

Significance Of Many Of Them Net
Understood In America.
The constant illusions In English
literature. and especially In English
fiction, to the old English customs hav-
Ing relation to the many holidays
which formed the "Red Letter" days
of the medieval calendar, are apt at
times to puzzle and bewilder the
American reader. Some few of these
anniversaries, it is true, are observed
more or less generally on this side Of
the Atlantic, but even in England the
majority are peculiar to certain locali-
ties.
Jan. s. Twelfth day. or twelfth tide.
sometimes called Old Christmas day,
the same as Epiphany. The previous
evening is Twelfth night, with which
many social rites have been long con-
nected.
Feb. 2. Candlemas, festival Of the
publication Of the Virgin. Conservation
of the lighted candles to be used in
the church during the year.
Feb. IA. Old Candlemas, st. valen-
tines day.
March rs. Lady day, annunciation
or the Virgin. April 6 is Old Lady
day.
June "a. Midsummer day, feast Of
the nativity Of st. John the Baptist.
July Z is old Midsummer day.
| July Is. st. Swithin's day. There
was an old superstition that if rain fell
on this day it would continue forty
days.
Aug. 1. Lammas day, originally in
England the festival of the wheat har-
vest. In the church the festival of st.
Peters miraculous defiverance from
prison. Old Lammas day is Aug. Is.
Sept. 20. Michaelmas, feast of st.
Michael the archangel. Old Michael.
mas is Oct. II.
Nov. 1. All-Hallowmas, All-Hallows,
or All-Saints' day. The previous even
ing is All-hallowe'en, observed by home
gatherings and old-time festive rites.
Nov. g. All Souls day. Day Of
prayer for the souls of the dead.
Dec. II. Martinmas. Feast of st.
Martin Old Martinmas is Nov. %.
Dec g. Childermas. Holy limo.
cents day.
Lady day, Midsummer day. Michael
mas and Christmas are quarter (rent)
days in England, and Whitsunday,
Martinmas, Candlemas and Lammas
day in Scotland.
Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash
Wednesday, and Maunday Thursday,
the day before Good Friday, are OBJ
served by the church. Mothering Sun
day is Mid-Lent Sunday, in which the
old rural custom obtained of visiting
ones parents and making them pres
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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-22
WHAT IS THE ANSWER
there Are Four Reasons for OPPOSE
tton to Parcels Post.

There Are Four Reasons for Oppose
ton to Parcels Post.
What is the answer? There isn't
any one answer; but the parcels post
is one of several answers, Golfers
SAYS. Everybody Knows now the old
story. When John Wanamaker was
postlnaster-general, some one asked
him why he didn't have parcels post
like every other civilized country? He
said there are four reasons: The first
is the Wells-Fargo Express Company,
the second is the American Express
Company. the third is the Adams Elk
press Company, the fourth is the Unit
ed States Express Company. Every
once in a while our consuls in Europe
write to our government telling how
the parcels post works in Europe. In
Senator Platt's day (Senator Plat was
once the president of the United States
Express Company he used to have
such reports withdrawn from the pub
lie. Here is a recent one from II. 3.
Culver, United States consul at Cork.
ireland. This report was printed In
the Rural New Yorker:
farmers. merchants and manufac-
turers patronize extensively these
means of communication between the
markets and the isolated Individual
customer. The rates by parcels-post
are cents for one pound or less. 8
cents from one to two pounds. and z
cents additional for each pound up to
eleven-the weight limit Of parcels.
The length Of parcel allowed Is three
feet six inches. and the greatest length
and girth combined is six feet. For
example. parcel measuring three feet
six inches in its longest dimension
may measure two feet six inches IN
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-22
SAID SENATOR CLARK
HELPS STRAHORN ROAD

Boise, Idaho, April 16.-Boise rail
road men have received information
which they believe to be authentic
that William A. Clark, of Montana, is
to invest $15,O00,0OO to aid in the com
pletion of the North Coast railroad,
which is being promoted by Robert
Strahorn and the Gilmore and Pitts
burg interests. The story is that Mr..
Clark seeks to extend the field of
operations of the projected road into
Montana and to a connection with the
Southern Pacific.
It is also said that part of the added
capital will be used in obtaining ter.
minal facilities in several Northwest.
ern cities.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-22

girth. Eggs. fish, meat. fruit. veee-
tables, glass, crockery. liquids, butter,
cheese. ETC., may be transported by
parcels-post."
II we had the parcels-post in this
country the farmer could ship one or
nve or ten pounds of butter, or a few
dozen eggs, or peck Of potatoes, or
basket of apples, to his Individual
customer In the city, and avoid the
middleman. Fishermen in the north
OF Scotland send fresh fish to the Lon
don market this way. Also, II we had
the parcels-post system in this coun.
TRY, the express companies would
quickly reduce their rates and stop
paying 800 per cent dividends.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-22
BY SENATE IN
RIVERS AND HARBORS BILL

Washington, April 16.-FollOwing
are the increases in the rivers and
harbors appropriation bill authorized
by the senate committee over the
amounts carried by the bill as 1t
passed the house, so far only as they
affect the Pacific Northwest:
Washington-Co Columbia river, mouth
of Willamette to Vancouver, Wash,
$4,000; Cowlitz and Lewis rivers, 49,
100; WilIapa river and harbor,
$4,000; Grays Harbor, jetties, $4,000;
urays Harbor, $17,5O0; Columbia
river, Bridgeport to Kettle Falls,
$4,000.
Alaska-St. Michael canal, $4,000.
Snake river, Oregon, Washington
and Idaho, $17,500.
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rain in the fall at the right time, use
crimson clover, and you should get a
good growth before you pillow in the
spring.
Hairy vetch Best.
Hairy vetch is probably the best all
around nitrogen gathering crop we use.
1t has given us the highest degree of
satisfaction. 1t terminates readily on
small amount of moisture, grows in
the fall as well as in the spring, pro-
ducing a fine, large growth, and stands
cold weather well. The one objection
is that the seed is expensive.
DO not be afraid of this plant be-
coming weed in your orchard. wish
1t would become a weed in mine. In
wheat fields, however, it might become
a serious weed, as it is almost impos-
slble to separate the vetch from the
wheat. Twelve years ago it was sown
In field on the college farm, and it is
still there. In Minneapolis the seed
can usually be purchased for about 81
per 100 pounds, or So per bushel.
The Nitrogen Consumers.
1t is difficult to get a catch of man.
moth red clover when the ground is
dry. By sowing it after rain, as just
suggested for crimson clover, you
should get good results. 1t does not
make satisfactory fall growth, espe-
clally in cold weather, but where left
till midsummer it is an excellent plant
to use. Where you can control the
moisture it may be possible to permit
clover to stay over the season.
Swedish vetch is a small growing
plant of very persistent roofing ma
ture. Get it in the ground once and it
will stay there always. l do not con-
slider it bad, personally. We pillow it
up and work it over, and in July or
August little fine sprigs of it will come
up without reseeding: It makes a good
cover crop where lot of growth is
wanted.
Rape is good crop to start on hard,
dry soil. You can usually get rape to
grow when you cannot get anything
else.
Among the nitrogen consumers, rye
is probably the best one of the lot. It
produces more growth than any other,
starts with the same amount of mois-
ture, grows an immense amount of
green stuff per acre, in this way add
ing much plant food to the soil. It
grows in cold weather as we'll as in
warm weather, and makes excellent
food for hogs and poultry.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-22
MANY Convicts Discharged.

Olympia, April 16.-The records In
the office of Secretary of State Howell
show that on report of the present
board Governor Hay has signed the
final discharges for eight paroled
prisoners, committed sentences and
given full discharges to 1913 convicts.
These convicts are conditiOnally dis
charged, while one is pardoned. Seven
I w w. members in the county jail
at Spokane are given conditional par
donS.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-22
RAILROAD MEASURE
AMENDED BY SENATE.

hin 'lihgton, April 1.-THE railroad
hon., was before the senate about two
he +a, ono was then laid aside, not to
avoma .h up again until Monday. The
Was ~ reason for the postponement
smona ue desire to have printed an
tine s to the provision permit
roads. oen's oee"een iAi'
dav !. oniy real accomplishment of the
the ~ connection with the bill was
BY Suoption of an amendment offered
fron, e :, Elkins, which withho1ds
Sion >. Tue Interstate commerce commits
ronto Tue authority over exclusive water
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-22
Cover Crops Classified

In the classification of cover crops
we group the feasible ones of the
Northwest under two heads: Cd Nitro
gen collectors, and (2) nitrogen con-
sumers. We divide the nitrogen col
lectors into ANIMALS and perennials.
Under ANIMALS we place Canada peas,
spring vetch and crimson clover These
are the plants which, under our con-
ditions, might be expected to grow in
the fall, and in the case of Canada
peas, die before winter; in the case of
hairy vetch, to live three times out of
five; and in the case of crimson clover,
to thin out somewhat during the win
ter.
Under perennials nitrogen gather
ers) we place hairy vetch first, red clo-
yer second, and Swedish vetch, if OBJ
tainable, third. These are nitrogen
gatherers which can be used in this
country with good degree of success.
Now for the nitrogen consumers:
oats (spring oats) first; second, corn,
and third, rape. Perennials, or bien-
malls that we would use are wheat,
which, sown one year, will live over
and die the next. For instance, winter
wheat, if sown in the fall, will live
through the winter, and the following
fall ripen and die. The same will hold
true of rye.
Merits of Cover Crops.
Concerning the merits of different
cover crops, we will first take up Can
ada peas. This crop does we'll where a
little water is available. The stalks
are large and can be trampled in quite
easily. 1t makes good mass of tops,
as much as three feet frequently being
made in our orchards. It kills with
the first hard freezes in the fall, dries
out during the winter, and in the
spring the vines can be easily worked
by putting a disk on the dry vines and
chopping them up and working them
in.
Spring vetch is good, medium sized
grower, with good root system. It
lives through the winter three times
out of five in Eastern Washington, and
five out of five in Western Washington,
and usually every winter in the irri-
gated sections. 1t is valuable where a
cover is wanted in the sections that
are not so cold.
1t is not always easy to get 'stand"
of crimson clover. Where you have
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-22
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

Six known Methods by Which Me>
saxes May Be Sent without Wires.
There are now six distinct methods
known by which messages may De
sent between stations without metallic
connections. These are: 1. BY induc-
ton, in which the current raised to
high degree of intensity is enabled
to leap, as it were, from one wire to
another. In Edison's plan of telegraph
ing from moving trains the current
is transmitted by induction. 2. By
conduction, in which the earth Is en-
ployed as the conductor OF the mes
sage. 8. Mr.. Teslas invention, which
Utilities the earth, supplementing the
apparatus producing the current with
a conductor running up pole Tor q
short distance and terminating In a
fiat metal plate 4. Another method
which has been used in Europe and
is called the ultraviolet ray method.
By it the ultraviolet rays sent out
from an electric arc light at the send
ing station constitute the medium
whereby at the receiving station
sparks are set free, restoring the cur
rent in an interrupted circuit. 3. Still
another method employs either the Wis
ible light rays emitted from search
light or their accompanying invisible
heat rays, it being still uncertain
which ray is actually the medium OF
This method is the
basis of Professor Bells photophone
and the radiophone Of Professor Hayes.
6. Finally, there is the Hertz wave
method, which is the one successfully
operated by Marconl.
In 1888, Dr. Hertz of CARLSBAD, Ger
MANY. discovered that when an lmpul-
sive charge is passing through a con-
ductor. ether waves are radiated IN all
directions in the space surrounding the
conductor and that these waves are III
all respects similar to those OF llgnt'
except that they are much longer.
These waves move with the same We
locity as those of light, and have the
same power of reflection and relrac-
ton, etc., as are possessed by waves
OF light. In the Marconi metnod OF
wireless telegraphy, by means o. 2
Ruhmkorff induction coil. stream
of sharks is produced at gap IN an
electric circuit, where these Herman
waves are emitted in all directions
sidewise from the gap. BY means OF
one Of .the sensitive devices known 70
electricians, these waves can De plcheu
up. even at long distances from .ne
transmitter. Marconi made the essen
tial noints Of his method known - ~
1907 Init It was not until Maron 20
900 .ha+ his success in sending mes
aages across the English cns ,,as .na
distance Of thirty-two miles, ca.,s s,s az
s,tention Of the world to the poss'Dn
a .,,-oleas telegraphy.
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! = rozier Now oil Inspector.

Seattle, April 16.-Gov. NJ. E. Hay
has appointed A. A. Tozier, OF Ever
EFT. state oil inspector. to succeed r.
4. Clark. who was dismissed from the
states service few days ago. w. =.
Hay, whose home Is ct Brignton
reach. Seattle, will be Mr.. Tozier's
chief deputy. w. e. Hay is no rela-
tive OF the governors.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-22
Science
ES< 3SS9>. Afp
s! ss:9lnVentiOn


Buenos Ayres, now being compiled, is
expected to give that city population
of at least 1,285,OO
Brass may be given a color resem-
bling pewter by boiling it in a cream
OF tartar solution containing a small
amount of chloride of tin.
New York is experimenting with
street cars driven by electric motors
which get their power from gas en-
gines mounted below the floors of the
cars.
Though blessed with the most fer
tile soil and most favorable climate in
the world, the United States produces
less wheat per acre planted than Eng.
land, Germany, or Holland.
A model electric engine, built by
Thomas Davenport, a poor blacksmith
small circular track in 1884, probably
was the first electric railway in the
world.
A bit of primeval yew forest abou
udAl q All1C O4u01O 40 N0A OAuAy ~ .
served in the Bavarian highlands Of
Germany, the tree, once widely dis
tributed, having become almost extinct
in Europe.
The amount of fertilizing matter
brought down by the River Nile from
it's source every year is estimated at
1OO,OO0,OO0 tons enough to cover a
road from the earth to the moon six
teen feet wide by two and one-half
inches deep.
The Bell Telephone Company is to
adopt in New York the plan developed
by Independent companies in Buffalo
of attaching pay-station telephone-box-
es to street poles, after the model OF
police call-boxes. 1t is said that little
inconvenience is caused by the roar OF
traffic in the street, because the head
of the operator can be introduced into
the box so as practically to shut out
the extraneOus noises.
During 1908 Peru and Panama off,
cially adopted the world system OF
standard time based on the meridian
of Greenwich, and it is expected that
in consonance with a resolution of the
Pan-American Scientific Congress the
Latin-American countries generally
will adopt this system. 1t was the
expressed wish of the congress that
the new system should become effect
i've from Jan. 1, 1910. Time signals
upon this system are now sent out
without cost by cable and wireless
telegraphy throughout the American
continent. The whole globe is divided
into hourly belts, starting from the
meridian of Greenwich.
The chairman of the chemistry sec
ton of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, Professor
Louis Kahlenberg, dwelt, at the recent
Boston meeting, on the Importance OF
recognizing that solutions are really
chemical in character, and that there is
no wide gulf separating the act OF
solution from other chemical phenom'
ena. BENJAMIN Silliman, ST.. In 1887
regarded solutions as chemical com
mounds. and the chemical view pre-
dominated until 1887. Professor Kan
lenberg thinks that the renewed study
of solutions from the chemical polns
of view will greatly aid in getting
broader and more correct conception
of the nature Of chemical action ITSELF
1t will be Of particular service In un
rayeling questions in physiology.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-22
Increases for Employees.

New York, April 16.-Substantlai
increases in wages by the subsidiary
companies of the United States steer
CORPORATION will soon be announced,
to become effective May l, 1t is OIL
cially stated here. The proposed IN
crease will apply to large majority OF
the corporations 225,O0O employees
and in round figures will increase the
navrolls about 100000 annually.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-22
Bellingham, April 16.-J. M. Layhr

Bellingham, April 16.-J. M. Layhue,
assistant state superintendent of
schools, has been here in conference
with educational heads in the county
concerning the needs of the new state
school manual. The manual IN use
was devised five years ago, and mas
been outgrown. The state board is
consulting prominent educators all
over the state before adopting new
manual.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-22
retirement Of Aidrich Possible.

Warwick, R. l., April 1S.-Senatol
Nelson w. Aldrich, who Is resting at
his home at Warwick Neck, said Sat.
urday he did not care to affirm or deny
a report that he would not be can
dfdate for reelection in 1911. He also
refused to discuss q report that ne
will give up his work on most OF the
senate committees during the remain
der of his term.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-22

The Customer-Hi, waiter! What
do you mean on the menu by Brown
Soup" "Jonesed Eggs" and 'Harrised
Mutt0n?"
The Waiter-Well, sir, you see. sir,
we often give dishes names OF our
clients who die after bein' reg1ar Gus
toners here.-The Sketch.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-22
lRIARLANDFlCHT
REOPENED
rn1ATIvE MARTIN De.
souNcEs ADMINISTRATION
AND WAR DEPART
MENT.
.;.w Charges Collision With
Sugar Trust j" Disposal Of LANDS
o.nands a Full Investigation OF
ubole Matter.

sirgton April 1S.-Representa-
.;r w" Martin, Democrat OF Colorado
w, i've for weeks has been waglng a fgnt
VIII ~ house to show the Friar lands OF
tbe ,I Philippine islands are being seized seized
tn7 sugar trust" with the acqui'
H ' Of Attorney General Wicker
S'.. 1 and the war department, gave to
si'D+ aross an interview in which he
says: doubt oho,,.
!, necessity of an investigation OF
n ,uS affairs, it is removed by the
,;.oIocrres made by the war depart
ont in response to my resolution OF
i n learned three days ago the
or dpnartment had furnished Chair
man OImstead, of the insular commit
foo what purported to be the informa
.ion called for in my resolution and ]
rpouested Mr.. Olmstead to let me see
: This he refused. l wanted to see
tbiS matter before it was reported to
the house.
Move Was Justified.
THE war department report, upon
examination, fully justified such
movp It discloses negotiations be-
tween the war department and attor'
news for the purchasers of the Friar
lands in the Philippines for several
months prior to the sale; also between
thp war department and the Philippine
government. whereas the war depart.
ment in a communication published in
the congressional record, on March %
stated its first information concerning
the sale of this estate was received
through the public press. This affirms
nv contention that this deal had been
under way for months and was practi
caly cOnsummated before Attorney
General Wickersham was asked for an
opinion.
No Cable Holding Up Sale.
It was also stated that when the
secretary Of war heard about this mat
ter through the newspapers he cabled
the Philippines governor general to
hold up the sale until he could get an
opinion from Attorney General Wick
ersham. No such cablegram appears
in the information now furnished. On
the contrary, there appears one from
the war department to the governor
general dated December "a, 1909, the
very day Understands opinion was
asked approving the sale of the Sar
Jose estate, which had already beer
made
Another cablegram from the gov
ernor general ante-dating the request
Tor Understands opinion, shows the
Sale was not to Poole, as heretofore
represented by the war department
Out TO Poole or his nominees. Poole
and nominees is or will be a subsidiary
sugar trust corporation, probably the
Nlluofa Development Company, al
ready organized by dummy incorpora
'OlS under the laws of New Jersey.
l nave charged the administration
WIN having begun a policy of unlawful
eAVlOllatlon in the Philippines ant
S'ei! development goes to establish
ue truth of the charges. If the ad
illustration has been falsely accused
let 1t take off the lid"
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~ SamueI Hill to Build Railroad.

O1vn,,: 20 0UIfU ndttIVa0
corno-pa' April 16.-Articles OF In
tarp a'ion were filed with the secre-
Goldon, state for the Mary Hill and
rsi, Railway Company to build
The in between the points named.
A p Iorporators are Samuel Hill and
slO0oo 'an1ord, and the capital stock
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-22

Men are too willing to 30 to law.
Remember that when lawyer advises
Won to 70 to law, It Is not his funeral.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-22

4 woman who tries to convince =
man that he knows more than she does
i 10th clever and dangerous
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Reciprocity.

hinton on my coat.
'n For was far from mother:
. 10. rol .,,ch q thing" she said to me-
"a. I'd do for my brother.
o.. looked so pretty sitting there
0ne .,,scklv stopped and kissed her.
! ,,,,,4 .,,ch 4 thing" said to her.
a. !. I'd do to my sister,"
Smart Set.
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4 woman Is proud Of her weddin3
rinr even II her marriage = : nalolA