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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13
MAKING LATE MATCHES PAY
cockerels VIII Grow Rapidly and
Come In Nicely for Winter
"sprIngers" for Frying.

Midsummer chicks are as a rule
not a success. The main reasons are
that the hot weather and insects are
against them. But late matches will
frequently do as well as early ones
with equally good care. For late
matches set hens or the incubator any
time in August. to have the chicks
come OF in September, when the
weather Is cooler and the summer in.
sects have begun to diminish.
Cockerels from early fall matches
will grow rapidly and will come In
nicely for winter "springers" for
broiling or frying. Pullets from these
matches may not grow to be SO large
as spring hatched pullets, nor will
they lay this coming winter, but they
will begin to lay next spring. and will
continue to lay. all next summer at a
time when other hens are off duty In
the egg business. With a good mum.
Der Of fall-hatched pullets contin.
uous egg supply for all the seasons
is assured.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13
KEEP POULTRY HOUSE CLEAN
Given Plenty Of Good Food and Well
Kept House Hen VIII Solve the
Winter EGG Problem.

Experience has led me to conclude
that cleanliness is profitable virtue
In poultry raising. Give the hen
plenty Of good food and clean quar-
tiers and she will give no occasion Tor
worry over the winter egg problems.
We who have followed the chicken
business either for pleasure or profit,
for pin money or income, have heard
this time-old advice repeated with re-
ligious regularity every new moon,
writes Dennis II. Stovall OF Oregon
In the Northwest Farmstead. When
we give 1t heed. we win; when we let
it pass, we lose.
Cleanliness In the henhouse and
the poultry yard is very simple
thing. for the reason that It depends
upon simple things. A few years ago
! experimental with fancy roosts. pat
emit drop boards, intricate nest shelves,
and various other contrivances calcu-
lated to make the hen lay, and to
make chicken raising easy. These
have all been discarded. They entailed
too much care, and involved far more
labor than the simple. common sense
methods. have found nothing bet
ter for roosts than those Of the saw
horse pattern. This gives q roost
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13
GOT THE EVIDENCE UPSTAIRS
indian Judge, Not Acquainted With
HindustanI, Did Not Know
What Niighai Really Was.


An Indian judge. when first appoint
ed to his position, was not well &C
Quainted with Hindustani He was
trying case in which a Hindu was
charged with stealing nilghai The
judge did not like to betray his ig-
norance of what nilghai was, so he
said:
Produce the stolen property"
The court was held In an upper
room, 30 the usher gasped:
" Please, your lordship, it's down
stairs"
Then bring 1t up instantly" stern
ly ordered the Judge.
The official departed, and minute
later loud humping was heard, min
gled with loud and earnest exhorta-
lions. Nearer came the noise, the
door was pushed open, and the painting
official appeared dragging in the blue
bull,
The judge was dumbfounded. but
only for an instant.
"Ah! That will do" said he. 1T Is
always best, when possible, for the
Judge personally to inspect the stolen
property. Remove the stolen prop
erty. usher"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13
WATERING TANK FOR FOWLS
Chicago Man Constructs One With
Automatic Opening and Closing
Valve for Supply.

From q tank placed on a bracket
shelf near the ceiling OF my chicken
house ran one-half-inch pipe down
and into the water dish. writes p.
D. Merrill Of Chicago in the Popular
Mechanics. then made float OF q
tin can and attached it to the end OF
lever with the float resting in the
dish in such "a position that an in
crease of the amount of water would
cause the float to rise and produce q
downward motion Of the opposite end
OF the lever. To this end I attached
cord which extended to a lever
above the water tank. operating q
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13
CURE FOR DRooPY POULTRY
Dip Made Of Strong Bacon Grease
and Warm Water Will Cause
Feathers to Drop Easily.

Save all the strong bacon grease,
especially the grease from fried bacon.
When your fowls sit around picking
themselves and looking droopy and
shabby, get large deep can or buck
ct: from its shape large candy buck
ct is best: fill it nearly full OF warm
water; on this pour melted grease I'M
till 1t forms thick scum over the
water: catch your fowls, take them
one by one, by their wings, and with
the head held straight up, dip them
down, pretty hard, two or three times
into the water: let the head go COM
pletely under once; do this quickly
to avoid strangling the fowl; then
turn 1t loose.
After waiting few hours for the
water to drip from the feathers, drive
them into the shade, so the sun will
not blister them. For q short time
they will be sorry looking lot OF
fowls.
This treatment causes the feathers
to fall apart, SO the body OF the fowl
is cool. the water softens the skin;
the grease-laden feathers fall out cas-
ily. and the new ones push their way
through the skin and grow IN masses
instead Of one or two In place; the
time Of moulting is shortened; the
fatty grease kills all vermin on the
fowl. while the grease-saturated featn-
ers are death traps to any vermin tnat
may get on them
Keep the bucket filed with water
and pour more grease on the water
from time to time.
The fowls should be dipped early IN
the morning and made to roost under
shelter for several nights. 5.
By dipping fowls q the early 1all
they become healthy and free nom
pests, hence stand the winter better,
and ii the spring have little or no
yermin to annoy them and get on ana
iii their little ones.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13
PQDHp1NNfS

Melting season Is at hand.
Pnllets Matched in March should be
laying now.
vermin breeds much faster in warm
weather than in cool.
Filth and vermin are the great
profit killers and yet good remedies
are In reach Of everyone.
Hens set In August viii produce
chicks that will grow into hrst-class
table poultry about February.
IL our chicks or older fowls are not
thrifty, let us look into our methods
and find out where we are to blame.
When the hens begin to climb trees
to roost, it is time to look to the venfi'
latfon and cleanliness OF the houses
Hen afiicted with scaly leg cannot
possibly give the best service IN egg
production. and rough shanks LOOK
bad.
Do not use harsh methods IN break
Ing up the broody hens. Remember
that broodiness IL natures provision
for rest.
Authorities claim that the eggs
from 4 hen win be fertile for ten days
after the removal OF the male from
the flock.
The appearance Of the fowls = not
vary attractive now. but when the
melting ordeal Is over they WiA look
al the prettier.
Two essentials are absolutely nee.
- -
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13
M WAS TRIFLE AMBIGUOUS
- Bearing Inscription Families
ssrnIied" Taken at IL Literal
''r Meaning by Customer?

merchant can't be too careful
Ing his announcements perfect
0 n ,a;n " remarked Sir James Butler
pa mo friends the other day. For
. so a man went into a butcher
ns'aI rpcently and said to the man be-
ind the counter:
'n ~ want two boys and . girl.
se a@ag pardon, SIR replied the man.
80 want two boys and a girl
sBeg pardon, sir
rbe manager of the shop. seeing q
., misunderstanding between the
nu' vent to the gentleman and said:
w. splease excuse my assistant, but
!. new hand and perhaps does
y. understand you. What Is your
slsh?' -, - -.
please u,on s,- ,,,. r.,
,,..id 7 don't quite understand you
s n replied the manager.
Observation-Disclosures.
:, .bat plain enough?" answered the
Gentleman. go
~The manager then said, I'm sorry.
Int don't keep them.
"Tbe gentleman then replied:
aput YOU have sign outside, Fam
moc Supplied. "'"-Exchange.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13
United on peathbed.

A pathetic marriage ceremony took
blace the other day, In Budapest hos
pital. A German singer named Erdos,
who was appearing professionally in
the Hungarian capital, was suddenly
taken i'll with heart weakness few
days ago. He telegraphed to his
sweetheart In Frankfort. Germany, to
come to him. The girl started at once.
and arrived in Budapest promptly.
They were married Immediately In the
hospital ward, and Erdos died an hour
utter the cerernonv.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13
creclan Head-coverIno.

The Greeks wore a hat called Z
petasos. which was soft and light, be-
ing made of felt; it was strapped un-
der the chin to fasten it firmly to the
head. But only the lower classes
among the Greeks, such as herds and
travellers, wore hats, and both sexes
wore hats Of the same shape. The
Greek nobility and gentry wore no
covering for the head out Of doors.
and women only adorned their hair
With a wreath of flowers.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13
Erooder Colony House.

will hold brooder and accommodate
flock Of 100 chicks.
The yard should be made in three
sections Of 1x2 or 1x3 inch strips
covered with one-inch mesh wire net
ting. If covered over the top with
wire netting. it will be proof against
cats and other intruders. The coor
and house should be moved to fresh
ground weekly.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13
TroubIe with the Etea.

Sometimes tiny hairs become loos-
ened and get beneath the eyelids. Be-
fore going to all the trouble of exam
ming the upper and lower lids, fill
the wash bowl with cold water and
open the eyes under water. Open and
shut them several times, and in near.
ly every instance this will wash out
the bothersome hair. It will at least
loosen such hair SO that it may be
easily removed by the cottontipped
AoOthDick
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13
In Those DAYS.

You used to be clad to stay in the
kitchen and wipe the dishes for me"
she complained.
Il admit it," he replied, but in
those days you didn't put in all your
time trying to convince me that I
was no good because didn't earn
enough to enable you to keep an
eight-dollar-a-wee maid"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13
Not Absolutely.

DO you think flying win ever be-
come absolutely safer
NO"
Then you believe aviators are vast
ing their efforts?'
oh, no. | haven't any doubt that
they will some day make flying as
safe as sitting in hammock with a
girEbut that isn't absolutely safe,
you know"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13
Most Costly Wood.

Cabole, beautiful tree that grow
on the west coast of Africa, and is als%
found on the island Of st. Thomas. Il
said to furnish the most costly woot
in the world. It somewhat resembles
teak, and takes on a very high polish
It's price is quoted as about $500
cubic meter.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13
orioln Of Pawnbrokers' Sign.

On the doors of early Florentine
bankers was the three-leaf lily sign.
the lily being the emblem OF Flor.
ence. and claim is now made that
this is why the pawnbroker Of today
has the three balls as his sign, which
appears to be an evolution OF the
hree-leaf lily.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13
Putting the Carriers on.

Mrs. Brown was preserving peaches
In the kitchen amid an array of glass
Jars, covers, rubber bands, etc. Mar
garet, aged four, watched the process
quietly until the fruit was in the jars
and the covers ready, then she ex-
claimed, "Oh, mother. please let me
put the garters on!"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13

cock valve at the top Of the feed pipe
as shown In the illustration.
A coil spring holds the valve open
when the water In the watering dish
is low and allows the water to flow
In until the float rises, which closes
the valve and shuts off the flow until
the water is again lowered In the
dish.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13
BR0ODER HOUSE MADE HANDY
Convenient Coop for Poultry Keeper
Can Be Made Any Size Desired
Cover With Netting.

The illustration shows very con
venient style of coop for the poultry
keeper. It can be made any size de
sired, from 2x3 to 4x5 feet or more
says the Farm and Home. The
smaller coop is sufficient for q her
and her brood. while the larger size
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13
wo,,as Cables Made In America.

Worlds Cables MADE In America.
Practically all the worlds cables are
made in this country, the first having
bapn made in 1857, the total length Of
ba viro in the sheathing and core
heing sufficient to reach from the
earth to the moon. When the sea is
ahout three miles deep, and the ship
il steaming at its usual rate, paying
mt a new line, over two and half
hours will pass before the cable
reaches the bed Of the sea. By the
time the cable has settled to rest the
ship is rs miles away.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13

Carpenters Horse Poultry Roosts.

about three feet high, and each one
long enough to accommodate at least
dozen fowls without crowding.
Placed side by side, rather than one
above the other, they assure perfect
cleanliness They can be easily re-
moved from the house for cleaning
and treatment with lime, emulsion or
I've. With smooth board floor this
allows chance for cleaning the hen
house perfectly; and have found It
a good plan to give the house such q
cleaning twice a week.
The next boxes are also removable,
SO as to allow a thorough cleaning
and change Of straw, the old being
burned.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13
Lnsurinq Private Gun.

T'FSUIIT'9 TFfVdtS VUPs
TO insure the owner of a private
shaving cup kept in a barber shor
that he is it's only user there has beer
invented a paper cap to cover It
which cannot be removed withou:
breaking a seal.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13
warning to the Doctor.

Ne'er, IN moment of forgetfulness,
au'iSe the parents Of child whom
~ tOu operated upon year before for
!. -0 ienoVal of adenoids that the child
-, sunerlng from impeded nasal res
sa and should have its adenoids
Views. -
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13
ttCures While You Walk.

Aliens Foot Ease is a certain cure for hot
weating, callus and swollen, aching feet. SOLD
substitute. Trial package FREE. address
Aliens Olmsted, LIE Roy, N. Y.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13
Postponed Service.

Patience You know she's awfully
superstitious
pxtrice Rea1ly?
@zHhy. yes; It rained on her weddin9
day and that's unlucky, you know
what did she do e
ssl1jI1 she rave ont rim checks.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13

Advantage of Electricity.
Electricity can not be frozen, Meth
er can 1t be adulterated. It works
,Qually well on hot or cold days.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13

Mrs. B.-My husband and get along
so nicely. We always agree about every
thing.
Mrs. Wis that SO?
Mrs. B.Yes; except, of course, now
and then when he gets pigheaded or
something Of that sort.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13
That Was All.

'Skillihgs, how came you to quit
working for Spotcash & Coz"
We had difference of opinion as
to the value of my services for anoth-
er year"
Was that all?"
Yes; l thought was worth $4,000
to them, and they thought wasn't
worth 40 cents. So quit What else
could a self-respecting man do?"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13

Be thrifty on little things like bluing Don't &C.
cept water for bluing. Ask for Red Cross Ball
Blue the extra good value blue.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13

Red Cross Ball Blue gives double value for your
money, goes twice as far as any other. Ask your
UOcer.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13

Mothers win find Mrs. w;rslow's SOOTHING
Syrup the best remedy to use for their childrel
suring tie teething period.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13
Making Travelling Pleasant.

BILL see for travelling statesmen
there has been invented valfse with
folding sides and legs with which It
may be converted into table.
Jill-Well, they must have some
place on which to play pinochle while
In transit.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-13

TF IT'S YOUR EYES
,C1rTT,S EYE SALVE Is what you need
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-01
New York Cotton.

New York, Oct 31.-Cotton opened
firm at an advance of 10 to 20 points
on a renewal of yesterdays buying
movement which had the encourage
ment of higher cables, reports of a
continued active demand; a talk of
less favorable weather. Active
months sold % to 26 points net higher
shortly after the opening. There
was heavy realizing around 1877 for
January, and the market during the
middle of the morning was about 10
points off from the best with the tone
nervous and unsettled. Buying con-
tinued active on the setback and COM
mission houses reported continued
outside interest.
The western belt forecast for colder
weather seemed to stimulate the out
forenoon. The market made new high
records before midday with January
contracts selling at 11.42, or thirty
points net higher. Realizing appear
ed to be readily absorbed
Spot quiet; middling uplands, NOM
inal.
The market was less active after
midday and prices eased off about 10
points from the best under realizing.
Southern spot markets officially re-
porter early were Ia to IL higher.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-01
ROBBED OF HIS MONEY
BY negro HICKMAN
&. {. Thorn Clerk of
Webster the Victim

Macon, Ga, Oct. 1.-George Z.
Thornton. SIS years of age, clerk of the
superior court of Webster county, and
a delegate to the Grand Lodge of Ma
sons, was held up and robbed last
night by Frank Carswell, driver Of
hack No. Al.
About 10 o'clock last night the
night Waterman for an ice D. ant on
the Wateryille road found Mr.. Thorn
ton wandering around in the dark
ness, seeking to find the way back into
| the city.
Mr.. Thornton said he boarded q
Bellevue car at CARING avenue, and
not knowing the city, al GIFTED at
Wesleyan college, thinking he was
at the Brown House. He then en-
gagged q passing hack to take him to
the Brown House
The hackman drove him out on the
Wateryille road, despite Mr.. Thorn
toms objections, then stopped, pulled
pistol, and demanded his passen-
gers money Mr. Thornton said he
was relieved of $19 after S pockets
had been searched, An hour after
the case was reported to the police,
they had the haekman under arrest.
The case was sounded in court this
morning, but was postponed until to-
morrow in order to allow the negro's
lawyer, Julian Urquhart, to summon
Ed Lob as a witness. He expects to-
make out an alibi by Mr.. Lob
Policeman Holloman, who arrested
the hackman, said that the horses
showed evidence of having been hard
driven. Isl
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-01
WOMEN ORDERED TO LEAVE
BY POLICE OF MAC N
Vice District is Defined by
Council

Macon, Ga, Oct 31-Carrying out
the orders given him by the police
committee, of which W. w. Williams,
Lee Happ and E. A. Adamson are mem
bers, Grief of OFFICE Chapman has
notified the occupants of disorderly
houses that they have unit | tomorrow
in which to move. The chief has in
formed them that if they are in their
present houses after IL o'clock tomor-
row night, he will arrest all of them
There are % public vice houses in
Macon, according to the govern
ments census, and only four of these
are within the newly created strict
The others must be abandoned.
These houses bring enormous rents
and represent large investments. Their
realty value will be deprecated as the
result of the enforcement of the or
der of the police committee, and con-
sequently their owners are more or
less sore" at the city administra-
ton.
The women of the vice strict were
notified asst May that after October
1 they would have to occupy a dis
trict bounded by the railroad tracks,
the river, and Ash street. On October
they were given an extension of 30
days, and this extension expires to-,
night.
1t is stated by some of the women
that rather than be restricted to the
distr ct specified by the police COM
mittee, they will leave the city.
There are 125 such women in the %
houses, and probably Is or 90 i'm
moral women who frequent the disor-
derby boarding houses and cheap ho-
te1s.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-01
UNDER THE AWFUL STRAIN
IMPOSED BY BUSINESS

Idly approach with three letters in my
hands, he removes his feet from the
desk, shakes his newspaper and
frowns. Miss Fattershall,' he says to
me in languid voice, I suppose these
are absolutely necessary, so that you
aren't disturbing me uselessly. Oh,
we'll, give them here!
He looks them over and writes yes
or mo- on the backs and tells me to
use my own judgment and answer
them myself.
Then another overworked man
calls him on the phone and wants him
to play golf tomorrow Mr.. Pye frowns
and says he is badly rushed with bust
ness, but If it is a possible thing he'll
try and Join him. But it's always
business first, my boy!' he reminds
his friend.
After that he drags himself over. to
the club for lunch. This is another
fiossy repast, all ruffied up with pars-
ley and everything iced and with fat
cigars after it. He beats it back to
the office about two o'clock and tells
the head clerk not to bother him about
such a trifle as a $4,000 order-what
on earth is he hired for but to attend
to such insignificant items?
"At this point another slave enters,
attired in a gray suit that is so per.
feet you don't believe it is real and
wearing on his head panama hat
that set him back about $50. 'Pye, old
man. SAYS he, what's the use of work.
ing Yourself to death in this sort OF
weather? You owe it to yourself to
get a little rest and recreation. You'll
be having heat prostration or some
thing like that if you don't take care
of yourself. Come, let's go to the ball
game!
MIR. Pye considers. I hate to go
and leave lot of work standing,
lawn says he. Things stop on dead
center whenever I'm not here, you
know. oh. well, hate to disappoint
YOU. since you've come way up here
for me- So he reluctantly grabs his
panama and they float out to take the
touring car.
Later on he has another meal at a
roof garden or a summer garden with
music. and the check for him and
lawn is somewhere around $40. The
touring car drops him at his own door
IN the moonlight and leaves him to I'M
disturbed slumber that he may rest
nm for another wearing day.
"Oh," ended Miss Fattershall, Il
could just cry over the way that poor
man is driven with work! / could!"--
Chicago Daily News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-01
SHERMAN'S DEATH WAS
FATAL TO THIS MAN

New York, Oct. 31.-Heart failure,
brought on by shock at learning Of
the death of Vice President Sherman,
caused the death of Walter Morris,
manager of the Hotel San Reno, here,
early today.
While walking home with his wife
from the progressive rally at Madison
Square Garden, Mr. Morris heard a
newsboy calling the news of the vice
presidents death.
rs it true?" Mr. Morris gasped.
and as the boy displayed newspaper
with black headlines, he fell uncon-
scious into the arms of his wife. Fiji
teen minutes later he was dead.