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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-15
CHAPTER XV.-Continued.

CHAPTER XV-Continued.
"Say, what is all this fuss about?
don't want to be smuggled any
where, thank you'll"
Il may not be able to square my
men," Chaplin reiterated. ct may have
gone too far"
Square! Square! Why should you
do any squaring? I'm not going to
run away" Miss Blake clasped her
hands and breathed a sigh. 1--WE got
to stay here and run foot-race to-
morrow"
Don't be a fool, Wally!" Coving-
ton added his voice to the others.
. Speed whirled angrily. Il don't
need your advice-convict!" The
champion hobbled instantly out of
range. 81 know what I'm doing I'm
going to run tomorrow, and 1 stand a
good chance to win"
Mr.. Fresno, if he had been a girl,
would have been said to have giggled.
"All right, Dearie! I'll bet you five
hundred dollars" as there emerged
from the darkness, whence they had
approached unseen, Slower, and be-
hind him the other men.
'Evenin'! What's all the excite
ment?" greeted the leader, softly.
The master of the ranch stepped
forward
See here, Bill, I'm sorry, but 1
won't stand for this foot-race."
"Why not?" queried the foreman.
Il just won't, that's all. You'll have
to call it off,"
I'm sorry, too"
you refuse?" The owner spoke
ominously.
"You bet he does!" Willie pushed
himself forward. This foot-race is
ordained, and it comes off on time. ]
make bold to inquire if you're talkin'
for our runner?"
Gentlemen, can only say to you
that for myself ] want to run!" de-
clared Speed.
Then you'll run"
Il refuse to allow it," Chaplin de-
clared, and instantly there was an
angry murmur; but before it could
take definite shape, Speed spoke ul
with equal decisiveness.
you can't refuse to let me run
Jack. There are reasons"-he searched
Miss Blake's countenance-"why
must run-and win And win SHALL!
Turning, he stalked away into the
darkness, and there followed him q
shout of appreciation from the ranch
men,
Jack Chaplin threw up his hands.
I've done my best"
The mans mad!" cried Covington
but Fresno was nearer the truth.
Nothing of the Sort" he remarked
and struck q match; hes bluffing!'
AS for Helen Blake, she shook he1
lair head and smiled into the night.
You are all wrong" she said. &c
know"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-15

blow in the chest will flop over back
ward and spring back when the pres
sure Is released. Facing this figure q
goat Is mounted on q platform, through
which the animals forefeet pass to .
slide. which ID also elsstically operated.
BY means OF projecting button the
slide IL drawn out. When it II released
the elastic makes 1t ny back and the
goat pitches forward. raising his hind
legs In the AIR and butting the mani;
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-15
SYNOPSIS.

Cowboys of the Flying Heart rancn are
heartbroken over the loss of their mucn-
priced photograph by the defeat OF Inelr
Champion in a foot-race with the COOK OF
the Centipede ranch. A house party Is
on at the Flying Heart. J. Wallingford
Speed, cheer leader at Yale. and culver i've
Covington. intercollegiate champion run
ner, are expected Helen Blake, Speeds
sweetheart, suggests to Jean Chapln, SIS
ter of the owner Of the ranch, that sn ne
induce Covington, her lover, to win BACK
the monograph. Helen declares that II
Covington won't run, Speed Will. me
cowboys are hilarious over the prospect.
Speed and his valet, Larry. Glass. trainer
at Yale, arrive. Helen Blake asks Speed.
race against the Centipede man. The
cowboys join in the appeal to Wally, and
fearing that Helen will find him out, ne
consents. He insist, however, that ne
that Covington will arrive in time to take
his place. Fresno. glee club singer from
Stanford university and in love with
Helen, tries to discredit Speed with the
ladies and the cowboys. Speed and Glass
put in the time they are supposed to be
training playing cards in a secluded spot
The cowboys tell Glass it is up to =, nm 10
zee that Speed wins the race Willie. the
gunman, declares the trainer will go back
east packed in ice, if Speed fails: A tele-
gram comes from Covington saying he IS
a panic forces Speed to begin training in
earnest The cowboys force Speed to eat
in the training quarters and prepare him
a diet of very rare meat Miss Blake
bakes a cake for Speed and is offended
when Larry refuses to allow him to eat
it. Covington arrives on crutches. He
says he broke his toe in Omaha; Mrs
Keap, engaged to Covington and in love
with Jack Chaplin, exposes Speed to
Helen, because Speed had failed to pre-
vent Covington from joining the party
Speed decides to cripple himself, but
Skinner the Centipede runner. appears
with proposition to throw the race.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-15
Going to School. ).


Before the Boer war 1OJs 10 u
there were no country scn rree suit
Transyaal or the Orange fi Nov ba
and very few in the towns .nas.:,r her Y
have been established es .solars. y
the trouble is to get s . h,s boy .
Boer father holds tina. : riae be 4,
ride q horse and snoos Id and o., !.
all the education ne neo - isil tpf J,
St them have been sent ! . tssp =. g
from schoolhouses. Z d.ugbtsf Z,
holds that when her o nod > Z
make make bread s she is -. ss gov
Toung lady in the v0rlu
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-15
Bust by Rodln.

Augpste SRodin. the sculptor. has
Just finished bust Of Lady Sackville,
which tho Paris art critics say IL .
beautiful piece Of work. To get the
famous Frenchman TO execute her
commission Lady Sackyille went to
P1fis and took apartments ct tho Ho-
tel Imperial. where Rodin lives. The
work was done at Robins studio =
~ villa Angelique. 81 al g
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-15
BUCKING GOAT TOY AMUSES
Manikln Flat-Fiqure 10 Elastic
ally Mounted.

An amusing toy for children has
been invented by Georgia man. It is
a rearing, tearing billygoat that butts
a manikin fiat in its charge. The toy
comprises base with a figure elias
tically mounted at one end. The figure
normally stands erect. but when struck
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-15

kin full In the chest or race NV ~.
manikin thereupon falls fat Oh W
back, to the great amusement Oh w.
children who may be watching Wv
upon the goat resuming his norma y
sition, the other figure boldly spi'D''
up and faces Billy again.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-15
Daily Thouuht.

Never does man portray his own
character more wildly than In his
manner Of portraying another-Rich
ter. 5fE 1f
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-05-15
CHAPTER XVI.

!" !: !: !: !: ] !: :
q HE day of the race dawned
MI bright and fair, without a
IN cloud to mar its splendor.
XS AS the golden morning
NA wore on. gradual excite
VIVA ment became apparent
k.kA among the cowboys. in
&.IA creasing az the hours
@&e passed. and as they pre.
pared with JOY to invade their rival.
'erri.ory; nevertheless, the vieilant
wa.cn upon their champion did not
~ was some time after midnirh,
tnat Lawrence Glass had been the
cause OF wild alarm that bronrh,
inc denizens Of the ranch out In nish,
epparel Jack Chaplin, awakened h1 .
c0 for help. had found him in -.
s.nos OF Carara and Cloudy. Who Ia,
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-22
TEXAS WONDER

Fne Texas wonder cures kidney
bladder troubles, removing gra-
cures diabetes, weak and lame
KS rheumatism, and all irregu-
Ftles OF the kidneys and bladder
Doth men and women. Regulates
|dder troubles in children. If not
= oy your druggist, will be sent
mail on receipt of $1.U0. One
iii bottle is two months treat
Pt' and seldom fails to perfect b
|e. Send for testimonials from
and other state. E. w. Hall.
y Owe street. ST. Louis. Mo. Sold
druggists. 1Q-12-tf
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-22
Carborundum In Furnace j.,

Carborundum In Furnace.
Rrborundum. tho artificial subst1
ior emery. which Is said to rival
diamond in hardness, is employ.
because Of it's extraordinary re-
Rnce to heat, as q coating for the
rlor OF furnaces, Finely powdered
made into q paste, it 10 applied
3 q brush, like paint to tie brick
Pc 1t Is said that q layer of only
mlllmeters in thickness will pro.
the bricks from the effects Of the
pest temperature that is produced
PRIMARY furnace combustion.
|erpCrundum is itself q product OF
electric furnace. being composed
|li'cA and carbon fused in the pres
3 OF salt and sawdust-Harpey'e
XIV.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-22
Remarkable AmbidexterIty.

b Edwin Landseer appears to have
one Of the best examples of the
)idextrous person on record. In
Cowden Clark's "Reminiscences"
records her amazement at Edwin
dseers wonderful feat, when some
was talking of being able to write
RAW with the left hand. Landseer
|Erked, I think l can not only draw
! my left hand, but I can draw
! 10th hands at once Whereupon
took up two pencils and actually
y horse with one hand and a dog
! the other at the same time"
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-22
Who Makes Up the Suicides.

According to DR.. Jacques Beftiiion'
the French staNstician. suicide IS com
monest among liquor sellers, chimney
sweeps, butchers, fruiterers ana mu-
sicians. It is frequent among came
lots" shop assistants, cutters, pair
dressers, servants. costers, lawyers.
doctors and druggist. It is rare among
the clergy, government officials ana
men leading an active. open-air lie.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-22
Bedian.

Tho word Bedlam is corruption OF
the word Bethlehem, which was the
name of religious house in london
converted into an asylum for lunatics
in 1916. It is believed by many to
be the Oldest asylum for lunatlcs IN
Europe, though there is one in Spain
which is said to have been founded a.
an earlier date.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-22
ee Generous.

In your dealings with other people
try to put their good qualities and
kindly acts in your account of them,
and II Quarrels arise or the gradual
drifting apart comes that often cuts
us OF from one another without our
conscious volition. let there always be
some pleasant thought that will re.
main to the last. with us. when the
other is far away from sight and
sound.--Exchange
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-22
Courtesy Worth While.

It has been said that courtesy Is to
he daily intercourse Of life what fra
rance is 10 a flower. 1t ought to be
-ust as steady, as unconscious, as gent
! nervasive as that-and it is just
IS certain to be noticed and appreci-
tied as the rich perfume Of JAG
lueminot or the delicious scent of
i)y
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-22
hive Comfort 20 stout Persons.

good wholesome cathartic that
a stimulating effect on the stom-
liver and bowels is Foley Ca
tic Tablets. Thoroughly clean
in action, they keep you regular
no gripping and no unpleasant
effects. They remove that gassy
ended feeling SO uncomfortable to
t persons. Seawell's Pharmacy.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-22

Too Much Sulphur In Gao
Is not the SCOT from gas fame
blackens ceilings and corrodes
|al, but the sulphur dioxide or tri-
70 that is prodvc 1t of the combus'
+ II the gas contained little or no
Phur, as it might If the companies
ID spend little more money in
Tying it, our ceilings would remain
|te and the silver on our sideboard
10 not tarnish in a few days.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-22
One Compensation for Printer.

The smell of printers ink is a curl
GUS one, and 1t has a subtle medicinal
effect. Men employed In factories
where it is made never contract con-
sumption, or so a medical lecturer said
recently And In tropical countries 1t
is a we'll known fact that printers al
ways escape yellow fever, however
flercely it may happen to be raging
In the neighborhood.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-22

Makes the Boss eray.HaIred.

OF the many kinds Of exasperating
people perhaps there is none worse
than the subordinate who when told
exactly how to do certain thing,
replies in so satisfied manner that
one cannot but suppose he under
stands perfectly; then goes ahead and
does the thing in some fool way OF
his eWn.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-22
Novel Form Of Swlndllna.

A curious case comes from Belgium.
Two English1nen havs been arrested
in Brussels charged with the practice
OF bruising their arms to initiate the
marks of horses teeth, and then OF
claiming compensation by alleging
that the bites were made by horses
left standing In the street.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-22
Not Much Mystery About It.

Not Much Mystery About 1t.
II wonder what is the matter with
me?" he said. II have feeling Of de-
preston, and I can't throw it off, no
matter how l try" Il know what Is
the matter" his wife replied. "You
have an engagement with the dentist
at ten o'clock tomorrow morning. you
know"
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-22
Aleoxe Library.

Above Library.
An alcove in a bedroom may be
turned into a tiny library. Have a
window seat Under the windows.
which are hung with straight curtains.
Spindles and twisted columns reach.
ing to the ceiling are effective finish
ings for the ends Of the bookshelves.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-22
Children's Diseases Very Prevalent.

Whooping cough is about every.
where. Measles and scarlet fever al
most as bad. Use Foley's Honey and
Tar Compound for inflamed thrOats
and coughing. Mrs. I. G. Hostler
Grand Island, Nebr., says: My three
children had severe attacks of whoop-
ing cough, and a very few doses oil
Foley's Honey and Tar gave great. re
Lief"
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-22
Marry and Get Used to Il

young lady Of my acquaintance
extremely angry at times. She
throw knives or anything she can
nef bands on. She jumps, kicks
slams things at terrific rate.
at can be done ?-Query In Chicago
bune.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-22
why 1t Suits Particular People

Foley's Honey and Tar Compound Is
prompt and effective for coughs,
colds, Group, hoarseness, bronchial
coughs and throat troubles. Thomas
Verron, Hancock, Mich, writes: "Fol-
ey's Honey and Tar quickly relieves
tickling throat and stops the cough
with no bad after effect" 1t contains
no opiates and is pure. That's why
it suits particular people. Seawell's
Pharmacy.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-01-01
TheGood, the Bad, the Otherwise
And Few Laconics ByLAL
By L. A. L.

The Get-Together Tea is the latest
device of the Suffragettes; one wond-
ers what it will amount to, when
no body of women ever got together
and agreed on the same thing at the
same time.
1t Will be wise woman who will
not object to her husband smoking
that brand Of cigar which gives
away a can Of peaches with every
box. One can eat the peaches-and
air the house.
Judging from the array of The
Colone's daughter-in-law, as depic-
ted in newspaper snapshot, we are
afraid the Colonel amt the man he
used to be, when it comes to laying
down laws for his women folks.
The Nashville Banner asks if the
turkey has reached the hash stage;
an intimate view Of some of the tur-
keys we @have seen would indicate
that nothing but interment of the
bones would be all that could be
asked.
The Democratic administration at
Washington, is going right along
smashingo Id presidents; it was not
too much trouble for the Executive
andhis o fficial family to give a whole
morning on Thanksgiving Day to
Roman Catholic ceremonial but the
usual New Years reception, at
which time Old Man People and his
family could get their only peep into
the sacred precincts of the White
House, has been abolished.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-01-01

Southern Railway train Dispatch
ers have been given an increase o.
pay. Fine. Now if they will also
be given an increase of sleep, it may
so happen that more of the Southern
Railway trains will stay on the
track and fewer will try to pass each
other on the same track.
Judging from the reports of the
breweries and distilleries for the
year 1913, it is quite possible their
combined Resolution for the year!
1914 will be Resolved, we approve
of the Southern brand of prohibi-
ton Il
Despite the supposedly stringent
laws which have been passed in many
States, the pistol toter and the razor,
owner seem to have gotten in some
good work for the undertakers and
the coroners during the recent
Christmas festivities.
It is a we'll known fact that too
much prosperity is never healthy
thing for any individual nor COM
bination: hence the news that there
IS war III the 1dCIlOnS WHICH LhoAO
UP the baseball trust, will not be a.
great surprise to people who note
the trend of events.
The CoIored Brother, in several
portions of this grand and glorious
country, seems to have had as siren
uous a Christmas time as the White
Lady who did not do her shopping
early; only the G. B. was sidestep-
ping mobs, with the aid of the
sheriffs, and for the usual crime"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-01-01

"Around that grief-boweG woman,
I threw the weeds of widowhood-
but I paid for the chance to do it;
and they who took my money knew
that [ would do it,
From ''The Song OF the Barr
Room,'' in Watson's Prose MisceIla-
mics, second edition. Price $1.OO,
postpaid. THE JEFFS, Thomson, Ga
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-01-01

skelingtons" in it, as one of the fry
declared. They are being taught to
do fancy houseWOrk whose most i'm
portant preparations seem to be the
possession Of numbeEless white caps
and fancy aprons-and the Southern
tax payer is paying for it, while his
children, not beyond the first reader,
are in the field, and his wife is in
the kitchen.
Illiteracy should be made a crime
for both races; it should be so de-
creed by every State in the South,
that no man nor woman should hold
property who could not read, write
promissory notes, which were meant
to merely mean an order for fertiIi-
ger or farm implements p
Georgia and Florida have had an
almost utter freedom from the mixed
immigration which has meant so
much in discord and lower wages
for the native born American. The
foreiger of the North has been the
quickest to grasp the opportunities
for the education of his children
and the Southerner has been stub
bOrnly Indifferent to the result of
the lack of education, for his off
spring, many of whom are the direct
descendants of those whites who
wrested the acres of tillable soil now
producing millions of bushels Of pro-
duce, from the native wilderness.
Take trip through the South,
with your eyes and your ears open
if you want to realize to the fullest,
the crime which Southern parents
are permitting to be committed
against their children, in the rural
and country districts.
Then, if you are a Southern man
or woman, get busy and see what
your part is in changing these con-
ditions-and changing them speedi-
ly.
Any way, Mr.. Huerta staid on the
job long enough to get all that was
coming to him in the way Of Christ
mas presents.
Speaking Of color combinations
one which we hope will be a success
is that of the marriage, in Tennes-
see of Miss Brown to Mr.. White.
Father is still hoping that that
raise in salary will be an assured
fact before the bills for the Christ
mas display come in.
A trade journal assures US that
Spring will see great revival Of
business" and many wife hopes
that the julep crop will also come up
to expectations.
The new banking system will be of
greatest interest to some of us when
we have devised new ways of saving
something for the system we are
already acquainted with.
Isin't it a hard hearted store
keeper who will refuse to take back
some of the duplicates which some
of the popular girls received for
Christmas?
The man who cries "ffre" at a
crowded gathering, should be sought
with even more diligence than the
man who robs little girls of their
virtue.
When a man is foolish about a
woman, he sends her a lot of things
all through the year, and she puts
them away and saves them for fu-
ture sentimental reflections. And
the only way she can get even is to
send the man lot of things at
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-01-01
The MASSACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW
In BOOK FORM

IF read the serial articles dealing with this awful
chapter of Roman Catholic persecution, in France,
tour hundred years must have realized that
had never the subject treated III fOrceul inter
estng and absolutely historically MIR.
Watson handled it.
The articles created sensation and the demands for
the Magazine containing the nsalments sold out
and no could be had
Mr.. Watson has carefully edited the matter, added
much more to it, and orders are being filled for it,
Send in your order for
THE MASSACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW
By T1OS E. WATSON.
Profuse1y illustrated and spendidy printed
PRICE, SO CENTS
The JeffersOnian Publishing Co.
Thomson, Georgia.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-01-01
THE APPALLING NEED OF "COM-
MON SCHOOL EDUCATION"

= I T is becoming more and more
B the custom with us, as a peo-
pie, to journey from one part
= of this great country of ours,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-07-16
B. c. PROVINCE
FACES GREAT
LABOR STRIKE

VANCOUVER. y. G., July 49,
Practically every Industry in Brit
ish Columbia In threatened with an
indefinite tie.up today as a result
OF a vote cast by the British Column
bia labor convention yesterday. cali
ing for "A referendum vote Of all
unions 10 pass upon the calling Of =
general strike.
THIS will require six weeks.
The vote Is the direct outcome Of
the long-standing strike OF coal min.
erH on Vancouver island.
Methods OF persuasion have ac-
comD;lshed nothing" said Robert
Foste-. president Of District 2s Of
the United Mine Workers OF Ameri-
ca. and now an absolute. sweeping
change In necessary 10 end the min
ers' strike and consequent trou-
bles.
The coal miners refuse 10 work
alongside ignorant, incompetent
men. who can neither read nor I'M
derstand regulations and notices,
and who are constantly endanger.
Ing the lives and limbs OF our min
era."
The convention passed a resolu-
ton demanding the exclusion OF all
Asiafics from Canada.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-07-16
LABOR COUNCIL
TAKES WHACkAT
REP. HUMPHREY

The Central Labor Council last
night raped Congressman VIII r
Humphrey. Major J. u. Cayansugh
and the Seattle Chamber Of Com
merce. In connection with the con.
ntructlon OF the Lake Washington
canal.
The big Kick conferred on the
throwing out OF all bids for gates
to the iockA. despite a low bid by
Meccham a Babcock
The specific complaints were
against Humphrey. az chairman OF
the rivers and harbors committee
CayanRugh as boss 81 the Job and
the chamber because that body. II
is charged. showed fayoritism q
the Seattle Construction a. Dry
Dock Co.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-07-16
ELkS' GOAT" IS
BUTT OF FIGHT
IN CONVENTION

DENVER. July 1.-THE goat"
resumed his place today in the rit.
uai Of Eiks initiation. following 4
sharp fight between the small town
delegates and representatives OF
the big cities. in which the small
town friends OF the old order OF
things were victorious by vote OF
25s 10 2&s.
Tbs opposition 10 Reinstatement,
OF the goat" said such limitations
were horseplay and a return 10
barbarian"
The ruling was finally amended
70 ms TO leave the use OF the goat
optional with each lodge.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-07-16
FISH TRUST OFFICIALS PUT
UP BAIL WITH UNCLE SAM

All Of the individuals indicted by
the federal grand jury yesterday
for conspiracy in restraint OF trade
In the maintenance OF halibut
fish trust. have put up $4,000 bail
each. with the exception OF A. B
Carpenter OF Chicago. head OF the
Booth Fisheries Co. n. O. Roberts.
buyer for the San Juan Fishing g.
Packing Co. Was arraigned and
pleaded not guilty.