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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-05

Always water plants with sponge.
Get the large, coarse kind ami you will
save yourself much annoyance and
spattered walls.
II you want large crock for your
plants, take ID common gallon crock and
drill u hole through the bottom. This
will give the drainage and give you an
odd shaped fower-pot.
When the hams are taken down they
should be dampened all over with thick
starch; then receive complete coat OF
black pepper; rub it ON till they are
black With 1t and every crevice filled
up. Then hung up IN Q dark smoke
house nothing will ever modest them.
Take the turnip and cabbage stocks
that have been sprouting during the
winter; wash them nicely. cut them as
you do cabbage for slsw; put in a deep
dish and pour sweetened vinegar over
them. This is q delicious dish.
CLEANING CIsTKRS WArEs.-Add
two ounces powdered alum aud two
ounces borax to q twenty barrel cist ern
Of raiuwater that is blackened or oily,
and in u few hours the sediment will
settle and water be car fed and fit for
washing aud even for cooking par-
poses.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-05

The reason why Boston is the great.
est wool market in the United States
is apparent ut glance. OF total of
8, All sets of wooden machinery in the
entire country, ], AIS sets are in the
State OF Massachusetts alone; 1871 sets
are ia Maine; sos sets are in New
Hampshire; l75 sets in Vermont; AGO
sets in Rhode Island, and 669 sets in
Connecticut. The total for New Eng
land. therefore. is 8. SCI sets; or more
than 43 per cent of the wooden MA
chinery OF the entire country. For
similar reasons Boston is the greatest
primary market for the distribution of
wooden goods; that is. the heada uarters
Of tue most prominent selling agents
are here. Paiiadelphis ranks next to
Boston as "a WOO market, the State of
Pennsylvania containing ,361 sets of
WOODEN machinery.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-05
Reading Clubs.

In forming book clubs for the winter,
the number should not exceed twenty !;
indeed, it may be even less than that.
The subscription price, if the club is
large, should be from two to five dol
lars, if small, from five to seven dollars
so as to secure sufficient number and
variety of books and magazines. The
necessary officers are president, Sec
rotary and committee of three for the
selection aud purchase of books. The
secretary should act as librarian and
treasurer. The committee of three can
discuss at the regular meetings of the
club, which should be quarterly, the
kind of books to be purchased. As
soon as the club is organized the list of
names is to be made out, and so ar
ranged with reference to the residences
of members as to form ring or circuit,
the person nearest the secretary being
first on the list. The book should be
kept a week, and then sent to the next
on the list. If retained beyond that
time fine should be exacted. The
duties of the secretary are to receive
the new books, cover them, paste in the
list of members. start them on their
journey through the club, receive them
back and keep them subject to the
order of the club. He should be able
at all times to tell the whereabouts of
every book, and this he can do by
keeping list of the issues of all the
books. He collects dues, fines, and
whatever is due the club, and dis
burses as required, keeping an account
of all receipts and disbursements. His
lahors may be deemed an equivalent
for free-membership in the club, if he
so wishes. In purchasing books, it is
better to buy few new ones every
month than to let the funds accumulate
and buy only twice year. The mem
bers should take turns in receiving the
new books. II there are books enough
at the beginning, Is there should be,
each member may have constantly q
volume in the house. It is we'll to deal
with only one bookseller, AS in this way
some discount on the original price will
be- secured.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-05

"At last" she said, "my prayers are
answered, and now I can repair the
past. hoping that God will forgive me
for the great sin that have commit
ted"
We need not dwell upon the painful
scene which followed.
Lizzie Elwell told Mr.. Crofts the
whole story of her cruel vengeance.
and besought the lovers to forgive her;
then she joined their willing hands to-
Rether, breathed fervent prayer to
Heaven, and closed her eyes forever.
That the lovers were happy in the
future, no one will doubt, for now the
clouds were all gone, and nothing re-
NAMED for them but sunshine and hap
piness.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-05
Who Starts the Fashions?

The most interesting point is the
prCmulgation of the fashion. The in
ventor, let us say, has arranged some-
thing new in his mind but how does
be get somebody else to wear it? IN
der'the empire this was pretty easy.
There was regular hierarchy of in
fluence, beginning with the Empress aud
going on to leaders of lesser grade and
you had only to obtain their support to
launch your fashion. Very much the
same thing is done now, only it is lit
tie more difficult to do for want of good
organization. There are always in
Paris, at any given time, two or three
women who are famous for dressing
we'll. All the other women watch them,
and try to find out, even before they
know it themselves, what they are going
to wear. These two or three women
Nine. de Portales was one of them in
the time Of the Empress--are the mark
Of the artistic inventor. He takes them
into his counsel, lays his plans before
them for the coming seasons, accepts
their suggestions, and, finally, has the
completed schemes of fashion ready.
The discussions have led to this i'm
portant result-a something has been
found which he will consent to make,
and something which they will con-
sent to wear. The scheme is we'll ma
tured in the cabinet before it is
launched on the world. The world has,
in fact, only to hear and obey, and
therefore those who have to give it or
ders must be careful to know their own
minds. When the project is ready it
has to be submitted to the supreme
head of the mode-under the empire,
Of course, to the Empress ander the
republic, to no one in particular, and
that Is why the dressnlakers shake their
heads over that institution, and say that
it can never last. There is no one to
take the place of Eugene. Nine. de
McMahon. with her plump, maternal
figure, never dressed in any true sense
of the word; she was merely attired.
Nine. Grevy is even worse but mas.
much as something must be worn, as
often as not an actress starts the fash
ion. Even in the time of the Empress
it was not she who first appeared in the
innovating garment. She simply &C
cepted it as thing she might possibly
be induced to wear after some adven-
turous spirits had made trial OF it.
Thus, when Worth and Nine. de
Portales had come to an understanding
with one another, and when the En-
press had come to an understanding
with both, Madame would flash upon
expectant Paris in the new robe.
Nowadays, as I have said, the first
pioneer is very often an actress. The
new dress pieces fill the theaters just as
much by virtue of the dressing as by
virtue of the plot aud of the acting.
The pit on the first night is half full of
poor dressmakers, notebook and pencil
in hand, who are copying the styles to
make up in cheaper form for their own
clients. These industrious artists only
quit the theaters of an evening to at
tend the churches in the morning.
They watch weddings as assiduousIy as
they watch play, because new dress
is very often launched at ceremonies of
that description.--Paris Corr, Ne0
York Graphic.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-05
Strive for Something Higher.

Let us conquer selfish passions
In this void Of sin and strife,
sAud ever strive for something higher,
As We journey on through life.
Barter not the soul for Iucre,
Nor for fame desert truths cause;
Fer the true heart needs not riches,
Nor wicked worlds applause.
Tie tempt is ever seeking
To capture old and young,
And would lead lis 10 destruction
With smooth, dt zee tive tongue.
But he who on LIES joureyings
Seeks the road that leads above,
May see guide.pos's pointing upward,
70 home where all is love.
Though clouds may hover Ger us,
And cherries seems the way
Tie skies will brighten shortly,
Aud night turn into day.
II We strive TO do our duty
And act the manly part,
We may almost find heaven,
Ere from Earth our souls depart.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-05
Mark TwaiI's Story of a Dead Man,

I once heard Mark Twain tell this
inimitable story illustrating how mean
men could be, and it struck me as be.
ing one of the funniest and most
pointed tales ever heard. 1t was in
substance that poor laborer was at
work blasting in a ledge, when blast
exploded, and he was blown out of
sight into the air. He was blown so
far skyward that he was gone fifteen
minutes, at the end of which time he
came back and went to work. The
company, however, were mean enough
to take fifteen minutes out of his wages.
The absurdity of this story would bring
smile to the gravest face, especially if
told by the Hartford wit. That com
pany might. indeed be taken as a cri-
terion for meanness, but now they must
yield the palm to Boston firm whose
actions were without parallel, and are
exciting unfavorable comments in all
parts of the city. The firm alluded to
carry on the clothing business at the
North End, and in their employ are
thirty five girls, more or less. Just be-
fore Thanksgiving, the girls, prompted
by the best OF feelings, conceived the
idea of making the two members of the
firm q present. The hat was passed
around among them and. 1872 was OBJ.
tanned, which was expended in two al
buns. The afternoon before Thanks
giving was selected for the time to
make the presentation, and the whole
business was done in approved style
and seemingly to the satisfaction of all
concerned. The sequel follows: When
the next pay day came around each girl
had the pay of half an hour, the time
occupied in making the presentation,
taken from her wages Here is q
theme for Mark Twain.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-05
Too Much Sleep.

The effects of too much sleep are not
less signal than those arising from its
privatiOn. The whole nervous system
becomes blunted SO that the muscular
energy is enfeebled, and the sensations,
and moral and intellectual manifesto
tons are obtunded. All the bad effects
of inaction become developed the
functions are exerted with less energy;
the digestion is torpid, the excretions
are diminished while, in some instances
the secretion of fat accumulates to an
inord,nate extent. The memory is i'm.
paired, the powers of imagination are
dormant, and the mind falls into kind
of hebetude, chiefly because the fupc.
tions of the intellect are not sufficiently
exerte1, when sleep is too prolonged or
too often repeated. To sleep much is
not necessarily to be good sleeper.
Generally they are the poorest sleepers
who remain longest in bed /; /. e., they
awaken less refreshed than if the time
of arising were earlier by an hour or
two. While it is true that children
and young people require more sleep
than their elders, yet it should be the
care of parents, that over. indulgence be
not permitted. Where the habit is
for children to lie in bed until eight
or nine in the morning, the last two
hours, at least, do not bring sound,
dresmless sleep, where the hour for
retirement is eight or nine p. NJ, but
are spent in " dozing," and in fact,
such excess cannot fail to insure the
harmful results described by the au.
thority quoted. What is called lazi-
ness among children is. in very many
cases, disease, and is largely due to
this, as we'll as the other causes men
toned, that undermine the fountain
of health. Golden Rule.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-05

CAUSE OF SUDDEN DEATH.-Very
few of the sudden deaths which are
said to arise from disease of the heart
do really arise from that cause. TO as
certain the real origin of the sudden
deaths an experiment was tried and re-
ported to scientific congress at Stras-
burg. Sixty.six corpses of sudden
death we're made q subject of thorough
post norton examinations; in these
cases only two were found who had
died from disease of the heart. Nine
out of the sixty-six had died of apo
plexy, while there were forty six cases
of congestion of the lungs; that is,
where tue lungs are 30 full Of blood
that they could not work, not being
room for sufficient amount Of air to
support life. The causes that produce
congestion of the lungs are cold feet,
tight clothing, costive bowels, sitting
still until chilled after being warmed
with labor or rapid walk, going too
suddenly from close room into the
air, especially after speaking, too hasty
walking, or running to catch train,
etc. No person of fifty years should
run, except in desperate emergency.
These causes of sudden death being
known, as an avoidance Of them may
serve to lengthen many valuable lives,
which would otherwise be lost under
the verdict of heart complaint. That
disease is supposed to be inevitrble and
incurable; hence many may not take
the pains they would to avoid sud
den death, if they knew it lay in their
power.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-05

An English pickpocket who was SEN
fenced to State Prison for four years
was polite enough to thank the Judge.
He Was probably happy to find tue SEN
tence NO heavier.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-05
Walking Absurdities.

We don't suppose all the men who
have walked five hundred miles in six
days have done the world and human
ity as much good as the obscure man
who has sawed and split cord of wood
in half the time. We don't suppose
these walkers have awakened a single
aspiration in the breasts of men that
has resulted in any physical benefit. 1t
certainly does not benefit the man who
walks the five hundred miles in six
days, and goes off the track a physical
wreck, worn out, iaded, full of aches
and pains, in splendid condition to be
defeated the next time he walks. There
is no necessity for such walking in
these days. A horse can travel faster
than man, and the locomotive can
travel still faster than the horse. If a
man has occasion to make q journey of
five hundred miles, he does not spend
six months training so that he Can walk
the distance in six days. He gets into
the sleeping car, goes to bed and sleeps
to fluid himself there when the porter
calls him in the morning. If he wishes
| to send q message that distance, he
does not hire o pedestrian to carry it
for him, he goes to the telegraph Office
and the message is transmitted in less
time than it takes him to walk to the
office. Physical culture and develop
ment is good thing, but the physical
development is not reached by physical
abuse. If the five hundred miles of a
young mans walking are spread over
five months instead of six days, and it
is done out in the open air, on winding
paths through meadow and forest in
stead of on tanbark track in crowded
building, in sitting atmosphere of
bad breath and tobacco smoke, it will
do him some good; it will bring him
health, strength, good color and good
temper. The trouble with most young
men in their physical education is a
woeful lack Of system. They exercise
violently one day and do nothing the
next. They might as we'll cat their
meals only every other day. We are
tired of these useless walking matches
that are merely brutal exhibitions of
painful. suffering endurance.-Burliag-
ton Hauk~ye.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-05

OLD PorAroEs.-These can be male
to look like young ones in this way
Wash some large ones and cut them
into as many small slices as will fill
dish; bvil them i'll two or three waters
about three minutes each time. the
water being pu. to them cold; then let
them steam until tender; pour a white
sauce over them. Potatoes prepared
in this way have been mistaken for
young ones.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-05

A DUBUQUE Wires WAY.-A new
and novel treatment of drunkenness
Was devised and testel by Dubuque
wife. Her husband came home moder-
ateiy intoxicated, and expected to get
the usual scolding. He was astonished,
therefore, when the woman received
him smilingly, asked him if he would
have some brandy, and produced a
bottle and glass. He promptly accepted
the liquor, and drank so much that he
was helpless. Then she tied him to a
bed-posi. and whipped him With a raw
hide until he wac as tender as good
Observation-Disclosures Telegraph.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-09-25
Republican Claims Examined.

The Republican Convention which
nominated General Garfield as its can
didate for President declared that it
was content with the record of its par
ty as defender of the Constitution OF
the United States. General Garfield,
as its candidate and the expositor of its
creed, has, since his nomination, assert
ed the claim of his party upon the graft
tude of the people for its services to the
cause of Constitutional Government.
Let us test the validity of this claim.
Not to go too far back, begin with the
act of Congress of May 81, 1870, en-
titled IAN act to enforce the right of
citizens of the United States to vote in
the several States of this Union, and for
other purposes. 1t was 4 piece of Re-
publican legislation. When it was
enacted General Grant was President,
Schuyler Colfax was ice-President
and James G. Blaine was Speaker of
the House. The whole machinery of
legislation was in the possession of the
Republican party. Peace had long
been restored. all the Constitutional
amendments had been adopted. and
nothing remained to be done except to
give full effect to the Constitution az
modified by the amendments.
Instead of performing this plain task,
the Republican party, anxious to Sc
cure its tenure of power. determined to
retain power by any legislation, enact
ed under the color OF these amend
ments, which might suffice to subordi-
nate the State Governments to its polit-
ical control. The act of May 81. 1870,
was a continuance invented to accom-
plish this purpose.
The statute in question began by re-
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-09-25

peating the substance of the Fifteenth
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States. which had been shortly
before formally declared to have been
adopted. This prelude was plainly I'M
necessary for the purposes of the act.
1t was intended only to mask the
| changes made in our system OF Govern
ment by the sections which followed.
The second. third, fourth, fifth, sixth
and seventh sections afforded the
means of subordinating elections held
in the States for State officers to the
control and discipline of Federal laws
and Federal officials, and of bringing
such elections under the direct and
complete control of the Federal power.
These sections were used for this pur-
pose from the year 1870 to the year
1875 with signal success. A Republi-
can President and Republican Con-
gress looked on and resisted any change
in the system thus created, and subor-
dinate Federal Courts and officers aided
diligently in upholding and executing
the obnoxious provisions. In 1875 an
opportunity arose for testing the con-
stitutionality of these innovations. The
Supreme Court, Notwithstanding the
pronounced political opinions of the
majority of its members, declared that
Congress had no power to enact laws
regulating State elections held for State
officers. The conspiracy against the
rights of the people, which had been
safely managed for five years, came to
an end. The gross outrages committed
upon individual liberty under the color
of these provisions, and the graver
usurpatiOn of unconstitutional powers,
remain to be punished or atoned for.
The Republican party has shown no
sense of the great wrong which it has
done. 1t has left the unconstitutional
provisions which it enacted standing
on the statute book as precedent for
other laws of the same character and
act is full of instruction. Its underly-
ing principle is the true platform of
the Republican party. 1t is a party
which desires the complete subordina-
of elections in the States to Federal
laws and Federal supervision. 1t is
party which hopes to reduce the States
to mere territorial subdivisions, adj
ministered by governments municipal
in their character and scope of pow
ers. 1t is a party which aims at the
concentration of a National and su-
preme sovereignty in the hands of Con-
gress, provided Congress is Repub-
lican. That these bloody instruc
tons have not already returned to
plague the inventors, and that no
attempt has been made to put them to
that use, is proof that the knowledge
of the Constitution and the respect for
it which may be looked for in vain in
the history of the Republican party may
be confidently expected from the Dem
ocratic party.-M. Y. World.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-09-25
A Fight with Kerosene Lamps rs Weap-
ons-One Man Fatally and An.
other Dangerously Burned.

Somewhat brief mention was made in
yesterdays Tribune of frightful duel be
tween two men armed with kerosene lamps.
One of the contestants died at the County
was expected to follow before to-day. The
case is almost unparalleled for frightfuI atroc-
Union Iron and Steel Mills, used for loading
cars, is lighted, when the men are
Kerosene n i lamps. I These '' are Of double
tin. and contain about a pint of oil
each. They are designed for hand use The
four inches above the top of the lamp, and it is
very well known to those who handle them
that when they are upset or turned upside
down they other explode the oil runs from
them and catches fire. William Doyle and
Thomas Cornell, the victims of the Sunday
morning duel, are old employees in the yard
and must have been perfectly well acquainted
with these facts. Both men had been qusr-
be placed to throw the best light, and the work.
men who heard these spats say it was hard to
Connell was tho first to hurl lamp at his OPP
poncnt, and this he did without any other
proy,ocation than Doyle,s angry words: boy ie
The burning oil flew in all directions, and the
other workmen were obliged to run TO prevent
men clinched, and their lamps, exploding in
quick succession. deluged them both with
burning oil and otherwise injured them. But
it was only when their burning clothing was
scorching their bodies into a crisp that
they ceased the combat. Their fellow,
several were badly burned about the hands in
their praiseworthy endeavor To save the lives
of tho two men by tearing from them the
burning clothing. Before this could be ac-
complished Doyle was terribly charred, and
his screams Of agony could be heard for blocks.
Connell wss not quite so badly burned. but his
pain was almost intense as that of Doyle.
Both were attended Us soon possible by Or.
Greor, who said promptly that Doyle could not
live, and he thou ght Connclrs condition pre-
carious. Doyle was taken home to No. 80
Church place, where he has wife and two
children, and Connell was taken to shs home
at the corner of Wood and Fourteenth streets,
where he has a wife and six children, but sub
seQueutly both were taken to the County
Hospital. There Doyle died in the most horri-
BILE sgony yesterday forenoon. The Deputy
Coroner, who was notified. went there to hold
the inquest, but the Hospital physicians could
extend no hope for Connslrs recovery, and
his condition was so low th.t it WIS decided
tn postpone the inquest until to-day, when the
chances are that the inquest will be a double
One.-ChfcdOO Tribune,