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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-12-04

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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-12-04
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
one HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
FINE DRY GOODS
GREAT SACRIFICE,
Sale to commence MONDAY DEC 1st and continue until a
Sale to commence MONDAY DEC lst and continue until sa


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the next sixty days No such opportunity has ever been offered to
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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-12-04
Harper's Periodicals.



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for " per volume
Cloth cases for each volume, suitable
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Kemittances should be made by Post
ONCE money order or GRAFT, 70 avoid
chance Of loss.
Newspapers are not to copy this adver-
tlsement without the express order Of
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HARPER & HROTHkRS New York
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-12-04
Always breaking the Market DRESS GOODS and making comp
ashamed Of ITSELF Note fine DRESS GOODS at
greatly Reduced Prices

cents, worth. 80
orth..
35cents cheap
cheap Al
pieces aDnch a. wool e%er all cds rs reduced
IL pieces 45inch black and cOed all at
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-12-04
A. {. MAC CUlSkY { CO.,
Wholesale 6rocers, Grain, Produce
aad commission Merchants.

soNsIGNMENTt OF COUNTRY
~ produce Solicited and pro,np, aeooant
sales rendered 1t fall market prsce.
Agents for salem iCaptsoO FIour- II 4.
the best Oregon -Four.
as and All Coznaaerrial m Gaattla
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-12-04

magnificent assortment of TAILOR-MADE
CLOAKs. Newest shapes. Perfect ct guaranteed.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-12-04

Plush quilted
hskaS Scksat
nsandR
sold all this $ls $780, s25 and
yer be ofemda -
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-12-04

Splendid lines of Lace Goods and Neckwear
The latest designs. 80
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-12-04

complete line of sizes in the California Ho
siery Companies. ALL WOOL HOSIERY and UN
DERWEAR, in medicated, scarlet, white and Shet
land, warranted not to shrink.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-12-04
The LAST GRAND HAUL.

Plain and srocaded Silk veivets, Black eros Grain
Satns etc., all the very highest Goods cut do
cost Of importation.
Special drives plain brocade and Pushes In order 10 NAL
TOKLAS
before public such astonishing any
OF
% nch G G black eros Grain Silk marked 50 So
"a inch Gulnet black silk, marked now
"a incn Gunet black silk mark 81,
~ inch coored silk
% neh gros gram ored silk marked down from So so
"a ncn black 6rocade Sans all qualities two This is grand
f oIocads ed silk and satins happen again.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-12-04

Extra inducements in all departments which, together
with fresh supplies continually arriving, presents
most favorable opportunities of securing fasbiona-
BILE and seasonable Dry Goods at very low prices
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-12-04

THE BEST SADDLE HOR SE 8,
i finest carriages, hacks and buggies,
to hire at any and all times. at most rea-
sonable rates
Horses boarded by the day, week or
month, and the best care guaranteed.
PHILLIPS 3 SEARS.
Proprietoes. Commercial street, opposite
The Arlington. aus
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-01-19
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The Mormon Church has bought
the Phoebe & Meadow Valley Railroad.
Denver Tribune.
In the United States there are 175,.
900 places where Intoxicating liquor is
sold. Chicago Journal.
Fulton Market, New York, sells
40,000,000 pounds of fish and rejects
100000 annually.-N Y Sun.
The three most valuable pearl neck
laces in America are owned In Gotham
and are valued at 100000, $50, 900 and
S23, 900 respectively. IN Y. Times.
--Laboring men of Northern Arizona
upon ranches receive from $50 to $40
per month, teamsters about $50, while
the regular pay for good miners is
about 81 per day Chicago Times.
Three Bankrupt laws have been
enacted and repealed since the adoption
of the Constitution. The first was
passed in 1900 and repealed in 1908, the
second became law in 1841 and was
repealed in 1913, and the third was
passed in 1867 and repealed in 1878.
All three were more or less defective. -
Philadelphia Press
Greenland has, according to the
last census of 1880, 10000 inhabitants,
against 8,128 in 1910. Of these only
$50 are Europeans, almost all Danes,
partly in the service of the monopolized
royal commerce, partly working at the
| kryolite quarry. The women are in an
unusually large majority, 154 against
1000 men.-N. Y Herald.
South America is destined to be the
next great beef-producing region of the
world. IL is estimated that in two
years from now the number of cattle
in the Argentine Confederation will
number 28,000,00 against $4,000, 00C
in 1877. The enormous increase in the
number of cattle has brought down the
price so that good fat steers are selling
ut six to eight dollars. Detroit Post.
The Internal Revenue Office levies
q special tax of S25 q year on retail
liquor dealers. Very few try to escape
this excise, because the penalties arc
heavy. There is, therefore, no better
measure of the liquor traffic. Ter
years ago there were 200,676 retailers
and now there are 195,869 In Maine
there were 1854, and now there are L.
1862. New Hampshire has decreased
from 1900 to 1928; Vermont, from 684
to 526; Massachusetts has increased
from 1868 to SAG; Connecticut, from
1874 to 1857; Rhode Island, from 90t
to 1,440 New York had 40,S74, and
now has but ,001. Yet for the year
| just passed the statistics show AN in.
crease in the traffic. The country has
1908 more retail dealers. 140 more
rectifiers, 802 more wholesalers, anC
seven more brewers. - Chicago Tribune
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-01-19

company pass. tits even said that these
bridges are sometimes made hollow or
tubular, so that the young ants may be
protected from the sun. When the wet
season comes and the ground is covered
with water, the ants form themselves into
balls, as large as an orange, and float
around until it goes down.
In some parts of the world there are
'sred'' or warrior ants. These do
not like to work, and are not able
to feed themselves. Huber, the
naturalist, to prove this, put number
of aunts into glass case with some of
their favorite food, but they could not
eat it, and many died of starvation. He
then put in single black ant, which
had been kept as u servant by the red
ants. This Immediately carried food
to them, and in a short time they were
prospecting. The black ants are very
Industrious, so the warrior ants steal
their young to bring up as slaves. The
red are great fighters, and the black
like to work for them because they are
well protected Each summer the war
riors make raid on their black neigh
bors, because if the slaves should die,
the colony would perish. The robbers
form themselves in line-an officer to
about twenty men-and send scouts
ahead to find a suitable colony to at
tack. When one is found, they inform
their friends. The soldiers march to
the place, where they are met by the
inhabitants. The blacks swarm around
their home. When one climbs on the
back of red ant, another warrior pulls
him of. Soon the poor little blacks
are obliged to flee, and the victors car
ny away their children in triumph.
These are taken home to their slaves,
who care for them until the little fell
lows are able to work.
The slaves, instead of being sorry for
their relatives, like to have them stolen,
because they think that the black ants
are better protected by their warriors
than they would he at home. If the at
tempt should be unsuccessful, and
their masters should return without
slaves, the blacks will block up the door
and sometimes drag them back and
make them fight.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-01-19
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Potatoes moderately sunburned are
in no wise injured for Seed Cincinnati
Times.
Michigan allows to each farmer
who uses wide tires on his wagon a re-
bate on his axes.--Detroh Post.
Get all the family to make study
of the farm. They will be improved as
well as the farm.-7roy Times.
Grade your perches SO that the
heavy fowls, such as the Drahmas and
Asiatics, will not be compelled to fly
high to roost. Y. Herald.
There is but little doubt that fully
one-quarter of the corn fed in fattening
hogs is wasted by feeding it in muddy
yards or lots, or open pens. Exchange
Cotton seed meal is valuable feed;
but it stands in much the same relation
to cattle food that eggs and meat do to
human rations. 1t should never be fed
exclusively, and is best fed with bran,
hay or straw Chicago Journal.
Stormy winter days give an excel
lent opportunity for sorting fruits and
vegetables in the cellar and removing
those beginning to decay. A kerosene
stove, or even one or two large kerosene
lamps, may do much to prevent freez-
ing in cellars not quite frost-proof.-
Chicago Tribune.
The farmers of Vermont and New
Hampshire are beginning to think that
it does not pay, after all, to emigrate TO
the West, when by more intelligent
farming they can make their own lands
yield as well in money value as the aver
| age farms of the West, or even better
Boston transcript.
No farmer should be without a
| good supply of nails and bolts, as some
thing may happen by which double
their cost may be saved. One should
keep on hand plenty of horse nails, and
know how to nail ON q shoe as well as a
blacksmith. 1t is not only the money
that is saved, but time that, at certain
seasons of the year, is worth more than
money to the farmer.-At6any Journal.
-Wafies: A quart of sifted -four, a
pint of sweet milk; if it is possible to
have this part cream it will be great
improvement, if not, add teaspoonful
of melted butter Beat two eggs very
light, salt to your taste; teaspoonful
of baking powder should be mixed with
the -four. The batter when done should
be a little sitter than for griddle-cakes
These should be baked at once--N.
Y. Times.
"A good pair of leggings can be
made of pair of long, ribbed, colored
wooden stockings, which have outrun
their legitimate usefulness. They can
be utilized by cutting off the feet in a
sloping way, so that the top part of the
foot will be left on and thus form the
covering of the foot. Hem them
around, and tack piece of leather
to each side, about the middle of the
foot, to keep them in p.ace.-Detroit
| Post
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-01-19
Pretty Toilet COnceits.

Neglige caps are pointed in front.
One is made of gold lace and trimmed
with pink velvet ribbon; another of sill
yer lace has bows of pale blue ribbon
The combinations "muf1s- boas" are
made of seal brown velvet, lined with
buttercup-yellow satin, and trimmed
with natural beaver
Diamonds are now mounted to repre-
sent various flowers, which can be worn
either as bouquets on the bodice and in
the hair, or can be detached as single
blooms when required. A necklace of
pansies in diamonds is very handsome.
One of the new brocades has ground
of pale buff satin, covered with an ir-
regular lace-like pattern of lavender
pink, with bouquets of flowers in petu-
MIA and light blue tints and foliage of
faded green.
A new style muff is composed of rows
of falling chenille, either in black,
brown or any dark color, with loops of
gold or silver braid sewn on at dis
tance beneath the falling fringe, but
showing between.
Black satin aprons sometimes have a
large sunflower embroidered upon them
in gold thread or jet; others have braces
to bibs, like one of black satin, finished
with small plated flounces. each edged
with gold braid. To this was attached
a pointed side-piece, meeting at the
back and tied round the skirt with a
bow of ribbon.
Young ladies now wear one, two or
three strings of pearls, fastened in front
by dainty little colored velvet bow;
a1S 0f 1,,.a
lace, with pompon as fastening, worn
towards the lett ear. Some velvet
bands are edged on each side with a
string of small pearls, and others have
tiny pearls dotted all over them.
A Newport sash in the new red has
the ends finished with a self-colored
mulberry fringe; it is worn with a dress
of gray merino, and the ends are merely
crossed behind and passed under group
of tiny gathers, placed Just behind the
waist at the back of the skirt.
Ladies silk stockings are very hand
some in texture and beautifully finished
this season. Some have mitred clocks
of delicate lace in exquisite designs. and
others have the fronts adorned with per
pendicular rows of lace insertings. The
new lace-ribbed hose come in all the
novel colors and odd shades.
Small handkerchiefs have borders o.
small squares of colored cambria and
Valenciennes, and others show gath
cred Fittings of Vatican embroidery
small festoons of pink and blue flowers
edged With scollops of alternating col
ors.
1t seems quite like the fairy tale O
the fabric for lady's dress being con
cealed in a nutshell, when one reads Of
delightfully."- warm wraps for house o.
evening wear, made of the finest camel
hair, woven and knitted in the Pyrenees
so light and soft and elastic th-t the,
can easily be passed through an ordi
nary finger ring.-PhiIadelphia Times
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-01-19
Improved Farming.

IL is a curious fact that farmers are
the slowest class of people 10 learn and
adopt improved methods Of farming.
Let new lahor-saving machine, or inn
proved process in mining or manufact-
uring, be introduced in any part of the
country, and in a few months every
large mine or factory in the land that
can afford it, will have The new machine
or process. Even let a new fashion in
dress be started in Paris, and in short
time all the civilized world, farmers in
cluded, will follow it. But when it
comes to improvements in blowing,
planting, harvesting, or better methods
of selecting and ripening seed. farmers
are slow, Indifferent and incredulous.
Even when the superiority of the i'm
provement has been practically demon
strated for years they often refuse to
adopt it, and stubbornly adhere to the
methods they inherited from their faith
ers generation ago. At the late meet
ing of the Missouri State Board of Agri-
culture at Higginsville, in Lafayette
County, Prof. Sanborn stated, in illus
tration of the superiority of good farm
ing over poor, that on the same field,
and with similar cultivation, he had
raised one year twelve bushels of corn
TO the acre, and another year one hun
dred bushels. The difference is so great
as to warrant all the care and precau-
ton that farmer can give his crop,
from the selecting of the seed to the
gathering of the product, for, while
twelve bushels of corn per acre will
keep farmer poor, one hundred bush
els per acre will make him rich. As
much as one hundred and fifty bushels
of corn per acre has been raised in the
West, and one case is on record of two
hundred and six bushels to the acre. Oh
course it was not large area on which
the great yield was obtained; still it
shows what can be done in corn-raising
under the most favorable treatment.
English farmers, by deep blowing and
careful mapuring, get forty bushels of
wheat per acre from their soil, and it is
said the Belgian farmers, by more mi
mute and careful treatment, do a great
deal better; they get one hundred bush.
els per acre on their little two and
three-acre plats. w
There is great need for the dissemina-
ton of information among farmers
particularly facts about large crops and
the methods by which they are pro-
duced, and the feeding process by which
animals can be most rapidly matured
and made to reach the heaviest
weight or the smallest expenditure OF
grain and grass. Farming offers a field
for perpetual experiment; and the re-
suits of these experiments made by in.
telligent and successful agriculturist'
ought to be diligently spread before the
whole profession. Nothing is more in
teresting or profitable than to learn how
two ears of corn or two blades of grass
are made to grow where only one grew
before. 1t is the secret of success il
farm ng.-St. Louis Republican.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-01-19
Winter Care OF Colts.

Very much indeed of the value of
horse depends upon the manner in
which the colt was kept the first win
ter. If they are poorly cared for their
growth is retarded, and they never
will attain the development they other
wise would have done. III not already
done, provide good winter quarters,
warmth, light and ventilation being the
objects most desired in building. l
venture to say thai nine-tenths of the
colts at this date have never been hal
ter-broke, but this Is no great detriment,
but don't now overdo the mother and
keep them tied in stable for weeks
and months at time. as | have known
some farmers to do, but let them run
loose in box-stall at least fifteen feet
square, and if possible give them the
range OF yard or field during pleasant
weather, or when they choose to thus
run or wander about.
Don't get the impression that if the
feed-box be placed up as high as they
can reach they will develop beautiful
curved neck and high head; such a posi-
ton when feeding necessitates an undue
strain upon the spine, often causing
hollow backs. A feed-box and manger
three feet high is preferable to one four
feet high. Plenty of coarse fodder is
essential, and If there be a choice let the
colt have the lions share of the best, as
usually the teams have but little to do
during winter. Clover, if secured in
good order, makes a feed that all young
stock relish, preferring it to the best
timothy or corn-stalks.
Some seem to think because colt
is small animal, that they can in
the morning throw in enough hay to last
them until the following day. This is a
great mistake--give them hay three
times each day, and make it practice
to remove all refuse material from the
manger each morning.
AS to grain, oats are the natural food
for horses. Colts six months old should
be fed pint night and morning; in q
week or two give them pint at noon,
gradually increasing the quantity until
quart be fed at each meal. Should
other more hearty food. as corn, barley
etc, be fed, it should be in reduced
quantities. Water regularly, give
plenty of bedding, keep the stable clear
and properly ventilated.
Frequently the absence of sufficient
room necessitates the keeping of two oil
more colts in the same stable. If this
be done, by all means provide separate
managers and feed-bOxes for each ami
NAL, and place them as far apart a:
possible, as they delight to try theil
heels, and will often bite and kick each
other savagely.
During the first winter is the proper
time to halter-break colt. and If the
attendant treats them kindly they will
soon eat from his hand, when by few
times gently placing your hand upor
them you gain their confidence. and tht
battle of breaking is half won.-M \
Examiner.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-01-19
Youths Department.
THE OAK AND THE MUSHROOM

FABLE.
The mushroom and the oak
In the meadow stood together,
When the former in his cloak
Penrly white, briskly said:
u have just got out of bed,
And find the world Is radiant with good
weather.
see a thousand pretty things
Flowers with color, birds with wings
That hy so far and so fieetly:
But there's one thing puzzles me most com
pletely:
How a tree of power and size
Should take so long TO rise.
at once sprang from the ground,
And have hardly looked around,
And have not been here an hour;
But, to win your state and power.
As your wrinkledness appears,
Took dozen score of years.
Look at me,
And you'll agree
am whole and clear and sound.
Isn't that perfect dowerI
And I've not been here an hourl'
Then the oak
To his callow comrade spoke:
All depends on what you set yourself to DO
Whether mushroom or a tree,
Very little needs but little for supply:
And to one who can say
He has had no yesterday
Who, springing from "a shower,
Was born in an hour,
And with weeping and quick sorrow,
Must vanish ere tomorrow
Things are easy, admit.
But If you ha had a bit of real, sturdy w.t.
You would know
Quick to come Is quick to go.
- But hither strols the epicure;
He will settle this debate, I'm sure.
See, he ends our fact or fable,
BY picking you to sit as a morsel on his table.
But to you 7 is little difference, any way
Small intruder of day
Found you here or found you not,
Death has uses:-and your take-of is as Just
For tomorrow yon would crumble into dust
joel Benton, IN ST. Nicholas