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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-03-12
KetaiIatsry ActIsn.

NIEssA, March ia bill revising
the tarIa Vas introduced in tho Reich
srAtn, Authorizing an increase Of the
import duties on cereals. 30 as to raise
them % the rates sdopsed By Germany.
The measure applies only TO sereals in
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-03-12
A French yIesery.

MApRID, March 1.-THE Cortes, by
1872 to 81, ratified the commercial agree
meut with England.
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Dunrorsonle.
WATTS.

81 SEE" said she, looking up from
the paper, that there were twenty
million buttons made in this country
last year" " lndeedn' he replied. 81
wonder what they were made for?'
" For sewing on garments, suppose"
" Well, somebody's got more than their
share, guess, for there hain't been
any sewed on my garments for year. "
She resumed her reading.
"WELL, of all foolishness!" exclaimed
the high-school girls mother, looking
up from the paper. What is it, maj"
asked Mildred. "They are going to
wax Cleopatra's needle" Why,
that's all right, ma" Mildred, you
needn't try to tell your old ma any
thing about needles. | have waXed
thread lots of times, but knowit's per-
feet foolishness to wax needles. They
don't sew bit better'
FoGG Oo Mrs. F): "I've just had a
curious dream. | thought my pocket
was full of money, and that l emptied
it all in your lap. 1t seemed so real
that when woke up l could hardly
convince myself that had been asleep.
Even now | more than half believe
that it was no dream at all" Mrs.
Fogg: elm You can easily con-
vince yourself. All you have to do is
to look into your pocket"
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Concerning DisagreeabIe Things.

or course nobody prefers disagree
able to agreeable things. | never
heard OF any one who was delighted to
sit in the dentists chair; did you?
never found it very pleasant to beg
pardon for having done wrong. nor
charming to 60 a mile or two out of
my way on an errand which was made
necessary by my own carelessness. nor.
/ confess, are pills quite as much to my
taste as sugar-plums. But, my dears,
your Aunt Marjorie learned great
while ago that sometimes disagreeable
things must be done. And the best
and wisest way is to do them at once
and bravely. If you grasp a nettle
firmly, it is much less likely to sting
you than if you take hold of it lightly
and carelessly. If there is lesson for
tomorrow which you do not like-that
cold " arithmetic, or those old"
boundaries-do not put off studying it
until you have finished your history
and peeped into your botany and col
ored your map, but tug resolutely at the
hard lesson first. Get that out of the
way, and then with clear conscience
you may attack the others. Nobody
admires a coward. If you happen to
know that there is a cowardly drop of
blood in certain boy, how YOU de-
spise himl Why, I've heard tiny chill
dren in the street call a playmate "'fraid
cat" and point at him with an air of
contempt, as though that word left
nothing more to be said. But, Fred,
Will, Jenny, what if you are aware
that you are, way down in your heart,
bit of coward now and then. You
do not like to own it when you make
mistake. There are certain stiff and
dignified people who rather brighten
you, and papa sends you with message
to their houses; you hesitate and say,
Cannot Tom go?" You are sometimes
afraid to say "No" when you are
urged to do something which is against
the home law or the rules of the
school. You are the very tiniest bit in
the world coward. Trust your Aunt
Marjorie, dears. This will never do.
a girl or boy, to amount to anything,
must be brave. And when disagree
able thing faces you, face it. You will
always find that it was not half so bad
nor so dreadful as it seemed in the
first place. Half the trouble was in your
own fancy.-Hdrper'S Young People.
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A Thankful Heart.

We should always have a thankful
heart because it is well pleasing to our
Heavenly Father. Once upon time,
so all stories commence, at the dinner
table, in the cabin of an English steam
boat, there sat conceited young man
who thought he displayed his own i'm
portance by abusing everything placed
before him. A clergyman present re-
monstrated with him, but in vain. Even
on deck he continued his complaints of
the ill-cooked, unsavory fare, until the
clergyman, thoroughly disguised, turned
away and, walking toward the steerage
noticed an old man in his home-spun
and well-worn shepherds plaid, crouch
ing behind the paddle-box, where he
thought himself unobserved He took
from his pocket piece of dry bread
and cheese, and, laying them down be-
fore him, reverently took off his blue
bonnet, his thin white hairs streaming
in the wind, clasped his hands together
and blessed God for his mercy In the
great Giver's hands lie gifts of many
kinds, and to the scantiest dole of this
worlds fare we oftentimes see added
that richer boon-a grateful heart
,Setected
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Now.

There are millions of people in this
country who intellectually acknowledge
the truth and divine authority of the
Bible, and who mean at some time-al-
ways before leaving this world-to ac-
cept the salvation which God offers to
them in that book and commands them
to receive. They know that they are
sinners and that they need salvation,
and it is no part of their plan to quit
this world without obtaining it by
compliance with its conditions. The
difficulty with all such persons is just
the one which Felix had when Paul
reasoned with him about righteousness
temperance and a judgment to come.
He trembled but was not ready abso-
lutely to yield to the force of Paul's ar
gument, and he hence disposed of the
question then pressed upon him by
saying: :" Go thy way for this time
when / have a convenient season |
will call thee" Agrippa did the same
thing substantially when he said to
Paul: "Almost thou persuadest me
to be a Christian" Multitudes cheat
themselves out of heaven by never
finding just the right time in which to
do what they must do or lose their
The Independent.
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fOr tbe CHILDREN.
Peters Dream.

Peter was little boy who lived not
very far from the window by which. on
this rainy day, Aunt Augusta is sitting.
lie was boy who obeyed his father.
and you will see what came from his
obedience. And every boy who NAV
chance to read of little Peter NAV be
perfectly certain that a blessing of one
sort or another will always follow boys
VINO obey their parents, unless those
parents tel them to do what the Parent
OF all forbids. In that case, they must
not obey: This we suppose to be what
our Lord meant by saying that one
must hate his father and his mother if
he would be his disciple. That is,
obey them no more than if we hated
them, if they tried to make us do wrong.
We'll, little Peter had rich grand
father. He had also two beautiful
young, black steers. He thought great
deal OF those steers, you may be sure,
and was proud of them One day
Peter met his grandfather. who said to
him, " Peter, guess what | dreamed
last night" Peter could not guess. ct
dreamed that you gave me your black
steers" said his grandfather. Peter
made very little reply, but going home
he told his father what his grandfather
had dreamed. My son." his father
said, " drive your steers right into your
grandfather's yard, and tell him they
are his" Peter at once obeyed.
Here are the steers, grandfather he
called out, and then home he ran. no
doubt to cry as if his little heart was
broken. Now Peters grandfather had
a valuable and BEAUTIFUL farm, not far
from the town of S. MY SON." said
Peters father to him soon after he had
given away the black steers, ego and
tell your grandfather that you have
dreamed that he gave you the -
farm" Now there are two sorts of
dreams: one, the dreams of sleep; the
other, wide-awake dreams. Peters
dream must have been the latter sort.
and as there was no intention of de-
ceiving, we will hope there was moth
ing wrong in the boys obeying his
father this time. He ran and did as
he was bid, and back home he went.
Soon after the old gentleman put the
deed of that beautiful farm into Peters
hands, and he said, "There, my bov.
is your farm, and now / guess YOU and
| will not dream any more.'' Peter is
a man now, and his farm is said to be
the best farm in Stunt augusta.
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2---DecapitatiOns.


1-Behead a mans name, and leave
a place of repose.
2-Behead one, and leave an in
sect's egg.
3-Beheada trial of speed, and leave
one.
4-Behead haughtiness, and leave
to be carried.
5-Behead one who joins together
and leave something found in the COM
position of gun-powder.
6-Behead belt, and leave a num-
Der.
7-Behead earnestness, and leave
the French for SIS"
S-Behead kind of tree, and leave
any part of a curve.
9-Behead to rub out, and leave to
destroy.
10-Behead to strike together, and
leave whip.
11-Behead fruit, and leave tc
roam about.
12-Behead part of building, and
leave subsequent.
13-Behead close by, and leave par
of the head.
14-Behead all, and leave extremely
15-Behead to CRATE harshly, ant
leave poisonous serpent
The removed letters form something
of interest to the fireside circle.
BENNIE BEE.
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Pleasing Christ.

Woman's power with man is not in
her strength of muscle, her sharpness of
mind or pretty face. Men enjoy
these for season, but woman's power,
either for evil or good, is in pleasing
others. The world asks for bold good
ness in man, but for firm, sweet good
ness in woman. And when this art of
pleasing is founded in love to Christ it
becomes, next to the Holy Ghost, the
greatest moral power upon earth
First, live to please Christ; next, live
to please others so as not to displease
Christ. Test this in practical life. In
the home first seek to please Christ;
that will make you conscientious; then
seek to please father and mother; that
will make you thoughtful in little
things, causing you to be loved. In
the school pleasing Christ will cause
one to be faithful in study; pleasing
others will make her correct in deport-
ment. In the kitchen pleasing Christ
will make her trustworthy; pleasing
others make her agreeable in manner.
In the store pleasing Christ will make
her honest; pleasing others make her
attentive and polite. In the mill
pleasing Christ will give good work
pleasing others give good manners.
Thus everywhere pleasing Christ will
give purity, faithfulness and firmness;
pleasing others give beauty and intlu-
ence. Seek to please Christ and then
let the life overflow in pleasing others.
The two must go together, for seeking
to please Christ alone will have ten
dency to make one seem narrow and
rigid and cold; and seeking to please
others alone will make one superficial
and fluctuating and affected; but seek
ing to please Christ, and seeking to
please others so far as will not dis
please Christ, makes one both strong
and beautiful. Be pleasing at home
and away from home, in school and out
of school, in the store and out of
the store, with those above you and
those beneath you-everywhere seek to
please. AS the flowers draw their
beauty from the sunbeams and then
smile upon all who meet them, so draw
your grace from Christ and then let it
shine in all pleasing forms upon every
human heart. Then you will have not
transient flatterers, but the enduring
love of both God and men; your SOU
shall be full of sweet singing memories
and God shall fill your crown with jew.
els, shining brighter than the stars in
the eternal mansions. Therefore seek
to please. Be not only cornerstone
but be beautiful; be not only strong
but pleasing.-Rer. S. Baker, IN tn,
Morning Star.
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BE Faithful to the Young Men.

There are two thousand telegraph
operators in the country, most of whom
are young men; seventy-hve thousand
printers, the majority of whom are
young men; and in the course of my
inquiries in various directions / found
that scarcely five per cent of the young
men had any church connections what
ever. The great majority of crimes
committed in the city are committed by
young men. OF the thirty-eight thou
sand persons arrested last year the
great majority was made up of young
men. Young men fill the jails, and
the average age of convicts at Joliet is
twenty-five years. From the reign of
Solomon to the reign of the Bourbons the
corruption of the cities has been the ruin
of the state. The young men of the cities
must be saved. Give the young men a
chance. Open the doors for them, re-
move the obstacles that are to them in
surmountable, awaken their ambition,
kindle their hope, inspire their courage,
and call forth their powers by kindly
words and counsel, and also by Judi
cious, substantial assistance at the right
time. You should be faithful to the
young men; keep drink from throttling
them, keep sport from Draining them,
keep all the depravity of low life
from enervating them, keep the devil
off. If you would do this and give the
young men fair chance you would
make record of which all might well
be proud. 1t is the mission of the as
ISOLATION and of the church to bring
liberty to all men and to bring out their
best power for good, elevating them to
the standard of all those good things
that would make them useful and
happy and contented.-R Frank
Rl.io inl
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make long speech to you, for l am
tired and weary; but l will tell you a
little story. A few weeks ago was
walking on the banks of the river, not
far from here. heard cry of distress,
and to my horror / saw canoe drifting
down the stream and nearing the rapids.
There was single man in the boat. In
a short time he would near the water
fall and be gone! He saw his danger,
and l heard him scream, 90 God, if l
must lose my life have mercy on my
soulp l plunged into the water, and
reached the canoe. l dragged it to
land and saved him. That man, whom |
heard when he thought no one was near,
praying to God to have mercy on his
soul, is the man who has just addressed
you and has told you he believes there
is neither God, nor heaven, nor hell."-
Selected.
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Living for God.

He who lives for God will find him
self irresistibly impelled to the best and
widest service for his fellow-men. He
who lives for self, however carefully
he may strive to strengthen his posi-
ton by maXims of worldly prudence, or
by utilitarian philosophy, fails igno-
miniously of all the highest ends of
living. Reckon from self as a center,
and your fellow-men become your OBJ
noXious rivals in the stern struggle for
existence and advancement Ambi-
TONS law of life becomes the blood
stained survival of the tittest, and the
highest glories life can give you, in
their hollow and transitory splendor,
will be yours but for a tremulous mo-
ment, until the younger, the more Wig
orous, the more fortunate shall thrust
you aside, and for his brief moment
wear the bauble you strove for until
your selfish life went out in nothing
ness. Reckon from God as a center,
and your fellow-men become your
brothers. They are infinitely worthy
of your loving interest. since one
Father has made all our spirits after
his image, and one Savior has died to
redeem from sin and restore to God
likeness all who will turn to him, even
the most debased. Thus reckoning
from God as the center the law of low
ing service and self-abnegation be-
comes the law of your life. But l have
duty toward myself, you say. I'm
questionably! You will do the best for
yourself, intellectually and morally
when you subjugate self to the service
of God in the service of your fellow
men. Thus living, the feverish strain
will be taken out of the hot, painting
rivalries of life. The success of all
good and true men will be your sue.
cess. The Spirit of him who came not
to be ministered unto but to minister
possessing your souls, failure for you
will be impossible. The very effort fol
others welfare and for the defence OF
Righteousness which may exhaust your
vital powers will assure your deathless
victory-your success. For know wei
that truth, of all fixed laws in the uni
verse the most unalterably fixed, is the
prevalence of that holy and unchanging
will that makes for righteousness-nC
vague, blind tendency in fortuitously
evolving universe. 1t is the personal
will of personal God, whose eye il
now and will evermore be upon you al
person, who claims from you the per
sonal love of your finite being, while hi
offers you the sustaining, personal low,
of his infinite personality. -Presiden
Merrill b. Gates, IN Christian at Work
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Who Has the Happy Old Man!

l met him one day on his way to the
place where prayer was wont to be
said. He had just passed that mile
stone of life labeled seventy-fve
years" His back was bent, his limbs
trembled beside his staff, his clothes
were old, his voice was husky, his hair
was white, his eyes were dim, his face
was furrowed. Withal, he still seemed
fond of life and gladness, not at all
put out with his lot. He hummed the
lines of familiar hymn as his aged
limbs and cane carried him along.
Aged friend" said l, " why should
an old man be so merry and cheerful?"
" All are not" said he. Well, why
then, should you be merry?" "Be-
cause l belong to- the Lord" care
none others happy at your time of life?'
No, not one, my friendly ques-
TONER" said he, and, as he said more,
his form Strengthened into the stature
of his younger days and something of
inspiration set beautiful glow upon
his countenance. "Listen, please, to
the truth from one who knows, then
wing it round the world, and no man
of over three-score- and-ten shall be
found to gainsay my words-the devil
has no happy old man" -Erchange.
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horted The young disciple to endure
hardness as good soldier of Jesus
Christ. There are Christian families,
however, where the young are trained
in habits of self-indulgence, rather than
of self-denial, and where each is taught,
in deed if not in word, to seek the
easiest place in Gods host rather than
to endure hardship in the path of duty.
This may prove terrible mistake. The
parent who fails to train his child in
Christian self-denial not only fails to
prepare that child for the battles of life,
but gives him the first impulse toward
a reckless course of Generalization and
career of uncontrolled license. -Sun-
ddy-Scho0l Times.
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Everyday Religion.

Everyday religion is the foundation
of thoroughness, which is another word
for truthfulness or honesty. Workmen
that slight their work, whether they
make shirts for living, or sermons,
build houses or ships, raise focks or
raise families, will be some day or
other found out. We want clothes
that will not rip, vessels that will not
leak and bridges that will not break
down. So we want characters that
will stand temptation, and not snap
asunder under the sudden pressure of
life.-Nelo YORK; Eranlehst.
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ALL persons about to visit foreign
lands, sailors, fishermen, lumbermen
and miners should take with them a
supply of Johnson'S Anodyne Liniment.
1t is both for internal and external use
and is worth its weight in gold.
HIP disease, fever sores, ulcers,
blotches, pimples and many loathsome
diseases originate in impure blood.
Parsons Purgative Pills make ne,o rich
blood and will change the blood in the
entire system in three months, taken
one night.
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The Missionary and the Infidel.

remember, says the bishop of Sas-
katchewan, many years ago listening
with great delight to a storyI heard from
missionary in North Canada. He said
that some years before then an humble
missionary was travelling through the
Canadian backwoods. He lost his way;
but presently was rejoiced at the sight
ola glimmering light Soon reaching it,
to his surprise he found large congre-
cation of settlers gathered round fire,
listening to an able discourse. To the
horror of the missionary he found that
the man was trying to prove that there
was no God, no heaven, no hell, no
eternity. A murmur of applause went
through the audience as the orator
ceased. The missionary stood up and
said: "My friends, / am not going to
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-30
Self-DeniaI is Discipline.

What would be thought of military
training-school in which no attention
was given to drill and discipline, but
where the whole effort of the authori-
ties was to enable the students to get
on enjoyably? That is not the sort of
schooling which prepares young SOL
der for his part in the hardships of
camp and campaigning. But every fam
lily is, in a sense, military training
school, if Paul was right when he ex-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-30

THE FIRST KEEN TwINGE.-As the
season advances, the pains and aches
by which rheumatism makes itself
known are experienced after every ex-
posture. 1t is not claimed that Hoods
Sarsaparilla is specific for rheuma-
tism-we doubt if there is, or can be,
such a remedy. But the thousands
benefited by Hoods Sarsaparilla war
rant us in urging others who suffer
from rheumatism to take it before the
first keen twinge.
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FlOssY's Queer Dolls.

Every year Flossy Fay calls up the
chimney to Santa Claus and asks him
to bring her a wax doll, or china doll,
with "really' hair and wake-up
and go-to-sleep" eyes. But Santa
never does it, so she is beginning to
think there is something wrong about
their chimney. But Flossy has large
family of dollies that she loves very
mer dolls, and others her winter dolls.
The summer dolls are made of flowers
pansies, with their funny faces; daisies,
with their white-frilled caps and
morning-glory dresses Gliding wired
stems); sunhowers, with yellow caps,
shoe buttons for eyes, and hollyhock
skirts; and lastly little Miss Hollyhock
herself, with her dainty scarf around
her shoulders. Flossy's papa made
tenpins for sale, and in the winter, when
his little girls flower family were all
dead, he gave her some wooden pins,
with faces drawn with ink. And these
she liked. Every few days he would
give her new one, and by spring time
her family was so large that mamma
took several of them out into her herb
garden, and stuck them head down.
ward into the earth, and tied her sage
bushes to them. When the first rain
poured down upon them poor Flossy
stood at the window and cried with pity
for Jerry and Jack and Jill out alone
in the storm. One day this queer little
girl found two empty bottles upon the
closet shelf. One was labeled aqua
forts and the other vitriol. So she
named them Bobby Aqua Forts and
Susie Vitriol and added them to the
winter family. She is always afraid
they will break their necks, so she keeps
them bound up with blue ribbon.-Lit-
tic Men and Women.
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3..-Enigna.
Composed of 81 letters.)

Composed of 81 letters.)
My 25 6 II 2S 81 10 is to make secure.
My 30 3 Is % IA 10 is a movement.
My 4 2 IL p "a . is part of volcano.
My l II II 26 10 is wrath.
My y 16 10 is suggestion.
My 81 20 7 II is the closed hand.
My 10 10 2 20 is money paid for labor.
People who are in the habit of putting
off until tomorrow what ought to be
done to-day should think we'll on the
whole. CHICKEN.