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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-01-15

How OuR FRENcH COUSINS Battle
At the seaside resorts, bathing is the
chief amusement. but it IS far differ
eat thing from bathing in America.
The Frenchmen attiTes himself IN
sumptuous robes, with Turkish slip
pers, acigarette and eye glasses. Then
he promenades along the beach with
The air OF a Roman emperor. oeca.
sionAlly he allows the water 10 dash
about his ankles, and even TO his knees,
but never above that point. After AZ
hour or two OF such elegant athtadin-
ixing he retires with the air Of q con-
queror. The French lady who battles
invariably wears high-heeled shoes
laced almost 10 her knees. Her bath.
,ng dress Is inside with long-trained
skirts, which she holds above the reach
OF the waves with one hand. while ~ !
the other she holds fan and smelling
bsttle. She Is always accompanied By
a maid, who holds q parasA over hei
head. She allows the water 20 dast
bout her ankles and wet her shoes
Bot, as she wears oiled-silk stoc kings
her feet do not become wet Pan.
Letter to Chicago Tribune.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-01-15

A HANDKERCHIEF SHAN.-The sham
Is composed Of four linen hem-stitehed
handkerchiefs, joined together with q
fancy stitch. They are easily made,
and IN comparison with the tucked and
rutiied ones EASILY lannde' ed, and they
present A neat aud attractive apiear-
soee on the bed. They can be lined
With pink or blue silesia II one 50 de-
sires; bat there IS nothing preitier Tor
a bel than ssotiess white. The size Of
he handkerchief win depend on the
sire the sham is 10 be. A very good
quality Tor such can Ne purchased fol
nfleen cents. The shams are edged
with linen antique lace, II the band
are used aud are Joined together with
Iorchon insertion and edged with 3
ratherpd frill OF 70 chon lace, tbs
shsms win be very handsome indeed
- Womans Work.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-01-15

TnE UsEFuL APRos.-A word about
aprons They are q great saving 70
the dress, and every mother ought 20
have always At hand good black al
paca for morning wear and one silk for
he afternoon. This need not be con
stantiy worn, but should be IN a COZ
venient place, where il can be caught
M readily for the moments daruing
and for the odds and ends Of NEEDLE
work. Ttshoald be provided with littls
gathered pockets, in which At all times
there should be q needle. . thimhle and
snools OF black and white cotton. We
knoW from experience that this is Z
very useful article Of vOman's Wear.-
| Dress.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-01-15
FOB The LA0ItS.


- .,.yxou knoW I've naInutfs, Sad
". - misanshrope % ne,
-.,igsItes ia your life, ~, when
- go trouble you were Tree
,svsmiuutes Of true nAppin. - " pea
~are unalios ed,
:. wk;eh within y9HF heart yoa 90 noi
= 80 an aehing VOID
- - I've known i've minutes n
Al happiness 10 He :,
-. ,S.i1utes when ] quite forgot AZ
= ttsrouhle and all STRIFE;
.when 3 maiden SAID % nnes While
driving u > sleigh.
an I've you jnst ave minutes, John
II axe your arm a8sy.
II Boston couris
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-01-15

How TO BUY SEAIsETE GooDs.-Seal-
skins are not all perfectly tanned OF
perfectly sound, and the cunning man
uiacturer Is not ayerse TO covering such
detective skins with a handsome lin
ing. In the ready-made goods only
experienced people are capable OF de
lecting these defects, even II the skin
were al exposed TO view, and but few
will be undeceiyed by ripping the lin
ing of q ready-niade CLOAK. The seal
skin IS too expensive G garment TO Be
purchased ia such a haphazard way.
The raw material should be carefully
examined and then made up by
Trustworthy and experienced dealer
who values his reputation, No one Is
more eommendable in this business
than Chas. Henning, No. IS State
street. He Is a practical, experiences
man, who has been ell his life IN the
business, and is thoroughly reliable.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-01-15
DOING Up rae hair.

Some OF the new coifures are more
noyeI thaa beautiful. They do not
conform at al 10 the shape OF tiae
head, aud any woman who dresses her
hair after them must use three or toar
false pieces. There IS nt necessity iof
young people 20 torture TIER pretty
treSses iato these delortn ties, yet many
u them do il. OF c0nrSe, elderly Ia
dies are Obliged 10 wear 4 more eiahor-
ats eoiffnrs 70 hide the ravAges OF time.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-01-15

HRR HusnAND TEgsKs - - UN-
LrCKY She Dust IN from an alter
moons shopping and running 70 heE
husband)-" I've had such . lovely
time. I've j1st come from Blank >
ana I saw two such lovely jackets, ons
al Sis and another at SIS
= Wei. and which one did ycu finally
buy
i Yoa know. dear, how superStitio1s
am about he number IS, 30 ! simply
lad 20 has the SIS one IN. I
T-nfh
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-01-15

TIsEFUI HgSr FRoN JAcK.-It was
h.shfnt YOU h Who had bis girl cut
rowing at Bar Haroer, and vas Eork-
ing his boat aiotig etcse % me snore'
- an ola seaman took in the situa-
ton az once and shouted
II say, there, my bold SKIPPER, giVs,
nm hugEing the shore and ny ltile u
"a on the girl. . ".
Salesman
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-01-15

A PazxE res SoMEBopT.-There e .
gfrl IN tie Treasury department g
Washington who can Tick . counter
feit bill out OF . piie containing So
90 90. There Is . prize for some man.
Think Of beng abe TO sleep o nigh :
xithout the haunting fear ha-gingiike
= swond of Bunker Hi over your hesd
tast there NAV be a counterfeit bili
IN voar So 90, 90 BInghAmton Re
sahiiran.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-01-15

T-I.rFST ~ PoCKKTH0oKs.-A ma
,-a,, 6nsirht 4 roll OF oilelOth Al neigh
boring store -,...ss,s 80
the merchant az
sball carry L home. and al the weznen
an our street vii think ! have TIE yefy
Sssesf Il NJ out in the way u pocket
b0ok.w
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-01-15

sKkxs on Sal PiVsHf-"l want
vour advice very n9eh, Clceiy, Gear.
Would yo1 bay \ seal or sea- push
cloak. II yea were u my place
: We'll, Of course. cAnf say, seals
are growfna scarcer ever year.
a Bnt hear that they are not kll1nE
sounany plnahea this year 81 usual =
Hartford Posi-.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-01-15
PULLMAN BUFFET sgEEpERs
FoR THE vpesR skAoSTs
aTEAMER GLIDE

CHFFVlnR o. UNlfat slata4 mallH
r HAvR8 YEe1.ERB WHAEF on
fnrnins Taasday, ThnFndnY Nnd eafnrAag.
oN1itna " MuEiitno. fuiMlip. N1MHwna&
UtnnfMeY, Fir fmndlnR Hknaif CltY. Noana
EeEmna, 8tnxllnR and al fnAmznadfn la
pninas aopEas EoFfFulTht az pnannae spnfV
GO hanra o. % GEO. ROsTkR. q whazf
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-01-15
Commencing Monday, Oct. a
OREGON RT. { NAV. cos
CLEANERS.

III ~ IAN
Arrives daily from Victoria ana
Port Townsend. exnopE sunday. Am
Dupart daily for Victoria and
Port ToWuaano, exoeps sunday, San
KAMa aATEARD OR gcRfB PACIFIC.
Depart eaily for Tacoma, ennpeos-
ing with early Portland grnin.. AN
Same boat going through 10 Ofympia anA
SteilncoQln. eKurbtlng HundaFA
Departs daily excsp ing rundmya
for Tacoma connecting with
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Same boat from olympia and etealncoom
excepting SundayA
BrEAMEk IDARO
Arrives from Whatcom every Tuaa.
day. Thur-day and sstufdkg at....a NJ
Departs for whatoom and way ports
ever Sunday. Tuesday and Thars.
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-26
A Breeze from the North.

Editor Camp of the Newport Express
sharpens up his pen this week and
draws blood on the first round. His
victim is Col. G.. S. Forbes, whom he
declares "the present COMMANDMENTS
chief of the republican forces in the
state," and after reviewing the work
of the aforesaid commander thus far in
the campaign comes down with special
fury on the Colonel for declaring at the
New York convention "with the great
est confidence, we should rather say
with the greatest possible impudence,
that Vermont's preference was for
Blaine" Says the Express:
Forbes, nor no other man can to-day
tell the prevailing sentiment among
Vermont republicans or with any sort
of certainty name their preference for
president. 1t may be Blaine, it is just
as likely to be somebody else. She
will send good strong men to the ma
tional convention. We have an idea
they will Tor certainly should) go I'M
pledged but ready to support the man
who will most heartily and honestly
stand upon and carry out the highest
and best principles of the republican
party. Such attempts to fOrestall pub
lie opinion, to make the people of the
state believe that Blaine must be the
man and so relapse into Indifference
and allow particular set of picked
men to be chosen as delegates, are now,
as they always have been, despicable
means Few men have the supreme
cheek, coupled with ignorance, to do
what Forbes did in New York only
occasionally some mouth piece, whip
per snapper, for some man or clique
can do it. Forbes has been in the
business so long that he has become an
expert.
The last half of this spicy editorial
warns up Mr.. Forbes for his recent
article to the New York Tribune adj
vancing the name of w. p. Dillingham;
as a candidate for governor. Editor
Camp rakes after himself pretty well
as he goes along; speaking of this
Tribune article, however, he says, sit
appears in an outside paper, that by
sort of military coup d etat has a gen.
erous circulation in Vermont at pres
ent." Won't Editor Camp please tell
us all he knows about this "military
coup d. etdt" that has secured the intro
duction of the Tribune and other out
side papers into the state This is all
that is wanting to make his racy story
complete
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-26
A GirdIe Round the Earth.

1t is n genuine pleasure to find the
charming letters written by d. n.
Richardson to the Davenport, Iowa,
Democrat, during his trip round the
world, brought together in book form
and handsomely presented to the pub
lie by the publishing house of A. c.
McClurg & Co., of Chicago. The charm
of these letters is in their quaint Origi-
nality. Mr.. Davenport is a natural
traveller, if people are ever born with
such a gift, and is possessed with the
rare faculty of seeing things that peo-
pie want to know about and telling his
story in such a way that an impression
of having actually seen something of
the real life of the people of foreign
countries is left on the mind of the
reader He takes one along with him,
as it were, and points out this thing
and that thing that would otherwise
escape the attention of the average
traveller. This volume contains the
record of the writer's jOurneyings
through Japan, China, India, Arabia
and Egypt, Bible lands, Asia Minor,
Austria, Italy, Poland, Russia, ETC., etc.
The book can be ordered of lOca deal
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-26
VERMONT NEWS.
A Rare Industry.

One of the rarest industries of this
country is carried on very extensively
in North Bennington-the manufacture
of glass lenses and microscopes. The
chief demand is from parties who can
vass from house to house, offering q
set of views and a ''scope" for ST.
Many thousands are exported. Last
years product of the three factories
will approximate $4,000 microscopes.
West Randolph is to have a new
creamery costing $4,000.
1t has been decided to hold the Ver-
mont conference at West Randolph ON
a strictly self-supporting basis.
G. w. Bissell of Wilmington sold
1858 pounds of butter in 1887 from six
cows, realizing thereform over $500.
At the graduation exercises at the
State Normal school at johnson, on
Thursday, the graduating class num-
bered Is.
The next school of instruction for
the officers of the National Guard OF
Vermont will be held in st. Adams
early in the spring.
About SIS, ZOO has been subscribed
by the citizens of Windsor for the
organization of a new company for the
manufacture of machinery.
A life size portrait of the late Bishop
Hopkins, the first bishop of the Epis-
copal diocese of Vermont, has just
been placed in the vestibule of St.
Paul's church in Burlington.
Although Vermont by it's statutes is
a thoroughly prohibitory state, yet in
the small hamlet of Hortonville, in
Rutland county, 1875 barrels of cider
were manufactured and sold the past
fall.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Death of "Grandmau GarfieId.

"Grandma" Garfield, the mother OF
President Garfield, died at her home in
Mentor. Ohio, Saturday morning. She
was SO years old. She had been gradu-
ally failing during the past two months.
Her death was the result of old age.
Governor Semple has signed the bill
giving the ballot to the women of
Washington Territory.
The deadly bob-sled is having its
run in Kansas City also. One loaded
with 50 persons came into collision with
another one day last week IL were
seriously injured.
Borgean 81 Heron's coffee mill and
the premises occupied by the Domin-
ion art furniture company and the Me-
nard cap block manufactures at Mon
treal were burned Saturday morning.
The thermometer was 20 below zero,
and the firemen suffered intensely.
The I'd, Sd, and 18th stories of the Can
ada spice and coffee mills were also
Quilted. Loss S20O,000.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-26
LOCAL AND TOWN NEWS.
The Lotus Club and Wilder.

The Lotus CLUB and wilder.
The ninth entertainment in the Y
NJ. G. A. course was given Thursday
evening by the Lotus Glee Club as
sisted by Marshall P. Wilder, and was
listened to by large audience. The
glee club, which was repeatedly re-
called, was at it's best in the quartet
singing, and gave very pleasing en-
tertainment. Miss Ina Howe played
the piano accomplishments. Marshall
P. Wilder, the humOrist, made a great
variety of impressions, some prOnounc-
ing him one of the funniest men that
ever appeared on st. Johnsbury plat
form, while others thought him we'll
adapted for an "end man" in a minstrel
show and good deal more of buffoon
than wit At all events he seemed to
please majority of the audience and
was recalled time and again after every
appearance until he finally was oblig-
ed to refuse the audience even another
bow. In answer to many inquiries Mr..
Wilder is young man of &c.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-26

Here is another republican editor
who shows signs of kicking over the
traces, j. S.ClarksOn of the Des MOines,
Iowa, Register, who declares that there
must be an affirmative, aggressive re-
publican movement to remove the tax
OH necessities and to increase the num-
Der of articles on the free list so far as
a Just observance of the demands OF
the policy of protection will allow.
Mr.. Clarkson says:
The idea must not be fOstered or al
lowed to gain currency that the repub-
lican party is out of sympathy with the
the popular movement to reduce taxa
ton wherever it can be done with
safety. The weakness of Senator
Sherman's otherwise remarkably strong
speech on the tariff issue was that it
attempted to show that if the republi
can policy had been carried out in
congress there would have been no
present surplus to complain about and
future surplus to prevent. In fact the
republican party, even more than the
democratic, is in favor of reduction at
every possible point where prudence
will allow.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-26
THE CAMPAIGN BEGUN.

The RichfOrd Gazette tells story
which it calls "The Tempter's Snare"
quoting for text Matt. A $50. The
Gazette say:
The story is in effect that Corporal
Chas. S. Forbes personally solicited
the aid of w. l.. Pearl of st. Johns
bury, prohibition candidate for lieuten
ant governor in 1886, to- influence the
prohibition state committee not to call
a state convention to nominate candi-
dates for state Offices. Mr.. Forbes, we
are told, said if the prohibitiOnists
would refrain from active political
work this year, he (FOrbes) was in pO-
sitiOn to guarantee that any man Sc
lected by the prohibition executive
committee to head the republican state
ticket would be nominated and elected.
Corp. Forbes suggested the name of
w. z. Dillingham; of Waterbury as a
suitable person for the prOhibitionists
to select.
Perhaps this little story, for it is
nothing but story, will furnish as
good text as any for few remarks
as it furnishes good illustration of the
common campaign method of twisting
the word of a political opponent so that
a chance expression or a jOcular re-
mark shall be given a meaning and a
significance that the speaker never
thought of Mr. Pearl is authority for
the statement that Mr.. Forbes never
made him any such proposition or pre-
tended to be in a position to guarantee
anything of the sort. The entire story
is built on chance remark made by
Forbes to Pearl, the former asking the
latter who the prohibitiOnists were 60
ing to nominate, and loosely advising
him (Pearl) to come back into his
enough and to spare. During the con-
versation Col. Forbes asked Pearl if
Dillingham; wouldn't suit the prohibi-
tionists and that's the whole gist of the
business. All the rest of the "strange
story is not only nonsense but it is
untrue. 'ECol" Forbes has enough to
answer for in assuming to pledge Yer
mont for Blaine at the New York con-
vention, aud for various other assump-
tons of like character to be held
responsible for all the cheap talk there
is going.
We realize that this matter is hardly
worth the space given it, but it will
serve as a sample of the campaign sto-
~ that we beg the Gazette and other
state papers to refrain from publish
ing unless put under the head of Gal
legged Humor" so that the reader may
know that il has no foundation in fact.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-26
Through Ticket for Hong Kong.

We thought it a pretty good joke
some months ago when it was announc-
ed that station agent Henderson would
soon be selling through tickets for
Hong Kong, but the time is right at
hand. Last week there passed through
here a passenger ticketed direct from
Boston for Hong Kong, China, via the
Canadian Pacific. The Express says
that the baggage master at Newport
was all broken up when he found
among the baggage in his car one piece
checked for Hong Kong. At first he
regarded it as an error though the
marks and numbers appeared correct.
To satisfy himself he looked up the
passenger who owned the baggage and
found him with through ticket from
Boston to Hong Kong. This is the
only line which can furnish through
ticket to so great distance.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-26
An ..E1perienoe Meeting" Called For.


The ST. Johnsbury Caledonian last
week summed up the result, or effect
on it's business, of not having gone
into the state committees clubbing
scheme. The result is, in brief, that
not more than two or three subscribers
stopped the CaledOnian to take paper
which used the committees club rates,
that less papers have been stopped
than ever before, and new names vol
UNFAIRLY sent in have been more nu-
merous than usual. "Better than all, u
the Caledonian says, ''we feel that each
week the subscribers of this paper
have not been induced to take it in
order to secure some other paper at a
low price, but they take it because
they want it, hence the paper is well
come visitor in the home of its readers"
We should like to have an "experi-
ence meeting" on this subject by the
state press. AS our own contribution
we rise to say that we don't know of a
paper having been stopped because we
didn't cut the price of The Phoenix 25
cents and throw in some metropolitan
weekly at less than half price. There
may have been such instances un-
known to us, but it is certain in our
own case, as in the CaledOnian's, that
orders to stop have been less numerous
than usual at this season, and the
number of names which have come in
voluntarily has been extremely graft
flying. The net result is a handsome
increase.
The Springfield Republican remarks
in recent article on successful country
newspapers that GA newspaper Office
with sound traditions in it is about as
substantial an institution as our civili-
cation produces" To this it may be
added that one of these "sOund tradi-
tons" is not to try to buy subscribers
with promises of something for moth
ing, and not to promise a thing one
year that you can't reasonably expect
to duplicate the next year.
Our own experience shows us that
the public appreciate good business
methods in newspaper Office just as
they do in any other business place.
In the long run subscribers take a
newspaper because they like it for
itself and not for the chromos that are
tackled on to it. And as a rule they
like paper which stands on its own
feet square -toed to the mark, sells
good goods at fair price, and treats
every body alike.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-26
OPEN NIGHTS,

/ have thoroughly renovated my
office, and have now, "to my best
knowledge and belief" one of the best
and prettiest business rooms in the
place. The Paint, Paper and Decora-
tons are of such cOlors and tints, that
it looks particularly we'll by gas-light
and would therefore invite the public
to call any evening Entertainment
evenings excepted) during January, to
inspect the rooms. Those who are
busy during the daytime, and who
can't see how it is possible for the
Equitable Assurance Society (Which, by
the way, is the largest and most pOpu-
lar insurance Co, in the world, having
written One Hundred and Thirty
| Eight Millions of new business in 1887,
being nearly double what any other
Co. ever did previously to insure them
for specified sum, and in addition to
pay them from to 6 per cent COM
pound interest as an investment, free
from taxes, are particularly invited,
as it is easily explained. Also Acct
dent Tickets and policies, from one
day to one year, written in Strong
Financial and Liberal Co., at rates as
low and lower, and who give double
the Indemnity Period of any other
Stock Co. in the business.
My Motto is: Don't take my ,Uortl
for 1T, but Investigate. l have also a
few choice per cent Mortgages on
Improved Western Farms, in a Strong
Conservative Home Co., to place at a
days notice. Please call, daytime or
evenings, as you choose.
Office over Post Office.
CHAS. S. HASTINGS.
JOHN M. ALLEN, Asst. 1876
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-26
A Tribute to MIR. Rankin.
RaL,.crI LAWN "a, fas-

Mr.. Rankin was man of fine char
acter, brilliant talents and rare attain
ments. A distinguished career seemed
opened to him at the bar, which was
blighted by the misfortune to which
we have referred impaired eyesightJ
"a bitter disappointment to him and
his friends. He became contributor
to some of the best literary pnblica-
tons, and was writer of high ability.
He had warm and genial nature,
which those who knew him best, best
understood, and these will sincerely
mourn his sudden and untimely taking
off