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sunnits. and sheites.

There are among the Moslems two
great divisions, the Sunnites and the
Sheites. The Turks are all Sunnites,
the Persians all Sheites. They differ
in that the latter regard Ali, the ne
phew and son-in-law Of Mohammed,
with greater love than they do Mo
manned himself. Ali married Fatima,
Mohammed's daughter, and by her
had two sons, Hassan and Husein. 1t
is said that Mohammed predicted their
death; and indeed one day Ali and his
two sons, and a large number of
friends and attendants, were massa-
cred. The Sheites declare that Mo
manned encompassed their death,
and to this day the two sects hate each
other even moro than they do the
Christians.
The anniversary of this fatal day is
celebrated religiously every year
among the Sheites. They gather in
groups around a certain man, who,
seated in their midst on some elevated
spot, begins the recital in a monotone
OF the tragedy. Gradually he warns
up, he becomes excited, he throws up
his hands, he even sobs with anguish
as he proceeds and graphically de
scribes the misfortunes of the i'll fated
Ali and his two sons. And his audi
ence, with downcast eye reverently
shaded with their hands, follow with
all absorbing interest his words. Pres
emily they begin to sob, and finally TO
cry aloud with anguish and beat their
heads and breasts and tear their hair.
The reciter sways his audience with
thronging words Of passion, with soft
whispers Of entreaty, with broken
CALCULATIONS Of agony.
Then suddenly his mood changes.
What has passed has been a confession
of their sin and a confession of the
justice Of any punishment that might
fall on them. For the Sheites were
originally Sunnites and approved Of
the death of Ali, aud it was only later
that they became Sheites and seeded
from the Sunnites, and by this cere-
mony they lament over and expiate
the sins of their forefathers. And now
succeeds earnest prayer with appraised
hands to God TO receive Ali and his
two SOM into favor and to pardon
them in his mercy. Then, when this
is finished, narghilehs or hubble bub-
bles are handed round, and the whole
company enjoy "a quiet smoke to calm
their excited feelings. In some places
knives are made use of and fearful
wounds self inflicted, and in some
cases death has resulted.-Cornhill
Magazine.
, 1889-08-31

NOTICES are posted about the Union
Pacific shops to the effect that Union Pa
ci6c Chemist Hodges, after an analysis OF
some of Cheyenne's lake water finds al
buminoid ammonia enormously in excess
of the amount considered wholesome in
drinking water" He therefore advises
tho employees to use arteslan water only
for drinking purposes. This condition OF
the lake water Is due entirely to the pres
en- c of dccaying vegetable matter about
the edges of the lake. The water is not
good for drinking purposes but fortunately
there is any quantity of good well and ar
tcsian water easily obtainable. Still more
fortunate is the fact that Cheyenne will
receive its entire water supply, naturally
filtered, direct from the new reservoirs
about September Is. After that date
Cheyenne's water supply will equal in pu
rity any water in any town in the country.
The work of laying the pipes is being
pushed rapidly as it should be.
, 1889-08-31

A great amount of political engineer
ing will be done by friends of candidates
to secure for their man the first place on
the ticket, and the best man will proba-
bly, secure the coveted place. Then if
Endorsed by the majority of the people,
the election is assured. Electric Bitters
has been put to the front, its merits passed
upon, has been Endorsed, and unanimous
" given the first place. among remedies
peculiarly adapted to the relief and cure
of all diseases of kidneys, liver and stom-
ach. Electric Bitters, being guaranteed,
is a safe investment. Price SOC. and 81
per bottle - Dir. w. n. Hunts drug
store.
, 1889-08-31

/ must own that 1 think it is very
often a slightly irrational feeling
that prompts az audience TO hiss, a
survival OF hat frame of mind which
induces certain islanders TO go out
every evening and howl and hurl
their darts at the sun simply because
he is going down. Our minor philoso-
pher says there is something to him
ludicrously inconsequent and comical
in the whole method whereby we set
about securing new plays. And to
hiss a man who has spent perhaps
some five or six months In the stupen-
dous task of trying to please 2, 900 peo-
pie, each OF them with different tastes,
notions, ideals, prejudices, whims,
standards, simply because he has fail
ed to satisfy them all at all points,
seems a little uncharitable and dis
courteous, as well as illogical. Be-
sides, kissing in many cases defeats
the end for which the audience has
come-that is, il that end is the con-
alteration of the play and not the
hunting OF it down. What would be
the result if the next exhibition of the
Royal Academy should be opened 81
simultaneously TO public and critics,
and every member of the public who
had paid his shilling should be per
United, without giving any reasons,
to stick his umbrella into any part of
any picture that he he did not like,
while at the end of the view it should
be de rigueur for the whole body of
the academicians and exhibitors to
run the gauntlet between two rows of
tho public ranged on each side from
the top of the academy steps to Picca-
dilly, the public being entitled for
their shilling TO express their approba-
ton or disapprobation in any method
short of personal v%iolence1 What
would be the resultl-Nineteenth
Century.
, 1889-08-31

Courtesy of Hyo. Archives g. His
, 1889-08-31

Is CAPITAL punishment a %iailure2 asks
the New York World. The shadows of
four gallows frames fall over the city.
Yet while the hangman prepares the
ropes which in a few hours will hurry
four human beings into eternity for the
crimes of murder, a peaceful, reputable
citizen is butchercd by %rufians who break
into his house in the dead of the night
prepared to take tue lite Of any person
who opposes them.
, 1889-08-31

The history OF irrigation published by
the San Francisco Chronicle comprises
seventy-three closely written columns and
is the most exhaustive and interesting we
have ever read. 1t comprises a history
of American congressional action on irrl-
cation and sketches of the members Of
the irrigation committee; irrigation in an
cient times; modern irrigation in India,
Australia, Italy, England, Spain and
France; primitive irrigation in New and
Old Mexico, Arizona and Colorado; Ella
borate disduisitions on irrigation in Cali
iornia where the science has reached its
highest pitch in America; irrigation in
Nevada, Colorado, Arizona, Montana,
Utah. Wyoming, Idaho and Washing
ton.
From the facts and figures presented
we CLEAN that in Ara a population of
6S4, 500, 900 people is supported on an es-
acres. In Africa a population of 10. 400,-
900 is supported on an estimated irriga-
ton area of $3.50. 600 acres. Outside of
the United States on the American con-
tinent. in Europe and in Australia, there
are 1873, $50, 900 acres cultivated by irri-
~tation, and there is a population of be-
teen 700, OO0, 900 and 800, OO0, 900 resi-
dent in irrigating countries. The pro-
portion of population to irrigated area is
thus seen TO be a little over FIVE persons
TO each acre, and il Is also seen that over
half the population of the world reside
in regions where irrigation is essential.
In the estimates so far presented for the
enlightenment of the public the basis Of
ejaculation has been that land with water
for irrigation is worth at least $50 an
acre, while without irrigating facilities the
same land would not be worth SO cents an
acre. The 2l6, 3S7, COO reclaimable acres
of Hinton S estimate might, therefore, be
worth, without water, SOS, 1873, 500 but
with a supply for irrigation it would be
worth 81. 1927, 552, 600. 1t is estimated
that the entire cost of reclamation would
not exceed $50. 900, 600. For this com
plratively small outlay, then, an amount
of wealth would be created which is over
whelming.
The estimates Of the population that
can be accommodated by the arid region
when reclaimed are also made upon an
exceedingly conservative basis. The area
has been apportioned into forty acre
homesteads, upon the assumption that
forty acres of irrigated land Is equal in
productive power to 100 of u%nirrigated.
Upon this basis it was estimated that
there would be 5,409, 44O forty-acrc home
steAds, with a population, in both towns
aud country, of G7,GlS, 600. AT the ratio
of twenty acres to a homestead the figures
quoted would be doubled, and there would
be lO,slS, $50 homesteads, with a popula-
ton of 1876, 23G, 900. That these figures
are not exaggerated may be seen by refer
ence to the tables given this chapter,
wherein it is shown that the actual pro-
portion in irrigated countries is over five
persons to each acre.
, 1889-08-31

which looks like blood; then take the
text and our in the truth upon the
hearth as you pour in the bromine aud
the water changes back to perfectly clear
again.
He cautions his pupils to be sure and
put some tannin into the water before the
meeting begins so that it will work all
dering sinners.
, 1889-08-31

A YOUNG New York preacher named
Yatman has struck n new streak in con-
structing sermons which arrests the atten-
ton of the ungodly. He tells how to
preach a chemical sermon, a bottle"
sermon and a cup" sermon. None of
three have anything 10 do with drink, as
n Temperance enthusiast might suppose.
His chemical sermon" is a practical les
son in chemistry, which, he says should
be given in this way:
Have a large jar of pure water to rep
resent the condition Of a man as created
and put in the garden of Eden. Have a
black bottle with some t%inrture of iron to
represent sin. Pour a Jew drops OF this
in and the water will change into ink
black. Then take total depravity and sin
and its results from this: go to the bottle
filed with a light solution Of bromIne.
, 1889-08-31

In addition to the uneaualled dining car
service between Council Bluffs and Dem
yer, the Union Pacific, The Overland
Route, will on Sunday, Aug. IS. and
daily thereafter, run dining cars between
Council Bluffs and Portland, Ore, on
The Overland Flyer" leaving Council
Bluffs at 1855 p. M. Omaha S:I5 p. m.
These cars are models of excellence, and
the best meals the market affords will be
furnished at IS cents.
, 1889-08-31

I &c largest stock of fine brandies. old
Whistles, choice hqueurs and superfine
cigars at George Masten's well known
house, corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
streets
, 1889-02-14
A Name Suggested.

Our Washington exchanges eons
tlnue to discuss the question OF q
new name for that Territory when it
shall come in as a State. Columbia
would be the most appropriate name,
on account of the prominence in the
geography of the Territory OF the
magnificent river which traverses il
from north to south, about midway
of its length, and then, turning west.
ward, forms It's southern boundary
for the rest of the distance to the
sea; but unluckily there is district
of Columbia and Congress would
probably not consent to duplicate
the name. Tacoma is q strong, and
at the same time, musical name; but
it might be better that the new state
should have a title distinctive from
that of its chief city. Why not in.
dicate the maritime character of the
state by calling it Pacific? Or why not
employ the name of one of its great
mountain ranges and call it CasGa.
dia? Still better would it be, how
ever, to honor the memory OF one of
the great statesman of the nation,
say Franklin or Lincoln.-Nerthtrcst
Magazine.
, 1889-02-14
SEATTLE'S NAVY POND.

\ navy yard should always be To-
Gated where it can be of some use,
and not where it will only be an or
nament. Our men of war would pre-
sent very pretty picture doubtless
laying at anchor on the bosom of
Lake Washington and have ten
dency to attract many s!ght-seers,
but of little else value would they be
to the rest OF the United States. Sc
attic is of too little consequence as
compared to the rest OF the body
polite. to be granted the luxury of a
navy yard. As was said Of Gen. But .
Ter, during one of his campaigns, so
it could be said of the navy yard, if
located at Seattle-it is bottled up"
The natural point for the navy yard
is Port Townsend, and SO considered
by all nautical men who are not in the
insane asylum. 1t is our intention in
few days to present an extended
article giving facts proving Port
Townsend to be the place where the
navy yard should be located; as yet
we have not secured all the data re-
Guired
, 1889-02-14
The Farmer of the Future.

The successful farmer of the fu-
tnre," says a writer in Blacklroods',
must be we'll grounded in the general
and technical knowledge of his bust
ness. He muse look closely and
more carefully into the internal
working of his farm than was neces-
aary IN former times. Hemust watch
keenly every movement Of the for
elSn producer, study the condition
and prospects of the markets, and be
prepared to produce such commodi-
ties as are likely to bring him the
best return. He must not tie him
sell to ths growing of certain crops
and the rearing of certain stock
merely because his forefathers did
so, or because he himself found them
profitable in times gone by. He
must cultivate an open mind be
ready and willing to avail himself of
any new system Of modification Of
practice calculated to benefit him,
being careful, of course, not to at
tempt upon large scale of practices
that a'e risky, or have not been
proved by actual test. He must not
be above giving his attention to lit
tie points of detail, or to tiny drib-
lets OF income, for in agriculture the
day OF small things has assuredly
come. Method, precision, industry,
1orethought, economy, sound and
ready judgement and intelligence
these are the elements of successful
business. They are as essential to
the farmer of today as to the busiest
bushes men in our great commercial
centre. Conducted by a race of farm
ars thus qualified, there need be no
lear as to the future Of British farm
ing.
, 1889-02-14
Death of Hon. Philip Ritz,

Hon, Philip Ritz died at his home
south of this city. For about ten
days he has lam in a comatose con-
dition, the direct result of an attack
of paralysis on the right side, which
was superseded by acute heart
trouble of some six months dura-
ton. He died surrounded by his
family and intimate friends, seems
ingly conscious, yet unable to make
a sign
He left a will giving minute di-
rections for the management of his
large and varied interests. The fam
lily are left in comfortable circum-
stances. His life was insured for a
considerable amount
His death excites general regret,
and he was recognized for his great
worth and credited as the father of
the fruit industry east of the Cas-
cades, as well as one who was ever
ready to do all possible to develop
this section of Washington territory.
Mr.. Ritz was aged 62 years, hav-
ing been born in Lancaster county,
Penn, in 1927. He came to Placer
vile, Cal, August Nth, 1850, snd to
Oregon in November of the same
year, and to Walla Walla county in!
November, 1862. In 1852 he was
elected school examiner of Benton
county, Oregon. - Union, Walla
WaIla
, 1889-02-14
Pure SlUsh.

The assertion that taking Il vessel
into Lake Washington, Or into
fresh water river viii clean her bot
tom, will do TO tell TO marines: every
sailor knows that iron vessels must
so into a dry dock, at least once q
year to be cleaned and painted. How
this latter process can be effected in
Lake Washington IS only known to
the P.~L Mr.. Hall, the Port
Blekely ship builder, is man of too
much practical sense to have ever
made the assertion which the P.-L.
credits him with, nor do We believe
that Mr.. Hall ever said that Port
Townsend is trying to have the navy
yard at Angeles. We are working
for ourselcc8 and net on outside is
sues, and we are bound to win with
out such fishy statements as the p.
l. attributes 10 Mr.. Hall.
, 1889-02-14
Three Things

/ once met a thoughtful scholar,
says Bishop Whipple, who told me
that for years he had read every
book he could which assailed the re-
ligion of Jesus Christ, and he said
he should have become an intidel but
for three things.
First, l am a man. 1 am going
somewhere. Tonight 1 am day
nearer the grave than l was last
night. L have read all such books
can tell me. They shed not one soli-
tary ray of hope or light upon the
darkness. They shall not take away
the guide and leave me stone blind.
Second, l had a mother. l saw
her go down in the dark valley
where 1 am going and she leaned
upon an unseen arm as calmly as a
child goes to sleep upon the breast
of its mother. I knew that was not
a dream.
Third, 1 have three motherless
daughters" s"-and he said it with
tears in his eyes-"They have no
protector but myself. I would rather
kill them than to leave them in this
sinful world if you blot out from it
al the teachings OF the gospel"
Perhaps there are other persons
who would do well to think of these
things. InfdelS think they can des-
troy the Bible. What ofit2 Many
good things have been destroyed. 4
child can smash a crystal vase,
which all the power of men could
never restore. An incendiary can,
with a match that does not cost the
hundredth part of a penny, burn down
palace on which thousands of men
have toiled for years. A slanderer can
smirch q spotless name with stains
that may never be effaced; but what
is gained by such exploits? Infdels
have vainly tried for ages to destroy
the Bible and Chris tianity. They
have not succeeded. Suppose they
now give us rest, and go to work
and produce some better book and
some better religion.-Ihe Armory.
, 1889-02-14
The Fishing industry.

The Gloucester Fishing Co. pro-
poses to bring from the Atlantic
coast this summer seventy fishing
smacks; and through this our popu"
lation will be increased about one
thousand souls. The men who ac'
company the fleet have families and
are men of steady habits and Will
make good citizens. 1t is the inten.
ton of the fishing company, if ar.
rangements can be made, to locate at
the mouth of Scow bay, or at Sher-
mans point, SO that they may have
room to string their nets and build
smoke houses and dry the fish with
out the industry becoming nuis-
ance to anyone. The company have
made Port Townsend their headquar-
ters believing that the Port Town
send Southern railway will material
ize; should their expectations in this
respect not be realized, then they
will remove to either Seattle or Ia
coma. The fishing settlement,
whether the families live here or
across the bay will be tributary to
Port Townsend; their earnings will
be spent with the merchants here,
and it will be no inconsiderable
amount during year. The company
should be encouraged. and the only
encouragement they require is, for
the financial bone and sinew of our
citizens interested in the proposed
railway, to push that matter to CONS
pletion as quickly as possible. Here
is one company employing thou
sand men that will settle in our midst
if tho railroad is an assured fact.
Think then ye wise men how many
thousand men will come when the
road is finished and we will have
competitive lines of travel, and COM
munication with the outside world
OIAeI Iudn ny "dle1. AdCOhd hhNl
Seattle owe their large population to
the increasing efforts of the great
railway lines running into those
places The natural advantages of
those cities, compared with Port
Townsend, the Key, City to Puget
Sound, would not attract one half
the population our city now has
and the new settlers have remained
here because they have FORESIGHT
enough to know that this is to be the
leading city on the Sound. We have
everything in our favor; as Colonel
Sellers would say 1--WE lack but one
ingredient" land that must soon come,
or Port Townsend Will be relegated
to the same level, as some OF the in
land towns, the inhabitants of which
wake up only when some more en-
terprising city has gobbled the spoils.
, 1889-02-14

that Wilson Point, ,NarrowstoHe Point
and 1dmiralty Head are the only
suitable points for occupation in an
effort to control the navigation Of the
waters Of Admiralty inlet 10y land bat
tc,ie-.
t4,.oral IIilas, il Lis endorsement
o= ,he report Of ibis board, says Of
Port townsend: "IJ Is q matter Of
surprise that this important harbcr
and entrance to Puget Sound, has
,J.sl 80 long neglected The very
-r.a. Importance IF the commercial
Interests already established, and in
rapid development, shouiG, il ny
opinion. receive the same protection
a j. given T. Ike interests and places
I III other parts Of the country.
/ The board made 10 report relative
/ to naval station.
/ The arguments in favor OF using
Lake Washington for naval purposes
/ by means Of 4 ship canal to the deep
waters Of the inlet, are fully discussed
! in the reports Of General Alexander,
General Mcdowell, Major Williamson
and other officers Of the I. 5. army.
But arguments which had force
when our navy was composed Of
wooden vessels, and before the dis
c,yery AMI use Of dynamite, showing
/ tie benefit Of fresh water il destroy~
. iur marine Insects and plants, loses
much force when We reflect that at
the present day our warships are Of
steel or iron, and that like al iron
vessels they must be taken into dry
dock OF placed on a ''S1idiron" to be
cleaned and painted a. least once
q year, whether they go into fresh
water OF not, and that it is not so
much an enemy to be feared who
could lombard Lake Washington as
II Is traitors, who, with dynamite
bombs, could injure or destroy the
locks to the canal, and bottle up our
navy in the placid waters Of the in
terror of King county.
If It is necessary to protect naval
station to have it il Lake Washing
ton, the same process of reason would
u, qCira tie English 10 ramoye their
navel yard. dry docks and ironcIads
to Vancouver or New Westminster,
The English know what they are
abogt, and when they place their
naval station in the salt water of Es~
quimalt harbor, which can be shelled
from Royal Roads as easily as Port
, Townsend can be from FuCa Strait,
and order their Pacific squadron to
refit there instead of returning to the
, dock yards Of England, we should
emulate that eminent practical ma
ton, and have our naval station in
! Port Townsend OF Port Discovery
bays, where our vessels can be ready
to resist the attacks of an enemy and
give aggressive blows.
The naval commission will be here
, in a few days to see and determine
for themselves. They will see an ell
tire change IN everything from the
time when General Alexander's board
reported, and we are willing to rest
. upon their judgement and good sense
for results.