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THE HARBOR STRIPS

1t may require years of litigation
before the courts ere the state
of Washington can gain un-
shaken possession of property
held by reason of her SOW
ereign powers, conceded her by
the United States, and claimed by
explicit declaration of her own con-
stitution. In this emergency 1t will
become the pressing duty of the
next legislature to provide adequate
means of defense before the courts,
not only of the tide lands, but of the
school lands as well.
The harbor line commission, with
lofty conception of tho rights OF
the people and it's duty to the state,
Is endeavoring to make the most of
the bad bargain of the recent legisla-
ture, and to preserve forever for the
uee of commerce and the profit of
the people a strip of the most valua.
BILE ofthe tide lands, those in front
of the incorporated cities. The con-
stitution declared that this harbor
strip shall extend for one mile on
either side OF such cities, but in the
matter of width it left much to the
Judgment of the commission, merely
stipulating that 1t should not be less
than so feet nor more than 600 feet.
After long and careful inquiry,
and upon the advice of disinterested
experts, the commission, with due
consideration of the growing COIN
merce of the leading city of the
state, decided that the maximum
width was required at Seattle, and
in order to preserve that much to
the people and their commerce, were
compelled to interfere with the
greed and seltishness of wealthy
men and influential corporations
who had squatted upon the states
property and grown rich by taxing
the commerce of the city. They
merely sought to declare to these self
ish interests that long exemption
from rent or taxation should not
permit them to defy the authority
of the state as set forth in the con
stitution, but that henceforth they
must pay the state mt least nom-
inal rental for the occupancy of its
lands.
But this is not agreeable to the
squatters, who brought their greedy
influence to bear upon the commits
sion In vain endeavor to induce
them to make farce OF their duty
by establishing fifty-foot strip, and
place 1t where it would be of no
earthly use to anybody, and conse-
quently could in no wise interfere
with their monopoly of taxing the
commerce of the state, nor prevent
them from acquiring all the valua-
BILE tide lands at u nominal rental.
And so they have brought the ma
chinery of the courts into requisi-
ton, and have audaciously chal-
lenged the constitution of the state.
1t is not alone the Seattle tide
lands that are thus placed In
The cream of the lands
in front of every incorporated city in
the state is at stake. Let the COM
be sustained, and the state
will retain the best part of this most
valuable property, the part useful
for wharves, docks and seawalls,
and from the leasing thereof will de-
rive a rental that will forever lessen
the burden of taxation to every
property-holder in the state.
Let the people manifest their dis
of this audacious attempt
to overthrow the bulwark of the
and to appropriate the
property Of the people. The Farm
ers' Alliance could make its infiu-
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ence felt by petItioning the legisla-
ture to exert proper and necessary,
plecSitions for the defense of the
peoples cause in the courts. The
critical period of the states history
is now at hand. Energy and fulfill
ment Of duty at this time can save
millions of dollars to the people.
, 1890-11-20
B BUBBLE.S OLD AND NE w.

English tinanciers foresaw the
impending collapse Of the Barings
long before the Americans discov-
cred The danger. They ut once be-
gan to haul in sail by unloading
their securities upon the American
bulls.
And they did this very adroitly,
and In manner calculated to drain
America of the last possible dollar of
gold. They proceeded so gradually
that our bulls thought they could
carry the burden, and they gallantly
held up the prices, greatly to the de-
light and satisfaction Of the for
eigners.
If the Americans had only de-
tected the danger. If they could
have foreseen the extent of the
drain, they could have permitted
prices to drop like plummet, and
by refusing to struggle against the
inevitable could have refused to buy
the English offerings. Prices would
have gone down with rush, but
We should have kept our gold at
home and could have sailed serenely
through the whole panic. That
would have been severe on the
bulls, but not severer than the exist
ing conditions. In the mean time
with our gold at home, the earning
capacity of the roads would not
have been affected. And when
England had recovered from her
difficulty q sharp reaction would
have followed the decline. AS
matters now stand we have sacri-
feed our gold and have not sus-
tanned prices either.
The alacrity with which other
large banking-houses have sprung
to the assistance of the Barings is
the most encouraging feature of the
situation. 1t indicates that the
Barings were the only financiers who
played with fire, and that the COM
mercial world is short only to the
extent of the gold which they
poured into the Argentine Republic.
There Is every reason'to believe that
the worlds financiers can safely tide
over this difficulty, and that while
individual firms may sink, beneath
the wave, the ship of finance will
outride the storm.
If the world had been speculating
instead of attending strictly to work
and business, the result would have
been very different. We should
have witnessed the bursting of an
other South sea bubble. But that Is
not the case. In that famous era of
speculation madness took the
throne of reason. Both England
and France became imbued with a
belief that everybody was to be
made rich by speculating in foreign
schemes, and work and drudgery
were to cease. Men paid outrage
GUS prices for stocks in all sorts OF
hare-brained enterprises. There
were schemes to make salt water
fresh, TO manufacture sunfiower oil,
to recover lost treasure galleons, to
operate in the wilds of America-in
short there was no limitation to the
craze for speculation. OF course the
day of reckoning came, and the
magnitude of the disaster was in
exact proportion to the size of the
bubble. The crash carried down
many of the greatest families of
England. Defoe, travelling across
England twelve years after the bub-
BILE had burst, wrote in sadness OF
the ruin that had befallen some of
these proud houses and driven them
into obscurity and exile, while their
mansions and the homes of their
ancestors became a prey to desola-
tion and decay.
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METAL QUOTATIONS.

Far sflver-New YORK. 0S
Bar silver--London, i6d.
Copper - Neglected; Lake. November,
el6. so
Lead-Wcaki domestic, -. 81.
Tin-Unsettlcd: closed steadier; straits,
e20.l6
-
SDnKaNE Esrrs ynT on IsQO.
, 1890-11-20
TRAIN ARRIVAL AND DkpARTURE

Union. PACING Railway Company : roI
T ortlnnd and nil points east. leave at "
A NJ; arrive at spok ane Falls at $40 ~
Ior the Cnur. d'Aienes-Lcaye spokaho
Northern Pacihc--Pscifio fast express fol
fsecms, Seattle and Portlsnd, srriSes at, At
ieITscema a, Seattle and Portland arrives ns,,G ~
mail, for Minneapolis st Paul and Chicago'
strives at e:D A, NJ. departs at e,So 4: 4, ~
1aul and Chicago, arrivesat has r. Me DO
SPOKANE 4 Paiouse--Arrlvesa alto 80 A. Nj
caves at 4 ;45 y. NJ,
C@ur d'AIeno Railway q. Navigation;
Neu-bound arrives nj 9ii5P. Nj east.bound
caves 7;oO A. III.
Spokane branch OF tho n. r., formerly the
eeattle, Lake Jhore K Eastern.-A mixed
train will leave the Northern Pacific depot
on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at
I 80 A. NJ, returning tho came days at 6jo
Il N.
Central Washington Railway = Spokane
passenger leaves for Davenport, Wienr anu
llmira at 4 ii5 T. n. arrives at II A. ".
Spokane Falls n Northcrn--Leaves daily
excepting Sunday ~ 2 IVA Nj arrives at
B,bO IL. NJ.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-06-06

more about il. It's all right now
You'll no. lose your place as you
would have done had | found out
10 any other way what you have
told me. You are good girl, and
1 know I can trust you hereafter.
Marjorie, you go and speak to the
little girl. Her name is Nellie
Dwight, and she is an honest little
girl"
The child on MIR. FLIkner's knee
slipped down, and went up to Nell
lie with an outstre. e.ched hand, while
Mr.. Falkner assured me in an un'
dertone that Nellie should be the
object of his special care and in
terest in the future.
She came away with a basket OF
good things for her sick mother
and the baby, and I was glad to
add several things to the basket,
and to send her home on horse
car with a heart made happy and
light because its load of sin had
been taken from it.-ErGmmer.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-06-06
THE NEXT HOUSE.

Tie expectation that the ststis'
tics of population under the elev'
enth census will be complied and
the results made known early in
August have impelled men Of both
parties in Congress to begin to
make figures and estimates of the
membership OF the House after the
next appOrtionment OF representa-.
tlves.
Ihe belief seems to be somewhat
general that the next House will
be composed of 353 members-or,
it Idaho and Wyoming be admit.
ted this year, of 355 members. On
that basis, and il the apportionment
should be made by this Congress,
the total number OF electoral votes
in 1892 would be either 437 or 443,
aud the successful candidate for
President would have TO receive
in the first case 2l9 votes or more,
and IN the second case 222 votes or
more. On the basis of increase Ol
population bet ween 1870 and 1880,
it is estimated that the total pOpu-
lation according to the new census
will be about 65,OOO,OOO, distribu'
ted as follows: New England
States, 100000; middle States
{ New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl'
vania, Delaware, Maryland and
West Virginia, 100000 ; south
ern States, including Kentucky )
and Missouri, 22.OOO,OOO; western
States, including Pacific States
newly a United OF 20 be admitted,
%, 100000.
1t these estimates should be
correct and the membership OF the
House should be increased al
mentioned, the New Englant
States probably would lose one o.
two representatives; the middle
States wOal | gain one or two; th'
southern States would gain nine
and the western States would gail
fifteen. o. llc basis Of 355 mem
bers, the NV England State
would have, say, 25 votes ia th,
House and 81 electoral vutes th'
middle States 81 votes In thI
House and 81 EJECT nal votes; th'
southern Stats WOIld hays IL!
votes in the House aud l45 elsctOra
votes, ard the western StAtss woul'
have 100 votes in the House and
1G7 electoral votes.
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GRAND OPERAS, ON DECK,
NEW BRICK,
JOCKEY CLUB,

and very many others. We intend that
these cigars shall not be surpassed by
any in the market and wherever intro
duced shall build up trade for the dealer
as we'll as for us.
If our friends and the dealers generally
will give us the chance We will please
every lover of a good smoke. Remember
that we intend TO work nothing but the
best quality of tobacco. and not per nit .
cigar TO leave our hands that is not well
made, and of neat and attractive appear
snce. This Factory has bad first class
reputation for years, and we intend TO
make il surpsss oil its previous records
for furnishing cigars that cannot be beat
on the market at the prices. special
brands will be put up for our customers
and every effort made to plGa
We ask bnt trial 1t your hands, IS
We intend to make every cigar q good
advertisement for as.
Feb. l4.-6mo.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-06-06
VOL. 70
AN AWAKENED CONSCIENCE.
BY NETTIE II. PELHAM.

Throuehmy open window Summer breezes
straying
Bring the shouts of school boys with
their marbles playing.
Merry little urchins, tull Offun and noise !;
Not a care or trouble. Happy little boys F!
Watch that little fellow; hear his gaily
jest;
He is very llcky, winning from the rest.
1 hear a girls voice saying, tom, you
must not play
And keep the marbles that you win. What
will mamma say ~
"Oh, replies young Tommy, with happy
smile,
As he adds more marbles to his growing
pile,
"Nobodys a-cheatin we're all a playin'
fair;
And I'm almost certain mamma wouldn't
care"
So the game continues. Tommy still is
winning,
And he never questions whether he is
SHINING.
Tommy's luck is changing, and the happy
smile
Leaves his face as quickly as the marbles
leave his pile.
Now the game is ended, and he cOants the
cost;
Crockeries, migs, and agates, all, oh all,
are lost
Give me back my marbles " Tommy
wildly weeps,
Mamma says its wicked when you play
fer keeps" st. Nicholas.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-06-06
TOO SHARP BY JUST A TURN
4 NOVEL INSURANCE SWINDLE

4 NOVEL INSURANCE SWLNDLE
AN ING ENIOUS NORTH CAROLINIAN
ALMOST SUCCESSFUL IN PROV
ING HIMSELF A CORPsE-HE
CAME BACK TO LIFE AND TO
TOWN A LITTLE TOO SOON.
RALEIGH, y. c., May 2Sth.-
Twelve months ago James Dillon,
a well known citizen of TJrell cOun
~, insured his life for $4,000 in the
Connecticut Mutual Lite Insurance
Company. Some time after he fell
from a boat half a mile from shore
and yelled loudly tor help to man
one fourth Of a mile away. When
the an responded Dillon secretly
swan ashore aud could not he seen.
The man whose ASST lance he had
asked Supposed he wa~ drowned
aud was per ectly Wiling To swear
to It. y tice of DillOn's death was
sent - tir company. 1t refused to
piy the Insurance. Action was
brought by DllOn's wife, aud the
case stood tor trial at the court last
week, the widow alleging that he
was drowned. Ten days ago a body
was found near the place where he
had been seen to sink in the water.
The body was identified by % peO.
pie as that of Dillon. At court
counsel for the wife took non.
suit, because the body had been
found. There is no doubt that the
company would have paid the mon.
ev, but last Friday, to the surprise
of every one, Dillon himself return.
ed safe and sound to Columbia
His statement is most remarkable.
He says he swan to the shore and
he overturned the boat, put his hat
In it and left the boat half foil Of
water. He determined to hide IN
the woods 80 as his wife could get
the insurance money. He kept In
the great swamps for fVe months
when he found the body OF a drown.
ed man floating in Alligator river.
He removed the hair from the head
so as to make it bald and taking
his own hair and whiskers put
them in the decOmposlng flesh OF
the corpse. He knocked out two
of the front teeth OF the dead man
and removing the clothing from the
corpse blessed it In clothes he had
worn on the day of his disappear
anco. At night be conveyed the
body to the place where be was
supposed to have been drowned
Subsequently, hearing of the non.
suit he thought it put an end to the
claim and there was no hope Of
collecting the money and 50 be re.
turned home.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-06-06
UREKA II o U S E,
JOS. f. HOLTZAAN, Proprietor
EDINBURG, VA.

This now and commOdious hotel is nov
open for the reception of guests. Every.
thing is new from basement 70 attic, and
was built with q view to making it one Of
the most comfortable and attractive hotels
in the Valley. The rooms are fitted up
with All modern improvements in furni'
ture. The Office and dining room are
handsome, large and comfortsble.i
No pains or expense will be spared to
furnish the table with all that can tempt
the appetite and give perfect satisfaction:
Chsfges will be very moderate, and
guests can rest assured that eli vii. be
done to make their stay comfortable ant
enjoyable.
A 6st-cla,s !iv,ry is attached 20 the
hotel. [ Dec. Ii. 81 II.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-06-06

the comfort of teachers who will
attend the institutes, and the citi.
zens generally manifest much in
terest IN the enterprise. Superin.
tendent of Schools throughout the
State are earnestly requested by
the State Department to cooper
ate with the authorities of normals
in 1rging teachers to attend
them.
PEABODY SCHOLARSHIP.
At the close of the current col
lege year of the fourteen Peabody
scholarships allowed Virginia in
the Peabody Normal College.
Nashville, Tenn, will expire by
the limitation. These scholarships
are valued at 5000 a year, and are
good for two years They are
awarded on the merits Of the ap
plicants as shown by examl1a'Ions
conducted under the dHcc'ipr ofI
the Department Of Public I1>truc.
tIOn. Applicants for these ya'u-I
able prizes must declare their pur
pose to make teaching a profession
and must obliga'e themselves tOI
teach in public schools OF their
own State for at least two years.
The aim of the trustees of the
Peabody fund in endOwlngI
these scholarships is to create a
class OF thoroughly well cducated
teachers tor the publ'c schools.
The Peaboy Normal College of
the University OF Nashville is a
most excellent agency through
which to effect this Object
The college already ranks amo- 2
tue leading educational inslitutio"s
of Its character in this cOnn,ry,
and under the direction of the
president, DR.. William II. Payne,
its influence as training school
for teachers is felt in Il marked de-
gree on tue teaching force OF the
southern public schools. Full in
formation in regard to the Peabody
normal and scholarships can be
had upon application to the Dc.
psrtment of Public Instruction,
4O7 north Twelfth street, Rich
mond.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-06-06

\ woman in Americas, Ga, is
using lamp chimney that she 1as
used daily for the past eight years,
and she expects to use it for many
years yet. She says that she boil
ed it in sat and water when it was
bought, in 1882, and no matter
how large q fame runs through II,
il won't break.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-06-06

The Keystone of Philadelphia
gives the following information
which will be of interest to Masous
in this part of the country: \ Ma.
sons pilgrimage to Palestine has
been organised by the Rev.
Brother DR.. Charles f. Thomas, X.
T., of this city. The party will be
confined to MasOns IN good stand
ing, and ladies' accompanying
them, and will sail from New York
in the fine steamship City of Rome,
on August 23d next. The pro.
gramme is a very tempting one. 1t
includes visits to York, London,
Ronen, Paris, Luzerne ami the Rlgi
and across the Alps, by the ST.
Gothard Pass, into Italy, via the
Italian lakes to Milan, Venice,
Florence, Rome, Naples, Pompeii,
Brandisi, COrInth, Athens, Jaifa,
Jerusalem, Hebron, Bethlehem,
Bethany, etc, Alexandria, Cairo,
and the Pyramids, with supple
mentary trip OF nearly a thousand
miles up the Nile. The return will
be via Marseilles, Paris, and Brus-
sells to Antwerp, thence to New
York by Red Star Line, and will
occupy about three months time.
Brother Thomas has Just returned
from Palestine, where he has per-
fected all his arrangements. The
Oriental portion Of the trip will be
in charge of Brother RollO Floyd,
one of the founders of Jerusalem
Lodge, and it is contemplated to
hold a Grand Lodge of Emergency
the subterranean qualries of the
Temple at Jerusalem, presided oyer
by the X. w. Grand Master Of
PennsS lvania, Brother Clifford P.
MacCalla, 33 degrees. Brother
Thomas's address is No. 1900 Wal
lace street, Philadelphia, to whom
all inquiries should be addressed.
The programme will be issued on
June 1st next. All Master MasOns
IN the United States are invited TO
take part in this pilgrimage.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-06-06

Ii Is stated thatan invention has
been perfected in the glass indus
try which will accomplish a com
plete revolution in that branch oil
manufacture. Until the present ii
has only been possible to obtain
sheet glass by blowing a hollow
cylinder, which was then cut,
separated and polished. An
American glass manufacturer is
said To have succeeded in prodnc
ing glass plates of great bread h
and uf any length desired ~
cans Of rolling.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-06-06

A strange discovery has been
made by surveying party of the
Kansas City, El Paso and Mexican
Railroad at a point in Southern
Mexico, not very far from Las
Cruces. Here, amid a tremendous
lava flow, a verItabIe sea OF OBJ
sidian or black glass, a hidden
city has been discovered. 1t is
probably of TOltec origin, a race of
people who lived and died before
the new world was thought Of
The surrounding country is the
most desolate and God .forsaken
regin one can imagine. There is
no soil about it.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-06-06
MISS Dwight.
BY J. L. H.
"Cash! Cash :"

"O aSn. OdSu
| had purchased a small pitcher
III the chinaware department OF q
large city store, and the young wo'
man clerk who had waited upon
me raped sharply on the counter
with her pencil, and again called
Oat harshly, "Cash ! Cash "
No one came at once, and still
rapping with her pencil, while her
voice grew Sbriller and harsher, she
called again, "Cash Cash here
you, Miss Dwight, I'll tell the floor
walker on you, if you don't step
along faster Why don't yen come
along when I call YOU, miss :"
The glrl, who at last responded
to the clerks strldent calls, and
who received in silence the rebuke
given for her tardiness, was about
ten years of age, although the clerk
had addressed her as "Miss
Dwight" She was pale and thin
little creature, with an old and
worn look In her face, such as one
does not like to see in the faces of
children. She wore an old brown
velvet basque, evidently made orig
inally for some one about twice the
size of its present wearer. With
the basque she wore a thin and
faded calico skirt, both garments
much out of repair. Her shoes did
not seem to be mates her hair was
unkempt, and she was about as for
lOrn and bedraggled a specimen of
her class as l had ever seen.
"NOw, don't you be all day get.
ting back here with that change"
sad the clerk sternly, as Miss
Dwight took the book and hurried
away.
The pitcher had bought cost
seyeuty.6ve cents, and 1 had given
the clerk a dollar bill.
Miss Dwight came running back,
1lald the clerks book down on the
counter, and was hurrving away IN
response to a call from another
lcerk, when the clerk of whom 1 had
made my purchase, said: await
Where's the change p
"Its in the book"
"No, it isn't" replied the clerk,
holding the book wide open by the
covers, and shaking its leaves.-
"Where is that change, ml'sp
81 put it in the book like al
ways do
"Then why isn't 1t there, now
You've either dropped it or -
"Perhaps 1t Is here on the floor,
Uninterrupted, quickly, not wantin-
the clerk to say what think she
INTENDED sa>iug.
Th,n began a search in front oI
the counter, and while We were 'nn'
engaged, tLat formidable gentle
man, so horrifS ing to cash girls and
clerks, the floor walker, came 10 us
"Whats the matter here, Mlsi
Blrnes p he asked of the clerk.
Miss Barnes pointed her finger
toward the trembling Miss Dwight
and SAID 81 sent her to the desk
with dollar bill. and she ought tC
have brought back a quarter, bnt
she didn't bring back anything"
"Wh4re't that quarter, girlF
asked the floor. walker, coldly.
"I-l-s'pose l lost It,"
"U1, you dot Don't you know
so, then ?"
"I-I-nO, sir"
"Well. you'd better find ou
soon. Didn't you hear it drop an.
placer
"NO-nO-sir.'
1 "That's queer yOn come witt
me TO the clerk. This matter mus
be looked into. Please wait feV
minutes, madam, you shall hav
your change, and If the quartz
isn't foand It'll come out of thi
girls wages on Saturday"
"Oh, no. 1 SAID quickly. "Don'
make her lose it. woald rathe
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-06-06

It las become the fashion In
Chicago for men to buy their wives
bonnets. The milliners like the
change, and say that as a general
thing a man knows better than =
woman what is suited for her.