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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-11-07
New HosnitaI Pa,i.n,.

f. G. Stewart clerk ct Toklas sinserm.p A
Co.'S was brought TO Grace hospital YESTERDAY
he Vas III with typhoid fever. Peter Foss and
William Howard. convalescent patients. wer
discharged. Charles Wilson. q sailor sick with
dyseniefy. was received at proyidence hosnital
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TWO THRouGH TRAIxs

The Northern Pacific viii on and after lima
18TH, run two through trains tn aud fro q the
East, leaving seattle 1t 6:I0 q m and 2 n. m
general asent: f. Tonkiu, depot flckat sgert
sesfl.e A. Chilberg. city ticket agent, 7l6 SEQ.
ond street. Boston block -
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The Northern Pacific overland train leaving
Seattle ~ y m. on and sier September lad
VIII run sasia via Garrison. Butte and logan.
Without change OF cars. on ssme dsas a..
Montana UpioE will make close eonneotious al
Garrison With overland trains leaving seattle a
GIG a. m Tor Butte, Anaconda, Deer Lodge and
Al trains Tor east bound passengers 10 Montana
lalon pointa
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RESERVATIONS On any steamship lans in ths
AuAnuc service % Europe and England can 81
secured a. Northern Pacific ofice. ~ Chilherr
cay ticket agent 7l6 second street Boaro,
sacck: = Tonkin. depot ticket agent seastls.
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uiuth oc6o1os1o1 end xosfysfh1Sd sopfe6ou1A&lvo
olotx1oea n ptoen1ttfeo ~ eono1ogn h1vo bcon
ot1ained - - nl1oins di1tsiens and -
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Hyams. Paason 4 Co.'S anniversary sale, No
vembsr s, Saturday. w
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10 ness e.,a,n& Aossss asvsa,sa as.sdy
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SILK UMBRELLAS

magnificent siock q Basye's %. Front
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islaras wedding rings Al BAyss's. sol Front
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Drs~ goods specially. poAsay 4 MArun.
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:. s !. Easiisa walking ,salsss nohsny a xs,
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Pull assortment yanA DoAspy : xasun.
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Mrs NJ. A. Ballard, who has been seriously i'll
for several weeks. LIFT last night for Los An
geles. Cal, to spend the winter, in hopes that
the climate of California viii restore her health
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Mr.. Edmond Kelly. who hes been ct she
last evening on q deer hunt He went with Mr..
J. +. Mcknight. MIR. Josiah Collins. IT,. Mr. T..
A. 6rFoug and several others prominent in Seat
tie. They sai.ei away In the steamer Noun
tainser, which mad been chartered for the pnr.
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Governor Lyman H Knapp. Of Alaska. sailed
for Sitks yesterday py the steamer City OF
Topeka He is leased with the interest the
Chamber of Commerce and the citizens OF
Alaska generally took in the matter Of urging
legislation for his territory.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05

Clearly it was stream that was
meant, as any reading of the poem and
q little knowledge of Scotland will
show Ercha1age.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05
Yankee Doodle.

One evening, late in June. sitt;n..
side the old we'll just at the rear of ~. w.
Van Rensselaer, house, still to ba '. ivy .ne
at Greenbank, with the air of sK sSea
Fishers Jig" ringing in his ears NY NY
Shackburg wrote the words of "Yanlas.
Doodle" and presented words A ans
music to the officers of the militia w a.a
great solemnity, commencing the a; ~. ".
one of the most celebrated in mor.;as
music. The joke took we'll. to 't "a
great amusement of the British off .ue
and Yankee Doodle" was at once l noas.,
as the march and song of the militia
The tune was known in the t;mas :.
Charles the First, and has even e hs. VI
said to be of classic origin, having beeu
chanted IN the days OF Miletus, certa ANU
in the days of Herodotus, and poss;h1y
in those of Homer.
The words yankee Doodle ho-
been variously defined, and to owe ,a,e
into full discussion of the sph;set
would involve. too much SPACE, ill.,
general acceptation is that Yankee =
from Yankin," meaning, in the Wool -
ulary of the early New York DnteS
to grumble, snarl, or yelp; and it,
delivatiye noun, "Yanker," meant 40 .
bowling cur. It was not in use saw
among the lower classes, for reason ne
which to-day forbid slang being int ,rS
duced into our homes; but it was Will
known word. In the collision betwoaaa
the New Englanders, the New Yo rI
Dutch, and the British, much ill.feaiH
ing was aroused. The New Enelan do.
despised the Dutch, and the Dntob
despised the New Englanders, whila
the British ridiculed both. Hence the
use of the term to indicate the contemnt
which existed. Every circumstanccss
points to its birth in this preya;l;ne
contemptuous feeling. To th;ss
day Yankees are looked upon with VI,
some distrust by the descendants Of tha
real Dutchmen now outside Of Nav
England.
The hit of DR.. Shackburg became
known throughout the army, and tho
song was sung in a sort of contempt for
the colonials. The contemptuous usa
of the song continued until after Lev.
ington. In 1775 the British troons
tarred and feathered one Thomas Dit.
son, in Boston, marching to the tune AZ
the best means of heaping contempt on
the Yankees. But this was changed at
Lexington, and it was said that when
the British commander was once asked
after that how he liked the tune, he an.
swered, "How they did make us dance
to It'll"
Doodle" was Lancashire word for
tritie, and is thus referred to as early as
1922 There is an early version Of the
words in English, which runs:
| Yankee Doodle came to town
| Upon Kentish pony;
| He stuck feather in his hat,
And cnllad him mn rn1,in
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05
A Boys Strange Addiction.

Does dismembered limb retain sen
sitiveness? Many persons hold t1rm ll|
that it does. Their belief is apparenli]
sustained by those strange and WV
imaginings of persons who have LOS.
hand or foot, and declare positively tn1
they have feelings in the fingers or 'o1
of the lost member. The phenomeno1
however, has been explained in scls1
tific way. Such cases are frequent, Ill
Edgar Bergen, a 12-year-old boy WI
lives at 24O West Michigan street, IS y
example. Yesterday he was taklns
ride on the cars in the Big -Four yalo
when he slipped. He was dasS
some distance, but could not malnla' y,
safe position, and his left foot was n
off above the ankle, remaining III -
shoe. The boy was taken home u
the leg was amputated just below
knee. The foot was taken to CtV
Hill and buried in a lot near
mothers grave. The little fellow w w
his pains bravely and never lost III
sciousness, but he complains freq9eit ~
that the toes of his .dismembereo
are cramped, and the foot still seems
be in position. The foot was placehui
a cramped position in the box III W.
it was buried, and member o.
household declares that this accou,
for the boys sensations, and le' i
cases which she thinks confirms
view. There is some thought o.
huming the foot and reburying y W.,
the toes straight. -lndianapoIss "S'
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05
How blackburn ralked Out a Duel.

Ex-Assistant Postmaster General
Stevenson tells this story of Senator
Blackburn. They were among guests
at a dinner party not long ago, when
MIR. Stevenson, looking across the table,
said:
Senator, do you remember that day
when we were seconds in duel?"
Mr.. Blackburn promptly expressed
his recollection of the pheasant event.
and the other guests called for tle|
particulars Of duel which had left in|
the minds of the seconds such cheerful
memories.
WELL" began Mr.. Stevenson, Mr.
Blackburn drove me out to the ground.
1t was before sunrise, but we were the
seconds, and, of course, were first onl
the ground. But the principals soon
arrived. Now, I was very ignorant
about duels. The principals knew
very little, too. But Mr.. Blackburn
was we'll informed, and in order that
everything should be clearly understood
and satisfactory he said he would ez'
plain the code. So he took the floor
or rather the ground, and began to|
talk. It was very interesting, for az
you all know. the gentleman from
Kentucky is an orator."
Just then there was an interruption
by the bread plate, and Mr.. Stevenson
paused to help himself to bread. buJ
the pause continued, and Mr.. Stevenson
was apparently going on with his DIN /
ner.
well, but the duel. You haven
told us how the duel ended, sail
several guests, eagerly, and speaking
once"
ooh, it didn't end. 1t didn't begin,
said Mr.. Stevenson, solemnly. "lo9
see, Blackburn began to talk beiofl
sunrise, and he never stopped till ate}
shutdown, and then it was too dark 10
the dual"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05

do not see the Importance of taking 1T In
to city notifies, as though man were IN
tel;irent about the welfare OF his neigh
borhood and had no concern about his
own home.
Religion would drive out all base per-
sonaities from politics. You have
right to discuss mems politics and de-
nouncc their political sentiments, or re-
ceive them, as you will; but you have no
right to assail their private character, as
is done every autumn. That is not car
rying religion into politics. Now you
can always tell without asking. in any
contest, what candidate I will vote for.
1t is ALWAYS for the man who is most
badgcred, and most abused, and most
spit upon, and most howled at. You
have right to contest a mans political
sentiments; you have no right for base
political purposes to assail his private
moral character
NV subject also imprcsses mo with the
fact that lions cannot hurt good man.
No man ever got into worse company
than Daniel got into when he was thrown
into the den. What a rare morsel that
fair young man would have been for the
hungry monsters! If thew had plunged
at him he could not have climbed into
niche beyond the reach of their paw or
the snatch of their tooth. They came
pleased all about him, as hunters
hounds at the we'll known whistle come
bounding to his feet.
You need not go to Numida to get
among lions. You all have them after
you-the lion of financial distress, the
lion of sickness, the lion of persecution.
You saw that lion of financial panic put
ting his mouth down to the earth, and
he roared until all the banks and all the
insurance companies quakcd. With ms
nostrils he scattered the ashes on the do
nestle hearth. You have had trial after
trial, misfortune after misfortune. lion
after lion; and yet they have never hurt
you if you put your trust in God, and
they never will hurt you. They did not
hurt Daniel, and they cannot hurt you.
The Persians used to think that spring
rain falling into sea shells would turn
the tears of sorrow turn into precious
gems when they drop into Gods bottle.
You need be afraid of nothing putting
your trust in God. Even death, that
monster lion whose den is the worlds
sepulcher, and who puts his paw down
amid thousands of millions of the dead,
cannot alright you.
When in oldcn times man was to get
the honors of knighthood he was COM
PEELED to go fully armed the night before
among the tombs of the dead, carrying a
sort of spear, and then when the day
broke he would come forth, and amid
the sound of cornct and great parade
he would get the honors of knighthood.
And so it will be with the Christian in
the night before Heaven, as fully armed
with spear and helmet of salvation he
will wait and watch through the dark
ness until the morning dswns, and then
he will take the honors of Heaven amid
that great throng with snowy robes
streaming over seas of sapphire.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05
False Hair.

The wearing of artificial hair is no
modern innovation. 1t was used not
only by the Egyptians, but also by
the Greeks, the Carthaginins, and
especially by the Romans, among whom
the sale of human hair, particularly the
blonde hair of Germany, was an ordi-
nary species of traffic. The most noted
period in modern history, prior to the
present time, in which false hair was
extensively worn, covered consider
able portion of the 18th and 18th cen
turtles, when the peruke was the order
of the day, and all humanity became
bewigged, says writer in the New
York Ledger. To France, the great
fountain-head of fashion, was due the
adoption of this head-dress, which sac
rifced the beauty of nature to the deli
cacies of art. The epidemic, which at
tackled both sexes with equal severity,
extended to England, and spread
throughout the other countries of Eu-
rope. It loitered the longest in France,
where it ragged with great violence in the
reign of Louis the Fourteenth, aud was
not eradicated until the time of Marie
Antoinette.
"Where does it all come from?" is
the question the reader will naturally
ask. As matter of course, all pro-
ducts required for the artificial decora-
ton of the person find their way princi-
pally to Paris, and we accordingly re-
gard that city as the emporium of the
trade in human hair. More than 100
tons weight of this precious ornament,
we are informed, has been annually
taken there, and thence distributed in
raw and manufactured state over the
| whole of Europe and northern America.
The hair crop annually required to feed
the hungry nav of fashion is almost
entirely collected in France, Belgium
and Germany. English and American
women rarely sell their hair. Black
hair comes from Brittany and the south
of France, as we'll as from Spain and
Italy, while light hair is the product OF
| Germany and the northern states of
Europe. The fairest-haired inhabit.
ants Of the earth are found north of the
4Sth parallel of latitude, and the dark
est south of the 45th, while the belt
between the two is a kind of neutral
ground populated by brown-haired
race.
An eminent German has undergone
the enormous labor of counting the
number of hairs in the heads OF four
different colors. In q blonde one he
found lao, 400; in q brown, 1O9, 44O; in
a black, 102.962; in red one, 8S, TAO.
What the red and black heads wanted
in number of hairs was made up, how.
ever, in the greater bulk of the hairs
Individuality. 1t is to the fneness and
multiplicity of hairs that the blonde
tresses owe the rich and silk-like char.
acter of their flow.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05
A RUNAWAY.

Two trotters, nmall and restless cantered of
ono summer day,
Aud With them. all unwttt1ngly, they took the
Lady May;
morning dews yet damp.
ihny Gniloped far away from town, these ponies,
1rot and Tramp.
AS on they sped. new sights and sounds did all
their thoughts beguile,
Till weary quite, snid Trot to Tramp "Let' g
stop and rest awhile;"
Aud dropping down OH velvet sward they in
their harness lay,
Nor ever gave q thought to her whom they had
borne away,
But baby May was we'll content, and midst the
grasses sat,
And gathered starry daisies white, with dimpled
fingers fat,
hung,
And to the winds the golden wealth of blossoms
gayly flung
Refreshed and rested, Trot and Tramp once
more went on their way,
And vi tn them still bedecked with flowers, was
merry baby May;
With spirits high, they gallOped on by rlll ana
And in and out, by crooked paths, their wind
ing way they took.
But ere the noontide hour had come, said Trot,
in doleful mood,
Il would could but lay me down. tits naught 1
care 1OT 1OOu
SAID Tramp to Trot, ain all my life I've meier SO
weary been;
Perhaps to do as VIC have done is something OF
4 sin"
Meanwhile regned fear and anxious thought
Ger loss of baby May,
For none could guess tho manner strange in
which she went away,
Nor dreamed that ponies small, like ting
Tramp and 1rot,
Could boar away a little girl to such a far-off
spot.
But while the sun vas yet on high, unframed
in wooded glade,
Was found asleep by messy log, a dainty little
nlaid,
And dangling from her shapely head, with hair
of golden sheen,
Were dai sizes white, and wilted curls of dande-
lion green
Aud with no room at all to spare the oldest
place to choose)
Were Trot and Tramp, all safe and sound,
within the mniden's shoes.
Good housekeeping.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05
be exposing myself to horrible deatA

pe exposing Mysol W uoilApAo oo"VA
for no purpose"
Now Mabel did not really want her
lover to enter the glass cage where the
snakes were confined, but she wanted
him to seem to be ready to do even
that for her sake.
"Then you refuse, do you, John?'
she said with slight curl of her lip.
Fanny, without giving John a
chance to reply, said, "Of course he
refuses. The conditions are not equal;
he is doctor; not -charmer;
Hazak knows his pets; in his hands
they are harmless; in another's deadly:
"You seem to take great interest in
Johns welfare" said Mabel, who was,
vexed by Fanny's interference.
But" remarked George gravely,
what you asked John to do is very
dangerous.
The more opposition that was mani
tested by George and Fanny the
stronger Mabel insisted.
/ Very WE'LL" said John, II will
handle the cobras if Hazak will allow
me, but as have no wish to give a
public exhibition of my courage, we
! will wait until the crowd leaves.
| "There, ] knew Johu would consent,
exclaimed Mabel, triumphantly.
II will arrange the matter at once,
said John.
He went to Hazak, whom he found
to be an Irishman. held short CONVEX
sation and returned saying, II can enter
the cage with him later"
Shortly after the crowd had departed,
Fanny, George, Mabel, and John APP
preached the cage, when Hazak stepped
up and said:
"Well, sir, are you ready?"
ooh, John, don't go; I was only fool
ing"
pardon me, Mabel, for not acceding
to this request of yours. l have made
up my mind to go into that case, and
shall do So
John turned away from her, and a
moment later he and Hazak had
entered the cage.
"The snakes, eight or nine in num-
Der, glided hither and thither in ODE
dience to the commands of their owner,
but an occasional partial rearing of a
head, or low hiss, showed them to be
fully alive to the presence of stranger
The pair stayed in with the snakes
! perhaps minute; to the onlookers it
seemed weeks. Mab'e was afraid to
speak, for fear of attracting her lovers
attention and he should relax his
vigilance. When they came out Mabel
ran to John with extended hands ex-
claiming, ooh, John, how much 1 adj
mire you-such cour-"
"a moment, please" replied John.
"Don't thank me; if you think 1 am
brave, all right. did not enter the
cage for your sake; it was rather to
show you had little physical cour-
age. AS it is, allow me to say that any
girl who would heedlessly expose her
future husband to a horrible death is
not fit to be any mans wife; therefore
renounce our engagement"
| The story was soon told all over town,
and for once public opinion was correct
when it said Served her right"
John Andrew and pretty Fanny Max
we'll have been married eight years.
Two charming boys, the light of their
parents life, grace their home, while
Mabel Joyce is still Mabel Joyce; and
as the story of Johns peril is told te
every newcomer to Woodland, she il
liable to remain Mabel Joyce until thu
end of the chapter.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05
An Unexpected Pleasure,

Bunko Man-Good morning Mr.-er
-er I've just forgotten your name for
the moment.
Farmer Backlots- Backlots, sir; Joel
Backlots, of Botzum. 1 can't just place
you, though, young man. Your name
isn't Brown, is it?
Bunko-Well, it is, Mr.. Backlots, and
I'm mighty glad to meet some one !
know.
Backlots- You don't mean to tell me
you're Squire Browns son Dan who
ran away some years ago?
Bunko-You've hit It.
Backlots (grasping him warmly by
the hand)-Mell, I'm darned glad to
meet you and I'm just goin' to fix you
skipped. Police!- Ciicago Times,
CLOSE quarters-the 95-ccnt pieces boarded
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05
The Navajo Blanket.

The Navajo Indians are possessors of
large hocks Of finely bred sheep, the
wool from them amounting to over a
million pounds annually. A portion OF
the wool is sold to traders, but the
larger part is used in the manufacture
of blankets. After the wool is cleaned,
carded, and dyed by process known
only to the Indians, and by them re-
igiously guarded as secret, it is ready
for the loom, which is built by the
squaws. The weavers are personages
Of such Importance that they are not
expected to perform any other labor.
The hogan, which contains the loom, is
made by driving into the ground, at
regular intervals, six roughly-hewn
poles from eight to ten feet long, form
ing small square. Across the tops of
these supports are laid green boughs,
to shield the weaver from the hot sun.
The center poles from the sides of the
loom, and about foot from the top and
bottom, are fastened cross poles through
which holes are bored for the warp,
which is composed Of the fbres of the
yucca tree. This warp is treated by a
process that renders it almost indie
structible, the secret of which is known
only to the Navajo Indians, who refuse
to divulge it. Consequently the work
of their looms is not likely soon to be-
com the rival of the more generally
used California blanket" Before they
were subdued by the government the
Navajo Indians made these blankets
solely for the use of their own tribe; but
since they have been thrown almost en-
tirely upon their own resources for a
livelihood, the manufacture OF the
blanket has become their leading in
dustry and source of large profit.
~..Comins 1hro' the Rye"
The Atlanta Journal has received
the following inquiry:
Did Burns mean river called "Rye"
OF field of grain of that name when
he wrote his song OF Coming Thro'
the Rye?"
Burns found this old song, replies the
Journal, as he did the song of "Auld
Lang Syne" and others, floating in the
mind Of the common people of Scotland,
and gave to it the brilliance and grace
of his own genius. The poem is founded
oPoA ~ o4hS u4A1 SuoUOA III COuuCCtlOu
with the crossing of the little river Rye.
This is shallow stream, crossed by
means of stepping stones. IF laddie
met lassie coming through the Rye, !"
and he kissed her, it was plainly no.
body's business but theirs, and the
custom permitted it.
The lassie in crossing was not in a
position to resist such little passages of
love, as she had to use her hands to
hold up her skirts. Hence the lines in
the song:
Draggled all her petticoatie
Coming through the Rye.
Clearly it was stream that was
meant, as any reading of the poem and
little knowledge of Scotland will
show EXCHANGE.
In 1,rs, =
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05
He stuck q feather in his hat,
And called him macaroui.n

In other versions the second line
runs, Riding on pony" and upon
little pony" The small plume worn
by the militia in the front Of their caps
was called in derison "macaroni." There
is tradition in England that the orig
inal song was directed at Oliver Crom.
we'll himself under the name of Yankee
Doodle. "-Nelg Enql01ad MQqozine