Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-08-17

will be sent forward 10 tle scene OF opera
inns without delay About 500 teams
,nd a.O0O men will be required.
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The report telegraphed from Winnipeg
hat l. NJ Graham, general manager of
thr Northern Pacific and Manitoba, was
snnn to be removed from Winnipeg to ac-
conf a position on the Northern Pacific
division ON the Pacific coast, is pronounc-
ed at Northern Pacific headquarters at
y. Paul to be the outcome of Somebody
vivid Imagination and without any fOun-
datiOn.
Fairhaven is much inquired after by
railroad people in st. Paul
Many of them are looking
forward to the numerous openings
which will be caused by the extension Of
The road TO Bellingham Bay and as all
tbp busy and ambitious people of the
hopeful eyes are turned toward the Focal
CITY. The men about the general offices
Of railroads are taught reticence. and
even silence, with regard to the inten-
tons and projects of their employers. and
all manner OF clerks in such places learn
much. and while they say nothing they
saw wood" just the same.
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Speaking of Farhaven it is a source of
much satisfaction to denizen of the Fo-
cal City TO be introduced as MIR SO-and-
-. of Fairhaven." They do not take the
pains TO add Washington" because
Farhaven is so much talked of ana is
becoming so wei known that there is no
need of the addition, Ia fact there is
only one Fairhaven, and Washington is
it, home.
Phoebe Cousins, the female alleged law
yer of St. Louis, has heard that another
Office has been created by congress and
she has promptly applied for il. II is the
office Of superintendent of charities for
the District of Columbia. Phoebe has
been seeking offices for herself and near
relatives ever since she was old enough,
and she's been old enough ever since
can remember and pride myself ON re-
Wondering long way back. Phnbe is
no spring chicken although she springs
upquite frequently.
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The latest great sensation was the exc
cutiOn of Kemler in the Auburn prison by
electricity and the result of the electro
eide has Disguised the world IL was
another of the effects of maudlin senti-
mentality evolved from the over-w wearing
inner consciousness of class of people
in the world who would benefit the earth's
population. most by trying TO find some
thing else to do than the giving of their
Individual attention to other peoples
business. They are pretending TO try to
reform the world in all sorts Of ways and
the general result is utter. pitiful and dis
gushing failure. OF such are the prohibit
uonists, who endeavoring to prevent peo-
pie from drinking. only set men to think
ing OF schemes 10 evade the law
thus producing more drunkenness than
existed before. and thus making sneaks
and liars of those whom they cause TO
drink more than obey otherwise would |
huN f,aat no, lal
drinking who afterward went into prohi-
bltion states. and because there was an
attempt In those states to prevent them
from drinking, they were drunk all the
time. The mate Obstinacy of man is cul-
uvated by opposition. Then there is the
salvation Army with its never-ending
howlings of religion, and its crazy way of
attempting 10 force religion upon people
thus bringing religion into ridicule. the
whole effect of the thing being the re-
verse OF what is aimed Attacking for
granted that the efforts Of the Army are
sincere, which is very trying to the aver
age stock OF credulity. OF course in many
instances the Salvationists are as earnest
a. they are crazy, but In many other in
stances. to my certain knowledge. they
are knaves who are using their religion
as cloak Tor mendicancy. lust and other
vices. The electrocide Of kemler was the
Outgrowth OF that maudlin Sentimentality
which probably desires to see the death
OF a condemned felOn maue a. painless as
possible. but the results in kemler's case
we're the refinement and sublimation of
cruelty. long before the execution and
during Its progress. Before the execution
mercenary lawsuit. careless gossip.
morbid curiosity, crowds beSiegng the
prison In which fellow mortal Law doomed
20 a death the horrors Of which were I'M
known, but made more terrible by sns-
penSe. All that aud more. Then the exc
lion NHfN 1. ~.
inc1able. The details. sickening in the
extreme. But with it all. sentiments
mercy has had It's innings. and now the
axe. the cord. or "a file of soldiers with
guns would be the performance of real
mercy in the killing of criminals. Re
lore u al maudlin sentimentality stands
convicted. not OF evil purpose. but of
blunder. Such blunders are too frequent.
and yet they seem to teach no lesson. and
mat same good sentiment will 90 ON try
ing to invent some other plan for painless
death, scattering more blunders along its
cruel pathway.
The architects reports show that there
were $50 new buildings erected within
the past twelve months in Chicago. and
some OF these buildings are fourteen
stories or more and these and numerous
single houses contain more people than
many Incorporated cities. II built touch
ing each other ON one continuous line.
they would make over thirty-iive miles of
solid buildings. At this writing the ter
nlnal c0nclave of Odd Fellows Is in Chi
cage. numbering l2O.O1O strangers. besides
many thousands of attending friends and
the usual travelling population. perhaps
21OW more. and vet this vast influx of
people does not perceptibly increase the
things ON the streets. Amid such mass
OF humanity one little Individual doesn't
seem to be in it, Chicago i a great
city, such an one a. Fairhaven will be in /
reasonable length of time.
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George Alfred Townsend. the famous
correspondent and traveller Chauncey de-
pew who has been nearly everywhere |
we're IN Chicago lately. aud they said the /
AUDITORIUM building was the greatest in |
NE world. standing today. and il is said /
7" DE positively the finest largest and most /
IMPOSING structure ever built in the his ]
tors OF the world by private enterprise.
W. l.. V.