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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-26
A Bargain Census.

Have you seen all silk 24-inch Indias latest
shades. tor soc, Or 37-inch for 75c
q Have you bought any Of those double-width
English cashmeres at 2cc and 25c
Don't you think those double-width all-woo tri-
cots worth more than 2ScF
Are not those striped chevot sutings 70 inches
wide, bargains at 25c
s What do you think Of those extra large and
heavy hne linen buck towels At asc each
6 How do those SC lawns strike you in the way Of
abargan
= Do you know where you get nice embro
dered dounengs, 47 inches wide. for o5e and 7oc like
those offer !?
What's the matter with that line Of zoe Torchon
Laces?
q Are not those new sun umbrellas that are
marked $500 worth considerable more
10 Did you ever see finer line Of fans than those
which selling per cent below regular value1
IL Have you that job line Of remnants Of Tor
chon Lace .: haifprice
r. Are six fancy coored bordered cambria handker-
chiefs for CSC good value
49, Are not those fancy border lawn handkerehlefs
worth than roc each ]?
fancy embroidered hemstitched handkerchiefs zsc
eaeh9
IS How those lace pillow shams 1t 75c par1
16 Have you examined those black lace Aouncings
4z inches WIDE At $3.50?
IT, you duplicate elsewhere those black all-silk
grenadine dress suits for $z5o yard3
IS Have you seen any nicer underwear than those
silk union suits we offer at $3.759
TO- Has your husband or brother noticed those blaci
stiff hats we have marked down TO $L45
10 Have you bought one of those hne asc neekties9
IL Have you visited us our home and exam.
ined many beautiful things that We are shownga
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-26
The Census Takers
OUTTHROUGH

Did they and did Ill Il those thirty sixty
questions they askede Did you tell them age you
were born where uncle lives and whether he bald
wears store teeth? Did you correctly the number q dogs
have owned how many you thrown boosiaek
at your neighboFs eas9
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-26
ros sHMAws CLAIM.
rnc m. Detective Waass TO Draw SALARY
for Laae.

rnc III. Detective wanss 20 Draw SALARY
for Jaae.
rx.Ds,ective Robert Eamsn. who Was
suspended from tie force hy Chief OF Police
Thornson May Is, IL going TO try to collect
sasarv for the month OF June.
He vas suspended from the force on
thu strength OF charges preferred
.~.,r.s rim by Jake Terry to the effect
,h., he notified the gamelsrs at an In
,.cs,~d raid sew days previous COM
m,.see from the ceuacii Investigated the
yn.,,eY. and IL IL claimed By them that 81
an. g. ve.sirssion Ehman agreed 10 resign.
consequently nothing towards finally sever
a. 80 ~annectisn With the force Was done.
r Hrvxixr, and reported to The enset
days later. The ehisf wousd
~ any vork. Ills claim -
suspension alone, aside
! Nsscss OF the case. cut
In the pols1 s,sss
Ccnnors uas ccs
vallse and sent 10
teen days The thsss J
on Connogs- He stoss
south of town iodsinGeoa 4
sssxing iss Constants saas - z
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-26
The Best Way

To satisfactorily these questions By inspecting the
goods and making your purchases as early a. possible
We particularly desire lady customers TO look af the extra
large and elegant sock Of Royal Worcester C have
sale will prove satisfactory every particular and
we can recommend them being hrclass in every point
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-26
PAY OF TEACHERS
School Board Fixes the SEIZED
ule q Salaries.
SCALED ~ YEARS or SERVICE.
Vote :. BesAsA Dsss Nss ca.vssssA ~
essss - Mis.isx nsilsa Dsx-
neas - Dseas-


The board Of school directors met q tho
supeYintendens's once on the C<ntral
school grounds last night 10 canvass the
votes Of the eIectica held Tuesday. but
Director Caskett befug absent, postponed
the counting of the votes until this fore
noon because OF the absence Of the Denny
school district boz, containing some tsn
vose&
Clerk Ms. Hawthorne read he names or
the following old teachers who would nof
rece;vs aEy advance Of vsges under The
schedule recently adopted: Miss Elisabeth
Wooster. Miss n. A. Ksllam. Miss Lizzie
Brown. Miss l. A. MoburG. Miss ". 4.
Bishsn. Miss Jennis Carr, Miss Viola
Hawkins.
resolution was ado?ted, after moving
reconsideration and tabIing Of the previous
schedule. that eli Old teachers serving over
thrss yesfs receive salary Of SIS par
month over two years. $40 per month;
that Ill new teachers receive so per month !:
that I'll teachers having taught one year
receive IS Per month above what they got
the previous year. and none to 10 above
SIS, the maximum rate. and no old teacher
70 receive less than SIS Per month; that Ill
new teachers hired receivs so Tor the first
year. SIS for the second. $50 for the third,
and SIS for the fourth years service.
Attorney w. II. White was instructed to
prepare the necessary papers for the bids
for the school bonds, and also the bonds.
He informed the board that the next
meeting would b bald under the
new act. which goes into effect next
Sunday. June %. TO Be known q the board
Of education for seattle school district No.
1; also that il would be necessary 10 elect
vice president and make = number OF
other changes under the new Law.
The clerk was instructed to notify all
teachers whose applications for positions
were not considered. by printed postal,
that their papers would b returned u ~
quired.
II Was decided to request the principals
to Be In the city two weeks before the
schools were reopened. - that was the
wish OF superintendent Barnard.
The matter Of changing teachers 10 The
schools was laid over until the next regular
meeting.
GSatifying - All.
The high position attained and the universal
acceptance and approval Of the pleasant LIQUID
fruit remedy syrup of Figs. ~ the most excel
lent laxative known, illustrate the value Of the
qualities on which ~ success Il based aud ere
sbundautly gratiiytng - the California Fig
syrup Company.
Mild. mellow snd delicious. Queen brand
hams snd bacon, home smoked. never covered.
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-26
Mail Orders.

For the OF outftown customers
Rave further perfected mail order department special
will I'll all such orders by acting direct f the customer in
ierson
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-26
Gratifying 70 All.

The high position attained and the universal
acceptance and approval Of the pleasant liquid
fruit remedy syrup of Figs. - the most excel
lent laxative known, illustrate the value Of the
qualities on which ~ success Il based aud ere
sbundautly gfatiiyins - the California Fig
syrup Company.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-26

Mid. mellow and delicious. Queen" brand
hams aud bacon, home smoked. never covered.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-26

Ane trial of William NJ. Harmed, which
oeen progressing before Judge Ham,
N The United States district court for
- az DAYS. terminated Suddenly yesterday
s'esncoa In . verdict of acquitiAl. found
we jury upon the instruction Of the
sfI The government submitted its case
s1s close Of the nsornin. session. and a
.ss vas taken until o'clock. lminedi-
! 81, = Alter the opening OF the court. Attorney
! Soseman, Of the defense. moved that
court instruct the jury to return .
sct finding the defendant not guilty.
we ground that the prosecution had
= s'ed 70 sustain the allegations Of the in
ssanenl The rsssss--s.- y. ..ia had
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
Unraveling Ciphers.

Communications in cipher are not so
secret as many persons suppose. The
London correspondent of the Liverpool
Mercury writes: Nothing has amazed
the Times people more, believe, than
the discovery of the secret cipher with
which they communicated with George
Kirby in America when Mr.. Kirby was
engaged in negotiating with Sheridan.
1t was an alphabetical cipher and was
so very cleverly constructed that it
seemed to defy detection. But Mr..
Labouchere once declared that he would
unravel any cipher that was put before
him, and Archbishop Walsh is quite as
clever at this kind of thing. it would
seem, as Mr.. Labouchere. Ciphers, in
fact, are not very difficult to detect,
On one London paper, for example,
every advertisement which goes in in
cipher is read before it appears, and
the work is not. as rule, found to be
very difficult. There is sometimes great
amusement in the unraveling of these
presumably secret methods of COM
munication."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
Some Uses For BOraT.

Sprinkle places infested by ants with
borax and you will soon be rid of them.
Blankets and furs put away well
sprinkled with borax and done up air.
tight, will never be troubled with
moths.
A little borax put in the water before
washing red or red-bordered table
cloths and napkins, will prevent their
fading.
Ringworms will yield to borax treat
ment. Apply strong solution of borax
three times day; also dust on the fine
dry powder very often.
Silver spoons and forks, in daily use,
may be kept bright by leaving in strong
boraX water several hours. The
water should be boiling when they are
put in.
Put teaspoonful of borax il your
rinsing water; it will whiten the
clothes. and also remove the yellow cast
on garments that have been laid aside
for two or three years.
One of the best things to cleanse the
scalp thoroughly, is to dissolve one-half
teaspoonful of borax in quart of water
and apply it, rubbing it in we'll Rinse
GuOIOuSHly III Clear wafer.
For washing fine nice fannels, moth
ing will cause them to look so nice as
borax in the water, tablespoonful of
borax to pail of water being the right
proportion. Always wash baby's little
flannel skirts shirts, ETC., in this.
Always wash baby's mouth and gums
every morning with water in which
you have put pinch of borax. 1t
keeps the mouth fresh and sweet, and
prevents that uncomfortable affection,
a sore mouth, with which so many
poor babies are troubled when their
mouths are not kept perfectly clean.
Borax water is excellent for spong-
ing either silk or wool goods, that are
not soiled enough to need washing.
In washing cashmere or wool goods,
put little borax in the water This
will cleanse them much more easily
and better, without injury to the colors.
Do not rub them on board, but use
the hands, and throw on a line without
wringing. Press them on the wrong
side, and they will look almost like
new - GOO6 epEop,1iYo
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
A Thousand Acres of Natural Suds.

At an hours journey from Spokane
Falls is Medical Lake, in the city of
Middlebaugh. Within very short time
a considerable settlement has been
established on the borders of this lake.
The town has wide streets, excellent
shops, and many neat dwellings. The
alleged curative properties of the wat
ers of the lake have been the incentive
to this remarkable growth. The lake
covers an extent of over a thousand
acres and is encircled by low wooded
hills. The waters are said to hold in
solution salts of sodium, potassium,
lthium. calcium, magnesium, iron, and
aluminium, also sulphur and borax.
A great variety of ailments have been
reported cured by bathing in the lake,
chief among them beng rheumatism
and certain diseases of the skin. One
of the properties of the water is that it
forms lather whenever it is agitated
violently or rubbed quickly on the
hands or the surface of the body. No
fish or other living thing can be found
within these waters, and the lake itself
is rather repulsive and muddy in ap-
pearance. Factories have been estab-
lished for evaporating the water and
packing the salts obtained.-Medicat
Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
Blisters as Anti-Fat.

"You would be amazed" said a city
missionary to San Francisco EJanai,l-
er reporter, IF you knew the kind of
people who go to Chinese physicians for
treatment. To my knowledge they
have many respectable white people
among their patients-people who pass
for intelligent men and women.
Il am acquainted with one man who
for years has been engaged in bust
ness in a somewhat large way in this
city, and who quit the white phvsi-
clans and went to Hing Wo Hop for ad-
vice.
He found himself growing fat and
was probably too INDECENT to take the
exercise which had been recommended.
What troubled him most was the in
creasing size Of his waist You see,
with middle age his viscera had begun
to settle down.
DIR Hing listened TO his complaints
with grave interest, and without hesita-
ton promised to cure him. The first
prescription was dose of dried alliga-
tors blood and powdered tigers nails
to strengthen him.
Two days later DR.. Hing called at
the mans house, shaved his head, and
put a f1y-blister on it. Then he told
him to stand up in a corner for as long
a time as he could bear it, and the bis
ter would draw the intestines up into
their old quarters.
This is fact and it is a fact, too,
that the apparently rational, and GER
tainly well-to-do and respectable white
man submitted to the treatment. But
he revolted' at the second blister and is
as fat as a Chinese idol to-day, l am
pleased to say.n
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
A MARVELLOUS MACHINE,
Runs on a Track 1t Lays for Itself, Plows
Harrows and HauIs.

A very curious looking machine rum
ming up and down Clinton street in
front of the Hercules Iron Works YES
terday afternoon attracted the atten-
ton of passers-by and evoked thousands
OF questions as to its use and intent
1t is very large, being not less than
fifty feet in length and eighing nearly
fifteen tons. Its inventor and owner,
John A. Gardner, a wealthy real estate
agent. claims for it an absolute revolu-
ton in traction power, and, certainly,
nothing like it was ever seen before.
The motor movement is a combination
of plane and wheel. The machine
literally lays its own track and picks
it up again, the latter being a belt of
steel plates or laths four and one half
feet long, and inclosing four large cog
wheels which play into the sockets Of
the plates and urge it forward. This
steel belt is oval in shape as the double
wheels inside it would indicate, and the
machine is so constructed that the en-
tire weight rests upon it.
There is at present attached to this
machine gang of twelve plows and
as many harrows with seeding attach
ments. Mr.. Gardner claims that he
can pillow 100 acres in day at an ex-
pense of less than $l2. But he is not
content with making blowing easy; he
expects to have it applied to thrashing,
ditching, hauling, railroad construc-
ton, derrick work in bridge building,
and many other things. The belt
plane-wheel constantly presenting
surface of twenty square feet to the
earth it is claimed for it that it will
pillow in ground too soft for a horse to
walk. 1t will, besides, run up, down,
or alongside a hill, over ridgy or I'M
equal ground of any kind and NAV be
made even to do the hauling for the
farmer as well as all his other work.
Let it do one-half of what is claimed
for it and the machine would be a la
bor-saver beyond anything heard of or
conceived in connection with farming.
Mr.. Gardner has been engaged for
fourteen years upon his invention, and
now conceives that he has it so perfect
ed as to be ready to place it on the big
western farms. He will leave with it
next week for Kansas. He claims that
it is the only machine in the world
which will pillow successfully in soft and
uneven ground, and he speaks conf
IDENTIFY of its being used in the construc-
ton of Chicago's great drainage dis
trict.-Chicago Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
A Vigorous SchooImaster.

The old Bath .(Me.) academy once
had vigorous master in the year 1913,
and the Times relates this instance of
his method: Zone day a boy named
Russell was accused of some misde-
meanor and Master Weston at once
summoned Russell boy before hiR.
The youth protested his innocence, but
the indignant instructor proceeded to
give him cowhiding that made him
feel uncomfortable for a week. The
next day the teacher was informed that
there had been a mistake, that it was
not the boy who had been logged that
was guilty, but his brother. So a
brother of the first suspect was called
forward and treated to the same medi-
cine as the first. Later it TRANSFERRED
that neither of these was the right one.
The third brother was tall, stout fell
low, much larger than the teacher,
and the matter declined to proceed
farther, but declared that the de-
mands of justice had been fully
satisfied
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03

Having been soaped and dried the
Japanese girl takes a long strip of cot
ton or silk, according to her taste or
condition, the strip being about eight
cen inches wide and three yards long.
Holding the upper corner of one end
of the cloth just over the left hip she
winds the strip tightly around the loins
and hips, fastening it by tucking the
end corner in the belt so made, says
the San Francisco Chronicle. This
might be called the japanese corset,
except that, instead of COMPRISING the
waist, it squeezes the lower abdominal
portions and upper hip. When proper
ly put on it makes an almost rigid
bandage, and it is this which gives that
peculiar little shuttle and swing to the
original Yum-Yum's walk, the legs be-
ing really only movable from the knee
down. Most writer's have ascribed this
waddle to the wearing of high wooden
clogs, but this is a mistake. The men
wear clogs, but they walk as freely as
an Indian.
The kilt, so to speak, having been
adjusted, the japanese girl then slips
on little, loose, sleeveless jacket
again either of cotton or silk-which
comes down to the loin CLOTH and over
that blouse or short kimonO; then an
other little longer, two or three OF
these, then the kimono, and then the
obi or bow. All these undergarments
and the kimono itself are crossed in
front and are open at the neck. Each
is decorated at the neck with a strip of
colored Grape, and the whole is SO ar
ranged that these strips show one be-
meath the other. Sometimes belle
show half dozen or more of these diff
ferent colored strips, the effect being
quite rainbowish. If the weather is
warm the inner garments are dispensed
with, and the parti-colored silks are
sewed to the inner side of the kinomo in
a number of plaits.
Stockings the japanese woman does
not wear, except those who have adopt
ed the European fashions, while the
shoe is either sandal or clog. No
matter what the form of the sandal or
clog, the method of attachment is al
ways the samoa soft loop into which
the foot is thrust, with thong to pass
between the great toe and the others.
The sandal (zari) is nearly always
made with a straw sole and quilted top,
and is used for indoor wear, while the
clog (gita) is of wood. Their height is
regulated by the tony aspirations of
the wearer just as French heels of ex-
cessive height is worn by our own fash
ionable sisters.
1t is in her obi, or sash, however,
that the japanese belle takes her great
est pride. Ordinarily it is tied behind in
a bow about foot square at the back,
resembling cartridge-box in shape.
But there are times when this modest
little bow will not suffice, and there are
ladies who 60 to excuses in the size of
the obi 1t is made out of black silk.
folded to be fully yard wide, and it is
tied in bow whose ends extend fully
three across. Moreover, it is worn in
front and little to the side, and alto
gether is very stunning affair.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
Interior Decorations.
1t is curiotls what can he dc

1t is curious what can be done in the
way of interior decorations with home
materials by persons of artistic tastes.
There is a firm of architects in this city
whose income is enormous and who
have very handsome suite of offices.
The walls of their largest and hand
soonest room are covered with ordinary
bagging held in place by wide strips of
cherry molding. There is not person
who enters this office who is not struck
by the thoroughly appropriate and
artistic effect of this combination.
When the late Cornelius Vanderbilt
built his summer residence at Hartford
at an expense of over 100000 the dec
orators covered the walls of his dining
room with ordinary brown paper, such
as is used by butchers to wrap meat in.
There was cherrywood dado and
rich frescoed frieze. This room was
considered one of the haEtIsomest in
the wealthy TOWN.. Y. San.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
Nine. POmmery.

Nine Pommery, who died at Rheims
March Is, was for years at the head of
one of the greatest champagne estab-
lishments in France, and in many re-
spects she was a remarkable woman,
says the New York Sun. She had &C
cumuated a fortune, which at her death
exceeded 10000, 900 francs: Her hus-
band, who at the head of the firm of
Pommery & Greno, founded the present
house, died several years before the
Franco-Prussian war and left the bust
ness in the hands of his widow. She
proved much more successful than he
had been. She made herself familiar
with the details of the business and per-
sonally directed the entire establish
ment. She gained fortune by a sim
gle bold stroke during the war. When
the situation was darkest for France
she bought up all the grapes she could
get and made wine when her COMPETE
tors were doing little or nothing. She
practically controlled the champagne
market for year or two.
Her business grew fast from that time
on, and, with the assistance of an eff
cient manager named Vasnier, she
made money rapidly. She did not own
or control extensive vineyards, but
bought grapes and wines in the mark
ct. Her success was largely due to
her skill in blending wines. She Sc
lected wines of four varieties-one for
body, one for sweetness, one for taste,
and one for smell. These she blended
in such proportions as the popular taste
of the country for which the wine was
designed demanded. So it happened
that the wine from her house drunk in
one country would differ somewhat
from the wine under similar labels
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
Marriage Brokerage in Russia.

A marriage broker is doing an excel
lent business in Bachmut, Russia. ANY,
body coming to Bachmut is sure to be
met by this man at his hotel with the
inquiry: Sir, do you want to marry?"
The marriage broker carries an album
full of photographs of people of both
sexes who would not mind getting
married. On each photograph may be
found details concerning the social and
financial standing of the person pict-
ured. On his arrival at Bachmut the
broker visited every house of interest
to him in his special line, and was kind
ly received everywhere. There are al
ready many happy brides and grooms
in the city to whom he points with pride
as his customers. Bachmut is especial
ly favorable for operations of this ma
ture, it is said, as it contains many
girls Of GOOD looks and fair fortune.