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tives near them were lust as strong

tives near them were just as strong
rs thoy were, the spread of their re-
liglon In that direction abruptly
ceased but these hcathen people
and the Moslem converts could not
live at peace with one another. 1t
was finally decided that, as they
could not be good neighbors, a
stretch of country should be placed
between them where no one should
live, and In that way they expect to
get along with less bloodshed. 80
all the people who inhabited this
fertile region, about twenty miles
wido, packed up their little belong
ings and moved away, and this
stretch of country thus came to be
without single inhabitaut. To-
day II Is q No Mans Land, and the
only reason is that the people who
are neighbors there can not live on
friendly terms, and, having tired Of
fighting, have put this barrier be-
tween them.
, 1890-11-06

unintelligent; the "peones" can
rarely read or write, but they have
natural talent for imitation, and
when once they have been shown
how to do q thing they will go on
doing 1t. Thus they learn In u few
lessons how to manage machinery,
and when they have onco learned
they do not forget. AS for morality,
II IL to be feared they have but little.
They are not afraid of death them
selves, and have not much respect
for the life Of others, aud both men
and women alike appear TO have in
herited fair dose of superstition
and many queer beliefs from their
Indian ancestors, together with a
women, when they have head
ache, paste rounds Of paper on their
temples, or the tip of n watermelon.
If they feel anything the matter
with their eyes they will plaster
their cheeks over with leaves. In
deed, you rarely see o woman who
has not something stuck on her
face.
All these defects, all these SUPER
stitions, aud all this neglect of the
laws OF hygiene President Balmacedo
hopes to eradicate by education, aud
therefore, we see, not without sur
prise, the rustic townships like Trai-
guen, fine schoolhouses being built,
at II cost of 500, 900, before there IL
yet single brick house within the
district. The policy of building
schools and promoting education is
being actively carried on through
out Chill. Wherever you 20 you see
II fine school being built, and u, no
great distance from itan equally fine
new prison, and the chances are that
the cells of the latter will be filled
sooner than the clussrooms of the
former. However, the education of
the masses has been one of the great
cards of modern rcpublicanism In
Europe and the United States, and
1t Is therefore not astonishing to find
imltatlveChili followingin the wake,
perhaps little hastily and u little
blindly.
, 1890-11-06
Doc Lifc In Syria,

Mrs. Burton gives some curious facts
about dog lie in Syria and other East
crn countries. Dogs exist there by hun
dreds and thousands without owners or
care, and ure u kind of community
themselves. Each one belongs to par
ticular quarter of the city, and is not
allowed to live elsewhere, She treated
them kindly and fed them. while the in
habite ITS beat and stoned them, and in
gratitude they undertook TO escort and
defend her from harm. When she went
out to walk n dog always met her, as II
appointed by the whole community, ac-
companied her to the border of his
boundary, and passed her over to one
belonging to that quarter, who did the
snme thing In his turn. Each dog
wagged his tail as II bidding good-by Q
when his work was done.
She says also she has often In the
quiet night heard u dog come barking
from the foot of the mountains. Meet
ing the dogs ON the border OF the village,
there would bc quiet for Il few minutes,
then d general barking in concert; then
one dog would start for the middle OF
the village, with similar result
there; then a single dog agnir for
the further side of the village, followed
by a general barking there, "Whatever
the canine news Is, she says, lin about
twenty minutes 1t is passed round to all
the dogs In Damascus"
, 1890-11-06
Bill Nye CIitic ised.
Chicago Herald

Bill Nye was asked to lecture be-
fore the Woman's Press Club Il while
ago. He consented. The lecture
was i'm the afternoon. IL was an en-
.ioyablc one. He wore u walking
suit and his customary smile. He
appeared, as usuSl, serenely uncon-
scious of his personal appearance
observation-disclosures he knew that
he had started out dressed Just eX-
actly as he should be. "A few days
afterward member of the w. p. G..
met IL member of the Chicago Press
Club. In speaking of the entertain
ment she said: 1--WE were perfectly
satisfied with the lecture, but he
paid us very little respect in wear
Ing an ordinary suit. After we con-
sented to that high price the very
least that he could have done was
to have worn dress suit"
If that Is Il woman's idea of after.
noon respect, IL Is not at all surpris-
ing that men fall into the error and
commit the objectionable blunder
of appearing in dress suits even at u
morning wedding, as was the case
not so long ago. 1t may be owing
TO the fact that many business men
do not stock up with different suits,
and in laying aside the every day
suit to do honor to festivities have
no choice. 1t Is either the business
suit or the evening suit. The busl-
ness suit, with it's layer of coal dust,
is in far better taste unless the
shades of night decide the matter.
, 1890-11-06
WHY WHEAT IS LOW
Attorney General Jones Presents s
a Number of Statistics in un
Entertaining Manner.
1t Will Require 10000 Cars to
Move the Big Wheat Crop
of Whitman County.

Talk about wheat" said Attor-
ney General Jones yesterday to q
REVIEW reporter, "the farming
country of Eastern Washington has
more grain than 1t knows what to
do with. Never In all my life have
| seen anything to equal 1t, Wher-
ever | went in my campaign tour /
saw warehouses and elevators filed
to bursting, and at every little sta
tion along the line OF the Spokane
Il Palouse wheat in stacks are
stacked ten and twenty feet high.
Tho railroads can not begin to
supply the cars that are needed to
move this great yield. For exam
pie, ,one days requisition on the Spo-
kane II Palouse wns for 200 cars. 1t
got seventeen, and these had to be
sent to "a burst wareh ouse to save
the grain therein.
"Have you ever paused to figure
on the number of cars that will be
required to handle the wheat in
Whitman county? The yield in
that single county is estimated at
1900, OG0 bushels. A car will hold
about $50 bushels. In round num-
bers 1t will require $4,000 cars to
move this enormous product. Es-
timatlng eighteen cars to train,
and we reach the astonishing fact
that 1t will take 1000 trains to trans.
port the yield of a single county.
"1n Whitman county, let us say,
there are 25, 900 people. This wheat
is worth 50, OOO, 900, or S240 per cap
ita, eight times the per capita of the
circulating medium.
"Now this is exclusive of barley,
flax, oats, fruits and vegetables,
which are likewise produced In
enormous quantities.
81 have consulted the files of the
REVIEW, and find that in June
wheat was selling in Chicago for So,
and in Spokane tor from 5S to 81
Now while wheat Is selling in
Chicago for S1.02 1t brings only so
cents here. Now this Is clearly due
to lack of rolling stock. Wheat
buyers do not know when they can
get their purchases to market, and
so refuse to pay prices In proportion
to the Eastern markets. In CONVEX
sation with Mr. Mcconnell, of NJ os-
cow, he Informed me that he was
desirous Of buying wheat for May
delivery in Chicago, but the rail-
roads refused to pledge themselves
not to advance rates ABOVE those
now charged, and that leaves him
and other buyers In uncertainty.
unfortunately the Northern Pa
ciiic Is short of rolling stock all
along its main line and on all the
branches, and there Is no Immediate
prospect of relief. In Dakota the
farmers are either in distress or hard
pressed for money. The company
naturally will feel called upon to
heed their demand before hearken-
ing to that of Washington, where u
delay does not mean ruin for thou
ands. Then again, the winter is
srapidly drawing near in the Da-
kotas, and the crop must be hurried
TO market.
"ln addition to this remarkable
demand for cars, 1t must he re-
membered that the roads must go
right along and attend to their regu-
lar tInflipv
, 1890-11-06
THE FIRST CIGAR.
DIR. Talmage Relates His Early Ex-
perisnce.

perience.
DIR. Talmage tells the following
story of his experience with his first
cigar: The time had come in our
boyhood which we thought de-
manded of us II capacity to smoke.
The old people of the household
could abide neither the sight nor the
smell of the Virginia weed. When
ministers came there, not by pos.
itive injunction, but by sort of ih-
stinct rs to what would be safest,
they whitfield their pine on the back
step. If the house could not stand
sanctified smoke, you may know how
little chance there was for Adde'S
cent cigar putting.
BY some rare good fortune, which
put in our hands 3 cents, we found
access To tobacco store. AS the lid
of the long, narrow, fragrant box
opened, and for the first time we
owned Il cigar, our feelings of Ella
ton, manliness, superiority and an.
ticipation can scarcely be imagined,
save by those who have had the
same sensation. Our first ride OH
| horseback, though we fell Off before
we got to the barn, and our first pair
OF new boots (real squeakers), we
had thought could never be sur
passed in interest but when we put
the cigar to our lips and stuck the
lucifer match to the end of the weed,
commenced to pull with an energy
that brought every facial muscle to
its utmost tension, our satisfaction
with this world was so great our
temptation was never to want to
| leave it.
The cigar did not burn well; ii re-
quired an amount of suction that
taslied our determination to the ut.
most. You see that our worldly
means had limited us to a quality
that cost only three cents. But wo
had been taught that nothing great
was accomplished without effort,
and so we pulfed away. Indeed, we
had heard our older brothers in their
Latin lessons say, omnia vincet
labor, which, translated, means il
you want to make anything 20 you
must scratch for 1t.
With these sentiments we passed
down the village street and out to-
ward our country home. Our head
did not feel exactly right, ami the
street began to rock from side To
side, so that 1t was uncertain to us
which side of the street we we've on.
So we crossed over, but found our
selves on the same side that we
were on before we crossed over. In
deed, we imagined that we were on
both sides at the same time, and
several fast teams driving between.
We met another boy who asked us
why we looked so pale, and we told
him that we did not look pale, but
that he was pale himself. We sat
down under the bridge and began
to reflect on the prospect of early
decease, and on the uncertainty OF
all earthly expectations. We had
determined to smoke the cigar all
up and thus get the worth of our
money but were obliged to throw
three.fourths OF IL away, yet knew
just where we threw It In case we
felt better the next day.
Getting home, the old people
We're frightened, and demanded that
we state what kept us so late, and
what was the matter with us. Not
, 1890-11-06

feeling that we were called to go into
particulars, aud not wishing to in
crease our parents apprehension
that wo were going to turn out
badly, we summed up the case with
the statement that we felt miserab le
Mt the pit of the stomach. We had
mustard plasters administered, and
careful watching for some hours,
when we fell asleep, and forgot our
disappointment and humiliation in
being obliged to throw away three.
fourths of our first clgnr.
, 1890-11-06

AGRICULTURAL CHILL.
A Very Pleasant and Interesting
Country.

Agricultural Chill IL q pleasant
md interesting country 10 visit,
writes Thomas Child. The scenery,
suggesting memories alternately Of
California, Switzerland and North
ern Italy, is both grand and charm
ing. Nothing can be seen moro
majestic and impressive than the
main ridge of the Andes, with the
volcanic peaks white with snow,
while occasionally toward the south
some small crater shoots up volumes
of smoke and lava, ms Villa Rica did
about the time | was mt Traiguen.
Nothing can he more charming than
the scenery along the Rio Bio-Bio,
whose siuuous banks the railway
follows between san Rosendo and
Conception.
In parts this river, the longest
and broadest In the republic, hav-
ing course OF 222 miles, reminds
one of the Loire, except that it flows
continuously between sloping and
often wooded hills. Like the Loire,
1t Is full of shining sand5anks, some
of clean yellow sand, others of black
volcanic sand; aud these, as the
water varies in depth, give to the
surface u MORE of violet and yellow
ish green. AS for the rustic popula-
tion, and the incidents of life along
the road, they offer plenty of ma
terial for the painter and food for re-
Election to the student of manners.
Here indeed is primitive civilization,
needing no house or furniture, no
comfort, very elementary clothing,
and only the simplest form of ce-
ramic ware.
What palmer food could be found
than bread, beans and onion pie?
What more natural drinking vessel
than "A calabash? What less COM
plex vestmcnt than the "poncho"?
What shoe more easily made than
II bitof cowhi0e tied on with thongs?
What more refreshing and obvious
combination of food aud drink than
the familiar watermelon, which
would seem to be the chief and only
nourishment taken by many of the
poorer Chilians? In the stations
you SEQ whole trains loaded with
watermelons. In the towns water
melons are sold In every shop, and
piles of them are packed in the
streets wherever there Is an open
air breakfast stall. On the steam
ers that ply between the ports of
the Pacific the decks are encunl-
bered with the inevitable melons,
and the water in the harbors is COW
cred with the floating rlnds of empty
ones.
In no other country have / seen
such universal consumption of
watermelons except along the banks
Of the Danube, where the peasant ts
are no better lodged and no better
fed than those of Chill. All this I
say not In dispraise Of the Chilian
''peones." On the contrary, l am
convinced that they arr fine fellows
In their way and splendid workers,
especially by the piece. No Europe
ans can surpass them In strength
ropeans could exist in the same con-
ditions of allmentation and habita-
tion. In Chill the "peones' live
literally like pigs, both In the coun-
try and In the towns, regardless OF
hygiene or even of the most ordin-
AIRY sanitary precautions. The con-
sequence Is that In FAINT mortality IL
great; the infants die like flies aud
those who survive are only the
strongest and the flttest.
This rural and urban working
population is ignorant though not
, 1890-11-06
The Princess OF Wales Wears Skies.


We English women have allowed
foreigners TO ridicule what they call
our big, ugly feet, without tutoring
even u meek protest up to now. It's
about time we spoke up for our.
selves, one would think. asked u
Bond street bootmaker whether
English women really had worse
looking feet than the women of
other nations, or whether it wasn't
all nonsense to say they had. He
said 1t was a difficult matter to de-
eide, and the less said about it the
better.
"But," he added, "to bc quite
candid with you, am afraid some
Of you have rather ungainly feet.
! judge from some of the specimens
see here. A few of the highest
danes in the land come to see me
for their boots. ] often wish they
would take the princess of Wales
for their model in this matter, like
they do in most things relating TO
dress. The princess has as shapely
n foot as It's possible to find, al
though IL is by no means II small
foot, mind you. Now If the prin-
cess believed in screwing up her
feet dare say she could get them
into fours. But she is too sensible,
and skies are her size In boots. The
princess has rather long, narrow
foot, without protuberauces of any
sort. Then the princess never goes
In for immoderate heels"
, 1890-11-06

TIWktT VVNNTT'
30, l wouldn't be alarmed" said
Tomdik to McCIammy, "The colonel
seems very ferocious now, but you can
make him take water after awhile"
II m afraid not, replied McClam mmy.
nIleIs "A kentuckian.
, 1890-11-06
As Tommy Understood IL.
tChicago Tribune.

Chicago tribune.
Tommy-Maw amt goin to have any
seaiskin sack this winter. heard paw
say so.
Jerry--Whats the reason she nin't2
"rher' amt any skins / guess
What's become o ihe skinsw
away with EN-"
, 1890-11-06
Ono Way.
GOOD News.

Mr.. Youngman (after long thoughD-
Is there any way TO find out what q
woman thinks of you, without propos
ing?
Mr. Benedict (absen,lyl-Yes, make
her mad
, 1890-11-06
a Way They Have.

Inter Ocean.
"You tornadoes ought 10 enjoy life, "
remarked the gentle breeze.
I'D like to know why?' retorted q
vigorous specimen of the tornado.
because you so often re-gale your
selyesn
, 1890-11-06
He Wa. That ALREADY.

~ got into discussion with Mr.
Dlmity yesterday" remarked Eva,
"and fairly knocked him silly"
WASN'T that work of supereroga-
tion?' asked Uncle Tom.
, 1890-11-06
He Should Live Up to 1t.


Real estate agent Ito customer)-My
motto. appropriate to my business, Is
Deeds, not Words"
Customer-And yet you put great
many unnecessary words in your deeds.
, 1890-11-06
a Grievance.

The paragrapher in the New York
Telegram appears to have u griev-
ance with the BARRIERS. Says he: 1t
has come to such pass that man
of moderate income reluctantly re-
signs himself to the expensive lux
ury of q shave in barber shop, The
growth of the pcrnicious feeling
system makes the barber shop an
unhappy stopping place for modest
man who thinks that twenty. five
cents is sufficient expenditure.
The moment one enters the shop,
insuperable hints remind him that
he is not expected to get out without
feeling somebody.
The brush boy makes n grab for
his hat and insists upon hanging it
upon peg. The barber spends in
finite pains upon the unhappy sub
ject. He asks in tones OF tender
interest whether the razor
Is harsh, whether the hair should
be parted one-tenth of an inch
higher or lower, and hundred
other questions designed to show
what an interest he takes in his
customer. Then he presses with II
clinging pressure the check into the
hand of the miserable victim, and
looks dispiritedly at his hand if II
coin is not left behind.
Before half out of the chair the
victim is attacked savagely by IL
brush in the hands of the shop boy,
and when the miserable man has
paid for his shave he finds the boy
blocking up the door with his hat
in hand. Pure shame coerces fee.
a barber shop with u rule for
bidding fees could not accommodate
its customers in building as large
as the postoflice.
, 1890-11-06

james Lewis Pontiac laborer, had a
strange deer hunt from which he re-
turned yesterday, says Saturdays Post
lntolliGoncer. Lewis started with his
gun and dog Tuesday morning for tho
woods, on the north OF Pontiac TO have
n hunt, intending to come back that
same evening. Not meeting with sue
cess the first four hours, Lewis sat down
and ate lunch lie had taken along. lie
aterward lpIodded along, and soon
struck deer trail. On ho followed in
his excitement, and before he hardly
realized II, night was at hand with out
bringing success 10 him. lie finally
gave up the pursuit, and, as he Thought,
rctraced his steps in the direction OF
home. lie travelled and travelled for
hours before 1t struck him that he did
not recognize any of the country he was
In as that which he had travelled in the
morning. After hours of weary walk
ing without any signs of home or an
opening i'll the dense woods, Lewis gave
up in Despair and lay down To rest, hun
cry and tired. As he had no watch. he
supposed 1t to be about 3 . clock Wednes-
day morning.
He arose before the sun was up and
continued to search for the trail. All
Wednesday he moved along hungry and
iOotsorc, but by nighttAll lie was still in
the forest with apparently little progress
so far as finding his way home was con
cerned. He was again forced 10 sleep in
the woods. Even the next day, Thurs.
day, his success was no better and II was
not until daylight yesterday morning
that he sailed forth from the dense for
est near BotheIl. All this time he had
had nothing to eat but roots and a few
crackers he had taken along He dis.
covered he had travelled mostly in cir
Gle after losing his way, point which
accounted for his making no progress
Early Thursday morning lie heard tho
report OF gun, which took him In the
direction of Bothell, whence lie heaEd tho
buzz of the sawmills at n distance. Lewis
took the train from there to his home at
Pontiac, and when seen yesterday said
he had taken good, square meal.
on Saturday old times were wildly
brought back to the minds of many a
California pioneer. says the Walla Walla
Union, by seeing a small jack, loaded
with prospector's outfit of odds and
ends, topped with frying-pan and cof-
Zee pot. being led down Main street by a
man of years, dressed in tattered gar
mcnts and bearing an old fashioned
muzzle-loading short rifle. Being asked
where from, he did not stop his Journey
as he replied, with a strong German ac-
cent; been IN Idaho u leadle rountn
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-05-04

than the ancient printer-man did from
his occasional nip. The ancient printer
man believed in n just and merciful God
and therefore he took diametric opposi-
ton to the preacher when that licensed
sky-pilot declared that poor little babies,
who couldn't walk. or crawl even, To the
baptismal font, and to which no one
would carry them were taken by the nape
of the ueck. II they happened to die, by
this lust aud mercifu God, who soused
them spang into great kettle OF lire aud
birthstone. melted lead, and other truck
like that. and left them there for all eter-
nifty, and much longer than the mind OF
man can conceive. The ancient printer
man didn't believe That, aud was there
fore called skcptc. and even much worse
names. But he viliantly stuck 10 his
idea. and insisted that his God was better
than that. All this led him to be skepti-
cal in other things religious. For Instance
he used to say that If somebody, with the
ability TO give IL to him, would offer him
the entire continent for his sole posses
sion, or any other considerable slice ou'
IF the globe, to believe that his black hal
was white he couldn't do IL. and IL was
lust as true that IL the christian plan o.
salvation demanded that he should be-
lieve a certain thing, AT which his reason
revolted. he couldn't believe it. Therefore
this ancient printcr-man believed In
God so Just and merciful that He wouldn
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-05-04

Innumeralle mills single mills and other manufacturing
establishments running and in course of erection
Over three miles of the front the world now
owned by the Farhaven Land Company