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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-24

that the question is in fair way towards
q satisfactory adjustment, undertakes to
reply to Blaine's arguments relative to the
statement that the seizures are justified by
the fact that Canadian sealers engage in q
pursuit contra toaos p,ores. The marquis
says:
II Ia obvious that two questions are involved;
First, that the pursuit and killing OF fur
seals in certain parts of the open sea Is. from
the point of view OF international Law, m Of
fence contra b0Ros ssores; second, whether, IL
such be the case, this justifies seizure on the
high seas and subsequent eon6seatiou In time
Of peace. of the private vessels OF friendly
nation.
tits an axiom Of international maritime Law
that such action is only admissible In the case
OF piracy, or in pursuance OF . special inter-
national agreement This principle has been
universally admitted By 5urists. and was very
distinctly laid down by President Tyler In Q
special message to conf Ress, dated February q.
Is43 when, after acknowledging the right 70
detain and search vessel on suspicion OF
piracy, he goes on TO say: "With this single
exception. no nation has, In time
Of peace, amy authority TO detain the ships OF
another country on the high seas on any pretext
whatever outside Of territorial jurfsdiction."
Now the pursuit OF seals in the open sea. under
whatever circumstances. has never hitherto
been considered piracy by civilized states, nor.
even II the United States had gone 90 far - 70
make the killing OF fur seals piracy by theiR
municipal law, would this have justified them
in Furnishing onenses against such law com
mitfed by any persons other than their own citi-
gems outside the territorial jurisdiction OF the
Urited stafess In the case of fhe slave Trade, .
practice which the civilized world hsH learned
| To look upcn with abhoFrence. the right
| of arresting the vessels Of another country
was exercised only BY special intcrns-
| tional agreement. and no one govern-
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LecturInG the Natives.

Four native carriers were missing. They had got homesick, and run away in the night. knew well that as soon as the other three men of their tribe heard the news, they would go and do likewise, so ordered them to be told what had happened, and then sent to my tent.
 Their dialect was quite unknown to me, and yet 1 must impress them somehow. They appeared, and, like the judge put ting on the black cap, drew my revolver from under my pillow, laid it before me, and proceeded to address them. Begin ming with a few general remarks on the weather, first briefly sketched the geol- ogy of Africa, and then broke into an i'm. passioned defense of the British constitu- tion.
 The three miserable sinners-they had done nothing in the world-quaked like as- pens. I then followed up my advantage by intoning, in voice of awful solemnity, the enunciation of the forty-seventh proposi- tion of Euclid, and threw all my energy into blood curdling ''quod erat demon strandum."
 Scene two followed when I was alone: I turned on my pillow and wept for shame. It was a prodigious piece of ras- cality, but it succeeded perfectly.
 These men were, to the end, the most faithful had. They felt that they owed me their lives, for, according to African custom, the sins of their fellow tribesmen should have been visited upon them, and they never forgot my clemency.-''Tropi- cal Africa"
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The Hebrews Financial Methods.

It is in finance rather than in trade, however, that the Hebrew millionaires have acquired most of their millions. They may have begun as peddlers or office boys, but when they had scraped together little capital they commenced to use it in the money market to make more. It is worth noting, however, that Jewish spectators, in the sense of mere gamblers on the stock market, are rare among the millionaires. The Seligmans, Wormsers and the rest have gained vast profits in stock speculation, it is true, but the foundations of their businesses are laid on a legitimate and sound bank ing basis. Intrepid as the Jew is in taking chances, it is an instinct with him to have some force in reserve, while the average gentle speculator will gamble away his last dollar, and that of other people entrusted to him, going fairly mad under the excitement of the act.-Alfred Tumble in New York News.
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Whirl and High Pressure.

The children of this world having within tho last fifty years found some new toys--to wit: eteam, electricity, telegraphs, telephones, tickers and other rapid transit apparatus for mind and body-are playing too hard with them. There is a species of mental intoXication evolved out of all this rushing things" which is even mole subtle and deadly than that coming of alcohol. In this whirl and nigh pressure of business there are those who, ill mind as well as body, are on the run from morning till night, and every act of theirs, every epistle they write. every letter they shape with the pen is in the doing pCahed and hurried in mind by the thought of the next, of many other pressing things which must be done in q given time.
 There is no repose, no rest for the mind from morning till night, no time or incG- nation to dismiss thought or care if for ever so few minutes, and at last there is no capacity for so doing. This habit of mind grows into fixed one. It leads away from precision. It leads away from exactness. It leads away from order or method. It does lead even brilliant intel lects into sort of helter skelter way of doing everything. It leads to forgetful- ness, for the memory cannot make a clean record when so much is forced on it. This habit of mind goes with it's owner everywhere. It goes home with him. It goes to bed with him. It keeps away sleep. It gives only an unhealthy, fever ish sleep at best to the body. It leads, and has led, to the insane asylum.
 But if you owned the whole state of New York-land, lots, houses, rivers and all, and next the whole United States land, rocks, rivers. mountains and all, and last both continents, and, finally, you held bill of sale for the whole earth in your trousers pocket, and the effort and strain and excitement in gaining it caused softening of the brain, what an aggravat- ing thing it would be for you to be i'm prisoned in an insane asylum you owned yourself and guarded by your own hired keepersl-Prentice Mulford in New York St2F
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CannibaIs of tho Niger.

Mir II. Fl. Johnston, the British consul at Cameron, recently made & trip up the Cross river, which empties into the Gulf of Guinea, about 1S0 mles east of the main branch of the Niger. Mir John ston is well known by his geographical work on the Congo and his book on Mount Kilima-Njaro. Hehad not ascended the river more than fifty miles before the people he met began to be very wild and excitable. In communication just pub Hshed in the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, MT. Johnston says the people are Ill inveterate cannibals. They are continually fighting with each other in order to supply their larders with fresh food. In one hut which he entered a smoked human ham was hanging from the smoke blacken,d rafters, and above a hundred skulls wece ranged around the upper part of the clay walls. One old chief who wished to convince Johnston of his very friendly feeling took a neck lace from his neckend presented it to the white man. The armament was made of human knuckle bues.
 At one point n the river where the traveller was receiGed with great apparent friendship, he leLrned that the natives were debating th' question whether to treat the visitors IS honored guests or to eat them, or ct any rate to eat tine Kroo boys who had paddled Mr. Johnston up the river. He decided that it would not be safe to extent his explorations fur ther, and he started down the river while the natives were still debating what to do with him. AS he turned his canoe down stream, however, the noisy villa gers gave chase, and there were few minutes of terrible anxiety when the canoe ran aground, and hundreds of the yelling savages attempted to wade across the shallow water and seize the fugitives. Even little clildpen, Johnston says, armed themseves with knives, and, standing ankle deep in the water, shrieked at the top of their voices that they would like to eat the white man. The explorer, however, managed to keep out of the clutch,S of the savages, and to get away without fring.-New York Sun.
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American Inventions in Madrid.

The Spaniard makes no distinction be- tween Engishmen and North Americans, but labels them indiscriminately as ''Iu- gleses." American" here means South American, and if you tell the natives you are an American they are apt to express surprise that you do not speak Spanish as fuently as they do. What is particularly aggravating is to find a number of Ameri- can inventions utilized in Spain and in variably placed to the credit of the "In. gleses." Twas annoyed to find that street cars are supposed to be an English inven- ton; but my indignation rose to fever heat when 1 entered a place marked English Drinks" and found-a genuine American soda water fountain, an article positively unknown in England.
 The word "lngleses" meets the eye at every corner in modern Madrid There are for sale English hats, English cravats, English biscuits, English candles and matches, etc. One also comes across German goods occasionally-al Photographic establishment or a Wagner opera in the window of a music store by the side of Carmen" but the English predominates, even over the French, which has always hitherto made its influence felt in Madrid In fact, the Spanish capital has never been thoroughly Spanish city. Though known to history almost thousand years, it remained mere village until Charles V made it his occasional residence, and Phillip II, in 1860, his capital. and even then it did not grow with special rapidity, for of its 300, 900 inhabitants, 300, GOO have been added in the last thirty years-con- sequently large part of the city has an essentially modern aspect, resembling other European cities.-Cor. New York Post
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Rirht Doing from Inc,Nsnt.on.

Contemplate now the doings of one whose acts according to Kant have DO moral worth. He goes through his daily work not thinking of duty to wife and child, but having in his thought the pleasure of witnessing their welfare; and on reaching home he delights to see his little girl with rosy checks and laughing eyes eating heartily. When he hands back to a shopkeeper the shilling given in excess of right change, he does not stop to ask what the moral law requires: the thought of profting by the mans mis take is intrinsically repugnant to him. One who is drowning he plunges in to rescue without any idea of duty, but be- cause he cannot contemplate without horror the death which threatens. If for @ worthy man who is out of employment he takes much trouble to find a place, he does it because the consciousness of the mans difficulties is painful to him, and because he knows that he will benefit not only him but the employer who engages him; no moral maxim enters his mind.
 When he goes to see sick friend tho gentle tones of his voice and the kindly expression of his face show that he is come not from any sense of obligation, but because pity and desire to raise his friends spirits have moved him. If he aids in some public measure which helps men to help themselves, it is not in pur- suance of the admonition "do as you would be done by" but because the dis tresses around him make him unhappy and the thought of mitigating them gives him pleasure. And so throughout; he ever doos tho right thing, not in obedience to any injunction, but because he loves the right thing in and for itself. And now who would not like to live in world where every one was thus characterized? -"The Ethics of Kant" by Herbert Spen- Ger, in Popular Science Monthly.
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Interesting School Statistics.

The Statistical Abstsact for 1887, just issued, gives tn. following interesting figures in regard to the schools of the United States. In 1S71-72 there were in this country 19, Sa8, ,e47 children of school age, of whom z, ,479,656 were enrolled in the public schools. These pupils were taught by 1,503 male and 124, 18O female teachers. to whom aggregate salaries of s37, ,503, ,509 were paid. The total expen- allure for the schools that year was S10,- S91, STA. h 19S4-S5 the school population had increased to r, 764 G58 and the num- Der of pupils enrolled in the public schools to II ,464, ,G61. He number of male teach CTS was 1C9, and of female 199, ,422, to whom salaries amounting to S73, 932, : 068 were paid. The total expenditures upon the schoolsfor the latter year wers Sl11, ,521 ,5z2-PJblic Opinion.
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How to Utilize Grasshopner,.

The grasshopper plague in Minnesota has assumed so serious a character that the farmers around St. Paul have decided to pay $1 bushel for the insects in order to stimulate the efforts for their destruc- tion. In Venezuela recently a prize of $4, 1000 was offered to anybody who would invent a means of proftably converting locusts into grease or any other useful article. We cannot claim originality for the idea, but why not adopt the Indian eystemf The aboriginal farmers of the plains, we have been told heretofore, do not regard the grasshopper as an unquali- fled evil When their wheat crops grow undisturbed by these insects the Indians eat the wheat after it has been prepared in the usual way. When the grasshop- pers come and eat the wheat, however, the Indians eat the grasshoppers. In this way they are always sure of good crop of one kind or the other and are happy in any event.
 There is authority for the statement that fried grasshoppers are not unpalata- ble, the testimony of white men who have dined on them being that they have Q "rich, nutty taste" not unlike peanuts or something of that sort, and that the most squeamish person would enjoy them if they were served up in batter or under some other name. We do not care to press the subject too far, but why not give the frisky visitors chance to redeem their reputation by transferring them frsm the field to the kitchen, from the furrow to the frying pan? The Indian holds the oyster and shrimp in scorn, and his, we know, is a blind and unreasonable prejudice. Why not learn from him at the same time that VIC teach him to es- teem our delicacies2 Let our friends in Minnesota, then, name the grasshopper the prairie shrimp" for instance, end gather him in and make the most of him. Charleston (S. O News.
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Composite Pbotopraph,,

Composite photography is the most ridiculous nonsense to which photography was ever applied It has neither com mon sense nor truth to recommend it The idea of twenty or thirty faces being printed In experimentation and called the average look of the crowd is in ius; plain Anglo-Saxon nonsense. One might just as well print fifty pages of one of Dickens works on top of one another and call it the average of the story Ii has always been laughed at by the Elost intelligent photographers. and yet il seems to interest many people.-A. Bo gardus in New York World.
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New CiIcIo of K;nsfoIIs.

What is this naturalization, however, but a sort of partble of human life? Are we not always trying to adjust ourselves to new relations to get naturalized into new family? Dos one ever do it entirely? And how much of the lonesomeness of life comes from the failure to do itl It is a tremendous experiment, we all ad- init, to separate Q person from his race, from his country, from his climate, and the habits of his part of the country, by marriage. It is only an experiment diff fering in degree to introduce him by mar riage into new circle of kinsfolk. Is he ever anything but q sort of tolerated, criticised or aGmired alien? Does the time ever coms when the distinction ceases between lis family and hers?
 They say love is stronger than death. It may also be stronger than family while it lasts; but was there ever woman yet whose most ineradicable feel ing was not the sentiment of family and blood, 0 sort of base line in life upon which trouble and disaster always throw her back? Does she ever lose the instinct of 1t? We used t0 say in jest that patriotic man was always willing to sacri- flee his wife's relations in war, but his wife took different view of it; and when it becomes a question of office is it not the wife's relations who get them? To be sure, Ruth said, thy people shall be my people, and where thou goest l will go, and all that; and this beautiful sentiment has touched all time, and man has got the historic notion that he is the head of things. But is it true that woman is ever really naturaGzed? Is it in her na- ture to be? Love will carry her great way, and to far countries, and to many endurances, and her capacity of self sacri-
 flee is greater than mans; but would she ever be entirely happy torn from her kindred, transplalted from tke associa- tions and interlacngs of her family life? Charles Dudley Warner in Harper's Marazine
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No Hope for tho Future.

"It grieves me to look back over a wasted life" said comparatively young doctor to Chicago girl. '"To think that with fame and fortune in my reach have turned from them in order to pursue an humble career"
 "But it is not too late to begin anew" Y" she suggested. Alas; realize too forcibly that it is."
 'Can you not make one great final elTort?"
 No. I am too old to learn to plat baseball"
 Yes" she said softly. Ut is very, vcry said. "-Norchaut Traveller.
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When It Is Too Late.

A great many of Natures laws arc written so plainly in consequences, that it seems very odd that so many of us pass our lives without paying the least regard to them too often it is only when they are written in our very life's blood that we heed them at all, and then 1t is too late. The anxious man of business, the fretting, over solicitous mother, the worrying housekeeper. each in his or her way is laying up debt against vitality, and becoming involved in a very serious contest with nervous force, in which they are sure to come of worsted; and for what Often for the most ridiculous causes.-Demorest' Monthly.
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Professor Jacob Grimm, the author of

Professor Jacob Grimm, the author of the most learned German grammar and. jointly with his lrother, the best German dictionary, says Among all the mod ern languages lone has, by giving up and confounding all the laws of sound, and by cutting of nearly all the infec, tions, acquired greater strength and vigor than the English. It's fullness of free middle sounds, which cannot be taught, but only learned, is the cause of an essential fore of expression such as perhaps never sood at the command of any other language of men,"
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Modern Heroes-

''There are just as many heroes and heroines now as in any age before, y says a Cleveland paper, "but the op. portunities for exhibiting acts of hero ism are somewhat scarcer.' That's entirely correct, unless q young lad wants to pick up the broom and Gi' her old mother a rest, or young iaa' dares face a crowd with his p7a. bagging at the knees. s.-DGtroit Err PEsSs.
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Was Somewhat Particular.

A customer with about three hairs left of his original stock of capillary attrac- tions took possession of chair In a bar ber's shop.
 ''I shall want the part made in the mid de, he said to the attendant who waited on him.
 The latter studied the bald cranium for some time, and then asked with puzzled expression:
 But. please, sir, what shall do with the third hair7'-Judqe.
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Not q Difficult Matter.

Tho inventor of the circular saw lies buried in Michigan church yard, and it is proposed | a rise g monument over his remains. .i lJ!llr a-ieco from every man with c.U1 .4-:;O or 2 shOrt complement of fnceis S,.i Go taG business.-Onee a Week.
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Tho Right Size.

Matter of Fact Mother ito fashionable daughter, who is going out)-Clara, think your hustle is altogether too large to look we'll
 Fashionable Daughter-I know, mamma; hut you havo no idea how slippery the side walks are.-New York Sun.
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BABBITT BROS.-PostotIfce address, Flagstaff, Arizona. Range, Clark's Valley, Mogollon mountains. Brand as above cut. All young stock branded on both sides, with swallow fork and underbit in each ear; also own the following: Boot, T, 2 H, anywhere on the side of animal. Boot cattle, road brand " on right side; T cattle, oss on right side; horse brand C. o. .-,
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A stingy English Duke.

The Duke of Edinburgh, who is noted for his stinginess. Is ln the habit of having hs frock coats made with removable buttons, 50 that the same coat can be used either for uniform or rcivilian dress Chicapo Herald
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Not Mnch BreaIzare.

"I suppose Miss Astergoold's rejection of young Snipkins nearly broke his heart?"
 'No, it didn't break his heart, but 1t busted his scheme to go abroad on her money. ."-Harper's Bazar.
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Charactcr in TllIunha.

A French writer judges women by their thumbs. Those with large thumbs are said to be more likely to possess native intelligence. while the small thumbs indi- cate feeling.
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Cold and Distant.

De Smith-Dont you think Miss Travis is very cold and distant.
 Popinjay-She ought to be; she has gone to Toronto to spend the winter
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PhiIosophicaI Reason.

Wife (tearfullySOh, John, John. why do you always come home fulli
 Husband (soothinglySDon't know, m dear. less tls nature abhors e vacuum.
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HARRY FULTON.-Horse and mule brand on left hip as shown ill cut. Sheep: ewes, hole in left ear and split in the right; 1; wethers, reverse that of ewes; rams branded F on horn. Range near Mormon Lake, Mo- gollon Mountains. Postoffice address, Flag staff, Arizona.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-03-15
Stamps as IN Investment.

Stamp collectors are commencing to
SILVER in their shoes over a report that
photo engraving is being called in for the
counterfeiting of rare specimens. There
is no improbability in this rumor, though
1t at present lacks confirmation. How
ever, no man with an eye in his head will
be deceived by a fraud of this sort. All
others had better employ an expert to do
their buying for them; still, with rare
stamps reaching the great values they do,
and the large fortunes locked up in stamp
albums, one cannot blame the philatelists
who insist upon the necessity for guarding
against forged specimens. According
to an English publication, famous col
lector, who is collecting English stamps,
has an exclusive English collection that is
worth in open market $4,000. This sum
would be realized if the collection were
broken up and sold piecemeal, and there
are several collec ions In England which
range in value from $4,000 to $3.50 900.
What is undoubtedly the most valuable
collection in the world is the property of
German gentleman residing in Paris.
The holder of this wonderful collection
would not take $1,250, 600 for it. Money
would not purchase it. 1t is simply
unique Yet there are gaps in this collec-
ton, the owner of which is still one of the
most enthusiastic collectors. always on
the lookout for fresh Acquisitions ZEN
0acins's Nens