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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-30
FEMALE ELOCUTIONIsTs.

Mrs. A. III. Frye, elocutionist, recently
delivered lecture in this city in which
she absurdly argued that the study Of
elocution and proficiency in the art was
one of the thousand avenues of power for
women. 1t is quite possible that Mrs.
Frye may be right; not right today, but
some other day when female elocutionists
learn to recite something besides Poe
"Raven;" "Bells;" "Annabel Lee"
"Curfew Will Not Ring Tonight" and
kindred metrical jingles or sentimental
rubbish. Poe's poetry is chiefly melody
weighted with pretense of mysti-
cal thought, and for this reason
nine young women out of ten who pose
as elocutionists begin with Poe's Raven"
and "Bells." These poems do not tax the
young elocutionists with fine thought to be
intelligently and eloquently expressed;
they only tax the resources of fine voice,
and even voice which is not superior has
an easy task when the verse is resonant of
wonderful melody rather than charged
with thought. The elocutionist can rem
der melody, but she cannot render any
genuine poetry at all where the melody is
married to harmony of thought. If
men and women would only consent
to be taught to read aloud
with spirit and understanding they
would secure most admirable
and useful accomplishment, which lies at
the basis of any genuine mastery of fine
elocution. The present race of itinerant
elocutlonists are curse rather than a
blessing, for they corrupt the popular taste
for poetry by their thoughtless selections,
and teach whole tribe of growing girls
that declamatory mouthing of impassioned
nonsense is desirable and useful accom-
plishment, and even insist in Identifying it
by the name of art. If the Bowerv theater
fustian is art, why then the itinerant
elocutionist's work is "art" If il is
art, it must be the black art, for
some of its so-called voices seem trained in
pandemonium. One school of boys and
girls taught to enjoy good, sound Htera-
ture and to understand what they read
we'll enough to please their friends in the
home circle, would be better than the
popular elocutionist's artful aid.
Miss Adelaide Drew, of Bangor, Me-, who
killed herself with big dose of morphine
the other day, took pains before she swal-
lowed the fatal potion to pin up on the
head of the bed paper saying: Dead,
ladies and gentlemen" Adelaide had
been studying elocution, aspiring to be a
public reader, and even in death she
dealt in little melodramatic business"
Adelaide ought to have learned to cook a
good dinner and keep house. or even to ride
a bicycle, and she would probably be in
good voice today
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pregnably bound wedlock. We can edu-
cate. implore and influence our children
not to make mean marriages, but we can
not. by forbidding legal divorce, keep them
moral unit and make them respect the
spiritualities of the married state. We
can prohibit the sale of rum, but we can
not prevent its sale and use any more than
we can prevent by divorce prohibition the
immoral explosion of a bad marriage or the
original preparation of that bad marriage.
You can punish offenses agains. the mar
rage state, against public order and So
briefly, but you cannot make a man chaste
or sober by statute. You may educate
him to rise above his moral infirmity, but
you cannot legislate him into righteous
ness.
If law is powerless to do the work of
moral education and public opinion in pre-
venting the negotiation of bad marriage,
or the escape from it, it is equally power
less to abolish the sale of alcoholic drinks.
1t is no more chimerical TO attempt to
keep marriage holy by prohibiting divorce
as is done in South Carolina. than it is to
keep people sober by prohibiting the sale
OF rum as is done IN Maine.
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THE DRINK HABIT.

In the September number of the North
American Reriew four eminent physicians
agree in affirming that drunkenness
Is durable DR.. Hammond would combine
moral suasion and cultivation of will
power with such physical restraint within
an asylum as will make the obtaining of
liquor impossible. The indispensable thing
is the development of strong will,
and for the generation of this resolute
will, or rather its restoration 10 its normal
strength, temporary confinement in an
asylum may be necessary. The conclusion
of these eminent physicians is that the
drunkard must cure himself. Asylums
and physicians may help him by
temporarily restraining him from in
diligence, by alleviating the depression
consequent upon the sudden change of
habits and by improving his general
health, but the permanent cure depends
upon the moral invigoration and regenera-
tion Of the man. Strength ofmind enough
TO resolve to drink no more and keep the
resolution is the only hope for the inc
briate. II he honestly desires TO reform and
sincerely seeks TO gain this will power he
will put himself under restraint and will
get it and can keep it just as long as he
chooses to keep 1t, but 10 do this his re-
pentance of his sinful and criminal habit
must be sincere and his abstinence from
oil forms of alcohol must be absolute.
The drink habit is as old as humanity.
rs old as the vice called the social evil
The habit is one of the deplorable and dam
gerous expressions of the gregarious and
social nature of primitive man that is dis
cernible in savage as well as civilized
society. The savage. rs well as the So
called civilized man, is greedy, and there
fore he is not seldom a gambler and then
. thief; he is a reckless. plessure-loyins
animal, so he is not seldom a lecher and a
drunkard. The primitive man was orig.
inally an animal; il took years of experi.
ence and discipline to lift him above
the line of a simple animal TO
the level Of savage man; il
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The Fairhaven Herald TODAY passe, into
the control of Messrs. o. H. Culver and F..
G. Earle. experienced newspaper men who
are already identified with the interests of
that city as publishers of the Weekly World.
They will greatly improve the paper. and
as soon as possible print the Associated
Press dispatches. Both of the gentlemen
were enticed away from the employ of the
Posr-INrELLIGEScER by the bright pros
poets of Fairhaven, and their ability and
industry will undoubtedly build up q
strong journal. The World will be merged
into the Herald and become the weekly
edition of the latter paper.
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and fishing parties have secured the waters
outside the hHrbor in all kinds OF craft, gooo,
bad and indifferent The best catches nave
been made on the outer rim of the spit near the
lighthouse. Many ladies have been out, ana
unite in reporting il rare sport Great run Is
reported at the mouth OF the creeks where tne
big fellows run up to get into fresh water HeFe
they are captured with clubs and spears anu
guns and sometimes By hand. At Morse's creek
last Sunday there was battle royal with
giant "chincok'' measuring four or five feet ana
weighing forty or fifty pounds. Five or six men
were engaged in the melee, and all OF them got
q duckiug before they captured their prize.
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THE RUSSIAN JEWS.

Isaac Ben David, in the current num-
Der of the North american Rerie,c shows
himself quite competent to reply to Gold
win Smiths attack upon the Jews as
parasitic race deficient in patriotism. He
adduces ample facts to prove that the Jews
In Portugal and Spain before their expul-
sion had proved themselves abundantly
patriotic, the Spanish Jews taking a most
gallant part in the defense of the city of
Toledo against the Moors. The German
Jews were conspicuously gallant soldiers
against the first Napoleon in the great up
rising in ls13-15, and the French Jews,
Rabbi Ben David shows to have been al
ways patriotic citizens and soldiers oftheir
adopted country. The list of famous
Jews include Spinoza, Heine, La
Sale, Karl Marx, Disraeli, Men
delssohn, Meyerbeer, Auerbach,
Rothschild, Schumann, Schubert,
Rachel, the famous English singer, Bra
ham; Sara Bernhardt, Achille Fould, Sir
Moses Montehore, Sir George Jessel, Sir
Francis Goldsmid, Lord Herschel. To
these well-known names Rabbi Ben David
adds those of Memminger, secretary of the
Confederate Treasury, and the famous
French sculptor Bartholdi. He also claims
that Charles Dickens, the great novelist.
came of Hebrew family, and that the
Union generals, Rosecrans and Lyon, are
OF lsraelite stock.
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MELIK THE BLACK.

Where has the Princess gone.-
The Princess Parizade?
The dazzling glow of the Orient dawn
Floods down through the garden glade
She is not In the room where the air In sweet
With the scent of the attared rose,
And the tinkle OF silver-sandaled feet
Like brook DER the marble flows;
She is not in the mosque nor the dim kiosk,
she 10 no: in the almond-close.
Meik the black stands mute
BY the harem's outer door:
Does he dream of the sound of the Seminar flute,
And the warm Nile nights of yore?
Does he muse on the happy, bondless days
By the desert fountains cool,
When he rode his barb DER the trackless ways,
Ere he came to be the tool
OF the loves and hates in the palace gates
Of the treacherOus Istamboul?
His thoughts are not altar
In the wide, free southern land;
He sees, as he saw meath the paling star,
tiny print in the sand.
There hangs the slender ladder yet
Where the daring flight was made;
On the water-etair the OOZe and wet
Betray where the boat was stayed;
She has fed DER the main from her gilded
chain
The Princess Parizade.
And shall he bide to face
His masters merciless WRATH
Woe on the soul that waits for grace
In a maddened tyrants path
But list!-o'er the courts mosaic door
Creeps one with panther tread,
Behind the form at the harem door
With the mournful low-drooped head.
dagger bright in the morning light
And Aelik the black lies dead.
Clinton SeoUnrd
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-30

The aggregate of the insane in the United
states Is over $4,000, which as compared with
5000 in 1ss0 would show an increase OF
more than 81 per cent in ten years. The Cali.
fornia insane number $3.50; those of Oregon
ga, which cost the state in 1890 ss5,.
51a Massachusetts, has the larges,
proportionaIe number of insane. In
Wisconsin the insane under public care in.
creased from 1.77s in 1851 to s,1s9 in ls9o-77 Der
cent in nine years, q. the rate of 81 per cent
a year. In New York the gain was from s.5s7 in
lss0 TO 1922 in 1sSe-nearly per cent a wear
In Massachusetts, il was from about 1900 in 1851
to 1859 in 1ssO-4s per cent in nine years, or So
per cent year. In Massachusetts,, where three
years ago there were only 1914 feeble minded in
the state asylum, there are now SSe-a gain in
three years of AS, or rs per cent
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PASSENGER LISTS.

THOMPSON FALLS, Mont, Aug. o.
Especial. Passed here on Northern Pacific
train No. 3:
J. NJ. Blakely and wife, II. T. Taylor, ]. C.
Pears and wife, J. T. Stevens Mrs. Hurley L. L.
Avery, C. II. Housen and wife, C. A. Hawkins
and wife, p. J. Turner and daughter and twenty
four second-class passengers.
ELLIsToN, Mont, Aug. 29.-[Speclal i
Passed here on Northern Pacific train No.
l:
W. P. swope, H. E. Wellington and wife, Miss
Clara E. Wellington, Al Weilan, John Pritchitt,
Mrs H. Nickel, H. S. Schott and wife, J. w.
stillwell and wife, S. F. Regal and wife, H. II.
Gray, Z. C. Lewis, W. H. Hammond, NJ B. Miles
and wife and fifty second.class passengers.
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NORTHWEST NEWS.

Thomas II. CoFman and Henry McFadden,
farmers, were killed August IL twelve miles
south OF colfax. near the head OF PeneWawa
canyon, bY being thrown from wagon.
Della Peterson. aged 20 months. was drowned
Wednesday evening at South Bend by failing on
the wharf near skidmores saloon while st
play.
Fred z. Buser, 20 years old, was drowned IN
Snake river, at Wawawai. august Is. while
bathiuo
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

The public is hereby warned not to pay
any money to parties representing to be
agents of the Seattle Posr-ISTELLIGEycER,
except the following, who are the only
authorized travelling agents of the PosT-
IxTEILrsEscER, viz: ]. A. Mcclellan. L.
c. Branson. T. A. Davies and J. H. Willett.
This does not apply to resident agents OF
this paper, who are located in various
cities and towns of the Northwest, nor to
postmasters, who are in all cases author
lied to take subscriptions for the Daily,
Sunday and Weekly Posr-ISTELLIGENcER-
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-30
whatcom School Election.

WHArcoM, Aug. 29.-[Special. About
300 votes were polled at today's election to
determine whether a special 10mill school
tax shall be levied. The vote was not
counted, but the tax was probably beaten
two to one.
The directors of district No. have
adopted plans for the erection of blick
school building in the York addition.
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salmon Sport at Port AnreIe..

foft Angeles Times.
The big salmon run in the Strait continue.
and fine catches are made daily by all SOFT, 30
fishermen The people are sailing away a al 10,
winter, and there viii be no good excuse for any
one going hungry during the rest of the wear
TOT sne pass twoweeks the weather has been re-
markedly propitieus for getting OUT on The rate,
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HOUSE VACANT?

For Rent ads. inserted in the POST
iNTELLlGENCER are read each day
by thousands. Largest circulation.
Best results.
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THROW PHYSIC TO THE Dogs"
Electromagnetic Influence and It's
Effects on the Human System.

As the world advances in age and the
people become more enlightened. the old
schools OF medicine gradually give way tn
modern science. The God-given powers of
ele tricity and magnetism supplant the
drastic drugs of the pharmacopteia. The
"nostrums internal" are only kent for
human gargoyles. Among the most
prominent professors of the new curative
age are Drs. Darrln. Wondrous TO relate
they are especially successful in curing ali
nervous, chronic and privat. diseases
such as Loss of Manhood. Blood 1aints
Syphilis, elect, Gonorrhpa. Structure
Spermatorrhea, Seminal Weakness or loss
of desire of sexual power in man or
woman. All peculiar Female Troubles
Leucorrh9a. Displacement. etc. with Iittls
or no medicine. The certificates of eures
made by these celebrated physicians would
Mi vol uine. They embrace every disease
TO which humanity is exposed. The rem
edies are painless. almost pleasant and in
ialiible. Drs. Darrin are entitled to great
credit tor their almost miraculous dis
coVerles IN the art of ELECTROMAGNETIC
heailng. There IS no durable known
maiady that they cannot conquer, and will
under no circumstance take a case that
they cannot cure or benefit.
They have their offices in 1.-THE Nor.
mandy" corner Third and James streets
Seattle, Wash.
Office hours: 10 to daily; evening". :
to 5; Sundays, 10 to IL. Consultation il
confidential and free. Charges reasonable
Most cases can receive home treatment
after visit to the doctors office. In
CURES answered and circulars sent free.
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We have three pianos left which we will sell
al factory cost for cash. One steinway upright
new, one Pease upright new, one Gsbler up-
street wv -NA'
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Notions, ribbons, trimmings, worsted and
yarns. ali at reduced prices, at Iatour & 20. 8
closing out sale. w.
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All disorders caused By q bilious state n. the
system can De cured by using Carriers Little
Liver Pills No pains, gripping or discomfort ar
tending their use. Try them.
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large assortment of fine French ONYX. black
7o6 Front street -
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ACADEMY OF THE HOLY NAMES

SEATTLE. WASH.
ROARDlNG AND DAY school, FOR arprs
ibo, Eleventh. year begins August 81, 1891.
.n,nofoush instruction IN English Branches -
Music. tlocution, Languages Stenogrsnh1 80
iypeWriting For circulars, address anu
SISTER SUPERIOR
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THIEL'S DETECTIVE SERVICE

F1lIsAsQ ISg.l ..
eenefA receive Bus ness Transacted for Corp.
tAtlons and individuals
CHICAGo-Ssock EXCHANGE Rnildg,x
Lol $500 and 702 Olive street
EAW l0hk-S2 and 81 Nassau street
81: ~ L-9erInAn American Bank Ruu6tr~
DENVER-TAbor block ~ AAo'nS'
~ ruE ILAN nee, rooms 3s, 80, 40. IL. a.. A
81 - 1Aooe biock NJ G. SULLIVAN Mar
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Sew ana elaborate assortment OF pouye3i-
spoons 1t Albert Hansen's. 70s Front street
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NJ Seller & Co have Just received an eleya,.
hne OF Eaviland latest plain MarkeilIe. ch,na
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-22
DISTRICT COURT BRIEFS.

The divorce suit of II. Merina Zuhn
has been settled, and stricken from the
calendar.
Halleg, Atchison & Deloiselle have
sued Ella A. Hunt to collect $500 on an
open account.
Brooks Bros. have brought suits on
liens against Peter La Crosse for $274,
and A. ID. Aldrich for S177.
Richard j. Mendenhall has brought
an action against Jennette Hall to re-
cover $3.50 due for house rent.
Judge Smith mas filed his decision in
the action of E W. TraSk VS.. John era
ham, allowing the plaintiff $174.5S.
Harvey Kicker, the tea and co flee
dealer, has made an assignment to
George ID. Bartlett. brought about by
number of attachments issued during
the week.
Julia Alexander has brought an &C.
ton to quiet title to some lots in SOUTH
east Minneapolis which she holds under
a Menage deed. Joseph POtwin is the
defendant.
Judge Lochren granted divorces to
Anna Schotis from Nicholas Schotis,
and Lizzie Splan from Thomas Splan.
Both causes were given at length II.
the GLOBE of yesterday.
A. q. Wyman. Sweet w. Case and
Frank Morse have been appointed com
missio ners in the matter of the appeal
from the opening of Tenth and TWen-
ty-fifth avenue northeast.
County Commissioners Nash and
Dwyer inspected the stone work to the
Cedar avenue bridge and found the
work perfect. The bridge will be COM
pleted in the early summer.
A decision has been rendered in the
suit of Eliza U. Morris, as administrator
of the estate of George E. Morris, de-
ceased, against Joseph E. Thuring and
wife. The defe ndant is given $685. 40
out of the estate.
Judge CAVITY listened to an argument
between the lawyers for the city and
the Great Northern railroad in regard
TO the opening of Fifteenth avenue and
twenty-five avenue northeast. The
railroad appeals from the councils ac
tion claiming that the streets are I'M
necessary, and THAT the city has no right
to condemn the land.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-22

working man. Some little time ago ne
began to act queer, and was filed with
the impression that some unseen enemy
was trying to work him Off blythe prison
route. After eating meal fit of ter
ror would seize him. and he would be
taken with violent retchings and throw
it up. There was danger Of his starv-
Ing. He was sent to Rochester.
Pat AgneW was tall, red-noSed and
Jolly, and it was evident that a large
share of fifty years of the free use OF
whisky had been the cause OF his trou-
BILE. He was brought in from the cor
ner Of Tenth avenue south and Wash
ington, where he has been living for a
short time. He stated that he had come
from Brainerd on the trucks to pas
Senger tram, a style of travelling he was
particularly fond Of He told the judge
confidently that he had been. robbed of
s. in this wicked city, but bore no ole
any ill-will, for there was lots more
where that came from. After he had
been committed he bid all an affection
ate adieu, and took his six feet OF
anatomy ont of the court room.
Herman Smith who was examined
about month ago and released, was up
again, and completed the list. He is a
little insignificant looking German, and
has been going it rather lively for the
past few days. He has trouble with his
kidneys, and then imbiOed two much
religion, which set him completely oil
his base. He was sent to Rochester.
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SHARPS AND FLATS.

The symphony concert of the DAM
orchestra at Harmonic hall deserves a
large audience this afternoon. The
series thus far has proven exceptionally
pleasing and to-day'S programme is a
gem:
March-''National Fencibles'' Sousa
Overture king for Day.. Delibes
Concerto for Oboe .......................V ogo
Solo by Mons b. DeYauX.
Serenade dedicated to F. DAM Jr.) .Thiele
String Orchestra.
"Aubade Prirtaniere'' ...........La comb
Decentralization Tell ............ RoSSinl
The benefit to Fred Richter at Nor
mamma hall last evening rendered by
Thyle's band and orchestra attracted
fair-sized audience. and pleasant pro-
gramme was rendered. Mr.. Richter
PLAYED violin solo, ErnStS "Elegie,"
and was heartily applauded.
The benefit concert to Miss Bessie
Keller at the Park Avenue church
Monday evening, promises to be unus-
ually interesting. Miss Keller Will be
heard in two numbers, and there will
be fine numbers from prominent local
musicians.
MINNEAPOLIS Chapter No. 9, o. E. s.,
will give an entertainment consisting
of vocal and instrumental music, dram
attic reading, etc, on Monday evening,
Feb. %, att o'clock at the rooms of
Zion Commandery, Masonic Temple.
All Masons. their families and friends
are cordially invited. There are no
charges for admission.
A benefit concert will be given at
Hamline university next Monday even
ing by f. w. Merriam, the proceeds to
ne devoted m the HamliDe Methodist
Sunday school. The programme in
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-22
LATE SOCIAL.

On Monday last Mrs. w. II. Nudd, of
529 Second avenue southeast, gave a
progressive euchre party for her son,
the occasion being his twenty-frst
birthday. Among those present were ::
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Hartley; Mr.. and
Mrs. o. p. Taylor, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Rotekka, Mr., and Mrs.
Burt Mead, Mrs. Helene Shepherd,
Misses Grace Smith, Myrtle Childs,
Minnie Rollins, Nellie Armstrong,
Hattie Shepherd, Nellie Herman. Tom
Goodwin and Messrs. DAT Dickinson,
Charles Caldwell, Roy Squires. Viii
Dickinson, Henry Nudd, Oscar Carlson,
Ed Kingsley, Jay Kingsley and Fuller
Nudd.
A cordial invitation is extended to all
Select Knights, brothers aud friends to
be present OH the Esd inst. at Morgan
Post hall, lis Hennepin avenue.
The Sisters of Peace will give their
first annual ball at Harmonic hall on
the evening of March l.