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NOT TEN THOUSAND.

A late Washington City telegram states
that the secretary of the treasury has re-
ceived from South Carolina town
request for assistance from the govern
ment in sending a colony of negroes TO
Africa. The person making the request
states that there are 10000 negroes in his
section of South Carolina who are anxious
to go TO Africa and are only awaiting
assistance from the federal government to
enable them to do so.
IL is safe to say that the correspondent
of the secretary of the treasury is drawing
upon his imagination. The ten thousand
negroes anxious to emigrate to Africa
would probably shrink to half dozen, if
the truth were known. There are prob
ably not in all the United States
today ten thousand, or five thou
sand, or even one thousand negroes
who would consent to go TO
Africa if their going implied permanent
residence there. There are doubtless MANY
who would so for the sport and adventure
of the trip, but, with few exceptions, they
would do so expecting TO come back at the
earliest opportunity.
The idea of sending to Africa any con-
siderable part of the negroes of the United
States is as cruel rs it is absurd. Professor
Bryce, in his recent article on the race
problem in the North american Revietc. de-
nounces it as impractical from every point
of view and rs not to be thought
of for minute. AS well might some
srack-brained enthusiast undertake TO per-
suade all Caucasians to return to the
tableland of Iran, the cradle of their race.
The Himalayan highlands are IS much
the home Of the Caucasian as Africa is Of
the American negro.
The negro is here TO stay. He does not
want 10 return 20 Africa. and We do no,
want him to DO so. Even the Southern
Bourbon. who does not ike to have tie
negro vote, likes 10 have him work, and
would protest most vigorously if anything
in the nature of general exodus were to
take place. The way TO deal with the
race question is to treat the negro as a
fellow-man and fellow citizen.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-13
NORTHWEST NEWS.

Rev. A. A. William has resigned the passionate
of the South Bend Baptist church, anu viii &C
cept call to an Oregon church.
Pensions have been granted to the following
persons in Washington: Original. Alexander
Cockrell, Joseph NJ Gale, Ephraim d. Edwards;
additional, William II. Smith; reissue, Oziss D.
Mcdonald.
Sturgeon fishermen are strung along the Co
lumbia all the way from Fort Candy TO the Cas-
cades. and all are doing fairly well. They report
fresh run of sturgeon in the river which are in
fine condition and have bright black markings.
After they have been in the fresh water awhile
they become of gray color. 1t used to be
thought that the sturgeon stayed in the river all
the time, but since catching them for shipment
East fishermen have found that there are many
"runs' of these fish coming in from the ocean
during the year to spawn. The principal spawn
ing season is in March and April, but some stur-
geon are spawning at all seasons OF the year.
Portland Oregonldn
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ments is conceded by all intelligent and
rational men as freely as their abuse and
perversion to base uses is denounced and
depiored. Did any sane man ever look at
Powers "Greek Slave" and think it evil
art, or confound it with the obscene or
immoral in art whether nude or draped?
Shall the painter drop his brush and the
sculptor his chisel because it is possible to
prevent art to base ends? Shall we stop
writing poetry because it is easy to write
indecent verse? Is there any good thing
that has not in life its evil and indecent
counterpart Even virtue itself when
simulated becomes that repulsive
vice hypocrisy. and piety becomes sancti-
moniousness.
To denounce gambling as vice, and
gamblers as curse to society is coherent,
but to denounce all card players because
some card players become gamblers is as
absurd as it would be to denounce all
athletes because some athletes become
prizefghters; or to denounce all money
making and all money makers because
some men make money by systematic
fraud and rascality, and use money for
very base purposes. The man who plays
cards for recreation is no more likely to
become gambler than clergyman who
seeks recreation in trouting is likely to
tell lies about his success because many
men always lie about their luck. There
are more moral, well-behaved people in
America than there ever were before in our
history, but they are risen to level of re-
ligious tolerance and humanity that is
clear above the plane of the Puritans of
the pulpit, whose silly passion see ms to
be-
"To linger round the sunken wrecks,
Where old Armadas found their graves
The world has moved, is moving, and
the evangelists of this abortive Puritan
renaissance might as we'll try to halt the
earth in its course around the sun as to
arrest the respectful attention of the
American people by their effort to revive
the New England theocracy of century
ago. All that was worthy of survival has
survived the Puritan and is part of the
moral and social fiber Of the state today,
Dut lAcu nave no use lOF ZIG uluSty
cerements of Puritan bigotry, aus
terity, inhumanity, narrowness and
injustice, with its prescription of
music, dancing, fiction, art and the
drama. Surely there is better work and
enough of it for their hands and their
sweet voices in the shape of cease
less efforts to make the ignorant
wiser, and, therefore, less wretched;
to comfort the sick and afflicted to spread
sunlight rather than to blacken the skies
for us all and make all life dies ira as
it was to every innocent child in good old
colony times.
The people like peace, order and moral
decency, but they are not ready to sur
render their practice of innocent recrea-
ton for this ugly renaissance of obsolete
and obsolescent Puritanism, with its silly
babble and clamor over non-essentials
exalted above essentials-upright and
downright everyday Christian life and
conduct. There is work enough waiting
for helping hands in every community
without wasting moral and intellectual
energy in voicing medieval nonsense and
trying to make the buried dust of Puritan
bigotry and asceticism rematerialize.
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went to Charleston as correspondent of
the New York Times after South Carolina
was fired upon. He was for several years
brilliant writer upon the New York
World, and he is the author of Reciprocity
and Canada" in the October number of
the North american Rerietr. He has been
foreign correspondent of the New York
World; has done vast deal of brilliant
and valuable literary work for the maya
zines and newspapers during the last
twenty-five years. In his early life he
was for short time clergyman.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-13
THE PURITAN RENAISSANCE.

There seems to be sort of Puritan re-
! Nuisance at present in certain spots
throughout the land. There are people
who denounce Sunday newspapers with
out discrimination; object to Sunday
trains under all circumstances, and think
the world is going to the devil because di-
vorces are granted on other grounds than
adultery. Dancing, whether decent or in
decent; whether within the family or in
the public ballet, is described as un.
christian; all nude art, whether pure or
impure in intent and expression, is stig-
matized as immoral; the use of cards at
the whist table as recreation is con-
founded with the abuse and perversion of
cards at the gambling table, and is held
responsible for that vice, which is about
as absurd as it would be to hold a clergy
man who owned and liked to drive fast
horse responsible for gambling on the
turf, or horse owner and trader responsi-
bic for the knavery of horse jockey.
All this holding the decent use of a
good thing responsible for the indecent
abuse of it is threshing old straw TO evil
purpose. In the meanwhile all this edu-
Gated, intellectual and moral energy that
might be directed to some great and
humane purpose is worse than wasted.
for Its makes society and churches and
pulpiteers repulsive to thousands of peo-
pie who are neither irreverent nor i'm
moral, but are thoroughly disguised with
this misdirected enthusiasm for nom
essentials, to the increasing neglect of the
essentials of Christian life and conduct
Do We think less OF Washington and his
wife because he and his wife danced
decently both in public and private.
do we think less Of the Lutheran
clergy of Germany and Switzerland
because they play cards for recreation with
thei neighbors after dinner, while their
daughters dance on the lawn, as Professor
Agassiz said was the practice in his native
village2 Do we think less of laborious
men in all chimes and times who sought
recreation from labor in various wavsp
The great Cardinal Newman, as pure and
sanity and laborious q scholar as ever
lived, played TO his friends on his violin.
as did President Jefferson. The great
scientific student, Darwin, when he
dropped his labors. had his wife read a
novel TO him; the great scholar and Ia
horious lawyer. Caleb Cushing, ALWAYS
turned TO novel for recreation. Buckle.
the author Of the History of Civilization
In Europe" after dinner played chess or
whist. The late Richard Proctor, the as
tronomer, found in whist his refreshment
after severe study.
There is not man on either side of the
water eminent for public and private viz
the, for intellectual industry and labor,
that does not at times turn to fiction.
chess or whist for recreation from severe
study and intense mental application.
) The beneticent use Of innocent amuses
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distinguished himself as brave and efficient
ofdcer, and rendered verv material service
to the Greeks by securing the donation
of several vessels laden with provisions and
clothing by the citizens of this country for the
benefit of the destitute people of Greece. The
colonel learning the history of the orphan boy,
concluded to adopt him, and when he returned
TO this country settled in Montpelier, VT Lucas
attended the schools of the town until he was
10. At the age OF q he took out naturalization
papers, was admitted to the bar. and soon after
moved TO the territory of Wisconsin. settled in
Oshkosh in ls4s. and engaged in farming. Dur
ing the Mexican war he was appointed colonel
by Governor Dodge In 1858 he was member
OF the Wisconsin legislature At the time he
was nominated for congress he was In Vermont,
and did not hear of the nomination until the
day after the convention adjourned. Had he
been at home he would not have accepted the
nomination. He remained in Vermont until
two weeks before his election. on his return
home he informed the people of his district
that he had been nomina,e ed contrary to his
wishes: II elected he proposed to attend 10 their
interests, and ii not elected he proposed to at
tend TO his own business. He was elected.
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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 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
except the following, who are the only
authorized travelling agents of the PosT-
INTELMGEscER, viz: J. A. Mcclellan. L.
G. Branson, T. A. Davies and J. Fl. VIII
lett. 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 PosT-ISTELLIeEScER
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William Henry Hurlbut, whose extradi-
ton on charge OF perjury has been de-
manded by Great Britain, is native of
South Carolina, and was brother of the
late General stephen A. Hurlbut, of Ill.-
nois. gallant soldier who was made min
lister to Peru, where he died in ISL VIII.
lam III. Huribut was in the service Of the
New York Iisses in 1859 when the italian
var was raging, and was the author Of the
phrase 1.-THE elbows OF the Mineio." lie
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AFTER THE BATTLE.

Sing banners and cannon and roll of drum!
The shouting OF men and the marshalingl
Lol cannon to cannon and earth struck dumb!
Oh, battle, in song, is q glorious thing!
Oh, glorious day riding down to the ightl
Oh, glorious battle in story and song!
Oh, godlike man 10 die for the right
Oh. manlike God to revenge the wrongl
Yea, riding to battle, on battle day
Why a soldier is something more than king
But after the battle? The riding away?
All, the riding away is another thing!
JOAQUIN Muller.
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Seattle Invites tho Editors.

New York Times, Dec. 4.
At Cincinnati yesterday officers of the National
Editorial Association called meeting there for
January 20 to fix the time and place for their
next convention California, Seattle, New Or
leans, Atlantic City, Ashville, n. c., Winnipeg
and Roanoke, Wis, are after it.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-13
The Formulation OF l.

The Population of Louisiana.
The population of Louisiana In 1890 was !, u.s.
$751; Only one city in the state is larger than
Orleans-with q population of
24l .OSa inhabitants
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-05
ElGES AND CASUALTIES.
john SLITER's house at Grand Rapid
Mich, burned Saturd; V, Loss 81. 500.

john SLITER's house at Grand Rapids
Mich, burned Saturd; y. Loss Sl,50J.
The E. c. Walbridge & Co. hardware
store at Buffalo burned Sunday. Loss
100000.
A sKIFF containing four persons upset al
Conveys ford Friday evening. John
Metcalf and Mrs. Matters were drowned.
THE Northern Pacific paint shop at
bralnerd, MIMI, was burned Monday
Loss, $4,000.
lT has been learned that the duk, of
Bedford, whose death was recently an
nounced, committed suicide.
McLAcHLAN Bros, dry-good dealers
of Montreal, failed Wednesday, with
Liabilities of 81 100000.
OVER 100 miners were killed by an ex-
plosion of fire damp in a Pennsylvania
mine.
THE Chaplin mine at Iron Mountain.
al miners have met death below.
LIEUT.. SCHwATKA of artic exploration
fame was seriously injured at Mason City,
Iowa, by falling down stairway.
Two persons were burned to death by
the destruction of the central lodging
house at San Jose, Cal.
Elk CONGRESSMAN H. w. LORD was
killed and eight others injured in col
lision on the Northern Pacific road near
Butte, Mont.
THE oatmeal mill and elevator belong
ing to E. NJ. johnson, of Minneapolis,
burned Wednesday night. The loss on
the buildings is 100000 and SO, 900 bushels
of grain were lost.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred in the
ii. &. Frlcks company mine, nine miles
from Mount Pleasant. Pa, Tuesday morn
ing. About eighty men were at work in
the mine at the time and is is feared that
nearly all were killed. Eighteen bodies
have already been taken out
L. S. PARKS. president of the Auburn
ILL.,, bank, was run over and killed 10y an
Alton train Wednesday.
THE cold-stCrage warehouses of the
Western Refligerating Company in Chi
cago was destroyed by fire Wednesday
night. The loss is estimated at about
S3U0.000
The temporary exhibition hall of the
Western Art association at Omaha fell on
the 2Sth, destroying many fine pictures.
including Bouguerau Return of
Spring va!ued at $4,000.
The body of John Belcher, a lab0rer,
was brought TO Jaegers morgue at noon
Wednesday from Corwith. Iii. Becher was
killed at the village in the morning by be-
ing run over by Sante Fe train.
The Chesapeake and Ohio vestibule train
No. 4. east bound. was wrecked at Wini
fred, w. Va. Monday night An OBJ
struction had been placed in the frog of
the switch. overturning the engine The
train afterwards caught fire and burned.
Engineer Edwards and Fireman Cundiff
were >eriou-ly injured None of the pas
sengers were hurt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-05

of two bracelets th.t formerly belonged to
the Inflated Marie Antoinette, the rarest
and most valuable of all gems, and NAV
easily be estimated to be worth five times
more than a diamond of equal size and
quality. In Bnrmah is the great ruby
mines, and the finding of stone of special
size and value was formerly the occasion of
great rejoicings. One of the finest rubies
known to exist in the United States is
owned by Mrs. Haggin of California, and
1T is said to be the famous stone the king of
Bavaria gave to Lola MONTE. 1t is valued
at $4,000.
Mrs. Mackay has large collection of
very valuable jewels. She owns a sap
phlre that is hawless, about half an inch
IN diameter. She bought it of a Russian
prince, and is said to have paid s195. 900
[or it. She is said to have possessed the
finest emerald that is known to exist. and
a pair of solitaire diamond earrings of
immense value.
Mrs. Pierpont Morgan's necklace of big
diamonds, with pearl pendants. is famous,
and so is Mrs. Farish's diamond necklace.
that contains some very large stones.
Mrs James A. Burden has necklace of
diamonds and pearls, Mrs. Whitney one
of diamonds and sapphires, and Mrs.
Arthur Paget one of diamonds and emer-
alds
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-05
CABLE FLASH rs.

THE italian budget shows a deficit OF
60,OO0,000 francs.
IT is estimated that the recent Scottish
strike cost over S3,UO0,000.
IT is reported that Abdurhman Khan,
ameer of Afghanistan, is dead.
SEVERAL persons were killed by the fall
ing of an old unused convent in Rome.
FRIMo BAKARI, The sultan of Vltu, is
dead; his younger brother will succeed
Kim.
AN avalanche at Albanian, Greece, killed
twenty-five persons and destroyed eighty
houses,
CHINESE advices tell of the burning of
the steamer Shanghi on the river Yangtse
by which 800 Chinese lost their lives.
THE British authorities are greatly ex-
cited over the discovery of an alleged Fen
ian dynamite plot, which is said to have
been Matched in Philadelphia and Kansas
City.
SARDoU's new play. "Thermidore, -
has been suppressed by the French minis
try. The announcement caused riot in
Theatre Francois Tuesday night and the
audience had to be dismissed
IT is stated in Paris that the sentence
of death by the guilotine passed upon the
murderer, Michael Eyraud, has been COM
nuted to Imprisonment for life.
PARIS Figaro denies that the murderer
EyraLd has been reprieved and states
that the authorities have declined to in
terfere with the carrying out Of the death
sentence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-05
THE LATEST KILOGRAMS.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

NATURAL gas, in large quantities, has
been found near Jefferson, Iowa.
PROF. WILLIAM GAY BALLANTINE has
been elected president of Oberlln college.
THE National Farmers Alliance conven-
ton at Omaha selected Chicago as the next
place of meeting.
The Pennington air ship model had
secret trial trip Wednesday night and
worked satisfactorily.
FROM II to IS inches of snow fell in the
northern part of the state. The loggers
are jubiIlant.
The Monitor manufacturing works at
Aurora, ILL.,, is in the hands of the sheriff.
JESSE STREET, a 12-year-old boy of Sey-
mour, Ind, has been asleep for several
weeks.
MILITARY control of South Dakota has
passed from the hands of Brighten. Ruger
to Gen. Brooke.
THE Bell Telephone company have voted
to add 50, 100000 TO their capital stock
making total of SIS 100000
GEN. MILES and staff have left Pine
Ridge for Chicago, leving Col. Shafter to
to continue the work of disarming the
Indians.
FOURTEEN masons at SPRINGFIELD. Ohio,
have followed the example of their Chicago
brethren and contributed pieces of skin
from their arms to cover a sore on a
brother mas IN s leg.
JUDGE W. A. PETER has been nomin-
ated for United States senator by the
farmers alliance members of the Kansas
| legislature in opposition to Senator
| Ingalls,.
KNIGHTS of Labor coke-workers in the
Connellsville, Pa, district threaten gen.
eral strike on Feb. TO-
THE federal grand jury at Keokuk, Ia,
has returned four indictments against
Banker Horner, recently arrested in New
York city for violating the anti-lottcry
act
New YORK was swept Sunday night by
storm that stopped traffic of all kinds,
blew down trees and telegraph poles. The
storm extended to New Jersey, Boston,
and eastern Pennsy ivania.
The Chicago post office clerks have de-
clared in favor of the national convention
of their association being held in Wash
ington, February 10.
THE Consolidated Mutual fire insurance
company, of Chicago, made an assignment
Saturday. The assets are So, 20594, and
the liabilities 100000.
THE bill to abolish bucket shops was re-
ported for passage In the Nebraska house
Saturday. Penalty for violation of the law
is fixed at $500 for the first offence and
$500 for the second.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-05
THE NATIONAL CAPITA.

APPROPRIATIONS aggregating $50, 000,.
600 were recommended by the sub-com-
mittee
Spain has accepted the proposal of tn c
United States government for the negotia-
ton 9t Washington of a reciprocity treaty
relating to American trade with Cuba.
SENATOR MITCHELL introduced bill to
incorpora the Pacific Cable company,
S., 000,0 O0, to operate between San Fran
CISCO Hawaii, Panama, Samoa and Japan.
The majority of the directors must be
citizens of the United States.
TIE President made the following nom
nations Thursday: Postmasters-Harry
B. Marsh, Horizon; Frank A. Larson,
TomahaWk.
SENATOR SToCKBRIDGE Thursday IN
troduced bill appropriating $50, 900 for
the erection Of d public building at Ionia,
Mich.
A DELEGATION of Sioux chiefs and
head men arrived on the 29th, under the
escort of Special Agent Lewis. No def
mite arrangements for their conference
with the secretary Of the interior has yet
been made.
ORDERS have been issued by the Navy
VIC pd1 lultllU W put IIC OuilCu SldiSo
steamship Swctara out of commission at
the Mare Island Navy Yard. All her of
fcers have been detached
IT is rumored that there will soon be
laid before the senate reciprocity treaties
with several South American countries,
and possibly Spain and Mexico. It is
known that egotiatiations in that direc-
ton have been quietly in progress for some
time, and there is reason to believe the re-
port is we'll founded.
The senate committee on commerce
Thursday agreed to report favorably with
out amendment the house bill giving an
incorporated company the authority to
construct tunnel under the waters of
New York bay from Staten Island to a
point on Long Island. The committee
also ordered favorable reports on the SEN
ate bill 10 allow American citizens residing
abroad to register their vessels under
American flags and the senate bill making
Des Moines, Ia, port of delivery.