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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-31

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Bite the End of Your Cigar.

DR.. Ferd Wilson and friend went
into Broadway cigar store the other
day. The friend selected a dark
Havana, put one end between his lips,
rolled it bit to moisten it, then put the
tip in the metal cutter on the counter
and clipped it off. He then placed the
clipped end in his mouth and drew in
once or twice before lighting. He
coughed several times as he lighted the
weed. Pardon me-" said the doctor,
"you should never do it that way.
Here is the method" The doctor
picked up another cigar, bit the end off
with his teeth, placed the other end in
his mouth and blew smartIy once on
twice and then leisurely lighted it.
"You notice." said the doctor, Il did
not cough. You did. The philosophy
of it is shis: when the end of a cigar
is bitten off it brushes small portion
of the tobacco into powder. If you
put the end Immediately into your
mouth and inhale, the small particles
are almost certain to lodge somewhere
in the throat and cause irritation.
tonsils happen to be in the right direc-
GlOu lOr IL, case VI DEOuCu1CIS OF worse
may compel you to call me in. Inever
use the clipper that is used by the
frequenters of a cigar store. The ma
jority of the men moisten the tip of a
cigar, as you did, before cutting it.
Now you never know the condition
of the man who preceded you. Some
of the moisture from his lips remains
on the cutter, and your cigar may take
on portion of it.
"Some years ago young man came
to me with cancer of the lip, contract
ed as near as could trace in the way
I have described. He had had chapped
lips at the time, and the poison got
into his blood through break in his
skin. It was particularly distressing
affair. The young fellow was per-
sonal friend of mine, and was engaged
to be married knew his habits and
conduct to be above reproach, but he
was extremely sensitive. He broke off
his engagement and went West, al
though his prospects here were excel
lent. could only commend his course,
for disease had become fastened in his
system. piGied him from the bottom
of my heart. So don't use the cigar
clipper that others use" -NelO York
Recorder.
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Authors Who Write Too Much.

This idea of keeping before the
public" is good one. in the main,
writes Edward w. Box in the Ladies'
Home Journal, but it must be done
judiciously and by good work. Just
here is where nine authors in every ten
fail. They think their quality is good,
but unconsciously it has become guam
tity instead. Unwittingly, they are
training their public, whose eye they
caught with some early or striking
piece of work, to be perfectly ready to
drop them the moment new star APP
pears upon the literary horizon. Few
authors of recent date made so pro-
nounced and instantaneous success as
Rudyard Kipling, but the public
hardly had time to catch it's breath
after his first story, than along came
second story, third, and so it has
gone on until six of his books are now
on the market, and series of injurious
newspaper articles in addition-a all
within one year. The result is that
the best judges agree that Kipling is
OVERRIDING it. ooh, we are having too
much of Kip1ing," is the general opin-
ion. In consequence, the sales of his
books are dropping off, and the name
of Rudyard Kipling is losing its magic.
The simple fact is, that the great Cos
pei of moderation applies to literature
as it does to everything else. And,
looking at it fronB financial stand
point, this moderation pays. A good
author who writes only one story in a
year, ofttimes receives more for that
single piece of work than does he who
writes five or six novels during the
same period. No matter how clever
an author may be, how well he writes,
he cannot afford to overfeed his public.
The literary public likes it's daintiest
desserts in small doses, and then, as In
everything else, there is created an
appetite for more.
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sung to the editors corps as they set
up the loud-sounding circus "ad" and
the list of delinquent taxpayers, while
he dashes off a stirring editorial on
the Farmers Alliance. All day long,
as the devil rests himself about the
office, he can hear the robins calling to
each other, the wild doves plaintive
cooling and the wren's fitful complain
ing. At regular intervals come the
Bob White! Bob White !" of the quail
in the fields afar off, and the lowing of
COWS over by the river, where the devil
wishes he we're in swimming.
Little children on the way to school
peep in and see the great Washington
hand-press and the office towel, and
gaze in awe at the editor, whose genial
face is hidden behind one of his ex-
changes. He is business manager,
publisher, editor-in-chief, managing
and news editor, city editor, sporting
and dramatic editor, religious and
financial editor, reporter and collector
rolled into one alert and able body,
and, TO judge from his photograph, he
is getting fat at it, too.
Out there in the woods, in this little
white house, running a paper means
just as much as it does in the metrop-
oils. Step indoors and look around.
The managing editors department is
divided off from the business office by
an imaginary line running due north.
Here Mr.. Deacon meets the advance
agent and the drummer for the
paper and ink house, and then step
ping over to the editorial rooms he
confers with the local candidate and
the Secretary of the State Fair, and
then he retires to his sanctum, and,
barring his arms to the elbows, molds
public opinion into an aesthetic thing
of beauty and a JOY forever. The
woods are convenient, too. Mr.. Dea-
con from the front window of the cash
ier's room can see "Fiat Justitia, " Old
Subscriber" "Pro Bono Publico" and
Constant Reader" approaching, and
taking his gun he goes out of the rear
door of the mailing department and
has few hours hunting grounding,
and varies the sport by calling upon
some tardy subscribers and touching
them for their last three years sub
scriptions, perhaps gathering some i'm
portant news items at the same time.
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at night to point of safety, with load
of from three hundred to four hundred
negroes or poor whites gathered during
the day. The scenes of joy which took
place at these points of refuge as some
poor woodchopper's wife found the hus-
band, whom she supposed dead, waiting
for her in safety, are as impossible to
adequately picture as were the scenes of
grief and despair when the last hope of
finding wife, husband, parent, or child
was finally swept from one and another
OF the destitute and heartbroken com
panies of the rescued
What must have been the loss of life
and property in the awful flood of 1882,
when that of tina preceding year left
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parents or rescuers. There was no
group or boat that did not show scene
of touching pathos. But not all the
scenes of even that terrible night were
pathetic. There were many incidents
which, at least now, seem wonderfully
ludicrous. Hdrper's Weekly is authority
for the statement that one old darky
woman was found hugging a pet rab bit
to her bosom.
The old saying that at never rains
but it pOurS" was never more Strikingly
and literally verified than when this flood
was followed, a year later, by still
greater one PittSburg lost three million
dollars worth of property by this flood,
and Portsmouth Marietta, Gallipolis,
Pomeroy, Hamer, Lawrenceburg, Gin
cinnati, and other towns, suffered in
proportion. At Portsmouth $4,000 peo-
camp upon the hills.
A most striking scene at this place
was the burning, to the waters edge, Of
six buildings. To record the deeds OF
heroism performed by the men who
risked their lives again and again to
save helpless men women and children,
and to picture the divine fortitude and
endurance of mothers in caring for their
CAllAuI cn dIiO his plIlIlS Vic u6dIOS VI UOOn
helpers and helpless with courage and
hope, is beyond the limits of this brief
sketch, but would constitute a most
thrilling and patoetic chapter in the his
tory of our national disasters.
But these floods brought to light
the despicable as we'll as he
heroic elements of human nature.
The cruel and villainous depredations of
the "river pirates," preying, like vul-
lures, on the helpless and ruined, would
put to shame an ancient buccaneer.
Many of the most exciting scenes in the
floods were the chaseS after these des-
perate marauderS. When the river DO
lice were once sure that they were in the
wake OF river pirates they did hesitate
to fire, with surest aim, the moment they
came within range
One of the most serious losses to the
country along the line of the Ohio floods
is the loss Of the "cream" of it's rich,
fertile soil which is carried to the Missis-
Sippi at each overflow.
The two great floods of 1883 and "a
resulted in the practical prostration of
business throughout the States touched
by them, as well as in the general de-
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them rather than by their force Gnd
height. They usually begin early in the
spring and continue until the latter part
of July.
1t is quite general impression that
the portion of the Mississippi subject to
floods is protected by uniform and
almost impregnable system of dikes or
levees. That is far from the actual
fact. The system" of bikes is anything
but Uniform and anything but impreg-
nable. In fact, the various leVees do
not constitute a system at all, but Sc
ries of separate attempts by the National
Government, the several States and pri-
vate individuals to keep back the mighty
waters in times Of ordinary overflow.
Comparatively few of these bikes, accord
ing to experience and the statements of
the best engineering authorities, are
adequate protection against eXtraOrdin-
arily high water.
During the terrible overflow of 1882
the greatest since the floods of 1864 and
1874-the valley, from the mouth of the
Ohio River to Vicksburg, was an i'm
mense inland sea, dotted here and there
by small points of land, the highest, Of
course, in the country, on which the
strong cotton "gin" houses were generally
located, with view to serving as places
of refuge in times of extreme high
water.
In these "gin" houses would be hud-
died together the wealthy planters, their
families, their negro servants and the
poor whites of the community, living in
simplicity and fraternity, waiting for
the arrival of the steamer that should
respond to their beacon-fre and come to
relieve their distress. The loss of life and
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1000. in Kansas alone destitute and
homeless. From the meager statistics
OF 1882 | find that the overflow brought
10000 people of Arkansas into pitiable
restitution. Whole communities camped
in the rudeSt fashion The scantiest
shelter was welcome, and the families
fortunate enough to crowd into idle
freight cars were considered uncom-
monty fortunate The breaking of the
immense levee at Bolivar. Miss, was,
perhaps, the most striking single cpl
sode in the flood, as the break was the
largest that has ever been made in the
levee. The spectacle of it's "going out"
was grand and terrific beyond descrip-
tion.
AS scarcely year has passed without
one or more disastrous overflows of the
Great Father of Waters, it is obviously
impossible to even allude to them in this
short article.
So far as devising a remedy against
these terrible, inevitable and frequent
disasters, the engineering science of to-
day confesses itself unable to even sug-
gest anything worthy of confidence with
in the limits of practicable cost.
The best authorities seem to regard
the building of storage reservoirs along
the Upper Ohio, to catch the surplus
waters and hold them in reserve until
the dry season, when needed to swell
the river to navigable depth, as the only
practicable thing. n. S. Shaler esti-
mates that 1000 reservoirs, covering a
surface of fifty acres, capable of holding
IAN average depth of ten feet of water,
would cost $40, 900, 900. He seems to be
of the opinion that that is the least out
lay that would be of any practicable
service. FORREST CRIssEY.
GENEVA TIL
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and shoes were distributed. The city
on the Ohio whose loss came next to
Cincinnati is Jeffersonville, Ind, which
sustained damages amounting to nearly
one million dollars, causing the ruin of
majority of her business men, and
placing over five thousand of her people
in want. New Albany's loss is stated at
$4,000; Madison, 5000, 900; Aurora,
$15O,OOO; Lawrenceburg, S435, 900. The
intervening hamlets and country lost
$1,000 making total of So, 74O, 900 in
the places just named In this stretch
of river country $4,000 people were rem
dered homeless and dependent upon
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property occasioned by such far-reach-
ing overflow of the Mississippi is almost
beyond computation, because the sufferers
are so isolated from each other, scat
tered through the depths of the great
forests that line the valley, that they
are out of reach of the rescuing parties
and die unknown. It is said that the
relief steamers which went up the prin-
cipal tributaries of the Mississippi dur
ing the flood of 1882 would each return
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-05-14
SMALLEST NEWSPAPER OFFICE.

Perhaps the smallest newspaper
Office in the world, says writer in the
New York World, is that of the NelU
Era, situated up in Minnesota.
The house is in the midst of woods.
Birds come in springtime and build
nests about it, and their mathis are
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VERY year that
passes, as this year
has so far done,
without brin g ing
Wholesale devasta-
ton along the en-
tire course of the
Mississippi, fro m
Cairo to New Or
leans, is cause for
universal thanks
giving. This sea-
son the only i'm
portant break, some
200 feet in width,
was in the levee OPP
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The most tragic scenes of this flood
happened at Louisville, where the river
embankment broke at midnight and
deluged the sleeping city. Most of the
people aroused in time to flee to high
ground; but about fifty of these 5000
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AWFUL OVERFLOWS.
TERRIBLE DEVASTATION BY
RIVER FLOODS.

The Ohio and Mississippi Mighty Monsters
of structiOn-PeriOdicaI OverfOws In
acknowledgement Skill of No Avail
A Short History of Past Floods.
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The burning of five stores at Van
dalia, ILL.,, made just four lines in
print, but when Peter Jackson stopped
what he said about challenging John
l.. Sullivan. It may be in the climate,
or the people may demand such news.
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preston of manufacture and trade in
such States as supplied that territory
The floods of the Mississippi are char
acterized by the length of their duration
and the extent of territory covered by
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In Greece, Scion was the first who
pronounced funeral Grafton, according
to Herodotus, $50 3. C. The Romans
pronounced harangueS over their illus
trious dead. Theopompus obtained
prize fGs the best funeral grafton in
praise Of Mausolus, $50 3. C.
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public charity. The Legislatures of
Ohio and Indiana appropriated 100000
for the relief of the sufferers, and
steamer was provided to dispense neces-
saries to the various towns.
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midnight fugitives were swallowed up
by the fierce flood. Those who were too
late to wade made their escape in boats,
or on RATS, housetops, and floating de-
bris of every kind. Little children were
found, in their night clothes, hugging
favorite pets or playthings in their tiny
arms, while clinging in terror to their
Telegram-herald., 1891-02-10
MAKE NO ERROR !

IfyOu have made up your
mind that YOU need medical
assistance, employ only the
best. Go at once to DIR. S.
CLAY TODD. 43 MOnrOe-st.
Room 4, Grand Rapids,
Mich. He will save you
much expense and loss Of
time. DIR. TOdd's hospital
and other experience in
foreign countries, together
with his purely Vegetable
and harmless remedies, inn
ported directly from those
countries, and 2j years
special practice in the
largest cities in the United
States, renders him pecul-
iarly fitted for the work of
curing apparently hopeless
eases. DR.. Todd is in his
office from 9 in the morning
to 2 at night. Every day
but Sunday.
Telegram-herald., 1891-02-10
Speciuen Cnse-

(. II. Clifford. New Castle, Wis, was
troubled with neuralgia and rheumatism
his stomach was disordercd. his Liver
was affected 10 az alarming degree, APP
petite fell away, and he was terribly
reduced IN flesh and strength. Three
bottles of Electric Bitters cured hlm
Edward Shepherd, Harrlsburgh, H..
bad a running sore on his leg of elght
years standing. Used three bottles OF
Electric bltters and seven boxes of Arm
lea Salve, and his leg IS sound and well.
John Speaker, Catswhs, O, had five
large fever sores on his leg; doctors
said he was Incuraie. One bottle OF
Electric Bitters and one box Bucklen's 8
ATnica Salye cured him entirely.
Sold hy Peck Bros.
Telegram-herald., 1891-02-10

CATAERH.-Th's dreadful disease.
only a slight congestion of the mucous
membrane of the nose at first, increases
with each cold until ii spreads through
out the whole mucous system. affecting
the throat, ears, bronchial tubes, stou-
ach, etc, causing deafness, lung DIS
cases, dyspepsia and many other DIS
tressing and dangerous complaints. A
full account of your present condition
and the treatment you require, VIII be
given you free OF charge hy Dr. s. clay
| Todd, 53 Monroe-st-, Room 4, Grand
Rapids, Mich.
tatarrh. deafness, rheumatism. ner-
vous debility, impotence and al ois-
eases resulting from osrlv indiscretons
and eKcesses of manhood, al diseases OF
the urinary organs, partial paTaiygs.
vaTicOcelle. ruptures, tumorS. scrofuls.
old sores, dropsy, skin diseases, liver
and kidney complaints. heart diseases.
shortncss of breath, back OF basn
small of back, etc. including ali female
complaints aud chrome disoases cured
quickly and permanently.
III you are nervous, restless. irritable,
slcepless or wake after horrld dreams,
tired mornIngs, with = dull headache,
bad taste IN the mouth, sometimes dis-
charges, and 90 about your employ
mcnt without life, energy and ambition.
desire 20 he alone, gloomy forebooings.
disposition 20 worry and fret shout
trouble ahead that never comes. spells
of feeling AFRAID or unoerfsiD. sonns.
times low spirits, you sre suferinr from
nervous debility and exhaustion ~
nerve power. which NAV end IA utter
rrostration, INSANITY and death.
- -.
and woarsness. with tired lirDh~, numb
mess, trembling, prIckiy sensations. cold
feet and legs, vou are advancing 10 that
most Serious disease. pafsivsss.
II yoslr head sohes, feeis numb and
tired, with strange sensations. loss of
memory. and vcu fhiuk with difficulty.
or you sse slsepiess 81 night. with drew
siness and duilBep during fsss dsy, the
nerve and frsin fat aiIc may soon run
INTO insanity or death
II yotI have anv - these feelings 90
not neglect them of theT AL end N par.
slysis. INSANITY. prostratsoD 81 death
As rot valBe your isfe 90 not neglect
tbsse vsrnIugs- Time and experDeuo.
have sbovE. and hundreds Of starting
and marvellous cures have proved. that
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f.leitiy cuftd nv Dr. s. Clay Todd. Fa.
ss Hcnrt,e-st.. room 4. Grand Espsdf.
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remarkable remedies. a. thcrr svur-
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of 1pervet vfrtg Of tran. vitality ~
blood and health Of BODY ere soon re-
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HIS rarneciss are purely ~e9essbls
sTo harmless, and CAB only re ot1sina1
81 rs effce.
Or. TODD compounds his rresorsp-
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Dis. JofiFS Office p a q Nonrse-sl,
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YOUNG md MIDDLE .CED

NERVOUS DEBILITY. NERVOUS
Weakness. resulting from esrlS HAS
eHeiiols and exoessss 81 manhood, over
work 81 the BRAN. impfopsr treatment
Of some oIaeT diseases, improper use 81
instruments IA EXAMINATIONS and treat
ment OF some other diseases. hereditary
weakness. etc, causing lost niAnhoods
impolency, bSITennesS, INABILITY 20 coll
lect IDEAS oF remember word during
conversations making The sufferer lose
confidence IN every enc, even himself, f,
causing continual MoTry and anxiety
about iroutles that never come some
times causing Epilepsy. often causing
insanity, one form ot Deafness, faisi-
ysls, Nervousness and Heart lasesse,
inability 10 conduct business, etc.
Thus disease. with ali is complea-
tlons. is always cured ty Or. ;. Clay
Todd. Is Monroe~st.. Room i. Grand
Rapids, Mich. Call immed ateiy.
Telegram-herald., 1891-02-10
ASTHMA IS YEARS,
RAPIDLY RECOVERING.

! had asthma S5 years very bad,
sometimes had TO GO TO bed, and the
treatments took from physicians were
OF no use until i employed DR.. Clay
Todd, A. Mon-oe-s:, room d. Grand
Rapids, Mich. have been taking his
medicine one month, anu no.with-
standing my recent trip OF two weeks
10 Canada have continued TO improve
steadily. and have only lad one bad
spell since | began his treatment. and
that was when was in Canada. now
breathe treer, especially IN the last
week or ten days, and take longer
walks without experiencing difficulty:
I'M fact, feel that my dreadful com
plant is leaving me. am es wears of
age. ). H. 1EkEA,
Cor. Charles-st. and Woalthy-avc.,
Jan. l., 1921. Grand Rapids, Mich.
Telegram-herald., 1891-02-10

TERRIBLE
Gu II ED

! had terrible steady hAckache for
four years without any let up 81 al,
sometimes | could hardly stTalghten
up. Could not ride IN a wagon Oh &C
count of the greater jar OF the wagon.
and have walked rather than rlde. j
have now been under the treatment OF
DIR. :. CLAY TODD, AZ Monroe-st.,
room 4, Grand Rapids, Mich, ten days,
and yesterday rode 20 miles and nine
miles today in a wagon without pam
AT ali-the first time for four years. !
would cheerfully recommend Dr.
Todd TO those who have great pain IN
their backs. AVERY DOWNER,
October IS, 1890. Alpine, Mich.