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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-06-19

'some years ago." writes Virginia
farmer 10 Southern Planter. ~ man took
up some gate posts which had been In
the ground seventy years, aud BIO said
they were perfectly sound. They We're
common pine posts, and were skinned
In tho spring while standing, aud loft SO
until tho tuTpantine had come out and
formed complete cement, and were
then cut and fixed. Tho tops OF such
posts will have 20 be covered 10 protect
them from the action of the weather."
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-06-19

whole denominations Of Christians have
druppod the word "olry" from the mar.
fiage service. The great Roman Catholic
church never had Il inserted. aud even In
The Episcopal church Il l. occasionally
omittci-t have personally known several
Instances. or when retained. II Il constant
ly explained by tho parties concerned, or
even BY the clcrgymcn, A. q thing 10 10
taken with mental reservation. Two
things have contributed TO this-the con.
slant Increase Ia the number 81 women
who earn incomes 81 their own, and tho
vast prugnsss Of the higher clucatlon,
Either of these experiences very soon cx.
panda the wings u a strong feminine na.
turp. and a rciurn ~ the chry salis l. thence.
forth impossible. II l. out 81 the question
10 rvr woman equal education and equal
property rights .ni yct Keep her In the
PROSTATE attltut she occupied when hef
earnings belonged 10 Der husband, aud
when the law denied her th. safeguard
called "lcncft d clergy" on the ground
that u was not suppuaahlc she could mad
or write -iiafpgr'a latar.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-19
DEATH OF CAPTAIN RENToN.

1t was a very remarkable man whose
life ended last evening at the sawmill town
of Port Blakeley, across the Sound from
Seattle. Captain Renton had to an emil
nent degree the rugged talents which,
with integrity, always make an excep-
tional man, and in new country very
notable one. He was not book man,
and did not pretend to be. He
was an outdoor man in every sense,
and one of the very truest and
best of his kind. A worker from his
childhood, he had no taste or capacity for
idleness, and when the limitations of age
came upon him including the infirmity of
absolute blindness, he accepted the new
conditions with patience-but he worked
on. His youth, his manhood and his age
were alike given to labor. For many
years he has been king among the men
of his business and one of the very i'm
portant factors in the industrial life
of the country. Captain Renton was in
many ways identified with Seattle and his
name has been given to designate the
highest point between the harbor and the
lake, and "Renton Hill" will be an ever
lasting monument to him-and the honor
is worthily bestowed.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-19
THE STATE PRESS.

Tacoma Ledger: "Young Mr.. Thurman, in his
speech as temporary chairman of the Ohio con-
vention, referred TO the late surplus a. DEM
ocratic surplus Mr., Thurman evidently
knows nothing about the thing he was talking
Of The surplus was accumulated by Republi .
can measures, which Democrats always opposed
and are still trying to repeal. While 1t remained
it was a source of constant alarm and uneasiness
to the Democrats, and when they were in power
from 1884 to 1888 they showed an utter want Of
capacity 70 deal with it. Now that 1t has been
used for the peoples purposes, Mr.. Thurman
and his party are IS vigorously complain
ing about it as they were when Ii was in
existence. They can neither be happy with or
without IL.
Spokane Review: Hannibal Hamlins mem
ory is in no wise clouded by the war of epithets
going on over his grave between Secretary Nico-
lay and Colonel Mcclure. Either the dead
statesman was Mr.. Lincoln's choice for renomin-
alton, or he was not but whether he was or not
the fact remains that he was an oak in his integ-
rity, an able and cons cientious public official.
and at all times a man and true American"
Spokane Review: at is nonsense to say that
either national platform will take q stand for
the .ree coinage of silver. The Republican ma
tional convention will call for a currency of
gold, silver and paper, interchangeable and of
identical value, and the Democratic platform
will say the same thing in different words"
EuensDurg CdpHdt' I'VE 40 NOT WANT any
more INDECENT and vicious immigrants: but the
skilled laborers in the Welsh tin-plate factories
will be heartily welcomed for the purpose of
developing that industry in this country, as pro-
vided for in the Mckinley tariff law"
Olympia Tribune: "Lincoln suspected the Re-
publicanism OF Colonel Aleck Mcclure and he
has been suspected by both Republicans as well
as Democrats ever since"
Spokane Spokesman: Mystery is incompati-
BILE with any public function in republic"
The Fairhaven Bee is dead.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-19
THE VETERANS.

Many soldiers are reported in poorhouses
because there is not room enough for them
in National Soldiers Home. Maine,
Massachusetts,, Vermont, New York,
Washington, Illinois. and number of
other states of the Union, maintain COM
Portable Soldiers Homes. Let all the
states do this or initiate Maine in appro-
priating money for deserving cases of vet
Grams not reached by the Federal pension
acts. The various states surely, since the
passage of the dependent pension act, can
afford to take care of the small number OF
pauper veterans who deserve and can not
get pension.
We notice that few veterans at WASH
ington City have planned society to be
extended over the country and composed
OF old soldiers whose purpose shall be to
reform existing abuses in the pension
laws. They say one-third of those now
pensioned are not entitled to aid, another
third do not need it and the remainder do
not receive half enough. They aim, there
fore, to have two-thirds of the pensioners
stricken from the rolls and the cost re-
duced to $5O,OOO,0O0
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-19
AN INVITATION TO THE TEACHERS.

The directors of the Teachers National
Association have decided that the next
place of meeting for that body shall be at
Saratoga, n. Y; Helena, Mont; or at
Seattle. There was a strong pressure
brought to bear in favor of the
famous summer resort and in order
to insure Western city being selected
the Seattle and Helena advocates
joined forces and secured RELOCATION of
final choice to committee, who will visit
each of the three cities and render de-
cision.
Saratoga has its charms and Helena its
advantages, but there are powerful reasons
why an association such as that of the
teachers should visit Seattle in preference.
What those reasons are must be fully pre-
sented when the committee arrives,
and it is worth very vigorous
effort to convince them. There were
twenty-five thousand teachers registered
in Toronto last week as delegates and
visitors to the annual convention. These
form an army of propagandists who, for at
least year, will spread all over the land
the story of what they will see on their
visit If they can be persuaded to come.
They include men of intelligence who
will not alone appreciate hospitalities ex-
tended to them, but the contrast afforded
by the resources and products of the state
of Washington with those of less favored
states. Among them are biologists who
can discern the wealth stored up in
dull gray ore. They are economists
who know that where iron, coal
timber and limestone are found in great
quantities within easy proximity there
lies the foundation of great commercial
prosperity. They are familiar with the
unerring law which commands traffic be-
tween the countries of the world to seek
easy means of transport by the sea-
They understand the average proportion
of yield TO acreage and viii marvel when
they know how fecund are the wheat
producing plains across the Cascades.
They have visited all parts of the great
continent and are experts in soil and
climate, in advantages of location and
opportunity for enterprise.
The larger cities have all bid for their
presence, and il is of great consequence
that they be induced TO make the North
west the scene of their next assembling.
They have recently visited San Francisco,
and if they next year go to Montana, other
sections will press their claims-East.
South and Center will urge visit, and ii
Helena be selected now the next place will
probably be Saratoga.
News has not yet been received as to
when the committee will make its visit.
but Seattle invites them to come
st any time. Ii in the hot, dry
months TO come, then will Puget
Sound refresh them with temperate
days and incompatible nights; if,
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-19
THE TACOMA mANsLAUeHrER.

There is nothing mysterious to an intel
ligent medical man in the case of Hinchey,
the Tacoma murderer. The unfortunate
man was in the incipient stage of mania
potu, when after going several days
without food and sleep the nervous system
breaks down and the victim hears voices
full of threats and jeers and reproaches,
which seem to come to him from every
where and everybody. This condition
generally follows sudden stoppage from
hard drinking, and if the victim of
intemperance is a man of intelligence
he at once understands his con-
dition and goes to a doctor, who
gives sedative or soporifc, and with
nights sleep the voices will be gone and
the man himself again, but, to man who
is not of good intelligence and strong will,
the voices full of threats from every side
are absolutely real, and the man thinks
himself really hunted and in danger.
While in this condition, Hinchey, in a
state of sincere delusion, killed man.
OF course, man is responsible
for the consequences of his pro-
longed drinking, but the melancholy
thing is that his sober friends
appear to have been so stupid that they
allowed delirious man to buy revolver
and talk about shooting somebody without
taking any steps to put the man under
restraint. A dose of bromide and choral
and a nights sleep would have restored
Hinchey to sanity, saved the life of his
victim, and saved the deluded homicide
from long term in prison, for while he
cannot be treated as an altogether response
BILE murderer, he must expect some severe
punishment for the consequences of his
self-procured mania.
In the medical books such homicidal,
alcoholic decisions. associated with threat
ening voices, insulting words, etc., are de-
scribed in detail as common result of a
long drinking bout on the part of a man
who tries to stop too suddenly, and has
lost his power to sleep and his ability to
take food from the violent nervous reac-
ton. One sensible friend could have
saved Martins life and Hinchey's liberty
by timely medical restraint. or the admin
istration of nervine strong enough to
permit the man to sleep.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-19
EXPRESS TRANSFER.

LA CONNER, July Is, 1891.
To THE EDITOR: VIII you please inform the
suffering public whether there is any law in the
code of Washington that would uphold the
Northern Pacific or any other express company
in the course the Northern Pacific is pursuing9
For instance, they receive package at Port
land, or any other point, to be delivered at
package TO another express company, and when
1t reaches Seattle instead OF transferring
promptly they hold the goods and write the
consignee postal card requesting him TO send
them an order to transfer them to another COM
pany. Then by the time consignee can get the
order to them and the goods TO their destina-
tion-at any of the Sound ports-about a week
has elapsed since their arrival In Seattle, TO say
nothing of the exorbitant rates charged.
This is an outrage upon the public and de-
serves the condemnation of all honest men.
T. g. BRINGHURsr
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-19

Less than sixty years ago Patience
Crandall, young schoolmistress, was
mobbed in Connecticut and compelled to
close her school for colored children. The
leading men of both parties were included
among the prosecutors of the woman. To
day some Northern women of the Presby-
terrain church are planning to establish an
industrial institute for colored girls in
Mississippi. The fact becoming known, the
citizens of Port Gibson, Miss, held pub
lie meeting at the courthouse the other
day, and adopted resolutions that, where
as we are DESTROYS of expressing our inter-
est and sympathy for all educational
movements having in view the intellectual
and moral improvement of our colored cit
liens, We invite the projectors of the move
ment to visit Port Gibson and confer with
our people, with view to having such in
stitute located in the vicinity of Port Glib
son; and that we hereby promise our
moral and active support to such institute,
if planted in this vicinity"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-19
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

SEATTLE, July Il 1891.
To THE EDITOR: / cannot let the article In
your last Sundays issue, entitled "Not the Gov
erning Sex" go without comment. / am not
prepared at present with statistics to answer it
as it should be- but will gather what is needful
for the purpose, and state the facts in due time
II you will be SO kind and fair as TO publish
them. If it is true, and very much doubt its
truth, that "the great mass of intelligent women
think themselves unfit to share in the govern
ment of the state" believe that few can be
found who would say that they might not be-
come fit know of no woman in the church
OF which am member and hold the Office of
deaconess, who would not resent the idea of be-
ing governed by the few men in the church. At
all OF our business meetings the women vote
and are more active than the men. know that
the petitions in behalf OF woman suffrage in
this country measure many yards and contain
thousands and thousands of names, while the
memorials of remonstrants in Boston and Chi
cago have very few signatures-the one in Chi
cago thirteen. The newspapers all over
the country make much of the
feeble remonstrance but ignore the
mammoth petitions. The "ablest and most in
telligent women of those great states are among
the petitioners, instead of with the remon-
strants
Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell, Julia Ward
Howe, Mary A. Livermore, Louisa NJ. Alcott
b. NJ. I. Cutler, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward,
Mary F. Eastman, DR.. Emily Blackwell, Harriet
Prescott Spoford, Rev. Ada C. Bowles, Rev.
Anna Shaw, Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, all of
Massachusetts,, are earnest advocates of woman
suffrage.
In Illinois We have Frances z. Willard. presi-
dent OF the National womsn's Christian Tenn
perance Union; Mrs. Buell., the corresponding
secretary: Esther Pugh, the treasurer; Mary
Alien West, Julia A. Ames and Margaret Sud-
deth, editors OF the Union Signal; Matilda B..
Carse, manager of the great Temperance tenn
pie now being built in Chicago, and DR.. Leila G..
Bedsll.
There comes time in woman's life, when,
with the children grown up and married of, she
finds herself with half q century's experience,
and mothers heart full of solicitude for her
own and her neighbours children, comparatively
free, and then is the time she can be of the
greatest use and benefit as a member OF the
legislature. II half of the members of
congress and the state legislatures were
made up OF our mothers, We could hope for
more orderly sessions, and laws made more in
accordance with correct principles.
/ am middlea aged mother, who feels keenly
the injustice of being hindered from exercising
the right oil every adult citizen, to vote. / have
an interest in every election and am anxious we
should have good government. l own property
and pay taxes, and think l am as intelligent as a
great many of our foreign born, colored, and
Indian voters
should not fear to go to the polls with my re.
lations and neighbors.
Woman suffrage is not "fad," but one of the
worlds reforms, in the interest of justice and
the highest welfare of humanity.
I. r MILLER
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-19

The military order of the Loyal Legion
is composed not simply of commissioned
officers who fought for the Union, but of
certain number of persons who in civil life
rendered conspicuous service to the cause.
At meeting held in San Francisco last
winter the application of an acting assist
ant engineer of the United States navy
was withdrawn. he not having been COM
missioned officer. At the same meeting
two persons were elected under the CON
spicuous service in civil life" qualifica-
ton. In other words, man who
had Loyalty served the Union in war could
not gain admission to the order because
man who had Loyalty served the Union in
the conspicuous bomb-proof of civil life
was eligible. If the assistant engi-
neer had remained at home he might
possibly have proved a claim of gal
liant service In civil life, but he went
to war and as he did not get COM
mission and could not be in two places at
once and distinguish himself in civil life
and in war at the same time, he is
not eligible to the Loyal Legion
either as soldier or civilian.
Practically this would seem to be very
aristocracy of loyalty. An energetic con-
tractor, who furnished the government
with horses, clothing, or military supplies
of any sort we suppose might be said to
have rendered Conspicuous service to the
cause" in civil life, while highly intelli-
gent man who carried musket, and re.
tired with wounds but without commits
sion, would be ineligible. The Grand
Army of the Republic is on better basis
and it is a notable fact that many gallant
officers prefer its plain bronze button to
the more snowy mark of the aristocratic
order.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-19

Because Gen. Kruger had received from
subordinate officer a report unfavorable to
Col. Compton he was adiudged incapaci-
tated for membership in the military court
now sitting at Walla Walla. This is on
par with the old practice of discardlng
from jury service any man who had read
newspaper report of the crime under judg-
ment Recent and more rational practice
does not assume man to be prejudiced
because ordinarily intelligent. 1t seems
that in the army they stick to the old rule,
even though it involves an affront to so
distinguished man as Gen. Ruger.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-19
A QUESTION OF CONDITION. NOT
OF COLOR.

In the Sumner Herald we find the fol-
lowing:
negro killed his white wife in cold blood
Spokane Sunday. Served her right for marrying
him. The negro will doubtless be hanged
Thus will two Objectionable characters be rele-
gated.
1t is not apparent why white woman
who marries a negro is served right" by
losing her life at his hands, any more than
If she had imprudently made bad mar
riage with drunken, ferocious ruffian of
any other color. Suppose she had married
q drunken, murderous white man, and he
had killed her; what then? Would she
have been served right: or would it
be cause for regret that an
imprudent woman had lost her life at the
hands of a bloody-minded villain? It is
not clear why the ''color line" should be
drawn in this case. Fred Douglass, an
able, accomplished and upright man of
color, married a white woman of educa-
ton and respectable character, and their
married life has been an entirely happy
and decent existence. Miss Elaine Goodale
recently married DIR. Charles Eastman, an
eminent physician at the Pine Ridge
agency. If marriage turns out a
good marriage. surely society has no
cause to complain; aud if mar
riage is bad marriage, which
soon or late. explodes in murder, adultery
or divorce, society has good reason TO re-
greet its occurrence, even if both parties to
-.
son of course TO regret a marriage which
has increased the public burdens by crime
or pauperism, but If the marriage is a good
and happy union, devolving no burdens
upon society, il is not a subject for con-
tempt because Of the color line.
The only escape of thesIndian race from
swift extinction is amalgamation with
some other stock more amenable TO CIV
iliaation. There is not full-blood Indian
in the Miami Peoria and Wyandotte
tribes. The Indian customs and char
acteristics have been obliterated. They are
as class thrifty and industrious farmers,
who have good farms, good houses, i'm
proved live stock, aud are self-supporting.
| The missionary has not wrought this
Change, nut IL Is the INFUSION OF white
| blood; the personal contact with the
/ white race. The sblest minds aud finest
! physiques among the men and women of
| the Creeks and Cherokees are the half
1 breeds: the half-hreeds of Manitoba are
splendid race. better in physique than the
! parents on either side. The Randolphs of
Virginia are not the only brilliant family
| that has Indian blood in its veins. The
/ Scotch servants OF the Hudson Bay Com
pany often took Indian wives. and il
/ proved good cross.
The pure blood African does not, as
/ rule. make a good cross with the whites,
| but il Is true of Alexander Dumas. the
/ great master of French fiction. that his
grandmother was $ pure blood negroes.
| His father, who was half-blood, rose to
/ be = general commanding brigade in
| Napoleon's army, and was complimented
/ in dispatches for exceptional valor and
/ skill. Here the colored strain improved
| the stock, since for three generations il
| has sustained itself well, viz. General
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-19

Dumas, Alexander Dumas and Alexander
the younger.
For a decent white woman 20 marry an
Indian brave, or q low. ignorant negro
would be an act of supreme folly, not be-
cause of his color but because of his condi-
ton; it would be an utterly unequal, I'M
natural, unsympathetic union, but not
more sure to be followed by disastrous
consequences than if the unequal marriage
had been made with a white man standing
in the same low plane To illustrate: The
daughter of one of the first families of
Connecticut a number of years ago
married the family coachman, and,
although he was a white man, her
unequal marriage did not turn out any
better than that of Mrs. Chaska. The
daughter of Millionaire Baker, of New
York city, married her fathers coachman,
and so did the daughter of Banker Moro
SIM. Both marriages turned out I'M
happily, because they were unrefecting.
unequal, non-sympathetic marriages. It
was not the color, but the unequal condi-
ton of the parties to these marriages that
wrecked them. With no community of
tastes, no !. approach to equality of
intelligence, no points of spiritual or
mental contact, there can be no
happiness In store for parties who
marry under circumstances which
violate all the conditions of social har-
mony and moral assimilation, no matter
what be the color of the parties.
Given these conditions and you will get
marriage that will be followed by infelic-
ity and inhuman intercourse whether the
parties belong to the same race or not; it
is the condition, not the color of the parties
that is sure to make marriage for happi-
ness or break it.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-19
A MODERN CoURTsHIP.

"Because you're from the town." she said,
"And live in style, you know,
Dear, don't il make you blush to see
Your girl in calico?
'I've always lived here on the fam
And cannot compare
With city girls who dress in style
And know just what to wear. F"
Her fresh, sweet face was now upturned
To his. She heaved a sigh.
"And yet might (she looked quite gravel
Be stylish if l try"
"No, no." he cried, as close he wrapped
Her in his manly arms:
"I'll take you, darling, as you are,
Without the city charms.
"I'll take you and I'll cherish you,
You and your goodly pile,
For your paps's swell farm, my dear,
Is more to me than style"
Tom Mdsson