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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-08
PREJUDICE DIES HARD.

Thomas 7. Fortune. an educated man of
color a strong thinker and able writer. has
sued 8 New York city hotel proprietor for
discrimination against him on account of
color. ~llorphobia is stronger today in
all the great cities and large towns of the
Atlantic seaboard than il is on the Pacific
coast. 1t is strong in many states that
long ago wiped out their black laws. The
great state of Ohio did not expunge these
black laws from her statute book until
about four years ago. The partially sue
cessful attempt TO revive the old
Know-Nothing spirit and organizations
In Chicago and California IS another
illustration Of how slowly error, prejudice
and bigotry die ont of the land. In 1854
the Know-Nothing movement elected
Gardner governor Of Massachusetts and
sent Henry Wilson TO the United States
Senate. Wilson was 8 member Of Know.
Nothing lodge, and so was Senator Ed
munds, then about starting on his political
career. 1t was a most absurd movement.
for the constitution of the United States
and Of most of the states were an absolute
Catholic or anti-foreigner proscrirtive
legislation. Il was s secret order, but its
folly was open enough, so that the able
men in the order quickly left il.
and under the conduct Of fools
and fanatics It tumhled into ruin almost
as soon as it WAS built. 1t lived Jus, long
enough to give the Democratic party a
hold on the affections AMI allegiance of
the Catholic and foreign vote. and on this
account was most disastrous political
hlunder. The Democrats turned this
Know-Nothing prejudice 10 good account
in 1856 by circulating the campaign lie
that Fremont was a Roman Catholic, and
IL did much 10 keep Pennsylvania from
the Republicans in that campaign. It
would be death 10 any party 10 revive
it today. and yet the fact that this
Know-Nothing party has s'jN a slight
local strength in San Francisco and
Chicago shows how stubborniv preiudices
cling 10 life. Error may be wounded 50
severely IS to wEithe in pam. but it takss
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-08
For clash go q
nrnUninC IN
The Doom OF the Locomotive.

chicago Special
ain the course Of q few years the locomotive
of today will be but rarely seen," said General
Superintendent Collins, of the Chicago, MilWau-
kee & St. Paul road, in speaking of Inventor
Edisons latest project IN the electric motor line
"The companies will be quick enough to take 1t
I'D for their own use, every one is on the alert
for progression, and will gladly welcome any
thing new and practical, as / think this motor
Is"
Assistant General Manager Wood, OF the Chi
cago Alton road, thought the invention would
revolutionize traffic. but the cost IL would save
would be needed to keep the roadbeds in repair.
"The higher rate Of speed an engine travels"
he said, "the heavier and more arm must the
roadbed be. The expenses of constantly attend
ing to the roadbed, the ballast, the rails and ties
would about eat up all that could be saved by
lessening the running expenses. Nh. Edison
has a great invention, and the railroads OF the
country will eventually take IL up, but l think
1t will be some time before they do. There are
SO many engines in use, and they represent
such an enormous expenditure Of money, that
railroad companies will not be in too great
haste TO set them aside. But az the old ones
wear out the new motors will take their places"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-08

her most uncouscionablv long time TO
absolutely die among her worshipers.
It is an interesting fact that in New
England, where Know-Sothingism had
brief life in 1854, the anti-Catholic, anti
foreigner craze has so completely disap-
peared that the Republican Legislature OF
Connecticut in 1886 elected Roman Cath
Ole speaker; his rival was an Irish
Roman Catholic; an Irish Catholic Re
publican was elected assistant clerk
over Yankee Republican, the son
OF a Congregationalist clergyman
The members from Stamford, New Britain
and Norwaik were all Irish-Roman Catho-
lies, and one Of them was the editor of the
Roman Catholic organ Of the diocese.
The judges Of the state supreme court in
vite Roman Catholic priests to open the
session with prayer. These things take
place in Connecticut, where within the
memory Of men who have not yet reached
old age no foreign born citizen, especially
an Irish Catholic, could expect political
support from the potential politicians OF
either party.
We are slowly growing in the great es-
sentials of political, social and religious
tolerance, freedom and progress. We
are better, soberer and wiser peo-
pie than We were before the war
which. if it did nothing else, for the
time being, made US more serious, sensi-
bic and manly than we ever were before in
our history. There is less "spread eagle"
in our speech; certainly less turkey buzz
gard; less vulgar boasting among people
of all sections, and, best Of all, a deal less
political and religious bigotry. The days
when Know-Nothing mobs burned Cath
Ole converts in Charleston, Mass, and
other mobs tried to hang Garrison in Bos-
ton and compelled Connecticut school
teacher TO stop teaching her negro pupils
to read and write are gone forever. There
has been immense progress since the New
England mobs of 1835-1S43 and 1850, and
some of US will yet live to see the day
when no orderly, decent American citi-
zen will be deprived of the enjoyment Of
equal civil rights under law by any hotel,
transportation line or place of public use
and entertainment on the ground of race
or color.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-08
BROKEN HEARTS.
London Hawk.


Pale ghosts of passionate past come thronging'
The feverlsh folly, the fierce embrace,
Ths vague unrest and the ceassless longing.
The asst wild kiss on an uptUrued face;
OF a heart that cried, and that broke IN crying,
OF bitter sorrow and binding tears,
When hope lay dead, ana wren love lay ~ ANs'
And all the folly of bygone years.
Pnt now how we smile at the fond love token
And laugh at the sweet words whispered low,
We. whose hearts have been broken, broken,
Broken ever SO long ago.
Wild hearts that beat IN this great, SAD clT'
That sorrow in win for q lost delight;
AM vet we hear, with a wondering pity,
The stifed sob IN the lone dark night.
Would We were even as we sre-SorroW
should strike its hardest, but never sgain
Would the sad heart break for hopeless morrow,
or the face grow weary aud white from pain
Oh, calm, like gods on word OF woe
We. whose hearts have been broken, broken,
Broken ever 50 long ago
At the merry feast, in the light talk after,
In the dreamy maze of the seasuous valset
Does ever a sob break through the laughter
Does ever Earring note ring faIseE
Who carries their burden OF life so lightly
Who dons so gayly the testers guise?
Who laughs so loudly as we who nightly
Look laughing back into laughing eyes7
Drink deep, laugh loud, and dance for token'
Your hearts are merry, and none VIII KNOW
Tha, the merry hearts have been broken, braken,
Broken ever so long ago.
For clash go the merry bells a-ringing,
Drowning the sob and the passionate cry.
An! vet harken awhile 10 their sweet, sad singing
Who live and suffer, and laugh and die,
But let never q plying word be spoken,
or tear be shed, we would have it so,
For US whose hearts have been broken, broken,
Broken ever so long ago.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-08

Britain gives her ocean steam lines ana
merchant marine would place our shipping
engaged in the foreign trade on footing
second only to that of Great Britain and
vastly superior TO it in character and
quality of vessels. The Democratic party
has always opposed government protec-
ton of our merchant marine, denounces
today our inadequate mail subsidy ana
howls for free ships, which would only IN
crease American tonnage at the expense
of the destruction of American ship
building
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-08

1t is humiliatIng fact that every bale
of New England made goods destined for
China is shipped by the Canadian Pacific
railway TO Vancouver, and thence to its
destination by English steamers. and this
large traffic has been diverted from A--er-
lean railways and from the Pacific ii
steamers because that line has not BIN
able to compete with the English and
Canadian government subsidy of $4,000
year for ten years. this subsidy amount
ing to practical guaranty of the entire
first cost OF the three ships at present pro-
yided for this line, payable in ten years.
at the rate of 10 per cent. per
annum. The British vessels. and
those OF France and Germany. re.
ceive today a far greater subsidy than is
offered by our government TO American
ships Of equal rate and performance. The
two British lines carrying mails TO the
United States receive for that service up
wards Of hundred thousand pounds per
annum in addition 10 the cruiser money"
Of twenty shiliings per ton paid to steam
ships enrolled in the British naval reserve.
These ships also receive annually n larra
sum from the United States for sea post
age. The French line is heavily subsi-
died by its government; and Ger
many indirectly subsidies her lines. All
these earn large sums a. sea postage from
the United States postoffice department.
Today we are in complete commercial
servltude to England, whose ships do all
our ocean t.ans-oceanic fetching and
carrying for rs, and she will continue 10
do this until congress enacts a TONNAGE
bounty bill providing proper encourage
ment for the creation Of a national rner-
chant marine engaged in foreign trade.
Ten years Of such announcement as Great
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

TIE public IL hereby warned not to pay
sny money TO parties representing to De
agents of the Seattle Posr-IETELLIGEscER,
except the following, who are the only
authorized travelling agents Of the Posi-
IKrELLIGEscKR, viz: ]. A. Mcclellan. L.
c. BIanson, 7. A. Davies. J. H. Willett
and 7. D. Curtis. 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 case. authorized TO take subscriptions
for the Daily, Sunday and Weekly Posi-
IRTELLTGENcER-
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-08

The arid Tacoma Ledger, which is set in
handful type, claims to print more matter
than any other paper on Puget sound.
Measured by the column, it does, but the
Ledger uses poster type, and not such as is
used in newspaper Offices.
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Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-14

The society Of California pioneers
Are she owners ~ wonderful curios-
hty. 10 il q section Of timber taken
from the side of the ship Powhatan- II
includes portion Of the ''skiu," which
Is inches thick. and piece of abutting
knee. which is inches thick; trans
Iverseiy through the whole of this a
swordfish has dashed his sword, and
the portion broken of is still embedded
in the timber The sword pierced
through IS inches Of this solid oak. and
the fish was going in the same direction
Is the vessel at that. the ship being I'M
der good head Of steam At the time
An idea of the strength which must
have been exerted can be obtained from
the fact that q rifle six-pounder could
not have done more than pierce that
thickness of solid oak. People on the
vessel stated that they felt the shock
caused by The blow. and thought that
they had struck something floating be-
meath the surface The sword II over
q inches wide at tho broadcast point,
-<her~ IL il broken OF.
Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-14
ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR.
1GmArkabls longevity AttaEnad
by Mira Asonarn Ny,lar.
4h~sgh xas<rsd Upos Her Ssssod o.
ny ne Ga Lady L. - spry - Asse
Ws8ss sf Forty sAd BsaA
81 Dress e . GisA
ne rrar thaa yfle consffeuffnn

The same year THAI rsle constitution
of the Cnited States ~as adopted. list,
Mrs. AsenAsh Miller. who for more
than City years has been . resident Of
St Charles. III. was born Mrs Miller,
says the Chicago Evening Post. still
lives with bar laughter, Mrs J. 5.
haznptoa, At 81. Charles. and y brisk
and busy. and has by 40 cans scrren-
dersd 70 old ago. Although she viii be
one hsnaired and four years old August
AZ. Of the present year, she Is Ia the full
possession Of her faculties. Is cheerful
and thoroughly enjoys life. She Is .
tribe hard Of hearing bat still sees well;
her memory - good, her intellect clear,
and a. she has lived through every adj
1ninisfratton since TN government was
founded, and has been an intelligent
observer. hsr conversation u most In
b=rssting.
! Early In life M1L Miller married
Ghneon Barrum. She bore him seven
ehildren. and, a. he was farmer and
by no means rich. her early life was tho
buy. laborious one Of tho farmers wife
OF that period Being left widow
when she was forty years Of age, she
married Frederick Miller, who was also
. farmer By this marriage she had
two children Mr.. Miller, who was
some years her senior. lived TO be
ninety-two years old Both her mar
riages were particularly happy; indeed.
her whole life seems 10 have been re-
SnArkably free from corroding SORROW
Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-14

Of any kind, which fact is possibly due,
Co a great extent, TO her exceptionally
cheerful and equitable temperament
When she was well on in the nineties
she declared that it was her ambition to
be . hundred years old. However. now
that she Is well started In . second
century, she Is stin looking 10 future
and Is arranging 20 attend the Column
bisn exposition in 1898. Indeed. Mrs.
Miller's continued pleasure in life and
her plans for . time to come remind
one Of the story Of the countess Of Des4
xnond, who lived TO be one hundred and
forty years of age. She had q pension,
rs the story goes, which expired when
she was one hundred years old. In
compliance with her request, James I.
renewed 1t for hundred years. This
have been renewed for her natural life.
Ebr . number Of years Mrs Miller's
Birthday has been observed a. . fete
day by the people in tho vicinity Of St.
ChsrlesL The day that abe was ono
hundred years old between five and six
hundred people called on her. Al
though she shook hands with them all
she ~as not weary. but for several days
afterward was rather moro brisk than
usual. Ons gentleman who called to see
her ON that day remarked that her con-
dition was very different TO what it had
been Just century before ''Oh, yes"
she replied. smiling; II could neither
walk nor talk then, and now can do
both"
Mrs Miller Il exceedingly particular
about her personal appearance and her
caps are always embellished with bows
of delicate colored ribbon. She rises
early and works all day. with the ex-
ception OF . short nap. Her favorite
occupation Is the piecing Of silk bed
quilts Each of her children and grand
children have ono of these silk quilts,
and she has also pieoed several for sale.
"A number of her grandchildren are
sixty years Of age and there are now
living in her family five generations.
One astonishing fact In regard to this
venerable woman Is her activity. She
moves about with perfect case and was
able only q short time ago to get in and
out Of . high carriage without assis-
kancoL
Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-14

Few people can foyn definite idea
IL what is involved in the expression
IAN inch Of rain r. may aid snch 70
follow this curious calculation: An acre
n equal To 49,. 60 square inches, an
inch deep Of water ON this area viii be
as many cubic inches Of water. which,
az saT 10 the gallon. i s2.ooo gallons.
This immense quantity II water viii
weigh ssa coo pounds. or 100 tons One
hundredth Of an inch (o.eil alone Is
seausl 20 one ton ~ water 80 the sere
Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-14

IT'S very important N this age Of
east material progress that remedv De
pleasing "a the taste and TO the eve.
easily taken. acceptable % The stomach
sud healthy IN Is nature and effects.
Possessing these Qualities. Syrup of Fis.
"a the che perfect laxative sad most
gentle auretsc known.
Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-14
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The vsIievCify hitting Company has
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Try tie LILY WHITE.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-18
POVERTY IN EUROPE
People Who Earn Barely Enough
to Keep Alive.
POTATOES AND BRAN FOR FOOD
Men Work Eleven Hours Day For Twenty
two Cents and Women For
Still Less.

Lspeeial oorrespondence Of sUNDAY HERALD.l
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-18

On Sunday and the many church holidays
they go to church and spend the rest of the
day doing work at home or in recreation in
the inn. During harvest however, they
very often do work in the field in order TO
get the crops in before they are ruined by
rain. There is, as rule, little use for d
doctor, one being usually sufficient for a
circuit of several miles, and few people re-
main single. The wife looks up to the hus-
band as her master aud although it is not
considered matter of course when
he Furnishes HER WITH A WHIPPING
it is not thought very terrible, and one often
can hear the wife give her husband credit
for never having whipped her in mis- life
After burais OF young maids or lads it is
customary to 60 from the grave to the inn
and have music singing and dancing. Can
you wonder after this why so many of the
poor wretches want to better their condt-
ton in America!
Yet, whenever they can afford it, these
people are very hospitable. AS soon as
visitor enters a farmers house, the wife
brings out a huge loaf of rye bread in her
arms, a knife aud salt, and offers these as
tok bf her regard. 1t would be very
unsraM6us not TO cut off a small slice and
give "dekuiu'' (SIavic-I thank YOU in
return.
In the houses of these farmers may be
feather pillows and coverings clear up
to the ceilings. They are slowly col
lected for the girls who receive them as
part of their dowry at marriage. These
feathers are picked in family gatherings
during the loag winter nights.
SPEAKING OF DowRIgs,
marriages are rarely contracted except
among people belonging to the same class.
Farmers sons wed farmers daughters,
peasants the same, and laborers also and
the amount of money or its equivalent that
q girl is to bring her husband is carefully
liked by the old folks before the ceremony
is performed. a maiden without dover,
no matter how pretty or Intelligent, cannot
aspire to union with anyone but a psuper,
and the assortment Of these is large enough.
1t is amusing to see the farmers wives
go to church in their best dresses. Instead
OF hat or bonnet which only the daughters
of the most opulent wear, they put large
silk kerchief folded three cornered, upon
! their heads, tied in knot under the
chin. The dress goods are of various
materials, but usual very loud with
| large figures. They wear as many skirts
as they own under their Dress so that they
look like stuffed figures as they wabbe
down the street, and the whole is encircled
! by vast expand Of apron. Besides the
! prayerbook they carry an embroidered
! handkerchief in their hands, but gloves are
/ a luxury unknown to men or women in
summer or winter. The women-that is
those of the farming class-do, however,
| sdorn themselves with necklaces, earrings
and other iewelry viii b passes from gen
GRAFTON to generation as precious heir
| loom. VERONA Il. POLLOCK.
F'RANZEEsBAD, September 81.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-18

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When every thing is in season no place
can be more pleasant than one of these cele-
brated cure resorts, but it must indeed be
q dreary place TO spend a winter in, when
the parks are no longer green, and when
the flowers have hidden their heads, the
theatre is closed and no concerts are given
out Of doors 10 entertain you while you
take your afternoon coffee; when the Cur
saa'i is barred and the inviting stores
where so many Americans leave their DOL
lars are boarded up and their occupants
gone, and the lonely citizens close their
hotels and retire to their own snug little
quarters and their own solitude. Queer it
is to watch the different looking people
gather at the wells and we amuse ourselves
nv wondering what this one came for and
why the other need have come at all. The
miserable dyspeptic fees to Carlsbad while
the nervous remains here with US in Fran
zensbad aud the corpuleut wol an goes to
Marienba to get thin while beside her the
Thin man drinks of the same mineral to get
fat One thing noticeable is the dignity of
the young people and the
FEW FLIRTATIoNs
they indulge in. German life is ennobling
and elevating by the side of the Bohemian.
To see the Bohemian life as it is one must
take run to the country and visit the vii
lagos.
Americans are prone to follow beaten
path in their t0ur through Europe. They
90 TO London, Paris, the Rhine, Alps and
Italy, or 10 the health and fashion resorts
where they meet their own kind, and then
they ret1rn fully convinced that they have
seen the old country as it is, when indeed
they have seen only the surface of it.
A Bohemian village is not q thing of
beauty, nor a Joy forever, but it is inter
esting for all that. The buildings compris-
ing farm house and accessories form a
square, the main part facing inside Two
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-18

HIS WEEKLY
pected to write
from Vienna, but
the weather con :
tinues SO fine and
all Is so pleasant
that here we are
still, and as we
take frequent lit
tie trips l think L
can tell you a few
more things yet of
Bohemian life that
may be of interest
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-18
A FAyoRITE RENEDY.

Chamberlain's Cough remedy is favor
lite during the winter months on account of
its great success in the cure of colds. There
is nothing that will loosen a severe cold so
quickly, or as promptly relieve the lungs.
Then it counteracts any tendency toward
pneumonia. 1t is pleasant and safe to take,
and fully worthy Of its popularity. For
sale by z. C. M. 1. Drug Department..
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-18
SEAL GARMENTS.

In Prime Alaska Seal Garments we sre
showing some beautiful Refer Jackets
Sacques and Newmarkets. We are pre-.
pared to sell them at New York prices.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-18
SILK DEPARTMENT.

500 yards Black Surah, good quality, %
inches wide, our regular 81 quality, at 6oc.
400 yards heavy Black eros Grain Silk,
always sold at 81. now offered at Csc.
300 yards heavy Black eros Grain Silk,
worth Sl.25 anywhere, our price, 75c.
800 yards Black Faille Franchise; we
usually sell this quality at $3.50, now Of
fered at 81 per yard.
200 yards Black Moscovite, Silk Novelty
at S1.15 per yard, worth $3.50.
We are showing extreme novelties in
the so-caued Swivel Silks, beautiful colored
figures on black ground, at popular prices,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-18
BLACK GOODS.

SS-inch All Wool Serge at 4oc; cheapest
dress goods in the city.
46-inch All Wool Black Serge at Csc,
positively worth 81.
4O-inch fine quality Black Silk Warp Hen
rietts at 81, usually sold at Sl.40.
40 inch Fancy Black Bedford Cord at 45c,
good value at Csc.