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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-27
NOT A NATURAL RIGHT.

To illustrate the absurdity of the plea
that suffrage is natural right, like life,
liberty and property, instead of being
purely political privilege, which society
grants when expedient and witholds when
non-expedient, it is only necessary to
glance at the different suffrage require
ments in the different states. In Con.
necticut man must prove a good moral
character; must be able to read the state
law; own free hold yielding 81 annually
or pay state tax. In Massachusetts, no
man can vote who cannot read or write
or is pauper or has not paid state or
county tax. In North Carolina he mus,
own fifty acres Of land or have paid taxes.
IN Rhode Island he must own property in
his town and pay taxes upon il. In Della
ware, Georgia, New Hampshire, Vermont.
Pennsyivanis, Tennessee, the payment of
some sort of tax is demanded. Citizen.
ship of the United States is not re-
quired by seventeen states. and in
four Of these states foreigner can
vote after having been in the United States
but six months. In five states manners
cannot vote. Not long ago United States
judge refused TO naturalize certain for
eigners on the ground that their detestable
character as violent political and social
anarchists made them unworthy of the
gift of suffrage; they lacked the moral
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-27
THE FARMER,s YEAR.

The theorists and demagogues who are
trying to stir up discomfort among the
farmers of the country will have to con-
tend with the most potent of political an
tagonists, a prosperous season. The fine
crops of the farmers, with the strong mar
ket for our surplus because of the short
harvest in Europe, will make the average
farmer an amiable optimist rather than
dyspeptic dreamer of agricultural death
and damnation at the hands of govern
ment of gold bugs. Farmers in Kansas
paid off more mortgage Indebtedness in
June last than was cancelled in any
previous month for years.
It is quite probable that the European de-
mand for the new wheat crop will be strong
enough to make nearly dollar the ruling
price on the Western farm, in spite of the
large supply expected of from 525 ,0OO, 600
to 575,000,OO0 bushels. France, Great
Britain, Germany, Russia, Holland, Bel
GUM, Italy, Spain and Portugal will all
need to import wheat this year. The total
demand of these countries is estimated at
400,000,000 bushels, of which 10000, 600
OuohSio VI ihNAS Aiuok COiuS lTOIu the
United States. The bread of Europe this
year must come from America, for even
Russia, usually an exporter nearly equal
to the United States, must be a large i'm
porter of breadstuffs, and in India famine
is threatened.
The crops and prices are too good for the
average farmer to stay long a rebel from
the Republican camp, whose tariff has
given him cheap wool goods, calico, china,
glass, sugar, ETC., besides forcing France
to rescind the prohibition of American
pork in order to escape the retaliation pos
sible under the Mckinley law.
The education of discussion and of
events has thus far been injurious to the
Farmers Alliance and will undermine all
its working political vitality and capacity
to do mischief long before November, 1892.
The Farmers Alliance and the Peoples
Party are lineal descendants of the
shiftless farmer described in Sam Slick"
fifty years ago, who, surrounded by weedy
fields, lean kline and crumbling barns, was
always ready to hang over his broken
fences and talk politics. "Yaas," said he,
solemnly, 'the country will never be pros
porous until it pays a bounty OF 12h cents
bushel on potatoes"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-27

Young Mr.. Meserole, of Brooklyn, N. Y, is to
be tried for murder in the first degree. He shot
one Larbig dead, because Larbig struck him
with his fist for interfering between him and his
mistress. Meserole's theory of the law was that
because Larbig struck him first he could kill
him and plead elf-dsfsnce, but he il likely to
find out that no court East of the Mississippi
river or North of the Potomac will rule that .
grown man attacked by another man with his
fists can nationally think his life In danger. The
fact Larbig was beating his mistress will not
avail Meserole in his defence, because the law
does not allow any man to proceed to extreme
measures Of interference except in defence Of
his own family. Pennsylvsnia has . law which
recognizes provocation not a. plea In acquittal
but as circumstance notwithstanding the degree
of crime Meserole is sure to be convicted of man.
daughter in spite of his ridiculous plea OF self
defence In England the ssnctity of human
life is more highly regarded. The plea Of 'self-
defence" In cases Of homicide is never allowed
in a case of clear manslaughter. The result ID
that English society is not disfgured by street
murders, or by the crimes of husbands who as
sumo the right to murder their fellow man be-
cause their wife has proved worthless. An
English husband may horsewhip his wife's para
mour, but ii he kills him he is just as sure to
hang as If he had shot man who had swindled
him out of his property. Law Is not made to be
Knocked by sophistical lawyers or sentimental
juries, as in America. The result Is far health
Ter state of public opinion the question of the
sanctity of human life and the enormity of tax
ing it, except in clear case of selfdefence, than
in America.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-27
THE SEWAGE PROBLEM.

The adoption of some plan OF general
sewage cannot long be deferred. The
summer heat has developed the very I'M
pleasant fact that vast accumulation OF
refuse is filing up the temporary and bar
barrie cesspools and seeping through the
porous soil. Every month this becomes
greater menace to health. The city coun-
Gil and the board Of works are inundated
by earnest appeals to take some action,
and all the members are persuaded OF the
seriousness of the emergency.
The problem which vexes them, how
ever, is how to provide the means of pay
ment for the work. The city has no money
available, or the urgency of the necessity
might warrant an immediate use OF the
general funds. There are two plans open.
One Is to divide the city into local sewer
districts and assess the property as in the
case of street grading. The other way Is
to levy a general tax.
The objection made to the first plan is
that some of the taxpayers have already
paid for the sewers in the older portions OF
the city and they consider it unfair to I'M
pose upon them the burden of the cost for
their own dwellings. To this it is an
swered that most of the downtown sewers
are used by large part of the population
which spends most of its time in the ware
houses, stores and offices.
The levy of special tax has many adj
vantages, if it would result in Immediately
raising the necessary amount. If that
plan is adopted, the question put to the
people will be whether it is not better to
share the entire cost and have the work
done at once and completely or suffer the
dire consequences of an epidemic which
might do as much damage to those who
had sewers as to those who had not The
property valuation will be at least SAL. 000,-
600 for the purposes of the next assessment.
A levy of mills would only realize
800, 900, far from sufficient to extend the
system over the city, yet forming a consid-
cradle addition to the taxation. 1t would
serve to relieve the worst districts, how
ever, and by the following year the money
market might justify an issue of bonds-a
step quite out of the question at present.
If districts are to be created it must be
done almost arbitrarily. Sewering, unlike
street grading, cannot be done piecemeal.
When the plans arrive it will be possible
only to follow them out Systematically,
beginning at the main arteries and extend
ing the ramifcations of feeders" back
ward to remote points.
Besides the tunnel now in course of con-
struction at the north end, there must be
large main draining off the eastern de-
cline of the heights, and tapping the
southern district by means of a tunnel
near the South school.
Whether the levy is by assessment or
taxation, it will be Objectionable, as all
imposts are, but as an alternative to pay
ing for sewerage there is staring the city
in the face the imminent prospect of Q
zymotic scourge.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-27
New Jerseys Abandoned Farms.

Trenton, n. j., Special.
The bureau of statistics today sent to
the printers that part of the forthcoming
report which deals with abandoned farms
and farm value. As New Jersey is dis
tinctively an agricultural state this infor-
nation is of Importance, and the work of
collecting it has been carried on with
much care and at some expense. The re-
port shows that in Atlantic county there
are fifty-five abandoned farms, covering
an acreage off, 1855; Cape May fifteen, 2, 900
acres; Monmouth, five, 2l5 acres; Ocean.
sixteen, 916; Camden, four, no acres
given; Passaic, ten, 1884; Ber-
gen, twenty, s36; Cumberland, twen-
ty-four, $40; Mercer, ten, 6sS:
Middlesex, twelve, 456; Morris, FIVE, 1870:
Burlington, thirty-two, 993; Gloucester
three, $50; Somerset, sixty, 2,090; Hunter.
don, one, 70; Sussex, thirty-three, 8, 23S:
Warren, eight, 95S. Total, 3l3 farms,
1S.4S7.
There are "a, 307 farms in New JERSEY.
with total acreage of 1923, 773, and an
average price per acre of SOS, viz: In At
lantic county. 1,139 farms, los, 1875 acres,
value, $50 per acre; Cape May. SAT farms,
farms, 212.617 acres, SIS; Ocean. sci
farms, S7,442 acres, $3l; Camden, $50
farms, s1.792 acres. value $40; Passaic.
9o6 farms, S6,9l5 acres, $45; Hudson.
145 farms, 1921 acres, $sl5; Union,
90 farms, 3S,42e acres, s2O6; Bergen, 1, 10
farms, 94.0OS acres, $l35; Cumberland,
$3.50. farms, 1927 acres. S45; Mercer
1,542 farms, 12O. 90S acres, $50: Middlesex'
2,0s5 farms, 154.966 acres, SIT; Morris
1854 farms, 242, 77S acres, $50: Burlington
2,5l2 farms, 269. 534 acres, $50; Gloucester
2,09. farms, l4s,147 acres, $6l: Salem
ISIS farms, 175, SS9 acres, S53; Hunterdon'
3, l53 farms 25,037 acres, $50; Somerset
1892 farms. 25S.6sS acres. SIS: Warren
!, 1S5 farms, lS5, 7s3 acres, $50.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-27

According to the recent census the pop
ulation of England and Wales shows an
increase of but 11.65 per cent. during the
past decade, lower rate than any since
the first English census was taken. The
United States shows an increase of Is per
cent. in the same period, a declining per
cent. of growth. Our negro population
showed up to 1850 an average rate of in
crease for decade OF 80 per cent, but the
increase from 1880 to 1890 is but 11.9 per
cent. In England and Wales there are
900, 900 more women than males. Ger
many is the only growing nation that is
highly civilized. France, Italy and Spain
show no power of growth, 1.-THE more
than holding their own, but Germany has
maintained its old order and rate of growth
in the past decade, despite emigration.
Russia is growing, but Russia is not q
highly civilized nation.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-27
DEATH TO
N ATS N
Not Necessary to Suffer From
That Affection.
h. Plours Rheumatism Cure a Speedy and
Positive Destroyer Of tho Disease.

The reason DR. PLoUF offers re-
ward of $500 for any case he cannot
cureis because his RHEUMATISM CURE
is dead shot for that painful malady.
1t is positively unnecessary to longer
suffer from rheumatism. The sufferer
who does so inficts cruelty upon
himself. He can just as we'll be
cured as to suffer on. Without going
into details it is only necessary to say
that DR.. PLoUF's RHEUMATISM CURE
will cure any case of rheumatism on
earth, if the patient will only take it
Sent to any address, Sc per bottle,
three for IS, six for $40, twelve for
SEQ.
Send for circular containing affida-
Wits of some of those the remedy has
cured.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-27
Anything But Q Dude.
New York World

A neatly dressed. quiet-looking young
man boarded the Manhattan beach boat
for Bay Ridge yesterday afternoon. His
trousers were turned up and his patent
leather shoes shone with their luster.
Look at that dude" remarked a man
TO the woman who sat beside him.
Doesn't look as though he knew enough
to go in when il rained, does he?" re-
turned the young woman.
He's pretty smart, though" put in a
man sitting alongside. "He failed for Slo.-
600 900"
That boy2" queried the first man.
THAT boy" replied the other, lis Henry
S. Ives"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-27

essentials TO presumptive good citizenship.
OF course it is clear that If suffrage was q
natural right of all, like life and liberty, it
would be conceded to Cinnamon, Indians,
aliens of all sorts, paupers and ex-convicts.
none of which classes OF non-voters are
denied legal protection for life and liberty.
The natural rights of man are birthrights,
while the right Of suffrage is an acquired
privilege to be granted or withheld at the
discretion of the state, as every intelligent
man knows.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-27
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

The public IL hereby warned not to pay
any money to parties representing to be
agents Of the Seattle Posr-ISrELLIaEScER,
except the following, who are the only
authorized travelling agents Of the Posi-
IsTxLLTexHcER, viz: ]. A. Mcclellan, l..
C. Branson, T. A. Davies and J. H. Willett
THIS does not apply to resident agents OF
this paper, who are located In various
cities and towns Of the Northwest, nor to
postmasters, who are in all cases author
lied to take subscriptions for the Daily,
Sunday and Weekly Posr-IsrELLIeENcER.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-27

Scotch papers announce that since the
establishment of whisky distilleries on the
Dee and Don rivers in Scotland the salmon
are growing better in size and quality.
Suckers" in America subsist largely on
whisky, and though they sometimes in
crease in size on this diet, they do not
improve in quality.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-27
FREE TREATMENT FOR ALL
Drs. Darrfn Make q Generous Offer to
Treat the Rich and Poor, the High
and Low, All Classes. Grades
and Stations, Free Of
Charge, from 10
to II q. m.
Daily.

For the benefit of those who are not
already acquainted with their mode Of
operating by electro-magnetism, and who
may be seeking aid, though distrustful,
after many failures of everybody and
everything, DR.. Darrin makes the extra
ordinary and most generous offer to treat
the afflicted free of charge, between the
hours of 10 and IL a. m. each day, until
further notice, to prove to the community
at large his ability and skill. That the
Drs. Darrin have effected extraordinary
cures after all efforts elsewhere have failed.
is fact supported by the strongest evil
dence. Their cures, moreover, are rapid
and permanent.
They make a speciality of all diseases of
the Eve, Ear, Nose and Throat, and all
nervous, chronic and private diseases, such
as Loss of Manhood, Loss of Desire or Sexual
Power in man or woman. All peculiar Fee
male Troubles, Leucorrhea, Disbursements.
etc., are confidentially and successfully
treated, and will under no circumstances
take a case that they cannot cure or bene-
fit. Consultation free. Charges reason
able Cures of private diseases guaran-
teed and never published in the papers
Most cases can receive home treatment
after visit to the Doctors office In
quiries answered and circulars sent free.
parties writing will please mention paper.)
Drs. Darrin have their offices in "The
Normandy" cor. Third and James streets,
Seattle, Wash.
Office hours from 10 to 5daily; evenings,
Ito 8: SUNDAYS, 10 to II.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-27
YE STARS.

Ye stars, so pensive and so bright
Ny soul, exalted to your sphere,
Forgets, in the supernal light,
Its trials and fluctuations here
To wander in a zone of peace,
OF holy quietude and rest,
Midst thoughts no pen e'er gave release,
No mortal tongue expressed.
But when turn away as wont
And realize my state again,
Ny soul discovers in the brunt
A throe that rankles worse than pain
A darkness dwelling on despair,
That drives the glory from my heart,
And leaves instead the token there
A clod OF clay thou arti
OIL that my soul might there betaks
Itself, to ruminate the while,
And never to the stains awake
That do its tenement defle;
Until the moment, crowned with care,
My spark emerges from its slime,
And floats away to mingle there
Among the hosts sublime.
Walla Walla, July 16. &C j. OBrien
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-27

No visitor to Seattle should fail TO take a trim
on lske ashington- Take the Yesler avenue
cable cars and the steamer Kirkland
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and the prospect is decidedly against the
present parliament holding on to that date.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-27
Edmunds Wishes 1t Were True.

New York World
Mr.. Edmunds dislikes Blaine intensely. He
says he has Bright's disease.
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SEATTLE. MONDAY. JULY ~.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-01-03

in looking up the peculiar names
given each OF the twelve months of the
year it becomes necessary for us to go
back to the old Romans who have i'm
posed upon us q set of names equally
as absurd as those which the Norsenen,
the Scandjnavians and Saxons applied
to the week. January il named from
Janus, the god of doors and gates, be-
cause. the month opens the year; some
say that he is u .two faced god, and
could look back on the last year and
forward to the coming. February is
from februo, to purify. March was
originally the first month, and was
named for Mars, the god of war April
is from aperire, to open, because the
buds open in that month.
May is from Main, goddess; June
is from Juno, the patron of marriage,
and is, therefore, the favorite month
for weddings. July was named for
Julius Caesar and August for Augustus
Caesar. Originally August had but
thirty days, and February twenty nine
in the common year and thirty in leap
years. Augustus was jealous that
julius month should have more days
than his own; therefore, ne took one
from February and added it to August.
September, October, November, De-
cember are SO called because they we're
originally the seventh, eighth, ninth
and tenth months of the year. The
names are inappropriate and rank mis-
nomers as now applied.-Exchanee
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-01-03
Tic Empress of Japan.

At excessive heights above I'LL jap
anesc women the invisible empress, till
within recent years, was enthroned like
a goddess. But she, the sovereign. has
descended little by little from her en-
pyrean; she shows herself at present,
she receives she speaks, and she even
lunches-witll the tips of her lips, it is
true SHE lias abandoned her mag
niicent canals strewed with strange
blazons. her wide lteaddress that looked
like an idols, and her enormous fans;
size sends, alas! to Paris or London for
her corsets. her dresses and her bonnets.
Five years have passed over the
chrysanthemums since on one of those
very rare soleinnities, where few
privileged ones are admitted to her
presence, had the honor of seeing her
in her gardens She was ideally charm
ing, passing like u fairy among her
parterres, lowered in profuson with
the sad flowers of autumn; then com-
ing TO sit beneath her canopy of violet
crepon (thc imperial color in the HE
ratio stiffness of her robes, tinted like
the wings of llumlning bird.
All the deliciously quaint pageantry
with which she then surrounded her
self gave her the charm Of an unreal
creature. Upon her painted lips how
cred ceremonial smile, disdainful and
vague. Beneath the powder her eX-
quisite face preserved an ilnpenetrable
expression, and notwithstanding the
grace Of her greeting, one felt her Of
Tended by our presence, which accord
ing to the now customs she was forced
to tolerate-she, the holy empress, in
visible of yore like religious myth. :
Pierre Lott in Harper's.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-01-03
, SQUIRRELS Dangerous Perch.

Squirrels arc more frequently seen in
the heart Of the business portion Of
Memphis than cats or dogs. and usually
.,teeract no more attention from citizens
tl.an the feline or cailine loafer.
Strangers of course gaze in wonder at
the nimblc little occupants of Court
square, and occasionally IL squirrel of a
venturesome turn does something that
arouses the interest of people who are
accustomed to seeing them every day
There is one old fellow with a hand
some tail who is IL great traveller. He
is rarely seen on the ground, prefcrring
20 run along the electric light wires,
telephone cables and guys Anything
that is as large ASA lead pencil is good
enough right of way for him. He gets
his dinner at Fransoli's hotel, on the
corner of Union and Second streets,
three blocks from the square, and may
be seen any fair evening about o'clock
vending his way along the wire to or
from that hostelry Some day he will
get on two wires at once and start a
circuit from dynamo. Then he will
dine no more. Memphis Appeal.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-01-03
Cost of papcr aud Printing.

Here is book that was published in
New York, but printed in St Louis
and the funny thing about it is that
the paper it was printed on was lrn.de
in the east and shipped west. Hence
freight was paid on the white paper out
here and on the books back east. This
is done constantly and the reason is
singular You can buy book paper Of
various grades % to % per cent cheap
er for the western than for the eastern
market, owing to the great competition
Hence paper is delivered in St Louis
cheaper than to warehouse five miles
from the mill. Printing here is cheap
er than in the east, and thrifty publish.
ers save several thousands year by
their patronage of our printing houses.
St. Louis has nothing to complain of
in the matter. but the long round trip
of first the paper and then the books
is remarkable. and shows how conpe-
tition affects and benefits trade. In
terview in St. Louis Globe-Delnocrat.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-01-03
Dan Lockwoed,s Great effort.

Congrcss,nan-clcct Lockwood away
back in Isis school days at Hamburg
Was an orator of such note that lie was
chosen valcdictorian Of his class lie
prepared for the event by ordering Il
new pair Of shoes. Late in the after
neon of the great day the shoes calne-
But. good heavens! they wouldn't go
On. Dan hadn't another pair fit for
use. Hc summoned the shoemaker to
n conference, and. while the pcrSpira
ton rolled of his face. lie explained
the situation.
That's nothing" said Crispin; get
Il couple of eggs and break one into
each shoe"
Dan did so, and the result was charm
ing. He went into those shoes like a
ducks foot in the mud His vale
dictory was the greatest effort of Lock
woods career up to that date. The
words were honcycd and the gestures
as graceful as snake swallowing a
frog. All his friends and relatives were
spcllbound. But right in the midst of
it the author stopped. Agony was in
carnate in lis features. His hair rose
on end. He became pale and red in
turns.
What was the matter? Had he for
gotten his speech3 No; he had just
thought of those TWO egg onelets, and
would have given all he had or ever
hoped to have for Il chance TO laugh. :
Buffalo Express.