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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-07
CONFUSION AND STORAGE.

I'VE HAVE SUPERIOR FACILITIES II
W our extensive warehouses for storing bonse
hold goods and furniture: also grain and other nro
duee. III. r. Hammond & Co, S2I-s23 West Street rs
corner Marion.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-07

DACIFIC RAILING AND PLATING CON-
pany. manufacturers Of iron fences grille
work, bar brackets, ratings fancy iron work and
fire escapes: lowest rates; polishing and nick 81
plating. 11S Union street.
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TOHN T. WITTWER, THE ONLY PRO-
- fesSional haIrdresser and wigmaker in the city:
hairdressing; ladies' and chidren's bangs-cutting
speciality; most natural looking bangs kept in
stock and made 10 order; all kinds of hair work
done in the very latest style. 6IS Front next tn
Lowman & Hanford's.
lace MASSAGE, THE NEW ART OF
acquiring good complexion without cosmat-
ics halrdressng, cutting, bleaching etc. manicur-
ing and chlropody. Mrs. Reed, Atkins block, BIS
Columbia street
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-07

GS 00n SPOT CASH WILL BUY ONE
.DO.UUO third interest and secure good posi-
ton in business that is positively clearing $500
per week: thoroughly established and a strictly
cash business. Everything Is open and above
board and wide open TO the closest scrutiny. for
this business Is actually clearing over ana above
all expenses $1,000 per month. Must De a pro-
gressiye, wide-awake man. and able TO give the
very best refences. This business stands without
an equal on the Pacific coast and if you all
right and mean business. you had best investigate
IL No real estate or trade OF any kind considered
No agents or brokers need answer. For full details
call in person. If possible as nothing definite can
De arrived at by correspondence. The whole is
positively not for sale at any price. Smith &
Buckley room 500 Pacific Bank building. Thir-
teen street and Pacific avenue, Tacoma, Wash.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-07
LANDSCAPE GARDENERS.

GEORGE S. LANDER. MANUFACTURER OF
VI woven wires spring beds mattresses and IN
holstery; northeast corner Cedar and Water
streets Telephone $40.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-07

ItOR SALE-AT A BARGAIN On por----
IT house and two lots; corner Fi1hT6 ~ 70
streets Will take part payment in on,siSa s .aala
erty. Chilberz. Lleweisyn- IJo1Za huflS..1 p1uQr
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-07

LsoR sALE-REsIDENCE; ALT uon----
Il Improvements; view simply grand. nas-aAy
cars: one-tenth cash, balance long tina c sfset
II. RandelI, seattle block 0esrg<
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TOR sALE-$525: TWO LOTS IN w.n----
IL street addition; one block from essSa ~
power hoase; must have cash tnmesiassir. ae1>
dress p o. Box TOS, city. Ad'
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ICE CREAM, CONFECTIONERY, FIT
Il Henry's ice cream, all iayors. always on nanl
delivered promptly TO all parts ofthe city; Messv
poiItan bricks, ali hayors one quart 90 cents 49,
pInts 50 cents two quarts, 81 or 81 per gslloas
Homemade candies made fresh daily; largesL ~
sorIment IN the city at Hsury's. SIT mira sffeet
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Tor SALE-5-ACRE TRACTS. CLEARE0
and grubbed, in the fertile stuck river valley a
easy terms. by G. w & w. p. Prichafd 2g1 ca
Iornia building, Tacoma, Clode a Applecn<4
Sumner.
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SOCIETY NOTICES.
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CEATTLE LODGE, NO. 7, l. Q Q; =; MEEIS
- every Tuesday evening IN DOC Feiows nan,
North Seattle at 7:30 O'Clock; members OF sister
lodges and soournng brothers In good standing are
cordially invited 10 attend
HAIRY GLIB, Secretary.
Postoffice box 31e
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-25
CAUSES OF BANK FAILURE.

The failure of the keystone Bank in
Philadelphia was for long time regarded
as the exceptional case in wnien a solvent
bank, conducted according to conservative
aud legitimate methods, was weakened by
an unreasonable lack of public confidence.
The run upon it was represented as without
reason, and the reduction of its cash assets
was stated to be so heavy as to force it into
Liquidation. This looked like an exception
10 the rule that no bank disasters were oc-
curing except where there had been clear
departure from conservative and sound
methods; and in that light its failure as
sumed 4 serious significance.
1t now comes out as part of the gossip of
barking circles in Philadelphia that the
failure was caused by large loans to be used
by the President of the bank in personal
speculations. The story, as published by the
Record, is that his operations with the
banks funds amounted to nearly s., ,000, 900,
which was in direct violation of the national
banking law. Half this sum is said to be
Tied up in real estate ventures in the line of
building up the watering places of Spring
Lake and Sea Girt, which is as obvious
case of speculative ballooning as any
stock speculation. Ii these assertions are
eorrobo1a ted-and one of the directors of the
bank is quoted as drawing the fine distinc-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-25

ton that these sums were not "loaned BY the
bank" but were borrowed from the bank
there will be no wonder that the subse-
quent disaster followed.
1t is evident that such use of banking
funds has no relationship to the banking
business conducted on the sound principles
outlined in the national banking act. In
the first place it is worth while to remember
that every bank failure recently shows
a wholesale transgression of the pro-
vision of the law that no bank shall
loan to any one borrower an amount in
excess of one-tenth its capital stock.
This is very rigid rule, and
one that is often transgressed. Its trans
gression does not always mean insolvency,
but experience warrants the conclusion that
its observance means solvency. Next, the
rule requiring loans to be made on legiti-
mate commercial paper is a sound one. Of
course, loans to be spent in building up
watering place speculation cannot be so
classed. When these provisions are vio-
lated the wonder is not that they should
send the bank into liquidation. but that
they should have been permitted at all.
1t is still an uncontroverted assertion, with
regard TO the recent bank failures. that no
bank which has kept within the limits of
conservative and legitimate banking has
been at all weakened In its stability by
commercial events the past year.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-25
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG. SATURDAY, APR. 25. 1891
AN IGNORED PLEDGE

After several days OF attempts to prevent
it by flibustering speeches, Mr.. Seanor's
anti-discrimination bill was placed on the
House calendar yesterday. There is there
fore chance OF its coming to a vote in that
branch of the legislature but there is not
much likelihood OF its getting past the
Senate.
The House has shown rather more dispo-
sition than usual to be governed by de-
cent respect for the public rights and inter
est. 1t has passed the ballot reform bill,
and, Notwithstanding the name uvers of the
corporate leaders, has placed the anti-dis-
elimination bill on the calendar by very
strong vote. The pledge of the Republican
party to pass such a measure has been neg
lected so long that it may be regarded as
practically outlawed. The bill itself only
gives effective force 10 the provisions of the
Constitution, and does no more than
bring the statutes up to the Constitutional
standard. But that presents no obstacle to
the quiet suppression of the measure; and if
it comes to a vote in the House there is little
reason to expect that it will get any better
treatment than quiet but effective strang-
ling in the Senate.
This is one of the bIots upon Republican
legislation in this State With the Consti-
tuition plainly stating the requirements,
and with party platforms pledging both
sides to legislation against Determinations,
the subservience of the Legislature to the
corporations has reduced both the Constitu-
tiOnal provisions and the party pledges to
nullity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-25
ACHANGE IN BASEBALL.

The opening of the baseball season may
not appear TO the superficial observer to be
full of encouragement to Pittsburg's enthu-
siasts. But, to those who look beneath the
surface and are able to draw encouragement
from variations or the precedents of a disas-
trous past, the recently unsatisfactory record
holds out q disguised promise of future
glories.
Heretofore, it has been the custom of
Plttsburg representatives on the field to
start out by winning a few games. After
they had raised the hopes of the contingent
irreverently STYLED baseball cranks to the
widest pitch, and possibly contracted the
disease known as enlargement OF the Uranium
on their own account the other teams would
step in and proceed TO wipe up the
diamond with them both at home
aad abroad. This year more
subtle policy governs their action.
They are content to let their rivals have fun
with them at first, but after sufficient ex-
perience of this sort, when they have mas
tered the antagonistic curves they will pro-
ceed to assert themselves in a superlative
degree IhlS Is at IeAst the optimistic view
10 take of the present baseball situation.
Through trial to triumph is the motto of
success in baseball as well as in more OBJ
scure fields OF effort
All Pittsburg will join in the hope that,
after its representatives have sufficiently
explored the depths of defeat. they will
profit by experience and proceed to play
ball with the result of a complete reversal
Of the record of former years,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-25
THE CHARITIES APPROPRIATIONS

The complaints from the managers of the
various charitable institutions of this citv
that the amounts appropriated for them
by the Legislature are insufficient, are
sustained by facts. The several institutions
could use more money than has been ap-
propriated, end vet keep within the bounds
of the strictest economy in their expendi =
ture. Particularly is this true of the hospi-
tails. So many INDECENT invalids and injured
persons apply daily for admission that the
wards are always full; and as the care of
the sick or manned is not matter that can
be slighted with justice to the principles of
humanity, parsimonious policy on the part
of the State would not be proper. The other
institutions also require money to keep
them in good working order.
The only question about the matter is. can
the State afford to come TO the views of the
managers in making the appropriations this
year. 1t was known that there would be
difficulty in meeting the various demands
for money, but it was hoped that the Pitts
burg institutions would not be sighted in
making the distribution. The amounts set
aside by the Legislature may be increased
by the Senate, and it is hoped that that body
will, if possible, prove more liberal than
the House has been.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-25
THE VALUE OF PLATFORMS

Indications continue to be in the direc-
ton that the Senate will refuse to pass
the ballot reform bill, and will in its place
send back to the House Senator Robinson s
remarkable provision for Constitutional
convention.
The Republican platform in the last State
campaign promised a prompt and effective
measure of ballot reform. 1t did not say
anything about a Constitutional conven-
ton. If it had it is an open question
whether the reverse the party sustained in
the election for Governor might not have
extended to the Legislature. But it is not
open to dispute that to fail to give what was
pledged, and to present in its place what
was not, will be new demonstration of the
political idea that platform pledges are only
to be regarded as a means of hoodwinking
the public.
1t is to be hoped, if this course is taken
by the Senate, that the House will reject the
bill for Constitutions, convention. The
people don't wish any expensive tinkering
with the Constitution; but they have the
right to expect the plain and elective
measure of ballot reform that is practicable
under it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-25

says the. Philadelphia Press. The dinner came
to IS g. nice little bill, you see. To pay for ii
he produced a $50 bill-just the very same bill
that had come from his publishers check. the
cashing of which had made him feel rich.
Dear me-" said Katie.
In course of time the waiter brought back the
salver heated up with the change IN paper and
silver, with gold piece OF so.
"Going to count all thatr said Katle.N
"Business is business" said he. '1rs mere
self-protection to count it,"
"1t's a first-class place. and they don't make
mistakes as rule"
"But they do sometimes. They count for
themselves and connt for myself"
Whereat he counted. 1t transpired, oh won-
derl that there was $50 on the plate, IS besides,
and nothing out for the dinner.
Say" began he. but Katie stopped him,
ut isn't your affair."" said she; "they count
for themselves and you count tor yourself"
"NonseBsep'
"Not a bit of it. They give cashier big
salary; why should you do his workr'
But Katie, the poor fellow would have to
make IL good out of his own pocket"
THAT cashier commands salary and conf
dence in proportion to the degree of honesty
aud accuracy he displays 1t will be just about
worth his place to be exposed in so heavy
mistake. Neither business nor justice depands
your pointing out the error he has made and
charity forbids it'
He began to get muddled, but he ended by
returning the excess of money. And the cashier
was discharged.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-25
WORK FOR NEW YORK POLICE

The signs that the mysterious assassin,
whose crimes produced such a sensation in
London last year, has turned up in New
York, as presented by the murder discovered
there yesterday morning, are very positive.
1t is possible to hold the theory that some
criminal has been inspired by craze to
commit similar crime. But the interval
that has elapsed between the last OF the
London butcheries and that in New York is
strongly in favor of the theory that they
were perpetrated by some sailor who, after
his successful career of slaughter in Lon
don, has gone on a voyage and reached New
York, where he has resumed the satisfaction
of his murderous mania.
1t now remains to be seen whether the
New York police will be more successful in
unearthing this murderous monomaniac
than their London brethren. The failure of
the London officers to discover the criminal,
who pursued his butcheries almost under
their surveillance for months, has been the
subject of many sarcasms; but the most
effective sarcasm will be the arrest and con-
viction of the murderer, or his 1mitator in
this country, by the New York detectives.
1t is not creditable to civilization in either
country that women, even of the most de-
graded class, can be slaughtered like wild
beasts in the metropolitan slums without any
punishment of the assassin. 1t will be
gratifying to the national pride if the New
York police succeed in laying hold of Jack
the Ripper. and it will be humiliating if
they succeed no better than their English
rivals.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-25
JOURNALISTIC JOCULARTTT.

Rev. white-When Satan entered the
swine
Mrs Wh1te-S-shI Not so loud.
Rev. Nhfte-Why not?
Mrs. White-Tne lady by the window Is from
Chicago, and any reference to that incident may
offend her.-MunSey's Weekly.
Summer boarder (who is chasing butter
flies over the wold to hobo who has stopped to dig
a pebble out Of his hee)-My friend, do you take
a interest in collections?
..What kinder collections do yer mean!'
aOh, ra-e articles such as butterflies, or rare
coins, or quaint bric-a-brac, or rare postage
stamps, and rare Indian relics" "
~ do, SIR"
'.Pray tell me- what is your faney?n
'.Rare beefsteaks.' s.''-SpOkesnGn.
Scribbler-N1ce refined fellow, that young
author. PenBibs.
ScrawIer-In what particulap
scribbIer-I tried to get him into a conversation
about Shakespeare the other day at a dinner and
he said he never talked shop. ''-America.
Tommy-My grandpa has voted for II
different Presidents.
Jimmy-Ah. de ole mans not in II. My daddy
voted Il times for one President.-Indianapoi
Journal
mo, don't want any lawn mower" said
the man who was anxious to chase the agent away.
''What L desire is more lawn. - Washington
Post.
How cln you expect to get information
from n letter when it is not postedy- IOHksrs
Statesman.
Judge-Have YOU anything to say in your
defense. prisonsr!
'Only this Your Honor. II was all mistake.
intended to rob another house and mistook the
number. ''-FgtsgsHde BIastter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-25
Women in Street Cars.

1t was on Fourth avenue car that it hap
pened, says the Minneapolis Journal The
recent snowstorm had made the traffic un-
usually heavy. and the line was only running
single cars. The men on the car had all risen
but one, and he sat next the stove unmoved.
The other side of the car had been filled by
ladies. most of whom had been given seats by
the prompt sacrifice of the men who now filled
the aisle. The ladies were loosely distributed
along the seat; one sat sidewise gazing out of
the window; a second allowed her child room
enough for good-siZed man by clambering
around with his face to the pane; a third,
dressed in silk, sat as though afraid of the
touch of woman next to her.
A lady entered and looked around for a seat,
and there was none. The men all looked at the
man by the stove. He was a stout, hearty fell
low, growing just little old He sat still, ap-
the aisle looked at him; the LADY in silk glared
He didn't move. The lady moved up opposite
him in the car and took hold of a strap, and he
sat still.
MADAM" said he at last, courtcously enongb..
but in a voice heard plainly all through the
car, MADAM, do not feel inclined to give you
my seat when SO many of your own sex on the
opposite side of the car make no move to make
room for you"
And maybe there wasn't shuttle on the op-
posite side Of the car. The lady in silk iammed
up against the plainly-dressed woman the child
was hastily deposited in its mothers lap and
the woman who gazed out of the window saw
something to attract her attention straight
ahead of her. Phe lady who was standing and
TWO elderly gentlemen occupied the room made.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-25
PEOPLE WHO COME AND 60.

Judge Clements, John O'Donnell, s. E.
Shines, J.W. Peters and ex-Sheriff Leeds passed
through the city yesterday from the Cincin-
natl Convention. on their way home to PhIla-
deIpbia They said the Western organization
was too strong for the Pennsylvania boys.
DIR. +. Fl. Eggers, President of the State
Board of Pharmacy, went to Harrisburg yes
terday to attend the annual meeting. Though
q Republican, he expects Governor Pattlson to
reappoint MIN.
Oscar A. Small, OF West Bridgewater. a
clerk in the Auditor Generals Office was at the
Monongahela House last evening. He was on
his way home to spend Sunday.
George F. Bishop, commercial agent of
the .'Clnver Leaf route, from Cleveland and
DR.. r. F. Lester, of Atlanta, are at the Du-
quesne.
w. J. Mengies and two daughters, En-
gllsh tourists from Liverpool, were among the
guests at the Anderson yesterday.
C. Seymour Duttou, a Youngstown iron
agent, and J. r. Thomas of Niles, are stopping
at the Monougahela house.
Purchasing Agent Mullins, of the Penn
sylvauia Company. and H. II. Bennett went to
New York last evening.
]. L. Leonard, of Bueyrus, and DR.. L.
E. Henry of Apollo, are registered at the
Seventh Avenue Hotel.
c. l.. Pullman was n passenger on the
limited last evening going to Chicago.
Adjutant General MeClelland returned
to the coke country yesterday.
County Controller Greer left for Phila-
delphia last evening.
Sam P. White. of Beaver Falls, was in
the city yesterday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-25
A Horse With n Mustache.

There may be seen at the corner of Mont.
gomery avenue and Kearny street, at San
Francisco, at frequent intervals during the
day, horse that would make a comfortable
living for its owner If placed on exhibition in
a dime museum. Neither horse nor master,
however, seems to DO imbued with desire for
fame, and the latter IS content. apparently, 10
serve out his days at his allotted task of draw
ing an express wagon about the city.
He is AN ordinary-siZed gray horse, with a
most amiaSle cast of cOuntenance and with
nothing remarkable about him except the pos
session of a large aud wel-shaped mustache.
The latter IS kept carefully trimmed and
brushed by the owner of the horse. but the
possessor OF this unusual appendage seems to
pay but little attention to 1t. He has never
been known, at least. to stroke it as men do,
but by watching him closely it may be OBJ
served that he eyes it occasionally in q critl-
cal sort OF way.
He is 6 years old, and was born In Mexico;
but, SO far as can he learned, he is the only
member of his family who has ever been blessed
with either mustache Or whiskers. On the con-
trary. his fathers lip was without suspicion of
a hair, and his mother, of course, was a stranger
to such thing.