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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-12
THE OLD VIRGINIA REEL.

In the sunny autumn cleaning when the fire
begins to sing,
And l look between the ivies that about my
cabin cling
At my lonesome little garden, where the ruined
Like heap Of tattered beggars fallen in the
weeds to die;
And the chilly winds come droning round the
chimney and the caves,
And along the narrow pathway drive the dry
and withered leaves,
And the crazy mill is silent, and a mist hangs
DER the wheel,
Then seem to hear the music of an old vir-
ginia reel.
Very sweet and very merry. very faint and far
Now hear the ancient hddlers on the strings
Keeping time with swaying bodies, and kind
of whispered Groom,
Till host OF dainty slippers follow to the dear
There is Mistress Jenny Weaver in her gown of
yellow silk,
With the crimson coral shining on her neck and
Even Lady Betty Fairfax deigns to tap scarlet
heel
To the merry, merry music of the old Virginia
reel.
Lady Betty, Lady Betty, all your pride is dust
and mould,
For the worms have bred ana nested IN your
locks of paly gold.
Mistress Jenny, with your laughter, and your
ribbons, and your beaux,
And the hearts that you have broken are as dead
as yonder rose.
alone am left to mourn ye, poor and palsied,
bent and gray,
Mumbling DER the vanished glories and the joys
of yesterday,
When had gallant lover, and my heart to him
was leal,
And We gayly danced together in the old yir-
ginia reel.
All, the instruments are shattered, and the
strings are snapped in twain,
And the fiddlers have forgotten and will never
play again.
Twas the creaking OF the branches on the
shingles to and fro
That recalled to me the music and the mirth OF
long ago.
But above the stars eternal in their faded pinks
and blues,
With the powder on their ringlets and the buck
les on their shoes,
shall see the beaux and sweethearts in long
procession kneel,
And their harps shall play the music OF an old
Virginia reel.
Minnie IrUlao.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-12
BOOTH AND JEFFERSON.

There is cause for rejoicing to the lovers
of modern tragedy in the fact that Edwin
Booths health is now better than it has
been before in a long time. He was able
to leave the Actors Club, of New York,
for Stockbridge, Mass, last week: and
after visits there and in Boston
he will go to Newport for the
summer. 1t is curious fact
that in the persons of Edwin Booth and
Joseph Jefferson, who lead the American
stage in tragedy and comedy, respectively,
We have the most eminent opponents of
the old classic English school of acting.
They both come of families of act
ors, and the atmosphere in which
they were reared was that of
The stage. 1t is to this that the great
actors owe much of that finish which goes
TO grace the work which is the product of
genius in either case. In England,
strangely enough, the greatest actor,
Henry Irving, is not lineal descendant
of Burbage, Kean. Garrick and Kimball
in art, but radical, who sets tradition
aside, and who is great in spite of glaring
defects as an artist. There are actors
of less note in England who represent
the old school, but unfortunately they
have not the genius which makes these
traditions of art, invaluable as they are,
only accessory to the creative work of the
great actor. 1t is not to be expected from
the nature of things that either of the two
greatest American actors of their day can be
seen on the stage much longer. Jefferson's
increasing years forbid it in his case; and
the ominous breakdown of Booth near the
close of the last theatrical season, in his.
The remaining times that they are seen
upon the stage must be regarded as pre-
cious opportunities to those who have it in
their power to see them again, for the day
is approaching when those who remember
their acting will look back to it with the
keenest pleasuee; describe it to those who
have not been so fortunate, and say of
either as Hamlet did of his father, that
they shall not look upon his like again.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-12

In l74o Massachusetts chartered the Gland
and Manufacturers Bank" with a capital of
one hundred and fifty thousand pounds, di-
vided into one hundred pound shares Each
subscriber was required to make over an
estate in land pay per cent. on each share,
and pay per cent annually in produce or the
company's bills. Each artifeer or trader could
take one share on personal security. On the
credit thus established circulating bills were
issued. In two years the bank failed and the
estates OF the surviving directors were assessed
for the losses incurred. The effect OF this and
similar measures for the imitation OF the chr
rency from 1900 to l745, says Weeden, was to
destroy home manufactures and make a market
for those of Europe. Such scraps of history
may be read with profit in these crazy times.
Present conditions are not the results OF acct.
dent, but of experience slowly gained and intel.
ligently applied.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-12
UNIFORM DIVORCE LAWS.

The evils incident to the homogeneous
lawSof the several states on the subject of
divorce was recognized by congress in 1887,
when an appropriation of ten thousand
dollars was made for IAN exhaustive COM
pilation and comparison of the marriage
and divorce laws of all the states and ter
ritories and of all related statistics" The
work was thoroughly and diligently per-
formed, and two years later, in 1859, the
results were published in book form
The showing was startling, even TO those
who had been most strongly impressed
with the extent of the evil and the need
for investigation with view 20 remedial
measures. Nothing more incongruous can
be imagined than are the diffe ring and con-
tiicting rules OF the different states in re-
speot to the marriage relation. the foun-
dation of the home and the chief bulwark
of the social order. These incongruities
practically annul those two important
clauses of the federal constitution. that no
state shall pass any law "impairing the
validity of contract" and that 1.-The citi-
gems of each state shall be entitled to all
privileges and immunities of citizens in
the several states"
Scrutiny of the report of iSS9 will show
that contracts of marriage lawfully made
and binding in some states are not only
impaired but are Of none effect in other
states. and that the privileges of enjoying
the marital relation and the immunity
from arrest for bigamy which attach To
citizenship of several states, cannot be
successfully invoked in all Of the states.
The lawful marriage or divorce of one
state may be unlawful or criminal in
many other states. The laws of some
declare 10 be Legitimate the children who
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-12
IngersolI on Briggs.
Letter in Philadelphia Press.

"Heresy is religious growth. Religion
is like palm tree-growsat the top. The
dead leaves are all orthodox, while the
new ones and the buds are all heretics.
The pews are becoming civilized,
and the pulpit must keep up
with the procession-the church
must advance or die. DR.. Briggs
has taken one short step in advance, and
before long will take another. The Pres
byterian creed is dying and others will be
made. Calvanism is barbarism. On every
hand are the signs of the decay of ortho-
doxy. The Evangelical churches are deny
ing that they ever believed in hell. DR..
Parkhurst's address reminds me of the re-
ports OF my own lectures"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-12
Ewes own Daughter.
pi.tsburg Bulletin

wilful Wife-It is brutal for you all to
treat me sol
Fond Old Husband-Good heavensl my
darling. What do you mean?
W. w. (sobbing)-You say the play is
abominable, and / mustn't go; Tom says
it's shocking and oughtn't TO go; mann
ma saws for me not 10 dare to go; the
newspapers declare that no good woman
has any business TO go.
F. o. H. (aghast)-Weu?
". WI say its brutal for you all TO
keep on saying what is making me fairly
die 10 go.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-12
4 MODEL "rARMER" CANDIDATE.

Three things the farmers who favor
new political movement on class lines
seem agreed upon, whether they be ocala
convention men, St. Louis convention
men or Cincinnati convention men. On
many points the representatives of one
and another of these may be q; cross pur-
poses. but all are agreed on these three
points: They are opposed 70 monopolies
and corporations: in favor of deposing the
money power, and in favor Of senator
Stanford as their candidate for president.
The naming of Stanford as q "FaTmesn
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-12

candidate alone would be amusing. He
owns farms, to be sure, as he owns rail-
roads, banks, palaces, congressman and
the like. but he seldom visits his farms.
much less works upon them. except in bis
special palace car. But as an anti-mon-
opoly, anti-corporation, antimoney-power
Farmer candidate, the nomination OF
Stanford Is sublime.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-12

ale looks very much like highly respectable
city man, and responds to the questions of the
counsel for all the world like a sexton" This
was the language of the dispatch that described
Lord Coventry when he appeared as a witness in
the baccarat scandal. The latter part Of it con.
veys no idea to the mind of an American as to
Lord Coventry's manner of answering questions.
In what respect does an English sexton answer
questions differently from other men? Gravely.
perhans
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-12

Among the contributors to next Sun
days PosT-INTELLIGENcER are Professor
Michael Donovan, the distinguished scien-
fist, who discusses Slavin and Kiirain;
Frank G. Carpenter. who describes Mex
lean summer resort; Celia Logan, who tells
how to grow thin; Mrs. John Sherwood.
who deals with the servant question, and
Rene Bache, who tells about poker games
in Washington City.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-12
Apropos OF some Of the Innovations sdrncatea

Apropos OF some of the innovations advocated
by the newborn Peoples Party" George R.
Stetson quotes the definition OF progress offered
by Leslie Stephens: THAT which we call
progress is for the most part process of finding
the right path by tumbling into every ditch on
each side OF the way" In the present case il is
iumbling into the old bitches rather than con.
tinue in the discovered and beaten path.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-12
Ambrose Bieroe Consumed With Rnvy.

Ambrose Bierce in San Francisco Examiner.
II Ambrose Bieree win forgive me for men
tioning him in the same paragraph with one Lee
Fairchild-. But no; suppose that Is the IN.
pardonsbe literary sin.-The WGue
Holy bones Who is Lee FairchiId? That's
twice I've heard of him, and Tn consumed with
envy Of his fame repeat-who is he?
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-12
With the Reader. Assistance.
Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Tribune
"Who is that Notwithstanding
prig?"
who is he? Why don't you know? He
is the son Of
The reader will oblige by kindly filing this
blank with the name Of any great man.
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within recent years and those who have been SO
happy as to follow the fortunes of the "men of
iron" thus far will be sorry to part company
with them.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-12

FIneonyx and bronze clocks Seth Thomas
hall, gallery and mantel clocks at Q discount Is
Hansen's, s06 Front street
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-12
Fine Fishing on Cape FIattery.
Port Townsend Call.

The fishing schooner Lady George arrived yes.
teEaisy from Cape Flsttery with ten tons OF FISH.
one Of the largest catches or the fnny tribe ever
brought in. II comprises halibut, cod and red
and black cod She left Port Townsend ten days
ago, and eruised of Cape Flattery, where she
SECURED the fish. The captain reports large
run st present. He is going to get back and sa.
cure another cargo rs soon as discharged
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-12

Fine watch snd iewelry repairing at HAnsen's
7oe Front street
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Beautiful women. made 50 by the artistic uss
OF Wisdom : famous kooeTtine. Once tried, al
WAYS used.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-20
Merry Voices.

The murcury enjoys sunny climb
nowadays -BinghGmpton Republican.
A man is apt to run down when his af-
fairs are wound up.-BoStOn Trans
cIfpt.
The knife-grinder ought not to be out
OF work in dull timeS.-Nel0 Orleans
Pic0ptRe.
Out West the Judge, an expert hang
man as they do ship-by the number
of knots he can make in an hour
BuFGlO Express.
"There are some unpleasant features
in this business" muttered the photo
grapher as he surveyed a row OF his pat
Baltimore american.
The Toronto regiment that is to be
uniformed In Scotch kits proposed to
90 considerably further than giving ex-
hibjtionS Of -WGShingtOn Star.
When man stops you on the street
and begins by telling you that he is too
proud to beg you may feel reasonably
sure that he IL about TO fall on YOU
Detroit Free Press.
Cunning people are more often de-
ceived than those who go quietly along
with moderate degree Of confidence in
tho world and It's Observation-Disclosures
kec Journal.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-20
Molasses az FueI.

A dispatch TO the New York Sun from
New Orleans says: The large crop Of
sugar which Louisiana is raising this
year has greatly complicated the prob
lem as TO what TO do with the molasses.
With crop of $50, 600, 600 pounds of
sugar, there will be 700, 600, barrels,
%, 500, 900 gallons, or 500, 600, 600 pounds
Of molasseS, which the planters do not
know how to getrid OF. The output of
moiaSseS in Louisiana is now so great
that there Is no market for the lower
grades and II does not pay to sell them.
Last year the molasSes got down TO 5,
and cents gallon. The barrel in
which it was put cost often twice as
much as its contents, and the freight
10 New Orleans was great deal more
than the molasses was worth when ii
got there. Consequently many plant
ers gave it away 10 any one who would
send them barrel and pay the freight.
Others dumped it in big reservoirs in
the hope that the price would rise.
Tens of thousands OF gallons were
emptied into the Mississippi river and
Bayou Teche. The overproduction of
molasses this year will be even greater
than it was last year, and the planters
are trying to 1nd some use for an
article which formerly was. one
of their most valuable products
but now is nuisance. 1t
has been proposed first to manufacture
the molasses into rum or to use it for
fuel Originally most of the Louisiana
molasses was made into rum, but this
industry was abandoned almost cen
fury ago. The rum project to-day
would involve expense for machinery,
distileries, etc. More remarkable is
the proposition of the Planter, the or
gan of the sugar interests here, that the
molasses should be used for fuel in the
place Of coal in the sugar house. 1t
calculates that molasseS would be much
cheaper than the cheapest coal, and
would be O good fuel. Here is its calcu-
lation on this subject:
"The lowest grades of vacuum pan mo-
lasses contain from 30 to 25 per cent. Of
sugar, which cannot be extracted by eX-
listing machinery. Estimating barrel
of such molasSess to be worth, net so
cents or 81, and barrel to hold $50
pounds of molasSes, the molasses would
be worth one or two cents gallon and
from Iii to Is cent pound. Pitts
burg coal, brought to the Sugar-house
furnace, has for about ten years cost Is
cent per pound"
This molaSses burns with high heat
In combination with wood or wood fibre,
so that by sprinkling it on the bagdSse
(the dry stalks OF the sugar cane after
the saccharine juice has been pressed
from it) an excellent fuel of great heat
power is obtained. In this way, esti-
mating that only half the molasses pro-
duced is used for fuel, substitute will
be furnished for $4,000 to 100, 900 tons
of coal. That is more than enough for
the manufacture of all the sugar Of
Louisiana.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-20
SAVED FROM A SCANDAL.
Washington Society Shocked by an APP
parent Drunk in High Life.
e. Totie C6rODieLs


A wild whoop resounded through the
air near one Of the fashionable sections
of Washington the other evening, and
several windows were showed open by
sedate hands. 1t came from coach
which was setting the echoes in a com
motion with laughter. The feminine
Quality was not absent from the vocal
demonstration, and on close observation
IL was noticeable that it predominated.
Songs were roared, and portions that
should have been whispered if it was
found necessary to utter them at all,
were howled out in stentOrian struggles
for high c.
The carriage neared the house Of a
man whose name is known the country
over, aud whose family is prominent in
society. What was the surprise OF the
neighbors who looked out OF the window
to see the vehicle stop in front OF this
house. A quarrel about the fare fol-
lowed and quite a crowd collected.
Several women of the neighborhood
stood in the doorways and some OF them
got down to the front gate.
The door of the residence was opened
ana WnlJt HuiShClCO Ah"h S~uHS O~u ~
find out what the trouble was.
His step was firm and digniied but
there was worriment in every line OF his
face as it was seen by the lamp OF the
carriage lamp, when he stood talking TO
the driver. John seemed TO be getting
as much fun out of the occasion as any
body, and he whooped occasionally just
to keep himself in tune. His attitude
toward his passengers was one OF the ut
most familiarity, and as he demanded
his pay be would occasionally interpo-
late some epithet of endearment in a
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-20
LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO, July 1S-Cattle, receipts 5000
head shipments ! 900 head market, steady
prime to extra steers g 90a6 40; others
81 25a5 IS; Texans So O0a4 25; stockers y s.
a3 60
Hogs-Receipts 1900 head; shipments
1000 head market, active and higher:
rough and common a 75a5 Is; mixed and
packers 8 25a5 As; prime heavy weights
S 5Oa5 &C: prime light s. 50a6 80.
Sheep Receipts 1000 head; shipments
native wethers 81 75a5 %; mixed 81 4Oa4 20
vearlings a. 25a5 80; westerns 81 l5a5 90
Texans d 60a4 10; lambs n OOa5 20.
EAST LIBERTY, PA, July 49, Cattle
Receipts. 612 head; shipments, 79o head
Nothing doing, all through consignments.
Hogs-Receipts, 2,700 head: shipments,
2. 500 head: market, active; choice Phila.
delphias IS 55a5 Is; best Workers and
mixed g 50a5 co: common to fair York
ers Is 35a5 Is; fair to best pigs a 50a5 90
Sheep-Receipts, 1000 head; shipments
200 head; market, slow at Mondays
prices.
CIxcrxxArr, o., July ls.-Hogs, scarce;
common aud light a 50a5 40; packing and
butchers s. 10a4 45.. Receipts, 1900 head
shipments, 500 head.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-20
Ellen Terry Describes stage Fright.

Won are standing there apparently
onite well, and in your right mind,
when you suddenly feel as II your tongue
had become dislocated and was ly-
inc powerless in your mouth Cold shlverS
besin 70 creep downward from the nape
of yopr neck, and all up you at the same
time until they seem to meet In the small
of vour back. About this time you feel
as Il a centipede, all OF whose feet had
heen carefully iced. had begun to run
about in the roots of your hair. Your
newt agreeable sensation is tho break
ing out of a cold perspiration all over
Won Then you feel as though some
bodv had cut the muscles at the oaeK
~ your knees; your mouth begins slow
" n omen without giving utterance TO a
single sound, and your eyes seem IN
ciined to jump out OF your h ?. {. over over
the footlights. At this period 1t Is wei
- oet off the stage as quickly as possioie;
Won " are far beyond the hope Of any hui
man help.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-20

for values are higher. Greater activity
is also reported In Texas woods Sales
have been made as high as high CSC. In
the grease and &c. for the secured.
California and pulled woods are quiet.
In Australians the demand has been
fair; values are firm. The London sales
have closed. Prices were held steady
10 the close, and this has strengthened
the views OF dealers here. The situation
In carpet WOODS remains unchanged.
Until the final decision in the sorting
clause IS reached an active movement
liz the woods Is not looked for.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-20

ferred, 81; Missouri Pacific, 661s; North
ern Pacinc. 2232l{ do preferred, GA; North
western, l044; do preferred lS2; New
York Central, 100; Oregon Transconti-
mental, 1873 Pacific Mail. $40; Peoria, De
catur and Evansville, 1881; Pittsburg, $50;
Pullman Palace Car. lo0: Reading. ISIS
Rock Island, 12Ss: ST. Louis and San
Francisco. -; do preferred, =; do first pre-
ferred, 20; 81. Paul, o3li; do preferred
ll14; ST. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba,
l0l; ST Paul and Omaha, 22H; do pre-
Pacific, 421S; United States Express, 81;
Western Union, 791S.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-20
Wool
RradsfrSQfa

A slight Improvement is noted In the
,oaSing wool market. Manufacturers
are beginning to take the ne" woV' . 1s
vaIues are frmers 1t is thought tn MAJ
s osc woods have been depressed TOO
low. compared with territory ana aus us
,o%i woods. and reaction has oc,
c - ',. Dealers srs securing more WOO
IN ~ the West, compromise having oee1 J,
~ asss 49, with the growers The sales OF
SISc and Michigan woods are larger; u
s 49, ehe general belief at present mat
o S.iess nave touched bottom. sorts are
s ,ssrs' re desirous Of recovering DcKs 90
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-20

Owen Ferree, who formerly managed
Rhea, and later became identified with
Manager w. II. Powers enterprises,
will pilot Max Frohman next season In
''Uncle Isaac" a comedy drama by the
late Fred Maeder. It's central figure is
a Hebrew Of to-day. 1t does not carica-
ture the Jew, but presents a new stage
portrait. The play is strong and full Of
novelties and dramatic surprises, the
comedy is refined and funny. A COM
pany comprising dancers and musical
artists will be seen in this production in
in Detroit, in September.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-20
PETROLEUM.

NEW York, July 1s.-Petroleum opened
steady and declined &c. on small sales and
closed dull: Pennsylvania oil. August op-
tions opening and highest 674c; lowest
and closing &c Sales, 1900 barrels
PrrrsBuRG. July 1s.-Petroleum, moth
ing doing; size bid
BRADroRD, PA. July ls.- Petroleum,
opened and highest 67lc: lowest 677sc;
closed at 671Sc; clearances 5000 barrels.