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CHINESE PROGRESS.

The war between France and China in
Tonquin was so utterly unjust on the part
of France as to injure every foreign inter-
est in the empire. France was worsted,
and from that date China woke to the
necessity of preparing herself, as Ii Hung
Chang said, 'for the day when China
would be able to speak as other nations
with the hand on the hilt of the
sword" When Admiral Davis was
in China with the Enterprise man-of.war
he showed his Chinese official visitors at
Ningpo what an American ship of war, with
her drill, discipline and naval armament
could do, what China might have to fear
in event of war. When the admiral re-
turned the Chinese mandarin's visit. the
mandarin asked the admiral if he would
like to inspect the Chinese troops and see
them drill. An infantry battalion was put
through the manual of arms; English the
word of command, English tactics. the
drill elaborate and minute, embracing all
that was required of an infantry soldier.
Nothing seemed more perfect as a bit of
mechanism, alertness, skill, obedience. in
telligence-a human machine, as the
drilled battalion should be.
Admiral Davis was astounded by this
revelation of the capacity of the Chinese
as eiflcIent military machines. To Mr..
Young he afterwards said: ITO think
that actually gave that Chinaman a drill
on board my ship to show how the thing
was done. and now he gives me drill to
show me that his soldiers know more than
my people could teach them"
Admiral Davis might well be startled bv
the contemplation of the possible conse-
quences OF the multiplication of this Chi
nese military unit to the peace of Europe
If the Chinese faculty of growth was once
turned throughout its prodigious empire
towards war.
These Chinese soldiers, whose bearing
and dress excited the wonder of the Amer
lean admiral, were of the race that, under
Genghis Khan and his grandson, Timour,
had, IN the 18th and 18th centuries,
marched from Peking to the Danube. Be-
hind them are 400, 0OO. 900. military power
that, If once modified, would be greater
than that of combined Europe. Nothing
but the superstitious fright caused by the
death OF their great leader made the Mon
golian hosts Of Genghis Khan evacuate
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NO LACK OF HoMEsrEAps.

The presidents recent proclamation
opening to settlement the Sac, Fox, Iowa
and Pottawatomie reservations added over
$4,000 acres to the 100000 of acres of
land which Oklahoma contained when It
was thrown open to settlers in April, 1889,
The reservations added comprise narrow
strip stretching along the eastern side of
Oklahoma, and bounded on the east by the
country of the Greek Indians.
For 2l6.000 acres the government paid
the Iowas sS4,350, or about 80 cents an
acre. The Iowas, who are between so
and 80 strong, retain 12,4lS acres for allot-
ments. The Sacs and Foxes received
$4,000 for $4,000 acres, or about $3.50
an acre, and retained $4,000 acres
for allotments. The Pottawatomies and
Shawnees sold 100000 acres for $225, 900, or
Sc cents an acre. and retained 175, 600 acres
for allotments. The average price paid by
the government for these lands to the In
dams was Si]z cents an acre.
The government has ratified a contract
with the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, and
soon another tract of land which will
more than double the enlarged Oklahoma,
will be opened to settlers. The Chicka-
saws, Wichitas, Kiowas. Comanches and
Apaches are also likely to sell a portion of
their lands, and Oklahoma, which at
the last census had more people
than either Wyoming or Arizona,
and 40 per cent. more than Nevada,
will soon have an area and population
that will make it prominent candidate for
statehood. Oklahoma, lying between
Kansas and Texas, not far west of Mis-
souri, and Arkansas. promises TO be one OF
the most important of our Central states.
1t Is completely traversed by a railroad
from Kansas.
The original Oklahoma, as constituted a
few years ago, represented the lands
bought by the government of the Semi
noles and Creeks combined with No Mans
Land. 1t lies in the heart of the Indian
Territory, surrounded by tribal reser-
vations. There will be no lack
of good land for homesteads
in Washington for those people of the
Eastern and Middle states who did not
care to JOIN the rush of boomers of all sorts
and colors that settled like a swarm of
Egyptian lice upon newly opened lands of
Oklahoma For an Eastern bred agricul-
turist Oklahoma is not half as desirable q
country as Washington, where the gov
eminent last May obtained possession
of about one-half, or 100000 acres,
of the Colville reservation. Upon this
cession. and upon the other half of the
reservation that viii yet be ceded, thous-
ands of homesteads viii be established.
II lies in one of the richest and most at
traetiye parts Of the state of Washington,
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HOW TO REDUCE CoRPULENCY.
PoMERoY. Oct. l. 1901

IOAEHO1Y OCt. l.,
To THE EDITOR: have travelled extensively
for twenty years as an evangelist in the South
ern states, and have spent from ten to thirty
days in each county. conducting revival meet
ings In visiting from house to house l have
heard of many strange remedies for almost all
kinds of cases Inow regret that did not lot
them down for the benefit of the public One.
however, distinctly remember on "how to
reduce corpulency."
II Ii Is desirable 10 reduce the surplus flesh
rapidly, the following rule is to be strictly OBJ
served: Live on buttermilk alone. A cup of
coffee or tea at each meal, without cream or
sweet milk, with but little sugar, may be used.
AL kinds of drink-cider, beer, wine aud all
others must be dispensed with. No bread of
any kind is to be used. If you desire to reduce
gradually, you may use all kinds of fruit, dried
or undried, without cream or sugar. The first
prescription will reduce q person weighing $50
pounds loo pounds in six months am a wit
ness TO this statement have seen Ii tried. A
person using this remedy will not realize any
loss OF strength or suffering from hunger The
milk should be used as frequently as the patient
feels hungry. II the patient is troubled with
shortness OF breath, pleurisy, or indigestion,
will realize great relief. Besides # secures re-
fTeshing sleep / am not advertising O patent
medicine nor offering inducements to buy re-
ciepts. have but one motive for writing this
article, and that il 70 relieve suffering human
ity. K. j. SIMS
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INSANE BEFORE RELIGIOUS.

At Portland, Oregon, on the 18th ult.,
J. W. Johnson cut off his right hand, and
justified his self-mutilation by saying
"God ordered him to do It." The man
who runs mad over religion" would be
sure TO run mad over something else; he
IL radically deranged or rather unarranged
from the start: the last straw that breaks
the back of his superficial sanity may be
religion or rum, or politics, or blow in
business, or the death of child, or the
loss of his sweetheart, or the infdelity of
his wife. Such men are unsound and
upset by natural constitution. They are
only waiting to catch sight Of red rag to
become mad bulls; If not about religion il
II sure to be something else.
We recall two cases where fathers slew
their children. One Of the murderers was
o crazy Adventist and the other an edu-
Gated atheist. One had superabundant
faith, the other no faith at all; and yet
both reached the same crazy conclusion
that II was their moral right and duty TO
kill their children. The Adventist was not
. murderer, because of his intense biblical
faith any more than the atheist was
murderer because he was q materialist,
superintendent faith and the utter lack of
faith reached the same conclusions simply
because both were men of diseased intellects
and religion had no more responsibility tor
che bloody antics of these lunatics than
love or any other noble passion of human
nature has for those of either sex who be-
come a. imbecile as ophelia, as suicidal as
Romeo, as ridiculous as Malvolio. or as
murderously Jealous as othello. Macbeth.
avery bad man; Hamlet, noble gentle
man, and Lear, a vain and fractions old
man, all lose their wits. Macbeth. he
cause the memory of great crime sets
his poetic imagination into a blaze
that scorches his overstrung brain
and makes him have the NOR.
bid vision Of haunted man.
Hamlet's brain breaks under the stress Of
his supernatural commission of vengeance
and retrihution upon his fathers muir
derers; while the frivolous, arrogant and
windy Lear Is upset less by misfortune
than by sudden shock to his overweenlng
sense of pride and consequence when he
found himself nothing bat the strutting
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THE STATE PRESS.

The publisher of the Ccntralfa Chronicle leit
or Saturday for hurried business trip 70 VIE
eonsin and Iowa.
The Asotin Sentinel has changed hslds. Al
stifel succeeds l. s waldrip g. son, who viii go
TO the sound country.
skamokawa Ea1,s. "a silver-side salmon was
taken at nwaco last week in whose stomach was
found seventeen sardines. This ought TO con-
rradict the statement of those who claim that
the salmon eat nothing after entering this
river"
Sultan City Journal: "The amount OF garden
truck raised in sultan and vicinity this season
il remarkable The soil In this locality Is par
ticufarly adapted 70 the cultivation OF vegetar
bles, and all who took the time and trouble 10
set out gardens are being amply repaid ior tue
same"
Avon Record: ait is the country editor who
keeps his finger on the popular pulse IN tne
true meaning OF the term, and Is acquainted
with the conditions by which all Issues are
ultimate determined. This implies that he Is
not a man to be lightly regarded, but that he 10
entitled TO grateful treatment at all times and
in all ways
San Juan Islander: "were these islands only
calculated TO raise oats, hay. wheat and pota-
toes, they would soon become famous. Bur
when we add to this the marvellous crops OF Der
ries, OF prunes, of plums of fruits OF nearly all
kinds, the warm and genial winters, the cool,
calm summerL the absence of death-dealins
cyclones and furnace-like breath OF the hot
winds, we feel assured that full knowledge oil
the great and multiplied advantages OF this
island country is ali that is required 10 bring in
a sufficient number of farmers from the East to
fully people this picturesque and fertile
country"
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shadow of former royalty, without court,
crnxn ~ ,,or~crs3 ~n%;uua

shadow OF former royalty, without court,
crown or personal retinue.
Does any sane man sheer at or seek to
stamp out the mysterious fire of the hui
man affections because in the name Of
love people grow crazy, become silly, play
homicide or even suicide? For sanity of
mind there is no substitute; the shadows
of mental darkness gather about the just
and the unjust; about orthodox and
heterodox, and when that is the case it is
not necessary to impute insanity to faith
or the want of faith. If we could lift the
shadow from the brain neither the exceed
ing faith nor the exceeding want of faith
would have made child murderer Of
either man. The shadow of insanity
doubtless always darkens such minds from
birth, and while it antedated all religious
opinions, 1t doubtless colored all with its
sickiy light. That is all there is of so-called
religious insanity. The religion does not
create the insanity, but insanity sometimes
expresses itself strangely and suddenly
through the superficial forms and machin-
cry of religious worship.
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SEATTLE, MONDAY, OCT. ..
HOME Is BEST.

The Democratic missionaries, their wise
men Of the East, who came to Washington
and Oregon on the rumor that new child
had been born to the marriage OF the
Farmers Alliance AID Democracy that
would prove the savior of the Northwest
to the party in 1892, have about completed
their mission and we suspect that their re-
Elections are such as are natural to men
who went forth to seek wool and came
home shorn. The Oregon Democracy tried
to educate their rank and file on the tariff
question in 1888 and 1t was their ruin, for
by the night of the election the tariff de-
bate had educated large number OF
Democratic farmers and working men into
a determination to vote the Republican
ticket. The imported party orators in try
ing to educate the rank and file on the
tariff question only succeeded in decimat-
ing it. Ali the 'local industries" in Ore
gon, save the saloon interest, went into the
Republican camp in q body; for tariff
education" was to the Oregon Democracy
what the late DR.. Burchard was to Blaine,
the unwilling architect of ruin.
The Oregon farmer could not be made to
see in 1883 that It was equitable to tax the
farmers of the North $6O000,000 in order
to give the Louisiana sugar growers mar
ket for SIS, 900 worth of sugar, and at
the same time propose, under the Mills
bill, to place wool on the free list. The
Oregon farmer evidently thought that we
could better afford to put sugar on the free
list than wool. Now the Republican party
under the Mckinley tariff has placed
sugar on the free list and increased the pro-
lection to wool. Under these circumstances
the Democratic wise men from the
East have for ten days past undertaken to
persuade the farmers of Washington and
Oregon that free wool is a blessing, while
protected wool and free sugar are delu-
sion and snare. Does any sane Demo-
day as much sugar for dollar as he did
for 81 before the Mckinley tariff was en-
acted will ever vote for revenue tariff re-
storing taxed sugar and enacting free
wool2 Not next year, certainly; some
other year possibly. but not next year.
of 1891 have made no more converts than
the imported Democratic missionary Irish
made in 1883. Imported Irish may have
helped the New York Democracy in 1888,
but imported Irish from California robbed
the Oregon Democracy of their only hope
Of victory that year. When the returns of
the presidential election are counted for
Washington and Oregon in 1892 it will be
found that the Democratic missionaries of
1891 have only educated the rank and file
on the tariff issue" to the end of a worse
defeat than that of 1888. The Democratic
missionaries will then wish they had
stayed at home in 1891.
Weary and homesick and distressed,
They wander east. they wander west,
And are baffied and beaten and blown about
By the winds of the wilderness of doubt;
To stay at home is best
Home keeping hearts are hsppiest;
For those that wander they know not where
Are full OF trouble and full OF care;
To stay at home is best.
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Now that the Tacoma Exposition has
been honored by Seattle, and Tacoma has
offered to help Seattle to get the educa-
tionaI convention, let US have friendly
talk over Mt. Rainier. Tacoma does not
need the mountain as an advertising sign;
the city is well enough known without.
The mountain belongs to the state and IS
not a sign post in anybody's back yard.
Seattle might as well object to Puget-who
was Puget ?-and agitate to have the inlet
called Seattle sound. Puget sound belongs
to Us all; Mt. Rainier belongs to US all.
We are too busy spreading abroad their
fame to quarrel about a name. It's In the
school books: it's on the maps; let 1t go.
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Great Britain discriminates against
American live cattle without justification,
for Canadian live cattle are admitted with
out restriction, while American cattle are
quarantined and their slaughter required
within ten days. The plea for this dis
elimination is the alleged prevalence OF
pleuro-pneumoniai in this country. Secre-
tary Rusk has met this in the same way as
the hog question. by thorough system OF
quarantine and inspection. He has had
inspectors in Great Britain to examine the
cattle on their arrival, and so far not sin
gle case of pleuro-pneumonia has been
found there. He also secured legislation
to provide for the proper care of animals
in transit on ships. This has raised the
price of American cattle in Europe.
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ADVERTISING DOCTORS.
A Palpable Reason Why They
Should Not Be Adjugded
ImpOstOrs.

It Is invariably the rule that among adj
vertislng doctors one out of q hundred
performs the cures and relief he advertises
to. and among those few who cure Drs.
Darrin stand in the lead. Their testimoni-
ais alone are sufficient to bear witness to
the foregoing assertion, and it is doubtful
whether among the thousands of advertis-
ing doctors in the country there is a single
one who has met with such eminent sue
cess as those above quoted, as the foil owing
extracts from testimonials will show:
A. Jackson, Seattle, WASH, pain in his
back four years. R. Griffith's son, Bois-
ford, WASH, rheumatism and skin disease !;
John Violin, Stuck Junction, Wash, deaf
ness and discharging ears; Issac Wingard,
Centralia Wash, asthma Is years: Fanny
Kennedy, Walla Waila, Wash, both eyes
crossed since child, cured in 30 seconds !;
William Little, Seattle, WASH, pain in
chest of over eight years standing; Mrs.
l.. K. Herman's son, of Vancouver, Wash,
cured OF loathsome catarrh and polypus
OF nose; also her daughter of tumor; b.
+. Stout, Independence, Wash, deafness,
catarrh and lung trouble.
DIR. Darrin continues to treat all classes,
the rich and poor alike, free of charge at
his Office in 1.-THE Normandy" corner
Third and James streets, Seattle. Wash.
from 10 to IL a. m. daily. Those willing
to pay from IL a. m. to 8 p. m. at half his
former prices. He gives free and contiden-
tial examinations to all at the Office or by
letter. He treats all durable nervous,
chronic, acute and private diseases, and
makes a speciality of all diseases of the
Eye, Ear. Nose and Throat. Loss of Man
hood, Blood Taints. Syphilis. Gleet Con-
orrhna. Structure, Spermatorrhea. Semi
nal weakness or Loss of Desire of Sexual
Power in man or woman. All peculiar
Female Troubles, Leucorrhea, Displace-
ments, ETC., are coniidentially and success
fully treated. and will under no circum-
stances take case that they cannot cure
or benefit. Charges reasonable. Cures of
private diseases guaranteed and never
published in the papers. Circulars and
question blanks sent free. Inquiries
answered
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Great Britain pays the Peninsular and ORR
entail line to India s., 200 900 Year for carrying
the mails. Last year the mail subsidies paid by
Great Britain amounted to more than s3oO0,O0o
The great transatlantic steamships, plying be-
tween England and America, receive each S50,-
600 annually in time of peace for their services
as auxiliary naval vessels in case of war. The
ships of the new British transpaciic line re-
ceive $4,000 from the British admiralty, besides
$500, 600 year from the postoffce. France has
paid a shipping bounty since 1881, which
amounts in the aggregate to about 5000. COO
yearly, and Is paid both for construction and
navigation. The navigation bounty amounts
to about % cents ton for every 1000 miles run
in foreign voyages. The French General Trans.
atlantic Company gets 1864, 25i year from the
postofiee for carrying the mails to the Yves.
Indies and Mexico. Since 1885 Germany has
paid 81. 047 $40 year to the North German LLOYD
Steamship Company for Its Mediterranean and
Fast Indian service, and last spring an annual
subsidy Of s225,000 for ten years was granted to
establish new German line from Hamburg to
the east coast of Africa. Italy pays a construo-
ton bounty of s14 ton for Italian built iron
and steel ships, and also pays bounty on Ital-
tan-nade steam engines and boilers Her navi-
CATION bounty is Ii cents ton for every LOCO
miles run.
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The movement in Boston In favor OF
short skirts and top boots for ladies will
be watched with especial interest on Puget
sound, where the winters are so wet. The
innovation may be slow in catching the
popular fancy. but it has much to COM
mend it in preference to the dragging
skirt. A graceful sweep of the gown is
well enough in fine weather. but in sloppy,
muddy streets, it is difficult for any lady
to look or to feel comfortable.
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NOTICE To THE PUBLIC.

The public is hereby warned not TO pay
any money to parties representing to be
agents of the Seattle Posr-IsrELLIoEScER,
except the following, who are the only
authorized travelling agents Of the Posi-
IsTELLreEscEa, viz: J. A. Mcclellan, La.
G. Brsnson, T. 4. Davies, J. II. Willett
and 7. ID. 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 cases authorized to take subscriptions
for the Daily, Sunday and Weekly Posi-
IHTELLreKNcER-
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Lord Randolph Churchill and Professor
Edward Dicey, both opposed to Glad
stone, tell their unionist associates that
Mr.. Gladstone's return to power is inevi-
table. 1t is prophecied that the election
will be held in the fall of 1892, although it
is possible to postpone dissolution until
the summer of 1893. The legal life of the
parliament expires in 1898, but no parlia-
ment for long time has lasted its full
seven years and very few as long as the
present one.
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and comprises farming. grazing and min

and comprises farming, grazing and min
eral lands.
The legislation of the last congress pro-
vided for the opening to settlement OF
over 5000, 900 acres of land IN the vicinity
of Oklahoma and in the Dakotas, Montana,
Idaho and Colorado. When the Cherokee
Outlet Of 5000, 600 acres shall be coded,
when the Southern Utes shall give up
their reservation of ZOO. 900 acres in Colo
RADIO there will be no lack of new home
steads for the coming millions OF Amer
lean settlers.
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Next Saturday the Seattle attorneys will
meet the members of the Tacoma bar on
the diamond. There is an old saying that
"the devils own children have the devils
own luck" We shall see which of these
teams has the greater claim upon the
prince of lawyers.
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NORTHWEST NEWS.

Timothy Lynch, switchman on the Northern
Pacific railroad at Kalama, was fatally injured
Wednesday evening while switching cars. lie
died at Tacoma the next day.
On Sunday, September u, while hunting
bear on the reservation, Peter Mershon dis
covered the blsached and weather-beaten re-
mains OF man the shore of the Columbia
river, three miles below Kettle Falls AL that
was left OF the corpse was a pile of bones, I'M
mistakaby those of Chinamau, from which
every vestage of flesh had been taken off by the
elements or by coyotes and buzzards. The
clothing consisted only of pair of overalls in
tatters, hand sewed shirt, the color OF which
had been obliteratcd, and part of a rubber boot
On the right side of the skull, over the eye, was
an indentation and q small hole both of which
might have been made by blow from a weapon
or by falling upon jagged stone.
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The proud distinction accorded to the
father of little Miss Cleveland is one as to
which Republicans and Democrats alike
rejoice with him. AS the song has it,:
"it Is very agreeable thing to be q male
nareDtu