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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-17
WHOLE NUMBER 1876.
The Future Of the American
Race.
zen. +. A. Walker Ia the July Forum

zen. F. A. Walker In the July Forum
The anticipations which so many
Americans have formed, with more or
with less Of satisfaction, regarding a
large continuous increase Of that ele.
ment, up to some ultimate very high
point, have little foundation in recent
experience. The presiding officer Of a
Republican State convention two years
ago sketched for his auditors a growth
of the colored race in the Limited St@see,
which was to bring them, Mt no distant
future, to total oil fifty millions! OF
course, in great part the extravaganza
OF this computation was due to 0mis-
siOns from the colored census of 1870.
which caused very large apparent
gain between that year and 1880. But
the unreaiity of the estimate in ques-
ton was also in part due to failure 10
note the consideration that the ma.
tural field for the colored race is not
strictly, indeed, yet still virtually, cir.
cumscribed by climate and industrial
conditions. Now there is much reason
to believe that race that is limited in
its range becomes, by that very fact,
subject also to important restrictions
upon its capabilities OF sustained in
crease within that range. Ifthe growth
OF the cOlored race is hereafter TO take
place mainly within the cotton belt, il
is safe to say that it will never reach
fifty millions, or third of that num-
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-17
BAFFLED THE PHYSICIANS.
Herman Harms, Minnesosa's Famous
Sleeper, Is Awake.

Herman Harms, the Minnesota
sleeper. is awake. His case was prob
ably the most peculiar known to the
physicians. whose skill it has baffied for
the past dozen years. He had slept
most incessaRtly for the past sixteen
years. A few days ago he awoke and
has taken only an ordinary amount Of
sleep since. His recovery, however. is
doubtful Mr.. Harms is now lying on
farm about midway between St.
Charles and Quincy, Minn. He Raoyed
there about year and half ago from
near Utica, MINI. Some sixteen years
ago, he was attacked by a severe fever
and had intense pains shooting through
his head. He was then in Illinois.
His physicians advised him to remove
to the colder climate OF Minnesota.
He accordingly moved to that State
thirteen years ago. During his stay in
Illinois he did not sleep all Of the time,
but since his change of residence he has
slept continuously, except an interval
OF year and half, beginning with
1881 aud two months OF 1889 and 1890.
When he is sleeping he can only be
awakened by his wife touching him on
the head. Calling has no effect on
him. He takes no nourishment at all
to speak of, and then only when he is
aroused from his comatose condition.
Harms was born in Germany in 1888.
He was married to Miss Buzman in
1868. His faithful wife has zealously
guarded him through all these years Of
torpidity.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-17
A Puzzled Porker.

Out on YolO county Cal, ranch a
few years ago a small band Of hogs
were confined in lot fenced in with
logs. In one part of the fence there
was a hollow log, shaped something
like a joint of a stovepipe, one open
ing being inside the lot and the other
outside. One day an intelligent porker
discovered this fact and thereafter
went out and returned at his own
pleasure. The owner of the ranch
happened to witness the mode of
egress of the hog one day and decided
to put up a job on him. By Slowing
the log around little he so contrived
as to place both openings of the log
inside the lot. In q few moments the
hog ran up to his usual exit and
passed through the log. Imagine his
surprise when he walked out the
other end of the log and found him
self still inside the lot. He looked
about in a puzzled way. scratched his
ear and tried again. Same result.
"Well, I'll be DANCED" grunted the
hog. Again he ran into the log and
ran out again with the same result.
He became wild with rage and dashed
through the log SO often and so fast
that the smoke began to issue from
the cracks. Then he gave it up as a
bad job, and, so the owner of the hog
says, never went near the fence until
the day of his DEATH Woodland (Cdl) }
Mall.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-17
The Teredo.


san Francisco Chronicle.
The shipwOrm or teredo, with its
long, spiral shell, would hardly lie
taken for two-valved shell, yet it is
Ii is the bette nOir of the dock builder
on the Pacific and South Atlantic
coasts, boring into the wood and de-
posting a lining, until finally the
wood is completely honeycombed and
falls to pieces. On the Florida reef |
found that a new dock, when the piles
were protected by castings covered
with tar, were rendered unsafe in a
little over year. An old wreck,
comprised of the hull of good sized
ship, was visited by me in 1862; three
or four years later it had almost dis
appeared.
1t was out of the reach of the surf,
and simply fell apart by the action of
these destroyers that had completely
honeycombed it, so that wading up to
it at low tide | could puncture the
hull anywhere with my finger. The
only wood which seemed to resist
the inroads of the animal was the
palmetto. ! often found logs or
trunks floating, and while the teredo
had attacked it they were evidently
dishearted. Our common teredo is
but a few inches in length, but in
Sumatra giant of six feet is found
boring in the mud.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-17
Old Wood for Violins.
Interview with Q Violin Maker


When the old Pierce building, that
had stood at the corner of fremont and
Court streets for more than two hun
dred years, was torn down six or seven
years ago, got a lot of pieces of spruce
joists out of it to make violin tops.
That's it, now. Most people think vi
olins arc made from some queer and
costly foreign wood. They are not.
The top is of spruce boards or timbers,
and the strap, the back and the scroll
from curly maple. The essential, how
ever, is that the wood shall have been
seasoned for generations. Cheap yio-
Inns are made from wood that has been
seasoned only four or five years.
want wood 100 years old.
The old spruce is easier to get than
the old maple. For that we have to
seek in old farmhouses, where there are
venerable chests of drawers and old
fashioned bedsteads of maple, with
headboards and footboards. We buv
these for what we can, but they cost a
great deal, for people usually value
them highly as heirlooms. The. posts
and frame OF the beds we can work in
to necks and scrolls, and the head
boards, etc, into scraps and backs.
Here is an old piece of board no more
than two feet long, as you see, that |
couldn't replace for five dollar bill
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-17
The Wheat Crop.

Considerable amiable wrangling has
been in progress as to the volume OF the
wheut crop of the United States, but
the best authorities now place il at
about H5. 5.OOO, 900 bushels, which is the
largest crop ever harvested. The
foreign demand will, it is estimated,
says the Journal Of Finance, consume
from 80 to As per cent. Of this immense
yield. Frances wheat crop is a bad
allure this year and she alone will be
obliged to take from us not less than
500, ,O0o, 900 worth of wheat. At least
half this sum, or $50. .OOO, 900 will in all
likelihood, be paid in gold. In 1879,
the year of the great boom, Europe
took from us s227. .O0O. 600 worth Of
grain. nthis was true ten years ago,
the amount Of her imports OF broad
staiis this year win b. about s40o Gao, :
oFT'ith the prospeess %: t.--
money situation so bright, theso e-n d,
no doubt that stock values must soon
begin an upward career which will be q
long and steady advance once they get
fairly started.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-17
What He Had in His Box.


People fetch some mighty queer
articles aboard of u car now and then, =
said the conductor of Wabash avenue
train last night on his home trip.
"Thcy seem To think a street-car is a
combined junk-shop or freight-house
on wheels or a general delivery wagon.
One evening at Sixteenth street fel.
low rolled barrel of apples out to the
track. The car was full OF passengers
and the platform hadn't standing-room
for walkiIg-stick, and yet he wanted
To lick me because / wouldn't let him
put his barrel into the car.
But the queerest thing | ever saw
in the street-car business happened in
my car yesterday afternoon. At State
and Madison streets a middle-aged
man with a long box under his arm
got on the car. He took the rear
platform and stood the box on end
next to the iron gate. He was a
stupid-looking foreigner, and | took
him to be carpenter moving his tool
box to another job. At Twenty-ffth
street, as there was no one else on the
platform, got to talking to the man
and asked him what he had in the
box.
"'Oh, that's my son, he said, in an
easy sort of way.
What" gasped, thinking the
man was joking.
Its my youngest son. He died a
couple OF days ago and took him out
To the graveyard this morning, but the
man at the gate said | must have a
pass for the boy, and Pm taking him
back home until | can get one."
He was telling the truth sup.
pose lie had gone to the cemetery
without burial permit, and there he
was going home again, with corpse
standing on end aboard of a street-car
It's the first time l ever acted as con.
ductor on hearse and | was glad
when he got off at Thirty-ninth street
with his hox."-Chicago Mail.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-17
CHANGES OF NAMES.
Great Men Known by Names not
Originally Given Them.
st. Louis Republic

notice in recent publication the
revival of the old story OF the change
young John Rowland made in his
name and fortune when he substituted
his Rowland with Stanley, and dropped
John for Henry NJ being now known
to the world as the great African ex-
plorer. This reminds me that several
of the great men known to science,
literature, war and art, were originally
known by names wholly unknown to
the world at large.
Henry Wilson, ,Vice-President under
Grant, was christened as Henry Col
bath, and was known by that name
until after the end of the 18th year.
BY II curious coincidence, U. S.
Grant, who was President at the time
Wilson was vice, as above mentioned,
was also hero with a changed name,
prior to young Grants 18th birthday,
"U. S. Grant" was term unkno. n
even in the embryo generals family,
IL. U. Grant" would sound odd, if
written on the pages of history, but,
in fact, would be perfectly proper
The great general was christened
Hiram Ulyssis Grant, and by the
name of Hiram or "Hi" was known
to all his school-fellows.
Hon. T. L. Harmer, an ex-member
of Congress, is responsible for "U. S"
Grant being thrust upon the world.
1t came about in this way: When
the name of the aspiring young man
was sent in as = candidate to West
Point, 10y some oversight on the part
OF MIR. Harmer, it was sent as "F. s.
in place of al. IT," Grant. "U. 81
Grant was appointed. When he grad
usted in 1913, his commission and
diploma were both made out to "U.
s." Grant, therefore he was forced to
accept the inevitable.
Jules Grevy, so we'll known as Il G
hate President of the French Republic
is neither Jules" nor "Grevy," but
Judith Francoir Paul Greviot.
Frank Leslie was plain Henry Carter
until he was q years old, adopting
the new name on his arrival in Amer
ica.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-17
Poultry so,ss

Always separate any io~l. that have
any indioa,ion ni sickness
Oats are suS-i irc'l ;" make hone
aud musrle. hat not tor egg pfu-iuc'
ton
4 change II ioc-l Is desirable. as the
fowls tire oi one hind u given Toe
long
\ little hasseed meal will he found
,aluahl. ~ sdd b. the regular morning
feesi
n the iuwls refuse their feed. uf Il,
not 80, u up clean. lei them miss 4
meal ~ twu
One object ia ivr'ling !. to gct al
increase IN siso a. much a. possihlc
bat ~ low cost.
Save the esK shells, put ihen ~
the oven aud burn them brown ,her
mash them hns aud mis- ~i,h ih'
feed n 10 healthy and ieneheiai q
the io~is
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-17
AGAINST KISSING PICNICs.
The Old Time Game Called Coren.
hagen is to be Abolished.

Kissing at Bucks county Sunday
school picnics this summer will he
like the festive oyster in the festival
stew says the Philadelphia Record. It
won't be in it. The man who rents pic
mic grounds looks askance on the
movement to eliminate copenhagen
from the Sunday school picnics, mark
ing the downfall OF an era of bliss for
the young men and women WHO have
INDUCED in.its allurements, and a loss
of shekels for the man who rents
grounds For it is beyond denial that
the picnic is bound to lose much of its
popularity.
The grounds upon which the game
is TO he abolished are that, while kiss
ing in itself is not immoral, the pro-
miscuous indulgence fostered by cOpen-
hagen tends toward immortality. Just
how the movement originated to abol-
ish the game is not known. 1t is GER
tain the young people themselves did
not start it, and the clergymen deny
all knowledge of it.
But the movement exists, and the
supposition is that the numerous old
maids who infest Bucks county, and
particularly the vicinity of Bristol.
where the movement is said to have
started, have risen up in arms against
the favoritism shown toward the
young girls in the matter OF kisses.
They have probably taken the matter
into their own hands, and, like the
tabled dog in the manger, if the young
men won't kiss them they can't kiss
the Young maids either.
4 grizzlcd son OF old Bucks, WHO
owns II picnic grounda a few miles be-
low Bristol, expressed great disgust
when the subject was broached to
to him. don't see what the worlds
Il coming to anyway" he said, as he
drove nail into rheumantic swing
that looked as though it was only
waiting for chance to collapse.
What ) rr.:c harm in kissin?" Mebbe
it don't make the void nc better,
nor yet again does it make it worse.
I've seen q powerful lot % kissin' il
these woods in my time and tell you
II game of copenhagen just puts life
into a picnic.
"If there ant going to be any more
copenhagen they might as well stop
picnios. leave it to yourself. Would
you want to bring girl to picnic if
you had to lug her off somewhere
every time you wanted kiss d? 1t
don't stand to reason. OF course
swingin' and ice-cream and soda water
is good enough, but it amt satisfac-
tory"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-17

Sidney Dillon and other prominent
railroad men accompanied the i'm
mense log for some distance in spe-
cial car. The log presents curious
appearance, since there are enough
names carved and written on it to
make Il good sized city directory.
From the ends several buckets of
chips have been split oil as memen-
toes. The whole weight is 10000
pounds, or forty-iive tons, and there
are $4,000 feet of lumber in the log.
WHAT IT HAS COST.
The work of cutting, hauling, etc,
has already cost $1,000 To-day it
will he unloaded in the Chicago &
Northwestern yards, and temporary
shed will then be erected over it. Fifty
men will be put to work trimming and
polishing it, and each one of the resi-
dent officials of the Chicago & North
western road will take plane
or chisel and do few minutes
work i'll honor of the occasion, but
their muscular exertion will not be
calculated to damage the timber.
After the timber has been properly
squared it will be polished to the
highest possible grade, so as to bring
out the granting in the wood. Then
it will be taken to the Eastern cities
and exhibited until the Columbian
exposition opens. After its usefulness
as beer counter at the exposition is
over the timber will be returned to the
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Company, by which it will be used for
decorating the interior of some of its
new coaches. Previous to being taken
East for exhibition purposes the tim
ber will be shown at the furniture
manufacturers fair in the exposition
building. The Chicago & Northwest.
ern Railroad Company yesterday ran
a special train from the city to Fortieth
street, under charge of w. B. Kniskern,
assistant general passenger agent, for
the purpose OF showing the immense
piece of timber to a number OF visitors
in the city.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-17
Electric Poles in Berlin.

Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
In Berlin the electric arc lamp poles
are things of beauty. They are more
properly brackets than poles, though.
The taps from the mains in the streets
are carried under the sidewalk to the
house wall and then up to the surface.
At the sidewalk begins a handsome
scroll work affair OF iron, which runs
up the house and then out over the
street, supporting the arc lamp. Near
the base is panel door provided with
lock and key. Back of the panel is a
compartment holding the fuse strips
and switch, and a handle which fits
on the square head OF a windlass shaft
projecting from one side of the COM
partment.
The lamp trimmer comes along in
the morning, unlocks the panel door
examines the fuse strips, throws the
switch, takes out the little handle
turns the windlass, lowers, trims and
raises the lamp, restores the handle to
the compartment, throws down the
switch, locks the door and goes on to
the next lamp. All this work is done
without climbing step. The whole
device is painted dark green, picked
out in gilt. Far from being unsightly.
they are real ornaments to the street.
The householders are anxious to have
these brackets placed on their houses,
often paying half the cost, and some.
times the whole cost, for the privilege.
These devices are well made and ex-
pensive, costing about $3.50 each.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-17

that is just what it is. One doesn't
need to depend upon PrcI'S Sun alone
for that statement as it is being made
every day hv papers where the shows
are exhibiting this year. Just one
word more boys. Buy your stock of
peanuts and candy before going into
the hig hippodrome tent rs nothing is
sold on the seats So load up with
them before yuu sit down.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-17
STATE NEWS.

The newsboys of Seattle were given
an excursion to Snoqualmie Falls sun
day, by the newspapers Of that city.
Mrs. Grace Jackline, a pioneer oI
Washington, died recently at Seattle.
She has lived on the Sound country for
thirty-one years.
Mrs. George Winchell, of Yakima.
sent her three-year-old daughter Bea-
triOe up stairs for spool Of thread.
While looking for the thread she found
some matches which she ignited, set
ting fire TO her clothes. She was 90
terribly burned that she died the next
day.
Emma Glenn, aged 8 years. was
drowned Saturday in Mason lake, Ma.
son county. The father Of the little
girl is All electric motor conductor in
Tacoma. During the holidays, last
winter, his wife and son died, and his
daughter WAS taken by Mrs. \. A.
White to live with her on ranch on
Mason lake.
Fish Commissioner James Crawfon.i
has gone to the Okanessn country 10
put fish rack across the Methow.
This rack is in the form OF pickcl
fence stretched across the river, 10 pre-.
vent the salmon going ar. The com.
missioner will make aa approximate
estimate OF the number of salmon in
the river for the purpose Of deciding
whether or not it will pay TO put in .
hatchery.
Abner Clio, capitalist from In
Crosse, Wis, on Sunday lasi dropped
his pOcketbook, which contained tJ0O
in currency. in the corridor ID ths
Grand hotel at Seattle. Captain Fry
of Tacoma, was the man who found IL
He handed it over TO Clerk Meyers
and when, few hours later, the gen
tleman from La Crosse asked IL "any
one had seen anything Of his pocket
book lying around anywhere" IL was
handed to him.
The penitentiary at Walla Walls
now contains 39S prisoners, which 1,
somewhat OF q crowd on the limit o
one criminal to each 1000 OF popula
tion, and the penitentiary commission
ers have concluded to have still another
cell wing erected. with 81 cells, capable
OF accommodating l6S prisoners. Bid,
for the construction Of both cell wins
and cells will be opened on August {
and the contracts awarded. The com
missioners state that they expect tn,
new cells will be aboit all filie,l before
they are completed.
Somt where someone is walking thu
tace of the earth with disappointment
and chagrin in great big legiblc letter,
plastered all over his features. He !,
the individual who took the two sugar
cured, canvas-backed wooden ham.
that have 80 long done duty in front o
the Cascade Mercantile company,
store. The articles referred to disap
peared one night last week. The fel
low that eats those hams will be- con
vinced OF the truth of the adage tha,
honesty is the best policy."-Skogil
County Times.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-17

The amount of business handled
through the telegraph department OF
the Northern Pacific has greatly de
creased of late, and the company has
ordered retrenchment. Several Of
fees have been ordered closed through
the State, and the opening of Offices
on the route of the branch road from
Tacoma to Olympia has been aban
doned. The night offices at Castle
Rock and at Roy have been closed.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-17

THE Historian says that so far this
season, one man at The Dalles has
shipped 81 200 boxes OF cherries. that
have netted him 81 box. Vancou.
yer prune men show by unanswerable
statistics that there is a profit of $4OO
an acre on prunes. This will be a
great country for fruit fortunes.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-07-17

THE second stack of the Tacoma
Smelling and Refining Company's
smelter will be started in a few days,
thus increasing the capacity of the
smelter from about fifty-fve to ITO
tons of ore per day.