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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-18
The Price OF Peers in England.

Henry Labouchere in October Forum
have always thought that it is some
what unfair that moneys expended in
buying peers should he credited TO the
civil list of the sovereign. If the business
of the house of lords can be carried on
only by such means it should be openly
avowed and parliament should be asked
to vote the necessary reptile fund. 4"
Whenever it is suggested that members of
the house of commons should be paid,
the proposal is denounced by the
party TO which the vast majority
of these greedy reptiles belong as some
thing degrading to the dignity OF parlia-
ment; and yet these very peers snarl and
Quarrel over the distinction of highly paid
court posts among themselves whenever
their party comes into power like pack of
hungry ours over some bones that are
thrown into their kennel. What would
be thought in the United States OF the
Senate, were each incoming president able
10 distribute salaries TO some thirty SEN
ators for performing ceremonial duties
about his person or about that OF
his wife? Would the Senate be deemed
independent of the executive were IL pos
sible 20 give a senator from the North
many thousand dollars per annum for
walking backward before the president
with a white stick, a senator from the
South a huge income for looking after the
presidential dogs. and the wife of senator
from the West a big salary for presiding
over the gowns and the petticoats OF Mrs.
President?
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actly the color of the hat and the dress
and twist it about the high brim in the
way described At the back, a little TO one
side. fasten two or three tips of the same
shade and make them as nearly upright as
possible. You will be quite as wen pleased
with this effect as with the other, and your
hat will be really stylish.
Many women do not care for the COM
mon shaped hats, for the simple reason
that they are common, and they prefer to
select a style which may be made more in
diyidual by. trimming, and which is not so
easily duplicated.
The scoop bonnet is favorite, because
it is generally becoming and is so shaped
that while being bonnet it has the youth
full appearance of round hat.
The distinctive feature of the SCOOP bon
net is that il has no brim at all, and that it
lies perfectly fiat upon the front of the
head, just over the forehead. This gives a
very nice chance for becoming face trim
ming.
Women with small regular features find
the scoop bonnet very becoming, if trim
med with standing bow, which is placed
on the front of the bonnet in the most up
right, aggressive manner possible. Around
the edge of the bonnet there must be
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WOMAN OF FASHION.
Dark Gray and Steel Have Re-
placed Light Dove Tints.
STYLISH HATS FOR WINTER.
A Tea Gown That Was Prettier Than
the Wearer Wished-How to Do
Ones Own Trimming.

NEW YORK, Oct. Especial Core
spondence. IF very light gray was the
fashion last spring, dark gray is the fash
ion now.
1t the gray is so dark and so blue in tint
that 1t seems almost like steel color, so
much the more fashionable does il become
Fancy yourself dressed in a gown like
this: A long, plain habit skirt of dark
gray, brocaded in steel color, set SO closely
about your figure that you are walking as
II portiere were drawn about you. The
back of the skirt is very full and is trained
Just sufficiently TO sweep slightly upon the
ground. The skirt is lined with silk and
rustles as you walk. For a waist, you
have long-tailed, coat-like bodice of the
same, brocaded with a jabot effect upon
the lapels. The vest is dark gray velvet of
the color of the ground work of the coat,
and there is tall standing collar with a
steel clasp upon it. Steel buttons are
used upon the front of the vest
Your hat is very dark gray felt, with a
putting of black velvet around it and
black velvet strings. Gray bows and gray
dove wings are used for trimmings. Gray
gloves. stitched with black are worn Also
Is not that a pretty gown, and is it not
becoming to you, no matter what your
style may be?
Perhaps you may not care for the bro
cade. Many ladies do not, especially if
they are inclined to stoutness. In that
case you will get plain, gray cloth, and
trim the cuffs, collar and lapels with steel
passementerie, allowing band or two of
the same around the foot of the skirt.
Such garments as these are complete in
themselves, and do not require the long,
fashionable feather boa, and, indeed, such
dress looks better without one. The boa
is worn only for ornament, and it hangs
down in q long, useless way. which.
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though pretty, becoming and graceful is
not serviceable when warmth is considered.
Therefore, one should consider the COM
pleteness of ones toilet before adding the
feather ornament, and should decide
whether or not the gown is more fashion
able in effect without it.
The plain, tailor made gown, tight-ftting
at the waist, without ruffies or iounces
upon the bodice. and untrimmed save by
passamenterie, galoon or braiding, are the
ones which call for the boa which has then
a remarkably pretty effect drawn about
the neck and hanging down the front, CIV
ing the appearance of a feather-trimmed
gown.
Such pretty hats as are being worn this
fall They are nearly all very small and
are so neat and compact that one quite
falls in love with them. 1t is treat to
stand in front of the milliner's window
and look upon the different shapes, and so
pretty do they all seem that the question
of deciding which to choose is most per-
picking.
There are seasons when one exclaims:
"How uglyw when one first sees the shop
windows, and is brought to realize that
the fashions there displayed are the ones
which are to be worn the coming season.
But this year one exclaims: GLOW pretty |!
How lovely! How GRACEFUL" And one
straightway falls to wondering which of
the bewideringly pretty varieties are to be
chosen for ones own individual wear.
The little sailor hat continues to be in
our midst. 1t has re-appeared for the sea-
son in felt. 1t is exactly the same shape
as the summer sailor, and is reproduced in
felt of all colors.
A sailor hat is a sailor hat still-no mat
ter what its style may be. The crown may
be higher, or it may be lower than that of
the sailor hat which is displayed next to
it. Or the brim may be broad or it may
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IDIOT. he's an authority on one subject at
tast."
"But the fellow who just went out of
the store was over-dressed. How do you
account for that?"
HE wasn't, If you'll pardon the contra
diction. He had certain air of weakness
and effeminacy which made you think so.
II gave his clothes an undue prominence,
which not even his care is able to avoid.
But that's his misfortune. not his fault.
II is due to the fact that his mother was
given over to frivolity, and his father to
the amassing of the immense fortune which
his son has now the more agreeable and
less wearing task of spending"
The salesman was right; the bowling
swell has more sense than he is credited
With. his brains have been maligned by
the photographers because the use to which
the brains were put seemed ridiculous.
The folies of the fashionable young man
have been exaggerated, but nobody ever
exaggerated the care which he bestows
rpon dress. 1t takes fine, discriminating
mind to follow the course of fashion.
Take for instance, the matter of bouton-
nieres. For a considerable time-as time
goes in such matters-the boutonniere
has been growing larger. The change
Is especially notable this fall, per-
haps because coats are cut with
larger lapels. But on the whole the
growth of the boutonniere has been very
gradual. Think of the brain work required
Of the man who must always know just
how many violets or sprays of the lily-of-
the-valley he must wear. He perceives
the tendency to increase the size of the
bouquet. He obeys that mysterious die
tum, but he must interpret it carefully.
He must not fall behindl He must not
get conspicuously in advance. If the
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TIE Man OF FASHION.
aints About the Use of Flowers
and What They Cost.
CORRECT GIFTS TO LADIES.
>er Buttonhole Bouquets-Florist'a
mn ON Wedding Day - Mercifui
view Of . Dudes Intelligence.

vrv YoRK, Oct. 12.-ISpecial Correspon-
zscee. l--.They're a bright lot of fellows"
ia the salesman. I've get our best ideas
nom them"
Vow whom do you suppose he meant?
Won could never guess. I'll give you lit
u pointer as the riddle is so hard the
aesman presides over the necktie depart
ant of our most fashionable haberdash-
=. But even with that tip you won't be
,sle to solve the problem. I'll tell you;
hrferred to the dudes. Fancy getting
!. jdea from a dude 1t Is like asking
.ars of Lazarus, one would say. But the
nesman thought differently.
tsThose fellows are not the brainless
aiots they're supposed to be-" he con-
duued. perhaps it's the fault of those
sho apply the term wrongly; and yet I'll
Bet that il you'd seen the young fellow
rho was in here minute ago you'd have
snhesitatingly pronounced him dude of
fhe first water"
III did see him." said 1 land I'd have
hem willing to lay odds that if an idea
struck him it would fracture his skull;
that is, if it hit him anywhere in that re-
Eon."
"lndt b WnSIC you lC tiiictdkcu, TcDilcu
the salesman. THAT young man has been
n over the world, and though / don't
mppose he knows much about the forms
dsovernment or the industrial conditions
srising in various parts of Europe, he has
vast fund of information on the subject
which most interest him. He can tell
you, down to the smallest detail, how the
fashionable men of every European capital
dress. When he or any other man of the
class talks to me, l listen with both ears,
and many an idea embodied in the goods
YOU see in the window has come from such
sconyersation. Such a man knows not
only what is correct in dress, but he knows
sherason which underlies the style, and
her always is a reason if one can get
Aosn to it. No; don't cherish the idea
nat your own true man of fashion is an
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Helm Rut Don't Coerce.

To help nature in its efforts to throw off the
trammels of disease is, OF course, the legitimate
method OF medication. This method is, unfor
tunately, too often diverged from, and help per
yerted into coercion. Drastic, excessive purg-
ing is undoubtedly the most frequent form OF
coercion of this sort The bowels are forced,
literally wrenehed into action. OF course this is
accompanied with much gripping pain, and sue
eeeded ey exhaustion, which leaves the organs
OF evacuation in q state incompatible with sub
seouent regularity and activity. The last state
OF that man or woman who uses drastic carhar
tics for constipation Is decidedly worse IMAM the
S-st Hostetter's Stomach BitteFs is the finest
laxative in existence, since IL produces the
needful but no abnormal action, is progressive,
not abrupt in operation, and strengthens IN.
acts Use il for malarial, kidney, rheumatic
and dyspeptic ailments.
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Then

he will be interested in the wonderful con-
struction and performance of The 'Su-
perior" Furnaces, and he should either
write to The Superior Furnace Company.
at Little Falls, n. Y. for their book, or
examine the furnace himself, at JOHN
SCHRAM & CO., Agents, 1,0l2 Front St,
Seattle, Wash.
JOHN sCHRAM & CO., agents. 1.o12 From
street, Seattle, Wash
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THE ROBIN.

The robin Is the one
That interrupts the morn
With hurried. few, express reports
When March is scarcely on.
The robin is the one
That oyerfiows the noon
With her cherubic quantity,
An April but begun.
The robin is the one
That, speeches. from her nest,
Submits that home and certainty
And sanctity are best
Emily Dickinson,
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But

if he reflects that great improvements
have been made in heating and ventil-
ating-if he realizes that a furnace is
either a constant comfort or an abiding
annoyance-if he wants pure air for his
family as well as warm air-if he thinks
fuel bills are worthy his consideration
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Union Pacific steamers.

The paiatial steamer Victorian has been
nlaeed in regular service on the Seatte-V Victoria
route. leaving Seattle at p. m. daily except
saturday. A c. MARTIN,
". II. HURLBURT, General Agent
A. q. +. A.
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]. [.

A man thinks one stove as good as another,
or will buy for furnace any thing of iron
called by that name, this advertisement
will have little interest for him.
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For hyacinths, tulips and chrysanthemums
20 TO the Washington Floral Company, Madison
street. near Lake Warrington
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at dinner on Thursday

O'Clock. (The usual hour for
dinner parties in Americal
gentleman is never asked without his
wife, or wife without her husband, I'M
less great intimacy exists, or unless the
unexpected absence of one guest, from
mourning or other cause, renders it neces-
sary for the place 10 be filled.
great respect for the sanctity of a din
ner engagement should be inculcated. Ii
is feared that abroad our national sins in
clude this heavy charge-that we do not
keep our dinner engagements.
The service Is la Rtssse-that Is, every
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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-21
SATURDAYS PRODUCE MARKETS

CHICAGO-There was decided improve
ment in the amount of business done in the
wheat pit on the Board of Trade to-day in
comparison with that OF the past few days,
though it was chiefly of q local character.
Prices started at about the closing figures of
yesterday, but the tone of the market was
hesitating and uncertain for time. The
chief influence here during the week
has been the foreign situation, which
has been intensely bearish. Both
the British and continental markets
have not only been quoted lower from day
to day, but accumulated stocks and very
limited demand were noted in day cable ad-
sentiment here seemed to be veering toward
the bull side. and operators were more and
more inclined to think the prices had
reached point at which it would pay to
buy. 1t needed but a turn in the trend of
foreign advices to translate this sentiment
into a moderate buying movement.
There was no furore in the market, but a
strong. confident feeling and good liberal
buying. Trade however, was neither heavy
nor very broad. May opened at 971ac,
touched 975Sc, weakened to 97sac, reacted to
Csc. held around 975ac for time, weakened
to 9715c. but rallied some near the last and
closed firm at 97s4c.
Corn was decidedly weak early. Improve
ment in the inspection started pretty liberal
selling. and weakness was at once apparent.
A drop of &c in December corn at New York
increased the depression. Later, on the ad-
vance in wheat. the tone of corn improved,
but it became unsettled during the last hour,
going still lower and cloting near the bot
tom. The market was rather nervous. De-
cember opened nc lower at 4711c, and f1uc-
tuating as noted above, receded to 1870 and
closed at 46c January shows a loss of 1c
and May of Nc
Oats steady and withot feature.
Hog products were lower. Packers were
free sellers from the start. The close was
near the bottom figures of the day.
leading
rected by John NJ. Oakley & Co.. 45 Sixth street,
members of the Chicago Board of Trade:
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Groceries.

Markets inithis line are entirely featureless.
The movement has been only fair the past
few days. Sugars are still slow and coffees
firm. Canned goods are weak and dull as
ever.
sas GEEET GoFFTaFapey Hoo ehoiss Rio 20
SId old GSyeTnment % s4c: Jsxa: TSSc; Maracsbo. I.@
ROASTED (in papers) Standard brands. e0c: high
grades; ,2s1s@2s25e: old Government Java: bulk,
good RIO l9Xc; ordinary. E3S5@is9it. wv '
PsPpe5 9a@es test s
sas5Sc: globe 14Si4%c: elaine. i5c; carnadine, 1ic
royaine, 14c; red OIL 10a@11c; purity, 14c; olene,
MINERS OIL-No. winter strained, 42944c per
gal; summer, S5d37c: lard oil. 55a5sc.
SYRUP-Corn syrup 26CG30c: choice sugar syrup,
sa9ssc; prime sugar syrup. so9s2c; strictly prime.
choice. 4O@4lc old crop, a6@ssc; n. o. syrup. 449
54c: bl-carb assorted packages, 54@6c: sal soda,
in ~ kegs; lsic: do do grannlatedi mn txoi.S; 2c o.. ,
RICE-Head Carolina, 614@G11c; choice, 54@Sc;
% sTHRcM,Pearl.a iac &c; corn starch. e@s1kc: gloss
starch, 6td7c.
layers s. 25 NIuscatels. 81 75 California Muscateis
g. 6091 %; Valencia, 7@716c; Ondara Valencia s@
prunes s@6sc; French prunes, sSS}ss: saloncaa a
prunes in 2-ft packages, &c; cocoanuts, p 100 Sc co.
almonds, Lam. ID, 2Oc: do Ivica. 17c; do shelled
Smyrna figs Ial14c: new dates, 5.G6c; Brazil nuts
&c; pecans 156lI7c; citron, p TO- 23D24c lemon peel
DRIED FRUfTs-Apples, sliced, 61s@s1kc: apples.
evaporated, S@9l4c; peaches. evaporated. pared 20
@2lc: peaches, California, evaporated. imp red 10
@16c; cherries, pitted. 15c: cherries unpftted Sc:
raspberries. evaporated, ls99c; blackberries 6gs@
SUGARs-Cubes. 44c; powdered, 4sc: granu-
EdI21c; yellow. choice. 3sS63sc; yellow, good.
5f%@ssc: yellow, fair. sis@5iSc. "'ON'
PIckLEs.Medium, bbls Il, 2Oc). s. 75c: medium.
sALT-No i q bbi. 81 20: No. extra. "a Dbl, 81 10;
dairy. bbl. 81 20; coarse crystal 2 bb 81 20: Hig-
16 14-fb packets, 50 co.
CANNED GooDs-standard peaches. 81 7aa1 90:
beaches ssa96c: tnest dorn 81 l 5o I H; hG; Pc
corn, s5c1Sl 90: red cherries, 81 O91 10: Lima beans
81 10: soaked do; s5c strnged do. 65GD7Oc marrow
piles. 81 2Td1 30; Bahama do. s2 90; damson plu1ns,
oo: greemgages 81 -; egg pums. 81 co. California
apricots 81 75@l so California pears g 1902 25: do
greengages, 81 85: do egg plums 81 49, extra
white cherries g 49, raspberries.s 81 O50l 10: straw
berries, 95c@.l 10: gooseberrfes. 81 GOAL o5;
blackberries Soc: succotash lib cans. soaked eoc
do green. 2-lb cans, 81 c59l 80: beef lib cans
IS; 1obsfcrs ste lib Cans, 81 Is: mack mackerei s Ilb caps
boiled. 81 so: sardines. domestic. As. 50 s514 CO..
rs. 50 50: sardines, imported AS s1 50@l2 50: sar-
81 30: sardines. spiced, q So ''e'' '""S'A'u'
FISH-ENtra No. ,loater mackerel s23 90 per
bbl; extra No. do mess, so 90: No . shore mack
Herring Split: IS 50: lake; g IS per Ino-lb Dbl
land halibut, nc per ib: Pickere half bbl 81 co:
quarter bbl. 81 60. Holland herring 75c. Walkoff |
herring 90c.
OATMEAL-s4 so05 90.
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HOLIDAY QUOTATIONS.
How the Week Wound Up in the City
Produce Districts on
THE EVE OF THE FESTIVE SEASON.
Not Much Encouragement for the Sellers Of
Farm Stuff.
POULTRY AND DAIRY PRODUCTS STEADY
OFFICE OF PIrTsBURG DISPATCH,
SATURDAY. Dec. l9.

COUNTRY PRoDUCE-(J obbing Prices)-
The weeks windup was far from lively in
this line of trade. Cold weather has served
to strengthen, in measure, poultry and
dairy product markets, but prices fail to
advance to any extent Country butter is
still drug, as it has been for month or
more. Quality of offerings in this line is
not high as a rule, and oleo is preferred to
suspicious butter. Eggs that are fresh laid
do. not come to market except IN a very
small way, and all that come are promptly
taken at outside prices Fruits and veg
etables are quiet at old prices. Florida
oranges are in excessive supply, and are
very dull at decline from former rates.
Apples, too, are heavy stock, but bananas
are steady.
APPLES-s1 5oas2 90 per Barrel.
BUTTEE-Creamery Elgin, 3l@3oc: Ohio hrands,
2S@3Oc: common country butter, ls@a0c; choice
country roll. 2G922c.
marrowfat. g. 1Ea2 Is: Lima beans, 4G4&c p 70 ;
hand picked medium, 81 s062 90.
- BEEswAx-Choice. 3a935c ID; low grades, 2a9
BUcKwHEAT FLoUR-New, ?5492la p ID.
CHEESE-Ohio cheese. n91ll,c: New York
cheese. 11s@12c; Limburger, I25s@ls5zc Wisconsin,
Sweitzer, full cream, l31.@1ic; imported Sweitzer
cIDLS. Country cider. 50 5o95 90 q barrel; sand
CRANBERRIES-Perb box, 81 00G2 80; per barrel,
81 Goes co.
EGGs-Strictly fresh nearby stock, 219osc; can
died eggs. 24925c; cold storage eggs. 2l@22c.
FEATHERS-Extra live geese, 57@5Sc; No. 1, 4s@
Soc 2 10: mixed lots. 39G40c.
DRIED FRUITs-Peaches, halves, e6Hc; evapor-
ated apples, SG9c; apricots, a@Oc: blackberries.
huckleberries, 71(9Sc.
GAME-Wild turkeys 81 5OC02 90 each: mallard
ducks. "a 0a5 90 per dozen: teal ducks, 1913 90
per dozen: pheasants S 1905 90: quail, 81 25@1 90;
squirrels u coal so: rabbits, 3035c per pair: whole
deer, 13Gl5c q fb: saddles, ISd2Oc p Id.
HoNEYeNew crop white clover, 1sc; California
MAPLE SYRUP-75@9oc p gallon
MAPLE SUGAR-l0c p ID.
POULTRY-Alive-Chi Chickens. 6O965c pair. large;
3G950c, medium; live turkeys, 10@1l1c p fb; ducks,
50960c pair; dressed chickens, 191l4c tb;
dressed turkey, 13915c p ID.
PorAToES-Carload lots, 3504oc on track; from
store 40945c bushel; Southern sweets, 81 500l IS.
barrel; Jerseys, $3 O0SD3 Is.
SEEDs-Western recleaned medium clover job
prime. and 81 so for choicest; blue grass So 6502 sO
orchard grass, Il IS; millet, 81 90: German, 81 49,
Hungarian 81 10; fine lawn, 25c per lb; seed buck
wheat. 81 4O@1 50.
TALLow-COuntry, Act city rendered. sc.
TROPICAL FRUITS-Lcmons, "a 0NG4 50: Florida
oranges 81 1902 90 box; bananas 81 75Gl2 90 1rsts
81 251 80 good seconds. per bunch: Malaga grapes,
s. 509l0 90 half barrel; layer figs, H0l8c
per 10.
VEGETABLEs-Cabbage 50 oOd4 90 a hundred;
yellow Danver onions. 81 OO92 % a barrel: toma-
toes 81 90 per bushei; celery, 25GI39c per dozen:
turnips 9oc@S1 10 barrel.