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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-30
senator rfefrer Wrote "A Fool. Err.Dau
Spokane Spokesman.

Colonel J. ". Feighan, of this city, knew Sen.
atos-slect PfeaeF years ago. "Pfefer was fo-.
merry lawyer in Clsrksville, Tenn. said tn,
co'ouel, last night ''fie was q partner of Judga
J. }. Buck, the iirm being Buck, Pfefer & Me-
Mullen. Afterwards the three lawyers moved 10
Kansas, NcMallen 81 present being wealthy
banker at Winfield. Senator Pfeffer is PAST mid
die life, and well informed, having been a stu.
dental his iiis. There is not a particle OF the
demagegue in bis makeup. He is not a states
man ~ sill, but he is industrious, mAn Of hard.
practical sense and exceptionally well informed
Pister aud Buck once wrote book entitled
The Carpet Dagger, which was aftcrwari
Practically reproduced by Judge Tourgee as A
Roots ErEand. IL was a big success and very
huuhrDuS -
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-30
Once a waif. Now q Governor.

A nice little story of the possibilities for
advancement afforded by American insti-
tutions comes from North Dakota in the
shape of statement by Governor Burke
as 10 his childhood. He says: Eyes, /
was child Of the street myself / was q
New York waif. Ny mother died when
was born and NV father when | was 4
years old. Well, the New York Children's
Aid Society took care of me, and when
was years old they sent twenty-four of
US out 10 Indiana, and I was placed on a
farm. When | was II years old went
into the army rs a drummer boy. II there
are any men in the world for whom have
profound respect they are men who are
providing homes for the homeless little
oi.eS, anu any time | can do anything for
the waits want yen to call on me,u
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-30
AN IMPROVISATION.

His hand the master swept along
The mighty organs ivory keys,
Waking old memories of song
And elm symphonies.
And as he played, little lutte
That lay unhonored at his feet,
Hearing such strains, could not be mute,
But thrilled with echoes sweet.
And so. my we'll beloved Tyre!
If in these dreamy moods of mine
strike thee not with godlike ire
And ecstasy divine,
I'll lay thee down; perchance some time
Unwcoed of me, thy tuneful strings
May tell of melodies sublime
In truest murmurings
--Gforns Horton
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-30

10 one district eiecting more than one repre-
sentative.
Representative Dysart has apparently
attempted to draw bill without consult
ing the United States statutes. He might
as well try TO draw chart of the heavens
without the slightest knowledge of as
tronomy.
Representative Dysart must be an ass.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-30

The San Antonio, Tex, Express notes the tsct
that the Mexicans are rapidly becoming beer
drinking people, and from this draws an sugury
that they viii cease 10 be revolutionary. lt
claims that beer-drinking nation Is thinking
nation. and that beer bcgets good humoF,
patience and charity, which would make
revolution impossible. Certainly the Old
aguafiente of the Mexicans was calculated to
breed unrest aud revolution, or suicide.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-30

They have frst-class humorist in the Mime
apolis city council. His name is Rand. In dis
cussing a liquor license ordinance the other
day, without cracking q smile. he urged that
"a license is only an evidence of fitness.
would do away with the $1,000 license entirely,
and require only a certificate OF good moral
character"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-30

The Young Emperor of China having expressed
himself in favor of railroads, payements, mod
ern clothes, latest improvements in tools for me-
chanics and farmers, and other like barbarous
inventions, there is talk OF an old fogy mandarin
committee to enquire into his sanity. II he has
not lost his head he may lose his crown.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-30

would get transportation TO Africa and tract
Of land in that country on their arrival TIE
circular did not 50 state, but conveyed and was
plainly intended to convey the idea Hanging
would be too good for such merciless impos-
tors. but they have probably protected them
selves against legal punishment
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-30

The Boston Journal is fiercely opposed to free
coinage of silver. 1t never tires in denouncing
The government for making an 50 cent dollar
pay 100 cents of indebtedness" But to the re-
peated offer made by its contemporary, the
Globe, to give ii 90 cents each for carload OF
the 50 cent dollars 1t fails to respond Strange!
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-30

local recount of the population OF Nineen-
mes, Ind, having shown an excess of 700 over the
census figures, movement is on foot to induce
the legislature to provide for an official recount
for use at the Worlds Fair, which it is claimed
viii show that Indiana has from $4,000 TO 200,
600 OF population more than has been credited to
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-30

Oregon is about 10 sdopt the Australian sys-
TEN OF voting IL viii DC noted tina, Oregon is
gradually accepting the reforms successfully
tested by Washington. Our slow going southern
uesgheor viii eventually be an ideal common.
wealth il it continues TO follow thus closely in
the foosste,s 81 its sister state
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-30
NORTHWEST NEWS.

L. J. Stiles & Co., dealers in crockery and no
tions. Aberdeen, have assigned. Assets, 5000;
liabilities, $4,000
D. N. Baker, a butcher, aged 26, born in Yer
mont, loved whisky not wisely but too well, and
killed himself at Sumas City last Monday by
sending bullet through his head.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-30

The records show that Governor Taylor, of
Tennessee, during his term of four years that
recently expired, paTdoned no less than eight
hundred and one convicts under sentences rang
ing from ten days imprisonment and fifty dol
lars fine through all grades up to life sentences.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-30

The legislator with boodling rroclivities
should remember the words OF Epictetus.
DO YOU seek a reward greater than doing
what Is good and just? At Olympia YOU
wish for nothing mnre.n
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When You wink the Other Eye.
Snokane Snokesman.

Judge Houghtou would make decided hit IL
Manager Hayward could prevail upon him to
appear at the Auditorium Tor one week in his
own version OF that topical song, "He Winked
the Other Eye" Harry Clarke might come in
for an encore on the song, They're After Me-"
with chorus by DIR. Flanagan, Tom Paine,
Nelson Bennett, Tom Ewing and others.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-30
The kilograms Said ..vote for Laughton"

For the information Of the Seattle Posr-INrEr-
LIGENcER we viii state that little bundle of
kilograms on Senator Parkinson and Major An
derson's desks told them quite plainly how their
constituents wanted them TO vote Come, now,
PoSTISTELLISEScER,h how would things be to-
day, anyhow, If they had obeyed those teIe-
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-30

The gulllhility Of the more ignorant southern
negroes, and the readiness OF designing men,
even OF their own eelor. to take advantage OF il,
We're made painfully apparent by congregation
OF the poor creatures at Atlanta the other DAY. in
response 10 the circulars Of National Emigra.
tloa Society organized and managed by T. !.
Greene. eolared man OF Washington city.
which eiFcaisss led thea h believe tAas b.
sendlng one dollar ard = sno.cens sfau,p they
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-30

The Providence, K. l., Journal alleges that
"New York will add statue of Gen. Spinner
to its already unexampled collection of contem-
plated mortuary art" Contemplated mortu-
airy art is an extremely neat phrase for yelling
the sarcaSm
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St. John Has Fallen VERY low

Port Townsend Leader
And now Governor John T.. 81. John has Sar.
saken the rTohtSsuonis.s and allied himself
With the Farmers Alliance tie nav well bs
termed the Psrkiasoa OF ksnssA
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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-17
BRIAN BORU PLAYED 1T.

Story of tho Irish Harp and Some Famous
Players.
or course the harp is the first OF Irish
instruments, and was brought to Ire
land by the first Milcsian princes, about
1000 Ii. c. 1t came originally from
Thebes, where several pictures of it
have been discovered. One, painted on
a sepulchcr wall, shows its extreme
length to have been six feet and Il half
and number Of strings thirteen. In
another panel is seen one with only ten
strings.
These belong to the ago of Scsostris,
the tenth century before the Christian
era Old Thcbes had been destroyed,
but soon after rebuilt and adorned by
Scsostris, between the reign of Mencs
and the first war of the Shepherds,
about four thousand years before the
Trojan war.
The ancient Irish harp was invariably
strung with metal wires that would tax
the fingers of modern players rather
severely. story apropos TO them is
told by Rochsa, the famous Italian
harpist- Asked to play upon the Brian
Boroimhe harp in Dublin, he consented,
but after he had finished, looking at his
bruised fingers, he remarked:
"You Irish say that Brian had IN
arm of iron. believe it. and am quite
sure he had fingers of steel"
The most ancient harp in existence Is
now at Trinity college. Dublin 1t is
said to have belonged to Brian Bo-
roimhe, king of ireland. who was slain
in battle with the Danes at Clontarf,
near Dublin, A. D. 1914. 1t is thirty
two inches high, and has only one row
of strings.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-17
NO HOPE IN ISLAM.
How Young Women Arc kidnapped In
Armenia.

How Young Women Arc kidnapped In
Armenia.
The news of the abduction Of several
Armenian girls lately caused much cx-
cfement in Constantinoplc and Ar
menia. Although this would be con-
sidcred an outrage and crime Of the
first degree outside Islam. yet III the
eyes of Turks it is an insignificant mat
ter and one that is to be easily disposed
Of says the Ararat. an Arrcno- Amer
lean weekly.
The role of the criminals docs not re-
quire much skill or labor All they
have to do is to enter the homo of a
quiet. innocent Armenian family. ter
rorizc them by threats of murder, cap
ture II young girl and carry her away.
The girl wceps and protests, but, of
course, there is no one to sympathizc
with her She bcgs and implorcs for
her freedom, but there is no one to
listen to her. All she receives are
threats on her life unless She become q
Mnhometan
For the sake of the life that is sweet
to her. and with the hope of once moro
meeting her dear parents, should justice
take its course, she preserves u terror
stricken silence. Then tho nearest
man or hoja is sent for, to come and
take the girls testimony. She is made
to say: Yes" and there ends the whole
matter.
The parents may complain, but what
OF itp The authorities, on the strength
OF tho mans testimony, answer that
tho girl has legally embraced Mahomct-
anism and become the wife of Ma
homctan. So they arc turned away.
Should 4 foreign consul interfere in
the matter, he is promptly told that the
case is absolutely home affair, and it
Is for the Turkish authorities to decide
in the matter. But, the girl is never
produced to make an open statement:
nor arc the parents allowed to testify
against Mnhonctan witnesses. There
is no recourse.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-17
start
Fell From a Window.

Night before last about dusk, Orval,
the little four-year-old son of Mr. M. III.
Clark, of the Salem Carriage Works,
was playing in a room on the second
story of his house. Whilst "monkey-
ing" on chair near the window, he fell
out to the ground beneath, distance
of fourteen feet, and although q doctor
was sent for Immediately, the boy was
unhurt; not even bruised. This is the
second accident here of this kind in the
last three months, Mr.. Charles Hatcher's
boy having 'cut the same caper" on
Chestnut street, about month ago,
with like results. Salem children are
tough and strong.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-17
NOT RAGS, BUT WOOD.
Tho Mystery of Making Paper Explained
by Salesman.

Tho Mystery OF Making Paper Explained
by Salesman.
The old copy-bools line: Paper is
made of rags" has become obsolete in
fact, If not in use. Formerly all paper
was made out of rags. WORKOUT clothing
and the like, and when such material as
straw was first introduced there was n
general cutlery Now. however. COM
pnrativcly little paper is made out of
rags exclusively, fact which is fortu-
nate, as the quantity of paper now used
is SO great that there would not be
enough WORKOUT clothing or shoddy to
supply the demand. The strangcncss of
it is that while paper is being used for
dozens Of purposes formerly monop-
olizcd by wood or even harder ma
terial. such rs car wheels. boxes, bar
rels. tubs, pals and SO forth, wood is
rapidly driving other ingredients to
the wall in the manufacture of nearly
all the cheaper grades of paper. Wood
pulp is made by n comparatively
lengthy process, but by taking the
mills to river banks where there is
raw material and water power ct
hand it can be produced at less than
half the price formerly charged. This.
moro than ANYTHING else, is the cause
of the cheapness of grades of paper be-
low the average quality, and also of
the steady gravitation of the paper man
ufacturing business from east to west.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-17
A Proper Construction.

A judge had issued an order that all
attorneys appearing in his court
should wear "black coat and trousers. {"
His honor, with frowning visage, ac-
costed him:
"Mr. Pcttigrcw. do you know, sir,
that you arc transgressing a most posi-
tive order of this court?"
sin what way, may it please your
honor?"
The order says you shall wear
black coat and trousers" yelled the
judge.
81 have on n black coat and trousers. {"
cplicd the wit
but" roarcd the judge, Tho order
means black coat and black trousers"
~ don't read it So" replied Petit
rev. at also says the sergeant-at-
rms should wear cooked hat and
sword. sec the cooked hat, but | don't
see any cooked sword"
There was no further judicial COM
ment on the nankcens.- Albany Argus.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-17
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS.
Mon Who Hold tho Lives OF Millions OF
People In Their Hands.

Men Who Hold tho Lives OF Millions of
People In Their Hands.
There is hardly any class of men to
whom the public is more indebted than
TO locomotive engineers. They literally
hold the lives of millions of people in
their keeping. by day and by night
trains Of cars go rushing through the
land filled with men. women and
children. whose safety depends upon
the skill. the nerve and the faithful
ness of the engineers in charge of the
locomotives. little unsliillfulncss, q
moments unfaithfulness, failure Of
nerve Mt critical instant might cause
the death Of scores of passengers or oc-
casion such n mangling Of their bodies
as would leave them cripples for life.
When we consider the myriads of
railroad trains that are constantly
speeding in every direction, it is q cause
for wonder rs well as for thnnkfulncss
that so few accidents happen. When
an accident does occur, it is seldom that
locomotive engineer Is found blame
worthy 1t not infrequcntly happens.
however, that Ia desperate emer-
gency he sacrifices his own life 10 avert
destruction from the passengers, whose
safety depends upon his skill aud faith
fniness
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-17
a I LEM
MORE HOUSEKEEPING.
Thieves Attack Watts Shoe
Store.
ROANOKE TINES BUREAU,
DILLARD e. PERsINGER BLDG,

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A daring attempt at robbery was
made last night at G. L. Watts boot,
shoe and hat store in the Allen block.
Three light-colored negro lads walked
in about O'Clock and asked to see some
shoes. Tho proprietor had taken down
several boxes and laid them on the
counter, and was in the act of getting
moro shoes, with his back turned to the
negroes, whom one of them slipped a
box containing pair of shoes into a
sack he was carrying and made break
for the door.
He had just reached it, when Mr..
Watts seized the sack, and the darkey
then dropped it and skipped. This is
the second theft at this store within
week, for slast Saturday night coon
made off with pair of shoes, and the
clerk chased him up Broad street shout
ing at the top of his voice, "Stop thief;
stop. thief" which so scared the darkey
that he threw the shoes into the middle
of the street and kept on. 1t was Just
this time last year that q series of these
kind of thefts occurred very week, and
it is to be hoped the merchants will
keep their eyes open and stop it at the
start
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-17
MET HIS WATERLOO.
A st. Louis Monkey vanquished by a
Vampire Bat.

A st. Louis Monkey vnnquished by a
Vampire Bat.
a rev chance pedestrians who were
out for morning stroll witnessed n
brief but bloody battle through the
windows of the Market street bird store
on n recent morning.
Among the denizcns of the place is a
monkcy called Joclso, whose proclivity
Tor mischief has led him into disgrace
pefore. On the morning in question
Jocko determined to go on lark, says
the st. Louis Globe Democrat. He sue
ceedcd in picking the lock of his cage,
and once free, turned his attention to
his fcathercd companions. 1t took but
n few minutes to unlock dozen Of the
various cages in the room, and soon q
funny procession of monkeys, parrots
and macaws was strutting about.
In few minutes trouble began to
brew. One of the parrots, in u spirit of
mischief, probably, bit Joclso and live
~ battle ensucd. Polly soon found that
she was getting tho worst of it and
made n rush for her cage, minus her
beautiful tail feathers and part of q
wing.
Joclzo, who was then thoroughly
aroused, sailed In for a general mas
sacre, and in short time had the floor
to himself; save for Mimic, n little
nightingale, who was too dazed to cs.
cape. With one blow the bird was
stretched lifeless upon the floor. The
monkey then offered battle to tho big
stuffed owl, which had been gazing
solcmnly upon the scene, and, receiving
no answer to his challenge, threw tho
bird off its PEDESTAL
Jocllo's Waterloo was awniting him,
however. A huge vampire bat, which
had been watching the battle, Jumped
down from his perch and Joclso started
for him. The contest was brief. The
sharp bcalS and talons of the bird
buried themselves like n flash in the
monkeys flesh, and Jocko was glad to
make his escape with the blood flow
ing from n dozen wounds. At this
iuncturc the proprietor appeared and
hostilitics ceased.
Jocllo's cage has since been orna-
mentcd with u new brass paddock and
Nlinnie's mate is in mourning.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-17
Forty Ycars t, Find Salt.

A wonderful example of patience in
the Chinese is afforded by consular
report dealing with the manufacture of
salt in central China. Holes about six
inches in diameter are bored in the rock
by means Of primitive form of iron
'rili' and sometimes period of forty
years elapses before the coveted brine
Is reached, SO that the work is carried
on from one generation to mother.
During this time the boring. as may be
Imagined, goes down to an immense
depth. When brine is found it is drawn
up in bamboo tubes by rope working
over large drum turned by bullocks.
The brine is cvaporatcd in iron CAL
drons, the heat being supplied by natur-
al gas, which is generally found in the
vicinity Of salt wells.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-17

raised to take up GRIP AND LEVER.
wear. The upper die is longer than
the lower, and as it is forced down by
the inner frame it rests on the moving
cable, and pushes or presses it tight on
the rollers before pressing it on the
lower die. Gradual motion is thus i'm
parted to the car without jerk or jar.
A still further downward motion of the
upper die forces the rope or cable on
the lower die, the cable thus being held
tightly between the dies. reverse
motion of the lever raises the frame and
upper die and releases the cable and
allows it to run through freely without
imparting any motion to the car. which
is then brought to u standstill by the
action of the brakes.