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HARRISON ON THE GO.
The President Will Roll in Luxury
on His Proposed Tour.
GOOD WHITE HOUSE TRAVELLERS.
George Washington Went in Style and
Liked Clean Horses.
HISTORY OF P0LK'S NOMINATION

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPATcH.i
WASHINGTON, April 4. - The tour
which President Harrison is said to be
planning is the biggest and longest ever
made by President while in Office. If it
is taken at all it will include the biggest
cities of the country and will be memorable
as the first tour President ever made to the
northern part of the Pacific slope.
President Harrison is good traveller. He
enjoys the changes of scenery and people.
and he keeps himself alive to his surround
ings. He is ready speaker. and is very
careful in his statements upon all occasions,
so that there is little danger OF his hurting
his party by imprudent utterances and ac-
tions. He has good constitution, and the
trip will be taken with all modern travel
conyeniences and the President will have
time to rest between towns.
Unfortunate Presidential Tourists.
If he comes out of the tour, however, un-
scathed, he will be much more successful
than his predecessorS Nearly all the Pres
idents who have travelled have met with
misfortune on their tours, and the most un-
pleasant things of their administrations
have happened at such times. Garfield was
assassinated when he was starting out to
travel to Long Branch. Tyler came very
near being blown up on the Trenton, An
drew jackson had his nose pulled on a trip
down the Potomac, and Andrew Johnson's
famous Swing around the circle" aided
materially in his defeat for denomination.
President Arthur got sick during his tour
to Florida, and one Of the most bitter in
suits offered to President Cleveland was the
newspaper slander uttered concerning his
wife and himself while he was visiting st.
Paul.
The custom of Presidential touring dates
back to Washington. He had the most
style about him Of all the Presidents, and
he rode about the country in a cream col
ored chariot, drawn By four horses, and ac-
companied by positions and outriders. He
had q
Regular Retinue of Followers,
and the letters of the times show that many
of his tours were taken for political reasons.
He appreciated the value of style, and he
was very careful as to his equipage, He
once whipped a stable boy because he did
not clean his horses quite as well as he
thought they ought to be cleaned, and he
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-05
A BIG DANCING HOUSE

In the first place, Paaaeua had charge
OF souls; these were young men, and he
judged it right to withhold them from the
primrose patn. Secondly, he was a public
character, and it was not fitting that his
guests should countenance q festival Of
which he disapproved. So might some
strict clergyman at home address worldly
visitor: go to the theater if you like; but,
by your leave, not from my housel' Third
ly, Paaseua was a man, jealous, and with
some cause Gas shall be shown) for jeal-
ousy; and the feasters were the satellites of
his immediate rival, Moipu.
For the adoption had caused much ex-
citement in the village; it made the strangers
popular. Paaaeua, in his difficult posture
OF appointed chief, drew strength and dig
nifty from their alliance, and only Moipu
and his followers were malcontent. For
some reason nobody (except myself appears
to dislike Moipu. Captain Hart, who has
been robbed and threatened by him; Father
Orens, whom he has fired at and repeatedly
driven to the woods; my own family. and
even the French oficials-all seemed smit
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-05
BY F. MARION CRAWFORD,
Auhor Isaacs CDR. Gaudis," "A Singer"
Many Other Stories That Haze Taken Rank
Standard Literature.
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH

do great works of charity. But we hea
strange tales and strange words"
do you?" Unorna suppressed smile
of scorn.. What do people say of me? 7
never asked"
Strange things, strange things" re-
peated the nun, with shake of the head.
''What are they? Tell me one of them,
as an instance"
Il should fear to offend you-indeed,
am sure L should, though we were good
friends once"
And are still. The more reason why
you should tell me what is said. OF course.
am alone in the world, and people will ali
ways tell vile tales of women who have moi
one to protect them"
mo, no." Sister Paul hastened to assure /
her. las woman, no word has reached
us that touches your fair name. On the
contrary, have heard worldly women say
much more that is good of you in that re-1
spect than they will saw of each other. Bute
there are other things, Unorna-other things
which fill me with fear for you. They call
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shelter to the house OF Paaaeua, where they
were made welcome, wiied into a chamber,
and shut in. Presently the rain took off,
the fun was to begin in earnest, and the
Young bloods of Atuona came round the
house and called to my fellow travellers
through the interstices of the wall.
Late into the night the calls were contin-
ued and resumed, and sometimes mingled
with taunts; late into the night the prison.
ers, tantalized by the noises of the festival.
renewed their efforts to escape. But all
was vain; right across the door lay that
God-fearing householder, Paaaeua, feigning
sleep; an6 nv friends had to forego their
iunketing. In this incident, SO delightfully."-
European, we thought we could detect three
strands of sentiment
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house; but none, not even Brother Michael,
might partake, for the meal was sacramental
and either creative or deelatory of the new
relationship.
In Tahiti things are not so strictly or
dered; when Ori and I made brothers"
both our families sat with US at table, vet
only be and /, who had eaten with inten-
tion. were supposed to be affected by the
ceremony. For the adoption of an infant I
believe no formality to be required; the
child is handed over by the natural par
ents, and grows up to inherit the estates of
the adaptive. Presents are doubtless ex-
changed, as at all junctures of island life,
social or international; but 1 never heard
of any banquet-the child's presence at the
daily board perhaps suficing.
Modification of the Arabian Idea.
We may find the rationale in the ancient
Arabian idea that a common diet makes a
common blood, with its derivative axiom
that He is the father who gives the child
its morning draught." In the Maruuesan
practice, the sense would thus be evanescent;
from the Tahitian, a mere survival. it will
have entirely fed. An interesting parallel
will probably occur to many of nv readers.
What is the nature of the obligation as
sumed at such festival? 1t will vary with
the characters of those engaged, and with
the circumstances of the case. Thus it
would be absurd 10 take too seriously our
adoption at Atuona. On the part OF
Paaaeua it was an affair of social ambition;
when he agreed to receive us in his family
the man had not so much as seen us, and
knew only that we were inestimably rich
and travelled in a floating palace We,
upon our side, ate of his baked meats with
no true animus afiliandi, but moved by the
single sentiment of curiosity. The affair
was formal ana a matter of parade, as when
IN Europe sovereigns cali each other cousin.
Yet had we STAYED at Atuona, Paaaeua
would have held himself bound to establish
us upon his land, and to set apart young
men Tor our service and trees for our sup
port
he Has Foresworn the Sea.
have mentioned the Austrian. He
sailed Ia one Of two sister ships, which left
the Clyde IN coal, both rounded the Horn,
and both, at several hundred miles of dis
tance, though close on the same point of
time, TOOK nre at sea on the Pacific. One
was destroyed; the derelict iron frame Of
the second, after long, aimless cruising, was
at length recovered, reftted, and halls to-
day from San Francisco. A boats crew
from one OF these disasters reached, after
great hardshlps, the Isle Of Hiva-oa. Some |
OF these men vowed they would never again |
confront the chances OF the sea; but alone of |
them al, the Austrian has been exactly true |
to his engagement, remains where he landed. |
and designs to die where he has lived.
Now, with such man, falling and tax |
ing root among islanders, the processes de-
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A CHILD OF A Chief.
Robert Louis Stevenson Formally
Adopted Into the Family
of Paaaeua.
THE CEREMONY IN DETAIL.
How the Jealousy Of Rival Rulers
Made Itself Apparent.
MOIFU AND THE PHOTOGRAPHS.
Family Relationships and How Women
Manage Two Husbands.
SENTIMENT TOWARD MRS. STEVENSON
THE CEREMONY IN DETAIL.
MOIFU AND THE PHOTOGRAPHS.
Family Relationships and How Women
Manage Two Husbands.
SENTIMENT TOWARD MRS. STEVENSON
twBITTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH.l ]
Letter No. z.


1t had CHANGED, as the Casco beat through
the Bordelais Straits for Taahauku, she ap-
preached on one board very near the land in
the opposite isle of Tauata where houses
were to be seen in a grove of tall cocoa
palms. Brother Michael pointed out the
spot
81 am at home now," said he. 81 be-
lieve L have a large share in these cocoa
nuts; and in that house madame, my mother,
Lives with her two husbands"
with two husbands?" somebody in
quired.
"C'est ma honte," replied the brother
dryly.
A word in passing on the two husbands.
l conceive the brother to have expressed
himself loosely. 1t seems CON-
mon enough to find native lady with two
consorts; but these are not two husbands.
TIE first is still the husband, the wife con-
tinues to be referred to by his name; and the
position of the coadjutor, or plkio, although
quite regular, appears undoubtedly subor-
dinate. We had opportunities to observe
one household of the sort
Ahe II 1klO : hel2tlOnS TO Ine duS SDanQs
The pikio was recognized; appeared OPEN
ly along with the husband when the LADY
was thought to be lnsulted, and the pair
made common cause like brothers. AT
home the inequality was more apparent.
The husband sat to receive and entertain
visitors; the pikio was running the while to
fetch cOcoanntS like hired servant and I
remarked he was sent on these errands in
preference even to the son. Plainly we
have here no second husband; plainly we
have the tolerated lover. Only, in the
Marquesas, instead OF carrying his lady's
fan and mantle, he must turn his hand to
do the husbands housework
The sight of Brother Miehaels family
estate led the conversation for some while
upon the method ana consequence of arti-
fetal kinship. Our curiosity became ex-
tremely whetted; the brother offered to have
the whole of US adopted, and some two days
later we became accordingly tn children Of
Paaaeua, appointed chief OF Atuona. l was
unsble to be present at the ceremony, which
was primitiyely slmpl-.
Ceremonies Incident to Adoption.
The two, Mrs. Stevenson and Mr. Os-
bourne, along with Paaaeua, his wife and
an adopted child of theirs, SON of a ship
wrecked Austrian, sat down to an excellent
island meal, of. which the principal and the
only necessary dish was pig. A concourse
watched them through the apertures OF the
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thought of it. sitting in the absolute still
ness of her room, the proportions of the
storm grew less, and possible dimensions of
a future hope greater-just as the seafarer,
when his ship lies in the fiat calm of the oily
harbor, thinks half incredulously of the
danger past, despises himself for the anxiety
he felt, and VOWS that on the morrow he will
face the waves again, though the winds
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TWO HINTS FOR SMOKERS.
How to Garry Cigars and How to Smoke an
Old Soldier.

HOW TO Garry Cigars and How to Smoke an
Old Soldier.
Albany Argus.1
A wel-known tobacconist says: "If you
are smoker and don't own a cigar case
on carry your cigars in your upper vest pocket,
the left, with the mouth end downward. The
constant motion of your right arm is sure to
crush the tobacco and loosen the wrapper, if
the cigars be on the right side. and the re-
suit is more readily attained with the match
end down. If you have to let cigar 60 out
and are not too fastdious to smoke an old
soldier, do not pull in the last puff, but blow
1t through the burning end. In this way the
nicotine is expelled, which would otherwise
gather at the mouth and prevents the cigar
from having rank taste.''
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CHAPTER XVIII.

N THIS, at l e a s t,
there was therefore
comfort. On the
morrow she would
see him again. The
moment of complete
despair had passed
when sh e received
that assurance from
his lips, and as she
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An official return states that the num-
Der of tobacco plantations in Russia last year
was 607.5S2 as compared 5l8 8S5 in 1855, the area
under cultivation being about los, 900 acres, as
against $1,000 in 1889, while the quantity of
tobacco grown was about lis, 900 tons, or about
x, 600 tons more than last year,
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society, he wrote upon her mind o sentimental
impression which try in vain to share.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-13
The Atmosphere and Mainsprings.

"Your handspring is broke" was. the
positive declaration of jeweler to young
man as he entered and walked up to the
counter, meanwhile probing for his watch
The young man hadn't said word SO it
is easy to imagine that he was astonished
at having the cause of his being there thus
promptly and positively foretold.
"How did you guess it?" he asked when
he recovered from his amazement. Didn't
guess it; knew it," was the jewelers. re-
ply-"that is, | could almost have sworn
to it when | saw you feeling for your
watch. l guessed then that something
was the matter with that article, and hav-
ing guessed that was ready to bet twen-
ty-five dollars to one dollar that it was the
handspring that was broke, and I'll tell
you why: There's certain time of the
year when if have two or three persons
come to me with broken mainsprings
can make up my mind that I'll have twenty
or thirty more of the same kind of custom
ers within very short time.
'Now, it's just a week and a day ago
that man came to have job of this kind
done, and up to today I've had no less than
twenty mainsprings to put in. They break
voluntarily; atmospheric condition has
something to do with it. Now, I'll put a
new spring in your watch which guaran.
tee for year. 1t may last two or three
years, and, again, it may not last two days
one day, or an hour. You can't tell
they're liable to break any time, no matter
of how good quality they are. I've had
new springs break right after have put
then, in u-Ruffalo Exnress
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-13
Attacked by a Rabid Coyote.

Alvino Alaniz Mexican ranchman Of
Rio Grande City, Tex, has undergone a
fearful experience that will probably cost
him his life. He was riding after cattle,
and camped at night by little creek that
runs through tangle of mesquite. He
tethered his horse, cooked his supper, and
was squatted by the fire smoking the in
evitable cigarette when mad coyote
sprang upon him from the dark.
The little beast, with every hair standing
on end and his jaws dropping foam, struck
him full in the face and fastened its teeth
In his nose. The animal bore Alaniz back
ward and he sprawled at full length. He
endeavored to defend himself with his
hands, but to no avail. The coyote snap
ped his teeth through the skin in half
dozen places, and the face of the man was
covered with blood. AS he struggled to
his feet, frenzied with terror, his assailant
disappeared. The ranchman reached Rio
Grande City the next morning and was
treated, but is extremely prostrated, and
will probably die of hydrophobia.
Mad wolves and coyotes in southwestern
Texas at this season are by no means un-
common. Three years ago G. G. Chamber
lain, son-in-law of the millionaire ranch
man, Richard King, was attacked while on
horseback by mad wolf. He went to
| Paris as fast as steam could take him, was
treated by Pasteur, and has not suffered
any inconyenience.-Cor. Fort Worth Ga
| Zetta
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-13

SIT may fairly be saio that most of the
new medicines produced are products of
coal tar" said physician. "Until lately
remedies freshly added to the pharma-
copeia were obtained through novel dis
coveries in the plant kingdom. Even now
from time to time such lucky finds are
made; but the science of botany has pretty
nearly completed its list of things vegetable
that grow upon the earth, and the prop
critics of their active principles have become
more and more thoroughly understood of
late years. Thus it happens that new
medicines today are nearly all products of
the laboratory.
"In coal tar is found simple organic
substance which is readily worked with
for the production of varied chemical re-
suits. It is what chemists call a carbo-
hydrate, of an unelaborate character, which
renders itself readily useful in laboratory
processes. Therefore, workers in the line
of therapeutic research employ it to an al
most unlimited extent. Of the new rene
dies which the apothecary keeps upon his
advertising slate majority are such coal
tar products.
Many of them are of dangerous char
acter and should not be taken without 6
physician's prescription; but that does not
prevent them from having large sale
and the firms which get them out under
patented names make fortunes by selling
them. Most important among these rem
edies are sleep producing and antifevel
drugs. A number of them are admirable
when properly and judiciously admins
tered.-Washingto Star.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-13
The Supply of Whalebone.

About 200, 900 pounds of whalebone were
secured from the Atlantic catch of whales
during 1890, and less than that amount was
secured from the Pacific waters. Fine
whalebone is worth it's weight in silver,
and only the wealthy woman can afford to
use it. The ordinary principles of produc-
tion and trade are overturned as regards
whalebone Modern appliances and i'm
provements appear to have decreased rather
than to have enlarged the amount of the
product. The price of whalebone fiuctuates
worse than the stock Market owing to the
fact that it is impossible to calculate upon
! the amount of seasons catch until the
bone has actually been extracted.
There are only seven manufacturers in
this country, according to the latest report
five in New York and two in Boston.
They pay $4,000 for ton Of raw material,
! and split it up and prepare it for market.
Quantities are used in the silk mills where
ribbon is manufactured. It is used there
for the edge of the ribbon in weaving.
Some of the best hat manufacturers use it
F., in the sweat bands Of their silk hats. AL
| though the corsets and dress stays of WON
en- still take up practically about the whole
/ supply of whalebone, yet fully 80 per cent
! of the corsets manufactured here are
braced up with something else.--Mercer.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-13
ODDS AND ENDS
eermany brIckIayers average 500 .

Germany bricklayers average 500 a year.
To make one pound Of honey the bees
must visit from $1,000 to 10000 flowers.
Don't try swimming In creeks where the
water is two feet deep and the mud six feet.
It is estimated that 1000 900 tons Of
water pass over Niagara Falls every hour.
In Scotland. it is said that to rock the
empty cradle will insure the coming of oc-
cupants for it.
The most recent steel rails have higher
percentage of carbon and the steel pro-
dueed is harder
No English sovereign, except George II
and George Ill, ever attained the age Queen
Victoria has reached She is seventy-three
years old.
A New Englander who bet that he could
eat "over a hundred eggs in one hour"
won the wager by making a hearty meal
of shad roe.
Stanley is reported to have made S1sl 900
/ from his American tour. One-half of this
sum came from his book and the other
half from his lectures.
A hotel keeper in Florida is said to have
offered reward of five dollars for the best
treatise on how to make outdoor life at
tractfve to the mosquito.
At Hantsholm, on the coast of Jutland,
in Denmark, from the lighthouse situated
at that place, there is flashed nightly an
electric light of 10000, 600 candle power.
Mrs. Malaprop sometimes hits the nail
on the head. 1t rained in torrents as she
left church ON Sunday morning without
an umbrella. "How irrigating this is!''
she cried
Gold and silver leather for very costly
evening shoes, that show a pattern upon
the metallic surface in place of the grain
of the leather like silver silk, moire, dia
pering, etc., are worn.
Figures put forth by the superintendent
of the census show that three-fourths Of
the people of the United States inhabit the
districts where the annual rainfall is be
tween thirty and fifty inches.
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venient to the front chamber Is good
sized bedroom, which may serve as Q
nursery for young children if desired.
Above the kitchen, accessible to the hall,
are the bathroom and guest chamber, all
amply lighted.
A comfortable stairway leads to tins
attic, in which there are two excellent bed
rooms and large storeroom which may bt
used as servants bedroom when desired
The original cost Of this house was g..
600. d. w. KING.
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FIRST STORY.

the house from the side of the veranda,
which gives pretty effect from both the
front and side, and pass into large hall,
circular in plan, with broad, winding
stairway leading to the second story. Un-
der the principal staircase is placed the
passage and stairs to the cellar.
The large room parallel to the veranda,
with the bay window in front, is the par
lor, which Immediately connects with the
dining room adjoining, separated by slid
ing doors. The dining room is of good
size, with handsome octagon bay window
at one end and large sliding doors shutting
it off from the hall at the other. Back OF
the dining room is the kitchen, with a
large pantry and storeroom, as shown by
the plan; also door from the main hall
and back door leading to the yard in the
rear The chimneys are of hard brick to
the roof and of pressed brick from thence.
The open freplaces in the parlor and din
ing room have handsome glazed tile hearths
and facings, ornamental brass tenders,
suitable CRATES. mantels, ETC., complete
The kitchen is provided with pressed
brick chimney breast, and portable range
boiler, sink and tubs.
In the second story the arrangement o.
the rooms is admirable. The principal
chamber is in the 'front.' directly above thu
parlor, with commanding aspect, which
the balcony affords, as we'll as adding
| picturesque effect to the exterior. Con