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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-09-29

Cray TAx.-Only few more days in
which to pay your city tax before the
books are closed. Hurry up.
r. E. LAwRoN,
City Tax Collector.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-09-29
For corns, Warts and Bunions

Use only Abbotts East Indian Corn Paint
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08
A Monkeys Linguistic Achievement.
r. L Garner, in the April Forum.


In the room where the monkeys are kept by a
dealer in Washington City there is a cage con-
tanning young white-face cebus Of more than
average intelligence. On the same shelf aud in
an adjacent cage is the little capuchin Puck.
They can easily see and hear each other through
the open wire partition which separates them,
there being no other obstruction. have visited
Puck for many weeks almost daily, and always
supply him with food after requiring him to ask
me for it in his own language. Having bu.
little interest In the white-fsce, who Is very shy
of Inc, l rarely showed him the slightest
attention until within the past few weeks,
when ! observed him trying to utter the
capuchin sound for food, which always secured
for Puck a banana or some nuts Seeing
that Puck was always rewarded for utter
ing this sound, the little white-face
began to try it, and as soon as discovered his
purpose began to reward him in the same way,
and have thus seen one step taken by monkey
effort was quite poor and could not at once de-
eide what he meant, but practice has developed
in him great proficiency, and now he
speaks it almost as plainly the
capuchin himself This was doub!y
interesting to me in view of the fact
that had long believed that no monkey ever
acquired the sounds of another species. 1
frankly admit that this one instance is alone
sufficient to cause me to recede from a con-
clusion rendered untenable by such certain
proof, the cogency of which is emphasized by
the short time in which it has been accom-
plished; but / still regard it as a rule that
monkeys do not do So
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08
ANXIOUS TO BE DECEIVED.

The credulity which accepts as "scien-
tific facts" things which are treated by the
vast majority of scientific thinkers and
investigators as mere assumptions, Is not
confined to ignorant or uncultured people.
The Rev. NJ. J Savage IN the Arena, in his
discussion of what he calls psychic phe-
pomena, speaks of "mind reading" and
what he Terms ''telepathy" as if they were
well attested scientific facts. The Rev.
Mr.. Savage does not seem to have any
more doubt that his so-called psychic
phenomena" are scientific facts rather than
fancies, decisions, illusions or fables than
he has that the Copernican theory of as
tronomy is sound and justly substituted
for that Of Aristotle.
The trouble with able and intelligent
men like Mr.. Savage, who exhibits this
singular credulity, is that they always for
get that the boy lied" accounts for great
deal in this world that seems new and
strange. The boy" does lie so frequently:
the female fsbulist is so frightfully COM
mon in this world that it is not safe To
treat IS psychic facts" or phenomena"
things which transcend the intelligent hu-
man experience of the great majority, no
matter how respectable the N-~acter OF
your informant.
III man Of the personal yeracity, dig
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08

slow of arrival, and until it does come the de-
velopment of the resources will be rather slow.
A new mine, new town or new factory ere
ates demand for lumber and other necessaries,
and when building goes on brisk trade is sure
to follow, thereby benefting ALL
The lumbermen of Washington are in a
peculiar shape; with cutting capacity OF 1,250,
100000 feet yearly they have but foreign ship
ments and a strictly local demand to depend
upon. Consequently when times are hard,
through various causes, the local demand Is
very small indeed, and as there is not demand
enough from foreign ports to keep all mills
busy, 1t is rather hard scratching for many to
make both ends meet.
This condition has prevailed in Western
Washington for the past eighteen months
among the fir manufacturers and has led to an
active search for Eastern trade, and where but
two or three mills catered to the car trade a
year ago, fully twenty are in tie race now.
But building up car trade Is very slow and
vexatious work. About the time fair trade is
built up the local trade will be in good shape,
and then the period that the lumbermen have
struggled along on meager orders will have
passed into history.
The Frightening up period is set for 1898,
when the Great Northern reaches the Sound.
Towns, station houses, bridges, section houses,
and water tanks will have to be erected, and
the lumber will come from Western Washing
ton. The boom now experienced in Spokane is
the result of the Great Northern coming. That
boom is due in the Sound region next year, and
the lumbermen first of all will welcome it.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08
SETTLE. FRIDAY. APRIL s.
THE RHODE ISLAND ELECTION.

Rhode Island, whose election was car
ried by the Republicans on Wednesday, is
the only state in the Union, save Louis
lana, whose election takes place on the
18th inst, that chooses its government in
the spring. Oregon holds her state cleo
ton for minor officers in June, Alabama
in August, Vermont the first Tuesday and
Maine the second Monday in September,
Florida and Georgia hold state elections
in October.
Rhode Island is a close state, since the
abolition of restricted suffrage has added
several thousand new voters to the lists,
the majority of whom have been assumed
to be of Democratic sympathies. Both of
Rhode Islands representatives in the
lower house of congress are Democrats,
and in 1890 the Democrats elected the gov
ernor. In state elections in Rhode Island,
as in New Hampshire and Connecticut, it
takes majority to elect. The legisla-
ture, which chooses the United States
senators and sometimes the governor, is
chosen, as in Connecticut, New Hamp-
shire and Vermont, under the town
system" and not according to population,
as in New York and Massachusetts,. In
Vermont, for example, the towns of st.
George and Glastonbury, with about fifty
votes each. have the same representation
in the lower House as the city of Burling-
ton with 5000 votes. This is non-repub-
lican system, and under it we not seldom
find in close states, like New Hampshire,
Connecticut and Rhode Island, no election
by the people and the election OF state
officers made by the legislature.
The failure of the Democrats to carry
Rhode Island on Wednesday insures the
reelection to the United States Senate of
Senator Aldrich, who is the peer of Gov
ernor Mckinley. of Ohio, as an able and
learned expounder of the Republican doc
trine of protection. The Democracy have
failed to carry Rhode Island on the tariff
issue. expounded by Ex-Governor Camp
bell and Grover Cleveland; they have
failed to defeat for reelection the ablest
Republican in the Senate, save John Sher-
man; they have lost all chance of adding
the four electoral votes of Rhode Island to
the Democratic column in November
next.
Rhode Island was good stamping ground
for the Democratic tariff reformers, who
desire free wool" and taxed wooden
goods, but the Rhode Island manufacture
ers refused the bride; they saw that ulti-
mately 'free wool" would be followed as
it was in England by free wooden goods,
and they were smart enough to see that
protective tariff to endure and justify
itself must be fair tariff; the producer of
raw material and the manufacturer
were in the same boat and they must sink
or swim, survive or perish together. The
Western wool grower and the Eastern
manufacturer are both cared for by the
Mckinley tariff. which is a fair tariff; for
the Eastern manufacturer to bite at the
bride of free wool would be sure to turn
the Western wool grower into free trader;
protected wool and protected wooden
goods must stand or fall together; free
wool is only the first stem to free trade
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08
THE NICARAGUA CANAL.

It is matter of deep regret that there is
small prospect that the present congress
will take any favorable action respecting
the project of the Nicaragua canal. With
out this canal the march of the Pacific
coast will be at best not beyond the pace
of a lively turtle; with this canal COM
pleted and under the practical control of
the United States government as fully as
is the Suez canal under that of Great
Britain, our industrial civilization will
move at the charging step. Without
the Nicaragua canal there is no cheap
transportation TO the markets of the world
for the surplus products of this Coast; and
therefore the development of this Coast
will not greatly exceed the domestic wants
of its people. Without the Nicaragua
canal manufacturing will never flourish on
this Coast; but with that cheap water
route 10 the markets of the world, placed
under government control and out Of
reach OF the great transcontinental lines of
, railway. manufactures can be profitablv
established and successfully extended and
maintained.
The Pacific coast is further away from
the markets of the world than any other
part of the world and it is not possible
that the Pacific coast, despite its fine eli
mate, its mild winters and comfortable
summers, its fertile soil. its splendid for
ests. its mines, its grain and fruit-grovjng
capacity. will never Re thoroughly deyel.
oped or densely populated unless il can be
brought nearer the markets of the world
by cheaper routes Of transportation.
The distance from San Francisco TO
either Liverpool or New York around the
Horn is nearly 1900 miles. Cut the 18TH
mus at Nicaragua and the distance from
San Francisco 10 New York is only ! 800
miles, TO Liverpool tribe over 7,00O miles.
Thus by the construction Of the canal of
TO miles, Of which only twenty-seven
miles is excavation, You al once bring san
Francisco 10000 miles nearer TO New York
and TO the markets Of the world than it is
now. You TINS reduce the distance
nearly one-half the circumference of the
globe. Warner Miller is entirely right
when he says that the mere statement OF
this fact contains the entire and unanswer-
able argument for the construction of this
canal
As military and naval advantage the
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08
DEATHS VALLEY.
ream, designer dark,

Nay, do not dream, designer dark,
Thou hast PORTRAYED or hit thy theme entire:
], hoverer OF late by this dark valley, by its con
fines, having glimpses OF it,
Here enter lists with thee, claiming my right to
make symbol too.
For have seen many wounded soldiers die.
After dread suffering-have seen their lives
pass off with smiles;
And have watch'd the death hours of the old :
and seen the infant die;
Che rich, with all his nurses and his doctors;
Ana then the poor in meagerness and poverty:
And myself for long, o Death. have breathei
my every breath
Amid the nearness and the silent thought of
thee.
And out OF these and thee,
] make q scene, q song, a brief mot fear of thee
Nor glooms ravines, nor bleak, nor dark-for /
do not fear thee.
Nor celebrate the struggle, or contortion or
hard-tieG knott.
or ths brosd blessed light and perfect air, with
meadows, ripping tides, and trees and
flowers and grass,
And the low hum of living breeze-and in the
midst Gods beautiful eternal right hand
Thee, hottest minister OF Heaven-thee. envoy
usherer. guide at last of all,
Rich, for1d, loosener OF the strlcturek knot calPd
life,
sweet, peaceful, welcome Death.
-Wdh Whitman his last poeHsl
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

The public is hereby warned not to pay
any money to parties representing to be
agents of the Seattle GER,
except the following, who are the only
authorized travelling agents of the Posi-
ISTEIIfsKScEE, viz: ]. A. Mcclellan and
T. A. Davies. This does not apply TO resi-
dent agents OF this paper, who are located
in various cities and towns Of the North
west nor to postmasters, who are in all
cases authorized to take subscriptions for
the Daily, Sunday and Weekly PosT-IS-
TELLIGENCER.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08

Harriet Hosmer, the sculptor, leads very re-
tired life in Rome and is no. easily approach
able TO visitors, but sometimes she lets down
the bars of her reserve to an American com.
patriot. Mrs. Mary Frost ormsby, who went to
Rome SIS delegate to the International Peace
Conference. was entertained by Miss Hosmer.
who sent by her a warm message of greeting to
sorosis--a message that Mrs Ormsby delivered
amid great applause to the members of sorosIs
at their last meeting
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08

curious and hitherto scarcely known statue
OF the great Napoleon has been acquired BY the
French government 1t is by Rude and is a
plaster model, representing the emperor lying
81 Iuli length, dead, the head crowned with a
iaurs! wreath and half enveIoped in a shroud
which covers the body
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08

company has been formed in Leominster.
Mass which will try 10 raise the old British
ship hussar which was sunk, treasures and all.
near Hell Gate, New York, November IS. 1850. To
back up the scheme Leominster men have sub
scrt5ed nearly 5000 of the $1,000 capital of the
company. If the attempt to raise the vessel ia
successful the investment viii yield something
ike 100000 in return for the $1,000
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08

The New York Commercial Advertiser is re-
sponsible for the statement that Inspector
Byrnes was once under the painful necessity of
forcing Mr.. Borrowe to relinquish some letters
from young woman, with which he had been
trying to brighten her father
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08

Colonel Polk, president of the National Far
mers Alliance, says that s'the third party has
good fighting show in nine Southern ststes' ana
in Georgia it is dead sure OF winning. bu'
then the colonel is over sanguine, for ne says
further: "If the Southern states stand oy the
movement, as I have every reason to oeiieve
they will. the third party will also carry every
state west of the Missouri river"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08

Aurelien scholl, the witty French journalist
whose name has been brought go prominently
before the American public as one Of the So
called arbisers in the Drayton- Borrove still.
born duel, makes no secret of the conteu1pt
which he feels for the ordinary French duel
Ii appears, from his account, that of s47 dueI,
which have been fought in France within the
last three years, thsre were only eleven Of these
encounters in which there was q tragicsl re,ult
n raristar
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08

Windsor castle possesses the most extensive
ice cellars of any palace in Europe. They ex-
tend almost the entire length under the east
terrace A portion of the supply is cut from the
lake at Frogmore, the remainder being brought
from Norway. They were built during the
present reign. under the direction of the late
prince con5ort
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08

Sir Randall Roberts, whose title is one of the
most ancient of English baronstcies. has just
been sued for the recovery of s25, which, &C.
cording to the evidence produced in court, had
been lent to him in very small amounts for the
purpose Of enabling him to get his breakfast
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08
Puget sound Lumber Outlook Brighter

Chicago TimbermAn, April 2
Times are s.ill rather quiet in the lumber line
on Puget sound, with, however. an upward and
frightening tendency. Ike al new countrie,
this section must needs depend. until its mag.
nincenr resources are developed, upon invest.
inent of Eastern capital or the building up OF
earlier intestine ats Money from the East il
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08

Countess Russell, who has achieved much
success on the boards as an amateur actress, hiss
now decided to definitely adopt the stage as
profession, and her debut at the Royalty theater
in London will take place few weeks hence.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08

Max o'Rell says that everyone, except kings
and the prime ministers Of a few great powers,
likes to be interviewed; and he considers 1t
compliment to be asked to give q newspaper
his ideas
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08

All Of the money which Paderewski has made
in his remarkably successful concerts In this
country ID to be invested for the benefit Of his
invalid boy, who is the fathers idol.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08

The umbrella manufacturers OF New York
and Philadelphia have decided to form trust
and raise prices. The trust should establish its
headquarters on Puget sound. This il the best
place to raise UMBRELLAS
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08

The Detroit Tribune says: "Fill whalebsci
with provisions and send it direc, from Aichi-
gan TO Russia That is Senator McMIuan's pro-
gsanme and 1t ought to be carried QUIZ To
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08

Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke says that during the
ten days he was chaplain OF Harvard university
sixty undergraduates called on him to talk with
him about religion and morala
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08

which the Buffalo Express responds; "Aa Wen
talk of filing an Erie canal boat with grain at
Buffalo and sending it direct to Russia Inc
whaleback's cargo would have to be transferred
and sent by rail around the St Lawrence rapids
Just as the much-advertised Wetmore's was.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-03-03

The first, for the selection Of eight dele
gates aud eight alternates to the national
convention, which meets in Chicago June
2lst, will be held at Vancouver on
Wednesday, May 18th. The basis Of
representation will be three delegates from
each county at large and one delegate for
every one hundred votes and one dele
gate for every fraction Of one hundred
votes in excess Of fifty polled for Hon.
Thomas Carroll at the election held Nov.
4th, 1880, which will make a convention
Of 33l delegates. The number Of dele
gates apportioned to Yakima county Is
seven. The official call recommends that
the county committee order primaries 10
be held Saturday, May t4th, 10 select
delegates to q county convention to be
held Saturday, May 2lst, to select dele
gates TO attend the convention to be held
at Vancouver. Another convention will
be held after the national convention has
nominated the candidates for president
and vice president, to nominate a full set
Of state officers, congressman and pTesi-
Dental electors, constituting q new state
central committee.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-03-03

Mr.. Fitterer, Of the hotel Bartholet, re-
ports business picking up rapidly. The
Bartholet is steadily gaining in reputation
and getting its proportion Of the business.
Patrick Doyl and family left on Wednes-
day for St. Paul. Mr.. Doyle expects to re-
turn here, after seeing his family comfor-
tably settled, to try his luck in the Okla
hogan mining country.
The republican county convention will
be held in this city on the 10Th Of March,
for the purpose Of electing delegates and
alternates to the republican state con-
vention at Seattle on April l4th.
W. D. G. Spike, formerly Of this city,
but now of Tacoma, is the publisher Of a
very creditable magazine under the cap
ton Of Spikes Illustrated Monthly. 1t has
upwards Of one hundred pages and has
reached its second number.
The store Of "Pard" Cummings at
Alma, Okanogan county, was recently de-
stroyed by FIRE, and the loss is placed at
5000. Cummings will be remembered
by all early North Yakimites as the pre-
decessor Of H. L. Tucker 10 the livery
business.
Bridgeport, Washington, has been sold
to L. W. Fairchild and F. L. Rodgers, Of
Bridgeport, Conn. The consideration is
stated rs 10000. Bridgeport is one Of
the new towns recently laid out on the
Columbia river, near the mouth Of the
Okanogan.
Married, at the residence Of the brides
parents, in North Yakima, Monday, Feb.
10Th, by Rev. r. Warner, William J.
Davis to Miss Hattie NJ. Stevens, both Of
this city. The HERALD extends It's best
wishes and congratulations to Mr.. and
Mrs. Davis.
Among the guests Of the hotel Bartho-
let this week were NJ. L. Weston, Of
Prosser; Dan Marshall, Dalles Oregon; |;
Thos. Castens, Seattle; Thos. Fleming 4
wife, Dayton, Iowa; r. F. Fleming 4
wife, Lehigh, Iowa W. 7. Davis, Kiona
and J. S. Churchill, Pendleton, Oregon.
A colored puGilist from Roslyn and
Yakima man who is clever with his
dukes" had set-to at the stock yards
Monday afternoon. The sable brother
was to knock his opponent out In elk
rounds. He was not only unable to do
this, but had the match been for points
he would not have been in it.
Ed L. Huntley, the Chicago clothing
merchant, who Is known all over as Dia-
mond Ed, is again happy. At Portland,
the other day, as the result Of advertising,
he recovered the jewels and iewelry Of
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-03-03
YAKIMA and THE STATE.
Interesting Items Of News from Yakima
and Its Suburbs.
bits OF Gossip, Facts, FancIes, Per-
sOnRIs, and n HOdge.POdge Of
Paragraphs Of Every
Description.

John Reed has field Of wheat that is
up three inches.
Fred R. Reed spent a couple Of days in
Tacoma this week.
Mrs. J. H. Fairbrook has returned from
Seattle improved in health.
Ex-Mayor Knox, Of Puyallup, spent
several days in the city last week.
It is reported that grass is six inches
high on the Selah, coal creek and Bur
bank canyon ranges.
The poles for the additional arc lights
contracted by the city have arrived and
are being set in position.
The new Baptist church is nearly fin
ished, and it is the present intention TO
dedicate Il on the 10Th inst.
George Donald's little son is now the
happy possessor Of a miniature road cart
to correspond with his Shetland pony.
Have you paid your subscription to
The HERALD? Tempus fugit and this
paper is now on the fourth year Of its ex-
istence.
Edward Sexton left for Walla Walla
Tuesday to continue his quest after health.
He was greatly improved by bis stay In
Yakima.