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dience; there is no motive on the part Oh
the Italian bandit for devout attitudiniz-
ing. and we must believe the bloody
minded villain is sincere in his way when
he makes the holy sign and utters
PRAYER before he sends his victim into
eternity.
The bandit is a fearful sinner, and yet
his plous antics are probably sincere ex-
hibition Of all that his superstitious,
stunted brain apprehends about religion.
He is a savage of civilization and has no
further insight into what religion really
means than the savages of baroarism. who
never omit to propitiate their gods and
never omit to murder anybody for the
value of the buttons on his coat. In other
words. the average fruit of the gallows
tree is q repulsive proof of the vast dis
lance between certain sincere, though
superficial exhibition of emotional piety,
and real religion.
1t seems in order to inquire whether
there is any moral purpose served by
vague sentimental nonsense uttered by
clergymen sometimes about malefactors,
who, if the solemn judgments of the courts
are worth anything. generally die with stale
lies upon their lips. 1t seems TO be quite
as well to be decently silent about the
moral serenity of the last hours of
creatures whose last words ale generally
the reiteration of a frightful falsehood
that had no longer the temptation of self
preservation to palliate it.
nh tnI au
years ago in Central New York for MUIR
derlng her husband by cutting him down
with an axe at the breakfast table in the
presence of the children, and finishing
him, despite his pitiful appeals for mercy,
was described in her funeral sermon as one
"whose life was not failure" and whose
future home was heaven. Despite the
assurance of this preacher to the contrary,
the lives of such great criminals are fail
ures. Why such lives became failures.
what merciful judgment the boundless
compassion of God for all His creatures
may pass upon it, it does not become any
OF US to determine, but it seems immoral
to discourse about creatures who die with
lies upon their lips, so far as the
most authoritative human tribunal can
determine, as if they were repentant
sinners, imbued with a meek and
contrite spirit. Admitting even the
most daring doubts of skeptical
friends of the executed, silence would
seem to be the reasonable and decent
course Of the spiritual adviser of gallows
bird concerning the moral serenity and
repentance of the malefactor who goes to
the grave mumbling over the same old lie
about innocence.
One of the most cold-blooded cutthroats
that was ever executed in New England
went to the scaffold denying his guilt,
which had been proved beyond doubt. to
the last moment of his life, and his silly
spiritual adviser was stupid enough TO
congratulate the friends of the dead muir
derer that his last words were Lord, re-
member me.' The Lord will have no diff
ficulty in remembering him as a most
barbarous murderer who died with lie
on his lips.
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PHILANTHROPY GONE MAD.

Assemblyman Stein has introduced in
the New York Legislature bill TO repeal
the electrical execution law. Stein saw
McIiyaine electrocuted. and, while he ad.
mits that in two minutes the man was
dead. nevertheless he thinks the murderer
suffered great agony. The doctors present
agree that the man did not suffer at all,
and became unconscious at once when the
electric current struck him. OF what sort
of consequence is it whether cruel ruff
fan. who stabbed his poor victim fourteen
times in killing him, suffers more or less
by mode of execution that kills him in
two minutes? II he Suffered great deal
he could not suffer more than his poor vic
tim, whom he cut TO pieces before the eyes
of his horror-stricken wife.
The Albany E.eniag Journal hopes that
the'efforts to repeal the electrocution law
will ultimately result in the aboli-
ton of the death penalty, which,
the Journal says fails as deter
rent OF capital crime. Ii would be
difficult to prove this assertion. The coun-
tries that have abrogated the death PEN
atty. like Switzerland, have restored it,
because of the increase Of capital crime,
and murders have increased in Maine since
capital punishment was abolished.
The fact that Isaac sawtclle, the New
Hampshire murderer, planned his crime
with the expectation that if it was brought
home 10 him he would be tried in Maine
ard not in New Hampshire, shows that
even the most desperate murderers have
choice whether they kill their man in q
state where the galows still stands or in a
state where 1t has been taken down. Saw
telle's plan miscarried, but his intent was
plain. viz: If detected to be tried in Maine,
where the death penalty has been abol-
ished.
The Journal ignores the strongest argu-
ment for capital punishment, viz. that
even il it does not deter the man-cating
human tiger from killing his victim it
does kill tue tiger. That particular
human tiger wont hunt any more vic
tins to death when he has been sealed
up in the cell Of the grave, which cannot
be broken by its tenants or unlocked by
The key Of an executive pardon.
Assuming that murderer once planted
In the penitentiary would stay there
until DEATH why should the state be
taxed for years to support the man
eating human tiger The state might as
well decline to offer q bounty for the
scAlps of grizzly bears and cougars, and
provide instead for their being taken
alive in traps and confined for life there
afler in geological garden at the ex-
pense Of the state in the sentimental
hope that these predaceous animals
would become domesticated, or, as we
say of the human tiger, reformed and
regenerated
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TIME TO CALL A HALT.

General slocum, in the January Forum,
has timely article-"Pensions Time to
Call Halt" Since the publication Of
this article Pension Commissioner Raum
has confirmed General Slocum's Judgment
that the limit OF pension legislation has
been reached for the present. Commits
sioner Raum says that his bureau for the
year ending July, 1893, will require $780,
OoO,0oo, and he estimates that for several
years thereafter pensions will cost the
country from $l27,Oe0,OO0 to $3.50, 900, 600 a
year, provided, Of course, there were no
new legislation
An annual pension roll Of $l27, 900, 600
thirty years after the war has queer
sound when We recall the statement of
General Garfield as chairman of the COM
miteee on appropriations twenty years
ago, January q, 1872, that 1--WE may rca-
sonaoly expect that the expenditures for
pensions tthen only 100000 a year, will
hereafter steadily decrease. unless our
legislation should be fundamentally ex-
trayagant.
Seneral sioeum is an educated soldier;
ne commanded volunteer troops from the
opening day OF the civil war to Joe John
sto''s suFrenderi he owes his high mill
tary reputation to his volunteer service !;
ne is a'member Of the q. A. Il. and fire.
quent attendant upon the sessions of
the national encampment; he is not a poli-
tician, bat patriotic citizen. the leader
ON the part Of the Municipal Reform
Democracy of Brooklyn. 4 distinguished
veteran, who has always been in fall
sympathy with the C. 4. Il and its OH
5ects. General siocum's Judgment that il is
time to call a halt 10 further rension lerjs.
iation deserves 10 be needed and respected
o. that of an intelligent soldier and a true
friend OF his old companions in arms.
General Slocum presents soma interest.
ing figures, showing that states whose
quotas were made up largely Of three years
men. many of whom got no bonnties and
put in three solid years Of service. make 4
far inferior showing on the pensiou rolls
compared with states which enlisted largo.
ly men for shorter terms nf sa-vi,,, a, 4
supplied them with fat bounties. Ohio.
with some ll0ooo fewer troops in actual
service than New York. has $1,000 moro
names on the pension roll than The En-
pire state. Pennsylvania. with fewer
three years men by $1,000 than were fur.
nished by New YORK. has $500 more pen-
sioners. Kansas and California furnish
the most conspicuous examples Of this
practical injustice. Kansas furnished i8 e
GA three years men, 26}o Of whom died
during the war. Yet she has today yls.t
men on the pension roll, California fur
nished but 3,C97 three years men, vet has
on the pension roll s,oo' men, OF siGt re-
ENTHUSIASTICALLY more than double tho
whole number of three yeavs men enlisted.
According TO the reports Of the war de
partment over So0.0No men enlisted JUS,
before the close of the Mar. They To.
ceived heavy bounties, aud tu. few OF
them saw any active service 7pUrinE the
last year of the war there v6ee l0W
men enlisted 20 serve short terms - scr
vice who never saw hattie or heard d
shot fired in anger OF this l5a,on none
served more than loo days, excePs le,co(
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CUSTER, WASH, Dec. IS, 1891.


DR.. J. Eugene Jordan, Seattle, Wash
Dear Sir: l would have written to you
before this, but thought | would wait
awhile and see if there would be any re-
lapse. 1t has been six months since
stopped your treatment, and, as there has
been no return of former symptoms, l am
assured that my cure Is complete. l can
eat kinds of food now that 1 have not
been able to eat for fifteen years, and do
not remember that my bowels were ever
so regular 1 am indeed a thousand times
obliged to you for what you have done for
me. We have used your medicines in our
family several times for acute cases and
always with the best results. I am fully
satisfied that you can cure anything that
can be cured. l shall always be pleased
to recommend your treatment to others,
for to you and your remedies 1 owe more
than can ever express. I pray God that
you may live many years to benefit Others
as you have me. Please accept the graft
tude of an overlooking heart.
Respectfully yours,
MRS. c. HOLCOMB.
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SURE OF ELECTION.

The New York Sun, commenting on the
retirement of Mr.. Blaine, srys:
Only assured and splendid fame and an
uRquestioned supremacy can afford to make the
choice which Blaine makes and which Tilden
made. In Mr.. Biaine's case, as in Mr. Tilden's,
the nomination for president rested entirely
upon the decision OF the great leader whom an
overwhelming majority OF his party wanted for
president. Moreover, as was true concerning
Mr.. Tilden in 1850, the nomination meant cleo
ton. We are free to say that in our opinion no
candidate whom the Democracy san name in
June could have beaten Mr. Blaine at the polls
in November
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NIGHT IN VENICE.

Love, in :his summer night DO you recall
Midnight, anu Venice. and those skies of June
Ihick-sown with stars, when from the still
lagoon
We ideG Uo!seiess through the dim canal?
A sense OF some bclatcd festival
Hung round us, and our own hearts beat in
tune
With passionate memories that the young
moon
Lit mp on dome and tower and palace wall,
We dreamed what ghosts Of vanished loves
made part
OF thS5 sweet light and trembling, amorous air
!eIt-ip those rich beams that Used your
hair,
Those brec2cs warm with hy-goae lovers stehs-
Al the dead beauty OF Venice IN your eyes,
All the Old loves OF Venice in my heart.
join Hon
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DIR. JORDAN'S OFFICE
Is at the Residence of Ex-MayOr
Yesler, Third and James.

Consultation and prescription absolutely
free
Send for free book explaining the Histo-
genetic system.
CAUTION. - The Histogenetic Medi.
cines are sold in but one agency in each
town. The label around the bottle hears
the following inscription: "Dr. ]. Eugene
Jordan's Histogenetic Medicine" Every
other device Is 4 fraud.
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Jan. .. 1892.


This is to certify that the undersigned
was at deaths door from the effects of
typhoid fever; not one of the family had
a hope left; recovery was apparently i'm
possible. DR.. Jordan's wonderful Histo-
genetic Medicines were persisted in &C.
cording to his orders, and, true to his
promise, / recovered fully and entirely
and have now better general health than
before my sickness, besides having gained
thirty pounds in weight This is not our
first experience with these medicines.
Other members of our family, after hay
ing been pronounced iDcurable by the
most reputable doctors of this city, have
been quickly and radically cured by DR..
Jordan. ALONZO HAMBLETT,
$40 Lombard, Seattle, Wash.
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The State Historical Society.

A special meeting OF the State Historical soci.
ETY. will be held in Armory hall, Tacoma, on
Monday, Feb. 81, 1892. at 8 o'clock D. m, at
which a paper will be read by Hon. Elwood
Evans on "The First Discovery OF the Columbia
River Country" The society now has more
than sixty members, including representative
citizens of the state Meetings will be held
once a month, at which papers will be read by
old-time residents Of the state
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DR.. BOWMAN { GU.
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Colonel John Withers, wealthy banker, re-
Gently killed himself at san Antonio, Tex. He
was graduated at West Point in 1919 aud was a
follow officer with General Grant at Vancouver
Barracks in 1858. lie resigned from the regular
army at the outbreak of the war aud served in
the Confederate army, and was on the staff OF
President jefferson Davis.
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Frank w!lkeson in New YORK Times
Opposite Sedro, aud n the low mound that
marks the western extremity OF the foothills,
the coal measures Of the skagit first outcrop.
From Hamilton to sedro IS thirteen miles For
that distance the rives lows over coal measures
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The Few Thoughtful
Require Theoretic
Demonstration.

TIME great majority demand practical
results. This problem is solved
only by the Histogenetic System
of Medicine. The philosophical mind in
stantly grasps the theory, and the others,
if they but for moment dismiss their
childish prejudices, cannot help but adj
nit that while the size and shape of their
heads precludes the theoretical solution.
they cannot help noticing the practical
success.
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new submarine cable has been aid between
the Bahama islands and the United States. 1t
is go miles long aad cost $4,000 about $3.50 for
each mile OF its length
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Taking butter from milk
was known in the earliest
times. 1t was left for our
time to make a milk of cod
liver oil.
Milk, the emulsion of but
ter, is an easier food than
butter. SCOTS Emulsion of
cod-liver oil is an easier food
than cod liver oil. 1t is rest
for digestion. 1t stimulates,
helps, restores, digestion;
and. at the same time, sup
plies the body a kind of
nourishment it can get in no
other way.
New York
Your dEugg,s, keeps SCOTS Emulsion of cod liver
o'i-ah druggists everywhere do. s..
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HOOD CANAL ROUTE

HOOD CANAL ROUTE
STEAMER DELTA.
carrying the United States r,.n -,
W.s la..a eOe& al Z oeiock a N IooJ.ss
p. .e1 cay and Fridays for Kingston Poin.
p 49, III SAmnle. Bangor, seabeck Ry.n,so
sAant hsToor, p.queooose Hein.er 10 H.,.Ti,
-, Iaoin1 II ora Dewatio Lil!lNaap Pans &c.,.
~. ana Union City. Returning Iescas' f' ooos-
>1S a. Q CLOCK ~ D. TRouTlA An N.s,so IN
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CANADIAN PACIFIC NAVIGATION CO
II srf,F-

pACIFIc COAST STEAMSHIP COMPANY
Dispatch steamers from Seattle a .o,Iovs;
For San Francisco. via Por. Townsend AMI VS..
toria' At p NJ passengers received On board a.a
p nj February 5. IL, 10, %: March4 .ll1s.2 %
For Alaska February IL II; March 10. Is
From san Francisco, FOR Victoria And pu,s.
SOUND ports al N, February S, IL, 10 "a.
March 4, Il, Is, -, So 50
tieAe's may Be obtained at the onacs Of the com.
Pany, 81 Ocean dock sealtIs
GoooAL PERKINS & co.
General Agents. san francisco
n acLELLAN. Superintendent. Seattle
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RAILROAD DIS.
RATLROAD
NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD
and finest Palace Dining Cars between seattle st.
Paul and Chicago without change. Connections
for all points In the United States and Canada
TRAINS LEAVE SEATTLE;
For St Paul and East,
For Portland and South,
500 a m. and Is p. m
For olympia,
500 and II 90 a. m
For MonteSano and Gray's Harbor,
500 a
For Chehslis and Local,
IL :00 a. m.
For Tacoma and Local.
500 and SO a. m 500 and s:l5 p. m.
FOR Tacoma fast trains,
1l:O0 a m aud 200 p.
TRAINS ARRIVE AT SEATTLE:
From st. Paul and East,
$50 a
From Portland and south,
LIS a, m. and 7:.5 p. N
From ympia,
l:Se and 7:25 ?. m.
From Montesano and Gray's Harbor,
From Ch-halis and Local,
1880 p.
From Iact m and Local,
s;2oA M t,l;S 80 2 and % !. m; al5 night
s:s5 a. m and 4:l5 p. m
RAILROAD AND STEAMSHIP TICKETS TO
ALL POINTS IN THE WORLD.
For Rates, Routes and other information cali on
or address
A. CHARLTON, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt..
12l First ST., Portland, Or
A. CHILBERG, City Passenger and Ticket A gent
southeast corner Ye Ter avenue and Commercial
street, olympic block, Seattle. Wash.
Ia. NADEAU, General Agent and Ticket Agent,
n. P Depot. Seattle
To SAN FRAN>Isco
And all points In
CALIFORNIA
Via the Mt Shasta route Of
THE SOUTHERN ICIFIC COMPANY.
The only route
THROUGH CALIFORNIA
To all points
EAST AND SOUTH.
THE SCENIC ROUTE OF THE PACIFIC COAST.
PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPERS
PULLMAN TOURIST SLEEPING CARS
Attached to express trains afiording superior &C.
commodations for second-class passengers.
For rates. tickets, sleeping car reservations
etc, call upon or address
THOMAS A. GRAHAM, District Passenger Agent
IiU south Tenth street, Tacoma. Wash
f. p ROGERS, Assistant General Freight and
Passenger A gent Portland. OR.
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY LINE
Seattle Montana Railway. Fairhaven Southern
Railroad, New Westminster & Southern
Railway.
ZINE CARD IN EFFECT DEC. =, 1ss
TO AND FROM
Everett, Marysvle, Stanwood Mt. Vernon, Fair
haven, New Whatcom Blaine and
South Westminster.
irAhs arrive seattle. sos D. N
Through cars between Seattle and South Vest.
minister connecting with electric line for Van
couVer :. s. NEFF. Supt
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Leave Seattle

e:30a m. Arrive Tacoma I:2oam
2o0P N. Arrive Tacoma 3:5op.m.
$751; ?. N. Arrive Tacoma $40 D m.
Landinss-Commercial Dock, Seattle; n. r
Z. Dock, Tacoma
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7:2o a m Arrive Seattle a:losm.
HAS a u. Arrive Seattle :35pm
ALSO p. m Arrive Seattle 6:-onm.
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Leaves Hatfeld's wharf Tuesday THURSDAY and
Saturday at 700 o'clock a m. heturulns following
days, g. m. e. A. SWIFT Master
J. A HATFIELD Agent
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Time card commencing Monday January Is
1892. Leave Tacoma
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STEAMERS.

COLUMBIA RIVER AND PUGET SOUND
Navigation company's fast and elegant steamer
BAILEY GATZEkT. Tacoma-sea,tIe route
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7'snt exchange and telegra plIc transfers on New
iEx Chicago, 81 Paul. san Francisco, Port
land, and various points Ia wash
ington, Oregon and British
Columbia
where In Europe '~
Collections made at all points on favorabe torn.
BONDS. stocks and other yaluaoles received on ~.
poSit for SAFE keeping
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BANKS.

General banking business tr.n.ae,.x
prtneIpsi e1tis. e as payable ia ra,
and Eurooe
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FAST TIME
EVERETT AND LOWELL
The Elegantly Equipped Steamer
STATE OF wAsHIN GToN.
Every Morning Except Sunday at $50, from
Baker Co.'S Dock.
RETURNING:
Arrives Seattle at 8 p m.
FOR TACOMA:
Every Evening Except sunday a. $50.
H.'w. BAKER & CO.
THE STEAMER MULTNoNAH-
Runs on the following time card, daily. except
sunday:
FARE TO TACOMA. SO CENTS.
Leaves Seattle .........................5 :ooam
niIiNes Asonia. -.-...----..--........... $50 do
.f., , w --.....-..'.'....-.--.. 1880 do
arrives oIy fnpla 1893 do
1aaHas ~ oinS'.--'.-. ..'.......------- Z; 500 DO
$500. .' w '.'.'.'.....--............ $500 do
Aii'oS Seatsie.' 100 do
Connecting with boats for Kamilchie aud shsI
ton
Rater & CO.. Dnck foa. 81 University .traa..
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Russian Women at the Fair.

Mrs. Palmer, president of the board
of lady managers, is in receipt of COM
munications through the state depart
ment showing that the women of Rus
STA are greatly interested in the wom-
ans exhibit at the Worlds fair. Sec
rotary Blaine, at Mrs. Palmer's request,
had asked the appointment of an i'm
perial commission of Russian women
to collect an exhibit of women's work
in the empire. Minister Smith, who
presented the request, informs Secre-
tary Blaine that the request was re-
ceived most graciously and the commits
sion was appointed with Mime. Wish
negradski, wife of the minister of f.
nance, as president. Nine. Vishnegrad-
ski is greatly interested in the peasant
lace industry of Russia, and has al
ready had considerable correspondence
with the board of lady managers on the
subject of an exhibit.