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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-08

American hog; he is the rascal beadIe that
blackmails or brow5es.s the weak, the
tirnid. the friendIess and forlorn: he is the
"Peeping Tom" sad Paul Pry" Of jour
naIisn that every honest man Of moral
courage holds in hearty contempt.
The American hog in journalism il q
man who bites bis own flesh whenever he
sees mortal raise himself TO the skies,
and he is never truly happy and contented
except when he tries 70 drag an angel
down & the miasmatic level OF his own
obscurity, depravity ard nnalevolence.
The American hog in journalism is al
ways roofing the garbage heap Of corner
gossip and scandal for subsistence. The
American hog in journalism is at once
porker and porcupine; ground hog; he
has no respect for the rights OF his fell
lows to the pursuit of happiness: he
does his best TO make life . burden
20 those who are defenseiess or at disad-
vantage; when he can't drink himself be
loves TO spill another mans cup, and If be
can't spill it, Is sure to spit in il out OF
pure maiignity; when he can't make
spoon himself he will spoil horn rather
than let another man make a spoon.
Tbe American hog in journalism stoops
his forehead to the dust to those he fears
living. and then tries to feed on their de-
fenseless bodies after death. The Ameri-
can hog in journalism corresponds TO the
piratical shyster who blackmaiIs the
weak, the ignorant and the unfortunate,
and makes the name of lawyer a steuch in
the nostriIs Of the people.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-08
sEArTLE. SUNDAY My s.
THE NEW REPUBLICAN Clue.

The King County Republican Club,
which completed its organization last
evening. enters upon its career under the
most favorable auspices. Its membership
il already almost 100 and Is rapidly grow
ing. On its roll are TO be found the names
OF many of the most active and energetic
young Republicans in the city. Its officers
are men who command respect and conf
dence, and under their direction the club
viii do excellent work during the cam
paign.
The organization Of this club is the first
step taken by the Republicans OF King
county in the fall campaign. It is note
worthy that the meeting Of last evening
was characterized by degree Of enthu-
siasm and harmony, which, if continued.
will assure success in the county and In
the state. The "boys" are in earnest, and
they are entering upon this campaign
TO win.
The young Republicans are taking the
lead, but the old ones are not far behind
them.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-08
THE PASSING THRONG.

DR.. and Hrs. n. l. Bates, OF Mare Island. ara
al the Rainier hotel on their way East The
doctor, who has been for two years in charge a.
the naval hospital at Mare Island, has bean "a.
heved from DUTY there, and he now goes to
Washington City 70 await orders since Mara
Island has the ouly naval hospital on the Coast.
the men from al the naval vessels on the Pacific
are sent thsra. Cases come from all along the
coast. from Alaska 70 South America and from
Chlna, japan and the Sandwich Islands as we'll
OF course only chronic cases are sent from thsse
fsr-oh points, for cases of ordinary illness are
Treated on the vessels or at the towns where II
ships happen 70 be lying. DR.. Bates said: "Thers
are now no diseases peculiar 70 the navy
searvy, once so common, has become slrnos,
unknown The dying out of scurvy is due 70
the iact that the long voyages OF old times ara
almost unknown vessel is rarely six months
OUT OF port, and whenever she touches fresn
meat and vegetables can be obtained. Add n
tAat the Tact that the sailors are much better
fed than they used 70 be and the processes for
preserving food for use on shipboard have rnuch
improved The Arctic explorers are now the
only men who run the risk OF scurvy."
j. 8 Diller. who Is in charge o, the rrp,,sa
States geological survey in Washington. Ore
gou and Northern California. went with P,ofss
Scr Q. b. Johnson, of the State university. YES
ieEday 10 examine the fossils along the h.nts
OF the DuwsIrish. south of this city. They found
Q number Of excellent specimens of marine
shells. In the rocks At the Newcastle mines are
crsekixh water shells which NJ DilIer will ex
anime more closely in . day or two He xoects
to walk in from the mines and by STUDYING the
formations along the road determine the sela.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-08

schools severely tests the memory and
tests the underst landing comparatively
little. If the understanding we're s.imu-
lated and exercised either the pupil would
amount 70 something or he would drop
ont of the higher school, as he ought.
Self-educated men and women are usually
thorough scholars. because they are not
diverted from their desire to master sub
ject by any worry about daily marks or
periodical examinations. Beyond the
rudiments of reading, writing. aEith-
me:ic and geography, which are
essential to the conduct OF ordinary
life, it is safe to say that it Is curse rather
than blessing to the state to educate any
boy or girl whose thirst for knowledge
would not be eager and Unsuitable. even II
there were no marks and no periodical
examinations.
Forcing a vast amount of all kinds OF
knowledge into the minds Of the average
child Al .sA..= a1ss. e one Of the potent causes
of mental disease In after life. The mind
things to the study Of which ii has no in
cIination- The national snalady in Amer
lea is nervousness. the seeds Of which are
not seldom soxn by she strain of the
school-rooma The common schools that
fit the most children for the work of life
are really robbed to maintain the high
schools.
The famous teacher Of athletics, Null
doom, was not far from right when he
said:
believe making boy strong and wsii. NOR
ally 1nd physically, then letting him absorb
ell 'hs knowledge he can; but don't believe
"A wasting afve-thousand-dolla education on
o fity-cent boy
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-08

The Rev. DIR. Morgan Dix. the rector Of
Trinity church. New York city. is never
weary of preaching the gospel of despair;
insisting that our society is growing worse
instead OF better. and hs thinks New York
has gone backward and not forward in
morals and religion since the period of the
Revolution. During the Revolution and
in the first years of this century all foreign
observers described US as remarkably in
temperate in the use of alcoholic stimu-
lants. William Goblet, the English
radical, called drinking the national dis
ease, saying that ''even little boys, at or
under II years of age, go into stores and
tip of their drams." Mr.. Henry Adams
in his recent history suggests that the ear
lest temperance movement was attributa-
bic to the scandal caused by the drunken
ness of ministers at their regular meetings.
Almost every American family, he says,
could show some victim of intemperance
McMaster's history is full of testimony
in support of that of historian Adams.
Thu documentary evidence in shape of
diaries. private correspondence, town
TecOrIs, etc, SHOW clearly tnat the great
Methodist preacher. George Whitetield,
did not exaggerate when he declared that
he found gross RIGHTEOUSNESS prevailing
everyw here in America Coarse and indie
cent conversation was permitted in polite
society q century ago; drinking to excess
prevailed among AL classes, even at
funerals.
President Dwight, of Yale college. de-
serihed New York in the early days of the
century as q very drunken. riotous and
filthy city. There is not the slightest
historical doubt that not only New York,
but the whole American people have
risen to far higher average of private and
public morality. both in society and poll
tics, than existed even fifty years ago.
The lives of our public men within and
without congress. the social ban placed
upon intemperance and impurity. all tho
economic facts and figures prove beyond a
doubt that we are not only more moral
and humane, but more religious people
In the sense of Christian conduct and
spirit than We were fifty years ago.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-08
TWO PROBLEMS.

The members Of the Methodist confer
ence at Omaha, who so holly denounced
the new Chinese exclusion law, have evil
ventIy viewed the Chinese question from
theoretical rather than practical stand
point. They know nothing about the con-
dtions which must follow the
competition Of Chinese with white
labor, and their views are based
upon general ideas which look very well
upon paper, but do not at all accord with
the idea Of the Chinese question which is
invariably held by those who are able to
speak from the standpoint Of actual ex-
perience.
The opinion was expressed by . number
of the members of the conference that the
immigration of Chinese is no worse than the
immigration of Europeans. Such talk is
mere folly. The evils of unrestricted i'm
migration are becoming apparent to think
ing people, but the problem which unre-
strictsd immigration from Europe presents
Is radically different from that presented
by the immigration of Chinese. And the diff
ference lies in the fact that there Is ground
for hope that even the most undesirable
OF our immigrants from Europe will in the
course Of generations become assimilated
with the American people, while there is
no possibility that our Chinese population
will ever be anything but Chinese. The
Chinese are aliens. and no length of resi-
dence in America will make them any the
less aliens.
He 10 q shallow thinker who loses sight
of this fundamental difference between
the problem presented by immigration
from Europe and that presented by immi-
grafton from Asia.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-08
THE AMERICAN HOO IN JoUR.
MALISN.

When the American hog is part of the
power Of . newspaper he is unmistakable;
he Is nothing when he is not nasty, vulgar,
insolent, untruthful and obscene; his raw
materials are the rags and rakings of cur
rent gossip and social garbage, the very
scnm of the Shore-diteh OF local scandal;
he would have applauded Richard the
Third for marching by murder TO the
throne and then lampooned him after
death as miserable hunchbsck and game
legged" usurper who had moi brains enough
60 keep the crown after he had cap
fured IL.
The American hog in journalism never
has any public opinions or convictions;
be has only private grudges, or petty per-
soualities 20 sereeeh about: he bleeds a
rich man who is too timid to defy the
forty jackass and polecat power of the
American hogs mud mitrailleuse he
ilbsIs poor man, who can neither afford
% liiigsse, or wear cut . bull whip on the
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-08

and IL evidently determined II possible TO give
out al the fat takes - rewards 70 personal
friendx"
spoSaus Rerfeu: at IL significant that the
Democracy has about exhausted Its are against
the tin schedule OF the Mckinley ball stin
mora sixrifeaut IL the fact that the Democratic
majority In the House Of Representatives. al
though il has now pesn in session for hall .
wear. has made no move toward the repeal OF
the duty on tin pisss."
Tacoma Led9er: There are good many evil
dences that Mr.. Harrison's boom II on the wans.
ak weeks ago nearly ali the newsrapsrs In the
country seemed to think he would b. rsnomi-
mated vishou. opposition Now aiifhose which
want his nomination are beginning 70 display
uusssiness and tsndsney TO manufacture boom
Arguments 70 stop the decline
El,snsourg Loeaisr: I'VE want no mono
retallism to cripple our hnaucss, which are al
ready in . very unsatisfactory condition ~
long an silver is below par the country cannot
expect an increase Of prosperity. and II free
coinage is adopted the silver product VIII now
into the country to b coined, and then silver
must 70 lower, and - silver goes down gold
viii 20 up, and . repetition OF gold imitation
NAV De looked for such - WAS In existence IN
TIE war times-a state OF things We never want
ed 20 again.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-08
THE STATE PRESS

Tacoma Esxs: "The test for the Democrats
now IL this: DO everything which viii discon-
cert and demoraiixs the common enemy: DO
nothing which win didntsgrsts and dsmeral-
ize the Democratic party"
Chehalis Bee: "A new regiment Of the state
militia 10 talked Of In casa is IL organlxed
Chehslis' young men should get in and organizs
. company here. There II plenty Of material
for . company which would be . credit 70 the
city and state.
Kalsms Bulletin: "1t begins 70 look - though
it viii be needless to 20 through the formalities
of holding the national convention shis yeas, -
Harrison and Cleveland seem 70 be the only men
Left In the race. Harrison IL . stronger man -
day than he was four years ago"
Fairhaver World. "Ths nsw mayor Of Seattle
seems to b thoroughly confident that he II the
right man in the right place. He very CON-
pIacsatIy assumes the entire responsibility for
the administration OF municipal Affairs in the
ouesn City and automatically requests the
resignations OF officials who do not meekly
syince their readiness to conform 70 his ideas.
He seems 70 have rather peculiar notions OF bis
duties as foreman of the municipal job ofics
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-08

family of hotel keepers IL at the Arlin gton.
A. D. Whitney, who has the Olympus hotel, IL
there with Mrs. Whitney. ana W. A. Whitney,
the proprietor Of the Union City hotel. Il also
stopping there with his wife and his SON, Fred
Whitney.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-08

Expressions of regret at the resignation
Of Hon. J. g. Megler - superintendent Of
the fisheries exhibition for Washington at
theWorld' ; fair are general and earnest. The
opinion of the press of the state, irrespect-
i've OF politics or locality, il that it will be
almost impossible to find . man who viii
discharge the duties Of this position 30
well as Mr.. Megler. It il hoped that he
may be induced to withdraw his resigna-
ton.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-08

Live fish have been safely sent in the mail
from India to the British museum They are
now prospecting in the tanks Of the museum
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-08

The Enumclaw Evergreen has suspended
publication.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-05-19
The Loyal Highlander.

The Highlanders are loyal to Scot
fish genius. Sir Walter Scott, while
making tour of the western High
lands, wrote to the innkeeper of Ar
roquhar, Loeb Long, to have rooms
prepared for him.
On the appointed day it rained
ceaselessly. AS Scott drew near the
inn, he was met ON the hill near the
house by the landlord, who, with
barred head and backing every yard
as Scott advanced, thus addressed
him:
''Gude guild us, Sir Walter! This
is just awful Sic an a downpour
Was ever the hke9 I really beg your
pardon! I'm sure it's no fault O.
mine. Icanna think how it should
happen to rain this way, just as you,
o a. men of the warld, should come
to see us. It looks amaist personal
/ can only say, for my part, I'm just
ashamed O the weather l"-Youth's
Companion.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-05-19
Artificial Noses.

There used to be a vulgarism some
thing like this, 'I'll put a nose on
you" There is an inventor in Bos-
ton who early adopted it as motto,
and today he is enabled to perform it
with neatness and dispatch. His con-
trivance consists of a system of deli
cate springs covered with muslin
painted flesh color. The inventor
says of it: ''It was a mere accident
my giving any attention to the matter
at all. A friend of mine had lost his
nose through an liberated tooth, and
asked me to try and make hign one
| gave much time to the matter and
finally succeeded in making him a
nose that fitted his face so snugly
and gave him so little trouble that to
say he was delighted with it would
be putting it mildly.
1.-The greatest trouble I experienced
was in getting the artificial nose
painted a natural color, and for that
purpose my friend was obliged to
pass considerable time in the artists
chair. He is not in this city now,
and the people where he now resides
would not believe it if told that he
was wearing a false one. Boston
Herald
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-05-19
A Whistline Language.

1t seems that there is really a
whistling language. A French trav-
eler, M. Lajard, has written a work
on the subject which has been occu-
plying the attention of the Paris
Academy of Sciences. 1t is in the
Canary islands that people whistle
instead of speaking when they hold
converse with each ether. Nor is
the whistling language a mere Ian
guage of conventional sounds. It is
composed of words, as it were, like
any other language, and the inhab-
itants of the Canary islands attain
great proficiency in it, so that thew
can converse on all sorts of subjects.
The whistling noise is produced by
placing two fingers inside the mouth.
NJ. Lajard declares that the Ian
guage has a great affinity with Span
ISL. He has jotted some of it down
IN sort of musical notation, and it is
found that any sentence has exactly
one syllable more than theequivalent
sentence in Spanish, the extra sound
being accounted for by the fact that
the first syllable serves as a mere ex
PLANTATION designed to attract the at.
tention of the person addressed. M.
Lajard learned enough of the Ian.
guage to converse to a certain extent
with the natives. Tele-
graph.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-05-19
Letting Temper Run It's Course.

What a comfort it is occasionally
to slam door?" confessed one wom-
an to another in a confidential chat.
There have been times when that
privilege was a great safety valve to
me-"
The other laughed IA little hard
on the latch and hinges. wasn't it?''
she said Il knew a woman who
showed me in a closet an old calico
gown secured to a hook. She said
to me, Whenever I am irritateil to
the verge of giving way ! rush in
here and give this gown a vigorous
twist. Its tattered folds were mute
ly eloquent of its value as a mood
conductor. My own method of re-
lief is to rush into the garden and
dig, When my family SEQ my trowel
making the dirt fly they realize that
have got to the slamming door
pitch and nobody disturbs me. Her
Point of View in New York Times.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-05-19
Mozart's Knowledge of Instruments.

~~O@>@S AAhOWAc0So OA 1nSgfumGntSs
! Scarcely an instrument in the or
chestra escaped Mozart's attention.
A born violinist. he wrote concert
for violin and orchestra which.
though without the emotional ele-
ment of Beethoven and Spohr, are
greatly priced. To the tenor violin.
which had been deemed worthy only
of filling up tuiti passages, he gave a
voice and place of it's own in the or
chestra. The clarionet was raised to
great importance by him, and forth
with took place as a favorite solo in
strrment. In nearly all his scores it
received especial attention; while
the fresh, beautiful, and exceedingly
masterful work, the quintet in A
major for clarionet and strings, and
the line clarionet concerto, which he
composed for Stadler, have impaired
to the instrument an all age reputa-
ton which can never be impaired.
Then his sparkling genius spent it
self IN writing for that fine reed in
strument, the basset horn, the splen-
did properties of which he deemed
more suitable than even the clarionet
for his Requiem" For the oboe
Mozart did much, according it a
prominence which it had never
reached with any previous composer.
His Opus los has a rare oboe part,
and in the mass mo. IL" is some
fine if difficult music for it.-Black-
woods Magazine.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-05-19
Cardinal Manning,s Simplicity.

The late Cardinal Manning was a
tall, gaunt man, with vigorous
frame and large head that was al
most completely bald. He was tee
totaler, unlike many of his prede-
cesors, and ate only enough to keep
body and mind in a healthy condi-
ton. When he was made cardinal
an influential member of his flock
said to him, II would like to see
your eminence riding in something
better than that shabby old brough-
am" "Ahl" replied the prelate, with
a twinkle in his eye, "when cardi.
nails went about in fine carriages
they. generally went to the DEVIL
San Francisco Argonaut.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-05-19
Comments on a Lecturer.

"How did you like the lecturer ~
asked a woman of man, both of
whom were sitting before me- in car
one day.
Pretty well"
what was it aboutG"
Dickens.
what did she say2"
"Well, she said good many things.
She cracked him up a lot, but for my
part don't see that he writes better
than other folks"
How does she dress9" once asked
one woman of another.
'She wears train and looks like q
fashion PLATED That isn't the way to
reform the world. No woman has any
business to lecture who does not wear
short gown. Kate Fields Wash
ington