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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-02
SAN FRANCISCO MARKETS.
THE STATE OF TRADE.


SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. Vegetables wero
kinds being light. Potatoes were in good de-
mand and firm. Onions were steady. Some
asparagus came in aud was sold with difficulty
at % cents per pound. Choice tomatoes brought
as high as $125; egg plant is hard to sell.
In fresh fruits, table grapes were in light dis
play, but prices are easier, except for Verdels,
which brought 81; wine grapes are out. Good
apples were in demand. Berries of all kinds
were scarce and in light demand. Citrus fruits
were in fair demand.
Produce recei pts-Flour, II 900 quarter sacks;
wheat, 6,0o0 centals corn, 1850 centais; bran,
l.00) sacks; raisins 1000 boxes; wine, "A 600
gallons.
Flour-Family extras, sS-9O(G4oo per barrel:
bakers extras. s. 90(ti.00; supertine, $260S 10.
Wheat-sL27l2GGl.2 Ss4 per GENITAL for good,
choice shipping; sL341s9iS5 per GENITAL for mill
ing grades.
Barley-Feed. s5as6l4c per GENITAL for dark
coast; S7i.9SNs4c tor good quality; 9oc for
choice; brewing, 95ct5sLo3 per Genital: cheva-
lier, 81 l5Dl.lI per GENITAL for standard; 9oclD
$l.N for lower grades.
Oats-surprise. s.4NlDl.50; milling, $l.35o
1919: fancy feed, Sl37l sol 40; good TO choice
feed. sl.SotGl.35; of grades. 81 l0DI.25; black,
$l.o5lgl 10 Tor common; sll7Iat1L3O for choice
for seed; gray, sL253LSo; red, sl.l2ia (Gi.D per
GENITAL.
Coyn-;LOli4@L for large yellow; n.iOCS
1l9s for small yellow; sllo(3i. 10 per GENITAL for
white.
CALL BOARD.
Call board sales: wheat-December, ST. 2s7s;
Barley-Siay. sll49sr5c, closing 9lAc.
FINANCIAL.
Drafts-sisht, 20; telegraphic, 25 Sterling
biiis-Bank, 81 sea; sight. 81 $50: commercial,
siS5. Silver bars-S5bsQg sJi4c Mexican dol
ars-67G67l2c.
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Cowiitz County Sews.

KELso. Dec L-ispeeiai. Three different at
tempts have been made near this place 20 wreck
tbs night passenger BY pulling the spikes along
the rails. Two English toughs of tha worst
character, who have been iy ing around Kelso,
went up tbs road the night before the spikes
were pulled at Toute.
The river here has Teen high for a week past.
The steam terry has been unable 20 run and
more logs have gone down than ever before in
the same time
The CouEIer Printing Company has sold
It's Interest To \. c. Harseil. The paper will b
independent.
People are afraid % travel at night on the Pa
1ifc division OF Tie Northern Pacific ac-
count OF the recent attempted derailment OF
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FOREIGN MARK ETS.

FiSASCIAL.
LONDON. Dec bar silver. s9l.d; corsos,
q 9-l6 Bank OF England discount, 3 per cent.
BREaDSTUsFs.
LIVERPOOL. Dec. I.--W heaf-Demand I'M
proving; UNCHANGED
Corn-spo,. demand poor futures. fair; spot.
STEADY, Is Sd; December. steady. is sd; JHnu.
AIRY, steady, 81 90; January, new, steady, Is
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The advance in the price OF coal went into
effect yesterday, and the knowledge that al ad-
vance was TO be made caused a tremendous
local sale the day before. At the Oregon i'm
proTement Companys bunkcrs airing of
teams reaching clear out along Commerce al
street almost to Jackson stood awaiting their
turns in tho afternoon aud evening to be
loaded with cheap ccal. Nearly every particle
OF coal in sight around the bunkers was sold,
and number OF teams had 20 so away light.
The produce and jobbing trade developed
nothing OF interest yesterday. A number of
merchants who lost goods by the wfecking of
Baker & Co.'S wharf the night before were
scratching their heads. puzzled 20 figure on, on
whom the liabilities were To fall.
Lilly. Borgadus & Co. are putting a feed mill
In their warehouse on the east side OF West
street. 1: will be operated by electric power
They Will also put in grain clcaner-a screen
separator.
GENERAL sHIPMESTs
During the past twenty four hours goods and
merchandise have been shipped from seattle in
the following amounts: BY raii-Nor;herp Pa
cic $50 tons: Columbia & Puget sound, 50
Germania. AGO tons: Michigan, $50 tons; Month
cellc, p tons: Fairhsven. is tons; Mabel, AZ
tons: Henry Bailey, 81 tons: Puget Sound x
Alaska Steamship Companys boats. 40 tons;
Waseo, 20tons: Glide, 6 tons: Buckeye, tons.
Total shipments, 2,25S tons.
MERCHANDISE AND PRODUCE RECEIPTS.
Produce and merchandise have boon received
at the port of Seattle during the past twenty
four hours as follows: BY rail-Northern Pa
clfic. $50 tons; Columbia Il Puget Sound. 80
tons; Great Northern 100 tons By ater-Hsy-
tiaa Republic, 81 tons: Farhayen, IS tons;
Monticello, 10 tons Puye. Sound Il Alaska
steamship Company's boats. - tons; Wasco, il
tons. Total receipts, 9Sl tons.
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Tacoma Grain Market.

TACOMA. Dec. Especial Wheat was some
what weaker today. Freights seemingly weaker.
Mills bidding for better grades of wheat. Quo
tations: Wheat-Ciub, zoe; Blue Stem, 73'3c.
Barley-sl9 80 per ton. Receipts, Il, 600 bushels.
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SUNNI AIRY.

Mean temperature, AZ, deg.
Highest tenn perature, 81 deg. on Sd.
Lowest Temperature. = deg, on 10th.
Total rain. q IS inches.
NumScr of DAYS upon which col or more OF
rain or melted snow fell. ID.
Total snowfall, III inches, during the month,
none.
Frost, dates OF 18th. 10th, 9th.
miscellaneous phenomena, great rain and blow
on the 18th and 18th.
REMARKS.
The rainfall of the liza and 18th was the
greatest since March - and Is. 1851, when 40
inches fell, while in this month IL was AS. be-
ing the greatest rainfall Oh nv records. My
bar oneter registered 2l07 on the 18th, this being
the lowest since began recording in August.
lsSS. The blow OF the 18th and 18th was much
more severe than that OF the 18th. Not frost
enough to date TO Kill the beautiful flowers.
Il. ~. UosKINsoS,
Voluntary Observer
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$500 REWARD:

We VIII pay me above reward for any cass OF
Liver Complaint. Dyspepsia. SICK Headache. Indt-
sestion. Constipation OF Costtysness
cure with WesL's EeEe. able Liver PILLS. when Tbs
csEections strictly complied with. They arc
purely Vegetable AMI never fsli - give satinfse-
ton. sugse 0s.s1 Large boxes. 70 centA He
ware Of colIsisrfsars arr limitations The g-nuina
so.c oy LEITHxAD & SAwLzY, COS iroas Sc.
ksagls Wasa.
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Portland Wheat Market.

PORTLAND, Dec. L-tSpecial l-Wheat-Inactive
and weak. Valley. sl.2o per GENITAL; Walla
Walla, SL12l5. Receipts. 49, 23 centals.
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propLE,s sAvISos s.,r occ1nrxr,

pEOPLE'S SAVINGS BANK OCCIDENTAL
block, SeattIs, W ashngton CSpita! 500 900
oHcers - Boar q Trustees Bailey Gatxert
Pres dent; Jacob kurth Vice President: Asthu,
a. Denny. second Vice President: Jane. L. Hay
den. Manager. Cashier and Secretary: Frank
biodsett Assistant Cashier: L. s,chwa nacher Jobs
Leary. VIM T. Bailey, John Collins. OTTO I,snF.
transact a savings bank business exclusively
deposits received from one dollar TO ten Thousand
dOuars Six per cent. interest per an mum allowed
GA serIn andf our per cent. on ordinary deposita
NV bends declared the last day Of May and No.
vemoer. loans made real estate or approved
coaterals only.
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NFECHssDIsE.
Hops-Quict aud steady
Coree-pption- opened weak. ~ tn q points
decline: clO<ed steady az p 20 % points decline
Sales were -, 800 5ggs, Including: DsceEaber
sl6I0. May, Si5.7ltgi5s0 spot Rio--Steady;
NJ. :. l7c.
Suear-Raw. firm: PsrnanbUco, s. test, re
Eefned-Actlye and firm.
Copper->trong: LAKE., 81 bid
Lead-WeRAer. domestic, $3.50 bid
Tiu-Closed easy: straits. tMeIi5
BOSTON STOCK EXCHANGE.
BoSToy, Dec. L-CIosiag:
A;chison.......... - Mex Cen Com -. Ts
Burlington ....... go. Bell Telephone 10. 20siz
CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE.
CHICAGO, Dec. aeat-Qgiet; opened un-
changed: advanced &c On local buying aud all
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EASTERN MARKETS.
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-The stock market was
weak in spcs. Outside OF Two or three i'll
stances there was net decline worth men
tioning. AT intervals during the afternoon
speculation displayed decided strength, but
near the close the bears made an onslaught
Prices rallied at the close OF the market and lett
of firm.
Ali sorts OF rumors as to GOulds condition
were in circulation on the stock Exchange dur
ing the day and caused a decidedly nervous feel
Ing, though nothing OF a definite character YVES
known. The general impression is that Gould s
illness is being worked for all it is worth By the
board.
Government bonds-Lower.
petroieum-Closed, Sc.
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Connects with boat for Snoh omish. Connect.
With steamer Bailey GatZert for Tacoma
Trips daily including sunday
To take effect Monisy. September 49,
SEATTLE AND TACOMA NAVIGATION CO.
CLAUD TROUP FRANK W. GOODHUE,
Tres Sccy.
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>TE4 VIZ rs.

NTE4 6EES.
h W BAKER & CO. BAKER 4 cos
AUX. foot of University street
STEAMER TgkE rARIEs
THE STEAMER MCLTNOMAa
mans on the following time card daily.
FARE To TACOMA. 50 CENTS
LEAVING .RRIx,xa
ssap,a..,. 500 m rscou,a '.si.. $50. m.
;.a.s..,.... 500 y ~ Tacoma....-. 500 ?. m
@.-.-, $50 a. 81. olympia -... 80 p M
- Ooseetng with boats for kanslchie AID shs..
Ns q Cos Dock. foot OF University stree
CAPTAIN l. WILEY, Master.
HoHANrs' STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
ASh sEarv.E VANCOUVER
f,rst-cIsss Steel Steamships.
Titan REPUBLIC AND WILMINGTON.
a. re -; Aa3 passengers cave evs-y Ten
e'I, AFn.y 10
ii. ". BAKER & CO. Agents
b~A'4NoHAM Ray INSIDE ROUTE
s.-.N'yfA All >ehorne. tAirhsvsn SAN 81, An.
b. e. 'iN-so 'ty, U;>ssdr CoUpe,..l Lang
N'Vh tvere,,, tamoat>
STEAMER wAsCo
~ Merchants do>k Tuesdays. THURSDAYS
tg,,~ ssaSssa al : ocla-S = n. tickets or sale
s'~Aes rlee, S0A second street
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8TEAMERS.
PACIFIc COAST STEAMSHIP COMPANY
Dispatch steamers from seattle as follows:
For San F rancisco. via i'or. Townsend and Vic
ioria. al n. n passengers received board a.
p m December 3. 2. %. -3 aud 30
For Alaska December and %
From San Francisco. for Victoria and pug-, Sound
ports. al 8 a. ~. December 2, o Is. % and 30
Tickets may be obta ned a. the once If the com
Iany. 9; Ocean dock, Seattle
GO DAI. PERKINS CO.,
General Agents San francisco
j. II. JOHNSON. p. = srp,. Seattle
BORT ANGELES PORT TOWNSEND. DUN.
geness and seat. le route
TIME CARD
Fast Passengsr aud Freight Propeller
MONTICELLO.
commencing Tuesday. November l. 1892
Leaves daily except Monday follows: Seattle
p m Leave. Port Angeles p m: PORT
Townsend $50 p. M; arrives Seattle 10 ..
Townsend; Morses Dock. Port Angeles
HATCH BROS
EVERETT AND sNoHoMIsH ROUTE
STEAMER MABEL
Leaves Hatfelds wharf Tuesdays Thursdays and
SATURDAYS at a. M ior kdmynds, Aukiiteo, Ey.
ereit. Marysville, lowell and Slohomish
FARE TO fVERETT, SOC
TO SNOHOMISH, soc.
FLY ON THE FLYER"
SEATTLE TO TACOMA
In enc hour and twenty-five minutea
TIE STEAMER FLYER
Having been rebuilt, 10 the finest passenger
steamer on the Sound. Regular daily and Sunday
trips. Seattle tacoma route Is follows:
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER N
Leave Seattle $50 a m, l:so p. m and 500 p m.
sharp. Daily except Sunday.
Leave Tacoma Z 80 q m. 1850 q "a. and $50
p n. sharp Daily except sunday.
SUNDAY TRIPS
Leave Tacoma q m and p. d. sharp.
Leave Seattle $50 a aad p. IN. sharp
Landing at N p wharf. Tacoma, and CONNER
eiai dock, foot Of Marion street. Seattle
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Leave Tacoma q m. and 8 .. m. sharp.
Leave Seattle $50 q IN. aad q p. IN. sharp
L.anding at n. p. wharf, Tacoma, and CONNER.
eial dock, foot Of Marion street. Seattle
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PRICES ADVANCED YESTERDAY.

TIDES At SEATTLE HAgrog TO-DAY.
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MINING STOCKS.

Drafts-Sisht, 20; telegraphic, 25 Sterling
biiIs-Bank, 81 sea; sight. 81 $50; commercial,
sis5. Silver bars-S5HhsQ9s5t4c Mexican dol
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uOyernfnent bO0US-LDWer
Petroieum--Closed, Sc.
SILVER
NEW YORK, Dec. 1.--Bar silver, sj}2c
BONDS
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L. = As coupon 80. ia Pacific 6s los
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-07
Outdoor Costumes.

Every autumn the fashion papers come
out with elaborate designs for hunting
and tramping costumes. Most of them
are extremely coquettish, but sentirely
impractical. They are nearly all elab-
crate, tight fitting and theatrical. If
you really like to shoot, your common
sense will show you that scarlet feathers
in your hatand brass or silver buttons
on your gown win be sure to attract the
attention of the game and seriously in
terfere with your chances of bagging
anything.
A shooting dress should .be,made of
coarse serge or ''trousering," as neutral
in color aspossible. Made with toler-
ably short skirt and loose Norfolk
waist, cartridge belt, .leggings and soft
felt hat you are as well prepared for a
ten mile tramp through the woods or
over the prairies as are your men COM
panions. Corduroy makes good shoot
ing g.or tramping suits except that it is
apt.to cling to .thellegs, and render walk
ing difficult after the first mile or two.
Another excellent material is baseball
Aannel, ,sobtainable at any OF the larger
establishmentsSw where sporting goods are
cold. This 'isjyery durable, it will stand
any number Of drenchings and 1t is re
rkablyscheap.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-07

famous flagship, lies at the bottom of
Lake Erie, and experts think she can be
raised and made quite presentable.
General Arnold's flagship, the Royal
Savage, went down during the famous
battle on Lake Champlain, and at low
water her hull can still be seen. If even
the skeleton of it will hold together long
enough to be got to Chicago the sight
would fill Americans with delight.
But all others yield in interest to the
famous frigate Constitution, "Old Iron
sides," which lies in honored old age at
Portsmouth, N. H. In 1S4S, when she
was little more than a mere hulk, the
navy department proposed to break her
up, which brought forth Oliver Wendell
Holmes vigorous protest:
Aye, tear her tattered ensign down.
Long has it waved on high;
And many an eye has daDced to see
That banner in the sky.
After that the breaking up simply
couldn't be done. The people would have
damned any administration that per-
mitted it. She was repaired and re-
stored by the son of Mr.. Hart, her first
builder. Her keel was laid at Hart's
shipyard, in Boston, in 1894, and she
was launched in 1897. So her centen-
NAL is at hand and way will be found
to get her to Chicago. In the war Of
1925 she killed nearly 100 British
bluejackets, wounded more than 200 and
captured more than 1000.
Next to her in interest is the famous
President, but the British captured her,
and she now lies at the West India
docks, London. She left New York in a
heavy gale in January, 1915, got aground
on Sandy Hook and was ''hogged" (or
broken backed), SO that her sailing quail
tiles were impaired. She beat off the
British ship Endymion, but the entire
squadron soon came up, and the Presi-
dent had to strike her colors. The Amer
leans regarded this as almost as glorious
as victory. The Constellation was the
fourth of the famous American frigates
of 1925, and she, too, is in fair preser-
vation.
The victories of the American navy in
that war amazed the nations as much as
the defeat of the Spartans by the The
bans did the ancient world-as much as
the overthrow of British power in India
now would. In $50 actions with the
French and their allies in the wars then
then raging, in which single ships en-
gagged, the English had lost but five ships;
but in the first six months of their war
with the Americans they did not gain a
naval victory and suffered five tremen-
dous defeats. Of the fourteen battles
between single ships the British lost
twelve and gained but two, and during
the entire war the Americans captured
588 vessels and about $4,000 men. All
Europe had looked upon the Americans
as madmen, and predicted that Eng.
land would annihilate their navy in siz
months
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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE,

THE GERMAN SAVINGS AND LOAN
i Society, a cor roration plaintiff, vs. Luther
II. Field, defendant.
Sherifrs sale-NO. .6,643.
Order of sale and decree of foreclosure an d
sale.
Under and by virtue of an order of sale and
decree of foreclosure and sale, issued out OF the
Superior Court Of the county of Los Angeles; OF
the State OF California; on the Goth day OF De-
cember, A.D. 1891, in the above entitled action,
wherein The German Savings and Loan society,
corporation, the above named plaintiff, 0o-
tanned q Judgment and decree Of foreclosure
ant on the 28th day OF December, a; D;
Hfty-two and s0.16O dollars. gold coin.
cember, A. D. 1891, recorded in Judgment book
26 of said court, at page 237, am COM
manded to sell all those certain lots, pieces, or
parcels Of land situate, lying snd being IN the
State OF California, and bounded and described
Lots seven ~ and eight (s) in the Rosas
tract as per map shere3I recoTaea IN 6ooS =, & a.
county.
here iitaments and appurtenances there'Anto,
belonging or in anywise appertaining.
Public notice Is hereby given that on Sotlir.
day, the 23d day of January, A. d 1892,
at 10 O'Clock M, OF that day, in ffont of
the court house door of the County Of Los
Angeles, Broadway entrance, / will, In obedi-
ence to said order of sale and decree of
foreclosure aud sale, sell the above described
property, or SO much thereof as may be neces-
sary to satisfy said Judgment, with interest anda
cash gold coin.
Dated this 3Oth' day Of December, 1891.
e. d. GIBSON,
Sheriff of Los Angeles County,
HyF. q. HARMON, Deputy Sheriff.
Chapman q Hendric {. attorneys for plaintiff.
1881 thurtt
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- y ClOnS Lnab noun
ing had been captured as yet. Just
about the time the friends soul had be-
come weary Of this epistolary lombard
ment the promised fish or deer would ar
rive to soothe his lacerated feelings and
to furnish him and his family with a
glorious dinner.
When the elder Sothern was alive, he
and Florence ran many tilt with each
other, and the lances Of their wit were
sharpened too. One night Sothern gave
the American Cousin" at one play
house, while at another near by Flor
ence appeared In the mighty Dollar"
During one Of the waits between acts
Florence, in all the glory of stage cos
tune, got into hack, was driven to
Sothern's theater, and climbing over
the footlights grasped Lord Dundreary
by the hand. After solemn shake and
the remark, ssYoure not in ii" he dis
appeared.
An hour or so later came Sothern's
turn. Still attired as Dundreary he got
In the rear door Of Florence's theater,
walked on the stage as the hero of the
mighty Dollar" was convulsing the
audience with laughter and fell on his
neck, sobbing as though his heart would
break. me boy" he cried, ''has't come
to thisT Then the curtain fell.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-07
1hEY ARE rAE FAp NOW.
The Misses webbing Very Popular in New
York Society.

The Misses webbing Very Popular I'm New
York Society.
Wealthy Americans, especially wealthy
New Yorkers, have of late years devoted
q good deal of attention to parlor enter
tainments. In this they have followed.
the lead of London society and there has
come into being class of amusement
caterers whose province lies wholly in
the line of catering to the demand for,
parlor entertainments on both sides of
the water. To this class belong Marshal
P. Wilder and Mrs. Shaw, the beautiful
whistler. The latest success in this line
in New York are the Misses Webbing,
English girls who have already won a
place in London.
This custom came into vogue some
eight or ten years ago, and no less per-
son than Dolly Tenant, now Mrs.
Henry Stanley, set the fashion. At that
time there was family of three little
girls, ranging from about seven to ten
years of age, all remarkable for their
grace and beauty. They were friends of
Miss Tenant, but poor, and it was she
who suggested to them to give little
entertainment in her parlor, and SO it
was that the now famous Webbing sisters
were launched. Lord Londonderry,
Oscar Wilde, Ruslin and other notable
lights of London were present. Jo-
sephine, the eldest of the children, re-
cited Shelley's ode to the skylark. Her
quaint little mannerisms captivated the
audience, and when the other little tots,
Peggy and Rosalind, had finished their
small parts, their future in the drawing
rooms of England's great people was as
sured.
Even the Princess of Wales took a
fancy to the young ladies-the eldest
was now sixteen-and they visited her at
Sandringham, where they played scenes
from Shakespeare before the royal pair.
One Of the younger children made a de-
cided hit when the Prince of Wales
asked her age and she informed his royal
highness that it was impolite to ask
young lady such question. A royal
flush preceded hearty laugh, in which
every one joined. The princess has al
ways been kind to her young friends,
and always greets them when riding in
the park with q cordial bow. Of course,
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wonderful Progres. in japan.

Half century has made great dif-
ference in the political and physical as
pect of Japan. Fifty years ago foreign
ers were hated, and the land was DOM
mated by the daimios, who correspond
cd in their power and responsibility to
. central government to the feudal
barons of the Middle Ages. Travel was
a matter of difficulty and danger, and
news was transmitted by messenger or
word of mouth. Now the kingdom has
. constitutional government, a parlia-
ment and modernized system of finance.
Americans and Europeans are at least
tolerated, and their ideas are accepted
with intelligent eagerness. Indeed, a
late report is to the effect that the bulk
Of the revenues is derived from rail-
ways and telegraphs operated by the
government.