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Lake Warrington ship canal is infinitely
tar ahead of either of these.
1t Is no abuse of the facts to say that
from beginning to end the record of the
opposition to the ship canal has been one
OF misrepresentation, appealing to local
feeling The RerieW and the Oregonian de-
voted themselves to the task of prejudic-
ing the people in river counties against
King county and Senator Allen; the
Ledger undertook to organize . spirit of
commercial rivalry of Tacoma into political
warfare against King.
How we'll Mr.. Bennett and his friends
succeeded in the latter endeayor tho anti
canal plank in the Democratic platform
testifies.
The canal is an issue; made so by these
influences; made so by the Oregonian,
which represents the commercial ambi-
tions of Portland; made SO by the Reviesv,
which properly serves its two masters
one who hypocritically wants the boat
railway builded to free the farmers
from railroad greed, the other who is not
surrendering the necessary right-of-way
for nothing-made so by Mr.. Nelson Ben
nett. who is helping Portland to introduce
into the politics of Washington factional
disputes and discord over proposed federal
improvements; made 30 by the Demo-
cratic party, which, az if inspired by foilv.
walked deliberately into the trap the Re-
publican party was careful to avoid.
Again It may be asked, Has Washington
any state pride?
If so, she will resent this unwarranted
and unexampled meddling with her pro-
posed public improvements.
E. D. CowxS.
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Appropriation added.

Appropriation Auaeo.
Having shown that the United States
congress is neither partial to committees,
controlled by political considerations. nor
governed by any superintendent schedule,
il now becomes pertinent TO demonstrate
the real cause of the jealousy of Oregon,
which has eventuated in all this hubbub
about the Lake Washington ship canal.
While Oregon and Washington are sup
posed to be sister states, the fact is the
year 1892 will mark q separation between
them at the national capital. Oregon,
with two brainy, daring, persistent and
selfish senators TO represent her, has Jared
for years better than any state in the
Union. as Senator Berry took occasion 10
announce TO the august senate when Dolph
was trying To push the boat railway ap-
preparation through. In the previous, or
Fifty first congress, the state OF Washing
ton secured in the river and harbor bill
the sum of $ii3,o0o. Twenty-three thou
sand dollars OF this amount were for coast
and Sound Improvements, 10000 for
the Suake river in Idaho and Wash
ington and $4,000 for the Rock
Island rapids of the Columbia river
in Washington. Capt. Symons' IN
favorable report subsequently LAID up the
latter appropriation So that il has not been
used. Senator Allen. in tho, Fifty-second
congress, secured further appropriation
of Slo,Ooo 30 perfect the surveys with
view to making this appropriation avail
able SO ss 10 remove the distractions and
render the navigation of the upper Column
hia feasible. Oregon, on the other hand,
got out of the kiity-first congress S52b, loo
for river and harbor improvements In the
state away from the Columbia. The
combined efforts of the Washington
and Oregon senators secured for
the Columbia river ct the Cascades
and mouth, S9l0 eco, all of which was ex-
pended in the state OF Oregon, practically
making the present benefits OF the appro-
nriations TO that state what might be rep
resented IN the sum % 81 40, loo. In the
Fifty-second congress Washington repre-
sentatives, though confronted by hlilhus-
tering. economic Democratic majority IN
the house made y bold front and succeed
Ell even beyond the greatest expectations of
their friends. Though Washington IS still
very far behind Oregon IN the matter of
river and harbor appropriations, the sue
cess of her delegation IN securing fayors
from this congress Is what alarmed the
oregonians.
Eron Q yee.plsUlatloa OF these RIVER
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ceive visits for three hours, one is sure to
find every old woman adorned with some
finery. For these old ladies are not yet
dead to all vanities, and one sees many q
comical scene going on, as they take spe-
cial delight in receiving visits from the
aged inmates of the neighboring Bicetre,
the "old mems home" Of Paris.
Among themselves, on the contrary. the
women are peevish, bad-humored, mis-
chievous. They are continually quarrel
ing with each other on every trifing sub
ject, and . fight is often only avoided by
the intervention of the officials. When
they enter tho hospital, carried away by
their impressional female nature. they at
once contract . friendship with their
room mates, tell all their past doings and
sometimes SO confidentiaily that it almost
seems as if they were making confessions.
These friendships are naturally Of short
duration, and nobody can imagine with
what vile names they reproach each other
over their past. Toward the officials, how
ever they conduct themselves with re-
serve, apparently trying to keep their
origin mystery and making them believe
their past life irreproachabie. The admin
istration often finds 1t an absolute impos-
sibility to certify even the names Of the
Among these women are former servant
girls, shop girls, working women, colossal
saleswo men, who once enjoyed q celebrity
in the Halles, the famous market of Paris,
while the depraved women of the city are
the most numerous Of the inhabitants OF
the hospital.
Many well-known woman, as the wife
of the famous Coignard, the pseudo Count
de Points de ST. Helene, has died within
the gray walls of the Salpetriere, and
week by week there are new arrivals OF
hideous women, mentally supplied and
physically ruined, who have seen all the
elegance of Paris mt their feet. 1t is
easy to recognize them; they have pre-
served in their manner an arrogance
which is mixed with an expression OF I'M
speakable sadness. OF their former beauty
there remains not the slightest trace,
most of them being frightfuliy ugly. Rest
ing in their beds, their heads covered with
nightcaps, and the sheets pulled up 10
their chins, they often look like old men,
having strong growth of bristling hair
on the upper lip, cheeks and chin, their
voices grown hoarse and harsh. Many are
aged and weakened to such degree that
thew are near imbecility; they cannot bear
auy reproach or remark, and however
kindly one may look at them, they begin
to weep. Some OF them have lost every
trace OF memory. and scenes like the fol-
lowing are not unusual:
An old fruit psddisr was very desuous
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While the bill as thus amended was in
the.conference, the OreJonian- Reriem- Ledger
combination was attacking Senator Allen
DANGEROUSLY and furiously. While he
was delivering his speech in the senate in
impartial advocacy Of the railway and
canal as two improvements of great impor-
lance to the commercial and industrial
development of Washington, the Reriew
was accusing him of moral cowardice,
the Oreq0aida was charging him with the
betrayal OF the interests of Eastern Wash
ington. and the Ledger was bitterly assail-
ing him as the Representative in Washing
ton of few real estate jobbers in King
county.
The oregoaian of July quoted from the
Tacoma Ledger the following: The whole
state has now seen what the Ledger fore
told come 10 pass. The Seattle canal has
dragged down to defeat one of the most
important interests of the state" Through
the month of July and up to the present,
the Ledger. as we'll as the Reriesc and Oregon
fan, have harped on this statement.
On August Is the Ledger said, 1.-The peo-
pie of these counties (the river counties)
know very well that the canal defeated
the more necessary appropriation for the
improvement st the Dalles" Aud in
the same editorial is this amusing display
OF ignorance on canal legislation: Can
any sane person deny that this state lost
$4,000 tSa0,euo was what was asked for)
of its appropriations, when that amount
was allotted to the canal scheme? Two
hundred and fifty Thousand dollars was
asked for the canal, not as an independent
appropriation. but from the amount al
iotted 10 this state in the river and harbor
bill"
Columns on columns of this sort of ig-
norance have appeared IN the Ledger.
On August i2the Ledger had said: From
Asotin county 10 the ocean, and from
Stevens To klicklsat, il is we'll understood
and appreciated thai it kths canal de-
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Gratuity per
Square Nile
ssasasaa5saa Per Capita

'Including half Of Columbia appropriations
In departing from the general averages
based on river and harbor appropriations
together. we shall find that the Columbia
river of itself got more per capita in the
last river and harbor bill than any river
in the nation. To emphasize the i'm
partially shown by congress, and to prove
the influence OF the representatives Of
Washington and Oregon, it should be said
that within this table they represent the
only majority of Republican constituent
cies. The table of population, in the case
Of the Columbia river and Columbia val
ley, is made up cOnscientiously from the
counties of the Columbia and its tribu-
taries in Oregon, Washington and Idaho,
including the whole of the latter. The
Columbia river, Notwithstanding Senator
Dolph's declaration in the senate,
which the Review seems to take such de-
instead of $4,000, the triding differ
ence of 5S, 40. The present population
of this area, under the census of 1890, was
4l9, 727. A closer analysis shows that the
total number Of inhabitants of Walla
Walla, Asotin, Columbia, Garfield, Whit
man, Adams, Franklin, Klickitat and
Yakima counties, the only ones in Wash
ington to be benefited in the near future
by the opening of the Columbia, is only l6
per cent. of the total population of the
state, or at least IA, 900 less than the popu
lation of King county. Despite all that
has been said about the excess of the
Mississippi river appropriation, it repre-
sents to the individuals of the basin
drained by that waterway, a little more
than one-eighth of what tho government
has given to each individual in the valley
of tho Columbia. The table is as follows:
COMPARISON OF RIVER APPROPRIATIONS
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surrounded Oy
trees, behind which the octagonal dome Of
the chapel, dating from 1869. rises in the
background. . picture Immediately pre-
sents itself to the visitor.
Frenchman, however little he may be
versed IN literature. will at once be re-
minded of handsome Manon Lescaut, and
almost feel like asking some of the en-
pioyes to show him the cell where the
mistress of Desgrieux was so cruelty i'm
prisoned and hid her complexion, rem
dered SO beautiful by love-" under the
simple hood of a prisoner.
This impression, however, is quickly
dispelled by the rows of old women who
sit on the benches under the trees. and
one understands at once that the hospital
has lost its character of house of correc-
ton, which it still preserved in the last
century.
OF all the charitable institutions of Paris
land Paris has over hundred) the SaIpe-
triere is most interesting, even on account
ofits gigantic size alone. 1t is the largest
institution of its kind in the world, a town
in itself. 1t occupies a ground of about
100000 square yards with forty-five build
ings. each named after its builder, Mazarin,
Fouquet. ETC., which receive their light
from 1859 windows and contain no less
than 5000 inhabitants.
1t is the queerest population that one
could find anywhere. Besides the admin
istrative body. the doctors. nurses. por-
tiers, young medical students of the college
OF the Salpetriere, it consists of temper
airy patients, like young mothers, girls and
middle aged women, and the crowd of
aged invalids. raving mad women, idiots,
paralytics, epileptics, cripples, patients
with frightful skin diseases, and incurables
of every kind and description.
In the ordinary French hospitals it is
the janitor who sells the authorized pro-
visions to the inmates. In the Salpetriere
things cannot be managed in the same
way; it was necessary to open q veritable
market among them, where ono finds
fruit vendors, grocers, coffee and tobacco
Sc Hers. etc. During my visit saw
four or five old women who gravely
smoked their pipes. As I approached
them they arose and saluted me in mill
tary fashion, and found out afterwards
that they had served as suffers in the
army. The market also contains booth,
more frequented than all the others, which
is the laundry; in spite of the numerous
people employed in it, it can hardly satisfy
the demands made on it, SO many are the
caps and fichus, tucks and frills that have
to be washed, starched and done up. The
coqettishness of the old women is incred-
ible. On days like Sunday aud Thursday,
when they are allowed to go out and re- :
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found. who use their small pensions of 200
to 500 francs, the only recompense for hav-
ing grown old in thirty years of faithful
service, as pocket money.
A special apartment is reserved for those
suffering from cancer. Most of them ara
infected with lupus, so called. because it
devours its victim like wolf. The disease,
which was called ''Do not touch me, I" in
the Middle Ages if taken at the very be-
ginning can be cured by koeh's lymph.
The Kitchen of the Salpetriere, with its
enormous furnaces and copper boilers, is q
curiosity worth seeing. Though it Is
similar to those of any large hospital or
barracks, it is more interesting. as it Is
probably the largest in existence; over
5000 quarts Of coca are prepared there
every day. The pensioners. with the ex-
ception Of those who cannot walk, have
to fetch their food themselves. The food
is simple but strongly nourishing. The
repast which most of them prefer Is not
the dinner or supper. but the breakfast.
which consists of bread and hot milk, to
which for sous they can odd some black
coffee and two pieces OF sugar, and SO
despite their Indebtedness they can still
have their "cdfc Gn tdit."
The hospital laundry, in which are
washed not only the clothes coming from
the institution, but also those from several
other large hospitals, employs 200 women
at six enormous basins. The washer
women are mostly epileptics, and 1t often
happens that suddenly one Of them. in the
midst OF her work, rises, gives that heart
rending scream which one can never for
get. and falls TO the ground in hit. These
accidents are so frequent that hardly any
attention is paid TO them. The epiieptics
are simply taken To an open place where
they cannot hurt themselves and left TO
recover. The iaundresses who iron the
clothes are all afflicted with dry, hectic
cough, coming from the infectious water,
which in spite of all precautions, is still
contained In the linen.
The chapel, in which service Is held
every day, plays an important role In the
dreary life of the pensioners. They have
nearly all become devout at the end Of
their lives, and il Is very touching TO SEQ
these women, who have known almost
every human vice, now give their last sous
to the Holy Virgin. who is the patroness
of the Saltpetriere. The ecclesiastical
body is very numerous, the ceremonies
are magnificent, and neither candles nor
incense are spared. The chapel is divided
into naves, partitioned off by high walls,
isolating the different classes of patients,
and leading to the rotunda in its middle,
where service is held.
Even q religious society exists at the
Saltpefriere, the Zelatrices, numbering
some $50, every member of which Is
obliged to pay Is confines & month, whiis
some contribute - much ~ or w francss
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and harbor statistics it will appear that
whether in respect Of total appropriations
OF gratuity per ton of commerce, WISH
ington has not reached the average Of
Oregon. In other words, for each indi-
viduai. for each square mile and for each
ton OF commerce Oregon has received
from the government in the river and
harbor bill very much more than the state
OF Washington. The appended compare
sons for the two states are drawn from
three conditions: One in which the Co
lumbia river il not included. another in
which the total appropriation for the Co
lumbia river is equally divided between
the two states, and a third in which each
state is accredited the amount Of money it
will absorb from the Columbia improve
ments. Following is the table:
WASHINGTON AND OREGON REcAPIrULArEp.
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'Inciuding hall Of Columbia appropriations.

Including half Of Columbia appropriations
Lest this be not evidence enough fur
tner estimates have been made, including
the exports and imports of number of the
states for the year ending June, 1891. This
comparison includes every possible basis
Tor specific apportionment to the several
states, and shows that no such basis in
reality exists. It shows that in the mat
ter OF gratuity on commerce per ton Ten
lessee is first, with Oregon second and
Washington fourth; that in per capita
Oregon leads, with Washington second;
and that in gratuity per square mile both
Washington and Oregon are near the bot
tom of the list. 1t follows that If the gov
eminent puts premium on commerce in
Its river and harbor appropriations, or en-
ergizes the individuals in the several states
by considering them in its disburse ments
for public Improvements, Oregon and
washington are doing very well. 1t shows,
on the other hand. that if the purpose of
the river and harbor bill is to increase pro-
duction as well as to facilitate commerce
Oregon and Washington have considers
bic ground to go over before they can
reach such highly developed communities
as the District OF Columbia, which has to
its credit s.. 5n.42 per square mile. The
table is as follows:
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'iaciading half the Columbia river sppropri-
atoGs
II requires no skilled analyst TO find IN
she above table sufficient proof that there
- no law of apportionment observed In
Framing or passing the river and harhor
OIL. but the suhioined table, showing
Wat wonld be the estimated amour; per
sspass, the estimated crstuity per square
nile In each state and the political MAJOR
sss Oh each state as represented IN the
seonss OF congress, Will more eitectuaiiy
siaaiinate the point under consideration.
ITEM this IL viii appear that the states OF
oregon and Washington, represented by
republicans, secured the greatest amount
money Der capita, and stand very high
u grafulty per square mile.
- Two other Republican states, Maine and
Saaiiornis, are both high in the compsri-
pa The smaller states, like De- aware,
kennecticut, New Jersey. Rhode Island,
vest Virginia and the District of Column
= stand high Ill gratuity per square
ne, and average very high per capita.
saise the contrary Is true of many large
a'ss Ike Pennsylvania Texas, Nissis-
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IN A PARIS HOSPITAL.
Description of La Salpetriere
and Its Interesting Inmates.
A WHOLE TOWN IN ITSELF.
Fallen Women the Most Numerous In
hsbitants-The omcials Generally
Young Yemen.

PARIS. Sept. %.
HE great portals
Of the ..Salpetri-
ere open on the
Bouie ward de
PHospital, at the
side of the Or
leans railroad de-
pot, and almost
opposite the Bo-
tanical Gardens.
On entering the
vast courtyard,
divided into four
kitchen gardens
of irregular size,
~y,peorrI>H ~,
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Total app. for Washing
ton, not In. Coiumbis
Total app for Oregon
not in. Columbia.
Total app. for Washing
ton, in. n Of Col. app.
Total app. for Or. in. ;;
OF Columbia app.
Total app. for Wash. in
amt. app. for Col. i'm.
within the state. .
Total app. for Or, in.
amt app. for Col. i'm,
within the state.
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aREED OF OREGON.
Gets Six Times as Much Federal
Money as Washington.
rT HAS FEWER INHABITANTS.
ases People in King County Than Along
. ceiumbls = Has Washington No
n1nes Pride-Senstor Aliens Rnemies.
SPOKANE, Sept. "a, 1892

HE people Of WASH
ington have no state
pride, some say. Is it
SO? For the first time
in the history of the
United States q pro-
posed public improve
ment, commended by
successive boards Of
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Gratuity per ton
Commerce.
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Exports and I'm
ports.
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Notwithstanding
EgYEss4Sa sSges $40
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-21
PERSONAL.

Rice Nlxey of Sherman is at the
Mansion.
w, w. Flood, Wichita Falls attor-
ney is in the city.
Ed Dean, of Wichita Falls, is visi-
tor in Fort Worth.
b. W. Brown, an ex-member of the
state legislature, is in the city.
John Spaulding returned home yes
terday after long visit to Henrietta.
w. l.. Edmondson, of Auburn, Tex,
is in the city buying u stock of drugs.
j. NJ. Weakley, of Roby, Tex, is in
town buying II stock of holiday goods.
J, NJ. White, a Fort Worth Drug Co.
statesmen, is in from trip up the Dem
YER.
DR.. G. L. Ballard of May, Tex, is in
the city buying an opening stock of
drugs.
Jer D. Reagan OF Palestine, a
brother-in-law OF w. II. Mobley, is
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Mobley.
A. V. Harrison and wife Of Granbury,
after brief visit TO Dallas, are at the
Mansion, homeward bound.
IL. N. Goodwin, manager at Dallas Of
the American Press association, called
ON The GAZETTE yesterday while in
the city.
j. N. Looney OF Lewisburg. Tenn. is
visiting his brother-in-law, II. G. An
drews, at so Jarvis street. MIR. Looney
is accompanied by his family.
Mr. and Mrs. John Llane Of Indian-
apolis, Ind, who have been visiting
friends in Fort Worth and other cities
in Texas, returned home yesterday
morning,
Mr. w. b. Weeks, THE GAzErrEs
correspondent at Texarkana, was in the
city yesterday He brings cheering
news from that section, and says the
cause OF pure Democracy is in a flour
ishlug condition in Bowie county.