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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-10

Only few weeks ago the Posr-ISrELLIoxscER
completed arrangements for the exclusive use
OF the United states and political map, now
offered as q premium TO its subscribers, and in
short time The demand has grown to be some
thing enormous Actual daily orders az the
presen: tine from old and new subscribers rep
resent over 1000 maps q month, and the demand
is constantly increasing. All who see the map
pronounce il to be the most wonderful pu0llca-
ton ever issued satisfaction 10 guaranteed or
money will be refunded
The following letter from prominent citizen
of Arlington, Wash. shows careful examination
as TO the merits Of the map, aud expresses in
general the opinion of hundreds who have re-
Gently received the premium:
"AsLIssToS, Wash, Nov. 2, ls91-
"The Post-fntei ligeneer Company. Seattle
Tash.-GeBtlemsa: The PosT-IsTxLLISEScE1
map has arrived in good condition. After one
weeks examination l viii say that l am well
pleased with 1t; that the map is all that IL was
claimed 70 Be: thar fail 70 see how the Post In
tsliigsncsr Company can give such valuable
premium for sucn q small amount Of money,
and thai consider the map premium well
worthy the leading newspaper OF the Pacific
Northwest Very respectfully.
~. BIRcKEsMEIgR"
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quarters. In year from now it is ex-
pected that many of them will be fully ten
feet high, with dense bottoms six feet
across. Let US particularize in regard to
growth of that beautiful lawn tree, the
white pine.
To the left of the cut is the Seeding ten
inches high as it came from the nursery
in May, 1850. The second figure shows
the same after the first seasons growth
had been completed. The next figure
represents our tree in the handsome
form 1t had reached year ago.
To the right is shown our subject at the
end of the present seasons growth 1t
reaches nearly six feet in height. 1t Is
but one Of eight white pines in "a mass all
planted at the same time and approx
imately of the same size. There are many
hundreds of other trees. shrubs and vines
on our grounds, all planted at the same
time, which now make an equally good
showing.
How was il accomplished Not by
high manuring. or by summer Watering
1t was rs result of less expense than
that
First. the planting was carefully done.
not subiecting the roots TO the air mo-
ment longer than necessary. Second.
the trees being set into ordinary garden
Ian d. each one was treated to two shovel
fuls of compost at planting time; said
compost was nine months old and con-
sisted of two parts rotten sod one part
manure. IL was worked in with the soil
around the roots. Third, the surface of
the beds tcut into sward) has been kept
neatly cultivated and as clean as a clean
corn held since the day of planting. To
sum up: The trees received the simple
decent treatment We give our corn patch.
Such treatment TO newly planted trees
always produces surprising results.
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Labor Troubles.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Jan. 9.-No adjust
ment of the troubles on the Arkansas Pass
road has been reached yet. At a confer
ence today the receivers offered to settle
by paving the scale of wages demanded,
but insisted on retaining the new men
employed, giving the strikers preference
over other applicants for vacancies.
No agreement was reached. Next week
through freights will be attempted. The
other roads have promised to receive it,
but the employees INSIST that they will not
handle it. Business is suffering, and
troublous times are expected unless the
strike is ended.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Jan. 9--Within a
few days a hundred convicts will be taken
to Oliver Springs. 1t is understood that
an agreement is about to be made exclud-
ing Bricevile for all time from convict
labor, and in consideration of this, the
miners will cease opposition and allow the
mines on Coal creek and Oliver Springs to
be worked in peace.
Today the express messengers on the
Louisville & Nashville road from Louis
vile to New Orleans went out on a strike.
The strike is the outcome of similar pro-
ceeding on the part of the Illinois Central
messengers.
GAINESVILLE. Tex, Jan. GA large
meeting of the Santa Fe railway employees
was held here today, at which resolu-
ton was passed asking the officials not to
receive Arkansas Pass freight for shipment.
If any such freight should be brought
here it is thought the men will quit be-
fore handling 1t. The employees of the
International & Great Northern railroad
here have taken similar action.
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fails IN some localities. The Catawba 10 .
superb grape, but it will not ripen every
wnere. Iona, a delicious grape, fails for
the same reason. Delaware appears to
size
jefferson is one of the best of the Ricket
hybrid grapes Empire State is one of the
most promising of the many kinds yet in
Produced by Mr.. Ricket. Moore's Diamond
Is considered an important addition among
white grapes by those who have grown 1t.
Duchess is q white grape of fine quality,
put can hardly be recommended tor mar
ket. The Gaertner gains in estimation as
snowy.
The Niagara is very popular white
grape, and justly so, for up to the time
OF Its introduction growers were without .
really good white market grape. The
Pocklington Is growing in popularity from
year to year. and where it ripens is much
esteemed Meyer, also known as Jordan,
Is red grape Of recent introduction
and is said to possess two essen
tial qualities-earliness and excellent
flavor. Esther White and lockwood
black are two new grapes originated by
Mr.. Bull, of Concord fame. Both are de-
scribed as being pure natives of large size,
handsome and of good quality. Among
high Favored grapes the Eumelan occu-
pies foremost place. 1t is not suitable
Tor market, but the amateur can hardly be
without it.
grown in the locality of Rochester, n. Y,
and from which the foregoing is an alb
stract. Mr.. Barry named these six grapes,
which have given the best results in the
vineyard for market: Lady, Niagara,
Barry, Concord. Worden and Gaertner.
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An Appl. of Great Promise.

In the illustration here given is shown,
In greatly reduced size, the Palouse apple.
seeding of extreme hardness. from
Colfax, Wash. The Rural New Yorker has
the following to say about this promising
newcomer:
"1n quality it certainly equals any apple
We have ever eaten. In absence of any in
formation we should say that this seed
ling of the Esopus Spitzenburgh, of
even better quality than that stand
ard of apple excellence. The shape
is oblong conical, as the illustration
shows. The color is high, rich, golden
yellow, more than half covered with q
crimson red, which is itself splashed, lined
and dotted with a somewhat darker red.
The stalk is an inch long, slender and
sometimes curved, sometimes straight.
The basin is rather shallow, distinctly
furrowed, the burrows often carried 20
the deep cavity. The caiyx is often closed,
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once or even twice week. An improved
and perhaps safer method is that of
evaporating strong tobacco tea in
little tin boxes or troughs fastened
upon the heating pipes. If sufficient
number of lady bugs are put in the
greenhouse and there colonized plant lice
will give no further trouble. An outdoor
remedy, advised in Popular GARDENING"
Is kerosene emulsions sprayed forcibly
upon the affected plants. Submerging
plants or branches in water of about 1870
degrees Fahrenheit, will also rid them of
plant lice, but the kerosene remedy is
safer
The brown scale shown in illustration
is the most common form of this. round
ish or hemispherical in shape and covered
with brown scale-like skin. The Young
scale as soon as Matched, attaches itself
to the branch. and here remains. It
thrusts its beak into the stem or leaf
and fattens on the juices of the plant.
These insects multiply rapidly, and often
do considerable mischief Sponging the
plants with the kerosene emulsion or
strong alkaline solution is the remedy u.s.
ually found effective. Often the scales
adhere so closely to their fastenings that
they can only be dislodged by the use of a
stiff brush.
In the mealy bug we have an oval in
sect. with a number of legs and the body
covered with a white, mealy, cottony sub
stance. It is especially fond of stephano-
tbs, gardenias and similar plants; multi
plies very rapidly. 1t is a pest hard to
get rid of after having once taken
possession of a heated greenhouse. 1t
Is also very troublesome in graperies.
as it not only infests shoots, foliage and
woodwork, but also works among the
berries of the punches. The foliage of
plants ought to be examined often and
thoroughly sponged with soap water or a
solution of fir tree oil. Fumigation with
tobacco stems, if repeated on several sue
cessive days or nights, or evaporating to-
bacco tea, are also usually effective in rid
ding plants of not only mealy bugs but
thrips. Be sure to clear every plant, also
paint or whitewash the whole structure
and try to get rid of the very last of these
insects. In cold houses mealy bug is
rarely seen.
More than eleven years ago William
Saunders, superintendent of the govern
ment agricultural experimental grounds
at Washington City, inaugurated the use
OF dampened tobacco stems, both upon the
ground, under the benches and between
the pots aud plants on the benches of the
government greenhouses. At the time
Mr.. Saunders called the writer's par
ticular attention to the fact that
he no longer found fumgatng for
aphis necessary. About eight years ago
the use OF tobacco stems for this purpose
was quite usual in the large general plant
and rose growing establishments Of the
United States. The stems are mostly
used at the present time tied tightly in
loop lunches, which are evenly distributed
about the houses, the daily watering of
the plants serving to keep them moist.
An occasional fumigation is sometimes
necessary in spite of the fumes which are
constantly exhaled from the stems.
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before the Western New York Horticul-
ture Society that, notwithstanding the
many recent additions, the old and popu-
lar Concord still heads the list and is I'M
equaled for general purposes. The Hart
ford Prolific, too, has not been displaced
by any Of the new claimants for popular
favor.
Among recent acquisitions the Worien
is one OF the most important. Ii IS the
nearest approach 10 the Concord, and N
some localities will supersede that variety.
Barry, one Of Rogers hybrids. is especially
valuable as a market grape, on account OF
its size, appearance and good quality.
Herbert is OF better quality, but is not so
large or so uniform. Early Victor is not
large enough. Moores Early is large
and SNOWY grape, but not very productive.
The WIncheil is the most proming
among The new early grapes. Ulster Pro
line is a handsome red grape of medium
size. The Nergennes is new grape OF
good quality and an excellent shipper.
Woodruff Red has size. good color, vigoT
and producrlveness, but Is poor IN quality.
The Brighton is OF superior quality, but
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AN AMATEUR GREENHOUSE.
Arrangements for Heating 1t with
small Labor and Money.

The well-to-do home gardener who can
afford TO spend little time and money
for the privilege of running a miniature
greenhouse which will not only give him
an abundance of Towering plants, but also
few crisp vegetables in the win
ter months, will be interested in the
plan here illustrated for heating the
house. The plans are reproduced from
How TO Make the Garden Pay" pub
.ished by William H. Maule. and the de-
seriptions are from the pen of T. Greiner.
The structure shown in the frs: Gu, suf-
aciently explains itself
Hot water will be found the proper
method of heating, and 8 base burning
water heater that manufacturers
furnish for from So upward
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THE STRIKE ENDED.
Plumbers Will Return to Work
at Reduced Wages.
STRIKERS TO BE REINsrArgp.
Bosses Agree 60 Restore Ola Wages n
Business Improves In spring,
~ Werkmsn Expect.

The plumbers strike has finally been
declared of, the journeymen returning to
work at reduced wages with the under
standing that the old rate win be restored
on May 1, if business warrants it. The
compromise was reached through q con-
ference between . committee from the
Master Plumbers Association and one
from the Plumbers Union. The agree
ment further provides that all the old men
are to be re-employed Is fast a. the bosses
have work for them, and apprentices who
have been working a. jobbers are to be
continued as such.
The bosses feel sure that business will
never warrant the return to the former
standard of wages, as they feel that rates
have been too high AZ compared with
wages in other trades, and higher than the
profits on the business in the future will
stand. The journeymen. on the other
hand, feel just as confident that, when
business improves in the summer, they
will be able to enforce demand for the
restoration of the old rates.
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Rules Outweighed by . Life.

''It isn't often that an operator stops to
think of the message he receives or SENDS"
said an old operator. "They are all of
size to him. But / remember one time
during the late war felt my eyes moisten
as read the following to Senator Fessen-
den.
"'My son is sentenced to be shot to-
morrow morning at 6 for sleeping at his
post. Will you kindly see President
Lincoln at once and intercede till l can
reach Washington to present evidence
which will clearly prove my sons inno-
cence2'
II knew that If the message was COM
PEELED to wait its turn it would not reach
Senator Fessenden till too late for any
hope of reaching the president, to say
nothing of getting a reprieve sent to the
line of battle where the son was. | said TO
myself Here is human life hanging by
a thread. Shall | cut the thread b. letting
the message take its turn No. couldn't.
/ violated the rules and teiegraphed the
solemn message to all the hotels in Wash
ington, till the senator was found and the
message safe in his hands. Word came
back that Senator Fessenden had obtained
the reprieye and I telegraphed the glad
news to the poor old man up in Maine"
A veritable family medicine box, Beecham's
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and water pipes can be broken. If one of
them is shut the circulation stops and the
pipes will gradually cool off.
If it should be desired to heat or boil the
water in the barrel. it can be done by
shutting off the two cocks, F and G, and
opening the one in the vertical pipe lead
ing from the upper heating pipe to the bar
rel, thus completing the water circulation
through boiler and barrel. An arrange
ment of this kind, simple and inexpensive
as it is, sometimes may come handy, even
if not entirely necessary for the regular
purpose of greenhouse heating
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FARM, FIELD, GARDEN.
Destructive Insect Enemies of
POtted Plants Described.
VALUE OF THE woRDEN GRAPE.
Heating an Amateur Greenhouse-rhs
White Pine ON the Lawn-rhe PaIou..
Apple . Hardy Seeding.

In the accompanying illustration are
SHOWN common and destructive green
mouse pests. both greatly enlarged and in
NE size. There is no tree or plant known
TO be exempt from the attack of the aphis
or plant louise. While often giving much
trouble to the fruit grower and vegetable
gardener, these lice are still more
dangerous and obnoxious to the
grower Of plants under glass, as he
offers them shelter, a most congenial
temperature and the food they like. The
Old preventive remedy for these pests is
fumigation with tobacco stems regularly
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NEED OF GOVERNMENT BUILDING.
Collector McKen ale Asked for Facts and
Figures Upon 1t.

letter was received yesterday by d. A.
Mckenzie, deputy collector of customs,
from James s. Low, supervising architect
of the treasury department, asking for in
formation needed for the preparation of
plans for q government building in this
city. 1t reads as follows:
have to request that you Will, as soon a. pos
sible, obtain and furnish to this Office the fol-
lowing information for immediate use in cont
nection with the bill introduced in congress by
Hon. w. G. Squire, on the 18th ultimo, being 8,
bill els, to provide for the acquisition OF q site
and the erection thereon OF public building
for the use and accommodation of the United
States courts, custom-house, land Office, post
Office, and other government Offices, at Seattle.
Wash.
The amount OF customs receipts during the
fiscal year ending June 30. 1881. and during the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1891.
The number of persons employed in the Gus
toms Office in the year 1851. and the number OF
persons now employed In the customs Office.
The number and size of rooms now occupied
by the customs Office, and the number and size
Of TO ms required to provide proper accommo-
dations for the customs ONCE at present, and In
the next ten years.
The total number OF square feet of floor area
now occupied by the customs office.
The estimated number of square feet OF floor
area needed To provide proper accommodations
for the present customs business, and for the
prospective increase in the customs business in
the next ten years
The amount of rent, II any, now paid for the
premises occupied by the customs Office
The same character OF information in regard
to each OF such other government offices az are
located in your city.
Your careful opinion. based upon actual real
estate values, as 70 what would be the probable
cost of land, (of such dimensions as You will be
able to fix from your answers to the above
queStions) central and convenient in location
10 business and the public, suitable for site for
the building.
TIE population Of the city in the year 1881, and
in the year 1891
Yonr opinion ss TO the prospective CONNER
ciaI growth OF the city In the next ten years, and
your reasons therefor.
viii thank you to give the request herein
contained your careful and prompt attention.
and TO furnish q concise, definite and accurate
reply At the earliest possible data
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BERLIN. Jan. 9.-The strike of printers
is still partly on in Berlin, Leipzig, Frank
fort and Munich. The leaders state that
1000 men are still out, and $4,000 men at
work are contributing to the fund for the
support of the strikers. A number of
master printers of this city conceded
the demands and /, 400 strikers were en-
abled to return to work.
Herr Bebel, the Socialist leader, in an
address to the conference of workmen at
Mulhaus, proceeded to attack the capital
lists and bourgeois in the usual vein. He
was permitted to proceed until he began
to comment upon the annexation of
Aisace- Lorraine, when the police COM
PEELED him TO desist and broke up the
rneatipu
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They ara telling again in England the old
story concerning the reply of Tennyson to the
lady who wrote to him asking him 20 explain
passage in one of his poemA "Dssr Madam"
answered the poet, al merely supply poetry 70
the English people, not brains. Yours obedi-
entity, Alfred Tennyson-" A little brusque, pes-
hsps, is the reply. bus why shouldn't it -
brusque? We venture 70 say that there fs no
writer OF distinction who does not receive from
thick skinned and pushing people scores OF lot
ters merely intended to draw out replies which
shall be objects OF boasting or OF barter. ors
who really revercnces the work OF great writer
viii not add 20 his lsbors the cruel burden Of
answering trivial queries; and the best way OF
expressing genuine admiration IL to bay and
distribute many copies % his highly desirable
books,
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sometimes partly open. The flesh is
yellowish. crisp. firm, exceedingly aro-
matte, rather acid, rich. juicy and,
as we believe from the specimen sent, un-
equaled. We have never eaten apples that
impressed US as being so near to perfection
as the Palouse.
A nurseryman who has tested the hard
mess of the Palouse apple says that his
tree has withstood several winters during
which the thermometer registered 80 to 40
degrees below zero
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what terms the society can borrow 5000
to pay for the work and part of the fur
nishing.
John Nestor. the architect who planned
the building, has left town. and Thomas
w. Prosch was appointed to find an arch
itect who would give his services for over
seeing the rest of the work. Last night
John Parkinson agreed to do without
charge whatever might be necessary in
that way
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win do good service. The people
of Hammonton, N. j., use boiler Of this
kind for heating the brooders in their
chicken-houses, and it may be arranged
somewhat in the same manner and a.
shown in the second cut. When the house
is all made snug and tight, and where
seems that a single pipe for each bench,
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The Premium Man

The Posr-lsTKLLIazsckR premium il large
double wall usp. mounted on rollers top and
bottom, and is printed in eleven different eolors
States map on one sido AMI on the Other is
Neely's political aud historical chart. showing
pictures OF all the presidents The following
special oifer is open only 10 subscribers OF this
paper:
Daily subscribers in the city nav call and
get maps al g. each. Maps sent by mail to
daily subscribers outside the city for So
The l2-psgs wIEKLY PosT-INTEIIrGEScxs ona
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On above terms
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either in an air chamber under it to pro-
vide bottom heat or near the outside, would
be fully sufficient
To make the arrangement perfectly clear
we will say that the barrel B is used mere
ly to give pressure to the water in the
stove; c is the faucet for drawing water
water out of stove, pipes and barrels e is
a cock for letting out air from the pipes in
order to prevent it from interfering with
the water circulation. + and G are cocks
by which the connection between stove
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QUICK GROWTH IN TREES.
Particulars Regarding That Beautiful
Lawn Ever9reen, tho White Pine.

Lawn Evergreen, the White Pine.
Is the reader among those who fancy it
takes long time-many years-to obtain
telling effects from tree planting2 The
editor of the american Garden is not, and
he tells why in these words:
On the experiment grounds at La Sale
he-Niagara are several scores of beau
tiful pine trees from five to six feet
high. These were planted May, 1889, at
which time they were small seedlings
ten to twenty inches high. Today
they are of mans height, with
massive spreading foliage, such as re-
suits from healthy growth in uncrowded