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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-11-20
Jack tn. siasher i'm washington city.

WASHINGTON CRY, Nov. 19.-The van
daIism OF miscreant who has been desig-
mated as Jack the Slashe.." is becoming
more bold and outrageous. Last night he
entered the house of Samuel Johnson, at
AT Seventh street. The family were out
NJ the time. Mrs. Johnson returned home
late in the evening. and no sooner had she
gone into the dining room than the whole
neighborhood was startled by her cries.
People in the immediate vicinity ran to
the house and found the poor woman ly-
ing on the floor in the dining room. suf-
fering q violent attack Of mysteries.
All the draperies in the room. mantels,
chairs, curtains, portieres, table linen and
other cloth material had been slashed to
shrecs and thrown on the floor in heap.
That was only the beginning of the out
rage. In the kitchen the scene at first
glance represented chaos. In the middle
of the floor the family harder had been
emptied. The Sunday meats, groceries.
etc. were in heap. Over the mass the
vandal threw at random huge quantities
of lard aud butter. and then, TO make the
ruin more complete, picked up gallon
can OF oil and thoroughly saturated the
mass. The condition of Mrs. Johnson to-
night is serious.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-11-20

THE CROSS UyDERTA KING
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-18
BRIGHT BITS.

Mr.. Homestead crushing into his wife's
room Maria. Maria! Come quick! Mel
lie got convulsionsi
Mrs. Homested Centering the parlor)-Non-
sense! The childs praCtlcing her Delsarte
lessOn.-Chi, ago Record.
Theorist-I am thoroughly convinced that
man Is free agent and will be in the next
world Just what he is IN this.
COutroVerSialiSt-Ne We'll. Under that
system, what disposition do you make of the
Washington star.
"Gadsby, the evangelist who went out
west, was shot dead recently
How did it happen."
During camp meeting he turned sud
denly on a cowboy, and asked if he was pre-
pairing to die'-Pittsburg Dispatch
Now, Maude, " said the fond mamma. I'll
warrant you can't tell what Brother Long
prose S text was tonight
Indeed | can"
"Well what"
The new church debt."-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The gas man called on the dentist to have
tooth extracted.
DO you want to take gas?" asked the D.
D. s.
"How much will it require?"
"Oh. don't worry about that; I'm not going
to measure with the meter you use on me- =
Detroit Free Press.
Mr. Cortland Parke-NTy wife is learning to
| play ON the violin.
Hostetter McGinnis-Weu, I suppose you
| nave put your foot down on that
Cortland ParEe No; on the contrary, I am
| doing all l can to encourage her. A woman
cannot work her chin with fat violin
wedged under it-TeXas Sifungs
Mr.. and Mrs. Wickerhys first quarrel had
| reached its height.
Il was drunk. madam, when proposed to
| you,' he said, sayageIy.
Then owe you an apology for having mis-
| judged you, Silas. rejoined Mrs. Wickerby,
| sweetly. Il thought 1 was merely engaging
myself to rich idiot."-Chicago Tribune
| Father-My daughter has mysteriously dis
| appeared and have no clew.
| Detecttve-HaVe you reared her carefully?
| Father-Oh, yes She was educated in a
! convent, and never went out without her
mother.
| Detective-Well find her. Ill go first and
| see if she hasn't answered matrimonial ad-
| vertiSement.-Puck
Tommy" said the teacher. do you know
| what the word foresight means?'
| Yes m"
Can YOU give me an illustrations"
Eyes m"
You may do So"
Last night mamma told the doctor he
might as well call around and see me Thanks
| giving night.-Washingto Star.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-18
PERSONAL.

The Countess Of Aberdeen has purchased
the stock. business and premises OF cele-
brated manufacturer Of Irish lace in Dublin
She Will present her purchase to the Irish In
dustrles Association, in which she has keen
and lasting interest.
Miss klumpke is a California young "a ~
who is in charge of the eastern tower at the
Paris observatory. Her duty is to record the
movements Of the planets. She Is "A years OF
age, and the first woman admitted as pupil
hVe years ago. All the members OF her stan
are Young ladies'
A bust Of Mayor Carter Harrison by Brac-
cioliui was receiving its last touches when he
was assassinated. It is exactly the size Of
lie. has the chin raised the chest thrown out,
and the head slightly bent. as II listening. 1t
is said TO be an elegant likeness. representing
the mayor In characteristic pose.
Miss Carrie Dane Chapman says that more
than half of the women who own property in
Dakota are graduates OF eastern colleges.
lhere Is, she says, a little south Of the Crow
creek reservation, section Of women, every
one OF whom Is bona fide farmer. She says
'lh ne heldS are plOWed and crops gathered by
women. One OF the most Intellectual and
most reineu women of the settlement Is a
breeder Of fine horses She has no hired men.
All the help are women. Among these women
are graduates Ct universities Among them
are ola maids, young maids and widows
President c. W. Eliot, of Harvard Uni
FtLSlty, Who mas nlthertO been regarded as
the king OF mugwumps" last week in Bos-
ton renounced his afl1liatiOn with the sO-called
independents. and came out with a fiat-fOOted
declaration TO the effect that he proposed to
be counted hereafter a democrat. He said:
II was republican for thirty years. before
the party was forced against its wishes into
the doctrine OF protection, Then for a few
years was an independent but l did not like
being at that oead-pOint situation. l know
what my independent frienus feel toward the
Democratic party. But / say that the Demo
cratic party, composed as it is, has done an
| lnestlmable service to the cause of popular
government by choosing such man as Cleve-
land President"
More testimony concerning the painful shy
ness of Nathaniel Hawthorne is furnished by
Mrs. Newton Crosland's II q ldmarks of a
Literary Life recently published in Lon
don. The author saw Hawthorne in 1854,
when he was in the mid-prime of life-a
stalwart man with blue eyes, rather small
for the size of his head, but having soft ex-
| preston In society, says Mrs Grassland.
he was one Of the most painfully shy men I
| ever new. In the small social circle in which
| first met him it really seemed impossible to
| draw him out. We were only five or six init
mate friends sitting around the FIRE and with
host. Mr. BennOck. remarkable for his
genlality and tact; but Hawthorne, fdgeting
on the sofa. seemed to have little to say.
and almost resented the homage that was paid
him"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-18
welcome to the information.

Are you the man that answers the quer-
ies:' asked the caller, removing his hat as he
came in, says the Chicago Tribune.
L am, replied the man at the desk, pig
eOnholing a request for statistics as to the
total number of persons killed in the Crimean
war and Hing away in the. waste basket a
note as king for a brief biography of all the
Presidents from George Washington down to
Grover Cleveland. What can L 90 for your
I've got little bet with a friend re-
joined the visitor and we We agreed TO leave
it with you. What is the size of glove that a
perfectly proportional woman with No L
foot ought to YEAR.
The size of glove, you sayf'
Yes
THAT perfectly prop ortioned woman
Yes"
with a No. foot should wear?"
That's right
just wait few moments. I will consult
the anatomical tables.
He waited. The man at the desk overhauled
Poor Manual, the Wealth of Nations, 3"
Roget's n hesaurus, Buffers Analogy ="
AllibOnes Dictionary Of Quotations. Blaine s
Twenty Years in Congress and a Concord
ance to Shakespeare and turned to the caller.
"Ac ording to the best information / can
obtain, ~ he said, "A woman with No. 6 foot
if she is perfectly proIoruoned, should wear
on her hand
Yes
ANY glove that fits her. Turn the knob to
the right. ODD morning"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-18
An Income Tax.

According to the reports sent out from
Washington, the ways and means com
mittee has about agreed to report in
favor Of an income tax. According to
our special dispatches, however, the com
mittee has reached no agreement in re-
spect to the matter.
But there is no doubt that the question
Of Incorporating an income tax in the
revenue bill is being considered. 1t is
thought that tax of 2 per cent. on in
comes above $1,000 or s.. 900 would yield
revenue of at least $50, 100000 a year.
The ways and means committee will
hesitate a long time, however, before
finally deciding in favor Of an income
tax. 1t is most unpopular tax, because
Of its inquisitorial character. Neither
rich nor poor men, nor men of moderate
means, like to have it known what their
incomes are, and many will resort to all
sorts of subterfuges TO avoid stating the
exact truth Some win state their in
comes to be greater than they are, with
the hope of improving their credit, and
others will state them to be less, in order
to make the amount of their tax as small
as possible
During the civil war an income tax was
levied, and it was one of the first extra
ordinary taxes that was repealed, be-
cause the hostility to it was so great. 1t
would lnjure the party imposing it, be-
cause large percentage of those who
would have to pay it would use their in
tiuence to have that party turned out of
power, with the hope that another party
would repeal it.
The tax is just one, however, because
it falls wholly upon those who are able to
pay it. 1t is much more defensible, for
instance, than the tin plate tax, which
bears heavily upon the poor, who use tin
ware and consume canned goods And
besides the purpose of the tin plate tax is
to establish an industry that can exist in
this country only by taxing the many for
the benefit of the few.
Extraordinary taxes are made neces-
sary by the immense pension burden,
amounting TO more than $l50,0O0, 600 a
year, imposed upon the people by the re-
publican party. That party not only
bankrupted the treasury, but it incurred
Obligations so great that the revenues
from the ordinary sources will not meet
them. Had tremained in power it would
have been forced to impose an income tax
or an extraordinary tax of some other
kind to meet the obligations it incurred
to perpetuate itself in power. The people
understand this, and ought not to hold
the democratic party responsible for
levying Objectionable taxes to get sufici-
ent revenue for the governments needs
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-18
Cleveland VenomousIv Attaokad.

There is one newspaper in New York
that has no regard for either truth, JUS
tice or decency in matters relating to
Mr.. Cleveland Its editor must have a
personal grudge against the President,
and is endeavoring to satisfy his desire
for revenge by attacking him in the col
umns of his paper. A day or two ago, in
the Washington correspondence of the
paper, the suggestion was thrown out
that the President ought to be impeached
because of his position in the Hawaiian
affair.
In local article in the Thursdays is
sue, in which attention is drawn to the
Presidents unannounced and unexpected
visit to New York, the following state
ment is made:
Only some extraordinary crisis in Mr..
Cleveland's personal affairs could make
him leave the national capital for trip
to New York without informing even the
members of his cabinet of his intention to
be absent for fortyeight hours. There is
no doubt that Mr.. Cleveland is suffering
financially in the general business de-
preston which has affected so many in
terests and this would explain his extra
ordinary persistence in refusing to accept
any conditional surrender on the part of
the Senate on the silver question, believing
that unconditional repeal would not only
restore public confidence, but his private
fortune. Heis surprised and disappointed,
it is understood, because silver repeal has
not brought better times.
No honest man would have thrown out
an insinuation like the foregoing 1t is
well known that the President did not
~,
until the pressure to do so became so great
that he would have assumed an immense
responsibility if he had resisted it, The
demand was for the unconditional repeal
of the purchasing clause of the Sherman
act, and the President in his message
stated that the unconditional repeal of
that clause was what was wanted
The article in the Press intimates that
the President refused to accept anything
less than unconditional repeal because he
thought anything less would not relieve
! him of his financial troubles. According
! to the Press, the reason the President
stood out for unconditional repeal was a
/ purely personal and selfish one
This outrageous insinuation is made
| against the President without any knowl-
/ edge rs to whether the President was
/ financially embarrassed at the time the
repeal was pending or has been since.
/ 1t is not even known that the President
had any business interests that have suf-
fered from the business depression, and
there is no ground for saying that his
visit to New York the other day was con
nected with business matters of a purely
4 personal nature. In the Press pub
LEGATION it is assumed that he suffered
financial losses on account of the dull
/ times. This is done in order to make the
outrageous insinuation that he insisted
upon unconditional repeal because he
thought it would benefit himself That
kind of political warfare isneither honor
able nor decent.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-18
Happv Married women.

One morning the talented and efncient
caIiph Of Bagdad awoze in humor almost as
bad as that of a man who is trying to write
with a stylographic pen. says Texas SIftings.
He telephoned Immediately for Abdullah, his
grand vizier, who came running with his
tongue hanging out.
Last night said the caliph, Il had q
dream to the effect that all the married wo-
men in Bagdad threw themselves on their
knees before me and bewaued their condf-
ton. You are responsible for the welfare OF
my subjects, and / want this thing stopped,
and by the beard OF the prophet, If you don
put stop to il II put period to your ex-
isteuce."
'Humbug" replied Abdullah. There Is
not one married woman in Bagdad who would
swap places with any unmarried woman.
They are all chronic kickers, but, neverthe-
less. there are some who are happy"
Wen, you ind one and bring her here be-
fore the first Of next month or of goes your
head under the civil service reform rules"
Abdullah supposed that in unearthing a
happy married woman he had the softest job
in town, whereas it was harder than tracing a
lost umbrella
The first call he made was on the caliph S
own wife. lie supposed that she could not
help being happy, but he was surprised when
he found that she was the most miserable OF
her sex: that for abject Wretchedness she
captured the entire bakery and some of the
adjoining buildings. She had discovered in
her husbands pistol pocket a letter addressed
tOOtsy, Fatima."
We have no space to record Abdullah's
! failures to lind happy married woman in
Bagdad. He finally said to his own wife
where he thought he had q sure thing:
Emily, l suppose you are happy woman,
are you nOt:"
Il might be happy If I only had husband
who would supply me with few decent
clothes to wear. This is the third fall I've
worn the same bonnet Verify, Abdullah
you are no good, replied his loving wife.
Abdullah, perceiving that a great sorrow
was gnawing at her heart, caused the CONVEX
satiOn to drift into other channels.
As the first of the month was rapidly ap
preaching Abdullah began to listen to hear
ms own head drop into the basket with a
nauseating reverberation.
Il Il let you off this time said the caliph
because while you were of in the country
have discovered happy married woman my
self in Bagdad."
,'ImpossiDlei I've asked them all. Who is
this happy woman asked Abdullah.
Your own wife She tod me that she was
always happy when you were out of town"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-18
Faets for the Proteetionists.

The assertion, so frequently seen now
in the republican papers, that the reason
there is not greater activity among the
manufactures is the fear of tariff reduc-
ton, is the worst kind of nonsense. Why
didn't this fear manifest itself immedi-
ately after Mr.. Cleveland's elections The
manufacturers knew then that the tarlH
was going to be reduced. because the PEG
pie had decided it should. Indeed, they
knew il a long time before, because pre-
vious elections, in which the tariff was
the chief issue. had resulted in demo
cratic victories.
AS matter of fact, cotton factories
and nearly all other factories have been
remarkably prosperous ever since it be
came evident that the tariff was going to
be reduced For the year ending Oct. !,
last, according 20 the Financial Chronicle,
The FAN River cotton factories earned
Us per cent. on their capital stock. and
for the year previous they earned al
most as large a dividend. The diff
hculties under which they now labor
are not due to fear of tariff re-
duction, but to an altogether different
cause. 1t can be asserted without
fear Of contradiction that the cotton
factories have not made 50 much money
in many years as they have since it was
decided at the ballot box that there
should be tariff reform.
Those who take the trouble to inform
themselves of the effect of the revenue
tariff of 1916 are aware that the years
Immediately following the adoption
of that tariff were among the
most prosperous in the history Of
the country. Indeed, it gave such gen
eral satisfaction that it would not have
been changed, in all probability, had it
not been that the necessities of the war
made a greater revenue necessary,
and what is known as the Morrill,, or war
tariff, was adopted. Under it grew up
great monopolies, which haye strongly
opposed any reduction in tariff taxation.
In fact, they have always demanded an
increase in the tariff whenever tariff
changes We're proposed They found out
how the high-protective tariff could be
used by a few to plumber the many, and
they have left nothing undone to retain
tariff of that kind.
The legitimate manufacturing indus
tries have no fear that congress will
adopt tariff that will ruin them or in
jure THAR business in anyway. Secretary
Carlisle has said as much many times, and
his tariff views have undergone no great
change within the last few years
Tariff reform is coming, and the people
might as well get ready for it without
unnecessary delay. They want to give it
a trial, and they should see to it that it
has fair one Instead of injuring the
manufacturers it will be of benefit to
| them.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-18
The Tigers Tail.

whats the matter with my hand!" re-
peated the man who was shorn of thumb and
forefnger and otherwise MANNED according
to the Detroit Free Press; I've had many
good surgeon look at it and ask the same
question The general idea is thatI got it
caught among the cog wheels or revolving
knives, but the fact is tiger had hold of it
for about fifteen seconds"
Were you hunting tigers?'
mo. 1 was simply making fool of my
self. was visiting the geological gardens at
Philadelphia about ten years ago. and among
the animals was one of the largest tigers in
captivity. 1t was a warm day and he was
sound asleep on the broad of his back with
his paws in the air. The end of his long tail
stuck out of the cage bit, and l thought it
would be smart trick to pinch 1t and see the
brute jump None of the keepers were in
sight. and the more l thought of the idea the
smarter it appeared to me. l was 20 years
old then. and OF course imagined that l was
the smartest Of smart alecks.'
And you PIN he'd, eh$'
Il did. The guard rail was only two feet
away from the cage, and after good look
around l reached over and nipped that tail
with great hGartneSs. Something rOared
and something moved about five times rs
Qulck as flash of lightning, and the first
thing / kneW,the tiger had nv hand in his
mouth. He grabbed it before l could jerk it
/ atk, you see. As he growed and chewed
he also pulled backward and but for a
keeper coming up he would have pulled me
up against the bars and got at me with his
claws.
he bit the thumb and finger clean off,
and his fangs went right through from hack
to palm. The keeper pounded him loose
with an iron bar just in time to save me, and
it took about three years to get the hand in
the shf p you see it. The doctors threat
ened to dmputate it at the wrist time and
again"
And you are satisfied"
perfectly. a hundred tiger tails waiting
| to be pinched would lie no temptation to me
| I'm not one of the sort that want the earth
| IL YOU want to know how the old thing works
| drop into ZOO some day and do somt
| pinching.'
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Black Voters at Home and in Hawaii,

YIN tllt new OIh OSt NAhu.ls
1t is especially unbecoming in Benjamin
Harrison, the Boston Journal and the New
York Tribune to say that the natives of Ha-
wall are not tit for the suffrage. They are
certainly as fit for it as the plantation hands
Of South Carolina; probably more so, seeing
that they have been under the training of
American missionaries and have had good
schools and instructors for generations,
while the southern blacks have had those ad-
vantages only since the close of the war. No
body can demand an impartial ballot for
unless he is a hypocrite. We willnot say that
| ne is 8 monarChist at heart, but there is much
more reason FIR saying so than for applying
tnat term To secretary Gresham or to Presi-
dent Cleveland
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-18
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

SPECIAL NOTTCEs-Le Panic Cigars, Harry
LANCE; Creamery Butter, Estate S. w.
Branch; AS to Bills Against British Steam
ships Norfolk and Avalon and Norwegian
Bark Celer; Collections of Postage Stamps
Wanted; Oranges. Grapes, Etc, at Mutual
Cooperative Association; AS to Crew Of Brit
ish Steamship Eastry; Carpets, Mattings,
Etc at Auction Monday, by c. H. Dorset;
Have You Five Dollars? Falk Clothing Com
pany; Turkeys at KelIer's Green Grocery;
Anheuser- Busch Eagle Again Victorious.
AMUsEMENTs-Grau's Opera Company at
Theater, Nov, %, 81. %. %.
STEAMSHIP SCHEDULE-Ocean Steamship
Company.
CHMDREN's SUTTs-Appel & SchsuL
WE ARE ALONE-B. H. Levy & Bro
TALKING THRO' OUR HAT--At Collat's,
READY-At Adler's.
WE PUT ON SALE TO-DAY-Falk Clothing
Company.
CHEAP COLUMN ADvERTIsEMENTs-He
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.