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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-15
The People Have Voted for tho Canal.
0akakGala Unit

On the subject OF the canal the people have
EXPRESSED decided opinion and the majority
are in favor of that enterprise, and the vote
would have probably equalled that OF Harrson's
vote only for the miserable and improlfc fasco
o! Pierce county. Bat, after all, co, gress is the
sole arbiter of that question, and much of the
talk on the subjec, the past four or five months
ss been excee iIngiy puerile.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-15
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

The public is hereby warned not to pay
any money to parties representing to be
agents Of the Seattle PosT-INTELLIo ENcER,
except the following, who are the only
authorized travelling agents of the Posi-
IsTELLIGEyCER, viz: j. A. Mcclellan and
4. A. Davies. This does not apply to resi-
dent agents of this paper, who are located
in various cities and towns of the North
west, nor to postmasters, who are in all
cases authorized to take subscriptions for
the Daily, Sunday and Weekly PosT-IS-
TELLIs EgcER.
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THE SITUATION AT OLYMPIA.

SEATTLE. SUNDAY. JAN. rs.
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all these things but does not care, and
preach them into state of conscience
which will not tolerate gambling on the
stupid as well as immoral plea that it
''helps the business interests of the city,"
The clerical detective tells his congrega-
ton nothing that its potential forces do
not ell knOW better than he does; let the
preacher preach his audience up to a
higher level OF public opinion, where the
audience not only k,iows but cares about
such things. Until men are preached into
purity they cannot be made pure by saloon
and brothel exclusion acts Christ de-
nounced sinners and sin bitterly enough.
but he treated the Magdalen and the
woman taken II adultery with compare
tive tenderness. Whyf Because he per.
ceived that the real cause for existence of
prostitution did not lie chiefly in prosti-
tates or their haunts, but outside of them.
Christ knew what DR.. Parkhurst appears
10 have forgotten, that tea drinkers make
tea shops; gamblers make gambling bells:
thirsty tipplers make liquor saloons;
uceniious men make houses of prosti,u-
ton; and SO Christ, ike Wesley. went at
men, to preach them APP to purity or back
10 virtue. He wasted no time raidinc
saloons or disorderly houses or proving by
personal detective" work that there were
houses Of ill-repute within a stones
throw Of the temple IN jerusalem Public
opinion must be formed by the preaching
and the teaching of the church, the school
and the press; and none of these intlu-
ences can afford to abdicate their pulpits
for the detective work of DR.. Parknurst
and do any good. There are more hang
Sings in England where there are fewer
murders than il America. WhyH Because
puoiic favors hanging for murder in En-.
gland more sincerely than it does in
America The preacher cannot delegate
his work Of lifting public opinion 10
higher level OF seton TO the lower agency
Of detective and his dismal explorations
Of neither world that We all know ali
about and do any compromising good.
As for ministers letting politics alone
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-13
People Who Whistle.

Most people look upon whistling as
nuisance" said Herbert c. Sutliffe, ''but
there is no doubt that a whistling man
has good deal to recommend him. l
have friend who is warden in large
penitentiary. and he states that in all his
long experience he never knew ha-
bitual whistler condemned to term in
the institution. and he says, moreover,
that although the rules as to quiet and
order are frequently broken he never re-
members to have heard an attempt at a
musical whistle within the terrible look
ing walls of the institution. Whistling
seems to be the natural safety valve of
good spirits and satisfaction, and the
grumbling man couldn't whistle if he
tried.
81 had man to work for me once who
was model in every respect except that
he kept my teeth constantly on edge by
a series of whistling solos of anything
but cheerful character, although the
good man was evidently trying to repro
duce the latest operatic hits. l broke
him of the habit by continuous scolding,
but the man became so idle and indiffer-
ent in consequence that | was very glad
to encourage him to resume a habit
which at first had given me so much an
noyance. | try to get out of the way
when the spirit moves him to announce
in whistling tones some important or ro-
mantle event, but l am perfectly certain
that as long as he whistles he will work
as hard as his hands and arms will let
him. st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-13
Not Big Thing, Only Excite Wonder.

1t is not always the things of gigantic
proportions that excite the greatest
curiosity. Mastodons, elephants. whales
and other creatures of monstrous size
are and have been wonders indeed. So,
too, are the pyramids, the great cathe-
drals, towers, monuments, ETC., the
great Corliss engines, the 16-drive wheel
locomotive and other triumphs of me-
chanical skill. But while this is true
beyond question, how about the wonders
revealed by the microscope and the
work of the deft fingered artist, D. A.
Vr. Nicer, who painted a landscape on
the side of grain of wheat? By the
use of strong microscope only could
the wonders of this minute painting be
distinguished.
Yet when good glass was brought to
bear upon what appeared to be spot of
variegated paint upon the side of the
wheat grain all was changed into a
beautiful landscape-a forest, mill at
the side of the river, miller climbing
an outside stairway with sack of grain
upon his back, tall cliff at the side of
the mill and a winding road along which
some peasants were trying to drag re-
fractory pig!ISt. Louis Republic.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-13
Wearing Ont White House carnets,

If any ocular proof of the persistence
of office seekers is needed, it exists in the
White House carpets. They look as if
they could never be made to smile again.
The one on the stairs leading to the
Office best shows what the impatient
feet of the SO, 900 would be government
employees have accomplished. 1t is a
heavy Administer held in place by long
nails with big steel heads instead of
stair rails. The nail is fully three inches
long, but since the rush there is a de-
cided scarcity of the shining heads, and
the tread of the Office seeker ha pulled
out even these great spikes, and couple
of dozen of them have been picked up
and put away. The carpet looks as if a
regiment of giants had been executing a
double shuttle on the stairs for month.
Any extra demand for stair carpet at
the White House ought to be granted
without demur by the congressman who
have brought the Office seekers along and
helped add to the wear and tear.-Kate
Fields Washington.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-13
ELECTRIC LIGHT AND SUNLIGHT.
A Comparison Showing the Relative
Brightness of Illumination.

Brightness of Illumination.
1t is estimated that the electric lights
at the Worlds fair have total illumi-
mating power equal to that of nearly H.
SOC. .0O0 candles of the kind used TO rro-
duce the light adopted as the unit OF IL
Elimination. 1t is asked at what dis
tance from the earth such a masslng OF
light would be visible, supposing the
seer to have human eye. The distance
is not nearly so great as might be sup
posed. An observer on the moon would
need telescope magnifying about 400
times in order to see the light as equal to
that reaching him from a star of the
sixth magnitude. some l.750. 900, ,000, GOO
of which would give US the same light
that we receive from the sun.
The mode of reasoning by which this
conclusion is arrived at is not difficult to
follow or understand. Take $4,000 feet
as lneal unit. that being the greatest
distance at which the light of standard
candle could be perceived in otherwise
perfect darkness and under clear sky.
The nearly 100000 miles that separate
Us from the moon contain about 10000
of those Eneal units, and this number
must be squared, because the intensity
of illumination varies inversely as the
square of the distance. The square is
little less than 5000, 900, 900, which must
be used as divisor to the 12.500, 600 Of
candle power. The quotient is one part
in 400. showing that the light must be
telescopically condensed 400 times in
order that it shall be family visible at
the average distance of the moon.
The result shows that such q light,
though grand to US, is insignificant COM
pared with that emitted by the sun and
stars. 1t may otherwise be computed
that at distance of 10 yards the illumi-
native effect is equal to the full blaze OF
sunlight, but the solar rays Lave trav-
eled some 93,0O0,000 miles from their
source when we MAKE The comparison.
That is nearly 400 times the distance Of
the moon, and by the same law Of in
verse squares it must be decreased 150.-
600 times more than in the journey be-
tween earth and moon. The statement
may help to a better understanding OF
the tremendous initial intensity of the
light from some of the stars which
reaches us after a journey of several
years through space, while it occupies
but little more than eight minutes In
coming to us from the sun.-Chicago
Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-13
Enforcing Her Views of Cremation.

The people of Isham, village between
Kettering and Wellingborough, in
Northamptonshire, have lately been con-
siderably agitated by the refusal of Mrs.
Perry, prominent local landowner, to
give the parish any more land to add to
their churchyard or to make cemetery
At the present time the burial ground
which surrounds the parish church and
is at a considerable height from the
street in the middle Of the village-is
quite filed, and at recent funerals num-
bers of bones and pieces of half rotten
cofins have been disinterred to make
room for fresh graves. The reason given
by the lady. who possesses eligible
ground close by, is that she refuses on
the ground that cremation is the most
satisfactory way to dispose Of the dead
and that she disapproves of burial in the
midst of the villsge,-London News
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-13
cr.at s,,t tI,a,,oIn siberta-

the great salt lake at Obdorsk is 8
niles wide and II miles long, yet except
in few places it is solidly rooted over
with deposit of salt which is getting
thicker and thicker every year.
Our guide. who is an old man, said
that he could remember when the salt
crystals first began to gather upon the
surface of the water. Year by year,
owing to the evaporation of the water,
the crystals became more numerous and
then :aked together till this great roof
formed.
In 1878 the water beneath this salt
crystal roof found an underground out
let into the River Obi. This lowered the
lakes surface about three feet, leaving
that distance between the water and the
roof.
Looking down through one of the
openings made for the purpose in the
roof, we saw low sided small boat.
Our guide put us one at time into the
boat. We lay fiat on our back and
looked up at the curiously beautiful salt
ceiling overhead. Wepropelled the boat
by pushing with our hands against the
irregularities of the roof.
The guide held long rope attached to
the boat TO prevent our going too far and
getting lost-a thing he said it was easy
to do.
Many springs surround this lake.
Their water flows over the roof and
evaporates there, and thus continually
adds to its thickness. After many years
the springs will probably become choked
with their own deposits, and then the
whole will gradually become covered
with earth, and so great salt mine will
be formed-a treasure for the Siberians
hundreds of years to come.-Cor Geo
graphical Magazine.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-13
The Trouble With a Cold

"'S'matter?'
81 got an awful cold" replied Colonel
Morney.
"Have you
Eyes, l have. l have polished my
bronchial tubes with 'Conlin's Consump-
ton Coughine."
mo, but have you
"Yesl Course have. I've had goose
grease rubbed all over my throat and
chest, and p
"But, l say hold on, have you"-
81 tell you there's nothing haven't
tried. took hot bath, drank a pint
of boiling lemonade and rubbed my
hide almost off with Mustang hniment.
butt
''Now, listen! Have you"-
Eyes, | have Tried them all, but
they're no good. Why, last night p
"That's all right. but have you"-
''Have | whatY
Have you time to go over to Flynn's
and have something?"
''Why the deuce didn't you talk sense
at the start?" responded the colonel.
''Pm with you" "-Exchange.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-13
Gloves to Ruin Husbands and Lovers.

The revival Of light kid gloves for
wear with walking dressis rather blow
to the thrifty minded. Those who have
a limited dress allowance have delighted
in the convenient black kid or brown
suede, which could be worn quite a
number of times without showing signs
of being weatherbeaten in any way.
But light gray. pale lemon and the new
horrifc green are soiled in an hour when
worn with sealskin, dark cloth or serge.
Fortunately four or six button length
does very well at present, but there are
some indications that in the season
sleeves will be short and gloves long. II
20, light kid will be atrociously extrava-
giant, even though they will not soil SO
readily when worn with light colored
gowns.-Cor. Chicago Herald.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-13
GRAINS OF GOLD.


Very little real praying is done in
public.
A man with a prejudice is man with
chain.
People who think too little are sure to
talk too much.
The best friends are those who stimu-
late each other to good.
Life is not worth living unless you
live for somebody else.
No man is good who behaves himself
simply because he has to.
If happiness is your object in this life,
don't try too hard to get rich.
Every production of genius must be
the production of enthusiasm.
A very small amount of doing is bet
ter than wagon load of resolutions.
The man who lives in this world only
for himself robs every other man in it.
The time to be pleasant and make it
count, is when those around are surly.
Those who wrong others, generally
slander them to cover their own infamy.
The curious thing about love is that the
more you give away the more you have
left.
When the tongue cannot be employed
to some purpose, it had better be allow
ed to rest.
FIattery is the "glycerine and honey"
soap of life; compliments the bubbles
blown from it.
Education is the only interest worthy
the deep, controlling anxiety of the
thoughtful man.
People would rather pardon the de-
fects you have than the affectation OF
virtues you have not.
1t is easier to walk the tight-rope
without falling, than it is to criticise
others without backsliding.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-13
COlOrs of Sapphires.

Sapphires have of late years become
fashionable gems. The blue of the
sapphire is very seldom pure or spread
over the whole substance Of the stone.
Sometimes it is mixed with black, which
gives it an inky appearance, sometimes
with red, which, although imperceptible
by daylight, yet by artificial light gives
it an amethystine appearance. Two
sapphires which by daylight may appear
of the same hue often differ extremely
in color at night. If the stone be held
in an ordinary pair of forceps an inch
beneath the surface of very clear water.
the parts of the stone colored and un-
colored will be distinctly apparent. This
remark applies to all other gems.-Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-13
TWO Kinds of Married People.

-Four young people were seated around
a table in a restaurant the other even
ing. One couple had been married II
years, the other one but two. Said the
man who had been married the longer.
"Henry, let US take trip to New York
and have royal time without the girls
The women looked at each other and
laughed in contented amusement, and
the younger one. with a wisdom she
dreamed not of. looked into her hus-
bands face with look of confidence
that all wives ought to wear and said,
"You two men will never do anything
very wrong; you have too good time
with your own wives" That's so,
laughed the men, and the jolly quartet
passed out into the night as happy and
gay as though they were not party OF
married people.
In the same room were two married
men with groups of gay young folks, but
their wives were not among the number.
The contrast was vivid one. OF course
we know not why one set of married
men were not as happy as the other, but
we do know why t first ones did not
have to go to clu and other resorts to
hunt for the goo times that men are
bound to have either at home or away
from it. The two little wives were wise
enough to be lenient and overlooked GER
tain foibles which so many women con-
tinually nag about.
They kept themselves well dressed and
well informed. They made their home
place where the husbands could bring
their friends, and they entered heart and
soul into the interests and amusements
of the two men whom they had promised
to cleave to until death parted them.
They were companionable. that was the
whole secret, and the two men were hap
pier in their society than in any other
that they could find. - Philadelphia
Times
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-13

Patrick-It's poor advice ye've been
givin me. Didn't ye say tn best tonne
to ask mon favor was afther dinner?
Bifkins-I certainly did.
"Well, Oh wint to ould Buffers wild TIL
schmallest koind av a request, and he re-
fused. It was afther dinner too.
"Are you sure he had had his dinner%
Faith it's little Oh know about ould
Buffers ingoin's and outcomin's, but Oh
had moine. New York Weekly.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-13
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. r. Alex
ander, pastor. Public worship every Sabbath
morning and evening; Sabbath school 600 a. m I;
young peoples society OF Christian endeavOr, Sun
day evenings; general prayer meeting, Wednesday
evening. Strangers welcome to all services
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-Rev
Harvey Webb, pastor. Sabbath preaching, 1890
a. m.; p. m; young peoples meeting, Monday
evenings: general prayer meeting, Wednesday eve
nings; Sabbath school $50 am. Strangers cor
iially invited to all services.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN N CHURCH-Rey
Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath school, 10 a. m.
public worship, IL a.. m; weekly prayer meeting,
Friday p m; monthly prayer meeting, last Satur.
day Of each month, p: m.; woman's missionary
society," last Saturday OF each month, D. m; dis
iriet prayer meetings. first Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays each month, 2 D. m;
young women's prayer meeting, second Saturday
ach month at the parsonage, D. m.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-13
THE IMPRISONED ROBIN.

We heard his cry this morning. and his wan
Was like the sad song of a whippoorwill
1t seems that in his prison cage he still
Has memories of the fields, and he recalls the
tale
The lonesome night bird sang at vespers till
He deems 1t is his own. His joyous thrill
And natural pipings are now all in jail
How different from the notes when. wild and
free,
He sang his happy greetings to his mate
And pleasure seemed the business Of his daysl
No night birds acts were mimicked in his WAYS
When he strode o'er the lawn In pride elate
Or filed the air with melody from tree.
Edward S. Creamer in New York Sun
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-13
MASONIC DIRECTORY.

BELMONT LODGE, No. IS, +. d a M.-Meets
every Wednesday night, on or before full moon.
j. B. MEYER, Sec. G. p. BUMGARNER,W.M NJ.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. n, ROUdl
irch Mdsons-Stated conyocations first Friday Of
each month.
j. b. MEYER, Rec. j. B. RYAN, H. p.
BELMONT COUNCIL, No 81, r. q s. M
Meets second Tuesday of each MONTH
j. B. MEYER, Rec. c. W. CARROLL, T. /. NJ.
HOPE COMMANDRY, No. 2S, K. T.-Stated
cOnclaves, first Thursday of each month.
j. B. MEYER, Rec. VIC. .BURGUNDTHAL.E.C
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-13

"God will keep up his end of the row
if you give him a chance" That was
the language used by Moderator Craig
in his sermon, which had direct refer
ence to the controversies before the gen.
eral assembly. AS it appears in print
the sentence requires an expository note.
Whether the word ROW" rhymes with
chow" or ''hoe' becomes an important
question. Washington Star.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-13
Marryfng by n Formula.

The woman that took part in late
marriage at Newcastle, England, had a
mathematical formula to guide her. At
16 she married man Of SO. At 30 she
married again and chose man of 80.
To conclude the series, she now at AZ
marries man of "a. Her first husband
was Quaker, the second Catholic and
the present one Protestant. If she
lives much longer and is determined to
go on with her mathematical matrimo-
nial ventures, she will have to advertise
in the want columns for centenarian or
two and specify new religion as one Of
her provisions.-AtlantaC Constitution.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-13
Mustaches and Boards.

Englishmen only generation ago had
such a detestation of mustaches and
boards that the practice of shaving al
hair off their face down to their mutton.
chop whiskers was all but universal
From one extreme our clean shaven fa-
thers plunged into the other, and boards
and mustaches rapidly became the fash
ion. The fashion has of late years again
been modified. Boards are less common,
but the mustache is cultivated in Eng
land as widely as on the continent
London Standard.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-13
Assistant Pastor"

Assistant pastor" is new title for a
woman and seems to be so far held by
only one under this name. The pioneer
in this field finds her home and work in
Brooklyn, where, at salary of s400 a
year, she relieves the pastor of many
routine duties that in large city parish
unwarrantably consume his time and
energy. The Office might better be
called pastors wife's assistant" for its
work is taking direct burden from the
shoulders of those long suffering women.
New York Recorder.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-13
Sticks Cinscr Than a Brother.

Bob Calnwhooper-About week ago
you sold me porous plaster to get rid
of pain in my chest.
Druggist-Yes, remember it very
well. What can do for you now?
Clamwhooper- want something
to get rid Of the porous plaster.-Texas
Siftings-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-13

*Trains run daily. tDaily except Sunday.
ST. GAINESVILLE DIVLSION-Leave St
ClairSyille at 9:l5 m; 2:O0pm
PULLMAN SERVICE-Pittsburgh and Chi
cagO, trains Nos. and 8. Chicago, Cleveland and
Pittsburgh, Columbus via Attica, trains Nos Ia
and Is Chicago, Baltimore and New York. trains
Nos. 3, 5, 8, and 8. Pittsburg and Cincinnati,
trains Nos. los, 106 103 and 1c4
For further Information call on B. s o. ticket
agents, or address L. s. Allen, Asst Gen. Pass.
Agent, Chicago, Ill
ROBT. b. CAMPBELL, CO. SCULL,
Gen Supt. Gen1 Pass. Agent
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-13
Asking the Wrong Party.

"Some of you," said political orator,
remind me of Johnny Bizirn, who un-
dertook to break the yearling bull, and
to make sure he did not get away tieG
the rope around his waist. The break
ing process angered the yearling, and he
split crack in the atmosphere toward
the swamp. Johnny only hit the ground
in the high places. In their mad career
they passed neighbor, who yelled to
John. Where are you goingT 'Blanked
if | know he replied as he sailed
through the air. Ask the bull. ~
Northwest Magazine.