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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-11-03
WHOLE NUMBER 1,7e6.

them are employed, and they attend
entirely to the adjusting and stamping.
1t may be said in explanation OF the
process OF the term adjusting" that
every coin before it is shaped is care
fully weighed. If too heavy the edge
is delicately filed until the coin is of
lawful weight; if too light the piece is
sent to be remelted. This process of
weighing and adjusting is an employ
ment to which women with their deli
cacy OF touch are well suited. They
are also in charge of the stamping.
incidentally it may be said that most
presses teamp from 80 to ITO coins
every minute. In one short hour
$4,000 in $40 gold pieces can be
stamped around the edge and on both
sides.
There is another part of the work
which comes under the charge of the
women employed at the mint. They
do the sewing. At first thought it
seems tritie incongruous to associate
sewing with money minting, but all
the bags used by the mint are sewed
in the building. The bags are made
OF white duck and run up by machine,
being sewed twice for security. The
bag making is no small thing when
you come to consider the number j.
takes to pack up the newly coined
wealth of the country each year. The
five cent pieces are packed in $50 bags
and the pennies in $40 bags; smaller
silver in 81 1000 and the gold in S. 600
pouches. Roughly speaking last year
nearly 1900 bags were made up for
gold alone, 10000 for silver, 5000 for
half dollars, besides many thousands
for the smaller coins.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-11-03
HARRIsON's BIOGRAPHY.


HARRIsoN's BIOGRAPHY.
Carter II. Harrison was born near
Lexington, KY, February Is 1926.
His great-great-grandfather was the
father OF Benjamin, who was the father
OF President William Henry Harrison.
His grandfather was the first cousin
OF John c. Breckenridge and Benjamin
Harrison. By the death of his father
he was left at the age Of to care for
his mother, who was the daughter of
Col. William Russell of the United
States army, and the northwestern
pioneer, Mr.. Lewis Marshall, brother
of the Chief Justice and father of T
NJ. Marshall, prepared him for Yale,
where he graduated in 1915. After
graduating from Pennsylvania law
school, end travelling abroad two
years, he settled in Chicago in 1855,
invested i'll real estate and became
wealthy. He was commissioner of
Cook county from 1871 to 1874, when
he went to Congress, serving two
years. He attracted attention during
the Hayes and Tilden contest, and
introduced resolution for q six-year
presidential term, and making the
President eligible for one term only,
but Senators for life. He was elected
Mayor of Chicago in 1879, 1881, 1888,
1885 and 1898. In 1854 he was the
Democratic candidate against Oglesby
for Governor of Illinois and the same
year was delegate at large to the Ma
tional Convention that nominated
Cleveland. After completing his
fourth term as Mayor, he made trip
around the world and wrote "a Race
With the Sun" In 1890 he visited
Puget Sound, Alaska, and the National
Park, and his book, "A Summers
Outing" added to his literary fame.
In 1891 he purchased the Chicago
Times, which he edited until elected
Mayor last April. and which his sons
now own. He married in 1855 to
Supley Preston. She died in Europe
in 1876. In 1882 he married Mar
guerite Sterns, who died in 1887 and
he was to have been married few
days hence to Miss Anna Howard of
New Orleans. AT the time of his
death he was candidate for United
States Senator,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-11-03
SOLOMON LILIES.
An Interesting Account Of DOings
in the Holy Land.

While in Jerusalem Mr.. and Mrs.
W.P. Winans made the acquaintance
OF Rev. T. J. Alley. an American mis-
sionary, formerly of Portland, who has
since their return been in correspond
ence with them. In q letter recently
received he answers several queries
which are in substance given below.
The travel he states for the past
spring to the Holy land has been ex-
ceptionally large despite the preva-
lence of the dreaded cholera and the
health of the city, never very good,
has been about the average.
"There is a panic and fight of
Christians and Jews. The Mohamme-
dams are resigned to the will of God.
There is a rumor here that $1,000 died
OF cholera in Mecca during the years
pilgrimage. No rational attempt is
made to stay the disease"
He dwells somewhat on seventy.five
thousand souls, pilgrims to Mecca,
who were swept away by this dreaded
scourge. He tells of the vast numbers
of purifying bodies which lay scat
tered thickly in the streets, where the
number of one thousand per day died.
Much OF this is due, he writes, to the
imperfect sewerage of those Eastern
cities-in fact almost no sewerage at
all. He speaks of the shortage of
water supply and the terrible suffer
ing of the poor in consequence. Each
house is supplied with a cistern to
catch rain water, but so many of the
poor use from one tank, the sup
ply soon lives out, and the parched
creatures 60 around with spoons to
dip up anything to quench their
thirst. Before the aqueduct to Solo
mons tank broke, there was an ample
supply, as this great tank covers a
space OF thirty acres. Mr.. Alley to
aid in his missionary work has sent
Mr.. Winans some Solomon lily bulbs,
which he received q few days ago by
registered mail. They can be seen at
the Farmers Savings bank, and will
be sold at fifty cents each to aid Mr..
Alley in his work among the poor at
Jerusalem. Those who want a genu.
inc lily from the holy land can get
one. The money gotten for these
bulbs is used by the different mis-
sionaries to buy water to give the
poor. Water, an abundance of which
we have, and do not realize the want
Of.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-11-03
Scientific.

"Sh Ah'Oheoi 10 iespOuslUie lOr
contrivance which can be fitted un.
der the keyboard of an ordinary piano,
and sewing is done while tunes are
being ground out on the worries.
Notwithstanding great advances
made in chemistry and metallurgy, no
other more satisfactory silver alloy
has yet been discovered for coinage
and other purposes than the alloy
used 800 years ago.
Growth does not really cease until
about the age of 25-that is to say, the
frame increases in bulk until that age
OF 25-that is to say, the frame in
creases in bulk until that age is at
tained-but with most persons the
height is not added to after they have
passed the age of Is, subsequent
growth being only muscle develop
ment.
One OF the most interesting exhibits
OF the electrical building at the Worlds
Fair is patent doorway, whice opens
automatically as one approaches it,
and closes again after the entrance
has been made. This is accomplished
by means of a mat on either side of
the door, which starts the electrical
machinery as one steps ON it.
Ninety per sent. of the energy in
coal is now lost in converting it into
power. 1t goes off in heat through
the chimneys and is perceived in any
room where there is a furnace and
boiler. A means of saving this waste
will vastly cheaper the cost of every.
thing manufactured by electric or
steam power.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-11-03

BURIAL OF A GREAT COMPOSER
The remains of the great composer
Gounod, were buried last Friday, in
Paris, France, with full civic and mill
tary honors. Those present at the fu
neral were celebrities in arts and
sciences from all parts of France. The
hearse was followed by two large
chariots laden with floral offerings
and other colossal tributes were borne
on the shoulders of those following
the casket. All the musical societies
OF France sent delegations, who
marched in the procession and sang
as the cortege passed to the church
La Madeleine, where a solemn musical
service was held.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-11-03

DIR. Elliott Cones, of the Smithson.
ian Institute of Washington was in
Tacoma this week. DR.. Cones is one
OF the most renowned scientists in the
country, his works upon ornithology
and zoology being used as textbooks
in all colleges. He has recently com.
pleted new edition of the expedition
OF Lewis and Clark from the mouth Of
the Missouri to the mouth of the Co.
lumbia, and his present trip is for the
purpose OF verifying the correctness OF
their report and locating the exact
exact trail they pursued. He lectured
on the subject of the expedition before
the Tacoma Academy of Science
Wednesday evening.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-11-03

JOHN Barrett, tough citizen of
Spokane, drew revolver ON some
printers he picked quarrel with.
One OF them, Charles Derry, took the
gun away, though he received a
severe scalp wound in the scuffle.
Barrett is held on charge of at
tempted murder.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-11-03
Mints Of Money.

The coinage of Uncle Sans four
mints for the year ending June 30,
1892, stood thus: Philadelphia, 49,
94S, 1902 pieces; San Francisco, $685.
OBS pieces; Carson City, 1,716,468
New Orleans, 13, ,l2S,3l6 pieces; total,
l1s.556.l25 pieces.
The number of pieces coined does
not represent the amount of money,
for while Philadelphia sent out the
greatest number of pieces their value
was only $l7,27O,367 II. The output
of San Francisco, although numbering
only S,S63,O3S pieces, being gold coin
age, was valued at $25, 1872 1888 80.
Carson City coinage, largely of gold
and silver, was $3,216.S40, and New
Orleans, $5,71l,7S6. The gold regu-
lates the coinage and its value.
The Philadelphia Mint besides being
the oldest and busiest of Uncle Sans
money.making concerns, is also used
to large extent, by him as national
store house. There is now $3.50, ,O00,-
600 in silver bars stored away there.
Officer Brown of the Philadelphia
Mint tells the Times of that city, how
Uncle Sam mints his gold and silver
into the coin OF his realm.
"Making-money," said he, "is just
like making cake. You mix the
dough, we mix the metal. You cut
the dough into cakes, we cut the
metal into coins. Then we stamp
them. The metal that is left over is
melted up and used again just as the
cook gathers up the left overs, rolls
them again and cuts more cakes"
In other words, an amount of metal,
says the equivalent of 5000 in gold,
which chemically is made up of 80 per
per cent. gold and ten per cent. copper,
is put into black lead crucible about
the size of peck measure. 1t is
kept in the furnace one hour and
fifteen minutes. The workman watches
his gold as sacrcdly as the cook her
cakes, and when the molten mass is
brought to proper consistency he
takes three cornered black lead cup,
about the size that would fit mon
keys head, and dips up $1,000 worth
of the metal at a time, pouring it out
again with that marvellous dexterity,
which only comes from practice, into
moulds holding 81 600 each. Nothing
can be more beautiful than the fiery
rush OF young and pure gold as it glides
into the locked arms of the iron mould.
When the liquid solidifies it forms a
bar, or, to be technically correct, an
ingot II inches long and about half an
inch thick.
These ingots are subjected to pro.
cess OF rolling out, which lengthens
them without increasing the width.
The bars are then ready TO be cut.
One machine cuts the coin, another
stamps them after the process of mill
ing been performed. Milling in mint
parlance has somewhat of different
signiication than in ordinary vernacu-
lar. 1t signifies the rolling over of the
edge of the coin preparatory to stamp
ing it with the minute denticulations.
which is commonly known as the mill
ing. The latter is part OF the process
of stamping and is done at the time
the signet is put on the coin.
Speaking of the stamping introduces
the large corps Of women who form a
considerable part of the working force
of the mint. About one hundred of
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-11-03

The Walla Walla Union prints a
long list of the towns capitalists who
did not 60 TO the worlds fair.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-11-03

LEWIS county has paid out $33, 900
since July l, and has $4,000 on hand.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-11-03

with the wounded mans request she
was at once summoned and was
present when the end came. Miss
Howard's grief is pitable.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-11-03
WASHINGTON STANDARD
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-11-03
CARTER HARRISON.
CHlCAGO'S ABLE MAYOR ASSAS-
SlNATED.

VI Murdered by n Crazy Man Named
Prendcrgast-Chicago's Sensation
The Murderer Surrendered Him.
seif-Ife Declared the Mayor Had
Promised to Make Him Corpora
ton Counsel-The Mayors Fian.
ce With Him When He Died.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-10-29
Dayenportisin.

Tho species OF tyranny known as Davcn-
portism IL not only undemocratic but 1t Is
contrary to the spirit Of American institu-
tions. 1t Is repugnant to the maintenance
OF popular rights. 1t Is O centralizing de-
vice for removing from the hands Of the
people OF each constituency all control over
their own elections. and remitting SUCH
control to Washington. Tho odious and
discredited Force bill was the natural out
come Of DAVENPORT legislation. 1t was a
logical but audacious attempt to minimize
the power OF the people. and to correspond
ingly exalt the influence and authority OF n
Republican Federal administration In Wash
ington. and of successive Republican adj
ministrations there.
Besides this. the DAVENPORT system Of
election bulldozing is useless waste Of
the peoples money for no valid or salts
factory purpose. Take. In illustration of
this. the contest Of 1890 in this city. which
was supervised by DAVENPORT and his
three-by-nlne followers. picked up for the
occasion In odd hooks and corners Of the
town and vicinity. The pay Of these Mar
shals and Supervisors for that election
appears to have been $200.076. What were
tho results? There were in the whole
United States during the year succeeding.
forty-six convictions for violating the cleo
toral law. The one item OF fees for the
Supervisors was S757.1O5. Each conviction.
therefore. cost S16.5OO. exclusive Of court
and counsel expenses and necessary dis
bursements.
The fact Of the matter Is that the whole
system Is a fraud from beginning to end.
1t provides at the public expense, a means
Of livelihood without work to certain politi-
cal adventures, who are 10th to let go Of
their biennial source OF revenue. Nothing
is further from their thoughts than any
protection Of the franchise from the faint
Of fraud or criminality. They are perfectly
satisfied to have crimes against fair cleo
tions continue. to connive at them. and
oven to act as agents for carrying them
forward, for o consideration. But to re-
tain their claim to fees and allowances they
must make some pretext of activity. and
the victims Of this self-protecting diligence
are the innocent and sometimes unsophis-
tlcated electors who are huddled into
DAyEseonT's Iron Cage. only to be dis
charged without trial or redress after the
election ls over.
The Democratic House Ut Representatives
performed its plain duty to the people In
repeating the DAVENPORT election laws.
and the Democratic Senate should not adj
5ourn until 1t has passed the repeal and
sent 1t to tho President to sign. Blot out
from the statutes this oppressive. undemo-
cratic and useless instrument Of political
bulldoxing and b!aekmailipgl
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-10-29
Trees on Public Lands,

The House OF Representatives has be-
fore 1t a bill designed Ito protect public
forest reservations" The tracts spe-
clally in view are tho seventeen set
apart under the act Of March 8. 1891.
and aggregating more than 1900. 900
acres. These tracts include not only
some OF the finest timber in this coun-
try. but some Of the most picturesque and
majestic landscape scenery. 1t has been
found that the existing means Of protect
ing them from depreciation are inadequate,
and also that permits to cut timber on
them may lawfully be issued without COM
pensation to the Government
Commissioner BOWERS of the General
Land Office. In recent letter approving the
pending bill, declares that the great forest
reservations are really no more protected
than any other public lands. "Informa-
ton comes almost daily, showing continued
trespassing and depredating within the
reserves. committed by lumbermen. pros
pectors. sheep herders. and others.
and forest fires caused by the care
less and vicious. resulting in irrepara-
Bile damage. especially those started by
sheep herdersin tho mountain districts In
Iiio itei w ci0oto no" ptSturdSo LOT inc
season." Secretary NOBLE had
previously called attention to the lack OF
means for carrying out the act OF 1891.
How. then. can the needed protection be-
The pending bill authorizes the
OF War to make such details of
troops for the purpose as the Secretary OF
the Interior may require. That these de-
tails would be the most economical aud effi-
cient mode OF furnishing protection there
can be no doubt. Tho alternative method
would be to engage special force OF keep
ers or constables, but the troops can furnish
organized and, disciplined men under COM
petent ofIleerk without additional pay or
rations, Besides. the efficient work done
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-10-29
For Judges In This City.

-Four judicial Offices are to be filled by the
vote Of the citizens of New York city this
year: q Judge Of the Court Of Common
Pleas. Surrogate. and two City Court
Judges. For the first named OF these judi
cial posts. the Democratic Convention.
actuated by sense Of regard for venera-
BILE party tradition. that Judges of courts
Of record should be renominated. and sus-
tanned In this view Of the case by the alb
sence Of any other competing aspirant. put
up the Hon. MILES BEACH. who was elected
to this post in 1870 and will be reelected
presently to second term. which will ter
inmate when the constitutional disqualitl-
cation against Judges holding Office after
reaching the age Cd seventy makes neces-
sary the election Of his successor
JOHN II. V. ARNOLD. the Democratic can
didate for Surrogate. is a prominent and
representative New York lawyer in active
and lucrative professional practice. His
services to the Democracy. judicious and
continuous. have not been in the line OF
ofaceholding. though he was for three
years President Of the Board OF Aldermen.
and performed the duties devolvlng upon
him as a member Of the Board OF Estimate
and ApportionmenJ with sagacity. consist.
ency. and public spirit
One Of the Democratic nominees for judge
OF the City Court. JAMES N. FrTzsIMoNs. is
now on the bench Of that tribunal. having
been elected In 1879. Before being Judge
he was an Alderman. and it is a somewhat
unusual fact that all four Democratic can
didates for judicial honors in New York this
year have had some previous experience n
larvi -,
sIMoNs halls. as do majority OF our Judges.
from an uptown district, but his Demo-
cratic colleague on the ticket for the
other vacancy on the bench Of this court.
LEwIsJ. CoNLAN. Is downtown Democrat.
Homo rule and equal representation of
all constituencies Is one OF the cherished
principles Of Tammany, and to this fact. In
part. Is due the selection OF Mr.. CoNLAN.
He was elected as an AssemblSman in 1885,
and his qualifications for the place to which
he has been nominated are deemed to be
many and weighty by his downtown
friends. The City Court is not important
as an original fountain-head Of jurispru-
dence, but it disposes in year OF many
cases Of grave interest to litigants; and q
capable and alert Judge can do the people
valuable service here. AZ was shown by
Judge MCADAM. who was afterward pro-
NOTED to the Superior Court.
All four Democratic candidates for judi
cial Office on the county ticket will be
elected. OF course. and by big majorities.
No appeal for extraneous support is neces-
sary in the case Of either. But all voters
are interested in the candidates they in
tend to vote for, and the scrutiny invited In
these cases proves anew the wisdom OF the
Democratic leaders in choosing candidates
whose selection Is an assurance OF success.
and whose qualifications reflect credit upon
the Democracy.