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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-25
WARNED BY HIS DEAD WIFE.
A Voice That Came i'm the Night
and Saved n Girls Life.

"Now my friend Mr.. So-and.So had
entirely different experiences that con-
verted him." continued the gentle
man, Gays the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Zone night, many years ago, he and
his family retired. Shortly after mid
night he was awakened by the voice
of his dead wife, who said: Gas,
quick. He thought it WAS imagina-
ton, and laid awake thinking about it
Tor some time. As he was doing off
the voice came again. AS he was
doing off the voice came again: Gas,
quick, quick, with more imperative
ness. WELL thought my friend, as
he sat up in bed, that surely was my
wife's voice, but I was just doing off
to sleep and may imagined it. 1
will stay awake now so that'-iust
then the voice came again with
greater sternness, saying in an imper.
ative way: GAS, quick, quick, quick !,
My friend waited no longer, but jumped
from his bed and rushed to the rooms
on the second floor, where his daugh-
ters were sleeping. There was no gas
there. Down stairs he hurried, looked
into the cellar and all about, but no
gas to be found. He suddenly re-
membered newly arrived Swede girl
who had came that day to do house
work, who was sleeping on the third
floor. Up stairs he sprung with a
bound, and as he neared the door he
detected the gas. He broke into the
room and found it filled with gas. In
the stiffness he could hear the heavy,
labored breathing of the girl on the
bed. He saw no time was TO be lost.
Down on his knees he got, and, keep
ing his face as close to the floor as
possible, he crawled to the window,
which he opened. He then reached
for the girl, and, catching her arm
which was hanging over the side OF
the bed, pulled her to the floor and
through the open door to the next
room, where restoratives were applied.
The girl was asphyxiated, and in fif-
teen minutes more would have been
dead. 1t took several days for her to
recover. She tried the old experiment
of blowing out the gas with almost
fatal results. My friends tells me
that frequently in times of danger the
warning voice of his wife comes to his
rescuen
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-25
Ingers0ll Taken Down.

One cherries, rainy night the ven
cradle Simon Cameron was sitting in
the Office of the Ebbit house, gazing
out through the window into the fog
and darkness, says the Chicago Record
He was lost in thought and his face
was the picture of melancholy. Pres
emily Colonel Ingersoll entered.
"What has happened, GeneralY" he
asked. "You look as if you'd lost
your last friend"
" All, Bob" said the old man with a
sigh, IL have just seen a cruel, pitia,
ble sight. An aged and crippled sol,
dier was painfully toiling up the street
yonder, and was making some pro
gress, when along came big, double.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-25

EZRA MEEKER ON THE STATE EX-
HIBIr.-Ezra Meeker severely, and we
fear Justly, criticises the management
OF the State building and exhibit at
the Worlds Fair, charging inefficiency,
extravaganza and appropriateness
which has marred the effectiveness of
the exhibition. OF course it will be
charged that Meeker is disgruntled
on account of the impolite treatment
he received at the hands of the poll
ticians of the board, early in its his
tory; but it cannot be denied that he
is a competent critic, and few who
know him will charge him with feel
ings of malice or jealously in his crjti-
cisms. His views Of Washington's ex-
hibit, as it appears, agree with those of
other disinterested judges, and as to
the charge OF extravagant management
of the State appropriations, it has not
been disputed. In the hands OF an ex-
perienced and practical man like Ezra
Meeker, better exhibit would have
been made with one-half the money
that has been spent than the present
show.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-25
WHOLE NUMBER 1,756.
AN APPEAL FOR HELP.
FOOD Wanted by the Starving Peo.
pie Of New York.

The delegates and speakers to the
Farmers Alliance and Peoples Party
convention assembled at Sylvan Beach,
New York, Saturday, issued the follow
ing appeal: Farmers of the West, a
cry of hunger and starvation comes
up from the heart of the great city of
New York. 1t is from the throats ui
tens of thousands who are unemployed
1t ascends nidst the noise of the
jingling of gold on the money counters
of Wall street. Men are becoming
desperate from want, and the gaunt
spectre of famine stalks abroad un-
needed by those who have grown fat
by the ravaging OF industry. The
lobby approaching the council cham
bers of the republic are filled with
paid agents OF the oligarchy, ready to
debauch the peoples representatives.
The money sharks unrelenting, the
government Indifferent and the peo-
pie desperate by the pangs of hunger ;
law abiding, honest men are being
transformed into reckless wolves and
this is the condition desired by the
enemies of the people. They starve
them in order to furnish an excuse to
kill them afterwards. This must not
be. The starving poor of New York
must not become the prey of design
ing enemies. The farmers must feed
them. We know you are poor but
these men and women are your BROTH
ers and sisters. Their cause is your
cause; their starvation and your
poverty are the joint production OF
the community. Send speedily of
your products that disorder and blood
shed may be averted. Let each presi-
dent call his alliance and take action.
Let each railroad furnish tIansporta-
ton free. Organize relief committees
at once and communicate with Mr..
David Rousseau, No. 80 Mott avenue,
New York, who has been selected by
us as the consignee of relief supplies
and who will arrange for their prompt
and equitable distribution"
This is signed by the delegates and
speakers of the Farmers Alliance and
Peoples Party State Convention.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-25

The Bering sea controversy, which
would have been settled by Secretary
Bayard under Cleveland's former ad.
ministration, had it not been for a
Republican Senate, is likely to be a
pretty expensive thing for the United
States. Under the decision of the
court Of arbitration, we shall have to
pay actual as we'll as nominal damages
for ships taken and kept out of the
fishing grounds. The verdict of the
court is anything but victory for the
Government.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-25
BAD FOR UNCLE SAM.
The herring Sea Decision not En-.
tireiy the Right Thing.

Secretary Gresham is said to be dis.
satisfied with the findings OF the
Bering sea tribunal in regard to the
regulations established and it is un-
derstood that his views are shared by
other cabinet officers. The regula-
tions are interpreted to mean that the
United States will have entailed on
them the cost and worry OF patrolling
Bering sea without benefit to its seal
ers, while Russia, Japan and perhaps
other nations reap harvest, the regu-
lations being binding only on Great
Britain and on this country. II is
not likely that any definite policy re-
specting the guardianship of the sea
will be outlined until the opening of
the first season next year, because bad
weather will put an end to the opera
ton of the sealers in about two weeks.
The restrictions placed on sealers with
reference to firearms, nets, explosives
and steam vessels will have the ei-
feet, it is believed, Of causing Cana
dian sealers to resort to desperate
methods to secure good catches, and
much poaching is feared. In the close
season during the months of May,
June and July, both Great Britain
and the United States will be Obliged
to maintain O fleet OF naval vessels to
keep poachers from the sealing waters,
and it is believed at the Navy Depart
ment that this will result in the estab-
lishment of permanent Bering sea
squadron for duty during the three
months named. The United States
will also be obliged to maintain a
watch on the waters within the sixty
mile zone around the Pribyloff islands
during the entire mild season from
the lst OF April to the 1st of Septem.
ber, and it is probable that this duty
will be discharged by vessels of the
revenue marine service.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-25

The County Auditors assessment of
taxable property in Pierce county for
the year 1893, gives total property
valuation OF $46,6Ol ,S02, as compared
with $45 OPS OPS last year, an increase
OF $l,572,274. The rolls show real es-
tate valuations and improvements to
reach $4O,3S2 ,543, as against $39, 49,
47S last year, and the value of per-
sonal property has increased from
$5,5lS,O4S in 1892 to $6,218,759 this
year. Tacoma city real estate and
improvements were figured at valua-
ton of $2S,445.S76; Puyallup, $I,232,-
2S2; Steilacoom, $232 ,4OS; Summer,
$l9O,524; Orting, $l69,27S; Buckley,
$l02,S7l. This assessment will hold
for two years, and applies to city as
well as county taxes, as the County
Assessor and Treasurer under the State
law are also the City Assessor and
City Treasurer respectively.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-25

AN EXCELLENT MEANS OF RETRENcH-
ING ExPENsE.-In Clark county, Kan
sas, so says special telegram sent
out from Tope ka, where hard times
prevail and hops have failed this year,
the religious people OF all denomina.
tions are getting together and dis
charging all but one minister in the
interest of economy. At Ashland, the
county seat, seven denominations
combined and took vote on the
most popular of the seven ministers
who should preach the gospel to the
people, eschewing all doctrinal topics.
Rev. Melleck, OF the Methodist church,
was elected, and the other six dis
charged. The unsuccessful we're not
soured, and accepted their fate, know
ing that there was support for but one
minister. The plan is satisfactory,
and will be adopted in other counties
in the drought district.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-25

He died at the age of ninety, after
having spent the last forty years Of his
life in travelling, fishing and working
at the "Compleat Angler" the first
edition of which came out in 1853, re.
ceiving subsequent editions. 1t ran
through one edition after another aud
made its author great in his own day
as we'll as in ours. Portraits OF Wal
ton are scattered among the stately
homes of England. The three hun
dredth anniversary of his birth was
celebrated all over the world on Aug.
ust9
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-25
A THEORY OF EVOLUTION.

Way back in those archaic days when time 10,
men got ripe,
A tailless ape sat on tree and smoked a penny
pipe.
And as he smoked, 10. thought began. He knew
that he enjoyed.
(Be not surprised at this You see that ane wss
anthropid.)
Thus, thought began. and thought is all tha,
makes a man a man:
SO be 1t known that thus in smoke the human
race began.
But mark how in a circle move all sublunary
things.
Events like smoke, resolve themselves into ex.
panding rings.
And az the monkeys pipe made thought. and
thought created man,
The cigarette shall take him back TO lust wher,
he began. '
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-25

FRANK Haywood, mail-carrier be-
tween Tildon and Cora, in Lewis coun-
ty, was fired on from ambush by
some unknown person. The bullet
struck his forehead, but glanced off,
and Haywood escaped. The purpose
OF his assailant is believed to have
been robbery.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-25
lZAAK WALTON.
The Precautionary Of the Angl gler
Celebrated All over the World.

1t was in 1858 that Walton ascended
to Immortality by the publication OF
his book. "There is hardly name in
our literature" says the Encyclopedias
Britannica, condescendingly, "even Of
the first rank, whose fame is more So
cure or whose personality is the sub
ject of more devoted Quilt" True il
is that multitudes who have never put
a worm on a hook have been caught
and securely held by his picture Of the
delights of the gentle craft and his
easy, leisurely transcript of his own
simple, peaceable, lovable and amusing
character. All that is mortal OF old
Isaak reposes in Winchester cathedral
beneath blue stone in the flooring
An inscription cut in it runs:
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-25
The Use OF "Wilir ana "Shail.n
New York Times

There is probably no more confusing
part of the English language than
that which regulates the proper use of
shall" and "will." The reply of
James Russell Lowell to the woman
who wrote, saying, al would be very
much obliged for your autograph" has
been often in print, and has undoubt-
edly been clipped for scrap and pocket
book reference by many persons. The
poet essayist granted her request in
the following fashion: Pray, do not
say hereafter, Il would be Obliged
Ii you would be obliged, be obliged
and be done with it. Say, l should
be Obliged and oblige. yours truly,
James Russell Lowell"
An additional hint to 20 with this
" cut me out" is that of the old verse !:
In the first person simply shall foretells;
In Will q threat or else promise dwell
Shall In the second or the third doth threat,
VIII simply then foretells the future feat.
Or "shall" in the first and wilr in
the second and third persons are to
be regarded as simple declarations,
and both in all other cases convey a
threat.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-25

A YOUNG lady wants to know how to
make "not enough" out of the, word
enough" That is easy. Take the
Sd, % and 1st letters of the word
" enough" for the first word and the
9th, 4th and 9th for the second word,
and yon have something that is "not
enough for any young lady."-Cotton-
sc0Od Report.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-25

For bad cough boil a tablespoon
ful OF flaxseed 10 or Is minutes in a
pint OF water. Strain, add the juice of
lemon, sweeten TO taste and drink q
lew spoonfuls at a time every few min
utes.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-25

fisted, lroad-shouldered fellow and
kicied the crutches out from under
the old cripple. leaving him feeble and
helpless, to pick himself up as best he
could"
"I would that had been there I"
cried Ingersoll, angrily. al would
have trounced the ruffian! L never
heard of so brutal an outrage! What.
abuse an old and crippled man like
that! I'd make quick work of the
brutew
"Wait moment, Bob" interrupted
old Simon Cameron, gently. al was
that aged and crippled veteran, and
was toiling along to my grave. And
it was you, Bob, who came across my
path and kicked from under me the
crutches that supported me in that
last Journey"
Colonel Ingersoll made no answer :;
the old man continued to look mourn
fully out into the night.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-25

Mrs. Alice Honghton returned
lately from trip To Tacoma in the
interest of the Worlds Fair, says the
Reriew. Speaking of the dissensions
among the lady managers of the
Worlds Fair. both national and State,
she said: 1t has set the cause of fe-
male suffrage back at least 20 years,
as the whole world has had an example
OF what women do when put in places
Of authority"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-25

THE Democrats of Ohio have nomi-
mated Lawrence I. Neal for Governor
to run against Mckinley. His nomi-
nation is victory for the free silver
faction OF the State.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-25

IHE tin-plate factory at Elwood,
lnd.' has resumed work, giving employ
ment TO 500 men.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-25

A New Whatcom man after taking
his COW out of the pound, sued the
poundmaster for the milk taken from
her while in. The scheme is to test
the impounding ordinance and if
possible break it down.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-25

CANADA supplies nearly all the plum-
bago used by American manufacturers
OF lead pencils.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-25

AGENTS FOR -
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The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-11-21
MACAUiAY AND FROUDE.

Two Inaccurate British Historians Who
Traduce Ireland.
Regarded as historians, and particu.
larly as historians who deal with the
history of Ireland. Sir Charles Gavan
Duffy finds little to approve either in
Lord Macaulay or Mr.. Froude. In a
preface to volume of the New Irish
Library" comprising a reprint of the
remarkable series OF papers on The
Patriot Parliament Of 1862" contrib
uted by the late Thomas Davis, to the
Dublin Magazine fifty years ago, Sir
Charles says:
Lord Macaulay has written strik.
ing and persuasive but essentially
false account of James transactions in
Ireland. If that accomplished writer
has treated no subject which he has
not made bright and attractive, he has
scarcely treated one in which a sober
inquirer, following in his track, has
not discovered that he habituaily sacri-
feed truth to scenic effect or. in his his
tory at any rate, to the predeterinina-
tiOn to produce national epic whose
heroes are unchangeably in the right.
There is an eminent living his
torian with a speciality for misrepre-
setting Irish affairs. who has no more
idea of fairness or reciprocity than a
Mohawk; but many Irishmen prefer
the outspoken enmity of Mr.. Froude
TO the polished plauslbility and dis
ingenious CLOSES of Lord Macaulay."
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-11-21

own. There is another characteristic
letter extant written by Wagner and
dealing with this matter. Writing
from Lucerne be said:
My house is full of children, the
children of my wife; but besides there
blooms for me q splendid son. strong
and beautiful. whom l have dared To
call Seigfried Richard Wagner. Now
think what | must feel when this hap
piness has at last fallen To my share; /
am seventy-five years old.
RICHARD WAGNER
Truly wonderful arc the ways of men
of genius. Among prosaic men shoot
ing irons would be flying over the ap-
preparation Of one mans wife aid
children by another aau. Here von
Bulow sees his wife aad family taken,
smiles not only ,ahilosopAically. but al
most blesses his lost rousort ang; her
last lover. In fact ne did appear at
their wedding and gave them his bless
ing
The son whom Wagner named after
himself and orc of his oreras has been
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-11-21
EgyDt's Seynielg.

The most pernicious winds are the
samiels, or hot winds of Egypt. They
come from the deserts 10 the south
west and bring with them infinite
quantities of fine dust. which pene-
1ratcs even the minutest crevice. The
thermometer often rises to 125 during
human beings have been known to
perish from suffocation in the fiery
blast. It was one of these samiels that
destroyed the army of Sennacherib.
Alexander the Great nearly lost bis
whole force in another. and the army
Of Cam byses was utterly annihilated,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-11-21
WON BY WAGNER.
The Romantic History OF the
Great Composers Widow.
Her Queer Ancestry and Her Pickle Heart
"A Strange Story Which Reveals the
Eccentricities of Two Great
Masters of Music.
IcopYR1GHr. 1891

Here in this queer, quaint old tow.
of Bayreuth there has been lying at the
point of death a woman who. in her
way. has been not only the most clever
in her own country but for that mat
ter one of the most gifted in all Eu-
rope. whose career has been more re-
rarlzable than that of most heroineS
OF fiction Indeed the average heroine
of fiction would shine in very dull
WAY beside this woman who is now not
so many strides from the door of death.
The woman refer TO is Nine. Cosina
Wagner, the wife Of the great com
poser, the person who, though but "a
woman" had more masculinity in her
mental make up than most men, aYd
the one who so yol1ed the genius OF
her last husband TO solid business
methods that he succeeded when even
his immense talent alone would not
have given him that position which he
won in the musical world.
Moreover, this woman was, prior to
her marriage TO Wagner, the wife Of
Hans Won Bulow. the famous pianist
and kapellmeistcr to the king OF
Bavaria. Bulow also owed much Of
his success to the genius for affairs and
hard commercial sense Of this woman.
An odd character is or rather was
Frau Cosina Wagner. who now lies here
sorely broken, with her striking ca
reer behind her and her life near its
close. This old town which is Wagner
ian to its finger tips. if the expression
may be allowed is very proud of this
relict Of the man, who was its chief
citizen and genius, and many stories
you may hear of the ways Of the re-
markable woman from the lips of gos-
sipy fraus ard frauleins.
| saw this woman just before par
alysis attacked her in early April,
and but one impression corld be
gained. even after Short interview
with her, and that would be
that Wagner was right when he
said that she was the most intellec-
tual women in Germany. You
would also get the impression that
she is one of the homeliest
women to be found anywhere. Tall
she is divinely tail, as the poet puts it,
but by no means divinely fair-she
would stand at least an inch taller than
the last and greatest OF her husbands,
Wagner.
In her old age she'is spare and gaunt
of figure, and dresses in a way that ac-
centuates the effect of oddness, and for
that matter ugliness, that is taken by
superficial or cursory glances at her.
But these are but appendages. You
pass the dress, You pass the long
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-11-21
THREE BILLS.
Alarming Deductiocs Taken from New
York's Recent Statistics.

Alarming Deductions Taken from New
York's Recent Statistics.
Every persons character must be re-
vealed by the bills he contracts, not by
the bills he pays, for he does not al
ways personally contract the bills he
pays nor pay the bills he contracts. A
glance at any mans actual and per
sonal bills must surely reveal the sort
of man that he is.
Let us hope, says'th the Youths Com
panion, that this is not true of nations.
states or cities. If we were, as peo-
pie. to be judged by the comparison of
our drink and gambling bills with our
bills for schools and churches how
hopeless our national character must
appear.
1t is not probable that the city Of
New York is in this respect worse than
other American cities, but the figures
recently published recording the ex-
penditure of that city in the year 1892
for schools, amusements and drinks
are alarming as well as instructive.
The city's public school bill for the
year named, representing the larger
part of the expenditure for education,
was four million dollars. Its amuse-
rnent bill-the sum which it paid for
it's theaters, circuses and other public
shows-was seven million dollars. And
its drink bill was sixty million dollars!
It is needless to make any comment
upon these figures. The proportion
holds good, or nearly good, of the
whole country. What is wasted upon
drink and lost in speculation and other
forms of gambling would vastly more
than double the salaries of all the
teachers and preachers in the United