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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-04-13

w.ssrssros CiTy. April 1.-The divi-
dsnas authorized bY the compirolleT OF
the currency the other day to be declared
by the Tacoma NasiOnsl banks are very
un-atissac;oEy 10 that officiai. Consider
Ing she length OF time since they we're
taken charge of by receivers and The small
s.x;sieuas which 81. nov declared 1t would
.~s.a tnss either the securities are Of little
valus or that the interests os cepositors
are nos so well looked after as those OF
stoc holders
/. D. Woos ward has becn made cashier
II the First National hank os Cosfax.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-04-13
IN THE SENATE
fen-r Halls the Approach of the n ost
Led hY the Great CoIex.

WASHINGTON CIrY. April l2-Both sides
ot the chamber showed a very good at
tendance when the senate met today.
DURING the transaction OF the routine
Euormiag business kyss of North DAKOTA
introduced joint resolution proposing \
constitutional amendment relative 20 mar
r;age aad divorce. NhleA MAS referred 20
the committee on Judiciary
Tas ureen: deficiency bili sas taken up
anu was aAout 10 be put on igs lnsg pas
ssge. when the hour o. o'clock arrived
and the question went over, white the
tariff bill was laid before The senate.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-04-13

Ho0rfas. April f2-fSpecisi. T. Follow.
ing Is statement Of the lumber shipments
by water from 0ray's harbor during
March:
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-04-13
Tn. Sorsh.r. r.e,ae,s Ms..r.l L..a.

WAsHtssros Crrr. April l2.-Ths su-
prsrne court VAS engaged today In hearing
arguments in the case Of the Northern Pa
cihc Railroad Company w. the Patterson
county treasurer, from Montana. aud the
Clarke county auditor. from North Da-
ko,a. The question ss issue IL whether
the railroad company shall bs compelled
to pay iszss on lands within Its grant a.
eersslned since the grant was found To bs
mineral. and for which patents have not
yet been issued. The case is closely allied
10 tina, heard by the court yesterday con.
csrnins the right of the railroad 10 min
erals within its grant and not known to BE-
sucn at the time OF the granting.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-04-13
THE GREAT ATLANTIC s1OkM.


Srw Yosx. April I2-Ths storm has
ahased sornex hat. bat heavy sea Is run
ming outside. Incoming steamers report
terrific experienee., bat no further casual
les are noted. TIE Ward liner Vigilance.
from Hssana, lost her ssarbosrd fofecastIe
rail. The deck xss washed fore ani sfs
By the seas. The storm has gone out 10
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-01-26
Advice to English Maidens.

The fact is, my dear girls, you want
more liberty, less fashionable restraint,
more kitchen, less parlor, more leg exer-
else, less sofa, more pudding, less piano,
more frankness, less mock modesty,
more breakfast and less hustle.
Loose yourselves little, enjoy more
liberty, breathe the pure atmosphere of
freedom and become something as love
" and beautiful as the God of nature
designed. The buxom, bright eyed, rosy
checked, full bouncing lass, who can
darn stocking, mend trousers, make
her own frocks, command a regiment of
pots and kettles, feed lie pigs, chop
wood, milk cows, wrestle with the boys
and be lady withal in company, is just
the sort of girl for any working man to
marry.
But the spinning, hopping, lolllng
screwed up, wasp wasted, putty faced,
consumptive mortgaged, music murder
ing, novel devouring daughter of fashion
and idleness one so often sees walking
about is no more fit for matrimony than
pullet is to look after family of four
teen chickens. And as for the senseless
idiots who masquerade in high collars,
sucking the knobs of their canes and
simpering and ogling in their endeavors
to captivate the ''deah gurls," the idea
of them contemplating matrimony is
ludicrous and yet serious, for one can
not help but look forward with alarm to
the generation which would be called
into existence by the union of one of the
former with one of the latter specimens.
If the truth were or could be known,
it would doubtless be found that it is
people of this stamp who are responsible
to great degree for the often reiterated
assertion that Marriage Is Failure.
Cor London Figaro.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-01-26

nervous anguish and unreasoning terror of
a child that has been sent alone to bed aft
er hearing a ghost story, and that lower
berth with its silent, pitiful occupant was
as plain before me in the darkness as any
reality ever was.
Well, | got off at Trinidad, wondering
that my hair was not white was entire
ly too shaky to shave myself that morning,
according to my custom, and as sat in the
barber shop awaiting my turr-I read in the
morning paper this account:
COLORADO SPRINGS, Aug 25.-Young D
NJ, clerk at the - hotel, suicided at about
IL o'clock p. m. He came out here about n
year ago. being separated from his wife, to
whom he was passionately attached The
separation was supposedly occasioned by his
having lost or wasted her entire fortune. And
he made every effort while here to recoup him
self, in which he had been very successful.
Last night, after he had bought his ticket
home and even engaged his Pullman BERTH
hoping, with means to make good her losses,
to effect an entire reconciliation, the news
reached town of the utter collapse of the Sill
yer Star Mining company, which had been
heretofore considered very prosperous con-
Germ, and in which everything M had on
earth was invested. A letter also was found
in his pocket after the suicide from friend,
telling him as gently as possible that his w&e
was about to institute proceedings for divorce
with the evident desire of securing the free
dom to marry another man, and urging NJ
to realize upon any investments and come at
once. The friend assured NJ that if he were
there himself to prove to her his unchanged
affection for her and his wish and ability to
take care of her she might be at once turned
from her intention.
put the paper down, and for moment
it seemed clear to me that what travelled
with me the night before was the passion
ate, eager, despairing spirit which even the
desperate hand that freed it from its clay
tenement could not drive at once from the
earth that held all for which it cared, nor
from the pursuit in some fashion of that
journey which was to bring him to the re-
ward of long months of labor, struggle and
hope deferred
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-01-26
Thaokeray as u Snowman.

In Thackeray's case the justification OF
artificial names, If it be right to speak OF
justification, lies in this, that with all
the solid reality of the life portrayed we
are never allowed to lose sight of the
author and his art in portraiture. He is
ever at hand to underline the snobbery OF
laugh off the pathos. There is strong
strain of the satirist in him, and satire is
akin to allegory; there is even strain of
the caricaturist ready to emerge in the
midst of his noblest art.
He is especially fond of putting on the
airs and graces of the Snowman. His pref
ace to "Vanity Fair" is headed Before
the Curtain" and this great novel of real
life concludes with Come, children, let us
shut up the box and the puppets, for oul
play is played out" And we accept Thack
eray's showman's humor. -Blackwood's
Magazine.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-01-26
A Mothers Kindness.

At the convention of school superin-
tendents in Brooklyn Miss Harrison, of
Chicago, told touching story of the
way in which women help each other
how one who comes to a mothers
class" brings her neighbor next time
and shows such an eagerness for others
to share in the benefits she receives.
She spoke of one woman whose two chill
dren were in what is called the citizens
class, in which tuition fee of ten cents
a week for each pupil is charged. One
week this woman brought third child,
the little daughter of a neighbor, she
explained, for whose ten cents she would
be responsible. After week or two of
prompt payments she came one morn
ing saying she had only fifteen cents of
the thirty needed, but would make it
up, she hoped, before the week was out.
"Annie's mother has died." she said
simply, land I've taken her to bring up
along with my own"
"Fancy," said Miss Harrison, "a wom-
an to whom deficit of fifteen cents
meant weeks pinching not hesitating
before the care and maintenance of an
other child along with her own felt
as if | could bend down and kiss the
hem of that woman's garment. Her
Point of View in New York Times.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-01-26
How Tropical Fruits Are Protected.

1t may have struck you that most trop-
ical fruits have thick or hard or nauseous
rinds, which need to be torn off before the
monkeys or birds for whose use they are
intended can get at them and eat them.
Our northern Strawberries, raspberries, cur
rants and whortleberries, developed with
single eye to the pretty robins and finches
of temperate elimes, can be popped into
the mouth whole and eaten as they stand;
they are meant for small birds to devour,
and to disperse the tiny undigested, nutlike
seeds in return for the bride of the soft
pulp that surrounds them. But it is quite
otherwise with oranges, shaddocks, ban
anas, plantains, mangoes and pineapples;
those great tropical fruits can only be eaten
properly with knife and fork, after strip.
ping off the hard and often acrid rind that
guards and preserves them.
They lay themselves out for dispersion
by monkeys, toucans and other relatively
large and powerful fruit eaters; and the
rind is put there as a barrier against small
thieves who would rob the sweet pulp, but
be absolutely incapable of carrying away
and dispensing the large and richly stored
seeds it covers.-Cornhill Magazine
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-01-26
Sensible Points About Tips.

The greatest abuse of the tipping sys-
TEN in New York is in the fees to JAM
tors and other servants connected with
apartment houses. 1t has become Gus
tom almost too strong to ignore in some
apartment houses to pay the janitor, bell
boy elevator boy, ETC., certain amounts
every month or fortnight-this without
any regard to whether the servant has
rendered any particular service or not.
The result of this indiscriminate tipping
is quite natural-you get no particular
service.
Not Il few tenants of apartment houses
have had an experience with ianitors
which makes blackmail preferable to the
risk of the repetition of these expert
ences. AS in the case of walters, there
are a good many annoyances to which
tenants may be subjected which cannot
be cured with club and which do not
even form a substantial basis Of COM
plant. And they are not less aggravat-
ing because you can't get away from
them or resent them. But to simply pay
man indiscriminately just because he
10 UIlcI6 10 IL pan WHICH releases MIN from
any obligation whatsoever.
| make it rule and can recommend
it after some experience to pay with
reasonable hberality for any special
service-that is, any service above and
outside of that which the man is en-
ployed to render to every tenant in COM
mon. And l never tip such men on gen.
eral principles-that is, Unfortunately
If an understanding to that effect is es-
tablished at once upon going into new
flat, you will avoid all the ills to which
others are subjected and have at call
those who are not only ready and will
ing, but eager to serve you. Begin at
once to compensate literally every per-
son about the place who renders you
special services and pay nobody else a
cent. Follow this rule, and you will in
variably get excellent service and plenty
of attention. This rule will work equally
well with the waiter if you are regular
customer.-New York Herald.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-01-26
A SLEEPING CAR sPooK.
The Mystery of the Lower Berth ana
Strange Suicide.

A commercial traveller tells the following
incident of railroad travel in Colorado:
Loot on a train at Denver for an all night
ride, having neglected to secure lower
berth, though very much dislike to oecu-
by an upper one. The porter SAID tha1 all
fine lower berths were engaged. The one
below mine had been secured by telegraph
for gentleman who was clerk at one OIL
the hotels in Colorado Springs and who
would get on there. had not lald more
than an hour listening to the CHATTER OF the
wheels over the rails when | began to real
ke that a strange feeling of uneasiness was
growing upon me about the berth below.
knew had dozed and was not sure
whether we had passed Colorado Springs
or not. Suddenly started, broad awake,
with the conviction that somebody was IN
the lower berth. Somehow | had not the
courage to look over the side, but rang for
the porter and asked him when he came
whether we had passed Colorado Springs,
and if so if the gentleman who had secured
the lower berth had got on there ana taken
possession of it.
/ s'No, sah," said the porter cheertully,
yves past Colorado Springs, an he neVan
got on. kin meek it up fob yo' noW' Ell
v lax"
He put back the curtains as though to
carry out his offer, and | knew, with u SUD
den shock, as though saw it, what 1t was
in that lower berth, and why feared IT,
No" | said hastily and incoherently,
don't disturb-don't make it up-l don
want it now"
Gaining little physical control by the
light, the porters presence ana evident
calmness and unconcern, | leaned down
over the edge and looked Yes, there it lay,
lust as 1 knew it would, a dark, huddled
shape, in the middle of the berth, with
something bright beside it, which took al
first in my agitation and horror to be
knife, but saw afterward was the shining
barrel of pistol.
Iwould have yelled out, but my throat
closed. l thrust out my hand and caught
the porter's shoulder, and the moment
grasped it, with my eyes still riveted upon
the berth where the motionless figure LAY
there was nothing there, absolutely not
ing, but the bare mattress, with its
and white striped ticking and the da.-
window curtain beyond.
| glanced at the porter. He smiled-not
Extensively, but discreetly-and assured
me that if l would like a glass of some
thing he would get it for me from the buff
fet. l drew back and lay down, declining
his offer
Sleep never came to my eyelids again
that night. Until the porter called me at
Trinidad 1 lay there and suffered all the
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-01-26
MoOnshininC In Jail.

An illicit still in full operation was re-
gently captured in the cell of Charles Well
born in the penitentiary at Birmingham,
Ala. The still was hidden under a table
and was improvised from bucket in which
were piece of curled gaspipe as a worm,
three tin boxes as fermenters and spit
toon as a furnace. Molasses, apples and
the like, furnished the prisoners as food,
were used as material for making the rum.
The still had a daily capacity of one gal
lon. The Jail has been full of moonshin-
ers, and from these Wellborn learned to
make the whisky. Wellborn's record reads
like romance. Two years ago he had an
Office here. Big consignments of goods
were shipped to him, for which he never
paid. After his arrest for fraudulent use
of the mails he forged bond and escaped,
going to New York, where he stole a yacht
and sailed for Florida. There he robbed a
railroad ticket office and was sent to the
peniteDtiary. He turned up next in Texas,
where he swindled people out of several
thousand acres of land. He was arrested
in New Orleans several months ago and
brought back to the Jail at Birmingham.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-01-26

ing instigated Bergmann's crime, but she
escaped the consequences of completely in
that affair and lived in retirement until the
recent labor disturbances in New York city
gave her an opportunity to flame forth as
an apostle of anarchy. She travelled about
from one meeting of the unemployed to an
other, carrying confusion and disturbance
wherever she went. melting the mob to vio-
lence, arson and bloodshed and breathing
defiance of the police, the press and the es-
tabliShed system of government.
An idea of Miss Goldman's sentiments
may be obtained from the following QUOTA
tion from one of her speeches at Union
square mass meeting as reported by Il
New York newspaper:
Unite and go from street to street. Go
among the capitalists and rich people and
ask for bread, and if they do not give it to
you peaceably then take it by force. Do
as the north did against the soulful You
will fluid your John Brown and your Wen
dell Phillips as the north did.
IF you do not get bread and freedom
peaceably, take it by force. AS long as you
are slaves, with nothing to eat; as long as
you are dragged down, you cannot be hui
man beings respected by any nation. Unite
with others. Go out in the street and fight
for your bread, and take it if they will not
give it to you"
Continuing in German, Miss Goldman
said: "Do not be afraid of the clubs of the
police. The advice the anarchists have
given you is good. What they told you a
few years ago would happen is now taking
place. Do not be afraid of such creatures
as the Pinkertons, the police and the re-
porters. They are all blood suckers.
you have as much right to arm your
self as the police You have as much right
to use arms as the police, and we know
where to get the weapons, and you know!
And what will the fat policemen do them
Long live anarchy!
"Hurrah for Tevolution!"
Miss Goldman is Russian Hebrew and
is about 81 years old. She is short and
stout, with regular features, short blond
hair and dark eyes. Her personality is not
particularly striking, but she is a vigorous
and venomous speaker and attracts atten-
ton, if not respect, wherever she is heard
She has been in this country eight years.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-01-26
A noothiaok,s odd sirn.

The United States once claimed the
Learned Blacksmith" but it, has re.
manned for Liverpool, England, to come
forward in these latter days with a
Learned Shoeblack," who displays the
following as sign as well as proof of his
erudition:
Pedal teguments artisticauy illuminat-
ed in ebon hues and fabricated in a work
manlike manner for the infinitesimal re-
Enumeration of two pence Anticipated
teguments pedal or superpedaD expur
gated judiciously and resuscitated with
exceeding expedition for nominal COM
pensation. OF the innumerable foretastes
Of heaven and of paradise, which every
patron Is permitted to partake, would
simply and briefly remark that from the
eventuation of the operation to its ulti-
mate Successful completion, the patron
regimes superintendent ON cushions which
\ sybarite might envy. In this superla-
lively luxurious attitude my customers
will find that the horizontal and the per,
pendicnlar are gracefully blended.
Louis Republic.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-01-26

As usual, paid my obligatory yearly
,isit TO Oueen Margherita. Lady read
ers must not fancy that this visit Is sur
rounded with all the troubles and bother
,rbich are usual for presentation TO
Oreen Victoria. In the first place,
had TO write and request an audience
fror, the Maychese di Nillamarine. who
has been the queens chief lady in wait
inc and friend during the last twenty
wears. After a few days | received
reply stating that her majesty would be
pleased to receive me the following
/ Tuesday at l: 80 p. M; so accordingly
on the appointed day and hour was
ready, dressed in my best bib and tucker
! taking advantage of court mourning 10
wear pretty black silk dress trimmed
with let embroidery, and bonnet TO
matchI, and arrived at the Quirinal
about / 80 D. M The master of the GER
emonies announced my name, when 1
made profound reverence at the open
door, another in the middle of the room,
and another when kissed her majestys
! hand.
To me she said, "Ah, you have put on
spectacles." Isl, Maesta. am so short
sighted that have been obliged to do
So" And | ALSO" replied the queen,
sto the displeasure of my husband, who
has a great dislike to spectacles, so
cannot wear them when he is present:
and used to be extremely longsighted,
like my mother; but the longest sight of
us all is my son, who recognizes people
an immense distance off, a thing which
makes me very uneasy, thinking per-
haps his sight will fail him as mine has
done" and thus chatting on one subject
or another my visit passed off, lasting
about half an hour, the queen talking
volubly all the time. When she has had
enough of you she rises, gives you hel
hand to kiss and you retire in the same
order in which you entered herpresence.
Modern Society
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-01-26
The Order Pleased the Conk.

The following story is told on mis-
sionary of the China inland mission, a
bachelor keeping house for himself in the
southern part of China: One morning,
in ordering his dinner, he wished to tell
his cook to buy him chicken. Instead
of saying ''ye' for chicken he aspirated
the word, saying, "Buy me che "
His cook thought that was an eminently
proper command and went about his
marketing in high good humor. At noon
the missionary found no chicken cooked
in fact, no dinner at all, for his cook had
not returned. About dark the man
came back, saying: This was not a
good day for buying wives, and I have
been all day looking for one, but at last
found one for you. She is rather old and
not pretty, but you can have her cheap.
Ihave promised $40 for er."-New Yorl<
Independent.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-01-26
Club Rule In New York.

l was somewhat shocked last week
while sitting in the Knickerbocker club,
where was busily engaged in alternate
ly gazing on those tiresome wall paper
bouquets and garlands and in keeping
up desultory conversation with the
only two men of my acquaintance left
in town, to see man whom we all
knew nod to us as he passed the club
window, although accompanied by his
wife. This is certainly very bad form.
A man should show more Difference to
his wife than to any other woman. Of
course he knew better than to bow.
One is supposed never to recognize a
woman acquaintance from a club win.
dow. Otherwise we approved of him.
Vopue.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-01-26
Changed Her Mind.

A poor Hebrew woman, with sick
child, and herself nearly i'll, received
through her physician some much needed
clothing and comforts.
"Who sent these2" she asked
Some women who learned of your suf.
fering," was the answer.
"Some Hebrew women" she asserted
not questioned.
NO" said the doctor; ''they are Chris
tian women"
"Ah," she replied quickly, II did NOT
know they could be so kind" Then, after
a pause, during which she was evidently
trying to readjust some mental condition
she added, II have always thought them
bad; | must pray to be forgiven. Her
Point of View in New York Times.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-01-26

Men overfastidious in their choice of
tea have been victims of their too vivid
imaginations. One man objected to a
brand of tea purchased by his wife, pro-
nouncing it weeds" and accordingly
selected choice kind. His next cup of
tea was pronounced perfect. The color
was good, and That's cup of tea for
you" was said with emphasis as he drank
the second cup made from the weeds
his wife had bought.-Good Housekeep-
ing.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-01-26

There are some points which are valu-
able in horses of every description. The
head should be proportionately large and
well set on, the lower jawbones should be
sufficiently far apart to enable the head to
form an angle with the neck, which gives
it free motion and graceful carriage, and
prevents it bearing too heavily on the
hand. The eye should be large, little
prominent, and the eyelids fine and thin
The ear should be small and erect and
quick in motion. The lop ear indicates
dullness and stubbornness when too far
back there is a disposition to mischief, -
Rider and Driver