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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-04

EN0hAUH IAIiIra.
Success 10 the peerless city OF Seattle In
the construction Of the Lake Washington
ship canal and the filling In Of the tide
fats II Is an enterprise fraught with
great possibilities for that city, and marks
the dawn OF a new era OF prosperity for
its intelligent and enterprising people.
Every city having any commercial preten-
sions should have either a consolidated
ARMY ncsf or a fresh water shin canal
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-04

Henry Hewitt. of Tacoma, says there is
more standing timber in Western Wash
ington than there was in Michigan, Wis
consin and Minnesota before the mills
went into those states. Mr.. Hewitt has
been cruising timber for a quarter of a
century and ought to be a pretty good
nd
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-04
A GUARANTEE.

The post-Inteiiigenccr hereby guaran-
tees its advertisers a bona fide paid CIR
cnlatlon, Daily. Weekly and Sunday. con-
bic that OF any other newspaper pun
J,zhed I'm the State Of Washington Ad-
yertis.ng contracts viii be made subject
20 this guarantee.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-04

The people need have no fears that the
rbett-Fitzsimmons fight will not come
off. If not with fists 1t will be with
months
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-04

The New York Tribune remarks that
when ex-Congressman Bland says, "All is
chaos and disorder it is certain he has
spoken his mind.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-04
THE STATE PRESS.

Vancouver Independent: With this issue
the Independent closes its twentieth year.
Few papers. especially in this Western
country, have arrived at their twenty
first year with as few changes as have
been experienced by the Independent.
Snohomish Independent: The editor of
this paper feels that he is entitled to rest
and recreation, and ere this issue reaches
its readers, he will be in the wilds OF the
Cascades fishing, shooting and other
wise enjoying the grandeur Of nature S
wonderland.
walla Walla Statesman: II IL TO be
hoped that woman, in her attempts TO
gain a higher sphere and to become indie
pendent and self-reliant, will not cease to
be feminine. A mannish woman seldom
has the respect. of men nor OF her own
sex When woman ceases TO be woman
ly she loses her charms.
Cowlitz Advocate: When the era of a
cheap bicycle comes. as predicted by
many, 1t will be well If it continues TO be
made good. A bicycle of poor material
will be about the poorest piece Of prop
erty a rider can invest in. as IL Is made so
light that every piece in it must OF neces-
sity be marked for excellence.
whatcom Reveille: w. J. Mallory cuts
the enclosed from Reynolds dondon)
News, of which he is a subscriber. and
which indicates that the Britishers use a
little silver on the sly Of the kind suggest
ed by Congressman Doolittle. The News
SAYS: yielding 20 the long-expressed de-
sire OF merchants and bankers in the
Strait settlement and Hongkong. the Brit
ish government will issue a special silver
dollar for use in Eastern possessions. The
diverse viii hear representation or
Britannia standing erect with her trident
ard shield instead 81 sitting on the latter
object in an uneasy posture seen on bronze
coinage. Above the figure are the words.
one Dollar ana below the date. $3.50
Tire reverse bears the denomination n
chinese ard Malay characters. It's stand
ara weight. as grains. and fineness 300"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-04

If the new industry in Oregon proves a
success the American sailor will get salt
horse that actually is salt horse.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-04

They say that natural gas in the middle
Western states has given out. They won't
think so after the Ohio campaign is well
under way.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-04

Speaking of deadlocks, that in the For
ty-third senatorial district, in Iowa, was
broken on the I.l5Sd ballot.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-04

Accessions to the ranks Of free silver
are becoming as numerous as Spanish
victories in Cuba.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-04
TO READERS GOING OUT OF TOWN

Readers OF the Post-fntelilgencer going
out OF town can have the paper mailed 10
them for 81 per month. and the address
changed as often as desired.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-04

They haven't been able 10 find out how
Attorney General Harmon stands on the
trust question.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-04

Spain has about. come 10 the conclusion
that the Cuban revolution is no insignin-
cant AFFAIR
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16

The unrelability of even the most
convincing circumstantial evidence was
illustrated in peculiar way by an in-
cident the other day, the report of which
comes to us from one of our public
schools.
1t appears that teacher in the schools
laid nickel in open view on her desk in
order to keep it in mind for some pur-
pose she had. Just after dismissal of
the school, girl pupil from another
room came in, apparently without any
special object except TO make the ac-
quaintance of the teacher.
After Il few words had been exchanged
the pupil exclaimed: "Oh, what
bright five cent piece" and made several
comments apparently intended to coax
the teacher to bestow it upon her.
Shortly after that, the teachers attention
was called TO some duty and when she
returned TO her desk the girl was gone,
and SO was the five-cent piece.
The loss Of the coin was not mentioned
by the teacher to anyone, but next day,
the young girl came into the room again
without being spokea 20 on the subject
and Indignantly denied that she had
taken the money. The result of this
was to make the teacher confident TINT
the child was guilty of the theft. aud
she accordingly adinonished her gently
and dismissed the mltter.
Litter in the day brother of the sus-
pec,ed child appeared. aud said that his
sister had told him that she had earned
the five cents by doing an errand, and
she felt very bad that she had been
accused Of the theft. She couldn't tell
who 1t was that hirei her. however.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16
GEoRaE l.. KIImER,

1t is said that spelling correctly is
a lost art in the city schools, where
SO much time is given to fall fcsti-
walls, Thanksgiving fotes, Christmas
entertainments, Washington birth
day celebrations, spring festivals,
May day and Decoration, day rites.
The children are kept SO busy learn
ing poems and songs for these occa-
sions and the teachers arc SO busy
hunting up proper material that
somehow there is but little time for
teaching such an ordinary study as
spelling That is the reason high
school boy spelled agency "agcshun-
cy" recently. Another high school
boy, asked to define and illustrate
"antedatcs, said: "Antcdates
means going before. The policeman
antedatcs the procession
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16

and her brother told her that no one had
accused her till she accused herself by
her denial, and advised her not to say
anything more about it.
The evidence against the child was
quite complete. She was the last one
seen with the coin. She had arrived at
her home with five-cent piece. She
had denied taking it when no accu-
sation had been made, and had told a
story to account for 1T, which even her
relatives admitted to be improbable.
However, the outcome OF it all was
that another child later owned up to
taking the money and spending it for
candy, and the suspect had, it
appeared, earned her nickel as she
claimed. In repentance for her hasty
suspicious, the teacher made the child a
pretty gift. What happened to the
guilty one we do not know, but her ac-
knowledgment relieved the first child
from very disagreeable situation.
We recall nothing 10 better demon
strate the queer freaks Of circumstances
and how fine fabric of injustice can be
built from such circumstances, than
this trivial little instance. The wrong
done The child and the hurt to her nature
must have been considerable, and she
was helpless to prove her innocence ex-
cept on the principle of the lawyer who,
when faced with two witnesses to the
assault committed by his client, retorted
that he, could produce "twenty witness
es who didn't see his client do it," 1t is
amazing how perfect chain ofevidence
can be wrought from an association Of
circumstances, and how quickly the
chain falls to pieces when one weak point
is discovered to dissolve the association.
Circumstantial evidence may be as
strong as any evidence. In many Of the
greater crimes it is frequently the chief,
IL not the only evidence available, for
such crimes are usually committed un-
der conditions that preclude eye wit
nesses. And yet circumstances may be
twisted. and with seeming fairness, to
point in many directions, and to have
meanings that are diametrically opposed
one to the other.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16
FAIlURES IN RHODE ISLAND.

Bradstreers agency furnishes for 1894
a booklet entitled " A Record - Not a
Prospectus" in which the story Is told
of the failures in the United States and
Canada for the year. and comparisons
with previous years, the whole classified
in variety of tables designed to place
at convenient command side lights on
much valuable information.
The local agency has contributed TO
this information the figures for Rhode
Island. These show for 1894 n total Of
164 failures with assets of $472, 150 and
liabilities of $1,000, 800. F,llowing is
this informing table, the column headed
causes" being Of peculiar interest:
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16

l6Cteu Dy tu6 III NhNHnAI DAniNN'
fantry panic, he halted the line in front
Of them and for more than two hours
held the ranks steadfast under double
cross and direct fire from the enemy's
guns and rifles In this terrible struggle
the Confederates exhausted their ammu-
milton first, and unable to return the
Union fire began to steal away to search
for cartridges. But Finnegan's staff
officers, couriers and orderlies had
formed q mounted brigade to ply be-
tween tue ammunition train and the
field, bringing up supplies, and in or
der to hold the men where they were
young A. II. Colquitt, son and aid to
tho general commanding tho center.
rode along the front of his fathers
troops. swinging battlefiag and ap-
pealing to the men to stand His gal
lantry challenged the admiration of his
enemies. Barton's men also cmptied
their boxes, but retired to refill them
and went i'm again. Contemporary ao.
counts declared that the New York
brigade fought like tigers" Whom
the Cohfederates made the last rush to
give their bafflod foe the. coup dc grace,
the New Ycrkers parried the blow, Civ
tng their comrades time to withdraw.
The coloncls Of the three regiments fell,
and over 500 rank and file were killed
and wounded.
GEoRGE L. KIIMER.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16
FEAR AS A CAUSE OF DEATH.
The Imagination n Potent Factor In Ac-
quiring n Fatal Disease.

The Imagination n Potent Factor In Ac-
quiring n Fatal Disease.
"Of the whole number of persons
supposed to die of disease, said prom
inent physician tho other day. 4 should
say that at least 90 per cent are really
carried away by fear Were it not for
this element mortality would be far less
than 10 Is. "
In support of his statement he cited
various cases where the element of fear
had entered largely in as potent factor
to persuade people that their time had
come. 'Pfesentiments, prophecies, pro
monitions anu general nervousness all
: played their part. Some years ago four
criminals, condemned in Russia to die,
were taken 10 a house and shown sew.
eral beds, in which, they were told, q
number Of cholera patients had died.
In fact, the bods were new, never hnv-
ing been slept in. The criminals were
informed that they would be set at j. -
erty il they would undergo tho ord, |
Of sleeping several nights in the beds.
From the prisoners point of view it
was possible though desperate chance
Of escape They one ard all decided to
take the chances. At the end Of tho
time prescribed two were upinjuretl
and went free, but tho others developed
all the symptoms and died Of Asiatic
cholera.
Two physicians determined 10 take
advantage of tho improssionablc mird
Of female patient and prove theory
for the benefit of science. Tho lady hal
complained of an itching on her back.
She was told that blister would be ap-
piled. Instead a common postage stamp
was applied, and, so runs the chronicle,
performed all the Offices Of the plaster
which was not there.
A college professor was once the sub.
ject of practical joke at the hands Of
the students They met him one afr
another, and each successfully inquire
after his health. saying that he look
Ill. He took 10 his bed, physician "
called. and for days the professor ims.
ined kc was i'll. New York World.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16

ty-seventh and
One Hundred and
Fifteenth N o W
Y or k, abreast,
charging the ene-
my's cent er.
General Barton
had been colonel
Of the Forty
eighth, q regi-
ment known as
Perry's Saints.
Finding the Tn
ion batteries af-
facfed nv the in
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16
WE pEMuR.

In looking over the current issue Of
our esteemed contemporary The War
Cry, we are panied TO observe that one of
its correspondents is inclined to be un-
Just with his brothers outside Salvation
newspaper work. 'Sad to say" remarks
this esteemed correspondent "the re-
portorial fraternity is known for its
Godlessness. And then the correspond
ent proceeds to describe how an old
sport was induced to step forward to
the penitent-form by reason of the in
6nence of the example Of reformed re-
porter-'doubtless he thought if God
could save a reporter, he could save
him." writes the correspondent.
We beg to demur from this view of
tho reportorial fraternity. Reporters
are much like other men in respect 10
Goodness and everything else. We
doubt if they are subject 70 any more
temptations than the run Of men in other
pursuits or that they fall from grace
any more frequently. We know lots of
reporters who are signally upright and
honorable fellows and who go to church
without being assigned there to report
the sermon or the "sociabIe." We don't
think our Salvation Army friend is either
fair or kind In this reflection on reporters
any more than we think he would be If
he laid IL down Ms general principle
that srocers. clothing clerks. dry goods
6olks or any other class are known for
( I&eis 0odlsssnssA
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16
THE BROOKLYN STRIKE.

We don't know whether the Brook
lyn trolley car strike is "off' or not,
officially, that is.
Practically, of course, the strike has
Teen "off" for some days. We under.
stand that Master Workman Connolly
be sure that you acquire the name.
for very shortly, now, he will be forgot
ten, If he is not already forgotten--is
calling to his men in District Assembly
No. 20 N "stapd firm" and all that sort
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16
HON. JAMES M. WRIGHT,
Senator from Poster.

James M. Wright, OF Foster, was born
in that town Jan. 2s, 1884, and was
educated in the public schools OF Scituate
and Foster. Has been she'll fish commits
sioner since 1879, chairman Republican
town committee since 1860 and member Of
Republican State Central Committee since
1875. Was messenger to carry the
electoral vote to Washington In 1880. Was
Representative in 1s62-63, 1s6s-69, and
Senator in 1s77-7S, 1Ss2-S3, and since May,
1894. Occupation, farmer. Politics, Re-
publican.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16

of ihing, the while the men are tumb-
ling over each other in the attempt 20
get back in their old places.
1t is pathetic spectacle, take it all in
all. Here are lot of men, conductors
and motormen, above the average of in
telligence, it may be assumed, who, at
the word OF an autocrat, CoNSELLY,
throw up their jobs and go on
strike. No sooner is this done than they
discover that lots of other men are will
ing to take their places at the wages
paid, and then they, or their sympathz-
ers, turn 10 clubbing these other men
with the purpose of making them, too,
throw up their jobs and join in the
strike or surrender to overwhelming
numbers and desert from honorable en-
ployment.
1t is a horrible slavery, this being a
member of a Knights of Labor body,
whose only law is that of the mast er
workman or an executive board who
are in receipt of sufficient salaries to
make it unnecessary for them TO keep
themselves employed in their trade. We
don't know what the trade of Master
Workman CoNNELLY Is, but we war
rant that his livelihood, or that of his
family, il he has one, does not depend
on his wages from running trolley car.
But he is an autocrat, more powerful
than any corporation. He can command
where corporations are helpless, and his
men are too willing to obey, until, per-
chance, the larder and the coal cellar
are empty, when they needs must re-
nounce their allegiance to the tyranny,
or, with their families, go hungry and
cold.
1t is pathetic spectacle, we say. We
don't know just what can be done about
it. The law of supply and demand must
rule wages just as it does the price of
coal or Of wheat. And it seems some
times that wages are never too
small, but that men can be found to
work for them. We are sure, however,
that the methods of the MARTIN IRONS,
and the MARTIN CoNNELLY's, and the
HUGH O'DoNNELL's. and the EUGENE V.
DEBs' are not the right methods to cor
rect the misfortune. They inevitably
lead to disaster to the men who give
allegience to the power of the master
workman and his kind. power that is
as wiliful as child's and as irresponsible
The trolley cars in Brooklyn are run
ming all right, the strikers are de-
feated. Whatever was just in
their cause was obliterated by the
reign Of terror which the strike in
spired. Corporations may be cruel
organizations, but Knights of Labor
tyranny inevitably works the greater
disaster.
1t is an old lesson, but it seems never
to be learned. that a strike and riot
are not the successful methods to adopt
to settle grievances between labor and
capital. If the laboring man, the wage
Garner, is class down-trodden and OPP
pressed, there must be some way of Sc
curing release. This is a great, big, free
country. Its people will not suffer op-
preston to any number Of them and a
real wrong is bound, sooner or later, to
be righted. But the strike principle
has been too often demonstrated, in
practice, to be the wrong way TO right
things. And corporations are beneficent
institutions by contrast with master
workmen.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16

WE are not surprised that Sockless
JERRY SIMPSON, of Kansas, is opposed
to an increase in the navy, but to learn
that Hon. WILLIAM EVERETT, of New
England, is with him in the opposition is
discouraging, though somewhat salts
tying experience with mugwumpery re-
minds us that it has frequently brought
New England's intelligence and bucolic
craftsmanship into close affiliation.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16
Full Associated Press Dispatches
HIGH WATER MARK
SPECULATION, p, 200.
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY l6, 1895.

The appropriation of $500 for the
State commission on inland fisheries is
eminently a good one. This commits
sion does a vast amount of valu able
work. It's members receive no pay for
their services. They are an enthusiastic
and honorable company of men. What
they ask for will be put to good use and
Be, unsclfishly. for the States interests.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16

DowS in Dover, Del, they take the
children over 10 the State House of an
afternoon to see the Legislature give
matinee exhibition of balloting for
United States Senator. Seats may be
secured three weeks in advance.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16

The committee on finance has done
good thing in deciding upon public
hearing in the matter of the appropria-
ton of $40, 200 for a new dormitory at
the State Agricultural School. We
doubt if the opposition will be as strong
- 1t ought to be, but the hearing may
result in putting the committee itself in
Opposition.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16

AFTER being reported sunk four or
1--WE times and destroyed two or three
times, the interesting news service from
th6 far East compfacently informs a
much muddled world that the Chen
Yuen is the only effective Chinese war
ship left.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16
MORE power to Mayor STRoNG's
Power of Removal bill.

CHINA, in her last despair, has recalled
Ii HUNG CHANG TO honors and duties.
In her treatment of this eminent person
ago the Hermit Empire went farther
and Jared worse.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16

On, the thrill, as down the hill, we
take our morning skate. Now, amt it
fine, the new car line they call the
counterweight.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16

Edward Thayer, of Pawtucket, was born
in the town of Pawtucket, March 22, 1s43,
and was educated in the high school OF
that town. In the Civil War he served as
4th Corporal of Co. II, 9th r. ]. Vols, in
1862. Was member of the town council
three years, and a delegate to the National
Republican Convention In 1892. Has
served as Lieutenant Of Cavalry, r. 1. NJ,
and as Major of I'd Regt. r.. 1. M, also
commanded the Tower Light Battery.
Occupation, manufactures. Politics, Re-
publican.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16

The Mashapaug casualty indicates
that boiler inspection, as she is practised,
consists in finding out the condition of
the boiler after it has happened.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16

IT looks little as If the State House
condemnation commissioners, with their
little bill, were the General Assembly's
bogey man.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16

IT is rather pleasant news that comes
from Hawaii this time. to the effect that
the President of the republic is opposed
to executing the captured rebels.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16

THE extraordinary grand jury on the
New York police cases adjourns for a
season without having done anything
extraordinary.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16
Fought
Like
Tigers.

cHBukcihcuo Ctl WIG
war on the soil Of Florida. General
Truman Seymour landed about 1000
men at Jacksonville to bolster up q
loyal uprising with bayonets. General
Finnegan, the Confederate commander,
gathered forces to the number of $500
near Lake City to oppose the Union
march inland. The lines came to sword s
point about 3 p. IN. in an open pine for
est. Seymonr's artillery began rapid
fire to confuse the enemy. Then his
whole line Of three brigades advanced
wedgelike to the attack. A white regi-
ment in the lead broke on tasting the
enemy's steady fire. A colored regiment
ordered to replace it also broke. Then
the brigade of w. B. Barton moved up
at double quick, the Forty eighth, For
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-16
OMEN NO. q.

An Old proverb says that the chatter
ing of msgpie indicates that stranger !
will come