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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-01
Missouri Democrats For Free silver

Jefferson City. Mo-. April S-Thirty-hve
of the fifty-eight Democratic members or
the state house OF representatives met IN
caucus late last night and adopted
resolution favoring the free coinage of sill
yer at the ratio OF Is to l. The vote
stood: Ayes. %; nays, =; not voting, 4.
The caucus precIpitated discussion
which will probably result in holding a
state convention.
The Democratic central committee OF
Saline county has passed a resolution in
favor Of free and unlimited coinage of
silver and gold at the ratio of i6 TO l by
the United States, calling a convention Of
Democrats May q to express the senti-
ments of the party. and favoring state
convention for the purpose OF making a
public declaration as 10 the party policy
for the campaign OF 1896. and repudiating
the goIibug bonded debt policy OF Cleve-
lands administration.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-01
A Prominent Steamboat Man Dead.

Tacoma. April 0-Special.-Capt. ]. II.
O'Hara. one of the best-known stea ufboa {
men on the Sound, who for several years
has conducted the Puget Sound Steam
boat Co.'S agency at the wharf, died sud-
denly at 10 o'clock this evening Of heart
disease al the office. Gus Oslund was with
him at the time. O'Hara was 80 years
old. He leaves two daughters. one of
whom is married and living in Texas.
The other, Patience. resides here The
deceased was a native OF Philadelphia.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-01

and said IL the council did make such
designation II had no right TO do So TIE
court held that Bcgss was not compelled
70 put the money in any particular bank
or banks. but could have acted differently
had he desired
The defense excepted 70 the ruling. ana
was allowed ten days 20 plead They were
also allowd ten days In which 70 cernor
10 the amended complaint
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-01
A LAND-LOCKED HARBOR.
Four Schooners Imprisoned in Siuslay

Four SchOOnefs Imprisoned in Sfuslaw
Bay by d New Bar.
San Francisco. April 80. - Four
schooners. thes Confiepza. Lizzie Prieu.
Mayflower and Joseph and Henry. are
bar-bouDd in Siuslaw harbor. with no
immediate prospect of getting out. The
schooners were loading lumber at Sius-
law. and while they were In the harbor a
heavy storm rolled up sandbar in front
of the harbor. completely cutting off all
chance of getting out. The bar is above
water at low tide. and the schooners will
have 10 remain where they are until the
spring freshets cut the bar away.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-01

Port TOYS ess-d. Apri3 &--Spec "a. 49, TIE
first instance "a tass country % AT In
dian pctttiontrg tire superior c0urt for
sac appointment - administrator o. an
estate VAS sodAy recorded IN ts1e superior
gaurE Prtnee - Wales. - Sew hay = p
p.5e.i 20 the oour; for permission &c az
minister ul,oa she estate 81 bis deces se.s
hgotacr. Charley York soa OF tie LATE
fbukc ~ YORK. head chief OF thn t'IaIiAns
trlhe ~ Indians The estate consists *
personal property valseG a. few hun-
Sret dollars
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-01

married % Miss Sarah Dav<on Davies az
ere home OF tbs brsda hers. The vel
ding was a quiet affair. only rear relz-
tiyes being pr~ssnt. The bride Is sss-
Ter % 7. A Davies. OF the Seattle Press
Times
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-01
Treasury Statement.

Washington City. April 30.-Today's
statement OF the condition of the treas
ury shows: Available cash balances. 1885,
40 SsS. gold reserve $9i. 2s9. le4.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-01

Czarina to BE Confined I'm September.
ST. Petersburg, April 30.-The czarina
e0rects n, be CON fined in Ssesri en- her. r,Nrf
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-01

George Jones. "A half-bres@d Indian. out.
ragged A venerable lady named Mrs. Clan
cey az Beaumont, Tex. Sunday A pcsss
came upon ham and shot him fun oi
holes
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-01

onarsa. H.. April eA-Thts afternoon
n RaarIsisy. uaaAgins editor % the
Bluehsmsua. y. Y, Evening Herald. ~aS
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-01

Juan Bradbury has sola the Los An
odore Lacy and o-rsrs-
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-01
PERSONAL.

Fur those who are run Gown ~
t.. much indoor life or by nFd
work. ard who would safely wsatA-
e. the coming month. the most Gan
serou< IN the wear. Pasne's Celery
Compound is the true tonic IL
s-renx.hens the nerves anu pafs-
ses the blood. Try It
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-05-30
CORRECT Exnreasion.

Subscriber asks if the following ex'
preston is correct: "Our modest task
Of supplying those indispensable super
fuities. The sentence relates to the
work of the flower mission. Answer
While the expression may not he cor
rect according to the strictest con-
Struction, it certainly is very pretty
way OF expressing the idea. Flowers
arc not absolutely indispensable,
neither are they superfuities to GER
tain classes of persons. Taken as a
whole, the sentence is quite acceptable
one. Notwithstanding its apparent In
consistency.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-05-30

that dallled with the whispering leaves,
flowers and wreaths were laid In pro-
fusion, commemorative OF the love the
living bore for the dead, sleeping so
peacefully below, Kind words had been
uttered by the good old preacher, whose
long, white hair swept about his head
as he lifted his face toward the blue,
cloud-feeced sky and asked God to
bless the loved ones who gave up life
for the cause Of right, and for all the
dead who had taken part In the great
struggle Of war, And when the flow
ers were laid upon two graves lying
close side by side, the tears gathered
In the gentle old mans eyes as he re-
called the pair Of handsome sons who
had gone from the quiet parsonage
years ago to dye with their hearts
blood the vernal sod of the sunny south.
And now all was over and done, and
the good people departed leaving be-
hind n few scattering ones walking
among the narrow paths of the quiet
churchyard, whose silence was broken
alone by the twittering Of birds anGSg
the rusting leaves. A man with wild,
unkempt hair struggling about his
bronzed, weather-beaten face, stood
upon the outside leaning with crossed
arms upon the white picket fence. His
clothes were ragged and dirt-stalned:
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-05-30
DECORATION Day.

Shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart,
eyes to the front, the men in blue
marched together thirty years ago. The
shoulders bore muskets; the hearts were
like those of lions in their bravery; the
eyes looked forward without fllnching
to the chance Of suffering and death.
And shoulder to shoulder, heart to
heart, eyes to the front, the men in blue
will march together May 30. The
shoulders will again bear muskets, but
their harmless muzzles will hold bou-
quets instead of bullets; the hearts,
still brave, will be filled with the ten
derness of weeping women rather than
the fury of fight; the eyes will look for
ward through film Of tears to the
graves where lie the men who fell In
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-05-30

In 1860, the incorporated banks of
the United States had a total capital
Of $3.50 100000, with population of
31,75O,OOO. In 1890 the capital of our
chartered banks, national and state,
was $S4O, 900, 900, while our population
was 62,6OO,OOO. In the former period the
banking capital was as 1887 to each
inhabitant; in 1890 the rate was $1S.42.
Within the thirty years, however, the
increase In business transactions was
in a very much higher ratio than that
Of population; quite probably two-fold.
From these facts, one of two conclu-
sions must follow-either ~ that the
growth of banking facilities has, dur
ing this period, been largely made
0uate to the requirements of trade; or
(2) that the banks, with given amount
of capital, are now able to transact
a much larger amount of business than
they did formerly.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-05-30
A SNAKE STORY.
Bho Had Seen Moro Snakes Than She
Could Count without Help

Bho Had Seen Moro Snakes Than She
Gould Count without Help.
"oh," exclaimed the miraculous
woman, II wouldn't go to Florida
again for anything"
"And why not?" inquired her caller.
ooh, it's just horrid down there.
Why, our party saw 500 snakes one
morning.
She had gone down there with an
excursion party for week.
mot five hundred live snakes" pro-
tested the caller.
"Yes, that's what they said. only
saw ten myself"
elbow many were in your party?"
"Fifty."
Possibly each one saw the same
ten snakes, ana the liar of the party
counted fifty times ten to make the
total"
The returned excursionist began to
look confused and silly.
~ wonder" she said sheepshly, ''if
that man was mean enough to impose
pm me that way? l believed him when
he told me, for he had been there be-
fore and hadn't"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-05-30
BLUE AND GRAY.
Their Only Rivalry Now Is in HOnOrIng
Dead HerOeA.

Memorial day preserves Its holy and
sacred associations because 1t mingles
into one, the highest, noblest and most
grateful, feelings Of which mind and
heart aud memory are capable. The
CLEAN OF joy Is seen through the mist
of tears. Flowers bloom and birds are
highest up in the air yet the funereal
dirge Is heard and the flowers are
placed on tombs and over mounds
where lie the dead sleeping deaths
reconcillng embrace. This rain upon the
river and sunshine on the hill are a
shlutary Iningling, For 1t Is good for us
to sorrow, and yet to sorrow with hope
chasing away our tears. We cannot for
get the past. What ingrates should we
be even II we could. Nor can we be
blind to the present To perceive 1t Is
our duty. The tear for the past Is In
the eye, the joy for the present lights
up the very tear with radiance born
of heaven, Memorial day Is to be OBJ
served by Americans in all time be-
cause II commentaries our dead. 1t
matters not now on which side they
fell. They sleep together; and when
summoned by the angel will awake to-
gether and be brothers for evermore.
A reverent silence prevails as we put on
every mound It's garland. Who asks
whether they wore the blue or the
gray2 We do not know, nor do we
want to know as we traverse the bat
tleflelds from whose verdant faces ma
ture has wiped the track and stain OF
bloody conflict. Some boy, precious to
woman, mother, wife, sweetheart, wait
ed and waited and waited. lie never
came. so she went to him. The south
and the north weep together Their
only rivalry Is that of loving duty to
the heroes gone. Let not word OF
faction disturb the solemn tasks OF
mutual grief on day which is day
Of God, Although the graves OF our
revolutionary soldiers, of those of 1872,
and OF Jacksons warriors at New Or
leans, may be difficult to discover, one
could wish they should all share the
honors Of the day. And many gallant
sailor boy is buried fathoms deep in
ocean caves, and on the lakes where
Perry swept to victory, and around the
coasts of our southern cline. But
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-05-30
HE HAD OTHER CIGARS.
Out the Car Driver Failed TO Connecr
with Them.

Out tho Car Driver Failed TO COnnecF
with Them.
4 very prosperous looking business
nan, boarded the front platform OF a
cross-town car and drawing from
his pocket, well-lllled cigar
case, selected choice looking
Havana. The driver sized up" the man
and the cigar case, and his mouth be-
gan to water. The smoker; after biting
off the end Of the cigar, began fumbling
for match. Failing to find one he
turned to the driver and asked him II
he had match.
Eyes, sir" responded the driver with
alacrlty; here you are, sir"
THANK you" said the business man,
lighting his cigar and sending the
fragrant smoke waiting across the driv-
er's face.
Every convenient to have matches
around, sir. alters make point OF
carryin' EN-"
"Indeed?"
Eyes; so many gentlemen pull out a
cigar and then find they amt got a
match"
Puff, puff, and silence.
II am quite smoker myself. Course
can't smoke on the car but then /
enjoy it all the more when l get
off,"
81 suppose So" said the smoker, alb
,ent-mindedly.
Many gentlemen makes a point of
giving me a cigar, especially when they
rides regular. amt had my after-din-
ner smoke yet"
"0h," said the businessman in a
preoccupled manner.
Eyes, sir; alters carry matches, as |
said before, cause when a gentleman
has cigar and no light, he allus seems
so thankful for it. Generally gives me
cigar, too. Seems kinder fair to ex-
change a cigar for match, for the
weed amt no good without light"
"Ah," said the smoker, evidently busy
in his mind with something connected
with business.
The driver looked despairingly at
him, and after clearing his throat,
said:
you don't happen to have another
cigar in your pocket, do you, sir?"
Certainly have-two or three" said
the business man testify. But what has
that to do with what you have been
talking about?"
The rest Of the journey was made
In silence.-New York Tribune.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-05-30
A Sharp panama scheme.

The natives of Colon and Panama
were lately discovered in fairly
sharp scheme to rob the steamship
company. The transfer Of bales and
packages of India rubber over the
Hsthmus is always large in volume
hfter the arrival of steamers from
Peru and Mexico. Then there are
constant arrivals from Columbia and
Nicaragua, as we'll as local receipts
from within few miles Of Colon.
EChese, piled on the docks, make
large aggregate and at favorable op.
Portunity a bale or two would be
dropped overheard, and as rubber
naturally will float, it was compare
lively an easy matter to pilot the
booty to point whence it could be
readily handled and disposed of by
fence" AS bale weighs from 100
to 200 pounds, the haul was good
one to the native. The loss could not
be discovered until after the steamer
reached New York, and it bothered
American detectives for months, until
the leak was finally located.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-05-30
WOMEN AND WATERLOO!
What One Woman Remembered of the
World Famous Battle.

What One Woman Remembered of the
World Famous Battle.
"In my early days l knew lady who
happened to be in Brussels that men,
orable June" says Mrs. Newton Cross
land. "She was then newly married,
and only 20 years Of age. So little GER
tain Of victory did the English on the
spot feel, that her husband insisted or
her dressing like a Normandy peasant,
thinking such a costume would be a
protection.
"Vividly have l heard her describe
the partings she witnessed at the door
of the hotel where she was staying, and
the despair of wives who were left be-
hind-wives soon to be widows.
very graphically, too, did she de-
scribe the next days events, when
women-many of whom, too agitated to
change their attire, were still elegantly
dressed-made their way somehow to
the field of battle, returning in the
army wagons, supporting the heads of
the wounded on their knees, bathing
their brows and binding up their
wounds, while a steady rain poured
down on the faces begrimmed by pow
der, which yet allowed their pallor to
be seen.
II once met at dinner party the
widow of an Officer-I forget the name
who fought at Waterloo, and the lady
narrated her experience Of the after
battle scene. For some reason she
had to cross the field of Waterloo,
which was still strewn with the dead,
and for this purpose she was blind
folded and placed on horseback, the
steed being led by a trooper.
"She held a handkerchief to her nose
STEPPED, l think she said, with vine
garland not until she had reached an
activity nearly mile from the scene
of carnage was the bandage removed
from her eyes. Then she looked back,
The field Of Waterloo appeared like a
field Of tombstones, for the bodies were
all stripped of clothing, and shone
white in the sunshine like stones. The
camp-following ghouls had done their
work effectually."
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-05-30

Mexico has cheap labor and bids fair
to become fashionable competitor in
cotton growing. Large quantities Of cot
ton seed from Louisiana have been
planted. Last year in some of the states
the cotton acreage was increased four
fold. In the low lands, where frost does
not come, the cotton plant becomes a
perennial shrub which bears every sea-
son. 1t Is believed that cotton can be
grown at profit in some parts Of
Mexico at two cents a pound. If this be
true, the southern planters who are de-
creasing their acreage IN order to get
higher prices may miss their aim. 1t
remains to be seen whether Mexican
cotton will be as good quality as that
grown in our southern states. 1t is the
poor quality Of tropical grown cotton
that has given the American product
its advantage over the cotton produced
in India.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-05-30
A Tax on the Dowrv.

Too many Englishmen marry Ameri-
caA brides for their money-so declares
portion of the American press,
enumerating their countrywomen
who have bestowed themselves and
their fortunes ON British aristocrats.
Over $40, 100000 sterling in cash have
lately found their way to England in
this fashion. The remedy suggested
is to levy tax of fifty per cent or
the dowry of an American girl marry
ing any foreign nobleman and sevep
ty-tive per cent if the bridegroom il
an Englishman.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-05-30

his shoes were battered, out at the toes,
down at the heels. He was a dilapidat-
ed specimen of humanity, a voyager
upon life's troubled stream, drifting
from point to point as purposeless as
a bubble upon the crest Of a wave. His
eyes were fixed intently upon one cor
lner of the churchyard where briars
and bushes covered in tangled masses
a few mounds. Forgotten again. Poor
old pard! They mean well, but they
don't finish the work" The words fell
from the lips of the strange man in
soft, low whispers From q pocket of
the ragged coat he drew bit of red
cloth and wiped away the tears that
rolled down the scanned face. He walked
around to the entrance and passed
through the little turnstile, No one no.
ticed the poor, ragged fellow who slow
ly wended his way along the narrow
pathways toward the tangled corner Of
the churchyard. When he reached the
spot he took off his hat and stood there
with bowed head gazing mournfully
before him. Then he reached out his
hand and pulled the briars and bushes
aside and bent forward
Just as l thought. Forgotten. They
didn't know you old pard. They didn't
know how brave you was in time of
war. There Is no flag to mark your
grave. They didn't know how proudly
you carried the stars and stripes above
you at Malvern Hill" The birds in the
bushes were not disturbed by the
strangers whispered tones. There was
something so quieting In the softened
tones that the little birds hoped about
among the brances so hear that his
trembling hands could have touched
them. The man gathered a bunch of
vlolets from the grass near the fence,
and then went back to the brambles
and pulled them aside.
Here's a pretty blossom, pard, for
the sake of Seven oaks; here's another
for Lookout Mountain, where you was
great; here's four or five for Malvern
Hill, where you was a hero nation
could be proud of; and here are all
the others for Antietam and other
places, where you moved with the front
line and never backed from your duty
And my tears are for your long days
and longer nights spent in the career
of a tramp who died pauper SOL
der"
The stranger turned away and walked
with bent head out of the graveyard.
He passed on down the village street,
looking neither to right nor left; and
when he reached the brow of the hill
beyond he turned toward the peaceful
town, waved his hand, whispered For
gotten, and then he disappeared. When
the struggling ones in the churchyard
drew near the paupers corner they Won
dered whose grave there had been
strewn with violets, and they wondered
who had placed them there; but the
little birds among the brambles knew,
and they kept the secret to them
selves.
To attack n man with onv uvea non Ia
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-05-30

The poorest girls in the world arc
those not taught to work. There are
thousands of them. Rich parents have
petted them and they have been taught
to despise labor and to depend upon
others for living, and are perfectly
helpless The most forlorn looking
women belong to this class. 1t is the
duty Of parents to protect daughters
from this deplorable condition. They
do them wrong If they neglect it.
Every daughter should be taught to
earn her own living, The rich as we'll
as the poor require this training. The
wheel of fortune rolls swiftly around;
the rich are likely to become poor and
the poor rich. Skill added to labor is
no disadvantage to the rich, and is in
dispensable to the poor. Well-to-do
parents must educate their daughters
to work. No reform is more imperative
than this.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-05-30
Smart Women Not Pretty.

1t was asserted the other day by a
literary man that all clever women, at
least women who have distinguished
themselves above the common herd Of
their sisters, were plain-fgured.
unattractive, if not positively
ugly. IT'S true, and pity It's
tits true, that almost all the great WON,
en- of letters-Mme. De Stael, Nine. Sand.
George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Mrs.
Browning, and Miss Austin-were plain
women.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-05-30

The use of the word gent" in place
OF gentleman" is not of such recent
origin as some may imagine. In a com
plant made by Thomas, sixth Lord
Clifford against his own son, Henry,
who afterwards became the Duke of
Cumberland, the following is found
Certain evil-disposed persons, young
gents, as well as Others" This must
have been written early in the sixteenth
century, because Thomas died in 1923.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-05-30

Milwaukee paupers are too lazy to
work. Only eight in the entire county
nave availed themselves of the oppor-
tunity to plant potatoes on the 400 acres
OF land which the citizens have turned
over to the Associated Charities for the
purpose. Although able-bodied men
at the almshouse have been lmportuned
to work potato patches they obstinately
refuse. They probably never did like
work, and that's why the pauper job
suits them so well.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-05-30

George Moore, the cuthor of ESTHER
waters" as he Is generally known over
mere, is coming to America within a
month II he looks anything like a
lately published portrait of himself we
should prefer not seeing him. But as
the portrait was done by one Of the
new artists who affect a style whose
chief idea seems to be trifing carica-
ture, we conclude that the title has
nothing in particular to do with 1t.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-05-30
Not the Ouestioa.

In case in which a man was ac,
eused of forgery a witness for the de-
tense managed to say: II know that
the prisoner cannot write his own
name" CAR that is excluded" said
the judge; "the prisoner is not
charged with writing his own name,
but that of some one elseW
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-05-30
A Paving Talent.

Mrs. Literati-My little son has the
most remarkable powers of imagina-
ton 1 ever knew in one so young. He
will surely be writer, and a successful
one. Western Guest-Successful? He
kin list roll in wealth. Quick es he's
old enough, you take him out west and
start him in real estate.