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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-03
Make Your
Arrangements
To Spend
These Two
Days With Us.
PROGRAMME
JULY 3.

II a. m.-Sports at Madison park, Lake
Washington Single scull race; double
cared scull race; four-oared handicap;
tub race: swimming race; walking
creased pole: log rolling contest.
ii a. m.-Yacht race, open TO all, over
Elliott Bay Yacht Club course.
p. m.-Sham battle by National Guard
companies from Seattle, Tacoma, Olym-
pia, Whatcom and the Seattle Seattle
Light artillery, on Squire tract, east Of
Pacific school
p. m.-Other sports at Lake Washing
ton at Madison park Indian war canoe
race; Indian double paddle canoe race;
klootchman canoe race
3 p. m.-Fireworks at Madison park Lake
Washington.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-25
A Curions Coincidence.

He boarded a Michigan avenue car at
GriswOld street, and at Cass ne suddenly
stood up and looked for the number above
the door, says the Detroit Free Press
Then he took a memorandum book from
his pocket looked over in a nervous man
ner and finally said in a loud voice: La
dies and gentlemen-AbOut six months ago
1 was on this very car going in this direc-
ton. ! looked on the floor and discovered
a quarter in crack. l took down the
number of the car, as you see. II is the
same, and l am now about TO look for a
quarter"
He bent over and began to peer around,
and it wasn't twenty seconds before he
made a sudden dive, thrust his fingers be-
tween the Stats of the door rack and
when he rose up he held a quarter in his
fingers. The grin on his face was long
and broad and beautiful to behold, as he
said:
That's what 1 call a curious coinci-
dence. Same car-same conductor-going
the same way-same man finds two quar-
ters on the floor. In brief ladies and gem
tlemen. there are about the same number
of passengers a. before, and you look
about as chagrined and Disguised, and /
am going to say au revoir at the same cor
ner"
And when he got off at Third street ev-
erybody looked after him and mentally
declared him a wretch who ought to be in
the tolls of the police.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-25
BRIGHT BITS.

-He-Now. darling, I shall go and ask
your father for you.
She-He won't give his consent.
He-How do you know?
She-Because four or five have tried it
before you.-Detroit Free Press.
Some Queer English.---I have before me
a letter from a Partisan friend, a gentle
man of some little note in his own coun-
try who informs me that he is learning
and a dictionary, without any other in
structor, and he adds: I'm small time |
can learn so many English as l think !
will TO come at the America and go on the
scaffold to lecture. Detroit Free Press.
Not Reassuring.-"Mr Stalate," said
the bashful young sister. Il asked sister
II she thought you would get up and go
home like the other young man did If l
recited 'Curfew Shall Not Ring To
night"
"And what did she say?"
She said there wouldn't be any harm in
trying Washington Star.
"A Pretty Mess.-Hames (the politician
Here's a pretty messi I've been invited
to prepare a speech on the financial ques-
tton for the residents of my district.
Tins-Wen, why don't you go ahead and
prepare it?
Hames-I can't. My private secretary
says he doesn't know anything about the
subject.-Philadelphi Press.
1t Looked That Way.-'Pinam's bill
came back to-day" said the bookkeeper.
What did he have to say?" asked the
merchant.
He didn't have anything to say. 1t was
his widow who did the saying. She writes:
Don't you think that in sending bill to
a man who has been buried three months
you are rather running it into the ground"
Indianapolis Journal
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-25
The Coppcr.. Lido Joke.

A great deal Of amusement was caused
on an eas--bOund electric car the other af-
ternoon By waggish policeman. who So
lected his wife for his victim says the
Louisville Courier Journal The policeman
had done duty al the ball park. and his
VIE had been 10 see the game. While the
crowd was leaving the woman stood about
the front Of the park and waited for her
nusband TO ride up town with him. He
finally arrived, and the pair boarded
crowded car. Both were young and only
recently married, and they enjoyed them
selves hugely on the way.
Inc woman wore a handsome little gold
watch; evidently a present from her hus-
band. While half the people in the car were
looking. and while his wife was speaking
70 woman acquaintance outside the car,
the policeman deftly took the watch from
his wife = pocket and transferred IL 10 his
pistol peck When the car reached Eigh-
teenth street the policeman remarked that
II was a rev minutes past s O'Clock. and
mans wife
or course she did what every one in the
car. expected she would. She felt for her
watch. It seemed as If a sudden violent
pain had attacked the woman's heart. Her
face became very pale and her eyes dilated.
Her hus band seemed greatly alarmed, and
asked her what the matter was. She look
ed over the crowd in the car like a fright
ened fawn- II was full minute before she
could speak. Then she whispered in her
husbands ear loud enough for the intense
~ interested spectators TO hear 4 have
been touched; some one has stolen my
NeAANli+ Alti fN Is began 10 grow 0lIlls anu
before the policeman could answer a big
tear rolled down her check and fell into her
lap.
Here is the watch; I was only joking
with you and the policeman felt back for
his pocket
Then a look of dismay overspread his
face, one pocket and then another, and IL
nally turned all his pockets wrong side
out. He worked rapidly toward the last
and perspired a good deal His wife looked
on in cpen-mOuthed establishment. So did
the other people in the car All had smiled
and looked out the windows of the car
when the woman first discovered that her
watch was gone. but when her husband
failed TO produce 1t, after having told her
that he had taken it, the people sat up
right and watched the hunt for the missing
ttmepiece with great interest.
Finally quiet-appearing young man.
who sat in the rear of the car, arose and
handed the watch TO the policemans wife.
4 just wanted 10 teach your husband a les
son, he said.
And the crowd of passengers gave vent
to a prolonged hearty laugh, and the pO-
liceman and his wife finally Joined in the
merriment, though they were a little slow
TO appreciate the joke
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-25
Harry Furniss and Pnncb.

Here is a story, though he did not tell it
himself, that went the rounds of the New
York clubs when Furniss visited the states
two years ago, says the Chicago News.
BE 1t known the American Journalists and
American faneurs read Punch al a pro4
duction absolutely devoid of humor and
inasmuch as 1t is paper written "bv gen,
tlemen," it probably fails to secure general
appreciation in journalistic America
though in certain circles it is as ponl1lsr
in the great republic as it is here Two
men were quarreling violently in a club
smoking room.
Il tell you saw man sitting here an
hour ago laughing over copy Of London
Punch"
"ImPossible!' replied his companion "r
don't believe there is a man in America
who could laugh over London Punch.
The discussion waXed furious and at last
bets were made on the subject. Suddenly
thought struck the second man
What was the fellow like you saw read
ing Punch?"
A little. sandy-bearded man. with
rather bald head and "a big mustache''
All replied his interlocutor, now 7
81 >, Why, that was Henry Furniss him
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-25
He Was Not John Henry from Var
mount.

I was going over to Hoboken the other
day, when one of the passengers on the
ferry boat begged a light from my cigar.
says a writer in the Detroit Free Press
He was the greenest and most innocent
looking men / ever saw, and his speech
seemed to give him away for a New Eng
land farmer. As he evidently wanted to
be friendly, l chatted with him for few
minutes and then asked:
Did you meet with any adventures
while stopping in New York ?"
NO, nuthin' to brag OF" he replied
Didn't lose your wallet?'
"NO-wallet's all right"
Didn't change no ten-dollar bills for
strangers"
Not a change"
And hope you didn't let a greengoods
man make you a victim"
The old man winked at me and chuckled
by way of reply.
Then you did fall in with some of the
profeSsion2" ! persisted.
Wall, rayther!' he quantity replied,
And you didn't lose your money?"
Not as / knows oni''
But did you beat the game?"
He winked and chuckled some more and
then putting his mouth to my ear he whis-
pered:
Don't give it away. but I'm no John
Henry from Yarmouth"
NO? Then, who are you?''
odd Greengoods himself: going over to
Hoboken to meet victim from Canada!i
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-25
Oratory from the Prisoners Box.

The proposed reform of putting prisoners
upon their oaths and letting them speak
Tor themselves recommends itself in many
ways to common sense, but has, neVerthe-
less, some serious disadvantages, says the
illustrated London News. a good deal of
latitude must be allowed to the members
of class wholly unaccustOmed to public
speaking, and whose ordinary language
is more familiar than polite. 1t would be
a disadvantage to them If their statements
were interfered with, and they were not
allowed to put their case in their own way.
A reporter on the Midland circuit has pre-
served for us a choice example of oratory
of this kind. The case was that of a man
charged with attempt to murder, before
Lord Wensleydale Zone of the graVest of
judges, who had permitted him, after the
prosecution closed to address the jury:
'My lord and gentlemen of the jury, you
see as how I'm what is called a peaceable
man. and was taking my drink quietly, as
man should do, when up comes this here
of your beer. No says /. you shantr
L WILL. says he Then says ], If you
touch this ere mug of beer I'll smash it
on your blessed head This here man did
take hold of my beer. and he got knock
on the head, but il We're his own fault, as
gentlemen, why should he ha' provoked
man quietly a-drinkn' his beer2 Now, my
lord Curing to the judge, I'm sure you
likes a drop of good beer. don't yer. my
lord? Well, then, my lord, If your lordship
had pot O. beer afore you at this moment
and that ere chap as is a-Sitting by the
side of YER Cunning to the high sheriff.
should say say he, II take a sup o. your
beer and you said to him, says you, If
you do touch this here beer, II punch your
blessed ribs" in course you would my
lord" (ROars of laughterD Now, my lord,
I've been called quarrelsOme man; that's
a downright falsity. for look here, it amt
I've been bound over twenty-three times
to keep the blessed peacew
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-25
Personal

Prof. Dyche, a naturalist of Kansas
University. who had a big collection in the
Worlds Fair and was a member of the i'll
fated Miranda expedition, sailed from
Gloucester for Greenland to collect spec
linens of mammala and birds and study
their habits. He also intends to visit the
Peary party.
Gen. Rafael de Quesada, the Cuban
revolutionary leader and the uncle of G.
NJ. Cespedes Y Quesada, is in New York.
He came from Caracas. Venezuela. Gen.
de Quesada took part in the Mexican war
against the empire of Macmillan as he
was governor of the palace under Presi-
dent JuaTez of Venezuela. He comes to
the United States to consult with his
nephew and the other leaders of the revo-
lutionary party regarding plans to send
expeditions TO Cuba.
Col. Higglnson saws that once when
he went into Houghton, Mifflin & Co s
office in Boston Oliver Wendell Holmes
darted up to him and mysteriously hold
ing out a small bundle tied in brown paper
exclaimed: What do you think l have
here7 1t is the most interesting book you
could find. If l could only have it illus
trated II would be worth more than any
other book In fi, Boston," Then
with a grin, he said, lit is Nat Thayer's
check-book-a book that was good for va
rious millions.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-25
a Convention of cuisines. Men.

The distinguishing feature Of the Mem.
phis sound money convention was that II
was composed almost wholly Of business
men. There were very few politicians in
il. There were more than six hundred
delegates. and they represented every
southern state except Virginia and North
Carolina. They were very much in ear
nest. because they understood that the
welfare and prosperity Of the south and Of
the whole country depends upon honest
money. A debased currency, such as the
silverites would force upon the country,
would bring on a panic that would put a
stop 70 all kinds of enterprises. wreck
business and set the country back twenty
years. There was time when the silver
ties pretended 10 believe that free silver
coinage by this country alone would keep
silver money on a parity with gold, but
they make no such pretense now. Mr..
Harvey. the man they acknowledge 10 be
their leader. admits that II we should
open our mints to the free coinage of sill
Yer we should have silver monometaIlism.
but he contends that eventually the two
metals would circulate on parity. though
he says nothing about the ruin that would
be wrought BY changing from a gold to a
silver standard. nor does he give an opin-
ion as TO whether silver would reach a
parity with gold in one ten or fifty years
The members Of the Memphis sound
money convention were representative
business men whose sole aim is to promote
the prosperity of the south and the whole
country, and the resolutions they adopted
states the situation just as 1t is. They are
resolutions that must command the ap-
prevail Of all thinking men, and which, we
believe, will have the approval of the
great majority of the southern people
They are the expression of men who have
no axes to grind. and but one purpose
in view and that purpose is the welfare
Of the entire country. 1t is impossible to
show that the resolutions do not embody
the truth. or that it is not for the interest
Of the country to adhere to the financial
policy stated in them.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-25
Chairman Carrier Mu.t 60.

It Is reported as one Of the results Of
ex-President Harrison's visit 10 New
York that the Hon. Thomas Henry Car
ter must resign the Craftsmanship OF the
national republican committee. Mr.. Car
fer Is now senator from Montana. and
he is a sllverite Of the most radical sort.
When Mr.. Harrison selected him as the
man 10 conduct the national Republican
campaign Ia 1892 he regarded him as a
man Of uncommon ability. He had heard
Of his success as book agent and light
ming rod peddler. and he was sure that he
possessed just the kind of talents that
were needed TO make a successful cam
paign manager. Mr. Carter. therefore.
was placed at the head Of the national .e-
publican committee. That he was a fail
ure Of the worst sort every active repub-
Iican knows. Even his chin whiskers. Of
which he has plentiful supply, and which
he is pleased 10 think make him look like
the picture Of Uncle Sam, did not com
mand the respect and admiration he cx-
pected.
But that Mr. Carter is smart there Is
no doubt. After he had helped TO lead the
Republican party to defeat he went to
Montana. where he became a bowling sill
verite. The silver craze assisted him to
the Office of United States senator, and
now he doesn't care much whether Mr.
Harrison or some other man gets the
republican nomination for President
The republican leaders have decided. it
is said, that Mr. Carter must go II he
remains at the head of the national re-
publican committee it will be about i'm.
possible to fry the fat" out of manufac-
turers and other rich business men, be-
cause they will have nothing to do with
a man who has such little business sense
as to favor the free coinage OF silver.
1t is probable that. as a matter of fact,
Mr.. Carter is not a silverite, but his con-
stituents demand free silver coinage ami
he is not the man TO risk losing popular
favor for the sake Of principle. An Of
fee. doubtless, has more attractions for
him than principles. Anyway, the presi-
Dental candidates and their friends are
firmly convinced that a republican could
not be elected in 1896 If Mr. Carter should
De the manager OF the campaign. Mr..
Carter may protest against being sum-
marily dismissed, but what good would a
protest do him?
Nobody knows, Of course. whether or
not ex-President Harrison is a candidate
for President, but the understanding APP
pears to be that he is, and that Gov Nor
ton of New York will have the second
place on the national republican ticket.
Ex-President Harrison acts as if he had
a grievance against somebody because he
was beaten in 1892 by Mr. Cleveland, but
whether he has or not there doesn't seem
to be any doubt that he is planning for
the next presidential nomination. of his
party and that his plans include the
getting rid of Mr. Carter.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-25
The Merchnnt M-ho pocrn,t Ad,ertIsc

Nv htEchuht " no DOESN'T ADVERTISE
1t stands to reason that merchants who
sell large quantities Of goods can sell
cheaper than those who do only a small
trade. The merchant who advertses his
goods sells more than the one who doesn't
advertise. and therefore can afford to sell
at a smaller profit. The most successful
merchants in every city are those who use
freely the columns Of the newspapers.
The parsimonious merchant may deny
the merits of advertising. and tell his Gus
toners that he doesn't tell lies like his
competitor who does advertise, and there
fore he doesn't advertise, but he
is fooling nobody except him
self. Sooner or later his customers
discover the fact that they are
paying this truthful merchant higher
prices for what they get from him than
they pay for similar articles elsewhere.
because he has to have a big profit to
make up for his small trade Advertising is
just as legitimate an expense in business
as store rent or clerk hire. and it is well
not to forget 1t.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-25
what blackburn Is Going TO Do.

Senator Blackburn announces that he is
going to answer Mr.. Carlisle's Covington
speech tonight This announcement
must bring a smile to the faces of those
who know Mr.. Carlisle and Senator
Blackburn. The senator is about as cap
able of answering Mr.. Carlisle as he is Of
pulling down the capitol at Washington
by his unaided strength He has repu-
tation as a stump speaker, because he de-
claims well and has a good stock Of fun
ny stories, but nobody has ever accused
him of being a thinker. He would blush
probably if anybody were to tell him that
he is capable of discussing logically any
abstruse question. He has been in con-
gress for long time, but he has made no
reputation that causes him to be regarded
as an authority on any public question of
Importance. He may have told a story
that his senatorial cronieS remember, but
he has never made speech on any great
issue that has influenced the country in
the least or that is remembered He is an
attractive speaker, but what he says is
not remembered, because he does not in
fiuence the minds of thinking men. He
pleases the crowd, and that is what he
will endeavor to do tonight. He will
tell stories, make assertions and predic-
tions. and will think perhaps that he has
answered Mr.. Carlisle. but he will be
about the only one who will think So
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-25

The fact that Savannah has a manu-
featuring capital larger than her banking
capital is an unsupported fact that is
working its way into the minds of the
people here and elsewhere, and is making
them open their eyes. The president of
the international Cotton Exposition says
that Savannah could make a better show
ing in manufactures than even Atlanta,
If the manufacturers would take proper
interest in the exposition and send up
their products to be exhibited. and the
exhibits from the several Georgia cities
should be classified by cities and not by
the kind of goods manufactured. 1t is
to be hoped that the Savannah manufac-
turers and the citizens industrial COM
mittee will be successful in arranging for
a representative exhibit of Savannah
manufactures at the exposition.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-25

In 1867 Second Assistant Engineer G.
F. Sawyer of the navy was found guilty
of using language disrespectful to the
President of the United States, and was
reprimanded and suspended by President
johnson. That action, however. was re-
versed by President Grants administra-
ton, and Sawyer was restored to active
duty. There is talk to the effect that
something similar viii be done in the
case Of Admiral Meade, if the next ad-
ministration should be a republican one.
The cases would hardly be parallel be-
cause Admiral Meade has been retired,
while Sawyer was suspended for one
year. 1t would, however, be just like
the republicans TO try to cast d handful
of mud at the Cleveland administration
by restoring Admiral Meade to the active
service after he had been retired with a
reprimand by President Cleveland.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-25

Numerous nonpartisan sound money
conventions are being held in various
fact that while the conventions them
selves are nonpartisan, the speakers at
them are pretty much all democrats. At
the sound money meeting to be held in
Philadelphia next Tuesday the principal
speaker will be William L. Trenholm. who
was the controller of the currency under
Mr.. Cleveland's first administration. Mr.
Trenholm is both speaker and writer
Of particular strength upon the money
question.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-25

1t is noticed that some of our free sill
yer contemporaries, the Augusta Chron-
icle among them. base many of their ar
guments upon the alleged fact that there
are a great many more workingmen nm
employed than there are workingmen
employed at the present time. 1t would
be interesting to know where they get
their statistics. "Coin," in his Financial
School," has. we believe, asserted that
there are at present (at the time his al
legged lectures were delivered) 10000 of
working people undergoing enforced idle
ness, all on account of the demonetiza-
ton of silver. Did Coin make a census
enumeration to find this out? If he had
done so. would an enumeration made even
a year ago hold good now, since the bus
mess revival? Even the silverites are
bound to admit that a great revival in
commerce and industry has set in lately.
The fact is that there is available no re-
liable statistics of the number of unem-
ployed in the country In 1885 an estimate
of the number of unemployed was made
by Carroll ID. Wright In 1890 the census
buAeau uiluCA 0Voh " Atiiu ouI HoW many
unemployed there were in the country,
but the result of that investigation has
not yet been printed or made public in
any way. The commissioner of the CEN
sus, who has been asked how many idle
workingmen there are. says the only way
to find out is to make a careful count of
them, and that he has no idea what the
number is 1t appears, therefore. that
"Coin" merely guessed at it. making the
number large enough to suit his purposes.
and that the defenders of his assertions
accept what he says as true. without in
vestigation on their part, and base their
arguments thereon.