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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-12-06
A Great Find.

Cycling has proved of unexpected
benefit to more than one manufac-
turer OF a line of goods entirely dis
tinct from those usually connected
with bicycling. A large watch con-
Germ one day found themselves bur.
dened with lot of wheels and inter-
ior works OF line of watches which
for some reason or other had not
proved satisfactory. The mass of ma
terial was worthless, and to get rid OF
it it was offered for sale at a price, but
no one wanted it.
An ingenious workman, wanting q
cyclometer for his wheel, went to this
scrap heap, selected seven parts from
it, added two or more OF his own max.
ing, and the result was an accurate
durable and economical cyclometer.
Other workmen who were cyclers did
the same thing until the value OF the
scrap heap became known to the
heads OF the company, with the result
that from what was at one time
deemed a worthless scrap heap over
600 cyclometers day are now being
turned out and retail at 50 each.
Reads like fairy story this, but it
is the truth, Just the same.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-12-06

The Woman's improvement League
OF Minneapolis, Mimi, is engaged in
carrying out plans for the identifying
OF the city, and lettering tic oondi-
ton OF its people. Shade trees have
been set out on several streets; 7,1OS
school children have been furnished
with flowersecds, with instructions
how TO use them for the best results.
They intend also to interest the child
rem in exterminating the Russian
thistle. The League will soon open
cheap bathrooms with competent per-
SONS in charge,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-12-06

The Tacoma Land Company will
deposit about $40 900 to the credit OF
the city of Tacoma in the National
Union Bank at New York City in
about week. This payment will be
made there to aid the city in meeting
the interest payment due December l.
The sum is the city's share OF the land
company's taxes now due.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-12-06

THERE il widow near Milledge
Vile, Ga, who has seven daughters
but no sons. She owns some land
which she and her daughters cultivated
Last year one of the daughters wenl
to the woods with an Ak and cut on,
and made plow stock, fastened on &
pillow, and with little steer plowet
for crop OF cotton, raising seven
bales.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-12-06

minuiiye panes of glass, generally not
more than four inches square.
Editors begged their subscribers to
pay up; il they had no money, to send
in wood, cheese, corn or pork.
Leather hrcechce, a checked suit, a
red flannel Jacket and a cooked hat
formed the dress oi an artisan.
When man had enough tea he
placed his spoon across his cup to in
dicatc that he wanted no more.
The tire-placcs were adorned with
tiles brought from Holland and orna-
mented with Scripture subjects.
Crayats were unknown, their places
being supplied by huge stocks that
reached from the shoulders to the ears
The first American geography. by
Morse, had just appeared. 1t was iull
OF errors, and soon became unpopular
The favorite novels OF worldly
youn" WOmcn We're" Victoria, y" Lady
Julia Vaudeville" and Malvern Dale
AncSthetics were not known, and
amputations were performed with the
patient in full possession OF all his
faculties.
Noah Webster's spelling book was
Just eleven years Old. and i'll many
quarters was looked on as startling
innovation.
Dances, in Philadelphia, were given
every two weeks, but young men I'M
der twenty and girls under eighteen
were not admitted.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-12-06

w. Dudley Field, a well known real
estate and loan agent, OF Seattle, who
has been closely identified with the
interests of the First Presbyterian
church oil that city, was Monday de-
clared insane, and sent to the Western
Washington asylum at Steilacoom,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-12-06

THREE decided victories for women
were experienced last week. The
Montana conference of the Methodist
church, on August IS, voted by an
overwhelming majority (thirty-lour to
FOUR for the admission of women to
the general conference, on August 80,
the Cincinnati conference gave a
unanimous rising vote Zone hundred
and thirty-three) for the Baltimore
amendment which reads, Nor more
than two delegates for an annual con-
ference and said delegates may be men
or women" and on August 81, the
Washington conference swelled the
popular sentiment by vote of forty
four to four. The arena OF sex equal
ity is broadening.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-12-06

1t is a remarkable fact that there
has been very little rain in the Kitti-
tas valley since May. AS: "a conse-
quence, very little blowing will be
done this fall in that valley; but, as
wheat raising, to great extent, has
been abandoned, it will not make
much difference.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-12-06

Great Northern freight train No. Is,
westbound, Conductor Fay, was
wrecked at 2 o'clock Monday morning
near Wenatchee, three miles east of
the Columbia river crossing, by a
broken car wheel. Eight car. loaded
with coal were ditched. No one was
hurt
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-12-06

The site upon which the new Uni
versity of Washington is located con-
tains 355 acres between Lake Wash
ington and Lake Union, within the
city limits OF Seattle, but about five
miles from the business center. There
is about a mile OF frontage on Lake
Washington and half that amount on
Lake Union.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-12-06

Mrs. Eva A. Weed has received the
official title OF "draughtswoman" at
Brooklyn, N. y, eclipsing one hundred
and eight men competitors in a civil
service examination.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-12-06

fers from sleeplessness, nervousness, nerv-
Gus prostratiou, fantness and dizziness,
irritability and indigestion In all cases of
irregularity or suspended monthly function
and in all those nervous diseases depend
ing upon local causes. DR.. PierCe's Favorite
Prescription will restore you to perfect
health. Instead of the exhaustion and
feeling of weight and dragging down in the
abdomen, you feel fresh and strong For
young girls who suffer from irregularities
for the hard working woman who suffers
from catarrhal Inflammation of the lining
membranes causing constant drain upon
the system, there is no prescription used
by any physician which can equal in re-
suits DR.. Pierce's. For over thirty years
DR. K. V. Pierce chief consulting phys-
clan to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical
Institute of Buffalo, y. y, has used his
"Favorite Prescription in the diseases
Of women which had long been his spe-
cialty and in fully ninety eight per cent
of all cases, it has permanently om,rd.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-12-06

THE Man Suffrage Association OF
Massachusetts, predicts "injury to the
family" from equal suffrage.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-12-06

NAA y j VA -'A 49, ~ 40
Co.. ". T.. writes 1 an
enjoying pr't6cf health
and have been since ! tool
the last bottle Of DoCto,
Pierce's Favorite Prescrip
ton. ] took five bottle,
of il. Never expected e
be any better when l com
menced taking it. bu'
thank God. l can say tha'
] am glad it reached III,
home. / had falling o
the womb. and flowing
caused by miscarriage
and was very weak wher
] commenced taking youi
medicines. l was cured
by taking five bottles in
aii-two of the Favorite
Prescription and three
Of the Golden Medical Di
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-12-06
W. c. I. L. SELECTIONS.
CONDUCTED BY EMELiNG STEWART.

Mr.. Gladstone, whose general views
of the woman question are conserva-
tive, acknowledges that the 100000
women house-holders of England have
exercised the municipal franchise
without dctriment and with great
advantage"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-12-06
/" RUN.DOWN."

tired out" woman
who complains of
backache, headache,
loss Of appetite, cx-
IRENE lassitude and
that " don't care "
feeling is pretty sure
to be suffering from
Female Weakness, "
some irrcgularity or
arrangement of the
special functions of
WON an hood. Very
often womb troubles
set the nerves wild
with alright and as a
result the woman Suf-
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-12-06

FULL suffrage was granted to the
women OF Wyoming in 1869. From
1870 to 1890 the divorce rate in the
United States at large increased about
three times as fast as the population.
In the group of Western States, omit
ting Wyoming, it increased nearly
four times as fast as the population.
In Wyoming it increased only about
half as fast as the popul alton. An
ounce OF fact is worth ton OF theory
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-12-06

GONE effect" said high auth ority
before the New York convention, "oi
woman suffrage in Wyoming has been
that women teachers receive as high
salaries as they would if they were
men," In Colorado the women voted
on about the same proposition as the
men. There was a large and intel
ligent participation in the elections.
For the first time in history three wo-
men were members OF tile Legislature,
and the first bill introduced by a wo-
man was to raise the age of protection
for girls.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1895-11-28
Worth Hearing.

| On Sunday evening last, Rev. L. ".
Squier, pastor Of the Methodist church,
commenced series of tour or FIVE SER
mons on the Bible-vlv he believes and
accepts it. The first, if indicative of the
course, assures a series well worth
thoughtful consideration. 1t was a re-
markable address, admirable in method
and matter. Mr.. Squler is not only
fluent, but most pleasing in his delivery,
follows his line Of argument closely and
eonscientIously, with logical sequence
which holds close attention.
His opening address was a concise.
and yet clever review of several of the
popular arguments advanced for belief
in the Bible-all excellent in their way
rather accidental however than essen
tial. None. of them appealed to him
with sufficient force to DE absolutely
convincing. These arguments, briefly
stated are: Antiquity-although the
Oldest book in existence, that fact is not
sufficient; historical accuracy; no his
tory eyer written is so free from error,
or is buttressed about by SO many
proofs OF its exactitude-and vet that is
not enough its splendid code of laws,
adopted as the basis of Jurisprudence
by every civilized nation on earth, and
yet that is not convincing proof; it's
perfect sy stem of ethics-the most ex-
allied ever uttered, and still, that is not
enough; its literary granduer, dignity
and pusity-the model upon which the
test Of the literature OF the world is
moulded-and yet that is not enough;
its prophecy fulfilled, and vet to be full
filled. wonderful as itrs, and that is not
proof conclusive, the miracles therein
recorded-in fact the miracles are not
proof that the Bible is the word of God,
and to be accepted as such, but the
miracles are believed and accepted be-
cause they are recorded in the Bible. and
finally, the claim OF rspiration-what-
ever may be meant and understood by
inspiration, Is not the reason for belief
and acceptance of this book.
The speaker concluded by stating that
these were all strong arguments-but
during the succeeding diseourses he
would apply tests more powerful ana
convincing than any and all of these
tests which afford arguments so Irreiut-
abe and satisfying that the Bible must
be accepted as the authentic word OF
sod, and as such must be believed.
Certainly, these sermons will be well
worth listening to.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1895-11-28
school. NOTES.
EDToR-IN-CHIEF-Carry Wilson. ED
IroRs-Leo Scherfius, Louise Warren,
RAYMOND Benner.


The following members Of the third
grade were 100 in spelling. in the ex-
aminations.
i A AIphonzo Barto. Roy Di.
mond. Mary Rob;schon.
| B class Glenn Cooper, Bridget Caya
naugh. Jake LEVITT, Clara Lefstead.
Emma Working.
The Caesar class has finished the
second book.
Mrs. Fisher visited the sixth grade on
Tuesday afternoon.
W.T.. Rocheleau, who was superintend-
emit of this school from 1884 to 1887,
visited the school on Friday afternoon.
Mr.. Rocheleau now has charge of the
Western Office of Potter & Co., educa-
t!onal publishers.
The following stories were written by
members OF the class, fourth grade,
and have not been corrected
| THE SILENT QUESTION.
Alice lived in the city. Her father was
rich and they had every thing they
wanted that money could buy. But
there was one thing that was the plague
OF the house. The cellar was full of mice.
They had tried every thing they could
think of, but the mice seemed to be Just
as thick. Bv and bv their old cook
went away and they got new one.
Just at that time the mice got up into
the kitchen and the new cook tried new
plaa which worked we'll. This was what
she did. She took glass bowl and
filled thimble with cheese. Then put
the bowl over it so that If a m ouse went
to get the cheese the bowl would drop
down and catch it. That night little
mouse smelled theese and went to eat it.
The bowl went down and he was caught.
The other mice saw him and ran away.
And that family were never again
troubled with mice.
ANNABEL ERWIN.
II MoUsIE.
| One day a little mouse ran through
the house and scared little girl. so
one day the little girl took bowl and
thimble and put the thimble under the
bowl so it would hold the bowl up.
Then she took some cheese and put INTO
the thimble and in the night she heard
the bowl tumble.
l II
| She jumped out of bed when she heard
the bowl tumble. She ran to the bowl
and what do you think she saw under
the bowl! 1t was little mouse that had
tried to get the cheese and the thimhe
slipped and the mouse was caught.
Il III
4 When the little girl got up in the
morning she took cloth and put under
the bowl. Then she called the old cat,
Tom. Tom he good breakfast that
morning. MILTON PHELPS
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1895-11-28

The band, under the dictatorship OF
its new lee is making marked i'm.
provement. They contemplate giving
a concert in the near future, when the
music-loving people can judge for them
selves.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-20
What Does 1t Mean?

To the Editor of the Ledger.
| MEXICO Mo-, June 15.-Tho InteIii-
gencer in replying to the LEDGER says
"the LEDGER's assertion that the In
| teIligencer now claims that the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at the
ratio of 16 to / would be a penacea for
all the ills that flesh is heir to, is of
by that? l suppose when the editor
of that paper succeeds in showing the
Populists off their silver plank and
gets the Democratic party on it, he
will try another plank. The reasona-
BILE inference is that he will have the
Democratic party adopt the Populist
platform one plank at a time. 1t
looks as if the IntettigeRcer wanted to
abuse the LEDGER because the LED
E refuses to help commit the Dem
ocratic party to the fiat notions of the
Pops. If the Intetligencer is SO infat-
uated with the fiat lunacy of the Pop
ulists he should move bag and baggage
into their camp and cas- trying to
commit the Democratic party to a
policy of dishonesty. Examine the
policy of the Democratic party and
the LEDGER, and what do you find3
Perfect harmony. The LEDGER stands
in touch with its party on everything.
1t refuses to pander to what might be
called a local craze to assist in drag
ging the Democratic party from
a position of honesty to n
position OF dishonesty and dishonor.
How about the I~nteIIigenceU. 1t is
not in harmony with its party on any
thing. 1t and its following have made
a Republican state out of Missouri and
it will continue to be Republican if the
Democracy of the state doesn't take
the Populists out of their high councils
and give them a lower seat. Men who
live in glass houses should throw dust
instead of rocks. The IntelLigencer
claims the greatest issue of the day is
the free and unlimited coinage of sill |
yer at 16 to 1. Take notice, examine
the platform of the different parties |
and their votes on this proposition
and where does it place the Iatelli- |
gencere 1t is not SO much my purpose
in raising the cover to expose the In
teliigeHeer as it is to keep the dear
people from being fooled.
A DEMOCRAT.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-20
The NeWsnaper Gets Left.

a country newspaper publisher
sizes up the ''span of life" as follows:
"a child is born, the doctor in at
tendance gets a $40 fee; the editor
notes it and gets 0; it is christened
and the minister gets So, and the edi
tor writes it up and gets 90; it marries
and the minister gets another $40; the
editor gets a piece of cake or 900.
sin the course of time it dies; the
doctor gets from So to 500 and the
minister perhaps gets another SIS and
the undertaken s25 to $50; the editor
prints a notice of death and an obit-
uary two columns long, and a set OF
resolutions of some lodge or organiza-
ton to which the deceased belonged,
and receives 0O00, and then has the
privilege of running a card of thanks
and a lot of poetry besides"
Mr.. o. Dixon, of Pleasant Hill, Mo-,
has moved to Mexico with his family
to reside permanently. Mr.. Dixon is
a substantial business man and we are
glad to welcome him to Mexico. He
has rented Col. Lewis Hord's resi-
dence on South Clark avenue and will
go into business here shortly.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-20
Missouri CrOpS.

COLUMBIA, Mo-, June 1S.-The Mis-
souri, weather crop bulletin for the
last week says: "The mean empera-
ture of the week was about normal in
the central and western and from 3 to
6 degrees above in the eastern sections.
Very heavy rains have fallen through
out nearly all of the northwestern
counties, the total rain fall for the
week exceeding 8 inches at many
stations and in some localities 4 inches,
and from 2 TO 8 inches is reported from
many of the central and southern
counties, although generally in those
sections the rainfall ranged from 81
to , inches. Corn, oats, meadows and
pastures have been greatly improved
and stock ponds replenished. Gardens
have revived and are coming on again
and some late wheat will be helped.
The heavy rains have also checked
the ravages of chinch bugs and the
outlook is now much more encourag-
ing. The wheat and rye harvest is in
progress in all sections. Wheat IS
generally well filed and of good quail
ity, but the yield is light, as a rule,
Chinch bugs are damaging corn in
some places, including some of the
eastern counties, and it has been r
tarded by the drought, but generally
has made rapid growth, and the pros
pect for the crop is excellent"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-20
REMEDY FOR CHINCH BUGS.
An Illinois Farmer Has a Preparation
to Kill Them.

MOUNT VERNON, ILL, June 15.-The
people of this vicinity are greatly
worked up over a remedy for the
chinch bugs. Charles Harper, a farm
err near here, gives it after having
killed the bugs on a twenty-acre field,
Take about three tablespoonfuls oil
soft soap, dissolve it in just enough hot
water to thoroughly dissolve it, Their
add one-half gallon of kerosene oil,
Take about one pint of this mixture tc
one and one-half gallons of water and
stir thoroughly. Then take a spray
and go over the field wherever there
are bugs. Mr.. Harper reports them
all dead, and many are getting ready
to try the remedy. The chinch bugs
and dry weather have about killed al
the wheat that was left from the May
freeze. Corn and oats are badly
damaged. This will work a great
change in the future.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-20
Wall Street and Silver.

To thu Editor OF the Ledger.
VANDALIA,M No, June 15.-Dear Sir:
I clip the following from yesterd avs
Daily LEDGER:
ssGiles Allison, who is in Mexico on
a visit from New York City, says that
"a majority of the stock in the silver
mines is owned by Wall Street and
| when so cents worth of silver is made
a dollar that Wall Street will reap all
the benefit"
Good! Now let the earnest bimet-
| aliist hope that Wall Street will loosen
its grasp on monometallism. Oh, no,
| Giles, such subterfuges while intended
to prejudice free silverites) will not
shake their well founded faith. We are
perfectly willing fill to their ''habby
pockets with wealth." and have them
"paint the purer air" of the western
horizon a bright and infiammatory red,
if, indeed, they can handle both met
ais as successfully yet wrongfuily)
as they are managing the one. But
we thought New York and Wall Street
were a little uneasy and restless, judg-
ing from the following tvfvgram wired
from st. Isotrs5 last week to the Herald
of that proud city. Listen: "Silver
cranks meet q set back-Missouri
Democratic Central Committee con-
cludes not to call q special convention,
met the issue squarely, decided by a
vote of 10 to 5 that the meeting would
be impolitic and unwise; free coinage
men angry" Perhaps this information
was not intended for Wall Street, how
lever. And then again, ''it is a mistake
to believe that Missouri is given over
to the free silver fallacy. The agitation
is kept up by a few, a very few, self
constituted leaders," ect. What a
whopper! But verify it seems thai
the New York HerdId's correspondent
is playing sad havoc with Wall Streets
financial interests, yet, if the west
can only have their cooperation OF
the silver side OF the issue, we viii
have the high privilege of aiding then
in making their bank accounts "blos-
som as a rose" Call on Wall Street
again, Giles. j. W.DANIEL.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-20
NJ A r E
Female Troubles Treated Free by Cor
respondenee by the Renowned
Dr.. Hartman.

DIR. Hartman, the renowned gynae-
cologist, has announced his willingness
to direct the treatment of as many
of female trouble as make application
to him during the summer months,
| without charge. The treatment will
be conducted by correspondence. The
| doctor will prescribe all medicines,
applications, hygienic and dietary
regulations necessary to complete a
cure. The medicines prescribed can
be obtained at all drug stores. This
offer will hold good only during the
summer months.
Any woman can become O regular
patient by sending a written state
ment of her age, history and sympt-
oms of her arrangement and condI
ton of life. All cases of female dis
eases, including menstrual irregular
! tiles, displacements, liberation, in
Examinations, discharges, irritation OF
the ovaries, tumors and dropsy OF the
abdomen, should apply at once ane
become registered as regular patients
All correspondence will be held strict
w confidential. No testimonials o
cures will be given to the public ex'
cept by the express wish of the pa
tient.
Book on female diseases sent fre'
by The Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing
Company, of Columbus, Ohio.
For free book on cancer address DIR
Hartman, Columbus, Ohio.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-20
FARRIs ONLY TWO SHORT.
Fifty-Six Democratic Chairmen Have
Signed the Silver Convention
Call.

LEBANON, Mo-, June 1s.-John w.
Farris, chairman of the Laclede Coun-
ty Democratic Committee, has now
received the signatures of fifty-six
county chairmen to the call of a State
Democratic Silver Convention He
needs two to make a majority.
The counties are: Adair, Atchison,
Bollinger, Butler, Saline, Cape Girar-
deau, Christian, Cooper, Carter, Craw-
ford, Cedar, Galloway, Cass, Camden
Dallas, Douglass, Gasconade, Gentry
| Green, Howard, Howell, Laclede, Law
renee, Livingston, Knox, Morgan
Monroe, Moniteau, Mercer, Melon
aid, Madison, Maries, Miller, Newton
New Madrid, Platte, Polk, Phelps
Perry, Pulaski, Pemiseot, Pike, Put
nam, Reynolds, Ripley, Shelby, St
Francois, Shannon, Saline, Scotland
Stoddard, Texas fancy, Wayne, Web
ster and Wright.
Before the close of the week Farri
expects TO have received over a ma
iority of favorable replies and wi
issue the call for a State conventio.
if the State committee declines to ac'