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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-06-26
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-06-26
FOR EXCHANGE.

FOR EXCHANGE-Lots, houses. ranches.
acreage. unincumbered, for equities in
ircumbered properly of every descrip-
ton Room 81 Seattle National Bank
building.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-06-26
PERSONAL.

WE WILL SAY E you one dollar on any
nat or pair OF shoes purchased at oar
store. as We are making special drives
for the Fourth of July. The Hub, Nos.
6l5 and 6l7 Front street
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-06-26
Advertisements under the head Of 10

Advertisements will be received A.
branch Offices Of thc Post igencer at
TACOMA BUREAU-i132 Pacific ayenu.'
with Washington News Company IL. a
Harrison, Manager.
PRT. TOwSSEND-French Springer.
BELLISGHAM BAY BuREAU--Nss~
o. II. Culver. Manager.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-06-26

THE KELLEY INSTITUTE, 81 Hinck-
ley block. The only Kelley Institute in
and tobacco diseases cured Correspon-
dence private.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-10-26
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-
-Tasso's mother was peculiar" 10
Is believed by some writers that the
madness with which he was afflicted
was inherited.
-Alphonso V. of Aragon and Naples
was entitled The Magnanimous. be-
cause on more than one occasion he
released prisoners taken IN war, i'm
stead of putting them to death or hold-
ing them for a ransom.
George Francis Train. "the sage Of
Madison square," New York, is said to
be undergoing a remarkable change.
His snowy white hair is turning black
again. The change was first noticed
BY one of his youthful playmates about
. month ago.
-Sadi Carnot's monument by Roul-
leau has been unveiled at Nolay, where
Lazare Carnot was born. From the
description it must look rather absurd.
The figure of France is receiving in
he- arms the mortally-wounded presi.
dent in modern dress, with q look Of
resignation on his face.
DE Brazza's bride, who is to accom-
pany him to Africa, is almost an Amer.
lean. Her father, the late Marquis de
Chambrun, was for years a resident OF
Washington as a legal adviser of the
French legation, and his daughter.
who was brought up there, has hosts
of friends at the American capital.
-Fifty-four members of the new
British house of commons-about one
in trvolvn-ho-n rrrkta- haol-e NOSN
of them are on subjects on social and
political economy, and next in number
are those on history and philosophy.
The marquis of Lorne figures as the
author of a Guide to Windsor Castle"
though he has written poems and al
least n romance.
Sims Reeves, the famous English
tenor, has married a second wife.
Reeves is now seventy-three years Of
age, and his wife is nearly fifty years
his junior. Reeves began his career as
a baratone, but he made his reputa-
ton later as a tenor. He sang in pub
lie long after he lost his voice, but his
reputation has been sufficiently elas-
tic to keep him before the English
public.
-Zola has just won a lawsuit about
"Lourdes" against Gil Bias. The news
paper had agreed to pay him ten thou
sand dollars for the story for its feuil-
Teton, but refused to keep the agree
ment, on the ground that the novelist
had at the same time allowed the story
to appear in foreign papers, and that
it had been published in book form q
month before it could be completed in
its columns. As there was nothing in
the contract to prevent this. lola got
his money.
st. Just, the rev ~oluSionist's hither-
to spotless personal character, has been
attacked by Victorien Sardou, who
says that he has the record of the
Picpus prison showing that the ter
.rorist, three years before the outbreak
of the revolution, had spent six months
in Jail. lie had beaten his mother,
who refused him money, broken into
her cabinet, from which he stole silver
and jewelry, and was arrested in a dis
orderly house where he was spending
proceeds. During the reign of terror
he revenged himself by having his
prosecutor g~uillotined.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-10-26
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There is much excitement in En-
gland over the discovery hat iron
manufacturers have been making idols
for the worship of the heatheno of India.
Gen. Booth has issued a special
appeal for money and officers for work
in Germany, where the Salvation
Army has made much gratifying pro-
gress lately.
The state law of Illinois prescribes
a four-mile limit to saloons around the
Northwestern university at Evanston,
Chicago. The city authorities were
about to license Jour saloons within
the limit. but on a protest from Presi-
dent Rogers, the mayor Of Chicago
promised that the licenses would be
refused.
"A Greek Catholic priest in south
ern Hungary recently forced his whole
congregation to swear in church that
they would not touch liquor for three
years. The liquor dealers and revenue
collectors t~hereupon protested against
his action to the minister of finance
asking him to declare it illegal. He
Has HtI NCI-
The courts at Stettin recently had
up for settlement a ease that can not
be paralleled in the history Of the
church. A member of the consistory,
the highest ecclesiastical body in the
province, Dr.. Schumer, of Konigsberg,
was arrested and brought before the
tribunal of justice for having fought a
dual it'll n 1au-rar What Tho nnniSh-
ment consisted in the papers do not
state.
The Woman's Improvement League
of Minneapolis, Mimi, is engaged in
carrying out plans for the identifying
of the city, and lettering the condition
of its people. Shade trees have been
set out on several streets; 7,1Os school
children have been furnished with
flower seeds, with instructions how to
use them for the best results. They
intend also to interest the children IN
discriminating the Russian thistle.
The league will oon open cheap bath
rooms with competent persons in
charge.
Another missionary pioneer has
gone, Rev. Samuel H~utchings, d. D.,
OF Orange, y. j. He sailed in 1888 as
a missionary of the American board
for Ceylon, India, was there for u num-
Der of years, and then returned to this
country on account of ill-health. Dur
ing these years he was pastor of a
number of churches in Massachusetts
and New Jersey, and did Il good
deal of literary work, especially in con-
nection with Chambers Encyclo-
pedia" and "The Encyclopedia of Mis-
sions." To this latter he contributed
the greater number of biographical
sketches. He was for many years in
feeble health, though always active,
and died at the age of ei%ghty-nine.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-10-26
PARIS READY FOR A SIEGE.

Preserved Food Now in Storage Sufficient
to Feed the Population for Many Months.
Taking into account the remarkable
advances that science has made in the
way of preserving and COMPRISING
food so that it can be stored in an in
initcly small space in proportion to its
nutriment, it is not likely hat any be-
sieged city in the future will undergo
the horrors of starvation. Paris has
learned a substantial lesson from the
experience she had in 1870 and 1871,
when the German invaders completely
surrounded the city and prevented
any food whatsoever from going in.
If, in fact, an attack should come at
a moments notice, the Parisians
would now find themselves well sup
piled and with everything in their
warehouses necessary to support life
for an indefinite time. The war de-
partment has made the accumulation
of an enormous stock of provisions its
especial hobby. Not only meat, -four,
biscuits, preserved vegetables and
solid soups are stored away in the gov
eminent magazines, but also milk,
''Pasteurized," and petroleum, wood,
chemicals and coal. Even the horses
have been kept in mind, for there are
packed away great stocks of COM
pressed fodder and grass preserved by
the silo system.
That all these supplies can be kept
on hand in the comparatively small
space the war department has for the
storing of provisions is not so remark
able when it is remembered that forty
thousand r~ations of preserved vege-
tables can be stored in a space measur-
ing forty inches each way. Milk, the
scarcity of which was a great cause of
distress during the siege of Paris, is
now well provided for. DIR. Autefage's
method of "Pasteurizing" milk, which
the government has adopted, will pre-
serve this important necessity of life
for almost any length of time, render
ing it pure and sweet after months and
even years.
By new chemical methods ice can be
dispensed with in the storage rooms
and by the use of ammonia machines
1t can be readily made for household
and garrison use. This is extremely
important as regards preserving meat.
One special feature of the policy of the
wal department is that it has all its
arrangements perfected toward imme-
diately collecting, in the case of i'm
pending danger, hundreds of thousands
of fowls. In a few hours, almost, the
city could be substantially provisioned
for nearly a year in this regard. Be-
sides this, thousands of pounds of pre-
served meats are kept continually on
hand,-N. Y. World.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-10-26
Tho ABSENCE of Odor.

The girl Of small experience with the
ways of cologne and sachet makers
finds it difficult to resist such alluring
titles as white Rose" New Mown
Hay" and Wood Violet" She may not
possess a sufficiently cultivated sense
of smell to perceive how crude and OBJ
noxious these perfumes, when of the
cheaper varieties, really are, and she
is too apt to drench herself with them.
The "tawny" tresses of one Of Amelie
Rives' erratic heroines are described as
exhailing a natural perfume, which
with righteous vehemence is declared
for being "Lubin's Extract" And Hen.
ry Ward Beecher used to say that the
most universally agreeable smell vas
no smell at al .-Philadelphia Press
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-10-26

The ~earth-almost the air was
white with the heat of the summer
sun. All was vastness, immensely, ST.
tence, loneliness; above, the tIawless
blue; below, those seemingly illimita-
bic plains of reddish yellow, streaked
with alkali white, that swan back and
forth before the eyes in parallel lines
until far off they melted into a long,
low stretch of shivering light, the
hooking water mirage at the base of
h mountain range hundreds of miles
away. Encompassed within that hori-
-zon there was nc thing OF life except
within that desultory moving train.
Stocked in the emigrant or third-class
a of the train was a crowd of tired,
miserable and dirty people. They
looked out listlessly at the passing
landscape, o. stupidity at each other,
or twisted themselves into all sorts of
uncomfortable positions on the hard
wooden seats in vain efforts to secure
a little sleep. Perhaps the most I'M
prepossessing of them all was a dark
featured, roughly-dressed man. Be-
side him was a very little girl ina blue
dress. His lowering, repellant face
had n scOwl upon it which suggested
h convict or the desperate, but he
was neither. The scowl and the I'M
conscious sheer about his ugly mouth
were born simply of a long and thor
'oughly fruitless struggle with misfor-
tune.
Although pretty, it was easily to be
seen that the little girl was his child.
She was a momentouS factor in d
mighty problem to the man whose arm
was about her and whose knit browS
and troubled face showed how hard it
vas he studied it. a crazy letter had
come DO him across the continent, and
he had left the tenementS of New York
to try and reach the golden land of
California. He had started with hardly
sufficient money to take himself and
child more than half the distance, but
he had a confused sort of an idea hat
he would in some way reach his desti-
nation. Better it was, at all events,
than to remain in the noisome Hester
street den. where, without work, or
the prospect of any, his little sum OF
money would soon be gone.
The station to which his scanty
purse had enabled him to buy 4 ticket
for himself and child had beer passed
hours before, and he was wondering
how oon the conductor of the train
would discover the shameless imposi-
ton he vas practicing upon the rail-
way company He had not much
longer to wait, for presently the auto
.crat of the train, in a hurried passage
through the car, stopped suddenly be-
fore him and glanced at the check in
his hat.
Hello! Where'are you going?"
The man looked up in what was in
tended as a humble, respectful and
piteous appeal, but his lip curled up
over his teeth, like that Of a harried
dog. He could not help it. His voice
was mild enough, though, as he said:
Il am going to California, sir, with
my little girl"
The mans looks seemed to i~rritate
the not-too-even temper of the railway
officer:
You are, Ell? Well, where's your
ticket for the rest of the way?"
IF you would please let me go
Through the train with my little girl
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-10-26
Bringing Down the Moon.

A voyage to the moon is the latest
project which is seriously put forward
as the browning point of the exhibit
ton of 1900. NJ. Mantois, its author,
does no propose to carry passengers to
the lunar regions in an aerial car, but
he expects to bring down the moon to
the reach of people whose vision ex-
tends, say, six miles from the earth.
The plan is to construct a telescope
nearly two hundred feet in length.
The objective glass will have a diam
eter of something over four feet three
inches, the largest in the word. The
colossal tube will be placed h~orizont.
ally, and the image of the moon will
be reflected by what is termed a mir
ror plane, six feet in diameter and ifs
teen inches thick. The weight would
be e~ighty-fve hundred pounds. The
special feature of the idea is that the
image of the moOn should be thrown
upon a scree placed in a hall large
enough to hold six hundred specta-
tors Astronomers calculate that with
an apparatus of these dimensions it
will be possible to discern easily OBJ
jects of the size of the Notre Dame Ca
thedral towers. and to distinguish the
evolutions .-N Y. Sun.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-10-26

replied the unfortunate one, faltering-
ly, Il think | could raise the money"
go through the train? Not much.
Third-class passengers stay in this car.
You get off at the next station" said
the conductor, in a voice of fierce WARE
ing, as he passed on.
In about an hour the conductor came
into the car again and gave the bell
rope a vicious pull. The engine re-
sponded with two short whistles, and
gradually the train slackened its speed
and stopped.
Come, now, you get off here" said
the conductor, roughly; were behind
time already, and you wantt to hurry
up about it"
Again the mans lip curled in an ugly
way, but he made no answer, except to
gather up the few paper bundles of
bread and meat on the seat before him.
Then, taking his child in his arms, he
followed the conductor to the platform
and stepped off the train. Before it
was under way again, however, a hu-
name brakeman on the last step called
out to him:
Say. partner, Their amt nothin'
here. This is emily a flag station. The
eastbound1l be along in a few hours.
Stop her and board her. The conduc-
Tor on that train'l let you on. It's g
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-10-26

DID shame to put that kid off in such
a place"
In truth little about the place indi-
Gated a railway station. There was a
little closed sentry-box-looking affair
beside the track. and fifty yards behind
it the remains of an old dug-out. Not
even a trail showed where it was that
any human being had visited the spot.
And round was the dreary waste Of
billowy plains and the burning sun
overhead.
In the rear of the sentry box its pro-
jecting roof had cast n little shade,
and here the man sat down upon the
ground with his child still in his arms.
Strange things, for him, came to his
eyes-tears. The little one looked up
at him in a puzzled way, and he hasti-
ly brushed his hand across his face
and left a broad smudge of railway
SCOT upon his cheek. She clapped her
hands and laughed with giee at his
funny face.
Then thirst came to them-that
awful, torturing, unreasonlng thirst
which the desert alone can give. The
child cried for water, and the father
left her in the scanty shade and stepped
out into the glaring sun. Neither in
the sky nor in the parched ground was
there a drop of moisture, and he knew
it He returned and tried to comfort
her, and then he a tdown again, buried
his face in his hands and tried to
think. The evening was coming on
when he rose to his feet with 4 new
resolve.
Away far off in the west a thin, al
most imperceptible streak of smoke
told him that the east-bound train was
approaching. Near the track he found
a dirty shred of a flag hanging to a
stick, and he placed it in the socket Of
the upright post standing in front OF
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-10-26
HUMOROUS,

-Guest-"You haven't got a mahog-
n board about six by four, have
youP' Hotel Clerk - What do you
want it for?" Guest-'I want to have
it put on top the mattress in my room"
Yes" said the business man to the
clergyman, 1--WE lost a good deal of
time in my life" BY frittering it
away, 1 suppose?" mo. by being
punctual to my appointments."-Bos-
ton Courier.
If you have anything to say, why
don't you say it, and be done with ito"
Il never cast my pearls before swine"
well. l don't know as / can blame
you; it would be an insult to the
swine."-Boston Transcript.
Doctor - Countess, l should be
glad if you would let me hear you
cough" Countess-"I don't feel dis
posed to do it just now. CTo her maid)
Eliza, please cough as 1 did this
morning Motto per Ridere.
Miss Gushington-"Do you not find
DR.. Smalltalk entertaining? He is such
a mimic" Mr.. Sneerington (who de-
tests the doctor)-'I have often no
ticed that the doctor takes people off
cleverly."-Town and Country Journal.
These yachtsmen don't seem very
different from other people," she said,
as she laid down the picture paper.
That's true, excepting as to n
fact" What is that?" None of
them wear yachting caps"--Washing-
ton Star.
"A strong-minded woman who sup
ports her husband remarked recently
that she wouldn't have the condition
reversed. You've no idea," she said,
show sweet and affectionate a man is
when he is dependent upon you for his
spending money."-Arkansaw Thomas
Cat.
"A young lawyer talked four hours
to a jury, who felt like lynching him.
His opponent, a grizzled old profess
sional, arose, looked sweetly at the
judge, and said: Your honor, l will
follow the example of my young
friend who has just finished. and sub
NIT the cast without argument" Then
he sat down. and the silence was large
and oppressive.-Tit-Bits.
Hard to lease.-Discouraged Lover
Its going to be a hard winter and
I'm afraid your father will object to
my coming up every EVENING"" "Oh,
no., dear; / forgot to tell You. There's
a new electric light right across the
street, and it makes the parlor as light
as day." Discouraged Lover-"That
has its disadvantages, too."-Detroit
Free Press.
Cause for Thanks.-The indignant
father ragged and stormed Owe the din
ner table. Little Mabel had cried out
that she didn't like the meat "Why,
you ought to give thanks" cried the
outraged pater. when / was a boy
1 delighted in the crusts and never
used sugar" The little one thoughta
moment. How thankful you must be
that you are now living with mamma
snI Ds," she isped.-Philadelphia
Ca
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-10-26
. . : : : : - .
SOME ONE TAKE THIS CHILD,
SHE HAS NO PARENTS.

With a string he placed the placard
around the neck of the little girl This
done he took her in his arms, kissed
her again and again, pointed to the
smoke that was becoming blacker and
longer, and told her hat water was
coming. When the rails began to
sing of the approach of the COM
ing train, he placed her near
the track, and then ran and hid
himself behind the dug-out. From
his hiding place he looked out and
eagerly watched the child, while the
rattle and clamor and thunder of the
train grew louder in his ears. On it
came with a rush and a o and flew
past the station in a gale of wind and
dust. The mans heart died within
him, and then it beat wildly again.
The train had stopped several hundred
yards past the station, II was coming
back to the sentry box. The engineer
had seen the tattered flag.
AS the long train rolled slowly back.
ward, curious and inquiring heads pro.
truded from the car windows. The
gold-emblaZoned conductor stepped off
and looked about him in wonder. Not
for several moments did he discover
the child. Immediately there was a
crowd about it and the placard was
passed from hand to hand. A white.
jacketed porter came out of a Pullman
car and placed a wooden step on the
ground before it. He vas followed by
a lady in black, who descended from
the car and Joined the thrOng. A pair
of y~earning, eager, beseeching eyes
watched it all from the dug-out. TIC
the man hiding it seemed hat the de-
termination OF his child's fate never
would be reached. Finally he saw the
lady in black take the child in her
arms, kiss it, and reenter the car with
it. The passengers scrambled back
into the cars, the conductor waved his
hand, and the train moved On.
Then the father came forth and
gazed longingly at the departing train
-gazed at it until it became smaller
and s~maller-until it became a dot in
the plains-until it vanished-and he
knew he vas alone.
The terrible sun rose the next day
aud looked down upon him as its vic.
tim. He endeavored to eat some of the
bread he had saved, but the dry crumb.
were torture to his throat. One thing
only was there to do-to follow the
track until an inhabited station was
reached. 1t might be fifty miles-it
might be more-but there was no SALIVA
ton away from the railroad.
At noon. when resting for awhile,
he heard the rafting of an approach.
ing freight train. Hope swelled up
within him as he stood or the track
and made frantic motions to stop the
train. The trainmen merely laughed
at him. He did not know he had EN-.
ployed the favorite ruse of tramps.
Freight trains were not for the accom-.
mediation of such gentry. Nor vas il
a supposable case that a wayfarer in
the desert was u~nprovided with food
OF drink, else why would he be there:
After this his progress was very slow.
On the third day he came to the end OF
his journey. He may have been deliri.
Gus or he may nave been quite sane.
A train stopped for him and took him
on board This they always do when
they kill a man.-San Francisco Argc-
naut