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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-08-01
POOR KATE FIELD.

Separated in Life United in Death
Hawaii to Retain the Mortal
Remains of the Dead Journalist.
The INDEPENDENT republishes from
the z. @. A. the following letter. 1t
refraius from making comments.
No. 6, ARROW STREET, CAMBRIDGE,
July ID, 1896.
My Dear DTrs. IVilder:-A letter
from Mr.. Ellis Mills tells me that
you are good enough to offer final
resting piece in your lot for my be-
loved kinswoman, Kate Field
Little did l dream when | gave
Kate letter to your son that
Jimmie" Wilder's mother would be
the kind friend to my cousin she has
proved to be in life and death.
accept, dear Mrs. Wilder, your
tender thought OF Kate, and have so
written tn Mr.. Mills.
At first it seemed to me that her
remains must be brougt home, but
when l read the description of her
funeral and the spontaneous out
pouring of sympathy in Honolulu,
l decided it would be best for her to
remain among the last friends she
made. Then again, could not
bear the thought of her being
transported across the Pacific and
the continent unaccompanied. So
in Honolulu she is to rest, and |
have to thank you for this final re-
lief to my mind.
Since her death | have caused as
thorough search as possible to be
made of her papers in Washington.
Only last week l learned positively
that she made will just before
leaving Washington. My informant
was Hon. jefferson Chandler, who
was one of the witnesses. This will
we can't find, and l think it must be
among her papers at Honolulu
Mr.. Kohlsaat of the Chicago
Times Herald, to whom Mr. Mills
first wrote giving items of indebted
ness OF Hates estate in Honolulu,
has just written to me that he has
sent draft to Mr.. Mills to defray
the bills.
Mr.. Mills writes me that he can't
forward Miss Fields effects to me
unless | take out letters of admins
tration on her estate. This will in
volve a journey to Washington,
which my professional engagements
will not allow nae to do till the mid
die of August. Also, as she made
will, still hope to find it among
her effects in Washington or Salt
Lake City. l have yet to hear from
the latter place.
/ think | will ask Mr.. Mills to
search her papers in Honolulu. 1t
is all very mysterious.
In regard to monument to Kate
will you please tell me what would
meet your wishes in respect to size
and shape and material. Can and
will you please give me some esti-
mate of cost? | have no idea what
kind of stone you use or have in
Honolulu. Mr.. Kohlsaat and other
friends desire to erect a monument
but it seems to me that you should
be first consulted
With kind remembrance to your
son (Kate wrote me he was in
Borneo), and with cordial thanks to
you, believe me. Most truly yours,
GEORGE RIDDLE.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-09-25

The art OF Horticulture has never yet
solved the problem OF how nature can
be made to produce roses having
epots and speckles. But having done
her work in the ordinary way, science
may step in and effect by chemical
means what she disdains. Procure a
flower nearly blown, and OF rich red
color; touch its petals repeatedly with
a glass stirrer that has been dipped in
an ethereal solution of ammonia.
Wherever the stirrer deposits spot of
ammonia the petal will change to
bright blue. If solution in water OF
sulphurous acid be employed, white
spots will be obtained. Should the
entire flower be immersed in the am
monical solution the phenomenon OF
blue rose results, while if plunged
into the sulphurous acid q waxy white
flower is obtained. Having produced
as many speckles on the rose as are
desired, it is we'll to wash carefully the
flower in pure water in order to re-
move the superfluous chemical: if this
precaution be taken, it will not fade
more rapidly than under ordinary
circumstances. 1t is, of course, pos
sible to conduct the experiment while
the rose is still on the parent tree.
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To the Public.

I'm In the same old business, and I've opened up
Where I'd like ye gents and ladies. if you re pass
ing by to stop,
Come and see my rich assortment drues sta.
~ tionery and seeCh,
That I'm selling to the people at prices they can
reach.
I've potions. pills and powders, by the hundred,
to make the saddest gay.
lou can ouy them by the dozen, or I'll serve
VIII serve them in the morning, at midday or at
Or I'll serve them BY the postman, addressed and
Should you want fair complexion, that will
bring you into fame
I've got the complex powder that will guarantee
the same,
The best upon tie market, I've got them every
Just use them as tell you and you'll find the deed
is done.
I've sundries and notions to which there Is no end
We extracts for the handkerchief to please your
I've most superb assortment, on the very cheap.
est terms,
Done up carefully in tin foil of my Al death to
germs.
30 never fear: If there's anything at all you're
be sick or dull or very tired, you'll surely cut
4 you only take advantage of this opportunity
When passing by to have little chat with me-.
You may ask me in conclusion why trouble
To bring these things to notice and offer them for
pelf. ~ ''-
will tell you, though in confidence can't deny
I'm trife long on goods and rather short of cash.
RosT. MARI, home DRUG STORE,
Corner Fifth and Eastside Streets
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| Fall in Value of Farm Products per Acre under
Gold Standard.
ileges is only natural. 1t is only nat
ural. too. that all the faithful retainers

ileges is only natural. 1t is only nat
ural, too, that all the faithful retainers
of the plutocracy should draw the
sword and charge upon the Democracy
with fury superior even to that Of
their masters. 1t has ever been so
with retainers. There are multitudes
of dependents on the wealthy who are
more capitalistic than the capitalists.
Such of these dependents as have
called themselves Democrats obey the
law of their parasitic being by going
over to Hanna, advance agent of the
plutocracy, who is wallowing in money.
But as the United States happens to
be populated chiefly by men, not cool
les, the Democratic party asks with
confidence for the support of the
plain people whose battle it is fight
ing. The contest is between those
who make things and those who take
things. The issue is too clear to be
obscured. On the Republican side are
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-09-25
WHOLE NUMBER 1906.

willing men throughout the country
should be idle and their families per.
ishing from hunger and cold while the
country was never so full OF everything
to make life happy? Yet the laborers
the producers of wealth-are unable
to obtain the necessaries OF life. But
1 say, who should be surprised at this
state of affairs when $j0O,0OO,OO0 OF
the peoples money is locked up in the
treasury; when it is recommended by
the head OF the treasury that $780,
OOO, 600 more be taken from the busi-
ness industries of the country, and
that we discontinue the coinage of
silver, when one-half of the gold of
the country is locked up in the treas
ury, and every inducement on the part
OF the executive power of the nation is
held out to hoard up and keep from
active business of the world the other
half, through the hope OF making 81
worth 50, by striking down silver and
discontinuing its coinage?
But, Mr.. Speaker, there is no use
arguing this question with a view to
convincing the money kings of the
country. Their whole purpose is to
steal something by legislation, by act
of Congress. Nothing so much as
class legislation and failure on the part
of the treasury to fairly execute the
law has made it possible for few de-
signing schemers to rob the nation.
Nothing seems to satisfy their am
bition but gold. They strive to ap-
pease their passions; they endeavor to
pacify their consciences with the
gilded bauble of wealth.
Love OF country, patriotism, desire
for the prosperity of the masses never
found lodgment in their ignoble souls.
Favoritism must stop. The represen-
tstives of the people must correct the
existing evils or legislate for the
J masses, or in the absence of this, when
there shall be no other hope, the bare.
footed militia will come down from
the hills and take charge of the capi-
tol.
Nearly all the bankers and bond
holders of the east have joined the
crusade against silver, and for the OBJ
vious reason that by destroying silver
they greatly increase the value of gold
and money securities in their hands
They arrogate to themselves an exclu-
sive knowledge on the subject ol
finance, and, in the past by their unit
ed efforts, have controlled Congress
and the action of the treasury officials
to the great detriment of the general
public.
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OLYMPIA WASHNGTON FRIDAY EVENING" SEPT 25 1896

ranged all the men whose hands are
habitually in the peoples pockets, all
the men who seek to use the power of
the government to further enrich
themselves, all the shearers OF the
wool of the labor sheep, all the men
who practice the art of getting much
ior little.
These are the kind of enemies the
Democracy is and ought to be glad to
fight. They are the natural foes OF
the Democratic idea, and their success
in this campaign would advance pro-
digiously the movement for turning
the Republic into an oligarchy. The
plain people are not to be deceived.
They know with which party their in
terest, the interest of the country, lies
in this great struggle for the suprem-
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-09-25

nails in regard to the frequent use Of
the Roentgen ray apparatus, says the
Philadelphia Ledger.
1t is interesting, no doubt, to obtain
q series of photographs of ones own
skeleton, but if that is to be at the
expense of such trifles as ones hair
and ones finger nails, it seems hardly
worth the cost. One electrical en-.
gineer, who has often demonstrated
the beauty of his own finger bones by
placing one of his hands within the
radius of the searching rays, has lost
all the nails from the finger of that
hand, while Mr.. Sidney Rowland, who
is one OF the leading experimenters in
this direction, mentions several cases
of similar character in tho structural
changes that occur in the hair, and so
forth, and of those who have been fire..
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politician as rule finds small diff
Guilty in accommodating himself to
any platform so long as compliance
holds out the prospect of personal re-
ward, but a platform which cuts the
Democratic party loose from the plu-
tocracy and invites the hostility of a
predatory rich is one that seems in
sane and suicidal to the regulation
politician. Where are campaign funds
to come from if wealth is antagonized? :?
Principle and devotion to the interests
of the common people are all very
we'll for oratorical purposes, but a
party without full war-chest offends
every native and acquired instinct of
the practical politician.
The Democratic party OF the United
States knew what it was about and
knew what it would have to face when
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-09-25

in National Convention it declared for
free silver and gold and staple dollar.
II knew that it would have to meet
all the tremendous power OF the whole
privileged class, who have come to be-
lieve that they possess license to prey
upon the masses. A nation OF twenty
six millions was taxed to starvation to
maintain the two or three thousand
aristocrats who glittered around Louis
XIV and Antoinette at Versailles, and
those gorgeous gentlemen and ladies
were not more profoundly convinced
that Providence had created France
than are our own money grandees
that their special interests are par
amount to all other conditions. That
they should rise in body against the
Democracy when it has the courage to
declare war upon their unjust priv
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-09-25
UNINTERRUPTED PROSPERITY,

The speakers in Olympia Theater,
Saturday night had much to say
about the uninterrupted prosperity
that prevailed up to and Including
1898, when "Grandfathers Hat" yield
ed up the reigns of government to
Grover Cleveland. Here is what Sen
ator John J. Ingalls, said, on the floors
OF Congress, January 4, 1891:
"In a speech delivered in this
chamber on the 18th of February,
1878, from the seat that is now adorned
by my honorable friend from Texas,
who sits before me fMr. Reagan) 1
said:
"We cannot disguise the truth that
we are ON the verge of an impending
revolution. The old iseues are dead.
The people are arraying themselves
upon one side or the other of porten.
tions contest. On one side is capital,
formidably intrenched in privilege, ar
rogant from continued triumph, con-
servative, tenacious of old theories,
demanding new cessions, enriched by
domestic levy and foreign commerce,
and struggling to adjust all values to
its own standard. On the other is
labor, asking for employment, striving
to develop domestic industries, battling
with the forces of nature and subduing
the wilderness; labor, starving and
sullen, resolutely determined to over
throw system under which the rich
are growing richer and the poor grow
ing poorer; q system which gives to
q Vanderbilt the possession of wealth
beyond the dreams of avarice, and
condemns the poor to poverty which
has no refuge from starvation but the
prison or the grave. Our demands for
reliefs, for justice, have been met with
indifference or disdain. The laborers
OF the country asking employment are
treated like impudent mendicants
begging for bread.
"Mr. President, it may be cause, it
may be coincidence, it may be effect,
it may be post hoe or it may be propter
hoe, but it is historically true that this
great blight that has fallen upon our
industries, this paralysis that has over
taken our financial system, coincided
in point of time with the diminution
of the circulating medium of the
country. The public debt was de-
clared payable in coin and the power
of silver was destroyed. The value Of
property was diminished in proper
tion, wages fell, and the value of every
thing was deprecated except debts
and gold. The mortgage, the bond,
the coupon and tax have retained i'm
mortal youth and vigor. The debt
remains but the capacity to pay has
been destroyed. The accumulation OF
years disappears under the hammer oi
the sheriff, and the debtor is homeless,
while the creditor obtains the security
for his debt for a fraction of what it
was actually worth when the debt was
contracted"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-09-25
THE ISSUE IS CLEAR.
Examiner.


The politicians, eminent and other
wise, who have bolted to Mckinley,
appear generally to be of the modest
opinion that the Democracy must 60
to pieces for want of their leadership.
Because of their narrowness and ego
tism they are incapable of compre-
hending the present situation. The
real cause OF their detection is that the
Democratic party has become too
Democratic to suit them.
There is a wide difference between
the average boiling politician and the
citizen who, believing in the gold
standard, has resolved to cast his bal.
lot for the Republican candidate. The
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quently shadowgraphed by thi

quently shadowgraphed by this
method. Thus, in the case OF patients
whose heads have been subjected to
the influence of the rays, the hair has
either turned white or fallen out en-
tirely. 1t is suggested that these re.
suits are due to the electrical potency
of what are called the ultra violet rays
OF the spectrum, though their precise
action is at present by no means thor
oughly understood.
Ono curious suggestion has already
been made. 1t is q well-known super.
stition. and one which has existed for
generations, that people who sleep in
the direct rays of the moon have their
reason more or less seriously affected
Now it is said that these ultra violet
rays exist in the moonlight, and hence
a popular superstition may be founded
upon scientific fact.
----> - >--
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-09-25

THE Convention of the National AS.
sociation of Democratic Clubs, called
to meet at st. Louis on September 80,
will be postponed till the I'd OF Octo-
Der, and will last through the Sd.
This is done to insure the attendance
of Messrs. Bryan and Sewall, who
would not have been able to be pres
ent on the date first named.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-09-25
THEN AND NOW.

stand Up, Mr.. Watterson, and Give
an Account Qf Yourself!
For general information and to show
what one of the greatest editors of
modern times thought about the silver
question only ten years ago, we make
the following extract from the Louis.
vile Courier-Journal of August 10, 'S6.
Editor Watterson said:
FIRsT-That the demonetization of
silver both in the United States and
Europe has had the effect OF advancing
the value of gold above 40 per cent.
(the advance has now reached 100 per
cent.)
SECOND - That this has been &C.
complished by depressing the value ol
property to that extent.
THIRD-That about 40 per cent. OF
tho property producing resources OF
the people have thus been transferred
to comparatively small class of men
whose stock in trade is gold invest
ments. (This percentage may now be
increased to 80 per cent.)
FoURTH-That in the exact proper
ton as gold has risen the burden oi
debts and taxation has increased, and
that in proportion as property and
labor have declined the capacity ol
people to pay their debts and taxes
has diminished.
FIFTH-That the silver discount il
creating bonus OF more than 80 pei
cent. in favor OF the farm productions
of India and Asia (make it SO per cent
now) which operates to just that ex'
tent in favor of wheat, cotton and
various productions of foreign nations
and against the United States.
SIXTH-That these lamentable con-
ditions have been produced by anti.
silver legislation.
AND SEvENTH-That they can be
undone and prosperity be restored by
pro-silver legislation.
The reader should remember that
anti.silver legislation" and "pro-sil-
yer legislation" means against silver
in one instance and for silver in the
other.
How does it happen that Henry
Watterson is fighting silver to-day?
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Commercial Litiga ton


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How Gold Standard Affects the Prices of Agricultu
raj ImplementS

The above figures far the price of the articles concerned
1873 taken from Senator Gy speech January 49, 1896
prices unfair being too low 1873 and for 1896 because
his figures for 1882 We figure the price of wheat the
for 1874 quoted Spod Almanac and the regular quotation
for wheat for 1896
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farmer starts out with 1875 per cent of the total wealth
WINDS up with only f19 cent An actual loss of 1856 per
thirty years When it is remembered during this period that he
paid the greater part of all the and produced ninety per
OF all the wealth. and that he has his billions
under will be wondered why he has
he drifting into the rapids and pulled for the shore
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keen insight into the conditions OF our
cause, in our judgment highly qualify
you to bring about these reforms in a
way that will work injury 70 none and
justice to all, thus making our govern
ment in fact, as it is now in form only,
a government of, by and for the peo-
ple.' We have the honor to be your
most obedient SERVANTS,
"WM. VINCENT ALLEN,
"Chairman."
The letter also bears the signatures
OF the 4S delegates appointed to rep.
resent the several States and Terri
tories on the notification committee.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-09-25

THIRTY years ago there were but
three millionaires in the United States,
farmers owned their farms and labor
was free. Now one million families
own the wealth of the country, and
are trying to get monopoly on the
suffrage of the other fourteen millions.
Thirty years ago Republican platforms
abounded in such expressions as free
speech, free men, and free ballot now
you couldn't insert the word free in a
Republican platform by surgical
operation. n."-Patrick Henry Winston.
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The total enrolment of the Monte.
sano schools is 279.
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acy OF manhood over money. As for
the leaders who have gone, let them
go. Generals who deem it wise to be
friendly with the enemy are not the
sort OF generals who win victories that
tell for Democratic principles and the
welfare of the masses. The party is
better off without them.
Every man who owns himself and
stands by the doctrine that the major
ity OF citizens should rule the Repub-
lie for the common good will vote for
Bryan, equal rights for all, privileges
for none; that is true Democracy.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-09-25

THE DANGER IN RoENTGEN RAYS.
An Experimenter Loses Five OF HIS
Finger Nails.
A warning has been voiced by one
OF the leading English medical jour
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CITY OF ABERDEEN.

LANDINGS: City Dock, Seattle; Commercial
Dock, Tacoma; Percival's Dock, Olympia.
Fare between Seattle and Tacoma, so cents:
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DAILY TIME CARD.
OLYMPIA, TACOMA AND SEATTLE ROUTE
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STEAMER MULTN0MAn.

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