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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-09
NOTABLE PEOPLE.

Last year Queen Victoria signed about
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OF navls Cd ION. VIII spend MS FacAIou AZ
a cruise % the Great Lakes.
Maud Evans. less than - years or age,
residing in Beaver Falls. Pa. - said 10
have her third set OF natural teeth.
Mr.. Barclay. the lat. consul general a.
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States 20 reside a. h4s home II "@+
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joseph whisenant. OF Burke. y. c,
has nine sons. the eldest 10 years old, an
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whom Is l.sls poanGs-
Portugal viii celebrate next year the
Goth anniversary OF Easco da Cana $
setting oat on MS voyage round the Cape
Of Good Hope 10 Indian.
Albert Curtis. - years old. = The ONLY
living se3ectnAiu OF Worcester Hnen TIA
city vas a town. He has seen me c4tS
grow from leo 20 10000.
II. Farmer. OF Masonfown. Pa. has the
compass which was us@1 ~ Col. A4eNafa-
der Mclean u completing the survey OF
the famous Mason ard Oxen line
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neat. loo peutnsa as. So pr0ZBon tories
lss@ lakes. 2953 Esyers and 1850 lsian4s-
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whose gTeat-graBdfarAer IS alive. Is 20 be
knowa as 'Heary LeyeIaagel. IT., Jr.,
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formerly an American g3rl. Mss Ritter
% California
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-09


An institution for the rescue or women
from evidences OF advancing age has been
established in New YORK Its chief OBJ
tect Is TO reproduce glrlish lines in ma
turing forms, AMI the method has been
refused 10 q science. II Is accom- plisaed BY
taking OF the overweight OF flesh In soma
parts and putting II on In others.
This Is so simple ths. no woman need
longer suffer the ignoniny OF duupy
form or thin arms. The diet must frs,
be regulated and this consists chiefly in
abs;aining from potatoes. white and hot
In itself would preserve women from dys-
pepsia. stomach troubles and nausea, tend
20 give them color and remedy neshy
fabbsnesS
II is not al. however: . gentle physical
exercise Is also prescribed which possesses
some very attractive features. According
TO the directions. the patient is made TO
lie fat on her back on the hard.
unsympathetic floor. holding tightly 10
some axed object--ln her own room a bed
limbs from the floor straight up 20 the
perpendicular. When she can do this
twenty times hand running she may then
take q five-mile stint on an indoor bicycle.
The instructions say this must be done
with the windows wide open but this rule
Is probably only imperative in the latter
part OF the gymnastics.
After the mock bicycle ride. she must
take fiftesn minutes with the elastic ex-
erciser." pulling for dear life. Then she
Is to touch the floor with her knuekles
but without bending her knees. Having
done this. she is next to reduce her bus,
measure-why. only q woman can tell
by standing with her back 10 the exer-
ciser and letting her arms straight out
back as far as they win go. and then. by
pulling the handles down over her head,
and striking out as though delivering a
blow she can In three weeks restore the
bust to at least half its size and widen
her chest by two inches"
The directions close at this point-but
the wholesome exercise could be followed
W cs NES>AkAS WslA u
broom, standing over a hot kitchen range
and cooinng the dinner. washing and
dressing two or three little girls and
spanking as many boys. She ought by
that time 20 be in such condition that she
can meet her husband with q cheerful
smile and beaming eyes. She can aston
ish her delighted husband by receiving
him with q vigorous body blow or a re-
sounding whack on his back, and give
him many other pleasing evidences OF
physical development
These scientific eyolntions are great
advance over the ol6-fashioned notions
of exercise at the washtuh. house Clean
ing. marketing. carrying babies, hauling
coal and splitting wood. and they have
the charms OF novelty and Of costing
money to provide the apparatus.
delicate woman who would shrink
from carrying loaded coal scuttle across
the room or STOPPING to pick up her
handk erchief IL a man stood by can per-
form all these form-res toring exercises
without q murmur, or turning hair: and
the accom- llshments would come IN very
handy should she be left destitute and
be compelled 20 join a circus in order TO
earn a livelihood.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-09

a xeod deal q fess Is being made ~
the cheap politicians ever ire request 81
NJ u&as- % IRE Seattle City railway.
that bis employees snserra nin x they boz
Nexe ga ere rrss ana unlimited coinage u
silver Mr., Haas Aas The reputation -
hesfss always been IN very close teach
With the men unier stns 3na they have
confidence IN AlnA y ~ conference
with any es these nes - ear show thea
the ss1saeleS ta some ef Ire free silver
arguments he viii be &olax rasic ser
%see. People who have property a&vs a
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-09

nssallssss claim. thai this craze viii
~->sp the country bit IL Is the daty OK
ev2~v one who knows what ths effect ce
ne free coinage of silver al fictitious
ratio has been ar all tines and IN all eoun-
trs-s-sverybody who believes that the
same consequences must inevitably follow
III Is their duty TO continue 10 earnestly
utter warnings Until The polls are closed.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-09

Ex-Mayor John s. Roche. OF Chicago.
declares emphatically that Illinois VIII
stand by the Republican ticket this fall.
and vote for honest money. lie Is sure
that GOV. Al,geId VIII be defeated. and
that the whole coterle that ran the Chica-
60 convention viii be reouked. In the
West" said Mr.. Roche. after an sxplana-
tory remark 70 some friends that he was
out OF politics entirelys "the question IS
not who is a Democrat. or who Is a Re
publican. but who IL an honest man.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-09

Ing his support 20 this present crusade for
a cheap ara dIshonest currency Is absurd
Let fhe CARRIERS rs<-aan from s-nsrrhins
tSa record 81 fnsr great lea1er, Re7unl3esa
and American vho always believed that
al honest dollar was the only dollar a.
nonex. government should coin.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-09

John Wiley very courteously asked that
the orators last evening be given re-
speetful hearing. but he ought TO know
that the hoodIums with whom he is train
Ing are apt TO become unmanageable and
soon pass beyond the control OF people
who believe in order and would restrain
than
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-09

Senator Stewart denies that Bryan has
ever been in the pay OF the silver mine
owners How does Stewart know any
thing about the doings of the silver mine
owuers7
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-09

II the Republicans turn out on election
day as they turned out last night there
need be no fear OF the result
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-09

Universal regret will be expressed that
DR.. Brown has once more appeared upon
the scsEe
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-09

The betting Is that Prof. Andree win
not make his balloon ascension this year
nor any other year.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-09

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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-25

her throat bare, and the little puffed
sleeves she wears end well above the
wrist to permit free play of her won
derful hands.
Those hands deserve a chapter to
themselves. Their whiteness and deli
cacy and beauty of shape are delights
to the eye. and the extraordinary SEN
sitiveness of their finger tips cannot be
imagined by one who has only the usual
sense Of touch. These finger-tips rest
ing lightly on the lips of her friends,
carry to Helen Keller's mind the mes
sages from the world in which she
lives, unseeing and unhearing. They
do more than this, for they keep her in
touch with the intellectual life. She
reads German, French and English
with her fingers resting on the raised
letters of the books which have been
published for her. Her hands are
never still for an instant; one of them
is usually clasped in that of Miss Sulli-
van, the teacher who is no less mar
vel than her wonderfl pupil. If Miss
Sullivan moves away, Helen follows
her, and If the teachers hands are busy
the pupil rests her own palm lightly on
the others shoulder or even gathers a
fold Of her gown between her fingers
and holds that. If one could not see
her eyes or hear her voice, this de-
pendence on Miss Sullivan would be
the only outward trait to distinguish
Helen Keller from other girls of her
age. But to return to her appearance.
Her chief beauty, next to her hands,
is the mass of short brown curly hair
that falls on her shoulders and which is
confined only by small comb. Look
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-25

Mute, sightless visitant:
FROM what unchartered world
Hast yoyaged into life's wide ses-
With guidance scant?
AS II some bark mysteriously
Should hither glide with spars aslant
And sails all furled 3
Edmund Clarence Stedman's Ode to Helen
Keller.
Mr.. stedman's lines come naturally
to mind when one begins to write Of
Helen Keller. Rarhaps this is because
1t is so very difficult to put on paper
cne's own impressions OF her. Thous-
ands Of Americans. reading this week
CT her brilliant success in passing the
entrance examination of Harvard uni
versfty, have made an effort to realize
Tor moment all that is implied by this
achievement Of this most wonderful
Girl Of sixteen. They have recalled
that she is deaf ana dumb and blind
end that she has been so since her
fabyhood; that she lived for years In
an abyss of darkness and silence and
loneliness; that she did not know
where she was nor what nor why until
out Of the chaos the human hand was
stretched to her, and the apparently
hopeless work of communicating with
her was begun; that today she stands
where that hand has placed her-still
deaf. still blind, but in all other re-
spects equal to girls of her age and
head and shoulders above the majority
Ct them intellectually; that her great
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-25
. From Mine TO Mint. I'll
- The Story Of Twenty-DoIIar Gold Piece ====H
M ~ w ~ -==H

cur gold brick is placed Is already at
a white heat. A cover is put upon it,
the Goals are banked about it, and
the lid of the furnace is pulled to.
In a short time the metal Of the brick
has become one liquid mass, which
the furnace man stirs to and fro until
the material within is thoroughly
mixed. He then lifts the pot out of
the fire with pair of ron pincers,
and runs the flaming metal into iron
nlolds. AS soon as 1t is cooled 1t is
reweighed, and a small piece is cut
from each bar and sent to the assayer
The assayer tests the sample and tells
Uncle Sam just how much gold, silver
and copper the brick contains, and
upon this estimate the depositor is
paid.
PREPARING THE GOLD.
The gold brick is now turned over to
the meter and refiner. This man is
one of the most important of the of
ficials of the mint. He must separate
the silver and gold. and must see that
the gold and silver are of the requisite
fineness for coin. 1t is he who man
ages the Is to l business. and if the
political parties could agree upon a
method of controlling him there would
be no room for discussion. According
to our law our gold coin must be 900
parts fine: that is in every coin 900 out
OF the LOGO parts Of which it is made
must be pure gold. In order to accom-
plish this result the meter and ref1ner
must have the pure gold to begin with
He must take all the gold out of the
brick. but in such way as to leave no
silver or other metals connected with
it. His method is an odd one He
takes the gold brick and melts 1t with
lot of silver. He does this because
the acid which is to take the silver
out of the gold will not work well with
out there Is plenty of silver in the mix
ture. He knows just how much silver
is necessary for the right combination
and he adds this amount to our gold
brick. The combined metals are next
thrown into a vessel containing nitric
acid. This acid has a peculiar affinity
for silver and for the baser metals. 1t
has no effect upon gold. but it sucks
all of the other metals out Of the mix
ture and combines with them, turning
them into a liquid which looks not I'M
like water The pure gold drops to the
bottom of the vessel, while the silver
and other metals are left in the solu-
ton. The liquor is now drawn off.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-25

fully, turning naturally to the right
ana knowing nothing else. No attempt
mas Deen made to give her an idea of
Ieision, beyond a few simple talks
with her by Phillips Brooks. Until the
liine 0l ms death the great preacher
ana Heien Keller were close friends.
He made an Impression on her at an
early age, and one Of her Conventions
OF him Is given in a letter written when
she was only nine. ministers" she
wrote, ARE men who talk loud from
book and tell people to be good. %
She had just been taken to his church
for the first time
Her sense of touch and smell, always
phenomenally acute, seems to be grow
ing more SO as the years pass She
can follow scent like bloodhound.
and will recognize a person months
after her first meeting with him. by
that alone. Her power of intuition is
almost uncanny. Again and again she
surprises Miss Sullivan by answering
an unspoken thought and by divining
Immediately any change in her teach
ers condition of mind
EXPERIENCE WITH DEATH.
Until few years ago Helen knew
nothing about death, and she probably
has a very vague idea now Of what It
means. 1t has just come home to her
heavily, for her father died three weeks
ago. He was in Alabama with her
mother, and her grief over the news
was very deep. She begged to go to
her mother. but was dissuaded by
those who have her in charge and who
dreaded the effect Of continued depres-
sion on her impressionable nature. She
is wonderfully affected by the mental
condition of those about her, and can
tell Immediately on meeting person
whether that person Is happy or the re-
verse She may feel any depressing
influences the more keen1y because she
is used to the buoyant atmosphere of
Miss Sullivan-that lovely and lovable
woman who for nine years has devoted
herself day and night to the helpless
child. To Miss Sullivan alone belongs
the credit Of Helen Keller's record to-
day. What Helen has done is not SO
wonderful when one recalls the concen-
trat1on that was necessarily put into
her work, and the absolute lack of all
distracting influences. She developed
mentally because, imprisoned as she
was, every impulse Of her nature helped
to push her toward the light When
she enters Radcliffe she will probably
carry off all the prizes for the same
reason. Her mind to her kingdom is.
There is no other for her and can be
none. With Miss Sullivan it is differ
ent. Life has much to offer her, but
she has voluntarily put it all aside for
this one duty. Her work from the time
she took Helen Keller's little hand In
hers and taught her the deaf and dumb
alphabet, nine years ago, has been
wholly unselfish and unceasing. There
can be but one reward, and one under
stands what this is when one sees the
two together.
Elizabeth G.. Jordan.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-25

Special Correspondence to the Globe.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct.24.-In my let
tiers from the Rocky Mountains / have
described how the atoms of gold and
silver are dragged forth from the rocks
and by means of chemicals and fire are
turned into bullion. 1 have come to
Philadelphia to tell you how the bullion
is turned into dollars. The Philadal-
phia mint is the largest and oldest Of
the United States 1t is said to be one
of the finest minis of the world. 1t
coins millions of dollars worth of gold
and silver every year. 1t has. since it's
beginning, during the presidency of
George Washington, purchased more
than a billion and a half dollars worth
of gold. 1t vaults now contain almost
5000, 900, 900 in gold and silver. and it's
wonderful machinery is turning golden
bricks into golden eagles. 1t is coming
silver at the rate of thousands of dol
lars a day, and walk through it's
treasure chambers would lead you to
think that the United States has vast
surplus Of coin. rather than being, as
our stump speakers say. in the midst
of money famine.
A WALK THROUGH OUR BIGGEST
MONEY FACTORY.
Let us take walk through this great
money factory and see how Uncle Sam
buys gold and silver bullion and turns
1t into coin. The mint. you know. is in
the heart of Philadelphia. 1t is only
q block or so from the city hall, and
not more than a stones throw from
John Wanamaker's big store. Thou
sands of hungry-eyed, empty-stom-
ached people go by 1T every day For
tunes are being carried in and out Of
it continually, and a few blocks of
stone and a plate or two of steel are
all that separates its treasures from
the hungry mob. 1t has a single vault
which contains more than fifty million
standard silver dollars. The money is
tied up in bags and stacked against
the wall like so much corn, and yet the
precious metal is so near the hungry
crowd above that, as you stand in the
vault, you can almost hear the tread
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-25
A WORKOUT FAD.

"sprfng Medicines" "BIood-Purif-
ers" ana "TOnics" an OId-Fashfontd.
Idea.
Pure blood, strong nerves and mus
cles, firm healthy flesh can only come
from wholesome food well digested.
Blood purifiers" and nerve tonics';
do not each the cause Of the mischief.
The stomach is the point to be looked
after. The safest and surest way to
cure any form of indigestion is to take
after each meal some harmless prepa-
ration which will Of itself digest food.
There Is an excellent preparation of
this kind composed of vegetable es-
sences, pure pepsin, Golden Seal and
fruit salts, sold by druggists under
name Of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets
and these tablets taken after meals
assist digestion wonderfully because
they will digest the food promptly be-
fore it has time to ferment and sour
and the weak stomach relieved and
assisted in this way soon becomes
strong and vigorous again.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are supe-
rlor to any secret patent medicines.
because you know what you are TAX
Ing into your stomach. They are sold
by druggists everywhere at so cents
per package.
Write Stuart Co., Marshall, Mich.
lor DOCK on stomach diseases.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-25

ing at the face, you are struck first. of
course, by the pathos Of the eyes that
show all too plainly their affection
Aside from these, there is nothing to
sadden one in Helen Keller's appear
ance.s Her chin is beautifully formed,
the mouth and teeth are good, her
complexion is clear and healthy and
the expression of her face wonderfully
attractive in it's bright alertness. Her
voice, strangely enough, lacks the usual
monotony of the voices of the deaf.
1t has rising and falling infections, and
even bits Of shading occasionally, when
the subjects under discussion touch her
especially. To understand the interest
of this 1t is necessary to recall the fact
that she herself has never heard the
slightest sound of any kind since she
was eighteen months old Her speech
Is a little thick and at first it is hard
to understand. After listening for q
few moments, however, one begins to,
follow her.
VIEWS ON. POLITICS.
They came to me together Thursday
noon in the little reception room Of
Arthur Gilman's school for young Ia
dies in Cambridge. Miss Keller is
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-25


and that this question is about to be
realized. -
HELEN KELLER, OF TODAY.
These are the facts. They are too
stupendois to, come home. to one with
convincing force until one has seen
and talked to Helen Keller herself, and
TO the marvellous teacher who went
into the outer darkness after her and
brought her back into a. human world.
Meeting these two for the first time,
and looking at them as they stand
together, the full consciousness of what
has been done urges on one-a great
wave of comprehension that seems to
sweep one, for a horrible moment, into
the blackness from which they
emerged. During this flash of. acute
comprehension there are half asSdozen
dlstincts Impressions. One not only
realizes all that was meant by that
early condition of isolation, but one
follows mentally the slow and painful
processes Of breaking 1.-THE strain,
the patience, the self sacrifice-and
cne turns away. almost sick at heart
from the thought of 1t all. These are
not pleasant sensations, but no think
ing person can fail to experience them
the first time Helen Keller's sightless
eyes are turned upon you.
Fortunately they do not last They
cannot, with the girls eager face be-
fore one, radiant with interest In all
that Is going on The first trait one
notices in her is this desire to be a
part of everything about her. She is
absolutely deviod of self-conscious-
ness, and being so, she bursts into
speech the moment she is introduced
10 stranger. Her evident wish Is to
get from the new personality all that
Is interesting in it. Her methods in
this respect recall Ii Hung Changes
characteristic interviews with Amer
lean citizens. It should be added at
once, however. that her questions are
Fever unpleasantly personal; she Is
thoroughly well-bred. She talks very
quickly, bending toward you, with her
sightless eyes fixed eagrly on your
face, and with every feature alive with
interest in what you and she are say
IL g. She is pathetieally anxious to show
you that she is ire touch with the world
and the people In IT. She brings UP
subject after subject, and dismisses
them With few terse sentences which
somehow seem to contain the gist Of
item all. She uses no unnecessary
words. She has learned to express
er ideas with wonderful clearness and
oonciseness She hasa very keen sense
of humor, and responds to the mildest
Joke with a girlish laugh that Is very
contagious, All these things you notice
within five minutes after your meeting
Win Her. linen, as she talks On, you
begin to study her more in detail, and
this is what your see:
HOW SHE LOOKS.
A well-formed graceful girl Of six
teen, in a perfectly, plain dark blue
gown that comes to the tops of her
shoes in schoolgirl fashion. The shoes
are well made and well fitting, with
good, thick soles and low, sensible
heels. Above them you see an inch
of dark blue stockings under the plain
full skirt The waist Of her dress
fits loosely, and there are no sugges-
tons of corsets or Of tight bands about
the young girls waist or neck. The
collar of her gown rolls back, leaving