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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-16
STATE BAR ASSOCIATION.
King County Attorneys Preparing
for Its Entertainment.

II the State Bar Association is not prop
erly entertained at its meeting In Seattle
on the third "Wednesday in July, 1t Will
rot be because the attorneys OF Seattle are
derelict in forethought and attention.
A weil-attended meeting or the King
County Bar Association was held yester-
day forenoon in the court room or the
criminal department, nearly hundred
members and attorneys being present.
Judge Jacobs presided and John Arthur
acted as secretary.
The chief item of business transacted
was the appointment of a committee of
five to make all necessary arrangements
for the state meeting. On this committee
the chair appointed VIII III. Thompson.
George Donworth, r. B. Albertson and
Alfred Battle.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-16
ANOTHER FROM SEATTLE.
G. A. Binckstone. Lost at Cook Inlet,
Has a Daughter Here

c. A. Blackstone. one of the three men
who are reported lost at Cook inlet
Alaska. Is a Seattle man, and has a 10
year-oid daughter attending school in this
city. He has wife now living at Sunrise
City, Alaska. The little daughter makes
her home here with her aunt. Mrs. George
H. Wade. at Leschi park. Lake Washing
ton. Mrs. Wade received letter last week
from Mrs. c. l.. Blackstone. dated April S.
IN which she said that her husband had
been missing four weeks and no trace OF
him could be found.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-16
Counciimen ON n Jaunt.

The city hall was almost deserted yes
terday, several of the officials having left
early In the morning on a trip TO Swan
lake and the Cedar river water line. The
party. which left at go IN the morning.
was a large one. composed OF City En-
gineer Thomson, Superintendent OF Streets
Little. SUPERINTENDENT OF Water Works
Yoangs, CITY Comptroller Parry, Corpo-
ration Counsel Brown. Councilmen Dodds.
ellison. Hurd, James. McArdie, Navin,
Rude and Taylor. and ex-Mayor Phelps.
They returned last night.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-16

In speaking Of Chanherlain's Pain Balm
NeSSrS naagheEty Bros, Of Indiana, Pa.
say, we know O: many Of our customer.
who have used it e.. rheumatism, ard they
al praise il highly. We sell nors II Il thar
of any other household linif2eat." Fer salc
At Is and 30 cents PC, bottle By druggists.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-16
TEACHERS EXAMINATION.
Neat sum Realized for B~pent of
County Institute.

The examination OF applicants for teach
ers' license VAS concluded yesterday hav-
ing continued through three days As al
ready stated. the examinations were held
n tie library room OF the county court
house and were conducted BY County SUI
perfnseradsnt Aeresish. assisted ev pruf
Stafford. OF Ballard
Al the pagers are now In tie hanas az
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-16
Cargo aad Ran shipm.n,..

The Pacific Lumber Trade Journal sa.
complied the following figures or luuhs-
and shlngie shipments during the month
OF March. 1877:
Destination - cargo shipments from the
state OF Washington.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-16
BRYAN NOT COMING.
Engagesnents Made in Advance Pre-
vent His Visiting Mcshinrfnn

Yesterday Chairman Fl. r. Jones az the
Democratic state central committee.
Joined With National Committeeman W.
II White in telegraphing an invitation 70
W. j. Bryan TO visit WASHINGTON during
his approaching Western tour. An an
swer declining the invitation was resssvssi
IN TIE afternoon. Mr.. Bryan stating that
engagements already made prevent his ac-
ceufanra
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-16
t" w for COLDS.

Dr. Humphreys Homeopathic Manual OF
Diseases ar your Druggists or Mailed Free
sold ny druggists. Or sent on receipt Of
= cts, - cts or s. Humphreys Med Co.
Cor. William and John sis-. EeR York.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-16

The following table shows the xhinrarn,s
Of lumber ana shingles from the ssat~ ~
Washington. via thu Northsra pAesa.s
Great Northern And Canadian p,,la,
roads. 20 Eastern states 10 Gate as con-
pared with the same period last v-sr,
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-16
SHOULD BE ANNEXED.
WHAT THE TRADE OF HAWAII rs
TO THE UNITED STATES

The Chamber Of Commerce Memorial
Drafted by Thomas Prcsch a Com
prehensfve Document - Figures
That speak strongly in Favor Of
the Propositions.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-05-01

2 Piece bedroom suits s. to SO.
3 Piece Bedroom suits $I2 and up.
Paflor sets SO and up.
Folding beds at low prices.
Office desks and chains at prices to
sssit the times.
Kitchen tables 81 to $50.
Rockers $l.75 and Up.
Single dressen As low as 81.
Extension tables 8, 10, u feet.
Some fine pattern brussels and tap
estry carpet at low figures to close out
the stock.
Glass cabinets will Be sold at $50.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-05-01
RANDOM NOTES.

The judgements Of Time are just and
they are inexorsble. Time. the crest
avereer. the only righteous judge. site
out the real from the sham. To . few
men il assigns the rewards Of an endpE-
ing fame; to many 4 man who held a
conspicuous place in the theatre OF
events it metes out swift sorge,fulness.
The years have sat in judgment upon
Ulysses s. Grant and they have de-
creed that his fame ehall last. The mists
are clearing away from the war period
Il the republic. AID out Of them looms
q larger figure than the age in which he
lived had understood. Men know now
that he who sleeps beside theHudson was
ore Of the great men called by Provi-
dence from obsc urity to do great deeds.
and that in him mighty epoch strug-
Rled 10 lie expression. He fil's larger
angle in History rs his day recedes. and
vhatever the mutstiors OF the nation
which his sword redeemed, history shall
FAY Of him. for all time to Gene: In
him great man lived"
Il is fortunate that the fame Of Grant
had rot reached the mythus st'ge. 1t
10 not shrouded in those vapors OF Del
ficston tehird which the lofty spirit
and determined temper OF Washington
are hidden forever from succeeding
generations. To his couptrymen he is
stiil Grant the man. with q simple and
very human heart beneath that i'm
perturbable exterior. Some time they
knew Kim n "the Silent Man OF Des
tiny bot before his death they learned
to know him better. not az the cold in
terpreser OF blind fate. but % strong
souled, simple m nded American, 10
whom the majestic will OF bis people
found lite perfect embodiment. That he
Vas slow to realize his own supreme
mission, and that from beginning to the
end OF his career hs would have been
content with the humblest Of lots. they
sre glad to rem.mber. for it links him in
feeling with every man who is livir g out
q modest life under the sirgle inspira-
tim Of duty.
Duty draws a straight path through
eventr. and the character that walks by
it ie ordered IN all simplicity. Tie
modesty OF its unconscious greatness il
lost upon small minds: they are slowest
t, realize its colossal stature. II is
dimly remembered that there was orc,
IN unnamed American who thought he
vas - bigger man than old Grant
It 10 probable that If. in the nature OF
the great commander, there had been
the least evidence OF chow or pre- ,se,
the world would sooner have awakened
to q full knowledge Of bis imperial
qualities. At first only the large minds
OF his era understood him. 1t is sigpif
en-. that the Difference 10 him OF the
mon who. IN the popular comprehension
were often ranked before him, was in
etant ard instructive.
The rSsourceful Sherman. the i'm.
petuous Sheridan and tho eagacious
Mcpherson never showed such wisdom
in council aud such ardor in battle as
wien they we're rtcted by the captain-
general OF all tie armies Of the North
An bis great antagonists. Lee. John
tt-n. Longstreet and Buckner. agairs'
each OF whom ne had drawn q victorious
sxord. attest d By their friendship and
aimmirg tribute at once lis general
ship in war and his msguanimity ID
peace So was it slso whom from tn:
directions OF armies he succeede1 r.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-05-01

slopes Of Mount McGregory illustrates
the romance and compilation of fate.
He 10 seen passing his youth amid the
obecurity OF . log cabin home, living
to moro than half his days the unre-
gsried life of small farmer in border
state. OF tanner and trader in pro-
vincial community Of the middle west.
Suddenly, in the breath OF civil war.
that gray sky Of i'll fortune and sordid
care that hung over him is rolled up like
4 scroll. and out Of the tanneries OF
Galena issues the commander n-chief
OF the armies Of the republic. the au-
thor Of lite destin es.
Thenceforth from Donelson to Ap'
pomattox he writes history in success
sion OF thunder crashes, and the cent?
nent shakes with the shock of lezions.
Then the long years Of unparalleled
honors a. president Of his people. az the
guest OF the nations Of the world and
suddenly tbs sky daikers again and
misfortunes crowd the Old soldier. That
last campaign against death and dis
honor in which he he'd ba * one grim
enemy while he routed the other-can
it ever be forgotten! 1t is partly in the
valley Of the shadow, and it is partly on
the hilltors OF hope. but when it is ended
and he has capitulated to the Destroyer.
he has made such terms Of reace that
tie mourning people who eaw the end
may inquire % one did OF old: oh,
Death. where is thy stine?'
Grant might propose unconditional
surrender" for another, but he would
not accept it for himself.
Seen from the distances OF time, Ulys-
ses s. Grant will be remembered chiefly
as the central figure in the greatest civil
war OF the century, as the soldier whose
maguanimity consummated what his
sword had achieved. He came to the
front 1t q time when the Union arms
had faltered, and he turned them to-
ward victory. He impressed his ire
sistible vii, upon the movement Of the
Northern columns. and gave to the mill
tsry operations Of his government an
all-embracing purpose. So 1T befell that
this one man was enabled to stem the
tide OF events at Donelson with the first
important Union victory. to turn the
fortunes Of war by the siege at Vicks-
burg. to crush the Confederate hopes in
the West by the bates about Chatta-
ncoga and t. conclude armed resistance
in the South by the capture OF Lees
army at Appomattox. HE mission was
not ended whe the returning armies he
had commenced filed in review up Penn.
sylvauia avenue. A little la'er he stool
between the baLd Of vengeance and the
lives and liberties Of his foes. Again.
20 president. he was to interpose his
strong arm for q lasting peace between
the North and South. for the return OF
harmony between the great English.
speaking nations.
His mission did not end then. II was
not to end until beside the open grave al
Claremont the surviving Union and Con-
federate generals mingled their teare
and No. tn and South joined hands in
the full6llmert Of good will In the mo-
ment OF triumph twenty years before
Abraham Lincoln was struck down by
. m assafs:n's blind frenzy and his pa
tent lips could not pronounce the mess
.ge Of reconciliation with which hi.
heart was foil 1t remained for the
simple soldier on whom be bad leaned to
utter in his first State paper the plead
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-05-01


Goldby-My doct,r says my case
puzzles him.
Friend-Thst's what you get for
icing wealthy.
Mrs. Dwyer-Oo you believe all your
husband says!
Mrs. Duell-When he talks in his
sleep.
Maude-Bess;e fays she's engaged,
but she waits 1t kept secret.
Lena-Why.
Maude-The,e pro- ably isn't any
truth in il.
She-That hsn6s,m yourg doctor
looks perfec ly killing tonight
He-1hat's queer. he's OF duty.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-05-01

What do the senator's DO papa;
The United States senators dof
They arc patriots al, my good Httle Pani
They are patriots tried and true.
bot what do the senators DO papa;
The United States senators doe
OIL talk and debate for the good of the
state;
They are Statesmen leal and true.
Bot what do the senators DO, papa;
The United States senators Do?
Each talk IN turn until they adjourn;
They are workers stem and true.
bot what do the senators do, papa;
The United States senators dof
Oh! their speeches are sound and very pro
found.
They arc senators wise and true.
Bot what tM what do they do, papa;
Oh! what do they do, l pray?
Oh! they draw their pay IN the regular
way;
In the old immemorial way"
WILLIAM e. CURTIS
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-05-01

We tell story of price cutting that will be
trely the people of Lincoln The following prices
are just to show you what we can do:
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-31

1t is said the great catalogue of
books which the British Musium has
in process of compilation will be com
pleted within year or two. This
work will contain a list of nearly all
the books that have ever been pub
lished. One hundred and ten years
ago the museum completed its first
catalogue. 1t consisted Of two volumes
folio In manuscript In 1919 this cat
alogue had grown to eight volumes. A
new edition was commenced in the
thirtics. Only the frat letter was
printed. The rest were written. IT
was completed in 1851 and consisted
OF 80 folio volumes. In 1875 the list
had grown to 1000 and five years
later to 5000 volumes Tho new cdi-
ton commenced in 1881 will be printed
and is TO consist Of 500 volumes. con-
tanning list Of 1900. 600 titles.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-31
a FLOATING schnn1hnnse.

While returning from a trip down
tho picturesque "Texas" Railroad n
few weeks since, 1 was surprised TO
sec IN oddly constructed and rakish-
LOOKING craft tied up on the Indiana
side of the Ohio, just below Clover
port. found Upon inquiry that the
boat was floating little red school
house." whose owners mission is as
commendable as it is original.
The houseboat is the property of
Professor Dychus, a philanthropic In
diana citizen, who decided some time
since that he could serve his people
better if he became useful. He had
the boat built and fitted mp after the
fashion of village schoolrooms. and
started on his trip down the Ohio.
teaching the poor children their ga b
Cs, and imparting such other infor-
nation as will aid the worthy little
ones. Professor Dychus makes no
charge for tuition, stops but thirty
days ut each town, and accepts such
gifts in the way Of eatables or pro-
visions as the parents of his pupils
eel able TO offer him. Louisville
KY Post
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-31
WHOLE NO. 73l.
POPULAR SCIENCE.

An observatory at Odessa, Russia.
Is to be established as branch of the
observatory of Pulkowa.
Chica 90 physicians aud firemen are
opposed to the use of cocaine in eve
troubles, on the ground that it incites
taste FOR the drug.
A correspondent of the London
Lancet writes that scarlet fever in
the East is not only not the scourge it
is in Europe, hut is extremely rare in
both Asia aud Europe.
The longest distance that shot has
been fred is n few yards more than
fifteen miles, which was the range of
krupp's 130-ton steel gun, firing q
shot weighing 2600 pounds.
A German statistician saws that of
every 10000 chimneys. three are
struck by lightning, while Of the same
number of towers and windmills, sixty
and eighty, respectively, are struck.
Paris and Marseilles are now con-
nected by telegraph lines entirely un-
der ground. They are placed in iron
pipes and buried four feet beneath
the surface, with mauholes 5000 feet
apart. 1t cost $1,000, 900 to bury the
wires.
medical journal has made some
careful investigations among the col
leges of New England, which enabled
1t to state that students who do not
use tobacco gain weight, height and
girth of chest from ten to twenty-four
per cent. faster than those who chew
or smoke.
man of science has estimated
that cigarette smoker sends into the
mir about 1000, 900, 900 PARTICLES of
dust at every puff, while another emf
nent scientist gives it ont rs his opin-
ion that the average mans eyelids
open and shut 1000, 900 times in the
space of year.
German medical journals announce
the discovery of n new anmsthetic
produced from the molecular inter
action of phenacetin aud phenetidin.
Its name is y-theeny-diphe-
nyl-amidine, but to meet the exigen-
cles of the language it has been cut
down to ''holocain.
The Philadelphia Ledger says that
the subscriptions toward the purchase
of the Cope archaeological collection
for the Philadelphia Academy of Sci
ences are coming in slowly, and the
city will probably lose this fine col
lection, rs it lost the Redfield Her
barium few years ago, which was
purchased by st. Louis for its Botan-
ical Gc~1aD
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-31
FIorIda's Profitable Pineapple cro,.

From the reports OF all those who
have shipped pineapples already this
season and have received returns for
them, we learn that the prices re-
ceived have been very good so far.
by this we mean they have brought
from seven to eight cents apiece for
poorer quality of common pines up to
ten, twelve and fifteen cents apiece
for good ones of the common kind.
and in some cases even more than
that
This is doing very well, and if the
rest of the pines shipped this season
average any thing like this in prices.
the growers will he perfectly satisfied.
for at such prices there is money in
raising them. OF course the fancy
pines that were shipped brought fancy
prices, in most cases selling all the
way from twenty-five cents to 81, and
in some instances $3.50 apiece. This
year Is the banner year as far rs the
crop is concerned, aud, from indica-
tons now, it bids fair to be the ban
ner year for prices and profits also.
There IS surely good money in raising
pines, and our growers are finding it
out this year even il they never knew
it before
The statistics of the present CROP
cannot be obtained in full until the
close Of the shipping season, but est
mates promise n total Of $50, 600 ba--
rels, or 3OO,O standard crates. -
West Palm Beach (Fla) Tropical Sun.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-31
THE GREEN LANES OF THg PAST


care not to gaze at the years conn NO on
Thick-mantlcd in mist and with doubts
overcast,
Bat would rather stray back to the days tina,
are gone,
Along the green lanes OF the past
Across the cool meadows OF memory. where
Tho birds ever sing, and tho wild waters
fall,
And tho laughter of children Is borno on
the air,
And love shineth over it all.
The painter may picture tho future IN dves
That rival the rose and the rainbow, and
1t may leave him at last but guerdon OF
signs,
And hope that it failed to fulnn;
The poet may sing of the splendors SUI
preme,
OF tho opulcnt ages. far-coming and
vast
question him not, yet ask but TO dream
On the old quiet hills of the past.
Tho past is my own-there Is nothing nm.
certain WI
In all its wide range, and nay title is
While the future, at best, is face ON the
curtain.
That fades as my feet draweth near:
linen give me the blossoms, tho birds and
the bowers n -
And Every, every, loved s secne where my soul
Like an evergreen ixy>that mantles tho
towers . '''0
Aud feeds on thesdews of tho past.
james ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Ladies' Homo
4
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-31

The weight of the earth has been
fixed by the calculations of astrono-
mers, extending over many years. rs
{, O69, 900, 900, 900, 600, 600, 600, or six
thousand and sixty-nine trillion tons.
Our planet weights as much as seventy
eight moons. If the kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland be considered to
extend downward to the centre of the
earth-3963 miles-its weight would
be 1888, 900, 900, 600, 600, 600 tons.
The earth weights 1925 tinths as much
as the United Kingdom. Further. its
weight is fiftytwo and half times as
much rs Europe, eleven and a half
times as much as Asia, seventeen and
half times as much rs Africa. and
thirteen and third times as much MS
the Americas. j. Holt Schooling, en-
deavoring to make these figures clearer.
lma8ines the Coliseum ut Rome,
poopled with ghosts of 81, 900 persons,
who have been counting since A. y.
~, ut the rate of 100 tons per minute.
They would not have made perceptible
Impression on the total. If the in
habitants of hundred million stars.
each with population of one thousand
five hundred millions, were to begin
to count, they would finish the task in
seven hours.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-31
AS w METE.

nj an. i'm welt, jim. Therel that's light.
Gilt there, lazy-bonesl Here we roi
thought We could snake IL up II We tried
III the hill IL "A leetle bare o. snow.
what dye s'poseI keep ye fur?
Pretty pair'-a solderin' me-
Tut on the whip, Jim. good an thick.
What do we lag fur? Git there, Geer'
Bright little Jim on the tJppling load.
catches his lessons quickly too:
Swings his lash with childish vim
Brings IL down with a loud halloo.
Cit up, azy bonesi Git dare nowl''
LashinS and slashing with all his might
Learning to drive" and his father stands
Laughing aloud at the funny sight,
Years roll away, as the years all do.
Rather is grandpa" old and gray.
Pottering round the house ut Jim's
Made to feel he is In the wav.
working hard with his feeble hands
rolling At burdens beyond his strength.
work IL you eat. No laggards here"
Is what he hears from Jim ut length. N
AS We measure, so unto YOU
snail be measured the same again.
Eye for an eye, and tooth for a tooth
Headeth the law in accents plain.
NILS OF tue gods, that grind each day.
May grind slowly; they grind full sure.
lie VINO Cypress n suffering life
Must the oppressors fate endure.
Nary Morrison, in Our Animal Friends.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-31
To n1nI,c NYnlr Kin ,rn1r-

A Western genius has made dis
covery which, if all that he claims for
it be true, will settle the coyote and
wolf question for oil time. The dis
covery consists OF n yellowish- brown
liquid. The mode OF determination is
to trap wolf or coyote alive and in
jet three drops Of the fluid beneath
the skin. This operation is repeated
three times in twelve hours. nj the
en- Of which time the animal. with
grcen-eyel di'ated pupils, frothing at
the mouth and raving mad. is released
aud turned loose. II lives from thirty
to forty hours, after being liberated.
but, like a dog with hydrophobia. it
bites everything that it comes in con-
tact with, and rs every other wolfthus
bitten becomes inoculated, the poison
spreads aud death follows at q rapid
rate. IL is cruel, perhaps, but effec-
tive. Northwest Magazine.