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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-01-01

She had been i'll for some time and
doubtless this affected her mind when
she committed the desperate act. The
girl had many warm friends among
her classmates in this city.
Chas. HI. Ross, member of the
State Board of Horticulture, has
made an examination of several OF the
prune orchards in this county, and
expresses it as his opinion that the
damage from the freeze last month
has been greatly overstated. He does
not think that it will average more
than from five to ten per cent. of the
trees.
No bells rang out the old and in
the new" last night, an omission that
is as unusual as it is significant. The
people seem to have no heart to greet
new era of promised Prosperity"
which has been signalized by more
business failures than any other epoch
in our national history. The lips may
shout the seasonable greeting, in re-
Spouse to custom, but it finds only q
feeble echo in the heart.
The Seattle people are making a
great ado over the football game played
in that city on Christmas day by the
Multnomahs and their local team, and
they say the wonderful affair will go
down through the annals of athletic
history" So there is new addendum
added to the ancient and modern,
sacred and profane history, that con-
stituted the curriculum when we were
"kids" at school. In the language of
Calico, "The world moves"
In the case of the State vs.. E. j.
Boyd, continued from last week in
Justice Cavanaugh's court, decision
was made Tuesday morning, that the
evidence was not of a nature to war
rant holding the defendant to answer
in the Superior Court. He was ac-
cordingly discharged. The alleged
crime was in selling or trading prop
erty in Wisconsin for realty here, the
complainant Stoll submitting an alb
stract of title which apparently sus-
tanned the charge.
The STANDARDS Office astronomer
wishes to break it softly that in few
more generations, or more particularly,
in about zoe, 900 years, the world will
be celebrating its Christmas holidays
in the sunny month of June; when
Santa Claus will lay by his winter
wraps and come to pay his respects to
the children clad in lighter garments.
Should anybody wish to subscribe for
the STANDARD for that length of time
and pay in advance, liberal reduc-
ton will be made, provided applicants
come at once. This slow change in
the machinery OF our calendar is being
brought about by what is called the
procession of the equinoxes," at the
rate of about .45296OO, or , s1assS . of a
day each year. Church societies and
Sunday schools need be in no haste in
preparing for the advent Of a summer
Christmas tide. The usual festivities
may not be in fashion then and Ion G
stockings may not he worn.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-01-01
STATE OF WASHINGTON,
County of Thurston.

VI WAshlNGTONt
County Of Thurston.
In the Justices Court. L. NJ. Atkins, Justice
OF the Peace.
J. NJ. Newsum, Plaintiff, vs.. Chas. McCafferty,
Defendant
To Charles McCafferty: In the name of the
State OF Washington, you are hereby notified
that J. NJ. Newsum has filed a compIaint
against you In said Court which will come ON
to be heard at my office, No. 5l7 Main street,
Olympia, ThurstOn county, State Of Washing.
ton, on the sd day Of January, A. D. 1857, at
the hour of 10 O'Clock A. n. and unless you ap.
pear and then and there answer, the same will
be taken as confessed, and the demand of the
said complaint is to recover q debt from de.
PENDANT, for pssturing and feeding q horse OF
defendant. In the sum Of s1l.25. Service 10 &C.
quired by attachment and publication.
Complaint filed Jan. l, 1897.
L. NJ. ATKINS, ]. p,
Date OF first publication Jan. l, 1897.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-01-01
Letter. Of Miss Frances e. willard.

CASTLE, N. Y, December IL, '96.
DEAR MOTHERS AND SISTERS OF
AMERICA: My heart is deeply stirred
by the sacred ministry to the hapless
little orphans Of Armenia. Anything
more piteous than their condition it
would be impossible to conceive, and
l pray with all my soul that our good
and true people, White Ribboners
and everybody else, may give their
Christmas money not to fill the stock
ing of child tenderly sheltered in a
Christian home, but to put stockings
on the bleeding little feet OF pitiful
Christian children who have no roof
but the sky, no bed but the ground,
and no food but the ground roots, ex-
cept as we, surrounded by every com.
fort, reach out hands of help toward
them and their heart-broken mothers.
Let us ennoble and enlarge the hearts
of our little ones by showing them how
they can on this loved day carry out
the Christ spirit. What we do must
bed one quickly. One dollar will feed,
shelter and care for an orphan for a
month. Twelve dollars for a whole
year.
The above suggestion is equally ap-
prOpriate for New Years Gifts.
Send contributions for this object
direct to Brown Bros. & Co., SO Wall
Street, New York, marked: For the
Orphan Fund of the National Ar
menian Relief Committee.
sometimes fear least / plead 600
long, so l will make this short, but
none the less earnest, devoted and
tender.
God bless you one and all and make
your Christmas sweet in the happy
homes that He has given you; and,
better still, may it be hallowed by the
knowledge down deep in your souls,
that you have touched the keys of
power that are vibrating in stricken
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Europe like a new music hall song and kill a few hundred thousand on the bomestretch in London? That's the plague. Same old Johnny they're hay ing such jolly time with in India now. Black death! Very able-bodied sort of plague, you know. Fellows it reaches for it generally gets and finishes about 95 per cent. of 'em. Breaks out in black spots, like Nile boils, you know High ly decorative but not recommended for the health by the faculty Not like cholera. Yon can keep that out by be- in shy what you eat or drink. Cholera infectious, plague contagious, don't you know"
 "How do they fight it?"
 Don't know yet. Expect to find out when it gets here. Quarantine's no good, They quarantine the Mecca pill grims regularly. know fellow got through three cordons last year for seven piasters (35 cents). Got to pay men better if they're to refuse back shish Government hasn't got the money There you are. But 1 shan't run away. Be lovely time for promo tions. Mother lift would do me good just now Tell you lost heap of money to-day. You can see what wreck I am. Oh this betting's bad business; bad; badl Think I'll pull out right Thursday, though. By love! It's getting late! Must be off to the boxing match Tommies. To finish. Won't you come along? Cards after wards. Oh, but there's a game lot of Americans here Poker and baccarat. No limit. Two hundred and fifty pounds on the turn of a card. Saw Rosenfeld- he's the man that broke the bank three times at Monte Carlo saw him win e1. 400 night before last. Enghsh. I think. And there's Pat Sheedy. Plays lovely gentlemen's game with gentlemen. Knows gentle man from a gambler, too. But this IS no town for me. Time l was getting back to work. Won't come to the fight? Well, geod-by."
 Tall. handsome and with the easy bearing that comes of perfect uneon- sciousness of self, the young engineer lit cigarette and sauDtered out of the hotel. As he passed the mastaba, or bench by the door, agood-loofing' na- tive of perhaps 50 years greeted hlm with a low safaa1n.
 It was one ef the @boys from the cholera camp.
 ELIZA PUTNAM HEAroN
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night, though, so fellow couldn't sleep. Dead give away. Ha, ha! Dead give away. Joke, don't you see? Here bowling gave the dead away. Here, you boy, hat moyeh bariden, bring some more fish, you son of Mahommed, do you hear ?"
 eYou were in camp that season? ?" l asked as the waiter hurried to obey.
 .'Yes, lost my leave. Got my notice same as always: You are entitled to six weeks leave. Down at the foot they'd written in, Sir So and So will be pleased if you do not take leave this year What could fellow do? Hard work, too. Moved camp every three days. Kept things clean. Thirsty work, too. We have weather up the Nile. It's not so beastly cold as it is in Cairo. I have a nasty throat here all the time. Didn't drink drop of water in six months. Beer? Rather not! Not in cholera time Went into a chemists. Saw some kind of fzz water. Asked him how much he'd got. Said he had ten dozen bottles. m take the lot says I. Used to have it sent to camp a little at time. There's heap of money in soda in high Nile.
 You ought to have seen the sanitary rules I had in that camp. That's the beauty of camp, you get something like your own way I had kit inspection twice day. before meals, to see If those fellows hadn't smuggled in some stomach-ache stuff, eucumbers or rad ishes, don't you know. Eat green truck? My men had their bacilli cooked for them, if you please. What did they drink? Water, boiled. Took on five extra men; put 'em on the gov eenment. Kept 'em boiling water all day. Men washed in boiled water, when was looking anyhow. That sort of thing made paraffine stoves dear. Wood, too. Olive wood don't burn well. A palm trunks a find. Men used to have a jolly good scrub before eating. Nearly took the hide off lem. As for the one that went to the village for supplies, I offered to boil him. Didn't take me, though
 .sBeastly nuisance, that's what chol- era is" resumed the young engineer, after slowing away a generous portion of salad 'slJsed to sleep with one ear open. Had to go after the men when they ran away They'd break for town in the middle of the night 10 get Q tseliyfall of raw germs. Had to saddle
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and gallop for them. Do? Round 'em uF, as you Americans say. ard give 'em the butt of my whip if they wouldn't trot back to camp peaceably. Iie 'em up when got 'em there. Aiv llckln did me good when | was kid. These Arabs are grown-np kids. They know when they need a tannin' and feel better when they've got it. Of course the regulations of the service don't mention whip butts, but couldn't have work interrupted and a dozen breaks in my canals, just be- cause some fool Arabs chose to tumble down with cholera. Rather not!
 Had only one case in my camp. Pulled him through. Joke on Tne.lis. Had the next camp to mine, Inglis did, and one of his Yussufs went wrong in his insides same time as mine. Won liver of 1nglis, betting whose man would get along best. Awful bore, hav- ing to work all day and keep hot plasters on man all night. Fellow gets tired after awhile. Oh Lord, that's nothing to horse racing, though, I'm broken man and the image of despair. Fancy can reeoup Thursday, if my threats better. It was my throat went back on me today"
 The young engineer looked as un- scared by care and as innocent of the world as baby. He may have been three and twenty. At a pinch, a year or two older.
 Lots of cholera among the Bedou- ins," he began again. Died by hun dreds in the oases. wouldn't let any body come into my camp except our own men. Kept revolver handy Fired over their heads if Bedouins hove ir sight. Got so they didn't dare come within five miles of me. Why they'd sneak in in the night and sleep in a mans blanket. if it wasn't for gun powder"
 Where's the plague now?"
 ''Tell you exactly where it is. It's at Dieddah. You know what that means. Seaport for Mecca. Place where pill grims get together and have happy time and exchange diseases. Remem- Der reading about the Black Death in the school histories; how it used to start in the east and travel through
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ELLEN OSBORN'S LETTER.
Spring Colors and Costumes Seen
 in Gay Nice.
On Coach Tops and Along the Road The Bonnet and It's Strings Dresses Seen at the Casino
 md the Promenade.
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Nice.-The day before l left Cairo a party of English people returned from up the Nie. How cold 1t is,' they ming away because it was too warm Perhaps, too, fear of the plague hur- ried us q little. But in Nice l shiver in my turn, and people who have been all winter in the Riviera laugh and lounge without wraps in the sunshine. Tray cling north from Egypt is like cooling off from Turkish bath; you have to take it gradually, and Nice is a fine intermediate station.
 The casino on this jetty and the Promenade des Anglais are even gayer than when went away. The spring colors are fresh and charming, and the longer dresses, when you don't stop to think of the inconvenience of them, have sweeping grace that adds to the effect of the picture. Green and pink, with more lace than ever worn yet and with masses of flowers, that is what I see. Bonnets have appeared again, real bonnets with strings that tie under the chin. The princess dress has brought them, or that is my theory.
 The fashions of season are all some how based upon an ideal. One year it is pastoral simplicity and we wear fiat hats and skirts of embroidered mus lin. Another year we are after dignity and civilization, and we put on bon nets and trailing gowns. Another the ory is possible and that is that once again we shift the method of attaining the universal aim of woman--to look young We have worn hats up to 50 because they are reputed to be youth- full; now we tie broad bonnet ribbons because they bring color to faded complexion and hide a neck that be- gins to show wrinkles.
 Theories aside, here is a handsome dress that noted this afternoon in the casino You are to think of green taf
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1 was a flat brown straw trimmed with

was a flat brown straw trimmed withl yellow roses.
 The public gardens attract almost a4 many people as the sea wall, for the anemones are in blossom. Under the palms and pepper trees this morning an English girl and her lover were stroll- ing. and she was in blouse and sailor lat and fresh as her spring fxings. Her skirt was fine old rose serge, made with three paits behind. Her blouse was of grass linen hintiDg of old rose Last summer you would know it was madc-oyer old rose silk. but that
 is not the idea this spring. he threads of silk are woven in with the linen and sometimes n bit of tinsel is added. too. You get q fabric that is light, cool and of novel color effect, and what more could you desire? This sills-linen blouse was made with skirts that ruflled about the hips with the narrow belt of gold braid It was made bright in front by embroidery in gold thread and pin1c floss upon strips of grass linen. 1t had quite full sleeves gathered into long cuffs set with embroidery. A smart llttit CIdNdt tlt InioilSd ttiV ttA At V sssA*s collar The white sailor hat was rather broader than last years and was fn- ished with band of old rose and green ribbon.
 Coaching on the Corniche road Is in full swing and pretty gowns bloom on the box seat constantly One of the lest and most novel so far was fine brownish yellow cloth, with skirt quite straight in front, giving the effect ot having been drawn sharply to the baclc where it hung in deep folds. A foot and half from the ground t was cir cled eight or ten times by fine black velvet cord. The bodice was bolero closed in front and giv- ing the effect of sleeveless blouse. It was of yellow brown silk outlined with black velvet cord and worked with gold embroidery. The sleeves were of the skirt material, corded near the shoulders, tapering gradually and not becoming tight until just before they reached the hand. Black velvet collar, gold cord belt and small hat of yellow straw trimmed with black and green were the accessories.
 see good many empire gowns even for street wear. They are very pretty indoors but rather comical in, for ex-. ample, brislS-sea wind. TbS,e ia . lot
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bands on the continent, and in the amusement line all the up-to-date fea- lures will be presented. Among the bands engaged are Bellestadt and Bel lenberg's. Gilmore's {now Victor Her. bert's1. the Counternos-father and son with their talented organization, Innes band and several more. Those who are conversant with events trans bring in the musical world will remem- Der that Victor Herbert succeeded the lamented Gilmore as director of the famous Twenty regiment band. Innes band was given the post of honor at the worlds fair and at the Atlanta exposition, and is most complete as sociation of masters of instruments. The other bands are all composed of musicians of high order of merit, and all the musical features will be of q high order of merit.
 Vanity Fair is fast assuming stu pendous proportions. and the novelties that will be found within it's limits are endless in variety and bewildering in magnificence. The Midway Plaisance and Streets of Cairo were but stepping stones to the Tennessee Vanity Fair. In addition there will be a series Of lectures and illustrated addresses ln the Educational building. concerts and entertainments in the Auditorium, mil nary pageants. bicycle tournaments. aquatic exhibitions. fireworks. horse and cattle shows, conventions and T long list of attractions that are really of the highest order of merit.
 The Hardware Dealers Magazine plainly sets forth the objects of the Ten nessee Centenrial in it's edition of March 1. when it says: ssThe New York state
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feta laid in fine accordion plaits and cut as a trailing princess gown. The sleeves and the entire back of the long skirt show the long yielding lines of the plating. The skirt opens all the way down upon a front of applique work on a cream colored lace founda- ton. The bodice is of green taffeta without plating. A scarf drapery of creamy lace is fixed by black velvet knot upon the left shoulder, carried across the bust, caught again and al- There is black velvet belt and collar, and there is q very small bonnet of green tulle, with a knot of black velvet and white paradise bird plumes. l do not remember with this toilet any bon net strings, but there were strings to another bonnet not far off and the bonnet was worn by an obviously young woman.
 This second costume was of water green faille of some silk not quite so heavy. It was cut, like the first, upon the princess model with half-trained skirt opening ill front upon green mousseline ae soie laid ii the very fine ''sun" plaits from the throat to the ground This plated front was gath cred under a belt of gold braid and jewels Reyers of superb lace made long corsage draperies and fell in dain- ty frills over the hands. The bonnet, for one reaches that finally, was of gold braid. with wreath of red roses set about the face as a frame. White paradise plumes rose behind and the strings were of dark green velvet rib bon. Almost too formal, was it not, for casino or sea wall promenade, but worn by q young matron proud per- haps of her new dignities.
 Of quite other types were the dresses Of two French girls strolling under big parasols. One wore a delicate beige colored canvas with little bolero em- broidered with pale pink and blue floss in flower designs. This opened upon a blouse of lead-colored silk, showing faint pink and blue lights, like the breast of a pigeon. Collar and sash were in the same tones. The hat was broad one-the bonnet cult will be some time in reaching the unmarried wom- all. It was of yellow straw with trim mlngs of lace and flaming peoples.
 The other girl wore brown glace silk that was, after all, perhaps nearer cream color. It was figured in yellow with touch of gxeen, and made with blouse gathered like a ehemisette across the top and belted with broad folded sash of yellcw satin. Her hat
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TENNESSEE eENrENNIAL-THE PARTnENoN.

late Dr. Yandell, of Louisville, Ky, who was a Tennesseean. The figure is over 40 feet in height, and is magnificently proportioned.
 During the past week work has been commenced on the Government build ing and also upon the Educational building. track has been laid and ballasted to the site of the Government building and train loads of material etc, have already been unloaded. When completed it will be a most beautiful structure, of novel and ornate style of architecture and of especially graceful outline. The Negro building is now ap- preaching completion. It is considered by many to be the most beautiful build ing on the grounds, and it is reYela- tion. That is to say, it's contents will be, for the people who have been ac- customed to read of Another Southern Outrage" in northern and eastern pa pers, will scarcely believe such work possible by negroes in 'the Sunny Scuth."
 The grand organ is another thing that will attract great attention, and it will be a most superb instrument. In size it will be one of the largest in the south, being 40 feet wide and 30 feet high, and having 53 stops and 1,847 pipes. The makers, Hook & Hastings, of Boston, built the enormous organs in the music halls in Cincinnati and Bos- ton, and in this instrument will intro- duce many new features
 Tine committee on music and amuse- ments has engaged the most noted
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NOTES ON THE PLAGUE.
Random Observations on the Ch l.
 era and the Black Death.
Both "Rather Nuisances" = How n Party of Oriental Natives May Be "Sanitated" with
 Whip Butt.
Copyright, 1S97.l

airo.-"Plague coming?" said the young civil engineer as he unfolded his dinner napkin. ''I suppose so. Nav get it hot. come high Nile. Hope you're quite fit this evening. Got beastly throat myself. Lost a pot of money to-day This betting is bad business: bad; bad I'm broken and despairing man. Have to sell my pony if 1 cawn't get back some of my piastres next Thursday. But that was a fine steepIe- chase, though. Oh, I must get to work again, that's all. This being on leave is too expensive. Must get to work"
 Where do you camp this year?"
 Don't camp at all; worse luck. Go into office in Alexandria. Beastly place Oh, of course, it's step promotion, don't you know; but it's bore. Tent iu's jolly lot better, especially with the plague careering along Camps the place in plague time. Can do as you like there. Cholera? Same thing as cholera? Huh, not much! Cholera's easy. There's cholera every high Nile. There's plague, too, oftner'n folks know, s'far's that goes They call it typhus, aggravated typhus, don't you know. But cholera? Cholera is as much healthier than this pimply John ny they're having down east as-as beer is healthier than water;" and the young engineer, who, with his smooth, fresh face looked little more than a boy. drained his glass with sigh of satis- faction.
 Cholera is nothing. It was bad though, two years ago. Saw em in Fayum carrying out the dead every night. Dozens. On donlleys Did 'em up in bags like grain. No cholera there, you know. Natives wouldn't re- port it. No doctor sent for. Howled all
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Induced Her Own IlIness

Much has been said concerning the cure of disease by suggestion. and but little in regard to the illness induced by the same cause. It is said, how-| ever, that Miss Annie M. Efler, of No. i6Ha Downing street, New York, is the| despair of considerable number of physicians in that city. About nina years ago, when in perfect health. she became the companion of a woman suf= fering from consumption. Miss Ellef was soon initiating the hacking cough of her mistress. unconscionsly Thur became fixed habit. Prominent phys5z clans were interested in her case, and many unsuccessful attempts made to check consumption, which has move been acquired. Serious hemorrh8g
 set in. She then developed eve and eaIs troubles, with many other disordeE
 with which she has been brought ilE contact. This victim of self-infl lict<l diseases is an incurable invali<l. | F though she has been treated in 11nS hospitals. # zz