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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-19

heafth states tasf aaa ssa pswsicssas ress-
ogr ze,s ard reported prosnpsiy zhee sa2s-
Y3cioEs Gases. nsary - -flsse cases vs1zas3
have bssn announced seVeT23 lass ago.
But swo af them hswe e@er discovered IN
TIE cast twenty -four heurS-
TIE number announced today : elsTes-
rsakznr eighfeea ia all 50 fsr announced.
q which number three have diea tSo q
whlch we're previously reported ard nlse
fetlav disr Har rEed- T-srec suspicious Cises
are under Surveillance
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-19

FRANKFORT KY. SEPT. i8-The grand
fury tosLay indicted fer gambling Repre-
sentative ". Il Suglitz - louisville;
r. preses1fztive J. II Johns, q Pike co8n-
Is r II Dom a Louisville capitalist.
Tanne~ = SToFsa. clerk 0f ths senate A.
h@rt F. Scott. % louisville. ard Joan
Eolleu box - LsuisviIie The ulists-
Ereaz@r ce1slsted ~ poSer PLAYING fcr
money n HE a. hoti here daring tie
r@,segft assaslztfvs spsst9a.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-19

JACKSON. Mss Sept. iS-Ths deter
rrizstion q the people 10 enforce . sSTict
quarantine Led = mob 20 80 cut or tAs
ASaaama a Nickshgrg railroad. vest 4
the city. last night ard tear up tire tracks
and burn : trestls q feW miles distant
This ratircad Il accused Of aiSregsrsislg
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-19

San FRANCISCO sept x-C0nsster-
anlN anxiety - sslf here fsr tas safety o.,
tha British snlg HannernanH. frvrn New
castle. Eaxian8 fer this p-srE. which -
roy 0S days out % srcut two months =
ans ane-naif DFe~asza Sae nss 0uty beer
eaoksn euse zinee sss kssr Enzsas6 That
wax on June = hv fa@ steamer sfAr 81
isns Il larstuae * south = wsxs len
staas A srasn annoGnt os relasarsaes
hss beer piscea 81 her.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-19

fron tae South. esseeialEy from si1e viclnity
CT Ne@ Orleans. be f2n.xAta1. - as D
Et1srts against atay F~sssEale yellow fever
germs.
Refugee Frons the Plague
DENVER. sept. IS. r. " isl.aEns. CO
Meridian Miss arrived IN the city TO-DAY.
oaAng the arsE visitor 70 arrive from the
yellow fever district ffe carries with hirn
a heatth certificate and an afFhsav9t. the
latter piessEiuE sh8f be wiu aat re-eatr-
the state of Mississippi until after ghs
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THE FEVER CAUSES
[AHIESSNSS.
Railroad Tracks Torn Up
In Mississippi.
THE TROOPS CALLED OUT.
People of Jackson Determined 10
Enfere QEaraRtiRe.
THE TROOPS CALLED OUT.

az<sTed at Csaskaaal Raining of
Trains. Fhey Tear Up the Track
and Burn = Fr~-fle. and Threa ten
Further Siofsnce-ssox. Nrfsurtn.
Troops ts Protect Hafirosds-t
TFoehz shuts People in Mobile
Tive Deaths in New Orleans and
Ten Additional Gases at Edwards
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motives tke SceaEsr ads
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reasons 20 irf ere wherever sae likes
me spaaks- aavts~s Sp&t- - rees8
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us-n H. s~ansrs ssras1xa ssar satsrEzs ssiaFy
~ +he r-nsss1 Sssses sg1ressSEg tie 9gsH-
tor sAas 0shaew 50 spain mas have r
dangers - faes afser sne Ensrsd states
couS Srsss meets.
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CopyriEhfed. issr ~ tn Associated Press.
LONDON. sept is-Ths fact that -
lesz than ten batteries OF aorse and neld
artillery have been ordered 30 ernaark f9z
lnssla durlng tHe months ~ September
aad October Is mucn eaEameated GneH IA
military e4reles. Under ordinary ciFegus-
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Rriti.h Merr 80, -.

SIAI-A Sept. 1s-T1e reverse suffered
hy ghe British force znffar Ger Jefr8es
n th@ attack 7e~sh ~ Aray7l Is regarded
-e1s5 Saria+1Eip ana f is stated fr se~el-
EhE- = ra -5r- Aces
1858 improve t1e waos= arSer mfU 10 ~
arms
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Preparing FOR A
FORMIDABLE Hf.
England Sending More
Artillery to India.
THE AMER SUSPECTED.
Believed 20 Be Preparing for War.
While Processing Friendship.

No War Material Allowed 80 Enter
~se- With Russia. Betrasiaz a
NtdesPreaa Plot. said 40 Have
B~es ni.roysred-Twe Opinions
Watcher the Irish Crops Have
ties - spain Advised 80 Recall
Nsyfer ard End the subaH Wa.
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rrs~sss~s 4 -Fsgsrr rrs~s-- ~ssas ssrzsana-y
-esrsas gare~F NBrx ger- xzFses Nod
can s.easn 49, C.EssT1mz haTx &ra s~e@1
gs-~7sf zz-~a-s- Esasss-s as1raz-zs w1h
nassv assaser. r-sssaers-- f4s'z Berger Aes8ys
zaasa~-,s esrer-.ars $50 Tswkessen Hro~
-vs.sss ssfzarsFs sEsz- % ~ns@ s~gsu
@ r q. p. e.. Parker e4~ssssAs
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Sssr4g pmaaea Ess Fa-axzaas 1zz 49,
- n& ~ ess82. eaE-z4s sszs Ea- So<-
x3x - gAAss -xSss.
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Deaths at Ocean Spring..

OCEAN SPRINGS. Mss. sept. r-
Since hast rerortS three deaths have &C.
e1rrac here. " alter :. Branfu~d and Miss
Mamie fSo0drtra. both OF yellow fever.
and Oscar Elder. formerly frnm Michigan.
wno hAs bessn sick shout twelve days Hgs
silment Naz not pronounced yellow fever
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Above list comprises the outfit that We
have supplied great many kl0ndikers.
Everything about il is first-C1ass.
All We require is few minutes notice.
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SPRINGFIELD. III. sept. Is-sserstary
Egsn. q rhe state board % health. teie-
grsphSa the board from the Cairo yeIIos
fever quarantine i<ht that thu tgo
cases a. the Marine hospital az Cairo hsvs
been pronounced saspfcioas by The stafs
boari - health Physicians TIE sherie
- Alexander eosnty has quar2ntlned ths
grounds
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~a1slASkA GRUBSrAEE AND Trading CO.

Fas
st"ea+a paid a1a
,
'ad Rruha Faektns Co
1@nuaer BANKERS
rs@is
| "a - s"Tr>
= tfr straight eas7e an p
4 p AasSA sae Nss-Ae
@~ sFsessakea as
~ eeenocate sysff1sa-ea|S AID
@1aTn@-a asteess - halter
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qEsrs nrfre has been removed.
Even IN case ef dearh in my family,
said hs 4 could not return 70 tire stats
without being arrested The greatest e1n-
s:eruatton prevails al over the state. ans
shs strictest regulations are esrorrea.
Trains bearing passengers through the
state are moving with the doors of fhe
ears l0cked Just az Cinnamon are seEs
under bond through this country 20 Cubs.
Everybody who IS anls to move Is aeesn<
10 the country. Es7SiB@~s IN many OF tia
towns is almost 81 standEtfiE The cot
ton croP. which s. ouiv cre-third harvest.
state ard Il the epidemic spreads TIE loss
xiH he arcalcuEAhge. Every hing depends
on the SUCCESS cf the authorities IN hold
inz rhe fever inside the line between New
Orleans and M0hlle-s
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frank Donaldson. one Of today's asw
cases died tonight c. l. Swaysee. the
AssocE4tea Press operator a. the Reststsr
osfce. was sakssr sick at s.9 o'clock To-
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The MsralLs g LavllIs has g9ne o
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-24

The stage had stopped, and there was
the sound O voices talkin' and laughin'
and of feet hurryin' up the steps. Then
the door opened-nO, it was burst open
and in trOOped parcel o children, and
behind EN-, not fur behind. with her hands
stretched out and the happy tears stream
in down her pretty face, come her daugh-
ter Ellenl
How them two kissed and chung to one
n other, till the children got out O pa
tience and wouldn't wait no longer for
their turn! Then Uncle Jerry came to the
resky and says, betwiXt laughin' and cry
in:
There, there. children! l guess that'll
dew! It's my turn now and he took her
to the lounge where she could lay and
rest and still be with 'em all. She pulled
him down to her and kissed him and
whispered:
'Oh, husband. how good you be! You We
made me the happiest woman in the
worldr'
Uncle Jerry got away as quick as he
could, and wentsOut to the barn and set
down on the hay cutter and laughed and
wiped his eyes till he was some calmer.
Then he fell on his knees and thanked
God reverenty for 3howin him before he
died what true happiness wuz, and how
to get it for himself by bestowin' it on
Others.-New York Tribune
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-24

He got up and bowed his nose with all
his might and main.
want you to get well, Betsey. l want
you to get well.' he managed to say.
The strangest expression come into her
face you ever see in any creatures. Then,
as if struck by somethin' in his looks, she
seemed to get dim idee that he was diff
ferent, and she tried to make out how it
was, but couldn't, and, bein' too tired and
weak to think much, she jest shet her
eyes and give it all up.
That night Uncle Jerry harnessed the
old mare and went over and got Mary
Buell. to came n stay with 'em a spell.
Mary's an excellent good hand in cases
O sickness, and bein' an old maid. she's
always ready to go and dew fer the neigh
bOrs. She's a prime nuss and housekeep-
er, and she's good company, too-jest the
kind O. person to cheer Aunt Betsey up,
you know. Wall, it come along the day
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could bear. There want nOthin to her,
no time, as you might say, and this was
the last straw Oh he camers back. II
any rate, all to once she give out and had
to 60 ter bed. The next mOrnin' she
couldn't get up, but Uncle Jerry didn't
think much about it, s'posed she'd be up
bimeby; but when he come i'll to dinner,
there lay his wife jest the same. as If
she hadn't no thoughts O gettin' up.
He didn't know what under the sun to
do, but he knew he must do somethin'. so
he het a brick and put to her feet. and
was jest making Il mustard plaster to
put on her somewheres when Mis- Hop
kins happened in.
She see how it was with Aunt Betsey
in a minute. She's awful cute about some
things, Mis- Hopkins is, and she amt
afraid o. no man livin'.
Uncle Jerry" says she. matter Of fact
as you please. your wife's a very sick
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-24
CHRISTMAS MUSINGS.

Whate'er the facts or fancies Of our creed
They are divine if they but serve our needs:
And hence the brightness Of that glorious
That still is called "The Star of Bethle
hem
Star, beyond all other stars designed;
TO shed Il purer luStre on mankind,
And through the various lenses of the soul
To warm and cheer and elevate the whole.
And what. although it's broad supernal beams
May be but concentrations of the CLEANS
That lit up many an eastern Buddha Is breast
TO shed erewhile their radiance DER the
west?
Whate'er the grade or color of the flame,
In essence, light and love are all the same.
Both myth and mystery must to all things
Else Progress has no source from whence to
spring.
Here none superior knowledge may assume,
AS mind and matter are conceived in gloon;
Nor has a Veda or Apocalypse
Dispelled one cloud of the profound eclipse
With peace and joy widespread throughout
the land
While merry little household Christs are
OF every song and smile this Christmas
morn.
Inen let our lnmOSt souls ascend IN praise
To that mysterious power who guides our
ways:
And let us truly thank him. one and all,
For all his Christs and Vedas. great and
small
But. oh, alas! that we should only see
His love and care in full prosperity!
Or that discomfort for single hour
Should prompt us to deny his fostering
power!
Oh. when shall it be clearly understood
That evils but the darkest shade of good:
That in some great equation may be blcnt
Darkness as though 'twere lights true com
plement?
But now that are all assembled here
On this glad day, the white stone of the
year
As on this elevated plane stand.
Let us give those below Il helping hand.
Let each produce what treasures he has got
From any lore he lOVeS-nO matter what.
But all the Christian needs, on his account.
VIII simply be 1.-THE Sermon the Mount"
Monthly.
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fore Christmas, and Aunt Betsey lay
back in her easy chair in the cheerful sit
tin room. A pitcher full of late fall flow
ers stood on the mantelshelf; Il cracklin'
fire was burnin' in the open fireplace, and
the old tabby cat lay before it on the rug,
purrin for all she was wuth-a perfect
pictur' of content.
The door was open into the kitchen. and
she could see Mary steppin' round about
her work, gettin' ready for to-morrer.
She could smell the stutiin' for the turkey,
and the plum puddin bakin' in the oven.
She knew there was hull shelf full o
pies in the pantry-she see 'em yesterday
six mince, six punkin, three apple an
three cranb'ry tart. She thought it was
too many to make at once; and seemed
so strange. She sighed and laid her head
back. with the old look on her face. She
WAS thinkin' of Ellen and the children.
She sat there, blamin' herself and think
in what IA poor, weak kind of a mother
she was, till the tears rolled down her
cheeks. Then, all at once, she heard a
noise outside.
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they're different from your wife, and
why? | ask you fair and candid, why
shouldn't she look as happy, be as happy
and make as good 'pearance every way
as them women? And why is it that she
has took to her bed in the prime O life
and don't wanter live no longer! For
find that's about the way it is with her.
When Uncle Jerry came back he went
up to the bed and sat down beside his
wife and looked at her. She was asleep,
and Mis- Hopkins thought he must "a
realized how pitiful she looked for she
seen him draw his hand acrost his eyes
two or three times on the sly.
Bimeby he got up and went out to Mis-
Hopkins, and, says he:
What was the doctors orders! What
can l do to help YEP
He ordered nourishin' food, and wine,
and so on" she says, land l guess the
fust thing you may kill a chicken, if
you're minter, and git it ready fer the
broth; then go over to Jim JacksOn's and
buy a quart or so of that oldest grape
| wine O his'n. She'll be awake by the
time you get backwith it, | guess
Uncle Jerry didn't so much as wink at
mention of the chicken, but when she
spoke o the wine so offhand and matter
! O course he drawed in his breath once or
twice kinder spasmodicky. but he never
! opened his head.
When the broth was ready Uncle Jer-
ry asked if he might take it in; so Mis-
Hopkins filled one of the chiny bowls that
was Aunt Betsey's mars and set it in a
plate with cracker or two, and he took
! 'em along.
! The broth was good and strong, and
when Aunt Betsey tasted ont she looked
at her husband real kinder scairt, and,
says she:
Where did this 'cre come frOm?"
And he aughed and says: Its made
out O one of our best Plymouth Rocks;
is it good!'
| A wonderin'. quiverin' smile lowered for
a minute on to her poor face; she dldn
know what to make ont. But when he
logged in the jug O wine and poured out
a hull half Il tumber full and handed it to
her, her eyes fairly stuck out of her head
with establishment.
Drink it; it'll do you good" says he.
Its Jim Jackson's oldest grape wine
you've heard tell on
"Why-why. husband" she whispered,
didn't it cost an awful sight o money!
Only So a gallon" he answered, tryin'
to smile, but lookin' rather CHASTITY. She
slipped it slow, eyen' him over the top O
| the tumbler as she done so; but pretty
soon she set it down and spoke again,
awful meachin'. and 'pealin', her lips
tremblin' as if she was going to cry.
I'm sorry to put you to so much ex-
pense, husband. I'm afraid-1'm afraid
| it amt with while!'
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DOn'ts About Gifts.

Don't above all things ask the giver
whether you may exchange her gift.
Don't forget that it is the inward spirit
that makes the real value of the offering.
Don't express dissatisfa elton with a
gift, no matter how great your disappoint-
ment.
Don't above all things be guilty of max
ing a list of articles you desire This is
a species of polite blackmai.
Don't, even in your innermost self, spec
ulate as to whether your gift will bring
a return, and above all return in none
tary value.
Don't forget that the chief charm of a
gift is essentially the surprise. Don't,
therefore, barter with a friend as to re-
ciprOcal gifts.
Don't. if you have neglected to remem-
Der a friend, wound her pride by sending
a New Years gift in exchange for her
Christmas present. The motive is too ap-
parent.
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Another Year Is Dawnino.

Another year is dawning.
Dear Master, let it be,
In working or in waiting,
Another year with Thee,
Another year is leaning,
Upon Thy loving breast
o. ever-deepening truStfulness,
Of quiet, happy rest.
Another year of mercieS.
Of faithfulness and grace;
Another year of gladness.
In the shining of Thy face.
Another year of progress.
Another year of praise;
Another year Of proving
Thy presence all the days.
Another year of service.
OF witness for Thy love;
Another year of training
For holier works above.
Another year is dawning!
Dear Master. let it be
On heaven or else in heaven.
Another year for Thee.
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ey, that most every farmers wife has for
her own use, all went into Uncle Jerry'S
pockets; and if she wanted a new gown
or a bonnet or a pair O shoes-I hadn't
erter say if she wanted 'em, but if she
must have em, and there wa MT no posi-
bic airthly way for him to skin out O. get
tin 'em-then Uncle Jerry would go to
the store with her and buy 'em and pay
for 'em, jest as if she was child or an
ijiot, and incapable O dewin' business on
her own hook
If Aunt Betsey hadn't had the best dis
position in the world, she wouldn't stood
it all them years. AS it was, it wore on
her, and told on her fearful. Though
Uncle Jerry was one O. the richest men in
town, she might "a been the wife O. the
poorest and miser' blest, so fur's any out
ward indication was consarned-0r in
ward indications, either-for she was al
wers half starved, and wa mt nOthn' but
Skin and bones, as you might say.
Uncle Jerry grew wuss n wuss, and
come along towards Christmas he got a
bran new crochet fer savin into his head.
1t was at family devotion one mornin',
Jest before the readin', that he divulgated
1t to his wife. He finds the place in Ne
hemlar-he alwers read the long chapters
In fall and winter-and puts his thum' in
to keep it, then, DRAWN on a long face.
he looks at Aunt Betsey over his spe'ta-
cles, and says he:
Wife, l are of a notion that this ere
Christmas business is all foolishness !,
seems If 1T must be sin in the sight O.
the Lord to eat so much one day in the
year. l don't believe it's necessary to
make pigs n gluttons of ourselves in
order to have thankful hearts: and if we
60 to meetin', and so on, why amt that
enough? l reckon We'll sell the turkey
this year and have our usual dinner
longs there amt no children comm
home, nor nOthin.''
Aunt Betsey set there with her hands
in her lap, not exactly thinkin, but kinder
wOnderin' and grievin. And when they
kneeled down to pray she kept on wonder
in more'n ever. She wondered what
she had to be thankful for, ANYWAY.
Now, if Ellen could come homer Ellen
was their daughter, all the child they had
In the world, and she lived so far away
that she couldn't afford to come home
and bring the children-bein' she was q
widder and poor-but, oh, how her mother
did wanter see her. what did she GA 70
about turkey and plum puddin' if Ellen
and the children couldn't eat it with her >
Yes, the money might as we'll be mt in
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woman, and she's goin' to die right off,
I'm afraid, less we hyper round and do
sOmethin', and do it quick But fust Id
better step over N fetch the Doctor"
Uncle Jerry was wonderful took down.
All of a sudden he realized that his wife
was invalooable to him; he felt that he
could not get along without her, nohow
He was as anxious to have the doctor as
Mis- Hopkins was, and told her to hurry
and bring him.
SO she went-he lived near by-and she
says to him:
doctor Cross, now is your chance to
do deed o humanity, and put Il spoke
in Uncle Jerry Fosters wheel for all
time! If he's got any heart and feelin's
YOU must find 'em and work on to 'em for
his wife'S sake. It would be cruel to
bring her back to life less you can do
somethin to make that life endoorable.
Don't. beg on We, raise her up to live on
in the same old skinny miserble way!
Better let her die and done with IT.
They discussed and considered over the
matter for a few minutes, then went to-
gether to the house.
They found Aunt Betsey ayin' list the
examined her and diaggernosed her case
as well as he could. then he motione,l I'm
Gle Jerry out into the other room and shet
the door behind him.
1t seems the doctor took him awful
solum and in dead earnest, and saws he.
to begin with:
Uncle Jerry, do you set high vally on
your wife's life?''
High vally on my wife's life?, saws
Uncle Jerry, red in the face. 'Of course
L dew. What you talkin' about?''
Il was here when you fetched her home
a bride. | remember how handsome she
was; plump as partridge, fresh as a
hover. and as laughin' and clipper girl
as bout ever see. Changed, terribly
changed, amt she?' turnin' to Uncle Jer-
ry and feelin' in his pocket fer his ham
X chlf to wipe away the tears. 1T does
peat all how she's changed" says he.
''Changed!' says Uncle Jerry. II of a
nuster of course she's changed! WHY.
we've been married goin' ON % year! You
can expect woman to stay Is all her
life.'
L know that farmers wives grow old
pretty fast as gineral thing; break down
young, don't they? But, Uncle jerry -
squarln' round on him suddenly and look
IN MIN IN the eye, Il want to ask Won to
compare your wife's looks with the looks
OF other women Of her age in town. no
hanosomer, no healthier than what she
was wnen you married her, and tell me if
you think there's difference. Now,