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The times., 1897-04-04

well as brutal game in the old lays
For personal and private combat, which
was also one OF the gentlenanly diver
sons Of the sixteenth century. truly
Internal little affair called by courtesy
Il dagger. was much in favor. This was
so constructed thut. after Icing thrust
into II person, by the pulling OF Il little
catch it could he made 10 open like a
gIove-Stretcher. and the center blade
was at the same time prolonged. thus
admitting of q second blow. Having
once driven the atroCiouS thing well
home. its owner must have been Obliged
to make a present of it TO his victim,
who could scarce help accepting IL,
however unwilling; for the hludes We're
provided with hooks curyiug in such u
way as to make it almost impossible TO
withdraw this fiendish tool.
Ineffective though they We're, nothing
can exceed the malice displayed in these
clumsy instruments of murder. The world,
after all, is growing better.
MARGARET ALISON.
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the match-cord was liable at any moment
to ignite and blow off the entire line Of
charges for the private benefit of the
wearer-a contingency not calculated to
put him altogether at his ease. The ban
dolier-man could never "trip gaily 10 the
fray"
In fact, his situation was about as
precarious as that of the soldiers who
had loaded their cannon on the back of
a mule, which, made uneasy by the splut-
tering of the fuse, began to turn slowly
round and round in vain endeavor to
get at the cause of its annoyance, thus
sweeping every point of the horizon with
his murderous burden, to the utter dis
comfiture and panic of the experimenting
gunners
But devices for shooting did Lot ex-
haust all the possibilities for clumsy war
TOOLS The weapon called the concealed
ranseur," sort Of three-pointed spear,
was quite as remarkable in it's way as any
gunpowder plot arrangement. 1t was long
and lauce-like in form, the upper part
being an iron cylinder covered by oap-
these old time artists were great on covers
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which could he removed by touching a
bolt little below 1t. The weapon was
then given sharp jerk forward, and three
blades flew out in the form of partisan.
Once in this position, they were feld
firmly and could be thrown back into The
cylinder only by striking the butt OF the
weapon sharply against the ground.
There is no doubt that the Genoan who
invented this got the better OF his English
brother in mechanical skill and he weapon
was sure to do some damage with at least
one of its points if the warrior once got u
fair thrust at his enemy. But 1T was SO
lengthy that before he could get time to
draw it back and in position for another
thrust some cOmrade Of theslain man would
have ample opportunity TO rush IN ana
avenge his death.
If war was the pastime for princes
it must have been a very childish as
The times., 1897-04-04
A SOLDIERS DOUBLE
BY CHARLES B. LEWIS.

About thirty days before Grant broke
through Lees lines at Petersburg and
the beginning of the end came, d portion
Of my regiment captured seven Confed-
crates and brought them into camp. My
own company was a part of the Federal
force, but as / was on detached duty
that week was not with them.
The first 1 knew of the capture was
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months to be put into shape after pro-
longed battles with their thirst, and paid
from $25 to $50 and more week for the
process. A large sitting room was given
up to their exclusive use, and they used
to meet there and discuss pink monkeys
and green mice and other topics. In
this room friendships were formed be-
tween men who never met elsewhere
and came across each other there with
tolerable regularity. From one cause or
another, this clientele has fallen away,
SO that it no longer pays the hospital to
reserve the sitting room for 1t, and the
room has been devoted to other uses.-New
York Sun.
The times., 1897-04-04

This was entirely too much for Mr.. Cos
sett's unstrung nerves. He seized the
whip ami brought 1t down upon the AMI
mails back with all his might Mad
dened by the sudden and undeserved blow
the horse made a terrific lunge forward,
causing Mr.. Gossett to drop the reins and
nearly throwing him from the buggy.
Finding itself free, the excited horse
plunged along the road. The grade Of
the hill was SO heavy that the annual
could not run at top speed, but made long
jumps, flirting the buggy about as though h
il had been made of cork.
The swinging and lurching of the buggy
added to the animals excitement, and the
climax Of its terror was reached when
Aaron loomed up in the dark before 1T.
The horse made one wild swerve to the
side of the road, but failed to elude Aaron
The sudden swerve, however, threw MI
The times., 1897-04-04
Very Deadly to the User

The machine guns, repeating rifles, and
self-cocking reviewers of today are GER
tainly elaborate fighting Instruments al
most too elaborate, one is tempted to say,
making war largely Il contest Of inventors
and engineers. But, after all, these mod
ern battle engines are effective; and here
the up-to-date inventor Of murderous te-
vices has the advantage. Ever since the
stone age these geniuses have kept tham-
selves busy, but TO make successful use OF
some Of their deliberately awkward prod
ucts in the past one is forced to conclude
that victims must have been first caught
The times., 1897-04-04
About Domestic Tobacco.

There is said to be a growing belief
among American tobacco consumers that
homegrown tobacco equals the imported
article. Tobacco is grown in at least a
dozen tates, Pennsylvania leading in the
amount OF production, while Ohio has 5O,-
900 acres given up to it's culture, and an
average crop of 30,000,000 pounds.-In-
dianapoIis News.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-18

TN the Superior Court of Thurston county,
! Washington.
A. A. Phillips, as Receiver Of the First National
Bank OF Olympia. Plaintiff, vs. John H. Wilson
and Nellie A. Wilson. Thomas I. Hansen.
Lydia S. Agnew, w. J. Agnew and Arthur
Tooley. Defendants.
The State Of Washington to the said defendant,
Arthur Tooley:
You are hereby summoned to appear within
sixty days after the date of the first publication
the 9TH day Of May. 1897, and defend the above
entitled action in the above entitled Court, and
answer the complaint of the plaintiff. and serve
= copy OF your answer upon the undersigned at
torney for the plaintiff at his Office below stated;
and In case OF your failure SO to do judgment
will be rendered against you according to the
demand Of the complaint which has been filed
with the Clerk Of said Court. The object of this
action is to enforce mortgage lien given by the
defendants John II. Wilson and Nellie A. will
son to the First National Bank Of Olympia, on
the sd OF september, 1893 on certain real
estate situate In the county Of Thurston, WASH
ington, to secure the payment OF their note TO
said bank Of the same date for the sum of 500 co.
due nine months from date, aud on which is now
due said sum together with II per cent per an
mum interest from Jan. 9th, 1895 together with
an attorneys fee of SO.
Lots numbered ten Q0), eleven (1). twelve Q2)
and thirteen US) In block numbered one ~ Of
Bay View addition TO the City Of Olympia as
the same are designated ON the plat of said addi-
tion now on file In the Auditors ONCE in Thurs
ton county, Warrington; also all those certain
lots and parcels of land known a. lots Nos (63)
sixty-three. (6D sixty -four. l65) sixty FIVE and
(66) sixty. six. containing (22) four 22-lOO acres
more or less and situate In the Parker and
Hayes addition to Olympia, Washington. on
what was formerly known as the ]. b. Dicken-
sons Donation Claim west eide Of Budds Inlet
All Of the above described property Is in Thurs
ton county.
Together with all and singular the tenements,
hereditaments.and sppurtenances there unto be.
longing, or in any wise appertaining.
7. N. ALLEN,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
p. o. address, Olympia, Thurston county,
Washington.
Date Of frst publication, May 2, 1897.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-18

A "BIa SHOW" ON PAPER.-Those
who travelled ten miles TO witness the
" Carnival of Madrid" lately on exhi-
bition in Portland, last week, to say
nothing of those who were attracted
by the fulsome write.ups to 60 hun
dreds of miles for that purpose, may
we'll deprecate the influence of print.
ers' ink, whether spread over the page
of an influential paper, like the Ore
goniam, or displayed on the circus bill
board. The performance consisted
mainly of the acrobatic feats of the
circus, tumbling, contortion and mid.
air acts. There were many perform
ers but none of pre-eminent merit !;
the marching of the Spanish Amazons
being about the best act from the
grace of the evolutions of a bevy of
shapely women. The display of fire.
works which closed each evenings en-
tertainment was the best part of the
show, some of the set pieces being
really magnificent. The company
"went broke" in Portland-but not so
the cormorants who attached their
props" for claims they could not pay.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-18
As Was Predicted,

There comes Il wall from the teach
erS III Adams, Spokane, Lincoln,
hItman and other counties on ac-
count OF their total failure to procure
certificates at the last quarterly OK
animation. Many teachers, indeed,
VIII" stood high in their profession
came forth from the ordeal with only
third grade certificates to reward and
encourage them for all their years OF
experience and painstaking effort in
their chosen field Of labor.
Word comes that a large number Of
well qualified teachers have been
obliged to surrender the schools they
had commenced in prospect OF receiv-
ing their certificates before the closing
OF the school term for which thev
were hired. In many cases these are
veteran teachers, representing the
hest young mcn and young women in
the rural districts of Washington 4;
but the letter of the yillainously tam
pcred-with school-law had to be obeyed,
and the directors reluctantly dis
missed the old true and tried tutors of
their children, closed the doors of the
school houses to the practical demon
alization and educational ruin of the
rising generation within their various
Jurisdictions.
And all this comes from the late
Ubiquitous raising of the standard"
by the ambitious, ill-advised members
of the State school board. The edu-
cational standard proudly maintained
by the teachers of Washington has for
long term of years been head and
shoulders above that of majority of
the older States, and it was only fair
to let well enough alone.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-18

"TOOK BATH."-Under this sug-
gestive headline the Associated Press
announce that President Mckinley, on
the 10th, engaged in a plunge at Hot
Springs, Va. 1t states that 10 o'clock
on that memorable day, the President
was "accorded the freedom of the
pool, coming forth from the bath
the picture of health, and the Presi-
dental train resumed its westward
course at IL NJ. How satisfactory
it is to be explicit in such matters,
and gratifying to the G. o. p. that the
Presidential ablution brought the tin.
god from the bath "the picture of
health" after two hours persistent
scrubbing! 1t is a matter of con-
graduation, likewise, that the Presi-
dent does not neglect this necessary
habit of personal cleanliness and COM
fort, and that there will be no oppor-
tunity to hurl back that choicest of
epithets applied Sd frequently to
political opponents when they are
classified as the "great unwashed"!
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-18

SHORTLY before November Sd, 1896,
the members of the Waltham watch
company called its 1000 employees
together and showed an immense
number of orders received contingent
upon the election of Major Mckinley.
"1f Mckinley is elected" said the
managers, "these orders will be filled
and that means plenty of work. If
Bryan is elected the orders are
cancelled" 1t was a great object
lesson and Waltham went heavily for
Mckinley. A few days ago, fifty
finishers were laid off by the factory
managers, the works are to be shut
down d" for repairs" and several hundred
workmen have been officially notified
that their places are to be filled by
girls.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-18
From Our Regular Correspondent.

Saturday, Mrs. Juliet Delcort, of
South Prairie, was arrested at the
instance of her husband, a coal-miner,
and charged with stealing 500, which
she had taken from trunk in which
her husband kept his savings. A
South Prairie justice bound her over
for trial and sent her to the county
Jail. Monday she summoned lawyer,
who Immediately sued out a writ of
ha5eas corpus. In half an hour she
was on her way back to her children,
with the money in her pocket. The
country justice had overlooked the
common law principle that a woman
cannot be jailed for taking her hus-
bands money, which is supposed to
belong equally to her. The husband
came to town to see his wife in Jail,
and was much surprised to learn she
had been set at liberty.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-18

RELIEF FOR THE FAMIsHING.-The
conservation of the American whale
back steamer City of Everett to char
ity, by using her to carry food supplies
to the starving people of India, is q
matter of considerable local congratu-
lation. She left San Francisco last
week, with 2,615 tons of supplies, suf-
ficient to keep 100000 people alive a
month or afford 100000 dependents
rations for a single day. The market
value of the cargo was 100000. DIR.
R. G. Hobbs, of New York, accompan.
les the donation and will see to its dis
tribution.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-18

II AM Disguised with the old moss
backs who vote against school taxes"
was the spiteful declaration of the
daughter of gentleman who has been
taxeater ever since he settled in
Olympia, many years ago; but her
gentle heart had no beat of sympathy
for the old mossback's" labor, which
made it possible for her kind to live in
ease and comfort. The Olympia no.
tel, the street railway, the theater, and
many other public and private enter
prises-the work of these same "moss-
backs"-have given employment to la
Dor and swelled the assessment rolls
until the property is mortgaged by
regular tax levies until ownership is a
grievous burden, still their efforts are
rewarded by sheer and epithet of the
thoughtless who subsist from public
aliment. "Put yourself in his place."
is an injunction that is exceedingly
appropriate, if critics would avoid the
ordeal of a searching dissection of per-
sonal motives.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-18
We Do Not Want Them.

That arch disturber of the public
peace, Debs, is now said to be working
up what he calls his colonization"
SC heme, and assisted by few willing
sycophants he is looking for suitable
district in which to begin operations.
Debs boasts that he can mobilize, in
Chicago alone, 100000 men now
out of employment. With these
desperate creatures without the means
of paying for meal of victuals in adj
vance, wholly devoid of hope or ambi-
ton save the ambition of satisfying
their animal wants by violence, the
great strike instigator proposes to
found a colony on an original, self
supporting plan, which is destined in
the end to change the social founda-
tons of society.
This plan of operations is based
upon the philosophy promulgated by
such cranks as Edward Bellamy,
Myron w. Reed, and other calamity
howlers of similar ilk. The utter fail
ure in the past of like attempts to
reyolutionize the worlds social condi-
tions should curb, it would seem, any
further plans projected, as the wisest of
them have possessed little better than
q random, haphazard trend.
But the worst feature in the present
case is to be revealed. 1t now leaks
out that the Executive of Washington
has been in correspondence with that
society fiend, Debs, "asking him and
his colleagues to bear i'll mind this
State and its grand possibilities in Sc
lecting location for their experiment
tai colonies! Now if this is not
absolute approval of the Ubiquitous
and dangerous scheme to flood our
fair State with 100000 paupers, then
it is certainly an implied encourage
ment of such an impending disaster.
Debs is an anarchist of the truest
ring and no official presiding over the
best interests OF Ia great commonwealth
has any business to deal with him in
any manner whatever. Debs and his
"pards" are receiving large revenues
in hard earned cash from their poor
deluded excuses of humanity for their
self-assumed official work in fostering
and maintaining these insane up
risings among the ignorant classes.
Just how much capital, political or
real, Washington's executive may see,
or perhaps will realize, in the out.
come Of this villainous move, is so far
only conjectural; but it may be safely
assumed that money or prospective
political aggrandizement is deity
ensconced in one pan of the balance.
At all events, it is in order for the
people to assert their patriotism in
condemning the first premonitory
attempt on the part of whitewashed
anarchistic leaders to deluge our State
with myriads of the tattered, hungry
and aimless unemployed hordes
scraped from the slums of great cities.
No, we do not want them.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-18

A TRANSCONTINENTAL railroad from
tide water to tide water was the gigantic
enterprise which was set in motion
when 10000 was paid at Springfield
lately for the incorporation of a COM
pany with capital stock of $50, OO0,-
600. The Baltimore & Ohio, the Wis.
consin Central, the Chicago & North
ern Pacific systems figure in the great
undertaking. By n consolidation of
these lines Il connection will be pro-
duced by the new system, one end of
which will touch the Atlantic at New
York, Philadelphia and Baltimore
and the other the Pacific at some
point on Puget Sound. The head
quarters will be located in Chicago.
The chief promoter and the man who
has carried this gigantic plan to a
successful issue, is William Allen
Butler, of Yonkers, N. Y. Associated
with him are Edward Adams, of the
Northern Pacific and T. +. Gates, of
Mont Clair, N. J. Mr.. Gates repre-
sents the Rockefellers, the Standard
oil corporation being largely interested
in the undertaking.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-18

THE caterpillar pest threatens to be
unusually destructive this year from
failure to adopt adequate means for
extirpation. Some orchards, in the
northern part of the State are abso-
lutely doomed, their owners having
quit in despair all effort to subdue the
foe. Here is a field of labor in which
our State experiment station may d.
rect its efforts with some promise of
promoting the public good. 1t is said
that there is no poison without its
special antidote, and it may be that
some plan may be discovered whereby
the caterpillar pest may be thoroughly
and expeditiously eradicated.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-18
Shoes. * Shoes.

In last weeks Bulletin announced Special Clothing until
July 1897 and judging from the of Clothing have sold
SINCE the people appreciate good thing With this desire
call your attention Shoes After successful trade
different styles there bound broken lines and
while fit everybody any sze width Color Oxford lace
button Shoes may not be able do any particular style
These goods will sell because offering less than man.
ufacturers' cost to those of broken assorments
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-18
The 8aptist Conference.

The annual conference of the Puget
Sound Baptist Association began in
this city Tuesday. There were 65
delegates in attendance and quite Il
number OF visitors swelled the throng to
probably twice that number. Tues
day afternoon an Introductory sermon
was preached and letters were read
and committees appointed. In the
evening the main address was de-
livered by Rev. +. .. Lameroux of
Shelton, on the subject of the work of
the American Baptist Publication
Society, and his remarks extended to
home mission work, in which he re-
ported the organization of q church
at Kamilchie with twenty members,
including ten baptisms. He said
there is not Baptist minister in the
whole scope OF country between Gray's
Harbor and Cape Flattery, and
emphasized the need of extending the
home missions.
Rev. Haus of Spangle, who has
recently been appointed colporter for
western Washington, followed with
brief address in the course of which he
said that Spangle had contributed
more convicts to the penitentiary
than any other section of Wash
ington, meaning, of course, in proper
ton to population.
Wednesday morning Miss Simons,
the lately returned missionary from
Burma, India, delivered an address on
the missionary work of that country.
Rev. Blalock and wife, who are
here on their return from a missionary
sojourn in China, each favored the
morning session with an address.
In the afternoon Mrs. b. w. Johns
of Olympia presented a report on The
Woman's Society and it's word, which
was well received.
Officers of the association are:
Moderator, Rev. c. F. Brownlee of
Centralia; Secretary, Rev. +. o. Lam
eraux of Shelton; Treasurer, Rev.
nowney of Puyallup; Auditor, Robt.
Doragh of Olympia.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-18

THE latest manifestation of excen-
tricity is in a wealthy Massachusetts,
woman willing $4,000 for "relief of
aged and impecunious cats" Now it
is in order for some eccentric batch
elor OF means to leave like award for
furnishing boot-jaeks to shy at the
feline asylum.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-18

BAILEY. of Texas, says: ave
should commit ourselves unreservedly
to the adoption of the Chicago plat
form, without quail ification or reserva-
ton. 1t will be impossible to dis
associate Mr.. Bryan from that plat
form. He is part of the fight of
1876, and to adopt the platform for
that year and refuse to nominate Mr..
Bryan would be serious mistaken
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-18

THE Delaware Constitutional Con-
vention, it is said, has decided to pro-
mulgate the new constitution without
submitting it to the people for ratifica-
ton, claiming that they have the
opinion of eminent lawyers that rati-
fication is not necessary. 1t seems
that civil government is getting
farther away from the people every
day, and is an indication that an asser-
ton of sovereignty of the people is ut
times manifestly necessary,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-18

BARRIERS are hereafter to be known
as tonsors." The New York Bar
bers' Convention has decided that this
shall be so, and they have applied to
the State Legislature to provide for a
Board OF Examination to pass upon
the qualifications of hair-cutters and
shavers, and the licensing of compe-
tent workman.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-18

A CABLE message to the N. Y. Sun
dated London the 18th, states that
Queen Victoria has suddenly become
nearly blind. 1t is said that this af-
fiction was not unexpected, as she
had been suffering from defective Wis.
ion for some time.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-18

WILLIAM E. CURTIS says in the
Chicago Record that Secretary Cages
talk about the currency reform has
given great comfort to men with
money. The Salt Lake Herald rejoins
that what more is needed is something
that will give comfort to men without
money.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-18

The Meeker hopyards in Puyallup
are being we'll worked, says the Com
meree. and their yield will doubtless
be as heavy as ever. The vines are
we'll armed out, and spread over the
strings quite rapidly. The yards at
Kent are not nearly as forward as are
the Puyallup yards.