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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-29
Yakima Is Well Pleased.


We bS..eTe that ts,e people Il Yakima
county. without any distinction ot party
were PLEASED - learn that the honor or &
congressional Nomination has fallen 20 a
Yakima u2sn IN the person Of the Hon. n.
L. Jones' Il Is always q pleasure 20 ses
a Yakima man thus nonored. Mr.. Jones
IS a bright and ahis man ami mas long
Deer de1ied the recognition due him.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-29

The city has very warmly taken up the
cause Of the farmers Of white river valley
This IS as L should be. The interests *
town and country age closely identified.
ane 1T would be much better for both IL
there WAS n1ore sympathy and cooperation
bet ween them.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-29

The movement IN wheat is most satisfac-
tory. This month exceeds al past records
In volume. It is selling a. from 81 70 Ga
cents bushel. but as there is q prospect
Of a further advance selling is compare
lively quiet.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-29

Il is not clear from tbs dispatches whether
the body Of the maAdi .as disturbed ~
British troops. IL Viii be 20 the lasting
Disgrace 81 the nation L the grave aaz
desecratesi by the British eoliiers.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-29

There viii be a hot time IN Yakima when
the Seat;leites get there. The Fost-IateI-
Igencer excursion party promises 10 DC d
great success. ard the people Of Yakima
intend giving & warn welcome.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-29
Hirdlike.

First Heeier-The new ballot-box they
are getting cut IS 4 bird
Second Heeler-Ah Then = can be
stGffe6.-Ia1lanarsoI.i Journal
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-29

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pare IL With srA experience IL ;a@ armies
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ization vas perfect. ~ ihs language ~
a commentator: 'tgY4rythfag was
ready~-arpss, ammunition, supplies. "
The campaign opened In the fall. the
hsalthiesi season ~ the year, and the
war vas fought ia ;hs most aalubrt0uE
part 81 Europe. The average German
force ia the field vas Isl 80. opt 81
total numbering abeu, 1.lep go II
marched Ga military roads through
healthy country. And yet it8 deaths
from disease numbered is.a9s. gorls what
more than Ia l,er cent u the total
force. The tlonE-J ,exikon."
paslishsd al Leipsic, puts The death
rata from disease al eighteen Ia the
'hou2ana. or nearly 2 per ceslt.
These are official figures and cannot
be coutroysrted. Compare the coudi-
lions under which the German army
was Modified and fought with the con
Giiions under which the American army
waa organized and made It's brilliant
record We were wholly nnofganizei
and unprepared We had free u
iess than Is 800 drilled troops. Our vol
nnteefg were called from the field. the
workshop the office and the store, un-
accustomed u army life and army fare.
They we're hurried II camps ii the
hostilities in The early spring. the most
trying ~ ali seasona for a Northern
man to 20 u . Southern climate. The
campaign Was foug lst in q tropical coiln-
fry during the unhealthy rainy season.
when rnalsriai. typhoid and yellow fe-
esrs are prevalent. our troops marched
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-29
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What kind az iEn IMPRESSIONS
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-29

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ana begins 20 tel wAar oughl . oe done
wiki the Philippines Detroit Free Press
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-29

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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-29
Ladies' Shoes

LADIES OXFORD
TIES, about 30 pairs. as
s4lrred |yies. Drlcess were
SIS. $40. s. and $50: All
snc Tot go at one price, Per
pair.
LADIES LACE OR
BUTTON SHOES. I'd or
cl0tR tops. Mckay turn
ard welt. a s. aaloe every
where. ~ ;a., sale Il pair
LADIES' &1cI KID
SHOES. Button Or Lace.
Coin and London Toe. all
sizes; very special value.
LADIES RACK
PROOF SHOES Crown
ana Tiger Ca.f. lace ard
double sole. ycu'd say tney
we,e worth SO, bat taas
sale the price il. per pair
VENUS" vICI KID
Button Or Lace.
tops ~ cloih or XII. co;n
ard Loadon toe: bargain
FOR
LADIES SHOES. BOX
CALF. KANGAROO CALF
--DHll Dongola, Hgat or
double s-o.e:s. excellent val
&c. for
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-29
Misses and
Children'S Shoes

MISSES SCHOOL. SHOES in Dongo-
Ia. kangaroo BOX Caie ana Pebble
Goat: sizes liz 70 ?, $50 Si-4s. sl.25 and
g. an actual saving Of 3 per cent. on
downtown prices.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-29

BOYS LACE SHOES.
made 10 stand school wear,
to.o-Satln and Veal Calt:
Sszes II 20 >; bargain for
this sale. per pair.
BOYS LACE SHOES.
for school wear, and look
nee enough for dress
satin and veal calf: sizes
2iia 10 ~, this sale sl.0 and
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1898-03-04
HoMann And OlcIsITY.


Smoke "The Alma"
Fine veal loaf at Banghart's
l.. II. Hayt was in Ithaca last Friday.
j. H. Lancashire was in Detroit this
week.
Regular meeting of the O. +. S. to-
night.
M. Pollasky went to Mt. Pleasant
Monday.
Harvey Blu ton went to St. Louis
Saturday.
Mar. 10Th is the date set for the min
strel show
Edwin Koch of Saginaw was in town
Wednesday.
John Dean was in Shepherd on bust
ness Monday.
j. A. Stuttz has sold lot l6, block 4 in
the Stuttz addition.
Byron Spaun's big and l0c show at
opera house tonight.
Geo. Hutchings and family returned
to Alma Monday night
VIM. Thomas has nice lot Of carna-
tons and roses for sale.
@. L. Brooks and Judge Morton of
Elm Hall were in town last Friday.
E. A. Fisher of White Lake is the
guest of his brother, A. l.. Fisher, this
week
Mrs. D. w. Altenberg and son Dan
were visiting in Middleton the Last of
last week
Mr. and Mrs. d. L. Sharrar went TO
Bryan, O., Tuesday to spend some time
with relatives there
Mrs VIM. Seaman of Sumner called
on her cousin, j. G. Bright, Tuesday, on
her way to Mt Pleasant.
Mrs. d. @. Johnson and daughter,
Maud of Ithaca called on Mr. and Mrs.
j. NJ Nichols last Friday.
l.. o. Hall, the night operator, who
went TO Cadillac for time, has been
returned TO that position here.
The Y. p. S. c. f. holds its annual
business meeting at the home of Claude
Baker tomorrow Saturday evening.
Miss Norma Montague of Ithaca
called on her cousin, Miss Louise Gar
gett, Wednesday on her way to Grand
Rapids.
Master Geo. Mcqueen, the boy phe-
nomenon, six year. old singer and dancer,
is with Byron Spaun's big five and ten
cent show.
j. 7. Sickle, a prominent young man
of Chicago, who had previously spent Il
few weeks at the Sanitarium, returned
to that institution Monday.
+. l.. Dodge of Lansing was here
last Saturday. He Is connected with
the mpanl that expects 90 build the
! eltctlc line from Lansing to ST. Louis
VIA 81. Johns.
Leslie McAvoy, With the big five oent
show l. without Il doubt, the best jig
ana reel Cancer, III the world. All
lovers of good dancing should SEE this
great lady dancer.
The eight and ninth grades of the
Ithaca public schools entertained several
young people from the Alma and st.
Louis schools last Friday evening A
hilarious time is reported.
he case Of Peter Jones vs. Matthew
Pratt, i'll which Jones sued Pratt for pay
for work, was heard before Justice Dun
ham Saturday end later decided in favor
of plaintiff by judgement of 80 and costs
against defendant
The program committee of the Lam
sing district Ministerial and Lay Associa.
ton of the NJ. +. church met at the
parsonage here last Friday to arrange
the program for the summer meeting to
be held in Alma May Gil.
The Euterpe Club met at the home of
Miss Bertha Stevens Tuesday night and
spent most delightful evening with
the composer Gounod. Two specially en-
joyable features were a selection from
Faust" for piano and violin, by Mrs.
Pettyjohn and Prof. Nicoud; and the
we'll known AVE Marie" which Mrs.
Sharp sang with violin obligato by Prof.
Nicoud, and piano accompaniment by
Mrs. Perry5dfu.
The herald., 1898-02-07
FOREIGN NOTES

Sandwich girls in attractive costumes
now parade the streets of the west END
of London.
Prince Raujtsinhji. the cricketer, is
putting his mark on Australian English.
They are selling RAUL boots, RAUL tobac-
co and Rauji squashes at the antipodes.
Queen Victoria has eccentric tastes in
the arrangement of her bed, according to
the Whitehall Review. At Cimiez she uses
TWO mattresses, the one with the springs
on top.
Scarva. County Down, boasts 114-year-
old postmaster in r. Taylor, who, beside
being the oldest active postal servant in
the United Kingdom, is also the Oldest
country storekeeper.
Twenty-Five business men, who acted as
the coroner's jury in the investigation of
the recent great fire in London and served
for fourteen working days, received four
pence (eight cents) each as compensation.
Rome is not ripe for D'Annunzio's plays.
| The Spring Mornings Dream was hissed
recently at the Teatro Vale, though Duse
was acting, while La Locandiera," which
| followed on the bill. was greeted with
| shouts of viva Goldoni."
French railroad rules are strict. A bad
accident, in which several lives were lost
| took place on the line from Paris TO Mar
seilies recently. When lady, who es-
| capped uninjured from the wreck, applied
| for her baggage the day after her arrival
in Paris, she was charged 10 centimes for
her delay.
Prince Albert of Monaco, who has just
succeeded in driving a hard bargain with
the Monte Carlo syndicate. Is the repre-
sentative of good deal of past diplomacy.
His dukedom of Valentinois comes from
Cesare Borgia; that of Mazarin from
10 1iv,oI Mo- n xI.ifa .
of Due de Richelieu.
Pope Leo received gifts valued at 81 .2OO,-
900 on the occasion of the sixteenth ami
versary Of his ordainment as a priest.
Among the cash gifts were a check for
| $40, 900 from the Duke of Norfolk, $4,000 In
gold from the Queen Regent of Spain, $l2,-
100 from Kaiser wilhelm. $40, 900 from the
Austrian bishops and $4,000 from the
Hungarian primate.-New York Sum-
The herald., 1898-02-07
INDIRECTION

Fair are the flowers and the children, but
their subtle suggestion Is fairer;
Rare is the rose-burst OF dawn. but the
secret that clasps 1t is rarer;
Sweet the exultance of song. but the strain
that precedes it is sweeter;
And ,never was poem yet writ, but the
meaning outmastered the metre.
Never a daisy that grows, but a mystery
guideth the growing;
Never river that flows, but majesty
scepters the flowing;
Never a Shakespeare that scared, but q
stronger than he did unfold him;
Nor ever a prophet foretells, but might
Ter than he hath foretold him.
Back of the canvas that throbs, the painter
is hinted and hidden;
Into the statue that breathes, the soul of
the sculptor is bidden;
Under the JOY that is felt, lie the infinite
issues of feeling;
Crowning the glory revealed, is the glory
that crowns the revealing.
Great are the symbols of being, but that
which is symboled is greater;
Vast the beheld and created, but vaster the
inward creator;
Back of the sound broods the silence, back
of the gift stands the giving;
Back Of the hand that receives, thrill the
sensitive nerves of receiving.
Space is as nothing to spirit the deed is
outdone by the doing;
The heart of the wooer is warm, but
warmer the heart of the wooing:
Up from the pits where they shiver, and
up from the heights where they shine
Twin voices and shadows swim starward
and the essence iof life Is divine.
RICHARD REOLF.
The herald., 1898-02-07
FEDERAL FINAN CES

The debt statement for January gives
little comfort to the administration tariff
jobbers, although they will seek it in the
single item of increased customs dues
for the month, an increase which, if sus-
tained during the five remaining months
of the fiscal year, will yet cut but q
small figure in keeping the deficit below
the hundred million mark.
Notwithstanding an increase OF
thirteen hundred thousand dollars in re-
ceipts from internal revenue, the de-
ficit for January approxmates eight mil
lion dollars, and for the seven months OF
the fiscal year the deficit is nearly fifty
two millions.
Something like sixty millions have
been covered into the treasury since the
first of November on account of the sale
of the Union Pacific railway, greatly
simplifying the proposition of making
both ends meet.
The most assuring item in the state
ment is the approximation of the net
gold balance to the proportions reached
in 1890, and the suggestion is volunteered
that the accumulation is becoming bur-
densome to such an extent that the
treasury is no longer encouraging gold
deposits. This boast has decided ad-
nlinistration taint, ard is put out for ef-
The herald., 1898-02-07
THE "GLUT OF MONEY"

There is a perfect gorge of cheap
money" in the financial centers of the
east, and the undisputed fact is used
as an argument against free silver coin
age, or any other scheme that threatens,
however remotely, to enlarge the vol
ume of the currency.
But the fatal weakness of the conten-
ton is that nobody can get the funds
out of the stout vaults, because of dis
trust in the future that is shared by cap
italists-a distrust that is wholly jus
titled by the steady approach Of this
country to the single gold standard. the
menace of currency reform in the sole
interest of the money power, and the
continued fall in the value of all prop
erty and commodities measured by the
Lombard-street stick.
The Philadelphia Record declares that
so long as it is impossible to place piled
up gold at advantage, the cry for more
money of poorer quality is untimely.
| The proprietor of that newspaper, as
our readers will recall, only recently
| had great need of considerable sums of
money. He had borrowed of bank of
which he was president, funds aggregat-
| ing its entire capital, in order to keep
going losing manufacturing venture,
paper mill, in Virginia. BY these ex-
| traordinary and illegal drafts upon the
concerns resources he had practically
bankrupted it; but an accommodating
comptroller of the currency, with far
| more regard for the interests of the bank
president than for it's hundreds of de-
postors, winked at it's insolvency and
permitted it to run for year after the
knowledge came to him officially-this
because, according to his own maladroit
confession, an election was pending, the
result of which might be influenced were
the bank to be closed and the false pleas
of his party managers disclosed.
But the day of settlement came on
apace. and it became necessary for the
banker journalist to raise a consider
able sum of money with which to still
further tide over his rotten ventures. 1t
should have been easy for him to borrow
81, 900, 900 upon his newspaper property,
one of the most valuable in the United
States, netting him an annual income of
nearly s4OO, 900, and at that time wholly
free from incumbrance. But, notwith-
standing the "glut of cheap money" in
| the vaults of Philadelphia and New
York banks, he was and still Is unable
to allure any of 1t from it's hiding place
with the magnificent security he is
able to offer
The plain, straightforward statement
of facts, nowhere disputed, needs no
story and discloses the obvious moral.
The herald., 1898-02-07

a failure as a revenue-getter. A prob
able deficit of hundred million dollars
for the first year of its operation prom
ises to abundantly confirm that fact.
That 1t has not made a new market
for single bushel of grain or a single
barrel of pork is notorious. and the de-
velopments show that its attempted en-
forcement is arousing serious antag-
onisms with the government of nearly
every nation which has heretofore been
depended upon to consume our surplus
products.
Reciprocity, which is free trade in
spots, is antagonistic to the proponents
of the Dingley measure and the high
protective tariff idea. 1t is making only
such progress as might be expected at
the hands of a party that doesn't Sc
riously and In good faith subscribe to
the doctrine. 1t Is at all events wholly
unequal to the crisis that has arisen,
and impotent to stay the commercial
war that has been inaugurated against
American commodities, and which Will
go on increasing in volume and force
until our foreign trade is confined to
the actual necessities of our neighbors
which cannot be supplied elsewhere.
The only alternative is in the hope that
the people of this country, disillusioned
with the pretty theory of the Mckinley
and the Dingley restrictionists, may rise
up in their might and wipe from the
statute books the absurd laws and regu-
lations that have swept the American
merchant marine from the high seas,
and that are fast building Chinese wall
around a country whose continued
prosperity is contingent upon its ability
to market elsewhere what it cannot con-
sumo of the products of field and fac
tory.
The herald., 1898-02-07
PLAINLY A sUBTERFUGE

Mr.. Cages explanations would be
more potent in explaining did the people
have more confidence in the patriotism
of the elements in this country which he
distinctively represents in the cabinet
He declares that his currency bill pro-
vides for only a conditional retirement
of the greenbacks," but he knows full
well, and doubtless the consciousness OF
it causes him to laugh in his sleeve, that
when his scheme is fully inaugurated as
the financial policy of the government,
precious few golden eagles will ever be
exchanged for greenbacks impounded in
the treasury; for he and his business as
sociates throughout the country will
easily be able to control the gold and pre-
vent 1t from being used for any such pur-
pose. Extraordinary financial wisdom is
not essential to a correct analysis of Mr..
Cages plan for retiring the greenbacks.
1t is plainly a subterfuge by which it is
hoped to conceal the Interior object, and
a feigned concession to the popular op-
position to his ultimate design. Mr..
Gage makes the all too common mistake
of Understanding the average intelli-
gence of the American people.
The herald., 1898-02-07
Those Problems

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Her
aid: In this mornings issue find two
knotty questions to be answered, as fol-
lows:
First-What will ten yards of silk cost
at 81 1-.00l per yard?
The knotty part of the solution Is in the
fraction. BY eliminating the decimal fea-
ture we have complex fraction with
for a numerator and 1900 for denomina-
tor To reduce this complex fraction in
vert the terms Of the divisor and multiply
by the numerator. which gives us 1000.
This added to the original whole number,
/. makes the price of the silk per yard
$lO01. and ten yards would be ten times
that amount. or $1,000 Somebody Is evil
IDENTIFY trying to make good margin OF
profit on silk. as the price is too high, even
under the Dingley tariff.
Second-The man who bought the ticket
was ahead 25 cents evidently. Some one.
therefore must have lost that amount 1t
was not Charley Jones, whoever he lmay
be. because he did not speculate OH the
transaction 1t was not the pawnbfoker,
security for the debt He was 25 cents
ahead until the pawn ticket was returned.
The holder of that ticket must pay the
loan In order to get the security. Martin
paid the stranger so cents for the ticket
because on the surrender of that ticket
he could get rs cents, but he forgot the fact
that before he got that Is cents he must
pay the loan OF 50 cents. This left him %
cents out of pocket.
Give us something easy.