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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-13
HAVANA : STREETS
A SCENE Of RIOT.
Spanish Army Officers
Lead an Angry Mob.
TROOPS ORDERED OUT.
Americans in Danger and Consulate
Protected by Artillery.

United States Warshtps Held In
Readiness TO Satl for Cuba Ina
mediately-key West Squadron
VIII He Assembled at Oace-Con-
sui General Lee Acts Promptly to
secure Protection for Citizens OF
Newspapers Advocating Autono-
my May Yet Compel Intervention.
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HANNA IS ELECTED
On FIRST ballot.
Combine Not Able to Dis
rupt His Forces.
FIGHT TO THE VERY LAST.
Futile Attempt to Delay the Ballot
by Charges of Bribery.
FIGHT TO THE VERY LAST

for Investigating Commit
tee Adopted by the Senate, and Il
still Under Consideration by the
House-The Solid Seventy Three
stand Together on Every Propo-
sfttOn-The Standardized Express-
es His Acknowledgements and In
Given . Tremendous Ovation-A
Plan to Gust Speaker Mason,
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VAN BUREN, Ark, Jan. I2-The tor
nado that descended upon Fort Smith last
night crossed the Arkansas river one
half mile south OF here and tore a path
two hundred yards through Crawford
county. A score or more houses were
blown down and many persons were hurt.
Charles Wright was instantly killed by
lis house blowing down on him. The
house Of Mrs Ash was demolished and
she MAS crushed into shapeiess mass.
and two OF her children. aged and Is
years. we're fatally hurt. II is estimated
one hundred mead OF cattle and horses
were in the path OF the tornado and were
killed or injured SO badly that they had
TO De killed. II is i've miles in a direct
line from Van Buren to Fort Smith. and
debris from there was strewn over the
ground three miles beyond here. mass
meeting is being heid tonight 10 relieve
the destitute.
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E4GtGSI. 3REI Es@a1-s q AH<lESg, MIS-. NzK-
gle Sheehan's infant d woahIs a
butcher. James Smith. a clerk; Mrs. Jones.
The Injured.
Mrs. Brsden. arm broken: D. l.. Grimes
collar bone broken: Charles Martin. chin
bruised: william Hoess, Jaw broken: VIII
liam Lawson back injured: Belle Martin.
chest mashed: Tony Eberhar.. hfps
bruised: f. z. HubbeIl. back hurt: r. H
Creahclaer, back injured A. r. Stafford.
back injured: Frank AshworTh. chest
crushed; Or. Gate. both arms broken:
Mrs Gate, badly mashed: Mrs. Gates
mother. seriously crushed, Minnie Bur-
CESS. spine injured; Mrs. Egreil, injured
abou. chest: Mrs. Hugh Rogers, badly
bruised about the body: Mr. and Mrs. Rit-
ter. caught under falling walls: Mrs F.
H Brown, body crushed: Mrs Luther
HunIey. chest crushed; James Lane. hip
dislocated; Ed Yaden, badly bruised; Her
bert woisey. seriously hurt: r L. Hi-sch-
berger. shoulder disloeated, injured about
the head: Miss Lily Stahl, seriously in
tured; Frank Madruger. unknown tramp,
Mrs. Emma Austin. Irving Kohler, Mrs.
John ReaI Baby Beal: Mrs. koehloer.
Mrs. Joseph Jones. Miss Wilkinson, Pearl
Knappton, y. d. Foreman II II. Fisher.
W. A. Dumford, J. ]. Short, William
Blake
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Conveuffon I'm Okiahoma TERRITORY.
KISGFISHER, o. r, Jan. 1.-THE In
eer-partisau statehood convention VIII
meet here tomorrow Involved tD its de-
iit9eratl0ns are the removal OF the capital
and tae question Of free homesseads Tor
Cherokee strip settlers.
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gle Sheehans infant, q. woehls. a
butcher, James Smith. clerk; Mrs. Jones.
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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-01-20
Ispsic and Health.

Music, if we are to believe ancient
historians, has produced some very ex-
traordinary effects. The ferceness Of
Achilles was allayed by playing on the
harp; Damon, with the same instru-
ment, Quoted wild and drunken youths,
and Asclepiades in a similar manner
brought back seditious multitudes to
temper and reason. The corybantes and
effeminate priests of Cybele were incit
ed by music to cut their own flesh. Pin
dar addressed his harp thus: "Thou
quenchest the raging thunder!' Music
is also reported to have been efficacious
in removing dangerous diseases. Miriam
dola observes, in explanation OF its be-
ing appropriated to such an end, that
music moves the spirits to act upon the
soul as medicine does the soul by the
body. Theophrastus, in his essay on
Enthusiasm, reports many cures up
on this principle. The Thebans used
the pipe for the cure Of many disorders,
and Zenocrates is said to have cured
several madmen. The bite of the taran-
lula is said to have been cured by music,
and the Phrygian pipe was recommend
ed by many of the ancient fathers as an
antidote to sciatica. We could enumer-
ate many other instances OF the estima-
ton, amounting, as it would seem, to
palpable superstition, in which music
was held among the ancients, but the
above may be considered sufficient
New York Ledger.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-01-20
Whist In the Church.

And that's what's the matter with
Emporia-too much whist. The paint
ed china set is married to cards. Women
have no higher thought from week s
end to weeks end than winning head
prizes. They grow nervous, irascible,
bad tempered and ugly playing cards.
Little crows feet appear at the corners
of their eyes after an evening with
whist, and deep, vertical lines pillow
themselves just above their noses.
There are more plain women in Empo-
ria who lost their bloom at the rented
card tables than there are women who
have worn themselves out over the
kitchen stove. 1t is worry, not work,
that makes women fade, and cards are
sapping the juice out of the town. Only
the young people patronize the public
library. The old folks make "What's
trump" the chief end Of man. Cards
have invaded the churches. One church
has big fractional row looming upon
the horizon because the pastor has jump
ed cards. Another church narrowly
avoided it last winter. A third pastor
sees his best customers whooping it up
in whist clubs and hasn't the nerve to
say word. In the meantime poker
rooms, which are just as improving and
elevating and just as helpful to the
Commercial street, and the town is en-
joying the fruit of the seed the women
have planted. -Enporia Kan. Gazette
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-01-20
Ian aiaclaren on Scott.

"Scott was all gold, and even the
nuggets are not enough; the gravel
ought to lie siftcd and the gold dust
gathered ii, for Scott had such an affiu-
ence Of knowledge, legend and poetry
that he did not write by measure, but
put his hand into his pocket and threw
out money that any might pick it up.
What enc is afraid Of is that Scott is
being raised to the elevation of classic,
and that is the same thing as taking a
man out Of the house Of commons, where
he is an active figure, and placing him
in the stately seclusion Of the house OF
lords do not know a single page OF
Scott that is not readable, and I do not
know a single Page that would shake a
man faith CT bring blush to WON
an s cheek. Why do not people read
Scott as they ought to? Some say that he
is Eot interesting, and others object to
his style. Why, Carlyle himself brought
the charge against Scott that he was
amusing Amusing! One of the grand
est functions Of fiction is to be amusing
in the right sense-that of lifting up
the weight and care of daily life from
mems minds by leading them into re-
gions Of sentiment ard romance.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-01-20
A CURIOUS POCKET PIECE.
How Railroad Engineers Transform Nick
els Into Buttons OF Spheres

How Railroad Engineers Transform Nick
els Into Buttons or Spheres.
A Union Pacific engineer has a fash
ion of making unique pocket pieces for
his friends. He runs a passenger engine
west, and when oiling previous to run
he drops a nickel 5 cent piece into the
brass oil cup On the crosshead of the pis-
ton rod. His run is 500 miles. When he
reaches his destination, he unscrews the
top of the oil cup and takes the nickel
out. 1t has been metamorphosed into a
curious little button with an evenly
turned rim, within which ON the one
side is the countersunk head of Liberty,
Invested of her stars, and ON the other
side the V and the wreath. The edge of
the crown is as perfect as if it had been
pounded on All anvil by an expert silver
smith.
The perfection of this is due to the
even vibration the coin has been SUBJ
jected to- The motion Of the piston is
horizontal, and it travels 49 inches,
back and forth, with every revolution
Of the wheels. The interior Of the oil
cup is round, and the edges of the nickel
as it travels back and forth in the oil,
striking the sides Of the cup, are turned
over and pounded into perfect round
ness. Sometimes nickel is left in the
cup during the round trip, or GOO miles.
When taken cut, it is nickel bullet, q
perfect polished sphere. Who discovered
this unique method of turning the edges
CT nickel Is ;ot known, hut many en-
glneers know Ct it.-Tacona Ledger.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-01-20
A Democratic King.

The king of Sweden arranges his time
to the best advantage After an early
breakfast with the queen he gives audi
ence to public officials and Swedish,
Norwegian and also foreign ministers
as well as reviewing and inspecting
troops, and so forth. Friday is occupied
by a council meeting, and Tuesday
morning is given to the public. AS ia
ther of his people,, he sees even the
poorest peasant and most unknown be-
ing in his kingdom who wishes to speak
with him and gives audience alone, no
third person being present. The even
ings and indeed the best part of the
night King Oscar gives up to his liter
airy pursuits. His poems and romances
are now we'll known for their artistic
excellence,
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-01-20

It is one Of the marvels of trees that
every species bears its own mark in
every part, root and branch, bark and
leaf, as well as fruit A wise elder told
US the other day the species Of oak from
which an acorn came by the fine tracery
on the acorns cup Such a riot of col
ors and tints there is in the falling
leaves that one might think the colors
are accidental, but the keynote of color
is constant in any species, with only ex-
ceptional variations
The mistress of manse in the Vir-
ginia valley once went into the woods
and selected her young trees by their
colors, and those colors they still wave
in each returning fall The birches are
a golden yellow, while the oaks vary
through yellow grange to a reddish
brown The red maple sheds at the last
a dark red leaf and the tulip tree light
yellow. The hawthorn and the poison
oak are violet, while the sumac and the
wild vines take on q flaming scarlet.
Soil will make some variations, and a
dry season will almost take the color
and beauty altogether away Rich
mond Central Presbyterian.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-01-20
An Artists Slip.

Half a century ago, says a London
paper, the late Sir John Gilbert was
commissioned to illustrate short story
for a London weekly When ne had fin
ished the work, the editor remarked,
Why, Mr. Gilbert. the story says an
escort of infantry soldiers, and here on
the block you have given us mounted
ones - Dear me, SO have" respond
ed the artist, but haven't time to do
another drawing now. Can't you make
an alteration i'll the story to make it fit
IMP The copy was handed to SUBJ
ordinate to make the requisite altera-
ton, but that gentleman forgot to de-
lete the chapter describing how the sol
diers had gained the summit of a steep
mountain, parts of which they were
obliged to scale with ladders Horses
could not have been got there unless by
the assistance Of crane Afterward
shoals of letters from subscribers wish
ed to know how the cavalry got there.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-01-20
"THANK YOU"

1t Is the Small Courtesies That Make Life
Worth Living.
"On every hand one hears of the neg.
lect to say Thank you, " writes Ed
ward W. Box on 1.-THE Saying of THANK
YOU" in The Ladies Home Journal.
II wonder sometimes if some people
really know how little of what comes
to them is their due and right and how
much of what comes to them is by IA
vor and courtesy The vast majority of
things which come to us come by pure
favor, by courtesy And we should rec
ognize this. No act Of kindness, how
ever slight, should go unnoticed A
Thank you is simple thing to say. 1t
REQUIRES but few moments to write it,
but it often means much 1t means ev-
erything sometimes to the person re-
ceiving it. 1t means a renewed faith In
human nature in some cases. A word
of thanks is never lost, never wasted.
If it sometimes seems to be lost upon
the person to whom it is directed, its
expression has not been lost upon some
one else who has heard it. 1t is certain
" not lost upon ourselves. The most OF
us are quick enough to thank some one
who does us great service. But the
small courtesy, just as great as the
large service in reality, we overlook. 1t
doesn't seem worth while to give thanks
for small things And yet what would
we be today and where would some Of
us be but for the small courtesies Of
life? They are what make life worth
living
"It is all very we'll to have the last
Thursday of each November set apart
as day of Thanksgiving, but it would
be far better if a great many of us car
ried the spirit of the day into all the
other days Perhaps if we did SO we
might have more mercies to be thank
full for on Thanksgiving day Do not
let the spirit of thanks stop with night
fall on Thanksgiving day. Let rs ex-
tend it to all the other days Of the year,
to the people whose lives touch ours
When we receive favor at the hands
of any one, no matter how small it may
be, let us say the words, Thank you.
If they should be written, let US write
them. Let us not delay them, but take
advantage of the instant when our heart
is touched Let there be more Thank
yous' said by everybody-thousands OF
them. And the world will be a better,
brighter and happier place to live in
because of them.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-01-20
Why Women Look Old.
Some Women Look Fresh
and Young at Fifty.
Others Appear Old and Dragged Out
at Twenty-Five.
Did it Eyer Strike You That There Must
BE a Reason for This!

How old l look ~ is what women say
to their mirror.
The passing years are not what make
the average woman grow old in looks,
but the condition of nerve weakness, poor
blood and low vitality. Some women of
fifty preserve the youthful appearance of
twenty-five. The average woman of to-
day, however, appears old at thirty, with
dull, hollow-ringed eyes, thin, pinched.
pale cheeks, sallow complexion, dark I'll
bloodless lips, the face lined, and the ex-
preston the opposite Of vivacious.
With good digestion, strong nerves and
good blood any woman can keep herself
young, fresh and youthful appearing land
she can attain this much desired condi-
ton by using that greatest nerve and
blood invigorator known TO modern
science, DR.. Greene's Nervura. 1t is pos
itively astonishing what this remarkable
remedy will do for women. 1t is almost
a Fountain of Youth, for it renews and
maintains youth by creating perfect and
complete health. Just see what its use
did fol Mrs. Ormiston Frain, of SO Park
Place, Passaic, n. j. She says:
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-01-20
ForetoId the Wheel.

"There is no new thing under the
sun. % We hardly expected to find that
DR.. johnson aphorized on so up to date
a subject as cycling, yet such is the
fact, as the following extract will show,
says an English paper:
Mr. Ferguson told him of a newly in
vented machine which went without
horses. A man who sat in it turned a
handle, which worked spring that
drove it forward. ''Then, SIR said
johnson, ''what is gained is, the man
has his choice whether he will move
himself alone or himself and the ma
chine too Boswell, Year 1863, Page
2O7 of Globe Edition.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-01-20
THE MAHNlMAH.
A Wonderful Parrot of India Which, the
Natives Claim, Thinks.

A Wonderful Parrot of India Which, the
Natives Claim, Thinks.
A little bird in town did surprising
thing the other day, though that is the
middle of the story. The first OF the
story is that a woman who had lived
many years in India and who has love
for all things Indian was walking along
the street and saw in the window OF a
bird store green parrot with red spots
on its wings.
"That Bird" she said to herself,
"came from India. I will go in and
speak with it. Perhaps it speaks the
vernacular.
So she went in and spoke to it in the
vernacular of India.
"Do you speak the language" she
said. 1t is the common question which
the people ask of parrot in the land
from which the bird came But the
creature made no answer. 1t stared at
her with dull eyes and was not inter
ested. Still she persisted.
'sCome, " she said. "Surely you speak
the language? What do you want? Are
you hungry? Is poor Polly lonesome
away off here? Come, come, you speak
the language. -
| Still the bird made no answer, but
from away back in the dusk OF the room
came a clear little bird voice in Hindoo-
stance:
81 speak the language. I also, speak
it,"
The birdseller did not notice the cry.
| 1t is merely the chattering Of foolish
| little bird to him. But the woman who
loved India said:
| "Where is that bird?'
! "It's back there, said the bird seller,
| pointing to remote corner. So the wo
man went there, and in an old cage she
found a neglected looking mahnimah,
standing erect on its perch, all its feath
ers ruff1ed, looking this way and thai
as it quivered with excitement. This
bird of all talking birds is the mos1
wonderful-nay, in India they main
tain that it thinks. 1t learns, in fact
the tongue of the people, they say, and
does not speak by rote but it converses
| At any rate the mahnimah cried:
ST speak the language. speak it. !"
"Here am, BROTHER" cried the wo
man. 81 am one who speaks it too. :"
The bird fixed one sharp eye on her.
"You are little" he said disdainful
ly, putting his head down in his feath
ers to indicate how little she was
"You are little, but I am large, ant
then he stood erect with his heat
thrown back and looked down on her.
It said other things, too, while thu
bewildered bird seller stood by and lis
tened, astonished that the bird had any
value or that any one could understand
it.
Chow much will you take for. thu
bird?" asked the woman.
| 'Twenty dollars,'' said the man
The price had gone up in the last tel
minutes.
"Where did you get it?''
ga sailor brought it here, and I bough
it of him. He had come from New Yorl
and was going to San Francisco. h
said 10 was tired of Juggling it over the
country
HE must have come from some place
| where there are Lascars
ST do not know. Will you take the
! bird, ma'am?"
But the woman could not afford that
SO she called back:
''Salaam, little brother"
"Salaam," said the bird.-Chioagt
| Chronicle.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-01-20
Coats of a Great War.

According to recent French statistics,
France lost 10000 men by death
through wounds, sickness or accidents
in her war with Germany, while 1885,,
AL men were disabled on the field Of
battle. Germany's losses were 70, 156
dead and Is, 543 wounded. The none
tary loss is more evenly divided, that
for France being 10, 666, 487, 522 francs
and that for Germany being 5000, 600.
900 francs
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-01-20
LONDON SLUMS.
The Rent Collector and the Difficulties He
Encounters There.

The Rent Collector and the Difficulties He
Encounters There.
Slum property apparently has its
drawbacks, though it is generally re-
garded as the most profitable, for most
of the owners do not as rule allow
such trif1es as repairs to reduce the
amount of the rents.
"This work is breaking up my nerv-
GUS SYSTEM, said a man who has been
collecting rents for years in some OF the
worst slums. 81 am really beginning
to feel that I shall meet my death at it.
"Much i'll feeling of which am the
victim is engendered between landlord
and tenant over the question of repairs.
1t does not pay to be always repairing
such broken down property, though OF
course repairs are always being asked
for, and some people have a decidedly
unpleasant manner of trying to impress
on me the necessity for such.
sThey are continually alluring me
into all sorts of undesirable traps. 1
nearly broke my neck once by walking
up q dark staircase in which few
boards were broken and loose, and the
woman who had asked me to walk up
calmly told me to get my master to
have it mended. If there is dark, rick
ETY. staircase without a banister, l am
sure to be asked to walk up it, and on
one occasion l was nearly frightened out
of my wits by my head coming in con-
tact with some hanging paper and plas-
| ter which had fallen from a passage cell
| ing and was suspended by very mea-
ger support.
SIN addition to all this the tenants,
when they hear am about, put pals OF
water and broom handles in the dark
passages may traverse, besides making
! other preparations for bestowing similar
| delicate attentions on me.
"Only recently a woman asked me to
| come and look at the awful state of re-
| pair of one of her rooms. She took me
to large cupboard and opened it and
the corpse of man tumbled into the
room. 1t was only her poor, dear hus-
band, she said, whom she had slowed
| there for convenience till the coffin ar
rived Of course she had put him there
only to give me pleasant little sur
| prise, and she was so successful that a
doctor advised me to lay up for week
'sSometimes brick or two will be
aimed at my head without my being
/ able to discover whence it came, and l
have just Lad all interview with man
| who showed lie broken window
through which he had showed his wife S
head backward and forward by way of
chaetisement, and he expressed what
exquisite delight he would take i'll doing
tue same to mo il the window was not
soon mended.
"All this is quite apart from the
trouble I have in obtaining money. -
| Pcarson'S Weekly
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-01-20
Probable Enough.

''The feelings Of woman are far deep
er and finer than those of man," cried
the lady orator in a fiery tone. "We
are told by those who style themselves
the stronger sex that we are much infe~
rior. Is that so?''
A loud chorus of "Nol" from the la
dies greeted this question, and the ora
tor went on:
81 say that woman feels where man
thinks
sis that the reason your husband is
bald?" inquired one of the few male
members Of the audience.
Tt was lucky for him that he got two
seconds start in the race for the door
Pearson's Weekly.