Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-18
For Publishing Pension Roll.

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The bill provides that the list shall
L, in the form OF pamphlets and that
that there sliall l." one pamphlet for
each STATE and Territory and one for
the District 50: Columbia. Each
pamphlet is To- contain. arranged IN
alphabetical order, both Il, regards the
names and the pcs; -utlicc addresses OF
the pensioners. 4 Ii: OF all the
pensioners resident within the State,
Territory, or District covered by it.
Il i also to show in addition the
relationship Of the pcn>iOncr to the
person and the full name .! the per
son who performed the service where
the title is drrivativc; the company
am. regiment, or other arm ct the
military or naval service; the date and
place oil his muster in and the rank
then held and the date and place and
manner Of termination of service and
the rank then held; present rate OF
pension and from what date pension
was originally granted, with dates and
amounts of increase, if any. The Sec
rotary of the Interior is directed to
mail to each newspaper in the United
States copy OF the pamphlet for the
State, Territory or District in which
the newspaper is published.
The PROPER STUDY OF MAN Is MAN.
Ohio contcmplatcs the enactment of
law prohibiting marriages, unless
the parties are shown, by medical ex-
animation, to be entirely free from any
tendency to insanity. But why stop
at that! Why not prohibit everybody
who possesses the germs of any OF the
incurable" diseases, or vicious habits
transmitted by heredity, from assum.
ing the risk of transmitting his or her
infrmity to posterity? The ideal life
will never be attained, the model world
never reached, the higher spirituality
never realized, until prenatal condi-
lions enter into the study of this most
important relation assumed by man.
kind. In the attainment OF animal
perfection, how carefully are all these
points studied by the owners of blood
ed" stock! And how marvellous is
the result! Still poor frail humanity
must go on making plumbers, con-
trolled by blind impulse, instead of re-
specting those simple laws prescribed
by Nature and based upon common
sense?
MORE DISASTER ON THE ALASKA
ROUTE.-There seems to be strange
fatality attending the ships carrying
passengers and freight to Alaska.
Added to the wrecks already reported,
we now have to note the burning of
the Clara Nevada, in Lynn canal,
about ten days ago, and the menace
from the same source to the steamship
Oregon, last Monday, as she was leav-
ing the Columbia for Alaska, with
about 600 passengers. When just
crossing the bar. smoke was discovered
issuing from her bunkers, where the
coal for the voyage was stored. Much
excitement for time prevailed among
the passengers, but the officers were
cool, and soon ascertained that the
fire was ut the bottom of the coal,
making it necessary to put back to
port. The steamer arrived ut her
dock safely and the work of unloading
the coal began in the evening at
o'clock. The fire was caused by spon.
taneous combustion, the damage was
slight, and the steamer was delayed
but a single day by an occurrence that
under different circumstances might
have resulted in heavy loss of life
and property.
AS SPECIAL AGENT AT OTTAwA.-COl
James Hamilton Lewis was al
| OTTAWA. Ont. Monday. "a the spec.