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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-22

Members ~ Harmony Lodge No. and
KNIGHTS are requested 10 meet AZ Castle
han Sunday. January = IT n m to at
tend she funeral OF our latc brother l.. NJ
Garrison r. BUCK. 4 &
l. KoRN. X az h. aud :
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-22

ON and after January e. two daily
trains hc,wern Seattle and Portland
: Leave Seattle $50 a. m and =. m.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-22
BREVITIES.

The county commissioners yesterday APP
pointed Anthony Harm superintendent of
the county poor farm to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of j. Il. Gallaher.
Harm has been acting superintendent for
several weeks
A. Tabor and r. Stewart reported to the
police yesterday morning that their rooms
at the State lodging house on First avenue.
near Seneca street. were entered night he
fore last. In each instance a gold watch
was stolen.
Jack c. Hawkins, outside agent for the
Frye-Bruhn Company had two fine Alas
ka dogs which he valued at $40 each. He
was in the habit OF taking his pets out for
from running away by means of a long
chain. One day not long ago the dogs dis
appeared Hawkins Immediately became a
detective. and yesterday afternoonss he
swore out a warrant charging II. Wilbur
with the larceny of the dogs
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-22
AMANDA SMITH, tx-SLAVE.
Great Colored Evangelist Is
Now q Guest of Seattle.
SHE WILL PREACH TOMORROW.

Born On q Maryland Plaatatton More
Devoted Her Life to Emd~avorfnx
Ia Befter Her People and Those
Of the White Race-Talks In Inter-
esttng Way of Her Trip West.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-22

We are eve projectors. Miss Wlzineki
sssentltic Graduate. ne Cherry Eycs tested
free
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-22

QUALITY talks. that is why miners
insist en Frye Bruhn Co.'S English Break
last Bacon
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-22

QUALITY talks. that is why miners
insist on Frye-Bruhn Co.'S English Break
fast Bacon.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-22
EXCURSION

Daily on the steamer Mary F. Perley TO
the navy yard. to visit the batteship Ore
eon, in the dry dock. Leaves Gafhraith's
wharf at ! p. m: arrives back $50 p. m.
Fare. 70 cents round trip. @ao''
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-22

Bishop w. r. McIavin has resigned from
the position Of dean of the Western Thee
logical seminary. which he has filled since
1864
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-22

Medium and Heavy Weights, we
arc showing the choicest crea-
tiOns of the most celebrated
makers.
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-02
CARRIER PIGEONS III WAR.
Proposal Has Been aTaGe to Use
Them on the Scouting vessels
OF The Coast.

The experiments which the French
government is now making with carrier
pigeons are not novel. though from The
scientific way in which they are being
conducted 1t is believed that new data
as to tie efficiency of these swift birds
as messengers In time of war may be
ggthered. Similar experiments have
been made III this country recently, not
ably these under the management Of
Howard Carter, of the naval homing
pigeon service of New York, says the
Sun.
1t is calculated that the pigeons fly
al a rate varying from 30 to 60 miles an
hour. This means that a message from
a ship 200 miles at sea might be sen; to
the home loft in from four 0 FIVE hours.
For instance, II the pigeons were re-
leased from a scouting vessel to give
warning Of the approach CT an enemy's
Vessel or feet they could beat the aver
age patrol boat to shore by ten or -
hours over 2G0-rnile course. Such adj
vance warning would be OF greal value
in an emergency. It Is proposed, in
case of war, to place crates OF these
pigeons on board the fastest patrol
boats which may be assigned to out
siGe duty.
Mr.. Carter's method Of training pi-
geons differs materially from that of a
few years ago. lie flies hi; birds sing.y
or in pairs al distances ranging from
ten to 400 miles from the home loft.
When they ere released in pairs he
sends slow Lird with a swift enc. lie
found that the old style OF taking a
basket full Of birds and releasing them
al varying distances in lots Of ten or
IS didn't fit the pigeons for swift flights
when they were released sinGiy. The
New York loft broke the record for 150
miles in 1896, cad it is believed that If
the necessity for using pigeons arises
thos, from this loft will do good service
to this port.
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-02
CHILDREN AND WHEELS.
Parents Should See to 1t Thet thc
little Ones Do Not Over
exert Themselves.

While bicycling in moderation is one
of the best forms of exercise for many
adults, particularly the equity and
those who lead sedentary indoor lives,
indulgence in it by the young should
be hedged about with many precau-
tions. Whennot overdone, tits probably
as beneficial to children as to their
elders, but it is less needful, since the
young, especially boys, seldom suffer
for want of exercise, their outdoor
games giving them, as rule, all they
need. But aside from this there is
positive danger in the wheel, arising
from the proneness Of children to COM
pete with adults-to ride too long, too
fast, and too far.
Wheeling resembles stair-climbing in
its nature and effects. No mother
would allow her child to run up the
steps Of the Washington monument
two or three times a day, yet she will
let him take his bicycle and race over
country roads for miles, his little heart
pumping $50 CT eco times a minute, and
fondly thinks it is doing him good.
- - j Nt''S iiti li4cl TIC GdL4SCI 4lNS--
the heart is strained, overstrained; it
is dilated and then enlarged; it works
continuously to its full strength, draw
ing on all its reserve force, and by the
time the child has become a man the
heart is permanently tired and may
possibly stop short some day without
warning.
Children need not be forbidden the
use of the bicycle, but parents should
see to it that they have. properly con-
structed saddles, and that they do not
"scprch," climb steep hills, ride against
high winds, or ride at all more than a
few miles at stretch. Unfortunately
it is these very feats that they are
often melted by their elders to operform.
There are few more piteous sights, to
one who has-seen the consequences of
such folly, than that of tiny child on
a tiny wheel struggling up hill after
a siX-foot father and seasoned mother
Youths Companion.
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-02
SEEATHING A SHIP.
Composition Metal Now Largely Used
and the. WORK Is Quickly and
Handsomely Done.

Yachts built Of wood are sheathed
with copper, and so are many tugboats.
Merchant ships ares sometimes sheathcd
with copper, but nowadays the material
most commonly used is d composition
metal, which in appearance resembles
brass. 1t does not wear SO long as cop
per, but it costs less. The composition
metal comes in sheets about three feet
by cne foot four inches. They are
fastened on the ships with nails of the
same material Sometimes the sheath
ing is nailed directly en- to the hull CT
the ship. Sometimes it is nailed over
another sheathing of felt, which helps
to preserve the calking in the seams,
says the New Yorl, Sun.
When the ship has been placed in a
dry deck, or raised ont Of water on a
floating dock, the old metal is stripped
off and-if she is to have felt sheathing
the bottom CT the ship is first painted
with coat CT pitch, and the sheets Of
felt are laid upon that, and then the
sheets of metal are nailedon ever them.
The work is done very rapidly, and, at
the same time, with great nicely. Every
nail head is sunk So that it is flush with
the plate. II the hand were passed over
the sheathing anywhere it would be
found smooth. If the nail heads were
permitted to project they would, Of
course, interfere with the speed of the
vessel.
Sevcnty-fve men can sheath an 1900
ten ship in two days. The cost Of
sheathing such ship4Yith composition
metal over felt, including material,
dock charges, labor, and everything,
would be about $4,000, or a little less,
and such a sheathing would last about
two long voyages.
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-02
RESPECT FOR THE FLAG.
Not Always to Be Measured in This
Country by the Number of Hats d.
That Come on.

"Hats Off" said an enthusiastic
young man in the crowd around the
Old Guards recruiting tent at City Hall
park when the band started UP with
The .Star-Spangled Banner" Nobody,
or cliy one or two, followed his ex-
ample.
.'Hats off, he cried again, and maybe
half dozen hats came off. lie made
the call again, but no more were re-
moved and some Of the men standing
near smiled at the young man.
In England" said q bystander later,
when hey play Cod Save the Queen,
everybody takes cfr his hat. Why don't
we take Of our hats here?"
Wei, don't know" said a middle
aged man who had his hat rather
jammeG down on his head than other
wise, and whose eyes were gi.stening
slightly. 81 don't think it's our way
so much. But / don't think we lack
affection for the flag. don't feel that
It's necessary for me 10 take off my
hat toit every time, but the flag knows
how l feel toward It,"
And l dca't think it indicates.a a lack
CT enthusiasm, ether said another
bystander In fact, / imagine that we
shall need not to stimulate patriotism
ii this country, but to exercise some
sclf-control as nation to keep our
generous impulses from going too far
il one direction and another. AS mat
ter Of fact, we are only just now begin
ming to realize what we are, the great
est nation on the face of the earth. We
are like vigorous young giant when
he comes TO the first realization of the
fullness of his strength among men.
Our youthful vigcr Will last, don't
know how lorg, how many scores CT
years or centuries, during which time
we shall find it hard work to sit quiet
ly within the precincts Of our own home.
And yet as a people we are rather reti-
cent, so far as the expression of feel
ing goes; young as we are, we are not
easily carried off our feet. But none the
less do we love the flag and respect it;
more now, in fact, than ever. There
has never been a time in the country's
history when the national feeling was
so strong as it is now; never time
when the pride Of citizenship here was
SO great.
As our friend here has observed, we
may not al feel called upon to uncover
at every mention Of it, but cur devotion
to the flag is deeper now than ever and
more significant" ~. Y. Sun.
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-02
WHERE THE JOKE CAME III.
The Boys Hauled the Professor Back
Much 10 Their CheGrin ona
Discomfort.

\ very good stc1y is told Of the lead
OF q college, who was the IossessCr Of
a very clumsy, olG-fashioEed vehicle, TO
which he vas very partial and which
he constantly used in riding through
the streets OF the town, to the disgust
OF most of the students.
\ pan was formed among some CT
the boys that on a certain night they
would remove this offensive vehicle
from the coach-hcuse TO a wood about
half mile from The college. Their in
tention was to run the carriage into the
thiekest Of the woods and underbrush
and leave it there.
But the principal by some means
learned or suspected their intention.
Accordingly, in the evening, he quiet
ly went out to the coach-house, and,
well wrapped up, crouched in corner
Of the carriage, and waited.
Soon the boys came, very stealthily,
and, without looking into the vehicle,
began their operations very quietly;
and in whispers, and with many
Hush" and Take care" and Look
cut" they succeeded in getting it out
Of the house ard yard, and into the
road.
There they were al right, but they
were puzzled to find the thing SO heavy
to haul; and amid grrrnblings ard puff
ings and paintings, varied occasionally
with a strong expression Of disgust.
they succeeded in reaching the woods.
the principal listening to their con-
plants, and rather enjoying the situa-
ton.
Having with some difficulty lacked
the carriage into the brush, they began
to congratulate each ether on the sue
cess Of their naneuyer. The old gem
leman, letting down the window, TO
their utter surprise and alarm, very
quietly said:
"NcE, ycuEg gentlemen, just take
me back very carefully, if you please"
Spare Moments.
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-02
WOMEN AS TEACHERS.
The Proportion Largest in the United
States and Smallest in Germany.

The Proportion Largest In the United
States and Smallest in Germany
There are in the United States, rough
ly speaking. 35O,09O school teachers,
and of this number 120,0 600 are men and
100000 are women. In other words,
there are nearly twice as many female
as male teachers, and the disparity is
increasing year by year. According
to the last official census of Prussia
there were 6s,00O school teachers in the
kingdom, of whom 5000 were women
and $1,000 men. 1t is evident, therefore,
that the Prussian preference is for male
/ teachers. In all Germany there are,
including the government, church and
private schools, $4,000 teachers, and
the number of pupils is nearly 10000
/ 600. There are 100000 teachers in
France, of whom $4,000 are men and
! $4,000 are women, the number of each
being subject to about the same ratio
of increase. There are, it is supposed,
about ice, GOO teachers in Great Britain,
but authentic figures are lacking,
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-02
TWO SAFE HARBORS.
New York and Boston Are Well
Defended. i
hostile Fleets Would Find 1T Dim-
cult to Eject an Entrance to
Either OF These
PCrfa.

In these days Of war alarms the ques-
ton of our coast defenses has come to
TIE front; and on this score Boston, ap-
parently, has little, cause for uneasi-
ness. The numerous islands make Bos-
ton harbor one of the most easily de-
Tended Of American ports; and the for
tifications at the mouth Of the harbor
make it impossible for hostile warships
to project missiles from their heaviest
ordnance as far as the city, compactly
slowed away, as it is, at the head of the
harbor. There is little doubt also that
the defenses of Manhattan and Brook
lyn boToughs are adequate TO protect
these chief factors in the Greater New
York from bombardment. An enemy's
feet could certainly enter Long Island
sound, but it would be terribly har-
rassed in its progress toward New York
by mortar stations, and its troubles
would begin III dead earnest when it
reached the neighborhood of Fort
Schuyler and Willet's Point, with their
great disappearing guns and the
heaviest of modern ordnance, by which
they control the expansc of sound
waters for miles to the east Of them.
New York is the second greatest COM
mercial port, being surpassed only by
London, while Liverpool, its nearest
competitor, has now been outstripped
by Hamburg. The time was when the
region OF New York bay was above the
sea, and then the valley of the Hudson
extended far out beyond the present
land limit and the broad valley, eroded
by the river waters, may still be traced
for Is or 90 miles out to sea. 1t plays
an important part in the protection of
New York harbor; for large part of
the sediments from the Hudson and
the sands that are swept along the
shore in the direction of the harbor fall
into this trough and are thus unable to
accelerate the formation in the lower
bay of shoals, which, as it is, grow all
too rapidly for the peace of mind of the
shipping trade.
New York harbor is the best because
the largest illustration of the important
services which our government renders
to commerce. The earliest work of the
coast and geodctic survey was done in
New York harbor. 1t discovered Ged-
pey's channel one of the harbor's most
important thoroughfares. It's seven
surveys between 1885 and 1875 resulted
in many important recommendations.
But harbor work has been much neg.
leeted in recent years and the mer-
chants of New York are now demand
ing that the Swallowing channels be
ping interests.-Cyrus c. Adams, in
Chautauquan.
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-02
DANGEROUS SMELLS.
Scents That XIII MoTe Surely Than "a
Gun Shot Through the
Heart.

Some smells are dangerous. \ single
sniff of highly concentrated pruss;c
ACID will kill & man as quickly as shot
through the heart. The odor Of bad
egg is due 10 the presence Of SUI
phuretted hydrogen. and the objection
able perfumes of sewers and bone fac
tories are attributable chiefly to the
same gas. Chemical laboratories, says
the Boston Transcript, are famous for
bad smells. Berzclus. who discovered
TIE clement called "se.enium," once
tried the experiment of permitting
bubble Of pure hydrogen se!enide gas
to enter his nostr1. For days after
wards he was not able to smell strong
ammonia, the olfactory nerves being
temporarily para.yzed. Selenium gas
has the oder of putrid horseradish.
Tellurium is even worse. There is a
story OF a physician whose patient, a
lady, refused to take an absolutely nee
essary rest because she was so fond Of
being always on the go-in society. He
gave her 4 Pill containing a small guam
tty of tellurium, and her breath was
effected by it to such an extent that
she was not able to appear in public for
q Gonth. She never guessed what the
trouble was. The yolatzed essential
oil Of roses is supposed to cause rose
cold" This peculiar complaint is so
far nervous in its character that paper
roses sometimes excite it.
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-02
THE BEST FOOD.
II Is That Which hest Satisfies the
Taste and ApDeases
the Appetite.

1t is the fashion OF some welI-mean-
ing people to look suspiciously upon all
food that is especially tempting 10 he
appetite. They seem to regard the
taste as naturally depraved and liable
to lead those who are guided by it into
all varieties Of danger. Nothing could
be more absurd than such a fancy The
taste of a person who is not IN health
is often deprayed; that Of a person in
health, whether man or child, is the
best guide it can have in the selection
OF food.
The mother who ignores the taste of
her children by compelling them 10 eat
that which she considers good for them
is doing cruel, as well as a danger
Gus, thing. She is attempting to sup
plant the Heaven-given guide which
man, as well as the poor brute Of the
fields, possesses to enable him to dis
tinguish between that which is good
and wholesome and that which is poi
sonous. a poison is not necessarily q
thing which is fatal to life. Strictly de-
fined, it is anything which in itself or
in any of the products Of its chemical
transformation in the body shall be in
furious to the structure or action Of any
organ.
Oatmeal porridge, in this sense, may
be poison, for every intelligent person
ought to know that this Simple grain
food" sometimes acts very injuriously
on the digestive organs. The mother
who forces a little child to eat oatmeal
when it is repugnant to its taste is
acting in tyrannous manner and prob
ably endangering its health. One Of the
inalienable rights Of all human beings,
even of children, is that the food be en-
joyabie and agreeable to the taste, as
God intended it should be.
The human organs of taste are very
complicated. When food is taken into
the mouth it passes before three sets
of nerves before it can be swallowed.
Nearly all virulent poisons have 50
acrid quality that they are rejected
at once by the taste. This is especially
true of vegetable poisons, which, for
the protection Of man and animals, are
made especially bitter and distasteful.
The sense of odor assists the taste. A
great many things which we call tastes
are perceived by the sense of cdor.
This is true of pepper and most spices.
This combination of the nerves of
taste and smell, which is the only pro-
lection of the animal, should also be
the highest guide of man in his selec-
tion of food. The ideas of food theorists
change with each generation. The ia
vorite foods of one generation are con-
demned by the theorists of the next.
Meantime that God-givcn guide, the
taste, remains, and after all the ages
has changed but little. Essentially the
same kind of leavened bread and the
same meats and vegetables are eaten
to-day as were served on the ta-
bles of the Pharaoh of the Exodus. The
best guide to the best. food is given in
the simple lines of one of England's s
greatest poets: "That which is not
good is not delicious to a well-gov-
erned appetite. IN. Y. Tribune.
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-02
Cat Cnnrersatinn.

The commonest sound of pleasurable
emotion, the ordinary purr, has no pur-
pose to serve; it is an outcome of pure
satisfaction, and is thus slightly dis
tinguished from q chirrup-the near
est approach a cat makes to response in
utterance w'hen it Is affecticnately ad-
dressed. The response by backward
movement of the ears is more frequent
The chucllle of pleasurable excitement
is used when the cat is quite unaware
of the presence Of people, or other cats,
as much as when it is playing with a
person or an animal companion. Again,
cat news to itself when it is bored
or hungry; but il it is making direct
appeal fer food, does so, unless it is
painfully hungry, with very small
voice or mouth silently opened. Ex-
cept, perhaps, for the chirrup of re-
sponss, the cali appears to be the only
real approach to language; and here it
seems possible that the cat does really
listen for a response, and call again.
London Spectator.
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-02
SCIENCE AID INDUSTRY.


The nun,5er Of stars Visi,le e - 'n-
naked eye is less han 6,eao. nc - '...n
Der OF stars visible through li;e ~ 60
TELESCOPES IS probably net ieSs' 'N'''
130,ce0, $50.
How lar evay the milky way is there
are no means cf judging with fi1ch eo''t i't
.idence. Prof Barnard las given g.
,easons for thinking that us ero'.li'.
.orlz consists Of stars, fvii;'l are n''e1l
mailer taan the sun, perhaps h'i
>!reds Of thousands OF tines siiissstei' -
that is distance 1rcr Us. E1.y not De
great, as star distances 50.
Some experiments recently made III
Belgium tend 10 throw doubt on the
ruth OF the assumption that insects are
guided o flowers by the brightness cl
their co.ors. BrilI;antly-caiored OAR
las were covered so as to show Only the
,,isks, and butterflies and bees sought
these flowers with the same eagefHes'
and frequency as these which were fully
exposed. The conclusion reached that
the insects wsre guided by their sense
of smell rather than by their sight
seems conclusive.
The long familiar laboratory method
Of drying The ar by means Of 'm@s-
ture-absor6ing agent has been bor-
rowed BY d Frankfort inventor for q
patented dry barrel or box for preserN-
ing vegetables ard other substances.
Tie newap apparatus IS simply BOX vita
false bottom of s,ats, ul,eler which IS
placed a metallic tray containing caus-
t;c potash. The vegetables, fruit, etc,
ere placed on the false bottom, aid the
air--admitted only throagh the teton
is dried before reaching themby pas
sage over the potash. One charge CT the
drier is claimed 10 last six months.
The Winslow mail., 1898-07-02
An Accommodation Cnos,.

Mrs. Crane ''just hates" Capt. Lane.
Mrs. Crane loves to tell ghost stories.
Capt Lane is a sea captain and navi-
gator Twas last Friday evening at
Mrs. Morels'. They were speaking Of
apparitions, premonitigns, forewarn-
ingg, etc. Oh says Mrs. Crane, 81
just know spirits return. When Cousin
Louisa died in New York she appeared
To me at precisely 12o'clock. Next morn
ing a telegram informed us that she
had died exactly at H." "Ahem!" grunt-
ed the gallant skipper, ''she might have
allowed for the difference in time. >
San Francisco News Letter.