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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-08-26
sALxIxG AROUND THE WORLD.
2 . Celhsvn. of Maine, Arrives IN
Tacoma. Bound for Parfs.

Tacoma. Bound for Paris.
lpecisi Dispatch 10 the Post-InteiEgencer.
fAcnMA, Aug. G-t'rank g. Coiburn,
tyscal Yankee from Gardner. Ne. walked
~ town today on his way around the
ND He II . typical Uncle Sam az ror-
4Isd by the comic papers, with thin nose.
II face. chm wh.skefs. rcd wfite- and
- n<cktIe and beaver hat He has a
- and neare like the pictures, but II
1lher underMsed instead OF being a SIX
1pcfer.
He Jeff the Pine Tree state last septem-
esf and viii % TO the Philippines and land
m Paris Rext summer. To make expenses
ne y magazine correspondent. story
vfffN. lecturer and advertising agent.
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OATS NOT BADLY DAMAGED.
Reports From La Conner Are Favor.
able 10 . Good CPOp,

Special Dispatch TO the Post-Inteli!gencer.
LA CONNER. Aug. S--Previous reports
that the oat crop is ruined In Skagit county
are greatly exaggerated. The oat crop
rains cease soon Skagit county viii put
on the market inside OF thirty days the
finest crop OF oats In many years. por.
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Tacoma school. Chrs.t~uea

Hsciai lHspaseh To The acknowledgement
.IAtoMA. Aug z5.~-The school board
ws'eIasy named Two rev school buildings.
taer John c. Whittier '''e ''''s'
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Special Dispatch 10 the Post ell.gencer.
CHEHALIS. Aug. 5.-The county COM
missioners are considering a proposition To
buy the Barrett hotel. three-story brick
building. for q court house.
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| STONE. SANFORD &LANE ::s::: !:


Howard Bicknell OF San Francisco, ac-
companied by his mother and two sisters.
returned from Alaska yesterday. and Is
guest OF the Seattle. Mr.. Bickneil ex-
presses himself as delighted with the north
ern country.
Peter Sims, OF ST. Paul. who had super
vision OF the construction Of the Great
Northern railway, accompanied by his
family. II at the Rainier-Grand.
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KNOX hats. ssl and winter styles. on
asle today at II r BeEneitu Seattle
axep.. ~ First avenue.
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auuit ana control has completed It's work
al the Chehal.s industrial srhooi ana viii
go to Portland tomorrow night thence II
VIII go TO Walia waiia Sunday evening
or Monday morn n9. From WaiIa WaIa
the party VIII proceed TO Medical Lake
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Special Dispatch to the Post-Intsiligencer
ROSLYN, Aug. E-The city council OF
this place met in special session tonight to
take steps 70 prevent. II possible, smallpox
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for the future Mi0 Robertson vas . sis-
ter OF w ". Robertson. of the North
Yakima Republic.
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Hcara NJ Aadts ana Control.

secfal Dispatch 20 the rns,-fn,elsxencsr.
WCoMA, Aug. eS.-The state hoard OF
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LITTLE PAr0MA DEMEs1ED>


egectal Dispatch to the Post InteIrgencer.
MlOMA, Aug. 3.-~News has been re-
esved here from Los Angeles that little
INA Schramuh the child pianist. has
sslea.e demented as result os overwork.
~ child was only ~ years old, ana last
~ dehghted thousands OF music lovers
y ssttie ana Tacoma by playing the most
eneen compositions She had made a
q tho United States and Mexico be-
~ her mind gave way
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CLUB NOTES.

The American Girls club in Paris, an or
ganization described in The G o b recently,
received the following doubtful compliment
from an English paper:
''The American girls, who are pre-eminent-
ly birds of passage and less dependent than
their English sisters upon surroundings treat
the club as mere hotel They make no at
tempt to create homelike effect by deco
rating their rooms with personal triies,
books. pictures, flowers and things like that.
Each room, however, possesses stove with
a pipe reaching almost to the ceiling, for the
Americans have decided feeling for warmth.
Each room is furnished only with necessaries,
the only feature of interest being the use Of
divan instead of a bed
The paragraph caused the correspondent of
the New York Sun to shiver with disgust at
the English string iend" and to declare that
the rooms almost museums of quaint
curios picked up in the markets and at the
fairs; rooms where "homelikeness'' is the one
aim of these girl exiles. 1t would be inter-
esting also to know why the English cor
respondent allowed those stovepipes to reach
only almost to the ceiling" To allay any
fears for the girls in the club, 1t may be
stated that the stovepipes do really go the
rest of the way and safely land in aue
Among all tho international congresses and
councils billed for the next two years, none
will be of more interest than the international
congress of writer's which will meet In Rome
this spring. The delegates to this convention
will be treated to free excursion to points
of interest in Sicily by the Sicilian Press as
socation.
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exercises to artistic convolutions. For
her athletic understudies she will ad-
vocate short divided skirt the loose
blouse and low shoes that lace to the
toe.
Then comes the clever director of
fancy dancing-Miss Bette Buchenal
There seems to be craze among So
ciety girls this season to learn new
tangled steps for exclusive parties in
the parlor, and this Instructor of terp-
slchorean toes will show the ambi-
tious ones all about THIS interesting
art
Among new features which this
leader of the dance will inaugurate
Is the military drill, so suddenly popu-
lar down East. 1t Is a part Of the mil
itary fad that overshadows everything
these days. The idea is to practice mil
itary drills for the sake of the exer-
else and incidentally to acquire the
military walk.
1t will be remembered that in the or
ganization of this club the only criti-
c1sm offered by the otherwise approx
ing public was that the dues were ex-
cessive. The members pay the sum
Of $100 for Initiation and $40 annual
dues. The payment of $500 will make
one an athlete for life"
The membership, which is limited to
zoo, already numbers almost 200. This
original 200 can also extend club priv
ileges to the daughters of the family
on payment of an annual fee of So
The women who do not get up the list
this 200 list-will therefore feel them
selves somewhat in the predicament of
the five foolish virgins of old.
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fact that his mental powers are gone. He
is described as sitting for hours at his win
dow looking at the hills, as rarely going out
OF doors, even into his garden, and as keeping
silent, even when spoken to. proposal to
have his portrait painted by Holman Hunt
has been declined by his family, on the
ground that he is too feeble to sit.
According to the bishop Of London, Eng
land owes more to her queens than to her
kings. The three names most famous In
English royal history are Bertha, who helped
to introduce Christianity into England; Eliza
beth and Victoria.
Lady Clarke, the vice president of the
Austral Salon, of Melbourne, Australia, is
the widow Of Sir William Clarke, the bene-
factor Of Trinity college, Melbourne univer-
sity. Lady Clarke herself Is a strong advo-
cate of advanced education for women, and
the Janet Clarke building, at Trinity college,
| Is standing monument to her endeavors to
extend to her sex the advantages Of collegiate
| education.
memorial chapel is In process of con-
| struction, complimentary to the memory of
| the late Empress Elizabeth of Austria. 1t
| Is to be paid for by public subscription The
site selected Is extraordinary, for the chapel
| is being erected on the Schneeberg, which Is
| said to be always capped with snow. 1t is
not difficult of access from Vienna, how
ever, and is often visited by mountain climb
ers. 1t is hoped that the building will be
finished by the 10th of next September the
| first anniversary of the empress's death, on
| which day the first mass will be said.
/ A curious custom in London Is the church
parade, which is made up of the smart peo-
ple,' who take an airing in the parks after
| services. A reflection of the spirit In which
these functions held is caught from the
| following ordinary notice in Modern So
ciety,' which reads:
Church parade, though not crowded in
| the showery weather Of Sunday, was smartly
attended Lady Hood wore long satin
| cloak, which almost touched the ground,
with large revers of white satin; her orna-
ments were opals. Miss Toupie Lowther
wore bright red double breasted Jacket
over limp pink shirt with a white linen
collar, black satin skirt, red hat and a
very prominent watch chain. There was a
! Jacket of white cloth which looked like a
pillar box partially swathed in white sheet;
also an extraordinary cloak which gave the
wearer the appearance of a sheep walking on
its hind legs Lord Chrichton wore a long
blue ulster and an eyeglass.'
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Gently been imported into Japan from
Europe, and her own costume is decidedly
old-fashioned. not to say antiquated in cut
Last summer while the war with spain WAS
in progress. statue was reared in Orense.
in northern Spain. to Sonora Arenal. a Spanish
woman who had devoted her life to the study
of sociology and criminology for philanthropic
purposes. ~
Probably NJ vivier, the Partisan dog tailor.
is not sorry that there is fad for equipping
pet dogs with overshoes. M. Viyier has a
monopoly of the fashionable canine trade In
Paris. and says that 1t Is harder to ft a
blanket to dog than a gown to woman.
II this be true, women will feel sOrrer than
ever for dogs.-New York Sun.
s$s
Rosa Bonheur is now at Nice, where she oc-
cupies villa opposite that Of M. Gambart
her old friend and host. There is a beautiful
garden which Is a marvel of tropical luxuri-
ance. The famous painter is not cordial te
people who intrude upon her, but is most
charming to those she knows and likes.
-
The Countess of warwick is said to be the
only peeress whose name appears over a shoI
window. This particular shop, however, is
run for the benefit Of poor needlewomen
Sixty girls are employed, and the profits are
expended for their beneft. One old country
woman, who saw the name Of the countess
over the window, did not understand the sit
uation, and exclaimed: "Oh, pore lady, 'ow
she must ave come down in the world!'-
New York Sun,
According to the New York Sun, Bonn or
the Rhine has been investigating the liquor
drinking habits of it's small school children
Out Of 247 children, or 8 years of age, in
the primary schools, there was not one thai
had not tasted beer or wine, and but quarter
of them had not tasted brandy. Beer or wine
was drunk regularly every day by 25 per cent
of the children, while per cent, including
more girls than boys, received a daily glass
of cognac from their parents to make them
strong, and 16 per cent Would not drink milk
because it had no taste.
After the ball given by the Paris municipal
council to their constituents, it was found
that six dozen silver spoons and hundreds OF
other articles, such as plates, mustard pots
and flower vases, had been taken away, while
many Of the dancers had helped themselves to
bottles of champagne.
John Ruskn's eightieth birthday has called
forth many kind notices in England. They
only serve however, to emphasize the sad
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sea, and was twice imprisoned at Libby.
The woman waiting at home wrote and
wrote again to her absent lover, but no word
came In reply. Then one day she heard that
he was dead. Her wait was ended. year
later she married James Jennings, of Colum-
bus, o.
C1ews, released from his prison, and now
man without occupation or career, heard that
his sweetheart was married. For many years
he wandered over the country, finally set
Ting in Cincinnati. He never brought to her
mind and her heart the knowledge that he
was alive, but cherished the memory of his
only love.
Three years ago one Of those strange ac-
cidents which sometimes bless the unpre-
tected people of this world brought the lovers
together again. 1t was at reunion of. army
veterans that Mrs Jennings, now "a widow,
and Mr.. Clews were formally introduced.
AS her eyes fell upon his face she gave a
little hysterical cry and laugh and fell into
his arms.
The story was ended. They were both 100
years old, and the Oldest couple In Pennsyl-
vania, but this little matter did not trouble
them.
II feel as if my wife and mysx1f had re-
newed our YOUTH says Clews. ''Our affec-
tion is mellowed and softened by time Don't
be surprised if we live another hundred
years."
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WOnnQn'S World.

some remarkable performances Says
a woman, speaking Of the function:
First of all, there Is Nine. Marion
Liljenstolpe, the swimming master"
The woman given this unique position
is Swedish by birth and like many Of
her countrywomen can do enough in
tricate. turns in the tank to make a
mermaid envious. She will also make
a specially of medical massage. In
swimming she holds the record Of be-
ing the champion high diver of the
world-that is, among women-being
able to make forward dive~of sixty
four feet any day in the week and oc-
casionally an eightyfoot dive. Ordi-
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Count Carl Axel Wachtmeister, whose en-
gagement to Miss Beulah Hubbell, of Des
Moines, has been just announced, is the Sec
Tetary Of the Swedish-Norwegian consulate
In Chicago. The Wachtmeisters are an an
ctent and noble family Of Sweden. The count
is the only son of Count Hans Wachtmeister
and his mother was Vendela de StJernsvard,
Of Charlotsborg, in the province of Skane,
Southern Sweden. Miss Hubbell's fiance can
time Of the crusades. and which during the
centuries has been distinguished for valor,
patriotism and loyalty. The Wachtmeisters
have always held distinguished positions
since they went to Sweden in the sixteenth
century. They have been counted among the
most influential noble families OF northern
Europe. The family seats are located in the
historic places of Johannishus. In Blekinge,
and Wanas, in skane, and few mobiles have
been more distinguished In Sweden than the
connections OF the young man who is about
to ally himself through marriage with Amer
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luton is now going from one assembly
committee to another. but he will bring
1t up in the senate.
1t provides for the appointment Of
a commission to draft g. bill for the
protection Of "old maids, wives and
young girls" against the evils of tight
lacing. Mr.. Daggett says that If the
matter goes no further it has already
accomplished much good in setting
people to thinking on serious sub
ject and perhaps frightening some
thoughtless women back to the ways
Of health. His measure, he says, Is
aimed at the Yankee women; the Ger
man and Norwegian women need no
such protection. He points to the low
birth rate and decreasing marriage
rate among American women as caus-
es for alarm.
"Why, who wants to marry wasp
waist?' he says. II know what I am
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FACT, FAD AND FANCY.

Mrs. Laura McGregor, the wife of a sea
captain who commands a. whaling vessel,
has made the first extended visit by
white woman to the Arctic seas in winter.
She has been far up north of Behring strait,
and met with some curious adventures. A
chief of an Esquimau- tribe offered to trade
wives with the captain, and so insisted upon
this arrangement that he had to be put off
the ship.
1t Is interesting to hear, says the London
World, of steady falling off in the number
of those uncompromising members Of the
advanced sisterhood who have been accus-
toned within recent years to observe the day
of st. Catherine-the patroness of spinsters-
as an annual occasion for the renewal Of, a
pledge to remain single in default Of finding
! husbands sufficiently intellectual to de-
| serve the honor of their cempanionship.
| When the anniversary occurred 1t is said to
| have been discovered that the numerical
strength Of this weird coterie has dwindled
| from its original forty to ten but no ex-
planation Of the exact cause of this declen-
| sion was forthcoming. This is a pity, since
| 1t Is left to conjecture to determine whether
| the decline is due to an increased supply
| of intending benedicts doubly endowed with
| exceptional "intellectuality'' and phenomenal
| courage, or to a growing conviction on the
| part of the members that inferior hus-
| band is better than no husband at all.
| The first operation which the plucky
| Chinese woman doctor of Fouchow perform,
| ed was the removal Of cataract from the
| eye Of old woman whose son had wheeled
her LOCO miles in barrow to the hospital.
| The fame which her skill is winning for
| her is making up somewhat for the hard
| times this woman doctor experienced when
| she first essayed to do battle against op-
pressive traditions hoary with thousands Of
| years.
The crowned poet to the court of the
mikado is woman. says the Ladies' Picto-
| rial. The post is equivalent to that of our
poet laureate, but is much more dif-
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talking about, too, for I have inves-
tigated cases in the asylum at Osh
kosh. I would establish fine of 81
for lacing too tightly, the parents of
the girl or old maid to be the judges"
He says the idea of the anti-lacing
resolution was entirely original with
him and he Indignantly refutes the i'm
preston that he has been the victim
of mischief loving reporters. Only the
highest public good, he asserts. was
consulted in drawing it up. He is not
hostile to the corset per Sc, for he has
not attended rural "hoedowns" for
years without discovering the advan-
tages of that Institution in enhancing
the charms Of woman's Ionic form as
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BRIDEGROOM 1872; BRIDE IS 100
John Clews Who Knew Lincoln at Springfield Takes Wife,

not care. 1t Is probable that they would then
have married and settled down into peace
full old age had not the firing on Fort Sumter
ended their plans and disrupted all human
things in this land.
The old campaign fever caught Clews and
held him fast. He must go out, he said, and
by and by, at the head Of his company, he
rode :e. away to Join the army Of the Potomac; a,;
man and middle-aged woman, l could not
love you half as well as do" he said to her
at parting. 81 shall carry your image in my
heart through the war. If am alive when
the Union is saved will come back to you.'
Mr.. Clews was with Gen. Grant and Gen.
Sherman. He was one Of the first to 60 up
against that terrible wall at Fredericksburg,
when the men Of the Union were moved down
like sheep. Under the unerring hail Of Con-
federate bullets he was at the taking of
Vicksburg and in Sherman's march to the
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one from the Swedish school, secured
for expert swimming above many com
petitors.
With the trapeze, which will over
hang the swimming pool, Nine. Liljen-
stolpe will be able to do many a clever
turn. for she practices daily on a ira
peze in her home. So strong has she
become that she can hold her husband
at arms length. and he is q powerfully
built man. Every woman is not able
to thus manage her husband.
On this opening day Mime. Liljen-
stolpe will appear in pink tights with
black sash.
The gymnasium Is another much
needed innovation for the fair sex. This
is to be in charge Of Mrs. Charlotte
Banwell Murray, who will make mus
Gle for Chicago women with little of
everything developing from breathing
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we'll as the embarrassment of dancing
with maids who have not arrived at
the same sage conclusion.
Mr.. Daggett sprang into prominence
on his first entrance in Madison by ap-
pearing at the inauguration of the
state officers with an ear of red corn
projecting from his upper coat pocket
as badge of his vocation and his in
dependence. He next came into men,
ton when his home county board, of
which he is q member passed resolu-
tions ccndemning his course in riding
On passes. He says the members OF
the beard can entertain nothing but
good Will toward him, however, as
each year that he has been with them
he has given them an oyster supper.
Nevertheless, he has introduced Dill
to cut down the number of days for the
annual meeting Of county boards from
twenty to fifteen.
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Franklin. Pa, that nursery of strange
things and strange people, has provided sew
eral phenomena, hbhnan and otherwise. in
the course OF the last geheration, but per-
haps the strangest spectacle ever seen there
OF elsewhere was witnessed the other day
when two centenarfans skipped blithely up
to the church altar end plignted their troth
They were John Ciews, a sprightly young
ster not more than S02 years cid, and Sarah
Jennings. who In October passed her one
hrndredth birthday. F43.5Q =
Wouldn't give her a day more thar
sixty" said everybody; in the church, and,
really. for damsel OF 100 years Mrs. Jen-
nings walks and talks and thinks with
creditable fire and viger
Behind this singular marriage lies little
romance Of the war, tending to show that
the course of true love will generally end in
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From the Chicago Chronicle.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
Assemblyman Henry l.. Daggett, Of
Outagamie county, Wisconsin, whose
anti-tight lacing resolution attracted so
much attention, has just returned from
st. Paul. where he visited the Gopher
legislature, and where he found his
fame had preceded him. He defends
his resolution, and says it was no
more visionary than the Minnesota
teachers pension bill, one of whose
proposed amendments, he says, is to
grant pensions only to female teachers
who have taught twenty years and
who have been proposed to only once
in that length Of martyrdom. His reso-
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narily a thirty y-f1ve-foot dive Is con-
sidered fine for feminine diver.
Among her fancy acts, which will
probably inspire Chicago women to do
likewise, is one called 1.-The Trip to
Chinatown" In this Nine. Liljenstolpe
lies on the water holding a Chinese
parasoL over her head with one hand
and with the other uses fan. In this
position she Is able to propel herself
forward with her feet-not backward
for that is easy-for $50 feet. Another
clever trick is to tie her hands and
feet firmly, then make q forward dive
and unite the cords in the water. These
are but samples Of her swimming
feats.
Nine. Liljenstolpe was graduated
ten years ago from the Royal Swedish
Swimming association, Of which the
king of Sweden is patron For five
years she has lived in Chicago. Among
the gold medals which she prizes is