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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-20
HOOD CANAL. ROUTE.

EXFTHNN}N H1EAMEA TNfVE
Leaves Gashraath dock foot Of washing-
sen street. Tuesdays Thursdays and Sat-
srdzys 81 oeaoes =. N. for Ktnxyson.
Pert Gamble s<aheck, Brinnon. Holly
D<wafso. LIiswaUp FAiss. Hoodspors and
onion City. Retu.ns on alternate daya
ID. TROET1AN. Manager.
Telephone. Main So
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-20
PORT TOWNSEND. San JUAN ISL
AEDS AND WHATcCM ROUTE.
STEAMER LYDIA THOMPSON

Carrying United States matt. leaves City
dock. foot Of Main street, sundays, Tues
days and Thursaays. at 10 o'clock mid
ande and New Whafeor1. Returning.
leaves New Wbsfcom Tuesdays. Thurs-
days and Saturdays at q. m J. X.
Thorn pson. manager-ownsr. Lilly B1gar~
dus Co, agents. City dock. Telephone.
Main "a
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FIJI ON THE rLrER

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S. FLY ON THE FLYER
sEArrLr 10 TACOMA.
An one TH neI sr f1d hnsns{ F rnyi '.''
Regular daily trips. esattis-Tacoma
s TxkiH "a i RSSHcr runsDAY. JUNE :
Leave seattls-7:ls. HIS = IA: 80. s:lS
Leave racoma-s:D .. N: l, "A 80 n.
Leave seattie-73e = m. y m. tR -.
LANDING ns a Northern Pssii q, wharf. re-
coma. and Commercial dock, foot Of Mar
ION street, Seattle.
sundays. steamer Eiyer O. 0rsynoond.
SEATTLE. TACOMA AND OLYMPIA
STEAMER MULTNoAGAH
Leaves for Tacoma and Olympia daily 90
cspt sundays at p. n
STEAMER CITY or AnERDEEN
Leaves for Tacoma and 0lympla daily sx~
cspt sundays. AZ .. n. nsturuing. ar.
Fare between Seattle ana Tacema. =
cents- Round trip. = csntA
-, Ca, CAPT; L wI1 VILE s:a. Sc...
fo'1i s sHiP cozPP1zoNS7.
VICTORIA ROUTE.
steamer Utopia. between seattle. wash..
and Victoria. b. G.
$50 am tLvl SEATTLE tAs 800 am
Loo pm ILvi p. Townsend Ar lsoo an
s:D pm sAri Victoria (Lyl 81 ~
sDaily except sunday.
J. ~. ALLEN,
Agent, Yesles wharf. seattle
I. A. EADEAU.
General Agent. n. r. Ry.. Seattle.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-20

SIX AIT RIVER Ht3fsJ E<--sffsa fflfT skaK5t
Queen md Irene
Leaves Rsastae~Tuesisy. June -. ~
a m Thursday. June y, at a m Sat
urdsy June "a. ~ ~ n. m
Leaves MI fsrren- Wednesday. June
q. al II noon. Friday. June =. at p. m.
Sunday June E. at o. IN
Calling at Edmonds. TusHilp SSanwcpa.
Fir. akasfs CITY. Mount vernon. Av1u
a~ssY1- Wssossey. Lyman and Hamilton
Fer passenger and freight rates apply
AZ City dock W. r. 1iikeson. general
manager. Tes~7hohs Masn n.
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On Port Orchard ard Port Washington
ronse. leaves city dock s.sa a m. calling
81 South Beach. BurcheIi. Brick Yard,
Bfemerton, L. O. Navy Yard, Sidney.
Charleston Tracyt0u Chico, 6sITesfaie.
Leaves PORE Orchard Navy Station IT 2
p. M: arrives Seattle ~ r. m f. ~.
Rotsns0n master i.sEly B0eardus 4
Co. agents. Telephone. Main g.
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STEAMER GEORGE z: STARR. for
.AnacOrtes, FAirhaven. WhAtcom, and
Blaine, leaves Central DOck, seattle. -
3 p. IA. Mondays. Wednesdays ana yr1-
m. Tuendaya. Thursdays and saturdays.
Leaves Seattle for Tacoma at . = m
Wednesday,. Fridays. and Monday
FOR WAlDBY ISLAND POINTS AND
LA CONEER-8tenmer Fatrhaven leaves
Central Dock. Seattle. daily ut : T. M
except Sunday. Returning, leaves La Con.
ne- 1t p. m. daily, except sunday. touch.
Ing At Edmonds, Clinton. Browns Point,
Langley. Coupevtlle. San de Fuca. Oak
Harbor, rtsalAdy and La Conner. II
Conner Trading and Tfansportatton Con.
pany. owners. Telephone. Main M
THE FAvORiTE l.. q. NAIL STEAMER
STATE OF WA1HINaTON
Has now resumed her regular run b.
tween Seattle, Everett, Anacortes. Iatrs
haven and Whatcom. daily except 9Atug.
day, at 10 p. m, from Yesler Wharf.
This pmiattal and popular ateau1er u
just from the hands Of shlpwrfght. ma
chinssf and decorator and In splendid con-
dition for this seasons business.
Elegant statefooma. and cuisine tho
best. The travelling public can now b
assured Of rapid transit and quick dis.
patch OF freight. the State being only
daily boat on seatsIe-W hatcom route
PACIFIC NAVIGATION CO.
Phone. Main si7. Yesier Wharf.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-27
SKETCH OF MAFEKING,
The Town Now Being Defended by
Col. Baden-PoyyeIl.
From the London Mail.

From the London Mail.
1t is reported that the first attack of the
Beers is to be made upon the compare
lively defenseleSs town of Mafeking, in
that part of Cape Colony formerly known
as British Bechuanaland 1t is not perhaps
altogether fair to call Mafeking defense
less, for during the past few weeks of ten
sion We have heard that the place has been
more or less protected by sandbags and
hastily thrown-up earthworks. But Mafe-
king lies entirely in the open. bare on the
Veldt. which is as fiat as a pancake A few
isolated kopjes, an ant heap every here and
there, a clump of bushes under three feet
hiSh-Ihese are the only things that break
the monotony of the landscape. The veldt
runs right away to the far distant sky
line, and only a few scattered tin shanties
mark the line OF railway
If the traveller were adventurous enough
to travel by the through express from Cape
Town to Bulawayo, away up in far Rhode
STA, he would find Mafeking practically half
way between the two. To be exact it is
$40 miles from the former and SOB miles
from the latter. Kimberley is IA miles
south. This railway, by the way. is the
main Cape to Cairo route, and will one day
carry the unavoidable globe trotter right
through Africa from end to end.
There is nothing palatial about Mafeking
Normally, Ii is a simple little township of a
few hundred souls. Primarily il is a trad
Ing station with the far north, and there
are many stores OF greater or less import
ance. Grain stores, forage stores timed
goods saddles, rifles, ammunition, even fur
niture, can, or could, be bought there In
the center of the main street is the market
place, surrounded by galvanz5 d iron houses
and stores, each with its little raised veran-
da before it, painted green and white, and
many of the more miscellaneous shops
bearing weird Indian names For the en-
terprising Mohammedan trader has found
his way throughout South Africa and com
petes very keenly and successfully with the
white men.
The main street of Mafeking is a long.
wide and struggling thoroughfare, with
plane trees, eucalyptus and diminutiye
oaks at intervals. The houses all stand in
little plots of ground. and there are at
tempts at cultivation-here and there a few
Sunfiowers, or potato patch, or a hanging
trail of the grenadila or passion-fi0wer
fruit. There is a church-in fact there are
three, of different OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES is a
club, there is a prison, and, highest point of
all civilization, there is the Salvation Army
A good deal of horse buying and selling
takes place at Mafeking 1t is rather a
center and a market for the surrounding
farmers, who bring in their ugly looking
but very useful and untirable nags to the
weekly auctions on the market place. A
good horse may often be picked up Gin
times of peace, of course) for f6 to fs, and
though he may be ugly beggar to look
at, he do almost anything that is asked
of him, and will outlast many a handsomer-
locking animal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-27
GEN. ENART II. GRO8LER.
The Commander of the Orange Free
State MiIitar. Forces

In the concerted plan of war agreed upon
by the Boer republic and the Orange Free
State the forces of the latter will be I'M
der the command of General Evart r.
Grobler, notable figure in the CONNER
| cial legislative and military affairs of
South Africa.
General Grobler is decidedly versatile in
his attainments.. He Is grain grower an
ostrich farmer a stock raiser and a dia-
mond mine owner Though only thirty
six years old he has been an influential
members of the volksraad, sitting for Phil
opolis. He is described as a man of in
trepd but dogged temperament, able
shrewd, but, withal, conservative He is
descended from Dutch and Huguenot stock
He speaks and writes iuently Dutch Eng
lish German and French. He is also ac-
complished in the vernacular of many of
the native tribes around the Free State
He is nearly six feet tail, of slight build,
erect, and is man of active physique and
quick mental conception While at all
times genial and meaSurably unoStenta-
tiouS, he has reserve which he does not
readily throw off. He has mild brown
eye when enjoying recreation, but earn
est, severe look in a serious mood. His
home in his native land, for he is Boer
born-a native of the soil for which he is
fighting-is one of open hospitality
General Grobler was the Orange Free
States commissioner to the worlds fair,
at Chicago, in 1898. His government also
designated him for the Antwerp exposi-
ton and for the forthcoming Paris EXPOSE
ton. These honors he declined because
his South African interests demanded his
time. He has had much to do with mat
tiers of transportation over the line of rail-
way between Cape Town and the Free
State and in arranging the customs trou-
bles between the two countries.
He took prominent part in the develop
ment of the Jagersfontein diamond mines.
He has one of the largest ostrich farms in
South Africa
He periodically loves his native land
and he has been looking at a war cloud for
several years. AS far back as 1898 he said
while in this country:
England does not mean to let us alone
or to leave with US our liberty If she can
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-27
.ues possible because we make them.

wide road indicate the way trodden to the
three hospitals. In different parts of the
valley are these houses which contain only
bed rooms.
The Speise-Saal is the large building. and
about five minutes walk from it is the
second hospital building, which also is no
tceaDle Tor the long rows of open windows.
The chief building is the Anstalt, which is
the Noahs ark-like place one sees first.
Another building Is a small Catholic chapel,
which. however, is little used, and the
distance is too great TO walk to the near
est place Of Protestant worship the inmates
content themselves with occasional ser
vices, when minister is among the in
mates For hygienic reasons such gath
erlngS of the inmates are discouraged.
Presently the inmates appear, walking
so slow that one concludes at first that
there must be some disease of the locomo-
tor muscles prevalent This is familiar to
the patients as the Kur-schritt, and the
gait at which one proceeds indicates the
degree of recovery. The only person who
walks with the swing and the stride of
other men is the doctor.
The first interesting event at the cure"
is the invitation 10 the dining room. This
is long hail. with the table the full
| length Of 1t, arranged very tastefully and
situated in a thorough draught. In fact,
| there are no windows in the frames during
| the greater part of the year. Looking at
| the brown. happy faces of those seated
around the table one can scarcely realize
| that only short time ago the majority of
| pital, which no one is allowed TO leave until
! he has conquered by rest, good food and
/ fresh air the consuming fever. and has
! maintained normal temperature for some
| time
Besides German and English, there are
| many other nationalities at the board.
| There is the amusing babel that is made
| by the Russian. Swedish. Norwegian, Dan
| ish and American. and the best of good fell
| lOwship prevails. each being dependent on
| the others for cOmpanionship. The topics
| of the day are as lively source of inter-
| est as IN the haunts of the more fortunate.
! AT every plate is a glass holding about a
| pint of milk, and this must be drunk by
| the patient, the persistent little serving
| maids insisting ard refusing anything else
/ until the Doctors orders have been carried
| out. 1t is useless to try to bride them, al
| though the story goes that a man with a
| camera once succeeded in getting exemp-
| tion upon the presentation of the girls
| photograph. The next day, however, she
| was as inconsistent as ever. The great OBJ
! ject aimed at the proper proportion
f! ing Of the different kinds of food rather
| than the quantity taken. which varies from
| three to six German pounds day for each
| patient including liquids. and this seems
| excessive 10 those accustomed to the usual
diet Of an egg and something light, like
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-27
AMERICAN BLUFF WON.
Yankee Tourist Didn't Propose to Be
Left Out in the Cold.
From the Seattle Times.

From the Seattle Times.
Here at home a bluff doesn't count for
much said globe trotter, but I'm tell
ing you that a good, stiff bluff, with
cheeky American behind it, is worth a lot
Of money in Europe. When I got around to
Nice last year the best hotels were crowd
ed and | had to take up with a small room.
On the same floor was a German who was
occupying a suite, though not spending
much money or putting on any great style
One day there was a great row. The land
lord had asked him as particular favor TO
yacate for a newcomer. and, of course, the
man didn't propose to be turned out. The
landlord CoaXed and argued, and the Ger
man growled and muttered, and / followed
them down to the office to see how il would
come out. At the desk was an American
had run across in Venice-a buyer for
Chicago dry goods house. When the land
lord and the German began to gable in
chorus the buyer pulled blank check from
his pocket and reached for pen and said:
"'AH this talk is of no use. l want rooms
here. l will buy the hotel and select my
suite. Sir, what is your cash price for this
hotel?'
You would buy the hotelr exclaimed
the landlord he threw up his hands in
surprise.
" Grounds and ALL and I want it today
How much-a million-three or four? And
what name shall fill in on the check
Say, now, laughed the tourist, but
you ought to have seen that thing work.
The German had determined to be ugly
about 1t, but when he bumped up against
a man who had as soon pay four millions
as one for what he fancied he felt awed
and humbled and ready to quit. The land
lord figured that to turn away such a
Croesus would ruin his house, and ii wasn't
half an hour before the buffer was in
stalled in the suite and the German was
chucked into a dog hole on the top floor
And that wasn't all, mind you. When they
sent the buyer a bill based on his supposed
millions he got up and threatened to buy
up the town and start six soap factories to
running, and they cut every item in two
and begged his pardon to boot | don't be-
lieVe that chap had 81 eco to his name but
he just walked over everything and every
body for two weeks, and it was current
gossip that he owned the whole of Chica-
go and good share of st. Louis and Gin
clnnau. Nothing but cold bluff, which
wouldn't have taken him into an Ameri-
can dance hall as a deadhead, but it was
equal TO letter of credit for 81 900 900 over
there
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-27

chicken broth. Inexorable as the doctor
is, he is also exceedingly kind, and it is in
teresting to watch him as he sits at the
table encouraging, and, in fact, almost
feeding, those too week to submit willingly
to the heroic diet
The most surprising thing about the place
Is the utter disregard of the patients for
weather, and the fact that they will ven
ture out even in the rain, without wraps
There is no rule in this respect, but a sort
of uSwritten law which makes the patient
soon lay aside all wraps There is not
great amount of walking done, and rapid
walking is forbidden, but the patients loiter
about or sit and watch the villagers on
their way to church or to work, and. above
ALL rest.
Monday is weighing day" at the hos
pital, and every one in his turn takes his
place in the weighing chair, and he keeps
his own count, decides whether he has lost
or gained during the week. The result of
this test determines what the treatment for
the next week shall be with reference to
the amount of exercise and the quantity of
food taken.
For breakfast there are coffee, tea, bread,
butter, eggs, bacon meat and the inevita-
| BILE pint of milk which is part Of every
meal. After breakfast one may walk or do
as he chooses, that he returns in time
for the hours rest required before each
meal.
The temperature of the patient is taken
four times day and marked on a chart.
Every one must take the prescribed
amount of food and exercise.
NO one must Walk QUICKLY WllnOuI per-
| mission and the rest hours must be strictly
kept.
Windows must be kept wide open all the
year, night and day, and visits may be
paid to the rooms of the fever patients
without the permission of the physician.
These are the rules, not written, but rigidly
kept nevertheless.
The doctor examines each patient once
month. and visits him three times day in
his own room.
The arnusements are croquet and the
n tnhnpoq nd
snowshoes in the winter, and there are few
| indoor amusements, as these not en-
couraged.
One wonders how the patients can pos
sibly brave the weather into which they
calmly go without even wraps. and 1t is be-
lieved by those who have studied the SUBJ
Ject that the practice of leaving the WIN
dows open all the year produces this indif-
ference.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-27

steal or wreSt it. She desires us to sleep,
and then she will burglarze our constitu-
ton and pull down our flag. When that
day comeS-and 1t is not far off-there will
be line of dead men from the border to
Bloemfontein. Like water and OIL Boer
and British blood will never mix. We won
our freedom with blood and we may have
TO repaint our old battlefields. We do not
desire war, but if they force it, God wit
ness the fight and hallow our graves"
General GrObler is now in the field in
command of the Free States available
army of 2l,ODo men. He has a beautiful
and patriotic young wife. She is of Hugue-
not extraction, and,-like himself, is very
refined, well bred and well educa ted. They
have been married about twelve years but
have no children. Mrs. Grobler takes an
active and intelligent interest in South
African affairs, and is helping to get to-
gether food and clothes to be sent to the
front
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-27
xoKD.cnrs CONSUMPTION CASES.
How Patients Are Treated at a Black
Forest SanitHrium.

From th. =. Louis tilobr-D, Noe rat
At the end Of a drive Of about ten miles
in one uf the most beautiful of the Black
Forest valleys, suddenly at a turn Of the
road there comes into view the famous
N.rtach ~auitarium for the cure Of con-
sumption. Some one has said very truly
tina, any one who died Of a disease below
the diaphragm spends the days Of his i'll
ness in gloomy despair, with little hope of
recovery in this world, and much forebod-
Ing aS 10 the after life. But very different
are the feelings of those who suffer from
troubles that have their origin in the chest
cavity And very eagerly does the poor
ccugh-tired mortal grasp at the straw held
out 10 him in the Information that the
dread disease from which he suffers may
be cured. The very nature OF his maIady
makes him optimistic. and the FIRST glimpse
o. the two-storied building of pine wood. in
the midst Of the forest. gives him thrill
of happy anticipation. 1t is a big building
that he first sees. that reminds him Of the
Noaa's arks Of his childhood days. 1t
seems To- he all windows, and during the
year they are only closed In the most Sc
we're weather. The willing. eager patient
shivcrs little as ne thinks of the warm
fCrnace-heated rooms 10 which he has been
accustomed
Inc valley IS over l.31o teet ABOVE Inc
sea level. and is protected from the winds
of the north by high mountains whose
sides are covered with dark, odorous pine
trees. To the south and southwest it Is
open, that the warm winds may have full
sweep. The pretty little huts of the peas
antry may be seen here and there in the
distance, and beautiful, indeed. is the view
spread out before one, HILL valley and
mountain side and the soft skies making a
perfect picture that IS made only more per.
feet by the quiet over all the soft silence
unbroken except for the hum and whirr OF
nature Winding paths intercepting the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-27
TATTOOING OUT OF FAVOR.
The Bertillon system of Identification
the Cause of 1t.
From the MILWAUKEE, Sentlnel.

tHe cause OF II.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel
Warden c. c. McClaughrey of the Wis
consin state prison says that the Bertillon
system Of measurements is away ahead of
the achievements of Sherlock Holmes in
the detection Of crime. Under the direction
of DR.. F. G. Messer this system is well in
hand at the Waupun prison. 1t was devised
in 1880 by NJ. Alphonse Bertillon. the we'll
known French anthropologist, who figured
in the Dreyfus case, and was introduced in
Paris in 1882 .
The Bertillon system was first introduced
In this country by Mai. McClaughrey, father
Of the warden of-the- Wisconsin prison.
IMaJ. MCCIaughrey was, then warden of the
Illinois state prison, at Joliet. Matthew
wilson McClaughrey. aTyounger brother of
the wisconsin warden, Installed the system
at the Waupun prison and at the central
police station in this city. For many years
ne mas been engaged in Identification and
! detective work, camplsting his education
as an expert in Paris under M. Bertillon.
Mr.. McClaughrey Was injured while INSTALL
ing the system atFthe Wisconsin prison, a
convict who was being measured striking
him on the head. a
Since the introduction of the Bertillon
system there has been waning of the tat
too fad. There w9s time when a tattoo
mark was regarded as Indispensable by
men who made Undertaking their business
Ihey considered it sort of a charm, and
|
ibie ink figures that adorned their breasts
or arms made them immune to arrest. But
mat day has gone by. The clever modern
crook knows that the tattoo is hoodoo
Under the Bertilon system of registration
or the marks upon mans body 1t is a GER
tain clue to the identification of prisoners
There Is one peculiar thing about tattoo
MARKS. said member Of the state board
OF control recently. Some time ago, when
the board was hearing prisoners at-Wau-
pun, took occasion to ask every man who
came before us If he had any tattoo marks
upon his body. Most of the men had but
l took notice that the real clever criminals
nad FEWER marks than the bungling fellows
learned that most of the prisoners had
Deeh tattooed by the same man. 1t seems
that the fellow made practice of securing
snort Jan sentences In various places, and
Whlie In Jail tattooed his fellow-prisoners
accepting whatever amount of money they
were able to pay. You'll never see a flag
design tattoo on a real tough man. For
some reason the fellow who is real vicious
doesn't like 10 have the national emblem
pricked into his skin. He much prefers an
anchor or serpent"