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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1899-05-10
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1899-05-10

a vein rs feet wide. carrying a
good show Of copper py1tes. has re-
Gently been uncovered In the Minnie
II. claim. which adJolns the Twins.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1899-05-10

Hay gobbinKD 80 Puget Sound. pei
ton. tTas. Eastern Washington tim.
athy. tiz0it. alfalfa. so.
oats uobhinE)-Ise ton. t1s
Barley Rolled. ts7.
Corn whole. ssaSo; cracked. 81
feed meal. per ton. t21
Feed wheat. tzi. oil cake meat
sss. mIddiinxs. isi925. bran. ti7
shorts. as, chopped feed. s2oGa7
dairy chopped feed. SIC. seed oats
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1899-05-10

80 you think he is strictly honest.
do your There isn't the least
doubt about IT, Every time an elec-
fion Approve hes he f. talked Of M
the only man who could unite the
different factions Of his party. and
then somebody else Is nominated. -
Chicago News
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1899-05-10

LoEs-superior quality. per NJ, No.
fir. t6a7; merohantabie mr.. A.5O9
b.75 No l cedar, soar: common. per
NJ. t350d5; spruce logs, $3.50; cedar
ahingle bolts. s2.2b9e.6O.
Fir Lumber-RouEh. IS; thick I'm
ish. surfaced. one or two aides. 3. 10
and IL inches wide. si5d2O. lengths
Il to iG feet; special lengths. SOC per
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novel viii by =. r. Ciemmona.
~ Forsyth county. North Carolina,
Just approved ~ the courts. be-
queaths 100000 70 the Noravian
church in that county 10 build
church building and a school. and
20 give TO each member IT the con-
fxrcgatfeu an AFRO 81 Ia,a
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1899-05-10

with a population 81 SOD. coo.
london harbors every day 10000
strangers. sune may remain
week. some a month. but all the year
around there is an average Of i20. 900
visitors who are within the Metro
politaa boundaries.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1899-05-10

wainuts. per ID. sacks. i;aisc.
Eastern black waiuutu. Toe: pceans.
Isuise. nibcrta. lie. almonds. fancy.
soft she'll. use sc. almonds. No. :.
isai5e. peanuts. ea7c. pine. isc:
hickory. i0c. eocoanutA, per dozen,
Tsc. popcorn. &c per 10.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1899-05-10

The Marble Heart Anti-Msirlmon-
fal association. ~ Appleton, Wis.
consists ~ bachelors. who pay an in
itlatiou fec Of fZ5 and annual dues
Of $40. The accumulated funds 60
20 the particular Marble Heart who
longest resists the attractions OF wo-
mankind.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1899-05-10

Attest. e. A. Mckenzie.
Secretary.
The citizen., 1899-10-13
How a Handwriting Exnert Ren.nn

When a piece of disputed or suspec.
ed handwriting is submitted to an ex
pert, his first care is to note its zen.
eral appearance. He observes what
seems to be the characteristic habits Of
hand in the writer, the Style Shading.
and connection of letters, their rea.
tion to the base line Of the writing and
other significant points. The same pro.
cess is applied to specimens of the a.
legged writer's genuine hand.
The next steps is to disintegrate ths
writing so that letters repeated in
both specimens may be compared in
detail when placed side by side. In
this way divergences or resemblance
which might not appear to the eye in
the body Of paper, are made perfectly
clear. If any of the letters show
signs of hesitation or retouching. q
frequently happens in forgeries, theJ
are photographed through the micro.
scope. By this enlargement ret0Qebes
or tracings are brought out so that
they can be seen plainly by the un-
trained eye.
Having made his examination OF the
whole writing, step by step, the expert
summarizes the results, numbering
corresponding parts, and calling atten-
tion to discrepancies or resemblance;
as they occur. BY this process hi'
conclusions are made perfectly clear,
in all ordinary cases, to anybody who
reads his report. In exceptional cir
cumstances, such as court trials, he
may go before a jury with blackboard
and pencil and show exactly how q
forger wrete a certain letter rs well as
the way in which the persons WHOSE
writing was initiated habitually form
ed it. II his deductions are accurate
the results, presented in this graph:
manner, usually are convincing to all
intelligent and unprejudiced observer;
1t is one Of the advantages Of graphO'
ogy that, ordinarily, its CONCLUSION:
may be made as plain as the nose Oh
a mans face.-Ainslee' Magazine,
The citizen., 1899-10-13

there are no good reasons for
believing that the experience OF
this country will differ in that re-
spect from that of others.
The state of Ex Secretary John
Sherman's health may be plead
by the administration as an ex-
cuse for him having been abSo-
lutely ignored in the Dewey cere-
monies, but the old gentleman
man has given out vigorous in
terview against the suggestion
that the United States should me-
diate between England and the
Transvaal Republic to prevent
the war which now seems almost
certain to come, which shows that
his intellect is still in good work
ing order. The TranSvaal au.
thorities thought they had made
a shrewd move when they select
ed Col. j. o. O'Beirne, a promi-
nent Republican politician of
New York, to be their diplomatic
representative in Washington,
but it has not accomplished any
thing, because of a rule of the
State Department, forbidding the
recognition of an American citi-
zen as the diplomatic represent
ative of a foreign government.
O'Beirne is in Washington. but
he has not received official recog-
nition He intimateS that he in
tends bringing political pressure
to bear upon Mr.. Mckinley when
] e returns, N exp!e sSeS the be-
lief that Mr. Mckinley will over
rule the State Department and
recognize him in his official ca
pacity. Ii lie does. look ont for
squalls.
The citizen., 1899-10-13
FORGOT to Weigh His Hand.

The advance in the price Of meat
probably works more hardships than
the public is aware of among those
who have little to live on. Here is an
incident which occurred in a butcher
shop on Hickory street recently. A
small negro girl entered the shop and
asked the butcher for five cents worth
Of dog" meat. She added:
Mamma said to ask you to please
give me better meat than what you did
yesterday, because the other dog meat
made papa sick"
That was too much for the butcher,
and he gave her good piece of "chuck
steak" and forgot to weigh his hand
on the scales with the meat, so much
was he engrossed thinking of her
papa's appetite for meat.-St. Louis
Republic.
The citizen., 1899-10-13
SMALL TIPS.
Women Give to Walters That Which
They Consider Adequate.

AS the sterner sex Is fond of remark.
ing, women have many curious incon-
sistencles. Nevertheless, it must be ad-
mitted that the impeachment is not
without foundation. Take, for In.
stance, the matter of tipping" The
most philanthropic and generous of
women even almost invariably give
mean little tips, and, if 1t is possible
to avoid it, never give any. At wom-
ans luncheon counter recently one of
the few exceptions to the rule left
coin on the counter after having paid
her score.
"You have forgotten this" said the
waiter pushing it over to her.
"Oh, that is my 10-cent tip" returned
the other laughingly, but without tax
Ing It,
The attendant picked it up, seemed
doubtful what to do with it, and finally
walked over and dropped it into the
firms cashbox.
"Evidently tips are not common
here" soliliquized the donor, as she
watched the proceedings. l forgot 1t
was a woman's cOunterw
Il have never considered the matter
BEFORE" remarked a fashionable wom-
an recently. 81 have noticed my hus-
band gave something to the waiter
when we dined at n restaurant, but l
never inquired what it was, and it has
so happened that I have never gone
alone to such places. Not long ago,
when | had luncheon on. my cook
fell i'll, and rather than postpone the
party l transferred my entertainment
to the Waldorf 1t was quite an elab-
crate luncheon, and we had four wait
ers, and when I left l gave them q
quarter apiece which l considered an
adequate tip, but l saw at once by their
faces that l had committed an error
according to their code
What should l have givenT l
asked my husband afterward.
Why, dollar at least, for such a
luncheon as that he answered."-New
York Tribune.
The citizen., 1899-10-13
THE cAppY
GOlf, q hsd-Headed Girl a..
Atng Faetorv -,

Girl. ana
Alag Faetory. -a..
Golf is game known onlv
port of enthusiasts whose b,ot Ua thel
cism is printed. But thew n".s uSeo crit.
the unelect as caddies, and +bA employ
an expert judgment, too. d
Three Of them, ragged h...
Hrchins, burned brown on tSStelootet
were sitting on the wharf az q s hnkI
resort that has, with other sumnS
golf links and canning factoHulolA
native youth Of the village aosn E II,
money by picking fruit for tba h POCKET ,0E
when 1t opens in the early antn,l islta
midsummer they are caddies h
"Say, Jimmy" said one, how
dye make" ~" mua
'Fighty-fve," said Jimmy, ,o,,...
ing his bare heel. Inspect.
"Wot! Who'd ye go 'round .,.,.
'SThe red-headed girl" "''u'
"Her?" contemptuously. "sbs .,.,
no good" NHe amt
"Ain't she?" Jimmy answered ,..
". She's a pippin. She cant rUla' sul
nothin', but she pays the price Ss SSl0s
dime fer running to the clubborsu0O W., a
her CAPE" 1Ss ~
"Go'n!"
"An' rs cents fer onct aroundp
The other eyed him envions,v j.,
went round with Whiskers." he s,,, !
yep" 40 SAD
"He's a peach, 1 don't tbint ,,
learnt one feller to play, an now nv a.
kin beat Whiskers all holler bir..H.s T" NJ
Wot ye got?" That referred to t'Df,a' r.,
my's foot. " ''4'
"Fissels," Jimmy grunted au,,.
kers, he can't teach," he added "l'
The three were on a bench tba, J.,
been set up for fishermen at the ea,. 1,a
of the wharf. Jimmy, in the csn.sN N.Y.
had drawn up his thistle-wounded W.,
on his lap for inspection. Tba ns. ,S'
one on each side, assisted at the cliu.' InL'
"D'ye like goff, Jimmy?"
Jimmy spat in the water. "Ra,,,u
he said expressively.
"D'ye wish the cannin' fact'ry va,
open?" wa
| "Bet yer life"
: Jimmy looked up to find a stately
young woman coming toward tbsn
He dropped his foot and nudged HI,
comrades. Here she is," he whisns,.
ed.
1t was the red-headed girl, one Of IN,
acknowledged beauties of the plaoa
Her hair was a fashionable auburn
She smiled on the three boys with 4
maternal kindness, and they mais
clumsy attempts to remove their cam;
Tell ye wot," he said, impressiyely
"goff' d be somethin' if they was all lis
her. She's a pippin." Then, after a
moments thought, he added: Wish
the cannin' fact'ry was open."-Ev.
change.
The citizen., 1899-10-13
CORN COB PIPES.
They Are Commonly Used and MAGE in
Many BhAPes-

Msny shaPes-
ccrncob pipes are still most com.
monty used In the old familiar IcrM'
this being q bowl, straight-sideo' Bar
rel-shaped, egg-shaped, or pear-snapea,
with a straight reed stem thrust lnto
a hole bored in the side Of It. There
are made nowadays, however, corncoo
pipes in many styles, these including
pipes with different shaped bowls, ano
pipes fitted I'D in different ways, some,
for instance, having straight, hard ruo'
Der stems in place Of reed stems. There
are now made also corncob pipes IN
various briar pipe styles, these includ-
ing pipes in the bulldog shape with
straight stem, and pipes in various
round-shaped bowls with the familiar
dropping stem. There are about twen-
ty varieties of corncob pipes made IN
briar patterns, with bits Of cellulold,
horn or rubber. the end Of the stem
part of the pipe, into which the bit is
inserted, being in many Of these pipes
finished with ferrule in the regular
briar style. Corncob pipes in brlar de-
signs sell at retail for from 10 cents to
80 cents apiece.
There are also made some long
stemmed corncob pipes. An old-styls
long-stemmed corncob pipe has bowl
Of generous proportions. made from
section OF large cob. this bowl being
fitted with a drop stem two feet or
more in length. A long-stemmed corn
cob new within a year or two has
very deep bowl. made of half a cob,
this bowl being fitted with drop stem
a foot or foot and a half in length,
making a pipe in its general outlines
something like the familiar old deep
bowled German pipes. So, take it all
together, the corncob pipe, simple as 1t
might seem to be, is really pipe made
in good many varieties.
Corncob pipes are exported to Aus
tralia and South America, to South
Africa and to England and to contin-
entail Europe.-New York Sun.
The citizen., 1899-10-13
x PEAT BATH.
London Society Women Take to q
Novel Form Of Addition,


The latest craze among the society
women of London is the luxury known
as peat baths, and Strathpeffer Spa be-
gan to rival HarTowgate in their affec-
ton. According to one who knows,
ones first bath is a luxury not easily
to be forgotten, and its effect on the
complexion is magical. First comes the
period of immersion in bathtub filled
with warm, soft peat, brought from
some distant moor, and pounded and
heated and mixed with water in the
suDterranean regions. A lid with an
open space for the bather's head is low
cred over the occupant of the bath, and
the soft-voiced Highland girl in attend
ance leaves you to the dreamy reflec-
ton Induced by the warmth and frag-
rance OF the peat. When 20 minutes
are up you are set In corner to have
the first coat of peat sprayed off by a
hose. A plunge in a warm tub that
is ready alongside the peat trough COM
pletes the process, and wrapped in
warm towels you are left to recline on
couch while pleasant drowsiness
overcomes you. When YOU have
dressed and spent 20 minutes or so in
the pleasant little cooling room, you
return to your hotel, feeling physically
and mentally a giant refreshed, and
the compliments on your improved ap-
pearance will make you wish thae a
peat bath were a less costly luxury.
According to tradition the virtues of
the peat bath were discovered by acct
dent. A litter Of little pigs which wal
lowed daily in the peat mud on a hill
side were noticed t. have much more
glossy coats than their fellow piglets.
The example Of the piglets was speed
lly followed, and the peat bath became
fashionable as a cure for skin diseases.
Philadelphia Record.
The citizen., 1899-10-13

She is midway between the east
aud the west, equally well pro
tected on either side, traversed
by "A railroad that binds her parts
together in one. developing to
the point of maintaining untold
millions more than she now does,
and in close touch with the other
great part of the world. If all
this shall be it will be another
demonstration once and for all
that there is no combination of
problems that the English
speaker is unable to cope with
and that his adjustability is
bounded by the never ending de-
mands of new conditions.
The citizen., 1899-10-13

The first trick | ever held said the
old operator with a reminiscent smile,
was out on the desert in Utah. 1t was
a dreary spot, containing nothing but
the telegraph Office and an eating sta
ton for the accommodation of the over
land passengers.
Part of my duties was acting as
cashier at mealtime, no, difficult mat
ter, and something that | was thankful
for, as it added a small sum to my sal
ary, of which the total amount was
not large enough to cause me to dream
of getting rich.
"NIy first experience as cashier was
a trying one. The first to file past my
desk vas a woman. When | looked at
her inquiringly, as She was about 10
pass ON without showing any intention
of paying, she said that her husband
would settle. The second and third
said the same thing.
81 glanced down the line that was
fling past and discovered that there
was only one man in it, and he was
at the end.
Where is your husband, madam"
l inquired of the fourth. thinking
was being worked with some sort of
flimflam game
"She indicated the old man at the end
of the line. and l let her pass on.
Il asked the same question of the
fifth and received the same answer
Confident now that l was being worked
| seized hold Of her shawl and detained
her.
There was an uproar Immediately
md the old man darted forward and
demanded what l was doing.
This lady says she is your Wife
said l.
$50 she is he snapped
"'And this other woman
CTS mine, too, he shouted.
Il had forgotten that I was in Utah"
Detroit Free Press
The citizen., 1899-10-13

In the Progress Medical, M. Boissier
relates the following remarkable case
which is an addition to the group Of
cases in which sudden loss of hair or
change of its color followed mental
shock. The subject was a vigorous
peasant, aged thirty-eight years, who
was not of nervous temperament be-
yond being slightly emotional. His hair
was abundant and Of a dark chestnut
color and not even slightly interspersed
with white filaments. One evening as
he was returning home preceded by his
mule on which was mounted his son,
aged eight years, the animal slipped
and the child was thrown off and tram
pied on several times. He was only Sc
yerely bruised, but the father thought
he was killed and in endeavoring to
save him was terror-stlicken. He trem-
bled and had palpitations and feeling
Of cold and tension in the face and
head. On the following day the hairs
of his head. beard and eyebrows COM
menced to fall In quantities so that af-
ter eight days he was absolutely
bald. At the same time the skin
Of the face and head became
paler. Soon all the affected re-
gions were covered with finer, more
silky, and a little more thinly sown,
completely white hair. The hair of
other regions was not affected
The citizen., 1899-10-13

I'm all gambling games" said an old.
time sport, there Is a percentage in
favor Of the house. Anybody. except
a boru fool, knows that a man couldn't
afford to equip an establishment, hire
help, pay rent and defray all the hun
dred and one incidental expenses un-
less he derived profit that was based
on some fixed principle and not de-
pendent on mere mex or chance. Just
where the profit comes in, however. Is
something that very few people under
stand. Most Of them imagine 1t is de-
rived from some slight advantage in
the arrangement of the game, such as
the zero numbers in roulette or the
splits in faro, but they are very much
mistaken. 1t really depends on a prin-
ciple that applies to all games alike.
and might be termed the percentage
of capital
Strange as it may seem, could take
capital of $1,000 and begin pitching
nickels, in which the chances are per-
fectly even, letting the players guess
either way they wanted to and would
ma steady profit, day in and day
out. The secret is this: The average
player has only limited amount of
money, and slight run of had luck
wipes him out. He is obliged to quit.
and somebody else takes his place,
while the house keeps right on through
good and bad, continually swelling its
reserve with the cash of the broken
players. To simplify the matter, sup
pose ] have 100 pennies and you have
one and we begin matching. One loss
breaks you, but can stand 100 losses
before having to quit You may have
n squirt Of luck at the start, but in the
long run | am morally certain to wipe
you out. That principle of the per.
centage of capital is at the bottom OF
the profits Of every gaming house in
/ the world from Monaco to Long
Branch.-N. o. Times-Democrat.
The citizen., 1899-10-13
College Graduates.

The college graduates of the cOun
try makes a pretty good part Of the pop
ulation, and Harvard takes the leat
with a total Of 22,2S7 graduates. Yas
has sent out into the world 1S1 $50 men
and Columbia 1881. Princeton ha
graduated 1900 students. Dartmouth
$50. Brown 1900, Bowdoin 4,619 Am
herst 1000 and Washington UniyersV
3,436.
The citizen., 1899-10-13

Canada requires only $4,000 square
miles to be as large as the whole con. on
tinent Of Europe. 1t is nearly thIg
times as large az Great Britain aud
Ireland, and is 5000 square miles lafs.
er than the United States, including
Alaska.
,c.x.------D,.-------
The citizen., 1899-10-13
Bryan's Illness Rn7ees Dovh

Webster, Iowa, Oct. 11.-N'illiom
Jennings Bryan says he has hay fever
but the indications are that his condi
ton is worse than he believes. At any
rate. just how i'll he is will hardly d.
velop for day or So
The citizen., 1899-10-13
"Hin. Hin, Hurrnhy,

Hip, hip. hurrah," has always been
regarded as thoroughly British cry,
typical of the exuberant temperament
Of the race. Compared with it the
"Vive" of the Frenchman, the 'Hoch"
OF the German, and the "Slava" of the
Russian are tame and eXpressionless.
1t is a cruel blow to find that the
words are not English at all. The one
consolation left us is that they were
not made in Germany"
A gentleman named Adams has been
investigating the mysteries of the pyr-
amids and monuments of Egypt, and
has found the phrase, Hip, hip, hur-
rah, among the early hieroglyphics of
that country.
The only consolation derivable from
his remarkable discovery is the argu-
ment which may reasonably be deduced
that the presence of these British words
among the genealogical treasures of
Pharaohland give us an a priori right
to the whole Of the Nile valley, says
the London Telegraph.
And this theory is strengthened by
the fact that, according to Mr.. Adams,
the hieroglyphic Hip, hip. hurrah,"
means, when translated, "On, on to
plunder."
An Irish Psychologist writes to as
sert that the phrase came from Phara-
ohland via Dublin. In the works of
Sir James Ware (1595-1666). the IA
nous Hibernian historian and antigua
rian Of Ireland, there is a passage
which says:
Some writer's think that Ireland was
called Scotia, from Scotia, the wife of
Gaethelus and daughter Of King Pha-
raoh, but of which name l know not;
and that the Irish language was in
vented from the same Gaethelus, from
whom it was called Gaelic. Others say
that another Scotia, also a daughter OF
king Of Egypt. married Milesius and
gave the name of Scotia to Ireland"
Thus, says our Hibernico-E Egyptian
correspondent, Hip, hip, hurrah" can
well be Egypto-Irish, only the transia-
ton would have been happier, as "On,
on to conquer" for conquer means ia
take by force of arms, while plunder
IS to take by force Of hands-grab, in
the parlance OF the day.-London Tele-
graph
Spain Has Tier Own Troubles.
Madrid, Oct. 11.-Premier Silvela
who has returned from San Sebastian,
announced at diplomatic function
that there was no ground for the rumo,
Of an alliance between Spain and Great
Britain. He added: "The country's
role should be confined at present to
arranging the budget on a satisfactory
basis"
Killed in Electric Light Plant.
Ripley, Ohio. Oct. 11.--Elzie Sewers
aged 81. fireman at the electric ligh
plant, while turning Off the curren
t9lr'r' = ;01tH'iie ~ II fba pIu
switches and was instantly killed.