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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-16
TRADE IN FROZEN FISH.
Export Orders for the Past Year
Show an Increase.

s. Schmidt of Schmidt Bros, packers
and exporters Of frozen sturgeon. salmon
and caviar. at New York and Astoria,
Or, is guest at the Butler.
THE foreign demand for our goods from
the Pacific coast during the past year has
greatly increased" he said last night.
THE Germans are showing a decided
preference for our Columbia river salmon.
"In smoked fish there has also been an
increased trade last year. The prospects
for the coming year are good, and we ex-
pect to still further encourage the de-
mand."
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Branch asked the Tyee to assist her. 1t
Is alleged that the Tyee brought her safely
into Port Townsend.
The tugboat company alleges that the
Elm Branch's owners have refused to al
low reasonable salvage for the assistance
rendered, and that $50 900 Is a reasonable
amount to be awarded.
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John Vanderschelden Says His Sis.
ter Ran Away From Home.

ter Han Away From Home.
John Vanderschelden, of Tacoma report
ed to the local police last night that his
sister. aged Is. had eloped from Tacoma
to this city with man named Fetter;y.
Vanderschelden says the two were married
here, a woman named Mrs. Ellis swearing
before the county auditor that the girl
was of age.
Vanderschlden asked for the services of
the police in locating either the girl or Mrs
Ellis. At a late hour last night neither of
them had been found.
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CEDAR RIVER WATERSHED.
Ordinance to Submit Tia Pur-
chase to the People.
MADISON STREET PAvEMENrs.

Action to Prevent Minors From FREE
Quenting the Pool Rcoms-lm-
provements at Police HeadQuar-
ters-Compiaint Against the Con-
dition of Eastlake Avenue-Brief
Session OF the City Council.
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He Slept standing Up.

W. II. Day. who is employed at Corts
Palm Garden, reported to the police yes
terday that he had been robbed of a gold
watch and 3S-caliber revolver in a local
concert hall Sunday night. Day admitted
that he was intoxicated, and said he went
to sleep while standing at the bar. 1t was
while he was asleep that the robbery took
place.
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Burglars entered the residence of J. r.
Knight at go Virginia street, Sunday
night and stole fine beaver overcoat Tho.
matter was reported TO the police.
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MASQUERADE ball Tuesday, January
1ekh, Ranke hall.
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TRY Mrs Westcotts soc dinners at Ho-
tel Stevens from s to p. m. today.
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AS a bracer Jesse Moore never fails.
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DOCTOR KIBBE has returned
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-07-21

The feeling of many who are not
particularly in love with Mckinley is
well expressed by the Manchester New
Hampshire Union, which says: I'm
perialism, or no Imperialism, we can do
nothing if Mr.. Bryan is to have his
way and his free-coinage nonsense re-
ceive any further encouragement. We
utterly and entirely repudiate the plat
form and its candidates, and we hope
and believe they will be beaten by an
overwhelming vote. The only way to
put the Democratic party upon Its feet
is to take Mr. Bryan at his word and
utterly and entirely bury him and the
cause.-The only cause he stands for
beyond resurrection, Anything can
wait for that.
The political death and burial of Mr.
Bryan and what he stands for is GER
tainly the most important job wait
ing for the people of this country.
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years as during the decade that is gone?
Hardly. Another gain of fifty per sent.
in ten years would give us population
of 100000 in the territory properly to be
described as Greater Hartford. But
what we may fairly expect is that the
numerical increase will be as great in
the next ten years as in the last and
that by the summer Of 1910 there Will be
275,000 people who will patronize the
stores of Hartford and who will Ne able
to attend our theaters and reach their
homes by trolley at the end of an even
ing's entertainment. Bloomfield, Wind
sor Locks, Suffield, Simsbury and doz-
en- other towns not now to be reached
by trolley will be permeated by the
lines of the Hartford Etreet railway
company before 1910.
We are by no means at the end of our
rapid growth. The remarkable increase
of New Britain shows that 1T is no idle
imagination to consider the ultimate
union of that city with Hartford by the
building up of the large intervening
territory as probable We do. not see
why the same causes which produced
such wonderful recent growth here may
not make Hartford a city Of 100000 peo-
pie before the youngest readers of to-
days Hartford Times shall have
reached middle age-Hartford Times.
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A SENSIBLE EDUCATOR.

All the sensible educators do not live
in New Haven. There is at least one in
New York city. He is E. w. Stitt, a
school principal and he believes in a
metic A careful review of the require
ments in arithmetic in the schools of
thirty of our prominent cities, he says,
shows that in many cases the present
demands regarding that study are alto
gether excessive. Such subjects as par
tial payments, compound partnership,
cube root, and equation of accounts are
unnecessary to most pupils, and they
should have no place, therefore, in our
elementary schools. 1t was found, how
ever, that in over half the cities COM
pound partnership is still required, and
in nearly half partial payments is per-
mitted to waste time which might bet
ter be employed in different directions.
The waste of time and energy in the
process is indicated plainly enough.
Mr.. Stitt thinks, by statistics which
prove that out of one hundred children
only four reach the high school and two
the college, and the rest engage in
business. Probably not one in fifty is
ever once called on to employ the rules
so painfully learned.
Ordinary "ciphering," well taught, is
certainly better for most children than
the extraordinary kind which they don't
learn much about and waste time in 60
ing through the motions.
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HAPPY HARTFORD

In 1890 the cities and towns now con-
nected by the Hartford trolley system
had a total popula ton of little more
than 100000. Now they have about ITO,
900 inhabitants. This shows a growth
of fifty thousand in ten years, If we
take into the account all the towns of
which Hartford is the nearest trade
center, including those connected by
steam railway as well as by trolley, the
gain will be found to be nearly fifty
five thousand.
1t is common to designate the terrific
ry Immediately surrounding any popu-
lous commercial center by the word
Greater. Thus we have Greater Boston,
Greater New York, etc. Greater Hart
ford now includes a population of over
100000. 1t is this large number of peo-
pie who make the prosperity of the
stores, theaters and business establish
ments of all sorts in Hartford
Hartford and it's surrounding commu-
mites nave maze an enormous gain in
population during the past ten years
Hartford's increase is over fifty per
cent. and New Britains is nearly as
great
MS great increase mas occurred our
ing period which includes the years
from 1892 until 1897, when times were
said to be dull and hard and when pros
perity was lacking, in many sections of
the country. 1t is obvious that Hart
ford grows as rapidly when the calami-
ty-howler is active in other parts of the
country, as when his voice is stilled,
which is the case at the present time
The subject naturally invites specu-
lation as to the future. Will Hartford
grow as rapidly during the next ten
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BECd USE.

Great Actor--'I propose making a
farewell tour of the provinces. What
play would you adviser" Critic" Much
Adieu About Nothing. Detroit Jour-
nal
Where She is Wse---"Why do you
consider woman more intelligent than
man?' Because she has sense enough
not to show all she disbeieves. Chi
cago Evening Post.
THAT slender Miss Simpson looks like
very delicate girl" 'Oh, l don't
know; she must have a good deal of
strength to squeeze her waist in like
that. - Chicago Record.
Wigwag Showing Bjones through his
new house)-"What do you think of
that frieze?" Bjones-"Fine! Looks as
though it might have been done by an
ice man. cleveland Leader.
Shocking.-"They say the young man
Melissa Perkins is goin to marry is
regular paragon" Land sakes! Do
tell. I thought he was a clerk in a
grocery Chicago Times Herald
Attendant-"Yo have to pay for your
soda water before you drink it." Thirs-
ty Patron-"What'st that for? You aint
making it any more poisonous than
usual are u?'-1ndianapolis Journal.
Your typewriter girl is very gay
and picturesque dresser" well, that's
all right; if she can make 1t appear that
our wholesale leather business Is a gar
den party, 1 have no objection. Buff
falo News.
All That he Asked-Miss Lulu Finne-
GAM will give We me answer in a
month, Pat" He-"That's right, me
dariint; tex plinty av time to think it
over. But tell me wan thing now-wAl
it be yes or no?"-Judge.
1--WE amt goin' t. let our Alfred go t.
that school no more" Whats the rea-
SOM" Its a wicked place He came
home last night m said the teacher'd
ben maxim 'em read profane histsy.''-
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
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SO many queer things have happened
in China lately that it is not surpris-
ing that Minister Conger's dispatch
from Pekin is scrutinized obviously.
The most suspicion about it seems to
be felt in London, where it is pointed
out that the fact that the message is
undated and the similarity of it's con-
tents to Sir Robert Harris message of
June "a suggest that it was sent off
about the same time, but intercepted
by the Chinese The skeptical are con-
firmed in their suspicious by the fact
that a message was received by M.
Delcasse, the French Minister Of For
eign Affairs, yesterday, through the
Chinese Minister at Paris, purporting
to come from the Emperor, asking
Frances mediation with the powers,
and which, it is alleged, was dated July
10, and makes no mention of the for
eign legations at Pelin.
On the other hand 1t is said in Wash
ington that the message received from
Minister Conger is certainly a reply to
the one sent by Secretary Hay. We
suppose there Is such thing as being
too suspicious even in matters connect
ed with the willy Chinese.
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A PERPETUAL LEASE.

Connecticut's Plan Of Leasing Oyster
Beds is the Best.
Former Fish Commissioner Edward
Thompson says in the last published
report of the Forest. Fish and Game
commission to the New York Legislature
that there are two hundred thousand
acres of good oyster planting ground in
Long Island Sound as yet untouched,
and that the only way to encourage
oystermen to go into the business of
growing seed oysters is through the
granting of perpetual franchises for
large tracts.
In this state, the oystermen taking up
oyster ground, have a perpetual fran
chise as long as they cultivate the
grounds for oyster purposes In conse-
quence, a large share Of the oyster
beds of the Sound in Connecticut wa
tiers, is utilized and improved
Mr. Thompson says the oystermen are
required to work with dredges and
steamers in the deep waters Of Long
Island Sound, and the outlay for the
expensive plant required can only be
justified under an ownership Of the
sound bottom. A very heavy expense is
caused in clearing the Sound bottom of
starfish, borers and other enemies Of
the tiny seed oyster, and in planting
shell, gravel or other material upon
which the spawn can catch, and in
planting the old oysters for spawn.
This year, after three or four years
failure. the oyster set is unusually
abundant all over the Sound, and there
will probably be a largely increased de-
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THEATRICAL PAPER"

Free Passes In Old English Theaters.
When, in theatrical matters, we
speak of a paper house." it is we'll I'M
derstood that the term means an audi
ence whose admttance has been Sc
cured by passes or orders. Impecuni-
Gus managers have sometimes used this
paper as a method Of settling trou
blesome accounts; unsuccessful mana
gers have resorted to it for the sake of
procuring a fairly numerous attend
ance. orders, in the present day. are
by no means used so extensively as
they once WERE though they still play
not unimportant part. They are the re-
ward of those puhicans and shopkeep-
ers who display the stage bills of fare
in their windows; while all others who
enjoy any commercial connection with
the management of theater, particu-
larly in provincial towns, look for the
occasional gratuity of a pass to the cir
Gle of boxes. Human nature certainly
delights in getting orders for the play.
1t Is not so much the mere saving of
expense that gives satisfaction: 1t is
the proud and superior feeling of going
in for nothing while your friends and
HelSHDOrS are STRUGGLING DIT the pay
box.
1t is not easy to date the genesis of
orders. Whether the Greeks ever took
paper, or it's equivalent, for the usual
obolus that was demanded at the en-
frances of their vast theaters cannot be
said; but we know that Pericles ar
ranged for the admission to be practi-
cally gratuitous by iirst causing the
oboli to be distributed to the people.
In Shakespeare's time it would seem
that actors and dramatic writer's had a
right to free admission by professional
etiquette; which might have been pos
sible in days when authors were few,
but would be difficult now Doubtless,
personal friends of the manager or
chief actors frequently enjoyed the
same privilege, but whether they used
paper, or whether their appearance was
sufficient passport, does not seem clear.
We read that Killigrew, in his boyhood,
would go land be a devil on the stage"
in order to see the play for nothing;
from which we may infer that nothing
like paper ever came his way, and also
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nance. In this case Neapolltan straw
caught here and there was trimmed
with a wreath of bright red roses,
leaves and black velvet ribbon. Scarf
ing was left out of it altogether, but 1t
is a helpful factor in gaining the ro-
mantle look and may be applied In
many ways.
There has come, also, a great change
over the outing and the walking hat
All its one time eXactness and stiffness
is damned out of it. The good form
outing hat is the one that appears to
have been coerced to the owners whim
with the completest disregard for the
feelings of the hat itself. 1t Is made to
yield instantly to the demand of the
wearer. while perhaps at the back it is
tied up partly under loosely wound
scarf Maintenance of line In defiance
of the wearer's comfort used to be the
rule; maintenance of the wearer's com
fort in defiance of line is the rule now.
These hats are made Of Panama, stitch
ed duck or linen. light felt and soft
straws of loose weave. Many have the
helmet crown.
A handsome dress of turquoise blue
madras is sketched herewith. Bands of
linen insertion trimmed the skirt, and
an al-over pattern of it supplied the
revers for the odd bolero. The inner
bodice was white muslin, the under
sleeves matching FLORETTE.
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SUPPLIES ron OUR ARMYrN CHINA

The United States soldiers who go to
China will be well taken care of. They
may have to fight under severe condi-
tons, for the winters Of northern China
are very rigorous, the thermometer fire.
quently falling forty degrees below zero
The QuartermasterG General has ordered
the following goods to be sent at once
to San Francisco, from which point
they win be taken to Taku on the first
transports sailing for China: 10000
overcoats 10000 pairs of canton flannel
drawers, 5000 Slbley stoves, 10000 stove
pipes, $4,000 linen blouses, $4,000 cam
paign hats, $4,000 pairs of heavy foot
trousers, $500 pairs of heavy mounted
trousers 10000 ponchos, $4,000 dark blue
flannel shirts, $4,000 pairs of black calf
skin shoes, $4,000 pairs of cotton stock
ings, 10000 pairs of wooden stockings,
$4,000 pairs of wool understands, $4,000
pairs of wool gloves, $4,000 pairs of arc
tic overshoes, 1900 canvas blanket
lined hoods. In addition to the above
all troops leaving for China will carry
complete outfits of tropical clothing.
The Sibley stoves which will be taken
to China are one of the interesting fea-
lures of the army equipment. This
stove was invented by a man named
Sibley and has been in constant use in
the army since 1S49. The stove con-
sists of a heavy piece of sheet iron,
twisted into conical shape. with an
opening at the top on which is adjusted
a long pipe made on the telescope plan.
1t was intended to burn wood, but as
this is very scarce in China an addi-
ton is being improvised which will per-
NIT the use of other fuel. hanging
CRATE will be supplied in which coal can
be burned,
Whatever fighting there is to do, the
United States troops will do their full
share
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nand for perpetual franchises.

mand for perpetual franchises.
The lands of Connecticut, In Long Is
land Sound, excepting the natural
growth beds, are disposed of by perpet-
ual lease, and a revenue of millions is
gained from the industry by the citizens
of that state
Clerk Mathewson of the Shell Fish
commission says that Connecticut is the
only state that gives a perpetual lease
OF oyster grounds and that the interest
to continue in the business is much in
creased He believes that New York
state will have to adopt the same plan
and possibly Rhode Island Eventual
ly, he believes, all the states which Gull
tivated oysters largely would adopt this
plan.
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SIR ROBERT HART

Sir Robert Hart, the inspector gen.
eral of imperial maritime customs-the
T. c. as he is always called-began to
organize the splendid seyvice which he
commands in, 1853 and at the present
moment it includes some 900 foreigners
of all natonalities and some 5000 to
1000 natives. In the central office at
Pekin are engaged, besides himself an
Englishman, a Frenchman, German,
an Austrian, an American, an Italian,
Portuguese, a Belgian and a Japan
csc. A little while since he suggested
that at the customs mess, where these
gentlemen most live, a different Ian
guage should be spoken at dinner each
evening of the week, but the objection
was so general that English still re-
mains the common tongue on the table.
It is fit and proper, considering the in
ternational conditions of foreign trade,
be fairly represented in the ranks of
the service. and Sir Robert has car
ried his impartiality SO far-so much
too far, some of his critics say-that in
some of the most important ports the
local head is of another nationality to
his own. The I. M. G.. CONTROL regu-
late, and levy the duties upon the for
eign trade of China. By the treaties of
Marking and Tientsin, modified and
elucidated by many notes and agree
ments, foreign imports are cleared for
7 1-2 per cent, ad valorem. This year,
when the revision of treaties comes on,
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FASHION NOTES.
mill,nery Losing Exnotness.

Romantic headgear is all the go, and
it is astonishing how universally becom-
ing the fashion is. Low crowns, VIDE,
irregular brins, careless" trimming,
few or a lot of roses, loosely wound
scarf, perhaps a soft bit of lace drawn
under the chin-that is all except the
girl But looking at her in that hat ne
may of sudden discover that she is
adorably pretty, deuced fetching, jolly
interesting, or plum lovely, by Jove!
don't you know, and it may be all on
account Of that hat that In itself seems
of small account. The hat of this pic
ture is an example of the general type,
which has many modifications-it must
have them, for the least suggestion of
nlonotony would kill all touch OF ro-
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-07-21

A Frenchman has invented tobacco
order to enable the smoker to summon
cab without taking the pipe from his
mouth. The inventor thinks that when
his device shall be put upon the market
people will wonder how they ever got
along without it,
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-07-21

A German scientist has figured 1T out
that the earth weights 11,913,000 trillion
pounds. And this doesn't include the
white mans burden.
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Reports from the State auditors Of
flee at Richmond, Virginia, show that
the negroes have increased their hold
ings in the State to surprising degree
in the past few years. That race owns
one twenty sixth of all the lands in Vir-
ginia. This does not include the farms
on which colored people have made but
small payment. Thousands of ne
groes will be entitled to vote if proper
ty ownership is made the legal require
ment.
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'lte lumr,1ssI and On,Irtec
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small
advertisements, One Cent a Word each IN
sertion Five Cents a Word for full week
(scven tines.
Display advertisements, per inch, one In
sertion, ST 20; each subsequent incerllon, Az
cents; one week, $500; one month, Slc; one
year, $40. -. ~
cents per line. Notices of Births, MARI
ages, Deaths, and Funerals, 80 cents eacn'
Local Notices, Is cents per line.
Yearly advertisers are limited 10 lhGia
own Immediate business (all matter 70 be
unobjectionable), and their contracts do not
include Wants, TO Let, For Sale. ETC.
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At the recent convention in Milwau-
kee of the heads of the several State
Bureaus of Labor Statistics Commits
sioner johnson of the Kansas State Blu
reau gave the result of an investiga-
ton made by his office into the opera
ton. of loans made through the chattel-
mortgage system. He found that the
rate of interest charged ranges from 10
to $50 per cent. per annum, the average
being somewhat over $50 per cent.
Loans at this exorbitant interest are
made on securities ranging from the
sewing machine to teams, wagons and
household goods. He found that the
class of people paying these high rates
of interest were not altogether among
the ordinary laborers, as might have
been expected but among mechanics of
various trades, who had become victims
through straitened circumstances. This
law against usury was Systematically
evaded in Kansas, he said, as it is in
almost every other State, and ways
were found to crcumvent another stat
ute which requires that every chattel
mortgage must be recorded.
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NOMINATIONS.

1t costs the government $2.3S a word,
or about $1,000 day, to communicate
with China.