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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-17

Coast Survey Employees Working ON
New Pilot Book.

q New Pilot Book.
Employees OF the coast and geodetic sur
vey are preparing a new edition OF the
coast pilot records for the benefit Of
mariners in Alaskan waters. Herbert c.
Graves. an expert, has come from WASH
ington to take charge Of the compiling of
the information and getting the manu-
scripts ready for the government printing
presses, and Capt T. H. Francis, govern
formation.
1t will be nearly year before the work
will be finished, as 1t is the intention to
necessitate, making soundings and obser-
vations by the coast steamer Gedney dur
ing the coming summer. The work will
include all the inland passage from Puget
sound northward. Capt. J. F. Pratt, of the
coast and geodetic survey. is supervising
the work
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-17

THE merchant who would be successful
in any line of trade must make thor
ough study of his particular business. and
see that his stock Is not only the very best
but up to date In every way. Mr.. j. ].
Haggerty has not neglected his opportun.-
ties in this matter In any branch of his
business. To his family liquor trade he
has paid particular attention. and his cor
dials and liquors will please the most
exacting. Telephone. Main 5s5. Store. 100
Second avenue south.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-17
NEEDS OF PORTO RICO.
Delegation of Merchants and Citi-
zens Fin Route to Washington.

NEW YORK, Jan. ls.--Among the pas
sengers who arrived today by the steam
er Philadelphia from Ponce and San Juan,
Porto Rico. was A delegation of Porto
Rican merchants and citizens. en- route for
Washington to consult with President Me-
kinley and present to congress the needs
OF the island of Porto Rico
The delegates are in favor OF the island
being made territory of the United
States. They also favor q modification Of
tariff laws and other reforms.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-17
Founder Of Medical Lake Dead.

Special Dispatch to the Observation-Disclosures.
SPOKANE, Jan. i6.-Andrew Lefevre,
one of the early pioneers of this state,
and the first to discover the medicinal
properties of the waters of Medical lake,
and who was the founder of the town on
it's banks, died last night at ripe old
age. A widow and two sons, the latter
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-17
scouitted Of Petty Larceny.

Emma Edwards was tried before Judge
Cam yesterday on the charge of stealing
s3 from George Adams, a teamster last
Sunday morning in Tenderloin saloon
She was acquitted.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-17

IF your fine Swiss or English timekeeper
is out of order and all other watchmakers
failed to give satisfaction. take such works
to Louis Klodt, Swiss matchmaker. No. s24
Second avenue. corner Marion. Old watches
made like new.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-17

Five h,indrnd sports devoted 10 rabbit coars;ng
encountered the opposition OF the Humane Society
when they tried to bring of the biggest event d
the season Of Forty seventh street aud Western, ar
enue. Chicago. sunday afternoon. They were com
PEELED leave the Enclosure at the warning OF
Officers from the Brighton Park police station but
finally brought on the match inst outside the ity
limits aud in sight Of the officers
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-17

WE give You eye comfort and stop your
headaches Miss Wilzinski. Optician. liz
Cherry.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-17

EXCELLENT lunches served daily from
IL to o'clock. Cafe Halbe. $40 Second.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-17

TRY Mrs. westcott's Soc dinners at Ho-
tel Stevens from to .. IA. today.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-17
SUFFERING WOMEN.

mans glory strength womans pride is her beauty
Beauty 10 Impossible without health. If clear
complexion rosy cheeks sparkling eyes, glossy hair you
rid yourself such facilitating ailments falling
spacemnt of he womb painful irregular aeanty or pr9use
headaches eucorrhea nervousness and
c,ia Do not continue to suffer and sink Lay aside your
everything to DOCTOR REEVES. who would build up your
Mokendown constitutions insure your natural
health, strength and beauty.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-17
BLADDER AND URINARY.
BLOOD AND SKIN.

hope for sound health long blood is
piles pimples, rheumatism
like eruptons and bemshes Sarsaparas
everybody regardless of their physical
ence will not cure you but special course of pQCToR
scientific treatment will completely all
tiles of the system with rich red which
skin diseases and soundnes
health
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-17

Patients living from the city who cannot conveniently
medicines them
o. 70 y Direct all mail
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10

winnowed by hand and ground il
windmills. With all the crudity Of
the processes, the yield of wheat, for
instance, is from twenty to thirty fold,
and as high as twenty-five and even
thirty bushels to the acre.
Some Of the landed proprietors have
begun to introduce modern methods
of viniculture, but the peasants are
slow to adopt them. The grapes are
robbed of their juices in the simplest
of presses, and the wine is still carted
and stored in bullock hides. A wine
cellar is strange sight, with its rows
of distorted skins, bullying with the
liquors.
The barbaric style of architecture
such as the Tartars were fond of is
frequently seen in the larger Siberian
towns. Omsk has many mosques of
this kind. One of the accompanying
large pictures shows business street
in Omsk.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10

next car and see the beautiful country
and the springs that we were nearing.
We did so, and then he politely help
ed us down and onto the platform that
overlooks the beautiful spring, and
then conducted us back to the car.
He did not know us, and l am sure
his civility came from his reverence
for age aud his natural kindness OF
heart Just before we reached OcaIa
I INQUIRED his name, and he said: my
name is Beckham. Governor Of
Kentucky" said I, smiling. ''No,' "
said he, ''hut my uncle is. The gov
ernor is my fathers brother" Well,
that settles it. am for Governor
Beckham now against the world, for l
am sure he is from good stock.
I don't know when | have felt so
well rewarded as Twas at Jasper, where
a handsome, hardy man came to see
me and said: 81 have come nine miles
to see you and to hear you for my
mothers sake. She lives in North
Carolina, and when wrote to her that
you were to be here soon she wrote
back that [ must come and see you
and thank you for that letter you
wrote begging the absent boys to
wife letters home to their mothers.
My young friend said that his mother
sent a copy of that letter to each OF
her boys and they had not failed since
then to write to her every week.
Well, there is comfort in that. The
yearnings of these dear old mothers
for their boys who are far away and
do not write distresses me. The boy
ought to write once week if possible;
once month anyhow. If he is behaving
himself he will do it and if he does not
10 it, it is bad sign. BILL ARP, IN
Atlanta Constitution.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10
eoER-sRlTIsA WAR NOTES.

Horse sickness is prevalent in General
Buffers camp at Ladysmth.
Large quantities OF gunpowder ara going
to the Beers as sacks OF meal.
some american scouts who were cap
tured by the Beers have been shot.
The passes from Natal into the Free
State are said to be well-guarded BY the
Beers.
Tho corporation OF Scarborough, Eng
land, has decided to name new thorough
fare "Ladysmith avenue"
It is stated that Queen Victoria was very
angry over the publication Of Lord Rob-
erts's dispatches regarding Spion hop'
Advices from Mafekius said that the
bombardment was slackening, and that
the town could hold out for another NJ onth.
Agents OF the British Government are
securing Ireland for horses for the war,
aud buying all suitable animals they can
get.
1t is noticed that the horses which are
now arriving at the front are much superior
to those sent to South Africa few months
ago.
German veterans OF 1864-1866 and 1870,
of the Solingen district, famous for Its
military cutlery, will send a sword Of honor
to President Kruger.
Lord Roberts reports persistent Boer at
tacks on the British at Taba Nchu. me
burghers made IA daring but futile attemR
TO capture British convoy.
Pretoria, the capital OF the Transvaal,
Is said to be veritable city OF roses. The
town nestles among hedges OF roses, which
grow everywhere in wild profuson.
Thousands OF boots, shirts, clothes and
packages OF tobacco have been sent from
Cape Town to the United States Consul
Hay, for the British soldiers ut Pretoria.
1t is suggested that statue be erected
In Trafalgar Square, London, on vacant
pedestal In the northwest corner to COM
memorate Lord Roberts'S services to the
empire.
Lord Kitchener is reported to have said
that, considering the nature OF the coun-
try, the Beers, If skilituily directed, might
be able to maintain their resistance for
two years
1t has been arranged that the hospital
ship Maine shall return to South Africa.
She will carry no women nurses tntS time,
all the nursing being done by men trained
10 tho American Ambulance School.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10
MEWSY CLEANlNGS.

A destructive disease is prevalent in MIC
araguas coffee plantations.
The lobster crop OF Massachusetts ha2
fallen off nearly seventy per cent.
Marriage by telephone aud telegraph Is
becoming popular and epidemic.
Citizens OF New Hampshire will present
a bronze tablet to the battleship Kear5age.
Gold mining on large scale is about to
begin on the Saskatchewan River in Canada
According to Salt Lake City figures, the
number of Mormons now il existence ID
$50 900.
The German sugar syndicate is said to
have reached an agreement fo- the next
five years.
Mail advices from China stated that the
natives in the interior were preparing Tor
an uprising.
A Chicago Jury has decided that woman
cannot be vagraut because woman was
not made to work.
Great uneasiness and bitterness is felt
among the Sioux Indians in North Dakota
over the policy Of the Indian Bureau.
The Liberal Congress OF Religion, in sixth
annual session at Boston, Mass, has
dropped the word Liberal" from its name.
About TOO Icelanders are coming this
spring to take up farming in British Amer
lea in the neighborhood OF the Doukhobor
settlements.
The house at Tappan, N. Y, in which
Major Andre. the British spy, was confined
during the Revolution, is to be turned into
y soap factory.
Meat ls very dear In Havana, CuDa, to
the retail buyer. The price for beef il
about thirty-ive cents pound, and is very
poor beef at that.
A number Of wool-Srowers hava leaset
from the Union Pacific Land Company
nearly million acres OF land in Colorado,
which will be used as winter range fot
safeguarding.
The director Of Geological Survey has
completed plans for surveys and explora-
lions In Alaska the ensuing field season,
and they have been approved by the Secre-
tary OF the Interior.
Governor General Wood has issued de-
cree directing that persons Under tWe my
three years of age shall not marry in Cuba
without previously obtaining the consent
of their lawful guardians.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10

an important obs ervation. ''If we ex-
clude the more recent peasant immi-
grants" he says, ''the original Rus
sian population of Siberia may be said
to comprise the following three
classes: The Cossacks, who first con-
quered the country; exiles, political
and criminal; dissenters from the
Greek church, who were either ban
ished to Siberia or went there of their
own accord. That is to say, the orig
inal Russian population of Siberia
consists of men and women who were
in some way intellectually or physi-
cally more active or more earnest than
their fellow country men and women
who remained in European Russia.
The result is that to-day the average
Siberian is a more vigorous and intel
iigent man than the average Russian.
He picks up thing more quickly;
his life is richer, brighter"
The Siberian born citizens of the
country do not fail torealize these diff
ferences. Already,I have learned that
they want to be called Siberians rath-
er than Russians, and to them the
latter name seems no more correct
than to call the descendants of Eng
lish colonists in the United States
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10

kopecks, or approximately S4.35, for
665 miles. The emigrant rate for the
same distance is only three rubles, or
about ST. So 1t goes without saying
that the accommodations provided at
this rate are not luxurious. but they
are quite as good as could be expected
for the price, far more comfortable
than the former method of travel into
Siberia by long and trying marches
and probably in most instances reIa-
lively better than the homes the peo-
pie have had.
The cars themselves in which the
emigrants travel to the land Of their
hopes are the ordinary fourth class
cars of the sort one sees all over Rus
STA, inscribed after the invariable
fashion, "for eight horses or forty
men," They are what. we call box cars
in the United States, painted the fa-
miliar red, with sliding doors opening
in either side.
The most characteristic feature Of
Siberian farm life is that the farmers
live not scattered all over the country,
remote from neighbors, but in villages
as near as possible to the land they
are cultivating. Each village, then,
is a cluster of houses, in which live
not villagers in the usual sense, as
towuspeople in a small settlement,
but the farmers of the region round
about.
Life in these villages OF Siberia is
rude enough, with none Of the quail
ties we consider necessary to comfort.
The lands are fertile, yielding ample
crops of grain even with the crude
methods of cultivation in effect. The
blowing is shallow because the plows
are poor. There is little cultivation
after planting. The grain is harvested
with hand sickles and scythes. 1t is
tbrashed by horses in the open field,
the grain trampled out of the straw
by three or four Siberian ponies trot-
ting around in a small circle. 1t is
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10

some than they were few years ago,
writes Trumbull White, in the Chi
cago Record. The Russian peasant
is displaying the same sort of restless
ness that induced the settlement of
our own Western States and Terri
tories from the more thickly populat-
ed regions of the East. Indeed, the
Russian peasant always has shown a
willingness to support the "expan-
sion" policy of his Government by
moving on into the newly annexed
lands and subduing them to his own
civilization and manner of develop
ment, crude though that might be. 1t
is time to dismiss the idea that the
Russian peasant is altogether a clod.
He has shared too we'll the labors of
the Russian advance across Asia.
AN observant English traveller writ
ing recently of his journey in these
lands has complimented the Siberian
and the American in the same breath
at the same time that he has phrased
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10

great quantities. The Government
provides for the nece ssity in excellent
fashion. At every station of the first
class, which means about every seven
ty-fve or eighty miles, there is erected
at one end Of the platform a little
house of logs, which is arranged
solely for the convenience of the
people who want water. A big tank,
holding two or three barrels of water,
is arranged with charcoal furnace to
keep its contents at the boiling point.
In another corner Of the house is a
tank of cold water Each Of these is
fitted with several faucets so that the
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10

through Siberia is simple but ade-
quate. Most of the peasantss bring
with them as much food as possible
OF the sort they relish, in order to
avoid the necessity of buying on the
way. Ponderous loaves OF black
bread, slabs of died fish and supply
of tea are the chief essentials in this
commissary department. Each fam
lily carries teapot in addition to cups
and simple dishes, and the individual
traveller must do likewise if he wishes
to be sure of comfort. AS every one
knows, tea is the staple article among
the Russians and is consumed in
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10
A Quick Choice.

Chow did you like those two poems
I sent you?" asked Willie Wishing
ton.
"There was long one aud short
one, wasn't there?" asked Miss Cey-
enne. -
eyes. Which did you prefer"
81 haven't read them yet. But 1
am sure 1 shall like the short one. =
Washington Star.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10
THE MERRY SIDEOF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY The
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.

The Point of View-Never Ne@Iecfs so
ciaI Duty-A Plain Distinction-Weli'
What is a Flame For?-Germs OF Old
Age-.Detained at Home, Etc, Etc.
When on the curb you W aitinG stand
And see the gripnan wave his hand,
Aud pass you by, you rage III vain
In anger at his rude disdain.
But when you're safely fixed inside
And some outsider wHuts TO ride,
You smile and hear his pleading call,
And somehow do not care at all.
Washington Star.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10

From vick's Magazine We get this
picture Of the travellers tree, an odd
looking growth indigenous in NADIA
gascar. Botanically it is known as
the Ravenala Madagarcarenis, but its
popular name has been given it from
the belief that water from rain and dew
collects in its leaf stems in sufficient
quantity to quench travellers thirst.
The water does collect as stated, but
as tie plant grows beside water
courses it can hardly be of special
benefit to the traveller, who could
slack his thirst much easier at the
adjacent stream.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10

passengers may serve themselves
rapidly when they come. Near this
house IS an open shed facing the track,
which shelters a rough counter and
some shelves. This is at the service
of the peasant women of the village,
who bring all sorts of eatables to this
primitive buffet at train time.
When the train arrives there is a
hasty exodus from the cars. Onerep-
resentative of each family or travelling
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10

party hurries to the house where the
hot water is waiting and draws from
the tank into his teapot as much as he
likes of the essential liquid. Others
rush to the buffet shed, to find bread,
fish, meat, cakes, hot soup, berries,
kvass and kumyss, all of which are
sold at astonishing low prices. Then
they return to the train to prepare
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10
As the sheriff Would Run 1t.

"Next week we will begin running
this paper as Captain Kidd would
have run.it. Delinquent subscribers
may expect call from us with their
accounts stuck in the muzzle of six
shooter. Otherwise this paper will be
running as the Sheriff would run 1t. I"
-Bowersville Clarion.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10

nsk to Kurgan, Immigration has
N flowing into the country in
astantly increasing stream. Now
uat the great rivers and steppes are
crossed by through trains all the way
from Moscow to Irkutsk, the move
ment is even more rapid, and already
the vast areas of Siberia are less lone
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10
A Wonderful Woman.

Mr.. Hoon-"Your aunt Almira is a
remarkable woman"
Mrs. Hoon-"HoU 500"
Mr.. Hoon-"'Why, haven't you no.
ticed that when she hears that widow
is to be married she doesn't count on
her fingers and then wag her head
solemnly? Most remarkable old lady
1 have ever seen. Judge.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10
Well, What is a Flsme For:

Willie Lightcoat-"I hear that Mr..
Perry married an old flame"
Maud Smith Yes, and now thai
flame has to light the fire every morn
ing. Judge.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10

"Doctor, wonder if I'm not get
ting old?'
90 lite possibly. The bacillus OF
old age is very prevalent just now. =
Detroit Journal.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10

"Where is your big guns? asked
the powdered matron who had come
late to the military ball.
HE went away little while ago in
disappearing scarriase," explained
the master of ceremonies. Chicago
Tribune.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10
Slow Methods.

He-''If there could be any slower
amusement than playing chess by mail,
should like to know what could be-"
Him. hey might use a messen-
ger boy instead OF the mails. III
dianapolis Press.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10
Never NegIects a Social Duty.

"Don't you observe any social
duties whatever"
Certainly; I decline all my invita-
tons. Chicago Record.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10
A Plain Distinction.

whats the difference between
fiddle and a violin?"
ga fiddle is violin when the man
who plays it has on swallow-tall
coat.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10
William Endicott Dies at Boston.

William Croninshield Endicott,
secretary of war under President
Cleveland's first administration, died
at his residence in Boston Sunday
afternoon of pneumonia, aged 70
years.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10
Detained at Home.

Mrs. Muggins-"Are you going to
the Paris Exposition this summer"
Mrs. Buggins-"No; I can't get
away. The cook wants to co.
Philadelphia Record.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10
Mysteries of Life.

Dibbs-''A man ought to know
when he's got enough"
Jibbs-" Well, L know when Two
got enough work, but L never know
when I've got enough recreation. ="
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10

their meals and at their leisure eat
and drink.
Emigrants from provinces not tribu-
tary to the Volga River are carried on
special trains or in emigrant cars at
tached to the slower regular trains, at
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10

Englishmen instead OF Americans.
Already evidences have appeared that
s'Siberia for the Siberitns" is not an
unknown sentiment.
Provision for the sustenance Of the
Immigrants on their railway journey
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10

Citizen-"See here, Til give you a
dime, but 1 believe you asked me for
money only yesterday. Why don't
you learn some good BUSINESS"
Able-Bodied Beggar CT have
learned one, sir; I'm re-touchers -
Life
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10
Der RetOrt.

"a lot of women love to get together
and talk over q great mass OF lmprac-
teal subjects" said Mr.. Blykins' and
then go home and leave the world no
better nor wiser than it was before.
Eyes" answered his wife, with
serene amiability. "sometimes women
do so. But they didn't get up that
peace conference at The Hague some
time ago. Washington Star.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10
Hard to U Understand.

'Did you say h4 had studied mu-
sic?" said the gel tleman with the
long hair, when thI 2 soloist had con
cluded.
ooh, yes, indeed"
cts very remar{ able"
''His voice?"
eyes. If he hns studied music |
can't understand why he should per
sist in trying to sing Washington
Star.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10
"whv She Threw Him Down. :"

"Gladys was silent, bat Harold
could read her answer in her face. -
Extract from an up-to- date novel,
chapter xii, page 144.-Judge.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10

rates but little higher than those OF
the steamers and very much less than
the regular third-class rates. For
1000 versts, for instance, the third.
class fare is eight rubles and forty