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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-10-05


1870 ro0ms and fac saloon
= 's1~room hpuee long lease
Assrs@ rooms. elegantly furnished. bar
gain.
- 10 = rooms, aneiy furnished. EXAM
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81 yn-~ls rooms, elegant, richly furnished
5. so rooms long 9e8se Investigate.
Hos rooms. Efe8f money maker
". 0i--A fO0rs. fine monthly gaymensx
t,Asi-i7 rooms; nteeiy furhis5ed. bar
EAia.
t.it1-zs rooms part cash easy
81 .Wa-s rooms. bargain money maker
ts.sl--i1 rooms richly furnished snap
tStt-ll rooms. location unsurpassed, ane.
f1st-i2 rooms. location. second avenue.
f3ss-.s rooms. elegantly furnished. bar
gain.
fss,-9 rooms. nne, Madison avenue
Grocery stores, clzaf stores AL deacrip-
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Business opportunities. houses, lots.
ranches. timber claims ali descriptions
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-10-05
BUSINESS cHaNcEs--co.,s---

B. l. MUIR & co.'s sPEcfAfs
se.5oe-An interest in a good psv,re
mission business.
x1.0oo-Half interest In nice. rsnt>.,
ing business.
S.oco 70 $1,000 for wholesale ana z,
business.
s.. 600 for s5-roem lodging hous.. =
rent; fine location: good furnltar>
s., 80 for Ss.room lodging houst =.
$50 monthly.
81 $50 for brick lodging house. -
town.
We have large list Of houses n,
and these are a few special harre;Ls
B, Il MUIR 4 co.
Basement Post-Intciiigeneer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-06

them, too, trifie high perhaps, but a good
thrust, and the boar maddened by pain,
turns to battle and vengeance
He Is a fine sight now Caution is thrown
to the winds. The man or the horse has
hurt him. and they must at all costs be re-
taltated upon The boar charges down upon
them. champing his tushes. the foam flying
from his mouth. every bristie In his body
erect with fury. The deputy commissioner
mas turned and Is galioping up to the at
tack and his companions are prepared to
bear their part
The boar is met by the spear again, but
the wound Is a giancing one, and does not
stop his rush, though the broken spear re-
mains sticking in his side. Horse and man
Tor the others to make a diversion, and the
subaitern on the Waller cuts in, but in his
eagerness he aims too far forward and
red seam gapes on the beasts shoulder
However, the deputy commissioner has
had time to regain his feet. The boar now
absolutely maddened, makes again at the
immersed man. and If he should reach him.
one upward stroke of his tushes and his
antagonists ptg-stcking days will probably
be over forever.
But it is the majors turn at last and
swerving his Arab from the direct line, he
Sips in between the charging boar and his
intended victim The majors spear slants
a little and Its keen touch gets piggy neat
~ In the center of the back The boar
turns upon his new enemy with rush, but
ms legs give way suddenly. and he slowly
subsidies to the ground. In the most literal
sense he has died fighting, charging to the
last. The majors spear has touched his
spine
BY and by the heaters come up, the pig
Is swung on a pole and carried off to camp
while his slayers pass on to fresh sport
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-06
THE GIRL OF TODAY.
she Is No Longer RELOCATED to the
Shelf After Thirty
From the LONDON World.

from tne LONDON World.
One of the most remarkable social de-
veiopments of these latter days is the evo-
luton of the mature heroine of romance
Formerly this post was allotted to the young
sirl or the young married woman. In those
times moreover. the adjective of youth
would not have been applied to the maiden
"hG mad passed her twenty-ffth year. and
only in the spirit of the grossest fatterv
10 the matron who had seen her three de-
Cades. 1t is typical of the age that this
explanatory note should be necessary. Now
the expression young is purely relative
The period of middle age mas been entirely
apoiShed Where almost everybody is
younger than somebody else it is only the
rev VINO are proud of their extreme an
tiquity who can be regarded with any de-
gree OF certainty as old. At thirty the girl
OF today no longer retires on the shelf as
failure, to pass the rest of her life in
the numiliatinS position of the maiden
aunt who devotes herself to the children
CT feFenSes herself on the poor. She is
merely preparing to start on new phase,
OF life with more definite plan and a
clearer vision. Very often she narries and
begins afresh at forty. Sometimes she has
been known to be 50 greatly daring as to
enter on matrimony for the first time when
she has passed her tiftieth year. For the
matron the range is even more extended
AT thirty she is quite young thing-gay
frivolous, skittish, to whom society and
Irritation are the chief objects in life Ten
years more bring her to her prime 1t IS
the period of fascination. of adventure of
impulse The woman of forty is capable
of anything. She is the object of the wild
est plans. the center of the most daring
Romance. AT fifty she is probably marry
ing for the second time. Three-score will
find her approaching the altar for her third
wedding. and if she lives long enough, she
may even reappear at later date to bring
her record up to four.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-06

From the Spokane Statesman Review.
When the Dakota volunteers scrambled
off the train at the Northern Pacific depot
at Spokane they We're besieged by a crowd
of high school girls, who demanded buttons
from the blue uniforms as souvenirs. The
soldiers for the most part submitted cheer
fully. Soon their blouses We're denuded of
every fastening. Suddenly a tall blonde
girl rushed through the depot to the plat
form. She was late. The buttons were all
gone and her friends proudly exhibited their
trophies.
But the blonde girl had come for buttons,
and buttons she would have. Down at the
end of the platform she espied colored
man standing near the train. He was re-
splendent in complete uniform of blue and
every button was in place. Just because
he was negro soldier he has been over
looked thought the high school blonde.
We'll. l don't care for color-I want but
tons" A moment late the unsuspecting
victim was accosted by the blonde girl, who
had an open penknife in her hand. Wont
you give me some of your buttons2" she
sweetly asked. as she reached for the top
one and began 10 saw the thread with the
knifeblade. 'Heah, heah, miSs-don' do
dat. It's agin de rules | ain't-" But il
was too late. With a deNterity born OF
desire to have brass buttons or die the
girl had severed two circlcts She paused
on the third attempt. noticing the letter
''E'' on the button. With one horritied look
at the man she realized that she had struck
the porter of Pullman car. Then she
threw the buttons on the platform, and
with crimson cheeks darted through the
depot, while the porter gazed ruefully at
the wreck of his once immaculate blouse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-06


The great and powerful ice-crushing
steamers of the lakes are without excep-
ton car ferries-that Is. they transport
whole trains of passenger and freight cars
from one terminal Of railway line to the
other, thus constituting an important link
where bridges would be impracticable
These ice-challengipg ferries ply the
straits Of Mackinac, the Detroit river and
across Lake Erie from the American to the
Canadian shore. They are huge steel-shod
craft weighing several thousand tons and
some of them have cost more than $3.50, 900
each Fitted with propellers at either end,
they crumble the ice by the pressure of
their great bulk as though it's three or four
feet We're but thickness of cardboard
Whatever else IS wanting, adventure Is
spend the months of snow aboard the ma
jestic monsters which are to the lake
tracks what the snowploWS are to the rail-
road lines. A few winters since, with the
thermometer ranging from Is to 30 degrees
below zero, one of the car ferries was
caught in an immense ice field, on Lake
Erie and foated around for months with
a great mass Of Ice piled mountains high
around her. A portion of the crew was, of
course. obliged to remain aboard, and
each day couple of the men made an
ashore in order to secure provisions and
supplies. Outlines this meant a long,
dreary trip across the ice, and frequently,
when yaWning chasm of dark-hued water
interviewed between the shore and the edge
of the icefeld. the foragers We're not able
to return to their imprisoned comrades for
intervals Of several days
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-06
Cotton and Gold.

From Ainslee's Magazine.
TIE worlds output of gold in 1898 was
s2SI, 42S,GOO, and that in the United States
was $8i 1884, 900. The value of the cotton
crop in the United States that is, the raw
cotton. in 1897. was 1919, 491, 49, The cot
ton crop in the United States is therefore
II per cent greater than the gold output of
the world. and five times as great as the
gold output of the United States.
To this great value, however we must
add the value of the seed products, and we
nave a total something like three hundred
ana sixty millions of dollars But the pra nd
total Is not yet reached for we are work
ing 17.5lo,oO0 spindles in the United States
IN making cotton cloths. The output of
these. minus the cost of the raw cotton
consumed. must be added before we have
'the grand total of the value of the product
ana or the industry to the people Then
again. are the print works-we must NOT
forget the print works-which decorate
tnese cloths in such attractive fashion that
they make most bewildering garments for
our fair SO beJviidering that the oId-fash-
Toned among US. the old-fashioned lust not
old enough to have lived in the days Of
periwig and short clothes, have no more
gallant comment to make on a woman who
pieases them than She is fine bit of cal
ico.' "a @"1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-06

ON the New Orleans Times-Democrat.

FROM lhe New orleans lines Democrat
"A very interesting fact of modern life
that seems to have escaped attention" re-
marked New Orleans lawyer the other
day, ''is that the world has wiped its last
city Of refuge off the map. There is no
longer any spot on the globe where our
fugitives from justice are safe from ex-
tradition. When l first began to practice
law an American criminal of retiring dis
position had a wide range of choice In the
matter of foreign residence Spain, Tur-
key. Algiers. japan, holland Chile, Ecua-
dor, the Philippines, Cuba and all of Cen
tral America, except British Honduras
guaranteed security to assorted brands of
tugit1ves, from murderers down, and the
list OF resorts open to simple embezzlers
was very much larger For years, you re-
a bee line for Canhdaskand the thing got to
be standing joke HE the mother-in-law
gag and the meneH, qHfps about plumbers.
Nevertheless. the cireA kept steadily con-
tries entered intdsmqshal treaties and mt
up the bars. so fhe american crook who
wanted a changeBf air began to find him
self In the position. of Dick SwiveIier, when
ne Clicked on thes%London streets he
couldn't traverse without meeting creditors,
1t was mighty hard work ID figure out a
safe itinerary. Canada hung teuacfously to
the tourist trade. but at last she passed a
IA" against bringing stolen property into
the dominion that practically excluded the
hitting banker. Japan was one of the last
OF the distant powers to adopt a treaty COW
ering what are called Grimes against prop
erty. and the new proviso was a severe
blow to felonious gentlemen in delicate
health. 1t robbed them of the balmy CHI
mate of Yokohama.
Eventually things simmered down to
Central America, and then by process of
elimination to Spanish Honduras That
was the final stronghold of the fugitive, but
IN ls9s the Congress Of the nation approved
new treaty clause, containing the usual
extrad1tion provisions. So, as | said be-
FORE there Is now no city of refuge on the
face of the earth. The man with a warrant
goes whereSoever he lists"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-06
The Figure o.
From Leslie's Weekly.

FROM Leslles Weekly.
Among the magicians and soothsayers of
ancient times both the figures nine and
three had certain amount of mystery and
sacredness attached to them. and volumes
have been written in explanation of their
meaning in connection with the history of
men and the world. Apropos of this. a
curious coincidence is noted in the fact that
nearly all the great mining discoveries OF
recent times have been made in years end
ing with the magic figure nine. Thus the
famous gold find in California fell In the
year 1919. Ten years later, in 1859, remark
able discoveries OF the same metal were
made simultaneously in Australia and Brit
ism Columbia, causing a great rush of for
tune-hunters to these points. In 1863 the
famous Comstock-lode lind became known
to the world; in 1873 the gold-bearing region
around Leadville, and Tombstone, Arizona,
began to attract attention, and in 1SS, the
diggings at Glover Creek and in Lower Cal
ifornia became the objective points OF great
multitudes of excited and anxious seekers
after sudden wealth. And now again. at
the end of another decade, history repeats
itself once more The remarkable gold
firds recently made at Cape Nome. surpass-
ing in richness and extent anything yet
discovered in the Yukon district, bid fair
TO ma Ike the year 1899 as notable as any in
the annals of gold-mining.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-06
Moody No Faith Curfst.
From the Medical Record


Mr.. Dwight L. Moody, who died last week
offered a gratifying contrast to many of
his cloth, especially revivalists, in his ap-
probation of regular medicine and his an
tipathy to quacks In speaking of promi-
nen Christian Scientist or faith healer, or
what-not, in Chicago. whose offenses
against humanity and common sense are
many and notorious. he praised medicine
the noblest of professions after that Of
the ministry. Never yet" he said. "in
all my years of work have l called upon
an able doctor. telling him of the sickness
and need of some poor friendless person,
that he did not at once go to the rescue
without money and without price. Some
of the nColeSt men l ever knew have gone
out as medical missionaries. deyoting their
lives to doing good with the skill and heal
ing medicines the Lord has conferred upon
them These are the men," he con-
tinued, who are called devils by the faith
healers. but he prayed God to forgive
those guilty of such Islander.
God heals he said, through doctors
and through medicines. Do not be carried
away through rawlings of fanaticsm We
have new ism in America about every
year-beware OF the fsmsr What would
do If 1 fell sick? Get the best doctor
in Chicago, trust to him and trust to the
Lord to work through him. The doctors
have done wonders their knowledge has
grown; they have reduced the dangers of
death from diseases that once slew all they
touched: and the doctors If God helps
them, will yet find a way to stop the raw
ages of other terrors"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-06

London Correspondence Birmingham Post.
Long ago II was noted that wherever Eng
lishmen went they took their national pas
times with them: and on a recent on day
at Mafeking. when the Beers had for few
hours ceased bombarding, a cricket match
was organized by the belesguered garrison.
There are other parts of the dark continent
in which civilization is accompanied and
stimulated by athletics. and an interesting
testimony is to hand upon that head from
st. Andrews College. Kiungani which owes
existence to .he Universities. Mission TO
Central Africa. OF all the games played
there by the boys. some of whom are freed
slaves. foot bal has the first place in pop
u!arity. though few boys have shown
desire to learn a little more about cricket,
and the smaller ores have a partially for
FOUNDERS. They had last season four first
c.ass matches of foot ball. two of which
they won and two they lost. In the first
her maJestys ship Fox scored four goals
TO their one; n the second. the same ship
scored one goal TO their nil; in the third.
against a combined team of Europeans
from the town, they scored four goals 10
nil, and in the fourth. against her majesty's
ship PhtlorHel. they scored five goals 10 nil
They would like very much 10 have thin
jerseys, with badge of the college to pre-
sent to boys who win their "colors' by
playing in three ''frst-claSS'' matches and
1t Will be no wonder if English friends pro-
vide these, well the foot balls which
are wanted for twenty villages in Nyasa,
and the tennis balls for boys at Masila.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-06
Twentieth Century. Dawn.
rom the Ladies' Home Journal.


The first peopleslto live in the twentieth
century will be the Ffendly islanders. for
the date line. as it may be called. lies in the
Pacific ocean just sIo, the east of their group.
At that time, although 1t will be already
Tuesday to them, all the rest of the world
will be enjoying SONG phase of Monday,
the last day of thu nihsteenth century ODE
cenber 81, 1eoO.1s Melbourne the people
will be going to bed, for it will be nearly 10
o'clock; at Manila It will be two hours
earlier in the evening; at Calcutta the Eng
fish residents will be sitting at their Mon
day afternoon dinner, for it will be about
9 o'clock: and in London big. Ben"
in the tower of the house of COM
mons. will be striking the hour Of noon In
Boston. New York and Washington half the
people will be eating breakfast on Monday
morning, while Chicago will be barely con-
scious Of the dawn. At the same moment
San Francisco will be in the deepest sleep
Of what is popularity called Sunday night.
though really the early. dark hours Of Mon
day morning. and half the Pacific will be
wrapped in the darkness Of the same morn
ing hours, which become earlier to the west.
until at Midway or Brooks Island 1t will be
but few minutes past midnight Of Sunday
night
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-06
Compressed Cork and Its Uses.

Cork, as every one knows is one of the
best non-conductors of heat or sound. Thai
1t has not been more widely used in build
ing is due chiefly to the difficulty of obtain
ing 1t In an unauthorized FORM A product
called cork thing has recently been placed
upon the market which is made of what is
known to the trade as virgin cork"
ground, compressed, and otherwise treated
by patented process. and which is free
from the cement and glue usually employed
to hold the particles together We are in
formed that tiles made of this pure, COM
pressed cork form an admirable flooring.
which. besides being noiseIess. water proof
warm, and germ proof, is capable of with
standing hard usage. BY varying the de-
gree of compression and modifying the
manufacturing process slightly, sheets of
cork different in color and density are OBJ
tanned, which, when sawed and finished in
the form of panels, can be used for wains-
coting alone, or in connection with cork tile
floors Cork compressed into sheets and
sawed to the size and thickness desired
constitutes a very efficient pulley covering
1t is said that pulley covered or Jagged
with compressed cork will transmit from
so to Go per cent more power with the same
tension of belt than one having only a
smooth iron surface.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-06
SouIIess Faces,
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.


There are few people who do not like to
look at beautiful woman. But We cannot
place her on a pedestal as a statue, or hang
her on the wall as a picture: therefore, as
pleasant as are beauty of face and symmetry
of form to the eye, something more is nee
essary in those who are part and parcel of
our daily lives. We all know pretty faces
which weary US after a time; homely fea-
lures which seem lovely to us for the sake
of the soul within, even as a lamp glorifies
the Japanese shade which is grctesque by
If one knows how to find it, and the true
lesson for our children is that which
teaches both the worth and worthlessness
of beauty precious jewel is shown to far
greater advantage wien handsomely set;
and she who to culture of heart and mind
ADDS rare personal attractions is well-nigh
irresistible. Yet the jewel is valuable.
though the setting be plain. and the con-
nolsseur appreciates it. although the ignor-
ant may pass it by, unconscious of its
worth The women whom history praises
whom the nations have risen up to call
blessed, have rarely been beautiful though
battles have been fought and kingdoms
have been devastated for the sake of a fair
face.
Beautiful hands are those which do
Deeds of Kindness the whole day through"
Therefore, o woman who longs TO b.
beautiful, strive rather to be agreea BILE and
thoughtful of others. Thus shall Won gain
love, winch is better than admiration: and
the time will surely come when. if stran-
gers call you plain your friends will answer;
Is sne? We never think about her looks:
she Is SO charming about herself
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-06

Two Varieties That Are Dangerous to
Man and Beast.

MAN ana Beast.
From the New York Herald.
Government officials in England have lust
learned that British soldiers in the Trans
vaal are exposed in a measure to another
danger besides the bullets of the Beers
This Information has come to them from
Mr.. Distant a wen-known naturalist, who
recently returned to England after spend
ing several months in the Transvaal,
whittier he went for the purpose Of collect
Ing strange insects. His mission was sue
cessful, and among the insects which he
brought home were specimens of a MUIR
derous spider.
The scientific name of this spider is har-
ractira gigas. and according to Mr. Distant
1t is most dangerous insect, both to man
and beast. for the reason that it can inject
poison into any animal that it touches. A
frog bitten by one of these spiders dies at
once, and larger animals suffer excruciating
pain for great while, and are even in
danger of death. Even a dead spider is
dangerous. Mr.. Distant saw a kitten eat a
SPIDER which had just been killed, and at
once the animal ma infested signs of great
agony. Her whole body became cramped:
her breath came and went in gasps, and at
one time she seemed to be at the point of
death. For several hours she endured this
horrible pain. and then the effects of the
venom ceased and she gradually recovered.
1t is supposed that this poison consists
Of pungent fluid, and that 1t Is exuded
from the hairs with which the spiders
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-06

n POOh-Bah in Missouri.


From the Omaha World Herald
Judge Beasley has been a justice of the
peace In northwest Missouri township for
SO many years that the memory of man
runneth not to the contrary A few wears
ago Beasiey was personally Interested in a
lawsuit, being party thereto. 1t was nee
essary for him to make an affidavit and he
deprecated the idea of making 1t before an
other Justice or notary and depriyfnR
himself of fee. So he filed out his affi.
daVlt, swore TO 1t before himself signed IT
as justice and as witness and awaited de
Velopments. He was sure that he would
win. and thus be able to tax the costs ND
to the other side.
When the case came up before Judge
Kelley the affidavit was offered in evidence
and promptly objected to- the reason being
given that justice could not swear HIM
self.
Let me see the affidavit" said Judge
Kelley.
1t was handed up to the Judge. who
scanned 1t carefully for a few moments,
and then asked:
Mr.. Beasley, will you kindly tell me how
you appeared before yourself when YOU
swore yourself and identified your own sig
nature?"
That was very easy. your honor" re-
piled Beasley. Il borrowed looking glass
and went through the formalities before II. !"
Beasley was somewhat astonished when
Judge Kelley sustained the objection.