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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-13
AUCTION SALES.

AUCTION SALE OF fine stock at the we'll
known McDoueall ranch. Oriliia, Wash
n &. Bickerton & Co. have received
instructions to sell by auction on Tues
CAY. the 18th of June. at 10 a. m. at tho
npHve ranch. The stock consists IT the
best imported animals. Holstein, Dur
ham and Jersey bred: % milch cows. s
three-year-old heifers. two-year- old
lloistein and Durham, -ycar- 1,i
Durham. 81 heifer calves, span OF Clyde
mares, years old. weight 1880: | Npan
bay work horses. weight 800: HANDLE
tonian mare. weight 100: IL Berk-
shire pigs. ohe-year-old terms cash
lunch provided, h. @. Bickerton & 60 !,
auctioncers.
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WANTED Woman to take family wash
lag home. good phase foT right Isststth.
t'ai this morning an NJ Twenty hird
north 90 Nosier
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BUSINESS CHANCES.

$780,, I-.,1------ ------>
@sio. yr.e ,S.s mouse. furnished Tor
Nsttt pTltss N.10.
A sl-r0orn house. furnished slrir. m m
room house. furnished. price, tSp0
Sssi com mouse. furnished, price. $40.
ZOE Saie-Dease l-r0om furnished house.
go stS
ht best paying and located restaurant
A eapshl. S,,sir,9s ma, ,,,,,, ,o~ ,t.,,
sand dollars csn s.~tl,e an frferes, A.,
old established uroatahle h,Iatuera
saloon well located nic1. nxfures snoA
stock. money maker
A Nrsf s4sss AZ Ns. ..,.t, ,-..
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SOCIETY NOTICES.

FREE DANCING LESSONS
To all ladies of good social standing; also
low raf.s Tor gentlemen during our
new opening Dancing classes for begin-
ners In waltEing and all the very latest
day evenings at o'clock. WILSON'S
dancing sci DOL. Ranke hall, Pike street
and FIFTH avenue, Private lessons daily
ORDER or WASHINGTON viii give a
grand entertainment at Rnnke's hall,
Pike street. Wednesday evening June
~. the public cordially invited. good
music dancing and Refreshments. adj
missiou 2Ac Tor gentlemen, ladies free 4,
tickets at the window
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THE undersigned desires to return thanks to the
friends vino assisted al tho last Illness and
funeral a. her late husband Max Nnpf and
pAtticplafly 90 the Jewish Benevolent Association
MRS l. q WlNPF.
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The following letters await advertisers
n this ONCE
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FOR RENT-HousEs.
TWELVE beautiful fats 81 six and se, en-
rooms each. located on Ninth avenue
and Olive streets. 20 b. finished and
month. pricrs range from IS 10 So.
these are elegantly finished with man
tells and are within walking distance
or the business center. Fchren- Marvin
Co 30 81 Pioneer building Phone,
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peats and fir burns on the hearth, and in
all likelihood an oat-cake stands on end
against a griddle) hardening by the fire.
side. There are a couple of siostogs
Seats about eighteen inches high of
plated straw by the fire, but, for the
most part, the seats are four-legged stools,
yet there are also few chairs. A bed,
too, stands in the kitchen, near from
the fire, fitting into the outshot, formed
purposely for this in the side-wall; the
bed is covered with neat patchwork
quilt, and is canopied overhead with deal,
papered later.
Outside the house, TO the left, and at
right angles, runs the little row of cattle
byres and the fowl-house; and to the
right are built the turf-stack (Which con-
tains fifteen or twenty tons of peats) and
the fir-stack with five or six ton of bog
fir
Attached to the cottage are four or five
acres of arabic land, and in addition the
run of some miles of mountain Qn COM
mon with the hundred other cottages in
same district for sheep; a rental of
twenty or thirty dollars a year (Which is
very great sum to the poor cottager in
our mountains) is paid TO the landlord
for this. and about eight dollars in other
taxes. Il must be noted that the cottager
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If YOU WANT GooD MATERIAL
and work, order your Autographed and
printed stationery and blank books from
sE~-nina NArus. Savannah. Co.
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inn and been made way with fer the
money he carried. 1 had seen nothing sus-
picious, and he had no real grounds for
an accusation but he went away, say
cd.
1 was ready to take my departure on
the fourth day, when there was a sudden
change in the demeanor of the land
lord and his wife. All at once they be-
came obsequious and smiling and solicit
tous. A nice lunch was put up for me,
and they refused pay for it, / was given
the clearest dil ections, and was told that
almost as soon as / had begun the ascent
of the mountain would find an interest
ing ruin a little off the road. 1t was some
thing l ought noe to miss and they kept
eXtolling it until 1 promised TO turn aside
| set off in good spirits, though wonder
ing bit as to the sudden and singular
change in the people of the inn, and by
noon l had covered a dlstauce of twelve
miles, / passed two inns without stopping,
and likewise three or four peasants huts,
and when / sat down to rest ii was On a
large stone by the roadside and close
beside one of the branches of the Dam
ube l nibbed at lunch as / rested and
l had been sitting perhaps twenty min
utes when a young woman with a fish
pole In her hand suddenly appeared l
gave her goodday, as a matter Of course
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AS it was, found myself wondering if
this pair was in any manner connected
with the disappearance of the tourists. /
was on my guard for what might happen,
and yet 1 did not betray myself. I kept
up the conversation as we walked along,
and l am sure she took me for an easy
victim. / rather expected to be fired on
from behind some rock as soon as we were
off the road, but by and by we heard the
man calling from the ruins, and L realized
that the ambush would be there IL any
where. AS we halted on the plateau it
was easy to make out that a vast build
ing had stood there once. l should have
said a monastery, but the woman insisted
that it was great castle belonging to
some mighty prince and that it had been
destroyed by an earthquake. We wan
dered among the acre of ruins as we talk
ed. AS we neared what must have been
the rear of the building, found that the
walls stood almost on the brink OF a preci-
pice Before us was what had been n
large room, with three of the walls yet
standing. There were no less than five
window openings, and as / advanced to
one of them the woman said:
"No-take this one My brother has
built platform from which you can look
up and down the valley for miles,
A peculiar something in her voice caus-
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ed me to glance at her face, and found
il pale and her features working in a ner-
vous way. 1t was the window, then,
which was the ambush? My heart beat
against my ribs, but 1 meant to see the
thing to a finish. The man had called 10
us, but we had not seen him since arriving
at the ruins. With a laugh which sound
ed more like a croak the woman pulled
herself together and preceded me to the
window To reach the opening we had
to climb up three stone steps. and she
stood for a moment looking out and cling
ing to the wall for support.
you will see fine view-a fine view"
she said as she made room for me. "Step
out and look up and down"
/ did not step out: There was some thl ing
so modern about that platform, and II hal
been built so deftly that / feared It. /
simply chung TO the wall and thrust my
head out and was looking up the valley
when the woman gave me a push with ali
her strength. Her hands did not strike me
fair or my hold would have been broken
/ was whirled half way round end partly
thrown down, but as recovered nv foot
ing / swept her aside with my arm and
she went to the ground with scream.
Next instant the man came dashing
through the doorway In the wall. He
had knife in his hand, and he meant
murder. l leaped down to meet him. that
I might have free play for my staff, and
/ believe we battled for ten minutes. sill
lying on the ground the woman seized my
legs and tried to pull me down, but /
kicked her away and gave all my attention
TO the man. Ayel but that fellow was
crafty and villainous and determined. Had
l fought him with a knife he would soon
have settled me. 1t was the stout staff
which kept him of, and IL was the staff
which finally dealt him a blow that laid
him out unconscious. looked for the
woman as l stopped to breathe, but she
had disappeared. l went over to the win
dow and examined the platform and found
that It was sustained by a lever which
could be pulled out and allow the bottom
10 drop. AS the man began to return 10
life lifted up my staf and beat him TN
/ was weary, and then went my way up
the mountain road. That ambush had gath
cred at least three victims, but Il was not
for me 70 carry a mystery to the police
and be detained In a filthy jail for months
or years, while they took their time to
solvs u ---'' '''-~-'-- - :
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Copyright, 1900, by Seumas MacManus.)
our average cottage has three apart
ments, a kitchen between two rooms. The
cave of the matched roof is the hight of
a GALL man. The thatch is oat-straw,
bound down to the under layer of tough
turf (scraws) by hidden rows of scollops
of briar and then crossed and recrossed
some scores of times by straw ropes that
interlace and finally tie to pegs of fir and
bog oak inserted in the walls just under
the caves.
Within the roomy kitchen, with its
hardened and clean clay floor, the inside
of the roof with it's scraw lining, and
the cupples and BAGS of fir and oak dug
from the depths of the peat bog) which
support it, are exposed. A ladder is
hung on pegs along one side-wall;
dresser, on which the plates, and bowls,
and mugs, are ranged, and on which also
stand the wooden utensils-piggns, a few
noggins and few turned beechen dishes.
stands by the side of the room door. I'm
der the big wide chimney fire of mixed
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not wrack or liach, he burns the lands
and manures with the ashes AS most of
the arabic land in our mountains is peaty
1t burns well after it has been exposed 10
couple of weeks of dry weather. A few
live Goals are laid down, and the dry mold
heaped over them, and as this mold takes
fire and shoulders, still more is heaped
upon it. These heaps burn for weeks to-
gether At the one time there may be
from one score to four score such fires
in one little field, so, on a fine day in
April, it is not strange to see thousand
little smoke spirals curling up all over
the bosom of a small valley.
The spade is the universal implement OF
the village. In the odd instance in which
horse employed for carrying manure,
the "backloads'' only-that is, carries his
burden in creels with hinged bottoms In
the spring and in the harvest most of the
women have to take their part in the field
work-the lighter parts of the work only
being assigned to her Though in the dis
tricts where every able-bodied male mi
CRATES for a portion of the year to Scot
land to earn the rent, the women must do
both the heavier and the lighter.
Hearts Are Light in Donegal.
Because our people are very poor, and
sorely laden with worldly crosses and in
nocent of the luxuries and the pleasures
of the peoples of other countries. 1t is a
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and was not much surprised when she laid
down her pole and came and sat beside
mo- and began to ask questions.
she was peasant girl of about
"a better dressed and bet
ter looking than the average, and in ad-
dressing a stranger she broke no rule of
conventionaltty according 10 the peasant
CODE l invited her to share my lunch,
and presently we were chatting away like
old acquaintances.
In 100 instances the peasants of Servia
had displayed more curiosity than a born
Yankee, bur this girl went deeper than any
Of them. Some of her questions were an
swered and some turned aside, but she
certainly came to know good deal about
me. was single man, and / had not
communicated with my friends for months.
l was strolling from poiat TO poin. to
study the people and see the country, and
was not expected at any particular point
in Bulgaria Peasant though she was, she
had the gift Of a lawyer in extracting in
formation. An hour slipped away, and
then a man appeared. lie was also fish
ing. or pretending to, ana as ne came In
sight sne called him and he Joined us
and was introduced as her brother. A
glance from face to face made me doubt
the relationship. In my own mind l lg-
ured that he was her husband. He tried
TO smile and show a pleasant face but
instlncuveIy felt that ne was a rascal. Jle
had a furtive eye and bad mouth and
thought 1 caught signais between the pair.
Such a thing as fear, however had no
place in my heart. l mad no weapon aside
from my stout STICK, but was afraid of
no man by daylight on a public high
way.
l was ready to move on when the wo-
man spoke of the castle ruins. They were
only a step away she said, and IL miss
ed them l would be sorry forever after,
The man at once added his persuasion,
but as 1 was ready to go with them he
claimed to have left his knife a hundred
rods away and set out after Il. and left
the two of US to walk on together From
the moment we started l noticed a change
In her. She looked about apprehenslvely,
her laughter was forced and her demean-
or put me on my guard. 1t was as II she
expected me to be shot down from am
bush. Had not been able to see the old
ruins almost as soon as we started I
should have doubted that they existed
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OLD NEWSPAPERS. 200 for Is cents. al
Business Office MORNING. News.
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through linen cloth till all the water is
expressed, and then baked with flour. The
result is fit for kings. Our Donegal Gaze
lie poet "Padraic," has commemorated
the delights of boxty in a charmingly
humorous ode.
Our staple crops are potatoes and oats,
and cabbage is practically the only 9TH
er raised. y couple of acres of ground are
IeIt under these-and the remainder goes
10 grass. Near the seaccast, the seaweeds
wrack and liach are the chief manures
employed. As the landlords domain in Ire
lana extends over the sea Itself, he has
apportioned the rocky strang, whereon the
wrack grows between the several ten
ants. Early in Ware February and
March,, taking advantage of the far-re-
ceding spring tides the men and women
boys and girls are on the strand at day
b eak, and, following the receding tide cut
down the wlack with big knives, and
carry it to the shore in creels. The liach,
which grows in great blades six and eight
feet long, is yet on rocks far out to sea-
rocks that are seldom or never barred
and it must be gone for in beats and cut,
and pulled with knives and hooks fixed
at the end Of long poles
Further inland, where the cottager has
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bought this land from his predecessor
ana paid $500 for it; yet lord who lives
In London and Paris and AT Monte Carlo
owns" it and a thousand other farms,
and sports abroad all the dollars the cot
tager can be made to save, and pay TO
him, off 1t.
The cottager owns two milch cows,
three or four growing cattle, and Con the
hllD couple of score of sheep worth
about three dollars apiece. His whole
stock is worth about two hundred and
fifty dollars.
Meat Rarely in Donegal.
The Donegal mountaineer can reckon
on his fingers the number of times in his
life that he has eaten mutton or beef.
And though the bean-autighe (housewife)
owns two score hens and ducks, an egg
10 a meal in their cabin is a rarity. On
tstlve occasions, or when a neighbor is
helping at the farm work, butter is in
aulged in. One or two pigs are kept, yet
the household knows not the taste of
pork or Irish bacon. For an occasional
sunday or feast-day dinner, provided mon
ey re unusually plentiful, a pound OF
american bacon, at ten cents, is bought;
as our own Irish bacon costs fifteen cents
pound, IL is out of question. The break
Iast is oaten porridge (stirabouD; the din
her' potatoes boiled in their Jackets, and
eaten with milk and salt and occasionally
nsh. And the supper again is usually Of
potatoes, but sometimes Of porridge. We
nave "a mouthful OF tea" and oaten
bread, or soda bread, between meals once
or twice a day.
favorite luxury with us is potato
bread. for which the boiled potatoes are
pealed and mashed and baked with flour.
When buttered hot, this is a luxury worth
lVlng for. Another toothsome luxury Is
ooNty-a bread also made from the pota-
10 which is grated. when raw, wrung
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very ridiculous assumption that they are
therefore to be pided. Even the stranger
who has mingled with them a little knows
moreover that far from dreaming that
they need pity, the poorest and the most
sorely tried of our people are ever ex-
tending that commodity to those who are
better off according to the worlds rating
but who are nevertheless very far from
knowing the happiness they enjoy, and
from knowing the beauties they know.
And the secret of Ii all is because the
Celtic soul sets small store upon material
things save insofar as such are abso-
'lutely necessary; because the Celt is
dreamer and a spirtualist; because his
temperament is optimistic and enthusiasts
tic. There are poor mountain men whom
l know whose ignorance-because 1t is
scholastic and worldly ignorance-would
be guffawed at by scholarly and enlight-
ened men, who intellectually are not
worthy to unite their shoe latchets; and
who. moreover. are, in heart-wealth, to
those poor men as beggars to million
aires.
Be the day black or bright the work
slavish or light, our people are ever, ever
merry, and have the kindly failte and ge-
NAL Joke for the passer. And out of ten
such, who are soaked and shivering on a
potato ridge in March, I can count more
whose hearts are singing than in any ten
times ten men of the ease and afiuence IN
the mansions of New York.
At night. In the cottage, the mother
spins while the girls sprig or knit. Weav-
ing is a beading industry in Donegal and
there are thousands of cottages that have
their hand looms, whereat the old man
works and sings when the day is over.
We get our own weaving material cheap
ly, so. But the great portion of the cloth
woven Is brought TO the fair and sold--at
20 to % cents a yard-to dealers for export.
Some very handsome and very fancy
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The HOME OF The
DONEGAL CO7TACER,
eumas MacManus Describes the Dwelling
Place of the Irish MOuntaineer.


mt ware Time
ing OF the so-Fir SpaiIs
OIL The Parish and His UnfaiIin welcome
Family Deyotio
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P. P. p.

v uippinan's Great RemedylN
y the only logical treatment for
this 1oathsoiue disease. Catarrh Ia
pow recognized az an Affection OF
the blood, and not a mere local trou-
bic. The best blood purifier Is there
fore the best remedy, and the best
blood purifier Is acknowledged to be
2. p. 7. Under treatment with r.
=. +. the sickeniig discharges, with
odor, quickly disappear and perma-
nent and radical recovery soon re-
cults.
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nah, Ca.
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nj head oieofm
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A THIEF in THE NIGHT,
How Catarrh RObs Its Victims of Health AM life.

catarrh 10 the most insIdious OF
diseases. Ifueg1ected, 1t invariably
coaches the bronchial tubes aud
fungs, rendering them weak and
susceptible to consumption.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-04-03

+ = = !.
new rural mail routes, one at Hedrick,
one at Ottumwa, one at Oskaloosa, and
one at Newton. Several more have
been recommended.
sThe question of the future as to
free rural delivery is one that must
be considered. The people who have
tried it this far are nearly all in favor
OF it. 1t is uncertain how extensively
the system can be extended without
requiring heavy appropriations outside
the postal receipts. This is the doubt
full part of the question. Hon. Perry
S. Heath, first assistant postmaster
general, tells me that he thinks the
system will increase receipts sufficient
ly to nearly pay the expense and that
in his Judgment it has passed the eN-
perimental stage, and he is in favor OF
keeping it up and increasing it. All
the routes are meeting with approval
by the people on the lines. Some Of the
fourth class postmasters complain that
it injuries the business of their offices
but the approval far exceeds the criti-
cism in all directions"
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LACEY FAyoRs 1T.

The Des Moines Leader observes that
The free rural mail delivery has
found another avowed and positive
champion in Congressman John f.
Lacey. tt has been currently reported
that Major Lacey is opposed to the
mail scheme which has proven so sue
cessful and so popular elsewhere, and
which it is intended to introduce there
in the near future. The report has
even gone so far as to intimate that
Congressman Lacey voted against the
appropriation to establish rural deliv-
cry, and this reused his constituents in
action. In order to ascertain his views
on the question a letter was addressed
/ to THE major, by u gentleman in, Des
Moines, and the following reply was
received:
Your letter in regard to my views
and vote on the free rural delivery is
at hand. do not understand how or
4 why any question should have arisen
on the subject. There was no aye and
nay vote, but all the Iowa delegation,
including myself, voted for the appro-
priation. have secured a number OF
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THE MOTHERS, CONGRESS.

The national congress OF mothers
will hold it's fourth annual session this
year in Des Moines, May 81 to May
25. This meeting is to be held in
Iowa as the result of an invitation of
Governor Shaw, the mayor of Des
Moines, Chamber of Commerce, Board
of Trade and the Women's clubs of Des
Moines. 1t is expected that thousands
of people from Iowa alone will attend,
as during. the past year in over eighty
counties of the state Mothers clubs
have been organized. The whole state
is; beginning TO take considerable inter-
est in: this congress, and the public
schools will be asked to close to permit
teachers to attend. The women OF
Des Moines are working like Trojans
and have made many preparations I'd
entertain the visitors.
Delegates are expected from nearly
all the states in the Union, and dis
tinghished visitors galore are to be
there. From abroad the Earl OF Meath
patron of the English branch of the
congress, will be present, as well as
Miss Mason, president of the Parents
and Teachers Union of England. Pro
minent personages of our own coun-
try who will be in attendance are
Governor Roosevelt and Admiral Dew
ey, who have both promised to be pres
ent and speak. Fifty-one speakers
have registered up to date, represent.
ing nearly every state in the Union.
Official notification has been received
that delegations will be present from
New York, Pennsylvania, California
North Carolina. Texas, Georgia and