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The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-03-21

Does the editor Of the Ballard News
speak from experience when he pub
fishes the following very suggestive
lines:
He stood on the steps at midnight;
Just why it was easy to tell;
He could not find the key-hole,
And he dare not ring the bell"
Only men who have been through
such experiences have the inspiration
to write such lines Alexander Poe
could have never written the Raven
had he not been the principle actor
in the scene of debauchery in which
the mythical raven appeared over his
chamber door,
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-03-21

The Palouse country is enjoying q
period of prosperity, thinks the Col
fax Gazette. because it is noted that
there is an unusual amount of new
buildings being erected on the farms
and ranches at present and as many
more for which contracts have been
let to be erected in the near future
Building is always a sign of prosper
ity, and if the building boom has
struck the Palouse farmer you can
bet your bottom dollar that he is pros
pering.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-03-21

From the Whatcom Reveille it is
learned that George F. Cotterill of Sc
attle and B. H. Silver of Whatcom
will cross political swords for the
Democratic congressional nomination.
Both of these congressional aspirants
are what they are pleased to term
themselves, ''free-silver Republicans, :"
and if that term has any significance
the Whatcom man certainly has the
bulge on our own and only George,
for he has the silver both in name and
politics.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-03-21

super-human traits and qualities gives
him the complete right-of-way to the
United States senate and perhaps even
to the presidency of the United States
Jim Ham Lewis in all of his
glory was but a Pickering candle in
comparison to what Speaker Billy
Lewis is destined to be in his own
mind
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-03-21

The Goldendale Sentinel has taken
on itself the authority to promiscu-
ously invite everybody to the old
maids convention that is to be held in
its Armory hall tomorrow Saturday
evening. It is surmised that if the
women taking part in it are to be
branded "o1d maids" in the future the
convention will be very slimly attend
ed except by spectators.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-03-21

how it all happened. Mayor Humes
is apparently Republican for selfish
mercenary purposes, and not Repub-
lican from principle If he was certain
he could get no more offices from the
Republican party he would soon cease
to be Republican, and, therefore, in
cutting him the Republicans felt that
they were not cutting a Republican
nominee
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-03-21

To glance over the Kalama Bulletin
one would hardly think it was four
teen years old, and yet it celebrated
such birthday couple of weeks ago.
Generally speaking, age improves
most things, but it seems to have had
the opposite effect on the Bulletin.
But, after all, a country paper that
can live fourteen years is to be con
graduated, whether or not it is a sue
cess financially, editorially or other
wise.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-03-21

Shawneetown is the oldest town in
Illinois, and it's immediate neighbor-
hood boasts of producing some of the
hood boasts of having produced some
OF the leading statesmen of this coun-
try.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-03-21

An exchange says that the news
paper business seems to be overdone
in the capital, as there are five week
lies and one daily, with another daily
under contemplation, in operation
there at present. That certainly seems
to be an over-supply of papers for one
little country town, but, in the West,
whenever a fellow fails at everything
else he starts a newspaper in order
to instruct others how to succeed in
business, and perhaps the very same
kind of a business at which he so
signally failed.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-03-21
COUNTRY PRESS OPINIONS


Ii the Sumas News is correct in it's
editorial statement of last week, 1000
mining claims have been located and
filed upon near the Hamilton mine dur
ing the past two months. 1t begins to
look as though that section of the
state is going to have a genuine min
ing boom during the coming season.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-03-21

Evidently the Aberdeen Herald has
no very good blood for the Populists
of this city, as it seems to think that
Godwins defeat was attributable to
the POpulist vote. You are in error,
neighbor, if you entertain any such
ideas as that, for not enough votes
were cast for the Populist ticket to
have changed the results one way or
the other; in fact, the Populists did
not cast as many votes as did the
Socialists.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-03-21
THE CANADIAN BANK
Il OF Fs~COMMERCE

With which is amalgamated
THE BANK OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
Head Office Toronto Established 1867.
Capital paid up. ....... .$8, ,0oO, 10000
eight Million Dollars.)
Surplus ............ Sc, 200, 10000
Assets May 81, 1901. . .$67, ,553, ,578.13
Accounts of Banks, Corporations, Firms
and Individuals solicited.
Drafts issued available in any part Of the
World
Interest allowed on Time Deposits
Having established branches at DAWSON,
WHITE HORSE, SKAGWAY and ATLIN,
this Bank has exceptional facilities for
handling YUKON and ALASKA business.
A General Banking Business transacted.
Seattle Branch D. A. Cameron,
Cor. Sec Ave. and James ST. Manager
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-03-21

Now comes the Pert Orchard Inde-
pendent with the statement that the
first steamer ever built in the state
of Washington was constructed at
Port Blakeley. That such is a bit of
news of much interest to the old pio-
neers is not doubted, but it is of no
particular interest to the thousands
of persons who are settling in this
state every day, and it is certainly no
great amount of advertisement for
Port Blakeley.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-03-21

1t is true, as says an exchange, that
Judge WinsOr was the only candi-
date in the late municipal scrap in
Seattle that declared he would drive
gambling out of Seattle and it is
also true that "the Judge only re-
ceived 10 votes out of the $4,000 that
were cast" but this is no proof that
the Seattle people are generally favor
able to gambling and the wide-open
policy as it has been conducted in the
past. The thing is fastened upon them
and it takes herculean efforts on their
part to shake it off, but they are slow
ly doing so.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-03-21

1t is quite true that the politicians
know what they want, and they make
it their business to go after it, and it
is likewise true that they are in poll
tics for their bread and butter, and
they do not leave a stone unturned to
succeed in their undertaking. The
man who makes a business out Of pol
itics has a profession the same as the
man who makes business out of prac-
ticing medicine or law or any other
profession. The professional politi-
clan studies his business the same as
other professional men, and under
such circumstances it is perfectly nat
ural for him to take every low and
mean advantage that he possibly can
take to accomplish his own purposes
and aims and to guarantee bread and
butter for his home, and who can
blame him?
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-03-21

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The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-03-21

Seattle Branch D. A. Cameron,
Cor. Sec. Ave and James st. Manager.
Williams news., 1902-05-17

It is needless to say that the treat was a rare one and was much en- ioyed.
 After a few selections by Mrs. Simms and w. R. Poole of an in strumental and vocal nature, Dr. F. H. Waite took two fiashlight views of the gathering, which, proved since to be failures, when all departed, thanking the hostess for the pleasant evening which had given such enjoyment.
 Aside from the ladies above men toned those present were: Messrs Geo. G. Wharton, M. and J. Salz- man, F. w. Smith, N. J. Hudson, Fred Ferguson. Olaf Preysz, E. N. Crawford, w. R. Poole, John. H. Page, Geo. U. Young, A. Tyroler, H. D. Pyle, Thos. Ward, G. H. Bar ney, Joe Cohen, F. H. Waite and c. A. Neal.
Williams news., 1902-05-17
A SURPRISE STAG
Given Last Saturday Evening in Honor
 of Geo. G. Wharton.

The surprise "stag" given by Mrs Geo. G. Wharton last Saturday evening in honor of her husband was a success in every particular.
 The decorations used at the ladies' afternoon" a week previous were still in evidence and called for many congratulatory remarks from those assembled upon the beautiful and tasty arrangement
 The guests assembled about 9 o'clock, and ably assisted by Mesdames M. Salzman, J. H. Simms. G. U. Young and Miss Kitty O'Neil. Mrs. Wharton provided interesting amusement at the game of "keno." Three "kenos" comprised a game, and three games entitled the win ner to a handsome silver-handled and covered "Stein." William R. Poole was the lucky winner of this (to him) useful article.
 MT. J. Salzman. who had the least number of "kenos" to his credit. received box containing a nina ture pair of slippers and a card bearing the inscription, "For de Feat"
 All then assembled round the banquet table, which was loaded to overfiowing with good things, as is shown by the following reproduc- tion of the menu cards:
Williams news., 1902-05-17
Smith States Plain Truths
Arizona's Delegate Tells Mrs. James a Few Things.

At the request of many readers the Journal-Democrat has for some time been trying to get possession of copy of that letter of Delegate Mark Smith of Arizona to Mrs. James of New York, of which Dele gate Rodey said that asbestos paper would not hold it. The effort has been successful. Here is the letter:
 DEAR MADAM: A remarkable let ter signed by you as president of the Woman's Board of Home Mis- sions of the Presbyterian church has been sent, presumably by you, to many members of congress, the purpose being to influence those gentlemen to withhold their sup port from the bill of the house for the admission of the territories of Arizona and New Mexico to the union of states. You do not hesi- tate to do this, knowing at the time that those gentlemen had every one been pledged by the solemn prom ises of their respective national plat forms to the support of the meas
 
 does not seem to trouble YOU, whose high self-impOsed duty is, avow- edly, to teach lessons of truth. honor and integrity to those whom you call exceptional" people
 '-I am, dear madam, deeply grieved to see the name of the grand old Presbyterian church, around which my early memories tenderly finger, degraded to the humIliating business of causeless wholesale slan- der of a people of a great territory like Arizona The church itself, I know, had no hand in this. I ac- quit the great body of its God fearing people of complicity in this wanton action of your board. 9th erwise, I would find it pursuing paths against which it had warned my feet. am pained to see good women, like you and your asso- ciates. SO unmindful of the charity and justice which you openly pro- fess as to deliberately say of Ari- zona that there are too few people in proportion to the entire popula- tion who are sufficiently intelligent to exercise the duties of citizen ship l am sorry on your account that you said this. The least in- vestigation through any informed source would surely have saved you from this reckless statement When did your most estimable and charitable board get into this state hood business anyway? If your acts are not ultra wires, the scope of business under your charter is much wider than its name would indicate to the initiated.
 Returning to your charge: The fact is that, excluding reservation Indians, who are not, and cannot become citizens. Arizona has the best generally educated population in the United States. The people pay more per capita for education al and charitable purposes than any congressional district in your state,
Williams news., 1902-05-17

Permit me in due modesty to commend this sentiment to the political branch of the church of which your board is the first, and I trust will be the last representative. "With assurances of my high es- teem, l beg to be your humble ser want.
 "MARCUs A. SMITH,"
Williams news., 1902-05-17

or in any other state of the union. Education is compulsory. We have a code of laws as good in them selves and fully as well executed as any state that has enjoyed self government for a century The large body of our people came when fully grown from different states of the union. They knew the duties can possibly know that lesson, and they have attended to those duties with a modesty and propriety which I am justified in commenting as an example for your emulation
 "You confess that your informa- ton comes from your teachers who are at work among exceptional people, meaning, I presume, the Indians. If contact with the In dians is going to have this effect on them the sooner you get them away the better for all concerned. From alleged information from 'ex- ceptionaP people through 'excep- tionaP teachers you fling out under the banner and badge of the church exceptional statements, hurtful to an upright, honest, self-dependent, self-respecting people, when one week of sensible investigation would have repelled the charge. But you say we are unworthy of a place in the union. In answer, I assert that among the voters of your district there is more ignorance and illit- eracy than in mine, and there are more sin, iniquity and shameless crime committed daily within sight of your church spire than all Ari- zona suffers in a year. And yet you and yours sit in judgment on us and ignorantly condemn.
 ''Ohl for the rarity
 Of Christian charity
 Under the sum-"
 'I modestly commend to your or ganization the crying need of home missions; Cast out the beam that is in thine eye, so that thou canst see more clearly the mote in thy brother's.'
 ''In what follows, I make no dis tinction of the state or city of New York, for all of us in Arizona glad ly do homage to its people. My heart throbs with pride when my foot touches the restless streets of your mighty metropolis. Arizona is proud in common with all the states, of this wonderful monument to thrift and enterprise which the common country has erected. But how did you ever imagine that even that great city and state were too good to have political association with the people of Arizona? Cast out that beam in thine own eye, or study a situation before you speak with such awful authority.
 With your letter was handed me an alleged Statement and Ap- peal signed by the Rev T. J. Morgan and others, which was noth- ing more nor less than a tirade against the Mormons and the Nor mon church, accompanied by the unwarranted statement that they
Williams news., 1902-05-17


 control of certain named states and territories of the west. The author and publishers of that creed knew as little about the Mormons in Ari- zona as your board knew of our education.
 "This letter has nothing to do with doctrines, creeds or dogmas, but the writer, who has lived for twenty years as a neighbor to the Mormon people and has known the hospitality of their homes, and from close observation of their lives, does not hesitate to say that they accepted in good faith the church proclamation against the practice of polygamy, and nowhere in this broad land can there be found more honest, industrious and patri- otic people than they have proven themselves to be. If your city, or any ward in 1t, was as clean of vice as any Mormon community in Ari- zona, you could we'll leave the city to itself and reach out far with your good offices and advice. No one bodies in other peoples affairs or spreading calumnious reports against their neighbors. This is meant as no defense of the Mormon people, but is designed as a rebuke to this left-handed, unfair and hid- den political attack on statehood for the territories.
 "That I may not be misunder- stood, let me tell you that permit no one to excel me in admiration, love and esteem of the great work which the old Presbyterian church has done for humanity, by the ex ample which its good members have set to the contemplation of a wicked world. Its blessings were showered by good people, unsel- fishly working for God and man; but not through officious intermed- ding with political questions and social conditions of which they knew nothing. Ignorance is the most charitable view we can take of the actions against which we file our protest. In conclusion, my dear madam, permit me to express my regret that you and your associates should have seen fit to charge that Arizona is not sufficiently educated not moral enough, not good enough, to be associated with New York or other political divisions, as a state.
 ''Turn your eyes from your 'ex- ceptionaP informants and close your ears to their ignoront clamor that you may hear and heed the words of the Great Teacher: Two men went up into the mountain to pray; the one a Pharisee, the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself: God, I thank Thee that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adul- terers, or even as this publican; I fast twice in the week; I give tithes of all possess. And the publican far off would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying: Lord, be merciful unto me a sinner l tell you this man went down to his justified rather than the other; for everyone that exalted himself shall be abased, and he that humbleth l,s .t. m Lx
Williams news., 1902-05-17
DEUTcHEs FRUEsTUEcK

DEUTcHEs FRUEsTUEcK Schinken Wieners Rauchwurst Stein und Muensterkaese Caviar Sauerkraut senf Eingelegte Zwiebel Meerettich Roggenbrot Pretzels
 Book Bier
 Frischi Frohi Frommi Freii Els muessen Ale lustig sell
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-17

pany knows but little of the deposits,
but it satisfies itself as to the depos-
itor.
Even a Romance.
A pretty little romance was culmi-
mated short time ago at a local de-
post company's vaults. A few years
ago a young man and young woman
came and took a box. 1t was taken in
both their names and the couple began
to deposit savings in it. They always
came together, for one of them alone
could not have gained access to it, They
deposited their savings, coming in
when there was a mite to be added to
the fastg growing fund and finally COM
ing in one day not long ago, the man
radiant, the woman blushing and re-
moved their savings.
They were to be married and the
safety deposit vault had enabled them
to save sufficient money to make their
start in life an suspicious one.
This is only one of many of the
same kind. There are others, perhaps,
that do not terminate as happily but
the officials Of the company are loath
to divulge any information regarding
the personal affairs Of their patrons
and writing materials, are provided for
the use of the renters. These rooms
may be locked and the contents of the
little safe gone over, safe from any
prying eye. In every possible way the
affairs of the patrons are guarded and
the result is really a philanthropic in
stitution.
Besides the safety vaults there are
storage facilities. Here lie valuable
packages, trunks, boxes, ETC., safe be-
hind the barred and bolted doors Of a
modern vault
A Trunk Mystery.
In one of these there lies a trunk
that has been opened twice in> twelve
years. What it contains is a mystery
that perhaps will never be solved No
one is allowed in the vault unless ac-
companied by the custodian. A scrub
woman cannot go into it to clean it
unless the custodian is present. Every
precaution is taken in this department
as well as in the safety vaults sec
ton.
The depositors patronize the vaults
steadily. They pay the rent and some
times it is years at a time that the
boxes will not be opened. Sometimes
deposits are-nade for brief time by
paople passing through the city. Just
what each vault contains would form
food for an active Imagination for
long time as the whole place smells of
mystery The institutions are rapidly
growing in favor and make excellent
places for the deposit of all manner
OF valuables and are well patronfzed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-17
HOW VHLUABLES IRE SHFELY KEPT

form metalliferous deposits for the use
of future centuries.
Hay fever is a subject Of perennial
investigation. BY inquiries among 400
persons at North sea resorts, DR.. Thast
has confirmed the assumption that it's
chief popularity is an idiosyncrasy of
the olfactory nerve in respect to the
doors of certain flowers, and that the
only places absolutely free from it are
those with Scanty, low vegetation,
without much blossoming. While no
remedy will cure once for all in few
applications, the experience Of these
persons shows that it can be relieved
and even cured by local treatment.
The new self-luminous mixture of a
French chemist, claimed to require
only very short exposure to light and
to be unusually brilliant and lasting,
consists of twenty parts of dehydrated
sodium carbonate, five of sodium chlo
ride, one of magnesium sQlphate, 500 of
strontium carbonate and $50 of sulp-
hur. The well-miXed materials are
kept at a white heat for three hours in
a muffie from which the air is carefully
excluded.
The largest pendulum ever made is
that with which Messrs. Berbet and
Flammarion have been demonstrating
the earth's rotation, in Paris. A lead
ball of fifty-six pounds is attached to
a fine piano wire about 210 feet long.
The oscillation lasts sixteen seconds.
Color photography, through the
bleaching action of light upon certain
dyes, has occupied the attention of
Karl Worel for more than three years.
He has found that paper coated with
suitable proportions of certain red,
yellow and blue dyes, reproduces the
color of the light falling upon it, and
that the sensitiveness is greatly in
creased by ethereal oils. OF about 100
different oils tried, the oil of anise
proved the most powerful sensitizer,
this property depending upon it's ane-
thoi. In practice, a bath was prepared
with alcoholic solutions Of primrose,
Victoria blue, a few drops of cyanine,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-17

cured by a strong lock and inside of
this another heavy steel door that is
locked by the regular combination
lock- With all these doors and the solid
wall of the vault the small boxes are
indeed safe, and yet they are locked,
each one doubly until the whole affair
becomes a wearying series of locks
within locks, and the mind of an ex-
pert mechanic is alone able to cope
with it. "a 49,
For a safeblower to set out to work
his way into the vault would be a
waste of time Even If he should force
the wooden door without sounding an
alarm, which is impossible, he would
be confronted by this five tons Of steel,
built and put together by master me-
chanics, who are trained to build doors
against such as he, and 1t is safe to
say that it would take him lifetime to
effect an entrance.
Special Instructions.
Some of these small safes are marked
in a manner that indicates that there
are special instructions regarding the
opening of them. For instance, there
is one box that contains papers be-
longing to a big local corporation.
When this box was rented the stipula-
ton was made that 1t should only be
opened in the presence Of two or more
officers of the company. 1t would be
impossible for even the president Of
the company to come with the key and
the pass word and get at the contents
of the box alone. Sometimes four are
required to be present when other
boxes are opened. In many instances
all the children of family must be
there and so it goes, and thus every
precaution and every possible means Of
safety and preservation that can be
imagined are provided.
No names of deposito-s are disclosed
by the company. Everything ii con-
nection with the deposit or depositor
is kept a secret, and In fact tho cons