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Year: 1878

Under this heading the Olympia
Standard says some very good things,
words and facts that are meant for all
of Washington Territory as well as for
its own section of the country. 1t
says these things in the right spirit, as
though it was newspaper with a con
trolling mind that could reach beyond
its own immediate locality, being en-
tire'y unlike several of it's Puget Sound
cotemporaries, whose narrow and con-
tracted souls would find room to rattle
round inside hollow poppy Sc e
append the remarks referred to in full,
as follows.


"Thats just what we want-immi-
grafton. Think of some of the older
states counting their population by the
million, and we counting ours by few
thousand. We talk about developing
our great resources by plunging into
the bowels of the earth and bringing
out the yellow gold, the coal and the
iron cutting down the forests that
now hamper thousands of acres of land
otherwise arabic building railroads
from point to point laying out city
plats and rearing imposing metropo
lises all these things are laboriously
talked about and vigorously discussed,
but where are the sturdy axemen, the
practical farmers, the miners, the
craftsmen and the shrewd business ex-
perts to do all this We want five
hundred families today settled in every
considerable valley. 1t is nonsense to
talk about the country being too poor
to support dense population. Give
us the people of the right stamp, give
us one hundred thousand able bodied
men with their ssl1ilies and we will
settle every one of them in week, i'll
situations where, instead of starving,
they will take root and rejoice that they
ever left the pent-up cities and towns
of the over-stocked eastern states.
Washington Territory has good land
enough and is rich enough TO give every
one of these families farm of goodlv
proportions, that may be made thrifty
and comfortable home. The question
is ofted asked what is there to support
Il famil V during the few years required
to bring a homestead from the estate
of primeval forest up to "A self-support-
ing condition. The best answer we
can give to this question is, to point to
IL score of smiling homes settled upon
but a few years ago, when they were
invested by almost impenetrable for
ests and wastes of " deep tangled wild
wood" settled upon, we mean, by those
who had only their brain and muscle
to count as their stock in trade The
old truism, "there are rs good fish in
the sea as have ever been taken out, "
finds its cousin-germaln in the safe as
sertion that there are as good embryo
farms in our surrounding forests as have
ever been cleared up. We have great
abundance of what few states can col
lectively boast of, viz; the land, the
wood, and the water There is no
stint oi these things. pr;esless essen
tials though they are. Let not our
friends across the contineat deceive
themselves by thinking we are over
drawing our beautiful rarture. We
speak what we know and mean what
We say. We repeat there is room in
our Territory, enough to-day for more
than a hundred thousand families"
Year: 1878

The Times of New Tacoma says that
"there is crisis among the settlers of
the Walla Walla valley and the Pa
louise regions in regard to irewood,
fencing and building lumber, that calls
for an early solution. Heretofore, al
though having to 90 with their teams
to the Blue mountain foothills for fire.
wood and fencing, distance of from
l5 to 30 miles, two days for single
load of wood, as they cut on public
.o they were only out their time,
which. taking advantage of the proper
season, they could spare without detri


meut to farm labor But the heavy
immigration of the last year or two has
gone into the timber land about the
Blue mountains and spurs, by which
almost every available acre of wooded
land is now claimed under homestead
or other legal possessions, the effect of
which is to deprive the valley people of
their former wood supply, unless at
such charges and figures as TO almost
place the farmers without the pale Of
fuel supply, even for this coming win
ter, and the future among them looks
even more ominous, leaving them no
other resource but an immediate rail


road connection with the timber and
coal supply of Puget Sound, or retire
altogether from Eastern Washington. "
Year: 1878

All those who have taken home
steads on public lands in this State,
and have lived on the same for five
wears from the date of entry, and
not over seven years, can now get
title to their lands.


Your attention is called to my
circuI2" Of recent date, which will
make Euown to you that by a very
late act Of Congress, all the proof
Necessary can be taken by applying
at my flee in Evening Shade, Ark
where I'll the blanks for the purpose
are on lie. No one is now required
to appear at the Land Office.


No fee will be demanded until
approval Of entry.


In consequence of change in Z. S.
land law, all interested parties can
be properly advised, free Of charge,
by calling on me. If by letter. send
stamp for answer.


W. T. ATKINSON.
Year: 1878

BAR Room JOURNALIST Everybody
has seen the bar-room Journalist. He
stands in the saloons with his back to the
stove and tells how he could run news
paper; how he would be as independent
as a hog on ice and call things by their
righ! names; how he would expose cor
ruption in high places; how he would
write good. sound, common sense, and
none OF your frivol lous, try to be funny
stuff. Then he critici.es other peoples
methods of conducting newspapers and
just wishes somebody would give him a
chance to show his journalistic ability.
And yet, nine times out OF ten, this same
smarty cannot converse in passably good
English, and don't know a period from a
fly speck.
Year: 1878

A LADY REPORTER. The very un-
gallant editor of the Hudson Register is
responsible for the following: "The
lady was somewhat excited. and in writ
ing an account of the runaway for her
local paper she said 'Oh, it was ter
rble runaway. You see an umbrella
was carrying man, and it frightened
the buggy, and it started TO run of with
the horses and they run over lamp post
and knocked the side-walk down and up
Sc. little boy who was in his mothers
arms and struck some apples, and knock.
ed the apple woman out Of the peanut
stand ard they went down the lightning
like n street and knocked three -pokes
out of the horses hind legs and took the
hide of the wheel off aud fell out and
run mud puddle into my hend ciear up
20 my mouth and mud puddle got full OF
my mouth and eyes and III never get
over it and it's awful"
Year: 1878

THE BooBAB TrEE.-A curious pecu
lisrity Of this tree, found in Africa and
Madagascar, is that scarcely any injury
will destroy it. Fire scorching the ex-
terror does cot impair its vitality. Nor
can it be injured from within. as il is
quite common to fn6 it hollow. Even
cutting down does not exterminate it, for
ii continues to grow in length while lying
on the ground, and its roots, which reach
forty or fifty yard. from the trunk, retain
their vitality. Although the tree attains
an enormous age, Livingstone having
examined one which he judged to be one
thousand four hundred years old, it is at
tackled by disease which affects its
woody structure. SO in course of time its
own weight causes it TO fall in a mass OF
ruins.
Year: 1878

The business intelligence from Great
Britain continues of serious and threaten
ing character. A condition bordering upon
panic has been induced by the recent
banking and commercial disasters. Though
fewer failures have supervened upon the
breaking of the Glasgow Bank than were
at first expected, there is such a strained
condition of financial affairs that this fact
has not greatly elievedapprehension. The
proverbial pluck of John Bull keeps him
steady in the face of misfortune, and as the
English are not "panicky" as we of America
they are not likely to go to pieces as would
a more exciteable people. In the mean
time, we are the sufferers as well as the
Britons. They are large consumers Of
our bread stuffs, and whatever effects their
markets effects ours to greater or less
| degree. The effects of this strain upon
the finances has depressed the grain
market already in our large cities several
cents in the bushel and it is to be hoped
that England may have no serious crises
in her affairs, for if she should, it would
doubtless cast q shadow across us just a:
we are again merging into light
Year: 1878

committed n burglary by which he
secured quantity of dry goods,
which he concealed in her barn.
The property was found aud she was
one of the number arrested. Being
committed to Jail she was employed
by the Sheriff to take care of his
horses, and taking advantage of the
opportunity for liberty which this
service offered, she escaped and fed
TO Canada. In some manner she
was induced to return. The man
who committed the crime threatened
her life if she betrayed his guilt, and,
she says, under intimidation she
made the plea Of guilty.


So long has this young woman
followed the, ways OF man that
to see her in feminine raiment
would be All using if the spectacle
did not excite pity. The simplest
bit of woman's work she does with
all he awkwardness a rough man
would show.
Year: 1878

BrsMARcK soundly believes that the
sure way of assisting Germany to re-
cnperate financially Is to adopt good
customs tariff on importations except
such as are not made or produced in
the kingdom.
Year: 1878

New York, Dec. 23.-The new goloid
dollars which are made of half tbs
quantity Of gold in gold dollar and
half the quantity Of silver in a silver
dollar, and is about the size of a half
dollar, is advocated as an ingenious
compromise between the gold and silver,
and its introduction is calculated to
assist in preserving the equilibrium of
value between the two metals.
Year: 1878

TIE poor OF England are In 3 pitia-
BILE condition owing to the depressed
condition of trade. Charitable insti-
tutions have all they can attend to In
preventing absolute starvation.
Year: 1878

Recently there has been constant pur-
suit by some good people of the excellent
purpose of exposing adulterations in baking
powders. The cry began with q chemist in
the service of the United States govern
ment, and has finally reached our Board Of
Health. "Alum in tho bread" is an old cry.
One Of the famous rules for the govern
mont Of the royal household in England
under Henry VIII. was, '.the baker shall
put no alum in the bread !" and that, in
the year 1878, there should be lively
chorus Of protest on the same subject is
fact which plainly shows that there is no
progress in the yilianies Of adulteration.
But there is Mt least difference ;
and the insubstantial point in the
present onslaught against adulterated
baking powders is that the evil alleged to
result is not shown from any cases of the
use of these powders but from examples
of tho way alum was formerly employed in
England in the adulteration of bread,
which is as if one should illustrate the
case Of a mackerel by citing the case of n
porpoise. 1t is said, for instance. that
forty grains of alum have been found in
four-pound loaf. but the whole weight of
the powders used as leavan is not in that
Year: 1878

Prizes aggregating five hundred dollars
have just been offered for the best designs
for ten ement houses that can be erected on
single city lot, healthfulness, convenience.
seclusion and security against fire being
among the points to which special attention
is to be given. Humanity and business
shrewdness combine in such an offer, and it's
to be hoped that the landlords and tenants
of the new buildings will have frequent
cause to bless the designers. But compete
ton should not be restricted to buildings
Of the size indicated. Some unlighted, un-
ventilated rooms, such as are peculiar to
nearly every tenement house and set OF
flats in the city, are inevitable in narrow
buildings which are to yield good
return upon their cost. The model
tenement, both for owner and occu-
pant, should take air and light from
all sides. In the older portions Of the city
it is impossible to get lots large and cheap
enough for such buildings, but the exten-
sion of the elevated railways brings into
market, and within half an hour of almost
every part of the city, large quantity OF
vacant ground which can be had at moder-
ate prices. 1t is in such localities that per-
feet tenements, if they are ever to be built.
will exist, and at present they can be
erected there so as to afford handsome
profit and yet be healthier, more conven-
lent homes than can possibly exist down
town, except, perhaps, in corner houses.
The first builder who has enterprise and
skill enough to cover square with de-
tached tenements, almost anywhere be-
tween Central Park and either river, will
suddenly find himself the most popular
landlord in the city.
Year: 1878




proportion, SO that that is not case qf this
evil. Perhaps baking powders aaqltfffated
with alum do some harm but We lonht II
they do more harm than other powders not
so adulterated. If even a small quantity OF
alum should be regularly found in an article
of such constant use as bread it might in
jure people, but there are doubts on all these
points; doubts that it gets into the bread
and doubts ii it would be harmful if it did.
People do not make bread with baking
powder. They use yeast for that and keep
the powders for the hasty, hot horrible bis
cult of the breakfast table. Now, it is
these hot biscuit that give people dyspepsia,
not the little alum that may get in them.
We have no doubt that moderate course
of alum would do more good than harm to
the haccid systems of humanity in general.
In fact, the people take it far more largely
in certain popular remedies than they do
even in their biscuit. and fancy in some
places that they cannot live without it. In
the days when diphtheria was not known
by that learned name, but was treated by
the people with that popular remedy, con-
slant gargles Of alum water, it had fewer
victims than it has now.
Year: 1878

hood remote from railroad and telegraph,
OFF the road to anywhere, nearly destitute
OF schools and entirely without churches
TO find set of men and women as lawiess
and violent as any that have appeared In
the pages of Bret Harte and Joaquin
Miller. Such people may be found IN
''sets' within n hundred miles OF almost
every city in the Union indeed, they are
numerous in the cities themselves, and the
most elegant capitals OF Europe have even
more OF them than we. The ''Pike" is not
exclusively Western he is the universal,
unrestrained, gushing child of nature.
Year: 1878

81 de cars should be provided to transfer
passengers from the main line to the depot
Separate waiting rooms for ladies and gen.
tlemen should be supplied at the depots of
that line, as on the Sixth avenue road.
These are most desirable accommodations
of which the public should not be deprived.
All stairways leading to stations should be
rooted, and the roofs should be so far
extended over the sides and so shaped rs
to prevent the rain and snow from beating
in, as they do on the otherwise excellent
Sixth avenue stairways.' With these i'm
provements and the speedy completion OF
the upper sections of both roads and
of the Chatham square and City Hall
branch of the Third avenue line, the
people will have cause to be well
satisfied with the present elevated
railway companies. Indeed, the popular
ity rapid transit has already acquired is
well illustrated by the desire of the Third
Avenue Horse Car Company to be allowed
to use steam on their surface road, when
only few months ago that public spirited
corporation was deeply moved by the ap-
prehension that locomotives, even on the
elevated roads, would frighten horses, risk
the loss Of human life, destroy the value Of
property and bring many other deplorable
evils on the city
Year: 1878

One Of the great difficulties Of that
congeries Of factions which in France op-
poses the Republic is to geta collective name
that shall be satisfactory TO the factions
themselves that shall not offend public
susceptibilities, and that shall judiciously
conceal the real political purposes Of the
party by . thin veil of amiable or virtuous
pretence NJ. Dufaure pointed out the
great need of this important element Of
popular politics when he designated these
factions acting together as 'le parti saas
mom"-the indescribables. Until that time
the want had not been felt, but it was felt
the moment the word was spoken, and that
it was felt SO promptly showed that change
had come about in French politics ap-
parent to all, yet not recognized in the
current speech. Before that there were
Bonapartists, clericals, Cham bordists and
Orleanists, and these were classed together
as reactionares. But that was a term Of
not occurred to anybody that these
elements, SO hostile among themselves
for many years, should ever be forced into
such a unity by their common fear Of the
Republic that they would need to be known
by any other collective designation than
such as were applied in IN opprobrious
spirit by speakers who did not admire
them. But the time has come, and the
name will come, too, out of some happy
accident of debate or some folly of their
conduct, for most party names, from
tory and locofoco to jngo, nre nicknames
at first. 1t is piece of progress in France
to find the hostile elements thus coalescing
into a single compact opposition, for q
good opposition is what will insure the
Republic it's final triumph.
Year: 1878

A very weighty item Of information
reaches us through the active and well-in-
formed London correspondent of the Liver
pool Post, gentleman who has frequently
surprised the metropolitan press by his in
innate knowledge of what was going on mt
st. Stephens and at Downing street 1t
is all the more interesting because one
of our neighbors-we had almost said
our countrymen-the accomplished Epis-
copal Bishop of New Jersey, is seen play.
ing o leading part in one Of those ante
chamber revolutions which are often
disclosed only by the publication
of secret memoirs long after all
the actors therein have passed over
to the majority. The British con-
stitution, which is we'll known to be the
axis around which the political world at
Westminster revolves, is absolutely silent
about the rights Of Her Majesty's liege SUBJ
jects to sit on the steps of the throne in the
House of Lords. The occupancy Of the
throne itself has been the cause of good
deal of shedding of blood and of ink in
times past, but it does not seem that the
right to sit on the steps thereof has ever re-
ceived that profound investigation to which
SO wcighty q problem is entitled. While
every police magistrate in the United King
dom would hold himself entitled both
by common law and by statute to de-
termine what persons may lawfully
swing on the gate of Kensington Pal
ace or be trusted with night-kcy
to the Tower of London, it is now found,
to the dismay Of the high official who for
the moment is acting as provisional vice
the august throne Of Brtain's majesty--the
very palladium, as il we're, Of insular liber-
tes-that he has no power to prevent the oc-
cupnncy of the approaches to the hub Of
the universe by any casual Privy Councillor
who may drop in to amuse himself while
munching his bread and cheese by listening
to the debates on the second reading Of an
"Act to amend an act for granting charter
to tho European, Asiatic and North
American Muffin and Taffy Company,
limited" On Thursday, the 9Th of Decem-
Der. A. j. 1878, at precisely ten minutes to
five T.. NJ, stern and resoluto band of
patriots, headed by Sir Charles Whetham,
the Lord Mayor of London, might have
been seen boldly climbing over the garden
fence, entering Westminster Hall by the
back door, without so much as an ''opcn
sesame!" and ranging themselves on the steps
of the throne. They had not long to wait.
At five minutes 20 five on official, calling
himself superintendent "came and ruth
lessly ordered them out" They apparently
obeved- but went out at one door and came
Year: 1878

Banners case, which was the subject Of
correspondence between our government
and the Berlin government, exhibits strik-
ingly the groundlessness of the clamor
against the Bancroft Treaty. Banner was
not expelled from Germany, and he left the
country before the expiration OF the period
beyond which he had been informed the
German government would not respect his
American citizenship. But if, in fact the
man left Germany, therefore, without ex-
pulsion, was he induced to take that course
by the annoyances the German authorities
had caused him, and by his apprehension
that they might not themselves observe ac-
curately the date Of the warning given him?
If he was that was an evil and just ground
of complaint between the governments,
but not fairly reproach to the
treaty But in the answer Of the
German government to our reclama-
ton statement is made incidentally
which exhibits the real difficulty to be, as
we have hitherto pointed out, that the Ger
man government has experience that our
citizenship is obtained and used not simply
to protect our citizens, but to protect resi-
dents of Germany from the regular opera
tion of the German laws. Liberal as we
are in this country on points Of this nature,
we would not permit men to evade the
operation of laws that imposed an onerous
duty on their pretext of o foreign citizen
ship. If even the pretext was covered by
regular documents, if it covered a fraudu-
lent intention it would not be re-
spected. Can we expect, then, that American
citizenship, made this sort of convenience
and placed between German citizens and
their own government, shall be highly re-
spected by that government? Citizenship
is given to emigrants who come to make
this country their home. 1t is meant to
give political rights and political equality
here to the sturdy Germans or others who
come to this country. If there is q class of
men resident in Germany who speculate on
this privilege and obtain this citizenship
not that they want to live in this country
and enjoy their rights, but because they
want to keep out of the German conscrip-
tion-we cannot 60 far in assisting them in
such trickery. They not only cheat their
own country-they also insult ours.
Year: 1878

CoSGREss was not particularly lively or in
teresting yesterday. In the Senate a bill to
amend the Patent statutes was discussed and
the posse comitatus clause of the Army bill so
amended rs not to include the portions Of the
country in which the Indians scalp and the In
dian agents steal. The House was chiefly occu-
pied in the consideration of the Indian Appro-
priation bill, in the course Of which member
elegantly and eloquently remarked that the
present Indian Commissioners "knew no more of
Indian affairs than n hog did of cholera
Year: 1878

PROFESSOR ADLER's recent assertion that
Judaism is on the decline has it will be seen by
reference to another page, called out pretty
loud protest from the leading rabies, and it
must be said that they have the best of the ar
uumcut.
Year: 1878

RED LEARY will be produced in court to-day
upon writ Of habeas corpus, but it is hardly
probable that his rescue will be attempted. BY
direction Of the Judge he will be accompanied by
a shcrif,'s posse, with orders TO shoot those who
attempt TO interfere with the execution of the
1ar
Year: 1878

UNLESS THE TOBACCO TAX is reduced the
leading manufacturers declare that that branch
of business will be legislated out Of existence.
This is a bad outlook for the lovers OF the weed
Year: 1878

THERE Is AT LEAST one point upon which the
republican and democratic Senators appear to
be entirely unanimous-namely, in declining to
serve on the Blaine Committee. Why not let
Mr. Blaine have it all TO hiinselfl