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SEATTLE. EHIOA T. DEC. It.
ALL FOR BLAINE.
The conviction that Blaine will be the
Republican candidate for the presidency
Is deepening into a certainty. Mr. Blaine's
health is excellent, and, that being
granted, he cannot and will not decline to
accept the standard which his party will
place in his hands.
As the belief that Mr. Blaine will ac
cept the nomination grown the demand for
liim becomes louder and more intense.
It comes from every state. It comes from
every county. Never since Ulysses S.
Cirnnt was first nominated for the presi
dency has the choice of the Republican
party been so manifestly unanimous.
A!) Republicans admit and gloryi»the
wisdom, conservatism and patriotism of
President Harrison's adminis'.ration, but
til Republicans want Blaine.
HILL'S FIRM GRASP.
Governor Hill's firm grasp on the Demo
cratic organization in New York is shown
Ly the selection of William F. Sheehan to
fill the place on the Democratic national
committee made vacant by the resignation
of Herman Oelrichs.
Oelrichs is a Democrat of the Mugwump
variety. He believes in free trade and
civil service reform, and believes drover
Cleveland to be their prophet. He re
signed from the national committee be
cause he could not stand the methods em
ployed by Hill and Tammany in the recent
campaign.
Sheehan is a man after Hill's own
heart. He is a practical political worker,
and he allows no conscientious scruples to
lnterlere with his work. He is one of
Hill's ablest lieutenants, and he is bitterly
opposed to the renomination of Cleveland.
When Sheehan succeeds Oelrichs it is
evident that Cleveland has a very slim
chance of obtaining the New York dele
gation. And without that delegation,
where is he?
GOVERNOR HILL'S CONSPIRACY.
In 1880 the Democratic party tried to
■teal the Maine legislature, and almost
succeeded, and today Governor Hill is try
ing to steal the legislature of New York,
with strong probabilities of success. Ac
cording to the election returns, as made up
from the vote cast, the Republicans had a
clear majority of two in the upper house
and a majority of one in the lower house.
But the Democratic boards of supervisors
have already reversed the count in enough
districts to get a majority of two in the as
sembly, and at the last reports had manu
factured one in the senate, so that, unless
the courts interfere to correct the outrage,
the legislature of New York will bo con
trolled by a fraudulent, manufactured ma
jority.
The purpose of Hill and his co-parceners
in this steal of a state is to obtain power
to gerrymander the state fur members of
the legislature and congressmen. When
the Democrats sained control of the Ohio
legislature in ISS9 they gerrymandered the
state so that the Republicans elected only
seven of the twenty-one congressmen in
1890, although they had a majority of
10,000 in the state. Indiana has been
treated in a like manner by the Democrats,
a majority in the legislature and in the
congressional delegation being assured to
them, uj matter what tue Republican ma
jority on the popular vote may be.
James S. t'inrkson. in the New York
World, suggests that it is in the mind of
Governor itill "to change the method of
choosing presidential electors in this state,
not after the Michigan plan (that would
icarcely be advisable from a Democratic
point of view), but by the legislature di
rect. There is nothing but public senti
ment, however, to prevent any state from
adopting either of the old methods I have
named. Should the Democrats control
the New York legislature this winter, they
could pass a law repealing the existing
statute and provide for the election of
presidential electors by the legislature
itself. Then Governor Flower could call
the legislature together in October and
have a full set of Democratic presidential
electors manufactured to order. It would
be somewhat revolutionary, but still be
within the pale of the law, and experience
teaches us that David 1?. llill is willing to
go very close to the line in order to gain a
partisan advantage."
l'resident Harrison in his message says
that "in one county of a certain state
three districts for the election of members
of the legislature are constituted as fol
lows: One has 45,000 population, one
15.000 and or.e 10,000. while in another
county detached, non-contiguous sections
have been united to make a legislative
district. These methods have already
found effective application to the choice
of senators and representatives in con
gress, and now an evil start has been
made in the direction of applying them
to the choice by the states of the electors
of president and vice president. If this
is accomplished we shall then have three
great departments of the government in
Ihe hands of the gerrymander—the legis
lative and executive directly and the ju
diciary indirectly through appointment."
Governor Tillman, of South Carolina, in
a recent message to the legislature says:
Our stale has teen bald up to acorn in the
actional <*mgres* beoauae of what is known as
••the Mack district." This gerrymander, by
which a district was formed composed almost
entirely of black voter*—a district the like of
which waa never Men before, and which should
p*ver be seen again— an hare no exeuae for
l.v t<k -ar existence. We have no reason to dread a
teluru el uegto or Bepubacaa rule in touts
Carolina, and there is now no reason, if there
ever ex.nte-1 any, why our con«;ree«i<Hial dis
tricts should uot be arranged In reasonably com
pact chap*.
Just when Governor Tillman begs South
Carolina to give up government by gerry
mander Governor Hill, of 2sew York, is
seeking to obtain it.
GOVERNMENT BY GERRYMANDER.
The able plea of President Harrison in
favor of a constitutional amendment se
curing the choice of president from the
baleful influences of the gerrymander by
prescribing uniformity in the method of
choosing presidential electors, will com
mand the assent of all the thoughtful and
patriotic men of both parties.
The action of the Michigan legislature
in passing a law providing for the choice
of presidential electors by districts —
twelve of them by districts corresponding
to the congressional districts, and the
other two by districts dividing the state
on a north and south line— is a return to
an antiquated method for transient party
advantage which has not been resorted to
since 1832. After the election of 1832
there remained but a single state, South
Carolina, that had not adopted the method
of choosing presidential electors on a gen
eral ticket. South Carolina continued to
choose its electors by vote of
the legislature until 186*5, when she
adopted the general ticket method,
so that since the presidential election of
Grant in 18G8, when Florida for once chose
her electors by the legislature, all the
states have voted for their electors on a
general ticket save Colorado in 1876. Since
the second election «f Jackson in 1832 no
state has chosen its electors by congres
sional districts after the method recently
enacted by the Michigan Democratic legis
lature.
There is present no constitutional ob
stacle to the legislature of a state exer
cising the most arbitrary power as to the
manner of dividing the state into districts.
The legislature may itself choose the
electors; it may order two chosen by
the voters of the state on a general ticket,
and the rest by the voters of the various
congressional districts, or it may consti
tute entirely new districts specifically for
the choice of presidential electors, and so
arrange the matter that no single elector
shall be appointed by the state at large.
All of these systems were adopted by
different states. In Maryland, from 1804 to
1828 inclusive, electors were chosen by dis
tricts. Maryland was then ent : tied to
eleven electors, and the state was divided
into nine districts for the selection of these
eleven electors, seven of these districts
choosing one elector each and the other
two two electors each. By her act of 1831,
which applied to the election of 1532, the
state of Maryland was divided into four
districts. The tirst, composed of all tha
counties of the Western Shore except Balti
more and Harford, was to choose four
electors; Baltimore city formed the sec
ond district, and chose two electors; Balti
more county was the third, and chose»two
electors; Harford county and the Eastern
Shore foimed the fourth district, and
chose three electors. This was Maryland's
last experience with the district system,
and in 1833 the legislature passed an act
which, after reciting that "in most of the
states the electors were chosen on general
ticket, and that in consequence of the dis
trict system in Maryland its votes in the
electoral college were divided, and, as a
result, the majority of the people of Mary
land were not as potential as those of
other states in the choice of president,"
abolished the district system and adopted
the general ticket, which has since pre
vailed.
As late as 1828 New York and Maine in
the North and Maryland and Tennessee
among the slave states clung to the sys
tem of choosing electors by districts, with
the result of a divided vote, except for
Tennessee's unanimity for her "favorite
son," New York choosing 20 Jackson
electors and 1G for Adams, Maine 1 Jack
son and 8 Adams, and Maryland 5 Jack
son and 6 Adams. In the election of 1832
Maryland chose 3 Jackson electors and
fi supporters of Clay, and her vote had
been divided between the candidates in
seven presidential elections preceding that
of 1532. These precedents make it clear
that the action of the Michigan legislature
does not lack historical standing or con
stitutional warrant, and it is because the
abuse complained of is entrenched within
the law and the constitution that
President Harrison urges upon con
gress to apply a constitutional remedy.
There is no justice in the Michigan
Democratic law introducing the district
system in a single state for the avowed
purpose of securing a temporary partisan
advantage, but it is a practical injustice
that has been wrought within the consti
tution and law. for the constitution pro
vides that each state shall appoint its
presidential electors "in such manner as
the legislature thereof may direct," which
allows the legislature to "prescribe the
mode in which the electors should be
chosen, whether it should be by the peo
ple at large, or in districts, or by the legis
lature itself."
In 1890 Michigan elected a governor and
a majority in both branches of the legisla
ture. This legislature divided, according
to the census of I>;*>, the state of Michigan
into twelve congressional districts, and by
means of a gerrymander gave the Dem
ocracy a positive advantage in those dis
tricts. Each state has in the electoral
college a vote equal ta its representation
in congress, both senators and representa
tives. In order to complete the quota of
fourteen electoral votes allowed to the
state of Michigan it was necessary to halve
the state into what might be termed sena
torial-electoral districts. If the Republic
ans should carry Michigan by 15,000 to
20,000 in ISO-, they would probably not
pet more than half the electoral vote;
they cannot possibly carry more than
ei~ht of the congressional districts.
Had the Democrats carried Ohio and
lowa in November last they would un
doubtedly have proceeded to "Michigan
ize" both those states. Indeed, a bill to
change the mode of electing presidential
electors from a general ticket to congres
sional districts was introduced in the iaat
Ohio leeislature. Under such a law, and
with the present gerrymander of Ohio
congressional districts, that great Repub
lican state would have given fourteen of
its twenty-three electoral votes to the
Democratic candidates in 1592, even if
there was a Republican majority of 12,000
in the state. Had we lost the legislature,
under the Michigan plan lowa would
have been gerrymandered so as to give
at least e.ght of its thirteen electoral
votes to the Democrats in 1392, no mat
ter if the state was Republican by the
pv>pular vote. Had the legislatures of
Ohio and lowa gone Democratic both
THE SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, FRIDAY, DECEMBER It, 1891.
those states would have been Michigan
ized and at least twenty-three electoral
Totes gained for the Democrats. This
would have been legal and yet it would
have been a great wrong without moral
defense.
TRIUMPHANTLY VINDICATED.
The strongest attestation of the wisdom
of the last congress, the most powerful ar
gument in favor of the McKinley tariff
law, is contained in the figures set forth
in the message of President Harrison. The
year's experience which these figures rep
resent affords a triumphant vindication
of the wisdom of those who framed the
law, and especially of that great man
Whose name it bears.
While the McKinley bill was pending in
congress and immediately after it became
• law, the calamity howlers in America
and their allies in England were cease
lessly asserting that it contained the germs
of ultimate ruin lor this country. It would
demoralize our industrial and commercial
system. It would utterly prevent the im
portation of foreign goods. It would raise
the prices of all that people wanted to buy
and lower the prices of all that people
wanted to sell. In short, they declared its
passage to be an unrelieved calamity. Un
fortunately many people were misled by
this dismal and persistent howl, and to
this fact the present Democratic majority
in the House of Representatives is due.
What are the facts? Have the predic
tions of disaster been fulfilled? Let the
official figures as set forth in the presi
dent's message answer.
During the first year under the McKin
ley tariff our foreign commerce reached
the enormous total of $1,747,806,406, an in
crease of more than $100,000,000 over the
total of the year previous.
During the first year under the McKin
ley tariff the value of our imports ex
ceeded by more than $11,000,000 the value
of our imports during the previous year.
During the first year under the McKin
ley tariff our exports of breadstuff's and
agricultural products exceeded in value
by $45,846,197 the exports during the pre
ceding year.
During the first year under the McKin
ley tariff our exports of manufactured arti
cles exceeded in value by $15,535,240 the
exports during the preceding year.
During the first ye3r under the McKin
ley tariff the total rec&ipta of the govern
ment were $458,544,233.03, while the ex
penditures were $421,304,470.46, leaving a
surplus of $37,239,762.67.
During the first year under the McKin
ley tariff the general tendency of price*
has been downward rather than upward,
and the foundation has been laid for sev
eral important industries new to the United
States.
Could any measure be more splendidly
vindicated? Could any legislation afford
better results? No wonder our English
critics are amazed and our Democratic
calamity-howlers discouraged.
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY—ITS MISSION.
SEATTLE, Dec.», 1801.
To THE EDITOB: A public library should ed
ucate, instruct, elevate, mentally, morally.
Failing in this, it (ail* in everything and ou<ht
to be abolished, lor It has no claim to public
support.
How can these purposes be best achieved? By
assuming that tho taste of would-be readers has
been vitiated, debauched, and needs a weak,
though wholesome broth to develop a relish for
something more substantial? This may sound
well In theory, but Is a doubtful expedient, to
say the least.
A el oss regard of the novel reader, of novel
reading and its results will lead to a different
conclusion.
I refer now to the habitual novel reader—one
who follows In the highly seasoned fiction of
the day with bated breath and unflagging in
dustry the adventures of impossible heroes and
heroines, intent only on present pleasure, am
bitious only to reach the denouement, which at
tained he throws one book aside to take up an
other detailing the devious fortunes of fresh
heroes and heroines.
Tempt such a reader, if you can, by free gift
of privilege to read a novel "wholesome and
sound," and he will skim its pages, skip de
scriptive and reflectivo passages, with no pur
p.iiw except tho pleasure which the excitement
of the shifting scenes and incidents of the nar
rative supply.
A novel, or any book, thus read is a means of
dissipation which will result in an atrophy of
mind and soul as surely as the use of the deadly
narcotic which stimulates into morbid activity
certain faculties and leaves others wholly un
touched.
It matters not if the book thus read be whole
some aud sweet, teeming, it may be, with grand
thoughts, portraying the highest ideals of life
and touching the tenderest chords of humanity;
it is still an instrument of evil to him who uses
it only to lull his senses, or as a refuge from the
pa:: its of ennui.
The unreflecting reader—and the great ma
jority of habitual novel readers balong to this
class—will mane no return for the outlay of re
form, however lavish it may be. While ho is
we»r>ing In luxurious ease over the pathetic
liale of human woe—the rough, untutored roust
about who, perchance, has never looked into the
P»«es of a novel wholesome and aweet, will fly
with open hand to the relief of his distressed
fellow-man.
The habitual novel reader accmtomed to in
dulge emotion without action, loses the power
of volition, without which the noblest lessons
aud impulses are unproductive—are lost to the
world.
For purposes of reform it would be as
rational to substitute for the habitual drink of
the toper a weak decoction of medicinal herbs
and hope thereby to win him from the fiery po
tations with which he is wont to set his brain
in a whirl.
There.ortn a public library should attempt
will not expend its resources in the application
of soothing lotions to the diseased extremities
of bumauity; will not expect a harvest of vir
tue from precious seed sown in barrea aud
waste places, or in soil already choked with
foui weeds or noisome exot cs from French soil,
but will tieek constitutional remedies by going
to the very seat and source of the disorder. It
will seek to sow in virgin soil the germs of
knowledge, of truth, of virtue, of duty, of hu
manity, and by such preoct upaney save man
kind from the vice aal debasement which a
corrupt literature always brings.
True, this is a mUsion which t>.e public li
brary alon.J cannot achieve. Nay. from the na
ture of the ca*e it must Le a secondary, but may
be an exceedingly potent, factor ;a this grand
w^rk.
Primarily, the duty fails on the parent and on
the teach r to give impula?, to gui :e n-i J direct
towards the good. a id to warn and shield from
the evil ia literature. By th s triple alliance of
parent, o. teacher an i the public library work
ing :n h irmonious conjunction, can w j hop • in
the progress of time to eliminate the currency
a;.J iie.>ase!ii«at of a vicious literature. The
public library should exerc;*e a censorship of
boclt, and 110 vol ime should bo perm, tied to
enter its portals which fia» no mission, or irom
winch exhales the slightest taint of corrupt in
fluence. This fountain o; knowledge sh >uid be
pare, to which youth and a 1 may come t • drink
in perfect security from ail har;n. It anouid t»e
the bountiful depos.tory and source which
may be drawn the very best product of
pen and bra-n and heart of all the
world. suited to the urgent an<l
important needa of those to whom is intrusted
the development and guidance of a taste for
reading in the young. Ail, else, should be sub
ordinate to this supreme need. Let the b.att
dev. tee of a sensational literature indulge :n
mental revelry at his own expense: .et the
reader whose taste for the good is ai ready ma
tured wait if need be. but the youth of this city
n w in tae spring-tide and seed-time of life, now
at the very entrance of a vast realm of litera
ture. abounding in bogs and pitfalls, whoa*
taet«s must be now formed, if formed aright,
cannot watt; cannot bs left without the guid
ance and aid of every inftnen-e t at might help
to form and fix taste, habits and character.
This, the first work o! the public library, ia
one ot education, of elevation, and not enter-
tamment; snd this imT>ortant mission of the
public library is growing into recognition
wherevsr public libraries are established. In
the end it w»U seek to supply every need in th?
lowliest and in the highest of intellectual walk*
—will constitute, as it should, a true univt rsity
for all the people. A. J. Ssokb.
NORTHWEST NEWS.
TheChintaien on Whidby island all express
themselves as anxious to get away. After the
•a:e of their produce this winter it is not likely
many will remain.
Cora M. Fitzgerald, the Cheney schooltnarm
who fell a leep while a school director was de
livering a lecture to her pupils, who was re
moved in consequence and sued for a iull year's
sa:ary, has won her suit.
The school population of Pacific county this
year is IM". The per capita fund wil approxi
mate $lO per pupiL The school property of the
county amounts to 125,900. The number of
teachers engaged is twenty-three.— Staland
Journal
TALL DOUGLAS.
A stormy night, aad fer.rfu*
The win J the s-.-a did rack;
The foam wa* white ai snowdrifts
On waters iron-black.
The beach wis fllied wi' fishers—
FUhers ar.d fishers' wives,
A' lookin' at t sinkin' wrcok
Houdin' twa human lives.
A lass etood watchin' wi' them,
Tall Douglas by her side,
The man whom she &ai promised
To wed at Easter-tide.
And there, on those dread billows,
The youth she once bad loo'ed;
At the sight her love returned,
And hib danger chilled her blood.
6be cried. "Is nane to save himi"
Wi' hand tight cUsp'.n' hv:d,
Tail Dang.as then strode forward
Among the lalt'rin' band.
He rose among the fishers,
He towered abouu the lave,
"Noo, dinna greit, my lassie,
Your lover I will save."
He leapt into the breakers,
No frirrhtcd hy their roar,
Though hissln', groaDin', growlln',
They flung hln. back to shore.
Again be faced them dauntless,
And grappled wi' the sea,
While sots cam' frse the women,
"He a but gaun out to dee!"'
False fear, for he returned,
God given frae the flood,
H s e'en s:nn-set and stony.
His face a' streaked wi' blood.
Hi* arras gripped last a figure,
A bonny, fair-haired youth,
Bo young and goodly-favored,
lie moved the women's ruth
Tall Douglas did no heed them,
He steadily pushed past.
And bv tii-* tremblin' lassie
Hi* burden he nneias't.
His breath earn' short wl' anguish,
His face grew white vvi paint
"Ye lov'sd him first, my lassie,
Hoo lake him bae* again."
No ithcr word then spake he,
Hi* face grew ashen grey,
And he turned awa' frae her he lo'ed
Forever aui for aye.
—A. Temple.
Let BCr. Blaine Alone.
Detroit Journal.
Nothing Is more pathetic than the present
Democratic solicitude about Mr. Blaine. One
eminent Democratic polltic'an suffers himself
reluctantiy to be interviewed by one of his own
party papers, and f» reported as saying that: "If
Mr. Blaine does not announce himself aa a can
didate at once there will bs no hopes for him."
Another one construes Blaine's dignified silence
to be equivalent to his promise to support Har
rison. A prominent Democratic paper also
tries to drive the wedge Into the Republican
ranks by publishing the following: "Blaine
coald not possibly renoain in the cabinet were
it not that an understanding must, ere this,
have been arrived at between him and Harrison:
prabably, that they will both remain quiet and
see which develops the greater strength, the
weaker one to eventually support the stronger."
The Democrats a*-e wise in their day and gen
eration, in thus trying to divert attention from
their own embarrassing issues. Their pure con
jectures concerning possible Republican candi
dates are ahout as valuable as their convictions
and conclusions about their own issues.
Meantime Republican* art not taking their
cue from Democratic leaders. If Blaine has a
fraction of the sagacity which friends and foes
alike attribut* to him. bis own judgment will
be the best reliance of the party. Democratic
clamor for an "announcement" Is answered
with greatest dignity by silence.
Everything is cow moving towards Blaine.
An "announcement" might precipitate division.
Mr. Blaine Is now effectively attending to im
portant duties devolving upon the diplomatic
representative of the country. His "announce
ment'' would compel htm to suspend these
duties and enter politics.
Let no Republican be misled by Democratic
clamor. It is a good rule in warlaro to first
ascertain what your enemies reahy desire you
to do, and th«n take an opposite course.
Will not our opponents consistently apply
their own arguments to their own party, nnd
insist that Mr. Cleveland should now "an
nounce" himself?
Empire of the Skagit Valley.
Frank Wilkeson In New York Times.
There is a small valley in the northwestern
portion of the northwestern state of our union,
Washington, named Skagit. This valley, in
cluding the valleys and divides and highlands
tributary to it, contains about. 5,500 square
miles. It thrusts a broad, long, and exceedingly
fertile hand northward across the boundary be
tween British Columbia and Washington, and
the fingers of this hand terminate on tae south
ern slope of the Fraser river divide. Five thou
sand five hundred square miles is not an ex
tensive area, but the fcisagit river area is the
most resourceful in the United 6tatee, if not on
earth. It is an empire. In this valley sufficient
food to feed a million persons can be produced.
On its alluvial lands stand sufficient Douglas
Sr and red cedar to replace the woolen ships
that comp ss the merchant marine that today
sails on the highways of commercial seas if that
marine were to be annihilated by some wide
spread disaster, and an expert woodsman would
be required to discover the openings made by
swinging axes during the period of rebuilding.
The ioothills that bound the main valley and
ali its triburary streams are ribbed with many
seam- of bituminous coal, the output of which,
when the mines are opened, could supply
America's blast furnaces with eo»e for a thous
and years. The s*me hills contain iron ore in
seams and vein- in such great numbers that no
man longer pretends to keep record of the finds.
Tneru are mountains of low grade iron ore on
whose rugged flsnke lie millions of tons of the
ore, and iioxa wuich other millions of tons
co'tli be q larrie i as rock from a hillside.
Higher up ttie valley, clo-e to thj slow-creeping
glaciers ind outcropping on m.-.ny rushed and
almost a»*' coe.ijle mountain tinnVs. is a wide
mineral belt that s veined with ores that carry
preci >us me - al. It might almost be said that, if
t..u Mlver coinage of oar nut 011 were wiped out
of existence, .t could be re; la"ed with the fut
ure output of the mines taat have been discov
ered in this m.neral bs t.
The Sainiih Like the Nile.
Ed:ton Phonograph.
In many reaj rets the Samish country resem
bles that bounding the Kiver Ni.e. The climate
in the tw . countriea is almost exactlv similar to
that of the Upper Nile country, with the excep
tion. probably that It is warmer in the summer
months In tl.e last mentioned country. But in
many other respects one would pass for the
other. The luxuriant growth of veneration, the
belts of enormous timber skirting the plains,
t ie soft, 1. Amy soil, er.;-at>ie of producing any
thing th«t grows, whether fruit or cereal, or the
bu.bous vegetables, an 1 the enormous size and
rapsa growth are the natural endowments of
both countries.
Knroara(*ment for Sol Smith Kbiiell,
After the performance of the new play,\"Peace
ful Valley," at Tacoma, a prominent cit:zeu of
apparent culture waited to have a word with
the star. "Yon are," said he, -Mr. liu.ssell, an
sctor of real promise. I have enjoyed your per
formance so highly that 1 vinture in a spirit oi
admiration to venture a suggestion. I trust I
am not offending?" "Oh, no; not at all," urged
Mr RusselL "Go on, my dear sir: lam only too
glad to hear suggestions." "Wei;, then," con
tinued the stranger, "it occurs to n.e that you
would do well in oomody; have you ever tried
to do a comic part?"
A I.ovely Christmas Gift
C»u be select® i from the mammoth stock of O.
E. Pettis <ii Co., from 10 cents to 11,000.
Buy yojr told spectacles and opera g!asse« of
u. Clay £V«*ala, ;ne optician, OAI front street.
I The shadow*
life, if you're a
J fV woman, bo
r,\ The chronic
• weak neasos,
ranger.-xr.ts, and
painful disorders
peculiar to your sex, can be token away.
The one unfailing remedy for them is Dir.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
It corrects, cures, and Duilds you on. It
Improves digestion, enriches the fcloou, dis
pels aches and pains, melancholy and nerv
ousness. brings refreshing sleep and restore®
health and strength. For periodical pains,
internal inflammation and ulceration, weak
back, leucerrhea, and all kir.drcd ailments,
it's a positive specific—one that is guaranr
teed.
If it fails to cive satisfaction, in any ease,
the money paid for it is returned.
A little book, on "Woman and Her Dis
eases,' 1 sent to any address, scaled from ob
servation, on receipt of ten cents for post-
Address, VT orld's Dispensary Medical As
sociation, ti63 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
Dr. Powell Beeves Co.,
S \ The Most
\ \ Successful
• Catarrh,
WEST.
fERVAN ffVTt-T I.OCATM AT
Ho. 780 Pacific Avenue, Taeoma,
Wash.
St ,000 REWARD
For any case he fails to cure coining under his
treatment by follow ng his directions.
PRIVATE DISEASES OF MEN 135ZSZ
many y«ar<. Over 4.000 treated yearly. Kec«nt
casei of PRIVATE DISEASES cured In a s>r>rt
time. ULCEUS, TUMORS, BLOTCH ICS
on the face or body cared.
TH PA 4 'p—Catarrhal and syphilitic *ore
Ltly I"Y 1 throat, acute a-»d chronic
pharyngitis, enlarged tonsils and palate.lioarier.c*««
lors of voice, thick phlegm in the throat which
cause* hawking.
IJ IT A P r-\ alvular disease*. weak and thtty
1 »*• J -» heart, dropsy and rueiimaiism of
the heart, languid circulation.
CJ m\r X C TT~ Catarrh and ulceration,
-1 V'''l AL XJ. atonic and acid dvspepsla,
indigestion, pain and ftiliness after meals, heart
burn, water brash and difficulty of swallowing.
All dlsesMi of the Llrcr. Kidneys, Ere,
E»rana Bklu, Kheumatism, livers, Hair
Falling, Bone Paine. Uunorrhcea, Gleet,
Htrlcture. Syphilis, etc.
P TJ PT FT D r-Pllei. fistula, varicocele, hy-
A A U It Hi drooele, and all swellings
and tendetxeea qv;cklv cured.
The time draws near
for some boy to get
the pony and cart. It
is to be given away
Saturday, Dec. 26. On
that day the pony will
be in the window to
receive visitors. Each
boy who purchases an
Overcoat or Suit has
an interest in this
rig.
Largest Clothing Deal
ers in the World,
800-802-804 FRONT ST.
Good cigars are now
high-priced, because of
high tariff laws, MAS
TIFF PLUG CUT is mak
ing pipe-smoking pop
ular, because it gives
more for the money.
J. P. Pace Tobacco Co., Richmond, Va.
KS 3 LOOIv! *a£3
@f'M /fify
fm IV
"IJW
MACKINTOSH COATS
To clw thi* iin© w* will place on •*]*
23 M«ickintoiih Cuati it
each^S*
Former Price*, *ls, « 16 mnd #lg
riley bros;
Second St, Eiiltr BaiUjgg,
CIISTIUS MIS
Eiderdown Quilts
Linen Table Sets
Bath Blankets
Silk Dresses
Novelty Woollen Suits
Kid Gloves
PRICES VERY REASONABLE
With a complete assortment of New I
Goods in every department,
we continue to offer
DRESS GOODS, i
LADIES' AVEAR,
HOUSE PUKNISHINGS,
GEXTS' FURNISHINGS,
ART WORK MATERIAL,
YARNS and ZEPHYRS,
BLANKETS and
FANCY GOODS
At Greatly Reduced Prices.
Do not fail to take advantage of this great redaction sail y
SEATTLE DEY - GOODS STORI
903 SECOND ST., COR. MARION. SCR£E BCIIMM
& IIT ran
WATCH AS ES
To cell and see oar Ana atock of I
Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry,
mmm, i Silverware, Etc., Etc, ft
Before buyin* yonr Holiday pr**
•Ht Is better to SERVE the pubtto exits. LOWEST PRICES
than to CHEAT It. IN THE CITY.
**it Is better to mako a FRIEND of
a customer than a VICTIM, i
W. W. HOUGHTOI
SUMER Is beet In the long run r>r\*v ±
for the STOREKEEPER. 60 i Jh ront Street,
4TTHIS STORE IS RUN ON THESE vw , , w .. _ 0 .
PRINCIPLES* Next door to Washington P«Tin*« Banl
THE PLATE FRONT-
T)ATXTY 5 choice
lAii.ll> 11 NKW PATTBRKB
IS*
TABLEWARE I lA.yrr.ANiva
> axt> '
POO > OTHKR
ru " } fimogoodb
TH\NR G'VING i *° R THAWKBOIVINa AND houday t**®*
TvTVr ■ ® cc^ Seeon] and Tesler Atcbh
SchaJe, Woodruff & Co.j
TiJes GALT BROS. Co.
' IT "**® to 1,117 Fr nt «t. n „:4U»
iw M "VTziz (. ompositioa,
UIULL0 9 dkalkhs it*
Fireplaces, W(|()J) \j \ VTPI ? TiD,Siate "
Floor and Ves- ' """ i ' i '' uLo, iron sal
tibale Tiling. 21n Gravel Mj
CHINA LILIES GIVEN AWAY TREE!
To every pv.rcii.i*cf of 91.00 »»r 'ii>r», we will give a China Liiy free
of charge.
JUST RECEIVED A LARGE SHIPMENT OF GOODS
I) rt-ct irom Japan. The flues: ever oroufJtt vo the city for the holiday*
JAPAN BAZAAT!. FROXTSt
The AVestininster Slate Coiirpan-5
(LI.MIXKDj 1
Manufacturer* of an i lich en in
ROOFING SLATE, NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C
_ „ T,ie *J*»v# com;» iy are no v prepared to receive and fill order-*- March d*Urery--for tloofial
"w'u Tf ■' Ol K.xLA'IK M(j t fH K VERY Hts Ul AUIY W
rHiti s M JUh.HA 1 b Ali order* sent to the un4er»ign«d promptly Oiled.
New Westminster, It. C. A. G. OAMBLB, Secretary-
IN"otioe of Removal.
LEO T) \ FT tLK< TRICAL ENGINEER and CONTRACTOR, BKIN.J IN n**® 0 !
A ' ranch larger quarters, will r»m'»re on Decern er I to Rooms 1. 3 *. 1 **l
bra*ooandreplr o''tlZJ. LI "P # ? *' * o™*** for ~" "ral" ral E! « c * r «-•»* S*P-rt W«i, nc.jdii* «*•«
r»n.rai;v l *ta.ion aad portable i»ta*ur.iig ;n*iru i.euti, aud electrical nuvWQ
fn-1 wnrtn» 1 P comtoi p.iDU, wttb ftLl nt formal'on to laieM !rnproT>a*i*n:s in coost****
v&i, *'«"«' &»•»««».
Embroidered Linen and Si]
Handkerchiefs
Laces and Lace Scarfs
Elegant Fans
Silk Hose, silk Underwear
Choice Umbrellas