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UK A TTLE, * UN" It AT, JVffE fi.
THE RESIGNATION OF MB. BLAINB
Tho resignation of Mr. Blaine, which
was announced yesterday, may have sur
prised the general public, but to those
who hare watched the straws which show
which way the wind is blowing, it was not
•n unexpected event. In his recently
published talk with tho New York World
correspondent President Harrison said:
I do not hesitato to say that certain things
have happened that I feel deeply, especially
when anyone ha* belittled some of the great
public measure* which have been carried oat,
or tried to place the credit upon others.
This was - a direct thrust at Mr. Blaina
and his supporters. Attorney-General
Miller, of the president's cabinet, has gone
BO far as to denounce Mr. Blaine for allow
ing his friends to bring him into the race
at all. When tho friends of Mr. Harrison,
on their arrival at Minneapolis, began to
characterize Mr. Blaine as "a traitor," be
cause the party leaders in New York,
Pennsylvania, Maine, Massachusetts, Vir
ginia, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and
many of the far Western states openly de
clared that Mr. Blaine would be more
likely to succeed than Mr. Harrison,
Mr. Blaine, as a matter of self-respect,
could no longer remain in the
cabinet. Nobody knows better than the
president that Mr. Blaine has been no
"traitor," and when the president suffered
this kind of campaign vituperation of Mr.
Blaine to pass without rebuke, there was
only one course left to Mr. Blaine, since
the president, by his silence, assented to
the impeachment of Mr. Blaine's good
faith.
Mr. Blaine not only could have had the
nomination at Chicago in 1883, but he could
have turned his friends to his choice for
the presidency; he did turn his friends in
favor of Mr. Harrison, and thus gave him
tho nominaticn. Mr. Blaine never ex
pressed any desire to be made secre
tary of state; none of his friends
fver urged Mr. Harrison to offer
him the appointment.
The situation is ominous of an unfortu
nate outcome to the Republican national
convention. The resignation of Mr.
Blaine will Increase the bitterness be
tween tho factions, and the nomination of
Mr. Harrison following an open political
and personal rupture with the great sec
retary would not seem at present very
prudent politics. For the embarrassment
of the situation Mr. Harrison rather than
Mr. Blaine is responsible.
When it was clear that Mr. Harrison
was working for his own renomination his
supporters became very anxious to know
what Mr. Blaine would do. With Mr.
Blaine in the field Mr. Harrison had no
chance of success. As a matter of fact,
Mr. Harrison's friends had no more busi
ness to badger Mr. Blaine as to his inten
tions than the friends of President Fill
more had to badger the friends of Secre
tary of State Webster in 1802. Mr. Blaine
was badgered on all sides, and finally, in
February, ho wrote a brief letter, saying
that he was not a candidate. This loft the
field open to Mr. Harrison, and
he has industriously improved his
advantage in the securing of delegates
pledged to his renomination. After this
Mr. Harrison's friends had no business to
trouble Mr. Blaine; nevertheless finding
that Mr. Harrison was not considered the
strongest candidate for success in the
doubtful states and that his nomination
upon grounds of political expediency was
not welcome where he needed most of all
to be strong they began insulting and
depreciating Blaine by innuendoes and
open falsehoods. He was represented as a
wretched invalid, who had lost his
memory, and was a mere phantom of his
former self.
When "the phantom" beean to appear
in public and looked like an exceedingly
healthy ghost then the partisans of Harri
son t nrst out in full cry that the "phan
tom"' ww "a traitor." and then Mr. Maine
resigned. The obstinacy of Mr. Harrison
and the folly of his friends have thus con
tributed to create a very awkward situa
tion f>*r the party to solve at Minneapolis.
That Mr. Blaine cares to be nominated we
do not believe; that he would accept if
nominated is by no means certain; that
he naturally resents his treatment by the
reckless managers ot Mr. Harrison's boom
there is no doubt,
Mr. Blain® brought his fame to Harri
son's administration; he increased 'his
fame bv th* excellence of his work; he
wtis the author of the reciprocity clause
rtf the tariff; he brought the Bering sea
ni gotiations to a successful issue by an
agreement of arbitration; he save I us
from a war with Chile by hh forbearance
of epeerh anl action at the crit
ical moment. Mr. Blair.e has made
the administration's chief refuta
tion in the civilized world. To
Mr. Harrison he owes nothing;
for Mr. Harris >n he has done much. The
final rupture is not his fault, but i:* rr >', v
able outcome, in our judgment, is that
Mr. Harrison cannot be the candi iate ar,,i
that Mr. Blaine will n«->t accept the no ra
il; at ion which he is almost certain to re
coive unlos it be -nade w th creator unan
imity than now seems probable.
Th« peop'e of Sp- kane who found fault
:th Jim Hii! an 1 h.s "relative ' rates are
snaking haste to ano.Robert E ;s
--#on, a business man, has given n> ot
feu*e, bo»e*«r, aud has been repeated
to have no farther defiling with the Great
Northern. Mr. Hill say? of the offender:
"One gentleman complained that he had
subscribed to the right-of-way fund under
a promise of terminal rates as soou as the
Great Northern pets to Spokane. No Buch
promise was made, and I have found out
the amount of his sulwcription and it will
be returned to him. I have also notified
him that while we will always be ready to
do business as a common carrier, we will
be just as pood friends if he never ship*
anything over our road."
TUB ARGUMENT OF EXPEDIENCY.
Thd Post-Intelligencer has time and
again said that the only legitimate argu
ment against the rcnomination of Mr.
Harrison was the declaration of the doubt
ful states of New York, Wisconsin and
Colorado that he was not the strongest
candidate to ensure the success of the
ticket. Here is what the Albany Evening
Journal, a paper of great influence and
weight, says in explanation of its op
position to Harrison:
The men who are advocating the candidacy of
the great secretary have everything to lose and
nothing to gain by the defeat of the Republican
party. They thiuk that Mr. Blalue can win
where Mr. Harrison mny not, and the soundness
of their judgment is unquestionable. Nobody
seeks to "club" Mr. Harrison. He has given
the p.trty a go<xl administration and deserves to
be honored for it rather than clubbed. Unfor
tunately for him, ho cannot carry New York
state, while Mr. BUlno or Mr. frherman can.
i hat is the situation; there is no desire to
"club" anybody.
Without prejudice and without enmity, the
Journal beiievej that James G. Blaine or John
Sherman would bo a stronger candidate before
the people than the present lacuml>eut of the
presidential chair. For that reason we favor
them. The question at is»ue just now is: What
Republican would be the strongest candidate
for the party? History show* almost Invariably
that second terra candidates have made worse
records thnn at their tirst attempt, provided
tbey ure elected at their first attempt. Ndkody
questions the ability and efficiency of the presi
dent's administration. It requires no Vindica
tion and needs no endorsement. The Repub
licans of Xew York are reluctant to be forced to
enter npon the campaign with a candidate who,
they feel, cannot carry the sta'e. It is silly,
and the height of political unwisdom, to at
tempt to sneer aw>iy the honest opposition to
tho president's renoraination. To characterise
it as emanating from a cabal of disappointed
patronage-hunters is due either to a gross ignor
ance or a willful attempt to deceive.
Should Mr. Harrison win at Minneapolis, he
would rsct'ivo the united support of the party
press of New York, but he would probably lose
the state.
WOMEN AND CHRISTIANITY.
In the Gospels women followed Christ
and ministered unto Him, including a
woman who had had five husbands
and was living with a man not her hus
band. With this woman Christ holds
earnest conversation, and to her he pro
claims the grandest truths of His revela
tion. It is a woman described by St.
Luke as "a sinner of the city" that
anoints Christ's feet and washes them
with her hair. Christ is dear to the
women of the family of Bethany and
talks freely to his sisters on spiritual sub
jects. According to St. John, Christ first
makes his appearance to Mary Magdalen
after the resurrection, and Christ treats
the woman caught in adultery with mild
ness rather than severity. Passing from
Christ, whose example in the matter of
the Magdalen is not part of the modern
imitation of the Great Master, since
The sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven
By man is cursed al way—,
we find that Bt. Paul's opinions con
cerning the marriage and conduct of
women are of a stern and restrictive
nature, and these opinions were made the
groundwork and the support of tho
depreciation of marriage prevalent in the
third and fourth centuries, when women
had come to be regarded by the Christian
fathers as tempters of men. They were
rigorously excluded from every sacred
function, in marked contrast with bolh
heathen and heretical practices. In Rome
the wife of the Pontifex Maximus
took the lead in the religious rites
that specially concerned women.
The priest, known as the "llamen
dialis," must be married and his wife
was also a priestess. The vestal virgins
were treated with the highest public re
spect and enjoyed the largest liberty. Tho
heretical Christains alone imitated these
heathen religious honors to women. They
gave special thanks to Eve and celebrated
the sister of Moses and the four daughters
of Philip, because they asserted the right
of women to preach the Gospel in public.
In this sect of heretical Christians women
held tho place of bishops and elders and
deacons as well as men, and it was this
sect that Tertullian denounced when he
said: "The women of these heretics are
bold enongh to teach, to dispute, to under
take cures, it may be even to baptize."
It is clear, also, that marriage fell into
disrepute. Methodius claimed that mar
riage i« a state of inferiority, and Tertul
lian speaks of wives as women of the sec
and degree, and says of women in
churches: "Let them be silent, and at
home consult their own husbands." This
ascetic antagonism of tbo early church
had a degrading influence on family life.
Children are seldom mentioned in the
Christian writings of the third and fourth
centuries. Nothing is said of their train
ing; no efforts are made for their instruc
tion, for the head of the early church had
made the orthodox Christians believe that
the world "had enouch of children and
was fuliy stocked, and that every birth
was a cause of sorrow, not of joy."
The a<cetical Tertullian calls women
"the devil's gateway, the un>ea!er of that
forbidden tree," and orders women to take
and keep a subordinate place, obey their
husbands, serve them and refrain from all
unnecessary publicity. Tertullian was
supported by Clement of Alexandria, and
Gregory Thaumaturgns brutally denounces
women, saying: "Verily a person fnay
fin i one man chaste among a thousar!,
but a woman never." The Testament of
the Twelve Patriarchs makes tho same
vulgar statement concerning the chastitv
of women.
The early Christen church wn un
doubtedly taujht tc treat women "as
frivolous, dress-loving, lnst-inspirin* crea
tures." The consequence of thi* vile esti
mate of women by the ear.y church w ;is a
deteriorating effect on posterity, as the
Vest men and wom?a, the spiritually
nindc i and the virtuons, obeyed the
church and left no children. The laymen,
"beins taught that marriage might be
licentious, were disposed to neglect matri
mony for loose connections, and the r<-
su.t * :is t:.e survival of the nnl'ittest."
Principal 1> naldson, of the great
S. ar.ish University of St. Andrew, a rever
ent Christian s. ,o!ar of high rank, thinks
ti at "this al ?ei oof domestic affection,
this deficiency 1:1 healthy and vigorous
offspring, th•* h< ~eh accounts in
some di -ree for the prevalent hardness of
heart ol the next century, vht a treatises
wera written to show why every hereuc
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should be put to death in this life and tor
tured eternally in the world to come."
Woman has slowly risen to her proper
place in the world. Christ was clearly on
her side, but St. Paul was not, and early
Christianity, following Paul rather than
Christ, was against her. So brutal was
the treatment of woman by the church in
the third and fourth centuries that she
was far worse off than the Roman wife be
fore the republic became Orientalized.
Harriet Prescott Spofford in the May At
lantic shows that the position of the Ro
man wife in the best days of the republic
was one of great dignity, influence and
honor.
Shakspeare's Volumnia, Virgilia, Portia
and Octavia by their contrast with his
Cleopatra and Cressida show how clearly
he comprehended the difference between
the Roman wife and the regal Oriental
wanton. Christianity itself has been en
nobled and oarried upward by the very
forces of humanity that have lifted wo
man from her despised condition and re
deemed from the blight of asceticism
Christianity and mankind together.
Count Tolstoi's "Kreutzer Sonata" la
nothing but a modern revival of Tertul
lian's disgusting estimate of women and
philosophy of the sexes. The singular
thing is that Tolstoi, who urges the literal
imitation of Christ, should turn his back
on Christ and take Tertullian for his
teacher when he talks of women, love and
marriage.
THE WORLD'S FAIR.
It is reported as practically settled that
tho World's fair will be open on Sunday.
The closing of the grounds on Bunday in
volves a probable loss of at least $5,000,000
in revenues, besides the exclusion of
thousands of work people who have no
other day on which to visit the exposition.
The machinery will not be run on the
Lord's day and no considerable amount of
labor will be necessitated. The buildings
will be left open for quiet inspection by
visitors; the beautiful grounds by the
lake shore will be open. Representatives
of labor organizations have particularly
asked that the fair thus De kept open,
chiedy for the reason that Sunday is the
only day workmen can have to visit the
exposition. The president of the American
Federation of Labor, speaking for the half
million of workmen in that organization,
particularly requested as much.
The famous English preacher, whose
sermons have become a classic to all de
vout persons, the Kev. F. W. llobertson,
in 1851 opposed the closing of the Crystal
palace on Sundays by petition or legisla
tive enactment, for the reason, tirst, that
n would be a return to Judaism, and he
would not try to forbid by law "a soTt of
recreation for the poor man in public
gardens and picture galleries which the
rich man has freely allowed himself in pri
vate gardens and galleries with no protest
whatever from the clergy." His second
objection was that it was in the way of
multiplying enactments beyond what is
essential "which tempts human con
sciences to transgression; for it is a trans
gression when a man does a thing which
he thinks is wrong, even though it be not
abstractedly wrong." The church was
holding up "hands of pious indig
nation when a train runs by, while
more than one religious person in this
town drives regularly to church on fine
days as well as wet." "Why are they
touched to the quick only when the dese
cration of the Sabbath puts on a 'vulgar'
form?" And the answer is that "scrupu
losity about laws positive generally slides
into laxity about the eternal laws of right
and wrong." The famous English scien
tist, Professor John Tyndall, once deliv
ered an address before the Glasgow Sun
day Society in which he argued in favor
of opening all institutions of healthy
amusement and instruction on Sunday.
Liquor will be sold on the grounds of
the World's fair at Chicago. But it will
be sold only at restaurants and limited
there to beer and light wines. No bar
rooms will be allowed to exist.
When George William Childs visited
Port Townsend the printers presented
him with a spoon, some rhododendrons
and a card suitably inscribed to "George
Washington Childs." The Lender says
Mr. Childs seemed "surprised." It is
not unlikely that he was surprised, for
Childs detests the name "George Wash
ington," given him by Editor Dana, of
the New York Sun, who has devoted a
great deal of space to ridiculing the good
Philadelphian and the obituary poetry
published in the Ledger.
Right Rev. Ozias M. Whittaker, bishop
of Pennsylvania of the Protestant Episco
pal church, favors the modern Sunday
newspaper as "a link in the chain of intel
ligence. and he is also pleased to note that
these great Sunday newspaper publications
have driven largely from the tield a lot of
low-class publications that formerly had
the Sunday reader at their mercy."
The number of petitioners from Michi
gan for the Sunday closing of the World's
fair is set down at 4,030.518. while the total
population of that state is only 2.093.589
and Ohio, with a population of 3,672,316, is
credited with 4,053,425.
THE UXROPED ARENA.
Anions the poosib'e Democratic candidates
for county clerk aro "Dau" Mulligan, r.s h:«
friend* affectionately call him, a:id J. P. Glea
eon. Mr. Gleasou coyiy denies the charg« that
he is ia the race.
E. F. B'.nine is sometimes spoken of as*pos
sible Democratic candidate for judge of the su
perior court; but it is pretty -af# to say that Mr.
Blaine would refuse the nomination. lie would
cot accept it two years ag,», and he wouid be
even more unwilling today to break up his pri
vate practice by making a content for the place.
John Collins expect* to start next Sunday for
the Democratic national convention at Chicago.
He will not be liaely to travel in the special car
with the rest o! Washiuetona Democracy, for
he intends to go by the Canadian Pacific and re
turn by the Northern, In order to see the
srenery. He has not been East for thirty-five
years.
The position of H. &, Blandford, of W ft n a
Walla, is this: He prefers an Eastern Wash
ington man for governor, but if the candidate
coa.es from the western portion he preler*
James Hamilton lew;*, for he says: "Lewis
c> ..hi carry the state. With his immense mag
nett-m !e would have the yuurg me a thor
oughly euthusvJ for him."
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H T »Tac">ma says: "George Hanard,
ci- i':, lawyer, editor, author, traveler a:.d
politician, is still hammering away at the
level an : Democrat*, and threatens to keep it
•-P so v rously that when the Washington
d egation g >o* to Chicago the sentiment of the
stita will be *trong to prevent them
frcm voting forth* nan from New York, ilai-
sard has been very well known ever sine* his
coming to the state, and his friends now say
that his present activity in opposing Cleveland,
whom he calls a mugwump, will be the means
of making him so popular with his party that
be may be sent to congress next falL His pres
ent intention is not to accept the nomination."
H. J. Bebean, chairman of the People's Party
Central Club, has called a mass-meeting to be
held at Pike street hall next Tuesday at 2 o'clock
in the afternoon. The call says: "Every per
son, regardless of past or present party affilia
tion, who is in sympathy with and feels inter
ested in the St Louis platform of the People's
party is cordially invited to attend.
Tho action of the board of public works In
kicking out Dubois Fitten, the board's recently
appointed superintendent of tho water de
partment, was a surprise to all except
the few Democrats who were on the in
side of the ring. The fight for the posi
tion had narrowed down between Fitten
and W. E. Wilson, when the board appointed
Fitten a week or two ago. The change by which
Fitten goes out and Wilson goes in, is really the
work of the labor element They havo been
fighting Fitten all along, partly because he ran
the engines of the Seattle Coal and Iron Com
pany at Gilman during the strike last year. The
laboring men forced Fitten's bondsmen to back
down, and the board of public works, rather
than prolong a fight, put Wilson in Fitten's
place. For the present Fitten Is retained as
foreman. Tho laboring men are also said to be
working against Alaxander Wall, the chief engi
neer at the pumping station. Take It all In all,
the board of publio worka finds the city's water
hot water.
"I met a man named Maloney on the train the
other day who was one of the most enthusiastic
Blaine men I ever saw," said General Manager
Smith, of tho Oregon Improvement Company,
yesterday. "He was on his way from San Fran
cisco to Minneapolis, and said he was a dele
gate-at-large, all for himself, to the Republican
convention. He kept the car amused all
through the trip by his humorous outbursts.
He said Blaine waa sure to be nominated, and
when somebody doubted this, he went on: 'The
first state on the roll call is Alabama, and she
has got a man with a great big stentorian voice
at the head of her delegation. He has not got
much brains, but he does not need any; that
stentorian voice of his is what will do the work.
He will get up and say with his big stentorian
voice that Alabama casts so many votes for
James G. Blaine, and the whole convention will
give a great cheer at the name. California will
come next and give her solid vote to
lilaine, and the cheering will break out
again ten times as long and loud, and all tho
opposition will be swept away and Blaine will
carry the convention with a unanimous phout.'
Then somebody said that the Republicans could
not carry Alabama, so Its vote would not carry
the convention with it, but Mr. Maloney waa
equal to the occasion, for he replied: *Did you
ever see a runaway tear down the street, clear
ing it from end to end of wagons and every
thing, and smashing in tho store fronts all
along? Now what started that horse to run
away? Why, It was frightened at a dog with a
tin can tied to its tail. And who tied that can
to Its tall but a miserable small boy. That's
how it will be in the convention. Alabama will
be the dog with a can tied to its tall, and it will
start a runaway that will clear the road of all
opposition to Blaiue.' Then Mr. Maloney told
how be bet a Democrat in San Francisco a bot
tle of wine that he could not tell why he was a
Democrat First his friend saM, 'I am a Demo
crat;'bat Maloney said that was no reason;
then the reason was, 'My father and all my
family were Democrats,' but that waa declared
no reason. Then Mr. Maloney said to him:
'l'll tell you why you're a Democrat It's be
cause you wear your hair long and come from
Missouri, and you spell bird with a n and God
with a little g!' That silenced the Democrat,"
THE PASSING THRONG.
William Halnsworth returned yesterday from
a vist to his old home at Pittsburg, happy at
having seen mauy old friends again and made a
good beginning at carrying through the enter
prise which took him East. He haa formed the
preliminary organization of a company among
his Pittsburg frienls for the development of the
Boston mine, on which he haa an option, and of
his other mining properties in the Cascade
district His partners will send an expert here
to examine the property, and on his report will
depend their decision as to pushing the under
taking. They are men of abundant capital to
carry it through.
Mr. and Mrs. a C. Calvert, of Walla Walla, are
stopping at the Qrand hotel. Mr. Calvert came
West from lowa nearly twenty years ago, and
for a long time he lived at Helix, in Oregon.
During the last year or two, however, he hs«
been living at Walla Walla. He said yesterday:
"Ihe iruit around us Is looking weil in every
way and the iields are very green and promising,
but I hear that on the Eureka flat the hot winds
have done some damage to the wheat."
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Alexander Allen has just returned from a
mouth's visit in the East. He was in Chicago
and Milwaukee, returning by way of San Fran
cisco. Mr. Allen nays business is booming in
Chicago, and Milwaukee has •big real estate
boom. But business in Seattle is just as good
as it is in san Francisco. He says that every*
where he has t>ceu the people were going wild
for the nomination of Blaine.
Captain James W. Tronp, superintendent of
the Kootenai Navigation Company, left for
Portland last evening. One of his steamers, the
Columbia, is entered in the Port Townsend dis
trict of the American customs service, and
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Captain Troup had to come 500 miles to Port
Townsend in order to straighten up some cus
toms business. All of his other steamers, run
ning on the lakes and Columbia and Kootenai
rivers, are Canadian vessels, and are entered in
tho New Westminster customs district. Cap
tain Troup will retura to Seattle in a iew days
on hik way back to the Kootenai district
Lieutenant A. B. Wyckofl. of tha Puget sound
naval station, is at the Rainier hotel. Tha "lieu
tenant has many friends in Seattle as well as
elsewhere, Who will be pleased to learn of the
honor dona him in making him commander of
the Nipslc, which is now attached to the *ta
tion. He is the only first lient-.'nant in t!ie navy
in command of a vessel of the Nipsie's class.
M. F. Shechan Is in the city with some sam
ples of ore from the Four Brothers mine in the
Silver Creek district "I have found gold there,"
said he yesterday. "The specimens of ore I
brought down assay from 117 to $2lO a ton in
gold, and from II to 113 in sliver. On half a
dozen pieces the average assay was |O7 a ton in
gold."
R. A. Nlcol and G. N. Sampson, who arrived
at the Grand hotel from the Monte Cristo rain
ing district a day or two ago. say that there is
still considerable snow among, the mountains,
and as yet comparatively few prospectors havo
gone into that region. The Monte Cristo wagon
road is now nearly completed.
An excursion was at the Northern hotel yes
terday containing the following members: Mr.
and Mrs. Roman CI arid and Miss Emma Craw
ford, of Tyrone, Pa.; Miss Eleanor Jsett, of
Spruce Creek, Pa.; Mrs. Hagerty, of Taeoma,
and Mr. and Mrs. Crawiord Irwin, of llollidays
burg, Pa.
At the Rainier hotel yesterday was a party of
well-known people from Troy, N. Y. The mem
bers were Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Cluett and Mrs.
Edmund Cluett Mr. Cluett Is an extensive
manufacturer of collars and cud's, and Mrs. Ed
mund Cluett is the wife of a prominent music
dealer.
John T. Boyd, of Erie, Pa, a member of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, is
spending a few days at the Rainier hotel. He Is
superintendent of tho Stearns Manufacturing
Company, which makes a large portion of the
machinery u«od in the fuget sound sawmills.
Clarence L. Reid and William E. Davis, of
New York city, are stopping at the Grand hotel
on their way to Alaska Mr. Reid is a graduate
of Yale, lu the class of 1877, and a successful
young lawyer. The preseut trip is wholly for
pleasure.
J. K. Ray, of Whatcom, well known at one of
the tallest men on Puget sound, it staying at the
Diller hotel. He has just opened a new logging
camp on Lake Whatcom, an>l he says that there
is a fairly active demand for good logs.
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Wiley, Miss Sarah R.
Wiley and Miss Helen O. Wiley, of New York
city, are at the Rainier hotel. Mr. Wiley is a
well-known New York publisher now on a
pleasure trip with his family.
Dr. and Mrs. J. 8. Ballard, of San Francisco,
are at the Rainier hotel. Dr. Ballard says that
he was In Southern California a few weeks ago,
and the dry weather there wai doing consider
able injury to the wheat.
Morgan Morgans, superintendent of the Black
Diamond coal mine, is at the Diller hotel. He
says that the mine Is now running regularly,
though not on full time.
A party from Portland, consisting of Mr. and
Mrs. Robertson and Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Kingston,
la (topping at the Arlington hotel.
CONCENTRATION.
The age is too diffuiiye. Time and force
Are trittered out and bring no satis/action.
The way seems lost to straight determined
action.
LUce shooting stars that eigzug from their
bowers.
We wander from our orbit's pathway; spoil
The role we're fitted for to fall in twenty;
Bring empty measures that were shaped for
plenty
At last as guerdon for a life of toiL
There's lack of greatness in this generation.
Because no more man centers on one thought;
We know this trut.l and yet we heed it mot,—
The tecret of success is concentration.
—Ela Whultr W'Jooz.
TBI RHODODENDRON AGAIN.
MEDICAL LAKE, May 31,1392.
To TU Editor: Ihe clover talk is utterly
sweet, but the flower is not typical of the state
with its grand resources and beautifully grand
scenery, as is the Rhododenron. One has but to
see a grove in bloom to acknowledge this. At
least, no one should com* to a conclusion till ho
has seen such a grove. Ltmax Baxks.
La Conner Honors Its Founder.
La Conner Mail, June 2.
The remains of the late J. 8. Conner, the
founder of the town of La Conner, were re
moved from Oakland, Cal., where he died in
1885, and re-interred in the family lot fn Pleas
ant Ridge cemetery last Saturday, May 28, where
a fine large marble shaft has been placed to
commemorate his name and ornament his last
resting place, overlooking and commanding a
view of La Conner, the Swinomish channel and
surrounding country, including the islands and
ChucJianut mountains, which loom up in the
azure distance beautiiul and grand. On Deco
ration day the grave and monument were orna
mented by the sorrowing family and friends
with bouquets and garlands of flowers and
evergreens.
A Bit Irrigation Ditch.
Yakima Herald.
Few people realize that the ditch now being
built from opposite Prosser around the base of
the Rattlesnake mountains to cover the lands of
the Lower Yakima is greator than our big canal,
which we have been enthusing over so much,
end will irrigate a greater number of acres.
About three miles of the work has already been
completed, and about 103 men and teams are
now employed. Wolf & Callahan are the con
tractors, and they expect to have 400 men and
800 teams at work with!* the next twanty days.
The canal will be over 125 miles long.
THE STATE PRESS.
Thomas A. Edison bas written for the Edison
Phonograph it heading, a facsimile of which will
be used by the paper.
Galena Mintr: "There seetns to be a general
impression throughout the country that James
G. Maine will be the nominee of the K /publican
party for president this year, notwithstanding
the many rumors of his ill health and declara
tions thit he will not aecept the nomination."
Blaine Tribune: "Our choice for president is
Jstues G. Hi nine, bnt it is doubtful if he can be
nominated, for the reason that any man occupy
ing the prominent position in public life that
he hi 3 for so long Is bound to have some per
sonal enemies. Wo believe that Blaine would
poll « larger vote than any other man ou the
American continent"
lioquiam Wanhinjtonian: "The Oregoninn is
in constant agony lest Blaine be nominated at
the Minneapolis convention. Notwithstanding
tliat fact, the Republicans of its chosen field
and of the whole Pacific slope, with many good
Democrats, prefer Blaine to any other possibil
ity. If the Oregon Mugwump—the only one
west of the mountains —doubts this, there is
timo yet to get an expression from its readers
before the nomination. Incidentally, this paper
wonld like to inquire what j>ersonal affront Mr.
Blaine has ever, inadvertantly or otherwise, in
flicted upon the solitary Mugwump of the Pa
cific coast?"
NORTHWEST .NKFFS,
dynamiters are killing tront In I-ake Washing
ton and in the streams around Orting.
The hills about Sprague are swarming with
rattlesnakes, which are especially numerous
near the waterholes.
W. 11. Silsby, aged 62, died suddenly in Olym
pla last Thursday of hoart disease. Ho was a
California Forty-niner.
W. H. Sanders, aged 70 years, was killed near
Cedarvillo, Chehalis county, last Thursday by
a tailing tree, which broke his neck.
James Meginaon, of Upper Deadman,,a pioneer
of Garfield county, was killed on May by fall
ing from a wagon, the wheels passing over him.
An ineipieut water spout occurred on the
lower part of I'ort Washington bay Wednesday,
and a column of water was raised to a height of
almost 500 feet.
The temperature at Walla Walla in May
was 59.2 degrees: highest,93, on the 21st; lowest,
35, on the 2d. The total precipitation w:is 1.23
inches, on 8 days; deficiency for month, .64; de
ficiency since January 1, .57.
William H. Byera, cashier of the Vancouver
Lumber Company, Victoria, has run away with
|6GO belonging to the company. He is 32 yeara
old, fine looking and well-dressed, and gambles.
Ho stole 12.500 from a lumber company iu
Helena last December.
Salmon have commenced to coma into tho
river. One day this wtelc twenty-flvo boats be
longing to the Brooktield cannery caught 700
fish. They averaged good weight, too. One
monster weighed seventy pounds, and dressed
flity-seven pounds.— Skamokama Eagle,
.Forest fires a-e raging m tha North River ral
Icy, and settlers have been having a hard tim*
to save" their homes. The house ol William An
derson, with all his possessions, was destroyed
while he was away from home. His wife barely
saved her life and that of her child, which la
but a week old.— Aberdeen Herald, June 3.
The moan temperature at Olympia in May
was 55.4 degrees; highest, 91, on the 20th; low
est, 33, on the 31; excess of temperature during
month, 19; excess since January 1, 173. The
total precipitation during the month was 2.22
lachea, on l;j days, a deficiency for the month of
0.13 of an inch; dcticiency since January 1, 10.56. ,
The largest sale of wild horses made in the
bunch grass region for some time was made
recently by John Switzler. An lowa drover,
named Jackson, bought eighteen car loads. The
horsea are in hue condition, and will aoon be
ahipped to lowa. An average price of 120 per
bead was paid. The horses were raised iu the
Horse Heaven country, Yakima county.
AVER'S
HAIR VIGOR
Keeps the scalp
clean, cool, healthy.
The Best
Dressing
Restores hair
which has become
thin, faded, or gray.
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co.
Lowell, Mass.
pal
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L BOtRICKE&HUNYON J
234 SUTTER ST. $ A
s.AM*r* Ars/cifeco.
A PRIZE PICTURE PUZZLE,
TV above picture contains frmr (be m
and his three daughters. Anyone caft
man s face, hut it is not so easy to distinguish riJ
faces of the three y<>ung laOies. ™
The proprietors of Ford's Prize PlllfviS
give an elegant Gold Watch to the yfrtf
person whocan make out the tbreedaughters'facitj
to the stctmd will l>e a pair of gtnnina
Diamond Fur-Hlng*; to the ti,r7Lt,-T7
some Silk Drcxa Pattern, id ia mn.
color; totbe/ourti a Coin Silver Watch
and many other prizes in order of merit. EverJ
competitor must cut out the above puzzle pict«?
distinguish the three girls' fiices by markingacS
with lead pencil on ea* h, and enclose same witk
fifteen U. S. two cent stamps for one bo* «#
FORD'S PRIZE FlLLS,(which will bo jentm
paid, ditty free), addressed to 733 fCSO PILL St*
PAi<7, * •liiagtsn St. Trests, CM. The person wbwi
envelope is postmarked first will be awarded the
first prize, and tiie others in order <>f merit. To tin
person sending the last correct answer will be givei
an Gold W .itch, of fine
and first-class timekeeper ; to the ntxt tn th* Uut%
pair of genuir* Diamond Lar-King*| to
the stcfind to the last a handsome Silk Dress
Pattern, »6 yards in any color; to the UUrt
to ti>e last a Colli SI 1 ver Watch,and many
other prices in order of merit counting fr>m tS*
!»<t. WE KHALI, GIVE AWAT
100 VALUABLE PBF>lirtls
there be so many sending in o rrect Mo
charge is made for boving arid packing of pr*
miums. The names of the leading prize winneis
will be published in connection with our advertise
ment in leading rew<jape-s next month. F.xtia
premising will be £i .en to those who are willing to
assist in introducing our meaicina, Nothing fc
charged for the premiums in any way, tt«y art
absolutely given away to introduce and advertm
Ford's Prize Pills, which are purely vegetable and
act gently yet promptly on the Liver, Kidneys and
Bowels, dispelling Headache, Fevers and Colds,
cleansing the system thoroughly and cure tauitaal
constipation. They ara * injur- coated, de
not gripe, very small, en ,y to take, one pill a
dose, and are purely vecetnbie. Perfect digest*®
follows their use. As to the reliability of our east
pany we refer yon to any leading whi>lesale dro*
gi-t or business house in Toronto. All preaan
will be awarded strictly in order of merit and with
perfect satisfaction to the public. Pills are lent by
mail post paid. When you answer this pictan
puzzle, kindly mention which newspaper you saw
u in. Address THE FORD PILL COMPANY, W4
Vngton SL. Toronto, Can.
i Kuspcm
Thp Arrow La<co terminus of the projected
' Columbia Kootenay Kail war and the
gatewav of the Blocan mining district.
SA Kt*M* CITY lsaitua ed nt the month
of the N'a Kasp river, on tun l.'pper Arrow
lake, ami Ilea atftmt midway i etwpen ttie
towns of >■ el-son and Reveistoke. ft Is the
natural outlet of the -<looati mining coun
try and is the most advantageous point for
smelting the ores of this rich district.
surveys am) plans are now being prepared
•nd a portion of the town.site wlil be placed
on the market on the 15th of June. The
prices f»r lots at this first aule will be from
*SO to »25i) each. Terms—One-third cash,
balance iu six arid twelve months, at Bper
cent, per annum on the unpaid balance.
Maps and price lists mav be had fromT.
FLKtVHER, land commissioner of the
Columbia it Kootenay Kailway, Nelson,
B. C., and
RAND BROS,
Real Estate Agents, Vancouver, B.C.
Z. T. WRIGHT'S
Business. An excellent paying general
machinery bnsines , with a well-estalh
H-hed ami growing trade all over tb#
Northwest. A rare chance for a iafe'in*
vestment with instant returns. For termi
and particulars address Aita K. Wright,
Administratrix, Portland, Or.
The coming mar
j it 1 shine. *
_ _ Catalogue &H
311
])OXNKY * STEWART, auo
to O. c. SUore.v * C®.,
Undertsiert C«.*u«r Third and
Columbia. Telephuue No. 13.
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T" K CROSS UXDKRTAKIJTO
•* Co.. Fuiiepal Director, ana Km*
No. a,U3 Froat »tre»L
•«*«»*», Waeh. Till
• No. 037.