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VALENTINE
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Ever since Nellie Ely was made a col
onel the Tennessee militia has been
ready to spring to arms at a moments
notice
Zola goes to prison Well he can ai
least emulate John Bunyan History
at all events -will give the novelist a
tairer trial
Slang is quite ancient but its still to
Ibe proved that when the wooden steed
was dragged into old Troy the Trojans
said This is a horse on us
Philadelphia has developed a beggar
who goes about soliciting alms on a bi
cycle Perhaps he wants to raise
enough money to buy a 98 wheel
Thieves are said to be almost un
known in Finland Curiously enough
there are many thieves in this country
who contrive to remain entirely un
known
A desperado arrested in Boston had
a copy of Browning in his pocket Of
course his lawyer will plead a certain
intellectual disturbance due to a pro
longed struggle with obscurities
An exchange says The hair on the
Iiead of most of the hundreds of thou
sands of dolls exhibited in shop win
dows is made from the hair of the An
gora goat Thats probably whv the
kids all like dolls
A gun tested near Washington re
cently threw a shell over ten wilea
which means that a hostile ship would
be under fire for twenty miles in pass
ing a battery Such target practice
will make it interesting for the ship
Mrs Wu wife of the Chinese minis
ter at Washington has the laugh ou
American women Whenever anybody
says anything to her about Chines
-girls binding their feet she retorts that
no Chinese woman is barbarous
enough to wear corsets
Susan B Anthony says that tha
grievances women have against the
common enemy man to day are as
many as the colonists had against
Hing George Then why not follow
the example of the colonists light for
independence first and for the union
afterward
The Pall Mall Gazette seeks to agi
tate us by disclosing the fact that a
genuine prince is a waiter in a New
York hotel It would really agitate Xew
York to learn that any of our palace
Jiotel waiters is less than a prince for
that is what their manners have im
pressed upon us
A pleasing incident of the cotton
mills strike in New Bedford was the
idle hours recreation furnished to
strikers through the efforts of one of
the city pastors Heading games mu
sic and other forms of wholesome en
tertainment were provided in two
-halls and all were welcome who would
refrain from discussing the strike or
other labor matters while present
The great isothermal line of baked
beans includes Dawson City- in British
Alaska Outfitters in Seattle and San
Francisco complain bitterly of the in
creasing scarcity of the most succulent
of intellect nourishing vegetables
There has not yet been any rumor of
organization in Boston of a society Tor
the promotion of canned beans in Alas
la but it would be a good neighborly
-act Every family in Boston could give
a pot of beans and never feel it
The introduction of bills for the re
moval of the charge of desertion from
men who enlisted in the armies of the
TJnion in our great war and who Tailed
to put in an appearance when their
-commands were mustered out has been
going on for a third of a century lr
Is the general opinion of honorably dis
charged soldiers that this thing has
gone far enough They assert and
they know something about the mat
ter that most of these deserters are
men who enlisted for bounties and got
out at the first opportunity
The course taken by the French min
istry in arbitrarily forbidding discus
ion of its acts was foreseen It Is the
course that has been taken shortly be
fore Its fall by each of the French gov
ernments that has been overthrown by
revolution during the past seventy
years The precedents do not warrant
the inference that a change is at hand
The second empire and the citizen king
fcoth went on for several years after
fiie policy of suppressing criticism had
been adopted But this sort of vio
lence reveals a weakness that had been
veiled And by that disclosure invites
and eneourages assault
The conclusion is forced upon us that
the builders of warships might collab
orate with the architects of the great
commerce carriers and combine speed
with safety The agents of the Atlantic
liners never lose much sleep when one
of the ships is overdue Tihey admit
that her machinery may be broken but
experience has taught them that her
chances are good or making port des
pite the handicap Our great warships
flounder about in calm harbors strike
a sandbar or an insignificant tug and
promptly go into dry dock for repairs
costing thousands of dollars There is
a lesson in this for somebody possibly
the builder of modern battleships
Great Britains policy of opening up
to the whole world whatever markets
she herself wins by her shrewt diplo
macy is about to triumph in China to
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as ureat Britain
Are the statements about Spains de
cadence true or are they false Have
descriptions of her antiquated institu
tions her barbaric social conditions
her industrial death been mere exag
gerations to enforce baseless argu
ment Is this view of Spain purely an
American view At one time this little
sun dried corner of Europe contained
about all there was of European
thought Then Ferdinand came and
burned the baths of Cordova because
he said Christians never bathed Then
this corner was the seat of power for
several generations Then it began to
go to ruins What it is to day an article
in the National Review a London pub
lication indicates somewhat vividly
Decadent Spain is the title This ia
what it says Spam is not only de
void of progressive spirit but she can
not muster up sufficient energy to gov
ern herself She is the most backward
country in Europe The people are
shamefully taxed a peasant emnot
bring his load of faggots into a town
without paying octroi toll The admin
istrative departments are oriental 111
their sloth and management Fresh
butter is obtained from France The
postal service is a disgrace It is a
risky thing to post a letter especially
if it seems to contain anything of val
ue To send a check by post is regard
ed as an extreme act of folly The pass
ing traveler on his way through Mad
rid to France is asked by his friends to
take letters and post them in security
over the border Yet no Spaniard seem-
to care for any of tOiese things and is
surprised if they are remarked on
One remedy for the dodging of taxes
ou personal property suggested by Gen
eral Harrison is entitled to something
more than casual consideration It is
that a meeting of the tax commission
ers of a considerable number of States
be held to consult as to some plan for
the taxation of personal property that
will secure a uniform system One of
the embarrassments at the present time
is that when a State undertakes to
adopt a plan which will increase the
taxation of certain classes of property
it becomes a serious loser by the re
moval of those who are taxed under
such a system New Jersey is said to
be the paradise of New York tax dodg
ers Ohio is said to have lost a num
ber of wealthy citizens because the
State undertook to tax them One was
so incensed not long ago that he dis
posed of all his property in Ohio and
left the State in something of a huff
Tax commissioners like insurance and
labor commissioners could meet con
sider plans and finally adopt some one
of them This plan they could recom
mend to the Legislatures of the States
represented and thvreby a uniform sys
tem for more adecttate taxation could
be secured Taxation is not one of the
topics which the people generally dis
cuss They complain of local taxation
but when the topic is discussed it is
lederal taxation usually the taxation
of the poor to pay for bonds This may
be important but compared with local
taxation it is inconsequential The
agitation of the topics which General
Harrison has brought to the front iu
neighborhoods in village or township
meetings for the purpose would call
public attention to the injustice in a
manner which could not fail to be gen
erally beneficial
A Xew Envelope
An envelope for carrying merchan
dise through the mails is so construct
ed with reversible flaps and a stiffen
ing strip attached to the closing flap
that the inside of the envelope may be
come the outside and the same enve
lope used to return merchandise in the
same manner in which it was forward
ed
A good many people make hay while
the sun shines and then let it spoil
Reform Is used for almost as many
purposes nowadays as electricity
BBoamm
iztjl sjsj i klojsdike shipping
will be that American ships will soon
be permitted to penetrate the very
heart of the richest part of China and
American commerce will be exceed
ingly shortsighted unless it joins in the
exploitation of this land of great com
mercial promise This triumph of En
glish diplomacy may be looked upon as
of immense value to the whole English-speaking
world ourselves as well
A million bobolinks killed last year
Four million other birds slaughtered ic
the same year and for what That
their torn and distorted bodies might be
flaunted in the headgear of Americai
womankind There are no guess worii
figures but the official report of the Au
dubon Society of Massachusetts And
what does it mean It means five mill
ion voices stilled in Natures aviar
choir Five million flashes of cheeri
ness and gladness taken from humar
life and millions of other young lives
doomed to starvation or prey in ordei
that the plumaged corpse of the mur
dered mother bird may be rent by 2
milliner and jammed in hideous
in miladys hat Ah milady
is there no efficacy in these desolating
figures Is there no mercy in your
heart no conscience in your make up
no sentiment in your soul Can you
enjoy the finest opera when you think
that the killing of the birds with which
you and your sisters are crowning your
beauty is gradually silencing the grand
oratorio of the forest and the fields A
birdless country A voiceless forest
Wtiat a desolation it would be And
yet that is just what this country is
coming to if -the song birds of our land
are to be killed off at the rate of five
millions a year in order to gratify fem
inine vanity and keep woman In
style What a grewsorae hideous
conscienceless style it is that mur
ders melody and silences the lark that
sings from Heavens gate
GREAT DEAL OF IT IS OF THE
OLD TUB ORDER
The Old Indian Method of Traversing
the Waves by Canoe Is Again in
Vogue Chilcoot Pass Electric Road
Kept Busy Information as to Rates
Regiments of Men Seek Passage
About 10000 men are sailing each
month from Tacoma and Seattie on the
regular passenger steamers for Juneau
Sknguay and Dyea Forty five trips were
scheduled for February and March and
to these must be added the voyages made
by schooners and sailing craft of all sorts
Every kind of craft in Seattle and Ta
coma even to canoes is hiring out for
Skaguay and Dyea Canoes will carry
one all right if properly managed The
Alaska Indians have been coming down
every summer since 1S39 for the hop-picking
season on Paget sound paddling 1500
miles down and back again The canoe
business has come to life again therefore
and Indian cauoemen command high
wages
To Tacoma a city of perhaps 40000
persons which was until recently in finan
cial distress neterinc out its
bottom Eastern investors said 10000
men a month passing through and leaving
dollars for outiits means a great deal
Houses that have been empty since the
boom burst in 1S90 are full now and ho
tels that have been closed for the last
three years are crowded with guesls The
same is true in Seattle where rents have
advanced twenty to fifty per cent
The transportation business is paying
as good returns as the best Klondike
claims Indeed a boat is a far better in-
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SHIPPING KIOXD1KE DOGS
vestment than a claim Mr High Wal
lace of Tacoma a son-in-law of Chief Jus
tice Fuller and president of the Chilcoot
Railroad and Transportation Company
rented the steamship City of Seattle last
fall for 1500 a month She carries 023
passengers and 400 tons of freight and
makes the trip to Dyea in 70 hours She
had gone out of commission and her own
ers were mighty glad to accept Wallaces
offer They are not so glad now however
as Wallace is clearing over 50000 a
month above expenses with a prospect of
no decrease hi business in the next three
years
Not one of twenty five steamers will
consider any more proposals for freight
unless the date is later than May 1 They
have absolutely every cubic foot of space
below deck and above already contracted
for Nor is there much chance to obtain
passage except on through tickets from
the East in which
case berths are reserv
ed
TheTacoma company that has built an
electric road in the Chilcoot nass is al-
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HORSES GOING ON BOARD AT SEATTLE
ready transporting freight and has more
business than it can handle Its capacity
is 150 tons daily or outfits for about 300
men The line consists of a railway from
Dyea to Ganyon City and thence an aerial
tramway to Sheep Camp and from Sheep
Camp over the summit 3500 feet above
sea level to Crater lake which has an ele
vation of about 3000 feet From Crater
lake a stream flows into Deep lake and
this empties into Long lake which in turn
empties into Lake Lindermann
The rates for passengers from Tacoma
Seattle Port Townsend Victoria and
Vancouver to Fort Wrangel are First
class 30 second class 20 to Juneau
first 35 second 22 to Haines Mission
Skaguay and Dyea first 50 second 35
This includes meals berth and 150 pounds
of baggage Extra baggage three cents a
pound Miners outfits are classed as
freight Freight rates are as follows To
Fort Wrangel S a ton of 2000 pounds
or of 10 cubic feet at the ships option to
Juneau 9 per ton to Haines Mission
Skaguay and Dyea 13 per ton horses
35 per head dogs 750 per head This
does not include lauding charges at the
port of destination
Another suggestion may be timely All
vessels dont leave Seattle or Tacoma on
schedule time Some of the old tubs delay
as long as ten days or two weeks They
do this because it takes so long to stop
he cracks in the hull and fix rotten ma
chinery or rigging With them its a
clear case of paying your money and tak
ing your chances both of starving and
getting there
HIT BY A BLIZZARD
Nebraska in the Grip of an Intensely
Cold Wave
Throughout Nebraska the mercury reg
istered a drop of fifty degrees in tempera
ture between Monday noon and Tuesday
night During that time a severe blizzard
has raged in the State The mercury fell
to zero at many places A hurricane was
a leading feature of the stnrm fiiQ
attained a velocity of eighty seven miles
per hour at several points in the State
and in many localities the air was filled
with snow
1 Considerable damage was done by the
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wind to small buildings haystacks and
farm pronerty all over the State Rail
road traffic was delayed from five to ten
hours all over Nebraska the engineers
finding it impossible to make time against
the storm Freight trains were cut in
two sections and many trains of less than
a dozen ears were unable to move ou the
level prairie where the full force of the
wind was felt Much damage to stock
and winter wheat is apprehended There
was no snow on the fields to protect the
tender plants from the cold winds and the
prospects are that the growth will be not
only retarded but many fields wholly de
stroyed Much stock being fed in the
State had been permitted to run out on the
range by owners under the impression
that spring was here and this will be the
cause of much loss The loss to the sheep
herds is likely to be especially severe This
is the only really dangerous storm the
stockmen have had to encounter this sea
son
northwestern part of the State The aii
was so tilled with snow that it was impos
sible to see a distance of ten feet for sev
eral hours Many bunches of stock were
scattered and will net be gathered togeth
er for several days The weather has not
been cold enough to freeze cattle but
heavy loss is likely from the stock stam
peding in the storm running into and be
ing cut by wire fences straying beyond
the possibility of rounding up falling over
embankments running into ravines riv
ers etc
SIXTEEN MORE SHIPS
Naval Appropriation Bill Provides
for War Vessels
In the naval appropriation bill which
was reported to the House Tuesday and
referred to committee of the whole pro
vision is made for increasing the fighting
ability of the navy by the building of three
sea going coast line battle ships one of
which is to be named the Maine The
three vessels will be 11000 tons displace
ment each and will each cost 3000000
exclusive of armament
The construction of nix torpedo boat de
stroyers of 350 tons displacement and six
torpedo boats of 150 tons to cost exclu
sive of their armament a sum not exceed
ing 2340000 is also provided bv the
bill and a gunboat to take the place of
the Michigan will be built at a cost not
exceeding 200000 and will be stationed
on the great lakes provided her construc
tion shall conform to all existing treaties
and conventions
For armor for the ships authorized in
the bill and under construction an appro
priation is made of 5400800 provided
that the armor for the three ships author
ized by the act of June 10 1S90 shall not
cost to exceed 3210000 and no contract
for armor plate shall be made at an aver
age rate to exceed 400 a ton including
nickel For equipment of the new vessels
authorized 175000 is appropriated
The bill provides that the contracts for
the construction of the new vessels shall
be awarded by the Secretary of the Navy
to the lowest responsible bidder having
in view the best
resources and most expe
ditious delivery The total amount car
ried in the bill is 35GS3059 The
nriations for the current vcar were 531
01SG27 and the estimates for the year
ending June 30 1S00 furnished by the de
partment aggregated 3312S234
FORTY LIVES LOST
Bark Helen W Almy Wrecked at Sea
Off the Golden Gate
Forty lives are believed to have been
lost a few miles outside the Golden Gate
by the capsizing of the bark Helen W
Almy during a storm Twenty seven of
those lost were passengers bound for Cop
per river ports and other points in tin
Alaskan gold fields The other thirteen
were the captain and crew of the vessel
When the first intimation of the wreck
was brought to San Francisco the tug Sea
Witch was dispatched to the point indi
cated The bark lay upon her starboard
side with her stern low down in the
er her deck hamper badly wrecked and
several planks of her hull washed loose
by the seas which broke over her While
there were no signs of beats among the
wreckage it is not believed that her pas
sengers and crew escaped by putting oil
i om ttie vessel in them Furthermore
no word has been
received from the sur
vivors if any exist
According to the tugboat men there
was a pretty stiff breeze when the Almy
sailed out of Golden Gate on Sunday anil
by noon it Avas blowing a gale She left
under topsails- and when last seen wa
standing out for an hng There was a
heavy sea running and it is supposed that
some time during the night she was struck
by a squall and turned turtle
The Helen W Almy was once a south
sea trader and was iiiile famous for her
many adventures among the reefs The
vessel uas in good condition for an old
vcsel She was on the dry docks some
lays before being put on the berth and
her owners spent S000 in repairing her
She had a temporary house on deck
When the Almv left port she had twentv
fivo tons of ballast in her besides the
provisions of the passengers and theii
outfits She was a vessel of only 250
tons
FIXING FOR WAR
Dona Eusli Work Day and Night on
Naval Vessels
Late advices received by the Navy De
partment from its representatives abroad
describe in detail the extraordinary ef
forts which are being put forth by tht
Spanish naval authorities in preparing foi
war
On the cruiser Cristobal Colon 150G
men it is declared have been at wort
night and day for a fortnight past mat
ing that ship ready for service The ar
mored cruiser Carlos V is now at Havre
France where she has just received from
the French cannon maknr n -
enormous eleven inch rifles These gum
fire projectiles weighing about 500 pounds
with a range of twelve and one half miles
The eleven inch
guns are mounted oni
forward and one aft In addition Canc i
has furnished the Carlos V with a broad
side battery made up of 55 inch rapid fir
guns The projectiles employed weigt
about seventy pounds and the rate of fin
is auour twelve shots per minute
A bill is pending in the Canadian ParlH
ment imposing a poll tax of 500 on eaci
Japanese immigrant
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ENORMOUS DAMAGE DONE BY
RAGING FLOODS
Indiana and Ohio the Chief
by Inundations TVhich in Some Sec j
tions Have Reached an Unprece
dented Height Traffic Suspended
Iennle Driven from Home
Flood damage reaching into the millions--of
dollars is reported throughout Indiana
and Ohin Thmisnnili nf fnmlits ire
homeless and many of them are dependent
upon charity Many cities report that the -water
is at the highest stage ever known
Illinois Missouri Pennsylvania and West
Virginia also report rivers turned into
raging torrents but in those States the
damage thus far done is comparatively in
significant
Two railroad wrecks have resulted from
washouts One was in Ohio where a Bal
timore and Ohio passenger train went
through a bridge near Frazeysburg The
other and the more serious one was near
Columbus Iiid where a wrecking train
met disaster
Property loss in Indiana will exceed
1000000 All the streams are overflow
ing their banks hnnsos nnrl riiilrnnr -
tracks have been washed away and grow
ing crops have been seriously damaged
Near Greensburg the loss of two lives ia -reported
Franklin has 200 homeless faim
Hies to care for while Shelbyville has 300-
and Rushville 150 These are slmply
sample figures from entire hoosierdonu
Throughout central and southern Ohio
all the railroads are either crippled or
totally disabled The damage in the State
may amount to 1500000 Dayton re
ports the conditions worse than at any
period since 1860 when the central part
of that populous city was inundated Del
aware has four business blocks under
water and a much wider territory threat
ened Canal Dover is cut off from the
outside world and unless the waters sooik
subside many lives will be placed in
ardy The list of homeless in Zauesvillef
foots up to 4000 In Columbus 2000 per
sons are imprisoned in the upper stories off
dwellings in the western part of the cityj
An idea of the flood conditions in
ous sections can be gleaned from
press dispatches given below
Indiana
The White river is still rising
The Richmond electric light plant is -drowned
out
The canal north of Warsaw overflowed -
Uoodmg the entire vicinity
Between 100 and 150 Itushville families -have
been driven from their homes
At St Paul the Bickhart flour mills
have been washed out and destroyed
The property loss in Decatur County is
about 100000 and two lives have been
lost in the flood
Several bridges on the Big Four and
Cambridge railroads are out as well as
ten miles of roadbed
The loss to the farming community
around Shelbyville is estimated at from
100000 to 200000
Many important towns are temporarily
cut off and trains have been entirely
uoneu on some roads
The northeastern section of Indianapolis
is submerged and many people have been
driven from their homes or forced to the
second stories
Between thirty and forty miles of track
of the Louisville division of the Pan
Handle are washed away between Louis
ville and Indianapolis
Ohio
Hundreds are homeless at Newark
At Cincinnati the Ohio will probably
reach fifty five feet
Floods have caused a shutdown of near
ly every factory in Hamilton
H C Boss was killed as a bridge col
lapsed in Muskingum County
Four thousand Zanesvillnnonnto km
been driven from their homes and few of
them saved auy household effects
Four squares of Delaware business
houses are under water and scores of
wagon and foot bridges have been carried
away
Nearly all railroads in central and south
ern Ohio are either crinnlod or iu
abled because of washouts or destroyed
bridges
The Tuscarawas river has broken loose
m one of the biggest floods ever known
and Canal Dover is entirely cut off from
the outside world
A bridge over the Wakatomika creek at
Frazeysburg gave way while a Baltimore
and Ohio passenger train was crossing
and the whole train was submerged Pas
sengers crawled to the tops of the cars
and were soon taken away by farmers iu
skiffs No one was seriously injured
MANY ARE KILLED
Train Plunges Through a Waahed Ont
Trestle in Indiana
Shortly before 6 oclock Wednesday
evening a work train loaded with official
and workmen plunged through a trestle
one mile south of Columbus Ind on tho
Louisville division of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Several were killed The men
had been at work repairing the track
which had been washed out in many
lcs uw ign waters and were on
their way to the southern part of the
road
The work train had passed over the
railroad bridge just south of Columbus
and the engineer opened the throttle He
thought the danger was past Following
the engine was a combination coach with
seals in each end the middle for baggage
Behind this was a caboose The mem
were all in the coach Just a mile from
the railroad bridge was a frame trestle
which had been weakened by tlie hi h
water Upon this structure the train
plunged and almost instantly disappeared
Ihen began a struggle for life The
window panes were broken and the men
escaped with broken limbs and bruisedT
bodies The enzinppr crnn inri --
of Ins ooiler and lay there until rescued
with both legs broken The fireman
caught in a tree in the river The acci
dent was witnessed by a throng of sight
seers The work of rescue was conducted
under the greatest difficulty
Tust a few minutes before the wreck
occurred a train load of Madison teachers
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Haute passed along
The North German Gazette has publish
ntS deDial of the storr that Em
peror T ilham
at
a private dinner
party
last week
declared
that so long
as he is
JJe German emperor the United State
fcball not
possess themselves of Cuba
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crinnl
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around his garden in an invamTs chaTr
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