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THE SEA LE of much activity, The boring of the STAN. wedges, Me ina aR "4 THE SEATTLE STAR WN 4T TONE (TINTS Seka holes for the bolts to hold the framos and then dragged the rest of the one * as \ \ was done very carefully, aithough \ ()' (A \ way by bund: ‘i of en pec Ae, ol TACOMA DEFEATED. 1. B, WELLS & CO., Pudlishers. ehevye to a certain degree. No d b | mado tor Bs purpose, which were faisieaineuindaipin _— Prd ane to Mowe b dene matte tione | covered w eaWwoe Jeing ro! | Every afternoon except Sunday ; | were pushed, ry tol TRIN a -. |e on an tn ned piave to the top {City of Destiny Was Not in it. withdraw the augers ecoasionally to | o © platfoy they were set u | | remove the shavings. The holes Pr In the workshop outside the ps With Our Men. | | FHM og /* fostshinon FOr Capital Fund are More Than 500 are 14 Inches in diameter, sunk inte the da and at the foot of the mountain At the bowling tournament Satur ne Cent per copy; AIX Cents per we: | lead mat two fw The amidahip | there are 16G-statues, . “Wub defeated | ontptike Conta per month Welivored Jand after sections of tho keel plato | It {8 obvidis that the number of nt the e . wis goad rion, always in advance, No free nsa able were fastened and the holes for the | H workmen employed in these quar one Ath et a eet ‘ ‘ forward seetion are about all bored. | iscovere ries must have been very great,|#ames by 172 pins, In a sevre oF Pike 160 The keel plates have been well| Py | That some Gemendour catast 1060 to 878. ©. A, McKenzie broke ~ Third Avenue - [amoothed up and shine with greator ‘oa ieee el nae SEDANS 0 | the tournament record for totals, ~ “ ‘briltianey than when they arrt i « nelr moi seems to be yond ore OT hela Entered at the postoM@ce at Seattle, Washing {from the Hridgeport foundry question, ant the likelihood ts that his snore being 90, agsinnt 204 hei oe it wan a vobanic eruption. This it|¥Y Oregon Hoad Club of Portland |, AM vcond eless Matter THEYRE FIP ONLY POR GRAZING wreat many frames for the ne SS UPON SMALL SOUTH SEA ISLAM are already ent to the proper shape, m that overthrew all SEATTLE ATHLETIC CLUB. may have ‘Tho aetion of Secretary of War Al- | but ‘the images destroyed the inhabi T'tais - up to yesterday afternoon none a i ger, in oMctally alleging that ‘Atanka | twas eet As ‘4 . | © - | tants, eg? ty : wiped out all ne 2 bigaal ig a9 . | rp a it he a al The com . > or | trees on t island Though the urehill . | 27 9 2 » gold hunting js & hasten segni nas “| Mining Man From Okanogan County , ce pra eae gel aged “ - ~ soll of the id is very rich, al-) MeKenaie a | GO} sn snare, ts certainly open to criticlam, | poo Py ° . r Pp my in a fow days, 3 van Story of tho Strange Raco Toot inowt the oply trues are very dwarf. | Gillett | 49 | 154 ol jort end ty 7 ore . Me upaghs of the many dleappointed | ehaatey a hig |Stout the tipokomith shop watil they | Corved the Images and inh, being Bot more than ten feet in|Cole .. nf aT 44 | 119 te " men whoare in the Yukon country, | of the Soil. lare needed for seting up. Gome| Soriched, height and two or three inches in| Howes . | 0 4596 ‘e and of the comparatively small num. | \ handed ‘frames ete alady aune tei ‘orished, | diamet The wood of these trees Total) 70 | ber who have succeeded tp finding | ™ the ke n ia ae a and he used “4 the is, TACOMA ATHLETIC © | ; “ * ee rox - -- anders today in the manufacture of Brontalin pines. nee then eclemaly | ows. Feb. 27. c Jonn Hastie — on | chavdar gh ane ert household gods. = Such gods are| Parsons [a2 | 96) 45 | 48 | 18 declares that Alaska is not what it) TACO horde ODD HIABtIe, | ee ane ie ne deed in the raid. |. Recent exploration ou Mastor Is) | rudely e@ved aad hideous imits | Tonsey +-| 48 | 62 | 31 | 30 | 2€ ts cracked up to be ‘ormerty of Puyallup, but now en- | * rt raed hue Neue * for and—-that mysterious rock in th tions of the human form, two or | Tinling | 28 | 96 | 46 | 34 | 148 The mere fact that many men | £46ed In mining operations in Ok- | C108 TMA eee ee ehipped |Bouthern Pacific where such won. | three feet in length, with preposter:|Griges | 36 | 42 | 49 | 36 | 162) Dave failed to strike rich deposits |*OKaN county and the Chelan din- | ¢, rd piabules ¥ shipped derful stone giants and other pre- | ous as efppment of cheat. and pre |stut | 32 | 20 | 37 | 29 | ice | B ol le " re 7 it ur ol 5 | 32) 27) 2% that the ofa is scarce. It was to) Y8lue ef the capitol lands in the taken on during the past few days, discoveries, to be described in a| over theland. They have long and ae be expected from the outset that the | PUES: During his sojourn exst of the | majority of goldseckera would fai! Mountains Mr. Hastie has had ex: | and more ape to be hired next week fortheom! eo N In increasing the force in the at ortheoming bulletin of the Nation al Museum by Dr, George H. Cook department preterence was given to 4 surgeon in the United States nay sleader arms and lege, goaters and | of Human Hone, | prominant ears, The eyes of these UNIVERSITY HOTES. te their q and that only a few |Ceptional opportunitios for ascer-| inten jald off & few weeks ago would be ful, Such has been |tAining the value of the granted atate Not all have come back, however, Fre tngplen Band ale nate: | retenee nce ro cveaier the history all gold regions In | lands ret apart for capitol building many of them having secured work ble bit of terra firma, which i# situ {button @f bone which is cut from a| Arrangements are being made for California not more than ane pros. Purposes. A considerable portion of | in shops bulldine torpedo boats ated nearly on the Tropic of Cap | human skull, In a round hole in| an intercollegiate debate between pectors in teh found the @bid in pay- ‘hese lands ite in Okanogan and | Am the number hired the past ricorn, 2100 mi.es due west from the | the centre of this disk ts set althe University of Washington and | week were two skilled Mangers from South American coast. There were | piece of volcanic glass which, glist-|the Washington Agricultural Coller« ing onentittes, Yet who will say | Doughves counties, and as Mr. Has- that Califophla hasiproyedia faiture Me *Peaks of them from accurate | as a gold producing stat Up to Knowledge of their location and con. | the prepenfiaime Alaska hax made ‘ition, bis remarks are entitied to} an Koot a showing as any Kold bear WlEht. | ing rerion which has ever been pros. | “The state capttol butlding lands | pected. antl the work of exploration '8 that section.” said Mr. Haatte, Das but Just Begun. It te altogeth- “are returned by the board of state @F too Seon to pane Judgment on the ed opprainers at $10 per acre 1 mineral resources of the territory, WOuld not Elve $1.5 for them, be- | New York humerous caverns Hterally filled Work is progressing well in the with human bones and beneath the new satt loft on Murnside street. Asa platforms upon which the stone Hathaway te foreman in charge, and giants formerly stood were cham: | five sailmakern at work bers fillod with skeletons. The.whole there so far. A number of extra island, indeed, was a vast charoel woodworkers have been taken on house, and one subterranean vault within a week, They were set at Of vast size contained an immense work on amall steam launches and deposit consisting exclusively of fin-keet boats in the forth shop. skulls. The situation of the Easter there a) Moat No. 20, a 2-foot steam launch, Island in the trackless waste of the | Pacific in ening th the light, makes a fair im- \itatten of a pupfl, Skulls out of | which puch disks were cut were im- [by earlier explorers to afford ovids of prehistoric trephining. but Dr. Cooke discovers that t was amistake. |,. The bottom of the crater of Rana is oceppied by a lake of considerable 4 of such depth that sound es 300 feet long have falled 4 School of Science. Resolved, That tes” The question. the government of Great Britain is more responsive to public opinion than United #1 thet of the was . of W., and Pullman series of contests consisting of a pre- liminary semi-final and final con- te A, will be held to select the .oc: m This series will begin im- t A large part of its) mediately after the spring vacation which is the latter part of this week » componed of a thick in-|‘The final debate between the two singularly lonely, the leause thy 0 \bultt of mahogany. w shipped to Dut the Indications are row all ad ere es pa bev it Wind Cuba for the Lulied States govern earest land being 100 miles to th | pal body lien in Dougian coun- | CUBS fon [Ae Rae with a nuiber Vestward, It is only thirteen miles eee eee meee ity comp: m aren of several Jong b di . of other launches sent from Herre & by seven in width and scarcely | te from which spring | schools will be held in Seattle about With two steamship tines to the | WE ™ Davennort og ‘tg |shoffa’ she wit! be used in surveying © {ths Brome ohon i ery numerous id even small trees. | the first of May. It is hoped to Hawailgn islands and John P. May's gona uf the Columbia fiver, This Tvers in Cuba. Her speed Is four- ergy A “ Nerd numerous | r this floating and elastic car-| make this debate an annual feature a feet of sailing vensels rendexvousing land is sterile and absolutely unfe teen Knots an hour, Population. estimated | at not less | pet fattle setually graze, exhibiting |in the two schools. Much interes: a. at Seattle, It reaily begins to look as for ary purpose except the er The rudder frame and poste are jinn 20.000. and the pussle is to in |a very interesting Spectacle. = The/ig manifested in the event by local ei expected to be chipped to Herre- Le hat became of these people |lavg stream flowing through the| men snd local contests for places on who, judging from the astonishing | break tn the erater wall already de accumulations of skeletons, must! se has formed two small isl- have held occupancy for a great | ands off shore, Mutu Ni longth of time. They seem to have) Mutu Raukan. or or © ; though¢thie city ts to give San Fran- of cattle and sheep. [ts rock found: ‘ a eleco + sharp tussle for the island &ton is of banalt and over the whois | shots next werk for the pew gup ; trade, The time was not |: ago | Bes Dut a fow teolated acres can be |defender. These castings at ‘o- One SK! round that would be fit to cultivate. | hin bronae, bar ye gy fs phot 8 pert, Conn, w been of a race altogether different | ere are now only about 150 na- the California metropolis ha! These fow tracts li ie along the coulles * firm grip on Horclutu and thgt intersect the tract Many smeil castings of var from that of th re metals were received here this week tants and eineiny caviar < inhabl-| tives on the isiand—a degenera the team will be spirited This week ends the winter term's work. Examinations are being held in the various classe nee on each students’ siatus. The ti the region round about. but that If theme lands are worth $10 per rts the: oaceo peop! rd: was only because Beattie had not |a¢re tt is a curtous fact that adjoin. | for the new eum eras obol | Practiced sculpture of gigantic stat. | 9 t ‘toc the Teche waksen aa Tilley, Gnan tan F sania ‘ot i turns? ite attention in that diros- |'M* land. equally good, anit in mony ues of stone, the like of which have | thpugh apparently without Just | srugents azo prapartag co visit thet: | ’ ; }eases better, can be bought In large | never been found in any other part | grpund. t seems likely that the | . @tion As the passing months eo pe of the world. The qu | y homes at that time. i ae Ay eauage | racte at from $1.26 to $2.40 per acre, |, je (Of the world. The quaries in which | fale of the prehistoric race, so stran- ener pricoyge ped phe o Por ypcane nd that price is considemd almost bean Syst a wacainend eae ae from solid rock | gay wiped out, will forever remain| Ths much ted question of an Ada ed to the upon its back | prohioitory. n my just as they were left a mystery, though some light upon] omcial pin has at last been settled The some of San Francisco's ‘To the southwent and Mrthwest) @ Yon sentin Tells About the prehistoric artists, whose) the subject is thrown by certain | hy the representative council adopt- « commercial . and will drop |Of Lake Chelan there are also con- |" work neoms to have been brought to| wooden tablets bearing inscriptions |ing a design for one. It consists of | WOMAR always pri me hc Bound. Thia|*terable bodies of state capitol the Upper Skagit. . A sudden stop by ® calamity tha’ | ehich have been discovered and to scan the moving lands, but there are more worthlens, overwhelmed the island and wiped |an extent deciphered. In 1867 there | ited in with royal purp! globe during the léimfhal ‘The mines of Baker river country out nearly everything living on it | Fas @ population of 1500 souls on| center. in gold, is the that fol the € Vetoes ‘Ten years re leven, than the Douglas county tract the great city of Rorthweat, if | because it is equally sterile and so|are reeuming operations and the Gigantic Statates. Easter Island, and so recent): . 3 y as orre: whe oF the Eattr Peiins cose, iti [Rina a te anally, sterile, and 20 |e ee of proapectors nes ont in thar| The voyager who might have ap-|ises p00 of thom were left. In 1816 | sce "S'e mow: Ueing plactd im. the] ten tue attentid be located at this point. |Doses is greatly lessened. In mylway. A. von Presentin, of Sauk |Proached Easter Island 400 years |600 of these were taken to Tahiti | hands of the students by H. R. Har- | ters. pub! + ithe —_— |Juderment this land ts absolutely un-| minty who ip in the city, says that |ago would are Witeeasee a remark-|tnder contract to work the sugar Fea rm he STAR appreciate es leable at ; Ad able spectac’ He woul: i fons, three # says that ands set aside | rien te ee the i puttaing [Company has fust placed twenty-| shore, great platforms of hewn |misstonaries to settle the Gambier|pery of that clans, The pin consis At and krown are not/ scheme lay «reat stress upon the |five tons of pipe and ten tons of stone and on them rows of stone jarchipelago. Up to 1864 cannibal- aren elaborate design in Directness off worth they are ft| value of the capitol timber Iands| nails on the ground fore a huge statues with their faces toward the /ism is known to have been practic: purple. bearing the words only for ands were | West of the Cascades,” continued Mr.| qume which will be erected soon yee preemting so many te ed, w ee ie eelected ago. It might eae ee Regge tinennd a Ber tae ee says that the Darrington mines mires. eeping. eeenel Will be a goticeat ony > al 4 vet = | i i interesting first WEY Wart ee eee tion to ther te the fece|on Sauk river have begun opera- “God Bless Our Ho et tS ee ak nee inure less lands Ghoeen when thereithat they are inaccessible at the| tions, alse the Government Stamp Washington spectal—An assistant! sriiy This was the last in a/ Saphing ds ii from forty to sixty feet secretary of one of the executive abt. This, Indeed, was thé departments, who is known from rm is a wide paved space, ag Maine to the const as the chief spel!- largest and most imposing of alk binder of the administration, and It was eight feet in height. nine feet whose honeyed words held the Re- these days, as 0 time fashion of ups'’ and editoti HE STAR will haw sense of four lectures given by pro- fessors of the Univermty. Prof. Doubt was assisted in his lecture by David Kelly. were thousands of acres of 700d soll present time and the cont of reach that could have been selected and set | ioe them would be more than the aside for this Purpose. logg are worth. Besides the North rn Pacific is selling Just as good! and Nip and Tuck Mey Owing to the low price of logs that pia | industry will be & standstid until “ Thomas, J. P. ‘The colons are stil! plugging away | imber land 18 Lewis and Chehalis at Olympia and the lobby, or thir | jang can be rearhed at the present hous, seems to have jut as many | a ro that the more remote state | eritics as during previous sittings lsode ¥ not worth more, | ‘The moat agkressive ones this year |!f Dalt. } represent an element that two years | complacently gazed upon the opera- tions of the lobby. and had not « word to say against its pernicious muc! a eet | Matinee Mats. As in other Evropean capitals, the large matinee hat has been a source of trouble in Athens, Greece, and among its theater-going people. the annoyance caused by Kyrios Trianta-phyliacon, the interior, te memensiameteted Dewey says that he wants the!) Oregon at Manilla “for political reas- that the new minister of ons.” Emperor Witliam ie said to be found It necess-ry to adopt strin In spite of | scowling over his English phrase gent measures. Accordingly, he is book fn am effort to ascertain just "eed orde sainet hate as theatri- ieipah ‘talinea bade journals, without distinction of par- | o-oo this the ladies protested, and the | HUMBOLT GOES ORTH rule resulted in several comt- jcal scenes. Here is an account of lolis: “The other day a lady, ele- On Her Second Trip to Skag- | gantly attired, arrived at the thea-| er. jan official politely recalled to her ‘ea sd 5 eidin ester the new regulation The offended | @ay on her second trip to Skagway. ness of the headgear, but the official j and a freight cargo. The ma. |*?d in a loud voice vowed that she bed ston | would be revenged. She entered the | for the Porcupine district and others | ous" nat at all. But her hair, which | for Lake Bennett. | was luxuriant, was done up in such wha construction to put upon ad- |‘! Performances. All the Greek | ty, supported bib action. lone of them reported in the Acrop- She wore a very small hat, but | way Yesterday. lady drew attention to the minut heaving on board over 10 passengers | Wan inflexible. The lady protested, | Jority of the passengers were bound |thegter on the succeeding day with The Humboldt goes to Skagway !a way as to form a veritable moun- Qe etopping at no intermodiats| tain. The official was nonpluasel, | Palle’ Nunareds of yeah eae lm’ | for cannibal feasts on a large scale. |hie mind. A small position in one| tific men. He spent years in Aiting port other than Mary island. ‘The 4nd those seatsd behind the lady] wii) prevail without any change | There is no mystery as to the or-|of the departments would do him | himself for scientific exploration and :\igin of the statues, {nasmuch as|and would make me very happy.” | then acquired experience in the field (@) N Ee M , were beard to express their prefe: ence for a small hat and no hair.” 1 of the Yacht Has” passenger Foltz, Mrs. F. A. Bennett, Olle Lar- Georgs Demars, C, Demars E, A. Anderson, E. O'Hereins. J.T 4 gag Ki, Andersor. Robert in Laid. Lee, E Wognolld, C. J. Anderson, A. | keel of the cup defender that was ‘Wagner. and seventeen second cab. materially alters the Het was as follows: Mrs. son, Trank Rourk, N. Larson, E | oi vost. D. W, Walker, Mrs, D. W ‘ ‘Walker, Hans Engeseth, J. Ware, ° ‘Wagners, Ed Hamilton, Oia Hamil- ton, J. T. Terry, BE. L. Whiford, & he A. M. Donaldson, N. Oison,| At the Herreshoft boat shops at ©. Aockurse, E. Floating, J. | Bristol, Fhode Island, the lead} Jestiand, J. Gunderson, H Pailey,| moulded last month has undergone K. O. Hangren, B. A. Tocken, ft. | change during the past week that in and fifty-one steerage. [ite surface, both as rega and the top. Its sides at the wide present | grow land geologists are not agreed as to ptices tone up, says Mr. Von Pree sentin. Shingle mille have all re- platforms remain, but all the st sumed operations, having ves have been thrown down and it cloned down during the recent cold | scattered about. In front of easy weather, He states that if the bill form in a wide paved cpace, ap introduced by Senator Emmerson 1 otly designed to afford standing Hammer, of Skagit county, is pase. | room for a considerable multitude ed, granting an appropriation ot, It was formerly supposed that the $10,000 for a wagon road from What- Statues were gods, worshiped as om to Ruby Creek, the trade from idols, {t now appears thoy mere wide and 540 feet long. Today the been lthe East side which has always cone | !Y represent chiefs and other distin guished personages, being. in fact portraits ip stone, some of them evi dently females. Whichever their to Spokane merchants would come to Beattlc. A lerge influx of peo- ple is soon expected, a8 so many ad- vantages are being offered. | x. they commonly wore on their —_— j heads cylinder-shaped crowns of a | reddiah voleanic tufa, which separ- About Diamonds. jeely weighed two or three tons © “The diamond may be +xhausted | Crowns Weighed Tons. in time and de an attraction it may | Piece. The figures less favorable,” eaniained «| each having the form of the upper leading jewel to & Washingtor half of a human being.are of Star reporter, “but there is no tndi- | la The whole island being of cation of ether of these propost- | Volcanic origin, there is no lack of tions being verified at the present this material, which is rather soft time. Indeed diamonds are today | 4nd therefore well adapted for car- plentior than they ever were, and | Ying with the stone tool evidently consequently cheaper; but instead of | employed by the prehistoric artists taking a background they are stilt) No fewer than 655 of the statues at the front of the Jewelry business, | have been found. ‘The platforms It is wonderful how many are cut ion which they originally stood usu- and sid and how th demand for |#lly contain chambers filled with them grows. Thew bear the same | Skeletons, the bodies of the dead posit today as they did 600 years consigned to these sepulchers hav- ago as an ornament. Other stones | 08 been wrapped in dry grass and have thelr reign for years or reasons laid with their heads toward the but the diamond hae never for a mo- | 2C¢4n. In some instances the plat- ment been dethroned. The three forms are provided with great oven- like receptacles, which may have tor wi h - 4 Fae eae aioe ego tne | been utilized, as has been surmised, and there is as much mystery and ignorance about them as ever, for even ot this day and time scientists any of them are found in tous stages of completion in the quarries which served as workshops for turn- ing them out. The largest of the voleanic mountains on Easter Iel- and iy Rana Roraka, which js 1327 feet high and has a crater four-fifths of a mile in diameter, The edge of the crater forma a nearly perfect circle, broken only at a point on the south side, through which the lava stream, when the volcano was act- ive, found its way to the sea, Ing side of the crater the cliffs have been cut into terraces by the imagé kers and here and there one rees a stone giant half finished, or near- ly réady to receive the final touches from the artist's tool, Other stat- their origin, though the majority opinion is that they are of a vege- table origin. The carat in diamond: thonet four diamond grains, welghs but « little over three and a quarte= «rains troy. The vaiue of # diamord is increased with the square of ite weight In carats, A two-carat stone is four times the value of a*ono- carat stone, and a three carat nine timer the ue of @ one-carat stone. This arrangement goes on without limit, ond if it is remembered, a very good Iden can be had of the value of a stone by ite weight. It is welgit themselves, | © publican forces tn line west of the Mississippi in the late elections, used | his forensic art will telling effect in the daily administration of affairs connected with his department, as well ae when he pleads his own aune before the powers that be. A few deys after the inauguration he secured the promise of a fat job ‘and returned to his far western home. Me reaprrared in Washing- ton @ week or two later with a hand [satchel and a smile. Since then he |has been moving his family here in seotions. and has done it In such a nice way that no one can object. His first plea was for his brother. He was a nice young man, full of zlous to succeed in the ‘anted to learn how to run the government and was willing to start out on ever so small a sal- ary. Brother was brought on and given a $1,200 job in one of the de- partments. But the anaistant secretary began to pine and waste away, and al- though he smiled, it was tn a far- away manner. He was thinking of home. Finally he could bear it no longer. He unbosomed himself to the secretary. “Washington in no! home without father,” he said. “T have never been separated from him for #0 long a period before. I should Ike to have him with mo; but father ts peculiar; he wants to have a little something to occupy at all lke Father is now carrying massive reports In book form from place to piace In the basement of the de- partment and drawing wages as a skilled laborer. The assistant secretary next call- od to his side the driver of one of the delivery wagons at the depart- ment, about the noon hour, and spoke to him. “1 would ike you to go to the depot and deliver a parcel at my houne,” he said. ‘The writer was delighted a sctarted at once. Hours afterward he returned, dripping with perspira~ tion, completely fagged out and sat down on berch, softly saying sal Hedin Goi Dr. Sven in a wer! ago, and made nome striking di: coveries, among which were ruins, in one of the deserts of Chinese Turkestan, of some Bud- hist cities antcdating the Moham- medan inv: have read his book telling the story . Which was one of the most fruitful of recent yea: Prob- ably the number of those who have read his still more valuable record of the acientific results of his work is much smaller. 1 plements of Peterman's gen last y completed his scientific record Dr. Hedin began preparations for coming journey Kashgar tn Chinese Turkestan .his starting point, and will again cross, by a different route, the Taki an desert, in which he nearly perish- ed with thirst on his lasc journey. He expects to spend next winter In northern Thibet, and plans, the fol- lowing summer, to cross thi; plateau in the world from north to south, emerging tn India. ion. Medin will start for Thibet early next spring. He en- remarkable journey q to Thidet. to east a few years Many Americans it filled several sup- ttellun~ As soon as he had his He will make Mak- loftiest This young man could not travel before he undertook original inves- tgatian) work is not superficial The in any little known part of the world without bringing home results that would gladly be welcomed by scien- result is that his Two other explorers, Dr. Futterer the northern pa weat to east, an Englishman, covered the sou! River in the northwest part of that country. and Dr. Holderer, have just crossed rt of Thibet from 4 late last year the Captain Deany, rees of the Khotan The enormous growth of the or. ange cultivating industry tn Call- fornia in recent yea is demon- strated by the fact that in 1880-81 a total of 15 cars laden with the frult were shipped east from River. side, Cal whiie in the season of would @yve a person the Idea that|in the first place and aise in the t secretary. 7 Alocohol in Army. ft eche Wares taux from the tact of | bat” che dean Onteniation nardiy | Croce the trckiy wale an"e-oeetionin: half a cartoad of| 1897-98 the shipments amounted to ‘The British authorities some time its being sheathed with bronze plates | applies to anything ¢ that is|ary to beginning the work of seulp- | furniture from the far western] 4700 cars. ago made a test of the alleged value | from the tom half away up to of alcohol when men are subjected the top. The sheathing is quite to unusual and exhausting labor. | thin, and is laid on and serewed to ts were made at different | the lead in a workmanlike manner. under varying conditions| The work of sreathing was begun three regiments from each of at the bottom of the lead keel and the several brigades. In one every | carr! whatever while the test last- | ones, similar to the system followed ; im the second malt Mquor only |in shingling a house. The fasten- taken: in the tl ‘aration of ings are placed close to the edge of | ‘was given to each man. The | the overlapping plates, and are very drinkere manifested more | close together. The lower plate is first, but generally in about | turned under snd secured with | showed signa of weakness bronze screws. The work being ; thone given malt liquor smooth and neatly finished leaves t p fash at first, but the lower part of the underbody | of blows on the ear not included in| from which It had been carved, In- their endurance lasted somewhat | with the slightest degree of resist- the part, he extemporized as follows: side of the crater there are ninety hands and stalked to ‘ | ¢indow, longer, while the abstainers im-|ance to be pushed through th | "You vile acamp of @ variet, there | statues forty of which are ready to| Where he wrote on the We wood- In magnitude of assortment, combined proved daily in nlertness and stay-|ter, The work of sheathing the low- js nothing you think of! There you | be conveyed to their platforms on | work: ia with littleness of price, as shown ing powers. er half of the lead keel t# about all! stand quietiy listening to the ver- | the coast Necessarily the labor |O maiden of the amy-? dropping ate Price, as s the German army experiments | completed, A few days more Cad| min squeaking In the house and / involved in the process of transpor- hair, The upper the with sugar, which i# the job will be finished, claimed to have such at sus-| half will pot be vovered taining powers that | tis proposed work of plating the hutl begins. until to serve it as at extra ration when| All week the top of the lead keel|ing, ‘Thy audience broke out in loud to be carried great distances over 1 might dace Gtron Top Coat Hous@ in the Egat are in course applause and no subsequent attempt Lvary irregular ntry, it is bellev:| To breathe out pabans, borne up- 2 First Ave.. Cor lumbia, By t was a scene | was male to hiss the . od that they were lowered down the 69 y wieh, ' upward so that the lower |guffered # man was forbidden to drink any al- plates are lapped under the upper | of his colli known ofthat is, where weight and nize are factors.” ——-— 13 1 to the Occasion. ture. On the outer slope of the crater It another and even more extensive workshop, and here other incom: plete statues are found, Just as in Michelot, the famous comedian, | Egypt, in the quarries of Syens, the ‘eat deal from the spite greatest of the obelisks still Hes un- gues, and found It neces- | finished, so in this workshop out- sary to be on the alert at every per- | side the crater, may be seen the formance. On @ certain occasion he | biggest of the images found on the had to scold o servant in one of How They Were Made, Mollere's playa, when the “claque,” | island, still adhering to the bedrock whieh had been bribed by his riv and measuring seventy feet in began to hin. length, The last step in the pro Michelot was by no means discon- | cess of sculpture was to cut the back certed. Giving the servant a couple of the statue away from the rock tation must have been enormous, in- images, weighing never trouble yourself to get the rat | |asmuch as the from twelve to forty tons each, bad sont” The effect of (his sally was strik- home, which ts now, with the excep- | the residence, entirely Tocat- ed i Washington.—New York World, . “Drunk With Thy Beauty.” Charles Dickens once had an ar- t with a friend about Byron’ ssion, “Drunk with thy beau- to which he made great objec- py ty,’ tion. During the discussion the nov- list gazed as if enraptured at his airod Waughter, who room, AtMast he sprang struck a diame ‘Atti: tude, clasped hie heart th his | Would 1, Byronteajly, thy praise | might utter! | Drunk with thy beauty, would that J, REDELSHEIMER & CO, OT A HOUSE Bits To suure The SHor Ts At Don’t doubtit for ong 4 paper will not cl on earth with the “i tion’’—that is, not the effort will be m improve it. please remember tha telephoned to the o will be much subscribers. It In Seattle or STATE that shows the real s F _~ BOX EFFECT Ton Cr

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