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This doea apply to resident agents of this naper who are located in various cities and towns of the Northwest, nor to postmasters, who are in all cases authorised to take subscriptions for the Daily, Sunday and Weekly POST-IK nr. Amp, MAT 7. THE SCHOOL ELECTION. The people have rejected by small but decisive majorities both propositions submitted to them by the board of school directors. They have instructed the board not to purchase the balance of the block selected for the high school site, and not to erect on that part of the block already purchased a high school to cost $125,000.

Inasmuch as the board thought it desirable to submit these propositions to the people, they will undoubtedly be governed by their decision. It is safe to assume, therefore, that no immediate steps will be taken to erect a building to cost $125,000 for high school purposes. It is not probable that the decision of the people against the propositions submitted can be taken as an indication that they are not in favor of the maintenance of a high school. Many people voted the propositions because tbey thought the price asked for the site was too high, snd because they honestly believed that $125,000 was too much money to expend at this time for a building. More money, fiowever, will doubtless have to be expended before many years in the purchase of land and in the erection of a high school.

at this time the question has been settled by the court of last people, and there is nothing to but to abide by their decision. THE HYSTERICAL FRAUD. The Rochester (N. ITxrald tha other day printed Kdinund Waller's famous lyric "Go, Lovely Rose," as an original poem contributed bv "Julia Cartwright." The marvel is not tbat Julia Cartwright ventured to practice this bold bit of plagiarism, but that so excellent and carefully edited a paper as tho Rochester Hermit I should have been imposed npon. The Herald has been victimized by that not very rare creature, a woman with a hysterics! passion for notoriety, one illustration of wbicb is the large number of literary plagiarisms perpetrated by women.

There is not a newspaper in the land that could not testify to the receipt of "original verses" by women who stole them outright from printed books of poetry. One of Bret lUrte's most fatuous poems was recently "contributed" to a Denver newspaper and wss made the subject of a very mirthful paragraph by the New York Sun. Adelaide Proctor's "Judge Not" end Florence Percy's "My Sheaves" and even Bayard Taylor's hackneyed "Song of the Camp" have been palmed off on careless as "original poetry" by female who sign themselves "Edith Aldrich" or some other umAm This propensity reveals the presence of a hysterica) female freak seeking notoriety in literature. Every physiologist knows that certain nervous diseases are associated with certain mental effects; every doctor knows that hysterical women are not only prone to self-delusion but to the practice of deception npon the public. doctor knows that an opium "fiend" is invariably a calm, unimpassioned, but moat incessant and motiveless liar, and not seldom a purposeless thief, since he will steal hen not crowded by any necessity.

Every doctor knows, too, that one of the signs of chronic alcoholism is an irrepressible disposition to lie without any comtnensura.e motive, whether hope of reward or fear of punishment. Everv doctor knows, too, that some persons never suspected of falsehood or dishonesty in their life invariably steal and lie when intoxicated. (iKEVT WE.IKXKMBH. The late Col. Shepard, of the New York Maii and f'rprro, a man of a curious make-up; he was a phUarthropist; he was successful commercial lawyer; be as an enterprising and successful though very eccentr newspaper proprietor and editor, lis was so weak in as totumish an exhaustless subject for ridicule to the newspaper w.ts of the nation, and it is difficult to'day to reai? his famous editorial notice of the marriage of hs daughter without suspecting that the author was a daft.

An yet very gifted men have been nspicuously weak in spots, l.ord F.iiion wrote very stupid as Frederick the Great, but there is no that Kldon was a very great lawyer and Frederick a very great soldier. Napo-eon. a man of universal genius for tractical at'airs, ha 1 sueh a corrupt l.te ary taste that he thought highly of when he sought to be eii-quen; was generally bombastic. Wolfe, who captured (J iebec, swaggered so extravagantly in the presence of the euler Pitt, hoastr.ig that he couM surpass the sold era of antiquity, that Pitt on his departure held up 111 bands in horror, saying "Mast we trust an army to thit idiot?" George Washington's was not so tar his as to prevent him from baying lottery tickets, and the Duke of Wellington confessed he wrote a letter on tie ever.irr of the battle of Waterloo, i-h be paid a large sum to re ver and i remark that w'm he wrote it he greatest in Kurope l.mr i to h.j intimates frequently confessed to arts in h.s career that he nouncevi a mst net witti foiiy rather than isdora. "No n.an is a hero to his said and uo houest wan is a hero to himself, for the very that he and he atone known about i tself, and with such fullness of he cannot honestly indufee in on.

Finally, Louis the For teenth af France, who VH certainly a -aperiur an, wrote verses of which he so pro-ul that he showed them to Boibnu, the rr.ous satirist, who returned tJ.em say is: "Your majesty can do anv: iinr; year majesty wished to write some very bad poetry, and your majesty haa sue CRAFT 1 WRITER. Among the paid to the departed worth of Grant on 27th probably few of the orators noted fact that Grant's Memoirs," written haitily with the shadow of fast corning dean obscuring the light in which he wrote, endured the test of time and still in remunerative demand after ne; rly eight years of extraordinary sale. Grant's Memoira" continue to sell they are clearly his own work. They are written in the clear, plain, direct, simple that marks all his military reports; his correspondence with Sherman, Lincoln, Halli and Stanton. There is no pii king for pet words; no feeling for and fondiine of favorite phrases, and a pre' sion in the art of English composition, or a pedagogue, a literary critic or a pulf-toer would find it easy to convict Grant of loose and careless grammatics construction; for hs was an indifferent roaster c.

the art of elegant construction and tie trick of phrase making. The earmarks in Grant's are unmistakable. His unconcern for the rhetorical balance of a sentence when he was satisfied that it clearly and exactly expressed his thoughts is a characteristic utterly foreign to t-is professional "military historians" who beat tne rhetorical "long roll" from the to the end of their books. Grant witb-jut trying to write in a rhetorical or style waa an excellent writer iri the essentials of good writing, a though ae commits many trivial sins of grammatical omission and commission that a scholastic scribs would be sure to avoid. In its striking turrits and its inconsequential defects "Grant's Memoirs" were at once recognized to be ciesriy the work of bis own strong i ut nnpr-cticed hand; admirable in bis sirnplicity Urant was indifferent to 'al me' aanism and literary art.

Grant was not destitute of literary culture, but was tbat kind of absolutely English culture, as iistinguished from classical cut: ire, that made John Bright a great popular tribui.n in England. Bright knew no Latin Greek. His mind was as free fr ru claasicai formalism and color as was ihat of great friend Cobden, or Horace or Lincoln or Grant, and tbey were alias free as their great master and in strong, sound, simple Enyiisb, lam Grant was a no- tble illuf ration of the nonsense of the theory of academical education which declares that classical instruction is and rable for an able and versati.a express on of the English tongue. 1 iie truth is Just the other way. Gladstone was always inferior Bright a-i a popular tribune, because be was an crippled by bis Oxford Cot tea, who as a commercial ii bis youth, read the best English books, mastered his nativo tongue so ougbly that though he epoke In a conversational always commanded the closest attention.

The: eis a vast difference between a aian who has the gift to write well, that is, the gift the power of expression, and man who lacks the power of expression, but ha a pedagogue's knowledge of conect grammatical construction. Byron is very rocky" in his grammar, but literary genius, his power of expression is so leudid tbat we have small patience with or love for the scholastic critics a are weary of quoting Byron's grammatical errors with absolute insensibility to his extraordinary literary power of pression A great writer is fie thinf, rhetorician, a mere grammatical picker is quite another like Byron, was not always but in the essentials of good 'vriting, the gift of clear and vigorous expression, he waa a better writer than the most eminent of his scholastic OCR ARISTOCRACY. The presence ot Mrs. Jsivkay in Ban Francisco, whithe- she was railed to the bedside of her won ded 1 and, recalls the fact that she was weak A once to prosecute an 1 mu.ct in dat a cheap London newspape or say-Mg she was a washerwoman in Icr early lays on the Pacific coast. Mack a-' was weak to pay anv attention the vt; ttar gossip of the London paper; die ea.ilv proved that she was the daughter of an army officer, nevertheless washing dc-tbes is a honorable nployr snt and hundreds of women, intelligent and true as Mrs.

have tshed clothes, and nobodv whose opinion worth respecting thinks of the today that, when necessary, th- do scorn to turn their hands to hon -t wor In New England today 1 the smaller towns the daughters of respectable farmers sti.l continue go out i.o serve. They ash, work and do haml and are treated with perfee: res pet their employers, eating at ible and admitted to the fam room. The aristocracy of Ei land, tien Stanlev proved himself ais of quality, pave him both ban altbv'tijh they knew he was an aimshor. child. Suppose Abraha Line t.

had survived the war and gon around the world, as did Grant, does an ody pose tbat he would have taken anv i re of printed gossip concerning his origin;" that he was a ra splittei and a tiatboattn an inb out it! a' b. mot her was an illegitimate cm creat English awyer, Lord St, would never have taken any 1 of a newspaper that sneere! the son of gugden, the hairdresser. I rl C.yde, the hero of the Alma, "a.ak iva, an mutiny of 1- 7. .1 the estimation of but bs an i duies because he was a sor an oi scure ll.jrhlani peasant the imperial Joveof Eng lad'al Oly ip son of a )Vfr; Charles L.tiu.'s father u.sa In ties Kea'- was the aB i poor yie, Burns, of peasant rea. ce; Istuith, Johnson, Churchill.

ott. lugh Miller, Tyndall, Dickens, aere ailcbil4wa people. In all Eng ish here not an eminent nar tha ays to aristocxauc By vu, 6 he waj THE SEATTLE SUNDAY. MAY 7, 1893. bora to a decree of poverty that embittered his nature; he had a title but BO money to maintain it, and he took to literature to obtain a decent income and escape the inaulta and vexations that a "poor lord" everywhere encountered.

When Byron achieved fame nobody in England, even of his day, cared whether be was born a "lord" any more than they care today to remember that Gladstone was not born a lord, while Salisbury not only was born a lord but his lineage runs back to Lord Burleigh, the meat minister of Queen Elizabeth. The English people know that Gladstone and Salisbury by Yirtue of superior native endowmenta both belong to nature'a nobility, and they do not think leas of Lord Salisbury that when he waa a poor, younger eon ha earned his living by writing for the newspapers. The vast majority of peopls of social consequence in America today date back to ancestors who two generations ago ware people in very moderate circumstances and engaged in humble employments as small traders or artisans. The winners of our American independence and the framers of our American constitution were, with few exceptions, people of humble stock. Washington came of wealthy farmer stock; Jefferson was in compara- tively easy circumstances and married a rich woman; Gouverneur Morris came of a rich family; but these were exceptions.

Greene, our beat general, was a blacksmith Franklin was the son of a tallow chandler and waa a printer; Roger Sherman was a shoemaker. With the exception of Schuyler, who was a large land holder, all our Revolutionary generals were of humble origin. Of Hamilton's parentage little ia known. The aristocracy of intellect both in New England and Virginia was represented by poor lawyers and still poorer ministers. The Knickerbockers, or old families of New York city, were all tradesmen.

The leaders of New York's fashionable society today nearly all data back to people who were small artisans or traders, and some of them were in far inferior positions of usefulness and respectability. Mrs. Paran Stevens, who, like Mrs. Mackay, is a rich woman of social ambition, which shs haa gratified in London, in Paris, and of late years at Newport, waa a Lowell factory girl whose pretty face won her a rich husband, a successful hotelkeeper, who was gracious enough to die early and leave her his millions. The Yanderbilts, ths Astors, the Lorillards, the Goulds, in short nearly all the wealthy families in America date back to ancestors of plebeian stock, wbo within this century were all humble folk, working hard to rise from respectable poverty to wealth, and it is to the credit of most of their present representatives that they do not attempt to deny their origin, but are proud of the talent of their strong and honest working stock which lifted them to wealth and social elevation.

In England several Irish actresses of very humble origin have married into aristocratic families, to the vast improvement of the blood and impoverished brains of the nobility of their day. Of course in America nobody of aense seeks to be measured by the standards ot the English aristocracy, for that is impossible. In a country where the poor man of today is the rich man of tomorrow and pice versa, and where an aristocracy of mere wealth ia largely in the ascendant, Intelligence, intellect, mental and moral refinement do not always go for what they are worth; yet with all their passion for money making the American people rate genuine intellectual power higher than anything else. Nobody remembers that Statesman Louis Cass, of Michigan, died very rich or that Statesman Daniel Webiter, of Massachusetts, died comparatively poor. Chauncey Depew stands on a level of popular admiration and esteem in the social circles of New York city which the possession and wielding of millions never yet placed a Vanderbilt, a Oould, an Astor or a Stanford.

Mr. Blaine was easily the greatest man in Harrison's cabinet, and yet who ever cared to inquire whether his wealth was equal to or inferior to that of Wanamaker The people respected Wanamaker as an able man of business; but they idolised Blaine; they knew he was a statesman, and they did not care any more whether he was an able financier in his private affairs than the Massachusetts merchants and farmers did when tbey sent thriltless Daniel Webster over and over again to the United States senate. When a Stanford, a Sawyer, a Hearst, a Joe Brown or a Payne has in recent years addressed the senate nobody has listened in the senate, nobody has read the printed speech; but when an Edmunds or a Sherman has spoken ail men of all parties have listened to their words or read them in print. Is there a Vauderbilt living today who will be remembered as long or as gratefully as Ericsson or Edison, or Holmes or Whit tier? Is Roscoe Conkling remembered chiefly for the fact that he made ITOO.OuO in seven years after he left the United States senate? Is Grant chiefly remembered bemuse he wrote a book In a lew months that brought his wife nearly Let cynics sneer as they will, the only aristocracy possible in America is one resting on solid intellectual achievement, moral and mental refinement exhibited in Aorta for purer manners, nobler laws. Even in England the ruling class never fail to recognize and give the hand to those who prove themselves the uncrowned kings of men, and no mere vulpar money bag ever gets the same personal consideration at the bands of an English that a comparatively poor American man of letters, or of high professional or political fame would receive.

So whether we view the question from the American or English social standpoint we may be su-e that no American woman, so long as she supports by superior manners and character and brains her title to high social consideration.will suffer either in Europe or America by the report that she once washed clothes for an honest living. The snobs and the dudes will sneer and the malignant gossips will cackle, but the highest public opinion everywhere will not care whether the story is true or false. An arstocracy that is manly enough to welcome Stanley, the pauper child, the boy, the wandering press reporter, wi.l not worry over the question whether a genuine ia iy ever worked for an honest in an honorable but humble calling. Ex-United States Senator Patterson, who died at N. last Thursday, was a melancholy illustration of bow a single wrong step may cloud a life and career of great promise.

He was a man of talents as a campaign orator, and left a professorship in Dartmouth college to accept an election to congress, where he served with excellent credit for fire years. Then he was elected United States senator in 1868, and in his last term of service was summoned before the famons congressional committee of investigation into the Credit Mobilier scandal, of which the lata Judge Poland was chairman. If Senator Patterson had simply told the truth be wonld have retired with credit, bat he was so anxious to assume a virtue that ha did not possess thai he lied concerning his purchase and ownership of the stock, and was convicted of lying by the testimony of Oakes Ames and his little memorandum book. Patterson's brilliant political Career was blasted, and he only escaped expulsion from the senate by the expiration of his term ot office five days after the resolution of expulsion was reported. He never recovered the ground he lost; never served again in either house of congress.

Tourists go from all over tha world to Japan, tha strangest and most revolting features of whose cities axe the joshiwara, or prostitutes' quarters. Cages are now being fitted up in the Grant street bridge district for women of ill-repute, presum ably with the sanction of the "reform administration." A street railway passes through the new yoshiwara, and residenta of South Seattle will have a fine view of the hideous quarter. Gov. Pennoyer, of Oregon, could be reelected tomorrow. The Populists like him, and the Democrats only pretend to deprecate his boorish ness to Cleveland.

Ex-Senator Eustis was almost as discourteous, yet Cleveland appointed him minister to France. President Cleveland made four diplomatic and consular appointments yesterday. Of the appointees one was from Virginia, one from Florida, one from North Carolina, one from Maryland. The South is right in it. iricmiit or ow fcpMamM'i Lleeniei are a on Worthy Cltlsen.

SEATTLE, April 6.1803. To THL EDITOE: lam and have been engaged la tU express business for nearly tire years, and am a truthful witness of tbe difference between honest city government and "reform" administration. I wisb to Inform tbe cltiMus and business men of Seattle of a species of tyranny practised bare in our midst. Heretofore we bare bad an offleer called a license inspector, wbose duty it was to ooUect license from expressmen. lam on record ior prompt paymeut of license since I been in tbe express buslness, and everything went smoothly along the grand highway of honest and efficient city government, We had become accustomed to honest offlcials a competent and obliging, and were never accused by them of dishonesty ouiseives, but a change in the collection of licenses came with the great "reform." Last Wednesday week ago was taking half a ton of coal to a customer, and on Thursday was arrested by Mr.

KUicott. I noticed him standing in front of the alley and walking up and down on Union while I waa engaged in carrying the coal on my back to my customer's This walking specimen of reform and secret service applied to the lady and asked my name and what I charged her for hauling and packing upon my back upstairs her coal in kindness of heart. 1 bare no objection to any person knowing my name He received tbe desired information, and on tbe following morning I was arrested for not baring my license renewed, when I had all this time waited for thia new official to notify ma and receive my money and give me a receipt I refused to put up 930 ball and they searched me and forcibly took over 9300 in notea and valuables, and then threw me in tba steel cage with seven hard, old, tough malefactors. Bo much for reform. They oould not see the way clear altar Silicon had put his foot in it, so I was dragged before a police court and was find 910 and costs, whiQh foots up the beautiful sum of 93D.9& Mow, lam compelled to pay 112.30 for my license, which Ellicott could have bad for asking; I would have paid it, and waa anxious to do so.

All I ask Justice and no fsvors. Mr. Editor, If tbia ia reform for heaven's aaka let na inaugurate some honesty with it or at laaat let man of common sense, justice and humanity fill the oflloes. j. a FLSTCHIR, Expressman.

TUB ARMY. Duwamsa, May 4, To thi Editor: Who ia general of the army at the preaeut time, and who are the major generalat Where are they located? Tcacher. There ia no such rank as general. John M. Bchofield, senior major general, commanda the aimy, and hla headquarters are at Washington City.

The other major generals are Oliver D. Howard, commanding the department of the East, with headquartere at Qovernor'a island, N. Y. and Nelsou A. Miles, oommandlng tne department of the Missouri, with heaUquartera at Chicago.

uamaub by stock. BLACK. DIAMOND, May 5,1592. To Please inform me through your paper if there is a law prohibiting pigs from running at large. If eo, whom must I address to have it enforced? Can I make owuer pay for damage done in my garden.

SUBSCRIBER. If your garden la lawfully fenced and pigs break in you can capture the trespasaiug animals and have them aold to pay for the damage. You muat enforce the law youraelf, and justices of the peace have jurisdiction. See house bill No. 6i passed by the laat legislature.

TUB CIOARBTTES. SKATTLI, May 6,1833. To Tint Editor: Will you pleaae Inform me through your paper what the retail cigar are to do with their cigarettes and cigarette papers left on hand when cigarette law goes luto effect. ji, p. The wicked dealers will sell their cigarettes in spite ot the law, while the truly good onea will burn them up or ship them out of the NOVEMBKR 1, 1893.

Seattle, May 4. To THB EDITOR: Kindly tne through the columns ot your paper when the World's fair closes? NOKIUWKST NEWS. The Slaughter Sun has become the Auburn Jrgw. Biiiy McMabon killed a ctnoaman bear near Auburn laat week. These animals are rare in Weatern Washington.

George Mason, a pioneer of British Colombia, died at Victoria last Wedneaday. He came to the province In IS6I from Ban Francisco, He waa a brickmaker and contractor. Ogden Congreaa Favors Lake Washington Canal. Among the resolutions adopted by the free sliver congress st Ogden was the following, inserted in the committee's report through the efforts of Hon. Charles R.

Conner, of Spokane: The congress of the United States Is hereby memorialised by the Trans-Mississippi cong-ess to take prompt 1 effective measures to Improve the upper Columbia, Suake, Cceur d'Alece and Kootenai rivers, to construct a fresh water harbor on Fuget noun 3. and to take such ateps aa may be neces-ary to guard and protect tne entrance to sal 1 Sound from the Paciflo ocean, and to that end such surveys and reports be made aa shall be necessary to determine wnat Improvements aud expenditures sre necessnry to improve the navgation of su-h rivers, and we earnestly recommend that the government proceed without delay to complete ti.e Port Orchard dry docs an 1 public wor.s now authorised and in course of construction on f'uget sound. Hoke at the World's Fair. From the San Francisco Examiner's Account of the Exercises. At exactly five minutes past 12 Grover Cleveland got up and around, tie said a couple of words and stopped.

He raised hla hacd for silence, and averytbing He spoke in a voice that could be beard 100 feet away, and at times WO yards. Every one listened Intently, and not a sound waa heard during hla speech except a loud, dear ejaculation, "Sit down. Hoke!" addressed to a cabinet officer of that name who was standing up to get a hotter view. STATE PRESS OPINION. Seattle's government does not eeem to sit easy upon her Spokane Review.

Reports fail to mention whether Dink Botts and Skid Back were at the opening the World's fair. Bat the affair was a crashing (nooses ail the Taeoma He wa Cannot oar city council ordain against the sale end distribution of the Seattle Sunday Mercury and other infamous publications la this city? It looks aa though the council might do rfbmethmg to check their circulation in Snohomish. Make a penalty for any one caught selling or offering to sell any publication of that class thside the city Snohomish Tribune. Since the absence of Mayor Ronald from his poet of duty Seattle people hare been realising a rather disgraceiul and humiliating state of municipal government Tae dismissal oi Acting Mayor Sweeney for inefficiency and the continual that are coming in from all sides regarding the management of affairs the Democratic administration in an uuenriable light They will probably find thsmselvss out of control again lor some time to come after the next municipal Bailard Seme. It is certainly strange that the authorities ot the presumably respectable cities of Seattle and Spokane permit such a breach of the laws, such a gross outrage upon decency, as the publishing of the Swn.

'There are general, state aud municipal laws that bear directly upon the case, wnich should at once be enforoed. The sheet is already excluded In several of the British Co lumbia cities, and the sentiment against it is growing strong in all the smaller towna of this state. The respectable people of this city will soon demand the exclusion of the naaty sheet and their demand will receive the united and hearty support of the local Port Towneend Graphic. The members of the last legislature who voted for the law which fixes the rate of interest on county and city warrants at 8 per cent should kick themselves into the sea, where all sharks ehould naturally reside When these elegant squabblers passed that law they no doubt thought they were protecting the people against shrewd manipulators. How well they succeeded is demonstrated by the action of the banks and brokers, who, to make even, have discounted eounty and eity warrants 5 per cent This deduction ean not by law be aaddied upon the municipality, but must come directly out of the pocket of the original Vancouver Independent.

SAYS HE. "Whatever the weather may be," says the weather may belt's piase, if ye will, an' I'll say me Supposin' today was the winterest day, Wud the weather be changing because ye cried. Or the snow be grass were ye crucified? The best is to make your own summer." says he, "Whatever the weatuer may be," saya the weather may be!" "Whatever the weather may be," says the weather may be. It's the songs ye sing, au' the smiles ye wear That's a-makln' the sunnhlne everywhere; An' the world ot gloom is a world of glee, Wid the bird in the bush, au' the bud in the tree, Whatever the weather may be," says the weather may bel" "Whatever the weather may be," says the weather may be. Ye can bring the spriDg wid its green and gold.

An' the grasa iu the grave where the snow lies cold. An' ye'H warm your back, wid a smiling face. As ye sit at your heart like an owld tiro place, Whatever the weather may be." says the weather may Whitoomb Kiley. Vfll ALASKA BOUNDARY 81" It VET. What la to Method of Work.

The exact boundary between Alaska and the adjoining Canadian territory baa never been defined, and its location with fairness and Justice to both countries is the end now sought, and toward tbe accomplishment of which the sending out of the present parties of sxploratory surveyors is an important step. Long years ago when the present century was young, Russia had a number of settlements on the far northern coast of America, while Great Britalu had others. Tbe first movement toward tbe establishment of a boundary liue waa in 1825, when the two COUB tries interested entered into a convention which provided the division of Jurisdiction since recognised. It waa cited that the boundary ebould commence at the southernmost point of the island oalled Prince ot Wales island, which point lies in north degreee 40 minutes and between the 131 st and 133 meridians of longitude, and shoutd ascend to the north along the channel called Portland channel as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 66th parallel. From this Isst-mentloned point it was laid down that the line shonld follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast ss far as the 141 st meridian of west longitude.

Thence ft was to follow the 141 st meridian to the Arctic ocean. There waa a proviso that the whole of Prince of Wales Island ahould belong to Russia; aud another that wherever the summit of the mountains extending in direction parallel to the coast be found to be at a distance more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the line waa to be drawn parallel to the windings of the coast and at a distance not exceeding ten marine leagues Inland. That line hss never been defined, and when in the United stntes purchased the territory of Ala-ska from Russia it was subject to the same treaty aa to bouudary. Nothing further in the direction of establishing a definite boundary baa since been done, except In 1870, when a provisional line for cuntoms purposea was surveyed Mr. Hnuter at the Stickeen.

Realizing the growing importance of the long atrip of territory traversed by the uncertain boundary line, a convention WHS entered Into between Qreat Britain and the United States In August of last year by which each country appointed a commissioner to make a joint survey for the purpose of ascertaining the faots and data necessary for the permanent delineation of the boundary line according to the existing treaties. These commissioners, Profs. King and selected for the work on account their peculiar fltneaa, demonstrated by long required to report In two years the result of their explorations and observations. The chief point in debate Is to how far the mountains and how far the Imaginary line following the sinuositiea of the coast shall carry the boundary. The Americans claim, and their charts aud maps show, United Estates territory as forming a strip ten marine leagues in width all along the seaboard.

The British contention on the other band is according to tho evident intention as well as exnress wording of the treaty, the mountains running parallel with the coast carry the line wherever they occur within the ten marine leagues of the seashorethe maximum limit of United Slates As the mountains are generally believed to skirt the coast almost continuously, this gives the Americans a very narrow strip of dirttreut from one ten leagues in width uniformly. To find out what the character of this hitherto nnexplored country is is one of the chief objects of the present expedition, and from the mips and reDortt oi the surveyors just departed the necessary "facts and data" will ne obtained. Just what sinuosities will be entitled to carry the coast line and what are to be regarded as mere Indentions will also he determined by these maps and reports. The explorations of Schwatka, Ogilvie and the few others who have visited certain portions of the land to be surveyed will be of little if any value to the present purpose, aa the attentions oi these pioneer explorers have been directed further inland, it is already known that but little sgricuitural land exists In the disputed in all the loug stretch of seaboard but few rivers are met with that extend more than ten marine leagues inland, among them the Unuk, Bt.cseen, Taka, Chilcat and ALsek. There are, however, many mountain torrents wh.ch pour themselves over precipitous cliffs Into the sea and are a characterise part of scenery which for savage grandeur cannot be surpaitsed the word over.

far oration along the lnleta baa the character of the region into wboee heart aurTayora are now adrancing. It found to cooaist of rugged in fold and eUrer quanz, mlngiirg other precioua metals. Nor is it probable that thee ait cropping! of ore are more than a nt to the eot.unu of the a til. unopened treasure house teyond. As to the it ia not at present known that any cancenea upon then are found in disputed territory, tee headq lartera of thf A a ka salnoii industry being At points along the coa-t iUelf.

In tb.n year'a work the Americana, aa announced, will do oat of the coast surveying, their force being distributed in four parties. That iu charge Mr. Ogleu will go up the Taku rirer; Mr. McGram wUi eurrey Taku Inlet; Mr. Titmanu'a work up the B.lckeen, and Mr.

np the Unnk. They will a.so hare accompanying their rarious astronomical parties, fixing lie friong UCH wui carry tbe moat proved between Si and for the purpose of obtaining their longitude, eta. Canadian will also accompany the American parties to verify their and discoveries, while the United States will be similarly represented among the Canadians. The work of the Canadians will be chiefly inland, and the several parties will be thus distributed: Mr. St Cyr, Unuk river; Mr.

Talbot, Unuk to Sticaeen; Mr. tilbbons, from Stickeen northwesterly; Mr. Brabason. from Holkham bay southeasterly; Mr. McArthur, Holkham bay toTaka Inlet; Mr.

Ogilvte, from Taka inlet northwesterly; Mr. Klots, to connect the work of all. As mnch as possible the Canadian parties will adopt the photographic method of survey, obviating as It does the loss of both time snd labor in uselees traveling; It has been practiced with great success during recent yesrs, notably In surveying the railway belt in the Rockies for the Dominion Colonist NEW SMUGGLING STKAXKB. For ths Vletorim Opiam Be Swifter Than the Cotters. San Francisco Call.

Not at all awed by the presence on the Pacific slope of special agents of the United States treasury department, ostensibly for the purpose of investigating the workings of the ''ring within a ring" in the Northwest, smugglers have just completed plans snd for the building of a vessel by Messrs. Russell 6 of Port Qiasgow, that is warranted to pass anything on the broad Pacific, on the smooth of Puget sound, from a fishing smack up to an armored cruiser. Some months ago it was hinted that the construction of such a vessel was contemplated, but it was not known who the interested parties were who desired to tempt Dame Fortune by smuggling by of a stsel vessel of the latest model and workmanship. On the 2Jth of this month the "Victoria Sealing Company" dispatched its agent to 'England with to present the plans of the vessel proposed to the firm named. As the Victoria Scaling Company is a very indefinite Institution, which nevar saw a seal other than those that bask on the rocks of the Straits of San Juan de Fucaor in sight of the Cliff House, of this city, as people do not sealing nowadays in vesrels which "must make twenty in smooth and rough water," the probable uee to which the new boat will be put ia rather shady.

The notorious Toronto smuggler Tree man, alias Freeman, has been detailed to confer with Messrs. Russell 6 and on the Victoria Sealing Company's list of subscribers to the enterprise are the names of nearly every man on British Columbia soil who has for years past entered Into schemes to defraud the United States out of its legitimate revenue on opium. The plans and of the new boat call for a steamer oi 360 tons burden, to be built of the best material and upon a model for and endurance" As coal bunkers are provided for, which nearly occupy all the space usually assigned to a vessel for cargo, an electric plant and French leus mentioned, it appears to the nautical public that this "sealing steamer" is a little 100 sporty for Bering sea travel. Tbe steamer, it is definitely known, will be used for the smuggling of Cniuese and op.uni, as some of those who are interested in her made a statement to that effect when the subject of the boat was branched several months ago. There was some talk among the ring oi having the steamer built at the Union Iron Works in San Francisco, but the projectors of tbe scheme thought that if this was done the matter would meet with so much publicity that it would not be agreeable for the ring.

Vreeman, who was in this city some months ago, and wbo mentioned the fact to three witnesses that such a vessel would be built, subsequently regretted the information be had given on the subject, and advised his confreres to drop the acheme for a while till public notice was directed another way. Uster Vreeman stated that the vessel would be for sealing purposes in Japanese waters when questioned regarding her, but as a letter from one of his accomplices states that "tbe vessel must be fast enough to pass any revenue cutter on the coast, and plainly constructed, so as not to attract too much attention on the Sound," her purpose is obvious. About 190,000 was subscribed for the building of this boat and most of the stock of the company will he eon trolled by three or four persons, one of whom lives iu Toronto, one la Montreal and one in Victoria. The steamer will probably make "sealing" expeditions to Mexico, Lower fact, everywhere that or opium can be landed. Oue of the backers of the "Victoria Sealing Company" was instrumental In the landing of 200 Chinese at or near Whatcom, In Washington state, about three years ago.

Ills name Is Marlon P. Haynle, and his birthplace is Philadelphia, but he has gone by the name Of Case. Maxwell, Oreathonse and half a dozen other titles. He appears to hare plenty of money and spends his time about hotels. The new vessel wlil be schooner-rigged and somewhat smaller than the cutter Corwin.

Time's Recompense. Boston Trauacript. Ruiz Fasha, a Hebrew, is now prime minister of Egypt, and if any of his race are now making bricka in that land he will doubtleaa aee to it that they have all the straw they want. The last time a Hebrew was premier of his name was Joseph. In this case not only "history repeats itself," but "the whirligig of time" brings its revenge, even though it took 3.200 years to get around to it.

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