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ft iHniulavd 4 I'l HliiiW JAMAH il, HHIi. A Utopian View. Haniel Melt of I'uttc, I'resident the Annrican l.ahor 1 uion, has found the goldcu apple and hung it on one of the lower limbs of tin- that mark- the goal of behalf of labor. Ho says that tin tune w.il soon come when lal oring iiicn will have to work only four hours a day and he paid more money than they are to-day. He bases this prfdietion upon the rapid development of labor saving machinery which will enable a few to do the work of the many, which is a "soft snap" surely for the few, if some provision could be made for tlie many.

Mr. Mc- Donald suggests none, but claims that the arrogance and aggressiveness of wealth will force the working men closer together, and they are strong enough to control the government were they educated to do it. They are diligently studying the lesson, however, and the time will come when instead of sending Loodlers to the Legislature, plain, intelligent honest farmers, and competent lahoring-uien of all classes will become our law-makers and then the dawn of the millenium will begin and shed its beneficent rays all over Earth. 'lliCD, he claims, tiic money will not be controlled by the few, as now, but laboring men will control the government and thus protect themselves. Hero is involved a fiat decree which the most rabid greenbacker never dreamed of advocating.

Just how the government can throw millions of people out of employment by providiDg short hours and big pay for a few operators of machines and provide food and clothing for those who do not have even four hours of labor at any price, is more than the ordinary mind can grasp. But still it is exploited by this President of the Union with all the assurance of the professional politician who juggles with, big figures and presumptuous statements of fact, and succeeds in securing shouts of approval from followers who are led by the nose more than by the brain. Unless some method can be discovered to create something out of nothing, such assurances amount to nothing. They are disproven with axiomatic exactness. Nor does it matter for the well-being of labor.

The most desirable attainment of labor is not to secure short hours. The best workman takes a pride in bis vocation and loves his trade. He is never so happy as when employed at his handicraft or in infusing brain and vigor into any occupation that falls to hit lot. He is never so miserable as when he encounters a period of enforced idleness, and we often hear the remark, even during a holiday or a short vacation, The hardest work is to do nothing." Then again no saying is more true than that "Satan finds aome mischief still. For idle bands to do." Much of the dissipation is the direct result of voluntary or enforced idleness.

And that labor is desirable as recreation and rest for the mind is shown -by the skillful specimens of handicraft produced by convicts in the States prisons, where patience and skill are developed by prolonged confinement. It has been noted that very few af the hours already conceded to labor have been devoted to either mental or physical improvement, or the betterment of conditions affecting home and family. And from these conditions and causes we fail to discover a gleam of that good time coming so confidently predicted by President McDonald. A STEP IN THE RIGHT New York society has begun the task of regulating society by ostracising divorced persons, wearers of decolette players and users of liquors. An organization has been effected under the name of Daughters of the Faith." It seems to have been instituted by prominent Catholic families.

If its charter does not include monkey parties, cake-walk dances, enteriog churches through the coal holes, and as Reta," the English authoress puts it, setting mantraps" for the English nobility, it will have failed of asserting its proper field of duty. THE President has mightily displeased the government clerks in Washington by an order requiring half an hour additional service in tbe several departments. This will require them to remain at their desks till 4:30 p. and as there are 000 employes affected by it, it means 50,000 hours work each day. This is equivalent to 7,143 clerks and the gain to the government will be 000 a year.

The clerks are in open revolt. A ST. LOUIS revival preacher by the name of Martin, is stirring up hades in Oregon, at 100 per week and expenses, and notwithstanding the alleged worthlessness of earthly holdings compared with spiritual gifts, he demands and receives his pay only on guaranty. He is said to be a rattler" in his line, and to draw big crowds wherever he goes, but it is not denied that his salary knocks the bottom out of the contribution box. A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 14th stales that the Senate committee on Indian Affairs had decided to make a favorable report on Foster's bill to open to settlement the south half of the Colville Indian reservation.

CHKHALIS has a Grand Opera House," while cities like Portland Seattle and Olyrapia are content with theaters. By the way Gate and Kalama likewise have opera houses. Di nth of a Noted Character. rge 1 rancis Train, the eccentric 1 who mail' i Access of life by living i grotesque tide, died in New York, Sunday night, at the age of 71 years, lie was a native of Huston, aud was at a very early age thrown upon his own resources. His parents aud three sisters died of yellow fever in New Orleans in 1 still, when he wabuL four veins of age.

lie journeyed alone to his aunt at Walthani, Mas He became successively farmer, grocer clerk, shipping clerk and partner in a grocery at 20. He established the iirni of Train A Co at Melbourne, Australia, arid started the iirst line of clipper ships to California. He showed the what might be done by Yankee enterprise in building a street railway system in London. He was an important factor iu promoting the transcontinental railroad connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific. He ran as an independent candidate for President in 1872, which indicates, probably more than anything else his bent of character.

His egotism was of the monumental kind which overlooked all obstacles that deter ordinary men. He made money as a lecturer aud wrote several Looks, hut it is fortunate that his fame does not depend upon them, for even their titles arc unknown to most people. They were: "An American Merchant iu Europe," Young America Abroad," Young America in Wall street," all published iu 1857; "Spread-Eagleism," "Every Man His Own Autocrat," in 18.VJ; "Young America on Slavery," "Observations on Street Railways," iu 18C0; "Oeorge Francis Train, Unionist, on Thomas Colley Grafton, Secessionist," London, 1801; Union Speeches Delivered in England During the Present American War," (Philadelphia and London, 4 Vols), 1562; Downfall of Independence," 1805, and "Championshipof Women," 18(18. Mr. Train's erratic genius acquired considerable local renown from an account of bis trip around the world about a third of a century ago, which was made a special feature by letter and telegram in one of tho Tacoma papers.

As he grew older Ids mind appeared to becorao more lopsided, until it was difficult to discover at times just where Reason yielded up the throue of thought to Madness. He claimed control of psychic force, and like many other noted characters preferred communion with inanimate nature to association with his fellow man. Children and birds were an exception. Much of his time was spent in Central Park, feeding his feathered friends and romping with the children. His writings were remarkable chiefly for their incoherence and jerky style.

He bad a contempt for small words and omitted them so persistently that often the sense was obscured thereby. If he was insane, there was a method in his madness, and it was simply more palpable than in the generality of mankind. A LONDON balloon-maker has designed a craft for making aerial gation possible, at a height of from 15 to 20 miles above Earth's surface, when about six and a-balf miles is the highest altitude yet attempted, and the highest limit that has been reached by balloons carrying self-registering apparatus. The journey into thin air is to be made without the accompaniment of gasping breath, bleeding at the nose and other discomforts, by making the ascent in a steel ball, seven feet in diameter, filled with compressed air and hermetically sealed. The steel of the shell will be a sixteenth of an inch in thickness, and ballast will be carried in a cone-shaped vessel swung beneath the ball.

It is intended for scientific observation at great heights. PROF. Berget, of Paris, is planning to make a trip by balloon across the Atlantic in a few months. He thinks the scheme presents no difficulty if tbe observation embodied in Maury's charts is utilized. From the Azores to the Gulf of Mexico the trade winds at a certain are of constant intensity the year round, and aeronauts have merely to lauuch their air-ships in the current to be borne across tbe waste of waters.

The ordinary ballooncar is to be replaced by an unsuhmergable life-boat, to guard against possible accidents. AN academic decoration of a little violet ribbon, on New Year's day, in Paris, is likely to excite a smile of derision, but when we consider its mission of identifying the long meritorious services they signify, they elicit only respect. About 3,200 men and women were accorded the right to wear them at the beginning of the year in tbe button-hole, and 600 others had the right to transform them into rosettes, a still more prominent honor. ONE of the beat seasonable cartoons, by word and picture, impresses the truth that it is more a pass-proof curtain than one made of asbestos that is wanted to avert such tragedies as Chicago has presented. Had the press insisted upon the protection provided by law, there would not now be half a thousand fresh-made graves of women and children to emphasize the criminal neglect of the plainest provision for protection of life.

THE steamer Baltic, lately launched at Belfast, Ireland, is 725 feet long, of 23,000 gross tonnage and will be able to carry 3,000 passengers and a crew of 350 men. She will carry 28,000 tons of freight and her speed will be seventeen knots. The Baltic will be the largest vessel afloat and owned by the White Star line. IF Mr. Hearst is the non-entity the Republicans say that he is, are they not expending much energy in knocking the chip from bis shoulder? T'lVlS.

io All." Tils. Ct Hoi -k. seems that Seattle is making an cIT- nently locate" tlie l'uget Sound ens tern house in that city by removing it from l'ort Townseud. Collector Ide and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Armstrong appeared before the House Committee on Ways and Means, on the lllth backed by Congressman support of the measure, white Representatives Cushman and Jones opposed the bill, and, it is reported, made it ipiite plain that if it was reported favorably, would not pass over their protest. It was urged iu support of removal that it would save the government a year, in the transmission of moneys collected in Seattle, which have to go a round-a-bout way for shipment to the subtreasury in San Francisco, while its opponents showed that the savings would only amount to $7,000 and result iu practically wiping out Port Townseud as a city, and that the present location being near the intcrnatural boundary, a Letter restraint upon smuggling can he maintained there than were the headquarters of the district located midway on the Sound.

Cushman made the point also, that no demand had been made for a change, and ttiat supporters of the measure had made no claim that a change would in any way benefit commercial interest. So the committee took no action. A FAIR FISHERMEN FOUND CASTINU FOR SUCKERS." Addie Swain is tbe name of a young woman lately arrested by the postal authorities at Seattle for using the mailt for fraudulent purposes. She claimed to represent the South American Mining and to be able to give valuable information regarding opportunities at Panama for mining men. She used the Spokane papers as the means of catching suckers, and had remittances of 2.7 cents, to be sent to Postoflice Box 477, Bremerton, which was given as the agency of the S.

A.M. whence the valuable information would be dispensed in homeopathic doses. She was apparently doing a lucrative business, from the number of letters carried over from Bremerton to Seattle, where the fair adventuress, it resided. In returu for remittances, Miss Swain sent out a printed circular depicting in glowing terms the opportunities existing at Panama and other South American republics. It was explained that the company had suspended sending men to South America temporarily, but soon as it had resumed operations the applicant would be notified and that his name had been filed away for resurrection when the good time came.

Miss Swain, when arraigned before the U. S. Commissioner, asked for time to secure counsel, which was granted her. THURSTON COUNTY IS IN THE LEAD. Recorder is becoming exceedingly notable for its inaccuracies of statement.

In fact, it has become the custom to await for its assertions to be verified before passing them on into the current of eventualities that make up the stream of time. It presented in what Lawyer Mitchell describes as the picture frame" method of challenging attention, a statement, the other day, that triplets had been born to a Whatcom county family, and affirms that never before has this fecundity been exemplified except at Spokane, about two years ago. Avast then, shipmate! Where is Olympia's record? The Hilderbrandt family, in this city, have two boys and a girl that have attained youth's estate and are verging on to maturity, whose advent to this busy world was credited to a single hour. Tumwater affords another instance and these were probably the pioneers in this Kooseveltian idea of race perpetuation. ONE of the best indications of a spirited campaign next year by the Democrats, throughout the whole country, is manifested by the great interest that is now takeu, so long before the convention date, in arranging preliminaries.

The men who conspired with the Republicans to defeat Bryan in 1890 and 1900 seem to think that they can control the convention, and the righteous indignation of the nearly evenly matched party at the polls is apparent in protest against the perfidy of these men and the mendacity with which they not only demand recognition by the party but to dictate its policy. They seem still bent upon the policy of rule or ruiu. THE Weyerhauser lumber syndicate expect to put on the market fully 000 feet of their finished product per day, in the spring, from their burnt district back of Vancouver. A general impression seems to prevail that reasonable rates will prevail next season, and that the decline has been solely owing to over-production. THE next meeting of the Washing, ton Press Association had been set for Spokane, but it has been suggested to change the place to St.

Louis about May Ist. C. W. Gorham, President of the Association has called the Executive Committee together to decide upon whether the change shall be made or not. PREPARATIONS are under way in Portland for the erection of a creamery in that city, capable of making ten tons of butter a day.

Cream is to be obtained from long distances in refrigerator care. This will be, by long odds, the largest creamery on the Coast. How would W. R. Hearst and James Hamilton Lewis fill the bill for President and Vice President next year? One is as long in weasel-skin" as the other in voice and name, and the two would go well together in making a modern sugar-and-wind campaign.

A religious in Boston callitself by tlia paradoxical name of Christian Israelites, and are said to bs about as unkempt and uncanny a lot human beings cs the Dowieites of ZiotD near Chicago, or the Holy Rollers" of a country town in Oregon. The Dowieites predict that the ruillenium will begin at the dawn of the next century, so that we have only a hundred years remaining of misery and selfishness. The new sect puts it off I'd years further, but feel doubly certain it will be here by that time. The Holy Rollers, have been assisted by scoffers in preparing for transportation to a better world some time in advance of either date, by coatings of feathers, nor exactly in the shape of wings and probably without any idea of aiding them in an allegorical display of faith- A union of these forces would naturally augment their strength and might serve to show the remainder of the world the error of their ways. GET MARRIED OR has a progressive Mayor even, though its inhabitants may not all be in the front line of reform.

He lately issued a proclamation, containing the official seal whereby he required that every bachelor must accept auy ofier of marriage made him by one of the gentler sex in the city or give a good and sufficient reason for refusal, which refusal will bo considered insufficient except it be previous engagement. Banish ment from city is the penalty prescribed, and steps will be taken to deprive such men of citizenship. Severance is a town of 1,500 inhabitants, and tho proclamation has created much consternation. A better plan would probably have been to placo a special and heavy school-tax on all bachelors for education of a generation they are exempt from providing for in any other way. EXTENSIVE repairs and changes have been ordered even in as thoroughly constructed a theater as the Marquam Grand, in Portland to avert any possibility of repetition of the Chicago disaster.

Orders have been given to remove all wooden structures on three of its sides or some provision made for protection against fire from them outside exit stairways must be straightened and two other installed; automatic sprinkler is to be placed over the stage and skylight enlarged; two more aisles are to bs opened in the parquctte around the boxes; a new audience-exit opened through the musicians' doorway, and the wiring must be changed and brought up to modern requirements. The Baker, Cordray's and the Arcade theaters are all subject to like changes, which are much more necessary than in a building like the Marquam. PRESIDENT Roosevelt has tnado many more enemies by his system of favoriteism whereby merit and acquired rank is sacrificed to personal preferment of the dictator in the Presidential chair. Capt. Mills, Superintendent of the military academy, has been jumped over the head of 700 officers in bis promotion to Brigadier General.

Capt. Mills was No. 277 on the list of army captains, and his preferment causes him to supersede captains, 354 majors, 122 lieutenant colonels and 105 colonels. Although he graduated from West Point in 1879, under his new commission he will outrank many men several years his senior and who have spent their lives in the army and will retire at lower grades than Brigadier General. Friendship is alleged as the only cause for this departure from plain duty.

IT is claimed that a boy has been cured of a broken neck in a New York hospital. That's nothing to the claim made by San Francisco doctors a few yeors ago, that they had removed a man's ulcerated stomach aud enlarged the esophagus, so as to form a new miniature stomach which served all purposes for digestion. THE American Society of Civil Finginecrs, Wednesday, decided to submit to a letter-ballot the matter of acceptance of a gift from Andrew Carnegie of a million dollars to establish a union building in New York for that and other engineering associations. JOHN O. CRISP, a Dowie disciple on Whidby Island, seems to have donned the robe of John the Baptist, to tell of the coming of the second Elijah to start another Zion, and on l'uget Sound, probably on that peaceful island.

MARSH AM. Field, of Chicago, lias beeu slated for the Democratic Domination for the Presidency, and it has met with a very general acclaim of approval that is not confined to the Windy City. ARMOUR made 1300,000 the other day in a play with wheat shorts," on Wall street. The price is now at the top of the season's prices at and will probably reach a dollar. PORTLAND is considering a proposition to allow saloons the privilege of keeping open all night on paying SBOO for a license, double the rate for those that close at midnight.

It would make the large-brained editor of the just awfully angry, if some one would tell him that all the dirty slurs and wise sayings he manages to scribble, that happen at various periods to ooze out of his Greeley think-tank, which he delights, at so much per month, to fling at Hon. William Jennings Bryan are taken no more notice of by the Peerless one" than the matter which his hired men cleau off the breeching of the harness in the wash-room of bis stable, each Lue Vernon. Harry H. Morgan, aged 24 years, assistant chemist, met a horrible death by spilling a gallon carboy of carbolic acid over himself at Seattle, on the 15th inst. He died in intense agony 15 minutes after the accident.

NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF DEMOCRATS MEET IN WASHINGTON. Representative Men Present Preparing to Line Up for Principles and Men lnternational Convention to Promote Was Likewise Composed of Noted Men Topic in the tiouse is the Colombian Ques- tion Gen. Wood Condemned Civil Service Receives a Black Eye in the tiouse. (Krom our regular corri WASHINGTON, Jan. 14, 1904 The Democratic National Committee met at the Shoreham on I full house.

The first hours were wasted over the insignificant contest for committeeman from this District. The lobbies were crowded with familiar faces. There were Senator Clark, slight of figure, keen-eyed, jocund, volatilo witli the Western manner; Senator Jones, serious and dignified, conceding at last that Bryan was not elected Senator Dubois and his comrade, ex-Senator Charley Towne, both buoyant and confident of the future; McCarren, the new boss of Brooklyn, tall and smooth-shaven received effusively ex-Governor Peck, of Wisconsin, who alluded to Chicago as the twentythird ward of Milwaukee; Charles F. Murphy, Tammany leader, moustached, solid, commanding; Tillman, shaggy, pugnacious, loquacious and of opinion that "it is high timo the South was conceded a Sulzer, brisk, talkative, chockful of opinions; Bryan, belated and welcomed affectionately but not vociferously. The Committee selected St.

Louis, July fith, for the convention to nominate a President. In the lobby Judge Parker was undeniably regarded as the name to coujure with. Neither Cleveland's friends nor Bryan's object. Gamaliel Bradford of Boston, Vice- President of the Anti-Imperialist League, stirred up the crowds everywhere by liis appeals in behalf of General Miles foi President. When the committee adjourned for refreshment, your correspondent walked round the square to Lafayette Theater and attended one of the most remarkable meetings ever held in this behalf of international arbitration, especially between Fhigland and the United States Their flags were hung side by side in the proscenium arch.

From the stage the audience was very distinguished, including a hundred members of the Senate and House, ami to the audience the six famous publicists ranged in rank back of the footlights seemed even more remarkable. Mr. Cleveland, who lost his little Ruth the other day, was not present to preside, and his place was taken by our foremost diplomatist, John W. Foster.often embassador to foreign countries and recently active in the settlement of the Alaskan boundary. Slender, alert, facile, he is at 70 the ideal presiding officer: Thomas Nelson Page acted as Secratary and vigorously read the resolutions.

There was little that was strictly novel in any of the speeches, but they were impromptu and deeply earnest. Cardinal Gibbons, tall, lean, grave, conventional, made a favorable impression, the key of his thought being the necessity of peace between the great English speaking races. General Miles was received with applause long continued, and his commanding voice and vigorous personality drove home his sentences. The gem of his speech was that armies should not be organized and armed for the purpose of hunting down weak peoples and that arbitration bad its noblest service in protecting the feeble against the powerful. The situation was unique; the foremost soldier of America speaking for liberty and justice instead of conquest and pleading for peace against all warlike methods.

Edward Everett Hale, the venerable author and ctmplain of the Senate, was an agreeable but almost a startling presence, unfamiliar to the people of Washington. Tall, giantcsque, hirsute, explosive in speech, abrupt in manner, with the mien, the gesture, and the lusty ejaculations of the primitive man, he trumpteded forth his denial that arbitration was a new invention. The Constitution adopted in 1787 was an arbitrament, providing a Supreme Court; now we need a world's Supreme Court. J. M.

Dickinson spoke for the South most eloquently. He was counsel for the American boundary commissioners in the Alaskan dispute. He said that the South is more interested in arbitration than any other people on earth, for it will he fully 100 years before the South recovers from the destruction of her vouug manhood wrought by the Civil War. Dr. Silverman spoke for the Jews, and warned the audience against any ruler who proclaims peace and permits thousands of his people to be butchered." Andrew Carnegie, under-, sized, close-clipped, fire in his eye and a laugh on his face even when most in earnest, warmed the audience into a real Scotch conflagration of enthusiasm.

It was good to be there and made one feel for a moment as if the world was progressing. While the Democratic committee and the International Congress were in session within a block of the White House, the Seoate was stirred to its depths a mile off on Capitol Hill by a resolution offered by Senator Bacon of Georgia advising the President to negotiate a treaty with the Republic of Colombia lookiug to full and complete compensation by the United States for the loss of her sovereignty and property rights in Panama. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, denounced the resolution and all reference to the matter as being pernicious, but debate was permitted. Something likeconsternatfon was caused among Republicans by a remark of Benator Hale that he was in favor of compensating Colombia. Senator Scott, of West Virginia, strongly opposed the appointment of General Wood to be Major-General, denouncing that officer in caustic language.

He said Condone his conduct, and the character and morale of the army will be gone." The annual rebellion against the Civil Service law occurred yesterday in the House of Representatives, several prominent men of both parties denouncing it as a humbug and a fraud. It was attacked by Gen. Grosvenor, Mr. Hepburn, and others, and on a division the appropriation for the Commission was struck to G5. The Senate will probably restore it.

DEM. Tom King, an employe of the Seattle Lumber was struck on the left side of the forehead with a rock tied in a bankerchief as he alighted from a Green Lake car in Seattle, Tuesday night, knocked insensible and robbed of SSO and a silver watch. No clue. A GOLDEN WEDDING. Two of Our Oldest and Most Respected Pioneers Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Their Marriage.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Chambers celebrated their golden wedding, at their home, on Chambers' pruirie Monday, at which six daughters, five of whom are married and sixteen grandchildren took part. Mr.

Chambers is a native of Indiana, and he came to Washington, then Oregon Territory, in 1817, and Margaret White, who became his wife January 18, 1854, is a native of Kentucky. They were married in this county. Mr. Chambers is now 78 years of age and bis wife 72. Those who gathered at the fustive hoard, Monday, to cheer the hearts of the Old Folks at Home," were Mr.

and Mrs. J. Hunsaker, (Elizabeth Chambers) of Kverett; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Granger (KlizaChambers) of I'uyallup; Mr.

and Mrs. Geo. Talcott (Addie Chambers) of Olympia; Mr. and Mrs. W.

M. Calhoun (Margaret Chambers) of Seattle; Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Denny (Retta Chambers) of Seattle, and Miss Nora Chambers of Olympia.

The handsome presents proved it to be a golden wedding indeed. It was a very enjoyable affair and all present vied in showing the bride and groom their most devoted attention. Presents and letters were received from friends of fifty years ago, and the lluwers on display were beautiful and lavish, from many friends of later date. One old friend of January 18, 1854, sent a letter written in the language so much used at that date, the classic Chinook, which read as follows: Clahoteah, Mr. and Mrs.

Chambers: Nica bias tica nanach mica oeokoke sun. Nika wake cokqua ancuty; halo hiack clatawa. Nica lema quanisuin bias till. Nica tieke iskum muck-a-muck copa mica house oeokoke sun. Nica tunituin wake ktiaqua ancuty.

Mitlite ancuty bin mowich, pe bin clams, pe wapato, pe eul-suplil, pe culicully pe molasses, lliu tillieum midlita ancuty, pe hiu hee-hee, clcnas hiu dance. IV mica topsue delate deal wake siali tecope; ancnty mica hias skookum, spuse niicaticaclatwa, micaiskum kuiten pe liiack colee, quanisum cauqua, delate hias clush ocokuk aucuty sun. Alta cliechaco ltustun aucuty tillacuin yoca liuloinia turn turn; yoca quanisum ticke hiu chickamen pe tiee house, pe conaway liuloinia ictas, pe yoca tunitmn aucuty tillacuin wake delate liias till qtiaqiia yoca. Spose yoca tica clatawa copa Olvinpia, yoca halo iscuin kinini. Yoca mitlita copa pia-hoat, pe pia-chickchick pe liiack colee kunqua pish pe cullicullv.

11 ias closh spose mica conemox chaco skooknm cockqua aucuty, pe nica tica mica nanacli hiu sun ipiaipia aucuty. Nica till alta pe copet tscuni. Mica Anccty Tillacum. TRANSLATION. Ilow do you do, Mr.

and Mrs. I would very much like to see you to-day. lam not as I was lone ago, and cannot travel quickly. My limbs are always tired. 1 would like to dine with you at your home to-day.

My heart is not strong as it was once, when deer, clams, potatoes, flour, poultry ami molasses were plentiful, and friends were full of laughter and dancing was common. Your hair, once black, is now nearly white; you once was strong, and when you traveled you mounted horse and went rapidly, and it was well in those days. American new-comers are not like the old-timers. They have other ways; they are avaricious and want tine dwellings and many other things, and I cannot find that fault with the old friends. If they want to go to Olympia, they do not go by canoe; but goby steamer or railroad and hurrv like a fish or fowl.

1 hope you both will regain your former strength, anil that you will see many years like those of the old-time. 1 am tired writing and will close. Yocu OLD FKIKNII. THE COST OF LIVING. The Increase Is Due to Imitation and Combi- Most people realize in that most practical of all ways, hy the drain upon their pocket-books, that the actual expenses of living are higher now than for many years past, but in most instances this increase has come about so gradually that few people realize just what it amounts to.

A table, preprepared by so competent an authority as Dun has recently been published by the Treasury Department at Washington which ntlbrds some interesting rending, even if figures are something the ordinary person shrinks from. This table gives the cost par capita year by year since 1800 of the necessaries of life. The items of house rent, doctors' bills, furniture, and many other desirable, if not absolutely necessary things, are left out. Commencing in July, 1897, the eudof the panic period, the table shows a cost per capita of for one year for clothing and staple foods. Front this time until March, 1903, the figures show a steady increase in the cost of living, and on the latter date they reached the sum of $101.07 per capita for one year, or an increase of 39.5 in less than six years! There are two principal causes for this marked increase in the cost of living.

One of these is the undisputed fact that people live much better now than they did in former years. This applies not only to the rich but to the poor aud to those in moderate circumstances as well. The other is that combination of middlemen, tho jobber and retailer, as well as the manufacturer and producer, has placed every staple article practically out of competition and subject to regulation liy common consent. Man is naturally avaricious, and it is not surprising that the cost of the necessities of life should reach the limit. With competition, good service as well as good quality and fair prices were assured.

With the outlook very favorable for a reduction in wages all over the country this questiou of high cost of living is one that is bound to make itself felt. The experience of the past shows that when a season of prosperity is followed by one of hard times or even by normal times the wager earner is the first to feel the difference by the reduction of his wages. For a time at least his income is reduced and he must still pay the same prices for the necessaries of life. Under these circumstances there is but one thing for him to do and that is to practice economy. This is not pleasant to contemplate, but it is one of the penalties we pay for a season of remarkably good times.

The American workman easily adapts himself to conditions. OASTOHZA. tri jjj, Kind Yen Hare Always Bought D. D. Sylvester, a pioneer of the Pacific Coast and Franklin county, died at Pasco on Iho 15th aged 71 years.

jj For Infants and Children. CASTORiA i Th Ki Always Bought I Preparation for As similating ihc Food and Regula- ting the Stomachs and Bowels or JjGcirS tilO I Signature xKu Promotes DigeslionCheerlul- ft llf ness and Rest. Contains neitlier i a jf Opium, Morphine nor Mineral Ml 01 NOTNAHCOTIC. 2 neufitof OIdDrSAI'ATLVIKJIZR Srrd' £1 Mx Senna I 1 I fU A I I A in ft! 4 II 1 111 Bi Soda I :K.i 11 IMm HirmSeoJ- 1 risij II I Clarified Sugar I Tf flf Ij Aperfecl Remedy forConstipa- gf! I fV WWU Hon, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea I Itp Worms 1 filing ness and Loss OF SLEEP. vr rUI UYui Facsimile Signature or fe Thirty Years EXACT COPY or WRAPPCR.

CASTORIA CINTItIQ rOHNNV. NEW CITY. THE 818 SALE IS NOW ON. All of our Winter Goods I are marked to less than half former price. I Everything Is Down I Hats and Caps, worth 50c to SI.OO, now 19 II 25c Ribbons, 4-inches wide i $2.00 Drygoods down to sl-25 '1 $40.00 Dresses and Coats, down to 20.00 $30.00 15.00 $20.00 10.00 $15.00 7.50 SIO.OO 5.00 1 Honncts and Children's Hoods, one-third former price.

11 O'Coats, Men's and Roy's Suits, Mackintoshes and Craven- ette Coats marked way down. HOSIERY AND UNDER- WEAR ARE DOWN. Carpets, Mattings and Linoleums are down. Rlankets and Comforters are down. SAVE MONEY BUY NOW DO IT TO-DAY 4 A i 1 I Mottraan Mercantile Co.

i WE ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR SCHOOL BOOKS AND SCHOOL SUPPLIES OF ALL KINDS Wall Paper STATIONERY, ETC. M. O'CONNOR'S 508 Main Street, Olympia. Why pay transportation on your cream to Seattle when you get Seattle prices at the CAPITAL CITY CREAIERY OLYAIPIA? Be considerate, be neighborly and become loyal to your home institutions. Hazen Maynard, owner of the Capital City-Nesqually Creameries maintains at Olympia a branch agency for the DeLavel Dairy Supply House, PORTLAND, OREGON..