That Quire of Ballads be sung for by a number of Songsters, all of them to have Liquor sufficient to clear their Wind-Pipes.

That a pair of Silver Buckles be wrestled for by a number of brisk young men.

That a pair of handsome Shoes be danced for.

That a pair of handsome Silk Stockings of one Pistole value be given to the handsomest young Country Maid that appears in the field. With many other Whimsical and Comical Diversions, too numerous to mention. And as this mirth is designed to be purely innocent, and void of offence, all persons resorting there are desired to behave themselves with decency and sobriety; the subscribers being resolved to discountenance all immorality with the utmost rigor.

THE INTERREGNUM.

Charles I. was beheaded on the 30th of January, 1649. From that period the commonwealth in England commenced, and it continued, under different modifications, till the restoration of Charles II., in 1660.

Oliver Cromwell was declared Protector on the 9th day of January, 1654, and died on the 13th of September, 1658. His son Richard was nominated by him as his successor, and assumed the reins of government accordingly; but resigned them in 1659.

On the dissolution of the monarchy in England doubts existed in the colonies and plantations of America. whether the powers of the governor

and council, and of all the other officers of government deriving their appointments from them, were not extinct.

During the suspension of the regal government in England the Governor and Council of Virginia were chosen by the house of burgesses for short periods only, but this practice was not uniform, and sometimes the appointment was made by a resolution. of the burgesses; at others, by an act of the assembly, and not unfrequently a collision took place between the Governor and the house of burgesses as to the limitation of his power, which always terminated in favor of the rights and privileges of the house.. It appears from the proceedings of the assembly of the 1st of April, 1658, that the Governor and Council undertook to dissolve the house of burgesses; but they peremptorily refused. to be dissolved and passed a number of resolutions of their own power and denying the right of the Governor and Council to dissolve them.

The period of the Commonwealth did, as we have said, occasion much doubt and confusion in the minds of members of the general assembly, and in order to put a stop to the Republicans aspersing the memory of Charles I. and justifying his execution, they did, on the roth of October, 1649, pass the following most extraordinary statute:

"Whereas, divers out of ignorance, others out of malice, schism and faction, in pursuance of some designe of

innovation, may be presumed to prepare men's minds and inclinations to entertaine a good liking of their contrivement, by casting blemishes of dishonour upon the late most excellent and undoubtedly sainted King, and to those close ends vindicating and attesting the late proceedings against the same blessed King (though by so much as they may seeme to have colour of law and forme of justice, they may be truly and really said to have the more and greater height of impudence). And upon this foundation of asserting the clearness and legality of the said unparalleled treasons, perpetrated on the said King, doe build hopes and inferences to the high dishonour of the regal estate, and in truth to the utter disinhersion of his sacred Majesty that now is, and the devesting him of those rights which the law of nature and nations and the knowne laws of the Kingdom of England have adjudged inherent to his royal line, and the law of God himselfe (if sacred writ may be soe stiled, which this age doth loudly call in question) hath consecrated unto him.

"And as arguments easily and naturally deduced from the aforesaid. cursed and destructive principles, with much indeavour, they press and perswade the power of the commission to be null and void, and all magestacy and office thereon depending to have lost their vigor and efficacy, but such means assuredly expecting advantages for the accomplishment

of their lawless and tyranious intentions.

"Be it, therefore, declared and enacted, and it is hereby enacted by governor, council and burgesses of this grand assembly and the authority for the same: That what person soever, whether stranger or inhabitant of this colony, after the date of this act, by reasoning, discourse or argument shall go about to defend or maintain the late traitorous proceedings against the aforesaid King of most happy memory, under any notion of law and justice, such person using reasoning, discourse or argument, or uttering any words or speeches to such purpose or effect, and being proved by competent witness, shall be adjudged an accessory post factum, to the death of the aforesaid King, and shall be proceeded against for the same, according to the knowne lawes of England, or whoever shall go about by irreverent or scandalous words or language to blast the memory and honour of that late most pious King (deserving ever altars and monuments in the hearts of all good men) shall upon conviction. suffer such censure and punishment as shall be thought fit by the governour and council.

"And be it further enacted: That what person soever shall by words or speeches indeavor to inserate any doubt, scruple or question of or concerning the undoubted and inherent right of his majesty that now is to the collony of Virginia, and all other

his majesties dominions and countryes as king and supreme governour, such words and speeches shall be adjudged high treason. And it is also enacted: That what person soever, by false reports and malicious rumors, shall spread abroad among the people anything to change of government or to the lessening of the power and authority of the governour or government either in civil or ecclesiastical causes (which this assembly hath and doth declare to be full and plenarie

to all intents and purposes) such persons not onely the authors of such reports and rumours, but the reporters and divulgers thereof (unless it be done by way of legal information befor a magestrate) shall be adjudged equally guilty and shall suffer such punishment even to severity as shall be thought fitt, according to the nature and quality of the offence." I Hening's Statute at Large, pp. 359360.

ELLIOTT ANTHONY.

THE State of Washington, one of the youngest daughters of the Republic, may be said to have achieved greatness at a bound. Like a giantess new-born, she sprang forth to rival in her very infancy, the staid old commonwealths of the east and south. Her territory is a land where wealth unlimited awaits the hand of industry and pluck. Not only in the fertility of her fields, nor in the golden timber of her mountains, do her riches lie. Her mines of iron and coal, yet comparatively undeveloped, bid fair to render Washington the greatest coal and iron mining region of the world. Men of foresight, grit and energy have flocked to this new State, capital has invested untold millions here;

labor finds here a promised land; railways have ribbed the hills with steel, and Washington has no rival State in her prosperity. The men who have been instrumental in furthering these great interests deserved to be ranked among the true pioneers of the great northwest. It is a fact worthy of consideration that settlers of a few short years ago are now the pioneers, and a man who has lived six months in Washington is looked upon as “an old resident." The pioneers of Washington are, as a general rule, selfmade, energetic, and comparatively young men. Their character is impressed upon the State.

The subject of this sketch has achieved an enviable reputation as a

jurist in the City of Tacoma, where he stands to-day in the front rank of the legal profession.

William Hugh Pritchard, who is known and recognized throughout the State as one of the leading lawyers in this young commonwealth, was born on a farm near the village of Independence, Richland county, O., July 18, 1851. His father was William Pritchard, a native of Derby, Derbyshire, England, whose paternal parent was engaged in the mercantile business, as keeper of a book and music store. His mother, Jane Pritchard, was born in Westmoreland county, Pa., her father being John Wilson, a well to do farmer of Irish descent.

Young Pritchard's education, until his sixteenth year, was merely that which a farmer's boy ordinarily obtains by working through the summer and attending a common district school in the winter. He possessed He possessed an ambition, however, which could. not be crippled or confined by the limits of rural tuition. At the age of sixteen he resolved to obtain a higher education, and the legal profession was his exalted goal. From the aim in life thus taken, he never swerved, and, as Mr. Pritchard himself put it in an epistle to a friend some time ago, "I am still trying to accomplish the end, i, e. to become a lawyer," happily showing his appreciation of that unceasing mental application necessary to merit the broad unqualified title of "lawyer." His

higher education began at Greentown Academy, Perryville, O., from whence he went to Dennison University, Granville, O., and finally to Wooster University, Wooster, O., where he was distinguished in his classes, and where he became a recognized leader in debate. From Wooster, young Pritchard graduated with the class of '74, standing third in rank in a class. of 28, and receiving the distinction of being selected to deliver the "honorary oration" on commencement day.

During these latter years, wherein his college education was obtained, Mr. Pritchard relied upon his own efforts to meet the expenses of the

course.

He labored hard in vacation, and his savings paid the greater part of his schooling, although at times he was compelled to stop school in order to procure funds with which to proceed, and some of his educational expenses were settled after graduation by the repayment of loans secured to aid in finishing his studies.

Mr. Pritchard's tastes in early life were not marked except by love of debate and of legal lore of every character. His assiduity in the study of the law has borne its reward in his success as a barrister to-day. He first began the practice of law in Mansfield, O., in 1879, and remained their until 1884, securing a lucrative business and meeting remarkable success, but the delays of procedure in the courts there, and the flattering accounts he had received of the prospects of the then Territory of Washington, and es

pecially of the City of Tacoma, induced him to start for the latter place in 1884. It seems but a very short time since then, yet those six years have witnessed marvelous changes; they have seen forests felled to give place to settlements which have grown to populous cities; and so rapid has been the change-so great the influx of home-seekers and fortune hunters, in the past year or two that it may not be wondered at that William Hugh Pritchard is classed as a Washington pioneer.

Arriving in the evergreen State, he made his home temporarily at Colfax, but he soon left a good practice there to enter a broader and better field at Tacoma, where his sterling abilities are acknowledged and his stalwart, honorable character respected by bench and bar and people.

Until his advent in Tacoma, Mr. Pritchard was never a candidate for any public office, and he has never filled one other than that of school director and trustee of Colfax College. Recently his indorsement and

support for the office of United States District Judge was not equalled by that of any other candidate, and the only reason of his failure to receive that appointment was an unfortunate political situation. which seemed to render it necessary to appoint another. A notable circumstance in that matter was Mr. Pritchard's unanimous endorsement by the bar in all three, places where he had resided.

Reared and educated in the Presbyterian faith, Mr. Pritchard still adheres to the precepts of that church; while in politics he has always been a straight and consistent Republican. He was married July, 18, 1874, to Miss Sophia Leiter, a farmer's daughter, of Lucas, O.

William H. Pritchard stands high in the Masonic order, and is a member of the Royal Arch Degree. He is still a young man, and bids fair to write his name in glowing letters on the pages of Washington State history.

WILL L. VISSCHER.