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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-06-16

ID uIdkiuS LnOIcy.
H. B. Corwin, opened a grocery
store in large tent, and the Major
says it rained on him every day until
he erected a handsome store and is
now doing good business.
Enterprise ahead. Mr.. A. He,liger,
better knwon as Reasonable Abe, is
now one of the leading business men
of this camp. He started one year
ago in tent, but now occupies one
of the handsomest stores here,
with a large stock of clothing and
miners furnishing goods. Mr.. Heiliger
is formerly Of Memphis, Tenn, and if
Memphis can send few more little
business men like Abe is, we shall be
glad to give them hearty welcome.
Thomas & McDougal have a Law
office nextao the hotel. Everybody
knows Mac who plodded in here last
year over the snov with a "biled "
(shirt on which was a curiosity TO the
old timers. Wonderful change in one
years time. Everybody dresses up
now.
F. H. Kellogg occupies an office a,
an attorney in the same building. He
has held on here for one year with con.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-12-23
Father Time.

1--WE know what We are," said poor
Ophelia, "but We know not what: We
may be-" Perhaps che would have
spoken with nicer accuracy had she
eaid. We know what We have beer."
OF our present state We can. strictly
speaking, know nothing. The act OF
meditations on ourselves, however
quick and subtle, must refer to the
past, in which alone We can truly be
said to live. Even in the moment OF
intense erjoyment. our pleasures are
multiplied by the quick revolving
images Of thought; We feel the past and
future in each fragment of the instant,
as the flavor Of every drop of some de.
licious liquid is heightened and pro-
logged on the lips. 1t is the past only
which We really enjoy as soon as We
become sensible of duration. Each
bygone instant of delight becomes
rtp'diy present to us, and "bears q
glass which shows us many more"
this Is great privilege of meditative
"s'sg-never properly to have ny.sense
OF the present, but to feel the great
realities as they pass away, casting their
delicate shadows on the future
lSauuders.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-12-23
A Hint to Travellers.

The following incident may have
been in these columns before. II 60,
it will bear q second reading. As a
rebuke to selfish travellers, too many
of whom crowd our thoroughfares, pass
it around:
Que of the east.bound trains coming
into Detroit the other day was heavily
loaded, and passenger who got on at
Ypsilanti walked through two cars and
finally halted at a seat occupied by q
small man and a grab bag and ir-
quired:
els this seat occupied?' p
"Of course this seat is occupied, VI
was the reply.
Are both halves of this seat occu-
pied p was the next query.
"Of course both halves are occu-
pied"
well, my FRIEND" said the new
arrival, as he let 60 Of the satchel, 81
want to bother you with one more
query. Had you rather I would toss
that grab-bag ont the window and siI
down with you, or chuck you out and
ride into Detroit with the grab-bag?
The grab-bsg man got mad at thai
and wouldn't ride anywhere else excep
on the wood box.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-12-23
A Selfish General.

One night in the spring of 'G2 Gen.
eral Richardson, who then commanded
brigade, took it into his head to in
spect the picket-line. Coming upon a
reserved picket of about thirty men,
under command of a captain OF the
Second Michigan infantry, the general
saw fit to interrogste as follows:
"CAptain, in case OF an alarm by the
advance picket, what would you do ?.
"Send off a reinforcement at once"
"And ifthe firing continued ?"
II should move up with the re-
mainder of my force.'
"And suppose o whole company of
the enemy should press forward ?"
"We'd whip them."
"But II it was q regiment ?"
"I'd form line of battle and check
them until I sent back and got orders
to charge and capture the whole lot."
swell, suppose 3 brigade should
move down on you in battle limo ?"
"I'd order charge, split the col
umn in two, and whip both halves in
detail"
At midnight the brave captain was
relieved from further duty. He was
very indignant and considerably puz.
zled, but, after thinking the matter over
for awhile, he said to brother officer.
"Say, I've struck it! Old Rich was
afraid my company might gobble the
whole confederate army snd throw
him out Of summers job! II that
amt selflshness I'd like to know what
is.'
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-12-23
Two Visions.

Where close the carving mountains DIRE "
To clasp the stream in ia ir embrace.
With every outline, curve ana hue
Reflected in lis placid face,
The p!owman stopped his team to watch
The ;rair, fs awift 1t tLundercd bv:
Some distant glimpse OF lif- "a catch
He strairs lis eager, wistful eye.
The morning freshness lies on hi.p.
Just wekened from his bslmy dreams;
The travellers, begIiIned and dim,
Think longingly Of mountain streams.
or, for the joyous mountain air,
The fresh, delightful autumn day
Among the hills! The piowman there
Must have perpetual holiday,
And h., as all day long he guides
HIS steady plow, with patient hand,
Thinks Of the flying train that glides
Into some new, enchanted land,
Where, day by day, no p,olIing round
Wearies the frame AZ Il dIlis the mind
Where life thrills keen to sight and sound
With plows and furrows /, # behind.
Even So, to each. the untrod ways
Oi life are touched by faucy's glow,
That ever sheds IFS brightest rays.
Upon the path We do not know
-lAenGs M. Machar, in The Century.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-12-23
Married People Would be Hap.
pier

II heme trials were never told to
neighbora.
Ii they kissed and made up after
every quarrel.
If household expenses were pro.
portioned TO receipts.
If they tried to be as agreeable as in
courtship days.
Ii each would try to be support and
comfort to the other.
III each remembered the other was a
human being. not an angel.
If women we're as kind to their hus-
bands as they were to their lovers.
If fuel AMI provisions were laid in
during the high tide of summer
work.
Ii both parties remembered that
they married for worse as we'll as for
better.
-; men were as thoughtful for their
wives as they were for their sweet
hearts.
II there were fewer silks and velvet
street costumes and more plain, tidy
housedresses.
Ii there were fewer "please dar-
lings" in public, and more common
manners in private.
If wives and husbands would take
some pleasure as they 60 along and not
degenerate into mere toiling machines.
Recreation is necessary to keep the
heart in it's place. and to get along
without it is big mistake.
III mon would remember that wom-
an can't be always smiling who has to
cook the dinner, answer the door bell
half dozen times. and get rid of a
ueighbor who has dropped in, tend to
a sick baby, tie up the cut finger of a
two-year' old. gather up the play things
OF four-year-old. tie up the head of 8
six-year old on skates, and get an
eight-year-old ready for sch ool-to say
nothing of sweeping. cleaning. etc. A
woman with all this to contend with
may claim it as q privilege to look and
feel little tired sometimes, and a
word of sympathy would not be too
much to expect from the man who
during the honeymoon wouldn't let her
carry as much as a sunshade. Satur-
day Evening Mail.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-12-23
George Eliot's Mental Vitality.

Nothing. indeed, was more remark
able in this last period of her life than
her intense mental vitality, which
failing health did not seem in the least
to impair. She possessed in an emil
nent degree that power which has led
to success in so many directions-which
is ascri6ed both to Newton and to
Napoleon-of keeping her miud un-
cessingly at the stretch without con-
scious fatigue. She would cease to
read or to ponder when other duties
called her, but never (as it seemed)
because she herself felt tired. Even
IN SO complex an effort as visit to a
picture gallery implies, she could con-
tinue for hours at the same pitch of
earnest interest, and outweary strong
men. Nor was this mere habit of
passive receptivity. In the intervals
between her successive compositions
her mind was always fusing and COM
bining its fresh stores, and had her life
been prolonged, it is probable that she
would have produced work at least
equal in merit to anything which she
had already achieved. may perhaps
be allowed to illustrate what has here
been said by few words as to the
occupations of her last days on earth.
On the Friday night before her death,
Mrs. Cross Witnessed representation
OF the "Agamemnon." in Greek, By
Oxford undergraduates. and came back
fired with the old words, thus heard
anew, and planning to read through
the Greek dramatists again with her
husband. Ga Saturday. she went as
usual to the concert OF classical music,
and there, as it seems, she caught the
fatal chill. That evening she played
through on the piano much of the music
which had been performed in the after
noon; for she was an admirable e2ecu-
tant, and rendered especially her
favorite Schubert with rare delicacy of
touch and feeling. And thus, as her
malady deeperei, her mind could still
respond to the old trains of thought
and emotion, till. ali Unexpectedly to
herself and those who loved her, she
passed into the state of Inconsistencies
from which she woke on earth no more.
i Frederick w. II Myers.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-12-23
Importance of Yorktown,

The only real importance OF the
event was political. Being the first
fruit of the Franco-American alliance,
its effect On public opinion in both
hemispheres was great. 1t depressed
the war spirit i'll England in the reverse
of the degree that it revived the war
spirit in America. It convinced the
English ministry that to prosecute the
war in America to successful issue it
would require much larger force,
both for sea and for land service, than
had yet been sent across the Atlantic.
With q continental war also on hand,
public sentiment in England was not
in such state as to render it probable
that another campaign in America. on
greatly enlarged scale, would be sup.
ported. 1t was under these circum-
stances that the capture of Corvallis
little army by the combined French
ant American forces had the political
importance of an event that brought
the war in America to close and reE-
dered il for England the most unfor-
tunate war in which any ruler of that
country ever engaged Chicago
Times.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-12-23
WHOLE NO. 1897.
Working Butter.

The working of butter is . manipu.
lation that requires the utmost skill.
for overworking destroys the grain Of
the product, and any motion Of the
/" worker" that produces grinding
should be avoided, and to detect this
and correct it takes q quick eye and
steady hand. The chief purpose Of
working butter is to solidify it, and at
the same time expel the remaining
buttermilk and thoroughly diffuse the
salt through the mass, and this last
should be done with as little mixing ~
will exactly accomplish the require.
ment, for the grain of the salt cutting
the globules Of the butter, Injuries the
grain of the latter. and the butter be-
comes waxy.
The butter should never exceed .
temperature of 60 degrees when worked,
as higher point causes the butter to
gravitate towards sickness; and when
worked at TOO loxA \ point the batter
becomes nesly and the texture il de-
stroyed.
If at the last working there is addi.
tional salt required, care must be taken
that the butter has not become dry, 20
that it will not be dissolved, and many
dairymen throw few quarts Of water
into the worker at this stage 10 aid
in dissolving the salt. and carry with il
the particles of buttermilk that have
remained over from the previous work
ing.
There is mistaken notion in regard
to salt adding to the keeping quality OF
butter. the truth being that salt pre-
serves the different substances OCCUPY
ing the interspscss between the glob-
ules of butter, for it is fact that no
chemical union ever takes place between
the butter and the salt, and the long.
keeping Danish butter perfectly
worked, but never receiving particle
of salt, proves the latter is not, 90 far
as it relates to the keeping Of butter, .
preservative agent, and that no amount
OF salt will keep butter. unless certain
rules are observed and requirements
met. The papers teem with notices Of
butter preservatives and inventions to
keep butter indefinitely, but it Is prob
ably long time before any Of them
will como into general use; and for
years to come the long-keeping butter
will be found to be an article made
from cream, where perfect cleanliness
was observed in obtaining it and the
butter churned and put into paeksges
under system of rules relsting to ago
OF cream, temperature, end working
Maryland Farmer.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-12-23
Gloucester Sailors.

Six sloops. one boat, and one shallop
composed the Cape Ann feet in 1893;
now it has nearly five hundred sail,
OF almost twenty-eight thousand tons,
and Gloucester is the largest fishing
port in the land. Its fleet is manned
by men of every cline. A tide of
young men, mainly from the Prov
inces, sets steadily toward this port.
Many have the characteristic reckless
ness of the sailor, and earnings of
weeks are spent between sunset and
sunrise. There is among them no
sailor cut of clothes, and ashore they
follow the prevailing fashions, down to
lager beer. All haunts are prepared
for Jack. and he is prepared for all
haunts. As in all other callings,
thrift follows prudence and industry,
though be seems to lie open to the
changes and chances of luck. You will
see his cottage commanding the finest
sea v;eS, icr ON. the heights lie the
cheapest lots. Alas! that tie waiting
wife can also look harborward on every
coming sail, often to see the flag "half.
mast for whom?
Here are no lebor strikes. The sailor
brings in fare Of fish, perhaps all he
has caught, 10y themselves; they are
weighed off. the vessel is put to rights,
and he goes up to the countilg-room
for his check. The whole value of the
fish is reckoned by the veasei-owner or
his clerk; then is deducted cost of ice
and bait bought; then. one quarter OF
ono per cent for the Widows and Or
phans' Fund; one-half the remainder
belongs to the owner, the other to him.
From his part is then deducted charges
for wood-sawing and splitting, for water,
medioine-chest, condensed milk. and
any charge for labor on the vessel
which belonged to him to do, but
which has been hired done. His check
is then handed him, and he presents i.
in person, or it finds its devious way to
the bank by other-perhaps not cleaner
hands. - From Around Cape Ann
by Hiram Rich, in The Century.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-12-23
Feather Decorations.

Well.preserved breast skins of all
kinds of fresh-water and sea fowl, ap-
piled as shaded stripes mounted or
linen and then joined firmly together
are made into beautiful rugs, foot
covers, etc. The bright.colored Recks
are used rs a border. and the whole il
then mounted on cloth or other thick
wool material or quilted silk. Grebe
and gulls' breasts mix we'll with the
darker, more sombre colors, and the
bright necks of domestic fowl brighten
up such border wonderfully. without
taking away the delicate, subdued tone
of the grays and browns peculiar to
such plumage. Single breast feathers
mounted on narrow bands of linen OF
stout tape and applied in frames. one
inside the otlbr, either of one or sever.
al kinds. to the depth of twelve or
fourteen inches, with the corners we'll
defined, is a good way OF working such
a rug. The center panel can be filled
out with one kind OF skins or feathers
white, pale, gray, etc., or, with some
device. bright.colored breasts.
All single feathers of foreign, wild
or domestic fowl thus used must be
we'll prepared for this purpose. and the
quill parts, if stout, Hsttened before
sewed on, as they will not set other
wise. Fur and feather bands can also
be applied, alternately for such pur-
poses. and the center panels made OF
chsmois skins in gray or yellow,
worked in colored or brown purse silk
like the Hungarian sheepskin coats
the feather bands or skins being ap-
piled only as border. Cloth applique
can be utilized with success on such
ohamois panels. Qailted satin oenters
look we'll surrounded with feathers OF
fur bands, especially seal, or otter, OF
opcssum, slternated with bands OF
undyed ostrich feathers and cocks
neck feathers. Guinea-fowl feathers
and those of the peahen make beautiful
bands for such work; also the delicate
gray OF the common heron and many
kinds Of ducks feathers.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-12-23

A SMART ALECK-The talk about
water supply reminds one of our citi
zens of little modest. but effectual
gostration that he practioed during
a visit to Europe on a cockney who was
discussing the project of supplying
London with water from the Westmore'
land lake. "Ah, Mr.. -" said he,
"if we only 'ad your Lake Superior
here we should ave no trouble in get.
ting water enough" "No." was the
reply, "and you wouldn't have much
England to use the water" He opened
his eyes wide. gov can that be
sir ?" Why, Lake Superior has al
area OF 80 600 square miles, and Eng
land OF $4,000. If Like Superior wer'
set in tho middle between the Welsh
mountains and the North Sea. it would
leave q narrow rim of Is. 900 square
miles around ii for the people tina
used it."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-12-23
Onions.

A Maine writer gives to IN exchange
the following q his method OF cult
vaiing onions: My ground Vas broken
up in the spring and planted to potatoes.
Immediately after digging them in the
fall. cleaned up the rubbish Of every
kind, then applied very evenly to the
soil fair coat Of dressing. composed
af scrapings Of the barnyard. Next /
cultivated the ground three or four
times quite deeply, the dressing work
ing in readily. then narrowed il
down smoothly and allowed il to remain
two weeks to allow the weeds an oppor-
tunity to start. Next. I cultivated for
the purpose Of killing the weeds, finely
narrowing the ground a. smoothly -
possible and let it rest until spring.
As soon in the spring - the ground
was fit I worked the top With . horse
harrow and hand rake until secured
seed bed about two inches in depth,
fine. soft and completely mixed ready
for the seed. After my onions came
up I spread on salt and ashes. After
the first wedding I applied another coat
of ashes. A liberal use of ashes I
consider great benefit to this crop.
At my first wedding I brushed away the
dirt from the onions. The second
wedding finished, I sowed on fertilissr
composed Of plaster, salt. ashes, lime
and guano. All the small weeds should
be destroyed IS fast e. they make their
appearance; the large ones will not
trouble the grower. By the above de-
scribed method I raised on ons-fourth
of an acre of land 200 bushels Of the
largest and finest onions I ever saw,
many Of them weighing . pound and
a quarter each, and with but very few
scullions. On the same area Of old
ground. by similar methods, ! raised
22l bushels of onions, very fine looking
nes."-[Maine Farmer.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-12-23

Politics AND MATRIMoNY. - The
death OF Mrs. Millard Fillmore serves
to recall singular incident connected
with her two husbands. In 1S47, while
she was the wife of Ezekiel Mcintosh,
of Albany. Mr.. Fillmore was candidate
for the position of State Comptroller
of New York. Some persons who de-
sired to defeat his election raised about
10000 for the purpose. aud placed it
in the hands OF Mcintosh, instructing
him to place it in bank in his own
name aud not to make the: matter pub
lie. He did as desired, but before the
fund could be drawn out to use for
election purposes the treasurer fell sick
and died. Mr.. Fillmore was elected
Comptroller. and many years after ward
married Mrs. Mcintosh and received,
as part of her dowry. the money that
had been raised to defeat his election.
The ex-Pfesident used to enjoy telling
the story, and often remarked that " the
money was placed where it would do
the most goa :" to him.-[Lowell Cou-
rier.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-12-23

PAINT FOR Our Doom WoRK.-Ths
best priming for old wood work, and
in fact all wood work that il exposed to
tho weather, ID simply spanish white
(whiting) mixed in pure linsesd oil; let
it stand till thoroughly mixed. then
reduce with oil. and add drier sufficient
to it. This makes the best. hardest and
most durable paint for first cost. It
must be thoroughly beaten together 20
as to work out all the Jumps Of whiting.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-12-23
Mole Hills.

"Bobus's blindness is singular, p"
writes Sydney Smith to his daughter.
He can see mote, but not beam
the smaller anything is, the better he
sees it. He could see David, but would
run 6 inst Goliath" The Bot uses of
society are legion. 1t is their habit
and intirmity to see minutest mole
hills of dissatisfaction, while the
heights of Joy often remain invisible.
People who make existence bore and
a burden sit opposite us at table,
jostle US on the sidewalk, aud some
times. alas! carry our la.ch-key.
Not that this defect is always obvious
to spectators. A woman may be so
sweet an d gracious, so sensitive to hero.
ism. SO ge.minded, and warm.
hearted. that she seems to deserve that
exquisite praise won by Lady Elizabeth
Hastings. Bat the intimate who spends
week in her house knows that the
petty annoyances Of life dispel this
golden calm. She could mould the
policy OF a state. perhaps. bare her
brow serene to the great storms Of fate,
or stand smiling at the stake for the
faith that is in her. But she can not
endure with patience the misfit of a
gown, the witty gibe Of an acquaintance,
the misrepresentation which all people
OF character must expect, the upsetting
OF her plans OF usefulness or pleasure,
tie stupidity of servants, or the omis-
sion Of her name from Mrs. Gatherun .
list Of invitations. She may not lose
her temper, bat she makes these mole
hills so mountainous that they shut out
the light OF day from her household.
A man whose whole life has been
passed in the service OF q cause, who
has really made the burden of the op-
pressed lighter and the signing OF the
prisoner to cease. is at home so exas-
perated by the short-cc misgs of work
man, the racketing of the children, the
mislaying Of his gloves. the failure o!
letter. or the non-eleotion of his can.
didate, that his poor wife might we'll
be tempted to tho commission of crime
as the only means of interesting him in
the amelioration of her condition.
We all know the people who speak
of % rainy day which interferes with
their plans, or of exhausting heat, OF
bitter cold, or unexpected frost. as if il
were a deliberate affront to them on the
part of low-bred Nature. Not that
they mean to be so understood. But
the habit of exaggerating trifing
troubles. of measuring every circum.
stance, event. or action of life as il
affects their personal comfcrt, breeds
this spirit of querulousness and criti.
cism.
There are, indeed, many lovable
people who make mountains out oi
mole-hills. And these do not so much
arraign their tribulations. or groan be-
meath them, as look upon them with
mildeyed wonder. and oppose to item
asweet il competence. All their friends
come to the rescue of thesA grown.ur
children, who are necessarily stun bling
over mole-hills, and mutely asking te
be set again on their feet. They smile
the sweetest thanks, they never lose
their temper. but not the less do they
waste better lives than their own, and
tyrannizs with dense unconeciousness
II HHrDer's RaZar
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-12-23

Give rs man, young or old, high OF
low, on whom We know weesn thorough
ly depend-who will stand firm when
others fsil-the friend faithful and true,
the adviser honest and fearless, the
adversary just and ohivalrous; in such
one there is fragment Of the Rock
of Ages.-[Dean Stanley.