Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-04-05
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CORRESPONDENCE PosT-ISTELtI5gSckg.
SAs FsAScIsco, March 18th.
Owing TO the sainbrious effects of the
Sunday law we are having one Ut she
most delightful S.bbaths that ever
giaddened the heart of a Puritan 1T
Is Just too lovely for anything" aud our
beautiful promensderS are ont IN poetic
with their grenadines and lace
shawls and esshetic sun shades OF yaEI-
eating hues and mosaic sections, dis
playing artistic skill in water colors and
oil, with their jsunty air aud their seal
skins thrown lovingly over their arms.
To-day being Sunday. yesterday was,
as naturale precedence, Saturday, and
80 | visited the blrberess-for such
.hings be. had never before ventured
into the dsn Of female face scrapers,
but curiosity got the better Of my timid-
ity, and l, like fool. rushed IN where
angels fear TO tread" A smiling lath-
eysr accostsd me with these words OF
blanishments, ''Shavs. SIR" and looked
considerable thinQs," but shs uttered
them all before Gotn ont OF her chair.
only wanted . 15-csnt shave, but she
cut my hair, shampooed me, shaved me,
trimmed my whiskers, gummed my
mustacae, had my boots blacked-and
my bill was sras all I had-75 cents, a
sad reminder Of visits in my younger
days TO church fairs. My fir. shaver
i don't say beautiful. bat fair ale
same church festival-coyers my face
with la.her, then softens tbs stubby
bsard with gentle finger manipulations.
striking mo affectionately under the
chin, translating in short hand mean
while, the words and phrases contained
in her mental cyclopedia, something
after this style: How do you like the
Cn.ness bill; good, isn't It! but won't
they come in from Oregon! ! here
got in a word, No" will Arthur
veto it? What made Hoar work against
il? lie had better look oct or the fac
tory girls will 90 for him, don't you
think so-won't they:" yes" This
dida't exactly fill the bill, but it was the
best | could do, with only time and
space for one word, and ] guess it was
all right, for she gave me an extra en-
dearing pat on the cheek and continued:
"Going 10 see Oscar Wilde. What do
Won think Of him: does he really wear
his pants up to his knees, with a SUM-
flower on each leg, and gold buckles In
his hair and bis shoes parted in the
middle? Horrible Moe verses he writes
though, but ia it right to say 'duggen' as
he does, you know, of course, but amt
much educated you see. Are you going
to see him! Did you see tie big eie-
plant down at Mercantile library!
Wasn't he hoodlum though, with bus
hair curled and nothing in his trani
Are you married." Here l had to in
terieot, in tho most positive manner. in
the briefest possible time, Yes" and
got a queer oaress with the fiat Of bar
barous hand on my jaw, while the reci-
tation proceeded: what does renais-
a.nce raean--sort of old-fashioned sun
flower, / supposeY Oh, you ought to
have 1een Teller that was in here to-
day; he was dressed in leather, as
though no had covered himself With
deer skins, and jumped into tan pit
and stayed till the skins were leather
Said his name was Texas Dick" and
be had three wives in Utah, and he liked
female BARRIERS better than a full hand
whatever that means-and he gave ME
dollar, and told all about his tale
mine in Colorado canyon, worth thou
sand dollars ton." And 80 it went,
till my iuquisitor called out il most pel.
suasive tones, Next" and departed a
sader aud wiser and a much barbsred
man. wondering as went what kind OF
a man that 'sTexes Dick" must he. TO
talk against such coiDme OF words
bound to come out.
As the news came here of, the passage
of the Chinese bill by the House, the
British ship Dsvonshire arrived in por,
from China. bringing a huge devil fish
captured outside the heads. measuring
from the extremity OF its tontacles x
feet, and Weighing los pounds. II seemed
to Ine strange coincidence. As Con
gress stranRled the terrible Chinese
devil fish, whose arms have reached out
from this golden city TO all parts Of 0ul
Pacific possessions, choking intelligent
industry within its whitening embrace
aud drawing within its deadly clutches
the hopes aud promises of decent
civilization. and blighting by its poison
Gus touch the honest aspirations Of on
youth OF both sexes., this great ship d
our cousins across the water comes from
China and stran9les similar monster
nc the entrance to our Golden Gate
We can only hope the one is as dead Al
the other.
have bsen drawn as a iuryman TO
the term In one Of tho criminal courts
Of the city, and il makes me wish
possessed . paper Of influence in which
TO protest against the Riaring injustic'
Of compelling me TO serve in this capac
ity without any compensation whatever
To take business men from their per
suite and labOring men from thei
workshops or other fields Of labor ant
make them serve their country thus, i
simply an unadulterated outrage. Their,
10 no sense or reason in it. That IL j
right that We should share the burden
OF self government In this manner
there is no question; but tina
should be forced tSdo this duty, at {
monied loss to themselves, while tn
judge and all other officers Of the cour
are literally rewarded, is a shame tina
ought, in all decency, he wiped from
our statute books.
Kallock--Rev. Is,ac S.-had q meet
ing nj Union TALL few evenings since
| for tbs purpose of rehabilitatin0 tn
Working Mems p .yty. ] think he has
job on hand, but ne hsd very large
| respectful and attentive audience. VIII,
either hope for snch resuseitation o
believe in the orstorical magnetism o
the erratic divine. Should Presidsn
Arthur 20 utterly ignore our petitions
our supplications aud our remonstrance
~ 70 veto the bill that has been approx
I'd by % large . majority of the people,
representative, there can be--there ~il
5e-reared on the ruins OF the great Re
publican party n now aud powerful
political organization, to be either m
tive American or an industrial party.
founded for the good Of intslligen
labor.
Iongfellow is dead. The nation
poes has sung his last song on earth
Like pure mountain stream, springinj
from the rocky Businesses OF Mcrr,
New England. and singing in the elsa,
oadancos Of natures sweetest melodie
onward through the leafy meadows ant
sunny vales 10 the boundless sea, % ha
our post'a Journey been ripple Of sun
shine and aong from the birth place q
the great ocean Of eternity, and We a.,
70 the departing spirit, Friend Of hu
mauity, hail and farewell"
The wild @sthete In here. and the sun
dowor brigade y out in full force. Thu