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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-18
PLEASURE BOATS

TIRST-CBASS PLEASURE BOATS
Il neat and safe, to let by the hour, day
or week, on reasonable terms.
Boat house at the old wharf, on Lake
Union, south of the sawmill. and west OF.
or opposite, the Lake Union Hotel.
jyii I'm DOUGLASS & POOLE.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-18
Maynard's Plat /:

Lots and ), block IL.
Lots !. 2 g. 4. block 10.
Lot 4, block 10, Borens plat, on Second
street.
Lots 1 and 2, block 81. Denny's and BELLS
addition.
Lot g. block 4. Brawley's.
North half block 2. Eastern addition
Lots l and 2, block 8, Eastern addition.
Lots and 2, block s, Fairview, with II
story house.
p lots in Hanford's addition.
Lots Is and 16. block 40 Kids addition.
Lot 4, block q, Kidd's ad iition.
30 lots in McGilvra'a addition.
30 l0tsin Yesler and McGilvra's addition
5 lots in Miles' addition, on Madison
street extension.
Lots 1. s, and Z, block 6. McNaught's
first addition.
Lot 10. block ~. McAleer's.
Lot g block 32. McAleer's.
IL lots in Northern addition.
25 lots in Pontius' addition.
80 lots in Phinney's addition.
lots in Riley's addition.
2choice lots in Union addition.
Lands by the acre in tracts of two acres
and upwards. Farms and wild lands. etc.
Call and examine full list and prices.
wv. EDWARDS,
REAL ESTATE DEALER.
jel5 If III Front street.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-18
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
For Sale.

nWENTY-E EIGHT TONS FIRST
class Timothy Hay, at Crescent Har-
Dor, Island county. tor further particu-
lars Apply TO GEO. IZETr, foot of Jack
son street. Seattle. or MR. MORGAN,
Crescent Harbor. Island county. jyl5 I'm
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-18
Situation Wanted,

IN A HOTEL. AS CHAMBERMAID
or waitress. Apply at the Oriental ho.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-19
The Strawberry Mark.

The Cleveland Herald gives currency
to the following romantic incident:
About thirty years ago farmer resid-
ing in Springfield (Ohio) township,
named Maxwell, visited deserted coal
thither by sheer idle curiosity He
stood at the slope opening for time,
and then started to walk down it, when
at the entrance to this dark and gloomy
place he saw a bucket. He picked it
up, and soon there came from it the
tender and suppressed cries of an in
FAINT. He carried it to the light, and
then after removing the wrappings he
saw sweet little babe looking into his
eyes, as if it wanted to sIy: ''Please
take pity on me. am poor little
outcast without home. Won't you
take me out and love and take care of
mep Mr.. Maxwell was a young mar
ried man, with large, generous heart,
and having no children of his own he
took the little waif home with him, and
he and Mrs. Maxwell took care of it
and loved it as parents love their own
children. The little founding grew to
be a beautiful and accomplished young
lady, and she repaid her foster parents
with an abundance of affection and
tender devotion. Twenty years had
come and gone when one day young
man called at the house of the Maxwells
and declared that the babe found in the
coal bank was his sister, and that he
had come from pleasant home in
Iowa to see her, and, if possible, per-
suade her to return with him. Their
mother had died a few months ago,
and on her deathbed she told how she
had hid the babe in the coal bank, of
Mr.. Maxwell finding it and all about it,
and made a dying request that the
family should hunt the child up and
claim her. The Maxwells were well
pleased with the young man, and he
remained with them several weeks.
When he returned to his western home
he took his sister with him. He also
took the promise of one of Mr. Max
wells daughters that she, too, would
share his home and fortune ere long.
The promise was kept
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-19
Uncle Bill's Speech.

When l was drunkard / could never
get my barn more than half full. The
first year after 1 signed the pledge
filled my barn; the second year I filled
my barn and had four stacks. When
was drunkard owned only one poor
old cow, and think she must have been
ashamed of me, for she was red in the
face; now l own five good cows, and [
own three as good horses as ever looked
through collar. When l was a drunk
ard trudged from place to place on
foot; nowI can ride in carriage of my
own. When l was drunkard was
three hundred dollars in debt; since 1
signed the total abstinence pledge
have paid the debt, and purchased two
hundred acres of wild land, and have
the deed in my possession; two of my
sons, who are teetotallers, are living on
that lot. When L was q drunkard I
used to swear; have ceased to be pro-
fame. The last year of my drunken
ness my doctors bill amounted to thirty
dollars; since | signed the pledge Ihave
not been called upon to expend cent
for notwithstanding.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-19

General Sherman recently had some
shirts made at furnishing store in
Washington, and the cutter few weeks
later met the General with a friend
walking down the avenue. The Gen
eral remembered the face, but could not
locate him, and the cutter greeted him
with:
"Good morning, General. How are
you to-day?"
The General stopped, shook hands,
and the cutter, perceiving that the Gen
erals mind needed refreshing, said
quietly:
'Made your shirts "
go, L beg pardon" said the General
quickly, and turning to the gentleman
with whom he was walking, he said:
"Ah, Colonel -, allow me to intro
duce you to my friend, Major Schurzr'
Boston Jour7aal.
One of the earliest of our American
anecdotes is told of the first Presidential
reception given by Washington. An
individual stepped up to him and
grasped the hand of the Father of his
Country. ''Sir," said Washington,
''your face is familiar to me-" II made
your breeches," was the reply. Turn
ing to his wife, with ineffable dignity,
the President said: Madame, permit
me to make you acquainted with Major
Brooches" The Journals story is
neither new nor DISQUALIFICATION 1faU-
eLer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-19
THE TWO Sewers.

Death, came to the earth, by his side was
Spring,
They came from Gods own bowers,
And the earth was full of their wandering,
For they both were sowing flowers.
81 SOW" said Spring, by the stream and the
wood,
And the village children know
The gay glad time of my own sweet prime,
And where my blossoms grow.
'There is not spot in the quiet wood
But hath heard the sound of my feet.
And the viOlets come from their solitude
When my tears hath made them sweet
H'I SOW" said Death, "where the hamlet
stands,
I SOW in the churchyard drear;
drop in the grave with gentle hands,
My flowers from year to year.
''The young and the old go into their rest,
To the sleep that waits them below;
But clasp the children unto my breast,
And kiss them before l CO."
81 SOW" said Spring, but my flowers decay
When the year turns weak and old,
When the breath of the bleak winds wears
them away,
And they wither and droop in the mould.
1'But they come again when the young earth
feels
The new blood leap in her veins,
When the fountain of wonderful life unseals,
And the earth is alive with the rains.
81 SOW" said Death; "but my flowers unseen
Pass away from the land of men,
Nor signs nor tears through the long sad years
Ever bring back their bloom again.
''But know they are wondrous bright and
fair
In the fields of their high abode;
Your flowers are the flowers that child may
wear
But mine are the blossoms of God
Death came to the earth, by his side was
Spring;
The two came from Gods own bowers;
One sowed in night and the other in light,
Yet they both were sowing flowers.
Alexander anderson in Good Words.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-19
DiSbwashing Her Life Away.

The quiet fidelity with which wom-
an will dishwash her life away for her
husband and children is marvel of
endurance. Here is the servitude of
woman heaviest-no sooner is her work
done than it requires to be done again.
Men take jobs, work on them, finish
them, and they are over for good and
all. The prospect of ending them and
drawing pay for the labor is alluring,
but no such allurements are held out
for the wife. She washes Monday after
Monday the same garments until there
is nothing more of them to wash; then
they are replaced by others of new ma
terlal just like them, and the rubbing
and wringing goes on forever. She
mends the stockings with tireless fidel-
ity, the same holes meeting her gaze
week after week, for if there is darned
place in sock chez invariably puts his
irrepressible toe through it. Every
morning the rooms are put in order,
only to be in the widest disorder by
the time night falls. There are no jobs,
each one different, no terms, no pay
day. The same socks, the same wash
OhC IOOlh CNCl 1hCl
is too little brightness in the lives of
women in the country. They have too
little help in their domestic occupations.
The nurse in house where there
is baby to care for ought to be set
down as one of the regular expenses,
as much as the potatoes for the family
A mothers health, both of body and
mind, is worth more than additional
acres of land or finer live stock. The
heart should not be allowed to grow old
Life should not have lost its charm, the
heart its spirit and the body its elastic
ity at forty years. And yet how many
women are faded and wan, and shat
tered in mind and health, long before
they are forty. All the JOY of life is not
in youths morning. Ii we so will it,
we can to the last moment of life be at
least negatively happy -Erchange.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-19
Temperance Reading.
The Beginning and the End.

1t began this way: Two boys came to-
the city from the country They left
home with kindly words of advice ring
ing in their ears. Their parents babe
them remember the good counsel given
them in youth, and earnestly entreated
them to resist the many temptations
which the city would place before Them
And they promised to remember the
words of loving counsel, and went out
from the hearthstone of home to face
the world and fight the battle OF life,
brave of heart and hopeful of overcom-
ing in the strife.
One day they were going by saloon.
On the screen, which stood little way
back from the open doors hiding from
the passers-by what took place within,
was displayed card on which was
written: ''Fresh lemonade. Only five
cents glass"
"A glass of cool lemonade would
taste good this hot day." said John.
Lets go in and get some"
I'D like the lemonade well enough
said Philip, "but 1 don't really fancy
the idea of going to saloon to get it,
Pshaw!" laughed John. "What
difference does it make whether you buy
your lemonade here or somewhere else?
We needn't drink anything else if we
don't want to-"
81 know that" answered Philip, hes
itatingly. 81 was thinking that father
wouldn't like it if he knew. He's OPP
posed to saloons, you know"
Eyes, but how's he to know anything
about itP" urged John. Come on; I'll
pay for the lemonade" And he drew
his companion into the saloon.
They drank their lemonade. The
proprietor eXerted himself to make
their call pleasant, and when they were
going he urged them to have another
drink
L" Better have little something in it
to give it the right kind of flavor" he
said, smilingly.
"All right" said John; and the man
poured some of the contents of long,
necked bottle into each glass. The bows
drank it down. The liquor was strong
enough to produce considerable effect
upon them. 1t made them ''iollv,n thew
told each other; but l don't think either
OF them would have called the effect that
II they could have foreseen what the end
would be.
Well, they went to that saloon again.
TWAS not long before they felt kind of
contempt for a man who would drink
anything as mild as lemonade. That
might do for boys, but they were men
and they coulu drink whisky and brandy
and gin. And they could smoke, and
play cards and billiards, and talk slang.
This kind of an education is acquired
with wonderful rapidity, In six months
they were good scholars in the school of
ruin.
The end came to one two years ago.
In drunken brawl he was stabbed to
the heart. To the other the end came
only last week. "Died of delirium ire
MEMS" a friend said.
1t is sad to think that daily boys are
beginning this kind of life, and sadder
to think what the end may be. o boys!
be careful, be careful.-Eben E. Req
ford, in Youths Temperance Banner.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-19
Temperance Items.

A COMMISSION OF INQUIRY into the
liquor traffic, with reference to its con-
nection with pauperism, disease and
crime, has been appointed by the Cana
dian Parliament.
OVER FIVE THOUSAND PERSONS in Chi
cago have joined the new Temperance
organization, the League of the Cross,
and have taken the pledge under the di-
rection of Father Hayes, S. j.
A wHIsKY-sELLER at Whitehall, N. Y,
is in a bad mess. He has been found
guilty of selling liquor illegally to four
hundred and tifty-seven persons, and
has been sentenced to pay a fine of nine
thousand dollars and stay in Jail until it
is paid.
A GOOD SUGGESTION comes to us, viz:
that every town where saloons are Ii
censed pay prosecuting attorney to sue
sale on-keepers for all damages. The
Christian inhabitants of any town can
combine to secure such prosecutor, so
that the work may be effectually done,
whether the wives and children are able
to do it or not.-Caaion Signal. -.
The SHOCKING SUICIDE of Edward
Jump, well-known caricaturist, who
killed himself recently in the Office of
John B. Jeffery, startled the commu-
nifty. The cause assigned for the rash
deed was whisky, and is another warn
ing against that terrible demon at whose
doors nine-tenths of the crimes of the
land can be laid Chicago Neo0S.
IT IS A CURIOUS and suggestive feat
ure of the pending fundamental debate
over the question of limiting or wholly
suppressing the liquor traffic, that while
nearly every vigorous protest against
prohibition comes from liquor-sellers or
their advocates, these same protests are
almost invariably based on the alleged
wrong which prohibition inilicts upon
actual or possible liquor drinkers. And
wherever violent or criminal resistance
is made to the enforcement of restrict
i've laws, it is noticeably made by liquor
sellers and their employees, and not by
liquor consumers as such, nor by the
general body of citizens. -ErchdngN
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-19
Manufactured Spices.

''Wooden nutmegs are things of the
past, young man." said an east side
grocer to the reporter. "They have
been superseded.
''What has taken their places?"
Just step around the counter here
and FL show you. Do you see that
box Of spices? They look very nice,
don't they? Just smell 'em. They
smell strong, don't they? Now taste
EN-; they taste good, too, as spices do.
Well, young man, what do you think
of 'em?''
"From all appearances, 1 should say
that they were fair lot of spices.
That is just where your Judgment
falls short. They are not spices at all !"
"What are they, them"
''Just ground cocoanut shells, flavor
ed with spice extracts. The difference
in color comes from burning the shells.
Why do | keep 'em? Because people
want EN-. OF course they are fraud
from beginning to end. But they are
cheap, and people want cheap spices,
just as they want everything else cheap.
Large quantities are manufactured.
and shipped all over the country. They
are sold as genuine spices, but any
grocer with particle of sense knows
from the prices that they cannot be the
real article. You see, they look, taste,
and smell fully as well as the Simon
Pure, but put 'em in food and you will
soon see the difference. They do not
flavor. A drop of Glove extract will
smell stronger than twenty pounds Of
cloves, but l think the twenty pound;
would flavor more hot runs, don't you!
"You have no idea of the ingenuity
that is used in getting up these and
other limitations. The best chemical
knowledge is employed. What do you
think of stamping out whole peppers
and cloves? 1t is done though. Young
man, the general grocery trade is ex-
tending, With glucose for sugar,
oleomargarine for butter, cheese in
nocent of milk, and cocoanut shell
spices, it is becoming a big business. u
N. Y Sun.
----< -
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-19
A Missing Link.

1t occupied about three seats by
throwing its long coat-tails at full
length on either side, and crossing its
legs, it occupied large portion of the
center of the car. 1t was about medium
height, dark complexion, and what
purported to be mustache adorned its
upper lip, and on either side of its face
about dozen hairs, stiff with cosmet-
ique, were combed towards its nose. On
its left hand it had large seal ring,
and the thumb and foreiinger of a light
yellow glove were pulled on in such a
manner, however, that the ring showed
% great advantage. Its pantaloons
were so tight that it was with difficulty
il could assume sitting positions and
after having once gained that position
it was obliged to rise and lay its long
coat-tails out evenly on either side.
Then having at last got seated to its
own satisfaction, it began to talk, not
for any personal reasons or for the en-
tertainment of its companion, but for
the edifcaiion of the passengers
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-19
An Important Errand.

A conductor on Missouri, Kansas
Texas train approached swell-lookine
colored woman, arrayed in all the glo.
ries that ribbons can lend, and asked
her for her ticket
go way fun ali! DON bodder me
with none yo' foolishness!" she ex,
claimed, bridling with Indignation.
Come, give up your ticketr' re.
mOnstrated the conductor.
81 tole yo' go way fun y ali! done
got no ticket, an l dom want no fool
ishness!''
eff you don't give me ticket or pay
your fare, I'll put you off the train!''
growled the exasperated functionary.
"Yo' don put me off no train, now,
| tole yo fer suah!'' retorted the dar-
key, Ise got dizziness down yere dat
you can't postpone. Eff you put me of
de train, yo done got in fuss, suah's
yo' bo'n!"
''Where are you going, anyway
What's your business?" demanded the
conductor, rather impressed by her
manner.
Else gwine to de hangin' piece down
yere, and mon dat, Ise gwine and yo'
can't stop metz
Whore they going to hang?" asked
passenger, who had become inter-
ested in the discussion.
''Dey's gwine fer ter hang my hus-
band and Ise ter be de only lady pres
ent! Go way FUN yah! Don fool with
me! Eff yo' think yo's gwine ter git
me off dis train an beat me out'n de
last chance O. layin' over that nigga
mudder and sister, who can't git in and
won't stay out, yo' don know nothin'
about de strength of wife's devotion.
Go way fun yah! Rudder dan loose
de chance of breakin' dem nigga's
hearts, l done put dis heel under yo'
railroad an lift it over de State line!
Go way fun y'ah!'
The conductor let her ride free, but
whether to save the railroad or let
her last opportunity to get square with
her mother-in-law, was not apparent on
his returns. Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-19
Queer Effects OF n Lightning Bolt.

The fierce lightning and thunder
storm of Thursday night played strange
freaks in the residence of Mrs. C. W.
Jennings, of Greenville. The bolt
struck in the roof, making a hole large
enough for a man to crawl through,
SCATTERING one of the oak rafters and
shaking up the chimney so that it will
need extensive repairs. From the attic
it made its way down between the
plastering and clapboards without dis
turbing a lath until it reached the sink
pipe, when it burst through the clap
boards near the ground. 1t followed
the waterpipe under ground until it
reached the main in the street and shat
tered it. The occupants of the room
directly under the roof where the first
entrance was made were unaware that
the bolt had struck the house until the
rain which entered through the hole
admonished them that something was
wrong .-Nel0 London (ConR) Day.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-19

The death is announced of Leopold
Meyer, the pianist, who visited this
country thirty-five years ago. He had
a certain degree of execution and ele-
gance of touch, but that was all. He
was, however well patronized by some
aristocratic old ladies in Vienna, and
was invited to play at court before the
Emperor Ferdinand, whose brilliant in
telligence was not exactly an ornament
to the line of Hapsburgs. After Meyer,
who was rather stoutish man, had
played, the Emperor spoke to him, and
said; my dear Mr. Meyer, have heard
Lizst (Meyer bows low, L have heard
Thalberg Meyer bows lower still), but
not one of them perspired like you.n
Tableau!--N. y Sim.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-19

In the old North burying ground in
Hartford, plain, substantial block of
granite has been lately placed. 1t
bears the following strange inscription:
"Those who cared for him while living
will know whose body lies resting here;
to others it does not matter" ''Who
was hep" everyone asks.-Nec HaUen
Register.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-19

"A Milwaukee hotel man having
grown tired of numbering bedrooms,
now names them. 1t is rather startling
to hear the hotel clerk, with his quill
toothpick in his mouth, call out: ''Take
the gentleman's baggage out of Ireland
and send it up to Siberia" "Give the
large gentleman and his bride the
Mammoth Cave" "Give him Hard
Luck" Put him in the Chimney"
''Put him in Salt Creek, orif you prefer
you can go to Hades." Among the
names are Showhegan, Sky Parlor, &C.
henna, Vienna, Vaderland, Mayhower,
Plymouth Rock. "-Detro1 Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-19

There is good deal of quiet humor
in piano men. A week or so ago q
Steinway agent advertised a second
hand Chickering, which he described as
ga fine piece of cabinet work and just
the thing for an ironing board" Shortly
afterward the Chickering agent got
hold of secondhand Steinway and adj
vertised it as admirably adapted for
use as an ice-chest and warranted to
scare rats away whenever played on
-Philadelphia NelUS.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-07-12
ADDITIONAL PallEs:

le-Throwing Light Hammer--Flrst
prize, -; second prize, -
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-07-12

England is all of . futter over
the ''thought-readiug" of = Mr..
Bishop. The Pail Mall Gazette
devotes much space to a wager be-
tween Lsbouehere and Bishop, in
which the former agreed to give
81, 600 to the Victoria Hospital if
Mr.. Bishop would read the number
of . folded fve-pound note. Mr..
Bishop read the number of the
note through the mind of one of
the committee, and won the wager
That the feats of Mr.. Bishop are
wonderful is certainly true, but it
is also true that even greater feats
in mind reading are being accom-
plished in America without receiv-
ing the newspaper publicity given
to these things in England.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-07-12
Sunday Theater Performances.

CHICAGO, July 10.-McVicker's.
the ve.eran Of the Chicag.' theaters
which has kept its doors closed
Sunday nights, despite the fact that
oil the other city theaters have. one
by one. fallen into the practice Of
catering to Sunday theater goers.
has tina " succumbed, and adver-
tises Sunday night performances.
It il thought this fact will cause an
aggressive movement on the part of
the Sunday Observance Society, by
invoking the aid of the State law,
which provides again t plays being
given On Sunday. It is also pro
voking opposition from new and
unexpected quarters, the actors
themselves. who, it is stated. coz.
template forming . union which
will grant them . respite for one
day each week.