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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-20

DIsAPpEARvNoE OF WN. BRrx.-Some
time since, VIM. Brix, the ex-hotel
keeper and well-known soda water nan,
was placed under bonds to appear be-
fore the next grand jury on a criminal
charge. he secured bondsmen and has
been as liberty, and for the past week
or 80 he has been quietly closing up his
business affairs here. Sunday evening
he went into French Il Co.'S liquor
store, where he generally made his
headquarters, and told Mr.. French that
he was going up the Skagit. and would
Ike to take along few sample cigars,
As he thought he could make some
sales. The proprietor gave him Ave or
SIX boxes of different brands Of cigars
and loaned him five dollars, and Mr..
Brix disappeared. For some reason the
bondsmen became satisfied that instead
OF Mr.. Brix going To Skagit, he had
slowed himself away on the Elder. 40.
cordingly the ship was searched, but no
Brix could be found, and he did not
show up before the steamer left, but in
order that he might not get away so
easily, Constable Campbsll was fur
nisbed with the necessary papers to Ar
rest him at sight, and took passage on
the same steamer. Under the ciroum-
stances, Mr.. Brix will find it very diff
cult to get away, and if brought back
Will encounter still more difficulty in
getting bendamen.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-20

Inc import tax on lumber from Can.
.as = ~ psr shousAnd feet. The Cana
dan tax On lumber imports from the
UNITED States y -. Before taking OF
NJ y would IL not - veil to ESQ our
isasnds north Of The line about having
Ne y removed from their tariff sched-
ulof
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-20

HALF OF THE JossrHmE So1.p.- Sheriff
ACGrau sold Mr.. Hartman's half inter-
sss IN the vreck Of the Josephine at
pooaio anctico yesterday morning. and
AT. j. TT. UischeIl 6ecane ~ nm.
ehasar. IL pgiee pAid wae 91o05
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-20

FREIaHr.-Ths Elder took a light
freight from the Sound yesterday. At
Tacoma she took 800 tons of South
Prairie coal as freight, and from Seattle
1863 sacks of oats and ton tons of gen.
eral merchandise.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-20
SAILING OF THE ELprR.-The steam

SAILING OF The ELpER.-The steam.
ship George w. Elder left Seattle a,
O'Clock yesterday for San Francisco,
carrying away the following list of
p'ssssnesrs: Z. Il. Maham, J. h. Turn
Or. j. 1. Young, L. c. Holloway, j. Don
ovan, ID. w. Lshton. L. CHAMPIONS.
". Obey, L. Kline. ii. Schomaker. r.
Hines, Il. c. Brown, j. Allyn. j. Cough
I'm and wife, Ms. A. Inks, q. w. Han p
blsnop. N. f. Cliffern, L. Dllber. r.
nchscnes, A. Mcdonald, ]. DOVE. A
Grifhn and two Cinnamon.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-20
THE ADVANCE IN LOGS.

The mills of Port Blakely and
Port Gamble, some time ago,
made an agreement that they would
both pay the same price for logs, and
would, from time to time raise or fall
as business interests required. For the
past three years the price has steadily
advanced. and as there is good demand
for lumber all over the world, the price
is liable to go still higher.
The following table will show the
steady advance in price paid by these
mills during the past four years:
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-20

Three hundred and twenty mine spa
wins on horses cured by Kendall's Spa
vim Cure. Read their advertise nent.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-20

The latter advance was made yester
day, and until further notice both Gam
BILE and Blakely will pay 81 per thou
sand for logs.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-20

A SITUATION IN A MILL, AS A
"A sawyer or filer. Have had several
years experience. Good references fur
nished. have no hesitation In guarsn-
teeing satisfaction. Have used al kinds
OF saws. both inserted and solid teeth, cir
culars, RAngA mulnys and sash saws. Have
worked u and had charge Of mills that
w. H. this okhoa fel6 -
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-20
For Rent.

THE BASEMENT OF BOYD & Pom
Gins new brick. 35x6O; also q suite of
offices up stairs and two single offices.
Jl9u BOYD & PONCIN.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-20

There are 100000 acres of United
States land for sale in Mississippi.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-20

nuRNIsHED AND UNrvs6
Is Rooms 70 rent. Apply y S1f1
nation 0rocegy Store. On ~
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-20
NOTICE.

I TAKE THIS METHOD OF AN
1 n0uncing 70 my friends and the public
generally. that / have purchased the en-
tire interest Of tho Belltown Cash
Store" hope by strict attention to bust
ness 70 merit . continuance Of the patrsn-
e9e OF al tt1 old custOmersI ard respect
ful!X solicit the patronage Of the reader q
of North eeattIe. GRO n FINN.
eeatt2A Feb. 9 aooA lo1o1W
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-20

a intending 70 purchase aay g ~
estate formerly owned o. ~ ~sonSul
the SEATTLE HOMESTEAD - ~
are hereby notified that I 90 .
commence suit in the Disui c1S1A4
Seattle. in behalf Of myself - ~ =
wind IN the affairs Of said 9 ~ s1
distribute its assets amon&
and stockholders. .~<sno3
And the public are fqsther IA -
no person is authorized by 80 90
ton TO dispose Of said leno 81
tracts" or otherwise; and fuss,< e1
valid title can be made excs.
corporation, through it, guy 49, "A
officers, TO said lands Or snS
same. ,ou,s rRABx -
Ono of the stock holders OF $40 ~
SEATTLE, Dec. 5th. lsSx
Hop zoOt'
OFFER HOP ROOTS N W.
i ties 10 suit ct current ~ ~ -
packed carefully and orders
w. GEO. H. RYAAs3
fea3m Sumner. Pierce ceuss
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-20

HOUSE TO RENT, TO A GOOD TEN
IL ant: no others need apply.
g. G. PHINNEY & CO
Real Eutato Agent
III e Huut Building
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-25
Worth vs.. Cost.

It is a common method of valuation
to estimate the worth of thing by it's
cost. And there is a sense in which this
is a correct method, for a good thing
always has its cost; and chief reason
why so few are possessed of skill and
ability and experience, and acquired
knowledge, is because the great MAORI
ty of persons are unwilling to pay the
cost of these possessions. Most persons
want the result without the needful out
lay. But, on the other hand, a great
many things cost great deal more than
they are worth. Here comes, just now,
for example, big diamond from the
South African diamond-fields, and all
the papers are telling of its size and its
worth. And as to its cost, the story is,
that in addition to the earlier privatiOns
and toll of the poor fellows who were
hunting for it, the finder of this dia-
mOnd was murdered by a companion in
order to its obtaining; and then the
murderer was murdered for the same
cause; and so sit cost four lives before
it reached America" we are cOolly told
as a reason for its enhancing. Is that
diamond really worth its cost? Many a
covetous locker at its dazzling brillian-
cy, who will wish from his heart that he
had that diamond, would never be will
ing to pay the one-quarter of its cost,
which he has the means to proffer, if he
knew the facts in the case. And it
would be the same with a great many
other dazzling temptations if their full
cost were written on their surface. The
profits of many a business, which ena-
bles men and women to glitter and glare
in the presence of their fellows, and the
gains of many a social station which
uplift men and women above the aver
age Of their neighbors, are as little
worth their cost, as is that African dia-
mOnd worth the four human lives, and
all the toll and suffering besides, which
it cost before it could blaze its brilliancv
in the sight of the envious chances which
it now attracts. Before we decide that
we would like to have that which at first
seems a tempting treasure, let us con-
slider what its cost has been. Many a
good thing is worth all that it costs;
and many a thing is not to be counted
good, because it is not worth its COST
s. S. Times.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-25
Where Do the Gypsies Come FrOma

The people of Boston have an oppor-
tunity of hearing a gypsy band, and in
the suburbs one has chance of meeting
gypsies, who play cards, are without
visible means of living and deal some
what in soothssying. Where do the
sgypsies come from, and what are they?
The word gypsy means Egyptian
and has suggested the old story that
the gypsies came from the land of the
PharaOhs, either because the Egyptians
failed to entertain the Israelites hospita-
bly,, or because the Holy Child and the
Virgin Mary were treated rudely when
they took refuge in Egypt from the per-
secutions of Herod. The French call
the gypsies Bohemians, but this name
is not significant, as the real Bohemians
are people of high intelligence. In
fact, the BOhemians are the Frenchmen
among the Slavs. The German name of
the gypsies, Zigeuner, has puzzled the
etymolOgists, and German eruditiOn has
invoked Herodotus, Turkish and Eth
opic to explain the word. But were the
word explained, the gypsies themselves
might remain mystery, for there is
wide gulf between words and the things
of which words are but symbols or
names.
There are about 100000 gypsies in
Europe, and 80, 600 in Hungary alone.
Poetry, operas and music have been
partial to gypsies. Sir Walter Scott,
the opera of Carmen" and scores of
German productions have dealt in gYp-
sizes, and Franz Listz has immOrtalized
their music. The gloomy, melancholy
eye of the gypsy has been explained as
the result of persecution, or as the
vearnjpCg for a HAMMER lot CxvOSV Drills
have been admired for their charms.
But the sober truth is that the melan-
choly eve of the gypsy indicates stupid
ity, sensuality and lazy brOOdlng. Gypsy
girls may have a certain charm-yOung
people generally have; but gypsy
women are ugly, in the fullest sense of
the word And romance itself comes to
an end when people are on bad terms
with soap and water. and revel in
roasted cats or half-decaved meats of
any kind. Most gypsies are dirty, lazy,
thieVish, cowardlY, malicious and strict
ly unpOetical. They abominate police
men; they like people who are romantic
They are nonadic In the fullest mean
ing of the term, and they like to be re-
cognized as such.
More than century ago a scholar in
vestigated the Language of the gypsies
and decided it to be Indian in origin
and Aryan in character. The greatest
etymologist of this century, Prof. Pott
studied the gypsy dialects of all Europe
and concluded them to be nearer the
original Sanskrit than are most Ian
guages now spoken. More recently the
eminent Miklosich, the illustrious Slav
scholar, has traced the migratiOns of
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-25

the gypsies from the Upper Indus.
through SYRIA and Asia Minor to Greece.
They left India about the year 1000;
they began to make Greece their home
about 1850; they entered Roumania
about 1900, Hungary about 1850, Bo-
hernia about 1410. Germany In 1417,
Spain in 1440. Later on they invaded
Scotland, Sweden, Russia and Siberia.
When did they enter AmerieaP We do
not know. But it is quite certain that
the gypsies occur in Egypt, in the
Soudan, throughout Northern Africa,
and even in China. Only the Jews
surpass the persistency of these
nomads. But the Jew adapts him
self to civilization as he finds it; the
gypsies have a common dialect.
Prof. Miklosich has destroyed the
belief that the gypsies are Aryans, ex-
cept in their dialect. Modern anthro-
pology is disposed to question the
Aryan character of the people in
British India; the lower classes, the
dark people and the gypsies are now
thought to be DraYidians, that is to
say, neither Caucasian, nor Mongolian.
They occupied India before the immigra-
ton of the Sanskrit people, and still
survive, especially near Madras and in
Southern India. The pariahs of North
ern India are called Domes, but the D
is cerebral, and sounds somewhat like
r. Our gypsies call themselves Rom;
they think themselves KGlO black, or
npeiedo, brown, in opposition to the
white Europeans, whom the gypsy calls
pGrsaO. Prof. Miklosich traces the
word Zigeuner to Atsingant or Athing-
ami, which is the Byzantine name for
abandoned heretics. The Roms, or
gypsies, have no religion. The Byzan-
tines, like some other people, measure
the value of strangers on the score of
religion-by the degree to which
strangers share our own religious pre-
ferences and customs. Viewed in
that light, or by our statute-book, the
gypsy is not good citizen. In fact, he
is not citizen at all. His best art is
his music, and that art has the advan-
tage of not requiring human speech or
national institutions as an interpreter
or foundation. Boston advertiser.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-25
a Dogs Eonr Tales


Among the hundreds of New Yorkeru
IN the Catski1 Mountains the other dav
were Cyrus W. Field, DR.. j. Marion
sims, +. b. Thurber and Joseph Jeffer-
son. The visitors risked their necks 90
ing down and up the rickety stairways,
over which mighty volume of water
was not pouring. On their way they
read an inscription cut into the stone,
about a noble dog that had, in 1876,
Ieaped down the precipice. I asked
the Snowman, on reaching the top, how
and why the brute had done such an I'M
dOglike thing.
He was trick dog, was the reply,
belonging to the circus that went
through here. His master left him on
the platform and started down the gorge.
The man got halfway down-across yOn-
der where the stairs turn-and then wills
tied. The dog heard the call, sprang
up on the railing, lost his balance, and
went whirling down through space to
the rocky bottom, being of course in
stantly killed by the fall
Five minutes after, Field and Sims
caught their breath, with the usual diff
Guilty. after a climb up the stairs, and
used it instantly to ask about the dog.
He was trick dog said the ex-
hibitOr of the dry cataract, s'and be-
longed to circus. Had been learned
to run after stuns and fetch 'em back.
The man what owned him throw'd a
stun over the railin' of this ere platform
and the dog jumped over after it. That's
how it happened"
did you see itP'' Mr.. Field inquired.
81 was a standin' right here when it
happened, and the man pointed out the
exact spot as conclusive evidence.
1t was his word against the guide
book now. Five minutes later Mr..
Thurber put the inevitable question.
Field and Sims had departed, and I
turned away all but my ears-so as moi
to influence the man in his choice be-
tween the two stories. Two? It turned
out to be third.
THE dog was p'inter,'' said he,
''and he hearn partridge som'rs over
yender. He didn't know nothin' about
the gorge, cause the boardin' was tight
from the floor up to the ceilin', jest as
it's now. So he jumped clean over, and
that was the last of him. -
hung around to see the earth yawn
and swallow him; but before it had done
so Mr.. Jefferson came up. He called
for the dog story, and got it like this:
1.-The dog was a 'normous big St. Ber-
nard. He belonged to a lady that was
stOppin' here at the hotel, and she had a
child that he sort of guarded. Well,
that day the lady took the child down
the gorge. The dog was asleep, exactly
there where you're standin' The child
got dizzy and scared, halfway down,
and Civ a scream. That woke the dog,
and he leaped plum over the rail, kerr
flop down to the rocks
''And broke into half dozen separate
dogs" said I,
"What makes you say that?" the man
asked.
Because it needs a separate dog for
each story"
''Look here, now," and his tone was
apologetic in the extreme; elf you had
to send that dog down the chasm twenty
to thirty times day the season through,
you'd feel like giving yourself little
variety. Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-25

Weep I say sOb courpe. and goes
round. When de preacher he glib me de
wink TO- to strike up ole Hunder, I
Jest say to myself. Now de time fo' me
to git chen fo' dat 'sault and batsry
what you purpetrated Wunst, and I gins
TO whistle .Marchin' Froo Gawiahf TO-
all was with. De kongegashin look
sort OBJ solemncully TO a minute or two,
but 'twan't no use. No niggah can set
still an listen to dat dar time without
he's perrylized in his legs. Poorly soon
dey gins to dance round, and de
preacher he got so mad he mos white
in de face But bimeby his ole numbah
fo'teens got to wobblin' bout, and befo'
[ was more'n half way froo dat tune de
ole man he froWed his sarmint on de
pulpit, kicks ober char and laws him
self out TO- lar breakdown. jest
when I got dem all a goin' shuts off de
steam and skips out de doah I under
stan dat dar was wijjilance committee
of seventeen niggah deacons 'pinted TO-
de purpose oh breakin' my head, whar-
upon I adjourned myself to de Northern
States, an has been trabblin' on my I'M
der lip ebber since. I'ze bin in circus
bizness, and has whistled TO ten hours
straight ahead in front of Bowery me-
nagerie; but dis was de softest job hab
struck since the Emancipation procler-
nation"
''What is your favorite tuneP"
''De 'Mawkin' Bird Dat was de
sweetest music in de world. Oar amt
no tune what cher heard wunst dat
can't whistle straight ober again y
''Mr. Johnsing," as he styles himself,
is a composer of no mean merit, and
can whistle off original melody by the
yard. He is strictly temperate in his
habits, and, it is said, has amassed
considerable money in Wall street spec
ulations. He is a favorite with the
brokers, is looked upon as Mascot by
theatrical people, and would whistle, it
is thought, if his leg was undergoing
amputation. There is only one person
for whom he entertains an anti pathy.
This is E'Whistling Nose, the Quaker
City wonder The latter is said to
possess even a greater expanse of under
lip than Mr.. Johnson, and having both
lungs in proper working order, is re-
garded as a dangerous rival.
eff ebber 1 Koch sight of dat Mig
gah," said Mr.. johnson, cpl break his
heart suah. IN z. Morning Journal.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-25
The Fine English GeutIen,an.


In an incisive essay IN the Censssrv. on
the characteristic Of London w. j.
Stillman describes the English gentle
man, and contrasts him with the best
American type, as follows: stAnd it is in
this very class which have, In no dis
paraging sense, termed Centauric. the
arist0cracy, where social independence
has reached its highest, that we find
here and there, cased ike the flower of
this mighty growth, in extraneous and
deciduous LEAKAGE, that best type of hui
mainly as the world knows it, the true
English gentleman-a being whose ex-
terror decorum may be counterfeited by
his emulator, whose inmost gentleness
and courtesy may be Swallowed forth in
peer or peasant-who loves his kind,
and feels the common bond of divine
birth, but whose most perfect union of
noble demeanor and arge-heartedness
can only be found where the best type
of mind has been permitted the largest
and richest culture and the cOmpleteSt
freedom of hereditary Development in
the most favorable external circum-
stances. There are mobiles and noble
men-men who seem to be conscious
only that surrounding men are lower
than they, and others whose illumina-
ton pervades every one near them and
brings all up into the same world of
light and sweetness. The prestige of
nobility is founded on true human in
stinct; occasionally one finds an English
nObleman who justifies its existence, and
makes us snobs in spite Of our democ-
racy.
Il could, I am certain, point to
Americans who, in every essential trait
of the gentleman, will stand comparison
with any aristOcrat born-men in whom
gentlehood has grown to hereditary
ripeness; the third and fourth genera
tiOns of men who have cultivated on
American soil the virtues of honesty,
morality, sincerity, courtesy, self-abne-
cation, humanity, benevolence; men and
women whose babyhoOd was Graded in
those influences which make what we
call good breeding, and to whom the
various vulgarities of our parvenu
princes are as foreign as to the bluest-
blooded heir of Norman fortune; and
this is to me more grateful and SYM
pathetic type of humanity than that of
its English congener. But to this will
always be lacking one grace which that
may possess-the majesty of the born
legislator and ruler; the air of habitual
command and control, hereditary as are
all generic traits, good or bad, and
which imposes itself on the conscious
ness of all men. This, be it for the bet
tering or the worsering of the type, is to
our democratic, ruled, leveled and
ballot-boxed civilization forbidden for
ever; and the fustian heredi-
ties of quickly and perhaps ill-made
millionaires, for ever so many times
told, will never be other than curious
caricature oft. Theoretically, we must
gainsay it; but when all is said, be it
Of our original-planting, or a devils
graft got among the thorns and thistles
of our exile, the growth of certain
reverence for a time-honored nobility
has become a part of every gentle nature,
which only time and assiduity can, but
which they certainly will, eradicate
not to-day, nor while the English nobil-
ity is what, as whole, it is.