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Weir, aged yenrs months and IL days.
Parental solicitude and doctors medi-
cines we're alike unayailing. Death
claimed our little darling, end took her
from our helpless gaze She was an un-
usually bright and intelligent child, the
pride of our hearts, with disposition SO
angelic that all who saw her iSsid her.
Her illness lasted but few days, and
was supposed at first to be a mere cold,
Developing into membraneous Group, it
terminatekf fatally in brief time, Poor
little "Birdie' How sad our hearts are
no tongue can tell.
Arriving home on Wednesday, we
have received the most profuse express
sions OF sympathy from all sides; but
alas! While it is soothing to wounded
hearts to know that others are touched
with a fellow feeling in our grief, yet
the absent one cannot be restored to us,
and our anguish-stricken souls, like Ra-
chel mourning for her children, refuse
to be comforted. One place at our fire.
side is vacant; her little playthings are
unused; the merry prattle of her child
ish voice is hushed forever! But Death
has not robbed us entirely OF our child
only removed her TO the pearly gates on
the golden shore, where we know size
will wait, her little heart aglow with ex-
pectaton, for those left on earth. She,
with her little baby brother who was
called away last November, have cor
ner in our hearts that will remain green
as long as memory throws her tendrils
around these objects Of our supreme
affection,
The funeral occurred on Wednesday
afternoon from the M. +. church, Rev.
$. H. Todd officiating, assisted b Rev
John Reid. a large number OF sorrow
ing friends attended. After the ceremo-
MES the procession moved slowly to the
Masonic cemetery where The little body
was laid away to rest.
Pit-a-pat, dear little feet;
Was ever golden-haired darling so sweet,
Were ever the beautiful summer skies
Sweeter or bluer than our BRIDES eyes?
Dainty and sweet, laughing and gay,
Pit-a-pnt, pit-a-pat in mammals way,
Till the great sun in the crimson west
Has blown out his light and gone to rest
Then the little head Oh my breast droops
low,
And the blue eyes drop their curtains OF
snow,
While the silver stars through the win
dow peep
At dear little Birdie fast asleep.
"Close the door lightly, bride thy breath,
Our little earth angel is talking with
Death;
Gently he woos her, she wishes to stay,
His arms are about her, he bears her
away.
"Bear her out softly, close the blue eyes,
No wonder such beauty was claimed in
the skies
Cross the hands gently upon the white
breast
So like a mild spirit strayed from the
best."
dedicated by sorrowing parent to
the memory Of Angel Birdie.
, 1883-04-26
Seattle Railroad.
Especial By Telegraph I

opeclal by Telegraph
SEATTLE, April 2O.-The people of
Seattle met Mr.. Willard today by ap-
pointment and offered him $l50,000
to build standard guage road from
Seattle to coal fields via Green river
valley. Mr. Willard accepted the
proposition and stated the road they
built would make the Green river
coal mines exclusively tributary to
Seattle, and that it would also be
operated as a portion of the Cascade
Division. He complimented the cit
izens highly for progress made since
his visit Is months ago; promised to
ride into Seattle on his own private
car, brought direct from the east, by
the last of August or first September.
Seemed very friendly toward the
Sound.
, 1883-04-26
From Fridays Daily.
Sawmill slingeth sawdust.

| Sawmill slingeth sawdust.
A fine COW belonging to Mr.. Geo. Bar
throp died yesterday. Cause unknown.
Quite number OF people around here
have colds. We sympathize have ons
ourself.
Warren Hastings is down from Seat
tie on visit. 1t seems as though an
extra bright sunbeam has struck town.
Reserved tickets for tho school play
are going off like hot cake. At Plummer
" Terry's; everybody should buy one.
len years ago Alaska WAS .,turra in.
cognita to most Of this pope OF this
country and of the world. It was thought
OF as land of Esquimaux and polar
bears, OF icebergs and barren shores, of
darkness and dcsolation, A land on
which the sun never shined, and where
civilized people could hardly exist. AZ
ter time rumors of rich gold diggings
commenced to circulate and Il few hardy
adventurers went up and prospccted the
country. The rosy-haed stories The
circulated caused rush to thai reyion
that has increased to enormous propor
tions, and this season will probably in
crease more than ever Already this
month two steamships have left here for
Alaska with freight and passengers, and
during the next two months myriads of
people will flock there. Or these few
may get fortunes, many will die in their
struggles for wealth, and the rest will re-
turn poorer than when they started. This
will but repeat the experience of all those
who have delved for the precious metals
in the bosom of mother earth.
The Wilmington laid here for several
hours yesterday discharging freight, hay
ing had over one hundred tons for Water
man & Katz. She unloaded at the
Q lincy street wharf. The enormous in
crease in the amount Of freight coming
here shows, more than anything else, the
great growth CT the town within the past
few years. Not many years have passed
when but one steamer per month called
here, and steamer day" then was anx-
iously looked for, as being something
new and strange; now three steamess
have arrived here with freight within two
days and another is due tomorrow, yet
this passes with hardly word of com
ment. So, to, with the freight. When,
years ago, the old craft came poking
along here from Frisco Crying to get
here one month, and trying to get back
the next, thus making tri-monthly of
herr if she discharged 10 tons of freight
twas thought wonderful, but now the re
ceipt of two hundred tons per week is
passed by as nothing We hope, before
we shuttle off this mortal COLI to see
half-a-dozen large steamers per day dis
charge and load here.
, 1883-04-26

The steamer Mississippi, laden with
coal from Seattle, called in here for a
short time yesterday, en- route to San
Francisco. The coal trade between the
Sound and Frisco is assuming immense
proportions and the number of steamers
engaged in the traffic is being constant
ly increased.
, 1883-04-26
The U. s. Mail Steamer
DlSPATC "a, -. - ;

JAMES MORGAN, Master,
Will leave Port Townsend for Neah Bay
and way ports every Monday Morning at
: o'clock, Returning will arrive OF,
Wednesdays Towing and charters at
REASONABLE Q ates. Apply on board, or to-,
l. B. Hastings or G. Q. Bartlett & Uc,
, 1883-04-26

NorlcE.-Liberal commissions viii be allowed
10 LIVE, RESPONSIBLE persons who will act ~
Subscription Agents for oither publication al any
post oil;o in tha United States copy OF etheI
paper viii bs mailed regularly to any person who
viii send us occasional news items from his or her
locality. Sample copies sent free on appicaiioG'
ALLEN WEIR,
Edit0r and Proprietor.
, 1883-04-26
BORN.

In Oakland, Cal, April 8. 1885, to tho wife ,i OF
Col l.. IL. Briggs, son. Mother ana ch''u
doing we'll,
, 1883-04-26

Lieut.. Pickering and wife have gone
10 Oregon on visit
, 1883-04-26

M" Delivered by mail or carrier. ~8l
, 1883-04-26
Territorial Officers,
EditOr and PrODrietoF

Governor, VIM. A. Newell, Olympia.
'Secrcrary, \, II. Owings,
Treasurer, II. n. Ford,
Aaditor, 4. NJ. Reed
U, \. Marshal, Charles Hopkins, Seattle
U. s. Pros. Attorney, j, d. Allen, Walla Walln.
T. s. Asst. q. II. llanford, Seattle
Caief Justice, R. 5. Greene, Seattle.
A.o. s. G. Wingard, Wala Walla.
Jno. p, lIOyt, Olympia.
, 1883-04-26

Liberal Advertising rate. furnished on application
, 1883-04-26
THE
Daily Argus
Tsgf'Vn


EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY.
, 1883-04-26
DIED.

Al Fnrniale WhatCom County, w. T., April 30,
Wer, aged yenrs months and IL days.
, 1883-04-26
sv-HSCRIpFs0N RATES: 4:

ry- Per week, 25 cents; collections made ever.
Saturday.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-02-01

the means of the owner permit. large
globe of shining quicksilvered glass, in
which is reflected the most awful dis
tortions of every surrounding object.
Those who are tired of hearing of high
art" and aesthetics" of harmonies and
symphonies of col Dr., of dadoes and old
bric-a-brac, should come here to rest the
troubled brain. If one could only stay
a few months with the owner of one of
these villas! The people are by no
means reticent in displaying their OBJ
jects ode luxe"-mostly wax flowers or
French vases. Gilt-edeed books bound
in good old fashioned positive colors, "a
magenta" tint now and then that seemed
to have been distilled from long pent-up
and suffering canal water; these massed
in brass bound book slides. and tended
by a Muse or two in plaster of Paris,
are on the vGneered table between
the parted curtains of every one of
these new abodes. Wandering along
one of the canals, we stopped to admire
crow-stepped gabled house of time
toned brick. We read on tablet high
up the name of Phi. Wouvermans. Yes,
that must have been his studio window
that large one. A pleasant house. and
substantial well-to.do air all about it.
A pleasant spot, too, by the shaded
canal. Wonder if it is still studio? 1t
looks like it. It almost tempts one to
ring the bell and ask if the Wouvermans
is at home.
There are still in HARLEM a goodly
number of charming old houses of the
seventeenth century. Some OF their
gables lean rather forward toward the
streeC or sideways toward their next
door neighbor in way suggestive of
fundamental debility. At first sight it
seems safer to walk in the middle of the
road, and look out for falling bricks.
But one soon gets over the lottery char
acter; in fact, some one told us that they
were built originally at that angle for
ward. When they lean sideways they
admit the Wondering pile beneath, and
own to the sinkage. The fine old city
walls and ramparts that withstood the
famous siege have been pulled down, all
but one fine old gateway, splendid
specimen of it's kind, picturesque to the
last degree. That is all there is left to
illustrate one of.the greatest chapters in
the history of HARLEM. The boulevard
and the tram car have risen over the
dust of all the rest. I should like to say
something more worthy of this mem
orable siege, there is such splendid
opportunity; but on second thought
perhaps it is as we'll to refer the reader
to Motley, and not seek to supersede
that admirable history George T..
Broughton, in Harper's Magazine for
January.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-02-01
The Re; kless Bee.

An experimenter in Southern agricul-
ture told me the following histories of
Northern bees in the South. He took q
colony of the little gratuitous honey
makers down to Florida. The first
year they reveled throve and stored
honey nearly all the UNMARRIED summer
time. But the second year few of
the more reflective bees evidently turned
the thing over in their minds thus
"This country has no winter to provide
against; what is the use of laying up
honey, when the flowers blossom all the
year round?" These bees exerted enough
influence among their friends to keep a
good many bees from laying by any
sweet merchandise the second year of
their exile. But the prudential instinct
so strong in the little insect prevailed
with the majority. They evidently said
to themselves: perhaps this has been
an exceptional year. Next season may
bring cold and snow and dearth of
flowers" So there was quite stock of
honey laid by on the second year in
spite of few strikers. But by the third
year the conviction had thoroughly pen
etrated the bee mind that it was foolish
to lay up in land of eternal blossom.
They made just enough to last from day
to day, abandoned themselves to living
from hand to mouth, as recklessly as
does any tropic-born butterfly.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-02-01
Pin Vcratic Politics.

The tendency toward a gross plutoc-
racy is visible in our political life.
When political machine" is in perfect
order-that is to say, when few
managers control regular action so that
they car nominate any candidate whom
they may select-they look more and
more for rich candidate. In a con-
gressiJnal district, for instance, they
select some person who has no qualifica-
ton whatever for seat in congress, but
who is rich. and will pay large sums into
the party treasury. Some man is Sc
lected who has made lucky speculation,
who has grown rich by a popular tooth
wash, or axle grease, or a patent for
bellows mending, and who is both fiat
tered by the offer of the nomination and
eager to draw checks for thousands of
dollars in one instance as much as sixty
Thousand dollars. This is the man who is
sent to help make the laws.
1t is undeniable that the inventors and
proprietors of tooth-washes and axle
grease improvements and in bellows
mending may be among the best of men
anu the most patriotic of citizens. But
however sanity and patriotic black
smith may be, those qualities do not fit
him to adjust the springs of watches, or
to polish the lenses of telescopes. Be-
sides, the selection of rich men is made,
not hecau,e they are honest and patri-
otto, but because they are rich. THE
machine" would not think Of them as
candidates except for their money, and
because of their willingness to give their
money literally. The transaction is
trade. The seat in congress is sold to
the highest bidder. If the Roman en-
peror made his horse consul, the
machine" makes any ignorant quack
who has amassed riches in any business,
and is willing to pay, member of con-
gress.- Editors Easy Chair, in Har-
per's Magazine for January.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-02-01
How II Was.

A citizen doing business on Monroe
avenue was interviewed the other day by
man who had family bible in hand
and..wanted to pawn it for dollar.
Lets see," replied the citizen. Il
believe you were here several days ago
with your dead mothers ring and wanted
fifty cents for it.,
Yes"
and previous to that you called here
with your dead fathers watch"
II did
And month ago you halted me on
Jefferson avenue and wanted a loan on a
locket which had been worn by your
dead sister"
Il think you are the man, sir.
1T looks to me as if all your family
were dead
such is the case. am the sole sur
vivor"
Your dead mothers ring was only a
washed affair, if remember right?'
Exactly. wouldn't tell lie no
how. She always wore washed rings in
preference to any other sort"
And your dead sisters iocket was
clear brass?'
so it was, sir. She preferred that
kind and We always humored her.
And your dead fathers watch was o
galvanized one, I hink?'
You've hit it again, sir. The Old
man had some queer notions, and that
was one OF EN-"
And what dead member of your
family once owned this bible?'
MY grandmother, sir
Il see that many of the leaves have
been torn out, and others are stained and
spoiled. Was that notion of your
grandmother's?"
1T was. She was queer, but good
When she read her bible she liked to
skip from the fifth verse in Luke to the
sixteenth verse in John, and she dis
colored the pages to rest her eyes while
reading"
And what cranky notion have YOU
got?"
81 think that You will lend me fifty
cents on that bible was the reply.
well, that's where one member Of
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-02-01
FARM NOTES.
Never tease any live stock.

Never tease any live stock.
Save the skim milk until curded and
then feed it to the hens.
Keep all animals which are housed
scrupulously clean, well fed and wa
tered.
California had surplus Of more than
eleven hundred Thousand tons of wheat
this year.
See that your stables are we'll drained
and everything in good order during the
winter.
The United States produce thirty per
cent. of the grain and thirty per cent. Of
the meat of the world.
Spreading in cool, dry place will al.
most invariably save well ripened onions
at this season Of the year.
A machine that will count sheep up to
1000 without a miss, and then reset
itself, is California invention.
In caring for stock, good Judgment
and skillful management will tell as
much if not more at this season than any
other
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-02-01
Russian Proverbs.

Measure ten times and cut once.
His right arm is often mans enemy.
Beware of tame wolf and reconciled
enemy.
The trainer remains sound while the
horse dies.
When sovereignty is divided it is very
soon destroyed.
When the patriarch is starved he steals
like any other man.
The robber does not always steal,
but it is as we'll to be on the lookout for
him.
Misfortune engenders misfortune, and
you escape the wolf only to be devoured
by the bear.
The rich man in battle shields his
face, but the poor man takes care of his
clothes.
The old man repents of that which the
young man boasts.
II you give shirt to beggar he will
complain that the linen is too coarse.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-02-01

A SAMPLE FFIcE.SEEKER.-H Presi.
don't Arthur ever imagined that sarcasm
has any OBJECT upon the man who wants
an office, he was disillusioned by his ex-
perieace with one last week who would
not take mo" for an answer. Worn out
at last with his importantly. Arthur said;
Good heavens, man! would you have
me put on my hat, go down to the Treas
ury, and demand something for your
'"That's just exactly what l want, said
the office beggar as cool as one of Gen
eral Hasen's Manitoba billiards.. The
President, advising him to 60 into the
lightning rod business and make his for
tune, turned to the next beggar.-De-
sroit Free Press.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-02-01

your family made mistake. 1 believe
yon ara fraud"
Sir"
And III have you arrested"
"Sir! Your words convince me that
you are no g .ntlemanl Good day.
lie fell over chair and nearly kicked
a stove over in mis- haste to get ont, and
after all left his bible on the table. 1t
will be handed him any time he returns.
Il Detroit Free Press.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-02-01

Although Holland abounds with the
most delightful specimens of domestic
architecture of the sixteenth and seven
teenth centuries. they seldom care to re-
vive il when they build new house.
There seems TO be but one approved style
now. and that the very worst style Of
French villa, with its dull dark 'Man-
card" roof. There is also an almost uni
versal run on certain garden statute in
plaster, the most ill-modeled child, with
. short tunic, holding q basket of chalk
fruit on its simperipg, idiotic head. No
garden il complete without that, and II
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-02-01

Ginger Snaps Never put ginger
snaps in jar while they are hot; take
them from the tins and lay them on
plates to cool. otherwise they will steam
and become moist and will not be crisp
and brittle; other cookies will not need
SO long a cooling process, and cake
which you wish to keep a weeK or ten
days is improved by being wrapped in
towel while still in the tin let it stand
in this way for two or three hours.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-02-01

Arab expresses himself as satisfied
with exile to Ceylon. He was afraid
they were going to make it Chicago. -
Bos. Post.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-02-01

Queen Victoria has at length consented
to admit that "she is growing old, for
Gently distributed represents her with
the face of 1882, and not of 1912. as i.
has appeared on stamps, coins and
medals. In her own time she has dis
trbuted medals for six Indian cam
paigns, three for South African affairs
and one each for the Crimean, Chinese,
Abyssinisn and Ashantee conflicts. She
may therefore be regarded as a veteran
"medlar" in her foreign affairs.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-02-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

To Mrs. Langtry: Be firtuous and
you will be happy.
You can never expect blacksmith TO
give up all his vices.
Canterbury Cathedral is soon to be
lighted with electricity.
4 woman never so eEvies a man as
when she mounts horse.
Christmas comes but once n year; but
then it makes its presents felt.
The clerk who is seeking a position
hopes there is wealth in store for him.
The London Architect says the value
of old family houses in France is fast
declining, Judging from recent sales.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-02-01

CIrRoN CAKE. Stir together three
cups of brown sugar; four and half
cups of -four, seven eggs. two cups of
citron cut in small pieces, two and one
half teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one
cup of butter, one and half cups OF
sweet milk.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-02-01

\ German peasant comes to a broker
TO exchange a hundred mark note for
silver. The broker gives him hundred
mark roll, which the peasant opens to
see if IT is all right. He counts up to
seventy one and puts it all IN his pocket.
1T was all right so far, 50 | suppose the
rnat L. r.irrht TOO
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-09
FINANCE AND commerce.
FINANCIAL.

Special Dispatch to THs BEE.
NEW YORK. May s.
Money-3@5 per cent; closed offered 4
per cent.
Prime Mercantile Paper -6@6A per
cent.
Sterling E1change-Bankers' bills, firm;
at 4 ssh; demand, 4 $50;
Produce exports for the week, $685..
900.
Governments strong and Act per cent.
higher.
Railroads generally firm.
State securities dull and irregular.
The stock market wal rather dull in the
forenoon, but strsng Throughout. A de.
cline In prices followed, but in the last
hour the market was stronger, and the de-
cline more than recovered, money stocks
making highest prices of day. In final
dealings there was q reaction in active
stocks Of s@a per cent. As compared
with Monday night the market shows q
general advance Of s@ls.
Mining stocks are very dull. Robinson
consolidated sold at 80 and 81 cents; Son.
ora consolidated, 41@4O; Bulwer, COS; Con-
solidated Virginia, 55c; Little Pittsburg,
$4,000; Alice, 8 %; Navajo, 245; Buyer,
10c; Horn Silver, 6 60, ex.div. and Eureka
consolidated, 8 IS. Sales for day, %, sos
shares. Pipe line certificates very dull,
but steady at 9Sa@94tc; closing on call at
oslo.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-09
LIVE STICK
special Dispatches to THs Bsl.

special Dispatches to THs Bsr.
CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, May s The Droyers' Jour.
nal rep ,rts as follows:
Hogs-Good, brisk, strong and 56lO,
higher; the mesgre offerings soon cleared
at the advance; mixed, Z 0047 40; heavy,
45@7 s.; light, 7 OO97 IS; skips, 8 COG
Cattle-Very brisk, active and strong;
prices a shade stronger and soon cleared at
hrm rates; exports. 8 40G6 60; good to
choice shipping, 6 00@6 s.; common to
fair, 3 60Q6 90.
Sheep-Fair supply but INADEQUATE;
active and stronger; common to fair, 4 OF
90 90; good, p; choice, 8 Is.
KANSAS CITY.
KANSAS CITY, May S.-The CONNER.
cial Indicator this afternoon reports as
fellows:
Cattle--Firm and q shade higher; shin.
ping steers, l leo TO 1875 pounds, 3 GOO
6 l7t; cows, 3 5O@5 90; stockers and feed.
ers, 4 25@5 30.
Hogs-Firm and q shade better at ? O5a
Z 40; bulk of sales at 7 25@7 80,
Sheep-Unchanged; NATIVES, rs to LOG
pounds, 3 0O@4 25,
NEW YomE.
NV York, May S.-The Droyers'
Journal Bureau reports:
Beeves-All consigned; no trading In
beef cattle; dressed beef dull at 10 OO6
10 80; city. 8 50@l0 90.
Sheep-Firm but dull for lack of fall
supplies; fair to good clipped sheep, 5 70