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SHE Lost Her Hand kerchieH
lChicago Inter Ocean.


A 1aughable incident occurred the
other evening on a south side car. A
nice, modest-looking girl took her seat
near the front door of the car next to
a well-dre ssed middle-aged gentleman.
She laid her dainty lace handkerchief
in her lap to adjust her hat just as the
car door was opened and gust of
wind sent the delicate lace 'kerchief
into the lap of her neighbor. She hes
itated about reaching for it, when the
gentleman, glancing downwards, beheld
something white, and being little
near-sighted, at once jumped to the
conclusion that he had met with dis
aster and lost button and his shirt
needed attention. He swiftly tapped
his overcoat across his lap with his
left, and with his right hand tucked the
offending linen out of sight in jiffy
Several persons who noticed the act
were convulsed with laughter. and the
gentleman, not dreaming of the real
cause, soon after left the car. If any
south side wife has this week found any
dainty lace handkerchief about her
husbands clothes she need not be jeal-
ous-it was only case of mistaken
identity,
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-09
An.licisms In American Literature


believe it was Mr.. Higginson who
said that it has taken hundred years
to eliminate the lark from American
literature; but there are several other
lin yering delusions which we have un-
lawfully inherited from our English an
cas'ry. 1 have lately found myself
dissatisfied with Italy and the Medi-
terranean sea. because the skies of one
and the waters of the other failed to
keep up their time-honored reputation
for unequaled blueness. do not need
to explain that English writer's have
commented from century to century
upon the contrast between the Italian
atmosphere and their own, and have
celebrated the glories of the former
The color of the waves that beat against
the shores of Great Britain is apt to be
a dull brown; in many places it seems
as if the London fogs were the foun-
tains from which the sea is replenished.
But we Americans go on placidly max
ing our copy-books say over and over
again that the sky is blue in Italy, as
if there were not bluer and more
brilliant one over our own heads. Soft
and tender the heavens may be in
Venice and above Lake Como, but there
is tenderness and a softness of clea.
light and of shadowed light in New
England of which we should do well
to sing the beauty and the glory.
Just in the same fashion We mourn
over the gloominess of autumn, as if
ours were the autumn of Thompson, or
of Cooper, or of any poet who wrote of
fogs, and darkness, and shortness of
days. and general death and sudden
ness and chill despair. Here there is
little dull weather until winter is fairly
come, but through the long, bright
months of September and October, and
sometimes the whole of the condemned
and dreaded November, the days-not
nearly such short days as in England
are bright and invigorating But we
are brought up on English books, and
our delusions of this sort are. after all,
rare disadvantages, that never can
counterbalance the greater mercies and
delights of our inherited literature.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-09
Need or a Retter Education.
[Demorest's Monthly.


Nearly every one who testified before
the senate commission which sat in
New York recently, as to the, best
means of benefiting the laboring classes,
agrees. TINT vital changes must be made
in our common school education. Boys
and girls. must be trained to work as
we'll as to read. write and cipher.
France, Germany, and especially
Switzerland, are far ahead of the
United States in technical and art
education. Hence the immense su-
periority of the foreign workmen in all
our shops and manufactures over the
native employees.
The American is naturally the most
intelligent, quick-witted, and inventive,
but heli left hopelessly in the rear
when in competition with the trained
European artisan. We must rid our
selves of the superstition that our COM
mon school system is perfection. AS q
matter of fact, it is wofully deficient as
compared with the industrial education
given by continental European nations
to their working classes. Apart from
our scientific schools, the Cooper
Union, and the Boston Psychological
institute, 20 provision has been made
in the United States to do work that re-
uuires intelligence and artistic skill.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-09
OF STEEL PENS.
The Various Processes OF Anuealinx,
Stamping, Hardening and Polish.
Ing.
lChronique Industrielle.

lChronique Industrielle.
Steel used for making pens reaches
the factory in sheets about two feet
long by one foot three inches wide,
0.004 inch thick. They are cut into
bands of different widths, according to
the dimensions of the pen required, the
most usual widths being two, two and
one-half, and three inches. The bands
are then heated in an iron box and
annealed, when they are passed on to
the rolls and reduced to the desired
thickness of the finished pen, thus
being transformed into ribbons of great
delicacy, about four feet long. The
blanks are then stamped out from the
ribbons by a punching machine, the
tool of which has the form of the pen
required. The blanks leave the die at
the lower part of the machine, and fall
into drawer with the points already
formed. They are then punched with
the small hole which terminates the
slit, and prevents it from extend 1g,
and afterwards raised to a cherry-red
heat in sheet iron boxes. The blanks
are then curved between two dies the
concave one fixed and the convex
brought down upon it by mechanism.
The pens, now finished as regards
their form, are hardened by being
plunged, hot, into oil, when they are as
brittle as glass. After cleansing, by
being placed in a revolving barrel with
sawdust, they are tempered in hollow
cylinder of sheet iron, which revolves
over a coke fire after the manner of q
coffee roaster. The cylinder is open at
one end, and while it is being turned, q
workman throws in twenty five gross of
pens at time, and watches carefully
the effect of the heat on the color of the
pens. When they assume fine blue
tint, he pours the pens into large
metal basin, separating them from one
another, to facilitate the cooling.
After this process, which requires
great skill and experience, comes the
polishing, which is effected in receptacles
containing q mixture of soft sand and
hydrochloric acid, and made to revolve.
This operation lasts twenty-four hours,
and gives the pens a steel grey tint. The
end of the pen, between the hole and
the point, is then ground with an emery
wheel, revolving very rapidly. There
only now remains to split the pens, which
is the most important operation, being
performed by kind of shears. The
lower blade is fixed, and the upper one
comes down with rapid motion, slightly
below the edge of the fixed blade. To
give perfect smoothness to the slit, and
at the same time make the pens bright,
they are subjected to the operation of
furnishing by being placed in a revolv-
ing barrel almost entirely filled with
lockwood sawdust.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-09
Ones Meat AnOther's Poison.
Cincinnati Enquirer.l


Snakes bite O horse. and he dies in
few hours. A rattlesnake's bite has
frequently proved fatal in three hours
on hOrsefesh; yet hog will eat and
grow fat on snakes. Some years ago
there was a valuable island near Mil
waukee. The soil was rich, and the
owner offered to give it to any one who
would live there, as the snakes were so
bad. A chap having a knowledge of
natural history got drove of hogs and
dumped them on the island. Though
the snakes bit the hogs, this only tickled
them; they got so fond of snakes that
they'd leave corn-field to root into
snake hole, and now the fellow has q
fine market garden on the island, and
has made an independent fortune. The
island is as clear of snakes as Ireland.
The OK and goat are both ruminating
animals. Now, bundle OF laurel leaves
will poison the OK, but the goat will eat
them and grow fat. Man and the in
digenous animals of Africa pay no more
attention to the bite of the tsetse fly
than does our OK to that of the gad-hy,
yet it's bite is fatal to all European ami
mails, and the natives can not keep do
mestic animals where it exists. The
seeds and fruit of the strychnos plant
Qrom abeca comes strychnine) is q
deadly poison to q human being or
dog; yet the horh-bills in India will eat
enough in day to kill an army of peo-
pie. A few drops of nicotine will kill
cat, and tobacco is death to lice, moths
and other vermin, but in Australia they
have an animal called the "koala," or
native bear, which is inordinately fond
of tobacco in any form. They have
been known to chew and swallow the
black Victoria strong tobacco with rel
ish, and one of them ate up the whole
of foul pipe-stem, nicotine and all.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-09
The "ls. W. Stone.

''Caspar's" New YORK LETTER..
This old stone, it appears, was lying
around at the hospital for long time,
having been rejected as revolutionary
relic by competent judges, when some
one got the notion Of making it relic
anyway, had it inserted in the building
and an inscription cut in it setting forth
that it was the identical stone made
sacred by the boots of the father of the
country when he took the oath of Office
as aforesaid. Is the world only fleet
ing show, anyway? Is it oil fraud, a
dolusion and scare? Was there really
ever such person as G. w., and did he
ever do anything anywhere? No won-
der the agnostics are increasing. Here's
a big stone that has been regarded as a
sacred relic for almost a generation now
declared to have no more historic value
than an old cobblestone, and the great
nineteenth century winding up at that
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-09
Didn't Get the Good Of II, s0meh how.
Nashville Journal.

Uncle Abe was fond of 'possum.
Having caught one, he got his wife,
Dinah, to cook it for him, and re-
quested that it should be placed in the
cupboard until morning. The favor
was granted, and Uncle Abe lay down
before log fire and went to sleep. His
son, Nose, coming in late, got the pos
sum and ate it, laid the bones down at
Uncle Abe's head. smeared the old
mans face and hands with the grease,
and went to bed. The following morn
ing Uncle Abe awoke and asked Dinah
"Whar's dat 'possum?"
'In de cupboard" which she ex.
plored and found it missing.
Returning, Dinah inquired: "Abe.
when did yoa eat dat 'possum? Oars
de bones at your head, yer face smells
Of 'possum, and yer hans are greasy
Maybe did eat dat 'possum, but il
I did it dun me less good dan any pos
sum ever et."
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-09
Why Patti Went Abroad.


Can you tell me why Patti refused so
many years to sing in her native coun-
try? believe can. Her genius budded
here, but NO one saw it. Her art de-
veloped here, but no one recognized it.
She might have stayed here until she
was 145 for all the good it would have
done her, but the moment she reached
the capitals of Europe and dropped
from her mouth pearls of song and po-
etic phrases of melody, both genius and
art were recognized and welcomed.
Here" said they, sis genius. We
must care for it" and that is precisely
what they did, using, but not abusing,
her marvellous powers, in all the great
capitals of the world until she wore
a diadem on her brow, her Golfers were
overfowing with golden shekels, and
every drummer in the universe knew
her to be A No. l and warranted not to
fade.
What is that, mot to fade?"
Ha! How little the untraveled Ameri-
can knows about the Patti of ten and
fifteen years ago! If she is beautiful
to-day, she was radiant then. She
has grown stouter; the lines in her face
are deeper she is susceptible to fatigue;
late suppers do not agree with her she
avoids society. In other words, she is
fading. Her voice magnificent, her
methods perfect-with closed eyes a
poet may sit and rhapsodize as she
sings floating far, far above in the very
uppermost air, soaring with the birds
in their'most ambitious fight-but she
has faded, and is not the Patti physi-
cally to-day she was ten years ago. She
is not the Patti 'voeally she was ten
wears aoo
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-09
The President's "iightnin' Wood"
New York Tribune1

The other day large hogshead, sent
from North Carolina by express to the
president, was delivered at the White
House.. A colored domestic who took
it in charge explained that dat dar
barI is full, sab, oh lightnin' wood, or as
yer might say, split pitch-pine kindlin's
fur de making ov fires. Sence MIR. Ar
thur hez been presidint, We hev been
a-gittin' on 'em ebbery munf durin' de
fall an winter. Mister Arthur nebber
goes to bed in cold wedder widout big
blazin' fire in his room, wedder here or
out to Soldiers Home, and we as has
ter clean up and look arter de fires hez
ter take up bundle oh dis hyar light.
MIN wood ebbery night, so as be kin
frow it in de fire an make er blaze, an
sit dar an tink while a-watchin' OBJ de
shadows on de wall. When he uses de
lightnin' wood, he rebber uses er light.
an when he gets tired he jumps in de
bed an watches de flames flicker till he
goes ter sleep. He's mighty perticker-
Ter about dis lightnin' wood, an II de
supply gins out, dar is some fun till dar's
more put in de bin"
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-09
THE CUP WHICH CHEERS.
Various Ways OF Drinking lt--Amer-
ican Ways and Foreign Customs.
American Queen

If many cups of tea have the reverse
of a beneficial effect on the system, ON
account of the reaction and sense of ex-
haustion which they invariably produce,
yet the first cup of tea offered is as in
vigorating rs it is welcome, and the tea
is as closely associated with English
and American women in the minds of
Frenchmen as is coffee with the French
in the mind, of Americans. AS to the
accompaniments of tea-cream and
sugar-a recent writer boldly asks:
Why don't we forswear them both? as
at this hour of the day they interfere far
more with the digestive organs than
does the tea itself; he considers
it would always be as rational to add
cream and sugar to wine as to delicately
favored tea. This is rather going
ahead, writer, and if we are inclined to
sacrifice our sugar We have not yet made
up our minds to give up our cream; in
deed, gentlemen who drink tea are very
free with the cream, both when help
ing ladies and when helping themselves.
Sugar is decidedly going out of fashion
at afternoon tea, and out of ten ladies,
perhaps, only three will say yes when it
is offered; but it may be this is rather
the result of fashion than fancy.
The French, on the contrary, take
sugar lavishly; they even dispense with
the use of sugar tongs, which the
Americans consider 80 indispensable at
the tea-ta5le, and help themselves to
sugar with their fingers.
We draw upon the Russians for many
of our customs connected, with the din
ner table but have not yet taken kindly
to their idea of tea drinking; that is to
say, substituting lemon for sugar and
cream" fragrant peel and hint of
acid, slice of lemon no thicker nor
larger than half n crown. This, ac-
cording to authority already quoted,
neither disguises nor fattens the aroma
Of good tea, as do the conventional ad-
ditions, sugar and cream, but combines
with and heightens it," The great fault
of using lemon consist in adding
it in excess, whereas very
slight shaving containing both peel
and pulp is the correct quantity for
an ordinary cup of tea. But this
custom has yet TO take root, and with
us this process is but slow one; we
are not too ready to take mp new idea,
but once we have done so, it is remark
able with what pertinacity we cling to
it. When lemon is substituted for
cream and sugar, slices of the prescribed
size are handed with the tea. Any one
who has once tasted the Russia caravan
tea will understand the term good tea,
but this is luxury which only the
wealthy care to invest in, as it costs up
ward of $40 per pound. There is, of
course, a medium in all things, and
there is wide margin from which to
choose, and economy in this direction
is soon detected. 1t is the province of
the master of the house to buy the tea,
and the one is far oftener celebrated for
the wine he gives his guests than is the
other for the choice tea offered to hers.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-09
For the sake or "ilarmOny.-
lArgosy.l


The other day friend refurnished
his house from top to bottom to please
his charming but slightly capricious
wife. No sooner comfortably Tor un-
comfortably settled, than they discov-
cred the shape of the rooms and the
gene Il style of the house to be ont of
harmony with the furniture. This was
uncomfortable. There was only one
thing to be done Having bought the
furniture for the house, they must now
build house for the furniture. Lares
and penates were warehoI ed. the house
pulled down. and my.friend- and his
charming wife have gone travelling
abroad for year. whi.e famous
architect of advanced views builds them
house on pure Dutch model to suit
their upholstery.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-09
Whistier's Whinas In white and Vel.
~4 low.
["Ruhamah's" New York Letter. !

"Ruhamah's" New York Letter.l
While the music mad revel in their
high art at the two temples, the hyper
aesthetics of the sunfower order gather
at the Wunderlich gallery, on Broad
way, where Whistler exhibits some
"etchings and dry points" in a room
which is denominated can arrangement
in white and yellow" The vagaries of
this eccentric American have stirred
the British public from time to time,
and now this weird genius fills the
place left vacant by the departure of
Oscar Wilde. Coming straight from
the wild woods and the west, an artistic
friend led me straightway to the white
and yellow sanctuary to let high art
cast its soothing spell upon me. There
was to be seen bare, chilly looking
room with white walls and floor, yellow
Dashboard, and frieze and yellow dra-
peries at the doorway and fireplace. A
yellow divan in the centre, various
sickly yellow jars on white tables, and
very pale boy in yellow and white
livery completed the arrangement"
Every one looked pale and CHASTITY
in the midst of so much trying light and
unhealthy color, and the pictures were
such minute scraps of etchings on such
exaggerated white mats that it was hard
to focus the attention upon them. The
whole thing was grand burlesque on
art, and the only idea one c,rries away
was that of the glaring contrast of yell
low and white, and the row of blank
and puzzled faces that went the round
of the room. When he had left the gal
lery and walked square in silence. a
man evidently just recovered from the
yellow fever, passed us, and with one
glance my artistic friend turned to me
and we laughed aloud on crowded
Broadway at the coircident complex
ion.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-09
A Successful Failure.
PHILADELPHIA Call. |

Eyes, George, dear, accept your
proffered love, and will be your wife, !"
and pair Of strong arms clasped her
tightly, lovingly.
"You have heard, of course" she said
from under the lapel of his coat, that
father has failed?"
mo, 1 hadn't heard that" said
George, weakening his grip little.
"'Yes," she continued, nesting more
closely to him; "he failed last week,
and"
"That puts different phase upon
matters entirely" said George, strug-
CLING to break loose, but the girl held
him fast and continued:
"And settled with his creditors at
cents on the dollar, and"
''Nay. dearest" interrupted George,
passionately, "do not speak of such sor-
did matters. Let us think only of love
and the happiness which the bright
future has in store"
But, gentle reader, let us leave them
in their young love and perfect trust.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-09
Belt Railroad Round the World.

80 ~
But why confine the enterprise Of
railroad connection to the two Ameri-
can continents, when Asia and Europe
may also be embraced within q colossal
system Of worldwide improvement?
1t is only thirty miles across Behring
strait. 1t is 1900 miles across the
Atlantic ocean. The inevitable monot-
ony and increasing peril of long voy-
ages, in ships of ever-questionable
s:anchness, are becoming quite insult
ferable. Were I now as young as my
own children, l should expect to live to
enjoy the pleasure of visiting and rum
ming over Europe by way of Alaska,
Siberia and Russia. Thenceforth, most
travellers from the United States,
whether for business or pleasure, would
contemplate journeying to Europe,
Asia and South America, or to any one
of those grand divisions of .onr globe,
by land.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-09

Mr.. Sala's we'll known remark that
as special correspondent Of The Daily
Telegraph he had been paid like an
ambassador and treated like prince,
may be parodied by the political leader
writer's ON that paper since the new and
palatial Offices have been built, says
Figaro. There is in this building o
suite of rooms which is placed at the
disposal of the leader writer's of the
day, who may, by giving notice, secure
q comfortable bed room on the premises
after their journalistic labors are over,
as we'll as hospitable entertainment the
following morning. This is certainly
doing the thing exceptionally we'll.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-09
A Cotton Caterpillar Preventive.
Georgia Intelligencer.1

"Well, boss" says he, II isn't had
any caterpillars in my cotton dis year.
l has learnt how to keep 'em out.
well, how was that?" his questioner
inquired fervently. "Well, you see,
boss, when dey fust comes you Just
catch nine of 'em and kill eight and den
tell de oder to git an tell de crowd dat
dey mus move dey quarters. Deyll do
it eb'ry time, boss, and you needn't to
doubt it. OATS jest de way KEEP 'em
out'n my patch"
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-09
NO.. AZ.
QUESTIONS.
Trace s. Wells in Weekly Magazine.

rGrace s. Wells in Weekly Magazine.1
Sometime, somewhere, oh, soul oppressed,
Wilt thou forget in Heavens rest
Earth's weariness, so hard to bear,
Wilt thou recall no past despairf
No pang of problems dark, unguessedf
Or will cen tragedies attest,
Transfgured by an insight blessed,
The presence of Fathers care,
Sometime, somewherea
Or wilt thou cease from bootless quest, :,
Thy body laid on natures breast,
Her round of countless change to share,
And thus oblivious, unaware,
Forget life's secret unconfessed,
Sometime, somewherea
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TArkansaw Traveller. I

De simplest truth is de truest truth.
fur it am un'erstood by de most people.
Fear amt based on judgment. A hog
will run quicker from brick bat den he
will from gun.
De thoughts what rise in man longs
ter hisself, but de thoughts what he gifts
frum books, longs ter somebody else.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-09

"Your crop seems to be considerably
in the grass" said o passer-by to negro
who sat ON Q fence. Yes, sab, Gen.
Green's dun got it," did you over
plant yourself?" "No. sab; planted
bout huff" "Why didn't You plow it ?"
"Wife tuck sick. She does the plowin'
fur dis place" "What do you do?.
"What does I do? l breaches, dat's
what I does. IF Providence comes
along an makes de oman sick 4 kant
help it. Ise been called, has,"
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-09

Cincinnati Enquirer: People build
houses by putting all the carved free
stone and costly embellishments on the
front and all the, cheap brick at the
back. Some characters are built the
same way precisely. -
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-09

"Did you ever think what you would
do if you had the duke of Westminster's
income?" Village pastor: mo; but
have sometimes wondered what he
would do If he had mine"