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Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1885-08-15

day as to completely shut out from
view al! objects half a mile away,
On Thursday considerable ram fell
which put out the fires in many
places.
The discovery ofoil at Elhi fifteen
miles east of Tacoma on the Cascade
division is creating some excitement
A sample of the oil has been tested
and is pronounced of excellent quail
ity by experts. II now remains to
be ascertained in what quantities it
exists. Machinery to bore for oil
was taken there last week,
an work was expected to begin soon.
The Northern Pacific railway
company has begun 10 transport
cattle from Washington territory to
Chicago, which traffic has been CIV
ell to the Union Pacific hen etofore
About 100000 beeves Will be ship
ped this season, and 10000 killed
III Dakota and shipped east in re-
frigerator cars. Twenty thousand
sheep and $4,000 horses will also
come from Montana.
Mann's Landing, on the SLagit,
is built up in fine style after the
fire, and has now two large hotels,
store and a hall, equal if not
superior to anything in the county.
MessIs. Mann, Anderson and CrOg~
stadt d Henson deserve great Gre
DIT for the enterprise by which they
have rebuilt the place and risen
from the ashes Of adversity.-Mail.
Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson, a well
known authoress and contributor to
the Century magazine is lying in
San Francisco at the point OF death.
During the last ADMINISTRATION Pfes-
dent Arthur appointed her as specs
ial Indian commissioner tor Southern
California. She was also engaged
by the Century magazine company
to write q series Of articles on
Southern California, Oregon, and
Washington Territory.
A Obstructive cyclone passed over
Philadelphia on the End, destroying
buildings and property on both
sides OF the Delaware river, resem-
bling q once thlckly settled region
that had been visited by an exten-
sive fire. The total loss will amouut
to about 100000, including $780,
GOO on property in Camden, $780,
600 In Philadelphia and $4,000 on
vessels damaged in the river.
The rain storm which followed the
tornado also did great deal OF
damage.
It is disgrase to our civilization
when the exalted position OF United
states Senator is made n mere toy
TO be bought by millionaire adven-
turers. The announcement that
bonanza" MackaY and Senator
jim Fair, of Nevada, are both de-
termined TO secure AN election To the
Z. :. senate from the next legisla-
ture of that state brings this ques-
zion of corruption In polltlc5 once
more prominently before public
gaze. when money, instead VI
braius becomes the test for such OK
allied positions within .he gut OF
the Peep it is high time to call IL
halt. The next session of tho Ne-
vada solons will be watched with
interest.-Argus
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The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
RICH MEN IN BOTH COUNTRIES.
How They Are Regarded by the People
Here and There.

81 think" says Mathew Arnold, in the
of the worship of the almighty dollar in
America, it is indubitable that rich men
are regarded there with less envy and
hatred than rich man are in Europe.
Why is this? Because their condition is
less fixed; because government and legs-
lation do not take them more seriously
than other people, and make grandees of
them, aid them to found families and
endure.
With us the chief holders of property
are grandees already, and every rich man
aspires TO become a grandee if possible.
And, therefore, an English country
gentleman regards himself as part of the
system of nature; government and legis-
lation have invited him to do so.
Ii the price of wheat falls so low that
his means of expenditure are greatly re-
duced, he tells you that if this lasts he
cannot possibly 90 on as country gentle
man; and every well-bred person among
us looks sympathizing and shocked An
American would say: why should hep
The conservative papers are fond of
giving US, as an argument for the game
laws, the plea that without them a coun-
try gentleman could not be induced to
live on his estate. An American would
say: What does it matter?'
Perhaps to an English ear this will
sound brutal; but the point is that the
American does not take his rich man so
seriously as we do ours, does not make
him into grandee; the thing, if proposed
10 him, would strike him as an absurd
ity. / suspect that Mr. Winans himself
the American millionaire, who adds deer
forest to deer forest, and will not suffer a
cotter to keep pet lamb, regards his own
performance as acolossal stroke of Ameri-
can humOr, illustrating the absurdities of
the British system of property and privi
lege.
Ask Mr. Winans if he would promote
the introduction of the British game laws
into the United States, and he would
tell you, with merry laugh, that the
idea is ridiculous, and that these British
follies are for home consumption.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
SOCIAL EQUALITY.
How We Strive for it and What 10
Costs.
fChicago Advocate.

tChicago Advocate.
We are 81 far creatures of habit that
we drive on along certain lines unless
something pushes us off them. We once
had the habit of saving; we have been
driven of that line by several cOnspiring
forces. One of them is the abundance
of natural bounties given to this people.
Along with this goes the effect of mum
erous suddenly gotten fortunes, and the
large gains that have come from trade,
invention and the rise of real estate. A
multitude of people becoming rich in a
few years have set an example of free
spending, which has been contagious
Our democratic society has done the rest
We must all ride in parlOr cars, sleep in
tirst-class hotels, wear good new clothes,
have Queen Anne houses and furniture,
because each of US is as good as another,
and there must not be any external evil
dence ofour being poorer than our neigh.
hors. So ii has come about that many
of us revere Wesley's rule and read it,
Spend all you can;" for it is only by
the largest possible spending that we can
keep up appearances.
The growth of vast fortunes might
have been expected to break up the race
for equality, for surely the millionaires
must easily keep ahead of the rest of us;
but close observer sees that we resent
this distinction. and that protest against
great wealth, with its special privileges,
Is at the heart of the anti monopoly feel
ing. We got it fixed in our heads that
we must be socially equal, and We tried
to vindicate our principle; and we are
deeply agerieved because a few hun.
dreds or thousands of families have gotten
beyond the reach of our purses So il
has come about that our notions of what
we need TO spend are socially regulated.
1t is not our idea of comfort, conceived
hy ourselves, hut the social standard of
comfort that rules in our feelings. We
are unhappy if We can not keep up with
Others; if We must not have what they
have; if we must openly show that we
are getting shabby and out at the elbows.
Most of the fathers would have laughed
al such griefs as these from which their
children suffer, not because they were
coarse creatures, but because they had
not the habit of measuring happiness in
social measures. We have that habit, and
it has supplanted the habit of thrift
which our fathers had.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
Wanted More vigor.

''Have you got what dey calls alarm
clocks?" he was asking OF a Woodward
avenue jeweler the other day.
Eyes, sir"
Chow does it alarm?"
"Rings a bell"
cam dat ALP
"Isn't that enough? Few people can
sleep with that bell ringing away like
burglar alarm"
Sorry, boss, but no SIGH trifle as dat
will do for my cabin. wanted a clock
dat would pull ha'r, yell like an Injun,
yank de bed-clothes off an frOw down de
bedstead. When my ole women gifts ter
sleep she amt gwine to let 60 fur no bell
ringin.' Eben when | frow ice-water
ober her she simply changes off from
dreamin' about white bosses an goes to
dremin' of black cats"
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19

A naturalist describing the curious ar
rangement for breathing furnished insects
says:
''If we take any moderately large in
sect, say wasp or hornet, We can see,
even with the naked eye, that a series of
small spot like marks run along either
side of the body These apparent spots,
which are generally eighteen or twenty
in number, are, in fact, the apertures
through which air is admitted into the
system, and are generally formed in
such manner that no extraneous mat
ter can by any possibility find entrance.
Sometimes they are furnished with a
pair of horney lips, which can be opened
and closed at the will OF the insect, in
other cases they are densely fringed with
stiff interlacing bristles, forming a filter,
which allows air, and air alone, to pass.
But the apparatus, of whatever character
it may be, is always so wonderfully per-
feet in its action that it has been found
impossible to inject the body OF a dead in
sect with even so subtle a medium as
spirits of wine, although the subject was
first immersed in the fluid and then
placed beneath the receiver of an ali
DumD
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
All Sorts.

Thirteen is an unlucky number for a
poor man to have in his fanily-[ New
York Journal
A two-cent cigarette never feelssocheap
as when it is being sucked by one-cent
dude Chicago Herald.
A barber must be in very destitute
condition II be hasn't a thing to call his
hone.-lTexas Siftings-
Nothing humiliates poet quicker than
printing his words exactly as he writes
them.-[New Orleans Picayune.
1t would not hurt theatrical managers
TO attend Prof. Proctor's lectures and find
out something about the star SYSTEM
New Orleans Picayune.
In Japanese prisons the convicts edit
and print newspapers. So it appears
that the freedom OF the press is as much
of farce in Japan as it is in Russia
PUCK.
About the only reference to base ball
IN holy writ that We remember is where
Rebecca goes to the right field with a
pitcher. The right field for water
fChicago Ledger.
"Now, that's what | call most CRAFTY
ing signl" a Sinking bill-collector said t.
the man who dashed his name on bank
cheque for a large AMOUNT Whitehall
Times
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
The Sunhower.

The sunfower is said to be the best
g-producing food known for poultry,
keeping them in thriving condition, and
largely increasing the production of eggs.
Every poultry raiser who tries it will
find that it is the best food known for
Guessing the plumage of fowls, and is al
most indispensable to those who want to
fit their birds for exhibition to the best
advantage.
The Russian sunfower is easily raised,
requires very little care, and can be
grown IN fence corners and other places
difficult to cultivate Its production OF
seed is immense, yielding often at the
rate of 100 bushels to the acre. 1t should
be planted in hills four feet apart, any
time from the 10th of May to the lst OF
July. Three quarts of seed will plant an
acre
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
Bossing the Household.

81 believe" said noted speaker, In a
recent lecture, sin the institution of mar
riage, and | have no sort ofsympathy with
those persons who endeavor to oppose
that institution.
The freside is the most sacred thing on
the earth, and the love of husband for
wife is God-like.
would rather live with the woman
l love in world ofsorow than be forever
In a heaven of men alone.
We may forget all other creeds with
impunity if we believe in the republic
anism of the fiseside, the democracy of the
home, and the absolute equality of hus-
band and wife. doubt If men realize
what it is to have won the love of good
woman. He who has done that has made
a success in life, even though he dies in
the gutter.
No man has right to regard himself
as the boss of the household. The family
should be an affair OF co-partnership. No
man has a right to assassinate the Joy Of
day in his own house, and no woman
should be compelled to live with cross
man. Treat your wife like tender
flower, and she viii fill your life. with the
perfume of love. And, to begin with,
court your wife. Don't think your wife's
love is not of sufficient value to take care
OF after you have secured it." =
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
The Lovers Car.
Providence Journal !

The lovers car leaves the barn prompt
ly at IL p m. Every young girl on the
upper end of the line knows just exactly
when it will pass her door; every young
fellow who runs out that way OF an even
ing knows that the striking of IL is the
signal for him to gather up his hat and
coat, and every parent is able to mark
within a second just when the last call
er will be gone and the house will be shut
up for the night.
The last car down town, as it tinkles
merrily over the rails, picks up the young
men all along the route. Sunday night,
of course, the freight is the largest, and
it was on Sundaynight that the reporter
stumbled aboard the empty car, which,
before it got half mile down, was filled,
and with young men only. On the whole,
they were solemn party, with their over
coat collars turned up and their heads
bent low over their canes.
Beyond cold bow none of them made
any recognition of one another's presence,
but they all looked at the reporter, whose
gray hairs, however, disarmed suspicion.
They all knew each other on the lovers
car; they have ridden over the route and
at that hour night after night together,
and the silent confederation is apt to re-
gard unfavorably any new passenger, un-
less his business is known, or it is appar-
ent that he has none-on that route.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
Must Drink to Mexico.

Some thirty years ago there were not
the numerous routes to the far west from
the eastern portion of the United States
that We have to-day. One was by way of
Cape Horn, another by way of the 18TH
mus OF panama, and the more trying and
wearisome one of crossing the plains and
deserts which lay between. About this
time new way was opened through
Mexico, which was at once taken adj
vantage of by large number of emil
grants en- route from New York to San
Francisco. Among the newcomers was
German who met on the street friend
and countryman whom he had known in
New York some years before Fritz was
delighted to meet the new arrival and
began at once to question him as to bow
he had come:
"Well, Yacob; subbose you game
Cabe Horn aroundt."
''Nein, Fritz"
'Berhabs you gross der Isdmus ov Ban
ama?"
'Nein."
"Sol you game der oferlandt, DEM"
"Nein, nein, mein freundt"
'Dunderl Den you was nod arrivedt
here adj all!Iw
''Yah, yah, Fritz, Megsico gum droo."
"lsh dot So Well we musdt dake some
peer on dot
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
A Scripfurai Poster Mistaken for
Circus Advertisements.
lNew York Eyenlng Post.l

An incident characteristic of lumber
men came partly under my own observa-
ton at Bamfield's on the Au Sable, two
or three days ago. Bamfeld's is a rude
farm house, where many of the river men
sojourn during their work of driving logs.
In the dining room is hung an effulgent
poster sent out by some religious society,
representing theScriptUral incident of the
deluge. The ark Is moore d to the strand
on yeasty expanse of sea. In the back
ground rises an ancient city, with its
vaultiDg towers and battlements. In the
foreground Noah, in flowing garb, is
portrayed leading to the ark the process.
sion of paired brutes who, docile as lambs,
reach two by two in long train to the
distant horizon. The whole picture is got
ten up in most gorgeous hues, and suf-
fused with all the tints of the rainbow.
A big lumberman entered the room. He
gazed for while upon the picture, then
remarked innocently: "WheD's the cir
Gus and where's it a-goip' to beT'
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
READS LIKE A NOVEL.
Story of ThurlOw Weed During tho
Days He Worked as IA Printer.

VA Croffui
The late Thurlow Weed, who was
sometimes called ''The Priam of the
Press" because he was the father of so
many newspapers, once told me an inter-
asting incident OF his life which has been
inadvertently omitted from his memoirs.
1t was during the war of 1872, when he
was living in Cooperstown, n. Y, the
nome of the yet unhedged novelist, and
was setting type as a journeyman printer
Il was nineteen years old and fell in
love with Catherine Ostrander, my land
lady's daughter, two years younger than
1 was. Her folks objected, very properly,
to her marrying strolling printer, with
out money or anything else, and l agreed
to wait.
about this time got into bad
scrape. l, with three other young fell
lows, who were rather hard lot, were ar
rested on complaint of four girls whom
We met at prayer meeting. l had
never seen them before, but We walked
home with them, and they made charge
of improper conduct against us all. The
others got bail, but | had no rich relatives
and prepared TO 90 to jail. At the ex-
animation l TOLD the justice that had no
lawyer and no money to pay one, when,
to my great surprise, leading attorney
of the town, whom / had never spoken
with and did not know, stepped forward
and gave bail for me and offered to de-
fend me. 1t was Ambrose l.. Jordan.
was delighted. did not go to jail, and
at the trial the girls voluntarily declared
that | was not party to the offensive
came back in year or two and Catherine
Ostrander accepted me and We were mar
ried. | never forgot Jordan.
"Some fifteen years after that, when
was in Albany in a position OF some in
fluence, We were making up the wing
state ticket in convention. The principal
officers had been placed in nomination,
when somebody said, Now for attorney
general. We must have man down in
the middle of the state
Il named Ambrose l.. Jordan and he
was made our candidate and elected.
when he came up to Albany he said
to me: Il have some conscientious
scruples about accepting this Office.
You gave it to me because defended
you in Cooperstown when you wanted a
friend"
- Not entirely or exactly / said. Il
merely reasoned that a man who would
come to the rescue of an unknown and
penniless youth for the sake. of seeing
Justice done had the right ideas to make
good attorney general
"'Wen, he said, Il am not entitled to
the credit you give me for either sagacity
or right feeling. / gave hail for you and
defended you because Catherine Ostran-
der came and made a fuss about you and
wouldn't give me any peace till did it.
Better appoint your wife attorney-gen-
eral.
at was the first knew of her agency
in the matter. She had never told me
during all those happv married years"
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
SMALL CHUCK.

Paris telephone wires run through the
sewers.
New York has at least l50 professional
tea tasters.
What a man wants-All he can get.
What woman wants-All she can't get.
The desire of being pitied or admired
Is commonly the reason of one confiding
things to others.
A child's questionings, seriously an
swered, supply the chief basis for that
child's education.
There.are over thirty Mormon churches
in Colorado. In Idaho there are over
sixty; In Arizona about seventy.
Stockton, Cal, has curfew bell, which
rings at go evenings, at which time all
children must 60 home or be arrested.
Drunkards, it is reported, constitute
more than half the entire number of sub
iects now in the Paris insane asylums.
The official residence of the President
OF Venezuela is called, in part imita-
ton of our White House, the yellow
House."
Suppose the ten-hour law applied to
woman-what would we men do. There
would't be anybody to darn our stockings
and mend our clothes at night.
Writing will look like silver, it is
stated, if done with mucilage water, into
which one ounce of fine pewter or block
tin and two ounces of mercury have been
mixed and ground.
A Providence, r. l., physician has re-
turned cause OF death, in the case
of baby he had been called to attend:
a published work on infant management
and its author
The new college game of tenpins is to
set up three pins in row in line with
the bowler, whose aim is to so curve the
ball as to knock out the center pin.
Should he knock down all three, he is
considered fit subject for ridicule
The other day there was a sale of house
hold effects. Enter woman of the house,
who has been out a short time, during
which the auctioneer has sold large
family Bible. Woman of the house Ito
neighbor;) what did the family Bible
fetch, Mrs. Jones?" Mrs. Jones: "Five
dollars" Woman of the house: "Only
FIVE dollars Too bad, too bad! and it
never was opened"
Even the redskins are indulging in base
ball, and, what is more, with success, a
nine composed of Digger Indians recently
having beaten a number of white boys on
the Chico Rancho. in California.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
The Popular Man Wins.
The Hour


The man who succeeds is the popuIa
mantle man who has hosts of acquaint
ances, and who does not hesitate to ask
favor, any more than he does to do one
He cultivates his acquaintance and
blossoms out before each one. de is
always glad to see them, and always has
a smile and pleasant word. Beyond q
certain point be is intimate with none,
knowing that a man with strong friend.
ships is sure to haye some decided
enemies, and an enmity is often most In.
convenient.
The popular man knows all the prom
inent members of the club; but be never
neglects those who fill the ranks of
mediocrity. He is especially thoughtful
of his elders. Every thing that comes to
his mill is grist.
There is nothing hypocritical in all
this The popular man is what he seems
to be. He wishes well to everyone, him
self included, and ne would do no one an
ill-turn. He wishes no one to do him
harm. His desire is to make things
pleasant to others that others may make
things pleasant unto him. He does not
neglect the harder work of life.
If he is in profession, he studies dill
gently for some hours each day, when
there is no opportunity to cultivate the
social part of his nature, or to render his
relations with others more friendly. Ii
be is in trade he does not neglect to learn
his business thoroughly from the bottom
nv, What he does he does we'll no mat
ter how small it is.
Such man is sure to command sue
cess. He is thorough and can be depend
ed upon in purely business relations, and
in his social life he charms and attracts
his acquaintance, so that every one
wants to help him. If he is a young
lawyer, the elderly men, to whom he is
always deferential in manner, thinks OF
him first when little legal business
comes in their way that will pay him
well out is to small for them. He gets
the job.
If he is young broker, spectators re-
member that he is good fellow, and
knowing that he is honest and capable.
give him their commission, even in pref
eTence, perhaps, to more repellant &C.
quaintanee who is more conveniently at
hand. Ii social gathering is lacking in
one member, he is always thought Of az
smile on him, and his chances of marry
ing well are tenfold better, even if he il
poor, than a more sedate and quiet man
Of possibly much greater force of charse-
ter.