The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-17

tree at a point which would have been
two or three feet above his head if be
had stood on the ground.
To test the courtesy of the woodsmen
Mr.. Dearborn and /, one afternoon while
driving through the forest, assumed the
Parker house role of Boston tourists in
search Of information, and asked thirty
or forty different woodsmen about this
apparent depth of snow on the land, and
In each case got a polite and lucid ex-
PLANTATION of the whole matter, so plain
and clear that anybody with a single,
disinfected brain could not help under
standing it. / could not avoid contrast
ing this uniform courtesy of the piney
woods with the paucity Of politeness and
intellectual desolation sometimes met
with at the elevated railway gates and
other thought ganglia of New York.
Seattle is called the Phoenix city. This
is because she was con.umed by fire last
summer and is now almost entirely re-
built. The Phoenix was a tabled bird
which Guild rehabilitate itself after hav-
ing been consumed by fire, and was even
more bright and cheerful afterwards than
before. Even the scorehed feathers of
the Phoeaix, it is said, did not smell dis
agreeably. Phoenixes are now very
scarce, and a setting of Phoenix eggs this
spring would bring a fancy price. The
day is not very distant when, like the
buffalo, the last phoenix bird will have
disappeared from our shores. Seattle is
a port of entry, and her land Office shows
more entries than any other in the United
States, it is said.
Human life is quite safe now in Seattle,
the sanguinary Chinook having become
quite tame and docile. / entered the
cage of one Of them while there and re-
NAMED twenty minutes. The Chinook is
essentially a water fowl and is most at
home in a dugout. When he lands he
loses his dignity, for he is knock-kneed
and has a gait like a mud turtle with a
stone bruise. Before one knee can pass
the other it has to have a written permit.
The squaws are industrious to a degree,
bringing in to town every morning large
bouquets of dew-laden clans, which are
sold at a Il nominal price to the people of
Seattle.
The churches are numerous and well
built, every denomination being repre-
scented. The Methodist, Baptist and
Luthern churches have services in three
languages, so that each may attend and
put up his petition in the language to
which he is most accustomed.
On the sound the typical American"
of whom we hear so much and read so
much in the books written by foreigners
who come to our shores, smoke a cigar,
take a drink and go home, practically dis
appears. It is a great congress of repre-
s~entatives from all States and all nations.
The Yankee, the reformed rebel, the ne
gro and the Chinaman lie down together,
and the cosmopolitan children of the great
globe, under gentle skies, toll on together
and prosper together.
The papers are handsome and metro
politan in appearance-two in the morn
ing and two in the evening. A press
club was formed during my visit and
started off with splendid prospects.
Seattle has no cars. The talented, YER
satile and am~bidexterous bobtail car
driver can never enter there, and the
pleasing aroma of the car stables does not
cling to the good clothes of the passenger
when he gets off. Two fine lines of
electric cars, with four systems of cable
cars which scoot up the hills and across
the city, give a style of rapid transit
would put many an older city to
the blush.