The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-08

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TEE LANDLORDS TEICK.
The average rainfall. which Is really
the bette noir Of the Pacific coast. Is less
virulcnt perhaps 81 Townsend tlaa else
where. While Dunganeas has 20 inches,
WhatcOm %. Sarnish %. ,57inorai5h %,
StilEGuamish - and Suolomish 60,
Port Townsend has hat 1G Possibly
she names have something to DO with it,
for these towns with Indian names, some
Of them are cursed with a rainfall which
would drive old Mr.. Mcintosh out of the
country. Take Squeamish, for instance,
and East Peritonitis, and Bomb&lla. and
Sweethomish, and Upper Stsilacoomum-
brella, each Of which las from 60 to 1G5
inches of mean rainfall and nett moist
ure during the year, exclusive OF deWs.
Snow and hail rarely fail at Port Town
send and some years there are none at
all, and in summer she sets q cool breeze
up the straits Of san juan &c Fdca from
the ocean which makes Townsend much
cooler IN summertime any Cf the other
sound cities. Port Townsend. as one ap-
more than one. it may remind the whols
party-of Havre, France. Europe The
beautiful and peaceful haroor, together
with the green ta--aced town. rising rap
idly from the ripping seas, like Undlne
or NiObe or Mrs. James Brown Potter,
fresh from the balh--lt is a beautiful
sight. shall never forget how beauti-
full Havre looked TO me on the morning
Of my arrival there. | had ridden from
Southampton, which is located in Eng
land, to Havre sometimes pronounced
Harv by cultivated Americans from the
Little Big Horn mountains. 1t takes
eight long and nausaating hours to make
this trip via d sort OF Fort Lee ferryboat
which gives the choppy channel a chance
to assess the already depleted and de-
spoiled and dePopulGted land lubber at
wonderful rate. The emerald hills Of
Law bel Frawngs, as heard a scholarly
man from Pumpkin Buttes call it, ap-
peared before me and rose along with
other bTic-a-bTac in the bright sunlight
as our good ship Hoboken plowed the
waves stood forward of the after
hatch and abaEt the Turloin deck as my
whole past life came ~ before me.
Tears chased themselves and others down
nay fluffy cheeks and fell with hot
Bpatter on the deck. But they were
tears Of Joy.
Though | was landing in strange
country whose language | could not
speak and had but SI.S5 in American
money and letter Of credit which did
not know what to do with, l was coming
to land-blessed land In an hours time,
with returning hunger, l had devastated
2 French garden, and a frightened gar
soning had told me III broken English,
with great sorrow, how he had brother
who looked also like me. and he also
died few years ago-he and his tape
worm together. They died in each
others arms, he said, and one grave now
holds thsm both. lie then brought me
some more things TO eat, and with a
funny little bottle Of mucilage added
another supplement to the bill
Havre has a green place IN my mem
DRY and a warm, lower berth in my
heart. Twas there that with beautiful
courtesy the Credit Lyonnaise cashier
caShed my letter, simply requesting me
to remove my hat by way OF identified
ton. Gazing on my massive skull for
an instant, and placing his ear to 1t for 2
moment in order to hear me think lit
tie, he turned to his escritoire and hand I
ed me out hatful of shining Napo- |
Icons.
But Townsend has the advantage of /.
Havre IN two respects. First, she has /
in view in two different directions
chain of beautiful snow capped noun
tains which Just completes the picture, |
and, second, she Is less overrun with for /
eigners than Havre. You hear the i'd |
ioInatic American tongue almost con-
stantly at Port Townsend.
was there on All Fools day, as it is
called. The proprietor Of the hotel was
working the cheerful little thread game,
which. as the reader knows, consists IN
IN the coat pocket spool Of
white thread, the end Of The thread being
drawn out through the coat SO as to look
like stray fragment, which some solicit
Gus friend generally ty4es 70 pick OF.
After unyeehag forty or fifty yards Of it
ae decides amid much merry laughter
that 1t is joke. and he bays large qusrs-
tities Of alcoholic stiIaulants for the
party. who I'll the All with peal after
Deal Of more merry Laughter.
Bat the landlord was not wholly sue
-essful. Seven or eight times, after
waiting patiently for his chance, he sue
,eeded in getting various people TO pick
lis thread CT. bat tie yard upon yard
nat should have followed il did not
come. Finally. i leaked out that al
3ther hurnOTist was csaTe5s lily cutting the
thread every time go as 10 sell the land
lord, and then mine host" Us ! h2ard