, 1890-06-08

Snow aud hal rarely fall at Port Town
send and some years there are zone at all,
and in summer she gets a cool breeze up
the straits OF San Juan de Fuca from the
ocean which makes Townsend much
cooler in summer than any Of the other
sound cities. Port Townsend, as one ap-
breaches 1t, reminds one-or, If there are
more than one, 1t may remind the whole
party-of HAvre, France, Europe. The
beautiful and peaceful, harbor, together
with the green terraced town, rising rap
idly from the rippling seas, like UCdine.
or Niobe or Mrs. james Brown Potter.
fresh from the bath-lt is a beautiful
sight. | shall never forget how beautiful
Havre looked To me on the morning OF
my arrival there. | had riddea from
Southampton, which is located in Eng
land. to Havre sometimes pronounced
Hav by cultivated Americans from the
Little Big Horn mouDtains). II takes
eight long and nsuseating hours to make
this trip via n sort of Fort Lee ferryboat
which gives the choppy channel a chance
TO assess the already depleted and de-
spoiled and depopulated land lubber at a
wonderful rate. The emerald hills of
Law bel Frawngs, as | heard a scholarly
man from Pumpkin Buttes call it, APP
peared before me and rose along with
other brio a in the bright sunlight
as our good ship Hoboken plowed the
waves. | stood forward OF the after
hatch and abaft the purloin deck as my
whole pas; life came up before me. Tears
ohased themselves and others down my
fluffy cheeks, and fell with a hot spatter
on the deck. But they we're tears OF Joy.
Though | was landing in a strange
country whose language ! could not speak
and had but $l.S5 in American money
aud a letter OF credit which / did not
know what to do with, | was coming to
land-blessed land. In an hours time.
with returning hunger, | had devastated
\ French garden, and a frightened gar
soning had tOld me ir broken English.
with great sorrvw, how he had a brother
who looked also ike me, and he also died
4 few years ago-he aud his tapeworm
together. Thew died in each others
arms, he said, and one grave now holds
them both. He then brought me sone
more things TO eat, and with a funny lit
tie bottle Of mucilage added another sup
plement to the bill.
Havre has a green place in my memory
and a warm, lower berth in my heart.
Twas there that with beautiful courtesy
the Credit LYJnnaise cashier cashed my
letter, simply requesting me to remove
my hat by way of Identification. Gazing
on my massive skull for an instant. and
placing his ear to 1t Tor a ome In or
der to hear me think a little. he turned to
his escritoITe and handed me out a hatful
of shining Napoleons.
But Townsend has the advantage Of
HaYre in W respects. First. she has in
view in two different directions a chain Of
beautiful sno capped mountains which
Just completes the picture. and. second,
she Is less oyerrun with foreigners than
Havre. You hear the idiomatic Amer
can tongue almost constantly 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
coDcealing in the coat pocket a spool of
white thread, the end of the thread being
drawn out through the coat so as to look
like a stray fragment which some solicit
GUS friend generally tries to pick of.
After unreeliug forty or fifty yards of it
be decides amid much merry laughter
that 1t is q joke. and he buys large quan-
titles of alcoholic stimulants for the
party, who fill the air with peal after peal
of more merry laughter.
But the landlord was not wholly sue
ces,tul Seven or eight times, after
waiting patiently for his chance he sue
ceeded in getting various people to pick
this thread of. but the yard upon yard
that should have followed it did not
come. Finally, it leaked out that an
other humorist was carefully cutting the
thread every time so as to sell the land
lord, and then, mine host as / heard
him called once in a paper, threw away the
spool and casting aside all reserve told
each and everyone to nominate his favor
lite method Of q~uenching his thirst, and so
the day passed pleasantly ard all too soon
with this merry band.
Washington is to be more greatly ben
Gifted by her admission to the Union,
perhaps. than any other of the new
states- will state my reasons Ever
since the organization of our republican
form OF government in this country the
doubtful state has been the recipient Of
III federal f~avors, and to live in a doubt
fui state aud have n little influence have
meant immunity from hunger and the
still more painful calamity known as com.
pulsory pesspiration. To live in a ter;
tory At such n time ha. ever meant to i.
to DO and to suffer. The fosteriur cs,e =
conRress and the executive was and /
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