, 1890-06-08

and while waiting Tor orders is gener
ally broken into and rihed by the ever
hungry and Rbnormally thirsty doubtful
state. A poor boy at a frolic. or a ner-
vous anarchist strolling over Satan's
country seat with his overcoat pockets
full of percussion bombs, is happy com
pared with q little soiIed nosed territory
looking hungrily through the pickets of
Columbia's apartment house yard, where
the great tournament for cold y~ictuals is
going on among the October states.
But now Washington is q full fedged,
grown up member of the family, and,
wearing suspendes. the young state does
not ask, but requests, what, as a voteless,
voicelese territory, she could not even
petition for with any comfort Port Town
send will be especially benefited, l be-
lieye, and at once. by the new statehood
and its attendant blessings. Many mil
lions may be proftably spent there by the
government in Larbor Improvements and
public buildings, to say nothing OF sub
s~tantial assistance and encouragement for
agriculture. numbering and mining. which
would Weld early and rich results.
Port Townsend IS protected from for
eign foes by means of a tort, the Dame
of which has escaped my memory. This
fort is situated across an arm or bay of
the main sound proper, so thai the rude
street boys OF the public schools Of Port
Townsend cannot pick on the troops.
The school boys of Townsend are not bad
boys at all. but they are full Of spirits.
and il is all the police can do to keep
them sometimes from being rude and
saucy to the garrison aud his wife.
The fort commands the entrance to the
barbor and 40 armed foe could not enter
uzder the guns of this fertilization with
u stirring up i'll feeling. unless be en-
tered after shutdown, at which time the
garrison seeks his couch.
Most everyone in Port Townsend feels
perfectly secure, except when the forest
fires are raging. Once a forest fire burned
down one panel of the Notifications, and
hostile cows got in, it is said, and ate up
the supplies. Friendly Indians got in
once while the garrison was taking a bath
and stole bis clothes. And still you will
find people all over this country who
think that the Indian may be humanized
and Chrlstianined, il properly treated.
The United States, so far. has not sur
veyed the country, it is said, the width of
a township back from the water front in
the counties of Jefferson and Clallam, ex-
cept in the immediate neighborhood of
Port Townsend. So here in this rich az
rieultural. mineral and numbering region,
where two railroads are coming in this
summer, connecting Townsend with Port
land and the east; where the shipping
entries are only egualled as to number by
those Of New York. and where more
money and immigration are daily going
in than elsewhere in the United States,
the country is not ever surveyed, because
it is 30 far away from where the Ameri-
can eagle does his inoubating.
| used TO think that Siloott was a very
mean and coarse man to take the wages
OF sin and 20 away to Canada with them,
but the more | think of il the more leni-
ent | feel toward him.
Everybody has heard of the ~cheapness
of living on the coast, and ever since my
boyhood | have been impressed with this
fact. and yet | was but poorly prepared
for the quotations | met with at the
Poodle Dog. in San Francisco. 1t is a
good eating place, and | went there as the
guest OF Mr.. Samuel Post Davis, of Car
son, a connoisseur. an epicure and a bon
~vivant from the San Francisco Annex,
known to the east as Neyads.
We had blue points, s%usils. shrimps.
beetles, crook necked clans, terrapin,
roasts, removes. side issues, bon mots,
asparagus, fried mush. with New Or
leans molasses; bosom OF lamb. with cat
nip sauce; brisket Of moose. sweetbreads,
musscls. relishes, mustard pie. Vermont
maple ~ u %mackerel, pie plant pie, pis-
tache, ice cream. fortissimo cheese. cafe
noir, Garcia cigars, etc. etc. and | was
a little anxious, 50 far rs possible. to
know what tho bill was. for Mr.. Davis Is
not e%xtravaRant or foolish in these mat
ters. | got a glimpse at the check which
was thirty-fve cents each. and it was
with great difficulty that | remained in
my chair.
1 said: "Of course they will take US for
a drive also, will they not, if they charge
us thirty five cents for this little bite with
wine2"
No" said Mr.. Davis, 'they say they
cannot afford it. Food, OF course, and
wine are quite cheap here. and labor is
not expensive, but horses and carriages
come high. You can live well here and
not attract attention, but if you hire or
own a carriage it proves that you are
thoroughly reckless about none mat
ters2"
| watched him pay the seventy cents,
tip the waiter and 70 out, and then /
said, Sam, do you mean to say that you
got off with less than a dollar Tor that
dinner"
oh, yes. | thought they rather
socked it to me today. Generally they
throw in a canyas back duck and n ter
rpin steak at that price, but today they
are cross. | suppose it's wash day
probably, and 30 we had to take kind of
n picked up dinner"
After that took a friend from New
York to the Poodle Dog and ordered the
same thing exactly and paid $lS for it.
| learned then that Mr.. Davis did that
way to advertise the low price Of living
in San Francisco, I've met several men
since who had dincd with Mr.. Davis un,
der similar circumstances. He arranges
it with the proprietor somehow IN ad,
vance, but | do not think it is any way
to do. | would no more do that by q
friend of mine than | would expect my
right hand to clesve TO the roof of my
mouth il ! did do it also, from a cleal
sky. That's the way | feel about it ex
actly. 1t shakes mans faith in man and
makes countless thousands mourn.
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