The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-12

usual selections" America" on the or
ganette, accompanied by child voices:
reading OF the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, and few selections from the pro-
ceedings of the Tennessee legislature.
complimentary prayer by the chaplain:
singing of Red, White and Blue by a
man from Statesville; piece on the melo-
deon, entitled "Pee-wee Bird. Waltz by
young woman from q distance who Is
visiting North Carolina, and who was left
at Busbee station by the train whilst
gathering golden-rod; address by me
touching on THE Growth, Progress and
Final Punk of Nations"
There Is hardly room here for more than
resume OF the address, for il was long,
covering. as 1t did, the history of man and
the evolution of government from the feu.
dal ages, and even back of that extending
through barbaric centuries, and so on
down TO the present time, when national
and state government becomes not only a
duty but a pleasure.
The speaker touched with great power
and feeling upon our duty as citizens, ow-
lng II as we do, he went on to say, TO our
selves and our posterity TO suitably pre-
pare our minds and hearts by early edu-
cation and association for the great duties
OF citizenship, and both by our precept and
our practice so live that we may safely
leave the mere act of voting to other heads
The speaker said also that TO the newly ar
rived citizen voting is new and thrilling
experience. Why not allow him more of
1t to do, while We who have the taxes TO
pay, and who therefore need rest and
change of scene, may safely take much
needed relaxation on election day, and If
we do not like the result we can write a
piece Tor the paper signed TAX Payer, +"
and marked on the top communicated
This was followed by applause which,
od cd f.1
from the wife of the speaker, who had
been huckleberrylng, and hearing a noise
in the direction of the speakers stand had
drifted around that way, and having met
the audience before shook hands with him
and sat down to hear the address.
The speaker touched lightly on the sub
lect OF the presidency in 1892 and said that
while his health was never so good as it
was at this time, yet he did not wish his
name used for two reasons One was that
he had been two fearless in his denuncia-
ton OF large moneyed interests, and the
other was that he would rather lecture all
winter at his present prices than to deliver
ten free speeches per day out of the tail
gate of a sleeping car and then get up three
times in the night in a suit of pajamas to
inquire the name of the station and then
make ten minutes cyclopedia speech on
its resources.
The audience agseed after the address to
use his influence toward seeing that the
speakers name was not brought up before
the convention. After the address the
mayor of Skyland, who owns the sugar
bush in which the opera-house stands,
opened a fresh case of Bent's Justly cele-
brated water crackers, together with new
Chalybiate spring that tasted like the base
ment of a wholesale hardware store after
the big fire in Chicago. After this came
a spirited two-old-cat tournament in the
afternoon and basket picnic, during
which the little child of the audience, by
his first wife, discovered the deserted nest
of one of the celebrated Little Mammoth
Black Hornets of Tennessee. This insect
is called in the South the Typhoid Touch
me-not of the Tropics, and wears a plati-
mum singer, with an alcohol lamp for
same, all the time.
We buried the little youngster in the
cool, yellow mud down at the branch-all
but his head, and IL we poulticed with wet
plug tobacco and ammona-tiil toward
evening. when he could bear to have his
fathers hat on and go home. He did not
see my fireworks. He had to worry along
with those he had stirred up in the
clinker-built household of the black
hornet.
We opened the evening with song. I
sang a selection from I'll Trovatore," ac-
companying myself on the xylophone,
that pleading and almost human instru-
ment. then touched off a bunch of fire.
crackers in order to seat the audience and
then let off a Roman candle. the brecchpin
of which blew out, sending eight beautiful,
variegated balls up my sleeve.
l then sang song entitled Sparkling
and bright in its liquid light is the water
in our glasses. Twill give you health,
twill give you wealth, We lads and rosy
lasses.n
After this came mine which the cat
alogue said would spout gold and silver
showers, .interspersed with red, blue, yell
low and green meteors. This mine was
non-dividend declaring mine, like one that
/ partly owned in Wyoming. If / had
owned it entirely would have been poor
man today, but / only owned little of it
and so have no reason to complain. 1t
was called the Pauper's Dream, and was
discovered by Buck Bramel. He owned
the two mules, Yeller and Yaller, which
had almost a national reputation. The
Pauper's Dream showed rich a
the grass roots with blossom
rock that looked like jewelry store, but
it ran into micaeeous slate and pyrites of
poverty at ten feet. Then we got some
good quartz again and the lead was better
defined. | neglected my life insurance
premiums to pay my assessments, and
then we struck at depth of eighty feet
one of the incest springs of water from
which ever drank out Of
The pyrotechnic mine, however, acted
as il might if it had got wet III some way,
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