The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-05

this point we are yet likely to see the
third city of importance on the Sound.
OF course, there is an element of nom
progressive people who continue to wear
the moss rose as a moral and mental bout
toniere; who don't want any improve
ments; don't want any increased popula-
ton; in short, persons who illustrate the
beneficence of the Almighty in not permit
ting men al. the present day to reach the
years and acquire the antediluvian honors
of Methuselah. The average wearers of
the moss rose in both Oregon and Wash
ington are generally husky folk who live
to see so. This fact is discouraging
enough to immigration. but if these Rip
Van Wrinkles were likely to reach the age
of the antediluvian farmer and herder of
Methuselah's day they would always con-
tinue to be the sole owners and occupiers
of both Washington and Oregon, for no
live American could afford to live in land
whose destinies were limited and con-
tracted by the remote prospect of their
death But there are comparatively few
of the "moss rose" mud-turtles in What
com or Fairhaven. The mass of the peo-
pie do not sport this unpleasantly sug-
gestive flower in their buttonholes; they
are of far livelier and more sanguine
temperament They welcomed the COM
pletion of their railroad connection with
the Canadian Pacific on the 22d ult., and
soon the Seattle & Montana railroad will
be completed to this point, further ad-
dition of important commercial advan-
tages in shape of through lines of transpor-
tation that will make them more indie
pendent of the markets of Portland and
he hot atn1~z
of the 22d ult furnished good chance to
see the people, and they are of good quail
ity. At the corner of one of the
streets sat an old Portland acqualnt-
ance in shape of an aged, if not
decayed musician, whose breast bore the
legend: "Oregon pioneer of 1853. / am
blind" The Oregon pioneer played "The
Little Brown jug" increasingly, and it is
within the possibilities that the Oregon
pioneer of 1853 once loved the contents of
the Little Brown jug" as fondly as he does
today its music. On the way to Whatcom
from small wooden building hung the
sign: lessons in oil paining given here"
Lessons in soil painting would rather seem
to be the dreary want of the time. "The
trouble with our race, Massa Greeley, is
dat dey amt quite up in metaphysics,
Sdiu u solemn UdThey lI1uerdnt before
the war to the founder of the Tribune
what your race wants is hoe with
patch OF New Jersey soil at one end and
negro at the other" gruff1y answered
Greeley. The Mitchell wagon" which is
mere political band wagon in Oregon, is
a popular and useful vehicle in these parts
''The Red Front" is the blood-curdling
title of number of stores along the
Sound. The only one we visited
was cheap clothing store, which
had very prepossessing ''red
'front.' in shape of a sprightly
young lady attendant with crushed
strawberry hair. Along the railroad
track between Fairhaven and Seattle
are stations where the single frame
wooden building wears the sign:
"Beds from Is cents up; meals from
% cents up" This scale of prices implies,
we assume. beds NTH or without bugs and
f1eas; meals Nth or without the nimble and
elusive cockroach Victoria contained a
most overpoweringly hyperbolical sign,
sMcNif's Grotto." The "grotto," So
called, is nothing but rum hole, a grotto
where the petrifactions stand up to the
counter and take something" The
famous grotto of Antiparos. with its
wealth of stalactites and stalagmites, is not
more popular resort than this alcoholic
alcove, the 'grotto" of McNiff The grotto
of Antiparos is clearly of Greek origin; the
grotto of McNiff is clearly not of Greek
origin whatever else it may be.
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