The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-30

1t smells as sweet as clover and is not in
juriols to nealth.
Sn5f is not grown here, and so some
times when there is blockade or washout
on tne railroad snuff cannot be readily
landed at our doors. and there is great
deal ST suffering. Nobody nose how much
there is.
Snsff is not administered up the nose
here however, among those who use it.
but il kept in neat little bonbonniere, or
gour8, and small wooden stick made of
birch. chewed into q brush at one end, is
ever end anon dipped into the snuff and
then rhewed thoroughly or rubbed back
and forth over the gooms.
ONLY the hoi polloi use snuff here-the
hoi p9lloi lady. mean. If you see her
coming down vista of brilliant autumn
colorilg, somber figure in the gaudy per.
spectFye, you will notice that she dex-
terously jerks something out of her mouth
and c9nceals it in her apron. trying, as
you pass. to look all wrapped up in the
contemplation of nature.
Shezhas just removed her snuff stick, or,
as 1 RAY say, half in jest, the handle of
the dipper is removed. Here one finds
among the peasantry children hardly done
with rneir milk teeth using snuff in this
way. $50 We have the Little Dipper and
the Big Dipper.
Thesnutf stick or brush is left dangling
in thecorner of the mouth, as little young
children in the absence of the mother hold
a corner of cloth that has been wrapped
aroun8 a bit of sugar, land the same with
intentto deceive"
Arden is not large place, but it is a
good ste for one. There are two general
stores and q blacksmith shop. Lately
there = a shooting scrape on Saturday.
Since l have been digging my we'll l
have rat a good deal of money in circula-
ton. This has made flush times in West
ern North Carolina, and some lawlessness.
Human life at one time was so lightly
valued while this stream of gold was flow
ing in chat l had to shut down work on
nv WILL till times should tighten up
little.
Lately have been putting in windmill
at the estate. This, too. has let flood of
WEALTH into the channels of trade. Eggs
went up to SO cents, and good eggs were
worth a shilling.
haa been reading about windmills. and
determined to buy one. AT hrst thought
| would buy one of those dear old wind
mills q Southampton and Europe which
the arrests rave about, but this one will be
dear e:,ough by the time l get through
with il
The snill arrived last April and was put
on the ground early in that month. A
plumber from Ashevilie was employed TO
put il Ep. Eight men were sent out here by
train IL put the mill up. They did not know
how to.put up a windmill. and so a pre-
paratosy school had to be opened here to
give Instructions. l paid the tuition.
SpeciaEtrains carried my plumbers to and
from Azhevile. 1t was pleasant sight to
see thase plumbers on their way. with
a-rE IL
where. -hev were learning how TO plumb at
my expense.
The s,heme was spoken of around here
as '.Nyz's Fresh Air Fund" Every little
while could hear someone say, There
goes the plumbers picnic"
| iye5fourteen miles from Asheville and
ran ouEof terrapin one day. This caused
much sFiverse comment among the plumb
ers. ana before il could be smOthered by
kind words some nightingales' tongues.
with ats JUS on them, were scorched a little
by our Ichef, and | could see that the
pIumbtss in a we'll bred way were irritated.
This glew till the following week, when
their discomfort became so great that they
suddenly put up the mill and went away:
did MT think at first that they would
ever go. But they did.
Possibly the windmill also may do so
some dsy. | thought that as soon as the
plumbess stood back from 1t and gave II
air it might go, but it has not. we'll
known physician and scientist mere says
that so much of the climate is required by
the inv.lids who come here that there is
not sncaigh left TO run a windmill.
lam arranging now, however, 20 club in
with Asr. Beaie. neighbor of mine. who
owns a. bicycle with pneumatic tires, so
that W. can get our wind elsewhere in
large Quantities for nlling his pneumatic
tires ans running my windmill the year
round. :
The rsill looks very picturesque when in
motion zbut il takes the time OF q man and
team tozrun it while they ought TO be do
ing something else.
Wind5nii.s were first used IN the t9el!th
centdry. In Holland they are USED yer
the scies.tists say. in draining the polders
and grisding the trass. | have about de-
cided 10 drain my poldegs and grind my