The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-04

go back home and say that you owe it en-
tirely to protective tariff.
The item in the Atlanta C0nstitn ton is
true, but not complete. 1t should have
added that while Mrs. Smith was celebrat-
ing her SEVENTEEN birthday Mr.. Smith, her
husband, was working alone on my justly
celebrated well, which is 102 feet deep, and
bringing up the granite fragments in
bushel basket held in his teeth, running
up and down the rope hand over hand like
cat, and cleaning out the well prepare
tory to putting in the plumbing. Mrs.
Smith is his second wife, and they have
lived together as man and wife for fifty
years.
During the war they lived on bank of
edible clay and a distant relative Mr..
Smith regards his present health as a re-
suit entirely of the ozone and unrestrained
ballot of this state.
He has been mistaken several times for
another William E. Smith, of Lower Fork
township, who is one of the profoundest
liars in the state, barring none. This has
given Mr.. Smith cause for much sorrow,
and he has often wished that he was dead,
but that is out Of the question in this eli
mate.
Asheville has large and prosperous
cemetery filled entirely with people from
the North who waited five or ten minutes
too late before coming here. Health here
is so good and one feels SO perfectly vigor-
GUS that the monotonouS longevity drives
some to drink. The pale, white juice of
the Early Dent corn is used for this pur-
pose, and yields a grateful warmth, fol-
lowed by healthy glow. and afterward
by coma, stertorous breathing, incoher-
ent mutterings and other signs of the third
party.
A valued friend writes from Chicago:
eve certainly not only rival New York,
but far exceed her in one thing. viz. the
impudence and worthlessness of servants"
Continuing, she says: II have lived in
yet have seen such utter horror in the out
look for employers of servants. We get as
many green servants as New York, or
more, and with arrogance and impudence
added for every mile they come by rail.
Can you not say word that will cheer
and unite US? A friend of mine hired a
new cook, who cooked, stuffed and served
hot baked goose without removing any
thing except the outer wraps of the bird.
This is no joke. 1t is the everlasting
truth. The girl never admitted that she
was utterly green and knew nothing re-
garding the use and abuse of the American
people:
without intruding upon its private affairs
Think of carving it and passing it to a per-
son of noble birth who was thinking of
buying thirteen lots in one of our new adj
ditions!
Servants now ask questions themselves
entirely: DO you have much company
How many in the family?' etc. We had
girl come last week to apply for place,
and, Mr.. Nye, YOU could not exaggerate,
if you tried, the list of questions she
asked. Emboldened by my perfect help
lessness and horror. she went on and on
till she could think of nothing more
Then she said: Well. presume that it
will do if l come Monday. | have some
engagements for the rest of the week.
Then she started for the door.
"'You have forgotten To ask one ques-
ton / said. You have forgotten to ask
if | wanted you. ] do not. You may run
along now. Illinois people are called
Suckers, but there isn't such general run
of paresis here as You may have heen led
to believe from reading the New York pa
pers.' She then went away"
We are suffering from the same cause.
Only those who employ coiored girls war
ranted not to crack are perfectly happy.
used TO write freely Of the servant
question and said some bright things about
il, but that was when | was bachelor.
Now I am keeping house and | am more
reserved. [ am writing q book. however,
on the servant question, which Will be
published after my death. 1t will be filled
with facts and written in a terse yet well
chosen style that will IN a great measure
take the keen edge off the general public
grief over nv irremediable loss.