The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-24

rels of sparkling, homemade, Dent corn
HeidsicK, grown on the place.
The boys tried to get at it, but the OFF,
GERS saw at once that there would not be
more than enough for themselves, and so
placed a guard over the liquor. In the
night the boys got into the basement of
the warehouse with eight clean washtubs
and an auger, and in the morning il was
found that two of the barrels were empty
and most of the brigade full.
The following night, after apollinaris
and family prayers, it was resolved to try
and get the other barrel in order TO soothe
that vague unrest and one thing and an
other which one feels after an undue in
diligence in spirituous, vinous, malt or
fermented liquors. They did not know
that the guard had put the third barrel on
twosaw.horses foot above their augers
utmost scope All night they bored holes
into the nocturnal bosom of the scoot1ng
hours, all unmindful that the guard slept
by the barrel in a new place on the floor.
Toward morning Governor Hoard took
the anger with heavy heart and bored
new hole in the bosom of the night. He
did not strike what he sought, but there
was a wild shrek from above, and when
the governor pulled the auger out he found
on il the fragment of gray army shirt
and birthmark. Leaving the eight new
tubs where they were, also over 100000
new auger holes that had never been used,
they all went away.
Senator Vance told il better than have,
but when he got through the German
friend OF Vogner said;
"Um-yahl vot kahn of a story vas
dat ?''
THAT is humorous story. That is
American humor."
mo, my frain; oxcoose me. Dot vas
not yoonar; dot vas a tam lie.
The c0lored people of Asheville each year
celebrate on the LIST of January their
emancipation from slavery. They parade
on the street in strange costumes, and
many of them improve their appearance
by wearing false faces OF s. repulsiye
character
Mr.9ium Levi. the barber of the old
schgol who shaved me i've years ago and
81 p2fnts with pride TO the cory towel
ve~E he used on me, was in the process
1855 He wore pink mask and a mantle
made OF two large perforated rubber door
mats HIS feet were incased in easy and
commodiOus slippers, each made from the
pelt OF a dead colt
Flotsam Garside wore navy blue DOM
mo with knitted hood ana blue soldier
pants. lie was the iife of the procession,
and almost everything he did was mirthiuL
He Is a great reader, always abreast OF the
times, and may be often found reading the
ASheNlle CtttSeH TIL after 10 O'Clock AT
night
Miss Pearl Backus, of Coxsackie, \. Y,
Is paying a visit to former Blue Ruin
friends and took part in the parade. She
Is yet in her teens, hut has the wonderful
git Of being able To cook for her employers
family and have enough left over each
meal for an aged mother who has been
again recently blessed with twins. 1t is
Joy indeed 10 the kind old heart of PEARLS
widowed mother 10 know in her declining
years that her daughter will look ont for
her. Ellial love among people Of moderate
means Is always a grateful sight.
She wore q fur trimmed street dress like
one her mistress AZ CoxsackIe wore just be-
fore Pearl LETT there.
had occasion to meet my friend Mr..
Franz Eher. of the Lilllputian company,
short time ago. lie is about the size of
the dividend hung on the Christmas tree
Tor me this year by Russell Sage, and yet
Is - years Of age, a good comedian and
pleasing atter-djnner speaker.
lie has the air, though, of q successful
actor, and the amount Of dignity he has
considering the small place he has 10
grape II over makes me laugh, for am
great hand 10 notice things that make
deep impression on me.
he dld not seem TO unbend. | thought,
Do mueh as he ought, considering that