The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-20

national debt, but | would not care. even
if footloose (Which 1 am not) to marry
either one of them.
But let US return. We have been for
days in the lumber region. i. e., the spinal
column of it. At every little station we
are joined by lumbermen, mostly foreign
ers, wearing the picturesque costumes of
the camp. We saw the Berry Wall of the
pine region yesterday. He wore new
buckskin shirt, fluted at the seams, and a
nar of wooden panties or over-underwear
knitted from the worsted remnants of
big yarn carnival, l judged. They were
the most lurid trousers l ever saw.
Wherever he went you could almost seem
to smell something burning. 1t was
wooden kaleidoscope which reminded one
of a picture of volcanic eruption executed
by an incorporate wagon painter.
Underneath the clothes l have named
above he had all the other clothes he had
ever owned since he grew up. This gave
him a choked and suffocating appearance,
and gave rise to the remark, in the Scan
danavian dialect: al gort too - many
pantses on. OATS becorse l svet So"
The lumberman carries valise made of
a two-bushel grain bag fastened together
by top and bottom corner SO that he can
sling it over his shoulder. In this, / think
he has a pair of heavy kip boots, some
edible tobacco and a large bottle of
alcohol.
Sometimes the prosperous chopper has
a square, black papier mache valise with
toy lock on it. Yesterday two men got on
the train at the same time. One of them
was Canuck and the other was a Nor
wegian. The Canuck had one of these
little black bags with the tin lock on it
which is so exactly like several thousand
other little black yallses peculiar to the
railroad.
"Hole on dar, you Frantsmansl" said
the Norske man. you gort my sassle
dari"
mo, sare," said the gentleman from San
Pierre; sit is eemposseble."
By that time both men had hold of the
handle. They talked broken English back
and forth for some time Then the Nor
wegian said: Wort you gort in yours
sassle?"
The Frenchman told of few things,
such as hair oil, hoarhound candy, comb,
brush, snowshoes, etc.
The Norske told what he had, and in the
meantime they pulled hard on the bag and
the TT ain got good start. As We crossed
a trestle they were both appalled, and put
to confusion, for the bag burst open and
down through the trestle there fell a
porous plaster and a big fiat bottle of
something that thawed great holes in the
ice wherever it struck. The bag, it seems,
did not belong to either OF them.
Ispent two weeks in lumber camp
said l needed pure air and good deal of
it. Every evening around a big hot fire
the choppers from Denmark and Chris
tiania would remove nine pairs OF hose
apiece to dry them by the nice hot stove,
| and so | went back home where the air
| was less resinous. | do not care to be too
healthy. 1t makes one look coarse.
St. Paul and Minneapolis are making
great calculations on entertaining the dele
| gates to the national convention. Posi-
| biy this is as good a chance as l will have
| TO say that my name will not be pre-
| scented. | wish to refute now, however,
| the report that my health is out of repair.
| | was never in better health, but my name
| will not be presented. This narrows down
| the fight to Jerry Rusk and member of
| the Senate who last term received beauti-
| full red Testament at the close otthe session
| for being neither absent nor tardy. 1t Is
| certainly to be hoped, for the good OF the
| party at least, that man will be selected
| VINO has been careful all his life TO avoid
| giving offense-a man who can speak for
| hours without making statement.
! | met a man Yesterday who looked like
| Ignatius Donnelly | am told that it was
| Donneliy. He said that senators ought to
| be chosen by the popular vote. Orchestra
/ seats in the Senate are too high now, he
1 said considering the character OF the en-
! tertainment. He SAID We ought TO be
/ more careful, too, in the manner of in
/ vIting men TO ill important offices. Out
! in Leadville there was an elderly Ger
! man whom we will call Mr.. Frankfurter,
| for that was not the name OF our hero.
| He was concerned with Mr.. Tabor at the
! time the big strike was made which turned
/ them into millonaires.
| One evening Mr.. Frankfurter was
proving around the same old lager beer
| place, where he loved 10 finger before his
| prosperity. He was talking with Colonel
| Yowler, of Buckskin.
by the way, Frankfurter," says Vow.