The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-26

| Cal, to open q dental Office, according
| to local paper published in the in
| terests of the trade at $3.50 per year
| with the understanding that it is to b,
| paid for in advance or as soon thereafte a
| as may be. though this is no way to pub.
lish a paper. as Isaiah so truely said. for
the iaborer is indeed worthy of his hire,
| and this is found to be the case especially
| among workingmen, and in the language
| of DR.. Bartle, speaking of the Alliance
| itself, and especially of Euripides, where
he tells of Antisthenes, who was one
day working in the new lot back of the
NJ. 4. church with pair of restless
steers and quarterly meeting going on
! at the time so that he could not address
! the steers as he would have liked, and
! the place being a trihe rocky, as also
was Antisthenes. and the briers having
! swathed his bare legs below the toga
| which did not amount to much anyhow.
And what are you driving at?" says
| Euripides, who had just got poem into
Greek magazine with the understand
ing that it was to be paid for as soon as
| 1t was published, if nothing happened, and
to be used anyway in case of his death. so
he was feeling pretty well. Driving ut ?"
says Antisthenes; Il am driving at these
pesky steers and doing little more work
| to get little more money to buy little
more food to give me little more
| strength so that | can do little more
work and get little more money to get
me a little more food to give me little
more strength so that u
| DR.. Bartle says that he and Euripldes
both came away and left the old man sit
| ting on the pillow beam vaselining his brer
beswatted limbs and going over and over
in the midst of his quaking beard with
| this same old, old grievance, which is
bothering every workingman today, dear
reader, you and | and all of US, and no
m ember of congress can help us out of it.
| No Republican or Democratic platform or
| hOarse campaign resolvers can take this
| mighty burden from our aching shoulders.
Only Gods kindly hand. when the day is
done and the drOwsy crickets review the
beautiful torchlight procession of fireflies,
| can with gentle touch take off the heavy,
| CALLING burden that he put there when the
world began, when every man was told to
eat with one hand and wipe his brow with
J tine other.
| Is it not so?
! And yet Ticktown. as was saying, Is
| free from malaria. Sewer gas and civili-
cation are unknown here except among
| the better classes, and as the promoters
have removed all fatal cases to another
county early the death rate is low. Capital
| and a bag of -four are all that we need
| here now to make things lively. Buck
wheat Hour would be best.
Ticktown is the home of the red bug,
| which has recently become such an in
| dustry here. If time should be hanging
| heavily on your hands this summer sit
down on an old log at the corner of Sou
| dan and Coon streets, where the site for
| the new opera-house is patiently wait
| ing for the capitalist. and after an
| hour or so OF gentle thought you will
think of something, and it will not be
what you came there to think Of 1t will
be something else. 1t will jog you men,
| DRY, and you will find when it is too late
G
was at
| The red bug was the very first white
| child born in TicktOwn. He could tell us
some strange tales. wot, if he would, of
| Northern people with whom he has asso-
| ciated-the young, the fair. the aged and
the venerable-but he has spared none of
| them. The young. the joyous and the gay,
| the crumbling wreck of former grandeur.
| he has speckled them all.
He lives in old logs that are little
| soggy and still have the bark on them,
| but he does not live on the same. He
| lives on the heaith-aeeker from Boston,
| Charleston and Tompkinsvllle, s. l. He
buries all past differences and every day is
| Decoration day with him. | wish YOU
could have seen me yesterday evening,
but possibly you might not care to. |
| was as spotted as trout and felt like
| leaning up against a tree and rubbing the
bark off the tree by means of myself
The red bug was made for purpose, but
l wish had u dollar for every time have
wondered what that purpose was. Still I
suppose that the finite should not seek to
sneak under the great tent to learn the
purposes OF creation or get into the in
Unite, as Sam Jones was so truly saving
the other day when he saved quite a num-
Der of souls and turned away money be-
sides
Times are little quiet at Ticktown this
season, owing to low prices in both cotton
and Gods heads and fines. Yankees are
many of them going to Bar Harbor hopiny
to see Mr.. Blaine's place, while the guests
from he south have not yet arrived for the
summer at any of the mountain resorts.
What We need at Ticktown is really cap
ital and ack of flour. There is no race
feeling here at all. Though the town Is
entirely settled by colored people. the
white race is cordially invited to come and
settle here. A hotel with poste cochere
and printed menu is very much needed
here; also horse team to do odd Jobs
about town.
A good live paper could be started here
in connection with the regular bill-oi-fare
at the hotel
Most any one around here can tell YOU
where Tlcktown is. 1t is a pleasant ride
from EbeneZer to Ticktown past Potato
Hill. 1t is also pleasant to ride back again.
EbeneZer consists of an old church with
thrifty graveyard annex. 1t is quiet place.
existence of Ebenezer and Ticktown, but
il he had faith like mustard plaster or
would drive out here for a day he wouId
find that they are to be seen with no greao
difficulty, together with hound dogs VIII
will betray considerable pleasurable emo
ton when he heaves in sight.
Last year a man talked of starting an OK
| yoke industry at Ticktown, but he had TO
| go home TO Fort Do dge, Ia, and is doing
! time now in that state.
There was some agitation here also eight
| years ago about having the co unity seat at
| this place, but owing to the red bugs the
| legislature said il would hurt the place as
| q county seat, so il was abandoned
| Corn is looking a little paliid, but root
| crops are doing very well, and with good
| boarders | shall make nv farm almost
self-sustaining this year. | am irving a
| little patch of cotton this year-three-
| quarters of an acre. You have doubtless
| heard of the cotton belt. | want to have
| one myself, if possible. raised right here
! on the place. l haven't worn one since |
| was child.
| The Richmond & Danville runs near
! my place. and Is good road. | have been
| trying TO sell it the right-of-way over my
! farm so that | could tell one of my board
| ers To pack his stuff and go elsewhere, but
| the road SAYS that right-of-way over my
| place would lengthen the line eight miles,
| and it is feared also that | would drive my
feeblest stock on the track to get killed.
good steady boarder with lung diff
| Guilty and couple of blankets OF his own
| could find pleasant home at my house,
| with meat on the table whenever We
! butcher