The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-09

herself the capital of the Northwest, The
new Northwest, and her citizens wear not
only the tall silk hat of trade, bat the soft
SLOUGH hat of the West. She talks in an
other tongue than the New Yorker, and
sure sign that We are far across the conti-
nent-her papers argue with the san ffan-
CISCO ones over rate wars and the COMPETE
ton of railway companies. 81. Paul has
been established many years, and If one
were reckless enough TO go down to the
business quarters one would hear all about
her and more also. But the residential
parts OF the town are the crown
OF 1t. In common with scores of
other cities, st. Paul has reared
Tor herself broad crowned suburbs,
using the word in the English sense, that
make the stranger jealous. You get here
what you do not get in the ciry-weli
paved or asphalted roads, planted with
trees, and trim sidewalks studded with
houses OF individuality, not boorishiv
fenced Oft from each other, but standing
each on its plot of weli-kept turf running
down to the pavement. 1t is always sun
DAY N these streets of a morning. The
cable car has taken the men down town 20
business, the children are at school, and
the Dig dogs. three and third to each alb
sent child, lie nosing in the winter-kil!ed
grass and wondering when the shoots viii
make 1t possible Tor a gentleman TO take
Children on tricycles stagger up and down
the asphalt with the proportion of big
dogs at each wheel; the Cable cars COM
ing. up hill begin 10 drop the men
eacn at his own door-the door of the
house that he builded for himself Though
the architect melted him to that vile little
attic tower and useless logGia) and, natur-
ally enough, twilight brings the lovers
waking two by two along the very quiet
ways. You can tell from the houses
almost the exact period at which they
were built; whether in the lig-saw days
when 1t behooved responsibility to use I'M
lovely turned rails and pierced gable ends,
or during the Colonial craze. which means
white paint and futed pillars, or in the
latest domestic era-a most pleasant mix
ture that Is, OF stained shingles, hooded
dormer windows, cunning veranda and
recessed doors. Seeing these things one
begins TO understand why the American
visiting England is impressed with the old
ana not with the new. He is not much
more than 100 years ahead of the English
In design, comfort. economy, and (this is
most importantly labor-saving appliances
In his house. From Newport to San Diego
you shall find the same thing today.
Last tribute of respect and admiration.
One little brown house at the end of an
avenue is shattered down and doctors
buggy stands before it. On the door
large blue and white label says: Scarlet
fever" Oh. most excellent municipality
OF st. Paul! 1t is because of these little
things, and not rowdying and racketting
in public places, that nation becomes
great and free and honored. In the cars
tonight they viii be talking wheat. girding
at Minneapolis and sneering at Duluth's
demand for twenty feet of water from Du-
luth to the Atlantc-matters of no great
moment compared to those streets and
that label. RUDYARD kIPLING.
Davis Challenges Mccoy to Finish Fight.
BURLINGTON Ia, May SACK Davis,
who whipped "Gipsy' Gleason, Saturday,