The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-15
MaraudIng vandals Give Woman New
Cause TO Weep.

Cause TO Weep.
Rose culture is rapidly becoming one of
the aristocratic fads in Seattle. The am
bition TO excel in this branch of tiori-
culture has resulted in the intro
duction or production of a vast So
ciety of roses of noble lineage, real
kings ana queens In appearance, and, by
stretching the Imagination point. aristo-
cratic IN bearing and action. While the
gentler sex take such lively interest in
the rose world, laboring in perfume
scented gardens in early morn and dewy
eve fighting the insect destroyer who
impairs the cheek OF the damask beauty,
they have thus far been unable to over
come the two-footed nocturnal desperate
who has SO repeatedly despoiled their
lovely bushes of their fair tenants,
and man traps, bull dogs and shotguns
are liable to be employed in the future by
some of the residents of James. Marion,
Columbia and Madison streets, from Ninth
TO Twelfth, unless the depredations cease.
| Two especial gardens have been repeatedly
despoiled. These lie between Tenth and
| Twelfth streets on James. One OF the
| ladies who has only recently gone into
mourning" for the loss of some of the
members of her rose family said, when
| asked about it:
Yes, am lamenting the loss of num-
| Der of choice roses and the Disagreement
| of some of my best bushes, and it is my
| determination to buy a bulldog for every
bush / have, and peg them out, with in
structions TO bite"
But, madame. "interposed the reporter,
you have forty varieties. and you will
| therefore require forty bulldogs"
i 4 4. 20 4 L !.
4 ferocious bulldog, / will give him chain
| enough so that he can cover the entire
| garden. But. seriously talking, is it not
an outrage that these little darlings, whom
| have watched as nxiously in their
growth and expansion as a mother notes
! the development of precocity, can have
no protection from marauders. | wish I
could sleep under every bending rose, with
revolver in each hand; then thieves
would find the necessary intimidation. and
the loved Baroness Rothschild. Marechal
Mel and 8 host of other mobiles could rest
without fear of molestation.''
Why not put paddock or fire alarm
box on each rose9"
Good idea-but these are too cumber-
some; think will adhere to the bulldog
scheme. Do you know that the loss of my
last two roses. both of royal blood by inter-
marriage, almost broke my hearth had
noted the love match between Baron Bon
stetten, of German descent. and the Bar
oness Rothschild. They lived opposite
each other. In infancy they grew to-
gether, and as they neared the poetic age
OF youth. when the world is simply made
up of butterflies and ice cream, their
branches nearly commingled. and at times
they became confused. 80 that one could
hardly discern the one from the other.
The far baroness. she of the blonde locks.
she OF the pink-velvety cheeks, first
| opened her eyes-a bud of SURPRISING
beauty-and toward the baron she leaned
a. IL inviting tender earess The baron
was coy, and he failed at first to compre-
bend the situation, but not very long after
| ward the warm kisses Of the sun expanded,
the bud; il opened. aud in his dar black.
| red velvet suit he was a rose OF exceeding
loneliness, and soon he paid his obe.sance
20 the fair blonde baroness"
| This mast have been love among the
roses
quite true; yes, / watched the court-
| ship with great interest aud often imag
ined that Mareehai Mel General lack
Paul Neyron, the Duke Of Edinburgh. the
Black Prince and a long line OF Others
grew jealous over the Baron's CONQUEST
but alas the end came quickly"
Explain"
1t was about o'clock in the morning.
heard noise In the garden. heard
! reiFeasing footsteps; 4 form dissolved
itself in the distance; I looked under nv
! window; the Baron and Baroness had
/ nown. In life they grew side by side: in
/ death they were rot separated. for both
1 were IN the hands Of the rose thief The
( next morning | heard voices again.
/ looked down and there discovered a girl
/ pull pair Of scissors from her pocket and
I elope with General iJacqueminot.
/ screamed, she ran and the fair general "a,
I spared sn iEnominious association"