The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-04
NANCY LEE ON
CURRENT GOSSIP.

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houses demolished and small towns
Down away. Large fires too, terrify Us
with their frequency ard destruction The
Baldwin hotel fire made terrible impress
sioa on all jewellers In wooden houses, and
a4as and alack, there are very few brick
houses on this Coast I have gone to bed
IL cold room ever since. because was
afraid chunk OF fire might tumble on
the hearth and set my house ablaze. AS for
my housema.d. who sleeps upstairs in the
garrett, know she is beginning TO be very
suspicious OF me- The other night I
thought, Ike the count In that most de-
lghtful Of books. "A Week in a French
Country House, thought that I smelled
something, and. unlike the counts smell,
mine was not OF apples. did not say,
"Oh, Ursula. my Ursula. smell the smell
OF apples, and they do not belong TO me-"
but this is what did, I jumped out Of
my own bed and few up the garnet steps
to the door Of Cleopatra's room. call the
lady IN question Cleopatra because she pos
sesses many slaves. the chief Of whom Is
her nominal mistress. Cleopatra" cried,
arouse thee: methnks this house Is burn
ing" could. hear a match striking MY
room is AL right; you'd better go back TO
yours a voice sleepily replied. But.
Cleo / cried, IF you should be burned
alive I'll never get over It." "Nor IT, said
Cleopatra. and could then hear her go to
sleep audibly. Another night again
thought the Philistines were upon me. and
up again I few, banging my arms and
humping my shins as SKINNED the gar
ret stairs. This time Cleopatra was awake.
in bed reading a ''penny-dreadful'' by the
light Of my best trimmed Rochester. II
smell something, indeed do. It must be
fire." Cleopatra drew up the bed clothes
to keep me from seeing she had my best
flannel petticoat, that had given her to
sew button on. pinned around her sha pely
tha foy
Rats"
From that night she has regarded me
with suspicion. Ii I uncover the kitchen
range. she looks as though l were accus-
ing her Of burning too much COAL When
say to her, Cleopatra, I am going out
for an hour this evening; turn down the
gaslight. and let the fire go down in the
parlor,' she looks as though I were the
most parsimonious Of my sex, seeking TO
deprive her Of that most enviable privilege
OF the American female servitor, the right
to waste In an hour that which the mis-
tress has saved, and the master has made.
all day.
/ The loss Of the Portland was dreadful
One hundred people are presumably lost
going from Boston TO Portland. At 10
o'clock at night the boat must have sunk.
because a man washed ashore was found
with a watch In his pocket which had
| stopped at that hour. To think OF these I'M
| lucky passengers battling with the Icy
waves, and not living person left to tell
| the tale. Water IS SO treacherous. How
smiling and beautiful the waves look under
| a golden sun. Let the first wind blow, and
see how the waves will darken and crow
niack in suilen anger. Talk about the vic
Inns OF incompetence. Pure clean lake
water can Kill more people In an hour than
,,n-1a - NC can III year. OF course, when
people are drowned that's the end Of them
1872 sApehSe ioF undertaking. Or coffins. or
doctors bills, and when people ara yer,,
poor. and there is 4 good homo waj4;,sr ,,r
them above, It's rather convenience of,en-
times Ter them to be taken that wav IYs,,.
any IL Is the most unnatural and uninvit
ing road to eternity, TO be tumb,ed out of
one sort warm bed into an angry. lev
sea. mere 70 struggle until oblivion seems
"es"aoie. and rest the only hope.
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ana; speaking OF storms at sea, I read
u-,:as "u AZ siicane at Port Townsend during
which the Wildwood went to TIE ho..n,s,
ot the bay Only one man was ahoard ~
.he WILDWOOD when she had a hole forosd
INTO ner by big log There was a cat on
noaFu 'hat scratched the sleeping man on
sIe lace until he awoke. one has often
.isaio OF DOG waking his master In time
or PERIL but that ships cat had ,ba In
WONDERFUL. There was a pathetic end -
the story. which said that the man hi,
awake. threw the cat into the warer wbich
had fiied the cabin and the poor "a. yas
drowned. The man escaped death bv .he
asin q ms teeth, but Will bear the wounds
oi 'he eats claws for many days "Faitb-
ful are the wounds OF a friend ora -,
thst friend be honored. even though Il he
ships cat. that most abject OF ali nets
90 not blame the people who believe
thae animals have souls. They often evince
iar more intelligence than many who are
eaHed human beings. l have otter looked
INTO the eyes of an honest faithful dog
and I've been very glad that the animal
could not speak, for the dogs looks were
more than sufficient 10 shame any evil
speaking person. Dogs ard cats see 50
mnch ana know so much that il Is tust
as well they are not able 10 tell the two
footed creatures that maitreat them he-
cause the oipeds think the quadruneds
can't talk or hit back what they think ~
them. But, oh, how | do wish sometimes
the dogs would bite tham.
After December we shall all be nernnit
ted TO mall our letters to England from
canada under the protection of a ?-cent
instead Of a Scent stamp. Wouldn't It be
9oi'y II we could do The same thing from
the United States. Then perhaps. other
European countries would follow suit. and
we could write letters with much more
peace OF mind than We DO now. when we
have 10 send our regrets TO Sandrine-
ham, or our congratulations to the Neither
lands, with more than twice as much post
axe than one uses TO send O. letter from
Maine 20 Florida.
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How good Il is IN know that we are
finally through with our war with Spain.
All the time that I was Thanksgiving on
Thanksgiving day was so sore afraid that
orr war would renew Itself and we would
have to stop sticking pins IN the cushions
NJ are making for Christmas gifts. and
take our needles again to make pajarnas
and abdominal bandages for the boys in
blue. As soon as I had read the head
lines IN Tuesdays paper. Spain Accept.
gAe offered Terms in Fun did nos wait
10 read OF the marriages and deaths. the
bargain sales or the latest find Of gold. |
got OF in corner al TO myself and had
8 little Thanksgiving service quite quietly
and comfortably alone. IL IL really .he