Year: 1877

NNIIN Introduce IL VOlltNllE hlWI N"CIh'
department, more especially meant to
represent home and family interests, or
to furnish that class OF matter most in
tcrcoting for the women and children of
the community, making the STAR COM
plctc in all its departments as literary,
scientific, progressive, liberal, as well AS
family Journal


Neither OF us were able alone to make
up this last department, yet supposed
We had the necessary assistance in the
love and devotion, as well as cultured
intellect of that companion who had
started with us on the journey Of life,


In the first few numbers we had to II
slight degree indicated this work, AMI
hal begun to make our arrangements
for its more complete realization, when
sickness and death came to our door
and robbed us of our loved and devoted
companion forever. This crushing blow
destroyed our dreams of joint labor in
this department Of the STAR compelling
us so far, wholly to give it up, and de.
vote our time and energies to other
fields of labor. 1t also destroyed our
home, made our domestic expenses over
one hundred dollars month more than
they otherwise would have been tor the
past year, and caused our place of resi-.
drnCe to seem less like home than any
place we could find. The result was, to
make up for this Unexpectedly increased
outlay, and to gain that knowledge of
the country we desired to obtain so we
could represent it thoroughly and well,
as well as to keep from dwelling on the


loss we had suffered, and to divert our
mind to new and other scenes, we have
passed year Of as severe mental and
physical eXertion as any one in the Ter.
rtory, laboring constantly from sixteen
to eighteen hours and upwards per day.
Besides our editorial labor. and supervis
ing work upon our home, in clearing
making improvements etc, we have had
to do II large legal AMI public business.
and have travelled upwards of $4,000
miles in the interest OF the STAR the
past year, over one third Of that distance
being in small boat padding or pull
ing caroe or boat alone over 4 900
miles. The result has been, that we
know six fold as many people as we did
one year ago, have visited most every
portion OF the Sound region, and have
written more or less regarding their in.
terests. The valleys of the Snohomish,
Stllaguamish and Skagit, then the least
known, are now perhaps the best known
ofany portion OF the Territory, while,
the support necessary to sustain the
STAR has been fully secured, it being to-
day one of the best supported journals
in Washington Territory, and furnishes
a greater amount of Original, literary,
descriptive and scientific matter than
any iournu! in the Territory, if not on
the whole Northwest Coast, while its
influence is second to none. The ben.
etits conferred by its publication to the
citizens, whose interests it claimed to
represent, are admitted by all.


The press of the Territory have given
US cordial welcome, have commended
our success, and in nearly every instance
shown a remarkable absence of that
jealousy 80 often manifested towards
those who come into profession with.
out previous training for 1t. For this
they have our thanks.


Abroad we have universally met with
words OF encouragement, and sympathy,
yet results so substantial and unexpected,
have caused, in the minds of many who
have received the most benefit from our
labors, an almost indescribable feeling of
jealousy at our success, which really has
been something they should take pride
in, in place Of being jealous of, because
our success iu this field could not iniure
any engaged in working for the social,
intellectual or moral progress of the
community, nor detract from their merit,
but would preserve their work, make
their success more certain, and benefit
them more than it would or could ben.
eft US. We are very happy to add, this
feeling was more particularly manifested