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Year: 1878

win tell you the tale of the terrible fire;
1t springs from the earth-it is dreadful and
dire.


In the dark


Wintry sky,


See the spark


Upward fly;


See it grow


In its frame


See it glow


Into flame.
See it burning and blazing


See it spring into life
With a vigor amazing


How it longs for the strife
Hear the noise and the rattle
How it swells, how it grows,
Like the crash ofa battle,


Like the clash of the foesl
See it rushing and rising and roaring,
See it trying to touch a tall star;
1t seems in the sky to be soaring
Like a flag of fierce flame from afar-
See it turning and burning and braving-
See it streaming and cleaning and redl
All! the smoke in the air now is waving
Like winding sheet of dull lead.
Hear it laugh with wild glee at each futile
endeavor
To quench or to quell its exhuberant force.
1t is flaming and free and fantastic forever;
1t delights and exults with no pang of
I6UlOIs0,
With no pain bCt with passion-mad pas
sion--it qUivers
With its pennant of scarlet, the bloodiest
hue,
With It's cleaning streams and roaring rivers,
1t dares to do all things that flame dares to
do.
How it darts, how it dances and dashes,
AS though it had taken for aim,
To reduce all the world into ashes
And to fling all tbe stars into fame!
1t Is glittering and glowing and glaring-
And raging it rings its own knell;
1t is showing its wonderful daring
1t is turning the sky into he'll!
How it lazily fingers
With its swell and its fall;
With its fiery fingers
Weirdly waving pail;
With its horrible Misses,
Like the wind in a storm;
With its clustering kisses,
On face and on forml


OF its fl shes


Bereft,


Only ashes


Are left;


Till its cries


Tell its doom


And it dies


In the gloom.
/ thave told you the tale of the terrible fire;
1t has sung its last note to the luminous Tyre
1t has sung its last song, it has breathed its
last breath,
1t has lived without life, it has died without
death.


Appleton's Journal for July.
Year: 1878

In various parts of the country
on Friday of last week there were
six men executed according to law
for murder, whilst the sentences of
four others who were to have been
hanged at Fort Smith, Ark, were
commuted by President Hayes.
During the week two men were
hanged by Judge Lynch.
Year: 1878

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure in extending
credit to our friends and patrons, but
cash alone will yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere 10 a strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such a
course, and renew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


IL We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1878

Yen kissed me at the gate last night,
And mother heard the smack
She says its naughty to do so.


SO please TO takelt back.
I cannot see what harm there is,


In such thing, can you!
But mother seems 50 very wrOth,
Please take it oack, now do.
1t seems to me quite natural


For lips TO meet that way,
But mother says its very wrong,


So take it back pray.
And come 20 think Of il, Pm suro
That several times twas done,
So now to make it right be sure


To take back every one.
l would not have you think its me,
do not care mite,
But mothers so particular,


Please take them back to night,
Year: 1878

"Heli and Damnation" is the title
of book recently written and pub
lished by q preacher in Chicago
That is the book we called for when
we heard the Grand Commission
had decided to count Louisiana for
HaYca.
Year: 1878

A very respectable old Tabby in
our family one day last week, In the
exercise of very poor judgment,
considering too how often she had
been engaged in family matters,
committed very queer indiscretion
for one of her age and experience.


On the morning in question she
found herself sole proprietor of a
very fresh family of kittens, four in
number. Now, to a disinterested
party this would seem in all con


science enough to satisfy the most
liberal maternal instincts, but it ap


pears that Mrs. Grimalkin thought
different, for she went to the stable
and unearthed a gofer rat which she
brought and introduced into her
little family, and invested with fall
juvenile felin' rights to bed and
board under her hospitable roof. His
ratship took to the situation as
kindly as if he had just returned to
the bosom of his eXpectant family,
and, in fact, under the circum-
stances developed during the day a
most remarkable fondness for his
tender young relations, so great
indeed that before night he de-
voured three of them, though cared
for as tenderly as if he had been to
the manner" bone. Under cover
of the night he stole away to his old
quarters, perhaps, satisfied with the
days receipts, though after so un-
grateful and un-felin' an act, he
must be but little better than a
brute if he can look that kind old
cat and mother in the FACE again.


Aspen Hill. VERITAs.
Year: 1878

They are growing civilized in
Missouri. Instead of hanging
horsethieves the vigilantes merely
administer fifty lashes and turn
them loose, Charity toward tho
weaknesses Of human nature is a
virtue which we demand in others,
but which we fnd it very hard To
practice ourselves.
Year: 1878

What is that legend OF Mrs. Piatt'.


poem about the bird IN the brain


Birds are perhaps the most human q


creatures, and should not be surprised


if told we all carry more or less Of


them in our hearts and brains. l have


seen the hawk looking ont of the hu


man face many time, and think


have seen the eagle; l credit those


who say they have seen the owl.


Are not the buzzards and unclean


birds terribly suggestive! The song


birds were surely all brooded and


hatched in the human heart. They
are typical Of its highest aspirations,
and nearly the whole gamut of human
passion and emotion is expressed
more or less fully in their varied songs
Among our own birds there is the
song of the hermit thrush for devout.
ness and religious serenity, that Of the
wood-thrush for the musing, melodious
thoughts of twilight, the song-sparrow's
for simple faith and trust, the bobo.
links for hilarity and glee, the mourn,
ing.dove's for hopeless sorrow, the
vireo's for all day and everyday con-
tentment, and the nocturn of the
mocking-bird for love. Then there
are the plaintive singers the soaring,
ecstatic singers, the confident singers,
and the half-vciced iuarticulate singers.
The no te of the pewee is human
sigh, the piping of the chickadee un.
speakable tenderness and fidelity.
There is pride in the song of the tan
ager, and vanity in that of the cat.bird,
There is something distinctly human
about the robin his is the note of
boyhood. l have thoughts that fol-
low the migrating fowls norlhward
and southwark, and that go with the
sea. birds into the desert of the ocean,
onely and tireless as they. l sympa-
.hize with the watchful crow perched
1onder on that tree or walking about
the fields. l hurry outdoors when
near the clarion of the wild gander
,s co:nrade in my heart sends back
he call John Burroughs Serb
Ter for January.
Year: 1878

Bergh has his eye out for men who
clip their horses this time of the year.
Such men ought to be tied to horse
blocks on January night with moth
ing but an oil cloth shirt ou.I Detroit
Free Press.
Year: 1878

INCREASING THEIR CAPACTY.-About
all the mills on Puget Sound. are having
new and improved machinery and steanl
power added to them. Port Blakely Is
having an addition that will increase the
manufacture of lumber to nearly 100000
feet In u hours. Port Madison Is having
two new engines where they only have
two now. new improved gang saw, and
this increase will make them about equal
20 Port Blakcly. The Port Gamble Mill
Co., have added all the late improved ma
chnery for the manufacturing of lumber,
thereby increasing their capacity by about
one-icurth. The Seabeck mill Is being ell
large,i and new boilers and machinery put
in that will make her rank second best Cor
the the quantity OF daily manufacture of
lumber. Port Ludlow has in the past
twelve menths been mostly rebuilt, and
the completion OF the mill with its new
and improved machinery will 10 doubt be
great improvement. The Milton mill
has improved much during the past few
months and no doubt more lumber Is cut
there IN proportion to the number of men
employed than any other mill ON Puget
Sound.
Year: 1878

The Northern Pacific folks are a
little chagrined that their PROPOSE
,ion to build their road from Tacoma
around and south of Mt. Rainier to
Yakima is not swallowed by the peo-
pie who know the country. None
of them were ever over the route,
have no possible idea of its winding
course, or Of the distance or difficult
ties of building it. They know if
their company does not soon build
road to the east of the mountains,
grant or no grant, some other com,
pany will build one, and they fear
it will be through the Packwood or
Cowlitz pass.
Year: 1878

We often come across people who
have been unfortunate TOR life. They
have lost property. They have lost
standing in community. They have lost
Their earthly loves. Some of them have
lost even faith and hope. Many of them
have lost what would have made them
happy, by their own foolishness. Their
troubles all run back to wrong decision,
to one fatal hour. In that hour they
did what they should not have done;
and all their troubles are traceable 10
that one event. These people write TO
US Tor advice, TOR sympathy, some OF
them from a feeling that they must tell
somebody. What shall we say to them ?


The pas. buDders do not kill. Past
follies do not forfeit future opportunities.
God is always ready to give one another
chance. Heaven is never hopeless. 1t
lever despsirs as TO those who are cast
down. God seems to feel sure that every
prodigal will one day or another come
back; and is more anxious 10 get the
best robe on his back than to give him q
lecture. God never scolds. He forgives.
and that is the end of il. II would not
hurt a good many TO initiate him in that
respect. There is such way for the par
ent to forgive child that it would have
been nobler TO have thrashed him on the
spot.


II you have failed. then, in any respect,
no matter from what cause, no matter
whether by little or much, do not cloud
the sky of your future by gloomy thoughts
about il. Be hopeful. happy, courageous.
Old errors, like dead bodies. should De
buried Bury them quick, and plant
some Towering deed on the mound. The
mound will level with the years; but the
floral deed will renew its life with the
seasons.


1--WE are saved by hope. ."-4urrGy.


One day last week one of those ur-
bane travelling gentlemen who come
among US every once in while and favor
our citizens with an opportunity TO gel
their printing for little less than nothing
was in town. He went through Water
st. and took lots of orders, as usual, anC
called on one of our manufacturers at the
upper end of the street. He showed hil
samples spoke his little piece and waitet
for an order.


NO" says the manufacturer, II dom
wsnt any,"


"But you have to use these thingsP"


"Yes, but we have two printing offices
here, and they can do all the work
have"


eff you can save q dollar or two BY
ordering Of me won't you do it'"


mo. sir; believe in trading with tht
men who trade with me land when wan
any work done / shall have it done in my
own town, rather than send outside tol
IT,"


The Travelling Gentleman didn's ge
any order there. Of course that doctrin,
is heresy. but we give the conversation
Just TO show what kind of men some o
our citizens are.-Gardiiser Jousuai.
Year: 1878

YOUR opinion Of the outlook now I?
Since my last, in which l gave you
Col. Fulkerson's ideas on the Rail-
road question and other things at Es-
tilleVille at the June court, which was
the first time he went into print on
the railroad subject, see others are
looking to him as the coming man for
Congress. Well, Just turn him out on
a clear track if you want to see good
running. He is only to be heard TO be
appreciated as tie peoples man These
mountains and hills will come TO time
when the voting is to be done. See
that you go to the Convention in due
form. At home the work demands
attention, and. if square and fair, we
will all abide the r suit. Every tax
payer should be awake to his interest
aud check the threatening, pending
dangers, State and National, v hich
are now looking us square in the face.
Col. FulkersOn is the man 10 put on
guard. His past history is a warrant
for the future, and ] glory in his in
pluck. A man of work and not of
words only is in demand in the 9th
District, and as approaching events
cast their shadows before them, we
must look out good men to ill each
post in State and National legislation.
In this way the Office seeks the man.


may write at disadvantage, as it is
the general idea that mountain people
are uncultured and uniformed, con-
sequently inferior in their judgment
" those who enjoy the facilitiea offer
ed in towns and cities for the eleva-
tion of our race, educatiOnally, &c
Be that az it may, you will find a
Will in them, and nerve 10 support
it. They are going 10 look sfter the
farmers and mechanics Interestingly
want to see where all their labor and
toll has gone TO, and who is around
now making other and further eXsc-
tiOns from them Many of this class
want Col. f. as their standard
in the 9th, and if the indeX-finger Of
time is not on the wrong hand, think
we will trOt him out, and, if we do,
then we win.


IF | am correct as to the signs of the
times, will there not be an effort made
by the BOndhoIders to change State
debts into National debts. and there
by put the fetters on the producing
and tax-Paying part of our population ?
I take that view of it from Mountain
Top. Go on with readjUstment-.
Keep your powder dry-"stand firm
at the wheeln till the fight is over,
and victory, which comes inch by
inch, will be ours L c.
Year: 1878

Batoum has been fought for by the
Russians in the Congress as valiantly
as it was in the war, and yesterday
this impOfian! issue, that threatened
the failure of the Congress. was de-
termined in favor of the Russian pos
session of that important point
The frontier of Roumelia, the wal
idemnitY-these are difficult points
that the plenipotentiaries have not
yet been able to determine in accor
dance with their respective views OF
what is due to justice and to them
selves.


The division of the Bulgaria, that
Russia would have made all free, into
two provinces, one of which is free,
the other partially free, but the
southernmost border of which does not
couch the Kgean as Russia desired ;
the limitations of Turkeys right to
defend on the Balkans the northern
boundary of the southern province :
the retrocession to Russia of Bessa- =
rabia. and the Gift instead to Ruoma- =
MIA of the whole Dobrudschia the
military occupation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina by Austria. with or
without the consent of the Porte :
the Independence of Servia and the
definition of It's frontier the inde-
pendence of Montenegro and an ad-
djtion of territory with a seaport
these are points already practically
agreed upon in the Congress, but not
determined in all their detail.


AS to the demand of Greece aod
the liberation from Turkish misruie
Macedonia, Thessaly, Epirus aud
Crete, the Congress rather iavOrS the
"cOnsolidation of the Ottoman EN-
pire" than the aspiration for free
dom. What shall be done about the
Dardaneles and what is to became Of
the project of British protectorate
in Asia Minor, are points that are yet
misty, save in SO far as we have been
enlightened with regard to them by
the English correspondence in Berlin
who derive their information from the
eatGu4ge of the British pleuipoten-
tiaries, in which they are evidently
and purpOsely filed up with fctions
intended TO mislead the public.


Are the points not yet determined
Of such gravity and likely to be 50
firmly insisted upon from either side
that the failure of the Congress to
guarantee peace is possible? Every
effort will be made to avert war. but
there are points as to which effort has
its limits. How can Russia yield on
the war idemnity? But Russia. Eav>
ing bound herself not to insist upan
territory in discharge Of the war
idemnity, naturally wants 20 knoa
what she is TO have in place Of it
from a penniIess and bankrupt nation.
and there is no one to give sdtis-
factory answer.


In the concessions yet to be made
to get perfect agreement there are
a great many humiliatlons, and on
either side the temper in which Pow
erS find it possible to yield is far less
elastic than it was. But the decision
of the Batoum problem clears the
board of great danger.
Year: 1878

THE sol Distant honest men are
exceedingly anxious to change the
Issue between themselves and the
Resdjusters. They say it is hon
esty vs.. reputation, and thus hav-
ing decked themselves in the man
tie Of virtue they strut before the
world like crusaders against all the
thieves of the earth, and swear
they are the defenders OF the mag
ma charta of contract. The mild
est possible method of dealing with
these men is to denounce this as
species of shameless cffrontery.-
The facts are that instead of de-
Tending the sacred right of contract
they are defending the overthrow
and violation Of contract. They
are defending the Funding Bill
and seeking its perpe'uation. The
iEsue between them and the Read
justers is the question of the right
TO violate the contract made be-
tween the State and the creditor
when the debt was solemnly crea-
ted. 1t is a falsehood that the
Readjusters wish TO repudiate the
debt. They simply wish it subor-
dinated, as it was agreed it should
be to the prime necessities of State
administration, and then that as
much of it be paid as the altered
fortunes of the people will admit.
To state the issue differently is
slandsr and at the spme time an
admission that the Funders are
unable to resist the logic of a
proper statement Of it. The Fnns
ders thus liken themselves to the
culprit who said he would prefer
having the executioner put the
rope under his arms.
Year: 1878

SO the People of the South.


FELLOW CITIZENS The subject
to which we propose to call your at
tention for a sh rt time is. General
Education. mixed with justice. As
you well know il as an important
subject, one which cannot he exhaust
ed, We have no time to write muck
upon this subject, nor in such style
as we desire, and as the subject mer-
it's. But we cannot repress the Gis>
position to say something as repre-
sentatives of our race.


Altogether We are sensible of our
deficiencies, never having enjoyed the
many advantages, which common
school education confers upon one,
it cannot be expected that we can do
this subject justice; yet we are called
upon to say something in regard to
education and justice. Let us look
at the situation of our race at the
emancipation. We were four mill
lions and half strong who we're uu-
able 10 write our names and many of
US could not read the blessed word
Of God. Since that time some Of
the down trodden and oppressed race
have made themselves familiar with
the entire course of Mathematics,
Physiology, Philosophy, and many
of the other higher branches. And
we hope that the day is not far dis
tant when the many difficulties and
obstacles which have too long re-
tarded the progress of our race. shall
be annihilated > ignorance eradicated
and knowledge diffused throughout
the entire South. We would like to
have the same facilities granted us
that our white friends have, Institu-
Year: 1878

In his Newbury speech, on the 4th
of July, General Butler declared war
against the national banks and laid
down his own platform in these
words My position is that we
should issue four hundred millions in
nOn-interest bearing bonds of the
United States to settle the unemploy-
ed labOring men of the United States
upon the public lands Of the United
States. - He added mo more
notes of the United States can be
issued than the people choose TO
take, and if they bear no interest
those which are issued involve the
country in no debt. IN. Y Herald
Year: 1878

ORGANIZING CoMMUNIsM.-Co
in organizing an army with large salaried
officers is really only organizing commun-
ism. The people of this county are not
yet prepared for such aristocratic divi-
sions of society. They are unwilling to
be made ''the hewers of wood and draw
ers Of water" for any class that NAV, by
the force Of circumstances and through
the forms of government, get into office.


1t is entirely new idea hitched on to
our simple forms of government, that be-
cause "A man is elected to Congress. or
gets into government office, or is lucky
enough to have a relative at court, and
gets into the army or the navy, that he
must be kept in style so much above
citizens in ordinary life that it takes two.
or three,or tentimes as much TO keep him
as it does any ofhis fellows who NAV not
be so lucky and who is required to labor
and give of the fruits of his labor to sup
port such gentry in life of Incidence an,
to great degree of uselessness. Congress
is by this means making this country ON
to be summed because of its oppressiv
taxation, and the increase of such odiou
doctrines as that now being pr1mulgate


by secret communistic societies in nearl


all Of the States.
Year: 1878

THE INTERVIEW with Mrs. Vosburgh
in regard to the terrible accusation
against her husband ,shedeclares her belief
that he is innocent and that he never at
tempted to poison her. If convicted, she
says, with woman's devotion, that she
would accompany him to State Prison.
The case is certainly very curious one.
Year: 1878

THERE is no Use in mincing the matter
longer; If you run away with the idea
that Mr.. Caleb Bill cannot do your black
smithing in good style, just try him. He
will guarantee to do any kind of smith
work, 10 matter how difficult it may be,
and give complete satisfaction. As an in
dustrious workman, qualified to preside
with dignity over his shop, he is deserving
and worthy of your patronage.
Year: 1878

FATHER Cesary announces that he
succeeded in La Conner very well, in
soliciting contributions for the erection
OF parsonage. He thinks the people
over there are quite liberal in their desire
to help all.
Year: 1878

AooIDENT.-Cn the night Of Feb. 26th
the bark Camden met with slight acci-
dent at Port Gamble, in getting in to the
wharf. She smashed through portion
of the latter, and drove one fluke of her
anchor through her bows. The damage
was comparatively slight. Cause--too
much headway at the wrong time.
Year: 1878

A soldier in Cfomwells army, passing
with lis comrades over st. Mary bridge,
Derby, observed a yonng girl lading
water from the river. In the spirit Of
frolic and mischief he threw a large
stone, intending it should startle her by
making a sudden splash. But it struck
her on the head, and made hideous
wound. She fell into the river. The
soldier did not wait to see that she was
rescued. He. galloped on, feeling that
he had been guilty of wanton murder.
The unknown consequences of his folly
preyed upon his mind. His conscience
was alway upbraiding him. Years after,
when discharged from the army, he set
tied down in Derby. He took public
house in Bridgegate, and, after short
acquaintance with woman OF suitable
age, got married Very soon after he
saw his wife combing her hair, and In
qu'red how she got that great scar
which disfigurei one side of her head.
She replied: f'Some wretch OF soldier
VIE once nearly killed her with stone,
but # she ever caught that man she
would pay him off for it, y 1t is not re-
corded how she punished her HUSBAND
When he confessed being her assailant


or how great was his relief when the
haunting thought Of a wanton murder
wes removed from nis mind.