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Year: 1875

1t has been we'll said that chow
to advertise is a department of
commercial knowledge as essential
to mercantile success in these days
as arithmetic. Money need not be
wasted in it, but it should be liber-
ally, while judiciously expended,
''where it will do the most good"
The whole science of advertising
may be summed up in one sentence
make your business and name known
to the purchasing world-"familliar
as a household word" A little re-
Election will convince any one of the
value of the columns of the newspa-
pers for this purpose. You pick up
your favorite journal daily, and there
staring you in the face. in bold let
ters, is the name and business of
some firm in the city. 1t meets
your eye day after day until it be-
comes stereotyped upon the tablets Of
your memory. When you want any
thing in that line, the name and the
firm that You have so often seen
looms up in your mind. and you re-
call everything connected with it.
That firm may have fine store, a
magnificent sign may grace its doors,
but you seldom pass along the street
upon which they may be located,
and have never noticed it. You on
ly know of it from having seen it so
often in your newspaper. This ap-
plies to not one advertiser, but to all
whose names are familiarized to the
reading public by frequent repetition
in the newspapers. The sign in the
paper is more. essential than the sign
over tue door, when we take into
consideration the limited number of
people who may chance to pass
through that particular thoroughfare,
comparatively, with the number of
persons who daily peruse the columns
Of a newspaper.


These facts are indisputable, and
have already been extensively ac-
knowledged by those who have left
the beaten paths of old fogyism, and
instead of sitting in their handsome
stores waiting for their friends to
hunt them, visit them as it were,
daily through the newspaper, and
extend them an invitation to call.
The newspaper is the eity's repre-
sentative in the great big, bustling
world outside. The name of busi-
ness firm, constantly presented in
its columns. is soon learned by heart,
until in comes to be associated with
a certain line of goods and business.
that the latter cannot be mentioned
or thought Of in connection with that
particular merchant does notinstinet-
lively present itself to the mind eye.
Advertise little as you may, as to
space and cost-but advertise often.
The advice is not altogether disin-
terested on our part, but it is none
the less good advice. Practical ex-
perience, a thousand to one, has
abundantly attested it.
Year: 1875

The following is said to be one of
the most brilliant articles ever writ
ten by the lamented George d.
Prentice:


'But the fiat of nature is inexora-
BILE. There is no appeal for relief
from the great law which dooms us
to dust. We flourish and fade as the
leaves of the forest, and flowers that
bloom and wither in day have no frail-
er hold on life than the mightiest mon
arch that ever shook the earth with
his foot steps. Generations of men
will appear and disappear as the
grass, and the courtless multitudes
that throng the world to-day, will
tomorrow disappear as the footprint
on the shore.


Men seldom think Of the great event
of death until the shadow falls across
their own path, hiding from their eyes
the traces Of loved ones whose living
smiles were the sunlight of their ex-
istence. Death is the greatest anita
gonist of life, and the cold thought
of the tomb is the skeleton of all
feasts. We do not want to go
through the dark valley, although
it's passage may lead to Paradise /;
and, with Charles Lamb, we do not
want to lie down in the grave, with
princes for our bed-fellows.


In the beautiful dreams of Ion the
instinct of Immortality SO beautifully
uttered by the death of the devoted
Greek, finds deep responsein every
thoughtful soul. Then above to yield
his young existence a sacrifice to fate,
his beloved Ciemantha ask il they
shall not meet again, to which he re-
plies: asked that dreadful question
Of hills that seemd eternal OF the clear
streams that flow forever-of the
stars among whose fields of azure my
raised spirit has walked. AS / look
upon thy living face, / feel that
there is something in thy love that
cannot really perish.-We shall meet
again, Clcmantha.'
Year: 1875

A few days ago young GurIey
whose father lives on Croghan street
organized theatrical company and
purchased the dime novel play o.
Hamlet" The company consisted
of three boys and a hostler, and Mr.
Gurley's hired girl was to be the
Ghost if the troupe could guarantee
her fifty cents per night.


Young Gurley suddenly bloomed
out as a professional. and when his
mother asked him to bring in some
wood he replied:


Though / am penniless thou canst
not degrade me r.


you trot out after that wood OF
I'll have your father trounce you =
she exclaimed.
"The tyrant who lays his hands
upon me shall die !''' replied the boy.
but he got the wood.


lie was out on the step when 8
man came along and asked him where
Lafayette street was.


Doomed for a certain time to
roam the earth r. replied Gurley in g
hoarse voice, and holding his right
arm out straight.


Il say-you Where is Lafayette
street?'' called the man.


"Ah! Could the dead but speak
ah - continued Gurley.


The man drove him into the house,
and his mother sent him to the gro.
Gerry after potatoes.


II go, most noble Duchess" he
said as he took up the basket, "but
my good sword shall some day
avenge these insults 70


He knew that the grocer favored
theatricals, and when he got there
he said:


cart thou provided with store OF
that vegetable known as the 'tater,
most excellent dukeT'


"What in thunder do you want p
growled the grocer as he cleaned the
cheese knife on a piece of paper.


''Thy plebeian mind is dull of com.
prehension !" answered Gurley.


Don't try to get off any of your
nonsense on me, or I'll crack your
empty pate in minute ~ roared the
grocer, and Hamlet had to come
down from his high horse and ask
for peck of potatoes.


"What made you SO long"' asked
his mother as he returned.


"Thy grave shall be dug in the
cypress glade y he haughtily an
swered.


When his father came home at
noon Mrs. Gurley told him that she
believed the boy was going crazy.
and related what had occurred.


81 See what ails him." mused the
father; this explains why he hangs
around Johnson's barn so much"


At the dinner table young Gurley
spoke of his father as the "illustri-
Gus count" and when his mother
asked him if he would have some
butter gravy he answered:


'"The appetite of warrior cannot
be satisfied with such nonsense"


When the meal was over the faith
er went out to his favorite shade
tree, cut a sprout, and the boy was
asked to step out into the woodshed
and see if the penstock was frozen
up. He found the old man there,
and he said:


"Why, most noble lord, I had sup
posed thee far away P'


''I'm not so Ear away but what L m
going to make you skipr' growled
the father. "Pll teach you to fool
around with ten cent tragedies
Come up here r


For about five minutes the wood
shed was full of dancing feet, flying
arms and moving bodies, and then
the old man took rest and inquired +:


"There, your highness, dost want
any more?'


ooh no. dad mot darned bit y
walled the young manager" and
while the father started for down
town he went in and sorrowfuuy in
formed the hired girl that he must
cancel her engagement until the fall
season.
Year: 1875




Some one has written beautifully
to the boys in the following manner.
Here is whole sermon in a few sen.
tences:


OF all the love affairs in the world,
none can surpass the true love of the
big boy for his mother. 1t is a love
pure and noble, honorable in the
highest degree to both. l do not
mean merely a dutiful affection. ]
mean a love which makes boy gall
liant and courteous to his mother,
saying to everybody plainly that he
is fairly in love with her. Next TO
the love of her husband, nothing SO
crowns a woman's life with honor as
this second love, this devotion of her
son to her. And never yet knew a
boy turn out bad who began with
falling in love with his mother. Any
man may fall love with fresh
faced girl, and the man who is gal
liant with the girl may neglect the
worn and wearied wife. But the
boy who is lover to his mother in
her middle age is a true knight, who
will love his wife as much in the sear-
leaved autumn as he did in the dai-
sled spring-time
Year: 1875

"a these departments, who have made It
their study for years to suit and at the


rising generation" and who viii take
great pleasure IN displaying the various
pecial1y for the season, and found il no
other establishment
Year: 1875

A New CoUNTERFElT A counterfeit United
States treasury note has been detected at Boston,
executed that even the most skilful detectives
differ as to its true character, and have finally
determined upon thefollowing minute differences
from the genuine: "On the genuine the buttons
round, while on the counterfeit they have an ir-
regular or more of an octagonal form; on the
genuine the small toes of the female figure OF
Justic are full and natural, while on the coun-
terfeit the small toes are very small, and the lit
tie one very obscure"
Year: 1875

WHAT'S THE USE whats the use of bending
every faculty to money getting of moth
ing else-when you can't carry a single dollar
with you, and have already more than enough
to supply every reasonable want, though you
should live to be hundred years old There is
no note shaving, or mortgages, or stock boards,
or interest-bearing coupons whittier you are 60
ing. The current coin of that realm is suppos-
ed to consist of many attributes of character,
nobility of soul, the thoughts and inclinations
make the world better for the possessor having
lived in it.
Year: 1875

FAITHFUL WIFE-In the New York Bay Gem
etery is a tomb, aud within rests metallic coffin


and an easy chair Twice week there comes to
this tomb middle aged lady, wno quietly un-
bolts the iron door, seats herself in the easy chair
at the head OF the coffin and mentally converses
a. she thinks with the dead husband who lies by
har side. The coustancy has been persisted in
during the past eight years So accustomed are
the keepers and workmen at the cemetery to her
coming that they now think no more OF it than
of any other regular of every day life.
The husband died while on visit to California,
and was sent back to his wife in the metallic cof-
6a in which the body now lies The features are
said to be as natural as on the day of his death
Year: 1875

He DIDN'T Know How WILLING SHE Was
The other day Bishop Haven took an unfair ad-
vantage of gushing youth at Marysvlle, in
Marion county. Iowa. The Bishop was dedi-
eating the Methodist church and soliciting
subscriptions for it, and certain young man
whispered that if certain young lady in the
congregation would marry him he would give
$500 to the church. And the bishop blurtei it
right out in meeting; and the young lady, like
Barkis, announced that she was willing.
Year: 1875




The Congressman's bane is the young man
who"wants position" Hunting government
al situations for needy women and indolent
middle aged heads of families, is dreary task
enough. But it has its bright side in the fact
that it furnishes bread and butter to those who
n ight otherwise be sore pressed for even the
bread alone. For the insane young man, how
ever, whose only ambition is a routine joo,
where the work is moderate and anxiety a
minimum, the Congressman or Cabinet official
cherishes but scanty regard. The desired sit
uation may, indeed, be looked up.


Home influence has its weight with those in
authority in Washington, and when a shallow
youth comes here with his valise crammed
with endorsements from local dignitares else
where, the person to whom he is consigned
generally gets him ga place." But it is the
ruin of the youth. wish l could exhibit the
average department male, the one who has set
tied down to the lstless round of government
al nobody, to the young men of other localities
who aspire to similar enervation. He is bus
mess dummy and social corpse. BY the time
he has dawdled through dozen years as de-
partment servitor, he is devoid of manliness,
and as incapable of acting and thinking for
himself as a sawdust stuffed doll.


Let me show you how men of brains and en-
ergy view this business. Several years ago a
slabsided, awkward printer boy from Maine
found his way to Washington in search of "an
easy place." Tom Ewing was then Secretary
Of the Interior. He was also uncle of our gaw-
ky place hunter. To him the youngster natur
ally applied for assistance in getting the de-
sired situation. This was the encouraging an
swer he received from Ewing:


81 will not get you place in any of the de-
partments. Moreover, if you fnd place and
go to work will use all my influence to have
you dismissed. | want you to get out of Wash
ington. am not going to have you made into
limp and helpless aonentity if can help it.
Go anywhere else, ITO the devil if you like; you
shan't stay in Washington"


This inspiriting counsel drove the printer
youth back to Maine again. Had Ewing found
him the desired "place" he would to day be
tying tape around bundled documents, or stick
TGs tGaieial stamps on somebody else's letters,
in one of the departments, an inert human
routine machine. But the uncle's sensible
brusqueness was the nephew's salvation. The
name of that discouraged young applicant was
James G. Blaine, present Speaker OF the House
of Representatives.
Year: 1875

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say about a hotel clerk: 81 can shake hands
with a governor, sit beside an alderman, and
smoke with State Senator and never feel my
littleness, but when come to stand beside a
modern hotel clerk, l feel that awe and inferi
ority which tourists feel as they stand in
Yosemite Valley and look up at the mountain
tops a thousand feet above"
Year: 1875

A famous auctioneer. amer exhaustEng
the language of praise In extolIinga n certain
gentleman's park which had to fall under
his hammer. said he was bound. rs an hon
est man. not to conceal the drawbacks TO
the property which were the litter made
by the rose leaves and the perpetual Glfls
kept up by the nightingales.
Year: 1875

REcEpTIoS.-A very pleasant party met
on Friday evening last at the residence of
Rev. I. Wilson to pay their respects TO
that glorious man of God, Bishop Peck, of
them. E. Church. The Bishop was not
enjoying the best of health. but he received
his friends in the kind and genial mannea
for which he is so noted, and the evening
passed. off pleasantly and proftably to all.
Year: 1875

WANTED A FIEE.-Across the river, in
the Soap creek country, resides little girl
who, few days since, during the tempo
rary absence of her parents, concluded to
experiment and pass OF the time by setting
fire to the grass in the field adjoining the
house. The experiment came within an
ace of being very successful, much more so
than the little Miss contemplated, as, had
it not been for the carly discovery of the
fire. Mrs. Becky Colwcll would liave lost
iIer entire hay crop, which was stacked in
an adjoining field, and large amount of
fencing and other property would have
been destroyed. When the little one was
questioned as to the object in setting fire
to the grass, she said she :. wanted fire.
Year: 1875

CRY ELEcT1oN.-Up to the eve of our
City election, few took any interest in
the result. save Mr.. Bagley and his
friends. who felt that the sand was grad
ually slipping from under him in the
new order of things attendant upon the
increase of population and enterprise,
and that q popular endorsement was ab-
solutely necessary to his reestablish-
ment as party leader and one of the
solid men Of the city. His name has
been before the people for mon b O.
more as candidate for Mayor, and yet
probably not one half of the legal voters
Of the city took the trouble to have
their names registered in order to quail
ify themselves for voting at the munich
pal election. He received the caucus
nomination, drummed up for the occa


sion, and till the very morning Of the
election, it was generally conceded that
he would carry the city by default. At
the very last hour the name of Baily
Gatzert was proposed, and the moral
sentiment as well as the enterprise of
our people was fully vindicated by his
triumphant election by a m ljority of the
votes of every ward Of the city. Mr..
Gatzert is one of our most enterprising
and public spirited citizens, and his
name has never been associe.e1 with any
schemes for party aggrandizement OF
public plrnder for private purposes.
His election is an assurance that the
rule of old party hacks and political
cormorants is over in Seattle, at last.
Year: 1875

An "UNFoRTuNATE" WOMAN, INpEKD.
One sHmmer afternoon, six or seven
years ago, the wife Of settler living in
Chilliwhack Valley stepped from her
house to hang out clothes in a lot few
rods of. She left little baby asleep in
q cradle, in one corner of the kitchen.
She was absent from the house about
fifteen minutes. When she returned
her eye sought the cradle. The baby
lay apparently as sound asleep as when
left by the mother few minutes before


An hour passed away; still the baby
slept, and the mother moved softly
about the room, fearing to awaken it.
casting, now and then, fond look at
the sleeper. By and by the woman
was attracted to the cradle by an extra
ordinary pallor which seemed to settle
upon the face Of the infant. Drawing
back the little cover she was startled
to discover blood on the bedclofhes,
blood on the child's dress, blood on the
floor. Clasping the babe to her breast
sho was horrified to find that it was
dead! Her wild shrieks summoned the
nsighbors to the house. An examina-
ton revealed small round hole in the
left breast, directly over the heart, from
which the life current had welled. A
bloody knitting-needle, one, end of
which had been sharply pointed. was
picked up on the mattress. Tracks led
from the window Of the kitchen towards
a clump OF bushes. They we've eviden-
tly those of ofIndians. with some of whom
the husband of the distracted mother
had had difficulty about some land a few
days before. The late DR.. Black found
that the knitting needle had been forced
into the heart of the child during the
absence of the mother while it slept;
but the perpstrator was never discover
ed. The mother of tho murdered child
was sentenced, ten days ago, by Judge
Crease to one years imprisonment in
the Penitentiary. Who can tell what
potent influence the grief caused by the
mysterious death of her little one may
have had ON the wretched woman's sub
sequent career?- Victoria Colonist.
Year: 1875

n A lumberman in Oregon being
poorly provided with materials of sus-
tenance for his men, fed them with pork
cooked with the rind upon il. A young
man Of the company. not liking that
outer portion of the food, was observed
by the host to be carefully removing
the outside covering. whereupon mine
host said. ''Young man, we eat rind and
all here" To which the youth replied.
"All right, old man, I'm cutting it off
for you"
Year: 1875

MYSTERIOUS AFEAIR.--On Tues
day evening, as the sloop Martha
was passing Protection Island,
the men on board discovered 4
strange looking object floating
in the. water They steered to-
ward it,and on picking itup they
were horrified to see that it was
a coffin containing the body Of a
woman, wrapped in sheet. The
coffin was a plain, fir box and q
portion OF the lid was broken of.
The face was so much -decom-
posed that it was impossible to
tell whether it was a white wo-
man or a klootchman, though
they could make out that the
features were regular and the
hair long, black and glossy


The body was buried ON Pro.
lection Island by the men who
discovered it, Jas. Wilson and
Thos. Haynes, from whom any
information in regard to it may
be obtained. They reside near
Port Townsend.
Year: 1875

SEATTLE BREWERY We took occasion
to visit this brewery to-day, and were
shown through by Mr.. Stuart Crichton,
the proprietor. In the beer department
everything is there necessary for the
manufacture of beer and "a barrels are
turned out weekly, which finds ready
sale in this city and other places on the
Sound This is the only brewery north
of San Francisco that manufacture ale
and porter. The bottlipg department is
extensive andtte ale and porter is Of
the best qnaiity and finds ready de-



y,,an6
Year: 1875

E The son Of Mr.. Parker, the bose
carpenter of the Reuton Mine, while
playing In q sand bank at that place,
was caved on and smothersd to death.
The affliction was SO great tc the mother
that doctor was sent tor.
Year: 1875

| CoNCERT.-The concert of tn,


Alleghanians last evening wa,
not quite SO well attended a,
that Of the evening before. Still
they had very fair house. Th,
programme was the same as tht
first evening, which was quite
disappointment to the audience


who had expected some change
On the whole they did very cred
itably, though not so well as the
fir stnight. I,


Coal MINEs.-Taking the Coos
Bay News for authority for the
amount Of coal shipped in that
region, we learn that there is
nearly three times as much coal
shipped from here as from there.
The mines there have been OPEN
ed since 1854 ;roursl since 1871.
They have six mines taking out
coal;- we have three, one of
which, the Talbot, is yet in its
infancy. The Clymer- mine is
only being prospected, but when
opened up will make our 4th.
Our increase will be very large
when all these mines are in per
feet operation,


ANEw BUuD1NG-Mr. Thomas Jack
son, the proprietor of the United States
and the Rlakely Hotels, has let con-
tract to build new hotel on the ground
now occupied by the United States Ho-
tel. The building is to be 60 feet long.
81 feet wide and three stories high, and
to be hard finished. The second story
to be in suites of rooms, the third 10 be
single rooms and the lower floor to be a
bar and billiard room, Office and bag
gage room. The present house is to be
removed back and to be raised one story
high and to form an l. to the new build
ing. Mr.. Joseph Sidgemore is the arch
i.ect and builder and is first class
mechanic. Mr.. jackson is already
building fine residence on Third street
where he has other houses.


TALBOT MrNE.-fhe Messrs. Talbot,
and Mr.; Walker returned from the Tai
bot mine last evening and departed for
Gamble on their steamer Goliah. Our
reporter interviewed Mr.. Talbot and
was informed by that gentleman that it
was the intention of the company to get
out all the coal that could be got out of
the mine, and that some cheaper mode
of transportation to Seattle would be
devised. There were plenty of sea-
going vessels at their command to trans
port the coal, and the obstacle to cor
tend with was the means of loading a
vessel at less cost than at present.
They represent themselves as very we'll
pleased with the coal and mine, and
there are hopes tLat this wealthy and
enterprising ivm will build railway to
the mne. They have done. much good
to Puget Sound AID have made money
with their mills at Gamble, and they
ssy that they are still willing to take
their chances in this Territory.
Year: 1875

E We see at Schwabaeher & Cos
some beautiful bacon and hari received
list night by steamer North Pacific


This enierprising firm always have good
goods and are constantly getting them.