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iiioulli. ami ici'i'ivcd ill ^()1(1 nioi'i' iuomcn iIkiii doin (if (iod iiiid his litrlitcoiisiics^'.' ^'..M.('. A. 

 llicy fVt'i' I'Niu'oli'd to sec. TiuMi the man w Im icadins-fooms and l)iiildiii>;s afc I'oiiiid in mosl 

 paid tlii'm so mm-li iruld sold lialf of //i.s' halt, in towns (tf any si/c; and at. Tort Townsciid t.hn 

 less than lluTc (hiys afiiT liis iiniidiasc, for nuiii' linildiim was Ictlcri'd. on tlic side frontinfr \ho. 

 ii\an he paiil foi' all. Saloons spian;; np nntil liay. with h'ttci's so laifji' they oonid he plainly 

 almost every othei- house, in some pai'ls of the icad from vessels thai passed lliioiifih the hay; 

 town, was a saloon. iSiii eliiiii-h people were and I saw the saini' at oIIht towns. This is 

 im haml. and chiiivhes wefe started lo keep paee suiily liopelnl. Why shonlil not, the l.,oixl"s 

 with them. The \V. ('. T. l'. has lixetj nji a ea\ise he plainly advertised as well as the S'"<'Jit 

 very pi'i'tiN I'eadiiiK room. liuht in Ihe htisiness hotels and saloons? A\ AnaeoiMcs they have a 

 pail of the town: ami when I went in so many hotel ealled " Nohai' Hotel." and so the sif^n 

 were maUin.i: use of it that a man fose up and leads in lai'^c lettei's. meaning thai no har for iIks 

 otl'ered me his seat. Sunday eveniiifr. 1 was sale of liipiors is eoniieeled with it. Aiidthis re- 

 asked to talk to the l-^nwdith lieagiii' of the minds me that there are more or less \acant 

 Metliodist C'linivh hefore ihe regular service at hotels in nearly all these new towns. As most 

 7 o'clock. I chose for my text. *' V(; are tlie salt of tlu; liotids have a baf. 1 have been wondering 

 of tlie earth."' and applied it to the Christian if it is not one reason for it. Building a great 

 people. espiH'ially to tln> \(»iing Christians of hotel when a town is to he stalled seems to be a 

 .\iiacortes. The audience was good and very sort of mania: and great hotels that have never 

 attentive: and the president of tlie league, and bei'ii occupied at all an-seen quite freriuently. 

 al>o the pastor of the church, both indorsed Town-building is not always a success; for at 

 with exceeding kindness tlie points in my talk, many of the railroad stations we lind deserted 

 Many of the saloons have alr(>ady starved out. tow ns. buildings almost all vacant, and boards 

 and. when closely examined, are found to be nailed over the windows. If those who go into 

 only a sign and an em|)ty room. .\t I''idalgo. such towns would start right into gardening, 

 w Ill-re fiiend March gets his mall, they tried to poultry, Ix'cs, and such industries, the future of 

 start a saloon. The matter was hotly contested the town would be assured; for the steamers 

 by vote, but the friends of temperance gave up and railroads take any kind of produce, and 

 with sad hearts, and much dismal foreboding, pay good prices. In fact, pi'ices are better here 

 when they were beaten by a vote of one. The for almost every thing than in the East. Great 

 saloon-man was triumphant, paid for a license;, hop-lields are found here and there: and were it 

 and opened up business. Xow. what do you not for the hoi)-aphis this region would [jrohably 

 think? Why. he never received money enough sujiply the world. I confess, however, the in- 

 foriiis liquors to get back what he paid for his 11- dustry does not make me feel happy. If all 

 cense, let alone profit, and i;ow /(is- building, too. the hops raised were to be used foi"- making 

 is an empty room with a sign over it. When a bread, then might we rejoice; but as by far the 

 saloon-kee])er is starved out he hasn't energy greater pai't of them is for the support of the 

 and ambition enough left to take his sign down, breweries it is a serious matter. As we come 

 1 tell you. friends, there is something hopeful in outof Tacoma. toward Portland, on each side 

 all this. Public sentiment is advancing, of lh(> railroad are some of *,he finest-looking 

 ("hristianity h getting to be "the salt of the farming lands I have ever S(H>n. All the under- 

 earth:'" and sometimes we. Christians, in oui i)ru-li has been cut out. leaving only handsoijie 

 want of faith, don't even suspect how rapidly we young lirs and cedars. These arc; in clumps, or 

 lire gaining ground. Do you wish to know scattered here and there tlirough the field. The 

 what I think of the future of Anacortes, and a grass is just like a beautiful lawn, and for miles 

 liuiidred other towns growing in like manner, and mil(\s it looks like a handsome park. This 

 but |)i'rhaps not so fa-^t? Well. I think this: If may have beisn done by real-estate owners or 

 Christians will renuMnber tlieir divine commis- by the railwjad com|)any: but evim if it has, one 

 sion. and push the cause right along with, and can not help admiring their taste, 

 side by side of. th(^ boom and leal-estate excite- For fear the boys will neglect the Tobacco 

 ment, tlie outcome will b<' all right. Hut. oh Column while I am gone. I think T w^ill put in 

 let us beware that oui- "'salt " does not "lose its an item hej-e. Some years ago friend March re- 

 savor." for then shall Satan triumph, and the ceived a smoker and gave up tobacco, even 

 end will be i-uin. The wild speculation in though he had used it 40 years. It was a hard, 

 building up a new town can not last long: and. bitter struggle, but Ik- came through victorious, 

 in fact, to make it iiold out, people must go to As he had a smoker already, he set the new one 

 work. If there were more like friend March, upon a litth; slielf, or bracket; ami when sorely 

 who likes to make money by raising eggs, eel- tempted he would go and look at the smoker, 

 ery. cabbages, and seeds, there would lie need of and remember his pledgi^given tlirough (tI.kax- 

 towns and cities; and I was {ileased to note how i.Nos. and th(> eft'ect it would probably liave 

 many of his neighbors were succeeding with should be pay foi' the smoker, and own up h(>at- 

 fruit and other like industries. I'uget Sound en by tobacco. The smoker as an object- les.son 

 has wondi'rful resources in tish. minerals, and hel|)ed him to " overcome." 

 agriculture, and both railroads and i)oals are "Mi-. Poot.'' said he, as heext(uided his liand 

 right at hand to move her produce. I am told at aim's length before me, " can yf)u hold your 

 that the lisherm(-n of the sound employ .3(KJ() hand any stiller than mine; is?" I had to con- 

 men, and the product is something like a mil- less I could not. for there wasn't (n«m so niucli 

 lion dollars yearly. Seattle, with a population as a tremor in one of his lingers; and he resum- 

 at present of 4:^.(KM). has grow n uji much in the ed. " Wt-ll. when I was using tobacco my hand 

 the same way as Anacortes. but perhaps not so would shake so I could hardly write nij- name, 

 rapidly, and is now a beautiful city, with all the and I supposed it was because I was growing 

 equipments of one of the finest eastern cities, old; but it was only the poison of tobacco."' 

 Tacoma. a lival city, abftut 50 miles distant, has Now. dear reader, here is a text and a lesson 

 40.(X)0 inhabitants, and is in many respects a for you. If you are a tobacco-user, hold out 

 beautiful place. The largest ocean steamers your liand as fricmd March did. Let your good 

 run into all these places, and sail from thence to wife say whether it shakes or not; and if it 

 every part of the world. Even Anacortes does, stop before you are a day older, 

 boasts that twenty different steamers and Now. this isn't all the story of that smoker, 

 steamboats touch her landings every day. () After he had conqtiei-ed, and it did not trouble 

 my dear friends! who in this wide world has him more than a year, he still kept that bright 

 even a conception of the things God has in store smoker in plain sight on that bracket. You see, 

 for those who are daily seeking, first, tlie king- he had some boys in their teens, and it was well 



