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Show Good nint to Mother. Nannlmo (W.ifB.) Free Pwi , A lady who is well known and highly respected in the city repaired to one of tho stories on Victoria Crescent this morning, with whip in hand, and threatened to give tho proprietor a severe horsewhiping. The lady charged him with selling her little boy cigarettes and allowing him to smoke them in the store. She charged him with being accessory to lilting oiir jails with crime and averred that were he (the proprietor! proprie-tor! a man she would carry her threat into execution. 'The proprietor, in defense, de-fense, claimed if ho refused to serve the boy other stores would serve him. The anxious mother threatens to lay the matter before the council anil will endeavor to get some means introduced that will put a stop to this disasterous practice. In .Seattle the selling of cigarettes to boys of tender years is a public offense aud punished accordingly, accord-ingly, and it would be a benefit to our rising population if tho same law was in force iu this city. |