August,
1882.
THE WEST SHORE.
145
brother therV. "Why did you leave
Kansas?" we next asked.
" Well I were ther' three year. The
first year everything was all right; the
second I got a bad dose 01 grassnoppcii..
They jess clean'd me out totally. The
next vear things looked better; but I got
to thinking, 'what if the hoppers come
agin; so Hat, (projecting his thumb to
wards his wife) "an, I talked the matter
over and writ' to brother Hiram, an, he
advised us to come, and so fur I hain't
no cause to regret, so long as thirty
bushel is better' n ten, an, in the off year
none at all."
The next one we spoke to was a
gnarled thick-set man, with a firm de
termined look and red whiskers on his
face. To the question why he came here
he replied: " I've had it purtty rough
this last year, sure. I'm from Iowy,
nna nf th hest farmin states in the
world if it wasn't for them blizzards.
Well, sir, they fairly blew me out of
Iowy. You never was in one of em
ole pards up here, as is doin' well, got I lineaments or form, act or purpose, we .
mareea, settieu down an' got chicks; have not the dimmest shadow or even,.,
an' I ain't got nobody to leave my pile legend. Who shull mark the hour, the
to when I strike it." And the man day, the century, or age that old Hood
walked down the aisle in search of a first aroe nnd looked nronnd over all;
chew of tobacco. discerning on one side an ocean, on the
We had by this time passed the fish other a continent lost to vision only by
wheels where the warir.ess of the sal- the earth's round form? Silent Recip-
mon is circumvented. We had passed lent of the sun's first morning kiss ot
the scene of Phil Sheridan's first fight welcome, and last to note the day's fare-
..... . . . ... r, .. .. C 1.1 r
his "baptism of fire" and reached a welil serene, senueni, ocpuicuic ui
point abreast the ruins of an old block creative purposes, mighty Monitor of
house where in the Fifties a handtul ot memory s unci spam nu .
,v,it mpn had defended themselves I tell the story of Inland Bca, of the Cas-
against a horde of renegade Indians, cades cleft in twain, of Rainier's rage
and we reflected, what an ample re- ana lire, 01 01. neicn .anger
vence the American people now enjoy of Adams' rumbling roar? Calm Co-
b ... .1. t -II 1... nt all
having placed the wards of the nation temporary 01 uu u..u 1.
on reservations so large that each In- that is, of alt that is to be; giving
dian is dying of abject loneliness. Think neitncr n.ni, nor. worn, -
ot four hundred Indians trying to iind us creation, m pu, i -
I 1 . l". !t U.4 rt emu ami
each other on the Umatilla reservation mg augiu 0 nuui .1 ... ' ,"v ,
of nearly six hundred thousand acres!! rail, 01 tnings creaicu ...
Is it- any wonder that in prowling mighty works begun and fiimhed.before
I take it? No; well then you can t
imagine what they be. First thing its a
sudden turnin' cold, then a blow, a how
with rain an' hail an' snow, an' things
goin so" and the speaker began to cut
the air with rapidity in a horizontal direc
' ,1 L 1 -LL- k.A tit A Of I
tion. seeing tnai ne auraticu ic
tention of several sitting near him, he
became earnest and continued : " These
blizzards are the darndest things yuh
ever see; they try to blow yuh away;
they rip and tear things; they freeze
yuh up; its drift here and bare ther'
and when ther' done, what ain't blowed
away is frozen stiffer'n a crow-bar. I
was a little afeared to come here first,
so I went to Californy, but, twixt
shapral an, Mexican land grants an'
jumpin'yerland, Icould'nt git aright
down good spot. So, while nuntin
aroun' I come across a man from the
Peloose country. He had gone back
after his family, an' after talkin' with
him I 'cided to come up here. I've
read a good deal about up ther' an' if
I don't hit it ther' I'll try the bpokain
countrv. Thev sav
"I'm from Nevady," interrupted a
muscular fellow in a monkey jacket
and blue shirt. " That state's played
petered out we've got down to the
last level, and I've come up here to
sink a shaft fur wheat and sich. I've
been minin' fourteen year an' was purty
well fixed twic't, but stocks knocked the
bottom out ov my pan. I've got some
.rounding for hi, bhe,, poo, j m wa, -J --
a botto o UuSl wl"l' " .
... . . t. ....t.. r Tiimr 1' 00 cai)
Lo, should stumuie over a uuu, . ... . oir anJ
whiskey, which a low down wh.tc man r '
placed in the brush at three dollars a - .
stand,ngclear.yout,snowM.8 , . - . Surc 0
labor of subterranean convulsions couU, accUKe me of not having .and.
upheavals during volcanic eruptions a - once anJ whh
most equaling a congressional debute J nd
on the tariff, between Robeson and "d. But to judge
Blackburn, with an occasional rock
hurled by Wm. D. Kelley. We wm . . - -
along over long trestles; we hoo g ce w,h , of red
through dark tunnels; w pajs u flnJ g Bnoaring;cIam.eater from
precipice, and arrive a,
over us.
supper. ' . , . we iW0ke t0 wit.
Above The Da e. we w of ferryln, . triln
surging, angry, r . T - - Snake Rivcr whcre it join.
magnificent and awe..nsp,n..B ndin8 w
toned by the smell of sa whch W" . or ih.ke, not
are here caught oy in. h - drcam broUcn,
numbers. . . , . five minutCs eittht cars were
the finct view of Moant llol . . cr0.- w
have yet had. Ainworth allowed us time to examine
How grandly it looms! low ma- BilIlng, She is the largert and
Imtic. and cold, and white, and impres- ferryboat in the Pacific
' .. 1. I inuirnnir i iiw i -
sive! Stretching wiae -.. Northwest. She has a tonnage 01
to the skies, the silent witness 01 eve.. . jmmcnM) power-io.inch
of which no record stands; of event. j wJth g fuct rtroke. The ma
forged by ages and shaped by centuries J fcy gnhh & wt.
-of events notched only m eternity, d thc Urgcfct ever put together
events the smallest detail of which . shc COIllro!led by Oates'
noted the rise and growth, the prime opewtw
and decay of races of being of whose