VOL. 3 No. 3.
HOOD.
BY S. L, SIMI'SON.
White dMpOt of the wild Cascadeo J
I greet tuee an ttie twilight shades
Haunt the disheveled, broken wall
Where sheaves of sun light burninu yet
On frosty tower mid minaret
Portray, tnoe, reigning overall.
And gleaming like a silver tent
Above the tlr-frlnged battlement,
Cold Jefferson Is crowned with flame ;
Fair as a group of fallen stars,
The Sisters, linked with sunset bars,
Pledge thee as Monarch yet again.
The blazing qUlTtf of the jtorm
Has bttUR upon thy lonely form,
Sheathing ita raggeit barbs of fire,
When night has crushed Its tempest wings
Against thy granite anchoring:
I read no record of their Ire,
The centuries which o'er thee trnrnp,
Like spectres of their shudow-camp,
l)eo,ueath thee neither sear or stain ;
The gliding dimple of the sea,
The stars' sweot-eyed eternity,
Do not a lovlier youtli maintain !
And misty flashes of the morn
Are first npnn thy shoulders born,
When all the world Is dark below;
And sunset's last and lovely ray
Dropped by the weary hand of Day
Wreathes thy pale brow with llng'rlng glow.
Thus Memory and Hope are wrought
Trium pliant as the sculptor's thought
When syllabeled In marble speech;
And Uud-word like a prophet's prayer
Thou seulesl the heaven's windy stair,
The quiet of the spheres to teach.
And what an empire! rough and shorn,
Hy old disorders ploughed and torn,
Hun-ward the mighty realms are spread;
In brolderv of wood and mead,
Willamette's green mosaics lead
Down where the rushing breakers tread.
Lodfd in thy helmel's ley clasp
The star of conquest resls at last
Never to lead the bold again;
It's rays like spears of sliver laid
Across the grave, but newly made
The Pioneer's, In sea-side glen.
An iron arm with gleam'ng coll ,
Has won a wilderness of Toil!
The traffic of the seas are wed:
The morning of a brighter age
Than ever lit historic page.
Lifts In the west Its golden head!
With mutterings of doubt and fear,
And dark Willi battle lone and drear,
The Pagan iplrllof the past
Stalks through the silence and the night
That deepen with the ages' fight
Conscious of God and Truth at laat!
The Desert hungers for the Sphinx,
It's tawny ocean swells and sinks
About her and the Pyramids;
The MI moon's ghostly wings of sand
Will surely shroud them as they stand,
And seal those sad nud weary lids;
And still a hand In crystal matt
Here, flashing to the c.oudx, will hail
The tomb of Egypt's cruel Jest;
And where the sen-tides leap and shine
Along the New World's bonier line,
Proclaim the Emi-ire ok the West!
from Rockland. Here arc two roads The great lack of this country is c
to Yakima, wc selected the Canyon ' ergy. Three or four men of energy
: route, which hud just been completed, and enterprise could, if they tried, mako
and is the nearer and leaUt mountain- this one of the richest counties in tho
ou. One day through the canyon and , Territory, for as soon as the advantages
one over the Indian reservation brought 1 f the country become knowrtiMhe va
us to Yakima City, ninety-five miles cant land will be taken and a way to
from the Dalles. As we breathe the!mrket Will he made, and instead of
pure mountain air, we think with a lounging away the time and making a
feeling akin to pity of those poor be- living, as now, the settlers will
nightcd souls who are wearing out turn their attention to agricultural pur
thci lives by close confinement in their suits, and certainly no soil is better cab
offices and shops, while Uncle Sam has culated to repay the husbandman for
hundreds of acres in these beautiful val- his labor than this, More anon,
lies which may be had for thc taking. Ii.i.itsthation BY Picti'UES. One
The pure air and water, combined with 1 of thc great contrasts between the
the needful outdoor exercise, would i School Honks used by the fathers and
others of our land, when
those now used bv tlv
when young, nud
,c children, is the
A TRIP TO YAKIMA, V. T.
HY HARRY HARR1NU.
Crossing thc Columbia river at the
Dalles, we camped at Rockland, the
county seat of Klickatat county, and a
place that well deserves its name, as it
contains several acres of the most rocky
land imaginable, and four or five houses.
In thc morning, after an easy drive of
four or five miles over rolling bunch
grass prairie, we begin to ascend Klick
atat mountain. At noon we arrived at
thc sumjnit, having traveled ten miles.
As we had quite a load this was pretty
good time ; there is, however, room for
improvement in the road. The after
noon drive is across Klickatat valley
a rolling bunch grass prairie. (Jolden
dale is a thriving little village, situated
on Klickatat creek, twenty-five miles
give a new lease of life to many a man
ami woman w no arc now snonening MSC 0f pictures. As n curious instance
their days behind thc counter or over (,f illustrating the meaning of words
the needle. Thc land law allows wid- by pictures, look at the tree pictures of
ows ami spinsters equal rights with ship on page 1751 of Webster's Una-
v , . r... 11 -it 1 1 bridged Dictionary, these alone illus-
men. 1 akima City is well situated . . 1 13 .1
. ; . i I trite the meaning 0 mure than one
near the junction of thc akima and W(ms mu ,mm f.,r i,ctUM.
Attanum. Thc Attanum valley Is than they can be defined by any de-
abotit twenty-five miles long and an scription in words.
average of one and a half wide. This
refers only to the valley proper. There
, are thousands of acres of sage brush
Wedding Annivi-usauiks. FlraU
cotton ; 2ty paper; 3d, leather; 5th,
wooden, 7th, woolen; 10th; tin) itth
land on thc rollinff hills that men of silk and line linen; 1 5th, crystal ; 20th,
enma; ztn, stiver; 30m, peari ; 40111,
rubies; 50th, golden; 75th, diamond,
Cigars. The number of cigars,
chcrouts, and cigarettes of domestic
manufacture and importation iii the
United States during the year 1 SyrtT
was nearly 1000.000.000. Assuming
county seat is a grist mill,a brewery, the average length of each to be three
three stores, one harness shop, two Inchet, the united length of the above
saloons, one drug store and about thirty IWIMW is 94,697 miles, nearly four
energy and capital in either money or
muscle: could turn to (Magnificent farms
by irrigation, as there is water enough
in the Attanum to irrigate thc whole
country. At the head of the valley i a
sawmill, and at Yakama City, the
idc
times the circumference of the earth.
MOl'NT 1ft i I Till: MONARCH Of THE CASCADE. Fun M it I, mi.lt fir,nnlow fit Ddtai