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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1879)
THE WEST SHORE. July, 1879, OKI BY OKK (Ine hy "tie ilia MttiU ara flowing, hi In HH Uir MMM I"; flume MV oMuiiig. inr arc V"lng - Ihj not atrltt- E iraaj thru all. On )' "Hf thy iltiilea wait thfff, 11 Hi) tthola ircutflh n Ui Mh, I- 1 M lolurr li a ui 1 i,i i Inaii thou Aral wlial lltw rail lrw.1i ' 1 t) ua Itrltflil utfi from !l . 1 . Joyi at wilt liter lirfe Im-Iow; Tike tin-in rnwlll) -alien (ban, II-.. 1. . to '.ti lliHM K" One li) 011a Id) jffh U hall met I One I hi M'rt tmmt fell trilio-l I mitt (h Kill (ail- u tlirt Iffwl thar. hl. I nHlllf tlirUfli till) Ulnl ! i. Uufh mt ui- Win rrw, Km Km mimJI mtIi moment 'a (win; IM will beli Ihw for ! morrow, KtM) life) (.. 11. fefffelO It. en hour Dial flwu -Jowly llwi Ha Ui tin or War. I.umiiioiii Hi anitu, ami holt , If BH w-t m h gnu with fat I. iio lii.urr wllli rrtfreHliktr, H I r 1 . 1 1 , hmira 1 1-1 . Nor, tlii daily bill forgrltliiif , I I 1 Ifttil. iMfOM, Hoiira arc -..M-n llnkfe, llifel'a token Itrw lilug hofetrti; but MM hy oh Tfefew llini) it tli i-halli Iw l-r-iken. I " Hit 1 I" 1 i.i tlukrnt QUI KIW KUOHBOfta AT ponkapoo. Whttti 1 iiw Mm iittin Immmi bvildlu an t(hth n( n mtln tryoml my own, mi the M Hay i"vi. 1 vvitawd wko vm t i- th huom. Tlir iiKhlnt fetrui-tura wm wt rll Iwn-k from lh riNul, anion- tin' tmoa, m it the miiuU-i to I llr M-'tlilll W !lAli' IT T A U'M ui till- i)ltih rtUiitfri irhiflh IWtpt l 'luring thr aummor w-awm, KT my arl I likr to the iMtii)i in town or ininlry; l"it etch ha 1111 lute. Thr -ronrlir, who riiictl to Iw Jao the art hi let t of the lu-w hoiiar, fell pen 11 WmlM thr vanoui (lvUili ( thr work with an Mftitlultj that t.aw inc a high otiiiun of hia in iwllijntT ami rkn-ulivr ahtlity. ami I coiirat ulairl mxwlf mi the nrrtu lnvmjj oinr It wai ijuito rar! tl.t NlriML tfl I MM R U I. w lirn thr) in 1 .1 into thr iottfei a lo w y liifetio 1 iMHr, rM.rhlli thr Wid ,ty VQUMj trUjr. ami tUi Ow air f a lal) . thr huliami wiiiKwIiat ohlrr, Imt atill in Ihr lnt lluxh of matil..-l It wai umlrrwtMMi in thr village that Mm9 Aim f r 1 1 1 I i&l t llllot ' ; It'll itn cur km a tlirm timIIv, an. I tl bfMgM M lrUn ..( inltlu. ti'.ii. ( K.-r Iimiui rra(ita I Miuii lrm inriilixmiiK iwmra I It wu , lcr lh I 1 ll.r .tmiit. at l.ut. ir ..n cm atr m cniirrl, ullii'ivnl l..r llirm Thy Mlr M l MMM 11U i.oanl Ihr MqwiallM ( My oi ih ItWttM m ihr Mtatttmal. MWrqurtilh Irfl I.. llmi,U,.. that p parralljr wa hat Ihn .lirr.l, an. I mkj Oiry VMM In lmWa,; I ..r, a".,, ,u MmK lnu, wiltl Uek Mill Ual. HUMfel It m . I.i. I WBm J l'ikaj l'rllia il id,l iral l..rh nnM fttnHlM W lnclllrl. I.jrmi ht((b up iitnUr Ilia ina ,. r Mm lulu. an. I in th iIiiiu lii am ) inm ami iUn, il ntunoM W l llw m.l . ui gMiuiti ixhibUv. lUuti "i nnlra ,. IK.i,,n -tin I. iimi 1 1 r, i an kv rr baal m haJf an hnur i iwU ly rmiUay IWt Urn rilaa .ti, i. itMvtt Iw ituhhi la ttrv in l Ira itulaiil ; ami Ihr rvlutiiin it oilhoul a Haw. r,ik., Mai MM mail a l a v , ( mailt a ilav iM rrtnlrr Ihr ila.-c iiniijial-ilahir. Tm iliac ' '""li ! IWWfMl ttgl at 4 ilialatio, Iwl aural rli an 1 iliaa-urra thr miMuaul jrou ilnv int.. it hu uaiU a Urn daUii( taiiUu. I ilo nut allu.lr to tM pMvk aaxl Mokaral A Inn the .4.1 I lay niaJ, Mgkvajr ivw id ouIowm dart, Ur ttt t mimtwr ill rn.ii i-,. i-nt li "in Hlrfl"i;lilV' nff t'i- wtnl Milton which art oooopitd fur thu sum mrr liy ptorjt from Um city. ThM liirila of iaua)r arc a distinct cIiuh from thu pcrnmucnt phlnTUnto. anil thu two Hulilnm climuly aimiiiii- latu ii 1 thin h- bMjo aiuiiu pntriooi cou- liectiuli. i ,.. . m. il ii if u ii r hum in ijjhliom Mere to OOOM OOdtT the In .i.i of partMOWt inhaliitan ts; thuy hail limit thtif own boOMi ami hail thu air ui iDtonding tu livu ii) it all thu year round, "Am ymi KniiiK to call mi. them J" I uakeil my M ifu oat morning "When they call on im," ahu rupliuil lightly. "Itul it in our place to call lirnt, they being itvUMfl, Thin waa naiil aa serioiiHly a the circmnntancuii dMundtdi bnttny wife hinted itoir with a iMLfhi anil I naiil DO inure, nl Maya trusting to her intuitioiiH in thunc mat turn. Bhttratrigbi she wonlil not htrt bm i eeiveil, ami a cool "not at home" would have DOtn a hitter tOOwl pill to tm, it M'c had gone ottl "' Dur M-ay to In oonrtiottii 1 uw t ureal dial of our nuiglilinri, never theleaa. Their cottage Man lietweun us and the iHiatollice, M here he M as never to he met with hy chance ami I caught freniieul yliinpses of the two worliiux in the garden. Floriculture did not tpM-ar so much an ohjeet at exercise. I'ossihly it was neither; maybe they were en Ktged in digKiug lor secimeut for those arrow In i ls ami Hint hatchets which are continually ooininu to the surface hcrcahoiitt. There is scarcely an acre in which the ploMshare has not tQ nod up some primitive stone M'capon or do mestic utensil, disdainfully left to us by the red men wl ncn held this domain an ancient tribe called the I'uiiky im.iK", a lorlorn dttuuu deiit of w hu b, cine I'ully ( 'rowd, flmrei in the annual blue book, doWQ to the close of the Southern war, aa a State nonitonor I ipioUi from the local historiographer. Whether they were developing a kitchen gar den, or emulating I'rof. Sehln inann at Myeeme, thu new comers were evidently persons of refined musical taste; the lady had a vo e of remarkable sMeetueas, although of no great Manila, and I used often to linger of a morning by the high gate ami listen to In r executing an operatic air, conje. turally at some Mindow up stairs, for the house Mas not visablo from tin- public road. Thr huslitnd, somewhere about the grounds, would OOOaaionally respond with two or three, liars. It was all quite an ideal. Arcadian busi ueaa. They aeemi .l vi ry blDM together, these two n rs Mho ak.- l m ml, In whatever of the i iiiuiniiiiity ui m In. h they had settled themselves. There was a ipieemess, a sort of mystery, alKinl Ibis couple, which I admit pjqojd my OOnodty, though, as a rule, 1 have m, morbid inWreat in the alTairt of my neighbors. They Mhatrod like a iir of loverawbo hail run off and got married clandestinely. I willingly ac quitted them, the one and the other of having uo legal right to do so; for, to change a Word lu tne lima of the . t, "Il U ).n in think Ihr Ileal Wr iimi nl human ktlal" Admitting the hypotheaia of rloiement, there wm no mysUry in there neither sending nor iwiuug letters! Hut where did they get their ! frooHtee ' 1 do not mean the money to pay f.u them that is an enigma ap.ut but the gr- .rnea Uwoiarlraa. No express wagon, no butcher's esjrt, uo vehicle of any description w as ever observed Ui slop at their domicile. Vet they did nut order family stirt tt the sole etUblish ment in the ullage aii inexhaustible ImJ, ,(, which 1 1 advertise gratis) ran turn out auything in the way of Mstojita, from a handsaw to t -et handkerchief. I . oofeat that 1 allowed this i.i.,iii,etanl detail of their house keeping Ui isvup. more of my speculation than wu creditable to me. In several reais-s on r neigh krt reminded me of th.e inexplicable peraona we aomeUmos mm acroaa in great eitiet, though seldom or Mter in wborlxan tdac, where the Held may l supKslu rvatn.te.1 f, their opeeaUont peia who hare n.. perceptible meant of .uUit teoce, and manaa-e to Uvt royally on nothinj a year. They hold no government bonds, they possess uo real cstato (our neighbor! did own their house), they toil not, neither do they apjM; yet thuy reap all the numerout oft advantages that usually result from honett toil and skillful spinning. How do they do it ! But thit it a di gression, ami 1 am quite of the opinion of the old lady ill "David Copperlield" who aayt "Let us havu no inuamluringK !" Thnugh my wifo had declined to ritk a cere monious call on our neighbors at a family, 1 taw uo reason why I ahould not tucak to tho hui hand as an individual, when I happened to en counter him by the wayaide. I made several approaches to do to, when it ocenrred to my penetration that my neighbor had the air of try ing to avoid mo. I reaolved to put the mi's. pinion to the test, and one forenoon, when he was sauntering along on the opposite tide of the road, in the vicinity of Fisher 'a taw-mill, I deliberately crossed over to addreat him. The hmsqiio mannor in which he hurried away wm not to lie misunderstood. Of course I was not going to force myself upon hi'n. It was at this time that I began to form un charitable supposition! touching onr neighbors, ami would have been as well pleated if some of my choicest fruit trees had not overhung their wall. I determined to keep my eyea open later in the season, when the fruit should be ripe to pluck. In some folks, a tome of the doficate shades of difference between meum el tuum doM not seem to be very strongly developed in the moon of cherriet, to use tho old Indian phrase. I wat sufficiently magnanimous not to impart any of thete tinitter impressions to the families with whom we were ou visiting terms; for I despice a gossip. I would say nothing agaiutt the persons up the road until I had tomething definite to tay. My interest in them wm well, not exactly extinguished, but burn ing low. I mut the gentleman at intervals, and pasted him without recognition; at rarer inter vals I saw the lady. After a while I not only missed my occasional glimpse of her pretty, alim figure, always draped iiisomutoft black atuff, with a bit of scarlet at the throat, but I inferred that the did not go about tho bousu singing iu her light-hearted manner, aa formerly. hat hail happened ? Had tho honeymoon Buffered eclipse already? Was she ill ? I faucied she waa ill, and that I detected a certain anxiety in her husband, who spent the uiorningt digging aolitarily in the garden, and teemed to have relinquished those long jtuutl to the brow of the Itluu hill, where there it a superb view combined with several venerable rattlesnakes with '2 rattlea. At the days went by it became certain the lady wu oonHood to the houee, terioutly ill, Mihly a coulirmcd invalid. Whether she Mas attended by a phyticitu from Canton or Milton, 1 am unable Ui tay; but neither the gig with the large white allopathic hone, nor the gig with the homicpathio sornl man, waa ever teen hitched at the gate during the day. If a phyti cian had charge of the case, he visited hit pa tient only at night All thit moved my iym pathy, and 1 reproached myself with havinf hard thought! ol my neighbors. Tnnble had mine to them early. I would have liked to ifer them euch imall, friendly services at lay in my power; but the memory of the npuln I hail sustained rankled in me. So I hesitated. One morning my two hoyi burst into the library with their eyea sparkling. "You know the old elm down the road ?" cried one. "Yea." "The elm with the bang bird's nott " shrieked the other. "Well, wo both jntt climbed up, and then'i three young onet in it." Then I smiled U think that oar new neigh bors hal got inch a promising little family- T. II. AUriek, in Atlantit. A New Yrnta womau taya with muoh treth: "Wen it not for tho telf-eacriHcing women of the land who marry and support to many men, the Bomber of trampt wonld be largely increased."