I'A THE WEST SHORE. lof tiLfM m no homo for any deity of those that men create. Only the thought of eternal peace arose from thi Lwen-opU-ariDg monument, like incense, and, overflowing, filled the world with deep and holy calm. Whoever the mountain turned its cheek toward the an, many fir and smiling dimples appeared, and along ft curve of snow, lines of shadow drew trac ery, fair m the bluo veins on a child's temple, With out the infinite sweetness and charm of this kindly cLaDgi-fuIomi of form and color, there might have Un opprenive awe in the presence of this transcen dent glory against the solemn blue of noon. Grace played over the surface of majesty, as a drift of rose tares wavers in the air before a summer shower, or m a wreath of rony miitt flits Ix'fore the grandeur of a itorra. Loveliness was sprinkled, like a boon of lUomA, upon sublimity. M Our lives forever demand, and need, visual im g that can be symbols to us of the grandeur of the weetoe 0f repose. There are some faces that arise dreamy in our memories, and look us into calmness in our frantic moods. Fair and happy is a life that ne! not call ux)o it vague memorial dreams for uch attuning influence, but can turn to present real ity, and aak tranquility at the shrine of a household godde. Tho noblo works of nature, the mountain mott of all, lav jx.vicr to make n,,r n,'7 wthi inoin.-ntji in the being And, itodying tho light and tho majesty of Tacoma there from it anj MtM(J in(o ,. . M there etermore, I, th, ,iJ, of oan ml Im-sU an, an .mag, f Mma beauty, hich I could henceforth evole, hc0ever in the world I must ltfo. 1W ,uch emotion, year, of nil. gnmag, worthily ,,t , mortal can gain the tl-U of mmorWity, i. D0l hi, earthly SL lu.nd.;fiIeJ it .loop in the very ,nb,tan r m there i, forever with ua, JJT?J tire n.o.u uchjp o( y . , . "Dm Ior w i. '! to he ligh, fc in ' fW ,,hpnCVfr ,he' utir!9moM(r " give, then ncrv L I mCRnPas ;. tt. sUy ,au,h,, MJ , dWttJl8 from its own snows, gushing Beaward to buffet in the boundless deep, might rejoice in a last look at their parent ere they swept out of Puyallup bay. Other large privilege of view it had. It could see what I could not Tacoma the less, Mount Adams, meritori. ous but clumsy; it could reflect sunbeams gracefully across the breadth of forest to St Helens, the vestal virgin, who still kept her flame kindled, and proved her watchfulness ever and anon. Continuing its pan. oramic studies, Tacoma could trace the chasm of the Columbia by silver circles here and there; could see every peak, chimney, or unopened vent, from Kul shan to Shasta butte. The Blue mountains, east, ward, were within its scope, and westward, the faint blue levels of the Pacific. Another region, worthy of any mountain's beholding, Tacoma sees, somewhat vague and dim in distance it sees the sweet Arcadian valley of the Willamette, charming with park and grove. In no older world where men have, in all their happiest moods, recreated themselves for generations in taming earth to orderly beauty, have they achieved a fairer garden than nature's simple labor of love has made there, giving to rough pio neers the blessings and the possible education of re fined and finished landscape, in the presence of land scape strong, savage and majestic All this Tacoma beholds, as I can but briefly hint; and as one who ib a seer himself becomes a tower of light and illu mination to the world, so Tacoma, so every brother seer of his among the lofty snow peaks, stands to ed ucate, by his inevitable presence, every dweller there abouts. Our race has never yet come into contact with great mountains as companions of daily life, nor felt that daily development of the finer and more comprehensive senses, which these signal facts of na ure compel. That is an influence of the future. The Oregon people, in a climate where being is bliss, bere every breath is a draught of vivid life; these Oregon people, carrying to a new and grander New England of the Wm. fill low n,.WL .11.. 1 ' an idea, under whose teaching the man of lowest am- Ti m? 8tiU have 80me little indestructible re Po or himself, and the brute of most tyranical aspirations somo Uftu i . J . i10Pft ,. . 1W icdcui ior omers carrying Uere a rehnon turn f,,v or,,An i . VVUfcUUC0 mniier on man wo S"M "raism of the parity; carrying ! i2;t,0itory where it will not suffer by 8)6tPtn8 of thoucht anH n : ti. . . ....i dSa.' 8 f S "ce- elopkg under the best,