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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 6, 1890)
WEST SHORE. A REMEMBRANCE. How aweet the clovered bank whereon we lay 1 How black the shade beneath the cedar tree, Between whoae drooping bougha we scarce could aee The crlmaon heart of alowly dying dayl Oft timea there waa a hush, and then we heard, Amid pink bloomi, a golden-belted bee ; And now a rippling atream of melody Flowed from the throat of eome rejoicing bird. Through all that long and languid afternoon Your ailken hair, a glorious sheet of aun, Spread o'er the cool, green earth. In bliaaful real We lay and talked of love, of pleasant June; And, ah I what awful rapture, darling one, To (eel your young life beat against my breast I Hkrhkkt Bahiipoko. ALONG THE WATER FRONT. The scene on the flint page, "Along the Water Front," ia a familiar one In Portland and the cities of I'uget sound In the summer time. There are always to be found plenty of men who labor under the Impression that they are enjoying themselves when they ait with their legs dangling over the water, and hold one end of string hour after hour, with the hope that a little flab will he equally foolish and take hold of the other end. The gen uine fisherman seeks the many streams where fishing is a aport, where a little exertion la required both to reach and secure the prize, but the disciple of Inertia sniggles perch from the river dock and is lucky if he do not fall asleep and into the river and have to be sniggled himself. ETCIUNQ8, Speak kindly to the man below you ; he may be the boss next year. ST TO!! FAa&EE The postoffice business at Astoria, Oregon, has Increased bo much dur ing the pist year that the city is now entitled to a free delivery service which ia being arranged for. Owing to the fact that the squirrels along the Willamette river suffered much by the flood last winter wild nuts are more plentiful than usual this fall. It is estimated that about 500 bushels of hazelnuts have been gath ered in the vicinity of Independence, Polk county. Aa the nuts readily bring 5 a bushel, this item is not to be despised. It affords profitable oc cupation for the boys and girls of that locality. Great Falls stands in the front rank of Montana cities in the number of buildings erected this year. A smelter that will employ 1,000 men is under construction there. It has the great Northern railway, and subsidiary lines are extending to the great mining camps of Neihart and Barker. Neihart is only thirty-five miles from the Castle district, to which a railroad will be in operation from Great Falls within a year. No part of the state is devel oping more rapidly than the region tributary to Great Falls. Home people remind me that illustrated soap advertisement are not universally successful. The Northern Pacific, Union Pacific and Great Northern railways are pushing work in the Chehalis valley, Washington. Chehalis, Olympia and Gray's Harbor are the points of a triangle that is being traversed in all di rections by railway aurveying parties. The Great Northern is the latest to issue instructions to field men to push the work with the intention of com mencing the construction this fall. There is no doubt that that rich country will be well supplied with the best of transportation facilities as soon as they can be built. The Greeks of Marco Boiiaria struck for their altars and their Area, the green grave of their sires, God and their native land ; but Americans strike for nothing. J'ajier torn Into small pieces makes aplendid stuffing for pillows, and it is not Injured by having had poetry written on it. Both editors and scrib blers should rememtier this. F.lllolt F. Shepherd, of the New York Mail and Exprtu, has, with his " Glob Fair " Idea, again proved the truth of Vanderbllt'a eatimate of him when he said Shepherd waa " more kinds of damphool " than any man he ever knew. Articles incorporating the Northern Pacific, Yakima & Kittitas Irriga tion Company have been filed with the secretary of the state of Washing ton. The authoriied capitaliution is $500,000. The object of the incorpo ration, as set forth in the articles, are to appropriate, divert and use the waters in the lakes, natural courses and rivers in Yakima and Kittitas counties for the purpose of irrigating the arid lands of those counties j to nse or sell the same for manufacturing, the supplying of cities and towns with fresh water for domestic and other uses, and for agricultural and stock pur poses; for auch objects to erect, own and operate dams, reservoirs, canals, , ditches, pipe lines, aqueducts, etc., and for such objects to hold and po sess lands, tenements and rights of way by purchase, condemnation or otherwise. One hundred men and women, weakened by poor and Insufficient food, by life in crowded prisons, by a toilsome journey on foot of 500 miles under a bHIlng July sun, manacled and physically helpless, turned on their guards In Siberia, and one-third of them were shot down in cold blood, when the revolt could easily have been quelled without the shedding of a drop of blood. There is not land under the sun where the light of civili sation has shod Its most table ray that contains anything equal to the hor rors of the Itusslan penal system. The individual who reads " Kreutier Sonata " with the idea of finding It lascivious will be sadly, though properly, disappointed. Plain it is in Bwili, but with an earnestness in it bluntneas that destroys it interest to the prurient. Zola has well named it " a nightmare." In a lew wonla it may he said to contain the story of a domestic tragedy following the union ol an abnormally selfish and ugly teniered man with a woman utterly In compatible In temperament. So far from being an argument against mar riaae In numeral, Its effect is rather to show that a man possessing such a disposition should more properly be an inmate of a lunatic asylum than the " lord and master " of one siirior to him in everything save mere intellect. Finally, it may be said that if Tolstoi's description of the marriage relation In Ituwia be a true one, it 1 not ao in America, and emphasises the fact that w should no more look to ltusala tor an example of domestic morality than e do for a standard of political government. In the one she seems to b aa barbarous as in the other. Those who want a few ideas to think alwut may read the book with profit, but those who merely drain to min ister to their love for the salacious will be wasting their time. Kleven of the leading mines of Montana have paid dividends since the first of January, 1890, as follows: Qnult Mountain .. DnmUamon Z ,l' ? Parrot Alio. 22s Iron Moontaia Jid i.'.'.'.'.'.".'.:." tz HMlCon.olid.tl Montana Umiwd Camborland " 2 $'2,!,9US For the same period the Colorado mine paid 1389,250 in dividenda and the I tali minea $1 157,500. In the report of the director of the mint for 1889, the gold and silver produced in the west Is given as follows : California Arlun. Colorado S.8I9.SM Dakota M.MS Montana imM Idaho.... ttlBMS Nmd. ;...;;;.' . N.wMuloo ; M Own uuh.... i-wm .MO.W Addmg cop,, and lead to the metal, product place. Montana far In the lead as a mineral producing .tat.
