The west shore., September 20, 1890, Page 84, Image 4

WEST SHORE.
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sound to the Pacific ocean, are rapidly encroaching upon these hunting
grounds, and won there will remain but little game to claim either the
attention of the professional hunter or attract the sportsman. W here elk
and deer now roam in bands a few eeaaom hence none will be Been. It
seems a great pity when we contemplate that the etately elk will aoon be a
thing of the past, and that more stringent Iaw regarding its slaughter or
prohibiting its killing altogether can not be pawed. Why could not this
little spot, where game li now so plentiful, be set aside as a park and the
game protected altogether? Chai'kaK.
TRIAL TRIP OF THE HAN FRANCISCO.
On the front page is given an engraving of the new United States cruis
er San Framim, which made such a splendid showing on her trial trip on
the 27th of August, for the second time demonstrating that steel vessels of
the highest class can be built on the Pacific coast as successfully as any
where In the world. The official trial was made in Santa Barbara channel
over a course foity knots long, the requisite speed being nineteen knots an
hour, a premium of $.10,000 being granted for every quarter knot in excess
of that figure. The trial was a most satisfactory one in every respect, an
average of 10.7 knots being made and a speed of M.6 knots being main
tained during the last half hour of the trip. This places her In the front
rank of swift cruisers and at the head of the United States navy. Her bat
tery will soon be received from the Washington foundry, and as soon as
the guns ars mounted the vessel will be put In commission and stationed on
this coast, probably becoming the flag ship of the Pacific squadron, an hon
or now possessed by the Charlatan. The harbor defense vessel Honterey
and one of the new large battle ships are now under construction by the
same establishment that built these two vessels, the Union Iron Works, of
Kan Francisco. There is no reason why Iron and steel vessels could not be
constructed with equal success on the Columbia river and Paget sound.
ETCHINGS.
Never fight smoke, but hunt for the lire.
The wheat crop sometimes falls, but the crop of poetry never.
The toes of some people point outward, some Inward and some straight
for the saloon door.
(loaded by repeated attacks, Senator Quay will " make a statement."
It will probably 1 pitched in a high key.
In Kansas they have " reeubmissionlsta." They have submitted to
prohibition ones, and now want a chance to submit to It again.
The " Universal Itelurm Club " hai been organised in Portland. Any
one In search of a Job that will last (or a million years should Join the club.
When I see two pigeons billing and cooing In public I am not surprised,
because they are only plgeona; but when I see two human beings doing the
same thing I Imagine the pigeons have grown Into geese.
An etchange says: " The law requiring licenses to marry should tie
repealed." True enough, so it should. There is too much license in this
country now without requiring it to marry and propagate.
One never fully realises how " fearfully and wonderfully he is made
nntil be see. a quack doctor's illustrated advertisement covermg a wh ole
page in a newspaper-how fearfully and wonderfully he . made a fool of.
Perhaps thow papers that sell their souls-at least their ins.des -to quack
doctorT for coin are doing the community a service by thus calUn j ; a tentlon
to a fraud which so flourishes npon the gullability of the people that it can
afford to pay for such advertising. Also, perhaps they are not.
The Illuttrated American should change its name to the Anglmaniae,
after the shamefully unpatriotic, untrue and poltroon illustration it gave
of a scene between Poucefort, Blaine and Tracy on the Behring sea ques
tion Cartoons, ss such, can be as absurd and sarcastic as possible, but a
picture that purports to be a true one, and is not, and reflects upon the
honor and manhood of his country should never be published by an Amer
ican. If the publisher of that paper has a place in his cranium where he
keeps his sense of shame, he ought to unlock It.
It was a Bad case of misplaced confidence, that of Robinson's. He was
a prominent business man of a western city and was one night found wan
dering through the Btreets, muttering an incoherent gibberish of words that
went out of use years ago, and did not seem to understand the meaning of
many words used by the policeman and others. He was taken to the station
and the next day committed to the insane asylum. A week later he was
discharged cured, when it was learned that the cause of bis malady was
one of those forty-year-old dictionaries some newspaper bad given him as a
subscription premium.
" Veterans should stand together. They must do K."-Bome and
Country. Yes, II the veterans would preserve the honors they so nobly
won they must stand together-stand np like men, and repudiate the sen
timents and utterances made in their name by conscienceless pension strik
ers. It was noble patriotism and true manhood that preserved the union
in its darkest hour. Let it not perish. Let not the glory of the deeds of
valor be tarnished by the unchecked greed of the mercenary. The editor
of this valorous sheet injects into the body of a resolution that was offered
at the encampment of the G. A. R. the following purile, senseless and
absurd braggadocio : " Who ever knew a gray uniform to'scare anybody 7 "
Truly, the veteran should pray to be delivered, not only from the mercenary,
but the fool.
A man made final proof on a tract of land in the Spokane Falls land
district and paid the receiver MOO, for which he holds a receipt. The
receiver embe iiled the money and never forwarded the proofs to Washing
ton, and they were burned last year. Now the department has ruled, fol
lowing official precedents, that the receiver was not an agent of the govern
ment, but of the claimant, and that the money muBt be paid again. This
is both an absurdity and an outrage. The land office is established by law ;
the receiver is appointed by the president and his salary paid by the gov
ernment; the settler is compelled to transact business there and can do so
nowhere else; he can not go to the United States treasury with his money,
for it would not be accepted.. To say that when he pays money into a gov
ernment office, to a government official made by law the only person author
lied to receive that money, he is not dealing with a legal agent of the gov
ernment, is to say what is absurd in logic and outrageous in principle. If
former secretaries have enforced this monstrous rule Secretary Noble can
not too soon reverse it and do Justice to the men whose brawn and sinew
are developing the great west and adding millions to the wealth of the
nation. W.
THE A VTV.VN WOOD.
John L. Sullivan thinks there is more money In making himself a guy
on tin stage than In making a chopping block of some one else. When the
novelty wears off, Hulllvan will not draw any more than a condemned street
car horse.
K a man owns a farm In Oregon worth (10,000 and has a mortgage on
it for IM.000, he ia assessed on a valuation of one-halt, or ft,000, and ia
allowed full credit for his debt of IH.OOO, or a difference In his favor of 1,000,
which, to be consistent, the state ought to pay him.
Already this year 2l,000 mors iinmiganta have landed in America than
ram in the same period in lSStl, and they are not of as desirable a quality as
those who came when you and I did, gentle reader, or our fathers or grand
fathers. If they are averaging so very much worse than we are the country
ran not stand it long, and the tide must be turned back.
Now sleeps the purple haze upon the hills;
Within the wood the maple's crimson leaf
Casta envious eyes on rival flame beneath
Of blood-red vine. A breeze the forest fills,
And falling leaves choke np the flowing rills.
The branches moan, as though, with secret grief,
They see the end of Autumn's glories brief,
And fear the coming Winter's icychills.
Bare-legged boys, with sack and club in hand,
Look up to lofty limbs that hold the prise,
And envy much the squirrel's nimble feet,
With which he runs while yet they gating stand,
Secures the nuts before their very eyes,
And bears them safely to his dark retreat.
Harry L. Wills.