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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1890)
WEST SHORE. 290 For the joys of youth forgotten, or the essence of a dream Bo the mother love makes other joyi a fleeting vision leem. A sweet aong her royal husband made in honor of hia bride, And the beara, to do her honor, often gathered by her aide, Blnglng softly the weird music, that had pow'r to win her heart, Like the chantment of the siren or the spell of magic art. t Great rejoicing made the Haidahs when sweet Kinda-wiss returned, And for days they sang for gladness, and triumphal fires burned. Then with public pomp and splendor QulBsam-quedus took his queen, Till the last of Haidah nation has descended to his grave, Cthewarcanoe the bear aong shall go rolling o'er the wave. Harry L. Wells. JT V.t ' 'f -,. V " AND FOR DAYS T1IV 8ANO rOR (1LADNB88 AND TRIUMPHAL FIRES BURNED. of thi mother, for dewwnt U in the female lin. the ngun o! the ruling orett bnng t tht top at tht pole. Ttm ttickt end create here been found among tht Indiana of rariout tribtt tram tht Atlantio to tht Paoitlc, Cooper tpttki of them often, ud LonfftUow, tleo, In hit " Bong of Hiawatha." Tht Indiana of Alukt ind BriUih Columbit an quite tkiUtol In earring in oedar, making i malUtndt of odd dericui but the Haidahe tor. put them, M thej earn tmtil anoutrel eolnmne in etone In I mutt beeutitul itjle. One of then earrod itone toleml li worth $3 in Victoria, the otly plaot where they oan bt purohewd. ' .... Non Ml It egainet tht lawt of tht Haldahl tor two perwm of tht tune oteet to marry, ' though thert bt no near rtlttlonehip between them. At the lonn In tht leg tnd were both of tht oAooa, or rettn, omt, they were ineligible for mart lege with each other. Non 10-Tht feu wild animate hTt of In it well known tmong tht frontiertmen, tnd thit knowledge hit nrad tht life of mur t tripper, hunter or wanderer in the monn taint. Bt building elrolt of tmtil urn and remaining within them, one U ttft from wage aolmala, ira though the prowl about all night Jnet beond the glare of tht light, giTlng wot tt inttmla to their tarage dluppolntmeoU A Baming brand thrown at ont of them it prodootire of far better retain than a rifle ehot. Non ll-The ahamts It tht medicine man ot tht Haidahi and other northweetere tribtt, and it bnlierad to poawu wonderful meglo powera. He foetert a belief in witch, orat t to maintain hit power orer other, and when he u nnable by hit Inoantatione to cure a patient, he elect! tome friandlea. pernio tmong tht lodiaut and prettndt by hit tpellt lodltoottrkimtobtawitohthatU making the patient eiok. The poor wretoh to then torturad in moot Inhuman manner, ofttn loting hit lift in tht ordealt he ie compelled to undergo. Thle p recti ot to being rapidly broken up where tht white influence it etrong toouah to make Itielf felt. .. Nora li-Tbe mighty glacial rlnrt of Alatka and Northtm BriUih Columbia art ob leota of great wonder and ourtoeily to tht thoneandt of tooriata who now wiait the " Land of tht Midnight Hun " trery war. Tht great Huir tnd Deridton glaciert are the onee moet commonly 'tolled. Thett ttreamt of tolid lot, betweeo great rooky walla, mote oonctantly downward, preeenting a high bluff of green lot to tht action of tht warn where they meet the ocean. At the bluffe become undermined, and being puehed forward br the noting ice behind, huge piteet break of! with a loud report like the ducharge of tiUlltrr. falling Into tht wattr, which to thrown high Into tht air, and creating huge want that threaten detraction to all amall boatt in tht rldnlty, and oauet iteamen anchored near to roll at though tlruck br a tidal war, Theet pietn of glaciert, likt great, white ahtpa. " taet armtuaa of tht enow," til tht bay into which the glaciert flow and float away to become tht ioebergi encountered in the open ocean. Tht eurfaoe ot tht glaciert it oorered with hummocka and it named and toarred with Tttt onrueu, and to Tory difliault and datgorout to orota. Amnleg eten a more eeriout obetaclt to tuch a Joun tar tt thit taken by tht Ttnlurwomt Hatdahe in tht legend than men the anow-blookeded mountain eenrona. Non ll-The euneeti of the Paoilie art remarkablr brilliant and beautiful, ttptcialle In Ihla far northern region with tie cleat elmoephere, Partionlarlj to thu to where tht oeean to dotted with ialandi that terra to heighten tht elteou The fullowing Inimitable dewripUon of eunttt on Pugtt Bound to from tht gifted pen of Klla Higginion I - Krerr land mar ocoaalonallr hart a gonreont tuneet ; but think-onli think r-ot a land where each tracing from tit o'elock until tan in tummcr and from tour to tii in tht winter tht whole weetarn ekf and the tea that dantet beneath are one naming, tremalona, daiiling glow of blended and blending gold, purple, ecarlet, orange, green, blue, opal and pearl-thifting, fading, melting, burning, until one't breath tlmott failt in a rtr toetaoj of admiration of it I Column on oolnmn of amethret and pearl pile up and ttand top. pUng, reed; to fall, in tht cloudt; tnd in tht far dietanoe of tht rainbow tinted tunnel ont toee tht tun-one great wheel of flaming gold-la hit trembling rim upon tht low purple line of tht bill whereon tall, graceful flr treea reach upward quiet arml until etch nne, tpior needle etandi out, dear tnd delicate, agauet that luminout background. And many and man? t time while the wett it lit with tuniet Area, into the dear, blue tut rim tlowlrtheharreetmoon-ailrer and oool and largo-whitening and toftening trerrthing before her. Hometimee, too, when there to a milt brooding npon tht botom of theet blot witen, all the tinted tun and cloud rajt linking through it touoh It to lift and ririd color, till It tromi ont rut dietanct of trembling thiithvdown, blown thit way and that by tht ttrong, aalt, net winda. I hare teen the laborer, toiling with bared brtut and welling muaclet at the huge wallt of rock difli witl. piok and mallet, pauee and turn wondering, wif tful eyea acroie the tparkling want to tht glory of tht dying day; I ban teen the true irtitt itand with dim tyt and huihed breath-ipetchleei-awed into iniig niflcanct before tht painting God hu twnng before hit children. Hera it a painting traovd on heareu, tnoh at no man can copy and no man can buy, Tht rariett beggar that erawla on tht earth may drink in the glory of thit tcene, aide by tide with the king, it only hu tht timple lore of beauty and of nature 't God in bit heart. It to froe-free-for the gold of earth oan not buy the gdd ot hoaren." Non lt-8o denae it tht growth of timber in the Coatt mountaina, and to deeply it the ground cowed with the decaying trunki ot fallen treea, over which rant a tangled matt of rinse, and about which to t thick growth of giant ferae, that eren a tkilled woodeman hu great difficulty in making hit way through it. Tht tlightett derittion from the trail in inch I foreet it enfficient to hopeleaely confute ont not aoouetomed to tranling through it, and one feela u completely loot when a hundred feet from the trail u he would wen bt a milt away. Barrian of fallen timber, ambuehed by Tinea and fernt, lin up to a height of twenty feet, tht wholt looking dark and formidable in the dim light that ttrugglet through tht donae foliage orerhead. Added to tht anxiety of baring loet the trail in the deproeeing gloom of the foreet to tht natural dread ot un known dangera, to that ont might well Ion heart and throw himtelf down in deepen whan he had eihtntted hia phyaioal atrength in a rain effort to etoape. Non 15-Wild berrin of many kinda grow in profuaion in the mountaina of the Pa cific oout, npecially in the north, owing to the quiokneu ot tht toil In maturing regt tation during the brief cummer teaaon in that region. Blaokberriee, mpbtrriet, blue berrin, whortleberriM and wild grapn abound, tht tamt at in other portioni of tht United Statet. Tht lirtt two an in great profuaion, their long, priokly Tinea oorering the ground like network. Then an, alto, other berrin not to wdl known tlaewhere, tnoh u thimbleberry, nlmonberry, talalberry and deerberry, ail of whioh are highly priied by wild anima't, npecially the bear, who to perfectly happy In a aalal thioket or a duater of talmonberry buthea. Tht talalberry to about tht tilt and oolor ot a wild grape, and growl npon t bath, The talmonberry aomewhat neemblet a amall rupberry, eiotpt that it ia t light atlmoo color. It hu a pleatant, acid flaror. Tht thimbleberry growl npon a bath with large, maplt-thaped letrea, and derirn itt name from the rtaamblanot of tht berry to the ahapt ot a thimble, Like the nlmonberry, it to of tht rupberry eptoiee, and ia of a dark red oolor and rary pleaaant to the taata. The dtarberry to of tht blueberry family. Tourittt to Aluka And the long rowa ot Indian women aitting in tht ttreett with baakett of berrin for aalt one ot the moat intemtlng and pioturetqut eight they witnnt.