The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-11-17

I Ne drove up ana ndlteu III lIoht VI
the old ruin which had once been a
school-house, and alighting there, spent
an hour in living over the memories of
old. We were too busy with our re-
Elections to care for conversation, but as
the time wore on our tongues were
| loosed.
Judith, do you remember Ortonville
and Aud Lang Syne p"
civilian, do you remember the
wheezy melodeon, the untamed, fiery
girl who tainted when she would have
sung, and the dear singingmaster for
whom she would have died ?''
"Ah, Judith! you gave promise then
of a glorious and noble womanhOOd.
All you needed was freedom, care and
culture. / loved you then, hot for what
you were, but for what 1 knew you
would become. And had not the Fates
and Furies been against us, you might
have reigned in all these years the queen
of good society, and the hOnored wife Of
an honorable manr
''Now, William, don't preach any
more about what might have been. Is
it not Carlisle who says, why sit
and grieve over what might have
been, when all eternity is yet to be%
Had peace and happiness, ease and
prosperity followed us all the days Of
our life we never should have awakened
to knowledge of our capabilities. We
need not rejoice that great trials have
come to us, but we may be thankful
that we have overcome our difficulties,
and that we to-day stand firmly on the
rock of right"
The reader need not think we failed to
| indulge in the thousand little express
siOns of endearment that are always so
real and important to the parties most
deeply interested. We were as foolish
and romantic as though we had but
just budded into man and womanhood,
but rs such private demonstrations are
no part of the readers business, leave
him to imagine them as best may suit
him, while / talk of what the prosy
fogies of the world call "sense"
September had swung wide her gates,
and we stood upon the threshold of the
bounteous autumn. Squirrels bounded
from the tree-tops, dropping nut-shells
from their deft and dainty paws, and
ehattering the wild romances of the
forest to their graceful mates; crows
We're cawing in the stately corn (;
chickens sought the mellow sunlight
and made rural melody with their IA
miliar notes; flock of sheep lay in the
shade of great maple, chewing the cud
of sweet content, and half-grown lamb
kins frolicked Oh n PROSTATE, bark
shorn elm, while far away, through
what had been in by-gone years a stately
walnut forest, lay the stump-bestudded
lawn, through which, in the snow and
storm and darkness, | had hurried
among the trees on that lOng-gOn'
evening, after my ignominious expul
: sion from the singing school.
'william, what did you think Of m'
that night ~ asked, abruptly.
81 thought you were an untame'
I mustang. 1 did not then dream tina
, your affections were so deep, but 1 fel
f that YOU would some day become fa
: nous. Do you remember the day whel
: we met by previous appointment il
Y your Fairy Bower ~
: Remember it! Oh, William! do yo
suppose ever could forget? l made
!, complete fool of myself that day an
o have been ashamed of my conduct eve
L since"
! "You simply answered fool ACCORD
e ing to his folly then. lam certain tha
v 1 talked nonsense quite as much as yo
:. did"
II "Well, it's no wonder my heart Wa
i full of nonsense. had no companion
but my few ill-chosen books. Had
q been a man there would have been SON
l. avenue of usefulness open to me b
k which 1 could have grown out of such
+ state of morbid sensibility, but / was
r weak, nervous, miserable woman, who
le soul was fretting and chatting in pen
up sphere; therefore, in the one dire
4, ton in which my mind found vent,
he rushed to an extreme, and that eXtren
was n love for you which amounted to
Il, sort of frenzy. Women would never b
If come such fools as they so often do
a they had other things to think Of"
''Thats a doubtful compliment, J
in dith mine"
he. "Pm not thinking of compliment
my would-be-hattered knight. knC
he that your regard for me was but an i
GO cident, while to myself our love W
life, ambition, everything"
"But, Judith, I assure it was all Il
we to me-"
on 'No doubt you thought so, after ha
DIV ing been shut up in solitude where Y
for could think of little else, but I W
TX, know that, had you never experienC
cir such a trial, you could easily have f
ur- gotten me. Women will always
ny making fools of themselves upon
nd subject of matrimony while they ha
as nothing else to think about"
ng ''Then what would you have them
$" do?n
nee "Let them have the same opportu
er- ties in the world Of work and pay
tai men. Let them feel and know that
er- holy estate of matrimony is one OF