The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-09-04
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

debilitating heat OF the past three weeks,
together with the exhaustive work of al
most daily lectures, added TO the mental
and physical labor of keeping our serial
story written up from week TO week, as
the printers need copy" have conduced
to lead your humble servant to state
of very unusual epistolary retieence.
Please accept this, or, rather, hcsc eX-
euses for past delinquencies. VIII do
better in the future if the spirit moves
Us.
/ Since last we wrote you, We have held
two meetings in the village Of Milwau-
kie, speaking upon Marriage and
Temperance" TO fair audiences, and
keenly enjoying the genial association
of pleasant friends.
Milwaukee grows rery slowly. But,
small as the place is, 1t boasts some
large-hearted citizens, who are wide
awake and deeply interested in the
| Woman Question.
/ Mr.. Miller has purchased the Bishop
Scott property, formerly occupied by the
boarding school now kept in this city,
and known as st. Helen's Hall. This
fine building, which cost its proprietor
some sixteen thousand dollars several
years ago, and is yet in good repair, was
recently purchased 10y its present owner
[ for nine hundred What he and his
brisk and busy little wife intend to do
with their purchase, is the wonder OF
their neighbors; but the lucky possess
ors look wise and keep their own coun-
sci. Doubtless they will be well and
fayorably heard from in their own good
time.
/ The fruit farm OF Mr. aud Mrs. Luell.
ing, is an epicure's paradise. Such
bIackberries, cherries, plums, prunes
apples, pears, peaches, melons, squashes
pumpkins s-well, good reader, nee cam
begin 10 do them justice by any sort o.
description. Nou must visit the farm
yourselves, and then you'll want to g
and build one like It,
/ Leaving Milwaukee and the kind
/ friends whom We have cause TO long re
member, short ride by railroad tooE
us TO CIackamas, where we were met in
the Methodist church In the evening, by
an attentive and Intelligent audience
who listened patiently and earnestly Il
long discourse. The next day sun
day brought out the denizens OF tn,
village and surrounding country, OF
foot, on horseback, in wagons and bug
gies, and the forenoon and afternoon
were both occupied in speech-makinl
upon the "Woman Question" and il
religious aud political bearings upoI
humanity's hest interests.
Returning to Portland to attend :
meeting of the Multnomah County
Woman Suffrage Association, we resfc,
for day or two; :. g, we redoubled on
already exhausted energies, and in
few days, in company with a ladl
friend, we took the ears for Butteville-
or, rather, for Canemah, where we wen
aboard a steamer bound for the forme
place-where We held two days meet
ing, visiting, meanwhile. at the home
Of our friends-Messrs. Vaughn an,
Gecr. The latter gentleman and hi
wife took us over the farm to their "hol
patch" now in vigorous bearing; AL,
also 10 the ''iry house." where every
modern improvement is called into Us,
for caring the hops now dropping from
ten thousand poles, aud the pairing
cutting and drying of the fruits nov
dropping from thousand trees. w,
didn't count 'em, reader, but, you know
it's sometimes necessary To sacrifice ac
curacy to rhetoric, and We'll leave it {,
You To say If that sentence isn't wei
rounded The visit, with its converse
tions, and dinners, and lectures, an,
boat rides, soon came 10 an end, and OF
Friday, behold us seated ia the Wagon
of our friends, Mr.. and Mrs. Vaughn
amd jogging across the plain and fores
to the station at Aurora, five miles dis
tant from Butteville. We'd like to de
scribe Butteville, but the railroad has :,
nearly killed it, that there's very littl'
left except good hospitable people an,
plenty OF good cheer.
Taking the afternoon train for home
We "reSted'' for another journey, b,
pursuing another chapterof the fortune
Of "Amie and Henry Lee" and making
hurried preparations TO get of on tn
next morning on the steamer Onward
bound for Lewis river and a camp meet
ing upon its banks, above Pekin, w. T.
where the SpiritualiStS, with character
istic liberality, had kindly invited us t.
go and lecture upon any subject whicl
we might feel disposed TO select.
The little steamer is one OF thos
which DR.. Haskell calls ga kick up be
hind" being long and narrow, and con
sequently well suited TO the navigation
Of the far-famed Slough Of the William
cite and Columbia, and more especiall
TO the narrow channels Of the Lewis an
Cowlitz rivers, where the captain draw
a bead on the current, and makes
hair trigger OF the helm, and Is, by din
of long practice, enabled to Craze an
barely pass the peeping and sunke
snags which lie in wait TO deceive th
unwary in all our western water courses
"Pekin, W. T." classic Pekin, {
which we had often heard, lOomed upa
/, last, harl 10y the Prov Of our faithful
boat. \ gang plank, at an angle q
forty-fye degrees, was placed on th
bank, which we climbed, TO find ouI