The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-02-06

tnaL something else more suitable to the
time might have been said. She was
one of those prudent, mild, womanIy
women who have been held up as models
for their sex. And certainly her affairs
moved along more smoothly than those
Of her less cautious and more impuIsive
sisters. Amiable women are fayorites
with men, and terrible bores to the
more spirited of their sex, who feel that
there is leaven of selfishness at the
bottom of their eomplacency which
they would be ashamed 10 possess. Not
that Mrs. Stewart was so extremely
amiable as to deserve censure for 1t, but
she had a way of managing people
which showed at least a proper appreci-
alton Of self.
There was one other person who was
admitted TO the benefits of this pruden-
tial talent Of Mrs. Stewart, and that
other person was the Doctor. Advane-
ing the Doctors interests was advancing
her own without seeming to be thinking
Of herself, and it obtaind for her the rep
utatiOn from others of being a most de-
voted and self-abnegating wife, while it
made the Doctor reckon her ''the dearest
little woman in the world" Who shall
say that Mrs. DR.. Stewart was not wise
and right?
We fear the Colonel's wife must be
confessed to be pretty much the opposite
Of all this. She was not known for her
personal devotion to the Colouel, though
it must be admitted she once entertained
high notions of wifely love. 1t was a
good while ago, while she was under the
influence of those 'several hundred"
extremely well-written epistles which
had constituted her courtship. But if
her own faith was severely shaken in
things she once believed in, it was still
a trait Of her remnant of remaining
loyalty to an idea, that TO one could
presume to reflect upon her husband,
except herself.
Perhaps the Colonel was right in
thinking he was badly used by-his wife,
who no longer attempted to conceal her
disgust of certain traits, mental and per-
sonal; for the man could not help his
nature, and probably was as much mis-
taken about himself when he wrote those
deceiving epistles, as his wife had been
about him when she read aud believed
in them. When they were stationed
near a large town or in a settled country
it was not so bad, for there man could
find relief in society; but sarcastic wife
in broiling hot desert-that was an
other matter, as he now and then re-
minded her.
"Well, Colonel, !" returned Mrs. Stew
art after thoughtful pause, "what do
you say is to be done about the affairs
Of this Territory? There must be some
truth in what the Tuscon papers say
about the imposslbility of developing
the mines or settling up the farming
lands.n
81 suppose there is. But it is greatly
the fault Of the whites. You heard
what the Commodore said about Man
gus Colorado'-old Bloody Sleeves {?
The Commodore had sometime done
him favor. Well, when his party were
camped in an arroyo cooking supper,
along comes 'Mangus Colorado with
his baud and discovers the whites. He
peeps cautiously over the edge of the
cafIon, thinking, no doubt, here was u
good chance to take q few scalpS, but
recognizing the Commodore, withstood
the temptation, and signed to the band
to move on. The chief told the story 10
the Commodore afterwards when they
met in some Mexican town, and proved
it by the circumstance of the Commo-
dore's teaching man how to turn slap
jacks by tossing up the skillet"
"But them" suggested Mrs. Stewart,
''it is not every one who is so fortunate
as to secure the friendship of the chiefs
even one of them. How would it have
Jared with the Commodore If some other
chief had been in the place of this one ?"
"You know quite well, Lawrence,
that the Commodore has had to aban-
don his mine, which he considers worth
q million, more or less" Mrs. Kellogg
could not help saying.
"rll admit it. But if other men had
acted like him he would not have been
driven out of the country; that's what /
contend"
'IBut there is nothing to prove it.
suppose q great Apache chief may in
dulge himself by taking a fancy to a
single white man, either on account OF
his bravery or for some other reason;
but as long as he goes on numbering
other white men, just as good, who have
never done him an injury, don't thinl;
his whims benefit any but the one man,
and only then when under his immedi-
ate protection"
"You should have been a lawyer, Ali
/ cia. You neverleave hole for your oppo-
nent to creep out of, nor even a paper
screen for him to intrench himself be-
hind" returned the Colenel, tanning
himself with his hat-brim.
"If my opponent is right he will not
need or desire them," retorted his wife
"I should scorn either to creep or ia
hide"
"Shade of Xantipper' cried the Colo
mel, tanning himself still more vigor.
ously. ."Iou do make it confounded
not here, Alicia. Do you ever nagg the
The Doctor that way, Mrs. Stewart ?''
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