The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-19

in Seattle, and asked him to go to the
door and introduce us, which he did.
as your husband in ?" we asked, in
nocently.
mo-" answered dressed-up and
rather handsome woman, whose un-
founded suspicious of any lady we would
not harbor for the Kohiuoor.
81 heard he was sick, and thought,
as he was not able to call at the hotel, 1
would leave this letter in person." we
said, handing it to her, and with a
strong effort repressing an impulse to
reprove her for the lie she had spoken.
We then went on with the little girl
to the mill company's store, while Mr..
McC. went to see about the school
house, which he failed to open. But the
men at the store were as badly afraid OF
us as the woman at the house had been
badly suspicious. To our questions as to
the mills, the amount of lumber sawed.
whence transported, what the price pei
NJ, how many saws, ETC., ETC., they re-
turned such hesitating and unsatisfac-
tory replies that we abandoned the pur-
suit of that branch of knowledge in dis
gust, returned to the hotel, locked our
self in well-furnished bed-chamber
and slept the sleep of the righteous.
The men in the mills of Port Blak ely
are driven, day and night, like so many
cattle. They take their meals at the
''cook house." and the few of them who
have wives keep them in a row oi
harems, where they have hothing to dc
but cultivate an abnormal growth ot
sickly sentiment and unholy suspicion
of other women, imagining, poor crea-
lures, that because they live as aimless
hopeless concubines, all other women
could, and ought to, do and live as they
Yet they are most unhappy set, and
no wonder. But few of them have chill.
dren. They are far too nice for the holy
office of motherhood; and oft-repeateC
abortion is written in tell-tale line:
upon their faces. That bad womer
have sometimes come among the baC
men at Port Blakely, and thereby giver
cause to some of these same abnorma
women to be unduly suspicious, is moi
wonderful. But it is sad to see whole
communities living so unnaturally il
| this life as to retard their spiritua
growth in the future state for centuries
After breakfast the next morning W,
bade the good landlady adieu, and re
paired to the steamer, where, as the lad
der had been carried off during tn,
night, we had to climb down a gam
plank, scarcely knowing whether W,
were holding on by teeth or finger nails
Happy indeed were we when the oblig
ing captain landed us once more at tn,
Seattle dock, where we could breath
the air of civilization. That cap
tain is gentleman, and, though tn
name of himself and boat have escapes
our busy memory, his respectful assist
ance will never be forgotten.
After our return to Seattle from New
castle, of which we last week wrote you
a second series of three lectures wa
given, the interest among the people in
creasing to the last.
Leaving our good sister and host O
other friends, we took lodgings at th
hotel, after the last lecture, and retire
at eleven o'clock, with orders to b
called when the steamer "North Pa
cific" should come in sight. We ha
been well received and in every wa,
well entertained in Seattle. The tw
daily papers, the Tribune and Dispatch
had treated US with marked courtesy
the Weekly HateLHgencer had been affa
BILE, the lecture-gOers gracious, enthusi
astic, and liberal, and the sleep tha
naturally comes to tired missionar
under such conditions was especiaIl
refreshing.
The steamer came at two a. NJ, an
we were soon awake and aboard, where
watching the long lines of light that re
fiected upon the water from the sleep
ing city, we headed for Port Townsend
of which, and Olympia, you shall hea
next week. Al. D.
Olympia, May II.