The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-12

almost feel offended because they are
not permitted to do so.
Back again over the railway, the
same monotonous gloom everywhere;
and st length, tired out with the long
walk, we emerge into daylight, with
our eyes dazzled, stockings soggy, shoes
muddy, skirts wet, and appetites sharp.
We are informed that the men at
work in the mines number two hund-
red, about forty of whom have families
living in the shanties that dot the hill
sides. The remainder board atthe hotel,
where plenty of good and wholesome
food is to be had at reasonable rates at
all hours. If humanity everywhere
were fed by hundreds on a like scale,
thereby apportioning to each worker
regular line of duties, instead of COM
pelling every woman to become mistress
of dozen trades as now, housekeeping
would become grand cooperative sci
ence, in which the whole world might
take good paying stock.
A local preacher from Seattle, and his
bonnie little wife, were to have church
exercises in the school-house at half
past ten, and we ascended the blackened
steps and entered the little building
where the primitive worship of our
childhood recalled many "reminiscences
concerning which later years have
made US, if not skeptical, decidedly un-
orthodox. Yet there are stages in hu-
manity's growth when the doctrine of
literal, liquid, red-hot birthstone is as
necessary as mumps or measles are in
other stages. We highly enjoyed the
services, and we know society at the
mines is the better for them.
The evening brought fine audience
to the hotel dining-room, where Ike
and the girls presided over the musical
department, and your correspondent
over the logical, both seeming to vastly
please and interest the attentive assem-
bly,.
Monday was spent in canvassing and
writing; the siteNof the new sawmiIl,
BOhn ldlly anu COdA OuhhGIo IGCClNlliB
due attention. The evening was the
occasion of the promised lecture and
concert, which were well attended; the
ladies by this time rallying in goodly
numbers and listening with intense in
terest. After the entertainment, the
tripping, treacherous heel of many a
rosy maid and matron kept time to the
light, fantastic toe of many a signing
swain or would-be Benedict, as first
class music stirred their souls into the
inspiration of quadrille and polka, in
which, as usual, everybody except the
undersigned INDUCED.
Tuesday came, and with it rain that
kept us indoors till train time, when a
seat in the little railway engine was as
signed US, Ike and the girls riding on a
coal car, and a number of other travel
ers hanging to the brakes. We thought
it hazardous business, especially when
a linch-pin broke, leaving the afore-
mentioned members of our party sitting
in solitude upon the track, while the
engine and its tail of other cars went
switching on toward Lake Washington.
But the engineer returned for the rear
guard, and we reached the lake without
further accident. Again we cross Lake
Washington; again we make portage;
again we embark upon Lake Union,
and again, after another hours travel
by water, make another portage, fetch
ing up at Seattle, tired, travel-soiled
and wet, but blessed with high spirits
and appetites like so many ravens.
Good reader, be patient. We have nc
time or space to ''do" Seattle on paper
this week. You shall hear from US anon
A. ]. D.
Seattle, May l, 1875.