The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-23
EDITORIAL OORRBsPoNDENOR.
EAR READERS OF THE NEw NORTHWEST:

reader, where did we last take leave of
you? Was it not at Laramie? Let us
see Did you ever change your locality
so rapidly and constantly, for so long a
time, that in order to satisfy yourself as
to your own identity you were obliged
you hadn't taken leave of your senses q?
Let's go back to Laramie, where the
women vote and the men are prosper
GUS and happy, and see if we can gather
up the tangled threads of these netted
chronicles.
There was wedding on the tdpis, for
people will marry and be given in mar
riage while earth lasts, and Judge Nye,
local editor of the Laramie Sentinel, and
Fannie Smith, music teacher, had no
intention of being exceptions to terres-
trial regulations, so on Wednesday
evening of last week the young gentle
man in question exchanged the edito-
rial tOga for the honeymoon, and the
young lady laid aside the orange wreath
for the wedding ring.
"Dear Fannie Smith" quoth Squire Nye,
''I'm desolate and lonely.
For your sweet self long and sigh;
pray you heed my earnest cry,
And be my darling only.
I've travelled through this vale of tears,
A bachelor forsaken,
Without domestic love or cares,
Beset by doubt and gloom and snares,
Till faith and hope are shaken.
But, as gaze into your eyes
And meet their glad confession,
Joy takes the place of sweet surprise,
And grim despair to darkness hies-
| Please let me take possession"
Qouth Fannie, with her eyes upcast,
While gazing high and higher,
" The one long sought is found at last,
And all my lonely days are past"
And then Judge Nye drew higher
A sound oft heard-but, reader, hist!
No longer look that way, sir!
Suppose somebody did get kissed
And you for once the rapture missed,
Hath not each wight his day, sir?
A bit of curly maple-we guess that
what it is-with the compliments O
DR.. Hayford and lady, is before US, in
viting the undersigned to their woodel
wedding, which was to take place ol
the eauspiciouso occasion when Judge Ny
and lady's "illusion' affair occurred
but the IMPERATIVE call toward the seen
of our own approaching silver weddin
hurried US westward, and deprived us c
a very enjoyable affair. What goo
does somebody else's wedding do for yo
when you're homesick and alone?
1t was almost night when the Ione
westward train took up its slov
line of progression. Laramie, sittin
: fiat upon a sandy plain, surrounded b
eternal mountains, smiled a sweet gooC
bye, and we were soon humping owe
, the Union Pacific rails in an uppe
|, berth, below which were a crying baby
fretful mother, and a man that snoreC
What pity that anybody should travt
till the novelty wears off! We remen
Der well our first experiences in tn
, line. How the mighty mountains, tn
laundering cataracts, the awful rOcF
and the illimitable solitudes did stir u
; How interesting the people were, an
: how lofty and poetic our thoughts
r Railroad conductors and steamship cal
tains must have a very contemptib
= opinion of all wandering novices. W
t do now, but the time was when we hel
= a decidedly different opinion.
1t was again night, and we found ou
self at Ogden. Here we took train f,
! Salt Lake, where we were soon at hon
E in the Townsend House, Mormon h,
7 tel of quaint construction and Intern
j nable corridors, where we remained f,
i week among Mormons and Gentil
e alike. The minister in charge of Il
: Methodist Church kindly rendered
s the same for morning and evening Sc
j vices, and we felt like we were gettir
: among Christians again when we got
J. quarters where men did not deem it ne
essary to protect God from women vii
. locks and keys.
The attendance at church was deci
e edly small, The fact is, that eve
church, in every progressive place, th
u fails to accept the language, songs, sty
. and prayer of Spiritualism in some
its many modern phases, fails to dra
y houses. The Spiritualists are beatil
u the bush and the churches are catchil
the birds. 1t is well. In Gods ov
. good time the people are to he regene
e ated from all paganisms. The gold
u being refined, the dross is being burne
y in both religion and politics, and thouI
" the growth seems slow, the lapidary
Il the ages is sure.
The MOrmons anticipate seven yea
y of plenty, to be followed by seven yea
of famine. Brigham Young has b.
revelation" to that effect, and L
d women have gone to storing grain
large quantities. After the seven yea
of plenty have passed, and the fami
. has failed to put in a seven years pre-
= ence, the prophet" if mother natu
" has not kindly taken him hence, W
get another revelation" equally OF
niscient, and will command the faitht
sr to sell their accumulated stores and Fl
al ish the temple. We'd be astonished
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