The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-15
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENTS

does this last-named vocation surpass
our powers, for We cannot be "on handD
at the proper time to attend to it and be
anywhere else at the same hour. This
must be our apology for many errors in
the last issue, some of which are in
tensely mortifying. It was a cruel
blunder of the types that made us say,
"Thus Que by one are the citadels Of the
skilled professions sapped and ruined
| by the efforts Of feminine genius" {"
when We had meant to say "sapped aud
mined" And scarcely less annoying
are a half-dozen other errors, all OF
which must be attributed, first, to our
blind chirography, and secondly, to our
absence from home on proof day.
On Tuesday evening Of last week,
after We had prepared the editorials,
corrected the mailing books, written
the serial chapter for the next week,
visited the sick, answered private let
ters, and packed our baggage for a jour
ney, we trudged, at S p. NJ, to the Pa
cific dock for an Intended nights rest on
the steamer "McMinnville," prepara-
tory TO getting an early start for Lafay-
ette on Wednesday. After walking a
mile or more on Fourth street, where
the lights were good, We plunged
through the darkness toward the river,
feeling our uncertain way, and enjoying
the blithe and certain steps Of the boy
who lugged the basket sin the lead, ="
and reached the dock to find the boat
wasn't going up the river next day."
Nonplussed and painting, We retraced
our steps, and, musing over the uncer-
tainty Of human things, fell asleep at
midnight, but only to dream of hills
and mud and murky waters, with which
We wrestled all night long.
There was now but one way to meet
our appointment, aud that was by TAX
ing the West-side train, which would
land US in st. Joe at dark, where the
stage would meet US, bound for Lafay-
cite. But how awfully sloppy the roads
were, to be sure. The rain, which has
fallen almost ineessantly for a month
past, showed no signs of abatement
The cut back of the city, where the land
slides so often occur, was a bob-lolly Of
blush, slippery, stiff, aud oily muck, in
which a score OF Cinnamon were dig
ging, above whose queue-crowned heads
dripping derrick swung with a dolor-
Gus creaking.
Once beyond the cut, beyond the
summit, and out upon the plateau Of
Washington county, we noticed many
new and substantial improvements,
evincing much rural prosperity. Bea-
verton, Reedville, Hillsboro, Cornelius,
Forest Grove, Dilly, Castor, North
Hamhill, Carleton, st. Joe, all seem to
hold their own aud improve as well.
After a few hours ride the darkness
closed upon US, aud we were yet far
from our meeting, with at least two
miles Of the worst possible staging be-
tween us and our destination.
But the rail ride was over at last, and
soon, guided by lanterns, we embarked
in the coach, and, Joined by Mrs.
Loughary, went plodding, spIashing,
humping, and jolting through the outer
darkness, and at p. ". halted alongside
the post Office at Lafayette, where the
usual crowd Of anxious aud busy sup
Porters Of women stood smoking, with
their hands in their pockets, awaiting
our arrival. In little while we were
at the Courthouse, where large audi
ence bad long been impatiently await
ing Us. The Yamhill County Woman
Suffrage Association was in session, the
president, Mrs. Cooke, in the chair,
with her various camp around
her. The meeting was enthusiastic, or
derly, and harmonious. Our "talki
was exceedingly well received, and, as
to Mrs. Loughary, she is simply grand.
The next days session was employed
in eleeting officers, i'm imitation Of
the lawmakers who are wearing out
their lives in the service of an ungrate-
ful country. The minutes Of the meet
ings are to be published elsewhere, so
we will not particularize. |
Thursday evening we again met
large audience, many, being unable to
obtain seats, remaining upon their feet
during the entire evening.
Friday evening was spent in visiting
and addressing the school, and canvass
ing the village. And in the evening,
accompanied by sisters dear, with their
rosy children and bright-eyed maidens,
we repaired to the reading school, under
supervision Of Professor Morey, where a
most enjoyable time was spent in lis
tening to the various exercises. BY re-
quest, your correspondent rose TO repeat
poem, and, to the intense amusement
of herself and everybody, "forgot her
little speech" 1t was too funny for
anything. Had it been one Of the pu-
pills we should have been mortified. As
il was, we recited another poem, and
deferred the forgotten one "till a more
season."
Professor Morey and the young ladies,
Misses Wygant and Carson, of Portland,
who assist him, deserve great credit for
the excellent management of their large,
welI-ordered school. The institution is
well furnished with chemical apparatus,
maps, charts, etc., at the Professors ex-
pense. Miss Lillian Cooke is a very
successful music teacher, and the educa-
tional advantages Of the place are in all
respects first class as far as they extend. /