The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-11

r1nzAu AT HOME

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In outward appearance the home Of
Tirzah Ingleton was little more at
tractive than that Of Eliza Hardine.
The log cabin was modelled after the
same primitive fashion, the fences,
garden, fields aud orchards were little
better, aud the conveniences Of the
household but slightly superior to those
to which her lover, John Hardine, had
been accustomed from his birth /;
but Squire Ingleton, for the most
part, held very different ideas Of life
from those entertained by his wealthier
neighbor. He had fallen heir to the
"Barrens" a few years prior 10 the time
Of the opening Of my story, and had
only consented 10 occupy them and
bring his family 10 the wilderness be-
cause unfortunate speculatiOns had
made him Gland poor" In this re-
spect he was like his neighbor, Har-
dine, but, unlike him, he had sense
enough 10 know that unused acres were
costly and useless luxuries, which no.
body ought TO be able to afford or be al
lowed to claim-at least TO the ex-
clusion OF those who would gladly
possess and cultivate them except for a
fiction Of the law, that holds an inn
agiuary right superior to a real need.
1irzah's mother was q genial, gentle
faced woman, fond Of her husband and
her children, aud easy-going in every
thing. Her son John was the light Of
her eyes and the pride Of her life. She
had been so proud OF him at the celebra-
lion that the day possessed a sacred
charm because be had adorned it. She
loved Tirzah, but with a feeling of
motherly solicitude, wholly unlike the
proud affection which she bore for
John. She had all Of a mothers
anxiety for her daughters future, but
she accepted the customs Of the day uu-
questioned, as they had come TO her,
and so looked upon a girl as being
born merely 10 minister 70 the com
viduality was destined TO merge into
her husband at marriage. How such a
mother had borne son like John
could only be accounted for by the fact
that the genius Of her maternal grand
father had been reproduced in him.
But for his ancestry, he could not have
risen above bis apparent source. The
wise physiologist has learned TO trace
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maternal progenitors. Sometimes il is
strikiugly apparent in the first genera
tion, as in the case OF an Adams, a
Napoleon, a Lincoln, or a Baker. But
failing, because Of untoward surround
ings, 10 spring high above the general
surface through a direct line, it will
obey a more complex but still analagou:
law, and, wandering onward, find a
vent at last through unlOOked-fol
channels, and, breaking forth a very
fountain Of knowledge, will startle the
world with its brilliancy and power
Ny reader has seen that the senior
Hardine was a rough, unpublished
narrow, tyrannical aud avaricious mod
ern patrician. lie shall also see thai
the senior Ingleion was in the main q
good-natured gentleman, and always
democratic in his ideas Of Individual
right. II the latter kept his children
away from the "deestricr' school
through the same false pride that
moved his narrower-minded neighbor "a
do likewise, he was not content tC
bring them up wholly without othel
mental requirements than those which
they could gain surreptitiously. II,
not only taught them everything b,
knew himself, but he employed tutor!
as he could afford them. And hi
children not only acquired the rudi
ments Of good English education, bu
they impaired their knowledge, as bes
they could, TO others. The two sons @
the widow Ridgeway had gathered
fair fund Of general information in thi
way, and Lie Hardine had become a
elementary adept, partly through be
own mothers influence, vastly aided
the frequent stolen interviews wit
John Ingleton, which had ended, as III
parents might have foreseen, had the
but thought Of it, in a complete "a
change OF hearts.
The home OF Tirzah was moi
cheerful indoors, as we'll as out, tha
the home of Lie. Rude efforts .
adornmeut abounded everywhere, upo
the walls and in the hooks and cuddie
Marigolds, touch -me-nots and fou
o'clocks grew in boxes beneath q
little windows that were also garnish'
by hollyhOcks and larkspurs.
The Squire, as we viii hencefor
call him, as did the neighbors, to avo
the confusion OF names between faith
and son, had years before discarded Il
old-hshioned loom from the house,
the good reason that hand-weaving d
not pay, and there was work enough 6
doors for women without it-an innov
tion TO which Captain Hardiue o
iected, in his own household, with {
the power Of his unbendiug will.
Breakfast at Squire Ingleton's W
similar, in some respects, to breaks
at Captain HardiDe's. But, on Il