Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-09-03

painted, and so exact in form and char
acter, that none but irst-rate dealers
and collectors conld have possibly told
the difference, adding that she could
imitste anything"
The Pennsylvania Mountains.
The doctor, with the two ladies', took
passage for Harrisburg. They were
equipped for the mountains, with va
Uses. short flannel dresses, waterproofs,
pound or two of good tea, and tin
pot. The doctor carried gun. fishing
tackle. and flask of Scotch whisky,
which was his one catholic remedy,
in the woods. for cuts, fevers, colds, or
rsttlesnake bites.
At Harrisburg they took the Niagara
express to Lock Haven, cheerful lit
tie lumber town lying high among the
hills, where they spent the night. Early
in the morning the doctor called Sarah
to the window of the inn parlor.
There is my old friend Hoeven with
the spring wagon. 1 wrote for him to
meet US. Hoeven is the cabinet-maker
among the Nittany Mountains"
am afraid this is civilized will
derness to which you are taking us, doc
tor" said Sarah. mo cabinet-makers
adorned our Virginia Canaan"
ooh, the Pennsylvania spurs of the
Alleghanies are tame compared with
those Of Virgins or the Carolinas
The very hills are leveled on top, you
will observe. as if some ancient Dutch
Cog or Magog had set his broad foot on
every peak, fattening them down. Elk
and Mexican counties are tolerably saw
age, but even there the yellow farm
houses with green shutters and the big
barn are beginning to show themselves.
A few deer, bear, and foxes still hide
up in the Businesses of the hills to
which we are going, but they are fast
disappearing. There are no wolves nor
panthers, such as we shall find in the
higher ranges of the Appalachian
Mountains in North Carolina and West
Virginia. Every county in Pennsylva-
mia is yoked down to civilization by q
pike and toll taxes"
I'm very glad to hear it" exclaimed
his wife. "And what society shall we
find. George
"You will not have chance to study
any OF the picturesque phases of hu-
man nature, of which you are fond,
I'm afraid, my DEAR" said the doctor,
anxiously. PLENTY of half savage
bear-hunters and moonshiners in North
Carolina. But the Dutch or Scotch
Irish farmer has taken possession of
the most solitary recesses in the Penn
sylvania mountains outside OF the min
ing districts. His wife has her patent
churn aud wringer, her parlor with
hair-cloth chairs, and photograph al
bum on the table; his boy is at some
cheap local college, and his daughter
drapes her calico polonaise by the latest
fashion in the Basar." 80
But what kind of society il there 2"
demanded his wife. impatiently.
There is church twice a month,
sewing bees. aud apple STRINGS.
The older women seldom leave their
kitchens except to go to church. The
wife OF near Pennsylvania hill
farmer is. perhaps, the hardest worked
living being in the United States. But
"a for the girls, schools and magazines,
and day or two at the Exposition in
1876. have leavened the young people.
The girl does not make as good butter
as her mother, but she works tides and
decorates pickle.jars. She has her
lover, of course. He does not bring
her flowers or opera tickets, but leg
of mutton weekly from the sheep his
folks have killed. But there is As fine
an aroma OF love in it as in the costli-
est bouquet" o..
Don't talk such nonsense to Sarah. !"
said Mrs. Mulock, sharply. "What
did we come to these mountains for, I
wonder? II only to study vulgar love
making and tawdry apings of fashions,
we need not have left New York."
1--WE are going to study nature, and
] am taking you to Center and Clinton
counties, my DEAR" said the doctor,
meekly, because the mountains there,
though lower than others in the range,
are more precipitous and picturesque
than any in the State. can show you
there in miniature the peculiar features
of Californian scenery; the same effects
of volcano action on the hills, the
great sand deposits, and the canyons"
--REBECCA HARDING DAVIS. in Hwper's
Magazine.