The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-03-25
BDITORIAL OORREgPOEDENOE.


plains Of Linn; and, as the hours wore
on with 10 apparent prospect Of
| speedy cessation Of the mad March
storm, we suddenly decided to hurry
homeward, and return TO Albany the
next Monday and take new start with
the beginning Of another wesb.
On The homew8rd ride ee usheli the
whole earth agiow with whitensss.
Tie fea;hcry fakes that had fallen to
the depth of several inches covered the
uprooted forest trees that marked the
wake Of the late hurricane with burial
robes Of transcendeut purity Farm
houses, fences, towns, Villages, orchards,
/ s-eUeTything-wa enrobed iu The
same spiritual attire, as evanesceut as it
was indascribable "A the day wore on,
the clouds parted, aimittiug the gor-
geous sunlight; and, just as the train
was Bearing Portland, We beheld the
jomed sud spired little city in It's robes
Of white, ready aitired FOR an evening
suu-bath. 1t was but for momeut
that the glory lasted, but the il,umiua-
ton was iudeliOly impressed upon the
vision OF memory, and will remain
thero IS a thing oi beauty aud q JOY
forever.
The loved ones 90 home were not
looking for US, bat the welcome was all
the more hearty because Of the surprise.
Then followed q busy round Of varied
duties that kept the passing minutes
flying at doubl. quick. aud the week
was gone before we had time to accom-
plish half that was intended. DID any
body who reads these psges ever fulfill
their own desires and ambitions TO the
letter, we wonder? Aud, IL so, viii
/ they a. once inform Us how 20 was done ?
On Saturday afternoon, long after the
snow was gone, aud when the clouds
had drified away to the southland, and
the mellow sunshine fell. like the bsni-
son it was, upou Che sick1y green Of the
chilly grasses that were struggling hard
20 grow, we drove out with the family
70 the Insane Asylum, where several
| OF our acquaintance OF the oldsu days
are confined IN the secglsiou Of that hu-
name aud necessary institution, their
brains clouded by disease or disarpolnt-
ment, and their days darkened because
/ Of their sad aGiiction. We found those
We had especially come to visit apqar-
entity well, their maladies having so far
I yielded to the hyrieuie treatment Of DR..
Hawthorne that i, is hoped tuat they
will be speedily restored 10 their homes
aud families. But there are others
and alas! they are many-who are
hopelessly stricken, whose sunlight OF
reason has forever fed. And set, some
+ OF these have occasional moon beams Of
consciousness, which break the light, as
through prism, into variegated ireaks
Of gro,eEque fancy, 70 once amusing aud
melancholy. The demon Rum has sent
many victims there; and there are
women, too, who never tasted iutoxi-
oauts, vino are its hopeless victims
through the sius Of others, s. hose dIty
it was TO shield them even from tie
ruier blasts Of the Wiads Of heaven, but
vino f1rs0ok their manhood and their
duty TO follow the demon, aud sent
their wives, broken hesTied, with rea-
sou dethroued aud hope denied, 10 a
maniac's ward in msrcifuI prison
home, away from deiirium trlmeus,
away from bloss and curses, aud out
into the darkness OF insanity, there to
l.nger ill their imprisoned spirits shall
be liberated at last by tbc merciful fiat
OF the Death Angel
With our mind fail ot these things,
we returned to the city, ana ia the oven
ing repaired to the Open Temperance
meeting, where President Clples, Nessrs.
Heroy and Smith aud Miss Baker were
at their accustomed posts, aud the large
crowd with them was engaged i'm their
regular weekly ,trnggle against the de-
mon aforesaid, who worketh evil con-
tiuuaiIy among the children Of men.
Mr.. Caples was as earnest as ever, and
in one OF his happiest veins. A goodly
number Of new names were added 90 the
great register, and Rev. 1Ir Eliot pro-
uounced one Of the very best on-hand
speeches which we have ever beard from
that well known platform OF many ora
tors. Then followed our own address.
and more singing, the crowd remaining
to late hour, and never seeming 10
tire Of the work in hand.
On Sunday We listened with much
interest to a learned disquisition upon
natural formations and national pecu-
lisrities, from the pulpit Of Rev. 1Ir.
Cruzan, by Rev. Mr.. Lambert, President
Of the Willamette University. We
wish everybody who doubts that reiig-
ion is q growth could have heard that
sermon. 10 would have set them TO
thinking. Twenty-Five years ago such
a sermon would have been considered
heterodoz to the last degree; to-day it
is accepted with avidity by everybody
who is wise enough TO digest it.
/. Monday, again, and we are Of for Al
bauy. Governor Thayer and son are
aboard the train on their wsy 10 the
Capital also Hon. Carey Johnson aud
wife, and Judge Kelly, of the Supreme
Court, the latter gentleman, who used
TO claim 10 be our friend, no,iceabiy
avoiding US, as lie has done ever since
We had the temeriiy to urge him 20 DO
bis duty in the GreeDwood-Cliue case,
which he sigua!ly failed 10 10. But we
like the JUDGE. in spite Of his judicial