Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1888-06-07

blo"my way To its own glad, soft music.
Slowly | wen my way caring little if I
90 or stay, or neither. Soon | 6ud my.
sell above lone valley that reposcs at
| the feet of mountains that raise, and
battle, in their cxhai,at'on, their brows
in the face OF heaven Aud are there
not the siivery foot-sirp, G the mornin.
star On the dcwy bows Of that pax that
leans away IN the arms Of the south?
Aud does not thu cvrnin. han. its
lamp upon the bon.hs of ynn pine that
stands, like seutlne', high on the
mount that recllncS and iaIs asleep upon
the twi light mant,rd bosom of the west :?
Nhy. yun be'a,rd crescent piece of silver,
called the moon. when full, is only about
an arms len.,h above the height of
yondrr peak. Aud look at that foolish
miscr cliubin- up towards it as though
he wodld piIln.e the skies and rob the
astronomer of his treasures!
call to the Va ", and like one who
literally reads and literally breaches,
shout, The valleys stall be exalted"
And the valley replies, yea, l am ex
,lted IN bein. over>hadrwed by such
GRANDEUR continued, The noun.
'ains shall he Brought low The noun.
'ains replied, 1--WE are brought low in
ben. so high: for up here we must
wrestIe with tn storms; and behold tho
scores Of thun lerbcls which mar our
features!
| journeyea on until | reached the
Lake House when Mrs. Faunce greeted
my coming with clad welcome. l
soon made my way to the lake and tax
ing one Of the commodious boats, set
out, with room for ore more, to catch
the trout | di hit catch and to visit Mr..
Cooper, which | did. Mr.. c., BY the
way, is building a more or less elegant
mansion in shadowy, romantic, retreat
on the eastern side Of the lake, close BY
the waters edge. But why man who
is only one should be constructing 80
roomy a building is the question. We
had pleasant chat. But soon the
strokes OF Cs hammer (hitting the nails
on the head) knock d our conversation
out of joint. Then 1 laid me down and
had long talk with P.u,arch (somethiug
of ta.ker himsclD about Alcihiadcs the
ambitious Greek, who raised and quelled
many storm in Greece that he might
gather, from the tempest Of war, a
soldiers gl"ryl
l return ID before noon having made
a successful trip, bringing mine hostess
some doz"n trout, (beat that Mr.. Patter-
son y which Cooper bad caught that
About three o'clock in the last half
, the day went out fishing again.
succeeded in catching two trout---u big
)ne and little one.
ANOTHER MARROW ESCAPE.
l was On shore when | landed the /
zig trout (this is not fish story and
IS might be expected that whale ui.,rout |
beat me into the lake, IN fact l didn't |
get quite in, tut | went dangerously
:lose But this is MT the escape about |
which | now wish to speak, for this
escape was not 20 narrow as it might have
been. Disguised at the failure Of such |
! success, went straiehtway to nv boat |
determined to set her homeward bound.
But in getting iuto the boat my heel
he heel OF my shoe, FOR | was doubly
'eel.d-caught on the cd ge Of The seat
md threw me, heels last, in the direction
IT the water on the left side of the boat,
md came within an ace (whatever that
nay mean, even when trumps) Of
hrowing me head first, us iutimated |
bove, into the lake. If it had, and my
hoe, which, lacking in .tring. was tied
owards the top, had ht ~ one horn
# the oars socket l might have been
educed to the extremity Of drowning
With plenty OF dry land 10 three or tour
cet OF me. Had such have ben the
sse it would have been reported that I
ither drowned by acc:d mt OF On