, 1888-10-25

road D. considered e canon i-"lii' +.
project al. j. t1 connect .Gith ;he T.
Oregon Short Falr ar Portland Il
WI. l- n ta" gv-ate-. benefit ta the .
Ia-.t..g rs opening up tLe r1mpo,
tito. u5 Huatu,. |.T#u-a tIu,, ala .
tla effect n1a, n. ..-Ir. Fort I'aH- .
-.-s g.. business lr-,.r.-rs. ..s Zoe f.
cation warrants From .ar slope
a.eL ut ii- CITY. where arv houses /
are last gIlugl-E -., g. &c" 4.y Ge .
had ai Discovery Bay. between " Mich /
and PoT, Townsend Ely the city 5 /
situated. HTonz Crows Nest. the /
highest point GA the waters front. .
the Vie" B. uusuTPassab3e. The at .
mospLoTa IS wonderfully clear and I
fresh and often the mountains are /
visible here when they are not fur
tLur up At this point I stood - the /
sun was setting and fixed the scene /
lndcllbly On my mind. st thc right /
ana LETT are the bays. Opposite. The /
straits Of Juan DO E'uca. widening
out N the distance At the right OF
the foreground the Sound the great
inland sea, with its immense islands. !
guarded by Point RinSold and Adj
mirgiity Head, on which are govern
mert lighthouses, As we'll rs At Point
Wilson on the LETT. No vessel can
come or go withous passing in full
sight. The mou0i@.R YisW IS the
grandest the Herliiary affords, and
where can it be surpassed?
To thn right in the distance is
Ai5. Rainier Tor Takhoma, as We have
called it before) Ii, III feet high, for
a glimpse of which We have been
4aiuiy praying for q week, and now
1t Is in plain sight, Its LOaTy head
touched with the sunset spioldoT.
To the left i Iii. Baker, nearly rs
high. II Is almost at the British
line, and i5 1ianllcd 10y two lesser but
Sill snow covered Foa!ss, the Twin
Sisters. These two majestic noun.
tains, on which il is impossible to
gaze without feeling that they are
the senGnels set BY the Creator to
watch the doiDgs OF this lower world,
are connected by the irregular hills
Of the Cascade, while at the back of
Us and behind Port Townsend Bay
are the Olympian mountains whose
sharp tOOthed summits show the
cleaning snow in long, irregular
line along the northern horizon.
Surrounded on all sides except that
going out to the free expanse of the
ocean by these white topped giants,
in their presence one eXclaims with
the Psalnist: Il will lift mine eyes
unto the hills, from whence cometh
my help" There they stand, an
eternal Tcbuke to smallness OF soul
and Teanness Of life, and only that
which is noble and pure in man seems
to harmonize with such environ
ment. Sea and mountain have an
abiding charm because we cannot
fathGm their secrets, and they stand
to lis for the inexplicable mysteries
of nature. We have left behind us
as we gaze. all ''the small world of
villages and personalities" and pass
ed into delicate realm OF sunset
and moonlight, too bright, almost. for
spotted man TO enter without noYici-
ate aud probation. We penetrate
bodily this Incredible beauty; our
eyes arc bathed III these lights and
forms" But ''the beauty OF nature
must always seem unreal and mock
ing, until the landscape has human
figures that are as good as itself"
II the republicans do not carry the
state of New York by g large majors
ity the danger is great that they will
bo counted out" again in the cities
OF New Yorl, and Brooklyn. A ma
iority of 10000 in the state would
probably make that fraud impossi>
bic. Under the peculiar law of New
York the ballots are burned as soon
as the count is finished. Hence if
tho count Is not closely watched,
ballots cast for one candidate may be
called off for another, and after they
are destroyed detection is impossible
It is an open secret in New York
that Cleveland was elected by the
count in 1884; and the task of the
republican committee DOW is to ex-
ercise Z vigilance that viii make rep
etition of the crime impossible.
Rear Admiral Luce, of the United
States Navy has been for some time
threading the inland waters of the
north Atlantic slope in little steam
launch, and is reported as being en-
Enthusiastically in favor Of an exten-
siye system of canals between our
navigable waters, as a military meas
ure. He thinks if we were q military
people the thing would have been
done long ago. If it would be
great thing for war, it would be
greater thing for commerce, and the
most powerful weapon against the
tyranny of the railroads. About
IS, ,OO0,O00 have been invested in
railroads, and now if one-tenth of
that sum We're put into ship canals
the profit TO the people OF the whole
system OF inland communication
would be fully doubled. If you are
disposed to doubt this just take down
your map and study topography a
little.
MIR Voorhees, told US he had been
telling the Democrats for six months |
that his personal INTEREST,"" would !
not admit of his accepting the nomi- |
nation. He has no property inter.
csts in this territory to require his |
attention. He has 10 professional |
business except the profession Of |
politics. He left his post of duty at |
Washington and came to Spokane |
Falls TO attend the Democratic con-
vention. What for, if not to secure
and accept the nomination? Bin
ger Hermann, the able representa-
tive Of Oregon, by staying in his
seat ii ihe house, set Voorhees, an
example he might have followed
with profit When urged to go home
and stump his state in bis ewn in
terast, Mr.. Hermann replied that bis
duty 10 bis constituents demanded
his presence in the house aad that If
thaN -l.arL.l nl-. ~. -l-n--i Ln.- !