River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-06-05

net Will testify when she mas III ar
ranged.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. Ill. Lord and Mrs. Al
bert Lord are here yet, and l think /
had never realized how hungry | Was
for the home friends until met tho lat
ter, one of River Falls best women and
a dear and honored friend. We are
wishing that they might remain dur
ing the summer season, but as that is
not possible, we are enjoying each
moment as it passes and putting out of
mind the thought of their departure. $
Mrs. Frazer has gone to Washington
to visit her daughter, Mrs. l.. Day,
whom she has not seen for seventeen
years. One young man was heard to
say, after bidding her good by "there
is another face we shall miss, and in
thought / added yea, verify. You
have probably met Ed. Hamilton, by
this time. lie to our great surprise
started for home in hurry, and |
wouldn't wonder if Mrs. Ed. had con-
tracted the disease which tends to
obliterate all beauty of climate or 9TH
er surroundings, however pleasant;
and to such Wisconsin has charms
which Cal. connot surpass even when
at its best, as it is supposed to be at
the present time. Although ace have
not succumbed to said disease we
know all the SYMPTOMS and can most
thoroughly Synpathise where sympa-
thy is needed.
We shall be glad to learn of their
safe arrival. One of the pleasant
happenings recently was the gather
ing one evening at Mr.. j. Ii. Lords of
thirty-six of the home friends Qnclud-
ing the youngest of the Lord family
and as we looked on their faces and
listened to the familiar voices it was
hard to realize that we were on this
far off coast. There are about fifty
five in all, so you see we have consid-
cradle of the home element, which
gives spirit of "hominess' to this
place, which would not otherwise be.
Eastern papers tell us that we shave
had an earthquake which did much
damage, but no lives were lost" Most
assuredly we have had one, but in this
section not the damage. A San Jose
paper tells us that down near Watson
vile here is a assure in the earth
caused by the shake, which still grows
wider and deeper and that carpenters
had been stationed near the R. II.
bridges to prevent accidents by care
full oversight of them. think trains
were delayed on some roads one day
because of the spreading of rails and
the abutments becoming shaken. 1t
was all that / care 10 kR0D Of one.
can't tell how long it lasted nor in
what directions its vibrations were,
but it was long enough for us to realize
that a mighty power was shaking up
things. At our house pictures danced
on the walls; in other homes the win
dow weights swung, globe was
thrown from one lamp and broken to
atoms, one light of glass was cracked
and in one building crack appeared
in the plastering, and some people
rushed out of doors scantily clothed.
Mrs. Rickett exhibited great presence
of mind by lighting her lamp so as to
see what it was, and after the shake
taking down her clock and other deli
cate valuables and depositing them on
! the floor. You could more thorough
ly appreciate this story by hearing her
tell it, as did. Now. | think have
not exaggerated the facts as | know
them, but of one thing am sure, and
that is | could not at the time see any
laughable side, and even as the earth
trembled, so did L.
Last month the first M. f. church
and Sunday School had an excursion
picnic to Golden Gate Park and the
Cliff House at San Francisco. We
went, and l think never enjoyed one
short day more. The Park is out
from the city four or five miles and the
| Cliff House five or six miles further.
Cable cars run to the Park from the
| Ferry and steam motors from there to
the Cliff. We would have been glad
to spend all our time there, for there
is something about old ocean, whether
Atlantic or Pacific, that is very fasci-
mating.
Arthur, a cousin from Minnesota,
and viii Fortune enjoyed races with
the tide and Arthur was caught by a
big wave, and before he could escape
took his first salt water bath. One
great attraction here is the seals on
the rocks. Monsters some of them;
but it was their feeding time when
we were there, and we only saw small
number of them. Sometimes as many
as one hundred can be counted. The
view from the veranda is wonderfully
grand. although it is so high above
the water that we could not see the
big breakers. only an occasional one
as it dashed up around the seal rocks,
and we had no time to wander down
on the beach. The familiar sound of
the waves carried me back to a year
of my girlhood, passed in Lynn, Mass,
where / was lulled to sleep nightly by
old oceans roar. A hasty lunch on
the rocks, and then hurried march
back to the Park followed. There is
no use in trying to give an idea of its
beauties. Time, space and ability
would fail me in the effort to tell of