Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-08-16

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to try to find out what mar wants
and give him enough Of that par
ticular dish. They try to make up
in variety what they lack in subs
tantiality and quality Of cookery.
Men have not the artistic taste of wo-
men to enable them to appreciate a
skilfully arranged variety.
A LIGHT HOUSE
would be about the last spot on
earth woman would choose for n
home. For woman, young or old,
must have a social atmosphere.
She could live without air sooner
than without society. She can put
up with an exclusive social diet of
the male variety, if she is very pre-
cocious and If the deeper powers of
her nature still lie dormant. She
soon ludely awakens to the fact that
the average man is the most highly
selfish of all animals, whose affec-
tiOus and passions are in reality but
an outward gloss Of his true inward
naturt. This selfish ness that exists
at tue bottom If the male sex en-
ables men to adapt themselves to
Gel bacS or polygamy, and all the
various stations between at which
they tarrE in sulky revenge or lust
ful qualification. 1t pays any wo-
man to let out once in while and
fairy ta.ie the hide off the men, be-
cause they deserve it. Like the
three gods of the Brahmins, they
are our adorers, preservers and de-
stroyers. But started to write
about a lighthouse, the most unso-
cial place in the world for woman.
We visited the government light at
Cape Foulweather, the other day.
AS we leave the beach, and climb
the mountain, where sea-birds circle
and clouds of sea-fog spread their
curtains over the sun, we come to
the government enclosure, pass the
neat vegetable garden. | want to
say right here that no sweet
er or tenderer vegetables are
grown than Oh this coast. The cool,
moist, salty air, and sandy soil is
simply immense for all root crops
and garden truck. The government
buildings and grounds, as every
where else, are here kept neat and
clean. The walks are filled in with
black pebbles from the rocky beach
below to which a stair descends.
The water off the Cape is full of
strange forms of dangerous black
rocks upon which seal and whale
are sometimes dashed in peices. Sea-
birds by the thousand inhabit these
waters in great variety. A little
later whales may be seen spouting
off the cape. l shall not attempt
to describe the likht-tOwer, nor how
the light is cast far to sea by a SIS,
600 set of lenses. A keeper ex-
planned it all to us; how it could be
seen twent-four miles, took about
seven gallons of oil per night, which
Is fed by clock-work and watched by
two men. The light is nearly two
hundred feet above low tide.
Heavy storms have thrown water
into the top of it. This seems in
credible; but an attendant explained
how a wave fifty feet high, coming
with tremendous force, striking the
wall of rock below, should with
a high wind be able to carry water
to the top of that light and cause 1t
to rock and tremble on its base. 1t
does not seem possible that so solid a
mass of iron and brick could ever be
stirred by water Anyway 1 should
not like to be penned up here away
from the rest of the world.
GETTING OUk MAIL,
Like others, we have good deal
of experience getting our mail. Our
troubles have not been so much
with the representative of Uncle
Sam, as with his subjects. The
Newport postoffice l have read a
great deal about in our Salem papers
in other years, and he has been sew
eral times done brown, roasted and
burnt on the griddle by wrathy cor
respondents. Let me tell my expe.
rience at this much complained Of
Office. 1t seems Newport has no
need for any but a small office nine
months in the year; the other three
months the office should be equip
ped with as large force as Salem,
and probably gets more of the most
troublesome of all kinds of mail
transient and remailed matter. All
my letters are remailed here, and
since the first dose of difficulties |
have had none. | have made ar
rangements TO get my mail Ia a lock
box. My troubles have all been
with the American crowd. An
American crowd at watering place
is the most unreasonable of all. Mr..
Hamton, =, NJ, aud his wife and "a
young man, handle the mail in an
efficient, expeditions aud painstak-
ing manner, The tide of idlers be-
gins to come in an hour before the
mail arrives, They are mostly
Vomen campers. Each one will ask
for letters for from ten to twenty 9TH
ers in that tlickering, uncertain man
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