History of Washington, the evergreen state, from early dawn to daylight; With portraits and biographies . ncial Iesults, even to the harnessing of Niagara or the paint-ing of their trade banners, if such were possible, upon the bowof promise itself, let us consider the {esthetic beauty of thesetumbling, tumultuous waters of Spokane Falls. Born of the far-off mountain rills or nearer lakes, dropped from the open handof the spring-tide rains, dissolved from melting snows or con-densed from the misty veils that shroud the cliffs of the pine-clad Cascades, they gather their forces and creep reluct
History of Washington, the evergreen state, from early dawn to daylight; With portraits and biographies . ncial Iesults, even to the harnessing of Niagara or the paint-ing of their trade banners, if such were possible, upon the bowof promise itself, let us consider the {esthetic beauty of thesetumbling, tumultuous waters of Spokane Falls. Born of the far-off mountain rills or nearer lakes, dropped from the open handof the spring-tide rains, dissolved from melting snows or con-densed from the misty veils that shroud the cliffs of the pine-clad Cascades, they gather their forces and creep reluctantly totheir doom. There is a ripple of disturbance, a secret premoni-tion, as it were, of the strife so near at hand. They chafe theoijposing shores and move with quickened feet, they cling totangled root and stranded log, yet all in vain, the wild leap ofthe wave-worn precipices must be made. A moment of hesita-tion, as if they feared and would fain nerve themselves for thefinal shock, a f)ause of indecision, and they go madly plungingto lose themselves in the foam clouds that hover over the pools. HISTORY OF WASniNGTCN. 357 below, while yuuu<j Iris, robed in rainbow lines, (Linces lightlyover the abyss where they are engorged, and from whence theyemerge after a period of struggle to find a calmer How, and mortals weary of the strife, no more to rise beneath the all-grasping billows of Pacifics distant sea. As a diamond is most exqnisitely set when encompassed bykindred gems, so this jewel of the Valley of Waters, the city ofSpokane, is the fitting centre of an assemblage of towns and vil-lages, many of them already standing njion the threshold of civicdignity, wliich clnster abont her so nearly that some of them, asthe sui)erior planet attracts the lesser star, may one day becomesuburbs of Spokane. An enthusiastic orator says, in dwellingupon tlie manifold charms and excellencies of the EvergreenState : The eloquence of Demosthenes could not do it full j
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