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“ Mother, I have often wondered how, with your education and surroundings, the refinements of life you were accustomed to, and your personal habits, you could possibly have made up your mind to marry a man to whom you were a total stranger so short a time before, and go with him on such a terrible journey thousands of miles from civilization into an unknown wilderness, exposed to countless dangers. ”

“ I was much opposed to the growing desire of the legislature to shirk its responsibility upon the voters at large by submitting to them a proposed constitutional amendment to enfranchise women. The constitution nowhere prohibits women from voting, and I labored to show that all we need is a declaratory act extending to us the elective franchise under the existing fundamental law. ”

“ The Indians were troublesome all through this country until after the war in 1878. In that year the settlers near where we lived built a fort, and twice we were so frightened that the women and children stayed in it two days. A few miles from the fort thirty emigrants were killed. Only one, a boy of 16, escaped. During the terrific fight of that one night his hair turned white. A beautiful field of clover now covers the graves where these poor people were buried.
Our pioneers who helped to build up this desolate country are indeed getting scarce, and will soon be forgotten. ”

“ Having served the cause of education faithfully and well for nearly half a century, the hope is indeed well grounded that, as in the past, so also in the future, she will ever prove herself a true and valiant "Alma Mater" to the young women of the West. ”

“ By the time it was finished word came that the Indians were coming on this side of the mountains, and we hastened to the fort, where we stayed sixteen months. There were thirty families, which included all the people from Centralia to Bush Prairie. While in the bastion we had preaching and Sunday school every Sunday. We lived as close together as we could, there being just a partition between us, and none had a falling out. I suppose we were afraid the Indians would kill us, and we wanted to die in peace with all mankind. ”

“ At a place where it seemed the expedition must be abandoned, the Birdwoman began to dance and sing. The valley into which they had penetrated she recognized as the one from which she had been taken captive years before and now she was among the haunts of her people. ”

“ Angel says that The Pacific Monthly is the brightest, newsiest, most thoroughly up-to-date magazine west of the Rocky Mountains. One of the leading advertising men of San Francisco says: "I can't keep from buying The Pacific Monthly when I strike a news stand." The Telegram, Portland, Oregon, says: "The Pacific Monthly is replete with excellent engravings. The wealth of literature and the bright illustrations make a magazine that should be on every library table." The Oregonian, of Portland, Oregon, says: "No magazine in the land is better illustrated. ”

“ Perils beset them on every hand. Swift streams were to be forded, and deep ravines to lie crossed. Indians often surrounded their camp, standing around like great dogs, and sometimes even followed them all day. Their tents were their houses, the bed and bedding a buffalo robe, a piece of oil cloth and blankets. Often they slept in their blankets when saturated from the rain, and upon rising in the morning put on their clothes as wet as when they took them off the night before. ”

“ It is emphatically a Girls' School, for girls of all ages!, temperaments and desires, and as such has always held a unique position in the Northwest. No education is complete which neglects' the highest part of human nature, its spiritual side. ”

“ Hill came to Portland to take charge of the Bishop Scott Academy, at that time the only private school for boys in this new and undeveloped country, Portland was then a city of about 18,000 inhabitants. Schools were few in number, and the standard of education was by no means high. Only those who labored earnestly to better it know of the bitter disappointments endured and the overwhelming discouragements experienced. Good teachers could scarcely be secured at any price. Dr. Hill was, however, particularly fortunate in tins' respect ”

“ The artists of the West are all telling more or less of this grand story of Nature's perfect self; all growing in appreciation of the truly beautiful. They are the art pioneers of this Greater West, and like all pioneers of any newly-discovered country, they must work patiently and unfailingly. ”

“ This in part atones the early neglect of the one woman who led the way across the continent through wilds and over mountains, and will stand for generations a monument to woman's strongest characteristics—love, devotion and self-sacrifice—exemplified in this simple maiden of the forest, Sacajawea. ”

“ Martha Morrison represented an intelligent, capable womanhood in its truest, because its most helpful and tenderest sense is honored by such life. In circles which for many years she has stood for the typical pioneer woman — fearless, cheerful, capable, willing, resourceful—she will be greatly missed. ”

“ From there we took the Carson route and the large train left us. The day we parted from them they were attacked by the Indians and fought for three days and nights without unhitching their animals. All that the emigrants ate during this time was a little flour and raw bacon. At the close of the third day this brave company overpowered the Indians. The train turned back over the same route and overtook us. The emigrants were overjoyed to find us alive. The Indians were stealing all the stock they could get and killing the people. Many of the small trains of emigrants were destroyed. ”

“ Its wondrous falls adds greatly to its charms. Green pastures with cattle knee deep in luscious verdure, trees stretching their big branches in benediction, glimpses of orchards, and an atmosphere charged with scent of woods, and all a-quiver with its own purity and strength and subtle charm of movement when day is melting into eve. ”

“ The course of training offered by the school is suited to those who are preparing for platform work, either as reader or speaker; to all who would become teachers of elocution, oratory, reading or literature; to those of all ages who are interested in the acquirement of physical health, beauty and grace, and bodily responsiveness, and likewise to that large number of non-professionals who aspire to a wider field of culture, and a fuller development of their inherent powers. ”

“ It is the design of the school to give to its pupils such physical, mental, esthetic, and moral training as will fit them for the better pursuance of any vocation. "Growth" is the school-room motto, and as true growth is a development from within, not an outside accretion, the instruction is adapted to the requirements of the individual. ”

“ The oarsmen, wending their way up the Columbia, caught the strains of her song wafted over the waters, and were thus directed to the spot where the members of the little party were imprisoned. The kind-hearted boatmen soon conveyed them to the river bank, where they gladly embarked for Fort Vancouver.
In after years Mr. and Mrs. Gray resided in various places, always laboring to advance the cause of Christ. They exerted a decided influence in the interest of temperance and of education. Their home was the center from which radiated all social and reform movements. ”

“ Since at that time an incorporation composed of women only could not legally hold real estate, some of the leading business men of the city became members of the relief society, and acted as its board of trustees. ”

“ A SCHOOL of high academic standards; a strong faculty of experienced college teachers; best moral and religions influences thrown around the students; management more like a large home than an ordinary institution; no safer place for boy or girl; vicious persons not allowed in the school. Buildings modern and up to date in every particular. ”

“ To-day these "boys," scattered throughout the Northwest, occupy prominent places in the business world. One and all, they attribute not a little of their success to their early training received in the old school under the supervision of Dr. Hill. There is a saying among them, "Once Dr. Hill's boy, always his boy." Many of these men have sons whom they sent to be educated in the Bishop Scott Academy while Dr. Hill was still there, and later placed them under his care when he established the Hill Military Academy. ”

“ IT IS pleasant to contemplate what artists are doing in the North-West. Many of these reside in Portland or its immediate vicinity. And no wonder, for there is every inspiration here for the student of landscape. ”

“ To fit the girls for self-support, training in domestic science is given insofar as means and circumstances will permit. A systematic domestic training school is hoped for in the near future.
The sick in the home have been attended by physicians of the city gratuitously. ”

“ Large and efficient societies organized for philanthropic work are conducted by the lay women of the church, through which much suffering is alleviated and the wants of the needy ministered to without regard to creed or nationality. ”

“ God bless the old pioneers, and may they all go to heaven when they die. There are few of them left to tell the story. Some of us are left to see the wilderness blossom as the rose. I know it is evening time with me, my work is almost done. ”

“ Several liberal bequests have been made, and the home now has an endowment fund, which is under the management of the board of trustees, the personnel of which has remained unchanged, save when a member has been removed by death. Mrs. Mary Holbrook, a woman divinely appointed, it would seem, for this work, served as president of the society for thirty years. Her term, too, closed only at the Master's call, "Come up higher."
The work of the relief society has not been confined to the maintenance of the home. ”

“ May this outflow of human kindness return to enrich the givers with that which is more to be desired than gold.
None of this needed assistance was accepted as a gift, but as a loan to be repaid, and we doubt not that the spirit which prompted this generous aid to our endeavor will continue to animate these givers to other noble deeds of helpfulness, that may make possible the highest achievements of some brave stragglers against the adverse conditions that environ them. ”

“ In addition to its purely educational advantages, the social and moral atmosphere of the school is of a high grade, tending to the building of character, the refinement of manners, and the cultivation of the real amenities of life. ”

“ The territorial legislature of Idaho was addressed by Mrs. Duniway in behalf of a bill to enfranchise women in 1887, and in 1889 she appeared before the constitutional convention at Boise in behalf of an equal suffrage plank in the state constitution. A large majority of delegates in the convention favored the measure, and pledged it their support in the near future. In 1893 Mrs. Rebecca Mitchell appeared before the Idaho state legislative assembly in behalf of an equal suffrage bill, which was defeated by two votes. ”

“ They have left no stone unturned for the benefit of their pupils. The business practice department has ten offices; Retail, commission, real estate, insurance, bank, etc., each having a different set of books. In this way the pupils become familiar with all phases of bookkeeping, from the simplest to the most complicated transactions.
This college possesses the unique feature of being the only college in the United States that equips each of its offices with a typewriter. The bank is equipped with an adding machine, the only one used by a business college west of the Mississippi River. ”

“ Working libraries and chemical and physical laboratories have been a part of the appliances of the school from the first, and have been enlarged with the school's growth, and are fully adequate for the work of college preparation in all departments. In the sixteen years of the school's existence more than one hundred and twenty-five boys and girls have been fitted for college ”

“ From their busy lives they have given time and effort to commemorate the work and pioneer experiences of the women of the Pacific Northwest, who have performed no inconsiderable part in the formation of our commonwealth. ”

“ My husband seriously objected, but I said I would never wear a gold watch and chain and have no house. Soon after a man came along who had a sawmill, and 1 asked him if he would give we lumber to build a house for my watch. He said he would. We built a house and started to make a home, and were happy working and waiting. ”

“ In a few years the great number of forsaken and neglected children appealed strongly to the sympathies of the members of the society, and the need of a home where they could be kept and cared for was discussed. ”