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Show THE NORTHWEST. In Outing is a fascinating article from thepen of Hon. Francis W. Cushman, member of congress con-gress from Washington, on the Northwest Gateway Gate-way of Our Commerce. Of course the writer in Outing is enthusiastic over his own region, though his paper is mostly confined to a statement of the commerce of his section, its markets, and what the men of the northwest are doing to build up ocean commerce. But the region itself is a perpetual per-petual enchantment, for there nature has clustered more splendors than in any other region, and her gateways to the sea, open out to lands north, west and south, where on the north a new em-I em-I pire is opening up, where on the south is a conti- , nent on which in the next fifty years a transforma tion must be wrought, and where to the west and i southwest, the gathered hosts of half the world's ' peoples are beginning to stir with a new and ir- repressible life. In that northwest everything is fashioned on a lordly scale. Such forests are nowhere no-where else seen; the Oregon where it rolls is the very impersonation of majesty and power; the inland in-land sea of Puget Sound is. clustered round with glories. In the last quarter of a century com-' com-' 1 merce has been establishing some of her most important stations there; in a quarter of a cen-, cen-, tury more it will be the halfway station for the world, 'round it either way. By that time, too, ' the center of population for the republic will be moved close to the Mississippi and the west will gravitate to assume its legitimate influence in the 1 United States. |