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Rh a mild September day, ankuti (long ago). Sealth consented, for what price, if any, we know not. She stepped, as a princess would, into the big canoe of the "tyee" from the Skagit and went a proud and willing bride to dwell with his tribe for a time. Doubtless she wore, as she described to the writer, her newest robe of deerskin and collar of shells. Left a widow ("Taliska"), a Duwampsh chief took her to wife, and he in turn departed to the spirit land. Her two daughters, Che-wat-tum, or "Betsy" and "Mamie," were married to white men.

Unlike her father, Sealth, who remained quietly on the reservation allotted to him, Angeline persisted in living near the white people in Seattle. For a long time in her old age she lived in a little shack on the water front with Joe Foster, her grandson. She was a Catholic, and a good woman according to her light. She worked for white people until too old, and was then provided for by the pioneers. I believe neither she nor Sealth ever partook of the white man's intoxicants; the natives never made an alcoholic beverage.

Angeline died on May 31, 1896, probably near 90 years of age. She was buried with honors by the pioneers and others, reposing in a canoe-shaped coffin as though voyaging to unknown shores. Rev. X. Prefontaine conducted the services, which were attended by a great concourse of white people. According to a wish she had expressed, she was buried near her old pioneer friends in Lakeview cemetery, Seattle, and the children of the city of Seattle placed a stone at her grave. Angeline was industrious and honest; showed courage and determination; had affection for her children; had faith; said she "knew God saw her all the time," and in failing years that she never lay down to sleep without saying her prayers. "For," said she, "I might die in the night."

The Allen Preparatory School, established three years ago, has deservedly won a place among the academies and college preparatory schools of the state. The best advantages are here offered to earnest students preparing for college, and also to those who do not wish to fit for college, but who desire a thorough course of study and advanced work in special branches. Classes in grammar school studies are formed at the beginning of each term and are under the charge of competent instructors. These classes cover the essential work of the eighth and ninth grades of the public schools. The aim of the school, as set forth in the catalogue, is "to teach pupils how to study, to help them to gain a mastery over self, and to develop character." A faculty has been selected, each member of which is in entire sympathy with this aim, and the school is characteristic for a high sense of honor among its students, and for the harmony and good-feeling between teacher and pupil, and among the pupils themselves. The school building, located at the corner of Sixth and Main streets, Portland, Oregon, has recently been enlarged to accommodate the largely increased attendance. School opens September 19, and the school year closes June 23, 1905.