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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1902)
CHEJ1AWA, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1902. A Dream. "What was my dream?" I asked at rosy dawn, As birds Beut forth fresh greetings to "Ah! dream," he mused, "My soul, the veil withdrawn, With wlnics of joyous freedom rose on hiKh, I greeted all the warblers of the air In comradeship, my earthly shell, of We saw not. WhisperingB of Joys more (air Than all my earthly pleasures filled the day And made mv pilgrimage a glorious dream." He Bpoke not of the rest, hut walked the way Upraised in spirit, for a golden ln'am Still cheered the toilsome vision of the day. The Blight of Shiftle.-sness. There Is nothinyr elwe quite so hard to cure, in the line of moral weaknesses, as constitutional shift lessnesH. There is Hi tie hope for a youth wlmriaw dlei, who haB not gumption and lifcenough even to sit or stand ereut. Everything he wears and everything he doe has a sloncliy, golng-10-pieces look. His back hoee seems to be of ihe wewkest, and he appears unable t4 hold HmS'df together. His slipshod ways and fchiftleeB manners are apparent in every letit-r he wrl e-, 111 every errand he does, in every word he speaks, and in every movement of his for II will yield only to the most hrolo treatment. Hornet I mea, however, when shiftleMt people are suddenly thrown on their own resource, and have no posalhle way o keep from starving but by hoeing their own rows, they manage to wimmou their energies and intake a little start in life. We would earnestly can 'ion ev-ry youth against the danger of this disease, for it is contagious. We have known it to go through whole families, schools, and communities. Wo have been In towns where everything had a shift leas air, In country place where fences ere all down, the ground overgrown with weed and btwhee, and the barnaand houses unpaint ea, li short, where desolation and failure stared one in the face at every turn. Avoid association with a sliptdind, am bliionless person, as you would with a per son tainted with mall pox. He is afflicted with a moral diseane, which may. in spite of hfs determination to resist it, have a hlightlna infliienoeon hla life. Ex. Live In the Present. Much f the best energv of the world is wasted in Ihe past ir dreaming of the fu ture. (sma people seem to rnntK anv time hut ihe preaeut i agood lime to live In. But the men who move the world must be a part, of it. Th-y must touch the life that now is. and feel the thrill of ibe movement of civilization. Many people do not live in the present. It doea not know them. T.iey are buried in books; thev live in achievements, and in history, but the great ibrobbtng pulse of Ihe world limy do uot touch. They are not a partof the world; Ihey are never at tuned to it. The young man who would win must plungH into the current of events. He must kep step with the march of progress This i difficult dtst be in the rear. The 1 of the lime must run through his vein there will te paralysis aomewheie iu nature. Exchange.