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About Weston weekly leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1878)
AM OLD HOltO. I An old agar, aa eU aongl But the new are not k nM though they be with honeyed words ami sweet with tanoiee fair, . j With thrill of tone in ailTer troop uf answering echoes neet, i With tender longings slumberous upon enchanted air. An old song! But across it verse what Tiewleas voices ' Throng an it simple burden what human pulses ' Mora Intimate with grief and joy than any precious thing i That the years have wrapped away in frankincense and myrrh! Lovers hav sunsj it Summer night, when earth itself '" seemed Heeven; I Bailers far off on lonely seas have given it to the gale; Mother have hushed it measure on the quiet edge of even, i While soft a tailing rose leaves dear eyelids dropped their veiL I Long sines the sailor made his grave between two roll . intr wavea. ! The lovers and their love are naught, mother and eh lid an duKt: ' But to-night some maiden lift it, to-night its sounding staves j Are blowing from the stroller's lips on this balmy blossom gust. A nart of life, it music flos as the blood flows in th vein; 1 J Laughter ripple through it, tears make its charm oaaiDlil: For the heart of all the agea beats stiJl through this old strain . An oU song, an old song, but the new are not so sweet: Betlcencc. From the Saturday Review. In the high and difficult art of speak ing the truth, silence is to speech, what shadow is to light. So to place one's silence as to increase the amount of truth conveyed is as important a part of sincerity as chiaroscuro is of painting. It is not only that sile nce in many! cases bears so obvious an interpretation! that it is just as easy and just as dishonest to deny the truth by silence as by Words. The importance of disci etion in abstain ing from words lies in this, that truth requires not merely that what we say or imply shall not be inconsistent with facts. It requires (in its , perfection) that the impressions we convey jshall correspond with reality as a good j por trait corresponds with its subject ;j that the proportions shall be preserved and the relations with surrounding objects truly indicated. We Bee this at once in thinking of the truth of history!. 1 A writer who gives undue prominence to one set of facts, or to some favorite per sonage, distorts and misleads as surelv as he could do by definite inaccuracies of statements, and often in a much important sense. And so in that con- tiuual presentation of the affairs of idaily life in which we are all engaged, to alter the proportion of things ly unavkwed reticence is a more subtle and morei dan gerous kind of untruthfulness mere verbal inaccuracy. The fact is that we do not take a sufficiently ilarge view, of truth. We do not consider enough how deep and wide a foundation of patient thought, of forbearing justice and clear-sighted generosity must be laid before a perfectly transparent sur face can be even possible. Perfect sin cerity is the result of a deep inward or der, in which the true relation of things are grasped so firmly that our words, our silence, and everything else which goes to make up our intercourse with each other, fall into their right places without an effort For silence has its right place as well as speech. There are subjects veiled by natural delicacy, and facts marked off by confidential barriers, and trifles with a healty mind shakes off like dust, and wounds to be gentlv shielded, and delightful discoveries to be reserved for favored explorers, and : many other spots sacred to silence. The question is, how to combine the perfect preservation of these sanctuaries with the openness which inspires perfect trust. We can no more confide in one whose mind seems to be full of dark places than in one who lays everything bare. We look to a friend for sheltering wings to brood over our confidences, not for magpie tricks of concealment. The Oldest Couple. A Gallipolis correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette thus calls attention to two very inter esting relics of the last century : "There is probably now in the Gallia County Infirmity the oldest married couple in the United States namely, William J. Davis and Lucy Ann Davis, both of whom were born in Pennsylvania, the old gent being born on November 30, 1771, and the old lady on February 19, 1778, both being over 100 years old. They each have been married twice be fore. He is living with his third wife. and she with her third husband. They j have been living together 43 years, or j nearly half a century. Ihey are both hale and hearty, and bid fair to live for '20 years yet. The old man is a little deaf, but with that exception they are both in possession of their full faculties. The old lady even reads without the ni ! of glasses, On Sunday, Novenitor 10th, j they walked two miles to call on a ftnd, and were little fatigued by the cxtion. Four years ago they walked from here to Jackson, a distance of 32 miles, in two days. The old man has never been sick a day in his life, and as yet has never taken a dose of medicine. He is addicted to the use of tobacco, but his teeth are in a remarkable state of preservation." The above is a posi tive fact, and can be substantiated. We challenge any State in the Union to produce their equal. In Wyoming where lovely woman can vote if she will, she doesn't Only one woman in the Territory has lever been elected to office by the people, land now official station is never demanded by any member of the sisterhood. JNot half the women in Cheyenne have cast a rote since the first two elections. (Al though there are separate polling places for the sex, respectable women stay away from the polls and out of politics. The only women who take an inter, est in elecr tions are those of the baser sort A Scotch Effort With the Long Bow. Concerning the long bow, no Ameri can effort can surpass one that comes to us from Scotland. "It was "told that Colonel Andrew M'DowalL, when he returned from the war, was one day walking along by The Myroch, when he came on an old man sitting greetin on a muckle stain at the roadside. When he came up the old man came up the bid man took off his bonnet, and said: " i e're welcome hame again, laird." "Thank you," said the colonel, after a pause, f'l should surely know your face, Aren't you Nathan MrCullochF "Ye're richt, 'deed," says Nathan, "it's just me, laird." "You must be a' good age, now, Nathan," says the colonel. "I'm no verra aul' yet, laird," was the reply; 'I'm just tumt a hunnner. "A hundred!" says the colonel, , mus ing; "well, you must be all that. But the idea of a man of a hundred sitting blubbering that way! What ever could you get to cry about" "It was my father lashed me, sir," said Nathan, bubbering again; "an he put me dot, so he did." "Your father!" said the colonel, "is your father alive yet?' "Leeven' ay," replied Nathan: I ken toat the day tae my sorrow." "W here is her says the colonel. "What-an age he must be! I would! like to see him." "Oh, he's up inthe bam there," says Nathan; "an' no .in a horrid gude hu mor the noo, aither." They went up to the barn together, and found the father busy threshing the barley with the big flail and tearing on fearful. Seeing Nathan and the laird coming in, he stopped and saluted the colonel, who, after inquiring how he was, asked him what he had struck Nathan for. "The young rascal'.' says the father, there's nae doom, wi'him; he's never out of mischief. I had tae lick him this moiniu' for throwin' stanes at his grand- ! father!" j The l'eacock Hall oi Delhi. Peculiarly set apart' for the reception of nobility is a quadrangle of moderate dimensions.' The building is a very beautiful pavilion of white marble, sup ported on massive pillars ot ne same material, the whole of which, with the connecting arches, is richly ornamented with flowers of inlaid mosaic Work of different colored stones and gilding. It is raised on a ten ace four feef high, the floor ot which is composed -ot flags ot white marble. Between each of the front row of pillars is a ballustrade of marble, chastely carved in several de signs of perforated work. The top of the building is ornamented with four marble pavilions with gilt cupolas. The ceiling of the pavilion was originally covered with filigree work; but in 1799 tbf Mahrattas, at'ter a capture of the city, took tha silver down and melted it, the value of the same being estimated at nearly a million dollars. In the cor nice at each end of the interior hall is sculptured in letters of gold,Uii the Per sian language: "If there is a paradise on earth, it is this." In this hail was the famous peacock throne, so-called from its having "the figures of two pea cocks standing behind it, their tails being expanded, and the whole so inlaid with sapphires, rubbies, emeialds, pearls and other precious stones of appropriate colors, so as to represent life. The throne itself is six fet long by four feet broad. It stood on six massive feet, which, with the body, were of solid gold, inlaid with rubies, emeralds and diamonds. It was surmounted by a canopy of gold supported by twelve pillars, all richly emblazoned with costly gems, and a fringe of pearls orna mented the borders of the canopy. Be tween the two peacocks stood the figure of a parrot, of the ordinary size, said to have been carved out of a single em erald. On either side of the throne stood a chatt't or umbrella, one of the Oriental emblems of royality. They were made of crimson velvet, richly embroidered and fringed with pearls, The handles were eight feet long, of solid gold, and studded with diamonds. The cost of this superb work of art has been variously stated at sums varying from 1,000,000 to 80,000,000. It was planned and executed under the super vision o f Austin de Beadeaux. Bere ford's Delhi. Boot Flirtation. The handkerchief and jdove flirtations have done good ser vice in their way, but they are only for the use of lovers and young people. For some time there has been a great want of something of the kind to fit tramps. A fertile brained genius in this city has got up a boot flirtation, intended espe cially for those who are pestered by tramps. It runs something like tins : One step forward Tramp beware. Two steps forward Cut your story short. Bight foot lifted a few inches from the ground I have nothing for you. Bight fxt extended backward Get outside the gate. Right foot brought swiftly forward 'and planted firmly under coat tail of tramp Leave the premises instantly, and advise all your friends to steer clear of this house. It may be well to state that the flir tition cannot be carried out with success unless the tramp is much smaller than you are. In following the directions alwve given it should be boi-ne in mind that the paper is in no W'ay responsible for any damages. Ex, Soldiers are paid in fight money. k Jlct'iiauical Whale. But a short time ago the world was startled by the deadly effects of the tor pedo; and as this fearful engine of nal warfare is every day arriving at a great er state of perfection, it bids fair before long to completely drive out of the field our costly iroiicladstj We cease, how ever, to marvel at the torpedo, when we hear of the latest discovery in scientific warfare namely, a submarine -boat. This boat, named oi the designer of the "Garrett" torpedo boat, can be made to sink, rise, move forward or backward, above or below the surface, at the will of the manipulator. It is cigar shaped, running to a point at each end, in length about fourteen feet, and in width about five feet. It is constructed of iron plates nearly a quarter of an inch in thickness, and the weight of the boat, including ballast, is about five tons. It is pro pelled by means of a four-bladed screw, worked irom within by an ingenious combination of treadle and fly-wheel, and is steered by means of an ordinary rudder. The boat is balanced evenly by means of a leaden keel, nearly two feet broad and weighing about two tons. Access is trained to the interior of the boat by means of a little square tower rising from the' center of the ciarir to : height of about two feet. Once within and having closed this manhole, the op erator can descend when he pleases. At each end of the boat is placed a water tank, and it is by means of these tanks that he descends and ascends at will. If he wishes to descend he turns a small tap, and this filling the above mentioned tanks with water, the boat naturally sinks; when he desires to rise to the surface, he makes use of an air-pump, and, expelling the water, restores the buoyancy of the boat. In the sides of the above mentioned tower are four little windows, and, in addition, two small brass caps. They are flanked in ternally by a long kind of stocking, of stout waterproof material. The caps beinit removed, these stockings fill with water, and, by turning them inside out and using each as a glove, the operator gets the free use of his arms outside the boat to work his torpedo. In addition to working the bout, the submarine trav eler iiis to keep himself supplied with pure air. The breath which he exhales passes by means of a tube through a kiucLof knapsack containing a mixture of chemicals, and by this means is pur ified sufficiently to be fit to enter the lungs again. The boat is, oi course, lighted by electricity, as gas would in crease the impurity or the atmosnlmi A series of experiments took place a short time ago with the boat in question and were, we were given to understand, highly successful. The present speed of the boat is only four or fve knots an hour, f but Dr. Garrett contemplates building a boat much larger- size, capable of accommodating three or four men, ami nas a scheme in view tor in creasing the power of propulsion of the bout. Bringing up 'Hoys in Knoware. The streets were clean as a new pin, and mortal still, though you could hear little folks laughin' and craeklin' in the cool gardens and pleasant houses by the side of the way. "Where air your public schools;," sez "Here," sez he, stopping before a long low house, like a shed some, that seemed to be fixed up with rows o' hogsheads, among which several men was steppin' round and tonkin' out loud, one at a time; "there's theschool." "But I don't see no children." "No; you can't see through a mill stone no more'n the nxt man. We head up the boys at six year old in big barrels, and feed an' eddooeate 'em through the bung hole till the age of 20. They're extension barrels, so'st the l&vs can grow." I was took aback. I was kinder rilled, "What!" sez I, "all you boys in barrels! None o' them things folks lay sech stress on in teachers' conventions no home influences, no manly sports, no everiastin' friendships, no Sunday schools, no " Here I sort o' give in; breath seeinea to peter out. but lie took up the talk: uNo, sir! Cats and piars and chick ens live out all their days in puace here; nobody's a tyrant over mother and the gins ironi uawn to dark; no broken bones nor cracked skulls. Our bovs don't never get drowned, Mowed up with powder, tangled up in burr saws, split with hatchets, spilled off'n horses, run over in the streets, nor jammed to bits under fire engines. We don't have boys swearin' and spittin' on every street cor ner, strain' their backs a boat racin' and their temper bettin' on no colleges to upset their manners and morals, and let 'em herd together like wine, and then tumiu' off 'em loose on a world lyin' in wickedness, as our old parson used to call it. Nobody heres killed at base ball, nor mangled nuther. Marbles, pea nuts and tire crackers never pester us. We have peace." 'dlow delightful!" sez I, kinder invol untary. "More'n all that, we don't never, have lio divorces. Them boys come out at 20 year old so orfuriueek and pleasant and grateful, their wives don't have no trouble with 'em at all." We have yet to find the hired girl who can carry a lighted candle in one hand anil a can of kerosene iii the other without an item inthe daily papers. Buy Carriage Hard 1856. Front, First and Ash Streets. Portland, Oregon, FARi HVlPLEiENTS AND FARM MACHINERY. Sole Agents for the Following Specialties, wliit-k are Acknowledged the Best in nse: The Bala Farm Wsxon, tlie only wagon that has stood the test for last fi.'in years in Oregon. Champion Xoline l'lun'. aardfn City Plow . Oliver Chilled IJo. the ouly chilled plow that has proved of any value. Beware of spurious Imitations. Superior Uraiu Drills and Superior Broad (nut Keodora, latest unproved and uneqnaWd. Monitor Eroa Cast SeciU-r. latest improved. Garden City Sulky Plow, too well known to Heed comment. Evans' Snlky Plow, which has taken first premium at Oregon State Fair for last four rears. Bayl iss Wneeled Harrow, the only successful wheel harrow yet introduced. Pal i lie Fan Mill, the only null iu market that will clean wheat perfectly and take out ail the wild oou, eockle, etc., etc.. Citfer Mills, Feed Cutters, Cultivators, and Harrows and Iron Mill men intending to build Flour or Saw Mills will consult their own interest r.v irettina our nrioe3 before ntuvhasinir ckewhere aa we nrr ft,n WATER WHEt-.I.S. JliLL Sl'O.VES. SM UTTERS. BOLl'INO cl.m'H P, ,t ' ?.R . ??..",. IVT ? T.R4rS,?.:,.n' se!'?re .?. "?. i""- : to mill iuruishiug g' cxL first class, and prices .Unay .... "... - " . CORUK8PONDENCE INVITED. A Happy C'extexariax. A light- "hearted centenarian cracked her last joke in a Detroit hospital, one day last week, and with a smile on her withered face passed thence to another and possi bly a more serious world. Her name was Margaret Eagan and her age one hundred and two. She had lived so long that her relatives had lost sight of her, for although she had grandchildren who were well-to-do, she was suffered to end her days as a pensioner of the Little bisters ot the Poor. But she did not droop and lose her spirits. She was as happy as the day was long. She used to sing, tell stones, and even dance for the crones in the hospital. Every day she would stroll into the infirmary with a 'big jewsharp and sit theie for hours playing uncertain jigs and rickety reels, and contriving to bring back to wan cheeks the flush of excitement and to dull eyes the light of other days. Only five days before her death she enter tained her companions in this way, and during her illness she amused herself with her jewsharp, joking, laughing.' singing, whistling find smiling, like a girl of sixteen. A few hours before her death the little old lady remarked to the doctor: "I'm strong and hearty and shall live to a good old age." It was her last joke. It is notevery cen tarian who can trip through the Valley of the Shadow, keeping step to the creaking j ingle of a rusty jewsharp. "What do you want to shoot quail on the. ground tor! howls a sporting jour nal. On the ground because we can't hit 'em anywhere else. We give notice this issue of extensive assortment of parlor suits in silk, rep, terry and hair-cloth coverings made in a workmanliko manner, and the lowest prices consistant with good work. Bed room suits in walnut, ash, maple, spruce and pine, trom ijf-lUU down to aj per suit, consisting of bedstead, bureau and mirror, washstand, table, two chairs rocking chair and towel rack. This house carries some 1,500 oases of chairs in the knock down for the trade, also an immense stock of carpets and oil-cloths. SlIIXDI-ER it CHAPBOITRNE, First street, between Yamhill and Morrison streets, Portland, Oregon. Henry's Carbolic Salve The best salve in Hie world for cuts, bruises. sores, ulcers, sail rheum, tetler.chnpited hamif, chilblains, corns, mid oil kiritls of skin eni(i- nous. i ins sa?ve is gunranleeu to ulvf r fii satisfaction in every ciiso or money n-fmnb il. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by all uiusruisrts. I'hilnilclphia 10 Iorilaii:l Direct. Tlie Pacific Coast Stcanisliiii Comnanv will (iisiatcli their new an:l elegant iron slcimiship State of e'nUfor nia" from l'hilailclnliia. 1'a. to Portland. Orrn. direct on about Februmy 1st. For freight aimlv to J. il-j- Crakcll & Co., (10 North Fi-oat street, Portland. Ou'ii, Cooitall. Perkins & Co., 10 Market sti"eet, San Fran cisco, Cal., Willani K. Freeman, 74 Pine street, IseW Vorkjjity, or 103 Walnut street, PhiUdelplia, Pa. For diseases of the Liver and Kidnej-s try the Oregon Blood Purilior. For Dyspepsia nse Pfunder's Oregon Blood Purifier. A certain cure. iT In waking km tirclia.ne ur in writing iu response to any advertise ment iu tliis imper you will please men. tion the liameol tle g;iK'r. s"f if - - ti zr ut u aj & , T ad; S AT A USTANOE I liOM l'l IHTI.AXD CAN We keep the Lai-ueHt and Finest Stock of - Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Silks, Cloaks, Ar-.d evcrytliine; requisite to a strictly FIKST-CLASS ESTAItl.ISU.MENT, in Oregon. it will cost very little to send to us for samples and prices, and it will enable cvcrylnrly to take li'vuntiiijt of the re;tnt.declilie in the price oi DUY OOOi;S. We also keep a Full Line of CtfT&' FMRNiaxi't'G COOPS. Clarke & Henderson, Corner First anil V.nsliintou Streets, PoKTLAXO, OR EGOS. . THE BEST CICAR C RECORD, Ciiil House Cliiars.' To be had at Eiiglebreeht, Fox & Co., i12 and 31 1 Front street, San Francisco. SIS A DAY PlIOFlT RKI'OUTS ON'E AGENT, another la. New article. triune for vou. Local aii'i IravL-liii s:tk-sm-n wan tel. Particulars free. i:ui-.;ka manufacturing Cuiiipmy 14 .Second btreet, San BURTON HOUfe, Corner Tliiril anil I' Streets, Xear the Steamship Landing and Railroad Dspots, 1'OKTLAMj. ouecon- Lewiston & Fretlaiid, Proprietors (lite of Minn sola House.) Will spare no pains nor expense to make this house 1HK m.Vr IKl'II.I, IX I'OliTl.ANO. ware & Woodwork IMPORTERS AND DBALEOS IN uiti.lULL OA 11 .U1L1.T I I : i . PlRTm k' U!l I d iili .1 rt i n a t tf'-j the lowest., ; ' " " ' New Publishers. Ne-wr Editors. THE WEEKLY BEE. The Host Agricultural and L,lve Stock Journal Published iu tUe Northwest. THE MONOPOLY BKOUEX. Tin- latest ti-legrapliic ne s fi um &11 parts of the ttiun- tcy reported specially for tlie Daily and "Weekly Be. Tlie best agricultural and live stock writer, in Orecun lias been engaged to write exclusively for the WEEKLY I'.EE. The best literary talent money ran piorire is I employed in all itx dejiartnients, ansf tlie WELKLY is now tlie most complete and reliable farmers paper published jou the l'acific Coast, as well as the cheapest. Subscription price 82 per annum, invariably in ad vance . All new yearly subsciiptions from this date will be sent till January 1, 1S80. Address D. H. STEARNS & CO., PORTLAND, OKEGOX. Lubricating Oils. Lard Oil, Castor Oil, China Kut OU, Xok F-Ifrli Oil, (salmon Oil. 1'arafflne Oil, Dotuer Hi)ludle Oil For Bale by HODGE, DAVIS 8s CO., Wholesale DruKBlsts, . Oregon Standard Soap Works, IRVING A WEBJ, Proprietor. rOKTLAXU, OHEOOX. Tlie only steam factory north of San Francisco. Send for circular and price list. FIXE FAK3I FOK SALE. OOO Acr s. ONE OF TITE BEST FARMS IN OREGON. IN A fine state of cultivation, fully fenced, excellent huildhnrs, steam iiower and all late improvements in agricultural machinery. Lvcrythhnr to be sold at a lmrtrain. it produced 10,000 bushels of wheat in 1S77 and 8,000 bushels in is good for au average of nine Tiiousanu ousneis every year. j. Price 30 per acre, terms to suit the buver. D. H. STEAKNS CO.. Real Estate Agents Portland, Oresron BEST PLOW IN THE WORLD 18 MiDE OP Oliver's Chilled Metal It will ran lighter, tnrn and do better work of all kinds, than anr other plow made. Beware of Imitations. See that the name "Outtb" and this trade mark are on tne ueam or me flow. The genuine Outer Chillkd PtrrWs am be had ouly from us. or oar Authorise! agents. KNAPP, BURRELL & CO. General Agents, For Oregon and Washington Territory, FORTJLAA'D. OREOOIC DRAKE'S YegefaMe Specific Remedy, FOR ACHES AND PAINS, TAKEN INTERNALLY, IT CURES C'Ol GIIS, COLDS, CRAMP AND PAIN IX STOM ACH, COLIC, I)IARItH(EA, DYSENTUKY, SUMMF.H COMPLAINT, CHOLERA JIORBUS, IYRI'EPSIA AND ASTHMA. 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Price per annum' $1 50, I if sent in on or before January 15; after that the subscription price .of The West Shore Vill be $2 00 per annum. The Hon. H. II. Bancroft, who is considered one ot the very best authorities on literary subjects in the L'uited States, sars of it: "As a historical and pracU callv scientific periodical, I reeard THE WEST SHOES as by far the best mblisbed on the Pacific Coast." In A. J. Richardson says: "Vun deserve the en- dorsement of every man who has the rood of his State ; at beart. Consider me a perpetual subscril perpetual subscriber. Hundreds of ot her testimoi ials and endorsements are on file nt our ottice. The people's endorsement-'THB W EST Sut IKE has the largest circulation of any publi cation iu the Pacific Northwest. S...d your address on a postal card and ask for our club list, or send 20 cents fur a specimen copy of THE 1-J51 hltuiifc. containing our cluh list. Address L. SAMUEL., Publisher West Shore, PORTLAND, OREGON. The Northwest Coast . A closely printed 56 page pamphlet on the resources ot Oregon, Washington and Idaho and their relation to the North Pacific Railroad, by Rev. Geo. 11. Atkinson, D. Dl Illustrated by two complete maps of the territory It should he in the hands of erery inquirer about this country, and is sold at the extremely low prioe of 26 cents per copy. ' - . A discount of 25 per cent, to dealers. Cash most ao. com .any all orders. Address,, : ' I. H. Stearna A Co.. Tfewspaper Publishers, Portland, Oregon. VOODKURN yURSEBIES. Fruit, Khntle, Ornamental and Jfut Tree, Vif ami Mirulibery. Choice Trees, Si cents each, $16 per hundred. Send for Catalogue and l'rice List. i. 11 fiETnXKIEK, " Woodtmm, Oregon. SCROLL SAWS! HOLLY & WALKt-T. ,SAW AST PATTERNS. tW Writo for Price : F.'wt. - . .' I)AYT0 & HAtL. Portland, Qr.' SOLE AGENTS KB SHE UNRIVALLED bTAM)AKI aSD KSTEY 0R8AKS, D. W. PEKNTICt CO., Music Dealers.' Portland, Oregon - J. A.. 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