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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1877)
I 112 THE WEST SHORE. Feb ruary, A DUTCH PICTURE. Hlmn tani hu onme home ijrifn, From miwinif about with his buMaiiwrs; He Ixm injmj l no taard of the Klnif of titin, And carried away the Dean of J sen Ami sold likn In Algiers, In hi house by the Mee, with iu roof of Ulw, Ami wtaUier-cock HyiiiK aloft in air. There are silver Unkard of unique styles, founder of convent and castle, and pilM Of carpet rich Mid run. In hi tulfn-frarden there by the town, Overlooking the ilujofihli utretin, With hi Moorish cai and druuiiift gown The old Mft-otptmh), hale and brown, Walks In a waking d renin. A smllo in hi gny mouUu.-hli lurks Whenever he think uf the Kin of H)iln, And the lUUxl tulip look llku Turku, And the xlknl Hardener as lie works I changod o the Dean of Jun, The wind ml 1 1 on the outermost Verge of the landscape In the haw. To hnu we lower m the K;xtiilii)) wast. With whkkvred sentinel at their M, Though UiU 1 the river Matte. But when the winter rafna tH-gin, Ilu nits and Ninoke hj the hlazitiK brand, A ltd old m-tarinii men rome In, Uutt-bearded, gray, and with double chin, And nittfs ui tht ir luuid. Thy nit thi-re In the shadow and uhliw Of the fhikerlng fire of the wi tiler uljfhl; Huw, in eolur and design Uktr tliow h Kt-mbrandl of the Milne, Half darkness ami half light. And they talk of tliL-lr veil turn lost or won, And their Ulk I ever mid e.ur lliemunu, While thoy drink the red wine of Tarragon, Krotn thu cellar of Home Kiauiih Han, Or convent nt on Ikiue. tUmtlu at llius, with heavy ntridu, Hu wn lit (Mrlnr to ami Irit; Hu I llku a bli that at anchor ride, And suing with Hid riing und falling tides. And tug at her author low. Vol owi niyntt'rlUK far and new, Kound of tint wind and miuiiiI of the am, Aru uiliing anil MliipiTing In hU ear, "hnn-iii Ihtiiz! Win uft thou In-reT (loiue for lb and lollow' me !" Ho hit think he hull uke to the w ajrnln I'ur urn-1 1 ion- itiiIw wiih hU liii.niin-vnt, To singe iIiu b.ard of the King of Nuiti, And t .iptiirc another Ifct.iii of Ju-n And wil him in Algiers. rnry W. Loti;iftliit, in Mlwtilie. THE AltTlST AN!) TDK MOTIIKIl. A yotlug girl stood over a block of marble, utriv ing witli eager, nkillliil Hntra to ttinlioily tint ttuHiitifiil iilt-ul timt HtniMl ho clvnrly 1 hi font wr muiiUtl viiioii. );iy at lr ilny, wui-k at tor wtck, inoulli attur mniitli, aim litlHirml witli mtiotit induNtry, throw inn liitr wlmltt mini into thu work hIiu lovul, till itt livtt tint 'imimoii(l nn Ktil" wiu mluuMNl, liur tok uihIih), ami liu (uotl tliroiili cyoH ftluuMt lilmilwl with U'Jirs of jny ujhiii tlitt work of liur IiiiihIh. Kvuii her oyoa, rciiilunil uvcruritii'itl by anient lovu for tiio pndcaaimi nhu h;nl vluMt'ii, ctmld mtv imtliinir t4 aitor, ami thmwin humrlf into a chitir ulio fouHtwil iijhiii thu Iiitily crt-iitimi. Hut rtwuntly thu hitiiy kIhh fmlfif from her nyi'M, Imr lip 4iiivirtil, iunl iiniIi iVIl mdily on tlmrtiriu hIiu inuniiuriHl: "So lK-iuitiliil, uihI yut IiIi-Iphh. Aftor nil tllti litifluwt skill, tin1 Ki'cutt'Mt uiiiiib am uuly iriHlm:u il. i lui iii, (hm! aluuo can miiku tilt) HI in I." A yiiuii); niothur wit Uwiilu thu unwUc in which liur hitlw W iUt nltciihg. 'I I u' mother' fitcu wan nwlinnt with Imprint!, yil hmk of awo ntlu tivur it &h hIio fj;t.iil uHiti her Ittth oiiti. Shu liHikinl furHitnl into thu fiitum nml thought, "Ah, if my huliy in hmii-biI, what a Kliri(,li work in tninw. Ami yt my wry hi m I trvruliU-H an 1 think of thu li-itrful ruHHHMiliility lid uhhi mo. if thin littliMiiiu live U Ikwiiiii itman, ho inuat iiillnuiiue, fir kihkI or ovil, no mniiv other livtw, antl what will Iiih hilluotu'c upon tlium lw? 'rhnnijih hi lialiyhooil ami cIiiIiIIuhhI, hm char Mrtr will Imj liku 1attio clay in my liamla. Kuch won!, t'ftch act, aye, oven each Hih-nt tlioiiKlit of mum will have ita inlhiuiice in a tirtMU'r or loa iUt;tvii, My life, not only out wardly lint inwardly, iniMt Imi mrv ami nolile, for t Ina HuiiHitivu littlu Hj.irit will, all unuon acioiialy, day by day rHlcot my inner life. ( titnl, bulp me to do thu work thou haat given mu to do!" Thu HculifivaH and thu mother wure tbu hhiiio. Which work ia tho grvatrr, thu nobler to tajthmn a lovely imaiu which shall Ik a "tiling u( iKwuty" men-ly in all eye", or to mold a little immortal wml, and, with (lod'a help, im irl lo it ao much of Hi likeness that it ah id I IN not nieivlv outwahllv U-nutiful hut inwanlly btvrly, hetl-lm) a holy, elevating inllueneu uimii all with whom it luia anything to do ,nd toviry mother ia thu w:oik j;iven. -Afu ''. Smt Vw Qt'Ai.iriKit. A yonmi woman rvuntly anitwerc! an uilvertiHeiiiunt tor a din ing room girl, and the lady wf the hotiae atvineil plwaMtl with her. Hut before on;ii;iiig her tliere were aumu ipieatioiiH W :. ".iijijioe," Mid the lady, "iihh only huji i ,f, uudenthuid, Utal you were carrying t , hi. iii tt k from the kitolieii, and bv and. -it i i. 11 ,i it alip (nun thu plate to tiie ll t, wh a m uld )ou do in inch a caaeV 'I'lie grt hkei " j lady iiar ui the eve for a inomeiil Imtore anking, "I it a private family, or are there UwtrtlontV "Hoard er," aiiawered the lady. "IVk it un and put it ttack on the Ut," tinuly rephml Uie prl. hhe wm eiigMl. -SiunnLttf .i-jt. Tn lliwi KuiKNti. The moat agrvcaMe ol all nmwiiona ia a aimple, frank man, without any ttih liretenaiona to an oppreaaive utvatnou; into who lui life, antl uiidvrataiid tlie uo uf it; "blilHd ahlo at all hour; alwve all, of a golden U'lnpi-r, aud attstdtaat aa an anchor. For auch a una we gllly eik-htuio the grvatett geniua, Uiimt brilliant it, Uio profoundvat thinker. PHtKNiwliir hi Cuiutv.-IW eivil and obliging to all, dulitut wlierw timi and uaturv wuinuajid you i Wit (rtund to utie, and that tnejutahip kevp UKrotl, aa Uio givatMt ti upon oarlh, and bv amv to i;rumnl it upon virtue; for no other u either happy or Ualiug. Jfwov 6 tAbly ia4nor. THK PINK PAHKOT ANOTHEGKAY BOY. Onw there was a parrot I knew him. He wore a pink suit, with pale, aulphur-hued plume in hia created cap. And then was a boy; and I knew him. He wore a gray auit. There wai a shiny ailver buckle on hia cap. The gray boy owned the pink parrot The pink parrot owned nothingnothing now, not even himaelf. it waa a great change, I tell you, from a forest to a cage, from choonmg hia own fruit and nut to waiting far them upon thu uleaaura of a boy. The pink parrot judged all txiya by the gray boy, anil he hated boya. He often tat on hid ring silent, motionless, and hatod boya by the hour. The gray boy would brinjf in iirapeH and ber ries and nuta, and lay them down in plain sight, but out of reach, saying to the pink parrot, "Wait a bitl wait a bit! And the pink par rot would wait, and while he waited the gray boy made faooa. Parrots have a crooked bill, and the upper jaw is hung with a hinge, like a, box lid. Did you know it? The gray boy would stand before the pink ttarrot, and draw bis chin in to look like the looked bill; then he would work his mouth like a hinge. Indued, the pink parnit was never certain of hia breakfast, as to time nor quantity. Ton to one, when a luscious grape won all but in his bill, the gray boy would go out of the room carrying the grape with him. He would say, "Will you have it now, or wait until you unn got itt" Maybe he would come back, and maybe he wouldn't. Itut the parrot's day came at hutt The gray boy had a watch lately given him, alovely !a littlu darling of a gold watch, that would tick, and need to be real "truly" wound up at night. The gray boy, one morning, the '24th of l)e oeuihur in fact, was to take the halftpaat nine train, all by himself, to join his papa and mam urn at grandpa's in the country. 'I he gray loy had brcukfa.it, antl wan now all ready to go. 11c hod to bruwli hin coat tint) put on his watch. Ilu left them up there oil the sitting-room til do. in readmuHH, all touethor. a moment ami. And now, how could ho believe bis eve, that ina watcu was not on Uie table! 1 lie gray hoy was in double dismay. It wasne;ir tram-time, mid thou the idea that a sneak-thief had been in , the limine! All at once, high over his head, there was a Hlirnl taugiiter. 1 lie gray boy looked up. Ilu ' gavu an angry cry, Thore, in thu ebony ring which hod been attached to thu ceiling lor his swing, high out of reach, swung the pink parrot I The gold watch was bo. ween his claws, thu chain glittering as it bung. As he met the gray 1 boy's eyes, lie cuckled again and laughed ma liciously. "Wait a bitl wait a bit!" he shrieked. Thu gray boy ditnoed with rage. While ho was dancing he heard the whistle of the half- tiast nine train. He wildly Hew down to the iteheii. The housekeeper had not returned. Ho Hew up-Htairs agaiu, ami, tears ' running down his diooks, hu flow out into thu street "Wilt you havu it now, or wait until you can get it?" Thin was what the tmnghty pink "firtrrot Nhrickod alter him, cackling with derisive laughter until be nearly fell ott' the ring. lust sobbing with helpless rage the gray Itoy ruthed up thu walk toward a tall man in blue with a st:ir on his breast "l' liuel I say, ti'lice!" The policeman was greatly piixzlotl dy the queer, half -understood request; but he wont into thu house. Anil whuthur the pink parrot had been used to seeing pnlbenien iu the green forests uf Australia and knew him at once, I cannot any: but I know hu started, digged, ami nearly tumbled out of tho ring when they entered and carefully taking the wnU-li iu his Ihutk he dropped down to the table with it, and, leaving it, scrambled out of tho room at fait ai ever hu could, squealing and cockling like an imp. The gray boy hod his watch again, unhurt; but the day was spoilt, his luscious gn was not brought back. The train was gone, and hu had to ally in town all through a lonely Christ mas day, and eat a commonplace dinner with the housekeeper. And the pink parrot laughed. Klla A'tirHuin, in WUie Auhdv. I! AN DY ' M kh. Miss Huby says in the Mainf Fitrmer: Next to a goott mousing cat, a good watch dog, and a good family chestnut-colored horse, is a handy man. Now don't misunder stand me, and say that 1 compare a man with either of my favorites in the hhvIi)cm world; not at all, man is the noblest work of (iod, ex cept a woman; but really a handy one 1 am un able to class. Conceive of anything about a home more desirable w hen circumstances have com o lied you to neglect home duties, or rather kwtNiue Oiuui, than for a man to fit I li II the surcease by being able to wash dishes, make bods, sweep, make bread, and in straight ened times dam his own stockings, sew on his buttons, and preserve his habitual good humor. If ao, there is no mtllu or splash iu the home life, in consequence of inability to maintain the order and com tort of the household. Of course the season of the year favors the demoust rations of handy men. We ahoultl not expect him to I leave his plow, harrow or mowing machine to help in the kitchen, but if he came to eat and I had a mind to place the chairs, fill the ice-1 pitcher, or pare the potatoes, it might contribute : wonderfully to the comfoit uf Uie tired house , wifei nut only hy saving sti, but the feeling of appreciation that cheers up many a tired worker, and braves them up for the nunilterleaa duties altouta home. Handy men are generally i fortunate in gttmg good wives, ami auy woman is fortunate who has a bandy husband. Common Skns. Common sense hat given to words their ordinary signification, and common sense is the gvnms of mankind. The ordmarv signification of a word is formed step by step in coiiuttctimi with facta. A a fact occurs, which appears to come within the sense of a known term, it is received as such, so to speak, uat urallyi the sense of the term liocomes vulargfd and extended, and by degrees the diuVreiit facta and dtilerent ideat, which, to virtue of the tutun of the things t!iemelves, tueu ought to elasa under this word, Uvome ui (act so ctasaeuV I OFFICES OF REASON. THE tJlKKCTOR OK BKfEABCH. Ixwking out of the windows of our mind in childhood, we see but little. Only the most brilliant objects are noted. As we grow older, we increase in perception; we look closer and see more. Advancing, we put this and that together, compare, combine, deduce and pro ject This is the work of intelligence, until then dormant in the human mind. Gradually superseding instinct, which now relapse to inactivity, its characteristics soon become im measurably different Under the direction of intelligence, the perceptions grow sharper and stronger, until every cognizable thing is seized and stored away, forming conceptions. Hut these conceptions are mere acquisitions. To make them into systems of related objects, they must be arranged and classified, forming knowl edge. This is done by the reason, dormant until a later period in Ufe, and through its deliberate action were formed the vast libraries of knowledge which the ancients have be queathed to us. In time the limits of the powers of the pcrccptives, taxed to their utmost, were reacheil, and assistance was de manded. Keaaon turned inventor, and thou sands of instruments were formed and brought into use, multiplying the powers of the eye, the ear, a thousandfold. A constant increase of the powers of the mind caused a vast accumula tion of results, and the records were too numer ous and bulky for the store-homes. Another limit was reached. Condensation of the records was necessary, or the growth of the mind must cease. The art of printing, swiftly brought to perfection, all'orded the relief necessary, and the grandest Btridos of intellect followed. Other inventions produced revolution after revolution in tho theories deduced from previous knowl edge, until revolution is conceived to lie thu normal action of mind as well as matter. The eye is the chiuf organ of the perccptives, the noblest of them all. The optic nerve, with out rniuitication, proceeds directly from the brain, thu only instance to lie found in thu whole unimul economy. The eye is a most curious ami intricate, yet purely mechanical organ. By studying its mechanism closely ami imitating its structure, man has invented two instruments to assist the eye, so powerful iu their operation and extensive in their revela tions that they have been called the creative eyes of science. These creative eyes are the tclusco)e, bringing universes down, ami the microscope, bringing universes up to man's con ception, RKVKU11I0W4 OK THK TIXKSCOPE. I sit us recall a few of tho astonishing revela tions of the telescope. It has changed thu con ception of the earth from a flat, motionless sun encircled table into a round, revolving sun-encircling globe. It has discovered the solar origin, the well nigh eternal ago, the unity of plan, thu harmony of motion and the vast dis-1 taneus of our sister planets. It has discovered I systems of satellites encircling these planets in ' the same manner anil direction. It has watched the transits of these satellites ncross thu disk of their primaries, and predicted within a few sec onds any phase of such transits centuries in advance of the fact It has lately resolved (a sub-revolution! tho supoed solid rings of Saturn into millions of satellites. It lias put the sreut sun himself into a crucible, as it were, nml resolved him into a mass of molten minerals, each distinguished by the kind of light it emits, and shown their identity with thu primary ele ments of the earth and sister planets. It has discovered and demonstrated the origin of our Holar system from a mass of attenuated matter existing in bhico known as thu nebular hypo thesis, and believed to be the order of creation in the umreroes of stars. It has shorn the liale ful comets of their tiery terrors and proved them the merest ethereal tilins, too light to penetrate our atmosphere if, out of a million chances, one should approach it It has peered out at our, neighboring stars, anil determined that, though : the nearest ia over I IV 000, 0U0, 000 of miles dis- i taut from us, and each is undoubtedly as dis-1 taut from any other, yet they, with our sun, constitute a compact cluster or universe iu the form of a Hat oval comprehended with the unassisted eye by noting tiio galaxy spanning our skies at night seeming a belt of starry sheen-really a universe of suns, in the south end of w hich our sun ia placed, It has reached through immeasurable space and sviarated nebulous films of light into dis tinct stars, the members of universes like our galaxy. It has tixed with its keen eve the ex act position of the myriad stars of our firma ment ana iu the course of a hundred years it has detected au intiniteaaimal apparent motion in a few of them and therefrom deduced tb amazing fact that our sun and svstem of planets with all their attendant satelhtoa is wheeling through spaco at au inconceivable velocity, around an immeasurably distant central sun, ami on an orbit so vast that ages upon aes will tie required to obtain Uie elements uf an appre ciable curve in the grand sweep. At present this is the utmost and amazing ex tentol knowledge, hut Reason, Ubbmnded and unahsslietl, goes farther. Keaaon declares that the planetary motions, so faithfully observed in the revolutions of satellites around their pri maries, of these planets on their vast orbits around Uie sun, and of Uie sun on an inconceiv able orbit around the central sun, holds true also in the economy of the universes of space, looking the meret specks uf light even with the aid of the tlrecoe. but which are immense systems of suiu arranged in uniform order and wheeling around a grand center iuviaihly distant of or bits immeasurably great thtyugh cycles eter ually long! KK SJLVTlOSi OK Till MlCRtWOrt Within a few vuars. in fa.-t m. tb the present century, Uie microscope has been brought by the agency of reason to it present marvelous pow er and ust fubuMs. 1url.t,.,n. in Uie examination of minute atoms have nro- ' ltkl k .,., .1 ill r ' v... irimuuufl m uie oiu intone of Uie origin and constitution of orranin Thd mnm.ifvii.ff l.n. alrillf,.ll.. . .C the astonishing fact that all foriis of structure, either vegetable or animal, ho"1 diverse or complicated, are alike cotnuolT similar microscopic cells called vrmZ utricles. These contain, some of Uiei water only; others, an iiitiniteaim.il J .Tr globular atom the cytoblast the ntck life impulses, the earnest of new ceuj - growth. Around it circulates a semi-fluid, the protoplasm, which, with th closed atom, is ever in motion, flowing, combining, transforming, etc., so Uiat tiu i. . uitJlmn f thn m.,,ul lit. -t iL . e vi uie punt animal. in lavt, we viwu energy oi mess prinwrrfj,! utricles is sutticient for independent, sohtan existence, antl BUch cells actually compose? minute plants known in the Polar rejrioeii! "red snow" iProtococcun) and the microtootl! one-celled animalcules of protean ahapTu, A mtba. It is found that growth in the hnZ organisms results from theeidaiementajidi? division of these life-teeming cells iudctum. The materials and operations employed bti procreation of plants and animals ansejaL the eve of a microscope to be entiralv gous, or, as believed by some eminent scieaUsk to be exactly identical. In plants Uie grtisjtt pollen, each a cell containing minute molecak exhibiting, some authors attirm, a tremuk motion wlien transferred from the stamen fa the pistil, are seeo to be lirst speedily euJsrM by imbibing the fluid of the stigma, thentt form themselves into tubes, which sink into tat stigma ami extend within the style, how: long, atl'ording canals through which some d the animated molecules of tho pollen gnu travel to the ovary, seek out the ovules, they uui iug to favor the attack, penetrate by way of t iiucropyle tho two envelopes, traverse the tinous protoplasm and establish thenuelveiii (say some close observers) or upon (accordus to most authors) the embryo sac, when at once tat dormant ovule, the future seal, is thrilled ui a life-impulse is fertilized and grows top fection. The geueiis of animals, more positively Umn from its lamer observation, (litters maiulyfrai that of plants in this particular only; otatt names are applied to the same things. Hut one oi thu most astounding achievenwiiti of Hjosuii is Uie discovery by the aid of then croscope ttiat not insects anil frogs alone i deruo metamorphosis, evory oUier lain as well, including man, undiscovered until lately, bci auso it occurs during pre-natal exist enco. This wonderful and instructive fact wu suspected by philosophers long ago, but wm dm d.stinctly proved and published until our Utt lamentetl Agassiz, iw the result of IW yean1 re search, discovered that "there is a correspond mice bet ween the succession of fishes iu gee logical times and the different stages of their soon found -to exist iu all the other groopi of animals, and the grand phenomenon of uiuvcr- sai metamorphosis ana similarity of all au existence is now fully established. Iut us truce with a iiiinros(;oie the nre-n history of au animal,... ...ig all optical ilk sums by the agency of reason, and learnsMg gextive lesson. First, n microscopic molecule, or zonn, enter an inliiiitesimal cell, or embryonic vesicle. TV goon liecmncs the brain and iievoun system; tbt cell, the body of the future animal. Nouruhed by the surrounding lluids, or protoplasm, tit zoon liugins its mysterious life career. The otil tularin ; numerous uueleatie Lwdies (sn within; all is in motion, revolving round ud round. " At this jxtint of growth; says An siz, " the npM.-arance of the egg boars a wonder ful resemblance to our firmament of oekvtul spheres ami systems. This is no fanciful un iie," he adds, " it is simply true, and the kks cannot but suggest itsell to the mind that UV tlioiiglita winch have been embodied in theui verse are recalled here." The cell, or tea. not divides, suMivides, develoiea organs and limb, ossuinea the character of each type of auimsliiB their order, dropping the old and taking on uV new at each stage, ever urged onward by tot original impulse until it arrives at the theater oi its typical idea, when, assuming the habiliment clothing that idea, the animal is born, but re tains through life vestiges of every one of itt former states. How wonderful, surpassing the wildest ro mance, and how superlatively instructive is uV pre-natal history of a human child to-day fit ting on its imrent a knee, its features clutW wun me exalted idea of humanity, ana a pressed with the probable proofs of "ancelk s istenco through eternity, yet bearing in its par sou antl disjMstition vestiges revealing an aul ogy with, it not relationship to, every other Mr ma! on the earth. Once an infinitesimal osll: then presenting a microscopic universe; tbea globular, ciliated body; then a radiated polyp; then resembling a pulpy mollusk; then an orb tilated insect; next Iniaring the form of a a wiUi gills, tins and a two-celled heart; next tbat of a reptile w ith webbed feet a caudal extrem ity and thi-ec-eelled heart; next a bird wits wings, bill, a third eyelid, and a four-ceUW heart complete; Umn a series of change con spending with every type of the live orders cf m iminalia; arriving at birth at the culnunsuaf apex uf creation the elaborated excellence, tk ennceutrated energy, the perfected intclligeoc. the accepted monarch of Uio earth, n" cosom, a miracle, a model, a man! J. 0. Ltm ia isru t'rts. Kni.wti Fmb. The Iron Ag sayi: Eng- manufacturers look with little cordiality on ta French exhibition of 1878. The London pspf say "the world ta tired of exhibition. TW fact is Uiat they dread another omuuoo wiU American manufacturers in Uie presenos of world. Their defeat at Phibulelphia is well derstood in Kuro, and ia hurting Uieir foreWJ tratle, and another such at Paris in lH7 ws be likely to prove a serious blow to Britiah uuainea. CvRtoarrv in children is but an appetit aft kuowilge, I doibt not but one great re why many children abandon themselves wW? to ully sjstrU and tntle away all their tu ituiuitlly is because they found Uieir curiiwj balked and their inijuiriea neglected.