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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1877)
204 THE WEST SHOBE. Jiy DOWN INTO THE DUST. In It wi.rth Uk that we Jfwtle bn.ther, Iteuinic his l'o on the ruuirh road of life ? la It worth while that we Jeer at each other In the lilacknuHHof heart? that wu war to the knife? I jilty us all in our pitiful -tr if- God pity u all a we Joatle each other; DM pWltoa un all for the triumph we feel When a fellow j(oei down 'neath hla load on that heather, 1'iercwl to the heart; wordn are keener than steel, And iiiljrlitiur far for woe or for weal. Were It not well, in thla brief little Journey (In over the Istlimua, down Into the tide, Wu (rive Mm a fish inilead of a iWpMt, Kre folding the hands lo lie and abide Furever and aye in the dunt by bin aide? k at the nates Minting ran:h other; )ok at the herds all at pSBCl on the plain Man ami man only nrike war on tils brother. And laughs in bin heart at hi i ril and in; hhaincd by the lieaats thai go down on the plain. la It worth while that wu battle to bumble Home i fallow aohlier down into the duat 1 (lod iiily uh all! Time eft DM will tumble All of uh togfUkU Hkv halves In a iruat, lluiubled indeed down Into the duat. NHJMfeJTlllfr. MEASURES. I have a dainty OIU of jrlaaa; It Is not (f raven liy a line; lla beauty ih ita frau'ileuexa; A Uhy a band might email It fine. I pive a man to drink from it, One day, a draft of water oold. He took It like a woman' hand, In reverent, lovitiK, llutforlriK bold. Ho hehl it up in It Mil Might, (layjul on Ita texture ram and fine "fttlOh kIuhh as thla," he nkpturoiw aaid, "Dives wnler all the jrraco of wine." Another day, another DMA Hat laUflfi drinking at my board; Into thu dainty pMrttM idas, A H-rluM wine for him I pourvd. He drank it at a -wallow down Witti MNthand wrath I nll-algh bunt , Nor wine nor kLi-w waa uiiifht to him, So that he qUtaohfd hla l.rinh thirat. "Al if I aaid, "to him that hath, All thluiia on eailh tlielr tribute bring; Kr him that hath not, i-urlli takes hack, And Hm him boggWW) though a king." . It. in Berikntr. FARM HOUSE CHAT. (Mary Mountain in I'ai'llk Itural I'reas. Wu nil lil.'- I Ulk about self occasionally, uint I WM greatly interested when an unknown friend .LL.il wlutt hud become of inc. Could I mssihly respond in tituu for next week's paper? Yes, yes, it imiat Iki dime; and the subject, ho fresh and original, wu also In 'I'lrni,; Ullll doubtless Iliudo itself felt 111 tin household ways, wbioh ,woru jtttl tliuu blocked witli an unusual amount of work to bu done. City vacations went tit bittd and tliu latch string must ' hung out, ALAS, WE Till MODUBH LATClt-aTOUlU 1 No longer a simple leather Miring shiqicd liy thu owiltM jack-knife, hut a rontnlloattd ooU, ami mwmj .in. 'iii among iu t.,i:.-i. , iiuw is n woman to give eooount of herself ! Ami tho in. uncut pen hi. i ptPH (HUM to gether I knew how fatally tamo my answer miiitt bo exactly the MUM NtpOOM that would 0011M from Ill.lKM busy women all ovlt the laud who perform dmbU duty " mistress .in. I ninid, witli nu i' tcrnal MWH of failure, because there ih tint tunc enough to do every tiling well and enjoy life Iteaiilen, Also, tin re in no exactly well defined leisure for that pleasant duty of writing for t)m papers! UUUKVAm AN it insNKiw AND iutf-im, Willi all that IhOM wordn imply of endless routine; washing, irnuiii', IWVOytng, making InhIm, eh-auin' wiudowa and doom atul ahelvea and all tlu of the houae; cutting and inak iiij new gtnMMKj lltSfilUJ and athui the old QDH, llftniillg the itooklOAt, feeding the phtoklHI) tud laat, hut not leaat, "having com HMiy," ud dON not the nueh OOUWhsnl for now olio would like to throw oil' thu IIAHNKM lir I'AUK And pflUMM around five for a good time; hut in- rtotd U noil m bwdtlod on llttlo oloow nd uarher nud later than uaual. ao that iu botpt tftllty'i name there may l"' BO failure in that BllVphtU tnak the UMIOntblt ntund of cooking ajiil eating. All tin in wluit Iium btOOOM of me and the other IU,()()0, of wliom a fair jK-rvontaM would joyfully MUM over with ihuI and worthy "eor nOpUMOMO for BOtM eindea;" only, itnUJI to aay, they rtally eaunot liud tune (or it Ihtyi and in, lit' too aliott, inontha and yarii loo wort (of ovm tho bun budi of tin honoi uioUiur to BMOnpUlh all th' hmI works her hrniti may idau. How tiitwi tho very lHt Ihottfhtl and turns of thought will eonui when we are in the thick of those taaka thai cannot (toaaihly wait for tho OJHObiMJJ of truant fuicio; and if you imagine they may W m oarnly caught and iMtOMd hy ud liv, you will oorUiulv M dlMUpoiuWd U loaa your hmtn ohildivn arv more vital and wr lUwtl than the "couiinoii run." When the afleriuKin or evening hour for niat haa come, mind and body Ml tin-l alike and tho utuioat ell'ort can u mon than outline a pOOl deail MM of the theme that waa all alive with force and lUtfklf in tho Hmntlf, 0( 000 FN that i ditOOlllfilUL lor wo know MMH ttvt MMC muat hato not once, hut all Uio lime tho Ireaheat hram work; no wartuoil Offf meaaea or languid tratucuU of a weary day 010 bolp much M bttQd up the literary rifOC that mutt i&i "from Mutiiifruu In ituiquor," un til it ahall him. and hold a nrv iax m all the btfl boMM of the State, A frttilld waa telliuj mo rweuilv o( a aonnoit aho lil n. .it.l bJmmI Martha and Slary. I :,, m two wiumii. of whom we have audi atiriof In toncal ijliiiiiwo, have boOl much jii.-t. .( m l j-n-a. lod lor tho ttliticatioii c4 all claaaea, and Una otfert waa iu tho aitruvtt aiyl- uravely reproachful of Martha, weetly proiftt nl of Mary. Ho my friend long trained to patience was ahlu to Hit quietly to thu final amen; but when the placid preacher came down among the tnmbled Marthas of hta tlock, ahe turned upon him in comical wrath and .i-k.:l "HOW AUOL'T THE 1HNNER If Martha had acted like Mary ?" The blame and thu praise have been all wrong from the very beginning ! Don't you Huppoue Martha would have been junt as glad as anyliody to have nothing to do but sit still and listen to the talk ? Of eourxe nho was "cumbered about much serving," as every poor woman is who has unexpected company to entertain and all thu work to do herself. She asked the Iirtl to bid the lazy sister help her, so that the work might lm done and both have time to enjoy the visit. Perhaps she was a little spunky alwut it, and had a perfect right to be ; but because she was reproved, and lazy Mary praiBcd, we all have to bear the taunt; and yet what would become of this world full of rtotplOM men and little children if we should all follow the example of Mary? TUB raaUOKMt'l KKI'LV. I cannot imagine what he would soy, as thu truth Hashed upon his mind, that the Marthas of to-day sometimes keep the church itself from stagnation, and hasten thu steps of reform by being also "careful and troubled about many things." But keeping within the domestic in terests that started thu original text, there might 1h) a sermon from the Martha point of view that would lift thu burdeu of reproach from many a tired sister who toils alone, while tbe careless and easy-going take their rest. I'leasu lut thu sermon start from thu 40th verse nf the 10th chapter of Luke : "But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him and said : ' Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left mu to serve alone? hid her therefore that she help me.'" The two verses that follow this have made up herutoforu the fashionable text, and would jus tify among all Christian women a dislike of those hoiisuhold tasks that brought upon Martha such severe and unexpected rebuke. Is it not much nicer and easier to sit still ami listen to nil the good talk, and n praised for it T Wo would thus gather mental food which could never be taken away from us ; while the roups and roasts, thu good bread and butter prepared by toiling Martha, are all "done for " and gone in a day. Now, who will preach us this sermon and set our hearts at rest 7 A man can hardly do it, for he will he sure to liy tho track and tull us to hire a Chinaman and thus be forever free to "choose the part that Mary choae." A tranquil, complacent "Mary" is hardly equal to the amount of hard work needed for such business ; am) a "careful Martha" will never get time enough to put her thought through the inkstand mid spread them out to dry liefore thu public eye. Wo must wait for tho "coining woman" to DMM this crookedness straight ami justify those who must even do thu "cumbering" whether they like it or not Meanwhile we can all ciiilorso tho poet who I has said: " LoVO to lalmr and to wait" Rugnjjra ani Trims. Scientific societies are turning their thoughts to war topics. At a recent meeting uf thu lOnglish Statistical Soci ety, Mr. Itaveustein read an olalnirate paper on "The Population of Kussia and Turkey. Tho former of these empires boa M, 564, 482 inhabi tants, the latter only 25,086,868, or, including Kgypt, Tripoli, and Tunis, 4:t,44W,!K)0. The population of Roojuala is i. v.i 1,1a hi; of Baryta, 1,859,600, Tho population of Kussia increases at the rate of 1.1 S iier annum, thu increase amongst tho .lews Ikoiug at least double what it is amongst the ( 'hristiaiis. With respect to Turkey, there exists no data for calculating the increase, though it is most probable that the dominant race does not increase at all, a fact accounted for by vicious practices prevailing amonat the women, and by the sacrifices de manded from it for the defense of the empire. Some curious fact were ooinniuiiieatoil with respect to tho proportions botWOen males and females. Throughout Asiatic Kussia and iu a considerable portion of Kunpaau Kussia the male sex preponderate. The same fact baa boon noted in Rounania, Iu Qroooa, and in other parti of RnroM, The author thus BUmmoil Op tht raiultO of his investigations: In the Roman empire there are 100 RuatUUU to every .Ml meniU rs of other nationalities, and HKM'hrisluuis to every lli Mohammedans and Pagans. In Turkey, on the other hand, UK) Turks have OppOtod to them li7 uiciuIkts of other nations, and UK) Mohammedans to 47 Christians. Tho advantage, in both these re MOta, is therefore entirely on tho side of Kus sia. and the position of Turkey must apH-ar iu a still less favorable light if wu look at the de tails of the geograpliical distribution of the dominant race and religion, and boar in mind the interest existing amongst Slavs and QltOM on behalf of some of tho races dwelling within the limita of that empire. I .A mil NiKtca, -lr. rid, an inventive sur geon of I'aris, noticed that elderly people, w ho lor a long tune have w orn oye-glaasos supported on the MM by a spring, are apt to havo this or gan long and thin. 'Una ho attribute to the compression which the spring exerts on the arteries by which tho noso is nourished. The idea occurred to him that tho hint could M BUM useful Not long afterward a TOOM lady of 5 consulted him, to see if he could restore to Btodoratt diOMMiOM her MM, which was large, ttenhv and unsightly. Tm trait ho found was hereditary in her family, as her mother and M ter were similarly iffkMOd, I'hta was discour aging, as heretlitary peculiarities are particu larly oUt mate. Hut the doctor determined to try Ins inothod. Ho look exact measurement, and constructed for her a "Urtt pincr-nti" a spring and pad for cotmreuuug tho artery, which she wore at night and whenever alio con veniently ooubl m Uie daytime. In three weeks a coiis4atory duuinulioit was rvideut and m three mouths the young lady waaquit aatiatirtl with tho improvement iu her features. AGRICULTURAL NEWSPAPERS. In a recent number of the Boston Journal, a correspondent, "Young Farmer," aaya the fol lowing very truthful and appropriate words about the agricultural papers : One word now about the agricultural papers. Some of them have improved very much, as I look at matters. Thirty years ago very few actual farmers, whose hands were familiar with the plow, hoe, or milk pail, could lie found to write for such a paper, even upon Buch subjects as they had made their daily avocations for years. They were nut used to the pen or familiar with spell ing book or rules of grammar. They spoke their minds freely to their neighbors, but cored not to invite criticism upon points where they felt that they might fail. The minister, the schoolmaster, storekeeper, or doctor, who em ployed the time not devoted to their business in the cultivation of little plots of land, would write out their theories and ideas, and from such men we gained much knowledge. All honor to them. But among thtir wheat was much chatf. The had Out always experimented carefully enough, or oliserved carefully enough the conditions under which their experiments were made, to be taken as safe pilots in a chan nel in which they had only sailed upon abort pleasure trips, and which abounded in rocks and shoals which they had not seen. In a word, their advice waB not always practical, nor appli cable, as they thought it to be, to all farms and localities. To-day, farmers are studying and OXPOrunont' ing, who make "farming for profit" a business, and who are fitted by study, as well as by prac tical exjierience, to ux(uriiucnt scieutitically and to report the result In plain language, if not in Bowery style. It is the writing of such men that tills the columns of our leading agricultural papers ; and the time may come when they w ill occupy the time at tbe meetings of our agricul tural societies and boards of agriculture. A few of them have done so to the satisfaction of their audience of fanners, and others might. This is the history of nearly all progressive movements. Thinking men have started strange theories bold adventurers hnve tested them, as Columbus did the theories of those who lielieved in a west ern world before his day ; and when the discov eries are made, tin n comeB the practical man to utilize them. AFFECTION IN BIRD LIFE. The fidelity a"l affectionate intimacy of mar ried bird lite appears most conspicuously in pairs of the grosheak family and in small par rots. Hero is perfect harmony of will and deed. The two sweethearts apcar unwilling to leave one aiiother'B comiiany for a moment all their life; they do everything together eating ami drinking, liathing and dressing of leathers, sleeping and waking. Various degrees of af fection and harmony are discernible on close ob servation. Among thu Binall grosbeaks, pairs of which sit together, the intimate relation is never dlatarbeaj even over the feeding eup there is no quarreling. They stand highest in this respect among birds. Love tokens' are ex changed by pressing of beaks together a verit able kissing, accompanied by loving gestures. They are also more sociable, and even at nest ing time more poaooeblo than other birds. In thu case of other groslieakB, when tho male bird sits by the female in tho nest there are va rious d em oust ratio ns of ullection, but also alight occasional disputes, especially alwut feeding time. Next in order come the small parrots, which also appear almost inseparable. The male bird feeds his companion with seeds from the crop. This goes on ijuito regularly during the hatching, and until the young are some what grown. During alt this time the hen bird, which broods alone, never leaves the nest but for a few niiuutes, and the cock shows such af fectionate care thnt the whole day he seems to do nothing but take food and give it again. Yet oven this loving union is marred from time to time, even during the hatching time, with quarrels that even come to blows. Again, the male bird of a pair of challincheB only occasion ally sits on the eggs or young, but ho watches tho nest very carefully, singing to his mate the while, accompanies the hen iu (light and helps her m feeding the young. OAamoWl Journal, KnnoraaiUTI ok Auhhtltuhr. A clergy man once said to me, "Will farming ever bo considered more respectable than now!" My an swer was, no. Farming is highly honored, when we consider that from it llow all the calls for artisans of every DMM to supply the real or imaginary wants nf all mankind. Heaven, as a state, whether it relates to the present or the hereafter, consists mainly in the beautiful. Adam was to dress the garden, which meant to make it look well, ami at tho Bame time it would be useful. How is it to day? A lieau tifid garden attracts visitors from all the sur rounding country. No less does an extensive farm, made U-autiful by the diligent hand. Ity the iins-lucta of the fanu man mid beast sur vive. All other callings are supported by it; hut to the question. "Is it more respectable than formerly, or will it bat" 1 answer, it always bus bid the precedence in resoctability. Ood and gial men, in former times, looked with pleasure tuid delight on seedtime and harvest; so in this age, professional men extol the beaiitic of agri culture, and esjRvially every one who is looking for a lucrative oOoo from the people, will shake a friendly hand with the honest yeoman, as much as to say. your calling is respectable -tiofrrt MiuiAli'Jit, in .V. A', hirmtr. Wh it A Mas OaJUUM I'i'-.taikk In the course of an article on elevators the Poltftchnic AVrwif remarks: Few consider that sUir'-climb-btf uewssitates ui actual lifting 0f the whole weight through a vertical distance equal to the bight of the stairs. A man weighing ItiO pounds in walking up a rtight of II steps, ech with an eight inch iac corresponding to a 12-foot ceil ingl, in a time of 20 seeonds has lifted LMjQ pounds a foot high in that time nearly too weight. To climb to the tm. of A foUr-storv building say M feet vertically to the fourtli Hior in W seeonds represents the lifting of N,:eW ' pounds a foot high in that time. Ke duced to minute foot -pounds, this equals 5 ,Vtt poumis lifted a foot high in a minute, or one atxth horse-power. THE KINO AND THE STABLE BOY. During the visit of George III to the royal stables, a boy belonging to one of the grooms took his attention. There is no accounting for fancies; but there was something about the boy that won his royal master's favor, and the king treated him kindly in many ways. But a time of temptation come, and the poor lad fell into disgrace; he had stolen some oats from the royal bins, and, being detected, the head groom dis charged him. The fact that ho waa noticed by the king may have aroused the envy and dia. like of others, and it may be that the occasion was gladly seized by tho groom to have him turned away. There Beemed to bo no idea of speaking to the poor lad about the wickedness of taking the oats, and abusing the confidence of his master, but only a determination to treat him as be deserved. Who knows what a kind word might have done for on erring boy, n-hn gave way to wrong-doing iu a luuuieut oi temptation ? But such was not the case; he was turned adrift with a Btain upou his charac ter, to the great grief of bis parents. Not long afterwards, when tho king again visited his stables, ho observed the absence of the boy, and asked one of the grooms what had become of him. The man, fearing to tell the truth, yet not liking to tell a falsehood, said he had left. His majesty was not satiBtied with the groom's answer, and suBpecting wrong, called the head groom to him, and made the inquiry again. "I have discharged the boy, sire," answered he. "For what reason V asked the king. "He was discovered stealing the oats from one of the bins," was tho reply, "and I sent him away." The king felt Borry for the poor boy who had disgraced himself thus, hut determined not to give him up, and urdercd him to be sent for immediately. The order was obeyed, and with out loss of time the boy waB brought to the king. What a scene was that faco to face with the king of England stood tho boy, a con victed thief ! "Well, my boy," said his majesty, when the poor lad, trembling and looking very pale, stood before him, not knowing what awaited him; "is this true that I hear of you !" The lad could not look up into the king's face, but with his head bent down, his only aiiBwer to the kind Inquiry was a flood of tears. He had not a word to Bay for himself; bis mouth was stopped, for ho knew he was guilty; he had not a word of excuse. The king, seeing the poor hoy was sorry on account of Jits sin, spoke to him of the evil how he had not only taken what was not Iub own, but abused the confidence reputed iu him. "Well, my lad," laid his majesty, nutting Iub hand kindly upon the boy1! head, "I forgive you." Then, turn ing to the bead groom, said, "Let tho boy have Iub former place, and let him be cared for." What a thrill of joy did tho lad's heart feel as the king uttered those three words, "I for give you.' instead of being ordered off to prison and punished and disgraced, he was re stored to favor, and restored to tho place be had lost. What gladness this gave the boy's heart! It seemed almost too good to be true. But who could dispute it? The king himself had forgiven lum, and then the highest judge in the land had not a word to say against it; he was a guilty one, but now was forgiven, and that by the king himself. Will our young readers learn the beaotifu lesson contained in tins story ? Christian Guardian. DrvTJia, The fun of a good dive is fun in deed. I have often "fetched bottom" at 15 feet, and brought up a big stone to prove to my comrades that I had been "clean down." But once, in water like crystal, in the Upper Lalua, where the pebbles could be seen at tho bottom, 1 came rushing up with my head cracking, and saw an old fellow grinning at me. I hung breathless to a w harf-pile, and be casually in formed me that the water was 26 feet deep, "tbor or tharalsmts." Jumping from a bight is a doubtful job, Recollect that in everything connected with swimming you are top-heavy, and that water is incompressible. If you get off your balance while dropping, and fall on your side, either you will DO drowned or your mother will need, next day, all the cold cream iu the DOuAborhood. 1 have painful recollections on that subject. Two days in bed and a maternal lecture of the same length were too much to pay lor that one dizzy, sidewise niBh through the air. If 1 hail taken my leoden bead for a Plummet, I should l,flVe lieen spared the blis ters on my body. I ought to have dived. A'f. Xiclioltitfor Julti. PtJSUp Syi-AkiA -lf money enough can be .revided to do the work thoroughly well from its very foundation, then, of course, nothing more is needed than that its direction lie placed in accomplished hands; but, unless this is fully assured, if, as is nearly always the case, econ omy is the tirst thing to Ik! considered, then the rule of action is fully stated in two words, sim plicity and thoro ugliness. Avoid ail fantastic ornamentation and all decoration of every sort, that would bo appropriate only to work of a more complete and substantial character. Let wbati ver is done lie done in the most thorough way. If the ability is only euuugh to secure good grass, then do everything that is necessary to fiiruiBh tbe boat conditions for the growth of gras; make suitable provision for its care and attempt nothing further. Good lawn-like grass surfaces, crossed only by foot-worn pathwajl orer the turf, will bo more beautiful and more Utttfaoton than will poor grass, and cheaply made and ill-kept walks.--Cot. Wariny, in 0WMM A rAt'KTiot-a physician, an old bachelor, said lately to a single lady: "How can you with a fttastf conscience answer St. Peter what yon shall reach heaven's gate, for your heartleae new in refusing so many marriage offers?" The lady archly replied, "I ahall tell the apostle that Dr. did not ask me."'