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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1877)
62 THE AVEST SHORE. December. TKOpDKN PLOWEHS. There urn mme heart that like the loving vine, Cling U BnUndlj ruck and ruined towers. HpirfLn that suffer nrnl da HOl repine I 'at lot it mid sweet ns 1 - k troitUen ftfiwerfl, Thnt (ruin the pMWI heel wise, AJid bring back odorOOl broth instead of sigha Btf there nre other Injuria tlut will Mt (eel Thi lonely km that huunu thdr tjm unil WIJ That whim t'i faith wlionnger worn iimn tti. Ami out ill pUl ' Ipriog draw idle tears. Oh KalUM, shall it ever he thy will III tlnlijrs with 00d Ui mingle, guud with ill! Why ili'iiild the he-ivy foot of narrow press The willing heart I uiii:niiiiliiitiiiiir love Meek charity thai -brink noi fruit) (lities, t;untienurt, loth hur tyrants to reprove r Thnii(b virtue weep forever luiil lament, Will one hard heart turn to her and n-jMintT Why should UN Ntd bf broken that will hei.d, And they that dry Hie I tars in other eyta Love weepelh alway witpttli for the Kutt, r'nr woe (hut urn, fur WOW that may betide; Wliy iboaM not hard umhiiioii weep ul last, r.nvy and hutred, avarice and pridi 1 Fata whumen that mo low la your poor lot, 'II..'. would be rebel; love rehelleth mil. A THANKSGIVING HYMN. CanaliUle child, like me, Thanh the rubor liitiiiL'iy T Yea, oh )' ' he and true, Patient, kind In all you do; Ivjvu the Lord and Jo yutir pari, i 1 i r 1 1 to aay Willi all TOUT heart: Kiitlier, we thank Thee ! l-'ather, wu thank Thr-c ! Tather In lliuven. wu thank Thee ! fur the fruit Opon the tree, Fur the birds lliat sjpf tu Thee ! Kor the cartb in beauty draft, V'atlier, uiulber and the rent, Kor Thy precious, tovinf i", Kor Thy bminty ev'rjwlieru, CMbtTj wethank Thee ! lather, we thank Tbee Father In llcamii, we tbank Thee ! at. JviaMM RELIGION AMONG THE EARLY MINERS, While thu rough element in ralifornin society wna large from tliu iirat, there were among the priiuitivu aettlera hero mutiy devout nml (.oil Luring people, as in evideuend by Uw fact that w I. i.l regulnr preuehing Midi Nunduy school in Ooloma nven no early as the time of which I am Hieaking. Thu lending ipiriU In neeming these religious obnorrnnoM wm the Mena. Sumiett, Anthony and tHt, tho latter two being aniloiio ami intelligent OXUOUndori of the Word, whilo nil of tliem, liy their walk and ton vernation, illustrated practically tlio due trinoa they taught. Out) pleasant day, while divine service wna in progrcsa, there rodu into camp MB all party of splendidly mounted men, who, proceeding to thu log hut that served for ft meeting houae, jumped from their horses and hurriedly entered tlio place of worship. Among theae new toincro was one, n short, Btout-built man, with ruddy, open couutunniioo, who, aa anon oa a suitable ...'n t mnt v ottered, arose and uuiu ited addressed the audience in a manner ho nutertaiuing and tmpmrfw that he aoou gained their clone attention, In thu course of his re marks hn disclosed the fact that hu was a Bea faring man and that, having jolt brought bin teasel ui tho river to tho umhareadero, he had nine to gratify Ilia eurioHily by seeing thejilaec where gmd waa first found; going on to admou Idi thu .I ' .!' of thu great futuru that wua prob ahly in reaervu for tliu country and of the Un iiortancuof gaining here for onr political and ru ligioua iuatitutioiia a linn foothold at the start. Having tiniahed hia remarkM, thu Ipwkar knelt and ollerud up a fervent prayer, at tlieconclu nion of which one of liia OOmptoiotll also ad dressed a few word of kindly advice to tho meeting. The Urst speaker waa Captain Uo land (lelaton, whit, after n succeasful passage round tho "Horn," had hnnight his ship into thu harhor of San Francisco, a few weeks lu Ion, and then nailed Iter up the river to thu eniltarcadem, his having been the tirst sipiarc rigged vcaael that ever camu up that far. t'apt. (JeLitoti, who waa not only a t'hriitian geutle iii. in, but a splendid seaman, and in his death, which occurred at San Francisco IMM IU or 12 yenra ago, our merchant marine lot ouu of its lttt saihits and brightest oruaineirts. Much more of liko purport might ttu related tondiiiK to show that the community waa not nil uinjodlv i tlieae early timoa. - ). 1),, in AVnrfitinV Vcm, A TnACilRB, bit no BOBOLAM Ihiring the past sumiuer a school in a district in the lOW!) of Ira, t'ayi,K'tf'",lty' wtw KUnMkdwd by the ioMher without a single scholar Itciug present. Tho U-ncher, a young lady who lives near tho chiHd houir, was hired by the trustees against lh wiahea of the people generally in the district, and thoy refused to send t'leir children. The lather of the teacher compelled hia daughter to go to the school house th e dnvs in a week, and slay then tho required number of hours each day. The young lady complied with her fath tr'a dfinniiif, and during thu eutiro ISWttkt wna the nolo ioviiniit of the desolate school ed itico. At the tint of the term her wages wen1 oollectod. BeVVtATtOI ANl t'HAIttrrtiH. Kepntatiou nnd character nre two things which must never i't CM founded. The one is eternal the other is internal. The one is determined by what other people say of us, thu other is our inmost ami rtal self. The one may vary with tho caprice vf the people, the other reiunina mielTectcd ly tho breath of applame or the mask of hypocrisy. Somotimeo n man, from certain cirvuiustaiuva, ii, ay hnvo n very gttl reputation, though his ohnrncter in radically had; and there have U-eii aanea in w hich the noblest mm iu point of char' actor hnvo Iwoii. just localise they were acting out their principles, iu very pour lepute, "John, what u the chief branch of education ui your school!" "Willow branch, air; maator'a aod up lusnxly n wholo trm" Why in n twhy liko a sheaf of wheat? 1W onnae it u first crmlltHl, and then thraslietl, and ttually hvooiiiM tho Mower of tho family. FIDO AND THE NAUGHTY PUSSY. CHYINII B A It IKS. Thuro it goes again, cry ' cry ! cry ' from morning tu night I do declare, the child never gota tired crying. "Oh ! let tho child alone," says Orandfathcr. ' 'Twill do hln gooil to cry, he liken it" Yen, that's the point, thitika I to myself. He's hcuti allowed to cry until it has become second nature, and ho does like it. This precious youngster is on the shady aide of three, too, but he'a (iraudpa's pet and Mamma's darling, and they are ready enough to shield him with, POOF little fellow, ho does not feel well, or hu's tired and feels cross." Now, if 1 had him to deal with, I'd soon cross that propensity to fret and cry (making everybody nervous and miserable about the houe). He can liud more things to cry about than any child 1 ever kuew. II yon start to leave the room, it l "wait for mine. mm ii ii you are in a nurry anil get the least iu advance, iu cornea the cry. A fall down, cry attain. Still whinins he nicks uu the cat, pulls her tail, she scratches him; this is good for a half hours cry. Then to cry for Orandpa's knife to cut pussy's tail olf. It is given to him for "conscience's sake." He cuts his linger -now for a gooil hour's cry. At uoon hu generally takes a uup; this prepares him for the evening's crying. At night the last we hear ll the patient mothers, "Oh! Willie, what are you eryii'g for; what do you want T" etc. Oh ! it wouliln t I liku to apply those "few jinli- msly administered spanks.' Now, iu my humble opinion, there is no nee at all for a child to lo allowed to cry and fret in this manner. It can do the child no possible good, hut much evil, making it cross and peevish, iH'sules the trouble and vexation it causes others. From my earliest girlhood 1 abhorred a crying child, and the older I get tho more I am continued that a crying child is one of the worst evils under the sun. I had a little sister once. Our mother died when she was but m mouths old. There waa a large family of grown brothers and sisters, but some way 1 became nurse to the little onn, child as 1 wub. 1 laid down the law now, baby darling, you must uot cry. 1 hate crying lialuca. I love you, ami don t intend you shall bo one. I kept my word, 1 never let her learn to cry. At tirst I would play at Ito-itcep by tho hour to iiuike her laugh. I remember often calling to my brother, "Come litis, help me to keep Katie laughing. She want's to cry, but I've got the laugh on top, Kt's keen it up." 1 uau truthfully say I was luiid for all trouble bv the iweet, good child she was. And 1 lelievu that any child can Iw ttught that it is just an easy to laugh an to cry. m navu a neighbor, a sweet little mother, ith three children, Having some busiuean ith her, 1 made rather nn inrlv call. She wnn not iu, but I found her little Dot sitting on the enrput in her night gown, plnyiugwithhershoen and stockiugn, 1 nnid: "Where's mamma, UNI jtukiug up through her curls, with blinkv eyes and roy, smiling face, she answered: "She gone somewheru's; my mamma 'II come back by and by, you wait, aov ' ahull couic, certain! sure t" What a pretty picture of love and conlidencv.. I snt watching this httlo happy two-year-old uutil her mother came. 1 naked Mi-. t, 'Does Dot never cry when you leave her alone?" "No. indeed," was tho otdck reitly. "that in one thiug I never allow my cluldrvu to do; for 1 twltcve it li an idle liamt. 1 went home feeling ipiite happy at finding MM one that could not only eiprvai my opiu ms so boldly, but exemplify tin in so beauti fully. Hut I must stop, else some little mother w ill get alter mo and retaliate by nnying; "Oh, yes. il s very well lor k'irl to piattie about lain. How She MaEBlBD a Farmer. Mock mar riages for the fun of the thing sometimes turn oui not to no. the joko they were supposed to tie. A Miss Clara Manning, of Brooklyn, and a Mr. Hniudage, of Unionvillo, in Now York State, nt a social gathering in the hnuso of the latter, last August, went through this joke to her, but, as he now claims, reality to him. He sayfl he meant it, and she says she did not mean it. The marriage service was read to both by a miuiBier, anu dou puiHiciy asuuitcil to the con tract by the appropriate response. Mr. Brtin dage procured a curtitieate of the fact that the jiarties had been united in wedlock according to the lows of that State. The step-mother of the unwilling bride applied to the clerk of one of the courts of Brooklyn to kuow what could be done about it; and the clerk, after ascertaining the facta advised that the bride should accept thu situation and make thu best of it, especially an Mr. llrundagu was n substantial farmer who understood "the management of pigs and cows," and was "a much better match than some city swell who carries hia fortuno on Inn back." Whether such a marriage is valid in law is a question for the courts to decide. The leason is that, if the parties do not mean the thing, they had better keep clear of the form. If they 00 through the form the presumption of law in that they mean it How to Make 1'akihian Copying Ink. The heat kinds of copying inks are, as is well known, prepared l-y adding a iercentagu of alum, sugar aim glycerine or salt to me extract of logwood Such inks have a violet tint, and gradually become blacker on paper. The copy is, however. very pale at tirst, and in often indistinct. Thi Thev don't know anything aliout habiea. Old maul s clillilrvti nre nlwaya iterfecUou, A'hA rVucen ut . . . A'srui !' Parisian copying ink is distinguished from the common kmdn by its npiiearance, mora or leas yellow in a liquid state, nnd by producing n distinct bluish black on paper. It has the addi tional advantage of preserving its tluidity, while the common kinds soon thicken. Prof. Ointl recommends the following method of preparing an ink which has nil the advantages of the Parisian: A strong solution of logwood extract is trentcd with I'; of alum, and then with as much lime water, so that n permnnent precipi tate is formed. Some drops of wenk chloride of lime are then added so that a perceptible bluish black color in attained, and hydrochloric acid is added by drops till a red solution is obtained. A little gum ia then added with 0.5 of glyc erine. Wosi an -FARMt Nil. - -Not many monthn ago, in weateni Kngland, the Ronl Agricultural Society gnve the tirst prize for the boat culti vated farm of over Q0 acrea to Mrs. Birch, of Stand Farm, near to Liverpool, nnd the prixe waa cmphaaiied by declaring that they believed the W-st fanner was ho who made the moat Mil i growing the moat (bod The judges nddetl: " We do not kuow a lietter definition of good agriculture, nor a lietter illustration of that detinitioii than is furnished iu Stand Farm." Wo must score a brave, broad mark for Mrs. Birvh and woman fnnnern noon the lean liecnuse tho lady in quention hu tho aid of one or two helpful nona. Velocity or Vibrations in Karth. Gnu. H. 1 Abbot given nn nccouut of hin series of experimonto to teat the rate nt which tremors from explosions are transmitted through tho earth. He stated thnt for one mile through drift formation n severe shock gives n velocity of nbout S,,VaJ feet wr secmid! The rate for tho great Hallett'a Point (Hell Unte) explosion wan nbout 8.300 feet r second for the first eight mites and nbout 0,300 feet per second for the first 13 miles. Theno estimates enorniounly exceed thone remrted by Mr. Mallet nome yearn ago to tho Rami Society, the highest veJocitien obtained by BUI Wing not over a third of the lowest and a tifth of the highest uoted fay Ocn. Abbot Ctt'NFOWDKR and Coal- The nmouutof gun powder consumed iu the working of col con stitute no important element in the coot It hu mvi th.M hiwh' V I nt one pound weight to the ton. BESSIE. I knew two ptiBBy cats who lived under the ham. One was gray, with a great long tail and the other was nearly all white, and she was very Boft and warm-looking, although she didn't have such a hmg tail as the gray puBsy cat But there was one thing about these kit ties that Bessie didn't like. They were just as afraid of her as they could be. The morn ing after the little girl came to the farm for her summer vacation, she naw these two kittena washing their faces in tho front vard, but the moment she called "pussy pOaty," away they ran, with their tails Btanding rijht up straight and wiggled through the hole under the barn and although Bessie went dow n on her kneen and looked into thu dark hole, and said "Puss, puss," she could see nothing but four bright eyes winking out at her. "The boys have worried the lifo moat out of those kitteiiB," the farmer said, "and they are " But I'll make them lovo me," said Bessie. "They'll both sit in my lap in a little while." "No, they won't," laughed the fanner, "but I'll give you a week, and if you can tame them by that time, you Blmll have them both for your own." The next morning Bessie took her patchwork and a saucer and milk and went out by the big ham door. She put the caucer carefully down near the kitten's hole, and then sat on the step and went to work on gramlmaa quilt. This quilt was to take 1,000 squares, and Bessie waa on her fourth square after three weeks' hard work. By-and-by a soft little gray nose poked itself out of the hole, but when the bright eyes saw Bessie sitting there, back popped the head again. Then a little white uoae appeared. There was the saucer of milk, and there waa Bessie too, hut she sat very still and made be lieve she didn't see anything. So the black pussy came out, and then the gray pussy too and walked along very softly and drank tha milk till the saucer waa dry, hut still Bessie didn't move, and the pussy cats began to think she wasn't n little girl at all, and sat down and washed their faces and had a run and tumbln around Bessie's feet But the patchwork drop ped on the white kitten's back, and away they scampered, and moat squeezed themselves to pieces as they both tried to get through the hole at the same time. But, tho next day, Bessie held the saucer of milk in her lap, and bv-and-bv the white iusa jumped up, and then the gray one too, and mey weru so nungry tnnt they let Bessie pat them as they drank the milk, and at the endof the week they loved the little girl bo much thnt when the boyi chuBed them they would run to Bessie, climb into her Ian. and cuddle nut nf eight under her little white apron. N, Y. Tri bune, Jr. CHAFF. A Nkw York tirm hung out a Bign reading, "In God we trust everybody else cash." If Eve had only been habited in the faahiona. ble pullback she would never have reached nn pplo. The Russian cnule had two heads when thin war began. He now has three. The Turk nut another head on him. The Now York woman who had n tree photo graphed on her by lightning has npplied for a patent on it an a trade mark. A French lady recently found aone-thonsnnd franc note in an old chignon, and now a great many people are scratching their heads to see what they can lind. Governor Van Jnndt. of Rhode Island han offered tho Government the troopn of thnt State. If accepted they will he sent west on a hand car. Misrt Mary J, Hannv. of Cortland, han been made Sad by marrying a man of that cognomen. But then when she geta over her tint little Sadness alie will be happy again. 1 iik Hawkeitt thinks "the creat objection to codfish is its "foreign accent What docs it nicau by foreign ac ?" The rest in plain enough. Graphic. Valentine Bakrr. iwhawed out of the Brit ish army for insulting a lady, han been Pashn-d into the Turkish army and received "honorable mention." Htbeh, n wife-beater on tho Ohio, was re cently drowned seven or eight times by hia neighbors. There are some in this city thnt ought to lie. As indiscriminate slaughter of dons is threat ening. All right, hut remember that every dog killed leaven several hundred tlean to be cared for and amused. Poor Poop, he it now beimz tried in Bnvnria for marrying a grass widow in Ohio, and thny have to try him by Ohio lawn. Nice prospect for a Bpcedy trial. "What n tho nnme of your cat Henry f" itniinrvd n visitor. "His nnme was William." said tho host "until he had tits, and since theu wo hnvo called him ritz W illiam." "If vou can't keep awake " nnid a narnon to one of his hearers, when you are drowny, why don't you taken pinch of nuuff r "I think. wna the shrewd reply, "the nnurt should be put into the sermon." It waa a strange sight in the nineteenth cen tury to witness seventeen widows following the remains of one departed husband to the grave. It waa not a sad Bight, but to an American citi zen it was aa hutnilinting an it wan strange. Irascible old party- "Conductor, why didn't you wako me up, aa I asked you Hero I nra miles lieyond my station." Conductor "I did try, but nil I could get out of you wan, 'all right Maria ; get the children their breakfast, and I'll be down in n minute,' " In reouenting n wniter at Mansfield to nana hiin the mustard, Mr. Secretary Sherman ex plained that he spoke for hiniaelf alone, nnd did not wish to be understood aa representing the winheo or preforencen of the President The mustard wnn then passed tha water ntating that the net, on hu part had no political aigni-