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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1878)
124 THE WEST SHOKE April. BELECTIONa Human Builders. " AM are architects tit fata W'.i k in' In UMH 'II- nt time, Bnmu willi inaive iImIn and ureal, ,s . r 1 1 with ornaments of rhyme. " Nothlmr useless is ami km, Each tiling in H - it best, Anil what mciuh bUI Idle show Streiijfthons ami supports the rest. "For the structure that we raise Time is with materials llllcil, Our to-day utid yesterday Are the blocks with whloh we huihl." LuitQftttvw. A Beautiful Simile. This rhyme I- like the fair pearl necklace of the queen, That hurst in dBOdrJf, anil Die t n 1 Ml ; Bami lost, some stolen, soiiic as relics kept, Hut never more the same two sifter e:irls Kan down the silken thread to kis wm-!i other On her white ueuk. So is it with this rhyme. It Uvea di-inmedlv i aliv hands. Ami every miu-trul sinus it differently; Yet Is tlierc one true line, tin- pi an oi peans; ii dreams of Fun while nin wakei to love." No oni is ho Moorwd by (ate, No one so wholly desolate, But some heart, though unknown, RNpondl utit" lilt own. Batpoad! M if with unseen winjra An amrel swept It quivering stroiiis, Ami whbpm in lis son),, "Where but tllOU stai td M (OWr Lmgelloir. The Good Man'e Departure Why wee. ye, then, for him, who, hartal won The hound of man's aiioluted year, at last, Life's hleasinjr all enjoyed, lift! lahor's dune, Sereiuli, to hi llnaf rest lias passed; While the o!t meuiorv of hi virtue vet Linttirs like twilight hue when Um bright sun Is et llryant WHAT OUB BOYS ARE READING, Professor Sumner, uf Yale, has Ix-en examining tlu; lliwli story papers ho widely read ly buys, nml in 8cribner for March givei hdu earnest wnrilit of warning to parents, accompanied liy specimens of the types described in tho stork'. Hum in onei Another type of hero very common In these stories is tlit! city youth, mm nf it ricjh ftther, who does act give hiit Hon as much pocket money an the Utter considers suitable. This constitutes stinginess on the father! oorti although it might he considered pardonable, icein tint those '"in mea drink champagne every day, treat the crow. I generally when they ilrink, and play billiurds for 1100 it game. 'Ilio father, in this olni tif stories, ii represented as secretly vi cious and hypocritically pious. In the speei iiitin of tin class before us tlie young man is 'Mieoovered" in the Polios Court aa a prisoner, whence he iH reminded to the Toombs. He haa been arrested for collaring r big poltaenun. to prevent him from overtaking a girl charged with imckot-pinking. He Interfered beonoie ho judged from the girl's face tint In- was innocent, anil it is suggested, for future de velopment In the story , . tliat she mi running away (mm insult, and tlmt thu cry tif "stop thief" was to get help from the police mid others to MiM her. The hero, who iH the MM tif a man worth live million, and who a in prieon under an assumed name, now lendl for his father's clerk ami demand $1,000, uying tliat other wise lie will deohUfl his real inline and disgrace In family. rJegetl thu money! He tlnm Hunds for a notorloui Toombe lawyer, to whom lie gives $000, With thUium hli release U easily procured. He then starta with his cousin to Initiate the latter into lil'e in New York. They go to a theives' college, where they ISO I young fellow graduated. Hi part OOHiltl in the tak ing of tiling from the pockets of a hanging fig ure, t the garment of which hells are attached, without causing the belli to ring. Of this a fall-page illustration is given. The two young men then go up the Bowe to a beef saloon where the hero sustain his etntiacter hy his vul gar familiarity with the nul wmterti. Next, they bear a row in a side street. I'hev tiud a crowd collected watching a woman who hangs from a third-story window, while her drunken huibend bean and outi bar handi to make her fall. The hero solves this attuatkUl hy draw ing his revolver nml ihooting the man. As he ami his friend withdraw iniohaervcd, thu for mer wards off the compliment of the latter hy saying modMtl) that he could not hear to stand there and hccmicIi crowd looking on, ami not know ing what to tlo, so he just tint the proper thing. -Next day the hero, meeting the thieve' college graduate in the corridor of the h'ifth Avenue hotel, agree to receive ami hold fol ium any booty hi may iiuwin the barroomi which he doHi At uiglil he ami his frieu I go to a tliareputahle masked hall, w here the hero rlCOg' iiie his father m disguise among t the d.i inert. Securing a place in the same set, during a pause in tht dame he snatches the mask from his own ami his father's face at the same moment. This edifying incident is enforced ley a tuli p. if ill u tratiou. A friend suggesU the tpicstiou. What demon Of truthfuluesa makes the artist put mcli hrutal and vulgar face on the men In thitu'lasa ot stones, tatlier ami sous are rep neiited as natural enemies, ami the true pool tiou for the sou is that of suspicion and armed peace. I.ifk l.KNoritKSKi). In all countries and all latitudes, the well to do live longer than the poor hy an average of eleven years; this shows the deleterious mftuiUOe of an anxious mind on the bodih health, the aiuiety for to-morrow's hread. (vniiouod tHTsods live Indefinite!) loug; ponCboUiai of tireat Hntian can any day turn out a large army of men ami women among the eighties and nineties whu haru Wen in those institutions for twenty and thirty years, owing iti greet p.n. to ou liahitual fuding ol oouKiletice that ample pfovteina u matle for the future, and the mind ia at net: hut it must not he forgettati that the cleanluteaa, the plaiu food, ami the reg ular hahita, coiupulaorj in thoM uwUtuboiw, oeelhbuto gnatly U th mi. FARM HOUSE CHAT. Always in the dismal, stormy days 1 think of the farm houses all over the State, and wonder how they manage to keep a cheerful fires Where there are restless little children it takes Wonderful courage and patience to keep thi glimmer of sunshine indoors, when all outdoors is dark with the driving storm, everything soaKeu aim dripping, even the house itsell springing new leaks in the most unexpected places. When my children were small, the regular ousiucs of a rainy day was "to have good times;" lirst, with the household work, which with the ohudreni' help can he made almost as good as a play, if one will hut take time and let them enjoy their eager fussing. What tun thev can have with hits of dough. A little board, rolling-pin, little plates, or even pieces of broken crockery, a lump uf dough ami a chance at thu stove oven, will make a child happier than the most costly toy; and what is better, thev do not get tired of this play-wurk, but ire always "any in neip motner OOOK, UM nniKf navy little cakes ; n I dauby tarts to serve up proudly at the "play-lunch." The favorite game of stage-conch will often occupy a whole forenoon, and the amount of time, Btring and patience that goei into the barnetllng alone is really wonderful. Of course the boy takes jealous charge of this department, with gallant hobby-horse for leader, a long line of well-matched chairs for team, and the big rocking chair for coach, with baggage-rack on the long rockers liehind. The girl is coually busy packing the small trunk, Duel and bags for real baggagu. dressing dolls in traveling rig, uinl even manufacturing an enormous passenger or two out of pillows and old clothe.. If there are several boys all wanting to harness, drive, and tto tin same thing at tin1 same time, the mother can teach them how much more fun and business there ia when each has his own trade and sticks to it for a whole hour or two. One may start a hotel in a far comer of the room ami dual out refreshments when the stage gets in. To make and hang his sign, set his table, ami put his house in order, ought to keep him out ol miscincl ipiite a hroatiiing spell. Another little fellow may keep storo nnd ex press ottice, having tliu serious sport uf Belling all the strings, whips, trunks, provudoni. every thing needed by the stage driver, hotel keeper, and all the passengers. So much business require! capital, and I will let out the secret that our "play money" was cut out of bright new tin. Some of those half-dollars are about the house yet, and the sight of one recalls many an old game of book agent, peddler, circus, hand organ, etc. When children arc tired of active plays, they will, if properly taught, put the house in prime order, and settle down quietly to the charming game of "paste-pot and scissors." I oied to make a low table by laying a board upon two chairs, and if rough cover it with a MWipiUr. Then the little ones coultl tlraw mi their low seats ami have a grand time cutting big letters ami pictures from old papOTI and almanacs, and pasting tiictn into any old volume that may he uicmiieti wo tins siyie or decoration, V Imx of colored crayons or water-color naints fairly glorilies this sort of plav. and the dcliuht f the young artists over their green horses, iiuk cows and rainbow tinted "niaus ami atlius," will convince any reasonable mother that art culture in its rudest form is a paying thing for the little ones. Playing school is a great treat for the lder es. especially when mother can take a little reett) and play school-ma'am, introducing, jier- uun, auura to mm i'i. .l-.iim i i.n'ii mug m her ow n Mhool days. In the district school vhon 1 was young, drawing a picture was a lanital crime, and the unlucky artist if caught. was doomed to tend out In the Boo n weary long time, and bold at arm's length his poor little scrawl for the school to giggle at I lines are now so cnanged that drawing has its honored place in 0U1 lK!st schools, and also, 1 hoDO. in the rainy day entertainment of these farm children 1 am thinking about. Then then! i learning to write, at first with copies on a slate, then Willi ait Uk .liunitv ol ti.m am mkv blots, and finally the tremendous huaineas of a real letter with clean envelope, poetegl stamp and everything regular. My children felt pretty far advanced w hen they could write DM leonli- dentin! letter with the news that they "wood like to mak sum mouaeu candy. Rending, spelling, geography ami multiplica tion table may have a chare in the rainv-dnv pleasure, if tiny will wave off their airs ami not lie ttio bookUb. Heading by turns a good Riory, leaning in cum-en, ' spelling down, tak ing journeys all over the Atlas into now coun tries and among itnuUI people, and finally singing the multiplication table to the tunc of Yankee Doodle ii a very good closing exercise lor our 'play-school. '' .Some mothers nuu good use lor thl MUrl little hands in cutting and sewing carpet i , braid ing and knitting nigs, mccuig piilt, etc.; ami t .ii r ainuniu "i w-rk make play all tl merrier, if the mother has so loved and governed her children that she has them "well in hand " for business or pleasure. This loving and gov erning must be thorough-going, tiuiet and stead fast as the flight of time, never fussy ami med dlesome ami nagging. lor the i olden KuJe applies here as well as elsewhere, and to rememWr our own young days ami how we ought to have tteeu treated is often a very gmni guide now that we hold the governing power, Alleetkm for chit dren is not so much a matter of count as moat writers seem to consider it, hut ia one of the excellent things that may lie cultivated and will always tlouu-h m a giant anil. 1 have known a few parents who were always ready to OunfeVJ that they never loved their children, and several more whoa actions told the lime Itory. We are U sure to meet at seine Mean corner tif life the sour aud surlv MMIlk u-li.i ia alwava ei-muMm. tk.l kia l,,f dren are itttpid. awnward, nerer ami to speak up for themselves, etc., and we c&n see with half an eye that he has always treated them so rudely they could not pout hi v aouuire the self roaoect aud unconscious ease so essential to good mannere. Hut this ia not proierly stated, for what I mean ia thia : If children are treated as they ought to be they will never need to acquire pell. rtjtMOt and ease of behavior, which are, or should be, a precious birthright, not to be de stroyed by the parent, but wisely encouraged. Let no one sneer at this hy saying that two thirds of the children need to 1kj spanked for their impudence, sunt to the Industrial BChool for their laziness, and generally brow-beaten and snubbed for their other faults. Again, I Bay it is the parents who should be blamed and "trounced," if you please ; for they have dared to bring these lives into the world, and then by neglect, or indifference, or hatcful ness, or silly over-indulgence have spoiled them, or failed to bring them forward in harmony with the beBt and noblest conditions of life. TOTAL UKPKAVITY AND URIUIHAL SIN Are comfortable doctrines for those who will not study bo earuejtly the welfare of their children as that of the pnimisuig colts, calves and other farm products, or the business, what ever it is, by which they hope to muke money. It. ia Haiti that Mark Twaiu will make no con fession of love for his children, but says tlmt he "respects them for the sake of their lather. This seems to have a Might taint of selfishness, but these family matters are apt to be governed by the shortest-sighted aeltishueas. Can we not see that old age will find us the weaker, party, and that we shall wish to be respected, and perhaps even loved by our children! Do We aay they owe K respect aim nicwuimii oauaa ol tni woo, uouung ami ineiter given w their belplesB years? But do not ice 01M than all that care of helpless years for having dared to bring them into the world?. When it comes to those prime treasures of life, respect and af fection, we may be disappointed if we expect something for nothing. One of the non-loving mothers said tome: "I shall be sure to give my child a good education and a chance to be somebody. I would rather see it dead this uiuiite than to tliiuK it would grow up sucn a failure as some children are." I said to her: "Then you must lgin hy loving your child. Keep ii close in your heart all the way if you wish to guide its future. No sham or pretense of affection will do; and oven with genuine love and patience it is also a great study all the way along how to manage most wisely. Hut then there iH no other business in this world so noble as this uf raising good and hippy children no other bo worthy of careful y- no other in which -elt-saerihco is so sure to bring happiness and the reward of well loiug. Now I did not really get off tins speech, so sleek and smooth as it lias been written. There were in the course of it about a dozen peevish nut jerky exclamations from the woman who lid not wish to listen to such stuff'. Ah, in -leed, wo "preachers of righteousness" do have a hard time of it AUuit a year ago one of my congregation told me that she thought I was doing more harm than good with all my talking and writing, for I could not make people over, and was far more likely to otl'eud tliein. So she hit me pretty hard in return for a suggestion that her big girl of 1 1 years old should be taught to dress ami undress hersell helore umg sent away to school. The mother ami daughter were visiting me, and I w.h ihait inure :i.-.ttiiiislnil than when the former -who has nearly always lived on a farm Uid worked hard tor a living acknowledged that this stout, bright, healthy girl could not so much as changti her own aprons, or wait upon herself, as many n little girl four-year-old is easily taught to do. Of course 1 tried to im prove the occasion by talking in a general way ary, 1 bad no rights that my friend was bound to respect, and so I lost my friend then and there. Still 1 am not cured, but go on riding my old hobby at such a pace that to-day it has carried me far off the- track and away from my prom ised topic; at least I think the last chat sug gested certain advantages we have in educating children on the farm, ami promised to show up the bright side of them. Perhaps everybody can see them us plainly as I can, but if the spirit moves me strongly in that direction 1 may go on in a future chat. Mary Mountain, in ftutwJ Prm. BAKiNtid'ow iiKits. -The modern kikhig-pow-ders, as a rule, consist of tartaric acid and car Ismate of soda, which evolve the necessary gas. w hen in contact with water, to make the bread light, leaving bobind I residue of tartrate of so da. In practice, they are made by mixing to gether these two substances (lirst thoroughly dried and pounded) in nearly equal proportion. ami then diluting the mixture thus made with any cheap material - such as (lour of rice so as to add to the bulk, ami enable an apparently greater tpinntity ol baking-powder to lie sold for a given sum. Many excellent food author. itiea have objected to the use of baking-powders ions mane, on me ground that it tiehooves us to lie earetul Imu we a.hl to the a read v tliciently large amount of mineral matter which Wl naturally consume daily. We should hesitate la-tore We aiUi-ed the whole bread oi family to lie thus prepared, though for some of BM minor article oi lood only occasionally used, they may do little harm. Unfortunate v. some of the manufacturers of baking-powders are guilty of thu addition of alum in considerable fruannnia, vr, aotwoen, Crlkhratind PoOarm of IthTT fintlTi natenma tfONUM publishes, n its department oi .i nit's aim queries, in.' to Mowing tate nent concerning what is called a "Kourth-of-Ju- ly ramm inmg in Allentown. The i. rente, Mr. and .Mrs. Harney Ward, have lieen married a UttH more than ten years, and tin births of their eight children have succeeded each oilier in this regular order: duly 4, lWW, a daughter, Bridget, living; July 4, IS7I, a son, James, dead; July 4. IST'J, a boo, I Wney, liviua; July 4, lNT.'i, a eon, dead; July 4, 1074 a ami, Charles, living; July 4, IH7 a daughter. Mary Ami, dead July 4, lSTtt, a aim, dead July 4, 1ST", a ton, Winnie, living. It is mentioned in the statement that " Some Mr ctimnlaius Uvauae the raika hu .... ahU to take part in Fourth -of -July celebrations BABY MARION IN CHURCIL" Baby Marlon went to meeting To hear her grandpa oreade "Tis Tisiniui time, miwi I dooj I mustn't lauh nor skeeeh. ' "I've got my new boo (less on Ana my pltty fetlik-rod hat' Alii mi' ttn'0",i ln my toll mml That hku Aunt Jane' white eL" So Marion wont to meeting. A u rosebud sweet and lair She mi- i up In the siting, AM bowed her head in prayer. She waved her woe lace handkerchief To her little playiimie liraee And tried to Wipe sunbeam ' From nff her mamma's taee. She threw kiiwee to a latly Who Mt across the alule; Gave Dr. .Meade some candy Which made the Deacon unile. She climbed um a footetooi Whispering, ' Damna, ain't 1 tall' I wish danpa'd luok djwn here But then, perhaps he'd fall."' Then Marion went home atraln And Jumped on papa's knee; "We all have been to I not tin" OMM Ol art- d.iod, you irr "And danpa preached: 'A 'ittlebaby Slept in Ibis barn with ouws; And men came and div Mm presents. Ami then they made him tow.'" -Cnruiiun teyiib,. ItltSSIAN EXIUU) IN SlBEIUA. The Pall Mall OaxeUe haa a harrowing account of the life 0f ttrssiau oltemlers who are banished to Siberia the exiles who live in the mines are ootnfcnVil tho worst type ami political otlemlers of the best. They never see the liuht of dav. hut a ..j sleep all the year round iti the depths of the earth, extracting silver and quicksilver imfer the eyes of taskmasters who have orders not to spare them. Iron gates, guarded by sentineb close the lodes, or streets, at the bottom of the shafts, and tho miners are railed off from au another iu gangs of twenty. They sleep within I'c- e oi mi mil hi uir i.TK verv kenn,-k . into which ency must creep on all lours. Prince Joseph Lubomirska, who was authorised tn riot one of the mines of the Oural, at a time when ' it was not oMiecteil lie wouhl ever tin ah account of his exploration in French, haa tim an appalling account ot what he saw. Convicti racked with the joint-pains which quicksilver produces; men whoso hair and eyebrows had oroppea on, anil who were gaunt att akeletooi, were kept to hard labor under the lash. TW have only two holidays a year, Christnuu and Baator) and all other days, Sundays included, they must toil until exhausted nature robi them of tlio use of their limbs, when they art hauled up to tlie in the infirmary. Five yean in the quicksilver pits are enonffhto turnanun of thirty into uu apparent sexagenarian, bet some nave neen Known to struggle on for fen years. No man who has served in the minetu ever allowed to return home; the most he can uitaiu in the way ol erace is h ave to come dd and work in ttie road gangs, aud it is the pronuaw of this favor oa a reward of industry which ot eratcs even more than the lash to maintain du- eiutiue. Women are employed iu the mieei u sitters, and get no hotter treatment than Ue men. I'olish ladies by the dozen have beenwnt laWD to rot and die, while the St IV-teiaboiv journals were declaring that they were liviai osireo coloiiLitu; ami, more recently, latlieieoB- neoted with nuulut ooniiHnuiei have consigned to the mines iu pursuance; of a KB- teucu of hard lalior. It must always be under stood that a sentence of Siberian hard labor us death. The Itimsiaii novermeiit well knows that to live tor years m the atrociou tortures of the mines is humanly imuonibli Millions or Stolkh Homy The thirteen life conipanies which have collapsed since that tort of thing began, are still in the hands of re ceivers. There is not the least probability that any of the Inker's dozen will ever get a freth starL Kneb proved so utterly rotten when day light was let into it that it couui iever again fret business, even though the insurance depart ment gave permission to go ahea'L The whole thirteen conipanies ore managed (or manipn lated) by respectable men men of goodiocul standings who attend the fashiouable churchei, and think it woultl be a good thing to take the ballot away from the working clan ft ut having the tigures at hand just now, i can not aav HVmAtlV hn mane no ions these n- Micctable, religittus, suffrage -restriction gentle men have stolen, ar twnmttcd to be stolen, ironi the confiding policy holders, who were credolo" enough to trust them. Hut tho gross amounts no tritio. The liabilities of the Continental foot ui) $5,300,000, and the receiver tiinhi that it the policy holders live lonf enough they may ultimately get thirty-five cento on thetlollar. The liabilities of the Security emoiij to somuthing over t.OOtt.OOO, and it is doobtW u over twenty cents on the dollar win e jiaid. It would not be much out of the way" i put down the aggregate stealings, or uiisapr priations, or whatever the may be called, ?1",000,IK)0. A large part of thia sum wai questionably squandered in loose niaoagena but another large part waa certainly aptnt I" ana otnoeTi m extravagant uviug. -r Hartfortt Time. A'Xarkuw Kailroad. The n"JToWiL rnatl in the world is between North l0f ami Itedfonl, Massachusetta, adUUuceofatPi and a half milee. The track is 10 inches i The engine aud cars are proportionate with width of the track. The iiaaaenger an aisle in them aud a seat on each side, uotoa of two scats, as in a full-grown car. Then P .'t0 seats iu each car. The train runs 12nu an hour. One grade on the road is lo5 fee F mile. The trams conaist of two jpMaeager2 two freight cars and an engine. The can engines have air hrakea and all the laWMtP' prortmenta. Ordinary can weigh fl,nr JTj aa much aa these little coach. The eoa the roatl is $4,00 per mile, and the rseaaaj expenaea are alwut one-fourth that of onua! tnuna. Ml ! .. I MWt iM I ... i ,r '..1 j ITnited vlUUa, i, 2)7,000 art said to W i