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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1878)
October, 1878. THE WEST SHORE. 47 KM, AIll. t 81owly we wont ono moonlit eve Through the wide garden sweet anil nale; We nw the fragrant lncuit weave Ita net of shadows nure and frail; The graceful eucalyptus snlree Caught each fair atar'i melodloua Arm, And, trcuiuluiM in thu Mind a ounirul, Kach outlluod tree reveal wi Ita aoul. We talked of booke, and btrda and flower; At laat the dewy night grew chill; We apoke of abaent friends of oura, Then for a moment we grew atlH, To watch the twinkling town and lay, And tho glad llghta U long array. Oh, underneath the moon, how fair Waa thy pure face, aercne Kllalr! We hail been children aide hy aitlo Through many aoftly flowing years; What wonder if, that eventide, We found a little aco for learn? 80 at the laat no word waa aald, Hut quiet hands were claaiwd Instead, And then a aoftly cloning door Hhut In my world fore vonn ore. II. For mo the groat world loomed before, With unsealed bight and hidden deep; I c uld not wiit on any ahore, With apura to win and truth t keep. 1 hardly thought the way waa long, I only knew my youth waa strong, I only aaw a lunrlae vaat, And heard a trumpet' eager blaat, Yoara paaiod. I never aaw thy face Except at midnight, In the aky. In rankN of men 1 won my lOaoc - To aoma a foe beyond reply, To aome a friend of royal grace, To all at tlineea myitery; And every aong of wave and air, Took ahape with thoughta of thee, Kllalr. 1 could not think you changed or grew; Kach woman for your sake waa pure; In dreama the childish waya I knew, In droama I aaw the carvun door, Or heard the music of the nil -, In those tnomorial hills, And watched the heavydaden Iwe Search the white-tufted hiiekeye tree 111. At laat, whan tuanv years were deml, I thought to ftnil the cottage gtto, Where roaei wandered ovorheatl, And mow-whlte Mice, with their It; ihi Of endleaa fragrance, loaned to greet My wayward hut remembering feat; Tbere might I aee thy face, and there Hbould touch thy hands, eeenc Kllalr. Oh, It waa but an empty icc, A weary, hopeleea, bitter land I could not aee you face to face, 1 oould not touch your gentle band; For your white aoul had longed to bear Dlvtneet enug, till earth grew clear, And, amlling, in a hapy place, Tou aaw the augula face to face In their celeatial fphere. 1 found where memory's marble lay, And hid my mute Hpa In the graaa; I felt a wave of weeping (law, Aa If the world were lull of tears, alaa! But team could not be mine that day, At laat the lovliuj starlight . t t About me aa a babe'a aofl haitda, And. In the falling dew, I wept With the aad earth, and louelv landi And drifting cloud. "O loat Kllalr! If I can Amfyou anywhere, Or bond, or free, or quick, Of dead, The troublea of the world U tear Ware blossoms on my bendeil bead." Bo I went out, where currenta maw, To mingle with the tkloa of men, And weave my lonely hoiira again I found a world of toil and pain, Wboae need 1 measured by my loam. Ami batter loved my dreaming (ten; Hut no more brimmed the fragrant wine Of mirth In any aong of mine And all day long I hear In dreama A rustled draaa acroea the .rill; Your i tame la writ In euneet gleama,' And wave of duak hen wlnila are ailll 1 never etnk Ut reai, Kllalr, But that a nam el reaenw thrllla, A pearly glimmer anmebow fllla The outlined ihadnw of my chair And we shall meet, sliall meet aomawhrre, When this ami has grown s-trng That It can climb the iu-m long Tu thy pure realm me. Kllalr CkmrU$ U. Skimn, in A rayaaal. t&Oet AND PKKCKl'T. BBAVRN'h harmony is universal love. Coir. per. Ambition i not a vico of little people. Hon- laiijiie. Man, while ho lovoi, ii never juite depraved. Chnrlet l.amh I.ifk haa always aotion; it ii our own fault if it over lw dull. liuhrrr l.ytton. Cautuh s age suspect tho llattoring form, and only orodita whatoxperionoetolla. TtlWlWn. Hood ia nevor more effectually performed than whon it ii produced hy alow degree. -Ihi May. Tn elephant ia never won hy anger; nor muat that man who would reclaim a Ron take him hy tho tooth. Drytttn. BaCH dopartod friend ia a magnet that ut tracta tin to tho noxt world, and tho old man live among graves. Riehter, I. in ia a aloon. ()h mon havo slept the longost; they only liegin to awaken whon it ia time to die. La Hruymrt, Cato, tho 'I'houalian, waa wont to aay that aome things may lie dono unjustly, that many things may bo dune justly. Mom Ik wo did hut know how little sumo enjoy of tho great things that thay Msaosa, there would not ho much onvy in the world. Youny. With ovory one, tho expectation of a misfor tune conatitutes a dreadful puiiiahmont .Suf fering then aaaumos tho proportions of the un known, which is the soul's inlinito. IMme. Sriioi.ARx may ipioto I'lato in stmlios, hut tho hearta of millions shall iuot the Hihlo at thoir daily toil, and draw strength from ita inaplra tion aa the meadowa draw it from tho brook. Cnlliriii. Tiir willow which hon Is to tho tompostnfUn eacapos liettor than tho oak, which roaiata it; and so, in groat calamities, it sometimes hap. ioub that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind aooner than thoae of a loftier character. Walltr Sen. To bo ambitious of true honor, of the truo glory and perfection of our natures, ia the very principle and inoentivo of virtue , but to las ambitious of titloa, of place, of ceremonial roapecta and oivil pageantry, is aa vain and little aa tho things are which wo court. Sir I'. Syilnry. Mow often a new affection makes a now man! The sordid, cowuring aoul turns heroic The frivolous girl becomes the atoadfaat martyr of patience and miniatratiou, tranaflgiircd by deathless love, The career of hounding im pulaea turna into an anthem of sacred deeda - 'hapin. lr ever houaohold affections and loves are fraceful things, they are graceful in the poor, he tica that hind the wealthy and the proud to home mav ho forged on earth, but thoae which link the poor man to hia humble hearth are of the true metal and bear tho stamp of heaven. IHrlcriu. 'I'm human heart yoaros for tho beautiful in all ranka of life. The beautiful things that Qed makes are his gift to all alike. 1 know there are many of the poor who have line feeling and a keen aenae of the beautiful, which ruet out niiil ilii-a brrauar tin y am har,l pressed tn procure it any gratification. Mr: Slow. In thy ailent wishing, thy voiceleea, utiiit tered prayer, let the desire be not cheriahed that allliotiona may Mt u.it thee ; let well ha it Iwen aaid, "Such prayers uever serin In have wings. " I am willing to he punlied through sorrow, and to accept it merkly aa a blueing. I see that all the cloud are angels' faces, and their voices apeak hannonumaly of the everlast ing chime. Mr: td, M. Child. l.t'Minoi a Wati-m Dials, read in an si change that a notable improvement in watch ia r i r t.- i from f'hanx ile Konila, Switaerlaud. Hy a peculiar process the ligure on the dial are rendered luminoua, so that if etpoaed once dur ing the day t" the sunlight they remain phu iihomwiit and visible throughout the niglit. 'reparations are beinu maite for the pnulm lion of these watches on a large Kale. HOW TDK SIBKMAN MAMMOTHS WW KNTKAITKD. At the meeting of the Rritiah aasooiatlon Mr. Howarth read a pper on the ditUoulttasi aur rnunding the extinction of these huge elephants in Siberia. One of the theories hitherto nm. pounueii to account for ita sudden dieapear anoe, he aaid, was that it lived In the central puts of Central Asia, and that the caroaaaaa were tloated down the large rivers iu that terri tory to the sites where the remains were now found. The examination of the stomach, how ever, ahowed that the mammoth lived on larch ur hiruh tree growing at tho verge of woode, near which the remains of tho animals were found, and thoir ioaition ahowed that they hail not wandered far whon they were entombed, After looking at the proldem from every aide, ho had come to the conclusion that there had been a sudden and violent change of climate in Silieria, which hail froxen the previouely soft ground, and had also preserved the mammoth aa in a huge meat safe. Although the mam moth hail even originally lived in the plaoe where he waa now found, it was imiossible that he could live there nuw, owing to the absence in that pin t of the food whioh would he neoea aary to sustain him. Such tree as he used in live on were only now found about A00 miles from tho spot where his remains were dieonv. ered. The natural corollary that followed from this theory was, that sometliinH similar muat he pustulated with regard to other regions. The conditions in which the elephant wa found In Siberia were precisely similar to those In which it was found in the northwestern part of Una alan America, and precisely the same aa tho iu the (treat lakes, where ilie mammoth itself waa found, and it could not. therefore, be doubted that the mammoth lived in Kunrpe and America with the same loo. I and aurrounilluga aa it did in Siberia. Womkn'b 1 1 i 1 1 mi n i ,, Womrn. There is a general sAilimeut that women do not stand by each other, as men do hy men that w are en nous, narrow aud small, where Mr (i ia con cerned! that the greatest obstacles professional women have to overcome are the prejudices of women themselves; that if a woman commits a fault, hnlmdy ia so ipiiok and ready to heaii op probrium upon her a another woman. All this la, to a certain extent, unhappily truei hut It U by nri means generally true. The fashion of women sneering at womei. ia passing into disre pute; so that nowaday), no woman who exssets to pass aa a well-breu lady, ia guilty of the had taste of speaking disparagingly or slightingly of her own sex. Kow and thou one does it, think nig thereby that aha wins the esteem of man hy so doing. Mho can make mi greater mistake, Men admire large tiilndedneaa and largo heart odneaa in women, iuite as much aa women ad mire thoee iualitlae ill men, The more strongly and loyally women stand hy one another, the mors reesMitfully they treat and apeak of one another, the more women honor women, have faith in women, the better for us, the more credit to ua. We cannot expect men to honor and revere as, unless we ourselves honor and revsre our own sex. Nuiutny A Simoon. In tin rnoM A Tor. The Undon l.anrtl statea that a little child at liritoa ha bara killed by accidentally (wallowing a atpo-ahing airbladiler. It appear that the toy ilipped through the glottis with the bladder down wards, ami the iuill mouthpiece upward, o that with every inspiration the bladder became more or leas inflated, ami thus prevented the entrance of air to the lung, and produced death by suffocation. A verdict of acciden tal!) eulTuaated" wa returned by the mtj. The oae must lie unique. A w ah, who thought to have joke at the eispna oil aa Iriah pniviaiou ilealer, said: "Can yon supply ma with a yard ml pork?" "I'at, aid the dealer to his aaciaiant, "give this gen tleuian three pig' (."