Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1879)
46 THE WEST SHORE. February, 1879. WHKKK TIIK AVflKIH 1 ivckhkd A little girl, with tangled locks cping from 11 ntr a calico ) I, clad in drees f chintz loitered behind as the grcal dusty crowd mm i d nut of tin gate of Mo nut A.lna tho other day, fUr they had scattered their llowen ami done honor to the dead. Dreamily she gar.od alt. i them, her eyes lilli .1 with a far away look of tendarnaas, until the laat MM had iittppMnd and the rattle of the drums had died away. Then she turnel and vaguely Maimed the 00. nod. that ma about her, clutching still lighter the fading hunch of .lamb ilioni ami rave grass that her chubby band held. An old man naina liy and gently patted her curly hod as ha spoke her name, hut she only shrank hack till further, and when he told a iaaaing Strang er that tha little "mi father waa one who died kfaMttm I .ikk. The followinir beautiful and truthful MH tinea tl arc from the pan of that charming writer, the late Krederika Hremer, wIioih) observations illicit well become rules of life, ao appropriate are they to many of its phases: "Deceive not one another in small things, nor in peat One little iiingle lie has, before now, iliiiturhed a whole married life; a mall cause baa often great consequences. Kuld not the ai in- together anil ait idle. Do not run much from home. One's, own hearth in worth more than gold. Many a marriage, my friends, Is'gins like the rosy morning and then falls away like the snow wreath. And why, my friends ? liecause the married pair neglect to be as pleasing to each other after marriage as before, Eodearor, always, my children, to pleaNc one another, but at the Name time keep Qod in your thoughts, lavish not all your thoughts on to day, but remember that mar riage has its to-morrow likewise, and its day af- RED-TAILED BUZZARD. The red-tailed buzzard is a resident of every part of the Union, and of Canada. It builds its nest on the largest and tallest tree it can se. leot in the forest, yet not remote from the farm houses. The male and female toil hard for eight or ten days, in carrying up dried sticks, slender twigs, and coarse grass, or Span ish moss. The nest is large, of flattened form and located in tho center of a triply-forked branch, and contains four or five very hard smooth eggs, of dull-white color, spattered with brown or black. Sometimes, though rarely, a nest is found upon an isolated tree. The flight of this bird is firm, long-continued and at times very high; and it sails a great du. tance without any apparent motion of its wings but often repeatedly utters, in a prolonged' mournful cry, without inflection or variation 1 1 a .4" WWMi w tHB MD-TAILKD BUZZARD, ' the huihan.r. ,1 ,"' , ","rru,1 "'' saassl l STV ""' faith; , her band I,.. " the key ; ' Z Cl, " " h,m, L. T ?" beam ,i ku rnrr hi. wen silhful hu.bands and g!'" fathers!' ( "" Ad so that sa .;..i "f "Wallas, joa." 'mma esteem and hue LV.r.'V ::'Cy "'?'!."' the state of a literate -f " m-mer by . aagJLlff..! lining.' nlao. ,., it. '.V rrl,,c' the clergyman 'W t of intensity, tho sound kae, with no other pur pose seemingly than to admonish the usual ob jecls of his prey of the danger in whioh they "ml. Upon espying any of these, it niuaUy T, V1 convenient perch, from which, with closed wings, it makes a dart with almost unerring accuracy and success. Squirrels, rab ii, tnrae pigeons, chickens, wood-rats and ncadowmiee are ita common food. Soft-shelled tortoises are often aimed at by it, hot can escap, , by diving. U ;, bold in ita assaults upon the fowls of the farm-yard, and is much oreaded by the farmer, in many localities. A voi'Nn lady, after passing the Cambridge '"'il examination, suddenly broke off her engage- in. hi ,. .1 i . . - ...oner sweetheart. A friend expostu- 11 .i,; her' but ,he reP. "I most merely ,L v,ew 00 the theosophio doctrine of . niog.iuy loo()i Md - owe w TV"1 tT wpowMo t is for iy true woman to nsk her happiness with such a person '