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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1879)
THE WEST SHORE. August, 1873. A KAHMKK KM rMMlMUtt. At th recent Fourth of uly celebration at Wooditock, (imn., poem waaread by llev. A. J. Hough, untitled "The liclU." The pum noiiaiiled of ringing comment upon the event iil need of the day. The wnter truck note in the following line: AnJ, lMI, I hati ov lo tUl Th halls liilttml lo li'trolii, M llli If without tour kind mftaeill. A ntlklaU fur Prtaldciil 1 flu niaitir eg Um Ihituaartd trick TI1.1 lnnil.1 art. i-JlUc, (fa Mlillr .lrwl. t It 111 UM W. No .l.lr.-iii or pulnt tr, No aallrr .nil a Mood) lama, III mrn-hanl allii a tuotir-trsl itamr Tlia Ml in antMnii tunned hanf, Ami wet. ttllhotil dtacot.lanl ' II,. ,1 I,.,,,. I t I',.. 1 if. !.:,, Withholding nothing Iml hla nanu fir Irian Itir wortd'a iltttulng atrlfr III led a Ulrl, htaJnrlatM UN. four lht ha lold rtnia lltotbhl lagan Ul t-aaalrr, nature. tod ami man' Tht Aral ha AlUa Mot a 11)1 a granil Itauriliril lo lit nallia lanil, TSa aacsm.l nawtr hltn rarely ht. Willi aUalitNt I Ilia 1 and anil ftalr; Tl, Ihlrd, though lalullr, illmlt aran, llaa t-,ii, I. "I Ina a -ul anil mailt It t lean. And, tutiltif aril tha human nut. It, hii' a man lo sttr hit fa. a Taa hill, tha tale. I ha Mraamt in i-ut Tlinf tfrength ami (rralinraa In lilt heart ll. .In ta hna)Hlit. mislrat, naal. Mi laia la tiroanatl h mrmmrr haal, Hi l.tmlt HM roars i lali a,ai. Ilia 1-t.fc la Itrnad ami uttsl to lar Tha ftioitt ' . : I. 1 ahlrh irilalu for plrnli an atamal reign Mr Alia lh pUrahti falhrr till,. I. II. Iilltlha I. i-i hi falhrr tllUal. Hi rrfo--iitt Ilia thought Tlia .ll aurth, tha irr artlca wrought Ttiniiuth jr an. I aar Ilia nations AM to.l guarilt tia in r honored name Hi right J wnirr t il M; Hi right f worth. II Jutlt asigtittl, hi light if numWrs. lalrl; 1 1.1 H right if llaaaa. grit, and guld, A ". hlunt, ttilaAiii. ahraail. tMtriti.au lug hla Matty gratd, Tha ball atth ringing PAatl I'raaahl At ijhII MM lor rrsaitirtit ' I 1 1 hi, la r 1.1 a r nil. Hi ttn IT. The 11111 .lr pleat 11 r of tUt h prraotll III tllr rllttrvh It of lUrlf In 1 rt) minuter a wrrful ht-1 ji an. I en otHiragr maul. He u glad, of course, to are new face coining in from Unit ". time. The nir moll., r. lh itan.l l) at home, who lia break ft ami a hualauid ami half a donn children to .l tit.lv in the morning, o tkal ihe heraelf 1 an i. in out oul) now ami than, tihenevrr ahc ilnra com I aren with plratltie. The Voting men ill In flock, tlotaera of the kingdom, alioac anl religion naturvt -n usually only in tin latter ait i Mm day, hut it ho oot aaioually unilri tha mamrati. ni of a net tint of Sumlay .1.1' 11 bloaatsat out in the I.htii..ii, noilr in hun. I ill h Irarnt Wttrr, a le.oiol hna. The rvlia'tout . aaual. the tmaJI anl unfreuent vor ahiar fkatJI iilrl hy Hontc. ottnhr,a jr, hut MM tit it an eldtm that htn he doe uae U it hai to lr loun.l for him hy the Mttoe, u not by Mi) niimi unvelcavme, ami there w alway an tiratii of ar , rt in the jjraat rna.1 of at 1 anuria hn aMtnar SuimUv ittiihu a belt it baa bear Kttertaaeal that he it ntxng to apnak on tla ktnal,ni ral Nalan J thr ,l..tnk-t ul tl,r ,l,.i ,1 of the aoatng ul tatM oata. ,.r antne ktmlraal iMAta. lUt alter all it 11 the itAiti bye, the men ueuall obi one tool the VMM living ..fttm furtheat from the rhnrrh, ho are khan Intel) aute of bring in thnr Ure paBctAally every SaUy. TVaAkaglvuig aaal evea faat day, hat tee the immi ear the Heather car the tub tH-t may be the that be I.a4l ufaKl with a taJ ilaligbl anal fln.ll to be the fountaini of hi (not aarthly inaa ration. SuUf J(nr- A Kaaaaa farmer raarvhaanl revolt ee foe hi if, ami tnattte.1 . larval or, t i.a-, o aha MAffct be able to iltfra.1 the bonne la hit alamo After the bullet ra tin oat of hi Irg, ami tta 00a Itnneal, be aaid h abe d biaT aboot with aa aX A UEI'AKTMKNT OK DOMESTIC ECON OMY. The Itureau of Education at Waahiogton, tat that there i auch a loud call for informa tion concerning the jirogreaa of schools of lonieatic economy which have been lately in atituted, that they have includod inquiries in the circular which they end out to the heada of filucatinnal inatitution. In anawer to tlicae inijuirie, Mary U. Welch, "lecturer on dome tic economy and nperintcndent of the experi mental kitchen" at the Iowa Agricultural col lege, reihe a follow: The tint instruction in our department of tlo- uifNtic t'c iv aaa given in 1 h7 'J , by a course of le. turea t" the junior girl, on matter con nected 111th hotia. keeping. In 1 877, the TruaU'ci added a course in cookery, anil pro vided and furnished a kitchen for the uae of the clas. For the last two yen, therefore, lessons in plain cooking hare been given to the junior c!aa in OOMMIwn with lectures on such topics a "Iloiiie Furnishing," "Care of the Sick," ".Management of Help," "Care of Children," "Dress," etc., etc. Domestic chemistry forms also a iart of the course in domestic economy. Our facilities are still farther increased this year by the addition of a laundry wherein the girla of ihe sophomore claaa arc now learning to wash and iron. During March and April two afternoou a week are apent in this laundry un der the the careful supervision of competent teacher. In May the class are to receive in struction twice a week in plain sewing, and are In lie taught to use sewing machine. In dune an cxK.rifii'cd .In miiiker is to tcAeh thu art of ( utting and lilting dresses. The kitchen will lie oteued the middle of July, and theolaas will ro- eiva instruction 111 cookery two afternoons weekly uutil the last of October. We are to use, this year, Mis Juliet Coraou "Cooking School Tat Hook," giving the claaa the "Plain Cooki' Course." Each student will lie ra- tuired lo do the work explained ill everv lesson so that, when the course is linished, she w ill have cooKtxi every article described. A oonstant and iucreaaing interest and en thuaiam have marked our progress in this de iiartmcut of ctti.lv , aud no one of our collese count ha attracted more attention or received more encouragement from the State at large. Ait or Iawk. Each one of a thousand acta of love coata very little by itaelf, ami yet when viewed aiuigciner, who can estimate their vain! What i it that ecures for one the nam of a kind neighbor ? Not the doing of half a ilor.cn great favon iu a mauy yean, hut the little everyday kin.lnesaei, neither of which aeema of much coneiueuce, conaidered in itaelf, but their continued repetition sheds a unhght over the whole neighborhood. It is an, ton, in the family. The child wtiie good olheeaare alway ready when the) arc wanted to run up atain or down to get chips or rock the cradle, or to run on an errand aud "right back," and all with a pleasant look and s plraaant temper, baa a reward along with such good dn.lt If a little girl cannot take her grandfather no ber lap. a he take her M hit, ahe can get hi altpprra. or put away hia Itook, or geutly end. hta thin locka;and, win imr he thinks of it or not, thee htUe kind, .,, t that ca Irotn a lovinj heart, an the aunlieaui that lighten up a dark and woful world, Um- tfo rVro Itr. 1'Mii uHLniu dry good merchant ha added a children' rttnan to hi tore, where aaiihera may lav their chtldraa to lie auiuaed with ro. king horaea. plctoraa, and toy, whU. they do thetr Ma Kaboa in arm are not admitVr.1. leat they Jiould not be called fr Ifkm K Abertlaaa cnUe ante. "IV, read in laangleUow that h. a ..he man conM U, t ' k M J"- Mr Uagiedlaw; he MM fee hk a gv.. THE AGE OF WONDERS. A recent English writer, reviewing the scieu tiHc and industrial achievement of the put half century, call this "the age of wonder, " and refers a follow to a few oat of the maty modern marvel that fully justify the appella tion: We have teen a aubatance which our ancee ton proudly used to obliterate a pencil mark to molded to our use a to make man almost An Amphibious animal; a noxious vapor, from which they would turn with disgust, made the means of a brilliant light, which enable the uight almost to rival the day. We have seen the surgeon' knife, to them an instrument of necessary torture, divested of it horror by a discovery which gives a temporary inensibility to pain, which enables the suffering patient to Hake from nothing more than a troubled dream ami lind that over, under which, without this his fortitude might have faltered, or his consti tution Mink. We have seen a power which it inexhaustible ao long as the element of fire and water romain, the eflecta of which our grand mothers mAy have witneaaed with a igh, when terminating, by a sudden crash, the serene music of their tea-kettlea; but which, by the combined effort of modern science, has become the very hands and feet of the world, the great aud almost universal manufacturer for man; the great propeller by which we rival the flight of the bird, and which ao unites the human family that degree of latitude and longitude are little more than milestones on the great highway of the world. And, lastly, we have aeen that subtle power which our anceston recognized only in the minute ipark of the electric circle transformed into the faithful, untiring agent of the human mind, bearing its thought from on end of a vaat continent to the other with an ac curacy which would be in vain looked for in any other meascnger, and with a ipoed which far outatrijia the action of the mind which formed them. "Quick as thought" will not do now- to oxprcaa tho greateat speed, and "quick as lightning" ha become a practical, not merely a figurative expression. PoitpM roii 1!ath ami Mux Carlwnate of baryta ha been found to be a moat eUicient Ikiison for rata and aimilar vermin. Indeed, at a special series of trials by the Zootechnical In stitute, in connection w ith the Koyal Agricult ural College, at l'roakaw, this aubatance wat found to be more efncacioua than any other. It He. uis a a heavy white powder, devoid of taste or smell. In the l'roakaw experiments it was mixed with four time its weight of barley meal, and pclleta of the paste Were nitro.hncd into the holes of the rata, house mice, and field mice. A small quantity prove fatal. It p poan to came immediate and complete paralysis of the hind extremities, to that it may be as sumed that mice eating of it in their hole will die within them, and ao not prove destructive in their turn to domesticated animal that might otherwise devour the rainam II was found in practice that neither fowl nor pigeon would t.ni. h the paste, either in its soft (tote or wbts hard, in d by the sun; o that it employ men t is probably free from danger to the occupant of the poultry yarda. Some rabbits. 00 the other hand, that got access to the paste at heartily of it and paid the penalty with their live. Kt to the carbonate of baryta paste, Um ordinary phosphorus paste proved roost destructive, and thia, it wa found by ex periment, it oft attrac tive to the mice in a soft form than when hard ened into pill. But it is considerably dealer than the baryta preparation, aa important fac tor in the calculation of the firmer who ha to wage war against rodents oa aa eitetuive oak Wit is President Lincoln waa taken dow with the small pox he wrote to Colfax that ha might let the army of olfic set ken approach, a h had now something that he would gi them. 8