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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1879)
3 bo THE WEST SHORE. December, 1879 d retted in white. She was truly a mother to them." Mr. Clark went cordially into the work with Mrs. Hrown. Indeed, they were essential to fetch other. He gave for the establishment of the school a quarter of his section of land for a town plat, besides making many other sacrifices in order to keep the school alive. Mrs. BfVWn, of her hard-earned money, Rave five hundred dol lar!, and, according to her daughter, presented the Con gregational Church with a hell. She also gave the lot on which the Methodist Church stands in I'oickt Grave, the last act of her life hcing to give her own house and lot to the University for a hotrding place for stu dents. Anil all this accumula- r THE GORGE, VICTORIA, It. C. Photo by R. Maynard. establishing the Pacific Uni versity, it would seem a very proper and graceful thine for its friends and graduates to do to pay this mark of respect to her memory and erect a me morial stone above her dut. An Oregon Curiosity. On our extreme southern cotst, in Curry county, a few miles from the mouth of the Chetco river, and projecting into the ocean in the shape or form of a Cape or headland, it a large rock of a most curious and in teresting formation. It rer its bold front above the wavei of old ocean to a distance of, perhaps 80 feet, and has a face about 50 feet in width. It is composed entirely of stratas of quartz, of various colors, lying trd by her own industry after the age one written by her daughter, Mrs. , in all shapes, parallel, horizontal, curv of sixty-kix on a capital of Uyk cents. I'ringle, of Salem; from documents I ilinear, upright and at various angle. The University was chartered, I be- furnished me by Mr. Kecler, and also I The strata vary in thickness from lievc, in 1853, with a limitation of by Mrs. E. M. Wilson, of The Dalles, j about one inch to, say, two inches, and VV- Previous to this the school who knew Mrs. Hrown well, and says I each one can be traced to its full expo- In 185s, "her heart was as loving and kind at sure.' It is a great curiosity, and some had its own hard struggles. Mr. J. M. Keelcr, of New York, took her.spirit was energetic." charge of it, and, with Mrs. Keeler's Mrs. Hrown died at Salem in May, assistance in the academic department, 1858, and is buried in the Odd Fellows' remained at hit pout until 1855. In the cemetery. I am told that no headstone meantime Rev. S. II. Marsh anil other Of monument of any kind maiks her I n (.lessors came out from the I'.ast, and resting place. Considering that she much constant labor has been bestowed gave herself so entirely to the work of upon the I nivci lily by them and other friends. Hut bad it not been for Mrs. Browo'l unsel fish devotion o this 'ruly Christ ian work, this in stitution m If hi not W in exist ence today. I h not say this became I w lad to pnuee a woman, but because it is true. I Mirvc Rev, (i. II. At. Itinaon has writ' ten MWM memo rial, but I have urcr cen it. My fact have hem fathered fioma letter writ let by aerteift rfT.VW rTs- -i- X Tfct -ZjT f tJTCTk HeW.V Tr: painter would set the scientists to won dering if he would make a pictureof it. A certain grocer had fifty cent worth of brown sugar returned to him, accompanied by the following note: Too much sand for table use, and not enough for building purposes." Half the h1" m trie uiu States think they can beat the doc tors at curing the sick; two-thirds of them arc sure they can beat the min i tier s preaching the gospel) and ill of them know they can heat the edit ors running the newspapers. Praisf no man too liberally when he it present, n,r censure him t lavishly when hei absent; the one sa vors of flattery, the other of '",icc' and both are rep rehensible ; 1 n ' true way to ad vance another virtue it to follow it; the lcst mean to decry another vice i to decline. k tKMU FHU-V