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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1880)
May, 1880. THE WEST SHORE. '39 GRANDMOTHER. For a long time I did not underetand it at all. I thought that, because ran1mohr were feeble and old-faahioned, they oould never really fed ai we children do; that they need ed no particular notice or enjoymeut, for it wat their nature to ait in rocking-chairs and knit. They eeemed quite different from the rest of the world, and not to be especially thought about, that ii, by girla who were ai full of merry plane as we were. Grandmother lived with ni, at father waa her only son. We had a vague idea that aho helped mother mend the clothes, and knitted all father's winter atockinga, be aidea some pairs for the church society. We were supposed to love her, of course, and were never openly rude, for indeed wo hail boon taught to be polito to all agod persons. As for grandmother, sho was one of thoao peaceful aouls who never make any trouble, but just go on in their own way so quietly that you hardly know they are in the house. Mothor sat with her sometimes, but we girls, in our gay, busy pur auita, rarely thought of auoh a thing. Hho aoem ed to have no part in our exietonco. It went on ao for some time, till one day I happened at auu down to go into the sitting-room, and there sat grandmother, alone. She had fallen asleep in her chair by the window. The sun was just sinking out of sight, leaving a glory of light aa he went, and in this glory I aaw grandmother saw her really for the nrat time in my life! She bad been reading her Bible, and then, as if thero had beon no need of reading mora, since its treasure already lay shining in her soul, she had turned the book over in her lap and leaned back to enjoy the evening. 1 saw it all in 1 moment, her gentleness, her patience, hor hap pineai. Then, while her love and beautiful dig nity aeemed to fold me like a bright cloud, the aweet every-day lines in her face told me a ae cret, that even then in the wonderful aunaet of life she was, 0, how human! So hum m that she miaaed old facca anil old acenca; ao human that ahe needed a ahare of what Ood waa giving to ua, friends, home interesta, little aurpriaea and expectationa, loving offtoea, and. above all, a recognition in the details of our fresh young lives. Girls! when grandmother woke np, she found ua all three atealing softly into the room, for God had helped me, when I went to tell my aiatera about it. Mary only kissed her and asked if ahe had had a nice nap; 8uaie picked hor ball of yarn off the carpet where it had rnllod, and began to wind it, all the while telling ber a ploaaant bit of nowa about one of the school irirla: and I. well. I knelt down at grandmother's feet and just as I was going to cry, I gave her knees a good hard bug, and to'd her she was a darling. That's all, girls. But it has been different since from what it was before. THE POWER OF MOTIVES. It is the motive that makes the man. No - "... man uu ruling motive of life The good we get out of our actions depends on the motive mora than on the outward result If the motive of my deed is good, f irxow better: the motive is bad, I grow worse, no matter what outward gain may come to me or to others by my deod. What can compensate me for having become worse at the very heart and life of my being! "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?' or by certain logical inference, any part of the world, and lose a part of his soul or become le man, in the exohange? It is a law that li at the root of ell endeavor, that the reward of the doer ahall be aooonling to the name in which he does his work : that is, according to the heart's deepest motive. If he does it in the name of avarice or oovetouaness, he ahall receive the reward of the avanoioua and oovotoua man. If ho irivea a mm of oold water in the name of a disciple, he ahaA in no wise lose his reward. lie that roueiveth you, roooiveth mo, aaya the Navior; "anil he that roceivoth me, reoeiv- th Him that sent me. "lie that roueiveth a righteous man iir-the name of a righteous man, recoiveth a righteous mail's reward." He that reoeiveth the Christ in the name of Love, reoeiv eth the Inlinite Love that sent the Christ. Through this power of motive, the higheat good the immune comes from the smallest act. Heaven oomea into the soul from giving a cup of colli water. I horefore, if 1 help a ixior atrug gling animal out of the mire, I want to do it irom some higher principle than the love 01 an imals. The brute will not pay me. I'oaaihly it will turn and attack me as soon as it ia fairly on its feet. I want to do tho kindness in the name of inlinite beuevolenoe, and then, what ever the beast does, I cannot lose my reward, I he reward ia in me, in what I become, uu sought, unthought of, but all the more real and permanent for that very reason, Rev. L. Ham- Pnrjwm or nil Brain. An American med ical man was called one day to so a youth aged 18, who had been struck down insensible by the kick of a horse. There was a depressed tract are of the skull, back of left temple. The akull wat trephined and the loots fragments of boos that pressed upon the brain were removed. whereupon the patient came to his sense. The doctor thought it a good opportunity to mak an experiment, as then was a holt in the akull through which he could easily make pressure upon the brain. He akei the boy a qutelion and before thero was timt to answer it In Dressed firmly with his linger upon the exposed brain. As long as the pressure wat kept np the boy wat mute, but tho instant it wat removed he mad a reply, never suspecting that bs had not answered at once, in experiment was re petted several time with precisely the tune re suit, the boyt'i thoughts being stopped and started again on each occasion at easily and cer tainly at the engineer stops and starts his loco- motive. Popular SknC4 Monthlf. lion. Dyes IMM Oamnior. Dr. W. H. Gregg, of Klmira, N. Y., is raixirted to have succeeded in obtaining a new noloring principle from camphor, to which ho given the name of " Lauroluio." Thus far bt hat only auooteded in produoiug various shades of yellow from it; but he is re ported to be engaged in certain experiments which he hopes will result in the production of carmine and scarlet The chief feature of the new dyestuff which recommends it to the atten tion of textile manufacturers, is in the brilliancy and fastness of ths colon. It can b used upon linen, ootton and silk with no apparent differ too in density and brilliancy, and goods that Ived are said to be entirely unaffected by the ordinary tests to wbioh they will b subjected In use. lolling for hours in t strong soap solu tion barely turned the ehsde of a cotton sample. ith indigo, a handsome green It produced. The inventor ia not yet prepared to give special details respecting ine 001 01 producing in new dye. or of the precise methods of using it; but at regards the nrst item, ne intimate that 11 will be one of the oboaiiett, and a to ths second, one of the simplest coloring matters to make slid apply. The textile journals speak in terms of great interest of the new discovery. A NEW CLASS OF ROSES. H. R WwtnjW, IUJaW, gives in Country QtntUman t description of a now class of rote brought forward last year and which ht thinks "it likely to create greater interest than any roses, porhapa, which have tver been brought before the public. I do not mean that they will supplant ths classes already known, or that they will prove of greater value than those we have. I Ins may oome to past, in a measure at least but as these hybrid teat of Mr. Btnmtt hav only been partially tested, and that in England only, their ditlnit position and value it ytt unproved. Thty art, however, til pedi gree rotes, and any ont in examining their par entage must conclude that very deniable vario ties are likely to bo had from such cross. "In 1867 there was sent oat by Moot. J. B. Guillot of Lvout, Franc, a rot which is tho sweetest and probably the moat popular, of any rose grown. This sort came up in a mixed bed of eeedlings, town from node of various tea rote. It was toon remarked that thii variety differed greatly from the teat in tho same lied, though tvidtntly having a strong infusion o( tan blood; it wat named I .a France, classed among tht remontant rote and toon proved itself worthy of a national name. Though a ohano needling, its parentage unknown, it It tht head of that data of rote now known as hybrid tat. Mr, Btnnttt hat adopted tht course of manual fecundation with rosea, fertilising different Ua roses by several varieties of tht hybrid parpat ual; tht parentage of all his seedlings it there fore known and adda greatly to tht interest of the result "The parent plants of tht roses sent oat by him in 1870 were tht teas of Alba Itnaea, President and M me. de Joseph, these were fertilised by tht remontant Comitate of Oxford, Louts Van Houtte, Duchess of Vallambroaa, Marquise do Castellano, laird Maoeuley, Einelte Hauaburg. Mine. Victor Verdier, ("niinteea of ntreuye anil tht moss Hnuptrt et Netting. "At would naturally bt expected, thus ntw sorts show their origin in their habit rateinbling both teat and remontant. Tht ont called V is countess Ftlinouth waa raited from President, crossed with Hnupert at Nutting, and dutinotly points to Its origin in its thorny woodi tht other tort having few Moral. Unt variety, called Jean Hisley, seems on the young plants wt have, to lie t vtry tine bloomer; flower Inula pushing out from every eye that starts. Ho toon at w htvt teen good flowert of that several aorta, we shall be pleased to , omnium, ate our 'lit ioitme." Ckmikt rot Gbxmul Una. For joining paper, oard-board, or modal work, or similar article a good glue can lie mad of glue, vl gar. and alcohol. Diaeolv 2 ounces of the li transparent glue in t quarter of a pint of strong enler vinegar. IM it simmer atowly by placing tht dish containing it in a diab of boiling water. When it hat becom liquid, add on ounce of highest-proof alcohol, and keep it tightly corked. If soh. Iii, e l by cold, heat in hot waUr when needed for use. Dilute acetic acid may b substituted for the cider vinegar. Chtmut st Drug. "TllKlll!" she cried, III tn excited voice; "1 should liko to know whtt't become of thai am- brit I tot it up agin tht counter whan I runs in, anil afore I could turn round, it's gone and it wat only a Monday that I gin four and ail for t! What kind of an umbrella was ma'am tons. "A young man asked tht indite clsrk in hi apiek and span It gingham, was the eager response, "with an iv'ry handle on't and a" Like tht on la you i hand, in am, tor instance! "Hakat alive! ahe exclaimed. And una might have thought aha saw t serpent rather than hor own "aplok and span gingham," with it "iv'ry handle1' clutched fait in her hand. Hht oolored up Ilk t druggist's window, and want off amidst umn Wlllglbl a I cut. Hht never felt to Mustered in all her bom dtys, at tht told Jemima Ann when tht got horn. Lov matt htvt express ton or it will die. It can lie kept forever btaatifol and bleated as at ft rai, by giving it oonetaat utterance ia wont and act Tht mora it it allowed to flow oat la delicate attention and noble servlot the stronger and mora satisfying ami more blotted it Will bt. Tht boot become horn only when lov drop it heavenly manna In it frtah every day ; and the trot marriage row 1 not made one (or til at tht altar, bat by laving word a, helpful atrvitt and delicate attentions to tht end.