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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1880)
June, 1880. THE WEST SHORE. '75 vain-minded women of the world;" and the speaker waved his hand at the conclusion of this little oratorioal flourish. Then, hitch, hitch, hitch went the chair Miss Kezia-ward. "Don't ye feel sort o'lonuly at spells," he asked insinuatingly. Xli.ii Vat'in Manned aiianimnnslv flf fnn rart. ....... ....... ........ idly advanoing chair. She dropped hor knit ting and went to the tire and piled up the blaz ing sticks of wood. Then sho came back to the table and set her chair on the farther side of it, thus putting a bariier between her and her vis itor. "I'm never lonely, deacon; plenty to do is the best medicine for loneliness. "But woman's a tender, dependent creatur'. Woman's a vine" (here the deacon assumed his weekly prayer meeting drawl), "and needs suthin' to oling to when the troublouB deso latin' waves and winds of allliction and surror roll over her." "Stuff and nonsense!" exclaimed Miss Ke.ia with a oontemptuous sniff, I shouldn't have ex pected that a man of your seuBe, deacon, would repeat such silly trash. I have no patience with the people who are always talking as if a woman couldn't stand alone, and needed propping up, like a rag doll that hadn't any baokliono. I'm no vine no such creeping, helpless thing, 1 can tell you. I oan stand alone as well as anybody, if the Lord so will it. altho' I admit, doaeon, that its pleasanter to have some one keep vnu eomDanv." "That's iost it: ye hev' hit the nail suuar' on the head! It it pleasanter to hev' oompauy iu nnr ininurn on this mortal earth." The deacon seized his chair with both hands and by a circuitous lino of hitching, plaoed it within three feot of Miss Kczia's table. "You're a forehanded woman, Miss Kezia; I'm a man of promiso and inlluenoe in the ooiiimu nif.v. it mmi to me that it would lie a g I thing if we could walk haud-in-hand thro' this v:,li. of taara. Providence seems to p'iut its finger that way." The deaoon was thinking at that vory moment of the money he would save by putting a thrifty manager like Miss Kezia iu the place 01 nis ineuioieuv wmvo.u. Miss keia WAR dumbfounded. Sho dropped her knitting and the ball of yarn rolled aoross the floor. "Mercy!" she Anally gasped. 'I'll make ye a lirat-rate husuanu, ana ye 11 1 - ..,.,..1 ,. ,1., Wn'vn been members of make me a good wifo. We've bocn mumpers , 1... ,.1, I, for 3(1 vnira or more, anil kun 111.. lulu' tH nf the imriloottl family i, members of the same Annum i 1 . laiuitv. Miss Kezia straiahtenod herself up in her high-backed chair and drew in her chin, while her voioe rang out shrill and dear: "I rather guess it'll take two to make that bargain. A second look at her aged admirer, who was edging up to her with a sheepish simper, nm ated the good woman lieyond control. ' I ho oh t II" -U- mU .. rt llflllK' mill, sue r.wi j 1 The color came into the deacon s thin cheeks, ..j h. .tutivt m his feet, looking anxiously to j. .u. .. it ,,,,.,lit:iiinL' a hasty retreat. wants meuwi, " r. . , - But the yarn was wound around his booU ana Miss Kezia likewise row, and folding her hands primly in front of her, remarked grimly; "When you first began your talking I ha.ln tt he I...... i.l. a what vou wero driving at. I thought iuTI ..... ,.. 1, ,,, in,,. alHiut BotaV Mill, a" lllUt V"U O ' ., . u,t. a take me into your oonhdoiico never dreamed that you meant me. hy, I sup I n..t ,. one in the town knew thai wouldn't give up my freedom for the l.e.1 man living. Betsy Mill is a piou., ummy - - she'll make a good home for you, and she need . u If" Tk. ..,v.n looked completely withered, am Mias Kezia continued: "If you step around little livelier, deacon, and pick up the tones . 1 n.l.,Mhm UsisM fences, and mo down some of thcae pky - .... .k vonr (arm shollldn t MM " your leoling. deacon. I bop. you 11 overlook it Whyyooarealltwiated up in that yarn: IU The dolay in unwinding the yarn from the deacon's feet gavo Miss Kezia a chance for further remark. "One word more, deacon : have you heard about those western lands?" Tho deacon wished ho was anywhere out of the sight of those merciless black eyes. "I I tiaiiK 1 vu iiuciu luu smaiii snout em, lie re plied meekly. 1 tlh'lli'M mi! I t hnlllHlt so'" exclaimed Minn Kezia savagely. "Well, deacon, those lsnds ghtfully belong to my niece Marv. 1 only hold them as her guardian." Tho deaoon began to look upon his rejection a Messing m disguise, lor without the west ern lands Miss Kczia's attractions seemed tamo compared with thoso mild blue eves of Widow Hill. "I can trust to ye never to mention this?' he asked timidly. I shall never speak nf it Now, follow my Iviee, deacon; make sure of Betsy Kill be- fore another week goes by. Vou havo my good isnoH. nee 10 mis 111 once. "Thank yo, thank ye; I don't mind if I dew." Tho good woman followed her crestfallen sitor to the ilonr. As a sudden gust of cold ight air put out thoilight sho'said: "The air is snapping to night; have a frost, eh deacon?" Anil the ihscoiiihteil ileaeoti felt that he hail been nipped hy something sharper than a frost. fc'inmn '. Dnnrrill, in Linplneotl't, Tmk lli'MAN Kail- Imagine two harJM in a room, with the same iiuiuiier 01 strings, ami each string perfectly attuned to a cm-respond- . , r . l . t rn t 4i l Dig Hiring III 1110 oiner. loucn 11 string 111 mni, nil the enrrespoiiiliiiK string in the other will give out the same sound. 'I ry another string, ami Its corresponding tone will lie soilliiled. no with all the strings. So with any combination f the strings. It would not matter how you laved I lie one harp, tho other would respond No doubt the response would lie weaker. That is what one would expect; hut the response, as regards pitch and ijuality, would lie almost pat' feet. Now, siliistiiiiiu lor one narp a unman ear, and tho conditions wouni, secerning 10 theory, bo tho same, except that tho responsive mechanism of the ear is much smaller than that of tho resionsivo harp. In the ear there are minute chorda, roils, or someiiinig, ill siiuii a tate of tension aa to bo tuned to tunes ol van. ous pitch; sound a tonu, its uorrosKinding rod or chord in the oar will respond, poihapa foobly, but still with energy aulliuient to excite the norvo-lilament oonneotod with it; the result is nervous current tn the brain, and a souse tiou of a tune a particular pitch, -tlmul Wont: flam ok Katiiii'K in IUaiuxh. -An im- jortant study baa lioen mule ol this subioot by l)r. .laval. DircuUir of the laboratory of Oph- thalmology of the Horbnnne, published in the AnmlrtdOritlutiiiiir. I ho laligii" 01 me oyos whMl is so often complaiueil of by literary msn he believes duo to a permanent tension of ac commodation. Heeding require constant, steady strain of the eyes, while many other occu pations iluinaniling close attention, no mrmi constant sight. His waearuhea extend to the uestiou of great economical importance: uitoii .ml.,. 1 of naner and a nuinlx r ol 1 . T j . l. ..1 .. . 1. 1. nailer sou ion....... ....- 1 ... .. . i.rint iiiHin it. what rule will secure the man r I 1 1 ..Ml. m ni mmiLi 1 1 1 1 . . ,1.111 . 111" mianni i". .....w. p.i"b- mmn of IrllltllltV lieing eiiual, tho legibility of a printed paged" not dniMind on the height of the letters, but their breadth. This fact is of special import ma iii the iireuaration of school books, and Hr. Javal s Sllggestlnlis sllolll.l receive inn aiwnnoo of publishers, tyKi louuders ami aeiiooi noarus A mu.-owUMt says: siskins make the best poesihl" strings for lacing lIU. Duo hue -ill ,,v I. It and will stand wear and hard usage where hooks or any other faateninga fail. Our mill lieing 011 the bank of the river, we keep a net aet forerla, which, when wanted, are Uken out in the morning and skinned, and the skins are stuck on a smooth la"I " hn dry, we cut them in two string, making the alskin, in three hours from the lime the liah Is Uken from the water, travel in a belt. BAH HABITS. The young man who atarta out in life with luul habita is handicapped from the at ait. They will cling to him aa the leach does to the akin, and Mick Uiu very vitality from all hli uadaav- ors to better his condition. Think you, young man, that any of thoee men who have risen from the very humblest ranks of society, would have reached tho Hiaition they oouapy i( they had contracted habita dangerous to their moral or physical welfare? They most certainly would not They would never have risen from the level in which they were originally placed. They would reap aa they had sown. Many a young man deairea to lie classed aa a "good fellow." It is very pleaaant no doubt to lie told that one is so very liberal with his money. It tickloi his feeling of self love. Hut is it not pursuing a very dangerous course In thus being claased? Are we not laying the inundation of a course of oitravaganoa that will cling to us all our Uvea? We do nut advocate the other extreme of miaorlineea. The golden mean in all things ahoulil lie our endeavor. Then in tho purauit of hia extravagant desires, ho contract debts he can never y. He live beyond hie means, borrows from his friends to keep up appearances, and when aaked to pay his debts is unable to do so. Thus ho goes on through life, a burden to himself and all with whom he baa dealinga. The vine of drunkenness is one of the pitfalls which has sent many a noble heart down tn perdition. It may start ill with a social glass with a friend, but the end will, if we allow (t to control us, be both moral and physical ruin. How many aro the brave and manly hearta, w ith high and noble aapirationa, who nave been utterly ruined hy giving way to the demon of intemperance, I'ontaut with the world reveals them on every hand. With Intel lect clouded and mind dwarfed, when they should be strong and self. reliant, they rapidly sink into an olawunty and social ostracism, which would not he the ease if they did not give wav to their evil habita. Instead .d perhaps tak ing rank an g the world's great ami good, they are found iu the oirule of the low and depraved. Another vine that ia utterly demoralising la gambling. The corner. grocery or cigar store, where dice are shaken for drinks or cigars, may m the first step iu the downward ooura. II .1 Ih uooeeaary that one shou!.! have a amok or drink, let him psy for it like a man, and not try to make another do so by shaking dice for it la. It the first step that may lead to the faro Unk, and then when one's salary is not uili. 10111 to minister to the gamlillug neiwl, (orgery and other erimee will follow III its wake And tho end! I in you realise It, young men, who so deftly throw the dm on the eouaUr. The prison door ulnae, and you are lost to ihe world. We might enemeraU othar vleat that bewt the path of young man who daeir to mak their way In the world. We have Uotd these cauea they aeein to be of the moat mo ment Kvery young man who desire, to saooMMl in 1 it... be need t have all hi faasdtM m fall play. Horn of the brightest nam In tna history ol the wnrhls' progro hav risen from the humblest surrounding. Hot they did not hav any bail habiu. They worked rlyand lata . .. . 1 a . , .1 . lor the aiiainmen as wwir "i"""- lrmJ chawed all surroundings that tended to dwarf th.-ir mental faeullle. Kor th realisation of their cherished aim and the goal of lhir ambition, they willingly sa.Tiln.-d til passing moment' ..Irssiiira No un can ever hop to sue. d will,. ml thus doing so When we havo reached the nbjent of our life, although It may not be the full realiaaliun "f it. the hard and thorny road we have pawed over will rsonr to with pleaa ant memoriae, and cause an Inner lading ol pleasure no in can dasarib. HiiKY aaad in moderation Is wholeaome. Very old hooey, however, shoald b chewed. untangle iv