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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1890)
WEST SHORE. U SEEKING INFORMATION. RiroiTiR Good morning, Mr. Mb. Baxotkom You are that re porter, are you? KiroBTra Yea'm ; I pens that' the one I am. Mm. Baxotros Wrll, I don't want you miirepreaenting me , I'm from a good family I'll inform you ! Retobtib Thank you for the information. And will you please tell me if your father waa of a gentle dilution and your mother, tco? Lima Bui-Eym Papa, did you are ilnter Fannie flying through the air? Thi Father No, my child; why do you afk? Ijttlk Bu kEym Why, the laid the wai going out on a lark. 1 i LU-iiJi( ! fl i w.-mmX I'll , MOT Intelligrnre am allua in de majority. Ie cane dat am hoed am de cane what make de 'Iam. No uw'n tryln tu re' 'leaa'n you la tired. Labor am a blewiln' dt few am nekln'. IAr am good many black ihee p in de whlti fl jrki. IM fl )era bloom fur de buy 1 Few can atan' proejwrity, but many can itan' poverty. A drunken man am a paoln' fool, ef he am pawin' or not. To lone one' Urn pah am drairabl ef hie tmpeh am bad. At de ju Igroent e at you ain't aked what color you am cee dat am 'jiarent but what am de colorln' or your dnU. To heeh tome folks talk youuni would think de I-or J maU de tlaxk man aftah he'd done ruo out or ablte material, an' dat de biax k man am j what wot lef. No ma'Ur, ht ahal der am good a de iunhlne cn a vummrr'a day ; an' de iun thine am n it uftkitnt in d winiah tint. It am bettah tu be bla k on de ouulde 'an oo de inii l. We am all linnahe, whotlr we am bla k, white, or red. Whrn de white man w ki down on me I refer him to le Lord, who furnUh de col Ma', De Uiy n!ah oon come to rig wWout trmhn' fah. life am like de rivah gain to de era. Die nlggah ran't at Uh, but he nevah lot algtt or de oil hotne. Ilia tarp am rude, but it UiLn de twll a heart wld ita ;iU. ORIGINAL " Original ? " I reckon I am And that U why I've taken the palm Or why I've not perlia; I ihoul I $y ; I am no copyUt anyway! And I wi! bet the half -( my pelf That I am my Original (; That I am iikIi, the rraaon I own I wUh the fact more generally known. VERY LIKELY. II ARDHiiBi.t. iMyou iiipe Ktittler haagotany religion? I never hear him lay anything about It. ftirTinru Me may have a Unit of the kind that ck for Iteelf ; there lit n't much of that, you know. FIRM FOUNDATION. There it only ore at Irtite that haa any real ground for it foundation, and that l geology. GENERAL INFORMATION WANTED. Ktraxoir-Ii thli the Mitthodint church, madam? Ma. Fimarv-I doln't know.ilr; I guena It alr-ilit'l It? Strahoib-1 ran't tell you, madam 1 THE QUOTATION NOT I'ERTINENT. Patrick (vrrwd In the vcre of Hiakere 0, that men will put lhat in llirir ilomarha to atale a ay their brain ! Miil-Oh, nailer hrr down, Cat. It'll itale nothing from you. NO WONDER. " I'm ve7 buoy thene time and have my hart la full." " Yournut have ttrtu-k It rich?" Wrll.no; tho' there may have bntrklng done. Having on builnnM of my own, I am mln 'ing other ople'a." HARD ON THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY. " You are too young lo marry, my daughter; you ar only ltn." " How old wtreyou, mamma, whim yoti re marrklT" " I waa only alitrrn; but if I'd alUl aahlla Unt I might have done brlter." A RACHELOR'M MtIXG. " I have a number of itrrthfarta." " Nn'l it ratUr niiarralng eomeUm?" " No. ni't of Ihern are itnnM, and I am umI to walling on the frty(Ai an I am now thirty Ave." " It la allr lr U tU veril thai It air Ur govern," ld I'aI, a he fV-l the mob. ALMO1T LLIND. V or a Oa or Mi (to a by i'aftdr-ar yoi looking for work, air? Uaii Ur trt'ti 'aa le move U take op an y portion at Ue neit nrntr)- Y, Ut my ye-a!t U pjor. OF COL'IE, 111 know you Ulit wUn yiu'r well. To got" 0 'l l to I"" tu'uU, but I (itm'l waat anything !m 'O haft-1 when 1 orvitfttke lhat