The west shore., March 21, 1891, Page 189, Image 7

THE WEST SHORE.
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Under this heading are published as many as possible of the poems entered (or the
monthly poetical contest. See announcement in advertising columns for particulars.
The names of prire winners will be given in the last issue of each month.
No. 30. TO MY SOUL
" Abide in me! "The words float down
Through nges long, and come to me
Like sacred song.
They bring a mist of tender tears,
For they o'ershadow sinful years;
But still they murmur pleadingly :
" Abide In me abide in mel "
" Abide in mel "What peace and rest,
Whnt sinless joy they speak to me,
For soul's decoy.
They whisper words of pardon pure,
They tell me that In faith Is cure,
And woo in cadence tenderly:
" Abide in me abide in me! "
" Abide in me! "Can i forget
The bitter pain and heart regret
And smile again ?
Will not the cross of sin I bear,
Will not the grief and black despair
Make me forget the God-sent plea :
" Abide in me abide in me ?"
" Abide in me ! "Oh, storm-tossed soul!
Thy ransom comes and thou art free
From living tointy.
It conies on angel wings of white,
It turns the darkness Into light,
It sings at last triumphantly :
1' Abide In me abide In me! "
Portland. Oregon. Eva A. Fkntos.
RIVERS OK CRYSTALIZEl) SNOW..
Very few who have not seen a large glacier have any distinct klea of the
nature of one of those huge rivers of ice, which are to be found on the sides
of all our snow-covered peaks and in the canyons of Alaska and other regions
of the froien north. Masses of perpetual ice within a few rniles of valleys
where summer reigns almost continually from one year's end to another, and
where the thermometer seldom registers as low as the freeiing point, seem to
be sadly out of place j but they are the result of the operation of natural
forces easily understood. The principle of natural law governing the decrease
in temperature of the atmosphere as the altitude above the earth's surface is
increased is well known, as well as that law of decreasing temperature as pro
gress is made away from the tropic lone 1 so that the reason why the temper
ature is suited to the formation of ice on mountain peaks and in the northern
regions need not be stated. Ice is water crystalucd by the extraction of its
heat. Snow is also froien water, the particles lying so irregularly that the light
is so refracted as to mingle the spectral colors, giving it the apiearance of
whiteness. Under heavy pressure snow assumes a crystalline form and be
comes ice without having been melted. This is the material of which glaciers
are made.
Snow falls to a great depth on the mountain peaks and slides in large
masses into the deep canyons, where the pressure of the great weight trans
forms it into glacial ice. A great mass of ice like that on a mountain side
No. 31.
SCHLIEMANN.
Schliemnnn, true heir of all the Greeks,
Heroic In Homeric faith,
The buried past, revived, speaks,
And Delphi's shrine, prophetic, saith
Thy name shall live, linked with the land
That knew the gods, that tuned the lyre,
That bred Achilles and hit band
And stole Promethean fire.
From old Myceme's moldering walls
Stalks Agnmemnon, king of men,
And Trojan Priam's palace halls,
Through thee, resound with life again.
A sound of weeping comes to-day
From thy Greek palace by the sea,
And all earth's sages gladly pay
Fame's richest tributes unto thee.
Oregon City, Oregon.
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Kva Kmkkv Dvk.
No. 3a. CHOICE.
Oh, Art, my Art, how hnd it been with me,
If thee repelling, I had chosen Love;
Hnd deemed his gifts, all other gifts above,
Ambition stilling, when she called on thee,
My being's center stirring longingly?
I feel thy voice the promises thereof
Content me, as the nest a wearrled dove,
As cooling drops content the thirsty lea.
Hut, Art, my Art, I am a woman, loo,
And ofttimes tears unbidden start and fall
At sound of children's voices. After all
The woman In us we may not subdue
Tho' Art be ours. Bear with me. then. space,
Since I have turned from Love, to know thy face.
Oakland. California.
Maud Wvman.
THE GREAT CREVASSE IN COE GLACIER, MT. HOOD, OREGON.
can not be stationary, for the force of gravity and the heavy and ever-increasing
mass above combine to push it downward, It slides liodily, selling rocks
from beneath, and with these in its grasp plows up the paih over which it trnv
els. As it moves along k cracks into huge chasms which yawn deep and ter
rible for a time and close up again. Its whole surface is seamed and scarred
with crevasses, ridges and hummocks, and strewn iih bowlders gathered in
its downward course by the undermining and breaking of the rocky walls that
hem it in, It thus progresses through the ages, wealing deeply into the moun
tain below and upon its skies. Such a huge crev asse as those sken of is
shown in the engraving on this page.
The glaciers of great mountain peaks, like Hood, Rainier and Adams,
continue to flow downward until they come within the disintegrating influence
of the wanner atmosphere of the lower levels. All alxmt it will be seen ver
dant hills, in the mklst of which this stream of ke, neither pure nor white,
makes its slow and grinding way. The sun and the warm Chinook play uon
its surface, where little rivulets of water form and flow along gullies and
trenches in its surface and down well-like holn (lull lead to the bottom, until
they unite in a stream that issues from beneath the glacier, generally milk
white in appearance, and goes dashing down the mountain to reach the mighty
Columbia or mingle with the waters of Fuget sound. On Mount Hood there
are three large glaciers, each one forming the headwaters of mountain streams.
On the east is the White river glacier, on (h; north the ElkH and the Coe on