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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1902)
, CHEflAWA, OREGON, FRIDAY JANUARY 24, 1903. God Wants The Boys And Girls. God wnriig tlie boys, the merry, merry boys Trie wine buy, the funny boys; Tht thoughtless boys; Ood wants 1111 boys with all their jays, Tlnti. lie Ho fpA I may make them pure, An ' teach them trials to endure; His hemes bmve HVll have them be, Fighting for truth and purity ' God wanls the boys. (J'nl wsnfB the happy hearted girls, TliR loving pirls, the beRt of girls, The worst of irirl; God wants to makfl the girls his pearls. And hi reflect His Holy face, A d brintrB to mind His wondrous grace That beautiful the world may be, (And Wled with love and purity. God wants the girls. -8el. In the long ago Ohemawa could be re lied upon to furnish a scrap, a sensation or aqunlblem anaverageof oneea week. That was hi the days when politics cut mure figure In the official appointments there th-m ft docs now. Since Mr. potter liRsbeen superintendent of this growing institution there is no longer any strife or conflict there. His heart is In the work and certainly he Is making a success "oML -Hentir.M. A Bird's Love. A young Highlander, bavingset a horfe hnir noose in the woods, was delighted one m ruing to find a female s ng thrush en tangled in it. He carried home his prize, pit; it into a momy, open braided binket, secured the lid with much sir.ng and many kimis, ami then hung the extemporized upon a nail near the open wiudow. In the afternoon die parUh uiinlsit-r was called In by the boy's mother, who wished him to persuade her son to set the captive free. While the gentleman whs examining the bird through the basket bis attention was called to another thrush perched on a branch opposite the window. "Yes!" exclaimed the h.iv. "and it fol lowed me home all the way from the woods." It was the captive's mate, which having faithfully followed his partner to her ori son, bad perched himself where he might, see her, and she heard the sad, broken notes that chirped his grief. The minister hung the basket against the eve of the cottage, and the two retired to watch what would happen. In a few minutes the captive whistled a chirp to her mite's complaints, His Joy was un bounded. Springing to the topmost spray of the tree, he thrilled out two or three exultant notes, and then alighted on the basket lid, through the hole in which the captive had thrust her head and neck. Then followed a touching scene. Theiimle bird after billing and cooing with the cap tive, dressing her feathers anil stroking his neck, all the while fluttering his wings, and croouing uoder a bong of encourage ment, suddenly assumed another attitude, Gathering up his wings, he erected himself and began to pull away at the edges of the hole in the bask-t's lid. The bird's ardent affdction, and effort to release his mute, touched the miiiHter, the mother, and even the boy. "I'll let the bird go!'' said he, in sym pathetic voice, as he naw hfsmother wiping her eyes with her apron. . The basket was carried to the sp it where the bird had been soared. The cock thrush followed, sweeping occasionally close pant the boy carrying the banket and chirping abrupt iMt.es, as if assuring bis mate that he was still near hr. He never left her till she was set free. Then they both r.ise in the air siting an exul-( taut s ng together.