CHEJ1AWA, OREGON,
FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1902.
A Dream.
"What was my dream?" I asked at
rosy dawn,
As birds Beut forth fresh greetings to
"Ah! dream," he mused, "My soul, the
veil withdrawn,
With wlnics of joyous freedom rose on
hiKh,
I greeted all the warblers of the air
In comradeship, my earthly shell, of
We saw not. WhisperingB of Joys more
(air
Than all my earthly pleasures filled
the day
And made mv pilgrimage a glorious
dream."
He Bpoke not of the rest, hut walked
the way
Upraised in spirit, for a golden ln'am
Still cheered the toilsome vision of
the day.
The Blight of Shiftle.-sness.
There Is nothinyr elwe quite so hard to
cure, in the line of moral weaknesses, as
constitutional shift lessnesH.
There is Hi tie hope for a youth wlmriaw
dlei, who haB not gumption and lifcenough
even to sit or stand ereut. Everything he
wears and everything he doe has a
sloncliy, golng-10-pieces look. His back
hoee seems to be of ihe wewkest, and he
appears unable t4 hold HmS'df together.
His slipshod ways and fchiftleeB manners
are apparent in every letit-r he wrl e-, 111
every errand he does, in every word he
speaks, and in every movement of his
for II will yield only to the most hrolo
treatment. Hornet I mea, however, when
shiftleMt people are suddenly thrown on
their own resource, and have no posalhle
way o keep from starving but by hoeing
their own rows, they manage to wimmou
their energies and intake a little start in
life. We would earnestly can 'ion ev-ry
youth against the danger of this disease,
for it is contagious. We have known it to
go through whole families, schools, and
communities. Wo have been In towns
where everything had a shift leas air, In
country place where fences ere all down,
the ground overgrown with weed and
btwhee, and the barnaand houses unpaint
ea, li short, where desolation and failure
stared one in the face at every turn.
Avoid association with a sliptdind, am
bliionless person, as you would with a per
son tainted with mall pox. He is afflicted
with a moral diseane, which may. in spite
of hfs determination to resist it, have a
hlightlna infliienoeon hla life. Ex.
Live In the Present.
Much f the best energv of the world is
wasted in Ihe past ir dreaming of the fu
ture. (sma people seem to rnntK anv
time hut ihe preaeut i agood lime to live
In. But the men who move the world
must be a part, of it. Th-y must touch
the life that now is. and feel the thrill of
ibe movement of civilization.
Many people do not live in the present.
It doea not know them. T.iey are buried
in books; thev live in achievements, and in
history, but the great ibrobbtng pulse of
Ihe world limy do uot touch. They are
not a partof the world; Ihey are never at
tuned to it.
The young man who would win must
plungH into the current of events. He
must kep step with the march of progress
This i
difficult dtst
be in the rear. The 1
of the lime must run through his vein
there will te paralysis aomewheie iu
nature. Exchange.