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THE C HEM AW A AMERICAN
MEMALOOSE ISLAND
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be found there now but decaying skele
tons. Amoung the curiosities mentioned
were tomahawks, knives, flintlocks,
guns, arrowheads, beads of score and
glass beads of all sizes and colors; sil
ver and copper coins and brass orna
ments; coins used by the old Hudson's
Bay Company; coins with the log cabin
stamped on one side and the beaver on
the other; some elk teeth, some of them
colored permanently green from long
contact with corrosive metals. One of
these can be seen occasionally worn as a
charm, and other relics of various kinds
may be seen in curiosity shops and
among citizens from The Dalles to Port
land and elsewhere.
Major Victor Trevitt, an Oregon pio
neer, member of the Legislature and
friend of the Indians, was buried here in
accordance with his request that he be
buried with honest people. A monu
ment marks his grave.
MANNERS
"You may depend upon it, religion is
in its essence the most gentlemanly
thing in the world," said Colerdge, add
ing that religion alone will gentilize if
unmixed with cant, and he knew of noth
ing else that will, alone. "Certainly
not the army which is thought to be the
grand embellisher of manners." ' Thy
gentleness has made me great," said the
psalmist. That the ways of the truly
great should be the ways of gentle men
and women is the instinctive conviction
of us all. Gentlehood, taking form in
good manners, is something that most
people secretly admire even when they
do not try to emulate. But those who
desire an elegant address above all things
for themselves or for their children are
often those least likely to seek it in the
direction pointed out by Coleridge. Yet
pure religion and undefiled does most
sensibly refine the manners and so culti
vate graciousness within that the outward
bearing gains a charm, freedom, dignitv
which courtiers might envy and which
all the pains of dancing masters and of
military dress parade can never give.
FOURTEEN MISTAKES OF LIFE.
An English paper is said to have given
what are called "the fourteen mistakes
of life," as follows:
1. To set up our osvn standard of right
and wrong and judge people accordingly,
2. To expect uniformity of opinion in
this world.
3. To measure the enjoyment of others
by our own.
4. To look for judgment and experience
in youth.
5. To endeavor to mold all dispositions
alike.
6. To look for perfection in our own
actions.
' 7. To worry ourselves and others
with what can not be remedied.
8. To refuse to yield in immaterial
matters.
9. To refuse to alleviate, so far as lies in
our power, all which need alleviation.
10. To refuse to make allowances for
the infirmities of others.
11. To consider everything impossible
that we can not perform.
12. To believe only what ourown finite
mind can grasp.
13. To expect to be able to understand
everything.
14. To live for time alone when any
moment may launch us into eternity.