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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1891)
SO WHITE, SO SOFT, SO SWEET. See the chariot at hand here of love. Wherein my lady ridethl Each that draws Is n swan or a dove. And well the car Lovo ;uldeth. As she rocs all hearts do duty Vnto her ln-.nity; And enamored do wish, wj they might But enjoy such a .-..Klit, That they still were to run by her side. Through swords, through seas whither ah would glide Po but Jiok on her eyes, they do light All that Lute's world comprise! I Do but look on her Imir, it U bright As Love's star when it rieth! Do but mark, her forehead's smoother Than wrds that soothe her: And from her arched Iwow such a grace Sheds iUelf through thu face. As alone there triumphs to the life All the gain, all thu good of the element'i strife Have you seen but a bright Illy grow Retain rude hands have touched Itf Have you marked but the fall of the snow Hefore the soil Imtli smutched itf Ilavo you f'lt the wool of the beaver Or swan's do n ever! Or have smelt o the bud of the brier Or the nard in the lire Or have tasted the imir of the bee? Oh, so white, oh, so soft, oh. sosweetis she! New York CYinmerelal Advertiser IIimv lie Cut Clients. YoiniK Hitter hits recently embarked upon it career as u lawyer, and liung out his shingle to attract such cus tomers as may be caught thereby from amid the throng of passers who go up and down Washington street, seeking to devour and in the end not infre quently getting devoured. That there is in him some of the capacities neces sary for the successful pursuitof the le gal profession is indicated by an inci dent, trivial in itself. which marked tho beginning of his career. "Why is it," he was one day asked by n classmate who put out his sign in tho same block at about tho same timo, "that people whom you don't in tho least know come into your olllco and give you jobs, and nobody over conies to mo unless it is somebody that has been M?ntr "Jly dear fellow," was tho reply, "it is the simplest thing in the world. When I had my sign painted I let it lie out on tho grass for a week, I squirted water over it from tho garden hose, and I rubbed it with a sod, so that when it was put up it looked as if it had been in use for two or three years. Your bright new sign advertised to all tho world that you were just starting out, but mine gave tho impression that I was an old hand ; so 1 got tho patron age. See?" "Yes, I see," tho other returned thoughtfully. Chicago Tribune. A Kentucky Sermon .Spoiled. It was in Breathitt county, Ky. For several months an evangelist had been laboring with tho mountaineers, trying to turn them from their evil ways. Every little while something would turn up and undo tho labor of months. Then the people would seem to take an increased interest in matters of religion, and hope would bud again in the evangelist's breast. One Sunday tho little chapel on the mountain sido was crowded, and tho evangelist was ex horting his hearers to leave their rilles and hunting knives at homo when they went to church. In the coui-se of half an hour he grow eloquent, and was just thinking that he was going to carry his point when a fat buck trotted past tho chapel and disappeared in 1 1 1 - - laurel thicket. An old hound that was sleeping in tho chapel door gave a yelp and started after the buck, and the male- portion of tho congregation grabbed their rilles and followed without waiting for a mo tion to adjourn. When thoy were out of sight the evangelist said in despair: "Oh, it's no use. it's no use." "Yas. 'tis." said a one legged man that was left behind; "I'll bet you a dollar they'll have that thai' deer inside o' two hour." Chicago Herald. Natural Locution. "What, did Solomon do besides build the temple." asked a little girl of her brother, who at once replied, "He wrote the dictionary." "Does tho Bi ble say so?" queried tho sister, with wide eyes of believing interest. "I don't know as it does, in so many words, but he was the wisest man, and that's the wisest book. So of courso ho wrote it." This original method of reasoning was evidently admired by a still younger member of the family who had come up to listen to the conversation. "Well. Tomniykins. what do you know about Solomon or his temple?" asked the brother jocosely. "Everything," was the stout reply. "Oh, you do, do you? Well, where was his temple?" "You must think I'm smart," an swered Tommy in scorn. "Oh, you don't know, you don't knowl" "I do, too." "Well, where was it then?" "On the sido of his head, same's 'twould bo in anybody!" replied Tom my in concluslvo triumph. Youth's Companion. Did Not Undemtiind IrWh. A story is told of a certain mayor of Cork who headed a deputation to tho lato emperor of the French, and com menced an oration to his majesty in what ho conceived to bo tho French tongue. "Pardon me," sold tho em peror after ho had listened to tho speech with much patience, "English I know fairly well, but I regret to say I liavo never had an opportunity of studying tho Irish language." Cork Examiner. A now albuminous poison of 100 times tho power of btrychnino Is ex tracted from thu weds of Abrus preen-torlo. BLESSEDNESS OF GIVING. riitlosopliy nf Milking Olfts and WXj Doing So Ciltei One IMcnxure. There must be something very good in Imman nature or people would not ex perience so much pleasure in giving: there must be something very bad in human nature or more people would try the experiment of. giving. Those who do try it become enamored of it anil get their chief pleasure in life out of it; and so evident is this that there is some basis for the idea that it is ignorance rather than badness which keeps so many peo ple from being generous. Of courso it may become a sort of dissipation, or more than that, a devastation, as many men who have what are called "good wives" have reason to know, in tho grad ual disappearance of their wardrobe if they chance to lay aside any of it tem porarily. The amount that a good woman can givo away is only measured by her op portunity. Iler mind becomcsso trained in the mystery of this pleasure that she experiences no thrill of delight in giving away only the things her husband does not want. Her offico in life is to teach him the joy of self sacrifice. She and all other habitual and irreclaimable givers soon find out that there is next to no pleasure in a gift unless it involves some self denial. Let one consider seriously whether he ever gets as much satisfaction out of a gift received as out of one given. It pleases him for tho moment, and, it is useful, for a long time: he turns it over and admires it; ho may valuo it as a token of affection, and it Hatters his self esteem that he is tho object of it. But it is a transient feeling compared with that ho has when he has made a gift. That substantially ministers to his self esteem. He follows tho gift: ho dwells upon tho delight of tho receiver; his imagination plays about it; it will never wear out or become stale; having parted with it, it is for him a lusting possession. It is an investment as lasting as that in the debt of England. Like a good deed, it grows, and is continually satis factory. It is something to think of when he first wakes in the morninga time when most people are badly put to it for want of something pleasant to think of. This fact about giving is so incontestably true that it is a wonder that enlightened people do not more freely indulge in giving for their own comfort. It is, above all else, amazing that so many imagine they are going to get any satisfaction out of what they leave by will. They may bo in a stato where they will enjoy it if tho will is not fought over: but it is shocking how little gratitude there is accorded to a de parted giver compared to a living giver. He couldn't take tho property with him, it is said: he was obliged to leavo it to somebody. By this thought his generosity is al ways reduced to a minimum. Ho may build a monument to himself in some in stitution, but we do not know enough of tho world to which he has gono to know whether a tiny monument on this earth is any satisfaction to a person who is free of the universe. Whereas every giving or deed of real humauity done while he was living would have entered into his character, and would bo of last ing servico to him that is, in any future which we can conceive. Charles Dudley Warner in Harper's. Dies, of Auierlciins. Americans are the best dressed men of all nations that wear what is known as European attire coat, pants and vest. Tho English are outlandish and the French too foppish, but the American is known throughout Europe by tho quiet richness and practical fat of Ins clothing. I often refiect upon this when lounging about the brilliantly lighted assembly room of the Southern hotel, ius I note tho faultless attire of tho gentlemen, partic ularly those from tho east and tho largo cities of tho central states, as thoy spend a half hour before going out to tho thea tre or other engagement. The English tourist, with his abominable "fit," is as easily recognized as a western miner. A New Yorker can bo told at sight; so can a Chicago man; the latter more by his manner perhaps than his clothes. Inter view in St. Louis Globe-Democrat American Shears tile Hot. English scissors are still called for by ladies, but tailors and others using scis sors in their daily work havo long since ceased to look for tho Sheffield mark. This is very significant, and tho fact that a tailor insists on American made shears is a grout compliment, as tho very best article is needed in cutting out gar ments. Ten years ago English scissors brought double an apparently similar article of American make. Now tho most costly bhears in these days are of homo manufacture, and every year a greater quantity of them is being ex ported. It is tho boast of an eastern house that they ship shears regularly to Sheffield, and by so doing discount tho oft repeated story and fable about "ship ping coals to Newcastle." Interview in Sr. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Speech That Was Not Heard. Once a speech thut was to bo delivered by a well known political orator in Mu sic hall never reached tho public, al though it had been carefully prepared and was in typo in tho offices of all tho morning dailies. Tho speaker was pres ent at tho meeting all ready to address tho great audience, but tho timo con sumed by tho speakers who were- given precedenco was so great and tho audi ence so wearied that tho hall was cleared before tho presiding officer had a chanco to do more than to shout after tho re treating forms that tho meeting was ad journed. Boston Trniibcript. Thomas Silverthorn, a hotelkeeper at Coral, Mich., has u spectaclo case five inches long that dates back to tho misty past, Tho lid and bottom uro of brass, tho rides of copper. On tho lid anil ojk pobitosido uro hovun nido engravings, and under each is written in the Polish lungungu tho scriptural account of tho birth of Christ. It is claimed to bo from COO to COO yean old. 1 TRAINING THE IMAGINATION. How tlio Novel llrlnzs I.IITprent Classen of Sitrlety Into S mpatliy. There is something pathetic, not whol ly sad. in the thought of tho poor boy or girl who finds delight in fictitious annals in high life. Bov and girl put them- j selves respectively in the place of hero I and heroine. They are richly dressed, i and in marble h:'.l they taste tho sweets ' of elegant leisure, of iowor and praise, i "Nothing is either good or bad but ! thinking makes it so," and imagination has no cage. Poverty is beguiled of its j sting, toil is lightened and ennui gives ! way to a round of noble pleasures and t-aniatic scene?, until the curtain falls i upon baflled villainy and triumphant virtue. Those humble readers are not troubled . by the doubts and cavilings of tho ex ! acting realist. They are happy in that j they can take so much for granted. If : they have not had the real thing they think so, and so far its they are con- cerned is it not all tho panic? But high life would know low life, too. Scholars ' and courtiers like Virgil and Horace ! were in love with pastoral scenes nnd j rustic pleasures. Marie Antoinette i would be a dairy maid, and her royal husband would be a locksmith. In her palatial home the proud beauty ! grows weary of tho rolling hours, over burdened as they are with the require ments of an artificial society and a per functory courtesy. The millionaire, outworn with tho euro of his wealth, looks longingly back to tho simple labors and untroubled sleep of his youth. Tho statesman, weighed down with responsi bility and beset by importunate suitors for favor and influence, has pensive, re gretful moments in which ho reflects that even a gratified ambition may havo cost too much. Imagination brings surcease of repin ing, temporarily tit least, to all of these exalted personages. The democratic novel, the romance of low and of com mon life, puts tho great in touch with tho masses of their kind, and makes sym pathy possible between tho loftiest and tho lowliest station. Wo live in many and different worlds in reality; wo meet and mingle with each other in imagination. When we speak of civilization, of enlightened so ciety, of progress, wo havo in mind a comparatively small part of tho human race. "Scratch the bkin of a Russian," said Napoleon, "and you will find a Tartar." But how much of our civilization is more than skin deep? In tho great cities of Europe and America do wo not find a barbarous population just beyond tho purlieus of wealth and fashion, which only tho fear of tho constable keeps in check? Is ignorance more dense or vico more shameless in any quarter of Peking or Hankow than in tho slums of New York and London? Do wo need to go upon long journeys or to turn back the pages of history to find tho lowest depths of human degradation? But what do we know of those people in their filthy hovels and noisome tenements? What sympathy, what tie of human brother hood, what sense of fellowship exists be tween the cultivated and comfortable few and the benighted millions of the hopeless poor? Wo cannot painra picture with mere statistics. What signifies a unit mora or less in the grand total of human de pravity and misery? Wo must knock at tho doors of poverty and sin; wo must look into the eyes of tho buffering and lift tho burdens of tho heavy laden be fore wo can really know tho worst of what is called low life. Well, in our day the literature of imagination has es sayed that sad task. The novelist goes now where nono but tho doctor and the most zealous philan thropist havo ever gone before upon a mission of charity. So far as he dares ho paints the picture of that underworld to the life. He is not so humorous as Dickens or so satirical its Thackeray, but ho tries to be severely accurato in tho delineation of every detail, and he brings to his work tho artist's eyo and tho sur geon's nerve. He does not need to write the moral down in plain black and white. As the sightless eyes of tho blind and tho maimed limbs of tho cripple tell their own story and mako a mute appeal to ever- generous heart, tho squalid sur roundings and sordid struggles ho de picts speak loud words of warning and command. New Orleaus Picayune. 1'refcrrcd to Ho with I'upn. One of tho best children's bon mots is told by n well known bookmaker in town. His littlo daughter was happy amid a parlorfnl of company, when bed timo camo and sho rebelled against having to leave. Sho throw herself on tho floor, face down, and kicked and screamed. "Come." said her mother, "bo a good littlo girl, now, and go to bed. Don't you know . what mamma has always told you if you uren't a good littlo girl you can't go to heaven?" "I don't want to go to heaven," said tho child: "I want t'o go where papa goes." Now York Sun. Nothing but u Worl.iuuu. It was at tho exhibition of tho "Ango las." Two refined looking women sat in tho alcovo looking at tho picture. Said ono to tho other in all sincerity, "1 think it is a pity that Millot did not chooso mora refined subjects." Then, after a pause, "But then, of courso, ho was nothing but a workingman him 6elfl" Boston Transcript. Do Tliey Crack? Do your too joints crack as you movo about in your (stocking feet? If so don't think of going into the burglar business. Tho successful burglar has crackles joints, and ho can catch hold of a would bo sneeze and hold it back until a more fitting opportunity. Detroit Freo Press. A DUagrceublo I'ruipect. Borrowell I'm not rich, I know, .TninA lint tr'a. litr-tii mill LrwifHnr? ilnri't you know, that enahlo mo to shino in fcocloty. .Tfitnf.a V, fclr lint, vmir tint vil W ., ....... VH .., . W W W. V ' toon shlno more than you do if you don't . . . ti I. nr. .1.,.. gut u now uiiu..iiuiisgy-fl wovKiy, MY PHOTOGRAPH ALQU.V. Ye front each other, face to face. Dear friend of long' ago; Your nir serene, but commonplace. Your costume cotntne II font Since ev'ry vntlrb nnd ev'ry smlla Oame llrst beneath my ken, Th tmn tlmn Jut a little while: Wu all were younger then Tom, Dick ami Harry meet my gaxe How much I liked the three As thick were we In early days As four could ever Iw But why exKct the glow of youth 1'rom silwv lieaded men TU true, although 'tis bitter truth. We all were younger then Ah, Mnry Ann nnd l.mni.i Jutrn. My llames uf other day' Alternately, although In vain. for on I oe my lay By fate my hojl1 ere oenet lit lioots not how oi when). Your marrVil nnme 1 tpute forget, We all nere jouuaer llieii Some err.int star are g.iiered here Who ntvhtly t the ,ige; But very lew to tnem'ry dear Though lint to night and u;a IK many look loel n.mr Nay. hardly ntw in ten Sty errant utars, you must allow We all eiv younger then But let me not luoriK.My lirwx. Old "ChrotKw" o'er thy (light. And waste, in Miurly cj ntc mood, Jly hour by day or night. Dear friends, 1 merely n.iio to s.ir Before I drop my en Aud put your photographs away "Wo all wero younger then " DouieMlc Monthly Gloom In New York. "Do you know what most forcibly im presses a foreigner visiting New York for tho first 1111101'" asked a titled mem ber of tho British iron workers. "Tho dirt':" "No," said tho ironmaster. "Tho dirt is bad enough in all truth; hut some thing more important than this strikes any foreigner of average power of reflec tion. It is the extraordinary cloud of glooui and preoccupation which hangs over the citizens of New York. It has an almost saddening effect upon a stranger. 1 do not wish you to think that I am speaking recklessly or flippant ly. 1 am uot The thing has impressed mo forcibly ever sinco I havo been here, and 1 do not recall any other city in tho world where it is so noticeable. "In Chicago business men look wor ried and excited: in Boston there is a largo enough leisure element and suffi cient jollity to amuse any crowd, and so it is in all of tho other cities of the coun try. But New York men have tho gloom of Egyptian mummies. You may enter and leavo a thousand elevated cars with out seeing a smiling face, and men talk with one another with tho serious and preoccupied look of criminals discussing their fate in the cells of a jail. Visitors to New York always spe.uk of it as a very jolly place, but tho citizens of tho town apparently miss all tho fun." Now York World Tain oT 'I'm o Woild llij; (CIiii-h. A sea captiiin from ono of our Maine maritime towns was with his ship in Antwerp, where lie was joined by his iianeee, where the twain wero niado ono. A ring being a desired feature in tho wedding ceremonial, tho blissful com mander sauntered forth to ptirehnse it, which having selected ho left to bo marked. In due courso ho again sallied out in pursuit of tho "sacred symbol, " but having gono whero ho supposed it was it wasn't thero. In other words, ho had forgotten where the purchase was made, and ring No. 2 was selected to adorn the bridal finger. "All is fair in lovo and war,'" and with tho original in scription erased the circlet has perhaps adorned another fair digit. Otherwise it may bo still awaiting its claimant. Lcwistou Journal. Tim Uiik Didn't Curo li Walk. This story is told of ono of tho intelll gent dogs of Auburn. Mo. Mr. W. II U. Allen lives at tho north end of Golf street in that city, while his store is on Lisbon street, Lcwistou. Tho dog very often accompanies him to and from tho store. Ho was at the store Friday after noon, when, becoming tired of staying thero, tho order was given to go homo. Tho dog started out. going up Lisbon street to Main and down Main across tho two bridges into Auburn. At tho postofiico, however, ho was seen to stand on the corner as though waiting for something A few minutes later a horso car came along, and tho dog ran out and boarded it aud rodo homo, jumping off when tho car camo opposite his master's house. Augusta Journal Neitl Man is said to bo tho only creaturo that shaves. Tho South American bird called the "mot-mot," tho Motmotus Drazillensis, actually begins shaving on arriving at maturity. Naturally adorned with long blue tail feathers, it is not satisfied with them in their natural stato, but with its beak nips off tho web on each sido for a space of about two inches, leaving a neat littlo oval tuft at tho end of each. Indianapolis Journal. 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