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OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1875.
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A MAX Willi AX AIM
Give me a man with an ?im
hatever that aim mav be,
YYhetlier its wealth or whether fame,
It matters not to me.
Let him walk in the path of right,
And keep his aim in si.rht
AVi-l-.Avo,rk and 1rav in t'aith'awar.
A ith his eye on the glittering height.
Give me a man who says
"I will do something well,
And make the fleeting days
A story of labor tell."
Though'the aim he has be small,
It is better than none at all ;
YVith something to do the whole year
through,
lie will not stumble or fall.
Rut Satan weaves a snare
For the feet of those who stray,
With never a thought or a eare
Where the path may lead awn v.
The man who hath no aim
Not only leaves no name
When this life's done, but ten to one
He leaves a record of shame.
Give me a man whose heart
Is tilled with ambition's lire;
Who sets his mark in the start,
And moves it higher and higher.
JJetter to die in the strife,
The hands with labor rife.
Than to glide with the stream in an
idle dream,
And live a purposeless life.
(WANEE.
BY JENNIE DAVIS BVBTOM.
From The Saturday Journal.
A little isolated trading-post; far
as the eye could reach a stretch of
rolling, green prairie, over which the
soft south wind swept, and the tall
grass waved like billows cf the sea.
The sun was ne.tr its setting; the
knot of idlers incidental to such a
place were gathered about the
store door; from the shambling cab
ins scattered sparsely within a half
mile's radius, and which with the
hotel and three saloons comprised
the village, came the appetizing odor
of fried bacon and baked beans. Two
young men riding, into the irregular
space, which hardly deserved the
name of a street, checked their horses
before the store, the proprietor of
which was also landlord over the
way.
"Your protegea .ilready, Frank!"
said one, with a laugh. "Faith, if
its only constancy, you've been wait
ing for, you've been found it at last
in an overdose, I should say."
An Indian girl had appeared so
suddenly and silently that she might
have sprung out of the earth for all
they saw to the contrary, and stood
now, her hand upon the bridle-rein
her big, lustrous eyes upon Frank
Hale's face, as she waited for him to
dismount.
- "Say gratitude Xed, and I admit
it. Never mind, Owanee; as we put
up for the night our horses must be
tethered out, and some one else will
take them."
"See here, Wanee, take mine
then, and rub him down well. I'll
buy you some more of that jiuketry
if you will."
Ned with his whip touched the
rows of gay glass beeds she wore,
but Owanee drew back with offend
ed dignity.
"Me no do it, me no touch j ours,"
said she, scornfully. Me see only he
done," as she rnbbed her brown hand
over the arched neck of Hale's steed.
"Oh, well; that's what it is to bo a
favorite with the sex, and you al
ways were ducedly lucky in that re
spect, Hale. "How do boss?" this
to the shirt-sleeved proprietor as he
made an urbane appearance before
them. "We are back again, you
see. Our party been here?
"Went through yesterdaj-, kep'
straight on, Mr. Ned. The cap'n
left word, howsumever, providen'
you come this way, that they'd strike
camp in the Republican Y.'dley. I
reckon now you hain't smelt a buf
ler yet?"
"And you reckon rightly. I wish
now we had kept the trail with the
rest, instead of baking a circle on our
own account. Any one here who
can act guide for us? Our own de
serted us the last post back."
"Sho' now; that's bad it is. I
don't 'spose there's a feller within
forty mile can take his place. The
trappers is all engaged and gone
from hyar; them " with .a contempt
ows glance at the loafing population,
"is only the wurthless do-nothins
left."
"Me go me good guide. What
you give?"
A i)lumed brave, young and stal
wart, disclosed himself at the elbows
of the little group, and there an
nounced himself in thick guttural.
"What do you say Frank!" asked
Ned, carelessly. "I don't take to
our copper-colored brethren as a.
general thing, but this fellow may
do, .as there's no one else to be had.
We can't go on alone, I suppose?
"We are not well enough versed
in prairie lore to make that advisa
ble, I fear. Is the Indian to be trust
ed, Ulecker? Do you know him?"
"Hang me if I've ever yet seen the
Injun that I'd trust," answered
Ulecker with no cordial glance at
him. He's Owanee's brother, an'
the two have hung about hyar off
an'd on for a year, but I wouldn't
sav for vou to trust any one o' the
breed."
Owanee's brother? that settled
the matter in Hale's mind at once.
If Owanee would answer for him, he
should guide them to the hunting
camp. The Indian received the de
cision impassively as the American
savage receives everything, terms
were arranged, and the two friends
betook themselves over the way to
such rude hospitality as that far
Western region would dispense.
Owanee had attracted Hale's atten
tion when he had been at the post
some weeks before. He had rescued
her from the brutal abuse of a herds
man, who, angered by a refractory
drove, had vented his ugly temper
upon the first available object he
met, and that object chanced to be
the pretty young squaw. Hale never
would forget the look of dumb ter
ror in her eyes as he came upon the
scene such a look as he had seen in
those of a roe when the knife was at
her throat. From that time, Owa
nee had evinced such attachment to
ward him as a kind master will re
ceive from a faithful dog.
The two young men iii company
with a half-dozen others were pass
ing the hunting season upon the
plains. They had joined a regularly
organized hunting party, but, pend
ing the decisive movements of this,
had made excursions on their own ac
count with no very adequate com
prehension of the danger they incur
red through the experience of so
doing.
Owanee's recommendation of their
guide was not to bo forthcoming it
proved.
"By Jove she's cut stick, slid, vam
oosed!" said Ned, coming in from a
quest for her before the two friends
went to rest.
"One wouldn't have imagined it
with your attractions on the tapis,
Frank, but it is a fact. 31ecker says
however, that one is apt to be as
good as t'other, that no Injun's
word is worth shucks .a pleasing an
ticipation for us you perceive. Come
let's turn in, and be off by the peep
of dawn, if there's a chance for over
taking our friends in the course of a
day or so.
They were off betimes. Nowhere
is equestrian exercise so invigorating
or delightful as well mounted and
with an indefinite reach of verdant
prairie country stretching out before
the fresh breeze from faraway moun
tains sweeping over it so at least
thought Frank .and Ned, as, at the
glorious gallop which is the horse
man's gait here, they dashed over
the w.ay. They halted at noon on
the banks of a dry stream-bed where
cottonwoods grew in sparse groups.
Digging into the sand they procured
water for themselves and steeds; af
ter dining upon dried venison,
crackers and cheese, and giving the
horses a reasonable time to rest .and
graze, they again pushed on their
way. The evening of the second day
found them in a thickly-wooded
well-watered country one of the na
tive garden spots of the West, which
for wild picturesquencss could not
be well excelled. On one side bare
bluffs towered hundreds of feet above
the river; on the other the belt of
forest gave place to open table land
dotted at wide intervals by tree-islands.
"But not a trace of our friends,"
said Frank disappiontedly. "We
should be close up with them by this
time surely."
'Would that red rascal dare do
anything but the square thing by us,
I wonder? I'd punch his figly copper-colored
head if I thought so.'
'Me come up with many pale-faces
when sun there,' said the Indian,
pointing toward the zenith.
'Umph! That means noon to-morrow,
I suppose. AH right, only see
that you do it; that's all.'
They were fearless, adventurous,
young fellows, with clear conscien
ces, and healthy bodies, and two
hours afterward they wero sleeping
the sleep of the just.' How long this
had lasted, what time of night it had
become to be. Frank had no idea
when a hand clutched his shoulder.
'Wake up,' said a whispering voice
in his ear. Wake quick, wake.'
He started to a sitting posture and
stared confusedly at the dark object
bending over him, uncertain still if
it were not a creature of his dreams.
'Hift! you no speak loud. Me
Owanee, me follow, mo find no
chance fore now to give a warning.
Where lied Feather go?
'The Indian is ho not here? Ned!
ho woke him with a touch. 'Now
Owanee tell me what brought you.'
Owanee's brother unworthy lied
Neath er a traitor, he lead you into
the Sioux hunting ground. There
many bad warriors; take horses,
t.ake scalps, burn wigwams yonder;
me think lied Feather go there, no
sure. That way pale face camp,
make quick; me show 3-011 the way.
In her broken English she told
them hurriedly how lied Feather
had sent her from the trading post
that she might not hint the treachory
of which she knew ho was capable;
how she had followed, walking night
and day with almost no rest; how
her worst supicions had proveu true
in finding that the guide had led
them wrong.
"The dark plumes of night pass
ing, lied Feather be back with dawn,
warriors too, maybe."
They needed no urging. The
horses wero grazing quietly where
they had been tethered, a little dis
tance down the stream, and dawn
was already breaking rosily. That
they had been left favored the Indian
girl's supposition that the faithless
guide had discovered some portion
of his tribe near, and stolen thither
to betray them. In live minutes'
time they were in their saddles, but
they had not turned their horses'
heads before Owanee uttered a warn
ing exclamation.
Around the base of the bluff across
the river came a score of dark mov
ing shadows; on a summit overlook
ing them was a single shape cut
against the gray opal morning ky,
out of which the'stars were paling, a
shape they recognized as the faith
less lied Feather.
A yell rung out .at the same instant;
a shower of bullets fell around them;
Owanee, now in the guide's saddle,
threw herself between Hale and the
assailants; there was a little puff of
smoke from the summit as a last shot
clear of all the rest, cleft the still air.
WTith a defiant shout those assailed
put their horses to full speed.
"There may be mounted ones after
those, but they'll have a chase, that !
I'll be bound r Toward the North j
did the girl say, Frank?"
"Toward the North. Good heavens
Owanee, are you hurt?"
He caught the sinking form as she
wavered in her teat, reining in his
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horse with one hand sharply. Her
eyes were on his face, the fondness
of a dumb brute in them.
"Me killed," she said, gaspingly;
"you fly; no mind Owanee. You safe
me go--happv."
"Do you hear that, Frank? Those
painted devils are after us close. Is
she dead? poor girl, poor Whaneel.
I vow I'm sorry for it, but come we
have no time to loose.
Hale let the still form drop gently to
the ground he could do nothing
else with their pursuers so near a
painful swelling grief in his heart,
such as no woman before had ever
caused him.
At noon that day the two young
men rode into the hunting camp and
were welcomed by the general accla
mations of their friends. A little
later Ned recounted their adventure.
"We gave them their fire back
when they came within range the
last time, and I saw that wretch, lied
Feather bito the dust. They made
chase for a time, but gave it up;
worn't certain of their ground, afraid
of falling in with a lot of 3'ou, I siq
pose." "Blast their painted picters, they're
the treachercst varmints on the face
of the airth, every one of 'em" said
an old trapper.
"Oiie was not," said Hale, turning
hastily away. But, after all, Owanee
had been Indian in heart, but like
any woman loving as she did, had
only given her life for htm.
A Thousand Boys Y:iiitcnl.
We find in the New York Observer
the following admirable suggestions
to our youth, so many thousands of
whom are 'aitiug for remunerative
employment:
There are always boys in the mar
ket, but some of them are of little
use. The kind that are always want
ed are
1. Honest.
2. Pure.
3. Intelligent.
4. Active.
5. Industrious.
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Obedient.
Steady.
Obliging.
Polite.
Neat.
One thousand first-rate places are
open for a thousand boys who come
up to this reasonable standard.
Each boy can suit his taste as to
the kind of business ho would pi-e-fer.
The places are ready in every
kind of occupation.
Many of these places of trade and
art are already filled hy boys who
lack some of the most important
points, but they will soon be vacant.
One has an ollico where the lad
who has the situation is losing his
first point, lie likes to attend the
singing saloon and the theater. This
costs more money than he can afford,
but some how he manages to be there
frequently.
His employers are quietly watch
ing how he gets so much spending
niouey; they will soon discover a
leak in the money drawer, detect the
dishonest boy, and his place will be
ready for some one who is now get
ting ready for it by observing point
No. 1, and being truthful in all his
ways.
Some situations will soon be va
cant because the boys have been
poisoned by reading bad books, such
as they would not dare show their fa
thers, "and would be ashamed to have
their mothers see.
The impure thoughts suggested by
these boys will lead to vicious acts;
the boys will be ruined, and their
places must be filled.
Who will be ready for one of these
vacancies?
Distinguished lawyers, useful min
isters, skillful physicians, succesful
merchants, must all soon leave their
places for somebody else to fill. One
by oiiii they are removed y death.
'Mind your ten points, boys; they
will prepare you to step into vacan
cies in the front rank. Every man
who is worthy to employ a boy is
looking for you if you have these
points.
Do not fear that you will be over
looked. A young person having these qual
ities Vill shine as plainly as a star at
night.
We have named ten points to go to
ward making up the character of a
successful boy, so that they can be
very easily remembered. You can
imagine one on each linger, and so
keep them in mind; they will be
worth more than diamond rings, and
you will never be ashamed to show
vour hand."
A Cab foi: Swr.Anr:r:s. The ever
humorous and ever-intrusive Bishop
Clark suggests, in his article on trav
elers, that a .special car should be
set apart for swearers. That would
bo an excellent plan if it would work;
but we apprehend that on some rail
roadsmanaged as they are at pres
ent every car in the train is, inevit
ably, converted more or less into a
swearing car. But we hope the world
will improve under the salutary in
fluence of Bishop Clark's teachings,
and that soon one car in the very
longest train will be sufficient for all
the swearers. The true rule, how
ever, is laid down by Gen. Washing
ton, that a gcu'Jcmnti never swears;
and the higher authority of the New
Testament teaches us: "Swear not at
all;" but if people will swear, it is
certainly desirable to have them plac
ed by themselves; and, therefore,
Bishop Clark's suggestion is not only
a novel but a good one.
As a traveling party was riding
through Palestine, the "attention of .a
certain American was called 'to the
reputed site of Moses' tomb.
"Moses who?" said Jonathan.
"Why, the great Moses, who led
the children of Isreal through the
desert for fortv vears."
"How far is'that?"
"Three hundred miles, maybe."
Upon which the American "remark
ed: "Pacific and Chicago railway
would have taken 'em through, 1
guess, in 8 hours."
3Iake Friends.
"I will give you an unfailing key
to success," said an experienced man
to a young friend. "Make one friend
every day, and retain all you make."
Three hundred and sixty-five friends
a year would certainly be an impor
tant auxiliary to the productive re
sources" of any ambitious young
man making his way in the world.
But then comes the question: How
are these friends to be made? It
should be easy enough to retain a
friend once earned, but how can this
very excellent prescription of making
friends be carried out? There are
many ways in which progress may
be added in this direction, even if
the task should not be literally ac
complished. Let us look at the mat
ter in a rational way. To commence
with, Civility is an excellent bait
with which to catch friends; and ci
vility is cheap. Nothing is easier
th in to keep a fresh siqqdy "con
stantly on hand." There are bogus
articles sometimes attempted to be
palmed off for the real thing, but
they are all so base that they niay
easily be detected. Obsequiousness
is one; llattery another; mock-modesty
a third; officiousness a fourth,
and so on. These may have the gen
uine stamp," but their spuriousness
is equally detected. True civili tj
neeus no false lights to show its
points. It is the embodiment of
truth the mere opening out of the
inner self. The arts and artifice of a
polished exterior are well enough;
but if they are anything less or more
than a fair exponent of inward rect
itude, their hollowness cannot long
escape detectiou. Shakspeare has
said, "A man may smile, and smile,
be a villain;" but all the world knows
that there is a wide difference be
tween the smile of a villain and that
of an honest man.
Courtesy, which is the natural out
growth of inward gentleness, bears
its characteristics strongly marked;
and is as easily recognized by the
artless child as by the grown man.
Civility, therefore, to be effective in
this quest, must have the sub-stratum
of goodness. It must be pervad
ing and uniform not exceptional
and fitful.
It is all very Avell to lay the blame
of an unreliable and explosive tem
per upon weak digestion, or "that
rash humor" inherited from others;
but its disastrous effect would be all
the same. The worst temper has
been made subservient to a well set
tled and persistent principle of right
doing; and that is the only thing
that can be relied upon.
The whole question, therefore, re
solves itself into this simple formula:
To make friends Do right.
To keep friends Do right.
Pacific College Reric-n.
A Naked llride.
At the centennial celebration at
New Fane, Yermont, the. address was
delivered by Judge C. K. Field,
the well-known anccdotist, and
among the stories told by him in it
is the following, as given by the
Montpelier Argus: By a strange per
version of legal principles, it was
supposed by our ancestors that who
ever married a widow who was ad
ministratrix upon the estate of her
deceased husband, represented insol
vent, and should thereby possess
himself of any property or thing pur
chased hy the deceased husband,
would become an executor de soi tort,
and would thereby make himself lia
ble to answer for the goods of his
predecessor. Major Moses Joy be
came enamored of Mrs. Hannah
Ward, widow of William Ward, who
died in 17S8, leaving an insolvent es
tate, of which Mrs. "Ward was admin
istratrix. To avoid the unpleasant
penalties of the law, on the morning
of her marriage with Major Joy, Mrs.
Ward placed herself in a closet, with
a tire-woman who stripped, her of all
her clothing, and when in a perfectly
nude state she thrust her fair, round
arm through a diamond hole in the
closet, the gallant major clasped the
hand of the buxom widow, and was
married in due form by the jolliest
parson in Yermont. At the close of
the ceremony the tire-woman dressed
the bride in a complete wardrobe
which the major had provided and
caused to be deposited in the closet
at the commencement of the ceremo
ny. She came out elegantly dressed
in silk, satin, and lace; and there
was kissing all around.
Tho pretty playfulnes with which
little child ren charm awav the cares
of their p.arents was illustrated by a
touching occurrence in Indiana: " A
boy of six years after watching the
laundry proceedings, especially the
way in which the wrinkles in the lin
en disappeared before the fiat-iron,
retired to meditate in the room where
his father was taking his after-dinner
nap. There, gazing upon the fur
rows which years had made upon
the marble brow of his parent, he
was seized with a beautiful idea.
In less than a minute that devoted
little boy was smoothing out those
marks of time and sorrow- with a
very hot fiat-iron. Life don't seem
so happy to his young heart as it
used to.
Tho death of Mrs. G. Safely, the
centenarian, which took place on the
ISth ult., at Mount Yernon, Iowa, is
announced. She was bom near Dun
bar, Scotland, in tho year 1771, at
the time of her death, over 103 years
of ago. She was, in many respects,
a remark.able woman, and had a re
markable temper, it often being said
of her that she was never known to
be in a passion.
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They don't sell whisky in Greeley,
Colorado, but they have a medicine
for rattlesnake bites, which is as
good and has a ready sale.
Miscellaneous.
A cubic inch of gold is worth $160.
False pride goes before false hair.
Old time rocks rocking the cra
dle. How to signal a bark pull a dog's
tail.
Lafayette, ImT., isn't half civilized.
It has no city debt.
One of our favorite prima donnas
has a falsetto' teeth.
Lament of the sidewalk "Everj
body is down on me."
The most melancholy spectacle in
the world is a cold pancake.
The novel for a policeman-
'far
from the maddening crowd."
A statistician estimates that couit
ships average three tons of coal each.
The easiest way to pay a gas bill is.
to kerosene. Rochester Democrat. Q
Adam was proudly conscious that
ho never made a mistake in his boy
hood.
Some follies- are as catching, says
Rochefoucauld, as contagious disor
ders. A man that don't knovr any thing:
will tell it the first time he gets a
chance.
An old saying is that whether a
man gets married or not, he is sure
to regret it.
Emerson says, in his incisive way:
"Good nature is stronger than toma
hawks." O
Aristotle informs lis that there is a
foolish corner even in the brain of
the sage.
"The word 'impossible' is the
mother tongue of little," said Lord
Brougham.
The sea-faring men of Newfound
land call pastors the skippers of the
churches.
Tho Millerites now keep the day
011 which they are going up, a pro
found secret. .
Swift thought the fate of a double
dealer was to lose his pow er and keep
his enemies.
There is an Amelia man who yells
in nis sleep: "Air. Evarts, your ob
jection is overruled!"
The Chinese, with a good deal of
quiet sarcasm, call ceremony the
smoke of friendship.
A million dollars in gold, accord
ing to the figures at the mint, weigh
just about two tons.
A witty French writer savs that a
kiss is at once the cheapest and dear
est thing in the world.
Every woman is in the wrong until
she cries and then she is in tho
right immediately.
The Chinese picture of ambition is
a mandarian trying to catch a comet,
by putting salt upon its tail.
Benjamin West said the kiss of hiso
mother made him a painter. Her
slipper made him a good boy.
A wit once asked a peasant what
part he performed in the great drama
of life. "I mind my own business,"
was the reply.
In 1S27 a Chinese editor caused
some false intelligence to be inserted
in his paper, and suffered the death
penalty in consequence.
An Atlanta man wants the thief
who stole his well bucket and rope
to come back and get the well, as it
is of no present use to him.
Emerson says, and says well: " If
you have a cold, or have had a fever,
or a sun stroke, or a thunder stroke ,
never speak of it."
Loving wife at Long Branch: "The
horrid surf makes me keep my mouth
shut." Sarcastic husband: "Take
some of it home with you."
A country editor's solo editorial in
one week's issue of his paper was to
the effect that if anything will mako
a man feel juicy about the lieart, it is
to talk velvet to a pair of sky-colored
eyes by moonlight in a clover field.
That is indeed a two-fold knowl
edge, which profits alike by the folly
of the foolish, and the wisdom of
the wise. It is both a shield and a
sword; it borrows its security from
the darkness, and its confidence from
the light.
An amulet in the form of a piece
of Limberger cheese, worn as a lock
et, has been found a sure protection
against small-pox in the West, foras
much as no infected person will ap
proach the wearer near enough to
impart the disease.
A witty editor, who had just failed,
said he did it with all the honors of
war, and retired from the field with
flying colors Sheriffs flag fluttering
from two windows and the door, and
a white flag hung out of his person
as a token of surrender.
A wretch, a friend of ours, broke
off an engagement for the following
cogent reasons: "You know a case is
a fearful nuisance, and I always car
ry my cigars loose in my vestpockt.
The necessary amount of affection
towards Molly was awful rough on
'em. Never came away from that
house but every one of 'em was mash
ed. Couldn't expect a fellow to waste
good tobacco that way, could you ?"
-i . rr-irTvr. -F-iT? THE BeECITER
Tiirox Jmons. A bill of
has been presented to the Brooklyn
1 r . ;,-a fnr dinners fur-
is o
Doartl 01 supcnwui
nished the jurymen in the Tilton
Beechercase.and three court officers,
feed for forty three days. An extra
force of five officers has been detailed
for duty at the Plymouth Church.
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