P acific C hristian M essenger .
O<J YE, THEREFORE, TEACH ALL NATIONS.”
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VOL IX.
MONMOUTH, OREGON ; FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1879.
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F&ol£Lo
and " blud.” Of course there is but
opinion among this class, and that
C hristian M essenger , one
is that Senator Lamar has the best of
Devoted to the cause of Primitive Christi
the position and that if Senator Conk
unity, and the diffusion of general in
ling does not challenge his adversary
formation.
he must go down to posterity as a
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All business letters should be addressed coward. At to-dav’s session of the
to T. F. Campbell, Editor, or Mary senate the two belligerent Senators
Stump, Publisher, Monmouth, Oregon.
attracted all eyes. The galleries rap
Advertisers will find this one of the best idly filled up. Senator Conkling con
mediums on the Pacific Coast for making
tinued to lead the filibustering repub
their business knowtf.
licans. He demanded the reading of
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Conkling remarked, “ when they do,
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wefthe republicans) will find other
means of preventing action on the ar
Correspondence.
my bill until debate is qllowed.” The
Our Washington Letter.
republicans insist that the only terms
upon
which they will desist from dila
(raeM ova xsrnn.AH caRKiar ovdkxt . )
tory tactics is an agreement by the
W ashington , June 21,1879.
democrats that unlimited debate shall
The date of adjournment is still a be allowed. It is understood that
subject for speculation. The House Senator Clandler has a red-hot stal
passed a resolution for final adjourn wart speech he wishes to unload, and
ment on Tuesday of this week, but that Conkling himself has one, aimed
the Senate could not get through by at the administration generally, and
that time. There is some hope that Secretary Sherman in particular, for
both branches will be through by that what he will claim is its policy of con
time next week, but much will depend cession to the democrats.
upon the fate the appropriation bills
Society circles here are somewhat
meet when they reach the President. exercised over "a scandal in high life,’
Some of the Democrats favor adjourn which involves the beautiful daughter
ing without waiting to see whether of a wealthy, and aristocratic family,
the bills are signed or vetoed, but it is who has formed an affection for her
expected that the President would in father’s coachman, a la ex-Gov. Hub
thatcase promptly reconvene 'Congress bard’s daughter of Connecticut, and
in extra session.
and more recently the case in New
Aside from the political -debate York. The coachman in this city is
there has been little of interest in handsome but illiterate, and the fami
either branch. The tilt between Sen ly of the young lady ranks high for
ators Conkling and Lamar during culture, wealth and antecedents. The
Thursday nights session has created father, when warned by a friend, dis
more of a sensation in political circles credited the story, until upon investi
than any event which has marked the gation be found numerous letters from
proceedings of either house since ante the coachman addressed to his way
bell urn days. The question now is ward ehild.
During an interview
•* Who has got the best of it?” The about the matter, the young lady’s
southern men generally say that under mother fainted. Despite the paternal
the code it is in order for Mr. Conkling diligence the twain planned an elope
io challenge Senator Lamar, as La ment whieh was interrupted by the
mar applied the first offensive epithet appearance of the father while they
to Conkling. The northern men say were cn their way to the minister’s.
that if Senator Lamar can quietly The coachman has been discharged
rest under the epithets heaped upon and the young lady transfered to her
him by Mr. Cackling of a coward, father’s oouatry rdS3er.ee. A young
blackguard and liar," that Senator, physician, to whom the girl was en
Conkling can as well rest under the gaged to be married, has been so af
mere insinuation that he is a fa seifier; fected by the knowledge of the facts
and .that his bravery will in no wise ■that he is nearly crazed, and has, by
«Mfter thereby. Those who witnessed the advice of his friends, started on a
the exciting scene, say that Mr. Conk voyage around the world. For ob
ling showed exasperating ceolness, and vious reasons the names of the parties
that in addition to the words he ut are suppressed.
tered, bis manner towards Mr. Lamar
The National Division of the Sone
was even more cutting than his sen
Temperance, which has been in ses
tences. Turning his back upon the sion here si nee Tuesday last, closed
Senator, and waving hie hand back of its annual meeting at an early hour
him, he said in his most provoking this Afternoon.
The last session
manner “ I will hold no further com whieh begun about 10 o’clock and
munication with the member from oontiaued until after 10 o’clock, was
Mississippi at this time." Inasmuch presided over by Past M. W. Patriarth
as Mr.
and his friends seem to Stephen B. Ransom, of New Jersey.
l>e satisfied with the matter as it now A telegram of welcome to Cincinnati,
«lands, it is safe to presume that it where the next meeting is to be held,
will end where it is, Mr. Conkling was read during the session, and ex
does not recognize the code as the cited a warm response. Arrangements
proper means of adjusting differences were initiated for forming a national
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between gentlemen. If Senator La mutual relief association among Sons
mar should challenge him, his (Conk of Temperance. „ A resolution thank
ling) friends say that in such event ing the governor of Maryland for car
his course will neither be cowardly rying out the Laws of the State in
nor beneath the dignity of his posi reference to the traffic in, intoxicating
tion. Outside of political circles prop drinks was introduced and referred.
A number of business reports were
er, the scene has created a good deal read, accepted and ordered in file.
of gossip. In front of the Hotels last The session was closed by an address
night the kunnels, majahs and judges by Mr. Almy. The session of 1880
are assembled in force discussing the will be held in June, at Cincinnatti.
A ugust .
several topics of * honah” “the code,”
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NO. 28.
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The conversation led from one Hood, and was entitled “ The Song of
thing to another, and was adroitly the Shirt."
A THUE STOBT*
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It was submitted to the weekly
turned upon the subject of temperance
“Do let me give you a sandwich by the elder lady, who was a person of meeting of tha editors and principal
and a glass of wine, Margaret. The rare culture and refinement. The dis contributors, several of whom opposed
most delicious little sandwich that cussion between the two grew inter- its publication as unsuitable to the'
ever you saw, and the sherry that I eiting, and their fellow-passengers pages of a’comic journal. Mr. Lemon,
however, was so firmly impressed with
have with me has the real Xeres aro soon grouped about them.
“ I am glad that I do not belong to its beauty,' that he published it on
ma.”
Tne speaker was a dainty little wo that vulgar class who think it a vir December 16, 1843.
“ The Song of the Shirt ” trebled
man, in a crowded railway car, and tue to abstain from wine," the young
the
sale of the paper and created a
er
woman
was
saying
with
some
spir
she addressed a young girl opposite
profound
sensation throughout Great
it.
“
I
reckon
wine
among
the
neces?
her who had been complaining of fa
Britain.
People of every class were
saries of life. I have sons and daugh
tigue.
—
moved
by
it. It was chanted by bal
They Both belonged to a party who ters growing to manhood and woman
were going “out west” to attend a hood, yat 1 am not afraid of any rela lad Bingers in the streets ‘ of London,
wedding, and they had talked the tive of mine yielding to appetite; it is and drew tears from the eyes of
princes. Some years after the author’s
matter over until the passengers near not in our blood.”
Just then a shriek came ringing death the English people erected a
them heartily wished they would
through the corridor, and the anima monument oyer his grave. The rich
change the subject.
The mention of sherry did change ted speaker waa confronted by a ser gave guineas, the laborers apd sewing
the subject effectively. The young vant, bringing in his arms the body of women gave shillings and pence.
girl called Margaret, refused her aunt’s poor, pretty little Kitty, her long Sculptured on it is the inscription de
offer of refreshments, but ope of the snowy night-gown saturated with vised by himself: “He sang 'Tha,
lady’s little daughters, who shared her with blood. The child was dead. Song of the Shirt’ ”
“ The Old Oaken Bucket ” was
She had slipped out of the r3bm, had
cousin’s seat, piped up at one:
“ I would like a glass of sherry, if climed over the balustrade, and bad written fifty or more years ago by a
printer named Samuel Woodworth.
fallen down two or three stories.
you please, mamma.”
The silver-haired gentlewoman was He was in the habit of dropping into
“ No, Kitty.” replied her mother,
She a noted drinking-saloon kept by one
“ you had a glass at lunch, and that now a very effective helper,
will do until dinner ; we shall have quieted the stricken mother, and sub Mallory. One day, after drinking a
sequently dressed the beautiul child glass of brandy and water, he smacked
dinner at Z.”
“ I want a swallow now, mamma.” in her lovely festal garments, and laid his lips and declared that Mallory’s
“No Kitty, it will make you stu her in the satin-lined casket, among brandy was superior"to any drink he
had ever tasted.
the flowers intended for the bride.
pid”
Just before the arrival of the train
No,” said Mallory, “you are mis
. “ Well' mamma, dear, let me have
a teaspoonful in the traveling cup. I whish was to take the afflicted party taken. There was a drink which in
can then smell of it, and wet my tips back to their home, the poor sorrow both our estimations far surpassed
with it, and it will last me a good ing mother put hei arms around the this.”
" What was that
incredulously
while; only just a teaspoonful, mam neck of the white-haired woman and
asked Wood worth.
ma. You know It often have a little at said:
“ You have been like a mother to
“ The fresh spring water we used to
home to play with.”
“ It is to much of an effort to un me in this terrible calamity. I be drink from the old oaken bucket that
pack the basket, Kitty. Now amuse lieve the Lord sent you to me, and af hung in the well, after retnruing from
ter all that you have done, it is only the fields on a sultry day.”
yourself with your J3t. Nickolat."
The child began to cry, and moan, just that I left the chamber last even
“ Very true,” replied Woodwork,
and tease, and she kept it up in spite ing, poor Kitty, in spite of the entreat tear-drops glistening in his eyes.
ies of her sisters and censin. unpacked
of all the efforts made to divert her.
Returning to his printing-office, he
“ It is of no use to talk to me," she the lunch-basket, and took a sip of seated himself at his desk and begat!
would sob; “ I can’t think of any sherry, saying she could not go to to write, In half an hour
sleep without it. She returned to " The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound
thing but the sherry.”
bucket,
Presently her mother asked, “ Do bed, and Margaret and the other
you smell the flowers in the box that children went to sleep; but, as I The moaa-oovered bucket whieh hung in
the well ”
are carrying to auntie ? A breath of found the flask quite empty, the dear,
Was
embalmed in an inspiring song
fragrance is wafted from them to me child must have got up and drank
from it a second time. Her brain was that has become as familiar as a
every now and then.”
“ No, mamma,” replied the beauti turned, of course, and that accounts household word.
A Mother’s Lesson.
ful little girl, plaintively, “I don’t for what followed.”
Is it not sad that a mother, with
smell anything but the sherry in the
lunch-basket; I smell that all the sons and daughters growing up
arouod her, should harbor the princi
time.”
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A good many significant looks -were ples this woman did, and need to be
interchanged among the passengers, taught
such a fearful stroke, that
and a number of them speculated as ‘ Wine is a mocker, strong dring is
to the probable future of the infant raging, and that whoever is deceived
sherry-lover.
thereby is not wise."—M rs . A nnie A.
The train failed to make connection P sebspon , in the Advocate and Guar
at Z.; and a good many passengers dian.
v^ere compelled to stay at a hotel over
Origin of two Popular Poems.
night.
The party who were en route to at
Hood’s touching lyric, “ The Song of
tend the western wedding were the the Shirt,” was the work of an even
only ones among the passengers who ing. Its author was prompted to
had wine at dinner. Kitty, radiant write it by the condition of thousands
and amiable now, was allowed to have of w.orking-women in the city of Lon
her sherry, and she smelled, and snif don. The effect of its production was
fed, and tasted, and enjoyed the deep foreseen by two persons, the poet’s
amber liquid, and finally drank it off a wife and Mark Lemon, the editor of
connoisseur, much to the evident Punch.
amusement of her dainty mamma and,
“Now mind, Tom—mind my words,”
indeed, of the whole party.
said bis devoted wife, * this will tell
The children Were put to bed im wonderfully. It is one of the best
mediately after dinner, and the grown things you ever did.”
up people returned for a little while
Mr. Lemon, looking over his letters
to the parlors.
one morning, opened an envelope in
After riding for two or three days closing a poem which the writer said
and nights in the same railway car, had been rejected by three Loudon
people begin to feel like old neighbors,^ journals. Hu lagged the editor to
and Kitty's mamma entered into con consign it to the waste-basket if it
versation with a beautiful, white-hair was not thought suitable for Punch,
ed gentle-woman, whose seat in the as the author was “ sick of the sight
of it” The poem was signed Tom
car had been near her own.
Weather Report for June, 1879.
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During June, 1879, there were two
days on which rain fell? and an aggre
gate of 0.47 in. of water, 14 clear
days and 14 cloudy days.
The mean temperature for the
month was 58 20°, Highest daily
mean temperature 64°, on the 1st,
13th, and 27th. Lowest daily mean
temperature 53°, on the 6th. Mean
temperature for the month at 2
o’clock p. M. 69 20*.
Highest record of thermometer for
the month 78°, at 2 o’clock p. m ., on
the 27th. Lowest thermometer 48°,
at 7 o’clock a . M., on the 22nd.
Solar halo on the 2nd.
The prevailing winds for the month
were from the North during 19 days,
S. W. 7 days, N. W. 4 days.
During June, 1878, there was no
rain, 20 clear and 10 clondy days.
Mean temperature for the month
6217°. Highest daily 72°, on the
5th. Lowest daily 54°, on the 1st.
T. P earce .
Eola, June 1, 1879.
—Prof John Ogdon, of Worthington,
o.. in a late address, says : •• Education
should oost wore than any other duty or
neoeaaity iu life. 1» i. worth more. And
jet a man will cheerfully pay from three
to five dollars a week for boarding but
A fonrth oiit for tuition for
bi« ehild. He will pay »50 or «100 for a
areaa or a enit of clothes, and grumble at
a school tax of S3 per annum.”