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About Washington County news. (Forest Grove, Washington County, Or.) 1903-1911 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1903)
PA G E EIGHT. ------------------------------------- - PATRIOTISM It Is Better to Be Able to P ty Your Wash Bills Than to Have a Graveyard Full o f Ancestor* An excellent stimulus to patriotism are the societies which have been formed for the purpose o f looking up progenitors who were not fortunate enough to avoid the draft In 1770. How eagerly w e pry into the past to find some forefather who acquired glory, chilblains und undying fame in Valley Forge or some other Revolutionary winter reaort. The Tact that we huvo numerous j>oor relatives right at hand clamoring for recognition interests us not ut all. We may have fathers and grandfathers who fought and tiled in 1802, hut we take no heed of them When they turn out with tlielr torn flags, meekly following the smug milk tia, we smile condescendingly und turn away. They are too recent. What stirs our blood is the thought that w* an* eligible to become Sons or Daugh ters of the Revolution, Children of the Revolution and wear cute little badges and be regents and tilings and hare banquets once a year and fall on each other's necks and tell each other what hot stuff we are. Personally I never took much stock In this remote ancestor business. I'd rather have one little innocent child tc warm my heart and gladden my home than a whole graveyard full o f ances tors, and I guess I ’m more likely to. 1 know iieople who arc so busy tracing their pedigrees back to Alfred the Great that they can’t And time to pay their wash liills. Wliut’s the use of knowing that diluted royal blood courses in your veins when the butcher with ills little bill is roosting on your doorstep? In my opinion, what we need to worry about is posterity. There is no satisfaction In knowing that you have come down straight from MISS VIOLA ALLEN, WHO IS TO STAR IN “TWELFTH NIGHT.” a royal line when your oldest sou Is spending all his evenings drawing to a MI m Allen, who has won great success in "The Chrlatlan” and "In the royal flush. Wtiat comfort can It give Palace of the King,” is to atar this season in "Tw elfth Night.” She believes you to know that your ancestor smelt that Shakespeare properly presented Is still a paying venture on the Aniericau powder at Blinker Hill when your sec stage. ond boy Is all smelt up with cigarettes? “ Let the dead bury its dead.” W e are not liable for our ancestors, hut for posterity we are directly responsible or think we are. There are times, o f course, when It pays to be exclusive. Noah was doubt less better off in the ark mingling with his own set than lie would have been out in tiie swim with tiie vulgar herd; but, as a rule, in this brand new demo cratic country It Isn't safe to acquire By L o n g f e l l o w blue blood loo rapidly, for if we pry Into the past too closely we are liable A R K I BEN L E V I, on the Sabbath, read to come with a dull, sickening thud up A volume of the Law, In which it said, against some ancestor calculated to “ No man shall look upon m,v facp and lire.” bring tiie blush of shame to our patri And as ho read, lie prtiypd that God would £lva cian cheek.—From “ A Few Remarks,” His faithful servant grace with mortal eye* by Simeon Ford. By Permission of To look upon His face, and yet not die. Doubleday, Page & Co., Publishers, New York. Then fell a sudden shadow on the page. And. lifting up his eyes, grown dim with r.ge. He saw the Angel of Death before him stand, Holding a naked sword in his right hand. Kabbl Ben l,evi was a righteous man. Vet through his veins a chill of terror rnn. With trembling voice he said, "W hat wilt thon here?” The Angel answered, "L o! the time draws near The Manchester Fnlty of England When thou must die; yet first, hy God's decree, was organized about 1812. It is the W hale’er thou askest shall lie granted thee.” strongest society tiuauciali.v ami i'l Replied the Kabbl, “ Let these living eyes point of numbers in tiie United K in g First look upon my pluce in Paradise." dom. THE LEGEND OF RABBI BEN M ISS ROSEMARY SARTORIS, WHO IS TO MARRY A SOUTH ERNER. Miss Rosemary Sartoria, who is to wed Lieutenant John Wright, U. S. A * , son of a Confederate soldier, is the second daughter of Mrs. Nellie Grant Sar tori» and a granddaughter o f General U. S. Grant. Lieutenant Wright's father, the late General Marcus Wright, as colonel o f a Tennessee regiment wr .3 among the Confederates who opposed Grant at Belmont and Shiloh. LEVI MisceliANY\ Then said the Angel, “ Come with me and look.” ltabbl Hen Levi closed tile sacred book. And rising and uplifting his gray head, “ Give my thy sword,” he to the Angel said, “ Lest tliou sliouldst fall upon me by the way.” The Angel smiled ami hastened to obey. Then led Idn forth to the Celestial Town, And set him on the wall, whence, gazing down, itahtil Beti Levi, with Ills living eyes, Might look upon his place in Paradise. Every day the fraternal system is coming more am] more as tlve grea‘; leader in protective Insurance. The National Protective Legion ha« 58,000 members and assets amounting to $800.000. Tiie sixty societies reporting to the national fraternal congress for tile Mil waukee session show an aggregate membership on Dec. 31, 1902, of 3,072,- 120 y V- Then straight into the city o f the Lord The Italibi leaped with tiie Death-Angel's sword, And through the streets there swept a sudden breath O f something there unknown, which men call death. Meanwhile tiie Angel stayed without, and cried, “ Come back!” To which the Rabbi's voice replied, V “ No! in the name of God, whom l adore, I sweur that hence I will depart no morel” . W hat ¿ 5 £ ■Ì Then all the Angels cried, “ O Holy One, Bee what the son of Levi here hath done! The kingdom of Heaven lie takes by violence. And in Thy name refuses to go lienee!” The Lord replied, "M y Angels, be not wroth; Did e'er (lie son of Levi break his oath? Let him remain; for be witli mortal eye ¡Shall look upon my face and yet not die." Beyond the outer wall the Angel of Death Heard the great voice, and said, with panting breath, “ Give hack the sword, and let me go my way.” Whereat the Italihi paused, and answered, “ NujT Anguish enough already hath It caused , Among tiie sons of men.” And while he paused H e heard the awful mandate of the Lord Resounding through the air, "G ive back the sword!” The Rabbi bowed bis head in silent prayer; Then said he to the dreadful Angel, "Swear, No human eye shall look on It again: But when thou takest away the souls o f men. Thyself unseen, and with an unseen sword. Thou wtit perform the bidding of tile Lord.” The Angel took the sword again, and swore. And wniks on earth unseen forevermore. l X 4 A NM NM Orders by mall for printing promptly largest and best printing office •Rod and delivered Independent Print- the roanty IndffipSaucat Printers, cry HtUakoro. , 0 « f m mtmehwm pavwlnpm a W e a rie d H im . ANDREW D. WHITE. EDUCATOR AND DIPLOMAT. A friend once asked an aged man Andrew D. White, who has been publishing his recollections as a diplomat, what caused him to complain so often recently retired as United States ambassador to Germany. For nearly twenty at eventide of pain and weariness. , years he was president o f Cornell univeralty. “ Alas," replied he. “ 1 have every day so much to do. 1 have two falcons to tame, two hares to keep from running j away, two hawks to manage, a ser pent to confine, a lion to chain and a sick man to tend and wait upon.” “ Well, well,” commented his friend, ; "you are busy Indeed! But I didn’t know that you had anything to do with a menagerie. How, then, do you make that out?" “ Why,” continued the old man, "lis ten. Tw o falcons are my eyes, which I must guard diligently; the two hares are my feet, which I must keep from ] walking in tiie ways of sin; the two hawks are my bands, which I must i train to work, that I may provide for myself and those dependent on me as well as for a needy friend occasionally: the serpent Is my tongue, which I must keep ever bridled lest it speak unseem ly; the lion Is my heart, with which I ' have a continual fight lest evil tilings comesout of It. and the sick man Is my I whole laxly, which is always needing my watchfulness and care. All thla dally wears out my strength.” Among: those who weat down to hear Nordica and Dass Saturday evening were: Prof, aid Mrs. Chap man. Miss Maude Shannon, Mary Bailey, Miss Pearl Chaodler, M i « (Hasty* Hartley. M iss * 1 * 1 |M h K m l Mi M B