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About Southwest Oregon recorder. (Denmark, Curry County, Or.) 188?-18?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1884)
PEAKLS OF THOUGHT. Knots get tangled worse by toying. Kindness, performed by rule, is no kindness. She neglects her heart who studies her glass. Industry is the companion of honor and industry. Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow. To succeed it is necessary to have the air of succeeding. Love, faith, patience the three es sentials to a happy life. "We blame others for slight things, and overlook greater in ourselves. There are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears, the one of grief, the other oi deceit. Women are happier in their illusions than in their most agreeable expe riences. There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. 2so action will be considered as blameless unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated. Power turns a deaf ear to the reproaches of those who are without the power of redressing their wrongs. They who do speak ill of themselves, do so mostly as the surest way of proving how modest and candid they are. Wonderful Western Water. We print the following story to show that the end of Western wonders has not been reached : "There is said to be a pond near Turkey Creek in Wayne County that possesses the re markable power that the loadstone has of drawing things up to it. They say it is dangerous for people to go near the pond lest it draw them into it and swallow them up. The way the re markable nature ef the pond was first discovered, is as follows : A farmer niQved to the neighborhood of the pond and soon discovered that by some means or other he could raise no stock. As fast as he turned his stock out they would mysteriously disappear, never to be seen again. One day it happened that he was passing along and saw a flock of his sheep, which approached the pond to get water, one by one pass 'from the bank into the water, and dis appear beneath its surface. It is said the trees for 100 yards around all lean toward the pond, being influenced by its attractive power." Lire for Something. . Thousands of men breathe, move and live, pass of the stage of life, and are heard off no more. Why ? They did not a particle of good in the world, and none were blessed by them; none could point to them as instruments of their redemption; not a line they wrote, not a word they spoke could be recalled, and so they perished their light went out in the darkness, and they were not remembered more than the insects of yesterday. Will you thus live and die ? Live for something. Do good, and leave behind you a mon ument of virtue that the storm of time can never destroy. Write your name by kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten. Xo, your name, your deeds, will be as legible on the hearts of those you leave behind a3 the stars on the brow of evening. Good deeds will shine as bright on the earth as the stars of heaven. Gold in New South Wales. Notwithstanding the search for gold has been carried on for thirty years in the colony of New South Wales, new deposits are continually being discov ered, some of them in localities which were supposed to have been thoroughly examined. Some of the fields recently discovered promise to equal in extent and richness any discovered in the early days, while the oldest fields, though apparently exhausted, so far as the miner, unaided by capital and skill is capable of exhausting them, yet con tain deposits of gold which will yield a rich harvest to the skilled miner who shall bring to bear upon them appli ances such as are being successfully employed elsewhere. Gold has always been found in association with certain formations, and the extent of country occupied by these i3 seventy thousand square miles, or nearly one-fourth of the whole area of the colony a con siderable portion of which has not been touched by the pick and hammer. The Bad Boy Qnits Work. "Why are you not working at the livery stable? " the grocery man asked the bad boy. " You haven't been dis charged have you?" And the grocery man laid a little lump of concentrated lye that looked like maple sugar, on a cake of sugar that had been broken, knowing the boy would nibble it. "No, sir ; I was not discharged, but when a livery man lends me a kick ing horse to take my girl outT riding, that settles it. I asked the boss if I couldn't have a quiet horse that would drive hisself if I wound the lines around the whip, and he let me have one he said would go all day without driving. You know how it is, when a' fellow takes a girl out rid ing he don't want his mind occupied holding lines. Well, I got my girl in, and we went out on the Whitefish Bay road, and it was just before dark, and we rode along under the trees, and I wound the lines around the whip, and put one arm around my girl, and pat ted her under the chin with my other hand, and her mouth looked so good, blue eyes looked up at me and twinkled as much as to dare me to kiss her, and I was all of a tremble, and then my hand wandered around by her ear and I drew her head up to me and gave' her a smack. Say, that wa3 no kind of a horse to give to a young fellow to take a girl out riding. Just as I smacked her I felt as though the buggy had been struck with a pile driver, and when I looked at the horse he was running away and kicking the buggy, and the lines were dragging on the ground. I wa3 scared, I tell you. I wanted to jump out, but my girl threw her arms around my neck and screamed and said we would die together, and just as we were going to die, the buggy struck a fence and the horse broke loose and went off, leaving us in the buggy, tumbled down by the dash board, but we were not hurt. The old horse stopped and went to chewing grass, and he looked up at me as though he wanted to say 4 philopene.' I tried to catch him, but he wouldn't catch, and then we waited till dark and walked home, and I told the livery man what I thought of such treat ment, and he said if I had attended to my driving and not kissed the girl I would have been all right. lie said I ought to have told him I wanted a horse that would not shy at kissing, but how did I know I was going to get up courage to kiss her? A livery man ought to take it for granted that when a young fellow goes out with a girl he is going to kiss her, and give him a horse according But I quit him at once. I won't work for a man that hasn't got sense. Gosh I What kind of maple sugar is that ? Jerusalem ! Whew, give me some water. Oh, my, ijt is taking the skin off my mouth." The grocery man got him some wa ter and seemed sorry that the boy had taken the lump of concentrated lye by mistake, and when the boy went out the grocery man pounded his hands on his knees and laughed, and presently he went out in front of the store and found a sign, "Fresh letis, been picked more'n month, tuffer'n tripe." Peck's Sun. What to Say. Say "I would rather walk," and not "I had rather walk." Say "I doubt not that I shall," and not "but I shall." Say "for you and me," and not "for you and I." Say "whether I be present or not," and not "present or no." Say "not that I know," and not that I know of." Say "return to me," and not "return it back to me." Say "I seldom see him" and not "sel dom or ever see him." Say "fewer friends," and not "less friends." Say "game is plentiful," and not "is plenty." Say "I am weak in comparison with you," and not "to you." Say "it rains very fast," and not "very hard." Say "in its primitive sense," and not "primary sense." Say "he was noted for his violence," and not "he was a man notorious for violence." "Say I lifted it," and not "I lifted it up." And last, but not least, say "I take my paper, and pay for it in advance." The cost of cremating 7000 bodies per annum rt Bombay, is only $15,000 CUPPI568 FOB THE CUOIOUS. Ia the fltnttgart Library are 71 different editions of the Bible. In oyoi one hundred languages. Weight of . the beetle, two grains weight moved by it, flve-and-a-hall ounces, or 2640 grains, or 1320 timea its own weight. Shakspeare, says an English writer, disliked dogs, and it is impossible to find a canine spoken of kindly through out all the great author's works. Crockett county, Tennessee, claims to have the oldest mayor in the world His reported age is 114 years, and h walks seven oreight miles at a time. It is stated that between Eftot and West Pearl rivers, on the borders ol Louisiana and Mississippi, is a territory called Honey Island, with 800 inhabi tants, located in numerous small towns, who claim that they are on neutral ground and belong to no state. The Nicobar islanders have such a passion for taH, white hats, with a black band, that traders who visit with them carry specimens of this head-geai Instead of the trinkets usually dear U the noble savage. The price of a tall hat is from fifty-five to sixty-five cocoa nuts. There is a Jewish penman in "Vienna who writes four hundred Hebrew let ters on one grain of wheat. In ordei to furnish the emperor with satisfactory evidence of his extraordinary skill, h has written the Jewish prayer for tin imperial family on the narrow edge oi an ordinary visiting caid. The law of Clan Macduff was a privilege of immunity for homicide anciently enjoyed by those who could claim kindred with Macduff Earl ol "Fife, within the ninth degree. Mac duff's cross stood on the march oi boundary between Fife and Strathearn, above Newburg. Any homicide pos sessed of the right of clanship who could reach it, and who gave nine kye (cows) and a colpindash (a young cow) was free of the slaughter com' mitted by. him. The True Nature of a "Cold." Dr. C. E. Page says in Populai Science Monthly: Years of study and observation have forced me to the con elusion that the disease which mani fests the symptoms popularly supposed to indicate that a cold has been caught is to all intents and purposes a filth- disease, arises largely from indigestion, and forms the basis, so to say, or is in fact the first stage of all the so-called filth-diseases. Whatever interferes with digestion or depuration, or de praves th vital organism in any man ner, produces an impure condition ol the body a condition of disease; and a continuance of disease-producing habits must inevitably result in period ical or occasional "eruptions," the severity of which will depend upon the degree of one's transgression. Among the causes of this impure bodily condition are (1) impure food (2) excess in diet, and (3) impure air Our homes, offices, shops, halls, court houses, churches, and, with rare excep tions, all living-rooms, private, or pub lic, are insufficiently or not at all ven tilated; and, except while in the open air, a very large proportion of our peo ple, in all the walks of life, habitually breathe an atmosphere vitiated by being breathed over and over again; they are starving for want of oxygen, and are being poisoned by carbonic" acid. In default of sufficient oxygen the best of food cannot be transformed into pure blood, there will always be a coi responding indigestion; nor can the carbonic acid be eliminated freely in an Impure atmosphere. We have, then serious "interference with digestion and depuration," whenever we remain for a single hour of the twenty-four in an "in-door" atmosphere, L e., an at mosphere that is not in tolerably free communication with the great body of air without The only offset for re striction in oxygen is restriction in diet and exercise; but a combination of this character would produce en feeblement of the system, though if a proper balance were maintained there would arise no febrile symptoms such as we are considering. We have plenty of people living in un ventilated rooms who, so far as exercise Is con cerned, live a well-balanced life; but seldom do these, any more than the ro bust and active, practice any sort of voluntary restriction as to quaiity or quantity of food nausea and lack of appetite being the only safeguards. Persons of this class are great sufferers from colds. Spirinig Spring medioins ia a necessity. Being'" housed up ' through the winter, and breathing inspuntlea in the air of roams heated by wood or eeat, and contaminated by the gases they throw off, the vitality ef the blood ia so reduosdssto be unable to atand the debilitating inflaenoes of spring weather, beaoe the need of a relia ble tnedioine like Hood's Saraaparilla. ' 'I consider your Sanaparilla the best blood pari net in the market. I trie! a dozen different article. "warranted to cleanse the blood, bat never foaid anything that did me any good till I commenced using Hood'a Sarsaparilla." W. H. Pus, Roche. Ur, N.Y. Mood's Sarsapanlla "Last winter after recovering from a prolonged and severe illness with diphtheria, and feeling the need of something to build me up. I took two bottles of Hood'a Sarsaparilla. I felt good results from the first dose. It seemed to go from the top of my head to the ends of my toes. I know It is a good thing and on the strength of my own experience I have sold a great deal of your Sarsaparilla. I consider it the best in the market." O. H. Stbatton, druggist. Westfield, Mass. Hood's Sarsaparilla Fald by all drugrlsta. $1; six for $5. Made only by C. I. HOOD A CO.. Lowell. Mass. IOO Poses One Dollar. NEW TAGOMA WJLSHIHGTOir TE&KITORY. Western T.rminu. of the Great Trans-contineata Northern Paoific Railroad, and the Future Metropolis o! tie Pacific Northwest Ne city en American toil offers such inducements to invasters as this. Property will double in .aim here in the need twelee month. 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