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About The Oregon register. (Lafayette, Yamhill County, Or.) 18??-1889 | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1888)
CARE OF AGED P^RSON& = = THE GLASS IND aiuuMt wuers uw temperature is below 30 j Might came upou us again, and we were degs. Is warm, pleasant weather they cnui I glad to rest. be iu the open air if it pleases thtom; in fact, “What is that?" the moiv they are out of doors, if the condi Hinton was standing over me pointing HOW TO LIFT THEM OVER LIFE ’ S tions are favorable, the better But in very THE FINEST WARE 8TILL to the mountain.. I was wide awake tn a cold weather, those who sre far advanced in moment ami listened intently. ROUGH PLACES. EUROPEAN COUNTR life should be comfortably housed. As has High alwve the earth I heard voices f ___ ._____ been said, a very old person “risks death Singing what seemed to be a barlmric from cold stroke by even walking out of High Development of Art ii chant. Mingled with the voices I could doors wUn the temperature approaches sera" hear the clash and sonorous peal of duction of Cameo Glae<«-An< —Boston Herald. musical Idstrnmeata. making—Cry »tel, Load aud ] “What do you say now?” asked -Wal Cut and Preaaed Gia»«. ladostrial Tralalag la Germany. pole. coming up. Every man in the camp was awakened, An interesting letter giving an accouht There appear» good res »on for considering Glassware can be regarded both and we spent the greater part of the night old age “second childtaxML" The «levelop- of the industrial training system in the listening to the marvelous concert in the meat aeeq in cUMhood during the first five schools of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, ally and a luxury, tbe latter from It of the material composing the arej (louda year» is reversed, though more gradually in was recently published in Science. The dawn of day found us looking at ihoss who live to be over 80 yearn old. seems that in the girls' schools some kiud ardsuc w«rk Btatowed upon it. 7 » each other with pale faces and anxious Among the most notkeable changea ■ wast of needlework has always been taught. sion prevaifM to a considerable exit ing, flnt, of the least emeatial part of U m “From the very earliest times of school pensive glaaiware, like expensive •yes. “Shall ws break camp and move?" I body—fat. As that- disappear» a shriveled history girls have been known to take will not break so readily as t appeoramv of the aged subject is the result; their knitting and sewing to school, and. grades, but this is a delusion. Thei asked. . . y. “Yea, to-morrow," replied Walpole. the face hecomes deeply wrinkled, the banils In the early part of this century, not motive for the purchase of the exp We were lost in the heart of Costa Rica. “Give nte one more day. I have found bony and the limbs shrunken. Then the mus only the girls, bui the boys also, used There were six of us in the party, all out something this morning that may cular tissue is slowly absorbed, and ths to knit their own stockings at school.’* de excei>t the gratification of a tai young fellows with little or ns experience, lead to a great discovery Down there procem is araxnpamed b; loss of strength, This work, however, was performed sim ury. The United States pew« aud when we realised our situation we by the lake there is what appears to be a which, however, is leas noticeable by reaaon ply for the sake of the stockings which it natural advantages that are posse« streak of move running in a zig zag of the previous reduction in weight. Oc produced/ At the present time the prac European countries for the mam, wege in despair. When we started out from the coast It fashiou up the mountain. Well, that casionally we note in very aged people tical end has not been lost sight of, but glass, and in the Use of natural gas seemed to us that it would be a regular moan fringes and partially conceals some that Use powers of the mental facultm are the educational end has becopie the more important factor not pucMseed abr The parent futyishes the cleanliness of glass and the cheapni frolic to spend a couple of weeks among thing like a rough hewn or perhaps a retained m a wonderful degree, but iu the important. 'the mountains in the Interior. At the end natural flight of narrow steps winding majority of cases they are more or less im child with the needed material*,’ which, of ease with which it is managed cer around up the mountain. I am confident course, its work may render worthlees; to the glass manufacturers of Pin of that time the brig Pacific would be paired, and the subjects become capricious, ready to depart, aud we could then resume that a sailor like myself oould manage to wr a c ti n g, and, in fact, childish. The feeble yet, for all this, no one complains that that vicinity an advantage not j ascend a considerable distance, and I am ness of mental power is due to wasting of the the training does hot pay. The first les Eur« pe. On the other band Eur our Journey to San Francisco. The captain of the vessel endeavored to going to try it." brain. As has lieea said, the memory goes sons in sewing are the use of the thimble exceedingly cheap labor, it has the We raised a unanimous protest, but first, ssperially the recollection of recent and scissors, threading the needle and the families devoted to the artistic pre dissuade us. “The natives are not likely to bother Walpole was obstinate. event«. Far off rcmenibrunve of early days, ways of holding the cloth while sewing glass for generations, and it has ksi “I will take off my shoes,” be said, and Ujoee of middle Ufa con«e up alnuat as and cutting. “The stitch lesson is first greater in number and superior int you,” he said, “but very little is known of the country beyoud the moan tai ns. “and by crawling on my hands and knees freshly as ever; but what happened yester performed on paper; after a while a cheap those of the United States. For these reasons Europe is a Strange teles .have reached my ears, aud and by hugging the face of the rock it will day, or even today, is easily forgotten. The kind of muslin is'substituted.** Patch- although I tun t- foui of adventuress be aafa." __________ .—- —--------- ------- -- power to reason closely, or to give attention abuad of the United States in iugen There was no way of talking him out vsry long to one subject, next gives way. We In the high schools the garments made by signs, shaped, ¡»atteEiis and decoratl anybody, the trip would not suit me.” We laughed at the old sailor. We were it the notion, and as he could climb like need not dwell on the dimness of sight mid the girls often evince a great deal of taste from the earliest bfistoric ages h«i a eat we finally agreed to let him try it favorite medium for fyh expression / well armed and afraid of nothing. dullness ot bearing which are among the and a good knowledge of dressmaking. It was alow work after the brave fellow usual, but not universal infirmiUee of age. “It is all right,” I told the captain, In the boys’ schools of Germany indus The fluid character of The original “with proper caution there' will be no had got fairly started and we watched In all these particulars there is a very great trial training is not usually a required permits it to be molded to an infln danger. We may make valuable discov him In breathless suspense. He crawled variety in uxlividuala. Some of tboee who branch. At Darmstadt it was begun a of forms, and the most delicate she eries and become famous explorers. It is U a snail like pace, never looking down, Uve the longest retain till the last more of few years ago by private citizens, who oring may tie inf used through its cr time to unveil the secrets of this wonder Mit keeping his eyes fixed on some point their original men tal capacity, with good gave such instruction outside of school ness so as to adapt it to the luxuri ful land, and it is nonsense to b^frightened ebovs. ught, bearing and muscular strength, than hours. The results of the experiment were the table. The highest develop me Two or three of the men made a terri- dioee whose life energy is exhausted not so satisfactory that the institution estab iu the production of cameo glass. off by a few sailors' yarns.” Me effort to follow him, bat soon had to The captain shook his head and said no lished was made part of the public school AM ANCIX.VT ART. much after the and of four score years Ciore. We completed our preparations retrace their steps. The pathway was so system. The other schools close the daily Evidences of this art iu its perf rowxns or diukstiox . for the trip, a.id early one morning-started »arrow that only the most expert and session about 2:30. The manual train very undent, and even in the bet The care of the aged is a subject which rarefooted climber could make his way sff iu the highest spirits. ing is therefore Ml'-ri during the the Christiau era very beautiful and It was midday before Walpole reached murt roa*x-rn «II, although to some of oi the latter part of When the discovery was made, after we th> afternoon. In articles of glass were iu use. At had been camping out for about a week, the edge of the white cloud or mist. After lune when ws shall need the application vf the summer time the boys are put to glass iu i» common forms was a cbi correct management may seem star off. It that we had 1 M»t our way it appeared to that we lost sight of him. work in the different gardens belonging How tar was be from the summit after .»easy to reason out tile inoat imperative to the institution. Al other seasons of the At 50 B. C. a cup and saucer of a muddle our 1 we la be bought at Rome for money equi Various attempts were made to head he entered the doud? Would he be able aeecia We know that the powers of «figee- year they are engaged in the light and our cent, illustrating the other e; Uon must necnssarily be weaker at TO than in towards the eoast, but in every instance to proceed? Wonkl be return alive? plain carpetry, and in the making of such Is historically narrated t at the Etnpas* We aaked each other these questions as aarly life; hence the importance of a correct articles as baskets, brushes, brooms, etc. we were compalled to return disheartened paid a sum equivalent to S250.00U fa dietetic regimen. Food must be taken and uncertain m to our course. • we waited far ike result. Typesetting and bookbinding are taught cups ef moderate dimensions. Win^ It was perhaps an hour after we had 'fteuer and less in amount at each feeding. to the advanced classes. Each boy re The few natives encountered iu our wanderings were unlike those along the lost sight of Walpole t.iat ws heard a After a person has reached the age just ceives a small remuneration for his work did not appear until about the Tiurda dated, be should take food four times a day when it is well done. The money is not of the Christian era, and it did not cor seaboard. They were light colored, hand cracking, grinding noisy. We looked at the mountain, and to our until be is HO veers old; then, for the next paid directly to him, but is put into a sav general use until the Fifteenth cento some and active, and fled at our approach, refusing to hold any communication unutterable horror saw great fragments ten years that be Uvea, five meals each day - ings bank, and from time to time be re 1601 only the principal chambers of thii of granite falling over the mountain side, ire none too many, and his fixai should be ceives his certificates of deposit, which he palace in Englund had window gU— with us* Egypt offers the earliest positive erj Gue evening we camped on the bor carrying with them the last vestige Qf the . simple and easily digested. There sre very carries home to his parents for safe keep Of glassmaking. Glass bottles contaM ders of a lovely fake under the shadow of rteps by which our poor Inend had as Tew people near the age of SO who have ing.—Frank Leslie’s. many sound teeth; therefore, during the wines are said to be represented on thst, cended! a frowning mountain. oients of the fourth dynasty, more thn Etiquette of the Cigarette. The debris rattled down into the lake, years which follow their less, unless false “There is something queer about that mountain,” remarked Walpole, the ouly leaving the wall perfectly upright and an be worn, their diet should be liquid, and There is a lashion even in so small a years ago, and in the tombs of a v*y eVen. withont the slightest projection to made up largely of milk. Beef tea, and thing as the lighting ot a cigarette. In period the process of glassblowing to n tailor in our party. fluid extracts of beef, properly prepared, are Cuba it is customary among gentlemen ft»ntjd in an unmistakable manner, h “Queer!” I replied cautiously. “Every which any one oould cling. As the sound of the falling rocks died of great assistance in feeding the aged. thing is queer in this peculiar land. for one to place the cigarette between his time of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, u After three score ye«us and ten have been lips, light it, take a few puffs and then :he chief industrial occupations of the U What is it abcut the mountain that strikes away we shouted the name of Walpole. If he heard us in the luminous mist reached, earlier if it appears necessary, it hand it to his friend. In Spain' the same Cunts of Alexandria is mentioned ghal you?” will bo well to commence the use of stimu fashion prevails. An Austrian is very tug; and during the reign of Aurelian,to “While I have been resting here.” said above he made no reply. We spent one more night of anxiety lante. It cannot be denied that by the judi- fianctillous about the etiquette of cigar Third century, glass formed a part <f Walpole,.who was lazily reclining on the grass. “I have been using my eyes. The and suspense at the foot of Mount Mys vous administration of alcohol to the aged ighting. He lights his cigarette first and Egyptian tribute, showing it was the uetter health and longer life are promoted then hands the lighted match to his com Article of manufacture in Egypt Th i mountain is as steep on this side as the tery. , There was absolutely no hope of ever 'X course, it must be «risely given, or, instred panion. The idea is that it is more conr- :ate coloring of glass, that adds so ninchti face of a stone wall. If It is that way all seeing our lost companion again, but we tf a bepefit, it will prove aq. injury. The teoiuto allow a comrade the greater length aeauty, was known iu ancient times, f around the top must lie inaccessible.” question naturally arisra, what quantity may of time. If he is handed the match first he »lore are produced by a mixture with ■ “Well,” I answered, “who wants to oould not tear ourselves from the place. For the last time that night wg heard be safely allowed and only good follow its naturally hurries in order to band it back for instance, blue is produced by a climb to the top ?”• “I do, for one,” responded Walpole. the ringing songs and the triumphant osel No rule applicable alike in all cases again. A Frenchman always hands his rreen by copper, and rose or ruby by “The luminous cloud or vapor around ths musio in the cloud. It seemed wilder, as be given; each case must be studied, and companion the match first. An English The great site of the manufacture of b summit and reaching down the sides is a louder, more exultant than before. the estimate nuule on intbviduid newla In a man proffers the cigarette to his friend, «be middle ages was Venice, and its u, “They are rejoicing,” said Hinton, general way. it may be said that when dé lights a match, hands it to him and then )f manufacture were exported all ovw strange thing. Just watch it for a mo “over the ca;Xurv or death of Walpole.” cline in the vital powers, in cmu«e«)uen<o of helps himself to another cigarette and world. The glass trade of Venice hw ment. ” I did not &rabt it. It’ was not likely old sge, is reached, be it at the age of 65, TO, match. An American usually hands his lupereeded, by that of England and Gwa I looked upward at the precipitous mass of rock. The cloud was stationary, and that these strange dwellers tn the air or latov, use of stimulants may properly coni friend a lighted match and takes a light THR PRINCIPAL INORKDIXNTR looked more like steam than anything would spare ^oe from the earth below who mence. If the subject has been habituated from his cigarette afterward. Silicon of which there U Q() found his way into their midst. else. to the use of alcoholic drinks, then the The small boy gets a light wherever he The tumult en the mountain lasted un quantity allowed him may be greater, can. generally from home passer by on the ;<»od glass sand, is the princij>al ingm “Occasionally,” said my companion, “I n glass. Lead enters into the superior| sde birds fly out of the cloud, and after til daybreak. There was nothing to be but he has lived a temperate life, a ' street. The habit of stopping men in the Res of glass, giving it clearness sad brills circling aliout for awhile they always re gaipe<J Ay delaying our departure, and it toaspoonful of whisky or brandy, or a , street to ask for a light is looked upon as md the musical ring of a glass articto turn. Then, if my ears do not deceive was wior a sew of relief that we marched j ltasertapoouful of the stronger wines, | ill bred in all countries. In no country is »mee from bad glass. Crystal glass to me, and they are keen ones, I can dis off. hoping thU time to reach the coast sherry, etc., may be properly given before it tolerated to such an extent as in the (lass, which is also termed flint glass. I It would be tireeome to relate the story 1 his meals. Alcohol will improve His appe- i United States.—New York Mail and Ex tinguish various voices all coming from end glass can be cut. Lime is now pi of our trials. We made our way to the tite, stimulate digestion and quicken circula the direction i>f the cloud.” press. Lscyi iu the manufacture of glass, pi “Why, man, you are losing your little port where the brig awaited us, and i tion. As he declines in llfa and his strength -------------------- .r (lass articles bring made of lime glass late senses/’ I interrupted. “If the summit told the captain all about the tragic ad I fails, the quantity will need to be increased A Berlin Weather Prophet. nanufacture the United States has u b venture ot Mount Mystery. Is inaccessible what can there be up there ! »mewhat. The conservative reader will The astronomer Falb, who last year at r.mtage over other countries, on accosR d “I dreaded something of the kind,” kindly understand us, that we advise alcohol tained some celebrity by his more or less to make a noise?” ----- “Birds at least,” said the sailor, with a said the old man. “Do you know that m old age as an accessory food. Not only accnrate predictions of earthquake sbeeks^- U tabmiaf or the use of machinery. WHM smile, “I can swear to seeing the birds. I the mountain has figured in our sea would we discourage its use for any other has this year come to grief by his weather ;lie eastern part of this country was fonMiy don’t know what else may be up there, stories for more than a century? I do not purpose, unless it be medicinal, but we most predictions for the months of June and die seat of the principal glass industry, Ita but several times in the last half hour I believe in anything supernatural, but I emphatically condemn it. Give the old man July. In commenting on his failure, a noved west of late yeare, owing largsly to have heard the clang of metal and the believe that if any explorers ever reach or woman regular doses of a teaspoonful or German paper recalls the fate which once Uie backwardness of the eastern nianatetv- irs to take up tne making of lime glaw 81 the top of Mount Mystery they will find a sound of human voices.” more if needed, of whisky, or some stimu overtook Another scientific weather “He is right,” said Hinton, another tribe of people who, with their ancestors, lant equally as strong, or the equivalent in prophet. Professor Dietmarof Berlin, who Louis is now an important glass maiiutactap member of our party. “I have heard the have been cut off from the rest of the ng centre, but the greatest amount of bo»- wines, and he or she will be better for it, had predicted that the winter of 1828-29 same sounds, but I didn't like to men world for hundreds, of years. As for poor •< 'and, we doubt not, will live to a greater age would be so mild that butchers, confec less is done in the Ohio valley, ot wtah tion it.” Walpole, it does not matter whether he is tioners, etc., would be unable to procure Pittsburg mid Wheeling are the chisf gbi ■ou bochs or slut . “Why not explore a little ?” I suggested, living or dead. He is dead to the world. ‘owns. The natural gas of this sectios tel The younger a child the more hours of a sufficient supply of ice. It so happened given the glass industry a great impta He will nev/r get out of that big white indifferently. that after New Year of that winter un To my surprise everybody agreed. The cloud and fitd his way to the plains be , sleep it necis. In dacteung life the number usually cold weather set in, and, as if by Heavy plate window glass is manufsewd; : of hours m bed must be progressively in men were tired roaming about aimlessly low.” common agreement, so many boxes filled argely in the west, but the glass used is Ito with disappointment nt every turn. They So we sailed away in the Pacific, and creased. Old people, as a rule, are more or kuit is mostly imported from France. from that day to this I have never heard 1res wakeful ; few among them sleep so many with ice were sent by post to Professor were ready for anything for a change. The cut glass industry of this country tai Dietmar, the freight charges being un In the morning two men started in one anything further from the mysterious hours rent inuously as these who are younger paid, that the Postmaster General von grown greatly of recent years, but the «rti direction around the base of the mountain, land in the luminous cloud.—Wallace P. At least eight hours of the twenty-four fie is not yet exported to the extent ttat should be passed in bed by every one who Nagler advised all postoffices by circular pressed while two went in the other. Their plan Reed in Atlanta Constitution. K The chief exportation! rf has reached his 60th year. After TO, nine to refuse the acceptance of boxes with ice glass from (his country are to the 8 n | was to proceed until they met, and then hours Should be passed in the same way; tor Professor Dietmar of Berlin.—New American states, and considerable goestoito return together. Th® Sepulchral “Whittling Buoy." York Post. I remained with one man at the camp. Perhaps other people are familiar with after HO, ten; and as 20 approaches at least British possessions in Australia. This country Others might investigate Mount Mystery, “whistling buoys,” but the one anchored half of the time should be spent in bed or re A Con.lderat« Menial. w undoubtedly able to compote with any* as we called it, but I felt too fatigued for off Monhegan was a novel sight to ma clining on a con«h.- Sam Walkup, although in affluent cir ill the countries of Europe in stamped tat such an effort. The next measure of treatment which we cumstances, is one of the most shabbily glass. Most of the glass iu domestic use sd It lies about two miles away to the north During the day we lounged about and west, and is made apparently of sheet shall recommend for the aged will doubtkaa dressed men in Austtn. His colored body this kind.—New York Commercial M watched the cloud wrapped phenomenon iron, in shape like a large old fashioned be as strongly antagonized as the stimulant servant, Tom, on the other hand, dresse. rertiser. before us. More than once I heard a locomotive smoke stack, inverted. We treatment already advocated. Here we will like a dude. One day Mr. Walkup said • •r- «# clatter apparently in the upper air, and tailed out to examine it one day, and with say it is by no means original with us, but to Tom: -# I once or twice I was sure that I heard much interest watched this great black has long been recognised and advised by Cm for Thieves’ fllang. “It must cost you a great deal for voices. Evidently Mount Mystery was a mass bobbing up and down with each able physiciana It is that of giving opium clothes. Y’ou are always dressed in the The human emotions which m good name for this freak of nature. wave, and altering a grim “moo" (the ' during declining life This agent mav be height of fashion." struck, resound in slang are of »W Late in the afternoon our comrades re founding is by.no means unlike the low i used to promote sleep, and under certain “Yes, sah, it does cost me right smart, kinds. There is fear and desire of MOW turned. They had walked all day. cov ing of a mournfnj cow) as the waves conditions it ran very properly be adminis but I does it, sah, entirely on your ac that may produce an esoteric langns® I ering inanv miles, and they had learned dashed up inside the drnm. It was an ( tered occasionally during the daytime. count. ” kind of verbal cipher, Intelligible oolj * nothing except that the mountain pre terie sight, and I soon had enough of it. If the aged subject is wakeful and “On my account?” the initiated. This kind of speech Is sented the same perpendicular wall-like Perhaps ’he fact that the waves were sufficient sleep is deni«! him, then let. “Yes, sah; ef I was to dress as you do useful to thieves as long as the polks ■? appearance all the way around. high and the breeze nearly gone, may or fifteen drops of laudnum on retiring nobody would hab the slightest respec’ Hot adepts. Thieves’ slang is prohsW “At one place,” said Hinton, “we saw have contributed to my sensations of will be found ot benefit in nearly all cases for you, sah. ”—Texas Siftings. much composed of Romany, “YiddM a tolerably large stream of water trickling lueerness. At any rate, we did not get and if its action is good, there can be no ex' (that very carious pigeon HehtsJ dowrf the sides of the rock. So there is sway as sooa as I wished. I have since case for withholding it Restlewmew and <~«« » wuuuue me practice of dripping French, Italian mispronounced, and «<* water up there, and it may lie that the learned that tbs buoy has broken loose | mental irritability, which tell sorely on the the umbrella by the ferule. Turn it the merely hit out in a kind of uncoM«W whole surface la productive and inhab and drifted away. What consternation aged, may demand, as stated, its use at other other way, that is, handle down, when poetry, figurative anil sensual. Nobofl ited ” must it cause the unwary fisherman who I times. It should be remembered that opium you come in out of the rain. The genera) knows what Leland lately wrote «MB “You forget,” I objected, “that it is shall be out alone at dusk in a small boat I is not simply a quieting, or what some call a way is bad for the umbrella, for it rots the Ininotsible for any living thing except a and shall see this large black body ap i "benumbing agent." it is a stimulant and material at the «Merging point of the some gypsies who had a kind ”f Celtk it pre-Celtic dialect, and very pr •bablyth* bird to get up there.” proach and groan in its sepulchral way. | with nearly all very oM people it acts well, frame wires Any umbrella man will say “Of course I don’t attempt to explain lx-t us hope that it has ere this been cap and seems to help “lift them over the rough that the proper way is to let the water run is a good deal of Arcadian or 1 roto-M«“ it, ".said Walpole, “but It is possible that tured and again put in bondage.—Cor. placrn" encountered in the way down the dé- from the frame tips. A good many will in Yiddish. By reason, how «• ver, of * never ceasing need of new nan es ta# ages ago the mountain sloped down, at Boston Transcript, cline of life. j object to this good advice because they things, the thlePs slang is a v>- fugw* least on one aide. An earthquake or The natural temperature <rf the body is (ion t want the pret* ’ handle moistened. and evanescent speech. Travel« rs tsu® la da Islip may have left it in its preeent lowest in the aged. They cannot bear'the But the handle will ary, or if not quick families of savages which get sr»** condition, with a whole tribe of people cold well, and are easily made ill by it enough it would be Iwiter to wipe it Um- the bush,’’’ and, when a gene. , too ** stranded there among (beclouds. I don’t Therefore, their clothing sbonld be the warm brellas should not be permitted to dry passed, the descendants ofea« ’ sav it is so, but that may be the way est, and, if very old, they should not sleep in folded. Open them to dry them.—New a different tongue. In the same » ny of IL” Orleans Times Democrat. 1 the talk of thieves.—London Daily BETWEEN THE LINES. MOUNT MYSTERY. I 5 % 1 •r « I