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About The Oregon register. (Lafayette, Yamhill County, Or.) 18??-1889 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1888)
a i and home . TH l and birthdays family anniversaries . H WareditF-A Math«**-’®*® •< Water for Cook- pjaM-Paragraphs. we pay far too little attention ¿nd other family anniversaries, -«not be done to make home at- oar boys ®ud girl- wUl pre- nicest day I ever ia boy to h18 mother ono evening. L to aU bee“ singing, and the TOSvery-mlDOte» and everything Xrely jwt for your birthday, ad rm so ghul!” and he empha- Xinero with a hearty hngnnd \Mtki the boy had been looking thiiday, planning and making a . - „¡ft as a surprise, and when ¿hH whole nuud was given to motber happy- w much trouble to celebrate ootnplain some mothers, “and in es they come so often.” Yes, it ¿40. but how can we keep oui jfented and happy at homo with- goublel And no mother regrets , when she sees her children re air home as the very best place in Lorid. Try to celebrate tlio birth er and see if it does nof “pay,” «¿nt Of the whole family. Let i forgotten, from father tebaby, bars each one interested in all the -„h,» If possible, some little birth- jfoinattor how simple or trifling tbe love and thoughtfulness which will make it precious. Bissny pleasant ways of celebrat- kYi, according to the season of the location of the home, and the time which can be spared. Some- in tbe country, a picnic, excur- ¡bdsy party, will be enjoyed more Bta Perhaps the family may all concert or entertainment in the b some families the presents are w the plate at the breakfast table, nored one opens the various pack- tbe interest of all the rest of tbe In others the favored one finds i tide when he awakes in the morn- timee all presents are reserved f, when the business of the day is always pleasant to have on tbe t mme favorite article of food, lily decorated birthday cake is ,ya appreciated. Even if very > done, let each member of the ixe some special treat on the an- of his birth, which shall make aticipated with pleasure and Te nth gratitude. There are many p which children can make for each other. Time is well spent and contriving these love gifts, ; happine« to both giver and re- lerican Agriculturist i Doctrine oi Heredity. Jd’i moral development began 6 years old,” a mother sadly re* a visitor whose face expressed the child’s disobedience. “I was it was possible for a mortal to be i same uncontrollable temper to just seen my little girl ex- r sixth birthday I had an ex- t with my grandmother, who ip,adear old lady by whom I to > the lasf degree. I distinctly I the circumstances, and child sliced even then that it was a expsrienco. I felt intuitively lid succeed in getting fay own jc I could get it forever after, jfroved a correct one, and from my poor grandmother resigned lt my ugliness as best she might, little further attempt to con- ire is my little Amy, two years was at that time, with the same ^irritability, which I am forced Inherited directly from me. I times feel as if I couldn’t justly i.” i Emerson, “shall a man escape ctors, or draw off from his : drop which he drew from his L b mother’s life? His parentage < Men are what their mothers a fearful thought for mothers, jroved to be true. “The child ither to the man,” and there is nning of education than there is totbe material universe. Every ipired from the commencement ie us what we are. Tennyson’s <g in the night, and with no a cry,” may prove to be the rar and influence of uncounted Every impulse of Wordsworth’s may show its results in the ' his children to the third and Xion. It is only as we look rel- h matters that we can approach definition, and the first question man should ask, concerning the her children is one which should dage, not be delayed till after Am I fit bo be the mother of taroline B. LeRow in Woman T Sensible Suggestion. *ny a father of a family who, ta utmost for his children, while i, and making the best provision them in anticipation of his own F neglects to put such provision shape where it can be readily ‘d manipulated by the mother tian in case of his death coming we recently came to our notice >7 of considerable value was so gal restrictions, owing entirely * formalities which cotild have to in a day’s work, that the Idren were kept for more than tent upon the good will of 1 money could be made avail- » not ordinarily hastened by rations for it, and the subject avoided on account of its un- tel husband and father, whose are of the most methodical onorablo kind, would find am- to blame himself for neglect if wider for a moment in what f*mily would be placed if this ■ove his last. A good plan is to t uiaae uc acuml unco a ybar a wruteu state- meat of one’i^ affairs at that time, and file it, in an envelope with the wife’s name upon it, In a particular place which she and perhaps one other person shall know of, if not in her own custody. Buch memorandum should contain description of life insurance policies or similar documents, and state where a will, if any. is to be found; incumbrances of any kind should be noted; unfinished transac tions should be briefly described, that their status maybe fully understood; and even if there exists no property whatever, a written statement to that eff ct would relieve doubt and avoid needless inquiry and susi»ense, in case one’s business affairs were of a fluctuat ing nature, which could not always be closely follower' by the wife or fully explained to her WADING ON A CAY. SPECIMENS OF SEA LIFE SEEN AMONG THE BAHAMAS. «5 THE CURIOSITY SHOP. Facts and Figures on Ordinary Topfas , Which One Should Know. T IN TIIE PAWN SHOP. The original use of the words, “a govern ment for the people, of tbe puople and by the A UTT LE GIRL’S MISSION AND HOW people," have been attrinuu^l to Prssidsnt SHE PERFORMED IT. Lincoln in his celebrated speech on the l»at- Masses of Coral Fall of Tiny Crestneeans. tlefleld of Gettysburg. Now comes a reader Scenes at the Counter—The Clerk and Under the Shelves of Rock—Among who says: “Mr. Lincoln was the flrst to use the words His Unfortunate Customers— “Timunds the Orange Colored Fields of Sara as quoted, although he might have been Are Yay Town"—“Doin' of It Agin.’’ gossa. thinklug of former somewhat similar expres One day at low tide I went ashore off Hog sions when he used them. lu au anti-slavery "•‘Heary Interest Charged* Cay. It was, or is, called Hufc Cay because speech in Boston, May 2U, 1850, Theodore In the afternoon of one of the coldest days there are no hogs on it, and for that matter Parker said: ‘A democracy, thrills, a gov last week a little mite of a girl puffed and there are dozens of cays called Hog Cay pos ernment of ull the people, by aM the people, wheezed laboriously up one of the east side sibly for the same reason. Most of the sponge for all the people,’ and in a speeéb made Jan. streets. She was remarkable for the artistic In ease or protracted ana dangerous nek- fishing vessels carry a black pig which roams 26. 1830, Dauiel Webster said: ‘The people’s way in which her face was soiled and for a ness, questions relating to the circumstances on the forecastle deck. What this pig gets government, made for the people, made by big red shawl that was wound about her. of members of a family who may soon be to eat is to mo a mystery. There seems to be the people, and answerable to tbe ¡»copie.’ One end of it swept the sidewalk several feet left alone cannot be readily asked or an no surplus of food, ho cold food over, cer These phrases all mean the same thing and behind. A big basket was on her right arm, swered, and muofc of distress and dread of tainly, for tbe sponge fisherman’s food is emlÿy the idea of a free government.” and that it was much too heavy for her was the future would be relieved at such a time bread and water, and uot over much of that* proved by the way she hitched it up Gems Representing Months. if the wife could feel that whatever earthly These pigs are very thin, and have an un- quent intervals. A dirty little boy on the possessions existed were to be immediately coHiiortable habit of gluuvi ng at one's pants’ The following is the list of gems represent opposite side of the street stopped rubbing * available, or, at least, that a full account of legs. ing the months of the year and the senti his ears long enough to shout: tide the shores of a rocky islet or ments for which they stand: them was at hand under a comparatively “Are you doin’ of it agin?”__ recent date, so that she need not bring the cay jn the Bahamas has a ragged reef of rock January—Jacynth or garnet: Constancy The little girl laughed as broadly as her subject into the sick room.—Babyhood. uncovered-and.. looking like a mass 4»f wind and fidelity in every engagement frozen face woulj permit, and nodded at the blgwn soap suds made oil a largo scale, sud February—Amethyst: Sincerity. This stone basket on her arm. In course of time She denly petrified, and then black or gray with »»reserves mortals from strong passions.and had puffed her way up to a dingy building The Tired Wife and Mother. mildew. It is honeycombed and pocketed insures them peace of mind. ornamented with three gjlt. balls above the Mon, that is born of woman, is prone to March—Blood stone: Courage and success heavy door. She placed her back against fatigue. Woman, that isinarried to man, is with sharp, brittle, jagged points every where. On and in this reef are found many in dangerous and hazardous enterprises. the door, and, by pushing with all her mjght, just as prone to fatigue. It is in their re April—Sapphire or diamond: Repentance forced it open and slipped behind it. Then spective methods of shooing their tiredness species of mollusks, generally oedhpy- she was in a small, square space, and was that a man and a woman differ as widely as ing slight depressions made by themselves; or innocence. May—Emerald: Success in love. very uncomfortable in a little knot of very the roar of a cyclone differs from the sigh they withdraw into their shells, shut the door and placidly await the flow of the next tide. June — Agate: Health and long life, k- poor persons. and sob of the ocean’s voice. When a man is Here are thousands of the little spiral bleed July — Carnelian: The forgetfulness or the ALL MANNER OF BUNDLES. “used up," “tired out,” he not only knows it, but he takes some pains to impress the fact ing tooth shells. Below this rock is a shelv cure Of evil springing from friendship in love. There was a short counter, on one end of upon those about him, those of his own ing beach or shallow sloping, and on this I Content which stood a little desk, with a tall, ground August—Sardonyx: Conjugal felicity. household in particular. His wife knows it waded in my rubber boots, collecting such glass back that obscured the business done September—Chrysolite : Preserves from or upon it from the persons in the store. Just while he is yet afar off; knows it by bis step, things as attracted my attention. Masses of soft corals branched and interlaced, whitish cures folly. Antidote to madness. the way he bangs the front door, and by the in front of the other end was a little inclos October—Opal: Misfortune and hope.' manner of his hanging up coat and hat in the with pink tips, served as cover for fish of ure like a sentry box, that was for the use of November—Topaz: Fidelity and friendship. customers who were ashamed of being there. hall; The ohildreu know it, often to their many bright colors, little fellows not daring December—Turquoise or malachite: The 'A range of shelves behind the counter, that cost The used up man’s clerks know it and to go into the open. most brilliant success and happiness in every reached from the floor to the ceiling, wai . FULL OF LIFE. act accordingly, and his employes know that in their employer’s sullen visage the storm Taking to the dry beach masses of this circumstance in life. Prosperity. The tur loaded with all manner of circular bundles signal is visible. The average man (there coral us great as I could lift, I found it full quoise has also (according to this calendar) that bore upon their exposed ends little are some glorious exceptions to the rule) is, of life: little tiny-crustaceans—white, black the property of securing friendly regard, squares of brown paper. But by far the when suffering from fatigue, not only very and red—minute, quick moving star fish, hence the old saying is, “He who posesses a most prominent thing in the place was a gigantic safe that stood with gaping doors tired, but he makes those about him tired green and black; black spined sea eggs; long turquoise will always be sure of a friend." with him, often of him. So much for the worms with a double line of leg hike points near the desk. A tall, heavily built man, with eyeglasses husband and father. Object Glasses for Telescopes. on the lower surface and a leather tube, in and a Hebraic cast of features stood behind How about the wife, and mother? She is which they carried themselves; funny little Prior to 1845 there were no telescopes in never aggressively tired, though she may be old mossback crabs, so hid by vegetable America of a size to compare with those in the counter wrangling with a good natured complainingly so. She is most apt to hide growth as to pass unnoticed if they .would Europe. In that year a twelve inch glass Irish woman. In the man’s shirt bosom and from those about her the fact that she is only keep still; a beautiful olive shell, with was brought from Germany to be mounted at on several of his fingers glittered big dia very, very tired, and to smile when she is purple mouth, like a dainty lady in humble the Cincinnati observatory, the first regu monds. On the counter between him and the weary to' the heart’s core. For a woman's company. Here and there a whelk or two, larly organized and equipped observatory in woman was a pair of girl’s shoes’but slightly work and duties are of the kind that briug nestled under a little shelf, with its button the United States. At that time the glass worn, a white skirt and a sheet. “Come, now; be good natured,” she was weariness of soul and body and spirit She like door shut tight. Larger and flatter was as large and as fine a glass us any in the is often called upon to confront such a corals of a «dull yellow found covered with world. Then followed one of about the same saying as the little girl entered, “and give wearying array of small worriments in the parasitic life, such as tiny sponges, leather size for the Naval observatory at Washing me |2. Shure, I’ll be either taking them out fulfillment of her dailj duties as would sim like, flat, some yejlow with many a mouth, ton. Since then the size at which it has been again on Saturday. Me man has steady .. ply madden the most tempered man. others brown and like a miniature volcano, found possible to grind these glasses has work now.” “I py me dose new for two dollar. I lose V et she not only passes the ordeal success in handling which there is left in the skin largely increased; eighteen inch, twenty inch mqney of I gif you von dollar, but you vas a fully, but i£ ready, when vbe day is over, to spiculse so.....fine and needle like that they, and twenty-six inch glasses followed. Alvan absorb from her husband some of his weari poison the hands, causing an itching and Clark & Co., of Boston, uowdo the casting of goot gustomer, und so I tout gare.” Then he swept the articles out of sight, ness by the exercise of her womanly sympa eruption that lasts for days; waving algae, the largest | but they are sent to thy. It can be safely assumed that men, as thread like sea plants of many a plumey Europe to In* The glass for the Lick wrote a few words on a ticket, and passed it a rule, and as compared to the utter weari form and many a shade of brown; coralitee observatory of California is thirty-six inches. to the woman, together with a silver $1. “Veil!” ness which comes to women, do not know the white and brown, jointed, branching tufts. If it is successful in proportion to its size The remark was addressed to h weal^old meaning of the #ord “tired.” But they Under the rock shelves wero bright colored some remarkable revelations as to the charac think they do, and they act in a manner anemones, siren like letting the shallow tide ter of the sun and planets are expected, and man with a mass of unkempt gray hair float calculated to make their weariness very comb their. long hair. A little deeper big the surface of the moon should be especially ing about his face. He tremblingly drew wearisome to others.—Pittsburg Bulletin. crayfish, brilliant in gold and black, with plain. __________ 9 from his pocket a well worn silver watch and a thin silver chain and placed them in the feelers twenty inches long, instead of claws, The English Bar. clerk’s hand. The latter flicked open the steal quickly away; big crabs, blue and gray A Free Use of Fruit. In England there are two classes of lawyers, cases, stuck a jeweler’s glass in his eye, and, Few people, I find, realize the benefit to be or dark spotted red, hold up angry claws, the one being called buivisters, the other aftef a minute’s inspection, said: x gained from a free use o<-fruik Now, 1 then try to hide under my boots; On shore attorneys. When a case is to be tried, the “Two dollar.” would suggest that the child, rather than the grgat round leaves of the red and green attorney who has taken it from the client The old man bowed. 4 the mother, be held responsible for the prep sea grape hide the land. The door opened, letting in a rush of cold On the leeward side of the cay tbe ebb tide gets up the evidence and prepares the papers, aration of the daily lunch, but instead of in short, does all the work necessary to bring air and a slim young man, who darted into leaves bare a white marly bar 1,000 acres in sending him to the pantry for bread, meat, it into court There the attorney retains a the little box and rapped imperiously upon cake, etc., I would suggest that he be sent area, full of the tracks of little lively shell barrister to conduct the case in court. Hence, the counter. Tbe clerk hurried to attend to down cellar or out into the field for some fish plowing along and feeding; naticas, barristers rank higher than attorneys. We him, for the proceedings smacked of a dia ripe applet, ¡»ears or grapes. A moderate white «-nd hlwe; deep holes where the.crabs often see the letters Q.C. written after the mond transaction. This is what it proved to supply of sound, ripe fruit, together with hide; other holes from which issues a long name of a barrister. The title, queen’s coun be. The diamond was a large one, set in a one or two graham gems, make a luncheon sack, translucent and filled with red spots, sel, for which the Jotters stand, is an honorary ring, and tbe young man was heard to say far more healthful and appetizing than most the eggs of some creature; little collar like one given to an eminent practitioner at the $50, as though he expected to get it But of the luncheons that find their way into the rings, the egg ca«*s of the niritas. A fringe bar. One possessing it is entitled to weaf a among the many rules that govern this busi of dead and brown gulf weed marks the line baskets of many of our school children. silk gown. A queen’s counsel cannot act as ness is one that says the first request must Some two or three years ago the luncheon of the spent high tide on the shore, with here junior counsel in a case, and as he cannot never be granted. This rule was strictly ad ?roblem became a personal one with me, and there a dead shell or sponge. A couple always be the leader, he sometimes finds his hered to on this occasion. eaching two sessions a day, too far from of hours’ wading, at each low tide, at the end title an inconvenience. The judges in Eng “Timonds are vay town,” said the clerk. home to dine with the family, the oft recur of New Cay, is fruitful every day of new and land are chosen from queen’s counsel. “And they are bound to go up again, as ring question what to have for lunch became strange creatures. Such hours are fascinat you very well know,” was the sharp reply; a most perplexing one. Finally, through ing and such pleasure is unalloyed. “but if they were down lower than they ever Passports. GARDEN OF THE BEA. tbe advice of my physician, and 1 must con .Every traveler in a foreign country should were before that stone would bring $75 any fess somewhat under protest, I made tbe ex Whoever has sailed in a big steamship to have a passport. Without one there is often where.” periment of making my noon day meal en Cuba, to the Bahamas, or through the South gif you $40.” great inconvenience and delay in passing 7 tirely of fruit and coarse graham bread. Atlantic, has seen after crossing the Gulf “Make it $45 and let me get out of here.” from one country to another. Passports are The after dinner heaviness gave way to a Stream, day after day, an unending proces Tbe clerk made it $45, and the young man issued by the state department at Washing feeling of buoyancy, and headaches and at sion of great and little patches of a bright ton on payment of $5 and the filing of the hurried out. tacks of indigestion became far less common orange colored plant which floats placidly on OF DAILY OCCURRENCE. applicant’s affidavit that he is a citizen, certi than formerly. Now, for the ten school the surface. Sometimes it is only a single Then a little dumpling of a woman pro fied to by another citizen, both attested by a months, my |»ill of fare for lunch is almost plant spread out flat with the leaves and notary or a certificate of a court of record. duced from the voluminous folds of a quilt invariably limited to ripe fruit and graham stems partly out of water; often there are If the applicant is a naturalized citizen the a big gilt volume, and laid it, together with gems or crackers, and my constantly in patches of from many inches to many feet in application mufct be accompanied by his nat the quilt, upon the counter. The clerk creasing health and strength more than jus area; or again great fields acres in extent; uralization pajiers. Aliena who have only glanced at them in a cursory way, and asked: tify thè wisdom of the experiment—“A. J. sometimes it is in streaks or bands, continu signified their intention to become citizens of “Von toiler C.” in Good Housekeeping. ous or interrupted, a few feet, or may be rods the United States cannot obtain passports. A “Two, ave it’s plaisin’ to ye,” was the mild wide, extending from horizon* to horizon. passport is only required by the head of a reply. This js the orange colored garden of the sea, Slaying the Festive Cockroach. “Twelve •hilling!” family. _________ ‘ “Everything is in knowing how, you a simple plant, withdiittapparent refct, leafing, “AU right, «ir.” know,” remarked an observant frequenter of flowering and fruiting as it floats, the Sara Stonewall Jackson. Then the little girl forgeA «lowly np, and, gossa sea weed, whose metropolis is in the the city hall. “If everybody knew as much The real name of tbe Confederate leader, with an olTort, raised the basket and set it on about cockroaches os I do the vermin would horse latitudes. Stonewall Jackson, was Thomas Jonathan the counter. The clerk* lifted the lid and I have often wanted to fish it up from the Jackson. At the battle of Bull Run, on July pulled out a pair ot Bat irons and a well soon become extinct. They were the pest of my life when I was in the restaurant business deck of a sieamer, but never succeeded to 21, 1861, Col. Slocum’s New York regiment worn drees. several years ago. There was nothing that any satisfaction until recently, when I made a charge which put to rout the Confed “Me mudder «ays wiU ye give «eventy-flve disturbed my peace of mind like the sight of crossed on a little sloop one of the abyssal erate force in bis front. Gen. Jackson had cental” deeps of ocean which reach in between the a cockroach walking leisurely across the “Forty cent»,” »aid the clerk. just arrived with bis brigade. Gen. Bee said table in plain view of my customers. I Bahama islands, i could easily reach it with to him; “They are beating us back.” “Well, “Me mudder «ays «he’ll take them out «urn bought insect powder by the quart and tried a landing net as we sailed. It is a plant of a sir,” shid Jackson, “we will give them the <* Saturday, and will ye pleaae do it!” every means I could devise or hear of to get soft orange color over, under and through. bayoMfc” “Form! form!” cried Bee, “there “Forty cent« " them out of my house, but everything was a I A multitude of minute animals, little coral standMackson’s brigade like a stone wall.** The little girl raised herself on her toe« and like growths, wreath the stems in strings of dismal failure uptil, finally, an accident hap The Wigade was afterward called tbe Stone began «nuflling. pened which gave me the information for pearls. Crabs no bigger than a finger nail, wall brigade, and the name Stonewall soon “Feefty cents.” The little girl buret out into a wild wall. which I had been squandering money use mailed in coats of flesh red or oJack, resent came to be applied to its commander. with upheld claw all intrusion; prawns and “Feefty-flve cent» and no more.” lessly. .» - “One night some one happened to leave a lobsters In miniature flip-flap their jointed “AU right, sir,” piped the Uttle girl, grow The Diving Bell. tails in microscopic gladness; fishes in bright ing suddenly calm. cake box—one of those japanned tin affairs— The divififcsjjtg y.F8 flrst U9ed on the <*o®rt of Then, having “done it again,” «he took her standing open. Next morning about a pint bands of color, half an inch long, find home Mull 200 years ago/in looking for the wrecks empt) basket on her arm, wound the shawl of cockroaches were found in the box. They here. of the 8| >anish Armada. Improvements were In this the winged shells of many forms about her and walked o^it. had been able to climb the outer surface and made by Stanley, who was the flrst man to These are a few sample« of the scene« that get inside, but the interior surface was too and amber hues, a distant order of mollusks reach sea bottom. Smeaton, builder of the (Pteropoda), living only in the open sea and dally occur in the jasn shops. There are to smooth for them to scale and they were cor Eddystone lighthouse, first applied the con ralled. Well, that put an idea in my head. on its surface, find food and shelter, a group densing pump for forcing air down to the many of theee place« in tbe city that it is a I went to work next e. 'ning and steamed of shells rare in any cabinet. The fronds of diver. The Royal George, an English man- wonder to many how they are supported. It some cake so that the insects could smell it this plant are buoyed up by numerous blad of-war, which sank off Plymouth in 1782, was can be safely said that the liquor stores and a long distance, and put it in the box. Next derlike nodules at intervals along each stem. discovered by a diver in 1817. THe flrst, and the pawn shops live through one another to a morning I had about half a peck of the ver Two distinct pieces were observed, one of so far as we knew the only, lady to go down great extent, and much of the money that min. 1 kept the thing going for a week and which was slightly greenish in the orange in a diving bell was the wife of Capt. Morris, passes over tbe counter of tbe pawn shops captured every cockroach in the house. This tone of color.—Frederick Stearns in Detroit of Plymouth, who made a descent a few years finds its way into the tUl of the liquor stores _________________ that, in their tarn, impoverish so many pnd is something that a cockroach ridden people Free Press. ago. •... - -• ------ force them to the pawnshop« for help. The should know about.”—Detroit Tribune. Sourkhoff is the name of a Russian whc A Boston gardener says that the custom of pawnbrokers charge 25 per cent, a year on buduhia Missionaries. travels about his native country urging tbs carrying a flower in the mouth, which has the money they lend, or 8 per cent, a month A society has been formed in Ceylon which natives to commit suicide. come into vogue among the ladies of some on a fraction thereof. This is a heavy inter has for its object the propagation of Bud cities, should be discountenanced. He says est to pay, especially where there is really no An elephant in the funeral procession to a dhism throughout the world.—New York that Dalmatian powder and pans green are retent Hindoo cremation ware a silver collai often sprinkled over hot house plants to keep 1 risk. It is true that a goodly portion of the Tribune. articles pledged are never redeemed, but worth $25,000. off the bugs, and that it is therefore unsafe theee, after a certain lapse of time, are sold A shoemaker’s sign, supposed to have been to put the stem of these blossoms in the ¡a often worth listening la mouth, as lip soreness is liable to ensue, if J at action or by private sale and much profl* carried from Mount Vernon, Illa, dropped to reaped from them.—New York Bun. from the sky, six miles northeast of Coving nothing more serious.—Chicago Herald. ton, Oa.. the other day. Ï * '