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Uncbangeableness vs. Progress.
THE HOME DEPARTMENT
There is a young man in Silver-
ton who. when e mere child, came
Published every Friday morning at to America and settled in a village
Silverton. Oregon, by
Peraeveraace.
of Canada. These people and Perseverance, The Friend of Man.
J. E. HOSMER. Editor.
nearly all those of the village There ia to whom all things ar« easy;
Much rain wears the marble.
hi» mimi as a master key.
were
Catholics,
but
not
many
at
­
- Shakespeare.
Kntorod at Silverton. Oeeffon. poatotrice
tended the church, for they did Can open, with intuitive aiidreaa, the
it <econ<1-ciana ratea.
treasures of art ami science.
not like the conduct of the priest inert*
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are nnm,
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Subscription »1.00 a year In advane«.
nor the way the church was con­
but industry giwth him a crowbar cr°wned.
Herder.
Singla copla« 5 canta.
ducted. After awhile, however, To force with groaning labor
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a new priest from their own The stubborn lock of learning.
Every noble work IS at first
Maiie known upon application
-Tupper, impossible. Carlyle.
native land came and took up the
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work. His popularity soon be­
Wht»n you
« nxl pencil mark around thia
The
accomplishment
of
aims.
Victory
belongs
to the most
•pace you may know that your time haa expired came so great, his sermons were
Napoleon,
and that we are aakinir you to tend or hand ua a so good and progressive, and his the successes in life are due to persevering.
dollar.
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manifest love for his people was concentration of effort, to energy
and
perseverance.
We
see
per-1
Nothing
is
so hard, but search
so strong that every memler of
Wonderful Demand.
sons
plodding
along
day
after
I
will
find
it
out
—Herrick,
the village, including even the
I-ast week’s issue of The Sil­ non-church members, attended day. not showing much for their
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verton Journal aroused more in­ every Sunday, and a new, beau­ work at first, but finally astonish-
Perseverance and audacity gen­
terest than any other issue ever tiful church was erected and ing every one by their acquire- ©rally win. - Mad. Deluzy.
puhlished. Long after our thirty more interest and progress in ments and prosperity. “They
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or forty extra copies were sold a mental, moral and even temporal have genius!” it is said. But The falling drops at last wil
steady stream of anxious would- things was aroused than had what is genius? Buffon said I wear the stone.-Lucretius.
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be purchasers called at the office, ever been known there before.
genius is only patience.”
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It is work
By KHawwg through a dyke,
hailed us on the streets, and
One Sunday, while most
a
may drown a nation,
wrote to us from distant places. earnestly preaching to his be­ It is the power to start at work
Some wanted one copy, but many loved parishoners, this good with an object in view, to never
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wanted a half dozen copies or priest said that no one positively let that object out of sight, to Persistent people begin their
more to send to their triends. knew about the divinity of Jesus keep straight on. no matter what 8ucce8a where othera end
The story of the b'ind pig raid Christ. He said that it might stumbling blocks are in the path. fai|ure _Edward Eggleston.
had something to do with it, but be possible that Jesus was an
It is the keeping steady at one
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the account of the escape of the extraordinary smart man for his employment till the work Is com- An enterprise, when fairly
nun from Mt. Angel was the time, and understood things plete.
once begun, should not be left
greater cause of the wonderful clearer than any other human
It is the not being discouraged, till ail that ought is won. Shake-
demand.
being in his own and in the sur­ Success does not come by gpeare.
Now why is this? What is rounding country, but that he accident It comes by utilization
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there about a woman running might not have been a son of of time, by thought, by reason,
Hasten slowly, and without
away from this nunnery so in­ God more tnan all men who do by work.
“Such an one Is | losing heart, put your work
teresting to Protestants and good. And this was his last lucky,” you say- But is there l twenty times upon the anvil.—
Catholics alike? Perhaps it can sermon, for, against the force­ any such thing as luck? "Luck!” Boileau.
be explained by the attitude of a able objections and pleadings of said the Duke of Wellington, “I
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number of those who have dis­ the whole village, he was re­ made luck.” Instead of luck the Every man who observes
cussed the question in our moved, his place taken by a force that wins is application, vigilantly, and resolves stead-
presence during the week’. These more conservative priest and the Kepler was a lifetime working fastly, grows unconsciously into
parties claim that the great church, though much reduced in out his three laws of the universe, genius. — Bulwer.
closing drama of this competitive attendance, placed in line with
A busy lawyer mastered the
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ep<H-h of our history, which is the unchangeable.
French language by employing Great effects come of industry
the finale before we enter the
He that hath ears to hear, let just fifteen minutes after dinner and perseverance; for audacity
promised land of a co-operative him stop ’em up quickly, or he every day to its study. Elihu ¡doth almost bind and mate the
commonwealth, is a fight between may become progressive.
Burritt, called “the learned black wea^er sort of minds. Bacon.
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the Roman Catholic church and
smith, 99 ” aiimhiihwl
attributed his
success to
The
nerve
that
never
relaxes,
Socialism.
the persevering habit of utilizing
Wholesale and Retail Reform.
For a number of years we
“odd moments.” He earned his the eye that never blenches, the
have been watching, perhaps A wholesale business is usual­ daily bread at the blacksmith’s thought that never wanders—
somew hat unconsciously, the two ly much more profitable than a forge, and at the same time, these are the masters of victory.
great armies’ itianeuvering for retail business, anu so it is with learned eighteen ancient and — Burke.
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position. The Roman Catholic the world’s great work of “lift­ modern languages and twenty-
ing
up
the
fallen
and
saving
Perpetual
pushing and assur­
church is conservative in the ex­
two European dialects. He said, ance put a difficulty out of
others
from
falling.
”
It
is
a
great
treme. Its boast, is that it never
“All that I have accomplished,
changes. It is opposed, there­ thing to save an individual from or expect, or hope to accomplish, '* | countenance, and make a seem-
fore, to all progressive move­ business ruin, place him on his has been and will be, by that ing impossibility give way.—
ments. To this mighty church feet, and start him off on the plodding, patient persevering Jeremy Collier.
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the Protestants are lunatics. The road to prosperity and happiness. process of accretion which builds
I
If
a
man
has
any brains at all,
Masonic lodge is of the devil. It is a great thing to save a the ant-heap, particle by particle, |et him hold on
his calling,
The prohibition of the liquor brother from becoming a drunken thought by thought, fact by fact. | and, in the grand sweep of
traffic is as far from its idea as wreck or a sister from the And if ever 1 was actuated by
things, his turn will come at
Mt. Angel is from being dry. It bottomless pit of wantonness; ambition, its highest and warm­
last. — W. McCune.
is powerful because of its highly but it is a much greater thing to est aspiration reached no further
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concentrated form of govern- ( understand and put in motion than the hope to set before the
I
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m
proof
against that word
ment. The head of the church, great wholesale enterprises of young men of the country an ex­ failure. I've seen behind it.
without argument, commands, righteousness founded on the ample in employing those valua- The only failure a man ought to
and all obey without question, as revolutionrry principles that ble fragments of time called fear is failure in cleaving to the
though it were, as many of them finally turn whole nations and “odd moments.’*
purpose he sees to be best. Geo.
believe, a command from their the whole world from the dark­ He did make an example for Eliot.
ness of error to the light of
God.
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you and for me, and for all.
truth.
Opposed to this great power is
Let those engaged in the re­ He taught us a lesson of per­ See first that the design is
the scattered yet mighty forces tail business of doing good think severance—how to keep right on wise and just: that ascertained,
of democracy. When these forces not, that in this age of great in our work and not falter or pursue it resolutely; do not for
become amalgamated, either and rapid changes, this is suffi­ faint.
one repulse forego the purpose
cient. To feed a tramp or give
through being forced to it by the a poor child an old dress, or to If we sink under discourage­ that you resolved to effect.—
enemy, or by the slower process smilingly assist a sick neighbor ment, or adverse circumstances, Shakespeare.
of evolutionary thought, then with his or her work is great, we are lost.
the war will soon be over and but if we wish to measure up The thing to do is to sink dis­ The divine insanity of noble
the millenium will have begun; with the requirements of this couragement, not ourselves.
minds, that never falters nor
age, we must know about the
for as cruel and as tricky and as great questions of our day and
It is to plunge into labor, if we abates, but labors, endures, and
powerful and as corrupt as the assist in settling them. We must mean to achieve an end.
waits, till all that it foresees it
Roman Catholic church is, it can be active members of the great­
finds,
or what it cannot find,
not last an hour against the com­ est trust on earth—the wholesale To aim toward a high mark, creates. —Longfellow.
bined forces of its enemies.
house of Fundamental Principles and resolve by all fair means to
reach it, is wisdom. To do a
Nor will the battle be one of & Co.
Great works are performed, ■
extermination, as was the In-
little at this, and a little at that,
not
by strength, but by persever­ <> ■
ouisition. It will be one in
is scattering energies, wasting
Praise Where Praise is Due.
which the whole army of the
ance.
He that shall walk, with
conservative and cruel masters If there ever was a governor time. Darwin was a man, as all vigor, three hours a day. will
will flee, as did the poor nun, to in any state in this Union who admit, of great worth to the pass, in seven years, a space ■ '
the opposite camp for protection. has done more than Oswald West world. How did he become so?
Socialism, and we mean by this toward keeping his oath of office By perseverance, by putting all equal to the circumference of the
the coming publicly owned and and executing the laws faithfully, his force and energy into his globe.—Johnson.
democratically managed system, we have never heard of him.
will be the common ground on Every true man and woman in work, and employing everv
All the performance of human
which all progressives will finally this state, for once in their lives, moment of time, in spite of a art, at which we look with praise
camp and to which all thinking should drop their prejudices and poor state of health and many or wonder, are instances of the
people will flock and enroll against say that Governor West is true drawbacks.
resistless force of perseverance:
the mighty foe. the crouching to his trust. When a man tries
“Whatever is worth doing at it is by this that the quarry be­
menace, the black and blighting to do his duty in an office, when
conservator of corruption and he will sacrifice time, money and all, is worth doing well.” And, comes a pyramid, and that dis­
superstition —the Roman Catholic the applause and blood money of in whatever we undertake, we tant countries are united with
church.
the vicious, and come right out need to put health, strength,
Friends of law and order, boldly for law and justice, he power, energy. For that pur­ canals. If a man was to com­
friends of progress, do not in­ ought to be appreciated by all pose we should see that we live pare a single stroke of the pick­
ax, or of one impression of the
terest yourselves in one issue decent people so that others may
truly and morally, because right spade with the general design
only of The Silverton Journal, be tempted to follow suit.
and of other papers that are will­ Haven’t we had enough of this methods of living give us power, and last result, he would be over­
ing to stand up to the rack. other kind of official dope, this energy, force, pluck, persever­
whelmed by the sense of their
Subscribe for a year now. if you weakness, this shoestring back­ ance.
disproportion;
vet those petty
haven’t already. Speak to your bone business? Where is our The men and women most
neighbor about it. Write to country going to with the in­ needy in the world, which is a operations, incessantly continued,
your friends about it. We need creasing methods of rapid com­ great industrial and moral school, in time surmount the greatest
every ounce of help we can get munication and travel? With i college to teach people how to difficulties, and mountains are
in these, our days of struggle; the demand for real men we have ive, are the men and women of |
against our foes, and against hoped that the supply would energy and perseverance. With-] levelled, and oceans bounded by
those who do not yet know that come, and if Mr. West is not it, out such, the business of living the slender force of human
we are their friends.
where on earth will you find it? would totter and reel backward. 1 beings. —Johnson.
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