than the usual average of advanced pupils. And they were bright and smart and ambitious. They went to school to learn, and they studied, night as well as day. ney had never been taught that the pathway of knowledge should be strewn for them with thornless roses, and the teacher of that winter's term was neither able nor inclined to carry them to the skies on flowery beds of ease. We toiled together, and we loved the work. The discipline of the school was easy, for mutual love and consideration for one another's feelings was the ruling element. I have since been a teacher in many schools, and connected in many ways with institutions of learning, but, in many respects, my brief connection with the school in the Boyden district of Peny, Maine, brings me memories dearer than any others I can recall. But the lesson, or better, the lessons. English grammar was a great branch of learning in that era. Lindley Murray was revered. Orthography, orthoepy, etymology, syntax and prosody, as applied in the proper use of the English language, were grappled with singly and as a whole. Analysis and parsing, investigation into the intricate phraseology of the master poets, Milton, Thompson, Young and the rest, was profound and methodical. It was the custom to dismiss the younger children, and the lesson in advanced grammar came last in the afternoon. It was in the hearing of this class that Otis Boyden unconsciously became his teacher's teacher. The parsing book was made up of selections from writers of standard authority, largely from the poets. The lesson was always well prepared. All were critical. Otis Boyden, physically strong, quite large, with black hair and bright, black eyes, was by no means possessed of distinguished linguistic acumen, though he was not dull, and he had the sterling traits of character which command respect. The passage for consideration was from Kirk White: "It is not that my lot is low, I deaconed this stanza, (and I may remark it was entirely unnecessary for me to do so), and called on Otis to read and analyze. I was sure that in reading he mocked me, that he did so intentionally, wilfully, maliciously, and I was very angry 1 remember that I considered it a wonderful restraint on my part that kept me from assault and battery. The lesson, however, went on to its ending, and I grew calmer, under better control. I had not, however, changed my mind, and considered myself filled with indignation of the most righteous and justifiable sort. Therefore, before school closing and dismissal of the class, I said what I thought I ought to say to the class in general and Pacific Export Lumber Co. Oregon Pine Lumber for Export 216 Chamber of Commerce Portland, Ore. to Otis in particular. My remarks seemed to be quite effective, and when, in closing, I addressed Otis Boyden personally the quiet in the room was, indeed, almost painful. The class dismissed, each unoffending one went silently away. The usual interchange of friendly words was omitted. I was left alone with Otis Boyden. I shall never forget his manly appearance as he came quietly toward me, and, looking me in the eye, with suppressed emotion asked: "Mr. did you think I meant to mock you?" It took but a moment to explain to me that he had never thought of committing an offense, that he realized that in following me he had too closely copied my intonations and inflections. Tears stood in his eyes, and they came also to mine. I was young, and the incident made a deep impression. Its narration may be of use to others. Will Telephone Around the World Without Wires. Wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will span the world in the next hundred years. A husband in the middle of the Atlantic will be able to converse with his wife sitting in her boudoir in Chicago. We will be able to telephone to China, quite as readily as we now talk from New York to Brooklyn. By an automatic signal they will connect with any circuit in their locality without the intervention of a "hello girl."-December Ladies' Home Journal. Five Hundred Million Americans by the Year 2000. There will probably be from 350,000,000 to 500,000,000 people in America and its possessions by the lapse of another century. Nicaragua will ask for admission to our Union after the completion of the great canal. Mexico will be next. Europe, seeking more territory to the south of us, will cause many South and Central American republics to be voted into the Union by their own people.-December Ladies' Home Journal. The Quarrel. The Laurel started the affair He called the rose a vain coquette. The rose replied: "She did not care What people thought outside her set!" "Faith! you speak true!" the Laurel cried. "The Rose and Laurel only meet When on the Hero's head we ride, And you are tossed beneath his feet." The rose retorted: "I recall More than one Hero who threw down His Laurel wreath, his honor, all For one red Rose from Beauty's crown." The Laurel frowned: ""Tis as you say. Their laurels are undimmed today "Mush Makers for the Masses" NOTE.-Send us your grocer's name and ask for sample of Ralston's Breakfast Food, free, Handel had produced an opera before he was fifteen. H. Perugino had finished an altar painting at fourteen. Auber wrote an operetta for the stage before fourteen. Claude Lorraine began landscape painting at twelve. Corneille had planned a tragedy before he was ten. Moliere finished a comedy, one of the best, at seventeen. Rembrandt had finished a portrait before he was twelve. Lessing is said to have begun "Sarah Sampson" at eighteen, and to have finished it before twenty. Shelly produced all of his wonderful works of imagination before the age of thirty, at which he died. Goethe had produced a considerable number of poems and several dramas before he was twenty. Wagner planned a series of German operas by the time he was twenty-three, although his design was not carried out for many years. Caesar was not twenty when he became prominent in Roman politics, and was the leading spirit in Roman affairs before thirty. Burke was twenty-six when the "Essay on the Sublime and the Beautiful" was published. It is said that he began it between twenty and twenty-one. -Jewish Messenger. Will Bradley's Unique Commission. Will Bradley has accepted a commission from the Ladies' Home Journal for a series of illustrations that will attract the greatest attention. There are to be eight of the pictures, showing a woman's day in her home-at breakfast, in her boudoir, on the lawn, etc. Mr. Bradley will gown the woman in costumes (appropriate to the different periods of the day and to the occasions) of his own creation, and decorate and furnish the house with draperies, wall papers and furniture of his own designs. The drawings, while having a strong pictorial interest, will have greater value in showing women how to dress with artistic effect irrespective of the decrees of fashion, and the methods by which the most artistic effects in home fitting and furnishing can be secured. Speaking of Satisfaction You can't get it in printing of any kind unless you go to a modern establish= ment. The Union Printing Co. is fitted with all up-to-date facilities and is prepared to turn out the highest grade of first-class work. Some Queer Advertisements. "A lady wants to sell her piano as she is going abroad in a strong iron frame." "Furnished apartments, suitable for a gentleman with folding doors." "Wanted, a room by two gentlemen about thirty feet long and twenty feet broad." "Lost, a collie dog, by a man on Saturday answering to 'Jim' with a brass collar around his neck and muzzle." "Bulldog for sale. Will eat anything. Very fond of children." "A clerk wanted who can open oysters, and references." "Wanted, an organist and a boy to blow the same.' "Wanted, a clerk to be partly outside and partly behind the counter." "Lost, near High Gate Archway, an umbrella belonging to a gentleman with a bent rib and a bone handle." "To be disposed of, a mail phaeton, the property of a gentleman with a movable headpiece as good as new." The Pursuit of Happiness. One of the latest writings of the late Charles Dudley Warner was an essay for the December Century, entitled "The Pursuit of Happiness." Perhaps the most curious and interesting phrase ever put into a public document The Perkins Restaurant 108 Fifth Street Between Washington and Stark, or through Hotel Entrance on Washington St. D. H. BROWN, Proprietor, Is making a specialty of A 25c Merchants' Lunch Served at a moment's notice, from 11:30 to 5 p. m., consisting of Soup, Fish, Meat, Vegetables, Desert, and Coffee. Meals a la Carte at popular prices at all hours. Dayton's Handy Cleaner For Cleaning and Polishing Muddy Rubbers Clothing and Bicycles. Also very Neat and Useful for Sponging Clothing Price, 10c Delivered or Mailed. is "the pursuit of happiness." It is de- Dayton It is de- Dayton Hardware Company Iclared to be an inalienable right. It can not be sold. It can not be given away. is doubtful if it could be left by will. The right of every man to be six feet high and of every woman to be five feet four was regard as self evident, until women asserted their undoubted right to be six feet high also, when some confusion was introduced into this interpretation of this rhetorical fragment of the eighteenth century. But the inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness has never been questioned since it was proclaimed as a new gospel for the new world. The American people accepted it with enthusiasm, as if it had been the discovery of a gold prospector, and started out in the pursuit as if the devil was after them. If the proclamation had been that happiness is a common right of the race, alienable or otherwise, that all men are or may be happy, history and tradition might have interfered to raise a doubt whether even the new form of government could SO change the ethical condition. But the right to make a pursuit of happiness, given in a fundamental bill of rights, had quité a different aspect. Men had been engaged in many pursuits, most of them disastrous, some of them highly commendable. A sect in Galilee had set up the pursuit of righteousness as the only or the highest object of man's immortal powers. The rewards of it, however, were not always immediate. Here was a political sanction of a pursuit that everybody acknowledged to be of a good thing. |