Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-28
Chr Oregon 9tpublieGn,
DALLAS, SATURDAY, OCT, 2s.
LOSE.

Lost to the world, and its old sweet ways
Lost in its wildsof woe and sin;
Remors1ful thoughts of his sober days,
TO be drowned in the regofs din.
God shield aud pity! None else can savo
The poor lost wretch from drunkard's grave.
Ab yes he is drunk, but pity him So,
For be is friendless, and poor. andotd;
1t is warm, the rain will not chill know--
'Twere the same il freezing cold
See him lying prone aud helpless there,
The beating rain on his long, thin hair.
look mt his foul and bloated lips,
At his haudS-oh shameful and sad to sec
Then down at the little white hand | hold,
At the litte white foot my knee.
know that mother, tender and true,
Blessed lhe lost ones life when baby, too.
My fngers twine in my darlinss hair,
While the su amer rain falls soft and still;
look at the poor old wanderer there,
Aad weep despite my UiIl,
/ weep Tor the mother who barred her breast,
To iull that form to its childish rest.
Iknow the fingers were tender as mine,
That toyed, like mine, with his golden hair
1t once golden, | see the shine
Oh its faded splendor there
All! where is fhe hand and dear white breast,
That soothed him once to his infant rest
Dear little eyes, so blue aud Deep
Soft little hands so plump and fair
Let me close the one ii dreamless sleep,
Aud fold the others whore
They shall never move on earth again;
Than them with such "a shameful stain,
Mothers of earth. when we rear our sons
With such loving and bender pride,
How Ettle we know where feet will stray,
, In tine paths OF the world 50 wits.
'Tis mercitui hand that holds a screen
'Twixt the huby days and iies' closing scene.
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THE ACE oF MAH.-''The age of
mau, says the Good Book, ''is three
score years aud ten, yet many eases
are Oh record of men who have attained
the age of one hundred, and there are
instances of persons reaching one
hundred and twenty to one hundred
and seventy, and even to 185-the age
of a Hungarian peasant named Petrach
Czartan. who was born 1887 and died
in l77l, Shakespeare divides life into
seven stages, aud meu of science into
four distinct periods only-Infancy,
youth, maturity and decline. Some
apply the term to infancy, boyhood,
adolescence, yirllity, maturity, decline,
and old age, or state of childhood.
Infancy refers to the first two years of
existence, during which the first set of
teeth are developed, childhood, between
two and eight, when the first teeth are
shed and new ones take their places !;
boyhood, from eight to fifteen, when a
marked transition is effected adoles>
cence, from fifteen to twenty-one ;
manhood eliminates at forty five or forty
eight. From from that time, although
the mind retains and even increases its
power, still the body begins to loose It's
energy, and gradually declines through
the descending scale of maturity to old
age. Women are more precocious than
men, and yet the average duration of
life acceeds to the fact that they are
less exposed to accident and dangerous
in the common course of events conse-
quent to our daily vocations, and more
extreme cases of female longevity are
recorded Golden City.