Nov. 10, 1842. When very young he went with his father's family westward, and in 1852 they settled in Lane County, Oregon. In 1856 he began a roving life, and took part in one of General Walker's filibustering expeditions. In 1860 he began the practice of law. Soon after he became editor of a paper. This journal was suppressed for disloyalty in 1863. In 1866-70 he was County Judge for Grant County, Oregon. About 1868 he began writing poems for the publications on the Pacific coast, and his fame gradually found its way to the East. He lived for a number of years in Washington, D. C, and returned to Oakland, Cal., in 1887. He is better known by his pen name than by his real one. Tell both names.
Who wrote it? "Ruins are the broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured."
How do you do it? Divide $1,000 into ten sealed bags so as to be able to give any amount in dollars without opening the bags.
FAME.
Fame is a food that dead men eat —
I have no stomach for such meat.
In a little light and narrow room,
They eat it in the silent tomb,
With no kind voice of comrade near
To bid the banquet to be of cheer.
But Friendship is a nobler thing —
Of Friendship it is good to sing,
For truly, when a man shall end,
He lives in memory of his friend,
Who doth his better part recall,
And of his faults make funeral.
— Austin Dobson.
