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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1876)
THE WEST SHORE. February, 4 i'hc MUs mt. Twelve I'arfe Mnmhljr llliiMrated Piper, fmlli-Jied Vuhii.aku, OHVf.oN, by L. SAM If hi., i Wuhint-toa-kt. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION, (Including I 'ullage 10 any pan cif the United Stale,:) One copy, one year, ijo Single Nuntbm, ...... cenlt. frmled by fllo. II. 11 tun, cm. From A WaJuntton u, STAND FROM UNDER. Il is our lime to grumble, am we Jo it as follows: Tllie United States Government under take for a consideration which is undoubt edly ample to forward our mails. Its sub contractors, yclept ntail'Carrieni, receive a certain amount for carrying the mails over slated routes. Arc they fulfilling their contracts? Have we no rights that these people are hound to respect? The Sacra mento mail of the 7th ol February arrived here on die 23d in a coudition proving very plainly what the drivers of the stage routes between Redding and Koscburg had used the mail-bags for, namely, to fill up "chuck holes," Not more than one-half the papers were readable, the majority of litem being delivered here in an unrecog nisable pulp, iluwever, this route has been spoken of in no very complimcntary lerms by a number of our Oregon najicrs, with no prospect of relief. Another model mail carrier has the people of l'uget Sound "under his thumb," namely, Captain Starr. This gentleman receives a very large sum for carrying a Iri-wcekly mail on the Sound. It is, liowcvcr, a mystery to us what ossiblc ob ject lie can have in carrying the mail up and down the Sound several times before delivering it. From personal oliscrvalion nude (luring a late trip in that part of the country o arc convinced that the mails are not carried as they should lie. For instance: a friend at Seattle received a HuLigeof newspapers from Portland which had been three months and five days on the road, one from Oh n.pia, distance 71 miles, fourteen days on the road, and oth ers In fully as quick (() time. The fact is, this " King of the Sound'1 lus no regular days for running his steamer. Although announced to go up the Sound on Tues days anj Fridays, he is as likely to come along any other day without previous an nouncement. Isn't it aiwut time some thing was done to make these men come to lime? If Captain Starr doesn't possess ability enough to nut a little boat on lime en Iho placid waters of l'uget Sound, he should be compelled to give up the mail contract. And right here it may lie as well to remark that we arc inclined to think the g.tllaul Captain is hardly the ighl man in the right place. In the down trip on Thursday, February loth, the pilot tiald back at Olympia and Captain S. un dertook lo run the North Pacific. All wenl well until ust Tacoma. Here from some cause the Captain liecame a little frightened and had to run back lo Tacoma, hcre the c.iitain of the steamer Alida was liunled up ami taken aloard, who finally lirnught the North Pacific through all 0. K. Another trouble ii that most mail car licit look upon Uier mail as of no special value. They should be made to under stand that new5iapcni are often more val uable than letters; and we for one would be willing rather to hoc many of our letters than a single copy of some of our favorite journals. 0:iu station on the N. P. K. K. is look ing uv Mr. Win. linihcy, formerly ot limphrey's landing, lus o;iicd a general merchandise store at tin. place, and reports trade liiisk. Mr. l'uiuphrey u also a .farmer on an extensive scale, hn (arm ad joining the station "Mother," said a little girl who was en gaged In making her doll snap, " hev 1 will be duchess when I grow up." 'How do you evcreipcii to become a rfluchen, my daughter?" her mother asked. "Why, br marrying a Dutchman, to be tiro," replied the girl. BIOGRAPHICAL College; but he afterward resigned this position and accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Christian Church in Salem, where he was also elected to the Chair of Phvsiototrv and Microscopy in the Medical Department of Willamette Univer sity, in which institution he had previously graduated. Here for the most part, he has ever since lived and labored. He sjent seven months, however, in 1873 Prof. L. L Rowland, A. M., SI. D., is Sujieriniendelit of Public Instruction of Oregon. He was born in Tcnn., Sept. 17th, 1831; but he emigratedto Oregon in 1844, spending his youthful days, in Yam hill county, and availing himself of such meager educational advantages as the ordi nary country-school of that early day of our infant territory afforded the pioneer's visiting school? and colleges in many of son. But he enjoyed in the winter o1 the Atlantic Stales. Having been appoint- 1850, on North Yamhill, aten-weeks course ed by the National Association of I, under the tuition of church to supervise Dr. W. I.. Adams, their missionary work which proved of in- v among the Indians estimable value both in Oregon, he spent, in rendering him with a view to this, thorough in the first fifSi3i several months principles of science t!'lvX 1874 at the Malheur and in awakening a Hi' f '"J"" Agency; ac- thirst for deeper learn- ft I jJSJfSf cepting the appoint ing. Having fitted k-- jp'sj ment and performing himself for college, ' W ''j'fVA the duties, in the mean and having, by dint 1 . n . gfs-,- time, of Resident of hard work and ' Vf , ''W.' fi' I Pliysician. While thus rigid economy, ac- ''iWSN. occupied, he was cumulated a sufficien- V3r'fiJ ' ' elcc'lC(1' June Ist' cy to defray the ex- iff "Vl ' 1874, to the above lenses of a collegiate A ll I I ff mentioned office dur- course, he left La- II I I J ing the terra of four fayette, Feb. 8th, V f years. 1853, aboard the first 4L 14 In discharging his little steamer of the official duties, Dr. upicr Willamclte, on ,D?; "W!LN'D:, Rowland seems to be his way, via Panama, ' giving general satis- to Bethany College, W. Va., where he faction. He has proven himself energetic graduated in 1856, receiving the classical and efficient, and which is very important degree of A. I)., and subsequently that of ' and to which he is largely indebted for his A. m. lie also graduated in IheT heolo"- success, eninvs die hem-tip.;! ro-onoraiinn ical Department of the college. After traveling extensively over the .Middle and Southern Slates, he taught for two years a select school in Alalama. Nov. 181I1. 1858, be was married lo Sliss F.mnia Sanders, of Slarian, Ala., and to them have been born live children, only one of of the press and of all friends of education throughout the State. The West Shore, published in Portland by Sir, I,. Samuel, comes to us as a wel come visitor. It is well and ably conduct ed, and has among its contributors some of whom, liowcvcr, is hung. Returning j the ablest writers in Oregon. It is well home in 1859, he was chosen Principal of i illustrated with scencrv, some of which is llcthel Collegiate Institute. In iSno he taken bv the artist from our own section of was elected school Superintendent for Polk county, and organucd, it is slid,' the first educational association in the state. His health failing, he resigned both his supcrin tendency and his Rsition in his school, and retired 10 his farm near Independence. With the hope of regaining his health, he removed, in 1863, to Kastern Oregon, where he embarked in farming and stock raising near Dalles City, and where he still owns an extensive stock-ranch. In 1 866 he was chosen President of Christian country. Those who wish a good periodi cal, and to, at the same time encourage something near home, had better send on their money and names, and receive the Wkst Siiuke in return. Price, $1,50 per annum. Walla IValla I'mon. "Oh, I am so glad you like birds! what kind do you most admire ?" said a wife to her husband. "Ahem! Well, I think a good turkey, with plenty of seasoning," said the husband, "is as nice as any." RAMBLING NOTES ON OLDEN TIMES. BY W. L. AUAMS, M. D., A. M., LL.D. nr. r.vfL 1'iiriu 11. walla wall.. To gaze into the future and descry in the distance the dim outlines even of com ing events is a desire that is common to humanity. What would we all give to look at a picture that would tell us just how people will dress, act and live, what kind of tenements they will occupy, their facilities for travel, their creeds, moral, social and political, a thousand years hence ? And wouldn't we give nearly all the cold we have, to stand on one of the rings of Saturn and take in at a glance the speck ot universe known as Uie "solar system;" sec all its atoms as we can now see one under a seven hundred diameter microscone. and bo surrounded for a month by all the spiritualities that were ever embodied trom the dust ot all the worlds in view, just as they will appear, radiant with intelligence gathered by half an eternity of investigation ? But " Heaven from all creatures wisely hides the book of fate" draws a veil over the evolvinir acres to come, and snrpada also a pall of darkness over, what through science we can only conjecture was, long before, and for aires after Fauna and Flora announced that the world was ready for the advent of man. What u-niild u- imva to know just how the antediluvians lived and acted; to know what great moral ques tions agitated the public mind: iust how elevated were their most exalted charac ters; to walk into the house of Noah, for instance, just as the family was sealing itseti to dme on a stewed kid, served up on chins, and have a familiar talk with the old gentleman on chemistry, geology, geogra phy, and the theology of that age, and compare the probable rainfall of his coun try with that of Astoria? How delighted we would be to be able to see Ad :1m am! I his consort, pure, unconsciously nude nd ocauiuui, suDsisting on trails and flowers, and then follow their descendants down the stream of time till by eating meat, changing climate, and adontintr new rne- toms, up sprung the Negro, the Mongolian, ana Indian all no doubt destined by obeying the "laws of life." as thev should have done at first, to take on the same sandy complexion that it is said their an cestors had. But all history, sacred and profane, throws but a glimmering light over past generations, even those who lived but a few hundred years ago. What those ages wanteu were writers, painters and printers. , Heroes in war they had, tall, ferocious and bloody; and giants in intel lect, too, as is shown by the Iliad, preserved for centuries in the memories of versifiers. nut tney had no newspaper writers to sketch men and women as thev moved in to daguerreotype passing events, great and small; no photographers to preserve the likenesses of the handiworks of the age "e 8real men ol past ages, like Cicero, "cmosmenes and Homer, onlv live in .speeches and song. hat a pity we hadn't a regular file of newspapers preserved as we preserve them now, giving all the debates in the Roman Senate, the discussions 111 fhr VrloelnMlA.) councils, the intrigues of courts, the condi- ' Puu"c "'orals, in the days of Theo dora; the prices of provisions and clothing ihe wages of mechanics, and what Cincin naus paid his hired man to plow, and how , much he plowed a day while hi, employer - -.. .0 uie war; how much wheal Ihey got to the acre. h -i ,l ' VHCT USCtl, and whether they "vitrioled" it to kill the smut; the wages of harvea h,,i. presses and cooks; wha, egg, were worth 7, "u ,ur"' cost about Christmas, now interest itwnnl.l k .1 -r 1 . guuee over w eduonal, describing j detail every set-to b the eladiatori,! .L .1 f mic names I of all the killed, and what "uainer" wa, " "esuui m thickening the blood of those who were the Wm i. au 10 glance over it, column, of contribuUon,