February.
where politicians discussed finance, wherr-
farmers wrote of agriculture, poets sang of
war, wine and women, and where the dis
appointed politician, the combative theo
logian, strong-minded woman, and the
love-sick swain were allowed to give vent
to their feelings in maudlin prose or senti
mental doggerel. All this and more, pos
terity will know of us, for the world has
taken a new departure, and files of our
newspapers will be handed down to remote
generations, who will shudder at our inhu
man laws, ridicule our habits and tastes,
wonder at our ignorance, bigotry and in
tolerance, and laugh at our fashions, slow
going steamboats and railroad travel.
From the records we have, how little we
know of our ancestors who settled the New
World, The man who goes to Plymouth
and sees the huge iron pot in which Miles
Standish cooked his dinners, the rude spin
ning wheels, the uncouth arm chaira. the
flint-lock carbines and huge pewter plates
brought over in the Mayflower, and then
passes through Copps Hill Cemetery in
Boston, where Cotton and Increase Mather
are buried, has a far different view of the
intelligence and handicraft of our fathers
than have those who have only read of
them in history. The religious intolerance
of the Old World set adrift from the moor
ings of religious bigotry a peculiar people,
and landed them upon the shores of the
New. They were human, of course, for
they ate, drank, sleptj loved, hated, married,
quarreled and got divorced just as others
did and do; but they had idiosyncrasies of
character and peculiarities of physiognomi
cal contour that no other people had. It
might have required skill in diagnosis to
find them, but they were there. The
iil-E; W-EST SHORE. r
grease ended
and tobacco
juice began.
They were
marks that
showed the
workings of a
more than or
dinary soul
genius that
couldn't be
hid under a
bushel," or
kept out of
sight by un
kempt hair, a
dirty shirt or
butternut col
ored clothing
marks Uiat
were bound to
tell on his fu
ture life and
corrobnra
ted by another
" poetic pro
duction which
appeared the
same day and
year a s the
above.
Til uy mi-sax.
t bi-it nMlMuueo
fllim aUuto;
Kind t'u,ld t,nM,.
HIV Pt'll 10 llUIVe,
While linrnlurea
To'S
THR NARROWS Or THE COLFMHIA niVKH.
. ,ii. ouu lamiiira ail join me nra",
Tula ancient Louie wlU never need a bead.
masses were ignorant in science, profound
ly so, compared with their descendants of
to-day but they had their great men in
Adams, Hancock and Washington; greater
perhaps on the wjiole than the world had
ever seen, lor they lived in one of those
epochs which, under a great law of evolu
tion, occur at long intervals in the cycles
of ages and set up great wavmarks in hu
man progress by illuminating the heavens
witn such intellectual meteors as Moses,
Homer, Byron, Newton and Franklin-
epochs which, notwithstanding our blind
attachment to traditionary names, will con
tinue to produce still greater and greater
men.
The intolerance of climate, fitful, fickle,
nd shifting from intense cold to extreme
"eat, the malaria that pervaded the atmos
phere, the unsatisfactoiy results of farm
labor, with a migratory disposition inherited
from ancestors drifting towards the setting
son and increasing as they traveled, sent
long years ago a band of peculiar people
to Oregon. They, like our fathent, pos
sessed many characteristics in common
uh those they left behind to raise corn,
t catfish, and nurse torpid livers; but still
they were a peculiar people. The differ
ence between the man who came and the
man who staid on the old place was really
ffreat, though to a superficial observer it
as scarcely perceptible. To look at one
f the immigrants of '43 or '50, most peo
ple would have said he looked like any
other Missourian; but he was not, for
nuks of something that placed him above
Wends he left behind flashed out
""rough his optics and the intervening
freaks of cuticle that showed where bacon
the character of his yet unborn offspring,
when the wheat bread, mild climate, salu
brious atmosphere, ciystal waters and ro
mantic scenery of Oregon should cleanse
him of corn, bacon and mercury, and co
operate with his intellectual "inwardness"
to lift him to a position where he couldn't
do without an agricultural or illustrated
newspaper, and would hanker after a clean
shirt every Sunday morning.
Landing in Oregon, he found, in addi
tion to the advantages for a more rapid
development already enumerated, several
co-operating handmaids. Priestly dictation
was at a discount, politicians were scarce, as
taxes and salaries were low. the "snoils"
consisting of wheat, beef hides and orders
on stores with empty shelves; doctors'
saddlebags had become
empty, with 110 drug stores
to replenish, and the God
dess of Fashion had never
as yet even perched herself
on one of our mountain
toj to look down on our
women, who were weaned
from milliner shops, and
content to wear home-made
"sundowns," and dresses
cut from unbleached sheet
ing colored with tea grounds.
A strong prohibitory liquor
law that forbade a sale or
rift of ardent sniriu stond
like an anirel with flaminir sword at the
door of every cabin w here the thirsty toper
Knocked lor admittance, and sent him to
the cooling spring to quench his thirst and
vitalize his brain. There was some grumb
ling at the law. of course, bv new comers
who took their last horn out of the old
stone jug they brought from Tike, away
back on Snake River, and smacked their
lips in the vain hope that they could buy a
barrel when they reached the Willamette.
It will be thirty years the ninth of next
July since an Oregon "poet" look his
pen in hand " to rap these fellows over the
knuckles and explain the " spirit of our
laws" on ardent spirits:
"What ( the Rpirlt
To read luein Uno
bother
Do ea you please
with jour owu
aelt.
But juelle bj an
other. Make Honor, then,
alio drink It. too,
Miirliea.iouiteaM
to nii-aauie;
But If jiiii aril ar
WVII lake';,
Proud nature
ln'itotahrr luiktvll
leeeektll. My loriuer wnrke
I'll nuw mvl,
And ah, ehe did her
nuriuei. 1111
lu Suinn.
Could I but rail
Unit Jewel mini..
Deareat nf all
thhiita aavo di
vine. I'd huniHv how me
at the nhrlne
Uf Sneaii.
Oh, then thrun&h
every vale and
glnde,
U.Y uoo' tlde anil at
eveiitu liiide.
Id thank and
nralao the Uod
My Suaao.
If that fellow, after he won his black
eyed Susan, had seen the hair pulling
ahead, and from the basaltic cliffs at the
Falls could have peered throw th tlilnv
years' future and seen her as she is to-day,
.in arum grass widow, with a large slice of
her heart in the purse of some do ni
fast men, he would, like many other theo
logians, nave lound that his first imnrrinne
about the design of the Deity- in making
cusan were slightly erroneous.
It is estimated that the State of Orcirnn
has within its limits a district of rich soil
to the amount of 2,752,000 acres. One
inurth or this area, devoted to the raising
of wheat, at twenty-five bushels to the acre,
would result in a yield of 17,200,000 bush
els per annum, j.css than
one-tenth of this will satisly
home consumption, leaving
over 1 5,000,000 bushels for
export, a source of wealth
in itself that Is simply im-inense.
drops taken in a snnnnfnl nf em. ...111 k
found highly efficacious. I am confident
that all who will try this.simplc medicine
will ever after keep it constantly on hand,
as a ready, safe and certain remedy."
CoMi) Hack. Last Summer a well to
do farmer living out on the Coppei came
to the conclusion that he did not like Walla
Walla valley, and after leasing his farm
here, because he could not sell it for what
he considered it worth, he swrtr.,! iv-i. .
his old home in Indiana, taking his family
a.iu a large Danu ol horses. Ho arrived
there in the Fall, and found that fee,) I
stock was so scarce and high that he could
nut allow to winter his horses there, and
as he could not sell them, drove them into
Illinois to winter. Ho now writes back
here that Indiana has changed a good deal
since he left there, and that he thinks Walla
Walla is a better country than he used to
believe it to be; and finally that he will
return here in the Spring, or just as soon
as he can sell his horses, and that he will
hereafter make this valley his home. Kvcry
year we have cases of this kind muli nnr
observation, and it generally gives a man
who has lived here fcr some time a better
opinion of this country to take a little irin
like the one referred to. When they see
how much poorer other countries irenerallv
are than ours, they are almost invariably
glad to return. HWa Walla I mhii.
Thk Dayton (W. T.) Antu savs: The
Wrst Shohk, an illustrated monthly, pub
lished at Portland bv L. Samuel. Ks.fl. linn
been received in this community with
great favor. Mr. Samuel has incorporated
some new features in his manner nf cnn.
ducting this paper which should commend
T11 k Weathkk. We of
the Dalles for some days
past have had and are hav
ing delightful weather. The
thermometer ranges from
40 to 65 degrees aliove zero.
Grass is springing up all
over the lulls around us and
growing finely. Scvcrallkinds of birds
which arcgcnerally supposed to be weather
wise and know what they are about have
migrated hither and carol sweetly. Spring
is actually here unless appearances arc very
uecepuve. iiauts JnDuut, fit.
Cheap and Vamiahi.ii I.i.vimkst Th
following recipe was originally riven nnrl.
one numireo years ago, and has been con
stantly in use in one family for more than
eighty years:
One quarter of a pound of mmnlinr
and the same quantity of pure castile soap;
m.iiii lite camphor and add to it a wine
glass full of high proof brandy or alcohol;
scrape the
Hi womli-r pmnlit itar urul cut rlnitrra,
WIipii rovka mud I me. ml ,totk. ana .0U(J- main tmct:
TourraoDcj, then,
we'll take It, all,
Or we aim
innsmn joa:
'But It wr have no
tnuuff llirn r
Tnii niay dprnd
we'll liani u,"
This and
other produc
tions of Urn
dav nreserved
in our arch-
ives showlliat,
i n common
with the ante
diluvians, old
Oregon. ans
were
of like
sionswith our
selves.'
men
pas-or-
This
RAPI1W AIRiVK TUNWATKII KALI, COI.I'MHU
HIVKK.
soap fine and
put both into
a junk bottle,
and add a pint
of spirits of
turpentine.
Put in the cork
' not very tight
and set the
bottle in warm
water, increas
ing the heat
until the con
tents of the
bottle are am
algamated. This liniment
is excellent
for bathing
sprains and
braises, and
for internal
soreness; 18
themselves to every newspaper reader.
The reading matter is select and suitable
lor all family circles. The illustration! are
excellent, and convey to the reader abroad
a more correct idea of the advancement
made in Oregon and Washington th.m n
other publication we have seen.
Thk Outijwk. We have abundant
cause to predict that the year 1876 will
prove one of unusual nrosneritv. The
season thus far has been all that the tillers
of the soil could desire, barring the rain.
There has been but little frost in rpinrd
vegetation, and there have been no floods
to do any serious injury; hence the pros
pect lor bountiful harvest in 1876 is truly
flattering. Owing to the continued early
rains last fall, the acrcajre of fall-sown rrmin
is not near as large as heretofore, but the
deficiency will he mo,ln ,m 1... t.. :
77 " , "1" l"'ng
!. Kiimcrs ate running the plows con
stantly. The health of the State is general
ly good, and its prospects fnr prosperity
were never more favorable.
The Dayton (W. T.) Am, of January
1 5th, speaking of Columbia county, says:
"We have a voting population of about
800, ami assessable prowrty amounting to
about Si 000 rwv '-i..r. - . .
townshi of surveyci, land in the county,
- .i.,r,Uiuii 01 wiucn, nemg the
finest wheat land nn the. r,wt .t .1..
" vum aula me rc-
mainder hm-class grazing lands. Walla
Walla and Columbia counties to-day offer
greater inducements to the agriculturist
than any other district of country on the
Pacific slow. As we are writing wa
can look out un the hills surrounding
Dayton and see green grass in every direc
tion. Go Out Ution ana rrti.l f.nm t-..
and you can see farmers plowing their
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