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m m -A 10 109A I'AGE FOUK The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, snnaay morning, wiuuc, "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe" From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Spracve, Sheldon F. Sackktt, Publisher Charles A. Spkagut - - - - Eiitor-Managtr Sheldon F. Sackett ----- Managing Editor Member of the Associated PreM The Assoo-'ated Press It exclusively entitled o the aw for publics tton of ait atiri dispatches credited to U or not otherwise credited In this papec Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Stypes, In, Portland, Seeurfty Bldg. fan Francisco. Sharon Bldg. : Los Angeles. W. Pac Bldg. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Parsona-Stecher.Inc, Sn York, 271 Madison Ave.: Chicago. 360 N. Michigan Ave. I. ' ' 1 1 1 ' I HI 'I II I J Entered at th Potto ffice at Salem, Ore gov, ae Second-Clatt Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Business office, 215 S. Commercial Street. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Mall Subscription Rates, rn Advance. Wfehin Oregon: Daily and Sunday, 1 Mo. 50 cents; S Mo. $1.25 6 Mo. tt.Si : 1 year $4.00. Else where CO efnta per Mo. or $5.00 for 1 year In advance. By City Carrkr: 50 cents a month; $;.& a year In advance. Per Copy 2 cent . On trains and New a Stands t cents. After Thirty Years "JfAMES Truslow Adams, eminent in current literature both ail as historian and essayist, has written for the October A flnnfi'i " ftvi AT-i1wr a a t-1 a nnAM tVia w-i-M a 'T5,rrto4raw o read." Picking up his old volumes of Emerson which he4experimenta showed a relation- read as a j-outh with such delight, he iaas to find in tnose writings the inspiration which the earlier reading supplied, agts he says: "I confess that, when after these thirty years or more I turn from reading about Emerson to reading him himself, I am rather amazed by what seems to me the shallowness of these essays." The chief defect in Emerson he finds is the lack of any organized system of philosophy. His writing is a collec tion of "trenchant aphorisms" but not a comprehensive in terpretation of life. Emerson wrote, as we recaH from our study of literature, by first jotting down in his notebook f Vi KMirl-t f Vt a f rwnn-rroA in Mm fYTYJTWkaif ion Wornt rVvr ram wiereiore a maner 01 uniting vugeuier uiese separate thoughts so that his writings resemble somewhat strings of stones or pearls, some beautiful, others mediocre, but lacking in the coherence which logic ask3 for in critical essays. For that matter through what different eyes do we read the work of any of the New England school of the last century. 'As youths at school we were aH carried away with the poetry, the stones, the essays of those writers who gave Boston and Concord a distinction which still lingers about them. "After thirty years" Longfellow md Whittier T ' 11 11 and ryant and -Emerson do not satisfy our terary taste. In style and thought they were reminiscent of another age. Perhaps because we read them in grammar school theyl "seem almost juvenile to us now. Lowell's "Sir Launfal" still ranks among the best of American poems; and his "Bigelow Papers" possess that re markable perservative, humor, which make them thoroughly readable today. Hawthorne's stories pioneered in an art form with such sturdy materials in structure and theme and skill in treatment as stHl to be rated with the classics; likewise Poe in the field of the short story, though he was not of the New England group. The others of that rich Vic torian epoch seem strangely out-of-date. It is not so much we believe the second-rate quality of their work as the change in taste and mood which has come over this generation. Walt Whitman is the landmark not ing the change from the period of Victorian acquiesence and acceptance to the modern attitude of challenge and revolt. His grotesque style contrasts sharply with the perfect me ter of Longfellow and the choice, lucid diction of Lowell. The old age of faith has yielded to the age of criticism. Stark realism has stripped literature o its richly brocaded, ample habiliments. The iconoclasm of science shatters the idols which eajmed the fealty of poets and philosophers two generations ago. The literature of today is that of criticism. Its mood is that of disillusionment. Its purpose .seems the -deflation of "earlier literary and biographical valuations. Its style rests chiefly on the epigram: some swift, electric spark which blows up a whole mountain of dust. Satire is now a well-worn tool, appealing to that primitive instinct which likes to see others squirm or in pain. Phrase-making has become a fine art, a happy figure of speech carrying the former load of a paragraph. Of present-day literature little seems to reach stand ards which insure permanence, even as compared with the : snrvi-f 1 1 r r-f f h a f sTrrYrl oaViaI vuu. if ja. kiiT: waia.ua u ov-Aivsvr Dewey are more profound Emerson, though not so scmtiflant as stylists. The drama perhaps shows the nearest approach to high art, the work of some playwrights like Eugene ONeiH rating high as literature. The voice of the poet is mute; out f mass pro duction methods in fiction few books merif long preserva tion. In prose, biography and the essay are fields most com monly worked, and subject to the limitations of the pre vailing cynical outlook, the product deserves recognition beyond the favor of the day. While for ourselves we confess disappointment similar to Mr. Adams in picking up Emerson agaia, er Whittier, or the old seventh grade reader which contained so many of the old worthies, yet at times we feeTsurf eited with the output of today's literary craftsmen. It comes as something of a relief from the "expose'' literature of the present to turn to the comforting idealism of Lowell, the depth 'of color in Hawthorne, and even the elementary rythms of Longfellow. "Thirty years" and twenty even, take their toll; yet we cannot but believe that the literary taste of the genera tion reared on the nineteenth century poets and essayists is finer than that of the youth who now tire trying to assim ilate a diet of criticism, realism and finely milled satire. Power on the Klamath - TOWER development on the Klamath river should be sus ; JLJpended until there is a proper adjudication of the rights .which the Klamath Irrigation district asserts were filched from them by the federal reclamation service and improp erly turned over to the California-Oregon Power company. -For years this fight has been going on, largely smoulder- ing, because powerful interests were arrayed wherever the 'Klamath farmers turned for relief. Assistant Attorney -General Liljequist used the hearing before the-reclamation commission Friday as a broadcasting station to expose to the world a situation which he in his official capacity con .demns as a ruthless exploitation of the settlers' rights and a violation of the trust made by the government with the .state. - 9 In 1917 the California-Oregon Power company made m deal with the federal reclamation service which the irri gation district regarded and still claims as a violation of the government's pledges; and which the attorney gener al's office holds is a violation of the laws of Oregon passed in 1905. ' This issue ought to be brought before some proper tribunal for trial and settlement. It is a blot on the name Tof the power company and the federal reclamation service until it is cleared. The first step necessary is for the legisla :ture to memorialize congress to give the district permission to sue in a afederai court, bringing the reclamation service and the cower comD&nr into court. With that lesmbiHT " memorial we uregon aeiegauon is or the opinion that It , can .get congress to approve ; will be settled in the proper t t Another iprceiui point was made oy far. I2U earns. The A " A f2nAitfA Vanftfin4 a ri Tfthti uvvi c -4h7Ca ia-vs oua aim v viiu and surer philosophers than of the bill, and thus the issue place, a court of law. HEALTH Today's Talk By R S. Copelaad, If. P. A "popular notion, Ion be lieved by everybody. Is that suf ferers from rheumatism are good weather proph ets. Recent ex periments made by scientists of the Mayo Foundation ap pear to prove this ago old theory. How often have we heard somebody say. "I feel it in my boneg that it Is going to rain. fjD GDPtLAND this should be true has never really been solred. According to a report made' to the American Medical associa tion a short time ago. the Mayo investigators studied, over a per iod of a year, 367 patients suf fering from arthritis, or rheuma tism. The study was undertak en to determine whether there was actually any relationship existing between rheumatic pains and the changes in the weather. It Is reported that for more than 90 per cent of the time the ship between stormy weather and an increase in the pain. During 72 per cent of the time the patients seemed to suffer more pain as the barometric pressure fell. During a rise of (Treasure they experienced relief. For 21 per cent of the time the curre of the pain ascended as the barometric pressure descend ed, and Tlce versa. There were included in the ex periments observations on the humidity, temperature and at mospheric electricity. It was thought that these factors work ing together might have some effect. It is well known how restless birds and animals are before a stornu They seem to have a foreknowledge of approaching bad weather long before there is any sign of it in the sky. Sea gulls often come far inshore- be fore a storm. Migratory birds are on the wing at such a time. Hogs bed themselves down and cattle seek shelter long before a change in the weather is noted by man. Treatment for Rheumatism Rheumatism, and many other diseases, cause the nerves to be particularly sensitive. In bad weather th low barometric pres sure which has Its effect on the free action of skin and a conse quent lessening of the escape of water from the body, seta up a nerve Irritation. The perspira tion is lessened, and on this ac count probably the rheumatic pain incrases. Persons who suffer from rheumatism should keep the bowels freely open. They should be moderate In eating and drink ing and avoid alcoholic drinks. They should lead a simple, regu lar life. Local treatments of dry heat, stimulating liniments, electricity and Judicious massage will help the rheumatic pains. But as rheumatism is, -directly or indi rectly, a germ disease, the only real cure is a clearing up of the seat of the trouble. It may be In infected teeth, tonsils or ade noids, or from the toxic poisons in the intestinal tract. There are many causes for this condition. A doctor should be consulted in all cases of rheumatism, and es pecially In cases appearing m growing children. Answers to Health Queries L. C. Q. Will drinking too much warm water afeet the stomach? A. No. "Thank You." Q. What do you advise lor redness arouna the eyes? A. Apply one per cent yellow oxide of mercury ointment to the eyelids at nignt. e e e A. O. N. Q What wUl strengthen very weak wrists? A. Massage and exercise should prove helpful. It would be rather difficult to make sugges tions along these lines without knowing just what condition ex lsts. . A Reader. Q. What causes a stitch in the side? 2 What causes canker sores in the mouth? A. This may be du. to nsu- ritls. 2. This Is usually due to acid in the system. Correct your diet and avoid poor elimination, e e - R. ' M. r. Q- How much should a girl of 14. 4 ft. 8 In tall, weigh? Also a girl of 19 4 ft. 3 In. fall? 2 What do you advise for pimples? A great deal of the joy of -life consists la doing perfectly, at least to the best of one's ability. everything which he attempts to Am ft...- 1- II... - uu. iuoii tm m whih in isuilH tlon, a pride la surveying such a "work a work which Is rounded full, exact, complete la all Its parts which the auperflcial man, who leaves his work la a slovenly, slipshod, rialf-fialshed condition, can never, icnow. - It Is this- conscientious - completeness which tarns work Into art The smallest thing, well dona, be comes artistic. William Mat hews; . Today's Thought. . California-Oregon Power company retains a permit which was x voiced by the state engineer and its' return requested. Suitor for a fresh permit with one breath, the. power com pany, according to the assistant attorney general, defies the state with another breath. The company should make its peace with the state over . this revoked permit before it seeks state favor again; 1" SWAPPIN' SEASON - j I a nn. t fwn sr.fai Gtt Srfufr rigtw fKfri, s- 23S Q 3t , Tnttn i, r.dicit. Im. Gft SriUte "GIRL UNAFRAID" 8TNOPSI3 Ardeth work in a shop and Is being wooed by Nell Burke. Her home life far from pleasant, sue ltves witn an aunt and a snooping girl cousin. Neil is all right until she spies a swell" riding a horse. Ned chides Ardeth Jealously. The next day Ar- detn sees a picture or iven uieason. the man on the horse, in the rotogra vure section and her heart thumps. But Ardeth comes to earth with the usual bickering with Bet about stock ings. Jeanette Parker caHs at the store where Ardeth works and offers the latter a job la the "swell" shop she is starting. Ardeth accents. Neil ob jects to Ardeth'a plan a4 thay have a row.. Ardeth -sneets Ken when be visits the shop. Shortly after, knowing that Jeanette has left for the day. Ken calls at the shop, feigning that ho had planned to drtrs Jeanette home. He asks Ardeth to go instead. Next day. Ken plans a foursome or Ardeth. Jeanette, Ms friend, Tom Cor- bett. ana mmseir. jeanette ana Torn are unable te go, mo Ken is atone with Araetn. Tney plcnlo together, their hearts racing with each other's near ness. Unable to resist. Ken kisses Ar deth, When she mentions Cecile, his face darkens. Life to Dtettr Ardeth Carroll meant working in a shop, an unhappy home with her aunt, and the courtship or Neil. When days go by with no word from Ken. Ardetti feels she- was just another flirtation. Ce cils calls at the shop and when Ar aetn overbears her talking or Ken. her heart drops. That night. She 1e over joyed to Una Ken waiting tor her. Al ter a very happy rening -together. Ken tells her he couldn't star away any longer. He cones to the shop with Tom uoroeu ana joins Cecils in the tea-room. Ardeth Is consumed with jealousy. Looking up from her work. she is surprised to tma Tom leaning across the case, gazuig at Her. une morning, scanning through society's scandal sheet, "The Spy," Ardeth sees reference te Kens engagement te Cectle. Then she anderstoed- that ominous something which had come between them at the mention of Ce cile. Returning heme, she finds Sen waiting with his let him explain. car. He begs her to CHAPTER 90 Ardeth wrenched her arm away and looked back at Nell with an gry eyes. "I told you to stop this! Com ing at me suddenly like this and asking questions! What business is It of yours?" "I'll make it my business when you stay out at this hour of the night with other fellows. Think I didn't see yon down at the cor ner necking with that Gleason fellow? I'll knasjk his head off I" She felt her face flame la the dark. "Understand this once and for all, Neil, I'm not a child who needs your supervision! You leave me alone!" Her voice shook with anger bat she kept It cautiously low. If Aunt Stel woke up and came out te rind them quarreling it would mean a scene. A little sick fee4 ing la her heart. Shameful to be standing bore quarrelling with Nell on this magic night when Ken had told her he loved her "Neil " she spoke with unex pected gentleness. "Don t let's be like this. Why do we always fight when we meet lately?" Neil threw oft. the gentle little hand she had placed on his arm and spoke in cold contempt. . "Thrown ae down for this oth er guy, haven't you, Ardeth? Like all the rest of the rotten females! Let a fellow spend mdney on you .and everyone els ean go to hell! She was suddenly scorched with anger. "That's rotten!" she Mas ed. "Ken hasn't money! He's .no better off than yout He's sup porting his mother on hfs salary yes, and he Isn't bitter and do ing a lot of preaching and ranting about it the way yon do! . "Yes he e slaving!" came NeU's, bitter answer. "Got an easy berth la old Parker's office and going to get solid la the firm by marrying the boss's daughter. And lav the meantime ha thinks he can have a good time with my glrL m show him where he's going to hand la - YoBr-bully! If yon try te see him I 111 " Ska blared at him through the uncertain light, eyea and teeth agleam like a small out raged eat. rigtn ftKfrcl, Suddenly she was flung flat against him. held by his arm as rigid and uncompromising as a steel bar. His teeth showed in a smile which held no mirth, his eyes burned down at her from their shadowy sockets: "You what? You'll give him up If you know what's good for you. Think you can throw me over whenever you please " A door up at the head of the stairs suddenly opened, sending a glare of light leaping down the stairwell, painting black, angular shadows of balusters on the grimy plaster walls, flinging into relief their struggling locked figures. Aunt Stel's voice sounded, harsh with anger: "Ardeth Carroll, come up here right off! What time of night is this to be gettin' in and wakin' the whole house?" Ardeth thrust Nell violently away and went up the stairs burn ing with rage and shame. Wear ing a black scowl, the man fol lowed. They faced each other In the blaze of the living-room chandel ier. Aunt Stel had evidently just arisen from her virtuous couch, for the kimono of faded lrisea did not quite conceal the end of a much faded nightgown and her front hair was wound on two stout wire hairpins to provide a rigid waVe the next day. Nell stood beside her, his long arms folded tightly against his talUean body. His face was paper white and his eyes were verr black under his thick, black brows. Ardeth stood .before them with flaming cheeks, her slender body taught with excited anger. Aunt Stel's eyes went heavily over the girl, much as a lumber ing. 'wagon would crush a moth. "So, you finally decided to come home, did you?" Her voice was thick with scorn. "Remem bered you had a good, decent home to come to, when you got good an' ready! An' me, like a fool, keepin' your dinner hot in the oven till all hours!" "I'm sorry about dinner. Aunt Stel," the girl said with stiff lips. "I know I should have telephoned but I lost all track of time " LAY SERMON "THE CELESTIAL CITY" Te h sternal whit a brilliant thencht! It nut have been conceive ad ceddled first By some old shopkeeper la Karemburg: His lippr nm, hia ehilra amply Qtd, Who, with h'.s Hshtei meerschaum fat his hand, His night-cas em kis head, oae sammer night Sat drowalng at hia door. Aad mui hew grand If all of this coold la t beyond a deabt Thie well-fed moon this plums Oemuth- lichkeit Pipe, breath, and dimmer oavor coiag oat. To vegetate through aU eternity ... Bat bo such everlsitiarasss tor ae. God. If he ess, keep ate from seek a alight." Louie Uatermorar la "Boaat - Leviatkaa." Each man Is the architect of kis own heaven. He designs the city celestial of his hopes and dreams and this poet, of his fears. An endless summer of warm idleness pleasing te - the Nuremburg shopkeeper,- abhorr ent to the modernistic poet As a chill I thought of heaven as a place where I might eat plenty of red raspberries, stewed, of which I was quite fond. Tha au thor of the Revelations sketched heaven as a city with streets of gold aad gatea of pearl and walla of Jasper. It la said that differ ent races conceive of the ma donna la their own race-type; thus, tha black races ot Africa venerate a negro madonna. The same diversity1 doubtless accom panies primitive conceptions ot the abode la the life everlasting. It IS a -place ot endlesa fleUght, of supreme and continued satis faction of those things which we desire most ardently. Christiana are by no means as sure of the plans and specifica HAU "Yes, I can believe that." Aunt Stel's lips were a thin line. "You forget most things since you've started chippying around with your rich beau! I dare say that isn't all he's made you forg-et." The girl before her blazed with Sudden wrath. "That's horrid! I have done nothing I'm ashamed of and you've no right to talk to me like that! It's nobody's busi ness but our own if we lore each other!" She stopped, swept by a guilty sense of betrayal. Putting it In words like this made it sound so bleak . . . This love of theirs so newly confessed so delicate . . . Fllngipg it out before Aunt Stel's skeptical face was like handling a butterfly with clumsy fingers. "Oh, so you love each other, do you!" Aunt Stel's words were freighted with sarcasm. "Fallin' for all his fine promises, aren't you. Like Nellie Ross. She had plenty of times to remember her sweetie's fine words, an' so'll you have " "Stop you!" Ardeth biased at her in such white faced fury that her aunt automatically blinked. NeUie Ross ... as a youngster of eight Ardeth had seen Nellie wheeling her heavy-headed baby la the sun of the Panhandle. There had been a strange elusive secret about Nellie Ross. The big boys had snickered and whistled as she went by. The big- girls had gathered in intense knots In the doorways, discussing something mysterious from which they had barred Ardeth. But she remem bered, and later she knew. Now, slightly sick, choking with anger, miserably aware that Paul had roused from sleep on the lounge and was drinking in the scene with one scarlet ear, she defended herself. "You have n0 right to say that to me. Aunt Stel. I didn't want to say anything so so soon, but well. Ken and I are engaged. We are going to be married soon, so you see!" "Married!" hotly, from NeU. "Married!" a derisive cackle front Aunt Stel. "Well, let me tell you, young lady, you're not pil ing the wool over my eyes! Bet knows all about your fine shlek there's a girl works in her of- tions and location of heaven as were the ancient theologians and the poets like Milton and Dante. Older assurances ara no longer accepted without question; the older appeal ot heaven as a means of reward for present goodness has lost some ot its efficacy. Critical philosophers ot the day see individuals and na tions ae things which rise, flour ish for day and then sink into oblivion. As Spengler writes in ibis "The Decline of the West:" "Oae dv tie last portrait of fin hrsadl sad the last bar ef Moieit wiB have ceased te be. t hooch pesirbly a colored caiui aad a iheet ef aotei aaar resaaia. becanao Ue last eye and the last ear accessible te their message win have gone. T.rery thought, faith aad seieaee dies as aooav a the spirits la whose worlds their 'atonal truth' were tree aad necessary are extinguished." ,A gloomy prediction, unsuited to those affirmative minds who aee design and order in the uni verse and reason that man's pres ent Intelligence justifies rational hope for its continued existence la a better and hence happier world. We may not think ot heaven In terms of sheer physi cal delight or as aa escape from fmrtes ot helL There Is still a conception of heaven as a place for activity and accomplishment and continued spiritual existence, without attempt to define lta place or lta condltiona. Belief ta immortality la a product ot faith and hope and net ef soieatifis tact. That oar primitive or child isn notion of heaven mar now seem silly to as is no proof that tat idea Itself Is in error. Tha normal mind prefer to tarn to tha line of a aaner If older poet wno wrote: earth the toekea are; in heivea the perfect round." BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS The Methodists were plungers: Something was said In this col umn yesterday about the visit to Willamette valley and the site 01 Salem of Rev. Samuel Parker in the latter part of 1855, with a promise of a little more today. W Bancroft said: It is not to be suppWd that of all the Protestant denominations the Mehodists alone responded to the demands of the Flatheads for teachers. . . . But the Presbyterian church, more careful and conservative, did not plunge into an unknown country and work as did their Methodist brethren. . . . The Dutch Reformed church of Ithaca, New York, re solved to sustain a mission to the Indians west of the Rocky moun tains, under the direction of the board (Meaning the American board then made up of the Pres byterian, Congregational and Dutoh Reformed churches; now the Congregational church only.) Rev. Samuel Parker, Rev. John Dunbarand Samuel Allis were ac cordingly; appointed to explore the country for a mission site. They left Ithaca in May, 1834, arriving at St. Louis too late to join the annual caravan of the American Fur company, as they had intend ed." S S Rev. Parker returned home and Dunbar and Allle remained In the region of the Missouri and joined a band of Pawnee and Loup In dians, endeavoring to teach them sacred, things. In the following spring (1835). Parker ,came back and repeated his effort to get to th Rocky mountains, this time with success. But the Methodist "plungers." the little party of five, with Jason Lee In charge, had. April 30 of the year before, "plunged into an unknown country," and were building and extending their mis sion work 10 miles below where Salem now' stands. Even had Rev. Parker and his two compan ions caughtjip with the fur com pany's caravan of 183 4, they would not have been first in the field, for they were only "appoint ed to explore the country for a mission site," while Lee and his "plungers" came to build their mission on whatever site they themselves selected. V And these Methodist "plun gers" were In the divinely ap pointed time and place to put the region west of the Rockies under the Stars and Stripes; and Jason Lee was the divinely appointed man to lead that epochal move ment, as a retrospective study of history has proven to every stu dious person who has followed the course of events from that time until the admission of Cali fornia as a state Into the union. S Rev. Parker again left his home in Ithaca March 14.-1836, and, by way of Buffalo, Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cincinnati and ; Louis ville, reached St. Louis April 4, where he found awaiting him Dr. Marcus Whitman. They joined the caravan of the American Fur company, under Foajtenelle, at Liberty, Me. While at Bellevue, near where Omaha now stands, cholera broke out among the men of the fur company's caravan, and three of them died almost Immediately, and Dr. Whitman took charge, moved the men who had not been stricken to a separ ate camp on higher ground, at tended the afflicted, taken to an other camp from the poor place where they had been located, and thus earned the gratitude of all flee has a sister la Parker's of fice and your Mr. Gleason Isn't engaged to marry yon because he's going to marry hia boss's daughter. He's like many anoth er rich young- fellow takln his fun with a poor girl before he marries a rich one. Mere fool yon for falling for his fine talk." "I SHppose Bet knows more about It than than Kea or or me!" said Ardeth In a stifled voice. She felt weak and sick. And dreadfully alone. "At any rate she's not such a fool as you I An' here's one thing yon're going to learn, my lady, If you're going to stay oa here. You're 'going to give up this chasin' about at night. Come home this hour agaia an you'll, find my door locked!" (To be continued) L. at BABRIOS fTcataeat A. V. Vice CLOUGH-BARRICK COMPANY s Funeral Directors LADY A' strictly private f amily, entrance 205 S. Church Telephone 120 the rest of the company, whose lives he saved, and ibat of Fon tenelle, whose command he pre rented from being broken up and spread his fame as a good man and a competent doctor to all the mountain men in the Rockies; a reputation that was singularly useful to his work in after years. They were at the rendezvous of the year at Green River Augnst 12, and delayed there till the 21, when Parker Joined- a caravan for the Oregon country, and Dr. Whitman turned back, to get his own intended-bride and H. H. Spalding and his intended bride, to come clear through in 1836, and established missions at the sites selected by Parker, while still at the rendezvous, had op portunities to reinforce his repu tation as a Christian and a phy sician, as the following record will show: S "While at the rendezvous Dr. Whitman gave surgical and medi cal aid to a number of persons, among other operations extracting an iron arrow three inches long from the back of Captain (Jim) Brldger. who afterward built Fort Brldger (in 1842) on Black's Fork of the Green river; and an arrow from the shoulder of a hunter who had carried it in his flesh for more than two years. The exhibition of his skill excited the wonder of the Flatheads and Xez Perces there present, and roused their desires to have teachers come among them who could do so much to re lieve suffering." S Jim Brldger was sending a company of 60 men to Pierre's Hole on the headwaters of the Snake, and Rev. Parker went with them. From there on, the Flatheads and Nee Perces took Rev. Parker to Fort Walla Walla of the Hudson's Bay company, arriving October 6, 1835. Three Walla Walla Indians with a canoe conveyed him on from there to Wascopam (The Dalles), and Wasco Indians took him on to Fort Vancouver, arriving there October 16. Dr. McLoughlin Invited him to take up his residence in the fort for "as long as it suited his con venience." He wrote: "Never did I feel more joyful to set my feet on shore." He was weary with more than lix months of travel, part of it with Indians only. But his march had been almost a tri umphal one; received by whole tribes of Indians turning out to give him noisy welcome. No wonder that he was enthusiastic over establishing missions among them, as were all the missionary workers before him. S After Reading the above, can one wonder at the fact that .the little half-breed daughters of Jim Brldger and Joe Meek were at the Whitman mission when the massacre came? Or fall to wonder that they were, under the protection of Dr. and Mrs. Whit man, victims of that cruel mas sacre? W The Methodists were at the old mission below what became Salem, and the others at Walllat pu and Lapwal, because the Methodists were "plungers, ant first on the ground. Yesterdays ... Of Old Oregon Town Talks from The States man Oar Fathers Read October 12, 1905 Thirty-eight pupils are enroll ed in the Gates school which has just opened nnder leadership of Miss Genevieve Rains of Albany and Misa Nellie McDonald of Scio. A split-log- drag Is being used with considerable success on a number of the city streets. RADIO SERVICE on aU makes SETS -:- -:- PARTS Radio Headquarters MJas Radio" Phone ITS S. High St. OLOrjOH - Pre. T. T. OCCpBC aeo.-Treea. ASSISTANT 1 i-