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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1905)
-',r,'ni mm i I(iliwiitni i m muiMim 1 MMiUM.nn i lM alil'wli,iin wihw i.lm iMlSimwilMin'MiMli i.i.i, ill mmjUmh !"' ..... .... FOl'R. All.lf EAa tKB'iOVlAX. 1'EXHI.KHiV, OIlKtiON RAT4J11UAY, DKUKMliKK 83, 1905. TKK PAfiKH. A.N INDErKNUENT N KWSPAPKIt. rAthed every afternoon (except Sunday) lit Pendleton, Oregon, be the ; VAST OKKGOXTA.N 1MJHI.ISUING COMPANY. Member Scrlpps-McRae News Association. We Kut Oraonnlnn Is on nn.li! At 11. V. Itich's News Stands, at Hate4 Tort land and Hotel Perkins, Portland. Oregon. Telephone, Main 1. Euered Ht Pen Vcton Postofflce as second-class matter. First Christmas in Umatilla. let us picture In f nicy the Umatilla county of 61 years ago. let ua wander back in imagination to the winter ot 1844. Here and there alone ill" silvery Umatilla river the curling smoke ot an : nfiian tepeo. Over the boundless prairie where now the gulden harvests are thousands of R!"uinff ponies. Here and there among the herds of es, the frisking ttntnlope ana timid oeer. Ana SKUiKins; among me bes the sly and ever watchful wolf. Out over the hills, like giant spider webs, stretched the pony trails from river fords and watering places. Waving like n sea was the eternal cbxrass, the Indian's granary and treasure hnuse. Whirlwind had but turned Into the years of manhood that winter. Pio- nox-msx was the white man's friend and sat smoking, smoking in his i on the Umatilla river, day by day, wondering, thinking. Whirlwind, whom fate decreed should be a steadfast friend of the pale was 21 years of age and belonged to W hitman's Sunday school class of Csjrusea on the Umatilla river. Only yesterday he told me how well he re- milium the first Christmas celebration ever held In Umatilla county. It was Christmas. H44 (1 years ago. Whirlwind says Whltssaa cams vcr and talked about God and the Savior ot men, red and white. Lot us 'fancy the scene. In the absence of Whirlwind's power to fittingly escribe rt.! I,et us sketch In our fancy the great tepee of Plo-plo-mox-mox, sAozn Whitman trusted and loved and who trusted and loved Whitman. All about it the dripping alders. Close at hand the murmuring river. Vaader, trotting down the winding trails to the river to drink, the hundreds at aeotted and white ponies, the wealth of the Cayuae tribe. Seated; around the smouldering fire In the center of the tepee a dozen Mid, silent Indians. Among them Whirlwind, the young man who was later ned to ride to Walilatpu to Ind the great missionary massacred by the , people whom he sought to save. Silently a iuaw slips In in moccaatned feet and squats down In the dls- L corner, to listen and drink in the strange story of the babe in the manger, r the atonement, the crucifixion, the glorious resurrection. IXmly her mind catches a gleam of Its splendid sigrolflcaaee. A Ughf anes into her eyes, is reflected In the soul und shines out through her issued face in a sinlle of wondering sadness, The words of the missionary are simple. He is not speaking to aa audl- i which can follow his eloquent flights, so must creep along within reach C their understanding. k tftandlng up among the Indians who remain seated flat on the ground, aTxirman read the simple story of the star In the east, the babe and its beauti aad mother, the rise of the babe to perfect manhood, the life of sorrow, the all of hope, the darkness and gloom of Golgotha, the lifeless form clinging Sat the towering cross, and of the released spirit seeking Its maker in the akfe Whirlwind dimly remembers that this was the old story he hoard on thai first Christmas celebration In Umatilla county. 61 years ago. Alter talkjn,,- and singing with, the Cayutes for an hour a feast was nd. That la the acme of Indian hospitality. , With Whitman this feast ems doubly dear, because It was a token of friendship and a return of many asmpmneots which the Indiana desired him to accept. Had they not feasted at Waillatpu. hundreds of times In the past? Were they not always welcome Shin the walls of the mission? No Indian ever left that home hungry or weary. The door was open io m. Whirlwind say.T Whitman delighted In dolnrf kindnesses to the redman. 8 Cut let us survey that feast On hot rocks before a crackling fire the mru cake was baking. Whitman had taught the use of corn and most of aa Ikadinz Indians raised It and ate It. In ft willow basket, tightly woven and deep as a bushel measure, the enlson stew was boiling. Hot rocks were taken from the fire near by and rSiroan Into the basket and thus the stew was kept at boiling point Dried aaaas root, fragrant and tender, was spread upon rush mats before the party. Serzed venison, dried salmon, huckleberries stewed In the willow basket and aan with spoons made of horn, made up the Christmas feast But even this much marked a wonderful advance since Whitman had am to the Walla Walla, Kefore he had taught the Cayusos to live In seml atriaxatlon many of them had starved and suffered the long winter through. Saw they raised com. made a sort of rough bread and cooked their food tat white men i 1 There was Five Crows, who later sought in vain to buy a white wife from he immigrants who tolled In long caravans Into the wilderness of Oregon. There also, was Tal-o-kalkt, with the Judas mark of the murderer upon his Tauf. Ha it was who was to plot and execute the bloody massacre three years artrr. Then after the fast. the smoke. The great pipe was passed. Each man Med the fragrant klnlklnlc and vowed to he friendly forever alas, for tows! K K And then as the winter sun was sinking into the west and the pink tints abfd a glory over yonder peaks of the nlue mountains, the missionary mounted pony, waved his hand in farewell as he climbed up the paths out of the afcr bottom and galloped across the rolling prairie toward the mission farm a wilts to the north. Whirlwind remembers the sadness that marked Whitman's face during B latter yars of his life. He says that something troubled the good man said b was always thinking, thinking. Whirlwind remembers seeing the missionary leave the camp on the Cnsatllla river that Christmas day, 81 years ago. It Is a splendid scene, when ( tame to mark it outllnea There on that wild frontier, surrounded by savages, suffering privations, Messe-I by enemies, accused by Ignorant half-breeds, and bowed down j the weight of his own work, Marcus Whitman took time to ride over to Bit scattered tepees on Christmas day and teach the wonderful story- And Vial day's teaching Is not forgotten to this day. H Whirlwind held un his distorted old hands to me and said: "There Is mm wMte man's blood on my hands." Thanks to the teaching of Marcus Whitman, many a Cayuse Indian has made better than his red fellows by the self-sacrificing labors of that man. . Just such scenes as were witnessed by Whirlwind on that Christmas day 60 years ago. made the Cayuses better, gave them a glimpse of the st light brushed away from their eyes the blindness of superstition and entrance, somewhat not wholly. It Is true, but enough to live in history as mat supreme achievement of the early missionaries of the Umatilla and Walla Walls country. Whirlwind lives today in a new house, like that of his white neighbors, as-ar the site ot Pio-pto?mox?mox's tepee. In which Whitman preached and arsyed that Christmas day II years ao. TOMORROW. There's a haxe on the hills and the grass is brown, And the sun thro' tho leaves coca OS filtering down; There's the fainthearted ham of the distant town -And we must be off tomorrow. There are tales ti be written and songs tu be sung, And we'll climb to the ladder's high est rung Hut life is lung and Iho game Is young. And w.' always have tomorrow. There's a lizard sunning himself in the stubble; Hi" knows that fame bj an empty bubble To melt in the grasp, and cares that double Arc profitless things to borrow. Off theie. in the world, thore are bat tles to fight And every cause Is calling a knight There tire weak to succor, and wrongs to right And triumph, and strife, and sorrow. But here in the hills there's a lullaby breeze That sways the sere grasses and sings in the trees, And we plan the brave future, and wait at our ease For the mystical, hazy tomorrow. On with buckler and Bhield there are giants to slay And we must be mounting and riding away To Join in the conflict bnt not today; No, not today, tomorrow. Ituth Comfort Mitchell, in Sun set Magazine. TKESCIENCK. Love, hear the burden of my prayer: "Twill not be always thlno to woo, Ond lifeless fingers hare no care If laid therein be rose or rue. Love, hear the burden of my prayer: Give me today to hear thee vow How dear my eyes, my lips, my hair. Nor wait for Death to teach thoe how. Love, hear the burden of my prayer: Lock me today In thy embrace! Too late when striving candles flaro To rain thy kisses on my face! Love, henr the burden of my prayor: Walk with me gently down the days. Lest Penth cnie on us. unaware. And point the parting of the ways. Rose Mills Powers In Oood Housekeeping. THE WEALS. Said one traveler to the other, "Highwaymen! they might shoot me aa full of holes as a sieve, but I'd never hoi 1 un mv hnnrts. A man is a coward to do that." Said the other: "Well. If nny one he. 1. n gun on me. I'd Elve him any thing, or o nnv'b'nT he wanted. A man Is a fool to refuse." Just then th trnln stopped with a Jerk, and a big mm with a revolver suld. "Oen'lemen, T'U trouble you for your valuiMcs," and both of them K'iv0 un telr pulses. Which of these two. thlnkest thou, went down to his house Justified rather than the othr? H that brag ged of a stnr he did not own, or he that stuck his nose In the dirt and called It the best there Is? Life. A Non-Poss1hfllty. A Inwvci. wkw .moth was exlra ordlnnrilv Inree, had on the witness Htand a southern hakwoo'lHmnn. 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Miclical Plscovery in juch a war by skillful extraction, com li nation and solution without alcohol, that their i-st elfecw nro secured. Many yenrs of actual practice con vinced Dr. 1'ierce of the value of many native roots us medicinal ngents and ho went to gr.-at e'u . both in time mid in money, to perfect his own peculiar pio res.se for rendering. I hem both nflluient and safe for oiiiiiiiioiis use as tonic und rebuilding agents. The enormous popularity of "Golden Medical Discovery " Is due both to it- scii'iitilic co::iooiinillng anil to the nctuni medicinal value of thn ingredients. The piiolicution of the nmiu " Uie injmr'i tut on tlio wrapper of every Is.ulu hereafter to Iks ml I, gives full assur ance of Its nnn-nlcoholic character and removes all objection to the use of an 'unknown remedy." X3V, ,m The Original LITTLE LIVHR PILLS, lirst put up by old Dr. Ve It. V. I'll 've over 40 years Rgo. Much Imitated, but never equaled. 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I was gratified to find that In a week the cold and cough was broken up, and three wtieks' treatment completely re stored my usual good health. ' Lillian HoweH. Mine oases of consumption out of too oeoor in this way: A person oatohes cold. Tho sold is not property ourod, and another cold is caught This cold Is dilly-dallied with, either by no treatment whatever or some treat ment that is ineffectual, and the cold continues. Then another cold is caught and a. oongh develop. ('oii(;h syrups are re sorted to, but thoy give only temporary relief. By and by the patient gots ttred of taking nuHliciuus and cough syrups and gives up In despair. The colli continues to develop and f.l oougil grows worse. Then tho doctor Is called in, only to discover that tho patient is in the lirst staiwof consumption. II was Just in this way that Miss. Powell, of Aurora, Ind., became sick. Huecuiiglitaeold, and not considering It sorioo.i, neglected It thinking as many others do, that it would "wear off." 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