Morning daily herald., January 01, 1891, Page 3, Image 3

KE iOX'S F.AKLY l'lilNEEBS.
Tho .e Who l'rraieil the Way for
'frlhw?it i HUiiti'T,
Si t-cUI Omsj-oatk-n-", p;.ri-.-: t M 1 0.
The tnistv li:d l the past mr
rounds the period i;i Oregon I i
tory known a - the Pioneer Kra."
HeWated to the shadowy dom: in
f iu' ni'ry, many of t' inci ten's
that wen- of vast importance in the
narrow livts of th- frontier settle
have liecoire dim-ned hv tre 'id
chan;: , until in ome instances the
pioneer himself ha lecon. wil
d fed in the attempt to :-e arate
me r-nl ir m the ti ir-al. of a
perio I wi.hlv divided. anL on
F'antly receding from the jwwiit.
Pioneer life in Oreiron wa indt-rd
ag'mtile drama simply enueted.
It had for its stag the "broad ex
panse of hills and valley ; of wcods
sum streims that went to make no
the fair proportions of a beautiful
wildefne.sd. A gt-nial climate; a
fertile Foil ; a lovely, varying 1 ind
scape, broad streams and hjary
mountain tops, and over all the
mono'ony of isola'Jnn mma' uas
the Orejpm of half a century ago.
It cannot be paid that the cond:
tions of life in these peaceful vilds
were hard. Certainly, a compar
ed to those which confron'ed the
pioneer in Ohio, In liana, Illinoi
and other ntate of the middle
WeHf , they are plenty a to priva
tion as balmy, humid airs are to
the biting breith of the bitter
frost. The difference between the
middle and the West, far nefore
civilization established her meth
ode therein, was that which might
Ik- expected to prevail between an
inland region where the carriers of
commerce were compelled to make
their toilcome way over a rude
country destitute ol highways, and
a coact region to which adventur
ed early made theii way, laden
with the product of an older civil
ization. It was thus that immi
grants, having made the journey
across the continent wit a ox-teams
forty t ars ago, found in many of
ihe'loaly h-jines of the settlers who
li.td preceded them articles of
household furniture such as had
not yet reaihed the portions. of the
Mississippi valley whence they
came; books from Boston, Phila
delphia, New York and even from
I,ondon publishers, and fabrics
from the mills of the Atlantic and
foreign cities. Moii"y a at first
the comparatively plen'iful among
Oregon pioneers, a statement that,
while i: may be heard with incred
ulity is yet well attested bv those
who bote a part in the tord"er lift;
of both sections. The cabin of the
average "donation claim" settler
was a primitive structure, pattern
id .lit -i its predecessor in that line
in other portions of the country,
except that much less eire was
taken .n Us contiucioii than va
in ressary in the cold"r climates.
1'riuii'ive a it was; i ten did
duty for a dwelling !i . ift-r i s
owner w as, or bv the v rcie . i
or.lln.in il.ri t s'.o;;!.! i,.i v l.vt:
able to build .1 iiinc' l;i ie cm
niodio is s; ructiire.
l!:o wr.ter uuiLVubers one of
tin s io leer houses of the mur--thrifty
s-ort vis ted in !S..4. It ri:i i
be. ii e-taldii-hed a number of ye.iif
preiou-a:l u;is f il' rolindi d by a
vig.eousi tin hard i f 'setl ii:i:""
apple tree-, and though the family
vet bved in it a new house was
neiir.ut! compleM n. ( i loir-1 par
tial y hewn, 'he sp:i--t I ctweeii
well lilVd with mortar a w ile fire
place of t!i-same material, in:er
wtivtn wiih sticks ; n single room
with a loft overhead, which tii-'
c!ii' Ir.-ri t-v meit'ii of r ladder in
one corner; a it an to winch
served as a ki chen during the
milder poriijn of the year such
were the simple outlines of th
bu lding to which one ol the ear
ministers and educators of Oregon
brought a young wife from her tar
a-tern h jiii. Here children were
Ixirn and cradled ; across the rude
threshold some oi the little band
weretiken by sympathetic neigh
bors t the graveyard in the still
ness of a sxrave close by, and from
thence, just as preparations were
a linos, eompbted f,r occupancy of
the "ne ho.i-e," the hly of the
pioneer who had fiithtu'ly pet-
t i in ! h - -i ii - e i'.-v oi i i- ;
illlit g -lie! .itlo". !V.I' l. ie to i I
ve: n;:rr t e' lio n . I 'l ' e i ; lil'.lcli i
that m ier a i : i tile-tic in lit ;
li'e i ; is Ine ! tl i'- '!a s stud ;
years hi th - it n t.vr ci in. imt
hil'tj r never ci. ei: t iiiv-iioid.
w.int never p ". e l the face o.
t e me rv roiip i children thai
called this can n "i.o.ne," and
tlicie i- no eii -nee t i .t t.
year. ling known o the siigg-.-ti.e
name of homesickness." was
greater lier-' th mi thit which ha-i
liado ed the l.e.-.ls of eis
who have rce-sd th" or Ser 'fj
thu g-; is d -t li ed mi t i i i s iiistan -e '
itn.l t . -.a;iu' l a Ml le cabin i:i the
wilden ess lor n mansion in tiiel
heart of civili.atioii.
Th early settiets of ('reiTiti.j
however. th' Ugii ble-seil in thei
lines indicated alove the ji:on"ers i
who preceded the u an I fratn I
w h n they l.srg'-lv ;: nil. . in th -iiiiihlle
W t i were y ! victims olaii
itrtt!a'in 'h it w as drea-y and :.t
tian " o;ip. e-.r e in fie ex reme.
The-" ioi:ati :i land 1 nv," (anied
to iut'.vce the s;-!i l'-nier l ,.! t!ii
t lit i: :i:..iv fa! ie ! r ' it- in a
th-irre. i-e-iponsiMe for tin- isol.v
tion. In 'ii:i- to '.ne sct'ler I'.IM
icr 't i.l-M t '::! ct d.-d the
re.i'iireiii 'tiis o! :eo Vuh've ii. t!ie
s-.ia -e j otoil itio::. s' nte 1 matkets
oi tte--.. tii )-e t lit while i' made
horn - a dreary d itance :iiart and
M-iio ;':s .1:1 i.npo-si il ly, except ill
tint live s !se. I he '
i 'lie l.;ct that their ,
!ii )!i- i lieu r.-v,,pi!M'd, ;
lay? tout tier, while her husband
an.l older ti vs wer-- at work at a
iwtiMice that wou d not permit
;:i. in to 'e-.irn home ;tt, i!ie t lo-e
I day. Keferrinu to this experi
!ii e veari a t -r i-he s-nd; '-'iie
1 neline-'ti o that tune was -one
ihii.g dreadful, ami in looking hack
over my past life I rati ree-'ll no
moment of greater pleasu e than
that of one mild, sonny in ruiuir
toward the close of March, hen I
looked out and saw a pink binnet
nuviiig through the trees and
realized that a woman was coming
to make me a visit." She related
fu tier that this pleasure was
clouded by the rerlectiion that she
had to get "dinner for company."
So they served baked potatoes
with no seasoning but salt, bread
without butter, tea without milk
or sugar, and for desert, syrup
tha had in some manner become
-our. The me:.l rea'.lv looketl so
tempting, alter sn au'ul delay, s
that hunger might make up the
lack of seasoning- that no apology
for lack -ji variety in tl e viands
was o:!'e:-".l : ard as t - the res',
there was an abarua ce that
mocked -it a hint ol want.
Thar it w-uld be a grievous
hardship for tiie people who are
reaping what these early Settlers
sowed to accept the conditions of
life that prevuih d in pioneer I imt 8
in Orecou. is doubtless true, but it
is equally true that the surviving
actors in" that far away drama turn
tvit'i loving thoughts to the scenes
in w hich they bor3 a brave yet
humble part and proclaim the
"old days," the happieit of tiieir
lives.
Catherine A. Count.
Important to 1 loimekeepf rx.
It gives Jn ir.s. ("iraJwohl great
sitisfaction in selling his tine
C.ildeii Kale te-s ami baking
p.ottlcr, with elegant prizes or
withou' them, that bis ' customers
who have purchased iimdubU re
turn and pay they are well pleasei",
that the fe.i is No. 1. and the bak
ing powder is. as good as the best.
All his teas and baking powder
bears the name of .Julius tirad
wold's Goldni Rule Bazaar, and
.are eypessly pnt np for his -business,
and he still continues to give
with each pound of tea or baking
powder an elegant piece of glass
ware. Messrs. Pi ice A Roson are re
moving their sf.ck of hardware
into their elegant iuarters in the
new Baltimore block.
Fortmillef I Irani!
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t ie hum!. An il'hstrat on in pointy
vi a" tun::-hed by a woman who'
d.irng tive co.i-.e i:.ve months
hi.e'ii m a -vide, but snug cab 11 on
'Vi 1 f fit.- river, some twenty :
a,K.e 1 :e 'ii City, in 'he
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b-r oi in r ovvu se. and was Ire-.
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old child ! t ! stiliiiide? of the j
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