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-4 t. t- ll SBSSaBEBSER i: i i V ' ".j 110 1 : . t ; VOL. 1. DALLAS, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1870. m. is. . t. LL LL3 Oil- - 1 If 8 It t ; & r t s o u $ p h I i f a n la Issued Every Saturday Afternoon at . Dallas, Polk County, Oregon. SY D. M. C. GAULT '&-C0MP'Y, OFPICE-Main street, between Court and -Mill streets, two doors south of the Postoffiee. . , ,. SUBSCRIPTION SATES. SINGLE COPIES One Year, $2 50; Six Months, $1 75 ; Three Months, $1 00. Subscription must be paid ttrictly in advance ; ADVERTISING RATES. Onesquare (lOlines or less), first insert'n, $3 00 Each subsequent insertion.... 1 00 "A liberal deduction will be made to quar-; -terly and yearly adrertisers. , j Professional cards will be inserted at $12 00 per annum. Transient advertisements must be paid for in advance to insure publication. All other advertising bills must be paid quarterly. Legal tenders taken at their current value. Blanks and Job Work of every description furnished at low rates on short notice. Q,A11 advertising bills must be paid in on tfdly. y A DOCTOR'S SECRET. A Strange Story. Tt was ; midsummer and hirh noon when her soul dropped its humanity I held her in my arms till the very end; then I laid down the deserted chrysalis of the immortal soul, and -left it for awhile. I went out to commune with myself; I wished to be away from the idle gabble of those who thought them selves able to comprehend and sympa thize with me beexuse of our human ity.- ' The fields were basking still and green in the broad and yellow sunlight; the cattle were resting in unreasoning animal content in the cool shadow of the flickering, foliage j the great blue rimmed lake smiled, sparkled and crink led in, the full moonlight. . I saw these things, not in their real ities,, but in their possibilities. The fielder, bathed in sunlight, and vocal with the-shrill-chorus of the insect or che&t'ra, became verdurcless and silent, and yawned into deep sepulchres for! the entombment of all life J the beasts, i ruminant and content, dec'ay again, and be again reborn. All created life to my grief-annointed eyes, was but a whirling circle, and to die was but a change of form. But I held in my ban 1 a secret. It would eoable me to make exceptions to the . universal law I, an infinitesimal atom of the universe, fad learned how to contravene the apparently immuta ble order of things. - I had learned how to arrest decay. This knowledge was no sudden inspi ration. It was the result of a long, la borious study and research. . It was a successful result after many vain ex perimentsa victory wrested from countless failures. Not in my own cause had I so ardently striven for the possession of this secret ; it was for her, ifiy beloved, my beautiful bride, who had just died upon my breast. All uns conscious of my dread knowledge, she had calmly talked of the time when her soul should be awaiting mine in another sphere, while the perfect form which rested in rav arms should bloom into flowers, or be blown hither and yon by . idle winds, like common dust. I looked upon that sweet face, and silently5 swore to myself what was so dear to me should never become noth ing. The breaking of one of creation's laws weighed little with me in compar ison with the utter loss of that dear incarnation. True I could not bind the soul to ejltth I had no power over spirit, but only over matter but 7l could render the body imperishable. Perhaps I hoped at some future hour the soul would revisit the temple thus jcept inviolate. Filled with this resolution, I return ed to the body, and subjected it to cer tain operations which my researches liad proven would suspend the natural iaw. that: governs lifeless matter. I extracted all the blood from the body and replaced it with a liquid prepara tion. Further revelations I cannot make. It is one of the secrets which cannot be imparted. Each rash inquir er must, at the hazard of life and rea son, wrest it from among nature's well guarded mysteries. While 'the world slept I worked, quickly and steadily. At last the morn broke, and my task was finished. Slowly and gradually rose the god of day-r , He shone upon a new sight -unchangeable matter. One rathful red ray he shot through the oriel window; it fel upon, the statu te llke figure, and bathed it ae if in blood. There seemed nothipg ominous in that sign to me then,' v Scarlet had been my JvifeV favorite color, at,d I remembered this when I prepared the room wherein to place the body. The walls were hung with it the floor was carpeted with it; aud heavy folds of the same ensanguined hue draped the high windows and ex cluded every ray of light. The vast ceiling was frescoed to represent a cur tain parted in the center for the de scent of an.angel,'and .he face of the angel was the face of my bride. All around the walls. -near to the ceiling, burned continually tall, slender spears of flame. In the center of the room the ouly object in it was the catafalque. Upon it, cQvcred with a pall of white velvet, rested the form which I had preserved from decay. White and cold, like marble, but yet flexibleit was and would remain the only incorruptible animal matter upon the globe. - . In this mausoleum I spent the ma jority of my time. No other human being knew the secret guarded by those locked doors. I held no converse with my fellow men I lost count of the days and months yes, even of the years. My world was the scarlet-hung garishly lighted room ; my companion a human form, long lifeless, and immu tably staid on the verge of dissolution. I But as my crime was unparalleled, so was my punishment -to be unprece dented. ; There came at last a message from the outer world. A kinsman lay dy ing, and I oborcd the summons. The night that succeeded that day's jour ney was the first wherein I had not rested beside my wife's bier, and slight ly slumbered there ever dreamily con scious of her presence. Thrice that night I became oblivious and each time it was broken by a loner, wailinjr musical note. It was like the sound of an iKolian harp, save that it did not vary. It seemed to come from a window which was close to the bed head. I arose, and without lighting my lamp, drew aside the curtains. The window was high from the ground, and CJS : ; : being unbalconicd, was accessible only from the interior. The moonlight, aleful and dazzling, flooded the whole silent landscape. I passed my hands over the ? ash to see if I could discover any hidden mechanism; but neither by sight nor touch could I find the origin of the lugubrious sound. I find it impossible to explain this phenomena, even to myself, and it is difficult to describe it. It was like an audible sigh, or breath made in a mu sical note. It realized perfectly my idea of a iuemnon. smitten ny me - r ... 1 . 1 morning sun It came each time when I was slipping into clumber, and ceaed after the third tim when, hav ing been broadly awakened, I afterward slept by snatches. iU At last the morn broke, cool and fair. The sun, large and vellow, came slowly rounding into sight above the horizon's blue rim. I stood in the pardon look ing at it. I was thinking how bright ly and how vainly it. shone upon those heavily draped windows behind which lay my dead. I wished to be there. Outside of that room the world seemed big. and coarse, and hard. That form, lifeless, empty as it was, was dearer than any living mortal. Ah me! I sighed the same odd, weary eigh. The fresh, sweet morn grew dark and old, and life hung upon me like-an ill fitting garment. With a passionate, hopeless moan, I turned my back to the blushing, brightening East. But, in so turning, I confronted a wo man who was perfectly in consonance with the new born day, and so out of all unison vith my funeral meditations. She was fair, as are all women when fresh from Heaven's mint, and unpol lutedvby worldly circulation. Her eyes were dark, and clear, and azure, like the summer sky at early eventide. Her lips were folded in a kiss no passion yet had caused to blossom. When she smiled, little dimples came out and sun ned themselves. She was the personi fication of youth and vitality. As our eyes met, seemed to me that the corpse I had so long pressed to my breast dropped from my embrace. A great instantaneous revulsiou of feel insr took place. Who "was I. that I should seek to perpetnate and employ death? Why had I believed that all life lived but to die, when, in truth, it died only to be reborn ? "'Tis life, not death, for which we pant Mo e life, an! fuller, that we want." Why had I sought to keep a "mass of matter from being recreated, ana stay-j ed and fixed it on the verge of dissolu tion 1 What mad purpose had I achiev ep in thwarting kindly nature, who would have made a thousand lovely living forms of what I had decreed should remain a horrible incarnation of death 1 Thus did all morbid fancies and ghoul-like ideas vanish before this young girl's glance, like devils before the flash of angel's wings. Frcun Jthat moment T loathed my; work, I could not undo what I had done I could not destroy what I ha 1 madeiudistructible. There was only left me the source of oblivion. I persistently thrust away from me all remembrance of that gar ish mausoleum, its scarlet hangings, its steady, uuflickcring lights, its awful si lence. In this new life I. was like . one raised from the dead. -I could not believe that skies, wereever so blue or star studded as before; fields so green or moons go silvery. A presentimeut of evil haunted me, but it came from the past, and I resolutely turned my back upon it, was defiantly happy. The young girl who thus brought me out of, death into life,., was, the daughter of my host. She, her dying father and myself, were the last sole descendants of an old, pure-blooded race. .The thought, of, connecting our young lives must, therefore, have oc curred to all three of us. Her father feared her friendless future, I loved her, and she looked forward only to her loneliness unless ; she yielded to her heart and became my wife. She knew I had been married before, and that I was a widower and she knew no move. She learned this from her father. Nut by any'&elf control could I bring my self to speak to her directly about my lost wife." i . Our bridal wifs solemnized in the presence of the dying; the old man, her father, had so desired it, and he drew his last breath as the final words of the service 'were being pronounced. I could hut notice how death had set his seal upon my second marriage, but I mentally scoffed at the omens. " As I said before, I was defiantly happy. I have spoken of my punishment as being unprecedented. It was with al so horrible, that now, when -1 atn about to begin its recital, I hesitate and feel that I can hardly hope for cre dence. . The third morning ,aftex.pr Car riage, my wife woke me up by a cry of mingled' terror and surprise. Upon her pillow were one or two drops of dried blood, and on her round arm and white neck was the purple spot from which they oozed. She 'professed ut ter ignorance in regard to the affair, declared that she had never slept more soundly, and that the wound must have been made during her slumber. Finally, after much wondering and arguing, we settled down in the belief that it was the work of some insect I noticed however, that, though she de nied feeling. any pain in the wound, she Iookad wau and appeared weak. She hid the puncture with a ruff of fine, soft lace. In a few days it had faded to a little pink spot, and finally disappeared. From that night my wife grew daily more languid and pale. At long inter vals the mysterious wound was "'repeat-' ed, though it did not appear upon the throat a second time. First the right wri.st was punctured and discolored, and then the left. Hitherto I had re frained from calling in a physician, in consequence of my wire's entreaties not to. After this third attack I con sulted one. He came a solemn, be spectacled old gentleman. lie spent the first quarter of an hour in examin ing the wound, and explaining why it was impossible for it to he an eruption: the next quarter in shaking: alternately his lotion and his head, The third wound, like itVpredecess ors, grew gradually fainter and smaller until it was invisible.' Its enervating effects continued, however. 3Iy ! wife had now be come so much of an inva lid that she rarely rose from her couch. Her skin was like wax, save for the blue, thready 'veins'' which- ramified it. I realized that, slowly, but surely, she was wasting away. Another of thosa mysterious wounds would literally suck her life yet, how to avert it ? Since, her last attack if such it was, I had consulted every medical man ac cessible to me, but they were all evi dently nonplussed'. I did not under- 4 rate their skill because of their igno rance in the case. I realized that this was something far beyond the common ailments of mortality. Suspicions, un defined and yet JiorrjbTe, were ! begin nk'g to revolve themselves in my mind. Witchcraft, tpiritualism, deraonism, all these in turn my distracted mind can vassed and rejected, only to return and canvass afresh. - It was at ' this time, after the third wound, and while I was in this mental confusion, th.atI-w.as pacing" the street with eyes downcast and mind distracted I saw the" following advertisement post ed upon the sidewalk : '"'"' , 1 'What ia.it you wish to know ?" Go to Dr., Stellare ; he knows what has been, .which is, -and wliich will be Nothing is hidden from him. No. 95 ! r street. ;I' went straight from the reading of this' placard to see the sage. J. was .admitted into a sort of ante room,. where the doctor soon joined me. He inspired me with chilling awe. He was- tall and emaciated. His black, deep-set eyes flowed like coral with a sort of lurid light, horrible to sec. His heavy black, hair hung like some solid mass "below his shoulders; his dressing gown eve" if JP&a-calculated to strike ter ror! to i the heart of the seeker of for bidden knowledge. It was some kind of black -stuff, with what appeared to be yellow lines and spots mottling it. A longer and closer inspection of these yellow deyjees proved them to be danc-1 ingj grotcsqnely-postured, orange-hued devils. Aftcrr making that discovery the yellow hue would never resume its original innocent aspect, but remained fiendish to the end. ' Fixing his gaze upon me, he began, in ji, low, sepulchral voice, and in a tragic style, to announce the object of my visit he stated it correctly. He then turned, and lightly struck a cur tain behind him with a hazeled wand. ; '-Behold !" he said. The curtain parted and showed a vista of darkness. At the further end, in letters of blue flame, were the words: "Trio living are dying that the dead may live." At the sight of these characters thii oracular inscription my -heart gave one convulsive bound, and then seemed to become cold and still. I asked no further questions ; I paid my fee,j and rushed from the' house. My suspicions were scarcely yet defined. The thing which the blue letters hint ed was too horrible for credence. Yet there was no rest for me until I had confronted the truth. To rid myself of jib is dreadful, haunting terror, it was necessary I should go back to the scar'et chamber and look again my! dead; upon I I went, without delay, I did not even return to tell my wife of my pro posed, journey. I traveled night and day, and reached my former home in the spring twilight. The old house, gray and ghostly, stood out agakist the dun sky; the decrcpid old man, who wa its only living occupant, peered at mejwith hi3 dim eyes, not knowing me at first sight. I rid mj-sclf of him in a few words, and slowly mouhtcd the stairs, and stood before-the door which hid my awful ecorct. I had always carried the key about me; I had it now in ' my hand, pausing, hesitating, trembling. Day and night the gas-jet burned in that long unopened room. Something, then, 1 should sec but wh'at? The key turned smoothly in the lock, the door moved easily upon its hinges, and I stpod on the threshold looking 'nt0 secret chamber. Under tiro white velvet pall still lay the clay form of one so madly worshipped. But even from Where I stood, the rigid face, one so wax-likp, had a delicate but frejsh tint. ' It is the shadow of the draperies, I thought. But the scarlet draperies were, not near the body. Did the muslin upon the breast move? Yc3, it stirred. "No, no, I whispered; 4ll is but "the flickering or the eras But the lights burned straight and steadily. lowly, creeping Mi like a cat, step by I step, never taking my eyes from the body, !1 approached. The face was faiiitly flushed with the huo of life the. bosom had an almost imperceptible rise and fall, but the eyes were closed. If I they should pen I ith a deeper at-effort, wherein I seemed to concen trate all the energies which should haVe lasted a lifetime, I put out my haid and touched the wrist of the dead. . 'Good God ! The pulse was soft and even. li' :i:' " My heart stood still, my blood con- cepled, and a wave of darknass seemed) suddenly to engulf me. I knew no more. r . , Extra-ct from the Chicago Morning Chronicle, -' ! r- April 1, 18 The above was handed to us for pub lication, having been found among the effects of , the late Dr. Crugar, who died on last -lnursday at the Insane Asylum in Jacksonville. Two months ago the doctor was discovered in an in sensible condition in oue of the upper chambers of his house. He had re turned home only the .evening before, having been absent for more than a yar; The "room in which he was found was usually kept locked, the key remaining io the doctor's possession. Tie servant, seeing the key in the lock (Concluded on fourth page.') PROFESSIONAL . CARDS, d C. AiVy & bunseIIor-at-Iiaw MciMiiiuvUle, Yamhill Co., Oregon. Particular attention given to the study and practice of Criminal Law, Collection of Claims, Notes, Accounts, etc. ..,-; .. J, IS. SITES, ill. D,h;'l Physician .asid , Surgeon, Dallas, Ogu. Having resumed practice,, will give special attention to Obstetrics, and the treatment of tho!p-s of Women and Children. jSsr-Offiee at his residence. ! : L. VINKTARI). I L- BUTLER. V1HEI ARD Sc BlTLI'll, Wy & Counsel I or-at-t'aw Dallas, Oregon, Will give speeial aitention to the collection of Claims, and all business entrusted to his care. REFERENCES Hon. JiAn Burnett; Hons. R. S. Strahan & Simpson, Hon. A. J. Thayer. 35 15. fr JBOXl, iTI, IK, Physician and Surgeon, Dallas, Oregon OFFICE At Nichols' Drug Store. 36 V. D. JISIWUIES, M. D., Physician ' anil Surgeoiij Oregon. Special attention :iven to Ohstetrics and Diseases of Women. ltf J. U. DAVIDSON, M. D., Physiciafii ami Sin Independence, Ogti. 1 T. V. 15. Einbrce. PHYSICIAN tVsiiRfi Eoiir AMITY, YAM 11 ILL CO., OREGON Z3- Office at residence. 14yl Attorney and Counseilor-at-Law, SALESI, OltliGOX, Will practice in all the Courts of Record and Inferior Courts of this State. ; OFFICE In .stairs. Watltinds & Co's Brick, up Hayden fc Jlycr, ATT03li2iYS -AT-LAW. Dallas, Oregon. OFFICE IN THE COURT HOUSE. 1 SULLIVAU & WHITSOW, Attorneys & Counsellors -at-Law, Dallas, Oregon, Will practice in all the Courts of the State. 1 J. Es. COLLIVS9 Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law. Dallas, Oregon. ' Special attention given to Collections and to matters pertaining to Real Estate. -; 1 J. A. AppScgatc, v ATTOaAEY-AT- LAW, Dallas, Polk County, C$rn. 1 Sj. J. WA It DJjX V9- ill. Physician and Surgeon, I.ewlsville, Polk Co., Ogn.. , -i Has recently returned from the Atlantic States AndoffcJs bis professional services to the citi zens of the County. Particular attention given to Female Dis eases. 2-tf . B. K SIGHT. I " W- P LORB All'y&CoiiiiclIor-at-Iair,1 Corner Commercial and state Streets, Opposite Iadrt t Hush's Hank, SALEM. OREGON, . Will practice in the Supreme Court and the Circuit Courts fof the Second and Third Ju dicial Districts j 2vtf GEO. B. Ct RREY. . J H. HUBLKY. CURUEY & IIURLEY, Attorncys-At-Law, 5 LAFAYETTE - - - - OREGON. ; 3-tf -.-.., USARIOIV KAMSE'V,-;'; Att'y&CoiiiiscIIor-airLaw, ' Lafayette, Oregon.. 3 if E. F. Rl'SSEtt, lieul Estate Attorney. ' P. PKKRy, 'Notary Public. RUSSELL & FERRY, Real Estate Brokers and Collection Agents, : Northwest Cor. of First and "Wash.In.gfon aireets, - PORTLAND - .- - - - OREGON. Special attention given to the sale of Ren Kstate. Collections made in Oregon and the Territories. Property, town lots, improved farms, stock ranches, lands, &c., situated in the best portions of Oregon and W. T., for sale on reasonable terms. 3-tf . A. P. FOltBES, ;. At t'y & Co unsell or-a t-t a w, s j lia'favette, Oregon. ' - , - .-, -. .. -, 3-tf . .: F. S. MATTJESOiV,, Physician, Surgeon & Accoucheiv Bueiia VrIsta, Polk Co.; Ogn.j V u ?: : Will attend promptly to professional call?. - UA J :f5fiyiS 'LODGE No. O K 'gvr & A. M.,' Dallas, holds its regular com-, SrXinunications on the Saturday preceding the Full Moon in each month, unless the moon . fulls on Saturday then on that day, at one. o'clock. ."' i ASV' on, tne Beconu i nunj in -iwu moui; at 7 o'clock. P. M., for the purpose of improve ment of the Craft in Masonry, and for'iiieh i': other work .as. the Ma9ter may from time to .. time order. ' All Brethren in good standing are. incited o : ; i attend. By order of the ,W. M-. ; MORE ' THAN 200,000 ?ERSOS Bear testimony to the "Wonderful Curative .1 3 Effect's of' " &a 131. josepn waiuei's ft T" O ' ? ?z (A i-i I J ' U It JN 1 A VINEGAR BITTERS Manufactured from the native Herns and Roots " 'T of California, f The Great RIood Purifier f; FOR INFLAMMATORY AND C11RON-:.. IC RHEUMATISM AND GOUT, DYSl'EP- ' MA. or INDIGESTION, BILIOUS, REMIT- TENT and INTERMITTENT FEVERS, DISEASES.OF TUB BLOOD, LIVER,! KIDNEYS. a!J& BLADDER, these BlTTJuSf. Lar heen raost succcrsful. SJCTl DISllAf? ES are caused by VITIATED BLOOD,, whiihi is generally produced by derangement oi the DIGESTIVE ORGANS. - ' ! Lu Cleanse the Vitiated , Blood whenever f.yoa find its impurities bursting thTog?i t'hce'ki'n ift Pimples," Ernptions, or ooreS; cleanse it when i you find it otrstnrcted and sluggish in , the f veins ; cleanse it when it Is fo"ul, and yonr feel-' ings will tell you when.1 Keep the Woi'd hel thy, and all will be wclL " ; ' ' ' : AGENTS, " JR. U, I!lcDOiAf.D & Co., Importing Wlioletnle ' DRUGGISTS, Corner Pino and Sansome Street?,' San Fran- , Cisco, Cal., and Sacramento, Cal., and 34 Piatt 8'Tet, N. Y. : "J V ' E. D. SLOATj : Carriage and Ornaini ntl .S I in X P AIIX T E TR9 Coramercia ftrsel, 2 Opposite Stirey s Bloclc. 21-tf : BALEiT "ET1" 3AL.OOIV, MAIN STREET, INDEPENDENCE. jTUNE WIXES, LIQUORS A KD SEGARS D served to customers tti shtiVt notice. This establishment does not dispense tangle foot or anything of that character. ' Cll at the Gtm. ' J 1 . : . 20-tf . : ' ... 4. SASH ANOL DOOR FACTORY, y Corner Mill and Main streets, Dallas; R iggs & " Ca in plic 1 1 H AVE CONSTANTLY ON HAND n y - Snshes. of all the common sizes. ard vfi; a large variety of-'Dowrs nrd the best workmanship, at tlieif Sash and Doof Factory, which they offer for pwe as cheap asi such articles can be purchased elsewhere. ; They are also prepared to fill all special or dors for work in their lino promptly, cheaply and accurately. . " . .. ? Give us a trial, and yoa will be satisfied. , 2 RlafiS A CAMPBELL: 1VOT1CE. T WILL SELL OR TRADE rOR nORSPS,' cattle or sheep, mv CAMERA ai:d PHO TOGRAPHIC S I OCK J al) my dwelling house and .Gallery in Dallas. For particulars inquire of B. F. Nichols or " - ;!" ? !' 'v 10-tf . CIIAS. LAFOLLETT. m Final Scttlemciif. WM. CnURCHILL, ADMINISTRATCft" of the estate of J. M. Rose, deceased, ) having filed his final account and asked for final settlement of the same. It is ordered byi the Qohrt that Tuesday, July th, 1870, be set, for the final hearinp of said accounts ; and all persons interested therein ore required to ap pear in the County Court f-Polk -county, Ore gon, on that day, and file their objections to the same, if any "there be. :j ; 15-4w J. L. COLLINS, Co. Judga. 22 - -L - '"--m t ' S ca - ' S : - n ' v ' : , -4- w . . s - - J J; o - tS o , 31 6VV aa t J si's-. w m ri -. - - i .--JCS ....-.. -.vf.-v::.,-;.,..: . . j