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About Oregon Republican. (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1871)
' i i NO. 47. VOL. 1. DALLAS, OREGON, SATURDAY. JANUARY 28, 1871. r t I I i 3 I I 1 W 1 S&t r 1 3 0 u . jt j u b U tan Is Issued Every 8atarday Morning, at Dallas, Polk County, Oregon. BY SULLIVAN & TYSON. OFFICE Mill street, opposite the Court House. hi SUBSCSIPTIOa- KATES. SINGLE COPIES One Year, $2 50; Six Mentha, $1 75; Three Months, $100. For Clubs of ten or more $2 per annum'. Smbieription mutt b paid ttrietlg in advance ADVERTISING RATES. One square (10 lines or less), firstlnsert'n, $3 00 Each subsequent insertion- 1 00 A liberal deduction will be made to quar terly and yearly advertisers. 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 famished at low rates on short notice. A Splendid Chance. We will send the Dallas Republican and Demjrest's Monthly, which is itself $3 for one year, to any person who pays us $4 Demorest's Monthly stands unrivalled as a Family Magazine. Its choice Literature, its superior Music, its large amount of valuable information on miscellaneous subjects, its practical and reliable information in regard to the fashions, and artistio illustrations, give it a just claim to its well-earned title, "The Model Magasine of America." j illusions. From the Technologist. Reality is too real. Only prosy, mat ter-of-fact minds seek for real things It is for the most part the unreal that makes life enjoyable. Deprive man of all the illusions and delusions of life, and he would be but little more than a clod of organized earth- It requires the threefold kingdoms of. illusions, delusion and reality to enable the hu man mind to ifortn noble conceptions There must be imagination to picture. delusion to sharpen judgment, and re ality to furnish elements for combina (ions Active '-mind soon tire i)f the real things of life, and learn to live .much in the pure regions of the ideal As a tree or plant only wants just enough of earth to keep it up and brace it upright, so the mental organism wants only enough of the material to make a sec ore anchorage; to be able to touch bottom is all that is nece&sary. The human mind delights in illu sion, bnt abhors delusion. Illusion is merely an unreal image, pre sented to the bodily or mental vision, and known at the time to be un real ; as, for example, a painting con taining a sleeping beauty, a winding stream, a clump of trees, a setting sun -and an evening sky. Not one of these, nor yet the whole, will ever be mistaken for what they are not, and yet they may produce all the real emotions of a real sleeping beauty seen upon the bank of a clear winding stream, beneath the shade of a clump of trees, at evening when the sun is setting But let a Wall Street sharper build a bouse of paper in exact imitation of brick and brown stone, and sell the same to some confident Miss Nancy, cinder the impression that she is get ting a substantial palace, and when she discovers the cheat, there is a manifest delusion. The pleading object that allures and delights is a source of nn bounded gratification : while the showy imitation that deceives, is a source of unbounded disgust and abhorence. Now, notwithstanding all the cry that is made against illusions and delu gions, notwithstanding all the eager search and longing for the true and the real, still very much of life is made up of illusion, and by far the greater part of all the enjoyment and all the good 11 the permanent good thai is, comes by and through some form ot illusion Xife begins almost with illusion. The mother who wants her child to be a good child, secures good actions by some promised reward. It may be sugar plums, if the child has learned to like these. Here is a twotold illusion The child's illusion is the sugar 'plum to its little mind a swietand all absorb ing object that keeps expectation on l. it m...: u : ipioe , me niuuiurs iiiudiuu is mo u terval of quiet and good behaviour which she seeks to prolong as much as ;t-i - . ' i 5 a. yoHsioie, bo as to maKe a gooa invest tnent of her rewards. The real; aim o the mother, if she is wise, is to develop and strengthen a habit of decent obedi ence in her offspring : if she is short sighted and unwise, she only makes a business transaction, j with no eye to a permanent resut or future benefit. Take tactics directly the reverse ot the foregoing. A child is unruly ; its tutor desires to make a clean breast of the matter and secure a reformation. lie prepares an already limber birch by roasting it in the fire, that it may fit the more snugly to unruly pedestals. After a proper mental preparation, the lower limbs of the stripling are tickled into hralthy glow, perhaps to rather an exhilarating smart Feelings of fear and suspense leave's; vivid recollection upon me mma. ine actual sunering imprints the whole affair deeply in the mental organization, and altogether they forma sort of negative illusion, t 1 il ' .1 Ml "II 1 wnicn tne cnua win avoia provoxing anew : just as a puppy win snun a not poker. The illusion is a fixity that will last, and with it, in the mind's eye, the child will go on acting in the same way most likely to develop a good character. Caution will sprout up and grow as surely as a cucumber will grow under the influence of a warm April shower. Taller children have their illusions. The youth preparing for college, or even studying well on in the course, has but little idea of the scope and aim of education. College rank, some gutter ing prize at the year's end, some worthy honor conferred at the termination of the course, is held out as inducement to superhuman efforts. The bait is readily taken j the prize is often won, but that is not what is gained after all. The illusion only served to spur the hundred-and-one competitors on, while all have obtained more or less discipline of the mental powers, more or less power of independent and consecutive thought, more or less fixity of purpose and perseverance. While pursuing the cove'ed illusion, the man himself has been unconsciously growing -all the good points of a mental giant have been developing, and the prize, when obtain ed, is like , the boy's butterfly when caught, only a little dust in the hand. ' The period at which men start in life, is a' period of most vivid illusions. The young merchant and the young profes sional are both alike full of hope, and impatient for the consummation of plans that only time can' convince are not to be realized. Wealth, Dehor, fame, are beautiful castles that seem almost within the graspbeautiful, bright illusions that are quite as beau tiful for being illusions as if they were real, for high' attainments depend not so much upon what is really possessed, as npon what is hoped for. No one finds what he expects, yet everyone makes some approach towards his ideal. Life is fresh, full of exuberance, bright in hope, and if one object evades, there is always another at hand. The young man about to wed the illusion of his heart, soul and mind, sees the future all brilliant with visions of domestic bliss j there is the ideal some body which be is too blind to see in her real character; the one that makes life worth living under any circumstances, and equally intolerable under any cir cumstances if not possessed ; the untold and unmeasured joys of a supposed virtuous union: a supply of lively, cheerful spirits that are never to fail during all .the lonelv evenings bv the domestic fireside ; spirits ever bright and congenial, tested beyond the possi bility ot failure by a few hours inter course once a week, for three months or more. Enticing dreams of affection, already partially realized, that are to increase and grow more and more real, as month after month, and year after year, glides sweetly by. Who can hest tate to embark in such a delectable mode of existence as this? Alasl many a gloomy day is ushered in by a glorious flood of sunlight. Go, when the dream is passed, when the life is nearly ended and illusion no longer needed, and ask the worn out, sobered pilgrim, now well covered with the dust of the battle of life, what has been the result of all his earliest fancies F Will he admit one of them to have been a (elusion, or even one to have been entirely fulfilled? He will tell you his happy days have been few and far between, his domestic bliss, always a land flowing with milk and honey, which he was just about to possess, but upon which he never quite entered, senses, expectations, antici pations and affections, all all one huge illusion, that the more you seek, the surer you become that you will win in the next tnal : bnt the beauty of it is that like to-morrow, it is always just a little way aneaa. What, now, is the aim and scope o illusion in life? Is it mere amusement and nothing more? Nay, it is the main-spring of all life's activities, the grand driving-wheel of all human ener gies.' If, at the outset of a game b chess, or of croquet, the partners knew the result as accurately as at the end they would never play the game. .MWJS' the iourney of life were all mapped out in one level plain, so that all its events were as visible at the outset as at the close, few, if any, would find courage sufficient to begin the task, and none perhaps would deem the result worth the trouble required td attain it. As it is, every game must be played in order to get the true result; life must be gone through with, in order to know how it will end. It does the smitten suitor no good to ba told that the object of his passion it a coauette; nay, , be is doubt less displeased at the suggestion. ' ' He can only know the fact by being jilted. The idea that he may win, eventually, is an illusion that allures him to the result, as certainly as the scent of a woodcock leads a pointer to point his game. It ! matters not how many failures there are in life, no one will ever be lieve life to be unreal, no one ever will, no one ever can, believe life to be a delusion, for that were to pronounce it a liej which it is not. The real truth of the whole matter is this : human beings are only pupils all their days. Life j is a school, and illusion is the prize offered to all who strive in the school of experience. Man in business and in professional life, must have illusion, must have some reward held up, that he seeks to win, or he will at once pronounce life aimless.' Yet, it is true, that the ostensible aim of life, the illusion that keeps the man awake and earnest, is seldom, if ever, the highest aim. I The merchant seeks wealth, gets it, but that is not the reward ot his twenty years of toil and care. To seek riches is not the highest aim if he be a true man. By getting the richfs, he has developed a character. The wealth is a reward, but one which he may at any time lose ; the reward which he ... , i . i t m nas attained, oy ana mrougu me illu sion of wealth, is habits of perseverance, of honesty, of consecutive thought and concentrated action, lie has formed and developed a certain stamp of man hood, that will go with him beyond the pearly gates, when he lays off material things, and sets out to ; live as a pare spirit. It is tnese tnings mat consti tute real treasure, lasting reward, in vestment that will pay the owner divi dends regularly in quantities of eatisfao- lon throughout eternity. It is vain, therefore, that the patriot, the statesman or the philanthropist should complain that his fellow men nave not rewarded him sufficiently wtth wealth, with titles, or with honor, buch things, mere illusions to act well one's part, arc not rewards for right action. There would be no such thing as a no ble actiou, if these were the rewards. To be an upright man, to have the power of doing noble deeds, and to do them, is far more than all objective rewards. Common honesty, that just fulfills an agreement, says honesty is the best policy. Hut honesty is not, it cannot bo policy at all. The moment honesty becomes policy, it ceases to be honesty, and degenerates from an aim to an illu sion. Put it thus : honesty i- the best policy, is just equal to, dishonesty is the best policy, so far as merit is con cerned ; and for this reason, that hon esty is put on a par with money. It is the same as to say honesty is worth to me to aay, one thousand dollars; and tnai is tne same as to say, aisnoncsty is worth to me to-day one thousand dol lars. It is a mere business transaction, a mere equation in either case.. The real point is to aim at the highest star ot tne firmament, and 'that is to be honest for the sa ko of honesty. Let the illusion be something between, let it be material reward, but principles of action must never be prostituted so as to be only illusions. Illusion savs. act in order to have, but aim says, act in order to be. Illusion makes a man act, but illusion and action make character, make a man. Damp CnuuciiES It is surprising, at this season of the year, when most peoplo are affected by atmospheric changes, the apathv or indifference which exists in country places of having the damp, sepulchral air of churches, locked up during the six days of the week, improved by heating before the congregation assembles. We have known persons predisposed to thoracic affections, suffer severely by sitting in cold churches throughout the morning service. All we can say is, that when the temperature and condition of the atmosphere of churches are neglected it is an essential of great moment over looked, and that persons coming to worship are thereby made to suffer, not through any mcaution on their part. but owing to utter carelessness on the part of those who should know better. Our remark will meet, it is hoped, with me an u nun wuiuu. uiu luiuuriauuu v the subject demands. Man and Wife. The natural destiny of a woman is, we presume, to get married. We know at all events, that it is one she is very anxious to fulfill. Scarcely does a young girl enter upon her V teens" before she begins to aspire to a settlement in life. Personal adornment is sharply! looked to, personal attractions are set off to the best possible advantage, and a hundred little-tricks and artifices of the toilet are resorted to in order to attract the notice and win the affections of some congenial specimen of the male sex. It would require no small amount of time and space to describe in the breif est manner all the trouble that young ladies take in order to achieve a desi rable conquest. Suffice it to say that much study is devoted to the consider ation of what to wear and how to wear it, when to be merry and when tobepen uive, when to smile and when to frowu, how to walk and how to sit. Io short, the entire life of a marriageble maid is a continuous effort to wear a mask, to lay aside the natural and put on the artificial. Nor, to tell the honest truth, are the young gentlemen anything the better. Most of them may not have as much leisure time on their hands, yet of their spare hours no inconsiderable portion is sqnandered on those arts which they would fain have us believe are the -exclusive domain of the fair sex. Fashionable tailors arc patronized, po matums aud cosmetics aro called iuto requisition, and there are exqnitca even who torture themselves as much to pro cure a small wabt as any boarding school miss in the land. It is amusing in the highest degree for one who has passed the heyday of his youth, , to watch the assidnity with which these 4ljoung bloods" practice all the habits which they think look manly, and tend to captivate .the fair ones. The amount of elegance which some of them contrive to throw into the twirl of a cane or the puff of a cigar, is realy somethiug wonderful to contemplate. And then when the two are brought together in the drawing-room or ball room, how touching appear the graee, the timidity and the artlessncss of the maiden, how noble the vigor, the con fidence aad the protecting chivalry of the gentleman! That is the poetical side of the business. How disagreea bly it does contrast with the prose real ity of life. Let U9 scrutinize the life of our suppositious couple only a few months after marriage. Where now is that spirit of self-abnegation which formerly prompted each one to seek the other's pleasure instead of his or her own? The lady becomes morbidly sensitive to all the failings of her liege ord, and she shows very little hesita- ion in upbraiding him. Having se cured her conquest, obtained that set- lement in life for which she was so anxious, she abandons all the pretty artifices by which she gained the heart of her husband. If she dresses well, it is to please the world outside. Her amiability, her smiles, her cheerfulness are reserved for out door use, or else for delectation of her guests. If this be not a pleasing picture, the portrait of the husband which truth compels us to draw is still less attractive. Marriage certainly works a change in him. The respectful almost religious, deference with which he was wont to treat the slightest wish of his affianced is replac ed by a brusquerit which, if it does not amount to positive rudeness, as is often the case, approaches very nearly to it. Instead ot finding a pleasure in the society of his wife, he seems smit ten with ennui every minute he is in her presence. All his amusements are to be had out of his own house. Thus indifference takes the place of love on both sides, and happy, indeed are they whose mutual repulsion goes no farther, and who can wear their lives away in passive tolerance of each other's failings. Such is, in too many instan ces, the history of married j couples. It recalls to our mind the aphorism of poor Lolo Montez, who, with all her faults, acsirea earnstiy to enect a re formation in our social fabric. "It is strange to me that men and women take so much pains to get married, and afterwards so little trouble to remain bo." Chronicle. Any dance of a lawyer may win a good cause, but to him who manages right, and adroitly wins a bad cause, much credit will be due. So it is with farming, for little credit is due to the farmer 'who,-upon the exhaustive prin ciple obtains good crops from rich soil, while his land is rapidly deteriorating ; but the farmer who gets a good return from a poor soil, and at the same time improves his land by alternating crops, manuring, and. uoderdraining, will be outitiea xa tne mgnest commcnaauoos. PROFESSIONAL CARDS, bt JOHN J. DALY, ATTORNEY AT LA Wf Jtfotary Public, &c.y BUEBTA VISTA. 41-tf J. H. M YE R, Att,y&Coun8eIIor-at-l4aw, ' Dallas, Polir County, Oregon. OFFICE la the Court lloaie. 34lfy J. C. GRUBBS, LI. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURG liOST, Offers his Serrices to the CitUens of Dallas and Vicinity. OFFICE it NICHOLS' Drag Store. 34-tf P. A. Fhbhch. I J. McMahos. NEW BLACKSMITH SHOP, Eola, Polk County. All Kin-Js of Bracksmlthlnjr done on Short Notice, and to the Satisfaction of Customers, and at Reasonable Rates. ' Special attention pail to Horse-Shoeing. Oct. 27, 1870. FRENCH t McMAIION. 34- iy It EM EM I1I2KI THAT TBS INDEPENDENCE HOTEL Has been RE-FITTED, and no pains is now spared to make all who tnay call Comfortable ami Happy. A good Stable is kept in connection with the Hdluse. Call and see us. Ocu27, 1870. JEREMIAH GALWICK.' J. It. SITES, 31. !., I'll VHician and Surgeon, Dallae, On. practice, will eire special attention to Obstetrics, and the treatment of the diseases of Women and Children Office at his residence, , . '-! vr. d; jeffries,;M. d Fliyaicinn and Surgeon, Eola, Oregon. 4 Special attention giren to Obttetrles aad Diseases of Women. " j; E. DAVIDSON, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, Independence, Ojjn. 1 T. V.-B. Embree. PI1VSICIVIV&SURGEOIV AMITY, YAMHILL CO., OREGON. STv Office at residence. 14yl j C O. CURL, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, j SALEM. OREGON . Will practice in all the Conrts of Record and Inferior Courts of this Mate. OFFICE In Watkinds A Co's Brick, op stairs. 1 P. C. SULLIVAIV, Attorney & Counsellor-At-Law, Dallas, Oregon, Will practice in all the Courts of the State. JT. X. COLLINS,-" Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law Dallas, Oregon. Special attention given to Collections and to matters pertaining to ncai estate. i GEO. B. CITRRKT. HBtRLKT CVEtREY & HUlil-EY, lAttomeys-At-Iiaw, LAFAYETTE - - - OREGON. 3tf . ,; ;" IV1AEIIOIV - IIAITIEV, : Att'y&Coimsellop-at-Liaw, ' ' 1 'Lafayette, Oregon. S-tf E. O. SI.OAT, Carriage and Ornamental r $ i iv p a i N t e n, ;; j. Commercial ftrset, Opposite Starkey's Block, , 21-tf SALEM. ... ....... " T "I A LL SORTS OP GOODS SOLD FOR Cash or Marketable Prodoce at ' , J. II. LEWIS'S f ELCH'S PREMIUM SALMON BEST ff in market in kits or barrels. ...j For sale at COX A EARIIART'S, Salem. Real Estate Brokers and Real Estate Auctioneers, i OFFICE. St. Charles Hotel Building, PORTLAND - - - - OREGON. ;: PROFESSION Air, -CARDS, dcC. COX & EARIIART, WHOLESALE 4 RETAIL GROCERS MOORE'S DLOCS, SAXSBI. Goods by the Package at Reduced Bate " i : - ( : mylO Stf - :"" Underwood, Barker & Co, Commercial atreet, Salem, Oregon MANUFACTURE ALL KINDS OF WAG ONS after the most aj)proTed styles and the best of workmanship, on short notice, and AT PORTLAND PBICESL : .: 21-tf .. . Saddlery, Harness. S. C. ' ST II.ES, ; Main t. (opposite the Court noose), Dallas, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN HarneM. Saddles, Bridles, Whins, Collars," Check Lines, etc., etc., of all kinds, which he is prepared to sell at the lowest living rates. , ;' JREPAIRING done on short notiee. GAITERS. DO YOU WANT SOME Fine Cloth Gaiters? if so. supply youn- selves at J. II LEWIS'S. Q UEENSWARE IN ABUNDANCE At J. II. LBWI'F. BANK EXCHANGE SALQQK, ; Main street, : I , t - Dallas, Ogn YITINES, LIQUORS, POHTER, ALE If Bitters, Cigars, Candies, Oysters. sod Sardines will be served to gentle men? on the outside .of tne counter, by a gentle- ' man who has an eye toU" on the inside.. bo eome along, boys; make no delay, ana we wiU soon hear what you have to say. ... t -32 W. F. CUNOAN HURGREfi & SHinOLERf Importers and Dealers In " FURNITURE-- AND '!,-...,1' rhe Largest Stock and the Oldest Fur nlture House In Iortlaud. , , WAREROOMS AND FACTORY r COBNES 8 ALMOST AND FIUST STREET , PORTLAND, Dltl3Gt)N. 19-tf .; . ,. EDUCATIONAL. LA CREOLE ACADEMY, Dallas, Polk County, Oregon. . MR. .M. M. OGLESBY..........pRiKcrPAt. MISS' C. A. WATT.;.....;.........A8sistat. This Institution was Re-opencd on Mon- 4 day, the 31st of October. The Teachers are determined to do everything in their power to ! make this School second to none,' of its grade, ' in the State. They earnestly solicit the hearty f Co-operation of the Community, nnd a Liberal Patronage from the PabHc ' : ' 1 EXPENSES. ':: " '" ,:r" ' ' Prikart, per Term ..........$4 05 Common English, per Term.................. 6 00 Higher English, per Term. A.....V....... 8 00 Latin or French Language, Two Dollars Extra. :' . ..:-: ) ' ' ''- , These figures will Ve greatly reduced by the y application of the Endowment Fund. . All', Students entering the School will share equally thebeneStof thiFnnd.; i? ir ; ' "; K5'a Students k will not be admitted for a less t period than a Half Term. Charges will bo v made from the time of Entering. ( , , ' No deduction made for Absence, except in r cam of protracted Sickness. ' s , . 5? i N.LEE, Chairman Ex. Com, WM. HOWE, Set. of Hoard. vi 1VOOI, WAITEI. THE ELLEND ALE MILL COMPANY.: will give the highest , market price for, wool, delivered at their factory in Polk Co, Their Store is also open, with a general as-, sortment of Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware Ac. ,--V:i '- - 2-tf . JEN XINGS UI)GE Jio: O, P. v t A. M., Dallas, holds its regular com inunioation's on the Saturday preceding the Full Moon in each month, unless the moon i fulls on Saturday then on that day, at om. o'clock. " ' '.. Also, on the second Friday In, each montu, at 7 o'clok P for the purpose of improve ment of the Craft in , Masonry L and for sue l other work as the Master may from. time, to time order. " ' ' ' All Brethren in good standing are Invited to ; attend By order of the W M Yhy will Men Die, AND LEAVE THEIR FAMILIES DKS-. titute, when $4 secures, $2,500, and $10 secures $5,000 . in the Uwitcd States Mutual Benefit Company, of New.York. r , ;,.-. Bond for a pamphlet, or call npon J. D Carey, Agent for Oregon, and obtain full infor mation. , . 44-Sm ' ! 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