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About Oregon Republican. (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1871)
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Legal tenders taken at their current value. Blanks and Job Work of every description furnished at low rates on short notice. JBitra 1 ml (i cements lor Cliibbin: i rr t DEKOREST'S ILLUSTRATED HOWTHLY Contains Orizinal Stories, New Music, House hold Matters. General and Artistic Literature, and the only Reliable Fashions, with Full Sie Patterns. Yearly, only 3 UO, with tue splen did Chromo, " Isx't Sbb Pbettt," sise, 13x13. worth $3 00, sent post free to each subscriber or the Larze and Elegant Chromo, after Je ohr Thomps !. Hiawatha's Wooinz, size 15 t 25: nriee. 15 00. for $1 00 extra, or both Chromos with the Magazine, for $5 00 post free. Published by W. JENNINGS DEMOREST, 838, lirtxidiray, Xew York, A splendid offer t our Subscribers : We will send the above Popular ard Valuable Maga zine, for one year with the $3 00 Chromo. to gether with our paper for only b ; or. for $1 00 extra. Hiawatha's Woooing.or for $3 50 we will end Deinorest's Monthly for one year, both Chromos. and th Oat cos RKPrar.tc.ix. Or for $3 5 we vil! send the Ukplblicam and Deinorest's Monthly for one year. This is a Splendid Chance ta secure the best JVfaftxaiae, Elegot Chromos, t and a good -County Paper tor nearly half the value. Send " tho amount to this office, and the Magazine and .. .Cfaroaie will b fwlptiy XGJaC4?4.. - THE ILLUSTRATED PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL, is in every respect a First Class Magazine. Its articles are of the highest interest to all. It teaches what we are and how to make the most of ourselves. The informa tion it contains on the Laws of Life and Health is well worth the price of the Magazine to every Family. It ia published at $3 00 a year. By a special arrangement we are enabled to offer the Phrbsolooical. Joirsal as a Premium tor 6 new t ubscribers to the Orroo! Repitblicas, or will furnish the Phh ecological Jotrsal and Oreoos Republican together for $4 00. We commend the Jocbsal to all who want a go d Magazine. - Osage Orange as Timber. V. P. Richmond, of Madison county. 111., writes thus to the Prairie Farmer: Some time last summer one of your correspondents inquired as to the last ing qualities of the osage orange for stakes and posts. I have had some trial and report as follows : I noticed nearly twenty years ago that the trimmings of hedge rows lasted a long time for mere twigs. In 1853 I filled a side ditch with oage limbs to keep the h-gs from filling the ditch up. These have lain there, 9ome times covered with grass and weeds, frequently wet and dry. I enclose a section that you may judge for your selves. Larger pieces are perfectly sound, showing the thorn? in perfection. I have a pet of beau poles in use four jears, standing in the ground two win ters, and ail sharp and good for & dozen jears, so far as I can see. Having occasion to cut" down some trees, I made them into fence posts, stakes, mallets, beetles, and wedges for splitting rails. For all above-named uses I find it goodfully equal to any in use. The posts have not been in use more than four years, but as some were ml green, it is time they should show 3ome decay if it is not a lasting timber. As they do not decay, it is reasonable 4o think it is good for posts. If there Ssany objection, it is on account of the hardness, when " seasoned ; splits very straight and 4 easilv when green, but works very hard when dry. There is Tery little shrinkage in seasoning. Id one case I made and used a mal let two years, cutting off green, and using a limb from the same tree for a handle. The mallet is good yet. The handle was only wedged twice, and was tight when taken out, having become 6plit where grasped by the hand, it had to be replaced, it was first used to beat most of the mortices of a barn addition 3 of 28 by CO. I am so well satisfiod'of the usefulness of osage, that I planted, in the spring of 1870, five hundred plants in a grove. I believe if I had et the first plants Lraised (about 500 , in number) for timber purposes, I should have now all the fence posts I would require on 110 acres of farm. My oldest hedge is about twenty years old. I had at that time little faith in hedges, and let them grow as wind breaks. They turn horses and cattle, and most of the plants are large enough for posts. .Where they have room they grow much faster, and when cut at auy tinio of the year, and as close to the ground as possible, from six to a dozen new plant spring up, which io four or five years, will do for fence stakes. Once start a grovo and you will always have a grove. , I know of no timber as useful, and so easily propagated. For firewood none is better, burning well when green, better when dry. There is no better investment for the prairie farmer than to set a part of the farm to osage orange grove. ' -I , Australian Forests. The report of the Inspector of State Forests in Victoria reveals a condition of things which could hardly have been expected in, so young a colony. It appears that the demand for timber at the gold fields for mining operations is very great, and that the forests in the neighborhood of Bulla rat and simi lar districts have been devastated in the most reckless and wan to u manner. Frequently saplings of forty or fifty feet have been cut down for the sake of a few yards of timber, and the dam age done by the prop cutters has been rivalled by the carelessness of the splitters, who.allow their camp-Sres Irce range in ravaging extensive tracts of forest land. Unless vigilant super vision is exercised, it is feared that the supply of timber for fuel and other purposes will soon become alarmingly short. Ihe liar man rorest, the largest in Victoria, acd comprising ur ward of 1 0,000 acres of red gum trees, has nf lered severely, not only from tho en croachments of unlicensed petson, but also by shipments of its valuable timber having been made to India and: other places. It is on this forest that the State chiefly relies for a supply of rail t - i . t way siecpors, ana mere cau tc no question that the re J gum ia tt Lest indigenous wood that the colony pro duces. The Inspector draws the atten tion of the Government to the wasteful destruction and premature decay of the State Forests, and recommends that timber reserves should bo at once con stituted and strictly protected, and that every encouragement should bo given to the plantation of fresh woods. Pali Mall Gazette EXCLUSION OP FARM STOCK FROM WOOD LANDS. Arthur Bryant, of Princeton, Ills., writes to the Itock ltiver Farmer thus : "The preservation of wood lands is a subject which has of late attracted in creasing attention. The rapid destruc tion of wood in all parts of the country, and the growing scarcity of the more valuable kinds of timber, render the growth and preservation of the forests a matter of primary importance. Yet many who are anxious to perpetuate their wood lands are perhaps not aware that they rrny be extinguished by pas turage ; not indeed as, speedily, but as certainly as by a summary process of felling. So well is this recognized in New England generally, that all land owners who look forward to the inter ests of posterity, exclude farm stock of every description from their forests. In Illinois, on the other hand, the pastur age of wood land is almost universally practised. The cost of fencing may have had its influence probably many have never bestowed a thought upon the subject ;, yet a little consideration must convince every sensible man of its inexpediency. The undergrowth of a forest is entirely extirpated in a few years by the admission of farm stock ; and the young trees-upon which the continuation of the forest depends are destroyed. Cattle will often bend or break down slender trees twenty feet high, for the sake of browsing the leaves from their tons. The lower 1 1 At ' - " I orancnes oi targe trees are stripped of . i : i . m. - - . their leaves and die. The growth of tne wooa is injuriously affected by the admission of cold'and parching winds by the tramping of cattle, which hard ens the soil and? injures the roots of the trees by the close fed turf which forms wherever ?the Ehade in not too dense, and by the lack of the accus tomed mulch of leaves, which in thick woods everywhere covers the ground. From this combination of causes some of the trees perish; others are destroyed by tho axe, and thinning : once com menced, goes on in an increasing ratio as they are deprived of the accustomed protection afforded by close companion ship. : An illustration is "afforded by the wood 1 andsf of Kentucky. The owners of valuable forests in that State early adopted the practice of cutting out the undergrowth ana worimess trees, and sowing the soil with blue grass for pasture. But for many yars the trees in these noble parka have been rapidly perishing j and their re production, if ever accomplished, must be effected by means of. artificial plan tations. It is said that some landhold ers in Illinois; have adopted the same plan, and the result will, doubtless, be the same. ' ' With proper protection, and manage-; ment, a forest, will continue to repro duce itself for an indefinite period of time. . Nature, if left to hlrsalf, will carry on berj operations successfully j but if they are not assisted, they must at least be uuchecked.i A Woman Defines Her Position. A correspondent of the San Fran cisco Ch ron ic le. who signs herself " Tormented Woman," defines her posU tion thus : I am pestered with offers. Now I never offered to marry a man. I never had the presumption to say to a gentle man, 4lf you will be my exclusive companion for life, I will support you ; I will be a mother to your children. As to congeniality, why I've only seen you in company dress, but you please me in that, and I'll take it for granted that in all their intricasies and complications our natures will come in perfect sym pathy and consanguinity with each other. But men will make propositions after a mx week s acquaintance, when in reality they know no more of the woman whom they ask to marrv. than they do of the man in the moon. There are men who will propose marriage to us, whose business would keep them two-thirds of their time in the wilds of the continent. They seem to imagine that an houor of their name and alli ance would be a sufficient compensation tM .11 lor a Hie spent two tiuras in grass widowhood, or of one entirely subject to the provisions of the backwoods. There are others, confirmed invalids, who, because we are pleasing to them, elect us to the station of nurses for lift. Others arc as ioar ...as iwivcrtx. not for a moment do they hesitate to offer us shares in their like novelty. You men arc deluded on this subject of matrimony. lou meet a woman attractive to you, and forthwith you conclude that the be all and end alt of her existence here, is a place in your own private cage, where she is to sing for your own exclusive benefit. We propose soon to take & baud in this world's little game j we are trying to learn from you how you have managed so long and successfully to stock the cards; we propose to-trump oar ahare of the tricks, and see that the (honors are morn equally divided ; me may not all vote or shriek, or officiate: as plat form statuary for a Stanton or Anthony; but things are working; a new deal all around it being quietly shuffled out, and in a year or two more some of you gentlemen . who deem all the woman's fitness to be for making your beds, cooking your food, scrubbing your floors, and rocking your cradles, will be astonished by the positions held by us. A Well on Fire. A farmer liv ing four-and-a-half miles from Mat- toon, Illipoi, while boring a well in his dooryard, at the depth of twenty feet, liberated a flow of gas. A pipe was pro cured and inserted in the well, project ing above the ground several feet, and the cas was ignited. For weeks the flame produced from this pipe has been plainly visible from Mattoon at night. This gas is described as pure hydrogen, almost without smell, affording a bright hghr, and gtvng out an intense heat. It appears to bo much better adapted to heating and illuminating purposes than that which has been found in the neighborhood of Buffalo. The pipe placed in the well has a capacity of 15,000 feet per day, and the pressure of thegas is said by the Superintendent of the Mattoon Gas Works to be as crreat as in the mams in that city. The far . . . - " . . mer who owns tho well proposes to light and heat , his house with the gas which has been eo unexpectedly added to the products of his farm. Journal of Education.-rfh& excel lent publication comes to us regularly, filled with a fund of valuable mtoraa tion, particularly to tho30 interested in school matters. The last number con tains about twenty-five articles of gen Oral interest. Among them is cne on tho Prevention of Crime." which should be read by everybody. Teachers and school officers will find this a valua ble paper for them. Published at the small sum of 01 50 by J. 15. Merwin, Ol, AjOUIS, 1)10. Subscribe for the liEPUBLlCAJOf. Tne Man Whe Drluks. The man who drinks' is .never, in the end, the man who laughs," He'ls generally the man who weeps, or fdt whom others must shed ; bitter tears.. He is. alas 1 a member of jao particular class of society. You toct him every- where, irom the highest o the lowest places of this world arif always find htm not tmlyjjia worst enemy, but the unconscious encmyof all who trust in I TP 1.1 1.'. '.' " ' mm, it BiuvoiT a uauu oi naru worn in 2 mechanics yoa find one who, oo wages others deem quite 'sufUcient for decent clothes, tidy, rooms ana comfortable dinners, is always out at the elbows, always at loggerkeads with his land lord, and always complaining of bard times, ten to one bit that be is the man who drinks. If oil the JudgeV Bench you meet a man whs, dents unjust, who judges unrighteously! yho is facetious in tho presence of mastery, and makes Crime a jest, and tlieentenceot some poor wretch an exc&34 for stupid puns and vulgar witticisms, '.there also you may know the man who drinks in bis own snug nine room,, perhaps, not openly, but all the same, a drunkard. If you sco a woman worn, pale and wretched from; some unknown cause fear in her . eyes and anxiety in her voice, youth gone too early and her daily duties mere burdens, ten to one ntr uujuaiuu is vuo man nuu urinfcs, for whoever knew that man to keep his vow to iovcj; cherish ' an i protect his wifo? The hegjfar: children ia 9 the gutters, ignorsint, Cvile and wretched beyond description, are his offsprings. The jail 0ns to let him in. Ihe'gsilt Iowa sometimes end his life. The nisn who-drinks is not always an idiot, as one might believe. The greatest States men have ceased to be great: "the best writer? in the world dropped their pens when they were tho tnot uelul and brilliant: splendid fcllosfi, whom men admire and wvmcn love, have fallen In their hey-day because, of rum. ! In one word; half the world is a failure, its hopes all wrecked, its love and offering on a .ruicd.j'brice?.. i t s. J clinnie laifurp,"lu crime leg! n its, prisons and its eharncl house full, because of tho maa who drinks, A Ledger. 7 4 . .mxlU-; A Wonderful Balsam A raan- ufaeturcir, and a vendor of quack mcdi ciues for rheumatism and the growth of hair combined, 'frequently wrote to a friend for a recommendation of his fthe manufaciurerV) balsam In a few aays he received the "fallowing, f.which wc will call pretty strong : Pear sir : The land composing this farm has hith erto been so poor that a ' Chinaman could not get a living; off it, and so stony that we had to slice our potatoes and plant them edgeways ; but hearing of your balsam -1 put some on a ten acre field gurrouoded : by jt rail fence, and in the morning I found the stones had entirely disappeared anl a neat wall encircled flic field ; the rails were split into firewood, and piled up sym etrically in' my back yard. I put half an ounce in the middle of a huckleberry swamp, two days saw it cleared ofi pla n t ed wl th corn and pu m pk i ns, and a row of pcacli tj-ecs around it in full blossom through" the middle. As an evidence of its tremendous strength, I would say it drew a Jstriking likeness of my eldest son out ofl mill-pond, drew blister all ovsr his stomach, drew a load of potatoes four miles to market, drew grease out of a flint, and eventually drew a prized of $07 out of a defunct lottery." : :V On the . Wuonu Track. Two would-be Nitnrods of the goodly city of Sacramento anticipated the appearance of the son above the horizon a few days ago and rosi from their slumbers at the early hour of 3 a M. Accoutred io all th habiliments necessary for tho chase, and equipped with rifles, guns, powder, game bags and shot, our valiant hunt ers btarted off for a fifteen-mile drive to theif chosen hunting grounds. Cold and dark was the morning, and they urged their steed to do his best, marvel ling somewhat at thi. hard surfuce of the road. ; After riding about an hour, tho possibility of being on ; the wrong road eeems to have entered their minds, and as they approached a bouse.declared by one of tho twain to "look familiar," in- 5 uiry was madeastothsir whereabouts. magine their dipgust ca ascertaining that ttey had been journeying round and round tne x olo race-course evi dently on the wrong track. A fortune eecker at the Forest Hill Claim, California, abstractedly picked up a grimy lump interfering with his operations, and casually glancing at it, found it to be a solid nugget or gold, which. when tested weighed nino hun dred and twenty one ounces, of which seven aandrcd are pare gold. PROFESSIONAL CARDS O. OCULIST, AURIST, CATARRH, THROAT AND Lima A OfP rif-;U I C I 'A IV . ; Jl ' OFFICE : Corner of 3(1 and Mor rison streets, Portland, Oregon. DR."AB0RN8 PRACTICE EMBRACES tbe most modern st ientifio treatment - for tbe speedy and radical cure of cbrouio dideaMs. AiVy Sc CoanselleiatIa w. Will practleJp the Courts of Record and In feiior Courts. uUeetioDS attended to promptly. - Offioe in pr.J. E. Psvidson's Buildini; MAIN 8rChpET INlEFESIl)I2Nt3E. 41-tf J. C. GilUDDO, LI. Dm PHYSICIAN AND 8UKGEON, Offers bis Serriees to the Citizens of Dallas ' y J'r.ini: Vicinity Or f ICE-at NICHOLS' Dra Store. v.. 34-tf W.pSl'I'ttlES, SI. I., . Pliysiici.tii and liircon. Iiola, Oregon. Special attention giren DUeaes of Women. to Obstetrics and ltf Attorney & Counsellor-At-Law, Dallas. Oregon, Will pracU in all tbe Courts of tbe Stale, 1 Attorney and GounseHoratLaw, Dallas, Oregon. Special attention jritren to Colloetions and to matters pertaining to Real fcaute. 5 1 RU3SIL, FERRy,&;'-00DWAR0. Kcal Eatntc Acii(h r and Ecal Estate Auctioneers, 1. tti ' sffttninTTr ,Mfrtr?i.rr AWySc Counsellor atXair, ; . OFFICE IN COURT HOCSE, f PALLAS, FOLK COUNTY, 0EEO0N. " - 29-tf - ;S1S11, DOOR MD DL1IID FACTORY, MAIN STREET, DALLAS. 1 liars constantly on hand and for Sale WaiYDOW Glazed n; anil Uiiglazcd. V boORS OF ALL SIZKS. WINDOW AND DOOR FRAMES, All of the . Best Material and Manufacture. Xl-lf JAMES M. CAMPBELL. Or. CHAKfsES WIEOiV, . OCULIST, SAtESI, - - OREGON. All mho require Surgical Operations on tbe Eyes, of treatment, are invited to give him a trial.' $,:. ' - -,':-o-;u,-., Those who do sot receive permanent benefit wilt not he required to pay fotreatment. lis is amply provided with all tbe modern and improved Instruments, and. will make thorough Examinations free ot charge. NEW FAIffT SHOP, Carriasrc5 Wagon, Sign, AND 0RNA5IENTAL P1IKTING, GRAinUiQ & GLAZIfJG, PAPER HATJainO, : &c, Dons In the most Workmanlike manner bj ' XI. T, 811 RIVER. Shop apatairs orsr Tlobart A Co's Harness Shop.' DALLAS, POLK CO., OREGON. rnAiwic, a. cook, :oooxo3iistie::r,, . ' AND Blank Book Hanufacturcr, . salem, Oregon; , frv Having established a First Class Bookbindery in Salem, U now prepared to do all manner of work known to tbe trade. Magazines, tfswspspers and Muslo Sooad ' in any deir?d Style. Old Books Re-Souad. BLASrE BOOKS of every description, with or without printed Headings, Manufactured to Order. BL AUHS of every kind Ruled nd Printed to Order. rSICES HEASOHAJBLS Xa GriswoU'i Block. 7 PROFESSIONAL CARDS, d-CJ " HAIAjA Z2QTXSff,' -. t CORNER MAIN AND COURT 8TS Dallas, Polk County. Oregon. , ' , Thej nndcrxTjned, having RK-FITTED tU above HOTEL, now inform tbe Vublic fbat be is prepared to Accommodate all wbo uosy favor hhu with a call, in as good ttyle as""cart be found in any Hotel in the Country, ' Giv me a call, sod you tb&ll not leave disappointed. lt-tf' V W.. F.K R N N E DT. fVf)fi far. 1 .JIIEf.lEKETA UQPSE, if PRICES OF BOARD REDUCED TO SUIT. A sbsrepf'pVtronage of tWePeopleJ-ofk1 Solicited. Every attention paid : to Cohort Sadrij'-Harii5Si.,' Main st. (opposite tbe Cour House), Dallas " " " -i;:; '-v..';. ': '. '.' J t :, MANUFACTURER" AND DEALER "IN Jlarnesn, Saddles, Bridi, Whfns.ollsrav Cbcck Liues, etc., etc., of all kin.-!, wbicb. he ig prepared ta fell at tbe lowest living rutts. r, '- STiJ-'ItEPAIRIKa done on short notice. $75 E V E U V W E ls tt ' HADS SASY, LADY AGENTS We want Smart and ErHjrgftie Arenfa to introduce tmr ;populr aua j:ly cv."t.ritd inventi, ia every Yillmje, 'Jvuni uud tV.'j in ihe Wrld. -v ( ,, ) JndhpengoUe to every IIiu$kJtohlyzi ..They sre highly approved of. endorsed , sd adopted by Ladi'. rinf'i.it od Itiriure, and are now a GIlliAT FAVORITE wUhr them. ,. n Errry Family will Ittrcha?eOrfe or more of tbem. ' 'Somethins; that tfuAi merits are apparent. llLACE. . BSUOQISIS HILL1KEUS, BEESSSIAEESS and 4rra keep FANCY STORES, will find oar f xraUsi t HttitUt SELL YE It Y 11 A PfD . L Yi give ferlV-et satiffitetion and nvttiijf to mil Dealers and Agents. . , C O V NT V RIGHTS FREE t to ,i! who desire -nrffinjr in an jrtnnllf IimjxttaLle cmd I'rnjinlle JJuitf at tLe same " time doing pood to their coirpauions in lift. Sample $2 CO, sent free by mttil on receipt of prie. SEND FftR WHOLESALE ClliCU LAR. ADDItESS, , " . VICT0EIA MANUFACTTJEIira COHPY., IT, PARK PLACE, few York. SEW PMORB GjlLLEItV. - J. II. KINC AID has opened a ;s New Photorap!iic GallcryJ; la Dalian, where he will bo pleased to wait en Customers in his line of Business at all hoors of tho day. ; , .. j- - :) if. 4 'iW Chiltlrcn's i?iciurcs Taken without grumbliog, at the same price as Adults. Satisfaction guaranteed. , Price te suit the times. : j ' t- Booms at Lafollett's Old Stand, Main Street; Dallas, Polk County, Oregon, April 27th, 1871 ' . .- " 8-tf U" : . f, c. 1 is" v e J. No. ISO, First Street, ' PORTLAND, - - On EG ON,' Wholesale and Retail Dealer in DM GOODS, CLOT LADIES' DitESS GOODS, HOOTS AND SHOES, HATS CAPS GROCERIES & PROVISIONS, , Highest Cash PtIcq paid for all kinds of Country Produce Ungr Carpet Weaving:. ' ' A LL PERSONS HAVING MATERIAL ' for Rsg Carpets, and wishiejr thcn Woven, can be accommodated by vailing on the undersigned. Orders left at the Store of R. Howe Bros, will be promptly attended Io. lft tf WM. 8AUL6BEBRY. ESTAIILISIIED 18 19. " Ernest A. EUtLAlVDSO, GEWERAE COriHIGSION nERCHAnT, yr SAN FRANCISCO, DEALER IS ' i'Ml Drugs. Chemicals, . - - Essential Oils, Dye StuiTs and : ': General Ilerchandlsoj; By the 'Package Only, Cash Onlcrs for this or any Foreign Market, will receive prompt and Faithful Attention. - Miners, Mauutacturera and Wholesale , Trade Supplied for Cash -. No notice or attention paid to Orders for Qoodsi If there is no provision made for the payment of the same. . - rt Terms Net Cash, on Delivery, in U.S 0!d . " Coin. IT. B. Conslffnmcnts of Oregon .Produce Grain, Wheat, flour, &c, Soli ited. 45tf V