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About Liberal Republican. (Dallas, Or.) 1872-1??? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1872)
i . i I r f t - 0 ',', ' ' ...... Flj' J&J ""' DALLAS, OREGON. SATURDAY, DEO. C 1872. VOL. 3, NO. 38. WHOLE NO. 143. I S5 he 3trr.aI-..3ltHta ?s Issued Every S atari ay Horning, at Dallas, Folk County, Oregon. C. SULLIVAN.PRQPRf ETOR, SUBSCRIPTION BATES. SINGLE fJOP-TES One Year,' 2 'Six gonths, $1 25 .Three Months, $100 For Clubs often or moye$l 75 per annum. Subscription mutt be paid rtrictfy iu advance ADVEBTISINQ BATES. iOnasqnare(lOHnS orleM),rrtiaert'n,$3 40 .Each snbseaent insertion........ 1 00 A liberal deduction will bo made to quar terly and yearl J-adrertieeM. Professional cards will, be inserted at $12 00 per annum. TranV-sttt advertisements must 4e paid for in advance to insure publication. All other ad rertising bills meat be paid quarterly. -Legal tenders takea at their current aUe. Blanks and Job Work of every description tmshed at low rates on short notice. THE ILLUSTRATED PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL, Us in every respect a First- Class Magazine. Its articles we of .the highest interest to all. It teaches what we are aai now to make the most of ourselves. The informa tion it contains on the Laws of Life and Health j( yell worth the price of the Magazine to every ! Family. It Is published at $3 60 a year, liy A special arrangement we are enabled to ofTee the PntREMOLoaAL JoitbiUL as a Premium tor new subscribers to the Oregon Rem'slu?., or will furnish the Phrenological Jocrxal pd Oregon Replblicajt together for $4 0O We commend the Jocrxal to all who want a A llOHHIULCSTOHV, " There 13 one dark chapter in the toistory of Laura D. Fair which has never been made public, although for Iseveral months the details have been f.a the possession of a number of prominent officials and members of the par. The Chronicle proposes to give tka story for what it is worth noth fnpj exteuuuting, nor setting down aught in malice- -and leaving each reader lo draw his own conclusions ps to the truth or 'falsity of th a lan terrible accusation agaiust the woman ps the Hed lUx4. After her first trial and conviction, ud while t)$ woman was an inmate of the county jail awaiting her second rial, was the period to which thia parative relates The rude prison fare never offended the palate of this jjajnty dame, for her purse was well filled, and the ctioice&t viands which money could purchase, prepared by the mitre de cuisine of a first-class fotisteric kept by II. JJocen, corner pf Washington street and Dunbar alley, Were regularly brought to her hand somely furnished cell by a polite waiter. IJut with all bis urbanity and attention, (he polite waiter did not succeed in pleasiug the irascible Laura. She jvas fretful and pppyleh, and pqntin pally found fault with everything he brought her to eat and everything he said or did ; go finally the polite waiter told his employer that he Would no longer submit to stich' annoyance," and another young man was detailed for jail duty. The name of this young Irian was V. ' J. -Biro), a Time or Swede by birth, aqd commonly kuown in the restaurant as" Franl." J'-ram the moment of his installation as pur veyor of proyender . for Mrs. Fair all complaints ceased. She announced to the restaurateur that she had never been supplied with -such niee food, al: trad raeyer befc treated with such deference apd politeness. For two months or more FranV wailed upon her, but at last there was a sadden and violent termination of the jpkaant relations between the high Strung prisoner and hc-r Danigh attend -41. V nippers here are, that when ine young man was leaving her bell Jjor. tfce last time, there were Iwid and angry words that he scornfully threw go'den eagles at her feet ?nd that a rather threatening demonstration iras made by him. - At all events he irever wet a tke jail again. 2ot long after this, a well known and highly respectable physician, whoe office is on Kearny Btroct, n$ar Sutter, was greatly shocked by a terrible iseLo8ure made to, hiru bj a putiout, who was none bfhe rhan W. J. IJird or Frank," the Waiter atc.e referred 4d. The physjcjuD'ji name we o,u.U at 1is particular request. Frank had peen under his treatment fr several greeks, having become debilitated liy an attack; of fever. One day,,, iu the P'octor'a ofpoe, 4 lc cw confidential, find said there was something on 1m mind which was troubling him very much and he proposed to make a clean ifreast Of the whole matter. He briefly told the .Doctor of his acquaintance with the notorious wo man, who was still in jail awaiting her second trial, and said that from the moment he first went to wait upon her she -had not ouly expressed .great satisfaction with his services, but evi dently did all sue could to make a deep impression upon him. She began by a iiule subtle flattery, occasionally remarking that a man of his personal grace and intellectual .gifts should never nave been placed in sucn a menial station. He did not deny that the flattery had its iu tended effect, and admitetd that he soon begaa to fee! a deep interact, in the woman who, at such a critical moment in her career, .coold manifest such a kindly feeling for him. By degrees her interest seemed to rinen into a waraier feeling. and she spoke of the possibilities of the future, in case she should obtain uer freedom. She told him that all be needed was education : that she had money enough for both, and that if she could ouly escape the clutches of the law they could pair off together to some far distant land, get married and live happily together. The tender hearted Dane admitted that he was eharmed with the alUrinjr prospect thus held out. But the dark shadow of the gallows always intervened and dispelled the pleasant dream. If he did not refer to it she was sure to do so. She often remarked to him that with Judge Dwindle on the bench she had little hope of an acquittal, and finally asked him if he would do a dangerous deed in her behalf. He said he would do whatever sbo asked that lay in his power. Then she told him that .Judge Dwindle must be got out of the way that he must he killed. She told him, with singular precision, t t v t at.. wuat Judge uwintiies naoju were; where he lived ; how laU ho remained down town at night, aud the route he took in going home. She asked him if he had coinage and devotion enough to waylay and pipage a knife into the heart of this man who fetoni between them and happiness. Frank poudered this proKiition carefully and concluded that it was too hazardous. She then suggested nncther plan that pcison should be employed to accomplish the terrible deed. Frank said he was surprised at the complete ness of her knowledge of her intended victim's habits. She named a certain saloon which the Judge was in the habit of visiting at a certain hour every day, and proposed that Frank should endeavor to obtain a situation there as barkeeper. In cose be succeeded in netting the place, the execution of the deadly plot would be comparatively easy, and there would he no danger of detection. He would be furnished with a subtle aud certain poison wliich he might easily administer. Accord ing to the man's story he agreed to thU proposition, and sho qive him 00, telling hint to use it in any way likely to aid him in getting the situation. He says he tried to et tho place, but tailed, and reported his unsuccessful effort. She found no fault with h,im, but merely remarked that perhaps it was just well, since another idea had occurred to her, namly, that Frank should call at the residence of Judge Dwindle. The door bell would be answered by a servant, and the caller would be shown into a sitting-room where there was a sideboard, "while the servant was gone to announce his .visit he would fraye ample titue to uop the poison into the decanters. Or he might go to the house early iu the morning and pu,t poison, in the milk ea at the door. The man said that this revolting proposition was too much for hit, and Ue be-jaft to see the lurking devil in the steel-blue eyes of the temptress. He paid that, in fact, he never intended to carry out the murderous oVsiga at alL But his strange infatuationwith te 50iBAn prevented him telling her so. J5ut he would not even Tir&teiui I to accede to this hut proposition. ! whereby the lives of an entire house- hold were to have been, sacrificed.-, n . 1 Jfczun Qt9QO. Chronicle. Deterioration ik rooi, It is Midi by the faotetry men of our State, that Oregon wool is constantly deterio rating. This, no doubt, k" true to a certain -extent, bnt hardly io mu,cU as 8ouvo would haveusbdiovo. Xli intqreat of some would spoil our market abroad sp that there,. gouJd be no coiupotftioi ia prices, and thus enable the tnanu facturcr here to mak still larger profits. - Some years ago tho wool was too .coarse; then f armors bred for fineness j then it was too fine ; andYiow tho cry is there is not fine wool enough. This last year has proven to tho sheep-raisers of the Willamette Valley, that their wool is superior to any .other raised any where, commanding a pre mium of at least five cents per pound more than any other. We have beard buyers say that they were instructed to pay that figure more lor Western wool than Eastern, and tit U well known that our wools sell higher than California wools -r Farmer. ON INSTINCT, t I Paper raadtxaVj the b D A. Spalding. British Association, With regard to instinct, we have jet to ascertain the facts. Do the animals exhibit untaught skill and innate knowledge ? May not the supposed ex amples of instinct Ve after all bat ike results of rapid learning and imita tion ? The controversy on this sabjeet has been chiefly concerning the per ceptions ot .distance and direction by the eye and the ear. Against the in stinctive character of these perteptiom it is argned that, as distance means movement, locomotion, the very essence of the idea is such at cannot be tat en in by the eye or the ear ; that what the varying sensatiuos of sight and hearing correspond to, must be got at by mov ing over the ground by experience. The results, however ot experiments on chickens were wJLokiy in favor of the instinctive nature of these perceptions. Chickens, kept in a stale of blindness bv various eviees frost to three days, when placed in the light under a set of carefully prepared conditions, gave conclusive evidence againit the theory that the perceptions of distance aud direction by the eye are the result of association formed in the experience of each individual life. Often, at the end of two minutes, they followed with their eyes the movements of crawling insects, turning their heads with all the precision of an old fowl. In from two to tifteeQ qmutfs they pecked at some object, showing not merely an instinct ive perception of distaucc.but an original ability to measure distance with some thing like infallible accuracy. If be yond the reach o! their necks, they walked or ran up to the object of their persuit. and may be said to have inva ribly struck it, never missing by more fhan a hair's breadth j this to, when the specks at which titty struek were no bigger than the smallest visible dot of an i. To siexe between the points of (he mandible at the very instant ol striking sectucd a mora difijcult opera tion. Though at times they seized and swallowed an insect at the first attempt, more frequently they struck five or six times, lifting once or twice before they succeeded in swallowing their first food To take by wa of illustrations, the observations on a single casoft little in detail; A chicken, at the end of six minutes after having its eyes unveiled, followed with its head the movements of a fly twelve inches distant at ten minutes the fly, coming within reach of its neck, was seizad and swal lowed at the first stroke; at the end of twenty minutes it had not attempted to walk a step. It was then placed on rough ground within sight and call of a hen, with chickens of its own age. After standing chirping for about a minute, it went straight toward the hen, displaying as keen a perception of the qualities or the outer world as it was ever likely to possess in after life It never required to knock its head against a stone to discover that there wasi" ro road that way". It leaped over the smaller ohstaUca that lay ia its path, and ran around tho larger, reaching the mother in as nearly a straight line a tUe mature of the ground would permit Thus it would seem that, prior to experience, the eye at least the eye of the chicken perceives the primary qualities of the external world, all arguments of .thef purely analytical school of psychofogy to the contrary, notwithstanding. : Not leRS decisive were exwfiments cn h,irinr CWmVn Koa hA kent in the dark tor a Liv cr two. on beW placed in the licht nine or ten . - . . . - feet from a box in. which a brooding hen was concealed, after ptnndmi chipping or a uaoment or two, uniform ly set ufT straight io. the box, la au swer to the call of fhe ben which they had never seen aojdnpcrbefor,c.W3aj;a. This thy did struggling Wough grass and over rough ground, when .not able to,stand sten$ly qij. tUeU leg. . Agafo, chickens, that from tho first had been denied the use of tjieir'eycs by having hoods drawp ovee their heads ; wImJo yet in the shell, were, while thus blind, tnne the subject of 'experiment These, when left to. tbetgsqles, seldom made a forward step, their movements, being round i and round and backward; but wheu placed within fivo or six feet of the hen mother,. they, in answor to her call, became much more lively, be gan to make little forward journies, aud soon followed her by sound alone, though of course blindly. Another ex periment consited in rendering chick eos deaf for a time by sealing their ears witti sevcraj folds of gun paper before thoy escaped from the shell. These, on having their ears opened when two or three days old and being placed within call of the mother ceoeealei in box on the other side of: a door, after turning round a few times ran straight to the spot whence came the first sound they had heard. Clear-J iy, 01 taese cnicxens it cannot be said that sounds were to them at first but meauio glees jensations. A very useful instinct may be ob served in the early attention that chickens pay to their toilet. . As soon as they can .hold Dp their head- wbca only from four to five hoars eld, t key -I attempt creasing ineir wings, ana mat, too, when they have been denied the me of their eyes. Another incontesta ble case of instinct may be seen in the art of scraping in search of food. without any opportunities of imitation, chickens begin to scrape from two to six days old. most frequently the cir cumstances are saggestive ; at other times, however, the first attempt, which generaly consists of a sort of nervous dance, was made oa a smooth table. The unacquired dexterity shown in the capture of insects is very remarkable. A duckling one day old, 00 being placed iu the open air for the first time, almost immediately snapped at and caught a fly on the wing. Still more interesting is the instructive art of catehiog flies pecular to the turkey. I observed a young turkey .not a day aud a half old which I had adopted while yet iu the shell, pointing its beak slow, ly and deliberately at flies and other small insects without aetgaly peeking thetn. In doing this, its head coold be seen to shake like a hand that is at tempted to be held steady by a risible effort This I recorded when I did not understand its meaning. Fur it was not until afterwards that I observ ed ttjat a turkey, when it sees a fly set tled 00 a'oy object, steals 00 the unwary iesoet with stow and measured step, aud, when sufficiently near, advsnces its head very slowly and steadily unjil within reach of its prey, yhich is then seized by a sudden dart. In still fur ther confirmation of the opinion, that such wonderful examples of dexterity and cunning are instinctive and not acquired, may be adduced the signifi cant fact that the individual of each species have little capacity to learn any thing not found in the habits of their progenitors. A chicken was made, from the first and for several months, the sole companion of a young turkey. Vet it never showed the slightest ten dency to adopt the admirable art of catching flies that it saw practiced be fore its eyes every hour of the day. ; The only theory, in explanation of the phenomena of instinct, that has an aip of Koioacc about it is the doctrine of Inherited Association. Instinct in the present generation of animals is (he apcuraulatcd experience of past gener ations. Great dificnlty, however, is felt by many in conceiving how any thing so impalpable as fear at the siht of a bee should be transmitted from parents to oftsring. It should be remembered, however, that the perman ence ot such associations in the history of an individual life depends on the corresponding impress given to the or ganization. We cannot, strickly speak ing, experience any ''individa) aet of consciousness twice over ; bot as, by pulling the bell cord to-day we cau, ia the language of ordinary discourse, produce the samo sound we beards yes derday, so, while the established con nections among the nerves and nerve tenters hold, we are enabled to live wr experiences s over;,, again. ,, Now, why . should not th,aso modifications of brain tuatter, that, enduring from hour to hour and from y to daj, render acquisition possible, be. like any other physical peculiarity, transmitted froa parent to offspring I That they ara so transmitted is all but proved by th facts ot instinct, while these, in their turn, reeieve their only rational expla nation in this theory of inherited Asso ciation:. uspAodcd animation int always a good thing to Indulge in. - A man out in Ohio had a little of it, and overheard bis Wife engage beraelf to another chap, thinking he w,as dfaoV -Via--au-awful thing .to bo so mad as be was. 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R. bell $ office, Dallas, r Uf LOOK ! LOOK!! LOOK!! BO!, , T E R WOBTLBY dt CO. ELLEHDALE STORE, . Hare Jest reoelred an Immense steik e ! Boot aud Sheea Uats aad Caps, Clothing, Crockery aud aiasswarv Hani ware, Groceries, ProTUIona.JLc DRBS9 GOOIS, 8AAI&PU2, PAWC IV 4s IRY GOODS or all kinds. AVhlea they will eeU cheap, Com auA try their j)flcea. The h.lgJhcatpTi"co paid for air kinds tovmJbcy prodace. MILLIONS of EQQ3 mxhIXOSS f BOTXE. Wanted Lr tie Rotter & W 1. 5 . 1 4 1 1 w