Liberal Republican. (Dallas, Or.) 1872-1???, November 01, 1873, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextINDEPENDENT IN POLITICS AND RELIGION. vifj.JS.frii' vol. 4, -he fifctral -publican Official Paper fur Polk County. Z Issued Every 8ataraay Morning, at J '' r 2) allM, Polk County, Oregon. 1 - - 1 P. C. SULLIVAN PROPRIETOR, SUBSCRIPTION BATES. , tflNGLE COPIES One Year, $2 00. Six tioaths, $1 25 Three. Months, $100. For Clubs of ten or more $! 75 per annum. ubcriptien mutt be paid ttrictly in advance ADVERTISING BATES. One square (12 lines or less), firstinsertn,$2 50 Each subsequent insertion.. 1 00 A liberal deduction will be made to quar terly and yearly adrertisers. Professional cards will be inserted at $12 00 per annum. Transient advertisements must be paid for in advance to insure publication. All other sd rertmng bills must be paid quarterly. Legal tendera taken at their current value. Blanks and Job Work of every description urnished at low rates on short notice. 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 fend 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 is published at $3 00 a year. By special arrangement we are enabled to ofTee the Phrenological Journal as a Premium tor a new mbscribers to the Okego.v Repi blican, or will furnish the Pubesiolocjical Jocbnal and Obkqox Republican together for ft 0O We commend the Journal to all who wtnt good magazine PROFESSIONAL CARDS. P. C. JsJULIilVl, Attorney & Counsellor-At-Law, Pallas, Qregou, Will practice in all the Courts of the State. 1 8TLC SIMPSOX E B STONE ii!iP,so . & sT.oar e Attorneys at Law, Will practice in all the Courts of the .3d Ju dicial District. OFFICE In Executive building opposJt Chemeketa Hotel Salem Mar 10 731 -ye R P Boise P L Willis BOISE & Wl LLIS, . : ( Attorneys at Law r SAI.EM............. OREGON. 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Ordersittended tu fh accuracy and prompt! vi: vri3;iu )ii co. COMMERCIAL STEET, ... SALEM .OREGON DALLAS ADVERTISEMENTS. JOHN W. GILBERT, SALEM ....OREGON I T ill :Pay TIic Highest Cash Price For hi pes, pi:rrst & mirs OPERA SALOON. In Ojera Building. COURT STREET SALEM, OGN. O II. SJI IT! I, PHOP. The Best fiualltyjof ' WINES, LIQUORS & CIGARS ALWAFS ON HAND. (BILLIARD TABLES. Of the IatestJandmostimproved Style OPEN ALL NIGHT C. S. ST I V EU No. 130, First Street, PORTLAND, - . . . OR EGO ' i i " ' , . V Wholesale and Retail Dealer in 2 ," dry (iooDS, mmm, LADIES' DRESS GOODS, BOOTS AND SHOES, HATS A CAPS OROORlESd: PJiOV 1S1 ONS, II ighest Cash Price'jpaid for all kinds of Wanted Agents. Ferovr great work, just issued, called A I A CAIEOIilYIA. OB Sketches of I4fe Id tbe Golden State. ' Bt TnE late Col, Albert S. Evens, A Beautiful Octavo, Splendidly Illustrated, Vivid Pen Paintings of life in California. to., etc. AGENTS ALSO WANTED FOR TnE A most iovaluablef work for every Amfriean Citixen. Octavo, 358, pages. Also just issued THE FARMERS JOURNAL ACCOUNT BOOK. Send kfor terms upon these rapid selliue books. A. L. BANCROFT & CO. BAN FRANCISCO, CAL. DALLAS. ORGEON. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER VO SEMITE. BY THE REV. W. R. Q. MELLFM. The following item is from theChrijtain Union IlaviDg arrived at Hutching's, and 8uBciently rested from his fatigues greatly lesa than he had previously supposed they would be tho traveler naturally asks, "Where shall I go ? H hat shall I see ?" Yankee hko the host will answer, ''How long time can you givey this valler" According 'to the reply jto this question will be the programme of hh "guide, philosopher and friend' which he cannot do better than to follow. Certain things, uowever, he will not fail to see. He will go early in the morning, if 4 w possible to Mirror Lake, from whose surface the reflection is so perfect that, while laoking at' it, he will wonder whether he is looking into the water or the sky. He will goto Vernal and Nevada Falls, taking a day for the excursion, and finding it filled with delight. Elsewhere these cataracts would be stupendous ; even here they are impaling. On his way to them he will notice how the valley devides into different gorges at its upper extremity and, if curious, will try to trace oat corresponding projections - and indentations ou either side, as illustrative of the theory that they were violently sundered, and, if brought together, would fit each other indifferently well even now. He will also tind I'iwvuek Cave just below the Vernal Fall, and the.rocky parapet; breast high on the furomit not without interest; while at Caxn Nevida almost within a stone's throw of the Nevada Fall, and right at the base of 'Liberty Cap," he will find rest and comfort. "If "Liberty Cap" or Cloud Ue.st" is to be ascended- -and both are aecessnble even to ladies thi is the p int from which to start. Leaving the Casa early in the morning, a party can '"do" either mountain, and descend to Hutchiogs in tiniJ for dinner Then there is the Yo Semite Fall, Worthy of more thin one visit at both its foot and its summit ; while if Glacier Point were not taken on the way into the valley, it must not be forgotten vot. No difficulty, indeed, will be found for making up a programme for a fortnight, every day's features will embrace something new and interesting. Who is forced to depart hence without spending four or five days, will find himself tormented with a firmer desire to revisit the vallep than he had to enter it thefirnt time He will scarcely wonder that Hutchings and oue or two other families should have made their permanent home in somarvelous a place though it be so far in the wilderness ; and certainly will not be surprised that many who go there prolong theii stay far beyond their original intention. Of this number was Mrs Yelvertor so welt known to fame, and who came so nearly miserably perishing in the valley two or tnree years since. uo arriving, she said to her ' host ; "Mr. Hutchings I have come to spend a day or two with you.'1 1 . I am very happy to see you madame," was the reply, "aud I shall do what I can to make you comforta ble." ; ; ' -' ;; la faot, she remainod just4 tour mouths. It was October, and near tbe time of driving and heavy snow storms before she wasreapy to go. Whosoever was not prepared, if need were, to winter in tho valley, therefore, must speedily prepare , to leave it Three English gentleman were "also- in the valley, accompanied by a single guide, They were to leave oo a certain day j and MreYelverton -deoided to go with them. The morning bime, threatening an ' immtdiate storm. r Horses were saddled, and the gentlemen booted and spured, ready to mouut. Uut no lady appeared. After a while Mrs. Hatchings, who had gone to her room J to ascertain" the cause of delay, returned with the report that the lady was somewhat unwell, but would soon be ready to leave. As she was a good horsewoman, and knew the path for some distance, she requested tho party not to delay, saying she would over take it by the it reached Inspiration Ilock Impatient to be gone the gentlemen waited for nc thing more, but started down the valley at the top of th6 horses speed. It was, however, about half an hour before Mrs. Yelvertoa appeared to follow them, when scattering 6nowflakes bad already begun to tall. Sha would not be dissuaded from setting forth, started at ot a pace not interior to that of her predecessors. Near the lower end of the valley, and where the briddle path begins to asend the mountain side, she 111 1 . t r . . looked aoouc lor ner escort, n either traveler or guide was there. She pushed on, the snow now falling quite rapidly, as fast as she could until she reached Inspiration Ilock. Hut no gentleman and no guide was there. Hoping still to overtake her country men, who seemed to be flying from her, she urged her horse onward as fast as possible. Hut the tracks i those she was following grew fainter and faiuter until they wholly disappeared, and the path itself was not well defined. Still she went on until (he came to a swamp acroA which her way led. She put her horse at what she supposed the riglt crossing place, hut he refused to take it sod sought another. She dared not allow him to go where he would foaring he would sink in the mire ; bvt to force him to go where he would not she was unable. And now, with snow eight or ten inches deep and rapidly increasing, the shades of uight were falling. What ti do in this terrible strait! To proceed ou was impossible ; to retrace her step hardly less cifficult. At length she remembered passing not far back a large pine tree, out of which the fire hud burnt, near the ground, almost the entire hert. Hack tothat she retreated, and found it large ccough to admit not only herself, but tho head and about half tho body of her horse. Here, therefore, drawing her shawls and wraps about her as well us she could, and leading her horse into the friendly covert as it would permit him to enter , she passed the nignt, holding the briddle rein in her had. What were her fears and hopes, her phstcal and mental sufferings during the slow moving hours, and while the wind was roaring and the snow was drifting down through the pine tree ' tops, it would be difficult to. imagine. She remembered shat grizzly and cionamou tears, if not verry common, were not unknown in those regions, and that it was not at all impossible that one of them might pay her a visit before morning dawned. She remebered, too, the terrible cursed prouounced on her by her husband at their last interview He had endeavored to acquiesce in his wishes, admit the invalidity of their marrivgo, which both Irish and Scot tish . Courts had ' declared legal, and confess herself something else than a virtous and honorable woman. To this end; he exhausted all his means, whether of argument or entreaty, bribery or tnreats, within his power but without avail. Finding ber utterly immovable, and losing his own temper, this beautiful specimen of Brittish nobility launched at his muth abused wife the most tetrible tnaledio- tioos,. Might she live friendless and alone, in complete destitution and degradation, -Might she die with no human dar lto Iiten;to her parting sigh, no gen tie voice to speak a com fortiog vford, and " do friendly hand to to cl6se the sightless eyes or give her lifeless form a decent burial. How such a curse, though fron a really cursed as well cursing creatine 1, 1873. affects some superstitious minds is well known ; and ia Mrs. Telvertoo's Irish temperament there is probably no blight streak af superstition. At any rate all night long the dreadful malediction was ringing in her ears, and seeming likely of realization. For if she had not lived in friendless solitude and pinching want, she certainly appeared likely to die in as bitter looliness and desolation as malice itself could desire, while for her body thero seemed , oo better fate than to feed the birds and beasts of proy. But all thiogi earthly sooner or later come to an end, so the night wore away without bringing a visit irom either wolf or bear. As soon as it was fairly lignt, benumcd and almost frozen she emerged from her covering.mounted her horse, and, there was nothing, else to do turned his head toward the Valley. She succeded in finding and keeping tbe path, and was making good program down the mountain side, when she came to an immense bolder around which the path made a sharp angle. Turning this, what should confront her but a huge cinnamon bear ! Ot course the frightened horse instantly xhceled, and made his way back some little distance with the greatest possible speed. Theu his nder reined him in, She looked around tome time. Goj in the opposite direction she could not. If her life was to be preserved she must go in that. So after a while, she urged he i horse down the mountain again, and around the rock. To her great joyjthe bear was gone, seeming to have been as much frightened by her as she was by him With revived courage, she now went on ner way. xut wnemcr-ior tne 9 purpose of increasing her circulation, or for soje other reason she ere long ditmountd and attempted to walk. She had not proceeded far, however, when, making a mistep where, on one oide of the path, was quite a precipice, he lost her balance and feel down the declivity between twenty and thirty feet, landing among bushes and in seme depth of snow. The shock to her already over taxed and exhausted frame was so great that she swooned. How long she' remained insensible she could not tell ; probably not many minutes Reviving, she recalled her recent expe riehce and present condition, and real ized that if her life were not to termU nate then and there, she must make a desperate effort in its behalf. Accord ingly she dragged her behagg5red and her bruised and bleeding limbs out of the bushes, succeeded once more in finding the path, down which jfshe rather stumbled than walked a little distance. She came then to a large prostrate tree, lying close to and near, ly parallel with her way, and ou the leeward side of which was almost bare ground.. Here exhausted nature re fused to do more, and here, therefore, she lay down to die. That is,she became unconscious, and , had she not been quckly found would have known no more of earthly grief or gladness. . But it happened. that Mr. Hutchings and a neighbor had business urgently requiring their presence at "Mariposa; and, notwtihstanding the snow of the previous day and night, they set fourth that morning on their journey thither When near the fallen tree, Mr. H. who was somewhat behind his companion, suddenly heard him call; "Hatchings, Hutchings 1 for God's sake, hurry up I Here is a dead woman V" Instantly divining who it must be, as he had been not a tittle anxious for ' Mrs. Yel vertonV safety, Mr. Hutchi n gs rushed forward to find, by a glance, his suspicions verified. A slight ex tminatioQ, Jiovrever, showed him that life waanot j extinct. . Asking his neighbor to kindle a fire of the dried leaves and dead wood scattered around, himself succeeding in forcing a few drops of brandy from a pocket flask between her teeth, and in quickening a NO, 33 her circulatien by ehafiug her bands -and feet. Soon a blazing 1 firdwaf t& burning, and in time the almost frozen woman was restored to consciousness -and partial strength. ' Then, liftiegsil her upon one of their horses, these , good Smaritans gently ' conducted her. back to tbe.hospital house she bad left t on the previous morning, r Here Mr.'. and Mrs. Hutchings so successfully ministered to her needs as not ooIy fL' i s revive her drooping ecergiesbut to' iJ obviate any considerable shock to her system, or injury to her health frotn'3 her iearful adventure. I f.-.- u't?ri Oo. presenting herself next morjjiog,. ,c whioh the did in good season, Mr H, u said to Der, "Madam, it is very neccssa 4 .j rV that I should start to day for Mariposa. Vou, uf oourae, are wholly , unequal to such an undertaking, ; You will therefore remain here, vh,ere as, good care will be taken of you as . pofstblo, until some suitable, opportu nity presents to take your, departure' "Mr. Hutching," replied the resur rected woman, "I shall, go with you. feoting perfectly safe under his gaid soce "But that is impossible," exclaimed her host; "in your present condition 1 you would fall from yonr horse before the long day's ride were over." "I shall go vo'uh you' was her persistent responce; nor would' she listen to any dissuasives from to doing Go, therefore, she did, riding twenty four miles that day before reaching Clarke and Moore's," where they spent1' the night. The next day they rode to !" Mariposa, nearly or quite as, far; where on the following morning she bade ber" ' four months' host and the savior of her ' life, a grateful adieu, and disappeared from his sight on her way to San Fran ? CISCO. And here, perhaps, the reader , 4 begins to think it is quite time for the writer to follow her example, and V vanish away. ..This I will make' haste ' to do by paying that the best route by saying that the best route by which to leave Yo Semite, affording some new ' and glorious views, is by way of Gen try 's and the new stage route-1-- "'i cerning whiih I conld hear nothing in ' San Francisco via the Tuolume ' Valley Big Oak Flat, and Chinese ;I Camp, striking the railway at Burnett's. ' By this route the traveler passes directly through Tuolome- grove "of Sequoias; through a most wonderful pine fore&t, capable of yielding fifty'' ' millions of feet of lumber to' tho acre J M1 over a region which shows what surface J ' mining has done for parts of California '( down some long, winding hillsv- where if he have a seat on the' outside of the; coach, he finds sufficient occupation i''" holding on ; and reaches his hotel in. San Francisco, as he can do any other route, on the second ' evening after leaving Hutchings.' If whcn he does he docs not "thank God aud take - courage," he must be lf, will . uv oikcuik iu oj mint, . . j , , ... .1 4, How He Lost the OrpoRTUNrfr.' -it A useful hint to many tonog 'meoi r' may be derived from this little story t which the Springfield (Mass.) -Union h prints': "Not long "ago a young man of this city had a most favorable opportunity to entera busines8v houso iu this State, at a large increase over his present salary, with a prospect -of Boon, getting a place in the firm His ' t recommendations were. first class, an4 the officers of the ' institution d were decidedly pleased with his appearance.1 J They, however, made him" no proposals, ; uer did they state their favorable ina-,- nrcsions. A gentleman of this city 1 was requested to ascertain where the young man spent his evenings ' and what class of young men were ..his aociatea. It was found that he spent several nights of? the; week in a billiard room on Main street and Sunday4 afternoon drove ahircd span into the country wiih three other young men. Ho is wondering why he did'nt hear. from the house concerning that coveted position. 1:9.