The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918, December 12, 1885, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextThe Oregon Scout. VOL. II. UNION, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1SS5. NO, 24. f i THE OREGON SCOUT. An Independent weekly journal, issued cvo y JONES & CHANCEY, Publishers and Proprietors. A. K. JONES, 1 J II. CltANCF.V, Editor. I l orcmau. HATES OF SUUSCIUPTION': Ono copy, ono year f 1 CO " " Six months 1 IK) " " llirco months 7. Invnrlnbly cash In advance. Rntcs ot advertising inado known on appli cation. Correspondence from all parts of tho county FOIIC1ICQ. Address nil communications to A. K. JOncs, Editor Urejjn fccoiit, Union, Or. Lodge Directory. GnAftn Hondb Valley Lodge. No. i. A. F. nnd A. SI. Meets on tho second and fourth baturdays of each month. O. F. Hell, W. M. C. E. Davis, Secretary. Union I.oixik, No. no. T, O. O. F. Iteuular meetings on Friday ovcnlngs or eacn weeKRi their hall in Union. All brethren In cooii standing nro invited to uttotid. Hy order ot tho lodge. S. W. i.oNU, N. u. Q. A. TiiOMrsoN.Secy. Cliurcli Directory. M. E. Cnoncii Dlvlno service every Sunday nt 11 a. m and 7 p. in. Sundny school at H p. m. Prayer meeting every Thursday oventng atuitxl. iii:v. i.M)tii.'-u, i iieiur. PltERiiVTEniAN Ciinncn liegular church services every Sauuatn morning ana evening. Prayer meeting each week on Wednesday evening. Sabbath school every Sabbath at 10 a. m. Hov. 11. VEitNON Hicu, Pastor. St. John's Episcopal Oilmen Service every Sunday ot 11 o clock a. in. Hev. h. Powell, Hector. County Onicers. Judgo A. C. Craig Sheriff A. Ii. Saunders Clerk 11. F. Wilson Treasurer A. F. Benson School Superintendent J. L. Hlndman Surveyor E. Slmonls Coroner E. H. Lewis COMMISSIONEKH. Goo. Acklcs Jno. Stanloy Stato Senator L. 1). Hinohurt iiephesentatives. .F.T.Dick E. E. Taylor City Olllccrs. Mayor D. H. Roes councilmk.v. iP. A.Pursol W. D. Ho'dlcman ,'J.S. Elliott Willis bklll .T. II. Eaton G. A. Thompson Hecorder J. 11. Thomson Marshal J. A.Donnevi .rreasurcr J. u. uarrou 'Street Commissioner L. Eaton Departure of Trains. . Regular east bound trains leavo ot 0:30a. ,m. est bound trains leavo at 4:20 p. ra. I'HOiri'SSIONAL,. J. It. CH1TES, attokzvsjy at b,aw. Collecting nnd probato prnctlco specialties Olliee, two doors south of Fostofiloe, Union, Oregon. R. EAKIN, Afccy at Law aofl Notary Fulc. Office, ono door south of J. II. Eaton's storo Union, Oregon. i. N. CROMWELL, M. D., Physician and Surgeon Office, ono door south ot J. H. Eaton's storo, Union, Oregon. A. E. SCOTT, M. D., FMYsiciAiv ai ;si;ecss:o', Has permanently located at North Powdor, wnero no will answer an cans T. II. CHAWFOItD, .ATTOICNKY AT uw, Union, - Oregon. D. Y. K. DEERLNG, ,XIiyHivinn ami Surgeon, Union, Oregon. Oftlce, Main street, nextdoorto Jones Dros.' variety store. Hesldouco, Mnln streot, second houso south of court house. Chronic dlsoases a specialty. O. F. 1IK3KX., Atlorney an! Counsellor at Law, Union, Oregon. Real Estate, Lnw nnd Probato Practlco will recelvo special attention. Ottlco ou A street, rear of Stato Land Oftlce. " H. F. BURLEIGH, 'Attorney nt Invr, Kenl I2tuto uud Collecting; Agent. Land Oflico Business a Specialty. j Office at Alder, Union Co., Oregon. JESSK HAIlDESTr, J. W. 6I1ELTOX SHELTOH & HARDEST!, AXTOKNEY8 AT I,AW. Will practlco In Union, Baker, Grant, Umatillu and Morrow Counties, also in the Supreme Court o! Oregon, the District, Circuit and Supreme Courts of the United StateH. Mining and Corporation business a spo icalty. Office in Union, Oregon. A MGIIT IN A DISSECTING-ROOM. A Mysterious Snore from a Body A Stranrtc Expprloncp. "I havo been for tho past fifteen years engaged nt my present business, anil 1 need not tell you it is not ono of the most pleasant occupations in tho world. 1 have had sonio torriblo ex periences during that time, and if I wero to rolatn some of them to you you would not think them creditable. I spend most of tho day and night with these dead bodies, and now that 1 havo irrown accustomed to it I do not mind it so much." Tho speaker was l'rof. James Walsh, superintendent of tho dissecting-room in tho New York Uni versity Medical College and tho abovo answer was given in reply to tho re porter's query. Tho Professor contin ued: "If vou wish to hoar an oxperionco I had, iol mo see, about fifteen years ago, I have no objection to tolling yon, but just follow mo up and 1 will show you the very spot wlicro it occurred and perhaps it will help to freshen my memory somewhat." Tho reporter followed tho Professor up a long winding stairway until ho camo to a door which was looked. The Professor took from his pocket a koy, nnd having applied it to tho lock, tho door suddenly How open and disclosed a long, wide room, in which lay up wards of 200 "cadavers" placed upon marble slabs. The stonch that came from this room was of tho most indo scriablo character, and tho reporter drew back to catch his breath. "This is tho dissecting room," add ed tho Professor, aud it gives you some idea of tho character of my work. It is hero 1 spend my day and nijiht, and yqu will at onco admit it is not a very pleasant way to spend ouo'3 existence. It is over there, just at that slab toward tho left, that tho ex perience occurred which I now relate. ALONE AVITII THE UKA1). "1 was then a new man, and did not feci quito nt homo as much as now, and though it is woll nisli iifteon yoars siuco it happened it was so loreibly im pressed upon my mind at tho time that 1 shall nover forget it. The stu dents had all gone and I was alono in Iho dissecting-room. Tho hour was about 12 o'clock and I had remained to lix up tho cadavers for the morrow. The associations connected with this placo at such an hour nro enough to till tho mind of a less nervous person with apprehension. About '200 dead bodies lay on tho slabs all around, and at that time a sercon hung from tho top of each slab to tho ground, so as to conceal tho debris during tho day, Not a sound broke tho stillness of tho dissootiHr-room, not a ripplo ran through this big building, when all at once, as 1 stood near that slab, I hoard a loud snoring sound proceed from a cadaver. "1 could feel the throbbing of my heart, and I stood rooted to tliu ground. I could not move if 1 tried, and Hie muscles of my feet soomed togivo way under mo. Tho cadavor raised him self up on his back aud looked and erinned at mo in a most agonizing mannor. A cold sweat ran all over juy frame. 1 seemed to ho lifted oil" tho ground, and in another moment I was thrown prostrate on tho iloor. I nover believed much in ghosts, but at that timo I could not explain this ex traordinary phenomenon. THE JIVSTKHY SOLVED. "I lay m that position 1 know not how long, but anyway when 1 recov ered eonsciousno-s it was morn'ngand tho light was streaming in through thoso windows. With the roturn of day 1 plucked, up frosli courago and wont up to ascertain tho cause of 1113' scaro of tho provious night. Tho ca davor lay in tho very same position in which it had been placed by mo and I put my hand on tho faco aud lound tho coldnoss of doath thoro. 1 raised up tho cloth that covored tho lower part of tho slab nnd thoro found tho cause of my fooling of the provious night A student lay on his back on the floor in a profound slumber, sleep ing oil tho night's debauch, This at onco explained tho wholo secret away and tho nervous prostration 1 experi enced was wholly duo to my ardent imagination, I got over all that, how over, and now I investigate tho causo of nuy unusual noise siuco that night Of course you can readily understand tho nervous perturbation was wholly induced by tho strango noiso that was produced in that placo at such an un seasonable hour, and that explains away my feolings with rognrd to tho croct position tho cadaver was sup posed to assume. Such an extraordi nary occurrence micht result fatally in many cases, for the ncryous system in ono who is a lirm believer in super natural visitations would refcoivo a shock from which it would nover in all probability rally, andl have known many pooplo who wero rondored in sane by just such an occurrence. It was n lesson '.o me, however, that I will. not readily forgot. So niuqh for my first oxporienco in a dissecting room. Aew York Herald. Blighted Careers. Tho horrible assault of which "Bob'' Cook, of Philadelphia, was tho victim this week, calls attention to tho fact that a series of remarkable fatalities seems to havo dogged the steps of prominent Yalo men of Into years. Thoso which wo here recall cortainly make a siillicieutly formulnblo array, but no doubt some have slipped our memory, while others wo may have concluded may not bo regarded by many as markedly out of tho ordinary. Of course the case which will, on ac count of its horror uud its freshness, suggest itself to most will bo that of young Barclay Johnson, who shot his mother, sister and himself at Green wich. Tho true story of that fatal act) of insanity, blighting a homo and aj career so promising, will probably boi never in print. Young Theodore Cuy lor, of a prominent Philadelphia fami ly, a classmate of Johnson in '82, mot with an exceptionally pathetic end, if ono not strictly tragical. He hasten-, ed to tho bedside of his fiancee, who was stricken with typhoid fever, io bo almost instantly himself attacked with, tho same disease. In two days after ho was dead, and for weeks the news of his fato and burial was closely kopt from tho young lady, less tho shock might carry hor, too, 10 tho grave. In, the following class, thai of '8il, An drews was in his senior year tho vic tim of one of thoso shoekinir hunting, accidents, his gun being discharged into his vitals, killing him instantly. Andrews' classmate, Kellogg, aj scholar of high standing, for whom ap-: parcntly was in storo a brilliant future! was cut oft just after graduation by; ono of theso fatally quick attacks ofj typhoid fover, tho dread disease which! so swiftly carried oll'tho noblo hearl-j cd "Tom" Lawrence, of tho following class. Tho Lawrence Dormitory, noV rising, commemorates his name. Toi go back a little further, tho tragic; death of Frederick Kernoehnn, ofj Pittslielil brought a shock to tho circlo' of older graduates, making a gap; thoro and in his homo city, whero ho was universally esteemed", which time'' may lieol over, but not fill. Ho thought ho hoard a burglar moving iui his house, and, carrying a pistol, started lo attack tho intruder. Ho slipped upon tho stairs, aud tho pistol! was discharged, fatally wounding! him. Henry Armitt Brown, a Yalo, man of about the same time, fast ris-i ing at Philadelphia to national reputa tion 1 for eloquence, caught a cold, while delivering a historical oration, which brought him to his grave before many of his fr'onds had hoard of his, sickness. A little after camo two sui-, cidos, of two intimato eollogo friends, both exceptionally brilliant men. Win.; Wood and Maj. Heaton. Tho formor, took his life bocauso of tho burden ofj agnosticism, which he could not shako oil', woighing upon an ovorsensitivo heart ; tho latter, bceauso tho battle, of lifo wont against him and ho could, soo no way of providing for his vifo nnd children. Prof. Stuart Phelps, of the faculty of Smith College, Morth nptou, a Yale man of tho same time,, pulled his gun after him out of a boat, while spending tho summer in tho, Maine woods, and paid for his care lessness with his life. But tragic as wore tho ends of these so promisingly! oponed lives, aro they to bo compared for one momont with self-ruined hopes Iho degrading existence of anothor Yalo man of that time, who has been obliired to ileo his country because of rascalities only paralleled by tho ca re or of Ferdinand Ward, and who sur passed him in tho vulgarity of .sheer stealing? We refer to vm.njr Eno, the wooden spoon man of Yale, 'GG. now living in Canada. Better, far better, a horrible death than a lifo thus de formed forover by a horrible past Wulerbttri (Conn.) American, Size of the Brain in Extinct Animals. Prof. "Marsh, of Yalo college, said at the recent meeting of tho British asso ciation that for lifteeu years ho had d rented his attention to the subjoct of the size of the brain in extinct animals. In overy instance ho found that tho mammals from tho lower tertiary had vory small brains. Ho carried his in vestigation into tho upper tortiary,and fouud that the brain was much largor in tho pliocene than the miocone. All the tertiary mnmmah had small brains; thoro was a gradual increase in the size of tho brain during this poriod; nnd this increase in tho sizo was gen erally in tlio cerebral hemisphere or higher portions of the brain. In sonio groups tho convolution of tho brain had gradually beeomo nioro complex. In some tho cerebelium and tho olfac tory lobes had ovon diminished in size. There was now ovidence that tho samoj general law of brain growth ljolds good for birds and reptiles from the jnrassio poriod to the present timo. Tho braiu of an animal belonging to a vigorous race, fitteil for a long sur vival, was larger than tha averago brain of that poriod in fhosamo group, ami tho brain of a mammnl of a de clining raco was smaller than tho av-i orago brain of its contemporaries of, tho sauio group. The small anitna.'s now oxisting had proportionally largor brains thnn tho larger animals, tho young animals had proportionally larger brains than adult animal. Thoy found somo interesting examples which throw light ou this question. For instance, in tho ooceno thoy had an animal, tho oldest known ancestor of the rhinoceros, and ithad an excep tionally largo brain. Taking nil tho facts togothor, it secuiod as though this braiu growth Mas an important element in tho survival of animals. If tho animals became largo and un wioldy with n small bruin, it would bn Habit to suffer from any change of climate. In other words, in early times tho big brain conquered, as it is tho big brain that couquors in civilization to-day. Prof. Flower said it was satisfactory to find a case whero tho facts workod out coinclik-d with previously formed theories, bceauso that was not always tho case, and sometimes tho facts or tho theories had to go to tho wall. In this case thoy had no such dilliculty; and thoy bad to thank tho American government tor tho way in which It had taken up Prof. Marsh's work and was disseminating It The principal reform to fsr loaujunted In Mezlro by the Americans Js the use of tUe re Tolver Innlctd'of lue oM-faeuIoued Mextcso dsceer Hehinn Champion. Oh. ! HIGGINSON & ROGERS Wo nro again to tho front with tho finest assortment of DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES and CHRISTMAS GOODS over soon in tho Valloy. Evory porson buying OK E DOLLAR'S worth of Goods from us during tho month of December will ro coivo a ohanco in tho following bsnutiful and valuablo proaonts : lsl 3d 411 511 Prize PInsli Celliifl Bressin-case. it Meersclii Gigar Holder. Paotoai Aim, Bronze 711 Handsome if Large Scraj-Book. These Prizes will Christmas Cards, Scrap Books, Our stock is too Inrgo to mention everything, hut eomo nml sco for yourselves GrandeRoude Drug Store, HIGGINSON & ROGERS, Props., La Grande, - Oregon. SANTA CLAUS' HEADQUARTERS JONES BROS. 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