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e v. The Oregon Scout. r VOL.11. UNION, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1880. NO, 42. .u it 's THE OREGON SCOUT. An Independent wcoklr Journal, (ssuod ovo y Saturdny by JONES & CHANCEY, Publishers end Proprietor. A K. Jones, I Kdltor. f J II. Chanckt, I Foreman. Hates op subscription: "One copy, one year $1 60 " " Six months '. l 00 " " Tlirco mouths 75 Invariably cash In advance. If by any clianco eubfcrlptions are not paid till end or year, two dollars will bo oharROd. H.Uesof advertising mado known on appli cation. Correspondence from all parts of tho county solicited. ' Address all communications to A. K. Jones, Editor Oregon Scout, Union, Or. Lodge Directory. Grand Iionpe Vai.lev Lodoe, No. BO. A. Fv and A. SI. Meets on tho second and fourth Saturdays of each month. . 0. F. IlELt,, W. M. ' C. E. Davis, Secretary. "Union Lopqe. No. 89, 1. O. O. P. Iteprulnr meetings on Friday evenings of each week at their hall In Union. All brethren In good standing aro invited to attond. lly order of tho lodge. S. V. Lono, N. O. Q. A. Thompson, Secy. Clmrcli Directory. M. 13. Ciruncii Divine sorvlco every Sunday at 11 u. in and 7 p. in. Sunday school nt 3 p. in. Prayer meeting every Thursday oventng utC:30. Hiiv. Watson, Pastor. PiiEPiiTTEniAN Ciiuiicii llegular church eorvicod every Sabbath morning and evening. Prayer meeting each weok on Wednesday evening. Babbath school every Subbath at 10 a. m. Itov. II. Veiinon Hick, Pastor. St. John's Episcopal Ciinncn Service every Sunday at 11 o'clock a. m. Hev. W. 11. Powell, Hector. , County Ofllccra. Judgo A. C. Craig Sheriff A. T. Saunders Clerk It. F. Wilson Treasurer A. F. llenson School Superintendent J. L. Hindman Surveyor E. Simonis Coroner E. II. Lowla commissioneus. Goo. Ackles Jno. Stanley Stato Senator L. H. Htneliart REPRESENTATIVES. F. T. Dick , E. E. Taylor City Oillcerfi. Mayor D. It. ltccs councilman. 8. A. Pursel W. D. Dcidleman J. 8. Elliott J. It. Thompson Jno. Kennedy A. Levy Hecordcr M. P. Davis Marshal E. E. fates Treasurer J. D. Carroll Strcot Commissioner L. Eaton Departure of Train. Hegular east bound trains Icavo at 9:30a. m. West bound trains leavo at 4:30 p. m. PROFESSIONAL. J. R. CIUTES, ATTOKIVKY AT Uff. Collecting and probato practico speclaltiea Olllco, two doors south of Postolllco, Union, Oregon. R. EAKIN, Attorney at Law an Notary Public. ORlce, ono door south of J. II. Eaton's storo Union, Oregon. I. N. CROMWELL, M. D., Physician and Surgeon Ofllco, ono door south ot J. It. Eaton's storo, lUnion, Oregon. A. E. SCOTT, W. D., 1HYSICIAIV A'I si;kj;i;ozv, lias permanently located at North Powder, wheroho will answer all calls. T. II. CRAWFORD, ATTOniVKY AT Uff, Union, .... Oregon. D. Y. K. DEERING, JPJiyslcImt and Surgeon, Union, Oregon. Offloo, Miln street, neztdoor to Jones Bros.' yarloty storo. Hesldenco, Main etreot, second house south of court house. ChronlodUcasos a specialty. D. B. REES, Notary Public AND Conveyancer. OFFICE Stato Land Ofllco building, Union, Union County, Oregon. II. F. BURLEIGH, Attorney at Iair, Ileal Kntnto and Collecting; Agent. Land Office Business a Specialty. Ofllco at Alder, Union Co., Oregon. JE68E HAHDESTT, 3. W. SHKLTON SHELTON & HARDEST!, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Will practice in Union, Ilakcr, Grant, Umatilla and Morrow Counties, also in tho Supreme Court ot Oregon, tho District, Circuit and Bupremo CourU ol tho United States. Mining and Corporation businoaa a spe cialty. Ottice la Union, Orrfioa J HIBERNATING ANIMALS. Xho Almost Complete Cessation of All Signs of Life. Animals vary much in their power to withstand extremes of heat or cold. have seen rroid fishes frozen un for I - o - - 1 several davs in a solid cako of ice and come out in good condition; and it has been shown that many small forms of crustaceans, etc., arc active, and evi dently enjoy a life in tho frozen sludge of tho north. Experiments with tho common snail, Lymnoca stagnalis show that it can be frozen, but its size and growth are greatly affected by cold, and a race of dwarf snails may bo pro- ' duccd by breeding thorn in water. In observing the hibernating animal we aro impressed with t ho almost com plete resemblance to death. The low est temperature recorded is in tho Zigel or spcrmophitus citillus, that during winter sleep had a temperature of 2 de grees centigrade. This curious animal maintains a temporature in many cases almost exactly like that of tho air that surrounds it. Thus in one instance the thermometer gave 2 degrees above zero, ' and examination showed that this was the actual internal temperature of the animal. In another case tho tempera ture of the room was !) or 10 degrees, while that of tho animal was 2 degrees lower, showing that a warm-blooded animal could become cold-blooded at such times. Some of the other phenomena relat ing to hibornatcrs is of more than pass ing interest. Thus, when an animal is recovering from the sleep or awakening, it would bo natural to assume that this is tho result of a rising temperature; but experiment has shown that this is not so in somo cases. Thus, in the i i. ... . . case oi a weasel, it came out oi mo I sleep without anv change in tho tem- ' pcraturo of the room, which was 10 de ' grces centigrade, anil, what was more curious, the animal was two hours and forty-livo minutes in awakening, tho body temperature rising more rapidly during the second part of the time than the first. Thus, in tho case of the weasel cited, the temperature rose about 6.6 degrees C. in tho first hour and twenty-five minutes and 17 degrees in tho following fifty minutes. In somo experiment made with an English hibernating hedgehog, tho animal's backbone was partly removed with out awakening it, showing how deep is this strange, sleep-liko condition. Tho bats cf southern California aro not hibernating as aro their allies and cousins of the north, being very common on the foot-hills at night. A long-eared specimen appears to be quito common, resembling somewhat tho famous vampire of South America. In tho north tho bats aro among tho first to enter upon tho winter sleep; tho first cold snap that destroys tho insect life forces them to betake to hollow trees, etc., and there they hang cither singly or in clumps until tho following spring or summer. The winter sleep of the bat is remarkable for its resem blance to death. Tho most delicate in struments used to detect pulsation have failed when applied to them. Air that has surrounded a hibernating bat for hours has upon analysis failed to show evidenco of having b.'en breathed, and the little animals have been placed in illuminating gas that, under ordinary circumstances, would bo fatal to them in a few seconds, without tho least re sult. In fact, all the functions of life seemed at a standstill, tho animal neither eating, digesting, growing, or hardly breathing a condition but little understood oven in this day of investi gation. Tho boars of southern California, tho brown or cinnamon and grizzly, though frequenting tho upper peaks of tho Sier ra Madres, roam about all winter, find ing a sufficient food supply. The black and white- bears aro the familiar hibcr naters of tho east and north. In Now York stato tho former forms a burrow generally under tho roots of a tree, inlato November or before, and is soon snowed in, remaining all winter without food. When they go in they are fat, as a rule, but in tho spring gen erally eomo out lean, hungry and sav age, showing that thoy have relied to a certain extent upon their fat Tho young of Ubo white bear appear during this imprisonment of the mother, tho breath of tho latter and the cubs molting tho ice of the frozon prison, and enlarg ing it Kirby and Sponcc, English nat uralists of tho last generation, recorded a case of human hibernation. It was observed in India by an English officer of high rank. lie was a skeptic, and had a grave dug in a placo of his own selecting, and in it the nativo was plac ed, his mouth and nostrils having been closed, and tho ground tilled in. A guard was placed over it for three months, so tho story goes, and at the end of this timo tho nativo was taken I out, and in a few hours recovered Tho numerous cases of long fasts and phe nomenal sleepers that aro so often re ported in tho papers would tend to show j that something of the kind might be possible, or at loa.-t probable. San Francisco Cull. Sir. Wanamaker's Plan. The greatest merchant in Philadel phia is Mr. Wanamakor. Tins is tho theory upon which lie places his adver tising business: "Thero is always some trading doing, even in the dullest season, and we strive to divert tho floating or transient trade to our place. Again, when business ordinarily is dull, people who sec our invitations in the newspapers are more apt to read them for the reason that they have more time to read, and there aro fewer ad vertisements then. "Many merchants who have been in business for a certain number of years will say: 'Oh, we are so well known it is no use for us to advertise.' There never was a greater mistake. Wo would as soon think of canceling our insurance pol'uies as our advertising contracts. Wo spend more money with newspapers eacli year that goes by; there are more people who want goods, and new trade is always coining to the surface. "Advertising that is well dono is cumulative in its character. It is liko tho compounding of interest. An ad vertisement in a daily paper ono day will, in all probability, mako a good return to the merchant who has the goods tho people want at the right prices; each successive advertisement that he puts in gains an impetus and influence from the original ono and so it counts up until t he name of the firm gets what is equivalent to the 'good will' of a successful business, besides deriving the direct profit from immedi ate sales caused by the advertising. "To advertise well, a merchant should give as much care to his news paper space as he does to any other de partment of his business. As a gener al thing a merchant can well afford to spend in newspaper advertising from one-third to one-fifth tho amount of all his other total expenses. If a man in business talks as earnestly through his newspaper when he is addressing one or two hundred thousand people, sim ultaneously, as when lie is talking to one customer, ho cannot fail to mako a success of newspaper advertising." Philadelphia News. Nautch Girls. The Nautch girls, or professional dancers of India, form one of the great est sources of diversion to thu natives of that country. Thoy belong to a par tieular caste, which is held in similar estimation to that accorded snake charmers and jugglers. Selected on account of their personal beauty or un usual gracefulness, those girls aro taught their art from childhood, and are lorceu to go tlirougn a severe cour.io of training beforo thoy aro al lowed to appear at entertainments. Many of them, when in the exorcise of their profession, hardly deserved the name of "girls," as thoy aro often seen performing with their grown-up daugh ters. Dancing gins generally sing as they dance, and are always aecompan ied by musicians playing on instruments resembling the violin and guitar. Their dances requiro groat attention, us their feet are ornamented with anklets adorn ed with small bells, which must sound in concert witli tho music. In general, tho dresses of these Nautch girls may be said to bo rich and gorgeous; and sometimes thero is such an enormous quantity of colored petti coats and trousers, so manv shawls wrapped about their waists, and such a variety of skirts peeping out, ono bo low another, that icir figures aro al most entirely hidden. Perfumes, flowers and trinkets all are employed to add further charms to these public favorites. Nautch girls aro paid according to their beauty, fineness of voice and skill in dancing, and aro employed at wed dings and all great festivities. In the palmy days of tho profession, thoy used to receive incomes as largo as those of tho ministers at tho courts of uativo kings. Even in modem times, since their popularity has wanod, a girl has been known to refuse a sum equivalent to $5,000 for performing three nights. At present, however, a dancer of moderate celebrity can bo cugaged for a compar atively small sum. A Narrow Escape. In a suit at Denver a few days ago the defendant in a caso was asked by tho opposing counsel: "What did you pay for this silver mino originally?" "I gave a revolver and $25, sir." "Did you take out any oro?" "No, sir; there was none to take out." "And yet you sold it to tho plaintiffs (from tho E.ist) for $28,000? Didn't you deliberately intend to swindlo them?" "Oh, no, sir. I thought I was lotting them oil mighty easy for a couple of men who were going to form a stook company and float out a hundred thousand share at $100 each on the confiding public." Wall fitrcet tows. JOHN MORGAN'S DEATH. Tho Grent Rebel Itnltler Said to Hrtvo Itccu ltctmyctl. No less frequently than onco a year, writes a Greenville, Tenn., correspond ent of The Louisville Courier-Journal, some crank in the north will revivo tho long ago exploded story that John Morgan still lives somewhere in Texas, and while tins story is being run down another ono is started that Gen. Mor gan was killed while making his es cape from tho Columbus penitentiary. All thoo stories aro received in Green ville with a smile, for there isn't an in habitant here of mature years who lived here during the war who hasn't ocular proof that the great rebel raider bit the dust on a Sunday morning late in the year 18G1 in tho door-yard of tho old Williams mansion, not a thousand yards from tho East Tennessee depot, in Greenville. Morgan had coino to Greenville leading possibly seven thous and men. They were all camped in three or four different divisions in the neighborhood of Greenville. Morgan, with two or threo members of his stall", had been received as a guest in tho old Williams mansion, then tho finest and most stately of any in Greene county. Thero is a tradition current in Green ville that some ono under tho Williams roof betrayed the presence of the guest bv sending word to (Jen. Gillam, wlic was then with his command at Bull's Gap, now known as Rogersvillo Juno tion, eighteen miles south of Greenville. At any rate, between the arrival of Gen. Morgan at tho Williams homo and tin arrival of Gen. Gillam thero was just timo for a messenger to go to Bull's Gap and for tho union army to read Greenville by forced marching. Gillam arrived just before daylight. In discus sing tho history to-day a man who wa. a surgeon in Morgan's command said: "When tho Yankees came up in tho night it seemed for all tho world to ti. that there was a million of 'em, and wo just got up and dusted, and afterward learned that their army was smaller than ours." Mr. Tom A. Baker, a marble-dealer of Morristown, Tenn., who lived in Greenvillo when Morgan was killed, told your correspondent to-day that o tho fatal Sunday morning, whilo it war yet dark, ho heard the firing, and, boy liko ho hurried over to tho William, homo not two minutes after Morgan foil. Ho said that the federals had stolen up to tho house and surroundet it, when Morgan discovered their pres ence, and without tho ceremony o dressing, but arrayed simply in shir and drawers, made a dash for the streot and the stable opposite where his hois was feeding. Through the darkness tho federal soldiers could see tho some thing in white lleoing, and a dozoi shots were fired, one ball only hitting him, and that ono pierced his heart Said Mr. Baker: "I saw the dead man a moment after, and whilo tho blood yet flowed from tho gaping wound. "I know when and whore and how John Morgan died. His body was after ward thrown across a mule and carried up to Bristol, where it w;us buried and whero it rested until the war closed, when Morgan's relatives moved it to Kentucky. Tho storv that indignities or insults were ottered tho remains is all bosh." It is related that old Rachel Foster, who lived near Greenville, and who was to tho confederates what Mollio Pitcher "was to tho British, came trooping into Greenville, mounted on a mulo, an hour after Morgan was dead, yelling like o savngo and swearing in a way that would have made an apprenticed pirate envious: "Whero is that Morgan? I heard ho's dead. Let me sco his corpse. I'll not believe wo'h not have to light tho d d scoundrel anj more till I look into his dead face." Tho folks of (Jreenvillo knew Radio! and mado way for her to bo satisfied. Sho looked into tho dead face, ceased her blasphemy, remounted her mule and disappeared. Tho English Rose. Several years ago a beautiful English girl was married in Montreal to ono ol tho handsomest Spanish gentlemen who had ever been in that city. After two years spent abroad tho lady for some cause obtained a divorce, returned to America, and until very recently gave lessons in embroidery and water colors, and lived with an old family servant in rooms on Trernont street. Two months ago siio was left nearly $50,000 by the death of an uncle in Montreal, where she now is. As sho brought letters to some of our best-known society ladies, sho was able to earn plenty of monoy for her retired mode of life. It is safe to say that no handsomer face could be found in Boston titan tiiat of tho "Eng lish Rose," as sho was onco called. Boston Beacon. Old fmhkmed red sealing wafer bare come Into ii u again, mid already may be laid to cover ii multitude of corrcupoiidence. Cattle Raising on tho Plains. During tho winter of 1871 and 1872 I Dtigagcd in tho handling of Texas cattle in tho semi-arid belt of Kansas. 1 had provided no food for my stock. I know that cattlo could and did winter on tho plains far north and west of where I was; but I did not know that thero was a dillerenco in tho nutritious qualities of tho different prairio grasses. I did not understand the peculiarities of tho climate of tho semi-arid belt, nor the ofl'ects of rain falling on dead grass. Stupid of me, of course, but 1 had plen ty of company. My neighbors wero bright Germans, intelligent English men, and keen Americans from almost every Stato in tho Union. Wo wero a hopeful band, young, strong, and easrer. When wo gathered into our wretched hovels o' nights, and tho pipes wero glowing, our talk was of cattle, cattle, cattle. Tho sales of steers off t he range at six cents per pound, live weight, made tho previous spring, were strong ly dwelt upon. I was repeatedly as sured that the Kansas winters wero so mild that I would not need a coat. Tho height tho new prairio grass would surely bo on tho 1st of March was measured on table logs by out-stretched and dirty index lingers for my in struction and encouragement Thoro was not ono of all tho band of eager men who rodo tho Kansas plains in tlioso days who did not firmly believe that our fortunes wero made. Tho country was full of cattle. November came in with a blizzard, and, with slight interruptions, kindly allowed by Niuuro for the purposo ot affording us oppor tunities to skin dead cattle, tho bliz zard lasted until March, and tho cold, stormy weather for two months longer. There was no new grass until the mid dle of May. In all tho Texas herds held in Kansas tho losses wore heavy. Hardly a herd lost less than 50 per cent, and GO, 70, and 80 per cent losses wero common. By spring wo learned that great herds of heavy beof cattle, held on tho Smoky, Cottonwood, and Arkan sas rivers, had boon frozen on tho range, and that tho Texans had saddled their horses and gone homo. Tho crooks wero dammed with tho decaying car casses of catlo. Tho air was heavy with tho stench of decaying animals. Tho cruelties of the business of starving cnt tlo to death wero vividly impressed on mo. Every wagon sent from tho cattlo ranges to tho railroad towns was loaded with hides. The next summer, bank ruptcy stalked over tho Kansas plains and struek men down. Our troublo was that none of us know that tho tall blue-joint grass was worthless for win ter feed unless it wero made into hay, none of us knew that tho fall rains had washed tho nutriment out of it, and none of us know that about onco in ten years thero is a hard winter in tho far West, during which the mercury mod estly retires into tho bull) of tho ther mometer, and blizzard chases blizzard over tho plains in (prick succession. Some of us learned t ho lesson at onco; others, who claimed that tho cattlo needed protection, not food, erected sheds, which proved to bo death-traps, the cattlo "stacking" under thorn dur ing cold weather, and tried it again, and went into bankruptcy promptly after the second venture. As it was in Kan sas, so it is, in a less degree, rn tho so called "cattlo country." A wet autumn, followed by a hard winter, kills tho cattlo held on tho Northern ranges by tho thousand. Frank Wilkcson in Harper's Magazine. A Matrimonial Discussion. Stockton Wife lour ideas of cor recting children aro really foolish, l'ou whip them for small trifles and lot great faults go unpunished. Husband That's right; talk away. It seems to amuse you, and don't hurt me. .Tho next thing you say will prob ably bo that you know that I was a fool when you married mo, and that you wouldn't havo taken mo if you could have gotton anybody else. Wife Oh, no; you aro mistaken. I didn't know you wero a fool when I married you. Husband Why is it that yotr didn't happen to sco through mo so cloarly then as you do nowP Wife Because tho fool was not then a-parent. PaciJo Jester. Reaching His Grandmother's Heart. "Gran'ma," said a boy of nino years, how old aro you?" "About sixty-six," said tho grand mother. "You'll die soon, won't voir, gran' ma?" "Yes, dear, I expect to." "And when I dio. gran'ma, can I bo buried 'side of you?" Yes, dear," said sho, as hor hoart warmed towards tho little one, whom sho folded closer in her arms. "Gran'ma," softly whispered tho Ht tlo rouge, "gimme 1Q cents." Clinton Uuglt. Tho Loss of tho Oregon. In the loss of tho steamship Oregon the Cunard Lino sustained its first grave mishap, and suffered tho break of a record that lias been singular for it freedom from accidents. Since its start tho Cunard Lino has been exceptionally fortunato in ocean travel, and those who aro inclined to bo superstitious may find something significant in tho fact that the lost vessel was tho first of this lino of steamers with a namo thaO did not end with tho letter A. But thw good luck of this old lino seems even now to havo stood it in good stead, in asmuch as the wreck was not attended by a single loss of life, a circumstance that attests tho adinirablo disclplino of t ho ship's crow and tho excellence of tho general management. It was probably another fortunato clianco that tho Oregon did not havo its full quota of passengers. Very rarely indeed docs it happen that a Cunard! steamer crosses tho Atlantic with so small a burden of human freight as tho Oregon carried, the rule being that all available spaco is taken, whereas tho Oregon had less than two-thirds the number of people it was able to accom modate. This no doubt proved an ad vantage to tho officers and men when tho life-saving work began, as another four hundred of passengers would havo added greatly to tho confusion and so much increased tiio risks that it might havo been impossible to avoid some loss of life. Considering tho vast travel back and forth across tho Atlantic thero aro com paratively few disasters, and tho loss of lifo does not begin to equal that oc casioned by railroad catastrophics, cvon taking into account the great differenco in tho passenger traffic of the two sys tems. Though there aro certain dan gers that can not bo escaped, now that travel is continuous throughout nil sea sons of tho year, ocean voyaging has been reduced to practical safety by the-" various operating lines, vessels being better built and moro competently manned than formerly, and tho com petitive spirit is moro judiciously regu lated. Thero aro twenty-live steamship linos plying between European porta and Now York, and tho naturo of their scrvico may bo determined from the fact that during tho year 1885 they land ed in Now York 281,170 steerage and 55,100 cabin passengers. Tho Central Lino is, as is pretty gen erally known, tho most favored by first cabin passengers, becauso of tho repu tation for reliability and concern for its patrons it has always enjoyed. Ifc carried 4,000 moro cabin passengers than any other lino last year. The North-Gorman Lloyd, tho Hambttrg Amencan, tho Whito Star, tho Inruarr, and tho Red Star lines aro foremost in steerage passengers, tho first named from Bremen, boing far in tho lead". Its steerage list last year numbers 68,. !195. Tho Hamburg lino carried :)8,9 13 and tho Carr lino also starting fromi Hamburg, 11,137 steerage passengers. Tho six lines, which ineludo thoCunanlr starting from Liverpool, carried 82, 819 steerage. Tho two Glasgow lines carried 19,078. Tho lino from Ilhrvo carried 11,551. Theso figures, which represent a very fair annual average, are given simply as indicating the prm cipal sources and volume of immigra tion to tins country from Europe, ami' tho importance of the respective car riers. Tho great considerations with pedplo who pass back and forth for business or plcasttro aro comfort, convenience and speed, safety probably boing the. last thing tho majority of travelers takcj into account in booking passage. Thercc is, of course, a groat rivalry between tho chief passenger lines in theso sever al particulars, and in recent years ocean steamers havo become marvels of elegance and completeness in all pos sible directions. In tho matter of speed? tho Cunard Line, with tho steamer Etrn ria, leads tho record, having mado titer trip from Qmccnstown to Now York in six days, fivo hours, and forty-four min utes. Tho America, of a tho NntionaJ Lino, mado tho next best timo, boing: but ten hours short of tho Etruria'e rec ord. Eight days is now thought to be rathor slow time. Tho refcrenco moda abovo to tho great excess of railroad.' accidents over those of ocean travel may bo bettor appreciated when It io known that from 1&7S to tho end of toa months of 1885 thero wero killod.by. railroad accidents not including acci dents by walking on or crossing tradtei. or falling from trains in motion ISfilV parson's, turd 15,997 woro injured, rathor formidable showing when it' i remembered how olalrorato is the sys tem now in operation for tho avoidanca of accidents. Chicago Inter Occam A Persian law ay tliat a woman may marry at any time between ttie age of oue ami ubiety yeara. Evidently even the ukf pi kwsM immutable an tliow of tho Medea and lVrlB knew that It was no use to opjKwe a wohmu when she get the matrimonial Idea Into ir bcuu.