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The Oregon Scout. OL. II. UNION, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1S8G. NO, 51. THE OREGON SCOUT. An Independent weekly Journal, Issued cvc y , Saturday by JONES & CHANCEY, Publishers und Proprietors. A, K. .Tones, I IMitor. f J B. ClIANCKY, ( roronutti. HaTES OK SlMISCltlPTION: One copy, one year $1 r.0 " " isix months 1 (X) " Three month 75 Invarlnbly cash in udvnuco. If by pny chnncu suhfcrlptions nro not paid till end ot year, two dollars will bo charged. lltttt-s of advertising niiido known on appli cation. Correspondence from all parts of the county solicited. Address nil communications to A. K.Jones, Editor Oregon Scout, I'nlon, Or. I.oiIko Directory. On.urn ItONDC V.w.i kv I.onnK, No. fifl. A. V. and A. M. Meets on tho second and fourth Saturdays of each month. 0. 1". IlKt.ii, W.M. C. K. Davis, Secretary. l'xio.v i.opok. No. :r.i. I. O. O. P. Hejnilar meeting on l-'rldny evcnliifri of each week at their hall In I'lilon. All brethren in trood standing- arc invited to attend. Ity order of tlio lodire. S. w. J.o.no, N. U. G. A. TnoMrsoN.Sccy. Clmrrli Directory. M. K. Cnt'iicii Dlvino scrvleo cvervSundny at 11 a. in and? p. m. Sunday school at U p. ni. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening atti:;K. Ukv. Watson, Pastor. PiiEsiiYTEitlAN Ciiuiioii ltegular church services every Sabhath morning and evenintr. J'raycr mocttntr each week on Wednesday evening. Sabhnth school every Sabbath at 10 a.m. llov. H. Vkiinon Hick. Pastor. St. John's EiuscopAr, Ciiuncii Servico every Sunday at II o'clock a. in. Huv. W. H. Powki.l. Hector. County Ofllcers. Jtidgo A. C, Craig Sheritr A. L. Saunders Clerk It. K. Wilson Treasurer A. K. Ilenson School Superintendent I. L. Hlndman Surveyor K. Slmonls Coroner E. II. Lewis C0.MM1SS1ONIUIS. Geo. Acklcs Jno. Stanley State Senator I,. It. ltlnehart HIU'HKSKNTA tt VES. F.T.Dick E. E.Taylor City Olllcerw. D. H. Hoes VOU.soii.Muy. W. f). Ilckllcman Mayor S. A. Pursol.. J.S. Elliott. ..J. II. Thomnson lno. Kennedy A. Levy Heeorder... ...M. V. Davis Marshal .. . E. E. "atcs Treasurer. . . ..J. I). Carroll Street Commissioner L. Eaton Departure, of Train. Heeular east bound trains leave at !:'30n. ni. West bound trains leavo at it'M p. m. I'ltOFI'SSIONAL. J. R. CIIITES, ATTOKrVBJY AT I. AW. Collecting and probato praotico specialties Ollice, two doois south of Postollice, Union, Oregon. R. KAKIN, Attorney at Law aod Nttary Pnic. Onico, ono door south of J. It. Eaton's storo Tnion, Oregon. I. N. CROMWELL. M. 1)., Physician and Surgeon Onico. ono door south ot J. II. Eaton's store, Union, Oregon. A. E. SCOTT, M. D., iBBVwn.'A.'V Aia sj u:;i:. Has permanently located at North Powder, wherehu will answer all calls. T. II. CRAWFORD, ATTOBtlVKY AT B.AW, Union, Oregon. M. I5aki:k. , J. F. I5aki:. RAKER & ISAKER, Attorneys anfl Counsellors at Law, A Nil REAL ESTA'iE AGENTS. La GitANin:, - - Oukgon. D. B. REES, Notary Public Conveyancer. OFFICE-Stato Land Oflicc building, Union, Union Count), Oregon. H.-F. BURLEIGH, Attorney nt B.av, BCuI ICotatc uutl NII't'liiiK Aizvnt. Land Ollico Business a Specialty. Oftico at Alder, Union Co., Oregon. JESSE HAItUESTT, J. W. fillr.I.TON SHELfON & HARDESTY, attoibb:y.s at i.aw. Will pine t ice in Union, linker, Grant, Umatilla ami Morrow Counties, aluo In tlio Suprttnio Court ol Oregon, the District, Cin-iiit mid Supremo Courts of the United Statin. Mining and Corporation business a upe. tiulty . OUic in Union, Oregon. N J. W. STRANGE, CH-TICK-Corner Main and A Streets. I'nion, Oregon. All work strictly first-class. Chargei reasonable. A. L. COBB, M. D., PHYSICIAN ADD SORGEON. Having permnnrutly located in Alder, I'nion county, Ori'son. will be found ready to attend to cnl!n in nil the various towns and Hfttleincnts of the Wallowa valley. dironii Sio:i--H u Specially. ?0My motto is: "Live und let live." IEP0T MOTEL A. C. CRAIG, - - Proprietor. (Union Depot, Oregon.) Splendid accommodations for commer cial men. Tables nlwnyS supplied with the best the market affords. f-IIol am) Cold Mixim.u. Baths-OS KENTUCKY LIQUOR STORE AIB SOBA B'ACTOBCV. Cor, Main and I Sts., - Union, Oregon. SIIKK.IIAN .VI11LKV, l'ropx. Manufacturers and dealers in Soda Water, Snrsnpnrilhi, CiiiiRcr Ale, Cream Soda and Champagne Cider, Syrups, etc. Orders promptly idled. Daily Stage Line From Union to the Cove. J. S. Elliott, I'llOPIUUTOH Leaves Union nt 10:.'I0 a. in., and re turns at U::!0 p.m. every day cxceplStindny Fa.-o from depot to Cove To Rround trip 1 Passengers will bo taken from tlie depot through to Cove via Union. W. R. JOHNSON, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Main Street, Union, Oregon. Plnns and Specifications for Dwellings, Barns and Bridges furnished FREU OF CHARGE. Bridge Building a Specialty All hinds of Cabinet Work neatly execu ted. Repairing done on short notice. Kono but tho best workmen employed, nnd satisfaction guaranteed. Call nnd interview me. FRUIT AND SHADE APPLE, PEAR. PLUM, PRUNE, PEACH, APRICOT. CRABAl'PLE, CHERRY. SHRUBBERY AND SHADE TREES Of well known varieties, suitablo for this climate. Ciin also furnish foreign sorts at one-third the price asked by eastern enn Yasser. I desire to sell trees at prices that peoplo can afford to buy. L. J. ROUSE, Cove, Oregon. Or. Van Snoisa 132-134 Tbiri Mrcst, Portlanfl, Orep TS a regular gradunto in mcdicino; has been longer engaged in tho special treat ment of all Venereal, Sexual and Chronic Diseases than any other physician in tho Wost, as city papers show, and old resi dents know; SI, 000 reward for any case which he fnils to cure, coming under his treatment, by following his directions. DR. VAN is the most successful Catarrh, Lung and Throat Doctor in America. Ho will toll you your trouble without asking you a hingle question, and WARRANTS PERM A NEST CURE in the following cases: NERVOUS DEBILITY, Spermatorrhea, Seminal Losses, Sexual Decay, Failing Memory, Weak Eyes, Stunted Develop ment, Lnck of Energy, Impoverished Blood, Pimples, Impediment to Marriage; also Blood and Skin Diseases, Syphilis, Eruptions, Huir Fulling, Bone Pains, Swell ings, Sore Throat, Ulcers, Effects of Mer cury, Kidney nnd Bladder Troubles, Weak Back, Burning Urine, Incontinence, Gonor liien, Gleet, Stricturo, receives searching treatment, prompl relief and euro for life. NERVOUS Diseases (with or without dreams), Dbenscd discharges cured prompt ly without hindrance to business. BOTH SEXES consult confidentially. If in trouble call or write. Delays are dang erous. Diseases of tlio Eyo or Ear, Ulceration or Catarrh, internal or external, Deafness or Paralysis, Singing or Ronring Noises, Thickened Drum, etc., permanently-cured. LOST MANHOOD perfectly restored. CANCERS AND TUMORS permanently removed without the knife or caustic. Medicine compounded and furnished to all patients at ollico strictly pureand vege table. Guaranteo of j'kiimanknt cures In all cases undertaken. Consultation free and strictly confidential. All correspon dence promptly attended to; medicine sent by express to any nddrrM free from expos uriL Call nr address Private Dispensary, .Vos. l.'lU-KM Third St.. Portland, Oregon. Terms strictly cash. Ollice hours 8 a. m. to 8 p. ni. W. CAPPS, M. D., Surgeon and Union, Homeopathic Pbysiciar. OltKl.ON. Will go to any part of Eastern Oregon, when solicited, to perform operations, or for consultation. IVIcdU'liio.. rurnUliftl Without ('lin rue. i:trn Ollico adjoining . I ones Bros.' Store. t!i:o. WniGHT, President. W. T. Wnf-UT, ''asliier. OREGON. Does a General Banking Basincs-. Buys nnd sells exchange, ami discounts com mercial paper. Collections canfully promptly reported. attended to, and s CO' n o jri 5 o bJ) o o $3 CO 1) C5 to C3 C6 tn a o 0) o o to o c S' a o 3 S3 w r3 n a to a 3 a C3 m .2 t3 Pi MASON & HAMLIN Organs AND Pianos I'lio.xeellcil "V7' can Hnvo Urom f50 to St X) on the Ji. (L9VS, )iirchH!U ot an iustrumcul hy buyintr tlirouirli V. T. MltKillT, Agent. Union, Ogn. Scve GEiggss Factory. JAJIES PAYNE, Proprietor. Having procured tho services of Mr. M. A. Sickles, n. cheese maker who has had innny years' oxporieuco in tho largest fac tories of Wisconsin, I feel confident that I can supply my patrons with a quality sec ond to nono on tho market. pi)- Orders promptly filled. Addross, Lv.mi;s P.w.ni:, Cove, Union County, Ore. Tonsorial Rooms Two doors south of .Tones Union, Oregon. Bros.' store, J. M. Johnson, PllOI'IlIUTOU. Hair cutting, shaving and shampooing done neatly and in tlio best style. OITIvlATvMAPIET Mniu Street, Union, Oregon. Bunso.n Bito.'s Pnoi'iiiinoiis. Keep constantly on hand BEEF, PORK, VEAL. MUTTON, SAU SAGE, HAMS, LARD, ETC. CEnTEMIAL -:- HOTEL, Union, Oregon. Dan. CiuNni.nn, PlIOI'ItlBTOIl Having recently purchased this hotel and refitted it throughout, I am prepared to accommodate tho hungry public in first class style. Cull and te mo. Laiioi: Saii-i-i.u Rooms for tho accommodation ol commercial travelers. 'fBiPil BRING FLOWERS. A h.ilf completed spider web ti:in; Misjietuled from the lowe-l branrh of a j;ree!!-ero lied pine, and in the slipem liejht of an afternoon tlie spider, rapidly and deftly pinninjx its delicate threads, join-! it to a snowdrop bush elnsterinj: with whito jewels. The warm breeze, perfumed with drowsy odors of pine and hemlock, causes the frail structure to quiver like heart chords under sor row, but he keeps busily spinning. "Many a red-breasted robin runs swifth past, but he stops not at his work. lie is constructing his habitation. A hundred polished shafts and exquisitely chiseled tablets catch the ilory of tlie sun and Hash it heavenward, as if in defiance of time's servant. A hundred simple stones lie humbly under the shadows of those rrand monuments, and their tops, to the spirit's eye, touch the Golden Throne. Hemlock bough. freshly cut lio upon a mound of newh ting earth. A faded wreath, torn and broken, hangs on a cross above a child's grave. A stone dog sits at tlie head of a long sod-eovorcd mound in an atti tude of watchfulness, as if he were wait ing for the coming of his master, whose body, as lifeless as his own, rests below. Here is tho habitation of tho dead. Its silent, unheeding residents, like the spider, spun tho threads of life's gauzy cd i lice in the vigor of health tinder the smile, of loving friends, and the very air breathed upon their labor with helpful fr agrancif, or they dragged tho chains of sad unprovable toil through tlio weary hours of an unloved, grief -beset life, with the cold wind of failure or tho hot blast of passion mercilessly balloting them. Rut, built in marble or built in wood, built in joy or limit in sorrow, these earthly abodes have forever crumbled, faded and disappear ed. Tlie breath of death, perfumed alike for all, has touched the fragile texture of tboir walls and they have fal len, withered, vanished. In this dwelling place of tho dead roses anil lilies-ol'-the-valley blossom; the full-voiced songsters of the wood send fortli their daily songs of joy and praise uninterruptedly; tho young grass shoots its emerald spears into beautiful robes to cover those beneath the sod; the trees put on garments of waving foliage; the squirrels jump from branch to branch, or, chattering noisily, run along the fence; tho bulterlly flutters from sunbeam to llower; tho grasshop per clicks in tlio shrubbery; tlio fount ain throws its spray high up that it may return in glittering pearls. Can it lie sorrowful to abide in such a spot? Tlie hush which reigns here, scarcely broken by the din of a city's hurrying crowd, whispers of peace and rest. Those of tho living who visit here step softly, and their voices are low and gentle when tiioy speak, for they would not break tlie quiet, which, like the pause at the close of a grand anthem, comes abidingly where tho dead dwell. How many who are still spinning the web of human cares and joys, business and pleasure, good and evil, come on .Sunday or in tho fading light of sum mer days? un oki man siowiy moves along a cypress-shaded path with no loving support from tho arm in which ho had found sustaining help and comfort for forty years or more, for his wife, ave! his very self, ho feels, has found a rest ing placo hero. Ho has little joy now, save in looking forward to tho day when he shall be borne to share her abode. A woman, wearing tho dress of mourning, leading a little girl, seeks whoro her companion for a few short years .sleeps. She clasps tho little one's hand lightly and weeps silently, for her grief has grown calm and patient in tlio consoling arms of time. The little girl looks up in her mother's tear-wot faco and says: "Is dear papa hero? Will ho conio to see us soon?'' "Yes, my dear, some day we shall meet him," tho mother answers, looking afar oil' to where the glowing tints of tlio descend ing sun makes a halo for the heavens and earth to meet in. "Let me kiss tho grass above papa's head; perhaps he'll know it in tho cold, dark ground," and tho little girl, kneeling on her father's grave, pressed her facn to tho earth and whispers: "Dear papa." A strong man, with a woman leaning on his arm, stands beside a little grave. In it sleeps an infant, their dead child. Harsh words and cruel acts had been of daily occurrence in their house homo H was not until their loss foil upon them. Always intending to do better, but never making a beginning, discord had driven love away, but now their common sorrow is uniting their hearts. The habitation of death contains tholr life. Oh, must death be the revelation of love to human hearts. Some recline in carriages as they pass aloiiL' the streets of this city of the dead; sonic walk; some are richly clad; some nro poorly clad; but the rooms of the houso are alike. They know no .ugh. no low. no rieh. no poor. They ivceiw into rct from toiling and pain ill those who have put aside time's spinning wheel, folded their hands upon their breasts, and said "good night" to life. The tears of grief will spring from wounded hearts. Stop them not, but let the soul sing its dirges as well as its glees. Weeping lulls sorrow's pain as a mother's voice soothes the tired child. Shall the resting place of the dead bo somber, dreary, barren? Is it sad to bid tlie dear ones good night and all to sleep to awake in (he morning to a new day in their compan ionship? If it is not, then let it not be a hopeless thought to think of falling to sleep at the night of death, for it is but to slumber for a time, to welcome bye and bye the same dear ones in Un burst ing glory of eternity's morning, as they shall conn to bid ub a heaven ly gooil morning. Bring llowers then; bring heart songs of hope in loving hearts; bring the mu sic of reverential feet and the touch of tender hands; and deck the habitations of the dead until it shall blossom with such beauty as would lltly crown the gate to Heaven's streets. Detroit Free Press, 'THE BURNING OF THE BRUSH. Prose I'oont cent Now llitsetl on nit Obsoles Kimlnml Custom. Doubtless, says The Liciston Journal, the lirst settler and tlie oldest inhabi tant of Maine laid their heads together and contrived the plan of keeping the frost from the celler bv "banking up" in the fall. Tho origin of tlie scheme is lost, but tlie ceremony remains, and shiftless is accounted the householder, of whatever pretensions or degree, who docs not, before snow drives, protect his cellar walls by sawdust, edgings from tlie saw-mill, rushes, swamp hay, bean vines, or, most common of all, neatest and best, by brush from tlio wood lot. In a mild November da)' in the late, lingering, Indian summer the loads of fragrant evergreen conio up from tlie pasture to the farmhouse, or go creak ing through the village street to the market-place, or, perchance, directly to some tidy, white, green-blinded cottage whoso cellar is to entomb sundry bar rels of apples and potatoes that must ha secured from tho frost. Firmly packed with snow and bound by icy chains through tho winter the boughs are faithful guardians, but spring de mands her sacrifices. Nobody objects. Tho evergreens have outlived their use fulness. Let them ba cremated. So it may some day bo said of us. Drag them away from their resting place, the resinous lir, the lithe pine, and the spruce on whose twig-i the children search for gum, Roys may object to dropping potatoes, to stone picking, to digging out of whilowoml, or mending the stone wall, but no boy, however footsore and weary, over re fused to help carry oil' I he brush. Ills nose scents smoke in the itir and his mind's eye discerns the trail of sparks across the iieavens. A oouliru never lacks feeders or admirers. In some big dooryard or on some va cant lot forming lliuir own funeral pyre, tho boughs crackle a protest as the match is applied, but anon the llama leaps through tho pile, and, darling wildly upwanl, throws a livid glow across the faco of the early dusk. The boys, dancing like Plutonian imps about the hlaz.c, lluig on fresh sacrifices, and the Haines seize thoin eagerly and call ruthlessly for more. Heap them on; there are mote boughs in tho back lot! Build the idle higher! The moss has been growing for years on the patri archal hemlocks in the south pasture, but pluck the gray boards oil'. A hun dred winters ami summers have gono to the building of tlie pines on rocky hill. The wealth of half a ;ontury's suns and rains and iIjws are storo 1 in this balmy lir. The rosy morning has blushed for it, the sun showered his gold upon il, and Ihu stars played bo peep with the moonbeams through its branches. Only God and tho years can make another tree, but tho work of God and time the priceless work wo possess is that which we destroy most lightly and with least regret, and as the life of tho evergreen bough goes out and fades into whito ashes the only sigh drawn is that tho sparkle and glow of the lire Is so soon over, and the burning of the brush for thisjpringondcd. A Dangerous Cow. "What a lovely cow, Uncle Jamns," exclaimed a lioston girl the morning after her arrival, and how comically she shakos her head." "Yes, but don't ye got too near that cow," cautioned her uncle. "He's an ugly critter." Nciu York Sun, A milliliter nut long ng preached from the text. "Ho ve. therefore, uteadfatt" Hut the printer made him exsuad from ''lio yo there for breakfiu ." Ttint Slftlwn. A LUCKY DOCTOR. llli Kliuliu-ss to nn old Mint Kc-niu-cled The llest ol Iter lle InllveH on the Wnrpntli. Dr. Thomas C. Stellwagen. whose oHic, says The Philadelphia I'n -a, i- m Hi i c ty, anil tvhoM residence is ,n .Media, has recently b-en tuft a f.itiuue. and l he means that brought this nod abo it and cut other relatives oil' wiih onl a penny are extremely now!. Tne res-tilt will probably bo that the w.l! k .11 bo taken into the courts. Mrs. Dickey, lor that was the rich o!d lady's tiuuie. was the widow of tho lat Dr. Dickey, and her home was in Atlanta, (la. One year ago, so the storv gi's. after having been lost to t lie memory of her northern relatives, sho saw that her days on this earth were not ninny, and with the wisdom ol Solomon sal down and wrote to many of her nearest kin in this city. Media, and Italtimore the same words t lint she was very old now; that she was very destitute, too, and would so much like to pay them a visit. One of thoso letters reached Dr. Stellwagen, and no one of her relatives knew that another had received her plea for help Alter her task was finished. Mrs. Dr. Dickey folded her hands and waited, To some of the letters no answers came. Ono or two, it is said, replied curt ly. and one, a lady wrote: "Really, it would not b. convenient to havo you visit me, for at the time you name 1 ex pect to have a house full of company." Among tlio lirst letters she received, however, was ono from Dr. Stellwagen, and inclosed was a cheek for $."(). He wrote her that he hoped his .small con tribution would help her, and that ho would be pleased to have her as an in mate of his pretty northern home on tlio outskirts of Media. A month or two after that another demand for help reached the doctor, and b s second check for iJiO went south with a renewal of the invitation for h old aunt to visit him. Up to tltreo mouths ago he heard nothing from her, and then he received a letter saying: "Come, I am very sick." Dr. Stoll wagen obeyed the summons, and when ho reach jd Atlanta was dumbfounil6d to linil that Mrs. Dickey was living elegantly, and that she was woaltliy. She told linn that sho wouldn't livo long; that sho wanted to go homo with him, and it is said deeded everything over to him, and made him u present of all her household furniture, silverware, and jewels. It took I wo cars to carry the hitter, and it is said that the pro fessor left behind him in the southern city a row of handsome dwelling houses. Two days aftor reaching tho doctor's home in .Media, Mrs. Dickey died, and i hen it was found that in addition to llio deed, which gave her nephew every thing, sho had left a will made beforo .she wrote these letters testing theall'cc tion of her relations which divided Iter properly among several of them. On that ground it is claimed that the disap pointed people will contest tho cas in court. A number of pieces of Mrs. Dickey's silverware and some jewels have been placed by the doctor In a I rust deposit company's vault in this oity. The relatives aro all at sea as to tho ext'iitof the eccentric old lady's wealth, and it is said hor heir gives them no r.atisfiiction whatmor. The Raltimoro kin. his cousins, of whom there aro several, arj the most aggrieved, and if any legal action is taken It will proba bly start from that direction. Another rumor is that tho doctor has promised to make some sort of a settlement by which tho nearest blood will inherit some of the estate. With his fortune, lite doctor inherited an addition to his family, a dark-haired southern girl, an adopted child of the late Mrs. Dickey, with a pieturo of a face, well educated and attractive. Strangely enough tho old lady left her penniless, but obtained n promise from her heir on her death bed that ho would always provide for her livo with him as one of his family for she said, "Thomas, I lovo her dearly." Tho young lady is 17 year3 old and has made a host of friends for herself in Media. It is said that tho story of her own life Is n romance in itself. All dreamy Media is talking about the all'alr, and tho high standing of the families involved makes' it a choice morsel for yossln. A till. I m for. vinioy.ua.. hired a Jittlo negro to go down tho ohimnoy of a certain storo ami open thp back door. promising him AO cents and, half o wbat ho could carry nway. Tho boy went down several feet ami then a,tu,ck; fust and ho could go neither -way. II yelled for a long timo beforo he was heard, and seemed, very gld to en from tho chimney to the lookup. There U many a silent, throbblnir com beato beneath u nice drees boot. JtUt rJlHet,