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The Oregon Scout. vol. II. UNION, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1886. NO. 52. THE OREGON SCOUT. An independent weekly Journal, issued evo y Saturday by JONES & CHANCEY, PubllElicrs and Proprietors. A. K. .Tone?, I Editor, f I IJ. CiiANcnv, 'l roremaii. KATES OK SCIlSCIlirTIOX: One copy, one year fl Ml " " Six months 1 Oil " " Three liunitlis 75 Invariably cash in advance. If by any clinncu subscriptions ato not paid till end ot year, two dollars will bo charged. Hates of advertising mudo known on appli cation. Correspondence frbm all parts of the county solicited. Address nil communications to A. K.Jones, Editor Oregon Scout, Union, Or. Lodge Directory. Giiand Koxnr. V.vi.tr.v I.ontic, No. lie. A. V. and A. M. .Meets on tlio second and fourth Saturdays of each month. 0. F, Hki.i., W.M. C. E. Davis, Secretary. Union Loom:, No. .. I. 0. O. F.-llepular meetlnps on Friday evenings of each week nt their ball in Union. All brethren in kooiI standing aro invited to attend, lly order of the loilire. S. W. Losa, N. 0. G. A. Thompson, Secy. Cluirrli Directory. M. E. Cltritcii Dlvino sorvico evorvSundoy ntllu.inaiiilTp.ni. Sunday school at i p. in. Prayer meeting every Tuursday evening atUilW. Ukv. Watson, Pastor. Piifriivteuian Cliuitcn Kegulnr church services every jbath morning and evening. Prnyor meeting och week on Wednesday evening. Sabbath school ovcry Sabbath at JO ii. m. ltov. II. Vkunon Hick. Pastor. St. John's Dmscoiui, Ciieitcu Service every Sunday nt 11 o'clock a. in. Kev. W. It. Powell, Hector. County Ollit'crx. Judgo A. C. Craig Pherltr A. I,. Saunders Clerk II. V. Wilson Treasurer , A. F. lionson School Superintendent J. L. Hlndmau Survovor E. Simonls Coroner E. II. Lewis t'O.M.MISSlONCItS. Geo. Acklos..., Jno. Stanley State Senator.! L. II. Kinohart Iffil'hIISENTArlVES. F.T.Dick J E. E. Taylor City OlllccrH. Mayor D. II. Itccs COU.SCU.MUV. S. A.T'ursol..., W. D. IleMlcman .l.S. Elliott J. II. Thoumsou Jno. Kennedy A. Levy Hecorder SI. V. Davis Marshal I E. E.i ntcs Treasurer I J. 1). Carroll Street Commissioner L. Eaton Depil-tiiro of Train. llcgular east-bound trains leavo atO:30a. in. West boumltralus leuvo at-ir-l) p. m. I l'HtJI'ICSSIONAIi. X J.R. CIIITES, ATTOKNHV AT I.A.W. Collecting and ptobato practleo specialties Ollice, two doors south of Postollice, Union, Oregon. It, EAKIX, Attorney it Law and Notary Public, onico. onohoor south of J. II. Eaton's storo Union, Oregtn. I. Ni CROMWELL, M. I)., Physioan and Surgeon Odlco, onefioor south ot J. II. Eaton's store, Union, Oregoi. A. K. SC01T, M. D., PIIYSICMIV ArVH SIKGDOTIi, Has ffrinautntly located at North Powder, whero hi will answor all calls. J j T. l. CRAWFORD, ,tT'rm:vs:Y at j,.hv, Unioi J - Oregon. M. IlAji:it. J. F. Baki:k. I RAKER & BAKER, Attorn and Connsellors at Law, ' AND Jm ESTAtE AGENTS. 1 D. 1). REES, No&iy Public -AND- i Conveyancer. II Slate Land Oflice buildinc OFF Union.1 Won County, Oregon. BURLEIGH, Allorfcj ul Ijnv, Itcnl ICkIiiIo iinIC'oIN: IIiiK' AKit. LantjCDlco Business n Specialty. Office alAder, Union Co., Oregon. JlSSt IIAtlBTV, J. W. 6II1XT0X SBaiON & HARDESTY, 111 AT'Jt."VHYH AT IAV. Will nr ctre in Union, Baker, Grant, Umatilla icMorrow Counties, also in the Supremo 'tirt of Oregon, tho District, Circuit hi faiprcme Court of the United Mates. Mining f;o 'orporution business fa spc- tialtv. OlUceln) n, Oregon. , J. W. STRANGE, ENTIBT OFFICE Corner Main mid A Streets. Union, Oregon. All work strictly first-class. Charges reasonable. A. L. COBB, fVJ. D., PHYSICIAN km SURGEON. Having permanently located in Alder, Fiiiou county, Oregon, will be found ready to attend to rails in nil the various towns nnd settlements ot the Wnllomt valley. 4"iii-oiiic EHcnsi a Specialty SUfSIy motto is: "Livo nnd let live." BEPOTJMEL A. C. CRAIG, - - Proprietor. (Union Depot, Oregon.) Splendid accommodations for commer cial men. Tables always Hiipplied with the best the market affords. SJlOT AND C'Ol.l) Ml.SKIlAI. BATllstfeS KENTUCKY LIQUOR STORE" XXn S1A I'ACTOKV. Cor, Main and I Sts., - Union, Oregon. siikimi.yx a-uili:v, iroi. Manufacturers and dealers in Soda, Water, Sarsaparilln, Ginger Ale, Cream Soda and Clinmpaguo Cider, Syrups, etc. Orders promptly filled. Daily Stage Line From Union to Wis Cove. d. S. Elliott. PltOIMtlUTOll Leaves Union nt 10:110 n. m.. nnd re turns at 2:110 p.m. every day excoptSunday Fare from depot to Cove Rround trip .1 UK Passengers will bo taken from the depot through to Cove via Union. W. R. JOHNSON, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Main Street, Union, Oregon. Plans nnd Specifications for Dwellings, Hums and Bridges furnished FREE OF CHARGE. Bridge Building a Specialty- All kinds of Cabinet Work neatly execu ted. Repairing done on short notice. None but tho best workmen employed, and satisfaction guaranteed. Call and interview me. FRUIT AND SHADE APPLE, PEAR. PLUM, PRUNE, PEACH, APRICOT. CRAB APPLE, CHERRY. SHRUBBERY AND SHADE TREES Of well known varieties, suitable for this climate. Can also furnish foreign sorts at one-third tho price asked by eastern can vassers. I desire to sell trees at prices that people can afford to buy. L. J. ROUSE, Cove, Oregcni. 0? 132-134 Third itet, Portland, Oregon IS n. regular grnduato in medicine; has been longer engaged in tho special treat ment of all Venereal, Soxual and Chronic Diseases tlinn any other physician in the West, as city papers show, and old resi dents know; SI, 000 reward for any caso which lie fails to cure, coming under his treatment, by following Ids directions. DR. VAN is the most successful Catarrh, Lung and Throat Doctor in America. He will toll you your trouble without asking vou u singlo question, and WARRANTS PERMANENTCl'RE in the followingcascs; NERVOUS DEBILITY, Spermatorrhea, Seminal Losses, Sexual Decay. Falling Memory. Weak Eyes, Stunted Develop ment, Lack of Energy, Impoverished Blood. Pimples, Impediment to Marriage; also Blood and Skin Diseases, Syphilis, Eruptions, Hair Falling, Bono Pains, Swell, ings, Sore Throat, Ulcers, Effects of Mer cury, Kidney and Bladder Troubles, Weak Buck, Burning Urine, Incontinence, Gonor licca, Gleet, Stricture, receives scnrclilng treatmiMit. prompt relief nnd euro for lire. NERVOUS Diseases (with or without dreams), Deased discharges cured prompt ly without hindrance to business. BOTH SEXES consult confidentially. If in trouble cull or write. Delays uro dung erous. Dlscnres of the Eye or Ear, Ulceration or Catarrh, internal or oxternal, Deafness or Paralysis, Singing or Roaring Noises, Thickened Drum, etc., permanently cured. LOST MANHOOD perfectly restored. CANCERS AND TUMORS permanently removed without tho knife or caustic. Medicine compounded and furnished to nil patienta at olilce strictly pureand vege table. Gunrnntoe of pbismakknt cures in nil cases undcrtnkon. Consultation free and strictly confidential. All correspon deuce promptly attended to; moditino sent bv oxpress to nny addrest tree from expos ure.' Call or address Piitute Dispensary, Nos. 1:12-1 .It Third St.. Portland, Oregon. Term Btrictly cash. Olllco hour 8 a, in. to 8 p. ui. w. caps, nn. D., Sargcoii acd HjincoDatliic Pliysiciar, Union, - - Oiikoon. Will go to any part of Eastern Oregon, "ben solicited, to pciforii. operations, or f.ir coiisultatior. Medicine Fiiintlicl Without ICxtrn. t'liurjjo. Olllcc adjoining .ioncs Bros.' Store. (ii:o. WittiUtT, Piofcident. W. T. WitinitT. Cashier. rviox, OREGON. Does a General Banking Business. Buys f.nd sells exchange, and discounts com mercial paper. Collections cn-tfully attended to, and l-romptly reported. a CO a o Ci 7. P3 ' "S3 O C S CO : CO I "ii I rt o p .2 "3 rs a a a o CO - o to o a W w s CO CD 2 I a o t MASON & HAMLIN and Pianos aro l.'iiexcrlled "XT win fnvo Krom $50 to fliiO on the JL UU jiurctmso ot uu instrument uy buying throuirh M'.'X'. WHIIJIIT, Agent. Union, Ogn. Oove Cheese Fadory. J Ail ICS PAYN1C, Proprietor. Having procured tho services of Mr. M. A. Sickles, a cheeso maker who has had many years' exporicuco in tho largest fac tories of Wisconsin, 1 feel confident that I can supply my patrons with u quality sec ond to none on the market. ?-fif" Orders promptly filled. Address, .Jamls Paynij, Cove, Union County, Ore. Tonsorial Rooms Two doors south of Jones Bros.' store, Union, Oregon. J. M. Johnson, Piioi'nimoit. Hair cutting, shaving nnd shampooing douo neatly and in tho best style. CITY v MEAT v MARKET Main Street, Union, Oregon. Ui:.fio. Bno.'s - - PitoiMtiKTOits. Keep constantly on hand BEEF, PORK, VEAL. MUTTON, SAU SAGE, HAMS, LARD, ETC. Union, Oregon. Dan. Ciiandleii, PjtOI'METOIl Having recently purchased this lintel and refitted It throughout, I am prepared to accommodate the hungry public In first class style. Call and see me. Lakoi:Sau plk Rooms for the acconimodutlou oi commercial travelers. ..OUS MMN. 'file ( r7 lor Thrill llint Huh V.x-lMti-d irom Tlmo liiiuu'iuorlnl--Meuu'iitori ot (Joetlio niul M-iiillcr. Tin" tt-lio-i of f:imou4 tin n. whothor tf -lU'ivd or -eetilttt notoriety, lmvc. in mo-t periods of tho world' history, been o i-norly and oonstantly elu-r-ishi'd f lmt Ihf desire to poes them h:v eoine to xs reirdod. like error in our Ihv-t Latin books, as natural to nmn. In England tliis view of any memento of greatness wliieh can by any possi bility 1)0 deemed a relie .-till eontitutes in foree. A manttseript poem of lixron or Hiirns will feteli .some 200. Ar ticles of furniture, from an arni-ulnir .lown to r. paper-knife, poes what Henthum lias called "a value of all'ec tion," compounded in various decrees of the personality of their departed owner and tliu pious or literary proclivi ties of tlie!r purchaser. Locks of hair which can be guaranteed to have grown on tiie head either of Napoleon or of Wellington are Mill extant in givat numbers and are highly prized by their possessors. Kven the living come in by anticipation for their share in (A) general demand, autographs in par ticular being largely esteemed. Multi plicity of correspondence is supposed to have caused a slight depreciation in tho market value of our present pre mier's signature, but ho is still well to to the front, and probably has no really dangerous rival except the poet laureate. Americans, like all true, dem ocrats, are noted for the dilettante in terest which they bestow on everything which may remotely lie regarded as a relic, and the countless American ad mirers of Lord Tennyson are said to be remarkably persistent in their eilbrts to draw the most retiring of men. One day it is a schoolboy from Maryland, another a young lady from New York, but tho request is - always to the same ell'ect to- it, that tho desire to pos sess tlie handwriting of a man who lias contributed to their pleasure or stirred their feelings. Tho memoirs of Long follow show a precisely similar statu of all'airs, and had that amiable poet re sponded to every invitation for an orig inal poem which reached him ftom un known correspondents in till parts of the world it is probable that his works would have been materially increased in bulk, if not in quality. It does not seem to matter in tho least what the object may be, or what tho part played by the great person may be, so that there is some connection between them. Failing things of more direct interest, in England we ga.o respectfully at the chair once occupied by a prince, while in America they exhibit with the great est success anything from the bones of .Jumbototlioiincientnur.se of a presi dent. It would appear, however, that a distinct depreciation of relics is now go ing on in Germany which forms a marked contrast to the practico among the English speaking races. Last week there was a sale of relics which had once belonged to men no less renowned than (Joetho anil Schiller. Rut the peo ple of Berlin entirely refu-cd to rise to tho occasion, and this, too, notwith standing they already had u character which required vindication, inasmuch as they failed only a year ago to ex hibit tho smallest enthusiasm even about tho fate of Rlucher's sword. Jt wa3, perhaps, felt, in spite of the mil itary character of tho German nation, or rather, perhaps, because of more re cent successes, that the memory of tho man who claimed leaves from the lavrels of Wellington was becoming dim wllli age. Hut this optimist view of tho case was destined to receive a rude shock. Goethe is almost the Shakspeare of Germany, and, accord ing to all precedent, there should have been a. desperate pecuniary struggle for anything which had belonged to him. So far from this being the case, his signet ring only .fetched tho micros copic sum of CO shillings, while the splendid chased silver cup present ed to him by a grand duke, and representing a boar-hunt, was sold for even less, which must have been greatly beneath its in trinsic worth. Schiller did not receive treatment a whit more respectful, and a gold locket containing ills hair witli that of Lottio fell under tho hammer for 18 shillings. To many peoplo a proceeding like this will indicate a rev olution as complete, if loss disastrous, than u Belgian riot. It all depends, in fact, on whether tho auction was properly advertised, which is to say tho leant aprosaio reflection. If Berlin was really aware of the treasures which were being oil tired to it, and was too in difTuront to indulge in a brisk competi tion, it seems clear that there is one country at least in which tho interest ing and remunerative industry of relio tuongering Is practically at an end. Owners of Qticou Anno snuff-boxes or (buries I. protection orders must make up their minds to tho glory of their HLLIC- l.osvf. sinn ut':nlie;l h any considera tion of liuie. Lvcn the carriage of Nupo'.e iii and ti e wreath of Mr. Tracy Turned may fail in time to attract the youth of the world. .liouhl this wae of inililVerenee sweep across the channel. In face of such feeling it is certainly in teresting, if it be not very important, to trace the change of a sentiment so universal, and around which so many fragments of literary, political, anil military history aro collected. It may In, of course, that, as the world grows older and the number of claimants to this kind of immortality increases, there is a general weaken ing and dill'usion of tho feelings which attract men to the relics of the great. Mark Twain, with all tho emotional qualities which lurk under his humor, must perhaps be reckoned as one of the foremost foes of the relic hunter, and certainly a prolonged inspection of tho same relic in dillercnt cities must have been distinctly iudueivn to a rational istic view of the subject. It is not given to everyone to possess the happy confidence of the ollicial who admitted that there were extant several well au thenticated skulls of Oliver Cromwell, but ndded that his was (lie protector's as a boy. Another source of confusion to the relie monger ltas been the enor mous number of Queen Elizabeth's bed steads which are to bo found scattered up and down the country, cither in their original shape or converted into chairs ami sideboards. It was once sorrowfully calculatgd by an enthusiast about relics that Elizabuth must have on an average occupied a different bed every night of her reign, unless several of the most seemingly genuine were to be sacrificed as hopelessly spurious. Rut tho unlimited opening for deceit which is nlforded by tho difficulty of detecting it in these matters has never by itself been sulll cient to warn the relic hunter from his absorbing occupation. It is probable that a great many more peo plo have been disillusioned by triviality than by fraud. Men have been too anxious in the production not only of relics, but of every kind of association which involves a great name, it is not many years since tho public were amused ami surprised by a small clique who raised the cry about the proposed restoration of Ilawortli church. The names of Charlotte Hronjlo and her fam ily must always ha held m alfectionate esteem by every lover of English liter lure. Rut it was dillicult at a moment's notice to conceive an enthusiasm for the pew which she happened to occupy. Vet had it been the complete anil long destroyed shnuo of Thomas a' Rockett, oneo so famous throughout Christen dom, it would have been impossible to make more disturbance. It is tlh'same with tlie traveler to the lakes, who can not walk half a mile without being pull ed up to see a seat where Wordsworth fell asleep or a tree where Coleridge stopped during a shower. If men had been content to treat the memories and tlie properties of tlie great alike with something more akin to reverence, it is impossible that we should liud the gen eral impulses which prompt posterity gradually becoming duller as lime passes. Relics and mementoes have been made a drug in the market, nnd so it happens that even the ring of Goethe and the locket of Schiller liud small appreciation. London Moriiiiu Post. The Stream in tho Woods. Bright Ktreum, that wanders hero and there, Laughing the uliolc day lout:, Your voice ucros the moo Hand calls Like u leuit'iiibcred soiif,'. Here, us of yore, the beeches sire(i(I, And L'riihs nnd Honors are sweet, Where oft your linst Inu waters rau Across my chlldUh feet. A golden time! I knew it not In tlioSe far days ot old; But left tho Held and left the stream To seek for other gold. Oil, dear to me jour sunlit wave, And dear the leafy nhoro; But you have fionu! upon jour tide Tliat uhlch returns no more. Thf Criltt. Tho Proper Weight of Man. Prof. I Invloy asserts that the proper weight of man is 16-1 pounds, made up us follows: Muscles and their appurte nances, 08 pounds; skeleton, 21 pounds; skin, 10 pounds; fut, 28 pounds; brain, ii pounds; tliroacic viscera, S pounds; abdominal viscera, 11 pounds; blood which would drain from the body, 7 pounds. The heart of such u man should beat lb times a minute, and ho should brCAtho I.'i times it minute. In twenty-four hours ho would vitiate 1,750 cubiofeet of puro air to tho extent of 1 per cent. A man, therefore, of weight mentioned should have 800 cubic feet of well ventilated space. Ho would throw oil' by the skin IB ounces of water, 300 grains of solid mnttur, and 400 grains of carbonic acid every twenty-four hours; ami his total loss during that period would be. six pounds of wa ter and a liltlo more- than two pounds of other matter. Why tho Irish Like Green. Some old Greek tr.tdUion 'toll lion Kadnnts, a miglitv leader atid'a vin wise man in all the arts and sciences came over from Asia and taught l'it Ru-otians letters, in Plucnieian th word Kadnius moans the east-man, while the word Europe, which gradual ly was applied to a ast extent of land a continent, at lirst belonged only tt the land just across from the iland o' Eubiea, on the other side of tlie nar row .straight called Kuripus, and mean, in Phienician the west-land. So when you read of ICadmus coming to Europe it is the east-man coming to the west laud. Over and over again in history we lind names, to which all sorts o' fanciful derivations have been giver and beautiful legends and myths have been attached, turning out to be the .simplest kind of words. Thus, Irclanc also means the wc?t-land, and it conies from tho Celtic word iur and our wore land, ittr meaning tho west. Iur, be fore being used to denoto the west, meant tho back, and that fact lets us into an important secret coucern'mp t he religion of tlie Colts who lirst canu over the Irish sea to the Emcralc island. It tells us that thoje early men named the points of the compass ac cording to tho other directions wlicc the observer faced toward tho cast. Sc the cast was named from front, or for ward, tiie west from back or behind, the north from left hand, :inil the sotitl' from right hand. That means thai the early Celts worshiped tho dawn and tho sunrise. And so faithfully hive tho old traditions remained in men's minds in that, big western island of the British empire that, to this day, the emblem on the coat of arms of Irclanu is a sunburst, cr rising sun. Another curious thing is that it is more than probable that the Irish pre ference of the color green,, for thcit ilags and their sashes, arosu from a mistake among those who had lost a thorough knowledge of the old Irish language. Tho sun, in Irish, is called by a word pronounced like our word "green;" and is likely that the Irish fondness for that color arose from the word's exact likeness in sound to their word for tho sun. In the same way, when wo talk about greenhouses, we think they aro called so because the plants are kept green, in them during tlie winter. Yet it is far more proba ble that "green" hero is tho Irish word meaning, not tho color, but tlie sun' because greenhouses are built so as to catch the sun's rays ami store them up while it is hidden by clouds, us happens more than half tho time in showery Ireland. St. Nicholas. FUN. Fun is laugh seed. Fun never goes to seed. Fun is a queer commodity. You can not buy fun tit the grocery. A good laugh is all tho crop fun raises. Live, bright, racy fun makes laugh ing easy. Second-hand fun Is nut worth half price. ' You can not locate fun as you do a brass band. Fun is looked for dally not, ale. ays found. Fun is not heard, and yet we often hear that which starts our tickle even in meeting. Stale fun, liko stale beer, iiu,U no market. Ynu cannot make even vinegar biuon of stale fun. You can not sing fun, and yet it Is In many a song. Fun is a poor relation of wit -wit is tiie elder nnd better. You cannot buy fun of a boot-biack as you can tho morning paper. You cannot get fun made to order as you can n now suit of clothes. Fun and this year's roses ai" all right tills year next year uncertain. You cannot road fun, Und yet when reading you sometimes catchall bad, Wo never saw a funny drink, but wo have scon men made ory" funny by drinking. You can not think fun to order, end yet you cannot help funny thoughts to snvo your life. Some stories by some men aro very funny; thoy may bo as funny told by others that depends. Finally, if you want to look luck upon n wasted and barren life, m"ko fun tho great aim of that life. You will not bo disappointed in the outcome; but no matter how much fun you liavo you will say, "U has not paid,"--CW cugo Lcdqcr. Tho long confinement ami tho terrlblq fat before hhu h beglnnine; to tell or Cluverhu, who la in jail under teutence of uVtU lUKtutt inond. Vu IIu seldom enjoy u m&l Hlubf sleep, a tut the only thing tlut um rr'twwMl hi inlnd I hi approaching expH, wakes u;i nightly at 13 n'cloek &imT rmflnAi taovei about til 811 from that Uaw wi. ' .JT, V