The Oregon Scout.
VOL. III.
UNION, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 18S7.
NO. 37.
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THE OREGON SCOUT.
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AND
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OrFJCR-Stato Land Oflico buildinfr
Uniou. Union Couutj, Orogtm.
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(luezcclled "BKBm
BROWNING 3 NEW POEMS.
A Unoli T!int Will (ilM- tin Nlllliri
oii "( lnl' ii rim- Opiiorttinlty
lor l'i'iiioiiiiil tiitly.
"lliMHf. jjfi c ImnHMMinl, yc jriv:tt
titil icnowncd one. ni-jlit's eliiltlrmi
uiu-iiililfil, with kindly atttsinliincu"
m). in Hi)lili. run the wtmls wlicroin
.Iw'hyliw l:ik,. fjircw;!! if tlu1 Ktimi'ti
idos. Mr. Hro wninp" K:iles Clotho.
Lai'lio.-is, and Alropi b il us gooil-by
in his Ufw nocm thus:
Clotho: Huh! ""-"g
l.acliesN- Tra-hi-In!
AUciiHis: Ha. ha, ha !
It is true that words of Ai)olo, in
terrupt these laconic grouting, and yet,
looking at tlits printed pago. ouo fuols
incliiuMl to ash. Is this poolry, or ;sn
f tract from some classical cxtravan
za at tin: Savoy theater? Romanticism
is indeed triumphant. I'errault and
Hugo have tr umphcil over Hoilcnu,
and Ar'stoilo, and .Eschlus, when a
justly famous lvigiMi poet can take
llio-e liberties with the Kates. Kvcn in
the days of Theophile, of the flamboy
ant waistcoat, it may be doubted
whether the wildest of the generation,
would have made Clotho, Lachesis,
and Atropos drink the wine of mortals
till they said "hah ". "tra-la-la," and
Ha, lia. ha" to a god." "Say boo to
you, pooh-pooh to you is within meas
urable distance of this familiarity. Mr.
Browning's now volume, in" which
these, and other singularities occur, is
styled "l'arlcving with certain people."
Il'is a return, anil wo think a more for
tunate return, to the form of art in
which Mr. Browning wrought his best,
his immortal poems, the poemsof "Men
and Women," and "Hramatis, Per
sonic. " The prologue between Apollo
and tho Fates is headed with referen
ces to texts iu tho Homeric hymn to
Hermes, iu the "Kumenides," and in
"Alcestis." Apollo held a dinloguo on
the value of mortal lifo, and especially
on the life of Admctus, lor whom Al
cestis died with the Fates. The ideas
of the poem are interesting, and east
their light on the foundations of
things. It is too late to presume to
argue with Mr. Hrown'mg ou his meth
ods. Lord Tennyson in youth altered
many of his poetic ways, as ago brought
the philosophic mind, and tho philo
sophic mind, as it chanced, rojeciod
most of the things which criticism had
censured. Uut Mr. Browning has ever
taken his own way. Tho classical tasto
of the mere porruquo (with which wo
confess a sympathy) might deferen
tially demur to a .speech like this,
which Mr. Browning assigns to Lacho
sis Wod-'Hirplod, wcubiirunkt If
Huircr
it speed, If It
Mfc'fsuhMaucc ami show arc determined by
ne,
Who, meeting out, mixinp;, with euro thumb
and linger.
Lead look the due length; is all binoolhiics!
and glee,
All tanclc and grief I take the lot, my decree!
The speech, dillioult even with the
"ontext. sulliciently displays the causes
Df Mr. Browning's obscurity, discovers
in his stj'le those tenebriferous stars,"
bv which Paracelsus is said to have ox
plained the phenomena of night.
traugo stars rayed out darkness, Par
acelsus dreamed, here bo the similar
constellations (or a few of them) that
makf Mr. Browing's poetry obseuro to
the multitude. First conic odd words;
"Minn an unusual word like a hidden
reef" is said to have lcen the maxim of
no less a critic than Cains .Julius Cicsar
IT lltl . t . ...
isow, -purpled, in tiie urst line, is a
very unusual word. Speaking from
memory alone we remember no more
familliar use of it than thai of Malory
in the "Mort d'Artbur," "King Hyahco
would purple his mantle with twelve
kings' beads." One can fancy the well
rucaniii'r sludent of poetry looking out
'turpi') iu his Kng.ish dictionary, and
: I . I. . . I i, ,
ii iii'iicu oi uiai sol i IS cilllllllg WOl'K.
" cal-prunkt is not so diflicult
Doubtless the poet uses these archa
isms and these clashing consonants
purposely, to indicate the archaic char
icier of I ho venerable bates and tho
harshness of their dispositions. Jn tho
ame stanza the words "lead lock tho
Inn length" entirely balllo us. Wo
Have tried "lead" and "lock" both as
mbstantives and verbs, but unless thoy
nro employed in some technical sonso
wo fail to get any meaningout of them,
l'his may bo mere dullness of appre-
iiunsmii, out oiner ttnglislt poets yield
up their freasures of their sensij more
Kasily. Tho next stanza, intollijriblo
enough, causes, like most of Chap
man's pootrv and a good deal of Keats'
Kndymion" an uneomfortablo feeling,
as if rhytno had suggested the expres
sion, rather than that the expression
subdued to itself tho thyme.
The Fates, whoso business it is to as
sign our mortal thread, weavo it and
cut it short, as wo
Molral who dangled
The puppet groU-squely till earth's solid Hoor
Proved Mint lie fell through, lost In nought ae
before.
In too much of Mr. Browning's poe
try, as here, he seems lo forget that
legends recorded by I'ausanias, which
made Aphrodite the oldest of tho Fa ley,
of the Moirai, as ho calls them. Thus
did Greece make beautiful, with tho
grace of Aphrodite, even fatoful doings;
but there is little of her charm iu these
words of Mr. Browning's. Huruly it is
a heresy to divorce loveliness and
charm from poetry; to make "triumph"
rhvine to "on h gh iininh!" and "im
pulse" to "wine ere It reach brain
must brim pulse." Would any mortal
man talk of brimming a pulse, except
for tho sake of urotes(ue rhyme? So
very strange and iiu-HnlIcuic iu form
is tills- n inarkablu poem bo admlrablo
and valuable ns a chain of thoughts,
that one Is dr vt lo doubt whether,
after a! I, d 'i p k ovr!o Igo of tho clas.
ics can imparl grace and ch:rni to
sttle. Compare Keats' "ftieek Ilrn."
or Lamia.' or "tide to Bacchus;"
compare (except much of "Kndy
mion") any of his (ircek p'eecs wiiJi
Mr. Browning-. Which is the mod
Hellenic iu form, which pool wears a
leaf of the Delphian laurel? Xot Mr.
Browning- a learned poet; but Keales
a poet unlearned. Not vigor only,
nor v.gor. thought, and voluntary
roughness can reproduce the Titnutic
.-trains of .lNehylu-. The most music
al chorus iu Shelhn's Prometheus
Unbound "conies nearer the note of
.Tlseliylus than tho method of Mr.
))low"iii:ig.
Nothing can bo farther from our in
tention than to speak as if Mr. Brown
ing's new book were not worthy of
him, and a gift of value to students of
poetry. Wo would only note the rude
ness of that poetic form which Socrates
or Rabelais might have compared to the
images of Sileni rugged without, full
of sweet perfume within. But extreme
admirers of a poet are apt to make a
fashion of admiring his least admirable
qualit es. As for the wisdom within, it
displays what Mr. Matthew Arnold ex
cellently calls "the moderate, gracious,
amiably human iusticls of the true
poetic nature." He vtho would be con
vinced of this, and who knows the picture.-,
rich in the ,-anie qualities, of
Francesco Furiiii, has only to read the
poem on that art'st. No less noble,
kindly, and wise is the poem on Chris
topher Smart, called "Kit," who said a
good and rude thing about Gray, and
also in a lucid interval of brain diseaso
wrote a powerful and passionate sacred
poem. Iu fact, this book is perhaps tho
most welcome of his shorter works
that Mr. Browning lias given us sinco
"Dramatis l'ersome." It is a delight
ful thing lo lind, with the old things to
protest against the old manliness, wis
dom, keen sight, and subtile reason to
praise in the works of so eminent and
veteran a poet. London Xcto..
"SING WITH EASE."
A 'ov Story In WIilcli tlic Olil-Tlmo
l.'lCiilnnt Trrrltile Klmirea.
"While passing a few days at the
house of a very charming young lady,
in London," writes a correspondent,
"her little girl, live years of age, ono
morning in tho nursery, asked me lo
tell her a story.
'Not Cinderella or Beauty and
Beast,' she said, 'but anodcr 'lory.'
"My supply not being vast in this
branch of Knglish literature, I started
boldly with the tale of "Little Golden
Ha r and the Three Bears.' But when
I arrived at tho porridge, my story for
sook me, if indeed it had ever boon
mine; so I ventured lo say to the little
Knglish lassio that Golden Hair told tho
bears, if they would bo good, alio
would sing them a song.
"Mv small listener looked slightly in
crodulous, but suddenly exclaimed:
'Well, ou bo tho bear, and I'll sing
the song!'
"And forthwith began to regalo mo
with a nursory ditty at the top of her
small voice, much to the distress of my
ear-drums. As soon as I could make
myself heard, 1 told her how far from
nice that was. Said I,
"i ou nurt my ears
" 'Sing with ease,
If you wish to plcae,
I'or all lhoe who shout,
Soon wear themselves uut.
"Much to my astonishment, tho little
thing seemed highly delighted witli a
homoly rhyme, and made me repeat it
several times, she singing it softly to
herself. In the afternoon of that day a
tea was given for mo by my hostess,
and one of tho ladies present, ou boing
asked to sing, arose at once, and seal
ing herself at the piano, gave us a
piece in which her voice was more re
markable for force than beauty of lone.
"Scarcely had the singer liiiislieil tho
first verse, when my little 'Golden
Hair,' lugging at tho lady's gown, ex
claimed; " 'On top; ou hurts my ears
" 'Slug with cace.
If ou wishes to peap.
"This atom of humanity was going
on to explain, when she was suddenly
soizod by a strong pair of arms anil
carried out of the drawing room. But
from the corridor, amiilst gontlo re
monstrances on some one's part, and
tears on that of the infant, a shrill lit
tle voice, distinctly aud ble. sobbed out:
" 'Well, Mlth Bonney boo-hoo!
told me boo-hoo!' (Miss Bonney told
nic so)."
The Value of London Land.
It has been ascertained with regard
to the Imperial institute that the ride
of about live acres recently secured for
the now admiralty and war ollicos is
valued at 3'u,uuu. or rallior over
100.000 por acre; that now vacant iu
Charles street, opposite the Ind a
oflice, is less than an acre, and would
cost at least 12.r),000: probably an
other acre might bo secured by private
contract, so tliat the value ot a Hunted
alto in tills position would not bo less
than 250,000.
It lias been suggested that a single
acre not far from Charing Cross might
bo obtained for X'-J-.M.OOO. Two and a
half acres on the Thames embankment
have been ollbred for 400,000, and it
is stated that six acres may bo pro
cured from Christ's hospital at JL'GQQ,-
000. Another good central position
lias been suggested, consisting of twe
and a half acrcj, which lias been
valued at (168,000.
Lvcn if a reduced price were accent
ed, no site iu that direction is to be had
for less than a quarter of a million.
Tlrs explanat on is ofl'erod for fulling
back on the site which belongs to tht
commissioners of tho exhibition o
1851. Court Journal.
THE FIRST VIOLET.
Sweet violet, ftrtired ulth the dew,
What wondrous pnlu- 1 took
To hunt Its pr.-tiv ei of blur,
Alouir the Imlilillmr lirook;
Sweet violet that bloomed for volt
Within that Miliuy nooU.
The loving warmth of southern skies
shone on It mo-sy lied.
And-iKin It npe-d Its' sleepy ce,
And raised Its drooping lu-ail.
And gazed about In ullil surprise
To llnd the Mum had tied.
Illile as (ho waters of the bay,
Sweet herald of the snrlne";
To ti f in whose skies arc cold anil
RMy.
I said, perchance 'tw III lirtnir
A drcHlii of bursting buds to Uav
And whir of robin's wing.
-Utile flirni' ;, in 7n ('urr'nt.
A CONVICT'S ROMANCE.
A
Iteliinpo from n TVortbern Prison
WIiim I'linie it ml fortune In
Hie smilli.
A romance that has long been hidden
has just come to light, writes a Joflcr
sonville, lnd., correspondent of 'I he it.
J.ouii (Hobc-Dcmocntt. Thirty-eight
years ago Calvin Lyons was a young
niachanic of Posey county, Indiana. He
had but one fault, and that was cm-cs-sive
indulgence in intoxicants. One
night ho quarreled with a bosom friend
with whom he was drinking, iu a sa
loon, and shot him through tin heart.
The young man was tried, convicted of
manslaughter, and sent to the prison
south, at Joll'crsonvillc, for Iwenty-ono
years. Ho served two years, and ono
cold night in March, 1850, he resolved
to cseapo or dio. Ho had secretly mado
tools, and had them hidden in his cell.
When the great bell began tolling tho
hour at !) o'clock he commenced tho
work of cutting a hole in the wall. Ho
worked industriously anil soon had ono
cut through, and was in tho corridor.
Hero another wall three feel thick con
fronted him. Nothing daunted, he
went lo work, and iu a couple of hours
had cut a hole big enough to crawl
through. Ho then made tho startling
discovery that tho hole was at least
forty feet from the ground. Whilo ho
was considering what had best, bo done,
the guard came along and discovered
him. Before tho later could mako im
out cry, Lyons sprang upon him, and
being a powerful man, soon had tho of
licinrinsensiblo upon the floor. It re
quired but a few minutes to bind, gag,
and strip tho man of his clothes, which
Lyons hastily donned. Lyons then
tore his bed-clothes into strips, with
which he made a rope and lowered him
self to tho ground.
The steamer Sunllowcr was anchor
ed at tho falls, and. boing short of
hau ls, when Lyons volunteered to go
to work thoy accepted the offer. Tho
boat left for southern waters. The
prison ollicials searched high anil low
for him, but lie could not bo found.
In tho meantime the steamer Sun
llowcr changed hands, and in two yours
Lyons had become her captain. Ho
aved money and ran m Iho Ucd river
trade. One time while ou a visit to
some new friends at Deer Creek, Miss.,
he conco'ivcd tho idea of building a
mammoth cotton gin. Not having
enough money of his own, lie interest
ed a wealthy planter in his scheme,
and the gin was builL Time brought
them prosperity, and Dame Fortune
smiled her sweetest upon theni.
His partner had a daughter, and she
and Lyons fell deeply in lovo. Tho
latter did not wish to wed tho young
lady without telling Ilium or his former
life, of which, prior to this time, ho
had been mysteriously reticent. Call
ing the young lady and her lather into
the olllco one day, he made a clean
breast of the all'air. At Its conclusion
lie told (he father that he was in love
with his daughter, and asked if ho
would give her to an escaped convict.
The old man considered tho matter.
and Dually gave his consent. Thoy
worn married and children grow up to
mess tlio Household, ins wife s father
tiled and mado ovor his property to his
son-in-law, who was then worth in tho
no ghborhood of $.r)0,000.
When tho war broke out ho joinci
tlio confederate army to battle for the
south. Ho made a gallant soldier and
won distinction for himself ou many ;
gory Held. After peace again over
spread tho laud he resumed business,
and is now a wealthy and honored res
ident of Deer Creek. His Iiut Is silver
ed and his faeo Is wrinkled, but ho is
still hale and hearty, and ho has nearly
reached throe score of years.
Some eight or nino years go a iron-
tlemaii passed through Deer Creek and
slopped oyer night with Mv. Lyons.
Ho mentioned tli.it he was from Jetlcr-
honvllle, and the host proceeded to toll
him his Ids lory.
"Are you not afraid to tell mo this,
Mr. Lyons?" said tho gentleman.
"No," sa'il the host. "Tho people
here wouldn't see mo arrested and tak
en back to prison, and I defy tho ofilcors
to fry if."
Tlio gentlemen lias since correspond
ed regularly with his southern host,
and a few days ago, for tho first time,
rolated tho inoldcnt. Tho liolo Lvons
cut through tho front of the prison is
still visible, although it lias been nateh.
ed, and on the books is marked: 'Cal
vin Lvons cscaiwil Mnrnh KFil " It lc
iirobablo no attempt will lie made to
bring him hack and that tho man will
.pond tho few remaining davsof ids lifo
m the southern town iu which his in
dustry won him u fortune.
A gardener who married an eitrcmelv lioms-
Iv widow gave ui a reatoii for Ida action that
he had an avcnlon to ced and never taw
them without uhig metius to dcilror tbeiu.
l.'tttifi (urite.
agwimnmiwiirtjiiwuimiiijm
MIDSUMMER IN FLORfDA.
Northern People Advlnod to VIU lit"!
Sliito nt Thnt Time of Your,
There are thousands of people in fJtt
north who have 'Spent the winter in
Florida, and can (ell um all abot.t. th
state. There ate others who ha7
"made the Florida trip," into and out
of the state on the lly, as it. were, wh
also profcs to know all there is to b
known about the soil, climate, prodno
lions, and people. Hardly any two oi
these tourists will agree in all fho par
ticulars of the story, having looked on
ns from diU'crcut -tamlpoiuts and
through vari-colored spectacles, and
none of Ihem give anything liko a cor
rect idea of the scenery, crop outlook,
and general aspect of' things tho yoai
round.
Take, for instance. I lie midsummer in
Florida. Comparatively few of the
northern people know anything about
it. Thoy have a vague idea of bare
Holds and drooping foliage, all scorched
and withered beneath the rays of a
burning equatorial sun, and of lislcsn
people panting and fanning iu the shade
or tossing with fovors and longing fot
the cool breath from far northern ice
liolds that comes with tho lato fall
months and makes the country endura
ble. How different is the reality. Look
about yon and you shall sco from yont
open doors and windows, through
which cool and refreshing breezes arc
blowing, a scene that might delight tho
veriest sybarite. The room where wo
sit writing has windows opening tolhi
north, south, and cast, a door which
stands open to tho west wind that Is
breathing it in n gontlo current freighted
with an odor of blossoms. Looking otil
of the window in front, a tall oleander
flaunts its beautiful doublo pink blos
soms tantalizlngly near; beyond acrano
myrtle hangs out its flame "like plumen
amid its foliage of dark green, and
away Iwyond rise the towering forma
of the water oaks in which tho mocking
birds delight to sit and sway and sing,
and from which the rascally bluo jay
darts and chatters. Out of the north
window wo look over low houso-roofs
to the gablo of a stately brick residenco
whore a vigorous trumphel llowcr has
climbed up and fastoued itself, cover
ing bricks and cornice, and hanging
out its reddish-yellow blossoms in
bunches that look like gouts of llamc.
Not far off is tho broad-bosomed St.
John's, ou which it is like an hour's
dream to float in your cushioned boat
these glorious moonlight nights nights
which seem especially mado for lovo
and song, and the sweet dalliances of
friendly Intercourse, as well as for most
refreshing sleop. Tho live oaks that
como down to tho river's brink and
hero and (hero droop their branches til)
the long gray moss almost touches the
water, look like gray ghosts in th
weird moonlight, whilo tho somber
pines, outlined against the blue and
gold, and silver of sky, moon, and stars,
mako a picture that will hang in the
halls of memory as jong as lifo lasL.
Leaving tho night with its falutly
described witcheries and coining out in
to the garsh light of day again, push
your boat up some creek or estuary or
tho river back into the country. Here
you shall see, lining tlio marshos and
tho low-lying shore, tho sentinel hybls
cus, with his flashing red helmet, tb.e
purple-hearted white water-lilly, flhe
yellow niiphar.and the bluo sagiltr.i'ins,
whilo OU the ban': tho fragrant butter
hall and pure white Bermuda lillie
contrast with thophiox of various hues,
backed by tho dark green of lite nujd
and shrubbery every ,yljrJ TTjiIV
growing. If tho day ho Wi and clear
look out for Ihu specks of clouds you
see in glimpses through the avonttos of
tho pine woods and if you hear a mut
tering of thundor make for shelter, for
within an hour or so those clouds will
conoeiitrato and, obscuring tho sun,
precipitate their cooling contonU
through the air upon tho earth, and up
on you if you aro not well covered. Vt
Is those daily showers which mako
mo air so pure and keep the vegetation
so green and succulent.
If you drive out into tho country you
will soo Holds of corn of giant stature,
a single stalk in a "hill." graceful
clumps of sugar cane; patches it may
ho, of broad-leaved tobacco; groat
stretches of cotton in blossoma most
magnificent sight, and groves of tho
orango and poach, with tho fruit in dif
ferent singes of advancement. As you
rido along you may hear tho songs of
tho dusky laborer, and as you see Iho
old 'aunty" sitting at lior kitchen door
comfortably smoking her corn-cob pipe,
whilo the (logs, too lazy to bark, Ho idly
sleeping in tho shade
This is a midsummer picture of Flor
ida that our northern visitors never sc.
find never will soo until they divest
themselves of tho notion that this part
oftho union is uninhabitable o.xcont in
tho wintor time. Florida Times Un
ion. A 1'Juckoy Jlritislter.
An Knglish sportsman, whilo pat-
ridgo shooting, had his loft hand badly
shattered through tho bursting of the
gun. On arrival the doctor exclaimed:
Well, you have madu a moss of iL
I must amputate it !"
Tho patient readily submitted to the
operation without chloroform, and oa
tho doctor leaving tho room with the
severed hand, lie was astonished at the
unfortunate calling after hhur
"Lioctor, l forgot to say how proud I
nlways was of tut little linger, m
please save it for mo for a tobaooa stop
per 1"
Mahomet must have bevu HitTerta fittM a
thrvc wllh tho boyi vrlieu hp wrote la
Koran, "Tlit ro Is a derll m everr Wry of tW
Krapc," Alfa (VfWiif