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UNION, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1890.
NO. 31.
The Oregon Scout.
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Fine Line of Watch '
Written for The Scout.)
tjeu.i:tg fortunes.
We were sitting om- night In llio parlor,
M illio. Viola and I:
Tim Arc sparkled bright on the hearthstone,
Thenars sparkled bright in the skf.
We were '.ilkiii-.' and joking and singing.
An 1 onj tinr a young tieople do
When the girls b?rm s-jhcmiiig (as girl
w;!.)
And declde.l to have something new.
t?o they brought out a tabic and sofa
We all gathered 'round It in fun
They shuHW the cards in a basket,
Tlien telling my fortune began.
"I should have a fair wife,'' (how their
mind run,)
"And money and joy by the mint;-'
Of a thousand sweet letters and presents,
iney aruuuy gave mo a mm.
"The farm of your future." they whispered,
'Shall bloom with the roesof lovo.
And thcsoiiijs that your children will warble,
Shall swell to the angels above.''
"To-morrow." they said, "will a message
lie brought frm a far distant friend;
You'll be happy" (vainvision)they told me
"Your riches shall be without end."
Tho fire died away on tlie hearthstone,
Clonus roiled across ttie olue sKy
They folded the cards and departed
I wondered and hoped wilji a sinh.
Daws have rolled on and the message
Has never emne home to my heart
The girlish "to-morrow" has faded.
And shattered its visions apart.
My farm is a waste on the moorland.
My rocs the thistles and thorns
And the innocent chatter of childhood.
I Seems laughing me proudly to scorn.
The wife of my future seems flitting,
i A hideous form in my dreams,
And the moek wealth "I fain would ' have
ehurished,
With impish temptation oft' gleams.
nd Mollic, fair girl, and Viola
i Arc reaping their futures of gold,
i While plodding my desolate pathway.
I My rich fortune yet is untold.
Tims it goes! We may read iu the fancy
How some of us grow to be great
Hut pray do away with your lnagii
The bet way, dear gir), is to wait.
ISr.KT. W. Iit'lTMAN.
Written for Tub Scout. I
THE SSOW STORM.
The wintery wind goes whistling by
Don't cease a "minit;"
It is of little use to try
To walk "agin it."
You backward go, to forward "git."
You'd best do so,
Then for a change your heel you hit
'Gainst bank of snow.
Perhaps you fall, but what of that
You '11 look quite deft
And if perchance you lose your hat
our hair is left!
Oil, your head is bald. 1 didn't know
That was the case.
Your whiskers may be full of snow
Around your face.
Now if iierchanec you roach your homo,
liold back your iro,
And when you get your whiskers conib'd
Stay by the (ire.
For tho old storm king rides the blast,
On mischief bout.
And grunts and growls as he goon past
Nor is content,
Until he banks up every gate,
Inside and out,
And in tho morn you'll have to wait
And turn about
And seek for moans the snow t6 lift;
Where is tho shovel?
You'll find it whoro another drift
Has tilled your hovel.
Now don't get mad, it's always best
To keep quite civil.
Yet you the snow may wish tin jest)
All to the Dovil.
II. C. It,
O0VV. CULLING3.
Covr.. Jan. 15,lSfO.
A plentiful Hipply of wood is being
hauled into town at tho rato of $! jior
cord.
A number of Uoveites went to Union
Tuesday as witnesses in the water
ditch suit.
Mrs. Anna Weaver of linker Oity is
visiting hor mother Mrs. A. 11. Robin
son this week.
Mits Hover, of Rochester, New York,
who has been staying at Mr. Froncho's
has gone to La Grande.
The flouring mill commenced run
ning this morning and will suck twenty
barrels of flour for a start.
Charles Cochran who hits been work
ing for some timo in Cornucopia and
amassed considerable wealth, has re
turned to spend it with his Cove chums.
La Grippe is still sporting around
town : No one is no one at all unless
thoy have it for it visits the rich and
the poor, the high born and the low
born alike.
Tho public school closes iu nine
weeks. Those who have not paid their
school tax had better attend to tho
sumo without delay before it becomes
delinquent.
Mr. Joseph ICelley, formerly one of
the Covo boys, accompanied by his
family, are pasting a brief vacation in
town. Joe is henil lawyer and man-
agor in one of the large saw mills on
tho Payette.
Hay is in good demand, yet tho sup
ply keei juice with the need, prioeti
ranging from $15 to $20 iu tho sUick,
j and it may oven reach a higher figure,
if the snow remains any considerable
length of time. No Iom of stock has
yet occurred.
es, Clocks, Jewelry
CORVALLiS.
Description oi'tlio State
I'icultiiral College.
IT3 METHOD OF EDUCATION.
Inuruttug Notts by a Young
Trom Union County.
Lady
CoJtVM.Lt?, Or . .Ian. fl. 1MH),
EutTon Oricoon Scout:
Approaching the city of Corvullis on
the O. P. U. U. from Albany, Linn
county, one's eyes are first greeted by
tho eight of a few scattering houses in
the foreground of tho picture, and ris
ing up in tho background is the beau
tiful new court house, built at a cost of
about .?f0,000, and farther on the line
public school building. The visitor is
bewildered as to which is really tho
college, for on coming further up the
road ho sees on his right and at the
distance of a quarter of a mile a line
brick frtructuro, three stories high, sur
mounting a slight elevation which
seems formed to have a college built
upon it. When the train stops at tho
depot, the visitor is told that the last
imposing structure is the college. Ho
goes back to the street, from which the
walk enters the college grounds, and is
soon inside of the beautiful enclosure,
and sees, unobstructed before him, tho
stately edifice which is the hope of the
city and state. I le passes up a straight
walk about nine feet wide, and, if it bo
iu tho summer, leaves, gardens of vege- j
tables and (lowers on either side, until
arriving before tho building, he sees in
front of him a mound having upon it
tho initial letters "O. A. C". and on
either hand a small grove of trees
Passing around to tho south side or
being a lady, to the north he is ush
ered into the college by Mr. Irwin, the
janitor, and soon enters the chapel,
tho room of President Arnold, or any
where ho wishes to go.
The building contains nine class
rooms and has twelve professors Ar
nold, Letcher, Grimm, Hull, Hechtold,
Washburn, Lafe, Co veil, Higlow, Irish
and Miss Snell, with Prof. Hristow in
charge of the preparatory department.
The college is now running with about
10 students, representing nearly every
county in tho state.
Farther west from tho college buil
ding is situated tho student's hall,
which is now accomodating about six
ty students. It is under the charge of
tho steward, Mr. Clark, and furnish
es board for the comparatively small
sum of two dollars per week.
On tho farm is a largo hexagonal
barn provided with all the convenien
ces of modern ingenuity and furnish
ing room for several cows, besides two
span of horses. Thoy have a small
herd of Jorsey cattle on tho farm which
is a credit to tho management of that
department. Tho farm is being im
proved as rapidly as possible with mod
ern implements and the work will soon
bo one- of brains rather than tho
hands,
Turning now to tho young ladies'
department which is under the man
agement of Miss Snell, Prof, of House
hold Economy and Hygone, Tho
young ladioe are instructed in physi
ology and hygeno, social etiquette,
sowing and cooking, which is not only
tutight theoretically but practically.
When they don their aprons and pro
ceed to investigate the mysteries of
tho kitchen, wo feel satisfied that tho
time has arrived and we begin to real
ize that:
"Wu may live without pootry, niusio and
art:
Wo may llvo without conscience, and livo
without heart;
Wo may livo without friends; we may llvo
without books:
Hut civilized men cannot livo without
cooks."
Hut it is well at this point to turn
aside from tho agricultural and cook
ing departments to tho course of edu
cation and to the scholars of the school.
There are soveral courses of study in
tho college: First, tho agricultural,
requiring three years and giving the
students the title of "II. H, A;" fcecond
the scientific course requiring four
yours and giving the student the title
of "ii. S;" third the mechanical course
requiring four years and giving the
Utlo of "II. M. E ;" fourth tho litoiary
course requiring four years and giving
tho title of "1!. L;" and fifth tho Iioiiho-
Silverware, Guns
hold science course requiring three
years and giving the student the title
of "H. H. S." There is offered at this
college tho chance of acquiring a
broad education. The students are
j developed both physically and men
j tally, in the field, tho shop, tho drill,
the lecture room and tho labratory.
All male students arc required to wear
uniform and to attend military drill
HO minutes each day, 1
The horticultural work is carried on J
by men who thoroughly understand t
their business, and along with the bota
ny of each plant is taught the best
means of growing it and of keeping it
in the best of health. Experiments
are being carried on which I am con
fident will tenninato in the eradica
tion of fruit pests from tho orchards of
Oregon if the farmers and other fruit
raisers tako tho interest in them which i
they should.
In the agricultural course the chom
istry of agriculture is taught, and be-
sides showing that drainage and other
sciences belong to fanning, and bene
fit the crop, it is shown how they bene
fit the crop. In short, the practical
part of tho work is destined to make
the future citizens of Oregon able to
work with his brain and make the
best use of all his natural advantages.
It will make the farmer tho most inde
pendent man in the whole round of
trades and professions. Oregon, and
in fact our whole nation, has a gieat
future, but it must come through prac
tical education. The coming man will
be the ono who has the brain and heart,
and hand:, educated so they will work
in harmony and find the true dignity
which belongs to labor of all kinds.
Tho old fossilized notion that labor
is degrading is fast giving way before
tho onward march of practical educa
tion. Knowledge, that Archimedean
lever which moves tho world, is spread
ing among the laboring men and wo
men, and soon some of her most suc
cessful votaries will be found among
the farmers of our country. Tho little
band of ln() now gathered at tho agri
cultural college of Oregon is but tho
nucleus around which will gather the
musses that are to be tho future rulers
of the state.
In the near future thero will bo a
separate dormitory erected for ladies. J
Tho students, both Indies and gentle
men, who eonio each year will find tho
collego better prepared to receive them
than it was tho year preceeding, and
increasing age must ever increase edit
cational advantages.
There are now two nourishing liter
ary societies, ono, the "Hesperian" for
the ladies and another, the "Dialectic"
for tho gentlemen. Thev are both do
ing a good work, going hand hi hand
with tho work iu tho school. It re
quires no stretch of the imagination
concerning tho resources of tho college
to say that in a few years thero will be
a gathering of students at tho collego
of which any state would bo proud.
expect to see students go out from hero
and make their names recognized iu
tho stale if not in tho nation. I havo
no doubt the timo will come when all
of us who ars hero to-day will bo proud
to say, "I am a student in tho O. A.
C," for truly
"We aro living, we aro dwelling,
Iu a grand and awful time;
In an ago on ages tcili utr.
To bo living N sublime. ,r
LOIS STEWART.
Eupepoy.
This is what you ought to have, iu fact,
you must havo It, to fully enjoy life.
Thousauds aro searching for it dally, and
mourning because thoy lii:d it not. Thous
ands upon thousands of dollars are spent
aiiiiuolly by our people iu the hope that
thoy may attain this boon, And yet it
inuy be had by all. Wo guarantee that
lllectric Hitters, if used according to direc
tions and tho use pendsted in, will bring
you flood Digoation and ouat tho demon
Dyspepsia and install iimtcad Kupepsy.
Wo recommend lilectrio Hitters for Dys-
popsia and all diseases of tho Liver, Stom
ach and Kidneys. Sold at 60c. and $1 per
bottle by It. II. I'rown, the druggist,
Notlco to Hunters.
Kile horns wanted. Fancy prices paid for
choice horns. Directions: tiavo kln from
shoulder forward; slip along top of neck to
horns; pull nkinovcr head, case stylo ;levo
horns on skull; bring jaw-bonus; remove
(lush. Top cash prices paid for Hides and
sheep pelts. Furs a specialty. Oillce and
store rooms at Frank ltro'r, warchoiuo, La
Grande, Oregon. I can be found at my
oillce the second and last Saturdays of each
month.-F. L. IIOYJ51L lm.
and Amunition Just
ON THE ROAD.
Iowa as Soon hy Our Cor
respondent. ITS FARMS AND FARMERS.
Visiting the Old Homestead Time's Chan
ges Notes by the Wayside.
Maiuon Couxtv, Iowa, Dec. .11, 1SS0.
EniTou Scour:
Wo left Columbus, Neb., on the
overland llyer for UesMoincs, Iowa,
thenco thirty-eight miles south on the
valley road, to Monroe in Jasper coun
ty. After a ride of six miles in a top
buggy wc arrived at our old home, after
i an anseneo oi lourteen years. Proba
j bly one of the sweetest of life's pleas
ures is to recall the scenes of our
i youth. To
one who has wandered
away from his childhood home, leav
ing parents, kindred and early associ
ates, a visit back to tho old homo is
ono of the dearest enjoyments that
falls to our lot, or at least should be.
The very name of homo brings up a
Hood of recollections pleasant to think
about, because there dwells tho
o
wnoso memories are uear to us am:
where the first twenty-two years of our
life were spent which recall hallowed
recollections of joys and sorrows that
passing time docs not dim nor tho
cares of life efface from our memory.
This visit to our old home and every
by-path, and the retreats whero my
name had been carved on saplings
while planning the future, were care
fully sought out, and tho differences
in time and circumstances furnish
food for various reflections. Trees
stood with but rough sears whero
names had been carved. So had time
changed other things. Tho dear old
mother, now past 72 years, tho trou
bio, sorrow, care, and death of loved
ones, has left its furrowed marks on
hor who cared for our infant helpless
ness and shared all our little troubles
and joys, over ready to forgive and
forget our misdeeds and trangrcssior.s
Who would ever in life be worthy but
for mother, and never in this lifo do
we havo but ono.
After all, wo did not recognize our
mother or brother. How strange I
Little children had grown to maturity;
strange faces everywhere on tho old
playground ; old fences, trees, bridges,
roads and hills aro still there, and at
tho little graveyard on the hill we see
the little cedar we planted thero seven
teen years ago, grown to huge propor
tions, and beneath its sweeping, Hut
toring boughs wo found tho new made
grave, the final and last resting placo
of our kind, dear father. Here lies,
side by side, a sister and a brother.
We lovo to linger long by tho graves
of those we so loved in life. Tho wav
ing of leafy green branches in mid
winter scorns to bid us welcomo, and
we ask ourself will kind providence
ever permit our return to pay another
tribute to this sacred spot? Wo leave
saddened in spirit and in mind.
ISeyond this land of mist and shad
owh. somewhere in the broad infinity
of space, among tho spirits of tho true,
the good and the beautiful, a bright,
happy reunion awaits the earthly pil
grims. Who will say it is not bettor
for a soul to bo thus transported to
that beautiful land, the summits of
whoso sunlit hills we can often trace,
at least iu happy dreams, than to pass
beyond after a long contest with tho
trials and temptations of earthly life?
The lifo of man is a great book of
many pages and volumes. Each lifo
is a chapter in tho wondrous story.
Men come and go, and the story is
briefly told and soon forgotten, Tho
snows of to-morrow quickly cover up
tho furrows of to-day and over and
anon men chat) go and come again.
Many hearthstones nro being made
bright and cheerful by a visit from the
absent loved ones, but liko angel's vis
its thoy are yet too few and far be
tween.
No other state will begin to comparo
with Iowa in quality of soil and adapt
ation to a high degreo of culture. It
was ovidontly intended for an agricul
tural paradise, but half a dozen rail
roads made a gridiron plat of the state,
parcelled it out to themselves, and for
a quarter of a contury they havo done
naught but carry oil tlio products oi
Received at A. N. I
the state to favored cities beyond.
The fanner has watched with pride
the long trains sweeping by, bearing
immense loads, and took wondrous in
terest in palace cars and dolled his hat
to railroad magnates, scarcely realizing
that these iron rails and wooden tics,
oiT bearing such wealth, are fast im
poverishing him. These railroads
have brought golden gains to tho fa
vored few, but they dwell beyond our
great rivers which are bridged and
dammed to prevent tho salvation of
our manacled toilers behind tho plow.
Little hope is left iu tho breast of the
builders of Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas
City, St. Paul or Omaha who must
still bow to the burdens of brick and
mortar laid incessantly on shoulders
sore, by taskmasters proud and opu
lent. The farmers who build, and
build all these cities?, scarcely over havo
time or opportunity to look up to tho
domes of the palaces they have budd
ed, scarcely time to think of their un
requited toil. Indeed, some shut their
eyes to the fact that Iowa has no cities
and stop their ears when it is even
hinted, that the accretion of tho prod
ucts of their acres is not fairly appor
tioned. The farmers here and in Ne
braska tell us that tho affairs of tho
farmers havo been going from bad to
worse for twenty years. Prices for
their products have declined steadily.
Farming, which in this country ought
to pay well, has become one of the
most precarious of occupations. At
present agrioulturo pays less wages
and less profit on tho money invested
than any other vocation. Wo givo
here tho tho highest prevailing prices
for all the principal products : Wheat,
per bushel, GO e.ts.; corn, Li and 15
cts. ; potatoes, 10 cts. ; fat hogs, $! per
huudrcd; fat steers, if 'A.7H to .$1.00 per
hundred; fat cows, $2.00 per hundred;
yearlings, $5.00 to $0.00 per head; and
it takes -10 bushels of corn to pay for
100 bushels of coal.
In Nobraska anil Iowa wo sec moun
tains of corn piled and cribbed in every
direction and no dvmaud for it. And
quite a sight aro the numerous wind
mills all over the lovel country. At
Omaha wo sco 72 telegraph and tele
phone wires crossing over the huge
iron railroad bridge. At Dos Moines
we saw 10U on one row of poles.
There we saw the first electric street
cars. Dehorned cattle are all the go
bore and it is a great improvement.
The election hero is claimed by tho
railroad to bo the result of the prohibi
tion law, but the peoplo claim it was
tho hard times and scarcity of money,
and tho high rate of interest charged
by tho monoy mongers, that elected
the democratic governor. Anything
that would give relief is all that was
asked for. Tho world is as big for tho
farmer as anybody else and tho farm
er has as much brains as anybody else.
When a situation is bad those most
concerned aro the only ones who can
remedy it. Nobody else will do it for
thorn. J. W. MINNICk'.
EAQLE VALLEY ITEMS.
January 18, 1800.
Sleigh riding is fine, and still tho
snow falls. Sleigh hells can be heard
far and uear.
Health good with tho excoption of
a few who are suffering from bad coUIb
or something like tho influenza.
Stockmen who have not gotten all
of their Btock up, aro very busy trying
to find them, while others aro kept
employed feeding tho great number
that havo been brought in. Stock
havo been brought hero from Uakor
county to be fed on the good alfalfa
hay of our little valley. It is thought
that tho greater portion of tho hay
hero will bo consumed by spring, if not
all of it, it now being $7 and $8 per
ton, and no ono seems anxious to let
t go oven at that price.
Wo now have threo schools in our
ittlo valley. Wo did havo ono literary
I havo understood, but it has recently
cloeed. I suppose tho bad weather
was tho cause.
It is not often that wo havo religious
sorviccs, but it is hoped that tho timo
is uot far distant when we will havo a
good sermon every Sunday delivered
by an exccllont speaker aud from the
scriptures and nothing else,
Success to Tub Scout and bcst wlHh-
cs to tho editor.
GUESS.
Hubicribe for Tnis Obkooi Hcopt,
Gardner & Co's.