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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1890)
REMINICENSES. An Interesting1 Chat About the Old Times. THE BEAUTY OF JEWISH WOMEN. Early Days in California The Philosophy of a Tornsor I'artnar. ElMTOU OtlKROX Scout: I was up to linker City the other tiny, and the most beautiful sight I saw there was two Jewish ladies. It set me to thinking of the reason why the Jewish ladies arc so much hnnd Eomcr than the men, I believe it is because the Jewesses have escaped the cureo which alighted on their husbands, fathers and sons. Not a Jewess was to be seen among the crowd of priests and rabble who insul ted the Son of God. The women in Judea believe in the Savior, and as sisted and soothed him under atllie tion. A woman of liethany poured on his head precious ointment. Christ on his part extended mercy to the Jewesses. He raised from the dead tho son of the widow of Nain. Ho oured Simon's mother-in-law, and tho women who touched the hem of his garment. The daughters of Jerusalem wept over him. The holy women ac companied him to Calvary. His first appearance after tho resurection was to Mary Magdalene. The reflection of some beautiful ray must have rested on the brow of .Tewcses. Writing about Christ and the bible brings to recollection a mining part ner of mine years ago at Cerro Gordo, Inyo county, California Fairfax by name. He was an Englishman, an Oxford scholar, and for some trouble or other at home had strayed to the mines of Southern California. He was a tall, good looking man about my age, a'grcat ladies' man and very polite. I remember once in San Ber nardino wo noticed a very handsome lady approaching us on tho street. Just as she passed us by a gust of wind took her parasol out of her hand. Fairfax jumped and caught it and presented it to her with a low bow, saying, "Madam, if you were as strong as you arc handsome, this would not have happened." The lady looked at him smilingly and said, "Which shall I thank you for lirst, the service or the compliment?" "Neither, madam," said Fairfax, "for that look from your beautiful eye is thanks enough." Tho only fault he had, as a companion, was that he was an infidel, and always quoting tciiptmc. He was a great bible scholar and hard to answer, lie knew more in a niinulo about the bi ble than 1 did in a mouth, but 1 thut him up once and he did not spout scripture to mo again for some time. In an argument one day ho denied the truth or all revelations; allowed llicro was such a man once as Jesus Christ, but believed that ho was an impostor. I said, either Christ was an impostor or he was not. If ho was an impostor wo havo the inconceivable phenomenon of a base man practicing virtue, self denial, charity, forgiveness of injuries through his whole life, in spito of contumely and even crucifixion. Is it philosophical to suppose that a bad man would tako such pains to make men good? But if ho was not an im postor then he has told tho truth, and wo must believe him. Fairfax located a spring on tho Mo have desert and sold the water to team sters and travelers at "two bits" per barrel. I saw him about six months after that in San Francisco. Ho had eold his spriug for $1,000 and was "flying high." He was "dressed up to kill," and had a girl on each arm. Ho was very glad to sco me, and intro duced mo to the ladies. Nothing would do but that I should go to tho theatre with thorn ; so I borrowed ono of his girls and we went to tho old Metropolitan theater. It was tho last performance ovor hold in that, tho oldest theater in San Francisco, for tho carpenters were to cominqnco pulling it down in tho morning to mako way for New Montgomery avenue. Tho theater was packed from lloor to coil ing. Tho audionco was mostly old timers who had turned out in foreo to give their favorite old thoator a good send oil'. Tho galleries woro packed with hoodlums and tho rill'-raH'of San Frniicis-co. who came to huvo a good tVnio.and they owrtuinly had it if a good time coniiu in raising thu dovil. The Chapman sifitn were tho start. Harold, thu Australian ventriloquist and the grand bnllett were feature of tho tnUrtaniuient. Such running out bctwun tli' aeU to see a friend, I iw cr saw lu iiTu or Mwe. Hy the time I the last ai t Was on. tho neonlo woro ! ripe for anything. Tho ventriloquist I started in to kis ono of tho Chapman sisters. She didn't like to bo kissed, or at any rate not in public, and raised a fuss about it. Two or three of her dude admirers, down on tho front seats, jumped on (he tairo and went for the VentrilmilUf. :iiil tln fun nnmninnnml It would not havo amounted to much if it had not been for tl.o hoodlums. They commenctd to lire down apples, oranges, parasols and anything they cound get hold of. Some chairs and stools fell or were thrown down, and it caiifcd a panic. It was an awful crash for a time. Everybody got out alive, but many were badly hurt. Our party managed to get out all right with thu exception of our clothes being badly torn. My coat was in rags and Fairfax had lost his plug hat. On the way home his partner was complain ing about the loss of her new silk dress and Fairfax wae grumbling about the loss of his hat. I wondered at him growling so about a hat, but he told mo later, that when a woman has a crcvinucc you must havo ono also, and I believe he was right, for L noticed that his companion soon stopped com plaining about the ruin or" her forty dollar silk dress and went to sympa thising and consoling Fairfax about tho lo?s of his fivo dollar hat. Fairfax's money commencing to run short after awhile, lie took it into his head that there was money in going down to I'animint, a deserted mining camp on the edge of tho Mohavo des ert, and collecting bottles and ship ping them to tho Philadelphia brewery at San Fraiicisco. Ho was acquainted with the proprietor and, by the way ho seemed to know everybody, lie could get several cents apiece for all tho bottles he would send. Ho wanted no to go with him, bad, but I was in love with a girl, or thought I was, which amounts to tho same thing, and wouldn't go. 1 tried to talk him out of the notion, but ho allowed he ought to know something about bottles, for was ho not raised on a bottle when a baby. And go ho did and made a suc cess of it, clearing several hundred dol lars in a short time. Fairfax after wards went to Arizona, and when Tombstone was booming ho went to that camp and was doing well, but ono Christmas eve ho tried to get away witli all the whiskey in town. Ho overrated his capabilities, however, and was seen late at night going for home, singing, "Down among the duail men, Undcr.iuath ttic ground," and tho next day was found lying at tho bottom of a sixty-foot shaft, dead. lie had fallen 'in, in the darkness, and that was the end of a man with ability enough to have graced any walk in life. Woll, there is nothing new or strange up hero in Antelope, except Ed Ash bv'a wife has a baby, and I am sure there is nothing strange about that Mrs. Joe Yowell lias the smartest girl in Union county. Sho runs tho mow ing machine and tho sulky plow, and is a girl worth having. She is a better fanner than her brother, who asked his father this spring what chilled plows were. Joe told him that they were those plows of ours out there in the tiold that had stood in tho furrow all winter. C. F. 1Iixcku:v. Free Reclining Chair Cars Pacific System. via Union Train No. -1, "Tho Limited Fast Mail" leaving Portland on tho Union Pacific System at 7 a. m. daily, in ad dition to Pullman Palaco and Colonist Sleepers and Dining Cars, is also equipped with elegant free Reclining Chair Cars, both first-class and Colon ist, which run through from Portland to Chicago without change. Uoth first-class and Colonist Chair Cars aio furnished with Iteclining Chairs of the latest improved pattern ; aro fitted up with smoking rooms, lavatories for both ladies and gentle men, and are lighted by gas. All classes of passengers aro carried in those cars without additional charge. Passengers desiring tho quickest time and best possible servico from Portland and the northwest to all east ern points, should purchaso their tick ets via tho Union Pacific System1 Their Agents will tako pleasure in furnishing rates, tickets, through bag gage checks, detailed information, etc., upon application. Durham Bull And Cows For Sale. Ono four-year-old red Durham Hull. A fine animal and will bo sold at a rauonablo price. Will also sell a few excellent Durham milch cows. Apply to K. P. Newhard, Hot Lake, Union oownty. -1-2 1-1 m A Pointer For Vou. If you want to mako ovory dollar do full duly.cutch on to some of tho cheap bargain in frm or city property now offcii'd by Wilson & Haokett, maua gt r I'nuin Itcul Instate As.-ociation. es, Clocks, Jewelrv, HIGH VALLEY. Paragraphic Record Recent Happenings. of j I DEDT AS A DEMORALIZER. Our Homo Merchants PolKlcxl PMntsrs Social Inequalities. May fi, 1S90 High valley's hog eyes havo got a move on themselves and gono with their tails curled. This dry warm weather is harvest time for the brick burners. Mako hay while the sun shines'. Who lost their bustle on the canyon road? The owner can havo the same by calling on tho road supervisor. Nothing is so desirable at present as a good soaking rain which must conio soon to revive all the late sowed grain. Our school is in full blast, Mr. N. J. Conklin teaching tho young America how to sonic say talk and have man ners. Bom, April .11, 1S90, to tho wife of Mr. Wm. Wilkinson, a son. Wm. will start up his sawmill immediately with renewed vigor. Tho man who goes to Salem and catches onto all tho lines of work, as a legislator and knows just tho right thing to do at the right time; who can get a place on good committees and hold his job, so to speak, who-, ho gets it; who can copo with tho best of his peers on the floor or any where, and at the same time bo clever with his friends and all the other fellows, that man is a power and of such wo can honestly testify of the democratic representative, Hon. Dtihnam Wright. Thero is none more worthy or capable. AVe havo investigated with some care and whilewe believe our people are as fair and true as any other in patronizing tho homo merchants, yet there aro many instances where they go abroad and mako purchases when there is no shadow of reason for it. They do not get better goods as a rule nor any cheaper than could bo had at home, and if anything bo wrong with tho deal it is not easily adjusted, while with our merchants all this can bo avoided. They can buy better than an individual and aro entitled to tho patronage of all. If a Union mer chant has carpets, cloaks, gloves, furni ture, jewelry, carriages or harness or anything else you need, buy of them and keep the money at homo and thus help each other by being loyal to our home merchants. There is no worse demoralizer of character than debt. The sad records of defaulting, embezzling, and dishon est failure which wo meet with so constantly in tho daily press and often, indeed most frequently, tho result of tho demoralization of debt and consequently desperate efforts at ex trication. Tho financial props havo given away. Tho littlo debt which was at first, small as a grain of mus tard seed, like the rolling snow ball, has gathered weight and multiplied and still it grows and like tho fabulous hydra which Hercules was sent to kill, you no sooner cut off one head than two come up in its place. Tho strugglo i issevore, but tho end is decisive. Either j confession is made of a hopeless bank- j ruptcy which might and should havo j been avoided, or integrity is sacrificed ! to tho temptation of tho moment. Debt ruins as many households and i destroys as many fine characters as rum. . It is tho devil's mortgage on tho j soul and he is always ready to foreclose, j Ilo in debt for nothing but lovo and pay that most frequently. When tho young ladies refuso atten tion from young men who drink and Konriflv run nflfr Inwil wnninn. thn . . ... . . . . i uuuib ui luiuiiu urn uu wiui.ii nniu open. The foulest, profancst, tobacco saturated young reprobate, seeks and obtains tho company of puro and good girls. Convince him that the young woman to whom ho is paying his at tention cither uses tobacco, liquor, or is profano or vulgar in hor language and ho will fly tho track quicker than a crazy raco horse. Ho demands mral cleanliness of his young lady associate, if his intentions are good, but oilers her nothing in return, and the worst of it is tho young ladies and their parents quietly ignore low morals in young men if they wear good clothes and aro adroit I.,. ,.,..,!. nl n,l UllUlJjll tU Vlt t V SAW If then indulging in social impurities which would forevor damn a respecta ble young woman. Wherever tho association of tho young is based upon absolute equality of the sexes in morals, society will become more pure. A sweet young woman has as much rigiuiouom.miillint her prpoetive husband shall come to the alter ah-, solutoly pure a the clover and other- I wise noble young man has to demand ! purity of his prospective wife. Should tho least suspicion come ovr his mind j. even wh. n dressed for marriage that , I sue oven one.' iipfouleJ herself with the habits hv t'tinj an) no rHwredit lo himself he would dia,ipear as though shot out of a gun. (Jive us one and the same moral law for men and women. Homo. THS COV2. Farmer's Sxperlmse ai Xi& Orandc Tto serious Accusals. Cov. May 7, 18W. La Grande with great jrmto claims to be the banner town of the county for farmers with produce etc., to dis pose of. Yet sonic poor deluded Covo ites went thero last we.k and didn't profit by it either. Ono had a load of A 1 butter. He offer. d it at twenty fivo cents per pound, the usual price, and couldn't attract attention, then rather than to make tho long journey back with it, he put the price at twen ty cents. These gioat snatohers of country produce still would not- take the offering!) so the butter had to be brought home. A young man also took over a few thousand shingles from llurrough's mill which arc known to be of No. 1 quality and finally was offered the magnificent price of $126 per. Ml T1e owner concluded to bring his load back and use it for wood. Every Coveito should voto for La Grande. We can go over, transact our business ! at the new court house built at a cost of only a 2 mill yearly tax making our county and state tax then 20 mills, ! remain over night and pay well for tho privclege, and haul our pumpkins tnd timothy grass homo tho next day. Mrs. J. M. Parker met with a serious accident Tuesday of last week. Accom panied by hor son Jas. 6ho was return ing to her home on thnSandridge after a short stay in town. Uy some means tho wagon, a heavy one. was driven over a stake at one side of the road and Mrs. Parker was thrown from hor seat under tho wheel, which passing over her, broke her collar bono and several ribs. Her sufferings were acute and for a time her life was despaired of but at last accounts the improvement was marked ami she was in a fair way to recovery. Born, to tlie wifoof Clms. W. llamil ton of tho Sandridgo, April 30th, a ten pound girl. It is not every one that can have a baby and a twenty-two year old son in his family, and Charlie : is correspondingly happy. ! Last Sunday, a young son of D. M I Young was thrown from an unruly I horoo and received a, fracturj of the j right arm. The accident happoned near Mr. Parkors place. I Tho pound party last Saturday was j well attended and receipts saibstau tial. Several of our healthiest young ladies, howovor were conspicuous on account of their absence A twenty-four hours rain to sprout corn, settle dust etc., would not be out of place just now. Mr. J. M. Phy was quite sick with pneumonia, Tuesday. A VIGOROUS KICK. A Merchant's AVifo llui ltonnof Contention. A Doimnclntloii. A well known merchant who hati Itoen greatly benefitted by Joy's Vcgetablo 8ariaparllla, tl oil rod to givo It to his wife, who was very delicate, but out of caution Ornt consulted hi physician, Dr. W. II. Orlswold of 850 Markot street. The doctor, who is one of our leading practitioners objected, (yluir ho had never soon a itarsapurllla that did not contain potash, which thinned tho blood; that his patient did not havo any vitality to loco. aud that what delicate peoplo nood li not do creased vitality, but more blood. Ho conwntod when assured that Joy's Vegetable fiariaparilla wan directly opposed to the old mistaken blood thinning Idea of other sar?aparillas, aud that ou tho contrary by specific vegetable altoratlvc II stimulated the excretory organs, promotod diges tion, and repaired nutrition, henco created new blood and was the tco' tliiiiB or fcoblo people. Ti10 ulx)vo 0xplalu the liumlrodi of caw in which aged, enfeebled, delicate mid ruu down people, havo been built up by Joy's Vogotablt Bartaparllla after tho potadh rarsaparlllas fallod. Its clTccti aro creating u icusation. 8. J'. K aminer. Tha Now Discovery. You have hoard your frlunds and neigh bor talking about it. You may yourself bo ono of the many who know from iierHou al oxperioneo just how guod a thing it U. If you have over trlod it, you aro ono of its ktaiineli frlemlH, bocuuso tho wonderful thing about it Is, tliat when onco given a trial, Dr. Kind's Now Dlsoovery over after liohli a lditee in the Iiouho. 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