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i WOLF CREEK.
An Answer, to "Homo" on
Religions Mattel's.
A PLEASANT BIRTHDAY PARTY.
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Haying in Fall Blast Now sehaol Appara
tus Na.djdSa'K of HorsM.
Aug., 4, ISM).
Very ploasant weather.
Dry and dusty roads arc the usual
greeting.
Haying is in full blast and ovory
rancher is smiling, thinking of the
line fat cattle next winter.
Last week YV. L. Charlies' team ran
away. No one was hurt, but the wa
gon came out a total wreck.
Tho O'B mint's sale of horses on
the 15th nit. was quite good. He sold
about 30 he id at a good pi ice.
Will Simonis has taken a pre-emption,
and built a house on the same.
Girls, is this any encouragement?
T. J. Harrison, an old soldier, and
W. A. Charnes made a Hying trip to
Union on the 2d hist. Mr. Harrison
was having his pension papers made
out, so that Uncle Sam could recog
nize him as one of his veterans, wh
wore the blue.
We notice Mr. Uunch, Andrew it
Co's agent of school supplies m our
vicinity. We sincerly hope that the
directors will supply our school with
some of the indesponsiblo apparatus
bo necessary to successful teaching as
they have nothing in that lino. By a
small outlay of money Wolf creek could
boast of the finest school in the coun
ty. On the 2Sth of July there was a
birthday party at Uncle John O'Bry
ant's in honor of the GOtli anniversary
of his birth. The guests were too num
erous to be mentioned individually.
The day is long to be remembered as
one of the most pleasant that we have
enjoyed. The older people enjoyed the
the cool shade talking while the young
er folks were engaged in the charms of
music. We can not expect to have
Uncle John with us another GO years
but we hope that ho may still enjoy
peace, health and happiness in his de
clin ng years.
I do not care to enter into a dis
cussion with "Homo" as to the divine
or sacicd origin of the bible, but as he
has given his views in quite a liberal
manner, I presume ho would not ob
ject to my views on the same subject.
In the fir.-t pluco 1 find nothing in his
views with any foundation nor, if 1
understand him, neither does he es
tablish anvtliing, more than ridicule
and sarea-in. Ho goes with it hop,
skip and a jump from one tiling to an
other, denying nothing in particular
except a red hut hell. As my travels
have not )! me to that tropical region
I can not ?.iy whether it is a red, blue,
or whito h.Mt; but bo that as it may,
wo are of the opinion that, if there, be
a hereafter h inu-sfc bo something; and
if there tK' .i Mimething, and "Homo"
thinks tli'T.- is but does not name it,
and wo think there is a something,
we have a light to name it whatever
we pleat c, and he nuint accept unless
ho disprove- it. There ate a few tilings
that ovory sane person must and does
admit; one of these is, there cannot be
a positive unless there is a negative.
There are in every thing two forces,
one oppo.-ito to the other. This we
seo in every, liiug. Man is possessed
of these two natures', mo of thoni wo
might say is the animal and the other
tho re.i.-oning nature. The animal
nature might bo reprctcnted by tho
thinking or immortal man. Woro it
not for ie.ison, ovor present, man
would be a raving maniac.
If man is so organizod, there must
have been n great organizer some whore.
If this organizer at his own will and
discretion biought into existence a hu
man being has he not tho power to
to do anything else he might wish to
do? For a moment wo say that this
divine oiigiiiutor is not the (Jod that
fanatic-(?) worship. Then like Inner
soil we will have to siiy it is something.
We allh.ivo to acknowledge a higher
power tha;i man, and now wjiat iathut
powoi? 'Ihf keptio mi. I iufidelic
world h.i., miilo time immemorial, been
trying to drstroy the idea of an al
mighty (iod, and sometime they have
alni 'Si ex .i :ihed their oiuU, hut a
l.i h,' tlieie h .ihvays uniting link, anil
tin ;. .mm' x.iUtitutu anything th.it
will ttaitil . arching tent of the in
spiral. on ,. .i.t uhiiichiy Uol. There
is lint a io holy wri' but what
is I. mil o.i .i in:i bd-, .i id a niuou
given fit:- ,i;cii. I. ti.is l..':.!e is spur
Sous, whv ! it iii!' ' i. - dtood th
Fine Line of Watch
fiery tests of infidelity for centuries,
and ime out victorious in every en
counter it has had? What is your an
swor? We suppose it is a sarcastic
slur : "That it is the narrow minded, big
oted superstition of creed and sects."
If such be the answer, it is incorrect.
Why? Simply from the fact that a
majority of the people will discard any
literature that is based on falsehood.
Look nt Voltaire, who in his en
thusiasm oxelninicd "In another cen
tury tho bible will bo discarded and
my book will be the standard." The
century came, but where was Voltaire?
We cannot say, but his printing press
was being ucd to print bibles. Wc
make this assertion, "that if any part
of tho bible is untruo or false, it is all
wrong and should be discarded."
Well, tlun, if it is wrong, why did
Ulackstone, Wharton, and another of
the greatest commentators of common
and civil law say, fa nil it became an
established fact in England and U. S.)
that any code or statue which was
contrary to the teaching of the bible
is unconstitutional? If Mr. Moses
made so many mistakes, why is it
that so much of the Mosaic law is
copied in the laws of all civilized na
tions? Such as tho following, viz:
Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not
commit adultery, Thou shalt not bear
false witness etc. We do not find any
mistakes in the prophecies, neither do
we find any in Mr. Moses, but by care
fully reading we find in that day, as
we do to-day that man was not per
fect, "nay not one." And further
more everyone that came short of his
duty and sinned against the com
mands laid down in the bible were
punished in some way or other. Tho
polygamous practices were visited by
domestic strife and some by ruin. In
the case of Abram's, David's, and Sol
omon's polygamous practice, there
failed to be peace and harmony. Da
vid repented in sackcloth and ashes,
Solomon died in dishonor and disgrace,
to such a degree that Josephus tells us
that he had not friends enough to give
him a decent burial. "Homo," by read
ing the first verso of the 1-1 Psalm will
find what is said of him who denies
the existence of a God. But perhaps
wo did not understand. It was the
nativity of Christ he was not going to
swallow.
HIPOCBATES.
LONG VALLEY, IDAHO.
A Descriptive; Letter Written by an Old
Subscriber.
I,u:do, Tdaho, .July ii'i, 1800.
EniTon Oin:t;ox Scour:
Please change my postoflice address
from Vanwyck to Lardo a new post
office established within three miles of
me. It is 20 miles to Vanwyck. Wo
had deep snow and lots of rain this
year. Have only lost one mare. J fad
alight frost the 10 th of July, the only
frost that has bit our potatoes or beans.
Potatoes are not hurt any, beans half
killed. I have now tho best garden
1 have had since Hughes and Welch
tried to run saw logs down Anthony
creek in 1885. I will cut the best crop
of hay this year I have ever cut for
myself. Hay will not sell here this
fall for over five dollars per ton. Thous
ands of acres of bunch grass will bo
cut hero this summer. Long valley
has been a flower bed ever since the
1st of June, with new varieties of choice
plumage every week, and wo have as
good a supply this week as ever. Wo
have 1 distinct varieties of wild clover;
tho two earliest aro the smallest. Red
and largo white got ripe too soon for
hay. The two latest aro red, and as
large, nearly, as tamo red clover and
is very good hay. We had many ranch
es for sale hero last April. Three hun
dred dollars was tho usual prico for
improvements and claims. Many now
could not bo bought for twice tho price
asked in April. Thero was not much
grain sown this spring. Tho seed was
nearly all fed out to stock last winter,
and the roads too bad this spring to
haul it into this valley to sow in time.
Homo grain was sown in time and looks
well. Long valley had a good crowd to
celebrate July tho 1th and a lively time
on the Payette river near tho center of
tho valley. Several horso races in tho
ovoning and a danco at night.
Wm. CJ. Biggs had a nico sorrel 3
year old colt drowned in the river.
Thorn. Bice was swimming him over
to go homo and the horso got strangled.
11 WHS guou lur i uiii ii.il nu ujuiu
swim that time. I). F. Rodgcrs com
pleted his contract on tho Seven Devils
wagon road, A miles, for .$700 dollars,
0. K. S. P. Whito has returned homo
and gone to haying. Jack Jasper was
married lust Sunday to Miss Mary
Colo. Charley Anthony has gone to
North Powder, Oregon, on business,
finee the .1th.
John Barnes, Justicoof tho Peaco,
had' his first suit. John Killom was
fined two hundred and fifty dollars for
jusault and battery committed upon
tho porson of A. IC. Dorsott, on tho
lfllh dav of Nov., 1889.
WM. F. HAINES.
es, Clocks, Jewelry,1
IN TROPIC LANDS.
Description of Interesting
Scenes s'.nd Incidents.
LA FIESTA DEL DIA SAN LOUIS-
Dancing With the Spanish Mald3 Peculiar
Games A Rampant Chief.
iCOSTIM'KD FROM I.W WT.HK.I
Cahuilla valley, on the morning of
j the 25th of August IS presented a
very picturesque appearance. All was
bustle and confusion in the village.
Men and women, dressed in all the
colors of the rainbow, were running
here and there putting the finishing
touches to the preparations for the
feast, for the invited guests were to ar
rive that morning. This they said was
to be the grandest feast they had had
for years. Tho capitan had visited
all tho Indian villages in the country
and had invited all tho people to bo
present- Every tribe was to be rep
resented. The pcoplo were coming
from Saboba, Portrero, Pachunga, San
Ignacio, San Ysidro and even from
tho distant Los Angeles. The Cahu
illas had been making ready for this
event for weeks. Nearly one hundred
ramantlas, summer houses made of
willows, had been built in the form of
a semicircle. Within this semicircle
of llamandas a floor had been laid to
dance on. The race track had been
cleared oil", tables and benches had
been made. Several women were busy
cooking tartillos frijoles, and chilccan
came. Every preparation had been
made for the reception of the guests
who were soon to arrive.
My companion and I wero standing
on the hill talking to the Capitan and
his two sheriffs Louis and Juan De
Dias, who were to welcome tho guests.
Wo had been awakened very early that
morning by tho capitan's family chant
ing tho "Sabre Begina" in Spanish.
This, I think, is tho most beautiful of
Catholic chants and is as follows :
"Hail to the Queen who reigns above,
Mother of clemency and love:
Hail thou, our hope, life, sweetness; wc,
Uvo's banished children, cry lo thee,
" Wc, from this wretched vale of tears,
Send sighs and uroutis unto thy ears;
O then, sweet advocate! bestow
A pitying look on us below.
"After this exile let us see
Our blessed .Jesus born of thee.
O merciful, U pious maid,
O gracious Mary, lend thy aid.''
But I see I am digressing. Wo had
been standing there fifteen or twenty
minutes, when Louis exclaimed "thero
they come." Suro enough, wero thirty
or forty people on horseback coming
across the hills towards the valley.
When they were within about a hun
dred yards of us they raised their pis
tols above their heads and fired a sal
ute. In a few minutes more, they had
arrived and were shaking hands with
the capitan. By this time another
caravan of people, in buggies and wa
gons, could be seen coming down tho
hills to tho valley. Thus they con
tinued to come, one caravan after an
other, for hours, until tho small plain
below the village was covered by a
multitudo of people. The capitan had
just started down the hill towards the
ramandas when several small boys
came running towards him shouting
"Manuel Largo! Manuel Largo!" Up
on looking across tho valley in an op
posite direction from which the rest of
tho pcoplo had come we saw an old,
gray whiskered man bent with ago
slowly making his way towards us.
This man 1 afterwards learned, was
Manuel Largo who was at ono timo
chief of the Cahuillas, Wo could see
by the way he was treated that ho was
held in great reveronco byallthopeo
He was just returning on foot from
across tho mountains where ho had
been on a visit to the Desert Indians.
Years beforo, when he was tho great
capitan of the Cahuillas, tomo dispute
aroso concerning their lands and ho
went to San Francisco with tho Indian
agent to settle tho matter in tho U. S.
courts. Thero was no railroads in
thoso days and most of tho trip had to
bo made by water. It is said that
when ho arrived at the seaport of San
Pedro where he was to embark for San
Francisco with tho Indian agent tho
sight of tho sea which ho had never
seen beforo turned his head and ren
dered him insane. Ever sinco that
time, ho has been subject to temporary
spells of insanity. When ho arrived
at San Francisco ho stopped at ono of
tho principal hotels witli tho Indian
agont and it so happened that his
room was tho next ono to tho billiard
parlor. Ono evening after lie had re
tired to bed, he was awakened by the
noise of the billiard balls and instantly
conceived tho idea that some ono was
trying to get into his room to kill him.
Silverware, Guns
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He immediately rushed out into the
hall and from there to the billiard par
lor. Tho first thought that oeeuned
to him when he saw the balls and cues
was that they were instruments of
death and that the players were going
to kill him with them. Ho immediate
ly grabbed a billiard ctio and started
in to clear the room. In a few min
utes there was no one left in the room
but himself and he held undisputed
possession of tho place until the anival
of the Indian agent, who explained th--matter
to him.
After giving the old man a sack of
tobacco and a bunch of pa pel, brown
cigarette paper, we repaired to the ra
inadas to seo what was going on thcio.
Upon our arrival there wo found tho
people seated at the tables and
"Loud was the clam: of knife and fork
That fell like ruthless tomahawk to work"
The capitan had caused a bull about
fifteen years old to bo killed and pre
pared for the feast. Upon being asked
why he did this when he had so many
other cattle, he facetiously answered,
"the harder the meet is to chew the
longer the people will remember the
feast."
During the afternoon wo visited the
capitan's raniada which we found de
corated with eagle feathers and strings
of peculiar beads. Among these peo
ple the Eagle is a sacred bird, and these
feathers and beads arc the royal in
signia which have been pieserved and
handed down from capitan to capitan
for generations.
That evening just as tho shades of
night were beginning to appear, tho
pcoplo assembled together in front of
tho capitan's ram tula and formed in
lino with the priest at their head and
with lighted tapers in their hands be
gan the solemn march for the ceme
tery, singing tho "Ave Maria," in
Spanish :
"Gentle star of ocean.
Portal of the sky,
Kvcr virgin mother
Of the Lord most high !
Oh, by Gabriel's Ave,
Utter'd long ago,
Kva's name revur.'ing,
'Stablish peace below.
"Break the captive's fetters;
Light on blindness pour;
All our ills expelling,
Kvcrv bliss implore.
"Show thyself a mother:
Otl'er him our sighs,
Who for us incarnalo
Did not tlieo despise.
"Virgin of all virgins!
To thy shelter take u,
Gentlest of the gentle I
Chaste and gentle make us.
"Still as wo journey.
Help our weak endeavor,
Till with thee and .k-iii
We icjoicc forever.
"Through tho highest heaven,
To the almighty three,
Father, soli aiul spirit,
One same glory be. Amen''
When tho people arrived at tho
graveyard, they went through tho cere
mony of the stations of tho cross. 1
can imagine nothing more wierd and
picturesque than this sight. The moon
had not yetmado her appearance, and,
with the exception of the light from
tho wax tapers, darkness was su
preme. Barefooted and with bowed
heads, the people moved with slow
and solemn tread from ono gravo to
another, reverently kneeling down
around each consecrated mound, they
repeated tho act of contrition; after
which tho priest chanted a verso of tho
Stabat Mater, tho first verso of which
is:
"At the cross her station keeping,
Stood the mournful mother weeping,
Close to Jesus to the last,
And then the pcoplo chanted :
''Holy mother! pierce mo through;
In my heart eiica wound renew
Of my Savior crucified."
The people then returned to tho feast
grounds and after singing tho "To
Deum" dispersed.
About nino o'clock tho danco com
menced, and thero for hours they
danced, waltz after waltz and quadrillo
after quadrille, in a rude and imper
fect way of courso, to tho crudo music
of a violin, accordian and guitar. Ev
ery now and then tho music would
como to a sudden stop and the danco
would cease for tho timo being, and
then tho cry of casca rones, cascurones
would arise. And what aro cascarones?
They aro nothing moro or less than
egg shells filled with small bits of pa
per of every shado and color. Thero
is a peculiar custom in vogue in most
Spanish American countries, that,
when a young lady desires to choose
a partner for a dance, she can do so
by buying a cascarono and breaking
it over his head. It then devolves up
on tho gentleman thus honored to re
turn the compliment and danco with
her. By this means the Senoritas aro
enabled to show their preference for
any particular gentleman without di
rectly telling him so in words. And
woo be to tho man thus honored who
refuses to comply with tho ciislom,
for "Hell hath no fury liko a woman
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