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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1891)
Amos K Jont.h. - - - Kmtoii. TH ritSDAY , JANUARY 1, 1S01. kimtokiai, notjcs. Thk Silvcrton Appeal lias started nu "Orcgoniana" column. Tho next legi i laturo will certainly have to provide for another wing at the asylum . Salem Statesman. It is thought the average politician will soon imitate tho guise of tho honest farmer let his chin whiskers grow ; nml perhaps it may become fashion able to wear hay seed in the hair. Tin: party which oilers the strongest opposition to the ballot reform meas ure at the next session of tho legisla ture is the party which has the most to loso by its enactment. Which will t bo? Tni; holiday issue of tho La Grande Gazette is quite a voluminous affair ami certainly reflects credit upon its publishers as well as tho commu nity in which it is published. Its ten pages are replete with much statis tical information concerning the coun ty o( Union and its several towns, and more particularly of the city in which t is published. Tho Wallowa Chieftain issued an ex cellent holiday number. The many seemingly unsurniountablo obstacles that necessarily present themselves in a country ollice in getting out an edi tion of this kind were hccuossftilly over come and it stands a monument to the energy and enterprise of its publisher. It consists of fourteen pages which uro filled with choice matter pertaining to the icsources of Wallowa county, and the advantages of its several towns. Ji tho cflbrts of the inventive genius of America, in tho manufacture of a practical air ship, reach that perfec tion which present developments indi cate, it is asserted that by the time tho world's fair opens in '!).'' Oregonians can go to Chicago on air ships at a cost of $20 tho round trip. A wealthy company is now engaged in erecting a factory on a largo scale for tho build ing of theso space exterminators, pa tented by H. J. Pennington, at .Mount Carmel, Illinois. Tho incorporators of the concern are said to control $20,001), 000. Tho time consumed for a fifty passenger air ship between Portland and Chicago is fixed at 22 hours. Tho fust express now takes 77 hours. Today is tho day upon which it is customary for those who have been diverging from the path of good net b to turn over a now leaf, as it were, and cast aside forever all the bad habits that have taken root in their souls. These dibits, on the pint of our boys and girls, men and women, whether they bo in tho form of a losolve, an oath or a vow are to bo encouraged, ns thoy are the sources of much good, oven though they are not kept for any great length of time. It is true that eight out of ovory ten of theso persons making, as they believe at tho time, llrm resolves to do bettor, fall back into their wayward traits, and it beeoni'-s with them a task for ovory Now Year's day to begin again; still two out of ovory ton wayward people permanently put upoh tho right track every year would make quite an army of good people in the course of a gen eration or so and their influence upon the remaining uvil-doors of tho world would have groat weight. H. 32. Hayes, master of tho Oregon State Grange thus oxpiesMW his views upon tho existing depression in agricul tural pursuits : The grout need of fann er iw this Stale is a thorough know ledge of their business. To know how to plow, sow and liuivuet their ciops is important but not all. Tho market should bestudii'd and they should loarn not to sell their ciops until they are raised. Many sold their hops last Bpring to bo delivered this fall at 1 1 to loo per lb, and now thoy mo worth dOc. Tho financial question is another that must bo studied. .Money can bo borrowed in the east at from 4 to (1 per cent, while it is loaned here at ten to ;U) per cent. No fanner can live and pay bueh into, of inteiost. Still eonmcss is afraid to give us fiee coin age of siver for fear the treasury may bo made u dumping plnco for tho sil ver mines and the people will have too niuny silver dollars. If wilvor coin is paid for nilvor oro, the ttoasiiry won't have loo many mine dumped into it. and the people of thU State can lke care of all the silver dulUiu UuV U't. Another and greater need for farnuK is nutted political action and they must uoouro that to i; t at the loot of ko iniiQli uf thw eul of tin- present day stick to vorii iiusinims. Among the newspaper men of tho world who have made a success of the business, few have succeeded as George V. C'hilds, of the Philadelphia Ledger. ? T V innic) v o I ,Vnd nmong all the rich men now in j i eistance. nrohably not one is more of n philanthropist than he. Ho has made I his millions, and he is daily doing good with it would that the same might bo ! tniil nt nil u'nulthv t)i!0 nle. Mr.Childs! ascribes success in life to the simple thing of sticking to your trade or busi ness, and failuresin life to a neglect to follow closely and continuously tho business for which you arc by nature and training adapted. He claims that if all the wealth in America were today divided equally divided per capita among all tho people, that in a very few months it would be again divided in about tho same ratio as now, be cause some are money makers and money savern, while many are neither. In answer to a question as to wheth er ho favored any special rule for busi ness or the acquirement of a fortune, Mr. Childs replied in a substanco as tollows: "My rule has been to faith fully follow that line of business for which I felt the consciousness of being adapted. Jn this view I selected the newspaper pursuit rather than engage in many. A few days ago certain gentlemen came to mo to ask me tocn gago with them in the line of banking. 1 am not a banker, said I. 1 am a newspaper man. Hut, they persisted, we do not ask for vonr time, onlv vour name, and the use of your name to us will bo worth I $100,000 a year to you. I did not, however, accede to their request, i had no inclination to engage with them in tho pursuit of banking, because it was outside of my line, and, having more than enough money to meet my modest necessities', and without a child in tho world, 1 did not feel like taking $100,000 for doing nothing to earn it. "The great trouble with mankind is to stick to that pursuit of which they have knowledge. 1 happen to know a banker in this town, with good gen eral information: but with no aptitude for banking. Yet ho plods along in his line, acquiring nothing, you may say, and at times tho necessities of his busi ness have compelled him to raise monev on tho family plate. Now, ho is out of his lino, and will fail, probably, until ho finds that which is Ins real bout and gravitate to it." . A WORD TO OI'K I'AK.MKKS. In no class in tho world is theie such a general lack of taste as among our farmers. They seem to think that it is of no importance whatever, some thing which thoy have nothing to do with, and if thoy only attend to the important duties of the farm, every thing that goes to make up appear ances can be neglected. One. way in which thoy show want of tasto is m tho surroundings of their dwellings. They will leave an ox cart, aled or hay rack in tho door-yard, or in close proxi mity to the house, rather than bo at the trouble of moving them a rod or two further, where thoy would not bo so unsightly, or of putting them under cover, where they belong. Some will have piles of manure, heaps of stones, or large piles of wood and timber, left whore they will give an air of sloven ness to tho homestead, no matter how now or handsome tho building may be. As a gonoral thing the arrangement of hog pons is objectionable. These buildings are gonorally placed at the northern side of sheds and other out buildings, iu close ajaeeney to tho farm house and wheio tho foul odors are al ways going into tho kitchen or sitting loom. Every farmer does not indeed oxhibit this want of taste, for scattered hero and there among our valleys and hillsides is many a sylvan home show ing an appreciation of the tasteful and tho beautiful highly creditable to tho proprietor. Let not Hie farmer think it is beneath him to attend to such things, nor consider that time lost which ho spends in making the sur roundings of his houso tasteful and attractive. ma OKEEK NOTES. Kill ClIUKK, Doe. '2$, INK). Mr. Hat-sin is to the front with an adopted son, known as 1.. U. t. It. miv tho bovA keen tho wood out, for siok folks must bo sot up with. Would like to know why 11. G. tried to drown his ohaparejos and if O. W. luod that rope to fish them out. Tho eoeial danco uiven at Dunham Wright's on Friday night was a huge aiicctMK. AuionK those from iv distance i wo noUowl Mr. lw WiUon and lady, and Mr. Chime and ladv. Tim latter Htmilctiuin whs the rroipieut of quite m lumdwme prcenl t tho hands of one of earth' fairest daughtors. X. Y. .. Written for Tin: Hcolt.I SORROW. Forrow is the great birth-agony of immortal powers. Sorrow is the great Konrnhnr and rovealor of hearts, the --- w- - great test of truth ; for Pluto has wise- . ... ii i ly said, sorrow will not endure sophisms All shams and unrealities melt in the lire of.that awful furiu'cc. Sorrow reveals forces in ourselves we never dreamed of. Tho soul a bound and sleeping prisoner, hears her knock i on her cell door, and wakens. J Oh, how narrow the walls; bh, how I close and dark the grated windows; j how' the long useless wings beat against tliii imnassablc barriers: where arc , we? What is this prison? What is beyond? Oh for more air, more light; when will the doors be opened? The soul seems to itself to widen and deep en; it trembles at its own dreadful forces; it gathers up in waves that break with wailing only to flow back into tho cverlastinir void. The calmest and most centered na tures are sometimes thrown by the shock of a great sorrow into a tumul tous amazement. All things are changed. Tho earth 110 longer seems solid, the skies no longer secure ; a deep abyss seems underlying every joyous scene of life. The soul struck with this awful in spiration, is a mournful Cassandra; kIw. cum lilnml mi nvcrv threshold, and ! shudders in tho midst of mirth and festival with the weight of a terrible wisdom. Who shall dare be glad any more, that has once seen the frail foundation 0.1 which love and joy are built? Our brighter hours, have they , only been weaving a not work of agon izing rememberences for this day of bereavement? The heart is pierced with every past joy, with every hope of its ignorant prosperity. Jlehind overy scale in music, tho gayest and cheerist, the grandest, tho most triumphant, lies its dark relative minor; the notes are the same, but tho change of a semi-tone changes all to gloom. All our gayest hours arc tunes that have a modulation into these dreary keys ever possible. At any moment tho key note may b3 struck-. Tho firmest, best prepared natures are often beside themselves with aston ishment and dismay, when they arc called to this dread initiation. They thought it a very happy world before a glorious universe, now it is dar kened with tho shadow of insolviblo mysteries. Why this everlasting tramp of inovitablo laws on quivering life? Jf tho wheels must roll on why must tho crushed be so living and sensi tive? And yet sorrow is God-like, sorrow is grand and great, sorrow is wise and far seeing. Our own instinctive valua tions, the intense sympathy which wo give tho tragedy which God has inter woven into the laws of nature, show us that it is with no slavish dread, no cowardly shrinking, that wo should ap proach her divine mysteries. What are tho natures that cannot sufler? Who values them? From fat oysters over which the silver tide rises and falls without one pulse upon its flushy ear, to tho hero who stands with quivering nerve parting with wifo and child and homo for country and God, all tho way up, is an ascending scale, marked by increasing power to suller; and when wo look to tho head of all being up through principalities and powers and princedom, with dazzling ardors and celestial blazonry, to be hold by what, emblem tho Iniinito Sovereign chooses to reveal himself, wo behold in the midst of the throne "a lamb as it had been slain." Sorrow is divine. Sorrow is reign ing on tho throne of the universe, and tlu imiiwii of all CrOWUS llllS hCOU 0110 of thorns. There have been many books that treat of tho mystery of sorrow, but only one that bids us glory in tribulation .m1 i-nnnt, it all iov when wo fall into diverse alllictions, that so we may bo associated with that great fellow-ship of su He ring of which tho Incarnate God is the head and through which ho is carrying a redemptive conflict to glorious victory over evil. If wo suller with him wo shall also reign with him. HVOll 111 t 10 Very IliaKllIK up ui uiu i.uniuim t, i physical nature, Clod puts suggestions .. l' vim ill tho verv niakmi: tin of our nf such a result, "weep ng nmr en- ol hUt.n a nsui , ah h . .i r.M- ,i ii i. hi imt inv pomoui in too - " morning. I hero are victorious pow now- urs in our nature which are all tho while working for us in our deepest pain. It is said that after the Miller ings of the rack, there ensues a poriod iu which tho simple reposo from tor turo produces a beatific trance; it is the miction of nature, assorting the lietStiignnt intentions of her creator. So after groat niontnl oonlliets, and agonies, must ooino a rootion, and the Divine Spirit co-working with our spirit, buixe the favomblo moment, and interpreting natural laws with Frank Bro's. Implement Uo.j LA GRANDE and ISLAND CITY. i HAVANA PRESS DRILLS GANG, SULKY and WALKING PLOWS, STODDARD HARROWS,' Ik "ELI" My All late improved farm implements and machinery, barb wire and feed mills. Every implement warranted, and prices to suit the times. CALL OX US Oil OUK AGENTS BEFORE PURCHASING. a celestial vitality carries up the soul to joys beyond the ordinary possibilities of mortality. It is fittd that gardeners, sometimes when thoy would bring a rose to richer flowering, deprive it for a season of light and moisture. Silent and dark it stands, dropping one fade- ing leaf after another, and seeming to go down patiently to death. JJut when ever leaf is dropped and the plant stands stripped to the uttermost, a new life is oven then working in the buds, from which shall spring a tender fo liage and a brighter wealth of flowers. So often in celestial gardening, every leaf of earthly joy must drop before a new and divine bloom visits the soul. CHAKLKS N. WYL115. Chicauo, 111., October C, 181)0, SHKKiri- 'S SAUK OS CIIATTUI. 3IOIIT- iA;i:. To .11,1. whom this xotici: sh m.i, co.NCintN: Know ve that whereas on tin) luiii (lay ni Mav. IsiiU, there was filed in the clerk's ... i it.., 1...4...1 OIIU'O ! IMC COUIliy l uniuii, u inortiiaL'e lieaiim,' date of that day. made bv .lames llnbbins and Isaac Carry the parties of the Urst part, aim K. M. Hill, tue parly ol uie sceoim pun, nerei mc parties of the first part mortgaged to the inirtv iif Hin M'ronil Hurt, one Clvdcsdale stallion named " Dominion,'' style No. KM, CIvdeMlale Stud Hook of Camilla; color, bav, star In face, white hind feet; foaled AiiLMist 11. 1PS . ami wiueii inoriuiiKC was to secure the Mini of $S(0.00 according to the tenor of two certain notes and in tcrest at ten per cent, per annum,; one of said notes belim navable Nov. I. for $:!I)0,IKI and the other for $;00.00 payable .NUV, I. INKI, , And, whereas, under and by virtue of the law In such ease made and provided, the First Nationnl Hank of Union delivered to inn tlnl If f U 111 fkil ItllOl I uliorilVnf I'niiiii coun ty, Oregon, a certified copy of said chattel mortpiKe, ami hv cimorsemcin on sm;ii eopv, stated that it was the owner of the notes described in said mortcnuc and directin' me to take the property de scribed In said mortpuKO ami sell tno same as provided in said mortgage, and I having in obedience to such order taken uniil iiniiiiTlv into mv ltosscssioll. ulid It being provided in said" mortgage that said property may ue som aner kmiuk mre week's notice of such sale in a newspaper published i" the county of I'ldon and State of Oregon. I hercbv give notice that on Monday, the .Mb day of January, ml, at '.' o'clock p. in. of said day. I will sell all the right, title and interest of .lames Itobbins and Isaac Curry or either of them, in and to the above described property. The salu will take place at the stable of V. K. Howker. on Main street in tho town of t'nion, in rniou count, State of Ore gon, at public auction, for gold coin in hand, to tho highest and best bidder. Dated iit Union this the 10th day of De- comber, 1SU0. , J. T. 1IOL1.KS, Sherift Uv W. It. UsiiKK. deputy. liMS-wli NOTICK OF KOKFKITUHK, Sta'.e of Oregon, county of Union, I November H. JSIO.) To Jons Noi.kx: .... You are hereby notified that I hare ex pended one hundred dollars In labor and Improvements on the "Flying Dutchman ' quartz lode, situated hi Oranlte mining district. Union county. Oregon, as will a pear bv certificate tiled November 10, IS!. and recorded in Hook K of iiutu U claims, page 'J-2II, in the office of the recorder of said eountv, in order to hold said promise under tho provisions of section 2.T.M rerised statutes of the United States, being the amount required to bold the xame for the vear ending December lstm. and if with in ninety davs after this nolle" hv publica tion yiiii fail or refuse to contribute your portion of Mich expenditure, and of other expenditures for which you are legal y bound as co-owner, your Interest In said claim will become tho property of the sub scriber under said secuon 'J324. n":t-i:tt no nun w. im: it kins. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICK. VTOTH'K IS 1 1 KltKUY 0 1 V KN TO A 1.1. lersons concerned that tho under o-i persons lumumii u , . , i Ul-'iied has been regularly appointed ad- n',7mstrator f the estate of Charles Mo- I I ...1 All ,..,rcnn. liovllll'l-blllllS i I.eau, ueeoaseu. aii pori w iiuviiikuhiu Knist said elate are notitied to present .,, ,i nil vrinVil. In ilin lllldorsi? 110(1 I . . i ...i.i.i.. v ........ i . tli., auminisiriiioi mnii i numma -, datii of this notice, at his resilience in .unn Powder, Union county. Oregon. Dated tlns'JOth day of November, ls'W. WM. HONTON, H-'JiVwfl Administrator. run-in: or DISSOLUTION. "XT OTIUK IS HF.ltKHY OIVKN THAT 11 l)o- i. we, Squire K. Thomai and J. llanov.have this dnv dissolved by mutual consent tho partnership business heretofore ' existing between us. and J. H. Dclaney Is herebv authorised and undertakes to pay . all debts of tho llrm ami collect nil accounts ,lUl)iititd nt Union Oregon tills Wth day of j December.. ! J. 11. DKUANKY. flow W h: AT COST. Our Entire Stock of AND- For Sale Less -AT- Take advantage Orders from a distance solicited and mm LD (Near the Court tlou-i , E. M. MITCHELL, Proprietor. The best of accomodations for the oare of stock. Charges Reasonable , RUSH FORD and FISH j BRO'S. WAGONS, HACKS. CARRIAGES i and BUGGIES, "ELI" SULKY PLOWS, E3 lUl i at Cost and of the opportunity. promptly attended to. .IONKS HI JOS.. Union, Oregon. 11 ,v ,.."' ,.rmiwm wmm it mimr &m bam fa m mm 1 T1 ft Hf V A-