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respondent at the Capital.
Washi.nhtox, July ;il, ISiil.
Editor Orkoon Scout:
Washington has not had such a live
ly week, politically speaking, for
months as the present ono has bean,
nnd if outward indications count for
anything tho Blaine boom has sudden
ly grown into such proportions as to
completely overshadow the Harrison
boom, which has up to this week up-
parcntly had the right of way on tho
republican track, and the prediction is
being freely made that it is only a ques
tion of time when Mr. Harrison will
formally announce tho withdrawal of
his name. What has brought about
this change? Well opinions dill'er; the
prominent republicans here, members
of the National Executive coinmittco
and others attracted hero by ilie meet
ing of that committee, held Wednesday
evening, say mat mere lias been no
change and that the present situation
is the logical outcome of the almost uni
versal demand of the rank and illo of
the republican party that Blaine bo the
nominee; others say that the action of
certain republicans favorable to Mr.
Harrison in helping to spread misrep
resentations of Mr. Blaine's actions
and health has done the work. I can
not say which, if cither, of these opin
ions are correct ; but the fact remains
that while Mr. Blaine, according to
those who are certainly in a position
to speak for him, will not bo a candi
date, he will do nothing to prevent his
being nominated and if the nomination
comes to him without effort on his
part he will accept it. That is all his
friends wanted, and those republicans
hero this week, including the national
executive committee, appear to be all
his friends and all certain that he will
be the nominee. Well, we shall see,
Statistics arc not usually interesting
to tho average reader, but tho state
ments made this week by the Treas
ury Bureau of Statistics of the foreign
commerce and immigration of the Uni
ted States for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1891, contains figures that
should intcrestevery intelligent person.
The total value of our foreign com
merce waa $l,72U,:i30,89(J, a much
larger amount than it ever reached
before in a single year. Wo imported
merchandise to tho amount of $814,905,-
491, and exported $844,425,105, worth.
Tho McKinlcy tariff law went into
effect on October 0, 1890, and from
that time until June 30, 1891, a few
days less than nine months, wo import
ed merchandise to the value of $030,-
200,005, against $598,709,905, during
a corresponding period in the preced
ing fiscal year.. During tho same
period the value of goods admitted
free of duty was $295,903,0G5, against
$208,983,873, during the same timo
in 'the preceding fiscal year. More
gold was exported during tho lust fiscal
year than in any single year of our
history. Here are tho figures: Export
ed $86,303.022 ; imported $18,240,512.
The total immigration into tho
United States during tho fiscal year
was 555,490, against 451,215 tho pre
ceding year, tho increaBO being large
ly from the following countrios : Italy,
23,354; Austria-Hungary, 14,801;
Germany, 21,122, and Russia, includ
ing Toland, 28,245. Stop and think a
moment over these figures ; it will en
Urge your ideas of the immensity of
this country.
Secretary Foster lias quietly ignored
the letter recently written by Commis
sioner Owen to Representative Neid
ringhaus taking the ground that Welch
tin-plate workers can be legally
brought to this country under contract,
and has written another letter stating
that th Treasury department cannot
undertake to determine in advance of
the importation of tin-plato workers
the legality of bringing them. It is
said that the secretary was very much
put out by what he considers Commis
sioner Owen's bad break, and that ho
intimated to that gentleman very
plainly that a letter of such importance
should not have been sent without
first being submitted to him. Tho
outcome of tho mutter is to be a series
of regulations, supposed to cover every
thing coming under the alien contract
law, which, it is stated, are soon to bo
issued by the Treasury department.
Two other subordinates of Secretary
Foster have been overruled by him in
a little matter upon which thoy had
sot their hearts. Assistant Secretary
Crounse and Treasurer Nebeker it
seems found the pleasuro of holding
oflicc so great that they wished their
respective sons to get n share of it, so
each of them appointed his son to ho
his privnto secretary. When the ap
pointments reached the secretary, he
refused to confirm them. Then the
two gentleman put their heads together
and tho result was that Mr. Crounso
appointed Mr. Nebeker's son to be his
private secretary nnd Mr. Nebeker rc-
ciprocated by appointing .Air. Crounse's
son to be his private secretary, but
i Secretary Foster wasn't to bo caught
by any such deal as that, and ho again
vetoed tho two appointments.
A reciprocity treaty with San
Domingo has been agreed upon, and
will go into effect September 1.
The resignations of Senator Quay,
chairman, and Col. W. V. Dudley,
treasurer, of the republican national
coniinitteo, were accepted by the ex
ecutive committee and Mr. J. S.
Clarkson was elected chairman and
instructed to appoint a treasurer. Mr.
Quay has also resigned his placoon the
national committee, which rem oven
him from national polities entirely.
J. H. C.
Crop-Weather Bulletin, No. 22.
The observer of tho Oregon Weather
Bureau, of Portland, Oregon, has is
sued tho bulletin for tho week ending
Saturday, Aug. 8, 1891, tho same be
ing based upon reports received from
147 correspondents, which is as follows :
WKSTKKN OKKCO.V.
Weather. Tho temperature lias
been from 2 to 5 degrees a day below
tho average for tho week. On Tuesday
and Wednesday thunder storms were
quite general and rain fell, especially
in the Willamette valley and along the
coast; rain also fell on Thursday and
Friday, while today is clearing weather
and warmer. The rain fall was heavi
est in Multnomah and Columbia
counties and gradually decreased to
the south, especially south of Marion
county ; south of tho Calapooia moun
tains less than .15 of an inch of rain
fell. In the northern part of Willam
etto valley about .75 of an inch of rai 1
fell; in a few sections hail fell on die
5th.
Crops. Tho rain did no material
damage to tho wheat crop; much of
tho fall wheat was cut and in shock,
ready for tho thresher, and about nil
tho damago done was the delay which
will crowd fall wheat threshing mid
spring wheat cutting close together.
There are a few roportsof wheat having
fallen, but this is practically nothing.
A continuation of the rain would hnvu
caused tho wheat to sprout; tho clear
ing weather was most timely.
Threshed wheat in Polk and Yamhill
counties has been averaging from 25 to
10 bushels per aero ; oats also yoilded
well. In some sections plowing for
summer-fallowing is in progress. Tho
rains were of great benefit to root crops,
garden, pasturage and young orchards,
and had a tendency to destroy and
causo a cessation of tho ravages made
by tho hop louso and codlin moth.
The four days rain was most unusual
this season of tho year, but fortunatoly,
no damago was dono and good results
from it aro expected.
KAHTEHN OJIEOON.
Weather. Tho tcmporaturo lias
been consideraby below the aycrago
for this season of the year. Tho weath
er has been cloudy or partly cloudy
and general showers prevailed on
Thursday and Friday, ranging from
.04 of an inch at The Dalles, .07 of an
inch at Heppncr to .33 of an inch at
Baker City. In tho Bluo mountains
in Union, Wallowa and Baker counties
snow fell on the night of the 5th. Tho
temporaturo was so cool that fires wero
necessary in tho houso for comfort.
Crops. Tho rains delayed harvest
ing and threshing two days; no damago
was dono to tho wheat by tho rain,
though it did somo damago to tho hay
crop east and south of tho Bluo moun
tains, In Wasco county from Dufur
to The Dalles tho wheat is shrunken
and tho yield is poor; some smut is to
be found ; in other sections tho wheat
yield is good. In Gilliam county thoro
is some rust. In Morrow county tho
wheat is yielding oven better than was
expected. In Umatilla county tho
yield is better than for many yours.
Wallowa, Union, Baker, Crook, Grant
and othor interior counties havo excel-
out prospects.
B. S. l'AGUE,
OUorvor, U. 8. Wcathor Bureau.
BIBMCAL QUESTIONS.
"Porus"
Presents Further Proof That a
Flood Did Exist.
Knrroit Oitiiiio.v Scout:
In Thk Scout of July 10th, It. C.
Kmcry has an article untitled "Reply
to a I'cw educations," but in that arti
cle he does not attempt to answer a
single question I asked. Ho quotes
the 0th, 7th nnd 8th verses of tho UHtli
I'miIid and then tries to explain them,
but it. is evident to anyone that ho lias
twisted them around to suit, his opiu-
ion. Now any schoolboy can como a
great deal uotuer giving tho meaning
of those verses than he has done;
further, ho fails to quote tho 9th verse,
intentionally I snppu.-e, lor it would
have placed his explanation of the
oilier verses' in a bad light. The 9th
ver.-e leudu: "Thou Iimm hH a bound
that they may not pass over; that they
turn nut again to cover the earth."
1 would like for him to explain this
'i ie m lhat it would agree with his
explanation of the others. Is it a sei
eniilie trit t It that a bound must be set
li the clouds so they will not again
cover the earth? He asks, "Does sci
ence teach that water runs up hills
and mountains to seek its lovel?"
Tlii que-lion will be answered in tho
following pioofs. In conclusion ho
says, "I will still hold to my first state
ment until more positive proof is pro
tlttccd than the old Psalmist David."
lli ,-tatcment was a denial of the
possibility of a Hood as recorded by
the isihlc. As to tne llooil story we
will notice first the Hood-legend, ono
lorm of which has come down through
Burosus and .loscphus, but which ac
quires much more certain antiquity
and greater grandeur from tho lnscrip
tions. Their account, says Hchrader,
whoso bias cannot, I think, bo con
sidered as friendly toward tho Hebrew
record, "brings tho Biblical narrative
into much closer relation witli the
Chaldean Hood-legend than could bo
assumed on the basis of tradition in
Berostis." It. forms part of tho Idu
bar legends discovered by Georgo
Smith, who published his account of
them in 1872, and who assigns to
them a date anterior to 2000 years
B. C, under tho early Babylonian
empire. (See "Assyrian Discoveries,"
p.ige 100.)
The Biblo story of the Hood derives
corroboration from' the Babylonian
record, inasmuch as it is thus carried
back by an independent testimony to
a very great antiquity. That record,
composed, as Smith thinks, not long
after tho timo of Izdubar or Nimrod,
gives us tho tradition of a il'od which
was a divino punishment of tho wick
edness of the world, and of a holy man
who built an atk and escaped tho de
struction. Tho voice of natural sci
ence has not been, and probably is not
at present, uniform on this subject.
Tho negative has just been presented
to tho world by Professor Huxley. Ho
conceives that Christian theology must
stand or full with the historical trust
worthiness of the Jewish Scriptures.
(Nineteenth Century, July, 1890; pago
8.) I may bo bold enough to mention
that, whilo Mr. Huxley is speaking in
tho numo of science at largo, somo
votaries of scionco hold an entirely
different opinion. Moreover, that tho
idea of a flood was not dismissed by
tho luminaries of tho scientific world
antorior to tho present day ; and that
tho grounds of this dismissal are not
of recent discovery, hut wero fully
open to tho geologist of tho last gener
ation. Quito rccontly tho doctrino of
a dolugo has been maintained by Sir.
J, Dawson, ("Modom Scionco in Biblo
Lands," pago 252.) by Air. Howorth,
and by tho Duko of Argyll, (Tho Scott
ish Geographical Magazine, April,
1890.) all of whom aro suroly to bo
considered as serious scientific inquir
erB.
Mr. Howorth, in his learned and
laborious work on "Tho Mammoth and
tho Flood," is not bound by any super
stitious reverence of tho mere toxt of
the Book of Genesis, for, in his pref
ace, he casts asidoas null its traditions
respecting all that precedes tho crea
tion of man. He collects not only tho
diluvial traditions of so many races
and countries, but an immonso muss
of palicontological ovidonco, and hav
ing laid this wide ground for his in
duction ho declares that, in his judg
ment, tho wholo points unmistakably
"to a wido spread calamity, involving
a flood on a groat scale." "I do net
se how the historian, tho archteolo-
gist and tho p.iltcontologist can avoid
making this c.onehnion in future a
prime factor in their discussions, and
I venture to think that before long it
will bo accepted as unanswerable."
I quoto in conclusion the following
passage from I.anormant, which fol
lows a copious collection of testimonies
to the erudition of a deluge in almost
all lauds: "Tho long review, to which
wo havo just applied ourselves, war
rants our ulfirining that the tale of tho
deluge is a universal tradition among
all branches of tho human family,
excepting, however, the blacks. But
a lvmom bianco prevailing everywhere,
so precise and so concordant, cannot
be that of a myth arbitrarily invented.
No religious or ensmugnric myth pre
sents such a character of universality.
It must of necessity be a recollection
of a great and terrible occurrence
which impressed the imagination of
the ancestors of our race so profoundly
as never to havo been forgotten by
their descendants." (Second edition,
ISSO.) Pottu.s.
STARKLY STRIKES.
Stahkkv, Oregon, August 7, 1S!)I.
Iiverybody is busy haying between
showers.
School closed on the 24th for a two
weeks vacation.
Several Uinutilluites are in tho
mountains httcklebenying.
Last Thursday tho high hills wero
covered with snow.
Mr. Prank Ohovott made a Hying
trip to Pendleton lust week.
Charley Thompkius and Henry
SohaHbr arc engaged repairing tho
school house during vacation.
A hail storm visited this vicinity on
the 10th tilt., doing considerable dam
age to crops.
Pat. Loft us finished stacking his
hay on tho Alden place on the 4th,
James Ilatidahau superintending tho
job.
Mr. J. F. Adams and family, who
havo been rusticating hero for tho past
week, returned to their homo in Uma
tilla county on tho 4th.
Tho French Bros, arrived with their
threshing machine on the 1st, and tho
ranchers will havo an opportunity to
test the yield of Ihoir crops. Every
body is saving some grain to thresh
instead of cutting all for hay as has
been the ease heretofore.
A special correspondent of tho Pen
dleton Tribune passed through Star
key last week. Ho was surprised at
liodiiiL' a settlement so far back in tho
mountains. Ho says thoro is 11s good
grain hero as ho has seen unywhero,
and wo will no doubt got a puff from
the Tribuno. Old Socks.
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