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It. F. Ilyiid, I.ii Koiite io Scotland,
t.tvc His Obserlulioiis.
R. F. Ilynd, who is en route to his old
home in Scotland, is fnrnishirig the Ga
zette with a series of letters containing
his observations en route. The follow
ing is his first, dealing mainly with
our own country, but giving us his ear
lier experiences on a big Cunarder:
R. M. S. Campania, Mid Atlantic,
July 20, 1904.
Editor Gazette :
Sitting under the awning on the upper
deck .of the Campania, surrounded by a
mixed company of all ages and nation
alities some quietly reading in the
comfortable deck chairs, others playing
"deck pool," while the majority sit
around in groups discussing all manner
of subjects I begin the letter I prom
ised you, giving a short sketch of our
trip across continent and ocean. Hav
ing kept no notes as we sped along, only
the principal incidents will be recorded
We crossed the Snake river at Hunt
ington about midnight, and before we
were called for breakfast had passed the
Weiser and Tayette valleys, the only
farming section of any note along the
Short Line in Idaho. Aside from a set
tlement at Shoshone and an occaeiona'
glimpse one gets of the Snake river bot
tom as the train passes along, nothing
can be Been west of Focatello except a
vast stretch of rocky, comparatively
level country covered with sagebrush,
with the higher range of mountains to
the north and east. At Focatello snrely
the hottest place out of Texas we spent
fifteen minutes, while the Salt Lake and
Dutte baggage was being transferred,
and at 1 o'clock again started eastward.
During the late afternoon we passed the
Diamondvillo coal fields, operated by
the Union Pacific system, and a few
miles south on a phort spur lies the
Cumberland mine, from which Hepp
ner has been shipping her coal supply
for some time. Why the O. II. and N
continues to haul its coal from this
point when so much coal is said to lie,
undisturbed in the Willow ("reek basin
is a difficult problem to 6oIve. Some
day we may see the light!
At S:45 we reached Grern River, where
we were joined by the 'Fiisco train. All
chair cars were cut out and Die "Over
land Imited," composed of five Pull
man sleepers, haggfge, express and
mail cars, started on its run of forty
miles an hour for the Missouri river.
During the right we crossed the back
bone of the continent and in the morn
ing were speeding along over the prai
lieaof eastern Wyoming. For several
hours we passed over a splendid graz
ing country, supporting at this season of
the year thousands of cattle, !0 percent,
of which appeared to be "white faces."
Scattering windmills over the prairie
turnishea water for the cattle, and as no
crops are raised in this section, all stock
is driven east to the farming section as
winter approaches.
At Sidney, Neb., the farming country
begii a and for over fonr hu dred miles
we passed through as fine a farming sec
tion as one could wish to see. The
greater part of the way we followed the
lazy Platte river, and as far as the eye
could reach in nil directions stretched
the vast cornfields Immense crops of
hay and some erly bar'ey were being
harvested, but even where corn wa
king. In some cases it stood nearly aw
high as a horse's back, and the beauti
fui dark grefn color of the leaves wit
the so l in splendid condition, gave
promise of the largest crop that has
been grown for years. The numerous
small tqiwns along the railrrad, the com
fortable, and in many cases, handsome
farmhouses, the beautiful groves of trees
and well kep' roads indicate a very pro-
pe ons penple, and I feel it would be
difficult to anchor settlers from this sec
tion on our Morrow county hiils O
the other hand, tl ey hve their zero
weather and blizzards in winter, their
thunderstorms and hot nights in sum
mer, with cinch bugs, potato bugs and
mosquitoes, and hu occasional cyclone to
break the monotony. The lightning rod
agent has done a profitable business i
this section, for many of the houst-s ar
provided with three, and in some cases
four. Perhaps the' are needed.
We reached Omaha at 8 p. m., and
lieie were transferred to the Milwaukee
road, most of our fednw travelers, among
them E Y. Jodd, of Pendleton, going by
the Northwestern to Chicago. We
crossed the bridge over the Missouri
ahead of the Northwestern train, and as
we pulled into Chicago the following
morning at 9 o'clock we found the same
Northwestern train held up by a gate
keeper where the two tracks cropsed,
waiting for us to pass. Our train had
been signalled first and got the right of
wav a close race over 500 miles of
track.
At the depot we were met by my sis
ter and her husband and accompanied
them to their home in the suburbs,
seven miles out. On the way we passed
through a Polish settlement, one of the
largest in the city, where every name on
the business houses eoded with "isky,"
and where hundreds of dirty urchins in
the street reminded one of the slums of
Europe. Had President Roosevelt vis
ited a few such settlements before
wiiting his "race suicide" article he
would have discovered that if the Amer
ican people are neglecting their duty
along the line of reproduction the for
eigners are supplying the deficiency.
Many similar foreign settlements exist
in Chicago, generally Poles and Italians,
where every line of business is repre
sented anil where the nationalities live
I
and trade exclusively amorg them
selves. The weather was hot and sultry, and
when out riding in the afternoon, during
a thunder storm and downpour of rain,
one car was struck by lightning, burn
ing out al' electrical fittings and causing
such a shower of sparks and volume of
smoke that the passengers stampeded.
Luckily it was an open car and all got
off safely, no one bnng struck by the
current. It was over in a minute and
the passengers were clad to climb
aboard to escape the drenching rain.
Soon another car came along and
pushed us to our destination. Next
morning the weather was cool and
pleasant, with a breeze blowing from
the lake, and thus continued during our
stay ot three days in Chicago. We visi
ted many place? of interest, amorg them
the Hoard of Trade, where the bulls and
bears were howling in the vaiious pits;
the Masonic Temple, where from the
twenty-second story you look down
upon men in the street no larger than
iliesjand Lincoln Park, with its wild
animals and miles of frontage on the
lake. What a relief it must be for the
little street Arabs to visit such a park,
watch the monkeys and the seals, roll
ou the grass and bathe in the lake dur-
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?tmnF? co orray hair aI1 the dark.rich color of youth.
orojsjjming n air, also, bold for fifty years. "RTiiTr'iTVH'
'ng the hot days of a Chicago summer,
without Costing them a cent. We in
tended to visit the stockyards and pack
ing houses, but on the morning after our
arrival the butchers went out on strike
and business came to a standstill. It is
to be hoped, for the sake of tire Western
o ttlemen that the differences will soon
be adjusted and work resumed.
At 3 p ra. Thursday we boarded the
Grand Trunk express for New York.anrt
a'ter a night's tide through the southern
point of Canada, reached Niagara Falls
-it 7 o'clock. Here we spent three hours
visiting every' point, of interest at this
wor ld famed resort. Truly it is a grand
-ight, a desciiption of which you will
tind in your school books. Descriptions
are written and read, but to realize its
immensity one must see it.
At 10:30 we took the Black Diamond
Express over the Lehigh Valley road,
passing through Taughannock Falls,
Ahere our former fellow-townsman, W.
M. Douglas, now reidag. The country
around Ithica Lake is one of the pret
tiest and most picturesque we have
passed through and our friend Lindsay
has already chosen it for a home when
he makes his stake in Oregon. How
quickly a cold Eastern winter would
drive him back to Rhea Creek! Crops
are very light in this section of the state,
due, it is said, to a cold, backward
spring. In fact we have seen nothing
on our journey that would compare with
the fine fields of wheat on the reserva
t on near Pendleton. Oregon against
the world !
We reached New York at 10 15 p. m.,
and aa we had to report at the Cunard
wharf at S o'clock the next morning, we
saw nothing of the city. On our return
we will likely spend a few days there.
What a busy scene presented itself at
the steamer dock next morning as we
alighted from the street car. The Cam
pania, one of the swiftest of the Atlantic
greyhounds, lay quietly at the wharf,
while people on foot and in every kind
of vehicle on earth, filed into the large
warehouse. All the baggage the trans
fer companies had delivered during the
early hours of the morning, stood in
rows waiting for the owners to appear
with their checks. As soon as identified
three labels were placed on each pack
age, one stating destination Liverpool
or Queenstown one stating whether
wanted on voyage, and the other the
large initial letter of owner's name
(This last label is to facilitate the hand
ling at Liverpool, aa the baggage is
taken out and arranged on the wharf
during the night, the steamer arriving
about midnight. In the morning one
knows in what section to find his bag
gage when the customs inspector comes
around ) When labeled the baggage is
hurried aboard, for in one hour the
twelve hundred passengers and their
baggage n ust be aboard. D. zens of
express wagons coma al ng at this late
hour with their loads of trunks and one
wou'd hardly think it possible that out
of the apparent disorder everything
could be got aboard in so short a time.
Excited women rush along looking for
a trunk that hasn't yet been delivered
by the traffic company, men swear be
cause the ar tist with brush and label
can't attend to everyone at thy same
time, while the sailois rush their trucks
over the toes of anyone standing in their
wav. Gradually the pile grows h ss end
by the time the gong sounds all are on
board and the visitors rush ashore. The
last gangplank drops the wharf ju -t
nine minutes after the scheduled time
tor leaving a feat oiu' would have con
sidered impossible half an hour before.
( To he Continued.)
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COM,o WILL, BE A IMIIIinin
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-Neighboring County on the H'et
I Jubilant Over ProspectH
for That Section.
Th O R. and N. conipa-iy has Ho
cided to build a ndlro d f om Arlington
'o Condon, in Gilliam county, a toad
which will enable the farmers to market
their grain with a gie r dea less trouble
and give them rn"ie time in which to
improv their lar.d and gei manv moe
acres under cu'tivation. General Man
aser E E. Calvin, of the O. R. and N.,
announces thnt work on t e line will
b gin at once Within a fe.v days engi
neers wi l be put in tie field and as soon
as righ -of-way matters can be adjusted
'he work will begin and the line ill be
rushed to completion The new line
will ho between 45 and 50 miles lomt.
The exact roue has not be- di-cided
upon in some places where there is difli
culty in getting a riy ht-of-wav, hut Ar
lington and Condon will be the termini
of the new line.
Found 50000 Old Pennies.
An old nail keg was recently unearth
ed in one of our Western cities by work
men engaged in tearing down an old
building. Upon opening it thev became
very much elated, as it was full of pen
nies, but their joy was soon turned to
disappointment, for on closer examina
tion they were found to be commercial
pennies, used during the war, and of no
value whatever now. The above has
also been the experience of sickly men
nd women who were deceived into try
ing various remedies to restore them to
health, but because they contained no
merit w ere sadly dieappointsd. Not so,
however, with those who selected Hos
tetter's Stomach Bitters to cure them of
belching, heartburn, indigestion, dys
pepsia or malaria, fever and ague, for
today they enjoy perfect health. A
trial will convince you too.
Suicide Prevented.
The startling announcement that a
preventive of suicide had been discov
ered will interest many. A run down
system or despondency invariably pre
cede suicide, and something has been
found that will prevent that condition
which makes suicide likely. At tbe
first thought of self destruction take
Electric Bitters. It being a great tonic
and nervine will strengthen the nerves
and build up the system. It's also a
great stomach, liver and kidney regula
tor. Only 50o. Satisfaction guaranteed
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THE CHEERFUL TELEPHONE.
An Institution That Contribtftw
Much Toward the Enlivenment
of Mankind.
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numerous mechanical in vent imp
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dull winter ('ays, when mv hup.
band was in town and the ebihlrer:
at school, my spirit-; wou'd somt
times llajr. Instead of f'viier u .
quinine pill or a dose of eel-rate
tonic, I would simply f!y fo 'he
telephone, eall up some one of im
treasured relatives or intimate
friends, either in town or in tie
country, et a little pleasanT
sparkle of talk or harmless k&
sip over the wire, and go back it
my sowing or work refreshed ant
braced in mind and body.
" 'Unlfoknownst,' too, as gooc
old Sairey (lamp would say, I'
often administered the telephon
cure to my husband and children
If Henry yawned a good deal ii.
the evening and didn't seem t
care to read, or to talk, I w?ulc1
say, carelessly:
" 'ITenry, call up George Blarikc
and ask how thev all .are, over
there; we haven't heard Iron
them for several days; or, ITenry.
call up your mother and ask how
all the folks are; tell her we warn
to know.' These little telephone
symposiums would brighten dean
old Henry up amazingly. Wher.
the children were at home fron
school with colds, too, the tele
phone was our great corn fort.
Indeed, I think the world at larg
is ungenerously silent concerning
the countless glorious messages of
golden cheer which, day by day
in every direction, flit along th
telephone wires."
Antarctic Cold.
Though the temperature f-l
more than CO degrees below zer
several times at the plav when
observations were made", thesr
records cannot be regarded a"
representing the extreme .eld ir,
t ho ant a ret i- rev. ions. (I:er. mm
J'errv saw nothing worse f - i-.'
el' Pi.") degrees be!"W zei'o. ! "'. 1
( 'a pt . Scot 1 . t hey were do -' ' n 1 !(
sea except dilfiliiT the fe";Te 1
months. The imukI pfvpri' cnl.I
record is that ohs-'wod 'i nn .
cni Sileria. well inland. ;:'.
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