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About Wallowa chieftain. (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1902)
We theiignt B '' HI last anouiil couie The ri'x.' would lose its thorn. nJ every lip but Joy's be dumb tt'iifii l-"ve. '' Ixjve, was burn; Thai nriy tears should start to rise. No tiigui u ertaiie ou mora, r nuy guests Sif grief surprise Wiiiu love, sweet Lve. was born. And when he came, O Heart of mine! Aol siood within our dour. No joy ur dreaming could "Jivine I MO IUC"SIU0, Ml DllH, The thorns sbull wound our hearts again, t... ..... tl.n fanp (if vnn HUl " ..... For all the guests of grief and pain Shall nerve him evermore. Arthur Sherburne Hardy. fllE heat rolled up In waves from the suu-sonked land into an at mosphere already surcharged with heat. For a number of hours the birds had ceased song nud twitter. The sharp chr-r-r of the grasshoppers and the steady click, click of the harvester seemed to voice the misery caused by the stilling air. Not the slightest breeze ruffled the broad expanse of ripened wheat; uot a motion except of men. machine and horses. White streaks of lather showed on the horses wherever touched by a strap of leather, and though they lagged miserably at their work the driver was too enervated by the heat to urge them to a livelier salt. A bill, broad-shouldered young man walked toward the team and held up one hand with a gesture of command. "Take the horses. Mart, and put them iu the shadow of the barn; they'll get siiastruck If you don't look out. We'll unit, all of us, until It cools off a lit tle." lie walked slowly toward the house and threw himself dowu In the shade of the porch The other men lounged In the shadow of the barn. "Good thing Jeff Cooper thinks some thing of bis bosses," muttered Mart. AT Ills FEET LAY HILDA. "He don't care for anything but what costs him money. No wonder his wife left him." "Where did she go?" asked one of the men, lazily. "Nobody knows, unless she went back to her tolks." "What did she go for?" questioned the man again. "Hot tired of workln' like a beast. I guess. All ,IelT married her for was to work. She used to milk the cows, take care of the bosses and do most all the chores, then go into the Mold and work. She drove the team ull through bur vestiu' last summer." "She was a Swede, wasn't she?" "Yes; a strong, red-cheeked young woman, with big blue eyes, and hair Just the color of that wheat field dowu there. A young Swede was workin' for Jeff, and they left about the same time; guess there ain't much doubt " "It's a lie!" The men Jumped and turned to look Into Jeff Cooper's white angry face. He was trembling, but bis voice was cool Hid steady. "My wiie never left with any man; It was not like her. No better, truer woman ever lived, and any man who ir. s to say anything different may an swer to me." He clenched a pair of liuge lists and looked at Mart, who did ml answer for a moment, then he asked, "What did she go away for, then, and where is she?" "1 don't know: but I know that when 1 Hud her she will be as good and pure a u littlicoiiild." '"I'i'y you hadn't 'predated her a lit tle mure when you had her," returned lart, scornfully. " 'Most always If a "mil thinks anything of his wife he don't set her to workln' outdoors, like a man." "1 uever wanted her to work out doors. She liked to 'tend the horses nd drive them, to sit on the harvester ud ateh the wheat fall. 1 did every thing fui ber tlint I could. You thought whin you built n mud bouse for your that you bad done wonders; I built a frame house for mine, mid put a I'orcli on It, when every board In It ost me most n bag of wheat, and that otjhe railroad twenty miles away." "Look! 'Look!" interrupted one of the men. "A cyclone!" The men jumped to their feet. They tt'ulil hear, the distant roar coming nearer and nearer, nnd nil earth ,.,id lle heavens seemed tilled with the eathorliiR fury. "It's going toutli of us," said Mart, uopvfully. "'1 here's ei.ough of it coming here. Get the horses into the cellar, cjuiek!" wniiiuinded Jeff, running ns he spoke to the horses, that stood pulling at their miters, their sensklve ears pricked for ward ns they scented the coming tor nado. Iu a moment men nud horses were U the cyclone cellar uud the TliE THRILLING The cycle whirl is the latest sensation of the bicycle world, savs the New I ork Journal. This apparatus mnkes it possible to hold bicycle races on the stage of a theater. In fact, there are two pursuit races daily at a New York theater, in which several noted stars of the cvcling world take part. Ihe men whir) around the basin with almost incredible speed. So steep is the track banked that the men appear to defy the laws of gravitation. To the spectators they seem to be riding around a picket fence slightly tilted. In order to cover a mile the cyclist has to make between 123 and 150 laps. When two are going at full speed they present the appearance of two colored streaks Hying around with lightning speed. "Dare Devil" Schreyer of mile-a-mlnute fame, and King and Snmuelson. known as the "hobo" team in the recent six-day bicycle race at New York, are among the men who risk their lives daily giving exhibitions in the "wooden bowl." It takes skill of no mean order to race in this latest evolution of the bicycle track. heavy door bolted. Through the thick earth bankiug they could bear the crash as the cyclone struck. "It's a big one," said Mart; "If we get the whole of It you won't see your house, barn, harvester or wheat unless you go Into another county and gather them up." Jeff did not answer. He was uot thinking of the safety of his property, but of his wife. Was she safe out of the track of the cyclone? How fright ened she had been the summer before, when just u slight cyclone had passed through his tields! How she had clung to' him iu the darkness uud perfect safety of the cellar! He could still feel her strong, young heart beating wildly against his own as she clung to him In an agony of fear and dread. Why had she left him? He had asked himself the question hundreds of times since she had left him three mouths ago. He suspected that she had gone home: It was only fourteen miles away, but he was too proud to make uuy search for her. Surely she would come back some time! Mart's words burned his ears, though he did not believe their evil suggestion. "It's over, I guess." Mart's voice broke upou bis thoughts. He went to the door aud unholted It. It opened outward, aud when he pushed It struck something that had been blown against it. He pushed a little harder: the door opened a cruck, and the mun looking over Jeff's shoul der, said. "The house's left, for one thing." They pushed hard against the door until Jeff could squeeze through. He looked down at his feet. "Hilda!" At his feet, her long, fair hair swept about her by the wind, lay Hilda. Oue arm sheltered the baby that Jeff had never seen; it moved and cried, but Hilda lay motionless, her white, up turned face ghastly beneath its coat ing of dust. Jeff took tlie bany from her arms and gave it to one of the men: he then .stooped to raise Hilda. Mart sprang forward to help, but Jeff pushed him nsideli nud, unassisted, carried her to the house and put her upon the bed. His face was as color less as hers us he rubbed his hands and called her by all the old endear ing names she had been accustomed to laar from his lips. "No use, Jeff; she's goue; you can't bring her to," said one of the men, Iu the hushed tones one uses iu Uiu pres ence of the dead. "She Is uot dead! She must uot die!" contradicted Jeff. "Hilda! Hilda!" There was more determination than despair iu the cry. "I can feel her pulse." he cried, hope fully, a few moments later. At last she opened her eyes, but there was no look of recognition in them. After awhile the dazed, bewildered expres sion left her face, nnd her lips parted in a smile us she looked at Jeff. He motioned the men from the room nud dropped upou his knees beside the bed. "Hilda, how could you leave m so?" A troubled look came Into the child like blue eyes. "They did tell me Mart's woman, and the others that ull you cared for nie wns to work. And sometimes I felt that the work was too hard, so I thought 1 would go away till I was once more strong aud could work for you." "They lied, Hilda! It wns you I wanted, uot your work! Where were you when the cyclone struck?" She wrinkled her forehead a little In anxious thought. "I was home. I went out with baby, nnd I turued this way uud walked a long time; t lieu I saw the cyclone com ing nnd was so afraid." She shud dered, nnd Jeff patted her hand reas suringly "Then I run. Oh, I run miles, miles! Then the wind took me up. and then I forget till I saw you, Jeff." Mart put his head In at the door. "The roof of the barn's goue, nnd the harvester's missing, aud every bundle of wheat's been blowed gal'uy west, and nil that was standiu' Is flat. It was u terrible cyclone, now I tell you." Jeff turned a happy face, nnd said, "Not a terrible cyclone, a blessed one: it brought my wife back to ute." Farm and Fireside. "CYCLE WHIRL." CONQUERED THE BAKER. Elephant Rrougrht His 111-Natured Friend to Time. Among the many odd presents re ceived by Queen Victoria was nn ele phant, which, when a mere baby, was sent to ber by an Indian prince. He traveled as a deck passenger on one of the Indian mail steamers from Bom bay, and us he had attained but the height of a well-grown calf and wns always docile und tractable, he was permitted to have the run of the decks for un hour or two every morning. By the sudors be was culled the "bos'u's mate." owing to the penchant he had for carefully picking up every loose coil of rope that he could Uud aud then throwing It over the side, beiug. ns Jack said, "as bad us a naval lieu tenant for keeping the decks tidy." Among other acquaintances that he formed was that of the ship's baker, whose galley be soon discovered to be the place of origin of all the sweet dainties with which he was feted. Here he took to making a regular moruing call, and was generally regaled with a tart of piece of cake. But one morning, when he called and extended his trunk, as usual, the cook happened to be In 111 humor, and In stead of a cake the elephant received a tap on the trunk from the rolling pin. The blow was not severe, but the bos'u turned tail and went trumpeting up the deck, where he took n position that enabled him to watch for bis as sailant. Before long he saw the baker leave his "shop," and having apparently made up his mind what to do, the bos'n pumiptly marched down, and with a lew vigorous sweeps of his trunk cleared every shelf in the bakery. Loaves, tarts, cakes, putty pans and cuke tins lay in a confused heap on the deck. This achieved, he bolted like a mischievous schoolboy, and was locked up iu disgrace; but when the circum stances became known the popular ver dict wns in his favor, aud he wus al lowed his liberty us before. Bos'n was no sooner set free ngnin than be marched down to the baker's, and from that day he never failed to exact his tribute. It was regularly paid, nnd he nnd the baker beenme the best of friends. Youth's Companion. ELECTRICITY HASTENS CROPS. New Jersey Truck Farmer Taps Trol ley Wire for licntlit of UurUcu. The Bordentowu (N. .1.) Trolley Com pany is suing one Micbaelis Queutes ky, a Bohemian truck farmer at New Egypt, for the larceny of its electric current. The ciicumstances of the thett are so peculiar and interesting and seem to point to results so import ant as to raise it from u petty crime into a great discovery provided, of course, the facts are us stated. Measurements at the power house of the trolley company showed that there was a loss of current somewhere along the Hue which could uot be accounted for. This loss had continued for some time Experts were set to work uud after much search, discovered that a farmer bad Ingeniously tapped the wire conveying the current from the power house and wus utilizing It to stimulate the growth of vegetables. There was a network of wires on his truck patch, S(J0 by 2W feet, on which his radish crop whs grown. He had by this means electrified thegrouud in some way und claims that since stringing his wires he finds that radish es, which previously needed six weeks to come to maturity, could be brought to the marketable condition In fourteen days. This, If true, means that by causing electricity to circulate through the ground three crops may be raided and gathered in the time hitherto re quired to mature one crop. This Is of first Importance, says the New York Times, and if established by Investigation it Is a discovery whicii should increase the value of land und reduce the cost of food vegetables. As a discovery it would be worth many fold the value of all the current of the Bordentowu Trolley Company. No Deer. "Bascotn will uever be mistaken for a deer." "No, he's more apt to be mixed up with the modest animal that displays ears In place of autlers." Wusbiuytuu Star. HE WAS GETTING POSTED. Wanted to Lrarn Something About the Stirrinit Life of the Wml, lie had ihe look of a man who would not give another man a fair show, and It was only a minute after he sat down in the seut beside the cowboy that his nature wus fully exposed. "I sup)ose you have had some nar row esctipcs from the Indians?" be queried as a starter. "WelL yes." was the reply. "It was only two months ago that as 1 was rid ing across " "And of course you have seen beam In plenty?" interrupted the Kastemer. "Y'es. I've seen bears. One day about six weeks ago. as I whs looking for stray cattle among the foothills. 1 " "And 1 have heard that the wolves out there are very savage." "Wolves? Well, the timlier wolves are bad critters to meet when they happen to lie hungry. One day last winter, when the suow was about three feet deep. I was making my way around " "And Is it true about there being so many rattlesnakes out there?" cut In the questioner. "There's rattlesnakes, of course," re plied the cowlioy after a puzzled look at the other, "and tneblie they are as thick as the papers tell of. Yes. I've seen a heap of 'em myself. I was Just thinking of a narrow escape 1 had last summer. I had got off my cayuse to look for tracks or lost cattle, when " "And were you ever In a prairie tire?" "Pruirie tire? Yes, three or four of 'em. It wns only Inst August that ns I was loping across a prairie about twenty miles wide that " "And how about landslides aud ava lanches?" "I've seen 'em both. The biggest land slide I ever saw was two years ago last fall. It was over at Panther mountain I was within half a mile of the base ' "Were you ever run over by a stam peding herd of cuttle?" Interrupted the listener. "Y'es. I was," slowly replied the cow boy, who, says the Detroit Free Press, seemed to be somewhat out of sorts. "Was it a big herd?" "About 10,(HK) steers." "And of course you were trodden Into a shapeless, lifeless mass?" "Of course." "That will do thanks. I've always had considerable curiosity about the West, and I thought I'd post up a lit tle. Much obliged for all your Infor matiou, and good-day!" RECENT JUDICIAL DECISIONS. The owner of a team In charge of a driver Is held In Perlstcln vs. Ameri can Express Company (Mass.), 52 I.. II. A. 059, not to be liable for Injuries caused by Its collision with another on the uighwuy If at the time the driver hus depurted from the prescribed route for some purpose of bis own. A slot machine seized by police offi cers under statutory authority for the prevention of crime, which wus designed to be used In vio lation of the gambling laws nud inca pable of being put to nny legitima;e use, is held in board of police commis sioners vs. Wagner (Md.), 02 L. It. A. 775, not to be recoverable by uu action of reple- In. Examining physicians who sign a certilicate required by statute Iu order to commit a person to a hospital for dipsoman'acs and Inebriates nre held In Niveu vs. Ltoluud (Muss ). fi2 L. It. A. 780. uot to be liable to one confined therein without cause, where they act In good faith and without malice, since the privilege attaching to witnesses and to cases of privileged communica tions nttucbes to them. The State, as accuser In a crliulii.il proceeding, does not seek the convic tion of one ot its citizens unless the evidence shows his guilt beyond a rea sonable doubt, tlie Supreme Court of Georgia holds, iu the case of Ivey vs. State (3!) S. IS. Bep., 4Zi); nor will it permit its prosecuting officer to use any unfair means in the trial, or Illegal arguments In his address to the Jury, to the prejudice of the accused. A railroad company Is uot liable fcr damages resulting from an assault and battery lutlicted by the station agent upon n person wheu it appears that the difficulty which gave rise to the beat ing arose out of a personal quarrel, the Supreme Court of Georgia holds, iu the case of Lynch vs. Florida, etc., It. Co. CM H. E. Itep.). uud that the agent, so far as related to his partici pation therein, was ucting upon bis in dividual lesponsibility and uot within the scope of the business of his agency as an employe of the company. 11 isreprcsen i el. Subscriber You misrepresented me In your paper. Fdltor How so. Subscriber Oidu't you say I was the buppy father of a bouncing boy? Editor Yes. Subscriber-Well, it's a case of twins. Ohio State Journal. Not Going; Into the Milk liusineks. byte I hiar ihul Perkins bought a cow when be wns down iu Maine. Browne Is that so? Why, where in the world is he going to keep her? Whyle He Isn't going to keep her. He shot her for a deer. Somen ille Journal. liuiKliun pied. "He's no piano player." "You're wrong. lie's a gre.it player." "A great player! W hy. his hair is no longer than inlue." Wiislilngti.u S;ar. Not a Novelty. "The new Holland submarine boat stayed under wuter fifteen hours." "The Spanish fleet did better taan that." Washington Slur. Man was made lo mourn and woman wus uiudo to furnish the cause. STRANGE SERPENT I PRAliOX OF THE EVEKGLAOKS." N enormous reptile, more like the mythical dragon than a I .nil serpent, has been killed by a hunter in the lower Everglades. For lis) years it has not only lieen a tradition among the Seminole Indians, who lire in ' the Florida everglade, that an immense serpent made it home in that rig ion, and they allirm that two Indians had been carried off by the monster, j Uceeutly Busier Ferrel. one of the boldest and most noted hunter at Oknrbo ! bee. who for twenty years has made the border of the lake and the everglades hte I home, on one of his periodical expeditious into one of these lonesome wilds I noted what he supposed to be the pathway of an immense alligator. For -i era I dsys he visited the locality for the purpose of killing the saurian, but was ; unsuccessful in finding him. Finally he decided to take a stand In a large cypress tree and await the coming of the alligator, taking provisions to last him several days. For two days he stood on watch, with his riile ready, but without the desired success. He was becoming discouraged, but determined to give one more day to the effort. On the third dsy, before he had been on his perch sn hour, he was almost paralysed by what looked to him like an Immense serpent gliding along the supposed alligator track, lie estimated It to be anywhere from twenty to thirty feet long anil fully ten to twelve inches in diameter where the head joined the body and as large around as a barrel ten feet farther back. The snrko stopped within easy reach of his guu and raised lis head to take a precautionary view of its surrouudings. As it did Ferrel opened tire on it. shooting at Its head. Taken by surprise, the serpent dashed into the marsh at railroad speed, while Ferrel kept up fire on it until he had emptied the magasine of his ritle, but failed to stop it. About four days afterward he ventured back Into the neighborhood to see how things were, and almitt a mile from where he Hrst saw the snake he saw a large flock of buzzards and went to see what they were after, and there he found the creature dead and its body so badly torn by the bur.ards that it wae impossible to save the skin, lie however, secured its head and has it now la his home on the Kissimmee river. It is truly a frightful looking object, fully tea inches from jaw to jay, with ujly. raaorlike teeth. AMERICAN SCHOOLS EXCEL. ChicHK" Professor t5 Ives I'nrt U-ulurs o Pt tii iciuy in Kuroprun (school. The American schoolboy is two indict taller than the average Kuropean schotdboy of a like age. writes Prof. Watt, of Chicago. I am positive of this declaration after a tour of inspection of the various schools of Kurope, nnd I place the usefulness of the Instruction Imparted, from nn educational aud h hygienic point of view, as follows: First, the I'nlted States; second, Kng laud; third, Germany, closely followed by France and Russia. There is a great difference In the school systems, but In two ways Is this more noticeable, viz.. inspection of school work und Its results. The system of inspection abroad has been develop ed to such an extent that it Is more of a science than an ordinary routine, as n this country. The Inspector spends at least a day a month iu each room, making copious notes of both teachers' und pupils' work, criticising In open class the deficient studies and com mending those that are satisfactory. 1 am willing to concede that it Is pos sible to be more definite abroad thnn at home, owing to more spcclHc alms In A MKltlf'A. t NOI.AH!. the minds of both the educators uud text-book writers. Text books are rare ly changed abroad, und u student Is taught rather lo irasp and retain de tailed information than look for It in himself. Blinders, us It were, lire plat ed on his eyes, so that he Is unable to look sidewise. Certainly these schools are more advanced In theory than ours, hue we surely excel I hem from a practi cal side. We aim lo impart a theoreti cal und practical education combliieif. and more nearly to procure the ucme of usefulness in after years. Then, too, the natural tendency of the American youth to upply knowledge us soon us acquired is a superiority that greatly aids the teacher lo attain results. I'rob ubly. nud most likely, the luck of the foreign student of this essential is on account of the system of supervision and restriction that obtain abroad. It is inmost a crime for n junior clerk to sug gest uu improvement to Ihe manager of a corporation and likewise it is con sidered very bud for a student to ud vuuee uuy Ideas In class. Any one of the foreign schools Is bet ter equipped, more expensive to main tain und better lilted to exert an Inllu ence iu the student body than ouis. but the medieval practice of restrictions, places them beyond the pale of our work. Omitting tlie English schools, u'.y one of the others has a distinct ad vantage over our schools from the fact that reading and spelling ure mastered in three years, because words ure spelled as spoken. Muiiy of our pupils ure unable to read English ufter ten years' steady application. Arithmetic is much easier abroad, because the tubles ure founded on the decimal system, like our money, and require very little mem orizing. It Is conceded that a boy coin ing out of tlie preparatory school on tlie continent Is about two years ahead of our boy of the same age who is grad uating from our high school. While this is true, our boy has done nt least three years more work In mastering the reading, spelling nud grammar of our difficult language with its barbarous spelling nnd numerous Irregularities of grammar Then. too. our high schools take In all clusi'ss of boys who can afford to re- SUIN IN EVERGLADES. FKOM A SKETCH BY AN INPIAM. main Iu school, because we are an edu cated people, while In Europe no com mon boys attend the secondary schools. Only those who are In training for pro fessional careers and who are supposed to be specially well endowed mentally enter those schools at nil. Again, the mutter of tilting a pupil so that he Is able to step Into an office us soon as ho Is out of the high school Is not consider ed abroad as It Is here. Little or no at tention Is devoted to what we call com mercial training, such as shorthand, typewriting and commercial law. This Instruction is only obtained by n Euro pean student In a college course. The Name openness of mlud so notice able In the American youth Is totally lacking In the foreign student, and he Is Ueld to the facts In his books until he has no breadth of range. He spends much less time In the open air and takes less exhilarating exercise than our boys. Add to this the scientific ven tilation of our classrooms, the dnsh of our methods, shorter hours of Instruc tion, more cheerful methods, periods of relaxation more frequent, and It Is no wonder our boys grow two Inches taller than the foreign boys wheu tuken age for age. OK It MANY. The America II does not work a colt before lie has grown, and It Is on this Ideu that our educators refrain from putting our students to Ihe severest mental lest. We do uot ask how much can possibly be accomplished by a child, but how much Is best for hi in. The f iillest.answer to the whole ques tion is to compare the ages of the aver age college graduate. In this country It averages about 22 years, while abroad it Is about 2S years, and from I hut wo see that our pupils progress slowly In uu educational Hue ut first, but after the fuculties are thoroughly developed a very rapid advance Is made, unit we aim us nearly us possible to devolep the menial mid physical natures of the stu dent ut the same time, 'ihe success of this plan, 1 think, is evident from the number of young men ut the head ot the many large Industrial establish ments successfully competing with the product of the world In every Hue. A tucHlioii of Need. "What have you douu with ull the money 1 gave you for cumpalgu pur poses?" asked Senator .Sorghum. "I have put It where It wus iiucdcd," answered the agent. "'flint's what I thought," was the dis consolate answer. "Before I can rely on getting It ull placed 1 suppose I ve got to wait until you get more tliuu you need." Washington Star. Kliu Wouldn't. "Be mine!" he cried. But she wouldn't, for she was an heir ess uud knew that he looked upon her us a g'.dd "mine." Phlludcluhiu Bullu. I tin. Every time a girl falls to get a letter from her steady she looks upon the mull carrier with suspicion, and, rather than think tlie steady has grown cold, she concludes the mall carrier has stolen the letter. If you do not receive a buttle of elder berry wine occasionally as u present, you have no friends who ure really old fashioned. Too ninny people do what they should do and then expect credit for lu