Polk County VOL. XVIII DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 15, 1905 "IIMSSSSS i i r : HISTORIC GETTYSBURG 0 f NO 40 i ? 1 wWrWIr.::rr . ..jL"l''m 1 Copyright 1905 by Hart Schaffner 6- Marx SPECIAL OFFERING FOR. HOLIDAY TRADE.... Now is the time to prepare for your Christ mas gifts and we offer some extra good things for this season of the year. Extra goud value in high class goods for both old and young. Everything needed for man or hnv and lad v Jgg? tra values for the Holiday buyers at our great CLOSING OUT SALE Clothing, Smoking Jackets, Underwear, Furnish ings, Fancy Dress Goods, Cloaks for Ladies and Girls, Fancy Hosiery, Ribbon, Laces, etc., etc. Something for yourself and friends at our Great Closing Out Sale. s M R. JACOBSON & CO. DALLAS, OREGON. fi GREAT I REDUCTION t In SALE order Of Steel Ranges FREE LIBRARY IS POPULAR Nearly One Thousand Books Have Been Circulated in Less Than Two Months. i J i 1. C OI.aI T to reuuuo our slouk. ui oietu jAaugeo, o will give ! $6.50 Worth of Goods Free with each ranee sold during this sale. All the stand- I ard makes, "Quick Meal," "Bridge-Beach" and "hnra" Stool Roniroo SALE NOW ON. WM. FAULL, 1 Main strwt - Dallas. Oregon 1 , - . -FULL LINE OF- Columbia Phonographs Big StocK of Records and Supplies L. D. Daniel's Wall Paper Store, Main Street. Dallas, Ore., 'Phone 225 DRINK WITH ME! j All the flavors of Fountain and I Bottle Soda : Sabsaparilla and t Iron, Orange Cider. Mineral "Water, Iros Brew and Welch's Grape Juice, SMOKE! YES All the leading brands of Cigars and Tobacco kept in 6tock. CONFECTIONERY Constantly receiving a fresh supply of Fruits, Chewing Gum, Kuts, Aldon's Candies and Lunch Goods. C. H. Jones, editor of the Oregon Teachers' Monthly, published in Salem, attended the Polk county teachers' and school officers' institute in Dallas, Saturday. u Tracy Staats Main St, Dallas, Oregon NURSERY STOCK General Lines of First,-Class Nursery Stock. Joses and Climbing Vines Ty Bushes of all Varieties i5 LoganWrio Specialty Smru! 'ally invited to inspect Eilii' lf my Etock at Loughary & Court l17 Etore during Circuit J-B-NUNN, Dallas, Ore. Chrisl While giving give gifts of . i "1 ... a Vn - n 1 1 the lasting kind some ucau tiful and substantial gold, silver or cut glass article that bears the stamp of high-quality, finest workmanship and of the newest styles. It will always be appreciated by any one who receives such a gift. Watches, Cut Glass Dishes Silverware, Beautiful Gold and Silver Novelties are some of the many articles we are showing to Holiday shoppers C. H. MORRIS Jeweler and Optician . . Donas Ore? on Main Street. During the week, the following books have been received at the library : Student's Standard Dictionary. Ten Thousand Words Often Mis pronounced Phyffe. The Tempest Shakespeare. Hamlet Shakespeare. Aftermath James Lane Allen. The Spenders Wilson. Rose in Bloom Alcott. Wizard of Oz Frank Baura. The Prince and the Pauper Twain. Stories Mother Nature Told An drews. Flamingo Feather Kirk Monroe. The librarv was opened on October 17. and from that time to December J, 275 membership cards were issued, all of which have beeen used frequently ; 399 volumes of fiction were circulated ; 35 non-fiction, and 211 children's books. Of the traveling library books, consisting of all three classes, 209 volumes were circulated, making a total circulation of 854 books. It will be seen that few non-fiction books have been read, but the Librar ian earnestly hopes that there will be a steadilv increasing demand for the many excellent poetic, scientific, and other solid books which the library offers. Mrs. George Gerlinger held a story hour for the children, Saturday after nnnn. from 1 to 2 o'clock. She will continue the reading of the Wizard of Oz tomorrow afternoon at the same time and place. All school children are invited to attend. The library fund was enriched recently by a gift of $ 16.C0 from the local Lewis and Clark Club. Several smaller voluntary subscriptions have been paid in. The Library Association is very grateful for this timely aid. Oregon Not Slighted. Oregon was not slighted in making the house committee assignments. Williamson was given a place on the irrigation and mines and miniDg committees, and Hermann on Indian r? onri plpction of president. These are the same assignments as in the last congress. wnar has been given the seat heretofore held by Senator Mitchell. The senate has taken no notice of Mitchell's death, except to drop his name from the roll. Real Estate Legal Blanks for sale at this office. Beautifying methods that injure the skin and health are dangerous. Be beautiful without discomfort by tak ing Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. Sunshiny faces will follow its use. 33 cents. Belt&Cherrington. Judge W. L. Wells, of Halsey, was in the city Saturday for a short busi ness visit. Judge Wells moved to this county several years ago from Polk where he was prominent in public affairs and served for several terms as county judge. He is living on a i farm near Halsey.-Allany , . Dan Poling Writes Entertainingly of His Visit to the Great Battlefield. Mine eyes today have seen the vale, The circling hills around ; My pilgrim feet today have trod A nation's travail ground. You will please excuse the verse. I have just been wandering alongSemi nary Ridge, clambering over the boulders that hang on the Round Tops, falling into the yawning walls of Devil's Den, and, through it all, thrilling with such enthusiasm that mind may have a tendency to twist the pen. Last night, after the meeting held in the historic old courthouse used as a hospital during the battle of Gettys burg, the venerable janitor, a G. A. R. man and a survivor of the "bloody three days," told me that a few feet from where I had been standing a splendid fellow lay wounded on the 2nd day of July, 1863. A shell had ex ploded just outside, and one of the fragments hurling through the win dow tore the poor chap's face away. Down the street a short distance, and one square to the right, a plain bronze tablet marks the spot on the stone steps of the Lutheran church where a chaplain fell, foully murdered while defending the hcsior of the house of God. Bullet hol39 still add to the real estate values in the quiet little city, and corn fields still yield their annual harvest of broken metal and bleached bones. Only a few days ago, laborers excavating for a cellar unearthed the skeletons of four men. With one of the students from the college and, by the way, the main building of "Old Gettysburg" played a prominent part in battle history, being used as a hospital we started on the morning of November 21, in a light carriage and behind a good team, to see the battlefield of Gettys burg, in earnest. Only in a general way could we see it, of course. Days and days could profitably be spent on the hills and in the valley, where brother fought brother until the death. But though we rushed from place to place, irritated and hampered by limited time and myriad things we wanted to see; though we could not read all the monuments, spend moments in all the historic nooks, or walk up and down all the trenches and battle lines, we still had time enough to see, and read, and feel enough to drown our eyes with tears and flood our souls with patriotic veneration for those who here fought and bled and died, that the "government of the people, for the people, and by the people, might not perish from the earth." We wound first through the streets of the little city, through which troopers galloped and infantry charged in the first two indecisive days of the battle; then, up the hill, close by the home of the President of the Lutheran Theological Seminary, where, in the wide fireplace, the first religious library in America was wantonly destroyed, to the magnificent m All iun Down HIS is a common expres sion we hear on every side. Unless there is some organic trouble, the con dition can doubtless be remedied. Your doctor is the best adviser. Do not dose yourself with all kinds of advertised remedies get his opinion. More than likely you need a concentrated fat food to enrich your blood and tone up the system. Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil is just such a food in its best form. It will build up the weakened and wasted body when all other foods fail to nourish. II you are run down or emaciated, give it a trial : it cannot hurt you. It is essentially the best possible nourishment for delicate children and pale, anaemic girls. We will send you a sample free. It 6c sure that thi picture In (he form of a Utxl i on the wrapper of every bottle of EmuUion you buy. scon & B0WNE Chemiitf 409 Pearl Strt-ti, New York 50c and $1. A3 DruitU government pike federate Avenue. Turning to the right, we rode along what was on July 1, 2 and 3, the right wing of the Army of Northern Vir ginia. We were at the scene of the first day's struggle. Soon our feet pressed the sod where Reynolds fell while grandly meeting the charge of Lee's advance guard. A little mound supporting a simple stone marks the exact spot where Pennsylvania's groat Major-General of Volunteers died. Yards in advance of hi3 own firing line, as it is, by it we read better than by plaudits of history the chivalrous dash of his bravery. A noble monu ment in stone and bronze a quarter of a mile distant represents thfc warrior in lifelike repose, sitting his charger and gazing away toward the blue line of hills from whence came the dashing men in grey. From one of the four cannon resting on granite bases at this spot was fired the first shot of the battle of Gettysburg. Just ten miles it is to the seam in the mountains through which wound the veterans tried of Dixie land. A grey haze of smoke hangs like a pall over the hills, and through it fantas tic, weird shapes seem moving still. Rank on rank of infantry, lumbering cannon, flashing sabers of cavalry men are marching up the quiet Penn sylvania pike. No word they utter, no sound ; but in their eyes the light of awful purpose burns a living flame, and on their brows is set the pallid seal of fate. They tread the narrow ing lane of death. They sing the songs and cheer the cheers with word, with thought, with life of that which they believed to be a cause well worthy smiles from God, but which the One Omnipotent had judged unworthy and untrue. The sun is waning in the west, and with it wanes and flicker out a brave people's star of hope. Confederacy is lost forever. "The government at Washington still sur vives." Humbly in the dust we bow and, thanking Him who rules the roll of worlds for the heritage of sires who died, we, the living, re-dedicate ourselves to the cause of brotherhood and common weal. There are many things we would like to write, but we must hasten our pen as we hastened our feet. At the extreme right of Seminary Ridge is a monument that attracted our atten tion. It is erected in memory of the 90th Regiment and represents in stone a shattered tree trunk. At the fork ing of two branches, a little turtle dove in bronze stands with wide spread wings, hovering her young. The story is to me a beautiful one. A shell fired on the 1st of July by Lee's advancing army tore the top out of a tree where the monument is now erected. Just below the section cut away, a dove had her nest, and through the long and terrible battle she covered her young,- now and then uttering a plaintive mother-cry of fear, not for herself, but for the little ones nestling in her breast. The same old beautiful story, told in another and strange way, but the same old story still the love of a mother. Rob the world of light and joy and truth and bravery and virtue, and leave still with us mother-love, and soon the sun will shine, the heavens smile, the world bloom with new courage, and faith lead on her own sweet way to purity. Changing our course, we drove the entire length of Seminary Ridge, the position occupied by General Leo and the Army of Northern Virginia during the battle of Gettysburg. Every few yards, iron tablets mark positions of batteries, batallions and divisions, Kiving names and recording history. Cannons are in position, placed as nearly as possible in the places occu pied by the artillery in July, 18C3. No monuments are as yet erected on the Confederate side, and so, in compari son with the Union lines just across the valley of death, Seminary Ridge is plain and bare. Here in a sunken vale we read that just before us and behind a clump of scrub oaks, Longstreet formed his lines for Plckett'a charge on theUnion center. Driving on, we had at last traversed the entire length, four miles, of the Confederate battle line. De scending into the valley, we began our backward trip down the Union positions, by Big Round Top and Little Round Top, through Death Valley and Devil's Den, along Peach Orchard and Bloody Wheat Field, over the High Water Mark of the Re bellion, into Mead's Headquarters and on through the National Gome teryout to Spangler's Spring, where men in blue and grey drew water tocether. WTe climbed Big Round Top and the lookout tower located on the summit It was a bard pull, but the view that lay In panorama before oureyes, east ward, westward, to the north, and to the south, was recompense a hundred times for ail the energy expended. Some one has said that this is the most beautiful and inspiring land scape in all the world. However that may be. we can only say that speech fails utterly to describe; pen and brush are as plow shares to picture the wealth of wondrous beauty that roiEisnoiiETnc top th COTatfb 4feeSatult BaM ROYAL BAKINd POWDER CO., NEW YORK the Master Artist has here bestowed upon the hills and valleys of the old Keystone State. We can only say, come and see. Our pilgrimage is now through the blood pools of the battle. From the Round Tops, we could see the entire field from end to end. Looking down the boulder-strewn sides of those little mountains, our souls grew sick as we thought of men struggling up the steep in the face of minie balls and canister. Devil's Den is absolutely sickening, with its death trap and crevices. God must have veiled his face on tbat terrible second day in July. Satan surely had hid his blood- glutted revelry. On the loft flank of little Round Top stands a monument to General War ren, who saved the Union army from annihilation by discovering the sud den flanking movement of Hood. Armed against Little Round Top, which was as yet unoccupied by the Federals, Warren took the only avail able guns, and, without ordors from a superior, galloped at their head to a position on the crest of the hill, whore, fighting like a demon, ho hold the point until reinforcements hurled Hood back, broken and dofeated. We cannot stop at Peach Orchard, where Sickles was cut to pieces, or at the Wheat Field, which in less than ten minutes became a field of blood and death. We hasten by monuments recording the achievements of com panies, divisions, regiments and in dividuals until we stand upon the knoll, from its baptism of blood fit tingly christened as the turning point of the war, "High Water Mark of the Rebollion." There is one monument at this place that held us. We read every inscription. A huge stone pede stal surmounted by the figure of a man charging bayonets stands in honor of tho Second Corps, 'Second Division, First Brigade of the First Minnesota Regiment. Reverentially I uncoverod my head, and, reading the story, prayed the God of Buttles to multiply their kind forever and ever. Two hundred and sixty -two men think of it, ponder it two hundred and sixty-two men charging a whole victory-flushed army ; yes and holding it at bay, and driving it back I Sickles, defeated, had just poured his demoral ized ranks through their lines, and close behind on the double-quick came the howling Confederates. Another moment and the Union center would be pierced. A crisis was at hand ! No time for reinforcements I Covered with dust, his face drawn with fear, General Hancock gallops up to the little com pany of stalwarts from out tho Great Wefet, and God help them orders the charge. With courage sublime, down the slope they go "into the jaws of death!" Two hundred and sixty- two men charged an army, held an army, and when at last reinforce ments had driven the lighting demons in grey back into their lair, 213 of the 202 men from the First Minnesota Regiment did not answer roll call. They were resting in the valley. They were tired, and God gave them sleep. Do you wonder thutwe wept? "Young man, go west!" Go west; west to the seed ground of this kind ! Yes, and here is Pickett's charge! Down the valley, comes death, and only death. WTe turn away. Men the mangled forms of men : Men in grey brave men men in blue brave men lie in heaps sickening heaps. Some died with visions of Southern vine-clad mansions in a halo before their glazing eyes; some murmured softly tho tender names of loved ones waiting among tho hills of old New England. All were men, and they were brothers. Sacrificed upon the altar of holy conviction to the glutted god of War. Let the curtain fall up on the mightiest tragedy of the Re bellion. We stand upon a knoll where God placed forever the seal of doom upon a cause the "Lost Cause." General Mead's headquarters were visited, and then we brought ourday's trip' to a fitting close by standing whero Lincoln the Good ftood when he voiced the feeling of a nation thut could cot speak for subbing and said : "But in a larger sense we cannot dedi cate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract." With this vision of our martyred Lincoln, we take up the task left behind aud press forward toward the light of destiny that God' hath set. DAN A. POLING. END OF USEFUL LIFE Lewis Abrams, Pioneer Merchant of Lincoln, Passes Away After Long Illness. Lewis Abrams, aged 81 years, 9 months and 13 days, died Monday morning at 1 :30, at the residence of D. F. Carnes, in Salem. The imme diate cause of hisdoath was periton itis, though he had been seriously ill since last June with cancer of the stomach. Mr. Abrams was the pioneer ware houseman of Lincoln, and was well and favorably known all over this part of the valley. He was born in New Jersey, Febru ary 29, 1824, and when nine years old accompanied his parents' to Illinois, where he resided uutil the gold fever carried him to California in '49. Iu the spring of 18C3 he came to Portland, but only remained one year. , His next move was to Salem, where he re sided one winter, and conducted lhe Levi grain warehouse, on Front street. In 18fir ho went to Lincoln, and had conducted the gran warehouse con tinuously since that date. Besides the widow, four children are left to mourn tho loss of a father: Mrs. Lois A. Green, of Belllngham, Wash. ; Chester Abrams, of Portland, and Carl and Letta, of Salem. Tho funeral services were conducted at the family residence at Lincoln Wednesday, at 12 o'clock, by Rev. E. Gittens, pastor of the Leslie M. E. church, of Salem. Burial took place in the Odd Fellows' cemotory, in South Salem. - - A Yamhill Weather Prophet. After having listened to so many predictions of a hard winter in Ore gon this year, it is mighty comforting to learn that theso prognostications are all wrong and that January and February will be months of showers and sunshiiie-especially when this as surance comes from no less an author ity than Uncle Ell Branson of Yam hill county. Eli has for many years made a study of hog's melts and their relation to tho weather, and he tells the editor of the McMinnville Reporter that the melts this fall Indicate a very mild winter. They appear to be a little larger at the front end, which he takes as an indication that the first part of the winter Is going to be the big end. And that's "jist-jist-by-the-sir" the way it will be, if Uncle Eli predicts it. . Hollister's Rocky Mountuin Tea is simply liquid electricity. It goes to every part of your body, bringing new blood, strength and uew vigor. It makes you well and keeps you well. 35 cents. Belt & Cherrln gton. Milton W. Parsons Dead. Milton W. Parsons, a veteran of the Civil War and former member of George Wright Post O. A. R.. died Sunday at his home at Montavilla, a suburb of Portland, aged 79 years. He was a native of Ohio, and bad been a resident of Portland and vicin ity since 1853. He leaves an adopted son, Albert Parsons, and a step daughter, Florence Covey. Mrs. Par sons died six years ago. Mr. Parsons was for a long time connected with the printing business in Portland, and more rcntly was engaged In the real estate business on Villa avenue, Mon tavilla. ne Is remembered by .11 early residents of Dallas a3 a landlord of tho old Dallas hotel, which stood on the corner now occupied by the Stafrln drug store and which was de stroyed by fire about 25 years ago. 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