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VOLUME' 7
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, DECEMBER 22 -1893.
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V. i ' o f
Wonderful Tales Belated by a Re
turned Missionary. '
A flaea Where It Is So PtlU and Cold
TluttOno Could Hwr HUruwU BrMth
Wonder of tka Aurora
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A remarkable, story Is told byEer.
E. C. Wailis, a missionary of the Epis
copal church, who arrived here recent
ly from . the Porcupine river, in the
British possessions, just over the line of
Alaska, on the edpe. of. the Rocky
mountains. 1 It is mainly about tho in
tense cold, the immense ' herds of
reindeer, and the sublime magnificante
of the aurora borealis. .I)r. Wailis,
says the San Francisco Examiner, has
leen seven years ia the wilds of the
Porcupine " river, and for . the last
eighteen months iis wife has been
with him assisting in teaching the In
dians. ' It does not ! appear ?to tse gonerally '
known that there -are vast . herds of
reindeer r in that part of the country
Dr. Sheldon Jackson, superintendent
xrf education.' for Alaska,. and.Capt.
Healy of the Bear have-for a couple of
years been importing reindeer from
Kiberia, and thia is the reason, for the
supposed scarcity " throughout that
region; but the scarcity appears to be
towards , the southern, southwestern
and northern coasts. In the; far In
terior there are myriads of them. "
"They are remarkably numerbua
everywhere about my mission, near the
mouth of the Porcupine river," said
the reverend-gentleman.. "Back, to
wards the mountains from my house I
have seen great banda of them, and al
most everywhere I looked I could see
them. This summer when the ice
broke up on the river I remember see
ing six or seven of them on a cake of ice
floating down, and I saw many others
floating on the ice.
"For much of the time I have lived,
at the mission. I have subsisted almost
exclusively on reindeer, meat.' It is
very good, and 1 may say it is about
the only kind of meat, you don't get
.tired of. ; I think it is better, all things
considered, than beef, and you can eat
it longer without its palling on you.
The Indians eat it almost exclusively j
and they are very big md strong;'
Some of them are six feet in height,
and the average is about five feet ten
inches. They are genuine North Amer
ican Indians, and not the Aleuts, Es
quimaux, or a mixture of the two. j
"I keep, an Indian hunter, and he
supplies me with all the reindeer meat
I want. He also brings in grouse,
ducks, bear and other game as I need
it. I have learned to shoot pretty well
myself, as all white men do in that re
gion. The ducks and grouse, like the
reindeer, are remarkably good eating.
"It is fearfully cold there." Last win
ter tho thermometer was for a week at
a" time' down to- sixty dfcgrfcesv and i
have seen it go even considerably low
er.1 At no time id the winter, nor dur
injr other winters that , I have been
there,, was it higher than forty degrees.
This cold is excruciating We lived in
a solid log house, a good warm one, but
many a time I have awakened in the
night and found the blankets, which
were kept up well under the nose,
frozen into a cake of icft. Sometimes
the intense cold cakes the blankets for
a long distance down. , ? f
"Meats and everything froxe, and
you would throw them anywhere with
out thinking. . The; worst experience
was trying to make bread. The yeast
would freeze in spite of you, often
times even when the greatest care was
exercised. If. you stepped out, every
thing was so still and so intensely cold
you could hear yourself breathe. It had
a rustling sound. , V';. j, ' -
"I discovered a queer thing about
the cold, and it was thistv Below forty
degrees you didn't notice it any more
than forty degrees. It might go to
sixty degrees, 'or even more, but it
made so little difference that you didn't
notice it. It was all practically the
same to you. ,
"The wonders of the aurora borealis
in that region cannet be told. .The
heavens all winter long are lit up with
a golden glow. Indeed, I may say the
colors the sparkles and flashes are
so many, constant and varied that no
one can describe them. There is praa
tically no day , during the year. For
two or three months', up to December
15, from nine to twelve o'clock, there"
is a sort of dawn, but the' rest of the
time it is night. It is so clear that you
can go out and read a newspaper any
where. - ''-'. ;': '
"The four or five hundred Indians at
my mission are bright, and good prog
ress has - been made in instructing
them. Nearly all of them can read in
their own language. I have translated
-various" religious and other books,
which have been printed in .England,
for their use They have an entirely
different language from any other In
dians. There are five different lan
guages, for instance, from there down
to the mouth of the Yukon, and no one
tribe can understand the other. The
languages are all as different as French
is from German." : ;
. To Measure Fixed 6tar. . J. ;
Prof. Holden communicates to a San
Francisco paper what he calls the very
important discovery lately made at the
Lick observatory by Prof. Campbell.
It is an ingenious method for measur
ing the dimensions oi the fixed stars.
In many cases the method la so deli
cate and beset with so many difficul
ties that success is doubtful but Prof.
Campbell has found one star on which
he has made successful observations.
They are directed to the lengths of the
bright lines in the spectrum, which in
dicate respectively the height to which
each substance extends not difficult
in the solar spectrum; but it was en
tirely unexpected to find a bright line
spectrum in the star under observation
eurrounded by an atmosphere of hydro
gen.gas of tut h eriQrjnoys extent $h to
" be measurable. Prof, lioldea declares
the discovery to be entirely unique and
fc open a a eatirtly c . 'v tluid of knowl
edge. '. "
VARiAt IONS IN UTEKATURE..
FrMect Day Liters rj Imitation! or Musical
Coiupotiirlon Common Tear Ago.
Some twenty-five years ago there was
a style of musical composition much in
vogue-known as ''variations,"" says a
writer in the Atlantic M6nth!y. It ap
peared in dozen', page, sheets entitled
"Home.Sweet Home with variations;"
."Coming Through the Rye with varia
tions;" "Let Me Kiss IIim for His
.Mother" (also with variations).- - The
distinctive plan of these compositions
r-and, whatever their individual char- j
acteristic, they were, as a whole, with
out --variation consisted," first, in a
brace or two of banging prelude, close
ly fbllowed by a simple little, air" that
sombody .else! had written. ' This
definitely-announced the themb. to be
"Variated,"which was next" heard- be
hind a thin screen of artfully arranged
arpeggios, "Then it donned a deep dis
guise in the bass, ; to become barely
recognizable in the ..treble with trills,
ditto-in bass, in the treble with runs,
ditto in bass, and finally lost itself in a
company of 'crashing chords && over
powering that one could not be certain
whether the original air 'had beer.
"Coming Through the Kye" or "Let
Me Kiss Ilira for Ilia Mother.'.' , ' , :
lA" similar: sort of treatment has now
invaded the art of letters; that is to
say, it has- affected ; the entire, twenty
six, as well as the select, seven to be
found upon the piano keyboard. tIt
doesn't nowadays satisfy a writer td
say, merely; 'One summer morning;
fine and early, I was walking through
the woods.'!. Bie immediately goes on
(taking ..the word "early" as his,' key
note); "The: sun had ' noti been." long
above the horizon and the air was yet
fragrant with last pight'sdew." Then;
with ''fine" and "summer" as texts, he
tells u5i "Everywhere were the green
and luxuriant footprints 6f light-stepping
summer." Starting next- from
(1) "I,"2) "walking" n4 (3) 'woods,"
he informs us: "As my feet pressed the
soft moss faint' forest odors filled the
air, the craCkle of a. dry stick was
heard and ' a' startled graj' squirrel
scampered up the ; giant oak on my
lef t." Da - capo: "Cm suuh a glorious
morning I was glad simply to be alive,
as were we all young-nsen uuu, trftei
flowers, moss and little gray squirrel."
v And go, diluting and further diluting
an idea, it is hard, to tell just what
degree of strength -it. may originally
have possessed. The strength of the
writer, it is, however, more easy to de
termine.' " ''.""
FACTS ABOUT. JUPITER. ,7
Wonderful Figures Fall to ExpmM Enonb,
-i ." Concerning the Great l'lauet. . ..
Our most 'eminent, astronomers: do
not pretend to glye us exact, reckon-i
togs on the great floating worlds out
side of our own solar system but with
in that, monstrous aggregation every?
thing has been reduced to certainty,,
The kingpin of the . solar i system is
-Jupiter, "mighty Jupiter, the colossal
'giwBi ' oil the; mn-kissel worlds."
His diameter is about 88,000 of, our
miles, being;about,elcyen' times that
of our own globe; "the circumference
275,000 miles at the equator, which
would give the giant a volume exceed
ing that of the earth, by 1,284 times.
Were it possible to bring the earth and
Jupiter so close together that the' dis
i tance separating them would be -no
greater than that which now separates
the earth from the moon abont 240,
000 miles what wondrous sightwonld
be in store for the residents of our lit
tle globe. The world of Jupiter would
appear to us to have a diameter forty
times larger than that of .our usual
mighty attendant, and, the surface of
his disk would occupy a "-space greater
than that of ' 1,600 ' full moons.
And this giant of the;-planets is re
moved from tho sua: by.adistance of
490,000,000 miles; has an orbit ? of more
than 1,000,000,000 miles in extent, and
makes a ; circuit of its celestial track
once every 4,832 days'. Thus" it will be
seen that a year on Jupiter is equal to
eleven years, ten months ' and seven
teen days on our globe. The immensi
ty of the world of Jupiter and its orbit
may.be approximately- measured by
this comparison: ' In order to complete
its orbit, in, the time, given above, it
must speed around the sun with a ve
locity of 700,000 miles a day, or a little
more than eight iniles per second. !
COST OF CUP RACES.
Lord Danraven Ha Spent a Fortan Trj
: : . In( to Bot tba Vigilant.
Yachting costs ;- a great deal, oi
money, especially such yachting as is
indulged in to capture and defend the
America's cup, remarks the New York
Tribune. A friend of Lord Dunraven
said recently that the earl told him
that the total c6st to him to build,
equip and run the Valkyrie, together
with his traveling expenses to win the
America's cup, would be fully one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars. The
syndicate which built the Vigilant
subscribed one hundred thousand dol
lars originally, and has.been called
upon for an assessment besides, so
that the total outlay upon the cup' dei
fender is not far from the amount ex
pended on the Valkyrie." Add to these
sums the money which, the Jubilee,
Colonia and Pilgrim cost their owners,
and the total cost of the latest strug
gle for the America's cup amounts to
almost five hundred thousand dollar?.
The honor of holding the America's
cup, however, cannot be, reckoned by
dollars and cents, and American yacht
men would not have been willing to
part with the trophy at any cost.' . The
practical benefit to boat buildin.gr and
the pleasure and profit to be derived
from a pure and manly sport must be
addc4 to the credit accountr '- ;
Indian lici In !! ware,
" Interesting relics of dead and gone
Indian tribes are the groat mounds of
oyster shells formed along the seashore
in southern Delaware. " According to
local tradition, tlx; Nanticokes of
Pennsylvania were iri the habit of win
tering along the seafchore , in lower
.Delaware, and of eating numerous
quantities of oysters. The shells tea
tify to the appetites of the Nanticokes,
and maoy Indian implement are found
iil the u,0U5.M't. ' - - ,
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TllElJHIKESiTXEttATlONT
Impreeslvenesa of the Emporor"a
. ' New Bepresentativea ' , .;
Under Exlatinff Relations Between d and
; -'Chlnanthe CeleetuUi Will Ke
4 . , "eelvsNo Favor from I .,' ; V .-
: i . Amerlcsm." , '. !;-
It would" seem .' that China intended
to impress Americans with its impor
tance, judging from the size and gor
geousness of the legation it has sent
here to treat in the name of the em-
..peror, says a - Washington correspond
ent of the Boston Advertiser. When
the suite landed in San Francisco there
were over eighty in the trail of Yung
Yu.. But as some were left as consuls
' on- the' Pacific coast the legation has
dwindled to fifty-nine persons in all.
This, of course, includes Mme. Yung
Yu, four children and as many nurses.
There is any amount of paraphernalia
connected with the legation. k '-' "
The entire legation is now 'domiciled
'at a leading hotel. There nightly a
, crowd gathers to catch a glimpse pf the
Celestials., , Since their installation at
the hotel all who are entitled to call
as dignitaries, and many who are' not,'
:have taken ad van tago of their prerog
ative - and presented ! themselves to
Yung Yu. Strict court 'etiquette for
bids Mme. Yung Yu from being Seen
by any except her maids and immedi
ate household. So uo one can get &
glimpse of this strange little woman.
Mme. Yung's predecessor was not al-
'. lowed to appear at her own state din
ners, nor permitted to receive a caller.
The wife .of . the Chinese minister is
forced to ' absolute seclusion. When
fshe goes for a drive it is with her en
tire head covered with yards of impen
etrable material. The wife of the Jap
anese minister, on the contrary,, Mme.
MunemitsnMntsu, is one of the most
. ultra-fashionable women in Washing
ton, and her entertainments are gems.
The new legation" has taken three
houses for which' tho Chinese govern-'
ment pays twenty thousand dollars'
year. The United States paid two
hundred dollars a day for the board of
in fanta , while her - suite occupied
these . quarters. Yung Yu is paying
five hundred dollars a day and bays he
thinks it very cheap. While the women
are kept in seclusion the men have the
run of the house nd make themselves'
thoroughly at home. A part of - the
delegation were once in England and
speak the English . language . fluently.
They have the free and .easy manner of
the westerner and -show a disposition
to talk to anyone who will listen; The
. minister is as dark as a sun-burned
mulatto; being -at. least three shades
blacker than tjie other members of the
-delegation.;!- '. , . :- ',v.
Yung Yu'saya he is very well pleased
with American cooking, but ho has
takon the precaution to provide him
self with a Chinese oook , and has in
stalled him' in the hotel kitchen. The
legation' cat, : tut little meat, dining
'chiefly on 'vegetables. Yung Yu has
never been, out of .China before. llq
, as not a man of the highest rank in
- China, but, like ICoko, though in a dif
ferent way, rose1 to distinction. lie
was an official "in the province of Chin
1 Kiang,' whio corresponds there to the
position of collector of the Boston port
here. It was striotly tin his merit that
he was chosen by the prime minister
to represent the emperor in this coun
try, pending the delicate relations be
tween the two nations in consequence
of the Geary act. As long as there are
any Strained relations existing no mem
ber of the legation will be allowed to
accept the hospitality of an American,
that being the law of the embassy
LAID ' BY THE FABLED ROC. I
Important Olacovery In Madafraeoar of the
' . : lias ot the Extinct Glgautio Itird.
A large specimen of the egg of the
fabled roc of the "Arabian Nights," or
iEpyornis, as the extinct gigantic bird
of Madagascar . is called, has been se
cured by Mr. J Procter, ofTamatave
and Prince's squares ;W,. who has
brought the cirlosity to London. It
was discovered by some natives about
twenty . miles to the southward of St.
Augustine's bay, on the southwest
coast of Madagascar. It was floating
on the calm sea, within twenty yards
of the beach, and is supposed to have
' been washed away with the foreshore,
which, consists of sand hills, after a
hurricane in the early part of the year.
The childlike longshoreman of the
antipodes, opining that the egg had a
value, showed the unusual piece of
flotsam about with a view to sale, and
it thus : cftmo into the hands of Mr.
Procter.- The egg, which is whitey-
' brown in color and unbroken, is a fine
specimen, 38x38 inches, and an even
higher value is placed upon it than
upon the egg of, the great auk, which
lived within the memory of man.' The
lirobdignagian proportions of the egg
aro. better demonstrated by compar
ison with the eggs of the ostrich and
. crocodile. An ostrich's egg is about 17
inches byl5 inches, and the contents pf
six sucli are only equal to one egg of
the Epyorni The measurements of
the egg of the crocodile are normally
9 inches by 6)4 inches. It, would re
quire the contents of 16J emu's eggs
to equal the content's of this great egg,
. or 148 eggs of the homely f dwl,; or 80,
000 of the humming bird. . The lastegg
of the kind dif posMtl of ia London sold
' for 100, though cracked.,' "v ;
Work r s Itojrsl luventor.
The signaling apparatus invented by
Prince Louis of Lattenbcrg, which' is
-... n
now on trial in the Eoyal Sovereign,
has received notices- of approbation
from various conipetent nav&I ' juifir,
says .a London 4ittcr. The ,contnv:
ance consists of a sort of collapsible
spheroid," capable of being opened
and shut like, aa umbrella, visible at
'sea for - a far 1 greater ;distance than
flags, by which Morse code signals cart ",.
bo made without difficulty. v If -Ad- .
uiral irfax andth signaling depnrk
tnent report favorably it will probably,
be universally adopted, to the satisfac-
tion of the clever inventor, who is 6aid' .
to have , been , helped - by Capt Percy .
Scott, now employed on 'signal books
at the admiralty. isi I ' -
r -' ' i'A BITTER WINTER!. '
A" the Portent of Kature Indicate Fro
S'. i longed. Cold. .:. '-.
I From the news columns of our, rural
rcontempt)raries,says the New York Mail ,
and Expre3s,'we have gathered certain
signs and portents which presage . the '
coming jof a cni'd and bitter winter.
The horuwipun wsather prophet, comb
ipg tho hayseea from his beard and "
eyebrows, has, e.amined the prognosti
cations of Dam,- Nature, and, studying
the hints of Mother Earth, has arrived
at the conclus.on that now is the time
to Jay in cot.t, for, already the bushy -whiskers
of winter are heavily frosted'
and the br th of the north wind gives
promise of weary months of chill and'
enow. ,'' r, . . , -.
. The animal kingdom is already ar
rayed against"; the '' coming " cold.
Throughout New England " the squir-
rels have an unusually heavy .cover of '
fur, and the coats of the cattle - and
horses are thick- and rough.. The1 fox -pelts
are unusually fine and the mink
and weasel have donuitd extra heavy
winter :, ulsters. In the Adirondacks ,
the deer have been forewarned and are
Unusually well wrapped up in the cov.
erings which an all-wise-Providence
has provided. , : . ' ; - ,. r .,
: 'Around the farm also signs are not
Wanting. The corn.' husks are much
thicker than usual, and instead of be '
ing a light lemon hue are of a deep or- -ange
tint, a . well-established sign of
the approach of a cold winter. The
goose bone tells the same story, foe the -spots
are larger and whiter than usual,
and the hog's "melt" runs jagged in- '
stead of BnroothiS Nor is this all. The'
partridge and woouoock are haunting
the farms aud the' grain ik'Jds, nLS
wild ducks are flying in tf-shapad in
stead of V-shaped floks toward- the
soutl) The squirrelsand. chipmunks
are unusually busy flaying up extra
supplies of winter, fodder, - and '.the
ground hogs have almost disappeared. .
Already Jthe gTeen frogs are changing ,
their skins-- and seekinA the bottom of 1
wells and springs' fo their winter
quartora,and the snakT , have sought.
their nests undtof theyoots of the
'trees. ';..'. ' '' ' ' ;.'.'-..
Of couro many of ;these signs may
be unreUable. Chipmunks are apt to
be aggressively busy at ' this season,
and frogs and snakes are not always'
to be depended on. lint the gooau
drone can generally be accepted as a
truthful index to the weather, and the
hog's "melt" ia looked- upon in rurol. .
communities aa not to- be gainsaid."
Our advice, then, is to get out your
winter clothes and to fill the coal bins.
Polish up the rnnnersof the sleigh and
heap up the woodpile, ' Fix the saw
buck and file the-saw See that the '
stove pipes are clear of soot. Then put
your trust in Providence and your
money in the savings bank, and pre
pare to enjoy the hundred and one de
lights of a stiff,; cold winter. , ';
': That part of Boston known as the .
north end is strictly of a cosmopolitan 4
character. On a certain street there .
are displayed signs in. italiasj, Spanish, j .
Portuguese, French, Russian, Hebrew, ,
Norwegian and Danish. - f ' ' l ;
MARIE ANTOINETTE'S REFUGE." '
Edgecomb, Me., V ill to Have Ileen the
Home or tlie Exiled Frlneei. ; . k
There is a building in Edgecomb. an
old square, white, house, concerning,
which an interesting story is told,
Bays tho Lewiston Journal. This tra-
dition is that at the time of the French
revolution Capt. Samuel Ciough, . the '
owner of , the house, who sailed a ship '
between "Maine and France, was en-
gaged to bring to this country no less
valuable treasure - than the 'unfortu
nate queen, Marie Antoinette, and :
that quantities .of. rich stuffs, furni
ture and silver were put aboard his
ship for the use of the exile, whoe
destination was to have . been this
samo house, which then stood in West
port, it having been removed to the
main land on a raft sixty years ago, It
is yet occupied by Capt. Clough's de
scendants.', . ; " -,. ."-j- ,;i
t One circumstance - wplch lends con
firmation to this story is that a similar
legend attaches to a house in Dorches
ter, Mass., tho famous Swan mansiont
then owned by Col. Swan, who spent
much of his time in Paris, but who set-'
tied permanently in this country after
the French revolution, his house being
adorned, in princely fashion. Now
Capt. Ciough and Col. Swan had money
dealings together in ' Paris, Capt.
Ciough in 17tH having had a contract
to purchase fifty thousand dollars"
worth . pf lumber for the colonel.
What more likely than that Col. Swan,
who was a warm friend of Lafayette,
should have engaged tho, Maine cap
tain to aid him in a plan of such great
importance as the attempted rescue
of the French queenwitu which ho is
credited. - .
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