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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 4, 1891)
r UNRESi. Hi further yon Joiirwy mid wnndw From the mvm simple faith of your youth, The more yoti nwr Into the yonder And march for ttm mot of all truth, No mutter wliol swift uncover Their veiled mytttlu brown In your quest, Or cluae on your satraUlght hover. Bull, mill tttiull you walk with urn-rat. If yon wk for RtraiiRP thlnjrs you shall find them, Hut the Hutting k1ii.I1 bring; you to grief; The dead lock the (Mirtals behind them. And he who breaks tlimiigb Ik a thief. , The wml with much Ill-gotten plunder, With ltd premature knowledge oppressed, 61ip.1I frrtipe In unset MM wonder Alwuy by tlie snores of unrest. Though hold liands lift up the thin curtain That hides im unknown from our sight; Though u shadowy fitlth Imwoiiips eertaiu Of (he new life thut follows death's night; Though miracles suit wmnrthendirijf Khull Bturile the heart In your breast, Still, hi 111 will yourthirMt I unending, And your soul will lie Had with uurert. There are truths too mihllme and too holy To grasp with a mortal mind's touch, We are tiupjiier fur to lie lowly; Content ineuiiK not knowing too much. Pence dwells not with hmrts that are yearning To futhotu all labyrinths ungiiewied, And Mm mml that in limit on vo.Ht learning Shall iiixl with Km knowledge unrest. ElUt Wheeler Wilcox In Lippincott'a, UNDER THE SNOW. I wiih coming out of t -w mountains to the north of Virginia City with a lot of miners' mail strapped on my hack. There vtut no regular mail route there then, hut Ahoutom-ea mouth home one took the i letrei'H down and returned with any mail i found at the iinstofliee. I wan on snow shoe. The winter had been severe, and : the snow wtu Ave or six feet deep on the level. The 27th of Juimury had been a ' very balmy day. with a warm sun and I win 1, and on the morning of the 28th I j started. I had to make my way along the base i of a range known Ut us then as Bill's j Thumb, and fur this twelve miles there wati only one settler. He was an old j bachelor, who had bn lit hi time If u snug, I stout cahiu under the eaves of the Thumb. -He wan hunter, miner, prospector, tax- t idermist, nuturaltat and 1 don't know ! what else. .Some of the boys who had met him had an idea that he had soured ; on the world, and had come out there to live a hermit life, but he was a chap who kept to hiimelf and would not allow any one to question him. 1 got along very well for the first five miles, but 1 hen re alized that I was In danger from snow slides. The thaw had continued through the ulght. and It needed only a jar to send the great masses of snow lying on the inoantain rushing down the slojte with a force which nothing could stand. One took place behind me which brought down hundreds of tons, and us 1 pushed my i way forward all my senses were on the : alert for the tlrst signal of danger. When I had approached within pistol ' shot of the hermit's cahiu I saw the man himself about a mile down the valley. 1 He was coming toward the house, but bad a burden on his shoulder and wits moving slowly. Therefore, as 1 reached the cabin 1 huhkI at the door to wait for him, think ing he might wish me to take a letter or do some errand. He was still half a mile away when 1 heard a dull, heavy fall awuy up the mountain above my head. I knew It was a nm.su of snow tumbling off the rocks, and that it was the seed of an avahmclie. The sound had scarcely reached my ears wheu I wheeled to the door, lifted the latch, and the next in-i stunt was inside. I was none too soon, Almost every pound of snow on a moun tain side, 1.000 feet high and a quarter of a mile long, was in motion for the base, j It came with a terrible roar and s succes sion of crashes as rock1 and trees were caught up, and I held my breath for what wjis to happen. The house trembled and rocked, a thousand empty wagons seemed to rush over the roof, ami then all was midnight darkness, and the stillness of the gruve settled down tion me. j The house had been buried under an avalanche. It was God's mercy that it had not. been swept away and torn log from log. There was only a small fire on , the hearth, and before 1 moved I struck a match to see my way. After looking alwut a bit I found a caudle, and then 1 began , to investigate the situation. On opening the door I found the snow packed solidly , in front, Going to the single window I found every ray of light shut out. In the room was a bundle of rods about as large ; as my linger and nine feet long. There were six of them, I seized one and thrust ; ir. upward from the door, but it did not go ! through the drift. 1 lushed another to it, 1 and yet the length was not sutlieient. I lashed on a second, and mow hafl at least twenty-live clear feet of polo to probe with, and 1 believed the upper end found layligiit, in front of the cabin, and about 21)6 feet awuy, was a great mass of bare rock forty rods long by tifty feet high. ! Tim would stop tlie avalanche, and it was more than likely t hat a solid mass of snow , forty rods long anil twenty-four feet deep lay above me. I What had become of the hermit? There was not one chauce in 1, WW thut he had escaped. The avalanche would block the trail fur weeks, and at the very best it would be some days before any one at our camp would know that i was in the hut. If the hermit escaped he would carry the news. If he was buried under the snow I , might as well make up my mind to re- main a prisoner uut il spring. I was in a bad box, and for the tlrat half hour I quite lost my courage. Theu, having . very reason to believe that I must be a I prisoner for many long days, I began to take an Inventory of stock, as it were, j There was a good bed of skins and blan-! kotfl, several cooking utensils, a table and ' several rough stools, a clock, a dozen or more books, about thirty caudles, with ten, coffee, sugar, pork and flour in quan-1 titles to last me several weeks. 1 oould not have been better provided for had I planned for the avalanche to come. There was a leauto at the back end of the hut, and I looked into this to find it full of fuel. I felt much more hopeful after I had taken the inventory, for I could not help but feel t hat it would be long before I wiw daylight again For several hours after the accident the cabin sent forth suspicious sounds. The .enow was sealing and packing above it,. i and rafters and logs crocked and snapped In a way to keep me on thorns. If the woight on the roof proved too great I should be crushed or smothered the mo ment it fell in. It was after 8 o'clock in the afternoon Itefore I felt Bafe. But very little snow had come down the chimney. I reasoned from this that it had been covered by rocks or limbs. If such was the case and the tire refused to burn, I should be hard pressed with plenty of raw provisions at hand. 1 felt all the gravity of the situation as I threw on some light wood and made a blaze. It was a hard fight for half an hour. Some of the smoke certainly found a way to escajre, but some was driven back. How ever, after a time the heat of the fire brought down a great deal of water so much that 1 conld scarcely keep a flame going and als-int, 4:itU o'clock the cabin was cleared of smoke. While I could not for an instant believe that the mouth of the chimney showed above the snow, I wns satisfied that some way had been opened for the smoke to drive away. I may explain here that a great mass of tree tops lodged on the roof before the bif?k of that snow came, and these held the snow up so that the smoke went sail ing about in a hundred channels. I got myself some nupper, wound up the clock, and sat down for a smoke and a think. The hermit had two pipes and a lnrge stock of tobacco, and lonely as was my situation a feeling of gratitude to God for the comforts at hand was uppermost in my mind. I was now perfectly satisfied that I was buried deep under the snow, and that my rescue would be a matter of weeks. The first move was to writeout a statement of the accident, and this I placed where it would lie preserved and found tn case of my death. Then I .began a daily journal, and mapped out a pro gramme to be followed. A week's im prisonment would be nothing, but after that it would not do to let the mind dwell on the situation. You see, the horror of it was the stillness, The idea kept com ing up that I was buried alive, and it was an awful thing to think of. The hermit's clock was an old fashioned one, with a loud tick tack, and after the cabin got through settling under the weight of the snow every tick sounded almost as loud as the blow of a hammer. It was so warm that 1 needed only the smallest fire, and when I went to bed at 0 o'clock there was no need of even a single blanket for cover. I was up at an early hour next morn ing, having slept like a log all night, and while eating breakfast was startled by sounds which I believed to be the voice of a human being. 1 thought 1 could hear groans and moans and cries for help, and wheu 1 opened the door the sounds came to me more distinct!. It might 1 that the hermit, caught under the snow, had succeeded iu tunneling his way to a point frum which 1 could rescue him by digging, and had no sootier dispatched my break fust i him I set about making me a shovel to dig with. I found a hatchet, and with this hhnrpened a hoard, and the snow I dug from the doorway 1 heaped up in the fuel room. I had not been digging over half an hour wheu I made the discovery that the first rush of the avalanche had brought down a great lot of small trees, bushes, aud rocks, with here and there u large tree. They had been piled up belter skelter, but they held up the mass of snow so that with a little digging I could run a tunnel in almost any direction. Great care was necessary, however, as the bur deu above was very heavy, aud the dis placement of a support might bring down a great weight of snow. After I had run the tunnel straight out from the door about twenty feet 1 turned to the right, made my way under a lot of rubbish, and after going about thirty feet came upon the body of an Indian. Here the iimbs and sticks made a sort of bower, uuder which he lay, and I knew that it wns Mb voice I hud heard calling. Tnere were no Indians ubout us except host iles, and just before the snow came they had killed two men belonging to our camp. We had no fear of them after whiter set In, knowing that they stuck close to their vilkrx's. Here was a red skin, however, anil iu full warpaint; but I had no sooner found him than I saw that he was dead, though his body was still warm. He had been mauled in a terrible manner, Indh legs being broken, his head all bloody from an injury, and his right arm doubled under him as if broken. I could seethe butt of his rifle sticking out of the snow, but when I pulled at it 1 found the barrel missing. It had been wrenched off. I got his toma hawk and knife, however, together with powder horn and bullet pouch, and when I had pulled the body along and crept behiud It. I caught sight of a moccasin in the snow and dirt. It took me an hour to unearth the body, which was that of a second warrior. The life had been crushed out of him in a second, The mass of rock which had come down with him had broken every bone iu his body, aud a great share of his face had been ground off. His ritle I could not find, while both knife and tomahawk were broken. While searching his cold and battered body I found a buckskin bag containing about $:j(H worth of small nuggets of gold, and this gave me a hint to overhaul the other. I also got from him a bug containing about $'il)0 worth of dust and nuggets, and in the search I fouud attached to his belt a white man's scalp, which had not been off the victim's head over two days. They must have been in ambush partway up the mountain, intent upon taking the hermit's scalp, and but for the avalanche they might have had mine as well. The day had gone by the time I had overhauled the second Indian's body. Being at work the hours had passed swiftly away, and I had not given myself any time to brood over the horrors of the situation. After supper 1 sat iu front of the fire for a while, then wrote up my daily journal, aud when 1 went to bed I left the door wide open. It seemed to me that the air was getting foul down there, and by opening the door tlie room wasjcreatly puritied. It was midnight, as I afterward came to know, and the fire was all out, when some noise in the room startled me. I sat up in bed and was soon convinced that some one or some living thing beside myself was present. I eould bear a labored breathing, together with sounds as of some one pulling him self along the floor, and I climbed over the foot of the bed and lighted the candle. What was my amazement to find a third savage, in the cabin! He had quite reached the side of the bed, and had I got out that way, as usual, he would have at least wounded me, for he had his naked knife in his hand and was bent on murder. The hatchet was at hand, but I did not need a weapon. The warrior had been dreadfully hurt, and, as investigation proved, had been buried just beyond the other two. "When I left the bodies he had dug his way to my tunnel, and then pulled himself along to the door, intending to have my life aa I slept. When baffled In this, he starefi at me with all the hate a human heart can betray. He was crushed at the hips, and none but a savage could have accomplished what he did. I could have killed him at a single blow, but the horrible work was spared me. Death was already beside him, and as I stood and looked down upon him, candle in hand, he nttered a faint war whoop and fell over dead. When I was sure that life hud departed I dragged him into the tunnel and shut and barred the door, and so upset had my nerves be come by the adventure that 1 did not sleep again that night. In the morning I excavated a hole near where the two bislies lay and pushed the throe into it and packed the snow over them. Then I began running a tunnel for the ledge in front of the cabin, and had gone about twenty feet when the second night'amc, Early in the third day I had to abandon this tunnel on account of a cave in, which nearly smothered me. Theu I turned to the right to come out down the valley, and 1 was still at this work when The Aral-week closed. Early in the second week 1 was stopped by a bank of rocks and earth, and when the second week closed I was drifting a tunnel to the left. It was slower work than you would think for. The snow was packed Very solid, and all I dug out had to be thrown behind me, and eventually carried off and scattered in some hole under the tree tops. Kvery few feet I met with a big rock or the trunk of a tree, and it was hard work to get around such obstruc tions. Again a cave in would take place to hinder further progress for a day or two, and I finally came to the conclusion that I conld never get out by tunelmg. 1 started iu on the third week more to be at work thru, from any hope of escape. All that week I tunneled to the right again, and at 8 o'clock on Saturday after noon I broke into my own tunnel. In other words, I had done as a man does when lost in the woods. I made a half circle and came back on myself, while all the time I felt sure I was going straight ahead. The fourth week was spent mostly in the house. I was now becoming much weaker, and was ready to give up. It was on the thirty-fifth night that the cabin be gan groaning and cracking again, and I knew that the snow was settling down around it. The noises continued all night, giving me many a fright, and at 7 o'clock next mornit.g. when I opened the door, I found my tunnel filled up. I was lament ing this when I noticed that the fire was drawing better than usual. Going over to the fireplace I took a look up the chim ney and saw the dark sky of heaven. , At the same moment three or four drops of ruin fell upon my face, and then I under stood that a great thaw had et in and was reducing the snow around me. It was three days more, however, before I got daylicrht through the window and could force my way out of the door. It had been raining for three days and nights, and the creek below me was a mad torrent. The snow on the trail was yet very deep, and I was compelled to wait two days more before 1 could get away. Theu the weather changed to colder, and I got down to Virginia City. It was nearly a month later before we could get at the bodies I knew were under the snow. The hermit had been caught in the edge of the rush and killed by being dashed against the rocks. His body was carried across the frozen creek to the edge of a thicket, and such clothing as still clung to it was In shreds and tatters. They had known of the avalanche both above and below, and had given me 'up for lost. As near as the men could judge the snow above me was forty feet deep, and no one had my idea that the cabin had been spared. That I came out of it alive waa simply the luck which strangely enough saves a man now and then from the open jaws of death. New York Sun. The M'arm Hlooded Kitkluio. Wheuever these cold proof nomads of the north find themselves so far away from home that they cannot conveniently reach it before late at night, they build a small snowhonse (snow kennel would be a better name for it), crawl in and shut the door which is a block of snow pull their arms out of the sleeves of their reindeer coats, having previously put the hoods of the coats well around their heads and ears, fold their arms across their bare breastB, with a block of snow under their head, and go to sleep and snore away apparently as comfortable as if they were in a first class hotel. The only time they object to this light and airy system of sleeping out of nights is wheu a long or hard day's work has created a generous flow of per spiration, and especially tn the reindeer stockings. I f they be wet from this cause there is considerable risk to even the warm blooded Eskimo of getting bis toes badly nipped. Frederick Schwatkain St Louis Republican. Distance of the Stan. In determining the distances of atari angu lar measurements are made at intervals of six months, the parallax being the apparent change of position which results from shift iug the point of view about 183,000,000 miles, the diameter of the earth's orbit. Even with this immense base line, the direction in which the stars are seeu is scarcely altered. The parallax of about a dozen stars, varying be tween 0,919 seconds and 0.0441 seconds, has now been determined. The nearest star to us la Alpha Centauri, distant about 30,490, 000,000 miles. The average distance of first magnitude stars is probably several timet as great as this, Boston Budget, e Plus Ultra. She He has an acute case of Anglo mania, hasn't he? He Yes. He's even got to dropping his H'a when be writes. Epoch, THE PORTLAND INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION. Every indication points to a tremen dous success of the Portland Industrial Exposition, which opens this year Sep tember 17. The music by the great Zapadorea Band of Mexico, the paint ings from abroad, the living chess tour nament, the wonderful electrical dis plays, the unprecedented ly large num ber of exhibits in agriculture and horti culture, in industry and science, shows that the coir, in g Exposition, in attract iveness, will exceed any ever held upon the Pacific Coast. There has been an entire rearrange ment of the Exposition, and a large number of novelties from every part of the world have been secured. The railroads have granted a round trip rate of one fare and a fifth; half rates on all exhibits, except fruits and vegetables, which have been placed upon the free list. This certifies to the excel lent management of the Exposition of 1891, and the same energy displayed in the other departments leaves no doubt as to its great Buccess. "There goes HpniiKinRteam," remarked Wil lie Hrowii to Tumime .Jones, a the two boys' mo here walked down the street together. 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Here is a man who knows the full danger of lung trou bles, and would therefore be most particular as to the medicine he used. What is his opinion ? Listen ! "I use nothing but Boschee's German Syrup, and have advised, I presume, more than a hundred different per sons to take it. They agree with me that it is the best cough syrup in the market" UlV CCUCD CURED T0 stay CURED. nnl itl til Wc want Ihe nameandad dressof every sufferer in the 0, RQTUMR V.S.and Canada. AddreH, i ix nu I limn ?.huiiib.jm,,, ndo,i.i. Pretty strong reasons for trying Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. In the first place, it cures your catarrh no matter how bad your case, or of how long standing. It doesn't simply palliate it cures. If you believe it, so much the better. There's nothing more to be said. You get it for 50 cents, from all druggists. But perhaps you won't be lieve it. Then there's another reason for trying it. Show that you can't be cured, and you'll get $500. It's a plain business offer. 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