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T. T. GJtKfi, Editor.
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bate leoeircd It nearly thai long, aa4 many
wbo bav ta4 it for generation. Borne o
theee et)ec to barms tb paper dla-ootlnned
l lie Uioc of ezplnttioo of tbeir abaertpiloa.
for tbo tne6t of the. a4 for other reaeoae
mm br eoai aled to, boon tin oe ab-cripUoM
only when notified fo 4o so, A penotu paying
ben Mbveribnr, or paying ta adrac, wlil
fears tb benefit of the dollar rat. Bat it the?
do not pay f .r at months, tbe rate will be f 1.25
a year. HereaJter we will aead tb paper to ail
Mpoualbiaperaooa rbo ordc it, thooa-b tbey
may not aeod tb .money, with tbe uaoerataao
Ifg tbattbey are to pa S1.2S a year, iaeasa tbey
let tbe jo fear rtpUon seen at run over at
auoBtba. ia order tbat tbere May be ao mimm
Oeratandiag. we will keep t&ia aotios stacding
u wis ptaoe in toe paper.
CIRCULATION (SWORN) OVER 4000
REPUBLICAN TICKET
STATU
J" or Justice of the Supreme Cour
. P. A. MOORE.
' r State Food and Dairy Commis
sioner,
J. W. BAI1.EY.
for Presidential Electors, '
J. N. HART.
' : JAS. A. FEE, !
GRANT B.DIMICK, I
A. C. HOUGH.
COKGRSSSXCHAL.
For Member Congress First
trict,
BINGES HERMANN.
i Second District,
J. N. WILLIAMSON.
Dis-
JUDXCIAL DISTRICT.
For Judges,
GKO. II. BURNETT, of Marlon.
B. L. EDDY, of Tillamook.
For Prosecuting Attorney,
JOHN H. M 'NARY, of Marion.
MARION COUNTY TICKET
' County Judge John H. Scott.
Sheriff W. J. Culver.
Clerk John W. Roland.
Assessor Fred J. Rice.
Treasurer W. Y. Richardson.
:'.'. Recorder John C. Siegmund.
Sehool 8upt.-45. T. Moores.
Commissioner I. C Needham.
Surveyor B. B. Herriek.
Coroner A. M. Clongh.
' Representatives J os. Calvert, nub
bard; J. G. Graham and T. B. Kay, Sa
lem; John Ritchie, Scoots Mills; Jesse
II, Settlemier, Woodburn.
COMMITTEEMEN.
' Chairman State Central Committee
Frank C. Baker, Portland.
Chairman Congressional Central Com
mittee Walter L. Tooze, Woodburn.
Member State Central Committee
Hsl D. Patton, Salem.
Chairman County ventral Committee
Chas. Murphy, Salem.
For Justice of the Peace,
II. II. TURNER.
For. Canstsble,
ROBT. O. DONALDSON.
FLOGQINO IK PRISONS AND
' SCHOOLS. .
While tbere. are undoubted objections
to flogging in prisons when applied to
men whose infraction of rules, and re
fusal to conform to discipline cannot
be overlooked, on the ground of appar
ent brutality, the difficulty is present
ed on the other side as to what should
be substituted in extreme eases of
mulish stubbornness, for men of this
character find their - way into prisons
and must be made -by some method of
punishment, to obey the rules prescrib
ed for nil prisoners.
Flogging seems brutal. In one sense
it is. But so is any form of corporal
punishment, when administered by one
person upon another who is powerless
to resist and this condition usually at
tends eises of this character. . The
parent who flogs his, little boy for an
infraction of-seme rule of conduct is
engaged in a brutal act, because the
child is helpless and is at the mercy
of -his two . hundred pound father.
Many , a parent has ' administered a
Hogging to his boy because he felt
sure that his welfare required it, slid
has afterward shed tears in private
Tired Out
"I was very poorly and could
hardly get about tbe bouse. I was
tired out all tbe time. Then 1 tried
Ayet's Sarsaparilla, and it only
took two bottles to make me feel
perfectly well."
Mrs. N . S. Swinney, Princeton, Mo.
: Tired when you go to
bed, tired when you get
up. tired all the time.
Why ? Your blood is im
pure. You are living on
the border line of nerve
exhaustion. You need
Ayer's Sarsaparilla.
Aniviiraucnrvwniiuinoi tM
I fraud old family medicine. Follow bia
i aq ice ana we w tube satisfied.
Take Avera Pill wrlrti t c
pariUa. fbey act on the liver, cure i
! biliousness, beadache,coostipation.
J. C A.YER CO., Lowell, Mass.
over the necessity. wbieh demanded
this, form of correction. And yet, we
Lave all heard grown men remark,
laughingly, that they needed "more
lickings" than they ever got.
Does som. one say that resort to per
suasion should be relied upon to cor
rect i children when they need eorree
tioaf To this a sufficient answer v is
that persuasion will do for some chil
dren but for others it would be as in
effective as no attempt at government
at all. " Tbere - are children and chil
dren.:5 There are also prisoners and
prisoners. A reliance upon kind; treat
good and abundant food, a 'pleas
ant greeting and morning and evening
prayers, and these alone, for a satisfac
tory; government ; of ; many prisoners
would be like placing a four-year-old
boy; in personal command of ths Rus
sian army. And the observing?" man
whof undertakes to manage a prison
along these lines will soon discover it.
While all forms of brutality in pris
ons should be prohibited, yet exxtreme
measures, in some form, are often as
necessary as brick walla, guns and
iron' bars, and while it may be that now
and! then a convict i "reformed"
while in prison, there are one hundred
others upon whom all 'efforts in. that
direction had as well never been made.
The time to reform the average man
who finds himself in the penitentiary
was before he acquired the habits that
sent him there. His Sunday school
training should have been had while
he was a boy and on the outside, and
while it is well to continue the effort
on the inside, for the sake of fhe one
man ia the hundred, tbe management
which concludes that these efforts at
reform are a guarantee that professions
of docility are genuine, will find-itself,
sooner or later, ia deep trouble. f
There may be a better way to en
force discipline in the case of 'it man
who is utterly reckless of consequences
than flogging, but it is doubtful; and
yet, this, like and other form of pun
ishment, should be administered) with
prudence and discretion. So it should
be at home or at sshool. What Is call
ed "spanking" is administered i in re
form schools, and is a form of flogging,
or corporal punishment, that could not
well be dispensed with. In Chicago, at
present, the necessity for adopting
more radical means of enforcing dis
cipline in its schools is being diseossed
by tbe different boards with much ear
neatness. The control of tbe schools
is getting away from, tbe management,
as the result of dispensing with cor
poral punishment, and tbe necessity for
its restoration in some form is a ques
tion that has to be met. Unnecessary
punishment, either in prisons or
schools, is never to be commended, but,
especially in prisons, no relaxation
from a fixed and uniform, though just,
set of rules of discipline can be indulg
ed without ultimate injury to their
efficiency. S i
YELLOWISM.'
The Chicago Chronicle raises the
question as to the real sanity of the
reader who habitually invests" in the
daily paper, consisting largely 6t. sen
sational headlines "whose purport is
flatly negatived .by the text of. the ar
ticle below." It is pointed, out that
this phase of unreliable journalism has
been emphasized since the beginning of
the war between Russia and Japan, by
wholly ureliable reports, accompanied
by daily pictures of battles that had
not occurred anad other evidences of
newspaper "enterprise" that eater to
what appears to be a public demand.
Not long since the Statesman took
ocasion to refer to the daily appearance
ftf alleged pictures of naval engage
ments in some of our papers not far
away, fhe securing of which would be
a mtttter of the utmost impossibility,
'even if fhe battle had occurred. The
mechanical feature of these mythical
representations is horrid and there is
no possible redeeming trait, even when
accompanied, as some of them are,
with the explanation that they are the
product of drawings from- descriptions
i by j telegraph.
But the serious phase of the subject
(is in tbe fact tbat there is no doubt
of a popular demand for this sort of
dyspeptic mental pabulum. The actual
facts are not so much wanted as some
thing that would be highly exciting if
they were facts. Tbe facts are not wild
enough, and they are belated. Fiction is
wanted. k The . actual happenings, are
too much of a humdrum nature. If a
tremendous battle has not taken place
onj the banks of the Yaln, since it
seems to be overdue, the reader wants
to read all about the details of such a
conflict as he imagines it will be when
it does occur, and the publisher, know
ing this, pleases the demands of the
reader by a little premature account of
the engagement as it doubtless! will be
when it happens, and sells it "like hot
cakes," and the purchaser is aatisved.
He demands a battle, and if the Rus
sians and Japs are too slow for him, he
can appeal to the yellow publisher,
who is always on time with "the
goods." - j l - :'. - -!-.--
it doesn't matter thai the whole
thing; is flatly contradicted the next
day. The reader was the beneficiary
of, the excitement of the description1
while he was reading it, and was as
highly entertained as if it had been
tme. And upon the slightest provoea
tio,n. nre rumor is usually sufficient
the yellow journal. will run its black
headlines aeros the entire front page,
descTTptiv of a telegram that will not
occupy two inches of one column, and
the reader is compelled to nse praeti-
eally all the time at his disposal find
ing'the item that belongs to the head
liae, and, even then,f it will be flatly
contradicted as' a mere rumor on some
other a.rt of the same page, and with
no headline attachment whatever. '
It i no uncommon thing to see the
headlines in one of these papers occupy
more space than the article itself, and
even : if the statements 4 of the two
should happen to be on the. same sub
ject, the mission of the one seems to
be' to prove the other untrue, which it
usually succeeds in doing.
Perhaps tbe publishers" of such rot
are not at all to blame, though there is
a question whether Such contribution
to a morbid desire for wholly valueless
trash is to be justified by any rules of
ethics; but the demand for it, growing
as it appears to be, is not one of tbe
good signs of be times. .
MB. CLEVELAND AGAIN.
It has been but a few days sinee ex
President Cleveland lectured to ar im
mense audience in Princeton, devoting
himself to a comprehensive review of
the Chicago labor troubles during his
second administration, and undertak
ing to make it dear that be was mere
ly in the discharge of his plain duty in
all he did to quell the disturbance and
to insure he supremacy of the law. But
upon this point, no doubt nine-tenths
of the people of this country agree that
Mr. Cleveland showed the right spirit
at the time and did no more than the
welfare of all interests demanded. To
have done less would have been to
have Tailed in the obligation which
his position imposed.
But why be should, just at this par
ticular time appear in public and en
gage in an elaborate endeavor to justi
fy an ineiienf long ago closed, seems
fo indicate a desire to be in front of
the public that is not at all consistent
with that reticence which has charac
terized him in a marked degree during
the past eight "years. For a long time
it was impossible to get an expression
from him upon any publie question.
His persistent silence was as unbroken
as that" of yJudge Parker. Mr. Cleve
land had not only retired from politics
but was not disposed to engage in the
discussion of current topics.
For this reason, his present activity
and even unusual interest in the. pro
gress of events is suggestive of a re
turning ambition to enter public life.
This is emphasized by his coming con
tribution to the Saturday Evening Post
in justification of the financial policy
of his last administration. Of course
tbe large majority . of the American
people have given their full endorse
ment to the principal features of this
policy, but why a man who has retired
from politics and would under no cir
cumstances again be-a candidate for
any office withib the gift of the people,
should at this time come before the
public in defense, on two different oc
casions, of his record, gives color to the
suspicion that a third term in tbe presi
dential office would not be so distaste
ful fo the "Sage of Princeton," after
all. . ' j . ; '
It would be. impossible to suggest
any one thing' less likely to come to
pass, than the election of tbe Democrat
ic candidate for. the presidency this
fall, no matter who he may be, but cer
tainly no man has been suggested for
that nomination whose standard of
statesmanship .equals that of Mr.
Cleveland. And yet, he is very un
popular with those who imagine them
selves "Jeffersoniah Democrats."
CAPTAIN MERIWETHER LEWIS.
Next Saturday, the 14th of May, will
be precisely one ; hundred yean since
Lewis and Clark started on their mem
orable journey of exploration from the
Missouri river to the Pacific coast, a
journey fraught with so much of far
reaching importance not only to the
United States, but which had, ulti
mately, much to do with the affairs of
many of the leading nations of Europe.
The moving force behind this great
undertaking was Thomas Jefferson, at
that time President of' the United
States. The conception and prosecu
tion of this gigantic enterprise to a
successful termination, was the crown
ing feature of Jefferson's publie ca
reer.'' He had many associates in the
Revolutionary period who were as ac
tive ia opposition to the tyrannical
methods of the English government as
he was, and who would doubtless have
formulated the Declaration of Indepen
dence and fought the war of the Revo
lution to victory had Jefferson .been an
obscure private titizen, but, strange as
It may appear, there seemed to be no
publie man of his time who understood
the immense value to the future of the
United States of the vast region be
yond the Mississippi, Including the
unknown territory . reaching to the
Pacific ocean, as did Jefferson. .
During the interim between the close
of the War of the Revolution and the
adoption of Jthe- Constitution of the
United States, Jefferson was minister
to France, and while there met John
Ledyard, a citizen of Connecticut, who
was desirous of exploring the Pacifie
coast and in whose proposals Jefferson
became much interested. Jefferson
proposition to Ledyard was to go. to the
eastern coast of "Kamseaafka,' cross m
some Russian vessel to Nootka Sound,1
"fall "down " to . the "latitude of the
Missouri." and eross the ., continent '
"to the I'nited States." j
' The plan" did not succeed la ils in-
eJpienev and was givea up.
was givea up. ni
serrfs to show that Jefferson was, even
then alone, ofall his contemporaries,
alive to the necessity of doing something-
toward exploring the great un
known epun try to the west, with the
view, certainly, of finally adding t to
the territory of the United States,
I tnougn wua conclusion i
with bisUposition to accepting, the
K V. its ! purchase
though
k- " J-
T-T-T ' ,.T-T :.v booking, and these combined qualities
had been accomplished without hsl 00,&l", - .-.i
, ' .v w. would be guarantee of undoubted
. ... . '
no constitutional right to aeqmre more
territory Jin that manner.
- The opportunity for . exploring the
country jwestfof the Slissouri came to
Jefferson when, in lSOSj thVaet estab
lishing trade houses with the western
Indian tribes was about to expire and,
to use kis own language, " some modi
fications of it were recommended to
Congress by a confidential message of
January 18th, and an extension of its
views to the Indians on the Missouri
river. In
order to prepare the way,
the message " proposed the sending an
exploring party to trace the Missouri
to its source, to erosa the Highlands,
and follow the best water communica
tion which offered itself from thence
to the Paeifie ocean. , Congress ap
proved the proposition and voted a sum
of money for carrying it into execu
tion." Captain Lewis, who had at that time
been for two years Jefferson's private
secretary," made an urgent application
to be selected for the journey and his
importunities were successful. Il was
born on the 18th of August, 1774, near
the town of Charlottesville. Virginia.
in Albemarle county, of one of the most
distinguished families of the state. -One
of his father's uncles married la sister mankind eonld en. lure and yet live,
of General Washington. . Iewis at once J , 'One of. the noblest women who ever
applied himself to vigorous study of. came to." Dregonfand one of the : most
astronomy and botany, etc., under dis-1 usf u, ras Mrs. Tahitha Brown, the
tingufshed professors, that he. might be real and 4-oncede.l founder of the Pa
better qualified for the great task eific Unitersity, at Forest Grove. At
about to be intrusted to his charge. He ( the beginning of . the year 1S46," Mrs.
chose as his associate in the hazardous Brown was living , in Missouri. She
undertaking, William Clark, brother of
tbe noted George Rogers Clark.
The beginning -of tbe famous Lewis
and Clark expedition was made on the
14th of May, 1804, the exact spot being
'at the mouth of Wood river, a small ' ginia, and finally went to Missouri! to
stream which empties into the Missis- j improve Jier situation and help her
sippi river opposite to the entrance to boys, of whom she had two, as well as
the Missouri."." The' party returned tola daughter.
St. Louis on the 23d of September,! We haVe before us a letter written
1806, having been gone two years and j by Mrs. Brown in August, 1S54, front
four months! ","""' "' ! Forest dro've to her brother and sister
After their return Captain Lewis ( in the east, -from whom she had not
was appointed Governor of Louisiana, ( heard for several years and whom she
For a number of years he had shown ' had lonjj supposed to be dead.' In the
symptoms of mental depression, which
grew upon him after bis location in St.
Louis. Jefferson intimates that on ac
count of this, his-affairs made it neces
sary for him to go to Washington, and
while stopping over-night at the house
of a Mr. Grinder ' ia the interior of
Tennessee, at 3 o'clock in the morning,
October 11, 1809, he took his own life.
But, notwithstanding his unfortunate
end, he leaves a name which will al-
ways be prominent in the history of assuring fjis that he had found a new
the United States ;for his intrepid dar-j cut-off, 1iat if wo would follow him
ing and ambition to make a journey) we would he iu the settlement long
filled with dangers and hardships, . that ! before those Who ha'i one down the
a great, unknown land, equal to an em- J Columbia. This was in .August. The
pire in extent of territory, might be idea of shortening the journey caused
explored and placed in a position where 'us to I yield to his advice, j Our suffer
its acquirement by the United States ! ings from that time no tongue can tell.
would be not only possible but alto
gether probable.
Even so long ago as a full century,
"there was something doing" in the ' ath. no doubt), and Rogue River In
United States, and statesmen were dians, hst nearly all our cattle, and
carrying into execution colossal plans 'passed the Unipquaw Mountain, nearly
tor tne future, atTceting the destiny r.f
many nations and the trend
of the
human family.
The Portland Journal, commenting
upon the institution of a suit in sup
port of the' claims of the Warner Val
ley settlers by Governor Chamberlain,
said "it is regretted that the other
members of the state land board, pre
sumably because the Governor differs
with them politically, would not join
with him in this effort to have justice
done, notwithstanding the nnjnst de
cision of the department." But .the
Journal shows ia this statement
that it has no acquaintance, whatever,
with the characteristics of "the other
members of the board." That waa
about as unjust a remark as a paper of
assumed standing could make. No lower
motive conld.be ascribed to publie of
ficers. Treasurer Moore and Secretary
Dunbar had wrestled with this ques-,
tion officially -over and over again long
before Governor Chamberlain was seri
ously thought of for the position he
now holds. It would be equally true
and proper to say that Governor Cham
berlain has instituted this suit because
the other members of the board viewed
the matter differently from him, but
which, probably, no paper ia the state
will say. The sympathy of the publie
is generally with the settlers in this
ease, but there are. two sides to it, as
may well be-assumed, since the deeist
ions of the land department at Wash
ington have generally held . in favor of
the original claimants. It is just
as
well to be fair. If anybody should sav
a J that Governor Chamberlain was moved
S'ia this matter by the desire to make a
From ;
the , .
Office;
Window
V7
f it is tf porteV upB what appears to
be goo.1 'authority, that Cicero Idlcman,
Oregon's; ex-Attorney General, is in
line for the appointment to the Gov-
I tlV. A
better man
. . -; j . . 1.- -
jf? J j 2ood
capatde, honest, affable and good
TIHUISUlf -: v- '
'aneeesa in; his new field. We shoukt r-
gret to loie. him,, even temporarily, but
if he besfns with the Governorship he
may lasd! the United States Senator
ship wlwni Alaska becomes a future
state -and that may be the only future
state thejGeneral will ever be permit
ted to reilly enjoy. We advise him to
accept the "position by all means, if it
should be offered him.
o o
I i A Pioneer Mother
. The romantic and useful lves of the
noble pioher mothers of "Oregon can
not be top often recalled nor too much
be said ia praise of t-e part they bore
in laying the foundations of that civ
ilization which preceded by many
years thej first , movement toward a
state government. In the busy lives
we are leading, surrounded by all the
comforts and conveniences of the pres
ent, we seldom take the time to reflect
that the)in:e was when Oregon in the
4T's, was as much of a" wilderness as
any country on earth with the bare ex-
eeptionr that occasionally was a family
that had ventured here and God alone
, knows whylunder the circumstances
which directed some of them that was
undergoing all the vicissitudes that h;i-
was tUfn 6 years of age, and had been
a widow; for many years. She was a
native of Massachusetts, but' after be
coming at 'widow she taught school for
several years in -Maryland land Vir-
spring of "1546, Mrs. Brown provided
herself ?fith a good ox team and what
she 'supposed, was a sufficient supply
for the trip, and in company with ber
daughteH and one son, besides Captain
John Brown, a brother of her deceased
husbimd,! started for Oregon.
At Fort Hall, to use her own lan
guage, ;thrco or four trains were de
coyed off ry a rascally fellow who eaine
out from; .the' settlements in Oregon,
;We were carried hundreds of . miles
south of Oregon into Utah and Califor
nia, fell i in with the Clamotte (Riant-
twelve miles through. I rode through
in three days at the risk of my life,
oa horseback, having lost my wagon
and all that I had but the horse I was
on. Our; families were the first to start
through the - canyon, so that we got
through the, mud and rocks much bet
ter than those who followed."
This Canyon which Mrs. Brown re
fers to,; Was the present famous Cow
Creek canyon which ' within the past
few yeafs has been such a terror te
the section hands and train crews '. of
the Southern Pacific railroad,
Mrs. Brown proceeds to say thaf
"out of' the, hundreds of wagons only
grand -stand play, tbe Statesman
would feel disposed . to rebuke him
quite severely, as it is so disposed to
ward the Joarnal for its fling at "the
other members of the boarL"
The row in - the "camp of the Iowa
Democrats over whether they should
be for oj against Hearst,. reminds one
of the contest among the Peeryites and
Sweekitea in Multnomah county. Of
course the Iowa Democrats will have
something to say as to the national
nominee; but they will cut as small a
figure in thestate election there as
will the! Democrats fa. Multnomah ;
Strangs what enthusiasm some people
can arouse 'over the possession of a
vacrrum.
The Boise News, the leading Demo
cratic paper of Idaho, aaya ' "if the
jpartr eojilda't get together on a man
s clean and able as Towne, it is eer-
tain to remain split." This is no doubt
true. But how does he stand on the
l -wA
Editorial SideUghto saim! Obswrvntl&Tiw on Varloue Peoplo
a.nd Things. Picked Up and Scr I bled Down t OtSd Times.
Lne came throi'gu wiihont breaking.
i i -ih jlead CAt-
, n .i ii . ii t. ...... - - - .
tie, broken wagons, !'
ever tiling lint provisions, oi !
latter we -r. : neanv all J dtitBto.lar. All tle fwl gone, prartiral-
.--l c. iw .' 'l v. and Mr, Pringle set off on ; hore-
tbrev weeks before
Knin iiel from fat
while others ate the fleii f cattle that
rdea.l by the wevside. . lall sive one. She had panned through.
' , i ntany trials, u. Merit to convure hrr
struggling, through "Vitha ters woutt avail nothing n
were lying
"After
water up to pur hore" w.Ies nuicn j0ur extremities. Through all mv nuf
tbe war in crossinflr this twelve mile .ferings in crossing the plains, li nm
mountain, we onencl into the beautiful once sought relief 1-y fhe shedding of
Umpqua vallcti inhabited, only by In
dians and wild beasts. We had still
another mountain to cross, the. Cali-
ose, (no doubt the .Calipooia), leside Louse of a Mcthwdifit rainiiit.r ju : Sji
manv miles to travel in the mud, .snow, lem, "the Cm house 1 had 4t ,y
hail and rain, y i . "
Winter had set in. Mr. Priagle
and Pherne 'insisted upon my going
ahead with Uncle John to try and, save
ourj lives. They vere obliged' to stay
behind a few days to recruit their cat
tle. They divided the last bacBn, of
which I had three slices. I had also, a
full cup of teai No bread. We saddled
on r horses and set off, .- not knowing
whether we would ever see ach other
again. Captain Brown was too old and
feeble to be of any assistance to me.
Near sunset we came up with the wa
gops that Mil "mI that nioruing.
Tliey had nothing to eat and their cat
tle, had given out. In the morning I
divided my last morsel with them and
left them to take care of themselves. I
hurried Captain Brown so as to o-er-take
the three w;sgons ahead. We pass
ed Wautiful mountains and valleys.and
saw but two Indians in the distance.
In the afternoon Captain Brown com
plainer of dizziness and .could only
want ins uorse ueninu. in mo or
hours he became delirious and fdl from
his horse. I was afraid to jump down
from my horse- to assist hnn as ik was
one a woman ha.t never ridden -before.
He triel to risw to his feet, but could
not. I rKle close to him and set 0the
ml nf lia Mna whih I Mrrinl in ill V
...'... . . . . -
hand,; harI in the ground, to . help him
up. I then urged him to walk a little.
He tottered alonga few yard and then
gave out.
I then saw a little sunken spot a few
yarn's ahead and b-d his horse into it
and with much difficulty got him raised
to the saddle. Two milis ahead was
another mountain to climb, and ns we
reached the foot of ' it Captain Brown
was able to hold the bridle in his own
hand and we passed, over safely into a
lr-rge valley, a wide solitary place, but
uo wous in sight."
While it, is not possible to certainly
locate this place which Mrs. Brown
decrile it ninst have Wen the "Von
cal!a. a Iteautiful little mountain val
ley, with which many modern Oregoni
ans are familiar, . ,
The following paragraph from Mrs.
Brown's letter. rads like a romance
and illustrates one of the saddest ex
periences among .all the hardships
which so many of the Oregon pioneers
were compelled to endure.
"The sun was now setting, the wind
was blowing bard ami the rain was
I drifting uix.n the side of the distant
mountain. I'oor- mel l erosseo tbe
plain to where two Mountain spurs
met. Here the shades of night were
gathering fast and 1 could see the
wagon track ; no further; Alighting
from my horse I flung bfl the s.-idlle
and sadille pack and- tied the horse
fast to a tree.: with "a tasso roiic. The
Captain asked me' what I was going to
do! My answer was "I am going no
ccmp for the night." He gave a groan
and fell to the ground. 1 gathered my
wagon sheet, which I had put under my
saddle, flung it over the projecting
limb of a tree and made me a fine tent.
1 tuen stripped the Captain s horse and
tied him, placed saddle,, bridle and
blankets under the tent, and then help
ed the bewildered old gentleman snd "sketch of '.-Mrs. Brown is but a varie.l
introduced him to his new Kxlgingnpon ' version ofmnnv other heroic aiid noble
the bare ground. His senses were gone. worMen who unconmlaininglv lM1re their
Covering him up as well as I could , . .. : 1 . - ,
with the blankets, I seated myself, the interests of their bus
upon my feet behind him, expecting; ."ands and children and, having done
e wuuiii w a corpne wiore morning, -. mnr uuiy wen, passed to to tne wait-
"Pause ?or;a moment, and consider ing future. As to them, the half bn
my situation. Worse than alone, in a i . ...
savage wilderness, without food,' with- nr7 oUf nor ever w.ll be.
out fire, coTd t and shivering; wolves Mr- Tabitha Brown died inrth later
i i i i . . -
fighting and howling all aroun.1 me. 1 fifties, aged eighty years, mournol by
Dark clouds Aid the stars. All as soli-1 hundreIs of personal friends who hai
tary as death. But that same kind i. , . . . . ," ,
Providence that I had alwavs known '"f love ber, and by. thousan.ls
was watching over me still. " As soon wuo 'VP- her many admirabje.
as. light dawned, I polled down iny qualities that had done so miicn for the
tent, saddled the horses and found the cause of education in this budding
Captain able to stand upon his feet. rommonw,alth the r&eiRr const.
Just at this moment one of the emi-, ...
grants whom I was trying to overtake ' I heme, frequently referred t
came up. He Was ia search of venison. ly Mrs. Brown, was Mrs. Pringlc, her
Half a mile ahead were the wagons I daughter, who for forty-five years wan
had hoped to overtake and we were rMnLllM r tu cim
. . , , ... , . . respecten citizen of the South ralcm
soon there and ate plentifully of fresh . ... , , .
meat." f . jns and who was the mother of 'Mrs.
This small party travelled on and at ,John 1,"8l1,. of this city. Mrs. Prin
the foot of Calipoota mountain the Rl died in 1892.
Jefferaonian ideal IL he is a stand
patter in favor of Jefferson no other
man can question his Democracy.
Cleveland and Bryan are Loth follow
ers of Jefferson, . and, what is more
both admit it. , ' ,
Since Governor Jeff Davis, of Arkan
sas, punched the face of oe of the
Supreme Judges of . that ' state and
caved in the stomach' of another one,
he has -announced himself a candidate
for the United States Senate and the
Republicans have rimultaneonsly de
clared against: any joint canvass -of the
slate.- : si- .' . - '-
-Parker's' boom is admittedly on the
wane, and Bryan's little speech did it.
This must be discouraging to the
brethren, many of whom had hoped the
vexed question was settled. Tbe States
man would suggest that the only way
out of the Democratic dilemma is to
nominate the blessed memory : of
Thomas Jefferson, taking a non-com
children and. grandrhildten. . ut SUn.
ru with ieat cat- - - ... -
, , , . j w.hoy da vs crowing the'4i!irt. muun--,1s,
elothiii. n;t lftillf whi,.b was eovere.1 with sn..w, a.
risions, of whia ni,! go ahejul but a mile orisu earh
V all detitBte.lar. All the 'wmI wn gone, prartiral-
Jfown 'ovrrtuoa,. rm. we.re
couj4 ort
aavon front' two trt'l.V. ami Air. rmgi- se, on on nnrc
. . s.V..Vu" "1 1-sw-st for the settlements, not kaoaing
they got trogli.!wtM,th(ip woM ever get r.n,k,
(igne and starvation -ye wertl again in a state of starvation,
n fleu of cattle that 'lanv tears wereiLed during tbelav hv
'Many tears weresLed during tbeday hy
tears, nor thought wc should nt live
to reach the settlements." j
Ob Christina's day, at 2 oVlrk .in
the afternoon. Mrs. Brown ente- ths
reel in ior nine mnv". tor two or
thrce weeks of. my journey down-'. t!i
Willamette I had felt something in the
end of my glove finger which I hnd Up.
loosed to be a button. On exanjlnation
at ray new home in Salfrn I founl It io
be a'six and a quarter cent piece. TW
was ray whole cash capital to r..m.
mence business with in Oregon. With
it I purchased three needles. I trn.U.j
off some of my old clothes to tbe
squaws for buck skins, worked thoin
into gloves for the Oregon la. lien anil
gentlemen," which cleared me up.wnrii
of thirty dollars."
Later Mrs. Brown accepted an' invi
tation from Mr. and .Mrs. Clark . to
spend the winter with them on Tualitan
Plains, where Forest drove ihw is.
Arriving there, she naw the newxsitr
for some sort of sehool for tle manV
poor children yi the i-oniinuuity aul at
once proposed to -use the log ihen-ing
house" for sehool piirj.nses. She inffcr
ed to jrToriu the work without hIk-Li1
,comjensatioii for herself, only th' ex
penses were to I met by tbe pafrons.
Parents who were able paid one dollar
jier week; hoard, tuition, wsMhinvf jib.I
j voar for nothing.
all. Airs. Hrowu ureeil to l:il...r
i.Th. i,mp flX(.,i rnr i.,,,,;--;,.- ,vM
-hool was the Cm of March. hiX
wJu.n ,i fUUI,d everything pr. pared for
,n to go into nie old meeting l.nnse
amj --Huek to mv chickens. The tieih-
lt0tft . had .-eolleeted what broken kirives
,, frkv tin .... an1 ;yh ih,v
i, . . . . . . -
, rpiiiu pan wmi ir ti.e iiregon pio ieer
. , . . , . . .
to fmmenee hnsekeeP,ng with. I jhad
a weH "'lucated lady from the eant, a
missionary 's wife, to af-nint tne, and; mv
family grew : rapidly. In the mi miner
they put me up a boar.ling hono I
now had thirty boarders, of both sexes
and all ages, from four to twenty-one.
I managed theni and did nil rny work
except washing. That wan done ,,y
the scholars.1
That was the beginning of Pacific:
University, which today is in runny
respects equal to any educational insti
tution in the state, and is ahead of
them ail in tbe matter of a pe'ruiaieftf
financial endowment. There iifno nxirn
beautiful story than that of jtlie Urn
ism and stnrdw character of thin gram!
pioneer woman, who, at the! nilvamV.l
age of sixty-iix yrars, ndurf.lj the ;
hardships related in the forgoing let
ter written when nl,e had reachd bcr
seveaty-Hixtit year. Her name is rev
ered in all i Washington-county where,
her deeds live after her and 'where,
many people yet liiere remember Trom
p'rsonal . acquaintance the spleiiiil
characteristics which dmin:itc. licr
every lay life. K
Tltere were thousands of 'such !
nien who jrame to Oregon in the rtrlv
- " .- f
days" under similar circtimstanf'es,
who, though less, prominent in their
work, discharged their duties conHcien
tiously and well in their hiimiler
spheres, but who bravely contribute"!
their filia rr toward the lieginnings of.
this greatr-eommonwealth. This short
i . ,
mittal but glittering generality, as a
compromise platform without waiting
for tbe consent of any other nation en
earth.-V'
- Hearst will probably carry ' the con
ventions of Iowa and Washington,. two
of the strongest Republican states in
the Union. It seems that the weaker
the -Democracy is in numbers and , re
sources tbe easier it is to inaugurate a
successful stampede into the camp
where waves tbe helpful lannor of tlm
Yellow Peril. !
AnTlrcw Carnegie has donated
$50,000 to the Berea College, in Ken
tucky,, the only, mixed school id the
Soif h. it is to be hoped he didn't em
ploy W. J. Bryan to draw up the con
tract. 1
There are only five more days in
which to register. This duty of aU
voters should not be neglected. " :