The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-03-30
PLAIN TALK.
ON B'iaIH sabIeeG..
~ A PLAIN CHAP.
THE sxAnr YoUxs NAN.

TIE s1ART YOUNG NAN.
He had Just arrived from Pennsylva-
MIA aud had lived IN philadelphia, where
he had managed TO obtain sheep ska
declaiing him To be lawyer. As hs
was not intelligent enough to get liv-
ing there he came TO the new North
West, where lie had ne doubt ia the
least he would be received With open
arms and Immediately fall into lucra-
tive practice, and within few years be
sent 70 Congress. He bad been told
that this was Wild country, inhabited
by coarse grained people, snd had years
before heard IF what close call We
came from being murdered by Capt.
Jack and his band sf Indiars, Just few
miles from here in the Lava beds, the
other side Of Lebanon.
Sprishtly Lsx, we will call him, for
short, stepped of the train, seus What
surprised at our well arranged depot,
and being told that the business part Of
the city was this way. walked cautious
Iy toward First street, keeping .
sharp lock out for any Indians that
might al any moment I'ounes upon him.
His eyes opened when he saw our seven
spires, for he had besn told there we're
no churches in Oregon, and could hard
ly believe his eyes when told that the
stately building at the end Of BeOadal-
bin was a college.
We fell in with him about this time.
He noticed us with q condescending
lcok, and observing the court house
said: "Young fellAh, viii you tell me
what that structure isf7
Certainly, that is our court he4ss."
"f suppose it is used for fort when
an attack from the Indians Is feared"
he continued.
eyes sir, it has proven Of great serv-
tCe ocSetAt StuAcs - SuCu. IN L4Cb IL -
called Fort Defiance on account Of the
use made Of it during the late Medoc
war. That was a close call, I tell you,
aud Capt. Jack came very near cooking
our goose"
"Those lava beds, how far from here
are they r
"Only few miles, just the other side
of the hills" and We wickedly stuffed
the.smart e.eck until we got to First
street
The next morning we met him again
when he asked MS: "This il a gooI
opening for lawyer Of brains isn't iti
You SEE am an attorney and counselor
at Law and I want to settle down some
where, SO that can send hack in few
weeks for my wife"
"Yes sir.H we said, "this is . frat
class place "a man Of your wonderful
advantages and abilities onght to DO >
big business from the start Cases here
are very knotty, and what litgants
want is a man Of great address, who
knows how to hood-wink jury, and
then your experience would give you .
hold on the land grant business around
the city most of the land you know has
not been taken up." After q little
desultory talk of this kind. b. said !:
"The worst feature sbOnt settling here
is the bringing of my young wife to this
country. You see she is used Ia the
refinement of the East has always had
a piano, which 1 suppose you do not
have here"
'sThat is an objection, but il takes
only short time to get ussd to our
crude instruments, our carPetless floors
and cow hide shoes"
After considerable chesP talk Of this
kind, in which he showed an ignoranse
Of our country common to many East
ern people, we left him. We undss-
stand that he since met someone who
sympathized with him and told hin
what civilized country We lived in
what great erudition onr lawyers pcs
sessed, how well our houses were furn.
: ished, and how every other family had
piano or organ. He soon left th.
city. concluding probably that be woul.
go back and work on the ignorance o
Eastern people.