Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-10-30
Cash Market,
ACROSS THE CONTINENT.


nov 10 our old home rszior Of North
eastern Iowa, and 60 journey of about
/ 30 miles since leaving home | have
not fouDd a region 20 hear Ike our own
b.esssd Willamette valley. Osiug 10
q dropih which With - would not -
cO1siiered half dsJIth IN length Of
time sut accompanied hy heat such a.
I Western Oregon kuos- Dsihing Of.
they had bsIf q crop failure here where
crops never fail. Farmers here bave
I gone out Of wheat entirely.
! would urge Oregon farmer. 10 grow
I fax. Tie crop cannot Le made 10 tie
I DakOias. oGiDg 10 the thistle. The
I R1-aisn thistle make q x crop i'm
I possible there where the largest lax
crops have been grown. Fiay Is a suTe
| crop 10 the Willamette valley and the
I RIssisn thistle cannot flourish II seems
where there IL al abundance Of mTist-
u-e. IL would be. kept To wet even d,
/ i. ripeBed aud there would not be wind
e0ough 10 send it rolling over the prAi-
ries a. it does 10 Dakota. The Oregon
farmer who grows fax should not de-
pend on local market. He should be
prepared to ship 10 San Francisco II
necessary.
~ THE OLD HOME.
/ cannot describe the feelings that
come over me upon re-visitiug scenes
where I spent my bOyhoOd, nor the
] pieasurable emotions that are stirred
/ By wandering on the bills and along
/ the streams where every bush and tree
were a. familiar g. the people. 10 the
short years since We went ~ the Pacific
coast many old familiar faces have
passed away, but the face Of nature re-
mains almost unchanged. Il IL as
though We had stepped out yesterday
and returned today-eXcept the people.
I Young men and elderly people have
changed but little. But the little chill
dreD, school bOys and school girls, they
are az cbsnged and strange a popula-
ton a. greeted poor old RIP Van
/ Winkle after bis twenty year. elumber
on the K1tszAl IA Juntains. Little
DOys aud girls have sprung up Into an
unknown generation 10 ne. though
nave not been away hilf a. long AZ
Rip was. Little glTls used to pick up
Ia my arms, dance On my knees and
bestoW kisses upon, would not dare
take such liberties with now. TO go
back with boy almost large enough to
eyes that fancied smiled upon me
when ] WAS younger, br Dgs melan'
chOly realization Of the flight Of time.
But / hnd the people all kind and
friendly 10 the Oreg0DiaDs, aud though
a prophet IL said 10 be not hOnOred In
his own country, friendly greetings on
every hand, to find you had place IN
the hearts Of many where you least ex
pected ~ be- remembered, IL one Of the
COM peDsati0ns Of life that money can
not buy Here was v here struggled
up from crude boybood into young
manhood, where every weakness aud
yahily Was known 10 young aLd old.
Here was where
! BEGAH REWEPAPER Work.
HOTscs Greeley once said "Of all
hOueTed cattle preserve De from the
eJllege graduate" was not college
graduate when began local newspaper
work, bat I wac gfeener aDd TaweT and
woTss horned was bigh-sehOol
gTsduate, species that bas all the 10
expeneDos aud none u the special
lTaiuiug OfLeu p0ssessed ~ the college
bred youth, ! never fully realized the
egOrmitIes ~ Journalism" ! thea ig
hieted 0B tbe community They have
partially forgiven ms ! hope, aud ! can
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