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Wallowa chieftain. [volume] (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909, 1902-09-11
Oregon ScIEooi Statistics.

Prof J II Ackerman has compiled
TIM school statistics of the state from
the reports received from the several
county snperintendents. The state
ment, to be used in the bienniu, re-
port, shows that the total school pop.
uhtion OF the state is 13G .46G accord
ing to tho latest school census, ci
which number I0OGj9 were on the
school registers during the last school
year. The school libraries OF the
State show healthy growth, the num-
Der Of looks purchased during the
year being 1891 and the total num-
Der nov in the libraries is J3.598.
Tine total amount Of money available
Tor school purposes was 1885,. .074.93
ard tieamouht expended ri .399 800 .l3
leaving a bQianck Of 1888 ,a65 80.
Wallowa chieftain. [volume] (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909, 1902-09-11
Straw Hats
N=AI : u so sy ge..44 49, -
Shoes S
ssa.A. - 49,

We have some odds and ends in this line at just half
regular price, These are good quality but price is made
for the reason that we haven't fill line of sizes in the
different styles Buying these at prize offered is genuine
Wallowa chieftain. [volume] (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909, 1902-09-11
Hosiery
-hz1A - ''l- t--Gg 4.

We offer as special drive in this line Is dozen pairs
ofMxses and childrens black Hose in sizes from to
at SIC per pair These values will surprise vol.
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YOUNG RECTOR ADMIRED
VESTMENTS OF BISHOP

A story which has been going the
rounds of social and church circles in
Rochester, N. Y, according to dis
patch in the New York Tribune. has
aroused a great deal of amusement at
the expense of widely known and
well liked young clergyman, whose po-
sition as rector of one of the richest
and most fashionable parishes in this
part of the state has brought him into
prominence in the affairs of the Prot
estant Episcopal diocese of western
New York.
The tale is told as follows: A we'll
known bishop of the Episcopal church
w6e present at ceremonial in this
young rectors church one day several
Mkeks ago. and, upon going away for
a short business trip to suburban
village, left his episcopal robes in the
clre of the young clergyman, as had
been his habit in other churches under
similar circumstances. A friend of
the young rector called to see him the
next afternoon, and was told by the
verger that the Rev. MIR. Blank was in
tie vestry room. The visitor, who was
On familiar terms with the rector, has
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pR,MEvAL PEOPLE OF AMERICA.
They Originated From High Degree
of Civilization.

The primeval peoples of both North
and South America originated from
civilization of high degree which occu-
MED the subequatorial belt some 1o,-
900 wears ago, while the glacial sheet
was still on. Population spread north
ward as the ice receded. Routes Oh
exodus diverging from the central
point of departure are plainly marked
nv ruins and records. The subsequent
settlements in Mexico, Arizona New
Mexico, Colorado. Utah and California
indicate the successive stages OF ad-
vance. as we'll as the persistent struS-
gle to maintain the ancient clvlslzatlon
against reversion and catastrophes OF
nature. The varying architecture OF
the valleys. cliffs and mesas is an in
,elIigible expression of the eXigencles
which stimulated the builders, contin-
ues a writer in Harper's Magazine
The gradual distribution of population
over the higher latitudes IN after
years was supplemented by accretlons
from Europe and northern Asia CEN
| .turies before the coming of Columbus.
Wars and reprisals were the natural
and inevitable results of mixed and
;degenerating population with different
dialects. The mounds which cover the
| !mid-continental areas, isolated and IN
| groups. tell the story thereof. the
Korean immigration of the year 544'
Historically cited, which led to the
founding of the Mexican empire IN
1926, was but an incidental contrlbu-
tion to the growing population OF
North America. So also were the very
Ilmuch earlier migrations from Central
I $America across the Gulf of .Iexico.
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Our Power of Resistance.

Doctors tell us. in these days of
germ and toxins. that the thing that
;counts most in a case is the resist
ing power" of the patient Some men
land women can pass through an cpl
:de1nie :cr even be inoculateu with its
peculiar roison germs and yet shake
off Infection unharmed Others ap-
;palSntly just as healthy, succumb to
the first contact with disease. and
sink under it in spite of the best nurs-
ing Resisting power is an indiNid-
ual affair. and many surprises come to
doctor and nurses as the frail-looking
patient pulls through and the robust
seeming one dies. Medicines can only
aid the resisting power'-they can
never take it's place. 1t determines
in the end. life o. death in every case.
Scottish American.
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ersy. - people say. There u n ~
serious attitude and look the sta.e.
- II were, Of his profoundly rslSS'
ious sentiments. You know that y
Ipasess the best part Of his days "a
reeding the Bible. An imposing Bible
lay open on the table of the room
where I was working. ! re-
member his loud voice and outbursts
when discussing with his secretary. !
did not understand, but heard. The
secretary must have dropped remark
or an opinion that did not please the
master. One day I asked the secretary
to say to the president on my behalf,
"A people like that of the Transvaal,
which has shown such civic virtues,
cannot die President Kruger replied.
No, it cannot die. A great nation, on
the contrary, will spring from its un-
deserved misfortunes.' The president,
l repeat, has at no moment seemed
discouraged. In truth he Is ignorant
of the latest events in the Transvaal
| and the real conditions Of peace. He
knows that the Beers have laid down
their arms, and that is all. To those
| around him the English news-the
only news given to Europe-appears
to require confirmation and they are
waiting"
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In Defense of Claret.

We learn that his majesty the king
received the offer from various wine
merchants and growers OF the Bor-
deaux district of thousand bottles OF
claret. or more if SO desired. The
bottles were not to bear the names OF
firms or owners of vineyards, and the
gift was simply intended to COM
memorate the coronation. 1t is stated
that Lord Pembroke, in his reply, re-
sretted that claret was not used in the
hospitals of the country, but all the
same he thanked the wine growers
who had made this generous offer. 1t
may be true that claret is not used IN
British hospitals, but is there any rea-
son why it should not be-any reason
so cogent as to cause this excellent
gift horse to be looked suspiciously in
the face? Claret, by which we mean
sound Bordeaux. such as this wine
would have been, is an excellent and
wholesome drink, and weathink that 1t
is a thousand pities, from every point
of view, that the generous and kindly
thought of the Bordeaux growers was
not more preciated.-Lancet.
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MIXED RELIGION AND WORK.
Philadelphia Negro Sings Hymns
While He WaiIops Mule.


E A coal-black negro perched on cart
who alternately walloped bay mule
with a snake whip and sang snatches
of HYMNS in high key caused stir
and much merriment on Germantown
avenue. at Wayne Junction, yesterday
afternoon, says the Philadelphia Eve
ming Telegraph. The negro saw no IN
congruity in his double performance,
and the mule judging from the way he
laid back his ears and essayed to kick
the bottom out of the cart, saw no hui
NOR in the situation. But the onlook-
ers, who were at first shocked at the
sacrilegious aspect of the negros con-
duct, finally succumbed to the ludl'
crousness of the affair.
"Neahah, my Cod" sang the eb-
ony-hued driver, the sacred song being
| cut short by the crack of the snake
| whip shifting the mules flank, Ito
| thee,'' rang out between two skill
| fully prolonged 'c-r-a-c-k-s!
which were resented vigorously by the
| heels of the hybrid Fen though it
be- twanged the negro, soaring
the animal into a run with a singing
blow on the elongated right ear-"that
| raiseth me- continued the black
skinned Jehu, in the midst OF success
sion of reports of pistol-like sharpness
which sent mounted policeman clat
tering in pursuit of the fast-disappear
ing negro. the cracllings OF whose
whip continued to drown alike the
words of the hymn and the laughter O.
the spectators.
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It is becoming one of the fixed ira
ditions of American social life that the
American millionaire, after accumulat-
ing his fortune. should take himself to
. permanent residence in costly man
sion In New York. The custom is not
peculiar to any city, state or section.
From the Huntingtons and Clarks OF
the western coast to the Schwabs and
Cafnegies of Pittsburg, all, after pro-
bationary existence in, their respective
nofghborhoods, meet in Fifth avenue.
This transmigration of the million
aire to the New York stage of social
incarnation is becoming too marked
feature of the social body to be ig-
nored, but it is not so easily to be ac-
counted for. Not all the millionaires
20 to New York for business reasons,
though some of them do. The advan-
tage Of being In the financial storm
center at Wall street is doubtless con-
siderable. The man whose money is
In stocks can fnd- nearly everybody
whom he need deal with somewhere
between Central Park and the Bat
terry. But the offsetting advantages
Of such q commercial center as Chi
cago, or of such manufacturing cen
ter rs Pittsburg. are no less pro-
nounced, and serve to refute the the
ory that New York is sought after for
its busines advantages alone.
It is equally evident that the men
who make their residence in the sea
board metropolis are not attracted
thither by any supposed social advan
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OI0 NJ 0SHStSys
which once connected with the cele'
brated railroad and it's mysterious
apartments are characteristic OF 'ne
stations along the route.
Hidden away in the hills IS this
relic of slave days. The house was
kept in the 4O's by John Mitchell an
abolitionist, who made a practice OF
sheltering negroes till they could be
passed along to the next station. me
building is two stories in height, with
an opening through the middle OF tne
lower story. The cellar takes up all
the space under one end, the rest
standing on solid ground. The mys-
terry to-day is how the house could
ever have concealed anybody. This
was explained by Bentley. one OF the
present residents, who said the other
day, to a visitor who was examining
the premises:
Look here" pointing downward to
the broad, thick doorsill; that Sill
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Yair, is some four miles from Selklrk.,
The house, part of which is an old peel
tower, stands on very steep wooded
bank. above Tweed, and through the
grounds runs brawling little burn'
immortalized in "Marmion.' AT AS
hestiel were passed the poets nap
piest years. Here he had grand gar
Ions upon the hills when he was think
ing of Marmion."
From the Duke to the hlnd ne kne"
and was beloved by everybody.
Ashestiel, with its woods heather
clad hills and Tweed, then full OF
front for which Sir Walter used to
angle. and with the hearty society OF
the Forest, was an ideal home for
Scott. And all the while, in his study,
looking out to the south and the wall
of woods, was a huge old invand's
chair. When at Abbotsford, Scott was
stricken by paralysis, this chair was
lent to him, and now it is again at
Ashestiel Just twenty years were to
e,apse between the fitting from
Ashestiel to Abbotsford. and the fit
ting of the armchair to that new villa,
the scene of so many joys and hopes
and honors, the cause of so heavy
ruin. How Fortune jests with us,
wrote Bolingbroke, when Queen
Anne's death broke the web of In
tricue and dashed down the airy
castles OF ambition. Thus Fate sat
there and smiled" in that ancient arm
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eoMAMce or TNe eeAsNoae.
Lizzie Incident That oensesss~ Has
Not the night Ending.

lt was in the surf. He had kissed
aer when that big wave went over
both Of them. II wouldn't have gone
over them, either, II he hadn't told
her to hold TO the lifeline When
the big wave came In 1t submerged
the lifeline and them, and then 1t was
he kissed her. She couldn't scream
being under water, but she tried and
swallowed a mouthful of brine. When
the wave passed she hollered, put no
one besides Fred knew why. one
faced him furiously.
Erred Stockington," she said. you
are no gentleman, and hate you. and
shall never speak to you again!
Tnen she let go of the lifeline and
started in. He started after her. not
laring to touch her. The next wave
boosted them roughly. She lost her
footing and was pulled back at
oretty slide. He caught her
Release met" she cried, "or
shall call the bathing master"
! She got to her feet again, but was
! 200 dignified to hurry. lEle next wave
| ,urled over them She cast her arms
about him.
| 'Ol, save He. OoNS NV
shrieked, as the cream and splutter OF
the breaker dashed them upon the
beach.
!. do you forgive me?" he demanded
when their heads bobbed up, but ne
hung on.
"Oh. yes. Save me-" she answered.
and down they went again.
The next time it was their heeis
bobbed up, but he dug his fists into
the sand now skating from them. Inc
cream and splutter receded, but her
ewes were shut as he dragged her
up the sand.
"Do you love me?" he shouted into
her deafened ear.
Poor girl! She thought herself still
under water.
yes! Yes!" she gasped. Save
me!'
"You are saved!" he cried, land
did it,"
And what do you suppose? ina
ungrateful girl got up. marched tf
her bathhouse, and hasn't spoken tf
} him since!
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(Edinburgh.)


ly melancholy place. All the world
knows it, the little hall, with tho
shields of the Border clans, the place
where Scott saw the eidolon OF the
dead Byron. The library is wonder
fully rich in rare books OF gram
mayre" and of historical lore. The
great collections of Scott and Lock
hart MSS. are not kept in the old part
of the building. Here are his family
pictures and the portrait OF Ciaver-
house; here is the great bureau at
which he wrote. containing the bright
locks of hair cut from the heads OF
his little brothers and sisters, who
died in childhood. Here is everything
beside which Scott grew old, hghting.
to the loss of intellect and OF life. the
battle for honor Here, in the dining
room, he died, through the open win
dow came the murmur Of Tweed, his
requiem. The halls are crowded with
ghosts of the fair, the famous, the
noble, Of the bores whom he sunered
gently, of the family and the friends
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WHY RICH MEN BUILD
HOMES IN NEW YORK.

tages. The movement of the society
seeking millionaires to Washington IS
quite as interesting sign of the times
as is the negira of men of wealth to
New York. Indeed. when millionaire
has sold his stocks, bought bonds with
the money and has no duty more ia
tiguing than that of scissoring cou-
pons. he naturally goes to Washington
as the next phase in his social met
empsychosis. The reason is plain,
Washington has society in which
breeding and brains play part. and
a society of that kind is distinctly SUI
perior to one like that of New York,
where money is the criterion of social
position.
It has somehow come to be fash
ion for millionaires to have homes in
New York. A palace built there Is
conspicuous and gets its owner talked
about. 1t is convenient eyrie from
which to descend upon Wall street.
Furthermore. it is to be supposed that
millionaires find one another's society
especially congenial, since it must be
| conducive to ennui for any of them
to be surrounded only by men who
think and talk of little sums instead
OF big, round. mouth-filling millions
So the millionaires flock together in
Fifth avenue and keep one another in
countenance to the best of their abil
ity.
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tened through the darkened church to
the apartment indicated. The door
was closed, and, without giving its
occupant time to answer his knock in
person, he opened the door and en-
tered.
His astonishment and entertain
ment may be imagined when one
reads that he discovered the young
rector arrayed in the complete vest
ments Of the absent bishop, stepping
sideways and back before the long
pier glass, with the aid of which the
clergymen were accustomed to as
sumo their robes. The vestments
were somewhat too long, the visitor
said, but they became the young wear
er admirably. What conversation
passed between the two, or whether
the bishop noticed any change in the
manner in which he had done up the
vestments, has never been divulged,
but the story, as it appears above, has
been told as too good to consign to
oblivion.
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Especial CoFrespondence.)
1lL0 L0RIMS will search In vain
for the Arst home Of Dir Wal
! ter Scott, the house in College
Wynd, Edinburgh. where his
little brothers and sisters
(176s-1766) 'perished in infancy.
That house. 40 far % can trace It,
must have stood very close to tho
site Of Kirk o. Field. where Darnley.
the husband of Queen Mary. was mur-
dered in 1867. But College Wynd
does not seem to have existed at the
time of the murder; it probably was
built not long afte4 wards. on the gar
tlens or waste lands of the Black
Friar's Monastery, or OF the Town
house of the Duke of Hamilton. Short
ly after Scott's birth his family moved
% Georges Square. then new and
fashionable, as, with its site near the
meadows, it Is still comfortable and
airy. Strong, square-built, and COM
modious is the dwelling; 1t was from
the window of this house. perhaps,
that Scott's father threw the teacDp
out of which Murray of Broughton, the
betrayer of Prince Charles, had drunk.
Certainly the boy, Walter, treasured
the saucer, "Broughton's saucer"
with his old ballads, skull and cross
bones and similar "gabions" Gas he
called them) in his little study In
Georges Square. But, on reflection.
think that the date of the legal deal
ings of the traitor Murray with Mr..
Scott Il have seen the actual papers)
T. sl1&@ khnv,
Georges Square. The pavement OF
College wynd. not of the square, must
have rung to the fall of the historical
teacup.
Scott dwelt longer in no one place
than in Georges Square, a place little
altered, and worthy of visit from
the pilgrim.
Scott was about three years old
when he went to his kinsfolk at Sandy
Knowe. The view from the tower
takes in Melrose, which he made i'm
mortally famous, and Hume Castle, SO
renowned in Border wars. Here the
child learned to read, studied Hardlk'
mute, made friends with sheep and
shepherds, and took that romantic ply
which made him the Border minstrel
| and historian.
After his marriage Scott rented
house in South Castle Street. Its in
terror does not repay pilgrimage. MOI
| is much to be said about the house
in North Castle street. where he lived
when in Edinburgh, till 1926. In tn
summer, after his wedding, Scott a
first rented a cottage at Lasswade. Of
the Esk, six miles from Edinburgh. A
Lasswade Scott edited THE Borde
Minstrelsy," and composed his. owl
early ballads.
In 1904 Scott rented Ashestiel o.
Tweed.
Ashestiel, between EGbank an
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~ :
Cook ed BY Cold.

Anyone who has ever picked up with
a bare hand a piece of intensely cold
iron knows that the touch burns Al.
most as badly as if the metal were
red-hot. Indeed. The action of great
heat and extreM" co!d3i is so~. .similaS
that Hungarian chemist has turne3
the latter to account to prepare meats
for food He subjects the meatsto
sixty degrees of frost. and then seaD
lit up in air-tisht cans. The result ID
that. the meat is practically "cookedf
tby cold.' - )
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"Here,s One Of the Air Holes"
from the house. OF course they're
rotted away now an caved in, but
they was all right when ole MITCHELL
liyed yer"
Houses like Mitchell's, with tunnels
leading tosplaces of safety, we.e conn
mdn throughout the border states ~
slavery days. When the band OF sAessv
tfs would come in pursuit OF the es-,
Gaping negroes with bloodhounds 70
aid them,: the people about the house
would resort to clever expedient coi
save whatever negroes were thefe.'
When the news Of an approaching
posse reached the house the negroes
would be led to the river and tnen'
back to the house, their tracks on the
latter trip being obscured by vleiy..
smelling turpentine. There were TWEEN
ty-seven stopping places between
Mitchell's and Ohio. k
Mitchell. was arrested at least ha1a
a dozen times. but no direct evidences
against him was ever obtained.
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Thrones Sold Ry Auction.

In London recently two ancient Ash
anti Coronation thrones, nphclsteredi
in human skin. were offered for SALE.
These are said to have been broughti
from West Africa by a military of
fcer. The thrones are EN- blems
Ashanti royalty, and without them the
successors of N'Kwanta and O'Finsu.
cannot be scrowned. The purchaser
incurs certain responsibility in their
safe custody, and might well become
the victim of those amazing intriguea
which noveaists have woven round the
stolen sacred stones of the East
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The Old Belfry at Lexington.

Historic structure, many come to see,
/ can but think, while contemplating
thee,
That thou wouldst not look always idle
down
Upon the little, picturesque, old town
Whose fame thou sharest; but wouldst
take some part
In what makes up it's life, as time-worn
Z? as thou art
That thou vrouldst have thy bell restored
to thee -.
And heard oh every anniversary
OF. that great day, when from the neigh
v; boring farms.
It called the ready minutemen to arms.
And always when. to mix with kilfdr ed
clay,
some patriotic heart is near thee laid
away, 'r' - O. tr''-' st
And, more, when some proud daughter or,
. proud son
OF the old town--may it have many
one
Before it's altar stands with earnest face
And makes more sacred still that sacred
place. ,,..-s,
So have 1 thought, while contemplating
. thee
And much hope the thought in other
minds may be-
Boston Globe.
II there is. anything ridiculous about
= wig ~ Ia the head it covers Se.4.
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The PASSING of Wee William.

A number of years ago. when the
vogue for verses in obituary notices
was at its height here in Philadelphia,
a brief poem" was turned over the
counter in one of the local newspapers
that staggered even the callous clerk,
who refused to insert it unless it were
approved by the editor-in-chief. That
functionary refused. but preserved a
copy of the verse, which was:
Our dear little Willie
AS fair as a lily :
The Lord for him sent
And we let him went"
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siamese Dress and Jewels.

; Now that ladies wear SO many jew
els in the DAYTIME sequence of color
should be thought out. The Siamese
may, perhaps, afford sug-
eestions. In that country on Sunday
rsa silk with parure of rubies is
woin; Monday brings silver and
white dress and a necklace of noon
stones: Tuesday is dedicated to light
red, Mita coral ornamentss Wednes-
lay is. devoted to green. with emer:
aids; Thursday sees display of va
riegated colors. with cats eyes: FRI
day the lady is arrayed- in pale blue,
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pifterent snecies of Mosquitoes.

A work by Mr.. E. w. Theobaad On
the mosquitoes of the world, prepared
to aid medical men in Identifying th4s
kinds suspected of spreading diseasal
describes 300 species. 1876. being 1aWt
Most of these species are found
and around towns or are pests knONH
10 travellers and traders. 80