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CHAPTER XXV. Nezvspaper Reports. (Compiled by L. Victoria Hampton, M. D.)
THE following corroborative chapter, compiled for these pages, is contributed by L. Victoria Hampton, M. D., a prominent physician and chemical analyst, of Portland, to whom I had regretted my disability, by telephone (owing to rheumatic lameness), to make personal investigations, for data among newspaper files, and in public libraries, without which I was seriously handicapped. The Doctor's first researches brought to light the following accounts from the Lewis and Clark Journals of June and October, 1905, from which she selected, first:
THE  CENTENNIAL   ODE.
Written by Mrs. Duniway and presented, in the name of 2,600 Oregon women, to the Lewis and Clark Exposition, on opening day, June 1st, 1905.
While yet the Nineteenth Century was young, Great Jefferson, with  deep prophetic ken,
Discerned this distant West; and straight outsprung Through magic power of his official pen
An expedition whose results shall last
As long as Freedom's flag shall float before the blast.
And then, to make the prophecy complete, An Indian mother led the devious way,
Foreshadowing woman s place, which man shrll greet, Without  a. protest,  in  a  hastening  day,
When womanhood, benignant, wise and free,
Shall lead him to yet greater heights of strength and victory.
As, through the vista of a hundred years,
We backward turn  to the Atlantic  shore,
Our hearts athrob, and eyes suffused with tears— Almost in hearing  of  Pacific's  roar—
The Then and Now so closely crowd the scene
That Time and Distance both but dimly intervene.