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The first of these appeared in the New Northwest for September 8, 1871, Tune—"Ten Thousand Miles Away"; the second in the New Northwest for September 22, 1872, Tune—"Wait for the Turn of the Tide." Oregon is not mentioned by name in these songs but they are included to show that song writing was also one of the many gifts possessed by Mrs. Duniway. "The Song of the Ten-Cent Postage Stamp," probably not sung by anybody but her fictional characters, was given in Captain Gray's Company, 1859. Suffrage Hymn, by her in 1912, was set to music by Mrs. Alfred E. Clark and published in Portland by Sharp and Mack.

Samuel A. Clarke, the subject of an earlier chapter in this book, was the author of Sounds by the Western Sea. His verse is melodious and it is surprising that he did not write more song lyrics.

Charles H. Jones was for twenty-three years editor of The Oregon Teachers' Monthly. He was a native of the Waldo Hills in Marion County, where he was born in 1864.. He was graduated from the Monmouth Normal School in 1888, and taught at St. Helens, Eugene, McMinnville and Salem. He compiled The Western Songster in 1921, printed many songs in his magazine, and was popular as a leader of singing at the teachers' institutes.

The Oregon Sunday Journal for October 5, 1913, described the De Moss family as follows:

"Half a century ago, De Moss and his wife, both good musicians, crossed the plains from Missouri to Oregon to engage in Missionary work. They sung to and prayed for Indians on the upper Columbia River until they nearly starved. On account of Indian wars, missionary work became unprofitable. By this time and a little later five children were born. The mother and father sang, and the children took up singing as they learned to talk. Cowboys rode for miles to hear the De Moss children and their mother and father sing. They came at all seasons of the day and night, out in what is now Union County. The children were wakened from bed to sing just one song for some passing pioneer stockman or plainsman. Then it was song after song until the little ones were tired out. Some of them came