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TBS DALLKg. - 6SSGOK FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1891 LOCAL ABD PIBSOXAL. He sat In hla door at noonday ; He was lonely, glum and ud ; . , Th fliea wvre buzzing about him, Lt by a blne-wlnjred gad. Mot customer darkened his portals ; ' - ' Not a sign of business was there; - - Bnt the flies kept on buzzing - About the old man's hair. .V. At last. In misery, he shouted: ., .. "Great Scott, I'm covered with flies ! " ' And the zephyr that toyed with hla whiskers asked: "Why don't you advertiser' . " " The thanks of this office is tendered to Kv. W. H, Wilson for a box of delic ious peach plums. Mr. Frank Pike, of Wasco and Hon. W. McP, Lewis and Mr. J. P. Abbott of Wapinitia were in the city Friday. . Mr. Frank Lee, editor of the Klickitat -' Leader, was in the city Thursday bnt re turned home this morning. - .It was 102 degrees in the shade Thurs day in Portland at 3 o'clock, the high est temperature ever known in that city. ' : The wife of Mr, Nicholas Blasen, of . .' Eight Mile, was buried Friday; at 2 'o'clock from the Protestant Episcopal church. MrE. 0. McCain, who has resided in .this city and neighborhood for the past " -year will leave in a few days to visit his - rZ fthe at Stewart, Colorado. ... t Mr. Chas. Dehm who has charge of '- the machinery at Fort Stephens, on the government jetty works arrived from be low on Thursday's train and will remain v- . for , few days. . ' J It is said that since the Kowena tree tie was .burned, involving a loss to the U. P company of $1800, sixty watch men have ..been put on the road between Troutdale and The Dalles. It is reckoned .that the Falouse conn . i j , try wUI,: this year, raise enough grain to - fill fifteen thousand train loads of fifteen cars .each. No wonder the farmers of that neighborhood fear another blockade. JJop Sing, a wall-eyed Uelestial, was splitting wood, on Friday, in front .of his den on First street. Hop evidently . , was dreaming of some wall-eyed, pig' ' eori-toed beauty in the flowery kingdom . for instead of splitting wood with the axe he was using, he split his foot. Hop hopped off with a hop and is now busily engaged Jn nursing a' foot and cussing, s; i4 choicest Mongolese, the cause of his ,,.woeav ... - State lecturer Holder came into town Thursday' and left Friday afternoon for Dufur.j He informs us that he has just . - ' had a letter' from Professor French of - ' : the 8tate Agricultural College who promises to hold a farmers' institute at ." " " Dufur. sometime during the month of 'October next. Four of the college pro- --' - feseors . intend to be present and take ' - part in the proceedings, which, if they are anything like those of one lately held - ha Wasco, , will be both . pleasant and . profitable to all who may be privileged , .fctp attend. , . . , Mr. A. S. . Macaliater returned from roruand' -fcriday last. Me informs us " 'that the contract for finishing the City . of The Dalles has been let to Paquet & . Smith and that the boat will be finished . . and the portage open and running, be yond a reasonable doubt by the .first of September. The lower boat will be v . - first class in every respect, just a little smaller" than the Regulator, but, Mr. Paquet thinks, able to beat her in ' ' . race and this is saying a good deal as the ; v Regulator will certainly run like i cared wolf. A woman named Molly Gardner ar " i r-' rived with her two children from Portland this morning and at once applied po his Honor Judge Thornbury for .food and , transportation further east. ' She claims ; -; to be a resident of Indian Territory, where her" husband deserted ber, after -attempting to poison herself and. child ren and actually poisoning her youngest child. After her husband had deserted '.r, .her to take upr with. another woman she and her two children left their home for Washington, D. C. where she claims to have an aunt residing. By some means . she was carried to Portland, Or.,' and after she had made known her history to - the authorities, there, being destitute, they forwarded her on the - way to The DailesUvThekind hearted judge, after 1 hearing her plaint made ample provision for herbeing cared for, between here and Pendleton. The woman speaks very r-r poor English,' and appears to be other wise mentally defective. The fickle character of the goddess of . . fortune is aptly illustrated by a story that comes to us from Baker City con cerning Dave Scholts,. an old time freighter between here and Canyon CStv. A few years ago Dave got caught, daring the winter in this city in a heavy snow storm which .held' bim here, hard and fastunder heavy expense for feed foi his teams for a period of two or three months, and left him dead broke, so that but for .the kindness of August Buckler and two or three other gentle men In this city, himself and horses t would have starved. As it was, in a , short time everything he had was sold at a sheriff's sale and poor Dave betook , himself, as a dernier wort to prospecting in the Blue mountains! How well he : has succeeded can be gathered from the ' fact that the erstwhile freighter and all-round busted bankrupt sold half of one of his mines the other day for the snug little sum of half a million. :. . , Last Thursday E. N. Chandler entered the store of Leslie Butler with a face as radiant as a full moon and announced ' his determination to renounce the super intendency of the granger store, which be has graced for the. few months the .' store has been in operation. It was quite avblow to Mr. Butler who has learned to respect and esteem Mr. - --Chandler very highly and he naturally enquired the cause of this sudden de termination. "Well, you see" said Mr. Chandler, "away back in Michigan, over : thirty-two years ago, a man beat me out of a sum of money and I have just got word that the whole amount - has been expressed to my address." "I - hope," said Mr. Butler, "you will con clude to remain with us and invest the money in some enterprise that will ben- . efit the town." "You see," he con-j tinned, "we need a portage railroad and woolen mill and a scouring mill and by the way, how much did you say ti 3 ti : .1 i T-l : I-: ... ..... Wash., will hold a meeting at Wapi nitia. in this county, on the first Sunday hn August. George Herbert, the host of the Mount Hood hotel Hood River, was in the city last Friday night. Mr. J. A. Gulliford of Dufor, who has been in the Pendleton conntry for three or four days, passed through the city Saturday on his war home. The Spokane Review believes that the time will come, and at no distant date, when wheat will be carried to the sea board for two dollars a ton. We are pleased to see Mr. August Buchler again on the street. His arm is yet in a sling bnt he expects to be as good as new in a couple of weeks. Hon. W. McD. Lewis has named his fine thoroughbred colt DesChutes. The colt was sired by Tilden, dam Ruby, is of a chestnut color and was foaled May 12th last. Hon. W. McD. Lewis is going to ex hibit at the district fair some hogs of the razor back variety that have been turned into thoroughbred Berkshires by eating Wapinitia crickets. The Portland Bridge Building company have twenty-three men, all from this city and neighborhood, em ployed digging the ditch from the new reservoir to the receiving basin at Mes- plies. We very much regret to learn that Hon. E. L. Smith of Hood River has had another attack of illness similar to that of last year. He is at present in Olvmpia but is expected home in a couple of weeks. Mr. C. W. Rice and family left last Monday . for a month's summer out ing. They intend to go by way of the Barlow road and stop part of the time near the base of Mount Hood and the rest at the Wilhoit soda springs. They have four assessors in Clatsop county and here is the result, as summed up by the Attorian : The city , assessment roll will be com pleted this week. The school assess ment and the state assessment and the county assessment and the street assess ment and the road assessment and the poli tax assessment is in present fash ion, too. Two carloads of supply pipe for the water works have already arrived. The contract for hauling has been let to W. N. Wiley, who - sub-let it to William Neabeck, who has already commenced the work. The contractors have some three months to finish the work so that we may expect to have the new system in operation by the month of November at farthest. Mrs. Jane Fenruson, a widow lady of comfortable means, from the Willamette valley, was in town Friday filing on homestead claim which she has taken up adjoining the claim of her son, Mr. Vincent Tapp of Wapinitia. We under stand there are still some good claims remaining nntaken in that fine agricul tural section, to which the settlers would gladly welcome new comers. Wesley Howard, a young man, well known in the Tygh Ridge country, was bitten, Saturday last, on the hand by rattle snake. Dr. Vanderpool, of Dufur, was promptly called in but by the time the doctor got to his patient it took three persons to hold him in the bed. - The doctor administer ed an antidote that put the young man into a sleep that lasted all night and he was able to be around yesterday. It is rumored that Col. Houghton will tender his resignation as colonel of the Third regiment, to take effect Septem ber 1st. This is, of course, a matter which largely concerns the colonel and the regiment, but we shall be sorry, in deed, if the colonel's resignation should result in the removal of headquarters from this place, as, in the opinion of some, is likely to be the case, and sor rier still if - the city should lose that which "has, for so long, been the pride and . pleasure of the community the regimental band. ; - Advertised Letters. The following is the list of letters re maining in The Dalles postoffice uncalled for Friday, July 24, 1891. Persons call ing for these letters will please give the date on which they were advertised: Davis E L Dodson Mrs T D Elkins Jack Davidson Mrs 'J W Dunlap CA Finlayson Mrs M Hazell James Lung Sing McKinney George Walsher Jim. M. T. Nolan, P. M. Gerkeri Albert Heoring Will Marshall H J Srew WW MABBIED , The following appears in the last issue of the La Grande Gazette : Miss Minnie Bishop, of La Grande and Simon Frazier, of The Dalles, were united in the bonds of matrimony last Saturday. Mr. Frazier will be remembered as an old-time employe'' at the Company's shops. - The lady, we understand, came to La Grand some time ago from the east. A gentleman from the Cascades, whom the Chnonicxz reporter, met at the pic nic yesterday, in answer to the inquiry, How are the government works pro gressing at the Locks?" said; "More work has been done and more real prog ress made during the past six months, than ever took place in the same length of time before. The masonry on the south side of the lower gate is all fin ished but the coping, and it is the finest piece of work I ever saw." Further in quiry elicited the following : At present fifty stone cutters are employed, about fifty laborers and twenty more who are working in the quarry. Soon the water will be low enough to allow the canal to be pumped out and then the work will begin on the north side of the gate. After the gate is finished, work can go on at any stage of water. Mr. G. J. Farley, superintendent of construction of the Cascades portage railroad, came up Saturday night and will return to the Cascades tonight. He informs us that the eastern end of the track is nearly finished and that the whole track, with the exception of tres tle work at the western terminus, will be laid this week." Mr. Farley still in sists that everything will be in readi ness for business as soon as the rolling stock can possibly get here. If yon want the news of the town and urrounding country, as soon as possible after it has happened, subscribe for the Cbboxiclx. I ziiucr luuusnuvu, ui luiuiwt wuukj, "geueral progre- s sei-uis to be " the oruer of the day, permit me to ask if it would not be subservient of the public good if some of this ppirit of progress which has recently been evinced in Portland, East Portland and Albina would extend to the Government works at the Cascades and points above on the Columbia River, and take supervision and control of what has heretofore and is now, under the direction of the Circumlocution office, and governed by principles and methods of "bow not to do it." It certainly apjiears singular that a work the non-completion of which is a barrier in the way of our natural ad vancementa work 1 hich has had the open door of the United States Treasury at its back for I am afraid to say how long almost a generation at least is no fnrther advanced than it now is, and that the people have nothing of utility to show for the millions which have gone into the rapacious maw of this greedy political hobby horse. The application of the smallest amount of business sagacity, it would seem, would solve the problem of how to bring the question of an open river to a suc cessful solution. It certainly does not appear from pres ent indications that this generation will see it accomplished under the present method of working; and is is doubtful if it ever would be done : if there be not an entire .change in the system now em ployed. My idea 1b that the entire work, at tha Cascades and above, can be accomplish ed in from five to seven years, if common sense business principles and practices are applied to the enterprise. The method I would suggest, and which to me appears perfectly feasible is this: Let the general, government make a survey and estimate of the work to be done, fixing and declaring the amount of excavating and water-build ing to be done, and stating in detail each item of "labor and material to be employ ed in the prosecution of the work. After this has been definitely settled, let the work be done by contract. Let bids invited for the completion of so many lineal feet of excavating, wall building. or what not no award to be made for an amount of work greater than a contrac tor .can reasonably be expected toaccom plish in a given time, say two years, and each successful bidder to be placed under good and sufficient bonds for the faith ful performance of the amount of work awarded him. By this means the wort; will be divided op and many will have a direct pecuniary interest in the com pletion, whereas theonly object now ap parent in the prosecution of the enter prise is to kill time and squander the public's money without rendering any thing in the way of quick progress. I make these hasty suggestions feeling that something should be done to expe dite matters in this direction, either by the means named or otherwise, if a bet ter plan should present. Patience in connection with the work on the Uppe: Columbia has long since ceased to be virtue, and it is high time that the rights of the people should receive some of the' attention that they have reason to expect from their legislators. It may yet be that a long suffering peo ple may call some one to account for ne glect, willful or otherwise, of what they were profuse in their . promises to do when asking the support of the "dear people," whose wishes and interests they now presume to ignore. .United effort among the people of Eastern Oregon and Washington and those resident upon the Columbia river in Western Oregon and Washington can bring to bear a remedy for the evil com plained of, by the selection of represen tatives to our National legislative bodies who are known to be. good men and true, and who are pledged to make specialty of effort for the completion of the work upon our great water way Then and only then can we look tor any thing substantial in the way of perma nent improvement; then dalliance will give way to energetic labor, driven with a purpose and in from five to seven yeart at the utmost, the Columbia will be open to commerce, from its mouth into the British possessions where the Canadian Pacific crosses Arrow lake, a distance of 800 miles ; thus opening to the outside world a region of unsurpas sed richness, at present almost unknown except to the venturesome prospector or trapper, and affording an uninterrupted channel of transportation to a people who are now denied that boon, and to the countless prospective thousands who will inhabit that otherwise favored region. Dionus Vindice bouus Ban Foln. Last Thursday Mr. H. A. Ritchie showed us a bunch of grass which is commonly known by the name of San foin. it was a specimen of some which he bad raised on his place about 11 miles southeast of town. He has been experi menting with ban roin for three years. He first obtained some of the seed from the government experiment station, at Berkeley, California. - Judging from the specimen before us it is a very valuable grass and should be raised extensively in Sherman county, especially by those who have stock to feed. San Foin does not require any mois ture. . It thrives best on dry, sandy, gravelly soil. This is a grand feature connected with it.. Many people are under the impression that moisture is necessary for its growth but fhat is a mistake, We would urge the farmers and stockmen to try it. Mr. Ritchie is one of the few who have tested it and he is very much pleased with the results so far. Others should supplement his efforts in such a direction, as it is a mat ter that should be of special interest to the people of this county. - San Foin makes excellent feed for cat tle, sheep and horses. .It remains green Doth winter and summer. Une seed of San Foin will produce from 70 to 100 stems. The bunch which Mr. Ritchie showed us was nearly two feet long and consisted of over 70 of these stems which were covered with good green feed. Stock will readily eat San Foin and in that fact lies its chief value. Some Dersons rjlace the need cm thn nr. face of the ground and think it Will grow better in that way, while others put in the seed with a press drill and consider it necessary to press the seed deep into the ground. Some . prefer to mulch the ground when sowing the seed and others are of opinion that mulching is not necessary. The only plan is for all who are interested to experiment and make the results known. The Dalles Times-Mountaineer says: "We can see no reason why pianos are prohibited in saloons. Tbey produce classical music". Great Scott! If it is music that is eround out of the regula tion saloon piano, what could the sounds that are often brought forth from the hand organ, bag-pipe, Chinese flute and devil's fiddler be called?" Oregonian. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON THE COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE RAIN. Tba WoBdarfdl Imagery of tha Book of Job How the Study of It Baa Made ' Weak Men Into Infidels Never Wade Into a Mystery Over Yovr Bead. Brooklyn, Ju'r. .Dr. Talmage's ser mon today is on a kind of gospel in which few people believe. The weather is a com mon object of complaint and fault finding, but Dr. Talmage finds a goapel in it, which j today he proclaims from the text. "Hath the rain a father?" Job xxxviii, 28. This Book of Job has been the subject of j unbounded theological wrangle. Men have , made it the ring in which to display their J ecclesiastical pugilism. Some say that the Boole or Job Is a true history; others, that it is an allegory; others, that it is an epio poem; others, that it is a drama. Some Bay that Job lived eighteen hundred years before Cbrhtt, others say that he never lived at alL Some say that the author of this book was Job; others, David; others, Solomon. The discussion has landed some in blank infidelity. Now, I have no trouble with the Books of Job or Revelation the two most mysterious books in the Bible because of a rule I adopted some years ago. I wade down into a Scripture passage as long as I can touch bottom, and when 1 cannot then I wade out. I used to wade in until it was over my head and then I got drowned. I study a passage of Scripture so long as it is a comfort and help to my soul, but when it becomes a perplexity and .- spiritual upturning I quit. In other words, we ought to wade in up to our heart, but never wade in until it is over our head. No man should ever expect to swim across this great ocean of divine truth. I go down into that ocean as I go down into the Atlantic ocean at East Hampton, Long Island, just far enough to bathe; then I come out. I never had any idea that with my weak hand and foot 1 could strike my way clear over to Liver pool. GOD'S MYSTERIOUS GOVERXM KNT. I suppose you understand your family genealogy. Yon know something about your parents, your grandparents,, your great grandparents. Perhaps you know where they were born, or where they died. ; Have you ever studied the parentage of the shower, "Hath not the rain a father?" j This question is not asked by a poetaster; or a scientist, bnt by the head of the uni- i verse. To humble and to save Job God i auks him fourteen questions: About the j world's architecture, about the refraction ! of the sun's rays, about the tides, about the snow crystal, about the lightnings, and then he arraigns him with the interroga- I tion of the text, "Hath the rain a father?" With the scientific wonden of the rain I have nothing to do. A minister gets through with that kind of sermons within the first three years, and if he haa piety enough be get through with it in the first three months. A sermon has come to me to mean one wrd of four letters, "heln!" You all know tOat the rain is not an or- ' Modern science comes along and says there phan. You know it is not cast out of the j are two portions of air of different tem gates of heaven a foundling. You would perature, and they are charged with mois answer the question of my text in the af- j ture, and the one portion of air decreases Urinative. I in temperature so the water may no longer Safely housed duringthe storm, you hear ' be held in vapor, and it falls. And they the rain beating against he window pane, j tell us that some of the clouds that look and you find it searching all the crevices-: to be only as large as a man's hand, and to of the window silL It first comes down in i be almost quiet in the heavens, are great solitary drops, pattering the dust, and then it deluges the fields and angers the moun tain torrents, and makes J.he traveler im plore Bhelter. You know that the rain is not an accident of the world's economy. You know it was born of the cloud. You know it was rocked in the cradle of the wind. You know it was sung to sleep by the storm. You know that it a flying evan gel from heaven to earth. You know it is the gospel of the weather. You know that God is its father. If this be true, then how wicked is onr murmuring about climatic change. The first eleven Sabbaths after I entered the ministry it stormed. Through the week it was clear Weather, but on the Sabbaths the old country meeting house looked like Noah's ark before it landed. A few drenched people sat before a drenched pas tor; but most of the farmers stayed at home and thanked God that what was bad for the church was good for the crops. I committed a good deal of sin in those days in denouncing the weather. Ministers of the Gospel sometimes fret about stormy Sabbaths, or hot Sabbaths, or inclement Sabbaths. They forget the fact that the same God who ordained the Sabbath and sent forth his ministers to announce sal vation also ordained the weather. "Hath the rain a father?" . INCESSANT COMPLAINTS OF THE WEATHER. Merchants, also, with their stores filled with new goods, and their clerks hanging idly around the counters, commit the same transgression. There have been seasons when the whole spring and fall trade has been ruined by protracted wet weather. Tkak tnanAho nf-ss than Awamfnaul tka "weather probabilities" with more interest I . , ... . , , , i uiwi uici rew uiuica. iucj v, am.ucu for a patch of blue sky. They went com- plaining to the store and came complain ing home again. In all that season of wet feet and dripping garments and Impassa ble streets they never once asked the ques tion, "Hath the rain a father?" So agriculturists commit this sin. There i nothing more annoying than to have planted oorn rot In the ground because of too much moisture, or hay all ready for the mow dashed of a shower, or wheat al most ready for the sickle spoiled with the rust. How hard it la to bear the agricul tural disappointments. God has infinite resources, but I do not think hehascapao- I 1. . U .... . n ..I .... . Mll lty to make weather to please all the , farmers. Sometimes it is too hot, or it is too cold; It is too wet, or it is too dry; it is too early, or It is too late. They forget that the God who promised seed time and harvest, summer and winter, cold and beat, also ordained all the climatic changes. There is one question that ought to be written on every barn, on every fence, on every haystack, on every rarmhouse. "Hath the rain a fatherr' If we only knew what a vast enterprise it is to provide appropriate weather for this world we would not be so critical of the Lord. Isaac Watts at ten years of age complained that he did not like the hymns , L. . . 1 . U T71. 1 : .. L. I. 1 auug; ui un jLOjgiiBU cuauu. Well," said his father, "Isaac, instead of your complaining about the hymns, go and maxe nymns tnat are rjetter. Ana ne aia go and make hymns that were anrl mM hvmna T.httr. sm hAtji ' Now, I say to you if yon do not like the weather get np a weather company and have a president, and a secretary, and a treasurer, and a board of directors, and ten million dollars of stock, and then provide weather that will suit us all. There is a man who has a weak head, and he cannot stand the glare of the sun. You must have a cloud always hovering over him. I like the sunshine; I cannot live without plenty of sunlight, so yon must always have enough light for me. Two ships meet In mid-Atlantic. The one is going to Southampton and the other u coming to New York. Provide weather that, while it is abaft for one ship, it is Dot a head wind for the other. There is a farm that is dried np for the lack of rain, and there is a pleasure party going ont for a field ex cursion. Provide weather that will unit the dry farm and the jilevtsure excursion. No. sirs. I will not bike one unllxr of stock in your weather conimiiy There is ouly one Being in the universe who knows enough to provide the risht. kind of weath er for this world Ikitti the nun a fa ther?" OOD IS IS FIN I TB IN IXTlNlTtslMAIA My text also suggest)) God's iniiiiitesu pervlKal. You see the divine Sonsliip in every drop of rain The )hw.1s of the shower are not dun; away bv a .fienl thrift who known uot how many he t brows or where they fall.. They ure all shining princes of heaven. Tiit-v all have a-i eter nnl lineage. They aro .ill the clilll--ii of a king. "Hath the rain a father?" Well, then, 1 say if Got I taken notice of every minute raindrop ho will tnke notice of the most Insignificant aff.ur of my life It is the astronomical view of things tb.it bothers me. We look up into thn oisrht hetvens, and we say, Worlds! worlds! nd how insig nificant we feel! We stand at the foot of Mount Washington or Mont Ulsnc, and we feel that we are only insects, and then we say o ourselves, "Though the world is so large, the sun is one million four hnn- take the trouble to look down at me." In fidel conclusion. Saturn, Mercury and Jupiter are no more rounded and weighed and swung by the hand of God than are the globules on a lilao bosh the morning after a shower. God is no more in magnitudes than he Is in minutiae. If he has scales to weigh the mountains, he has balances delicate enough to weign tne lnnnitesimaL You can no more see him through the telescope than you can see him through the microscope; no more when yon look up than when you look down. Are not the hairs of your head all numbered? And if Himalaya has a God, "Hath not the rain a father?" I take this doctrine of a particular Provi dence, and I thrust it into the very midst of your everyday life. If God fathers a raindrop, is there anything so Insignifi cant In your affairs that God will not father that? When Ornvse. the gunsmith. Invented ! the needle gun, which decided the battle of Sadowa, was it a mere accident? When I a farmer's boy showed Blucher a short cut by which he could bring his army np soon t enough to decide Waterloo for England, j was it a mere accident? When Lord Byron ' took a piece of money and tossed it np to decide whether or not he should be am anced to Miss Millbank, was it a mere ac cident which side of the money was up and which was down? When the Christian army was besieged at Beziers, and a drunken drummer came in at midnight and rang the alarm bell, not knowing what he was doing, but waking up the host in time to fight their enemies that mom.ent arriving, was it an accident? When in one of the Irish wars a starv ing mother, flying with her starving child, sank down and fainted on the rocks In the night and her hand fell on a warm bottle of milk, did that just happen so? God is either in the affairs of men or our religion is worth nothing at alL and you had better take it away from us, and instead of thm j Bible, which teaches the doctrine, give us a secular book, and let us, as the famons Mr. Fox, the member of parliament, in his last honr, cry out. "Read me the eighth book of Virgil." Oht my friends, let us rouse up to an ap preciation of the fact that all the affairs of our life are under a king's command, and ! under a father s watch. Alexander's war norse, ttucepnaius. would allow anybody to mount him when he was unharnessed, but as soon as they put on that war horse, Bucephalus, the saddle and the trappings of the conqueror be would allow no one but Alexander to touch him. And if a soulless horse could have so much pride in his owner, shall not we Immortals exult in the fact that we are owned by a king? "Hath the rain a father?" GOD'S WATS ABB FAST FINDING OUT. Again my subject teaches me that God's dealings with us are inexplicable. That the original force of my text. The rain was a great mystery to the ancients. They could not understand how the water should get . into the cloud, and getting there, how it should be suspended, or fall- 1 ine, why it should come down in drops. mountains of mist four thousaud feet from base to top, and that they rush miles a ! minute. Bnt after all the brilliant experiments of Dr. James Hutton, and Sanssure, and other scientists, there is an infinite mystery about the rain. There is an ocean of the unfathomable in every raindrop, and God says today as he said in the time of Job, "If yon cannot understand one 'drop of rain, do not be surprised if my dealings with you are inexplicable." Why does that aged man. decrepit, beggared, vicious, sick of tho world and the world sick of him, live on, while here is a man in mid life, consecrated to God, hard working, useful i " everJ respect, who dies? Why does that ! old Bossip, gadding along the street about everybody's business bat her own, have such good health, while the Christian ! mother, with a flock of little ones about j ber whom she is preparing for usefulness ' and for heaven the mother who you think 1 could not be spared an hour from that ! household why does she lie down and: die with a cancer? " I . Why does that man, selfish to the core, ' go on adding fortune to fortune, consum- j ing everything on himself, continue to I prosper, while that man, who has been i giving ten per cent, of all his income ' to God and the church, goes into bank- j ruptcyr oeiore we maxe starx ioois oi ourselves, let us stop pressing this ever lasting "why." Let us worship where we cannot understand. . mn fW one oneation. "Whvr" and follow It far enough, and push it, and he will land in ... .v. ....!:..... nrn . n . i onr theoloirv fewer interrogation marks more exclamation points. Heaven is the place for explanation. Earth is-he , s . . T . place for trust. If you cannot understand so minute a thing as a raindrop, how can ' you expect to understand God's dealings? j "Hath the rain a father?" j Again, my text makes me think that the rain of tears is of divine origin. Great j clouds of trouble sometimes hover over us. They are black, and they are gorged, and they are thunderous. They are more por tentous than Salvator or Claude ever painted clouds of poverty, or persecution, or bereavement. They hover over us, and the get darker and blacker, and after awhile a tear starts, and we think by an extra pressure of the eyelid to stop lt.i.to mirth and merriment, which bars a ..11 J n r. L. .L I . i . i , . i ... jm Others follow, and after awhile there is shower of tearful emotion. Yea, there is a rain of tears. "Hath that rain a father?" GOD SEES OUB TEARS. "Oh," yon say, "a tear is nothing but a drop of limpid fluid secreted by the lach rymal gland it is only a sign of weak eyes." Great mistake. It is one of the Lord's richest benedictions to the world. There are people in Black well's Island in sane asylum, an$ at Utica, and at all the asylums of this land, who were demented by the fact that they could not cry at the right time. Said a maniac in one of our public institutions, under a Gospel sermon tnat started the tears: "Do von see that " mt that ia t.ha first I hum want for wi. .Mr. t think It will hln mv brain." There are a great many in the grave who could not stand any longer under the glacier of trouble. If that glacier had only ; melted into weeping they could have en- dared it. There have been times tn your i life when yon would have given the world, I If you had possessed it, for one tear. You ' could shriek, you could blaspheme, but you could not cry. Have yon never seen a man ; holding the band of a dead wife, who had i been all the world to him? The temples livid, with excitement, the eye dry and frantic, no moisture on the upper or lower : lid. Yon saw there were bolts of anger in the cloud, but no rain. To your Christian comfort, he said, "Don't talk to me about God; there is no God, or if there is I hate him; don't talk to me about God; would he have left me and these motherless chil dren?" But a few hours or days after, com ing across some lead pencil that she owned in life, or some letters which she wrote when be was away from home, with an outcry that appals, there bursts the foun tain of tears, and as the sunlight of God's consolation strikes that fountain of tears, you find ont that it is a tender hearted, merciful, pitiful and all compassionate God who was the father of that rain. "Oh," you say, "it is absurd to think that God ia going to watch over tears." No, my friends. There are three or four kinds of them that God counts, bottles and eter nizes. First, there are all parental tears, and there are more of these than of any other kind, because the most of the race die In infancy, and that keeps parents mourn ing all around the world. They never get over it. They may live to shout and sing afterward, but there is always a corridor In the soul that ia silent, though it once re sounded. My parents never mentioned the death of a child who died fifty years before with out a tremor in the voice and a sigh, oh, how deep fetched! It was better she should die. It was a mercy she should die. She wonld have been a lifelong invalid. But you cannot argue away a parent's grief. How sjften you hear the rcoan, "Oh, my with a new toy. But where is the man that has come to thirty or forty or fifty yean of age, who can think of the old people without having all the fountains of his soul stirred up? You may have had to take care of her a good many years, but you never can forget how she used to care of yon. There have been many sea captains eon- verted in our church, and the peculiarity of them was . that tbey were nearly all prayed asnore by their mothers, though the mothers went into the dost soon after they went to sea. Have you never heard an old man In delirium of some sickness call for his mother? The fact is we get so used to calling for ber the first ten years of our life we never get over it, and when she goes away from us it makes deep sor row. You sometimes, perhaps, in days of trouble and darkness, when the world would say, "You ought to be able to take care of yourself" you wake up from your dreamsflndingyourself saying, "Oh.moth erl mother!" Have these tears no divine origin? Why, take all the warm hearts that ever beat in all lands, and in all ages, and put them together and their united throb would be weak compared with the throb of God's eternal sympathy. Yes, God also is father of all that rain of re pentance. Did you ever see a rain of repentance? Do you know what it is that makes a man re pent? I see people going around trying to repent. They cannot repent. Do you know no man can repent until God helps him to repent? How do I know? By this passage, "Him hath God exalted to be a prince and a Saviour to give repentance." Oh, it is a tremendous honr when one wakes up and says: "I am a bad man. I have not sinned against the laws of the land, but I have wasted my life; ' God asked me for my services and I haven't given those services. Oh, my sins; God forgive me." When that tear starts It thrills all heaven. An angel cannot keep his eye off it, and the church of God assem bles around, and there is a commingling of tears, and God is the Father of that rain, the Lord, long suffering, merciful and gra cious. THE CRT OF A MOTHER'S HEART. In a religious assemblage a man arose and said: "I have been a very wicked man; I broke my mother's heart. I became an infidel, but I have seen my evil way, and I have surrendered my heart to God, but it is a grief that I never can get over that my parents should never have heard of my salvation; I don't know whether they are living or dead." While yet he was standing in the audience a voice from the gallery said, "Oh, my son, my son!" He looked up and he recognized her. It was his old mother. She had been praying for him a great many years, and when at the foot of the cross the prodigal son and the praying mother embraced each other, there was a rain, a tremendous rain, Of tears, and God was the Father of those tears. Oh, that God wonld break us down with a sense of our sin, and then lift as with an appreciation of his mercy. Tears over our wasted life. Tears over a grieved spirit. Tears over an injured father. Oh, that God would move upon this audience with a great wave of religious emotionl The king of Carthage was dethroned. His people rebelled against him. He was driven into banishment. His wife and children were outrageously abused. Years went by, and the king of Carthage made many friends. He gathered np a great army. He marched again toward Car thage. Reaching the gates of Carthage tne oest men or the place came out bare- lootea ana oareneadea, ana with ropes arouna their necas, crying for mercy. They said, "We abused you and we abused your family, but we cry for mercy." The king of Carthage looked down upon the people from his chariot 'and said: "I came to bless, I didn't come to destroy. You arove me out, out this day l pronounce pardon for all the people. Open the gates and let the army come in." The king marched in and took the throne, and the people all shouted, "Long live the king!" My friends, you have driven the Lord Jesus Christ, the King of the church, away from your heart; you have been mal treating him all these years; bnt he comes back today. He stands in front of the gates Of your soul. If you will only pray for his pardon be will meet you with bis gracious spirit and be will say: "Thy sins and thine iniquities I will remember no more. Open wide the gate; I will take the throne. My peace I give unto yoa." And then, all through this audience, from the young and from the old, there will be a rain of tears, and God will be the father of that rain! A Literary Cnrloalty. A Veritable literary curiosity is the lnvi- ! tation to the annual dinner of the Fort ' nightly Shakespeare club in New York. It I reads this way: woa lnenu8 sweet friends (Julius ! ffnanll H.ia tint .TntiA 1 Hmra IV), (but I there are sweet roses in the summer air ! (Love's Labor Lost), (which) sweetly reo- ommends itself unto our gentle senses (Macbeth). "We hold a feast (Midsummer Night). It will be pastime passing excellent (Tam ing of the Shrew). The beauty of the king dom will be there (Henry VIII). Please grace us with your company (Macbeth). You shall be welcome (Pericles). ' "Excuses shall not be admitted (Henry TV), and so fail not our feast (Macbeth). "That you do love me I am nothing Jeal ous (Julius Caesar), and so, I pray you, come, sit down and do your best (Winter's Tale). "We know each, other well (Tro litis and Cressida). Let's take the instant by the f oreward top (All's Well), frame our minds thousand harms and lengthens life (Tam ing of the Shrew). (We'll e'en) be red with mirth (Winter's Tale), and fleet the time as carelessly as they did in the golden time (As You Like It). "But wherefore waste I time to counsel thee (Two Gentlemen). Brief let me be (Hamlet). If 'twere done, when tis dona it were well it were none quickly (Mao- oetb)L "Write It straight (As Von Ukelt), a rare letter (Twelfth Night) (aye), a fine volley of works and quickly shot off (Cym belinel "(Say) It is near dinner time (Two Gen tlemen), I am as constant as the northern star (Midsummer Night) and will be there (Two Gentlemen). "I'll. drink the words you send and thank yon for your pains (Cymbeline). "When all is done (Macbeth) (each guest shall say) night hath been too brief (Troll- us and Cressida). I am yours forever (Win ters Tale). Adieu till we meet (Cymbeline). "AjiNA Randall Diebx, "President of the Fortnightly Shakespeare. "Yet here's a postscript (Twelfth Night). Open thy purse that the money (for the dinner) may be at once delivered (Two Gen tlemen). Defer no time; delays have dan gerous ends (Henry VI). A. B. D. " . Philadelphia Enquirer, The largest Gas Tank ta tfaa World. The erection of aq Immense gaa holder said to be the largest in the world is now nnder way for the East Greenwich station in London. Borne idea of the magnitude of the structure may be obtained when it is stated that it will have a capacity of 12, 000,000 feet of gas; that it will be 800 feet In diameter, with an altitude of 180 feet when at its fnll height; that its total weight will be 2,800 tons, of which 1,840 tons will be of wrought iron, 60 tons of east iron and 820 tons of steel, and that it will require 1,300 tons of coal to fill it with gas. For .the reception of the gigantic gas ometer a concrete tank 803 feet In diameter and 81 feet 0 inches deep has been made, at a cost of $75,000, the greater part of the work having been done by the stokers, who would otherwise have been discharged during the summer months. The cost of the holder alone its manufacture, erection and completion will be 1305,073. New York Telegram. Fast Time Eating Eggs. Edward Smith, a wood carver In the em ploy of the Gilbert Clock company, made a wager with one of the workmen that he could eat twenty-four eggs in three min utes. 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