FRIDAY,
AUGUST 7, 1891
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
About forty men are now employed in
Tarioos ways at the company's ship.
Deputy Sheriff J. H. Phirman has
gone on a business trip to Harney Coun
ty. Frank Pea body of Nansene and Henry
Peterson of Wapinitia were in the city
Thursday.
Mr. J. M. Cummins, the editor of the
Wasco Newt gave the Chronicle office a
pleasant call Saturday.
Mr. W. B. Hayden a prominent mer-chant-of
Centerville, Wash., was in the
city Friday of last week.
Messrs P. P. Underwood and J. R.
Underhill of Boyd, paid the Chxoxiclb
office a welcome visit last Friday.
It is estimated that the late hot spell
injured grain in Sherman county as
much as twenty to twenty-five per cent-
JU ceil Be to commit matrimony was
granted on Friday to William Wide
kind aged 28 and Mrs. Annie Schroeder
aged 29.
Hon. O. M. Scott has resigned the
county judgeship of Sherman county.
The governor has not yet appointed his
successor.
Mike Adnet, a citizen of the Republic
of Switzerland, declared his intention,
on Friday to become a citizen of the
United States. .
The wife and daughter of Mr. William
Alexander of Waoinitia arrived in this
city last Thursday from Missouri and
left Saturday morning for Wapinitia,
' The house and contents of Griffith
Brothers, on the east bank of the John
Day, at the Clarno ferry, were burned
last week. . The cause was a defective
flue.
The state fair prizes have been in
creased all 'round, and $15,000 in pre'
miums will be offered. The fair opens
September 14th and continues one
week.
It is expected that the 2nd regiment
O. K. G. will go into camp for three
in Crook county. Two children of John j truck is laid but there is yet much to be
Savage, who lives two miles from Prine- done that could be accomplished iuorj
f-GWcM OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
dan-
to
ville, have died, and another was
gerously ill, at last accounts.
The portage railway commission con
sisting of Governor Pennover, Secretary
of State McBride and State Treasurer
Metoham paid a visit of inspection
the Cascade Locks last week.
The Milton Eagle cays that there is no
word in the English language to rhyme
with music. The Eagle is away off.
We have a man in this county whose
name is Busic. And for anything we
know he's fond of music How is that
for a starter?
The number of sheep in Eastern Ore-
iron is estimated at a million and a half
and the wool clip for the season of 1890
is estimated at 8,978,123. The general
average price was 14 cents which
amounts to f 1,214,937.23. The sheep
themselves represent an estimated value
of $3,750,000,
The Walla Walla Journal lately 6aid
of a visiting base ball nine that they
played like Chinamen," and some of the
papers up that way are real mad about
it, and yet we presume not a man of them
except the Journal man, ever
Chinaman play base ball.
Henry Clews of New York estimates
the value of the present wheat crop of
the United States at 540 million dollars.
That sum would give thesis million per
sons engaged in agricultural pursuits a
ver capita of $90 for each man, woman
and child and that is a kind of per capita
that beats the inflation scheme out of
sight.
It is estimated that Sherman county
will raise a million bushels of wheat
this year. If we had railroad connection
with Sherman county every pound of
their surplus would come this way for
shipment to Portland and Astoria. A
road on this side too, would mean the
handling of this surplus one time less
than if it bad to be ferried across the
river to Columbus.
Dealers in cigars would do well to re
member that according to a law passed by
the last congress any persson who sells
ciears to a customer, in any oth: r way
than from a properly stamped
cheaply and more expeditiously by a
"donkey" locomotive than by wagons
and teams. The people are too familiar
with accidents (?) of this kind to rest
satisfied with anything short of the ar
rest and punishment of the oiTender or
the clearest proof thaf the tiro was purely
accidental.
box
days at the state fair. It is said the
boys are anxious for it and want further
instruction.
We are sorry to hear that the fine colt
that Mr. Andv Swift of Wamic was
. raining for the races has met with an
accident by which it is severely if not
permanently, crippled. '
Hon. D. J. Cooper came up Saturday
from Oregon City where be has been en
- gaged examining swamp land selections
in the Oregon City land district. He
will return to his work Monday morn
ing.
The first number of the Wasco Newt
. has come to hand. It is a bright, clean,
newsy sheet and we heartily wish it sue
cess. Tnere is plenty of room for us all,
and some, of us have come to stay,
whether or no.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Sherar are now on
. the way to Boston. A private commun
ication to the editor informs us that
they were at Billings, Mont., on the 28th
inst.. where they were delayed on ac-
count of a wash out.
A body of anarchists are Baid to exist
in the neighborhood of Glenwood, Wash.
Lately a settler refused to join their
secret order and a few days ago he dis
covered that his newly stacked hay had
been profusely sprinkled with . Paris
green. -
The Wasco Newt announces that Sher
man county is going to have a railroad
from some point on the Columbia river
(Biggs is suggested) up Spanish Hollow,
- through the town of Wasco thence south
through Grass Valley and thence to the
Fossil coal fields.
Mrs. G. B. Simpson, youngest dangh-
ter of Mr. Joseph Beezeley of this city,
left on Saturday for her new home in
Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. Simpson will
atop at Newbridge, in this state, to visit
her brother and will be met at Denver by
her husband.
Mr. H. O'Neil of Nansene was in the
city. Mr. O'Neil thinks that the crops
on Tygh Ridge were not greatly injured
by the late hot spell, and believes th it
that region will yet produce a fine crop.
He says late grain looks much better
since it has become cooler.
Mr. G. W.. Ingalls brought up to this
city on Friday, from the fruit ranch of
Mr. Absten on the Columbia river, near
Hood River, a few samples of the hand
. aomest apples we have ever looked on
They are of the ''Belle of the Season"
variety and were raised by Mr. Absten
whose ranch is offered for sale in another
column.
leaves himself liable to a fine of $100
Handing cigars to a customer in a glass
or on a plate or tray or laying a handful
before him, from which to make his
selection, is a breach of section 2602 of
the revised statutes of the United States,
Mr. G. J. Farley came up from the
Locks last Friday and returned Saturday
evening, tie lniorms us tnat tne por
tage is so far finished that freight con la
be hauled over it if the boats were run
ning, ana the "aonKey ' locomotives nan
not been destroyed. What work re
mains to be done is at the west end of
the track and will not be finished till
lower etage of water is reached.
Nineteen persons were arrested in
Milton last Monday charged with crimi
nal trespass, alleged to have been com
mitted on the property of J. B. Mahana
In 1889 the plaintiff constructed a dam
in the Walla Walla river which the de
fendants, a short time ago destioyed
claiming that they had a prior right to
the water and that they were damaged
by the obstruction which turned an over
plus of water away from the main chan
nel of the stream.
Mr. Zene Moody has been appointed
by the United States government to
situation in the Portland custom house,
Mr. W. H. Moody has been appointed
by the same authority, fish reporter for
the Columbia river at a salary of $3.50
per day, and ex-Governor Moody, we
are informed, will be appointed, within
the next sixty days to a government
office, in connection with swamp land
matters. The Chboniclb extends con
gratulations. Now let us have peace.
According to the statement of Colonel
Houghton in another place the third
regiment is out of pocket seventeen dol
lars for the rent of the camp ground at
The Dalles. He received from the Fourth
of July committee $105, and from the
third regiment committee $178, making
a total of $283, and paid for rent $300,
leaving a dehcit ot $17 which the regi
ment had to pay. The Col. makes the
statement merely to correct the impres
sion that the rent of the camp ground
was paid by the Fourth of July commit
tee, whereas $105 was all the cash he re
ceived. The Colonel makes this state
ment not to nnu fault with anybody or
anything but to present the naked facts.
Mr. Joe Trippier of Wapinitia came
into the city last Friday and left for
borne Saturday. He informs us that by
the last of next week he intends to start
by the Barlow road for Portland with
four head of thoroughbred running
horses and twelve head of thoroughbred
Salem has a curiosity in the Bhape of Devon cattle. He intends to make the
a man who does not want office. His circuit of the different fairs and races
name is T. B. Wait and having been ap- and return here in time to exhibit at
pointed as gate keeper for the state fair, our district fair. Mr. Trippier makes a
without his knowledge, here is what he business of raising thoroughbred horses
has to say about it: "It having been and cattle. He has a herd of
published that I was appointed a gate thirty-eight Devons that would be
keeper for the state fair, I wish to hard to "beat anv where, and a
say that 1 was never an applicant, and band of thoroughbred horses. Mr.
now most respectfully decline in favor Trippier brought all his original stock
of Governor Pennoyer or ex-Governor from Missouri, his former state, and we
Moody." ; . are pleased to learn is making the busi-
The Normal Institute which meets in ne8B raising fine'stock here a success.
The Dalles, August 24th, will be an ex- A party of seven persons, under the
guidance of Mr. Will Langille of Hood
River made the ascent of Mount Hood
last Tuesday. The party consisted of a
Portland .nan. a Yale student on bis va-
cellent , training school for teachers.
Most of our teachers in this
county have never attended a nor
mal school. Now is your time. Youns
teachers here may learn more in a week, I cation, four gentlemen from the Hood
of new methods and applications, than River valley and a Miss Carrie Graham,
in five years' ordinary teaching. If the a school teacher, from Chicago. Thev
schools of Wasco are to keep abreast of started from Cloud Cap Inn at 7 a. m
ot the times some forward steps must be and crossed the Hood River glacier (not
. made. Will the teachers and parents Mr. Cradlebaugh's Glacier) on the east
respond with their presence and' help, of the mountain and from thence
J. H. Ackerman and W. A. Wetzell are I veering round to the south of the
employed as assistants. mountain they gained the top-at 5 :30 p.
The Oregon Bridge company which m- Miss Graham has the honor of be-
has the contract for laying the supply in8 the first lady wno na9 made the as-
pipe from the new reservoir to Mesplie's cent tv tnat rante- The party bad to
Last week Ed. Mills, the gentlemanly
bookkeeper of Filloon Bros., packed his
valise for a trip to Collin's Landing and
left it in the office, ready to take it with
him on the boat next morning. During
Mr. Mills' absence from the office, Jno.
Filloon and A. C. Sanford managed to
crowd into it a lot of old greasy castings,
two old tobacco pipes without stems, a
pair of superannuated shoes, a few
cigar stubs, a dried out plug of tobacco
that had been kicked around the office
for the past two years, a lot of last year's
almanacs, and a miscellaneous assort
ment of advertising cards, dodgers etc.,
the whole weighing about fifty pounds
extra. Ld. lnnocentlv curried the valise
to thj boat and at the end of the trip
packed it about a mile to the camp and
never discovered the joke till he opened
his valise in the presence of Geo.
Filloon.
Engineer Jack Rochford, of the run
between Ashland and Dunsniuir, on the
Oregon and California railroad, lost hi?
life last Wednesday in a rather unusual
manner" When about two-thirds
through the 1200-foot tunnel, near the
summit of the Siskiyou mountains, the
train, a double header, broke in two. A
temporary coupling was made of chains
which broke almost immediately. Roch-
for was on the first engine. There was
very little draught in the tunnel and
what wind there was blew the thick
smoke of a fresh green fir wood fire into
Rochford's cab. The result was that
both he and his fireman were completely
sphyxiated. ' They were not missed oil
the engine till the train backed out of
the tunnel. It was fifteen or twenty
minutes before they were found and by
that time Rochford was dead. One oi
is arms had been severed from his body
and he had bled to death. The fireman
was dragged out unconscious but hat
since recovered.
Young Wah or Ah Ame thai is the
Chinaman who was charged with the
assault on the Earl of Taffe, had his ex
animation before Justice Schutz Fri
day atternoon. .Botn Mr. lane and
his foreman swore that the Cbinamai
had committed an assault, both wit!
two rocks, which were produced
a large butche
the Chinaman
stand he sw
The Ijing Christian's Testimony The
Generous Action of Madame Sontajr.
The. Missionaries and Their Bowanl.
Ignorance of Unbelievers.
High Bridge, Ky., July 13. A vast con
course of people assembled this morning
on the historic camp ground at liij-'h
Bridge, Ky., to hear Dr. Talmaf;e preach.
They came from all the surrounding cities,
towns and neighborhood. A lar?e contin
gent from Louisville mid another from
Cincinnati were present. Many of the
visitor have remained here since yester-
and breathe the fresh air; plunge deeper into
business." What poor advice! Get your
mind off it! when everything is upturned
with the bereavement, and everything re
minds you of what you have lost. Get
your miud off it!. They might as well ad
vise you to stop thinking, and you cannot
stop thinking in that direction. Take a
walk in the fresh air! Wliy, along that
very street, or that very road, she once ac
companied you. Out of that grass plot she
plucked flowers, or into that show window
she looked fascinated, saying, "Come see
the pictures." Go deeper into business!
Why, she was associated with all your
business ambition, and since she has gone
you have no ambition left,
bright light beaming on thee? "Wherer"
you say; "where? How can I find it?
aay aitnrnoon, wnen ur. iaimage preached clumsy world wnen.u tries to comlort a
in the same place. The, text of his sermon i broken bcartf
this morning was from Acts iii, 15, "We
are witnesses."
Standing amid the hills and groves of
Kentucky, and before this great multitude
that no man can number, mot of whom I
never saw before and never will see aain
in this world, f choose a very practical
theme. In the d ivs of Georte Stephenson,
the perfector of the locomotive engine, the j business?" No.
scientists proved conclusively that a rail
road train could never be driven by steam
power successfully without peril; but the
rushing express trains from Liverpool to
Edinburgh, and from Edinburgh to Lou
don, have made all the nation witnesses of
the splendid achievement.
Machinists aud navigators proved con
clusively that a steamer could never cross
the Atlantic ocean; but no sooner had they
successfully proved the impossibility of
6uch an undertaking than the work was
done, and the passengers on the Cunard,
nnd the Ionian, and tiie National, aud the
White Star lines are witnesses. There went
up a guffaw of wise laughter at Professor
Morse's proposition to make the lightning
of heaven his errand boy, and it was proved
conclusively that the thing could never be
done; but now all the news of the wide
world put iu your hands every morning
and night has made all nations witnesses.
So in the time of Christ it was proved
conclusively that it was impossible for
him to rise from the dead. It was shown
logically that when a man was dead, he
was dead, and the heart, and the liver, and
the lungs having ceased to perform their
offices, the limbs would be rigid beyond all
power of friction or arousal. They showed
it to be an absolute absurdity that the
dead Christ should ever get up alive; but
no sooner had they proved this than the
dead Christ arose, and the disciples beheld
him, heard his voica, and talked with him,
and they took the witness stand to prove
that to be true which the wUeacres of the
day had proved to be impossible: the rec
ord of the experiment and of the testimony
Look along by the line of the Cross of the
Son of God. Do you not see it trembling -with
ail tenderness and beaming with ail I
hope. It is the Star of Bethlehem. i
Deep horror then my vitals froze, 1
T.. . U T a .1 x; , . . I
When suddenly a star arose
It was the Star of Bethlehem.
Oh, hearers, get your eye on it. It la
easier for yon now to become Christians
than it is to stay away from Christ and
heaven. When Mme. Sontag began her
musical career she was hissed off the stage
at Vienna by the friends of her rival. Ame-
Oh, this is a j lia Steininger, who had already begun to
oecnne tnrougn her dissipation. Years
passed on, and one day Mme. Sontag. in
;ine, I can paint her glory, was riding through the streets
I can play a or Berlin, when she saw a little child lead-
I can build a Corliss ent
a Raphael's -Madonna,"
Beethoven's symphony as easily as this
world can comfort a broken heart. And ;
yet you have been comforted. How was it ;
done? Did Christ come to you and say: j
"Get your mind off this. Go out and
breathe the fresh air. Plunge deeper into
There was a minute when
he came to you perhaps in tba watches of
the night, perhaps in your place of busi-
ness, perhaps along the street and he
breathed something into your soul that i
gave peace, rest, infinite quiet, so that you
could take out the photograph of the de- '
parted one aud look into the eyes and the '
face of the dear one and sav: "It is all i
right. She is better off. I would not call j in vain tried to give eyesight to the poor
her back. Lord, I thank thee that thou j blind woman. Until the day of Amelia
has comforted my poor heart." ; Steininger's death Madam Sontag took
DIVINE HEALIXG FOR THE SICK SOUL. j care or ner and her daughter after her.
There are Christian parents here who are nau was wniw me queen or song did lor
ing a blind woman, and Bhe aaid: "Come
here, my little child, come here. Who is
that you are leading by the hand?" And
the little child replied: "That's my moth
er; that's Amelia Steininger. She used to
be a great singer, but she lost her voice,
and she cried so much about it that she
lost her eyesight." "Give my love to her."
said Mme. Sontag, "and tell her an old ac
quaintance will call on her this afternoon."
The next week in Berlin a vast assem
blage gathered at a benefit for that poor
blind woman, and it was said that Sontag
sang that night as she had never sung be- I '
fore. And she took a skilled oculist, who ,'
SUMMER GOODS
Of Every Description will be sold at
A .GREAT : SACRIFICE
For the Next THIRTY DAYS.
Call Early and
Bargains.
raf ' arxrk
of our Genuine
H. Herbringv
willing to testify to the power of this Gos
pel to comfort. Your son had just gradu
ated from school or college and was going
into business, and the Lord took him. Or
your daughter had just graduated from
the young ladies' seminary, and you j
thought she was going to be a useful wo- j
man and of long life, but the Lord took j
her, and you were tempted to say, "All I
t his culture of twenty years for nothing!" j
Or the little child came home from school
with the hot fever that stopped not for the ;
agonized prayer or for the skillful physi- !
cian, and the little child to taken. Or I
the babe was lifted out of your arms by i
some quick epidemic, aud you stood won- j
dering why God ever gave you that child i
at all if so soon be was to take it away. I
And yet you are not repining, you are not
fretful, you are not fighting against God.
What enabled you to stand all the trial?
"Oh," you say, "I took the medicine that
God gave ray sick soul, fn my distress I
threw myself at the feet of a sympathizing
God; and when I was too weak to pray or
to look up he breathed into me a peace
her enemy. But oh, hear a more thrilling
story still. Blind, Immortal, poor and
lost; thou who, when the world and Christ
were rivals for thy heart didst hiss thy
Lord away Christ comes now to give thee
sight, to give thee a home, to give thee :
heaven. With more than a Sontag's gen-!
erosity, he comes now to meet your need.
vvitQ more tnan a sontag's music,
comes to plead for thy deliverance.
he
CKOP-WKATHKK Bt LLETIN NO. 81.
Report for the Week Ending Saturday,
August 1, 1891.
isin the text: Him hath God raised from that I think must be the foretaste of that
court, and with
knife. When
was pnt on the
that he "never did nothing." The rock
he had never seen and the butcher kniiV
be "no Eavied." This left the justice u
other alternative but to believe, eithe
the Chinamen or the united testimon
of Mr. Taffe and his foreman. Th
Chinaman had evidently overdone th
job. Jriaa he ownea up, like a man, that
he used the rocks and knife tu defend
himself he might have been now free
Mr. Taffe acknowledged that lie had used
him roughlv when he took the roikt
from him : but the fatuity of all liars
clung to the Chinaman, anifJustice
Schutz could do nothing less than bind
him overto appear before the grand jury
in the sum of $2o0. The Chinaman was
committed to the county jail iu default
of bail.
We are requested to call the attention
of the people of The Dalles to the condi
tion of the western approach to the-r.ew
bridge between this and bherman coun
ty. It is well known that a waier-spout
fell at that place which destroyed s
much of the road that the lessee Mr.
Harris, has spent, it is said, $500 of hit
own money, and bherman county hat
given $200 to repair the damage. The
most of the work has been done on the
other side of the river but the approacl
on this side is still in a fearful condition
As Sherman county has contributed $200
Wasco cannot afford to do less and
really ought to do more, if necessary
Something ought to be done immediate
ly else a good deal of trade will be cut
off from this city and the people ot
Sherman will be very greatly incouven-
enced As a matter of fact the county
judge is powerless to do anything before
the next session of the county court.
What the people ought to do is to get
a petition and have it ready for presen
tation when the court meets, asking foi
the sum required, and we have not a
doubt that the commissioners will re
spond liberally.
T. A. Hooghton's Kepnrt of Fourth of
.July Business.
Received from 4th of July committee
June loth, for 10,000 rx. unds blank
cartridges $300.00
June loth, 3d Regt. camp ground 105.00
Returned by me to the committee,
casn
$405.00
(.00
Total amount reed, bv 3d Regt.
for expenses of encampment. . .$105.00
Received from 3d Reet. commit- '
tee on subscriptions 17S.00
Total amt. reed, from all sources
to defrav the expenses of en
campment at The Dalles $2S3.00
Amount paid Lorenzon Bros, for -
campground $300.00
has now thirty six men engaged in mak
ing the excavation. The company com-
menced at the receiving bason and has
now completed as far as the flume, a
distance of nearly a mile. Possibly the
deepest excavation on the whole route
has already been made. Some of that
cam pie ted is eleven feet below the sur
face. This depth was necessary to se
cure a suitable grade for the pipe. It is
perhaps well known that the company
doing the work brought no men with
" them, and all of the thirty-six employes
were picked up in The Dalles, For this
slide down part .of the moan tain, on
their return, on the side fornest their
backs and arrived at camp with tattered
clothes and skinned lingers at the late
hour of 2 o'clock the next morning.
The burning of the round house at the
Cascades and the destruction of the en
gines, demand investigation. If the fire
originated in any unavoidable way, all
right. What could not be prevented
must be endured, but if it was the' work
of an incendiary the miscreant ought to
be ferreted out and brought to judgment.
The fire leaves the construction of the
Balance : $17.00
Call at headquarters to find out who
paid the balance.
T. A. Hocghtox,
Colonel.
Total amt. collected by fourtli of
July committee as per pub
lished statement...." ..$1301.30
Amount received from them being less
than 10 per cent for the expenses of the
encampment of the 3d regiment here.
the dead, whereof we are witnesses."
FOLLY OF TIIE AGSOSTIC.
Now let me play the skeptic for a mo
ment. "There is no God," says theskeptic,
"for I have never seen him with rav phvs
ical eyesight. Your Bible is a pack of con
tradictions. There never was a miracle.
Lazarus was not raised from the dead, and
the water was never turned into wine.
Your religion is au imposition on the cre
dulity of the ages." There is an aged man
moving iu that pew as though he would
like to respond. Here are hundreds of
people with faces a little flushed at these
announcements, and all through this
throng there is a suppressed feeling which
would like to speak out in behalf of the
truth of our glorious Christianity, as in the
days of the text, crying out, "We are wit
nesses!" The fact is that if this world is ever
brought to God it will not be through ar
gument, but through testimony. You
might cover the whole earth with apolo
gies for Christianity and learned treatises
in defense of religion you would not con
vert a soul. Lectures on the harmony be
tween science aud religion are beautiful
mental discipline, but have never saved a
soul and never will save a soul. Put a man
of the world and a man of the church
against each other, and the man of the
world will, in all probability, get the tri
umph. There are a thousand things iu
our religiou that seem illogical to the
world,- and always will seem illogical.
Our weapon in this conflict is faith, not
logic; faith, not metaphysics; faith, not
profundity; faith, not scholastic explora
tion. But then, in order to have faith, we
must have testimony, and if Ave hundred
men, or one thousand men, or five hun
dred thousand men, or five million men
get up and tell me that they have felt
the religion of Jesus Christ a joy. a com
fort, a help, an inspiration, I am bound as
a fair minded man to accept their testi
mony. I want just now to put before vou
three propositions, the truth of which I
think this audience will attest with over-
whelmingunanimity. The first proposition
is: We are witnesses that the religion of.
Christ is able to convert a soul. The Gos
pel may have had a hard time to conquer
us, we may have fought it back, but we
were vanquished. You say conversion is
only an imaginary thing. We know bet
ter. "We are witnesses." There never
was so great a change in our heart aud life
on any other subject as on this.
People laughed at the missionaries in
Madagascar because they preached ten
years without one convert; but there are
many thousands of converts in Madagas
car today. People laughed' at Dr. Judson,
the Baptist missionary, because he kept on
preaching in Burmah five years with1
out a single convert; but there are many
thousands of Baptists in Burmr.h today.
People laughed at Dr. Morrison in China
for preaching there seven years without a
single conversion; but there are many
thousands of Christians in China today.
People laughed at the missionaries for
preaching at Tahiti for fifteen years with
out a single conversion, and at the mis
sionaries for preaching iu Bengal seven
teen years without a single conversion; yet
in all those lands there are multitudes of
Christians today.
But why go so far to find et .uences of
the Gospel's power to save a soul? "We
are witnesses." We were so proud that no
man could, nave bumbled us; we were so
hard that no earthly power could have
melted us. Angels of God were all around J
about ns; they' could not overcome us; but j
one day, perhaps at a Methodist anxious !
seat or at a Presbyterian catechetical lec
ture or at a burial or on horseback, a power
seized us and made us get down and made
US' tremble and made us kneel and made
us cry for mercy, and we tried to wrench
ourselves away from the grasp, but we
could not. It flung us flat, aud when we
arose wewer&as much changed as Gourgis,
the heathen, who went into a prayer meet
ing with a dagger and a gun, to disturb the
meeting and destroy it, but the next day
was found crying: "Oh, my great sins!
Oh, my great Saviour!" and for eleven
years preached the Gospel of Christ to his
heaven where there is neither a tear nor a
farewell nor a grave." Come, all ye who
have been out to the grave to weep there
come, all ye comforted souls, get up off
your knees. Is there no power in this
gospel to soothe the heart? 13 there no
power in this religion to quiet the worst
paroxysm of grief? There comes up an an
swer from comforted widowhood and or
phanage and childlessness, saying, "Ay, ay,
we are witnesses!"
Again, I remark that we are witnesses
of the fact that religiou has power to give
composure in the last moment. I shall
never forget the first time I confronted
death. We weut across the cornfields in
the country. I wa3 led by my father's
hand, and we came to the farmhouse where
the bereavement had come aud we saw the
crowd of wagons and carriages; but there
was one carriage that especially attracted
my boyish attention, and it had black
plumes. I said: "What's that? what's
that? Why those black tassels at the top?"
And after it was explained to me I was
lifted up to look upon the bright face of an
aged Christian woman, who three days be
fore had departed in triumph. The whole
scene made an impression I never forgot, j
IT IS NO HEARSAY EVIDENCE.
In our sermons and our lay exhortations !
we are very apt, when we want to bring il-
lustrations of dying triumph, to go back I
to some distinguished personage to a John
Knox or a Harnett Newell. But I want
you for witnesses. I want to know if you
have ever seen anything to make you be
lieve that the religion of Christ can give
composure in the final hour. Now, in the
courts, attorney, jury and judge will never
admit mere heresay. They demand that
the witness must have seeu with his own
eyes, or heard with his owu ears; aud so I
am critical in my examination b'you now,
and I want to know whether you have seen
or heard anything that makes you believe
that the religion of Christ gives composure ! quantity and
' b'UG lillUl ULIUla
"Oh, yes," you say, "I saw my father
and mother depart. There was a great dif
ference iu their deathbeds. Standing by
the one we felt more veneration. By the
other, there was more tenderness." Before
the one you bowed, perhaps, in awe. In
the other case you felt as if you would like
to go along with her. How did they feel
in that last hour? How did they seem to
act? Were they very much frightened?
Did they take hold of this world with both
hands as though they did not want to give
it up? "Oh, no," you say; "uo; I remem
ber as though it were yesterday; she had a
kind word for us all, and there were a few
mementoes distributed among the chil
dren, and then she told ns how kind we
must be to our father in his loneliness, and
then she kissed us goodby and went asleep
as a child in a cradle." What made her so
composed? Natural courage?
"No," you say; "mother was very nerv
ous; when the carriage inclined to the
side of the road she would cry out; she
was always rather weakly." What gave
her composure? Was it because she did
not care much for you, and the pang of
parting was not great? "Oh," you Bay,
"she showered npon ua a wealth of affec
tion; no mother ever loved her children
more than mother loved us; she shelved
it by the way she nursed us when we were
sick, and she toiled for us until her
strength gave out." What, then, was it
that gave her composure, in the last hour?
Do not hide it. Be frank and let me know.
"Oh," you say, "it was because she was so
good; she made the Lord her portion, and
she had faith that she would go straight to
glory, and that we should all meet her at
last at the foot of the throne."
UNCOUNTED MILLIONS OF WITNESSES.
Here are people who say, "I saw a Chris
tian brother die, and be triumphed." And
some one else, "I saw a Christian sister
die, and she triumphed." Some one else
will say, "I saw a Christian daughter die,
and she triumphed." Come, all ye who
have seen the last moments ofa Christian,
and give testimony in thi3 cause on trial.
Uncover yonr heads, put your hand on
the old family Bible, from which they used
to read the promises, and promise in the
WESTERN OBEOON WEATHEB.
The week has been warm, tboueh
there has been an absence of excessively
warm days. The maximum tempera
ture ranged from 80 to W) degrees; the
minimum temperature ranged from 55 to
65 degrees. The winds have been gener
ally northerly and of light velocity. On
the 30th a few drops of rain fell in sec
tion? sufficient to lay the dust. The
weather has been generally cloudless
with light smoke appearing.
CHOPS.
Fall wheat is nearly all cut and
shocked. Threshers .will begiu opera
tions next week. Reports all indicate
that the fall wheat was never better,
both as to quality and quantity. Spring
wheat is being cut in places. Rust in
Douglas county has seriously affected
spring wheat. Spring oats are being cut
in places; some oats are being delivered
and a report from Corvallis says that it
weighs 100 pounds to the sack. Some
young orchards were injured by the ex
treme heat of the 23d. All reports indi
cate that the 23d was the warmest day
on record. Hop lice have developed
rapidly in the past ten davs add serious
results are feared from them. The cod-
lin moth's ravages continue. Southern
Oregon fruit is better than that of the
valley counties, i. e. more plentiful and
more' free from insects. In Curry county
five and six tons of clover hay to the
acre was secured ; timothy hay averaged
tnree tons ts tne acre.
EASTERN OBEOON WEATHEB.
warm weatuej nas continued and no
raiu'is -reported to have fallen. The
maximum temperature ranged from 85
to 100 degrees ; the minimum tempera
ture ranged from 60 to 70 degrees.' Few
clouds have been seen, and smoke is ap
pearing in tne atmospnere.
CROPS.
The weather conditions have been fav
orable to the wheat harvest which is in
full operation. As was expected the
wheat has never been better, both as to
quality. In sections of
Wasco and Umatilla counties the wheat
is generally poor and this year is no ex-.
ception. bherman county has an extra
good crop, larger than ever before.
Morrow, Gilliam, Sherman and Wasco
counties will ship about 1,300,000 bush
els of wheat. Last year these counties
shipped 900,000 bushels. Umatilla
county has a remarkably fine crop; to
the north and east of Pendleton it is, as
usual, the best. Union, Wallowa and
Baker counties have fine prospects; in
these counties harvest is later than in
the previous mentioned counties.
Throughout this section the hay crop is
tne largest on recora.
B. 8. Pagce, Observer.
NORTH DALiIiES, Wash. (
Situated at the Head of Navigation.
Destined to be
Best Manufacturing Center
In the Inland Empire.
Best Selling: Property of the Season
in the Northwest.
Or
For further information call at the office of :
Interstate Investment Co.,
72 Washington St., PORTLAND, Or.
O. D. TAYLOR, THE DALLES, Or.
Mrs. Simon jiason ot wamic came
into town last Saturday to obtain med
ical advice and was the guest of Airs. A.
M. Walker. .
It is unlawful to kill or have in one's
possession gamn of any kind, in this
s'ate, during the present month.
JHonthly meteorological Report.
Weather bureiiu, department of agriculture.
Station, The Dalles, Oregon, for the month of
July, ISM.
Advertised Letters.
The following is the list of letters re
maining in The Dalles postoffice uncalled
for Friday, July 31, 1891.. Persons call
ing for these letters w ill please give the
date on which thev were advertised ;
Bowers, Oliver C
Cartney, W F
Donelan, M
Fagg, James
George, C W
Hendricks, H B
James, Mrs Mollie
Losch, Hans
McCain, A O
Stevens, W II
Smith, Miss Irene
Thornbury, J H
Todd, IS
Campbell, J W
Depeau, C W
Evick, A F
Fisher, J L
Hockett, Mrs John
Jackson, W ...
Jensen, Anders
.Payne, J E
fellow mountaineers, the latt words ou his j presence of high heaven that you will tell
A 1! n rm linn Unlnn Ir,A Anil I U - ... .. ' 1 . 'J
tne truth, tne whole truth and nothing
! but the truth. With what you have seen
with your own eyes and what you have
heard with your own ears, Is there power
in this Gospel to give calmness and tri
umph in the last exigency? The resnonse
conies irom au sides, trom young ana old
and middle aged, "We are witnesses!"
i ou see, my friends, I have not put be
fore you an abstraction or a chimera, or
anything like guesswork. I present you
affidavits of the hest men and women, liv
iug and dead. Two witnesses in court will
establish a fact. Here are not two wit
nesses, but millions of witnesses on earth
and in heaven testifying that there is
power in this religion to convert the soul,
to give comfort in trouble and to afford
composure in the last hour.
If ten men should come to you when you
are sick with appalling sickness and say
dying hps being "Free grace!" Oh, it was
free grace) ;
MILLIONS COMFORTED BY THE GOSPEL.
There is a man who was for ten years a
hard drinker. The dreadful appetite had
sent down its roots around the palate and
the tongue, and on down until they were
interlinked with the vitals ot the body,
miud and soul, but he has not taken anv
stimulants for two years. . What did that?
Not temperance societies. Xot prohibition
laws. Not moral suasion. Conversion did
Why," said one upon whom the treat
change had come, "sir, I feel just as though
were somebody else." There is a sea cap
tain who swore all the way from New
York to Havana, and from Havana to San
Francisco, and when he was in port he was
worse than when he waa on sea. What
power was it that washed his tongue clean
of profanities and made him a nsaltn
3 Si55.5!a?5;
2 - ,-3 "
singer? Conversion bv the Hoi v Soirit. uey had tha same sickness and took a cer-
There are thousands of people here today I tain medicine and it cured them, you would
who are no more what they once were than I probably take it. Now, suppose ten other
a water lily is a nightshade, or a morning I men shonld come up and say, "We don't
lark is a vulture, or day is night. ! believe that there is anything in that medi-
Now, if I should demand that all those j cine." "Well," I say, "have yon tried it?"
people here present who have felt the con- i "No, I never tried it, but I don't believe
verting power of religion should rise, so j there is anything in it." Of course you
far from being ashamed they would spring j discredit their testimony. The skeptic may
to their feet with far more alacrity than 1 come and say, "There is no power in your
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76 94 5S
75 m 64
65 71 fie
57 67 4K
60 76 43
63 71 56
62 74. 50
65 75 54
60 61) 58
64 73 54
68 82 54
74 91-i 57
75 89 62
75 88 62
77 94 60
79 92 66
72- .81 63
66 74 58
67 81 52
69 84 54
72 94 51
78 98 58
81 9V4 63
81 94 68
77 90
76 90 63
74 90 58
77 85 64
70 79 62
69 84 53
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.21
Mean barometer, 30.030; highest barometer,
30.J5O, ou 6th; lowest barometer iu.810, on 3d.
Mean temperature 70.8; highest temperature,
SW1., on 21th; lowest temperature. 43. on thetth
Greatest daily range of temperature 13 on 21th.4
lvea&i uiuiy range oi temperature, a, ou luth.
MEAN TEXrEBATDRE FOR THIS MONTH IN
1877. . .71.50 (1882. . .71 .50 J1887. . .6S.00
1878... 7-4. 00 1883...C7.S01S88...71.00
1879.. 66 00 U8M.. 71.00 !lS9... 74.30
18M0...68.S0 !lSS5...67.U0 ;iS90...B9 00
1SS1. . .66.50 j 1886. . .70.00 18M1. ..
in temperature during the
they ever sprang to the dance, the tears
mingling with their exhilaration as they
ci.i "nr. . . ; . . . a .1 1 .1
Rovcroft, Mrs Mary , ,:,i , , . , .
,nB,. i would break down with emotion by the
ToSnTp M (T. I time they BOt 10 tbe seco"d line:
asnamca 01 jesus, tnat near mono
On whom my hopia of hcavtn depend?
. Kol When I blush, be this my 1'bt
That X no mora revere his name.
Woodward, Oliver
Williams, E A
M. T. Nolan, P. M.
religion." "Have you ever tried it?" "No,
no." "Then avauntl" Let me take the
testimony of the miilion3of souls that have
been converted to God and comforted in
trial and solaced in the last hour. We will
take their testimony as they cry, "We are
witnesses!"
LOOK FOB THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.
Professor Henry, of Washington, uiscov- 1
ered a new star, and tbe tidioss aped by ,
1872
1873...
171
175. ..70.00
1S76. ..75.50
Totnl excess
month. 00 s.
Total deflcency In temperature since January
lt, 00.3 de;?.
Prevailing direction of wind, variable.
Totil precipitation, -24: number of days on
which .01 inch or more of precipitation fell, 1.
TOTAL FBECIPITATIO! (I If INCHES AND HUN
DREITHS) FOR THIS MONTH IN
172 11877... 0.28! 182... 0.1211887... 0.07
1S73 1878... 0.03 1883... 0.00ll888... 0.2SI
1871 .'.11879... 0.81 1884... 0.il!lfr89... T
175... 0.141 1)80... 0.02 1885... 0.101 ls). . . 0 06
1876... 0.071881... 0.111886... 0.1fll 1891... 0.M
Jr(otal excess in precipitation during month.
Total deficiency In precipitation since Jauuarv
lt,S.82. - - '
dumber of cloudless days, 28; partly cloudy
dayn. 6; cloudy days, 2..
)ates of frobts, none.
golar halns on the 6th. Sundogs on the even
ing of the 3Dth.
Light thunder and lightning in the mountains
end east ou the 16th, and north and eastern on
the 30th.
Note. Barometer reduced to sea level. T indi
cates trace of precipitation.
Voluntary Signal Corps Observer, j
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75
pair of Misses Shoes worth. $2.25 for $1.00
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