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FRIDAY, - - AUGUST 14. 1891 LOCAL AND rKRSONAI.. office a pleasant call -Friday afternoon, condition" of my wife's health. We A car load of pumps has arrived at started at last on July 29th. The com- i the store of Mars & Crowe. They are Pony consisted oi Jnyseit ana wne, Mr. ' of erery kind vou could think of force G- w- Johnston and wife and A. Wood I DDmm. snrav Dumra. i.itcher Pnout Xoon fonud U8 at Ti'8h l)ere we Mr. William Heisler of Dufur was on pumps, cistern pumps, and etc. our streets Friday. I-it Saturday night while Taylor: Mr. GeonreXolandofDufurcau.emtoi"" ife' who reside near j MHl total town Friday morning. A late census baileton eives the population of Oregon at 313,767. Miss Annie, daughter of Colonel Ful ton of Deschutes was in the city Katnr day. Hon. II. P. Isenbergof Hood Kiver was registered at the Umatilla house Satur day. Messrs. J. H. Mosierand Louis Deven port, of Mosier, were in the city Satur day. Mr. H. C. Bateham of Hood Kiver gave the CHBOSidLE office a pleasant call " last Friday. We regret to hear that Mrs. H. Coram of Wapinitia has been quite sick for the past few days. . The shaft of the Regulator has arrived and bas already been placed on the fan tail of the boat. Mr. Leon Rondeau, of Kingsley, who came In town Friday, left for home Saturday morning. The Messrs. Ker and Buckley and Mr. Harvey Smith of Sherar's Bridge were in the city last Friday. Mr. C. S. Miller of Deschutes arrived in the city last Friday from visiting his mines in Grant county. Messrs R. A. Laugh lin, John Porter . and W. H. Davis of Wapinitia were hi the city attending to some land office matters last week. Mrs. R. A. Roscoe and daughter Miss Emma left Friday for Victoria, B. C, to remain with Mrs. McClelland, Mrs, Roscoe 's sister, for a month or six weeks. - The gentle sephyrs zephed vigorously up the Columbia Friday. They also "sephed" a flat-boat, loaded with wood, on the sandy beach on the Oregon shore From Mr. S. E. Ferris who has just returned from the Wamic settlement we learn that the harvest is well under way and that the crops promise an abundant yield. The merchants of Fossil gave the base ball club of that town a new outfit as a mark of esteem for the gallant manner . in which they have downed all op ponents. From Mr. W. H. Davis of Wapinitia, we learn that hay and grain cutting is nearly closed in his neighborhood. He believes that crops on the whole, will be below the average. Ben Southwell of Eight-mile creek brought in town Saturday some fine sam ples of Gravenstein -apples and peach plums, but could not so ninch us sell a box or get an offer for one. MrvW. H. Dunu desired through the Chronicle to express his thanks and gratitude to his friends and neighbors for the kind attention they paid him during h.'s severe and tedious illness. Mr. tnd Mrs. H. Wentz and family will remove, in a few days to East Port land where they intend to make their future home. Their son Harry and Miss Wentz left last Thursday in advance. Sixty-six bead of horses, the property ef Al Sutton of Portland, arrived here from Harney county Thursday. They and a car load that are being fed at the ! stock yards will be shipped to Portland. . The railing of the company's bridge, near where Mr. Skottowe was killed is ' in bad condition. The posts are loose and many, of them are only hald in place ' by one nail and are liable to break off .' on vtry slight pressure. Dame rumor has it that two civil engineers and twelve men will start from ' The Dalles in the next ten days to sur vey a new line of railroad which will run through this citv. The partv will be absent about two months. Isaac Joles brought into town last night two fine pair of elk horns which were found in the mountaina near the Joles Camp, one pair by Senator Wat kins and another by R. W. Crandall Mr. Urandall a are a specially fine pair of seven pointers. . Mr. J. H. Rinehart, the banker, of Summerville, Grand Round Valley, and father of Dr. Rinehart of this city, came down from his home this morning. He . is on his way to the valley with a band of horses which he brought from his stock ranch on the Malheur; We learn .that McD. Lewis of Wapi nitia intends to commence work on the Wapinitia canal, "which is to bring the waters of Clear creek on the Wapinitia flat, as soon as harvest is over. This is a very important work as it will be the source of irrigation for not less than 40,- ' - 000 acres of as fine land as there is in Wasco county. We have put yesterday's edition of the Timet-Mountaineer in brine and if the weather continues cool it may keep " till the dog days are over. But it has a rank odor.' AH the old stereotyped phrases, "fetid gas" included, were trotted out, with the one solitary excep tion of "congealed element," and that is never used except in cool weather. Messrs. French & Co., have just re-. ' ceived a new steel burglar and fire proof vault which they are having placed in position in their bank office. It has all the latest improvements and when placed in position will afford absolute immunity from safe crackers and fire. When closed at night it cannot be opened till the usual bank hour next morning. - . "The depression now felt in all busi ness circles', is due entirely to the as einine conduct of tfie city council (of The Dalles) contrary to the warnings of the Timet-Mountaineer and the mayor? Timet-Mountaineer. Now all ye bold, bad democrats who have been constantly telling us that it is the McKinlcy bill that is making the hard times, take notice what this great, learned man says and reform from your evil ways. Mr. James A. Varney returned Friday from a trip to the Willamette valley. He has made arrangements to superin tend the planting of an orchard of 2700 acres in Oakland, Douglas county and will leave this city for his new charge by the end of the present month. We are sorry indeed to lose Mr. Varuey and commend bim to bis new neighbor as a Union, were attending a lecture in city, some miscreant pnt poison among Mr. Taylor's tine heard of merino bucks which resulted in the death of forty-nine head, valued at $23 each a loss of $1225. Hanging is too good for a man who would commit a crime like that. A correspondent of the Eugene Guard who has a ranch on the Sinslaw. in de scribing his big hay crop, says: "I cut some red clover the other day that was 75 feet long, in fact I looked for the end of it for a'xmt two hours and then did not get there: so I am guessing nnder rather than over." The Guard vouches that the writer used to be a truthful camped at Barlow's Gate. Second day noon we arrived at Boulder creek where we caught sixty trout in forty minutes. ! At night we ramed at Harlow creek I and caught a nice mess of rieli. Third dav we reached the Summit house where we caught 200 tiwh and A. M'ood j cock went hunting and killed three bear, one cinnamon aud two black. lhe S Greater Influence Are In the Family Circle Than the Mute Appeal of De parted One Vacant Place at the Fire-aide. fourth day we moved to Salmon river where we now are. Here we found a number of Portland campers and some of our Dufurites, Mr. C. P. Balch and wife and Mrs. A. J. Dufur, besides Mr. C. W. Rice and family of The Dalles, and Mr. Underwood and family from East Portland. All are catching thous ands of fish. We are getting some tine, large ones. As to the berries, 1 looked man. j for buckle-lerries and found but very There is not a doubt in the world that few. We are getting some black Inrries. when Portland wants an open river we It is raining here today. It ra'ned all will get it and not before. So long as j day yesterday. We are bound to have a that city is more enamored of the chains ! good time, rain or shine, of the Union Pacific than of the millions , Yours truly, of dollars worth of trade that naturally j L. J. Klinoek. the! belones to her but which will go to cities on the Sound unless there are lower rates on the river, so long the river will remain closed. Mr. R. W. Crandall returned to town Friday from a three week's camp ing on the west fork of Hood River. He says the Joles camp are putting up their winter suddIv of dried tront. Isaac Joles had caught 1350 trout, up to date. Senator Watklns comes next with some thinglike a thousand and the rest of the camp in proportion. The fish are, in size, all the way from eight to thirteen inches. As the west-bound passenger train came in sight Friday night, there also ap peared a freight Jtrain bound east, just rounding the curve at the west end of the trestle, wh.ch was signalled down by one of the yard men, who happened to be on the scene. It appears that the freight had the right of way, as it was running on passenger time, having on a private car containing U. P. officials. An accident was avoided, however, by the stoppage of both trains, and switch ing the passenger on the side track, thus letting the other train by. Had the pas senger train been ten minutes earlier, a collision would surely have occurred, as the freight was under very strong head way. A Stranger's Opinion. Mr. Ingalls, who is visiting this sec tion for the purpose of writing it up for the Mining and Scientific Journal, of San Francisco, the Pacific Rural Prets and two eastern papers, has just returned from an extended trip in Klickitat county, Washington, and our reporter gathered from him some items of inter est to all who have regard for the future welfare of our citv. . Mr. Ingalls visited many of the large grain fields of the Klickitat valley, which valley covers an area fifteen miles in width bv fiftv miles in length. The farmers were in the midst of their har vest, quite a number were through. The crop this year is a good one and the opinion expressed by many farmers was the crop of wheat would be larger than usual, averaging twenty-five bushels per acre. 1 he oat crop is heavier than for many years. Corn is about an average crop. There will be quite a supply of Irish potatoes and these of good size. Of timothy and alfalfa hay there will be a large yield. At Goldendale the merchants are very hopeful for a fall trade, provided the promised rates for transportation on the river are realized. All classes feel the importance of the early completion of a railroad connecting The Dalles with Goldendale and an extension of the same into the fine limber bell which extends for fift miles north of their town. The character of most of the lumber of this section is of a superior quality of pine, free from sap and resin, and spec ially adapted for the manufacture of sash, doors, blinds and interior wood work. It being so much lighter than the pine in other sections is better suited for fruit boxes and in fact this piue is peculiar to this section of the northwest. Mr. Ingalls bi ought a sample with him and left it at this office. The planing mill at Goldendale is now engaged in filling a very large order for fruit boxes for California and a large and steady business may be expected in this lum ber as soon as the transportation ques tion is settled. Most all this business of grain and lumber can be made tribu tary to this point, provided the busi ness men and capitalists of The Dalles will do their part in securing the early completion of the portage railway and a free ferry or bridge across the Columbia; The improvement of the wagon road a few miles from the river opposite The Dalles ought to enlist the eary attention qfthe merchants of this city who profit btrade that now comes to the city over that road.' The general sentiment expressed by lumbermen, farmers and others of Klick itat valley was that The Dalles business men were not disposed to help them as they might in way of better communica tion with their city, although always quite ready to profit by the fruits of their labor. If this condition of affairs is not soon changed the people of Klick itat county feel they will have to look for relief elsewhere and for more direct transportation to Portland or Tacoma than by The Dalles or the Columbia river. Hosier Notes. Mosikb, August 6, 1891. Editor of the Chronicle : Everything is very quiet at present in Mosier and news items for the week are scarce. Several visitors are here from distant localities. Mrs. L. Coulpin of Portland is a guest of Mr. L. Phillips. u Uur old friend Mr. J. Melberg came up from Bridal Vail on Tuesday for a short visit at Lis home, returning on Thursday. Mrs. Halfpap and family of The Dalles are enjoying for a season the pleasures of the "Fern Leaf" farm. Mr. win .Husbands and family are visiting at the residence of his parents. Mr. R. Sellinger who has been dis abled for some time, owing to a broken limb is now able to be about by the aid of his crutches. Mr. and Mrs. F. La Pier have rented their boarding house at Mosier station and moved out on their farm. The weather is cool and pleasant. There are still some very fine Early Hale peaches to be had at the Rose Dale farm. More anon. M. G. Horse Races at Wunle. A number of horse races came off last Tuesday at the race track in Wamic. The principal race was that between Tom Strickland's chestnut mare, Mamie S., and Joe Trippier's sorrel gelding, Pay Day. The race was a qnarter mile dash for f50 a side, and was won by the Strickland mare; time, not given. There were half a dozen scrub races be sides, and everything passed off pleas antly. A match race was made between Joe Trippier's Pay Day and A. J. Swift's colt, Ready, to come off the the first day of the fair in this city. The race is to be a half mile dash for $100 a side. Another match was made between Wil liam Alexander's mare, Matty Mullen, and the Strickland mare; quarter mile beats for fifty dollars a side, the race to come off nejtl Thursday. ' A Voice From Hood lfitver. Hoor River, Or., Aug. 4, 1S91. Editor of the Chronicle: Being a member of the alliance and also opposed to national banks as I un derstand the principle on which they are authorized by the govern uient, I would like to ask you a few questions : ' First Do the national banks make five per cent, on any amount of interest on their bonds deposited with the gov ernment, besides the interest ou circu lating bank notes? Second How much, on an average, do the different banks deposit in bonds with the government for security of cir culation? lhird 1H the national banks pay taxes to the government, of any kind' je our i n ji is saia they make nve per cent, off of the bonds, and say ten per cent, on the money loaned, which is fif teen per cent. Is this true? AlJ.IAXCE. Governor Penuoyer has apoiiited thirty delegates from Eastern Oregon to represent the state at a convention to be held at Salt Lake, ou the 15th to the 17th of September. The convention is called to consider matters pertaining to the reclamation of the arid lands of the west aud petition congress to cede to each state aud territory all such lands for the purpose of reclamation and for the support of the public schools. The appointees from this section are Hugh Gourlay and George P. Morgan, The Dalles: J. H. Cradlebaugb, Hood River; V. H. Brock, Wasco; C. M. Cartwright, and George Barnes, Prineville; 11. H Hendricks, Fossil ; and H. C. Oondon, Arlington. Advertised Letters. lhe following is the list of letters re maining in The Dalles postofficeuncalled for Friday, Aug. 7,1891. Persons call ing for these letters will please give the date on which thev were advertised : Baker, John B Beker, Fred Britt. J (4) Brigham,MissAT(2) Denzer, K (2) Godfredsen, Peter Hawkins, Squire Hayzelton, John Johnson, A j Johnson, Mrs Jos Johnson, Mrshlaviiu John, J Mason, J McCully, C 11 (2; Pointing, Henry Stewart, Mr Stevens, W L Troope, Elmer (2; White, Miss Laura Williams, W G Wilfone, John M. T. Kolas, P. M. Speaking of the Regulator the Klicki tat Leader says : "The boat will be ready for use .by the first or middle of Sep tember, and should be heavily patron ized by every shipper of Klickitat county. This is the best chance we have ever had for breaking down the galling oppression of the Union Pacific and therefore should strike while. the iron is not and prove to this grasping company mat tney are not tne oniy company in existence, and that 'we are the people, and must be respected.' Opposition is the life of trade, and now that we have an opposition it is our duty to help support it." Died. Last Friday evening the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Sayre of this city, aged 9 months and 2 days. The child has been suffering from a cold contracted about eight months ago, and the late hot weather brought on cholera infantum which the weak condition of its body was unable to overcome. It was burried on Sunday in the city fraveyard. Services were held at Mr. ayre's residence by Rev. H. Brown. The farmers of this vicinity are now busily engaged in caring for their grain. The music of the header can be heard here and there and the yellow grain is being garnered ready for the threshing I crew, the average yield is perhaps not qmte np to the standard predicted by the most enthusiastic, yet the wheat is plump and hard as a general thing and all things considered the yield is satisfac tory. Klickitat Leader. . The Mon omental Mill. .Charles Miller, owener of the Monu mental mill was in Pendleton Tuesday evening on his way to Portland. He goes below to . make arrangements for starting the mill in about a month. Mr. Miller thinks enough quartz will be re ceived at the mill to keep it in opera tion night and day, when once started. Lakeside, O., July 19. For many years people have gathered in multitudes at this season of the year for a great outdoor as sembly. The grounds are a short sail from Sandusky; the place beautiful be yond description. Dr. Talmage preached this morning in this delightful place to a vast multitude. His subject was the "Va cant Chair," and his text, I Samuel xx, 18, "Thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty." Set on the table the cutlery and the chased silverware of the palace, for King Saul will give a state dinner today. A dis tinguished place is kept at the table for his son-in-law, a celebrated warrior, David by name. The guests, jeweled and plumed, come in and take their places. When peo ple are invited to a king's banquet they are very apt to go. But before the covers are lifted from the feast Saul looks around and finds a vacant seat at the table. He says within himself, perhaps audibly: "What does this mean? Where is my son-in-law? Where is David, the great war riorf I invited him. I expected him. Whatl a vacant chair at the king's banauet!" The fact was that David, the warrior, had been seated for the last time at his father-in-law's table. The day before Jon athan had coaxed David to go and occupy that place at the table, saying to David in the words of my text. "Thou shalt be j missed, because thy seat will be empty." The prediction was fulfilled. David was missed. His seat was empty. That one vacant chair spoke louder than all the oc cupied chairs at the banquet. In almost every house the articles of fur niture take a living personality. That picture a stranger would not see anything remarkame either in its design or execu tion, but it is more to you than all the pictures of the Louvre and the Luxem bourg. You remember who bought it, and who admired it. And that hymn book you remember who sang out of it. And that cradle you remember who rocked it. And that Bible you remember who read out of it. And that bed you remember who slept in it. And that room you re member who died in it. But there is nothing in all your house so eloquent and so mighty voiced as the vacant chair. I suppose that before Saul and his guests got up from this banquet there was a great clatter of wine pitchers, but all that racket was drowned out by the voice that came up from the vacant chair at the table. Millions have gazed and wept at John Quincy Adams' vacant chair in the house of representatives, and at Henry Wilson's vacant chair in the vice presidency, and at Henry Clay's vacant chair in the American senate, and at Prince Albert's vacant chair in Windsor castle, and at Thiers' vacant chair in the councils of the French nation. But all these chairs are unimportant to you as compared with the vacant chairs in your own household. Have these chairs any lesson for us to learn? Are we any better men and women, than when they first addressed us? , FATHER'S CHAIR. First I point out to you the father's va cant chair. Old men always like to sit in the same 'place and in the same chair. They somehow feel more at home, and sometimes when you are in their place and they come into the room you jump up sud denly and say, "Here, father, here's your chair." The probability is it is an arm chair, for he is not so strong as he once was, and he needs a little upholding. His hair is a little frosty, his gums a little de pressed, for in his early days there was not much dentistry. Perhaps a cane chair and old fashioned apparel, for though you may nave suggested some improvement, father does not want any of your nonsense. Grandfather never had much admiration for new tangled notions. I sat at the table of one of my parish ioners in a former congregation; an aged man was at the table, and the son was pre siding, and the father somewhat abruptly addressed the son and said, "My son. don't now try to show off because the minister is here I" Your father never liked any new customs or manners; he preferred the old way of doing things, and he never looked so happy as when, with his eyes closed, he sat in the armchair in the corner. From the wrinkled brow to the tip of the slippers, what placidity 1 The wave of the past years of Us life broke at the foot of that chair. Perhaps sometimes he was a little impa tient, and sometimes told the same story twice; but over that old chair how many blessed memories hover! I hope you did not crowd that old chair, and that it did not get very much In the way. Sometimes the old man's chair gets very much In the way, especially If he has been so unwise as to make over all his property to his children, with the understanding that they are to take care of him. I have seen in such cases children crowd the old man's chair to the door, and then crowd it clear into the street, and then crowd it into the poorhouse, aud keep on crowding It until the old man fell out of It into bis grave. But your father's chair was a sacred place. The children used to climb up on the rungs of it for a good night kiss, and the longer he stayed the better you liked it. But that chair has been vacant now for some time. The furniture dealer would not give you fifty cents for it, but it la a throne of influence in your domestic circle. I saw. In the French palace, and in the throne room, the chair that Napoleon used to occupy. It was a beautiful chair, but the most significant part of it was the letter "N" embroidered into the back of the chair in purple and gold. And your fath er's old chair sits in the throne room of your heart, and your affections have em broidered into the back of that old chair in purple and gold the letter "F." Have all the prayers of that old chair been answer ed? Have all the counsels of that old chail been practiced? Speak out! old armchair. History tells us of an old man whose three sons were victors in the Olympic games, and when they came back these three sons, with their garlands, put them on the father's brow, and the old man was so rejoiced at the-victories of his three children that he feu dead in their arms. And are you, oh, man, going to bring a wreath of joy and Christian usefulness and put it on your father's brow, or on the vacant chair, or on the memory of the one departed? Speak out, old armchair! With reference to your father, the words of my text have been fulfilled, "Thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty." - mother's chair. I go a little further on in your house and I find the mother's chair. It is very apt to be a rocking chair. She had so many cares and troubles to soothe that it must have rockers. I remember it well; it was an old chair, and the rockers were almost worn out, for I was the youngest, and the cnair had rocked the whole family. It made a creaking noise as it moved; but there was music in the sound. It was just high enough to allow us children to put our heads into her lap. That was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and wor ries. Ah! what a chair that was. It was different from the father's chair; it was en tirely different. You ask me how? I can not tell; but we all felt it was differ ent. Perhaps there was about this chair more gentleness, more tenderness, more grief when we had done wrong. When we were wayward father scolded, but mother cried. It was a very wakeful chair. In the sick days of children other chairs could not keep awake; that chair always kept awake kept easily awake. The chair knew all the old lullabies and all those wordless songs which mothers sing to their sick children songs in which all pity and compassion and sympathetic influences are combined. That old chair has stopped rocking for a good many years. It may be set up in the loft or the garret, but it holds a queenly power yet. When at midnight you went into that grog shop to get the intoxicating draught, did you not hear a voice that said, "My son, why go in there?" And louder than the boisterous encore of the place of sinful amusement, a voice saying, "My son, what do you do here?" And when you went into the house of abandonment a voice saying, "What would your mother do if she knew you were here?" And you tSSSSJl Mfn'.wnat is the , the birds, flying out, sing. And I would tunbVbi AUAO AUU fI V VUU near V CM 1 1 "O t Every Jescn p t io n will be eold at r today bring a cage of Christian consola tions to the grave of your loved ones, and . I would open the door and let t hem All all I the air with the music of their voices. - j Oh, how they bound in these spirits be- j fore the throne! Some shout with glad-! ness. Some break forth into uncontrolla- j . hie weeping for joy. Some stand speech- j ' less in their shock of delight. They sing. ; They quiver with excessive gladness. They gaze on the temples, on the palaces, on the j They weave their i mother's rocking chair. "Oh, pshaw!" jjou say. "There's noth ing in-that. I'm five hundred miles oft from where I was born. I'm three thou sand miles off from the church whose bell was the first music I ever heard." I can not help that. You are too near your mother's rocking chair. "Oh," you say, "there can't be anything in that. That chair has been vacant a great while." I ! cannot help that. It is all the mightier for j tern. on each other. Luau. xv a uuiuivku luu VUHUib ItlLJ Idl er's chair. It whispers, it speaks, it weeps, it carols, it mourns, it prays, it warns, it thunders. A young man went off and broke his mother's heart, and while he was away from home his mother died, and the telegraph brought the son, and he came into the room where she lay and looked upon her face, and he cried out: "Oh, mother, mother, what your life could not do your death shall effect! This moment 1 give my heart to God." And he kept his promise. Another victory for the vacant chair. With reference tqyour mother the words of my text were fulfilled, "Thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty." THE INVALID'S CHAIR. I go on a little further, and I come to the invalid's chair. What! How long have you been sick? "Oh! I have been sick ten, twenty, thirty years." Is it possible? What a story of endurance. There are in many of the families of my congregation these invalids' chairs. The occupants of them think they are doing no good in the world, but that invalid's chair is the mighty pulpit from which they have been preach ing, all these years, trust in God. The first time I preached here at Lakeside, Ohio, amid the throngs present, there was noth ing that so much impressed me as the spec tacle of just one face the face of an in valid who was wheeled in on her chair. 1 said to her afterward, "Madam, how long have you been prostrated?" for she was lying flat in the chair. "Oh!" she replied, "I have been this way fifteen years." I said, "Do you suffer very much?" "Oh, yes," she said, "I suffer very much; I suffer all the time; part of the time I was blind. I always suffer." "Well," I said, "can you keep your courage up?" "Oh, yes," she said, "lam happy, very happy indeed." Her I L'l. 1 I 1 -1 t . . any one on the ground. .n- The gram crops m several parts of Oh, what a means of grace to the world, I the world are poor ones this year, but these invalid chairs. On that field of hu- the crop liars are thicker than hop-lice man suffering the grace of God gets its . The !lZy loaflng .'middlemen," who victory. Edward Payson, the invalid, . .. . , . and Richard Baxter, the invalid, andjnever ""' nnd who "l,ln no.'"" but Robert Hall, the invalid, and the ten thou-1 falsehood!, will try hard to rob you of sand of whom the world has never heard, ! the harvest this vear. What ui rmr- mm FOR THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS. joy into garlands, they spring it into tri- j umpuiu nrcues, mey BtnKe in on timoreis, : 11 try -i . , n ss. and then aU the loved ones gather in a! Call EaTlV aiKl Get SOUie OI OUT Geil- there, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons and i daughters, lovers and friends, hand to ' hand around about the throne of God the ! circle ever widening hand to hand, joy to ' joy, jubilee to jubilee, victory to victory, j "until the day break and the shadows flee away. Turn thou, my beloved, and be! like a roe or a young hart upon the moun-1 tains of Bether." uine Bargains. TER7VTS Chsh, THINGS WOBTH KNOWING. It is reported by very good authority j j that there will be parties from Cleveland Ohio, with $75,000 to purchase wheat! and build storerooms along the Klicki-! tat side of the Columbia river where they will receive wheat and transport it I over the portage road. Goldendale J C ouner. The operator and owner of the portage railroad will be iu The Dalles the last of this week to confer with Sherman county in regard to building a road up Spanish Hollow to Wasco.. They pro pose to build a bridge across the Colum bia river below Columbus and connect that vast belt with Klickitat. A project of this kind would be of great benefit to Sherman as it would open their country to a good lumber country. Klickitat is noted for lumber and wheat. Golden dale Courier. Hold your grain against all liars, swindlers and thieves, if you possibly H. Herbring. but of whom all heaven is cognizant. The most conspicuous thing on earth for God's eye and the eye of angels to rest on, is not a throne of earthly power, but it is the in valid's chair. Oh, these men and women who are always suffering but never com-: plaining these victims of spinal disease, ) and neuralgic torture, and rheumatic ex cruciation will answer to the roll call of the martyrs, and rise to the martyr's throne, and will wave the martyr's palm. But when one of these invalids' chain becomes vacant how suggestive it is! No more bolstering up of the weary head. No more changing from side to side to get an easy position. No more use of the band age and the cataplasm and the prescrip tion. That invalid's chair may be folded up or taken apart or set away, but it will never lose its queenly power; it will 'al ways preach of trust in God and cheerful submission. Suffering all ended now. With respect to that Invalid the words of my text have been fulfilled. "Thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty. THAT EMPTY HIGH CHAfR. I pasB on and I find one more vacant chair. It is a .high chair. It is the child's chair. If that chair be occupied I think it is the most potent chair in all the house hold. All the chairs wait on it; ' all the chairs are turned toward it. It means more than David's chair at Saul's banquet. At any rate it makes more racket. That is a strange house that can be dull with a child in it. How that child breaks up . the hard worldliness of the place and keeps you young to sixty, seventy and eighty years of age. If you have no child of your own adopt one; it will open heaven to your souL It will pay its way. Its crowing in the morning will give the day a' cheerful starting, and its glee at night will give the day a cheerful close. You do not like chil dren? Then you had better stay out of heaven, for there are so many there they would fairly make you crazy. Only about five hundred millions of theoi. The old crusty Pharisees told the mothers to keep the children away from Christ. "You bother him," they said; "you trouble the Master." Trouble him! He has filled heaven with that kind of trouble. A pioneer in California says that for the first year or two after his residence in Sierra Nevada county there was not a single child in all the reach of a hundred miles. But the Fourth of July came, and the miners were gathered ' together and they were celebrating the Fourth with ora tion and poem and a boisterous brass band, and while the band was playing an infant's voice was heard crying, and all the miners were startled, and the swarthy men began to think of their homes on the eastern coast, and of their wives and children far away, and their hearts were thrilled with homesickness as they heard the babe cry. But the music went on, and the child cried louder and louder, and the brass band played louder and louder, trying to drown out the infantile interruption, when a swarihy miner, the tears rolling down his face, got up and shook his fist and said, "Stop that noisy band, and give the baby a chance." Oh, there was pathos in It, as well as good cheer in it. . There is nothing to arouse and melt and subdue the soul like a child's voice. But when it goes away from you the high chair becomes a higher chair and there is desolation, all about you.. In three-fourths of the homes of this con-! gregation there is a vacant high chair. Somehow you never get over it. There is no one to put to bed at night; no one to ask strange questions About God and heaven. Oh, what is the use of that high chair? It is to call you higher. What a drawing up ward it is to have children in heavenl And then it is such a preventive against sin. If a father is going away into sin he leaves his living children with, their mother; but if a father is going away into sin. what is he going to do with his dead children float ing about him and hovering over his every wayward step. Oh, speak out, vacant high chair, and say: "Father, come back from sin; mother, come back from world liness. I am watching you. I am waiting for you." With respect to your child the words of my text have been fulfilled, 'Thou shalt be missed, because tby seat will be empty." AH ErVITATION UPWARD. Mv hearers, I have gathered up the voices of your departed friends and tried to intone them into one invitation upward. I set in array all the vacant chairs of your homes and of your social circle, and -1 bid them cry out this morning: "Time Is short. Eternity is near. Take my Saviour. Be at peace with my God. Come up where I am. We lived together on earth; come let us live together in heaven." We auswer that invitation. We come. Keep a seat for us. as Saul kept a seat for David, but that seat shall not be empty. And oh! when wears all through with tbis world, and we have shaken hands all around for the last time, and all our chairs in the borne circle and in the outside world shall be vacant, may we be worshiping God in that place from which we shall go out no more forever. I thank God there will be no vacant chairs in heaven. There we shall meet again and talk over our earthly heart breaks. How in ncli you have leeu through since yon s.iw them l:ist On the shining shore you will r.-ilK it, all over. The heart aches. The loneliness. T'i sleepless nights. The weeping until ' bad no more power to weep, because ilie heart was withered nnl dried up. Story of empty cradle and lirrle shoe only half worn ok.. never to he worn again, just the shape ol the foot that once pressed It. And dreams ! when you thought the departed had come back apiin, and the room seemed, bright with their faces, and you started up to greet them and in the effort the dream broke and you found yourself . standing amid room in the midnight alone. Talking it all over, and then, band in band, walking up and down in the light. nose God made "middlemen" and bed bugs for we are unable to say, but hold your grain! I.inkcille istar, edited by "Peter the Poet," formerly of the Long Creek Eagle. The future liistorv of the civil war will be a singular chronicle. Even now peoj-le who ought to know are a little hazy as to facte The editor of the Rich mond, Va., Dispatch, in a long article about the unveiling of Stonewall Jack son's statue, .says: "Abraham Lincoln committed a grievous blunder when he began the war by firing upon Fort Sumpter." Shades of Major Anderson! What sacrilege of history this t '. Next we will be told that Johnston captured j s-tier-man s army at uoldsnoro, c. Astorian. . The Toledo Blade says not a week rolls around that a new political society does not come to the front. The latest is an associaiion of farmers in Central Ten nessee, with the title of "The Farmers' Reliance." This is the platform which possesses the merit of brevity: Work hard ten hours in the day; work 300 dayein the year; never goto town with out carrying something to sell, and do not buy anything without paying for it. The Made further save : We submit it to those farmers of the west who seem to think a printing press can' turn out the money that we need, and therefore it is superfluous to work. -I": Situated at the Hed of Navigation. . Destined to be Best JWanafactaring Center In the Inland Empire. Best Selling Property of the Season in the Northwest. For further information call at the office of Interstate Investment Co., Or 72 Washington St., PORTLAND, Or. O. D. TAYLOR, THE DALLES, Or. A Kangh Vallet de Chambre.' Mr. K. W. Crandall tells a story of man he knew many years ago in Port land whose clothes got tangled on a line shaft, and who, after having been car ried around the shaft ever so many times, found himself standing on the floor - of the engine room, without a wound or scratch, clothed in a necktie and one boot. e are reminded of this story by an event which occurred the other day on the stock ranch of Mayor Mays, near Salt Springs. In this case only a stock ing and skirt of a dress were stripped off but the neat way it was done, when one takes into account the instrument that did it, gives it place among accidents, where a singular good fortune eaved the victim from great danger. The wife of the foreman of Mr. Mays' ranch, referred to, for the sake of a little variety. more than necessity, thought she would drive the horse rake for a- while, while the men were engaged cutting hay. By some means one of the shafts became detached from the rake and dropping to the ground frightened tho horse so that he became unmanngable and made a straight run for a four-strand barbed- wire fence, which he dashed through, bringing Mrs. Moore; who still clung to the seat, and the rake with him. The dash against the wire threw Mrs. Moore to the ground. When the horse became disentangled from the wire he continued on the run till thb rake was completely ruined bnt himself received only a few trifing scratches. When Mrs. Moore picked herself up she found herself minus the skirt of her dress, one shoe acd a stocking which was taken off as neatly as if she had done it herself, leaving ber with only a few scratches on the naked foot. A barbed-wire fence is the last instrument one would think of for taking off a lady's stocking, but in this case it did its work well. Minnesota Thresher Mfg. Go., Manufacturers and Dealers in Minnesota Chief Separators, Giant k -Stillwater .Plain and Traction Engines,' '"CHIEF" Farm Wagons, Stationary Kngines and Boilers of all sizes. Saw Mills and Fixtures, Wood-Working Machinery, -Wood Split Pulleys, Oils, Lace Belts and Belting.' J Minnesota Thresher Mfg. Go. 'Get uur Prices before Purchasing. ' 267 Front Street, PORTLAND, OREGON. FISH St BHRDON, UDZEj-AvT-iIHiiRS T3ST Stoves, famees, Ranges, PUMPS, k . A Batlafactory Report. We gladly publish the following apol ogy from the last issue of the Timet Mountaineer: "A cool day. after the thermometer has been raging up in the nineties is truly enjovable. - The blood flows stead ier, and adds strength and energy to the frame, and things are not viewed in the same pessimigstic light as when heat op presses the functions of the body." . You see, gentle reader, the day he made the last periodical attack on every thing and everybody in The Dalles except the ex-mayor and himself, was hot. The "thermometer was raging up in the nineties," and his blood did not flow steadily, he viewed things in a "pessimistic light" and "the functions of his bodv were out of order," what ever that may mean. There now. sav : no more about it. We forgive you. You could not help it but don't take that kind oi a fit too often else we'll get real mad at you some time. We are the Sole Agents for the Orlel.raied Triumph Raie -ani Ramona Coot Stover. - Which have no equals, and Warranted togi v- e Ent ire Satisfaction or Money Befunded Comer Second ana Washington Streets, Tne Dalles, Oregon. Crandall & Bupctet, MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN FURNITURE CARPETS Undertakers and Embalmers. NT). 160 SECOND-STREKT. D. W. EDWARDS, DEALER IX Paints, Oils, Glass, Wall Papers, DGcora- tions, Artists' Materials, Oil Palntinss, Qromos ani Steel Eniraviinrs. Mouldings and Picture Frames, Cornice Poles Etc., Paper Trimmed Free. Xloture Frames 3VXk1o to Order 276 and 278, Second Street. The Dalles, 0; WE ARE IN IT ! 75 pair of Misses Shoes worth $2.25 for $1.00 100 Corsets worth $1.25 for 50 cents. OUR ENTIRE LINE OF DRESS GOODS AT ACTUAL COST. . A. M. WILLIAMS & CO. JOLES Mrs. Durbin, wife of the late C. B. Durbin of Billings, Mont., arrived in thia city, in company with his father, Mr. G. A. Young of Bake Oven, last Saturday. She has gone out to the home of her parents, where she intends to re side for the present. staple m BROS., DEALERS IN: Fancy decries. Hay, Grain and Fted. No. 122 Cor. Washington and Third Sts.