i.uinn''-iiUiTJ'i..w..';"u .imj,"mu"'i' I
. tunnels, shaft., windlass, with the fall
'staff of miners, including a Chinese i
1 cook, a- water fall and a snow-capped
j mountain, with the inevitable lone
FRIDAY, T - - SEPTEMBER 18, 1891 ' prospector climbing its rugged sides
THE DALLES. -
OREGON
LOCAL AND PKKSOXAL.
Mr. R. O. Evans the Hood River ferry
man was in the city Friday.
. done in oil 5x6 feet and four feet high.
A. W. Whetstone brought to this of
fice Friday a number of twigs cut from j
three-year-old silver prune trees, which
were grown on his bill 'land between
Five and Eight Mile creeks. These
Junction City is to have a hank.
The Fox valley mines in Grant county
are attracting t lie attention of capitalists.
T. J. Cozard, living on a ranch six
miles east of Burns, had a horse and
mule killed by lightning on the night of
tit cni
' A tramp has been arrested in Baker j twigs are simply loaded down with fruit,
City who threatened to burn the town. ! and they afford another proof, if such
Mrs. Mathew Thorburn of Kingsleyi were needed, of the adaptability of our
, was registered at the Umatilla house j driest hill lands to fruit culture. The
Friday. I soil in which the trees grow from which
.' R.B'.Hood has placed the order for the8e 8liP9 were cnt ie full-v 88 f'
the lumber to rebuild his livery stable ! 8oiI in nt"' an1 ? wel1
on the lot onnosite the old stand. piai r.
. Messrs. Robert Rand, Jack Rand,
" George Prather apd J. K. Reynolds of
: Hood River were in the city Friday.
tiered by his department to Duluth,
-ri r . r . . i . . t i
Messrs. Thompson Henson and Gil
: more, who lately suffered the loss of
their saw and planning mill, near King
, sley, were in the city Friday.
The people of East Hood River have
' kindly contributed the sum of $20 which
' was handed to the relief committee to
day by Superintendent Shelly.
Mrs. S. .L. Brooks received a letter
Friday from the Unitarian church
of Portland, enquiring as to the needs of
The editor of the Chboniclk acknowl
edges the courtesy of a complimentary
' ticket to the third annual fair of the
, second Eastern Oregon district , agricul
tural society. . " 1
The rolling stock of the Cascade Port
age Railroad is now on the way from
, the eut. The cars were shipped on the
. 27th inst. and are expected to arrive
an v moment. - The " locomotive was
'. shipped on the inst.'
Mayor ' Mays received Friday a
eheck, from A.. J. Hamilton of Wood-
' lawn for $10. This is a very pleasing in
stance of entirelv sDontanons kindness
. and Mr. Hamilton has the grateful
- thank" of this community.
L. J. Klinger of Dnfur was in the cityl
Mr. and Mrs. Klinger intend in a few
, days making a four weeks trip to the hot
soda springs near the head of Beaver
creek, about 80 miles south east of
Prineville. - ,
The following persons were admitted
to full citizenship during the present
term of the. county court : John Ryan,
James Foley and Michael S. Manning,
'; former subjects of Great Britain and
. Charles Berger a former subject of the
German Empire. '
' Last Saturday, the decomposed body
" of a man, supposed to be Mr. Siles of
the firm of Kiles & Vinson of Walla
Walla, was found in a box car, partially
; covered with coal, at La Grande, Or.
. The car was one of a train that had ar
rived three days before the discovery
waamaae. ine sttnu oi tne aeaa man
was badly. crushed.
Since the mass meetine of citizens. 1
- held after the fire, the hobo population
of the town has very steadily diminished
. till it is now a rare thing to find one.
Tne tact is tne trains are watched care
' rally, and when any of them bring in
these nn welcome gentry, he no sooner
hits the ground, than he is arrested,
- The foreign hobo element hear of this
-. and keeps away. '
Pendleton's contributions to "the suf
ferers by the great fire has been expend
j a - .
niih commenaaoiy judicious manner,
Mr. Carrol has not wholly relied upon
tbe statements of any one as to the
needs of tbe people but has gone among
them himself in a quiet unostentatious
' way and whereever need was discovered
it has been supplied according to the ex
tent of the contribution under his con'
trol. -
- mere nave been received since our
last report for the relief of the sufferers
by the fire ; one crate of cabbage from
Portland, ' appropriately marked "pro
bono publico," a wagon-load of potatoes
from J. C. Wingfield of Eight Mile
creek, two dozen quilts from Mr. Hepp
ner of Arlington, a box of clothing from
Mrs. T. W. Sparks of Portland, and
. iiuuu irom rortianu ana du irom
Walla Walla.
The assessment roll of Crook county
for the current years shows 115,980 acres
of deeded land, at an average price of
$3.09 and 251,333 acres of "Road land,'
at 96 cents an acre. The county has
i nin i i a. '
ot t25.RS? 13345 brf nf mttln at.
and 140,498 head of sheep at $175. The
grow value of all property is $2,039,639,
and the total taxable property is $1,350,
375. The net increase for the year over
that of 1890 is $141,515.
Mayor Mays has received intimation
from Portland that Mr. H. Heppner of
Arlington has ordered shipped from a
wholesale house in the former - city, for
the se of the sufferers by the late fire,
two dozen quilts. This is very kind of
Mr. Heppner and has the city's warm
est gratitude. Mr. Heppner will be re
membered as a former resident of The
Dalles and a bis hearted, eenerous fel
low as ever lived.
The Union Pacific company has filed
papers to restrain the Oregon railroad
commission from enforcing the reduced
freight rates. .' The company asks for a
writ of review and the time set for the
w I - e . i n - . oi m
nearwg in oepiemuer at caiem. ine
eompany sets up certain leases of lines
of feeders upon which it is called to pay
certain fixed charges of 54 per cent, or
$2,556,593.64 per annnm ; that the net
: g ii. t 1 ,r ' . n .
miuuga Hum mc icadcu uues, lue um
year, were only $5,228,443.87, etc. Hence
the company asks that the commission
be restrained from enforcing the new
rates. .
Major G. W. Ingalls writes to the
Chroniclb asking us to urge on our
readers Irom all quarters to bring in
camples of grain, fruits vegesables and I
wool for the. Portland exposition. Major
lngallts arrived in The Dalles last
Tuesday .nieht and he reports haying
obtained a fine disply for "Oregon on
U'luu.lu " Snm Rota, t'ntn n. A
" IWtC, J 1 U III J'flKV. , IUIUII 0 V. Ilia
lilla counties. He has 25-pound early
cabbage, 22-pound . beets, ' ten inch
peaches and Clappi Favorite pears
weighing nearly a pound each, betides
minerals of great value. The major, a
frerfee" enthusiast in his. work, by the
war, tnuPt have done some colid work
cess that he intends increasing his or
chard by every tree he can set out. Mr.
Whetstone would like any one who
doubts the adaptability of our driest
hills for prunes, plums, apples and pears
to come and see his orchard. He be
lieves no country in the world can beat
Wasco countv for these fruits.
THE REGULATOR ALL RIGHT. .
The Trial Trip a Complete SuccefMi
Turned Over to the Stockholders.
The trial trip of the Regulator Thurs-
dav was a complete success. Her con
tract called for a speed of fifteen miles
an hour. At the end of the first hour,
after leaving her dock at The Dalles, she
had made 18 miles against a 20 mile
dead wind. It is perfectly safe to say
she is good for 20 miles down stream
any time. The sixty invited guests,
nearly all stockholders or their wives,
were delighted with the trip. At every
residence and hamlet alongside the river
the people rushed out to get a glimpse
of the boat as she passed and waved
their handkerchiefs in salute. At the
residence of Mr. S. R. Husbands an
anvil was brought into requisition and a
salute of three rounds was fired. From
the Mt. Hood hotel the stars and stripes
flnf.tered on the breeze. The boat left
her landing at The Dalles at 9:37 a. m j important office.
and arrived at. Cascade Locks at 12 :03 p.
m., making the trip in 2:26, tbe distance
being 45 mile$. The Regulator got back
to The Dalles a little before 5 o'clock p.
m. xms morning ine directors oi ine
Dalles, Portland & Astoria Navigation
company held a meeting, in the room
back of the office of Contractor Hugh
Glenn when the boat was formally
turned over by Paquet &. Smith to the
directors of the navigation company.
the I'd innt
The dam across Rogue river .will be
completed within a'week, after which a
large force of men will be put to work
sluicing the river bed for three miles.
Fifty wagon loads of immigrants have
passed through I'riueville during the
ast week. They are on the way to the
Willamette vally, from Kansas and the
Dakotas.
The residence of C. P. Zumwalt, near
Perrydale, Polk county, was destroyed
by fire on Wednesday last. A portion
of the household goods was saved by
the family. .
The Siuslaw country is settling rap
idly. The hill locations of Lane county
are numerous and the land is rich and
profitable for fruit, vegetables, and every
product of the soil.
The plat of township 1, north range
6 east, has been received at the Oregon
City land office, and will be filed and
open for settlement under the homestead
law on and arter uctouer is, iayi
W. Wampole, a farmer near Gervils.
while driving to that town with a load
of wheat, was thrown under his horses
feet by several sacks of grain slipping off
and was trampled and kicked severely
J. D. Wilcox, of Portland, and Mr.
Jeffrey, from Canada, have purchased
the Todd quicksilver mine, near Oak
land and are operating the same with
very satisfactory results botn as to ore
and metal.
Ine distillery at lUedlord will com
mence business as soon as the bonds of
Frank Galloway and J. A. Whiteside
the storekeeper and gauger, are approved
SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY IS THE
EVIL THEREOF. .
Dr. Talmage F reaches a Powerful Ser
mon on .the Insanity of Borrowing:
Trouble It Has Wrecked Many a Life.
Tne Lord Will Look Ont for Ton.
at Washington and their commissions
received here.
The appointment of J. W. Blackburn
as judge of Sherman county by Governor
Pennoyer, appears to be satisfactory' to
the people of that county. He is spoken
of as one well capable of filling such an
County Court Proceed in jra,
The following are the proceedings of
the September term of the county court.
In the matter of the supply of fire wood
for the county it was ordered that no
bids be accepted and that the matter be
left in the' hands of the sheriff and
county judge. ' '-.'.,-.
. In the matter of the road . petition of
John Parker and others it was ordered
that Surveyor Sharp, Geo. Herbert, C.
R. Bone, Jos. H. Wilson be appointed to
view and locate the proposed road on a
day not named.
. The report of the board of equalization
on the debt between Wasco and Sherman
counties was approved. .
The county clerk was ordered to ad
vertise for bids to keep the cpunty poor
for the coming year.
The clerk was ordered to procure nec
essary facilities in the way of booths,
etc., for the next bi-ennial election.
In the matter of the road petition of
Henry Ryan and others it was ordered
that Mr. Norton, surveyor, Emil
Schanno, Alex Anderson and George
Liebe view and locate the road on a day
not named.
The assessor was allowed to the 15th
of October to complete his assessment.
$100 was allowed for repairing the
"New bridge" road and $25 for the road
to Eight Mile as petitioned for by Super
visor Kontz.
in the matter ol iranfcie lurnbow, a
blind child. It was ordered that a suf
ficient sum be appropriated for neces
sary clothing and for transportation to
the Salem institution for the blind.
Thos. T. Badder & Co., Cascade Locks
was granted license to sell liquor a re
tail. Patrick Mdlaney of the same
place was also granted retail license.
It was ordered that the county road
by way of Bettingens be opened.
Road supervisers were instructed to
enforce the law touching the driving . of
stock over county roads.
' County Court Proceeding.
The following is a partial list of the
bills allowed by the last meeting of the
county court :
Maier Bentnn. supplies
Hood Elver Glacier, printing. . .'..-. . .
Wm. Tackman. rcDnirslawn mnu-er.
J. W. Bimeiison, witness. .
C. R. Melns. wit newt
J. E. Pagli, witneKs. . .
Jonn Howe, witnesa :
D. Uwbome. witness
Erank Clintman. witness
H. H. Learned, witness
J. Doherty, justieo fees
J. Doherty, justice fees
Al Varney, witness
J. N. Vamey, witness.'. ... ,
J. Stadleman, witness
J. H. Jackson, witness
John Crate, witness..
Emil SchiLtz. witness. . .
J. M. MarAn, witness
V m. TaciiSflan, witness.
Hucrh Chria'man. witness
A. V. Fareher witness
John Cates, witness
I. C. Mckelsen, witness
J. H. Blakeney, witness.
Chronicle Pub. Co., printing. . :
E. Clan ton, witness . . T
Union Lithograph Co., warrants
E. Jocobsen & Co., supplies
Maier 5i Benton, supplies
Hugh Glenn. rCDSirs...
Columbia Ice Co., ice
Wong Shoo, . . . .
Geo. D. Barnard & Co., supplies
J. Doherty. justice lees
Hugh Logan, medical services ...
Ben Wilson, iuror
Chas. Adams, jnror
r rant Irvine, juror
Advertised Letters.
The following is the list of letters re
maining in The Dalles postoffice uncalled
for Friday, Sept. 11, 1891. Persons call
ing for these letters will please give the
date on which thev were advertised : ;
Blair, Frank Bell, HE
Copple, Miss Bertha Dimmick, Zible -
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up ill DllHf cuuiilj iur uc wribvs ua wint
he is bringing down with him, a whole
Dunaway. J E
Hunter Dick
Joseph, Henry'
Lyile, Mrs Lizzie
Monish,OW(3)
McClartr, Mr
Price, WE Jr
Pool. Wm
McCartney, Jack
Smith, Mrs A A
Tavlor, Sarah
Weir, Clifford
Grayson, W J
. Jackson, H V
Loy, Miss Lillie M
Manver, Mr Wm
Moore,Mr& Mrs CaD
McCaulev, C H (2)
Phillips. "M J
Smith, CL:
Smith. CaptH C
Tate, Worth A
Wenig, W A (3;
Weaver, S
M. T. Nolax, P. M.
Hmrahl for Portland.
The following telegran was received
this afternoon : ' . ' '
: " Portland, Or., Sept. 12,
Hon. Robert Sfay, Mayor:
We send you today by telegraphic
Calvin Xeal, a pioneer of '44 died near
Stavton last week, and fourteen hours
after his sunDOsed death revived and
lived several hours longer, and then re
lapsed and the hnal disolution ot body
and soul took place.
The Toledo coal mine tunnel is ninety
four feet into the mountain, and has
jnst passed through a etmta of large
clam shells. The men are now working
through some black: slate, and tne indi
cations are that thev will soon strike the
coal bed.
George W. Atchison," of Baker City,
aged seventy-five years and possessed of
considerable wealth, has been adjudged
insane. He has been gradually losing
bis mind for some time and the other
day, after havin? attacked his house
keeper with a knife, he was taken into
custody. .
Barbed wire on the farm is a fruitful
source of accidents. At Jesse Porter's
farm in Benton county some horses be
came frightened while, grazing in the
pasture, and in their wild rush ran
against the fence. One of them was
killed almost instantly and two others
badly crippled.
ine cable and fixtures tor the pro
posed new tree terry across Kogue river
were last Tuesday taken out to the ferry
site by A. Betz. The cable is 1?4 inches
in diameter, the largess ever used in the
county, and will be perfectly safe for
three tunes the strain to which it is con
templated it will ever be subjected.
Three men living on Johnson Free
man's farm near Glencoe, went to Hills-
boro Tuesday last to secure medical
treatment. All were suffering with
poisoned fingers, and none of them
could give any idea of how the poisoning
occurred or what caused it. The tlesh
seemed to rot as in blood poisoning.
A son of Mr. Faulkenberg, living two
miles from Holbrook, Washington
county, was thrown from a mowing
machine on Tneseay last, falling in front
of the sicklebar, the- bar passing over
him cutting his left ear nearly off, and
inflicted a bad scalp wound, also a bad
wound on the right side of the head and
injuring the bones of the skull.
Mr. J. R. Crosby, who . resides on
Upper Crooked river, Crook county, lost
his barn and about twenty tons of hay
by fire a few days ago. The fire was set
by a little child who "wanted to see it
burn." Mr. Crosby's loss is a severe
one to him as it would be to any poor
man. A horse escaped from the barn
after being somewhat scorched. .
An incident worthy of mention, and
one probably without a parallel in this
state, happened in Astoria last Friday
morning, eays the Lupatch. Thirteen
editors, representing different sections of
Oregon, walked into the Parker House,
and after registering, the proprietor said,
"Gentlemen, if any of you are thirdly,
follow me, and I think "your thirst will I
be Quenched." Stranse as it mav seem.
S w J not a man moved.
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inp neweiroin ine KOseDurg-uoos isay
railroad is encouraging. Daring the
present month the tracklaying from
Marshfield to Coquille City, a distance
ot twenty miles, will doudtless be com
pleted and the cars running regularly
that distance. This will be a great step
in the onward progress of the road, and
every indication is that the road will be
pushed on to Myrtle Point ten miles
from Coquille before the rainy season
sets In. .
B. M. Huston, who has the contract
of taking the machinery into the San
tiam mines for the Albany Mining and
Milling company, has five yoke of oxen
and eight horses now at work hanling in
the company's new ten-stamp mill.
Nearly a month will be required to take
all the machinery into the mines. Two
shins of men are at work m the tunnel
The lower level is 215 feet and the upper
one ieei. l ue character ot the ore
grows constantly better as the work
proceeds.
There is likely to be litigation at Ash
land over the water in Ashland creek.
The fruit growers use so much of if as to
subject the mills in town to serious in
convenience. The peach growers argue
that the peach crops bring in from $50,
000 to $75,000 a year to that place, an
amount far exceeding that realized from
any other one source, and they have
made up their minds that they will en
courage peach culture to the utmost ex
tent, even if it takes every drop of water
in Ashland creek to give ft the necessary
fostering care.
Robert Albee, a well-known stockman
of Butler creek, Umatilla county, was
! seriously injured in a runaway accident
1 the other day. In the wagon "with him
I were Mrs. Nelson and her son. When
j the horses started to run Mrs. Xelson
clasped her boy in her arms and jumped
J out, escaping without injury. After an
I ineffectual attempt to hold the horses
j Mr. Albee was thrown out. The brake
i handle caught his left leg and he was
i dragged with his head on the ground
I some eighty or 100 vards, until the
horses turned into a barb wire fence.
I The brake had penetrated six inches
into Mr. Albee's leg, inakincr
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. . . . ..... r . . , , . , r , iiiw -'ii. .-xiuutr a it-it, iniiKini; u juiiKeu
trWer $1000 foa the benefit of the and fearfui woumh He was also badiv
n 7- Masox, Mayor, i bruised a bot the head. : '
Brooklyn, Aug. 16. Dr. Talmage has
returned from bis western tour reinvigo
rated in health and cheered by the hearty
and enthusiastic greetings he has received
in the numerous cities he has visited.
Thousands of persons who have read his
sermons in their local newspapers have
struggled to get within sound of his voice
wherever he has spoken. His sermon this
week is on the very common and foolish
habit of borrowing trouble, and his text is
Matthew vi, 34. "Sufficient unto the day is
the evil thereot"
The life of every man, woman and child
is as closely under the divine care
though such person were the only man,
woman or child. There are no accidents.
As there is a law of storms in the natural
world, so there is a law of trouble, a law of
disaster, a law of misfortune; but the ma
jority of the tronbles of life are imaginary.
and the most of those anticipated never
come. At any rate, there is no cause, of
complaint against God. See how much he
hath done to make thee happy; his sun
shine filling the earth with glory, making
rainbow for the storm and halo for the
mountain, greenness for the moss, saffron
lor the cloud and crystal for the billow.
and procession of bannered flame through
the opening gates of the morning, chaf
finches to sing, rivers to glitter, seas to
chant, and springs to blossom, and over
powering all other sounds with its song,
and overarching all other splendor with its
triumph, covering up all other beauty with
its garlands, and outfiashing all other
thrones with its dominion deliverance for
a lost world through the Great Redeemer.
I discourse of the sin of borrowing trouble.
First, such a habit of mind and heart is
wrong, because it puts one into a des
pondency that ill fits him for duty. I
planted two rose bushes in my garden.
The one thrived beautifully, the other per
ished. I found the dead one on the shady
side of the house. Our dispositions, like
our plants, need sunshine. Expectancy of
repulse is tbe cause of many secular and
religious failures. Fear of bankruptcy has
uptorn many a fine business and sent the
man dodging among the note shavers.
Fear of slander and abuse has often invited
all the long beaked vultures of scorn and
backbiting. Many of the misfortunes of
life, like hyenas, flee if yon courageously
meet them.
FOECK HAPPINESS TO COMB.
How poorly prepared for religious duty
is a man . who sits down under the gloom
ot expected misfortune! If he pray, he
says, "I do not thins l shall be answered."
If he give, he says, "I expect they will
steal the money." Helen Chalmers told
me that her father, Thomas Chalmers.' in
the darkest hour of the history of the Free
Church of Scotland, and when the woes of
the land seemed to weigh upon his heart,
said to the children, "Come, let us go out
and play ball or fly kite," and the only dif
ficulty in the play was that the children
could not keep up with their father. The
McCheynes and the Snmmerfields of the
church who did the most good, cultivated
sunlight, Away with the horrors! they
distill poison; they dig graves, and if they
could climb so high, they would drown the
rejoicings of heaven with sobs and wailing.
Yon will have nothing but misfortune in
the future if you sedulously watch for it.
How shall a man catch the right kind of
fish if he arranges his line and hookand bait
to catch lizards and water serpents? Hunt
for bats and hawks and bats and hawks
you will find. Hunt for robin redbreasts
and you will find robin redbreasts. One
night an eagle and an owl got into fierce
battle; the eagle unused to the night was
no match for a owl, which is most at
home in the darkness, and the king of the
air fell helpless; but the morning rose, and
with it rose the eagle; and the owls and
tbe night hawks and the bats came a sec
ond time to the combat; now, the eagle, in
the sunlight, with a stroke of his talons
and a great cry, cleared the air, and his
enemies, with torn feathers and splashed
with blood, tumbled into the thickets. Ye
are the children of light. In the night of
despondency yon trill have no chance
against your enemies that flock up from
beneath, but, trusting in God and stand
ing in the sunshine of the promises, you
shall "renew your youth like the eagle."
THERE AP.E BLESSINGS A-PLEXTT.
Again, the habit of borrowing trouble
is wrong because it has a tendency to
make us overlook present blessing. To
slake man's thirst, the rock is cleft, and
cool waters leap into his brimming cup.
To feed his hunger the fields bow down
with bending wheat, and the cattle come
down with full udders from the clover pas
tures to give him milk, and the orchards
yellow and ripen, casting their juicy fruits
into his lap. Alas! that amid such exuber
ance of blessing man should growl as
though he were a soldier on half rations.
or a sailor on short allowance; that a man
should stand neck deep in harvests look
ing forward to famine; that one should
feel the strong pulses of health inarching
with regular tread through all the avenues
of life and yet tremble at the expected as
sault of sickness; that a man should sit in
his pleasant home, fearful that ruthless
want will some day rattle the broken win
dow sash with tempest, and sweep the
coals from the hearth, and pour hanger
into tbe bread tray; that a man led by
him who owns all the harvests should ex
pect to starve; that one whom God loves
and surrounds with benediction, and at
tends with angelic escort, and hovers over
with more than motherly fondness, should
be looking for a heritage of tears!
Has God been hard with thee that thou
shonldst be foreboding? Has &e stinted
thy board? Has he covered thee with rags?
Has he spread traps for thy feet, and galled
thy cup, and rasped thy soul, and wrecked
thee with storm, and thundered upon thee
with a life full of calamity? If your father
or brother .come into your bank where gold
and silver are lying about yon do not
watch them, for you know they are honest;
but if an entire stranger come by the safe
you keep your eye on him, for you do. not
know his designs. So some men treat God;
not as a father, but a stranger, and act
suspiciously towasd him, as though they
were afraid he would steal something.
THANK GOD FOB WHAT YOU HATE.
It is high time you began to thank God
for your present blessing. Thank him for
vour children. haDDV. buoyant and bound
ing. Praise him for your home, with its
fountain of .song and laughter. Adpre him
for morning; light and evening shadow.
Praise him for fresh, cool water bubbling
from the rock, leaping in the cascade, soar
ing m the mist, falling in the shower, dash
ing against the rock and clapping its hands
in the tempest. Love him for the grass
that cushions the earth, and the clouds
that curtain the sky, and the foliage that
waves in the forest. Thank him for a Bi
ble to read, and a cross to craze mwn. and a
Saviour to deliver.
Many Christians think it a bad sign to
be jubilant, and their work of self exam
ination is a hewing down of their brighter
experiences. I jke a boy with a new jack-
knife, hacking everything he comes across.
so their self examination is a religious cut
ting to pieces or the greenest things they
can lay their hand on. They imagine
they are doing God's service when they are
going about borrowing trouble, and bor
rowing it at thirty per cent., which is al
ways a sure precursor of liankruptcy.
Again, the habit of borrowing trouble
is wrong liecuuse the present is (sufficient
ly taxed with trial. God sees that we all
need n t-i-ruiin Hriintiut of trouble, and so
he apportions it for nil the clavs and years
of our. life. Alas for t he policy of gather
ing it all up for one day or year: Cruel
tiling to put upon t he back of one camel
all tin-i-ic-tro inteinlfil for the entire cara
van. 1 never look at my incniorandum i
book to w-e what eiigH.eiueuLs uud duties
hit far ahead. Ijtt every week 'xr
own hunieiis : -
wnv ni:i.; xkw siii:i:ows? .
The sundown of today Hre thick enough,
why implore the presence of other shad
mvs? ' The mp is already distasteful why
halloo to disasters far distant to come find
wriny out uiuru xall iuto the bitterness?
TuffVnnVlIi"1ulTirer eutoiiuueis, we can go
forth to challenge all the future?.
Here are business men just able to man
age affairs as they now are. They can pay
their rent, and meet their notes, and man
age affairs as they now are, but what if
there should come a panic? Go tomorrow
and write on your daybook, on your ledger,
on your money safe, "Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof." Do not worry
aliout tiotes that are far from due. Do not
pile up on your counting desk the financial
anxieties of the next twenty years. The
God who has taken care of your worldly
occupation, guarding your store from the
torch of the incendiary and the key of the
burglar, will be as faithful in 1801 as in
1SS1. God's hand is mightier than the
machinations of stock gamblers, or the
plots of political demagogues, or the red
right arm of revolution, and the darkness
will By and the storm fall dead at his feet.
So there are persons in feeble health, and
they are worried about the future. They
make out very well now, but they are
bothering themselves about future pleuri
sies and rheumatisms and neuralgias and
fevers. Their eyesight is feeble, and they
are worried lest they entirely lose it. Their
hearing is indistinct, and they are alarmed
lest they become entirely deal They felt
chilly today, and are expecting an attack
of typoid. They have been troubled for
weeks with some perplexing malady, and
dread becoming lifelong invalids. Take
care of your health now and trust God for
the future.
Be not guilty of tbe blasphemy of asking
him to take care of you while yon sleep
with your windows tight down, or eat
chicken salad at 11 o'clock at night, or sit
down on a cake of ice to cool off. Be pru
dent and then be confident. Some of the
sickest people have been the most useful.
It was so with- Payson, who died deaths
daily, and Robert Hall, who used to stop
in the midst of his sermon and lie down
on tbe pulpit sofa to rest, and then go on
again. Theodore Frelinghuysen had a
great horror of dying till the time came,
and then went peacefully. Take care of
the present and let the future look out for
itself. "Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof."
ROBS US OF WHAT STRENGTH WE HATE.
Again, the habit of borrowing misfor
tune is wrong because it unfits us for it
when it actually does come. We cannot
always have smooth sailing. Life's path
will sometimes tumble among declivities
and mount a steep and be thorn pierced.
Judas will kiss our cheek and then sell us
for thirty pieces of silver. Human scorn
will try to crucify us between two thieves.
We will hear the iron gate of the sepulcher
creak and grind as it shuts in our kindred.
But we cannot get ready for these things
by forebodings. They who fight imaginary
woes will come, out of breath, iuto conflict
with the armed disasters of the future.
Their ammunition will have been wasted
long before they come under the guns of
real misfortune. Boys in attempting to
jump a wall sometimes go so far back in
order to get impetus that when they come
up they are exhausted; and these long
races in order to get spring enough to
vault trouble bring us up at last to the
dreadful reality with our strength gone.
Finally, tbe habit of borrowing trouble
is wrong because it Is unbelief. God has
promised to take care of us. The Bible
blooms with assurances. Your hunger
will be fed; your sickness will be allevi
ated; your sorrows will be healed. God
will sandal your feet and smooth your
path, and along by frowning crag and
opening grave sound the voices of victory
and good cheer. The summer clouds that
seem thunder charged really carry in their
bosom harvests of wheat, and shocks of
corn, and vineyards purpling for the wine
press. Tbe wrathful wave will kiss the
feet of the great storm walker. Our great
Joshua will command, and above your
soul the sun of prosperity will stand still.
Bleak and wave struck Patmos shall have
apocalyptic vision, and' yon shall hear the
cry of the elders, and the sweep of wings,
and trumpets of salvation, and tbe voice
of Hallelujah unto God for ever.
PLACE TOUR TRUST IN GOD.
Your way may wind along dangerous
bridle paths and amid wolf's howl and the
scream of the vulture, but the way still
winds upward till angels guard it, and
trees of life overarch it, and thrones line it,
and crystalline fountains leap on it, and
the pathway ends at gates that are pearL
and streets that are gold, and temples that
are always open, and hills that quake with
perpetual song, and a city mingling for
ever Sabbath and jubilee and triumph
and coronation.
Let pleasure chant her sire" song,
Tis not the song for me;
To weeping it will torn; e'er lone.
For this is heaven's decree.
Some In teres tin E GosHlp Gathered From j
Various Sonrrea. J
Minnesota Thresher f.lfg. GoM x
HOME IS BKST. !
The hills are tlrarest which our childish ievt '
Have rlimhert the earliest: mul the streams j
most sweet
Are ever those nt which our young lips drunk,
Stoojiod to their wnters o'er the grassy hunk. i
Mid-it the eold. dreary seu-wnteh. Home's j
hearth-light
Shines round the helmsman plunging through
thenisht: '
And still, with inward eyes, the traveler sees j
In elose. dark stranger-streets, his native trees. I
. John fl. Wkittlcr.
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Minnesota Chief Separators!
Giant & Stillwater Plain and Traction
. "CHIEF" Farm Wagons.
Stationary Engines and Boilers of all sizes.
"It is the duty of society to
not regulate, evil." Dr. Alherl
I Saw Mills arid Fixtures, Wood-Working Machinery, Wood
remove,; bplit Pulleys, Oils, Lace Belts and Belting.
The liquor traffic is crushing the fond
est hopes of the mother heart of Amer
ica. The Presbyterian general assembly's
permanent committee in behalf of tem
perance says: "After all. the present
condition of things in relation to the
liquor traffic is not at all discouraging.
There is a mighty waking up of popular
opinion. There are vastly more tem
perance men and women iii the United
States than ever before.
Joseph Cook said at Broadway Taber
nacle, Xew York: "The churches
should rise to the temperance level of
the public schools. -
All denominations should declare, as
the Methodist church has, that the
liquor business cannot be legalized with
out sin.
Church members should support no
political party dominated by the whisky
ring. The churches should unitedly in
sist on the closing of saloons on Sundays
and on election day, and th.e prohibition
of the sale of liquor to drunkards and
minors, to Indians, and during fires.
General Master Workman Powderly
said in a recent address: "The politi
cian is what you make him. So long as
you bare your backs and hand the poli
tician a cat o' nine tails don't be sur
prised if he scourges and skins you. If
you walk up and open vour Docket to
tbe politician, saying, "rob me," why
should he not rob you? If the power
lies in you, damn in thunder tones the
liquor power that debauches the voters.
One hogshead of whisky in the city of
New York judiciously placed mav make
or unmake a president. Give out enough
glasses of gin in this city and state and
yon place the dispenser in the chair of
Washington.
iMlward Everett iiale says : "1 am
ready to acknowledge that the clergy are
apt to be a little fanatical in this matter
of temperance. Why not, indeed? They
see the skeletons in the closet, which
other people do not see. ' They receive
the confidence, and they know why this
lad never kept the fond promise with
which he entered college. They know
w4iat is tbe hidden cause of ruin" in this
household, and the fond hopes of that
young married pair. If you want to
make an active temperance member out
of any friend, set him to work in pris
ons, in charity organizations, in educa
tion ; you will soon find that he says less
about moderate drinking, that he looks
less doubtfully on strong legal measures
for keeping men out of temptation."
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But there's a song the ransomed sin?.
To Jesus, their exalted king.
With joyfnl heart and tongue.
Oh, that's the song for me!
Courage, my brother! The father does
not give to his son at school enough money
to last him several years, but, as the bills
for tuition and board and clothing and
books come ia, pays them. So God will
not give you grace all at once for the
future, but will meet all your exigencies
as they come. Through earnest prayer,
trust him. Put everything in God's hand,
and leave it there. Large interest money
to pay will soon eat up a farm, a store, an
estate, and the interest on borrowed
troubles will swamp anybody. "Sufficient
unto'theday is the evil thereof."
crop-weatber; bullhtix no, 7.
Report for the Week Bndlngr Saturday,
' September 12, 1801.
WESTERN OBKGOS WEATHEB.
The temperature has been lower, yet
above the average. The atmosphere has
been clearer of smoke, the weather has
been partly cloudy and local Bhowers
prevailed daring tne latter part of tne
week.
'' CHOPS. " '
The showers have done no material
damage, they have delayed some late
threshing, and somewhat retarded hop
picking m a few sections, ine tnresn-
ing of grain is practically over ; only a
few small lots vet remain to be threshed.
The wheat is being delivered to ware
houses and elevators. The wheat pro
duct was never better, the berry is of
first grade; the yield has been heavy,
generally more than was anticipated.
Large yields are reported from every
county. In Washington county for ex
ample, one larm yielded w Dusneis per
acre, anotner 04 Dusneis peracre. smut
is more generally reported than nsual,
though it is not this year so very exten
sive ; spring wheat is more affected than
fall wheat. The oat crop has been good
rat not as proportionally good as the
wheat crop. Hop-picking will be about
finished next week, unless the present
rains snould delay, tbe pickers more
than is now expected. The hops of
Douglas county were supposed to be
free from lice and mould, but on picking
some yards are found to be badly dam
aged. No lice are observable in
Josephine county. It is estimated that
lice and mould nave damaged tne nop
crop to the extent of $300,000. In Jack
son and Josephine counties corn is ripe;
of good quality and yield. Summer fal
lowing is in progress in many of the
Willamette valley counties.
EASTERN OREGON WEATHER.
A few showers have occurred. The
temperature has been cooler and about
the average. There has been less smoke
tbe atmosphere, in the interior
counties on the higher elevations frosts
occurred..
CROPS.
The showers did no damage. Thresh
ing is in progress in "some sections . and
in some counties it is nearly done. In !
Wasco and in parts of Sherman county
the wheat is more shrunken than in the
other counties. Yields of 40 bushels
and upwards are frequent in Morrow,
Umatilla and Union counties; in the.
. . . . t ii .
latter county, joaKer, n auowa ana in
The wail of the worse than widow, the
cry of the starved and suffering child goes
up to heaven, but human fatuity has in
terposed the shield of "regulation," and
no answer comes. Regulation, forsooth !
Can the vitiated appetite of the boy be
"regulated.' la there any way to reg
ulate the man or boy who has implanted
within himself an appetite which has
taken from him every particle of will
power? Can you save a man with a fe
ver in any other way than to remove the
cause of the fever? "Regulation!" Do
you want to take a census to enumerate
your children and say, "I will so regu
.late this evil that 1 this child shall be
mine and that one the saloon-keeper's?"
In brief, do you want to perpetuate an
evil, or do you want to kill it? If the
rum power really owns the state and
community, in God's name let it have
its way in peace. If it does not, if hu
manity has any rights, if the state and
the family have any claim to be consid
ered, let the law assert itself and stamp
it out. P. V.Nasby. '
Sir William Gordon and Lady Cum
ming's coming reception in New York is
already a matter of anxiety to the fash
ionable few, .and it is earnestly debated
whether to give them the cold shoulder
or .to receive them with that studied
warmth which would best emphasize
the Four Hnndred's opinion of English
wickedness.
NeW - Umatilla - House,
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A Petrified Woman.
Among the merchandise brought to
town on Saturday morningby the Amer
ican Express company was a black box
about seven feet long by two feet broad
and a foot high, says the Butte Miner.
It weighed about ' 600 pounds and its
contents were valued at f 5,000. It came
from Helena and is the property of F. A.
Ransem. . Tbe contents are the natural
curiosity of Kate Carroll, the petrified
woman of Arizona. . bhe died tnere in
1862 and was buried, and in 1884, twen
ty-two years later, when there was occa
sion to remove the remains, they were
found to be petrified. The form and fea
tures are said to be life-like, the entire
remains being permanently preserved
without any alteration to the contour.
The average cost of running a passen
ger train on the railroads of the United
States is 83 cents per mile, and the train
earns just $1.06 in doing if. Tbe profit,
therefore, is only 23 cents a mile, but it
foots up $300:000,000 on all the roads in
the course of a year. The roads get two j
cents and two mills per mile, multiplied
by millions, that makes the vast sum of
$300,000,000 profit. The roads get
little less than a cent for carrying a ton
of freight one mile, and it costs them
six-tenths of a cent to carry it. It costs
more to run a freight train a mile than
a passenger - train, the figures for the
former being $1.0b, and tbe tram earns
$l.bn per mile.
A Peculiar Death.
: John M. Peebles the 22-year-old son of
a wealthy London banker was accident
ally drowned in the Willamette river
Saturday evening last. Young Peebles,
in company with three other men, who
had undressed on one of the slips,
jumped into the river from the slip,
which stood about six feet from the sur
face of the water. As he did not soon
rise to the surface his companions be
came alarmed and as the water was only
five or six feet deep they had no trouble
finding him. He had not. been in the
water more than three minutes, vet
every effort to bring him back to con
sciousness was unavailing. A careiui
examination of the body after it was
taken to the morgue revealed the fact
that his neck was broken between the
fourth and fifth cervical vertebrae.
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Dun?en was onlv 19 when he preached
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The wheat has begun to move to- sea
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lew years he had fathered about him a
large congregation. At that time he
was a pale and tender stripling with a
noticeably large head. His rotundity of
body came many years later. (
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