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fcHE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1891.
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Among- tho Reboots of VT .
Editor of the Chronicle:
The following notes were gleaned con
cerning tha schools during the full vlit.
This was begun Septcmlcr 17th and,
with many interruptions, closed Dceem
ber 18th:
That portion of the county on this
side the DesChntes river and eat of the
Canyon City road and all that beyond
the Deschutes was reserved for the
spring trip. Alfthe rest of the county
was traveled over and all schools visited
that wera in session. An exception
from this is made of the schools in The
Dalles, tfio town of Hopd River and the
Cascade Locks, which will be visited
during the winter.
The statement is again reiterated here
that in order for the superintendent and
the schools to work jointly and in har
mony with each other, the superinten
dent must be informed, cither by the
clerk or the teacher, or both, of the be
ginning of every school session. The
necessity of this is apparent to any one
who will stop and think a moment. To
time his visit so as to reach the greatest
number of schools, he must know at
such time what schools are in session.
Again, how can the superintendent suc
cessfully assist in supplying the schools
with teachers, as he is expected to do, if
he is left in the dark as to the result of
his efforts? Often, long after a teacher
has left the office to supply a certain
place, it is accidentally teamed that h
has been ingaged at another, and so the
muddle poos on. Much more might be
said in this line, but "A word to the
wic is sufficient.'
Mention is here made of every district
visited and I have endeavored to make
note of all improvements made since my
1 lust visit. Commendation and criticism
have alike been offered w ith a view to
the welfare of the school. The world is
marching on, the school world too, and
the progrens've schools arc marching
with it.- Those who make no improve
ment will surely be left. If peoplo
could only see that the advancement of
the school underlies all other advance
ments that of the family, the neighbor
hood, the stafo and the nation; even
this money-loving age might understand
that it pays financially to invest in a
g'xl school. ' .
District No. 2 of Hood River Vallev,
Las It. S. Andrews employed. He is one
of the first grade teachers of the county
and in a quiet way is doing good work
there. He is always buying new books
and studying new methods. The direc
tors and patrons are to be commended
for their zeal in furnishing the house
with apparatus and furniture. They
have lately put in new patent single
seats, the only country district in the
county that has them.
Dictrict No. 4 has C. L. Gilbert for
teacher, who has taughj here, I believe,
two years and a half. This is the largest
country school in the country, 54 pupils
being enrolled, and thoee who support it
deserve the highest praise. They have
made the experiment which some ottier
districts ought to imitate of having a
first class school at home, instead of
moving to town to send to school. The
bouse is supplied, it seemed to me, with
everything a teacher could ark for.
They have regularly voted t ten will tax
and pay the teacher $73 per month. The
half day spent there was a happy one
indeed. Every recitatiou seemed a de-
LUght to both teacher and pupil. The
progress of the latter certainly more
than justifies the money spent.
II. L. Howe is teaching in No. 5. Mr.
Howe is an old teacher, who having tried
business awhilo has again retarned to
the. profession This is his second year
here. A new porch has lately been
added to the house. They have maps,
globe aad dictionary. The house needs
painting, and reading charU and new
seats are needed. Tho district being
large, with t reasonable tax it might be
one of the first schools in tho country.
Tii alinil In Vn Ala amn.ll nnlv 1 1
pupils bting present the day of visit
Mrs. Belle Graham is teaching.' This is
her second year, and she is well liked.
Here we find one of the few log school-
nouses In tho country. Iney have a
mall globe, dictionary and a very fine
physiological chart.
Miss Ella Cooper was teaching her
second term in No. 7 and gave general
satisfaction- I noticed a small globe,
dictionary and one wall map. The
house need9 finishing.
No. 8 has a very nice bouse and very
well furnished. . Some of the pupils here
are well advanced. Miss Joele Spink
seemed to be doing good work for a
young teacher.
No. 9 has a small house but very well
finished and furnished for a country
school. The school la small, only seven
scholars being present. Mita Florence
Cram has been out of teaching for some
time, but on reentering the profession
her heart seems to be thorougnly in the
work.
The house and surrounding lu No. 21
Union School seems hardly in keeping
with the community. They need a new
stove, the house needs brightening op,
and the grounds improved. Mrs. Esther
Menefee, the teacher, seems to have the
faculty of getting the good will of all the
pupils.
Iu No. 24 they have a very comforta
ble house, and very well furnished. I
fouud Mies Kittie Snllivan lately from
the Michigan normal school, is doing
good work here.
In No. 25 Miss Ettie Howe has been
teaching ber first school this summer
and is doing very well for a beginner.
They have a neat little house but need
water for the school.
In No. 28 I found the poorest house in
my travels. 1 have since learned they
have rejmired it and made it comfort
! abla. The school is rrtiite small onlv six
pupils being present. Miss Lily M. Loy
hits a good method in the statements of
a problem on the blackboard.
In the Dnfur district, No. 2J, they
nave placed new seats up stairs, also a
partition, making another recitation
room. II. M. Pitman is engaged as an
assistant this year. lie is known here
tofore as a good teacher wherever, he has
taught. Under the excellent manage
ment of Mr. Frazicr the school has
turned out some good teachers for the
county. The grounds need improving
and, by rights, they w ill need a new
house soon.
No. 30, in Ixng Hollow, has nice new
scats. Miss Kate Cronin has an excel
lent plan for keeping all the little ones
busy.
No. 33 has built a new house and fur
nished it with new seats. The house,
though not finished, is a credit to the
district. Mies Lena Hadlev was teach
ing her first school successfully.
No. 35 has a new yard fence which
adds greatly to the beauty and comfort
of the school grounds. They need new
blackboards, Miss Margaret Daly was
employed for the second year, showing
they appreciated her work.
Miss Maggie Merrill was teaching
with success for the second year in No
37.
In No. 39 the house noeds finishing
and new seats and apparatus are needed.
The house and furnishings are not in
keeping with the neighborhood. The
teat her, Miss Mary Hawthorne had a
nice little recitation in primarv geog
raphy.
No. 41, near Wamic has a very good
house and good scat with some
apparatus. The house need painting
and also new m-ati. They -have a good
school under the leadership of J. F,
Nowlin, who is a wide-awake teacher.
He has a new method in numbering
classes that worked well.
No. J.'l has a large, warm houst, tut it
needs 'minting and new seats are needed
badly. O. B. Canr.clly is teaching his
second term and his work is appreciated.
It is suggested here that each district
should havo a name as well as a number.
Some of them have bnt many of them
have not. As it is necessary, if much
good be effected by the visit, to meet
school officers as well as teachers, the
statement is here made that if they will
only co-operate in this, the visit will b
timed and the date Bent ahead for the
next trip, so that there may be a chance
for school officers and superintendent to
meet in each district.
Attention is here called to the - fact
that a plan is in consideration for grad
ing the schools of the county, notice of
which is soon to be given. It is to be
hoped that parents, teachers and all
friends of education will thoroughly dis
cuss the matter, that a. proper solution
of the difficult problem may be found.
Tkoy Shelley,
School Snpt.
The Weekly Ghrouieie.
Entered at the Poatofflre. at Tha Dalle, Oregon,
aa soeoDd-olaaa matter.
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AdIr all communication to'TIIE CHROV
K'l.K," The IaHca, Oregon.
Chile is quieting down. The Chilean
govern meht has received word that Gov
ernor Ponnoyer of Oregon has appointed
a jtgudier brindle, and the erstwhile val
oroun Chileans are paralyze with fear.
Our new brigadier general the only ono
in the state, lives away off in the south
eastern part of tho state, where Oregon,
California and Nevada come together,
400 miles from anywhere, bnt tyranny
trembles just the same. Attorian.
t It is significant that the democratic
press of Oregon is giving warmer sup
pert to the candidacy of Joseph Simon
than that boss is getting from tho re
publican journals, They are probably
following the lead of Governor Pennoyor
who has recommended the appoint
ment. It has long been suspected that
Mr. Pennoyer owes innch of his political
success to the local Warwick who now
aspires to a federal judgeship. Spokane
Retiew.
The United States is the only nation
of tiro world- which is liquidating the
national debt, and the only one which
has more money in the treasury than
the government needs for current ex
penses. Since 1874 tho public debts of
Europe have increased by the enormous
sum of $10,000,000,000. The debt of
France alone since the close of the
Franco-German war baa increased bv
about $3,000,01)0,000, while Russia has
added to her indebtedness during the
same period an equal sum and is now
borrowing more.
Halo of tho Morning- Mine.
Spokane, Wash., Doc. 22. Messrs.
Peter Porter and Warren Hussey arrived
in Spokane this morning from the east,
where the sale of the Morning mine at
Mullan, was consummated. Although
the amount received has not been given
out, rumor fixes the sum at $450,000.
Excursion trains arrived in this city
today from Big Bend, Colville and Cuur
d'Alene. Hundreds of persons took ad
vantage of the low rates to visit Spokane.
fat oar for at Year.
Paris, Dec. 22. After considerable
debate in the chamber of deputies, the
government Dill to prolong for a year
the treaties existing between France and
other countries was adopted.
FARMERS AND POLITICS.
Our esteemed correspondent "Obser
ver vices the sentiment ot the uhbon-
icle exactly when he insists that
methods of reform in the politics of the
country, will be best worked out, under
existing circumstances within, the lines
of the old parties and that if the farmers
desire better and purer politics they
must pay particular attention to .the
primaries and see that the men sent to
the county conventions ;ire not such as
can be cajoled or bought by ring politic
ians whose sole object is their own ag-
grandezement. For years the farmers
have been complaining because so little
attention was being paid by our legisla
ture to their wants, whereas the cause
for this neglect lay largely at their own
doors. They have had next to nothing
to say about the nominations for office.
The politicians "fixed" the primaries
before hand and men were sent to the
conventions to do their bidding. Those
whom the politicians could not use must
be left at home. Thus the candidates ol
the bosses were nominated and the
farmers of course helped to elect them,
and then kept up a growl till the time
came lor holding lue next primaries
when the same thins; was repeated. And
the same thing will happen between
this and next Jane unless recent politi
cal agitation shall have tatfgbt the
farmers that if they want clean politics,
honest and efficient state and county
officers and legislation adapted to meet
their best interests they must guard the
primaries as a sicred trust.
in preserving peace.. Who doubts that
the Chilians would not soon cease their
bluster if the United States navy were
such ns to command a wboleseme res
pect for its power? It is hard to con
ceive of circumstances nnder which the
Chilians would have offered such wanton
insults to British subjects as they have
offered to American citizens. The
smallest kind of a cur may reason muz
zled mastiff whoso simple presence, un
muzzled, would itself drive the cur in
silence to its kennel. The countrv
I needs a navy worthy of it, if for
other purpose, to preserve the peace.
no
The report of the United States stat
istician J. R. Dodge, dated December 10,
estimates that the corn crop for the
present year exceeds 2,000,000,000
bushels and "closely approaches the
largest crop ever grown in this or any
other country." The average price is
42.2 cents against 50.6 a year ago. Orf
the basis of December prices the present
corn crop is worth to farmers nearly
$100,000,000 more than that of last year.
The wheat crop id estimated as having
been 50 per cent, larger than that of
last year. The average price is placed
at 85.3 cents per bushel. This years
crop in the aggregate is worth to growers
In the neighborhood of $175,000,000
more than that of last vear.
BALLOT REFORM.
Very few will agree with the critique
that appeared in the Oregonian a few
days ago on the new system of voting
adopted by the last legislature. The
Spokane Review Tery properly says :
The Oregonian is finding faultwith the
new plan before it has been put to a test
in Oregon. It thinks that
"It u a troublesome system, the ma
chinery is cumbersome, the cost af hold
ing elections will do niucn increasea,
the polls will be obstructed, voting will
bo delayed, busy men will not find time
to wait, and the whole system will be a
a nuisance. " inc. Australian
ballot law is merelv a scheme of idea
lists and visionaries, and it may safely
bo predicted that after its first- general
trial in Orecon there will be a general
demand for its repeal."
In Washington, where the new law
has been given a fair trial, the people
think diffeaently. Of course, more or
less inconvenience always attends the
changing of tho old for the new, but this
soon disappears. It is then seen that
voting is not delayed or obstructed, that
busv men are not annoyed, and that bet
ter still there is a close approach to the
ideal election, of an honest ballot and a
fair count. At the lost state election in
Spokane, we are assurrcd by the party
managers of both parties, not a 5 cent
piece was expended for tho purchase of
votes. Here nobody thinks of demand
ing a return to the old conditions. At
most a few changes might be suggested
in the way of simplifying the election
machinery, but these need not impair
the usefulness oi the method.
It can hardly be doubted that there is
trouble in the camp of the majority in
the house of representatives. The elec
tion of Crisp to the speakership, accepted
at first as a shrewd stroke of conserva
tive policy may prove in the long run to
have been a mistake. The followers of
Mills are unwilling to accept defeat with
good grace and a split seems imminent
that may work considerable mischief to
the country as well as the party to which
it belongs. If after all the cry that has '
been made against the McKinley bill
the democratic majority cannot agree
among themselves to at least attempt to
give the people something better, the
peoplo may survive the affliction bat
the party will suffer.
In view of tho fact that this country
has yet several millions of vacant lands
suitable for agricultural purposes the
Oregonian saggoSTs tiiat the followers of
Henry George, who bold that the land
belongs to the jeople becauso of the
simple fact that they were born npon it,
should go to work and possess themselves
of few acres before it has all become
occupied. The suggestion is a good one
but it won't be adopted. The followers
of Henry George don't want that kind
of land. They are after nice, improved
farms or handsome corner lots, that
other men's labor and energy have
made valuable. They have no use for
lands that require years of patient toil
to make valuable.
The deposits on the New York banks
last Saturday footed np the enormous
total offt44G,57S,000, the largest that the
banks ever bad at any one time since
the organization of tho clearing house.
This plethora of money, in the opinion
of many conservative bank ofKcers and
brokers, is taken to indicate a big boom
in the near future, while fn the opinion
of some the boom has already com
Let no one say that mnddy streets
have not their uses. A tiro occurred in
a two story building in Seattle tho other
day and a inaji hatued Maxwell jumped
from a second story window into tho
rn uddy street and came off without a
scratch. Tien a Mrs. 'O'Brien threw
her baby out aftei him and it was
saved. Then Mrs. O'Brien herself
lumped into the mnd unhurt. Thus a
t muddy street saved three precious lives..
Blest as the icop!e of the United! . t " ., . .. ,
States are with an overflowing abun- . ..
, eyes upon a straw cutter over m Martin
dance of the good things of this life it is ,
, , , . .... J & Sanders ware-room. Tavlor went in
hard to conceive that twenty millions of 1 . . . , . .', . .
' ,, , 1 , . 4 and tested the merits ol the machine,
fellow mortals are slowlv starving to! . . , . , , ,u a I
, . . ,. . 1 coming out with the loss of the first
death in Russia, and harder still to con-; . - . , , 1
' . mint nf tha inil niiwornf IliA luff, iinriil
ceive of such terrible illustrations of;i , . , . .
man's inhumanity to man as the din
i by sticking the finger between two cog-
! wheels of the machine. A dav or two
patches furnish ns when speaking of
th'n famine-stricken land. Three men
were convicted of robbery. They were j
nHAaoA.1 v-Y MiirfYtao tsnnlaKtiianr tat rha t '
knout. Tho poor wretches, who had ht ot the ii-nca whcel ,.arried it.
probably stolen only to keep themselves ! for some time at a good rate of speed.
afterwards Mr. Dunn was showing a
' friend how Taylor had suffered his loss.-
He set the machine in motion and when
from starving, died under the lash. A
man detected stealing a few turnips was
sentenced to penal service for life. The
rich merchants of St. Petersburg refuse
This is the wav he done it" said Mr.
Dunn, as he laid the index finder of his
left hand between the cogs that were
meshing together, when whack went the
first joint of the fincer all the same aa
in irlve anrthin? for their snfferin conn- I Tavlor. "Well. I don't want any of
try men. Collection boxes placed about i your gol-smashed inachines" said he
,J . , , , 1 and then went and minted up a doctor
the corn exchange were found filled anj had his wound dressed. Both are
with bits of tin and paper. In numer- j painful, though not serious injuries.
ous instances where dealers received ex-, folk County Oburttr.
orbitant prices for grain, bags were sent f Tho people here think that the lead
to the provinces filled with grass, sand ; erg of j, of lhe 0ia parties committed
and bran. Many town officials refuse to i tne UK)gt. damnable outrage on the peo
enroll starving peasants on the relief , vrt Jn rw,,,m.ndinff jo- Simon aa one
list unless they first receive
Corruption is wide spread,
and death are visible on every
a bribe.
Sickness
hand.
A late dispatch
among the papers
On Their Way to ( hill.
Washi.nuton, Dec. 22.. The navy de
partment is informed that the United
States steamers Philadelphia and Con
cord arrived at Port au Prince today.
informs us that
presented one day
this week to the senate and referred,
were the resolutions of the military or
der of the Loyal Legion of the United
States adopted at St. Paul urging the
completion, at the earliest movement
practicable, of a "navy sufficient in
ships and armaments to command and
of the district United States judges that
could have been done. It looks like the
bosses of both parties have formed a co
partnership and are going to have their
own way and for their own political ad
vancement. Let the people of Sherman
county beware or the political bosses of
this county will fix up just such a trade
and persons will be nominated for the
next legislature w ho will do for us what
our members did at the last legislature.
Watco .NVus.
Alaska is going to have an exhibit of
her own at the world's fair which, it is
enforce the respect due tho flag of the j said, will be a very complete and inter
nntl.tn tho world over." While war L estinir collection of the arts and
under any circumstances is to be depre
cated as a dread calamity, to be amply
prepared for it is an important factor
indus
tries of the natives, as well as the fish
ing and mineral products of that far-off
land.