THE DALIES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1892.'
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ICLE," The Dalles, Oregon.
The state bo'ard of equalization has
adjourned without having fulfilled the
expectations we had formed of it. Any
set of school boys could have eqnalized
the assessment of sheep and cattle and
horses, but it required an intelligence to
deal wit l some other classes of property
which the board does not seem to have
possessed. . To fix the assessed value of
cattle at $12.50 by the band and sheep
at $1.60 is not equalization at least not
in any part of Eastern Oregon. The
board has increased the assessment of
railroad property and telegraph lines,
which is quite right, but we venture the
assertion that this class of property s
not yet assessed at one half its value.
The road bed of the Union Pacific in
Wasco county has been assessed for
years at $5000 per mile, while it proba
bly cost an average of six or eight times
that amount, and is worth in cash the
greater part of it, yet here is property
assessed at only a fraction of its value,
while money, notes, accounty shares of
stock and mortgages are to be assessed
uniformly at their face value. Again we
say this is not equalization but the very
opposite. Some shares of stock are not
worth ten cents on the dollar, others are
worth vastly more than their face. No
business house in the world estimates
its notes and accounts at their face value.
They are neyer worth it, yet the board
has decreed that an open account that
may not be worth twenty-live per cent,
of its face shall be assessed equally with
mortgages that are usually as good as
gold coin. Nay gold coin itself is rated
no higher than semi-worthless -notes,
accounts and shares of stock. J'.ut the
board proposes and the taxpayer dis
poses and the result of it all will be that
more and more of the property thus
treated unfairly will be carefully con
cealed from the assessor every time it
can be done with impunity, while an
unfair and unequal burden will fall upon
the shoulders of those who are tpo hon
est to conceal anything.
farther than Judaism, notwithstanding
the severity of its code, ever went. The
most that Sabbatarians can reasonably
ask is that the day be constituted a legal
day of rest from active labor. That has
been done alreadv and no man who loves
the toiling masses can wish it otherwise.
Sunday is the working man's day, a
legal day of rest, as the Fourth of July,
or Christmas or New Year; but this
does not mean that a man shall not
work on these davs if he ia so inclined,
or spend the day in recreation, if he so
wills. The government, as such, cannot
prescribe how these days shall be ob
served because the government knows
neither Christian nor infidel, Jew nor
Gentile. Its function is to protect the
citizen in the exercise ot his liberty to
do as he pleases so long as the rights of
others are respected. If certain lines of
business are restricted on any of these
days, the restriction is not based on re
ligious grounds hut is a purely civil reg
ulation for the preservation of order or
health or some kindred purpose. But
the observance of Sunday as a day of
religious worship the government can
not enjoin or enforce. This is the
church's function and when the church
seeks hv force of law to compel non-
Christians to observe a purely Christian
institution it sets itself ct variance both
with Christianity and free government.
The founder of Christianity would call
it putting new wine in old bottles, with
the result that the wine would be
spilled and the bottles marred.
The success of the Cascade portage
has done more than anything else could
have done towards getting another
portage between The Dalles and Celilo.
What has been accomplished for the
country between The Dalles and the
Cascades is but a drop in the bucket
when compared with the interests to be
benefited by the further opening of the
river. It is with great pleasure that we
notice the growing sentiment among the
newspapers of Western Oregon in favor
of The Dalles portage. The Salem
Journal boldly and earnestly advocates
the measure nd the Portland Telegram
never misses an opportunity of speaking
a good word for it. Eastern Oregon
owes a deep debt of gratitude to these
journals for their unselfish interest in
the prosperity of the inland empire. In
this connection it is but simple justice
to say that the portage already built and
tlm fin0 vp linno in cif Imflfr in li i nnnr
future have no truer friend than Gov
ernor Pennoyer. His earnest co-operation
with the owners of the people's line
-of boats had much to do with making
the Cascade portage a success, and
Jits well-known interest in The
Dalles portage will go far towards secur
ing a state appropriation, if present ef
forts fail to get aid from AVashington.
But the success of the Cascade portage,
coupled with the enterprise of The
Dalles merchants and business men who
have made this success possible, has,
more man anytning eise, awasenea an
interest in the opening of the river that
will never rest till the people from Idaho
to The Dalles will have such advantages
from river competition as' this city and
the country tributary to it now enjoy.
The state board of equaliaatioa has
committed a grave error in declaring that
all mortgages in the state shall be
assessed at their face value while the
property by which the mortgages are
secured as well as most other kinds of
property is assessed at perhaps not more
than an average of fiftv cents on the
dollar. If everything else was assessed
at its full value the action of the board
would be just and right, as it is, it is
neither law nor justice. If the action
of the board would in any way relieve
the borrower, by compelling the lender
to pay the inequality we might treat the
matter with less concern, although noth
ing in the Oregon code would justify
that action: but it is far otherwise.
Assessing mortgages at their face while
other property notably town lots and
other valuable real estate is assessed at
half that rate is simply saying that the
borrowing classes must pay the differ
ence of this unequal tax. Not once in a
hundred times does the lender of money
pay the tax. The borrower always pays
it either by special agreement or by an
increased rate of interest. The decision
of the board, under existing conditions,
is foolish, unjust, unequal and oppres
sive and we shall be much surprised if
the courts shall not be called upon to
rescind the iniquity.
UULD VVATEK CURES ALL
A UNIVERSAL PANACEA FOR SUFFER
ING HUMANITY.
The lward of equalization has decreed
that the road beds of the various trunk
lines of railroads in the state shall be
assessed at $5000 per mile'. . These roads
probably cost an average of not less than
four times that amount. In that case a
railroad company gets off with paying
25 cents while a borrower of money on a
mortgage security must pay a dollar. A
sheep worth three tofourdollars is' taxed
at $1.60 a dollar mortgage is assessed at
a hundred cents. This is called eqali
zation in the web-foot nation.
The democrats of Salem have issued a
circular calling a meeting at an early
date for the purpose of discussing the
advisability of establishing an evening
daily and weekly democratic newspaper
in that city. The Salem Journal claims
that "the effulgent literary genius of the
Statesman city editor will sit at the helm
of 'the new "enterprise.'.' In fact the
Journal claims that the Statesman is
going to steer the new ship nil the same
as the Ovegonian does the Telegram.
The advocates of Sabbath reform are
going too far. They , have no right to
demand that this govcinmrnt shall pre
scrib? the manner of observance of a
purely Christian institution by men
who are not Christians. This is goinj;
Current Comment.
It is now safe to howl "I told vou so !"
to the enemies of the Australian ballot
law. The virtue of the system was
lately tested in Sacramento, and de
clared to be something mighty good in
state government. In every really es
sential feature the ballot law is the same
in California as in Oregon.
Says the Record -Union: "There was
no confusion, no ticket-peddling, no old
time rushing up to or crowding about
the polls. Voters received their ballots,
retired into the booth compartments,
stamped their ballots and cast them
without anyone save themselves know
ing their contents." Ashland Tidings.
The Medical Gazette alleges that the
following letter was received by a physi
cian from a man whom he knew, prac
ticing medicine, and desiring counsel:
"deer Dock I have a pashunt who's phy
sical sines shows that the wind-pipe has
ulcerated off and his lungs has dropped
down into his stumick i have given him
everything without effekt his father is
wealthy horable ann influensbal as he is
a member of the assembly and god nose
i dont want to loose hvm what shel i du
ans be return male. Yours Frat.'
The editor of the Times-Mountaineer,
in his New Year greeting to his patrons,
boasts that he "has followed the path of
honest journalism for over eleven years,
and has never advocated a theory that
was not in accord with his conscience,
and for which he was afraid to answer
before his God." This is high recom
mendation, and probably a true one,
though being written about one's self it
sounds a little as if the editor "doth pro
test too much." Telegram.
The western Washington farmer, who
went to New York to buy counterfeit
money, has returned to his bailiwick in
Maple valley. Besides his fate to New
York and back he is out $140, which he
paid for some old green paper and pieces
of broken brick. He fully coincides
with the truth of the old saying: "Ex
perience teaches a dear school."
The Vancouver city council has de
cided to expend $5,000 in dredging out
the saudbar in the Columbia river above
the mouth of the Willamette, which now
prevents deep sea vessels from reaching
her wharves. ,
Railroad surveyors in full force have
been seen in the neighborhood of
Goldendale, but no news of their busi
ness could lie obtained from them. We
hope they mean business anyhow.
Goldendale Courier.
, They weie talking about trees. "My
favorite," she said, "is the oak, It is so
noble, so magnificent in its strength.
But what is your favorite?" "Yew,"
he replied. ,- ..
, - LOST,
A bunch of keys cn a rinc. ft or 7 in
nuiner. Finder will be rewarded by
leaving same at tliis office.
The Abb Sebastian Kneipp" and HI.
Power or Healing A Patient Up
. scribes the Method of the Prieat'a Treat
ment Cold Water Csed Externally.
Few Americans have seen the little
village of Woerishofen, lietween Mem
mingen and Angsbonrg, in Bavaria, and
yet for the past four or five years this
little burg has attracted as many visitors
as Bayreuth and Oberammergan. Woer
ishofen is celebrated not for its mineral
waters, not for its bracing air, bnt for
its marvelous cures performed by the
priest of the village, the Abbe Sebastian
Eneipp. Each year at least 30,000 in
valids make a pilgrimage to Woerishofen
and endure all inconveniences in order
to be cured by the Abbe Kneipp.
The Abbe Kneipp is a celebrity in
Germany. He is called a genius, a
savant, a benefactor of the human race.
Everything in the village is named for
the wise priest. For instance, there is
Kneipp coffee, Eneipp bread, Kneipp
linen, etc. Always at least a dozen
physicians are present at the consulta
tions of the priestly heaLr, and these,
after thoroughly understanding his sys
tem, will found Kneipp Anstalten at
Stuttgart, Munich. Wurtzbourg, etc. .
This good abbe believes that water
will cure all the ills to which flesh is
heir. A friend who went from Paris to
consult the Abbe Kneipp has told ine of
her experience at Woerishofen, and of
her great admiration for the abbe's wis
dom. '
THE ABBE. j
In the village there are only three or
four primitive inns, but most of the in
valids lodge in private houses no less
primitive. The abbe has been compelled
to build a large houss for the benefit of
th clergy, for priests also ask to be cured
by their confrere.
The abbe receives at the presbytery,
and begins consultations at 8 o'clock in
the morning. The great physician sits
in a large room on the ground floor, snr
rounded by pupils. The abbe is a fine
looking man. His regular features and
fresh complexion denote health, and his
broad, high forehead, hardly touched by
a jmnkle, is framed in white hair.
His eyes are the bluest and brightest I
have ever seen, for his soul seems to be
concentrated in these eyes, and they pene
trate you through and through in fact,
to make a diagnosis, the abbe only looks
at a patient and in diagnosis he never
errs. Some who went to the priest with
despair in their hearts left him buoyed
up by courage and with the assurance
that their diseases were not incurable.
Although the abbe says "I cannot de
stroy death," still he has cured many
whose diseases baffled the skill of others.
A man whose face was disfigured by a
horrible cancer asked his advice. Calm
ly the priest said, "It is easily cured,"
and after several weeks of lotions and
baths the cancer disappeared. The blind
have recovered their sight and the lame
have walked.
According to the Abbe Kneipp every
disease originates in the blood; there
may be a disturbance in its circulation,
where may be a derangement, of its com
position. WHAT WATEB DOES.
Water alone can act thoroughly on the
blood; and water produces four notice
able effects. It dissolves the injurious
principles of the blood, eliminates that
which has been dissolved, restores regu
lar circulation to the purified blood and
fortifies the debilitated organism. In a
talk with the abbe after consultation
hours, he said that fifty years ago people
did not take cold as at the present time.
Why? Simply because the body was more
hardened to changes in temperature.
Water makes the body capable of en
during all climates, and the best way to
begin the treatment is to walk barefoot
in the wet grass. After a quarter of an
hour's promenade without drying the
feet, one must put on dry shoes and
b toe kings and exercise until the feet are
very warm. "If you can nnd no dew,
no wet grass," said the abbe, "walk on
cold, wet stones, or even on the snow.
That is my remedy for those who are al
ways taking cold."
The abbe's treatment varies according
to the malady. For some he prescribes
vapor baths, for others wet compresses,
for others baths with oats or hay added
to the water, etc. The water must be
as cold as possible, and in winter enow is
preferred. But a cold bath must never
last more than five minutes, including
the time required for dressing and un
dressing, and the bather must never use
towels, but always exercise for fifteen
minutes after the bath. Friction only
causes unequal circulation, but exercise
produces a uniform heat.
Warm bat us should always be followed
by a plunge in cold water. The good
abbe says one must never drink too much
water, and Cue least possible during re
pasts. "Drink a little water before eat
ing, very little while eating, and two or
three hours after drink as much as you
wish.'' Paris Cor. New York World.
Tha Apparition In the Elevator. '
Some years ago a young man came to
Chicago from Germany. His father had
cut him off from his annuity. He lived
in the same, house where I lived. He
finally obtained a place in one of the big
grain elevators here. I do not know
what the place was except that he had
something to do on the top floor, away
up under the roof. Several, men were j
employed with him in the same place. 1
One day while he was dusting he snd- !
ienly stopped and asked his assistants
who that nicely dressed old man was
that was standing back there by the
shaft. Strangers are never allowed in
these big elevators, and to see one there
well dressed was enongh to excite com
ment. His companions looked in the di
rection indicated and said they saw no
one. He insisted, and when they laugh
ed at him he went to the place where he
saw the figure standing. On his ap-
proach it vanished.
! The young man failed. He recov
I ered and then asked his companions to
! make a note of the occurrence, the date
and the time of day. He said the figure
he saw was that of his father. In
twelve days he received a letter from
the old country telling him of his father's
death. The date and time agreed with
the date and time of the occurrence I
have described. The letter informed
him that his father had forgiven him
and remembered him in his will. He
returned to the fatherland, got his por
tion of the estate and is living there
now. You may say what you please,.
but 1 have never felt like scoffing from
the time I heard this story. The spirit
of that boy s father appeared to him on
the top floor of that elevator. Eugene
Field in Chicago News.
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MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN
FURNITURE iP CARPETS
Proceeds of a Jackkniie.
The champion horse jockey belongs in
Belfast in the person of Lije Walker.
Just to give his boy an idea how to get
along in the world Lije started away
from home on9 day on foot and nothing
in his pockets but a jackknife. He was
absent just one week and returned driv
ing a pair of horses harnessed into a top
buggy. Hitched to the rear axle was
another horse and a cow, while ahead
was a dog. "See how your pap does it,"
said Lije to his son, as he gazed at the
tune of day from a hauusomo watch.
For a fact he had got the whole turnout
for his jackknife, and swapping the pro'
ceeds into one thing and another. Bel
fast (Me.) Mail.
Olio Little Thine-
little things that count,'
said
ItB
Hicks. ' '
"Ye-es," returned Ma wson. "But very
inaccurately. My boy can't count eleven
without making about forty mistakes."
Harper's Bazar.
Why the Shark Is Always Hungry,
As it is a source of wonder how the
flea manages to exist in the sand, where
his chances of obtaining a meal may
not occur once in a lifetime, so natural
ists are puzzled as to how the shark
maintains himself. The ocean is wide,
and the number of men who fall over
board small indeed in comparison to its
area. The vast proportion of sharks,
then, must go through their lives with
out a remote chance of obtaining a meal
at the expense of the human kind.
There is no ground for the supposition
that the shark can exiiA upon air; he is
not like the whale, provided with an ap
paratus that enables him to sweep up
the tiny inhabitants of the seas. He is
too slow in swimming, and infinitely too
slow in turning, to catch any fish that
did not deliberately swim into his mouth;
and unless we suppose that, as it is said
of the snake, he exercises a magnetic in
fluence over fish and causes them to rush
headlong to destruction between his
jaws, it is impossible to imagine how he
obtains a sufficient supply of food for his
sustenance.
. Indeed, it would appear that it is only
when he gets the good luck to light upon
a dead or badly injured fish that the
shark has ever the opportunity of mak
ing a really square meaL His prolonged
fasts certainly furnish an ample explana
tion and excuse for his alleged savagery
of disposition, London Standard.
Uses for a Bottle of Gold Faint.
A twenty-five cent bottle of gold paint
is a capital investment for any woman.
She will find a dozen occasions for its
use every week of her life. Perhaps she
chips some bit of Japanese or other
fancy porcelain in dusting; a brushful
of gold paint over the chip will make
everything right. A gilt picture or mir
ror frame may be- bruised or tarnished;
call in the little bottle again and remedy
in five minutes and for a fraction of a
cent a damage the- cabinet maker would
charge a dollar to repair and keep your
frame a conple of days besides.
By the by, you: girls who are-clever
with your paint brushes, did yon ever
spend a few dollars at the damaged
counters of the large Japanese stores?
Do you know that you can buy for a
trifle lovely delicate vases and bits of
oriental wares that would sell for many
dollars were it not for a crack or a chip
somewhere. Buy them joyfully, take
them home tenderly and spend half an
hour with your paint box, filling up the
nick with flour paste, plaster of paris or
putty. Any of these will take- color
nicely, and if carefully painted and
dried the vases will be practically as
good as the best. New York Press.
An Ideal Way to Lire.
"The man I marry," quoth a vivacious
young woman the other day, "has got
to promise to give me a yacht home.
I've just been visiting some friends who
live, all the yea round on their yacht.
During the summer they cruise about
our northern waters and in winter go
south, taking; in the Mediterranean,
Japan or Norway and Sweden by way
of occasional outings. The yacht, a
large schooner, is gorgeously fitted and
has every needed convenience, comfort
and luxury, including a well stocked li
brary, aboard. It is an ideal existence
no calls to make, no balls, no shop
ping, no uncomfortable gowns, sunshine,
fresh air and the starlight what can
one want more?' Her Point of View in
New York Times. ,
Undertakers and Embalmers.
NO. 166 SECOND STREET.
New - Umatilla- House,
THE DALLFS, OREGON.
HANDLEY & SINNOJT, PROP'S.
LARGEST : AND : FINEST : HOTEL : IN :' OREGON.
Ticket and Baggage Office of the O. R. & N. Company, and offli-e of the Wester
Union Telegraph Office are in the Hotel.
Fire-Proof Sale for the Safely of all Valuables.
HNCHOR LINE
TRANS ATLANTIC, Meliterranean ail ORIENTAL STEAMSHIPS.
Passfingers booked to and from all parts of Europe and America. Drafts issued
for any amount payable free of charge in England, Scotland, Ireland,
Sorway, Sweden, Denmark and Italy. Ii you want to send
money to any part of the world. Call and see me lefore .
going elsewhere.
T. A. HUDSOfl, General Agent,
FOR OREGON AND WASHINGTON.
U. fr. LAND OFFICE BUILDING,
THE DALLES, OREGON
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Ladies" and Childrens' French Felt Hats, - - 25c.
Trimmed Hats. - - - - - 50c.
AND CPWARDS.
Ladies and Childrens Furnishing Goods, "WAY DOWN."
Mrs. Phillips, - 81 Third Street
When Amber Is Found.
- The largest quantity of amber is found
on the southern shore of the Baltic, be
tween Memel and Konigsberg, where it
is cast up by the action of the ground
swell after the northerly gales. It is
also found on the coast of Sicily, on the
shores of the Adriatic, on the English
beach of Norfolk and Suffolk and at
Cape Sable in Maryland. Mining for
amber in beds of brown lignite or wood
coal is carried on in Prussia, and it is
found in excavations all over Europe.
Philadelphia Times.
Lobsters Die Clams.
There is nothing which lobsters, when
grown, are so fond of as fresh fish.
Flounders and other bottom fishes fre
quently fall a prey to their appetite, and
sometimes they will nimbly capture
small minnows as the latter go swim
ming by. They dig clams out of the
mud or sand and crush the shells of
mussels with their claws, derouriug the
soft parts, Washington Star.
THE DALLES LUMBERING CO..
INCORPORATED 1888.
No. 67 Washington Street. . . The Dalles.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers and Manufacturers of
Building Material and Dimension Timber, Door Windows, Moldings, House Furnishings, Etc ,
Special Attention given to the Manufacture of Fruit and Fish
Boxes and Packing Cases. .
dljumber T?".x-i. ntOld 2Tt. X3 Alloa.
Factory an
DRY Pine, Fir, Oak and Slab WOOD .Delivered to
any part of the city,
Wasco warehouse Co.,
Receives Goods on Stor
age, and Forwards same to
their destination.
Receives Consignments
For Sale on Commission.
fates Reasonable.
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GITY PWT
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