THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1892.
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WHY WE ARE THANKFUL.
THE FOREIGN MINISTRY.
E LKCTIII ill T V I N AVAR
There is not a person in all the land of
free America able to read President Har
rison's proclamation, but whom will en
dorse its every word. Truly have we
much for' which to be thankful. Mr.
Harrison says :
"The gifts of God to our people during
the past year have been so abundant and
so special that the spirit of devout
thanksgiving awaits not the call but
only the appointment of a day, when it
may have common expression. He has
stayed pestilence at our doors. He has
given us more love for free civit institu
tutions, in the creation of which his di
recting providence is so conspicuous,
He has awakened a deeper reverence for
the laws. He has widened our philan
thropy fov a call to succor distress in
other lands.
lie nas blessed our schools, and is
bringing forward a patriotic and God
fearing generation to execute his great
and benevolent designs for our country
He has given us great increase in mater
ial wealth and wide diffusion and con
tentment and comfort in the homes of
our people. He has given his grace to
the sorrowing. Now, therefore I, Ben
jamin Harrison, president of the United
States, do call upon all our people to ob
serve, as has been their wont, Thursday
the 24th day of this month, November,
as a day of thanksgiving to God for his
mercies and a supplication for his con
tinued care and grace."
This proclamation is a timely reminder
that, despite all political differences and
our troublous- campaignings, party
against party, we are still one people,
with one common country, and that a
glorious one. On Thursday next we
shall be prepared to observe after our
usual fashion our national fast day, but
not by fasting. We got over that long
ago and substituted feasting.
Every year brings its evidence that
railway facilities are inadequate to the
full transportation of the immense
masses of freight which this country is
capable of turning out. Every year re
peats its lesson in the freight blockades
and car famines, which show that the
railways are unable to perform the full
work thev have undertaken. Yet the
production of the country is but a frac
tion of what it would be if cheap and
. rename . water transportation were
-opened from the headwaters of the Col
ombia and the Mississippi to the oceans.
Under euch a development the transpor
tation of the higher classes of freights to
which the canals are unsuitable would
. yield the railways constant and profita
, ' ble traffic, while the waterways would
1 transport the large masses of cheap
freights at prices which would relieve
the railways of their burden. However
the policy of improved waterways may
be hampered by corporate greed and
.. jealousy, it is bound to succeed. It will
-soon come to be recognized as a case
- of the public interest versus the rail
" ways. It would be wise on the part of
' the latter to acquiesce gracefully in the
policy of improvement before the issue
takes that unpleasant form.
The proposal of the New York Her
ald that our foreign ministry be abol
ished and a perfected consular service
bo substituted therefor, while its de
tails are not yet known, probably pos
sesses much merit. There is something
un-American and incongruous with re
publican simplicity in this high-priced
system of having ambassadors extraor- j
diuary and ministers plenipotentiary at !
the courts of monarchies where they
perform few duties save those social in
their nature, the giving of dinners, at
tending fetes." entertaining American
society people abroad, and the like,
The svstem is antiquated anyway. It
originated in the days of monarchy,
when a subject could not leave one
couhtry to visit another without a pass
port and its accompanying red tape;
when ministers or diplomats were em
ployed by one monaTch to lie to and
deceive another monarch as to his inten
tions in respect of war, and to keep a
close watch on the movements of the
other. The diplomat was a kind of dig
nified spy. Language was given him to
conceal thought ; the subtleties of inter
national law afforded him ingenious di
version in the way of demanding redress
for fancied injuries, the redress being in
the shape of coin or territory if the di
plomat's country was powerful enough
to enforce the demand, and it was also
his duty to intrigue and plot against
the peace and security of the govern
ment to whose court he was assigned if
that government was antagonistic to his
own.
The whole system was a fraud, a
sham, a deceit. That we should have
imitated it was bad enough, but the
height of the idiocy was reached some
years ago when it was seriously proposed
to invent some gorgeous uniform to be
worn by our ministers abroad to distin
guish them from the lackeys and nun
kevs. and the driveling American toad'
ies who might be abroad without
uniform, such as -General E. Burd
Grubb wore at the court of Spain
There is little excuse for this system in
these days of railways, steamships and
telegraphs. The consuls do most of the
work, anvway, for which the ministers
extraordinary, etc., receive the pay and
credit.
Anv American citizen who may be
unjustly treated abroad could, and gen
erally does, apply to the nearest consul
for relief, and the consul can, and gen
erallv does, take the case in hand and
cable the particulars to our state de
Dartment. where its merits are exam
ined and from which our protests and
ultimatums are sent. By all means
perfect the consular service, for it is of
some utility and has a place in the re
publican form of government. The
'extraordinarv ornaments naa Desi
ELECTRICIANS WILL PLAY AN IM
, PORT ANT " PART " IN BATTLE.
Electrical Appliances on Shipboard May
Cet Oat of Order So Frequently ,u to
Render Necessary the Presence of a
, Corps of Electricians.
be
abolished.
The P. B. Cornwall company has at
last struck the coal vein it has been
prospecting for within the city limits of
Whatcom for nearly a year. They sank
ten holes, and at the tenth attempt at
depth of 410 feet found a 15S-foot vein,
of which 112 feet 13 good steam and
domestic coal. This is undoubtedly the
old Bellingham bay vein, which fur
nished the coast with- coal years ago,
and which was abandoned while being
worked under Bellingham bay because
of a flood of water. The discovery is at
the head of Walnut street in a flat coun
try, and the vein lies nearly horizontal.
Scientific men "predict that coal can be
found at less than 500 feet depth in this
vicinity. Why cannot a company be
formed to try and obtain a coal supply
at or near The Dalles t
The coming legislature has a duty to
perform" in that it should devise some
progressive general system of road law3.
It is doubtful if there is another state in
the union with as deficient road laws as
we have. We hail the coming of rail
roads and are always ready to grant
them liberal subsidies. They are held
to be absolutely necessary to the up
building of cities and the development
of the country ; but a system, a practi
cal all-the-year-round system of wagon
. roads ; roads that would be good winter
and summer alike, would be of ten times
more value to the people than any line
of railroad possible.
-According to the latest returns Cleve
lands majority in the electoral college is
only 40. This will show that Harrity's
(Tammany) calculations were about as
square as a calculation could be made,
They had given up New York, 36 votes ;
and believed what they said when they
telegraphed to Murphy that the issue
must be fought out to cast the four votes
of Oregon for "anybody to beat Har
rison."
It is recalled that Benjamin Harri
son's grandfather, William Henry Har
rison, was elected president in 1840 by
a landslide as big as the one which de
feated the grandson in 1892. Then there
was another ancestor who was promi
nently mixed up in the landslide which
severed the American colonies from
England, and another, further back in
history, in the landslide which deposed
Charles Stuart for the great commoner
Cromwell in England. The Harrison
family seems to run to avalanches.
, The London Graphic says the admir
alty has decided not to build any more
guns weighing over 50 tons. It has also
decided that every gun must be mounted
in such a manner that it can be loaded,
trained and run in and out by hand
power. The guns will have a degree of
elevation now unattainable, and the
crews will be better protected.
The general missionary committee of
the Methodist church is in session in
Baltimore. Appropriations for home
and foreign missionary work aggregate
$1,310,000, besides $500,000 for the
women's home and foreign missionary
societies. The work of the; missions is
progressing most satisfactorily.
William Anderson was arrested in
Chicago while trying to sell for $5 a set
of 16 ivory billiard balls worth $600, yes
terday. This arrest brought out the
story that the store of C. G. Akam was
robbed of between 150 and 200 sets Sat
urday, worth in the aggregate $15,000.
A Chicago paper denies the story of
the disappearance of Jim Wall, the Aus
tralian book-maker, and says he is still
there. It is reported he has been sick
and has lost several thousand dollars
and retired from the ring.
So far us the stationary torpedoes are
I concerned, methods are quite well settled
j and the practice has been reduced to a
science, one, however, which requires a
good deal of electrical skill for its proper
application. The automobile torpedo
involves problems that area worthy sub
ject for the exercise of ' the highest elec
trical skill. So far as the Whitehead
and similar missiles of destruction are
concerned, there is cot much to be done,
electrically speaking, for a torpedo of
that class is purely a missile discharged
from a gnn. but supplied with means for
continuing its course to an efficient dis
tance under water. '
Inasmuch as a high initial velocity
does not agree with powerful explosives,
the falling off in velocity would be too
marked if any long range were attempt
ed. With dirigible torpedoes, however,
the case is very different Then one
must depend on electricity for steering
if not for motive power, and there is
room for considerable improvement both
in speed and certainty of operation, two
prime essentials. But the function of
the electrician is by no means ended with
torpedo service, for in the equipment of
any modern man-of-war the electrical
apparatus plays a very important part.
The modern gun. twenty to forty feet
in length, with corresponding weight,
cannot be handled by man power as
quickly as the exigencies of service
sometimes require, and the dhoice lies
between electricity on the one hand and
hydraulic machinery or donkey engines
on the other. The latter have been very
freely in use; the former has made its
influence felt often enough to show that
it is fully up to its work. The electric
motor is undoubtedly better suited to
such sort of work than any other kind
of mechanism.
THE SEARCH LIGHT.
Since the introduction of secondary
batteries every bit of working mechan
ism is exposed to a formidable fire and
must be protected at all hazards. Here
the motor, from its very small size, of
fers a particularly difficult target, and
besides can be ensconced behind the gun
shield or even behind the gun itself, so
that nothing short of a blow sufficient to
disable the latter would cripple the
motor, and in addition the' means of
communicating power to the said motor i
are very unobtrusive and exceedingly I
easy to duplicate.
it is a perfectly simple matter to sup
ply it through half a dozen different cir
cuits in parallel with each other, all of
which would have to be shot off before
the motor went even temporarily out of
use. Even then an electric wire can be
handled with such ease and rapidity
that temporary communication would
be re-established very readily although
under fire, while if a steam OBwater
pipe were shot away there would be no
replacing it during action.
The search light, too, comes in, for its
share of attention, both as .a weapon of
defense and offense, and more attention
should be given it than has yet beei
done. The destruction of a search light
during a torpedo attack would be a very
serious calamity, and when one remem
bers that torpedo boats are usually sup
plied with rapid fire guns, such a possi
bility is by no means remote.
DANGER FROM RAPID FIRING GUNS.
From a 37-millimeter revolving can-
non--a size frequently used for the pur
pose nearly a shot a second can be
fired, and at half or three-fourths of a
mile the accuracy of this weapon is so
great as to render hits quite probable,
and a single projectile or a fragment of
a shell would stand a good chance of
putting a search light out of use. . All
this points to a reduplication of the ap
paratus on a considerably more extended
scale than has usually been the habit,
and besides all this there is a question
of communication between different
parts of the ship, and especially with
the conning tower, and here, as every
where, the convenience of electricity,
the readiness with which circuits can be
multiplied and re-established make its
use almost imperative.
In case of war the electrician will find
plenty to do. both in the wav of routine
work and improvements, and may play
a part of great importance. Electrical
World.
Hasn't Iteen Sbaved Since Appomattox.
'Have a shave, sir?" said the new
barber.
fWhat?"
"Have a shave, sir?" he repeated.
"No, sir; haven't shaved since I860."
The men in the chairs snickered and
moved their heads to get a glance of the
old gentleman as he clinched onto the
bootblack's perch. The o. g. was not a
bit reluctant to talk.
"No, sir; haven't shaved since I860,"
he went on. "Swore 1 wouldn't if Lee
was whipped."
The old gentleman was the pioneer
physician. Dr. L AL Ridge, and he de
clared he would wear his long beard to
the grave. Kansas City Times.
mi
mm
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ine
ft Dais, PortM and Mora
Navigation Co.
THROUGH
Freioiu ana Pssenosr Lias
mrougti .daily service (bundavs ex
cepted) between The Dalles and Port
land. Steamer Regulator leaves The
Dalles at 7 a. m. connecting at Cascade
Locks . with steamer Dalles Citv
Steamer Dalles City leaves Portland
(Yamhill street dock) at 6 a. in. con
necting with steamer Regulator for The
Dalles.
PASSENGER A IES.
One way
Round trip
.$2.00
. 3.00
Freight Rates Greatly Reduced
Shipments received at wharf any time,
day or night, and delivered at Portland
-n arrival. Live stock shipments
sonciien. uau oa or aaoress.
: DRUGS
Snipes &Kinersly.
to
-THE LEADING-
Jim m mil
TXIEIE I3K.UG-S
Handled by Three Registered Druggists.
ALSO ALL THE LEADING
Patent ffledieines and- Draooists Sntiifc
HOUSE PAINTS OILS AND GLASS.
Agent3 for Murphy's Fine Varnishes and the only asents in
me Kjuy ior ine fcnerwin, Williams Uo.'s Paints.
-WE ARE-
The
Largest
Dealers in Wall . Paper.
Finest Line of Imported Key West and Domestic Cigars.
Agent ior lansill's runch.
129 Second Street,
The Dalles,. Oregon
DIED.
At the home of her brother at Canyon
Creek, Clackamas Co. Oregon, .Nov. 14,
1892 Flora L. Bonney aged twelve years
and 8 months youngest daughter of Eld.
B. F Bonney o"f Wamic, Oregon.
Born.
In The Dalles, to the wife of Capt. Ad.
Keller, November 18th, a son. Just in
time for the Cleveland jubilee.
Estrsy Notice.
Taken up on the 15th of Oct. 1892. at
the point of starvation, a light red and
white spotted cow with notch in upper
side of left ear.and brand on right hio. not
discernable, and red calf, the owner may
have the same by proving property and
paving costs of keeping and advertising.
Il.llw4t D. W. Mann, Mill Creek.
B. F.
W. CALLAWAY,
General Agent.
LAUGHLIN,
General Manager.
THE DALLES.
OREGON
A- A. Brown
Keeps a full assortment of
Staple anil Fancy Groceries
and Provisions.
which he offer at Low Figures.
SPEGIfili :-: PAIGES
to Cash Buyers.
Highest Cash Prices for Effs anfl
oiler Produce.
170 SECOND STREET.
.A NEW
t!
PRINZ & NITSCHKE.
DEALERS IN
Furniture and Carpets.
We have added to our business
complete Undertaking Establishment,
and as we are in no way connected with
tlxj Undiirtakers' Trust our prices will
be low accordingly.
liemember our place on Second street,
nexi 10 iuooav's oanK.
' Two of a Kind.
A sturdy eight-year-old with the craft
of a Talleyrand, informed his mother
upon his return from school that "Will
Brown and another fellow got a licking
at school today." And Tommy's mamma
might never have been the wiser had not
Tommy's sister burst into the room soon
after and announced, "Oh, mamma,
Tommy and Will Brown got whipped at
6chool today." Chicago News.
Queer Effect f the Moon.
There is a lady now living in Alle
ghany who suffers intense pain in the
head whenever the light of the full
moon falls upon her. At these times she
does not venture out at night, but shuts
herself up in a dark room. There are
maniBuch cases on record. ."
XII. H. Ybang,
BiacRsmiin wagon shod
General Blacksmithing and Work done
promptly, and all work
Guaranteed. r
Horse Shoeing a Speciality
TMrfl Street, opsite tbe old Lielie Stand.
The St Charles Hotel,
PORTLAND, OREGON.
'PI" in nnmilop an A volialila hnnoo
has been entirely refurnished, and every
rnom Vina Vuon PAnanaMrl onH ranainro
house contains 170 rooms and is supplied
wuu every moaern convenience, itaies
reasonable. A cruvl restanrant attached
to the house. Frer bus to and from all
trains.
C. W. KNOWLES, Prop.
FLOYD & SHOWN,
DKALEUS IN
DRUGS, lEDIGINES AND CHEMICALS,
Fine Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, Parfnmery, Etc.'
Pure Liquors for Medicinal Purposes.
Physicians' Prescriptions a Specialty.
Corner Union and Second Streets,- . - The. Dalles, Oregon.
CHRISMAN & CORSON,
-DEALERS IN-
GROCERIES,
Flour, Grain, Fruit and Mill Feed.
HIGHEST CASH PRICE PAID FOR PRODUCE
COR. WASHINGTON AND SECOND ST.
THE DALLES, OREGON
JOLES BROS
t
-: DEALERS. IN:-
mm,
Hay, Grain and Fted.:
tonic Block.. Corner Third and Court Streets. The Dalies.Oregon.
HORSES
J. S. COOPER,
Corner Barn, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois.
The Largest and Only Strictly Commission Dealer
in Horses in the United States.
Commencing the 3rd of August and every month throughout the year will hold
Special Extensively Advertised Sales of v
WESTGRN RHNGE HORSES.
Reference :
(vuiuaju xiauuuai ttu&t vuiuau, All.
Write for Particulars.
Washington fifo DllBS,
SITUATED AT THE HEAD OF NAVIGATION.
Destined to be the Best
Manufacturing Center in
the Inland Empire.
Best Selling Property of
the Season in the Northwest.
For Further Information Call at the Office of
Interstate Investment Go.,
0. D. TAYLOB, ft Dalles. Or 72 WaslM St, Mai ,0r .