THE DALLES WEEKLY: CHRONICLE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1895.
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The Jones Currency Bill.
' Washington, Jan. 17, Democratic
leaders of the bouse are devoting thein
selves assiduously to framing a bill upon
which they can agree, . and which can
secure a majority in the senate, for the
1 reorganization of the currency. It is
,:' understood their deliberations are based
,' upon the Jones bill. Jones has perfect-
ed the measure, but adheres to his or-
- iginal determination not to introduce it
unless he can be reasqnably assnred in
advance of its passage. He and the sup'
porters of the bill are today trying to as-
"certain jnst what' support can be ob
tained, and in doing this are to a certain
extent, canvassing the republican eide
of the senate as well as the democratic,
Powder Magazine Near Tacoma.
Tacoma, Jan. 17. The terrible explo
sion at Butte has greatly alarmed the
people of Swansea, a small town on the
outskirts of this city, where the powder
magazine of the Judson Company, of
. San Francisco, is located. For months
the people have been endeavoring to
have the magazine removed, but with
out success. Their concern has now
reached such a pitch that they have
- threatened to remove it themselves an
less the company does. Notice was sent
to President Lukens, of the company, at
Ean Francisco, warning him to have the
magazine removed. A portion of the
dynamite at Butte was taken from
Swansea. '
A Secret.
If all the ladies knew the simple secret
that a had complexion is due to a dis
ordered liver, there would be fewer sal-
low faces and blotchy skins. This im
portant organ must be kept active and
healthy to insure a clear and rosy color.
Dr.. J. A. McLean's Liver & Kidney
Balm as a purifier, beats all the creams
and lotions in existence and will pro
duce a more permanent effect. Removes
bad taste in the mouth, offensive breath,
yellow tinge in the skin, wind on the
stomach and that dull, billions feeling
which so surely indicates the torpid
liver. Price $1.00 per bottle. Snipes
& Kinnersly, Drug Co.
Railroad Grants In California.
Washington, Jan. 17. Camenitti to
day introduced a bill in the house to
provide for the examination and classifi
cation, by commissioners appointed by
the president, of certain mineral lands
in the land grants of the Central Pacific
railroad and various other ruads in Cali
fornia, and to reject, cancel and disal
low claims and filings by these com
panies on any unpatented lands which
may be classified as mineral.
LEAVES , NO MONUMENT.
The Vanishing American Indian Has Done
Nothing to Benefit Mankind. ' ..
A recent bnel announcement, un
noticed by many, had an. important
bearing n the "Indian question," or
on the duration of that question, says
the Kansas City Star. It was, seem
ingly, that the last mounted soldier of
the United States army had been ordered
out of the Indian Territory, something'
that had never before happened. Ever
since the white man ' landed on the
shores of - what are' now the - United
States a white man' with a gnn has
been watching' the Indian. The first
semblance of an army was raised to
fight Indians; almost the first structure
raised on the shore was a fort for pro
tection against Indians: so, for two
hundred years and more as the Indian
has fallen back, the soldier and the
fort have moved with him. Then the
white man moved around to the west
ern ocean and the western shore, to
Oregon and California, and began to
push the Indian to the eastward, fort
and soldier and settler altogether press
ing on. Now the Indians moved back
from the Atlantic .and Pacific to the
great central plains seem surrounded,
and now comes the order to take off
the guard. "He can neither fight nor
fly" is the idea of. this order. "He
must be a 'good Indian' now. The
troopers can unsaddle and take a long
rest from now on."' Does not this re
ally look as if we were approaching
the last hour of the last Indian?
In truth, the original "real" Indian,
absolutely unchanged by contact with
the white man, has gone now except in
the far deserts and mountain fast
nesses. In 1846, Francis Parkman
tells us in the "Oregon Trail," he saw
Indians who had not emerged from
the "stone age," and used imple
ments and weapons such as may have
been nsed by people before Noah's
flood. But could such Indians be found
now? Certainly not in the region
where Mr. Parkman found them. El
derly people who visit the "Wild West"
show make mild ' complaint that the
Indians who do the best they can to
look "natural" do not look like the
Indians of forty years ago. That In
dian has, somehow, "passed on."
This much is certain, that the "last
Indian" will be, in every sense of the
word, the "last." He will leave noth
ing behind him to mark the place he;
occupied in the world no history;,
neither monument... Books there will
be and museums and "collections," but
none by him. Should an Indian be
come so learned and accomplished as to
write a history he would become a
white man.. Many white men have
followed him, studied him. Learned
men from foreign countries have jour
neyed here for such purposes, but who
of all of them has learned the secret of
the Indian's heart? To do that it
would be necessary to become for the
time an Indian to "put yourself in
his place;" and what white man has
ever done that? The Indian has no
record, or it is as if whispered to the
winds or committed to the leaves that
fall or to the water that runs away.
The Indian rears, while he is an Indian,
no habitation that endures; when it is
gone there is nothing but a ring on
the ground that the rain washes away.
He throws up no highway; his narrow
path through the grass lasts no longer
than the buffalo's road to. ford in the
stream. So there must come a time
when, leaving no trace behind, he shall
pass out of this world, when the "last
Indian" shall go like the mist.
THE SPARROW AND THE CLOCK.
A Strange Story Told at the Paris Poly
technic School.
. A French paper tells the following
strange story of . a sparrow and the
clock at the Polvtechnic ' school ' of
Paris: -
In 1819 the Swedish scientist, Ber
zelius, during his stay in Paris, went
to the school to make some experi
ments in physics and chemistry before
the pupils. . To show the necessity of
air in the respiration of animals he
placed a sparrow under the receiver of
the air pump and created a vacuum.
. At the moment when the bird was
about to die for want of oxygen, the
cry of "Mercy! Mercy!" echoed from all
sides of the amphitheater. Berzelius
acquiesced in the decision of his hu
mane audience and released the bird,
which flew at once out of the hall.
After that day a strange thing hap
pened and kept on happening. Every
Wednesday and Sunday, at the moment
when the great hand of the clock was
within one minute of ten, and would in
sixty seconds mark the fatal hour of
leaving the playground and entering
school, an. obstacle seemed to stop it,
and the astonished doorkeeper noticed
that this last minute had an inconceiv
able length. '
The fact was noted again and again,
and a watch was set to discover the
cause. Then it was ascertained that
the happy delay was caused by a spar
row which, at the precise second, had
lighted on the hand of the clock. Of
course it was Berzelius' sparrow!
Now comes the sad and unnecessary
part of the story. The doorkeeDer one
day covered the hands with some
sticky substance, caught the grateful
bird and put it to death. The school
gave it a superb funeral and it was
buried in a corner of the great court.
That day the clock, which had evident
ly been a party to the conspiracy,' re
ceived the name of Berzelius.
"If I had vour voice," said the ven-1
triloqoist, apostrophizing the donkey
whose braying in a neigboring alley had
waked him out of a sound sleep at 3 A.
M., "I'd throw it back at yon, you long-
I eared beast !" Chicago Tribune.
"There's a train of thought passing
through my head at this moment," said
the lecturer.- "I thought you talked as
if you had wheels in your head," mur
mured the dissatisfied listener. Har
per's Bazar.
Mrs. Pelt Did she catch a nobleman? I
Mrs. Hyde Oh, no. Mrs. Pelt Ah,
one of the landed gentry? Mrs.Hyde
I presume so. At least, he was after
she "landed" him. Detroit Free Press.
"Who is the author of the phrase,
'make haste slowly'?" "I don't know.
It was probably somebody who was en
gineering a contract to bnild a new post-
office." Washington Star.
As between the government support
ing him or laboring for himself, give the
Indian his pick and he will never take
to the shovel. Philadelphia Times.
Mother Why, Marie, what's the
matter? Marie (sobbing) Nothing 1
mother only my bloomers bag at
the knees. Exchange.
Tammany's arithmetic, as brought
down to date; Addition, division and
silence; subtraction, investigatfon, in
carceration. Chicago Tribune.
Sparrow How nice and warm this
telephone wire is ! Swallow Yes ; there
must be a prizefight or a football game
somewhere. Puck.
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LIFE IN PARIS.
Hotel ftobber Arrested. '
Bakes City, Or., Jan. 17. J. D. Hart.
Charles Rafert and "Kid" Ginglea were
arrested last night on warrants charging
them with the Hotel Warshauer robbery,
committed Novsmber 28. The first two
named were arrested shortly after the
robbery, and discharged on account of
insufficient evidence. The officers feel
confident the guilt of all the parties can
now be proven. Examination will be
held tomorrow.
"Sugar" Defendant Most Plead.
Washington, Jan. 17. All the de
murrers offered by the defendants to the
indictments agaidst President Havmeyer
and Secretary Searles. of the American
Sugar refinery Company; Broker Sey
mour and correspondents J. J. Edwards
and J. O. Shriever, were overruled today
by Judge Cole, in the criminal court,
and the defendants were required to
plead to the indictments.
Three Miners Killed. .
Spokane, Jan. 17. A snowslide 10
miles from Kalso, B. C, killed three
miners, Moore, MicMillan and Charles
nr;ftfKnH nnr.a C .1 17 1
who were on their way to the mine from
Kalso. Two miners working on the
Silverton mine, in the slide's path, are
missing. ,
As a Knox county man and his wife
were passing the schoolhouse, a flying
snowball hit the wife of his bosom in the
neck. He was enraged, and justly, and
turning to the schoolboys, shaking his
fist in anger, he cried : "It's lucky for
you, you rascals, that you didn't hit
me!" '-''
Female Help Wanted.
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ing for us quietly at home. Position
permanent, and if you can only spare
two hours per day, don't fail to investi
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Btrayed.
Bay horse, black trimmings, star in
forehead, white - streak in one eye,
slightly Roman nose; weight about
1050, and about 6 years old. Address
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Advertise in The Chronicle.
A COURT BALL. -
Brilliancy of the Scene as Depleted by an
American Visitor.
Never shall I forget the sight which.
greeted me as we entered, writes Win-
nifred Grant, in Home and Country. A
long walk between two lines of people
led to the further end of the room,
where I saw a slender man, in the uni
form of the Austrian hussars, and a
sweet-faced lady in a court costume
that fairly blazed with jewels, sur
rounded by ladies and gentlemen in
waiting, all gorgeously attired. The
brilliancy of the countless crystal gas
lights from the huge chandeliers, the
superb uniforms, wealth of sparkling
jewels on all sides, and the magnificent
gowns, all completed a picture of daz
zling beauty, never to be forgotten. I
was dimly aware of the fact that the
countess had again given our names to
some official, who repeated them to the
master of ceremonies, handing him the
cards. Not visiting cards, mind you,
but huge things with our names so
clearly written as to defy mistake.- We
had dropped our trains on entering the
room,and they were immediately spread
out to their full width and length by
ushers with long wands.
Then we slowly marched np the
room, and after our names had been
announced to their majesties, we each
stepped . forward and courtesied, or
bowed, almost to the floor. Then we
backed away, keeping our faces toward
the royal party, until we reached the
end of the room, where we stopped to
breathe for a minute. I had been pre
sented, and lived, and was grateful.
Presently there was a movement in
the lines of guests, and at the same
moment a hidden orchestra began a
majestic polonaise. The guests moved
towards the sides of the room, leaving
the center cleared, and, headed by two
ushers with staves, the royal party
slowly marched around the ballroom
and then retired. - His majesty's ball
had been formally opened.
An Ancient Hunting Ground. '
There is still a deal of good hunting
on the Delaware peninsula, although
the region has been steadily shot over
by a sporting population for the last
two . hundred and fifty years. Dela
ware has stringent game protective
laws, and in the lowest county of the
state there are great swamps that still
harbor a considerable variety of game.
The same is" true of -several of the
Maryland eastern shore counties, and
the two Virginia counties have prob
ably as good aquatic hunting as is to
be found anywhere on the Atlantic
coast short of a few almost inaccessible
points north and south. '
Household Js .Redolent of
Domesticity.
Life in Fans means wnat it does in
all large cities; the good and the bad.
The casual tourist sees, as a rule, only
one side. As a race, the French are a
merry-making people; their very na
tures seek and crave enjoyment. But
their amusements are, therefore, not
necessarily of an order below the ken
of respectability. It has been my pleas
ure to see something of French do
mestic life, says a New York lady, and
to hear more of it from sources away
from prejudice. The affection which
exists between the French father and
his daughter is beautiful and almost
spiritual. Home and family means as
much to him as it does to the resident
of any other city under the sun. -
The French mother is not only a cook
par excellence, but a perfect type of
housekeeper. By nature she is quick,
and she accomplishes much more with
less exertion than does her English
sister. The education of her children
is as a gospel to her. Her religious
faith is strong, and she instills it into
her children at the domestic board and
at eventide. The parents live out of
doors, but it is rare, indeed, that you
see children on the streets of Paris
after reasonable hours. They are
taught to find their chief amusement in
the home; and everything is done by
the French father and mother to see
that the home is attractive to their
children. . One of the most beautiful
sights in the world is to see a well-
regulated French family, where you
will find the atmosphere redolent with
domesticity.
THE PRICE OF A WIFE.
She I'm sorry I married you. He
You ought to be. You cut some nice
girl out of a mighty nice husband. Life.
.A. ZtTZEW
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Undertaking Establishment
PRINZ & NITSCHKE
-DEALERS IN-
Furniture and Carpets.
if yotj "wA.:rsrT
Government, State, or Dalles Military Road Lands,
" . : call on ':
Thomas A. Hudson.
Successor to Thornbury A Hudson,
83 Washington St., THE DALLES, OR.
If you want information concerning Govern
ment lands, or the laws relating thereto, you can
consult him free of charge. He has made a spe
cialty of this business, and has practiced before
the United States Land Office for over ten years.
we nave added to our business a
complete Undertaking Establishment,
and as we are in no way connected with
the Undertakers' Trust, our prices wil
be low accordingly.
He is Agent for the Eastern Oregon Land
Comnany, and can sell yon Grazing, or Un
improved Agricultural Lands In any quantity
desired, and will send a Pamphlet describing
these lands to anyone applying to him for it
He is Agent for sale of lots In Thompson's Addi
now to The Dalles. This Addition is laid off in
Wasco Waieipse Co.,
Receives G-oods onStor-1
age, and Forwards same to
their destination.
from (
Settlers Located on Government Lands. ' ' - '
If yon want to Borrow Money, on Long or Short time, be ean accommodate yon.
' Writes Fire, Life, and Accident Insurance.
If yon cannot call, write, and your letters will be promptly answered.
Receives Consignments
For Sale on Commission.
Savages Flaco a Varying Value Upon Their
Chosen Helpmates.'
In the earliest times of purchase a
woman was bartered ' for useful goods
or for services rendered to her father.
In the . latter way Jacob purchased
Rachel and her sister Leah. This was
a Beena marriage, where a man, as in
Genesis, ' leaves his. father and ' his
mother and cleaves unto his wife and
they become . one flesh or kin the
woman's. The price of a bride in Brit
ish Columbia and Vancouver island
varies from twenty to forty pounds
sterling' s worth of articles. In Oregon
an Indian gives ' for a wife horses,
blankets or buffalo robes; in California,
shell moisy or. horses; in Africa, cat
tle. A poor Damara will sell a daughter
for one cow; a richer Kaffir expects
from three to thirty. With the Banyai,
if nothing- be given, her family claim
her children. In Uganda, where no
marriage recent1 t existed, she may be
obtained for halt a dozen needles, or a
coat, or a pair of shoes. An ordinary
rricc is a box of percussion caps. ' In
other parts, a goat or a couple of buck
skins will buy a girl. Passing to Asia,
we find her price is sometimes five to
fifty rubles, or at others, a cartload of
wood or hay. A princess may be pur
chased for three thousand rubles. In
Tartary, a woman can be obtained for
a few pounds of butter, or where a rich
man gives twenty small oxen a poor
man may succeed with a pig. In Fiji,
her equivalent is a whale's tooth or a.
musket. These, and similar prices else
where, are eloquent testimony to the
little value a savage sets on his wife,
He Had a Rite.
Mr. Jones keeps a toy shop, and. among
other various things, sells fishing rods,
writes "Blackshirt" in . the Algiers
Democrat. - For the purpose of adver
tising them he has a large rod hanging
outside, with an artificial fish at the
end of it. Late one night, when most
people were in bed, a man who was
rather the worse for his night's enjoy
ment happened to see this fish. He
looked at it, and then went cautiously
up to the door and knocked gently.
Jones did not hear this, but after the
man tad knocked a little louder he
appeared at the window up above.
Who's there?" said Jones. "Don't
make a noise," said the man, in a whis
per, "but come down as quietly as you
can." At this request Jones, who had
recently been robbed,, thought there
must be something the matter. So he
he dressed and came down as quietly as
possible. "What is the matter?" he
asked. "Sh!" said the man. "Pull
your line in quick; you've, got a bite."
fates treasonable!
MARK GOODS
w . W . Oo.
THE DALLES. OR
A. A. Brown,
Keeps a full assortment of '"
Go to C. E. Bayard's or T. A. Hud
son's Office and get your Land Papers
made out for Fifty Cents.
Land Office Business a Specialty.
Ten years' experience.
Offices on Washington Street, be
tween Second and Third.
Staple and Fancy Groceries
and Provisions.
which he offers at Low Figures
SPEGMIi :-: PRICES
to. Cash Buyers.
HiiW Casl Prices for lis ani
otter Proance.
170 SECOND STREET.
Tie Columbia Packing Co.,
PACKERS OF
Fofk and Beef
E. J. COLLINS & CO. will occupy
this space. Keep your eyes open.
TERMS STRICTLY CASH.
. MANUFACTUKERB OF
Fine Lard and Sausages.
THE DALLES LUMBERING CO.
INCORPORATED 1888. - '
No. 67 Washington. Street. . - . ' The Dalles.
TETliAlnanlA a-nf4 1? ata il TaalaM an1 'M'aniifaAfnMM yf '
Clirers Of Lf BRAND Building Material and Dimension Timber, Doors, Windows, Moldings, Eoiss Furnishings, Etc
. ' ..... . . i . . a.1 m . r m .-. . 1 'I 1
I Special Attention given xoine ractnuiauiuru orrrun aiiu nsn
Boxes and Packing Cases.
Factory and Iiumber Tard at Old Ft. Dallei
Dried Beef, Etc.
DRY Pine, Fir, Oak and Slab, WOOD Delivered to
any part of the city,