THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 2. 1896
The Weekly Gtooniele.
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BTATK OFFICIALS.
Sjremoi..... vlT.W. P. Lord
anrotjiTv nf fltate - H R Kincaid
Treasurer -Phillip Metschan
8npt.of Public Instruction u. m. irwiu
iiinfimAmmi j C. M. Idleman
. , - Q. W. McBride
arascors - Jj. H. Mitchell
IB Hermann
Oongreramen. jw Ems
Bute Printer .,W. H. Leeds
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
Cinnt Judge. .... .... Root. Mays
Swift T. J. Driver
Clerk A M. Kelsay
Treasurer... ... cu,,'hi"!P
. . ' (A. S. Blower
Commissioners - ID. H. Klmst-y
Aesor W. II. Whipple
Borveyor B;. Voi
Superintendent of Public Schools.. .C. L. Oilbert
Cjroner W. H. Butte
THE LONG AGO.
come after us. they will in turn talk
of the good old davs of their fathers.
meaning us, the dissatisfied genera
tion mourning for the good old dajs
of our fathers In the language of the
good old Widow Bedbtt, "We're all
poor critters?' but the fellows who
held the boards before us -were all
right.": ..- ' - - - -.
-BEATS - THE OLD STYLE;
The good old davs of our fathers
v so often spoken of, exist largely in
the imagination. It is no doubt true
that tach generation has looked back
ward to compare existing conditions
with those gone before, and each in
turn has regretted the passing away
of the circumstances under which its
predecessors lived, prospered and
died. And yet each generation may
well afford to congratulate itself on
the advancement made over the con
ditions of the generation it suc
ceeded. We point to the early days of the
republic, and yet what was there then
that we would change the present
for. Then . there was no cars, no
steamboats, no steamships no tele
graphs nor telephones, no elecliic
lights, no postal conveniences, no
Another Enoch Arden case has
come tcTto the front, it being that of
William Weidner who' left bis home
and family in Indiana in 1856. His
wife mourned for him awhile, and
then she mourned for another fellow,
and got him. - She also proceeded to
raise a family and had six pledges of
affection added to her worldly
wealth when husband number two
died. William wandered . back
short time 'ago and was astonished
to find his wife still living, and ecu
eluded as husband number two bad
abandoned the claim, it might be a
good thing to re locate. So, with
proper and becoming ardor, he pro
posed again embarking on the sea
matrimonial.' As it seemed inap
propriate for a woman to be wearing
mourning foi a husband deceased,
who had at the same time a husband
living, the lady entertained -the suit,
and as Weidner had a nice little for
tune, she speedily .arrived at a de
termination to. assist him in enjoy
ing it As there never had been a
divorce, there was neither cakes,
cards nor minister, the patties taking
up the thread where Weidner had
so mthlessly broken it forty years
before. The couple start into mar
ried life in much better shape than
on the Hist occasion, for in the hiatus
Weidner nccumu.ated a fortune and
Mrs. Weidner a family, and now
street railways, no nothi.gr. The
stae coach was the then solution of j their joint accumulations are added
rapm transit, tne pncKet rusnen along
the canal at the rate of almost five
miles an hour, was an achievement
that filled the hehdomedal newspaper
with wonder, and the minds of the
gazing populace with awe. Mails
wete carried by private parties and
postage was charged according to
the distance the letter traveled. The
products of the West found market
in the Eaxt in the shape of live stock
that could foot it 10 its destination,
and in that alone. Cincinnati was
farther from New York, in time,
man Calcutta , is today, lbe news
was fresh at the age of from a week
to six months; the daguerreotype
was a wonderful thing, and the en
gravings and works of art now with
in the reach of all were unobtainable,
even by the rich. Our old school
books were illustrated with pictures
that, while they delighted the fathers
of the republic in their infancy,
would not now be sent to an Indian
school in Arizona, and even then the
happy urchins who owned them, ad
mired their beauties either by the
light from the fire or the extravagant
illumination of the tallow dip.
The country produced great men
then, it is true, but they were great,
not on account of better opportunity,
but in spite of obstacles. There is a
vast difference now the .difference
between the fifty-mile-an-hour rail
road train and the six-mile-an-bour
stage coach; the difference between
comfort and discomfort; between
stilts and a bicycle; ..between the
speed of the horse and the get there
ot chain lightning.
It is on the same principle that we
deceive, ourselves about the things of
out childhood. Who ever re-visited
the home -of his boyhood after he
had reached middle age without be
ing struck , by , the fact that every
thing had shriveled.- The old chest
nut ' tree that was fifty feet to the
first, limb, has sprouted branches
forty feet lower. L ;Tbe great hav
together and everybodjNs happy.
The outcome beats Enoch all hol
low, the curtain tailing oft. a happy
and 8milling family, . instead of a
human wreck and abundance of tears.
ing at their .posts of social d uty and
doing according to their measure
what Peter Cooper did, continue to
crowd in ever-increasing numbers to
the pleasure cities and haunts of Eu
rope, or spend their money at home
in selfish luxury and insidious dis
play, a crash will come and ought to
come. . The French aristocracy be
fc re the Revolution left their posts
of social duty in the country to live
in luxury and frivolity at Versailles,
The etd was the burning of their
chateaux. American plutocrats who
leave their posts of social duty for
the pleasure cities of Europe will
have do reason to complain If their
chateaux some day are burned. Un
fortunately warnings are seldom
taken by individuals and almost
never by a class, each member of
which looks to the other members to
begin.
prevail months in advance, and nam
ing tnem rignt. still we are in
clined to . attribute his phenomenal
forecasts as due more to his luck at
guessing, like that of Father. Pump
kin, mentioned by Saxe, than to any
insight into the future, or any pull
on the weather clerk.
ANOTHER MORTAL BLOW.
WE THINK HE IS.
Senators Mitchell and McBride
left Portland Saturday evening for
Washington, accompanied by Con
gressman Hermann. Senator Mitch
ell declined to say anything concern
ing his position on the silver ques
tion, except to remark that he hvcl
made fifty-five speeches in the recent
campaign working for the election of
McKinley on the St. Louis platform.
The sen tor seems to thiuk his record
sufficient guaranty as to what he will
do, but there are some hard-hearted
and thick-headed people who are not
satisfied and who insist on some defi
nite statement of the senator's views,
They say it would only take Mr.
Mitchell about two minutes to settle
all doubts; but it looks as though he
prefered leaving his position in such
shape that legislators may all believe
he represents their views.
Charles 6. Leland, in' one of bis
poems, expresses the idea, the great
political issue at that time being
whether the geese should be allowed
to roam at large in the village. He
said: -' ''
"And so he gets e'ected
Before the people found
.'. On whieh side of that goose It was
He was so awf-ii sound."
LESSONS ANU WARNINGS
THE ELECTION.
OF
Dr. Ooldwin Smith, lu the December Forum.
That the free silver movement was
largely an uprising of the poor
against ttft rich appeared when the
Populist committee refused to accept
the Democratic nominee for the vice-
presidency on the single ground that
he was a rich man. At the same
convention the belief propagated by
Mr. Henry George, ihat poverty lias
increased with progress and that all
the wealth produced has gone to tLe
mow, where we sought the new laid i capitalist, wa intoned in incendiary
egg. has become but a verj' small
affair; the lake above the mill that
excited our wonder is a frog pond,
: and the four acre field, where we so
longed for the short rows in hoeing
time, has become a mere truck patch.
.It is better, perhaps, that we
should regret conditions past, that
did not exist, than to envy those j'et
held in the future, but sure to come.
Life fifty years from now will exist
under highly improved conditions,
bnt most of os will not be here to
enjoy them. We can conaole ojr
selves with the reflection that how.
ever much we may envy those who;
poetry, as well, as proclaimed in in
cendiary prose. Yet the name of
Peter Cooper was received with
honorT - Wealth can no longer rest
on a supposed ordinance of the Al
mighty distributing the lots of men.
It can no longer rest on unquestion
ing belief in natural, right- If is
calleu. opon to justify its existence
on rational grounflg '-It must make
itself felt in beneficence. It must
avoid that ostentation : of luxury
which is- galling to the hearts of the
poor. It must remain at its post of
social duty. If rich Americans, in
the hour of peril, instead of remain- j
Weyler is back in Havana, and
preparing to "deliver a mortal blow"
to the insurgents. He seems to be
able to practice on the effects of the
blow better in the city than in the
field, and it works better on paper.
Weyler's mortal blows are made,
most of them, by telegraph, he be
ing only a good long distance fighter.
His recent conflict with Maceo re
minds one of Q. Q. Philander Does
ticks, and his boxing match with the
colored gentleman. Doesticks had
practiced boxing with a big stove for
an opponent, and after he got expert
enough to guard against the stove's
"counters," he hired the African
gentleman to come in and let him
hiff him with the g'oves. The
African, out of respect for his em
ptoyer, took the pair of gloves the
latter had used in boxing with the
stove. As the battle progressed
Philander made the discovery -that
ne was getting in almost one lick to
his opponent's five, and was in con
sequence highly elated at his pros
pects of soon delivering: a mortal
blow. Just as he was going to give
it, however, something: happened to
him. The colored man thought he
bad given the worth of his hire, and
went in for a little fun on his own
account. When Doesticks regained
sensuality bis colored opponent was
gone, likewise the boxing gloves,
all that was left of the battle being a
dozen or more cortusions on Does
tick's face, the effect of each being
heightened by a coating of stove
polish well worked in.
The great trouble with Weyler is
that he is too : much of a "mortal
blower,"
If you feel disposed to growl at
the weather, just read about tlie qual
ity of that article dished up to East
em; people. Back in the Dakotas
and Minnesota many people have
frozen to death, and at- one place the
storm was so severe that a trainman
lost his way going from his caboose
to the depot, and was frozen to
death. Already the. weather is mod
eratinghere, and whatever it does,
it is safe to say that it is so much
better than that in the East, that on r
worst would be hailed by them as
harbinger of spring.
The annexation of Hawaii will
probably be one of the first things to
be considered by President McKin
ley. The islands are anxious to be
come a part of the United States, and
while we may doubt the expediency
of taking them in, it cannot be
doubted but that it is better to annex
them than allow some other govern
roent to do so, .which will probably
happen. ..
The Salle City Damaged.
PROBABLY SAFE.
Senator Mitchell and his friends
can dismiss any doubts they may
have entertained as to his re election.
The matter is now made as certain
as any purely mundane matter can
be, if the future can be judged by
the past. The Oregonian has com.
menced the fight against him in a
mild way, by permitting the smrll
political fry to nibble at his heels in
trashy correspondence. The Orego
nian will grow weary or the puerile
and - futile attacks of the itching
scribbler before long, and will edito
rially attempt to assist in the job
with its heavier metal and longer
range. ,
Some people cannot let a sleeping
lion alone, and get hurt when the
awakening takes place. We have
the profoundest admiration for the
ability of the Oregonian editor, for
his learning and his vigorous and
crystal English; but when it comes
to political intelligence, his bump is
represented by a cavity. Mitchell
is on pretty safe ground. .
The steamer Dalles City left the lock
at 6 o'clock last night, and should have
been here at 9 :40. . Instead she ia lying
in a sand bar just above Spragae land
ing, with a dig hole in her bull. Jan
this side of Spragne there is a big rock
iu the river, and this she ran inro. How
much damage was done we have not
learned, nor can it be estimated ontil
she is raised, though it is not probably
anything worse than the knocking on
of a few ribs and the breaking of some
sheathing. A eon as she struck, her
how was tarnfd towards the sand bar
near by and she sank in a few minute
in 6 leet of water. She had on hoard
paeeengere transferred from the Rega
Utor, anions them the Spanish Students
and the cattle and other freight taken
from here in the morning. Arrange
ments were at once made with Meters
J. G. and I. N. Day uf the Cascades to
raise her. . Since writing the above it is
learned that the steamer Maria, belong
ing to the Days, took the passengers and
freight from the Dulles City today land
ing them at the Cascades. It is feared
that the steamer is much more badly
damaged than . was at first supposed
The D. P. & A. N. Co. arranged for an
extra on the O. K. & N. to run from
Portland this afternoon, which will pick
up. the passengers and bring them
through, .arriving here at 7 o'clock this
evening. .
' THE SNOW BLOCKADE.
in
Care Snowvd Under This Bide of
Bridal Tell.
WEATHER PROPHETS..
Foster and Hicks, America's two
famous weather prophets, both agree
in forecasting a long and severe win
ter. Each of them foretold the pres
ent cold snap, fixing it to a day. and
the wotst of it is, each of them, say.
"Look out for a haM," cold and
stormy December." We must con
fess to having little faith in weather
prognostications made months in
advance and based on the changes of
the moon, the conjunction ot planets,
the color of the goose bone, the bogs
melt, or any and all such. Yet the
fact is indisputable - that Hicks has
gone right along for several years
naming the weather conditions to
Train No. 1, the west-bound paesen
ger that went down yesterday morning,
is snowed in hard and fast this side of
Bridal Veil. The conductor sent a uies
senger to Bridal Veil yesterday after.
noon, and throngh the kindness of the
agent here we are given the particulars,
Fhe train is fast near the section honse
this side of Bridal' Veil, and consequent
ly there is plenty to eat, and a supply
eugjcient to last at least three days,
The enow is like grains of wheat, hard
and firm, and jost slides down oft" the
mountain like that cereal ont of a grain
chute. The engine, bazgage and express
cars are completely buried, and aroond
the coaches the snow is piled half way
up the windows. Everybody is comfort
able though, and will no doubt be out
of their predicament tonight or tomor
row. The rotary snow plow from Pen
dleton ia on J.he way down and will be
here this evening,- probably about 5
o'clock and will at once start down the
road. The. rotary of this division is
caght in the anow between Trontdale
and Bridal Veil, but will be dag out this
afternoon. It is headed this way, and
when once oat will soon be able to re
lease the passenger train.
Thoe who have friends on the train
need feel no alarm, as the worst that
can happen to theui is a day or two of
dglay. . ' ;" - ' : -
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